skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except they already do. Also, AMD announced SmartShift ("shifts power inside your laptop for the optimal performance for a given task") support for Linux a couple of days ago. They're more than usable nowadays.

Interesting, thanks!

> Probably a popular opinion here, but any display with a higher res than 1440p (1600p if it's a 16:10 display) is a waste on a laptop. I'd rather have a 1080p one over a 4K one, personally.

I don't disagree that 4k is a little nuts on a ~15" laptop LCD, but it seems until recently you're options for decent >1080p displays on laptops for the most part were a) Macbooks (2880x1800 at 15.4"), and b) 4k PC laptops
Nice idea for a podcast, will check it out.
While they do have statements as well, they usually also have expressions, which are referentially transparent (and yeah I know it’s not the usage most people use, but it is the correct one: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/210835/what-is-referenti... ). (They don’t employ currying though)
Nope, I don't even think such number exists, it's just my impression of the amount of "why the fuck would anyone even publish this" apps out there.
When I was about twelve years old I clipped a newspaper article about Moller and the flying saucer he had at the time. I'm in my mid-50s now.

My consolation is that there are lots of other flying car projects now. Moller might be bad at taking stuff to production but also he was probably too early.
It depends on the nature of the side project (vs. side hustle), its relationship to your day job, and your employer's rules (and attitude). In my case I've done a number of tech-related books. My employer knew about (and encouraged) them. And we've had a tacit understanding that I wouldn't be doing these purely on my own time and I'd continue to work on my "day job." It was never a problem and worked out for both of us.

I certainly know people who do similar things around open source projects.
U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits (2001)
I can see where you're coming from. I always have to judge my working solutions using the parsimony of features and parsimony of rules to navigate the feature/solution landscape of Bongard problems.

The underlying assumption is that the problem's author has followed the same rules which is an assumption of good faith on my part. This narrows down the feature-solution space considerably or at least biases it in a way where I can prioritize hypotheses in a more tractable way.

Part of what I feel makes me a good puzzle solver is imagining that I'm a puzzle maker. What was going through the author's mind when they conceived the puzzle? If I can start to pull at that thread then the complexity of the puzzle will start to unravel.
The Outcomes of Remote Work
I make electronic music. Last year I invested in learning promotion. I spent about $1500 and now I have about a thousand followers on Spotify. Every time I release a song, I get a couple hundred listens. I don't do it for the money. The return on a it is a meager. My 'day job' makes me pretty good money.

But it got me thinking: what does it mean to me to have listeners? It's great when people 'like' my music, but in a lot of ways, it's just numbers on a screen. What difference would it make if I had 10,000 or 100,000 listeners instead of 1000? Maybe it would be cool if I were in a store and hear a song of mine playing on the radio or watching a movie and it was playing as a sound track. The validation I've felt from similar successes is great but it is fleeting. Ultimately, the most joy I get out of it is being able to sit down and create music that I myself enjoy and respect.
This cries out for a missing product: A modern version of the old disk pack drives. You could pull out a cartridge containing the platters and store it in a hollowed out mountain for a century, but just drop it into a freshly built/rebuilt/exercised mechanism when you need to read it.
Exploiting protected fish stocks and ecosystems happens far too often with minimal consequences... and the knock-on effects of this trend are terrible for everyone. Would love to see someone do a full breakdown on courses of action here that might actually be effective.. along with pros/cons/costs and analysis of why they haven't been pursued already.
Thank you!! I guess in hindsight they did talk about the exponents and the iterated differentiabilty, but I didn't make the connection.

I think this was at the end of the analysis textbook too, in one of those "looking ahead future topics" sections.
Really? Have you looked at the topography of Bangladesh?

A dam 200 miles wide flooding 100,000 sq mi of Bangladesh and India seems to cause a bigger problem than rising seas (until it silts up, anyway).

And all the water coming in behind the dam still has to go somewhere, once it's full, anyway.
Yeah came here to say the same thing, the VS Code HTTP Client extension is fantastic..

Lets you save your requests alongside your code, you can even define variables and do multi-step requests etc..
>> If you work for a huge company your skill set may be extremely narrow.

In my experience working for a huge company makes it very easy to broaden your skills. You can change teams, take on mentorship and recruiting, lead teams, lead initiatives, switch from front- to backend at different times, and learn from a large number of people - all from the "comfort" of the company you are already in.
REBCO = rare earth barium copper oxide
HTS = high temperature superconductor

Apparently we can now make tapes of REBCO, which is a high temperature superconductor. The primary intended application is fusion research? Why wouldn't this be broadly useful?
We also tend to have decades of experience interacting with other humans and understanding what would be reasonable to want / moral / what would “make sense”.

This is a big part of why I’m bearish on things like fully autonomous self-driving cars until general AI is achieved. Driving is fundamentally a social activity that you participate in with other humans, at least until we built out nation-wide autonomous-only lanes that only allow (through a gate or barrier) autonomous vehicles with self-driving engaged in a way that normal vehicles can’t “sneak in”…I’m not holding my breath. Maybe I’ll see it in my lifetime (30s), maybe not.
How is the discussion not distributed today?
Yes, because everyone at the level of employee is someone being exploited...

Those of us who actually grew up with nothing and suffered through minimum wage labor and were able to change our class and turn our lives around through labor look at you people like you're from another planet.
Jan Hendrik Schön would agree with you.

Hindsight is 20/20, of course.
> thank you, thank you

You are very welcome. Glad to help. :-)

(I'll just say that the TeX Users Group is very interested in improving the PDFs that LaTeX outputs in this regard, and has projects in this direction. They are at https://www.tug.org.)
This is mean reversion, right? Essentially fading market volatility. I recall an article on Bloomberg about a quant fund using VIX ETNs to implement something similar. Gradually adding short positions as volatility rises. Knowing it will dissipate once turmoil subsides. My recommendation: try entering a trading contest on Alpaca ;)

https://alpaca.markets/data
I think Vaynerchuk is a pretty obnoxious, fake kind of person and his business does not have a healthy reputation amongst those who worked there.
I have been. But that's not what this is about. This is a step towards legalization and social normalization of the usage of these plants.
Abstraction is good, but it's not a feature specific of OOP, though.

From the perspective of Procedural Programming this also works well:

brew(coffeemaker), defrost(oven, "meat", "500g"), accelerate(car).

Same for FP:

brewed(grains), defrosted(meat, time), withAcceleration(car).
Thanks for the details! Though wouldn’t using arrays of structs kill the performance the same way as array of objects do (stack-allocated ones)? So, one would essentially have to have a SOA, or — the OOP abstraction: a class of arrays that enclose this hot loop of code, making the implementation opaque to a calling code.
Glancing at the table of contents...

> X. Count Grey: Enslavement and Slaughter of Children

>XI. Kyros: Kidnapping, Enslavement, Unethical Experimentation, and Torture

What the hell am I about to read?
Adenosine often converts to a pyrimidine spontaneously by way of non-synthetic [i.e naturally ocurring] means

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transversion

https://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Transitions_vs_Transversion...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOQeRsxYdA8
> it would be a cesspool like the Google play store

I would suggest you use an Android smartphone from the last 5 years before making a comment like this.

I use both iOS and Android devices on a regular basis and both the App Store and Play Store are cesspools. I would go even further and say that the App Store is more obnoxious in that it serves me a half page ad whenever I search for an app.

At least on Android, I have the choice to not use the Play Store. That is not even possible when I use iOS.
I’m not talking about Berlin or Paris. I’m taking about small European cities I’m familiar with that have vibrant walkable downtowns. Off the top of my head, Leiden Netherlands, Haarlem Netherlands, Peacara Italy, or Zug Switzerland.
> However, by “system” I mean, roughly, a set of rules that can be printed in a book weighing less than ten kilograms, and which a person can consciously follow.

Is this tongue in cheek or is it a very strange thing to say? That's definitely not a statement that should be made with no justification. I can guess what the author meant, but I don't really want to guess at basics of their argument.
Do keep in mind that there is no other species on the planet that is capable of protecting the ecosystem from the eventual and inevitable asteroid impact.

We might not be there yet but we are going to be the first species in the history of the planet capable of protecting the biosphere from the inevitable assault from the cosmos.
Btw, recent versions of Firefox include an "HTTPS only" mode[1], so HTTPS Everywhere is actually unnecessary for this use case nowadays.

1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs
You know I used to think exactly like this when I was younger, but nowadays, I realize that putting the burden of understanding technology on the user is very unfair. Just because someone is worth half a million dollars doesn't mean they should automatically know how to identify scam apps...
Hard disagree. There's something about eating with someone that taps into our lizard brains' survival instincts...eating together == allies. Online games may work for people who like online games, but anyone who doesn't like them is going to feel resentment at being made to waste time doing something they don't enjoy. Lunch is something that everyone is already doing, so no one will consider the time wasted, especially if they're getting free food out of it.
This was a bit ironic to me: “it’s just to say that it’s okay to love a hobby the same way you’d love a pet; for its ability to enrich your life without any expectation that it will help you pay the rent.”

Because I feel like a portion of people who get pets today expect to subsidize some of the cost with Instagram pages.
You're forced to use the least broken system... if you choose to do so. Apple is only making you use it to the extent that you decided to pay money to Apple instead of an Android manufacturer with that alternative option.
Fitbit Sense, Versa 3 and Inspire 2: How to decide which wrist wearable to buy
Fitbit introduced 3 of its own latest wrist wearables during a virtual launch within August, in which the company highlighted its own emphasis on health and health monitoring within the coronavirus pandemic.
> ImageNet has now removed many of the obviously problematic people categories – certainly an improvement – however, the problem persists because these training sets still circulate on torrent sites [where files are shared between peers].

This is the scariest part of the article. The idea that some central authority should be censoring and revising datasets to keep up with political orthodoxy, and we should be rooting out unauthorized torrent sharing of unapproved training data.

From a technical point of view, the common reason we pre-traini on imagenet is as the starting point for fine tuning for a specific use case. The diversity and size of the dataset makes good generic feature extractors. If you're using a ML model to identify people as kleptomaniac or drug dealer or other "problematic" labels, you're working on some kind of phrenology and it doesnt take an "AI ethicist" to know you shouldn't do it. But that's not the same as pretraining on imagenet, and certainly doesn't support trying to make datasets align with today's political orthodoxy.
The site is still having troubles but Bing has got a cached result now:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=10GHz+rain+backscatter&d=7...
Unfortunately, for newer Intel CPUs, undervolting is no longer an option due to Plundervolt mitigations.
his evidence for it is thoroughly discredited

I think it would be more accurate to say that you thoroughly reject his argument. You've left 18 comments on this thread but many seem to be predicated on the assumption that your outlook is wholly objective and rest upon premises whose validity is questionable.
You can change your own transactions which is usually the idea behind 51% attacks. You could deposit coins into an exchange then rewrite that transaction.
This is called blaming the victim. It takes a lot for someone that got scammed to come forward publicly with their story. And it helps others not get scammed too.
"Bearish" understates my mood.

I think we're drifting into charlatanism, fraud and pseudoscience.
Hmm forgive my ignorance but isn’t having server side code in the client side a high risk security vulnerability?
The UI is so well done!
I wonder how the effect of zooming in on certain portions of the map when you scroll to certain sections is achieved.
EDIT: I used it on desktop so it works well for me but can see how mobile users would be less than impressed.
I still don’t understand how this is any different from the notion of problem solving. And I really didn’t understand the human-AI equivalence, is it just the substrate independent nature of turing-completeness? If so, I think we still lack the epistemic toolkit to say anything conclusive about creating an equivalence, or for that matter any form of comparative relationship, especially given that AGI is still not a problem that is well-defined, let alone discussing the solution space. No?
No

1) preauthorization directive
2) encrypted backups
3) no. The real reason is doctors are really scare of opening medical records and the multitude of clerical errors in them
Copy pasting in the US is so rampant one has to wonder how much liability is dormant in the different EMRs
They don't trust their users to not install pirated apps. It's part of their revenue scheme - if you could install third party IPAs, you could download cracked versions of Apple Arcade apps or apps that bypass the in-app purchase system and don't give apple their 30% cut of digital content. It's the same reason Xbox and Sony restrict you to their stores, Apple's revenue model is just set up to extract more money overall instead of 99% on the backend like consoles do.
As a pedestrian and a cyclist, please, no. I don't trust crossing a lane of traffic unless traffic is fully stopped, and nobody expects to stop in a roundabout, so I don't even feel safe using the crosswalks and hoping that the traffic will yield. Let cars come to a complete stop.
The two books that helped me the most were The Depression Cure by Stephen Ilardi and Feeling Good by David Byrnes.
I would like to see a runoff between the two zlds. May the best Zld win!
Empirical observation is not considered much proof of abstract principles because of the measuring errors.

I.e. Newtonian mechanics is empiricaly observed to be true with a certain error margin during measurements. As you lower measurement errors, you start to notice things that are not consistent with it.

Newtonian physics was and still is very much applicable for many use cases, just like mathematics is.

You seem set on "defending" mathematics where nobody is attacking it.

My comment is not to discredit mathematics: it is the ultimate expression of the human mind, showing the limits of our comprehension. Limits that clearly show that we can start reasoning only if we accept a few things as a given (what I simplified to "faith").

It is beautiful and transcendent in its expression, and while people consider it the most complex of human expression, I consider it the simplest full expression, worked down to the smallest ambiguities our brain will let us have. It is a reflection of what our mind can understand and grasp, and we should accept it as such so we can both grow our understanding of the world, and test limits of our understanding.
Hey, thank you! Integration with GitHub is something I intend to add. Additionally, I plan to add working with files from Dropbox as well.

I haven’t thought about Gist specifically though. That’s a good idea. Let me explore what can be done with it. Thanks again!
Well they have a lot to live up to ... i really liked Rogue One and of course The Mandalorian.

Overall and personally am happy they are making new Star Wars content yet they probably should continue making films and shows that are outside of the beloved characters and use those characters sparely in other films and shows.
The real issue is Bitcoin here.
It's WordPress, and the database can't be connected to because it's probably maxing out the number of MySQL connections.

If you're the owner of the site: Get some caching installed. I like WP Super Cache and Autoptimize, they're a great combo.

For reference: My WordPress site got hugged on the front page of HN yesterday, didn't bat an eye.
I only meant to say the majority of the middle class would fall under $120k no matter how you (reasonably) draw it (so with respect to that specific VAT/UBI proposal, most of the middle class would see a gain).

For how higher incomes could end up middle class I wasn't thinking of a different threshold, but ways of defining social class that are more qualitative than quantitative.

For example you could define middle class as people who live a modest lifestyle financed by selling their labor to a company, and upper class as people who can live off wealth. So someone from a wealthy family living off a trust fund and going to an elite graduate school might count as upper class despite being low or middle income, and an engineer making $120k in the bay area might still count as middle class that way.

Defining it like that would probably produce a small upper class relative to the size of the middle class, but in historical societies where social class was a bigger issue what's considered upper class is usually a pretty small percent of the population, so it wouldn't seem too crazy to me to define it like that.
Not everything needs to be as ugly and functional as Paul Graham's website.
Nice! I might be willong to collab. What i would like is a set of block copy routines, since there are so many variations... e.g. src/dest in zero page, same page, distant page, etc. I'm tired of re-writing them each time :)
The model is to prove your design, not the implementation.

There is no reason to start implementing things, if your design is wrong.

Formal Specification proves your design, while Formal Verification proves your implementation.

As far as I understand this project - Stateright does both (i.e. 2-in-1). Kind of executable model?
My big two after my recent blitz of interviewing candidates are:
1) Don't read/write email or do other web browsing activities during the interview. Even if your eyes are never pointed at the camera, it's easy to recognize eyes that are scanning.
2) Dress like it's an interview. Your whole body. It is so so weird to see people in pajamas or workout clothes during an interview. It is even more bizarre to see a clean dressed person get up to close a door and reveal that they aren't wearing pants.
Budget Computer with High Performance – Mac Mini
So do these satellites only have RGB channels? What about infrared?
And quieter. You'll often hear that cities are noisy places, but they aren't, really; it's just that cars are very loud.
I think part of it is being part of a community. You know there are people out there who are like you. In the sense that they like your music, and this connects everyone into some sort of asynchronous musical happening. You communicate something to them with your music (and lyrics).
My 3/4 ton gas pickup truck gets 8 miles per gallon towing 12 thousand pounds hundreds of miles a month. I blow through multiple Teslas worth of energy per drive. No way is this thing going to be replaced by anything even remotely resembling the lithium ion batteries of today. And even if such a magical thing existed, I would need to charge it somewhere at over 100 amps to be useful.

We need more nuclear power plants sequestering atmosphere carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. My job sites in rural counties lose power regularly in sunny calm wind conditions. I would be utterly helpless and stuck regularly if my vehicle strongly depended on the electrical grid.

Liquid fuels carry so much energy per liter I can store a massive amount of energy in a compact package. This is more important to me than pulling a 55 foot semi trailer filled to the brim with 18650s to have enough energy to tow. I cringe at the cost of lithium ion batteries to meet my energy requirements. God forbid those batteries freeze! Now my precious expensive batteries are destroyed.

We will see electric trucks in the near future on a very small subset of routes where reliable electrical connectivity is available.
It's been a long time since I've looked at integrating ads on a website, but there are far better ways to do it than just throwing up a script tag nowadays. Have you looked into those?
I don’t understand this perspective. It’s getting clearer by the day that trying to appease China will come at a far greater cost than virtually any other approach.
What path in life led you to write articles like this? If you are still a practicing scientist, do you fear any repercussions to speaking against the community like this?
I hate to do this, but:

Stop equating programming and bus drivers or waiters. They aren't equal. Programming is difficult in its depth and breadth in a way that waiting tables is not.

Stop treating all programming tasks as equal. They are not. Most of the easy ones are only easy because they run on top of all the difficult programs. That is the goal of the difficult programs, to make it possible for laymen to do work that would require an expert for certain repetitive tasks if the underlying program did not exist.

Most people would not be capable of getting Hello World to run without the OS and high-level abstractions that take expertise to develop. And making that possible requires many many experts in many different kinds of programming.

Stepping off of the single thread and single machine model into concurrent and distributed computing to enable even more laymen to make stuff takes even more experts.

There is a meme in the industry that people shouldn't strive for expertise. We still need more experts, and you become an expert through practice while still a layman. Nothing would be worse off if we had more experts capable of deciding when to use something extensible off of the shelf to enable laymen to do simple tasks, and when to build a platform to eventually enable that task to be done by a layman.

A lot of things would be worse off if we encouraged all people to stop at the layman level. We should encourage everyone to at least become a layman for their own enrichment. But we should also encourage laymen to strive for expertise to lower the barriers to entry to produce more laymen capable of doing simple tasks.