skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Obviously a skilled illustrator, painter or sculptor is going to be better at visualizing imagery than someone who doesn't do those things. If that's the case, just thinking about images a lot makes you better at visualizing images."

What you say seems intuitive, but (and this is just a digression) I also think being able to imagine something and recreate it in the real world are two separate (though related) skills. Imagining something means the brain only has to, say, recreate some of the "effects" of incoming sensory data. On the other hand, creating something in the real world as an artist does, whether with paint or a musical instrument, involves a feedback loop. The artist must identify the real-world color or proportion or sound he imagines, which is a skill in itself, then must participate in a feedback loop of: percieve what you just created, compare to imagined goal (which may now change), edit creation. This requires both the mental skill to do so, plus the motor skill to pull it off (as far as the artistic creation depends on muscle movements).

In this way, someone could have a vivid "mind's eye" but be a lousy artist. Or remember musical structures (such as chord progressions) without being able to identify or recreate them (at least not without a ton of trial and error as the skill is developed).
> Every time someone tries to make a tax targeting the ultra rich, it ends up hurting the moderately wealthy instead.Every. Single. Time.

Get back to me when there is a good faith effort to raise the capital gains tax and/or institute a wealth tax instead of pretending that that "ultra rich" people derive their wealth from employment income.
Needed to read this, thank you Paul! Was on the edge about a summer project -- deterred mostly by high-expectations, the project being likely non-monetisable, and a fear of failure. I see now none of those are valid excuses!
Might cost more than $2MM in compute, but could be worth it to demonstrate capability.
If it's useful, it's less costly. If it's less costly, it is less secure.
If a person makes $500k in a good year, they will get hit with higher taxes, but they're probably going to invest a lot in order to hedge against not so good years. Taxing their capital gains is a double whammy.
The PoW algorithm needs to effectively pick winners more or less at random, with a consistent number of winners (and gaps between), and the results be self-evidently correct. There are few problems which fit those criteria and are useful...
Agreed entirely. This sort of thing is how it should be done, and clearly quite effective to boot. Hopefully this sends a loud message.
Funny, for me not shipping is a source of anxiety and I get paralyzed at the getting started point.
Publisher retracts 20 of a researcher’s papers – then asks him to peer review
My dad (we're Taiwanese) once told me the difference between Asian and Western societies is mostly in fault tolerance strategies - how each society prevents important societal systems and functions from failing.

Asian societies beat the fear of mistakes into you from a young age - everyone being so afraid of doing anything wrong that few things go wrong. Hence, they tend to build systems that depends upon no one making mistakes, and it often works out.

Western societies assume mistakes will always occur and build systems that accounts for failure with contingency plans and backup strategies to ensure mistakes are limited in their damage.

I've thought about this a lot with the pandemic.

Initially, strategies of staving off covid aligned very well with Asian society (shaming everyone into the proper behavior of wearing masks, getting checked, staying at home if you're sick, etc). However, this strategy relies on no one making mistakes (basically, everyone behaving).

Contrast that to the US, where getting people to behave was nigh impossible, but with vaccinations, you don't care if some people misbehave because after herd immunity, the system is stabilized.

The Asian strategy of fault tolerance is easy to roll out, quickly followed, and effective - but brittle and non permanent. It relies on people not making mistakes ever, and with human behavior, mistakes are bound to happen.

In contrast, the Western strategy is a lot more work, a lot slower to roll out, but a more permanent solution. Solve it once and for all, and move on.

Of course, a mix of both strategies is best; put on the short term band-aid of following orders, and follow it with the robust solution of herd immunity. And it seems that both sides messed up because of ideological blind spots.
It’s actually worse than gas due to the inefficiencies inherent in power generation and transmission
> Blaming the medium for the negative interactions of the few is lazy, tired, and wholly uninteresting to me.

The medium (in this case Twitter) is in fact a part of the problem and there are very specific features that contribute to it. The quote tweet feature is a good example. It fundamentally amplifies and encourages combative exchanges and negativity through its design.

In fact looking at how a platform can prevent or encourage certain kinds of behavior/interactions is super interesting when you dive deep - I don't find it lazy or tired at all.
Everyone should get a corporation at birth, and all actions done by that individual should be done for that corporation. Maybe things would change then.
This very question has been asked on stackexchange : https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/331
Yeah sorry sarcasm doesn't do well via text. I did mean 1
I don't know - I've been part of class actions where the settlement was much, much higher than than the cost to me. So I think it depends.

Hard to see that working here with a completely bankrupt company.
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/orca-extra-lar...
This is misinformed about the reality of what people typically do when microdosing. Virtually every resource I've ever read on the topic specifically suggests taking off days to ensure you do not build a tolerance. Often regimes recommend only microdosing 2 or 3 times a week. At such low doses and with so many off days, tolerance really does not increase much or any.

Most people I know who microdose grow their own. Blaming drug dealers is ridiculous.

Go ask about taking bigger doses due to tolerance on any discussion board about microdosing. 99% of the time they will tell you to take time off to reduce tolerance.

Psilocybin is not addictive in any physical way.
> maybe even RICO charges

Paging @Popehat...
Everything is kind of converging. In the SPA world they realized the SEO sucks and they need static server rendered content, so there's a whole realm of SSR (server side rendering) built around it with Next.js, Vuepress, Sveltekit, etc. And on the static site side folks realized static sites can kinda suck and feel clunky, so loading some JS to add smoothness is nice. Check out Docusaurus for an example of a static site generator that actually uses React internally to build a SSR friendly SPA with fluid page loads. You don't have to choose one or the other anymore, you can get both a smooth SPA experience with full server rendered and SEO friendly content.
Only once. Everyone has paid attention, and the next drone attacks will be suitably defended against. The fact is the "killer bot" scenario is just a one time thing. After it happens, all cities or armies or whatever, will have very solid defences installed against swarming or even just loitering bots. Flying drones are incredibly fragile and exposed. They are slow and easy to kill.
If we're talking a commercial quadcopter drone, is it feasible to auto-target it via microphones and then shoot some CIWS at it? Something like this https://youtu.be/LThD0FMvTFU?t=42 but drones and bullets instead of mortars and lasers.

It's be nice if you could slap an anti-drone turret onto your vehicle to protect the airspace for a hundred meters.

Maybe jamming exceeds commercial drones' flight ceiling, but if not, dropping stuff from high up always does damage.
Not necessarily. The current verification algorithm doesn't have any useful side effects other than verifying that some amount of computing happened. That will even be true for whatever computation happens as part of proof of stake when it gets rolled out. In other words, and in either case, the only real effect of the computation that happens as part of the verification algorithm is the verification itself.

Edit: There's no reason to downvote OP's post, folks. It's a good question that some people may not know the answer to.
> There has never been a connection between the legal system in Scotland and that of England and Wales. Scots laws are primarily passed by the independent Scottish Parliament

To add some important context here, the Scottish Parliament came into existence in 1999. So it’s by far not the case that the majority of laws in effect in Scotland were passed by the Scottish Parliament.
Rating systems online are generally skewed. Look at ebay or other marketplaces. Anything less than 95.5% favorable is treated as a problem or worse[1][2]. Look at restaurant ratings - 4 stars is not good. As best I can tell, there are really only two "true" ratings: good or bad. Part of the problem is that anytime a reviewer has a bad experience and comes away unsatisfied, they tend to go give a 1-star rating to "punish" the seller. The 5-star reviews typically only come from a. someone who had a memorably good experience and is very motivated to say so or b. fake. Someone who gets an "ordinary" experience in the transaction has little or no motivation to rate, so there's nothing in the middle.

A star rating system I know of that makes sense and is relatively uncontroversial is the independent groups like AAA hotel ratings, where the number of stars is more-or-less objective based on the amenities, making them more of a classification than a rating.

1. https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/ebay/seller.htm

2. https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/ebay/seller.htm
It's unclear from the article, but the author may mean "Why do people talk about microdosing for these benefits and not about walking in the park?" The author even mentions that microdosing is not common.

Alternatively they may mean, "Why is microdosing so trendy but walking in the park is not?"
One idea is that tiger parenting results in kids that make more money as adults. The more general observation is that strict parenting results in different behaviors and expectations and patterns of engagement. While wealth is a dominant social metric other measures such as criminal convictions also come up and do indicate some differences in outcomes.

Saying this is about flawed logic is a mistake as the idea is not based in logic but rather on the wild variation exhibited during the process of raising children.
You could pin it to when loans are issued rather than their existence.

That would only affect home refinancing, which will still be a considerable number of people.
This is a game, however the Seasteading movement itself is earnest in their desires/efforts to accomplish one or more of these scenarios or some variation of them.
It looked like his first reaction was exactly that, he even pitched him on a job. It was the second and third reaction where he started bringing up issues with copying
I also do long run (80k, 100k distances so far) and maybe the first 30k-40k can be pleasant and feel transcendental, but after that everything is pain. Also at some point the pain disappears and then there is nothing.
I dont think heat pumps work in sibearian winter of -40
All rights do have limits, but this is too soft a limit for me, personally. I can understand how someone who is a well-known public figure would give up some rights related to slander, or being photographed, or whatever. But we're talking about private tax data, secured by the IRS. Guesses based on what someone makes based on or derived from publicly-available information I can understand, but leaked private tax documents crosses a line I'm not comfortable with. I do understand that others might think differently on this topic, though.
If you care about such things, you should probably use Qubes OS with a dedicated VM storing passwords.
Not at nearly the same volume.
+10 from me on the "awful half-baked language" (HCL).

Only cmake's 'language' is worse.
Some people are never content and need to increase their wealth and social status constantly. Others will be content and happy regardless of their social status. Those who need to keep amassing ever more wealth “to keep up with the Jones’” are the future we’re choosing. Hope it’s the right choice.
Is not an epic screw-up. More like 99.9% of compute is not done in adversarial untrusted sandboxes, so who cares if another process with a lot of work can extract data from another one.

You leave so much performance on the table if you demand cryptographically secure perf for everything. That means no caching, everything runs in fixed, worst case time, and the amount of work must be fixed as well so there is not any variation in power draw.

Here is a simpler solution - do not run untrusted code on your computer. It is just that easy™.

PS: I disable JavaScript by default in my browser, and manually whitelist exceptions, for the same reason. I also turned off Spectre mitigation on my workstation.
@madsbuch I meant classical "Dijkstra-style" proofs. I know about automated proofs, they are great accomplishment, and software that they produce may be good. I wouldn't believe those automated proofs any more than I would believe human-made proofs. Errors in intent and design can happen, I still want to test the resulting software in action and have the option to easily modify it.
Make it actual jail time, and for the company itself.

No monetary flow, no work being done, no contracts honored, restricted and slow (if any) access to assets, etc.

Would it be traumatic? For sure. Potentially "life-ruining" for the company and the people close to it? Sure. Just like jail and prison are for regular people.
To a much lesser extent though. I cannot think of any time I've used a black market for something that was otherwise available on the regular market.

It's not common, and not very profitable.
Well, in hindsight, this is not a big question any more, they are all in jail now and will drag most of the supply and micro distribution chain with them.
More careful actors are still out there and conducting business as usual.
I have read a book on one of the main Italian groups, they have very efficient micro storage procedures to avoid big losses and at least the higher ups will not use phones or computers, they will meet in person. They have or used to have rules of conduct which are very strict, like, stay home with family and don't be seen in bars etc. The opposite of the green horns flaunting the cars and watches, or the Turkish guys wife documenting their lifestyle on Instagram up until yesterday.
Sure, mass arrests happen in Italy as well, and some other countries the whole network works different.
But using phones is too dangerous and it is avoidable to run efficient logistics.
Not only for traceability, but a compromised or confiscated phone will have a lot of let's say problematic evidence on it.
Even the Mexican and Colombian groups operate from remote areas, even if affiliated with some parts of governments.
I think the usage of digital devices is just lazyness, another attribute like the flaunting of the illicit gains.
> Basically zero support for it.

Wealth taxes are extremely well-supported, despite the media as an industry [and politicians] being owned by people strongly motivated to campaign against it all costs, e.g.:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-inequality-p...
Crank game mechanic ideas:

safe cracking, catapult aiming, fire burner air balloon adjustment, etc...
This. Bitcoin only remains secure if the amount of electricity being wasted scales with the price. (Otherwise, the payout for double spending would exceed the cost.) For it to actually be a viable store of value at global levels, it would require burning orders of magnitude more electricity than is currently even produced in a year. It mainly appeals to the kind of people who self-identify as being good at math, but who are actually too dumb to do basic arithmetic.
Please, there are no legislative solutions open to America. We get one shot, so it needs to go big.
I'd say we can say Suspense for data fetching is "done" when Server Components (https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react...) and built-in Suspense Cache (https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/25) are finalized. I would expect this to happen at some point during the 18.x release timeline, but maybe not in the initial release.

However, React 18 does include a ton of work around Suspense, including:

- Fixes to quirks in its existing behavior (https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/7)

- startTransition API which lets you implement the "show old content while new data is loading" UX (https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/41)

- A whole new server renderer that uses <Suspense> for streaming HTML and hydrating the page in independent parts (https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/37)

So it's ongoing but maybe the "whole story" including recommended patterns will not quite be in the initial scope in 18.0 release.

I edited the announcement to clarify this.
No, it's not. There are affirmative defenses: things that can excuse you from criminal liability if you prove a certain set of facts.

For instance, self defense is generally an affirmative defense: something that the defense must prove to avoid conviction, instead of something the prosecution must disprove.
> People who want extra money (or just want something to do) will work in service jobs, and if the supply of workers is too low then that will heavily incentivise automation and investing in productivity improvents.

As well as, possibly (and hopefully), rising pay in hitherto underpaid jobs.
I prefer to spend resources on something of debatable value (look for aliens), rather than on something that it is indisputably of no value to humanity (proof of tedious work).
The DLI has a different set of motivations: bring as many analysts to a working level of proficiency within a fixed time period, and has a lot of other things that confound this analysis: it's totally ok for the DLI to wash out some percentage of trainees in each flight, they can pre-screen candidates into whatever language they think is a best fit depending on candidates latent aptitudes, etc.

There is a universe where both pieces of advice can be right; surely you can imagine "don't worry about speaking" advice might be reasonable for someone who is learning casually, has no hard time frame to learn, wants to learn in dribbles and maximally passively, for whom a partial fluency might be a reasonable endpoint, and the greatest risk is burnout from negative reinforcement of failure.
This post should be marked as dup
Bitcoin is an extremely inefficient computing platform. There's no silver lining to BTC, it's simply a moderately big, potentially huge mistake in the history of modern technology.
It'd be interesting if the proof of work computing at the heart of Bitcoin would do something similar to projects like SETI [0] or Folding@home [1] protein folding project that requires distributed computing.

[0] https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home
> in adjacent (usually historically minority) neighborhoods.

These are the people that brought their culture. Their housing is probably also well appreciated.
The difference being "the blues" have never pretended to be the party of law and order.

Because, as you noted, the "bigbiz-friendly reds" do not actually support law and order either, the term "law and order" is in reality a dogwhistle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
I have only seen evidence and anecdotes about long term changes from large doses. And repeating every few months or a few times a year.
> Unfortunately it’s still way, way less efficient than other heating systems like heat pumps

That's not necessarily always the case. There's a threshold where the delta between the outside ambient temperature and desired indoor temperature is too large, it becomes more efficient to use something like resistive heating rather than a heat-pump
Agreed. All of this is completely unprovable in the end.
For a company of Apple's size, it would be fairly trivial to roll out support for RCS, which would give Apple users an easy way to send encrypted messages to non-Apple users. I wonder if they'd make the messages blue or green.

Right now we're in a weird spot where sending a text from android -> Android is usually encrypted (via RCS), and Apple -> Apple is encrypted, but between the platforms they're not.

I assume Google and its users would love if Apple opted to support RCS, and I assume Google would also love if Apple built iMessage for Android. Apple's chosen to do neither, despite the fact it would give its users a richer messaging experience and a way to encrypt more of their communications.

It's their choice, but it boggles my mind that people defend it.
Off the shelf RC airplanes have terrible unpowered terminal velocity. You'd have to custom build to get anything decent. Which is more difficult than strapping a knife to a RC plane.
AMC has a similar program. It's not as good, but if you like movies and have the time, it's still a good deal.
Hmm, version requirements seem odd? "Apple macOS 14.0 (or higher)" we're only on 10.15.x or 11, with 12 on the horizon...[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history#Version_...
>"I really hate the "all or nothing" mentality.

Sure do whatever. I'll just ignore the product. I really do not care about this "valid for continuous usage". You do what suits you and I do what suits me.
Then why did Elon Musk buy 1.5 billion dollars of it?
Crucial distinction:

* Individual identities are less important/influential on HN than twitter

* The community is much smaller on HN than twitter

* The conversation is more nuanced. We have paragraphs vs. 240 characters

* We have voting to squelch really low effort or trolling. The informal guidelines of the community discourage downvoting an otherwise decent post because you don't agree.

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This all adds up to a very different kind of "mob action".
nonsense. it's electricity. Gas doesn't have the option of coming from carbon neutral sources.
How is buying millions of tickets "antagonizing"? And what intelligent company turns down a 5-million ticket order - at full price! - from a single customer in favor of selling 3 million tickets one-by-one?
You can use it standalone and manage the state yourself.

Looks like they actually might have added locking recently with https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/pull/2697 but I haven't looked deeply
Not for nothing, but, despite all the airtime this issue gets, my understanding is that pharmaceuticals are a pretty small component of health care spending; like, if you zeroed it out, you'd get less than a grocery store discount.
I agree with you.
This makes even more sense as in: if a lender lends you $x against a collateral of N shares, this means that they consider that there is only a tiny chance that said shares may be worth less than $x before the maturity of the debt. So this means that for all practical purposes we could decide that there are at least $x of realised gains. (In a more extreme version you could even consider that all your shares, and not just the N shares used as collateral, should be valued at $x/N per share and treat the gain as a capital gain for tax purposes)
1. We don't know. Wealth is not taxable. Income is taxed.

2. They already pay according to the same rules as everyone else.
So we've succeeded in making an egotist feel uncomfortable for a bit? They're very unlikely to change.