skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been dealing with the same problem for curating resources at https://learnawesome.org. Projects like Openlibrary do collect unique identifiers for _books_, but for everything else, it mostly takes manual effort. For example, I collect talks/podcasts by the author where they discuss ideas from their books. Then there are summaries written by others.
Has this been your experience with writing documentation or are you just saying this because it’s obvious.

I only ask because, first and foremost, documentation is for you.
Just a reminder that net environmental impact is not just "how efficient the transportation is" and how much CO2 is emitted, etc etc. It's also about tail risk and what the effects may be if leaks affect local watersheds. And due to the physics of oil pipelines, leaks are basically inevitable. These need to be taken into account when assessing what oil transport is "worse."

These have very tangible effects not only on wildlife but humans who say are getting their water from a contaminated water table.
Yes, same here. My housemate was convinced she must have been infected, but her only symptom was losing her sense of smell & taste. Positive PCR test.

> "Almost everyone I know that had COVID said that the flu was worse."

I'm inclined to agree. I've had a few severe flus in my lifetime that felt worse and more intense, but again, in my experience the symptoms of flu feel quite different to Covid.

That said, I certainly don't recommend getting Covid!

> "Change in taste can be attributed to blocked nose which radiacally changes the taste of food."

I did not get a blocked nose/sinus from Covid.
Porting Darwin to the MV88F6281 (2012)
And releasing predation pressure on mosquitoes.
It's about having choice: Microsoft used to be quite good at making stuff usable but the underlying geekery was still there and could allow control to the max if you wanted it.

It worked for mom & pops and techs alike but corporations new attitude of "We'll decide what's best and remove other options" is a bloody pain in the arse now.

A particularly bad one is this insistence on not allowing me to permanently say "no" to something. It's always "maybe later" or "remind me in 24 hrs" or similar... even Firefox does it now when you set it up - I think it was to do with sending FF to my mobile or something - but the message was "do it now" or "do it later"... I don't want it EVER!

So, no! I don't want anyone else's opinion for stuff like this - let me decide what's best for me and allow me to tinker if I want!
It doesn't matter why a liter of milk costs $1 - what matters is that it costs $1 now, it'll cost roughly $1 a year from now and in the interim, it'll still also cost $1. Predictability and consistency is a critical aspect of currency.

The actual numerical value is irrelevant.

You can't assign a fundamental value to the purchasing power of a bitcoin when treating it as a currency because there's nowhere in the world that bitcoin is used to denominate the sticker price of goods. If there was you could regress its value based on how much one bitcoin would buy you in terms of goods priced in it.

However, without that, you can only treat it as a purely speculative asset as jstolfi did. If that ever changes, our model will have to change. It has not, and IMO will not, even with El Salvador because its wildly fluctuating notional value determined predominantly by global speculators precludes it from being used to actually price things in a meaningful and consistent way.

[edit] Either way, the title of the write-up was 'Bitcoin as an investment' - currencies aren't an investment, so the analysis models it as an asset.
> If representational drift can happen in the piriform cortex, it may be common throughout the brain.

Instead of looking at individual neuron response properties, look for population codes. This would be actually an interesting experiment with an artificial network, to observe how the population activation drifts over time (but remains identifiable) as the network is fed with more and more data
My goal is to be the latter but I've worked with plenty of people who made it a goal to be the former.

I don't think it's necessarily irrational.

If you're self aware enough to know that you're on the wrong side of the programmer bell curve, you're counting down the days until retirement, if you're living in a market with relatively few tech jobs - this makes sense.
He’s a qualified engineer and ran a software company for 30 years. He knows his shit already so I don’t need to.

But fundamentally the issues are flawed analysis rather than defective implementation.
You could probably order your groceries for a couple of dollars.
The ownership is part of the type-checker and disappears at runtime.
At runtime (and in memory) you are left with C's memory model (pointers but also can nest records) and with the other things you mention.
Async is a major focus. Whether the benefit has been worth the (very high) cost is another question.
A lot of consumer production was halted or radically slowed during ww2. I suspect a University Don was insulated from a lot of those shortages
Chaitin's constant is closely tied to the halting problem: Each bit essentially tells you if a program (in the particular order the programs are listed in the constant) halts or not. Computing every bit in there would mean knowing for every program if it halts or not, which would solve the halting problem, which we can prove is impossible. So we cannot compute that constant.
Documentation is there to help you (or someone else) understand the project that you haven't been working on for 6 months and it goes back alive. You'll be very happy to have things written down: nobody will remember why this thing does that, or how to restart the damn tool.
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> I gain immensely from a computer that just works 99% of the time

Are you implying that Linux doesn't work 99% of the time? If so, you are mistaken. I'm running Linux for me and my relatives without issues for years. I'm not a programmer/hacker.

Just choose the hardware designed for it (exactly like in the case of Apple).
As an older full-stack/full-cycle developer for many years, this article made sense - and gave quite a bit of hope.
If you can't dog-food your product, IMHO developers need to be as close to the coal face of their 'product' as possible.
Per the article, assigning a team to a feature has allowed Netflix to get better coding outcomes.

With that said, I can also see a potential downside to this development model.
Once a new feature is stable enough, the number of people required to support it has to reduce.
Wondering how Netflix solved this?
The article wants Apple to save us from mindless browsing, but I see mindless browsing as unavoidable. Not because of some technical or legal thing, but because mindless browsing is a good thing. We need it. Mindless browsing is like a walk through the woods, just looking for what is happening, navigating a huge amount of information that is hardly important at the moment – oh, the cherry tree is blooming – but could be important later.

The 'outside' is made up of myriads of tiny details – wind is moving the leaves, slowly and irregularly, the birds are singing, insects flying through the air, the earth feels soft and damp and smells of freshness after the rain, the movements of clouds and the sun are inexorably changing the lighting. We are, however, spending time in concrete boxes where nothing ever moves, and even seal off the sounds and air flow from the outside. Within those boxes we sit and lie and enter other, flatter spaces of our screens, which nonetheless offer us the possibility of some kind of change, movement in the world.. Of course we will browse those changes mindlessly.

Since mainstream social media has turned into a manipulative toxic landscape, I find myself retreating to more niche and better moderated sites, devoid of hate and over-strained emotions. I also find myself wishing for a digital space, be it a game or a website, that would feel similar to a walk in the woods – where a lot is happening but not much is important. Like watching the breaking of waves on the beach. Like sitting at a campfire. Like watching the tree tops move in the wind.

I like mindless browsing. I enjoy it. Just give me the right space for it.
The problem is that there's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't be able to disable your iPhone's security and mess around with it if that's what you want. Apple owns the device, not you.
> It is entirely not necessary for an AGI to be able to drive a car.

"Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the hypothetical[1] ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can."

What definition are you using?
Didn't say it was perfectly fungible, just fungible enough that a significant enough increase in other types of supply might bring down SFHs. Either that or the true value of a SFH in a no longer housing constrained San Francisco really is $2.5 million.

If you believe that SFH buyers do not insist on SFH neighborhoods (whole cities are not neighborhoods), and should welcome denser zoning because it makes their lot more attractive for redevelopment, go circulate a petition for this among SFH owners and see how far it gets.
> YouTube content recommendation stands out to me in particular.

If that's "cutting edge ML", then going off my YouTube recommendations, we're back in another AI winter. If I watch one video from a channel I've not seen before, I'll get that channel recommended constantly even if it bears no resemblance to what I normally watch. On my Explore page, the first 22 videos (of which 8 are Fortnite-related!) hold no interest for me. My Home page is just channels I've watched repeatedly and/or am subscribed to. It's a mess.
Not all documentation highlights the author. I think if it did it would be more popular.
But, as he said, he does not have any output at all.
My sense is that GUI evolution has stagnated because the driving force behind Engelbart's (and others) thinking, the idea of a computer as an augmentation device that empowers individuals has been essentially abandoned.

Peak "augmentation" seems to have been (believe it or not) the Microsoft era, complete with its "productivity suite" (except productivity has gone missing) and killer apps like the spreadsheet that is still a computing interface out of this world.

The demise of the MS monopoly came about by the exploitation of opportunities offered by interconnected computers with zero regard to lofty empowerment ideals. The role of the computing device has become to offer just enough attraction so as to extract value from the individual using it. Achieving that at scale has required the dumbification of the UI, removing any cognitive stress. Except, no pain - no gain.

If the hypothesis is correct a next generation of important (G)UI's may come about if and when the much delayed harnessing of the networked universe to augment individuals starts taking place. It might be driven by the challenges of the new stage we are in. Think of concepts to address information overload or managing online personas. Or it might facilitate emerging possibilities, eg interacting with local algorithmic agents etc.
The lovely old 286 did not have a human's bank/card details and neither did it had any "sensitive" photographs. Devices nowadays have a lot of private information about their user and most of the people do not know how it keep it safe and secure.. to top it all, several bad actors are consistently after this private information.. hence the lockdown.
This is such a tired argument. Nobody is arguing that iPhones should be rooted by default, only that they should be rootable.
The whole 'matrix' of people vs productivity is interesting.

I thought that I'd be more productive working from home, and initially I was. But now I'm interrupted more by my family than I probably was in the office.

I'd assume that people living alone are 'interruption free', but that doesn't necessarily equate to better productivity.

I never thought I'd be back in the office and more productive than being at home, but, well, here we are a year on.
I used to think this was purely organic and maybe there’s a chance that it is but I think it’s more likely a major shift like that has happened due to years of intentional ringleading by sock-puppets and shills who have a vested interest in managing public opinion. I think it’s inaccurate to call it “leftist,” I would call it a pro-corporate dissent-intolerant ideology.
What you or I think it not relevant. It is what the person who signs my paycheque thinks.
If anyone knows where the "I'm happy to control things myself" setting is in Teams, please share.

I'm really tired of it deciding when I should be on mute, or when it should warn me that I am muted. Just let me do it.
Plot-twist: Deep Mind comes out as Some Bozo comment author
> What you are suggesting is to allow 3rd party to join in the ecosystem.

Not necessarily. They could still continue to charge for every download, just as I can, and already do, listen to music on my iPhone without an Apple Music subscription and without purchasing from the iTunes store.

If I want the whole Apple experience, I will continue using macOS / IOS. Hell, that's the reason why I started buying MacBooks when I could afford them: the "apple experience".

But I also run Linux on my work PC, because for that I don't care about the Apple experience. But I hate my HP laptop, for comfort reasons. If I could buy a MacBook and have Linux run on it as well as it does on the hp, I would (because I love the hardware) and that would be a net gain for Apple, wouldn't it?

I get the whole point of the "experience" and "ecosystem", etc. Up until a few years ago I absolutely loved it. Still love my iphone and wouldn't switch to android.

But now I can't stand macOS anymore for my work needs. I'm looking to buy a new laptop to use Linux on it. The offers from Lenovo / HP / Dell don't look all that great to me. I would absolutely buy an MBP if I knew Linux worked perfectly on it, but I know it doesn't, so Apple doesn't get to make a sale.

The point is: If I want to tinker with an iPhone and would not buy one if I couldn't, why is it a loss for Apple to sell an extra phone, even if the buyer won't consume their other digital products? The seller wouldn't have consumed them anyway, especially without buying the iPhone.

Yes, there's the support side of things, but again, they could have some sort of warranty voiding system in place.
How do I keep contact with relatives -- like cousins, aunts and uncles, etc -- who I care enough about to want to chat with / see what's up in their lives, but not enough to call on a weekly basis?
No such thing as meth-induced psychosis. Yes, people might appear psychotic while under the influence, but that is not psychosis in the clinical sense.

The few that do lose their rationality lose it because they don’t sleep for weeks. They likely also live in an unsafe environment which keeps them in a perpetual state of survival stress.

Survival stress + not sleeping + stimulants —> psychosis. Very rarely any of these alone, unless the individual is predisposed.
So a car is free to operate?

No fuel/electricity

No road tax

No insurance

No maintenance
How does being able to get root access to an iPhone (the way you can on a Mac) limit creativity?
> Fundamental properties of bitcoin are its decentralization and security achieved via and expressed in, very transparently and using very simple formula, in terms of energy expenditure, tying it unambiguously to the real world physics.
>No other project has such properties or comes close to the level to which those properties are achieved in bitcoin.

There are other PoW coins. Some of those do calculation that are actually useful on their own. That means that there are coins with better, as you say, fundamentals.

> Nope.

Yes.

> Only if you don’t understand what performance of a cryptocurrency is, or what decentralization of cryptocurrency means.

Only if performance and decentralization mean something completely different in cryptocurrency than anywhere else. If so, can you explain or provide a source that explains it that I can check.

> And independence is from marketing campaigns, politics and other shenanigans that crypto world is full of.

BTC is full of marketing campaigns, politics and other shenanigans. To claim otherwise is to ignore, or be completely oblivious, to bitcoin history and present.
> my reading of a lot is always more than 50%, which implies to me that more than half of the engineers at half of the companies have average IQ or lower - which seems unlikely.

That depends. It's unlikely that they have at most the average IQ of the general population.

But if we assume that engineers as a group are smarter than the general population, it follows immediately that over half of them are below average among engineers. If you mostly work with engineers, that will probably look like "below average".
I was in this situation many times. You'll see the reality of it the day you leave: in a few days, maybe a month, you'll be forgotten there.
Locally a new ID.4 costs somewhere around €40-60k. Does VW really want me to spend €40k+ on a car, pay all maintenance, all insurance, all electricity, storage/parking, charging infrastructure, etc and then still pay 8€ per hour to use a main feature of the car? If I do a 5h drive it would be cheaper to pay the train instead of taking the car I have bought. Absolutely mad.
> Microsoft used to be quite good at making stuff usable but the underlying geekery was still there and could allow control to the max if you wanted it.

Windows 10 is the best Windows ever for the vast majority of people who use Windows. Same with Office. But you can still install whatever software you want on your Windows machine. Explain to me again how this is worse than what we used to have; where Microsoft have gone wrong in how they build software? Is it perfect? Of course not - no-one could even agree on what that means. But let’s be realistic about how much progress has actually happened: it’s a lot.
The US has a great rail system if you're a container or other freight that is easily put in a rail car, and you don't mind travelling at low speed and making a fair number of stops and not having any specific date and time of arrival.

It has a terrible rail system if you're a passenger. Connectivity is weak, and even if you have a direct route, almost all the rails are owned by freight lines, so freight traffic gets priority and schedules are rarely met. If you have to make a connection, good luck. There's some exceptional routes in the north eastern US, where there's a lot of rail and some of it is passenger exclusive.

The question is more likely to be flying vs driving than take a train vs driving, because a train will nearly always take longer and be less convenient.
Cell entry mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2
Python could become 5x faster. What would it mean for finance?
(The behavior is inherited from Rogue itself, where slimes can do it.)
Your entire comment is an argument why Bitcoin is more an investment than currency. The opposite of what the paper is trying to accomplish.
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Back to the office, hybrid or fully remote? I spoke to 1k companies
It really depends on what you’re working with. For instance, using modern tools and frameworks from the get go does make operating much easier. But if you’re stuck with an older tool chain and can’t get the org to commit to refactoring it then you unfortunately either have to pay the operational cost or invent something that makes ops better.

Not disagreeing with you but want to point out that it’s not straightforward and often requires much work to make ops easier depending on your situation.
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> Physical co-lo is only cheaper if your time is worthless

Physical colocation is nearly always cheaper than AWS for most use cases.

Exceptions are when your usage is so tiny that it doesn't need even a single full-time server, and, when your usage is so erratic that provisioning for the spikes doesn't make sense.

For everyone else, you're paying a very large premium for AWS over what it'd cost to buy and operate some servers.
Not to my knowledge, but I am not working on that specific area of the Company
Because the hardware and sensors are all local, installed on the car from the factory. There is no economic advantage, just a business advantage
Chocolate has a lot of PEA which activates the TAAR1 receptor just like amphetamines.

In fact, all amphetamines contain a PEA base - they are substitutes phenylethylamines, for example Alpha-MethylPHenEThylAMINE.
I would buy this argument if they sold the initial car at a loss - but they don't do that. You paid for that feature when you bought the car, then you pay again to use it. This is just rent seeking.
Call/text them on a _monthly_ basis?
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The car refused to drive autonomously. It said, “$8.50, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the car.
Again he tried the self-driving knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the car said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this VW Bug.”

In his glove compartment he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his car for taxiing him about while he listened to his morning HN podcast constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the car said. It sounded smug.
More correct title would be: algorithm identifies respiratory diseases by the sound of the cough and likely doesn’t make a difference between Covid-19, other coronavirus, or flu.
Not to jump in here, but have you tried tools like https://github.com/Budibase/budibase that would allow you to build both internal and external tools.
Anybody in this situation needs to hear Weezer's song "Pork and Beans".
To add to this - I'd be ok with VW charging for software updates after the first 3 years, like they do with maps. But the hardware and software that shipped from factory should work in perpetuity, period.
They dig it up; they cart it back to their base. Somehow it gets thawed; it wakes up, probably not in the best of moods...
Reporting like this makes me want to stop reading Hacker News. Making unsupported claims and following up with self-indulgent drivel isn't clever, it's just a nuisance.
Because that is where I live?
Meanwhile I used to go into the office 3 days a week. That gave me enough face to face personal connection, while giving me two days without a commute to have a life, and get my head down and churn things out.