skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can participate in mining pools, but realistically speaking unless you have very powerful hardware, you're better off just buying Bitcoin outright.

Same with PoS, you can stake with a pool if you have less than 32eth, but your returns on that are not going to be comparable to what large holders get (same percentage, but very tiny in absolute numbers).
Infrastructure as Software vs. Infrastructure as Code
It seems like an excessive pay, so maybe he thought it would be a lot of work. Have you had interactions with him before? He might have just not wanted to engage with you
One must be delusional to think the international press is giving Netanyahu’s departure more or equal attention than would be given to regime change in Russia or China.
Who is everyone? I'm sure there's data on it.
> I'm not sure what you mean by "that doesn't work in practice" re: using logits.

Like the other comment points out, models today aren't "calibrated" to give that kind of information. More precisely, we aren't training our models to explicitly tell us how confident they are in their predictions. They're simply trained to give the predictions that result in the lowest average error over the training dataset.

For example, we can consider the simple task of recognizing the words "yes" or "no". A naive model could return (0%, 100%) all the time (always guess "no") and, if the dataset is balanced, would get a score of 50%. Another naive model could return (50%, 50%) all the time and get the same score, 50%. Yet in practice we'd rather have the latter model because it better expresses that model's level of confidence. The former model, even though it gets the same average error rate, expresses a level of confidence in its answers that isn't there.

As of today, we only train models on the overall error rate, so our training methods don't prefer one kind of output over the other. That's why measuring the logits to guesstimate confidence isn't actually a good metric. It just happens to accidentally be one sometimes.

A speech recognition model might get to the same WER as a human, but humans are keenly aware of when they didn't hear a word right. That's invaluable information to a food ordering system which can then respond by asking for clarification, rather than blindly following its "best guess" which results in the aforementioned ordering of 40 ketchup packets.

And as far as I'm aware there are no loss functions for training confidence measurements into a system, so this is very much an unsolved problem in speech recognition systems.
>The company would be run like they're fully remote

You sort of have to if some people are in-office and some aren't. For example, and I know a lot of folks don't want to hear this, but it's a good practice that everyone does video calls from their own desk.

I also hear of companies looking at reconfigurations of their spaces to be more collaboration-oriented, e.g. more space to conference rooms and enclaves with a lot more emphasis on hot-desking for the rest.
Depends on the version of Unix. OpenBSD considers documentation to be a first class feature of the operating system, and new functionality isn't considered ready for merging and release until the documentation is complete and high quality.
False. We have more musician gig workers, but the lack of any music movement in the last 20 years is because musicians don’t have an opportunity to develop their own styles while earning a modest living. We have an army of part timers and a few at the top. Meanwhile, you are just enjoying the freebies
> I don't use rationalize in the context you're thinking, but in the mathematical concept of rationality. Language, how we code information into words, is based upon rational polynomials whose coefficients and values take on the alphabet; binary systems being something you may be familiar with. As soon as you codify 'God' as something rational ('sky wizard?') you imply a limit and impose boundaries on a limitless and indescribable entity

That's just mumbo-jumbo of the "not even wrong" category.

If you want to make the claim that there are things in the universe that we can't ever understand and/or are fundamentally non-computable (in some mathematical sense), I can't fundamentally disagree. Nobody knows whether that's true or not.

It's a long stretch from there to any notion of God, though.
100% agree. I used to use pencil and paper (and still do if I'm in person), but for a quick and dirty sketch to communicate ideas over screen share, MSPaint hits the sweet spot between speed and flexibility
I hope this won't ruin RISCV with countless binary blobs. I just got a Kendryte K210 to play with.
The fact that is it’s effective at early stages does not make it useless. It could be taken prophylacticaly if you know you’re going to be in a high risk situation like a roommate tests positive.
It seems like you might be mixing up cause and effect. I'd assume that the Bay area is the country's lowest fertility Metro precisely because it's filled with ambitious people.
Lol, that NASA guy reminds me of Spud at the job interview in Trainspotting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcJkLGKl-dU
Not "simply" when the densities are so different.

They both happen to be similar in price, but if the density gap grew by 3x then suddenly tape would be more expensive and only used for certain types of archival.
Growing up in the boonies... lots of electric fences and lots of pre-teen and teenage boys thinking it is hilarious to grab the fence then grab your friends. I'd still do it once - wouldn't be entertaining for too long but another post mentioning the novelty of it resonates with me.

The face slapping world championships is also a thing so really no surprises here hah.
I find in person meetings more effective. I’d rather meet once a week or 2 and get all the big meetings done then go away to code, than have Zoom meetings every single day.

I predict that in all the full time WFH companies, some small group will start having in person meets once every X. Or some other startup will innovate past an incumbent by having a hybrid model.

Then hybrid will be the next “new” thing.
So? Most religious people are incapable of understanding their own religion, too.
Thinking of treatment should be lab and clinical tested by scientists and doctors, not spreaded among hundreds of millions laypeople.
Yeah, that's what a chromebook is. The machine in the article was $1000 MSRP. An M1 Macbook Air is the same price, and $900 with education pricing.
> for almost all crypto (maybe excepting Bitcoin), it is driven by speculation with limited usage in legal markets and dominant usage in illegal markets

Uhhhh, what? The coin that isn't used for anything besides speculation is the one you think isn't? How are you going to say that Ethereum, which beats bitcoin in most metrics and has tons of uses and potential is more speculative?
Just how close are you trying to be with your co-workers? My parents don't live in the same state with me but we talk weekly on the phone and meet once in a while in person.

If you need hourly contact with your co-workers I hope it's more about doing the job then socializing. If it is about doing the job and your job is software development then are alternatives to endless meetings.
Google Uses AI to Design Computer Chips in Just 6 Hours
“ lack of proper division between my home life and work life.”

This tells me you’re doing WFH wrong or don’t have enough discipline for it. That’s okay, wfh is not for everyone, but don’t blame this on anyone but yourself.

There are tons of ways to have that proper separation, including but not limited to, replacing the transitional commute with a walk to switch contexts. You can find a lot of tips and techniques on the web.

When I’m done with work for the day, I’m done, and it doesn’t intrude in my home life, even though my “office” is literally in the next room.
you should read about some SPAC deals then
There's actually nothing in the United States Code that specifies whether or not "Cash or deferred arrangements" (U.S. Code § 401, subsection (k), or "401(k)"), is privately managed. A 401(k) can be a publicly managed pension! A 401(k) is a type of pension. A 401(k) agreement can straight up be cash payments!

> (A) [...] a covered employee may elect to have the employer make payments as contributions to a trust under the plan on behalf of the employee, or to the employee directly in cash;

It's just that no one does that. That trust that is mentioned is the stock portfolio approach that nearly every organization uses.

> How would a politician siphon from your retirement?

I guess you weren't listening to political discourse for the last 8 years, you know, where politicians repeatedly suggested that we add additional taxes specifically to 401(k) trusts, annually, as another form of expense ratio.
You're omitting a major driver of the exodus from private forums to walled gardens. It's the same driver of many other problems: assholes.

Spammers killed many a forum because it became a full time effort by admins and moderators to remove them. Automated tools, especially early tools, had limited effectiveness. People running a site as a hobby don't want to spend their days removing spam comments.

Assholes also (for many reasons) will DDoS forums. This is another administrative headache for site owners if not a financial headache.

The same driving force saw blogs remove comments for centralized solutions like discus or abandon self-hosted blogs for Medium and the like.

While Facebook and reddit have plenty of spam issues the "owners" and mods of a group/subreddit are different from the site admins. There's a lot less financial risk for someone running a group there than their own server. They also let a wider swath of people run a group rather than only those that are interested in a niche topic, have the technical skills to effectively run a forums, and the money to pay for it all.
I think people care about decentralization only to an extent. They really just want to it to be decentralized enough that the SEC or CFPB won't shut it down. I call this 'plausible decentralization'.

If you try to run an unlicensed exchange without KYC on AWS, you will get shut down pretty quick.

I think the government will look at Solana and say its too complicated to shut down.
I have the unpleasant task of informing you that I will be leaving __*this_crummy*__ employment as of __*shortly*__.

As you know I have not been very happy with __*the_same_old_shit*__. I have not __*seen_anything_worthwhile?*__ in a little over 3 months. I have not learned anything new in the __*professional*__ field in the past year. I have been putting out the same old fires that were here __*a_sad_number_of*__ years ago.

I will be working as a __*much_better_position*__ for __*a_truly_respected_employer*__.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who I have worked with for the past two years. I know that I will miss you all.
> See THIS is the problem. Ugly, inconsistent, clumsy use of the english language, and confusing.

It's a command line interface, not plain English. What's ugly and inconsistent about the git log command as was quoted in your reply?

> I've got better things to do than become an expert on needlessly complicated software.

As a software developer, I have to read through a lot of documentation to be able to use programming languages, SQL, data stores, unix utils, etc. I don't see why it would be any different for a VCS.

I think the actual issue is that people aren't willing to read through the documentation to understand what a command does and what options are available.

As for the command itself, the -p switch shows the diff associated with each commit shown with the git-log command. origin/master represents the upstream tracking branch of the master branch (most likely the base branch that the person is working on). .. represents a range operator and HEAD repesents the commit that's the latest commit on the branch on the local machine.
It does make it centralized, just take a look at the spec requirements to see how unrealistic it is to expect high participation (let alone technical knowledge)

https://docs.solana.com/running-validator/validator-reqs
> Unless you mean the simulation is specifically targeting humans, which is a vastly more complicated proposal.

It's also the most likely proposal (with current understanding of universe).

Axis of Evil (Cosmology) calls into question the Copernicus views of the universe. Essentially saying our solar system is somehow back at the center of the universe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjVCjdX5XRw

If WE are the subject of the simulation, it's likely everything our instruments observe are like the sky on the Truman show - not there, just phantoms of what we would expect to be there with what the simulation wants us to know about physics.

There's a max speed the speed of light, what if this is the max processing ability of the computer we're running on. What if we're not on a computer at all but some sort of wetware computer system that grows as it needs to, and never runs out of resources?

What if the speed of light in the parent sim is 500x bigger for them, or ours is like a centimeter in comparison.

A dream is a simulation, we could all be dream creatures to some huge extra-dimensional being. Not everything pre-supposes human technology.

I've seen literal "glitches" in reality, so it's pretty easy for me to believe that reality isn't something completely set in stone. For others it challenges everything they believe in, for that I say open your mind.

Donald Hoffman believes that what we see is like what someone in a VR headset sees, outside the VR headset who knows what that world is like, but in this one -- everything except math (which he believes is universal and extra-universal), is made to fit this universe. Physics, science, all of it is unique only inside the headset. There could be many headsets with different settings running parallel (parallel worlds/universes), maybe the speed of light is faster in one than the other, maybe gravity works different, etc... So many things in our understanding are really like "settings" like size of a planck's constant, pie, speed of light, etc. Almost reads like a config file.

I mean if you buy into a "God" being, if computing is a thing which we have it so why wouldn't God? Wouldn't it even make more sense for him to just code up a simulation? I mean it's gotta be a lot less demanding than building a whole universe from nothing.
1. One thing to do is to reframe from not just climate change to thinking in terms of planetary boundaries. The stockholm resilience center goes into this: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-bound... . There's even a netflix documentary out now called 'Breaking Boundaries' hosted by David Attenborough and all. I stress this because too many people think just in terms of climate and not also recognize biodiversity collapse, biogeochemical flows, etc. There may be opportunities in thinking about regions more from this standpoint too, a la Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics.

2. Realize there are social practices to help deal with some of these problems, not necessarily just technological fixes. Things like possibly working at a neighborhood scale to have more local circular flows, cohousing, etc.

3. Have some concern that a route of having a 'climate' plan may accidentally end up with more ghg emissions or miss the mark on environmental/social issues. Some things I've been thinking about lately have been the results of south korea's climate plan ( https://youtu.be/x0ckvo2Z5BU?t=4 ) and an argument that the green new deal is a moral hazard ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSae5F__yQc )

4. Think about niche construction, and what caused anthropogenic climate change - getting into the economic & social factors.

5. Consider that it's possible to do ecosystem restoration, as evangelized by groups like https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org , https://ecosystemguild.org , etc. There's also things under the umbrella of 'assisted migration' as climactic shifts happen.

6. Some of the more basic things like water might be of more interest than energy depending on where you are. There's all sorts of things to be talked about in terms of 'decentralizing water'. Again, goes in hand with understanding ecosystems.

While super inspirational, I've actually found myself rethinking what worrydream wrote in this piece. It's too focused on just climate - feeling a bit too inspired by Saul Griffith (who with the otherlab team's creating amazing things like http://energyliteracy.com ). Some like Joe Brewer have already touched on all this with 'The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth' - https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-design-pathway-for-... (bias: I know the author, google the book), works from the Post-Carbon Institute, etc.
This isn’t true at all. I would characterize faith as being a belief in any truth that you cannot prove. There is no such thing as a truth that can be proven (or at least none has been discovered so far). All truths are equally non-probable.

Your stance seems to be that a set of unprovable axioms you prefer to have faith are somehow superior to some other set of unprovable axioms that some other people may choose to have faith in. You might have all sorts of perfectly reasonable justifications for the axioms you have faith in, but if you want to claim your beliefs transcend faith then you’ll have to present a logical proof that survives the munchausen trilemma.
Same. I use the crap out of MSPaint and Paint.net when I know I will be doing a bit more.

Simple, fast, does just enough.

There is another basic reason and that is bitmaps and text are still crazy useful for basic communications.

I started out using both of those early on in 8 bit land. Still dominant today.

In that sense, MSPaint makes sense as a basic OS tool.
Interesting. I think we would still have the issue of 10 people piling up on a comment with downvotes, as judiciously as they can spend the budget.
It’s an Acer spin 13 and not a Samsung, but the 16G price seems to be in the same 700$ range.

For the Macbook Air, the 16G version starts at 1079$ with education discount so roughly 1.5 more expensive (they explicitely choose the 16G version of the ACER, so the RAM shouldn’t be ignored IMO)

The thinkpad X13 at 16G of RAM is around 1380$ on amazon [0], so twice as much.

I don’t know the Acer spin 13, but if the screen is as good as Samsung’s one, it is well worth the price, especially as you usually get more battery life, and the chrome OS + android + linux mix is actually good. There are still rough edges, but the good parts largely outweigh those.

[0](https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-20T2003YUS-13-3-Noteb...)
paint.net is tone better and has nice OTB shortcuts.
KolourPaint is the closest equivalent to Paint, and supports HiDPI display scaling:

http://kolourpaint.org

For a little more functionality (but still less complexity than GIMP or Krita), Pinta has a tabbed interface based on Paint.NET. It supports layers, but does not yet support HiDPI:

https://www.pinta-project.com

GIMP's current version (based on GTK+ 2) only has basic support for HiDPI, but their development version (based on GTK+ 3) has full support. I've found it to be quite stable:

https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/05/08/gimp-2-99-6-released/

Krita supports HiDPI, and has a different feature set compared to GIMP:

https://krita.org
I believe everything we're seeing Lee do is because he's a narcissist[1] and is simply incapable of accepting failure. I read an article[2] recently on how a narcissist handles failure and it fits this situation perfectly. Just some of the steps (it's a long article):

▣ Insist everything is fine, claim any evidence otherwise is false.
▣ Attack not only the evidence, but anyone presenting it.
▣ Find someone to blame for their troubles (in this case Libera).
▣ Never take responsibility, EVER, it's always someone's else fault.
▣ Lies increase and are repeatedly exponentially.
▣ If it appears the narcissist is going to be brought down, they will start lashing out to make others suffer. They will NOT go down alone.
▣ As the end nears, the suffering of others becomes paramount.

IRC was important to Lee growing up as jeltz noted. So he obtained control over Freenode because it was the largest IRC network in the world, and owning it made him feel good. But eventually, because he's a narcissist, he wasn't satisfied merely owning it, he wanted to run it. He probably felt only he knew best how to do so, because he's a narcissist. That started the failure and it's all been downhill ever since, because he can't accept that failure.

If I'm correct, it's going to get much worse, and much uglier, in the weeks and months to come. Lee's going to start attacking his current toadies and enablers as well, and doing more and more things to cause suffering to anyone he feels is remotely connected to the "appearance" of him failing. (Because remember, he's incapable of admitting he failed.)

[1] In particular Malignant Narcissist Personality Disorder, an actual mental health disorder, not just someone who likes themselves a bit too much.

[2] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spycatcher/202007/wh...
> Get naturally infected - natural infection offers broad and long lasting immunity

Baffling to see this listed as a way to get covid “under control”. If people getting naturally infected is fine, what is there to control? The whole reason people are concerned about getting covid under control is that natural infection would kill around 0.5% of a population in a developed country, or more if the hospital system becomes overwhelmed and oxygen or other standard of care treatment isn’t available.

> The data is showing that Ivermectin is almost 100% effective as a prophylaxis

No placebo controlled RCT has shown this that I’m aware of for ivermectin (as discussed in the parent article). The evidence for the vaccines, steriod, or mAb treatments working is backed by placebo controlled RCT. The article states: “ All in all, though, the most compelling reports of ivermectin’s effects seem to come from the smallest and least controlled samples (all the way down to anecdotal results) while the larger and more well-controlled trials tend to produce equivocal evidence at best.”

> and using Ivermectin is a safe alternative that also contributes to herd immunity.

How would it create herd immunity? Would people have to take ivermectin for the rest of their lives as an alternative to the vaccine?
That only works as long as the government stays clueless. If Solana or Angorand or whatever gets big enough and the government employs some tech-savvy people to examine it, they'll figure out that there is a subset of blessed validators out there that could be legally compelled to cease and desist and that this would cripple the network.

That wouldn't really work for Bitcoin or other PoW coins. They could shut down big mines and new ones would pop up. Of course they could instead invest a lot in both seizing mines and building their own and 51% the network... that's always a risk and any large enough nation state could do it.
Exactly why it'll never be decentralized (centralized team and private investments aside)
Cool. This might be an inaccurate assessment, but Skribilo reminds me of PanDoc, made with Scheme instead of Haskell, and with a somewhat harder to spell name.
Apparently the only way that umpires would check was if an opposing coach complained. Opposing coaches never complained because they knew their own players were doing it, too. The league stepping in insures there won’t be any fear of that sort of retaliation.