skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it actually bitcoin being airdropped or tether?
Compostable items are probably the best bet for many common uses. For instance, in many Asian countries you are served food in a plate or bowl made of banana leaves instead of plastic. In cultures where eating with your hands is normal, you can skip needing flatware of any kind. The other alternative is re-use, like we do with shopping bags. Plastic itself perhaps can be less problematic if disposing it is illegal and re-use or recycling is encouraged and enforceable. But a lot of plastic today is not recycled at all (https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/whopping-91-perce...).
Kinky
Considering how many of those big tech companies rely on pushing ads, does it really matter whether they’re based in the US or not? Either way, they’re revenue is from selling out their users.
Better than Dave Ramsey, check out Bogleheads.org.

You (and everyone else) really do own your financial life. There can be curveballs-- a catastrophic illness, for example-- but for the vast majority of people, having money or not is really a series of personal decisions made over a lifetime.
The Pentagon Just Released Its UFO Report
How different is “working for a YC startup” than “working for a funded SV startup”
We don't shadowban established accounts—we tell people we're banning them and why: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... That's been the case for many years. I wrote about this the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27573675.

The exceptions are spammers and serial trolls. For those we continue to use shadowbanning, for different reasons. In the case of spammers, telling them they're banned would just invite more spam, and in the case of serial trolls, would invite more trolling—besides which, serial trolls know perfectly well that they're banned. That's what "serial troll" means. The account you thought you were helping by telling them they were banned is one of the latter, and if you saw the shockingly abusive things they'd posted in the past I'm pretty sure you would think twice before casting them as an innocent victim.

Don't you think it would be fair to update your views after 8 years? HN moderation has changed massively since then.
When pg was the sole moderator of HN, it was impossible for him to put the kind of attention into moderation that we've been doing since we took over in 2014. That's the primary difference.

If you look through my comment history you'll see that I've posted tens of thousands of comments and spent thousands of hours exhorting users to follow HN's rules, cajoling them and coaxing them and warning and scolding and coaching and helping and teaching. We cut people an incredible amount of slack before banning them. It's repetitive work and frequently meets with aggressive attacks and imaginary accusations. I think it's reasonable to expect a decade-long user like yourself to cut us a little slack too. If you think that we're beheading people without consideration, or treating them in any way disrespectfully, let alone unethically, I would invite you to observe more closely. I slip up sometimes and am happy to make corrections when people point that out, but I don't think charges of systemic malpractice are justified.
I don't understand the distinction you're making here. If every monitor was a CRT, the artists sat down at one of those monitors and thought about (while observing) color bleed and blurry edges, and drew what looked good on their development devices.

Are you saying that people are saying that artists back then didn't use monitors, and had to imagine what their art would look like?
This is why I dislike the current version of 3D printing. All it creates is cheap, poor quality plastic objects more and more. We need organic (recyclable) material that can be manipulated, printed and available just like plastic.
If 99.99% of people die, the species lives on, but everyone reading this is gone and so is civilisation.
Wish these bills would kill clauses like "most favored nation" as far as pricing goes, anti-steering laws and forcing side loading. Making the pricing premium for using a platform naked would give a direct financial & choice to consumers to go towards the most price efficient venue.
The "multiple sensors" part is important. Anything that has video or radar returns from multiple points is much more interesting than a single-point view. Most illusions break down when observed from multiple widely separated points, like several warships operating together.

So little hard data is being released.
""feminizing chemicals" being added to the water (the whole "gay frogs" thing) to increase the homosexual population and emasculate male aggression and military readiness..."

Actually that part is kinda true. A fair bit of the effluent from paper mills, say, are estrogen analogs.
Perhaps the strategy is to pull more conservative, bureaucracy-bound organizations into AWS. Lots of IT dollars in banking, healthcare, …

Focusing on the US Government, they’re jumping right in to the deep end of the pool.
Yes, this is downside.

Gog is quite contend with just Ubuntu being supported; they are not that different.

Not sure whether that is the only reason why some games are not on Gog though; often Mac ports are missing too. It seems more like missing rights for the ports than technical reasons.
Is the size of the camera app really significant when, on a modern high-end device, it's going to be taking 10+ megapixel photos or recording 4K video at up to 60fps?
I think what we need is a tool for properly forking upstream modules and adjusting the dependencies accordingly (and of course, the adjustment can be undone when/if the upstream maintainer accepts and merges your change). Replace is problematic in many ways:

1. It doesn't propagate downstream. If module Z depends on module Y, and module Y depends on module X, and module X is faulty, it's logical for module Y to have a replace directive for a fixed version of module X. This does not affect module Z, which now subtly (or loudly, sometimes) breaks. That helps nobody. It's good if you have an application that you build in CI and ship to your own private servers, but pretty much useless for everyone else. (And people don't seem aware of this; the author of module Y thinks they've fixed the problem for their consumers, but hasn't.)

2. It doesn't compose. If module Z depends on module Y and module X, and module Y and module X depend on module W, and the authors of module X and module Y independently discover that module W is broken and develop separate fixes for it, the author of module Z really has no option to make their software work.

I think Rob Pike's "a little copying is better than a little dependency" is apt here. If you just copy the source code you want into your own application, the problem goes away. But, the problematic upstream dependencies are often large projects (Azure's API client is a big offender here; I've never successfully depended on it without a replace directive) that are impractical to simply copy-and-refactor. At some point, these upstream providers need to fix their shit or risk not being used.

This problem, by the way, is not unique to Go. I notice this problem come up with Javascript when a bunch of modules depend on faulty-module-0.0.1 with a security problem. faulty-module-0.1.0 is released with a fix for the security problem, but your app directly depends on neat-feature-1.2.3 and nifty-addon-23.47.1 and those modules break with faulty-module-0.1.0. So inevitably you show up at the issue tracker for neat-feature and nifty-addon where 6000 other people are yelling at the authors to release a version that depends on the fixed version of faulty-module, find that the authors aren't around, and are just sad because there's nothing you can do. Basically, depending on other people's software sucks, and so does copying their code into your application. go has the advantage of very clearly telling you "hey, you're fucked!" which annoys people, but you basically get into this situation no matter what programming language you use. It's just you might not know, which is scary. (I hope you use something like Sentry for your Javascript apps and have 100% test coverage.)
> How do you encode the difference between houamine A and atrop-houamine A,

There are now lots of ways of encoding molecules. So many, in fact, that it's not really worth debating the merits of any particular method.

ECFP fingerprints shoved into a fully connected NN work surprisingly well for a large class of problems. Molecular graph convolutions (of which there are now many flavors) also work well. The field is to the point where people are doing ensembles of different encodings, and seeing what works for any particular problem.

> without resorting to empirical measurements and classification, which could yield reasonable vectors, but will take 2-5 years of a highly trained grad student's labor to obtain and put into the training corpus

Well, you're sort of touching on my last paragraph with this. The classifier, featurization, etc., usually matters less (a lot less?) than the quality of the assay data. So I agree in that respect.
Verifying an HTTP Key-Value Server with Interaction Trees and VST
Hold on. I'll get started on that as soon as I finish my bachelor's degree in chemistry and build a lab where I can test all the substances that I bring into my house. You have such great ideas. No idea why I haven't done this yet.
China's Downwardly Mobile Millennials Are Throwing in the Towel
Never heard about this company before. Took a quick look at their website and noticed that in the table on front page (located in the section "Vetted by the NSA") Zoom is listed as a product lacking "Full E2E Encrypted Functionality". I'm wondering about whether this isn't true (considering Zoom's E2E being GA: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360048660871-End-t...) - and the table should be fixed - or still true (due to aspects that I might be missing).
That's how I felt after reading it as well. Plus the part where it says that it's possible that we aren't getting any readings from them because they have advanced technology that we don't know how to create sensors for.
“treat current lands as sovereign nations that have an equal standing with the rest of the nation”

This isn’t as radical as you may think. It’s been a stated goal for a long time. I’m always surprised how the actual meaning of these words don’t seem to make any impact on Canadians. Perhaps phrased another way, such as, “When I have an Ojibway passport…” might catch people’s’ attention.
I hope that these things don't periodically switch from showing the actual products & prices to showing a full-screen ad for something. A movie theater near me does that with their screen-based menus. Very annoying to be trying to decide what you want and suddenly have the menu vanish.

It's a bit sad to think how wasteful these are. Not just the waste produced by producing the screens and powering them all day, but the fact that you can't reliably see what's in there by looking means people will just learn to open it and browse with the door open, letting the cold air out.

Edit: Also, does anyone know what the cameras are for, if not facial recognition or CCTV? I'm guessing it's eye tracking for market research. I suppose that could be anonymized and aggregated on-device in a privacy-preserving way, but you'd have to take their word for it.
"It's true we can't rule out the lab theory as much as we'd like to."

Why is it desirable to rule it out? It's not only plausible, but the evidence seems to be accumulating, not diminishing. Thorough investigations seem very much warranted[1]. Let's not ignore the possibility because we wish such things can't/don't happen.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/science/coronavirus-seque...
If you rule out aliens and sensor artifacts, then the only conclusion must be these UAP are most likely human made.

If that's the case, it would be embarrassing for the US and Pentagon. We (the US) should be the best in all defense technology given how much we spend on it.
'Slightly higher cost' is usually symptomatic of higher resource or energy usage in the manufacturing process.
It is only true if you measure it. ;)

Companies rely too much on analytics.
Did this thing not use sessions?
Put your own oxygen mask on first
Some of these steps are resource-intensive and would require additional investment.

And there you have it. The "money quote" in both the literal and metaphorical sense. Of course the Military / Espionage / Industrial Complex community is going to try to keep paranoia about "UAP's" and "UFO's" stoked... as long as they can use that to justify more $$$ flowing into their coffers.

They have to play a delicate balancing act though: stoke just enough fear to keep the money flowing, but not so much that anybody starts demanding they actually deliver anything measurable with that money.

Nice gig if you can get it.

The sensors mounted on U.S. military platforms are typically designed to fulfill specific missions. As a result, those sensors are not generally suited for identifying UAP.

Anybody want to team up on a new startup focused on "UAP sensors" and sell them to the government for $43,927.33 each?
Not to get too far off topic but the intelligence community isn't exactly a benchmark for truth and transparency. Within its arsenal is misinformation, and it's not afraid to use it.

Also, the recent reports I've watched and read all eventually mentioned "national security." Such mentions are euphemisms for more funding, more DOD budget, etc.

Granted, it could be aliens. Nonetheless there are plenty of earthlings who benefit from a misinfomation based narratives. Some of those benefitees are the source of the narrative.

Let's not lose track of the context. It matters.
I wonder if you could screw with someone you don’t like by putting a big fat magnet on their meter.

Ofc with the new prevalence of home cameras, that would be risky now.
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Not necessarily. Even a virus with a low infection fatality rate could have caused significant evolutionary changes if it was endemic across many generations.
It's crazy that Fornite on PC took almost 100GB of disk space not long ago. The managed to cut that down to under a third [1].

I suspect a lot of this reduction was probably loading content on-demand. Wouldn't be surprised if all the different items and event data were pre-downloaded before that update. Whatever it was, it was evidently not crucial since it's always used much less space on mobile— they just hadn't gotten around to keeping disk usage under control on PC too.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/21/21526916/fortnite-pc-fil...
> The thing to notice is cameras have become much more prevalent and much higher resolution, but "UFOs" in pictures haven't.

Get out your phone, and take a picture of your hand. Its very close, and you'll get a great photo.

Now, go outside at night, look at the beacon on top of a crane in the distance, or a plane landing a few kilometres away. Try to take a photo of it with your phone camera.

We have great cameras, sure, but not everyone is carrying a 300mm lens in their pocket
Wasn't trying to be confrontational. It just seemed like you might have a contrarian view that might be worth hearing.
I got it in 3:49!
Article says that some reclaimed land was filled with literal dumped trash in the past.

“At worst, they are made by throwing some dirt over the top of a pile of garbage, and building more city on top of it”
What can you really trust in this report? If you take it gave value it's pretty interesting. Given funding we should learn more over the next decade or two.
Is that actually good though? It feels to me that there’s a big difference between explaining the implications of a positive result to someone who understands bayes theorem and someone who doesn’t.

Another aspect of cancer screening is that detecting cancer earlier can improve key statistics like 5 year survival without affecting the actual disease in any way. Which can make screening sound more effective than it is.
I can’t remember the last time I was this angry
Well the new sprites are certainly an improvement from the last time they remade these games, but I still think it's a step down. I don't really get what they're doing. I fell in love with FF6 at a young age, and huge part of that was that the visuals blew me away, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. It reminds me of the Star Wars special editions, why do they insist on tinkering with something people already love?

I understand the issue that stretching these pixels out to 50+ inches gets a little ridiculous, but there are already solutions that other re-releases have done. You can add borders to keep it from getting too huge, add optional filters for scanlines or crt blurriness, and if you want to mess with the colors a bit instead of sticking to the very limited original palette, that's probably ok.
How was he known to be misogynistic? He had consensual fumble with a female colleague and criticised 'most Bay Area women', which is very different from hating women for being women.
Here's some sourced data for my claims to look at the "myth" if you're interested:

"65% of Americans are still paying for cable TV."

"According to cable cord-cutting subscribers statistics for 2018, the average viewer in the US can save up to $104 per month by taking the plunge."

Ref: https://techjury.net/blog/cable-tv-subscribers-statistics/

"According to Zagat, if you are like the average American, you go out for lunch and dinner 4.9 times each week."

Ref: https://us1035.iheart.com/featured/sarah/content/2018-01-09-...

Average credit card debt in 2020: $5315

Ref: https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/consumer-credit-...
> until everyone learns

See, that's the problem. You can't force anything, but you present it as a "must be done at all costs" proposition. That's very disingenuous.

Regardless, I think you missed my point. Some of us are just sick and tired of every crusade that dominates the news cycle with severe lack of pragmatism. There are plenty of more important issues than coronavirus and it sounds like you're suffering from a lack of perspective.
I work at a YC backed startup and have never tweeted anything. Lots of long days programming though.
Yup, that happened to me. I paid something like $250 for a tax preparer who just entered the info into TurboTax.

It hit a weird case and she didn't know what to do. Eventually I looked up the actual tax code and told her what to do. As far as I remember it was about splitting the cost basis over multiple years. I owned some weird stock where that came up.
Is that related to the Millennium Tower sinking?
Yup, I think that's where the mental conflict comes from. How about "import"?
> In reality, every monitor was a CRT. They just drew what looked good on their development devices.

Vector games look atrocious in modern monitors, but beautiful in vector monitors. Developers couldn't know what monitors the future would have, but they certainly designed for the monitors of their time and counted with their quirks in their visual effects.

IIRC, the developer of the 2600 VCS version of Pac-Man decided that the ghosts should display 1 of every 4 frames not because it looked well in his monitor, but because he was running out of time and relied on phosphor persistence to mask his sprite reuse hack.

Edit: The correct VCS Pac-Man story of the flickery ghosts
https://boards.fool.com/atari-2600-hardware-and-pac-man-2527...
An interstellar intelligence is probably post-biology.

Biological aliens are more than likely carbon and water based, and most likely use oxygen/oxidation for energy. The worlds that harbor these must be of a certain temperature and mass, which means the biological aliens evolved adapted to these conditions. Gravity, gravity wells, temperatures, metabolic and resource needs that are far from ideal for space.

Let's also assume post-biology intelligence has the extra benefit of duplicating, transmitting, and modifying memories, experience, etc. and optimizing it. Compute nodes probably have access to more than the sum total of human knowledge at an instant, and can probably run math, chemical, and physical simulations rapidly. These intelligences will be orders of magnitude smarter than us. Imagine a trillion of the smartest humans operating at peak performance, except even smarter.

These intelligences will also be concerned about other intelligences that have more resources and that may not take a friendly disposition. Unless there's an omnipotent intergalactic police force that prevents attack and extermination, intelligences will hide their presence by default.

Since other adversarial intelligences probably also have technologies beyond our own, the technological needs and techniques for advanced cloaking may be beyond our present understanding.

I didn't claim alien intelligence wouldn't study us. (They probably would.) I claimed they would remain very well hidden.
The opposite, I believe. A lot of people do make it sound like art was mastered on pixel perfect displays, and the artist had to imagine how it would ultimately look on some far off CRT.
Only because they expect the government to take care of them
people are also just wrong, and crazy, all the time.
Drew while zoomed in?
You mean using grid paper to create the sprites
I appreciate your analysis of Berkeley housing prices possibly driving out low wage workers. That's the kind of discussion and analysis I was asking for, as opposed to the strawman in the article.

That said, Berkeley has ~$16 minimum wage, which applies to restaurant workers before tips. Additionally, housing prices plummeted in Berkeley during the pandemic. My apartment dropped 16.9% in price during the pandemic, although prices are now returning. I believe the average for San Francisco was closer to a 7% drop. I do not have data for Berkeley specifically.

Couple that with an eviction moratorium followed by rent forgiveness, and I don't believe that your argument holds.

Again, I appreciate the further discussion and analysis, as this is an interesting and far from simple economic phenomenon.
The heavier elements start acting more like continuous systems and less like quanta legos, as you get more and more states per eV. Transition metals and lanthanides don't get their own combinatoric explosion until literal sticks are stuck on the smooth balls in coordination chemistry.
Well, one confounding factor is that CPU Flops are more generic, for any algorithm. GPU Flops as mentioned work better on tensor cases.

However, when we do have tensors, the GPU and CPU would both work to their full potential, and thus the flops comparison ought to be valid.
I’m going to wait for AvE’s foul-mouthed explanation of what happened before listening to anyone else’s.

Here’s his video on Miami’s bridge collapse in 2018:

https://youtu.be/KtiTm2dKLgU

Written about here: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/fiu-bridge-collapse-myste...
Once you have decided that the UAPs are technological objects, sure, it starts to seem more plausible that aliens are involved. But nothing in the report [0] indicates to me that there is any degree of confidence that the weird, unexplainable UAPs are technological objects.

[0] https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do....