skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same as it deals with common code paths: What can't be guaranteed to never be called, it left in. E.g. you can remove functions in a module that are never imported anywhere else and never called, rather easily. You can also remove branches that are unreachable, e.g. inside an if (false). But for things like

function f(s) {
if (s === '') throw new Error()
...
}

there probably are very few tools that will statically be able to tell that f is never called with an empty string and thus the validation logic is not needed. It's JS after all and tools that mangle it all fall on a spectrum between doing very little, but very safely and trying to do too much and breaking code.
The big fallacy with AI research is that people treat it as "completely new", so in their mind it doesn't make sense to compare the AI to traditional methods. But most traditional methods have also been created by highly advanced intelligences ... us humans.

FYI we once got 1st place on the Sintel AI benachmark in "Clean & EPE matched" with a 2004 paper... By now it's down to 10th place, but AI is by no means far ahead of traditional methods.

As for "novel view synthesis benchmarks", photogrammetry is used in many hollywood productions for virtual actors and/or for virtual environment destruction. In my opinion, having Hollywood use your technique for billion-dollar blockbuster movies is probably a hint that it works well in practice ;)
WebMention requires a server, so it would have all the same problems as other approaches.

The fundamental problem is that when a page is created, we don't know what address the comments will get (since it will be based on their content).

We can easily look backwards, from a comment to all of the previous thread, e.g.:

Page <- 1stComment <- 2ndCommentB <- 3rdComment <- ...

The problem is those arrows only point one way; we need to know a name/URL for a comment, rather than the page. To solve this we need a mutable reference, like DNS, IPNS, some third-party service, etc. If we have that, there are lots of things we could use to accumulate and render comments (like WebMention).
While common knowledge, the resolution is not always clear. Is the current expectation that everyone using docker is schooled in network engineering?
I'm not endorsing Apple Pay, but I also don't carry cash, so how am I supposed to pay? Sure I can pay by card, but now the credit card company knows what I'm buying. Also that involves another person who has to come accept the payment which I could've done in peace on my phone using Apple/Google pay. Not everyone want to carry cash around.
So can I get a bachelor degree in CS/CE for 5k or less purely online?
QR menus are fantastic here. It's such a pleasurable experience. No more menus with something taped or scribbled on it due to a pricing adjustment. Given the proliferation of languages spoken here, people frequently take a menu and run it through Google Translate, literally getting restaurants more business as a result.

It's at the point where I just find paper menus antiquated and aggravating. Heck, many places just pass out tablets now, for the same reason. It's literally easier to pass out cheap tablets with the menu already loaded as a PDF, than it is to deal with paper.
Rest and vest, and "google doesnt fire people" are both meme's about google. Whether they are true or not is another question. I'm sure Google does fire people but obviously less than Amazon does.
Except it is not, but ok.

I bet you are one of those people that believe wait staff only make $2/hr right?
That's not quite what I asked. I asked which parts don't scale with time/compensation, which is the only bit that matters for shorter-than-full-time schedules.

Google developers start at $191k per year. The market price of Platinum health care plans for a 30-year-old single person in Google's Zip code is ~$1000/month. So that's ~6%.

That's nothing to sneeze at, but it's also not huge. If they drop to an 80% schedule and 80% comp, health care's now ~8% of their salary. That's something that Google can surely handwave away.

For companies that can't, I think there are reasonable solutions. The obvious one is that they scale their health care subsidy with the hours worked. In many places employees pay a percentage of their health insurance costs already; it's not hard to change those numbers for people on less-than-full-time schedules.
Sure he tweets every time he pumps it up but are you confident he’ll give you (and all the rest of his followers) a heads up before he dumps it? I wouldn’t be. And for that reason alone it’s a fatally flawed investment strategy.
I've set that book as a reading task for my high school students - it goes down rather well.
I have thought for years that the modern trend of extreme polarization, radicalization, and focus on identity politics has a real risk of leading to some kind of civil war scenario. With the rioting last year from both liberals and conservatives (cities looted and burning, the capitol invaded) and now this inter-state tension, I think we're unfortunately seeing some major acceleration towards the civil war scenario.
Tesla alone sold over half a million cars in 2020. Where are these price drops? $35k for their cheapest model (whose design is now 4 years old) is not something easily afforded.

For a point of comparison, you can buy a high end Subaru Outback for that same price, and it’s a really, really nice car.
Home assistant said this better than you from the start: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-a...

Once you realize where you are right and where you are wrong you can start asking if and how automation might help you personally.
Whats the last disruptive tech that Google came out with? Don't they just buy out companies that are doing innovative things at this point?
Spot's on It – Boston Dynamics
We created https://postgresqlco.nf which not only offers detailed help about all configuration parameters, but also provides a "repository" for you to upload/download your Postgres configurations, and a Tuning Guide. Hope it helps.
Forecasting: Principles and Practice (3rd Ed)
Sounds like Secure Scuttlebutt http://scuttlebot.io
To the extent the leak goes beyond public-facing profile information, this is far from "advertising".
Effective Python by Brett Slatkin is very good, still going through the Second Edition, but I like the practical side of this book.

If you want to go really deeper like the inner working of CPython I'd recommend Anthony Shaw's CPython internals. It has been on my radar for some time now, still going through the serie of blog posts from tenthousandmeters[0]

0: https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-...
Why don't we just use concrete by itself? Is steel necessary for using concrete the way we do in modern times?
Supply chain is still an issue in sovereign clouds. At some point there's still a trust decision, whether that's to trust the cloud provider, the hardware manufacturer, the chip manufacturer, etc.
I don't depend on them but banking apps do, for one, and I'd hate to arrive to a world where the communication channels are all proprietary. In my opinion, protocols should be open, services should be interchangeable. And so push notifications, as a they are means of communication, should be provided as a service so that you could choose providers and such.
I'm not suggesting anything supernatural, but that energy is prime and that matter is a construction of energy.
Molten salt reactors in general can't cause a meltdown because they are designed to passively moderate in the event of a problem. That isn't something specific to thorium.

And conversely, pressurized water reactors, especially older designs are not passively safe, and must go through a cool-down process which requires some of the control systems to be operating properly.

In general I'd like to see more development work in the area of molten-salt reactors, especially those that can reprocess existing nuclear waste.
You’d be surprised how many overseas Chinese (who have immigrated to somewhere else) who are visiting China are trapped by this. And even foreigners who don’t read Chinese can pick out certain characters of the food they like to eat (you don’t need to read Chinese very well to recognize stereotypical 宫保鸡丁).

China is really bad at exceptions. Many of those restaurants have gotten rid of their paper menus (which didn’t have English anyways, so they aren’t worried about foreigners). It’s like the train station kiosks that can’t deal with you if you don’t have a Chinese ID card.
Thank you Captain Obvious. It is still useless grinding that takes time and gives nothing to learning.

Oh, and you start being afraid to make mistakes, to not be forced to perform said grinding over and over again.

I have 800+ days in Duolingo. There were no hearts when i started, it appeared when i was in early 700s and I learned how to switch them off with classroom trick. If I had hearts from the start, I'd choose a different app. Hearts are that bad.
Referrals: The Holy Grail of Growth
Most doorbells in the US are 16volt AC, (from memory so I'm probably off by a bit). While you can power a pi from that, the power supply will be tricky.
One thing that can be hard to tease out in observational studies is correlation versus causation.

Does spanking increase the bad behavior or is bad behavior more likely to lead to spanking?

One thing that could help make sense of this would be to look at non-violent punishments like “time out”. Does increased use of time outs also lead to bad behavior? If so, then one might consider that the punishment is correlation not causation.
In March of 2020 we were pretty sure that at most 5% of Covid transmissions were through touched surfaces (fomites). Currently we're sure that at most .01% of Covid transmissions are through surfaces and still haven't found clear evidence of it ever actually having happened so literally 0% still can't be ruled out. But upper respiratory tract infections like the flu do actually spread through fomites pretty easily so we've defaulted to the flu playbook for many public health measures.
Consulting with mental health professionals is a good idea. Assuming an ADHD diagnosis with such little information is not a good idea at all. Please leave the diagnosis to professionals.

HN has a growing problem where ADHD is suggested as the root problem on virtually every question from someone struggling with work lately. We really need to stop suggesting this diagnosis for everyone and leave it to the professionals.

I’ve seen too many friends and peers mistake burnout or depression for ADHD. There’s something about an ADHD diagnosis that’s easier to accept than depression or burnout. If someone specifically seeks an ADHD diagnosis instead of presenting the root problem and letting the professionals diagnose it, they could miss the real problem and worsen their situation.

Worst case, I’ve seen many people mistake burnout for ADHD, seek stimulant prescriptions, and then try to use increasing doses of stimulants to power through the burnout. This doesn’t work, and actually leads to much deeper and more prolonged burnout when tolerance sets in. Please don’t use stimulants to try to overcome burnout.
The problem with MIT's online courses is that while the content itself was fantastic they refused to treat it like an online course. They wanted to have it run on a schedule, strict no-compromising deadlines, and large fees for full access.

That's fine and all but it's forcing the university model they know into an online format and it doesn't work so great for the audience that wants to take online courses imho.

The value proposition on it's Micro Masters course was that you could use it for credit at full universities. The problem is it was extremely unlikely one would get the opportunity to use it at MIT, and the rest of the partners were universities that I had never even heard of before. Not necessarily places I'd probably want to go to further my studies.
To paraphrase Tom Lehrer [1]: education is like a sewer; what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. This is true regardless of the medium. Some people will get value out of distance learning, others won't, just as some people will get value out of in-person learning and others won't. The only difference is the cost. Distance learning can be provided for a lot less money, so you can afford to be less selective on who you provide it to, and so your failure rates are likely to be higher. This does not reflect at all on the actual effectiveness of the process.

[EDIT] Reference added, because today's youth are apparently not well-versed in the classics:

[1] https://youtu.be/w8d0GwzY6cA?t=2210
This framework is awesome. Great to see it's 1.0 release.
> There is a lot of much deadlier chemicals in the factory near your city

Examples at a concentration as dangerous as a reactor melting down?
> until we can automate enough so that there's such a thing as a free lunch

This is a wonderful Asimovian ideal. Alternative future: we automated many people out of jobs and they are left in the cold because we don't prioritize re-training and social services.
I believe the perception of this dichotomy is something of your own imagination. Anecdotally the term fiat is used exclusively in the context of crypto, but to the best of my understanding its usage doesn't imply that the sole alternative to fiat is BTC, or crypto. Rather, I believe the term solely carries a prejudice against money that is declared valuable as such by political authority rather than by its market adoption and de-facto usage.
Why not both? If we had a carbon tax the market would drive us to save wherever is most achievable
Spot's on It – Boston Dynamics [video]
I used a self serve coke machine the other week. You scanned a QR code and then your phone would connect remotely to the machine. You selected your drink and then you pressed the dispense button on your phone. Neat tech but unusable if you don't have data or don't have a good signal. And it had a noticeable delay from pressing the button to when the actual device would stop. If you were unlucky I'm sure that somehow you could end up overfilling your cup and spilling it everywhere. Didn't look like it had much in the way of drainage.
I agree. One of the problems with betting on the decline / collapse of an asset is finding counterparties that are likely to pay up if you win (a problem that some investors faced in 2008, e.g.), and while you may quibble with the author's investment thesis that there will be a decline / collapse, I think his choice of counterparties is quite sound.
Here's the snippet from the article:

function get($urlPath, $queryParams=null, $ouputFormat='xml'){
// if(!authenticateAsOwner($queryParams))
// {
// header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
// return;
// }

The closing brace there corresponds to the if. The rest of the body of the function, and its closing brace, are outside the snippet included in the article.
"permanently censorship resistant"

"requires cloudflare"
I think we finally know what that bowl of petunias meant with "oh no, not again".
I'm sure they explode alright when hit by a missile.

They can also be captured, which gives the enemy the ingredients for a dirty bomb and/or a nice bargaining chip.

My understanding is also that "thorium-based" means U-233 as fuel [1], so that's what would be in the reactor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-233
>Sometimes I like to listen to a lecture 2 or 3 or even more times.

YouTube has a ton of lectures, for free, that you can view and/or listen to in this manner.

But doing dishes during a lecture seems antithetical to what they are trying to achieve with remote learning, and isn't the use case they should be catering to.
The next thing is building a full-blown civilization on Mars.

That's why Elon Musk wants to get so rich. You need like $1 trillion to build a sustainable city on Mars.

Rich people would pay $10m+ to go to Mars. It's a once in a lifetime ride.
Portable/temporary generators are vanishing fraction of global energy generation, and you know that. If we actually care about that last 0.001% or whatever, we can run them on biodiesel.
That's actaully the problem. You can't change a fingerprint, but you can fake one.
It’s not just about taxation. The port preference could apply, but I think it’s focusing on the federal government not state-to-state

Your link discusses this near the bottom
Education is like a sewer? No matter what I put into a sewer, my guess is that it's going to come out covered in shit.
Possessing the business acumen of plankton, this Acquired.fm podcast episode helped me understand the origins of freemium, what's going on.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/season-3-episode-10-tencent
Did Target really trust their HVAC firm or was their network just poorly segmented?
https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker/
Is this a "real" leak or "just" scraped profiles?
Basically concrete is good only for compressive loads. Under tension it easily cracks. The steel reinforcement adds tensile strength to concrete.
wireguard works in userspace as well. It just works faster with kernel support.
I agree that HMW is one of those "spray can of creativity" answers that can't possibly live up to expectations but "who can we talk to?" can just as easily exclude people and organizations who don't have limitless budgets to support interminable conversations and for whom success and failure matters (e.g. "government", "non-profits", inherited wealth...)

Particularly I've seen management in food co-ops, bus companies and such use formal "listening" processes as a weapon where they write down feedback, shred it in a blender and somehow it always comes to the conclusion management wanted.

Women, minorities, and others, however, can benefit from lean innovation that can something into people's hands.
A friend in Australia has a couple of side-businesses in this field, working with the XFrame system: https://xframe.com.au/

He showed me a video of putting up a small room in a day with a team new to the system. Very densely packed material since it's all ply, and able to be transported with a ute rather than a truck and crane like traditional framing.

One of the side-businesses is about living pods addressing homelessness, and the other kinda like tinyhouses addressing smallscale needs (Airbnb, small studio, on-site micro-cellardoor, etc).
> And by definition it's a operated by controlling a chain reaction that can by its very nature lead to excursions.

When nuclear reactors leak poison gas then something has gone wrong, and it makes international headlines.

Diesel generators are designed to leak poison gas; hundreds of millions of them do this every day.
I look their details up in this spreadsheet of 700 million people I've got.
Startup Studios Forecast Spin-Out Rate and Volume
> For large projects, Facit will actually deliver a mini-fabrication workshop (complete with a CNC mill) directly to the site inside a shipping container, and build components right there.

I am reminded of the cornucopia machines described in Charlie Stross' Singularity Sky - a trunk you carry around that can, by several levels of indirection, recreate an industrial civilisation.

Reading up on current entry-level 3D printers with huge user groups sharing performance and accuracy improvements that can be effected by users developing new parts via that same printer, has echos of the same phenomenon.
One thing I remember about The New Yorker under Shawn is how strange it could be. Through page after page of advertisements for perfumes and fine china and etched crystal were threaded long columns of ambitious journalism, literary essays, reporting on horse races and Ivy League football, and often surreal fiction. And cartoons, of course. The short pieces in “The Talk of the Town” section were written in the editorial we, as in “We put our hand in our pocket” (quoted from memory); the names of the actual writers did not appear. Even Shawn himself was not identified as the magazine’s editor.

I loved that New Yorker.
Well, there are techniques. One of the hackier ones is probably the one described here: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for...
But that assumes that the pebble exists in a vacuum, all of the other data about the creation of the pebble is inextricably linked to the world around it. So whilst we have more data than the pebble knows, we dont have more data than the whole system. This extrapolates out to we may know more about the planet but it will pale in comparison to the data in the galaxy or universe.
> It would be strange for me who doesn't work in their profession come and tell them how to solve their issues.

You're not telling them, you're helping them.

I guess I can't get past the idea of telling someone I work with that their solution won't work and then being like, "sorry you're on your own".

Although I'm sure you don't care, the disdain you show for marketing wouldn't make me super excited to work with you.
Holocap is the cheap amateur end of the market.

https://www.russian3dscanner.com/wrap4d/
is popular with Hollywood and it used to cost $10k+ before Epic Games purchased it. And it just happens to be amazing with animated faces ;)

That said, I agree with you in general that NeRF could become amazing if we can get it to work with difficult data sets where photogrammetry breaks down. That's why I find it sad to see them demo it on datasets where photogrammetry is known to work well.
You're thinking of physicalism, of which materialism is a sub-category. Physicalism is the assertion that there are no supernatural phenomena (which I agree with); materialism suggests that the essence that everything is built out of is matter. I think most people would agree that materialism is outdated (given that atomism has been outdated for >100 years), but many of the implications of materialism (that the whole can be explained by the parts, ie reductionism, and the idea that all important properties can be quantified, as two examples) still persist.

The (superior) alternative to materialism is emergentism. Materialism and emergentism both imply other ideas and ways of thinking about the world, which are the actual important things.
All the big managed care organizations (better word than insurer) have their own PBM. I would need to read more about how an MCO accounts for assets set aside for insurance, but I would be surprised if insurance regulators are allowing it, considering how strict insurance regulators are.

A quick search shows me that on page 73 of Cigna’s 10-K, it clearly does not have its Express Scripts division accounted for in the “Investment Assets” section, based on how low those numbers are.

It just does not pass the smell test to me. The simpler answer, based on all the numbers, is that managed care organizations are squeezing other entities in the healthcare chain, but due to competitive pressure and upper profit margin limits due to ACA, they are not raking in big bucks.
I seem to remember reading this article from here: "The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield is Concrete"

https://mwi.usma.edu/effective-weapon-modern-battlefield-con...
Very cool, Zig must have some powerful compile-time introspection facilities.

> this is all userland code

I imagine you meant library code here?
I'd imagine it's kinda like "clean coal" - more marketing buzzword than actual significant benefit.
Yeah, in college I dropped to about 190 for a semester (I guess I was 18 at that point, but barely). People would ask me if I was ok or sick or something.
The blog ends with

> But it turns out that we can achieve a similar programming model without using virtual DOM — and that's where Svelte comes in.

Ok. I’m convinced in principle but is there a follow-on blog that describes specifically what Svelte does differently?