skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, makes you wonder how much slack/tolerance is built into these systems and organizations, and whether that comes in the form of manpower, process, etc. and whether or not it’s planned for, or just naturally evolves in large enough instances.
That 0.5 billion (which to be clear, is a number I made up) won't guarantee that JWST will be fixed. The "fixer" spacecraft could end up failing itself. Or it could discover new problems that it's not equipped to handle.

Also, congress would be extremely critical of NASA if JWST fails. They would not be excited to shell out another $0.5 billion for a chance to fix it.
I made a basic game engine for Emacs.
https://github.com/accidentalrebel/emacs-game-engine

Has easy to use coordibate system for placing characters on screen, shape drawing, keyboard and mouse output, and audio.

Maybe not tbe greatest, but it is was the most fun I had.
We can’t have a mass banning of ai. States are competing. Imagine that you got left 20 years behind here and Russia or North Korea crossed some threshold in secret
In the full scope of what it can do it's not very weird, but I'd say it's the best I've done so far... is write a book!

It's in draft 2 at the moment, having been printed out and manually edited over the last couple months.

The path there was enlightening. From multiple crashes per attempt to lines and lines of customization. From unexpected crashes and automagical recovery. I've come to love this little word processor cum operating system. I only wish I had found it decades ago when I had more time to pour into a hobby.
I'm a father of 7 with 15-years of homeschooling experience.

It's true that the first mistake most homeschooling parents make is to try and recreate the public/private school system in their home. Few find success down that path.

The primary goal of schooling is to teach your children how to learn. If we provide them with the skills to learn whatever they'll need to be productive adults, they'll be more prepared for whatever the career market looks like when they're ready to join the workforce.

Yes, that looks mostly like Reading/Writing/Arithmetic as grade schoolers but there's so many more options once they reach Jr. and Sr. High School. Internships and apprenticeships can be incredibly valuable as well as entrepreneurial opportunities. My sons learned things running a mobile car detailing service than could have ever been taught them in a classroom setting.

There are opportunities for learning every day if we take the time to do share them with our children: grocery shopping, going to the bank, purchasing a vehicle, resolving a dispute with a neighbor.

Questions from kids are one of the best ways to teach them to learn, especially if you don't know the answer. What better example is there than when you get to reply "I don't know. Let's find out together."
I'm taking data structures during summer and this was incredibly helpful when we were doing trees.
Ask HN: How do I gradually roll out a new app? Plz help
So heres my problem.

We're launching a new app this month and want to roll out in phases. We want 1% of the users to use the app the first week. We want another 10% the next, then 40, then 80... you get the point.

I'm trying to find a tool to help us do this. Something like Google Optimize for split traffic? Or perhaps another tool for creating user groups and assigning them to a certain path.

Does anyone have any good ideas or have you done this in the past.

I could really use some help.
I pay $95/year right now for a prepaid 1GB/Mo, unlimited talk & text plan. Sometimes I go outside of the cellular network and yeah it's only 2G in most areas, but the only thing I need cellular for outside of my home is GPS or to quickly pull up a site for information. The predominant amount of my data usage is through wifi at home and places I trust.
I wouldn’t say this isn’t discussed, I’ve heard a lot of people (including epidemiologists) mention the idea. Early in the pandemic there seemed to be some optimism for a new future where everyone can check for colds/flu/etc from home before going out.

There was some country in Eastern Europe that mailed everyone a test right? I remember reading that it didn’t end up reducing cases, so maybe that soured people on the idea.
They may have been funny when they were released - but his relentless shilling for muse has made it very clear what the purpose of them was. Dunk on the competition, to big up Muse and his own profile.

They're (IMHO) unwatchable when you follow the money trail and realise what they are, and always were: thinly veiled shills.
You could do it in Zsh with a "module".
> Read the 10-Ks

Shameless plug for my site https://last10k.com that has tools to read 10-Ks more efficiently. 10-Ks contain a wealth of information including lots of disclosures, business ongoings and management discussions but 10-Ks can be 100+ pages and are very verbose.
In the 8 years that have elapsed since this pitch was made at Google, one conclusion is absolutely crystal clear: the industry has as little self-regulatory control over its use of such dark patterns as the public has over avoiding them.

Regulation, taxation, and where necessary, criminalisation, are obvious and necessary.

I'll note that for once, the patterns are not entirely synonymous with massive tech monopolies, though it is the monopolists who have the greatest resources and capability to tune their attention-diverting practices to the absolute maximum degree.

The naivete Tristan reveals here is rather charming, however.
That’s the (current) rule for app network traffic. Traffic from Safari includes all network connections for iCloud subscribers.
I find https://openai.com/blog/generative-models/ pretty good on this. Reading from "More general formulation" we see:

Now, our model also describes a distribution p^θ(x)\hat{p}_{\theta}(x)p^ θ (x) (green) that is defined implicitly by taking points from a unit Gaussian distribution (red) and mapping them through a (deterministic) neural network — our generative model (yellow). Our network is a function with parameters θ\thetaθ, and tweaking these parameters will tweak the generated distribution of images. Our goal then is to find parameters θ\thetaθ that produce a distribution that closely matches the true data distribution (for example, by having a small KL divergence loss). Therefore, you can imagine the green distribution starting out random and then the training process iteratively changing the parameters θ\thetaθ to stretch and squeeze it to better match the blue distribution.

This is precisely a generative model in the probabilistic sense. The section on VAEs spells this out even more explicitly:

For example, Variational Autoencoders allow us to perform both learning and efficient Bayesian inference in sophisticated probabilistic graphical models with latent variables (e.g. see DRAW, or Attend Infer Repeat for hints of recent relatively complex models).

The issue with GANs is that - while they model the joint probability of the input space - they aren't (easily) inspectable in the sense you can't get any understanding of how inputs relate to outputs. This means they appear different to traditional generative models where this is usually a goal.
> people hanging around

But it's only 1 year?

* Bonuses are usually given annually

* Signing bonuses and sabbaticals usually obligate one year employment

A year seems like a very low bar.
Yeah, but have you tried getting a wolf to guard a sheep?

\They're nowhere near as clever at that
Such a coup that to date, despite the most far reaching federal investigation in U.S. history, the only sentenced conviction has been to a grandmother who spent 10 minutes sightseeing through the (otherwise publicly accessible) area of the Capitol building, and given a whopping 120 days of community service and probation. Your rhetoric is more dangerous than this.
The context of the conversation was that OP's comment was questioning the utility of a depot since they believed spacecraft in similar orbits would not be able to access it, only those that happened to be in precisely aligned orbits could. Interpreting "spacecraft can change their orbits" to be a claim that there are no limitations on the maneuvers a spacecraft can perform is very unreasonable.
> A lot of companies don't even have pathways from internships to entry-level positions. They just let them finish their internship and say "good luck"

This is so crazy to me. IME if you break even on an intern, not including pay, you’re very lucky. In other words if the code or whatever you get out of an intern equals in value the amount of time your regular staff invests in the intern. In most cases it’s negative and you have to pay them on top of that—-plus events and so on.

If you aren’t using internships as a recruiting tool I have no idea why you’d bother.
Well, you are not the first one

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Having been one of those kids "socialized into adult society", I was robbed of both my childhood and my serotonin. Children are indeed human beings...
Private relay puts you behind 2 proxies (which is almost as good as 7 proxies) so Cloudflare doesn't see your IP either.
On top of that, a hobbyist can't even buy the Raspberry Pi SoCs. It's complete vendor lock-in and a dead-end as far as I'm concerned.
[spoiler alert]

With mask/max10/closeHR/CloseUni you can get a good enough result for the first wave until the summer holidays. Perhaps you can reopen a little more.

(Max100 also work, but the hospitals are too saturated and I get too worried.)

The problem is the second wave after the "cold weather" arrives. Be prepare to hit "full lockdown" as soon as it start increasing. Open when a little when he wave disappears, but you may need to close again.

Continue with that until the vaccines arrive. With this simple strategy I got 32.3K deaths and a cost of 441B https://koronahra.cz/results/60e63272fecc84001a33a31a (Not in my first try.)

Someone got 6.4K death and a cost of 268B, that is much better.

Someone got 2.3K death and a cost of 342B, that looks like a good tradeoff.

Someone got 40.1K death and a cost of 141B, that is very cheap if you don't care abut people.

The graph in the finish scree has the result of other players. It's interesting to see that there is a lot possible improvement. (Perhaps also luck, some events are randomized.)
Ham was a term likely coined by professional radiotelegraphers to mean ham-fisted (with 'fist' being a term referring to technique used when sending Morse code)

An early example of elitism in radio that is still very prevalent today - Professionaly trained telegraphy operators talking down amateurs who are involved for the fun of it, for having sloppy technique when sending code.
> This doesn't seem like that much of a burden to endure.

The road in Gibraltar is a main thoroughfare and I believe the only way to get to the Spanish border. Imagine a rail crossing going through the 101 in SF.
Gibraltar was ceded by treaty, and Spain has not one, but TWO exclaves along the Moroccan coast.
Introduction to Vqgan+clip
Is there any mainstream American medical institution that still recommends routine infant circumcision?
U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan complete 'for all intents and purposes'
The School That Wasn’t There
I think these are great questions, because there is a way it touches on fundamental values such as the freedom of speech.

Human attention/willpower/judgement etc are exhaustible resources, and they don't scale like a machine does. Even if the machine is conveying mere human utterances and likeness, the recommendation itself is ultimately the "speech" of a machine, which was conjured by thousands of highly paid engineers and data scientists to do some "magic" of keeping you talking to it. The attractiveness of the recommendations of a machine can out-tire the willpower of the reciprocating human, especially considering the ubiquitousness of the machine; be it on your tv, phone, car, videos, music, news, social media.

So I think it is possible to formulate the reaction you see as a defense against building machines that abuse organic human attention. Going back to free speech, there wouldn't be defending the right to free speech of the machine if it could denial-of-service the recipients' judgement with all the engagement tricks in the book and at scale.

And the spirit of the objection is not about the radicalness of the content; but rather the frequency of which such content as brought to the user by the machine. In a free marketplace of ideas of humans, such content would a) have lower incididence than youtube b) would have much different propagation/decay function than youtube c) you could give direct, high fidelity feedback to those humans. People's ability to filter out bullshit collectively in a real social setting is much stronger than our 1:1 encounters with youtube. There is no talking back to youtube, there is no friends you can together vet the ideas you encounter on youtube.
And if I were to go through the effort of providing proof of my Venezuelan best friend and his accounts of life in Venezuela, since my hacker news profile is the same name as my real identity profiles, I'm sure you'd capitulate and appologize for assuming anyone who disagrees with you is arguing in bad faith?

For posterity, I have a github profile of this same name, and my venezuelan friend and I are doing a hackathon project to allow Venezuelans to use crypto in the exact way I've described. In one month that project and a youtube video will be uploaded for it.

The person above who assumes that people argue in bad faith and that first hand reports are meaningless is not someone you should emulate or consider reliable. He's lost to his ego and dogma, please safely ignore him.

Privileged people have no idea what struggles others face and don't have much to lose by being wrong about their bad assumptions anyway. Let the way he thinks serve as a cautionary tale.

I doubt the person above (lottin) would be willing to share his identity, and have the foul temper and bad faith arguments of his associated with his real persona. This should tell you all you need to know if true.

Anyway, I won't be responding to the above poster anymore, you know what Twain said about arguing with fools.
Every choice in life ripples through eternity.

Taking a job, quitting to start a company, walking back on a contractual relationship, marrying a partner. While it's true that the direction of impact has outsized and measurable impact on children and dependents, there are other interactions we can't even begin to fathom.

Barry Marshall was criticized in the 80's for his H. pylori hypothesis. Then he drank some to prove his point, and now we know the cause of peptic ulcers and several stomach cancers.

mRRNA self-experimentation is undoubtably risky and I wouldn't do it myself, but it may yield dividends even if it does induce disease state or kill some of those that attempt it.

I don't think we should police it. Not when you can legally buy a car and drive it off a bridge. There are far worse things a person can do.
> I'm curious: Did you try to negotiate?

Not back then. Was not bright enough. That would have been smart. I think if I had phrased it as "I'm very excited about your potential, but I'm young and black swan events may happen and I might have to leave early, how about a 6 month cliff?". Probably would have worked.

> If someone is so unmotivated at a job that they're not making an impact

I didn't phrase it well. What I'm getting at is that risk taking is disincentivized your first year. You might have an idea that could have an upside of 100, but might also lead to a loss of -10, and in year one it's best to sit on that idea because if it were to fail you'd take a big personal loss. I think you have misaligned incentives that first year where the number one goal is not to risk rocking the boat, and number two goal is impact.
The problem with schools these days is that it is mostly women driven in all levels and very much government controlled. Women and governments tend to not innovate. The solution is to give people education coupons and let the free market sort out education, then you will see true innovation. I am not saying completely without any regulation, like any other type of business it will need some, but it must be something less rigid where each parent can decide for themselves and where men are much more involved.
Let's try an experiment first, like a strong moral argument against the existence of nuclear weapons, and see how that turns out.

If that doesn't work then moral arguments against strong AI will not work.
The oldest publication from DeepMind is 2011, just for a post in the ground. Yes, I know neural networks are older than that.

It would be a little disappointing if we could even guess how an AI system in 2040 would work, I don't think many people in 2000 would have guessed neural networks would be the most useful type in regular use in 2020.

In my field of expertise there are grad students today taking classes on topics that when I finished my PhD in 2010 no one had heard of yet. Literal cases of people finding closed form solutions for equations that we had to solve with approximation before.
Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see anything in here about non-human transmission. We know cats, dogs, hamsters, guinea pigs, mink, and gorillas can all get it. Ok, if you have a gorilla in your attic you probably have worse problems than infection, but with this many mammalian species already confirmed, it seems implausible to me that mice, squirrels, raccoons, possums, coyotes, foxes, and other common urban mammals are not spreading it.
It's a point I didn't flesh out too much in the original comment but if you're the smartest person in the room and that "room" has sufficient autonomy, I think you can focus on pushing the boundaries of what you do. Usually the kind of departments/companies/institutions that let you do that are R&D-focused but I think it's possible to be the smartest person in the room and still learn, it's just going to be self directed and you're going to need a lot of autonomy to do it.
> This argument is just throwing FUD about implementation details: you're not responding in any way to my statement of the problem, or presenting any fundamental criticism of my proposed solution.

On the contrary, these are fundamental questions that would need convincing answers for this discussion to move much further beyond what you have already articulated.

Your statement of the problem concludes that "advertising is just never a good thing, in any context." Your proposed solution is to ban all advertising, allow "some companies to go under", but "good riddance" to them.

These are extreme views, supported only by your fond memories of Ye Olde Internet, with little substance for us all to discuss.
What Happened Today?
Heinz starts petition to make hot dogs and buns come in equal packs
It was my go-to game for a while. It was funny, because I bought this high end gaming laptop with real-time raytracing support and whatnot and then used it to play a game that is literally just text and some ASCII art in a terminal-like window.

For me, it's a winning combination of a) quick to start, b) easy to "pause" (it's not realtime), c) lightweight and d) high-level strategy. Unfortunately, it was lacking depth at the time I played it (a few years back). I didn't mind, though. It was a casual fix, like playing Tetris.

Anyway, definitely recommend picking it up. And it's by a solo dev, so there's an authorial quality to it, too.
Does this require you to upload your video assets to their servers over the internet? That seems extremely impractical for 4k or 8k footage. Even with gigabit upload speeds a clip could take several times it's playback duration to transfer.
Yes, Uber takes a cut of rides, and that is where most of their revenue comes from. They do lose money on some rides (primarily short ones) and it's not a flat percentage per ride or a rate that hasn't shifted over time, but they are definitely taking a solid chunk on average. I may be misremembering, but I think I heard The Rideshare Guy say it's been around 28% as of late. It used to be a flat 20% years ago but the model has gotten a lot more complex.

> Can individual drivers do that or will cities just hammer them?

This is a good question. Personally, I think it's a risk that many drivers would be willing to take and that enforcing this sort of law on a per driver basis would prove extremely difficult.
I wish I could upvote this one a dozen times.

My homeschooled kids can't communicate in emoji-talk, it's true. But they easily interact with both adults and other homeschooled children on both small-talk and meaningful conversational levels. That's more valuable in the long run.
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I was gonna paste a long snarky reply about CB, but it’s been well covered.

This is what the CB world is about: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ri0o9duzlrw
At my previous company the magic word was "consumption" and goal for everyone seem to be drive consumption of our services at any cost. Now you can understand what that would lead to. User preferences and best interest is generally last thing on everyone's mind.
Earth physics are different from Mars physics. What works there wouldn't work here; can't just try it out and see if it works.
> Perhaps I am overvaluing the importance of Zillow's estimate.

I'm guessing so.

Zestimates are just so wildly off...like +/- 20%. (Hey maybe that's why, IDK.)

I bought my first house in Salt Lake City in 2014 and every house in the area was supposedly priced "above Zestimate". The market was provably different than Zillow's claims.

I just learned to ignore it altogether. Houses aren't cars; there's no usable Blue Book.
Interesting. I was fatigued before I tried it anyway, so I might not have noticed any change. I have read about this online.

How long did you try it out for? I do remember the first ~two weeks of the pro biotic I felt really bad. After that it got better and better and w/ Keto I stopped feeling hungry. There wasn't much of the craving sugar after a little while and even just some regular bread tasted 'sweet' when I finally had it again. Might be the combination of the two that helped w/ all of this.
Created an account just to be told it doesn't work if you're not using Chrome.
The presentation itself is a huge distraction. I understand the good intention behind it. but does it really neccessary
to use 137 pages to illustrate a very simple issue? I think
5 pages is more than enough to explain it clearly. I read
this minimize distraction slides have been viewed half millions time already, if the maker use the slides carefully, wouldn't it save a millions of hours user's time.
And life?
I loved playing Plague Inc (the PC version).

Now I have no remorse on playing on easy mode :)

I tried to do nothing and refuse all vaccinations etc... But it only killed 1/10 of the population. At least with Plague I could aim for total annihilation :)
Ask HN: How can I/we make the most of a hot job market?
I have never really done a dedicated campaign to get the best position possible. I have no idea how to play companies against each other to boost my compensation. Heck, beyond FAANG, I am not even sure where the good spots are to apply, especially for remote work.

Anyone who has gotten a nice juicy raise have a playbook I can follow?
It not a win for a company that hires people who would not understand enough to value this rather obscure treatment.

In the current system a lot of options get clawed back to the company's benefit from an inability or unwillingness to take the risk of exercising.

It is no coincidence that this very simple modification is not too widespread.
Do US schools tend to not allow for the "university" style course selection? In mine, which is all I really know, I was allowed to double-up on certain subjects, e.g. biology and chemistry side-by-side such that I completed all required courses in three years rather than the traditional four.