skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, the prices and choices. See also https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index and https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data , though you may want more historicals.
I do:

3 times watching somebody do the thing

3 times doing it supervised

3 times doing it unsupervised but with results checked
Architects Designs Tiny House Communities for the Homeless of Los Angeles
One company works slow, the other company works fast.
Spanish children used as vaccine ‘fridges’ in 1803
> If the human brain is just a REALLY large, trained, NN, there's no reason that we won't be able to replicate it given enough computing power.

I think one clear sign that the human mind is more than just a big NN is how large neural networks are already.

Take GPT-3, which is was trained on 45 terabytes of text and has 175 billion parameters. Contrast that with the human brain, which has around 86 billion neurons and is able to do much of what GPT-3 can do with only a tiny fraction of the training data. And it has to be said that while GPT-3 has more competency than an average human at some text generation related tasks, the average human brain is vastly more capable than GPT-3 at any non-text related task.

So for neural networks to approach human level capability we would need a whole stack of GPT3-ish size networks for all the other non-text related things the human brain can do: speech, vision, motor control, social interactions, and so on. By that point the amount of training data and parameters is so astronomical, there can be no question that the functioning of human brains must be significantly different than that of contemporary computer neural networks.

To be clear, I am also a materialist and subscribe to the computational theory of mind, but just based on the size of training data alone, it seems obvious that human brains work differently than neural networks.
While backpacking I met a guy who works at one of the dating apps like Tinder. He used to handle strategy and confirmed me that the company itself puts fake profiles so that their is more engagement and premium purchases.
Web dev, specifically.

That's where ALL the money is, and it's where the worst culture (and worst tech) is, imo. :p

I mean, hell, why else would anyone learn React? $$$$$$
Thanks for ShareDB. It’s dope. I extended it to support collaborative voxel editing (https://jel.app) and works great.
This is untrue, of course.

51% attack resistance requires that mining be resource-intensive and have significant opportunity costs. Otherwise - if mining is not costly and wasteful- it's not costly for an attacker. If electricity prices went down to 1% of their current value tomorrow, miners would need to increase their electricity consumption by approximately 100x, or network security would suffer.

To the extent that energy or resources used for mining are free, or surplus (would otherwise be wasted)... that mining activity provides no security to the network.

This is the same reason advances in miner performance (e.g. better ASICs) don't provide more network security. Miners mine faster, but any attacker would have access to the same technology. The only thing that can actually make the network more secure is using more scarce resources - whether directly, .eg. via energy usage, or indirectly, by manufacturing ASICs, etc.

Bitcoin mining is not resource-intensive in the sense that, say, aluminum smelting is. The thing about aluminum smelting is that if there's efficiency improvements, that's good! That means more aluminum from the same limited supply of free/low-cost/surplus energy. I like aluminum! But when somebody finds a way to, say, double the hashrate-per-watt you can get mining Bitcoin... the hashrate increases, but the network-security-per-watt stays the same. It has to.

It's not resource-intensive in the sense that automobile transportation is. If cars get more gas-efficient (or energy-efficient in general), awesome! Everybody's life gets better. If Bitcoin mining gets more efficient... miners just mine more. No extra security. No actual reduction in resource usage.

Assuming that miners mine when it's profitable (+EV) and don't mine when it's not profitable, Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment system implies the following: "The sum of all transaction fees and the coinbase reward for each block equals, on average, the cost of the resources used by all miners during that block period plus a small profit."

In other words, with a 6.25BTC block reward at current prices, every Bitcoin block requires burning about $250,000 in resources- or about $1.5 million an hour.

Now, that doesn't have to be electricity. If we discover free energy tomorrow and electricity prices go to zero, the resources used would likely switch to be those used in miner ASIC manufacturing- since every ASIC made would be a literal free money printer. But you'd still need to (amortized across the ASIC's life, of course) use resources worth about $1.5 million an hour on network security - or accept that network security is weaker. And to be clear, that's "worth" including things like transportation costs- natural gas may be worth $X per BTU, but natural gas out in the middle of nowhere where it'd otherwise be flared is worth far, far less, and using it thus provides far less security.

So, Bitcoin is either insecure or wasteful on an almost unimaginable scale - and probably isn't even wasteful enough today. (And no, that's not an XOR.)

The only way I can see not to wind up at this conclusion is to argue that markets aren't even weakly efficient.
> New Shepard was the first to land vertically

Apollo LM was the first to land vertically.

> if it were looking like a failure, ULA would have dropped them a long time ago

That seems to be assuming that they have a choice. Given the fuel difference between AR-1 and BE-4, they've been committed to BE-4 for quite some time, no matter how much progress BO is doing (or not doing) on BE-4.
> the environment does not rely on trust. When you make a transaction you make a transaction without needing to trust anyone.

Ah yes. Because I don't have to trust anyone that the order from BitcoinAmazon will arrive. Or that the house I bought on BitcoinZillo will actually be mine. Or...
Perhaps in comparison with the "good theoretical physicist" one also mentioned?
Americans cant even wear masks or get vaccinated to save their fellow citizens, man.

i was in grand rapids when covid hit. At some point a group of people in a restaurant heard i was from california, friends of my family, and before I knew it i was a “pinko commie faggot” that they wanted to “skull fuck” and “curb stomp”.

My brother in law pulled a gun on them and we high tailed it out of there. The midwest and the south does NOT have California’s back.

They would starve without us, but we would do just fine without them.

Again, I am Californian, not American.
The article sees the dystopia of the Metaverse in its real world implications (poverty, escapism) and so on, and uses Ready Player One as an example, but I think the more fundamental observation about that book and the corporate Metaverse is what Derrida called Hauntology, or what Mark Fisher later described as the inability of being able to imagine new futures.

What's noteworthy about RPO isn't the poverty, it's the fact that everything in the Metaverse, and the book itself, is just a repetition of the same nostalgic elements over and over. There is no actual future in the RPO Oasis, just past, in the same way Hollywood (mentioned in another comment) and video game studios increasingly keep re-publishing the same franchises over and over.

So the real threat coming from the Metaverse might not be the poverty or degrading infrastructure which is a sort of obvious one, but the erosion of our capacity to produce any sort of genuine novelty or imagine alternative worlds. Ironically enough, the Metaverse which is supposed to be a sort of wellspring of new ideas is more like a haunted house where you end up trapped like some kind of half-abandoned MMO where people, half-dead, run through the same stories over and over.

Important to point out that Fisher saw this inability to produce any futures as a feature of our political, cultural and economic system (i.e. 'neoliberalism' overused term nowadays) and not just a particular technology.
Why is node so large?
Johnny Castaway Screensaver (1993)
It can be easily found for download. I was successful running it in Wine on OS X 10.14.
The only alternative is to eradicate illness and disease in all of the Earth's biomass, which consists largely of sea creatures. We likely won't have the technology to do so for millennia, if ever.

Life is not a gemstone if it is pockmarked with suffering. It is our duty to eradicate suffering by all means necessary. This is why the most progressive countries in the world have legalized euthanasia. Because life is not the goal, happiness is. Death is not an enemy, suffering is.

Feels pretty whimsical to assume that one needs some kind of "right" to do what's right. What gives anyone the right to do anything?

It's a duty as a living being to help those in need. The cornerstone of all science and religion is eliminating suffering.

The logical entailment of such an imperative is to destroy the Earth swiftly after we have moved on. A swift end and none of the creatures on it will suffer, and the ones suffering will suffer no more..
> For some reason I thought they get paid less despite doing alot more work.

Are American TV shows as big of money makers globally as the movie industry? How much do American TV shows make in China vs Hollywood? Are they even shown? I don't know, but have never heard of it but have heard quite a bit about how much Hollywood makes in China.

I don't think it's the amount of work that dictates lower salaries for TV acting, but more likely the size of the market that the respective products are sold in and where that market is located (locally vs globally).
I thought the non-adjusted prices were interesting. No idea what story it tells if you adjust it, but non adjusted, the prices were essentially the same from 1840-1925.
Yes. I think the GP's point was that this shows how US usage also, still, to some extent reflects that of the rest of the world: Your State Department is called that because it is the organ that deals with other sovereign states.
Malware developers turn to 'exotic' programming languages to thwart researchers
Kentucky senators do not want to reduce the size of the federal government. They just want to keep sucking the prosperous states dry while demonizing us.
Prosecutors said the 2019 campaign was sparked by complaints about articles in EcommerceBytes from eBay chief executive Wenig to his senior vice president and communications director, Steve Wymer. Wymer in turn complained to Baugh, who directed the team of eBay employees who worked for him to move against the Steiners, according to the federal criminal complaints.

Culpability right there. How come this guy floated away with a $57 million parachute and a seat on the GM board of directors? He should be facing trial just like his underlings.
BO didn’t want to replace SpaceX. That’s not what this is about.

BO said historically NASA gives contracts to multiple companies, and BO wanted funding too (in addition to SpaceX.

BO “argued that the agency was required to make multiple awards" because it had previously stated a preference for multiple awards”
The problem is with many with your attitude is that everything must be done perfectly now. This is the attitude of an abolitionist. It isn't perfect therefore it must be banned.

There is money to be made mining Bitcoin and people will mine it (illegally if need be). It is better that if this funds renewables (they claim to be paying for offsets according to the clip and investing in Solar) now even if it isn't perfect (The plant itself seems to be better than the Coal powered plants in China).
True, and educating all people in a country to not leave their trash where it does not belong is a part of managing our trash as well, which is very neglected.

It is just assumed, that everyone knows what to do with plastic bags and stuff, but the reality is, that many people do not have any sense of responsibility and throw stuff everywhere. Every week I see new heaps of trash in forests, which were definitely not there the week before. We need to start educating dumb/lazy/irresponsible people not to throw their trash everywhere, if needed by leveling up punishments and rewards.

If anyone is caught throwing trash into the forest, there should be hefty fines for that. If anyone takes time, for example on their weekends, to clean the forest, there should be rewards.
Uh, you can just watch movies at home if you don't like theaters ...
In my uni in Belgium, this is the case too. First author does most of the work.
It works again? Amazon disabled this for a while, no longer linked from the UI and reports always generated empty. Likely in a move to push people to their business offering since businesses are the most likely to use this feature.
I feel like more restaurants have been going with cheap wheat-based ingredients and heavy batter deep frying.

The trend towards fried chicken sandwiches reduces the "meat" part of the sandwich only 50% meat. Happy hours consist of flatbreads, fries, sliders, artichoke dip (mostly oil, and chips to dip), egg rolls, bruschetta, wings with heavy breading, etc.

Basically even medium-tier restaurants are evolving into bar and diner food, and making it seem like a trendy thing.
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It could be a little too early to claim that. Whoever stole it won't be baking cookies with it. It is a country with a war torn past with tons of individuals and competing factions that know how to use it effectively.
>They have some achievements to show. New Shepard was the first to land vertically. That's not nothing.

Sorry, but the McDonnell Douglas DC-X did the rocket straight up & down vertical landing in 1993. New Shepard frankly wasn't particularly different. It went higher and longer sure, but for orbital rocketry the challenge isn't height so much as speed and everything that comes with that. The Falcon 9 flight 20 at the end of 2015 that marked its first landing was a vastly bigger achievement given that it was an orbital class rocket booster. It was going much, much faster and had to descend on a much more complicated arc through the atmosphere. And it pathfinded for actual rapid reuse, which is a whole different set of skills. That New Shepard did a suborbital jump a mere one month earlier 2015 honestly just isn't great.

Since then, F9 has done over 100 more flights, to orbit, including crewed ones, and set ever growing records on cadence, reuse of boosters and refurb speed, satellite launch records, etc. NS has done... what? 5 test flights over 6 years? Then that silly little PR stunt? It's ludicrous. And it's long since stopped serving any useful purpose in terms of learning because it avoids so many of the true challenges in going orbital which involve 9+km/s of delta-v.
> But if you compare bitcoin with bitcoin you have the same amount of bitcoin today you had yesterday.

Yup. So the people who were in on it early will have significantly more bitcoin than anyone who gets it by the time its hard to get it.
Heatwave causes melt of Greenland ice sheet
The Eccentric Decorations That Define Baroque Architecture
Were those people not being brought joy before TikTok? Did the amount of joy in the world increase? Does it increase with every new frivolous app? If so eventually we will be overwhelmed with the pure bliss of being alive, but that does not seem to be the trend.
This is a real work of art. I have no words.
Biden Brings Hypocrisy Back to U.S. Foreign Policy
A friend forked the original I posted and did exactly that: https://nbruno234.github.io/hello-world/lifewar.html
Everyone I've ever spoken to who has insisted that materialism is a dead end, has never been able to provide a compelling explanation for why they believe that. It's not as if materialistic progress in neuroscience and ML/AI has stalled. If anything, it's accelerating.

I have no doubt that Kurzweil's timelines and outcomes are wrong, as have the predictions of just about every prior futurist. I don't see what that has to do with materialism being a dead end.
Apple requires WebKit to be web rendering engine for all browsers. Safari is one of 100+ browsers on iPhone.
signed by whom? The company which sells the product would have to sign them. Otherwise they can be faked by everyone. Even PDF should be signed IMHO.
OP probably meant embracing not embarrassing
I’m aware that it’s MON (there are race fuels above 100 MON) and that there are different requirements for operating at altitude. Obviously it’s a specific application with specific requirements.

I think the problem would have been solved a lot sooner if there was any urgency to switch, either by the people buying it, or by regulators.

The switch with automotive fuels was easy. Cars are disposable by comparison and regulators banned lead-burning ones out of existence.
Is Meta-Humor a Problem?
The Shape of Our Existing Buildings
> The dimensions of the medals are specified as a minimum of ...

Do they specify maximums? That could get hilarious.
Don't worry, I can understand why you would react like that. Lots of people are really unfair to people that don't want the vaccine. Have a nice day!
At least to some extent, competition was the reason for the first moon landing, right?
Between Firefox and Chrome, the performance is almost identical. What is different is the smooth scrolling behaviour: it is far smoother in chrome than in Firefox, and that has a dramatic impact on how performant the browser “feels.” If Firefox tinkered with that a bit, it would be game changing.

(The few times I’ve had perf issues in Firefox were all either addons or sites designed to work only in chrome)
This may change if Apple continues producing great hardware like M1 laptops.
Yeah, if all characters are white guys, we know it is because of them being all super awesome. Mediocre white guy characters are everywhere and where everywhere. Why is it such an insult to be those roles filled by others?
Except that:

1. difficulty calculations only happen every 2 weeks - so this would result in a comically bad UX where your transactions confirm dramatically faster or slower depending on the weather

2. the network security provided from mining using electricity is directly related to the opportunity cost of using that electricity for mining. If energy was otherwise going to be thrown away, the security provided from mining using that energy is zero.
Looking at the landing page I can see only Google calendar is supported with outlook planned. Is there any chance of regular caldav support.
I'm interested in the product but I use neither Google calendar nor Outlook.
If any share of any group dropping is enough to be called racist, then desegregation itself was racist - which is obviously false.

There is a reason why I bring up other metrics than just race here. Alongside greater representation of black and latino students was a much much much greater representation of students on free-and-reduced lunch and a much greater representation of students who are neuro-atypical.

This makes claims that eliminating testing "hurts minorities" really suspect, since it is more than just and specific group of racial minorities that benefit from eliminating tests. Other minority groups benefit as well. Everybody always says that "it is a class issue" when they want to avoid making changes. So here is a great way to solve this from a class perspective, if you want it.

You'll also actually find that the groups advocating for the removal of the test are the most overlapping with the groups advocating for the elimination of limited access to accelerated education in the first place, so criticisms based on the fixed share of access meaning that any drop in south and east asian representation is racist fall apart once you look at what these groups actually want to achieve.
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Seconding "slow, perfect practice of component parts".

It is a thing that the good teachers I have had in many skills have emphasized. Dancing. Martial arts. Drawing. Start slow, train your muscles to put this part of your body right there, with good form that minimizes the chance of injury. Once you can do that reliably, start doing it faster.
Imho, materialism and non-materialism mesh well together. It's just the two camps, materialists and occultists, are too arrogant to recognize that the other camp might understand certain things better.

A self aware intelligent organism or machine needs three key components: a material foundation that's sufficiently organized (a large net of neurons, a silicon crystal, etc.), a material fluid-like carrier to control the foundation (that's always electricity and magnetism) and the immutable immaterial principle to constrain the carrier (math rules, physical laws, software algorithms). That's the core idea of occultism rephrased in today's terminology.

The "conscious field" would be identical with the magnetic field here and neurons don't need any magical properties to receive this field: they just need to be conductive, like transistors. I think the reason the AI progress has stalled is because 0-1 transistors are too primitive and too rigid for the task. I guess that superintelligence is only different in the performance and connectivity degree of the material foundation: instead of slow neurons with 10k of connections it would be fast quasi crystal like structure with billions of connections that needs to move very little matter around (but it has to be material and consist of atoms of some sort).
Steve Jobs’ resignation letter in 1985
> We're not colonizing that either.

That might largely be explained by the fact that doing so would be illegal as per international law to begin with.
Or maybe they (correctly) assessed that SpaceX was actually able to deliver on its promises and Blue Origin is not.
Dude relax. Not everybody keeps up with every worldwide event. I didn’t realize there was an investigation and a conclusion with 100% confidence of what happened, thus denying this possibility.

Just replying with a link saying “the investigation claims this is what happened, here is the link…” would have been enough.
I've just recently exported all my available Amazon purchase history (Items, Shipments, and Store Card Transactions) alongside the rest of my financial data as I automate as much of my plain text account as I can, and have found it tricky even without encounting the transaction splitting issues noted by commentors below (though I don't care as long as the sum total balence with the sum charges). Trying to figure out how to handle tax, shipping, multiple paymrnt methods used, etc. I'll get there eventually, and likely year the system down to try an alternative import system, but the knowlage will be cumulative (ie. easier the second time around).
Male fertility declining – studies show environmental toxins could be a reason
If only I could still get laptops with the keys printed in Univers 57 Condensed Oblique :) https://catalog.monotype.com/font/linotype/univers/57-conden...
I would think Germany would have a standardized digital receipt of transaction in xml that retailers would be required to provide.