skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time i tried to do that, i'd get yelled at by my elementary school teachers, so that common sense method was drilled out of me.

I should have just converted to being a righty..
If you are not picky, a left-over unfinnished one from the sovjet-union could be had for 20 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_Liaon...
Part of it is that fine dining is much more labor intensive now than it used to be. Chocolate lava cake was at the pinnacle of fine dining desserts in 1987, but now it's considered rather pedestrian.
If the financial system collapses I'm pretty sure I'll have bigger problems than money, which Bitcoin will not solve. If traditional money becomes overly manipulated then I'm pretty sure Bitcoin will have the same problem. I prefer to live my life as if the financial system is not going to collapse or become worthlessly corrupt. I stock up a few things for barter. That's about it.
I think Amazon charges when an item is shipped, so of it requires two shipments you get two charges. I could be wildly off though.
> I'm basing my experience on people I know who got infected. So are many other people who got vaccinated.

At this point, I know -- quite literally -- well over a dozen people who have had it. Varying ages. None had anything more than a mild illness. Nobody had lingering symptoms of any consequence (maybe a cough).

Either your sample is statistically skewed, my sample is statistically skewed, or....there is some creative remembering happening here.

> People who are screaming about the vaccine being a bigger risk than the virus are the ones being fed info by outrageous media reporting.

I am not going to defend every person saying this, but there are certain age groups in which this is absolutely true. The EU is not recommending vaccination of children for exactly this reason.
Sounds like essentially a blue-collar job with the actual miner machines and expertise coming from China. I'm not sure I would go for it.
Sorry, I'm pretty emotional these days on account of not getting any help from a healthcare system I'm paying into. My medication is right there on the shelves, alas there are no doctors available to prescribe it. Even though I am literally forced to pay for it.

Would anyone be interested in me documenting this, btw? It just seems like there's a whole lot of people that are ignored or shafted by universal healthcare and yet everyone seems to be singing praises about it.
Because BlueOrigin has nothing to offer SpaceX other then if they want to simply give money to SpaceX.
"Every comment which contains multiple grammar errors loses all credibility and is therefore invalid." is undeniable, though.
in Afrikaans it is called "tweeblaarkanniedood", which means "twoleavescan'tdie".
Probably not. USA is a capitalist-first, worker-5th nation.
Honest question, do you think you're about average in the population of those who are against mandatory vaccination?
You could not produce this energy. It's better for the environment. If the energy is there anyway, maybe aluminium or equivalent. Not magic numbers.
I have amalgam fillings from about 2010 because the dentist didn't offer me composite. My new dentist does only do composite.
Yeah, I should probably move back there.
> strncpy() isn't dangerous

Suppose the C specification said that string constants are automatically null terminated unless they are a certain size that is platform-dependent. At that given size the null is not added. (And let's say above that size there's a compiler error. Let's also say there's a pragma for telling the compiler you want a bigger limit on the maximum string constant size.)

Would that behavior be dangerous in your opinion?
I agree it's likely that it was stored there specifically to be stolen, but I seriously doubt the explosion was meant to cover up the corrupt affairs. Even if you assume the people involved didn't care about civilian lives one iota, big explosions draw attention. And realistically criminals, even terrorists, and definitely corrupt officials actually are not typically into wantonly murdering their neighbors. Maybe they underestimated the size of the blast, but more likely improperly stored explosive chemicals just exploded.
Have you thought though that if more money goes into Solar, Wind/etc (via BTC, Eth mining and similar) that more money goes into renewable energy and thus more money can be spent by those companies improving their existing offerings or researching new tech?

A lot of the time Early adopters end up essentially funding technology that would have investment otherwise.
I watched the first episode or two and wasn't that impressed. It just felt like a pretty generic action/adventure storyline with Star Wars... stuff, plastered over it in a fairly superficial way.

Which is how I feel about most big franchise movies these days; they all just feel like cookie-cutter action flicks with some IP draped over top to promote the theme park and/or Fortnite tie-in. Nothing interesting or surprising ever happens. Nothing worth mentioning in terms of emotional spectrum. Even the set design - which is always very handsomely executed - is just ruthlessly on-brand. It looks precisely like "Star Wars stuff" or "Marvel stuff" or whatever, without exception, to a point where it all just becomes branded noise. Not a single thing is new or out of place. It constantly calls back and feeds into itself; nothing new under the sun.

I agree that Rogue One was a little bit of an exception, at least in terms of plot/emotions. I would also put Episode 8 in that category.

Maybe I'm just watching the wrong kinds of movies.
Tautological. This is essentially: “It’s only waste in so far as you consider it waste”

However the real point about bitcoin is it’s efficiency decreases as adoption or speculation increases, whereas another use of computation such as say Google search this is not the case and they are actively trying to make it more efficient.
What you're describing is called vaccine induced immunity or artificial immunity. Natural immunity is from an infection with no vaccines involved. You know, naturally.

Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33129951/
their GDPR dump utility contains all of the information here , admittedly in annoying format... seems to be the database table directly as json)
This is a well-written and well-reasoned argument - BUT - I tend toward the materialist philosophy, so the argument doesn't really hold there.

Yes, an ML model that infers B from A might not "understand" what A or B are....yet. But what is it to "understand" anyway? Just a more complex process in a different part of the machine.

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.
Was this ever about progress? Or ego?
So, why should we subsidize them? I’m Californian and my taxes should go to help my home state, not those who hate me and my home?

Kentucky and the rest of those moocher states should pull themselves up by their boot straps, stand on their own two feet and sink or swim.
This is why I like glass deposit bottles.
What do you think would happen? Electricity doesn't just get "vented", and grids can't generate too much above usage without serious damage. If it wasn't being used it wouldn't be generated.
This is fantastic! I love the CLARIS-inspired "box" art too https://i.imgur.com/P9G7jOx.jpg
I'm not sure I buy that - biology is often messier because of nature related constraints, it gets optimized for other things (energy, head size, etc.)

The way a plane flies is quite different than the way a bird flies in complexity - they share an underlying mechanism, but planes don't need to flap wings.

It's possible that scaling up does lead to generality and we've seen hints of that.

- https://deepmind.com/blog/article/generally-capable-agents-e...

Also check out GPT-3’s performance on arithmetic tasks in the original paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165)

Pages: 21-23, 63

Which shows some generality, the best way to accurately predict an arithmetic answer is to deduce how the mathematical rules work. That paper shows some evidence of that and that’s just from a relatively dumb predict what comes next model.

It’s hard to predict timelines for this kind of thing, and people are notoriously bad at it. Few would have predicted the results we’re seeing today in 2010. What would you expect to see in the years leading up to AGI? Does what we’re seeing look like failure?
At least the bank statement for an Amazon purchase contains an ID that can easily be linked to a purchase on the website. I have also seen the behaviour of multiple items in the same purchase being split across different transactions. I think this happens when the items are actually offered by non-Amazon sellers.

I wish PayPal transactions would contain an ID that is somehow useable.
OK, fine, I accept what you're saying (but I wasn't criticizing anything other than to draw attention to matters that various authorities have opposing opinions about).

Leave me out of it, in the grand schema of things what I think is completely irrelevant. Let me say I'm in the middle on this and I'm not pushing a barrow either way (other than to point out that there are alternative views). It's just that whenever this issue comes up expert views polarize one way or other and nothing is resolved—anyway, nothing that's yet made it into the textbooks that would alter them. Moreover, that "Einstein said this once in a lecture and then never again" doesn't help as he never clarified the matter. That he said it after 1905 makes matters worse, as it's his last word on the matter it's left open-ended. The question remains why didn't he clarify it (it's hard to believe that he wasn't hyper-aware of his 1905 statement when he said it).

Right, Weber seems counter-indicated or it'd be in fashion/a part of the argument, the point I was making but obviously didn't was that there may be a connection if Einstein's latter statement were true.

What want I to hear is your authoritative criticism of the article in the first link. As you have an alternative view, I'd like to hear your reasons for debunking it, so I'd appreciate it if you would provide details. (I reckon I've enough understanding of Λ, the metric tensor, Ricci curvature tensor, Riemannian metric/manifold, etc. to wade my way through your reply—if not then I'm sure others would understand it).

My aim was to get a better understanding of this subject myself not to provide an authoritative pronouncement on the matter. After all, it's my understanding that no one yet has definitive answers about these issues otherwise the whole QM/GR/G debate/relationships would have been put to bed by now. Clearly, they've not been and we've still a major problem.
With Bitcoin mining, that money comes with the massive carbon emissions driven by the huge energy demand. The alternative, governments subsidizing solar/wind/etc. deployments, comes without the massive energy demand and lets grid operators shut down their carbon-emitting plants.

Like I said, the fact that people are bringing carbon-emitting power plants online to power Bitcoin rigs speaks volumes about this line of thinking.
Those are PPP numbers, which means they are a total joke. The graph you post does not show the post war boom, nor does it show the productivity stagnation after 1973. The USA went from 3% per year productivity growth, before 1973, to 1.5% productivity growth after 1973. None of that is visible in the chart because the chart is using PPP numbers.

But, as a separate issue, the above essay is focused on computers, and so it implicitly raises the Solow Productivity Paradox: why don't computers seem to add anything to productivity?

See:

The Solow Productivity Paradox: What Do Computers Do to Productivity?

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-solow-productivity-pa...

McKinsey wrote this in 2018, predicting a productivity boom was coming soon, though of course this prediction has been made often since 1973, and the only time it was even slightly true was during the boom in big box retail 1995-2005:

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital...

It's well known that in the 1800s the telegraph and then the telephone allowed a large scale re-organization of capital, and capital invested heavily to take advantage of the new technologies, but it was impossible to see a productivity benefit. These technologies allowed new systems of control, but not necessarily any productivity benefit. Since 1970 computer network technologies have offered a similar reorganization, but they are vastly more powerful than the telephone, and they allowed a re-organization that was vastly more profound than any previous reorganization of capital. Millions of jobs were outsourced to India, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and then Brazil, Russia, Romania, etc.
The United States has 4x the number of guns per capita than any of the countries you've listed. Just taking Norway, the rate of handgun ownership is also significantly higher in the US.

It could be the case that below a certain threshold, further reducing firearm availability does little to affect crime, but the US is probably far from that level
correct. the trend was down even before covid, it's just that instead of covid people's attention was in politics, and often stupid politics. I somehow wish the attention will shift to who can develop a vaccine/cure first, but i m not holding my breath for that
Yes, but since the actual renewable energy is also sold, and that energy certainly is renewable, isn't its greenness also -- first, and arguably "mainly" -- being sold to the buyers of that actual energy? I mean, they're certainly paying for something, and since the energy they're paying for is green, they must be paying for both energy and greenness... Right?

So then selling the greenness again, in the form of these weird "certificates", must mean they're selling the greenness twice.

When I was young, shit like that used to be called fraud.
The fixation with the dollar value of Bitcoin has led to the sad debasement of Bitcoin. Now people hoard it and traders prey on retail investors with it.
vaporware is a product that has been announced but never materializes.
Yeah, there's definitely room for improvement there, but I feel that it'd only target more advanced users.

I'd like that you could opt-in into being aware of the experiments you are running, and be allowed to opt-out early of experiments when they don't work, or sign-up to run them permanently (as long as they are actually running) if they work great.

Although, letting users know about the experiments might also ruins some experiments as users could start assuming that the experiment really changes things. I imagine you can easily run a dummy experiment and have people talk about how much faster/slower their browser runs with it.
Why would you build that solar power plant there when you can build them on the grid itself?

The investment sell I've been seeing lately is to burn stranded natural gas (that would otherwise be flared) in generators that would power a crypto mine. That also gives you 24/7 runtimes without needing energy storage systems.
Slow and steady doesn’t work against persistently fast and right.
Strange you're saying that, the unexpected outcome from gpt3 was specifically that it did not plateau as they were expecting and quite opposite deeper understanding emerged in different areas.
> hating your foes helps them

Hate often ends up harming yourself more than the object of your hate. I think our ancestors knew this, and that is why hate used to be considered a vice. In the modern world, hate ends up not only harming ourselves, but often benefiting the object of our hate. We'd do well to remember the wisdom of our ancestors and discipline ourselves to remove hate from our lives.
Well it’s waste in the sense that you are spending lots of energy to calculate magic numbers, which don’t have any other value except to prove you own bitcoin. It is or is very near a tautology.

In contrast to energy credits in scifi which is something like a promise to deliver a fixed amount of energy, like how a dollar used to have an equivalence in gold.

Like, do you imagine some future spacefaring civilization going around and blowing up stars in order to calculate hashes for their currency? I can, but really only as something that an evil civilization or runaway automation would do.

Why not build a dyson sphere and sell contracts on the energy instead, to people who will use it to be productive? Why is it better to burn all stored energy you can find off as quickly as possible to generate numbers you don’t otherwise need?
These companies work for NASA, NASA wants do research. Their tech enables that research.

SpaceX uses that money to lower the price of space flight for everybody and enables a whole lot of other companies to do new things in space.

SpaceX themselves does things like Starlink.

SpaceX also shares materials tech with Tesla that get used in their products.

It will also anable real exploration of Mars and the outer Solar System.
> especially target the first author because they have normally done the work

As someone living with a recently promoted? (is that the correct term?) PhD in social sciences, this surprises me. Is that something specific for my country, for social sciences or my wife simply landed in a case full of rotten apples?
Proof of excess energy production may be better.

It is wasted in terms of burning fossil fuels though, since that is stored energy that took millions of years to charge up.
No, it's you who don't understand. There are many ways someone can profit from bitcoin losing all its value. And there many motivations other than financial profit. Therefore it's more accurate to speak of dishonesty rather that irrationality.
In the last year I've cancelled my cable service, totally deleted facebook and twitter accounts, quit watching (new) movies, quit watching pro sports and several other things. Why? I feel like I'm being preached to constantly rather than entertained, and not just a little bit here and there. It's constant. I refuse to pay for it or be a part of it. It offers no value to me anymore. Why would I pay for or be a part of something that just irritates me? It seems most movies are just running the same formula for the last 20 years and, well, I've seen it. Hyper-realistic non-stop over the top garbage and woke super heroes. Yay. There is no originality or good story line, with few exceptions. It's all messaging, and it's completely obvious. Messaging was always there, sure, but now it's just overly blatant and constant. It's not just a well-placed can of Coke in the shot. And sports...used to be an avid NBA fan. Haven't watched a single game in the last year+ since it became about political messaging rather than athletic prowess and physical competition. If I want to watch political opinions, I'll watch a political news show - not a "professional" basketball game. In short, the products suck and not worth my time or money, so I no longer participate.
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This is the top comment. Really?

So naive to think Bitcoin will "collapse" in 5 years.

So ignorant to say securing the network is energy wasted.

HN used to be a cradle of ideas and originality.

It has become a cradle of sheep.
You do realize there is a whole area of the research field dedicated for heuristic algorithms? They have a proper academic basis just as much as the “correct” solutions.
I've worked on some mega projects as well, and the key to being on time and on budget is to manage the PR so that no-one knows when it's supposed to be completed and how much it's going to cost. The only difference between Crossrail and private sector projects is that there is no press scoutiny over how much over budget they have gone and how late they are.
I see the dropdown for selecting the year only goes back to 2006 but my first orders were in 1995. I guess there are some system limits.
I don't agree; for most computing tasks, the result of every computation produced by each node is used. In Bitcoin, only the "winner" for each particular block gets their computation result used, everyone else literally throws their results away.
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Only their neighbours.
"you'd better believe personalities like Musk and Bezos would clash a lot if they ever did a joint venture on something"

If they clash a lot it's proof they're not good at cooperating.

So maybe the answer is that Musk and Bezos are good at competing, but not good at cooperating.

That doesn't mean that cooperation is a losing strategy, but just that one has to be good at cooperating in order to succeed at it.
Study shows schools do not spread Covid
Such complete nonsense. Just admit that you have personal problems with those people, because your technical arguments are total nonsense.
I think the definition of racism in this context can be simple. If the rate of false positives for blacks is significantly higher than the average across the nation, then it's racism. Significantly higher can mean "one stddev higher".
Benchmarking papers are inaccurate when the original algorithms are not open sourced, and the grad student needs to rewrite the algorithm from scratch. They can easily create different implementation details, and wind up with an algorithm that's slower than the original.

I do think that the original algorithm authors should have the opportunity to correct the benchmarking code, or to release their original implementation as open source to be benchmarked.

In some sense, the benchmarking paper with a slower implementation is more "correct," since an engineer evaluating which algorithm to use is just as likely to implement the algorithm in a slower way than the original paper. The incentives are right too: the original paper author should be giving enough details to recreate their work, and the benchmarker is showing that really their published algorithm is slow.
That may be true for some of the bottom feeders but Maersk has been pretty consistently profitable.
I personally think that clonal colonies should belong in a separate category. Whilst all the individuals are connected, can communicate and gave the same genetics it is possible to split it into many individuals which would be capable of life independent of the colony.

I'm also fairly sure that if other colonies were studied in more depth we could find some that are older and larger.

I'd be interested to find out how the original age of the colony is estimated.
The information would be much more interesting if it were adjusted for inflation or purchasing-power.
Blue's landing is not in the same league as SpaceX's orbital re-entry landing
Yes, I included the footnote because I am defining high achievement as dominance of the social hierarchy.
> Have you ever seen a robot unclog a toiler? Get into a greasy kitchen vent to clean it? Clean out the molt between the tiles?

I have seen a plunger-bot. I have never seen a commercial plunger-bot. I think I've also seen a mold scrubber bot. I'm not trying to minimize the skill involved. I'm trying to say that the labor it replaces (assuming the time value of money and minimum wage increases cancel out) is worth 362,500 over 25 years. That's a lot of money, but it's also not for a robot that can do all those things assuming it was as efficient as replacing a whole person. And less if the robot has to be replaced more frequently.

If the market supported a robot that cost a few orders of magnitude more than that, I can see a fleet of robots. Not 100% "let 'er rip" L-5 autonomy, but where one person managed a fleet of specialized robots. Mapping out the surfaces ahead of time, etc.

I will say, I was responding to a "janitor" in the office environment doing routine tasks emptying trash. Not a kitchen vent cleaner. There are a lot of deep cleaning actions that would be harder to automate, and given their rareness and extra difficulty are likely the last to go.