skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universal Love, Said the Cactus Person (2015)
I apologize, ofcourse they have a hunger for real, meaningful and deep ideas but, they are still pretty dumb. Not dumb as in lacking intellectual ability but dumb as in willingly stupid. Thats the key. No shade but pop culture is basically a "teen spirit" transformed into profit by BS Inc.

And ofcourse the small issue of sex being 80% of what's on their mind. Perfectly natural and healthy.
From what I've seen Tiktok is no worse than Instagram, Facebook or Snapchat. If anything there's less toxicity which in itself makes Tiktok better than the rest.

With that said I don't use social media much (like maybe an hour a week? I have neither Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat accounts) and if I had to pick only one it would be Tiktok (even though I don't use it now) except if there were a curated HN page with all the toxicity filtered out (that would be awesome).
That destroyed zeppelins because there are things they can crash into especially during take off and landing and the winds are strong enough to rip them apart it’s not true for Mars.

The winds are to weak because of the thin atmosphere and there aren’t that many things to crash into.
I would gladly pay taxes to cover someone who isn't able to work for one reason or another. Because you never know what life gives you. In an unfortunate turn of events, that person can be me or you. I would NOT pay taxes to subsidize Bezos's business so that he can have his space cowboy adventures. That's just the latest and most popular. But the same applies for the 2008 bailouts, Covid stimulus bailouts, corporate tax cuts, corporate tax incentives, corporations paying peanuts forcing people to strain the (already thin) social safety net (see how many fully employed folks are on food stamps) etc.. The latter is perpetual, business as usual and except for some people complaining (the 'radical left') it's regarded as 'the right thing to do'. The former has been beaten out of the American consciousness by decades of rightwing propaganda.
>Then, of course, one day COVID hits, China closes its borders

I doubt China closed its borders to cargo because of covid.
It feels as if the companies are working hard to make it annoying and complex to opt out. Every iteration makes things a bit worse.

We need people like Max to stop this annoying trend.

Edit: while at it, i have to get this off my chest: Legitimate Interest is probably illegal and violates GDPR.

Max should go after that next.
From the article, emphasis my own:

> So, at any given time, there are millions of bitcoin mining machines around the world looking to solve the puzzle and create the next block, and there’s a natural feedback mecha­nism to ensure that blocks are created on average every ten minutes, regard­less of how many miners are on the network.

> We recently saw in the first half of 2021 that China banned crypto mining, and approx­i­mately half the network went offline and started moving elsewhere. Bitcoin’s payment network briefly slowed down a bit, but other­wise kept working with 100% uptime.

It's no assertion that the transaction amount is not proportional to the energy being used. That energy only serves as the network's security through proof-of-work.

Proof-of-stake you referred to is also mentioned in the article, as follows:

> Besides a larger amount of complexity, trust, and attack surfaces, the main issue with proof-of-stake is that it can be prone to central­iza­tion. The more coins you have, the more voting power you have, and those with the coins are also the ones earning the new coins from staking. Since they don’t need to expend resources to stake, they can simply increase their overall staking amount as they earn ongoing coins from staking rewards, and exponen­tially grow their influ­ence on the network over time.

PoS, although more complex to implement, has value, but it's more likely to become centralized when compared to PoW due to the reasons mentioned.
DALL-E + CLIP models show a deep understanding of the relation between images and text.
It is remarkable that Tim so clearly understood the problem in 2016.

With that one post, Apple and Tim earned trust from a group of people that trust very few. And in an instance, both Apple and Tim have now burned all of it.
I found the whole UI/sandbox they created the most interesting part. Now don't get me wrong, the tech is certainly great and all, but I really didn't had the feeling I watched/learned more than I already knew from what was shown with Github CoPilot, although I was kinda impressed, if it really is as simple as they stated, at how it is able to adapt to new apis.

It's a shame they only limited the demo to relatively simple instructions.
We can't know for certain (at least not from that article), but there is some evidence that at least a few exceptional birds can pass the mirror test, and Alex certainly appears to have been an exceptional bird. It's plausible that he understood it was his own image.
I have to disagree with you here. In the Codex paper[1], they have two datasets that Codex got correct about 3% of the time. These are interview and code competition questions. From the paper:

"Indeed, a strong student who completes an introductory computer science course is expected to be able to solve a larger fraction of problems than Codex-12B."

This suggests to me that Codex really doesn't understand anything about the language beyond syntax. I have no doubt that future systems will improve on this benchmark, but they will likely take advantage of the AST and could use unit tests in a RL-like reward function.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03374
If there were diversity, there couldn't be collaborative spaces.
If an Uber costs the same as a taxi, it makes no difference.

I think the real product is in the dispatch app.

But it really only works if all the various cab companies subscribe to the same dispatch service. Every cab company having their own dispatch app doesn't work.

Basically, we don't need Uber, we need DoorDash, but for cabs.
I know there is little info available, but what is the practical future here? Buying a $1-5k setup and then sharing your fast connection with neighbors? Or is this more an incentive for bars and coffee shops? Or is this a play for MVNO dollars?

To amortize $5k in upfront costs over 7 years, I need to make about $100 a month to justify the upfront cost.
Ok, let's say Uber is executing the software side of its business badly. Is the argument then "Uber can never be profitable unless it fixes its software business" (which could be true, but is a much weaker claim)? Or is it that "The cost of operating a software business is intrinsically so high that no matter how well Uber executes, it can never be profitable?" That would be a massive counterexample to software-is-eating-the-world. Usually it works the other way - tech eating non-tech, even though engineers are expensive.
Yep. That’s how most of the world works.

Early iterations won’t be perfect, though I think with what the future holds this will become standard development and created mixed-use walkable neighborhoods.
I thought that too. I didn't touch Ethereum until 2020.

My feelings have now changed and IMO Ethereum will or already has overtaken bitcoin in importance. In general if you want to do "dapp" development you will write for the EVM, although you probably won't deploy on ETH L1 as your first place.

Ethereum has some very serious network effects building up behind it even if your favorite aspect of it was shed during the DAO hack.
>if you lump Facebook and Facebook Messenger together

As two separate apps there is a massive overlap in the users that are downloading the Facebook app and the Messenger app for their phone. Combining the total downloads for each and using that total number of downloads is not a good measure of anything.
> Backup cameras are a legal mandate.

Wasn't aware of this. Regardless, it should be a standard that can connect to any din stereo.

> It is honestly irresponsible to drive a car without a wide-angle backup camera.

The only time my car goes into reverse is when I've just performed a full walkaround (backing out of driveway) or I've just ceased driving forwards and have my eyes tuned to the mirrors.

> Might as well toss the mirrors out while you're at it.

That's absurd.
"Ultra-processed => not good" does not imply "not ultra-processed => good".

And I'm pretty sure people who believe Beyond is healthier are wrong regardless of how we classify Beyond Meat. (Though I'm not even sure the majority of Beyond Meat eaters believe it's healthier in the first place.)
solar wind
Thought-provoking discussion of cyber risk, ransomware, and data security
The question is whether a sustainable model's marginal utility over the regular old taxi business is sufficiently large to justify the entire endeavor.
Conversely: my wife is a Nurse Practitioner and, when she was practicing family medicine, the number of times she had to refuse people antibiotics for what was obviously not bacterial (muscle strain, viral infection, etc...) was insane. She complained about it regularly.

I agree that the FDA and CDC need to crack down on antibiotic usage. They should also provide better education as to when antibiotics are appropriate.
I think they're banking on the rest of tempe over there to have a similar growth soon, and use the cable car that is being implemented. It's a gamble it will grow that way, but it seems like most of tempe right now is being overhauled.
Absolutely, but depending on how you do it, you can cause less market distortions - what I've seen subsidies do locally is make farmers do things that would be unprofitable instead of searching for what's profitable for them (eg. planting sub-optimal crops because they know they get subsidies, prevent small inefficient farmers from going bust effectively becoming a welfare program that prevents more efficient farming, etc.)
Yeah I have been going in as requested but without my laptop. I am happy to chat but not going to pretend to do actual creative work.
I'm concerned about the hormonal effects of low-nutrition foods and plastic packaging. For example, my neighbor's daughter experienced precocious puberty passing Tanner V at 12, and looking 19. I suspect it's the diet and environment.
https://rodneybrooks.com/a-better-lesson/ is an interesting retort to the Sutton post.
Heads up: 943 requests, 8.22MB
Correct, they don't have pre-school classes. I attended RSM as a student, and even taught there.
I've never used tiktok, but I do have one question. Does the fact that its in video make it harder for influencers to fake their lives? Or is superficiality still highly prevalent?
Have you considered using this Vitess?

https://github.com/vitessio/vitess
I don't have anything against golf as such, it's more that from a distance they looked like really nice little parks that people could use to walk between neighbourhoods, socialise, walk dogs, picnic in etc. Then I zoomed in and realised it was probably only for people playing golf. Football pitches are less well camouflaged from satellite pictures, so they wouldn't be as disappointing. Golf courses are kind of inherently low density too - you can't really cram many more than five people onto each hole at once.

FWIW we do have golf clubs here - Cannes / Antibes in particular has loads - but that's unrepresentative of France as a whole.

Your park does sound nice. I'd heard stories of Americans in suburbs having to drive their dogs to places where they could be walked - maybe it was an exaggeration.
Yeah, it looks admittedly pointless. I guess I just don't care much, it's just not a part of the browser that draws my attention a lot.

I did find a compact mode: https://techdows.com/2021/04/how-to-enable-compact-density-o... - which works and makes things less padded, but the "not supported" but sure sounds ominous.
So the haves spend money on education of their kids, and have-nots can't do that, relying on public schools which don't perform, and the possibilities gap is widening. Structural problem.
The AlphaZero algorithm swapped between board games pretty easily. OpenAI could also have been gesturing at this when they named the GPT paper "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners".
> Maybe the next step will require increasingly interesting justification systems.

You can just ask it to comment what it intends to do. It's surprising actually.
But I mean, we can all still find evidence of FB malfeasance, and I can find evidence of cool fat queer people showing up in my For You feed at the very least
Problem: No spider that size (or, really, anything far larger than it's "normal" size) could even move itself around. It would have to have wildly different body structure, and would probably not resemble a "spider".
Jack Parsons will just have to do some real funky stuff to get more plans and technology to make this real :)
Unless the housing's a lot denser than it looks (higher, for one thing), those streets and plazas seem to be way too big. Retail & restaurants completely detached from housing is also questionable, if you're going for walkability. Farther apart you put things, less walkable/bikable they are, so the harder it is for businesses to be viable without public transit or (more probably) car traffic.
Oooooh. That makes sense.
> what our time is worth to place Facebook pixels on websites

I felt this in my soul. I just left my old job (which I liked) to go fully remote for a weird little shop in Florida. They're actually embracing remote culture and keeping employees engaged. Makes the soulless toil a bit more bearable.
I don't understand all the worry about being able to modify the firmware of a computing device if one has physical access to it. If you have physical access then you can completely replace the computing device with one under the attacker's control.

Raspberry pi's might not look professional but they are easy to procure and develop with whilst only adding a small amount to a BOM. Even when using a different SoC very few will be setup to use a fully secure boot process.

The original vulnerabilities found were mostly in the web apis of the servers that these chargers connect to which makes vulnerabilities in the hardware irrelevant.
I might try this thanks. Looks really involved though!
I believe I have used some in the past. Possibly via http://fortytwo.com in an earlier incarnation (way before twilio existed). You can ask around for 'raw SMS PDU' support. You can safely claim it is for 'custom character set' (non UCS-2) usage. This is reasonable to use for developing markets where local pre-unicode character sets allow greater information density in a single message.

IIRC you can grab inbound Flash SMS from at least some devices using AT commands the same way you'd grab regular SMS. They won't show up in native messaging apps, however.
I think this is a bear case on China - essentially you're saying that authoritarian government is unstable by nature, democracy is the end of history, etc.

I'm a bit less certain. Past is no indication of future, but China has been the most successful authoritarian country to date. Enough for me to start questioning whether democracy is truly the only way.

For example, I look at their recent crack down rather enviously - to pivot from consumer internet which they realized they have no competitive advantage over into the "German model" where industrialization is key, is a much better approach considering their industrial base and current political climate. In the US, things are moving much slower.

So IDK - I'm not sure if I buy the "it'll get worse" effect. Besides, you could be right, just off by 500 years. In the longrun - we're all dead
> Should it be bigger?

Yes, it needs to be quite a bit bigger to generate the gravitational pull that
gets your head out your ___.
So you're saying that the only reason you didn't take a taxi everywhere before Uber was because the drivers are smelly? Well maybe you have money to burn, but most other people don't. If Uber charged what it really costs to operate their services, then you would see a massive drop in riders. It doesn't matter how much less smelly you think they are compared to taxi drivers.
Well, currently, I just drive my car 10 min and usually eat and shop in the same place. That being walkable does seem desirable, yes. And if the nearest city was accessible by light rail I would certainly spend more time there.
He's trolling...
TikTok is literally TV.

not youtube, tiktok. Youtube failed to be a television replacement, and tiktok succeeded.
If you don't see this, you are literally dumb.
Gnome 2 was the last usable Gnome version. And for KDE was KDE 3.
"If we never ran out of thrust, we could hypothetically reach anywhere in the Universe that a photon emitted today could reach."

versus

"I am a Ph.D. astrophysicist"

I'm confused.

In other words: How is he planning to catch up to a photon?
Even if the prices doubled overnight it would still make sense for my main uses: an on-demand designated driver or rides to/from the airport.

That said, I realize I'm financially better off than many people and would prefer to have safe, affordable, and widespread public transit.
isn't FB is on decline and young people no longer care to be on it?
I'd be happy to retrofit my good-condition Yaris to be a BEV with ~80km range (similar to first gen leaf). Is there actually a practical way to do this?
Why only one bedroom apartments? You can't build a community that you think will stand for any amount of time and be this hostile to families.
I think GP's point is precisely that once you normalize something that used to be a special case requiring extra compensation, it's hard to make the case that you need to get paid extra for your extra work, since it's, well, no longer extra?
Did you already forget what my comment was commenting? It was literally just one step away.
I get the sense you will either think this is the most wonderful place on earth or the most miserable place. Not much in between. The photos look clean, new and very cosmopolitan, but it's a very anodyne sterile look to it. Like a corporate brochure from human resources. It's not real, not real life.
I’m a 34 year old who just got into Instagram and TikTok.

I love it and hate it.

I love all the creative and ridiculously funny content I find.

But I viscerally cannot stand and get angry over so much attention seeking garbage there is out there too. Just smug unqualified nobodies telling people to “stop it” with a smug meme song regarding health habits or fashion or whatnot. Or “oh no no no no” or “thank you Diane” memes.

I dunno. Maybe I’m a summer child discovering something everyone’s already contending with. I know it’s a biased sample but there’s this whole culture of entirely unearned confidence and narcissism.

Don’t get me started with all the 20something ”Influencers” humble bragging about their cars and homes.

I get angry at night and yet I can’t stop scrolling because there’s always some occasional maniac driving a canoe down a hill into a lake.

I’m just yelling at people to get off my lawn aren’t I?
These efforts seem well-intentioned but doomed to fail because it requires government action to make the rest of the area work , i.e. be more walkable / bikeable.

It's great you can bike from your pricey apartment to your friend's, but try getting passed by a bunch of distracted drivers going 50mph faster than you on the arterial stroad when getting to the nearest reasonably-sized grocery store that is 10 miles away because bike infrastructure is often "man up and pretend you're a car" in the US.

Not to mention anything involving grade-separated, rail-based public transit...

What we really need are YIMBY policy changes to improve these, e.g. separate bike infrastructure (note: it has almost zero maintenance costs because bikes produce almost no pavement damage), relaxing of development policies to allowing MFU or town-house (row house?) condos to be built, or at the very least getting rid of ridiculous SFU requirements like enormous setbacks or low max-area usage (e.g. a burb house built on an enormous lot!).

One notable advancement I did like from this proposal: having a "time-share-esque" guest unit. I do enjoy having space for family members to stay with me when they visit, but it feels so wasteful to have that space all the time (requiring maintenance, insurance, more mortgage) compared to having this guest unit thing common to all units in the development.
it was code red YEARS ago when the first report came out. what you thought they were just joking the first time around
Facebook as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579498.
Our favourite YouTube culinary historian on the subject: https://youtu.be/D-QHd4_1geE
Max Schrems is just amazing. Big Tech has been steamrolling over privacy for more than a decade, but Schrems keeps pushing back on them through courts. With major success (in the EU, at least).

And he's not some hard-line activist with extreme demands, all he's doing is asking for reasonable stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems
It's a really good thing for banks and grocery stores to be open more, though. There's a big difference between trying to squeeze more hours out of a salaried worker vs. hiring more people to cover more shifts.

For support, it depends on whether you're hiring more people (good), offering optional on-call time for extra money or reduced hours (probably fine), or forcing people to be on-call on top of a normal work week (bad).
So we should mandate a scanner in the car that makes you input your planned route, takes a driver license, has a camera to do facial recognition. It will then connect to a DMV database that verifies the information is correct and then to the insurance database to verify coverage. Check the tax database to make sure that has been paid, check with a medical database to make sure that you don't have any conditions as well as making sure that you have not been prescribed any medicine that says not to operate heavy machinery.
Maybe we're also >50% Frankenstein monsters, an agglomeration of utterances from other people.
Nothing like people throwing rocks from the US where they had lots of vaccine supply but also an obscene supply of people who refuse to get it. Having advance supply has hardly done them any good, judging from this week's new case and hospitalization rates.
Uber can make money but it won't be pretty, some steps in order to achieve profitability:

#1 Get out of all expensive metro areas(corporate offices) and embrace a full remote workforce.(sublease commercial buildings where applicable)

#2 Raise rideshare fees, reduce driver income.

#3 Retreat from un-profitable regions for ride-hailing, ie. moving out of rural markets.

#4 Reduce engineering workforce that isn't focused on running the business.

#5 Get out of the food delivery business, the margins are too small for the engineering/marketing effort.
I'm baffled by the glowing endorsements of TikTok on Hacker News of all places. TikTok content comes across as completely vapid. It's like the worst possible mashup of bad television and social media. As a company TikTok seems to have zero goals beyond increasing engagement.
Congrats on launching. Is your customer base currently in Nigeria or across Africa? Your intro here lists the former while the website states the latter.

Also curious as to how you determine sufficient collateral for borrowers and what tools you use to hedge against default: Do you focus on lending to businesses with resellable capital assets (equipment, inventory, etc), setup autopay/direct debit as condition of loan, etc?
Grape nuts count as "processed" because of the added salt and vitamins