skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not worth fighting the UUID. It gives distributed systems wings.

The UUID accomplishes one goal the semantic web promised, which is being able to union two arbitrary databases, not have identifier collisions, and start writing queries.

It's proven more reliable to hypnotize management and developers into using a formula like uuid4() than to get them to properly make URIs by skolemization.

Granted you have no idea that I call my camera 'b16bd4af-b2d6-45a9-86ae-f34e47083d3c' and the 90mm macro lens is '4a3a9a41-bb5c-4e56-bde8-51a8e95e3073'. Even I have to look those up in a table.

A major result from Doug Lenat's cyc project was that any system of coining identifiers from names will break down as scale increases. You're best off starting with arbitrary identifiers (sequential int or uuid) and building tooling to map them them to and from concepts in people's minds.
Which begs the question: without the fifty-move rule (only threefold repetition), what is the longest legal chess game?
HN like Aggregator for Web 3
To be 100% completely honest, home building needs to be one of our basic skills taught in school. That along with chopping down the building codes for small homes to be extremely simple. I'm not saying we support shanty homes everywhere, but the problem we have is that investors are buying up all the perfect homes and most homes are perfect homes. Maybe we should have less than perfect homes that aren't valued so high and sought out by investors that live in China.
afaik the IRS doesn't pay you on losses. It does balance your revenue and business expenses, but interestingly regulations on crypto investments make them a category on their own. So if you have 0 overall revenue in a year, but earned say 100k from salaried/contract labor employment, but lost 100k on BTC because it reached zero, you still owe the IRS taxes on your 100k revenue.
Taxes are so absurd when looking a them more closely. Corporate entities get to offset expenses, only the net profit incur corporate tax on profit; but human entities have all their expenses ignored from the equation. So, buy BTC, and that's the same as gambling or have a serious drug addiction in term of expenses, make a profit and you end up having to pay the crypto tax, and also having to cover the cost of tracking all the transactions that may have occurred between btc and other tokens if you were adventurous and loved experimenting with the overall digital token market.
The difference is that in the former scenario, the one OpenAI is supposedly protecting us from, the danger is that OpenAI is "too good", possible of doing damage by supposed nefarious actors: something generating hundreds of fake news articles a second which are all perfectly believable.

The danger in the latter scenario is that OpenAI is garbage: when used to answer a perfectly innocuous request, it regurgitates disinformation and biased results. OpenAI can't gatekeep for "bad" people since it's actually good people interacting with dangerous AI. Like when asked to solve a simple math problem, it just gets the math straight up wrong, but people trust it.

OpenAI wants us to believe its AI is so good it needs to be protected from "bad people" and built its safety protocols around that threat model, when it seems far more likely the latter is going to happen, and they haven't done a thing to protect us from that.
This chess position ranking wouldn't be possible without making use of such combinatorics, as you can see with the use [1] [2] of the multinomial ranking [3].

You're right that counting is much easier than ranking. That's reflected in my Haskell counting program [4] being MUCH simpler and MUCH faster than the ranking program.
But counting is only good for upper bounding and doesn't let you draw a random sample to determine the fraction of legal ones, as needed for estimation.

[1]
https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking/blob/main/src/...

[2] https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking/blob/main/src/...

[3] https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking/blob/main/src/...

[4] https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking/blob/main/src/...
Thankfully, ever city I've moved to has a roller hockey league. It's a nice cheap alternative to ice hockey, typically 1/2 or less of the cost. Here in DC we have multiple leagues and weekly pickup games, you can find us Wednesdays in front of the white house: http://www.whitehousehockey.com/
> I do however think that anthropomorphizing it actually detracts from the exciting response observed.

Sure, we don't want scientists to overestimate the impact of new findings. And perhaps that's what is going on here.

But it's daft to try to convince others to be more sensible about new findings by offering up an unscientific musing about an alternative to an existing field. Especially when that musing includes no experimentation, no predictions, and no citations.

As unfortunate as it is, sometimes there is just no way around reading an article and replying based on the actual content of it.
Eye Makeup Mistakes That Ruin Your Beauty
Might be worth trying. Might not solve the issue if it's already there but could well help preventing it somewhat, although I don't know what cause this condition though.

I've had fungal infections in the past, between the toes mostly, but it's a thing of the past now. Nothing in the past 5 years.

Have a look at Big Clive's video on "Fixing your feet":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPLwczrGikM
I'm not sure there was a sensor issue here. It appears that the Flight Computer monitoring routine for the Rudder position somehow caused all three computers to crash. This was somehow exacerbated by the pilot's rudder inputs, which I don't fully understand

> the combination of a high COM/MON channels asynchronism and the pilot pedal inputs resulted in the rudder order difference between the two channels to exceed the monitoring threshold

The flight computer failure resulted in the inability to use two braking mechanisms, Thrust Reversers (make air from the engine go forwardsish) and Spoilers (stop the wing from producing lift, putting more weight on the wheels and making the brakes more effective.
> average velocity of their fundamental constituents

An interesting (if unusual) viewpoint; I wonder if this could lead to (a more realistic) quantum gravity.

> objects either move or change, but cannot do both simultaneously

This does make time slowing down inside a moving object kind of obvious. (I wonder if this description based on action/energy quantization turns out to be equivalent, at a certain level, to the essentially geometric picture of the classical relativity.)
My employer pays for papers we need on a per-paper basis, and recently got subscription for one of the publishers as that was cheaper. They simply want to avoid lawsuits.

I'm sure that outside of workplace, every employee uses sci-hub.
Has anyone else here experienced, as I have, a sudden and complete loss of interest in alcohol and sweet confectionary after commencing a high fat low carbohydrate diet? I say this as someone who always been a bit too fond of both carbohydrates and alcohol.

I went on a high fat diet to lose weight but these two other goals of mine were achieved with zero effort
https://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_feudal_system....

>Lords and Knights - The lords ran the local manors. They also were the king's knights and could be called into battle at any moment by their Baron. The lords owned everything on their land including the peasants, crops, and village.

It was not the king (the government) but the local lord (the property owner) that abused his subjects the most.
Show HN: Making a Cypherpunk Loot Derivative
I wrote a deep-dive into the Loot smart contract, and provided a step-by-step guide so that anyone can make their own loot derivative.

Purely for their own edification.
While computer scientists might expect slightly faster factoring algorithms to exist than the ones we know of - perhaps exp((# bits)^0.25) is plausible - I think the majority of computer scientists, including Aaronson, would be completely shocked if it was possible to factor integers in polynomial time.

Factoring isn't a problem like testing primality, or graph isomorphism, where we had algorithms that worked well in practice but not perfectly theoretically for many years before the major breakthroughs. While it wouldn't be quite as mind-boggling to find a fast factoring algorithm as it would be to efficiently solve SAT - factoring almost certainly isn't NP-complete - it definitely seems to fit somewhere into the "hard" side of things from the standpoint of classical complexity.

One way to think of it is this: when problems can be solved efficiently, there is generally some sort of nice algebraic structure that makes them easy. Nice, exploitable algebraic structure is extremely rare: if you haven't found hints of it after putting in a fair amount of effort, it probably isn't there at all. Of course, we can't currently rule out the possibility that there are secret ghostly algebraic structures that will render everything easy lurking just beyond our current knowledge, but intuition from studying our best known algorithms and our complete lack of progress on truly hard problems indicates that this isn't the case.
False. Remdesivir was approved to treat covid with far less positive studies than ivermectin. And subsequent trials show that it probably is worse than nothing. And yet here we are, billions of dollars later.
I think there is a fair bit of evidence that animals console each other and “reconcile” after they’ve hurt one another. I definitely think dogs and cats understand you’re trying to communicate you‘re sorry. Or maybe at least that you aren’t angry with them.

At any rate, we humans have been “apologizing” to our pets like this forever. It’s almost instinctual to us. So I don’t think it’s a confusing experience for pets. It would probably more confusing for your pet if you were to suddenly stop this behavior.
Housing (the structures) depreciates in Japan now of days, and so they mostly don’t have this problem.
Neat! I was disappointed it'd been axed, as being less sensitive to amenity weight seemed a huge advantage of trains.

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/amtrak-pla...

It looks like it's back on West long haul routes since June, scheduled to be reintroduced to East TBD.
IDK, what do we say here? We're going to start needing to be making some changes?

Roman society context on this one:

Vestal virgins:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestal_Virgin

Baiae:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiae

https://pbsinternational.org/programs/underwater-pompeii/ :

> Baiae: an ancient Roman city lost to the same volcanoes that entombed Pompeii. But unlike Pompeii, Baiae sits under water, in the Bay of Naples. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the city was an escape for Rome’s rich and powerful elite, a place where they were free of the social restrictions of Roman society. But then the city sank into the ocean, to be forgotten in the annals of history. Now, a team of archaeologists is mapping the underwater ruins and piecing together what life was like in this playground for the rich. What made Baiae such a special place? And what happened to it?

Woe! Woe unto the obviously promiscuous.
> Gustimated price tag would be $10-15m.

YouTube finally sold for $1b to google. And at that time everyone felt that was an unjustifiable price for a company that was burning millions per month on bandwidth and possibly will run out of cash any time.
True! I will look into it, thanks for the report.
Don't know where you work, but you're not switching from cooking to washing dishes.

So yes there's a cost involved and is never a clear cut especially if you run projects in parallel.
Odd that there is no information from Airbus there.

FYI: the comment section contains some interesting background.
During times of more strenuous physical activity, I've found that my body is less tolerant of alcohol (in addition to burning it off faster). I begin to have physical difficulty choking too much of it down.

Unfortunately, this effect fades pretty quickly once I've had some down time-- so I tend to return to problematic levels of drinking at that point, which leads to slacking on exercise and lower energy/motivation.

For those who force themselves to be consistent with working out, I would expect most people would crave bioavailable nutrients more and alcohol less, while also getting more bang for their buck out of smaller amounts when they do partake. That's only from my unscientific observations, but it has seemed like a pretty strong effect to me.
It's hard to remember that period well and put things into context, but if you were there, honestly, Google Video was pretty good. In the very early days Google Video vs YouTube could have been a toss-up. There was nothing particularly compelling about the UX on YouTube (it got much better later). Google Video wasn't amazing UX, but technically it was fine. And had the advantage of getting prime real estate in search results.

YouTube's early success I suspect had a lot more to do with them paying fast and loose with enforcing IP rules. It wasn't until a bit after the Google acquisition that they started getting more serious about it.

EDIT: also remember this is an era when Google was actually doing quite well shipping rather geeky and minimalistic invented-by-engineer consumer-facing things. There was no reason to assume they wouldn't do well with Google Video. They had just recently had a lot of success with Gmail. Gchat was a thing. Their calendar was good. They were making some ok stuff.
These guys[1] still publish updates of the AOSP code including security updates. So you would just miss firmware updates.

1: https://download.pixelexperience.org/sailfish
YT beat sites founded later because they were too late to catch up with the network effects.

YT beat sites founded earlier (and there were many) because browser, codec, and bandwidth technology just wasn’t ready yet to support decent web video.

YT beat contemporaneous sites, perhaps, because they were (as far as I know) the only one around in early 2006 with serious funding. ThrowAwayYourTV.com, for instance, was just one dude in his 20’s who had another day job.
It sounds like it was more complex than that. The computers shut down because of a COM-MON order mismatch. In other words, there is a watchdog in the system that monitors the three computers and their orders (control surface movements, etc. - in this case rudder inputs). There are 3 computers and one of them is designated COM (command) while another is designated MON (monitoring). If the values of the inputs that the computers want to send to the actuators diverge too much for too long, the command computer is disconnected and another computer is designated command. In this case it sounds like the command and monitoring computers had a significant delay between them when they transitioned from flight law (settings used in flight) to ground law (settings used while on the ground) while the pilot was also applying rudder (which is very common during landing, to correct for crosswind). When on the ground, the rudder is set to not deflect as much from the pilot's inputs compared to when in the air. It sounds like normally the computers switch to ground law close enough in time that the resulting mismatch is ignored, but in this case the significant delay caused a "split brain" situation and the watchdog disconnected all 3 computers.

Perhaps the root cause is an issue in the weight-on-wheel sensor inputs that the computers use to transition. The computers need to use redundant sensors so they don't all rely on the same faulty sensor, but maybe the sensors are not appropriately cross-fed or the sensor input combination logic is too different between the computers.

The problem with not disconnecting a computer in this situation is that bad inputs from that computer may also cause a crash. But maybe if no other computer is available to take its place the logic should be different, at least during takeoff/landing.
> The crew applied maximum manual braking and managed to stop the aircraft 10 meters/33 feet ahead of the runway end (runway length 2600 meters/8530 feet).

Hope the crew had their brown pants on.
No. I don’t need to because the intent of the Twitter post is clear. To conflate human doses of ivermectin with horse doses and turn people off from ivermectin entirely.
You should find it unsurprising that the simpler rule to keep track of came first, right? :)
Agreed on both your and the OP's point. MUPs seem to bring the worst in some people who do not know how to be considerate.
I was at Google during this period, and did a lot of work with YT ads, 2009-2010. Their backend was still Python then; I have no idea about now.

Memory: I was over there and someone was introducing me to a group of folks and said "he's from Google." I spread my hands around and said "we're ALL from Google."

She said, "No, this is YouTube."
It’s common now for people actively seeking any opportunity to be offended on behalf of someone else.

There must be some odd entertainment factor to it that you and I don’t understand.

I don’t know what it’s like to be so self-certain and absolute that I would take on responsibility of social internet police.
Could it be your WiFi? I am getting 800Mbs on a MV I created last month with a quad ampere A1 24GB instance.
OK, I worded that very badly. I'm not using it because they're scarce. I mean to say:

The reason someone could say I'm "abusing" it, is because they're scarce.

They shouldn't be scarce, and they're not intended for just poor people.

To be clear, I'm not here for financial reasons. In fact, I would not object to paying more, if it meant putting more in the pot for poorer households to benefit from.
More of a ristretto-and-go kind of moment, I would think.
Or they could turn to automation, eliminate their labor costs substantially. Eg that cafe can turn into a bunch of vending machines.
Severely? Not even close.
Well, when people talk about wealth taxes those are always above a certain threshold. I am perfectly fine with taxing excessive ownership of land. We don't need the theoretically perfect utopia. We need something that is good enough to give us another 80 years of peace.
Seems like a large part of what's needed is just being able to make the pdfs machine-readable, by making decent plain-text versions of the text content. Right now, IIRC, there's no hands-off way to get the text of a pdf. Especially if there's weirdness like multiple-columns (sometimes happens with this stuff).
Yes it’s exhausting. Once you see the atmospheric misogyny we’re all soaking in, it’s very hard to ignore tho.

See also: https://www.theonion.com/woman-takes-short-half-hour-break-f...
Thanks for asking :)
Writing this much Bash is quite straining because there is a lot of typing, but it is also liberating in the sense of coding very close to the OS (utils).

Also, most of it is not written in Bash, it's written in Posix standard, which is even more spartanic, but is then compatible with Dash and Ash (BusyBox) also, which is good because Bash is not always available.

To make Simplenetes we used another tool we also created which is meant for writing shell script apps and to perform agent-less automation, it is called Space.sh [1]

About tools for getting an overview of the cluster, there is only the command line tooling as for now, which does parts of the job, but tools for analyzing traffic and such is not created yet.

1: https://space.sh/
Maybe the rifle/gun is just a bad example today? I watch movies all the time where there are guns or rifles which does not gow off. And I sure don't feel like some promise was broken.
If you search for "1.5V rechargeable", there are lots of lithium ion batteries with electronic voltage regulators now. Some designs will step down to ~1V when nearly depleted, so that low battery indicators still work.

I'm not sure if an NiMH sleeve was ever practical given the space constraints, but it's kind of moot now that better technology exists.
From the cockpit, 33’ must have looked right under their nose.
Indeed, it seems like the computers were not in agreement

> the combination of a high COM/MON channels asynchronism

In this case, since the automation failed, the plane reverted to "Direct law", where the pilot's inputs directly control the plane, instead of passing through computer checks first.
>It sounds like they expected it to die on a backroom shelf somewhere if they made the purchase. This seems anti-competitive behavior [...] They didn't see it as valuable for their own needs,

I think you're reading too much conspiracy motive into Larry's terse email.

Based on various interviews, Susan Wojcicki was head of Google Video at the time and she acknowledged they were losing against the upstart Youtube. She originally thought Google Video would succeed because Google was "playing nice" by negotiating legal licenses with broadcasters like NBC whereas Youtube was just a bunch of pirated content.

It was a big risk to acquire Youtube because the Viacom piracy lawsuit was looming. Google decided they could handle it and went ahead with the acquisition. They saw the value in Youtube and didn't have any intention of killing it.
Many pet owners have seen this behaviour, and what I find note worthy too is that that trauma can be easily detected when the animal doesn't react according to intention.

Anecdotically, I adopted a mistreated dog this year. He's a really good boy, and shows the exact same behaviour the paper states regarding accidental interactions in general. But if you are for example brooming and slightly touch him, he immediately hides and may even piss himself. It seems to me that he was beaten up with some kind of stick when he was just a puppy. Poor boy :(
> I load it up with trackers so I can sell your behavioral data

Google doesn’t sell people’s data. Neither does Facebook.

Both companies sell ads. Data they collect is used to target those ads. That is their market edge. It doesn’t even make sense for them to want to sell data to 3rd parties because it would diminish their ad-targeting advantage.

I’m not suggesting that there aren’t other reasons to be concerned, but the myth of Google or Facebook “selling your data” is just wrong.
What jokes have changed the course of history?
It would make a good book.
Thanks, that’s amazing. I have some fondness to the phone as I swapped out the screen two times, finger reader and battery. Manual updates will just be another thing I do to keep the adventure going :)
> Airbnb shouldn't be addressed through a buy-to-let ban, but an airbnb or short-term rental ban, which already exists in various forms

Airbnb is probably paying off various government officials around the world to make sure the laws are friendly to them.
I'm not big on sci-fi, but Villeneuve has done some nice work, and if they've thrown a crapload of money at him the result should be worth a look .. thanks for posting this
They didn't encrypt comms between DC's until after 2013.

Easy guess, it seems.
My dog often uses his “hands” to get our attention or to ask for doors to be opened.
I generally answer that I'm a grumpy old white guy, who can fix anything given sufficient time and budget, even an old broken down alien spaceship from area 51.

So far, no offers to fix anything at Area 51 have emerged.
India decided to require all publicly funded research to make research papers and data open access[0]

[0] https://dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/STIP_Doc_1.4_Dec2020....
Well there is a single bullet point from/about Airbus

> 7. Following the occurrence, Airbus reviewed its in-service experience, and confirmed that no other triple PRIM fault at touchdown event had been reported on A330/A340 aircraft family since entry into service. The A330/A340 fleet fitted with electrical rudder has accumulated 8.7 millions of Flight Cycles and 44.3 millions of Flight Hours (in-service data from April 2020).
Not sure what the norm is, but for me exercise is a totally solitary activity. I live in the middle of nowhere and run every day the weather permits. I do long hikes on weekends when I don't work.