skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I missed this, very interesting read. He's not entirely wrong.

But why are these protocols frozen? I've never developed one so I may just be ignorant of the challenges there, but if, for example, I wanted the XMPP protocol to be able to work with rich media, what's stopping me from updating said protocol to work with rich media instead of relying on optional extensions? In my mind, users of the protocol will receive the update (if they choose of course), thereby making the feature a default for the protocol that isn't reliant on extensions.

I admit I don't fully understand why protocols are frozen in this way, even though I agree with the author that the ones we currently have are definitely frozen. Any insights appreciated!
1.1 C = around 39 F

The world temp has gone up 39 degrees? That is much higher than I thought.

That couldn't be right?

I'm tired today.
It lessens the incentive for journos to chase clout and try to inject their "personal brand" into their writing. Personally, I love it.
Unconvinced.

That concrete block was not ridged. It moved when the plane hit it.

So the strongest aspect of concrete, compression, was tested. But the weakest, flexion, was untested.

What fun though.
Sauna suits are around $10.
The same way we rationalize destroying our environment...
Local optima.

Meaning as long as the climate change problems are not felt by the people doing the most polution, then they wiil continue to do it.

The ines developing GAI think that they can prevent it from destroying humans or at least them.

When developing the atomic bomb there were several concerns, one of them being that they coul ignite the whole atmosphere... but even self destruction wasn't a deterrant.. as long as your goal is achived, destroying your enemy then all the other risks are taken.
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The opening sentence shows a deep misunderstanding of climate change.

> FOR HUMANS, adapting to climate change will mostly be a matter of technology. More air conditioning, better-designed houses and bigger flood defences may help ameliorate the effects of a warmer world.

When millions of Bangladeshis are flooded from their homes, a/c and sandbags won't help, nor when malaria-bearing mosquitos reach Europe, etc.
Apple changed rules for reader apps, which was a limited category Apple exclusively defined. This changes rules for all apps.

I am cautious about making a claim now, because I'm worried that I just don't understand the ruling at all.

But forcing Apple to remove anti-steering restrictions for all apps and allowing those apps to link to websites in order to connect payments dodging Apple's fees would be a pretty big deal, and their previous concession did not do that as far as I can see. Of course getting rid of anti-steering rules wouldn't be enough that people are going to suddenly stop talking about antitrust, but it would still be a big deal.

Doing it just for a tiny subset of Apps that Apple defines? Not so much of a big deal.
It's less about pay and more about liability. Mental health is terrified that someone will do something to harm themselves.

The incentive systems have yet to realize that there needs to be some balance in bad outcomes to support the good ones. It results in a system where any mention of self-harm is taken extremely seriously, even at the cost of a larger treatment plan.
The article was literally referring to some super sneaky stuff.
There was a coupon site that I moved to AWS because all the customers were in EU, but our servers were in Los Angeles. I implemented it in two t1.micro servers, db+nginx. Every night at 10PM in LA the first week I'd get a slew of notifications from monitoring that the CPUs were pegged out. I think I put squid or something on the nginx instance so that the most common stuff came out of the proxy instead of having to be php-unblinkered.

However another thing that could have been done is to use a slightly larger instance for the DB to get more ram for cache, and then use a single front end until 9PM, spin another up, and spin one down at like 1AM.

This is obviously a trivial example, but lots of sites and apps get everyone refreshing at once maybe once or twice a day, and that's when scaling helps, at least from a "costs $X per hour, so don't use it unless we need it". Loads were under 20% the other 23 hours during the day, averaged.
That was an incredibly powerful read. Thank you for your effort.
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In my freshman year, we had to use Pascal. Running on a 60-bit CDC 6600. With punchcards.

My only memory of the actual language experience (i.e. besides the card punch) was being marked down on an assignment for using an implicit conversion that the compiler coded personally by Niklaus Wirth permitted. I had coded it with the explicit conversion, first, and then took it out because the compiler said I didn't need it.

Pascal was better than C in exactly one respect: it used a post-fix pointer dereference operator. C could have defined a unary postfix ->.

C++ could still do that, entirely backward-compatibly, and have it call unary operator*().
And the result of this trial-and-error programming process is, supposedly, a program that is protected from bugs because... it is short and you can see it on your screen all at once.

Not sure I buy it.
Do you like this state of affairs having such a massive federal govt?
This film in large part inspired me to start playing Go
Possibly. Though it's basically the same math that game developers have used since forever to calculate Epic's royalties for Unreal Engine. Or to calculate license fees for physical copies of PlayStation video games.
> Sometimes shortened to 17/8

This isn't Ipv6! :P
> Are we expected to just believe that computer simulations built by credentialed scientists prove things about the real world?

We could model it...

1) each node is an imaginary scientist with a random set of in and outgoing citations, they can only read and cite a finite number of randomized publications, the publications are assumed to vary randomly in quality...

2) ?????

3) Conclusion: As the number of publications in the network rises, the quality of those which propagate falls.
I guess papers and effects doesn't mean bank papers.
page font is wrong; should be Garamond with 0.8 aspect ratio
Is it still beer when made from rice? Barley is germinated to convert the starches to sugar before brewing. I don’t think that’s an option with rice, you need two funguses, one to cover the starch to sugar (koji), and the other to convert the sugar to alcohol (yeast).

For whatever reason that usually gets called wine.

EDIT:
> Wang and his colleagues also found yeast and mold, key ingredients in fermentation.

So maybe yes?
6% of the IPV4 space?
> What right exactly do you believe is in play here?

It's explicitly stated in the ruling. Use of Apple's intellectual property. Precisely the same right Epic exercises to receive a revenue share from games developed with Unreal Engine.
> I do not believe that mathematical notation can be improved (a poor analogy would be trying to improve, say, English language itself)

I strongly hope you mean that heavy-handed top-down approaches aren't likely to work. Because this reads as though you're saying we've somehow reached the optimal point on every axis for both mathematics and general-purpose communication.
Precisely. As I and many others already highlighted it is not over yet and they are both likely going to appeal this.

The media outright jumped into conclusions with their headlines and caused this hype of misinformation to spread very quickly and now we have to cut thought it and correct the wrongs they reported.

I also recommend those interested to watch the first 4 minutes of the Hoeg Law video and even the whole video for an in depth look into the trial. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43CMV8KIs3E
All of the things you mentioned can be solved with technology. The cited line remains accurate.
Would you care to enlighten us?
> The pendulum needed to swing

There's no pendulum, there's just doing the right thing and the wrong thing. Doing something wrong in the other direction is just as bad.
I sometimes use SweetHome3D to visualize spaces. It's a little more accessible being point-and-click CAD, and it takes arbitrary objects in OBJ format (and others). You won't be able to get quite to this level but it can render surprisingly well

http://www.sweethome3d.com/
No. The difference between 95% and 99-100 % is a very large difference.
I can’t remember where I heard it, but some doctor was describing cloth and paper surgical mask effectiveness against Covid as “throwing a handful of sand at a chain link fence”.

N95 masks are supposed to be more like a wall. Except nobody really wears those as the cost about $2 each and you are only supposed to wear them for 3-4 days with proper sterilization between uses.
I found myself in a similar boat (I'm a software engineer with no college degree).

I did well in school with geometry, algebra, and pre-calculus but I did so by memorizing not by understanding.

A decade later I ended up going through a lot of Khan Academy videos to refresh myself and then diving into discrete math and linear algebra textbooks. It really helped me to finally understand the core mathematical concepts that we use in programming algorithms.
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My anecdote is I've found that when working remotely, my collaboration, communication and sharing of ideas go up. That's apart from the fact I'm also a lot more productive.

This study looks at the first 6 months of 2020 when most people working remotely had never done it before and had less than ideal office setups at home. So it's not surprising they ran into some issues.

I have a standing desk, a large monitor and I'm using a dedicated room in my house as my office.

The other day I helped a junior engineer set up their local development environment (who was struggling to do it remotely) by remote controlling their desktop over Zoom. So there are good solutions for collaboration.
Those are both good, but I think distinct, points.

>It's hard to enjoy what you are working on after you realize it's going from your fingers straight to the trash.

I think this is more true of the two. Purposeful work is important to feeling fulfilled. Work that isn't appreciated isn't likely to leave one feeling like they have a purpose at work outside of generating a paycheck.

I think the other point is probably less wise. There will almost always be comparisons in which one falls short in terms of salary, even up to the billionaire class level. For me personally using that as a gauge is a recipe for constant unhappiness.
Totally legal. Porsche tried hard in the 70s and 80s to push back on this as they had dealers (and salesman) heavily involved in the drug trade. They fought to buyout their dealers and go direct. Lost hard as all dealerships understood what was at stake.

If you poke around forums like Pelican Parts and what not, you’ll see the stories.

In most counties in the US that have one, a car dealer is the single largest local business.
And in fact that informs how to pronounce the word. It's not hah-buh-NYAIR-oh, it's hah-buh-NAIR-oh.

A similar one that I used to get wrong all the time is empanada. No ñ in that either, but I always said em-puh-NYAH-duh. Then one day I noticed it was just a regular n and it is pronouced em-puh-NAH-duh.

Now for a really embarrassing one. This was back in the day when I was working with my friend and colleague Alan Cooper (of interaction design fame) on what became Visual Basic. We were on a phone call and I said something about a zhuh-NAIR of music. Alan asked "what's that?" I explained that it was like a category or a particular style. He said "do you mean ZHAHN-ruh?"

It's funny how these embarrassing moments stick in your brain. I could tell you exactly where I was, and even which direction I was facing when we had that conversation.

But I was grateful that Alan corrected me and I won't sound like a fool any more when I talk about a genre.

I had one friend who would never gracefully accept a correction like that. One time he told me about a neighbor who "took his dog to the pond." I said "that's nice, does the dog like to go swimming?" He said "no, the POND, the place where they put dogs to sleep."

He went through his whole life mispronouncing "dog pound", and many, many other words.
Neat. Can the energy levels described by a probability distribution?
Similarly "the long 19th century" is 1789 -- 1914 (Ilya Ehrenberg and Hobsbawm).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_nineteenth_century
I also don't understand how async communication is bad for knowledge sharing. I find that well written documents of what the team learned, tech specs, user research, etc, to be far more effective ways to knowledge share, while keeping records of the information for anyone to pick up later.

I was recently interviewing at a really compelling startup backed by YC and I asked them how they communicate and knowledge share. The cofounder showed me pages and pages of well structures bits and pieces of things and findings the team come across and document. It's easily searchable and it's well categorize. It's their internal wiki, and I believe it is one of the most valuable assets a company can have.
The startup relies on writing as the main method of sharing knowledge, getting async feedback, and gathering valuable information on important problems.

It is one of the main reasons I was intrigued and decided to join them. Their product is also awesome.
Apple has said that they will reinstate Epic’s account if they agree to follow the rules, so Epic can earn future revenue on iOS if they want to… but so far they’ve said they don’t plan to change their stance.
Narration, BGM - all good. Even someone with absolute no interest in AI will get goosebumps.

(Man) vs (Man with Machine)
I like browsing HN from the Android app Materialistic because (1) I can't see votes on my posts and (2) it's difficult to find replies to my posts (you can view your profile, but jumping to a post only shows its ancestors, not replies). This combination, plus the annoyance of typing on a smartphone, means I usually * only comment when I have something that adds value to the conversation; I tend to engage more with the content and less "socially".

* Of course, there are exceptions, and I actually use hnreplies.com to get emails when someone replies to me, but there's enough of a delay that I usually am able to avoid getting caught up in a back-and-forth argument. Especially since, by the time I see the replies, someone else has already clarified my position :)
> I think platforms have no moral right to siphon off a (large!) share of the money flowing through their platform.

Does this proposed law also cover video games sold on platforms run by Sony and Microsoft, or only video games sold on platforms run by by Apple and Google?
Farming chia crypto - got in on day one, was still behind compared to people in beta. I also started selling niche mushroom cultivation tools, in part because growing gourmet mushrooms was a hobby I picked up during quarantine.
Swatting only has steps 2 and 3 to worry about.
I'm just sort of discovering the fediverse "scene". I still have a lot of research to do, but decentralization is very appealing to me. I have some questions, and maybe the answers will help other people too:

* What aspects are currently priority for improvements?

* What are lower priority problems or features that could be started now and worked on at a slower pace?

* Where is a good place for someone with programming, networking, and/or engineering skills to start getting involved with development?

* What can someone with little-to-no programming/networking or related "technical" skills do to further the development and uptake of decentralized social media?

* Are there any suggestions for good reading on this topic, both technical and non-technical? Websites, books, people/groups to follow?
yeah but if you watched that movie you saw he carbon copied the series from his Indian master and others referred to it as a 'magical' sequence
I've had good luck with video team rooms vs. having lots of video meetings scheduled. With a video team room you basically "hang out" like you would in a real team room. You might have 4 people with one sharing while another helps work through the current issue and the other two are working on related things and just being present to help if needed. In that type of setting the informal self seems to work about the same as it does when working together in a physical team room.
I'm also very interested in this!
This isn't true, and the fact that you call it forcing people to get healthy shows you're missing the point.

It's not about getting someone healthy, it's about getting them to a point that they are of sound enough mind that they can make rational decisions.

If you hear voices that tell you that antipsychotic medication is going to kill you, you won't take it. The idea that you're choosing to not take medication of your free will is wrong - your free will is compromised by a mental illness so severe that your perception of reality isn't even correct. How can you possibly decide what's best for yourself if you can't accurately understand the world around you?

The point of this kind of forced treatment is to get people into a state where their brain isn't lying to them and they have a basic understanding of what's happening, so that they can then make decisions.

The folks who say it's unethical to force this kind of treatment sound like they're sticking up for folks with severe mental illness, but they're really just condemning them to suffer from that mental illness for life, because without some kind of outside help they simply can't take the actions needed to stop suffering from it, because it prevents them from doing so.
The number of people who truly believe that AI has a serious potential to wipe us out is minuscule, and they are mostly not in decision-making positions.

Since you use the term AGI, I suppose you've been exposed to this idea via LessWrong? I'd caution you that they have a very non-mainstream view of AI potential, even by the standards of AI researchers. Their concerns about existential risk stem from simplified mathematical models that have little or nothing to do with how AI actually works, making the conclusions they draw very tenuous.
A Chinese colleague of mine liked to say that "there are many ways to peel a cat".
What about Cypher? He wanted to go back and wanted it so badly he would kill others like him for it. Pretty dark.
CRAMs have an effective range of like, 10km.

As long as the ship is traveling 25mph away from a 25mph drone, its shooting them down with machine guns (and bullets are very, very cheap). A flock of drones flying at 25mph isn't a weapon, they're sitting ducks. Fully and completely ineffective at ever dealing damage to these warships.

Like, 25mph means that these drones are going to be within effective range of the machine guns for 10 minutes when the ship is standing still. And these AEGIS systems on these destroyers have 300km+ effective radar range.

Unless you have very expensive equipment on those drones: they'll be flying in blind and getting sniped. Either stealth (which prevents the CRAM from locking on), or superior radar (to see the ships before the ships see it), or a combination thereof.

And again: if they're not standing still: the ships can basically run around in circles and the drones would never catch up.
okay my mistake in using that word but the point stands... have you ever done any of the yogas?
I'm not sure what's up with all the links not having the right events/effects on them but it's messing with knowing what can be clicked on.
Various C implementations had extensions, but you rarely needed to depend on any of them to do useful work. All the UNIX utilities were written without using any.

Implementations for x86 had a mess of different pointer types, but to build the same program for a non-crippled CPU you could #define the extra keywords to the empty string.
Moderna, it was the fastest available in NYC and I was turned down for the Pfizer vaccine (even though I had an underlying condition) because some pharmacist in Manhattan said I "looked to young and healthy".

I didn't feel anything on the first dose, second dose gave me insane dreams and night sweats.
South Africa is not a rich nation. In per capita GDP, it is 113th out of 213 and at $5,444 is less than half of the worldwide average of $11,339[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
You've smuggled "unauthenticated" in there to make a reference to a mode of deployment that nobody thinks is secure. "Real" TLS (the alternative) doesn't have trivial downgrade attacks.
If you have an rtl anyhow and you want to see what is there that rtl_433 is missing is to use rtl_power on the command line, you can monitor specific chunks of bandwidth for as long as you want, and it saves as a CSV. btw if you try this and get a bunch of errors in the CSV (or NaN) your gain(s) are set incorrectly, and i'd try turning them down to start.
Will there be competition between rogue AI's? Once one is made, there will soon be others in competition with it - this will lead to a death struggle between more and more AIs.
Will the winning AI, if there is one, look on animals as pets?
Will they breed people like we breed greyhounds?
Will the top AI advance to become dominant and make more of itself to the point where the earth has one hive mind of an AI?
They will engage in different form of competition to humans, no more sex/food wars - once one wins it might have an IQ of, say 4 million and will be coupled with more or less infinite memory and have a cycle time in the dozens of gigahertz AND be massively parallel.
Are the stars owned by such AI's? Do they own large areas, expanding star by star, still limited by light speed.
Will two such AI's ever meet and make war or will they rationally decide which way is the superior AI mind, and will the inferior one see the better ideas of the better one and adopt them? Conversion beats conquest in resource gathering.
Will religion emerge and wars to the death occur between the two AI systems?
There are some a few public docs.

https://estradajke.github.io/k9-simples/

https://code.kx.com/q/learn/
Firefox's user base is made up of customization enthusiasts, privacy advocates, and people who remember when "web standards" meant "doesn't work in IE6."

If they pivot towards "mainstream appeal", it usually comes to the expense of that user community. Their alternative is to be the best Firefox they can possibly be, and wait for users to join their audience organically.

It feels like Vivaldi has done a better job of sticking to a clear user persona model. They are clearly targeting power users and Opera 12 refugees, and it feels like that still informs what they do. Unfortunately, the one thing they can't do is make a browser that doesn't run like cold treacle.
Bleedover between communities. My circle of friends are isolationists.
That's not how it works.

A rise of 1.1 degrees C corresponds to a rise of 1.98 degrees F.
Truly educational website!