skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell us what an ActivityPub is. Give us some terminology like "honk". Tell us a little about how it works as a practical matter. Why we would want to originate one. Then, why yours is better.
The most accessible interpretation of the quantum vacuum is that it is the “base” state of any system ( including free space ). How much energy is at least theoretically in this base state is either extraordinarily high or infinite.

Now the challenge is that you can only extra energy when there is a difference in energy - the Cassini effect and others get work out of the vacuum via geometry. This geometry takes an equal amount of work to setup as it extracts.
Defining terms here is important, so let's avoid the word bad for a moment because it can be applied in different ways.

1) You can have an empty dataset.

2) You can have an incomplete dataset.

3) you can have a dataset where the data is wrong

All of these situations, in some sense, are "bad"

What I'm saying is that, going into a situation, my preference would be #2 > #1 > #3.

Because I always assume a dataset could be incomplete, that it didn't capture everything. I can plan for it, look for evidence that something is missing, try to find it. If I suspect something is missing but can't find it then I at least know that much, and maybe even the magnitude of uncertainty that adds to the situation. Either way, I can work around it understanding the limits if what I'm doing or if there's too much missing, make a judgement call and say that nothing useful can be done with it.

If I have what appears to be a dataset that I can work with, but the data is all incorrect, I may never even know it until things start to break or, before that if I'm lucky, I waste large amounts of time to find out that the results just don't make sense.

It's probably important to note that #2 and #3 are also not mutually exclusive. Getting out of the dry world of data analysis, if your job is propaganda & if you're good at your job, #2 and #3 combined is where you're at.
It's difficult to stand out without internship experience.

Are any of your projects visible on the web? The best projects are ones where I as a reviewer can click a link and start instantly interacting with your software. Projects like this are directly responsible for at least 3 people I know who graduated last year getting their jobs (based on feedback from interviewers who reviewed their resumes, they did not have referrals).

It's hard to critique your resume without seeing it but in general:

- Your resume should be submitted as a .pdf file, nothing else is acceptable

- Your resume should contain your name and contact info as well as links to github/linked in at the top

- Your resume should contain a skills section with a list of technologies you know, this will get you past keyword filters

- Your experience section should be broken up by project, and each project should have bullet points outlining the task you accomplished and any technologies you used to to accomplish it.
Lean also makes heavy use of non-ascii characters (inserted into texts using a LaTeX-inspired backslash-and-then-name , in a number of editors).

It also has ways to write the same things in ascii, but it is a fair bit less convenient to read.
> Personally I don't see how someone who understands how ML models work could think this way.

Then you've misunderstood the problem; because we all know how they work. What we don't know is how human reason works. We know from how lawyers and courts work that it is possible to reason about things purely using language from a corpus of text with no appreciation for how the details actually function.
try to do an internship over the summer and transition to a full time job. Internships can get your foot in the door and can let you put down roots somewhere which otherwise wouldn't accept you full time.

If it doesn't work out, continue doing temp internships till you get a job. You should be able to survive on an intern salary when you are young.
There is no clearer sign of blatant corruption then blocking manufacturers selling directly to consumers and forcing consumers to buy through dealerships.
There was also a story about an elder woman living in closets or even a cupboard in a home of some family, for over a year iirc.

This is it I think: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24889337

Turns out that one can easily find more than one such story, DDG even helpfully suggests the remaining keywords.
they were not hit by 747s
Have you looked into Cypress (https://www.cypress.io/)? If I understand you correctly, it may actually do what you are describing here.
I do technical interviews for my current company. Without internship experience, it's difficult for me to assess your technical prowess. I don't do algorithmic questions. My advice is fill the lack of internship experience with a few open source contributions to real projects. It'll put you through the motions of collaboration, architectural decisions, trade-offs, etc. Then you'll be able to talk shop.

An addendum: hiring isn't a meritocracy, even in engineering. Make your interviewer(s) feel good. Be conversational.
Ask HN: What are your most favorite conference talks/seminars available online?
Hi, I have seen many posts discussing books here on HN, and I am grateful for those posts.

The books that I learned about from HN really added value to my life. Thanks for those posts.

Let me ask you, what are your all time most favorite talks/seminars/long interviews available online?

They might be related to tech, they might not be, as well.

Here are some of mine:

- Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet OOPSLA 97 Keynote (VPRI 0719) (https://youtu.be/aYT2se94eU0)

- David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #86 (https://youtu.be/uPUEq8d73JI)

- Functional Programming in 40 Minutes • Russ Olsen • GOTO 2018 (https://youtu.be/0if71HOyVjY)
I would say that another aspect of best project is one with traction.

Even 100-1000 monthly active users is impressive.

If your site/app is free, this is highly achievable.
Ethereum layer 2 Arbitrum achieves $1B+ in TVL overnight
> So you're claiming that organisms such as ourselves cannot be run on a Turing machine? Any particular reason/evidence?

This is just my thinking: a turing machine, or equivalently a digital circuit, doesn't want anything. It's an artificial construct, effectively a simulation, that can exist as an abstract mathematical idea.

If there is a real world where real stuff happens, real things have their own goals - generally increasing entropy or minimizing energy. Although it seems like we should just be able to capture this mathematically, in doing so, we remove the actual desire... this sounds a bit nutty maybe, but what else is the difference between reality and simulation? An abstract calculation, anything equivalent to a Turing machine has no skin in the game. Something happened in the universe does - and this could include conciousness, as a property of matter, which for example could be effectively sum of the compulsions of the composing matter to minimize their energy (you can look this up, there are theories about conciousness that posit it's a property of matter).

If there is no difference between reality and a simulation, I'm wrong, we can all be represented on a universal computer, and so as abstract math, and in some sense existence is meaningless it just follows from math. My experience doesn't support this, but presumably I would have evolved a blind spot if my existence actually was meaningless.

TLDR, I think there is some undiscovered difference between reality and simulation, that I would guess relates to desire / conciousness, that means we can't simulate conciousness or real intelligence

I'm a scientist, I know the above doesn't withstand any scrutiny, I'm just trying to share my speculation because you asked
The paper is very focused on explaining the phenomenon, what is good. It also lacks information on the measurement apparatus, what isn't good.
It’s hard to hire good engineers.
You should stop building this. You're making a huge mistake.
https://archive.is/lvjvT
It doesn't reduce it enough to provide herd immunity, meaning the virus will continue to propagate until every one has been exposed. See Iceland's experience:

https://twitter.com/eliaseythorsson/status/14240115421950238...

The Oxford Vaccine Group says herd immunity through vaccination is infeasible now:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/10/delta-variant-...
Generally Intelligent (YC S17) – Early-stage AI research company
The YC AI will replace us all. :)
Get a LinkedIn premium subscription and ask alumni of your school for referrals. Just random alumni.

I was given this advice and thought it was brazen and aggressive and that nobody would do it. I didn't after graduation. I was wrong and when I tried it later, it worked. And I ended up doing it for others who messaged me.

Apply though the back door for VIPs. Plenty of people are happy to put you in. Random people on Hacker News have referred me. Random people from whoishiring threads have been willing to ensure I got an interview.
To be fair, that's the same CDC that only 5 months ago was saying getting vaccinated meant "getting back to normal" -- no masks, distancing rules, etc. Their reputation as being authoritative on this topic is understandably tarnished.
For a small software company or startup application, a cover letter with something personalised to that company would stand out. I’m thinking spend 15 minutes in the dev console, spot something that can be improved or optimised or maybe a security issue,
or maybe something elegant the site does or just list their tech stack, then mention it in a constructive way and that’s show a lot of initiative plus the kind of skills you’d need. If it doesn’t work the bonus is you’d learn something in that time and every thing practical you learn becomes an interview question you can answer well down the line.
Yes, you could breach a legally binding contract, a contract tested in court and effectively confirmed as legal by a federal judge. And then Apple will remove your app from the App Store. It is also very normal in a situation like this for a contract to include clauses that would allow the licensor to review the licensee's books if there's any suspicion of misreporting.

Also, the Epic Games Store is currently being run at a loss, so it isn't (yet) a poster child for a sustainable business model.
What happens when there is no taxies and Uber is the monopolist?
You hit the nail on the head. The author seems to be saying syntax coloring is bad, because you don't do it for prose. But you read code differently than you read prose.
Syntax highlighting also doesn't make you focus only on the syntax. That is just absurd. It actually does the opposite. You actually play less attention to the syntax.
As an experienced coder syntax highlighting makes my job easier
I am surprised you were downvoted. What you are saying is 100% correct. Most assaults/rapes/… are committed by people you know. Not strangers.
> if I disagree with you about those claims, what observable things about the chatbot show that I'm wrong?

The most cursory Turring test
A lot of people have also mistaken humans writing plausible-sounding paragraphs for thought
Materialistic used to be able to cache articles and comments when you saved a story (for offline consumption) but that is no longer the case. I've also only been able to export the list of stories *once* before as that feature is more or less broken at this point.
jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams.
> There's so much past wrongdoings

Then the amount of hatred the people in China have toward the Communist Party must be enormous.

> holds false or extremely biased historical views.

What biased views? Taiwan and South Korea (also benefited from Treaty of Shimonoseki) have done well on their own.

Meanwhile, the Taliban of East Asia hasn't held one free election since WW II. It'd be nice if they organized one free election to see how people value their freedom under the CCP. But it seems the CCP is concerned that the people might have some "biased historical views".
Pantsir: America Got Its Hands on Russia's Air Defense System (Jan 2021)
I've decided to dust off my somewhat rusty Lazarus, GIT and GitHub skills to build a Lazarus application to follow this thread using the HN API hosted by firebase.

You mentioned getting data to a GUI application using the web, this seemed like an ideal small project that could give you a firmer idea of just how Lazarus might fit your needs.

Notes:

I've never done anything like this (https/json) before but I suspect I'll be done in a day or two. Once it works, I'll then focus on getting it to also run in Ubuntu. I don't have a Macintosh, so that's out.

I've GPL 3.0 licensed it.

I'm not near the MVP yet, but it does manage to fetch the data and count the JSON objects in it for the main body of this thread.

With Debug info, the windows executable is 25 megabytes, without it 3.1 megabytes.

Here's the github link: https://github.com/mikewarot/WatchHN
https://archive.ph/wfqIe
Orion is not viable. They haven't even launched Artemis 1, let alone Artemis 2 (which is scheduled for 2023!) which would be the _first_ crewed launch.

I'm not sure why we would plan to service JWT when we have nothing to service it with.
neither do the cops but they chose to put him out of his home at her word. Last I checked, women can buy their own damn houses.
In my experience people inexperienced with the process think 3D requires about 10x less work than it actually does.
> (with unknown costs past the free tier).

The website directs you to contact them for pricing past the free allotment. Hence "unknown costs" or I suppose more accurately non-public pricing.
On the mac, the video and audio randomly do not work. In a team of 20, this means every day someone has to stop the app, restart it and rejoin the call. Doing stand-ups every day, this is a PIA. 2,000 'user-voice' votes, broken for 3 years.

Occasionally it has some bug that makes it use up endless ram.

The cut and paste does not work properly. This one has thousands of 'user-voice' votes and has been broken for over a year. edit: over 1000 people, broken for at least 3 years: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/su...

Slack has completely changed the underlying video and voice platform and, for my teams, it has always worked perfectly.
To me the flaw was "you shouldn't do X in the case of Y therefore you shouldn't do it in the case of Z" the assumption being that Y and Z are similar, but in reality they aren't.
Mm, but I'm in my house, not on the road. There's no danger from me crashing into this motorcyclist.

My bicycle isn't very loud though; should I be attaching a subwoofer t9 it because I'm around the same cars and trucks? So far, bicycling has been plenty safe without the loudness
It behooves a company to miss at least twenty good candidates if it means avoiding hiring one bad one. A bad hire can utterly destroy a company. See the fiasco with Timnit Gebru.
True enough, I was incorrect to look at corporations from the outside, monolithically.
There exists no evidence whatsoever that any prehistoric culture was aware about the existence of planets.

Of course they would have noticed Jupiter and Mars when they are brighter than the stars, as extra stars in known constellations, but there is no evidence that anyone realized that the extra bright star seen once in a certain constellation is the same with the extra bright star seen next year in another constellation.

Because it was not yet understood that the planet sightings are the same bodies that just move on the sky, they were thought as stars that appear or disappear randomly.

Like I have said, not even Venus, the brightest body on the sky after the Sun and Moon, was recognized as a single star, but it was believed to be 2 different stars until 6000 years ago in Sumer and until as late as 2600 years ago in Europe.

Noticing a bright star on the sky is not the same with knowing its nature.

The next 4 planets after Venus have been discovered in Babylonia because they began to make written continuous records with the positions of the stars during many years.

Only then, after comparing the written records accumulated after many years, it was realized that the planets are not stars that appear and disappear randomly, but they move in continuous trajectories on the sky, with definite speeds and if you know their position at some time you can predict their future position at another time, because they never stray from their path.

So only after the Babylonian discoveries it became understood that the stars are divided in fixed stars, wandering stars a.k.a. planets, which have predictable trajectories, and the comets, which are the only stars that appear and disappear randomly.
Beneath the surface of Bach’s music is a world of numerology and cunning craft
The US spends under 10% of its federal budget on the military. In 2020 it spent more just on healthcare for the elderly than the entire military budget. Here, please take a look at the numbers straight from the CBO! https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57170

As for your second sentence- the total value of the US real estate market is about $56 trillion, so I kind of doubt that the government is going to make much of a dent here. There's not a lot of places where you can say even the US government doesn't have enough money, but....
Isn't that to say that's its worse than ineffective? That suggests it causes bikers to do more dangerous things because they think the loudness is protecting them
The books of the Deuterocanon are not viewed as canonical by most Christian churches for a number of valid reasons:

* They were never included as part of the Hebrew canon of books

* There is no evidence that they were included in the original versions of the Septuagint

* Historian Josephus made clear that those books were not part of the canon

* Not one New Testament writer quoted from the Deuterocanon

* Early church fathers did not consider them part of the Bible canon

* John Wycliffe, a catholic who included these books in his translation, still did not consider them of the same authority as the rest

* Even the council of Trent did not accept all the “apocryphal” books (e.g. 1 and 2 Esdras were excluded)

* The content of the books testifies against themselves with their inaccuracies, contradictions, and other problems that are not found in the traditional Bible canon
77 billion is the price to do it right over 5 years. If you don't care about quality and are willing to spend more you can do it faster. We have historical examples of this.

The pipeline capacity alone from Russia to China is 1.6mbd. Of that, 600 000bd are used, so there is 1mbd of spare capacity just in that pipeline.

It doesn't really matter if the US can or can't back down. It will be disastrous politically and economically to the US and its allies to a level that can scarcely be imagined. Even then, US naval forces have a serious chance of defeat. China is not a small country you can roll over. They have a very well thought out, multilayered, exceedingly technologically sophisticated A2/AD umbrella that means that millions of square kilometers will be in practice off limits to the US. Beyond those zones, China enjoys extremely prompt hypersonic strike capability that has no real counter, which means that in a hot war any US vessel that gets it's rough location leaked running a blockade or running through a strait risks getting sunk straight up.

It's not a war that the US can win. What are the objectives? Take back Taiwan? Literally impossible. Regime change in China? Forget about it. About the only thing that can be done is to hurt the Chinese economy roughly as much as the US economy, enrage the entire rest of the world and destroy any semblance of goodwill the US has, and trigger a recession followed by a restructuring of the US economy that reduces the place of the US in the value chain.

It's simply a stupid move that has no upside. It doesn't matter how the public acts immediately, eventually the US will have to give up.
I don’t have a strong opinion because I’ve never used Babylon.

However, I’ll echo the sibling comment here. I used Three.js and had some problems exporting it into my TypeScript project (using the DefinitelyTyped repo for type definitions). It eventually worked with a dumb js file that I copied over from Three and edited myself to make the export work in my project. This was in mid-2019.

Anyway, after getting that all working and moving on, I realized I should have at least tried Babylon because the code looked far more suitable for a TypeScript project. I never got around to porting over because it wasn’t crucial for my project, and Three was already working.

Based on that experience and the fact that I prefer ts, if I work on another project with 3D rendering in the browser, I’ll try Babylon.
I can't believe how calm and unpartisan CNN was back then. Reporting on boring stories like capitol building stuff and science.
With 2022 on the horizon, Florida election officials brace for death threats
this is actually something that's been bothering me heavily, lately. i've noticed a lot of content is created in these convoluted and grandiose borderline word vomit. honestly, a lot of the stuff frequently makes me feel a bit dumb as a reader. by the time i get through it, i realize that the main thesis is actually extremely simple but surrounded by flowery words.

furthermore, i'm also noticing at my workplace many people saying a lot of things, to the point of utter rambling and going off topic, in extremely verbose ways but communicating ideas that could have been said in the most basic of ways. i'm not sure if i'm just slowing down as i get older and get dumber, but i am feeling like a lot of information hasn't gotten more complex, but the way its communicated very much has.
Wrt the comments about translations currently on the site: a lot of the newer translations standard in modern churches are under copyrights that, while quite permissive for use by individual faith-based organizations and even some commercial endeavors (like publishing), might be hard to protect in API form.
"In addition to the oboe, he played the violin and harpsichord and later the organ. He composed numerous musical works, including 24 symphonies and many concertos, as well as some church music." (emphasis mine)

Obviously he wasn't Newton, but who is?

It's kind of amusing that Uranus could have ended up named "George" if it wasn't for the French.
They could instead put on lound machine noises in their headphones.
Apple is also in the software business. Payment processors aren't. They're a potential competitor with the power to build their own version of your offering after seeing your numbers, and lock you out of the store.
This works and demonstrates two desirable traits: confidence or courage to overcome apprehension and a growth mindset willing to work at actively searching for work. I prefer to hear directly from new grads than recruiters any day of the week.
Teenager Emma Raducanu wins U.S. Open women's singles title
That's common to all things. Can't you just make changes to the app? Can't you just port the app to X? Can't you just build me this bookshelf? Can't you just fix the dishwasher?

Can't you just... means they have no fucking clue.
There are other comments here today by people saying they could not get forgiveness
A ML system reflects back the input it is given. If that input is human language, a very good ML system will produce output that looks like human language.

It is conceptually like a mirror. A good mirror, if you put a human in front of it, will produce output that looks exactly like a human. But we know it is not a human. Not because of some flaw in its representation, but because we understand how mirrors work.