skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately discoverability and a saturated app store market is the norm everywhere. The video states that most developers there don't make any money, but that means Roblox also doesn't make any money, so I can't see how its exploitation.

If my kid was into creating games or art, I would encourage him. Kind of like running a lemonade stand, you're not going to get rich. You'll probably even lose money. A cynic would say you're enriching big sugar, but I think it's a good experience and something fun to do. Certainly better than being a consumer.
Catholics do not believe you can physically measure the change to the eucharist. The aristotelian understanding and explanation of transubstantiation is not a requirement of the catholic religion as emphasized by the unity of the eastern catholic churches who do hold on to the dogma that the bread and wine are indeed the body and blood of Christ but teach nothing as to how that takes place.
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The judge ruled that it is ok for Apple to set and enforce their App Store guidelines. Remember that. Apple nuked Epic for running an unauthorized payment processing flow. And it was ok.

Apple is now forced to allow other payment processors into their ecosystem. But there is nothing in that ruling that says Apple can't make guidelines on payment processors and that Apple can't enforce them.

You had better believe that Apple is going to make a bunch of "consumer friendly" rules about transparency, data privacy, refunds, subscription cancellations, etc. And they are going to enforce them with no mercy, because the judge said that it is legal.

Also, don't be surprised if the "Free with in-app purchase" apps now have to pay Apple for bandwidth at whatever the prevailing AWS/Azure egress charges are. But that will be waived for using the Apple payment processor.
ElectricityMap is a nice live view of current energy generation and consumption by type of energy.
Unfortunately right now https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/DE shows Germany is generating most energy from Coal. It is sad that they didn't embrace nuclear like neighboring France.
This is what I used for testing... it you try it with a bunch of different videos: https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/docs/demos/video-tes...
The major issue is regulation, which is not designed for things like Small Modular Nuclear Reactors:

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

We could be building hundreds of these across Europe, placing them close to small cities and using the waste heat for district heating.
Did you post this article primarily so you could respond to everyone here touting your own opinions and disagree with anyone else’s? I get things are frustrating at the moment, but that’s pretty narcissistic.
Yep and as a Mac user with office your just left wondering why. Why on earth would I use one drive on Mac. One of the many reasons stopped using office on Mac. Rip excel.
Yet another reason not to conflate the science of a pandemic with actually fighting it!
If you are a server side web app, the migration process from legacy net Framework app to net 5/6 has gotten _a lot_ easier in past few years.

The biggest barrier for most in my experience has been getting through the project file (*.csproj) changes needed. Even today, there is still no fully automated way to do it. Thankfully, after ~4 years of community complaints, Microsoft finally aquiessed and made a CLI tool that does about 80 percent of that work:

https://github.com/dotnet/upgrade-assistant

Before the release of this tool, you had to rely on community made tools/guides or just rewrite the project file by hand to the new format. I inherited a project with over 600 large net4x csproj files - prior to this tool Microsoft's official stance was "rewrite them by hand". This goes down like a cup of cold sick at many Enterprise software shops with hundreds or thousands of project files to update.

I still think the upgrade process needs some more polish/wizards in the VS UI, for junior developers especially, but it's gotten much better. The vast majority of important third party dependencies are all net5 ready now in my experience now, so often just replacing the csproj file and setting target framework to net5 is enough.

If you have a legacy WinForms/GUI app however and want full cross-platform benefits of net5... cost to move to modern UI framework can be significant. CLI apps/web apps are by far the easiest to port to net5.
How much is Hack used outside of Facebook? Why isn't it used more, given the popularity of PHP?
‘..Baltics’ maybe in Estonia.. in Lithuania Uber (or rather companies that are competing with it) is quite popular and that prices were very low (due to competition between different apps) until quite recently (mass transit is not that great here, though). AFAIK while not used by most people, it is also quite popular in Ukraine. Due huge income inequality the prices are very low but there is still a substantial section of the population which can afford it.
"Avoiding explosions is rather simple." – now, why does that read like famous last words?
Is Sadness Only One Emotion?
A Deadly Hypothetical
You mean like the USA in Vietnam, the USSR in Afghanistan, or
the USA in Afghanistan?
That sort of is the democratic principle. There are three alternatives:

1. This choice gets made in whatever way does get (at least passive) consent of the general public;

2. The leaders try to make a different choice and get promptly replaced in the next elections with whichever populists promise to ignore the elites and roll back these choices;

3. The leaders make a different choice and violently enforce them in an authoritarian manner despite dissent. And IMHO the lifestyle changes required to stop global warming would be sufficiently large to cause meaningful mass dissent if enforced.

I don't see any fourth option - do you?
Of course it's calculated. Try putting Chrome/Google search on a fresh install of Windows and see how many times you are one click away from being reverted back to Edge/Bing. It must be over a dozen
Hydro is still vulnerable to downturns, though they need to be more prolonged to equal what's happening with the wind in this report. (California's 2021 drought is a good example of how hydro power can fall short.)

I mentally think of power generation reliability as:
Uncontrollably variable from hour-to-hour: wind, solar, tidal motion
Uncontrollably variable on month-to-year spans: hydro
Pretty controllable: nuclear (and fossil fuels)
If we understood consciousness it would likely lead to technologies and other improvements to existence that transcend anything we can imagine, so yes, it certainly does matter.

Understanding consciousness could lead to things such as:

- Eternal cognition

- Mind portablilty

- Intelligence augmentation

- Forward time travel (eg via hibernation)

- Full reality simulation

Among countless other things we cannot presently describe.

You're missing the elephant in the room: you are a conscious agent. The question of determining if an AI is conscious via external observations is an smaller problem compared to being able to apply levers of technical know-how to your own existence and state of being.
> At some point, in some contexts, they will be a hinderance rather than a benefit.

This is extremely vague. The legal system changes continuously and quickly, especially when under pressure from big money.

If something doesn't either it's because it's not important or somebody is benefiting from it.
This theory is derivative of Giulio Tononi's Integrated Information Theory of consciousness (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theor...). IIT is a more scientifically and mathematically rigorous hypothesis of how consciousness arises from individual cells. And I'm not saying IIT is right -- I don't think it makes any testable predictions, so in a sense, like string theory, it's "not even wrong."

But what's described here is worse and the author appears ignorant of prior work in the same vein.
In Spain, the government chose to, temporarily, lower taxes on electric energy from +27% to a (not yet there) target of around 10%.

Some (but not all) countries in Europe also have high energy taxes that can be lowered to mitigate the impact of high prices on mid and lower-income citizens. Definitely not a long term solution, but hopefully it has the intended effect. However, lowering taxes could also end up pushing market prices even higher as demand is high and supply limited.

Finding a long term solution will be very tricky as the energy market is a bad mix of free and regulated markets and political ambitions that skid across the full spectrum.
The functionally named but utterly undescriptive GraphEdit, which was at some point part of the DirectX SDK allowed you to build arbitrary pipelines (that normally you'd have to configure via code in your app) for input/output of multimedia data. I haven't done directX programming in over a decade though so I have no idea if it's comparable to ReWire, but GraphEdit was an unsung hero back when I was.
The amount of dark design patterns around getting edge as the default browser is sickening. Opera was flagged as PUA by many AVs for simply changing the default browser after asking users post-install if they wanted to use that browser as their default - just as edge does (and before Firefox copied that same mechanism here). Now every post-windows update screen (which takes place before you even log in...) comes with a full-page nag screen asking you to "Use Microsoft recommended browser settings" [1]... This is on the heels of a screen that says "Let's make Windows even better - this shouldn't affect what you've already set up" [2]. Even more disappointing is not that they're doing this but that nobody is taking these platforms to court over it in a meaningful way.

[1] https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/11/15/windows-10-is-now-n...

[2] https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/06/07/windows-10-full-scr...
In Sweden there is only one 'major' political party (The Liberals) really advocating for nuclear power, and they're currently at less than 3% in the polls.
Use your own WiFi connection test server in Windows
This is the first four-state-machine thread algorithm.

And I like what I am seeing. Hopefully all transitions between states have been tested.

Good work.
To add a little to that second part, I'd say this is really meant to be "built on your own", following that brief example at the end of the README. The releases are more of a convenience thing.

You will need Void's package manager XBPS installed, though. It can be harmlessly installed on other distros and won't (shouldn't?) interfere with the host package manager.
This article seems to be trying to turn a story about unprecedented highs in natural gas prices (mirroring surging post-covid commodity prices all over) into a story about the wind sometimes not blowing.

Alternative article : https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/expensive-winter-ahe...
> No way taxes are 66% of the gross salary.

In EU countries, there are many taxes that do not carry the official name "tax".

Much easier that way to get the people to swallow the pill.
Lions mane isn't psychedelic, but it's noticably psychoactive. Similar to caffeine in effect, intensity and duration without the jitters or sleep disturbance.
The concept of protected associations is only reasonable if you ignore the fact that there will be a default. It is, de facto for many users, making it impossible to change that default.
FWIW I side with the "perpetual" (or one of various approximate synonyms) faction that cites the Syriac translation from Aramic. I think that, firstly, it makes sense to see "always-being" as a kind of superlative of mere "being". And secondly, it seems plausible that one might arrive from "always-being" via "being-at-all-days" or "being-everyday" to the common "daily" translation.
In the US military “scuttlebutt” refers to gossip. So that’s my first reaction to this name.
"Fast" is never the only requirement but often is a requirement. And the problem with a slow library is you don't know when rewriting the program to not use the library will be necessary to achieve the desired performance.
Ask HN: What systems programming language would you use for a personal project?
If you were writing the project today, and weren’t constrained by legacy code or backwards compatibility? Zig, D, C11?, C with classes, C++, Rust something else?
There are so many plausible Alzheimer’s theories that it makes me wonder: are multiple of them right? Is Alzheimer’s really many different diseases that present the same way?
Imagine how much you'd be valued for that sort of knowledge!
Why not decide all matters on a case by case basis?

If they manage to extend these lockdowns for another decade or so, they'll solve the problem of illegal immigration too!
There are some things that those "stochastic parrots" can not replicate. A famous one it the "not" problem ("a robin is not a ____", but more famously, it's googling for "shirt without strips") one comment sibling of yours talks about.
Doesn't seem much different then designating space for landfills and other forms of waste. Sewage treatment plants aren't pleasant but provide great benefit to society.
1 or 2, very likely without violence. Just spin it properly.

I hate to bring it as example, but everyone but a minority followed Covid guidelines, locked themselves home, lost their jobs, lived on savings. For the greater good. Those protesting were seen as idiots.

So, yeah, people will do as they're told.
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As a user who expects all https links to open within my default browser, Google's exploitation of this workaround breaks the guarantees I expect out of the OS.

There are a lot of other "features" that are technically feasible but not allowed on AppStore. This to me should have been on that list.
>Does this translate to "Applications of this research might destroy society, please refrain"?

The biggest potential use of casual inference from what I remember in school is social policy predictions. Large scale changes that you simply cannot randomly test. Things like "does prosecuting minor crimes more heavily lower overall crime" or "does privatizing schools increase student test scores." Even if you get the causality right in the main metric there may be secondary effects you don't even test for.
Exactly!

If ZZP outcompetes more "socially responsible" options, it's a buggy system and should be fixed. Freedom as a freelancer should probably be the only/primary benefit of such a designation, not the ability to dodge responsibilities.

Thank you for the color!
I think the more interesting breakdown (which admittedly would be damn hard to get) would be WordPress sites with/without custom PHP running.

"Anyone" can make a website with WordPress, but how many WordPress websites have programmers writing code for the website?
From the point of view of TUI fetishism, yes.

And to make a point, I started coding in 1986 and my first UNIX was Xenix.
That's great news!

It seems strange to me that more countries don't offer citizenship programmes like this.
If you like this, consider joining the Turing Machine’s subreddit I moderate: https://www.reddit.com/r/turingmachines/

There, you’ll find several Turing Machine simulators including at least one that runs online: http://morphett.info/turing/turing.html
Depends on the age?

My sample size, granted only about a dozen of Commodore 64 and Apple ][ owners, says 100% got at least as far as typing programs in from magazines. More than half made programs to calculate things, about a third made their own video games.

Of the total, at least half are engineering now (software, energy, communications), and the video game segment are software engineering leadership.

It's not clear to me how to replicate this experience today, though I applaud games such as Human Resource Machine:

https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine

More, all over the map though: https://shecancode.io/coding-games

I think there's something to be said for exposure to coding as a kind of digital literacy that should be required going forward, in a "WTF even is code anyway" sense.
That's always what people should have in mind when they see those headlines "100% renewable today!", yeah but there's some days where it reaches 3%.
> What's lost from requiring that Apple's system is an option without banning others?

Not much. While I defend the App Store monopoly, I see no reason for Apple to have a monopoly on in-app payments. I think it's atrocious that they aim to take a cut out of every subscription payment (versus, e.g., an up-front commission).

Was just pushing back on the claim that what's best for consumers would win in a payments free-for-all where app-developing companies (note: not necessarily developers) choose the payment provider.
I'm not a Ethereum core dev, but this is my understanding:

The EVM is tailor-made to accurately account for the expense of executing programs in a distributed environment. It has a highly heterogeneous addressing scheme. Every opcode has execution cost metering that has been refined over time. Each word is 256 bits to make 256-bit cryptographic operations easier. There's significant tooling around the EVM for writing and analyzing smart contracts. Other EVM-based blockchains would need to migrate in parallel. The skillset of "blockchain application developer" has coalesced around Solidity and the EVM.

Bottom line is that although WASM offers compatibility with non-blockchain tooling, the blockchain-specific needs of Ethereum are so much better served by the EVM that migrating is difficult.
You can look at https://same.energy/ for an ex-OAer showing what CLIP-like NNs can do for image search.

It's impressive but if Google Images doesn't do it yet, it's almost certainly more to do with the realities of corporate policy, and scaling up & deploying it at GI scale than as a small toy demo on a static set of a few hundred million (as opposed to countless trillions of adversarially changing images). It's certainly not for lack of good NNs. Remember, Google has much better NNs than CLIP already! ALIGN was over half a year ago, and they have MUM and "Pathways" already superseding that.

As always, "the future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed"; it's just practical realities about lag - same way that the RNN machine translation models were massively better for years before Google Translate could afford to switch away from its old n-grams approach, or the speech transcription NNs were great long before they ever showed up on Google YouTube auto-captions, or BERT was kicking ass in NLP long before it became a major signal in Google Search, etc.
He also gave them billions of quails (Numbers 11:31), how does that square with giving just enough?
This was the historical reason for Fortran’s speed advantage over C. But more recent C compilers have a flag to turn off checking for aliasing, so you can write numerical C code with Fortran performance. It’s more verbose and annoying to write, though, because it lacks Fortran’s array syntax: loops for everything.
MIT’s Data-Driven Media Bias Measurement Method Achieves Human-Level Results
Like which ones? I agree there have been some deployed successes, but they're all non-critical applications as far as I can tell.

Gary Marcus has another paper where he says "Deep Learning Has Bad Engineering Properties". In other words, deep learning is fine for say Google Photos or Facebook, where it's "acceptable" to miscategorize people as gorillas (note "acceptable" in quotes).

It's not really acceptable for safety critical applications like driving or medical use. In other words, Tesla is never going to get rid of the driver monitoring and reach level 5 with deep learning. It has fundamentally bad engineering properties, i.e. failing spectacularly in a minority of cases.
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In France, most of the places where dams could be placed are already taken. It also means that pumped hydroelectric energy storage can only be set up marginally.
Nuclear isn’t on demand, you still need a place to bank energy when you don’t need it since the plant is going to produce a constant load that (given high capital and operating costs of the plant itself) you’ll want to use productively.

Natural gas instead would really shine as a backup power source.
The problem with proving things about software is less in the proof itself and more in the connection between the proof and the real world.

If somebody told me that they had a financial system whose security was based on applying the Pythagorean Theorem to physical triangles, it would raise exactly the same red flags—the theorem itself isn't a question, but it doesn't even try to capture how physical materials might be imperfect or change over time, and those are exactly the sort of inconsistencies a motivated attacker could exploit.
> FNV called the ruling a major victory for drivers' rights.

No, it's a major victory for the administrative arm of the FNV trade union. Look beyond the formal argument here (workers rights) and look at what this actually is about - power. The FNV wants to get their cut so they can collect more dues paying members and further enrich the admins. The workers here will probably not benefit at all.
Or better reactive demand. Could my fridge/freezer run at deep chill when energy is cheap? Could an a/c build a block of ice for later? Could tank-based water heater recover more slowly when energy is cheap? Could a parked EV schedule its recharge better? Could a washing machine defer or go into “slow-mode” when cost is high? Same with dishwashers? Could lights dim a bit? Could hvac go into slow mode?

In a way, my utility can do things that force this (voltage reductions), but it’s only really effective for resistive loads, and could increase resistive losses on the transmission/distribution network.

https://www.ieso.ca/en/Sector-Participants/IESO-News/2021/01...

One big problem is that transmission/distribution costs aren’t variable based on time-of-day, but they could be too.
A laudable advancement for the institute of state, and French political process.
Doctors are stressed, overworked, and only keep up on cutting edge research at yearly conferences and sometimes through the grapevine. Your typical doctor won't know anything about HBOT.
I think there were also some issues around metering gas, which tracks how much work was be done by uploaded code
In some sense a clean environment and less dangerous future are "luxury goods"

The people who can least afford to pay for clean energy etc are the ones who will also be most impacted by heat waves, declining air quality, and natural disasters.

So it's a similar "luxury good" as "functioning healthcare".
No need for cables since Spain is home to the largest, ad-hoc, P2P radio network Guifi.net. Simply buy an antenna, peer with someone you can see and you're all setup :)
> GPT-3 does what it says it does on the sticker. It continues text based on what it reads.

The problem is that this isn't what it "says on the sticker" to the vast majority of people, especially outside of academia. What we think of as a simple probabilistic language model trained on a huge corpus of English, the general public thinks of as "an artificial intelligence" that has logical reasoning capabilities etc. Using the term "foundation models for AI" intentionally seems to obscure this fact by implying a direct link between language models and AI, when in reality, an LM is nothing more than a faculty for syntactically (and vaguely semantically) acceptable language generation.
I have some pretty significant criticisms (and agreements) with this but do not think it should be flagged. This is on topic. People, please consider writing a well thought out comment if you disagree rather than just smashing a `flag' button.
The more examples I hear, the more I think patents should just be thrown out altogether in many cases.

At the very least, software patents in the sense of "if your implementation uses exclusively general purpose computers and software, it cannot be violating a patent".