skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of them, because it has been some years since it was effectively none (effectively because textbooks, manuals, xeroxed pages, etc.

That’s a way of suggesting that the compulsion to finish each book started is a young person’s vice. And virtue…I was well served at the time I read the Florida Building Code front to back…but the main utility was that it was easier to look up the right information than to rely on memory (doing the right thing was easier than the alternatives).

The greatest benefit of not finishing books is with good books. I can set something good aside to read later. I can savor short books.

Sam Shepard’s Motel Chronicles is the latest. It’s undergone something akin to exponential backoff.

On the other hand, I probably won’t finish the collection of Steinbeck essays I was reading in April, May, and August. The first part consisted of Steinbeck writing for the joy of writing. But the next is making arguments, and I can get all the arguments I want and then some on my iPhone.

I do read books twice. But only because they are so good. Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America most recently. And that was two in a row. So good I gave it away to someone I love.

I read Dawkins’ Consciousness Explained in the ‘90’s. I guess that might make me an early adopter of the memes meme…not that that pays any bills.

What, so far as I can see, is different between that book and the one you have is that the argument for memes is a novel way of thinking in general. A new canal for thought to flow down from n general. It’s not rewarmed polemic.

However, recently the central thrust of The God Delusion has given me an historical perspective on the concept of “fake news”. I am not hopeful it will be combatted.

Of course, God Delusion is in an important category of books. Those I can talk about without actually reading by virtue of having read about them. You don’t have to read Moby Dick to know a enough to use it in a metaphor.
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Show HN: I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots
UBI would be on level where you get your room, clothes, basic healthcare and food. Want to get new fancy Samsung instead of basic model. Better go to clean bathrooms for a few days or weeks.
And we are destroying our society by normalizing this behavior.
Great goals! Now start motivating people around you to ask for those things, vote on those issues, unionize their workplaces. Work half as hard as the generations that came before did to enshrine our current labor laws. Don’t just complain on YouTube videos. If the video had a coherent call to action and clear headed vision that’s one thing. But in reality a lot of it is clouded by misunderstandings of the job market and the world around them.
This is energy that would be dispersed at the surface anyway, isn't it?
GPT-3 is a smart and poetic AI. It also says terrible things about Muslims
Repeat that enough, you may come to believe it.
These are two separate things.
The `loop` construction / function or whatever it is called in the sCrypt language is a compile-time loop. That is, the body gets unrolled N times (8 in this example). It's just an implementation detail for the lookup in the transition table.
However, that is not part of a proof. The author is pretty clear that each transition in the TM is implemented as a bitcoin transaction.
It's funny how every society has its own way of mistreating children, yet never considers it a problem at the time. We look at the ways children were harmed and exploited throughout history and shake our heads at how our morally underdeveloped forebears could be so cruel and misguided. Then we turn around and declare that our children have no right whatsoever to privacy, and that everything they read and write should be surveilled 24/7 by teams of strangers, for their "own good".

I firmly believe that a hundred years, people will look back on practices like this and shake their heads at the appalling attitudes their primitive ancestors had towards children. But I imagine that's little comfort to the kids subject to this kind of abuse.
The origin matters for two major reasons:

1) So we can learn and mitigate the risks of something similar happening again.

and

2) In the event that the virus was leaked from a laboratory, the world would like to send the lab a small invoice for costs incurred and damages.
True, but in order to find out if that is your case, you must try it out, and probably more than once.

Most hobbies aren't immediately awesome, a certain section of the learning curve must be climbed.

I still remember my silent desperation when I sat in front of a PC back in 1994 for the first time. Computers were totally alien to me at that time. Ten years later I was programming in several languages.
This exactly. Millions of people are dying and this post as well as various politicians are in the midst of the children's argument "He started it!"
Here's the thing though. When it's a predictable outcome that somebody in the crowd will post x-phobic responses to a given story, then it's completely unreasonable for an x-person to expect a lack of x-phobia. If you were more concerned about the frequency of x-phobia in this community, rather than taking offense at people speaking about the negative experiences at the hands of this community, perhaps the community wouldn't have the reputation that it does.

Blocking on referers is a defensive move, not at all aggressive.
Could you elaborate? Is the call for devs? Or is it for the general community? What are the usual discussion topics? How to join the call?
I recall reading that Netflix chose FreeBSD a decade ago due to asynchronous disk IO was (and still is?) broken and/or limited to fixed block offsets. So nginx just works better on FreeBSD versus Linux for serving static files from spinning rust or SSD.
While it's always hard to know what's really happening from a news article, this looks potentially very bad for the employees. Apparently, the government required Evergrande to reduce its debt burden, which it was depending on to fund the completion of already purchased apartments. Now the company is facing bankruptcy, with the employees facing the loss of their coerced investments. Again, it's hard to tell what the extent of the loan program was, but there are descriptions of individual employees in for the equivalent of six figures in USD.
It does pretty well on this (https://www.datcreativity.com/task?), at least with the below code. Consistently getting 80-90%.

https://github.com/MattGaiser/CreativeWordChoice/tree/master...

I just grabbed a random list of nouns, narrowed it by the params specified, and fed them in as required. You may need more than 10 as it rejects some, but in that case I just re-ran it and put in the first nouns to come up.
Let’s also not forget all the genetic testing companies (with questionable security practices) that parents take before their child is born. Private companies are hoarding access to your child’s genes, likelihood of disabilities, and future health issues before they’re even born.
I really like Go Hugo (https://gohugo.io/), which compiles beautiful static sites super quickly from markdown. Still not exactly drag and drop but very simple and the default themes are very beautiful.
As I already said, I absolutely understand the concerns. That does not mean that it might not become inevitable to do something about it one day. In the long run, the choice seem to be that it either blows up right away (in the geologically-near future) or to extract enough energy to at least delay the disaster.

Edit, as reply to child comment: here is the NASA report that concludes that it is possible to cool supervolcanoes:

https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/sites/default/file...
Haven't schools been described as prisons for like decades?
> you might feel different about that “free market” ideal which doesn’t really exists. Instead look to nature for the truth where you have exploiters in most species around every corner. So we must always be vigilant.

It's fine to have that opinion, I just don't think people should pretend that it's in alignment with the ideals of a completely free market society. Where I lose patience is if someone doesn't have the guts to say that coercion is a major part of our current economy.

If the belief is that we can't entice people to work unless they're scared of poverty, that's just a very different argument than saying that the current systems of coercion are actually voluntary and free.

> I and the rest of the community would remember that person and treat them accordingly. We live in a society, and there are consequences to actions. Both exploitation and parasitism.

Sure, just as long as we both understand that some of those consequences are also sometimes expressed through people voting for policy changes.
No AI though, can ever be funnier than Norm Macdonald.
There were many people making the equivalent of $50K per year, between federal and state payments. That was more than many of them made when working.

These are all expiring now, we'll see what happens next.
Without getting into which are better for now, are these the only two options for this concept right now?
You are conflating corporate income tax on profits with all of the other taxes businesses pay. Those get passed through as cost of doing business and ultimately into the cost of goods sold. Regarding profit, you are also missing the point of profit objectives, which get tacked onto the cost of goods sold, because taxes aren't a surprise to businesses..
It really depends on what you’re ordering. I suspect they’ve put a lot of effort into solving this issue since I stopped using Amazon several years ago, but I had a couple issues in short succession that really got on my nerves. For me, it seemed to be niche Asian brands that were problematic. I got some counterfeit ham radio gear, and some counterfeit RC gear.

One of my parents recently got a gray market laptop was advertised as new from Dell, but the laptop that showed up had specs different from its service tag.

It’s shady crap like this that has made me happy to shop at specialty retailers. Sure, Amazon makes it easy to return, but I’ve found it easier to buy things from specialty retailers instead of processing returns. Especially now that many retailers have competitive pricing, quick shipping, and store pickup.
Game-Set-Match
> "OpenJDK" used to be an independent group who's purpose was to build a fully open-source Java - and it was Apache licensed.

You've confused OpenJDK with Apache Harmony. The Harmony project dissolved in 2011, essentially being killed by IBM's decision to join the OpenJDK project instead.
Improving Python Dependency Management with Pipx and Poetry
> unusually high levels of chargebacks and use of stolen card information

Design the onlyfans credit card bank to be unusually secure (e.g. non-phone 2factor auth) and unusually profitable for processors (higher commissions to processors, higher value clients a la Amex).
Being dad of 2 y/o and 9 y/o. Where during lockdown younger kid was strategically getting "screen time" so older kid could study & wife and I could work...

After opening new or commenting on existing similar bugs/features reports to YT/Google, trying things mentioned in other comments (e.g.: /etc/hosts, router or OpenDNS filtering...) as well as (being software engineer) also experimenting with writing something myself.

Somehow accidentally I've ran into https://account.microsoft.com/family/about. And I couldn't believe how something that was produced by company that just "a couple of years ago" was the prime example of how bad big-tech can be (also forced employee performance bell-curve, "Developers! Developers! Developers!" and many other :facepalm" things)...

That M$ company produced something that literally "just fucking works exactly as you would imagine/hope it does".

Seriously - last email I got from M$ is:
"Hi {my_name},
{kids_name} wants more screen time today.
How much extra time would you like to give them?
15 minutes
30 minutes
1 hour
2 hours
8 hours
I don’t want to give more time today"

And the one before that was:
"Hi {my_name},
{kids_name} wants more time on this app today. Extra time starts right after it's added.

Roblox

How much extra time would you like to give them?
15 minutes
30 minutes
1 hour
2 hours
3 hours
I don’t want to give more time today

To change the daily limits for Roblox, you can go to App and game limits."

For context - to earn "game time" he first did some reading and math today. So latter his "Roblox time" for today (weekend) was first to run out, followed by overall "screen time".

And really the only thing I've been wondering is should we ditch Android devices/tablets and get M$/Windows stuff instead?

Meanwhile the whole "Should we ditch Sony/PS for XBox (which plays along because it's M$)?" is resolved by simply not getting next gen game console and instead kid starting to play and appreciate PC gaming \o/
What are the advantages of building a base in Antarctica? Benefits are fairly nebulous but still real.

Building a base in lunar or a halo orbit is pretty stupid. Very few advantages over earth orbit; substantially higher costs mean we'll use it a lot less.

An earth orbit station has been very useful. However once it ages out the best replacement is probably just fitting out a Starship to orbit for many months and return.
So amongst many other things we are going to try connect (federate) two instances of Trustroots. We are also planning on starting a new community for folks looking for an alternative for warm showers as a fork of Trustroots, then we hope to federate the two. The relationship to upstream is pretty good and we are hoping to be able to contribute very soon to upstream and collaborate as much as possible, some of us are also on the slack for Trustroots and we have had very good and lengthy discussions there in relation to federation and also in general in regards to HospEx issues. In parallel we are very much interested in any other direction which might not involve Trustroots code, it just sounded like a great idea so we would would like to try it
Out of top of my head.

1. If humans are a future part of the picture, buried structures on the Moon will protect them against cosmic rays - much harder to do that in an orbital station.

2. Same goes for gravity. While a huge rotating station is technically possible, Moon has its 0.16G naturally everywhere. Might be better for health, is certainly better for plumbing and other sorts of equipment.

3. Water is actually pretty important. The spots on the Moon where it can be produced may turn "hot", as different countries try and claim them.
absolutely. the likelihood we'll find absolute proof on the origin is about zero, and even if we did, it'd affect research, policy, and mediopolitical decisions about zero. it's another salvo in the 'culture wars' that zealous surrogates are waging to distract us from important issues like ever greater consolidation of sociopolitical power and economic resources.
Welcome to Simpson's Paradox
That's dumb.
Well, in Etherium, provided that sufficient amount of gas is paid for, I could have a contract that implements several (many?) iterations of the Turing machine - or any other computation.

With the approach proposed in the article I need to have an external Turing-complete "controller" that would keep calling the contract.

At this point, what is the benefit I am getting from having this "contract" at all? I would be better off with a just serializing the state of my machine and putting it into OP_RETURN, getting a much smaller blob to store on the chain. So I will save on the fees, could implement my Turing machine (or anything else, really) in the language of my choice, not constrained by the absence of loops and function calls.

Article essentially uses bitcoin blockchain as a database (I hesitate to use the word "ledger"), and the use of "contract" is just a gimmick, seemingly introduced just to prop the absurd claim that bitcoin somehow becomes turing-complete when external turing-complete controller performs "contract calls".
This is an amazingly narcissistic viewpoint:
1. You are part of the blessed 5% (how do you know?)
2. Anyone who disagrees is actively malicious (it's not all about you, man)
3. It worked for you, therefore it must work for everyone (if only they were as awesome as you, right?)
Thrilled to see an updated version of this, and especially with Demaine still involved.

The 2011 Devadas/Demaine videos had a huge impact on me when getting into the field. I would say they might be the single best resource available for learning the intuition behind algorithms. But perhaps this new version will supersede them (having higher quality video is nice, the blackboard is sometimes difficult to read in the 2011 recordings.)
You’re thinking like an engineer. A business person would just ask for a discount (which I’m sure they do) and constantly renegotiate. Don’t forget the financing of on premise and data centre workers and how that looks on your balance sheet.
Worked fine for me with maybe one stutter. Anyway, that's once instance of PT, there are others. E.g. I've never noticed any issues with https://watch.ocaml.org/
> Germany is pretty much the go to case. They lost WW1, then the American hegemony financially repressed Germany through external debt so they had a pretty good reason to start a new war.

I have no idea who teaches this version of history, but it's like saying that the US Civil War started because of States's rights.

The German economy was in full swing by the time WW2 started and Germany had already shrugged off all of its post-WW1 commitments.

The causes of WW2 are complex, but they're well understood today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II

One major cause is that Hitler came to power. He did take advantage of the bad economy, but that was one rung on the ladder to power, one of the first. He knew he wouldn't get far with it alone, that's why he also recruited the stabbed in the back theory. Ludendorff and Hindenburg were the big promoters of the stabbed in the back theory, because, as the former military leaders of the German Empire in WW1, it shielded them from the consequences of their defeat. Ludendorff elevated Hitler politically and basically saved his life in the Putsch. Then Hindenburg got rid of all controls and gave Hitler total power. If it wasn't for Ludendorff and Hindenburg Hitler wouldn't have risen to some power and then had the keys to Germany handed to him.

Another important cause comes from how the other powers dealt with Hitler. They let him run amok, threaten war, and get his way, time and time again. Until they drew an arbitrary line in the sand (Poland) that didn't make a lot of sense for anyone. Hitler didn't think it was as a big a deal to invade Poland as France and Britain.

Stalin and the USSR contributed to starting WW2, it's not clear that Hitler would have invaded Poland if there hadn't been a treaty with the USSR.

And of course, another key cause of what we know as WW2 is the collapse of France. The war would likely have been contained and Hitler might even have been quickly defeated. That is its own complex topic.

But no. WW2 didn't happen because of economic oppression by the victors of WW1, just like the US Civil War didn't happen because of state's rights.
> recently psychologists discovered a simple way to test for creativity

Jesus. That "discovery" is https://www.datcreativity.com/faq#simple

It's not a "discovery", it's not an objective way to test for creativity, and throwing GPT-3 at a test designed to surface relative differences among humans is like saying a pair of dice are better than humans at supplying random numbers.

Actually, what is the methodology for applying a language prediction model to a "come up with 10 'unrelated' words" prompt? Especially when the "test" relies on a very specific and game-able definition of "unrelated" that needs to be hidden from test-takers to provide even a semblance of "valid" results?

The amount of BS being juggled among those who should presumably know better is astounding and depressing.
android has never changed the word to ducking, but when using voice to text it will happily add asterisks to my messages. I turn it off, but every gboard update just turns it back on. I've tried other keyboards but gboard is the least difficult to use in nearly every situation where i need to send a message (one handed, two handed, voice to text, swype or whatever when i can't see what the screen says, etc). My least favorite is whatever samsung ships, nearly every time i hit some button that changes the size, layout, or whatever.

More to your point, though, the walled garden isn't purely in apple's realm, kindle fire has the same sort of restrictive app store, with no option to adultify it.

And having society acknowledge that everyone is hurtling to an end and that, therefore, thoughts and ideas and feelings might just be more important than whatever the current dichotomy of opinion is - well, having society acknowledge that would be nice, i suppose.

Apple doesn't want to be in the news because 5000 children saw a bare ass, and that's their shareholders' perspective. I think.
"It's the same for the creators, though - they can't move off of YouTube entirely, because none of their viewers will go to a PeerTube instance just to watch that one creator."

Is it so hard to be on both? Something I like about YouTube compared to some other platforms is they never (to the best of my knowledge) engage in exclusives or impose exclusivity conditions. And even when they develop new features, I've rarely seen Google try to restrict those.
I don't know what you're up to; your account is 30min old, was created just for commenting on this post, you appear to be very aware of this project and your comments show that you didn't understand the solution presented in the article.
I already commented on the parent comment: The `loop` in sCrypt is a compile-time loop and just an implementation detail for the lookup in the transition table. The *actual looping* happens outside via bitcoin transactions whereby each transaction is a transition in the TM.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28587465
Freenet generally has peers act as file stores. This presents some concerns people would have, but also presents an interesting question:

With the existence of crypto that requires large disk spaces to mine coins, could you abuse freenet for this goal?
I don't think any parent I know actually prevented their kids from meeting their friends other than at the very very beginning of the pandemic (and before vaccinations). Internet hysterics aside, I think most parents appreciate their kids have mental health needs.

(Unless you think schoolmates are friends, in which case I have news for you...)
If political deadlock and politicians having priorities of their own means even supermajorities of what the study calls the elite don't get their way, I'm not sure it helps the conspiracy theory about the power of the elite. (I mean, it leaves open claims about specific billionaires and more bizarre theories about shapeshifting lizards, freemasons or pizza shops, but they were outside the scope of the study)

The second point does lend support to the argument that politicians frequently fail to deliver what the public want, but that's less a conspiracy theory and more established fact :)
The US federal government still officially considers a lab leak as a possibility. If it were ever proven then sanctions against China would be likely.

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/...