skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The second answer is that we are exploiting statistical regularities in the data which make these problems effectively regular or context-free in practice. When someone asks you to solve a new programming problem, you are applying some heuristics that have worked on similar problems in the past. Given a truly novel problem, you can either make some assumptions to reduce it into a more tractable form (e.g. 3-SAT), or design some clever search heuristic, but without any prior examples of programs or a distribution over probable inputs, you can do no better than naïve search.

How is this different from training a neural network on a data set and relying on interpolation for inference? Isn't that exactly what neural nets learn, statistical relationships between inputs? After all, isn't that effectively the mathematical definition for a heuristic? You don't know exactly what the solution is, but there are similarities between past examples you've encountered, and these form priors for your shortcut through the solution space.

I'm not sure if neural nets can extrapolate (which would imply searching outside of the training space, i.e. innovating) but if they are truly universal function approximators, I don't see why not. Especially if the solution space is smooth and continuous in the extrapolation range...whatever that means in high D space.

To your first point, it seems you are saying that neither humans or neural networks can solve these intractable problems. It would not surprise me if a massive, well tuned neural net, possibly with yet to be developed components, could discover better heuristics than even an intelligent and experienced human for problems in this class. But that might be optimistic.
I can understand the problems of phishing etc. for probably the majority of email users at a large institution...but then you have every link rewritten to look stranger, and tons of data (links sent, clicked on, with all the metadata of that) in the hands of a 3rd party. I don't think this is the right solution, is this really the best we can do right now?
Thanks for the information. Since my firewall configuration is a bit more complex than what was supported by the simplified UI I never really used it.

Just to be clear, one can configure the IPv6 firewall through the UI. One just has to use the config-tree rather than the easy firewall configuration.
> NFT owners are paying for the original to support the art

This is a funny way of saying "to enter a speculative market with foolish money."
You: "SHUT IT DOWN! THE NARRATIVE MUST BE PRESERVED!"
Re: positional arguments, I was surprised recently to find this one (`outfile`) in the AppConfig API.

https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/ref...
Taxing and stopping externalities has nothing to do with the common good. It's very much about individual rights. You have no right to pollute in my backyard (including the air I breathe), just as you have no right to punch me in the face or give me brain damage with lead petrol usage. It's a justified use of government force to stop you if for some reason you think you are entitled to violate my rights.

"moralizing zealots"

But I agree there's an elitism and power game aspect to it that I find revolting. Emotionally,
I really want to put my middle finger up and take the compete opposite position just to spite the virtue signalling snobs. Rationally, though, it seems to be a real problem that we need to solve as a species, irrespective of how self-righteous and smug some of the activists are.
there are also people who think the "art" is full of shit. So art + bs tech is doubly so.
It is easy to do carbon studies on trees, but not on grasslands and other carbon sinks. The carbon content of the world will not be the destroyer as much as the effect of human nature, the world has been very different at different times, but extinction isn't likely.

To screw up the oceans, there must be a standard, but there isn't. There are many problems such as lower native populations, corals, invasive species, stronger weather patterns, microplastics, but I am not sure what it is to "screw up the oceans".
I think Cory misses a really big point here. He seems to assume that the source of disinformation is ads, such as political advertisement. This implies that advertising works if and only if disinformation works.

Of course, in reality disinformation goes through many channels on facebook, but (my understanding is) a ton of it is organically shared and commented material and links. I.e. a different kind of content from ads altogether.So facebook ads could still be ineffective, yet disinformation campaigns highly effective.

I'd also discount the studies on fake news from Spring 2017. The game has changed significantly since then.

My impression is a bit different from "criti-hype": I think Facebook is likely extremely good at promoting engagement, pulling attention, and changing minds -- HOWEVER -- FB has very little control over what content is able to be successful in this environment they've created. It takes an entire web ecosystem (quasi-news sites to host 'articles', etc etc) to conduct these disinformation campaigns and they have to resonate with people organically interacting, not just popping up in ads.

The fact that FB can't at-will divert all this attention onto breakfast cereal or brake fluid or whatever doesn't mean the disinformation is ineffective in the political sphere.

Edit: it's one thing to build an extremely fertile petri dish, it's another to control which organisms end up colonizing it.
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Fair, I hadn't watched the video so didn't realize he was almost entirely non-verbal.

Uh is intended to convey confusion. It's a fairly common way of speaking.
If its first world and not the united states, the people there probably have a lot more disposable income to be fair. 40% of Americans can't come up with $400 in an emergency without taking on debt to do so.
This isn't true - sure there are projects that use IPFS to host token assets too big to store on-chain (3d assets, photos, etc.), but those assets can be assured to be perfectly correlated with their hashes. Not to mention many projects are fully on-chain, like CryptoPunks and AutoGlyphs.
I thought that‘s what often happened in the traditional art market as well. I know it happens in the retro video game market.
> Does GH also allow asciidoc(tor) syntax in comments and issues?

No, only markdown is “native” to the platform.
> The guidelines (as you probably already knew) also say that if you have a question about moderation, send us an email instead of posting about it on the site.

Except after all that, the mods still systematically remove useful information from titles, Which in turn means that the moderation methods arn't changed to benefit the userbase, which means, why bother emailing anyways?

And it wasn't a question, it was a request
If the UK ever had such a thing I bet it’d be at least £15,000/year. Many annual tickets to commute in to London alone are £4-7,000.
There is a certain amount of carbon in the atmosphere, and a certain amount of carbon in the ground.

When you burn oil, you take carbon from the ground and introduce it into the atmosphere. This increases the total amount of carbon resident in the atmosphere.

When you grow plants, you take carbon out of the atmosphere. When you eat it, you release it back into the atmosphere. The total amount of carbon resident in the atmosphere does not change.

Grass grows more vigorously when regularly pruned, for example by a grazing animal. Farms also make a point of planting thing which grow quickly and efficiently. Thus it's reasonable to expect that farming could increase the rate of carbon turnover in the atmosphere, which would create the appearance of increased carbon emissions without a corresponding increase in the amount of carbon resident in the atmosphere.

In practice, farms regularly use synthetic fertilizers. They might cut down trees to clear fields for animals. They use heavy, oil burning equipment. These, and many other practices, actually increase atmospheric carbon, and for that reason should be discouraged. But the cow itself only causes a short lived, fixed increase in atmospheric methane and an increased rate of carbon turnover.
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"land used for livestock is mostly non arable land and therefore cant be used for producing crops anyways."

so what is it that they grow then cut and roll into those large objects? here they even grow corn for feed.
And certain NFTs also have scarcity built in. Both NFTs and crypto coins can choose the level of scarcity they want, and all of the value for that scarcity is determined by whatever people believe it to be. NFTs are the exact same thing as crypto coins.
I wish I could live in a world where I can sustain the fantasy that power will not be abused whenever the abuser can get away with it.

The power is asymmetric. The NSA, CIA, FBI, Apple, Google, Police have a lot of power so they need to be very, very transparent in its use and oversight. You do not have that power, privacy is the only thing you can have to protect yourself from abuse.

The other point about about not having to worry about it as an individual is equally wrong. The equivalent argument is that you aren't a doctor so you don't need to worry about a purge of all doctors if one were proposed. Whereas obviously you do need to worry if anyone you care about ever gets sick. So it goes with standing up to corruption. Even if _you_ never stand up to it, your life is greatly adversely affected the harder that is for genuine heroes who make the sacrifice to do it because its the right thing.

"If you have nothing to hide you have been conned."
I'm pro-crypto, pro-NFTs, just not pro the current popular use trend of NFTs.

I'm sure we'll see much more interesting use cases for NFTs emerge over time, and I'm excited about that.
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A collection is a red herring. A collection uses a “getter” for the size since the size is not something you get/set like in a value object.

But then again no one calls it a “getter” (not even Java calls it `getSize()`) since the get/set discussion is about updatable fields, not the inner guts of objects.

Has anyone argued against encapsulation? No one has.
Google only stopped scanning the emails for advertising purposes, as the article states. Google definitely actively scans emails for malicious content (see https://support.google.com/mail/answer/25760?hl=en and https://support.google.com/a/answer/7380368?hl=en).
I think Doctorow is largely right about how this uncritical acceptance of tech "magic powers" actually strengthens them, the 'rather evil than incompetent' argument works. As he alludes to in the piece Karp and Thiel used to actively push for PR that presents Palantir as this sort of omniponent surveillance super-tool because it actually makes it seem more intimidating.

Criticism of 'precrime' tech or robo judges should be directed towards how goddamn stupid it is to direct machine learning algorithms that were made for perception at tasks that involve complex cognitive and ethical human judgements.

Cambridge Analytica was a good example of this as well. The press fell over themselves to characterise their technology as some sort of election tipping, mind controlling super tool. They probably loved it. In reality there's not even any scientific backing for their targeting and it most likely did barely anything, they just wanted to look like James Bond's Spectre.

edit: another thing the post made me think of is how much the tech sector loves Yuval Noah Harari. He once said he's surprised by it but I'm absolutely not, because he basically constantly tells them how omnipotent and all-powerful they are.

There's actually a fantastic scene in The Young Pope about this (a satirical show about the internal workings of the Catholic Church)

> Do you know how many books have been written about me?

> Seventeen.

> Eighteen. The last one's going to press next week, and it's got the best title of all.

> Which is?

>The Man Behind the Scenes. I suggested it myself.

> Who wrote it?

> Manna, that leftist reporter.

> That means it'going to be critical of you, Your Eminence.

> Of course, those are the best. They turn you into a legend.
Sort of, yeah. I usually consider zero-downtime to be ‘imperceptible to users’. This option is interesting, though, first I’ve heard of it. Thanks!
Gee, thanks for contributing to the conversation and providing a useful alternative.

The only semi-popular better option I can think of is Matrix, but getting people on Signal is already hard enough and using Matrix on a mobile device is (last I checked) far from ideal.

Security is a gradient, not an all-or-nothing. Signal is vastly better than almost every other electronic communication method.
I feel like color coding would be far more intuitive and more readily pass the "Grandpa Test" (i.e. can my grandpa figure out what to plug into where without constantly second-guessing both himself and me). A lot easier to convey "plug like color into like color" than to expect the average end-user to understand what these logos mean - especially when I can barely wrap my head around what these logos mean in practice.
that seems like a waste of time, here they just give you a new one.
Nah, just rewrite the code base.
I agree, they are profoundly historically significant, they are the prototype for the ERC-721 token standard, and are event cited in the whitepaper proposal.
I prefer legumes as sources of protein myself as well.
It’s such a fascinating question. Given some domestic computer, what is the most intelligent program it might be able to run in something like real-time? My intuition is that domestic computers could achieve a sparse intellect but maybe not a rich sensory relationship with the physical world.

With every year we expand our vast collective computational resources. It’s like a powder keg. It’s sitting dormant just waiting for a good program to be stumbled upon. I hope I’m not alive when that happens
it's easy to get blinded by the scams and abuses enabled by new technology, but what matters in the long term are the new benefits and use cases.

will NFTs last? unclear.

however, one benefit is clear and compelling: decentralized royalty capture and IP management.

the NBA and other large enterprises could build and manage IP APIs that mimic NFT functionality.

but what if you're an individual artist? or what if you're taylor swift? today these creators resort to record labels or the equivalent to manage royalties.

NFTs empower individuals to capture royalties and manage IP without a middleman and without needing to build custom APIs; think of them as outsourced APIs.

royalty capture and IP management are the last functions to get disrupted in record label stack. now musicians can choose different "vendors" for the major activities in the value chain, from marketing to funding to creation to distribution -- and now IP/royalty management.

is this enough to sustain NFTs? unclear.
Do I need to pay carbon tax on my dog?
Treating it like coal implies that its users can trade beef for something that is just "as good". At the moment many users don't find that plausible.
> - Spike proteins from the virus and the vaccine are in-arguably cytotoxic[2] (but the low load has not lead to any long term negative effects and you should still get vaxxed).

ok sure but a high viral load is probably not comparable to the vaccine so we should use this information accordingly and be mindful of the dosages right? This doesn't seem very scary at all to me
EtherRocks[1] are exactly like the pet rock idea.

The real reason NFTs exist is simple. ICOs were shut down by the SEC. The SEC prosecuted a few of the total scam ICOs (the one supposedly backed by diamonds and real estate was the first). Then they sent letters to every ICO issuer in sight: "Please explain why your product is not a security offering which requires SEC registration". Most of the ICOs shut down immediately. Operating from outside the US doesn't help. If you sell into the US (or the EU, or China, or most of the developed world) some regulatory authority wants to have a word with you.

Now, part of the idea behind NFTs was to escape SEC and CFTC regulation. Because each one is different, it's not a commodity, by definition. Is it a security? The Howey test applies, as usual. An NFT which represents something that already exists is probably not a security. That's a collectable. However, there are people selling NFTs that represent land in virtual worlds that haven't been built yet. That's a security; you're funding a startup. Also, "fractional NFTs" are almost certainly a security.

So the legit use of NFTs is to monetize fame. Which is why basketball team owners and musicians are into this. If you're famous enough to sell merch, you may be able to add an NFT to your product line. People will buy, hold, and cherish your thing.

Initial offers of unknown NFTs intended to be resold at a profit are doomed to failure, for the usual pyramid-scheme reasons.

As I point out occasionally, go look at Beanie Babies on eBay. Offering prices around $5000, no bids. Then search for completed sales. Prices around $10-$50. NFT prices are like that. Mostly, you're looking at asking prices and wash sales. NFT markets, like Beanie Babies, don't crash. They stall. There's no liquidity. No market. You may have to advertise to find a buyer. Just like the leggings suckers.

[1] https://cryptopotato.com/what-are-ether-rocks/
Revealed preferences don't match that rhetoric.

- People are not migrating North in droves. They are not preparing in any way.

- Nuclear energy, the only realistic solution to climate change, is not being supported. It's actually being retired early in many cases and replaced with coal of all things.

- Property prices on the coastline are going up. President Obama, who has access to the best information and experts, bought a huge property on the Martha's Vineyard coast in 2019.

- There is little to no push to improve the water supply in preparation for droughts, not even in California.
When measured over 100 years, methane has about 21 times the global warming potential of CO2.

When measured over 10 years, it's more like 81 times.

So the "28 times" already allows for the fact that it's mostly only there for 10 years.

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/methane-vs-c...
And, ironically, this post inspired an actual "monads are like burritos" post that is pretty good.

See https://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html for why monads are like burritos.
I had to do exactly that in a large Angular project, dince there was no way to provide environment variables available at runtime.

Angular provides an environment mechanism at buildtime, so they expect us to create a docker image per environment, which is not our practice with other microservices in our pipeline. We’re used to kubernetes configMaps.

We used a docker docker runtime script + envsubst as above. However we used it to provide key/values to the window object (inside a template script tag), to be picked up by a proper Angular “AppConfig” service.

I’m not very happy with this solution as it might scare the next maintainers, specially if they don’t know about our ci/cd and backend. The source code is also peppered with little comments about this workaround, which is not ideal.
So now people see the nuances of why they still want to eat beef
... Not like when they claim that it's ridiculous for the developing countries to burn coals, oil, woods, etc.
In Berlin only A is included as far as I know.
The energy is from compression, there are videos of it. Rather than small hot explosions that move pistons, the cold will pull rather than push the pistons as it does in combustion engines. Its main enemy will be cheap used diesel.
not a fan
Most places that grow feed corn could also grow human-edible corn. Remember that I'm talking about feedlots for beef.
I used a company called mobile spy over a decade ago back on the old iPhone 4s. I was able to see a lot of information and believe the premium features allowed you to silently make a call to the phone which it would automatically answer and leave no trace so you could call and listen in. You of course could see sent images and messages. Websites visited and all sorts of spying. It was very fun to play with at the time it made me realize that anyone could spy on me if they get my device for a bit. I also realized that if all my messages are being sent to this company and I can read it in plain text then so can they. I deleted it and never did try the premium mode.
> Not possible to trace where the money is coming from.

Chain analysis is certainly something you can do.
The point about the extra energy is potentially valid, although it would need data.

Methane being worse than CO2 doesn't change the fact that it's a cycle and thus it's not causing extra warming as long as the amount of animals is constant.

Alternative forests, etc, is equally a one off thing. Keeping the pastures doesn't make anything worse, and reverting them back would only be a one off improvement.
Oh that's great! Thank you for that :)
This isn't true, it depends entirely on the project and the rights assigned. Meebits and Bored Apes give commercial rights up to 100k USD/yr (a formal agreement is required if exceeded), and Cryptoadz grant fully open CC0 rights to the owners to use in any purpose. - Also, when in the past few decades have you ever bought a piece of art from a creator and assumed that would give you commercial rights to their creation?
People don't act rationally, that should come as a surprise to no one. Look at the number of people who are overweight, sedentary and/or smoke even though they don't want to die of cancer or heart disease.
The moment anyone emails me about diversity and inclusion, I’m forwarding that to my boss to deal with. Professor was walking through a minefield.
I just wrote the first 53k words of a new hobby (character driven horror) novel this month. I think it’s between 1/2 to 2/3rds done and it’s been a lot of fun so far.

It takes some dedication but the hardest part is starting, especially when everyone assumes their first story will be great. After you put in the time and practice and then write your first 10 pages, the next 180 are relatively easy.

The first things people write will be bad. You have to just practice until you get past that and most people get discouraged before then. It’s an extremely fun and relaxing hobby if you can get past that bump

Edit: sigh… I have an in progress writing prep app with a trailer and everything but it’s not hosted yet, so I can’t link to it. Serves me right for putting it off
And I quote:

> as bad as the GNU advocates' retort ("GNU yes is 10GiB/s fast").

If you don't want to defend your position, don't take it.
That lifestyle does take a lot of experience your average knowledge worker just doesn't have.

People back then knew how to farm their land, they knew went to till and when to harvest, what to plant when and where. They were handy, they were carpenters, but also plumbers, roofers, painters, tailors, mechanics, menders of all things. Skills acquired by being a young child and holding the tools for an adult doing the task, engaging in a de facto apprenticeship for all facets of life since they could first learn to walk on their own and follow dad or mom around their chores.

You couldn't learn all this even in a year of ownership of land like that. Its the product of lived experience. Years of dealing with one catastrophe to the next and having no one but yourself and a few local friends or family members to help fix the situation through experience and physical labor. This is why when most rich people decide to take up farming on some land they've bought, they hire an actual farmer to actually do the farming.
This implies that the land used to grow cow feed couldn't be used to instead grow human-consumable crops or left fallow as a carbon sink. I'm not aware of any studies showing that.