skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sam Altman is, by all accounts, a smart individual with a lot of startup and startup evaluation experience, and presumably the resources to pursue whatever idea he wants. Though Worldcoin initially strikes me as being poorly thought out, given Altman's reputation, I've been trying to see the point of Worldcoin. I find myself very confused.

Setting aside the fact that the Orb idea will strike many people as creepy...

> The internet is powerful because of large networks. Email, social apps, and marketplaces are examples of such networks. The more participants they have, the more powerful they become. For the first time, cryptocurrencies make it possible to distribute ownership and control of those networks to their users, rather than a single entity.

>If a cryptocurrency were adopted at scale, it would vastly increase access to the internet economy and make applications possible that are now unimaginable.

Any sort of specifics would be great. The website says little about why it is important to get a new cryptocurrency in the hands of every person on earth. It sort of sounds like they want it to be used for UBI disbursement? Even if inflation, cost of living, etc. is radically different and changing at different rates in every sub-municipal area?

I tried digging a little deeper... There are more technological and not ontological/existential details provided here: https://worldcoin.org/how-it-works. Given that the founders do not make explicit their motivation, they seem to expect that people will go through the Orb procedure based on vague crypto promises?

Solving the "proof of personhood" problem for digital crypto wallets is important because... it will allow literally everyone to vote on how to run an email service? Own a fractionalized share of an NFT? And if everyone has a Worldcoin, then by definition, it isn't scarce.

I'm left to conclude that either the founders all know something that is opaque to the rest of us in terms of what problem they are actually intending to solve (with the eyeball thing being just one part of the solution)... Or they are in for being on the receiving end of a surprising number of wicked coordination problems which aren't technological in nature.
ten years ago I took a college freshman course that centered around "Creativity." I've never actually read all of Flow and so "Creativity" was my introduction to the Flow concept. I was an art student at the time so it was convenient to have source material that did the work of showing me how any of this was relevant to what I do. That said, it definitely seems like "Creativity" was a re-hash of the concepts originated within Flow. It has been a long time since I read it and should probably revisit.

I often forget, but it was this book that helped me decide to become a programmer. I flip-flopped a lot between college majors and just generally what the hell it was i wanted to do for a living. The professor who ran that course asked me what job would easily create (and sustain) flow states for me. For me, it was programming that did the trick. Not even art, which i did for 12 hours a day at the time, worked quite as well.
Oh, interesting. That's news to me, but then again, my source is quite old.

Target total compensation? Not total compensation after stocks went up a ton?
Reads to me like a VC frustrated by the lack of investment opportunities he’s been presented lately.
Berlin is a state because (esp West-)Berlin kind of had to be one in the restructuring after WW2.

Bremen and Hamburg both were Free Cities in the Holy Roman Empire. More importantly, they were among the very few Free Cities that retained this status until and past the end of the HRE (1806). Being in the Hanseatic League helped establish their importance, but the League wasn't actually a major concern at that time anymore, and hadn't been for over a century, but they certainly played to that history (and e.g. added "Hansestadt" to their names, long after)
Control over payment flow is already in the right place imo, though I think the charges should be per transaction flat rates and not % based.

App developers are bad actors and should not be trusted to control payment information, refund policies, or subscription management. They will abuse all of them, and they already abuse the limited tools they have for in app payments.

Payment flow needs to be controlled by an entity that is trying to protect the buyer, not the developer
if you define efficiency as compute per watt. I don't give a flying crap about watts. Efficiency is measured as amount of work done per hour. Because I get paid for the work, and then I pay the two dollars a week for the watts. I don't care if it's five dollars a week for the watts or two. I do care if it's two hours of waiting time versus five.
I edited my comment to add:

How about instead, you stand for women and people of color because it's the right thing to do? Regardless of how little they trust white men. Maybe, just maybe, try and understand why they wouldn't trust white men?

The horror!
Serious question, if you're going to hire people who are great technical writers, why would you have software developers (who are by definition not going to be as good TWs as the "real" TWs) also do it? You wouldn't expect TWs to dabble in the prod codebase.
What I want is a language that consists ONLY of GOTO statements. The Turing tape concept indicates that it should be possible.
There was also this one just a few weeks ago - just a coincidence, btw:

Launch HN: RescueTime (YC W08) – Redesigned for wellness, balance, remote work - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28683597 - Sept 2021 (141 comments)
Mostly b, but:

a) we can, if so generally they install it as part of the testing (e.g. a client testing a chrome ext), or have us build a custom vm for them (e.g. clients with 20gb download)

b) this is the common path; folks push something, ci builds it, ships to a qa env, they run us, if it passes, push to prod.

For B, Auth is handled anywhere from zero auth (just fully open QA env, but usually it's SaaS so you still have to login to their app), through to http auth, limiting the IPs (https://help.rainforestqa.com/docs/which-ip-addresses-do-rai...), to VPN directly into their QA infra. Without pulling numbers, I'd guess 95% go the zero-auth route.
Please let me know when this is ready for prime time - I'm really interested in bringing an Intelligent Quantum (IQ) Blockchain driven cloud based PaaS security platform to market. The secret of IQ technology, is that, while the others have "artificial" intelligence, there is nothing fake about ours.

I believe we could realize great value with a blue ocean strategy like that.
Typo in title: hijackd :)

It seems interesting that people would trust such a controversial figure with their social media, though. One of the obvious effects of such a network is going to be extremism and quite a wide bubble of right-wing people.

I personally don't agree with social media platforms founded on political left/right beliefs, but perhaps I'm in the minority these days.
That's a difference based on the way Go implements defer, but not a principle of defer. A lexically scoped based defer is conceivable.

That said, it's worth noting that difference in practice since Go is, as far as I know, the only mainstream language with defer as a major and commonly used construct.
Add “reprocess nuclear fuel rods”. Even once expended and removed from reactors there’s a lot of life left in fuel rods and reprocessing reduces the amount of waste that has to be stored long term.
Do you have a source for that? That sounds wrong.
You start off with a premise that is not immediately obvious. You claim right-wing news outlets are jeopardizing the 'foundation of US democracy', but most right wingers would counter that democracy is not the foundational value of the United States, but rather, individual rights, that even democracy is subservient to the rights of the individual. For example, no matter how many people would vote for such an ability, a modern 'right winger' would reject the notion that the people should be able to buy others. Your insistence that democracy is being eroded by the right, is easily countered by most conservatives that individual liberty is being eroded by the left, and they can easily point to the coronavirus lockdowns which seem neverending, obviously overreaching, and -- given the vaccine -- also unnecessary. They can point to multiple examples of what they see as having their rights trampled over, such as being forced to participate in events they have moral concerns with, while facebook and Amazon and other large companies apparently have every right to kick off those they agree with from their multi-billion dollar platforms.

So the counter to your claim that the right is undermining democracy is that the left is undermining civil liberties.
About 2 years at the factory, 2 years onsite:

https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactor...

We need to be ramping up these immediately... and targeting production of at least dozens per year. Its the perfect industry for a country like the UK to pump money into right now.
5 common mistakes people make in Java – Part 3
While satirical discourses can make for fun reading, they often obscure the complexity of the issue at hand and need to be taken with a heaping pile of salt. Here is a counter-analogy to the one advanced in this letter:

Imagine a world where each nation is essentially a person (this isn't strictly necessary, but the intuition to follow comes more easily when we think of our own lives, where we have a great deal more experience). Now let's say that Carla is a more efficient farmer, miner, and homebuilder than I, and that she has agreed to help me with those matters in exchange for some of my money. In a world where all people are benevolent and will provide stable help in perpetuity, this is a fine bargain; but in any other case it requires much more scrutiny. My money reserves are finite, but my need for food and resources stretches into the temporal horizon. Then I need to very carefully evaluate whether my sources of revenue are sufficient and sufficiently stable to sustain this agreement; I need to have a good backup plan if Carla can't come through for me in a time of need; and further, I need to be very assured that Carla and I won't come into later conflict in which she would be advantaged by suddenly withholding her goods and services.

This isn't to argue entirely in favor of domestic self-sufficiency; there's plenty of evidence that an interdependent web of trade correlates with greater international stability and peace, which (all else being equal) seems good. The point, however, is that the issue is really very nuanced. How sure are you that your dependence on another nation is a safe and stable dependency? What's the damage, and how quickly can you adapt, if the status quo changes? Those questions are entirely irrelevant when discussing the sun's impact on producers of light--the sun is (on our timescale) stable and has no motives. So while this bit of writing may be a good counterpoint to some minor point in the debate in which it's situated, it really seems overly reductive in the broader context of international trade.
Absolutely.

Then the question becomes: when is something fully processed - and to which degree is a person inclined to explore the depths of a concept?

What is the limit that decides when depth is no longer valuable?
Sure, these tests were not using really large batch sizes because of the other benchmarks we were trying to replicate (but with more detail). Honestly, for this single instance setup, we saw improvement in CH when we went from (say) 5k, 10k, or 20k batches. But it was a few percentage points at a time, not a magnitude different. I'm sure things changes with a cluster setup too, that just wasn't the focus of this post.

Interestingly, we were just testing a multi-node TimescaleDB cluster the other day and found that 75k rows/batch was the optimal size as nodes increased.

So you're completely correct. I tried to be very clear that we were not intentionally "cooking the books" and there's surely other optimizations we could have made. Most of the suggestions so far, however, require further setup of CH features that haven't been used in other benchmarks, so we tried to over communicate our strategy and process.

We also fully acknowledged in the post that an siloed "insert", wait, then "query" test is not real world. But, it's the current way TSBS has been used and other DB engines have come along and used the methodology for now. Maybe that process will change in time to come with other contributions.

BTW, we'll discuss some of this next week during the live-stream and the video will be available after.
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We support that for the human language tests, but not yet for the automation. A few customers have done it themselves by exporting the JSON (it's a defined, versioned schema), but we've not yet productized that.
I understand that giving a percentage of the company to investors is the way modern venture capital works, but attempting to create a global currency and then giving 10% to a handful of investors seems like a bit too much centralization right out of the gate. Given the current state of the economy, I have no doubt that the majority of the wealth will eventually be centralized in the hands of a few, but I don't think we need to start there.
The UK is about to build 16 of these. They hope to have them operational by 2035.
I think you are missing the point.

A submarine "swims" in the same way an airplane "flies."

But for some reason, in English anyway, we seem to define "swim" such that, by definition, only an animal can do it. Or at least, it must behave similarly to a swimming animal...such as by flapping fins and the like.

Meanwhile we don't think an airplane doesn't fly simply because it doesn't flap its wings.

The point is that semantics tells you very little about reality. And debating semantics is not particularly interesting, or at least a good way of missing the point.

Walking bicycles? Well, ok. That's much more of a stretch, partly because of the fact that there is a human much more directly involved in the propulsion of a bicycle compared to things with actual engines (airplanes and submarines)
My experience two years ago was very different, I'm glad to hear they've cleaned up their act.
Quick spelling correction: It’s Alan Watts. If you’re interested in his talks look up nonduality on YouTube and videos by Peter Russell
wouldn't spam accounts be new? could just be their friend ;)
It also appears to be a reskinned Mastodon but missing the required GPL stuff
> It's all about your perspective. "I have many ideas, I'm working hard to achieve them, and I'd like to keep it that way."

> This could also be construed as static, self-satisfied, and "complacent" in it's own way. Complacency is ultimately a negative and derogatory word - using it to characterize an approach you don't agree with seems disingenuous.

This is a baffling. "Something that is always changing could be seen as not changing because it's never not changing." I'm having a hard time seeing that as a good-faith rebuttal.

The rest, I'm mostly on-board with.
There's probably a way to make money exploiting this.

For example, develop a hiring process to hire smart people with non prestigious backgrounds.

Similarly, I read once that ugly people pay higher interest rates on loans despite being more likely to repay them.

That's a golden opportunity if I ever saw one, legal regulations permitting.
> you can have civilized discussion about myriad controversial figures historical and contemporary—Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Putin, Manson, Bundy, Judas, and Kanye

I don't disagree with your point, but man is that rough company for Kanye in that list!
> and their absurd COVID policy has demonstrated what happens when reality doesn't give a crap how you feel.

Then why are so many blue staters vacationing in florida and texas right now? Honestly, all my friends from california, many liberals, have all decided to move to Florida and tennessee. I'm so sick of this narrative. The COVID policy in red states has not led to drastically different outcomes, despite all insistence to the contrary
And Apple likes to pretend that there are no better payment options. I would prefer to subscribe via PayPal, because it's easier to cancel via them than via Apple's iTunes corpse.
I don't know... maybe because the rural areas grow their food?

Furthermore, I'm not sure your conjecture is even correct. Subsistence farming supported people for centuries before our megalopolises existed.
> Like I feel generally fairly smart in engineering, but I just can’t seem to learn chess at all.

This seems like binary thinking. Can't learn chess over what period of time, with what resources and for what definition of "learning chess"?
Author's site could do with this small css change to make the articles more readable on larger screens:

body {
max-width: 80ch;
margin: auto;
}
> much more flexible than something like WordPress

WordPress is endlessly extensible and customizable, so I don’t think Notion would be more flexible. Maybe Notion is simpler or easier to use, but at the end of the day, you’d still be very limited in what type of site you could build.

WordPress is also getting close to releasing a WYSIWYG editor for the full site, which is also extensible and customizable. But this is already available for content, which is mostly what potion would be handling anyways.

Looking over the list of potion benefits:

1. Nothing to install

2. It's simple - focus more on your content

3. Update and it's instantly live!

4. Use Notion (You already know it)

5. No page limits

5. Potion generates pretty URLs and preview images auto-magically from your page titles

Only 2 and 4 seem to be things which something like WordPress might not have, and they are very subjective anyways. For number 1, there are lots of hosted WordPress platforms which don’t have you installing anything. For 5, there are probably lots of plugins you supplement the default social image behavior if it doesn’t work for you.

I think this is a very cool project, and it’s always nice to see more experiments in the CMS area. But I don’t think flexible is the right word to use to describe it :)

Disclaimer: I’ve been a WordPress contributor, so I’m definitely biased. :p
Show HN: Guided Dystopia, a series of meditations for techbros
Show HN: Reference nav datasets via Python module
A python module for easy access to both reference datasets and user-specified datasets for developing or testing robotics/sensor-fusion/nav algorithms. Also includes utilities for working with common navigation sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, IMU, GPS/GNSS, etc...).

The latest release adds two automotive reference datasets collected using the Honeywell HGuide n380 navigation sensor. This adds to the existing reference datasets for land vehicles and small UAVs.

If interested in either, checkout these pages or feel free to reach out.

Overview of Dataset Resources: https://organicnavigation.com/resources/datasets/

PyPI Page: https://pypi.org/project/onavdata/

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This is long lost fight, anonymity in the UK because under the banner of racism the vast majority of them want to get rid of it and footballers who rally it are very influential. It's just a matter of time.
>Adopt modular nuclear reactors, and produce hundreds/thousands of them yearly.

We have this, they just go in ships and submarines.
Your last sentence is really the key thesis. This isn't an argument to pay representatives (whether that be Congressional or at monetary policy orgs) more, but to have robust controls to better detect and action corruption. Greed knows no bounds (see: corrupt billionaires and Dark Triad personality traits [1]) and humans will be humans, so strong systems must be designed and implemented to defend against improper behavior.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad
Need to implement a 'this is a desktop machine, I'm not going to take my cookies to another continent without logging in again' flag on login.

Though I guess attackers would VPN back near their victims.
He clearly has an engineering and physics mindset and the very DNA of his companies is all about engineering. He attracts excellent engineers in large numbers. I think they would disagree with your assertion.
It was amended. I wouldn't say the law was made more useless. The members of Congress who sit on the appropriate committees to investigate and punish violations are what's useless.

There doesn't seem to be any problem with getting the reports that members of Congress are filing. Check out senatestockwatcher.com and housestockwatcher.com or https://sec.report/Senate-Stock-Disclosures.

The problem is that even though there are known violations, there are no punishments.
>Second, you conveniently omit the part where he says he does support disenfranchised people.

I just double checked, he definitely did NOT say that. At all.
Round Float.pi down so that it's in [0,π]
How is that page zero-info? It clearly explains what the product does. Also:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
DaVinci kept a journal.

There may indeed be something about expressing one's thoughts, especially in writing, that enables them to get better.
I did not see the word "imagination" mentioned in that article. It seems like a glaring omission given the topic. "How can imagination be cultivated?" would be an important question in that context. It could include things like letting kids (and adults) have more unstructured time, etc. We've largely banished boredom from the world now that we're constantly connected to the internet via our smartphones, but boredom could also be important for imagination. In my experience a lot of my best ideas came not with hard focus ("working hard") on a problem but while I was on a walk in nature not particularly focused on anything.
This is about the Fed banning it's own policymakers from owning them, not about congress.
There is a video on the bottom of https://www.rainforestqa.com/how-rainforest-works that shows the product being used, which should answer it!
I agree that the lies about election fraud and whatnot are dangerous, but I fail to see how that's uniquely American. Conspiracy theories exist all over the place, and predate anyone alive today.

I will agree that the acceptance of conspiratorial thinking in conservative circles is especially harmful (I wrote more detail about that in a sister thread), but you don't have to look very far in European history to find them electing demagogues too.
Why are people not considering just growing large trees to capture carbon cut down those trees and just coat them in plastic and throw them at the bottom of ocean/desert or some kind of storage where this carbon can stay trapped for thousands of years ? What am I missing ?

I think growing trees is better than just capturing CO2 directly as growing a large forest might have other advantages and a lot of wood can be used for normal human industry as well.
I wonder what the story was
How? You are literally just making things up now.
I've been keeping tabs on the developer for a while, wondering whether to buy the app. I ended up buying it a few days ago when the promotional pricing was expiring.

At the moment I'll probably only use it for scaffolding models and relationships in new Laravel projects, but the developer does put a lot of work into it if you check out their profile.

However, I've not actually tried it on any projects yet so I can't comment on how well it works other than initial impressions.
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