skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's the next evolution of doing an fMRI on a dead salmon: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe...
I didn't exactly build anything in terms of creating anything new. I'm in a phase right now where I'm doing a lot of reading and background research. So I just finished reading Laird's SOAR book[1], and the second volume of Goertzel's Engineering General Intelligence[2]. Now I'm working on finishing Pinker's Words and Rules[3].

On the more hands-on front, all I really did was download the source for the various components of OpenCog[4], build them, and get all of that stuff installed. The plan for the next little while is to start playing around with building simple systems with OpenCog and SOAR[5] and gain a deeper understanding of both.

So yeah, wish I had something more exciting to talk about, but that's just where things are for me right now.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262122960/

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-General-Intelligence-Part...

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Words-Rules-Ingredients-Language-Scie...

[4]: https://opencog.org/

[5]: https://soar.eecs.umich.edu/
> "it’s very, very valuable data if you care about the customer experience. [...] What can we do as developers to prevent customer experience from becoming adversarial?"

Pay money for the very very valuable data, instead of taking it and trying to hide behind legalese and finger-pointing and distraction and affront. If studying how people use your thing adds value to your company, run a usability lab where you pay people to study how they use your thing. Contact a company with a lot of users and arrange to give them discounts in exchange for data, agree up front what data will be shared and how it will be used. Offer discounts like Amazon's Kindle-with-ads is cheaper than Kindle. Make it opt-in with limited things you collect and what you do with it, and be trustworthy enough that people believe you only do that.

Microsoft PowerShell collects telemetry and it's opt-out, which is annoying for a shell/programming language. But there is a public help document about what is collected and how to opt-out[1] and the source code is on GitHub[2]. Even then I wouldn't be surprised if that was the proverbial straw which broke the camel's back. As developers keep abusing people's trust and taking liberties, something will be. It's a tragedy of the commons situation, why would you stop abusing the ~~environment~~ customer a little bit for a good reason when others are doing worse and they won't stop?

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

[2] https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/src/Sys...
> 1. “Random Walk Down Wall Street” to understand index funds and why they generally outperform.

Some of the simple logic/arithmetic behind passive funds versus active funds:

* https://web.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/active/active.htm

The author has an Economics Nobel:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Sharpe

* https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1990/sum...
Hum, is interesting but, trying to talk with sperm whales has its own special type of risks. The whale reply could kill you.
Nb is a command line note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base app
Roughly how much higher is the dose required for this level of detail than that which is considered safe for humans?
> The more effort you make to integrate player actions, the less resources you have to make a compelling story. In the most obvious case: story branching, you have double the work for each branch, some of them may be hard to make interesting.

That's very true, you don't have infinite resources.

> Some Japanese visual novels may have great stories, but they are games in name only. For example the "when they cry" series are literally visual novels (or sound novels as they like to call them), there are zero gameplay elements, and no branching, you are basically reading a book with a few illustrations and (very good) background music.

True, but you also have others like Hollow Ataraxia where you have way more gameplay. Still not as much as a "classic" game, especially these days, but this wouldn't be possible in another format, which I think is key. Same thing with the when they cry series, the music is very important and they wouldn't work as well as book.
Well, SpaceX is attempting a 1/10th cost reduction with starship. That's one way to exponentially increase rates, drop the cost dramatically so a far larger number of use cases become feasible.

Then you might get space hooks, orbital cannons, asteroid/moon mining etc. It's kind of akin to Moore's "law" which really is an observation of continual investment, research, and production to enable larger and larger economic uses.

Space has a near-infinite (relative to our experience) of "potential use cases": there's a lot of usable matter out there, boatloads of always-on solar energy without pesky clouds, atmospheres, or night-time, and of course a LOT of room, and no gravity.

So if you get economic profit from launching things into space, and the cost of the launching gradually goes down, even linearly, the amount of use will be a multiple of the linear cost improvement.

I guess Moore's law was what it was because what was being optimized was two-dimensional shrinking.

Space in orbit is a bit of two dimensional (orbital planes) with stacking, but then in deep space it will be purely three dimensional expansion. That's pretty exponential as a driving force.
This is UK specific but people here might find the data represented here useful when arguing about energy sources and use: https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
I've found cinnamon has the best HiDPI support, especially when you need different fractional scaling factors for multiple monitors and can't use a Wayland-based DE because of your GPU drivers (looking at you, NVidia)
I'm intrigued.

1. How is a regular guy going to achieve the same results as a hedge fund with a 10 million dollar portfolio?

2. Regarding Buffett's quote, do you mean "diversification is protection against ignorance?" I think his point is that if you have special knowledge you can take a concentrated position in a stock, but that for the regular guy, diversification is a hedge. Since most stocks underperform and most gains are from a small fraction of stocks, his quote seems to make sense.
Most node 'DI' is done using typescript decorators, which have access to the constructor. If you stick to this, you'll always be injecting implementations, which IMO kinda defeats the point of DI. You should be injecting behaviours, not implementations. The workaround is 'DI tokens', but they're a PIA.

My node.js life improved dramatically when I stopped using the OO paradigms, and just wrote functions in native modules.
No. I didn't know that. Thanks. (WTF? Smh). After 17 yrs of selling music - to say nothing of the loads I consumed prior and since - the evolution never crossed my mind.

But to take your insight to the next logic step...where is all this innovation and creativity? If the means raised raised the tide, where is the result? The trend, again following your observation, should be a continuous spiral up? Now should be The Pinacle of the craft. The most golden of all golden ages. It should be the late 80s to mid 90s endless stream of "WTF was that?" on steroids.

I still know DJs and working high profile producers and to the best of my knowledge none of them is seeing that.

What are we all missing? Where should we be looking? (That's not sarcasm, like the opening line. It's a serious inquiry. Tia)
The first thing to understand is that in your first 5-10 years of investing, you will do worse, probably much worse, than simply investing in a broad index.

Investing, seen as a skill, is pretty unique in being in that you need to become better than most of the others for it to even make sense. You don't need to be better than the median plumber to make good money as a plumber for example.

So if you just want to "learn about investing" in order to make money, I would not bother, unless you want to make this your full time job for the next decade or so.

But every one should learn about economics and the financial system, regardless. I would recommend introductory courses from The Teaching Company/Great Courses. Or indeed a mooc like Coursera, they have some excellent material, not sure why you want to avoid that.
Agreed, Jart's work is jaw-droppingly incredible, on the order of Fabrice Bellard's achievements.

However, I don't see "I wish I was born like this" -- their works encourages me to think and do lots of crazy shit. My previous limitations were just a lack of imagination and creativity.

SectorLISP also encourages the "do anything" viewpoint. The original version was published even though way larger than a sector. Other people contributed, sometimes only by publishing a related project (SectorFORTH). By having an idea and publishing something Justine created something unique.

Lastly the above page shows the "run program and watch its memory in realtime" technique, which is incredible in itself. The tool is called Blinkenlights
https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/
Technically, beating the market should be like being in the top 50 percentile of your class. The reason most big funds fail to do this is because they need to overcome the fees they charge, to match the market.

If you are investing yourself, you won't have the fees to overcome. You do need to be a bit careful around trading costs and taxes. Luck can play a huge factor too. If you have domain expertise in a specific sector, your chances of outperforming the market may go up a bit. You may be able to identify with greater certainty an opportunity to invest in a company that others haven't yet noticed. This can only happen with small companies. With bigger companies, it's hard for some outsider to possess some information that others don't have.

It's also a fine strategy, IMO, to invest in indexes and then focus your time on what you can do best or enjoy that time the way you see fit (for a few people, the latter can indeed be investing)
At least they aren't in your yard.
Well that's one of the more interesting things I think I'll see today! Neat.
>When you're programmer and you're 25 it is. Even with a family.

That's a hell of an assumption. You don't know anything about this person's circumstances. Maybe he has a sick parent who can't travel with him. Perhaps he can't afford to travel because he has to pay for medication because a bomb you paid for injured his brother. Likely he'd encounter the kind of immigration issues mentioned by 5e92cb50239222b. Or perhaps he just feels at home in Iraq and isn't the type who would cope well moving to another place. I could give you fifty possible reasons without breaking a sweat.

> No matter what's the answer — this is a reactive victim's position, looking for external excuse to own problems.

What? This makes no sense. Maybe your english isn't great. It seems that you're trying to victim-blame? After your leaders bombed the shit out of his country? And then your advice was "get out of that shithole"? Is this intentional cynicism, trolling, or what?

I note that you completely failed to address the point I made, which is your complicity in the creation of OP's "corrupt" country. Interesting how you were so quick to judge his country but also so quick to shut down discussion about your own.

> This is the last thing that could help OP right now.

Then why did you bring it up?

> If he really wants to change something, of course.

What would cause you to doubt that he does?
Quite agreed. Granted, I come from the world of analog music made on alcohol powered instruments. But in my circle, the vast majority of musicians are delighted with finding non-commercial outlets for their musical interests. This includes some people who are quite skilled, and a few who have music degrees.

Possibilities include: Playing in church (a huge portion of both amateur and commercial music is religious), entertaining oneself at home, jamming with friends, exploring and even performing esoteric music that can't be commercially viable. Even many otherwise successful professional musicians have noncommercial side projects that need volunteers. For instance if someone is willing to compose something new, or dig up something interesting and weird, I'm willing to chip in and help them try it out, just for the spirit of adventure. I'm satisfied to perform for just a small handful of people who share similar interests from the audience side.

It's not all that different than people who are into extreme sports, cooking, etc., without any expectations of ever being competitive at it.
Same! The other day I learned that the earth is flat, the frogs are gay, and that the covid vaccines are just Bill Gates' latest plan to microchip us.
The telescopes work better in space anyway. The cost of dropping a telescope in orbit will drop, and they won't want to be near-earth anyway so they'll be in lesser valued orbital real estate.
And why in the heck didnt he write it in Rust!

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No need to pay money even. Just ask the customers: "what applications are you using our product for?"

No one who buys such a peripheral would mind; they'd all like it to work better with their drawing software.
I wonder why this trend of fixing sites has gone down when the amount of annoyances is going up. Ad annoyances can be fixed by adblock and missing dark themes with dark reader but still, sometimes

a) the site is slow - so it's better to disable all js from the site and make couple lines of code to fix basic functionality

b) the site has some kind of BS behaviour that's not adblock related but still annoying - like super simple media players that are even worse than native browser ones (tiktok is a nice example)

c) new site that has removed old features
Was hoping for something a little more profound than "use an encrypted storageclass for your volumes".
You didn't answer the question. Maybe you forgot.

I'm curious about this too, so I'll just paste the question here again for you:

which country are you originally from, and where have you moved to?
Sadly the latter. 3e.org
I feel that way about most American blockbuster movies. They all seem to plagued by it.
Well said.

Another reason passing dependencies as a parameter is great is to enforce constraints for a functional call. Say you have a database service that pools connections to your database. If you want to call some general function

loadPermissionRecords(services, id)

and be sure it only uses one connection for this invocation, you can wrap the database service with a facade that implements your resource constraint when calling it, eg

loadPermissionRecords({ …services, database: database.withConnectionLimit(1) }, id)

Sure, you could add the connection limit as a parameter to loadPermissionRecords, but you’ll also have to pass it down to every other function in the call graph beneath loadPermissionRecords…
Wow, new heights in game theory nonsense

I know you're simply explaining the logic but it's still a psychopath's logic
Exactly. If you're in tech, you should be shooting first of all for $500k TC today than $500k pnl, the former is way easier (luck aspect aside). No point in thinking about active investing until you have like 7 figures of own capital to manage.
Libraries are shared by programs and refrences to library routines are automatically resolved at program load time.
>the first season of Breaking Bad (the only one I've seen)

Breaking Bad is one of those shows that gets better with every season (the Metacritic score goes 73 → 84 → 89 → 96 → 99 from season 1 to season 5). The first season wasn't really anything special but it's gangbusters by the end.
Or get a pumpkin size detector working as a phone app and load it on a cheap $150 android phone taped to a stick
But that is exactly the point. You want to ensure that disks later sold by your cloud provider do not contain your data in plain. That's the whole point with encryption at rest. It's not supposed to protect you against an attacker with root access to your server.
I guess the problem with plot on video games is the sequencing.

Some of the most impactful stories I've experienced in games have been more environmental storytelling than plot based. That is, the game expects me to find the overall narrative and story in my own time, usually because the story beats have happened already before my character even existed, and I'm trying to find where the current gameplay fits into it, e.g. Outer Wilds.

If you want a normal "movie like" story, you more often have to Railroad your player along certain paths, or tack it on in between gameplay.

Games like (the finale of) Braid do a good job of showing how gameplay and narrative can coexist in a way that films can't do, and that's one of the lessons for me.

Plot in the movie sense within games can be a fun way to mash gameplay and story together, buy it isn't superior in telling the story. You need to do something different in games to tell a story in a way where games are stronger stronger film, for me, usually slow paced games with environmental storytelling, or games that use your feelings of being the main character to mess with you, e.g. spec ops the line.
YOU chose to kill people not the protag of the film you're watching.

I guess my point is, some games use video game only devices to enhance the impact of their story in a way that only games can, where the games that try to take on films using the tools of films won't be able to.match up with films.
> Utility scale solar PV [...] is now the cheapest form of new energy to deploy.

I've been hearing this claim for a few years now, and I took it at face value, until a few days ago. I was having a discussion with a friend and told him that PV's share of electricity generation must by quite high, and then I checked the EIA website [1], and it turns out only 2.3% of the electricity comes from PV, while about 40% come from gas and 20% from coal.

Something does not add up. If PV is so cheap, why don't we see more electricity being produced by PV?

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Sure, but it’s also a worrisome prospect for those that have had serious issues with WFH for a company to decide to go all-remote. Still doesn’t give them the right to be assholes. :)
Agreed, although it does mean that if you release the volume you aren't relying on the cloud provider to wipe it before reuse (AFAIK they generally do that, AWS definitely does but it's possible other providers might not, especially if you're on some more custom OpenShift style setup).
Isn't QNX a microkernel? I remember it being known for being quite fast?
We have no permanent living habitats in space. ZERO. The ISS is where people live temporarily before returning to earth to recover from the effects of zero gravity.

We are in a desperate race to expand to space vs destroy ourselves before we get there. If you think that race has been won while three nations have the power to end the human race at the press of a nuclear launch button, you're naive.

The Great Filter has a gun pointed squarely at our head and is very slowly pulling the trigger.
> I'm not wining emotionally about it on forums

No, instead you're whining on forums about people "wining" on forums.

Which is much less productive than seeking career advice.
It explains why people use Google and Facebook. They're not stupid. Facebook can get away with much more abuse of its users and still provide net benefit because the users benefit from the network effect, which no competitor has tried to mitigate. Users of most Google products can migrate to competitors more easily.
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20210912-why-china-...

https://thoriumbaby.com/china-sees-thorium-breakthrough-in-g...

https://www.terrestrialenergy.com/updates/
we made a tool to help researchers, but now the husband of the founder likes the name so we are shutting down so he can use it to avoid the negative publicity associated with his companies current name.
Not everything is physical access though. Suppose someone comes up with a way to force S3 to read random storage blocks, or to make a virtualized storage device read past its boundaries in the underlying storage, or to intercept another VM's ring buffer in the hypervisor. It's an entirely different scenario to read plaintext vs read something encrypted.

Even if all it protects is against the scenario of the cloud provider forgetting to wipe a disk, that's worth it.
At least he didn't write it in node.js /s

Other interesting alternatives to c or rust might be vlang or zig.
Isn't this old news? [0][1]

[0]: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/italy-one-euro-home-w...
[1]: https://1eurohouses.com/
> If nuclear was easy, it’d be done

It is done? It is easy? My power needs are completely served right now by hydroelectric and nuclear.

Just because you don't have nuclear reactors in your neighborhood doesn't mean they're more out of reach than solar. HVDC is already widely available. Grid interconnects are mostly political.

We looked at installing PV on a semi-remote home and it was not feasible. The roof was only large enough for a few panels and significant tree removal would've been necessary. The cost was prohibitive.
The true black-hole which is dark and black because of its horizon and from which nothing can escape, belongs only and truly to Einstein's general relativity with its curvature of spacetime;
This is true but only by coincidence and by some wrong reasoning (existence of an invariant and maximum speed was not known or assumed until special relativity); Also a dark star (because it's so massive, corpuscular light cannot escape it) is a very different thing than a black-hole with horizon (=light and nothing can escape because there is no spacetime path that leads to its outside);
Probably this is why his work was not taken much seriously at the time, at least on this point;
Same, I was ready to get my mind blown about how Methane molecules got wrangled into solving SAT.
the “wrong” people in this case are children, and the information is likely to cause injury…
Ask HN: How to Grow My Money?
I’m 26 years old and I write software for big corp. My goal is to be smart early to allow my wealth to compound so I’m in a good position in my 30s and 40s and maybe seek to early retirement.

I currently have a net worth of $550k all cash. 500k is invested in a mix of 401k and various low expense ratio index funds (large, mid, small and international). 50k I have in cash and plan on investing.

My salary is > $200k. How should I consider diversifying my portfolio? Should I be more into crypto? Is index funds a safe bet?
Super old news. I see this pop up every couple of months.
Not really. This happens pretty frequently. Hunting species to extinction, cutting down trees for fuel, etc.
Pumpkin Parades
It's more complicated than that, as you want to transfer the learning to new pieces. In the end, it's really close to machine learning, as you want to create a rather complex loss function.

Just as an example, one of the first things I learned from my Russian master teacher was to never put the thumbs on the black keys.

That's _unless_ it's absolutely neccessary to do so in some of the more advanced fingerings. It also all depends on how large your hands are.

So there's really no one-size-fits-all solution, but I could imagine a transformer architecture trained on master fingerings might actually be able to figure it out.
What about factoring in costs of handing carbon waste onto fossil industry or costs of having no power due to weather onto renewables?

Each power source has disadvantages, and this bickering isn't helping.
Maybe the same huge payloads will enable astronomers to go to space to do their studies for months at a time? Seems like a win if that does happen.