skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's illegal to use your smartphone while driving, but somehow if you integrate the same technology into the car it is perfectly fine.
From the second tweet in the thread:

It scans the blockchain and rates your set of on chain experiences and credentials

The hard part of hiring is that rating work. Comparing candidates is 99% of the work. He just hand waves that away, which shows a lack of understanding at best.
What always kept me from trying jax is the following statement which is pretty prominent on the jax Github Readme

> This is a research project, not an official Google product. Expect bugs and sharp edges. Please help by trying it out, reporting bugs, and letting us know what you think!

Why doesn't Google push more on this in times where Tensorflow is falling behind in mind/market share pretty drastically?!
just copy a link to the discussion and add a pr template that grants a blanket read only invite
User of Discord for years here, Discord certified moderator and community admin for a content creator you might know (330k+ members).

There's a feature relatively new to Discord that'll help your issue with topic channels, and it's called Threads[1] - similar to, like, Slack's threads in the sense they're essentially mini custom channels for a specific topic of your choice.

As someone who has to decide what channels to make for a demographic of relatively young people (mostly 13-20), we just listen to what those people want. If there's enough suggestions for a channel, and there's no safeguarding issues that mods have brought up (not encouraging sending personal information - something like an #introductions channel can encourage people to send their age and location, for example) then we'll probably add it. This is because channels suggested by the community will reflect what the community want - we've never had a #technology channel suggested because we're a community of people who are fans of a content creator who plays Minecraft and is in a band, not a community of a content creator who makes videos about robots.

The Discord hate in these comments seems to be a range of simply 'Discord bad' to 'Discord isn't scrapeable by Google' - neither was IRC! Discord is IRC for the 21st century, and for large communities it is better: better moderation tools, better onboarding, better server management and it's so much easier for people to join: just go to a link in your browser. No need for a client if you don't want it.

A lot of people's experience with Discord depends on what community they're in. If you're in communities that are toxic, then you probably won't like it. If you're in communities that are welcoming, you'll probably like it. If you're in a large community and don't like how fast the discussion can be, then you probably won't like it. If you're in a very small community with just 5 people but you're after urgent help on something, that might take a while. I've been all of the possible sides of the platform and I love it.

Discord also makes me happy for what the platform itself is doing for moderation, whether that's against the amount of phishing taking place on the platform by adding platform-wide link filters for phishing links, to supporting[2] and educating[3] community moderators by curating articles and guides[2] to help out. I don't think there's any other social platform that actively talks to and supports its users like this.

This turned in a love-piece for Discord, yes, but for me it's the most important website I've ever visited. I've met so many great people and done so many cool things. I hope you can also find a website where you can do that too, whether that's Discord or otherwise.

[1] https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403205878423-...

[2] https://discord.com/blog/announcing-the-discord-moderator-ac...

[3] https://discord.com/moderation
ELI5 JavaScript: Nullish Coalescing (?) & Logical Nullish Assignment (?=)
The government can print money at will. Just look at what's happening recently with inflation. The government does not have the right to devalue people's hard work at a whim.
This, exactly. I'm astounded that people think it's some kind of attention-hacking conspiracy.
RSI has got nothing to do with “bottlenecks”. You can get repetitive stress even if you aren’t doing something at full speed or at full intensity.
> For example, how does the mold know that it just didn't move into a sunny spot?

Why do you think that it does know that?

> Or maybe this is just a cloud and it retracted unnecessarily?

I bet that it does retract sometimes unnecessarily. Every organism has these kind of false positives.

> We don't have AI that are as smart as a slime mold at the moment, it will be an achievement when we get there.

When you say we don’t have this AI do you mean you can’t download it from Github right now, or do you mean it is something humanity couldn’t build if they tried? I assume you mean it in the second sense. Why do you think it is so hard? Let’s say someone, a research project or an alien inteligence gives you such an AI on a thumbstick. How would you evaluate it to test if it is indeed a simulation of a slime mold? In other words what do you expect from the simulation?
They're really working on making automobiles a lot safer by installing breathalyzers in every car. Exciting times!

https://time.com/6086981/bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-brea...
Previous upload and convo of the senate bill text for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28047538

Much ink gets spilled over the machinations leading up to legislation. But the machinations being in the open as they were give us normies a chance express our opinions on it in real time to our representatives. It’s actually the opposite of lobbyists and crony capitalism. Granted, two things can be true and lobbyists and “well funded interests” get their say all throughout the process. Still a world of difference from a bill coming out from closed door meetings with nobody outside even seeing it.
I hate to sprinkle blow on your parade, but coca was a different civilization 3000 miles and a few centuries away from both the Maya and the Aztecs. The only thing they have in common is they or their descendents eventually had their history erased by Spanish colonizers in the name of "civilization".
Definitely tough to "compete" in this space because locally most people end up going to their IDE of choice for heavier workloads and if you do decide to use a terminal editor, you'd rather have it be compatible with things you'd encounter in the wild (e.g. a remote server, someone else's machine).

That being said, this is cool. I've set it as my default editor for the GH CLI to use it for pull requests and the like, let's see how it goes!
Strange. HN seems to automatically change the URL when I post it.

This is the correct one https://kk.org/thetechnium/class-1-class-2-problems/

But every time I try to post it, it changes automatically to kk.org once posted.
> in the real world, we had our biggest outbreak after vaccines were mainstream

Is that supposed to be relevant? When "we had our biggest outbreak" there were/are still sufficient unvaccinated people to transmit an outbreak.

You're clearly defending a fixed point of view here. If you want detailed responses to learn from, stop asking for people to do them yet again and look for what already exists upthread. If you're having trouble finding it, start here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29124446
I’d wager that on average lawyers aren’t on any specific side.
I think it's because a discord server is trying to model a group of friends rather than a topic. The point of the movies subchannel is not just discussing movies. It's about socializing with your friends by discussing movies.
I get where you're coming from. As of now the only press article about this is this little piece in the Tallahassee Democrat that may have led to the Wikipedia image being removed:

https://tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/08/28/man-confused-r...

Nobody else has written about it.

I suspect though Mr. White might possibly prefer to go back to his private life and never hear about Wikipedia again.

If Wikipedia ever covers this, it had perhaps best be in an article about Wikipedia controversies (which could be linked from the Nathaniel White article).
> Are there other promising anxiolytics on the horizon? Even more basic, what are the best options available now?

Well, anxiolytics in general can be grouped in two groups - for acute treatment and for long-term treatment.

For acute treatment, benzodiazepines remain good choice. Therapy with benzodiazepines should not last for more than 6 weeks. Another option is use of 1st generation antihistamines, but tolerance usually develops.

For long term treatment, there are quite many options. Most of antidepressants exhibit anxiolytic effects and they are relatively safe for long-term use. Sympatholytics are also useful - seemingly, slowing heart rate reduces anxiety in mammals. Pregabalin is widely used for anxiety, because it's relatively safe for long-term use.

The gold standard is therapy (first line for anxiety should be CBT). Medication is often warranted but should be used in conjunction with therapy.

Overall, most of mental disorders are complex mixture of psychological and biological factors and best possible treatment usually combines therapy and medication. There is hypothetical logical link - most of antidepressants increase neuroplasticity and neuroplasticity is thought to be necessary for therapy to work.
No source.
Please no Apple-Moonbeam-Chicago's-Compass names.

Unless you can afford a nanny or private tutoring , kids get lots of grief if they have shitty weird names and daycare is bloody hard enough as it is.
> Imagine if each IRC channel on freenode had between 5 and 10 subchannels. It quickly becomes impossible to follow up. It seems it's by design, it's another attempt of attention hacking.

The most effective Discords I’m in have 1-5 channels.

They’re also effective because everyone is there for a reason: Either to keep in touch with a specific group of people, or to discuss a specific topic.

There seems to be an entirely different class of Discord where people are trying to create an entire community. These balloon into monstrosities with 10-100 different channels ranging from on-topic to off-topic. I have no interest in keeping up with all of the different channels or people coming and going.

In the worst case I’ve seen, an initially helpful Slack was split into over 500 different channels for every possible topic. Every time someone tried to start a conversation, several people would jump in to tell the person “there’s a channel for that”. The person would join the channel, see that there were only 4 people in it, and give up. I left when it felt like 50% of the discussions were about policing which topics could be discussed in which channel.

In the larger discords, the conversations seem to be dominated by a small fraction of chronically online users who involve themselves in every conversation. It’s very clearly a replacement for social interaction at that point. A lot of these seem to spring up in conjunction with people building e-mail lists and trying to amass Twitter followers.
> I'm not sure Google should be the only one to decide the web's future.

I'm sure Google should not decide anything at all. We should decide what's right and impose it on them.
Android, iOS, macOS, Windows: Newest version only works on newest hardware. Old hardware not supported anymore.

So, for old hardware:

- Install Linux to desktop/laptop computers

- Install Ubuntu Touch to smartphone, if available
I can't understand why no one mentioned voice control. Isn't that safer than both physical knobs or touch screen?
Doesn't Helion design require using D-He-3 fuel, which should be largely aneutronic, hence doesn't require (much) shielding?

It's not like you could plop a neutronic fuel as a substitute in a design that expects aneutronic fuel.
We also ban quite a few things like CFC’s. Cryptocurrency might not be inherently significantly harmful to the environment but proof of work coins are, so it just comes down to a question of benefit vs harm.

That doesn’t mean we need to ban Bitcoin as a country mandating all computation bound proof of work coins on date X would allow for a transition. However existing miners already have significant investments and are going to keep trying to profit from them which makes such transitions problematic.
> The web3 enabled internet will give you quests, adventures and courses to prove your worth

> You'll learn and earn on-chain credentials

> You’ll use your credentials to prove who you are, what your skills are and what people say about you

So how will this apply to people who are using their time for work or personal projects (or indeed anything else), and not for "web3 quests and adventures"?
People need to stop blindly trusting Wikipedia. I have seen sourced facts that failed a sniff test, and checking the source the article contradicted the source it linked to, and that’s only the times I noticed. Couple that with the amount of other sites and media that copy off Wikipedia (citogenesis) and BS spreads like wildfire.

“Why do you still use Wikipedia?” because the good parts are a great human achievement and even the OK parts can be adequate as a broad outline of a topic.

“Why don’t you just fix it?” I try, but it’s hard when I have a busy day and my edit will be reverted within minutes by a full-time Wikipedian / Expert Wikipedia Rules Lawyer and self-appointed lord of said article.
It's one of my faves too, so many wild ideas in that book!

I've seen Simak's writing being characterized as 'pastoral scifi', I think that's accurate and we don't really have a contemporary equivalent to it.
I worked in a large academic educational technology department at a university for 13 years (as a developer) - and spent a lot of that time immersed in that world of research etc. in the area. The general vibe I would say was quite anti-behaviourist and certainly with more constructivist leanings. I certainly got the feeling that in those academic circles, anybody who admitted to being a behaviourist would be looked down upon.

There are large differences between school education and higher education though. Both my children's school used some software called TT Rockstars for learning times tables which is very much a gamification of that and it did seem to work and motivate the children fairly effectively. A lot of schools obviously experimented with various online systems in the lockdowns here in the UK (and I also did as a parent!) and it was interesting seeing which engaged my children's attention and which didn't.
Nothing new.
You can't install your own software without store approval.
rates your set of on chain experiences and credentials
- If above a certain rating, you’re hired within 60
seconds

The problem is the input data. We have ratings everywhere. Yet the sorting of comments on Twitter and Reddit is complete rubbish. On HN it is better but still not great. I would not want to hire a writer based on their karma on any of these :)

And it is similar in a more professional context. Hiring on UpWork is hard work. Even though they have a lot of scores. But for some reason the scores are not enough to base decisions on.
SolarWinds Investors Allege Board Knew About Cyber Risks
>They're really working on making automobiles a lot safer by installing breathalyzers in every car. Exciting times!

Can't tell if sarcasm.
What websites do that? I'm sure they exist, but I've not come across them on Firefox for a few years now. Certainly not tiring of them.
Tale of Two Flutter Text Themes
This whole time I've been confused how investing more money in roads is compatible with our climate goals. Should we not trying to decommission roads and encourage people to move to denser, walkable and cyclable city centers?
Christians can’t “sell” their souls as it is a category mistake in the first place.

And even if you could “sell” it, in the sense that you could reject God and thus one’s own good and choose instead your own self-destruction (hence the irrationality of evil), you could always repent and receive the sacrament of penance. Therefore, no such contract would be binding.
As another commenter noted, this is a good alternative to Nano (I too need to learn Vim). I've checked this out, and I like what I see so far.

Typically my main use for text editors is for log analysis (mainly Sublime Text). This usually means I write a lot of regex for searching.

With that in mind, I do see one shortcoming in the choice of Lua as a scripting language. It's not really known for it's text processing abilities. One major shortcoming is that it doesn't have a true regex engine. This is something I use extensively.

For most of my use cases, this would require I hack together a native search in the application, and then pipe the buffer to Lua for post-processing. I'm not sure if search/replace pipelines are going to be easy to code in this manner or efficient enough to be worth it.

I use Sublime Text because it uses Python and makes this relatively easy. Or if I'm searching over thousands of logs to use ripgrep and just pipe in whatever that way since it can search 10GB in a few seconds with moderate sized regex.

Otherwise, I like the approach and the helpful commands for the user! It is definitely nice to be able to stay in a terminal instead of using a GUI to edit.
“Rational” in this context seems to mean “prone to reductive and simple explanations”.[1] But I have never heard of a scientific endeavor where people found out that things were more simple than they first hypothesized.

[1] And to be contrasted with those idiots who think that humans are “special” since they think that simple theories are not sufficient... or you know, maybe that organisms in general are complex machines or whatever you want to call it and that, yes, there are differences between a maggot, a bird and a human.
Channels are bad enough (for the reason explained in the post), but slack threads (also available now on discord) are another level of evil.
This is why I don’t understand the approach of golang and rust to keep their APIs so lean and rely on 3rd party dependency management for (IMO) basic enterprise functionality.
I like how you talk about ignoring costs but don't even scratch on that nuclear waste burden which generations will have to carry.
As a middleman, it is in Google’s interest to commoditize its complements, namely the publishers. Given how the incentives are not just misaligned but actually completely opposed, it was always the height of folly for publishers to assist Google (or Facebook).
> When you say we don’t have this AI do you mean you can’t download it from Github right now, or do you mean it is something humanity couldn’t build if they tried?

"Could build if they tried" is a strange description, we haven't made an AI with similar capabilities as a slime mold so we don't know how to do it. Maybe a research team could do it if they tried, and we would learn things from it, but before we have done it I'll say that we can't do it. Similarly 5 years ago I'd say that we don't know how to make a super human GO AI at the time. There was a team in the process of making a GO AI in the works, but we still didn't know how to build it since we didn't know if their tech would be good enough to do it at the time.

> I bet that it does retract sometimes unnecessarily. Every organism has these kind of false positives.

Sure, but it can't get into an infinite loop or hang, or it would die a lot. It needs to be smart enough to survive in most real world scenarios. That is the hard part. It can't just do something like "if I get cold two times in a row I'll retract and stop moving in preparation for the third time", that would probably make it stop way too much. And we do know that slime molds remembers locations of food, so it has a proper memory, likely it has some sort of reasoning about temperatures and locations as well to avoid going to its death. This just has evidence that it even reasons about time and temperature as well, and even detects recurring time series events in addition to everything else it does, that is a lot of features that needs to interact well.

Edit:

> How would you evaluate it to test if it is indeed a simulation of a slime mold?

Simple, you make another team set up some tests for it, and see if it behaves similar to a real world slime mold in those scenarios. Slime mold environments are very quick and cheap to set up and run, so it would be neither hard nor expensive to do.
> Due to it's lack of hermetic builds

Care to explain what that means or post a ref?
That +33% rise in nuclear energy prices is precisely what I'm talking about. It is a product of relentless attacks on nuclear power. Had it seen the same promotion and investment as solar/wind over the last 20 years, it would be -90% too.
Satellite is probably the best option. Probably Inmarsat's BGAN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Global_Area_Network
This is not "modern stack", this is frontend frameworks niche.
As far as the gameduino goes, I believe there was one iteration (perhaps the first) based on the FTDI FT800 chip. the FT810 series can do up to 800x600, but they output as parallel digital data so you gotta feed the R,G,B bytes into a resistor ladder dac or something. I finally got one but I haven't managed to make it work yet.

The other Gameduinos were FPGA based.
You probably have more people contributing on Discord than you'd have just on Github. Maybe 2, 3 or more times as many.

Discord tends to be social in a way Github is not, with lower friction to contribute. And perhaps even a better asynchronous model.

I don't discount your frustrations. Maybe a bot that can create GH issues from Discord would help. With rights to use it spread liberally around the community.

Tell people you need help getting data into Github, give them a bot so they don't have to context switch, and they'll probably surprise you.
Helium-3: The secret ‘mining war’ in space
The problem with such a focus on smallness and simplicity, particularly at higher layers of the stack, is that it requires throwing out lots of people's must-have features. For me and my blind friends, that feature is a screen reader. For someone else, it's right-to-left or bidirectional text rendering (hello TrojanSource). For someone else, it's complex writing systems or support for Unicode characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. And so on. I doubt that any UI framework that fits in 5000 lines of code or less would support all these things. Sure, some of the complexity in the industry can be eliminated, but some is truly necessary. One good thing about Rust mirroring the complexity of the industry is that at least one Rust GUI toolkit, Druid, is taking accessibility and internationalization seriously. (Disclosure: the team at Google that's funding a lot of the work on Druid is also funding me to work on accessibility.)
I love cats, but I can't see any evolutionary benefit to us from caring for baby cats specifically. It's more likely that our mammalian behavioural traits have influenced dog/cat neoteny.
(Sorry to slightly derail the topic, but I think this is an important point.)

> There is no objective truth.

And yet you say that like you think it's the (objective) truth. Or is that just your opinion, or just true for you, etc? I don't think it makes any sense to deny objective truth—it's self-contradictory. When you hear "There is no objective truth", ask "Is that true?". (At least you immediately backpedalled with "Especially for..")

I take your point I think—e.g. more than once on HN I've criticized the idea some people have of starting a facts-only objective 'unbiased' news service as totally implausible and naïve. But to deny that anything is or can be true seems rather to throw the baby out with bathwater.
Presumably if they got baptized after selling their soul you could sue them for damages...