skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work at a trading systems vendor and once in a while, someone would ask "couldn't we use ML to tell our clients what to buy and how much to pay?" My response was that "if we could do that, we'd never give it to our customers and just trade ourselves."

So I always take things like the Zillow estimate with a grain of salt because "if Zillow really believed this number, they'd use it to buy houses rather than put it on their website."

So it was interesting when Zillow actually started to essentially "trade on their numbers" while also sharing them with the public. That was a very bullish sign that the company deeply believed the quality of its signals.

That can be totally normal. Every investment (and in fact, every project - which is a form of investment) happens because people believe that it's a good bet which is different than guaranteed. Some of the most money-making hedge funds are right in only like 51% of their bets, but that's enough!

The thing that somehow went wrong is simply risk management. It seems like nobody with power at Zillow asked the question "how do we make sure this doesn't ruin the company if it's wrong?" UNLESS the scenario we're seeing now is their predicted acceptable worst case scenario.

It's possible that they simply said "this is a juicy bet we want to make. If it goes wrong, we'll loose X millions of dollars and have to fire 25% of our team. Are we willing to take this bet?"
The RISC-V cores are provided as the Verilog source code files (with the Apache license), so there are no binary blobs.

You can either synthesize the cores for an FPGA, or, if you want to make an ASIC, you must combine them with the many other blocks that are needed for a complete device.

After you have a working FPGA or ASIC device, you could use RISC-V tools from other sources, but the Alibaba cores implement a lot of extensions over the base RISC-V, so for optimum performance you should use the tools also provided by Alibaba.

Besides the cores, the Github repositories contain gcc and binutils for the cores and also standard C libraries for both Linux and Android, a Linux 5.10 kernel, patches for the Android kernel and everything else needed to be able to boot Linux or Android on them.
Not necessarily, the 1918 Flu Pandemic for example mostly killed young adults rather than elderly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Mortality
> I noticed some kind of error coming up in trying to export to pdf

Ah sorry, not entirely unexpected actually, as for the moment the saving/loading functionality on Firefox and Safari is a bit broken.

The functionality relies on a newish Web API only fully supported by Chrome / Edge, and I haven't implemented proper fallbacks yet (the plan is to make an Electron app, which fully allows working with local files, but an adequate fallback should be provided for all browsers regardless).

> It would be great if it was possible to export each of the slides as independent png/svg as well.

Definitely an option. Supporting different export formats is on the horizon. Feel free to open an issue / discussion about independent png/svg as well!
2002 MySQL had some limitations on indexing variable length string (varchar) columns. That's the gist of the linked story.
What data have you "observed"? I should also note that I take issue with the word "observed" here. A phenomenon as large as world-scale inoculation calls for large-scale statistical analysis rather than your anecdotal "observation".

What are the many questions that you have?
Yeah, I've had this experience with Five Guys here in Britain - the few times I've had one in London, it's been great. Slightly expensive, but quality 'plain, old fashioned burger'.

Visited one in Harrogate on a stay up there a couple of years back and it was ... bad. Given it was a wee treat for myself after a long day, very disappointing.
Well, their strategy of blaming the nerds will at least ensure that they never have the opportunity to bet big on ML again. No one competent will want to work for them now.
The ultimate scarcity is human attention and creativity - so in the limit that will always be a thing that is a form of wealth. The ownership of digital assets (NFTs or not) is fundamentally an output of a system where someone chooses to expend creative energy into making the asset, and traded that opportunity cost off based on the expected outcome. A scenario where that work would not be something they could capture value from by enforcement mechanisms of scarcity would lead to some of these efforts not happening. (Not all of course, many people do amazing CC licensed work. But it doesn’t pay the bills.)
Every computer needs a robotic orchestra comprised of computer parts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppotron

I sort of have "noise activity indicators" already as my NAS is in an open case with 4 x 14 TiB helium HDDs (ZFS) and the 4 140mm CPU fans are silent until a majority of the 96 cores are under significant load.
You're not wrong, but good luck trying to get Gen III(+) and IV plants approved.
There's Wu Dao 2.0 and Google has 2 models with 1T+ params.
> Interviewer: Are you in favor of a carbon tax?

> Mr. Powell: I don’t want to get into the details of taxes.

> Interviewer: Are you in favor of a cap and trade system?

> Mr. Powell: I don’t want to get into the details of a cap and trade system.

> Interviewer: How do you think a global pandemic would impact the financial system?

> Mr. Powell: A pandemic will have impact on the economy. It will have an impact on the financial system.

> Interviewer: What would the impact be?

> Mr. Powell: If a major pandemic occurred, the economy would be affected, and the financial system would be affected.

Maybe I'm a bit harsh on GPT-3, but I'm not nearly as fascinated by this kind of output as the author.
Unless we come up with a way to override the inner ear I can't see future generations being able to mentally process away the sickness that comes with VR motion.
It depends. Maybe I misunderstood you, but you seem to be implying that I am against the adversarial system. I am not.

The adversarial system is supposed to produce the truth in a fair fight. In my opinion, the system does not allow for a fair fight. Usually the party with the most money can win. There is a lot bias that exists as well. The people in the system continue to grant themselves more privileges that those not part of the system.

The system even situates itself to where it costs more to defend ones innocence than to just plead and pay a fine. One cannot say that our system provides truth or justice when it allows this to occur.
> Even as a teenager 20 years ago I wouldn't work for less than $10/hour.

Lucky you. Sometimes even teenagers have to provide for their family, for even more ridiculous rates because they're teenagers and thus somewhat exploited by society. Not everyone can afford saying no to bad paying jobs.

I'd work for $1 an hour if the alternative was starving or selling my body or dignity. Though in fairness it's much easier and more lucrative to just enter the crime world. No age checks there, but promises of riches and they're always hiring.
Sure, the argument made by crypto people is that is a transitional condition and in a few decades society at large will in general consider information on blockchains (or their descendants) as authoritative in many situations.
He's got some interesting talks on the topic, and sometimes the slides aren't in comic sans!
The difference is that your phone is a utility, not a piece of art. So XR would have to be more practical than the current interface, which, maybe advanced AR will be. But even then, that's just an AR GUI, not a "metaverse".

And then on the non-utilitarian side, XR entertainment/storytelling is already a thing. You don't need a metaverse for that.
Because the deposition, when played for a jury in a civil suit, may cause them to find against you or the party you align with.
Ok then skip the word "value" entirely. People are willing to pay a lot for ETH, because they're willing to pay to issue transactions on the network and that increases the price of the network's currency.

That's not a tautology because it's two different things. If they were only paying for the currency, that could be just a speculative bubble. If the price is based on people paying to issue transactions, that's a price built on actual use.
For a good history of this see Fighting Traffic by Peter Norton:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2924825-fighting-traffic
Chat bots are an usage. I think you might use it for customer support.

One example of GPT-3 powered chat bot: https://www.quickchat.ai/emerson
> ... social presence is the most underrated aspect of VR ... Of course, it's not there yet, ...

All this "body language" talk neglects that vr tracks at most your head and hands. Not how people are stood, or even facial expressions. "Body language" indeed. Too day nothing of the whirly Hurley motion sickness from it.

Maybe one day, but I put it in the same bucket as fusion.
I already feel like living in JS land is coding against a moving target, so refactoring is something that happens extremely often anyway. I wrote and manage a few projects that are several hundred thousand LOC each and my strategy has just been to allow JS and TS to coexist but if I touch a JS file, the first thing I do is refactor it to TS, and then start whatever new work I needed to do. It usually goes pretty quickly unless you have code that was hacked together or designed weirdly in the first place, then I treat it as a good opportunity to do small refactors with types to just clean things up in general. The TS refactor has been going on for maybe a year and a half now and is mostly complete, and I'd say this approach has worked quite well. Maybe if you're working on a larger team you'll need to co-ordinate a little more with when types can be slapped onto existing code.

Just as an aside, the amount of bugs I've found just by refactoring to TS is incredible, the compiler has made me aware of edge cases that I hadn't thought of. Just adding types to old code and getting red squiggles telling me why it won't compile has taught me quite a lot about random aspects of JS that I've never considered.
But digital is a realm of infinite copying, and where true ownership of bits means that you can never show them off (like Shkreli and that A Tribe Called Quest album). NFT 'ownership' is an additional layer on top of the data that can easily be stripped away, as the exclusivity only exists in the minds of those gullible enough to actually value it.

I am very tired of watching humans constantly try to impose real-world economic scarcity into a digital land of infinite plenty. Rather than fight the nature of a digital economy, why not embrace it?
Around here and somewhere around 2008 I had HP come out next business day (which around here in practice always means not next day but the next after that) to fix the screen on my personal nc6320. I paid nothing except the original purchase price of the machine.

Around the same time some friends of me had problems with a "family type" HP PC and it took a few months - before they got someone elses machine with someone elses photos and documents on it back.

The lesson learned from talking to them on the phone was that business equipment and home equipment were served by to different departments, and the difference was not who owned it but what class of equipment it was.

I haven't worked that close to hardware lately and my latest Dell and Lenovo laptops have worked well enough that I haven't really had an opportunity to test what it looks like today ( although that might be about to change since my latest Lenovo has activated "Microsoft Bake my Laptop" 4 times during the last month or so).
That's a reasonable criticism. It works better in Reader View (because you can scale the font down, at least in Firefox), but I have to rotate to landscape as well.
More specifically, Bitcoin consumes about 10GW average. To make all nitrogen fertilizer with electrolytes hydrogen would require about 270GW average. It’s nowhere close.
Not yet, but it's planned for the ~future[1].

For the MVP I though it'd be ok for the user to save the pdf file and use their OS viewer to present it. :)

[1] https://github.com/excalideck/excalideck/issues/29
There is no one problem (nice strawman), but when the CDC makes bold claims in a chaotic, dynamic environment that are unjustified based on the science, which they have done endlessly, it erodes trust to the point where people presume they are bad faith, have conflicts of interest, or are simply incompetent, so subsequent messaging has less effect.
Motorcycles and Mustangs with stock mufflers aren't very loud. I'd recommend banning aftermarket mufflers.
The late-model Chinese printers you see today (which are overwhelmingly duplicates of the Ender 3) are the beneficiaries of lots of community development over the last ten years - this has the added benefit of making cheap and easy printers for new users to get into.

From the Cupcake to now:

1) A constant-speed DC Motor as an extruder is not sufficient for 3D printing, you really need to be able to change how much filament you're moving.

2) A small melt-zone in your hot-end is critical to reducing jamming - This is why the E3D design has been so reliable. Looking through some old pictures, I remember how insane the cupcake hotend was (wrap some Nichrome wire around coupler, and some thermal cement around that, and your thermistor attached to that, and wrap the whole thing with some fiberglass insulation and Kapton tape)

3) Proper mechanical components shouldn't really be substituted - M8 threaded rods are not ACME leadscrews.

I remain amazed at what the community (mostly Prusa, honestly) has been able to get out of 8-bit electronics.
Then, allow me to recommend it :)
At the time the experience was "first class" [1] ;)

I was lucky enough to be a middle schooler when BMUG [2] was going strong. And even attended a few of the Thursday night meet ups they had. I remember one person talking about "encryption" for the first time for me. And how they were thinking about maybe one day computers would need to find more "entropy." E.g., use the random variations in the hardware to seed/salt communication. That was a 'hmm, interesting' experience for me that drew me more towards technology.

I also remember getting access to BBSes via friends of friends that specialized in 'software'. And having handles / trying to come up with badass handles. And other mischievous things.

But it was fun - and with Macintosh software - freeware, shareware, etc., I variously remember different BMUG catalogs - with CDs full of shareware in the backs of paperback books per year or per season, etc. Funny how things have changed and yet the most advanced stuff that was going on then is more or less what's just normal now (higher quality videos, bandwidth, etc.). People have been chatting and posting online for a minute.

UPDATE. These icons are a throwback: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FirstClass#/media/File:FirstCl...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FirstClass

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Macintosh_Users_Group
Rather than contact lenses, how plausible would it be to project an image into someone's eyes from a distance?

As in you'd have an external VR unit that's as bulky as needed to handle face tracking, photonic override, etc. without any direct physical contact or uncomfortable accessories. Does that kind of tech sound further or closer than contact lenses, or would it be so different as to be hard to say?
Deep Sea Projects Endorsed by United Nations Decade of Ocean Science
People making hundreds of thousands of dollars complain because they don't get to keep their insane salaries when moving to less competitive areas.
Lets say P(h) is the price that a home fetches after being listed, O(h) is the price that an owner expects to get from selling the home, and Z(h) is the price that Zillow expects to get if they sell the home. An owner will sell to Zillow when O(h) < Z(h). They will not sell when O(h) > Z(h). Zillow's outcome would then be (P(h) - Z(h)) * (Z(h) >= O(h)).

The extremely important thing to note is that this is an asymmetric information game. Therefore O(h) < Z(h) is going to be self-selected such that O(h) < Z(h) because P(h) is closer to O(h) then Z(h) is to P(h). If Z(h) was actually able to be a reliable and better estimate of O(h) then it would mean that P(h) wasn't determined by information available to O(h) that was not also available to P(h). The market would already offer this value to O(h). So O(h) value is going to be reflective of Z(h). Its only if the non-public information changes the value that O(h) != Z(h).
> they are only designed to reduce symptoms of the disease

How exactly were the mRNA vaccines designed to do only that?
That honestly says more about our misplaced paranoia on nuclear waste and the environment than it does anything else.
The BBS scene wasn't completely homogeneous. In terms of absolute numbers, a majority of boards were hobbyist systems: single phone line, free to use (but limited time per day per user), often a teenager sysop, heavily customized menus and ANSI graphics, curated selection of games and files.

Some of these hobbyist systems were underground "HPAVC" boards, focusing on pirated software and viruses and the like, usually invite-only, and everyone using pseudonyms. Others were clean systems, sometimes requiring real names, usually an adult SysOp. Most hobby systems were somewhere in between the two, at least in my area.

But there were also larger systems with 10-50+ phone lines, running more expensive software (usually MajorBBS/Worldgroup, costing several thousand dollars). These were usually pay-to-use. Sometimes membership also included dial-up internet access; as the BBS scene waned, some of these transitioned to become regional ISPs.

Most boards had local message subs, meaning different discussion topic areas you could post in. Some boards also participated in message networks, such as FidoNet, where you could converse with people across the country or globe -- it just took a day or more for your message to reach all BBSes in the network.

It wasn't a utopia. There were still trolls and ignorant people. I suppose the difference in the dial-up days was that those trolls tended to live in the same region as you, which arguably isn't an improvement.

At its peak, in relative terms there was definitely a bit of a real industry built up around the BBS scene: a few small to medium sized companies, several hundred independent developers of BBS software and games, publications such as BoardWatch, industry conferences such as ONE BBS CON, etc. Compared to the modern software industry, it was absolutely tiny; but the software and computing landscape as a whole was much smaller then.

I started using dial-up BBSes in 1993 (Philly area), and later developed a couple BBS games from 1999-2003 -- by which point most boards had moved to telnet, allowing them to have many concurrent users instead of being limited to physical phone lines. My games took advantage of this by being highly multi-player, and one of those games became relatively popular for that time period, running on several hundred boards at its peak. Developing BBS games was an interesting experience, definitely a mix of positive and negative though.
> shame people that have knock offs in their virtual environment

Because the bullying at school for having non-brand clothing or things wasn't enough. You'll need Supreme(TM) nfts, or become a digital pariah?
Doesn't California have a carbon tax?
I usually store IPv4 as unsigned int, and IPv6 as two 64 bit unsigned ints. But supporting both variants require that I have an a table for each type and a glue table to reference the record in the correct table. Storing simple stuff quickly turns complicated…
And even that conspiracy didn’t last for long.
I had a friend in Castro Valley, his dad got them setup with like five lines! One was always connect to some system at UCB. So I had to dial into Josh's system to connect to Berkeley, to connect to these things called newsgroups.

Oh, and it took for-ev-er to download Leisure Suit Larry. My first disappointing multi-day download attempt.
It really is the whole point. TC39 was not going to define a feature that didn't work in browsers, full stop.

That Node has to take browser into consideration is a very good thing for universal JavaScript. We can now write code that works in browsers, Node and Deno and that's a great thing.

The support in browsers is excellent btw. All current browsers support standard JS modules now. Chrome is leading the way with import maps, import assertions, and JSON and CSS modules, but the other browsers will get there and CJS had nothing comparable to those anyway.
The solution is you use a keyboard and mouse. No need to reinvent the wheel. It can be brought in via passthrough camera tracking.
The second largest rave festival which is the street parade in Zürich Switzerland changed a lot since this disaster in Berlin.

The crowds are tightly controlled and monitored at this and other large public events now. If an area becomes too crowded the police will start redirecting people away. There is also a lot of video monitoring of the crowds to proactively avoid sticky situations from occurring. Another concern sadly nowadays is the possibility of a terrorist style attack with a vehicle so key points are now also locked off with vehicle stopping barriers.
> Lucky you.

Or we could remove luck from the equation and decide as a society to support everyone: living wages, food, housing, health care.

I recognize my luck, which is why I find society so absurd at times. And I for sure have no problem paying higher taxes to extend the guarantees above to all citizens.
Wow! That’s awesome! Thanks for pointing that out.
I did say the prices where I live are a tad extreme. However rising grocery prices are near the #1 concern of most Canadians right now. There's literally articles written about it on every single news outlet right now.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/food-costs-calgary-vi...

https://torontosun.com/news/national/cost-of-food-rising-acr...
> Ask people for typically “American” things, and you end up with a very Red list of characteristics – guns, religion, barbecues, American football, NASCAR, cowboys, SUVs, unrestrained capitalism.

During the 2016 Trump campaign there was much talk about coal workers and such. Yet there are more yoga instructors than coal industry employees—not just miners but everyone employed by the coal industry.

> According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in February 2017, the industry employed 50,300 people. Note: that isn’t miners. That’s the whole industry. (An earlier estimate by the Census Bureau from 2014 had the number closer to 76,000 — still quite small). There are more yoga instructors in the United States than coal miners — and that gap will continue to increase.

> Now let’s do some comparisons. As Ingraham notes, the entire coal industry “employed about as many as Whole Foods (72,650), and fewer workers than Arby’s (close to 80,000), Dollar General (105,000) or J.C. Penney (114,000). The country’s largest private employer, Walmart (2.2 million employees) provides roughly 28 times as many jobs as coal.” In other words, despite its historical importance, coal is negligible economically.

* https://legal-planet.org/2018/08/23/yoga-instructors-bend-co...

Didn't year much about the Yoga Lobby.
I thought that as well, until I read this:

https://www.sitepoint.com/file-bundling-and-http2/

https://medium.com/@asyncmax/the-right-way-to-bundle-your-as...
We spend a sizable % of US energy moving physical bodies around, so apparently people do in fact like face to face communication.