skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Z-Y is a fantastic book, especially if you have a decent math education already. Soviet style math and physics education - if done well- teaches you how to think with math, i.e., mathematics as an augmentation of the human intellect in the Engelbartian sense. Somewhat paradoxically, it's a humanistic approach to mathematics education.

PS: https://mirtitles.org/ is a treasure trove for people who like books from the Soviet Era.
Huh, I’d heard that several times, and that they’d moved to working on Obsidian like a sequel to Logseq. I can’t find anything showing that it’s the same team, though, so I guess you’re right until I see otherwise.
This summary by Jason Kint is pretty digestible: https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1451621332983103492
Also aside from corruption and capture, there are external forces.

States really have little leverage, they want competition but could really just wind up completely unserviced as a corporation says bye bye to their irrelevant market.

The feds dont go heavy handed as they have the capability to and massive leverage, but actually debilitating a company could be giving the market to the other remaining companies which from their perspective is worse because they created the monopoly.
That's in large part due to the garbage fire that is the python ML ecosystem... Python projects that are not ML are pretty stable IME.
Lowtax wasn't an advocate for unfettered free speech lol. He encouraged and enabled arbitrary and capricious punishment for pretty much anything the forum moderators didn't personally like.
Related: I don’t think Windows has a built-in equivalent to Time Machine yet, either.
This type of pedantic and overzealous gatekeeping, with no benefit to the public, got slapped down in US District Court. You can't just take over basic English words.

https://www.techspot.com/news/78096-oregon-engineer-wins-fre...
I'm not sure what you're referring to exactly, but Something Awfully famously censored certain types of porn-related posts leading to 4chan so unfettered free speech isn't something SA has ever really been known for.
The argument is that the whole "web of trust" thing never really took off, so you can't rely on it in practice.
> For me, this sentence at the end breaks the whole argument down - so the adult strategy was indeed more effective at the the thing being optimized for!

I see no such an argument in the article. It is modern psychology, it tries to avoid judgements like "good" or "bad", it doesn't try to prove that kids are dumb (or geniuses), it tries to learn how it is. The core principle can be expressed roughly "people acts the best possible way until proven otherwise". It is like an axiom, though it lacks a mathematical rigor. So this article points to an another direction: while it is beneficial for children to sacrifice material rewards in exchange for better learning, for adults it is more beneficial to concentrate on the rewards. This difference causes them to employ different strategies shown in the experiment. Though this last sentence is not proven by the experiment, there may be other causes, but Gopnik did a lot of research pointing to the same direction: babies and kids are optimized for the learning.

From this follows a practically helpful advice: if you cannot understand your kid's behavior, try to find what she/he is trying to learn by doing what is she/he doing. For example, you told her not to open a cupboard, you know she learned the rule "do not open the cupboard", but now she opens it while looking you in the eye? ("terrible twos" may do this) She is trying to learn how would you react to her misbehavior, and what the best way to deal with it. So you'd better get a grip on yourself, turn on your inner teacher and show her exemplary reaction to misbehavior, which she may adopt later herself against other people breaking rules. She needs to explore the role of a rule breaker to learn how to deal with the rule breaking from both sides, so let her play that role by playing the role of a rule enforcer.

> The question then is - could they set this up such that kids actually perform better than adults?

Probably they can, but what the point of such an experiment? To prove that a strategy stressing learning can give more material rewards when compared to a strategy maximizing material rewards? It is not a psychology per se, it is more like a research of different strategies of a decision making, so it would be better if such a research was done by an AI-researcher.
You lived in a bubble, nobody wanted to be Zuck in my circles and he was mocked ruthlessly for how out of touch and selfish he was. His comment about becoming president was seen to reinforce that. Facebook was also widely seen as rapidly becoming the place for drama and vapid political commentary. This was ... college during 2008, so not exactly last year.
So? Do nothing and let the current monopoly get stronger?
The laws prohibiting that are actually themselves probably in violation of federal case law (1st Amendment based), in case you want to follow your pedantic thread to the end

https://www.techspot.com/news/78096-oregon-engineer-wins-fre...
When Garageband got some FM synths, I was pleasantly surprised by them ... the first FM that didn't immediately need an EQ. (Talented staff then.)

I started reading the article without noting the author's name. When I got through 2/3 of it, the thought was who the hell is this?. After seeing the name, it was of course, who else?!
> how will it determine its position without a reference

It won't. It needs a starting position from an external source, and without periodic updates from some external source, errors will build up in this system just as with any inertial navigation system. As I understand it, this system is just supposed to build up errors much more slowly than existing inertial navigation systems, so it can go longer between updates from an external source before its error becomes too large to be acceptable.
While that's great I like the low-flyby-almost-crash a bit better.
Nazi analogies are obviously the ultimate flamebait cliché. If somebody wants to make a substantive comment out of one, they have a high bar to clear, and the GP didn't even try, so predictably we got a flamewar.

Would you please stop using HN primarily for political and ideological battle? We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what it is they're battling for. I'm not going to ban you right now because it doesn't seem right to do that in response to a moderation criticism (however misplaced), but you're clearly on the wrong side of the line. We need you to fix this if you want to keep posting here. Smiting enemies is not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah tarballs works fine. I know that at least AUR use mostly upstream unmodified tarballs.
I've been in tech since 1997, spent some time at MS (back in NT4,Win2k). The only wage pullback I've seen was dot-com implosion. It lasted maybe two years of slightly reduced pay.
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It's been all dreaming, all along.

Tokamak dreams are just the fever sort: extracting energy from a Tokamak fusor will necessarily cost overwhelmingly more than from fission. But fission is already not competitive, and gets less so every day. Fission could, in principle, deliver not unreasonably cost-ineffective power, but not in the US where its construction mostly delivers tax money via political patronage, with a sideline in grid power, maybe, someday. Small nukes might sidestep that system, but they have a hard time drawing capital in competition with the now reliable graft conduits.

Helion is interesting for its direct "aneutronic" electromagnetic energy extraction route, but dependent on a supply of Helium-3 that it will have to breed up from side deuterium-deuterium fusion. That one, anyway, might work.

But most of the dreaming right now is of the venture capital sort. Billions of dollars will change hands, for years, without a solitary watt-hour pushed out to the grid, while solar is built out as best it can absent those $billions. The more solar and, soon, storage is built out, the lower the price target the fusors and small-scale nukes must compete against.

It is not all gloom for them: they don't need to match the price per watt of peak output from solar, but something like three to six times that, because they only need to match the price of power delivered from a storage system that was charged up during the third of each day when solar is producing well. The odds-on favorite storage systems (favored first for cheap build-out) are not especially efficient, delivering round-trip maybe half of what was put in.

As intermittent solar picks up an increasing share of power generation, some industries will increasingly adapt to maximizing power use when it is cheapest. Those industries won't buy much of more-expensive power, but will instead wait for it to be cheap again. Prime examples of this will include hydrogen, hydrocarbon, and ammonia synthesis from water and air feedstocks, but even steel and aluminum production. Warring against this tendency will be debt service for capital equipment not making money sitting idle. Economic analysis will choose at what prices to start and stop production.
> I don’t think I (or Graeber) “redefined” benevolence at all, and it seems to me a not terrible word to describe the reciprocal trust relationship needed to facilitate the use of debt.

That probably makes banks the most benevolent entities on the planet.
Is there any statistically-significant data on which backup applications are the most reliable? I'm not married to restic, but I'll judge it by first-hand experience in the absence of anything else.
Apple's code is a simple circular barcode, essentially. I worked in one such format long time ago (ShotCode) - they have some benefits like resistance to motion blur and being easy to parse in low res cameras (compared to qr codes, for instance), but can't encode a lot of data (main drawback). ShotCode's reading algo is proprietary, like Apple's, but they're rather simple to implement.

some analysis here: https://www.xeraina.ch/reports/P6_2015_Circular_Codes.pdf
If you accept that one can produce SSDs sustainably, how is that any different from sustainably produced electricity?
You're mainly right about the solution - really only the ISPs can do much, and they tend not to.

CF actually wrote a pretty nice article about challenges in doing so - https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-root-cause-of-large-ddos-ip-...
Yes, you missed the point where you as the programmer can choose the semantics of the language as you go, rather than the language designer doing it ahead of time. Instead of having a language designer pick one spot in a large space of possible designs, the Metaobject Protocol gives the language user the ability to pick their own spot within that space.

You can have sparse objects in the one project where they are needed, while not bothering in projects where they aren’t. You can have version controlled objects, or database–backed objects, or objects which implement inheritance differently. If you can think of it, you can probably do it.
The OP specifically mentions Helion, so it made sense to link to a recent thread about Helion. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered, because there are too many past threads about fusion in general: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

I had never heard of Helion and had no idea it was a YC startup until I saw Sam's article (i.e. the thread I just linked to) on the front page like any other user. YC has invested in thousands of startups. Many get discussed on HN. The community has a close relationship with YC and with prominent ex-YC figures like PG and Sam. Nothing about this is hidden or unusual; it's how HN has been ever since its origins 15 years ago.

If you'd like to post an interesting article about a different nuclear fusion startup, project, or development, that would be great. They're just as welcome.
Thanks, I think I see how to do this, but I haven't tried coding it yet. It is a cool problem and a quick script shows the dumb brute force approach starts failing at d=61. I will try coding my trick to see if it works, if I get some time.
> 6. A depressing number of people start believing in that crap

In "qanon" whatever that is? Seems like it was always massively overblown. Some fringe conspiracy theory among thousands.

It wasn't like the baseless Russia Trump conspiracy theory that fully half the USA believed, was front page news for literally 3 years, and shaped the course of the government, for example. Yet that does not get proportionate air time.

I mean sure any misinformation is worse than none, but I don't understand what is supposed to have been so terrible and dangerous about qanon in particular.
My lead has been working for 30 years as a dev and has told me his salary has been pretty consistent throughout so I don't believe that's the case. The coastal cities project absurd salaries but when I look at indeed across all of the US, 60-120k is pretty standard depending on entry to senior. If they got knocked down a peg, I highly doubt a lot of people working for google or microsoft would be vying for the lame boring "conservative" work environments in the midwest or south.
It’s nothing like reflection or untyped objects.
I once chased
I've never seen/used xargs (/export) like:

export $(sudo cat <protected_credentials_file> | xargs)

Is that the same as sudo cat f | xargs export?

If so, I think an important difference is that mine won't hide the exit code, and you can then answer a sibling commenter (on forgetting without checking) with 'I omitted set -e at the top'.
Kind of funny, we do a lot of this. I have been thinking it's a bit contrived and weird, and does seem to stem from control behaviors and work habits rather than what's best for developing kids. Families are instituitions in their own right though, some amount of this is necessary for sanity.
I don't get the reason for saying this. They published it, without rebuttal, they must support it.
I don't think this is 100% accurate but often spoken about, particularly in tech circles. I think it's more accurate to think of it in terms of if you're not profitable, you can buy time with growth until you can find a way to become profitable. But ultimately profits (and by extension, costs) will always matter.
HackerNews amazes me with how for nearly any topic there will be deep expertise in the thread. Thank you for sharing
> If "longevity" were a bell curve, we would see some humans at the 150 years old mark. We do not.

I agree with everything else (including that its not a bell curve), but this particular reasoning seems off — it could still follow a bell curve even if we never see the rarer items… because we’re only talking about approximating a bell curve. Just as height’s bell curve suggests a 30ft human could eventually occur, but we’d never actually expect it to actually happen in reality (because confounding factors will start to trigger) - but we still say height follows a bell curve.
other market-makers/HFTs
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It'd be great if states actually focused on real problems like education and medicine instead of going after tech which provides services for free and is generally liked.

No one is blaming tech for debt or financial ruin.
are you just ignoring that zillow is a website that people search for their homes and zillow would be, like facebook, like google, like windows, the pureposefully distort results and dark patterns towars their own wares, skewing the actual perception of the msrket?

seems odd to give them any good faith here, given what we have seen with every other xearch platform.
mildly ironic that the FBI employs so many elite hackers but can barely keep its own properties safe
Ah good point! I was definitely swindled by the name.

https://www.iccsafe.org/wp-content/uploads/fact-sheet.pdf

"All 50 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the I-Codes at the state or
jurisdictional level. Many federal agencies, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands use or
reference the I-Codes. Outside of the U.S., the I-Codes are the basis for the Abu Dhabi International
Building Codes, the regional Caribbean Building Standard, the Mexico Residential Building Code, the
Haitian National Code, the Honduras Building Code, Jamaica’s construction codes, Georgia’s building
safety codes and the Saudi Building Code."
https://archive.md/3b3Oy
Autorestic wraps restic in YAML config files, and for that I am very grateful.

https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic
You can just launch a dummy weight in the opposite direction into a body of water.
Robert Martin has some cool videos on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L05WmSXv7k
Some newspapers (I don't know if Bloomberg is included) will publish opinion pieces from multiple sides (not necessarily at the same time). If in a few months, Bloomberg publishes a "no fusion" opinion piece, this will not mean Bloomberg is "now opposed to fusion". Rather, Bloomberg publishes a wide range of opinion pieces as they should.
My cousin has a theory that the (sometimes brutally cold) winters and generally blue-collar background breed a bit of "suck-it-the-fuck-up-and-get-it-done" mentality.
That's fine, but 'quick' can still tell you what you're doing.

Fwiw, I've used restic for a few years, and (still, if perhaps less) agree the docs are not great.
It's a very small minority of communities that are experimenting with UBI, and even less of them doing so with tax dollars as opposed to some kind of charity or otherwise funded study.

I agree our spending is out of whack, but the programs I'd like to see cut for funding bus drivers are the same ones the folks demanding we cut taxes insist we must keep bathing in money, not the ones aimed at helping people get out of poverty. So given no one is willing to give up their preferred programs, raising taxes seems like the only option if we want to keep transporting kids to school.
Well that's what the article is saying, right?

> "Wholesale market makers typically provide price better than the National Best Bid/Offer"
That has changed a tiny bit.

They are suppose to have some experience too, but I imagine that is faked too.

I heard things changed a bit when those two guys from Miami got in trouble forging papers.

(I have nothing wrong with the lowest price on most contracts. Guys with no trail of experience should be able to compete with the big guys. Contracts like software development should be vetted more than price though.)
Time to broaden the research. Go nuts with all the other intelligent animals.
I think today Harding would be categorized as advocating for equity over equality which has gained popularity among people who self-identify as progressives but hasn’t gotten much wider adoption. My, very biased, perception of this is that policy based on equality is easy, it’s a rote application of “you get this — alright, everyone gets this” but equity requires deep understanding of the struggles and needs of each individual community. And I hate to put it in these terms but when you have a population of elected officials who are overwhelmingly wealthy cis het white men there’s a huge barrier to understanding the needs of … well basically all Americans. The only real thing that changes is just how many times over are our elected officials out of touch. It’s definitely possible to people to grok the experiences of people unlike themselves but for the most part they just don’t put in the effort. This is why there’s so much public emphasis on just listening to the experiences of various communities, because for all the problems that come with blind trust you end up closer to reality than the current system of people who think they know better being like “well I imagine they need blah blah blah.”

I’m sad there really aren’t good answers to any of this because our whole govt is designed to elect people who are part of the ruling class and that isn’t gonna change any time soon.
I think it is a safe bet that there will always be new monopolies developing. There are always new markets, and benefits often don't scale linearly with growth.

It's a complicated, error-prone business, trying to disrupt monopolies effectively in such a way that is actually beneficial to the community. If you think about it, the cost/benefit analysis is based largely on economic predictions which are never that accurate.
(people use HDDs for chia, not SSDs, but that's not too important)

I don't care about what will be true, I care about what is true now. If electricity were completely environmentally friendly then the conversation would be moot, as PoW would itself be fine.

But that's not the state we're in. Most electricity is not sustainable.

To me the relevant question is, are HDDs _currently_ produced with fewer environmentally harmful externalities than electricity? I strongly believe the answer is yes. Energy is a small part of the inputs to produce an HDD. You'd have to convince me that on average, the non-energy inputs to HDDs have a larger proportion of environmentally negative externalities than energy itself, or that the energy used for HDDs is somehow less green on average than the energy used for PoW.
Beauty is subjective, of course, but for me at least, these stylized QRs don't look _much_ better than regular ones. And may make it harder for recognition too, for customers used to the big ugly squares-on-squares format
This article explains it somewhat [1]. Still not much more detail, but more nuance than the Reuters piece.

I guess the claim was that they manipulated where bids were placed based on who had the highest bid. So that if a non Google advertiser was going to win the auction, they removed the second highest bid if it was a Google advertiser s.t. the price paid for the slot dropped (second price auction). So in effect, they maintained a higher payout for pubs when Google programmatic bidders won by dropping the second price floor on non Google-programmatic winners. Thus making more money AND converting people towards programmatic.

I believe their counter argument is that the data they had actually just made programmatic better from the start by predicting these outcomes, no fraud needed

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-secret-project-bernanke...
Sand will melt with all the energy absorbed. Water is much better.
They said they were three years away given investment, which they did not get. Now they have the investment they said, then, such progress would depend upon.

Tokamak eating all the fusion research capital has much to answer for. The only sense I can find in Tokamak exclusivity is that aneutronic fusion research does not maintain employment of a population of hot-neutron physicists that weapons work would need to draw on.
It does block-wise (restic definition, file chunks, not disk) de-duplication, so it's not as bad as you are perhaps imagining.
Okay, taking Baltimore as an example, if you have a pod with five children, that's a total budget of $100k for the year. From some quick googling, Baltimore teachers have an average salary of just over $60k, but let's make it say $80k for a tutor to include the value of teacher benefits. That leaves a $20k cushion for food, field trips, classroom supplies, etc.

This basic structure is something that homeschoolers have been doing for decades as well, with $0 government assistance. In that case, you typically have a co-op arrangement where the parents share teaching duties for a small group of children. It's difficult but possible, and government funding would go a long way towards making those sorts of models accessible to more families. Right now it virtually requires a parent working part-time, which is something a lot of households struggle to afford.
It makes me chuckle to think of the contractor’s thought process on how you implement email verification. How could you not even Google something so simple before you reinvented it yourself in the worst way?