skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to understand what this comment is saying, but I can't follow. Could someone please explain more clearly what exact intellectual mistake the author allegedly made? The exposition in the OP seems very simple and clear, and I cannot seem to relate the definitional issues raised here to what is said in the article.

In the article's first thought experiment, we take a population with IQ 100, pull out the subset with IQ 120, have that IQ 120 subset breed with one another. According to the breeder's equation, we get children with average IQ 110. What is "arbitrary", "ill-defined", "fast and loose", etc. about this? It seems to be a standard application of the equation, no different than how one might breed cows for milk or tomatoes for size. It's quite unclear how the "crucial" clause "from one generation to the next" undermines any of this.

And could we perhaps focus on understanding what was said before muddying the waters with unsubstantiated accusations of eugenics? HN rules say that HN is for learning and understanding, not ideological warfare.
ssh-keygen already does a bunch of other stuff, though it all relates to manipulating and using keys. It should probably really be renamed ssh-keytool or something.
> essentially would write out dialogue and scene descriptions of something that was being filmed 24/7 so the producers could sift through it

That sounds like an agonizingly dull job.

I read once that the job of listening to tapped phones was a soul-crushing experience, as you're forced to listen to the banality of other peoples' lives.
Yes, I first read about Leibniz’s machine from the wikipedia page on the Entscheidungsproblem.

The research on this problem eventually led to the invention of Lambda calculus and the Turing machine (formal languages for computing), which proved that such a project is impossible, as on some inputs they infinitely recurse and can’t output True or False.

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

The source is Martin Davis, 2000, Engines of Logic
Taxation in China (at least by law) is quite comparable to Germany's (40+% when you reach ~$144k) but without all the social benefits. Unlike Germany, there are gray areas in the Chinese system where people find ways to pay less tax. But there are also other cost-inducing things than tax.

In lights of the evergrande crisis, I'm not sure how efficient China's hugely state-directed investment system is. And much won't be achieved had there not been Deng's economic reforms and the tax indulgence that followed.

More than anything, high taxation stifles innovations in China. What you see in China is not real innovation (in the sense of inventing new things), but social-mobility [1] as a consequence of authoritarianism which can result in mass adoption of technologies, etc.

Also, considering the recent Tang Ping (躺平) movement, I don't think China's social-economy is currently in a healthy state.

[1] https://andrewbatson.com/2021/10/13/mobilization-and-modules...
To your first response, argument by analogy is logically disingenuous.

To your second, whatever your beliefs, it is plain to see that preventing illness whether through weekly testing or vaccination (this is not a vaccine mandate because there is a workaround!) can prevent deaths and serious illness. The ends—PREVENTING DEATH AND DISABILITY—don’t justify the means—testing and vaccines? That’s not an argument. That is just stupid, no matter how obscure your label or categorization of the hypothetical groups arguing.
> if he could find a way to symbolically represent these fundamental concepts and develop a method by which to combine them logically, then he would be able to generate new thoughts on demand

Reminds me of some recent neurosymbolic work, like "DreamCoder: Growing generalizable, interpretable knowledge with wake-sleep Bayesian program learning" [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381
Same story here, but being a Sendgrid customer for 6+ years, suddenly the shared IP is blocked as well. After opening a lot of support tickets and getting no response, I had to nag someone here in HN who mentioned working for Sendgrid, he escalated but the response was the same: pay a lot more to get what you used to have.

Migrated to Postmark right away and we've been a happy customer for 2+ years now.
That's absolutely true but I'd widen it to people with mental illness generally.
There are at least 65 million homes in the US.
You’ll need something with a Nvidia 20 or 30 series GPU(or AMD equivalent). Anything with integrated graphics will barely be able to run RDR2 at 1440p 10FPS
Or contribute to Hacktober fest.

Or meet fellow devs at meetups and get into open source.

Or meet people at a local hacker space.

Basically, developing requires people to inject interesting projects and perspectives at you.

Yes. Coding requires social skills. I'm not taking that back.
Bands are constantly reshuffling their members. The Beatles thought Best wasn't good enough and replaced him. It's just how it goes.
Mid-tier Ikea frame and mattress. Mixture of hard and soft pillows so I have some choice. Also recently been setting the bedroom to 18°c as apparently that helps, and it does seem to work. I do have a fairly thick duvet though.
Almost nobody lost their jobs to East EU migrants. Unemployment was at an historic low.

In fact, the areas of the UK with the highest number of immigrants voted Remain (and just in case, EU immigrants were not allowed to vote in national plebiscites).
They could even get some wealthy and politically sympathetic billionaires to fund them. I'm betting a Koch-Musk University will have them salivating.
First question I have about it: wouldn't it be an attractive target for bombing/terrorist attacks or would it be rock solid enough to withstand those?
My wife grew up in Canada. She walked in the snow. 1.5 km.
My kids charter school has no bus.
There best friends are home schooled. And we are thinking of switching to that.

Obviously not viable everywhere.
But there are alternatives
re Veritasium video. Thanks.

Mea culpa: Rereading my initial reply, I see that I was more telling than asking, contrary to my stated intent.

Engagement and impact. Absolutely. Where do you choose to put your focus? I've always preferred "finding my tribe". Building tools for other people like me. Others who have needs like my mine which aren't fulfilled by today's popular hammerspoon.

Instead of persuading people to use my tools, I hope to be found by people who have framed their problem like I have and just haven't found a suitable solution.

For instance, one niche tool I made was a UI layout manager rooted in graphic design's notions for a "design grid". Kids today would call my bespoke solution "opinionated". At the time I described it as "visually and logically correct".

Alas. My strategy has not made me rich.

I'm actually semi-blocked on releasing more of my tools, because I haven't figured out how to pay the mortgage.

Happy hunting.
“…committed to ideological diversity and academic freedom.”

I mean… isn’t that a way to describe the charter of many universities? It’s practically a definition of the tenure model. Perhaps they are arguing that’s been lost in many universities, to which I would question why they believe a new university is a) the answer to the question and b) likely to somehow do any better. Smacks of someone who simply has a different perspective on diversity and freedom rather than a goal of increasing it.
For context:

> The remaining 37 percent of per-pupil spending [1] covers everything from school administration, transportation, food services and facility operations. [2]

[1] In 2019 total per-pupil spending in Minnesota was approximately USD 14 000, so USD 5 180 was available per-pupil for these non-classroom items, including transportation.

[2] https://www.twincities.com/2019/10/27/heres-where-minnesota-...
Yes, glass and metal packaging are appropriate in different use cases and glass is much heavier than either plastic or metal. We're not really trying to find the one true packaging material right? Some are better than others depending on the context.

Glass is pretty amazing material but weight is not where it holds an advantage, nor in tensile strength.

Edit: Heck, even steel versus aluminum depends on the situation. Cans of stuff are usually steel still while beverages are almost always aluminum.
Alaska Airlines is getting rid of plastic bottles and cups for water
If there’s no funding to raise pay for bus drivers causing a shortage, it’s possible all of the above to assemble some semblance of a school day. Maybe some kids drop out of school entirely if there’s no transportation and parents can’t provide it. Inelastic demand that exceeds supply results in shortages.

“This fall, the shortage became dire enough that Steele’s old route — the one where she knew all the kids well enough to take them to their doorsteps when needed — was consolidated out of existence. In October, the district told parents that 12 routes probably wouldn’t be staffed this year. Steele was transferred to a different route with new kids, and sometimes the chaos of route changes and late buses meant she also had to drive kids home from other, equally unfamiliar routes.”
It’s not 8 bits. Most of the Yamaha chips seem to use 16 bits internally in 8.8 format (based on Raph Leviens work). Different models of Yamaha chips had different DAC setups, but on the DX7 the representation was 12.3 floating point - which I think was converted from the internal log scale fixed point to linear scale via a lookup table. So while the DX7 chips technically use both floating and fixed point it probably does all arithmetic in fixed point.
If I were in charge of Google, anyone who approved this change instead of saying something like "WONTFIX, this is ridiculous, fix your app to not put answers in the page source instead" would be fired.
Calculus? Really? Logarithms are basic highschool math in my country…
By that logic (abuse of) the global internet is a problem, but the underlying technology isn’t, if it were localized.
iOS versions of Slack and Discord running on M1
Well.... thanks for ruining my weekend...

Gonna be fun on Monday looking into this, talking with leads, and looking for Mailgun alternates.
They also run ancient shit that was promoted internally. Not to mention how many sites/tools are outsourced to vendors who then outsource development to foreign development vendors.

To clarify, this is concerning from a security standpoint and is not out of xenophobic bigotry.
To just have them in child care, no education, for a year is $12,000-ish. It doesn't sound so crazy that educating them would cost a little more.

https://www.epi.org/child-care-costs-in-the-united-states/#/...
From GitHub to Git-ssb, a destributed Git on secure scuttlebutt
I imagine it does, but I'd be pretty surprised if an area industrialized enough to host a mining farm wouldn't have some laws already.
It's cool that cheap money means that there's investment in stuff like fusion. I just hope when they inevitably go bankrupt when the money dries up the knowledge does not just get lost.
I'm all for decrying leftist propaganda, but if you think driving a massive vehicle while a bunch of screaming kids get up to god-knowns-what behind you is "fun and entertaining" you probably need your head examined.
Everytime I read a story like this I'm reminded of "The case of the 500-mile email"

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

"...But then I tried to send an email to Memphis (600 miles). It failed.
Boston, failed. Detroit, failed. I got out my address book and started
trying to narrow this down. New York (420 miles) worked, but Providence
(580 miles) failed...."
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Would it really be simpler to have 100 lines of GUI setup and tear down, obscuring the most important part (the commands being run)?
Vizio’s profit on ads, subscriptions, and data is double the money selling TVs
You must be trolling
I think you’d have to measure that as calculating the total impact of each option is quite difficult to get accurate.

Additionally some of the costs may be externalized in the case of pollution or trash from single use bottles.
I can't imagine (outside of Texas) its very high at all. Most elementary schools dont have anything besides a basic field and gym and the cost per them is usually slightly higher than high school.

The biggest increases in expenditures are specialists for children with speech problems, reading problems, learning disabilities etc. as professions like speech language pathologists usually earn considerably more than teachers and the number of them within any school has increased considerable too. I'm not making a value judgement - that's just where the money is going.
Another datapoint: North Sweden middle of nowhere:

Class 1 - 9 Walk/bike to school 5 minutes.

Class 10 - 12 Regular buss ride 45 minutes one way.

University either continue same buss ride or move to student appartment and do 5 minutes walks again.
So you can't make your own devices anymore?
Average teacher salary is about $50k per year.

Average student:teacher ratio is 16:1 (this feels low, but I got it from here: https://www.publicschoolreview.com/average-student-teacher-r...)

So those $16k * 16 = $256k which can pay for about 5 full time teachers, which feels like it's in the right ballpark. 1 full time teacher, 1-2 part time assistants, and the rest peanut buttered across admin, other support staff and benefits.
It was abandonned
I didn't write that anything was wrong with any of the three assets mentioned

I wrote how they compete on collateral choices which lets people predict their growth/issuance trajectory. MIM grows faster than DAI for a variety of reasons that DAI didn’t have when it launched, which is not likely that DAI can replicate now or at least not quickly.
They seem to be interested in short-form programming puzzles, I don't really see how your comment applies to that.
> I've often thought that the pragmatic thing to do would be to send people to Mars that already have short life expectancies

Great Idea! I think Musk himself should go around in hospices and hospitals to find terminally ill people to send to die 35 million miles away.

Seriously, you guys have lost your goddamn mind. And I don't mean it in a fun and exciting way, but in a Jim Jones, L.Ron Hubbard and Hitler sort of fashion.

Pragmatic, right.....

I swear, this place is becoming darker and darker by the day, I was just pissed off because I killed a mouse when with more patience I could have just shooed him away, talking about sending people to die on Mars....fucking incredible mate.
Early data shows Elon Musk’s Las Vegas Loop not yet up to speed
I find it interesting how many people love solving problems like the ones available in Project Euler [1] and Advent of Code [2], but are opposed to solving similar problems during a technical interview at a tech company.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=projecteuler.net

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=adventofcode.com
Cryptocurrencies Make Sense as Uncensorable Mediums of Exchange
That doesn't follow. Free speech is a core liberal value. Bari Weiss and Steven Pinker, among many others backing this, are liberals.
The better way to pay-per-click
It's such a nice, tiny step down the slippery slope from "prioritize the vaccinated" to "prioritize the 3x/4x/.../10x boostered," and then "prioritize the people who will indefinitely socially isolate themselves."

Before 2020 and this bizarre invented notion of an individual responsibility to avoid a contagious respiratory disease, an statement like "don't give medical care to people who do bad thing X" was commonly understood to be a fascist line of argument.
Its really not a good name for a band.. Why do you want your music to remind people of scrolling social media?
This is still visible on a fair bit of beer - Sleemans sticks out in memory the most as always having wear rings on their clear bottles.
The Day Winston Churchill Lost His Cigar
I've (Almost) Changed My Mind About NFTs
Yeah you are right, but in the mind of non photographers hasselblad is a ~no name (except for the apollo mission's interested),

BTW: My dad had more minolta's then nikon's in the 80`s-90's...well and some Leica's...and one hasselblad (as a child i seen that monster as a terrible thing from 1900)
It's quite advanced and there are all kinds of different techniques that work, e.g. wavelet analysis, topological data analysis, deep learning, etc. Not much info on deployed applications, of course, not that I could find.

Some keywords for Google Scholar:
"Passive localization", "mm-wave antenna array", "device free localization", etc.

I collected a few relevant articles in this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444

But I'm afraid every time I look there are more I haven't seen before, using different variations on the lingo, such as "passive sensing" and all kinds of different stuff.

Here's a video that really drives it home for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBFMsY5ZP0o
I can't wait for Apple TV to make a Leibniz biopic series as they did with Asimov's Foundation.

It would be so interesting watching her developing Calculus, thanks to her sightseeing powers while working for the emperor.
I've never met a homeless person that actually wanted to get out of homelessness to not do so. Almost all homeless people I've ever run into are the severely mentally ill and drug addicts. It's awful to say this, but they are not worth devoting resources to if they can't fix themselves. They are lost causes until they decide themselves that they are not. It'd be great if we could help them, but it's an utter waste of time to devote resources to these people who just don't want to change. If they want to prove us wrong, they need to show us they want to change. We're not gonna be some sort of saviors to them to foster an enabling environment for them to just abuse.
I mirror data on VPSs to my local storage array with rsync/unison, and then backup the whole thing with borg.
> The 2 dimensions of a complex number do not correspond to translations, but to scalings and rotations of the geometric plane.

I disagree. When multiplying complex numbers, they are viewed as scalings with rotation like you say. But when adding them, they are viewed as translations. If you only took one of these perspectives, then complex numbers would be very simple and not express anything interesting. Their complexity and power comes from alternating between the scaling with rotation perspective (multiplication) and the translation perspective (addition).
We don't learn mahr here
This was why I chose F# instead of Rust for the Darklang rewrite [1] - I just couldn't get async to work well, and the hoops and complexity I had already had to get it even close to working were way too much.

[1] https://blog.darklang.com/why-dark-didnt-choose-rust/
While I agree with your comment in principle, is any shopper happy with the utterly useless ranking system that everybody uses now?

Ranking a 4.9 star item with 500 reviews above a 5 star item is intuitive to many already, and will become intuition quickly for everyone else because it’s broadly more useful. The average customer doesn’t care that much how the sausage is made, they care about quality of the results.

Ranking items is basic functionality and it’s broken across the web. It shouldn’t be a feature that’s only available to users willing and able to fiddle with browser extensions.
Such a shame that grammar wasn't a basic thing back there.
The ripping off of designs stuff is lame and enough to avoid but the 'antisemitism' smear comes from a poorly thought out gag video[1] that's honestly more offensive to the French if anything.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mgsIjQXZ7c
Look at how multiplication is done with a sliderule.

https://www.sliderules.org/react/aristo_0901_junior.html
Excuse my ignorance, but could this possibly lead to an energy source powered by animal waste/urine?
Huh. There are already others implementing the Linux ABI, but I can only think of NetBSD rump kernels and some Plan 9 thing...vx9? going the other way. No reason it shouldn't work.

Edit: Oh, and Darling runs Darwin binaries on Linux, which isn't quite a BSD but is non-Linux
So you think a small doubt you imagine (based on no evidence or expertise) outweighs a known pandemic virus that has killed millions and disabled many more millions?

The second argument you make is again based on this idea of “we don’t know what we don’t know.” But your ignorance is NOT as good as the knowledge of experts, and biotechnology HAS moved lightyears. The genome is sequenced, protein folding can be done accurately in silico, and drugs and vaccines are saving lives.

The vaccines reduce your risk of death more than 90 percent, your risk of transmitting the virus to others by around 50 percent, and saves lives in your community when more people receive them. Not slogans, but hard facts backed by large trials.

And if you don’t want the vaccine, then get a weekly test and stop standing in the way of human progress.
The problem is that the studies that shows masks work are just as broken,

it is simply a matter of whose broken opininon is the "acceptable"

read below how bonkers the stats are in the mask-study that the CDC uses to "prove" that masks work:

http://www.argmin.net/2021/09/13/effect-size/
That's encryption (recipient key), not signing (sender key). But yeah (r)age is pretty useful for that.
"Relocations" was meant as an analogy. The idea is, each time a future is entered, it checks if its base pointer has changed. If so, it fixes up its own pointers, similar to how a linker fixes up self-pointers in a dynamic library. There's obvious limitations but it would handle common cases efficiently.

Anyways when I first tried async, I encountered structural pinning immediately, and I was surprised to learn that users are just expected to write unsafe code to participate in this system. Maybe it really is the best tradeoff but seems at odds with the rest of the language.
These are timing attacks. They're heavily dependent on the specifics of the target. The code has to know what it's measuring in minute detail, because the timing is affected by nearly everything. The exact instructions being executed by the target program, the size and associativity of the processor caches, everything.

That doesn't mean you can't do it. It does mean you can't create a generic exploit that works against all software and all processors, instead of one targeting a specific application on a specific model of CPU. Then people say "it doesn't work for me" because they're using different code or hardware and the code has to be tailored for that, which is work, which nobody is going to do for free to appease hecklers.

> If that's the case Google should be able to develop an demo attack where content of a file in a VM A be readable in a VM B in a jiffy.

In a VM doing what? It can't just be idle. It has to be executing some code whose timing you can measure to extract its secrets, and the secrets in the address space of that process have to be useful in order to get the file, e.g. a password that can be used to sign into the VM. Then the exploit has to be tailored to that software and hardware.

The fact that nobody is willing to do this over a message board post is not proof that nobody can do it if there was a few thousand dollars in it for them. These exploits are not the low hanging fruit; that isn't the same thing as being impossible.
Off topic: What does "he scaled" mean in this context?
Have you been asleep for twenty five years?
This AI Senses Humans Through Walls (Two Minute Papers)
I've been using Amazon SES for a few years with my larger clients. No real complaints about deliverability and since we're aggressively not spam, haven't run afoul of any of their automated tools.
This popped up on HN reasonably recently https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/so-you-want-to... - basically "it's not necessarily as simple as that, where are you getting the water from?".