skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, at least in my experience, no.

I feel like I grew up on forums and I'm still followed around by the psychological archetypes and ghosts of the long-term friends and acquaintances and their personalities many years later.

I've been in communities with theologians, philosophers, republicans, democrats, economists, poor, rich, nutjobs, communists, programmers, non-programmers, truck drivers, radicals and straight down the middle types. People from Europe, Asia, South Africa, South America, NZ, Australia, North America. Singletons, children, members with families, and even a couple of oldies.

Modern social media feels so absolutely non-diverse and universally dumb, consumerist, artificial and corporate focused in comparison I don't generally want a part of it.

These days I'm largely stuck on a private discord server without about 20-30 other people that I've known anonymously for the last 5-10 years because there are no more open or interesting communities available on the general web that don't get the doors knocked down by spammers, hackers or hostile actors.
>Everything they claim to do can be done with Bitcoin by itself.

Can you hold stable coins on BTC? How about lending them for yield? Depositing into pools/vaults that aggregate yield, harvest farmed coins, and other strategies?

How about taking the LP tokens from above, and borrowing against them to increase capital efficiency, even in some cases achieving self-paying loans from the yield derived from the LP tokens [0]?

[0] https://abracadabra.money/

To say BTC can "do all of this" is absurd. Where is it? Who cares if the "can do" is theoretical at best. In practice, the amount of things you can do with ETH and similar dwarf what is available with BTC. BTC is a great finite store of value. But why pretend it does things it doesn't actually do? Why over-state it's capabilities in comparison to other cryptocurrencies?
We’ll be riding around in no-steering-wheel level 4 cars (with remote planning assistance when things get out of bounds) very soon.

Over time, those cars will need to phone home less and less. Eventually there will be an article about the “last remote planning assistance center” and how no vehicle has phoned home for almost a year, but they keep it running because no one can be 100% sure that it won’t ever be necessary.

We won’t even know when we hit level 5 and by the time we do, nobody will care.
Afaik Matrix uses whatever homeserver you are using to proxy the voice. Video calls as well
Learn how to enable Auto HDR In Windows 11
>AlphaZero’s neural network evaluation function doesn’t have the same level of structure as Stockfish’s evaluation function: the Stockfish function breaks down a position into a range of concepts (for example king safety, mobility, and material) and combines these concepts to reach an overall evaluation of the position. AlphaZero, on the other hand, outputs a value function ranging from -1 (defeat is certain) to +1 (victory is guaranteed) with no explicitly-stated intermediate steps. Although the neural network evaluation function is computing something, it’s not clear what.

I find it fascinating that we can create something that can "learn" in some sense in a way we don't fully understand. Or am I misunderstanding the meaning of this passage?
Yet those courts condemned a comedian for jokes.
Why link to Chessbase instead of to the arxiv paper directly? https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09259

Chessbase is notoriously sketchy and there is a lawsuit against them for blatantly stealing GPL code.

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2021/our-lawsuit-against-che...
Have you ever wondered if your opinion is derived from first facts or based on a biased selection of sources that you've been exposed to? Not that I am telling this is the case, but have you ever considered that? I am generally curious, because saying John Von Neumann is IYI is a very courageous proposition.
I guess sell your hand sanitizer shares while you're at it.

"infrared sensors mounted on the dashboard and door that register a driver’s breath and touch sensors that capture blood alcohol levels in the skin and the results the company says only take a second"

Hopefully they decide to track for erratic driving instead, assuming that's doable, it would catch texting while driving, alcohol, other mind altering substances, etc.
He doesn’t address the inevitable objection that UTC is “western” centered.
Show HN: I built a simple client side PNG steganography tool
Put all their fields of view on a minimap.
> love your approach to building complex features, building the skeleton first with asserts for uimplemeted code paths

Write code top-down <https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/programming/write-code-top-...>:

> With bottom-up design you start with the components [...] Designing a component is a small tractable task that can be finished and called _done_. You’re creating a perfect, beautiful, reusable jewel. All engineers really want to _do_ is write components. [...] At every level there's pressure to do bottom-up programming. Avoid it. Instead, start at the top, with `main()` or its equivalent, and write it as if you had all the parts already written. Get that to look right. Stub out or hard-code the parts until you can get it to compile and run. Then slowly move your way down, keeping everything as brutally simple as you can. Don’t write a line of code that isn’t solving a problem you have _right now_.
Can vouch for this having heard the theory and tried the "torch at eye-level" method and been able to zero-in on small spiders from a distance of about 5m.

It's quite amazingly effective, especially the first time, when you're not really convinced.
This looks like a monumental effort from the dev. Is it really all 100% original code he wrote? GUI, browser, terminal, js interpreter, everything from scratch?!

Reminds me of Terry Davis' - one of the few programmers I believe is "genius level" in the world.
I don't think so. The double-slit experiment demonstrates light acting as a wave in some circumstances and as individual photons in others [1].

> the basic version of this experiment, a coherent light source, such as a laser beam, illuminates a plate pierced by two parallel slits, and the light passing through the slits is observed on a screen behind the plate.[5][6] The wave nature of light causes the light waves passing through the two slits to interfere, producing bright and dark bands on the screen – a result that would not be expected if light consisted of classical particles.[5][7] However, the light is always found to be absorbed at the screen at discrete points, as individual particles (not waves); the interference pattern appears via the varying density of these particle hits on the screen.[8] Furthermore, versions of the experiment that include detectors at the slits find that each detected photon passes through one slit (as would a classical particle), and not through both slits (as would a wave).[9][10][11][12][13] However, such experiments demonstrate that particles do not form the interference pattern if one detects which slit they pass through. These results demonstrate the principle of wave–particle duality.[14][15]

This is the part I'm talking about, mainly.

> However, such experiments demonstrate that particles do not form the interference pattern if one detects which slit they pass through.

Once they are measured, you know where they are and they stop acting like a wave.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
Reminds me of copy-paste shell script error, between windows and mac, where first line of shell script turned out to be

#!/bin/bash^M

That is, a non-printing carriage return after "bash"

and running the shell script "helpfully" kept telling me:
"/bin/bash: no such file or directory"
Which shouldn't be mistaken for expertise.
These promotions exist in the real world in one way or another.

Also, it is more likely that a few leaders will emerge in the NFT space offering a framework or platform as a service that is used by rival game development companies. You know, like when you boot up a game and see all of the logos for the frameworks they used.

Im not arguing that this is good. Just saying it is more likely to happen than not.
The scientific sciences are also more right wing, the more you go to the softer sciences where opinions are everything the more left the professors lean.

So your observation is just "left wing professors often work on unscientific subjects and therefore more often gets their department shut down". It has nothing to do with politics, if you had a department full of right wingers who called their blog posts "scientific papers" then I'd call for them to get shut down as well. Blogging is fine, just don't call it science or make university courses based on your blogs.
DDG is now even with Google imo. Used to be different for sure. But nowadays, it's a back and forth.

For a lot of people DDG is strictly better: You live anywhere that is not the US and therefore have to deal with a thing called "locality". Sometimes you want search results in language X, sometimes for your location, sometimes you need the "normal" results for Americans.

Google decides all that for you. Badly. There is no setting except - your know, logging into some Google account and finding some setting somewhere for it.

DDG it's literally a switch.
I feel like I vaguely recall a study (probably from being posted on HN) that showed that most people can successfully predict which psychological/behavioral studies will replicate. That's good support for a market.

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24449795

Laypeople can predict which social-science studies will replicate successfully
Drogenprüfung would sound like something from before most people were born. It's basically "this is a term of this day and age, not an old one you just haven't heard before". And of course a fake appeal to internationality: everyone (except for those who made it up) suspects that someone more well-traveled might be familiar with the term, can't risk appearing inexperienced. And yes, it's stupid. There's been a pandemic for almost two years now and most people in Germany could still only decipher the term "work from home" by translating its elements one by one.
You're trying to be pedantic about a line which doesn't exist. No form of censorship has ever been perfect at preventing all activity — the likelihood of punishment is what makes it effective. Newspapers won't cover a story which they expect to be punished for, people will say things in private rather than in the street, etc. all despite technically having the option to shout something on the street. It turns out that being able to say “this is punishment, not censorship!” afterwards while the police are getting out the electrodes isn't very appealing to most people.

In this case, you need to think more carefully about the various ways in which activity can be deterred or prevented:

1. Blockchains give a permanent, public record. That has a chilling effect on anything potentially censorable because while the government might need a witness to know that you dropped $50 in the Wikileaks jar, they can at their leisure tell that you did so with cryptocurrency.
2. “But it's [pseudo-]anonymous!” — if any part of your transaction network becomes known to them, they can link that wallet to you. Better hope that you, your friends, and every business you interact with have perfect opsec and all of your software is flawless about masking its network traffic.
3. Most people use exchanges and buy from businesses which have a legal presence in a country which is part of international agreements. That means that when, say, the US puts someone on a sanctions list transactions might be blocked outright for people using a bank which checks the blacklist and refuses to take on liability for prohibited activity, but if successful those coins have less value because fewer people are going to buy them in return and they'll pay less. You can probably get Bitcoin to Wikileaks, for example, but that Wikileaks wallet holder is going to have a hard time turning it into useful currency which will be accepted by legitimate businesses in most of the world. Paying to launder it is possible but unreliable and you'll be running afoul of the same infrastructure used to track organized crime, and presumably paying similar rates to do so.
I don't really think of that proposed use case the way you are presenting it there -- I think of it more as, there will be a massive public cache of items, available to buy and sell on a neutral marketplace like OpenSea, which only one user can hold at a time, that game developers can bring in-game if they so choose. The implementation details would be unique to each game, and driven by demand of the NFT holders, so maybe some would be better in one game than in another.

And I'm not some NFT zealot by the way. I just think the way you're presenting that use case is quite a strawman. You're saying the companies have to agree to a bunch of stuff, but they don't, and that's the whole potential imo -- each can pick and choose how and if they want to bring a given NFT in-game.

Walking through your points --

- Rival companies have to agree to integration at a deep level -- they both have to independently decide to support a given NFT type, yes, but they don't have to agree with each other about how it's integrated. For instance, one might allow you to don your armor purely for aesthetics, whereas the other might add some performance advantage for owning it.

- They have to share asset formats -- not true -- the original NFT might point to some image, but each game could simply verify token ownership, and have their own assets representing it. Loot, for instance, is just text on a background. There's a lot of room for creativity in interpreting how those text descriptions might be implemented.

- Issues of balance have to be shared -- not true -- because each game could balance and implement the item the way they choose. And again, the base case could be a pure aesthetic implementation.

- They have to add deep blockchain integration -- I don't follow your point there -- they certainly would have to call the chain to verify NFT ownership, but again, they don't have to agree how to represent the items.

- Exchange rate -- isn't that the point of a public market like OpenSea? The market is already there, bidding and offering every day.

- Billionaires paying to win -- who's to say some games wouldn't invert what you'd expect so that common NFTs can actually keep up alongside rares, or even have advantages over them? Maybe in pitting a mob of commons against the rares, for instance. Again, this introduces more possible choice for players -- if some company today breaks their game mechanics to favor pay to win, you don't have a way to move your existing investment in that game anywhere else. Whereas if frustration grows with some popular NFT game, a competitor could come along with better balance and eat their lunch.
Facebook runs PHP via their own JIT, HHVM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHVM). Researching a bit now it appears they've actually migrated to their own subset of PHP called Hack, which is measured in the benchmark, and looks more efficient than even some compiled languages in that benchmark.
Why are multiple package versions a problem? In Rust they Just Work.
I'm quite bullish on web3 after having a chat with a mate who's developing on the terra protocol.

As disclosure, I don't own more than 500usd in crypto (which I mined at a much lower price), don't have a trading account anywhere and have never speculated on it.

However, the reason web3 excites me is this. Imagine the web, but there's a value exchange mechanism built in (a payment system if that helps your imagination).

I see a lot of frontier tech wild west stuff going on and that's fine. Let's not look at the trees here. There have a been a lot of web 1 and 2 approaches that are no longer.
But things like braves attention token to relpace the advertisement model and micro transactions for supporting pages directly.

On chain tools which do away with backends, payment processors, account management etc

NFTs as true assets. Currently the closest thing to a digital asset that we have is an email account that we don't want to have blocked or lose.

Now you have people with 5000$ NFTs that they have a level of attachment to and can use as collateral.

They seem silly now, but it meets the definition of a digital asset. And that will help grow a network of tools that use them.

One example, you put your NFT up as collateral for a DeFi loan, you don't pay it back by the time given, a smart contract repos your NFT.

Obviously this is a lot of speculation and opinion, how it all plays out is not going to be and already hasn't been a smooth ride. However, it's bringing a lot of innovation very rapidly.

And one last thing for the sceptics, try to remember that crypto doesn't solve technical problems, it solves problems at a societal level.
My rule of thumb is that anyone who is near the top of any field of human endeavor is going to be super-busy at all times. Otherwise, they probably wouldn’t be where they are.
Dice / EA would want to maximize their profits through any legal, popular and mostly unpopular means. If that means entering some service agreement to support tokens from rival products then yes, they will. Anything that will increase particiation in their platforms is ideal.
One thing that I try to do as much as possible is try to just ignore this kind of people. They've got their agendas, and I am not going to give them the attention they want.
Thanks! I think that was what I needed.

One last question: I was under the impression that the difference between a neutrino and an antineutrino was only chirality. What other property is there to distinguish a neutrino from an anti-neutrino?
Its one of the oldest vaccines. We started giving it in the 1800s and it was eradicated in the 70's. If immunity waned, it would have been noticed back when smallpox was still a thing by people getting smallpox.
> What if "Web4" made it impossible to turn off a specific portion of content without turning all of Web4 off.

I'm joking a bit.. but my first thought is: ad companies would love it, if I couldn't turn off ads.
Although Solitaire is an impressive literary device, since you could in fact build this and it is in fact good enough to serve the purpose it serves in the novel...

It's a symmetric algorithm, so this doesn't solve any problems Monzo actually has, whereas the elliptic curve public key crypto they use does

It's known to be cryptographically weak. If you write small messages, by hand, and your recipients are, even if they have more technology, reluctant to try to decrypt large volumes of messages too great in number to all be from you, you're safe. But if you used this industrially it would get broken at scale.

As a comparison, RC4 has a biased keystream just like Solitaire, and it has been successfully attacked in practice since unlike Solitaire it was actually in use on the public Internet. The attack consumes a very large number of messages, transmitted over HTTPS in the course of hours and so would not be at all practical for a system used with a few hand-ciphered messages.
Even if you ignore the integration part and just leave it as a marketplace to trade/sell items, as yourself and others have pointed out, don't need a decentralized, public, cryptographically verifiable database (aka crypto/blockchain) for such an implementation.

Steam Community Market[0] pretty much a long running example of such a system, but it is missing one thing, you can't 'cash out' beyond your Steam wallet to spend on other items that aren't games or other virtual items. I think this is a valuable feature as it prevents the massive speculation on virtual goods that would absolutely ruin the ability to collect/use virtual goods for an economically efficient price.

Without it, I 100% believe artificial scarcity would prevail in search for the maximum value extraction.

[0] https://steamcommunity.com/market/
Stripe Radar can be configured to provide signals that would reflect a virtual card, but not explicitly. Further trying to solve preventing virtual cards use potentially introduces false flags.

Requiring 3D secure may.

Depending on the product and audience, the prevalence of virtual cards may be extremely low. Outside of hackernews, the payments industry, and business cards nobody uses virtual cards like privacy.com
I think what OP meant by "serious airplane" was something that could compete with at least a regional jet for short-distance passenger transport (~50-100 seats with at least 500nm range). Almost all battery-electric aircraft in production or on the drawing board are either proofs-of-concept or geared toward hobby use, flight training, or extremely short-range air taxi services (Harbour Air is a fantastic example of a current company for whom battery-electric aircraft make sense for some commercial missions). They're serious in the sense that some of them will fly well enough to become commercially viable, but not serious in the sense of challenging current turbofan airliners for a significant share of the air transport market.
Most cargo deps aren't specified as Git deps, so there's no repository or commit hash to check. Cargo.lock has a hash of the crate itself; there's no requirement that it even came from a VCS repository. You can publish from a local
folder.

Checking the hash of the crate still verifies that the code hasn't changed, I just want to clarify that there isn't some mechanism by which non-git deps are automatically verified back to the VCS repo commit hash they came from.
I'd maybe buy this comment a few years ago.

We are barely able to vaccinate against a global pandemic as it is. Our society would honestly probably crumble if you brought in a really deadly virus like smallpox to the fold.
> In the simplest case, if your prompt contains 10 tokens and you request a single 90 token completion from the davinci engine, your request will use 100 tokens and will cost $0.006.

It's weird that the prompt characters are also being counted towards your token usage. So you're penalized if you have an elaborate prompt with lots of examples (as shown in the docs)?
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I'm sure you've seen this or similar paper before, but a good refresher from the windows 95 team: https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-9...
We do understand how they learn, but the structure of their knowledge is currently hard to discern in the same way that you can't get thoughts or memories out of somebody's head with a MRI scan.
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Played around with this idea using the ToF sensor on my galaxy note 10+ and an app called 'ToF Viewer'[1]

https://imgur.com/a/XcEMxcZ

Camera array of a thinkpad T480 with windows hello (ir camera) and a hazard light/strobe (sourced... locally)

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lvonasek.t...