skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a society where making as much money as possible is the end goal, it isn't.
I can really recommend Bankless podcast. https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ really great non spammy content. They have a lot of different people on from all walks of life and really do in-depth interviews.
This means we'll see more effort in optimizing compilers, but probably not a loss of the higher level languages. They're just too useful when it comes to working on large-scale systems. Do you want to rewrite Linux in hand-optimized assembler? And then rewrite it for every single platform that you may want to run it on?
> Uber is literally life-changing

I might be only 26 years old, but even I have memories of my parents easily flagging down taxis in Manhattan. More convenient? Absolutely. "Literally life changing" seems a bit much, though.
If you buy a >=40Gbit/s NIC, chances are high it has an offloading engine suitable for kTLS.
Much of the benefit comes from saving memory bandwidth, AFAIK.
I’ve used Notion before but the lack of any ability to see my iCloud calendar events inside Notion calendar (to prevent blocking time for work when I’m in meetings, etc) is really frustrating.
The paper itself is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09259 with the key conclusion that "Examining the evolution of human concepts using probing showed that many human concepts can be accurately regressed from the AZ network after training, even though AlphaZero has never seen a human game of chess, and there is no objective function promoting human-like play or activations" and "[t]he fact that human concepts can be located even in a superhuman system trained by self-play
broadens the range of systems in which we should expect to find human-understandable concepts"
The ones smart enough to remain unseen are the ones you should worry about.
> The LTT video hit one specific packaging bug in PopOS that was present for only an hour, and was unfortunate.

It's not just that. There are a whole lot more issues that were explained in the WAN show episodes, for example not being able to drag and drop between a GTK and QT app. As a technical user I understand why this happens but am frustrated that this issue exists in the first place as there is also no technical reason why it can't be fixed. As a new user or someone not technically inclined it must be completely mind boggling to have to find out the hard way that certain things don't work between certain apps.
Cancer cells steal energy-generating parts from immune cells
It seems like Alpine's attempt at upgrading to OpenSSL 3.0 caused them a fair bit of stress, only a bit of which was caused by applications still using ancient deprecated APIs.
Yes I think you are seeing it

Before: People might precompute graph scores ("pagerank", ...) and use as features for tabular NNs. Or use simpler and slow GNNs like GraphSAGE bc the domain fit was great (ex: Pinterest social recs)

After: heterogeneity and scale for graphs that fit in CPU RAM (1TB) w decent GPUs

Re:unrolling, yeah a bunch of papers there :) sampling, artificial jump edges, and adversarial techniques have been helping with aspects of generalization (far data, unbalanced data, ...)
Given the fragility of their population, famine alone from lockdowns could possibly explain that.
Also, this 4 millions study was a laughable hedgepog of disparate data and unwarranted assumptions, basically pseudo-science from economists.
I meant so it won't kill us, but I get your drift. :)
Reading further, it seems there is a whole section on Wikipedia on this issue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(animal)

Difficulties in identifying a lost pet through its microchip

It can be challenging to identify a lost pet through its microchip. Not every scanner is capable of reading every chip, as even the best scanners miss some chips. The main issues are patent protection, business interests, and politics. It can also be difficult to ascertain which registry service archives the pet's identifying information. The American Animal Hospital Association Universal Pet Microchip Lookup Tool is an internet-based application to assist in the identification of those registries to which a particular microchip is registered, or otherwise provide the chip's manufacturer. Due to AAHA's effort, it is easier to figure out which registry keeps the animal's identifying information through a microchip search site. By searching the databases of participating companies, the tool provides useful information. To protect owners' privacy, it will not return pet owner information contained in the registries' databases. Instead, it will display which registries should be contacted when a lost pet is scanned, and its microchip number is identified. However, since not all microchip registry companies are involved in this tool, it is missing a significant databank of Avid Identification System Inc.
SerenityOS is interesting. Hope it doesn't get the same end as SkyOS.
> I broadly agree with the author on Bitcoin, but I do not agree on what was said about the gold standard being bad.

The gold standard is/was bad. It could help turn economic downturns in things like the Great Depression:

* https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/financial-markets-an...

And it does little/nothing to help economic stability, as measured by things like the CPI:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...

* https://archive.md/FWKcL

And when it's not doing much for stability, shortages can actually stunt economic growth:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bullion_Famine

Further, adherence to the gold standard also tends to lend itself to austerity which leads to economic suffering (e.g., deflation) which has often people to more extreme politics:

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w24106

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity:_The_History_of_a_Da...

For all of its problems, the current credit-based monetary system is better than past systems. For a (popular) history of money through the ages:

* https://bookshop.org/books/money-the-true-story-of-a-made-up...
Writers write to captivate an indifferent audience not educate one, film at 11.

Maybe some of the ideas would come to fruition faster if spinning in semantic circles for coin were set aside for the engineering work necessary.
I am going to guess that there exist 1 or 2 companies that make compliant sensors, and their list of shareholders recently grew by a few senators? This is how it usually goes
Nuking from orbit works better if you're in orbit.
There are also big reccurent flu events, like the "Hong Kong" 1968-1969 flu that caused between 1 and 4 million deaths (with half worldwide population compared to today).

In fact, supposedly the analysis of just how bad that flu epidemic had been (and how it had been largely ignored) is what basically created the postmodern version of the practice of epidemiology we still use today ?
Circles turned out to be immensely painful to manage, for numerous reasons. The easiest approach was often to simply nuke them all and start over.

Surprisingly, this was remarkably non-lossy. One of the more interesting episodes I had on G+ was when my primary profile was blocked (authentication issues) and I created a new one. In a fit of pique I named that "The Real Slim Shady", and started connecting up with a few key contacts. Within a few days I'd certainly managed to restore my core list of about 100 or so connections. Several people commented on how clear it was to them that this was in fact the same individual.

(I did confirm the association through several other sites, which helps.)

It also revealed the value of quashing even only a small number of sources of major noise.

(See my recent HN submission of Yonatan Zunger's "Privacy, Triage, and Risk" talk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249630 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9HQBCEW9odU https://www.usenix.org/conference/pepr19/presentation/zunger for the relationship between harm-reduction / risk mitigation vs. value-creation. The former is vastly more effective.)

This episode gave me a few insights on the nature of identity and trust. It also reminds me of how rapidly even massively-damaged cities and countries (war, natural disaster, etc.) tend to recover, especially if essential culture remains intact. Perhaps not entirely per their previous trajectory, but often with remarkably little long-term impact. This contrasts with trying to raise a specific region up out of poverty, a lack of institutions and infrastructure, and often a low-trust / high-corruption culture.
The one minute methodology (1984)
He was punished but not censored. In many cases the distinction matters.

The US can't prevent Wikileaks from receiving Bitcoin donations, for instance. They can punish one of their citizen who sent Wikileaks money, but not take the money back.
Hubble update: One camera back, more to come
Hong Kong yes, but not Vancouver.
Bram Cohen's Twitter bio says "Created BitTorrent, but no longer affiliated (nothing to do with BTT)" so not even he is no longer interested in it.
>So batteries are way ahead on efficiency.

Conversion efficiency is a different thing than storage efficiency or transmission efficiency.

Unless your gas tank is leaking, it's efficiency as a portable energy storage device approaches 100%, especially for modern vapor sealed vehicles.
To be fair that's for building the image. The Image itself is debian which is irrelevant from selinux point of view. But I agree, you want your build system to be secure also. Not sure why they give this advice.
The sample approach above was really intended for anyone coming in to academia from the outside (young students need not necessarily have any skill to offer and only need to show clear intent/interest/competence).

If you can bring value to the relationship (sometimes interest is enough, but not always), that will make a big difference.

An HN-specific skill that might provide a mutually-beneficial "in": An ambitious experimental collaboration run by some of my physics colleagues once engaged some CS students to overhaul the collaboration's web-page. The result was one of the nicest research webpages in the (large) department.

Offering something like, "I'd really love to learn a lot more about your research -- I've built out a number of sites [1,2,3]. Could I work with you to improve your research group's page in return for helping me understand the subject-matter better as I go?" may get some replies. Make sure the relationship is mutually-beneficial and not exploitative :) (at a minimum, it can go on your resume).
> This take makes it sound like people who tweet or have a blog are narcissistic or something.

Not everybody is narcissistic on Twitter and some people add value with their expertise, but a lot of people are seriously self centered.
This would fix one of my biggest issues with Europe! All the pleasures in the world except the ability to get good weed anywhere! Sure all the "cool people" have a supply but its just shitty street stuff where the supply chain is completely broken. Its the same situation in Portugal where people are like "look everyone can have some and they fixed the drug problem forever" yeaaah but what about the supply chain? Like one city in the Netherlands is the only place you can go to right now, and the conversation amongst people all across Europe is so immature. Weed is conflated with the hardest drugs possible, and good luck trying to have a conversation about Sativa over Indica! Big oversight, and yes I am grouping 30 countries together because that's my experience.

Gimme at least one country with California-style recreational shops everywhere.

Looks like Germany will be it! Way to go "legalize all fun things" Green party! Didn't notice they got into the coalition, I kind of noticed when the other coalition didn't get all the votes they were used to, but didn't really put too much thought into it.
> while ignoring the (not insignificant) fact that almost all the hydrocarbons we've used so far have been, effectively, free energy

The reference to biology using hydrocarbons as its preferred energy store is one to fat, not fossil fuels.

That’s far from free energy. And life likely wound up that way because its precursors—hydrogen and carbon—are readily available, it’s energy dense both volumetrically and by mass, it’s safe and it can be converted into various forms of energy directly and easily.

Ultimately, the big unknown is the cost of synthesising Jet A. I think it will be low enough that it blows the hydrogen hypothesis out of the water, but I don’t have more than a hunch to go off.
Yes, modern technology have improved health care, but also increased the avenues of spread.
> Allowing some cryptocurrency-billionaire to jump into any game they like with the best possible guns and armour doesn't sound any fun at all.

If the game just trusts any NFT in the right format to be an item, you wouldn't even need to be a crypto billionaire. Minting an NFT costs less than $100 worth of Ethereum according to a quick Google search. Lots of random gamers would pay that much to mint a set of armor that grants + a million percent to damage or whatever.

The only workaround I can see to people minting insanely overpowered NFT items is to only trust NFTs minted by a whitelist of trusted game developers, so you have to actually get the item in a trusted game. But, of course, that completely defeats the purpose of using blockchain. It might as well be a normal API with a database. In fact that would be much more efficient because of the very high costs of publishing data to a public blockchain.
Let me guess: your friend has only been investing for the past 10 to 12 years. The past 10 years were very good times. Yes, there were a couple rough patches (March 2020, anyone?), and years where things went nowhere (2014-2016?) but if you stayed the course, you were more than fine. If you literally did nothing except put your money in an S&P fund, reinvested all dividends, and waited, you'd be up 15% annually. It won't be like this forever...
Ok, what the hell is "bigpox"?
Makes it sound important and exotic.

What English speakers called "cinéma vérité," French speakers called "direct cinema."
Here's a meta site, pick your country -

https://booko.info/?region=us

Or this comment, I got a out of print book here a 10th the price of Amazon, and when I got it, it was also signed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29271060
It's difficult for me to see how AI will replace massive numbers of programmers, rather than expand their productivity and/or change the nature of their work.

Business logic is about getting very tiny details and edge cases correct: "if a, b and c but not d and e, unless of course f and g"... I don't see how that code can be created by an AI in a way that doesn't create even more work for someone fixing bugs.

We have barely scratched the surface of what tech can offer in most brick and mortar industries because this business logic is so incredibly difficult to automate. It seems unfeasible that a magic AI will come along and do what humans cannot do alone.

I think we'll see programming evolve and software engineers will probably be among the first workers who learn to work in truly collaborative ways with AI.
> LKY's son now runs the country.

Thanks. Any pointers to sources that actually know something about the real power structure inside Singapore politics? From my scan of several English-language sites there, it seemed only one -- Straits Times -- acknowledged that the country had any internal politics at all:

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/whats-needed...

So, Lee Hsien Loong is LKW's son?

Also this. Wondering if the Progress Singapore Party is a token opposition that's allowed to exist, provided it never threatens to achieve real power, in order to put a fig leaf on the democracy claim?

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/former-candi...

> a balance of powers/strong constitution

Necessary but not sufficient. Support for those values, and a few others e.g. respect for rule of law, willingness to pay taxes, toleration of dissenting opinions, consideration for future generations, is also required, from some significant fraction of the electorate. A certain "political culture". Decay of which I'd suggest is at the root of any democracy's troubles.
> Your bank account is simply a row in a Cobol database managed by some archaic institution.

Your bank account is a set of contracts between you and your bank which say that when you want to withdraw funds or instruct the bank to send some of your money to someone else they are obligated to comply. The database is merely a summary of your interactions with the bank via those contracts, and their current obligations toward you. Delete the database and those contracts still exist, though the content may need to be reconstructed from other sources.

A similar argument can be made for stocks.

NFTs are just the database entries without the contracts. They have their uses, but it's not really the same thing at all.
Amusing short story about software engineering.

A shame that the book page does not have a abstract.
Note that the article says they want to legalize the controlled sale by licensed shops. This suggests home-growing will likely continue being illegal.

While the legalization is likely a good thing, the article is a bit too trusting when it comes to the supposed motivation not being economical or fiscal. The goal is likely to be able to tax it like cigarettes and wine, and to make it easier for existing cannabis companies (which are mostly already established tobacco companies) to enter the market without fearing price dilution from private growers.
Starbucks and Amazon Are Opening Cashierless Coffee Shop in Manhattan
Check yourself against the Maslach Burnout Inventory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslach_Burnout_Inventory

Usually we develop a habit of working harder when things aren't going well, but at times you have to scale this down.

Maybe take a vacation. Vacations don't mean flying off somewhere. What do you want to do? Sleep? Watch anime? Learn guitar? Do that for 3 days.
Indeed. What a ridiculous article written by someone who hasn't intellectually stepped out of their SV comfort zone.
Then again, there's using it to explore something from an independent research standpoint that's already irrational by finding the edges of unexplored rational thought within the conversation. That could be used, for example, to figure out an approach to something which is typically rejected by convention, but not by proof.
The last 4 years have been outliers, and lucky for everyone (except those folks who sold at the bottom and moved to bonds in 2020.)
We were trying to detect audience members filming at live events and in movie theatres, esp. premieres and film festivals (and this was some time ago, when studios, etc, cared more about this). It worked pretty well, even in the early 2000s. I suspect you could do much better today with some "AI" behind it.
> It's trivial for any author or creator to publish their wallet address; it's simply a short hash value.

It's also trivial for any author to change that message to a new hash so they can sell their NFT's again. Or the service where that message was posted might disappear, so you can no longer view the message and therefore nobody knows that the NFT is "authentic". So you basically get the same problem as any central authority of trust. In this case you trust the message board the author posts on, and you trust the author, and you have to also trust the service hosting whatever art the NFT points to. If you trust those then why not just trust a regular exchange instead?
Just try to remember the spiders protect you from the other bugs.
Web 3 is cool, but I’m not liking how it is usually promoted for crypto blockchain only.
No, the problem is the amount of resources you need to send to make sure the project survives.

So you send hundreds and hundreds of tons of stuff. You need tens or hundreds of thousands of tons of stuff to have any hope of making a colony that can survive for a few years, never mind become self-sustaining.

Multiple spare parts for every single thing, food, water, machinery, power sources... the list is almost endless.

Until there's hard information about what's possible on Mars - exactly what does and doesn't grow, how the seasons really work, how to deal with ecological issues, how to deal with waste, and on and on - you don't even know what you need to send.

There are also the political and psychological problems of keeping relatively small numbers of people in a relatively small space with relatively poor privacy and no natural resources.

It's basically going to be the most expensive and least fun picnic in history.
Dried up in 2019
Why do you say it's not legal in the USA? If it's legal in some states, that means that the federal government should allow it. If they were to step in, that would go against the constitution and the current state of legislation (which I think by allowing cultivation of hemp leaves the door open). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_the_United_States#...
Same family of virus, but not directly related. So, no, there can't be any connection between those events.
Chickens don't transmute into Eagles, notwithstanding both being birds.
Reading up on it some more, it does sound significantly less resource intensive, but it also sounds like migration from PoW to PoS is rather difficult and has some technical disadvantages. Is Bitcoin ever likely to migrate? If not, then it seems kind of moot, but perhaps new PoS players will come along and take over the market?
Anecdotal, but my partner recently went to a lake house for an engagement party. The lake house is a touristy location, and obviously meant to be a vacation home. However, the renters would only list the property as a "meditation retreat." Meaning no alcohol, no noise, no day guests, no fun. They had beach chairs in an unlocked area, and after the weekend sent a $900 bill to the guests. Apparently even though the chairs were freely accessible, using them constituted rental, so they charged $50 per chair per day. How else did they the host know they used the chairs that many times if they were not spying on them somehow? I imagine if they actually did anything, that bill would have been higher.
You're probably not going to go through the hassle of generating or applying for 1,000 credit cards in order to abuse some trial period on a SaaS service. Maybe you do it a few times.

It's the automated bots that a CC prevents. Even with "free" credit cards or generated numbers, there's a lot of friction in going through that to abuse the service's trial period.
Emmm, no? You can download detailed billing and drill down if you want.

If you see differences, one reason is that with hourly billing your monthly bills will be different, depending whether it’s a 28, 30 or 31 day month.
I am literally 22 years old like the article says.

I can still remember pretty well my life before I was always connected. My earlier life was quieter, calmer. I have fun memories of my old Nokia 5800 :)

I am not sure I live modern technology that much different than older people. Just like many people grew up with home appliances or cars being the norm.
A lot of new crypto developments are basically solutions for a problem that is already solved. But when you add crypto, you get funding. $$$
Variola is so an obviously scary and debilitating disease that an isolated outbreak would be easily contained. And you're only actively contagious after you become obviously sick.
For every person who is skeptical to the "new" vaccines you'll find a person skeptical to the "old" vaccines, and I'd be surprised if there wasn't significant overlap (i.e. the people saying that they don't want to take the COVID vaccines because they're too new suddenly saying that they don't want to take the smallpox vaccine for $reasons).

Doesn't help that the "standard" smallpox vaccine is quite nasty in terms of application and side effects (leaves a scar): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine#ACAM2000