skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it similar to the two currently in-vogue uses of the world "Metaverse" - you've got the crypto/web3 people using it to describe a world where NFT's are usable and recognised across software (ie. Armor you buy in Call of Duty is useable in Battlefield), and Facebook/Meta, trying to build a social VR environment not entirely unlike the vision of Ready Player One.

It's entirely probably they'll merge at some point if they haven't already.
China’s Exascale Quantum Simulation Not All It Appears
The thing is, the whole thing depends on people actually giving a shit about verifying any of it.

If you see someone with a monkey profile picture, you aren't going to download some specialized software and finding it in the blockchain, verifying that the twitter user is in control of the wallet holding the token and finding the artists keys to check the signature is valid and then auditing other chains and other tokens to check that the same picture was not sold multiple times which would involve scraping the URLs and doing image comparisons.

All to verify that this twitter user actually did spend this money for a monkey picture.
A failed card auth does not remove the obligation to pay. Most vendors write if off, and don't follow-up after a few emails. Plus, they don't want users to get pissed off and post a negative review.

Many vendors have now optimized their billing flow to reduce write-offs. They start charging on the first of the month for the upcoming use, and then cancel the account if the auth continues to fail.
Since I was mostly complaining, it might not sound like it - but I think that embedded Rust has arrived, for some MCUs. If there is good support for your chosen chip / dev board - there's no need to wait around for it to take off. You can even link C/C++ code if you need to use a library that doesn't have a rust equivalent.
Except customer support employees are often well trained on what they can say. Eg in Australia not saying ‘best’ in regards to loan products or giving financial advice. The first problem is easy to solve with generated text. The second is much trickier.
I haven't really tested it in court, though I did get the official correspondence that leads up to it. Friendly law practitioner had suggested that I really don't stand a chance.

Not sure about credit damage, but in case of a loss in such a suit, I'd also have to cover the expenses for the other side, so it's a risky proposition.

With my wife we did consider it for a while, but then decided it's better to do focus on solving that problem with software and thus started working on contrax.app (shameless plug!).
The Professor
FWIW the idea of the Semantic Web pre-dates Web 2.0 by quite a bit, so even the idea of it being Web 3.0 was a bit of an attempt to bandwagon on the success of Web 2.0.
Ow, that hit me right in the feels! That wonderful UI. That wonderful amazing UI!

No light grey on dark grey text, no borderless buttons, no pointless 45% width margins.
Yes.

Afaik, they are looking at measurable traits that we think are associated with intelligence.

Intelligence itself is a much much harder problem to unravel.
The international piece makes this a lot harder. Also rates on Colombia for this kind of stuff are 10% plus.
>"I really can't see a desirable vision of the future with a web based on artificial scarcity, intentional resource waste and anarchocapitalism."

You've got my vote on that one.
It’s Time to Break Up with Our Gas Stoves
So I've built a market for physical assets using the Ethereum/IPFS.

The point is that the data about the assets should outlast the interest of the current owner. It should outlast the physical assets themselves.

Hard to get another architecture which can manage data beyond the lifetime of any given market actor.
ok fine, thought multiple chances would come from the pool or reinvites, not new posters, but ok.
su is old fashioned but it works fine. I don't even have sudo installed on my PC.
I am surprised at the remark towards the end how unlawfully accepted patents cannot be retracted/invalidated.

That totally does not make sense to me: how is this possible?
I think we're in agreement, maybe my phrasing was unclear :-)

My opinion is that we need a mix of energy sources and we need a mix of energy storage solutions.
What I would like to know is - how do you detect who is using an IR blaster?
The Steep Cost of Capture [how big tech controls public access to AI resources]
I don't look for a neutral paper, because I don't think it exists.

Instead, I want to hear the smartest people from the left and the smartest people from the right argue their best points in a calm, reasoned way and check their facts before printing.
(and I should mention we use semantic web tools to describe the physical assets: parametric search)
> since Paul Graham is perceived to be an expert on everything, they can be too.

ROFL.
> I'm a little bit amazed this hasn't caused even more stress than it has for cases like building V8/Chromium

Distros seem to have shifted towards using bundled libraries for browsers. In this case, Chromium uses BoringSSL.

It's too much effort to diverge from the upstream browsers. Besides, security teams for browsers tend to be better staffed than for distros.
The EFF may have something for you.

- Privacy Badger: https://www.eff.org/pages/privacy-badger

FAQ regarding fingerprinting: https://privacybadger.org/#Does-Privacy-Badger-prevent-finge...

You can also test your browser.

- Cover Your Tracks: https://www.eff.org/pages/cover-your-tracks
Most Repeated Read Aloud – Practice with Strategies
i work with IR emitters (LEDs) (similar to this project but with several cameras), in the SWIR range a single LED can easily cost 10-20$. they tend to have very low efficiency at these wavelengths too, typ around 1mW/sr (120 degrees) at 50mA. a good SWIR setup with a camera and led illumination will quickly be 20-50k.
1 - The most recent estimates that I've seen suggest that institutional buyers are still a small portion of the market overall. I have seen no evidence, anywhere, to suggest that institutional players alone could keep home prices growing at this rate.
2 - As interest rates rise bonds and other investments become significantly more lucrative and will draw money out of real estate, as real estate is significantly less liquid than most other investments.
This selective application of values (e.g. being in favor of free speech, as long as you like what is being said) has been going on forever. We have had a system set up to account for this in the U.S., when the perceived threat to free speech was the government. That threat has become faceless mobs and private companies.
I think most of the "magic" starts to fade as soon as you encounter a few bad outputs and quickly become unimpressed.

However, if you retry the same prompt multiple times, one of those is likely to produce a good output. I think it's important to give users of GPT-3 based tools multiple alternatives and let the user decide which of the options they like best.

That's the approach I took with my side project for generating short stories.

For example, with this story [1], not all the options for the progression of the story are great. But if you pick and choose which progressions you like best, you can arrive at a pretty good ending, such as [2].

[1] https://toldby.ai/arK_3OpvpkG

[2] https://toldby.ai/aQAXlq3LNku
popular or my mistake?

iex(1)> OpenAI.engines()
{:error, :timeout}
The Developer's Guide to Building Notification Systems: Routing and Preferences
Your comment broke several of the site guidelines, so it was correctly flagged by users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm not sure where you got "a site that touts $foo, $bar, $baz" etc. None of those things are "touted" by HN. People make up such generalizations, of course, but they seem mostly to be a product of the passions of the perceiver. Those with opposite passions arrive at just the opposite generalizations.
Please don't make the functionality worse just to please the de-googled hacker=news crowd.
> Buying USD is not that easy here and many people simply use an exchange to buy and save crypto, without needing to do any on-chain transaction at all.

So people are using IRR to buy “crypto” on an Iranian exchange, without any on-chain transaction? Does the said exchange even have real crypto backing these accounts? If so, how did they buy it, since there's probably no-one out of Iran that would offer bitcoin or anything against rial.

On a side note, because the majority of today's use of crypto is intermediated by exchanges (which are banks, really) I'd really love to know how “leveraged”[1] they are: that is, how much of the crypto there customers have on their bank account they actually own on-chain. It could still be 1/1 at this point, but it would be surprising given they have no regulatory requirements and it's such an easy way to make money.

[1]: yes, I know, this isn't the proper term, but I just can't recall it right now.
> laying flat and loosing fat [..] I once gained sixpack abs this way

> It would certainly be great if our brains could expend as much energy as physically possible

That's... not how the body works. You should really talk to a med student so you don't make any dangerous health decisions.
Can you supply a link to one of these devices?
Not a huge fan of this nattering, stream-of-consciousness screed. But thanks for posting, got another domain and family to add to my organization’s PiHole.
Thanks for giving me nightmares.
That would work if all candidates are interchangeable if they assert the same plank. In practice, however, candidates X and Y may both have identical planks but wildly different levels of efficacy. People aren't machines.
Some banks make this much easier by allowing you to spin up virtual cards w/ daily spend limits on them.
Do you know what the fuel is? Rockets are unique in that they carry a significant amount of oxidizer with them. A hydrogen container is unlikely to zoom around spitting fire, there's too much fuel for how much oxygen there is and it rises very quickly.

There are still dangers, but practically I'm not sure they are that much worse than a gasoline fire. There are also systems that reduce the pressures needed, like activated carbon beds. Research on them stalled mostly because there was no good way to generate H2.
The fundamental problem with the “open secret” is a lack of a definition of what intelligence is. Something that works very well in our current paradigm may not do so well in another. If a mental trait is more advantageous in another paradigm, that would be classified as intelligence.
thanks for the share! My personal taste is more like Yannic Kilcher videos I think.
> I don't want them to have any sort of public social power, given their capability to totally ruin an innocent person's life

Who are ones that ruin an innncent person's live? It is one who falsely accused, or those who immediatey accept such accusations instead of wait for result of investigation?

In some sense people of sound mind who uncritically accept such accusation and act on that have more responsibility for their actions than a person who did the false accusation during a psychotic break.
I like the idea of Web3, but the problem is immediately apparent when I want to go play with some Web3 technologies: Everything requires money up front, and it's often a non-trivial amount. NFT based games are selling items for hundreds or thousands of dollars and I just want to screw around in the game for fun.

A big part of the problem here is that the high cost of crypto transactions and NFT minting means many Web3 things literally can't afford to let people get started for free.
The original claim was "the overwhelming majority of pressure to cancel books and academics is directed at the left by the right, regardless of what gets column inches and think-pieces."

Many would say that the overwhelming majority of the academy is left of center. This makes it intuitive that if there is censorship of academics, then the recipients of the censorship would be people left of center. But I do not think it follows that the censors are on the right.

I argue that most of the censorship on campus, be it people being uninvited or forced to resigned, comes from the academy itself. It is true that, quite possibly, the vast majority of the people being censored are on the left, but I think it is also true that the vast majority of the people censoring are also on the left.

The right simply occupies very little room in the academy. It mostly exists outside of the academy.

This is not to say that people on the right (mostly from outside of the academy) do not come in with censorious intentions... but my impression is that most universities are very well protected against external interventions. It is simply not the case that a business leader or a radio show host can easily censor a professor on campus.

So if we are thinking about, say, college professors, I would say that we are mostly dealing with a left-left censorship.

That is, the left is not this uniform block.

Kathleen Stock is a leftist:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-59084446
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Stock

Bret Weinstein is a leftist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Weinstein

Verushka Lieutenant-Duval is a leftist:
https://arts.uottawa.ca/visualarts/people/lieutenant-duval-v...

The people doing the cancelling were on the left.
Where better to utilize NFTs (digital art, mainly) than virtual and augmented reality?
Sorry, but I think that's a terrible idea. Unless we're talking about ballot initiatives, I would hate for us to focus more on policy-based voting. What we should be doing as citizens is voting for someone based on our belief that they will represent our interests in the long-term. If you vote for someone solely because they agree with you on a couple of issues, you could be voting in someone truly reprehensible. I would prefer to vote in someone with integrity that I disagree with than someone untrustworthy that says the things I want to hear.

Additionally, all of this ignores the possibility that a representative could change their stance on an issue after receiving more information on an issue. Presidents and Supreme Court justices have changes their stances once their terms have begun or events have taken place during their time in office. I would hate a system that relies on tightly binding the representatives to narrow definitions of hot-button issue stances.
There are estimates that put the total annual RE transaction value in the US at > $1.5 trillion. Blackrock, Opendoor, Offerpad, etc. are small potatoes compared to the overall size of the market.
Credit cards act as a "cost" of sorts. Credit cards are a limited resource, it is not free to acquire more credit cards. By requiring a valid credit card you are basically relying upon the verification that credit card issuers do to prevent unlimited abuse.
Takeaways from my first software developers Meetup
I bought my house for 1.2M in late 2020 and now the latest comps put it north of 1.55M lol wtf.
I'm here for the cynicism but here's the thing: we went from no weekends to weekends; we went from random schools to mandatory school; we went from child labor to almost no child labor with noted exceptions

things do change. we can change them more.

i agree that throuple is an unlikely emergence from those efforts :D
FYI, I get a 404 for both of them.
> I know jets really only make sense with fuel, replace "jet" with "big airplane"

‘Jets’ could make sense even without fuel if you consider that jet propulsion [2] is the generation of thrust using a fast-moving stream of fluid. Today’s jet engines are already turbofans [3] where only part of the propelled air passes through the fuel combustion chamber.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_propulsion

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofan
If Dask doesn't consider their distributed version even on a single node (which is what we were using) to be production ready then they should label it as such.
It comes back to the idea that intelligence comes back to performing well in our current narrow paradigm with all its rules and constraints. It could be very differently defined for instance in a world where the fundamental rules are different.
But I do hope people will think deeply, about the nature of forgiveness in our current culture, about mental illness, and about a disorder I did not choose and which has resulted in me setting my life on fire more times than I can count.

I've been on the receiving end of someone with mental health issues slagging me undeservedly who at some point got the help they needed. And part of that was asking 'forgiveness' from those they'd wronged. When they asked me I had to 'think deeply' about it and in the end I couldn't simply say "sure, we're good". Because the mental health thing might have been the 'reason' or 'excuse', possibly even 'mitigation', but it doesn't in any way fix the damage done. It doesn't fix a damaged reputation. It doesn't change the opinions of the people you convinced I'm a bad person in one of your 'episodes'. This whole thing reads like "Hey...I know I burned down your house, killed your dog and stole your car and I own that...but I was going through a rough patch and you're a bad person if you don't just let it go. Oh...and never tell anyone about the arson, theft and the rest, because, you know, couldn't help myself and if you do you're the bad person".

I do want to be sympathetic to someone whose done wrong, has gotten help, and wants to own past transgressions. We all have things we should atone for. I just don't think that's what this article is really asking for.
Some self-reflection seems like it would be valuable here.
Thanks. This makes Pages a non-starter for me. I look forward to trying it with direct upload!
See also Professor Pangloss.
I don't presume to fully understand someone's inner struggles through a mere article online. Nevertheless, my condolences.

What I find curious is the trend to isolate some condition and how it is not part of some self-defined 'normal me,' thereby abating the guilt for the whole of 'me'. Unfortunately, in my view, mental conditions like this are very much part of a person (that's precisely why it is so difficult to get rid of such conditions) and thus there is no reduction of said guilt for the 'me'.

I recall the age-old defense of abusive behaviors: "it's the hormones, not me." No. Those hormones are very much part of you. And they are your moral and physical responsibility.

Nevertheless, my intellectual model of what constitutes a self does not preclude me from extending my sympathy and condolences to the author. I wish him embrace and tame the inner demon. I wish him peace.
This comment has an interesting solution to that problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29270854
Is DeBoer ‘making himself the victim’?

It looks to me as though he is a victim of a bunch of social vigilantes who have nothing to do with the original situation.

The ‘original victim’ would be better off if these vigilantes weren’t involving themselves in the situation.
The moral case for destroying fossil fuel infrastructure
I'M arguing in bad faith? Tell me who made these quotes.

> misinformation is rarely intentional

> [banning antivax propaganda suggesting a vaccine given to billions of people will do some yet undiscovered harm from a private web platform] is akin to the church silencing Galileo or banning Copernicus’s books on heliocentric theory because they went against mainstream science at the time

> The point is these companies do not have scientists and do not have the latest data [on a topic which we all have the data on]

> Misinformation is not impersonation [he says in response to someone telling him to check out how Fox News is quite literally a propaganda arm cosplaying as a news station]

You are a hypocrite and a god damn fool. Go away.
I agree, but so what? He makes some very valid points.
> Absolutely. The author of the article lives in London, which is notorious for police surveillance (1 camera per 13 people!), but there's no way they'd write a similar article about a Western country.

Are you asserting this because you've researched all the articles that Peter Guest has written, or because you just don't think he would?

A starting point on RestOfWorld - the site's name kind of gives away the focus for their reporting, so it's probably a skewed subset:

https://restofworld.org/author/peter-guest/
Funnily in Russian "мармелад" means something completely different, basically hard jelly candies (think jelly worm hardness), typically coated in caster sugar.
Libre office sucks!
Google sheets is so much better
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. We've had to ask you that before. We ban accounts that keep doing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm generally wary of anything that tries to make up a web version number. Since the internet is a decentralized system, attempting to stick a version number on it is inherently a dumb marketing exercise. Double so when describing something in the future -- maybe you can retroactively say some conventions have become so prevalent as to deserve to be called "web 2.0," but certainly nobody knows what conventions will become prevalent enough to be called 3.0.
Bad sales and support expirence from emlid
A lie of omission is still a lie.
> You might be surprised how good WW2-era scientists were at chemistry and science.

I'm well aware of chemical prowess in that period, especially on the German part. They had a bunch of Nobel prize winners.

However, that's why I said "close-to-wartime". First of all, in case you weren't aware, the Hindenburg was supposed to use helium but due to a lack of helium in Germany (I think it was primarily due to American export restrictions), they had to use hydrogen.

I don't know of other limitations for the Hindenburg, per se, but knowing the overall German shortages of the period, I wouldn't be surprised if they had other structural issues with the Hindenburg itself, especially since it wasn't designed to be used with hydrogen.

On top of this, the Hindenburg design was from the late 20s, 1929, I believe.

If materials science, modeling, etc haven't advanced since 1929, I'll eat a shoe. If we're somehow worse at managing hydrogen after almost 100 years, I'll eat the other shoe.
Attacking another user like that will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Just a quick question - do you work for or contract with Microsoft or their contractors? Because the whole Internet basically disagrees with your take here.
I'm currently looking at this question for my own projects ;-)

When it comes to a job, I care less about absolute productivity and more about relative productivity, salary, people, culture, location (not in that order). But when it's me, myself and I, then focusing on having a language that I can be amazingly productive in becomes a much bigger priority. I remember Paul Graham once writing an article on how he build a search engine company and was so much faster because he decided to use Lisp instead of C.

In terms of productivity, I'd like to see if I can replicate that, at least a bit.
I predict that "web3" will follow the same trajectory as "ML/AI" -- keep stuffing more and more completely different models and techniques and technologies in under the same vague heading until one of them eventually starts to do something really useful and then credit that to the nebulous term itself.