skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn’t this result off of a Reddit post of one person that got his newly bought Tesla parked in front of his door with the cards inside the car who was asked to open the car with the app for the first time and it didn’t work due to some error?
Rubbish. If it were a matter of laws all banks would be blocking it, not some sporadically.
> Why is it that if I work on a Monday, but you don't pay me until two weeks later, why do you get to hold the interest

Because you signed the contract accepting that.

Because it’s your employers money first.
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We are going through a slow existential crisis only scientists and governments seem to care. Even though we see more and more wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and more, climate change only affects our lives 1 cm or 0.1 C a year, but when the brutal hits our planet, we will not have a vaccine to cure the climate disease. We have all that it takes to change our economy from fossil to renewable in 3 decades.
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Almost no one realizes this, myself included:

> No matter how the values are tweaked, though, Lagos emerges as the world’s most populous city at some point between now and 2100, in study after study. Changing the inputs affects only how soon and by how much.

> A study published last year in the Lancet forecasts that Nigeria will become more populous than China by the end of the century

> In three projections by the University of Toronto’s Global Cities Institute, Africa accounted for at least 10 of the world’s 20 most populous cities in 2100.
Insurers have been responsible for numerous advances over the years, most famously fire safety and fire code, but also bank vault security and the like. Shouldn’t they be stepping up here to work on preventing these attacks instead of cowardly just running away from them?

With the mountains of cash they have at hand they could invest and then make more money by selling surname for would by then by an uncommon event.
I'm not a protocol expert. I understand why one would not want to use a subset of HTTP, but why not use the existing, lighter weight gopher protocol instead and implement a server and client that supports TLS for gopher instead? Because TLS being baked into it seems to be the only technical difference between the two protocols.
IdeaVim feels incredibly close to vim. It can read vim configs and supports every motion I use. There's nothing missing.
Checkv out the reinforcement learning on hanabi task. A cool approach to cooperation.
The sound of money is pleasant to hear, hence he is compensated.
Not sure about bare PyCharm, but if I shift click on any function use, it goes to the function definition. When I shift click on the definition, it shows me all of the uses. I use a lot of custom shortcuts for things like refactoring (rename, move up / down the class hierarchy, move to another file, change signature / arguments) and to show quick documentation.
i don't own a motor car
To me, the term "alien" connotes a level of capability much more interesting than what I've actually seen from most modern systems. But point taken.

And I'd like to believe that you're right about it only being a matter of time and desire, but I do also worry about the possibility that we're actually on a different kind of exponential curve and will instead reach a point where we see diminishing returns.
I was working at a Software, Etc. back then. My manager was fully in the Atari camp and I'll admit his spreadsheets were the coolest spreadsheets I had seen. But I had Killing Game Show so there was really no competition.
I'm aware. It's functionally a mobile PC. I mean isn't Steam a closed ecosystem? Not the Steam Deck, but Steam specifically?
> I'm curious how we're even going to manage 420,000 pixels' worth (60,000 ommatidia, approximately 7 pixels each) of input with only a few hundred transistors, let alone do vector analysis on it.

If you define the problem as importing 420,000 pixels, and target recognitions, and vector analysis, then you need a whole lot more computation than the organism uses. But presumably you're going to also get better results. We both know that's not exactly what's happening, I think.

That is, we know we can solve similar tracking problems with a whole lot less state.

> That's pretending 99.7% of the seven thousand synapses each neuron has are useless for our purpose

Not really... I think we can imagine a whole lot of passives / linear operations involved, along with the big nonlinear processes we need transistors for.

We're also assuming there's no net benefit to cognition that can happen using transistors, I'll note-- e.g. they have a ton of bandwidth compared to neurons, can be multiplexed more readily, etc....

> Humans have 86 billion neurons. Subtracting 22 gives us 64 billion, times 20 transistors per neuron gives us 1.28 trillion transistors.

So about half the number packed onto Cerebras WSE-2 today.

> even pretending we exactly understood how sapience worked in the first place.

This is the big problem.
The NSA is for foreign targets. And a FISA court is a court.
> I'm imagining some form of YAML or similar frontmatter and markup

It sounds like you're expressing disagreement with Gemini's chosen feature-set, but the question being discussed here is whether it would make more sense to use a subset of HTML rather than an incompatible format.

The point of using an HTML subset would be to retain compatibility with conventional heavyweight web-browsers. A feature-rich YAML-based scheme would be neither minimalistic, nor natively web-compatible.
Its not only the mixture, its also the pressure at which those gases are coming into your bloodstream. If you breathe compressed air you get the bends. As freediver you don't have much in terms of volume of compressed air, same for animals of course.
I am by no means an expert on blockchain protocols, but the whole point of Bitcoin or Defi is that a central authority is unable enforce their will on a whole network. You should consult actual experts on the matter tho
It's a trap... :) This site is the biggest nerd snipe https://xkcd.com/356/

Love it and excited for 2021
So this question gets asked any time Gemini comes up. Usually there are a lot of answers, some along the same vein, some about personal preference, some that don't seem to sell the concept much and maybe some that do.

A core part of the idea is that with Gemini you know what you're getting when you open a link. If I wrote a blog with a very very minimal rendering (which are nice) and I put the link up, you wouldn't know it from blogspam until you clicked it. With HTTP a link can deliver anything. It is reassuring to know you're getting a document to read and nothing more.

The restrictions on what you can do are a feature. I want to know that when I'm in the mood to just read that I am not going to have a video autoplay and get asked to sign up for a newsletter and have to accept cookies and have infinite scrolling recommendations and a nested menu unique to your site. And when what I'm about to click starts with https:// I have no guarantees.

It gets a little walled off feeling, and that's OK. If only a handful of people care about this thing, then it works. If it becomes widely used, that's cool too. It isn't intended to take over the world, it is intended as a tool, to be used by people who have a use for it.
Simple, rigid and limited and everyone’s settled on it so you can’t do anything now.
Save this comment so you can look back on it in ten years.
Its a hypothetical question mostly.
Being vaccinated reduces the chance of getting infected in the first place. This is true even for the delta variant (although much more so for earlier variants)

https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/pb-assets/La...
I think that is only necessary for UEFI installations. I was able to do this earlier with extlinux[1]. This mentions a stackexchange question that suggests btrfs installations are possible in the same fashion[2].

[1] curl https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Syslinux | grep partitionless

[2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/103501/boot-partiot...
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Nonsense. They are kids. They will lean many useful skills. When they are adults they can do whatever they want. My responsibility is to give them opportunities for success.
I pushed hard on one to finish college. She was super pissed at me the entire time.
She deeply regrets dropping out now.
you definitely gotta refinance. I went from a 7.3 to a 3.0 and now I'm actually making progress on the payments instead of just paying a bunch of interest every month. the favorable(ish) terms with the government are not worth the extra money
Works as advertised. ;-)
Both thanks and not thanks you mean
It answers the question though if you stop and think about it. If a document opens in a program that can render any plethora of whatever, you don't know what is going to happen when you click that link. With Gemini, you do: a document is going to be fetched that has words in it and those words are going to be displayed on your screen.
Agreed. Flash to me is a demonstration how badly managed software project (particularly when core teams were gone) can doom a promising business.
Also not a car - but I recently got a gas fireplace insert that came with a remote control with a touch screen. It takes a few seconds for the remote to “boot up” every time I try to use it. Long enough for me to get frustrated and look away. But if I don’t stay focused the screen will turn off and I’ll have to start over. It’s frustrating enough that I’ve started research “dumb” remotes with real buttons
Please Use GPLv3 or Later
NFTs have no "burden of proof."

People who collect them can explain to you what they see in them, and you can agree that you also see it or you don't.

There's little to no point in continuing beyond that.
PDF only became open in 2008 and its doing pretty well.
NFTs have created a global liquid permissionless marketplace for digital art.

This never existed before. Ever.
back to monoliths now too I presume
That’s Ooka for sure. I did a PowerPoint on it for my criminal law class.
IMO, much worse than touch screen buttons is touch screen glare.

Driving westward in the mornings, sunlight is reflected directly off my car's touch screen into my eyes.

Everything on the dash needs to be matte -- it's a safety issue.
I usually have Structure side panel[1], which shows all of the definition signatures (classes, variables and functions), and probably the thing you mentioned (CTRL+r on linux), and also if you double press shift, it will do a semantic search trough the whole project.

[1] You can see it on the left https://blog.rfox.eu/en/Programming/Tools_I_use/Tools_I_use_...
Evidence of genetic evolution in Europeans over past several thousand years
I have no doubts there will be diminishing returns at some point, specially with narrow AIs, where increases in complexity and cost of training models will not be able to improve on what’s already good enough.

AI is a tool like many others, useful for some things and not for others.
I did not. I provided some perspective. The idea that the Soviet gulags were evil, without the larger context of evil perpetrated by various nation-states (particularly nuclear superpowers) distracts from the truth.

The fact that people react negatively to this factual consideration of evil in the context of nation-state politics is not my fault. I did not "take them on a flamewar tangent". And shying away from talking about truths like this only benefits the ignorant, at the expense of the rest of society.

A community that rejects critical thinking, or even engaging at all about complex and difficult subjects, is not a community worth protecting. I think these little "talks" are just training your community to reject difficult conversations rather than learning how to have them.
> I wouldn't call what protobuf encodes type information.

Well... I would call it type information, just not complete.

> 32 bit values, 64 bit values and length prefixed values

In protobuf, most integer types are actually encoded as varints, i.e. variable-width integers, not fixed 32-bit or 64-bit. varint encoding encodes 7 bits per byte, and uses the extra bit to indicate whether there are more bytes. (It's not a very good encoding, as it is very branch-heavy. Don't use this in new protocols.)

> Can you even distinguish floats and ints without a schema in protobufs?

You can't distinguish between float vs. fixed32. But int32 would be varint-encoded, while floats are always fixed-width, so you could distinguish between those. (You can't distinguish between int32, uint32, and sint32, though -- and sint32 in particular won't coerce "in the obvious way" to the others.)

The really unfortunate thing is you can't distinguish between strings vs. nested messages (of the length-delimited variety). So if you don't specifically know that something is a nested message then it's not safe to try parsing it...
Ever wonder how to make your own? I did and its so easy and cheap, just need a few minerals, some charcoal or activated carbon, and if you have sediment in you water you'll want a filter for that too. Mine was AC filtered for clean flavor, added magnesium for health and taste, if you are DIY give it a try, experiment with the speed you want to filter water too, I think most of the time the filters are overkill. I am a fan of zero water and their impurity meters too, they are included and seems to be the best tasting of the generic water filters.

If you leave filters out it also grows a weird taste unfortunately even though its not "finished", lots of little quirks with these things!
Poor JavaScript. They call you weird
100% of a SWE salary at a big employer should melt that $80k in no time flat.
I worked tangentially with Chris at Oracle's public cloud offering.
His work and train of thought on how to approach systems was always inspiring.
This was the thesis of Thales of Miletus approximately 2600 years ago, but for the sake of this discussion let's credit Wolfram with the idea since he seems to love credit. ;-)

The human experience of computer programming shows a problem with Wolfram's thought. Wolframism in a nutshell says,

1. The complicated processes of the universe reduce
to simple rules (a la Conway's Life).

2. Therefore, simple rules *produce* the more complicated processes.
(Or the complicated *emerges* from the simple.)

Consider now that the complexity of computer software "reduces" to simple rules for manipulating 0's and 1's executed on processors, rules like

- MOVE the sequence of 32 bits from memory address A1 to register R1

- ADD the sequence of 32 bits in register R1 to register R2 ...

However, these simple rules don't make complicated software---otherwise, many of us here on HN would have to find other work.

Rather, complicated humans make complicated software using these simple rules. (Digression: It's of course too hard to make modern software using these simple rules, so we use complicated toolchains instead to deal with the simple rules.)

Even with Conway's Game of Life, it is often overlooked that in order to actually run a game simulation, you either need to build a very complicated electronic computer to host the "simple" simulation, or you need a complex intelligent life form with a pencil and a great deal of both paper and patience to carry out the rules step-by-step.

Moreover, the simple rules for Conway's Game of Life were created (or discovered?) in the complicated brain of mathematician John Conway. It seems only the most intelligent and complex minds come up with these "simple" mathematical rules like Einstein's "E=mc^2" or Newton's "f=ma".

Also, I know from experience that randomly seeding Conway's Life almost never produces interesting results, such as long lived stable colonies with "gliders" frolicking to and fro. An intelligent human needs to fine tune the initial conditions for the game to get interesting universes that don't quickly become lifeless or stagnant. Interesting universes are sufficiently rare that, when found, are worthy of publishing and nerding out with your friends over.

So Wolframism in its supreme form says the Universe began with simple rules and these simple rules created stars and planets, humans and their brains. But simple rules need a machine to run the rules, a machine more complicated than the rules themselves. And even given a machine to run the rules, most rule sets and most initial configurations produce dead universes.
This is only half the story. Compared to the unvaccinated, how likely are vaccinated individuals to have detectable virus in the first place?
The complaint for me is even worse: I regularly read on a kind of old iPad (Safari) and those links don't even work for me. This renders the sight unusable, as basically all conversation is hidden.
Wolves definitely don't have language.

Still, they possess an undeniable degree of intelligence. They also have cultures, that is, forms of knowledge passed between generations by teaching, not genetically, and differing between packs.

I suspect that a robot as intelligent as a dog, but with an easier interface, would be a great help to humans.

OTOH, what currently is called "AI" is mostly deep learning, a very important part of cognition and perception. Without modern results in computer perception and low-level cognition and control, a "more general" AI would be blind, deaf, and paralyzed in the real world.

I suspect that the older approaches based on more supervised ways to construct cognitive functions have not born all the fruit they could, and may eventually help create an AI with better higher-level reasoning. They are just not in vogue now, so the best researchers and fattest grants are in deep learning and around. Also, the hardware may not be there yet.

(A similar thing happened to neural networks. The first, one-layer, neural network was the perceptron created in 1958 [1] The approach, while valid and constantly developed, did not see a real uptake until early 2010s, when incomparably better hardware finally became available.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron
I don't think there is a real barrier between 100km and 200+. It's more a conditioning problem. I have seen many people who don't look especially fit successfully complete 100 mile rides here ("centuries"). A big part of the conditioning is teaching your body to burn both resident fat and the easy to eat things you get on the ride, either from the sag stops or from what you carry (or buy). I taught my body to do this every year, for many years, by going on a long ride in the spring and deliberately provoking a bonk. After that, I was good to go for the rest of the 8 month season.

Now, for not necessarily thin people, this requires mostly flat terrain, but in the Eastern US that's not uncommon.

If the route has a lot of vertical gain, well, you need to be fairly thin. Then it is pacing, staging your eating, and mindfulness.

If you examine the times posted in every Tour de Tucson, for example you'll see many excellent times by people into their 70s and beyond. I am very admiring of your mom, BTW.

There is, probably everybody knows, a community that embraces the contradiction of your observation with a tremendous gusto that is its very reason for existing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randonneuring
> For many people, "Just stop using Microsoft" is about as useful as "Just stop using computers"

Absolutely true, but the SaaS/cloud tendency is to turn all computers into terminals (Chromebook/box anyone?), so that one day they'll be a lot cheaper, but sadly all software will have to come off a server on which the user logged in, and all user data will be stored on that or another server as well.
Microsoft aims at this, as do Google and others, so for many people sticking with Microsoft and other SaaS pushing companies might really mean one day to stop using real computers anyway.
The NSA is supposed to act on foreign targets (which helps me in no way), but the NSA is not only listening to foreign communication. That was part of the lie Clapper told congress and then extensively discussed.

FISA court is not a real court in a "rule of law" sense if it is non-public and creates secret law. Both is the case. Also, maybe even more importantly: The FISA court did not even decide on individual surveillance acts under PRISM, but about the program in whole. Both together means that in no way there is a court oversight for this kind of surveillance.
I've seen a similar effect with web design.

EVERY page (or site) seems to need a full blown NodeJS server install and tons of React/Vue etc.

Younger folks are blown away at how quickly I can develop a fully functional site with just Flask, good ole' HTML, basic CSS and VanillaJS using only a couple flat files as a backend database.

I could make a similar argument about complex Python or Golang scripts that are basically the equivalent of multiple bash commands piped into a one liner.
those are peripheral
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Praxis: Building the city-cryptostate to realize a more vital future
No, but it IS stealing from community, humanity, charity, etc. to entertain such ideas - that "reading by the light of your neighbour's lamp" could be stealing...
It's actually not uncommon for high-level government officials to attempt to crack down on corruption at lower levels, and to have great difficulty succeeding. Blockchains are a reliable record-keeping tool that can help, much like double-entry bookkeeping helps authorities prevent other types of shenanigans. Unlike the skeptics here, I've provided reference supporting these claims.

But I suppose when double-entry bookkeeping was first introduced, it faced a lot of dismissive snark as well.
Well… I was a bit surprised to find a Teams group about VMS application support in my company… perhaps I shouldn’t.

After all, we also have a lot of IBM mainframes being used too and, most likely, other exotic stuff in areas I don’t even know about that exist way above my security clearance.
I just read what people that publish over the protocol have to say. A lot of it is meta discussion, because of course it is, but a lot of it is just what you would want to read for the sake of reading, a bunch of words that someone wrote just to write them and put them out for random people to find, no likes or shares or viral this and that or influence intended. It really does feel fun in the same way "browsing" felt fun 20 years ago, there's not a lot in the way of sales pitches when you're reading Gemini documents. It really is hard to describe the weight that lifts off of you when you enter an environment where everyone isn't ruthlessly competing for your eyeballs, and the space to explore whatever you want as a writer when you're not pressured to do that is pretty liberating too.
That's essentially what a vesting period is.

A popular vesting schedule is 25/25/25/25, which means you would be able to sell 25% one year after getting the shares, another 25% after the second year and so on. Typically they would keep giving you more shares as your shares vest so that you always have some shares that you can't sell yet.
It's akin to people with low emotional intelligence, who aren't aware of their behaviour or moods and who spend no time at all reflecting on themselves.

I wonder if it's related
Personally I am investing 20K+ in a lifetime subscription of Elysium Basis/Matter. Also consider the bioengineering impact of apps given input of something like full genomic sequencing. Might be able to tell you about important things like how you respond to certain kinds of food, propensity for certain types of illness, etc.
What are current use cases for Apache where it is a better choice than, say, Nginx?