skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be ok, since I use strictly essential cookies, which don't require consent. (But users need to be informed)

Or do I misunderstand the law?

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But then the neighbours would both pay them and turn up their own heating to keep their own house at their own favourite temperature, since the airco is working against that.
I came here to write something similar: the article does not pay enough attention to changing environments. The dotcom bubble ideas that are now successful do not share the same background environment of internet availability, bandwidth, networks of datacenters, storage, powerful portable computers, and all around higher digital literacy and people used to interacting with computers. If these things hadn't changed then trying and trying again would have continued to fail with high probability.

As written, the statement by Ford is wrong, it is important to keep a kind of Tabu list detailing what didn't work in the absence of gradient information. What experts get wrong is they fail to be sensitive to dependent parameters that are not static (I know the article says something like this too but it sort of glosses over it). The problem is many of these are hard to say outside of hindsight.

Perhaps listing the requirements before launching and listing the state of those requirements after failure, in addition to the idea might form a basis for what to retry. An expert might say something like "A website for dog food and toys will never work, we already did that 20 years ago and it failed spectacularly", when they should be saying "A Website for dog food did not work 20 years ago, here were our requirements and environment, has anything changed?". But even that isn't perfect so the process can't be deterministic.
I disagree, modern wipers on auto sense just work. At least, they work far better than lane assisted cruise control.

My major annoyance is the glove box. I probably only opened the glove box 3-4 times a year, but the inconvenience of navigating the touch screen for that far outweighs my cumulative annoyance about wipers, which is pretty nonexistent.

I'm far more annoyed at massive view of the car and it's bad estimations of nearby cars. I'd much rather have that prime real estate be occupied by geographical map than a useless and inaccurate map of nearby cars.
Or, you are not seeing insults you did make (however un-/sub-consciously / unintentionally)
Yeah, it's true that chargeback is not possible in the same way in cryptocurrencies, so there is just an inherent risk vector there.

I think it would be possible, and likely, that there could be a marketplace / service specifically for high-end art, that could have built in functionality that explicitly makes their pieces immutable.

But really I do think it kind of comes with the territory in some ways, when it comes to refunds. I think for instance I could create a service that allows for refunds on the initial sale from me as a provider, however if you buy something from the secondhand market, you wouldn't be able to receive a refund from me as a producer, you'd have to work with the secondhand market / user you bought it from personally.

It's possible to create trustworthy products and platforms I think. But yeah, right now there exists no easy mechanism to get a chargeback, nor do I think there likely will ever be such a thing on most chains, as chargebacks rely on centralization (banks) to transfer funds to your account.

Also thanks for sharing that link, I've never heard of the site and it's pretty interesting.
There's an elegant FP solution that involves searching an infinite data structure using only a finite amount of computation -- actually, with precisely zero computation, because the machine isn't on.

It's like lazy evaluation, only more lazy.
Funny, that's the exact reason I hate philosophy. And I say this as someone with a BA in it.

I thought of it initially as a useful way to model the abstract, the hypothetical, and the integrity our own ideas and perceptions.

But so many philosophers tried to use their arguments to prove things about the world. Like a less powerful form of economics, which itself is based on the "if we model X this way, Y" mindset.

I like your conceptualization of philosophy as art. I'll probably to refer to it that way hereon.
One of the comments on that link has offered this URL where Force Sync is mentioned.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-p...

To me it's absolutely mind boggling the amount of text in that link.

There are nearly 100.000 words, which is the same as:

A 100,000 word count will create about 200 pages single-spaced or 400 pages double-spaced when using normal margins (1″) and 12 pt. Arial or Times New Roman font.

Reference
https://capitalizemytitle.com/page-count/100000-words/
`rock.exists()`? see also the last line of most "weather rock" forecasting stations.
Creators and sharers vs fence-makers.

A friend calls the latter bridge trolls. They find a useful resource that someone created and many need, and aim to extract a toll for it - without having created it.

Let’s be more like the creators and less like the bridge trolls.
thats just not the case.

firstly you objection to opportuity cost is flat wrong. those many smart people as you refer to them aren't going to just jump inot what ever the best for mankind research is because you want them to. Researchers and scienetist aren't a fungible resource, someone with a master ins mathmatics and a focus on cryptography isn't going to join a clean energy start up join a biotech firm or work on space tech. If crypto currency didn't exist they would probably work on other cryptography related fields.

the chip shortage has little to do with this as large scale mines use dedicated bespoke 'application-specific integrated circuit' or ASIC chips not used for anything else. try to run a mineing rig on CPU, and GPUs just isn't cost effective anymore. Secondly they didn't cause the chip shortage, shortsighted manufactures ending their orders both the immediate term and for years in advance that did. The chip foundries did the only logical thing and resold the slots for those canceled orders to keep the fabs running.

as for the enviromental impact crypto, cryto thrives on low cost energy as it gives the miners a higher coin/dollar spent mining. and currently building new solar and wind is cheaper than building coal. so really what we need to do is stop burning coal.
SREs I know talk about aviation incidents all the time, spinning it into a “what lessons do we learn?”

- Aviation incidents are investigated and the investigation is typically bent on discovering root causes, not assigning blame. Do the same thing with bugs & security breaches, you’ll learn more.

- Pilots spend time in simulators practicing unusual situations like water landings or engine failure—do the same thing in software, simulate failure scenarios and intrusion events and see how your engineers and technicians handle those events. You develop new training materials and redesign systems based on what you learned in simulations.

- Pilots rely heavily on checklists rather than memory to ensure that all steps have been completed. This translates well to QA, deployment, various tasks people you need to do in production like migrations or whatnot.

- Pilots require good UX to do their job and cannot be overloaded with too many tasks. Sometime an incident will be traced to dangerous things that don’t seem dangerous when you look at the UI (like thrust reversers), or traced to systems that assigned too many duties to pilots (who get overloaded). For example, if you have a button that deletes a database, it should require a serious confirmation step, like a molly guard on a plane.

- Tasks must be explicitly delegated to individual people (which is what happens on an airplane). For example, in the Gimli Glider incident, the flight engineer role was eliminated and the engineer's responsibilities were not explicitly delegated to the pilot or copilot, but assigned to “both”. Same should be true for tasks in software engineering and incident response.

We also talk about how medicine seems uninterested in learning these lessons, for various reasons.
JK Rowling Is Right–Sex Is Real and It Is Not a “Spectrum” (2020)
What it's like to ride 900 km in a day
Jacobs CEO sells $25M in stock
Have you read "The Storm Before The Calm" by George Friedman? He makes a lot of very similar predictions to you. Highly recommend reading this book.

I generally agree with these predictions. My sense is that our society has SERIOUSLY screwed up the natural balance of the economy in an unprecedented way. It's going to get a lot worse, and it's going to feed directly into the deepening political polarization we've all seen. Right now the most important questions are: how do I position myself so that I am maximally protected during this upheaval? And what does the end state look like?
> The dominance of JSON just shows that JS is dominant.

I don't know that's the case... I've used JSON in lots of non-JS languages because it just works, and errors rarely are caused by mismatches in how JSON behaves in language X and language Y. A lot of that is that it is simple, and rigid.
This is the deepest mammal registered...

(Much much deeper...) oh, Hi, hoomans
Not at all. It clearly works just fine as the marketplace volume suggests. Go right click save a CryptoPunk and try and sell it. Go make a BAYC clone and try and sell it. Try it out on chain, deploy your own copy of the smart contract. Or go and create a website and set up a Paypal account and try to sell some JPEGs. Let me know how that works out. Even if you succeed in making money, like selling a fake Gucci purse, you'd only succeed in increasing the clout of the original.
Genuine answer: the code cant run when the computer is off, thus the joke.

The question is worth asking (all are) but then soliciting "quantum computing" as an answer makes it a doubly worthy set up line, so thanks twice.
I like bicycle touring for the reasons you listed. Bike tours are physically just as hard, but you tend to run into decent food and drink more often. There's no shortage of nice camping.
I don't think you are understanding at all what I am saying lol.

I have a program, think of it as a traditional web app, that has a backend that validates whether you own the asset prior to granting access.

You can't use any copy of the png to interact with other services, since there is only *one* service that allows for the interactive capabilities, and it requires ownership of the token to access. Hell, you could even take it a step further, take the png and make a forge of a token from my collection. You still won't be able to access the service with a forged token with the exact same metadata and image, because it will easily be able to detect it is not part of my collection.

All you would have is a PNG. Not access to the actual services that are only possible via ownership. I could extend my project and create a plethora of services that are only accessible to people who own one of the NFTs from my collection, and that is what I intend to do.
If there is no “at large society”, why don’t you live in a nicer house?
I don’t get pieces like this, asking a question like it’s the first time someone ever thought of it. Do some basic research. I’d start here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_game_(philosophy)
From an engineering/economic perspective, I totally agree. From a sociology/philosophy perspective, a lot of the West was built on cheap carbon emission. Can we realistically take all that embodied energy that represents our current state and expect/demand that developing nations to pay the same price for carbon as we do, starting now?
It’s perfectly fair to say that NFTs work as an in-game currency and nothing more.
What a funny a priori paper. Maybe the authors lost a bet and had to write it.
Here is a set of people. On a given subject, the median position is likely to be at least reasonable. That's the "wisdom of the crowds".

Here is a set of experts. Within the area of their expertise, the median position is probably pretty close to right. The intersection of their views are almost certainly right (though it may be the empty set).

But what you can't do is take the union of the views of a set of people, and expect anything except a bizarre jumble of self-contradiction. And that's what the media gives us. (In fact, the media gives us the union, with extra emphasis added to the outliers, because those are "more interesting" and therefore attract more eyeballs.)

Wisdom of the crowds? Maybe. Wisdom of the media coverage of the crowds? No way.
I have followed this path the past 15 years. I am nowhere close to generating enough revenue to really not need contracting. The issue I have with my industry is that pushing innovative products is very hard, so you end up making me-too style products with your own take on it. So basically 90% the same as what other people are making. This becomes very boring, because as an engineer or designer I want to contribute something new and unique, basically an entirely new product different from what competitors are selling. So anyway, in the end I am in a situation where I need to make me-too products which I have zero interest in to be financially succesful, or choose to do the groundbreaking interesting stuff and have a really hard time making money. To be succesful with innovative products you need big marketing budgets.
EV tax credits: Biden's bill passes House, wants to put $12,500 in your pocket
Ex Sequoia VC in court for multiple sexual assaults and ordering to kill
When airtag was initially released, it only beeps after the airtag left the owner for 3 days, later Apple updated it to the following.

It beeps after the thief gets to somewhere that thief frequently stays with, such as home, school, office etc.. I found this out with my kid as there is no difference between thief took your item, or stalking someone, as oppose to tracking a family member who's aware of it. It functions the same way. In the case of tracking a family member or a friend, it beeps in kid's classroom or office which is quite annoying even though the person tracked is fully aware of the tracking.

With a simple update, I'd hop Apple allows a family member or who's aware of the tracking but not the owner of the airtag be able to tap the "Moving with you.." message and acknowledge it so the warning message and aritag beeping doesn't continue yet not disabling the tracking (it currently allows to disable the tracking). Not sure why Apple hasn't thought about it or didn't want to do that, as Apple PR insisted that airtag is for tracking items not human but many have found airtag used in tracking human (e.g. family, friend) for safety reason more convenient and cheaper than an Apple watch.
HN is not a general interest forum, and honestly a Kyle Rittenhouse thread would be a shitshow of no actual value that would accomplish nothing.
I can get 8 solid hours of battery on my t42p with tlp and the schedutil governor. I also have a script that unloads the modules for certain hardware I might not be using that often. This is with one of those new Chinese batteries.

Absolutely beautiful machine. I am pretty sure it’s the greatest laptop ever built.
And a separate package by the same prolific author for not_on that depends on the first package.
:: let me hand-wave a merely possible but not at all guaranteed negative future scenario to argue against a better solution today ::

that's basically what you just did. "Electric cars will pollute someday! Just you wait!" >..<

Keep in mind that I've worked on small Ruby projects as well, and still prefer Elixir.

I'm not gonna suggest that there wouldn't be challenges in that scenario, but it just seems to me so far that they'd be much more manageable given the thoughtful design of Elixir.

The biggest problem in my app currently is actually JS/Node dependency hell, not Elixir code... and the JS only makes up a small portion of my app! (I should have never used AdminLTE as a design template...) At least my JS is tested (which was another huge PITA to figure out... simulating a DOM...)
Apple is going to make it available to android et. al. platform, just saw the news.
A great editor which works everywhere Java does. I used it for almost a decade alongside a few embedded SDKs, and on Mac, Linux, and Windows. The ability to quickly define my own syntax file was great for working with a niche language like Verifone TCL.

Find/replace among many files at once was also in the normal find dialog, with a solid regexp implementation. Which seemed rare for the era in which I used it.

These days we have VS Code and JetBrains so I don't use it any more. Still, much nostalgia.
22,22€ with free shipping isn't too bad price Chromecast Ultra as I did not already have one. Good to have one if I ever end up needing it. So I grabbed one, probably will never even try Stadia itself.

I wonder how many people are in same situation, just grabbing some cheap hardware.
Doctors say the kids' Covid-19 vaccine is a booster for mental health
Do you have any issue with drivers or license when switching between the VM and normal?
That's a delightful proverb.

If I was the judge, I'd find "in favor" of the restaurateur, and the punishment for the pauper would be that they must consume one meal per week (provided by the restaurant at no cost) to be reminded of what they are missing.
It works great on my Thinkpad. I run it on the metal.
The se-radio.net episodes with Rich Hickey (Language designer), and David Heckerman (AI researchers) and many others were also great.
> You just don’t know what’s happening.

You mean NFTs as an in-game currency for Facebook’s VR?

Yes, that’s a reasonable account of what they are good for.
"Though the infinitesimal definition of utility in (1) and the penalisation of complexity
in the definition of Υ provide a statistically robust measure of the kind of surrogate
intelligence those working in the general artificial intelligence (AGI) field have decided to focus on, the definition is too weak to describe or specify the behaviour even of an
arthropod. This is not only obvious from the issues already mentioned above, but also
from the fact that algorithms which realise the reward-schemes proposed in (1) and (2)
(for example, neural networks optimised with reinforcement learning) fail to display the
type of generalisable adaptive behaviour to natural environments that arthropods are
capable of, for example when ants or termites colonise a house."

Ok, I don't like the mathematical definitions of intelligence either (although I might be convincable and they do have some advantages over other definitions I've seen), but this refutation seems to be a prime example of proof-by-assertion.

"Brooks defines an AI agent, again, as an artefact that is able ‘to move around in
dynamic environments, sensing the surroundings to a degree sufficient to achieve the
necessary maintenance of life and reproduction'."

And this definition implies many things we know to be intelligent (i.e. people) are not. So there's that.

"There are three additional properties of logic systems of importance for our argument
here:
1. Their phase space is fixed.
2. Their behaviour is ergodic with regard to their main functional properties.
3. Their behavior is to a large extent context-independent."

Aaaaand here we go...

"As we learn from we standard mathematical theory of complex systems [23], all such
systems, including the systems of complex systems resulting from their interaction,
1. have a variable phase space,
2. are non-ergodic, and
3. are context-dependent."

Ok, to the extent that the first statement is true about "logic systems", it is also true about any physically realizable, material system. On the other hand, the "complex system", to that same extent, is not physically realizable. (Consider "a variable phase space means that the variables which define the elements of
a complex system can change over time" or "a non-ergodic system produces erratic distributions of its elements. No matter
how long the system is observed, no laws can be deduced from observing its elements." and question how much information is required for this in the authors' sense.)

And there we have the intrusion of the immortal soul into the argument that artificial intelligence is impossible.
Smells like engineering
I was going to post exactly this :-) I live in a 5 year old apartment, and there are two units above and below exactly the same layout. We don't turn on our heating until it gets well below freezing as the heat from other apartments is more than enough. This season the coldest temperature I've seen is 20.5c - when it was 0c outside and cloudy for one week.

For vertical neighbours you could say they could have insulated the ceilings (when we bought the apartment new it was unfinished, just concrete inside), so it was their choice to allow heat to escape. But we have underfloor heating, so it's not just neighbours vertically but also horizontally, as quite a lot of heat transfers via the concrete floors too (this is the only way the common areas of the building are heated) - you can't insulate that.

In the summer we have AC on, and a lot of our neighbours don't have it, so I figure we benefiting them at that time by taking away some of their heat.

On a related note, if you have underground parking I'd also suggest to choose the lowest floor if you have a choice (as long as there is no flood risk). We are on -2 and when it's 35c outside our car is parked in a cool 18c, and when it's -25c it is 8c.
I’ve been working on a project that makes creating SVGs — with all assets embedded — as simple as possible. https://github.com/rben01/collagen
Wait. When the machine isn't on, P=NP!

So our security systems are (useless | perfect)!

I think there might even be other implications...
I use Descript and it is absolutely lovely. There are a bunch in this space that I would not be surprised being merged or acquired. Would love to see Descript & GetWelder merging together.

While Cleanvoice has some niche features that Descript doesn't offer I would not be surprised to find them rolling these features out in the next major release they're doing. IMO the founder of Cleanvoice should sell/join Descript.
The problem is that cyber risk is effectively impossible to model

As an embedded consultant I've worked very closely with several companies in at-risk spaces (eg. banking), and from a technical / corporate-culture perspective I have a good idea of which ones are less likely to be breached.

I think part of the challenge is there's a huge disconnect between how the insurance companies work (fairly macro) and the little details that really matter to assessing the security posture of an individual customer. A premiums discount for those who undergo intensive annual security audits by respected professionals would be a good start, then you can begin to rate the auditor's performance tier based on the relative number of their clients impacted.
Dave Frishberg, Writer of Songs Sardonic and Nostalgic, Dies at 88
This is not new at all for them. There have been advertisements in Windows 10 for ridiculous games, and way back in Windows XP, Media Player would advertise the most ridiculous things including some paid online radio from South America (I guess it depended on the region -- today it just advertises Bing).