skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment is a good example of AI meaning whatever we haven't solved yet.

Yes, I'm aware of the Rodney Brooks quote. I think it's kind of glib and misses the mark.

Take chess, for example. When algorithms were developed to beat humans at chess -- it wasn't, like the quote implies, out of some sense of envy or schadenfreude that people said, "Oh, but that's not real AI".

But rather -- from the intrinsic features of the system that first met this challenge. Which, at the end of the day, were basically about generalized tree search. Okay, there was more to it than that -- but in 3 word or less, that's gist of the AlphaZero algorithm, as described in the original paper.

So people said "Oh -- it turns out you don't need human-like cognition to beat humans at chess/go/shogi. You just need good enough tree search, and some decent hardware."

Pretty soon self-driving cars will also not count as AI, because we'll have solved self-driving and therefore it's not hard enough anymore.

That's one of the weird things about the current moment in AI: people keep talking about self-driving cars as if they're a straight-line extrapolation the breakthroughs we've seen so far (give or take a few details).

They're not. If you just think about if for a minute: nearly all of the challenges met thus far -- taking the two you just mentioned as particularly shining examples -- as significant as they have been, have been pretty darn one-dimensional. "Here's a function; optimize it" (basically).

The reason self-driving cars are floundering at the moment is that the intrinsic problem they're dealing with is an entirely different beast from "solve this symbolic game faster than a human" or "label these photos better than a roomful of monkees". It is vastly more complex. And the emerging consensus (whatever some companies may say to the contrary) is that solution is not lurking just around the corner, and not coming our way anytime soon -- certainly not "pretty soon".
When I was a kid in the 1980s I was constantly in fear of global nuclear war, it was basically impossible to be openly gay in my small Missouri town, a significant percentage of the population thought interracial marriages were wrong, my uncle had fought in Vietnam and came home a heroin addict, we’d just seen a decade of high unemployment and inflation and so on and so on.

It’s easy in any era to list out 9 or 10 things that everybody is worried about. It would be pretty weird if you couldn’t think of 9 or 10 things to be worried about today. The question is whether things are better or worse on balance. And by that accounting I think there are lots of reasons to be optimistic.
Seems a great project!
I've always dreamed creating something like this!
One thing I want to know is, your project support users' anonymity?
Many western countries don't even bother trying to prevent in escapes for some of their prisons. For instance in Germany about 20% of prisoners could run away daily - when they leave the prison to go to work or whatever ("open prisons"). But less than one in a hundred do. I probably don't need to tell you about some of the special Scandinavian prisons.

Most people just want to get their sentence behind them, not become a fugitive. It likely was the same for you.
Dart/React for a full fledged social media app in the short term and long term?
Hi folks, I'm building a social media app on Dart. I've been working on it for some time but it always bugs me whether I'm making a right choice by picking it over React.

Right now my plan is to build an MVP, apply to YC and then maybe keep Dart long term. Also, Our team is more familiar with Dart than React. We need a language which can work cross platform and is simpler to implement features.

Thoughts.
Both a pardon and clemency imply that he committed crimes and the politician is just in favor of forgiving him for public support. This could still have damming repercussions for a free press, as his case could set precedent that publishing documents is illegal. The charges should be dropped.
The CDC can get fucked.
Yeah, I know how to derive it, but it still feels very unsatisfying to say: voila, you can put derivatives inside functions. It would be a hard sell to an intro calculus student, even though the concept would be very useful at that level.
Noob question, but why does network infrastructure need dns? Why the full ipv6 address of the various components do not suffice to do business?
My worry with Ethereum is that moving to proof of stake changes the project from a decentralized one to something a little less so.
There are some AWS services, notably STS, that are hosted in us-east-1. I don’t have anything in us-east-1 but I was completely unable to log into the console to check on the health of my services.
So I'm a little out of the loop, but doesn't the nice object system fall apart once you use that portability, since only NT uses objects over bytes?
"To date, there are no cases of Omicron which are reported as having been hospitalised or
died through routine reporting. As a result, it is not possible to compare the risk of
hospitalisation or death with other variants. However, it should be noted that most of the
cases have a specimen date that is very recent and that there is a lag between onset of
infection and hospitalisation and death. Future updates will assess severe outcomes from
Omicron cases against Delta cases from the same time period."
> More and more, programmers are moving away from the stereotype of white dude who likes to play computer games in their spare time, and is always on the lookout for a gadget.

Yawn
Because you have to be fake at work, and LinkedIn is basically work.
The company I work for is still using mission-critical applications written in Delphi. (I live in a developing country).

So basically, we still find Delphi quite useful even the older versions.
> This is great for blogging, whistle blowing, and other things.

Could this support user authentication for uploading content? Maybe with something like metamask?

Using this tech to make a medium/substack/twitter-style site would lower the barrier to entry for non-technical journalists.
A similar thing happened to me after some sleep deprivation in a noisy bar. I was moving to the music, and someone said the music had stopped. I listened while still moving to it, saying no it hasn't. They repeated that it had. I listened again and indeed there was no music in the air, only my mind. Cognition and perception is based on hallucination around stimuli--sometimes we fill in more than the gaps.
A centralized state ruled by a party is not the commonly understood sense, or people would think that all dictatorships are communist, which they don't. In either case, it is bizarre to try to correct the record with something that is in and of itself a misunderstanding.

The Bolsheviks were very forthcoming. They professed from even before the revolution that they were aiming for a pretty centralized state ruled by a vanguard party. They never pretended anything else. It is only after the death of Lenin that they started diverging more and more from what they originally professed.

Kropotkin was critical of the Bolsheviks from before the revolution and actually became more amicable to them after the revolution than before. Indeed he found the fact that they had managed to lead a revolution to be a profound good for humanity that would, in his own words, "enlighten the path of the civilised countries for at least a century", and agreed that the Bolsheviks were communists just as well as him, only that they would be eventually unsuccessful.

In any case, the sense the word is understood by many at this time is itself a misunderstanding. There is a reason why China agrees that their system is not communism, and indeed the word is still used in the way it was intended originally by a great many people. Taking it to be the common sense in English instead of the correct sense is to be in error.
The best bang for your buck isn’t deploying into multiple AZs, but relocating everything into almost any other region than us-east-1.

My system is latency and downtime tolerant, but I’m thinking I should move all my Kafka processing over to us-west-2
Huh... so for the past couple weeks there was a top level "discover" tab on the iPhone app (so Home/Discover/Search/Your Library), and when you clicked it it would just a random song in a weird full-app video playback UI, with the only exposed controls being "go to this album" and "skip", no output device selector.

I went back to check today to confirm that even if I had an existing network device selected it'd disconnect that and only play locally, but clicking on the tab just showed an error page. I force quit the app and relaunched, and now the tab is gone entirely.

Guessing I was in some A/B experiment of a pre-release feature, it'll probably have more functionality in the full release (assuming they didn't can it)
Check out FireStream, it's a modern DLNA server for macOS: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/firestream-upnp-dlna-med...
> Whole and profitable empires have been built with C. C compilers are darn good in optimizing code. There is a large workforce proficient in C.

Then why is it that all of the major C compilers are written in C++?
It's not mine, so I can't help. But I know iPhone / Safari has pretty terrible support for lots of things I've done having to do with midi and WebAudio, and they don't allow Chromium to run. Not sure why people consider that ok, but such is life.
Inside The Fall of Kabul
I refinanced through better.com about this time last year. I just found them randomly through better.com.

They were great. Everything was automated through a decent web site. Everything signed electronically except closing where they sent an attorney to my house.

They also never called me unless I wanted, everything was through their web site.

This is in contrast to previous mortgages that were paper based and full of people who didn’t seem very tech savvy and wanted faxes, multiple phone calls just to review stuff.

And their estimates were all exact with closing. And closing was early.

I was always amazed how shitty the processes were for mortgage so it was nice that somebody finally set up some simple RPA.

If I refinance again, I’ll probably use them.
So ... yes, the heat pump can be run in either direction, and is "reversible" in the sense that the heat flow can be reversed through the pump.

The process is not thermodynamically reversible in the sense that there's a net energy expenditure either way. No free lunches.

What a heat pump can do is to move a greater amount of energy than it uses to move it. Measurements of this include COP (coefficient of performance), EER (energy efficiency ratio), and SEER or ESEER ((European) seasonal energy ratio).

The COP is a direct measure of energy moved divided by energy input, and ranges from about 2--4, with typical ground-loop heat pumps achieving scores around 3--3.5. That is they move three times the heat energy that they run under. It's as if a furnace output three times more heat energy than fuel input.

In your example, we'd first want to correct power (watts) to energy (watt-hours or joules). But 10 watt-hours of electricity would move about 30 watt-hours worth of heat, for a typical heat pump. If you're heating, you'd dump the additional 10 watt-hours into the heated space, if you were cooling, you'd want the heat pump's own heat to be directed to the external environment.

Discussion of heat gained/wasted with heat pumps is ... complicated. Note that effectiveness in moving heat decreases as the differential being moved against increases. That is, if you're trying to cool a space in an environment that's already warm, you're pumping heat "uphill". Similarly, if you're trying to warm a space from a cold environment, there's not much external heat to extract.

Ground-loop heat pumps benefit by the fact that ground temperatures tend to be more moderate than outdoor ambient air temperatures, so the temperature gradients are more favourable and predictable.
People are fake on all social media. LinkedIn content is just more narrow and commercial, so that compounds the effect and makes it seem more pronounced.
Out of the box, there is no anonymity built into federalist. You can use Tor or VPN to for anonymity. As this develops from a POC for developers to an end user software application, I imagine federalist will have many of these things built in directly or support to hook in (eg Tor and SOCKS) natively.
If I recall there was a point in time where the control panel for all regions was in us-east-1. I seem to recall an outrage where the other regions were up, but you couldn’t change any resources because the management api was down in us-east-1
> Nowadays I'm pretty sure everything I say has potential to be misinterpreted and potentially be used against me. I used to like being social on Slack but I make it a rule these days to use Slack minimally and to significantly reduce or eliminate unnecessary socializing.

Agreed. All it takes is one sensitive coworker to share one screenshot, and your career is over. It's baffling we, as society, have come to this.
Ideally, restitution should not be deductible, but it is. My understanding is that that's a pretty recent development, meaning it doesn't have to be so, and if it's undesirable, it can be changed. I think looking at it specifically from the angle of environmental disasters isn't useful or appropriate.
"Rich" is an ambiguous term; there clearly isn't a single definition. That being said, I think most people would agree that an individual who earns a salary of $500k a year (~99th percentile in the United States) is clearly "rich."

The question I'd put back to you is why it's useful to have a single, universally agreed-upon definition of "rich"?
I thought the magic of Halo died a decade ago but I see the 180 that Infinite pulled in the past year and recently learned that Staten returned around that time. As Feynmann said, there are no miracle men, but Staten knows the formula for making a good game. He was there when Bungie had creative freedom and was making games that they wanted to play. Having him come on as a leader with political power was the only way Infinite could have ever been anything other than a disaster.

The recent IGN interview was great. It was an hour of hot chocolate for my niche demographic. It also confirmed that the magic of Halo was what we thought it was all along. You want to make a great game? Watch the Halo Vid Docs and take notes.

https://youtu.be/EqfPclVRioI
Average temps in the northern half of VT and NH are just as cold as Duluth. Parts of Maine are probably colder.
If you have a virtual boss so good it can't be easily gamed (it actually knows the worker's job), and also so socially nuanced that people will actually work for it, then you have an AI advanced enough to just do the worker's job and the worker wouldn't be there in the first place.
Borland sold their software division to Embarcadero, which appears to have been a big payday for top execs as they jumped out. However, Embarcadero did do a decent job of keeping the ship afloat and running things, though Delphi got very expensive. Idera then bought Embarcadero, but appears to allow it to have a high level of autonomy.
> unfortunately today I've been "language-policed" for the first time and probably not the last :(

What did you say exactly?
For those wondering, Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist philosopher. He’s most famous for “The Conquest of Bread”.
I don't know Ben Levin, but IIRC MrBeast did started as the average Joe and just grew big. And yes, of course the lines do blur over time. If the new creators become big, they start stepping into the realms of professionality and are beginning cooperations with old industry, creating content for the new and old spaces. But they usually still have the average joe-vibes, because that's how people grew with them, how they see and remember them. But also because they continue maintaining this vibes, as this is their habit of working.

> but I think this idea that anyone can just pick up an iphone camera and become a millionaire is a bit disingenuous.

Obviously not everyone can do that, but this is how almost everyone from the new industry started. I would say, it's simply the difference in culture, between old industry professionals trained schools and such, and the self learners of the new industry. Though, old industry is now moving in this space too, so it will change with time.
"How's it going, guys?"
"how will your corrupt, centralized system of unstable currency do better than the current2 stable corrupt currency?"
Inflation surged 6.8%, even more than expected, in November to fastest ra (cont)
I have 5?k hours in LoL around high plat / in previous season low diamond and I'd say that LoL while being different from competitive programming

is still exhausting if you want to play it with full focus for a few hours.

Of course there's difference between playing ARAMs for fun and tryharding on "relatively competent" ELO where you try to do not commit mistakes as hard as you can and games are not "fiestas" (lack of strategy, just fighting)

>You absolutely can autopilot through a game and still win.

Significant part of day2day programming can be pretty brainless/trivial too - yet another gluing json over http. Don't get me wrong, there are insanely exhausting projects too.

During programming you can take break whenever you want, go to kitchen, watch memes, hn, read news, blabla, meanwhile when you're in game, then you can't*.
I didn't say you said that, but looking at study summaries that state things like "high-dose cholecalciferol supplementation led to SARS-CoV-2 RNA negative status" is why I mentioned "cure".
Charlottesville’s Robert Lee Statue Will Be Melted Down,Transformed into New Art
I also deleted FB about a year ago. However I don't use LinkedIn to keep in touch with friends. I text them and call them. I feel like relationship with my friends improved after deleting FB. Also, number of friends reduced too. YMMV
> As an example, the majority are vaccinated. You're in company meetings and have to hear how the unvaccinated are morons etc.

They're not wrong. You, and all the other people who refuse to get vaccinated, are a big part of the problem.
Most people who have a twitch account are 'streamers'.

I occasionally stream my desktop to show friends something - doesn't mean you should count me for that same list.
Oh my god, thanks for dislodging this long forgotten memory! I never would have remembered that I played with this program ages ago, you really made me reminisce :)
At first I was defending this CEO as there is no good way to lay off employees.

"Better.com CEO Vishal Garg Threatened to Burn His Business Partner Alive"

Huh what the fuck?
it is widely acknowledged in some psychological literature that certain professions are collecting abusive or even psycopathic personalities. The behavior is reinforced with reward and prestige in some cases.

search term might be "is your boss a psycopath" or similar
Maestral: A lightweight, open-source Dropbox client for macOS and Linux
To be honest it's because I never owned a Squeezebox so I'm hesitant to comment on them too much. But it was indeed a really important part of the landscape, and sort of a parallel story to DLNA... Even better, as the community figured out at least partial interoperation between the two. Logitech had a lot more success on the hardware side than DLNA did, and really I think has responsibility for the brief reign of "internet radio" as a physical device.
I've been rewatching random episodes of The Simpsons recently, and I have noticed that without ad breaks, the pacing is a bit off for a lot of episodes. The shows were designed so you had time to digest major plot points during the commercial breaks.

Don't get me wrong I don't want to watch ads, but it's a strange and noticeable problem.
It's closer to something like the other 99.9999999%.

What we've done with it is things like: when you type text into what looks like a simple edit field, each keystroke launches a cascade of javascript.

Layers and layers of API's cause latency. To get this to happen, you have to talk to this broker, which calls this proxy, which delegates to this manager, which queries this store, ...

You will probably almost never see call stacks 27 frames deep when debugging anything in C64.
Well not everyone. There are people who treat it like Facebook and start sharing the funny links and random stuff and in some cases their political opinions and conspiracy theories.

The boring fake alternatives of everyone else are much better.
> It's similar than selling at loss until your smaller competitor is out of business.

Why is this considered illegal or unethical? This seems like a fairly legitimate tactical move to me.

It's like a war of attrition -- you allow yourself to suffer losses for the sake of ultimately winning. At least in this scenario, the main player is also slightly fucking themselves over, instead of just you.
I was reading Reddit comments the other day from people who keep pet jumping spiders. They report them to have personalities and a degree of intelligence.
Problem is that I have to defend our own infrastructure real availability numbers vs cloud's fictional "five nines". It's a loosing game.
Interesting. Nevertheless ... think of everywhere in the USA that you think is cold (outside of Alaska) ... almost all of Canada is colder than that (Vancouver and coastal BC being the primary exception).
+1 for Alpine. So awesome and can do a lot for you without the complexity of full frameworks. And no build pipeline to mess with. I’ve used Alpine with Go templates on multiple projects and have been very happy.
There was a huge discussion yesterday of the original Reddit post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29492884

And today, a very detailed technical analysis of the multiple bugs in Android and Teams that caused the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29513795
jazzyjackson may be referring to effects such as, oh, that your multi-gigabyte-and-gigahertz computer is less responsive to your keystrokes than a C64 while merely enter some text into a field.
Many corporations publish "leaked" documents because they want to make a profit and they realize that it appears to a certain demographic. They aren't doing any activism. They are just trying to make a buck.
Ellsberg was not permitted to mention what was released in his defense, Assange likely won't either.
some people get murdered before they even get to jail
I created a video game for tired gamers. Now I have to find them
An interesting take from Mike Pondsmith given his heavy involvement in the venture at the end of (at least in my opinion) well-written article: "[C]omparing the tabletop experience with its video-game incarnation, he noted that the latter doesn’t really compare to the former when it comes to self-expression. “You could be you in a tabletop game and bring all the stuff that you wanted to bring into it,” he said. “A tabletop game is limitless. A video game, by its very nature of how it’s designed, has some limits.” "
I used to play League...then I found out everyone who played that game had slept with my mother.
I support him on Patreon and I don't think that's true. They are just released earlier there.
90% compared when only using those who had 2 shots in study. 2 shots lower immunity so 3rd would boost, but ultimately safer to get no jabs in 1st place