skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proof of stake simply won't work without some sort of proof-of-work coin backing it. I'm sure the Ethereum people would love for you to believe otherwise - but there's a reason they keep punting to "one more year"; they can't do it.
When I'm working with equations in my head, which I don't do often, I think of them as a list of terms and what's done with them. No visual representation, just a memorized list. For electronic circuits, I would probably remember what connects with what, but not how they are laid out spatially. For textbooks, I do remember sometimes that the specific text I'm think of is found on a left page near the top, but I can't see it. That's just where my eyes will scan when I look for it again. Most often I don't, though, unless I poured over it a lot when learning it.

I doubled majored in math and cs in school, and I found that the 400-level math courses were easier for me than others and I think it's because most people were trying to visualize things that were hard to visualize. For me, it was just another equation to work with.
A Tribute to the Nintendo Engineer Masayuki Uemura
Career Lens: A non-prescriptive way to think about your career
> Stop driving, stop working, stop eating entirely, and then things will quickly recover. Obviously that's a bit extreme, but it's to illustrate that less activity, not more, is what's best for the Planet.

How do I get the food without a currency I earn at work?

Will I be given perpetually free stuff from some benevolent government? I believe I've heard that pitch before and it hasn't ever worked and never will.

This is a nonstarter and completely disregards just how the world actually works.
The problem is, as pointed out in the example, is that the memo the writer got from Dell that came from AMI informing Dell about the typo contained an image that the own writer sent to AMI. Meaning AMI had no idea about this typo before they were contacted by the writer.
Itsycal is free fantastical like tiny mac menu bar calendar
The only way I can think this could make any difference is if generates less electrical noise from its internal power source or emanates less RFI that could be picked up by the rest of the audio gear.

I'm sure not all audiophiles are dumb and I think a few educated ones pay for expensive cables that are used for digital data. I'm really curious why.
Probably 2kb buffer
I'd say you owe it to yourself to use some play money to really just play with it for the sake of learning and playing. Worst case you'll continue to think it may not be worth it in which case you've lost some money on some NFT but have gained knowledge in return. I predict something will happen though, and you might find that the space is actually extremely interesting.
It costs like a 2960S with 24 GigE + 4 SFP with lot of more advanced features.
Lifestyle Prototyping: At-Home Infrared Spectroscopic Blood Responses [pdf]
Some audiophiles are used to spending thousands on cabling and power cleaning and it does make a difference if $100k has already been spent on the gear. So when presented with a switch like this it makes sense to them. But they are snakeoil. One thing that these things claim is jitter reduction - because jitter was an issue on the original USB devices using synchronous protocol. But try to explain that any kit they have is already buffering ethernet because it is impossible to do otherwise, and you'll just hit a brick wall. Better to drop $2k on this, and another $10k on special ethernet cables, just to be safe!

Hang out on a website devoted to high end audio, like Meridian [1], and you'll see half the people starting threads about some new $10k cable they bought, and the other half studiously avoiding telling them they are wasting their money. Just don't get involved.

[1] https://www.meridianunplugged.com
Note that the BMC chip comes from a different company (ASPEED) who has not been implicated in this "stickergate".
I took a course in university on sci-fi and the professor said that all science fiction was a reflection of the moment it was written, and had almost nothing to do with prognosticating.
Since you raise the subject, getting paid for it is one of the best things about taking a shit at work.
If there were a concrete phenomenon that's consistently observable, I absolutely agree with that reasoning. But I don't see that dynamic in discussions of aphantasia. We can't directly compare subjective experience, so any comparison is going to be filtered through the language of how we describe said experience, and so it's that much harder to conclude whether aphantasia is a natural category and the extent to which people have it.

Thus I share the parent's frustration about the sound-and-fury (imaginable or otherwise!) associated with this topic.

Even when people do try to have a productive discussion about it, half of it is nailing down a test to distinguish whether you're "really seeing" an image or just speaking metaphorically. That, or an article (like this one) casually assumes away this measurement problem and goes into a diatribe about how trippy aphantasia is.

(Before you start guessing, I don't think I have aphantasia, based on its descriptions. I can imagine pictures, or at least I think I can, though not necessarily the crystal clear images others seem to see. I do poorly on "draw this complex image from memory" challenges, although I think I'm still drawing from my mind's "eye" when I do it.)

Now, if we want to talk about observables believed to be associated with aphantasia, that would definitely be interesting. But most discussions are light on that too, or casually assume all kinds of things are implications of the condition.

Basically, I'm not convinced we have a rigorous enough way to talk about this question for it to be worthwhile, so I usually feel like discussions of it are mostly a waste.
I think what they did in Africa is fantastic compared to what the western powers did for over a century, building infrastructure (mostly for extraction, but also civilian use) is much better than the western world funding warlords to capture mines for slave labor to fund our electronics fetish. Instead of causing more harm they gave them a bad deal, but much better than anything the west offered in which they funded groups of militia that caused harm to the common people. If you consider the alternative, it is much kinder, I wish the US would use less shock and awe, but when it refuses to build infrastructure even in its own country, what do you expect? The US is not a building civilization, its power and culture is warmongering and resource extraction, not long term planning outside the US or internally.

America as the world police/bully and China leverages itself by being slightly better. The US should offer a better deal than China can, its better than bombing the shit out of people, scaring them with weapons, and having them hate us for killing their countrymen or family.
Lots of reasons this can be useful.

At my company we sometimes have to SSH into our dev nodes to restart things, figure out what's going wrong, etc. But we wipe them out nightly to update the code.

This tool would let you keep all your special aliases for working on the nodes without manually copying your config(s) over.

Can't say I'd use it, but I can see use cases like the above.
Why would I trust this extension?
> Btw the root problem isn't the tech, it's the people doing the trolling. But that doesn't make this any less of a tech problem in my opinion.

Yeah, it doesn't happen in real life to this degree, which is why it's a tech problem.
Absolutely.. Currently working with a new HD audio codec and although I know it’s nonsense, it sounds and feels better than ever at times, in fact I can relate to his description of the clarity with his new gadget.. A simple 3 minute ABX test tells me I’m smoking crack and 1:1 normality is once again restored..
You mean you would stream your music instead of having local flac files?! You audio peasent!
The only thing more ridicously expensive would be an NFT of an image of this switch.
Server to Server Transfers with AoC and Aspera Console
Yes - https://0ver.org/about.html

“ZeroVer is satire, please do not use it”
No ground loops in Ethernet. The signalling wires are driven through transformers, isolating them from ground to improve noise immunity.

Latency maybe, but the article doesn't talk about it, and this is typically solved the same way it is inside your computer when feeding the sound card: deliver too much info then wait. The real time delivery constraints that you can patch into the Ethernet stack on Linux are only necessary for reducing roundtrip time.
Well I’ll take a stab at this one:

Privileged folks like those on HN will not cut back much. Folks who are already being forced to cut back will continue to do so, and with massive amounts of suffering.

Really a simple solution!
Here you can find a golden one for 3500eur and extra 2400eur cables ;) https://jcat.eu/product/m12-switch-gold/
When Starship goes zero carbon, hopefully New Glenn feels the pressure and followed.
Even the code, if not very easy to find, is open: https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal
Ahh the wonders of this human condition and our inability as a species to not prevent the sell out of our future generations. We consider ourselves the most intelligent species on earth.
I always say blockchain is just another database tech.

Are you excited by Cassandra, cockroach db , scylla or similar technologies? Then you can be similarly excited with Blockhain databases.

The concensus mechanisms in public blockchains are an interesting mechanism from the purely academic PoV. But yeah... what is happening now is like if a bunch of non-technical marketing and sales people took MongoDB in a MLM campaign.
> Decentralized proof of ownership

I mean, the 'ownership' is as real as "buy a plot of land on Mars" scams.

An inefficient distributed database filled with assertions of legally unenforceable pseudoproperty rights seems somewhat underwhelming.
device referenced in paper: https://thecor.com/about

> As we gathered more and more blood data it was clear that spectroscopic pattern changes evoked by structured experiments allowed us to repeatedly see very subtle changes. We realized that this was something completely new. Not panels, but patterns.
> would it be reasonable to assume that Webb will get copied in a similar way for spy satellites?

Unlikely. You have the origin mixed up. The spy satellites came first, and then Hubble.
IIRC, we are talking about your complaint that Facebook Messenger banned and doesn't carry messages from some domain. That's a speech/press issue, not association.

(If you really want it to be association with which FBM is somehow interfering, where is the govt order? Otherwise, meet all you want, but where is the requirement that some other property owner host you? Are you interfering with freedom of association rights because you put up a 'No Trespassing' sign and my band of drummer and bonfire artists can't come on your land for our meetings?)

The last time I checked, any tech communication platform is owned by the stockholders and managed by the executive team. They are a non-govt entity.

As such, they have rights to publish or say, post, broadcast whatever THEY choose. Or, to not do so. Similarly, if HN finds a user abusing the forum, they are free to ban them.

Was there some govt order requiring FBM to ban the trump-related domain? If so, please post a citation.

If you have no official government action coercing the ban, it is a private decision. If that private was made by an algorithm, it was a recommendation engine or algorithmic. If it was made directly by a human, it was an editorial decision.

It seems like you are arguing AGAINST freedom of non-govt entities to say or not say, publish or not publish what they want.
> The first publicly confirmed death globally from Omicron was reported just yesterday

With Omicron, not from Omicron. It's an important distinction.
>"Tim's Vermeer"

A neat but sorta terrible documentary. The central claim is that Vermeer absolutely must have used a camera lucida because his detail would otherwise be impossible. In particular I remember the 'expert' claiming that a certain smooth gradation was impossible to paint without optical tools. Maybe for a modernist like Hockney, but there are painters with academic training who achieve that kind of work without optical tools.

I'm not saying Vermeer didn't experiment with such tools, but the claims to their criticality in his process are a joke.
I agree. It's confusingly written, you basically have to read the answer (or the previous question) to guess that it's about perpetual licenses.
How does it handle images?
Let's assume that the author actually believes that music sounds better with this hardware, and it's not paid-for review.

Would it be ethical to push such person through double-blind test, which (I assume) would disprove that there is a perceivable difference?
The most popular soda is Coke, which comes in two no-calorie flavors: Diet Coke, and Coke Zero. Diet Coke uses asparatame exclusively. Coke Zero uses asparatame plus a newer invention called Ace-K. Most people prefer the taste of Coke Zero, because it's more like normal Coke. Other sodas' "diet" varieties typically follow Coke's naming and use just asparatame. I wonder if soda companies are not just rebranding, but also looking into reducing the asparatame taste...
> Oh wait, I’m on HN so I shouldn’t neglect to mention my project is written in rust!

Thanks for that, it gave me a chuckle.
Any talk by Dylan Beattie[1,2] or David Beasley[3,4]. I think they are quite unique in their presentation, they tell a story.

[1] https://youtu.be/6avJHaC3C2U
[2] https://youtu.be/TPS-eFmdepw
[3] https://youtu.be/lyDLAutA88s
[4] https://youtu.be/r-A78RgMhZU
And a homemade power cable
I’m not a typescript person, but to be fair to typescript, its type system is still much more expressive than Go’s, even with the generics addition
The melting of floating ice raises the ocean level only 2.6% relative to displacement. If all the extant sea ice and floating shelf ice
melted, the global sea level would rise about 4 cm.

The sliding of grounded ice into the sea is what raises sea levels.
Nobody knows what the fuck they are talking about and everybody ranging from Warren Buffett to Jimmy Buffett are just winging it.

Finance is essentially psychology with 6 months weather forecasting slapped on top of it.

It's way easier to predict the fate of the Universe trillions of years from now than it is to predict where Microsoft stock will sit 4 months from now.
This reminded me of today's Dilbert strip: https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-12-14
I feel really stupid asking this but how do I get started with GPT-3. What kind of side projects can I do to learn this?
It's obvious that an evil BMC would be game over because the BMC is the most trusted component in the system (for normal servers that don't have Titan or whatever). But there's no evidence of compromised BMCs actually happening.
Building an Autonomous Generative Art Collection with P5.js
Go 1.18 Beta 1 is available, with generics
I had a Dishwasher back in the day, never knew it was meant to improve sound quality; I just liked to use it to remove dust from my LPs. Plus it was a fun part of the Tea Ceremony.
There was once set of Christmas themed console controllers (one Red, one Green) with the model name "Profit Driver"

For whatever reason at the time, that opened my mind to why people do things
It's very believable, but that's basically all that the bloomberg story had going for it. None of the actual concrete details (of which there were few) made any sense.
While pragmatically what you've said is entirely true - if we treat the subject with some rigor it's extremely easy to find examples of people who have valued food and shelter at zero. What of the self-immolating buddhist? They valued Tibet's freedom over their own life, and certainly over food and shelter.

So sure, most reasonable people would agree on food and water - but that's introducing a very very powerful new actor - your ability to judge other peoples actions as reasonable or rational. If you reserve that right - then sure, let's call crypto irrational - let's stand on the sidelines and say "well I wouldn't do that!" - let's start building the hierarchy of "reasonable values". I'm only suggesting that our ability to call someone else's valuation irrational behavior is dubious at best and aggressively violent, the birth of social engineering, the sourge of humanity, at worst (hyperbole maybe, but maybe not).

That impulse to guide "rationality" is exactly why we have modern monetary policy, and the only philosophical reason to like cryptocurrencies: a well designed, well distributed immutable ledger is more or less immune from such "guidance".

Edit: Obviously, I disagree strongly with the labor theory of value. I don't have anything handy, but there is a lot written on this (and I think the labor theory of value is fairly well demolished!). Let me know and I'd be happy to send links!
The bigger point is: the company clearly is no position to threaten to fire people for making their own decisions about personal safety in situations like this. If anything, that simply adds to the anxiety, and amplifies risk.

And unfortunately the situation appears to have been far worse than that: it wasn't simply that they were told they couldn't "flee" the premises -- they were expressly forbidden from taking at least some form of shelter, despite these supervisors almost certainly (I'd say 99 percent likely) had no training whatsover in directing these employees to safety in any way:

Multiple employees of the Mayfield Consumer Products factory told NBC News that they took shelter in bathrooms and hallways when they first heard tornado warning sirens, then supervisors ordered them back to work when they mistakenly assumed the danger had passed.
In regards to personal discussion: bogleheads. Otherwise same principal as HN that as a community grows large, especially in finance or other trendy topics, the quality of discussion drops.
You know science is inherently flawed? Making policy on kneejerk reactions to "science" is no better than being a tyrant. Especially when you consider how specific studies are funded (like oil being environmentally friendly).

A majority of studies are just outright wrong and are trying to reach for conclusions for grant money.
> viral mutations are optimizing for high transmission and low severity (to not kill the host and maximize infections

The selection pressure that sometimes selects for weaker strains is large amounts of viral hosts dying, causing the stronger strains to literally die out in the corpses they create.

People aren't dying in droves because of COVID. There is little evolutionary pressure to select for weaker variants of the virus.
I've seen a gold plated audiophile TOSLINK cable before. Which is actually a fat multimode optical connector. But the part you pushed into the socket sure was shiny!

edit: I found it again! https://www.amazon.com/FosPower-Toslink-Digital-Connectors-S...
Don't forget to grab a few $2,995 Ethernet cables!

https://www.synergisticresearch.com/cables/galileo-sx/galile...
> You’re literally repeating the “China bad” argument

The CCP is not China. China is not the CCP. China is not bad and Chinese people are not bad.

The CCP is, unequivocally, one of the most evil and dangerous organizations in the history of humankind. With enough technology, it will be literally impossible to organize a rebellion against them and return China to something like democracy. It will be like `1984` (and is not far off from that type of dystopia even today).

With enough military power, they can annex more and more countries, and no one will be able to stop them. Hong Kong and Taiwan are templates for the future.

> But either the thousand talents program is specifically harmful in some way, or you’re against it because “China bad”. And you appear to be arguing the latter.

I was very clear why I was against it. It's explicitly a program to exfiltrate scientific knowledge (which translates into military, surveillance, and economic power) from non-authoritarian countries to an authoritarian one.

The US has its share of horrific history, and I wish it weren't so powerful and dangerous, but I am always opposed to power flowing from a democratic country to an authoritarian one.

> My opinion of thousand talents is it’s an attempt to reverse brain drain. I personally know a Chinese immigrant with a green card who was struggling to find funding for some kind of cancer research here in the states, then found funding working as a regional thousand talents back in China and now runs some lab or startup or something in Anhui.

I'm not going to argue that nothing good comes of this program. The problem with regimes like the CCP is that they abuse well-intentioned people, and they use a façade of "for the people" to do things that are purely for themselves.
This is fantastic. It'll make Go feel much less weird. eg from the diff:

[]interface{}{1, 2.0, "hi"} -> []any{1, 2.0, "hi"}

Now that Go is going to have generics, all we need is sugar syntax for early return on error -- like more modern languages such as Rust and Zig have -- and Go may finally be pleasant to program in!
And the HN Rust meme continues..
> The viewers who watched [Gangnam Style] earned nothing, even though many of them contributed and were critical to the video's ultimate success.

The author is wrong here, even though it rings true. Early viewers who shared a popular video before it was popular earn the reputation of knowing the next cool thing before everyone else does. They gain “I liked this band before it was cool -tokens”. That’s worth something among peers. If we start to pay out monetary value in addition to that, than we would actually overpay the early viewers. Market forces will eventually rebalance the equation such that early viewers will neglect the reputation part and just start sharing as many videos as possible regardless whether the personally think that those videos are the next cool thing.
Per-capita footprint absolutely does matter. Otherwise how can you compare countries with vastly different populations like Iceland and India? And on a per-capita basis the North American lifestyle produces way more carbon than the Southeast Asian one.
Ethernet cables for $299.

A $6,000 power cable.

If this is not satire, they have no shame.
I know deaths lag cases. I mentioned just the cases in the south African study because those are the earliest cases we have. None of the 78,000 cases up to 7th Dec in South Africa resulted in a reported death up to 13th Dec.

This can be deduced from yesterday's Reuters article I linked which said the first reported death globally was in the UK (not South Africa) and from the fact that the study looked at 78,000 cases of Omicron from 15 November 2021 to 7 December 2021 (source: https://www.discovery.co.za/corporate/news-room). At the time the Reuters article was published we were 6 days after even the most recently reported of those South African cases.

I wasn't trying to present the global denominator - that is far higher than 78,000 since it includes all countries, not just the 78k reported in the South African country.
Same for me, I find WM absolutely infuriating to use.

I have to download a 3rd party application to be able to alt-tab between windows (I will have a few firefox windows open at a time at least)

Often times i'll do the three finger swipe up thing and I'll have like 50 desktops for some reason, and you can only delete them one at a time.

And why does the dock keep the icon of every app I open and close.

I just don't get it, and I'm glad i3/sway exists.