skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the plan! But I’m already at 80% maxed out on a 30A 240V breaker. Sure I could add more breakers, but I really don’t want to turn my basement into an industrial mining zone (not to mention the HOA might have a thing or two to say). I’ve already used some soundproofing (Rockwool) in the room that all the mining equipment is in, the noise is real!

Also I need more airflow, I’m exhausting extra heat out a small basement window. If I want to expand I need to consider intake fans from a second window to keep airflow moving seamlessly.

I’m in a peculiar position where if I lease out a warehouse for $3000/month I literally deplete all the profit and break even until I expand more. I’m not sure where to go from here, suggestions welcome! So far the best plan I have is just wait until I can afford a bigger house with a big backyard, so I can build a mining shed out there.
Indeed, and depending on options also the mirrors too.

With remote start you can walk up with an ice scraper/snow shovel and push the slurry right off then be on your way. Otherwise, you'll have to sit in the cold car for 5~10 minutes while the ice softens, then get back out and push it off (and that assumes your doors haven't frozen shut).

A lot of people in warmer climates think idling is something only jerks do, those in colder areas realize you cannot safely operate your vehicle without idling with the heater running full-bore.

PS - And while garages are an even better solution, it isn't realistic to expect nobody to live in town homes/apartments.
Dropout, the example given, is not a normally distributed error - more like a salt noise. The impact on subsequent layers isn’t Normal either. My point is certain error modes other than normally distributed may not be so bad. E.g. skew as roughly half of the redundant paths for information will be inverted in the latent space.

I’m not a hardware guy, but in my experience DNNs can be made rather resilient. To me it looks like it could work. If it does great.
It's interesting how regularly US social media have these "oopsie" moderation [0]/copyright [1] "accidents".

Even more interesting when they openly admit to censoring content [2].

I wonder how much of that is actually "accident" and how much of it is just testing out boundaries how far they can go before it gets noticed too widely [3]?

[0] https://nypost.com/2021/03/24/twitter-censoring-detention-ce...

[1] https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/when-filters-fail/

[2] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/04/goog-n04.html

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37318031
I've never noticed the app is made by Xamarin. Quite impressive app.
The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

It identified so many of the "edges" of society and how I think about and interact with the world, on a daily basis.

Without a doubt one of the best books I've ever read. Maybe even the best.

The only other book that came close this year was Robert Sapolsky's A Primate's Memoir.
Hm, maybe you're from a country where this status claim makes more sense, but where I'm from the Camry, Corolla, Prius, etc. were never seen as anything but dull run-of-the-mill middle class cars. I'd have never considered a Toyota owner a "moneyed commuter" in my life. The status symbol cars here are mainly German brands or Teslas.
And, of the ones who are good enough, some get unlucky and never overcome the "interview random number generator" and always get stuck in the "interview anti-loop." [0] You would think there would be less luck involved in a process that really wants to select the best available employees, but it is not so.

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[0]: http://recursion.org/2012/1/10/interviewing-anti-loop
The "photorealism" of that ML demo was vastly overstated. A lot of post processing effects in games are there to (somewhat ironically) emulate defects of cameras: vignetting, chromatic aberration, bloom, flares etc.

I think this ML demo got there by effectively emulating a low-res, poorly white balanced, low framerate dash cam. I think those "defects" make people see the image looking more like the output of a real (albeit shitty) camera system.

It would be more interesting to see what kind of output we could get at 4K 60fps and properly white balanced.
Making custom wiring harnesses for each option would likely be cost prohibited and needlessly complex. If one model has an option, it's likely that all vehicles of the same model are also wired for that feature. Adding features may be as simple as changing out the seats and adding a switch.
The reason we know politicians are corrupt is because they got exposed by the media or prosecutors.

Autocratic politicians are perfect because they can't be exposed.
> desktop electron app

> Moreover, since this is a serious app from a security point of view it really should go full vendor native IMO.

hmm
Anecdote and all, but... Look, my family members work in healthcare all over the country. There is no "overwhelm the the healthcare system" crap. There is, however, locked down departments, shut down services, and reduced amount of surgeries. Those are due to policies, and have nothing to do with COVID-19.
Since the last few years, I have made it a habit to write about the books[1] I read without trying to add my smart-a* comment but more as a way to come back later in life and read the articles. For this year, here are some of the books I liked (quite a few of them are re-reads);

- The Story of My Experiments with Truth, the autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi (English Version)

- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson

- Ego is the Enemy, Stillness Is the Key, and The Obstacle Is the Way; all 3 books by Ryan Holiday

- Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher[2]

1. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/books-of-2021/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reviving_Ophelia
not to diminish their work, but it just changes the look of the game too much to look more dreary. I have the suspicion that this happened because the training set seems to be based on Northern European cities whereas the game is set in LA. I wish there was a version trained the engine on LA or at least a city more similar in feel. It certainly would make for a more intuitive comparison.
To be honest, I kind of just hate having computers and wireless stuff built into cars in general. My experience is it's always buggy, and after two or three years it's mostly obsolete. Admittedly I am a dinosaur, I just bought a new car and it's a stick shift, but I feel like a decent car will last you 15-20 years and how many of you are using 20 year old computers?

Also the cell connection seems problematic. Like, 4 years ago I bought my uncle a phone, and I just got notice that I have to upgrade him because t-mobiles 3g is going away. How many of my cars fancy connected features will work in 4 years?
The current pool distribution for Bitcoin is here: https://btc.com/stats/pool
No pool has >20% today.

It is in the interests of the miners to prevent a situation where one pool takes a majority of the hash rate. Miners will migrate to smaller pools if one is getting too big.
Haha. This reminds me of the dot com days. I was doing the front end as a mammoth servlet. The entire UI was more or less in one multi megabyte Java file. The architect of our group started add in changes - which, briefly, I kept my nose above water editing - but he knew I'd drowned. When I finally gave up he went over JSPs and the new fangled 'MVC' pattern and really worked through some UI patterns with me. It was very much a learning moment for me for design and maintenance.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre (1923). Inspired by the life of stock trader Jesse Livermore in the late 1800s to early 1900s. The narrator starts trading in bucket shops (antique equivalent of Robinhood), makes and loses several fortunes through various (often less than honorable) financial escapades. Was inspired to read this by the GameStop situation and was not disappointed.
I mean that in Rust, you have to work kinda hard to drop an error on the floor and leave it unhandled.

It's easy and idiomatic to write code which calls `unwrap`, so that's what everybody does when they don't want or need to write sophisticated error handling code. But that's not the same as forgetting to check a return value — when something goes wrong, `unwrap` panics.

I mean, if you're determined you can definitely drop an error in Rust, e.g. with a `match` arm that does nothing. But the easy path is to `unwrap`.
How are you tracking everything for taxes?
Just out of curiosity what do you (or any electric-head reading this) think about the Ford F-150 Lightning?

I (probably) won't be moving to electric by way of Tesla, and am pretty ignorant when it comes to what is truth in "the scene"..

I live in a snowy paradise and dream of converting an existing gas vehicle via electric crate motor.. like an OG VW beetle or bus/wagon on big deep fat truck tires.. so it's obvious I'm clueless when it comes to electric realities.
Java app can be a single executable by using GraalVM Native Image
Usually you want the 2x wait to be a random time between 1.5x and 2x longer or something.
That's why I said you define the niche and overstate its work. You work hard and build trust and then yes if you ask for more work, you get more work. However there is a window in which to define what you do next and make it seem like more work than it really is.
While cool, I think I prefer these older styled longform HTML pages that have links back to the main nav:

http://moonmusiq.com/
It's such a shame that value classes in Valhalla can only be immutable...
C# has mutable value based classes since years and this enable major optimizations in much more common use cases. This is also what everybody do in C.
In addition to being less expressive and programmable, it should also be slower, e.g you have a value class that has ten fields, you just want to update one and ineptly, you have to reconstruct the whole object and reassign/copy every fields that have not changed..
Regarding ergonomics, they are totally broken, e.g you can't have an idiomatic Point.
You cannot write point.x = 5
> Decentralized systems democratize trust.

No they don't, they are trustless. They do exactly the opposite.

Anyway, not a single thing you say justifies using blockchains in our life.

And banks evolved because they aren't one giant organization, but competing organizations so as others added features so they did.
>>No. Good lord. If you want to protect your digital rights, hire a lawyer

Not every one can afford a lawyer..
I don't think the issue is deontology or consequentialism here, I think you're actually giving a consequentalist account in both examples, just one time collectively and the other individually.

My point is rather that for criminal culpability to exist, there needs to be intent. And (excuse me if this is somewhat inaccurate because I'm not from a common law region), in general a 'guilty mind' is a requirement in criminal law, no?

Insofar as people receive lesser judgements for crimes without adverse outcomes the argument is that the better outcome reflects less willingness to commit or go through with a crime.

To take an extreme example, no jurisdiction I'm aware of punishes attempted murder substantially less severely than actual murder even if the outcome is that there's no harm done at all. Likewise an accidental death is not a crime.
Wealthy people generally have a pretty good handle on how to efficiently allocate capital. Unless it was inherited, most wealthy people alive today were not born that way.

Government agencies and politicians have proven, by and large, to be incredibly inefficient allocators of capital. When the bloated arm of government expands into an area that's already well-served by markets, it impedes economic growth.
The way I read Toyota's response wasn't "we're going to provide this functionality for free going forward" it was "we're going to strip this functionality from future RF remotes, and make it an app exclusive." They literally said that triple click for remote start is unintended and undocumented.

Existing vehicles may get it re-enabled for free, but next major vehicle refresh I suspect we'll see the RF remotes dumbed-down as hard as possible that you'll pay them a monthly fee to regain the functionality.
Depends. I know coughs can kill, but it is pretty unlikely.
438 days. A memoir of a Mexican fisherman that spent over a year drifting across the Pacific Ocean. I’m a sucker for a good survival story and finished it in a day.
>What if you're wrong and they wanted to inflict anguish on their users? Well, the market is pretty good about fixing those problems, at least with commodities like lights.

The problem with this idea is that consumer-unfriendly things can make more money for the manufacturers than consumer-friendly things--not because the consumers want to pay for them, but because it lets the companies make money in other ways (typically advertising, monetizing consumer data, or using consumer bandwidth) that are dangerous in ways that are hard for consumers to understand. The consumers will end up worse even by their own standards (they'll understand the dangers after they happen to them, they just won't understand them in advance or connect them to the poor design).

The market assumes perfect consumer knowledge. Most people here know the dangers of the Internet of Things, but the average person doesn't. And just HN geeks are not enough to support a market, so you only get to buy the same things that the average consumer can buy. (Go ahead, try to find a non-smart TV.)
Blood Meridian (or The Evening Redness in the West) by Cormac McCarthy. Quickly became my favorite book after reading it a second time. I've never read a book with more effective language.
All copies of a jpg can be identical?
I know in Japan a Toyota is considered a more upper-crust brand (as opposed to the budget Daihatsu) but Toyotas in North America are solidly the “working class beater” that you own for 20 years and drive until you have literal holes in the floor.
I started small, let things pay for themselves before buying more. My initial investment was about $10,000, and that was just for a handful of GPUs, some parts like motherboards and CPUs, an electrician for the 240V 30A line, PDU, etc. Once I made that money back I slowly bought more. My most recent purchase has been the AvalonMiner which will pay for itself in another six months or so. If I include the revenue from all the mining hardware though, the AvalonMiner will be paid for much sooner. It’s funny how that works :)
Honestly enjoyed this more than The Martian, which was already one of my favorite reads.
Google (D-CA) has been doing this more and more lately.

For example, I just searched for "are conservatives being silenced by big tech" and here are the results in private windows for Google, DDG, Yandex, and Brave search: https://i.imgur.com/MVlshAT.png

You can draw your own conclusions from the bias in the results. Several of the top results - from notoriously left wing results - are directly claiming they aren't. I've seen worse, but I forget the exact query I used. It might be good faith in that the people running Google think right wing sites are disreputable/misinformation, but...that's a bias.

I ditched them for DDG months ago.

I'm a registered pacific green, and not a conservative by any quantifiable measure, but this is still alarming to me. Decades of watching politics have mostly taught me one thing: Neither federally funded party gives a shit about me.
This intense hatred for Electron has always baffled me. I thought the community in general was in favour of allowing people to create whatever they wanted, however they wanted. More people making software is good! And the community grows because of it, and everything is better. But every time an electron app gets promoted somewhere (HN/Reddit/Twitter/wherever) there is always _someone_ yelling at the developer because they decided to use Electron.

As a javascript developer, I'm sorry that I don't have the patience/smarts/skills/time to learn C++/Qt/GTK/WxWidgets/etc. HTML/CSS/Javascript is all I know and it's probably all I will reasonably stay with for a while because of various circumstances. And Electron lets me use the knowledge I already have to make things.

That's not to say that Electron doesn't have all these issues, of course. But I feel that this policing of how people write their own software (especially when it's something purely done as a hobby and/or just to share something with people) is getting somewhat out of hand.

Here's a hypotetical/philosophical question for the community in general. Given no other alternatives to do X, what is preferable? An Electron app that allows people to do X, or no app at all?
Working half of the agreed upon hours is, what?

You've already implied you'd do whatever you could get away with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668597
No way I'm telling you people. The business I'm in is centuries old. Even still, I'd need to be a special kind of stupid to advertise that there's easy money niches of it to a bunch of people who have discretionary income.

Edit: There's wood involved, but not that kind of wood.
> People complain about microtransactions today and don't even think to consider that the original microtransaction was the arcade machine

I couldn't disagree more. The arcade machine did not feel like a microtransaction at the time. We were glad to spend the coins on them. Now, even with presumably much more funds than when we were kids, the microtransactions feels very exploitative!

If people "dont even think to consider" then that means there isn't much of a similarity
My response is not about Hollywood, but the current influx of “influencers” etc.
Not typically, at least not in my experience as an IC. I have literally never signed anything that was a binding employment contract.
You have made that perfectly clear.
But trust in the blockchain isn't what I'm talking about. It's trust that my retirement won't vanish overnight.
Many conservatives believe that highschoolers should be paid less for the same labor. This is a very common idea especially in the south. There is nobody to fight for that particular group except themselves. Unions just see them as competition. It is no wonder that they complain about their first job.
Walter Isaacson's The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Reading about how the Crispr and mRNA vaccine development happened was gripping.
I am building something similar browser based https://bangle.io
I earn more than $500 a month with [redacted], a phone contract comparison website for the UK market.

[link redacted]

Today, 90% of my time is spent on content marketing, followed by improvements to the website.

Data is automatically pulled once a day. Parsing the data feeds can be frustrating, as there is no consistent format or documentation, therefore I need to code around many possible edge cases.

I do all the web design and development work myself.

Stack:

Front end: plain JavaScript

Back end: Node.js

Host: $10 DigitalOcean droplet

Web server: Nginx

SSL: Let's Encrypt with certbot

Proxy: Cloudflare

Database: Postgres

Caching: Redis

Indexing: MeiliSearch

Most of the traffic comes from organic search. It took me more than a year of SEO work to get any traffic at all from search engines. I was a bit naive about how much marketing I actually needed to do - I almost gave up several times.
When I say "I forget", I am implying that while I can't recall at the moment, I might in the future.
there are not a lot of jobs that are "code that hasn't been written yet" unless you include AGI... teachers, programmers, drivers, chefs, truck drivers, engineers, cashier, etc.
If you have a digital work of art, an NFT can help you with two things: forms a binding between the rights-holder and the work of art. The NFT can also encode various information and other licensing decisions made by the rights holder for example:

- what is the name of the license covering the work of art
- who is the original author
- what date was the work created
- what if anything was it derived from
- are private or public performances allowed
- is copying allowed
- does the license allow for sublicenses or transfers

And, as we get into the money question:
- what is the cost to play, display, or perform this work
- who should be paid

I could imagine, say, iTunes being able to play NFT protected works, and being able to collect a fee from the user to be able to play it. In theory this would go directly to the rights holder, which would perhaps be the original author rather than a music publisher.

Another example I saw was that artists could create limited editions, say of 1000 of a digital image. If I wanted to display these on my TV, I would have to have own the NFT. The NFT addresses the problem of how Samsung figures out how to pay the rights holder. Usually after a work of art is sold, the original author is out of the picture. But, they could encode an NFT so that whenever the ownership is transferred, the original creator gets a slice. So, the original creator would continue to benefit from works which appreciate in value.
In ancient Egypt they tried to treat breast cancer with rudimentary methods around 3000 BC:

Our oldest description of cancer (although the word cancer was not used) was discovered in Egypt and dates back to about 3000 BC. It’s called the Edwin Smith Papyrus and is a copy of part of an ancient Egyptian textbook on trauma surgery. It describes 8 cases of tumors or ulcers of the breast that were removed by cauterization with a tool called the fire drill. The writing says about the disease, “There is no treatment.”

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-basics/history-of-cance...
Manufacturers sell through dealer networks to the buyers of new cars, who are a very small fraction of the population, who tend to buy cars rather more often than the average person

In other words, they primarily care about the first owner, and then primarily the first three years of the first owner. Everything outside that first owner's first three years is only baked-in as a matter of "resale value" -- if the entire industry adopts stuff that goes obsolete after two years, there is no competitive advantage in being err, less-obsolete.
Started reading r/fantasy’s top self published fantasy list. Loved the Cradle series by Will Wight.
Different countries would have different symbols/signals, a Land Rover aka a Chelsea Tractor/Wagon is definitely an upper middle class symbol in the UK, but not necessarily everywhere else.

In other countries with either lower income or lower income to car price ratio due to import taxes and road taxes on vehicles I can definitely see a Toyota possibility being a middle class symbol.

The Honda Accord was one in the late 90’s and early 2000’s in quite a few places around the world so the Camry which is quite comparable to the Accord might have been just that too.

Also the Land Cruiser might fill the same niche as the Land Rover does in some places (especially in countries where Land Rover doesn’t have good market penetration or it’s priced way above what the middle class can afford), whilst not a premium SUV per say it too shabby and it ain’t cheap the 5 door version is around £60K in the UK…

And regardless of price of the car the Prius was very popular with the middle class and upper middle class in its early years when it served essentially as an easy virtue signaling for many. At least until plenty of other hybrids/plug-in hybrids came out and ofc Teslas…

Now the Prius is pretty much relegated to Uber and Co. and even that would shift soon enough to full on EV’s at least until governments around the word would start taxing EV charging to compensate for drop in income from fuel duties.