skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what you mean by 'formal' but downvoting for disagreement has always been ok on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
I've done a bunch of Buddhist trainings, 10-day retreats and such and, for me at least, the saying "no plan survives contact with the enemy" seems to apply. I've yet to be able to carry what I've learned forward into a modern lifestyle. I'm able to keep some amount of discipline for around 2ish weeks following my period of isolation from the world, but I eventually find screen time and work pressures overwhelming my ability to resist. I get the feeling that meditation is an artisanal solution to an industrial problem. And teaching people to survive in a dysfunctional society rather than addressing that dysfunction directly isn't the right way to deal with it.
Recall is insignificant and likely fixable by mobile service.
Also notice that the Chinese-built 3 have much better build quality and finish than California-built ones.
https://duckduckgo.com/ ?
That was an excellent read. I must obtain Unix nature.
One story is that it's an (over)correction of Leonard Nimoy's native Boston accent, which would otherwise obliterate the /r/.

Southie Spock would have been amazing though.
Mostly I'm amused, but otherwise you're pretty on point. As an outsider acquiring VC funding seems very challenging and time consuming. We perform on parity with our VC funded competitors, and 10x growth will make us about 10 times their size. We're pulling this off without the advantages of their funding. I'd imagine we could shoot a little higher than 10x growth if we had millions of dollars to spend. Despite being better positioned with a significantly more effective growth strategy, we are not well connected, and so actually getting that VC money seems like more time and effort than we have on reserve.
I spend a lot of time designing the thing I am trying to build to be spread-out vs built-on-top. This way, I have a big list of fun and interesting problems to solve, after which comes the gluing them back together for the prestige.

In reality, it never quite works out that way - but I still maintain it is a good way to start. Like many have said, it is essential to identify the path by which you multiply engineering as demanded by the needs of the thing you are building.

Many projects can keep that factor to 1, but it has to be about the love of doing it, not the outcome. The minute the outcome is more important, hire, scale and delegate!
Certainly bitcoin is designed that way, and it’s one of a few reasons why although BTC has a good chance of succeeding as “digital gold”, it has almost no chance of being a general purpose currency. Other chains and tokens have they problem, too, to a great or lesser extent.

However that is an implementation decision for each individual project, mostly around how supply is distributed and redistributed, and the inflationary mechanics of the asset. These can be innovated on by forking the original. They are also changeable (technically even in bitcoin, though in reality it seems unlikely), with the risk of forks acting as pressure to make beneficial changes.

What I’m saying here is that it is possible and even desirable to design a cryptocurrency which doesn’t work that way, either from the start or perhaps via an “exit to the community” that over time devalues the stakes of founders and early investors and prioritises the users and value creators within the network.

There are lots of mechanics that can be used for this, and most experiments so far have been limited or naive but I expect to and we need to see more of this if cryptocurrencies etc. are to succeed.
> literally zero evidence

to think like this is mind boggling, try to relax, do some research (no, not reading news or opinion articles), and you will find your evidence

also: if smarter people than you are mostly pro-something, perhaps there is something else to it, stop thinking like a 5 year old trying to save the world from some made up monster no one else can see
Nobody is going to take this seriously until it very clearly distances itself from Ripple. Chris needs to be kicked off the board and you need a very public press release denouncing the XRP's scheme of fraud.
What on earth makes you say that the admins are OK with that? It's obviously against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You can report comments by flagging them or in egregious cases by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.
Seeing how well the ransomware industry is faring, it seems Putin doesn't feel too threatened yet.

But what happens when he bans all exchanges that off-board cryptocurrencies to Ruble? Will the opposition be happy with tokens that are suddenly useless for day-to-day expenses?
Why is everyone here so focused on NFTs? I didn't mention NFTs at all. They just happen to be the hot thing to shit on right now. I am not a fan of NFTs. But "digital receipts" are tremendously valuable. Receipts are proof of provenance.

Proof of provenance is valuable in many, many applications. But anyways, that isn't the point. The type of digital self custody i'm referring to is for things like stablecoins. Stablecoins allow you to self-custody dollars in a way that was not possible before cryptocurrency.
I was mostly thinking about Macs at the time I made the joke, because very often an iOS user is also a Mac user. Where I work, Mac users always have to carry around dongles.
> So now what? Can't ban bitcoin mining in China twice. How are we going to get them to reduce emissions now?

Indeed, they have a lot of work ahead of them. I will not disagree. I'm hopeful their huge push towards nuclear power will help them bridge the gap. They are one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions and all sorts of other pollution in the world.

> You are neither the worst person I know, nor did you make a great point, nor am I heartbroken. Thanks for the snarky reference to a Clickhole article[2] that's just a slight sidestep from an ad hominem attack.

I sincerely apologize, but that wasn't directed at you! The heartbreak was mine, and the "worst person you know" was directed at the PRC government. I was implying that while they do not have a particularly stellar track record in the ethics department, in this case, they made a good (TM) choice.

I suspect our positions are closer together than they are far apart.
How did this article, written by someone who clearly lacks an understanding of basic statistics, make it into the Upshot? They try to make it seem like the test is wrong 85% of the time, but that's not necessarily the case. All we know from the article is that 85 / 100 positive results are false positives, which means the test could actually be quite accurate. If the test correctly identifies 100% of real cases, then that sounds like an excellent test. Just as an example, if 1/4000 people have the disease, and the test identifies 100% of these cases, then around 0.14% of test takers will get a false positive.
And the number of people dying per (large) unit of time is almost certainly well approximated by a normal distribution, modulo seasonal variation and events such as this (which break the "independence" assumption of the CLT).
Last commit is from November 7 2020. Seems abandoned and open sourced so it could endure a bit longer. Fortunately there are good FLOSS multi-platform astronomy software already.
https://autovon.org/

http://www.bunkertours.co.uk/autovon.html

https://wd0giv.com/Autovon.html

http://www.paul-f.com/weAutovon.html
Yes the whole reporting of cases and deaths related to covid, vary country to country and sure have muddied getting a picture of things the past couple of years.
Pronounced “Wooster-sher”, though commonly you drop the “shire” for just “Wooster”. (That’s a short “woo” like in “wool”, not “woo” as in a romantic interest.)

“Wooster sauce.”
You're twisting my words and deflecting from my point. To clarify: The letter did not call it racism, other people did. This is verifiable in many places.
What is wrong with paternalism?
Or run two conduits in parallel
> > Do those things, and Bitcoin will literally subsidize and accelerate clean energy infrastructure investment.

> If you invest in massive solar and wind plants then use that energy to roll rocks up and back down a hill forever like Sisyphus, that's just more waste.

Yeah this is what I don't get from the PoW-is-actually-a-good-thing camp. Presumably if Bitcoin were to incentivize the production of clean energy it would be by using it to mine bitcoin. And even if it makes it cheaper to produce due to economies of scale or whatever, that would just translate into increased mining profits. Bitcoin is an uncapped demand on energy that will soak up all energy production up to a certain price (based on the value of bitcoin) so I don't think it can possibly be net positive for energy production/use.
Did you forget BFR, which is a variation of Starship to do intercontinental commuter trips?
How do you keep inflation within an economic zone between 2 and 3 percent without control over your money? No matter if the economic growth is between -1% and 10%?
Was thinking the same thing. Also a nail gum would make putting that frame together pretty easy. I worked in construction until I was in my mid 20’s and I’m amazed at how uninformed people are when building sheds and tiny homes. YouTube also spreads a lot of bad info.
https://www.pcgamer.com/indie-dev-finds-that-linux-users-gen...

This dev found the linux users returned high quality bug reports

>Only 3 of the roughly 400 bug reports submitted by Linux users were platform specific, that is, would only happen on Linux.

While this post is a linux-specific bug, in general they can end up identifying underlying bugs that affect all platforms.
> We do a good job with breast and prostate screens

Do we? Unless I'm missing something, breast cancer is a huge killer and PSA tests are deeply imperfect. I am very much not expert in these areas.
You can. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag
They also don't use signed integers, in the sense that computer languages use the term. Signed integers are also bounded in extent, and for most systems wrap on over/underflow. Euler's Theorem doesn't hold for them any more than it does for unsigned integers.

Don't treat computer "integers" like mathematical integers. It leads to pain. They're members of a few finite fields.
Buying materials online with delivery (~$75) can also be a really good approach, especially if you know everything you're going to need up front.
Or that second order effects from covid prevention policies have led to many extra deaths. e.g. suicides, alcoholism, drug overdose

Have to look at the numbers to understand
People tend not to die in that age range from natural causes. Even covid has a relatively low impact in that range. For instance, I’d expect higher deaths in 2020 from covid than this year, assuming the vaccines are effective and not causing the issues (perhaps they are...?)

I’m curious what factors are the major causes. I’m guessing mental health, obesity and drugs. Although anecdotal, I know multiple people who had a major downward spiral the past 12 months, particularly in mental health. Delaying treatment the last 18-24 months for basic checkups could also lead to some major issues.
No, it is two steps before that: re-arranging your day-to-day so that there is no sugar to eat.
I can even imagine a packet-switched network still running into "more telephones than trunks" problems.

I can imagine it every day when I deal with WiFi problems! Ugh...
But all of those things increase the GDP, so they are automatically an improvement.
OpenOffice, Blender and Java were in "full steam" development when they were open sourced. Actually, the company developing Blender had some financial difficulties, but its development was running nevertheless.
I agree with the thrust of what you're saying, but wanted to nitpick a bit to point out that there is no 'fire in a crowded theater' exemption to protected speech. Your point that not all speech is protected is, of course, correct.

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
Why are you asking to rule it out and not question wether or not it _might_ be a contributing factor (however that might be)?
Technically, they are legally homeschooling, not in school. In this case, we're dealing with the misnomer problem. I also agree that homeschooling is the wrong word for this type of education. It's more like alloparenting, or what I like to call Modular Learning. https://manisharoses.medium.com/homeschooling-needs-a-new-na...
This is something new for me I have never read or thought of it. That's a bit evil, but it could work through its viciousness
Good news: he ran a 100ft cat6 cable so that he could plug in a wireless access point. His ethernet card should be fine.
I don't want to turn this into an argument about consuming chicken but I feel I must share my point of view regarding this matter. I am fortunate enough to have enough space to raise a personal flock of chickens and on occasion I am required to end their lives. This is absolutely not something that I take pleasure in but feel that I have provided a good life without pain and anxiety to my animals and although they do suffer a brief moment of anxiety and possibly pain, I have taken the responsibility of raising my own meat including the dispatching of their short lives in a humane way. I am personally against factory farms for their affect on the environment and in my opinion production of a lower quality meat but feel that my animals have one bad moment on my farm and a far better than average life otherwise, unlike what occurs in large factory chicken houses and processing plants. I respect life in all it's forms and believe there is a place where the consumption of animals and their welfare can coexist.

Consider the humanity of euthanizing a pet, to argue killing is diametrically opposed to an animals welfare is a false statement.
The internet has given us opportunities to connect with one another like never before. Yet, most sites we use today have barely tapped that potential. We believe in the power of well-designed tools to improve people's lives and bring about positive social change. They are characterized by five main aspects:

Time:
Instead of priding ourselves on how much time people spend in our apps, we want people to get in, get out, and get results.

Utility:
Help people get things done in the real world, rather than building an online persona.

Notifications:
Let people control which updates they receive about things happening in their life, instead of getting them addicted to notifications like a slot machine.

Organic:
In every context, pre-compute useful information and present it to the user, enabling them to do more in less steps.

Business Model:
Make money by helping people accomplish useful things as a group, not just by selling advertising.
What ensures the parties involved are free? Many of these issues being discussed deal with consequences experienced by one party that were never disclosed by the other. Information asymmetry makes such contracts un-free and thus the legal framework should permit nullification and redress.
“People on earth” is a pretty huge group, but I think given the right kind of publicity, a fraction of them could find themselves united in their dislike of the purveyors of that flag.
I think it's very likely that the OP was supposed to pull a permit and get zoning permission, but if you are going to be including plumbing and sleeping, you almost certainly need to.
What I would like to see is PS5's sold at market price by Sony, but the overage is donated to a charity of the buyer's choice.

It pushes the scalpers out of the game, which means there's less idle inventory, and the price can come down a little faster.

Another alternative is to sell at MSRP, but bind it to the buyer for a year. This means that it can be only be resold as a brick within a year, which is obviously unattractive to scalpers. To prevent scalpers selling a sale-sniping service, just take orders from qualified buyers anytime, then fill them randomly in e.g. a 7 day window. Within a week you either get a PS5 bound to you or a refund and a chance to try again.
You can make a good argument without exaggerating. Exaggerating just makes people ignore you or worse you create strawmen and people endlessly fight because you give clearly false statements that can be rebuttled. Most of your conclusions don't follow. I mean do you really think things haven't changed in the last 50 years? You can't calculate likelihood from black swans.

Lets rephrase because the argument you're trying to make is good, just exaggerated and incomplete.

Nuclear has a small chance of something going bad but when it goes wrong it's big and localized. We'll bound the cost as a bit higher than Fukushima (which includes a tsunami) with $200bn. But if we look at the median cost of accidents is well under 10bn and covered by the insurance. You're right that there's also a chance of a state sponsored attack. Though note that reactor domes are designed to withstand airplane strikes. Most state sponsored attacks on nuclear facilities haven't led to disasters and fallout.

On the other hand, nuclear has provided us clean energy for over half a century. Still accounts for over 50% of the US's clean energy and provides and good constant base load.

Coal and gas have a moderate chance of things going wrong. Costs often being in the range of several billion dollars to several tens of billions, a handful being a few hundred. But the big cost is the slow release of carbon into the atmosphere which has led to the largest catastrophe in human history and has an estimated cost of $4 trillion per year.

The benefits are that these energy sources are cheap and can easily be throttled matching demand.

Renewables have a high chance of danger but it is very low in damage (high rate of people falling off roofs and dying). Sometimes there's a high risk but rare (see dams breaking and specifically Banqiao). The other issues are that we don't have a way to provide constant load, there's not enough batteries, low production rates, and some unsolved problems that mean they don't work everywhere and thus require gas or coal to fill in.

The upside is that they are relatively cheap and produce no emissions.

This is the calculous that the scientific community is doing. It's not simple and requires a lot of experts working in different areas working together. The scientific community is asking for nuclear + renewables (not nuclear vs renewables). Preference renewables but when you can't, nuclear is infinitely better than gas or coal. There's some that argue we don't need nuclear but their estimated costs are far higher than renewables with a sprinkling of nuclear. This is a more nuanced debate that I encourage others to read on but take your emotions out of it. The calculous extremely convoluted. Please listen to the scientist. Trust but verify does mean to first trust.
Great article. Discovering gems like this that I normally wouldn't have seen is a big reason I visit HN.

Many of the recommendations in this article are also apropos to helping friends through difficult times, not just fire devastation. For example:

- Focus on quietly helping a friend feel seen and giving them an opportunity to verbalize a range of intense or confusing emotions.

- Just listen. Sit in the discomfort. Do not offer a bright side. Finding a silver lining is their work, not yours.

- Not being alone in this endeavor can soften the sting and free up time to tackle other parts of an endless to-do list.

- Ask how you can help even if you live far away. Support from those living afar is invaluable after a disaster because the natural, local network has been compromised.

- Give what will uplift, not weigh down.
Oh, momentous for sure! I guess I meant that it's not surprising that we were able to do it successfully. "What, like it's hard?" vibes. :)
First free Assange and then throw in “democratic” in the mix.
Mentioned paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14714

Abstract:

This thesis proposes an advanced, generic and high-level code rewriting and analysis system in the Julia programming language, providing applied equality saturation in the presence of multiple dispatch and metaprogramming. We show how our system can practically solve some challenging problems: Can programmers implement their own high-level compiler optimizations for their domain-specific scientific programs, without the requirement of them being compiler experts at all? Can these optimizers be implemented by users in the same language and inside the same programs they want to optimize, solving the two-language problem? Can these compiler optimizers be written in a high-level fashion, as equations, without the need to worry about the rewriting ordering? Thus, can symbolic mathematics do high-level compiler optimizations or vice-versa?
I really wish someone made a browser extension that simulates a slow connection when you visit a social media website. I have a feeling the addiction would go away if you were subjected to a random 1-5 second wait after each click on Twitter.
> Inflation isn't a bad thing necessarily.

if you are already rich...
I was always told not to use it as a lube ,oil replacement, but as a water repellent or oil build up cleaner. It's good at getting rid of gunk.
Edit: They kind of do this farther down in the article.

Considering this as a UX challenge - imagine a grid of 10,000 dots (100x100).

Draw one box around the base rate - the rate at which you expect to find the problem in the population. If the base rate is 1%, then the box is 10x10 = 100 dots.

Then color in the dots for the test positive rate (not false positive, just all positive tests) False positives would be the colored dots outside the box.

Next to that, put strikes through the dots corresponding to your expected false negative rate.
Then the price of food goes up, and farmers have a bad time?
If you did it annually, you'd get rid of seasonal effects and probably get a smaller std dev. Using quarters gives you the full variability of the seasons, so it is a more conservative 3 sigma, in a sense.
Yes, for example. Or any other way that has worked more or less well throughout history. Few people are buying the “but the dissidents” argument of cryptocurrency. It’s a valid use case in theory but little so far shows that has been a use case.

The thing about Bitcoin is that it’s mature tech now. Whatever promises it has should be materialized now. If it’s to be a currency rather than a store of value and instrument of speculation - it ought to show already. But it doesn’t. It hasn’t materialized. And we shouldn’t be sinking resources into something that is perpetually a few years from being a currency.
Slight tangent re: fitness. Over Christmas my dad and some similarly aged people (70’s) were reminiscing about their childhood, and pointed to the lack of Doritos as memorable. Junk food was neither the product of decades of addictiveness-enhancing R&D not cheap.

A poor person today by contrast has junk food as the cheapest option.
The question isn't whether there's a bull case for tesla, there obviously is. The question is the bear case which the GP laid out pretty clearly.

Tesla might grow to eclipse the existing auto industry! Certainly the story of "incumbent industries fail to adapt to changing conditions" is a common one but "industry supports several equally sized competitors" is as well.
The authoritarian and condescending nature of it.
Because you've expended the energy twice: once in Iceland, and again in Chile. The "battery" analogy requires a transfer of power, not a transfer of proof that the power was spent.
Exactly. So well put.