skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point I cannot be alone in thinking that what we are seeing is a runaway AI system?

Let me just speculate wildly here:

Seems no-ones Google is the same and how do one manage approximately 4 billion [1] a/b/c/etc experiments if not using artificial intelligence and reinforcement?

Now imagine 4 billion agents ("monkeys") who flip bits everywhere and every time one of them is unusually successful that pattern is reinforced across a part of the "population" of agents.

Every time one of them does something particularly stupid Google relies on users to report an error and swaps out that agent. (This explains why if you report an error in search it appears to magically be fixed 15 minutes later.)

Let's say this has been running since way before 2008 and 2008 just happened to be the time it got completely out of hand:

Mostly it works very well economically speaking but search quality suffers year by year and no one can do anything about it since by now so many optimizations have been applied that for a decade no single human has been able to really understand it.

The AI - using end to end optimization techniques - learns to prioritize ad-heavy sites (since thise are more likely to result in positive reinforcement in the form of juicy ad impressions or clicks) and sites that doesn't really answer the question (since that brings the user back to Google for a new chance to serve ads both in search results and on other high ranking pages.)

In the same manner the system learns to avoid easily understood clean pages without ads as that means game over for this query.

By now everyone who knows anything about it sees that it broken but nobody dares to fix it since that would result in a massive revenue loss.

[1]: assuming half the world uses Google
Wild conspiracy: What if the omicron variant was created by the same process as is used in GoF research more generally. Use humanised mice with human ACE2 receptors and pass it through them over many generations selecting for infectiousness / immune escape wrt the existing vaccines. Maybe they even observed anti-body dependent enhancement (ADE) in mice.

I don't think this is entirely implausible because current research is doing things along those lines: There is an established "mouse" model now and people are actively working on chimeric vaccines, engineering virus variants with different spike proteins (for chimeric vaccines see e.g. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi4506). They engineered several COVID variants in that paper, some which antagonise the innate immune response.

> To confirm that scrambled coronavirus spikes are biologically functional, we also designed and recovered several high-titer recombinant live viruses of RsSHC014/SARS-CoV-2 NTD, RBD, and S2 domain chimeras that included deletions in nonessential, accessory open reading frame 7 (ORF7) and ORF8 that encoded nanoluciferase (fig. S1C). SARS-CoV-2 ORF7 and -8 antagonize innate immune signaling pathways (25, 26), and deletions in these ORFs are associated with attenuated disease in humans (27, 28).

and made sure that the "single" spike vaccine was ineffective vs. the chimeric vaccines, which gave broad protection.
There's a blog post on the same site that talks about using https://github.com/in3rsha/bitcoin-utxo-dump. I'm running a pruned node, I use that lib to dump the address and balance to a csv and then I pull out the top 100 or so.
Because the concept of "ownership" doesn't really mean anything unless it can be enforced. What's the point of owning a house if you can't live in it because someone else is squatting in it?

Since there doesn't seem to be a way to decentralize the enforcement of real property ownership (as enforcement could involve violence, which the state has a monopoly on given our current social contracts), we're stuck with centralization in at least one component of the "ownership-enforcement" pair...

So then what's the point of decentralization at all?
If you post things not enough hackers find interesting, they'll get flagged.
From the linked overview page:

> Sometimes our estimated cost-effectiveness ranges include negative numbers if we are not certain that an intervention has a positive effect, and it could have a negative effect, even if we think that isn’t likely. This doesn’t necessarily mean we think those interventions are equally likely to harm animals as to help them.
We’ve been hearing this tune for several years now. Ethereum was originally planned to move to PoS in January 2020. That date was blown and many dates projected since have also been missed. Repeating this “the end is near!” argument in response to very valid concerns about the environmental impact is getting a bit old.
How Do You Measure Accessibility?
Yeah. I would log it. It doesn't auto sweep the wallet or anything.
Not a convincing counter to the OPs argument. You can be as hyperbolic as you want but the fact remains that even well known publications will post questionable content. The comparison to eating cyanide is totally inaccurate.
Love my Aeropress. So quick, fast to clean, nice buttery coffee at just the right temperature.
Decimal floating point isn't necessarily the same as BCD.

For instance you can represent integers as binary, base 3, BCD, or any base and they are still the same integers. That is you can write the same number 75412 in any of those systems. The notation for the number is different but the same numbers exist in all of those systems.

Floats on the other hand are a subset of rationals. In the case of binary floats the denominator is 2^N, in the case of decimal floats it is 10^N.

In this case it is not just a difference of notation. The number 1/4 exists in both the decimal and binary floats, but 1/10 exists in the decimal floats but not the binary floats. Thus you have the problem

0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3

because (a) none of the numbers involved really exist in the floats, (b) if you ask for 0.1 you get some other number that is close to 0.1 and prints out as 0.1 but, (c) isn't really 0.1 so what should be an equality is an inequality.

You could represent the mantissa (the numerator) of decimal floats with base 2 or base 10 which makes a difference in coding efficiency, how fast calculations are, how fast decimal input/output are, etc. It's the base 2 vs base 10 exponent that makes binary floats appear defective.
Why are they "cheaters"? If candidates are supposed to study LC to pass a stupid interview, why get all pissy when they do exactly that?
The reverse image search in particular is very, very good.

Far better than Bing or Google. It's not obvious why theirs is so terrible, unless that product is not a moneymaker for them, in which case it explains everything.
Yes, that's exactly what it means. The author's argument is entirely predicated on a confidence interval that includes 0.

Your $100 donation to The Humane League could kill 600 animals or save 1300 animals, or anything in between. Personally, that's not a compelling argument to me.
Would love a open source version of this for custom hardware. Sometimes I don't feel like using a shell for my local servers.
How many people use that "remaining 5%"?

Most people I know still use spacebar to right aline the date in a word document.
Yes hmm I wonder what. I wonder if maybe there have been any events in the last century that would make people touchy about this.
Invest it in a 3 fund portfolio.

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio
Having similar problems. Most of us do, I suppose.

Complex solutions or these "digital well-being" things do nothing for me.

Instead, I install as few apps as possible and use the web version instead. My browser regularly flushes the cookies, so I gave to log in for most things and it resets all the recommendations.

To top it off, no charger in the bedroom.
I totally agree with you on this one, but it is not the topic at hand. The article is not about using ML for feature detection, but on enhancing subsampled data.

I actually find what you are saying it to be a much better usage of ML in this sector.
I’ll take this over the faux PowerPoint slide presentations that caught on the last few years.

Repeat after me:

It’s a website, not a power point presentation

It’s a website, not a power point presentation

It’s a website, not a power point presentation
Why Are Authoritarians Framing International Approaches to Disinformation?
Most of the engineers at those companies (and really all companies) don't work on those projects. Some people work on truly complex projects, but those people are a tiny fraction of the entire workforce. It wouldn't even make sense for a company to allocate people that way.

Also, I'd contest the statement that Google or Facebook works on the most complex software. They don't work in fintech, medical, hard real time that I know of (waymo does, but they've been spun out), and many many more fields of SW, HW and CS.

They work on hard stuff, but don't discount the complexity that other companies deal with.
You need the centralisation for enforcement. And the centralised entity trusts other branches of itself, not the blockchain. The police and courts do call the county recorder if they need to establish whose ownership they're enforcing. If that centralised entity is corrupt enough to surreptitiously mutate records, immutable records that you've made arent much help

At best, the blockchain is superfluous, at worst misleading, since whilst the tangible benefits of ownership rests with what the county recorder says, you can sell notional claims to ownership of the property on blockchains to other people, potentially multiple other people all thinking their token on their blockchain is canonical. The priority of the enforcing agency is a much bigger issue for real world property rights than the mutation of records
Are nurses known for being scientifically literate? My daughter has a friend who is a nurse that worked at a hospital throughout the pandemic. She is convinced that Covid is a hoax and has thrown anti-mask parties at her house.
I am not a lawyer but but I have worked for a bank and one obstacle I could see would be the legal obstacles of 3rd party data processors. Some or most banks will have contractual and regulatory requirements that prohibit 3rd party data processors in certain circumstances. Proving and auditing specific data flows are kept out of the 3rd party is overhead and risk. I could see some banks just avoiding that overhead and risk all together. One work around could be if the bank acquired a cloud provider which probably explains why so many banks are running VMWare.
I have the same laptop and it runs pretty smooth on Chrome.
The source [0] of the article makes it sound that no actual, physical animals are being saved, but instead long-term efforts are being undertaken that the evaluators somehow converted to physical animals.

[0]: https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/the-human...
This doesn't even mention about the environmental impacts of the meat industry. The problem with meat is not just about the animal welfare, but also of the un-sustainable demands of meat industry on the environment. The logic of this article only makes sense if someone's objective of going vegan is to increase the sum-total of animal happiness in a pure mathematical sense. Even then, increasing happiness of 350 animals while eating 105 animals sourced otherwise is absurd.
I don't think the spirit of the question was "how do I avoid paying taxes", but more along the lines of "what the hell do I do with all this money I don't need?".

I would suggest giving it to charity, OP. My mother always said even poor folks should be giving at least 15% of their income to charity, but if you have more than you need, no reason not to increase that number.
Take the word 'non-fiction' next to 'tech docs' as an example of not using one word per concept. Did you mean tech docs as a subset of non-fiction? English is my second language and I always have to think twice translating fiction (into fantasy) and non-fiction (into real).
To eliminate scalpers, I don't need to know who's behind a wallet, I just need to look at the wallet and see it's a first-time buyer from me (Ticketmaster) or the performer. Either way, it can go to towards the back of the line. Someone who buys lots of tickets (and I can see they don't re-sell them!) moves to the front of the line. Happy venues, happy fans, happy performers!

For Visa: Smart contracts that hold the money for 30 days and a real-world interface for customer service (new companies will be borth to offer this I bet) will mean lower fees.
I don't think the numbers scale linearly. A single dollar probably does nothing to contribute to better animal welfare. It takes a threshold of money to start being impactful, and over a long time period to inflict noticeable long-term change.

The impact of a single donation also probably doesn't have as many consequences on the individual and societal level as investing a year to change habits, learning new recipes, thinking about nutrition and health and animal welfare, and inadvertently also talking to friends and bringing up demand for restaurants to expand their vegetarian/vegan options.

Lastly, the choice doesn't have to be a binary one. It is possible to reduce consumption to bring average consumption down.
Quite interesting since on my mobile (OnePlus 6 with Chrome) seems kind of performant.

Edit: I wonder if its some kind of functionality causing the slow down? Perhaps Safari doing something stupid? Have you tried Chrome or another browser?
Sure, but then they just send you a letter correcting your mistake, you OK it if it looks right, and either they send you a check or you send them a check. You don't have to pay a fine and you don't get audited.

(I am not a tax lawyer nor an accountant, but I have done this 4 out of the last 6 years.)
From my experience its CTO/CIO's wanting better more stable and fest tech, but not willing to pay for good engineers

Next.js is amazing, and it could make any airline/bank website blazing fast. Are said banks hiring the same devs from Google that are building the newer version of Next? Nope, they're hiring 3rd party companies in Romania.

React et al is far from plug and play. Quality of implementation means a lot more than it used to in terms of performance
> Veganism is just one way to help animals.

Decreasing and regulating the meat industry needs to be done also for the impact that it's having on the climate change.

This is just another click-bait title
> Plus, this wouldn't even make their argument any more valid

I am saying don't declare that anyone who holds crypto must be dismissed.
FYI, I think this is just the case where you should prefix the submission title with “Show HN:”. Can mods update it so it shows with the others? @dang?

https://news.ycombinator.com/show

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Beautiful, but astoundingly wasteful of both network and (especially) compute resources. If you are going to spin your users' CPU/GPU, at least do it for something in the foreground!
A life of banning and being banned makes you who you are today. It's called civilization. And of course, when you get your first lesson you yell about other people having bent a rule or two; then later bending some rules is something you earn as a privilege. I was an angry child in the 80s ;)
Awesome. You don't want VC, and you don't need VC! Stick to it and it sounds like you'll have a great outcome, entirely under your control.
I went vegetarian last year because of this. I probably ate 1 lb of meat a day before and I loved meat. I went towards vegetarian first as I wanted to make the habit stick then as I learn more vegan cooking can make the change to veganism. It was about 9 months ago and it has been the easiest change in my life
The university just needs to set an assignment which needs to be submitted twice: once with citation style A, and again with citation style B. Anyone not using citation management software will quickly start.
I think more people will buy into an unknown artist’s NFT collection as a speculative investment than will buy their prints for the same reason. There is an established secondary market for NFTs in a way that there isn’t really for prints by unknown artists. Digital goods are always easier to buy than physical ones. Also NFTs do have an advantage for the artist that they can guarantee themselves a portion of future resale value.

I’m not entirely convinced it’s sustainable either, but I can absolutely see why right now some artists are able to make massively more from NFTs than they could from prints.
Anybody else looking for James Mickens in the background?
> An estimate from Animal Charity Evaluators in 2018 has it that The Humane League “spares between -6 and 13 farmed animals per dollar spent.” If we settle on the middle of this range, we can estimate that a $1 donation to The Humane League would save around 3.5 animals, mostly chickens.

This makes most "carbon offset" purchases look like Nobel Prize winning science. This is just "lie with statistics". Yes, donating $100 to this charity probably does some good. But coming to the headline conclusion "You Can Save More Animals by Donating $100 Than Going Vegan" by using data with error bars a couple miles wide is laughable.
I agree! Never judge a painting without seeing it in person. A 2D replicated digital image, no matter the resolution, is not the same as seeing the brush strokes and paint layers or the size of the painting in person. Plus the colors & lighting will be different as well. Sometimes there is even an added benefit from the environment.

Of course, high res copies of these is a great thing to do as well. The above comment should take nothing away from that. They're just different things with different purposes.
I think as a general rule the idea that you give someone something that they are unlikely to solve because they are not completely familiar with the problem space does measure some things well - specifically, how one performs with something new and unknown (a critical programming skill) and their ability to abstractly reason as opposed to having memorized some information.

Although for other things related to the job not that useful.

That said I was talking about your comment that it was somewhat unethical; they didn't so much think that they gamed the system but that the system was so inefficient at doing what it should do that someone had to fit themselves to the system to get in.
The main ones are adversarial space and the destruction of location.

- The Internet makes every location logically adjacent; if you know the domain name or IP, you can access it

- Some users are malicious and will leverage that logical adjacency to harm users

Every user is therefore stuck playing a measure / countermeasure game against a perpetual threat, no matter what they're trying to do.
That still doesn't distinguish the XmlHttpRequest from the <img> tag. They both send cookies.

You're right that sending cookies is the problem CORS addresses, but XmlHttpRequest didn't break any assumptions that were valid before.
Punching Sonic 3D cartridge triggers a secret Level Select
Got a cite to share?
What do you mean by "pretend to monetize"?
Yes, for instance https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/the-human...

> The results from several studies suggest higher levels of mortality in cage-free systems compared to battery cages and there is reason to believe that higher levels of mortality correspond to lower levels of welfare since the increased mortality may result from disease, feather pecking, and injuries. Among the nine experts interviewed in The Open Philanthropy Project’s report “How Will Hen Welfare be Impacted by the Transition to Cage-Free Housing?” there was unanimous agreement that mortality will likely be significantly higher following the transition to cage-free systems. The authors of the report express optimism that producers will be motivated to and capable of reducing mortality levels to be comparable with battery cages and maintain the view that cage-free systems will have a net positive impact on welfare in the long term.

(a link to the mentioned report is included in the footnote)
If you can handle python, the others will all be easy. Lua is so small and elegant compared to the clusterfuck of python.
Airports Had to Deal With Over 2B Litres of Airplane Toilet Waste in 2019
The „text different“ section literally describes what any other messenger does.
Knowledge is user hostile, I guess?!
For what it's worth, the distinct impedance mismatch inherent to monthly payment has a very useful buffering quality to it.

A pay-per-second model explicitly validates accountancy-per-second, aka micromanagement, and constructs a unique feedback loop that, exactly as you say, has never been possible before.

How would you build fundamental contingencies against micromanagement into such a model?
Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU
My issue is not knowing where to start. The basics are uninteresting and the rest is a mystery.

All I found on YT were either superficial introductions or productivity simps. Neither is what I'm looking for.
On Android, you can achieve just the "scheduling" aspect of this (restricting access to certain apps to certain times of the day/week) by using the "Digital Wellbeing" area of the Settings. Enter the "Focus Mode" settings, and you can add "distracting" apps to a list, and then set the Focus Mode schedule to disable the apps on that schedule.

Yes you can get around it by tapping a button, the intent is more to make you realize that you are checking Twitter, rather than 100% preventing you from checking Twitter.
If that is the definition, the US has been fascist for a long time because it installed agents in supposedly private companies and probably still does:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

But the decisions to censor content is just the same. Because the content they removed would have put a bad light on running litigation suits between company and state and the state demands most of the content changes we see on social media through such vehicles. I believe your reasoning is wrong here.
Wow, I think this is a really good solution if it works for the author. Using same cue's to trigger more useful action.

I've been fighting with bad habits all my life. Sometimes successfully.

The social media addiction is the hardest to fight.

Here is what works for me (not at all times):
1. Remove social apps and only use browser
2. Enable two factor auth and only keep two factor app on your laptop
3. Change password using password generator and don't save it.

With all the above it makes it really hard to log into the social network.

Now when you are done with the social media app, replace it with something useful: I replaced it with Google Books, and now whenever I have an urge I open a book instead and read it. Much better than meaningless scrolling. Alternative app - Google Keep. I use it for writing blog posts.
I agree with this. Most people need to simply their writing and convey their ideas more clearly. Once you've mastered that, you can explore more sophisticated prose.
There you go. The blockchains that have utility and use-cases will survive once regulations arrive. Coins that have little use cases, memecoins, etc will wither away.

But of course, another article about Web3 and the anti-web 3 crowd continues to comment on it as if web3 is a nightmare come true.

Here we go again. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29769291
Ask HN: Why is there a chip shortage?
I've heard the reason that global automakers cancelled chip orders in the early months of the pandemic and then decided to order them anyway a few months later and that caused a backlog.But I also hear that those are 120nm chips.

So why are graphics cards, gaming consoles etc out of stock? Why is Apple attributing fewer iPhones sold to semiconductor shortage?

Can automakers not use a 7nm fab?

How much of the chip shortage can be attributed to AMD and Apple taking the laptop market away from Intel? And if this is true, does this mean that Intel now has unused capacity?