skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a teen, but a parent with almost teen kids!

And I can confirm, they don't really care :-)

Discord is their go-to chat platform on their gaming PCs, iPads and iPhones.

TBF One of my kids did ask about the bubble colour thing, but they dont actually care.

They love Discord, where as I find it impossible LOL! Which makes perfect sense!

Their Discord chats are irreverent and full of memes, their avatars and nicknames are totally random to me!

Which is as it should be!

iMessage is great and all - but it's very stuffy and old and corporate compared to how I see my kids using Discord!
Lets at least realize that Apple could easily have a department that develops a broader iMessage app, or release an imessage api, that can be used outside of its apple products to reduce the purported discrimination against SMS messages.

There are certainly other ways to solve the UX as well that doesn't involve discrimination.

But ... they dont.

I'm postulating with this last one: they know exactly what they're doing.
(pardon me for my compression of the original title at my own discretion)
Most manuals tell you to inspect the oil monthly or before a long car journey.

Waiting two years before realizing your engine is drinking oil is probably reckless which wouldn’t be covered under any warranty.
> If HN was a web3 app, then posting a comment would cost you money. [ ... ] But still seems to be a considerable drawback compared to the current web.

This elides the way the current web works, though.

On the one hand, you've got some places like HN, that are coupled to revenue generators of sufficient magnitude that they can (AFAICT on my uBlock-Origin'ed browser) run without ads.

And then you've got the rest of the web, which has taken the old ad-funded model of publishing and turned it up to 11.

So when we say "the current web" in a context like this, it's important to differentiate between which of these (at least two) segments you're referring to.

[ EDIT: granted, there are a few new models creeping around the edges now. For all of its faults, substack is a mostly previously unseen thing. ]
I did a few years of entirely self-directed home school (single parent who worked) for late middle school/early high school. My learning outcomes were fine, but I still feel like I'm dealing with the effects of not being immersed in a normal social scene during my teens: a decade and a half later.
The ownership is of the NFT itself, not the asset that's linked to in the metadata.

I agree with some of the issues you point out, but in this case ownership is a construct built on social consensus, and these people are trying to define what "digital ownership" might mean, which you are conflating with physical ownership.

"They don't control redistribution". - They very much control it for the NFT itself.

Yes, you can right-click and save an image all you want, but that doesn't mean you own the NFT. In fact, you can right-click and save the most valuable NFT in the world, and re-mint it as an NFT... but that NFT would be worthless, because it would be missing the social consensus and provenance that gave the original NFT value.

Copyright and ownership are divorced from each other already, so this argument feels like a straw man when folks point to it as a failure of NFTs. For example, you can buy an oil painting from an artist, but that doesn't come with a copyright either. Same for almost all physical goods.

NFTs though, can have a license attached.

A lot of what you are saying is true today, but it might not be tomorrow if enough people agree otherwise. In that respect, this is very much an experiment in speculation, but all it takes is for a community of people to agree to honor the data on a particular blockchain and that can support a thriving economy like NFTs have for the last couple of years.
This is what happened:

1. Kriegman wrote a post critical of BLM.

2. He vetted it with HR and the head of DEI and incorporated their feedback.

3. He was harassed in a disgraceful and racist fashion on internal social media.

4. He complained about the harassment to his superiors via email after being banned from said internal social media.

5. He was fired.

All of this is documented on Kriegman's Substack with direct quotes from primary sources.
TIL, guess I never had a phone that supported them. Do you know which platforms did?
Exactly and I have no idea, why this is not done - is it a technical reason, or is it lazy consumer device programming?
The Matrix (1999). Behind the Scenes
Vitalik Buterin was on Forbes' 30 under 30 a few years ago. These rankings and fellowships mean nothing.
I agree it’s the only way at this point. Get some protection and get on with it.
I 100% agree, and said so elsewhere here. I'm just standing up for the claim(s) of TFA being stated and understood clearly.
A question that people in the computing field need to consider: is computing more like plumbing or more like reading and writing? It's an important distinction for many reasons. I would pay someone to do most of my plumbing. I wouldn't even think of outsourcing most of my writing. Should computing always remain a scribal practice as it is now?

At the end of his review Moxie seems to indicate he feels this shouldn't be the case. I don't see how that aligns with re-defining what it means for "everyone to run their own servers"
How so? I grew up with kids whose entire childhood was in the same trailer park. They were homeless?
Devil's advocate: We were fine asking grocery store clerks, baristas, and cashiers to get covid
well ... it would be interesting, but i fear that an AI robot vs. human swordfighting style would probably be really boring (given that it'd be possible to make a robot with human attributes, i.e. strength, sensory input, etc.). my guess is a very small set of moves would emerge that are, for practical purposes, un-counterable, depending on the proportions of the particular human opponent.

that said, how to train the AI? robot to human test battles are very limited in training set size, so it would have to be AI robot vs. AI robot. that would probably yield a strategy very close to the style of the AlphaGo/zero/*: very conservative, maximizing the space of winning scenarios, winning each one with as little of an advantage as necessary.

edit: i've got not the slightest clue about sword fighting (except that it doesn't look like in the movies), so i could be completely off the mark here.
> From talking to people, I had formed the impression that people buy iPhones because they are the default, like IBM. Parents get the same thing for their kids, that they're using themselves.

But how rich are those people, that they just spend 1000$ on a phone for their kids without any research at all?
Exactly. When I see a green message bubble on my iPhone, it means that I'm in a gimped environment, especially if it's a group chat. I can't leave an SMS group chat unilaterally. I can't direct-reply to specific messages. Emoji-reactions to messages will render as "John liked 'Check out this website!'" Links won't get rich previews.
> living in ...trailer parks... due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations

Wouldn't this be most people living in trailer parks?
Lennart Poettering, the fellow who is turning GNU/Linux into a version of Windows, works for Red Hat.
It could. But it's an artistic and a sound engineering decision that changes based on what you actually want the listener to hear.

The defaults for automatic sound mixing will almost always be wrong. And they will differ in how they are wrong from consumer box to consumer box.
Polyglot Live Programming with GraalVM, (LSP), and VS Code
The same thing: a filter that only lets through low frequencies. A blur effect is a spatial low-pass filter. A motion blur effect is a temporal low-pass filter.

What GP is talking about is the antialiasing low-pass filter used when downsampling video to smaller resolutions, or when initially sampling it at the sensor. This is the same exact concept as the antialiasing low-pass filter used when downsampling audio to lower sample rates, or when initially sampling it at the ADC.
> even given homeless might not be "living on street", that is a horrific statistic

It would be a horrific statistic, if it were even remotely close to being accurate.

The US had 580,000 total homeless in 2020. [1] That's up from the recent lows before the pandemic when it was ~50,000 lower (and it's dramatically lower than prior to the start of the federal Housing First program).

If the NSBA is claiming 1.4 million, they're knowingly lying and it's despicable.

The US national homelessness rate is comparable to France and Canada.

https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...
In this particular school it is just the name they use for the large auditorium when it is not being used as an auditorium. It is a large theater-like space with seating and a stage.
Given the convergent evolution of fighting styles around the world, I think the result would be pretty familiar. By far the tricky part would be evaluating a "style": in real life, footwork and using biomechanics to eke out a tiny edge in speed play a role. And of course you have to start over moving to a different type of sword, or a different opposing weapon...
My Favorite Gaming Laptop Added Water Cooling
Yeah and knots from the literal knots in that rope attached to that literal log. Not sure what you expected though, look at the etymology of any word and you get back to something concrete and tangible eventually (with rare exceptions for a few feelings and such.) We haven't been abstract that long, so most of it is metaphor or analogy.
"5pc from Coatesville, PA"
Typed Racket is getting steady development and focus but more closely resembles Scheme.
> Also it looks like 4K is their minimum standard now. I bet the higher resolution makes it easier, with big*ss GPUs to clean up the raw footage.

I assume it's their minimum standard for Netflix Originals as they want more content in 4K rather than making it easier for them, particularly as 4K is an up-charge subscription.
US affiliated PRC containment bloc with try to malign any PRC brands that becomes successful regardless. Why do you think all these hit pieces started around time of Xiaomi record growth (80% in Q2 2021) when they passed Apple in market share and is catching up to Samsung for #1. It's the Huawei playbook of fabricating false security threats for useful idiots. At the end the day, these countries will go zero to negative sum to deny PRC access, i.e. US would rather deal with forest fires than use DJI drones. Thankfully for PRC brands, there's still ~90% of the world to sell to.
If wonder if instead of a separate mix, 5.1 could be modified to include hints for how to better down-mix a given production.
You are ignoring my point because it wasn't what you wanted to say. "At least partially backed up by" is a meaningless statement. Certainly everyone agrees that US wasn't holding onto the amount of USD that existed as gold. So what percentage was it? Was that percentage stable?

The answer to both of those questions was no. The actual amount of currency in circulation (including balance sheets) was certainly well in excess of what the US was holding in reserve.

You could say that by offering gold at a rate you fix the value of the currency but I already covered how that is nuanced.

The reality of course is the reason we had trades for reserves and reserve requirements were to provide faith from consumers that the currency was worth something. I don't think anyone can claim that USD isn't worth anything today.
You have a misunderstanding of what Freedesktop is. Freedesktop is just a group of desktop developers that submit standards to each other, they don't really dictate anything. For that reason it tends to self-select for developers who are actively working on desktop environments, and the standards that tend to get submitted there are things that already have some level of adoption among open source desktops. You too can submit specifications to Freedesktop but you'll probably not have much luck with getting something adopted among peers if you're not already interacting with other desktop developers on a regular basis.

"Customizability" is also not the domain of a group that like Freedesktop that publishes specifications. Their purpose is to define some baseline of standard behavior for interoperability. The customization comes from individual projects. No offense but your criticism is pretty misplaced.
It's becoming less and less of a thing as film is used less and less, but some of the older NLEs would allow you to view your time as feet+frames and allowing to specify between 35mm and 16mm.

Film was also sold by the foot. You didn't by film by 15 minutes. You bought film by 1000' rolls (35mm).
Because other times when it's not dialogue (or even when it is--the busy/crowded street effect) you may not want the center channel gain to be raised during mixdown.

Consumer hardware can only guess. A sound engineer can know.
If this is what a antivirus giant like Symantec has to do increase profits it sounds like a good time to start thinking shorting some stock. Being facetious but not by much, it sounds like some kind of bad joke.
> Hell, they shot 35mm film for SD for decades

I'm not sure this is the case. Low-ISO cinema 35mm film (like Kodak VisionT 50D/250D) far exceeds SD resolution. How do you think Star Wars was ever scanned into 4k? Or 2001: A Space Odyssey? Film captures highlight detail logarithmically as well, while digital sensors still haven't really figured out how to render highlights well. This allows greater shadow detail with a skilled cinematographer with no loss of quality in brightly lit scenes. Theoretically, a single 35mm still can be scanned into 4k with no loss in detail, and higher-resolution scans won't lose quality -- there's just dimishing returns and in the end you might just be getting higher-res grain, but it is a far cry from standard definition.

Even 16mm can do HD scans just fine.

There's a reason Tarantino, Wes Anderson, PTA, Nolan, Sam Raimi, Scorsese, Spielberg, and David Lynch still swear by film (even though many of these directors have dabbled with digital). The idea that film is inherently "low-res" is a really frustrating and common misconception among younger generations unfamiliar with the technology. I find it kind of unbelievable that DPs would shoot 35mm just for an SD scan. That type of use case seems better suited for mini-DV or other contemporary video formats.
> I pioneered the use of Deep Learning for understanding, analyzing and composing legal documents within the company, leading a team of Deep Learning scientists to help the company rapidly ramp up its proficiency with the technology and transform its business.

This sounds like marketing bullshit to me… What a weird way to start a post like this.
> some people want to run their own servers.

I've been involved in the blockchain space for several years and I think this is absolutely critical.

The entire decentralization and security aspect depends on people running their own servers. While this shouldn't be imposed on regular users, it's unfathomable to think that a big investor or a big finance firm would rely on a server hosted by some third party... If you're transferring millions of dollars worth of tokens on a blockchain, why would you take on the third-party risk of trusting someone else's node/API when you can remove that risk entirely by running your own server? There is a certain threshold of value above which you absolutely do want to be running your own node and it would be foolish not to.

IMO, this is one of my biggest concerns about Ethereum. It's very difficult to run your own node.
The safe way when talking about edible plants is to use always and only the scientific names.
They rent, usually in the country where they are filming. I worked as a contractor making am ecommerce-like website for renting high-end movie making equipment.
That sounds even worse. Is there a setting when you join that doesn't blast it to everyone who has you as a contact?
I grew up in West Virginia. A LOT of people lived in a trailer - as in they actually owned the trailer and in many cases the land, too (my parents).

Why does it make sense to count these people as homeless?

And even if you're renting... Why count someone who rents a trailer as homeless but not someone who rents an apartment?
Every Pore on Your Face Is a Walled Garden
I agree. The skills to get to 50k are a lot different than the skills you need to get to 5k. It's kind of like a startup launching and copying all of facebook's marketing strategies. Getting to 5k will teach so much about grit, perseverance and creativity. Cruise over to indiehackers.com and have them read some of the stories over there.
Does anybody know exactly how unstable L2 is?

I've seen lots of people talk about how some Lagrange points are stable and others are unstable, but I've never been able to find a source for how much this matters.

How long would it take for Webb to move so far off L2 that we can't communicate with it anymore, or for it to be at risk of being completely thrown out of orbit to the point that it would impact earth or the sun?
K-12 education in the U.S. is a perpetual blame game between admins, teachers, unions, and parents/guardians.

Take this parent comment and substitute “academic progress”, “student engagement”, “socio-emotional”, “school safety”, etc for “covid” and you’ve entered the Ed reform debate of the last 20-30 years.

Overcoming COVID in schools requires a collective problem-solving approach that is incompatible with the individualist (e.g. I’m just worried about my kid), class-segregated public school system that we’ve built.

Administrators are culpable but I think their role is akin to an engineer building questionable technology. Why should they buck the system that puts food on their families table, especially when there is no guarantee that doing things differently will lead to a different ultimate outcome?

Anecdotally this plays out in the increase of violence and violent threats toward principals, superintendents and school boards who are trying to institute science-backed rules for dealing with the virus.
I have no real problems with imagining that omicron's IFR is around that, it's a reasonable number. I just have severe problems with the way you reached it, it's pure coincidence that you reached something likely in the right order of magnitude.

Your article is in the opinion section, not written by any sort of doctor but some sort sort of investor (and incidentally substantial republican donor), that's not a source I would take seriously... Author's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Arnott
That's pretty high
That is really an effect of CS rather than math people dominating ML both in applications and management. My background is in engimeering but always hire a percentage people witb math and business background. In reality there are very few ML applications that don't need confidence estimation and estimation of monetary costs. Else each company will end up having the equivalent of the google graveyard of useless applications.
It really is not that hard.
They should really consider repeating grades for kids. The pandemic is robbing the kids of proper education. I suppose this is too late.
Not exactly. Actually it's on the opposite side of the Earth relative to the Sun. So the 3 are always on one line but it has nothing to do with the position of the Moon. (Maybe you thought it was at the L2 of Earth-Moon system?)
This is very sad to see at the Bronx High School of Science, a school I attended in the 70’s. Many of these kids will travel 1 1/2 hours each way to get there, hoping to get a world class educational opportunity.
This is entirely missing the point of Moxie's original article. The promise of web1 and web3 was that people like you wouldn't be needed at all - it would be easy for literally everyone to participate in the distributed internet and run their own stuff, just like people run their own browsers today.

Web2 quickly showed that web1's promise was false: to participate in the distributed network, you had to run a server of your own, or use someone else's server - and this is what the overwhelming majority of people did - at first, the gigantic masses of amateurs, and finally even most professionals. Anyone can publish a picture on the open WWW: just get a DNS name, a static IP, a TLS certificate, and run your own HTTPS server, then simply give your friends and anyone else who might be interested the address over email. Oh, you'll have to run your own email server as well, but that's easier now that you have a DNS name and certificates and all that - don't forget about a few simple things like DKIM and whatever else is required, set up some spam filters, and you're golden. You shouldn't need to spend more than a few days every month making sure everything is up to date, reading logs for signs of trouble, and maybe reading the occasional forum or five for troubleshooting.

Or, you can make an Instagram account, give them all the data they ask for, and post a picture. You may want to change your password once a year, and make sure your Gmail app is configured for safe 2fa.

Moxie's point was that the same thing is currently happening with web3: interacting with the base networks directly is complex and requires larger investments, and it's much easier to interact with a nice service run by someone else on a proprietary platform that spares you all this trouble.
Exactly. There is a realization requirement for tax on value of asset class like property especially if it’s primary residence.

Registration fees is akin to use tax.

Seizure of agency over assets and dissolution of property rights is what happens in communist regimes and dictatorships.
> and then fine-tuned again on the kinds of problems that it is supposed to solve

Could you point me to where they claim to have fine-tuned Codex?

From what I can see they claim:

> We use OpenAI’s davinci-codex engine for all of our generations. We fix all of Codex’s hyperparameters to be the same for all experiments: top-p which is the portion p of the token probability mass a language model
samples from at each step is set to 1, sampling temperature is
set to 0 (i.e. argmax), and response length is set to 200 tokens.

BTW - OpenAI Davinci costs $0.06 per 1000 tokens. Codex is currently free in closed beta, but I guess cost will be the same. I would be happy to pay even 100x ($6) for correct solutions to advanced mathematical problems. The issue is that this paper has ridiculous evaluation and Codex does not work anywhere near as good as they claim. It is pure hype by people who do not appear to be affiliated with OpenAI.
Yes, of course. But making them sequential does not take away from the universal(ish) uniqueness
This is a fantastic interview.

Lex is a great interviewer, always focused on the other human being he is talking to and assuming the best in them. Lex's humility and unselfish love of others shines though.

Jay is a fantastic resource on COVID. He is a pragmatists who believes and communicates the truth as he understands it. An example from the episode is when Jay reflects on his family helping him run the Santa Clara seroprevalence study. He is in real fear for his family members, because he doesn't understand how dangerous the virus is and for which demographics. Once he better understands the virus, he proposes a very reasonable approach to living with this endemic disease.
Anyone know of "solar system simulation" software that allows one to explore all celestial bodies, probes, and satellites currently (and historically) in the solar system -- like a 3D program? I know NASA has Eyes but that's not so comprehensive (it doesn't have the JWST, for example)
Within 200 years, the madness we are living through will find its place in the history book next to the Salem witch trials and the War of the Worlds, that is, assuming we live through it.