skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading that the natural sleep cycle is actually interrupted in the middle of the night. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/09/health/sleep-history-well...

I'm speculating that this happens: You're very aware of your sleep, keeping your bedtimes. You're getting older. As people get older, they tend to require less sleep. You've not adjusted your bedtime to fit with your decreased need for sleep.

You might want to embrace the change, if you can, go to bed a bit earlier, in anticipation for waking up, then spend the time guilt-free, doing something you enjoy, maybe a low intensity activity, or some chores that you didn't do during the day.

My own sleep is pretty normal, I have trouble falling asleep, but when I do sleep, I sleep well until I have to wake up for a trip to the bathroom, if I do this quickly enough, I won't have trouble falling asleep again.
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If you think of your own thoughts in the past and cringe, then your brain has grown since then.
Economist using excess deaths figures from countries that failed contain covid to make upper bound inferences for PRC, which contained covid.

Also range starts from MINUS 150K, i.e. excess life. Which makes more sense considering the source Economist used to extrapolate excess deaths for PRC concluded excess deaths was lower outside of Hubei/Wuhan in the months post lockdown [0] and things have been basically normal since due to aggressive covid zero policies. Other countries that aggressively contained covid also has excess life stats.

[0] https://archive.is/d0Eo3#selection-1619.2-1619.274
A bit part of the Frameworks USP isn’t understandable by many laptop users who haven’t repaired or upgraded their own laptops in the past.

They will just buy, while a repairable laptop could create beginners who can learn to maintain well designed equipment.

It might not give the iPhone 23 feels.
That kind of highlights the stupidity of it all. A "social contract" without a government to enforce it is worthless. "On your honor" in business is never going to work; way too many folks without a moral compass in society.
I literally walked by a testing center in LA two days ago that was for pedestrians but please continue making assumptions about what I know.

I spent YEARS taking public transportation in Philadelphia and you know what? It sucked massive donkey balls.

This is why I bought a house in the suburbs. Public transportation is for the poors (and New Yorkers I guess). Sorry not sorry.
What you say of NFTs isn't true. You could absolutely be legally compelled to transfer an NFT. All the blockchain makes trustless is the transaction. You know that the person sending you tokens in exchange for your NFT can't pull a fast one mid-transaction. Outside of that your ownership is still only as firm as your ability to defend it. As we see from everything from rug-pulls, NFTs being stolen and markets (with by far the most significant volume) banning them.
I think it would be very difficult to produce the “collective.” Nice idea though.

I have been considering, in new books and new editions to books I have written, to change the license for the book examples to AGPL, but for people who purchase a book, they get a commercial use license. I make all my recent eBooks available as a free download, or people can pay. I use the statistics of which books more people pay for to guide how much writing effort I put into different topics. On average I get about 50 downloads for each paid for book. I have been happy with this process.

What is changing is that as I approach my 71 birthday, I am getting pressure from family and friends who retired a long time ago for more of my time, and as much as I love working, I will probably “retire” from paid work in the next year or two. I think that making writing my “job” again might be a good way to still enjoy staying current with deep learning and AI in general, and also earn a little money from doing so.

I do worry that the dual licensing approach might turn off some readers, so I think I will try out this plan with a new book and see how it works.

EDIT: might be of interest: by far my most paid for book is my Common Lisp book, followed by my Haskell and Hy (Python Lisp) books. Those books are scheduled to get new editions. Since almost all of my work in the last 7 years has been deep learning based, my next planned new book is a practitioners guide to DL, from my personal perspective.
> Getting off-topic, but you know that ribbon bar is collapsible, right?

Yes but it was really meant as an example. Take for example another program like a web browser: between the title bar, the menu bar, the tab bar and the bookmark bar and you're losing a lot of vertical screen real estate.

Yeah the bookmark bar is collapsible and nowadays firefox and other browsers hide the menu bar, but those are useful features (particularly the bookmark bar) and I just want them around.

The problem is not that I should be hiding useful stuff like the ribbon bar or the bookmarks bar, the problem is that 16:9 displays are moronic and should not have been pushed onto everybody forcefully.

They might be okay for content-consumption-oriented laptops, but they're awful for real-work-oriented laptops (readl work raning from editing a spreadsheet, editing a document in word and even editing code of course).

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No wonder that high-end external display vendors like Dell/HP (and others) kept selling 16:10 external displays for professional use.
https://aitopics.org/download/classics:E29CE08E - Source of the image

The image being discussed is on page 16 of the PDF (p. 310 by the document's page numbers).

EDIT: From my very quick, pre-coffee and woken-up-early-by-the-cats reading:

To everyone saying, "Well, if we choose a different set of assumptions it becomes possible." Yes. The discussion in the paper I link above goes into the assumptions used and rationale for why figures would be impossible in the context of his discussion. Basically, if you start with the image and treat it as an accurate (as accurate as it can be, a necessarily lossy process in most cases) 2d representation of a 3d object/scene, is there a valid 3d interpretation? In the case of the pyramid, with the assumption that it is an accurate drawing of a 3d pyramid, it's an impossible 3d pyramid. You'd have to add more information for it to become possible.
Sorry if this a stupid question, but in the event of mass collisions a la Kessler, wouldn't some percentage of the debris get stuck in higher orbits? The kinetic force of collisions at those speeds seems pretty significant.
Because all that a tax is gonna do is to allow the rich classes to continue their ecologically destructive behaviors, the produced goods are only made a bit more expensive. It's somewhat fine to use taxes to nudge people into certain behaviors (e.g. a tobacco tax to steer people away from smoking to vaping or quitting outright, or alcohol/gambling/other "vice" taxes), but stuff that is as destructive as Bitcoin (ffs, Bitcoin and Ethereum alone consume about 1.2% of all electricity generated worldwide [1]!) should be banned world-wide.

We didn't go and tax CFC in the late 80s, we didn't go and tax sulphur and lead in fuels, we banned them for their destructive potential - and we saw drastic results out of these three bans.

Despite decades of "small government"/neoliberal propaganda (since the 90s, which is not a coincidence!), governmental action to global problems works.

ETA: And obviously, countries like China have to worry about their climate targets, and countries like Khazakhstan have to worry about supplying their citizens with power. They are fully in their right to ban rich foreigners from coming in and making life for their citizens more difficult just for profit.

[1]: https://medium.com/gochain/the-truth-about-bitcoin-and-ether...
Lily58 Pro with 65g Zealios. Got a set of steel bottom plates and wooden top ones that make it feel really premium!
Exercise is recommended in the mental health part.
Well, certainly not, because reddit started banned anything linking to darknet markets since +4 years ago.
There’s one major distinction between humans and animals: language. Not like “me want banana” language like in apes but like fully “ideas within ideas within ideas” language, with recursion and case and noun classes and all that. It’s incredible. It’s astonishing. We are like gods compared to other animals.

And ever since we have had language (not even that long — ~50k years or so) we have been using it to tell stories about ourselves that separate us more and more from the rest of the world. As if all of the beautiful things that make us human stemmed from symbolic reasoning. And yet we see every day: jealousy in chimps, maternal love in cows, play in dogs, compassion in elephants, frustration in cats, curiosity in pigs.

The story that we tell ourselves about our specialness gives us a moral free pass to treat animals how we want. Which is why I think these articles tend to polarize. It’s because the implication is that if animals are really so much like us, we’ll have to come up with a much better justification for treating them how we do. For now our reasons have hinged on their supposed lack of ability to feel emotion (or even pain!). In the future it might well be because they cannot symbolically reason. We have to have some reason, in the end, for treating animals the way we do, or otherwise face a moral crisis.

I do wonder how the pre-humanist humans felt about this, like tribal people. I know they had few qualms about killing animals but at the same time assigned human qualities to them. It might have been that surviving without meat was simply impossible, which is an argument one could not easily make today.
While I wouldn't necessarily say any of that is a red flag it does all fall into what I think you called the "maturity level" of the whole org.

So are you there to help build the maturity level of the whole org or is it something you can contribute to and assist others in developing? It sounds like you have a sense for such things. Working on the company's pre-IPO maturity could be a huge win for stakeholders like yourself ( or could land yourself solidly on the side of the stakeholders ).

On the other hand, if the assumptions you operate on depend on the maturity of other systems - no sense in building up their K8s helm if all they have now is Windows Server pets - then you might find it very hard to pull the direction you thought you were brought onboard to work toward.

Regard the place the same as they'll regard you. Make a list ( not on their computer ) of things you see, file under Good | Meh | Bad, and track for BIG RED FLAGS until your 90-day point. If you make it to 90 with no BIG RED FLAGS, and the data leans positive, then you have a list of things to work on. Otherwise, line up some interviews.
Not sure if calling their complaints 'invalid' is really the most productive avenue here. They've maintained it for free, and have stopped doing so. I'd say their complaint they're not getting paid enough is about equally valid as the complaint that the software you've been using for free stops being maintained.
Exactly. Expecting people to be generous and collaborative and selfless and whatnot is just asking for trouble.

Note that I'm not saying that people are not/ cannot be generous, selfless etc. I'm saying that relying on them being so is a crappy strategy. You need a system that continues to work in the presence of greedy people.
Same goes for Tesla's autodrive efforts. People are right to bash it while the promises are not delivered. When the cars can drive themselves properly, people will mostly forgive them.
Ask yourself: Are WE able to see the continental structure of an exoplanet millions of light years away with our current telescopes/imaging software?
This is a pretty entitled comment.

I'd suggest that if you don't want kids to read the word "shit" you keep them off the Internet entirely for life rather than running around trying to impose your morality on everyone else.
> with a user base and leadership that will fight tooth and nail to try and stay that way.

This is hilarious. If majority users and authors of language all like same thing then for whom this problem is to be fixed in general? Is it for non-users of Go?
It would help if HN would automatically link to previous discussions (next to the title?) if there are any... It seems wasteful having people do it manually
An excellent tutorial for terminal based text editor from scratch: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
It's been my understanding that the blockchain is precisely an experiment in what can be accomplished without laws and enforcement, albeit on top of a mountain of conventional infrastructure. Arbitraging energy prices, and laundering money, are only two possible uses. NFT's are another. A decentralized patent system without enforcement was previously something we could only imagine, but now we can try it out.
When I was in IT, I used BeyondCompare by Scooter Software to sync the windows server shares to disks that I took offline and swapped.

Now that I'm not in IT, I just use BackBlaze, and leave my external drive plugged in to this laptop at night, so it gets backed up too.
I really hope you are correct! I would love to see a less consumer hostile (and more environmentally friendly) business model succeed and start to gain traction.
Well with the small difference that this social consensus is backed by countries, laws, regulation and law enforcement, etc. This is the same kind of libertarian argument as that money is only a construct and virtual without any real value.
>Modern cryptography is not breakable via brute force any more

Specifically, modern symmetric crypto (and hashing which is a related but different thing) is fine. It's public-key crypto that has always been the worry thanks to Shor's Algorithm, and all modern widely used crypto there is indeed vulnerable if an actual scalable general quantum computer could be constructed. There are a variety of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms under development including some ones that would be ugly slow but likely effective bandaids if required, but that's still a not totally unreasonable concern for certain threat profiles. But yes GP was totally wrong about "all methods are broken when compute becomes faster".

>I'm not sure if anyone has run the math

"The math" here is just Grover's Algorithm, that lowers the cost of generic brute forcing to O(sqrt(n)). So a 128-bit symmetric key could be cracked on average like 2^64 or a 256-bit key like 2^128. Obviously this is utterly trivially countered by doubling the exponent. Even 2^128 is still ridiculous, and going to a 512-bit key brings us right back to 2^256 which is impossible. 128-bit keys should indeed be phased out entirely (and that seems to be well on the way anyway), and perhaps 256-bit too at some point (even if it's only the very paranoid or very long termers, it's also not big stretch on modern hardware at all, so eh), but fundamentally yes symmetric crypto is fine.
I really encourage you to read EIP-721 and EIP-1155, then think a bit more creatively about the use-cases of non fungible, transferrable data, the possession of which is easily cryptographically verifiable.
It doesn't start this way... but it becomes this way once the reality of a dysfunctional chain of reporting begins to send you progressively less less believable reports. Past a certain point... you have no choice, your left with "play it as a power move" and "admit failure". Thats the most likely chain of events.
Take-Two is acquiring mobile game giant Zynga for $12.7B
Yes, that is another debate. My comment was more of a response to the many others I've seen debating whether NFT implies ownership of the art or what happens if the server hosting the image goes down (less of a problem if IPFS is utilised). My point is, it's irrelevant. And it never implied ownership of the art, so people who try to pass it off as such are woefully misunderstanding the technology and are probably scammers, and the people buying them are idiots. Cryptokitties, cryptopunks etc. are only valuable because they were the first ones doing these things, sort of like the "million dollar webpage" back in the day. There is literally no point in making an NFT without utility now, unless the minter is someone popular and in that case the NFT is a bet on their fame rising in the future and becomes a speculative asset (just like regular celebrity art).
I am glad NFTs exist: they have provided another pressure-relief valve for the massive money printing by the Fed, so that money doesn't all go into real-estate and commodity speculation, which really harms normal people.

It isn't a huge market, but every little bit helps.

The crash will be biblical, obviously.
Yes, I agree. Added a more truthful explanation to what an NFT actually is.
It was me ... several times I have found a bug or code smell and then been surprised that the I was the original author. For the last fifteen to twenty years, I've generally found looking at code I wrote six months ago equally distasteful. So now my default behavior is to assume the code met the business function at the time, acknowledge that I'm continuously improving in my craft and finally, gained a joy in spending part of my time doing maintenance programming.
Because it's a pretty high number. It shows that if an epidemic breaks out in an where it cannot be controlled, the toll is high. If Andorra would have denied the existence of COVID and refused to take measures, the numbers would be a bit lower.
But what exactly are the rights you get when you buy an NFT? I'm assuming the absence of any other communication here, as that part would then be more like a verbal contract.

The NFT is a link to something, and buying the NFT means I get the ownership of the NFT. But I've no idea what this actually means in the end, which rights do you get by that? I paid someone $100 and got a link back, everything else is completely unclear. I've no idea how a court would be able to fill in all the blanks here.
It's not that complicated in the UK. In the vast majority of cases it's either Treasure[0] (which has a special procedure: report it to the local coroner to deal with) or it belongs to the landowner (unless you have an agreement with them otherwise).

There are some corner cases, but you're not going to accidentally find an oil deposit so most of them just won't apply. Detectorists will normally arrange a 50/50 split with the landowner, I understand.

[0]: https://finds.org.uk/treasure/advice/summary
Pretty funny, about 15 years ago I started looking back at myself a year ago and decided that until that dude from a year ago looks like an idiot then all is well with my life. Hasn't failed yet.
If you feel the need to make a post about it, you already know the answer. Get out.
My 100% successful way of avoiding caffeine crash: don’t drink coffee.
Just a guess, but its missing the verifiable signature.

Notarize it, and the analogy is back on track.
Because tax's are just a cost of business; a tacit endorsement. The folks this is intended to regulate will scoff and just assume the tax into the cost of business.

I don't see people losing years of their life for mining crypto.
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Even on a long road trip most stops will be for peeing, a drink and maybe snacks. The times you actually need gas are few and far between (obviously, because cars are efficient these days and the tanks are quite big).

If you're going to pee and get a sandwich with a meatball (or a hamburger, a sack of carrots or whatever it is counts as a snack for you) anyway, you may as well do so while charging your car. Given that even the really cheap ones can charge to a pretty significant level (80+%) in 20 minutes or so, these activities are compatible.
Re: prisons - This isn't necessarily the case. Florida's private prisons have air conditioning and the public ones don't in part because of democratic control and the private ones have fewer deaths from heat stroke as a result.
Because the blockchain is distributed? So It’s more like you are giving your piece of paper to many people around the world who keep it safe for you but can’t change its contents.
I would say a bit off but within the realm of sanity.

The laptop & e-mail things is not unusual and a not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. Communication could be better and BCC should have been used. But e-mail addresses are not exactly secret.

The joining calls is a pretty big red flag. But seems to have reasonable logic behind it. It sounds like you're going to be the expert & primary user of these vendor's software. Probably best for both sides if you're involved ASAP. In the end, 4-5 hours worth of unpaid calls isn't that big of a deal. Not a bad thing either to start working with a favor in the bank.
Isnt cursing a requirement to make electronic/mechanical stuff perform as specced? Im pretty sure my computers overclock when cursed at.
Big difference: the government did not outlaw the Model T. Instead better cars were introduced and people switched voluntarily.
Are you hinting at the fact that we're missing a giant ledger in which the paper is documented as being Really Really The Really Most Real And Authentic Paper? Since that ledger isn't rooted in anything else than a bunch of people's feelings about it, I think it's fine to leave it out of the analogy.

So yeah, NFTs are like the parent comment explains. Plus that ledger that has no actual meaning.

Edit: I'm not underestimating that giant ledger's technical solution for verifying the piece of paper. All I'm saying is that it doesn't fucking matter.
I always find it weird that people defend Bitcoin with hypotheticals like this. Sure, it could be, but it isn't, and it largely seems to be going in the other direction. A lot of these arguments assume that price of energy is the only input, but the availability of mining hardware is also a constraint, and once you have it, you have a strong incentive to run it 24/7.

There are a few “climate-friendly” miners making a bit of noise, but the players that dominate by hashrate are using coal and natural gas. For example, here's a thread from the other day about one of the largest US miners and the difficulties they encountered bringing an old coal plant back up to capacity: https://mobile.twitter.com/anthonyc3004/status/1479506660200...
Main falsehood from je_bailey's comment is that NFTs have nothing to do with URLs, and secondly the entire thing is based around uniqueness within blockchains, so important to highlight when you try to explain what NFTs are.
What will the US Space Force be able to do with its new GPS III variant?
Source? This sounds awfully lot like the ICE manufacturer backed FUD about EVs.
Compared to a single-payer socialized system, this is less involvement - even if it is a lot of involvent.