skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throwaway Virtual machine...that's where i ~don't have to draw lines.
Darvaza Gas Crater
If all else fails, the nuclear option has worked before!

https://interestingengineering.com/soviet-engineers-detonate...
Then the hobo is fucked

However, inflation does not derive from poor people making more money. It comes from insane government spending. Of course, if you try to achieve better life conditions through government spending you can end up with bread at $100.
There is the flagship ergo.chat network, and a bunch of small networks. A total of 118 networks according to https://www.ircstats.org/servers (based on scanning the IPv4 address space on ports 6667 and 6697. Note that, despite being a census of servers, Ergo can't federated, so 1 server = 1 network for Ergo)

> My experience has been that most IRCops are very much of the change-averse nature.

True. Ergo in particular changes the IRC paradigm, so some old-timers don't like it very much. As far as I know, Ergo deployments are all brand-new networks
So do plants at night.
I dislike this line of research. It just demonstrates large models are capable of memorizing a large number of things, without any understanding.

So I tried the first problem in Appendix A on OpenAI playground.

When I use the prompt "# Sketch the graph of the function f(x) = x + |x|", with the model davinci-codex and a larger response length (other parameters as default), the result seems fine: https://pastebin.com/VT8tPbu6

When I change the prompt to "# Sketch the graph of the function f(x) = x + |x| + x*2", it becomes garbage. It changes the prompt to "# Sketch the graph of the function f(x) = x + |x| + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + x^5 + x^6 + x^7 + x^8 + x^9 + x^10" and then writes new empty comment lines: https://pastebin.com/2bNEuqaH
There are 7 fundamental quantities with which we can measure the universe
> All without any meaningful service costs

Only by outsourcing those. If BitCoin consumed the electricity equivalent of Argentina[1] recently with basically nothing to show for it, how much longer before your small group of researchers surpasses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. as the most harmful inventors of all time?

What other uses could 120TWh of electricity have been put to? Training GPT-3 took approx 200MWh of electricity[2], so enough power to train GPT-3 ~600x over.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56012952

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/04/gpt3_carbon_footprint...
The Hubble telescope wasn't unique. It was simply the first one that was pointed away from earth.

For the JWST, is there even room for a 2nd telescope at L2?
Oh, I've been down that rabbit hole for a long, long time :)

It makes a nice foundation for syntactic experiments.

https://github.com/codr7/gfoo

https://github.com/codr7/forthy2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28616683
I mean decentralization in the "proving ownership" way. Right now, a bank can be the central authority on how much money you have in your account. With Bitcoin, people collectively determine how much each person has through the blockchain. A bank doing it will always be cheaper, but then the bank has too much control. How much are people willing to pay to make sure one entity does not have too much control or power?
https://archive.is/15e0l
> If you discount the recession...

Well, yeah. If you discount the GFC and the dotcom bubble it's the longest we've gone without a major bust in even more than 100 years...
Bitcoin does solve a problem, but it's a theoretical problem, not a practical one.
Is it known for certain where the series of devices mentioned here are manufactured?

https://news.samsung.com/us/samsung-devices-achieve-approval...

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/solutions/industries/gov...
A decent amount of English is full of inconsistencies like this. Every language has its warts, of course, but like you I never really realized how difficult English is as a language until asked to explain certain behaviors to non-native speakers.
It’s about random distribution. If you output an array of the key space as a bitmap, it should look like white noise. SHA doesn’t look like white noise. There are certain parts of the space it rarely goes with certain classes of inputs (numeric, usernames, etc) while murmur and md5 give that white noise look.
> Uhhh, if the lobbyists run the government then in a way it’s the same thing.

This makes no sense to me. Can you explain further? May be if lobbyists are trying to lobby for amending the constitution or passsing a censorship law?

I am generally with you about the private corporations censoring when its a monopoly. Google and Apple lobby for making sure they are not appearing as monopolies. The most extreme example would be a hypothetical scenario where your only ISP in the area decides to ban a website. That is effectively censorship. But, as far as I know, that is illegal in US (FCC). These aspects are very different from Chinese censorship which is absolute, very transparently enforced and openly admitted by CCP.
You can't ban it. I mean you can say you've banned it, but you can't ban crypto. It's way harder than banning the drugs found everywhere in the world (I guess not a lot in Singapore, you willing to start chopping heads off for your goal?)

The best you can do is decide you don't like it, tell people not to use it, choose not to accept it, not to buy it, and rally your friend not to. That's all cool with me. But you can't stop crypto. If it dies it will be because something that replaces the advantages it presents comes along and people can't help but switch over to that.
For what it's worth, the OP argues the opposite - that systemd is insufficiently generic. Much of its complexity is a matter of conflating mechanisms and policy.

This is par for the course for what's essentially prototype-quality software that's trying to address a number of non-trivial issues - but let's not pretend that real improvement is not possible here, or that systemd-as-it-currently-is does not stray from what's often called 'the UNIX philosophy' or 'the art of UNIX programming', of which separating mechanism from policy is a key component.
Its hard to give a good recommendation as oil degrades at different rates depending on use age and weather. Lots of short and aggressive trips in the city will wear it out differently to some smooth motorway driving, mileage being equal.
Tell HN: 30 To 40% of my Google results are sites that redirect to aliexpress
Am I an isolated case or this spam phenomena is taking place for you too?
Incredible.

The natural immune system is a borderline conspiracy theory to these people.

Corporate news media and big pharma are much more trustworthy.
> I suppose that's a reflection of the state of the IRC ecosystem, which is stagnant and slowly dying.

It's stable, yes. Some of us like a slow-paced ecosystem.

> I really like IRC but the ux story is pretty bad by modern standards. Users expect seamless multi device sync, for one. You can achieve a poor facsimile of this with a bnc and a shell account but it's not a great experience.

Any bouncer will work, and there are even web clients that serve that role as well. Although, yes, it's higher friction than some alternatives.

> It's little wonder to me that discord and slack have eaten IRC's lunch, sadly.

Yes, the ease of use and feature differences do often favor alternatives; I'm hoping Matrix becomes the preferred replacement.
No, because literally all their AI does is translate a sufficiently structured question into Python. It's not showing a single ounce of mathematical knowledge, it doesn't even seem to (or need to) know that 1 + 1 = 2. Literally, if you asked it "what is 1 + 1", it would answer with "print(1 + 1)".

It's not doing anything more than that, in any of the examples shown in the paper.
They are single points of failure.
I understand what market cap is but I don’t understand why it is relevant to your point. Apple is the same order of magnitude as bitcoin but you claim the media would care about a 10% move in the former but not the latter.

Firstly it doesn’t make sense to me because bitcoin isn’t a company, nor is it made of them so this doesn’t feel like a like-for-like comparison. Secondly it doesn’t make sense to me because I don’t understand why market cap should be related to media reactions to volatility.

I don’t see what cohesive theory underlies your claim that a big ‘market cap’ is required for the media to care about volatility.
They do. I have an Apple ID for work and one for non-work.
I was under the impression that ESA's role was to get it into orbit, and is thus largely done. Is that wrong?
Maybe they are "technically inclined" and already invested in the crypto pyramid.
systemd made it possible for me to write new service scripts - system and user kind - in a way I couldn't do before. It seems to have empowered me, because it's actually quite easy to use.
Interesting argument,

> It looks like you’re running macOS, Linux, or another Unix-like OS. To download Rustup and install Rust, run the following in your terminal, then follow the on-screen instructions. See "Other Installation Methods" if you are on Windows.

> curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retrospective - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062072 - May 2020 (432 comments)

and:

Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23204666 - May 2020 (59 comments)
According to the sinclair method, the shot is only good if you do drink every day.

Otherwise, the pill is better. Take it if you plan to drink, and dont take it otherwise.

As another poster has said, its easy to "overshoot". For me, after three pills I stopped craving for alcohol and only drink on social ocassions.
All Samsung phones are NOT made in China, or? At least that is what I read here: https://www.makeuseof.com/where-are-samsung-phones-made/

Apple: I trust their US QA to detect planted spyware.
The secret deportations: Britain betrayed Chinese men who served in the war
I will acknowledge my language was not as precise as it could have been, but I did not say that Apple is actively trying to be difficult or does this in a way that is unclear to all audiences. They definitely do a heck of a lot better than Microsoft, who I believe has removed the local login option from Windows 11 Home.

However, the commenter I responded to did not realize this. Likewise, most of the non-technical Apple users that I encounter in my work make the same incorrect assumptions. I probably overcorrect a bit here, but I’ve learned that it helps to to validate the experience of the person I’m trying to educate.

To be more precise in my initial statement, I don’t think Apple makes this part of their interface as clear as it could be (or should be), and I don’t think they provide the average user with the information to understand the implications of using Apple credentials to sign into their device. I don’t assume that this is malicious. I’m sure they are driven some by benefits to the company, but I also suspect they think that this makes life easier for their users. There may be some truth to that, but I think it’s a poor default.

I work with small business owners and employees in the health care field (and teach as a University adjunct). At least in the health care context, there are compliance implications associated with these features (something that Apple Support and Genius’s often fail to understand as well).

In terms of the interface, when I’m working with a developer or tech worker, I consider the first-time setup and system preferences UI to be good enough. But I don’t think that’s true when it comes to a therapist, office manager, non-profit director, or even the majority of my undergraduate informatics students.

On a separate note, I do have thick of enough skin not to be bothered by this response, but I hope you consider some of the replies regarding the tone. In this type of forum, reframing that bewilderment as curiosity will be much better received and help you avoid invalid assumptions about your intent!
I have to hard disagree on this one. As someone who had half a foot in sysvinit, half in upstart, and half in systemd (don't try to do math with those numbers), sysvinit was always the hardest to use by wide margin. It was ridiculously complicated to get anything nontrivial to work. It was error prone, and the number of corner cases you had to think about was extreme. And the worst part was I kept having to relearn it each time because I did it infrequently enough to forget what I'd learned the last time.

Personally, I was more of a fan of upstart then systemd, but both were a massive improvement over sysvinit in terms of offering an actual interface with abstractions for the things you wanted to do. This is again from the perspective of a user, but that's where (in my opinion) most of the cost/benefit was anyway.
Hmmm I just downloaded this and signed up but I can only get topo maps for free.
On HN, reposts only count as dupes if the story has had significant attention in the last year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

(but also, it's true, people tend not to use HN search before posting)
Probably a nation whose citizens feel comfortable and free in their nation without constantly having to remind themselves or the world that they are a "free-nation".
Any OIDC compatible authentication provider works now, FWIW
Hazard analysis and critical control points
It's afraid.
But it still doesn't make sense.

Two thirds of the country are vaccinated and that had NO impact on case rates?

Instead case rates doubled?
They can delete the content. That's the only "change" they can do. It's like your watch analogy, except you can easily back up an image, but cannot back up a watch.
I updated irssi. Then i had to update a plug-in i haven’t touched since 2011.

that’s about it
It will surely take plenty of engineering and calibration photos during that time. I don't think they will be published instantly because telescope operators want to make a 'wow' effect with first photos from JWST.

Here is first technical image from Hubble, before its mirror's flaw was discovered: https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01EVTBEME0059ASGX8X3DFWZMX.jpg
That's where Roam Research has a point. Creating a graph is appealing, as it is easier to browse and so discover things. That's also how Wikipedia works. But Wikipedia would never have worked without Google.

In organizations the best thing to do imo is to have everyone follow the same rules. Even bad rules that everyone follow is better than everyone following its own rules. And that's clearly one thing that Confluence sucks at. But the rules can't either be the same for anyone anywhere, so there is some balance to find. The other area that can help discoverability is curation

I would be happy to have a chat with you, don't hesitate to reach out to paul at dokkument com
Finley (YC W21) is hiring in Eng and Sales to launch fintech infrastructure
These are problems from first year intro mathematics courses. For a lot of students these are mostly review from high school.

To me, a “university-level” problem is more like this:

Let W be an infinite-dimensional normed linear space over the real numbers. Use the Baire Category Theorem to show that if W is not countable-dimensional then W is not complete.

The above is a typical problem from the 3rd year real analysis course I took in the fall.
Outline's editor is similar to Dropbox Paper, Markdown shortcuts work but knowing Markdown isn't a requirement to use it
My gardener is very likely working illegally, and not paying taxes. My house cleaners are likely not reporting their income for taxes. But the nanny, working part time, making around $10k/year, I have to consider my employee, provide her a W2, submit forms to the IRS. The difference is that I don’t have to consider the gardener or house cleaner as my employees.

Also, notice that my nanny’s total income is less than the standard deduction. She’s ultimately paying no taxes, just like my gardener and house cleaner.

If the democrats want to increase tax revenue, pass laws that reward people for turning in under reporting of inter-generational wealth transfer - like Trump received. If accountants and lawyers can claim 10% by turning in their customer’s fraudulent tax schemes, the country will collect substantially more than this legislation.
This question comes up in every one of these threads and this is the correct response.

If you look at the line items on a build, you might see something like a $200 bolt. It’s not that there was $198 of R&D going into the design of the bolt, it’s that quality management drives the cost. Chain-of-custody, bonding, material testing, witnessing etc. are all part of that effort and they don’t scale like a design spec does.
A good play by play breakdown is found on https://fightlikefiore.com/
From what I understand (after reading the wikipedia page about it) the crater probably isn't putting out much more methane than the rest of the ground in the surrounding area. Wikipedia says the flames are seen there because the shape of the crater allows the gas to accumulate into concentrations that support flames, while in the rest of the area the gas leaking from the ground is rapidly diluted by the wind, but is nevertheless being released.

Looking at the thing, this makes some sense to me. There are flames coming out the side of the walls of the crater all along the perimeter, from only a few meters below where the surface of the ground would be. The gas is obviously very shallow below ground in that region, and unless the top layer of soil is impermeable to gas I think a ton of it must be leaking out all over the area.
According to this: https://www.blockchain.com/charts/cost-per-transaction

Bitcoin costs $150-$300 per transaction. Unless I'm misunderstanding something?

Needless to say, nothing in the regular banking system comes anywhere near those kinds of costs.
If people want to give up US citizenship and move away, fine by me. I don't particularly think that automated record keeping is significant enough (or even a negative) to drive you to leave the country.
I’d love to hear that story.
>a non-technical user that has gone "all in" on trusting amazon, apple, microsoft or google

Between Apple, Google and Microsoft, only Apple provides free customer support, in person, or over the phone.

Microsoft provides support, but you have to pay for it.

Google is the only one of the big three computing platforms that literally couldn't couldn't care less about your issues.
Those are externalities, not service costs. Hal Finney didn’t have to pay a dollar to keep the network running, the users pay all the costs, and the users are miners or accounts.

Nuclear bombs can be cheap and bad at the same time, the 2 things aren’t mutually exclusive. If you can’t admit the nuclear bomb was an engineering achievement because it had externalities, then that’s short sighted.
First, what do we mean by a “bubble?” Let’s define it as a steep rise in price of an asset, fueled by FOMO, without enough underlying value to justify the asset price inflation. You mention a lot of asset classes, and there are big differences, so let’s start with the most risky.

In my view, there was in 2021, and still in 2022, a bubble in high risk assets like crypto, meme stocks, unprofitable tech, and junk bonds. These prices have already come down considerably, but I do not believe they are done. You can look at the ETF charts of MEME, ARKK, and JNK to get a sense of the last three assets.

Home prices have skyrocketed, but because of rising incomes and exceptionally low 30Y mortgage rates, monthly payments are actually very low historically. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=KFhj

Stocks are very mixed. There is a set of stocks that have been pummeled all 2021, but pay high dividends, and are now back in favor. Look at the last couple of weeks charts for T, DOW, and TSE. This is a rotation to more safe stocks that have cash flows and pay high dividends.

But ultimately, my view is that there is too much cash earning negative real interest rates in high income households for a 2001-2003 style drawdown. During the pandemic (through September 2021), the average household in the top 1% of income earners went from $2m cash savings to $3m. The top quintile of earners has, in aggregate, an extra $2.75 trillion in extra pandemic cash. I don’t see the case for a huge broad drawdown with that much cash sitting around earning negative real rates in savings and money market accounts.

As far as your last statement, you should be far more afraid the Fed tightens too rapidly.
Some past related threads:

Land of Lisp (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19677292 - April 2019 (80 comments)

The Land of Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15417735 - Oct 2017 (135 comments)

How Lisp is Going to Save the World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5030803 - Jan 2013 (229 comments)

Land of Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481456 - Jan 2012 (7 comments)

Land of Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3013673 - Sept 2011 (6 comments)

Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836935 - Oct 2010 (108 comments)
The problem is mining, its a good idea, but bitcoin is basically an alpha project that is being treated as a fully fledged solution.
People use way more energy for dumb heating. In my region humans can't survive in winter without it. There is no reason why mining rigs can't be used for 'smart' heating, heat being a byproduct of mining.

It is not done currently only because the energy use of bitcoin is so miniscule compared to other uses, that it's not even worthy to bother yet. Down the road, it'll likely change, but currently complaints about 'massive costs to the environment' are mostly virtue signalling.
Rspamd Spam Filtering System
It is a fun book to get started with (Common) Lisp! We need more fun, but instructive, books like this.
Absolutely not.
I'm saying believing you are doing good does not necessarily imply you are doing good.

And I picked some extreme examples from the same side of the political spectrum to illustrate that.
I like the Rollermouse, it's a mouse that sits below your keyboard, so you never need to move at your elbow to reach the mouse again. I use my thumbs on it.
Likely. Your body won't get the euphoric rush from alcohol, so I thinik it will prevent it from functioning as anxiety medication. Its works on low hardware level, so to speak, and should nullify any positive effects from alcohol on the psyche.