skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh f** off. You know what’s even more damaging? Social networks impact on democracy in Western countries. Data mining from big tech and the impact on an individuals right to privacy. Making systems deliberately addictive which is highly likely to be related to the rise in mental health issues.

Bad crypto projects will die out. Maybe the tech will work for some use cases, like Visas work in the space, maybe it won’t. Crusading against a technology that you probably don’t understand entirely is frustrating to read, flame-war inducing, and repetitive on HN. Everyone understands that it’s like marmite, you either really like it or really hate it, but there are far more important things to take a moral stance against than blockchain tech. I wish we’d all just move on and talk about other things.
You have to be careful here. A colleague/mentor many years back said - be careful, there is no such thing as "part time" when salaried in tech.
NASA software is very good, but not in general formally verified, I think (based mostly on reading postmortems on various NASA failures).

Even TLA+ analysis and proof of correctness doesn't stop things like "new zookeeper clients are pushing a lot of new writes => disk space needed for logs increases => across all the nodes in the zookeeper cluster => the entire formally correct cluster keeps falling over now but it didn't last week"

I meant more in the sense of the proofs in TAOCP - these are programs that don't interact with anything outside of the program itself, no non-specified input, so a lot simpler, no dates, no actual machine memory, just a little synthetic world defined by the language itself. Even TeX is imagined to be unchanging after Knuth's passing, and is basically unchanged since the 70s.

For sure the world has moved on, but we have lost the ability to have confidence in the software and have had to develop tools and ways of thinking inspired by biology.
The worst part of it is the carbon cost to be frank, it's ridiculous.

But regardless, no one cares. I've been telling people for years, but all you get is either: "screw you, I didn't invest, and look where it's at now." or "well I was right not to listen to you".

Hopefully the Ponzi scheme stops with the fed tightening policy.

Oh, and it has expanding into the average consumer markets. A lot of retired people I know are in.
Most of these studies suck. For example, as mentioned in this response, https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/106/12/e5271/6348963, to that first linked study (which may apply equally to the second, as it was just a trial for the subsequent study):

> However, the authors did not provide information on 25OHD serum levels after the supplementation, limiting the evidence of a causal link between vitamin D supplementation and the observed clinical outcomes.

IIRC, there was a similar study to the above that was retracted, in fact. Possibly even #2 above?
I don't have anything of substance to add but I can definitely echo your experience. I'm still in love with the M1 chips but it is definitely not a seamless transition if you work with Docker a lot. I've had containers behave really strangely and unreproducibly.
They made substantial changes to classes in Python3.
There are several different types of timeseries workloads: financial, IoT/sensor data, monitoring metrics, timestamped events, etc.

Also do you need a custom datapoint schema?

Do you need a generic tags/labels/dimensions?

Do you need flexible datatypes, or numeric/float only?

Do you need roll-ups, aggregations, window functions, stream processing, etc.
You aren't going to change the minds of the new middle men who want to take a cut of every transaction they can in the "cryptosphere":
> A centralized system can ban you because of what you say or even because of who you are.

So can anyone who builds a service on top of blockchain technology™ which is something a user ultimately has to interface with.
Just because you have some unremovable flags set on your magical decentralized database that doesn't mean a service can't choose to ignore it.

> eliminate corruption

> Imagine a stock market that ran on some next generation blockchain tech that was perfectly transparent without any doubt about the number of shares in existence. No more dirty tricks or fraud possible.

Please elaborate, how does any of what you vaguely describe "eliminate corruption". How would it prevent dirty tricks and fraud?
These are great, I used to read these back in the day, if only for the novelty.
I think the culture the issue... I could be wrong but it seems like a lot of companies ask new employees to use their Authenticator phone app for Google login, VPNs, SSO etc and if you want to use your hardware key you have to seek out a dev-ops person to configure it special for you. The majority of the 2FA settings I've seen for popular platforms (e.g. Twitch) don't let you use keys or you have to dig for it.
These have existed for years in Asia. Just search for “thermal cooker”.
How can anyone answer such a massive question honestly. What are the ramifications of any socially entwined technology?
I don't think this is an accurate comparison. A more apt one would be;

$400k/yr with no social safety net, no national healthcare, and obscene housing costs so you end up in an area with good schools, work like a dog with little actual labor laws etc, no pension etc.

€60k/yr with 1-2 years leave and generous vacation, actual labor laws, good public education, good equitable walkable neighborhoods etc, a pension etc

I exaggerate a bit but the reason people want to earn so much in the U.S is because a large amount of that money goes to building a personal safety net that is guaranteed in most other developed countries.

The average German working class worker probably lives a happier, more fulfilling life than a so called "professional" in the U.S.
No one called git a “blockchain” until the cryptocurrency fad. The point is that the zero-trust aspect is useless if you can control the source of truth.
One of the points of the folding ideas video is that systems always become centralized in one way or another over time. Even the current ones are not nearly as decentralized as is claimed.

The bit about the stock is that shares counting issue isn't a 'problem' for the stock market, its a feature. They could easily solve this with existing technology. They don't because they make too much money playing the games. Blockchain won't fix that any more than it will solve censorship or cure cancer.
Stop being facetious. I offered solid based on fact reasoning and presented results even with this removed from the starting assumptions and the difference in the end being it's between 2 and 8 times worse. aka an order of magnitude which is how much seasonal flu's tend to vary with their impact.
I tested positive for COVID in February of 2021. I have natural immunity but I'm being treated like I'm a risk to fully vaccinated people around me. I think that might explain why I feel like I'm having my rights violated.

Please explain to me why the scientists in the EU consider prior infection equivalent to being vaccinated but the United States doesn't?
If you enjoyed this then there is a good chance you will also enjoy Ian Leslie’s ‘64 Reasons to Celebrate Paul McCartney’, one of my favourite reads of 2020.

https://ianleslie.substack.com/p/64-reasons-to-celebrate-pau...
If I had to program with audio, I would make a steno dictionary with a theory that results in a pronunciation that is sufficiently different from normal language and then speak it instead of chord it.

The complexity of doing that is IMO a good explanation of why commercial audio recognition is worthless to someone who programs a computer instead of interacts with humans over a computer.

http://plover.stenoknight.com/2013/03/using-plover-for-pytho...
For an example of the third paragraph, Oregon passed a law in 2019 that overrides local zoning to legalize duplexes on almost all residential lots and fourplexes and cottage clusters on residential lots in cities with a certain density minimum.
> they have become as much a universal cultural cliche

Same thing happened to me when I first listened to U2's Joshua Tree and Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. The first halves just sound like Greatest Hits records. But nope, they're just so ubiquitous that I've already heard half the album through cultural osmosis.
Ask HN: What's Hot in Natural Language Processing?
Hello HN!

What's hot in the NLP area in 2022 and in the next 2-3 years, in both academia and industry?(particularly more interested in the industry)

How do you guys stay updated in that matter (links, blogs, etc?) ?

Thank you!
I wish we could all just agree that some things just aren't meant to be for investors and that not all things are meant to have a laissez faire capitalist approach..

I've been looking at properties in LCOL & remote areas of the US and prices shot straight up in 2020/2021 to the point where even having high salary fo an HCOL they become unaffordable. Those places haven't seen wild growths in population and the people are purely speculating as a result of the artificial inflation caused by Zillow and friends.

Looking yesterday those properties are on the market still, some for 6+ months now with little to no drop in price... the sellers are delusional
>including water and energy management

Expand service?

>how do we maintain the transportation and muni services to these new houses?

Use the tax money they pay to pay for infrastructure maintenance.

>are different from those in other parts of the country such that it's really hard to make blanket statements about housing

But the general issues is the same isn't it: there's more demand than available supply or else prices wouldn't be going up
Relative to his predecessor and successor's activities, focusing on Obama's drone strikes has always felt like a deep cut. Something people bring up when they need to search for a reason not to like someone that reflects on their principles rather than their emotions.
Yawn. Controversial topic? Check. Inflamatory language ("fraud," "nightmarish," "Ponzi scheme")? Check. Brand new account? Check.

Flagging.
Zillow and others helped to inflate the prices. Around here (Colorado) they were buying up houses at $30k-50k over asking and often within 1-3 days of listing, which meant people weren't willing to sell for the reasonable prices. And once Zillow or companies like them owned the houses, they weren't (until forced) willing to sell for a loss.
I'm sure more than half of HN has an FBI profile. I know that from an early age I would do internet searches for everything and anything I found fascinating, including hacking, piracy, anonymous proxies, nuclear energy, wilderness survival, firearms, communism, cults, wikileaks, snowden, assange, and a multitude of conspiracy theories.

I grew up fine and have never broken the law. But I sometimes wonder if some computer system or agency sees me differently, just based on keywords.
Rent control has never worked. And never will.

Corporate ownership of SFHs is so small to not matter. The house you live in shouldn't be an investment.
Ask HN: What are some absolute truths that exist independently?
Are there some facts, if any, that are true regardless of whether matter, consciousness or living organisms exist?
I did writing to a similar effect yesterday. https://justin.abrah.ms/2022-01-27-my-thoughts-on-crypto.htm...

tl;dr - I would really love to like the crypto stuff that's being worked on, I just can't get on board with the big problems I'm seeing.
> The evidence for covid vaccines is that they provide robust protection for months, and then protection may begin to wain.

Hone your own advice and be precise in your claims.

There is good evidence that two doses of the vaccine were protective for at least three months, against the variants dominating 2021.

It's 2022, there is a new escape variant about and we endorsed teenagers to get a booster shot to "protect" themselves from this new variant - based on what evidence exactly?

> Evidence for ivermectin is that, ehhh it might have some effect.

There is lots of weak evidence that it's highly effective and some weak evidence that it does nothing. This adds up no good evidence for anything.

> Those aren't the same. Trying to dress them up as similar is wrong. These two things as re not equally scientifically validated.

That's not the point. The question is, do you apply the same standard to both? Do you reject weak observational data as evidence? If so, a lot of the claims about vaccine effectiveness (here and now) are not supported by evidence.
I will risk taking downvotes for not meaningful post, but thank you for this message, really. It is a good connection (the paper clip maximizer <-> capital, I will have to familiarize myself with Egrogore still :)

up: Oh my god, capital as an emergent bigger entity, ok, ok, now I'm scared, thank you :)

up2: So you either fuel it or not, choices choices

up3: This is such a beautiful thing we are all mixed up in, don't you think?
It should be noted that minikube does not work on the M1. Sadly we started switching devs over to M1 at the same time we finished up switching our local environment over to minikube.
THANK YOU! I agree wholeheartedly! Downvote this comment into oblivion for providing little substance other than enthusiastic solidarity!
Have you cross checked the signatures?
> I know where our data lives and no one can access it without a warrant and my explicit knowledge

As far as you know?

Your data is exposed to The Internet so someone could be accessing it.
To control 51% of all those hashing power, an entity would need to power computers that works as much as that, along with paying for the equipment and energy consumption and whatever costs needed for the operation. Current estimates of Bitcoin mining energy usage stands at 71 TeraWatthour, enough to power the whole country of Austria.

Or they'd need to find a way to break SHA256. That's a risk you don't hear much about.
Housing becoming affordable would be be great for young people, but the older people who own the houses would be pretty upset about the destruction of their life savings and their newly-underwater mortgages. I’m not sure it really increases aggregate happiness.
The Docker/virtualisation stuff on macOS really needs fixing up. The x86 to ARM transition has made things worse but it was pitiful even before. Virtualization.framework doesn't seem to live up to the hype. Docker has an experimental mode for it - if you try enabling it you'll quickly realise why it's experimental. Your computer will go into meltdown and performance will feel a hundred times slower. M1 MacBooks are no good for Docker/VMs unless you have a Parallels license.

Apple needs to do what Microsoft did surrounding Linux on Windows. Allocate some engineers for a few years to make life easier for developers on their platform.
I suspect this is 70%+ of all features of all tools remain undiscovered by the users.
Incentives are key to bring the technology back into the realm of usefulness (in the grand scheme of things). Externalities need to be priced into energy costs. In principle there is no problem with using the electric power of a small country for proof of work purposes, as long as the production of that energy is not harmful to everybody via global warming or pollution.

In the end, more efficient ways of achieving the same result will prevail in a well functioning market. Currently everything is skewed because crypto is mined with cheap coal power that the global society is subsidizing by paying for externalities.

I don't think crypto is unique in this. Gold and diamond production is also pretty expensive and useless (apart from their industrial applications, which are limited in comparison to their use to store value).
Please try to expand your lists. Also, please try to create the same kind of expanded lists for other such related tech you're comparing Bitcoin with.
Lest anyone else be confused as I was, this is not about opening Apple's walled garden. It seems these unlisted apps still require Apple's approval and, presumably, must meet their normal standards. The only benefit is that your app can be private and will not be listed in the app store.
Can't think of any army they've fielded, nor any monopoly the government has explicitly granted them, so the analogy has its limits.
Yeah, I'm not familiar with the exact legalities, but it's similar in Austin. Lots of SFHs being converted to duplexes.

Of course this alone doesn't completely solve the problem, but at least the duplexes are cheaper than the SFH.

E.g. In the northwest hills neighborhood, lots of smaller homes that are noticeably cheaper than the SFH equivalents.
Taking Rust for a Ride to Azeroth: What Writing an Ah Scanner in Rust Taught Me
NixOS on the Framework Laptop
They were blue-collar artists. They just tried. They did not wait for ideal conditions. Solomon in Ecclesiastes 11 preaches such wisdom. They planted seeds without bothering to check the weather. Some of their seeds sprouted anyway, while those who waited for perfect weather, never planted at all, and grew nothing.

"Genius" is just practice, and deliberate at that. You don't see it. It's not some dramatic characteristic that you see in Paul McCartney, or whoever; No, John Nash was not intensely examining numbers and equations as they were dramatically floating around him like in "A Beautiful Mind". He did exactly what you do, only without the neuroticism; without the time-wasting; without the rumination.

Just plant the damned seeds. See what happens. Stop wasting your time ruminating. Imagine if Bach, or Da Vinci, Palestrina, Van Gogh, or Von Neumann decided to wait, and wait, until everything was just right, before they begin their studies/work. Nobody today would recognize those names. You would not be able to listen to Missa Papae Marcelli. It would just not exist. These people would be called "workaholics" today, an incredibly unfortunate term. Bach wrote over 1,000 pieces in his career. Van Gogh has over 900 paintings in less than 10 years.

As far as I can see at this point, "geniuses" are simply people who do not waste their time. Q3/Q4 of the Eisenhower Matrix is another planet to them. They live on the "Important" row, and they utilize that time.

To tie this into the HN community - think of the people who "want to learn to program" and yet they spend all of their time ruminating on which book to read, or language to learn, et cetera.
FWIW I switched from Docker Desktop to UTM+Ubuntu+Docker a few months ago and it has been great.
Isn't this statement trivially true for any sort of social system, where you can stand in social capital for Capital.
As a PA resident, I've been hearing one of many reasons for the poor infrastructure is that a fairly big chunk of the road and bridge maintenance budget is being redirected to the State Police: https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/lehigh-county/2019/04/42-bi...

What happens in town after town is that the anti-tax folks decide that there's no need to fund a local police department when the PA State Police is obligated to take over policing. There's currently no mechanism for the state to charge these towns for this service and their state reps fight any effort to put one in place. So year after year the State Police's budget grows out of control and infrastructure funds are an easy way to cover the costs.
> Some weeks later the Blu-Ray comes out and there are maybe 3 people sharing it. If you are lucky the download completes but actually I just buy the Blu-Ray most of the time.

Not sure where you're looking, I can find thousands of seeders for 4k content that comes out on Blu Rays like movies and shows.
No you don't have any responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies, that's for luddites. You can speak out against cryptocurrency, NFTs, false promises and poor implementations of the technology, but to speak out against technology as if you're a point of authority on technology when you're really concerned with economics and society, is insincere to present if you've given consideration to it purely from that tech lens - it's an appeal to authority logical fallacy.

There are plenty of opportunities for people to "lose their shirt" in the current environment, but that's not technology's fault, it is the result of illogical human behavior falling to a scam artist selling something for more than its worth and someone falling for it because they are not informed. It can happen with any pseudo-commodity. If we go back to the popular "Tulip bulb bubble" analogy, if you were a horticulturalist would it be your duty to point out how Tulip bulbs need to be banned for everyone's safety, or would you be stepping outside your domain into that of an economist? Nothing changed functionally about tulip bulbs, except the price and that's not up to the average horticulturist.

By all means, remain skeptical when investing and do your own research, set expectations based on reason. You don't have to hate 100% things about crypto-currency when you really only hate 99% of it, you may find the 1% you do like has to do with purely technical things (technology) vs investor speculation (people). I hate a lot of things about the blockchain space, but technology is certainly not the reason, it's people's relationship/understanding of it and insanity/PR around low value/highly priced things that aren't innovative or useful - the noise + hype if you will is a bit nonsensical at times, not the tech itself, imho.

PS [edit] : And as far as a lot of the problems people have on the blockchain as far as trustworthiness can be solved by blockchain tech itself, it just hasn't happened. It is the "killer dapp" and I've given it some thought, but I won't give it all away unless someone wants to help me build it :)
>There's a lot of research and development into blockchain technology by very smart people.

That is precisely why this is such a societally detrimental technology. The communities that are forming around it are self-reinforcing and suck up both monetary and intellectual capital.

All of this hype about crypto's "potential" is demolished in Dan's excellent work.

>It's a lack of imagination to think that because crypto is "slow" now (and not all of it is by the way), that it will always be the case.

Proof of work combined with the deflationary nature of these currencies is literally the antithesis of efficiency. The system necessarily needs to become less efficient over time because new coins need to become asymptotically harder to mint.

>Maybe a purely decentralized system cannot.

It's clear that the systems that interpret the blockchain (and even the blockchain itself, if wealthy and well-connected folks decide to fork) can be pressured into "censorship."

>if they can prove perfectly transparent and reduce or eliminate corruption?

No system that relies on human inputs can prove to be perfectly transparent or eliminate corruption. The blockchain itself can have provably unbreakable crypto that prevents man-in-the-middle manipulation of data but that in and of itself does not govern the interface between the chain and the people feeding it data.
Anecdotal, but I hosted a friend and her husband at my place a few months ago (Facebook Product Manager). She was telling me that her team of brilliant engineers are all either leaving to go to TikTok or crypto startups.

Don't kid yourself, people follow the money.
Never change. What you do is wonderful.
Grammarly is worse than useless, in my experience. Half of its suggestions turn correct grammar into incorrect grammar. (Though it does catch the obvious stuff.)
It would be popular with those who rent. Decidedly less popular with those who have been realizing large gains in the musical chairs game.
The data don't support the claim "it's housing." The change happened exactly and spectacularly at COVID; housing complaints significantly predate this.