skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps most of us in this forum have only the most basic exposure to biology? I say this because with any serious exposure you can't help but be dumbfounded by the complexity and "creativity" of nature. Everything is amazing! The fact that the pieces fit together is just wild and scary and awesome. To think that gradient descent and backprop will give us general intelligence, one of the great mysteries of nature, is incredibly hubristic, IMO. It's statistical inference at scale, with some heuristics up/downstream. It's a cool and useful tool for sure!
Ditto. Coway Airmega 400 for me is slick and has an integrated sensor
Climate Models Are Working Strangely, Bedeviling Scientists, Complicating Policy
Ah yes, Digg! Definitely spent a lot of time on there hunting for tech news.
Show HN: Wordle Map of Europe
The fact that the database is connected to the internet and shows the real names of people publicly means that this article is unrelated.
Israel's rise in Covid deaths: why it's happening, and the lessons for the UK
It doesn't mean they do all development in a single file.
Alternatively tuner app on your cell
Humidity kicks dust mites into hyper breeding mode, so not great if you have a dust mite allergy. I like to keep my home dry.
If a junior dev writes truly head-scratching code, you could ping that person and ask why they wrote this line a certain way, as opposed to a more straight-forward way. Correct me if I'm wrong but you can't ask an ML model to do that (yet).
Sorry to hear this OP. Yes I have these feelings too occasionally. Not sure if this will work for you but one thing that gives me perspective when I'm feeling sorry for myself is to read posts on the subreddit /r/cancer. I immediately count my blessings and realize how courageous/kind people can be. Also it is a reminder that yes, life is finite so you might as well make the most of it.
3440x1440 monitor.

I now own 3. :)
It's a much more interesting trick imo, where Texas allows "divisive mergers" that enable them to split liabilities off into a separate entity. It's not clear to me what the intended benefit of allowing this procedure is, other than this kind of action.
Very nice tool indeed, funny how the world works. I'm writing an Electron/React/PouchDB application that works kinda like this called "Filebase", you create a library and name it like "pictures", you pick a directory / or single file on your PC and it scans/indexes it, this allows you to tag individual files and folders so you remember what's in it (you can search these tags). you can search and filter by type. The last feature will be archiving but keeping the directory info handy so you can search for items that are archived. I came up with this idea after watching my partner try and organize Cricket art and PDF's. I realized that Windows Explorer kinda sucked for organizing. I wanted to build something that did not modify or touch files itself. It's been a great way to learn Electron. I have to say Electron makes building UI's easy for applications.
>I don't think that's comparable at all. If you don't want to get vaccinated but your employer has a mandate, you can quit.

You can't quit the game. I assure you. Might as well make the stand here and now, because in the end, it will find it's way back to you. People problems always do.
3440x1440 for me. I own 3. Amazing for gaming AND working.
Twitter dislikes VPN users so it is unviewable for me, just endless refreshing
Lat Lon is how it's always been. I didn't know people used anything else. If you're using Lon Lat you've learned something historically incorrect.

> Do you have a preference?
> Yes I do: longitude, latitude.

The author is just wrong here... and is writing this post to try to pretend that there is more difference of opinion than there actually is.
> Is there an example of any dataset that is well maintained by a community?

OpenStreetMaps comes to mind, though I don't know what their governance model looks like. Perhaps it's more centralized than I think?
You can't currently get a thread from a single request, you can only request a single item, and build a thread item by item. At the very least it would be nice to get an entire thread as an array of ids the way you can with pages.

But mostly, I want to be able to query - get all ids for a thread since a timestamp, or all ids matching a domain, or filter out certain users or ids with less than 2 karma, filter out certain fields, etc. Firebase supports queries, and I wish the API did too.

I can accomplish this myself by just dumping everything into a DB, web scraping, using the Algolia API which does some of this but is rate limited, but I just wish the API did it.
I totally felt the same. But, picking up some math books and start learning again gave me something to look forward to.
How does one “just get married”?
I had a similar though. Was is the first foray of Google into targeted ad?
If it were the latter, than I would have expected more people associated with BLM to disown/disavow the violent criminals, rather than making excuses for their behavior.
Aeron: seconded. When I started WFH I was using a cheap Ikea chair, not designed for programmer's hours. My wife insisted I get a much better chair. The Aeron was not cheap, especially shipped, but the difference is night and day.

Three weeks after I got mine, my wife got one for herself :)
Same here. Wtf.
Are they mining bitcoins when you open the page?
> History hasn't been kind to either of Jefferson's opinions in that sentence...military coups are a problem in many countries, but not the US.

In fairness, if Jefferson had his way, there wouldn't be much of a military around to plot a coup in the first place.

He'd also be considered a staunch non-interventionist were he alive today - "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations and entangling alliances with none." Not much use for a standing army when that’s how you see your role in global affairs.
It drives curosity for sure.
This is an MVP. The guys folder will be added later.
Júda Ronén made a fantasic list of all(?!) the different Wordles: https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/

This map is just a visual version of part of that list.
The charities were going to be selected by the convoy but "approved" by GFM. Obviously there's no public list of charities GFM has "approved" in the past but it goes without saying that only left-leaning charities make the list.
When it comes to quantum computations, the difficulty is exponential with a truely ridiculous exponent. You are very plausibly just better off manipulating the matter directly once you get to any reasonable size, and there's extremely likely no way around this.
I think I understand a lot more about UCEPROTECT now that I've read the message you linked. This is pretty extraordinarily sexist and unprofessional, and you can really get a sense of how much the author despises anyone who criticizes him.
My son has one. I hate typing on his keyboard when he needs my help, especially when I help him doing his math homework. You see I use the numeric keypad a lot on that hence the hate for his "tenkeyless" in that case. But he hates my large keyboard when he needs my computer, so that balances out, hihi. Each to their own I guess
this is waaaaaay too small. you can definitely afford something larger now
I don't think the premise evaporates.
There's a solvable difference between checking an ID against a database of IDs you control, vs identifying the fakeness of any other piece of random information.
It's apt, not ironic. https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/history_article.html
I think it's called ribbon ice.

I've always thought it would be cool to have containers that are designed to extrude it so that before a storm comes you could fill them with water and have a transient art thing happen.

I think that the temperature requirements are rather specific, so you might also need some kind of temperature control widget to make it happen more reliably.
You don't really need more detail.

Just consider (hypothetically, if you wish) one of our own simulations. Were there conscious, reasoning agents within it, who developed access to computation, the resources that they would have to create their own simulations would necessarily be limited by the scale and scope of the simulation we created. It would be almost inconceivable to most of them that it could be possible to "simulate" their entire world, given their understanding of physics and computation within the bounds we set up.

Then there's the matter of time. It doesn't matter very much in a discrete universe whether or not time runs "fast" or "slow" ... each discrete state is the same either way (because there is no "in between"). Just as right now it would task vast computational resources for us to simulate anything remotely like the universe we seem to live in, and it would likely not run "real time", nothing inside the simulation would be aware of the computational costs and duration in our world.
This is a false dichotomy—simulation versus Reality. When Neo woke to reality was it Reality or another higher order simulation?

Could we not just redefine our capital R reality as a damn fine simulation? Isn’t that the message behind almost all spirituality and religion?

This pseudo-question belongs in the trash heap of philosophy along with mind-brain dualism.

It is a question generated by murky thinking—-credit to Wittgenstein for pointing out the obvious. Read Richard Rorty—any thing really but “Truth and Progress” a good place to start.

If you want way more insight than Chalmers will ever provide then read either “The Quantum Thief” by Hannu Rajaniemi, or hardcore neuroscience: “Principles of Neural Design” by Sterling and Laughlin.
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This made me remember a strange phenomenon I noticed a winter day a few years ago. In a park with some trees there was consistently less snow coverage in a line going away from each tree, always in the same westward direction. Basically following a shadow of the tree. Looking around at other objects I also noticed the phenomenon next to some signs and metal poles.

What could explain this? I could understand if there were more snow or ice in the shadow, as the ground would be colder there, but why would there be less?
Argue his case well in court ? I mean, I dont disagree wikileaks helped confirm what we all knew about the war, but scamming people via a DAO is a step in a totally unrelated direction. I remind you the DAO is not to bribe his prison guards, which would free him faster, but to buy an NFT, which is literally meaningless.

The problem is whatever he did was illegal in Sweden and the US and borderline in the UK, so with 3 jurisdictions trying to seek justice for 3 different crimes, no amount of pyramid scheme marketing will solve THAT problem. Plus, Ecuador might want to recoup the costs incurred by their disgraceful guest... maybe pay them first, so he gets one less enemy?
It's not just niche users. I hated with a burning righteous rage every single release of iTunes. The overhead of all kinds that it imposed on access to my collection of music never made any sense.
Imo, the basic problem with how the internet has played out so far is that what began as a sparse network that required co-operation via some mutual dependency on things like a base level of competence and intelligence, collegiality, respect for certain individual boundaries like pseudonymity, and other conventions has, by making it user friendly, become a battle ground for people who are incapable of those necessary things. These are just eternal september problems.

However, the necessary condition for all these kinds of total social surveillance controls is a network of authorities who have physical impunity from the people they ostensiby serve, govern, or rule, and I'd bet this decade will be defined by resolving that question of how far are they willing to go. We're already post-truth in public and political discourse, so there is no basis for mutual trust, and the real world conventions about basic freedoms have been largely recast as privileges, as though they are both somehow granted by critics and subject to their political schemes. Some very clever people are still trying to find alternatives to a civil confrontation that seems both catastrophic and inevitable, and they're doing it in the form of growing new platforms, cryptocurrencies, privacy and security technologies, energy storage and efficiency techs, even vulnerability research as a hedge, but what I can only now call the leviathanists are co-ordinating to bar any and all exits for people, and in particular minds, that would generate any value they cannot subdue and spend themselves.

Indeed, meaningful anonymity is just probably just about done online, but what I don't think authorities understand is that they think people misbehave when they are anonymous. The trouble is, what they may be about to discover is that it was the anonymity that was the civility, and what is left without it is something altogether more serious.
Reading this made me realize I've written code that's no only older than a lot of people reading this, it's still being sold to new customers.
My first thought when seeing this was whether I could run it as a docker image… I don’t know what’s wrong with me :P
Art School Looked Like a Lot of Fun in the ’90s
Tracking cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages detected in NYC wastewater (Nature Communications):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28246-3
Some things that make people happy are things that are bad for them. Those aren't mutually exclusive categories.
https://nitter.net/CJF_NC/status/1490093486330322949
That's not how the real world works, only an idealized one. And not all public or private schools are the same. In the US, private schools were motivated (but not forced) to adopt better approaches because they were often competing with widely-available free public schools. Some public schools were being ruined by inept education bureaucrats, so wealthier parents moved their kids into better private ones. This is because some states and school districts were overriding the wishes of the parents, so the said wealthier ones did was was easiest: change schools. This created a two-tiered system in some areas where public schools got worse because they lost money per student as students left, had to cut budgets and good teachers, and concentrated poor and inner city students within underfunded, failing school districts. There are good public schools in some areas and there are probably plenty of horrible private schools too. It's my experience in the US that the best private schools tend to be better than the best public schools because of the extreme differences in resources.
> kitchens don’t have 220V outlets generally

I'm from the US. Every home I've lived in (9) has had at least one or more 240V 30A circuits in the kitchen, my current home has 2 and it was built in the 80s so not exactly a modern build. There usually aren't a lot of outlets, as things like built-in ovens and ranges are often hardwired and not on a plug. Though the stand-alone oven/range units do often have a plug, but you don't normally see it unless you're swapping out units. They'll usually have a NEMA 14-30 or 10-30.
It's like the ice version of tin whiskers.
Modern Monetary Theory Got a Pandemic Tryout. Inflation Is Now Testing It.
You can't bring up an anecdote as a counterpoint then refuse to explain the anecdote. It's a bit unfair.

Edit: someone posted the rules that says we should accept people's comments in good faith. I'll try to do that. Leaving this comment for posterity.
At least with Hollywood accounting, the subsidiary is usually created up front. This reads like J&J created the subsidiary after the fact, which IMO, shouldn’t be allowed.
So...in some ways, you've "arrived" while at the same time recognize your time left to travel is shorter and, probably worse, you are realizing you aren't sure where to go or if traveling itself is even worthwhile.

You mention a relationship but, while a traveling companion might be a good idea and a blessing, it's unlikely to alleviate the things you are experiencing. I'm 41, been married for almost 20 years to a good woman who is a blessing to me, and it's not a cure to the things you are feeling and thinking.

But, thankfully, I learned a long time ago that none of these things would every truly satisfy. It's not kept me from feeling and thinking similar things, putts just help put them in perspective.

I'd encourage you to read the biblical book Ecclesiastes[1] to help verify and understand your current experience. If you are then interested, move to the gospel of Luke, gospel of John, and Romans to help understand what is truly important in life.

1. https://www.esv.org/Ecclesiastes+1/
The mathematically optimal Wordle strategy
How did you contact them? I had problems getting mail to MS years ago and at the time wasn't able to get anyone to do anything or even respond. At some point later the problem went away, though.
What I mean is, it assumes the industry has to operate as it does when consolidated, i.e. that the market can only exist as conglomerates with fleets of container ships and not individual container ships shipping freight as separate entities.

It's like saying the trucking market has high barriers to entry because you have to buy a fleet of trucks, which only billionaires can afford, and individual owner operators are impossible. Obviously not.
They make metal ones
Radar cruise control is pretty awesome. It certainly reduces my stress levels when driving!
My first Sous Chef gave me his Victorinox from when he went to Culinary Institute of America. I still use it even though I've since bought a Wusthof. I like how it is thinner, it holds an edge well and has good ergonomics.
This person is living off social security at age 66, yet he has lived in Mexico for 15 years? I really wish they had filled in more information, including whether this person has/had a spouse, other sources of income, and medical costs.
AlphaGo is decidedly not brute force, under any meaningful definition of the term. It's monte carlo tree search, augmented by a neutral network to give stronger priors on which branches are worth exploring. There is an explore/exploit trade-off to manage, which takes it out of the realm of brute force. The previous best go programs used Monte Carlo tree search alone, or with worse heuristics for the priors. Alpha Go improves drastically on the priors, which is arguably exactly the part of the problem that one would attribute to understanding the game: Of the available moves, which ones look the best?

They used a fantastic amount of compute for their solution, but, as has uniformly been the case for neutral networks, the compute required for both training and inference has dropped rapidly after the initial research result.
For me it is the Nintendo Wii Balance board [1]. It is still running strong even after more than 13 years of usage. I hope Nintendo will introduce a new balance board for the Switch console and together with the new Ring Fit it will be a blast for indoor fitness and exercise.

[1] Wii Balance Board:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Balance_Board
The new amount of control Apple gives you over notifications in the latest iOS'es is a game-changer. I literally just discovered I could bundle all notifications from certain apps and have them notify me at certain times of the day en masse, which is AMAZING.
Agreed. Read any periodical from the 1600s onwards and you’ll see a lot of pen names. And to people who think discourse was more civil back then (sort of assuming that people were more responsible when being anonyminity)— they’re wrong. some of the most vile filth, slander and gossip was published.
no; the grind is necessary but insufficient.
I'd like to see a more technical description of the platform, as in what guarantees are provided and technical challenges for this platform.

That being said, it's nice that they got some good YT creators on.
Twelve Years Off Grid
I met Chalmers once back in the 90s, and despite being dazzled by his intellect and verbal style, I find the direction he is taking with "Reality+" extremely disappointing. The impression I had of him from Usenet in the 90s and that one encounter at UWashington gave me the sense of a person who would not be suspectible to what I view as a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature, purpose and meaning of life. Ah well. I'm wrong, it seems, about at least one of those two things.
Very little profit, that's for sure.
The premise is incorrect because real rate of return is what determines how you can “live”. Even if you received 10% returns every year, it makes a huge difference if the medicine/food/labor you need increased by 5%, or 10%, or even 20%.

Additionally, if you have lost the ability to earn an income, then you cannot afford to be down a few years, hence you need to greatly expand the proportion of assets that are earning less than equities, and quite possibly putting you behind inflation. Especially if you live in a popular area.

Combine this with a nation whose population is aging and therefore competition for buying young people’s labor is going up, and you might want to be more conservative about expectations of the future.
A one-story house with an unfinished basement makes it sooo easy to do a lot of common home upgrades. I'm jealous, everything around me is just slab-style houses so it can be a pain to do anything like plumbing work without just resorting to having stuff in the attic.
It's interesting that AI is being aggressively applied to areas where AI practitioners are domain experts. Think programming, data analysis etc.

We programmers and data scientists might find ourselves among the first half of knowledge workers to be replaced and not among the last as we previously thought.
I mostly work with data mining on my personal projects(which is a couple of hours every day), and I'm pretty sure I didn't have to write a single regex since I've started using Copilot. It's hard for me to even imagine how I used to do it before, and how much time I've wasted on stupid mistakes and typos. Now I just write a comment of what I want and an example string. It does the job without me having to modify anything 99% of the time, even for complex stuff. Sure, sometimes it gives an overly complicated solution but it almost always works. Exciting times.
Not just the app but the whole user experience: Amazon. Specifically, they should have figured out search by now, but no: the mapping from search terms to results is just a stab in the dark.
I think that argument had more power before a bunch of Canadians set the White House on fire.
Ask HN: What caused the Olympics to become so terrible?
When I was a kid, we use to look forward to the Olympics. It was a big deal. The whole family would gather around the TV to watch the events live regardless of timezone. We use to follow the stories of the atheletes and it was constantly the talk of the town.

Nowadays, it kind of feels like Olympics are just annoying. Propaganda fest for authoritarian regimes. No one cares. Heck, some people don’t even know that the Olympics are even happening.

How did it go so wrong?
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Charles Darwin is accused of stealing Theory of Evolution
Next: learn about premultiplied alpha.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_compositing#Straight_ver...
Yes. In addition, Special relativity says clocks moving faster through space tick slower than clocks that move more slowly.

So let's say you're a GPS satellite. GR says your clock ticks too fast because you're farther from the center of the earth's gravity well than the wristwatches of people on the surface.

But SR says your clock ticks slower than a wristwatch on the surface because you're whizzing through space at ~15,000 km/hour.

Which is right? Both. And they do not exactly cancel each other out (in general). So both GR and SR have to be taken into account to make GPS satellites produce accurate locations and times.