skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No there isn't a spectrum. A stolen million is still worth a million. If a thief is laundering the money, he's choosing to spend it--no dollar just loses value all of a sudden.

You may be using cash once used to buy drugs or hire an assassin, but it doesn't get tainted and diminish your ability to spend it.

Restricted Bitcoin literally cant be used for transactions making the Bitcoin itself worthless even if it wasn't you who committed the crime that got it restricted. That doesn't happen with cash.
Show HN: The Beginners Guide to NFTs [Outline and Link to Sample Chapter]
Do you bring your battery with you when you're out and about? How do you carry it (if you do)? I have a battery and it is pocket sized, but it's not exactly comfortable to carry along with my wallet and phone.
I tend to roll with GeoJSON and the language's equivalent of a map/dict.
nowhere - there is NO PLACE you get safely get 10% guaranteed per year. Zilch, none.

Better plans is to plan on living off 4% of you nest egg if you don't want to run out when you are too old to start working again.
Yeah, exactly, I think this article or the general consensus in this thread relates to the fact that high achievers' (or other positive-on-the-surface kinds of people) mental health is often overlooked due to the fact that they "don't have any real issues".
> The susceptibility of these systems to completely failing on weird inputs ...

If you believe that people are "general intelligence" systems, then your comment doesn't imply that the existing artificial systems won't achieve general intelligence, because people fail massively on weird inputs.

Consider optical illusions:

https://newatlas.com/science/best-optical-illusions-year-202...

Consider audio illusions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKR2pGwavqE

Consider tactile illusions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdhnEq76_PA

* Machines fail on weird inputs, therefore they will never be intelligent;

* People fail on weird inputs, therefore they cannot be intelligent.
I do understand. Do others, notably friends and family feel you haven't achieved much, both personally and professionally? You are young (I'm 60 and young!), single, relatively wealthy and presumably free. Could you work on something that you are excited about, whilst you are? The world has many problems. Can your technology skills and experience help?

Folks here, including me, may think we are helping you. We probably are not:

https://shatterealm.netlify.app/personal/2021_01_02_living_w...
As someone who is skeptical, but open minded, about the impact these technologies will have on practical programming I think I'm one of the "people" in "people are complaining..." The article makes some assumptions about what such people think that certainly aren't true for me:

1. That we are unimpressed.

I'm gobsmacked.

2. That we don't think these are significant advances.

They're obviously huge advances.

3. That we don't think these models will have practical applications.

It's hard to imagine they won't.

4. That we think these systems are rubbish because they get things wrong.

I'm a programmer. I make mistakes all the time.

Having countered those views, the article then seems to imply that it follows that "we’ve now entered a world where 'programming' will look different." As someone who makes a living writing software I obviously have an interest in knowing whether that's true. I don't see much evidence of it yet.

These systems are certainly not (yet) capable of replacing a human programmer altogether, and whether they could ever do so is unknown. I'm interested in the implications of the technologies that have been developed so far - i.e. with the claim that "we've now entered a world..." So the question is about how useful these systems can be for human programmers, as tools.

The reason I'm skeptical of it is that the only model I've seen so far for such tooling is "have the machine generate code and have the human review it, select from candidate solutions and fix bugs". The problem is that doing so is, I expect, harder for the human than writing the code in the first place. I've mentioned this concern several times and not seen anybody even attempt to explain to me why I'm wrong about it. For example, at [1] I pointed out why some generated solutions for a particular problem would have only made my job harder and got accused of "screaming at a child for imperfect grammar."

Reviewing and fixing code is harder than writing it. Please explain why I'm wrong about that (it's certainly true for me, but maybe most people don't feel that way?), why it won't be a problem in practice or what planned applications there are for these technologies that would avoid the problem.

Please don't accuse me of cruelty to dogs or children.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30180067
Tales from the Crypt Truecrypt Forensics [pdf]
The problem is not that is was a BLM riot, the problem is that geofence warrants are effectively a modernized general warrant, something that should be viewed as plainly unconstitutional

They get around it because they have slapped a modern technology workaround over the top of out constitutional protections as they often do, but a warrant under the US 4th amendment is suppose to outline the exact person, place, and object to be searched and seized.

Obtaining Geofence warrant is, and should be unconstitutional any judge issuing such a warrant is unfit to be a judge
Why are people so obsessed with NASA's worm logo? (2020)
At 28, this describes me exactly. Found my partner in college, bought a nice 4-bedroom house in a nice area close to friends/family. Financially stable with plenty of time to spend on creative hobbies. We both “jumped in” to moderately lucrative careers early and are now in very comfortable positions at companies that more or less contribute to the good. By all appearances a perfect life which truly results in many days of happiness. It still feels empty/pointless. I’m too embarrassed to complain to those around me, but sometimes I wish I could buy into religion or child-rearing so that I would have a pre-manufactured purpose, and wouldn’t have to keep searching for one constantly. I think when the pandemic is over we’ll try traveling more to see if that scratches the itch.
https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2... should give you a better idea of what's going on. It's linked in the article.

Perl sorting issues in dictionaries-common
libxmlb used a pointer address (%p) for a hash value
texlive-base: Reported differences in the generated ls-R
> You don't flip from being extrovert to introvert just because you have a time in your life where you prefer to be alone. Extroverts don't become introverts while grieving the death of a loved one.

These are hypotheses that I wouldn't rely on to give advice. It could discourage someone who is dissatisfied with themselves from trying to change. Who says it's impossible? Your personal experience, or observing people around you, or a study on 1000 people?
No, it's impossible. AI-based algorithms are fairly bad at recognizing copyrighted works. It's hard to strike a balance between what is an original composition and what's a remix/cover/copy:

- if you make it too strict you'll just find bit-by-bit copies: reencoding or slightly altering the data would pass screening easily

- if you make it too lax, you will find that many "original compositions" are in fact very similar to or inspired by other works (oh really that bird singing i just recorded is copyrighted?!)

Beyond that, when there's an actual copy involved, an algorithm is fairly bad at determining whether this copy is legal:

- if it looks very similar to another user's video which claims to have copyright on the content, however what proves the copyright is owned by that other uploader and not by a 3rd party? how can you make sure the license was not copyleft or public domain in the first place?

- how do you know whether the content is used in a context of lawful criticism? parody?

- how do you know whether the usage is tied to an education or accessibility exception to copyright?

- how do you know if the usage of the copyrighted content is legal in the uploader's country? in the copyright owner's country? in the host's country? how do you decide which is more important?

If censorship is bad, automated censorship is even worse. There's no way to make it right.
https://beerba.se/augustiner-bra-u-ma1-4nchen/ there’s an encoding problem here (UTF-8 has been interpreted as Latin-1 at some point)

(edit: turns out it's a problem with the upstream data! interesting https://github.com/midzer/beerbase/issues/1)
The Empty Release
It is striking that the top response to a thoughtful, nuanced article about coordinates written by an expert in geospatial systems is someone who boldly declares "X is the standard" and concludes with "I'm a total noob".
I and I alone is responsible for my act. It is a slippery downward slope once you start outsourcing responsibility.
It's been said in other threads, but just to be complete. You need to have your domain with GoDaddy, which is batshit insane. Now, it it were a reputable domain company I wouldn't quite mind but this is GoDaddy we're talking about.
To me, that's the exact parallel that comes to mind for the current hype around web3/ crypto/ etc etc.

IBM's hype campaign from the early-to-mid 2010's, on Watson, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cloud, and whatever other buzzwords were thrown into that PR carpet bombing campaign that was everywhere.

I still don't know what any of those technologies do, and whether or not they're implemented in anything I'm using.

But it sure sounded important and potentially revolutionary at the time!
Just average the winning move of betting everything on Greenspan Put over the past couple years and ignore anything that happened before ;)
Just about any index fund.
> Where are you getting 10% guaranteed a year?

If anyone gets the answer to this question, PM me the details.
It's much worse than that.

http://www.jamessawyer.co.uk/01_20_2022_Economic_Indicators_...
Adjustable stand for your phone (gorilla stand or tripod). Helps to position your phone during video chats such that everyone is in the picture. When buying make sure it supports both vertical and horizontal.
Maybe tangential, but would most folks be likely to discern the difference vs. a glass French press? Most drip coffeemakers I’ve used are both more expensive and make worse coffee (not to mention harder to clean), so I’ve largely given up on the category, but admittedly haven’t done proper research in quite a while.
The Invisible Scaffold You Can’t Live Without
the one thing you can be certain of about giving someone authority over others is that they will abuse it. some more, some less. but everyone will abuse it to a degree.
This isn’t really the conversation that was being had during Omicron. There was much talk of forced boosters (and lots of shaming for not getting boosted), mostly based on fear and ignoring the available data.
> it is "tuned" for different type of events.

Gravity wave detectors are sensitive to ranges of frequencies, just as electromagnetic wave detectors are. For instance, LIGO is sensitive to gravity waves in the range of 7kHz down to 30Hz. The gravity waves from this merger would be at far lower frequencies/longer wavelengths.
When you remove the bottle cap, it's an open beer.
It's great that you asked this question and (my guess is) it's actually a very common one. Being able to start a conversation and discuss it is an achievement in itself. Kudos to you!

As many have mentioned, fitness and keeping calm is extremely important. With $500K in savings, you are in a financially secure position which is very good.

I invested in a spin bike for a while now and use it with a Peloton class or a Netflix watch of late. Some days the exercise is great and other days it is ok. But, scheduling it and getting it done is a very good habit. Regardless of intensity, just do it.

Next, focus on mental health. Journalling is great and meditation is also quite helpful. There is no aha moment, but just keeping at it will reap benefits.

Next, find someone (right one) to emotionally connect with: it could be a spouse, a partner or perhaps a pet too. Get energy drainers (if any) out asap.

Now that, hopefully, your human side is hopefully is in better shape ... get realistic about your career options. With your experience so far, you are likely very well equipped to decide the next steps.
Most of crypto is very bad for privacy. Somehow people think all of crypto is private because someone used Bitcoin to buy drugs 7 years ago.

I’m not looking forward to a world where everything about everyone is carved into the blockchain forever.
I don't know what you want, an article that's happy about geofence warrants? If reading an article about a FOIA response makes you angry, maybe the article isn't the problem.

Edit: to be clear, I did not feel rage when reading the article. I don't want to invalidate your reaction, but I'm not convinced that the article was designed for that.
Meh...

Here is the exact case you mention, just WAY worst. This is something I did for chocolatey community:

https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/a14b1e5bfaf70839b338eb1ab7...

This page is report of the PowerShell framework I developed mostly in first year of development (https://github.com/majkinetor/au) that checks ~250 web sites for updates on various software. Today it has 6 errors and usually never much more. On my own location I keep ~60 packages and I I tackle errors maybe once a year. Stuff just work, and you rarely have to visit, otherwise I would be involved entire day into this and I am not, while those packages have many millions of users.

Now I spend almost 0 time maintaining packages and I am one of the top choco package owners.

Check out the options used, some of which make it so robust:

https://github.com/chocolatey-community/chocolatey-packages/...

> It’s sources keep changing frequently, robust automation here is probably a research project and simple automation is orders of magnitude more bang for buck.

Even if the source changes frequently its better to automate. Its not when it keeps changing daily or more then that. By automating you learn something new, so it pays more for your experience. Manually working every day the same thing (that may move around) doesn't involve complex thinking and is just waste of time.
Let me start by saying I do not condone the destruction of government buildings in any way. Full stop.

If there are separate parts of a system -- but all part of the same underlying system -- do you really see them as completely different things? For example, I've heard cops, while arresting someone for marijuana, just "pass the buck" and say, "We don't write the laws, we are just enforcing them."

If you are part of maintaining, propagating, and continuing a system, are you not an equal part of that system and the things done in its name?
Ask HN: What problem do you wish someone would solve?
Is there a task or activity that regularly causes you grief during your day-to-day (no matter how big or small)?

Post it here to potentially motivate someone to work on a solution!

Last thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29796099
#notallpeople
If you want a tutorial/framework for MCMC analysis, check out the R package “pomp”:

https://kingaa.github.io/pomp/docs.html
Depends if I think I might be needing it.

Tote bag/leather satchel for everyday (especially because it lets you carry USB & lightning cables); backpack for longer trips. It's a big battery and wouldn't be feasible to carry in my pocket
The events of January 6th involved attempting to overthrow the results of a democratic election because a certain faction didn’t like the outcome.

Trying to burn down a police station is localized mob violence.

They are not the same.
In the 1980s and early 90s people didn't eat too many fish out the St. Croix because of the mercury (and other) levels. But in the 40 years since the river had seemingly cleared up really well and all the normal pollution indicators (like mercury) were low. I decided to start fishing it and eating fish from it again last year. Unfortunately they weren't testing for PFOS/PFAS till the end of last year. :|
Pardon my ignorance, but why do you need mcmc to analyze sensitivity? Isn't sensitivity something related to the derivative of the output with respect to the parameter?
Also check out the Herman Miller company outlet store- https://www.officeoutlet.net
You're missing the point. You can take your doctor's advice, or not. But that advice will necessarily be generalized based on public health guidelines and not personalized based on any relevant quantitative tests. Your doctor doesn't have access to the assays necessary to accurately measure cellular immunity levels. Those are rather complex and typically only used in small research studies.

Antibody levels will always decline over time after infection or vaccination. A third booster might have some long-term benefits for certain patients but beyond that trying to keep those levels elevated with repeated boosters is pointless for most patients.
Title should be "The Evil List, Which tech companies are really doing the most harm?".

Strange Amazon is number 1.
I think using these tools might become a science or an art form in its own right. You'll have to give these tools the input they need to produce the most useful answers to you. In the short term at least, this is not going to take away your need to think. But it might change how you think, and it might make you more productive when your problem aligns well with these tools.
My opinions are always wrong but sometimes less wrong than others.
No one starts doing 2 hours of cardio. You can do 20-30 mins and be a lot better off than with 0.
Yes, we have. Apparently it's close to impossible to adopt a kid for us, considering that we are in our 40's and that demand is much greater than supply, so they pick younger couples. Also, there seems to be a whole industry pretty much stealing children from poor countries and selling them to couples like us. I do not want to be part of that.
Likely existing agreements/backdoors/vulnerabilities that allowed them to get the data in other ways.

They very likely had the capability: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/02/pegasus...
It’s not the same people every time. People tend to want to out-outrage one another sometimes and it sometimes it leads certain people to call for boycotting/etc, and then sometimes those movements pick up steam as people try to be “early” to a given outrage cycle.

Nobody’s calling the shots here… nobody went and decided “aim the twitter outrage cannon at Joe Rogan, he ran afoul of the Cancel Culture and must atone.” It’s just a phenomenon that happens due to the tendency of humans on social media to amplify outrage rather than ignore it.
Well, he does actually look like that. And he’s only 25, so he’s still a bit arrogant :-)

But, what he’s saying agrees with my experience, at three times his age: train with weights, have a caloric deficit emphasizing low carb, and walk for an hour on the days you aren’t lifting.

https://physiqonomics.com/cardio-or-weights/
Any other tricks that are helpful for a beginner to know?

Use Rstudio
Include tidyverse
Turn warnings into errors
While true, it'd be a silly excuse to stop you from working out into old age.
> Now I can barely play for more than an hour without feeling some kind of anxiety that I'm wasting my time or need to get to the goal as efficiently as possible. How can I fix this!?

Listen to that feeling, because it's the truth. Video games should be at the absolute bottom of your priorities. Every minute you're playing video games is a minute you could be improving yourself, meeting new people, travelling or whatever.

35 is not old but time is nonetheless limited, you need to make the most of it. Once you have a family and feel some kind of fulfilment, then you can play video games if you want. I bet that right now it's just a temporary escape from your feeling of emptiness, but as soon as you stop playing the feelings come back, stronger than before, because you just wasted another hour without getting any closer to your goal. It's very analogous to trying to numb your ennui with alcohol, it's not a good idea.
> Unpopular opinion but even if you are a Bill Gates, I don’t think there is anything of substance about his technological innovation.

I don't understand the downvotes here. In 100 years or so, practically no one is going to remember that Bill Gates created a shitty operating system back in the 20th century, but there will probably be statues of him around the world for his philanthropic work.
Wait till you get a 32 inch 4k one. I am shocked a lot of IT professionals still use 1080p when the above can be found for as low as 250 usd with discounts
> start out with a $20 IKEA knife and a stone to keep it sharp. You'll get better long term results than you would with an expensive knife on its own any day of the week.

This is very, very smart advice.

The only thing I'd add is to learn proper knife techniques: how to hold food keeping your fingers away from the blade. Never take risks with a well sharped knife.
When do you charge yours? Is the battery life good enough for using it day and night?
Summary? I can't watch video now.
In practice the difference is almost non-existent, unless you start doing assignments within function calls, which is a popular style among some R stars, like Martin Machler [1]. But on the other hand some of them resolve to just always use "=" everywhere, including one of R's creators - Ross Ihaka [2].

Anyhow, explaining the difference at that part of the tutorial is not easy, so I chose to omit it for now. But might introduce it later, along with "<<-" and "->>", probably after describing closures.

[1]: https://github.com/cran/diptest/blob/master/R/dipTest.R#L37

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88TftllIjaY&t=2101s
I believe this is because not all derivatives are possible via calculation and mcmc gives close approximation. But I could misunderstand.
I co-founded a makerspace. Maybe 70% of our membership are 30-50 y/o men that work in some form of IT (and other desk jobs).

The opportunity to make something physical brings them life. It's a real bonus if it's something they can carry around and show others. 1-2-3 blocks, welded cubes, wood lathed pen bodies, 3d printed gadgets, etc.
Generating a new public key doesn't add data to the blockchain. Only when you sign a transaction. And if you're talking identities, as in moving around websites, there's no way to link your various public addresses (logins) unless you explicitly do so using the private key you used to generate the public address. Or, you could use the same public address. So, it depends on what you want to do. Do you want privacy? Or, do you want the site to know your activity history?

The beautiful thing is, you get to choose.
It was early 2020. Bought some stuff, made some adverts, saw how the interface works on FB, saw how Shopify works, watched orders coming in and get fulfilled.

I still don't really know how to do any of those things properly but it was clear that someone out there was clicking on ads and buying stuff from me.
Not exactly the question, but disabling my doorbell and my answering machine. Absolutely not joking. My life has improved so greatly. I am not a thrall to the interrupting whims of others.
The author seems to make a point of minimizing the crime of trying to commit arson with fire bombs because the perpetrators weren’t successful in burning the building down as a rational for why this was somehow an over reach. Seems like a nutty argument.
I feel like I’ve hit something really special with Bazel, but there’s almost no ecosystem around it.

Im trying to use it for game development, the model fits so perfectly for large monorepo projects with explicit dependencies, but it seems like since there’s no ecosystem that I have to write a lot of my own rules from scratch; and the learning resources are many years old and in the conference format. It’s quite dense to get in.

Even the slack requires an @google.com email to get in.