skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Side note: plancentas are so valuable that physicians - especially in Europe - sometimes prefer to take them for themselves to sell to cosmetics research for ~$50k

What is the reason that some placental material can’t be sold to completely cover, or just defray, the storage costs?
They did do this based on a grant from the Star Slate Codex guy
That's actually not true. If we use solar energy, we are reducing the albedo of the earth, thereby introducing more energy than otherwise.

As far as wind, you are correct, but the amount of wind energy we can harvest is limited enough that there simply won't be enough at that point assuming that trend.

Similarly with wood, at that point we would just run out of wood.
That's easy to say, but I don't see a lot of evidence for the statement, in general. Minimal, designer-y products like this I tend to see used by productive creative directors and the like. More complicated tools like planners or OmniFocus seem to be preferred by people advancing or tracking many small projects. What made you say that other than disdain for the product?
Switching to a trackball saved my wrist. It took about a week to get as good with it as I was with a mouse
This person sounds absolutely insane going on about GDP lost to people enjoying themselves. That said Factorio is much more psychopathic than GTA has ever been
So they have anti-laser-surveillance devices but let the friend of the head of security pay social calls?

Mmm hmm, okay.
Everybody loves to credit Spolsky but you yourself know that it was in goog econsultant Hal Varian’s Information Rules (1999)..

Way to doxx somebody tholol

[?]https://www.gwern.net/Complement
How could there be fakes and plagiarism with NFTs? Isn't that the very problem it's supposed to be solving?
What kind of kick backs do you offer doctors?

My partner’s obg will gladly market the highest bidder’s box until this space gets regulated.
One thing this makes me think of is "Oracles" that could potentially decide a market. Someone could write an oracle, and open source the code, and MM could then run the oracle for the lifetime of the market.

The oracle would be responsible for resolving the bet and would turn an ambiguous statement into a well defined one. i.e. What you are betting on, ultimately, is how the linked oracle will resolve the bet, and everyone can see the code.

The first bet I see is about Russia invading Ukraine. We could have an oracle that checks Wikipedia's list of Russian military engagements every day and if there is a new one in Ukraine and it stays for five days that might be a sign. Another sign might be scraping New York Times headlines for a list of terms you might expect to see in an invasion. Maybe there's a website tracking Russian troop deployments, or Russian flagged planes and ships and those could become signals. Then, the oracle collects and judges based on its signals.
The original is a masterpiece, but I wonder how much I’m reminiscing. Sean Young and Rutger Hauer we’re fantastic, though, so I do think there is something timeless about it. I have watched 2049 a couple of times now and still don’t see what everyone else sees as great about it. I’m willing to keep trying though.
There's only so many scripts/stories you can tell. With the ability to access all filmed media at your fingertips, you can watch Star Wars from 1977 any time you want, you couldn't watch old buck rogers serials whenever you wanted in 1977 so when George Lucas modernized them it blew your mind.
Her work isn’t suppressed. It’s just not popular. People prefer to believe pretty lies. She received a major award from her professional society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Rich_Harris

> In 1994 she formulated a new theory of child development, focusing on the peer group rather than the family. This formed the basis for a 1995 article in the Psychological Review,[7] which received the American Psychological Association's George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article in General Psychology.[8]

Is it dangerous to claim that parents have no power at all (other than genetic) to shape their child's personality, intelligence, or the way he or she behaves outside the family home? ... A confession: When I first made this proposal ten years ago, I didn't fully believe it myself. I took an extreme position, the null hypothesis of zero parental influence, for the sake of scientific clarity. ... The establishment's failure to shoot me down has been nothing short of astonishing.
Judith Rich Harris, 2006.[9]
My claim? My post said - what are the odds all of these old accounts appeared out of the blue to post their first comment here? If you are taking that question as a personal insult, I'm sorry you feel that way.
Don't worry, manufacture tinfoil hats okay?
It's not "in any way" but "in any way we care about" - people love optimizations like -ffast-math that are not well founded.
There is a difference between government contracts and subsidies.

And he multiple time argued against subsidies that Tesla would benefit from more then anybody else.
> They're not designed to stop electronic stalking at all costs; I can't really find a way to do that without extremely authoritarian measures.

It boils down to the age old question about why make regulations that only ever effect people who are law abiding to begin with. Which isn't an argument against all regulation, but more of a question about what regulation actually hits the desired goal.

Right now any actually nefarious stalker will just get the $25 GPS tracker, put a decent battery on it, and stick it to the bottom of the car. They're not going to use an AirTag that is easily traced back to them and stands a good chance of notifying their target of the tracking. The kinds of stalkers who use AirTags are the low effort losers.
That's great to hear! That situation is more common than people might think. My script is based on 10 years of helping people set up a proper dev environment on a Mac, and I've seen pretty much every error and scenario so far.

And the main reason to use the script is to save time, which is our most valuable and limited resource. The Prime version installs a lot more than just Ruby. You can set up a new Mac with all your favorite dev tools and Mac apps.

Imagine a growing company that builds Rails apps. What would be more efficient? To have every new engineer set up their machine manually on their own, or have them run a script that installs everything they would need?
The difference is that Ice-Nine turns all water into Ice-Nine. Whereas more javascript projects doesn't mean fewer not-javascript projects (except inasmuch as people who like javascript are busy doing javascript things instead of other things).
Also the title of an entertaining non-canon Holmes book and movie, both written by Nicholas Meyer of Star Trek II/VI/uncredited IV fame.
I'll pile on another common application of eigenvectors and values that hasn't been mentioned: principal component analysis in statistics/machine learning.
You don't have to use it. That's how I feel about Facebook and yet it still exists.
Shakespeare was famous for writing to appeal to groundlings and royalty alike. It isn't impossible but it is more challenging and requires either good layering or knowledge to "compress losslessy" complex concepts.

One solution for actual expertise is to manage to be the proper sort of edutainment. One which not only can teach the concepts while being enjoyable and not overtly "textbook" but doesn't become a matter of repeating what is already obvious and known. Sort of a "useful in theory but too hard in practice" idea.
I'm 34 and hadn't seen either of them until about two years ago. Fell in love with the original (well, the Final Cut) immediately. I watched 2049 shortly thereafter and, while I'm normally a, "Fuck remakes/sequels/franchises" curmudgeon, I actually thought it was pretty damn good.

Now, do I think it needed a sequel? No.
Eagle App - Local Bookmark Manager
I’m liking Raised by Wolves, but the birth kind of was a let down. I’m thinking there is way more to it so I’m holding on to hope.

I also liked the Alien prequels. They weren’t as good as the original, but I thought they were still interesting enough. I loved the old ship with the pilot in Prometheus, but I feel like it wasn’t finished either and there could have been more.
I was there when it was built
Almost all the smarts are in the proxy. If you have a typical web based app integration is easy, not some impossible mandate.
The flashbacks to the original were extremely lame. And I didn't love the story. But visually it was great, it's packed with really compelling images.

Highly superior to Dune which has a boring plot and mostly lacks compelling images. Seriously, where were the guild steersmen? The dragonfly vessels were okay but do you even remember a spaceship from Dune? Stellan Skarsgard was unrecognizable and boring in the villain role. Plus the fight scenes were horrible.
> Over time, as requirements drift, how do they even know their stuff is way off of being a reasonable solution?

CS doesn’t even start to scratch the surface of reasonable solutions though. CS programs don’t teach you anything about architecture, technical debt, testing, source control, bug tracking, etc.
The Astronaut Office pushed strongly against an autoland capability for Shuttle.
> Keeping dependencies to a realistic minimum is a very pragmatic and robust decision.

For libraries and frameworks, agree completely. But for LOB software, do what you have to do.
Is there something like this but in the browser?
I don't have this thing, but didn't he tell you the answer to your question? It's nicer looking and more pleasant to use than cheap cards and stands. It's a frustrating answer, because how can you rebut except say, "I don't value that," but it's at least straight-forward...
The Inverse Relationship of Quality and Quantity of Candidates in Hiring FUNNELs
A charitable interpretation is that it’s an attempt to continue the spectacular growth of labor efficiency that has lifted large sections of the world out of poverty. Doesn’t change that it’s rather silly to constantly think of individual actions’ effect on a macroeconomic measure.
Don't hide where you're from.

(Taiwan, ROC, for those wondering)
> By that measuring stick, you must have a really bad opinion of the USA because they are what they are from conquering most of their territories and exterminating its native population

There have been large movements in the USA directed exactly at this multiple times over the last 3 decades. How would this be remarkable at all if the grandparent felt that way?
Minor typo in https://lobste.rs/
What would you say are some examples where you look back what the state was 15 years ago vs the progress we made till the present and the jump would seem just as profound. Just curious.

I felt the same way - it seemed like the early 20th century made so much progress with those visionaries compared what what is being made now. Obviously I am not well informed because that is likely not the case.
> I knew the dog had it but there was some comment made about our walk. Monitoring by proxy.

What does this even mean?? Your partner commented on it??
The steam reviews are mixed, compared to overwhelmingly positive for L4D2. It's also Windows exclusive with Easy Anti-Cheat so it can't run on Linux. (It's a coop game, who cares about cheating there??)
There's no particular reason to believe the singularity in the math describing black holes has physical existence. Lots of equations have singularities and usually it just means that you're using them outside the domain in which they're defined.

Maybe some heretofore unknown force kicks in and keeps the material inside the black hole from forming a singularity. Maybe they're actually fuzzballs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzball_(string_theory)

You don't really have to have a fully worked-out explanation of why the black hole singularities aren't physical- nobody can see inside the black hole, so all we can say is that the existence of black holes is consistent with there being a physical singularity in the middle. But really anything could be happening in there, we just don't know. The singularity the GR predicts is arguably evidence against GR holding at the center of the black hole; there's very probably something else going on.
They've recently launched a Clubhouse clone and monetisation features
I haven't played it, but this video gives the impression that it is much less polished in comparison to its predecessors. However it could just be nitpicking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdRLNUGmFC8
Didn't know it existed you just made my weekend.
Relatedly, I was recently horrified to learn that not only will Excel (and LibreOffice Calc) automatically parse formulas in plain CSV files, but there is also a formula that will _run external programs_.
Already there. I've said that to my wife before when she asks where I'm at. "You could have just, you know, looked..."
That is of course not what the article says.
I think HashiCorp is made fairly redundant by Kubernetes, but yes if you don't want to adopt Kubernetes, you're correct. And that’s totally valid.

Kubernetes is already multicloud, and you don't need Terraform, Nomad, or Consul if you're using k8s. I would argue Vault is the exception.
Holden : The sequel lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to get studio funding, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

Leon : [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping?

Holden : I mean: you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?

[Leon has become visibly shaken]

Holden : They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?
I've used this in whatsapp so much. You can set it to 15 minutes, 1 hour, or 8 hours. Great way to meet up with someone, for Carnival me and some friends used to share our location in a group chat, so we could find each other if we wanted to, without the risk of accidentally forgetting to remove the location sharing, and having to constantly check our phones to respond to messages of people asking where we are.
From Meddler to Minding My Own Business
My experience doing a huge number of MOOCs at Ivys or equivalent level CS programs is that the programming assignments are no harder than other good CS programs, but I assume the grading is more competitive. For example most OS courses make you write a memory allocator, which isn’t easy anywhere but maybe you have to optimize more at Ivies vs just making it work. That said I’ve noticed MIT expects a higher math level than anywhere else, and Stanford leans toward a kindler gentler approach, at least its MOOCs, vs the East coast competitiveness.
I don't think this person has anything to do with the prediction website, just a drive-by commenter.
Curious to hear Hacker News impressions on this app. Some people use it as a local bookmark manager.

Here is a quote from someone (not me):

"On pc however i got so fond and reliant on Eagle ive been grabing it all through it.
It wasnt made for selecting text to save or article saving, focused on images and bookmarks (its my local/personal pocket, bookmark manager etc)
But if you dont mind spending more disk space for saving text it can grab screenshots of any area of the screen to full website scrolls"
One nice thing about getting feedback is learning all of the additional stuff I should have included in the blog post. I did look at number of articles per year, and it fluctuates, but there isn't a huge change across the century, and the change goes up and down. Total words, on the other hand, does trend up and goes up faster more recently.
You can. There's a focus on verbosity that's hiding the core of "many googlers only have one device!". I don't understand what the authors getting at though, its a non-issue at Google and they should know that? Trivially, let's say that a clear workaround is having a help desk for this situation that doesn't require device trust
Yeah, the last quarter or last third of Season 1 was a drop in story quality. But Season 2 has picked up and gotten good again.

One thing I'm enjoying, unlike in 90s sci fi, is when the characters call out obvious threats and take them as a given, like "that creature has probably been brain chipped and given as a tool to track you".

Indeed, there is no free lunch in dystopia land, whereas 90s sci fi would have the otherwise smart characters be incredibly dumb in situations like this.
https://archive.is/KMMX7
As Cosmo magazine is to sex ed.
Wow, you replied to this post almost instantly.

I actually didn't know this was a Taiwan App. Anything wrong with that?
The part about device-bound credentials, TPMs, secure boot, and remote attestation is DRM. One of the biggest real world deployments of those technologies is the XBox.
I think he meant sesquipedalian synonyms.
Could be interesting for the real estate sector
A poison that only works against a person with specific genes. Hopefully still science fiction today but probably feasible in near future.
And here it's directly mentioned in the guidelines of how 'Show HN' should work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Please don't ask friends to upvote or comment. That's not ok on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#ring

> Can I ask people to upvote my submission?

> No. Users should vote for a story because they personally find it intellectually interesting, not because someone has content to promote. We penalize or ban submissions, accounts, and sites that break this rule, so please don't.

> Can I ask people to comment on my submission?

> No, for the same reason. It's also not in your interest: HN readers are sensitive to this and will detect it, flag it, and use unkind words like 'spam'.
What are some ways to make Core War a deeper game? Like to reward more complex warriors, and move away from the rock-paper-scissors equilibria. Sort of like how there's that Wikipedia compression contest that includes the compression algorithm's length in the score to prevent gaming it.
"I don't agree: the issue was less the monarchs and more the democrats."

...A late footnote.

Again, I'm not in total disagreement with this position. However, I would point out that argument over this matter has never fully settled since since the outbreak of the War. From my perspective, the most researched and still the most authoritative reference on this matter is A.J.P Taylor's 1954 book The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Struggle_for_Mastery_in_Eu....

Later, in 1961, Taylor augments this earlier history with his equally famous and controversial book (as you'll note from the link): The Origins of the Second World War, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_the_Second_Worl.... (The fact that Taylor's account is controversial is testament to the fact that there is still considerable disagreement over the origins of both World Wars. The Wiki link provides a lively commentary on that debate and it's well worth reading.)

Anyway, it seems to me that to get a good appreciation of this history one should study both books.
"An intern"

So this is a speculative side project that isn't integrated into the main flow of work going on at Waymo. That suggests to me that there isn't anything as technical and forward thinking as this going on in the core teams. If they did they would show it off because clearly anything flashy they are quite eager to show off.

They appear to be building trains with wheels, pretty uninspiring.
It’s not really a surprise if you’re familiar with the area. Workers commuting from the Central Valley, which would be a good chunk of those at the Fremont plant, can be incredibly racist.
As others have said, the usage of similar words is no convincing evidence for homogenized ideas. I would like to add that the publication referred to in the article notes that there are many more proposals now than there were in the past.

This can naturally lead to lower average "distances" between proposals. In a simplistic example, lets assume 100 proposals existed in the "good old times" and they were different at random. Let's further assume in the "bad new days" people use those old ideas, change/improve upon them just slightly ("add noise"), but some old ideas are less often picked up than others. Say for example the least attractive old proposal is picked up twice, whereas the most attractive old idea is picked up and changed in 100 new proposals. Then, there is a lower average distance between proposals, all the while the total range of ideas has increased.

Because it's Friday and I am waiting for my oven to finish cooking my food, I wrote a small simulation. It's probably full of mistakes and I may have made terrible mistakes in my assumptions, but I thought it's fun:

https://imgur.com/wu232rP
Yes. It had a much, much better system of military organization than any rivals in the legion. It was radically better at incorporating its conquests politically. That’s what “friends and allies of Rome” was. Its system of laws was probably also a real source of comparative advantage or there wouldn’t still be many countries using direct lineal descendants of it.
The TikTok buildup: Videos reveal Russian forces closing in on Ukraine
https://archive.is/wip/5KJww
See, this is my problem, because it should be self-evident just from their output, no matter who the vendor targets are, that they're improving security across the industry as a whole. It shouldn't even be a question.
Crypto Lender BlockFi to Pay $100M in Settlement with SEC, States
Waning 2-Dose and 3-Dose Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccines Against Covid-19
"Still, your face is young, as we feel our weight return..."

Incredible song. I stumbled across it when I decided to try The Long Winters after hearing John Roderick on a podcast. Even after several listens it's capable of producing chills and tears, when it lines up with my mood.

John talked about making the song on Song Exploder as well; it is one of my favorite episodes. https://songexploder.net/the-long-winters
Star Wars was borrowing heavily from Seven Samurai not just western films. Thus swords vs blasters works the same way swords vs arrows do in those films etc.

There are basically infinite ways to remix old stories like that. Hell even just the editing significantly improved Star Wars over the original script.
A collection of stuff about security
There isn't a chemical distinction that separates alcohol from other drugs, only social constructs.
Nope, there's no law that says you can't do independent vulnerability research.
If the 31% figure turns out to be relatively accurate, that's not very durable.

> VE after 3 doses declined to 66% among those vaccinated 4–5 months earlier and 31% among those vaccinated ≥5 months earlier, although the latter estimate is imprecise because few data were available on persons vaccinated for ≥5 months after a third dose. The decreasing trend of VE with increasing time since vaccination was significant (p<0.001)
I tried something like that for 3-digit multiplication with GPT-3 in another comment[1], successfully. You have to lay things out different manner than you did here, because GPT-*s have no sense of layout on a page; their byte-pair encoding destroys their ability to learn it efficiently. Further, transformers are optimized to look for things via similarity, because that's what typically occurs in text, so you're better off writing out things it can anchor off of.

There are ways to fix these issues, but BPEs micro-optimize for the primary text benchmarks that papers want good scores on so those are standard for now. I'm sure they'll get replaced eventually, once the costs outrun the wins and more scalable (alternatives to?) transformers become popular.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30309302