skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so close to the truth it hurts.

When you think about it, banks simply agree to transact with each other and thereby offer a payment network. When you have a Chase bank account what your balance is showing is how many "Chase dollars" Chase is owing you. Those dollars can be redeemed 1:1 for physical dollars.

>If the total outstanding coins isn't fully backed by real USD, then that bank will eventually run.

Well, the way banks operate they also only need to keep a fraction of their deposits liquid and immediately withdrawable. However, there is one big difference here. The Fed is actually the one providing the inter bank payment infrastructure with so called bank reserves which can only be held on servers owned by the Fed. A lot of the QE stuff is just there to make treasuries as liquid as deposits. It's not money printing. It's more like lending liquid money in bank accounts that isn't locked up via a certificate of deposit.

The big problem that Tether and so on have is that the central bank isn't on their side. So the only safe investment is just plain dollars. Running an unregulated bank is going to backfire at some point.
The duration of edibles can be trying, even for experienced smokers. I can’t eat edibles after 5 PM on a weekday or I’m still high when I wake up.
Scams are getting more and more sophisticated. We've always known that when you write a playbook, sooner or later the red team will find holes in that playbook. Perhaps that's where ML/AI comes in, since you can train them, but you never really understands what they really "learnt" from that training (/s sort-of, but the famous amazing snow/husky classifier always comes to mind)

Personally, I've received such calls before, and the first thing I'd ask for is a case number, and that I would call the support number printed on my credit card, to get back to them. Of course, if someone co-opts that number, then I'm also SOL, but I'd imagine then this would be engineering on a larger scale, rather than a specifically targeted whaling attempt.
Is there any measure San Francisco is improving on?
One would think if it's such an obvious failure it wouldn't need to be banned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
The Russian forces there didn't have dosimeters. And the Red Forest is really where the stuff was falling right out of the reactor.

I think even just undisturbed background level there is about several milli-R/hr. So, in a month you'd get several Roentgen. From some sources - the levels once disturbed would shoot to the scale of 100-200 milli-R/hr. That is 100-200 R/month. Those level do produce ARS with some deaths.
Trial finds Ivermectin useless against Covid
I also have several levels of "relevance"

First, if I listed everything in my ~28 year career in the same industry but with a huge spectrum of companies and skills used... my full resume would be a lot of pages.

I tried a one page with super dense, small font...

I tried a one page with larger font, recent 2 job details and bullet summaries for the other companies.

I have yet to find the right balance.

As at some point certain positions dont matter, even if in the same field (for example I dont necessarily put my IT management of token ring networks from the 90s down...)

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HOWEVER: My BIGGEST piece of 'resume' advice -- is keep a job/project portfolio book.

i.e. -- I worked on some of the biggest tech physical builds in SV over the last 25 years. Huge construction, datacenter, hospital builds, FAANG HQ builds.. etc.

My biggest regret; not keeping a detailed portfolio book of said work with pics and details and schedules I built.

(obv non NDA stuff, so save your comments)

But keep records! Think of an interview of a audit of sorts.. :-)
Teledildonics has and always will drive innovation and technology.
In fairness wouldn't this be controlled by simply providing more information about the consumable amount or creating lower dose edibles?

It feels like these anecdotes, while very real, would equate to an unfathomable amount of smoking and so there needs to be more information to allow a consumer to understand the amount they should consume bc their body isn't physically restricting them
The wonks at 538 seem to be of the opinion that the "Rally around the flag" effect is significantly dependent on the opposition party refraining from criticizing the leader(s) in question, at least in the medium-to-long term.
Fusion is in the same kind of boat. It might be 20 years out, it could be 50, and perhaps we'll never have commercially viable fusion reactors or AGI for whatever reasons.
I died. Too funny.
Good idea with "soft dependencies". You'd also need to make the go.mod RequireSpec version argument [1] optional so it can be overridden by the module group.

require example.com/my-module-group 1.2.3
require example.com/some/module // selects minimum version specified by my-module-group

[1]: https://go.dev/ref/mod#go-mod-file-require

I also noticed Workspaces [2] which I hadn't seen before. They look interesting, but appear to exist for a different purpose. Maybe workspaces with a bunch of replace directives & some cli tooling could emulate a system like what is described here.

[2]: https://go.dev/ref/mod#workspaces
At least one question has its figures wrong. It asks which is heavier, Space Shuttle or 747, and goes on to say that the Shuttle weighs 2 million kg. But that is not just the shuttle: “The stack, as the composite of orbiter, tank and boosters is called, has a gross liftoff weight of 2000 tonnes” (which I presume includes liftoff weight of fuel as well).

Edit: perhaps it was just luck that it compared a 747 with the Space Shuttle, since that is something we know how to compare due to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Carrier_Aircraft

Fun! Thank you, last_one_in. @last_one_in, it was not obvious to me at first that you were the author - adding that to some comments would have helped me!
Honestly this reads as painfully naive. Maybe you’ve never worked with radio communications before in which case I definitely give you the benefit of the doubt for not knowing this:

But wifi (just like other radio tech like 4G) has limited capacity, and that capacity is shared across all radio systems- this sounds obvious but when you realise how few devices can be talking simultaneously you will understand what an absolute pain this is.

Most of the huge gains in wifi technology (and 3g-4g) is not just making assumptions about what a signal is based on the leading and trailing edge of the wave of the transmission: mostly it’s about collision detection algorithms.

Collision detection, by necessity, adds undeterminable latency to your connection, it’s literally how it works.

So taking calls over wifi in a room full of people using wifi: you’re going to have a bad time. Worse: that room full of people is not _just_ that room full of people. Wifi works in 3 dimensions, you’ll be competing with your upstairs and downstairs neighbours too.
> whatever you decide is the right number of software applications

You hit right on the nail, so I don't generally disagree with you.
This is how business works, there is no number! Consumerism works the same kind of way.

[Shifted-goal] Also I don't want to stop or reduce it either, I just want more quality of software, not some VC-pipedream-hype driven software.
> Yudkowsky doesn't strike me as a crank. Why do you say that?

He is a minor internet celebrity whose only claim to fame is writing fanfiction about AI, the whole "rationality" cult, and is a self-proclaimed expert on matters where he shows no achievements (like AI) while making unsupported doomsday predictions about evil AI, the Singularity, etc. Also, that deal with Roko's Basilisk that he now wishes never occurred (oh, yes, "it was a joke").

Mostly, someone with no studies and no achievements making wild doomsday predictions. Doesn't that strike you as a crank?

An analogy would be if I made wild assertions about the physics of the universe without having studied physics, without any lab work, without engaging in discussion with qualified experts, with no peer reviews, and all I presented as evidence of my revolutionary findings about the universe was some fanfiction in my blog. Oh, and I created the Extraordinary Physics Institute.
Open source, cross platform Apple Music client
> It would be nice if there was a fairly stable kernel API (or ABI) so drivers like this didn't have to be in the kernel.

Why? We want as many drivers as possible to be in the kernel.
I have my domain name with Google Domains so I am using their email forwarding service to forward my existing email addresses to normal gmail accounts, and then using gmails alias feature for sending mail as my original domain email address.

Works OK and is free (apart from the domain registration fees). Google Domains allows you to have 100 different email addresses forwarded, so all my family can use the same domain
This is very uncharitable. He’s a prolific neopositivist-ish philosopher with a distinct voice. He’s a good decision theorist. He doesn’t publish much himself, but he directly mentors, advises, and collaborates with people who do.
If you overwrite or ignore your variables you're going to have a bad time. Period. That's not unique to errors. I'm not sure you've said anything to convince us that making mistakes around errors alone is anything more than theoretical.

Beyond defining an interface named error (early versions didn't even offer that), Go does not have a concept of errors, so I'm not sure it is even possible for there to be a problem specific to errors. Certainly Go could do more to help you with correctness in general.
I understand your meaning, but that link supports my claims. The package path helps the Go tool infer the actual URL, but it doesn't contain the URL itself (e.g., the actual URL has a scheme/protocol component and potentially a `go-get=1` query string argument which don't exist as part of the path). This is what I meant when I said it "sort-of resembles a URL", but I understand from this conversation how that wording wasn't clear.
> This can certainly exist on a theoretical thought experiment level but not in a physical world which has finite resources.

At some point, energy density would increase to the point where you’d cause an actual singularity via gravitational collapse.
There's something that I like about the writing style. I can't put my finger on it. "Sober," maybe.
Oh hooray! I'm so glad to see more docs - I will check it out again now.
I agree that it would be nice for NPM to show the total footprint of a module, especially if that provides some social incentive to reduce the dependency count.
It's a great trick especially when it would otherwise side around on a desk. No reason to waste real valuable materials when random trash will do.
So I don't think a single person is to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic. I think it was bad (and maybe even happened at all!) because of a systemic failure of the scientific medical community. Now, if you believed a single person or a small group of persons where to blame for it, you don't think they should be executed? I think it's a valid position to have. It's not mine, but I wouldn't censor it or call it contentious. I'm willing to personally kill someone for way less than that. I just don't think the someone to blame for the pandemic exists, but if I did yeah I would think they deserve to die.
Nick Bostrom is a professional philosopher who has also thought a lot about AGI and simulation scenarios. But just because educated, smart people can think a lot about something doesn't it mean it will necessarily happen. I'm sure there's quite a few people who have thought at length about warp drives and wormholes. That doesn't mean we'll ever be able to make use of them.
Surely the problem was not the edibles if sleeping in 90 degree weather paralyzed you? I've sweated large amounts in my sleep, especially while sick, never have I considered I could sweat out enough potassium to paralyze me. Were you eating fine?
> There's simply nothing here in Europe that gets even close to what Amazon offers.

I strongly prefer bol.com. No idea if they ship abroad, though.
Yeah I just found the game to almost be intentionally obtuse. For context, I had never played any of the previous games in the series and I think they are probably the "required reading" before this one because I found that the UI and intro stage offered pretty much no explanation on what to do or how the fighting mechanics worked. But then it seems most of the players praise it for being so vague and minimal..
A lot has changed in the last 20 years. What would be the public reaction back then if Bush was making phone calls to Osama asking for dirt on his opponent in the 2004 election?
Which is excellent advice - and unless you're both a lawyer, and familiar with the conventions of this particular bit of law, you probably shouldn't make any assumptions about what should, and should not be written in this kind of indictment.

Because you don't have knowledge of the subject.

The subject at hand being the law.
At least in California, the stuff (especially gummies) you get from the dispensaries is in well controlled doses. Once you find your tolerance levels for a specific brand (through experimentation with smaller amounts) it is easy to just eat half of one, know you're getting X mg of THC and use that as a baseline. Then you just keep buying the same thing and even with different brands, you still have that X mg baseline to go from.
The point of the singularity isn't that technological growth will accelerate to cause some inevitable future, but that the rate of change will get so high, that 'minor' differences between how two technologies progress would lead to drastically different settings for your science fiction stories (which was Vinge's focus).
this sounds neat on paper but once your game is beyond a sufficient complexity threshold this quickly becomes untenable.
Lol that's all the big tech companies in a nutshell, except generally they built them for their own moneymakers and them made them a SaaS after
Maybe replace "blame" with "responsible for", it has the same meaning but has less finger pointing/negative connotation associated with it.
The last 3 companies I have worked at over the last 10 years all have wired connections in every office / cubicle as well as 3 separate WiFi networks.

Wifi 1 is for if you disconnect your laptop from ethernet then it automatically connects to the internal corporate WiFi network. This is great if you go to a conference room and need to access to your remote desktop session in the compute cluster.

Wifi 2 is for employees personal devices like mobile phones and is outside of the corporate network with no access to confidential data

Wifi 3 is for guests and vendors who need network access for a demonstration etc.
Hell, I'd wish there'd be some zero-knowledge proof protocol that can be performed with a pen and paper over a phone call. You know, like Dining Cryptographers or Solitaire cipher. Maybe there is something, but I'm not a cryptographer and not aware about it.

Though, of course, it's completely unrealistic to expect that some bank person would agree to do some weirdo math tricks with SSN numbers :)
I think knocking a person's beliefs because of their age, rather than entertaining the content based on merit, is narrow-minded. What about all the 19 year olds who were already accomplishing lots more than the people castigating them? Do you equally brush off 40 year olds for their supposed entrenched outlook?
> I answered, the guy said he was calling from Wells Fargo's Fraud Prevention Department, calling to verify some transactions. He verified my name, he had the last four digits of my debit card number, and everything generally seemed to follow the normal script of a transaction verification call.

No legitimate bank would do this. They say "call the number on your card, and mention reference # NNNNN"

Wells Fargo is a criminal organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_scan... so there's no reason to assume an impostor would be worse.
No way for you to prevent it. They could though. In college we exhaled into paper towel tubes filled with toilet paper. It's incredibly effective.
The search engine that indexes only “clean” tech-related pages
"Disk Inventory X" is free, linked from the windirstat site.

Great program, however not on the appstore, and possibly does not work with latest versions of MacOS.
Engineering this virus intentionally for research purposes and releasing it on purpose are very different things. If we still haven’t demonstrated the former conclusively why are we even discussing what the consequences should be for the latter?
I think the closest I've ever seen is Dart's Flutter and Jetbrain's new Compose UI[0]

[0]: https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/blob/master/tutorial...
How can one turn the sinking, horrified feeling when one loses a love into a function? Or describe in terms of a function, the blissful wonder of being in the arms of a lover? An issue I have is the that there seem to be profound limitations to language, explored in the philosophy of language, that fail to capture much, if not most, of the world. Functionalist models of mind and behaviour seem extremely limited, as our subjective ontology doesn't seem to reduce to functional outputs.

You also say that an AI would rapidly consume the whole of human knowledge. For me, the totality of human knowledge would become a mass of contradictory statements, with little to choose between them on a linguistic level.

There are, for me, profound philosophical issues with creating a mind that is "conscious" in the sense that an AGI is implied to be, as a purely symbolic logical construction. Language is the only tool we have for programming a mind, and yet the mind cannot be completely described in language, nor can language seem to properly encompass whatever the fundamental ontology of reality involves. I don't feel there will be a "free lunch" where we advance computer science to the point where we get an explosion of the kind AI1 designs a better AI2, which designs an even better AI3, and so on. This seems to have a perpetual motion feeling to it, rather than one of evolution. It isn't to say AGI is impossible, but I believe that like everything else in computer science it will have to be solved pragmatically, and realising this could be an extremely long way off.
The senior officers who ordered/planned do know it. It illustrates one of the main point of Russian army - nobody cares about the soldiers' health and lives. A Russian officer losing a tank or a drone would get a new one teared. Losing a half of your platoon/battalion may even get you a medal.

To the comment below: "cohesion and morale" isn't exactly how Russian army works. I can only suggest talking over a beer with a closest Russian you may have around who has served :)

Btw, just saw a video which, while a different situation, in its abnormality reaches the levels of the original post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2_J7c6dLHM
My workstation doesn't have a WiFi adapter, and I'm glad. It's gigabit ethernet plugged straight into the cable modem. I'm happy to keep tinkering away, even watching videos and such on my laptop, but a big black tower with a keyboard is a holy thing that needs a big pipe jacked into the wall, and you can't convince me otherwise :)
Most people who think about stuff don’t leave a mountain of highly organized and entertaining essays for posterity.
Rust for Linux is not landed, and so you can't write Linux drivers in Rust even on Linux Next (the git branch where in-progress work lives before Linus might ship it in an actual Linux kernel)

It's probably of the order of a year out.
You’re 19? You should be more worried about how to survive the oncoming ecological holocaust instead of the singularity. One is much likelier than the other. I believe even an ML algo would come to the same conclusion
What a take. So from your perspective, the developing world that has largely skipped wired connections for their connectivity is all doing 'toy' stuff, not real work? There are literally billions of people with Wifi/Cell but no wired connection, you're just going to write them off as never having what it takes to do SeriousBusiness (tm)?

That you're privileged enough to consider, even emotionally, the majority of the world's connections as 'toys' is something you should recognize. Way more SeriousBusiness happens on Wifi/Cell than I think you expect, and writing off that large (and growing) group is honestly ridiculous.

On the other end of the spectrum, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk, etc, did/do so much of their work on Wifi/Cell only that it seems insane to think that they are just doing 'toy' stuff as well.

I was on a plane about 10 years ago working on a global network of barometers for weather forecasting research using phones as sensors, and the flight attendant told me rudely to 'put away my toys now'. I've been upset at this ever since, so I'm sorry if this comes off as rude too, but honestly, wtf. I'm working on real stuff, nothing to do with 'toys', as are so many people.

Belittling the Wifi/Cell revolution is a mistake IMO.
The open source driver doesn’t work correctly. I use Clear Linux which follows a stateless design, similar to NixOS or Guix. However I had to install the proprietary driver as the color profile for my monitor was setup incorrectly, and the DE (Gnome) would crash/freeze.
Well. Not directly. But same outcome. No actual conspiracy or collusion necessary.

Amazon profits so much that they're content to eat the rampant fraud and waste, than to run a proper legit market place.
Fair. Strictly speaking it doesn't even "contain" a URL. But I think in the context of this conversation it acts like a URL -- it allows the Go tooling to fetch code from an arbitrary domain and path on the internet.
Leaked document indicates Facebook may be underreporting images of child abuse
I bought a giant spool of Cat-6 cable and now I run around like Johnny Ethernet-seed upgrading my friends' internet.

For most homes, you know exactly where your datahogs are going to be - computer desk, smart tv, consoles, etc. People are addicted to the convenience of running everything through the air, but an hour in a crawlspace and you've got something faster and more reliable.
There is: https://jami.net/

However mobile messaging apps have trouble maintaining even a single TCP connection (even with optimizations like XEP-0352).
why does this happen? Our technology is magnitudes more advanced, we have better preexisting infrastructure, materials, measuring equipment, yet the nation with the world's most powerful economy doesn't hold a candle to it's past achievements.
Mining the ‘Depths of Wikipedia’ on Instagram
Sorry, I should have specified that it’s in work unrelated to RTK. I was just curious if the bugs we encounter are the same ones.

Unfortunately the circularity issues that are closely tracked in the TypeScript repo don’t seem to be making much progress, and in some cases, it seems like TS is fundamentally incapable of working with circular references in some contexts.

Like I was saying though, I find it hard to tell at times if I’m running into real limitations of the type system or I’m short a few IQ points, haha.
I recently read a book that was basically a diary of a businessman from the great depression with some commentary.

It seems like there were two big problems that we have done a good job avoiding since then.

#1. Way too many people were rich on paper and with margin.

#2. Once the economy started to collapse everyone panicked and tried to avoid spending money, which causes a negative feedback cycle.

2008 was similar to issue 1, but we avoided step 2 by bailing out the banks and auto companies that should have collapsed.
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2022 Bay Area Council Poll Registers Big Jump in Concerns about Crime and Safety