skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the big picture, $800k/year is not that much. It's good by any standard, but there are younger people pocketing more money by running a snack factory.

Money is a tool to achieve your goals, but should not be the goal in the first place. Once you have a certain amount of money, your goals and identity tend to revolve around that money.

There are plenty of other goals to achieve - creating works of art, making lives better, physical accomplishments (winning a sports medal/Ironman/climbing a mountain). At a certain level of wealth, you tend to add traveling, eating at Michelin restaurants, buying cool stuff... but you should check whether that's what truly makes you fulfilled or is it just the low hanging fruit?

Personally, I like to climb the skill tree, just building stuff better/faster/cheaper. I always admired people who could build stuff well. I somehow don't feel that Silicon Valley is the path to doing that -- you're just likely to end up spending your days dealing with PRs and building features around some focus group rather than listening to what users really want.
Did you read the wikipedia article or just fishing for upvotes?

Can you explain why the so called polisario has a strogner claim over western sahara versus morocco?

Do you know anything about Moroccan history and territory before the colonial interference of the Spanish and French?
My guess is that this will more popularly be used online or in metaverse like facial make up is used in real life, i.e., not as a motivator for exercising but just to put on a virtual body shape.

And see the irony -- The media and advertising industry is sometimes manipulating the real photos in similar ways [1], resulting partially an artificial social perception of what's a beautiful body.

[1] E.g., https://www.hindustantimes.com/photos/lifestyle/ileana-d-cru... (Good that this particular celebrity has finally backtracked.)
Hi, and thanks for your comment!
(one of the authors of Spin here.)

First, both Spin and the component model are in their early stages, but there are a few things I'd mention here:

- as you correctly pointed out, all "trigger" interfaces are based on WIT (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wit-bindgen/blob/main/WI...), the new WebAssembly interface format, so a) building a WebAssembly binary that implements a trigger interface can be done pretty easily in languages with bindgen support, and b) extending Spin with a new trigger type can also be done by starting with the WIT interface (really early on this topic, but here's an example — https://spin.fermyon.dev/extending-and-embedding/)

- we want to add support for defining component dependencies, and dynamically linking them at runtime based on the environment.

- all "platform features" we want want to add to Spin will be initially based on host implementations for WebAssembly interfaces (you can see an early example of this in this PR — https://github.com/fermyon/spin/pull/165)

- we are closely following the tooling in the component model (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wit-bindgen/pull/183) and will add support for natively executing actual components once that is available upstream.

Hope this is helpful!
8 years ago I got a call from Discover card asking if I wanted to extend my credit limit. I immediately asked for his name and said I would call Discover with the phone number on their website. I got through and asked for him and our call continued. It was not a scam. I can't believe this person is an expert.
The Human Problem That We Don't Know About
Privacy in the sense that zoomers' parents won't find their server.
Some authors take multiple books to fully flesh out the ideas outlined in the first, so there are some doubles recommended here.

I also found it impossible to rank books, so instead I took roughly the top 20, grouped them into themes, and then ranked the themes based on how important I think they are.

1. Deming is the primary writer of the type of management we need to be competitive: Deming, The New Economics & Out of the Crisis.

2. There is a wide variety of ways for humans to organise. Nobody is forcing the default capitalist bureaucracy on you, so be creative: Graeber, Bullshit Jobs & Dawn of Everything & The Democracy Project.

3. How people are motivated: Pink, Drive.

4. How to create a high-trust, less authoritarian, open, collaborative environment within a traditional hierarchy: Marquet, Leadership is Language.

5. Communication: Voss, Never Split the Difference. Faber, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen.

6. How to help organisations who don't want to admit what their problem is: Weinberg, Secrets of Consulting.

7. How to structure organisations and processes to deliver maximum value: Reinertsen, Principles of Product Development Flow. Ward, Lean Product and Process Development. Womack, Machine That Changed the World.

8. How to innovate cheaply: Westrum, Sidewinder.

9. How to estimate things properly: Hubbard, How to Measure Anything. Tetlock, Superforecasting. Savage, The Flaw of Averages.

10. How to train people to be experts at things: Hoffman, Accelerated Learning.

11. How people fail at decisions: Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow & Noise.

I had to leave out a few about statistics, causality inference, project portfolio investment that didn't make the top 20 cut.
what are the benchmarks?
Author doesn't seem to understand the basics of phishing.
> There's one easy rule that could have avoided all of this - never give out any info on incoming calls.

When I don't recognize a number, I don't pick up. I tell them to email me/text me and that they provide when they called and with what number. Then I might call them back.

Asking extra effort from unknown people will do a few things:

- Scammers won't do it (not yet anyway)

- Spammers won't do it either

- Anyone lazy won't do it
I did manage to write up a list in a response to the grandparent comment.
If it's close, why did the church "Way of future" close?

https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/18/anthony-levandowski-closes...

I think we need a breakthrough (or several) to achieve AGI, the current approach is clearly not good enough.
It's not super clear, but it looks like Fermyon was started by people formerly at DeisLabs, which has done quite a bit of wasm work. It looks quite promising, even more so considering the lineage and expertise of the team.
The Turing Test still stands imo. The chinese room argument against it is not convincing to me.
Nothing, she continued filming them while saying “it’s just a movie that I’m making, no need to be upset”.
I mean no insult, but I'm pretty sure that was the thinking with "the horse" as a means of transport.
It involves a tether providing precisely-timed tugs:

"“When we walk, there is a short period between steps where one foot is stopping its forward motion while the other is preparing to accelerate to take the next step forward. Our research shows that this brief window where both feet are on the ground is the best time to apply force to assist walking most efficiently,” said Philippe Malcolm, Ph.D., assistant professor in biomechanics at UNO and lead investigator of the study.

The device works by providing timed pulls from a motorized pulley while an individual walks on a treadmill. Since it only requires wearing a waist belt, it is relatively easy to make individualized adjustments compared to more complicated devices."
hey, thanks for the correction from a real doctor, I will be much more perceptive of that risk in the future.

again, I don't do analgesics daily but I will be sure to adhere to the doage schedule on that. Pain medication is such an unfortunate area of medicine.
Stackoverflow.com is unusable without JavaScript (due to April Fools)
:/ works great on my samsung serif as long as its plugged into the port labeled 'hdmi-cec'
She is trying to find an identity in tech. A few years ago she was a "professional web developer". Many of us have been there, titles give some sort of security to people; even if they are not well-fitting.
This looks like my first attempt at Factorio.
I've studied non dualism but I still don't feel I "get it". How can consciousness (a concept) be a base layer and matter be the thing that emerges from it? As much as I've tried to understand this, I still don't. How can a physical thing come out of a concept? There is no analogy that shows this nor does it make sense from the perspective of physics (any more than "aluminum emerges out of love" or "oxygen emerges out of beauty").

Can you elaborate?
Ray Kurzweil works on AI at Google and he wrote The Book about the coming singularity.
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Fun fact, when I was driving from Morocco into Western Sahara and I had a map on the hood [1] that showed it as a separate country. I had multiple people warn me the Military would get VERY upset about that, and so I cut out that portion of the map. Many people have been detained over the years for having such a map.

The Moroccan military DO NOT want anyone to think of Western Sahara as a separate country.

Last I checked, the UN list it as "occupied territory", but nobody is going to do anything about it because money.

[1] http://static4.theroadchoseme.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03...
I think while it is a good idea, more acknolwedgement to previous work should be considered,

> More than 20 programming tools vendors offer some 26 programming languages — including C++, Perl, Python, Java, COBOL, RPG and Haskell — on .NET.

From https://news.microsoft.com/2001/10/22/massive-industry-and-d...

> It has frontends for the following programming languages: C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC.

> Maximum portability is achieved by using an intermediate language using bytecode, called EM. Each language front-end produces EM object files, which are then processed through several generic optimisers before being translated by a back-end into native machine code.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Compiler_Kit

> The hardware isolation provided by the TIMI allowed IBM to replace the AS/400's 48-bit IMPI architecture with the 64-bit RS64 architecture in 1995. Applications compiled on systems using the IMPI instruction set could run on top of the newer RS64 systems without any code changes, recompilation or emulation, while also allowing those applications to avail of 64-bit addressing

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i#TIMI
One idea is to use columns instead of cells. Each column has a definition in terms of other columns which might also be defined in terms of other columns. If you change value(s) in some source column then these changes will propagate through the graph of these column definitions. Some fragments of this general idea were implemented in different systems, for example, Power BI or Airtable. The main difficulty in any formalization is how to deal with columns in multiple tables.

This approach was formalized in the concept-oriented model of data which relies on two basic elements: mathematical functions and mathematical sets. In contrast, most traditional data models rely on only sets. Functions are implemented as columns. This model gets rid of joins and groupby by making data processing simpler and more intuitive.

This approach was implemented in the Prosto data processing toolkit: https://github.com/asavinov/prosto
Problem with unlicensed spectrum is that it becomes tragedy of the commons. Much like SF, anyone is free to loiter and shit on the street, shoot up heroin, other kinds of degeneracy and whatnot.

The licensed frequency bands, in contrast, are congestion free and more polite let’s say. I’d be willing to pay a monthly fee for use of one of those frequency bands. But good luck getting permission from the FCC to do that.
I don’t see how that’s different from a neurologist examining a human brain. They can see it’s just cytoplasm and electro chemicals oozing around and firing off signals. None of that looks like it understands anything, any more than the symbols moving around in the Chinese room. They can no more point to the place in the brain that understands things than the guy in the Chinese room holding the book can.
> They made systemd the default, but maintained the ability to switch to another init system [1]

No, they didn't. You can't install debian without systemd. They _said_ they let you switch, but they don't. People did not fork an entire distro just because they didn't like to press "option B" instead of "option A".

> If this is "essentially forcing" the use of systemd, then what possible choice would have counted as not forcing it other than making sysv the default?

1. Not having packages depend on systemd.

2. Bringing up a prompt/dialog during installation to make a choice of whether or not to use it.

> most of the developers are still working on the original project

Because Devuan is just Debian with some tiny changes and a different choice of packages. And of course, the infrastructure of a project - website, forum, IRC, download servers, etc. So of course most developers aren't concerned with that, they just provide/maintain upstream packages.

> Obviously, this is almost as contentious as systemd was

I didn't know about this aspect, thank you.
You are deeply misinterpreting Mearsheimer's conclusion in your piece. He's not saying that NATO has a responsibility to not upset Russia - He's merely (accurately) noting that expanding the West's sphere of militaristic and social influence right up to Russia's borders has led to a clash between conflicting interests. Both sides are responsible for furthering their own agendas, and the agendas are incompatible when they meet. This is Mearsheimer's point; if we didn't want conflict in Europe, we should not have run toward it.

Further, I think you could do with giving Russia more credit than you do - Suggesting that they are a declining power because 'all they have is a large portion of the world's energy reserves, and one of the few nuclear arsenals that shapes the world's geopolitics' is more than a little stretched, even if I see what you're shooting for.

It's worth remembering the chaos they have successfully sown in US and European politics over the past 5 years, along with the effective interference they have run in the West's Middle East policy while assessing Russia's level of power in the world.

Nonetheless, I have been interested to see how much debate he has caused in such a short time - We need more lightning rods like this!
Last i heard UBER did not have employees. Did something change ?
Can someone explain how I’m strawman attacking this guy?

This is the perfect time to derail a conversation in the classic HN way on why the form of argument is inaccurately labeled
"drywall/plasterboard", "skin of bricks"... I wish!

Here I am with 12" thick stone walls and wifi can barely make it from the next room.
I'm so glad the previous owner ran a little bit of ethernet cable!
I have more been thinking about if those Rust OSs could implement WASI and allow running of a larger set of applications rather then natively porting to each OS API.

In terms of running Hubris in WebAssembly for testing, why not Renode like Xous does, https://github.com/betrusted-io/xous-core. Seems interesting but also kind of reinventing things.

I don't know of a in Rust written WebAssembly runtime that also runs on RISC-V. Wasmer has some outstanding patches.
I can tell from the comments and from my own observation, the entire HN knows she is not an expert. I think we shouldn't beat the dead horse here. I also agree she shouldn't call herself "expert" of at least the cyber security field.
I saw the author looking for the hdmi pinout. For anyone who wants a quick reference you can check this website: https://pinouts.org/
Yes, I believe language is the foundation for higher-level reasoning. Feelings are very primal, but they can be expressed through language.
While the individual interactions between organisms are indeed local, sexual evolution precisely attempts to work around this limitation with selection pressure for diversity.

That is to say, sexual evolution increasingly approximates a globally optimal process, as an aggregate system of autonomous agents.

The Internet is also not actually a global network. It's just lots of local connections between two computers. Yet the effect approaches a global network.
As a prime member in the US, your description more closely matches my experience with Amazon than the negative reviews here. I don't know if it's the way I shop or maybe I'm easier to please, but I really don't get it when people complain about counterfeits or poor quality experience with Amazon.

I only purchase items that have prime shipping, and that have free returns in case something is wrong. 99% of the time their delivery estimation is accurate, usually within 48 hours of my order or less. If something is broken or I simply don't like it, I return it for free at any one of several places within a 10 minute drive of my house: Whole foods, ups store, or Kohl's. And there's no rush - I have a full month to return the items and the refund is issued before I even get back home after dropping off the item.
> But at the end of the day, we're all getting paid to be here; I think having a clear understanding from the start of "what could I do wrong enough that my job is at stake?" is very, very valuable.

That might well be. I have a vague, uncomfortable feeling that there's a deeper understanding here that simply eludes me. I feel like maybe five years from now with some more experience I'll be able to read this exchange and facepalm at my naivete!
I am sure this has been answered before, but a quick google search didn't really clear this up for me but... I don't quite understand the usage of WASM on the server side (not denigrating, just looking for an explanation). If you are using rust, can't you just compile it down to a binary and run that on your server? Or is the main advantage the sandboxing? Or is the idea you have a bunch of wasm compatible servers and then you can just schedule a bunch of different wasm programs on a server no matter what language you wrote it in?

Is the workflow: Build app in rust, compile it down to WASM, and then run it on a server with wasmtime? I think I am missing some step.
Normal is actually a stronger claim than "contains any finite string as a substring". That normal numbers contain any finite string as a substring is a straightforward consequence of the infinite monkey theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

To see that the converse does not always hold, you could take something like the Champernowne constant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champernowne_constant and pad it with 9s between each integer, ie

.192939495969798999109911991299...

so that you still contain every finite substring, but you have a >50% chance of a randomly selected digit being 9.
Its kind of fun he and many others have been pointing these things out for 15+ years.

And now that the thing finally happened that they predicted people start paying attention and start arguing about it.
(one of the authors of Spin here.)

WIth the disclaimer that this is really early, and we don't have extensive benchmarks yet, there are a few things we are tracking for HTTP workloads (you can see the actual benchmark apps here — https://github.com/fermyon/spin/tree/main/crates/http/benche..., and the rendered results here — https://fermyon.github.io/spin-benchmarks/criterion/reports/):

- the response times — here are some benchmarks for requests that simulate 1 ms of work — https://fermyon.github.io/spin-benchmarks/criterion/reports/...

- the "cold" startup time — https://fermyon.github.io/spin-benchmarks/criterion/reports/...

Another disclaimer is that we have not focused on optimization work at all, so we expect to make significant improvements over the next few months.
I agree with mr_toad's sibling comment 100%, but also:

But, given the number of "is AGI possible?" comments I assume not all are religious based (HN doesn't seem to a highly religious cohort to me).

There are some religious ideas that survive just fine after you pull religion from under people's feet.

Dualism is one of them. Look how many atheists say that freedom is an illusion because of determinism, an idea based on dualism.
Hey, this is actually good even after April 1st. Especially the Bookface theme. Maybe they would keep this feature?
We transitioned from a "high-trust society" (where software, Internet, etc, did not need to take into account so many security considerations, protect itself from enemies everywhere) into a "low-trust society" (encryption everywhere, hardware mitigations for Spectre-kind attacks, Javascript-based tracking, etc).

The overhead is similar to the one people face in third-world countries: you pay once for the government (taxes), then again for basic services (private education, private security, private health, private transportation), and you still end up in a worse situation than in a (high-trust) first-world country.

I tried using a Core 2 Duo laptop recently, but the simple fact that HTTPS is mandatory nowadays, and Core 2 doesn't have AES-NI, makes the laptop spin its fan much more than it should, even if I try to use an old Linux/Windows.
There is some incentive to discriminate - it is advantageous to everyone to jettison the cheapest cargo in order to save the more valuable cargo, no matter to whom which cargo belongs.
> Both Nomad and k8s have ways to do persistent workloads, but they rely heavily on the underlying infrastructure to "move" volumes between throwaway containers

I did this with Nomad by writing a small API to "place" host volumes which Nomad can use for job placement constraints automatically. It works shockingly well for my use-case which I think is somewhat similar to Fly's? A smallish number of containers that require host persistent storage, and don't expect anything to move -- just disappear forever (persistent til' it ain't).
The GPL violation is a real shame, because the devices are very good.
Everything I've seen on AliExpress has a 30-60 day delivery window. Amazon gets it there within a couple days. I don't mind paying a couple extra bucks to get something in 2 days vs 60. And that's not really drop shipping anyway.
It becomes readable again if you turn off CSS, too. I use this bookmarklet to disable all stylesheets.

javascript:(function(){for(i=0;x=document.styleSheets[i];++i)x.disabled=true;})();
I thought one of the primary benefits of the Bloomberg Terminal was
the newsfeed / updated data they can provide?

Can an opensource competitor produce the same quality and timely data?

If the trading AI was accurate and with a high degree of success that
would be the product and there would be offers for millions if not more.
Of course the people making it could run it themselves and make lots of money

When it comes to the "AI" to help traders if this worked reliably there
would be
I was sure this is another copy website of stackoverflow
This is wrongheaded. The Soviet Union didn't lose the Cold War. In fact, the Cold War was ended with a series of treaties between the US and the Soviet Union. The Cold War was already over when Soviet Union collapsed.

Its only later that US propaganda machine got high on themselves proclaiming how they had destroyed the Soviet Union.
Asynchronous Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive
I had (still have, actually) a Quadra 840AV which was the fastest 68k Mac they ever made and it never felt this fast. If they emulated the actual performance of a 68k (and associated hardware) you wouldn't long for the performance it offered. But sure, running a much simpler (and more efficient out of necessity) OS on modern hardware, even emulated, screams on today's hardware. On the other hand, it didn't pack anywhere near the amount of functionality so the majority of the ROM and OS will fit in the L3 cache of today's processors so of course it's fast.
I use to know so many easter eggs on these 7x versions :)

Any cool projects to bring an old quadra (68xxx) to life, or how about a Power PC?
Turns out our scam prevention expert wasn't an expert at all. She poorly titled herself without proper knowledge of security field. Probably a curious person but not trained in this field at all.