skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No mention of HomePlug/Powerline? Turns the power lines in your house into a wired LAN - plug one into your router and a mains wall socket and the other(s) into mains wall socket(s) in other room(s) to get you wired network connection(s) in that/those room(s). I've been happily using them for years, after struggling with WiFi in a large L-shaped loft-conversion that had a lot of lead cladding. Now everything that can be wired is wired, i.e. devices that are rarely moved, reserving WiFi for just the devices that need WiFi, i.e. devices that are often moved, e.g. mobile phones and the car outside.

The other transformative thing for me was moving to fibre to the home. The fibre to the cabinet in the area suffered massive contention issues (didn't matter who your provider was because they all used the same cabinets). In the old days when the copper cabinets reached capacity they would stop taking new subscribers, but in recent years they've just been wiring more and more people in and hoping not too many people would use it at once. Which of course they did when the working from home and home schooling started 2 years ago, leading to everyone in the area having multiple sometimes multi-hour internet outages a day, which was a complete nightmare. The recently-installed fibre to the home removes the contention issues, so when combined with the HomePlug/Powerline wired connections where-ever possible, everything has been rock solid. Only mentioning the fibre to the home as an example of where new technology does actually make things significantly better rather than worse.
A free market would first require getting rid of all forms of power and so far there have been people who thought about minimizing the most impactful sources of power and pretty much all economists ignore them.

What we are doing is the equivalent of looking at a warped mirror e.g. a non free market and declaring that the reflections are not distorted e.g. a free market.

A lot of people are scared of living on the streets or feel shame from living off welfare. There is no way these people are going to make long term decisions if their short term needs haven't been met or there is a constant risk that they won't be met tomorrow.

This is actually one of the more disgusting parts of Austrian economics. Where a low time preference is basically considered the equivalent of a high IQ. If you have a high time preference you must be some dumb consumerist animal, when the truth is that you barely earn enough money to meet your living expenses which means 100% of your spending must go to consumption. Thirst is more urgent than hunger which is more urgent than shelter which is more urgent than social needs and so on. At some point you are not longer hungry or homeless. The urgency is gone. It would be more accurate to say that time preference is a function of wealth and having your needs met, rather than some intellectual jerk off competition where stupid people are filtered out and smart people end up with all the wealth.
That is accurate, but not probably not the definition this thread was using for “executable”.
i'm confused, what's wrong there? event starts at departure time and goes for duration. the arrival time is correct, and can be reported in any time zone.
>DoD rules are backwards and that it's actually the fault of the NSA that the guy leaked this

Exactly that, how is it possible to have access to Highly-secret stuff but also to your personal email? Something is not right here.
As Sec State, she has a limited authority to declassify certain things.

However, that would follow a regulated protocol.

Casually using a private email server for state business - that act in itself is illegal. It contravenes records laws and regulations, and is a direct afront to transparency. Also, it is not part of any declassification protocol.

Just because a Sec State has power does not mean they have the authority to do something any way they please. This is the essence of Rule of Law.
Man that annoys me so much, in my case it was a silent removal. You're not aware that your review was removed.

The things I don't buy from Amazon Prime really anywhere are replacement batteries.
You mean real estate agent?
Ah that makes a lot of sense! I wasn't connecting the dots with the language interop. That seems very cool. Thanks for the explanation.
> GPT-3 is fun, but it's more a demonstration of the banality of discourse than a breakthrough in understanding.

That's the fate of all AI efforts: whenever we understand something well enough, it ceases to be seen as AI.

As a historic example, the A* algorithm hails from a time when searching through a graph was still seen as AI.
Shady looking Chinese device

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/onyx-bo...
If you are selling your skills it's still fine - just make sure you have decent contractors and do not use platform for payment.
Because like 90% of the web nowadays, this looks like a website made with content scraped from other sites.
Sell Outs (2021)
You can make a long belt out of two short belts placed end to end: ore falls off the end of one and onto the other. So you build each short belt only as long as can be powered by a reasonably sized motor.
You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!
You can use Teams as a Microsoft Edge web app. It runs natively and is very fast.
He is talking about the NTFS file filter stack.
The author very kindly addresses my comment in a PS:

I also, admittedly, allowed my cynicism toward my own industry and Wells Fargo to cloud my judgment; I didn't know the first thing about Apple Pay or Google Pay prior to this incident, but I don't have particularly positive experiences or feelings toward either company, and it's extremely common for the process of fixing someone else's mistake on large tech platforms to be nightmarishly convoluted.

Ultimately she did realise & fix her mistake - at some pace - lost nothing, and got an up-close view of a scam in progress.
Naivity doesn't matter when you're there and it works. Repeatedly, reliably.
The SEO thing sucks, I notice it like if you're trying to find a tow truck, it'll be some call center that then directs you to an actual tow truck nearby with their cut added to your cost.
As I understand it, WASM needs to have some kind of way to universally describe high-level types before it's able to have DOM support. There's currently a proposal for that, but it's not yet in the core spec.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/main/pro...
That's the beauty of the Turing test: it avoids having to worry about consciousness.

(Of course, passing the Turing test wouldn't be necessary for intelligence, at most it's sufficient. Otherwise, humans who lost the ability to produce language but are otherwise quite smart and capable would count as non-intelligent.)
They've been using that lining technique for sewage and stormwater pipes near where I live.

I'm not sure how it will translate to much narrower pipes with tighter bends.
Trump said this for years. And now the left is finally admitting it too? This is too good to be true.
While I agree that “programme” is a poor choice which brings with it totally incorrect implications, I can see how the word might be arrived at: evolution -> evolutionary algorithm -> algorithm -> computer program -> program -> programme.
> You just don't remember 20 years ago. The modern OSs at the time were sluggish too, as they were pushing the limits of their hardware.

I would venture to guess that you will not find anyone whose experience with Windows 2000 included any slowness comparable to what we see today, if they got it on a new PC of the time or if they installed it themselves on a newish PC of the time. It’s tempting to blame input and display latency on the increased amount of work an OS does versus wherever we happen to sit on the curve of Moore’s law, but that discounts the fact that the values, priorities, and abilities of the engineers and designers involved in OS development might have changed.

This is the sort of thing that can be tested and measured. I’d wager if you benchmark a good-spec twenty year old PC and any Windows 11 PC on common user tasks in the UI, the twenty year old machine will be faster while using a higher percentage of its CPU time performing the simple tasks you’re testing against. It’s more or less impossible to use a significant fraction of the CPU’s time dragging the mouse pointer around and opening and closing menus, or even opening and closing normal user apps, on a modern desktop PC, as you might very well see on the old one, so one might want to contemplate why the new PC’s UI has so much latency built in compared to the old one…

(I remember 20 years ago)
How do they run power to the access points without using "outdated" tech?
> Decimal is also not a solution to floating point approximation.

Then what is the solution?

As someone whose worked with finance where floating point approximation lead to one being attacked by auditor's chasing 1 cent error that somehow crept in over millions of operations, what other choices are there?

Floating point introduces the worst sort of error. If you are expecting exact results floating point gets it right with almost no effort 99.999% of the time. The remaining 0.001% it gets it wrong, and it happens at seemingly random. A heisenbug in other words. But if you force programmers to use integers, all those missing fractions of cents suddenly become glaringly obvious.

Decimals / fixed point / integers don't "solve" the approximation problem. They just make it plain, forcing programmers to think about it, code for it, and test for it. If you care about what happens to every last bit, then there is no other solution.

Or to put it another way, if you don't particularly care what happens to the lsb, then fine use floating point. Problems happen because people really do care, but are seduced by floating points 99.999% success rate and use it anyway. Hint: if you are comparing for the equality of two numbers computed in two different ways, you absolutely care.
>There is plenty of money, they just don't want to give it to people because capitalism.

Capitalism is the best system ever invented to get money into the hands of people. It's done more to take people out of poverty than any other system in human existence. Capitalism isn't to blame here.

>It's ironic as well given how they spend a trillion in the military which seems like an unprofitable investment.

Military is federal, Flint water is municipal. This is basic civics. The military is not designed to be a profitable investment.

>They coax kids into joining the army to get or pay for an education, instead of the much cheaper and more profitable option, just pay the kids' education directly.

They do both, federal government backs student loans, grants, etc. that literally pay for kids' education directly. And again, most education is State, not federal.
Not the least because most of those data sources require a license.

Also they have huge amount of economic data, company financials, all somewhat normalised. That’s costly to maintain as I presume it comes from hundreds of different sources. Because these things break all the time. Broken feeds with wrong prices get sent, which require to reload the history when it gets corrected. A lot of google finance price feeds were broken and stayed broken for months They also integrate with trading desks, for instance who send bond pricing runs to their clients via bloomberg. The more banks you are client of, the more reliable your prices in bbg.

There also have quasi proprietary data, like the key terms of pretty much every bond issued in the world, that the issuers or book runners typically double check when they issue a new one. They create generic time series of on the run bond benchmarks, n-th future (which switched automatically when the future rolls), etc.

I am all for competition but agree, steep hill.
> so slow it feels like a malicious prank

Windows Explorer -> Sort by date

Unfathomable how someone thought that was a good idea.
T. rex's short arms may have lowered risk of bites during feeding frenzies
The Consequences of Scalable Blockchains: P=NP
I studied AI at university about 20ish years ago. In terms of what we have today it's was already there and had been around already for decades. All that's happened are minor refinements over the years. Most of the refinements have been brought about by the insane pace of h/w development not by anything really breakthrough when it comes to AI.

In terms of AGI there was nothing even close back then so I suspect we will never see anything in our lifetimes. In reality for us that's all that matters. I know some want to talk about what will happen in say 200+ years but that's complete speculation and wild guess territory there are so many other things that could happen in 200+ years that think about AGI and these sort of breakthrough technologies isn't helpful.

FYI this saddens me as I really thought that by now we'd have some kind of AGI and when I went to uni I was hopeful and excited at first.
I didn't add that because I don't think it's really all that compelling. People and biomass get moved around all the time. I don't think the geographical distance really affects the probability by much.
> So in terms of actually handling transactions, Bitcoin seems ridiculously inefficient. Actually using the blockchain would result in a bidding war, and the implications of that are very messy - driving up the price would incentivize more miners which would drive up energy consumption, this looks highly likely to cause a massive speculative bubble whose side effect is massive energy consumption.

Bitcoin itself has indeed a rather limited capacity of transactions per time unit.

And people discussing/developing bitcoin have been well aware of this right from the very beginning. (You can dig up old discussions). It is everything but a new finding. So people have long been looking for solutions.

And they came up with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network

AFAIK Lightning Network has yet to prove that it can be a stable and reliable system over many years. But it appears to be a promising approach that could solve the problem of bitcoin's low transaction capacity.

Quoting from the OP article:

> Section: Scaling By Layers and the “Cost Per Transaction” Fallacy

> With Lightning, two people can open a channel with each other using a base layer transaction, and then send any number of instant transactions between each other. Days, weeks, months, or years later (whenever they want to), they can close that channel with a second base layer transaction. That means dozens, hundreds, or thousands of mini-transactions can be combined into two base layer transactions. It’s like keeping a bar tab open and settling at the end of the night, or the end of the month, except it doesn’t rely on trust but instead relies on programmed smart contracts that ensure the bar tab is settled.
Never rent through a real estate agent. You're at a disadvantage, they're too good at screwing tenants.

Look at it objectively: two people have to be able to make a profit off of you in this arrangement (the owner and their realtor) and both of those margins will be pretty fat since neither of them is a long-term employee of the other, like you'd see in an apartment complex with an on-site manager.

Real estate agents are always on the landowner's side. Just accept this and the whole system will make more sense (this goes for buying or selling a house too).
Seems like something isn't right, Warcraft 2 is running extremely slow (M1 Max + Safari)
I don't think I said otherwise. Seems a pedantic distinction, though.
It is a higher cost regardless of when that cost is incurred. Although with humans I would guess that the 9 months of pregnancy and years of care is the relevant sunk cost. Compare that to the relative ease of a male who could have many offspring per year with little effort.
I try my best to not buy from third party sellers. Then I occasionally get surprised that I am buying from a third party seller. So I simply stopped because the perceived risk is too high. Amazon is overpriced anyway so why bother buying from them?
I'm not sure the birth canal is a real limit. It's a limit on how wide your head can be when you are born.

That's not the same as a limit on brain size in adults. (Nor even directly a limit on brain size in newborns: up to a point they could always get longer heads instead of wider ones.)

> (And even if those biological limits coincidentally lined up with general limits on intelligence, just the fact that AGIs will be able to duplicate themselves or share knowledge directly would itself be a huge practical increase to their intelligence over us.)

Yes. A human with access to a calculator is much more capable than one without. An otherwise human-level AGI with hard-wired direct-'brain'-access would be even more capable---without having to manipulate the calculator with clumsy fingers and interpreting its outputs with a general visual system.

Add direct-'brain'-access to Google and Wikipedia and to huge amounts of raw storage, and your human-level AGI would already be super human.
Name of the game here seems to be quality and breadth of data feeds, not the software itself. So don’t think being open source is a particularly useful trait here
And last but not least important: Crime soared as masks became normalized. As Vince Staples put it: "No face, no case."
Yes, I can see there some satelite photo taken by camera, maybe I'm old but when I was young they didn't teach us to fly into space with our arms and I have still regular outdated natural eyes. But maybe your satelitte technology camera naked eye see things as pictured.
And we _are_ already more intelligent. Eg we are more intelligent than rats, even though rats are pretty smart and evolution had plenty of time to make them smarter.
There's always someone smarter than you. Always.
TVs usually have an option to disable (i.e. ignore) it though, at least every one I've owned/helped someone with has.
I dunno, I feel like 'module' communicates something that is only code, while 'package' - but this is my JS experience speaking - implies it may also contain non-code files like docs, tests, examples, configuration files, html, etc that aren't directly used by the application importing them.
Newly discovered mechanism at RNA molecule end tails prevents their degradation
> that's just because the manufacturer just doesn't write one

That's just because there is no commercial incentive to do so, which is kind of the issue with FOSS
Why do people have to use the derogatory word «crank»? It’s perfectly possible to just be smart, sincere and wrong.

Talking about paradigm shifts again, not a single one of them matched the consensus at the time.

Isaac Newton spent a lot of time thinking about alchemy and religion, for heaven’s sake. During his lifetime, it wasn’t obvious even to the smartest thinkers whether science, the Bible or quasi-religious rituals was the best tool for understanding the world.

Conventional thinkers expect that the future will look like what they know, and it leads to frequent, overconfident dismissal of everything that is unconventional.

By all means, disagree and explore in your own direction. But don’t go around degrading those you disagree with. It’s just so average.
Jung, surely?
Microsoft Clarity Lets Me Watch You Click and Scroll
No, but I have tried to explain to a number of very intelligent people that their CS degree does not make them a legal expert.
> It seems fairly straightforward to me..

Your comment has a lot of interesting info, but could’ve easily done without this opening. I don’t see the need to reductively frame your experience against this entire scientific exploration.
Ask HN: What April fool made you laugh today?
I'll start with Stack Overflow who always makes really good one. This year: https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/31/time-to-get-on-trend-filters/
My daily driver ancient HP deskside server I use as a workstation is bonkers snappy running liquorix under debian.
I think most of those technologies are point to point linings. I also assume curves in the pipe cause 'issues'.

The other side of this is, if these houses have lead pipes and need a full water system gut (and probably the replacement of every device that touches the water); why stop there and just seal everything else back up. You're _going_ to find all of the horrific issues that existed but no one had seen in the light of day before. Or make all new issues. (For a good reference program on this, watch any of the highlighted construction / make it right shows made by "Mike Holmes" (OK, just the Canadian ones, in the US he's been in new build series only.))

When going that deep to fix the problem there's a substantial risk the whole thing is going to just have to be demoed and something new build to really fix the problem.
theres another thing you didnt mention

The average users mainly cares if their friends are on it. As it stands most people use either iMessage, WhatsApp or FBs Messenger in the west and WeChat in the east.

Signal had at Jan 1st 2021 around 40 mln users. WhatsApp had 2 bln. FBs Messenger had 1.2 bln.

Between Jan 1st 2021 and Augst 1st 2021, Signal also lost around 60% DAUs

Kind'of hard to use a messaging app, no matter how feature rich it is, when you have nobody to message.
The WIV doing dangerous GoF on Coronaviruses were widely described as unsubstantiated allegations by misinformation spreaders who had no evidence at all, right up until people managed to break through the propaganda and censorship. Now as far as you're concerned it's known, because Vanity Fair wrote about it.

But here's the thing. Vanity Fair wrote about this theory in 2020 too:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/why-scientists-belie...

“The Discussion Is Basically Over”: Why Scientists Believe the Wuhan-Lab Coronavirus Origin Theory Is Highly Unlikely. Trump and Mike Pompeo’s favorite blame-China theory makes great propaganda—but dubious science.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/inside-the-the-viral...

"An opinion-section column and a British tabloid story are hardly enough to give the Wuhan lab theory full mainstream credibility"

The quantity of things that are true yet lack "mainstream credibility" is quite large, because the self-appointed mainstream isn't very good at figuring out what's true. The Ukraine labs story comes from evidence gathered from Hunter Biden's laptop, which, if we recall, resulted in the New York Post story about it being immediately frozen by Twitter in an unprecedented manner. You couldn't even share links to it privately. Justified because the story was "Russian misinformation" except it wasn't, and now even the NYT has admitted the contents are authentic. What was on that laptop, well:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10652127/Hunter-Bid...

The Russian government held a press conference Thursday claiming that Hunter Biden helped finance a US military 'bioweapons' research program in Ukraine.
However the allegations were branded a brazen propaganda ploy to justify president Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and sow discord in the US.
But emails and correspondence obtained by DailyMail.com from Hunter's abandoned laptop show the claims may well be true. The emails show Hunter helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases. He also introduced Metabiota to an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm, Burisma, for a 'science project' involving high biosecurity level labs in Ukraine.

If you rely on places like Vanity Fair then you'll always be behind the curve on these things, constantly saying that yesterday's lunatic fringe conspiracy is obviously reasonable, whilst today's is not.