skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Access was pretty incredible for what it is/was. I could build a structured database with a nice UI for non-data people, reports, and even more advanced things like automated emails, exports, etc., in 1/10th or even 1/20th the time it'd take to build something similar as a web app.

We had an Access database that managed grant funding for an entire public University and in many ways it worked a lot better than the SaaS app that recently replaced it. Need to collect a new set of data? No problem, give me 4 hours and it'll be ready to use :P.

I'd love to have something like Access but that worked very well as a platform-agnostic web app and could easily integrate with cloud infrastructure.
I bought my house about a year ago, since then it's gone up in value by about 30% (based on comps of nearby home sales)

A neighbor sold his house recently, he said he had a half dozen offers in a week, 3 were over his asking price, 2 were all-cash with no contingencies.

I don't know how this market can be sustainable or how the average buyer can compete if they need a loan.
Steamlit Aquired by Snowflake
I've actually read Peopleware and got a lot out of it. It's been a while, so I might be due for a re-read.
The bidding up is exactly why Zillow lost money. Algorithmic house buying suffers from the winners curse. When Zillow thinks they are getting a good deal, there are usually extenuating circumstances that are apparent to local buyers which cause them to not bid up the price. That and the iBuy program was expanded way beyond the original scope.
Hair loss after routine immunizations (1997)
Quite a few experts said originally that the furin cleavage site (FCS) is the "smoking gun" evidence that the virus is lab modified.

But then other experts said that it's just a coincidence that could arise naturally.

Now we learn that EcoHealth had these plans to insert FCS's in viruses, yet they stayed quiet during the whole FCS debate and didn't mentioned it until it was found out from FOIA'd emails.

And not only that they didn't mention it, they kept saying it's just a coincidence and to say otherwise is a conspiracy theory.
I dislike Amazon but yes, my experience in what you have outlined is that it's generally amazing.

The parts that aren't amazing is getting items that aren't representative of what I ordered. But refunding is always a breeze when that occurs.

My problem is that it shouldn't be a thing that happens so often (to me). I shouldn't be shipped shoes of the wrong size 3 times before I get shoes of the size I ordered. I shouldn't be buying open box items without being told it's open box. I shouldn't be buying things with the completely wrong thing in them.

Now, all of these can be problems with big box retailers. But the sheer frequency it happens to me on Amazon - it's never happened at this frequency to anyone I know when we would shop in store. Yes, my friend once bought a graphics card at Fry's that just contained a box of rocks. But that was one friend, one time. I've had more of these issues on Amazon, the last ~7 years, than I have for all shopping experiences everywhere else that I've ever shopped combined.
It's also made keys steps in to Linux. I haven't checked the latest state, but as of last year it was pretty much approved as the way to write new drivers on Linux.
lol, way to layer on the sarcasm. I live in a complex and I can smell weed every time my neighbor lights up on the balcony even though my door is closed. I like the guy and he doesn't really have an alternative so I don't mind, but it is a bit annoying!
Lying is not the same as incompetent. Also they have to pretend (lie) that they can do something impossible. They are not incompetent. The fed chairs are quite intelligent, but they are not running the show.
For many of us who learned J, it was a sixth or maybe a sixteenth language: an interesting rabbit-hole, among many explored rabbit-holes. :) I'm sincerely interested in knowing how you came into programming with J as your first language!
Deterministic binaries? (I forget the correct term) Then just compile yourself from source, and compare to the apk you install.

That doesn't solve the intermediary servers, but if it's e2e encrypted that only matters for metadata.
Nah, science happens where the disagreement grows. If there's consensus, that's not science, it's technology. That's why you guys keep talking about light boxes. Try asking 10 scientists about gravity, for example. You'll get 12 different answers. And that's not an off-by-one error.
That's a bit confusing; shouldn't it be the other way around? Because they're using the same antennas in both directions, but the power budget on the Earth-transmitting side is much higher.

(Asked in the spirit of curiosity; I'm ignorant of radio physics).
> AI will design AGI.

This is of course nonsense, like the rest of this article.
Join Matrix
You won't get a source because it's misinformation. There are US cities wherein one in every three single-family-home purchases were made by investors last quarter: https://www.redfin.com/news/investor-home-purchases-q4-2021/ so perhaps OP was referring to that.
The Zelda puzzle isn't the same as Königsberg because in Königsberg the goal is to traverse every edge, while the Zelda puzzle doesn't care about that. Think about the rows of tiles along the edges of the room - the Zelda room has dozens of tiles with 3 edges each, but it's no problem walking across them exactly once. You enter each tile from one edge and leave by a second, and it doesn't matter if you never traverse the third edge.

Swapping nodes and edges doesn't work, because many of the Zelda nodes have 3 or 4 edges, but an edge is defined as 2 endpoints. It doesn't make sense to talk about an edge with 3 or 4 ends.

The proof of non-solution to the Zelda puzzle is a simple checkerboard argument. The room's dimensions are 13 x 9, both odd, so all the corners are the same color (call it black) and there is one more black square than white. And the prize square replaces a white square. So there are two more black squares than white squares, making the problem unsolvable, since you must always alternate visiting white and black squares. The statues are a red herring - there are two on each color and so they don't affect this proof.
> Fed has been consistently wrong over last decade in many of their policy, and their credibility is on the line

This is hyperbole. The Fed, by and large, held the American economy together through the financial crisis and more remarkably the pandemic. Until now, neither of those produced meaningful levels of inflation. To say "their credibility is on the line" is to disagree with a multi-trillion dollar bond market taking the Fed's every word very much seriously.

> the same Dallas Fed chairman

This is the Dallas Fed's leadership [1]. None of them authored this article, certainly not the (interim) president, Meredith Black. If you want the dry stuff, what the Fed is actually saying versus its individual researchers, consult the beige book [2][3].

[1] https://www.dallasfed.org/fed/leadership.aspx

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/beige-book-def...

[3] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/BeigeBoo... March 2
What has he ever done in AI except talk about it? At best he's an AI promoter, and hype-men are often cranks or scammers (see also: VR, web3, cryptocurrencies, MLM)
Edibles.

I really wish cannabis was associated with consuming jello or chocolate, instead of smoking something.

People, even dating apps, even doctors, ask "do you smoke weed", when they mean to ask "do you consume thc and cool with that" (okay doctors may be asking about lung cancer risk from smoking and other ways to fuck up your insurance premiums)

I don't smoke anything

Gummies though? Keep the supplies filled

so, its the wrong question and wrong association
But the above comment's entire point is there's zero reason for us to assume we're on an unbounded exponential vs a sigmoid.
Things I agree with:

- MobileCoin rollout was pretty poorly done and communicated, regardless of the team’s intent. Withholding server source for a year to conceal MobileCoin development really didn’t attract any goodwill, either.

- Phone numbers being required is a bummer. I know that there’s work being done to remove this requirement, and I know that there are valid UX reasons to require phone numbers, but still not desirable for a secure messenger.

- The lack of federation is a valid critique. Moxie has defended this position at length in writing, but I found Matrix’s rebuttal (also a good read) more convincing.

Things I wish were substantiated more strongly:

> The reason the US government hasn't tried to block or hinder Signal, is because it's satisfied with the amount of information Signal can provide to it.

I found this unconvincing; this is a pretty big leap to make without more evidence. (Good counterexamples are all of the Signal alternatives mentioned in TFA.) I also don’t think it’s accurate to say the USG hasn’t tried to block or hinder Signal or E2EE messaging in general.

This reasoning would also disqualify Tor, which the author cites as a technology used in one of the Signal alternatives.

> Signals database [has] Message senders and recipients (via phone number identifiers)

Doesn’t Sealed Sender mean this isn’t the case? To their credit, the author mentions this a couple paragraphs after. I didn’t find that analysis consistent.

It would have been more persuasive to directly address Signal’s blog posts on collected data released in subpoenas (https://signal.org/bigbrother/central-california-grand-jury/ - maybe I missed it) and the zero-trust model of the protocol itself. Reflections on trusting trust, and all that.

And more, but this is most of it.
Big picture analysis in the vein of Adam Curtis and Neil Postman.
Some nice imagery but also broad strokes like the technocrats partying
on the Moon while the hippies partied at Woodstock. I imagine there was
much more nuance in American 60s culture and plenty of hippies were
also blown away by the space-age and top-down grand adventure of
humankind.
Yes, the criticisms are generally valid. However, if the only proposed alternatives are Matrix, XMPP, Briar and Jitsi then Signal is still the best messenger. Of course those alternatives are great but for 99% of the people they are way too complicated.

I think what Signal should do, is set up additional multiple servers in the EU and maybe add some kind of noise messages to make it harder to analyze the meta-data/social-graph.

People/Groups/Firms who need more security should probably switch to Matrix.
There should be examples where the standard theory fail and articles such as this one do not. Theories without predictions are more philosophies than useful.
Hi guys, I agree with you that today there are a lot of better web servers like traefik, caddy and so one, but nginx is still popular and so one people use it wrong... So I decided to open source my own variant of configs for it)
from the article:

"Context: Alopecia is a recognized adverse effect of numerous medications, but vaccines are not normally considered a cause for unexpected loss of hair."

"Conclusion: There may be an association, probably very rare, between vaccinations and hair loss. More than 1 pathophysiologic mechanism may be responsible. Since apparently nonrandom distributions by vaccine, age, and sex could reflect biased case ascertainment, further research will be needed in defined populations with consistent case detection."

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...:

"Etrasimod is an oral, once-a-day, selective sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulator designed for optimized pharmacology and engagement of S1P receptors 1, 4, and 5. It is being investigated for a range of immuno-inflammatory diseases including ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s Disease, atopic dermatitis, eosinophilic esophagitis, and alopecia areata."
It's only rushed if you think Brendan can see the future, and knows that there will be billions of hours of work done using the language he is creating.

Apollo 8 had a ton of flaws in it as well. But for the most part it did the job that was intended for it. If the world decided to keep flying Apollo 8 for the next 30 years, I'm sure even more flaws would show up, but I wouldn't exactly blame the original designers.
dbl-word atomic cmpxchg that your CPU can do but your compiler won't
I would "yell at the screen" whenever he misses things. Then I realised that he still solves these puzzles much faster than I did, which makes me realise he probably just better than me at paying attention to the parts that are important to the solve.
To wit, the Rust compiler is "sufficiently smart" in an extremely high number of scenarios such that it can achieve optimal performance by eliding things like bounds checks when it's able to determine that they would never fail.

This is, in my experience, the overwhelming majority of idiomatic Rust code. For cases where it can't, and performance is absolutely critical, there are easy escape hatches that let you explicitly elide the checks yourself.
Yes, some manufacturers give CEC a different name for added confusion; on LG sets it is called SimpLink. The Wikipedia page reports them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Control
How is this a "grand conspiracy"?

People are going to manipulate things in their favor as much as they have the power to do so. Oligarchs in America and elsewhere have the most power, and thus do the most manipulating. Also, it's no secret that the vast majority of wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs.
The point of these studies aren't to outlaw things, its to let people make more objective choices
did you read the muckraking tweets ?
> SaaS Dark Ages (we are here).

People actually feel this way? I find web development and entrepreneurship to be as accessible and as fun as ever. So many amazing technologies within reach. I really enjoy web development now more than ever.
I have the same issue with my XBox: It gets turned on by the TV (without me wanting this), but fails to turn on or off the TV (which would actually be useful).
well then to say that you don't think a non-general intelligence can design a general intelligence is already a waste of time, because design is something only a general intelligence can do. you seemed to be making a statement about how a general intelligence may arise before you were responding to my comment, but now i see you were just defining design.
In absolute terms, yes. It's not, however, increasing fast enough to keep up with rent, food, fuel, power, or inflation.
StarSpace

StarSpace is a general-purpose neural model for efficient learning of entity embeddings for solving a wide variety of problems:

Learning word, sentence or document level embeddings.
Information retrieval: ranking of sets of entities/documents or objects, e.g. ranking web documents.
Text classification, or any other labeling task.
Metric/similarity learning, e.g. learning sentence or document similarity.
Content-based or Collaborative filtering-based Recommendation, e.g. recommending music or videos.
Embedding graphs, e.g. multi-relational graphs such as Freebase.
Image classification, ranking or retrieval (e.g. by using existing ResNet features).

In the general case, it learns to represent objects of different types into a common vectorial embedding space, hence the star ('*', wildcard) and space in the name, and in that space compares them against each other. It learns to rank a set of entities/documents or objects given a query entity/document or object, which is not necessarily the same type as the items in the set.
I'd say it's working just fine, by causing people to switch away from using Amazon. Amazon continued to lower their brand's quality and as the name becomes less and less trusted, their products are worth less and less.
Hypothetically speaking, if it is ever proved that SARS-CoV-2 was indeed leaked from a lab, and that the people working there are guilty of gross negligence and the evading of gain of function controls, what do you think the punishment should be? Considering ~20 million world wide excess deaths.

Or should they just be forgiven because they were scientists with good intentions.
> For a system that claims to "have all data on the chain" it sure seems to be hard to trace the money.

What I linked you was a raw trace of the money. It includes all transactions to and from the address, with the amounts of each transaction shown, and with the exchange addresses labeled.

If you don't want to pore through their account history manually, write a script. The API is free.

> It looks more like someone decided to profit off these donations.

We could be looking at a criminal who stole the donated funds and is currently laundering them. Or, we could be looking at a government legally exchanging their foreign donations into their native currency.

Personally, I find that insinuation absurd. Do you really think we just witnessed a 7-figure heist from the Ukrainian government in plain view, and nobody is reporting on it?
I learned it from a teacher at my high school, Henry Rich, who was an APL programmer for a while and a J early adopter: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Henry_Rich
> As I understand it, that's true in the simple case. If you have `my_app -> foo -> bar` then there's only one path to bar, and you only get a new bar when you upgrade foo.

This is not correct. You can update bar independent of foo directly from the top-level go.mod file in your project.
>“Not surprisingly, the occupiers received significant doses of radiation and panicked at the first sign of illness. And it showed up very quickly.”

A dose which shows quickly is usually pretty high, in the ballpark of lethal.

>Local reports suggest that seven buses with the zapped troops arrived in Gomel early Thursday. Journalists on the ground have also reported “ghost buses” of dead soldiers being transported from Belarus to Russia under the cover of dark.

The soldiers there haven't used any PPE. Not even masks. One of the main danger there isn't gamma rays, it is ingestion and inhaling of alpha and beta emitters. By digging into and driving tanks over they disturbed and raised a lot of dust of all those layers of highly contaminated soil. The Red Forest where they did a lot of that digging and driving is where the massive amount of staff was dumped by wind right after leaving the blown reactor.
Dry herb vaping is another option
Dependencies being immutable and identified by hash was such an obvious thing 20 years ago. The problem was fitting that into the flow of these crappy UN*X based build systems where to do any mundane task you need to fiddle with files and encodings and semi documented folder heirarchies and use a CLI tool to change other stuff that is too cumbersome to encode directly into files / text. The most obvious concrete instance of this being that it's cumbersome to import a dependency by hash (in Java for example, you really want hashes everywhere instead of reverse TLDs) but obviously better tools (such as a structural code editor) solves this perfectly. It's also annoying every time a company takes a nano step asymptotically towards these proper solutions and spams their crap and everyone buys it, but that's to be expected when your field is broken industrially and academically and even in hobbiest communities.
I don't think AGI will be "designed" either -- that's the entire point of the abstraction layers. Each recursive layer of AI between the human and the "final" AGI will remove more and more of the "designed" element in favor of an optimized, idealized, naturally evolved architecture.
>Signal also notably isn't self-hostable: there's no way to run your own signal server, and control your data. Marlinspike ruthlessly shuts down anyone attempting to build alternate clients or servers that could communicate with the main one.

That is perfectly wrong. As a maintainer of https://axolotl.chat, a third-party signal client initially built for Ubuntu Touch but which runs on almost everything now, I can tell you that our client is speaking without any problems to the official Signal servers, and also that the code of the server is available and is running fine, we used it to test our code.
Makes me wonder how many days Linus was pondering Git before he "started" working on it.
In 2014 I ended up in the hospital due to an abnormally high concentration of material in an edible. Slept through 90 degree heat and had potassium depletion. Woke up and immediately couldn't control my muscles and had arrhythmia. Thought I was dying. Never touched an edible again.
I think it's selection bias. People with a bad experience with Amazon are more likely to dive into it here. And dive they do, nearly any time Amazon is mentioned. Even in a thread about Wells Fargo we somehow get sidetracked into "Amazon just sells counterfeit garbage".

Out of the thousands of items I've bought through Amazon, I think maybe one set of Henckels steak knives might be counterfeit (I've ordered two sets of the same knives and they were noticeably different - both seem high quality though).
Unfortunately, I think that’s more from sci-fi taking place in space rather than some inherent advantages to asteroid mining. 100% automated manufacturing process in space seem like a minimum requirement, but presumably doing the same thing on the ocean floor gets you to the same place.
>> I think that the existence of leetcode interviews, where tech companies ignore your background as much as possible, and want to see the skills upfront, is a condemnation of education.

The funny thing is, all those leetcode questions are just the kind of thing that's taught at CS courses (algorithms and datastructures) and the kind of material that CS grads are likely to know well. And the people who interview you are more often than not graduates themselves.

Because, duh, tech companies are part of the same establishment as academic institutions. But don't tell them that because they all want to be disruptive, instead.
GNOME comes with a useful utility which does that as well called Disk Usage Analyser. Usually installed by default via the gnome package on many distros.
George Orwell wrote an essay on his experience working in a book shop: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel... He worked there 1934+ and wrote the essay in 1936[1].

The main character of his novel Keep The Aspidistra Flying worked in a book store - with some scathing character vignettes of the customers! Despressing book and Eric Blair himself disliked it “Orwell refused to allow either Keep the Aspidistra Flying or his first novel, the considerably weaker A Clergyman's Daughter, to be reprinted in his lifetime.”[2]

[1] https://www.letterpressproject.co.uk/media/file/BMLetterpres...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jul/06/georgeorwell.c...
OT, but I enjoy the hitchhiker's reference in your username :)
Target and Wal-Mart also sell third party shit. It's easier for me to just buy directly from brands I like, or to shop for them on a couple outlet sites I trust (so far) to sell legit (overstocked or lightly damaged) top-quality stuff and not lower-quality second- or third-tier versions (as some outlet stores do), than figure out how to avoid or disable displaying third party sellers on a bunch of different sites.

By the time you factor in the time and frustration for that, any savings (which isn't even guaranteed) doesn't look like great ROI anyway. Plus, even Amazon often won't carry the full range of a brand's products, so I get more options shopping this way.
They are a lot more efficient than bitcoin. But agreed, not cheap.
Do you have any links that document what she did that is worse than this NSA employee's behavior?

My understanding is that she didn't use her personal email for classified information and continued to use a government provided system for that class of information.
Cool! I've read Henry's book -- a great intro to the language. I didn't know he had been a teacher!