skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally the molecules can only assemble in a chain. They can make solids in three dimensions by being long and making a big tangled mess. It's like extruding dough into spaghetti, then stirring it around to make a big tangled ball. Instead, they found a way to roll the dough out into an arbitrarily large flat lasagna-like noodle. Then they stacked them and found they stick to each other well and could make a much stronger material than the spaghetti ball. The only real limit being the amount of dough and a space to roll it out on.
I agree with the others commenting here and can't relate to your experience at all. Review is a huge positive and while it does "slow things down" it usually is preventing people from slamming into walls at high speed, so that's a positive too.

Maybe your work experience is mostly in a high stress, prototype-heavy environment where it's more important to launch something than it is to have a maintainable, incrementally improving codebase? I worked at a consultancy like that and it was very different from "big product" long term work.

As for the social dynamics, it sounds like your workplace culture just blows.
Cool! While I never had the chance to work with Zenith Z-160 or a TRS-80 Model 1, I can relate! My first PC was an Olivetti M19 (1986), which featured, like the Zenith, an ISA slot backplane and CGA graphics. No hard drive but a couple of 5 1/2 inch drives. It was powered by 4.77Mhz 8088. [0] I never had more fun than with that tiny box. It was my first machine I used to connect in dial-up to BBSs too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_M19
Did this actually happen?

I know there was one instance when an engineer using an internal build got fired for vlogging it (which is not at all unusual, Apple would also fire you for showing off an internal build).
Agreed. "bad-ass ACLU" is the perfect description.

> FIRE

What's going to be its immunity against the pests that took over ACLU/NRA?
It wasn’t designed for public blockchains, it was designed for uses in mid-trust environments (“enterprise blockchain”), trading off some level of trust for performance.

Original info:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-...

Some of the current outcomes:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-confidentia...

https://confidentialcomputing.io/

https://github.com/veracruz-project
Find a thing people already do and will want to do no matter what, insert yourself between them in a way that makes original ways of doing things not viable/hard/insecure. Then start charging rent on normal human behaviour.

ps. do not call yourself Uber of Sex.
Opinionated Frameworks – Pros and Cons
Always the one on the other political side.
Looks like he's ok with everybody out there, except religious conservatives.

I wonder if he sees the blind spot.
I think with 20/20 hindsight lots of taxpayers would have preferred more of the money to be spent in the USA rather than Afghanistan.

Others who see no worthwhile reason for that much tax to be levied in the first place.

That's 20/20 hindsight for you.
Quite interesting. The minor issue is not using rom and ram of that era. Is the timing similar ?
Goddamn what a small world, thanks for the memories Vlady. I was just a wee lad when I found your stuff way back.
I was happy to see a Thinkpad docking station on your desk, good choice on laptop!
Concentrated metros are more economically productive, not to mention environmentally friendly and better for quality of life. Government discentivizing them leads to a less efficient economy that provides for less of people's needs.
A big part of the price you pay for an Apple device is that you are also finding their future R&D so they can make the right (or wrong?) choices for their customers. It’s not just the cost of goods sold.
If neural networks do compression, then they are implicitly providing structure not present in the data. Given a dataset there are always many different ways to compress it, each corresponding to some implicit distribution over unseen datapoints. Most of these distributions don’t correspond to real-world generalizations. Yet neural networks do often—not always—choose models for compression that correspond to real generalizations. This is nontrivial.
>In reality, the truth is always somewhere in the middle

I've always held that lizard people control some of the government, and that the moon landing was fake but obviously shot on location.
Yea a lot of people in this thread missed that point. It's still contrived problems, just testing comprehension rather than creation.
But you can contrive much larger problems than you could ever ask a candidate to code, so you escape the ability for a candidate to practice your exact questions to some degree.
> 2) Nuclear strikes to some specific areas, California during a fire season, might create a firestorm that covers a large percentage of the state and burns everything down in just few hours.

How would this be different from California burning by itself every year? Is this a difference of speed of burn or something?
Yes, I did read all I could about it. Some research does say it could act on GABA receptors indirectly, but most of it does not support that theory.

I can only say for sure the effects are very similar to alcohol's positive ones at low dose, somewhere between alcohol and cannabis at higher doses, and not everyone reacts to it.

Myself, after using it for about a year as an anxyliotic (it can also have some interesting effects on creativity), I stopped for half a year and upon trying it again, I get zero effects. Usual dose was 0.9-1.2g. Now, no effect. I tried up to 6 grams at once, still no effect.

It is very strange, like some sort of permanent tolerance. From what I can gather, others have had the same experience, and some can still get an effect at very high doses. Sad, it was pretty good while it worked.

Pregabalin still works on me, but the effects are less pronounced at low doses and too blunt and stupefying at higher doses... may work well for some people, though.
What is the other side? I only see the War Party.
I've been on teams working on node projects for like 15 years. I've never seen someone who understands promises or async await do that. You'd have to know nothing about what the async keyword actually does to be compelled to do that.
I'm always really happy to get to a technical description -- because I think these philosophical replies make it seem like we're talking about a working system. And there isnt one.

So what i'm interested in is machine systems for which we have (1) no prior specification of the environment; and which in the end (2) anticipate permutations in the environment which arent specified.

intelligence is the solution to this, for (1) form concepts which carve out the environment using your body; and (2) use these concepts to engage in counter-factual reasoning which simulate possible change.

I think a fatal issue for AI is that these arent even in the class of problems being addressed. Talking about intentionality here gives the field vastly more credit than it deserves. We arent even at the level of basic concept formation.
Seems a little strange to criticize the American Dream on the basis of South African apartheid.
Still want to migrate turbo pascal bridge … guess this old to new intent never end. Just read the pi calc using 4004, which is the other way round.
This looks very interesting, in particular that it can be made gas-tight:

> "Another key feature of 2DPA-1 is that it is impermeable to gases. While other polymers are made from coiled chains with gaps that allow gases to seep through, the new material is made from monomers that lock together like LEGOs, and molecules cannot get between them."

However, this is yet another example of how excessive corporatization of academia can block the adoption and spread of new technologies created with taxpayer funds:

> "The research was funded by the Center for Enhanced Nanofluidic Transport (CENT) an Energy Frontier Research Center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Army Research Laboratory."

> "The researchers have filed for two patents on the process they used to generate the material..."

So, who gets access to these patents? It should be the case that MIT be required to license these patents to any American citizen who is interested, non-exclusively, for free, as it was American taxpayers who financed this project.

Similarly, the actual paper is hidden behind a paywall at Nature, so independent researchers without an institutional affiliation have no access to the details without paying ridiculous fees; the paper wasn't uploaded to arxiv and isn't yet on sci-hub, and why not? So some publishers can extract fees for their decrepit business model?

Sci-hub_se does at least have copies of some of the references cited in the paper, if you search for this one you'll get the background (2009):
"Two-Dimensional Polymers: Just a Dream of Synthetic Chemists?"

> "The fact that one can now isolate and investigate the
natural 2D polymer graphene begs the question as to whether
such intriguing structures could also be synthesized. [5] This
question is not limited to whether one can synthesize
graphene—this would be just one target of the entire family
of 2D polymers, although admittedly an especially compli-
cated and challenging one. It is meant much more general in
the sense: Can one provide reliable and broadly applicable
concepts to tackle the synthetic and analytical issues associ-
ated with the creation of polymers which meet the structural
characteristics of graphene (that is, one repeating unit thick,
covalently bonded, and long-range order). Clearly, this would
constitute a substantial advance for chemistry in particular,
and the molecular sciences in general"
I could see OP's idea working only if you never strayed away from an ORM to use advanced database features or performance reasons.
Maybe there is a moderate position here between, censorship is not a problem and “it’s a big problem.”

Something can be uncommon, but still be a big problem for the individual impacted. In higher education, there has been a legitimate trend in professors getting terminated, and it’s discussed in places like the chronicle of higher education, and written about by very middle of the road progressives like Stephen Pinker. I don’t think it’s the only problem our universities must solve, and defenestration isn’t a new thing, but it matters by degrees (no pun).
Anything the deepfake CIA holograms on mainstream media tell you.
isitmadeofglass says >"when swimming you are not experiencing resistive airflow."<

I disagree! During swimming:

- you have a window of time within which to inhale during each stroke and you're inhaling as much as possible. If you do this slower then you move slower (and you lose the race),

- meanwhile the (mouth, throat, lungs) system works to keep stray water from entering the lungs and to remove any that has entered, causing further restriction,

- the position of the head and neck relative to the body
constantly changes b/c of the body's rotation and the head's movement. The airflow changes accordingly.

Ask any other competitive/Masters' swimmer about this.

For these reasons I doubt "PowerBreathe" is useful to (esp. competitive) swimmers, who already are breathing in a restricted manner. But that's just my opinion after swimming and racing for decades.

Note: To my astonishment, while searching this topic before posting, I stumbled across PowerBreathe ads targeted toward swimmers, the very audience I thought would find it useless! So maybe I've been sucked into a PowerBreathe SPAM campaign unwittingly.
Please blog on blogging platforms. The only thing worse than this would be reading moby dick via sms messages.
Why Should We Hire You?
wow that's intense. do you work in europe?
Benzos are often given short term- 3-5 days on a taper schedule to someone in detox. It is not recommended to give a script to an alky. Benzos are not as dangerous to withdraw from as alcohol but are horrible to detox from as they are fat soluble.
Yes, but the environment for it was already more “trusted” than public, it was meant for enterprise blockchain.
Source on the 130k number?

If 3 million people had died in China of covid, they wouldn't be able to hide it. Even if they could hide that level of deaths, that level of covid spread would be obvious from antibody tests from peoe traveling from China.
Sucks you can't use it in VS Code ...
Ask HN: Agents for Password Protected Age Keys?
Has anyone written an agent for password protected Age secret keys? Something like ssh-agent or gpg-agent? I've thought of writing one (or experimenting with existing agents), but wanted to ask HN first.

If you have written (or used existing agent software) with Age keys, would you please share your experiences here?

Thanks
Maybe not reading it, but did you consider that writing that paper helped them clarify their thinking on the subject?

And based on that clarity, they were able to then go on and make immediately productive contributions?
Make moderation guidelines and moderation audit trails public and open.
>and that the moon landing was fake but obviously shot on location.

Stanley Kubrick is nothing if not a true auteur. Also probably eats mice whole.
Oh my. Twitter, or any other platform, is not your megaphone that will amplify your opinion without restrictions. Don't like that? Start your own platform, and see how that turns out.

Related: yes, I do support interoperability requirements between platforms. No, that still doesn't mean you get to blast your opinion all over the internet without hitting a roadbump every now and then.
>>Another question: why do they have anything to do with investigating counterfeit currency?

Because they were founded long before today's cadre of federal police agencies (FBI/ATF etc). At that time the federal government's mandate was rather slim. If there was going to be a federal police force it had to be in relation to an federal matter such as currency. Understand the "secret" in the name to be the old use, meaning more private than clandestine, as used in secretary. They worked for the president and federal government rather than the states and could not enforce state laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service#E...

>> With a reported one third of the currency in circulation being counterfeit at the time,[14] Abraham Lincoln established a commission to make recommendations to remedy the problem. The Secret Service was later established on July 5, 1865 in Washington, D.C., to suppress counterfeit currency. Chief William P. Wood was sworn in by Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch. It was commissioned in Washington, D.C. as the "Secret Service Division" of the Department of the Treasury with the mission of suppressing counterfeiting.
>Stranger things is more like nostalgia for early 2000s 80s nostalgia.

Vaporwave music and all the visual design around it embraces this pretty hard. If a clip isn't literally set to 80s commercials it's at least full of VHS distortion effects.

Half the comments on any video seem to be teenagers talking about nostalgia for a time they never experienced
I still keep an old Intel MacBook around for compatibility reasons, but otherwise I am all-in on M1.

A couple of years ago I noticed that my old iPad Pro (not M1, but ARM) compiled Swift code in Playground projects twice as fast as compiling the same code on an Intel MacBook.

Off topic, but to me the most amazing Apple silicon enabled product is the Apple Watch. It is so fantastic being able to leave my iPhone at home and still get calls and messages from my wife, Dad, etc. It seems so much healthier to just be wearing the watch. Mobile phones are intentionally addictive.
"...it is my belief that the treatment is unconscionable and inhumane."

Likewise. Fortunately, I'm not an alcoholic nor have I ever been one but it's always been my understanding that disulfiram was a pretty brutal way of dealing with the problem. I've seen pharmacology texts written in the 1960s warn of the dangers of disulfiram (I had the impression that by the end of the 1950s it was already recognized as a brute force method that was not that effective).

Moreover, as disulfiram inhibits acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, the build up of acetaldehyde in the body alone is pretty nasty and ought to be avoided (there's nothing subtle about this chemical. (I hesitate to use the word 'drug' even though it may have effective uses in completely different areas of medicine.)

Making someone feel ill by essentially 'pickling' - or should that be 'poisoning' - him/her from the inside strikes me as a treatment that should have gone out with Galen.
> could also be considered upsetting

It could be but not by anybody with a normal sense of proportion.

> As if somewhat cooler than Presidents or Prime Ministers who have large security motorcades

Intent matters. All I wanted to show is the contrast between the leader of one first world country and another. Obviously Obama or Biden are bigger targets and therefore need more security.

> Just because he uses a bicycle for 400 meters as a photo op, between two Hague government offices while being discretely followed by the security services.

You are inserting your own facts here. He actually does bike from home normally, as have many Dutch presidents before him. The main reason is that the Hague where our seat of government is is actually much faster to traverse by bike and if he were to upset the city twice or more daily with motorcades it would ding his popularity considerably, besides that even the right wing in NL has some sense of environmental responsibility.

> The truth is that if you are the prime minister of a small country, a country that in the last major war surrendered in 3 hours, the Netherlands security is outsourced to NATO, or in other words, you are 100% dependent on US Military Power.

That's a revolting little bit of writing. NL surrendered after being overrun by the Germans, which took 5 days, not three hours, and they just had a very large city bombed to rubble and were promised 'more of the same'. It made good sense from a lives saved perspective with the note that at that time it wasn't yet apparent what kind of atrocities would follow.

> If you are small economy, that could not survive without being integrated in the European Union, so means you have small voting power as portion of all the votes of all other 27 countries. So you will have to follow the decisions of the other countries.

NL is small, but it actually isn't all that small an economy. It's the 7th largest in absolute sense and the 6th largest per capita. And it isn't nearly the 7th or 6th country by size.

> And finally if you are a prime minister who does not have a majority, so you are at the head of the government only because you agreed with the politics of every small coalition party, so that you could stay prime minister. So you are implementing the policies of somebody else.

Coalition governments are a fact of life here and I consider that to be a very good thing. Those 'policies of somebody else' require give and take rather than 'might makes right' where one administration continuously tries to undo what the previous one established.

> In other words, the reason why the US President has such a complex motorcade is because he has real economical, military and political power and upsets a lot of equally powerful parties. So he has the threats commensurate to his real power.

That is undoubtedly true, but that does not warrant your ridiculous response.

> The fact the US President goes on a big motorcade is what allows the Dutch prime minister to promenade himself on a bike ;-)

And that just isn't correct. Really, your comment is in pretty bad taste.
I mean… I think it’s pretty obvious that being one handed is a disability in that it makes a wide variety of things harder. I could think of a bunch of things that would be much harder or more inefficient one handed… using my mouse and my keyboard at the same time for example. Or that typing itself gets more tiring with one hand to me. I mean I even still use two thumbs to text! Have you tried going one handed for a while, maybe due to an injury or something?
It's very clever. It redirects of a raft of points Wong makes into a narrative Musk is pushing. It probably represents one of the reasons why he's so successful. :)

It also loses its luster on a bit of reflection -- this particular novella was in fact published on Twitter, and obviously got plenty of attention, including from Musk, so it's not exactly clear that Twitter's an unacceptable venue for novellas. Also, there's other long-form platforms that don't seem to have competed well with Twitter so far.

But maybe someone could pull off making such a thing work. Which is why personally what I'd like to see Musk do is take the assets he was going to use to purchase Twitter and build another platform, one with the features and values he's envisioning from the ground up. He might have the juice to pull it off, and it would help diversify the media landscape and discourse culture rather than just being a tug-of-war.
Not to the tune of millions of lives. Nobody who is studying this thinks that China had millions of covid deaths and managed to hide them.

Claims to the contrary are fringe conspiracy theories. The "lab leak" hypothesis is way more probable than the idea that they have hidden 3 million deaths and the associated covid spread... It's just not possible.
Yes, like the lobste.rs moderation log. It's cute because, like, nobody cares.
A Hired Imposter's Secrets #4 = (Jack of All Trades Master of One Roadmap)
Interesting. I guess I can see why, depending on context.

Like, if ordering someone to do something for you, thanks in advance would seem arrogant or even rude.

When asking a question or seeking advice, it to me feels more polite.

That said, I'm far from an etiquette guru, just thinking out loud.
Birds are real.
A marketplace of algorithms and "pick your own algorithm" would be interesting. Is there any reason not to do this?

Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It's not crazy. Even Jack is pushing for it: "The choice of which algorithm to use (or not) should be open to everyone"

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1507146276416098307
The US presidents' motorcade protects against a lot of things but a nuclear first strike is probably not one of them.
Are they pushing? Most documentation for Android dev is still Java. Or by default Java. It's only the Intelij guys pushing for Kotlin by creating a lockin in their IDE. One reason I refuse to use it.
If they stopped reporting and focusing on MAU, the problem isnt that hard to solve. If you want to operate a bot on twitter, it costs X/month or just make bots illegal.

The problem would be more surmountable at that point
Intelligence is in the properties of the data supplied to the kNN. Not in its distance function.

Yes, kNN is the bound if you formulate learning as: there exists an f_true: Pixels->Animals; we have an infinite sampling of (Pixels, Animals); kNN performs at 100%. Therefore kNN is the bound.

Whereas I dont think this has much to do with learning. Learning for me is: the function probably doesnt exist, we dont know what its domain would even be, and we have no idea how to sample that space. You know: the history of human civilization, but also: the history of a day of any animal's life.

We encounter problems daily whose functions can only be modelled by partial input and output domains, and our job is to find ways of resolving the inherent ambiguities in those situations. Ie., to find what parts of the world are relevant, to find ways of measuring it, and hence to find more data until the ambiguity resolves itself.

kNN being a perfect algorithm is a catastrophe for this whole formulation of AI. All it means is that the whole field of machine learning has as its limit what you can do if you already know the answer. You can see from this that it isnt learning at all.

The situation is exactly backwards: ML assumes relevant well-carved unambiguous data. The whole problem of learning is precisely to produce it!