skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> or if it's possible to have intelligence without emotion

Ask a chess engine whether it is ever afraid of losing or excited about winning.

I think that imagining that intelligence requires emotions is an even worse category mistake than asking if a submarine can swim. That's not to say that an AGI wouldn't have goals, though, and we could informally assign emotional states to those goals, just as we have the concept of "greedy algorithms".
That's nice. State schools now cost a minimum of $10,000 in state tuition per year excluding room and board. That's the cheapest you can get. Out of state tuition is $16,000-$20,000. It's not that cheap anymore.
All that dehydration talk is fascinating to me. It’s like most people are aliens. I drink about 6L per day just in tap water, not including coffee and tea. I love drinking water and could not imagine limiting myself to what others perceive as their daily goal. And as the question tends to come up: I’m not diabetic, and I have a home-office job. I do vape.
> Blockchain is just a decentralized ledger of transactions.

Well, so is Git!

The big difference is that the blockchain requires all transactions to appear on all nodes, and has a wildly expensive and slow consensus phase.

Thing is, these two features provide great negative utility for the average person and no positive utility at all unless you are an anonymous entity wanting to transact with other anonymous entities with no legal framework at all.
Filenames are tricky. You need to interpret them for display and when interfacing with other systems but fudamentally, they are not Unicode strings on either Windows or Linux but rather sequences of WCHAR or char respectively (with some restrictions). That means that a UTF-8 API can never support the full range of filenames that might be present on a valid Windows filesystem. But you can have eat your cake and have it to by having that API accept WTF-8 [0] which is a superset of UTF-8 that is specifically designed for this kind of interopability.

[0] https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
What is the status of this as of 2022?
Water from the Great Lakes cannot leave the Great Lakes.

The Great Lakes Compact prevents construction of any water withdrawal that will move water outside of the watershed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact
>I had all kinds of fun with those "100 in 1 Electronics" kits that RadioShack sold

Still available new on ebay fwiw, "Maxitronix." Pdfs of the instructions are around on the web too.
It would be interesting to know who and when exactly created this temple, if it's really a Zeus temple.

Were that expat / refugees from Greece? Greek wife of some Pharaoh? Greek soldiers of Roman legion? Or Phoenicians deciding to troll future archaeologists?
I’m in ML and looking to pivot to web dev due to this. My personal view is that ML is in the midst of its own dot-com bubble. There are plenty of valid use cases for ML currently, but on the whole it’s a solution in search of a problem, and a bit of a figurehead at most companies who are at the very least wanting to use ML/AI/data driven in marketing materials. If a serious recession hits, I think a lot of these companies will make the realization these initiatives aren’t worth much to them and cut their losses.

Eventually the field will stabilize in a much healthier place, but only after some dark days.
At those levels, unfortunately, they have both budget and authority, as well as the ability to impact culture and the definition and prioritization of teams and their work. Sort of like military generals who get their ranks not by proven experience but by working the chain of command, to the great detriment of those who actually have to face the fire.
Biological half life is the more important figure here, by the way, and it’s very short (less than a month)
There's an agreement not to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact
> might be if a fish has been gathering Tritium it’s whole life

Unless fish have some mechanism for selectively keeping tritium (which might be very useful) or don't replace their water, there's no way for a fish to "[gather] Tritium its whole life".
Interesting article, but I love the precision of the formula on page 24: e.g. retrieving a document if there are no sub folders takes 4.956 seconds. Not 5 seconds. Those 4 missing milliseconds are really noticeable for a user. What std error 0.71?
I grew up in south west Michigan and absolutely took them for granted. After almost 5 years in Austin we decided to come back to Michigan with the birth of our first child. I missed the lakes terribly, just totally took for granted that not everywhere has fresh water surrounding them on all sides.

In this climate change age, being close to so much fresh water really helps calm my nerves knowing that I am in a spot that will be able to weather the changes better then most and possibly become a refuge for more people.
> I have experienced bank accounts of mine and those I know be frozen, emptied without warning due to identity theft, a false criminal accusation, forgotten debts, etc.

Your bank account has been frozen and emptied at least four times?!

Surely the common factor in these incidents is you!
29 people died half a century ago, and it’s not uncommon to run into one of their loved ones in a random bar? I am skeptical of that claim.
Strangely enough the more I think about this, I kind of want hatch, PDM and poetry to have a baby in some unholy union and give me everything:

I want the automatic virtualenv management from poetry with the lockfile for dependency management and resolution

BUT

with the option to use a vendor dir like PDM without virtualenvs

BUT

with hatch's awesome environment management and matrix functionality for tests/docs etc.

Then, I'd love to work out how I can bundle a python runtime against my package so I can ship a single distributable archive that can be placed anywhere to run predictably. Does anyone have any suggestions for something that solves this last part?
Zelensky's World
How is that different from unvalidated UTF-8? Both are variable-length encodings that require decoding and have failure cases.
It's fortunate that none of those are "checked" in the ASCII art, because none of them actually apply.

> Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once

False. As a silver lining to the Google/Microsoft email oligopoly, those providers could announce that anyone wanting to send email to those services will have to implement this protocol, and it could be done in less than a year.

> Unpopularity of weird new taxes

Irrelevant. No taxes involved - there's no money here, and users won't care if their mail takes an extra few seconds to send, because they don't expect email to be low latency anyway

> Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money

Irrelevant - no new money involved.

> Huge existing software investment in SMTP

Irrelevant - a small number of server software are used by the majority of users. Also, see earlier point about oligopoly.

> Sending email should be free

Bad idea, and irrelevant, because it still would be.

I suggest you put thought into copypasta before putting it into a comment.
Use pip-compile[1] to generate a lock file and pip to install it. Update said lock file periodically to pull in package updates.

Simple and effective in my experience.

How is this falling short? Why such a push for different tooling? Why the continued complaints about Python packaging being substandard? Honest questions because I've been using this for web and cli applications for years without issue.

I also use pipx[2] to install Python based tools onto my system so they have their own virtualenv.

1: https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools

2: https://github.com/pypa/pipx
This is really cool, thanks for posting. I am definitely going to geek out on this later.
It's legally forbidden by treaty of all the states and provinces that border them.

For now.

There's also little reason for it. There's plenty of rich farmland here to grow on. Agriculture should move back to this region, and growing practices and crops adapt for the colder climate. Growing heavily irrigated crops in the desert or semi-arid regions has many advantages but makes little sense in a water constrained world.

Right now the rich well watered soils of the midwest and great lakes region are being wasted on cash crop soy/corn rotation. Chipping away at the rich top soils for animal feed etc. There's a lot more that could be done here. This land is good for so many things... growing almonds in California? Grow hardy hybrid hazelnuts in the east. Cold hardy, disease resistant grapes make exotic regional wines with a unique eastern terroir and a long history, mostly forgotten. Bring back the apples orchards. The peaches and apricots. Re-open the canning and juicing plants. It's a shorter, mostly single season for most annual vegetable crops, but so much fertile land and water. And greenhouses add a lot of value.
The IEEE and Fortran schools of how to write numerical code (2017)
I'm bearish on Facebook in the long-term:

1) The market seems saturated, and users are starting to slip away. If it ever loses critical mass, it collapses.

2) Facebook can't execute complex technical plans anymore. It's investing billions into a risky new area -- the metaversa -- with nothing to show for it.

3) The internal culture focuses on politics and pet projects. It's not a bad backstabbing politics -- it's a great place to work -- but it's just not aligned to business success. Most Metamates want to do fun, interesting things, with little connection to business success.

4) Costs are out-of-control, and decoupled from revenue. Revenue is high, so it's not a pain point right now, but that decoupling will lead to massive pain once things go south.

I would short Facebook, but I don't know how long the "long term" is. I don't think it's at a risk of becoming MySpace, but I suspect it will go the way of AOL at some point. I still know older people with @aol.com emails, but it's not worth a lot and no longer relevant.

It feels brittle -- once things start to unravel, they'll continue to do so very quickly. It needs a good tipping point, whether that's a scandal, a new regulation, or whatever.
So much this!

I'm so annoyed that I keep consuming all that pseudo-educational content without actually gaining any knowledge from it.

I don't have anything particular to learn, but anytime I hit something interesting, I search for it, see how much material I would need to get through, and I give up and revert to browsing HN.
I used to be worried about it.

But I was making the mistake of thinking getting to AGI was just a question of more compute.

I thought as computers get faster, we will eventually ramp up to AGI.

Like going from the brain of an ant, to a mouse, to a cat, to a chimpanzee, to a human.

But this is false, because we don’t have the slightest idea how creativity works, and creativity (conjecturing new knowledge) is the thing that sets people apart from all other things with brains.

People are not just an incrementally better version of a chimpanzee. They are qualitatively different due to their ability to create new knowledge.

Right now AI is kind of like China. They are really really good at copying things and improving things that already exist. In the case of China it’s manufacturing or tech. In the case of AI it’s training on massive sets of existing data.

But they have no ability to come up with new knowledge on their own. We don’t even understand how this works in our own brains. How do you come up with new ideas? I bet if you observe that process going on in yourself you will see that you have no clue.

We will figure this out at some point. Maybe tomorrow! But it might take hundreds or even thousands of years too. We can’t predict when or what type of new knowledge will be created.

Until then, AGI is not something we need to “worry” about at all.
I thought you were suggesting the law said those components were necessary to be a valid takedown request, but most providers were just being more lax and not requiring them. When you said "I believe that a real DMCA takedown needs the following two clauses." I guess I misunderstood!
how does it compare to pipenv?
I think what greggsy's point is that why begin something when you could foresee that it wouldn't really amount to anything?

it was a vanity project - Felix just found out that it's not worth it later than sooner

Enlightenment
The state-owned pharmacy has sent detailed information to Facebook
"Sure, if I'm allowed to change the games, I can link them even without a block chain."

The game should be integrated with the blockchain directly, if I was unclear I apologize. That means, when you open the game, you need to use your wallet to connect to the game. You don't have a "Steam" account or whatever, you have your Web3 identity.

"Transacting digital assets on a particular market (be it a single blockchain or Steam or the WoW Auction House) is a solved problem"

1 of those things is not like the other. The blockchain isn't "a market", it's an economy. An economy with multiple markets... and it's your choice. Steam is a single market, and I have no choices.

If your assets are on the Avalanche blockchain (that's the avax I keep talking about) you can choose to use Trader Joes (https://traderjoexyz.com/trade#/) Pangolin (https://app.pangolin.exchange/#/swap) Sushiswap (https://app.sushi.com/swap) or one of the hundred other choices. If you want to buy items you can use NFT Trade (https://nftrade.com/) Kalao (https://marketplace.kalao.io/) or one of the other hundred choices popping up. It's an economy with choices and competition. Steam is a centralized market that sets the rules, and you either have to take it or leave it. They get to charge a premium for that privledge, and there's no possibility of competition to check that privledge.

Saying you prefer steam, is like saying you'd prefer to buy popcorn from a movie theatre over a grocery store.
What Is Vertical Market Software vs. Horizontal?
From my limited experience, oscilloscopes are useful while learning since you can see what is happening in the circuit. For example, you can build an oscillator or filter circuit then have a visual of the results.

In terms of needing one: no, if you can borrow one or have access to someone else's lab. Oscilloscopes have relatively low benefit given the cost. They will either be too low frequency to be of value for many modern applications, or too finicky to learn how to use properly for higher frequency applications (not to mention expensive for higher frequency applications).
specific bandpass filter even better
The only really significant PhD in business is the one issued by the marketplace.

Prove your bona fides by starting your own company and becoming mega-rich. Paper credentials are no substitute and the ultimate proof is the fact that most business PhDs are not mega-rich.
...According to current US law.

Reading your comment, I wasn't sure if "compact" was a legal term or a geological one. Laws change much more quickly than geology.
Can also search like this:

pancakes site:reddit.com intitle:"/r/memes"

Will show results for pancakes from Reddit, from the memes subreddit.
All great questions, and I'll preface my response to saying that the true answers to these problems would have to be addressed in the "industry-specific brainstorming" that I mentioned. The results could look wildly different based on the problem the blockchain is addressing.

That said, the movement of "tangible assets" to "blockchain assets" is without a doubt a huge challenge for blockchains, but usually only when dealing with "real things" vs "systemic things", eg exchanging fiat for cryptocurrency. Integration into a private blockchain can be wholly systemic (so system-to-system vs reality-to-system). Integrating a new company into the system could be done by a joint effort between the members of private blockchain (who are all incentivized to help, because it's in their interest to ensure that no member of their industry goes unchecked.)

The economic incentive to commit to PoW is intrinsic to the adversarial network itself - basically, the desire of a company to survive the zero-sum game (success in such is typically measured by market share.)

To revert to a centralized authority is not an invalid approach, and may very well be the "happy medium" that allows this concept to solidify into something feasible. However, it is a "half-in, half-out" solution and is still vulnerable to corruption.

This is -of course - all speculative, but my overall point is that the discussion to reach solutions to these challenges will not be had if blockchains are written off as "dangerous nonsense".
To me that sounds like doing all the work upfront for a later, undetermined, and potentially negative return on time. That's opposed to doing the work and realizing the benefit more contemporaneously with that work. Regardless, it's still active work with the return shifted in time. Sounds riskier to me to put all the work upfront without any guarantee of return, especially if that works is particularly intense and active.
I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)
Google translate version can be found at https://sverigesradio-se.translate.goog/artikel/du-kopte-kla...
There's now even videos of the Martian eclipses, e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKK7vS2CHC8 ("NASA's Perseverance Rover Sees Solar Eclipse on Mars")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipses_on_Mars
A lot of the PHP specific issues came from poor input validation and setting the uploaded file permissions to 0777. This was of course in those days before StackOverflow where you’d copy code snippets from old blogs or forum posts, same as all those snippets containing SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Yeah, that was my reaction too. But ... why not? It still seems possible. I mean, between banks they definitely have to mark it to market in order to sell the mortgage, so they would take a big hit to sell when interest rates go up.

So, why can't you put on a funny hat and glasses, get a new mortgage at the higher rate, and then go buy your existing one at a discount?
Dollar hits 20-year peak on yen as Bank of Japan stays super-easy
That was not my understanding, but the source I heard about the reasoning from was the 60 minutes expose.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QytfYyHmxtc

Between 35-36m-ish. 35:30 I think.

Boeing was claimed to have "known the FAA would not certify a dual sensor system without Level D simulator training".

This was from an insider at the time, and admittedly, I've not heard of an identity being put to them, but that signal was claimed to have been there.

There is also corroborating evidence that the Chief Technical Pilot actively dissuaded customers who asked for simulator time anyway, characterizing it as unnecessary. I don't have those at my fingertips right now, and unfortunately, my memory is failing me as to whether or not an "oh shit" moment was had at some point as to whether the Chief Technical Pilot had mischaracterized the system to regulators.

I just remember I thought it was awful convenient at the yime that this Chief Technical Pilot had all the hallmarks of a scapegoat for management to start piling blame on, and being glad he got independent counsel instead of relying on Boeing's General Counsel.
You should try Fidelity, it’s even worse. To authenticate over their phone you punch in the digits that correspond to the characters of your password. Special characters all get mapped to zero.

This is TONS of fun when you use a password manager and have a long a random string password. It’s even more fun when you realize that they give you a limited amount of time to authenticate and it’s nowhere near long enough for a 20 character password.

It’s really sad how bad authentication systems are for some of the most critical systems in our lives.
I think that works ok. But I think it's an unnecessarily tricky explanation. Entropy per macro-state decreases as we look at finer-grained macro-states. It feels simpler to associate the entropy of each macro-state with that macro-state, rather than assuming we know which macro-state the system is in, and then attributing the lower entropy to our knowledge of the macro-state.

I think it can probably be expressed either way. I just think the "knowledge" part is tricky and can be left out.
I grew up in Chicago and love Chicago, so I'll try to say this as politely as possible - don't expect your property to hold any value in IL.

Anecdata - I have friends that lived there for 8+ years, then moved to the south in the last 2 years and their property value barely budged.
It’s hard to convey how invaluable an oscilloscope is for most electronics labs, at least when you reach the point where you're dealing with your own designs and/or troubleshooting others' flaky designs. Not for use all the time, but for being there if needed. After all, signals in electronics are everywhere, and being able to see a represantation of them takes out so much guesswork from any situation.

You don’t technically need one, but that’ll make a lot of work much harder and some work impossible.
>After all the boomer generation, on average, has over-provisioned for old age, whereas millenials are still underhoused.

Have they over-provisioned? Everything I have read indicates meager savings for the vast majority of the population, who will need to rely on Medicaid and Social Security to eek out the remainder of their living costs.

Nursing home care is especially costly in the event one does not die quickly, and the government can and I assume will seek to reimburse itself from the estate once the elder dies.
>I cannot envision a bright future if we don’t start...

The future is bright whether you see it or not. Take a vacation, find a less stressful job, start enjoying life.
> Even when fraud occurs, the recipient is a known actual person.

Not really. It's easy enough to set up fake identity that people who go and scam people on the internet usually do that.

I mean crypto and gift cards are way worse than banks of course. I'm just saying that there's no expectation in Europe that most payments are reversible.
Yup, enough to sustain 1,000 x 1,000MW reactors for 100,000 years. Seawater extraction of uranium is renewable since geological processes replenish that circulating uranium as it is extracted, too. [1]

[1] https://www.ans.org/news/article-1882/nuclear-power-becomes-...
You have completely missed my point. Every time you drive to work or flush your toilet you make an impact to the environment. How do you justify this action? Is it ok because you think that the impact to the environment is small? Will the end result of your action be a "massive destruction of the ecosphere"? Maybe it will be, but you have no other choice in life than evaluate all impacts and improve where you can and where it matters most.
How to get the triple-monitor laptop setup of your dreams
I think the results are mixed. I don’t think anyone is claiming ML will die off. But in my own experience, for every company with a healthy ML environment, there are dozens that are kind of just throwing money and data around without much success, or without even the type of problems ML can solve. And at many companies that do have a solid ML use case, you often have teams of data scientists looking to find new projects that justify their existence because the maintenance of existing ML products doesn’t take up capacity.

ML will always be around, but it’s also definitely in a bubble right now in my opinion and there will likely be a contraction before the profession matures and gets to a healthy place.
If there was anyone who taught you this then they should be fired.

More constructively, principal among the many things wrong with your comment is the formula for the mean; sum_i p_i = 1, so sum_i p_i / n = 1 / n. The mean would instead be sum_i p_i x_i.
It sank in 1975. There could certainly be children of the sailors alive, and a spouse who was in their 30’s at the time would be around their 80’s now. That doesn’t seem far fetched.