skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vitamin D may reduce the risk of developing an autoimmune disease
Current resident 15+ years on and off, you’re mostly correct as an average but some neighborhoods have appreciated significantly and there’s likely to be a few others doing so in the next decade. But overall I’d agree that it’s not a great market for capital appreciation, and high property taxes don’t make it a great rental income market either.
It sounds as if the author is not well informed about the recent advancements and findings from the literature and research community on deep learning.

> However, while machine learning has made huge strides in many domains, it still has several areas of weakness that are very important when one is doing mathematics. Here are a few of them.

Basically all of these claims are wrong. I'm not saying we have maybe perfectly solved them but we have solved them all to a great extend and it currently looks like if just scaling up further probably solves them all.

> In general, tasks that involve reasoning in an essential way.

See Google PaLM. Or most of the other recent big language models.

> Learning to do one task and then using that ability to do another.

Has been done many times before. But you could also again count the big language models as they can do almost any task. Or the big multi-modal models. Or then the whole area of multi-task learning, transfer learning. This all works very well.

> Learning based on just a small number of examples.

Few-shot learning, zero-shot learning, meta learning allows to do just that.

> Common sense reasoning.

Again, see PaLM or the other big language models.

> Anything that involves genuine understanding (even if it may be hard to give a precise definition of what understanding is) as opposed to sophisticated mimicry.

And again, see the big LMs.

Sure, you can argue this is not genuine understanding. Or there is no real common sense reasoning in certain areas. Or whatever other shortcomings with current approaches.

I would argue, even human intelligence falls short by many of that measures. Or humans also do just "sophisticated mimicry".

Maybe you say the current models lack long-term memory. But we already also have solutions for that. Also see fast weights.

The argument that humans just use a small number of examples to learn ignores all the constant stream of data we passively get through our life through our eyes, ears, etc. And also the evolutionary selection which sets the hyper parameters and many wiring paths of our brains.
It was less cpu intensive to buy RAM, so we did that first. We need all 20 cores for all the other stuff the desktop user uses sadly, and we can only give them 3 computers with 20 cores each.

I tried lobbying for threadrippers but... not easy to onboard a new CPU in a giga corporation :(
The whole point of the distributed ledger is that no single entity can “take away” ownership of, say, an ERC721 (NFT, which domains also are) without access to my keys. Websites can de-list this but anybody can still see it clearly indexed in the blockchain state as the system is distributed.

I am not doing this to be censorship resistant from police (who can force me to give up my keys).

The point is that, rather than an asset owned by X company or Y bank, it is owned by me (in a decentralized system). eg: A tech company being acquired or shuttered will have no bearing on my ownership of and ability to transfer this asset.
The only situation where trust is minimized or absent is jurisdictions where there is no law or less law, in which case you’re going to use force instead of code to enforce law.

Trust is an inherent property of a functioning society, and hence why the bonafide use cases for blockchain and crypto are so few. If you live somewhere where the police, a judge, or government can make you whole in a dispute, not a lot of need for web3. If you live somewhere where that isn’t the case (failing nation states, authoritarian regimes), that’s a better product market fit for web3.
Presumably you could still apply some changes. If there was a critical vulnerability Twitter could make the changes necessary. If those changes are allowed, maybe not so critical changes could be made as well.
Are these general or specific? I know some laws have been passed like a treaty between states, especially ones that border each other. The ones I know are very specific.
The Pixy is good for "5-8 flights using the default flight modes" and the default flight duration seems to be 30 seconds. Therefore, the battery will likely last you at most 4 minutes.

https://support.pixy.com/hc/en-us/articles/5039935499924-Abo...

https://youtu.be/2HVty_tuiVQ?t=44
DHT doesn't build a consensus, most blatantly because nodes don't even have the full set of information but also because if they did they aren't validating it anyways. About the only similarities are they are distributed systems to share data that utilize cryptography in some way.
Why do you trust one source and not the other?
While I also haven't ever had a cycle in my decades as an engineer, it doesn't really answer the parent's question about pauses w.r.t. ref counting. Ref counting, in the general, isn't free.

(Also, in the sense of releasing a cycle, that would be pretty quick, since a typical RC implementation is just going to leak it. Its where a large graph resource graph is successfully ref-counted to 0 that can cause a pause, theoretically, although that's another case I've not seen.)
AI is not even required, it would be quite easy to filter out the frequency of the noise from the rotors using technology that has existed for decades if not almost 100 years, indeed Butterworth was designing his filters in the 1930’s
> No, you aren’t. Beause there are overlaps. (Seen Venn diagrams, btw?)

Sorry, I meant different as in distinct, coming from different people.

> When you don't read those threads or blogs, you are not taking advantage of accumulated human knowledge over the years.

I agree, that's why I keep reading them. But more often than not, I feel like I end up with more questions and uncertainty than I started with.

> And this approach will more likely to lead to poor choice of books.

I don't think it's so obvious. Maybe that "average" book that matched your particular taste, would actually be more useful than the "perfect" one, which felt mundane? Simply because the first one would be more engaging, and you'd have higher chance of finishing it. But if you had read the reviews beforehand, you'd end up feeling bad both about the one you liked, and about the one that others recommended, and eventually wouldn't read either.

> One method I forgot to mention- I also look at reputations of publishers/series. If a book is coming out of Green Tea Press, Pragmatic Bookshelf, or Manning, I will tend to favor them more.

Agreed on this one!
Disagree. That may have been true in the past, but it hasn't been the case for the past few years where employers bleed talent rapidly and are in dire need of anyone even remotely competent. I assure you, they are looking at exit interview data and it absolutely matters. A "rockstar" employee (I really hate that term, but I get what you mean) was a luxury many companies no longer have; now they're desperate to just keep the ship afloat with your average team. It's especially important to the many small businesses that have less than 100 employees - like my last employer - where individual resignations on a week-to-week basis is having huge impacts to deliverables. Even at the FAANG I'm currently at, it's very much an important data point.

EDIT: FWIW I've had zero issues with "references" with my past employers. All of them are open to me returning as well, so this idea of burning bridges by being honest in exit interviews seems mistaken.
yeah, the magic wears off quickly

i used to look up AC/DC, but now that i know how _literally_ all their songs work i find it rather boring and not very intellectually challenging
> California has laws in place to recoup those losses

California does not own the employee, it is no longer the time of slavery. Or it is still slavery in a different form, where states own almost everyone, especially their revenue?
Funny enough, not a nurse, but took over a 2 year "sabbatical" to do COVID testing and Vaccination. As someone who is used to making design decisions on an EHR in previous consulting engagements, it was beyond enlightening to see how things are where the rubber meets the road. Was only a Clinical Health Tech and a Medical Assistant, but frankly burned out enough to move back to software work.

Saddest thing is that I really felt I was helping, but have to admit I've become burnt out in the healthcare field - Just have $500 or so in scrubs invested...

Taking the time has hurt my career in many ways, I do believe. I have a ton of respect for many nurses, but many travelers are worse than you might imagine. Over-extended, far over-paid for their work. And really don't care about the facility they are working with (or throwing others under the bus to cover up their own mistakes)...

It was a valuable thing to experience, and I do believe I helped many people, but it's a very different thing to be at the bottom rung than the one designing and implementing various systems. God forbid someone can see a workflow issue, propose multiple solutions, and have travelers ignore it because the workflow issue makes them more money.

Not a rant against nurses at all - As someone with over 20 years in various roles of engineering, it was quite an eye opener to me.
iPhone 12 mini weighs 135g, over half the 250g limit for mini-drones. It seems unfeasible for a pocket-size drone in the near future, unless the drone could pull power from the iPhone and not need its own battery.

Mavic Mini has a payload capacity around 180g, but it also has a nice camera already.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people

Doesn't say anything about state's rights. But it does suggest that any powers not already reserved by the Federal government belong as much to the people (i.e., citizens) as they do to the states.
"Word-thinking". I like that phrase: when you over-index on the specific word as opposed to the meaning intended. For instance, thinking "act of god" is meaningless in a legal document etc.

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Absolute statments usually don't hold up well.

Have you considered:

Settlement is much quicker. Did you know it could take upto 7 years to settle a cheque/check.

You don't have to trust the business as much as the business has to trust you before they send the goods. Chargebacks and unfavorable refunds can eat into profit. Quick settlements elimate this issue.
Worker resides in California therefor they and their company are tangled up there. 1099’s.
Two things:

1) "In particular, the taxes on property ownership are supposed to capture the entire value of renting the property."

Not true. Only the unimproved value of land is meant to be taxed. This amounts to a complete exemption on taxes on buildings.

The current proposal that is often on the table is not to go for classical 100% Georgist LVT, but to simply collect the exact same amount of property taxes we do now, but to shift the burden off of buildings and onto land. This can be done right now with existing property tax regimes. The burden would fall mostly on underutilized land, parking lots, and vacant lots in city centers, where the lion's share of land value is concentrated. Proposals for this sort of reform are in the works right now in various US cities.

If you'd like to see a practical policy paper on the subject see here by Tideman, Kumhof, Hudson, and Goodhart (the Goodhart of Goodhart's Law, by the way):
https://voxeu.org/article/post-corona-balanced-budget-fiscal...

2) Georgism is not just about real estate. It's about properly dealing with scarce economic assets that can't be created and which invite speculation

Norway's sovereign wealth fund is an extremely successful example of applying Georgist principles to natural resources, for just one example:

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/norways-sovereign-...
Corollary: any great technology, the first 10 years they came out, were totally unnecessary. Internet in the 70s? Totally unnecessary for practical uses in the 70s and 80s. Cars invented in the 1880s? Also unnecessary.
There's a simple proof that the upgrade game is the way to go.

1. All remodels lose money, except MAYBE a minor kitchen remodel.

2. Ergo, if you buy a house that was remodeled, you win.

3. Ergo, upgrade instead of add-on, so start small and buy up.
The issue isn't that the Windows filesystem doesn't support all of the UNIX features. The issue is that Go pretends nothing's wrong and just silently does the wrong thing when you try to use said features anyway.
hydrogen = 1 (atomic weight)
carbon = 6
oxygen = 8

H2O = 10
O2 = 16
CO2 = 22

Since the moon's gravity is too weak to hold the (heavier) latter two, I conclude that it must also be too weak to hold water molecules, which are lighter still.
Package Analysis Project: Scalable detection of malicious open source packages
People in this thread who are like, "Duh, you should have known that you have to hire a lawyer and HR person and an accountant to comply with all the regulations of California when you a hire a single person from there."

Take a step back and think about what you're saying. It really should not be that difficult to hire one person.
I use my Raspberry Pi 3 as my home RAID system (with 4 x 8 TB hdd). Not very fast, but definitely cheap with a low energy usage.
every now and again i read hackernews and reddit stuff on my boox ereader and having a slow refresh rate is definitely a good "feature" since it makes it a lot more tedious to read things compared to my phone, which helps me spend less time scrolling aimlessly
Sure but every blockchain I've seen make an effort to be decentralized has its "precautions" mostly in the form of an NGO that tries to manage the competing interests of every participant through various methods, to varying levels of success. A lot of them look suspiciously like unregulated credit unions or trust funds. There's that word "trust" again...
I hope it becomes a legal nightmare for them and become the example of what not to do.
> giving them a place to invest and express themselves and be seen by people in their lives as creative

nice way to capture it. i mainly think of these as incremental type games, about the investment, slowly grinding. but yeah getting to be seen, trying to look nice while doing it- that was definitely a huge part of the social gaming craze, was brand new & had tons of placememt all over the feed/people's walls.
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> This means that people owning property with a mortgage would suddenly be forced to sell their property at the near zero prices that Georgism is designed to foster.

Not necessarily. Relatively few homeowners occupy all that much land value; it's probable that most homeowners' dividends would entirely offset their tax burdens, in which case they stand to benefit if anything.
This really isn't the zinger you think it is. It should not be so burdensome to hire one employee, c'mon.
I do enjoy the idea of a novel that grossly exaggerates the US stereotypes of Canada.

Although some Canadian facts are so weird that they are nearly impossible to believe until you research them. Like the extremely well-appointed throne room at the top of the CN Tower that is kept in reserve for the British monarchy in case the UK is occupied during a war, and the royal family needs a secure and luxurious backup.
What does "build a consensus" mean in the context of blockchain?

Consensus of... whether or not the messages are correctly cryptographically signed?
Not really, or not always. An example: The IRS taxes every US citizen on all income, regardless of where they live. They didn't go setup tax treaties with every country. If I'm a US citizen living in North Korea, I still have to file US taxes every year, despite the 2 countries essentially hating on each other for decades.
How can China know you are not selling anything there is you don't report it? Or Russia, North Korea and the other 250 countries on this planet? You know your computer is made in China and probably your clothes too, so you are doing business with China, do you report your income there?
The problem is not the way the Constitution is written. It's a bunch of people who think that their understanding of, for example, "Privileges and Immunities" is obviously correct.
I think this comes in waves. Cities create tension between different classes of people. Rich and poor, eventually the grind becomes enough that flight occurs, to the suburbs. Then after a period of time, the urban gets a revitalization and those same people who left move back in. It goes back-and-forth.
The total of base compensation and benefits are already more or less required by law to be 100% of the market rate, as justified by surveys in the private sector. However, that does not include any stock compensation or bonuses. So government employees make about the same in industries that don't have significant stock or bonus. They make considerably less when more compensation is in those categories.

So the situation is already what you describe, for the most part.
The video appears to imply that 30 seconds is the default flight time.

So I'd estimate 2.5 - 4 minutes of flight time per battery.
>He can still back out of the deal.

That would cost him (or Twitter) $1B.
This "employee" is also the very person who chose to A.) Block President Trump and B.) Ban the story about Hunter Bidens's laptop from the New York Post, which was declared real by the NYT two years later.

Furthermore, Elon did not berate her by name or handle, he just said that what Twitter did was "obviously incredibly inappropriate" with a link to a story mentioning her, even though he did not mention her by name.

She's calling it abusive, not because Elon called her names (he never mentioned her, just the story) even though she was behind the biggest bans and censorship. She's upset that her power has been exposed and she might have some accountability for her decisions.

For how powerful she is, imagine if we weren't allowed to criticize the President, or a member of Congress, or Jeff Bezos, or even Elon Musk himself because it might hurt their feelings. When you are in a position of that much power, criticism must come with it, and you don't get to complain about that.
i play both piano, guitars and synths, how would you match that with my programming language preferences?
I m in Asia, we need the ability to validate 13 different exchange regulations and Java helps more than C++ as far as I can observe in team work, modularity, forcing some sort of okay common practice etc. The guys in the US have it easy with regard to logic so can throughput fast enough in Java to only switch fast clients to FPGA without the need for C++ in between.

The guys in London have nowhere near the volumes of APAC or the US. They can trade with excel if they want.
This looks like a daily game, which is not what I’m after at the moment. I wanted to list games that put the user in control as much as possible. I would add it if the user could go through different challenges at their own pace. Still, this is looks like a really fun game; nicely done!
Obligatory: https://cryptologie.net/article/555/my-friends-always-ask-me...

The simplest abstraction is to see cryptocurrency / blockchain / distributed ledger technology as a database running on a single computer. Everybody can access this database and there’s some simple logic that allows you to debit your account and credit someone else’s account. The computer has a queue to make sure transactions are processed in order.

Blockchains that support smart contracts allow for people to install programs to that computer, which will add a bit more logic than simply debiting/crediting accounts. Others can then just send transactions to this computer to make a function call to any program (smart contract) that was installed on the computer.

The cool thing really is that we’re all using the same computer with the same database and the same programs.

Now in practice, nobody would trust a single point of failure like that. What if the computer crashes, or burns in a fire? Distributed systems to the rescue! We use distributed system protocols to run the same database on many computers distributed around the world. These distributed system protocols effectively simulate a single database/computer so that a few computers failing doesn’t mean the end of the blockchain.

On top of that, we refuse to trust the computers that participate in this protocol. They could be lying about the balance in your account. We want the computers to police one another and agree on the database they are simulating. That’s where consensus protocols are used: to make the distributed database secure even when some of the participants are malicious.

And that’s it. That’s blockchain tech for you. The obvious application is money, as the secure and simulated single computer is useful to simplify a payment system, but really any distributed database that cannot trust some of its participants can benefit from the advances there.
I recall that Kansas and Missouri had a tax arrangement as lots of people lived on one side and worked on the other (there are two Kansas City’s). This meant that only the excess was paid to whichever had the higher tax rates although both forms were filed.
> And how does one go about the above without giving away enough information about the proposal to simply jot down, hire the relevant experts, and execute as if the idea is their own? Are patents the only way?

If the idea could be jotted down and executed well by someone else, get a patent.

It's common for people to think their ideas are worth stealing and executing. In practice, it's hard to even get people to listen to them, never mind steal them.

Also, if I were an investor and you only brought the idea, even if it's a secret I don't yet know and believe you have it right, I wouldn't invest in something that could be so easily stolen and executed if it ever got out.
>Which has created a scenario where people think science contains truths as opposed to approximations and best guesses.

Religion vs science. In religion, they KNOW what is true. In science, nobody really knows anything ever. Covid is spread via miasma, think about it lol.

Science doesn't allow authority and we should always be questioning assumptions. One day we might disprove einstein's gravity, perhaps CERN finds the graviton and it moves faster than the speed of light. You have to be open to questioning previously held beliefs.

>It's kinda sad because it bleeds into everything now - it's no longer acceptable for someone to be like "well let's think about it together.. " and have any discourse.

You have a proper scientific mindset. What you don't see is that much of today isn't about science. It's about religion.

Take this flagged article from today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31192378

It's a legit scientific journal and it's legit doctors. They are likely wrong; I really hope they are wrong. Good science though doesn't attack the authors but rather looks into claims and assertions. What if they are right? Shouldn't we perhaps address it?

Whereas from a religion point of view. These people are heretics. They must be burned!

This new religion that formed is what is twisting science. Science deniers! Wait isn't denying this study denying science? Isnt science about being open about possible issues?

Is it not the best option to deal with science deniers is to talk to them about it?