skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would they do that. They are already deploying laser powered sats and all nee once are.
I will admit have avoided trying to follow the entire rabbit hole of details on this case. So feel free to point out where i've missed some facts.
From what i've seen I doubt it would be considered theft for the simple reason that the tokens that were bought/sold didn't belong to anyone else in particular who you could say it was appropriated from. He also paid for all of it, and paid the fair value at the time.

In fact, he paid very high prices for the initial tokens (860 times initial value at one point).
Then gave away a bunch of tokens.
Then waited for an algorithm to do something dumb around the pricing, and then swapped the tokens.

Who exactly did he appropriate property from here?
He paid for all of it, and paid the prices the market demanded. The algorithm did something dumb, but that is no different than some trading bot algorithm doing something dumb and selling for less than it should, which happens all the time.

As for embezzlement, it requires a trust relationship - it's a violation of a fiduciary duty.

I don't think he had one?

So far, i've not seen any criminal charges here, only civil ones.
Certainly prosecutors are slower at this sort of thing, but i'll be interested to see what happens.
the story itself feels, no pun intended, very robotic but the illustrations I think would be perfectly useable in a lot of contexts. I can see web fiction and say comic writers benefitting from this quite a lot given that commissioning art is fairly expensive.
Let's talk about this directly: what do you do when the nuclear reactor goes down because it's time to refuel, or because it's heating up the river too much in a heat wave (eg in France), or because some sensor valve froze shut in an decade-frequent cold snap (Texas)?

You get the power from some other generator on the grid at a different geographic location.

We can easily get to 80%-90% renewables that way, with current lithium ion storage, and no price decreases. With price decreases, and the huge panopoly of other storage chemistries that are close to shipping, and maybe even competing economically (iron, maybe vanadium flow, maybe zinc air), then we have clear paths to 100%.

But even in France, nuclear never beat this 80%-90% mark, and it would absolutely bonkers insane and unrealistic to consider keeping the US's nuclear percentage at its current 20% of generation, because we can't build and we need to replace ~100 reactors very very very soon. We will be lucky if the nuclear industry could even deliver 10% of electricity needs in the future, because they simply can not build and deliver on their promises. Especially with electrification expanding energy consumed as electricity versus fossil fuels in the coming decades.

Pumped hydro is also very expensive compared to lots of lithium batteries. We will soon be producing many TWh/year of lithium ion, getting to tens of TWh/year by the early 2030s. We can accelerate that curve, or decelerate it based on investments and regulatory structures.

Nuclear is too far behind on tech to catch up. We simply can not grow the workforce or the supply chains of reactors quickly enough to sustain past construction levels at this pace. It would be foolish capital allocation.
You are not alone. If I was made to use this, I'd probably retire early or change careers. Trends towards centralization and uniformity make me sad.
It seems like sql types that include null and non-null values are a union of at least two different types. In general, if you write code to handle a tagged union that has "panic!" in one of the prongs, you'll get panics. Don't do that?
It is so much worse than that. The video doesn't use SpaceX cost. It uses their cost to others. It categorically rules out using their new rocket, even though their stated plans call for them to use it. It rules out ride sharing, even though they have been doing that. The video creator /knows/ they are doing that. They know they are lying. I can tell, because I've looked at some of the articles they posted screen captures of. They edited the fucking headlines to remove the rocket launch price. The video is absolute garbage. It even posits a government conspiracy, because it has to, because it lied about the speed test numbers that are used to decide eligibility for funding. Yet despite all that when they talk about their choice of numbers they pretend they are being generous to SpaceX by using conservative numbers when nothing could be further from the truth.
Sounds like the future of humanity maybe. Or the present.
Snap Walks Back Already Lowered Guidance from Month Ago, Shares -30% Afterhours
What's the difference between "putting all your wealth in a foundation that will do your bidding after you die" and "donating all your wealth to the most like-minded person that will continue to do your bidding after you die"? Sure, the latter isn't 100%, but the former isn't 100% either (regulations can change in the future), and even disregarding that, are we suddenly okay with it if the chance that your bidding will be carried out is 99% rather than 100%?
I didn't realize that brewed coffee has such a higher caffein content!
The number of heterosexuals engaging in repeated random anal sex with strangers is significantly less than that of the male homosexual population. But you're smart, pretty sure you already know that.
> Ground infra can suck. It will probably be stuck at 6Mbps down forever since it is not economical to upgrade it.

Having competition changes the economics, at least somewhat. Look how fast AT&T rolled out fibers to all the cities Google announced they were going to do fiber in. It's still expensive to do new runs everywhere, but it may be worthwhile to keep some business. In some areas, as some customers leave, staying customers may be able to have better access to bonded lines. In other areas, the carrier just needs a kick in the pants to use more flexible/generous profiles to let customers use the speed that's available.
Synthesizing or summarizing? There is a difference.
Begin by defining technical debt. Write down an actual definition for the phrase. Once you have a working definition that everyone agrees on you will find all your problems with the term will disappear. (Hint: good luck finding an agreed on definition).
try Linux Mint with Chrome or Bravo browser on any old laptop with an SSD and it's golden!
I use JetPack. That lets me sign in with my WP account, which is protected by 2FA.
Nix solves this exact problem you've described.
Supposedly $1500 for a V1 unit, the new rectangular dish hasn't been discussed afaik. https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/spacex-is-spending-...
I disagree, we are in the hundreds of GWh/year of lithium ion production now, and it grows 10x roughly every five years.

It's unlikely that any other storage tech can build supply chains quickly enough to compete with that growth. I certainly don't see pumped hydro doing this, unless we can stop relying on geography and construction projects. To make pumped hydro economical we would need something like spheres bolted to the ocean/lake floors, that pump water out and in for storage. And the materials costs for that are not falling in the same way as chemical storage.
AD&D and Tron: Deadly Discs ftw
You know Google literally writes the specifications that are subsequently used by advertisers to fingerprint users, right?

For example, the AudioContext API allows websites with zero audio to query sensitive personalized information about your audio equipment, with no permission. It was written by a Google employee, and implemented first in Chrome, then abused throughout DoubleClick's (owned by Google) display advertising network.
And he always asks them the question "What is life?"
France's grid is still quite dependent on hydrocarbons, despite being mostly nuclear.

So it's not clear how nuclear helps here.
The model makes inferences about the world from training data. When it sees more female nurses than male nurses in its training set, if infers that most nurses are female. This is a correct inference.

If they were to weight the training data so that there were an equal number of male and female nurses, then it may well produce male and female nurses with equal probability, but it would also learn an incorrect understanding of the world.

That is quite distinct from weighting the data so that it has a greater correspondence to reality. For example, if Africa is not represented well then weighting training data from Africa more strongly is justifiable.

The point is, it’s not a good thing for us to intentionally teach AIs a world that is idealized and false.

As these AIs work their way into our lives it is essential that they reproduce the world in all of its grit and imperfections, lest we start to disassociate from reality.

Chinese media (or insert your favorite unfree regime) also presents China as a utopia.
That could be the job description of the editor of the New Yorker
I enjoyed snafu, armor battle, football and hockey with my brothers. And mind strike (which is clever enough someone should remake it)

Even though the controller where charitably meh (I disliked the side buttons) The hardest part of playing those games in emulation is getting a controller with a number pad and 16 directions. I tried a couple versions and modern controllers just don’t deal with the keypad well. I have bunch of carriages with the plastic overlays that slide over the number pad that told you what some of the buttons did.

Colecovision has a similar issue.
The counter-point here is that while you can argue about the name, there is a very real issue that poor architecture will slow progress not because it's "hard" to implement features, but because organizationally it becomes impossible to get them merged.

We have an endless parade of commentary on HN about what and how much should be in commits and pull requests and what have you, but the thing I've always found credulous about these ideas is how they survive contact with a code base where a "small" feature is going to have a very wide-ranging pattern of changes necessary to support it.

It doesn't take much before their are features you functionally can't implement, because there's no possible way to build a neat set of commits for them and get that through reviewers - particularly if there's a lot of activity, because the immediate effect is usually that you'll break a lot of other minor patches with the changes (or they keep breaking you).

I'm not sure though that I've seen anyone actually prioritize fixing technical debt in these terms though.
People don’t bring Uber their flowers for actually supporting OSS with their dollars.

They were paying customers for SPIFFE and SPIRE support when Scytale was an independent company as well
A majority of nurses are women, therefore a woman would be a reasonable representation of a nurse. Obviously that's not a helpful stereotype, because male nurses exist and face challenges due to not fitting the stereotypes. The model is dumb, and outputs what it's seen. Is that wrong?
This is probably in response to the CCP attempts to cover up the covid epidemic in Wuhan and to misreport cases and deaths.

Although I fail to see how the Xi era China would allow a WHO team investigate in a timely manner, after they placed the covid investigators in a two week quarantine more than a year after the event occured and they had plenty of time to further cover things up.
At long last the unending burden of writing and illustrating children's stories has begun to be lifted from the weary shoulders of humanity. We'll finally be free to soar among the stars and click on more links to 3 paragraph medium articles as the universe intended.

Seriously though cool project, I would love to know more about the build process for something like this.
This honestly feels incredulous. Every single music teacher I've had in school (or even otherwise) in India uses a harmonium. It's a staple across instructors and pros alike, as far as I know.
I'm working on a MUD myself https://github.com/DanteFalzone0/mudnix

Progress has stalled because of the demands of my day job but you can try out the latest (limited, pre-alpha) version of the game here: https://dantefalzone0.github.io/games/mudnix/
I wonder if google images could just seed in some generated images when none relevant are found..
Those quotes should be "ascii" quotes, not unicode.
He doesn't just include those calculations in. He overcounts them to a pretty large degree. He also photoshops screengrabs of articles and lies about launch prices and lies about the number of launches and lies about the speed of SpaceX service and lies about a government conspiracy because the speed test numbers were too low, and he is a misogynist towards Shotwell, mocking her for being female, and he lies about the cost of the competitor services.

You don't need to worry. Every angle for making the comparison unflattering to SpaceX, including taking screen grabs of Elon Musk with funny faces and making character attacks on him on the basis of his face looking funny, are more then covered in that cesspit designed to radicalize and monetize the gullible.
Snap stock falls 30% saying it will miss estimates due to deteriorating economy
the state bar organizations colluded with the law schools in order to hide the poor success rates of law school grads...the bar organizations and the law school deans should all be arrested for fraud
The legal and moral notion of consent to sexual activity isn't and logically driven by your brains ability to form memories or actuate voluntary motion.

For someone to give consent they have to have sufficient higher function to make a reasonable judgement.

If you fuck someone drunk off their ass because they can move and respond you probably morally and legally raped them in at least half the nation.

For example in California

https://properdefenselaw.com/drunk-sex-rape-in-california-ca...

New Jersey

https://www.brickdonlaw.com/blog/2021/january/how-drunk-is-t...

The fact that some states will let you get someone drunk enough to be stupid in order to get into their pants isn't a good reason to do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(book)
On the other hand, making QA more expensive might just mean there's going to be even less QA work done.
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This comment isn't going to age well.
New job title: Chief Editor, AI Content

Bonus points for outsourcing that to AI.
And as usual for these type of things it'll be made by macbook users for macbook users. It'll be sluggish on non top-of-the-line computers. Meanwhile my vim setup works on a potato laptop just fine.
“… a learned helplessness where the only solution seemed to be resignation.”

oof. too real.
Next.js looks so, so much more mature than Joystick, the latter appearing to be one person's pet project. I don't understand why you shared it in this thread, and i really don't understand the "don't do drugs" bit.
It's not just you. Morever, there are very strong business incentives to lock in software development to be only on the browser.
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> I have resigned all my positions in ISO C++ in protest of the decision to use CoC anti-discrimination rules to protect a duly convicted registered level 2 sex offender.

> it was made clear by several members of my national body that avoiding this person is discrimination of an ex-felon

It's a complicated balance to strike between reintegrating ex-felons, and the justified fear other people have that they will be victimized.

Edit: Just mean I really don't envy the people forced to deal with this. Really a no-win situtation.
> even when the donor sincerely believes they're doing what's best for people ...

They are wealthy people who have no experience or knowledge of what people without wealth need.
Many graduate programs are a sort of qualification for visa status.

When I was in school, all of my classmates who went on to graduate school did so to improve their visa situation. Not sure if that’s true today.

Otherwise, I’d agree the value is questionable. My brother got an MA in English Literature, which has no monetary value. Most critically he didn’t go into debt to get it, so he got to explore something he loved and lost nothing.
There already is an article calling DALL E racist and it isn’t even public yet. Just imagine what horrible things the general public will get it to spit out.
This seems to assume that the government is benevolent, whereas private actors are not. I have come to view government programs with the perspective that they are intended primarily to benefit the politicians efforts to become reelected. They can claim to be saving the world, but with other people's money. Some good may come of these efforts but I don't view them as inherently virtuous. You argue that private actors let personal politics dictate how they direct their funds, if the alternative is allowing politicians to do so, I don't see how that is much better.

I am perfectly content with private actors deciding how best to use their own money for philanthropic purposes. It leads to a more diverse set of approaches. If there are people that believe in one thing and others that believe the opposite they should both be allowed to fund what they think is right without a democratic majority stifling minority points of view.

I do not have a point of view on whether it is worthy of a tax break.
I struggle very heavily with remembering faces and especially names. Because of the peculiarities of my situation, if someone walks up to me familiarly I can't tell if they only know me second-hand, or if we actually have had some sort of interaction in the past, and how significant those experiences are to the other person

It can be stressful to not know or remember if I actually know this person some how and navigating through that.
At this point, the untested "future tech" is nuclear. Storage is far more reliably produced than nuclear, and its silly to pretend otherwise when we have extremely robust supply chains for storage that produce absolutely massive amounts, whereas nuclear just creeps along with failures and schedule delays and excuse after excuse after excuse.

Nuclear is not a serious tech, it's barely a tech at all because it gets more expensive rather than cheaper the more we discover about it. Almost an anti-technology in fact, mostly a boondoggle to fund decrepit contractors that have killed subways and transit and all sorts of other construction in the Western world.

Current lithium ion storage production is at 200-300 GWh/year, which, with daily discharge is 8-12 nuclear reactors' worth of energy. Per year. And this capacity is growing 10x every 5 years, and massively dropping costs. Every. Single. Year. Nuclear is an absolute joke compared to that.
They might recognize themselves but have no interest in how they look. In a split second they see themselves in mirror, but it's not useful information. The scent on the surface of the mirror would be far more interesting than their own reflection.
Google AI researchers don't have the final say in what gets published and what doesn't. I think there was a huge controversy when people learned about it last year.
Spending upwards of $100k or more on personal enrichment seems a bit extravagant. Unfortunately, the majority of people are coerced to go into debt when the return on the "investment" is very limited.
Yes it definitely depends on the source material… I’ll see about adding it in.
If you have a number of curly braces in the pattern, probably easier to use printf-style formatting to build the pattern, with %s etc.
I think a lot of people would be perfectly happy to pay per query to access this.
My first thought on reading the article is generating images for my presentations.
> it's a hodgepodge of social engineering programs filtered through layers of patronage jobs for administration

Can you back that up? I know people who were in poverty and very much support many of those programs as lifesavers. It's wealthier people, who have no experience of them, who I see disparaging them.

Also, the criticism is cliche - I haven't seen much evidence of it. While nothing is perfect, the civil service in most advanced countries, including the US, are not patronage jobs; they are protected from such hiring and firing corruption. I know civil servants and they did not get the job through patronage and take their public service and professionalism very seriously. It's very easy to smear all those people in a few words.
I have a video friends took of me, that I don't remember entire HOURS of before and after. In the video you can clearly see I am happy drunk but you couldn't get me to consent to things I didn't want IMO. Im not some confused lump ready to be taken advantage of, yet I lost all memory of that 4th of July BBQ.

Plus, beyond my anecdote, the guy above posted research. Do we not believe in science anymore?
If anyone wants to climb out of the rabbit hole rather than into it, someone wrote a multi-part essay debunking this video. There are /a lot/ of mischaracterizations, outright lies, and deception. It has three parts, because there was so many times that were deceptive as to demand multiple articles.

https://littlebluena.substack.com/p/common-sense-skeptic-deb...
After the 2008 economic crash, a lot of US colleges and universities experienced a drastic realignment of their entire core mission and method to focus on career outcomes and ROI. Even without this, graduate programs are one of the biggest money makers in an institution's budget.

If I have it right, undergraduate tuitions generally cover operational costs, while graduate programs and donations are where institutions makes their non-profitty millions.
Well, you do have a choice, you could move to a lower tax jurisdiction. Different jurisdictions provide different trade-offs in terms of the tax burdens and services rendered. You can move to a jurisdiction that provides your preferred trade-off.

Furthermore, there are lot of costs which you arguably can't avoid: food, medical, housing etc. Should you be able to deduct those off of your federal taxes as well since you can't really dispose of that income freely?
> The model makes inferences about the world from training data. When it sees more female nurses than male nurses in its training set, if infers that most nurses are female. This is a correct inference.

No it is not, because you don’t know if it’s been shown each one of its samples the same number of times, or if it overweighted some of its samples more than others. There’s normal reasons both of these would happen.
Yes, the original stack 'Prefect' was written to address issues in airflow.
The DAG on prefect was built using decorators in a context which was pretty cool and worked well but they moved to DAG generation as code on Orion.

Prefect very cleanly written, good design and flexible. IMHO it is a platform that will be the next big thing in the area.

How I know, I deployed prefect as a static config gathering system across 4000 servers, both Linux and Windows. No other software stack came close, as one of the core concepts of prefect is 'expect to fail'. Things like Ansible Tower die really quick with large clusters due to the normal number of failures and the incorrect assumption that most things will work (as you can for a small cluster).

I wish I got to use it in my current work but there is no use case. Yet.
It’s perfectly well within the rights of this individual to resign, without Reddit/HN getting into a spat about whether the individual’s justification meets some loose standard.

I do think this particular tweet is very concerning. See if you can follow this train of thought:

> While I empathize with any ex-felon's right reintegration, I empathize more with past or potential victim's right to do their jobs amongst people who haven't fallen short of one of the lowest moral bars in society. Choosing one side must exclude the other.

How does this make you feel? Do you agree that “Choosing one side must exclude the other”? Is this an applicable statement to make in this context?