skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is entirely still a societal norm and a statement of personal belief about specific rights. You might believe those rights to be inalienable and that your property is necessarily yours, but that doesn't actually translate to to a guarantee of maintaining that possession in the absence of the institutions that currently protect that ownership.

Anyone who's lived through a massive societal upheaval, collectivisation, dictatorship etc can attest to this - your ownership of property only means anything in as much as it's protected. If the state fails, or if society's understanding of private property radically changes then your investment is only valuable if you can hold on to it.

Even in the private-property loving West the value of an individuals property can often turn out to just be the amount that the state decides to pay them when they seize it via eminent domain.
Yes, a bit. This is also true while using nuclear reactors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31557584
The GPU's aren't helping compile code 100x faster or having a 100x faster boot time, so would it be fair to say the 1000x speed increase of the exaflop supercomputers is also mainly for specialized workloads like matrix multiplications, but it wouldn't be 1000x faster than Roadrunner for general purpose computation? how much faster would it be at SAT solving?
It won't be what you expect to change your worldview that will actually do it. Actually it will be unlikely to be something you read. It's also probably not even going to be seeing a ghost or something that makes you drop an atheistic, nonspiritual worldview.

I would say that the more likely route into such a thing will be a profoundly shifting personal experience. For example, some kind of psychedelic experience (although for some it is just "fun" and doesn't trigger any spirituality), or more commonly, immense personal suffering and a desire to escape from it.

The shift from atheist and nonspiritual, to religious or spiritual is a dramatic shift. It's unlikely to be pleasant or comfortable. For me, it only developed as a coping mechanism because I was unable to accept the world from a nonspiritual point of view. As such, it probably isn't something you should desire.
It should be possible to write a shim spoofing any checks per application.
You really think no money changes hands to power this feature? The last ~decade of tech teaches one to assume otherwise…
Wow yet more reasons to hate Britain, very cool.
LOL. “Transaction tax” and “devaluing their asset to pay insurers”. Both things that are handled by Base rate inflation. The missing part of this analysis is that it is very hard to peg a deflating asset. The other problem is that from a monetary policy POV, you can’t defend it in a deflationary system without capital inflow because the whole system is denominated in a different currency which is inflating.
A http-server like express is a basic necessity.. edited though :)
Yes. You name things so you can communicate ideas about them.
It takes up a lot of space in a small apartment.
A great read, but there's one thing I think he could have done differently to prevent the cheating getting out of hand: as soon as he discovered the cheating, just remind all students about academic integrity, and that cheating will mean failure.

It's easy to believe you won't get caught if everybody does it and nobody is reminding you that it's wrong. It can give an impression of unaccountability. I think a simple reminder can put a lot of students straight. Not the hard-core cheaters who are determined to fail, but certainly the much larger group that will get swept up with the cheating if nobody steps in to remind them not to.
> solar and wind can't do baseload

Not really, as we know how, at continental scale, adequately use wind and solar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31557422
What massive efficiency? You're feeding it to animals. 80% of the calories are immediately pooped out.
Maybe the correct solutions is a bath tub curve, banned for young children, allowed for teens to people below 40, banned for people older than that.
interesting, just read through the release notes. pretty cool.

i think a small discussion of this (and how the agent/key handles/resident mode work) would make an excellent addition to the blog post. it was very clear how to set it up, but left me with questions as to if i should...

in practice i would wonder about backup authentication methods and key rotation....

but otherwise all in all pretty cool.
I would subscribe via RSS if a feed was available.
> And, more than that, it was tangible proof that other people liked my idea - which is emotionally satisfying.

Not only emotionally satisfying. People forget how valuable such validation is for getting further funding.
Maybe not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31557422

Germany's gridpower offers one of the best quality of service (availability...) in Europe.
As an aside, I'm from a so-so third-world country (Nigeria), and the best graduating student from my recent university set got a Gates Cambridge scholarship for a PhD in a science field. She's wicked smart and hardworking, and the UK will most likely make better use of her talent compared to my country.

It's a bit sad (to me) that they limited this opportunity to graduates of the world's top universities and excluded disadvantaged/poorer countries as a result. But, such is life. I can't dictate to foreign countries and voters who or not they should let into their borders.
The amounts are actually not that bad for someone who is working on something in POC stage.

The last few days I'm trying to integrate a JavaScript engine with Vapor(an OS backend framework written in Swift) to create a standalone, dead easy to run(no Docker, package managers or anything like that, easy to install and run as installing Firefox) multiplatform low code backend tool which roughy falls in the "Building a self-hosted compiler or interpreter." category. The idea is that it will allow developers focus on the product instead of dealing with server and data management at reasonable cost, control and performance. My app will take care of authentication, data storage and allow custom logic to be written using JS. Firebase kind of does it but it cannot be self hosted and there are horror stories of mistakes that can cost tens of thousands of dollars in a blink of an eye. The custom logic with functions is also too slow, it takes forever to wake up and run a function(though they introduced some solutions for the issue).

As it turns out the JavaScript engine integration part is not as easy if you are not well versed with C/C++ and its tooling because builds will fail, platform ports are missing etc. JavaScriptCore is very nice on macOS but it appears that compiling it on Linux is not just running the two lines of code as described in the documentation.

Maybe I should apply for this and use the money to pay someone proficient in the topic to compile JavaScriptCore and help me make it talk with my Swift codebase on Linux.
Help her question and understand the underlying reason(s) why she wants to go into medicine. (status, money, wanting to help other, being intellectually challenge, curiosity for anatomy/biology, ...)

Find other fields where those wants can be better met by a deafblind person.

Help her reframe her initial idea into one of these field.
> the tracker landscape is constantly evolving

Sure. But this is usually addressed by filter lists.

> see https://privacytests.org/

Very interesting link, thanks. Didn't know that localStorage and sessionStorage could be read across domains!

But the comparison should include (browser)+uBlock Origin. I wonder if there are many users who care about privacy and don't install uBlock Origin by default.

Edit: added Origin to avoid confusion.
You probably don't own it outright and without the collective belief in its value the mortgage would be under water.
Sorry for hijacking this thread, but can somebody explain like I'm five, what's the point of algorithmic stablecoins?

My understanding of the term 'stablecoin' means that it is a crypto 'proxy' to some fiat currency, typically US dollar, just to avoid the actual conversion between crypto and fiat (because of taxes etc). So why isn't there just a DumbCoin(tm) that simply is 1-to-1 backed by the dollars? You give me a dollar, I mint you a coin. Somebody sends the coin back, I return them the dollar.
Rights are constructs, let's talk capabilities.

If the value of _dollars_ goes to zero, the house doesn't collapse. The social consensus and enforcement mechanism that protects your right to live there probably does though
If you look carefully you will find that the slower algorithm uses less instructions and the faster algorithm uses 2xSIMD and more than twice as many instructions.

And yes unrolling the loop carried dependency on the strength reduced version will certainly make it faster as it's the only reason it's slower to begin with.

I encourage you to read my other comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31551375
That didn't help against the floods in Germany.
Yes, the Brave browser removes a website’s adverts, and injects its own ads into webpages using a man-in-the-middle attack. It’s sketchy, grubby behavior, and is the reason why websites are starting to block the Brave browser.

I notice the BAT cryptotoken has lost lots of value recently. Perhaps that’s why there is lots of desperate Brave spam recently.
stackblitz uses web containers
Next step is that John Deere wants to be paid as percentage of farmer's revenue.
Roombas don’t use magnetic boundary tapes. It uses infrared beacons to set boundaries.
Thank you for writing this down.

What I witness in the world is endless costs, from housing maintenance to shelter and rent and mortgage costs and transport costs. Everything is very expensive. Housing is not cheap relative to salaries nor is transport.

If I wanted to pay someone to do work for me, I need to pay enough to pay all the workmen's costs.

I need to provide for myself and provide enough revenues for everybody else to pay for these things. So the prices you pay provide revenues for these costs fans out in all directions through everyone you buy things from.

Is the finite value that these cycles larger than the money supply?

There is a finite amount of work that can be done per period of time but some people work 60 hour weeks. But work is renewable until you ruin your joints and knees or health problems.

I am sure everyone wants to earn more and has costs they want money for and want larger houses and to own housing rather than rent.

I didn't even include profits or value addition to my theory as they need to come from somewhere.
Not likely a whole lot different. Competency isn't particularly significant in the labour market. You'll find all kinds of doctors, farmers, and entertainers who are not competent.

Those professions all employ some kind of limiting function to ensure that most people aren't welcomed into the inner circle, however. Physicians have to luck into finding another physician willing to let them shadow them in order to become licensed. Farmers have to luck into having family already in the business willing to pass it down. Entertainers have to luck into the industry big wigs accepting their, um, favours.

You could be the most competent doctor/farmer/entertainer on earth, but if you don't luck into the right circumstances, you're not going to be able to practice it. That wouldn't go away in a world where everyone is equally competent.
This has been the single biggest learning for me as well, but in slightly different flavours:

1. In machine learning. For example, suppose you want to generate an article. If you try to build a model that sequentially generates all the words, you'll have a bad time. You won't be able to train a decent size LM on such a large sequence due to OOM. If you generate chunk by chunk each new chunk won't have previous context.

The way you do is to decompose the problem: generate sections and subsections and may be a summary, then each paragraph gets conditioned on generated section and subsection, which can be generated parallely now.

This type of solution appears in many many places in ML.

2. In a relational DB design. Having all the information of an entity in a single table is bad for building concurrent application. If you acquire a lock on a row a lot more users have to wait. Decomposing the data in multiple relational tables allows you to isolate changes. If you've a tree like dependency, the sibling tables can be worked on in parallel without any worry.

3. Codebase. If you've a single codebase with large number of people developing on it, you'll have slow development cycle. Decomposed codebase (and corresponding services) with relatively stable API as interface will allow you to have parallel development with less conflicts. You can get QA done in parallel, deployment can be parallel, refactor can be parallel, etc.

4. To get a numerical solution of PDE instead of parallelising all the matrix vector computations, you get much more natural and efficient method by decomposing physical domain (say a 3d space) and solving PDE on the subdomains with boundary conditions on the interfaces. This is known as domain decomposition method. These methods can be parallelized efficiently, but even sequentially they converge faster than then no decomposition!

5. In system and code design to reduce mental load. Isolation of a piece of logic or a service allows you to develop and maintain it effectively. If you've many services depending on many services, keeping a mental model of all the dependencies become challenging and creates a lot of points of failure.
Yo dawg, we herd you liek Faraday cages...
> Really only two companies (Google and Microsoft) have a high-quality global web link index ...

Yandex and Baidu also have pretty good index, and perhaps would be even cheaper than Bing. I'd say they only lack in terms of the data (search queries, search result links clicked etc). It's just US protectionist policy (on behalf of the BigTech) at play here to avoid these services. Both Yandex and Baidu outperform Google when it comes to Russian and Chinese search queries, clearly indicating they are at par (or even better) than Google in terms of search algorithms. The only thing they lack is better data, and that's why they struggle with foreign search queries. (Though I find Yandex has improved a lot here, enough to make it my regular search engine).
More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#jobads
Because you can make a lot of money keeping a fraction of the dollars you get in cash and keeping the rest invested in treasuries.

Eventually you will get tired of the work and costs involved in maintaining your dumbass coin in perpetuity for no benefit.
I cant imagine that at all. A quadriplegic will never be a firefighter. Intellectual disability will make a myriad of professions impossible.

Inequality in society starts at very young ages. Age 6 at the latest. Most likely even age 2-3.

The thing about school is 'no child left behind' means education teaches to such a low and slow level that the dumbest of kids can pass. The majority of kids in the bell curve even find school to be idiotically low tier. That's the best our school system can do is teach to the lowest tier kid and get that dumb kid to 51%.

However, the kids who take it upon themselves to go above and beyond. Read more, do their homework, have good social skills, etc. They move to the top of the class without much effort.

The dumb kid who has 50 absent days in school and only gets 51% and moved onto the next grade is NOT equal to the kid who goes to school every day, gets their homework done and makes the effort to understand the subjects. Who then goes on to become something successful in life.

There will always be inequality until there's some serious big changes to education but that wont happen.

Economist Keynes predicted 15 hour work weeks: https://www.npr.org/2015/08/13/432122637/keynes-predicted-we...

He wasn't wrong, but he was wrong. So what gives? It's because people aren't equal. If you analyze how much bullshit jobs exist to fill nothing productivity and were to appropriately hand out workload equally. People should right today be able to work 10-20 hour weeks for the same wages.

Very important to society as well is to reward being better, to incentivize being better. The radiologist gets to drive the Tesla Model S plaid edition. The mcjob 51%er gets the $5000 piece of shit car nobody else wants.
The gold standard for BP measurement is direct measurement via an arterial catheter - an invasive and relatively risky procedure.

For a device to be approved as a Class 1 medical device for blood pressure measurement, the FDA wants +/- 3mmHg to an established BP measuring method.
Primarily, the use case is that it gives you some useful automation possibilities that aren't available in (for example) HomeKit.

Here's an example: I have an AC unit which is either on or off. I don't want my AC running all the time, but I want it to turn on automatically if the temperature raises above a certain value. That functionality is not possible with my AC unit, but I can use HASS to automate it.

Here's another: I have an air purifier which has an intelligent 'automatic' mode, which is supposed to change the fan setting if it detects higher levels of particulate matter - and to be fair, it does, but only between one of three presets. In reality, the machine has a 'turbo' mode which can be manually activated and deactivated.

HASS allows me to automatically switch back to auto mode from turbo mode in case the PM2.5 rating goes back down to a good level (e.g.: 2).

One other thing it's great for is taking IoT products (like for example smart plug sockets) which depend on their own apps, and integrating them with HomeKit.

I have an iRobot vacuum. It has some settings, like it can automatically run when I leave the house. It also has a Siri shortcut so I can control it with my voice. But if I leave home early to go to work, I don't want it to run and disturb my wife. With HASS, I can bridge it to HomeKit, which can trigger it only if NOONE is home.

I could also use HASS and my security camera to only run the robot if there's no motion detected for a period of time and no-one is home, and it's after my wife finishes all her work calls at 5 but before bedtime, but haven't felt a need to go to that level of complexity (plus my cats set off the motion detector all the time!).

It also gives me the option to buy cheap alternatives and bring them to HomeKit, rather than depending on specific apps.

Given that I had a Raspberry Pi lying around anyway, it was an absolute no-brainer.
Yes I agree with you. It definitely ties nicely with the ideology (if you don't think very hard about it) and so libertarians are good "marks" as you say.
> So why isn't there just a DumbCoin(tm) that simply is 1-to-1 backed by the dollars?

Q: Where would you actually keep the dollars?
Having to force myself to keep the house neat is the reason why I got a robot vacuum in the first place. You make a deal with it: you keep the floors tidy, then it manages the dust bunny population.
I think "common culture" is precisely the problem with reddit. Before reddit there were many different separate forums. Each had to be signed up to separately and each had their own culture. With reddit there's little barrier between reddits, which has lead to a shared culture across the whole site. The culture is generally friendly, but is immature and superficial. It's great for small-talk, but useless and frustrating if you actually want to learn something.

Maybe I'm bitter, but I used to really enjoy r/rust up until 2 years ago or so. Now it's completely inane and it's no longer worth the time to sort through the noise to find the signal.
> For me, it only developed as a coping mechanism because I was unable to accept the world from a nonspiritual point of view.

Yeah, I found that after some point, after I realized that a strict linguistic (formal) outlook was rigid and unflexible and started to relax about it, that I started to reach into a wider pool of concepts to allow me to make sense of the world.

Also accepting that some beliefs which are not testable by science can still be judged in terms of what do they do for me; do they make me feel good? or bad? do they allow me to engage in actions with postivie outcomes? and so on...
You're overlooking the fact that you're just one person. Each one of us reacts differently under such conditions and only a minority (which is likely small) happen to excel at this.

The interactions and power dynamics between people differ wildly from person to person. While an interviewer might be the kindest person in the world for candidate A, they might be a total bully for candidate B. I was bullied constantly throughout school snd, whatever cues prompted those kids to pick on me are probably still there, but adults are a bit more subtle, because they can hurt you in other ways. And this is on top of the day-to-day variations, because they might be hungry and the current interview is sitting between them and lunch or maybe they just got slapped down by their boss and want to punch someone or whatever. Based on my own experience, out of the typical 5 rounds of in-person interviews that I went through many times for FAANG companies, one or two ended up being a total shitshow each time, where the interviewer was condescending at best and I don't think they realised it or cared. I was told several times "how easy / trivial" the problem is and that "they're sure I'll have an easy time solving it based on my CV". Maybe the worst ones are when the interviewer smirks at me when they spot dome issue and I can't cope with that.

Now add to this a long streak of never ever getting an offer after dozens of such interviews in spite of putting myself through training sessions and mock interviews over and over. I'm sure I'd get in eventually, if I just kept trying, but do I want a job where I'll be asked to interview people in a similar manner? Even if I refuse to interview people as part of my job, will I really thrive in there? I'm certain this process permeates in one form or another throughout the company culture in various internal management, decisionmaking and promotion processes, but that's a separate discussion.
A researcher's avatar was sexually assaulted on Meta's platform
They don't mind dying by the hundreds in crappy boats crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
I expected something like the now defunct popurls.com, but this is much nicer. Good work.
To a certain degree yeah, but that has an interesting balance of, not being a finance guy, intrinsic vs extrinsic value? A great example is my rural property; my wife paid $1 for the land 20 years ago, and I paid $300 for the 40 year old mobile home we put on it. On the market, it probably wouldn’t be worth a whole lot, but to us it is an absolutely wonderful place that we treasure very much. It’s exceptionally unlikely that anyone would ever offer us a price that would convince us to sell. No one really wants to live in the area we live in! (Although Starlink has had a disproportionate effect on that, now that we’ve got wonderful internet out there)

A different belief shifting, though, would change the equation dramatically: either a shift towards less exclusive property ownership (e.g. theoretically requiring any non-primary residence to be rentable or something crazy like that) or dramatically higher tax burden for non-primary residences. If the annual upkeep costs were to increase, the external value wouldn’t change much (it’s already pretty close to zero), but the intrinsic value for us would drop dramatically and we might consider dumping it.
> My tumble dryer - praise the Lord - has a function to disable its beeping

I need this! Ours beeps when it's done, then starts up again for a couple of minutes, beeps again... repeat ad nauseam. Yes, I KNOW YOU'RE FINISHED!