skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So there's an experiment I'm going to run. I've already got permission from the ethics committee. And by ethics committee I mean the friend of mine who owns the birds. I'm going to attempt to train parrots to train each other to talk.

Here's the premise. We make switches that the birds know how to press and understand that pressing causes actions. Easy enough. Then we hook the switches up to some sort of reward dispenser. Press button, get sunflower seed or almond. So far pretty simple. Then, we put the birds in a game-theoretic situation like the prisoners dilemma. If both birds press the left button, they both get the high reward (almond). If they both press the right button, they both get the low reward (sunflower seed). If one presses left and the other presses right, the left presser gets nothing and the right presser gets the highest reward (almond AND seed, oh wow).

Our first question is if the birds will converge upon the Nash Equilibrium for this game. There's a second, even more interesting question we want to answer. The birds are capable of talking to each other, but they don't have a general purpose language. So far as we can tell, their vocabulary consists of 2 squawks, 3 squawks, 5 squawks, and rarely 6 squawks. The possible signals the birds might send each other are arbitrary and meaningless in the context of this experiment, but they can signal each other. Thus the question becomes, will the birds invent a meaning for their squawks in order to cooperate at this game? Can the evolution of language be explained by simply trying to maximize payoffs in the presence of other birds trying to maximize payoffs?

Our third question is if the birds ever start lying to each other? If so, can I get the birds to manage my Diplomacy games for me?

To the extent that the whales clearly have a structured language, I suggest a way to decode it. Ask not what the generic patterns of whale sounds might be, but instead ask what payoffs the whales need to negotiate over. What positive sum behavior do the whales engage in that would be impossible without signaling?
Why link to huggingface vs. this one?
God is outside of space and time, whereas the physical universe is inside of space and time. The physical universe obeys the laws of physics and God doesn't. So just because God can do something doesn't mean the physical universe can.

Also, we have evidence the physical universe hasn't been around forever: the Big Bang.
I took piano lessons for over two years. Played at recitals, etc. Yet I never really grokked basic musical concepts like the "1" beat. I knew music was broken down into measures and has different time signature, but I never truly understood why the entire time I learned piano.

It seems like other people just "get" these concepts, but I don't understand unless it's explicitly explained to me.

Perhaps now that I have a better understanding from learning dance, learning an instrument would be more helpful?

I've also heard learning tap dance can really help.
There is an exception under part 97 (covering amateur radio licensees) for emergency communications. I suppose this will depend on the contents of his transmissions and if they were truly necessary and justified and if "normal communication systems" were not available.

> § 97.403 Safety of life and protection of property.

> No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur station of any means of radiocommunication at its disposal to provide essential communication needs in connection with the immediate safety of human life and immediate protection of property when normal communication systems are not available.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/97.403
Can you elaborate?

Related: the idea of the Big Bang was first thought of by the Catholic priest Monsignor Georges Lemaître. Many scientists at the time dismissed the Big Bang, saying it was an attempt to bring religious concepts into physics. Another tangent: Msgr. Lemaître was quite interested in computer programming, as computers started to be invented toward the end of his life.
That's a really good point. I could definitely see interchangeable tooling being a good criteria for owning your platform. I feel like I've never described it that way before but that is totally how I determine what is going to be a part of my tech stack. I.E. "Is it possible to self host this tooling/workflow?", "Are there competitors?" are some of the questions I ask myself before adopting a tool or workflow. Being able to self host my critical applications is a big deal even if I don't choose to self host all of them.

Again, very good point and I feel like I can totally get on board with this definition of ownership.
I'm half amused and half concerned for your mental health.

There are too many places to start a counter argument. It could start with what MLMs actually are, it could be that many businesses don't care about the talks and use scipy packages, it could be the cause and effect confusion of scipy packages existing and academic users using them--which relates to the Ruby part.

But seriously, I hope I'm wrong, but your post comes off as a bit paranoid and crazy.
The article explicitly says that equal areas are not required for fairness; and gives this explanation for wanting equal areas: "Dice that are fair by symmetry (and hence under any reasonable throwing dynamics) always have to have an even number of sides and belong to certain symmetry groups (Diaconis & Keller 1989)."
And the reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20220607094531/https://www.guanc...
It is interesting because http://.ai works (it says remove www, not the dot).

Edit: The HN generated link does not work because it appends a trailing slash to the end.
Works for Edge on Android.
$1 billion down cash to Twitter for pulling out is a lot of money "for teh lulz".
Right, he wants out of the deal on the terms but I don’t think it’s the $1B he’s worried about. It’s the embarrassment of either having to pay the break up fee or overpaying so much at $54.20.

His ego is at stake, he’s called many things but not often a fool.
Do you kind of wish Enron was still around to figure out how to exploit the coins?
The http://ai/ works with Edge on Android.
Works without the dot for me. (Not the https variant though.)
RACES/ARES exists as a sanctioned interface between amateur radio and public safety. It’s perplexing that he felt he couldn’t disseminate his information that way. Being an extra class, he definitely knew about it.
Contrary to what YouTube will make you believe, you don't actually need any power tools to take up wood working as a hobby. You can do everything with hand tools, it will just take longer and often needs more skills.

My father was a professional cabinet maker and a decade ago he built a new kitchen from scratch. The only power tools he used were a table saw (which admittedly is one of the worse) and a belt sander. Everything else he did with hand tools.
Works for me—make sure you're getting http, not https, though.
The example tweet, a somewhat large one with links and images, gzips down to 1.5KB by itself. Given that information, I think it would be reasonable to estimate 1KB per tweet in bulk.

500 million times 1KB is... still one USB stick, not even $50 https://amazon.com/SanDisk-512GB-Ultra-Flash-Drive/dp/B083ZL...

Or going by the retweeted quote tweet that's 40% bigger zipped, it's still well within 1TB which is a normal size for a flash drive.

I'm not very fond of Musk but this is a weak criticism.
Starting at 7:46 PM PDT we experienced higher error rates and latencies for AWS services within the US-EAST-1 region. These error rates and latencies have seen some improvement from 7:55 PM PDT, but remain elevated. The issue is also affecting the AWS Management Console for the US-EAST-1 region. We continue to work towards mitigating the impact and will continue to provide updates as we progress.
If you're serious, that's the point. We spend much of our lives doing rigorous work that's extremely logical, and unless you have a true connection to your code, there's no chance to "feel it out". Woodworking is that chance for many of us, even myself, building simplistic rabbit cages and ugly farm furniture.
Assuming "random" means that there is no program to generate the sequence that is shorter than the sequence itself, proving the nonexistence of such a program is equivalent to the halting problem. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
If you are now just learning that .ai domains are available, I'll save you some time, samur.ai is taken.

Unfortunately it appears a link farmer has it rather than a cool hacker.
Seems this happened in 2020. Title needs updating.
It's not hot enough for that, it's usually only 10 to 15 degrees above ambient.
Live: Towards Layer-Wise Image Vectorization
You’re not really disagreeing with the author.

* $/use isn’t really a rate in the way you’re describing with predatory financing. It’s not a cost hiding measure but one of many ways of estimating utility. Optimizing for price alone and not $/utility will bite you for lots of goods.

* A $400 phone used 100 times is $4/use and a $1000 phone used 100 times is $10/use so markets still have plenty of an effect.
I think everyone reading this as "host your own servers" is missing the point. This more about owning your relationship with your users. Running a fully managed website with video content and a donation form is owning your platform even if you use nothing but SaaS products. Posting to YouTube is losing your platform.

One of my company's big products is podcasts. Podcasts are traditionally distributed via RSS. So long as we have an RSS feed of our audio and a website under a domain name we own, then we own our platform. The mechanics are immaterial. We are paying vendors for services but we own our data and our relationship to users. Losing our platform would be becoming a Spotify exclusive. Then Spotify owns our platform and we are we just get a cut.
Yes, it worked for me too (Firefox). Interestingly http://ai goes to http://www.ai.com while http://ai/ works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was about to purchase it, lol
Whatever a Pixel 6 costs.
Numpy is a great thing, and also a terrible thing (because it is built on Python).

Python is a terrible language compared to many others, not the least of which is Ruby (and I would include Java, Clojure, Elixir, and even C++ and probably C# and almost certainly F# if I knew them well).

To make matters worse, there's a common mentality amongst Pythonistas of being aggressively complacent. A typical response to a question about a missing capability is, "Why would you ever need that?"

I have a lengthy collection of "why Python sucks" notes. However, I would argue that anyone who disagrees that Python is bad (excepting the practical capabilities afforded by libraries like Numpy which could just as well have been build for other languages) has simply not spent enough time other other, better languages.

Python is Blub, from the Paul Graham essay Beating the Averages. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
If money is speech, this law seems fairly obviously unconstitutional.
it's not entirely new, we've been in Mad Max territory for a while

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

shiny and chrome!
I've managed to do it on a budget. Tools can be bought used and wood can be scavenged from the curb or dumpsters. Both have a large time investment to find, so the trick is to do it passively. I take a lot of walks, and when I see a nice piece of free wood, I take it home and make stuff from it.
>Owning crypto != actually using it.

How do you use bonds?

in January, 10 trillion of debt wolrdwide was negative yield in nominal terms. in real terms - a whole lot more.

Holding assets IS use. that's the root of your misunderstanding. For some reason everyone here is fixated on cheap payments. That's not what it's about.
Some of the SV employees probably are sick of spoiled preening tech CEOs.

Why can't the CEOs be as happy with what their employees get, who work to create the CEOs' wealth, as they are with providing for their entitled cost-center children?
> just that the defaults should be stronger

Agreed.

> GNOME has made great advancements in this regard, which has been awesome to see.

I wasn't joking or being hyperbolic in my previous post. GNOME may have good defaults in certain cases but it ends there. User choice and customization are seen as design defects and anti-features. They really do believe that there is a One True Font and One True Theme out there and anything else is unsupported.

Sane defaults shouldn't come at the cost of user choice. If they do, there's little reason to use Linux over a Mac because the former essentially becomes Android style "look but don't touch" open source.
That works for me in Safari on macOS.
If he really had an ego he would think “I am so good I can pay 54.20 for this company worth 30.00 and still spin it back into a public company worth $100. I am unstoppable. This is how I think about his ego. It is also why I think he just pays the $54.20 and doesn’t bat an eye. He is just haggling right now if he can. Nothing serious.
Clicking a link, copy/pasting it, and manually typing it all behave differently. Try typing it.
So did someone buy an empty ".ai" domain? Is that how?
iPhone XS 256GB (unlocked), USD 1230 - (250, iPhone 7 trade-in)
Haven’t lived there in 30 years. Which ones? Guessing Orange Mall, maybe some in Garden Grove or Santa Ana?
1. Monetisable daily active users likely excludes users twitter excludes as bots - possibly users visiting from automated browsers, minor browsers, cloud IPs etc. To protect against ad fraud you have to do that.

2. Musk likely cares about all users that keep spamming his feed and others. The platform currently feels like armies of bots from political and ad/marketing agencies and some active users who think someone is reading their content. If one correlates the number of followers they have (especially if you’ve had twitter for a long time) vs number of reads on each of your recent tweets, the % is very low.

3. A firehouse of all tweets coming out may show a lot of bot activity (accounts with more numbers than letters in the username commenting in reply to popular accounts with a lot of followers) but they are not near the number active users who are just reading and that is where Musk’s claim and Twitter’s defensively worded SEC statements pass each-other like ships in the night.
Huh, another dodgy tax haven I did not know about!
They absolutely are.

https://fee.org/about/board-of-trustees
Composability; as a user I can prove things publicly about my assets and other people can offer services independently of the asset issuer. E.g. take out a loan against my bacon coins or whatever, even if Bacon Bank didn’t think to implement a way for lenders to verify my ownership of bacon coins.
well it's simple, really. Python just has to add a defer statement to take care of that.
Can someone explain to me why this is a valid URL?
To all who can't replicate it: Clicking a link, copy/pasting the URL, and typing it from the keyboard all behave differently. Make sure that you manually type

http://ai/

into the location bar (do not use https). Also try with and without the trailing slash.
the load times were soooooo bad. Insultingly bad. It doesnt seem like you understand the true extent to how horrible rockstar managed this issue. I definitely quit playing for exactly this reason, even at the expense of spending less time with a good friend who i played with. Rockstar is a garbage disrespectful company for allowing this to go on for so long.
> Anderson, sitting in for a day, observes the largely male population commenting on ladies’ dress and appearance, reading the paper, and, in one case, getting served coffee by a woman acting as mall “wife.”

Wut

Couldn’t find references on the Web… what is a mall wife?
I asked a 5 year old if lower pollution means things grow better. She said yes.
I suppose it should be possible to get an MX record to work with a root domain, but that person that has it would have to probably work for or be the owner.
Well your Mac is worth ‘something’ because of what people are willing to pay for it. It would be worthless to certain people, just as you find bitcoin worthless. What’s the difference?
Many fervent crypto advocates seem to have downright malicious attitudes toward people who either lose money on crypto or refuse to participate in it. They've spawned sarcastic memes like "sorry for your loss" and "have fun staying poor".
Google ended up acquiring and eating Usenet, becoming Google Groups. I'm not sure if this is dead yet.

That's absolutely not what happened. What actually happened was that binaries traders took over the Internet's best discussion medium and used to to shuttle uuencoded chunks of huge files to every single Usenet server in the world, and screamed bloody murder when anyone failed to keep up. This naturally drove the cost of serving Usenet wildly up, and independent ISPs dropped the service just as the retail Internet came of age, because haphazardly serving porn videos and pirated software to 0.5% of their customer base wasn't worth the cost of giant fast disk arrays.

Things like DejaNews were just the dying gasp of Usenet. Google didn't ruin anything (though I sorely wish they could have kept the archives online).
> when normal communication systems are not available.

I think that would be the key point to the exemption. He likely could have contacted the fire service by telephone or other "normal communication systems".
This analysis is incredibly thorough and detailed, but I don’t think it answers the question it poses itself.

From my civil engineering and energy economics coursework, the one of the largest economic deterrents to nuclear power adoption was insurance: nobody would insure the construction of a plant, because a failure would bankrupt the insurance company.

To give the article credit, they do allude to catastrophic incidents and waste storage costs in near perpetuity, but don’t really mention insurance.
I mean that area almost looks rural - if you go over to where the houses are they actually have some sidewalks.

The street names also imply it’s rural or was rural very recently.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work with 1Pasword for SSH.
I think there's been a fair amount of discussion about the interplay between quantum and classical computing. It feels like it may be better to think of things as a collaborative environment in that algorithms found via quantum computing can lead to improvements in their classical counterparts.

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/19 as an example.
I would be interested in hearing the opinion of the local crews, if he actually was helpful.

Then again, that news could have the opposite of a chilling effect and cause people trying to be helpful to interfere in future situations.
The budget breakdown you just linked is fine for what I am describing.

The logic here is a little strange but it does explain why more recent movies especially sequels dominate that list. More recent films have larger audiences due to population growth and ticket prices have kept up with inflation. That means more recent films have a larger likely revenue stream especially sequels for popular movies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films EX: Ben-Hur the most expensive movie that had been made in 1959 at the equivalent of 158 million and pulled in the equivalent of 900 million would hardly worth mentioning as a major film today.

Actors/directors/screenwriters/music rights holders/etc are going to negotiate based on the potential revenues therefore the larger the potential revenue the more they want to be paid upfront.

Now, that doesn’t directly impact shooting or special effects budgets, but if you’re already spending 100+ million on the “Actors/directors/screenwriters/music rights holders/etc” then there is little reason to economize on the special effects budget. Trying to economize at that point is just not worth the risk especially when the budget is fixed before you start. Might as well keep things padded at that point.
That's not true. Think about the 3rd party as an escrow, not the bank. You wouldn't eliminate the escrow when you're buying a house, would you?
I feel that there's a type of person who invests $320,000 based on a facebook ad into something they didn't understand.

I don't want to disparage them, but it feels like it was a matter of time before they lost that to some scam or other.
http://ai

works for me in firefox. perhaps you are using a wrong browser?
Interestingly, most WHOIS services fail to resolve this domain, and show alternative such as ai.com. Its like going off the marauders map :)

The page informs us it is registered in Anguilla.
And also they already can, if you believe it:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-15/disney-wo...
I agree that anything that can be done with a blockchain can technically be done with a database. But the practical challenge comes down to coordination problems. With blockchains you get credibly neutrality out of the box.

Different developers are comfortable building inside a shared execution environment. If Western Union built a smart contract execution system, you'd have a much, much harder time convincing developers to build inside of it than you would on Ethereum. It would be much less likely that Ethereum would shut off, change the rules, ban you from the platform, etc.

The advantage that gives blockchains is composability. Thousands of different applications can instantly talk to one another using standardized calls inside atomic transactions. Databases by contrast are siloed. So they work really well if you stay within the application that database was built for. But really poorly once you try to cross applications, and hence databases. Imagine how hard it would be and how many hoops you would have to jump through to be able to use Venmo to buy Nasdaq listed stocks. In contrast USDC and Uniswap work together seamlessly because they're both built on the same common credibly neutral layer, Ethereum.
When I visit Substack posts it still feels like Medium to me but I'm not too sure if it's just my negative bias towards these publishing platforms generally or an actual issue I have with Substack.

Would you be willing to share what makes Substack better or different from Medium to someone who will never use either? I just have noticed a huge amount of techies use Substack and from the name I can deduce it's geared for a more tech-focused audience.
But nitpick still means it is a nit, I don't really think it is at all. And you're saying it in response to someone who said the code is very clean, which is quite petty.
I’m under the impression they will vigorously go after corps for interference.
Do you know who is operating under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto then?
I hope he can afford some good lawyers. It’s likely there is no evidence of any actual harm being done, just the potential for harm. $34k seems unnecessarily punitive in this case.
> "What if I made the worlds worst DRM and then sued everyone who bypassed it?"

Sklyarov was taken to court, and ~I believe is still in jail~, for bypassing Adobe's use of the amazingly secure ROT13 cypher.

EDIT: Charges were dropped a year later, because of the insanity of charging someone for using such an insecure mechanism. But only after both the EFF and Adobe came out in support of Sklyarov.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/dimitry-sklyarov-enemy-or-frie...
> People's expectations for what a website could offer rose tremendously, and would abandon a site if it wasn't up to snuff.

Amazon.com is basic text and image elements on a white background. The full-feature sites often just look like blown up versions of the mobile sites.

I believe there are multiple issues with owning your platform but I'm not sure this is the defining factor, at least anymore.
ai. in Safari on iPhone works. But I have to type exactly that.