skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Aren’t we sort of codifying malicious intent, instead of trying to remove it from the equation? Whom would this serve?

Define malicious intent.

What and whome one person is willing to trust will always be different than another person. This is a hard truth that we will never work around. Culture vs Culture, family vs family, idea vs idea. We can't get rid of conflict or therefore 'malicious intent' and by extension we can't (or shouldn't) bank on trust. I think the better way to deal with our very real human differences is to look past them in the spirit that all of us are creations of a higher power, and thus working together is in everyone's greatest interest.

Money as a medium of exchange is a very powerful concept It holds the idea of an IOU that can transcend our differences in the spirit of building a better world. But in order for that to happen money needs to be fungible, else our differences will enviably tear it apart.

Perhaps when the dollar was backed by gold this concept was more or less true, but central banks undermined that, hense the pull towards extreme decentralization.

>There is place for verification in the interim, such as maintaining security of your home, but if we are looking ahead (as blockchain enthusiasts do) we should strive for a future where humans are not motivated to hurt other humans. NOT TREATING IT AS SOME SORT OF DEFAULT IS A GOOD START.

I must disagree with this concept.

To treat it in a trusted manner is to ignore the fact that we have insurmountable differences and therefore those differences will raise their ugly heads elsewhere and tear our hopes for peace apart.

Rather to start with the presupposition that these differences exist, but that we will create a form that transcends them for the better of all is imo the ideal.
Yeah, it was mainly because the article got too long, so I had no option but to draw the line somewhere. There's still a tiny mention at the footer below the main motherboard image:

> Showing the 'Xenon' revision (the first one), taken from my model from 2005. Xenon motherboards are also famous for being defective by design (they get too hot to play games with!). Remaining GDDR3 chips are found on the back.

Btw, I've replaced the bad links with archived ones. I triggered an archive of that site back in December just in case such great source would disappear, never expected to happen just after releasing the article!
It wasn’t the Bastille-storming moment that it’s talked up to be, but it was still a pretty heinous crime of the sort that high-functioning countries absolutely should be prosecuting.
Same here. The more I've progressed in CS, the more dissatisfied I am. Outside of creating algorithms that vie for constant user attention (the basic business model of FAANG), I don't see any fruitful application of my skills. I'd much rather move towards the domains where my knowledge of data, systems, and algorithms could be better utilized (medicine, Genomics, structural engineering, governance etc).
I agree self examining requires middle ground.

I made an Apple Watch App and then Shortcut[2] to record by voice how I spend my time and write it to my calendar. The goal was to make it so easy (<10 seconds) to record when and how I spent my time that I would record even every time I went to the bathroom. I did it consistently for a few weeks and just couldn’t bring my self to continue, I was recording only ~40-50 activities per day and I still felt burden by such detailed self examination. What did I learn? That I was playing a lot of Xbox with my son and too much alone. That the free form text I was recording needed categorization and keyword analysis to even hope of being useful and that I really love spontaneity and aimless wandering, curiosity, and learning—but ultimately what a weight it is to do such detailed analysis of one’s own self. I do still some times have dreams of doing something similar with all of my Google data[1] at some point maybe bringing both ideas (recording how I spend every minute and full Google download) together for analysis and self awareness.

[1] https://takeout.google.com/
[2]
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/66271d52e6174d1a8b61c48e700...
I tried Yerba Mate, same effect, although milder.
Yandex and Baidu don't find it either.

I think the problem is the media are not linking to it, not even conservative media. When no one cares about what you're saying enough to link to it, search engines don't assign importance to it.
Is it possible to install the beta with brew?

I tried instructions on the site:

$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.19beta1@latest

$ go1.19beta1 download

But I don't get where the new binary is placed. It's not in my PATH.
Don't try to stand up a strawman. The exchanges are manipulating the value of Bitcoin, which affects those not using exchanges' ability to trade at a 'proper' value.
Angry tradition noise

Jokes aside, I don't like it, but it is really popular in Paraguay and northern provinces from Argentina.

It is called tereré.

They even use orange juice or other things with the mate leaves... Angry tradition noise again :v
I think the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue has a similar type of design.
The goal was to stop Congress from certifying the vote. That’s not a protest, that’s sedition, plain and simple.
I work at a bootstrapped startup with two engineers, only one full time (me). I'm paid well below my market rate, but I stick around because the CEO treats me with respect and gives me the flexibility that I need to be productive and happy.

When you don't have money, you can compensate in other ways, like autonomy and work-life balance. You may not get the best of the best, but you'll get loyal employees who appreciate the flexibility you give them.

Alternatively you can try to build a company on the backs of people who you have to micromanage and who will be gone in a year (and if not, only stick around because they have no other options). I'll leave it to you to decide which is more likely to succeed.
There is really little evidence of L-theanine being responsible of that outside of some papers that used doses in the gram range for adults (their minimal dose was 20mg/kg in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22285321/). Some other papers showed that the effects were due to polyphenols that could slow the absorption of caffeine. But one should be careful with polyphenols in academic research as you will always find a paper that says "polyphenol X can do Y". We know that polyphenols cause artifacts in many kind of bioassays and they are rarely taken into account.
No, what does it do?
You could also afford a 2 bedroom on that salary. But you aren't in "poverty" if you can't afford an extra room. You would have lots of extra money to save or eat out in this scenario.
If you used the raw model, without any smoothing, it still predicted the $50k price correctly.

I think the smoothing gave too much weight to S2F and not enough to plain time.

But I am really curious what will happen after 2024. That is when S2F really diverges from a plain time power-law.

https://danuker.go.ro/bitcoin-price-predictions.html
It would be very strange if gratitude journaling would lead to those kinds of thoughts.
Forecourt fuel thefts rise as petrol prices soar
It's not about the virus, it's about control.
With the preface that I'm not convinced LaMBDA is there based on this article, this did get me wondering how we'd even tell. If we do achieve a chat bot that can convincingly respond in a human way, 100% of the time, how do we tell whether it has achieved sentience or not? How do we tell when mechanistic response ends and self awareness begins?

I mean, we already struggle to tell when animals have self awareness and intelligence. And we're only just beginning to look at plants and wonder. The reality is we absolutely suck at recognizing and communicating with alien (by which I simply mean "non-human") intelligences.

There are a number of species on Earth that experiments really strongly suggest are intelligent, self aware, and have their own languages and cultures. But we only just figured that out in the last few decades with many of them. There are still doubters, and we have figured out how to speak the language of exactly zero of them. We've cobbled together intermediate forms of rudimentary sign language with a few of them, but haven't really achieved communication that goes beyond equivalents to dog training with any of them. But in all of those cases, if we do manage to learn their language, that will pretty clearly answer for us their level of intelligence. Our base assumption will be: if they can talk intelligently, they are intelligent.

With a language model, trained to mimic intelligent human speech we basically have the opposite problem. We have something that can talk intelligently, but might be doing it mechanistically. ...how do we even tell in that case?
Twenty years later, those children were still earning more than the control group

i thought this was related to:

mothers of growth-stunted children in 1980s Jamaica were taught how to engage their children with home activities to provide cognitive and psychosocial stimulation, their children caught up with their peers.

i understood this to be a study where all parents had the same socioeconomic status, but the kids whose parents were taught how to engage them ended up being better off.
Check out the horror show that is "carrot top comedian".

For out of four queries resulted in synthetic portraits that are terrifically scary.
So you fight against inflation by investing in an asset whose value is strongly tied to the Argentine Peso? I guess that makes sense for Argentinians, but it's crazy for anyone else.
Due to the same transparency, I suspect it would be fairly obvious if someone is trying to take advantage of this.
I'm not a Rust zealot but even I recognize that this blog post (which is about the difficulty about writing generic library code wrt lifetimes + Rust async) is pretty much a meme now that's thrown around without any sort of context.

Can you explain how this blog post relates to the difficulty of using Rust for writing a window manager?
Oh I see! I only knew the Firebase SQL and wasn't aware of the former name of Firefox
This reply hits the nail on the head, but I’ll just add that this isn’t only a benefit to small scale services. I’ve been at well funded startups and medium sized companies where we spent quite a bit of time and effort dealing with spam and bot activity, to the point of making trade offs in the product to lower the impact of bad actors. Even companies that are more or less successful at this spend a TON of money and engineering resources on this problem, and it still manages to detract from the UX (think Twitter bots). I wouldn’t be surprised if the economic benefit of a technical solution to this problem was on the order of tens of billions of $$.
“life is when harassment. get over it snowflake”

Is there anything I missed? Judging by your comment I’m not sure it relates to you. Try to learn empathy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/37yn8s/super_food/
If you cut your work hours in half, I'd guess your remaining work hours would be more productive on an hourly basis. There are probably all sorts of things making that a challenge to accomplish, but we shouldn't be surprised we see those results in a context that encourages it.
To give an absolute “no” here is presumptive. There are many unique indicators for a human. DNA is unique. At most, there is a small statistical chance of one or two other twins with identical DNA. That could be used to have some level of digital identity binding.

If the technology existed to take a neural snapshot, that would be completely unique. And I would argue if anything had the ability to operate at the complexity of a brain, then it deserves representation.

If you were to automated the entire system top down for identity validation, there are possible avenues to get a high degree of assurance that someone is uniquely human on a system. Just because it hasn’t been done yet does not me it is impossible.

But it is a very hard problem.
That's not informative at all without knowing when you arrive.
This is all correct. It is worth nothing that other expenses are increasing quickly and consistently, so the stress test could be undermined slightly.

I don’t mean to be alarmist or anything here. It has just been on my mind as a recent home buyer. The stress test was performed on my finances under conditions which have already changed (for the worse).

I doubt the bottom will fall out of things, but I expect this to bite some people and to hear about it in the medias.
Picasa's last release has a bug, in photos with multiple faces, it sometimes swaps them. 8(

This then corrupts the database for all other tagging.
If, not when.
That's all I could fit, but if you'd like to check out the rest of this week's archaeological news, here's the link to my latest newsletter issue: https://ancientbeat.substack.com/p/-ancient-beat-15-early-cu...
Oh man. Someone very close to me was somehow persuaded to join such a culture. I was recently told good women stay at home and don't show up outside without escort. And they do it by choice. Infuriating, totally unexpected stuff coming from a white person who grew up in Europe. Religious fucks brainwashing people.
This is fantastic. What a dream team as well.
anybody would say something snarky if the clerk asks you if they dont have to give you the rest of your money back

summer child labor conscript: your total is $15 and your change is $85, lemme keep that

you: ….. uhhhh you kidding me?

audience: rich people are assholes!
The Internet beat out OSI because of the sort of people who use sci-hub. We can kill Elsevier the same way.

This isn't some wild conspiracy theory. I was there, plus I've been on the internet-history mailing list, where Internet pioneers still walk the Earth (the ones still living). I recently instigated a discussion on GOSIP (1990), which was supposed to finally drive a stake in the heart of TCP.

Nearly everyone in academia and the non-profit sector jumped on TCP early in the 80s and before, and accumulated decades of actual operational experience with it. If you were choosing a protocol for your network, you knew all the devices ran TCP and could talk to each other. Anything new you bought surely would, too.
Interop conferences were held, where vendors showed up and made sure they could play, too.

For OSI, not so much. Which OSI "profile" did they support, for one thing?

All this happened because while the telecoms and governments were swearing that OSI would win in the end, the people actually in the field were making TCP just work.

So if you say that scientists prefer sci-hub and other open access: that's how we win. Let's tackle the issues with it if there are any, patiently, one by one. Eventually it'll be a fait accompli.
It's interesting because you'll learn how to explain things better to the newbies. Pick up a pdf on libgen, check it out. If you like it buy it, if not you're still square even.
What controversies, and who would? The FSF (obviously), the OSI, the DFSG, and Fedora are all okay with it.
Thank you! I updated readme of the GitHub, do you have more suggestion on it?
“Why? For fun.”

I love this. It doesn’t need a reason to exist. It’s interesting on its own.

That being said, can anyone think of additional interesting reasons for why this would be useful rather than the same toys over HTTP?
Yes, my understanding is this tends to hit recent buyers and those who have had to remortgage. I don’t have numbers, but it seems reasonable to believe this makes up a small portion of homeowners.
For every bi-monthly pay period, I deposit 12% into my IRA and 4% into my regular investment account. Also, a certain amount is taken from my paycheck and deposited into my 401k.

I've deposited the maximum $6,000 into my IRA for the past two years, and I plan on doing so indefinitely. If it's December and the paycheck withdrawals haven't totaled $6k, then I'll transfer the remainder from my bank. And although I don't deposit as much into my regular investment account, whenever I see fit I'll transfer some of my bank account funds into it.

I wouldn't be able to do this if it were not for money coming in.
AWS have already openly admitted that they were slow bringing Node 16 support and plan to be quicker next time round.

> We recognize that customers have been waiting for some time for this runtime release. We hear your feedback and plan to release the next Node.js runtime version in a timelier manner.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/node-js-16-x-runtime-no...
We're finding out it seems...
No. Just that "creepy" behavior is everywhere and subjective.
I think the people in europe are still incredibly varied and colorfully different.

Its just that foreign (US) brands have penetrated everywhere. If you wanted to hangout at McDonalds and Starbucks _you can_ and it will be the same experience (mostly) as anywhere else in the world.

The turist experience has been homogenized for sure. But thats why you just try not to be a tourist. The way I like to travel is to go to a place and work from there for a few weeks from a co-working space. Get to meet the locals, they can show you around where people _actually_ eat, hangout and have fun. It’s a totally different experience that still tickles my wanderlust.

Even several cities in Spain for example can be have incredibly different cultures and customs, it’s just not as obvious as in the 70s.

I’ve tried staying and working from Alicante, Malaga, Valencia and Barcelona and they have all been incredibly unique experiences in their own right.
Same! Still one of my favorite books ever read, but other than the floating point chapter it started getting over my head.
> Wait do we even know that every human gene has a 1:1 mapping to a function in the body?

When it comes to biology, the answer is typically: It's complicated. I'll give two examples, melanin and the gene for vitamin-C.

The process to make melanin is a bit complex, but suffice to say the chemical is produced. From there, it is used in at least two way you are probably familiar with: sleep and tanning. Our bodies uses melanin production to help regulate our sleep cycle. Also, through the quirks of evolution, we use it to help stop UV radiation and keep our skin safe. At the end of the day, a complex process that includes a few genes maps to multiple functions.

The gene for vitamin-C production is another example. In humans, some primates, and guinea pigs, this one gene is mutated. As such, we can't produce vitamin-C internally and we have to get it from our diet. This single gene had a function in our ancestors, but no longer does. I think you can argue that it's lack of function is a psuedo-function for our ancestors to eat more fruits, but I don't really buy that. Evolutionary, we would be better off with the non-mutated gene than with what we got now (ask any scurvy survivor or Inuit).

Generally, I'd say that most of the genes in our code are more like the mutated vitamin-C gene than the melanin ones. They had specific functions sometime in our history, but no longer do. Kinda like a vestigial organ or the eyes of a cave fish.
I think Reader mode looks for a <main> section. When it's not present it either guesses or doesn't work at all.
Do you mean 'units'? https://www.gnu.org/software/units/
Caffeine pills. You might need to find a good brand, because the effects can be different (though none of them have negative GI effects).
He's not right-wing, he's left-wing to centre-left - but differs from the mainstream left in that he's critical of their identity politics.
> I know! People shouldn’t feel entitled to their own change! It’s such a dick move.

Back when I was driving cabs I just assumed whatever they handed me was mine and if they wanted the change they had to ask for it. Mostly worked but plenty of times I gave them their change back and got no tip.

My absolute favorite was this guy taking a girl out to the fancy part of town and making a big deal about giving me a bunch of money then as soon as she was out of earshot asking for the change. Guess you gotta pay for those overpriced drinks somehow.

Some people just don’t ever tip and when the non-tipping profile groups collide in a single person but they do leave a tip it messes with your mind a bunch.
great share! That bit about the ancient rice beer is pretty interesting.
Not necessarily, there's some examples in that thread where the stairs are in such plain view that you'd feel exposed to the whole room. But even then, you'd need to confront people playing dumb hanging out below such stairs, which is not easy for most people, particularly women being preyed on like that.
Nice. like a command-line version of Charlie Cheever's bunny1.
https://github.com/ccheever/bunny1
Daily meeting is at 9h30. I generally show up a bit before that if in office, or log on a bit before that if WFH. 9 at the earliest, generally closer to 9h15, 9h20. :)
It's a minor risk, but with astronomical potential liability. Statutory damages for wilful violation can be up to $150,000 per violation. If your employees download 100 articles, that's a cool $15M.

In many cases, these sorts of crackdowns can come long after-the-fact. The statute-of-limitations is short (3 years, I think), but a lot of courts start the clock ticking when the violation is discovered. If your organization pirates for 30 years, and a publisher does an investigation in 2022, and discovers all 30 years of violations, they would likely file in such a venue.

In most cases, the liability comes in when a business is failing, and goes into don't-give-an-f territory. If Elsevier / Google / Amazon / Coke / [insert random successful business] starts suing researchers when they're big, they're liabile to be hated for it, which endangers their brand and their existing business.

If Elsevier goes into bankruptcy and those copyrights get bought up by parasites, or otherwise starts struggling to survive (as inevitably happens with almost any business eventually) those sorts of retroactive lawsuits often come into play. Most businesses I worked with in the nineties went into owned-by-sleazeballs territory at some point in the forty years since.
Remember, the premise we're discussing is "parenting doesn't matter", so if you're the type who DOES think you need to change, this premise says, don't worry about changing, even then, because it won't matter.

If you've previously engaged in corporal punishment with your kid, and you think, "maybe I shouldn't do this anymore", the "parenting doesn't matter" premise I'm arguing against says, "hey, don't worry about that! hit your kids! in fact, hit them harder if you want! it doesn't matter, because parenting doesn't matter!"

so yeah, the "parenting doesn't matter" premise that most people here have said sounds ridiculous, does indeed sound ridiculous.
They could open up documentation and invite others to build an ecosystem around a RISC-V socket and variety of motherboards. I don't know what their plans might be, but this is the kind of RISC-V ecosystem I'd like to see, like early-x86.
It’s almost as if all the right wing pearl-clutching about “free speech” on Twitter was a bad-faith argument…
Arrest warrants issued for 46 New Hampshire fraternity members
At what level of fidelity? 1 synapse == 1 16-bit floating point value? It may be enough (emphasis on may), for a specific brain region which is very directional in nature but I'm not sure if that calculation will generalize.
Breathing, eating, drinking and sleeping are also hallmarks of mass shooters and incels. I even hear they cloth themselves frequently.

In all seriousness; that is a really toxic take. I’m surprised to find it on HN, where I feel constructive criticism and thought-out comments are common.
We can run profilers and debuggers on themselves. We can imagine a model taking as input its own internal data. Doesn't seem a big deal...