skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lmgtfy:
He's contradicting Chomsky on creativity (so do I) but without acknowledging that Chomsky ever existed or wrote. Ditto Wittgenstein on ordinary language, for example defining games - you can't just hand wave away ordinary usage, as Wolfram does without ever acknowledging that Wittgenstein ever lived or wrote. Kolmogorov has a specific definitionor of complexity as instantiated by Turing machines. Simple rules can create complex swirling patterns (something Turing covered in predicting correctly how animal hide coloring patterns are generated.)

Note that K complexity, W on games and definitions, and Chomsky on "creativity" are not obscure doctrines but perhaps what they're best known for. You don't have to agree with any of these doctrines, perhaps, but you're not philosophically literate if you are truly unaware of them, as he seems to be.

Belay your slurs and imputed motives.
Bargain hunting for biotech stocks [video]
That site has an awesome text/font. Reminds me of a CRT screen with scan lines! Mind sharing?
Federated services should be the future. It's sad that we all currently live in the walled-garden timeline.

This post is fairly high on the frontpage and seems to be suffering the consequences of interest. But a Slashdot/Sigh/Reddit/Hackernews clone in the federated space is awesome. Be sure to save for later.
Personally speaking, I would prefer to use a little more fuel, and "waste" a little more food, if that meant having fewer microplastics circulating in my blood stream.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...

After all, if they're in my bloodstream, they're probably everywhere, and if we happen to discover anything more harmful about that than endocrine disruption, good luck pulling all of that plastic back out of the environment.

Glass uses very little energy, creates very little waste, when it is re-collected & washed--a common practice as recently as the early 1980s.

I quote the word "waste" because I remember how things were. In the glass & paper days, we didn't waste nearly as much food as people do today. No one did. The fast food / fast casual dining experiences--which have popped up everywhere--are monuments of food waste. If you don't believe me, ask any of the employees how much food they throw away on a daily basis.
I wonder where all of the crypto shills went on this site?
Isn't the traveling salesman optimization problem non-polynomially-verifiable? https://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2012/09/14/traveling-sales...
unless i'm missing something, those apps seem to be a marketplace for chicken shit?
Thanks for this. I think the DMV is an immediate place where improvement could be used.
Volvo tests the world’s first hydrogen-fueled articulated hauler
I for one. Disruption of complacent industries has defined our age, and been the motivator for countless entrepreneurs. Created more jobs than we can realistically measure, through the emergence of entirely new industries.

The established auto manufacturers have a long standing pattern of paying lip service to electric vehicles. General motors went so far as to reclaim, disable, crush, and/or shred virtually every model of the EV1, the first mass-produced and purpose-designed electric vehicle of the modern era. [1]. The manner in which GM created barriers to entry for electric vehicles with the EV1 program is the stuff of legend. [2]

TSLA has been the most shorted stock in history, with close to $57 billion being lost by short sellers between 2010 and 2021. [3]. That entrenched economic forces want Tesla ended is no secret.

The mass adoption of electric vehicles was Elon's stated goal with Tesla, and it looks like that is well on its way to being accomplished.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car

[3] https://qz.com/1979325/tesla-not-gamestop-is-the-most-shorte...
There is a series called “dystopia”on Amazon that demonstrates this in a roundabout way IMHO.
FWIW: In my career doing this kind of work, I found logs to be archeologically interesting, but seldom of value. Products that claimed to do things with logs gave me skepticism, because they were often like trying to do brain surgery through your foot - better to just go straight to the head. That is to say, if you could replicate the problem, better to watch it via full-stack monitoring tools in real-time than wading through gigabytes (terabytes?) of log data after the fact, often which had a randomness to their shape (IE: consisted of whatever garbage some developer thought was useful long ago and far away).
Exposing the rich and powerful is a way to protect existing and future victims. It removes the perpetrators sense of invincibility and empowers victims to speak up.

But let's face it, you don't actually care about any of this. It's clear from the comments you're shilling for Elon. The thing I don't understand is why.
I care even less about when it's just computers looking at the data which is pretty much the case for online advertisement.
How are you going to create a large enough pond?
Mate, I have never in my life bought fuel, I don't have a car, my stove and heating is electric, so I don't know why you are attackibg me .

You do realise 87% of emissions are created by industry, not by end users?

Or is also my fault they burnt fuel when they dwmeliver goods?
These two episodes of the Huberman Lab podcast went into a lot of details about the gut and its effects on our mood and behaviour:

https://hubermanlab.com/how-to-enhance-your-gut-microbiome-f...

https://hubermanlab.com/dr-justin-sonnenburg-how-to-build-ma...

I found them quite interesting.
I saw that. Neat idea.
The optimization problem isn't, but neither are the optimization problems for a bunch of other NP-complete problems. The decision problem (where you specify an upper bound cost) is indeed NP-complete.
Who are these masses of people exfiltrating their money from these countries with crypto? They seem as yet more theoretical & annecdotal (and even few of those) than actual, especially since there are still normal traditional finance ways for individuals to do this sort of thing.

Also any of these hypothetical people that put their money in crypto just lost a significant chunk of their life savings.
probiotics 'colonizing' at all is very rare, they are generally transient
I think this nostrum has become less correct over the decades, as the problems being solved or the business purposes being attempted are recapitulations or extensions of what came before. I mean they’ve already flung rockets to the moon and networked the world and done process control and …. Aside from scale, what’s truly novel about social media that wasn’t done in some fashion on way smaller matches by way fewer people.

There’s no real reason to estimate software project correctly or well, so why waste time learning how to do so. And, unfortunately, there’s usually little or no need to make reliable software. Enthusiastic, overworked amateurs are the norm usually doing ip things for the first time.
Holding down B to exit menus in SSBU is awful! But I actually like the interaction of entering menus that uses the same pattern. I think it’s because I don’t mind the anticipation of moving forward, but hate the drag of not being allowed to go back.
Has this ever happened or its just a hypothetical?
I think it’s an interesting take but kind of fundamentally wrong because it ignores sort of the whole point.

Like, it’s certainly true that the computational complexity of a bucket of a river and the computational complexity of a brain are both very complex, they are also very (and obviously) different.

The whole tower of biology and technology isn’t a detail, to be ironed out like “assuming a spherical cow”, it’s the thing people find most interesting!

Also, on a basic level if you cannot draw a distinction between a storm and a brainstorm, the problem lies with your ontology rather than the universe.
Damn, it seems author does believe everybody is tightly integrated into Apple ecosystem and everybody is an American!
You mean Coca Cola doesn’t do this ?
Like, say, routing 100% of traffic through a vpn
I think the existing investment in tooling, plant and equipment that these companies have accumulated makes it hard to economically justify starting from scratch with new tooling, plant and equipment on a product line that has no competition. Tesla provided that competition, and justified such investment.
May I ask how this differs from Chair The Fed?
YouTube pulls Jan. 6 committee post, citing election disinformation
I love these examples! My favorite is the Citymapper’s hamburger icon
Ask HN: What the fastest way to get UI built?
I'm very good at CSS but I despise writing 1000s lines of code, one page can easily get 500 lines+. I really wish there were programs that could output good UI code, ie. Adobe XD to proper Html/CSS

but I've not found any.

So I tried using just UI frameworks like Bootstrap, however, but learning curve was bigger and every page looked the same. (And don't suggest tailwind)

Maybe there is outsourced service to whom I can give designs and get html/css back for very low cost like $10-20 per page. I tried one at fiver and it was far from pixel perfect and wasn't mobile responsive.
If the price spirals from multiple whales getting liquidated/margin-called (3AC included), the whole crypto project dies and Coinbase sees their volume drop 100X.

The issue is that with past Crypto runs, not everyone knew about BTC/ETH/ETC. This time around, literally the entire world has heard about crypto and has been pitched to buy, up to having Matt Damon calling you a coward for not buying during the Superbowl. So when the price of BTC finally stops at somewhere like $800 a coin, people aren't going to be buying anymore. There's no magic left in the system. The whole "it runs on vibes" thing is the only true statement that backs the price of BTC given that it's a negative-sum game.

When the vibes run out the miners leave the hotels fold the bars close and the whole circus leaves town. Coinbase will be a ghost town in a few years.
The article mentions the availability of thumbnails in list view and considers that insufficient: "It’s still only in list view, this is somehow worse"
I always assumed it was his real name, but I suppose that was just an unexamined assumption.

Gwern Branwen is a prolific [1] netizen who is also completely anonymous. I don't know how people like him [2] do it. Surely the people who know him IRL are aware of what he's working on day-to-day and someone would be able to connect the dots. Unless he lives alone or his housemates are completely offline - and he doesn't talk to anyone IRL about what he does at home.

[1] Sometimes on Twitter or Hacker News I legitimately just scan my eyes around the screen expecting a comment from or link to Gwern to be already in my field of vision.

[2] I have seen since-scrubbed evidence Gwern is a "him" though he now seems to hide that too
They played stupid games and they won stupid prizes… that’s the whole idea…
Oooops, you're right, sorry!
My sister had to do this as part of a test for her Master's degree. Now she's working for the government, setting up nets in forests and catching birds to track their migratory habits.
Leaked memos show Amazon’s senior leadership asks managers to “manage out” (PIP or let go) the bottom 6% of their workforce each year:

https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/standing-up-for-us-pleb...
I encourage everybody to continue trying, but I am also realistic. I often write my senators and congress people here in California about these issues and proposed bills. They send me back canned letters telling me to pound sand, save the children, blah blah. They are heavily funded by the surveillance capitalists, and the intelligence agencies rely on that data.
Incredible! 0.004 ppt considered dangerous.
I have a different perspective and a question for HN. We always ask how to prevent corporations from surveilling us. How about letting them surveil BUT giving incorrect information? Intentionally do things (manually or automated) that gives them completely incorrect information about you.

Avoiding surveillance is becoming very hard. But giving incorrect information is very easy.
After seeing how they respond to criticism and how they act as moderators, I just don't trust them to stay politically impartial when it comes to building products. Of course other people may not care, but I do
In the old country, there was a story ( which since I heard variants of ) my parents told me trying to explain
why it is not a good idea to share details of your life with strangers, which goes something like this.

Secret police was trying to recruit a dissident to be their informer, but he was resisting. They tried to bribe him. They tried to cajole him. They tried to threaten him. He did not break.

One day a senior agent went by to introduce himself. When the dissident started to protest, the senior agent waved him away. 'We already know everything there is to know about you. We even know you drink tea and not coffee.' The treats, speeches and monetary gain had no hold on the dissident, but when he learned someone close to him betrayed him, he internally gave up.

The moral of the story is and always has been the same. Information is valuable. You may not think it is, but someone does. Do you think that someone has your best interest at heart?
and wouldn't happen in today's world because technology grows exponentially and with it, wealth.
No finance advisor ever recommendes you invest by epending you life savings on computers
It's almost as if you want to remove externalities from the food supply chain...
Symmetry in physics is not just about orientations in space. This notion rather comes from the fact that large systems of discrete points are often described using continuum mechanics or field theory, which naturally has a lot more symmetries. But even a set of randomly distributed point-like particles can have symmetries. If the set was made up of identical bosons for example, it would have a wave function symmetry under particle permutations. And real particles would also exhibit a whole lot of other discrete symmetries, like CPT symmetry at the very least.
Attitudes about this vary a good bit depending on where you're at around the globe.
I find this true also. Gives you a pretty clear purpose. But I do think people err on the side of creating a future for their kids (working forever to build up wealth to pass on) rather than living in a present that is engaging and full of memories now.
Interesting to see the orders of magnitude involved here:

$$$$$ GDP:

20.0T USA

02.0T RUS

00.2T UKR

Sending billions to Ukraine isn’t much for the US. It could crash Russia again like it did with the USSR.

Crazy that Russia invited a quagmire like this on their border. IEDs will be going off in Moscow in a couple years it seems like.
A strange comment to make for someone who posts comments on HN as often as you do. Or was that mean to be self-deprecating humour?
Unopened wine bottles still on board a royal ship 340 years after it sank
Amazing work! I’m not qualified to comment on the technology but this is very impressive.
Plenty of cryptos have real cash flows. Even ETH has cash flows in terms of both staking and fees paid to the network.
I like Sean Carroll's explanation:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2019/09/21/the-not...
Burning fuel creates waste because motion of vehicles, tires, etc. creates micro plastics…
Another big downside of surveillance that the article doesn't mention is the "social cooling" effect [1]. People are less likely to be honest if anything they say can impact their entire life

[1]: https://www.socialcooling.com/
The Unix Filesystem API is profoundly broken – What to do about it? [video]
"High fidelity targeting" working and "having a lot of data about people's choices and habits allows you to better manipulate them" are related but not identical things. It seems at least plausible to me that pre-internet advertising wasn't really much worse than what we have now, there's just more ways to attach cost to outcome.

But the amount of data companies have on their markets now is astounding, and can be used in more ways than just directly targeted ad serving.
> Just making sure i haven't misunderstood- you've effectively choosen to disappear from your kids lives?

Yes, until such time they want to reach out and meet their Dad if they don't then hope they're aren't hungry.

@em-bee

The restraining and the DVO orders effectively abated then expired after two years. During such time the partner found out about the new family and sought to enforce new orders they're (intimation, rape, child abuse) orders, and stalking orders). They didn't even make it to the judge as they where lodged during effectively all the other orders and the technicality that I was in another country at the time.
This wouldn’t be out of place as the first chapter in an 80s dystopian sci fi novel.
I would say that it is becoming much harder. You need a real address to ship your items to that they will later correlate all of your activity to for example. In addition, many social media sights are requiring verification with government IDs. Try creating a Facebook account with fake details. They are able to filter these out pretty easily.
Well the stablecoins should (hopefully) still be around and will likely even grow in mcap.
The only tool I know of like this is Ad Nauseum [1]

[1]: https://adnauseam.io/
Did you read the actual letter? I ask becasue it's not included in the NYT article, so I'm not sure whether your complaints about political correctness and your comparison with Christian values stem from not knowing the contents of the letter or something else.

There are basically three problems the open letter highlights and asks the leadership to address. They're wrapped in polite, corporate-appropriate language, but I'll express them here in plain, blunt, non-PC words:

- SpaceX is supposed to be bigger than just Elon Musk. Elon's shitposting on social media is harming the whole company, and the employees will end up suffering because Elon keeps putting his ego before the company.

- The so-called leadership, as it happens all too often, keeps talking the talk, but they don't walk the walk. They say they care about making SpaceX a great place to work, but that's just bullshit as long as they turn a blind eye to the toxic fuckery at SpaceX.

- The company policies are bullshit. Using words like "asshole" to sound cool and non-PC does not replace having an actual policy. "Zero tolerance" means fuck-all if you selectively tolerate stuff, and "no-asshole policy" is either too vague or isn't enforced.

Basically, it boils down to being sick of the toxic corporate LARPing you see in a certain kind of techbro companies, where suits pretend to be cool and down with the techies by using words like "asshole" to show how they value "straight talk" and therefore you can totally trust them not to fuck you over.

I hope that was non-PC enough to help explain what the letter says, for anyone who hasn't actually read it.

On the off chance that you did read the letter and you really decided that it's no different from "a bunch of hyper fundamentalist evangelical Christian SpaceX employees" demanding that their CEO behave according to their values, then I would like to point out two details you might have overlooked:

1. That would be perfectly understandable if the company itself claimed to hold and represent those values. If the employees of the hypothetical Every-Zygote-Is-Sacred LLC wrote a letter complaining about how their CEO kept tweeting about how much they loved and supported Planned Parenthood, then they would have a point, regardless of whether you or I were pro- or anti-abortion.

2. Regardless of what company policies say about the company values, many companies have a policies about social media, along the lines of "don't tweet anything that would negatively affect the company, not even on your personal account". People can, and do, get fired for breaking that policy. Complaining about how the CEO of the company keeps blatantly breaking that policy and actively harming the company in the process might be naive, but it's certainly understandable.

In conclusion: yeah, I think it's right and acceptable for SpaceX employees to complain about the unprecedented level of toxicity from their CEO.

EDIT: I accidentally a word in the last paragraph.
Okay, but you can’t get a non-science-kit fuel cell of decent size online in 5 minutes with my visa card from a battery wholesaler. You need the right contacts.
Schwab has Zelle in the phone app.
So the utility of crypto is to violate sanctions?
> If you were thought a name for some range of colors between red and orange, you would think of it as something clearly distinct than both red and orange, just as you are unlikely to accept that brown is just dark orange.

What does this mean? People have come up with all sorts of wacky names for “hues between red and orange”, but since they are not in common currency they are generally ambiguous or incomprehensible. The clearest names for these hues are reddish orange, orange–red, orangish red.

Brown is “just” dark orange (the range of hues considered “brown” for dark colors doesn’t precisely match with the range of hues called “orange” for lighter colors, but close enough).

If you want a reasonably unambiguous English-speaker-comprehensible system of color names, you could try the ISCC–NBS system, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCC–NBS_system
Ask HN: I failed FAANG interview because I didn't know Binary tree?
Role was for Frontend engineer. There were 6 interviews (1 hour each). First 5 interviews went well. In the last interview, SDM asked me to explain binary tree and how to demonstrate it with a solution. It costed me the interview.
The author had a Covid infection and had previously taken both shots. By all accounts of the latest scientific literature on the subject, the booster was an unnecessary risk for him. Also, the author lived off campus which meant he was not putting anybody else at risk. Why did he need to comply?
I really don't understand this comment... Bitcoin is similar to a dead US senator who voted outside party lines on occasion?
That implies their business is not viable.
Then terrorism. It can't end well either way.
He might have built the company, but he isn't the company. Building the company doesn't give him the moral right to run it into the ground or make it toxic. He might have that legal right, but I explicitly said that I'm not talking about that.
It's a standardization of money for storing or trading value using a blockchain and encrypted.
I can't wrap my brain around this.
> something that could support queries on encrypted data

Assuming you're talking about client-specified queries (database-specified are impossible by definition of "encrypted"), the keyword you want is "fully homomorphic encryption". AFAIK, there aren't any fully working systems yet, although they're pretty close and should be available Real Soon Now.

The main restriction is that for any given query you have a response of a fixed (and known-to-the-attacker) size, so you can't do open-ended queries like "all records between 2021-01-01 and 2021-12-31". Instead you'd get something like a fixed-size mapreduce/foldMap interface, and queries would look something like "total number of records (modulo UINT_MAX+1) matching predicate x and first N such records according to ordering y", where N, sizeof x, and sizeof y - but not x and y themselves - are known by the database/attacker.
Not GUI per se but there's mutt that has high performance. That's why GUI clients are not popular anymore either, because they perform very, very poorly.
At least with hyperinflationary cash you can burn it for fuel or warmth. Not much to be done with a wallet address holding a few million Terra.
Try a search and be in awe at how long it takes to spit results.
Is it mixed because the effect is mixed? Low effect?

Or is it mixed because it is resistant to observation? Hard to test for?
It's not a problem until you're incentivized to lock people up to get free labor.