skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, having more free time will definitely help people have a social life
A few previous submissions about this device:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
I guess the next step would be to have a monthly minimum of $10 or more. You could still split it as 10 $1 donations but at least fees would be reasonable.
It was nowhere near the same magnitude. 20% in a few weeks [0], with even lower rates than post-2008 and the Fed's balance sheet at all-time highs.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS
In that hypothetical scenario, it is likely that I would not ended up spending all of that time on passive, consumptive activities. Assuming that there would be options for me to be more active and it would be socially acceptable for me to do things.

(If I lived in suburbs where HOA makes it impossible to have garden, I might end up purely passive and depressed simply due to no activity being possible.)
I don't know about you but most Art communities on Reddit very explicitly ban NFTs and related scams. So it's not just us apparently.
Patreon likewise; Patreon censorship is the main reason why SubscribeStar exists.
That’s exactly it :)
That might tempt me move to UK. :)
Wordle in Terminal Written in Haskell
Maybe they're trying to write around the term "Coefficient of performance" (COP) for people who have never heard of heat pumps.

I think a COP of 2 at 5°F (-15°C) is pretty good.
Infinite recursion (without a base case) is still recursion and, with tail call optimisation, can be useful in practice for the same reasons infinite loops can be useful.

I don't really see why the author doesn't see the joke as recursive. If it's about the lack of a base case they're misguided. Maybe the author is distinguishing between functions that recurse by calling themselves directly (direct recursion) and ones that call themselves via other functions (indirect recursion). Or maybe it's about recursive functions vs cyclic data structures. Or maybe it's something else as neither of those explains why the quoted joke is incorrect either.

You'd think in a section titled "Recursion vs Cyclicity" the author would make some effort to explain the difference, but apparently that matters less to them than calling things "dumb".
I wonder if it is possible to teach the average Joe about the functions of the government, world economy etc through games. With real data. This might also be a good way to learn the policy positions of various politicians, think tanks etc.

For example - let’s say the player is the chief of UNICEF. Or World Bank. Or U.N. Would be fun to play such a game, with real policies and real data.

I know I am not alone in finding economic topics dry and boring. But I might play games, than read a book on dry topics.
The list of trackers on that website is the largest Ive ever seen
It’s just a Communist Eastern Europe vs. Western Europe thing. Western Europe’s history and historical buildings remained and will remain intact for centuries. Eastern Europe’s didn’t remain due to war and won’t remain due to lack of culture surrounding said buildings now.

None of this meant in an offensive way - just the way it goes sometimes.
It's a receipt for the card. The card is elsewhere (or has already 404ed,)
Yes but that's not what we are talking about. We are talking about households where one parent works and the other stays home.
The industry terms are "incident management" (symptoms) and "problem management" (root causes), which might be helpful searching for existing tools.
Anyone remember Novell? Based in... Provo, Utah.
Southwest unchecked Colorado River water thirst could prove devastating upstream
You are conflating price volatility with inflation. Stocks are also down in price this year for the same reason. Stocks are not inflationary either.
I knew about no-vote shares, but no-dividend? How is the inherent value of those different from zero? Sentimental/collectors value?
Shriram Krishnamurthi, the author of this piece, happens to be also one of the authors of HtDP.
Yes. The thief is unlikely to make a copyright claim.

Green probably won't be able to get into NYC Apefest, which starts Monday. Which is the only actual benefit that comes from holding a BAYC NFT. Although, at age 48, he probably is too old for a rave.
Two differences:

1. Amazon had positive margins early on and was reinvesting money to build infrastructure and real assets. Most startups aren’t. All Bezos had to do to turn a profit at any time is stop building warehouses.

2. Amazon completely pivoted and almost all of its profit comes from AWS. And no Amazon did not use excess capacity to start AWS. It was built from the ground up as a separate service [1]. Every company likes to point to Amazon and say we can do it too. That’s just like a company claiming if they bring their former CEO back after 10 years they can become a three trillion dollar company.

And standard disclaimer since you brought up Amazon, I work at AWS.

[1] https://readwrite.com/popping-the-amazon-web-services-capaci...
I feel like nobody here remembers Novell.
Unnecessary commuting should always be included in working hours and expensed.
The stock market going down and a decent potential of recession doesn't meet the definition of "financial crisis" that is used by people in finance.

I guess you can make up your own definition.
I looked into this a while back with PayPal, when I was researching a business that would depend on massive quantities of $1 transactions. At the time (dunno if they still do), PayPal had a separate type of account you could sign up for with a different fee structure for transactions of that magnitude. It was pretty good.
So what are we building with Rust now?

I kid.
The best summary I’ve heard and remembered was from my undergraduate data structures professor over 30 years ago. It has a nice rhyming structure: “every recursive function has a base case and a smaller caller.”
To be fair there is a lot of non-infrastructure stuff on Patreon. They have been successful.
> But if an engineer had a choice to put in a part that was 10 percent more expensive but wasn't something that was needed for a four-year mission, they just went ahead and did that. And they wouldn't necessarily tell management.

Engineers doing good things even though everyone else doesnt want to care & just wants something cheap. Heartbreaking long tale of humanity, that opting to do good things is so hard to get buy in on.
The problem with Qt and Electron is that there is no GUI editor worth its salt right now.

C#+WPF/UWP had Expression Blend since the mid 2000s and it's only been getting worse ever since (and MS said they have no interest in bringing MAUI support to Blend which is probably their biggest foot-gun yet).

Godot has the same sweet features that Blend had but in a modern platform and with cross-platform export, yes it has many many rough edges, but it's been getting visibly better year after year and it shows no sign of stopping.

Anyone who thinks building UIs in Electron today is peak developer UX should just check out what it was like to build on WPF in 2009. They had all the shiny of today plus sane ways to do things eg. keyframe animations with custom easing etc without having to resort to insane workaround like importing them from After Effect with custom libraries.

And yes I know about Qt Design Studio, but my experience with it was AWFUL, from being an absolute minefield in the installation experience due to how Qt tries to upsell you on their commercial offering, to having a UI flow that looks like Blend if you took out most of its features out, to having to deal with QML (which honestly feels like a downgrade coming from XAML) and then you have to tie everything with C++?
It wasn't appealing back then and honestly it still feels like an alpha today.
If Hollywood made a movie about crypto: 2 Fast 2 Fungible [Video]
Federal employees get a paid holiday, banks and financial institutions are closed, federal government offices and post offices are closed.

Private companies and state and local governments can make their own choices about whether to be open / closed / allow days off. I live in the south in about a 50% black area and most of our businesses are either closed or giving the people the option to take it off -- many did this even before Biden's declaration.

Also many companies give X paid holidays per year, then allow you to choose which ones you use them for to an extent. I usually work Christmas so I get two paid ones I use for a regional holiday plus an extra floating day off.
They could construct a sale transaction to themselves, which leads to the charge being mere possession of stolen property. Of course, if the recipient of the property had no knowledge that it was stolen, and just thought they were getting a good deal, I'm not sure a crime would have been committed at all.
Spartan Protocol
I personally share your skepticism of self-reported diagnoses for such a vaguely defined condition. But it seems to me that a key part of developing a better definition would be to perform investigations like those in the source article, studying people with self-reported Long Covid to identify similarities between people who report it and/or differences with those who don't. How else could you research something like this?
As I posted here, take a peek at their past comments, they’re an outright neo-nazi Holocaust denier, and they seem to see Hitler as a hero: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31791070

Not surprising a racist disagrees with celebrating the emancipation of African American slaves.
Only if you disregard how it‘s produced. Burning gas to generate electricity to heat a home is much less efficient than just burning the gas within that home, for example.
It’s pretty stamdard advice in articles about bilingual kids; the advice from teachers of the Spanish-primary bilingual public school my gf sent her kids to, etc.

Like I said I’ve never seen anyone practice this, though I have heard some parents in the US apologies for not doing so. My own kid went to non-US bilingual school and there was none of that.
It is the default used by every major distro now, so it is definitely adopted. Also, it has a very good design, solving real issues.
I thought it was Doe-Anderson (a local ad agency) first... I am not a smart man without enough coffee.
Fair, perhaps I should retract “fail to grok” and replace it with “fail to focus on”. It does seem that LeCun understands the objections (though he dismisses them out of hand).

Regardless of who is right or wrong, “Don’t fear the terminator” is a weird straw-man to raise in a discussion about AI risk. He’s setting up a weak opponent to argue against, when the AI risk community have a large repertoire of stronger cases. “Don’t fear the paper clip maximizer” would be a stronger case to put forth IMO.

In his response points 2&3 he asserts that alignment is easy; simply train the AI with laws as part of the objective function and it will never break laws. I think there has been a lot of investigation and discussion as to why this is harder than it sounds. For example LeCun is explicitly talking about current models that are statically trained to a fixed objective function, but one can easily imagine a future agentic AI (imagine “personal Siri) that will continue to grow, learn, and update in the world in response to rewards from its owner. Maybe he is right about near-term models but I’m completely unconvinced that his arguments hold generally.

Anyway, maybe the “terminator scenario” is a concern LeCun hears from uninformed reporters/lay people that he felt the need to debunk. It’s a valid point as far as it goes, but it has little to do with the actual state of the cutting edge of AI risk research.
Is there some sort of phase shift in the direct causal relationship between printing and inflation? That doesn't make any sense given the one sentence approach to how inflation happens.
A phrase like “houseless residents” is used to convey two unrelated levels of information:

The first level of information is the obvious one: an adjective phrase that describes a homeless person.

The second level of information is about the writer: it conveys the writer’s support for a political position, and an ideological in-group to which the writer claims membership.

The “scare quotes” here are used to convey that the author does not subscribe to the underlying political position that the phrase communicates; rather, they’re quoting someone else’s usage.

This is correct.
yup, try supporting a group of academics however who are heavily invested since the 80's in learning and using apple...
A discussion about the (in)efficiency of mining is necessarily one about externalities, so arguably you can‘t ignore these.
> Towers of Hanoi

This also suffers from having a non-recursive solution, using bit-manipulation of a binary counter:

max = 1 << no_of_discs;
for (x = 1; x < max; x++)
printf("move a disc from %d to %d\n", (x&x-1)%3, ((x|x-1)+1)%3);
> not just drinking the cool-aid but bathing in it too.

It's a sticky situation. If they don't pretend they've lost the copyright by losing the NFT, then the NFT is demystified and no longer has value. Since the value of this particular copyright is almost entirely derived from the perception of NFTs being special, the NFT being demystified means they lose out anyway.

It's like you have a Picasso and all your friends are very impressed. Then somebody steals it, and to get it back means going to the police and inevitably admitting that it was never a real Picasso in the first place. So either way, you've lost. So instead you don't go to the police, never admit it was fake in the first place, and instead hope that it will be returned to you through some extrajudicial means that won't necessitate an admission of fakery.
Maybe, but there are other narratives that are easy to spin. Our solar system has 3 planets all of which might have had single-celled organisms, at some point: Venus, Earth, and Mars. And for the first 3.7 billion years, the 3 planets might have followed a similar path. And then all 3 planets reach old age and basically die, Venus becoming too hot, while Earth and Mars become mostly dead ice covered snow balls. And maybe that is the normal history of most planets, even planets that develop single-celled life.

In that narrative, the emphasis is on the extraordinary re-birth of Earth, after the end of Snowball Earth. Almost everything that we regard as interesting about Earth happens after this late-in-its history revival. That raises some other questions, such as, why did Snowball Earth end? Why does multicellular life take off then, but not before? What is it that makes the Earth/moon system so unusually dynamic that it hasn't settled down to some dead equilibrium, even after 3.7 billion years? What allows Earth to have such an extraordinary additional era?
This just makes me glad I live somewhere with not a lot of mosquitos.
What does smaller caller mean in this case?
Fair, that's true.
Would Einstein, Bardeen, and Fermi have been bored by immortality? I have a feeling not. There are endless curiosities in the universe.

One is less easily bored if one goes deep. Doing superficial things like international travel does get boring, by contrast.
> less diverse food (particularly if you eat out)

After spending a few years in a very rural part of CA while rebuilding my cabin, the lack of quality diverse organic produce I'd taken for granted in SF Bay area grocers is one of the biggest complaints I have.

I haven't seen a Pomelo in a store for over 4 years now, let alone an organic one.
I agree that there are a lot of scammers and aggressive self promoters. They give the rest of us a bad name.
> I work on self driving vehicles. I would also like more walkable, bikeable cities.

Two questions, then. Firstly, do you think that self-driving vehicles will ever get even close to human standards of driving? And second, what do you see as the big challenges to getting them to be acceptably safe?
The divide-and-conquer algorithm is a subset of what the post calls generative recursion, which requires a non-trivial amount of logic to get it right (even the simplest algorithm like binary search can be surprisingly difficult).
Go ahead as planned but perhaps have the installer plan for a future upgrade when the current device fails
I should have taken the time to link it above. This is the Hanson article: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/08/foom-justifies-ai-ris...

(It links to a previous debate with Eleizer too.)
What’s the breakthrough on the tech old level? What did they discover?
My point, is that all of my friends who have lost money as Celsius and/or Gemini locks up, are going to become distrusting of Bitcoin and cryptocoins in general.

You had your best shot at converting them last year, when they were ignorant, and hadn't lost $10,000+ on it yet. Today, they're going to be mad at their losses, the lies, and the fraud, and the outright stealing / locking of accounts.

The people in category #2 are almost certainly, permanently, lost. You can't just play with people's savings like this and expect them to trust you.

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This isn't like a "normal cryptocoin crash". Celsius, and now Gemini, account holders are unable to withdraw funds. Who knows how far this financial-contagion will spread?

What's going on right now is a fundamental loss-of-trust.

The price goes up, the price goes down. That's not the important bit. Locking down accounts and destroying goodwill is the problem with this crash.
Zero is stupid.
I don't think Patreon's reason to exist is because "sending money p2p is hard".

There is a lot of room for competition though. As a supporter, my loyalty is to the creator not to the platform.
Wow, didn't realize cool things like this once existed decades ago. So many information have been buried and lost in the history. Probably need a HUGE database to store all these kind of information before they lost...
I'm not sure why you are talking about stock trading. Settlement is a general, non stock specific thing. I'm talking about settlement in regular transactions, e.g. paying rent or buying groceries.
Could this be useful in electric cars? I know they spend a lot on heating the cabin.
The flip side of this is that society has built conspicuous reward mechanisms for doing things that don’t actually suit our brains very well (reading vs. watching/listening, “thoughtful” classical music vs. Drum-heavy pop music, etc.) because otherwise no one would do those things and that would have negative societal consequences.

Now, the Internet is only focused on making content that fits our brains and people who grew up benefiting from those conspicuous rewards miss those rewards (but not enough to put in the work to get them now that there’s a much more fun alternative).

It really comes down to the idea that there is no “good” or “natural” thing for humans to do from an objective standpoint. Evolution is in many ways a manifest of preference.
yea, these people have had covid.
To be honest, given the complexity and context connection DALLE2 makes it doesn’t seem all that hard to learn some speech distinctions of a couple of hundred people. It’s really not all that complex.
> inefficient ... pumping a whole countries worth of C02

Proof-of-Work blockchains are a strawman. Nobody in or out of the ecosystem thinks they should exist. They're a legacy technology sticking around on inertia; the mainframes to Proof-of-Stake's microcomputers.

> None of the applications can be properly decentralised. Your house deed stuff needs to be enshrined in law, enforced by police etc.

So? I didn't say anything about decentralization. I believe that these distributed-compute platforms that use signed append-only ledgers as shared storage ("blockchains") are a better way to do regular old centralized fin-tech. (Like I said above: security tokens. Those are embedded in a specific nation's regulatory environment!)

(See also: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/research/digital-currencies-and-...)

However, there is a very specific case that blockchains enable that traditional finance doesn't — and that's "multilateral agreement with no shared legal framework." E.g. a person in the US making a contract with a citizen of North Korea. If these two people get into a dispute, there's nothing their governments will do to arbitrate that agreement. But they can at least rely on technological mechanisms to enforce certain rules about what they can and cannot do to screw one-another over (e.g. requiring 2-of-3 multi-signature validation to remove value from an escrow holding account.)

> your NFT tickets need the venue to validate

They need a venue to validate. If one supplier is willing to take another supplier's "tickets", so to speak, then you now have an economy.

Let's say these NFTs are game licenses — if the Epic Games Store went under, Steam could say "we'll accept Epic Game Store licenses to download+activate games on Steam" as a PR move. Do that a couple of times, and now you have an economy of transferrable game licenses, maybe with an industry body that governs their issuance acceptance.

I'm not saying that this happens by default; but rather that this end-state is the point of the technology; and anything else people do with it is basically noise.
> How many people gamble $400,000 away at a casino?

One could imagine that it's just about the same amount of people who buy NFTs for $400,000, maybe a bit less as it's easier to buy something online than doing physical actions.

People who have that kind of money to gamble away, and want to gamble it away, will gamble it away no matter what kind of things exists in the world.
Real buildings must take into account material costs, weight bearing, soil conditions, thermal cycling through various paths, and human and seismic induced dynamic loads. The larger the buildings get, the exponentially more compute is needed to solve these problems.

“Anyone can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”
Yes, this (nonsense) discuassion is when you have computer progammers discuss biology. Is strange because they know nothing but all seem to think they must be experts of evrything because they get paid a lot to sit infront of a computer all day.
There is a big philosophical debate about the definitions of labour, idleness, and leisure [1]. While that debate is far from settled, I think we can agree that there is a difference between sitting around watching TV or playing video games and learning to sculpt or play the violin. I think we might also agree that this difference is deeper than its relationship to social class, though that may be a part of it.

So what is it? I think these sorts of “idle activities” like TV and games carry with them a burden of guilt that our time could be better spent pursuing a hobby or otherwise learning something which might enrich our lives beyond the mere time we spend doing the activity.

So why do we spend all this time on idleness instead of hobby, sport, music, or other “higher leisure” activities (folk dancing?)? I think, and it’s been argued quite effectively, that work has become all-consuming in our lives even if it hasn’t taken all of our time. For many of us now, work is a mentally rather than physically taxing task. We get home from work (or log off the computer and walk out of the home office) but our minds are still at work. We think about the problems we’re trying to solve outside of work hours. Many of us are also on-call to deal with any crisis affecting the business, even after work hours or on the weekends.

We never get off work! And that’s why we have no time for leisure. Any time we have outside of active work we spend on idle activities like TV or video games so that we can drown out our chattering minds. Pursuing a quiet activity like reading or woodworking is just too difficult if we’re still thinking about work (or worse, worrying about being on-call).

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/work-labor/
I can. From the lows, it makes a lot of sense. It does not make sense near all time highs.
Doodlestation is beautifully musical furniture
The navel gazing is getting out of hand