skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we seek out trustable sources. I'm not sure technology can surmount that.

Why should finding a trustable source be incompatible with using technology? It seems like precisely the sort of problem that technology can help with.

Of course, technology alone can't "solve" trust, but it can keep track of identities and claims and reputations, and even allow implementation of clever algorithms for discovering patterns and making recommendations.

Anyway, here is the plan for decentralized spam/abuse prevention that Matrix is proposing, which looks promising:

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix...
https://archive.ph/8X1oC
A recent post here a few weeks before gave me the impression that LRB subscription is quite worthwhile. Not exactly the "news" though.
Would suggest updating the title to "unsubscription tool for Fastmail and Proton Mail"

Edit: My bad - it works with any email service. .. I didn't read the README properly (－‸ლ)
Learn how networks work: http://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/ Most SWEs I've met don't understand networks well despite writing software that interacts with them.

Learn basic statistics. Apply it to performance testing, system modeling.

Build off your knowledge of logic programming -- learn a formal verification language like SMTLIBv2 or TLA+. Apply it to find bugs in code, or to clearly write out algorithm or system designs.

Learn C++ or Rust, and use it to write performant systems code -- the kind of stuff Python can't do. Learn how to convince the CPU, memory, disk, and network to give you all the performance they're capable of. Note, the goal here is not to learn another language. The goal is to learn how to think of programming in terms of interfacing hardware resources together -- as opposed to a pile of functions that compute something.
LRB perhaps as well.
How on earth are you getting 5 seconds for simple tests? Simple tests should be running in 8ms, and those are my 2015 numbers that I've been too lazy to update.
I tried to follow the natural rate as closely as possible so that no business would go bankrupt but increasing the interest rate to maximize GDP and ended up at 442k. All my subsequent tries Land in the same ballpark.
Not so impractical, don't most undergrads write at a GPT3 level anyways? =)
I can't offer any advice, Captain, besides perhaps suggesting you play a bit with machine learning and see if it catches your interest.

What caught my eye was that you use logic programming. Would you mind sharing what your use case is and how it fits your Python workflow?
@verdagon Can you please explain https://verdagon.dev/blog/generational-references comment that: "programs dereference less than they alias and dealias" ?

Does deference means accessing a field of object ?
Does alias/dealias mean creating/destroying another variable reference ?

If answer of above is true, isn't programs deference more than alias/dealias ?
i mean, in:

var alias = shared_ptr_of_some_object;
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
alias.foo += bar_fn(alias.baz)
}

is just creating 1 alias but defrences 1k times and above looks like very typical code.
That is not how it works. The author of the transaction decides the transaction fee. If nobody has put a high transactionnfee in their transaction, you can't include it into the block you are mining.
Their entry level scopes start around $500 and comes standard with protocol decoding for i2c and serial.

https://www.keysight.com/us/en/products/oscilloscopes/infini...

Perhaps my favorite debugging tool though is the Saleae Logic. It's a does digital logic and analog in one and has a lot of protocol support.

https://www.saleae.com/
Plenty of self taught developers applying for jobs.
Seeing someone as trustworthy as Scott choose to work on AI safety is a pretty good sign for the state of the field IMO. It seems like a lot of studious people agree AI alignment is important but then end up shoehorning the problem into whatever framework they are most expert in. When all you have is a hammer etc... I feel like he has good enough taste to avoid this pitfall.

Semi-related - I'd want to see some actual practical application for this research to prove they're on the right track. But maybe conceptually that's just impossible without a strong AI to test with, at which point it's already over? Alignment papers are impressively complex and abstract but I have this feeling while reading them that it's just castles made of sand.
It works with any email service, they just provided instructions for those two.
EML is an open format for an open protocol. You can export emails to this format from Thunderbird and other desktop mail clients regardless of the email provider used.
Free speech laws protect individuals from government prosecution, full stop. It has nothing to do with private employees and employers. There's a potential labor law (retaliation) issue here, but it's not a free speech issue.
I did that assignment. Did you go to uw?
This is nothing more than handwaving and means nothing. Shrooms could be planted here by aliens, they also probably weren't. But 'physically impossible' is not something you can say for sure. And what does on physical and information theory grounds even mean?
That's because its not a hobbyist scope.
Question: it looks like the generational memory strategy prevents use-after-free bugs at runtime, which is nice, but a language like Rust prevents these kind of bugs at compile time. Am I missing something, or is Rust fundamentally safer than Vale?
> "Who is it?"

“It” is not used here because we don’t know the gender. Consider “Who is she?” for example, which is a very different question.

> "It was Bob!"

Why wouldn’t we say “He was Bob!” in this case, since the gender is presumably known? Because “He was Bob” and “It was Bob” mean completely different things.
Thanks for reaching out, I guess I developed trust issues to the stuff on the internet :) A defence mechanism is to look at the person or company behind it, it feels better when you can say "a developer from Denmark made it" or "It's made by this American company".

The app is not controversial or anything like that, I'm curious why do you prefer to be anonymous?
We got internet and then we got social media. Is progress necessary evil or sometimes a dead end?
Bankrupted?
Tell me about it. I'm just a hobbyist myself, but for $REASONS I splurged on a moderately high-end (albeit used) Keysight logic analyzer a while back. And the probes for that dang thing are approximately more expensive (new) than the analyzer itself was. I still only have half a set for that reason. So yeah, probes for high-end gear are a unique and expensive beast all apart from the rest. :-(
Certainly you can ban the sale, but it’s hard to imagine a law that outright bans the collection—there will be exceptions for law enforcement, and it’s not inconceivable those exceptions will be abused. I think technological and social solutions may be a better bet than laws on the books in this case.
I wonder, have they tried TLA+? This sounds like a good fit for designing a memory safety algorithm.

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/high-level-view.html
Amazon is unique in that they are so big they saturate the job market. Most companies don’t. This sounds like a unique challenge.
Keysight make gear that spans a pretty broad range of applications and price points. They don't necessarily outright target hobbyists the way Rigol or Siglent or some other brands do, but they have pointedly introduced some new lower-end hobbyist/student focused kit over the last couple of years. But their bread and butter still seems to be stuff that's sold in volumes of like 2 or 3 a year, for millions of $$$ and probably goes to places like Los Alamos or JPL or something...
How long does it take for hydrogen floating in the atmosphere to react with the oxygen?
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Farewell Address, January 17th, 1961)

(The above is from the same speech where Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex. The section of the speech above is much less well known but just as prescient and just as unheeded. I think it explains why science now works the way it does even though this system is detrimental to real meaningful scientific research.)
Another github discussion showing their views and interactions with the community: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622
Yeah, even with differential 100x probes, how do you get a controlled measurement from the test unit (antenna/amp) to the 110GHz instrument? I've used 25GHz spectrum analyzers and probes... and they're nuts!
Scientists harness light therapy to target and kill cancer cells in world first
Go is easy, decently fast, and reasonably safe. It's a good tool for many problems. Rust is complex, extremely fast, and notably safer than Go. It sounds like Vale is trying to push the envelope of what is possible, which to me, means having a simple yet expressive, extremely fast, and extremely safe language. Go makes compromises in all of those areas (as do many other good languages). I'd argue that Go isn't really near the boundaries in any of those areas, so it's not surprising that they didn't use it as a comparison to illustrate those three aspects of a programming language. It seems Vale's goal is to have their cake and eat it too.
> Desert solar will be abandoned in the near future.

Why is that? Isn't it the best place to build area-hungry, sun-hungry equipment??

> Orbiting solar, for terrestrial power, will not happen at all.

So you don't believe that a Dyson Sphere (or Swarm) is the best way to non-destructively accomodate an energy-hungry advanced civilization?
I don't understand what's the novelty of the first example (payments split into regular intervals).

Where I'm at (India) this has been a thing forever. They call it EMI (I think it stands for Equated Monthly Installments).

For example, I linked the Amazon India listing for iPhone 13 Pro down below [1]. It costs ₹119900. If you don't want to spend that amount in one go, you can split it into multiple installments spanning several months. Click the 'EMI Options' link and you can see plans. Some of them are interest free.

So it's possible to buy that phone and pay for it over several months.

It's not just Amazon India. There's many providers across different segments offering such schemes for different products.

Whether this is good economics is a different matter altogether. I personally have never bought anything on EMI. But keep in mind that what works in America may not work in India, and vice-versa due to different mindsets and economic situations.

[1] https://www.amazon.in/Apple-iPhone-13-Pro-128GB/dp/B09G99YPQ...
Old HP / Agilent / Keysight (aka HPAK) stuff does show up on Ebay for decent prices from time to time, so long as you don't need the specs of the latest and newest gear. And hobbyists usually don't. Personally all of the "purchased new" test equipment in my home lab is Rigol, and almost all of the "purchased used" is HPAK. It makes a nice balance.

Now to score one of those HP 3458A's one of these days...
Almost all are rated A or ? How is this helpful?
Basic needs are covered compared to a coupe ages ago.

Spring-of-nations happened because at the time many people got their basic needs covered and started looking for higher needs to fulfill.

But as with salary raises, people quickly take better conditions as the new normal.
Jeff Han’s multitouch demo is one I always remember.

https://youtu.be/ac0E6deG4AU
I’m algernon -> gmail
Probably realized quantum computing is going nowhere fast.
According to wiki, he has 47.4% equity and 78.3% voting control according to a 2020-dated filing. I would be surprised if either number has changed significantly since.
Two stages of quadrature downconvertion: input -> 64 GHz -> 8 GHz -> A/D samplers (x16).

Super Quadrodyne?

A decent understanding of SDR receivers is all you need to understand how this works. Same basic ideas, just one or two orders of magnitude faster. Incredible RF engineering; An Indium Phosphide (InP) stage feeds a Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) stage feeds about 9kg of custom CMOS DSP + high speed memory. A bargain at less than $1.5 million.
this with firebase
"Buy now, pay later"
This is something that's really widespread where I live. You can buy stuff with your credit card and it pay over 12x months "without interest" (we know everyone is sharing interest costs instead). And many people do this. Instead of saving, they just buy the thing they want and pay it over the year with their monthly income.
Tether is likely insolvent so maybe you should double check that
But, aren't finical systems a sociological science, rather than a mathematical model?

In economies, people, politics, and their dispositions, their sentiments, dominate.

How do you model human responses to local, national, regional, and global events. How do you model human cascades?
Quantum mechanics. Interdisciplinarity produces superlinear returns
> The first amendment is about protecting you from some of the consequences of that. Not specifically firing

Free speech protects individuals from government prosecution only. It has nothing to do with employment or labor law.
I have added "workflow_dispatch" event trigger as well and it still does not run when we try to manually run the workflow.
> doctrine in the US seems to be that one shouldn’t mix languages in a sentence when speaking to children

Whose “doctrine” is this?
"When you start reading about AI safety, it’s striking how there are two separate communities—the one mostly worried about machine learning perpetuating racial and gender biases, and the one mostly worried about superhuman AI turning the planet into goo" - great quote.
At first, it looked to me like you could barely influence the economy. But a couple of runs later, I found wildly different results (e.g. having hyperinflation and huge economic crisis) depending on what I'd do.

Since the income from the central bank's interest is paid out to the people (and vice versa, negative interest will be passed as debt), the challenge seems like finding the correct ratio to increase GDP: inflation and interest income. New money is only generated through loans, so if I understand this correctly, one should strive to have high interest rates?

edit: After tweaking my strategy a bit to try to keep interest rates as high as possible without closing any business, I got to 443647.

edit: up to 444823
Experts once predicted that Americans would face excess leisure time (2015)
Yes, because after correcting for irrational exuberance and the economy being in a holding pattern for 2 years all the next politician has to say is that they alone can fix the economy by lowering rates. They will then install a dummy head of the Fed that will play along.
Who would bother writing on these forums unless they have an axe to grind?
America’s Biggest Public Pension Fund Is Slow-Walking Corporate Climate Action
Show HN: Pathfind
I have a cell phone, originally postpaid and purchase with cash. I didn't to out of my way to keep it anonymous, paid my monthly bill with a cc.
No bank or credit card company I do business with accept it when they request a tell number. I conclude is flagged as not properly ID'd, just like a Google voice number is flagged as quasi anon.
click two white spaces on the map to get the shortest distance, if there's a path between them
^ this. Feels like this shoe really hasn't dropped yet, just mentioned on Twitter in a thread or two. Overall this is the most shaken I've been in the crypto space in a long time; this last week or two. The unwinding of giant firms is behavior of degens, not institutions. Add bear already + macro economic / political issues, and crypto thus far has blown it proving "drought tolerant" to the world around it. I'm still long on blockchain, but right now doesn't feel so great.
Your question would make sense only if it was a direct greenhouse effect gas, but H2 effect is indirect (but still huge), precisely in the way it disappears by combining with other molecules.

The greenhouse effect of H2 is by reacting with the HO naturally present in the atmosphere (giving water vapour: 2 HO + H2 -> 2 H2O), thus reducing the concentration of HO, and thus modifiying the dynamics of atmospheric methane and ozone.

From my understanding, in the atmosphere, HO has an important role in the decay of CH4.

http://agage.mit.edu/publications/global-environmental-impac...
Dall-E seems only aware of one pyramid. But anyway, this is pretty interesting. I only have to press the button once and sometimes twice to make it work. Maybe it's the time of day, or everyone from one (or twenty) sites hitting it at the same time. It doesn't seem to need a script or any fiddly bits to make it work.
What a great way to spend all the money people donated.
Symmetrically someone like him transitioning from quantum computing should imply something negative about the state of quantum computing.
We understand things like the great vowel shift and the like by words which are clearly intended to rhyme, one shifted and the other didn't. We have a basis of comparison. And so too with Homeric comparison to olive leaves and sky or wine and sea.

So when Homer said "wine dark sea", I worth bearing in mind we've no reason to believe the colours of the sea across time have shifted, and there isn't one sea colour, it depends on season, time of day, local conditions. Nonetheless the chances are, in the Mediterranean we're looking at Homer's wine dark sea.

Question is, is it diluted wine, or boiled wine must? I believe the Greeks diluted wine with seawater sometimes.
This is exactly why MONIAC[0][1] was created in 1949. Not a real computer exactly - it simulates the entire system with water flow.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAZavOcEnLg
If only police departments in the USA actually answered to the public…
They probably refers to the people who had say in the design process :/
Not talking about cars is talking about having no car, and walking everywhere. You cannot avoid that.

Well, no. Not talking about something, is nothingness, silence, an absence of speech. I can demand that void of speech be filled with literally anything.

At some point common sense kicks in and you realize that talking to your wife about the colour of her favourite mug, is not politics. You realize, deciding what bread to eat for breakfast hasn't been calculated on how many votes Ron Paul got in the last primary, or whatever.

Making politics everything and making everything about politics, turns it into a religion. It isn't one, it's not a cosmology, and it'll never satisfy as a 'theory of everything'. Politics is one category out of many.

It's just a method of wrangling everybody's desires together for the purpose of governance. That's it. It's got nothing to do with coding up a widget for some factory and it's economic aim to serve the entire population with quality mugs at a cheaper price.
As did my early viewers for me :)
I’m not really anonymous, the app is signed with a certificate with my name on it, guess you can find my name in other places as well. I just don’t feel comfortable being a public figure, if that makes sense?
The internet with survive long after social media is dead
The definition of “bullshit jobs” is fuzzy. Middle managers are extremely important. Corporate compliance officers exist to represent the interests of external stakeholders in a company.

I’m sure many people resent having to go to compliance training every week (in some highly regulated jobs).

But it’s not bullshit work.
I don't really trust YouTube videos. You mentioned "NASA figures", do you know where to find them on https://ntrs.nasa.gov/ ? If NASA has actually done analysis on this, and made the results publicly available, I'd expect to find it published there (or else maybe in some journal article).
Then what you end up with is Prop 65 - everything causes cancer.

The right response is a risk-based approach. Nothing is every 100% safe, so it's not a reasonable filter.

Basically each new product should be judged for the risk versus the benefit. If it can be easily substituted with a known safer product, then it's forced to go through testing.

If there is no known substitute and the benefit is high, then it can tentatively be approved with follow up tests later.
> Why is that? Isn't it the best place to build area-hungry, sun-hungry equipment??

Dust is a problem. Efficiency reduces once there's a layer of dust on top of the panels.

Could happen anywhere, but I imagine the problem would be more pronounced deserts, with its sands and winds.
Some complex coding concepts explained through visual diagrams
It would be funny if, in the simulation, you could cause a guy to start sending people to Mars by putting rates at close to 0% for 10 years.
The most fascinating part is how Louisiana doesn’t have prison gangs.

I get that Lousiana is different they use Civil Law and descend from France/Spain, not England.

But, no prison gangs! I figured that was just a universal thing.

They have them in France and Spain … why not Louisiana?

Because Louisiana does things different.
Eh, isn't it a bit of a stretch to claim you can program functionally in C? You can mimic it, but without easy closures you can't follow _any_ functional programming patterns that are built on composing functions into new ones in expressions (e.g. binding the operation argument to a fold)

C is great, and it would be cool to see something that is similarly close to the instruction set but has functions as values
Congrats to Scott. I'm still somewhat disappointed Brendan Gregg didn't pop up there making the AI Alignment equivalent of flame graphs!
Can confirm. Prof. Kim Griest at UCSD named MACHOs (deliberately contrasting WIMPs).
Although if they are hyper intelligent, extra-dimensional and all that, presumably they would have the nouse to send a message that we could properly comprehend. Unless they just like showing off. :-)
Oh, I definitely didn’t think that was the kind of response you were looking for.
If you look New Scientist stories rarely gain traction because their paywall is so tight. Self defeating I would say.
I found this site they as you to fill a form with your information … when you click don’t sell my data

https://smallstep.com/blog/
Fixed that last paragraph:

You are never alone. You didn’t choose to come into existence-at the very least, your parents (and others who raised you) will always have a physical and emotional bond of care and concern for you. They likely know you very well and want to see you thrive. No matter how alone you feel, keep in mind that the emotions you experience, and even the general challenges you face, will 100% have been experienced by many others. If you are in a tough spot, reach out to people around you: your family, your teachers, mentors, even your neighbor. Take deep breaths, build your courage up and talk to a professional therapist. Don’t be afraid to meditate on your challenges and seek answers in collective wisdom. Share what you discover. Lots of people reading your story will find themselves in it, and your resilience can become a source of hope others.