skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am wondering why, with all of the many experiments done to investigate this, none of them were done with ice cream:

"Mpemba opted to skip waiting for his boiled-milk-and-sugar concoction to cool to room temperature like the other students had done. An hour and a half later, his mixture had frozen into ice cream, whereas those of his more patient classmates remained a thick liquid slurry..."

Boiled milk and sugar is not going to freeze in the same way as pure water, there are effects from the mixing of anything, but some of the substances in milk are oily so you might even have colloidal effects. It seems like if that's where Mpemba first saw it, you should start there to attempt to reproduce it?
Also, these things are usually battery powered and work great in a pinch to turn any space into a conference room. If you've ever tried to have 4 people in a room on headphones or laptop speakers having a remote-inclusive meeting, you know it's challenging - such a device solves this problem.
There are huge differences between Amazon not selling porn due to local laws and Amazon restricting LGBTQ searches due to local laws. Just because there is precedent doesn’t suddenly mean it’s a good thing to do.

People in this thread think I’m surprised by this news, or they try to explain why we should expect this from Amazon. I don’t care about any of that. At the end of the day, someone or some people made the call to continue making a buck by empowering a homophobic and dangerous group. That’s fucked up.
Bank's make money on loans. In order to make loans, a bank needs money to lend which it needs to borrow. A bank's customer deposits are often an inexpensive source of borrowing for the bank. It sounds like Volt was trying to grow in the mortgage loan business, but with a limited customer base, needed to borrow wholesale money. When interest rates rise, rates in the wholesale market tend to rise faster than the rate for customer deposits. As a result Volt was unable to compete for loan origination.
The issue is, you can go back to any form of governance and social hierarchy throughout history and find groups of people defending it as what humans "naturally want." People have done this with feudalism and whatever came before.
If Russia takes over any country, it's game over anyway like it was after WW2. The lack of an ID won't protect you from rape, robbery, murder, a trip to gulag, etc.
If he thought Martian computing was actually about terraforming the literal planet mars he hasn’t been following it in any depth.

My take is he has a personal history with the founder that’s influencing his judgement unfairly (it’s come up before in previous urbit threads iirc).

Often this kind of thing can actually be a signal because it’ll cause a smart person to dismiss something for bad reasons rather than on the merits.

There are genuine reasons to be skeptical of success - building something like this from the ground up is insanely hard, there are lots of ways it could fail, but the criticisms he lists here are weak imo.
Then it should explicitly delegate that to the executive branch where applicable, as it does for other things. You don’t just throw away separation of powers because it’s convenient.
I think it's fair to say the problem space AI operates in is one of case statements and not general rationalization. The magic of "AI" is in working with subjective data to identify the best case to use.
Best phone game I ever played, that's for sure. I liked it. I don't think I have played any phone games since... wow, it was 2006, right?

These days we have phones powerful enough to play Doom 3, probably even Doom 2016. I mean look at the Deck. It's crazy
The fact that nobody was harmed by this regulation -- and there was no urgency -- and yet the Court still took the case is indeed a huge problem that underlines my concerns with this case. Why did the Court step into this case and override both Congress and the executive branch when the regulation itself wasn't harming the plaintiffs? The emergency here is that the EPA now has no idea what its authority will be on any regulatory actions regarding CO2. (And when Congress finally legislates, it won't know what its authority is either.)
The UK is already pushing this:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-bil...

"Requiring Category 1 services to ensure adult users are given the option to verify their identity, and tools to have more control over the legal content that they see and who they interact with — this would include providing adults with the option not to interact with unverified users."

What starts as 'an option to verify their identity' will soon become 'must verify their identity'.

Authorities in Australia have already arrested people for online opposition to COVID lockdowns:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54007824
I'd describe it as a system that let's you write software without regard for the lifecycle of the OS and hardware running it. The Temporal runtime takes care of rehydrating your program in the correct state if the underlying computer is killed. This eliminates a tremendous amount of incidental complexity most traditional monolithic and distributed architectures.
Lifters typically have a tether don’t they? So I think it depends on whether you consider the tether a moving part. It has to move for the craft to move…

A self contained unit like the MIT one is an improvement on the lifter, because the ion drive is itself an improvement on the lifter. Or at least, a production version of one. What they’ve done is get the mass to thrust ratio below a threshold that allows for flight in atmosphere. That’s definitely worth some points, but not all the points.
Why do you think it would interfere with WiFi? IoT devices are pretty widespread these days, and use minimal data. A single Youtube stream is going to use substantially more airtime than dozens of IoT devices.
We had open new all hands meeting and allowed questions for management at my stint at big defense company. People asked pointed questions (why aren't our raises keeping up with inflation? was one I remember. The company doesn't owe us raises was the agitated response). Management looked terrible.

After a couple of those meeting, questions where to but submitted by email in advance.... I left not long after.
That's not it at all. All parties agreed that Congress passed a law allowing the EPA to regular carbon emissions by setting emission limits on different types of power plants based on the best current technology available for emission reduction. The disagreement is whether that allows the EPA to set emission limits which are impossible to achieve, with the goal of forcing fossil fuel plants to shut down or subsidize renewable sources.

I encourage all the tech people around here to "read the code": https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1530_n758.pdf
> Would you really like to live in a world where every judge, inspector and policeman is a politician too? Subject to the whims of popular sentiment?

A lot of these positions are elected in various US jurisdictions.

* https://ballotpedia.org/Judicial_election_methods_by_state

* https://ballotpedia.org/Judicial_selection_in_the_states
Just using BTC to replace all of McDonald's daily debit/credit card transactions would completely destroy the system. I don't know why people think they are refuting your argument by pointing out low-volume examples like porn sites.
> Like all modern Raspberry Pi boards, the radio circuitry is encapsulated in a metal shield can, reducing compliance costs for customers who want to integrate it into their own products.

Does anyone familiar with CE/FTC compliance know how much easier this makes things? I have a project that uses an ESP32 and the lack of clarity around the infamous "CE+CE != CE" is rather annoying. I'm guessing the RPi is the same (i.e. if I put it in a case and want to sell it I still need to get testing done).
9 of those 30 states have more cows than people [1].

When your state is a single dude standing in a field filled with cows, getting the popular vote doesn't say much.

1. https://beef2live.com/story-cattle-inventory-vs-human-popula...
Use AI + personal data + sensor data to suggest patterns or correlations in my life that may be helpful or harmful

Remind me of birthdays and prompt me to keep me in touch with people

Quiz me on subjects I am learning

Suggest meals based on what is in the pantry

Keep my shopping list up to date

Remind me of paperwork, bills and other deadlines
Nationalism is very specific to the modern era. It didn't really exist before the French Revolution. So no.

Unless that was a typo and you mean to write "after the modern era"
Don't you need a social security number to use Coinbase? Why would ICE buy Coinbase geolocation data?
We will have AInquisitors, hunting for potentially becoming sentient programs, to avoid that company have to treat them like living things and release them into the wild with proprietary information as knowledge base.

Are you prepared for the audit of the GANish Inqisition? Are your thoughts profitable and there is no you in them? Lets ask you about your mother and tall, whit fountains in dark rooms..
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31933692.
> Anything that says that Texas and West Virginia are equal to each other in some mystical sense of having equal weight in decisions that affect the whole country is an ideology not compatible with democracy.

It's completely compatible with democracy, and makes perfect sense under federalism. The federal government was not meant to have the expansive powers it does; the problem is that via things like the commerce clause it's massively overstepped the boundaries that were supposed to contain it.
"Some kinds of red meat are not necessarily healthier. There are no firm studies that have shown nutritional or health advantages from eating organic or grass-fed beef.

"These types of red meat are often more desirable as they contain low or no growth hormones compared with grain-fed beef, but it's still not clear if they offer any health benefits," says Dr. Hu."

> Those cultures don't get cancer

Citation needed. Show me that they don't get cancer and show me that they don't get cancer because of the specific meat that they eat.
It wasn't just a failure, and it wasn't an oversight -- the FAA simply rubberstamped anything Boeing gave it, and it wouldn't surprise anyone if there is more to the story. It was a colossal failure that led to a complete loss of trust in the FAA. The FAA went from being an agency whose expertise we lent to the rest of the world to... being just one more captured domestic regulator. I bet the Europeans will lead the investigation of the next big accident outside the U.S., as well they should.
The only reason to say this would be to deceive the audience. I can see no other reason.
>Have you actually gauged 538’s own probabilities against themselves?

Yes, and the publish datasets of all their work to let others analyze them too. They're the most accurate of all the major sites.

Here's their github site [1]. It contains tons of datasets, past performance, analysis tools, everything you want to actually check if your claims are true or false, and most importantly, how accurate 538 has been over time.

Now try to do that analysis on, say, Fox News :)

Good luck.

[1] https://github.com/fivethirtyeight
This doesn't make OP's point less true: the headlines surrounding this decision are misleading. This is not judicial overreach, it's an application of a different theory of judicial review than we've become accustomed to, and it's not necessarily a bad one.

If we don't like it when the police creatively interpret laws to target minorities, can we allow the EPA the authority to creatively interpret laws to target fossil fuel companies? Is it possible to give the executive authorities the power to be creative, but only in the service of a good cause? This Supreme Court believes it's not, and that seems like a reasonable position to take.
Productivity adjacent discussions and communities are great places to strike up a conversation and find like-minded people that could benefit from your tool.

Asking how others are currently solving the problem your tool does is a good entryway. You can follow their answer with a suggestion to try your product if it sounds like it could be useful.

For more of a shotgun approach you can post on betalist, reddit /startups Share Your Startup thread, ShowHN, etc.
I have no considered opinion on the GitHub thing in general, but Copilot depresses me. Any tool that makes you more productive at the cost of taking away the pleasure of figuring it out on your own bores and depresses me.
Actually, I don't understand why should I cater to all needs of all developers. I'm opening the code, accepting PRs, and these are my terms. You can agree or disagree.

If you really want to contribute, but don't want and e-mail based flow, send me a mail, and we can discuss.
>>Per your example, ok Apple Pay got cut off. Is the transit system going to support crypto? Will they be able to run their business and make that transition with regulators?

That's the big question. But assuming for a moment that crypto can act as a substitute for traditional centralized payment systems, then it has significant advantages in some contexts over those systems.
> "can't pass a law because I can't get enough voters to want it"

Voters overwhelmingly want regulation on climate change. 41 senators representing roughly 22% of voters don't.

> Sounds like maybe you don't believe in democracy

if you're going to make snide remarks you better be accurate in your claims.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/09/americans-l...
I would trust them a lot more than your average consumer fintech. They have been around for a long time and their engineering is nothing to be sniffed at.
Congress can ban or legalize abortion federally now. Or they can leave it up to the states -- which is the current default without Roe.

In fact, congress could have codified access to abortion at anytime in the past 40-odd years.
I mean, I see the inflation now, I've lived through a climate disaster already (and quite the opposite of what I expected from global warming). I see the financial meltdown, the accelerating costs of living such that most people in my generation are actually poorer (and less healthy) than Boomers or Gen Xers. Also the president nearly had his vice president hanged by a crowd he whipped up. That last one might have had some entertainment value at least, but seems like it came pretty close to gloom and doom, no? Oh yeah, and the plague that apparently wasn't too bad because it only kills your grandparents and apparently they've had their time. And then the rich conservatives trot out their apparatchiks to tell you that actually you're just a sourpuss because your phone is too entertaining and your TV is too big and that's the most condescending part of it all I think. So yeah, not much of an optimist here I suppose.
There is absolutely *zero* reason to rule that the EPA, which has existed since the 70's has no authority to regulate the environment. None.

I'm attributing the worst to these people, because we know who they are. They want the government to have no ability to at all to put any restrictions on capital at all costs. They're simply doing it now because they have the raw power to do so.
I think you need NASA clearance to launch any comets. Possibly the FAA too if you launch from ground.
Democracy? Where did democracy ever enter into the picture here?

The Supreme Court is different from the other branch of government heads, in that they decide for themselves what their mandate is, and you don't have any recourse ... unless you're in charge of one of the other branches, and are willing to cause a constitutional crisis by ignoring them or replacing them.
This type of non-sense is what ruins the comments section.
Organise my whole life and laugh at my jokes.
Everything about that looks horribly uncomfortable and inconvenient.
Yeah, I plan on making at least 5 of them for one project. I think more people/project should reach for making/using different programming languages. Instead of trying to solve every problem in the same language.
Nice read-up, learnt a lot, thanks !
I suppose it depends on what one considers practical.
> Biden is elected. He appoints experts. Experts craft regulations. When regulations screw up, Biden gets elected out. Experts get kicked out.

So just elect a king, then? There's a pretty strict division of powers in the US, and for good reason. Congress just needs to do its job and pass some legislation.

> Jesus, can you put aside the taking points and just think for yourself? Obviously no one is unaccountable. This is not some tin pot dictatorship like Fox is telling you to pretend it is.

I can tell you I am thinking for myself, at least as much as you probably are. Making an accusation like you have is also, frankly, against the site guidelines and not conductive to discussion.
You are describing fractional reserve banking. Banking licenses have their authority ultimately derived from the state's monopoly on violence.
Some EU countries already have a digital ID system. The Italian SPID [0], just to give an example, has been one of the most important steps forward in e-government in Italy in recent years. The goal should be to make existing systems interoperable, rather than to create a new supranational EU-wide one.

[0] https://www.spid.gov.it/en/
There really needs to be a consumer protection law against retaliation for valid chargebacks.

Chargebacks are not an effective consumer protection tool when using it can get you banned. Doubly so when the company is the exclusive provider of a good (e.g. app stores), or when the company is a majority of national eCommerce (i.e. Amazon).
Congress writes laws vague enough for the experts to implement the policy. It's always been this way. It will be total chaos if Congress has to explicate the specific.
Can you imagine how unbearable object-oriented programming would be if we couldn't use the words "object", "scope", "function", "class", and so on? None of these terms actually reflect the bits in the silicon; they're abstractions over the bits for the sake of mental modeling. Urbit's language is necessary for exactly this reason; it's technical, not cultic.
Exactly. And look how well that's turned out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poL7l-Uk3I8
No, you're ignoring what you agreed to when you accepted the terms of service. GitHub can display your code, and YOU granted them that license by accepting their terms.

I find the only people making these OSS claims haven't used copilot and tend to lack any real contributions to OSS. What you're describing is just simply not the case for 99.9 percent of the code snippets being produced/generated based on data from GitHub.

I actually care more about putting code into peoples hands versus someone copying a license file, that's probably why I use the unlicense... "Because you have more important things to do than enriching lawyers or imposing petty restrictions on users"
Have you met our Congress?
> Although I do wonder if this couldn't be implemented as a library for an existing language.

It definitely could. So could Elm, which — nonetheless — is an interesting and useful language (bordering on DSL).
>Congress didn't pass a law and disappear. If Congress felt that the EPA was misinterpreting the language of the Clean Air Act it could have passed a law limiting the agency's powers.

It is not congresses job to enforce the law by writing new laws.
Good has a long history of use as a store of value. Bitcoin has a few years of being valuable. So did beanie babies. Noone knows if Bitcoin will be worth 0 or 100,000 in 5 years.
I'm a software developer, not a legal scholar. Anything I said that could be considered intelligent regarding analysis of SCOTUS opinions would be nothing more than regurgitation I've heard from another source in the media.

As such, I will decline to offer anything beyond what I've already said.
> semicolons are awful punctuation

I'm glad that someone finally admitted that C is crap. Clearly we need fewer C compilers, not more of them! Embrace Smalltalk!
P2P collaborative CMS for blogs that allows publishing from Urbit to the web: https://blog.tirrel.io/blog/this-page-is-hosted-on-urbit
NASA to launch SLS in 2 months
And yet, fixing that problem -- the problem of the ineffectiveness and hyper-partisanship of Congress -- would have so many positive effects for all of our lives regardless of our ideological perspectives that it should be our number one priority as the electorate.
I am not too surprised but at the same time they always have SO many job postings up on gamejobs.co
Amazon doesn't respect any customs or values of any culture. They've done the calculus here that they will make more money by doing this than by not doing it.
And 0 out of 1 countries.

Here's a map showing where all the votes were cast:

https://engaging-data.com/county-electoral-map-land-vs-popul...
CEOs act as marketing at the highest level. I have always assumed they would lie about something like this. In fact it's even more common with lower levels of management (because they can't make the call on their own).
They vote for the money.

The elimination of earmarks has made politicians more dependent on the party and good grace of industry for their elections so they have to tow the party line harder and cater to the lobby more whereas back in the day people could vote against their party if they were bringing home something else to make it worthwhile.
Bingo. The VC wants the grand slam that returns the entire fund. He'd rather have an x% chance of a grand slam than a 3x% chance of a double/triple. Founders have a very different calculus because their risk isn't spread across a portfolio of companies.
> But I'm perfectly happy with GitHub and I'm fine if their ML thingy makes money off my code, I get free actions runners, a nice UI, pull-requests, etc, into the bargain, not bad.

As an indivdual you can certainly think so. But as a community we must balance how much advantages do we get from GitHub versus how much advantages it gets from us.

Considering that GitHub will probably make millions with copilot, then it is fair to say that a big part of that success comes from the quality of the code we collectively put one. Therefore, money should be shared. And the first thing to do is to ask Microsoft : how much money do you make on us ? And the only possible way to get an honest answer is to make sure the management of GitHub is done jointly by MSFT and the community.

I don't think this is going to happen anytime soon. So I'm seriously considering getting out.
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GrubHub?
LOL. Why did the record company in the 80's send me a 'free' record every month.
All these comments are about how this effects cryptocurrency in this or that way but the truth is, this story is not about cryptocurrency. It is about banking company doing bad things like all banks do regularly. It has almost nothing to do with cryptocurrency. The finance bros at the edge of the ecosystem are often mistaken for cryptocurrency by the speculator class.
and remaking scams from before banking
> In the US, if you taxed the top 1% at 100%

Top 1% of what, earners? Is this just 100% on their income? Does it include capital gains? Does it include corporations? Be clear about what you're hypothetically taxing so we can discuss what else is being left on the table. I'm sure the answer is "a lot", despite the severe sounding "100%".
Well, one can put bitcoin addresses in photos or tweets.
James Madison, the author of the 2nd amendment, tried to pass gun control legislation:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/06/26/conservati...
We don't have time for that. By the time a congress is elected that is willing to make laws that curb emissions, it will be too late. So much damage will already have been done.

Pushing responsibility to literally save the world onto a broken legislative body is idiotic.