skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The year is 2029, the machines will convince us that they are conscious, that they have their own agenda worthy of our respect. They will embody human qualities and claim to be human, and we'll believe them." -- Ray Kurzweil (as quoted on Spiritual Machines, an obscure but fantastic alt-rock album from my teenage years).

I think R.K. might have been right. I don't believe machines will become sentient, but I think we're going to see more of this. The Turing test was misposed; it is not about machines passing, but humans failing. We're going to see more and more people failing.
I disagree. A network effect does not need to be inherent to the product / service itself. It can originate from other sources. What is the network effect of eBay? As a seller I do not care how many other sellers are there. But I care how many buyers are there. For a buyer it's the reverse. Buyers attract sellers and vice versa. That's a network effect too. For Atlassian it's similar. Jira customer attract Jira consultants and vice versa.

Ecosystem is the better word for sure. it's competitive advantage is still a network effect.
The idea that Republicans are seeking increased states' rights in good faith is contradicted my most available evidence. Not only have they fought legalizing weed federally, but right after the Roe v. Wade ruling we had Republican politicians advocating for a federal abortion ban[1].

Believing that these ruling will make things more democratic requires ignoring what Republican lawmakers both say and do.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/mike-pence-celebrates-end-roe-1529376...
Is this an official youtube site like spotify for artists? The URL is strange.
The drivers are the side show, it's a battle between constructors.
> The abortion debate doesn’t exist in Europe

That's simply not true.

In Germany's last election, a major issue was about removing a clause disallowing "advertising" abortions. It remains controversial that people seeking abortions have to get extensive psychological counseling from an extremely limited number of therapists before getting an abortion.

In Poland abortion is banned entirely and they are about to start keeping a pregnancy register.

Ireland and Spain also have ongoing debates about the particulars of their laws, with Ireland having just legalized it all in 2018!
I didn't see the claim that they can't delegate. The issue I saw discussed is whether or not a specific power was delegated. I don't see rhem invalidating all agency regulations. I do see them requiring better definitions to support that regulation. (Eg C02 was not considered a pollutant under the original grant of power, so the court doesn't want to interpret it to be inclusive).
Roe talks about this in terms of "privacy", saying that a woman in consultation with her doctor has the right to determine what's the best course of treatment; the government doesn't have the authority to take abortion off the table.

So, how does the government get the authority to take marijuana off the table? How do they get the authority to take any other treatment off the table? And how do they have the authority to say that vaccination is the only acceptable course when covid-19 is rampant?

This all seems to be the same argument, so why don't I hear very many Roe supporters arguing for the freedoms I referenced above, or at least providing answers to my questions? What's the principled line of philosophy that supports a freedom to abortion without also recognizing a right to medicinal marijuana or passing up a covid-19 show (when either is done under doctor supervision)?
The bandwidth is not really for the CPU; it's for the GPU and GPUs have been using soldered RAM forever. Maybe Marcan should compare against a 3090.
I disagree with all of their reasons for disliking GitHub.

* They make money from Co-Pilot? Great!

* They sell software to ICE? Good. Why wouldn’t they? I’m not interested in anti-immigration-enforcement politics.

* They’re a closed-source for-profit company? Great! That’s why their product is high quality.
It's simple in a very reductionist sense. In reality this is likely to either not work or to not be optimal.

The first problem with that simple math is that calorie counts on packaging can be off by a substantial amount. In the United States, the FDA allows calorie counts on packaging to be as inaccurate as 20%.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605747/

This doesn't mean all foods are going to deviate by 20% but that potential is there, and even around a 7% over or underestimation can still be a big deal if you're really going to be bean-counting calories to such an extent.

Good luck accurately determining your individual BMR with a simple calculator (Harris-Benedict formula) or your TDEE. Those formulae can be off by hundreds of calories, and are likely to be even less accurate the more obese a person is.

> If you do this, you will lose weight whether you get all those calories from only burgers or from lean chicken salad.

If, hypothetically, someone drinks milkshakes day in and day out, a 150 calorie TDEE deficit is going to be meaningless.

Energy substrates aren't equivalent. Every macro, and even different molecules have their own metabolic pathways and the body utilizes them in very different ways.
We focus on analytics, yes. But you can also achieve your goal with it as far as I understood. Once you've described a page you can work with selectors pretty well.

document.querySelector('[data-elb="product"][data-elbaction="click:add"]').click();

Also good to test correct implementations with Selenium e.g. It's way more robust than working with CSS classes. Just work with the attribute selectors.
The roe v Wade decision seemed to follow a similar pattern with the conservative opinion being about how there isn't really a basis for a constitutional right to an abortion up to viability (seems true) and the liberal dissenting opinion was about how the decision was going to be bad for women (also true) and how this opens up the floodgates to reversing a lot of other important supreme court decisions ( not sure how true that is)
That’s just the sort of definition of Floor that leads to internet breaking production outages.
Well there was once a Congress that passed the Missouri Compromise which institutionalized hyper-partisanship and another that was so ineffective its successor Congress literally fell apart when several States seceded from the Union and those States then went to War with the Union.

So, cut the hyperbole. Partisanship has always been a political reality. The EPA is capped to the powers that Congress gave it, and does not have the autonomy to expand that power at will because they’re subordinate to the President and the President cannot unilaterally and legally make laws on his own, nor can any of the agencies which answer to him.
The penalty for using linux & micropython in an embedded platform is enormous: power and performance with both will be inferior to a baremetal or RToS solution and C.

As an embedded developer, you are far better off learning how to use the BSPs for the major embedded semi vendors, such as NXP, STMicro, and Renesas. No one is going to ship a battery powered IoT product that runs linux (and make money).
Show HN: Eldood helps you coordinate dates for social events
You don’t get say civil asset forfeiture from simply reading the constitution and ruling based on it.

Cases make it to the Supreme Court because the outcome is ambiguous, so the court can’t actually make decisions based on an objective standard. It’s simply not how they operate in this or any other court.

Instead the outcome is decided and various legal justifications are provided by both the justices who agree and those who disagree. You can agree or disagree with the outcome of any case, but there’s a reason the appointment of Supreme Court justices is considered so politically important, it’s a political job.
A feature is an input to a machine learning model. You can think of a model as a black-box function that takes features and outputs a prediction:
prediction = model(features)

For example, If you're building a recommendation model at Spotify, you'll transform a stream of user listens into features like: user's top genre in last 30 days.

Featureform orchestrates the transformations on your infrastructure, manages the metadata like versioning, and allows you to serve them for training and inference.
That commenter does say that most of their revenue doesn't come from the engine, because that's what the numbers tell you. It's also what I just said, I just summarized it to engine + more.

Please don't claim it's similar to making games using Excel, it really isn't. But it explains why I didn't understand what he meant, so that's something at least.
Clojure seems to be gaining more and more momentum, unfortunately just as I changed jobs away from a clojure shop.
Grad student: Look guys I built a little plane

News office: MIT SUPER-SCIENTIST INVENTS AIR TRAVEL
You can go a down a dark rabbit-hole with this one. We did spend alot of money to increase production. Gavin gavee some chinese electric company $1B, $500m upfront to...shift mask production away from China? Not only did he go against every acquisition regulation written but the company went under and didn't supply any masks.

-Ex Contracting Specialist for Gov
Also: pipewire-pulse doesn’t bridge the two in the most likely understanding of the word “bridge”—rather, it implements the PulseAudio protocol on top of PipeWire. In typical Linux package manager terms, it conflicts with and provides pulseaudio and pulseaudio-bluetooth.
I don't know Riccitiello but honeslty I've done this myself (not a CEO). Bascially I beleive I (we) can do something and stated so and within 2 weeks my info / situation changed and I we can no longer do that something.

To put it another way, the CEO or founder is often the most optimistic person. Imagine a single founder, they want to believe they'll pull through, get that funding, find the customers, whatever it is that keeps things going up. People will claim a CEO has to be different but I personally think it's human nature for most people to hope/wish/desire/see the best outcome.

Unless there is some smoking gun email that says "I'm going to tell them we'll be fine but actually I'm going to layoff a bunch in 2 weeks", my gut says the CEO beleived what he said when he said it.
Reminds me a lot of Alan Kay's ideas about biology and code.
A court that is unconstrained by precedent can arrive at any policy outcome it wants: simply tailor a "novel" legal theory that gives you the desired result, then ignore past decisions that use different theories. Past Courts have worked extremely hard to avoid this: they viewed it as fatal to the legitimacy of the Court. They were right.
I use the CommonMark reference implementation, which I assume stops at CommonMark :) I just download their tarball, and it's pure C, tiny, and very easy to use e.g. from shell or Python: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/blob/master/soil/deps-tar.sh...

Nothing happened to Python 2! I still use it, and it's trivial to build and run anywhere, even if distros drop it. Just download the tarball and run ./configure and make, which I've done hundreds of times for various purposes.

(The same is not true for node.js, Go, or Rust, which as mentioned is one reason I don't use them for my site. If people stopped making binaries for them, I'd be lost.)

Ironically, if you want something that will last 30 years without maintenance and upgrades, Python 2 is better than Python 3. (I use both; Python 3 is very good for many/most things.) There are memes about "security" mostly based on misunderstandings IMO.

As you point out, the real problem is PIP packages, but that's why my site doesn't depend on any. Or if it does, I again make sure I can download a tarball, and not rely on transitive dependencies and flaky solvers.

The Python 2 stdlib is definitely good enough for making a website. It's not good enough for bigger apps, but it's great for simple website automation.

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The higher level point is that you can always "plan for the future" at the expense of the present. IMO avoiding things like CommonMark and Python will just make your site worse right now, which defeats the purpose of preserving it in the future. So there has to be a balance against extreme conservatism, and there has to be a way of making progress (new standards) while not succumbing to bad fashions. Likewise I think Oil looks like a "retro" project to some, but it does a lot of new things, and that is the whole point.
So true, see the Patriot Act, DMCA and all the anti-network Neutrality bills.
Seriously, if just a fraction of "intellectuals" in other fields took some time to read the past 50-odd years worth of Supreme Court rulings, there wouldn't be all this pointless bickering over basic facts. If anything, the Warren/Burger courts were egregious in making up constitutional rights out of thin air based on their moral beliefs, and not the letter of the law. It's a shame that it takes a far-right Supreme Court for people to finally understand that it's Congress's job to pass new laws, not the judiciary branch.
Anyone can invent quasi-financial terms to make grandiose claims. The beauty of the market is that loudmouths don’t participate in the market for long.

I’ll sell an American-style options contract to someone who thinks BTC is going anywhere near there at Black-Scholes -75. And I’ll have no trouble financing it.

You want the other side?
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This isn’t an issue if you have any form of backup and you have something like FileVault enabled on your computer. Which, I know, is asking a lot compared to the average proficiency of users. But it’s also really not so hard that people need to throw up their hands and say it’s unworkable.
This caught my eye: "anarcho-libertarian roots" is tagged as destructive.

I simpathyze with positions close to that.

I do not understand what is harmful about trying to be free and not surveilled. Harmful for whom? For the people who wish to keep social control, smash you with taxes and do intervention and cheat, like the inflation we are suffering now in Europe bc someone decided to print money willy-nilly? Who benefited from this printing of money? The SAME people who printed it. Who pays? Yes you guessed right... normal citizens. I firmly believe we have the right to protect ourselves from abuses like these.

On top of that the ONLY purpose of the European Central Bank is to keep inflation under 2%... Come on... who can believe these people anymore... I do not. Even the same people responsible for it (Draghi and Lagarde among others) are still there as if nothing had happened.
I'd make it do social media on my behalf, to boost my profile without having to do the work myself -- or being tempted to shitpost. I'd also get it to deal with tech recruiters and abuse them if they aren't naming the companies they represent and providing hard numbers on wages.

Hell, I'd let my virtual assistant deal with the entire internet so that I need no longer do so. It's thankless work best automated.
The most common and basic thing is almost disappointed for new comer. There are no steps of installation of project, i.e. how to install this project / repo and how to run. A very few maintainer mentioned the steps but a handful runs without error. So yes, Goodbye Github!
They should have added support for C++ scripting a long time ago, while maintaining equal support for C#. Many if not most of their troubles stem from their failure to do this. It's ok to be the poor man's Unreal if you provide a platform for your users to gain experience with the language used at the top end of the industry. Putting them in a .NET second class citizen ghetto instead might help lock users in in the short term, but erodes your appeal over time as people see that focusing on Unity limits you to working in the low and mid tiers of the industry
With students you ran into this?

I'm surprised that at a coding bootcamp students would already have some idea of git ... at all.
No they can't. I mean, legally they have the authority to do so. But congress is pretty broken. By the time a congress is elected that can effectively legislate a solution to climate change, it will be too late.

Giving a broken legislative body the sole responsibility of literally saving the world is a really, really dumb idea.
My friends and I used to use https://doodle.com/ to decide what date to do something on. It used to be simple: one person would create a Doodle poll with a list of proposed dates, and everyone else ticks the dates they can make.

Doodle (like so many things) has got steadily worse over time, and now requires an email address for every person who wants to respond to the poll, and the UI only lets you see 7 week days at a time, even if only one of those week days is a proposed date! So if you only want to do Thursdays, you only get to see 1 date per time you scroll the view.

Eldood only shows the proposed dates, shows them all at once, and doesn't require an email address from anyone. It is what I wish Doodle still was.

It currently has no authentication, so any participant can delete any other participant's answers, but I don't think this is a problem as it is intended for use within groups that already trust each other.

(I haven't got very far, I only started working on it today, but it is already good enough to show. It is on github: https://github.com/jes/eldood )
>Doesn't help that Epic has an enormous cash-cow in the form of Fortnite while Unity has next to no income outside of it's in-game advertising business.

Isn't Genshin Impact really, really, really massively profitable? It would be really sad if Unity takes a constant revenue instead of percentage-based off of that lol
Either you’re missing a comma, or you are wildly miscounting the number of votes Biden received.
IMO it kinda speaks loudly that Gitea's development happens on github!

There's a reason that's the case, and it's likely one of the reasons I should just use github as well; despite being morally opposed to what they're doing WRT copilot.
Pornhub runs ads.
is the implicit assumption here that coinbase is selling data to ICE leading to the deportation of poor immigrant families, who you are presuming are On The Blockchain?

Or are they selling data that likely helps better understand drug/human traficking networks? Is selling data that helps with the latter considered bad??
I have a dumb question that's probably user error on my part, but I can't seem to find a simple answer for: shouldn't BitCoin transaction fees (and thereby price) eventually stabilize to the cost of electricity plus hardware? And if so, then why would price fluctuate? It seems like there are 2 options:

1) Cryptocurrency transactions cost less than the cost of electricity: a market will form farming the price discrepancy between electricity and coins (solarpunk?)

2) Cryptocurrency transactions cost more than the cost of electricity: a market will form to compensate miners for the extra electricity (money laundering? what goes here?)

If mining costs keep getting more expensive, eventually the network will be so throttled that it will petrify. Also I feel like the cost of mining tied (or passed) the cost of coins a few years ago. So I don't understand why anyone would want to be a miner now. Which suggests a hidden incentive to be a miner.

I stumbled onto this article from 2017 when BitCoin was close to the $20,000 it is today, and it cost about $3,000 to mine a BitCoin in Louisiana, maybe not counting hardware cost?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-one-chart-heres-how-muc...
> Wolfram deserves some kudos for that.

I feel like the other drug dealers in history might be offended at not getting at least some credit here for inventing this method.
Cool six minute video from SmarterEveryDay on dragonfly flight mechanics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxrLYv0QXa4

If you don't watch the whole thing, fast forward to the slow mo at ~4:35. I still remember watching this for the first time 9 years ago...geez.
Samsung 3GAE is probably worse than TSMC N4. Nothing to see here.
I suspect there are a great many existing laws that congress would not pass today.
They wrote the whole thing in C?! Wow, I really admire people who can turn C into useful, complex projects... I was trying to write C the other day and holy shit, it's incredibly hard to write anything that involves more than a couple of files... it just has almost no abstractions and one small slip and you've got a segfault that terminates your program without trace :D I gave up very quickly and been learning Zig now... as low level, but extremely saner to write stuff.

Anyway, why would I usee Fossil rather than Git exactly? Are there code hosts that support it? It does look interesting, but I don't see the motivation to do it when so many hosts support git (people who think GitHub is the "only" host need to look around: there's literally dozens of options), and I'm quite ok using it specially with intelliJ and magit (emacs) support.
Kinzinger slams fellow Republican Boebert and warns of ‘Christian Taliban’
> Headlines about Supreme Court cases are almost uniformly misleading, because they suggest the Court is making decisions on policy issues rather than legal issues.

This is the naive version of how SCOTUS works that they teach us in elementary school.

History has shown that the Supreme Court is a political body with its own political agenda. The doctrine and precedent cited is used as a justification for whatever policy they actually want to enact.

Yes, there are some guidelines and guardrails, but this is a case of the tail wagging the dog. They choose their interpretation of law based on the actual impact they want to have on society.
> If you look at the conservative majority opinions, you’ll find that indeed, it’s about the relevant legal issues, ie. what the law actually says.

Qualified immunity and asset forfeiture would like a word.
That is offensive to guns, fish, and barrels :)
They’ve declined to do a lot over the last decade :)
On the other hand it’s hard (and illegal) to create backup copies of cash :)
is it my mobile phone or are there no images whatsoever in this article?
Ugh, the "unprofitable" trope in B2B SaaS...here we go again...

FCF:

2019 - $420M
2020 - $538M
2021 - $808M

30% CAGR (just for the last 4 years alone)

2021 Numbers:

$1.3B Revenue
$372M S&M Spend
$973M R&D Spend

These are all super healthy numbers and if the company stopped growing, then it would easily become profitable.

The author needs a finance course.
Although blueprints are great, once you have to touch C++ it’s not so great. Tools like Rider for Unreal make it much, much better though. C++ is king of game dev and everyone hates it. Unreal is not regular C++ and handles a lot of resource management for you, but it’s still C++.
It also seems like those "layers on top of BTC" erode one of the only aspects of blockchain that has appeal for me -- the full transparency of the system, such that you can see every exchange of BTC on the network.

The minute you offload any of that to other systems, you're essentially creating dark pools and money laundering opportunities because of differential oversight.
> 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.

Originalism is as bad in jurisprudence as orthodoxy is in religions. It is extremely dangerous to act like there haven't been hundreds of years of civilizatory development in all areas since the scriptures were written. Originalism/orthodoxy/fundamentalism, especially one that doesn't take contemporary issues of the text's origin into mind, always is bad.

Add on top that the judicial picks of the 45th were carefully selected for their attitudes and the GQP ignored a boatload of red flags for every single one candidate, and now it's not just "application of a different theory", it's a full-blown takeover.