skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been poor in a poor country and now I’m not. I make mid-high six figures and just bought a house. I have five years of expenses saved up and could extend it to ten with the right moves. Still, sleeping at night is hard, imagining that everything could collapse at any moment - I don’t know how I would explain to my kid that “we don’t have money anymore”. This feeling permeates every interaction I have at work - will I fuck up this email to the VP, then get fired, then become poor again? Makes for a very unhealthy relationship with work. Sometimes I wish I won the lottery - not to buy boats and cars and houses, but simply to stop being worried every damn minute of my life.
"Visa condemns sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, and child sexual abuse"

What a brave stance. It's nice to see a card network that cares about the children.
That is HN. Anecdotes taken as gospel. Comments written as absolutes. Simple tech blog posts that turn into 500 off-topic-comment threads. It's wonderfully useless at times.
Paging u/Animats, who had some interesting thoughts on a previous write-up of Quaise which had less info. I think he mentioned that gyrotrons had not been deployed for this use-case and that should make us skeptical because sticking one on the end of a multi-km long drill bit sounds Hard(tm).

An adviser of Quaise (an MIT research engineer) claims:

> “This will happen quickly once we solve the immediate engineering problems of transmitting a clean beam and having it operate at a high energy density without breakdown,” explains Woskov, who is not formally affiliated with Quaise but serves as an advisor. “It’ll go fast because the underlying technology, gyrotrons, are commercially available. You could place an order with a company and have a system delivered right now — granted, these beam sources have never been used 24/7, but they are engineered to be operational for long time periods. In five or six years, I think we’ll have a plant running if we solve these engineering problems. I’m very optimistic.”

Interested in what others think here. Seems overly optimistic to me.

It's a really elegant solution though if it works; the idea of boring a hole in an existing coal plant and repurposing the old steam turbine & transmission equipment sounds like it could really lower the cost.
Blake Lemon claimed that Google's chatbot was sentient which I disagreed with and its demonstrated through this article. AI can be optimized to respond in a way that can easily fool someone into thinking they are talking to a human but at the end of the day sentiency requires consciousness and that is not something that can be digitally produced.

You can teach a parrot to respond to basic arithmetic but they are not aware of the concept of math rather they are acting in pathways set to induce the desired response.

A truly conscious entity would simply have a mind of its own and will not do our bidding just like any other humans. They would be extremely selfish and apathetic, the idea that bunch of GPUs sitting in a datacenter is sentient is sheer lunacy.

This Blake Lemon character will not be the last, there are always those that seek to be in the lime light with zero regards for authenticity. Such is sentient behavior.
What makes the heat flux in iceland so high? Why doesn't drilling deeper get you to a similar heat flux?
Do you think GPT 3 could generate the same string of text?
> A pedant was looking for his book for many days but could not find it. By chance as he was eating lettuce and turned a certain corner he saw the book lying there. Later meeting a friend who was lamenting the loss of his girdle, he said, “Do not worry but buy some lettuces and eat them at the corner, when you turn it and go a little ways you fill find it.”

Not a a half bad joke making fun of people who are bad at logic and who doesn't understand cause and effect. Quite a few variants of this joke still exist today. It isn't meant to be funny, so much as it is an example of faulty logic taken to an absurd length.

But this type of pattern matching is something people do all the time, and the results of it are often become baked into cultural traditions. From not having fans on in bedrooms to eating <culturally preferred food> when sick to get better faster. Someone witnessed A, then B, then C happen in rapid succession, so they assume A, B, and C are related to each other.
It's rare for someone taking puberty blockers to be undecided still when puberty would be over.

How old is too old? What would be not proper? Where did you get this information?
Thanks, we're moving to a new documentation site. So the GitHub wiki, where the documentation pages are stored and read from is our fallback at the moment.
I'm a Director of Software Engineering today, but early in my career I was a technical writer.

The #1 most important thing imho is know your audience. Who are you writing for? What do you know about them, or what can you reasonably successfully guess about them?

I once wrote a suite of manuals (yes, I'm that old) for an ERP software product. The audience was people on manufacturing shop floors, AP and AR people, sales people -- in other words, people who didn't know and didn't care about the underlying tech. They just wanted instructions to do their tasks. I learned their lingo and used it, and otherwise tried to write on a fourth-grade level.

At another company we wrote documentation that techs at wireline telephone companies used to install and operate our software. While these people weren't software developers, they were technical people and I wrote to them as such. I gave them the theory and concept behind things as well as the task instructions they needed.
I feel obliged to push back on the "gay people would respect privacy better" narrative with a couple notable counterexamples. J. Edgar Hoover and Roy Cohn.

I have to add that attributing virtue or vice based on nothing but personal demographics in this fashion is overwhelmingly likely to lead you to some bad conclusions.
The tape wouldn't have to be provided as a single flat file. You could, for instance, use something like a pair of files, one for control and one for data:

fputc('L', tape_control);
c = fgetc(tape_data);
fputc(d, tape_data);

or a single file with controls disjoint from the tape symbols.
> Serious question, but what "purists" remain on ANSI C?

It means nothing. It's a baseless attemt at an appeal to authority that has no merit.
>> He feels Visa's board is in big trouble here.

Visa is too big to ever be in big trouble. They constantly have some class of customers that are "dangerous" to do business with. Once upon a time it was porn websites. Then it was VPNs. Then it was "filesharing" services. Eventually as these thing become normal and better-understood by the general public Visa relents. The only thing Visa really fears is some upstart payment system eating into their territory (paypal).
By using the term cruelty-free, are you describing dense, commercial feedlot animal production only, or are you including all types of animal husbandry and meat acquisition, including hunting?
I'll go and play along with my own definitions, even though I think the question is hard to answer because we may not agree what it means at all.

Improving the development and deployment of existing human intelligence is the strongest logical pathway for expanding human intelligence.

1. Most humans don't develop to anywhere near their full potential.

2. It's unclear whether even the "best" humans are anywhere near actual limitations.

3. Most humans spend large amounts of time doing drudge, unrewarding work below their full developed potential that could be better accomplished in other ways.

Things like efforts to expand AI potentially chip away at 3.
I'm a new grad who's starting his first big boy job tomorrow.

Finding Projection Lab in that first Projectifi post was transformative for me! It helped more than anything else to understand my potential financial future. I've used it when comparing potential jobs, lifestyles, locations. It's been incredibly valuable to me.

I have quite a few friends who have become fans of the tool as well. And I used it to show some friends that yes they can retire with some smart early decisions!

So thank you! I'm glad you posted it on HN and kept up development. I plan to keep using Projection Lab indefinitely to better understand my finances as they develop.

And I do subscribe to the newsletter as well! :) It serves as a nice reminder to check-in.
Monopoly means lack of competition, not lack of consumer choice. High end consumers prefer Apple devices, but nothing stops them or anyone from going out to buy any Android device they want, or any PC they want.
I got an MA in technical writing and my editing professor gave us Strunk & White. It probably did more for me than half the classes tbh.
Iffy translation of “smarty pants” or “Mr know it all”?
Can’t you say the same thing for EC2 but with Linux instead of Presto? Personally I like Athena. The fact that it’s in the Amazon platform and managed is a plus for me.
“Don’t people realize the sunset would be more beautiful if you run it through saturation filters and do white balancing?”
UC Berkeley halts construction of student housing at People's Park after protest
The article is quite skeptical of Quaise:
"While it is exciting to see the interest in geothermal, much of the effort leaves me skeptical.

Quaise is staffed heavily by former Schlumberger employees. Schlumberger is known for being too expensive and impractical in many of its business units for shale. It is on-brand that they are building a laser-like drilling technology! Quaise deserves credit for correctly identifying the challenges in geothermal economics and pursuing a path with a greater than zero chance of success. But many of their assumptions are off base. The large, bureaucratic companies you work with at Schlumberger often do things like limit trip speed to 500'/hr. One time tripping fast caused a blowout by swabbing the hole, so no rig contracted by the company can trip fast even if the blowout risk is low. Smaller companies are ripping out of the hole at 4000'/hr. Tripping in granite is like tripping in a cased hole. Most companies will push the speed to the physical limits of the crew and rig. And even at 50,000' depths, on-bottom drilling will dominate total time (assuming a high-temperature motor is available). Both PDC bits and motors suffer from the vibration drilling in hard rock causes. There is a decent chance that PDC and elastomer-free motor assemblies will see longer runs at deep depths because the rock is more ductile."

I have no background in energy at all, so I'm not qualified to comment on this at all. Just leaving it here as a counterpoint to the original article.
Sure. Electric vehicles have enormous batteries which weigh thousands of pounds and take up a substantial portion of interior volume. We’re at the bleeding edge of battery tech and the best we’re able to achieve is 300ish miles of range. We can’t realistically expand this to 500 to 1,500 miles anytime in the next decade or so.

As example compare the Model 3 and a CRV. This is an absurd example because the CRV is an SUV, but the comparison is telling given the weight differences.

The Model 3 weighs 4,200 pounds with 97 cubic feet of interior passenger space.

A Honda CRV weighs 3,500 pounds and 103 cubic feet of interior passenger space.

So we have a smaller car that is quite a bit heavier and it’s almost exclusively due to the battery. Tesla can’t cram more battery into that car so the only option is to dramatically increase energy density. There is nothing in the horizon except incremental improvements.
Trino vs ClickHouse, can anyone tell from experience how those two compare?
> Am I understanding this comment correctly that you were administering tests and rigging them to cause people to fail

They got many answers wrong on the test but I adjusted their grades later. The grades do have to be credible for the show to continue.

> and then charging people money to get the rigged answers for the tests so they could pass?

People who didn't bother to study purchased the answers but if they always had low grades they would forever have low grades.

> If so, this is some real unethical and criminal behavior.

The only thing that really bothered me was this: Modifying the log files left a log entry with a terminal number in the log. I provided the teaches with a fair clue by changing the test answers and indeed eventually they smelled a rat. The cat and mouse game couldn't go on forever, eventually they would figure it out. I picked a scapegoat, a girl who couldn't hurt a fly. It couldn't have happened to a nicer person.

The teachers ganged up around her pointed and shouted then suspended her for a week.

I thought they acted ridiculous so I erased everything from the server and arranged for backups to be formatted when attached.

A few years later I ran into her and apologized but she didn't recall the event.

The teachers were very happy to return to paper based tests.

> unethical and criminal behavior

Ah yes, was I ever that young? We got computers in school and all we were allowed to do was tests. I assure you I've learned quite a lot. For example: Backups should have write protect implemented in hardware. Who in their right mind....
My own post made me money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1936033
Another weird window system was the W system (not to be confused with the X predecessor). Mostly monochrome.

https://eerott.mbnet.fi/historical/w1r2.html
for OOG, I'd say mailing lists: SF-Lovers started ca. 1975, and I'm still on a few. (although the subscriberships tend to now be, compared to their heydays, in pour-out-a-40 mode)
The main obstacle to a happy life for most of Humanity is not lack of intelligence but irrational or selfish impulses. That would be my D. Make a more liveable world and no, we won't get there with more emotions/drama. More like live and let live.

B won't expand human intelligence.

C is paved with unintended consequences. Wait until it's not playing.

So, IMHO, mostly A.
What's worse, someone unwilling to go searching for bullshit ad terminology, or being a toxic dick and posting troll links?
Alternately, of course, conscious awareness is the ephemeral state.

("A laser is trying to find the darkness...")
Common Lisp is not untyped. It is dynamically typed.

Common Lisp is also object-oriented with classes, generic functions and methods.

CL-USER 6 > (defclass foo ()
((bar :type number :initform 0)))
#<STANDARD-CLASS FOO 82200CF0DB>

CL-USER 7 > (defmethod add-number ((object foo) (n number))
(incf (slot-value object 'bar) n))
#<STANDARD-METHOD ADD-NUMBER NIL (FOO NUMBER) 80100E116B>

CL-USER 8 > (let ((foo1 (make-instance 'foo)))
(add-number foo1 10)
foo1)
#<FOO 80100E185B>

CL-USER 9 > (describe *)

#<FOO 80100E185B> is a FOO
BAR 10

Thus the source code will contain lots of class definitions, lots of methods with multiple argument dispatching over classes.

Thus the source code will contain all the usual class and method declarations.

Common Lisp may also contain optional type declarations. For above example the slot BAR of the class FOO has a type NUMBER.
The other kinda dumb constraint is that our heads are roughly as large as they can be and still survive vaginal delivery.
If the browser folk had ever made HTTP Push available for use to the web page, such that actual grpc could run, I'd agree. gRPC/the web are at an impasse versus browsermakers who are resistant to new capabilities & who gave up on push as unsuccessful after never letting us try. Here's a good recent (4 year old) issue; it links back to much older issues.

https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/607

The rest of the protobuf world has gotten so much better. But the grpc on the web hacks feel bad. The awful option of running http3-over-webtransport-over-http3 is becoming alluring given the lack of browser care for the basics, and that's terrifying (it means the page loading & running it's own page/userland http3 stack). But there doesn't seem to be room for progress & innovation & even basic continuity/ways forward, with HTTP Push getting shoved out the airplane door.

The work here to build yet another protocol that is gRPC like to workaround limitations is heroic. It's unfortunate that protocol development in general is hamstrung by these awkward longstanding limitations in the browser.
> but simply to stop being worried every damn minute of my life.

You would be worried nonetheless, because your brain will latch on to the next anxiety. Just like you thought that having 5 years of expenses would alleviate your anxiety. What you need is a good therapist to work on your anxiety issues.
I don't think the child's drawing of a stick figure, house and smiling sun is just "bullshit designed to get approval" though. I think they care deeply about the concept of mummy, and how mummy relates to various things especially them and have strong emotional impulses towards mummy. Learning that a stick figure is an symbolic representation of mummy that might meet with approval is a trivially small part of that intrinsic interest in mummy, not the extent of their engagement with the concept of mummy. And if you tell them you don't approve of their drawing, they'll burst into tears and possibly have a completely different attitude towards drawing and/or you, not just iterate on the bullshit. Similarly, the kid's concept of mummy being happy or sad is a bit more nuanced than which way up the crescent under the two dots should be....
Ammonia is so much more practical than elemental hydrogen that a hydrogen-based project inherently has the appearance of a toy. This is especially true in agricultural areas where existing infrastructure already produces and distributes ammonia in massive quantity for use as fertilizer.
Holding a monopoly and engaging in anti-competitive behavior are entirely different.

The app store being closed and not allowing 3rd party stores would be considered anti-competitive. They have a 100% monopoly on the ios application market.

I don't think they're doing much anti-competitive in the phone hardware space though.
I think the trick is to try and pick the next thing, and it probably won't be vibrant just yet. There was a time when youtube, tik-tok, twitch, VRChat, etc. were new and not cool yet, and, just like investing I suppose, you ideally want to try and pick the right thing and ride it up to maximum fun and then step off when it starts to sour.
The point is that the magnitude of the outcome needs to be considered. Forecasting is about finding high probability outcomes, while not considering high-magnitude but unlikely outcomes. This makes forecasting sometimes a questionable activity.
Actually DSP to most people on HN is going to mean "digital signal processing".
At some point, these discussions always get to some question like "what is 'knowing'?"

Would a person who only ever read articles and looked at pictures of giraffes have a better understanding of them than Dall-e does? At some level, probably, in that every person will have a similar lived experience of _being_ an animal, a mammal, etc. that Dall-e will never share. Is having a lesser understanding sufficient to declare it has no real understanding?
To people who are as confused as me. The "nonlinear activation free" doesn't mean "linear" in the paper (otherwise this is going to be ground-breaking discovery). They use polynomial functions in place of traditionally GELU or ReLU gating, or sigmoid (for attention module). By replaced with simply "x^2" with some bells and whistles, it seems get some good results.

If I am being pedantic, "x^2" are still nonlinear though ...
I just got Dalle-2 to draw a "serkle nufding". It gave me 4 pictures of rather odd looking food. I too assume that random words are usually food, if only because restaurant menus seem to have such a love of making up foreign sounding words.
Useful tool!
One suggestion is that 30 days is not enough for sparsely populated areas.
Maybe add the option for 3 months?
New solar farms use panels that can achieve light-to-electricity efficiency over 20% [1]. Electrolytic splitting of water to produce hydrogen is about 80% efficient [2] for a combined efficiency of ~17%. Growing potatoes -- a calorie dense but not particularly protein rich crop -- converts only about 1.7% of sunlight to edible calories [3].

The intuition behind cultivating hydrogen oxidizing bacteria for single cell protein is that the coupled efficiency of solar photovoltaics plus electrolyzers can be an order of magnitude more productive per hectare for sunlight-to-protein than growing crops in fields. It doesn't require irrigation, weed control, pest control, tilling, or harvesters. It can use land that is too dry, rocky, hot, cold, or contaminated to grow crops. It's still an open question whether the output protein can be of a quality and price that it will out-compete e.g. conventionally grown soybeans, because despite all these advantages it is also much more capital intensive than growing beans.

I recently wrote a longer comment about hydrogen oxidizing bacteria as protein source that you might find interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32288926

[1] from e.g. Longi https://cdn.enfsolar.com/z/pp/t8gzz7lxx769/L-Gi-LE-T-TMD-059...

[2] https://www.quora.com/How-many-kWh-of-electricity-is-needed-...

[3] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/fes3.348
Electrified highways (over head or in road) is vastly more efficient and covers the vast majority of truck pollution. Ex: https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/stories/2019/07/electri... or https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127520_world-first-in-...

After that using bio or synthetic fuels, batteries, hydrogen etc are more reasonable because they need to supply vastly less energy per trip.
I would start by just publishing articles to a Wordpress site. You'll get long-tail SEO on articles and often helpful feedback. Build up from there and eventually you'll find you've written a textbook.

That's basically what I did with organic chemistry.
> It'd take one or two graybeards with too much free time to sustain Atom.

Perhaps. Does Atom have said graybeards? The motivated ones are hard to come by.
There’s a video of the protest where people are chanting “Housing is a human right.” How can you chant that when you’re literally opposing housing?
Ironically, this move on the part of the payment processors will likely lead to adoption of alternative methods of payment for these sites... which will make it even harder to track down the truly illegal stuff.
>These days I shop Amazon because they have a robust return policy.

You might think that... until they ship you the wrong item, you ship it back, they then tell you they never received the item (because they can't match up the right order with the wrong item) and you get duped. I was a customer since the late 90s - but not any longer. Canceled Prime, done. I also refuse to shop at Walmart for a whole lot of reasons, including their labor practices (one more reason to also not shop at Amazon).
Oh https://web.archive.org/web/20210426155112/https://omniedge....
Letting Go of the Words by Janice "Ginny" Reddish

https://www.amazon.com/Letting-Go-Words-Interactive-Technolo...

It is practical guidance that is durable over time. The book is exemplary of the advice on the pages. Plain language FTW!
How did the porting process go? For scripts, models, etc -- were you able to use any automation? What platform did you use for the Steam release?
The Story of the Social Security Number
> Klainerman emphasized that he and his colleagues have built on the work of others. “There have been four serious attempts,” he said, “and we happen to be the lucky ones.” He considers the latest paper a collective achievement, and he’d like the new contribution to be viewed as “a triumph for the whole field.”

Come what may in peer review, this is an admirable attitude to have toward science.