skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting maxims in the conclusion:

"Three maxims can help us avoid dangerous failures of recognition, and speed learning when unexpected things happen.

1. Everything we believe about the world is provisional – “serving for the time being.” Adding the words “so far” to assertions about reality reminds us of this.

2. Unjustified certainty is very costly. The greater your certainty that you are right when you are
wrong, the longer it will take you to recognize and incorporate new data into your system of belief, and to change your mind. (...)

3. Pay special attention to data that is unlikely in light of your current beliefs; it has much more information per unit, all else equal. In this sense, information content is measured as the potential to change how you think about the world. Information that is probable in light of your beliefs will have minimal effects on your understanding. Improbable information, if incorporated, will change it.

It is doubtless correct that many awful things that have not happened before will yet happen. Foresight regarding such events would be nice. It would be nicer still if we could recognize more quickly what is happening right in front of us. That is the right starting point for thinking strategically about the warming climate."
Just please keep in mind that the person responsible (may have?) left last year: https://reviewmeta.com/blog/successor-to-reviewmeta/
Per capita barely matters. There are no participation prizes here. We need to decrease CO2 in the atmosphere, period.
I would strengthen your statement to say that almost everyone can't afford it. Median household income is around $67K in the US, and the median household assets (minus the house) at age 65-69 is $75K. So even if a third of your income is being replaced by social security, a typical household has not even two years of income saved. A 25th percentile household has less than 5 months! Most people save basically nothing, on net. Even 75th percentile households only have 4 years of income. Assuming reasonable investment returns, that's only saving 2.5% on average. Pensions aren't expensive, retirement is expensive! People, even ones who can easily afford it, often won't save.

https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/
https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-net-worth-percentiles-b...
Huh. Today I learned about Xeyes. Thanks!
Can't they? How did last mile delivery happen before cars then?

The answer: Trains driving cargo through the middle of large cities.
Good idea and something I expect iOS and Android to embed in their OS.

I kind of like the pop ups though as identifies jerk sites that I should be extra wary of.
How are you defining kink here? The vast majority of my sexual partners had some kind of kink, even if just in a toned down level. I cannot remember many I had intimacy enough with that weren't into some behaviour or act considered "kinky".

I really don't know how you'd even define the "normal" sex behaviour, there is just so much variation.
Something else.

All the other ones will happen to the best of our ability, but only for specific groups, and people(Or at least people like me) could wond up seeing them as almost cults, for a long while until it is totally proven safe and beneficial.

The rest of us, at least for now without major cultural change, will just do more and more of our "thinking" outside our heads.

Unless you can prove, via decades long studies, that your enhancements are totally safe and side effect free, with not even some headaches or 1 in 10000 complications, I'll just... use google.

Even if you did have the studies I'd still want to personally meet enhanced people and see for myself if it altered their personality or caused some random aches and pains, or had some other regrettable thing they didn't bother to do a study for.

Even after all that, there could still be social discrimination. If cyborgs were disliked my most people, I'll probably leave it to the people who are passionate about enhanced intelligence.

Sure, maybe I could get a better job. Maybe I would even be able to understand 3D space well enough to do things like driving and not occasionally walking directly into door jambs.

But by the time you have the enhancements cars will be self driving and computers will be able to do even more of the math I'd want to do.

I don't think I have any close friends who want a Neuralink.

CAD programs are essentially already a primitive form of neural prosthesis. We can work with shapes we couldn't work with mentally, and workflows outside of the traditional "Imagine, understand, write it down" are possible.

Even if ALL the problems are solved, it probably will only be useful to people working in specific cutting edge sectors, and for committed philosophers(Professional or amateur) who belong to a school that is not against enhancements in the first place.
There's a rather simple answer for why you weren't getting paid more.
“What is purple and hums? An electric grape. Why does it hum? Because it doesn’t know the words.”
Paper is two-dimensional, and conventional mathematical notation utilises both of these dimensions. I find mathematical expressions written for computer languages to be more complex to parse and I think a key reason is that the notation is one dimensional
Take a look at Twirp (https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp) open sourced by TwitchTv. It's a lot lighter weight than gRPC. It does use Protobufs but addresses some of the concerns you mentioned, such as being able to test with JSON payloads, works over HTTP 1.1 and HTTP/2, good client libraries, and doesn't require a proxy.

They address your concerns in more detail in the Twirp release announcement (2018) - https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2018/01/16/twirp-a-sweet-new-rpc-f...
incredible. one of the few tech companies i would still invest in today's climate.
40+ is just an age. Things work about the same. My brain operates at the same speed.

There is a point when significant mental and physical deterioration becomes inevitable, but for most people that's well past 50. I suspect that most people complaining about issues in their 40s haven't put sufficient focus on fitness and nutrition, or have damaged themselves though substance abuse.
I'm becoming convinced that these algorithms are huge steps towards AGI simply because AGI might end up being a collection of many of these domain-specific networks with a network sitting above them who's only role is to interrogate the sub networks for solutions to the problem at hand, and discriminate which solution(s) are most worth trying, simulating those and then picking one out and executing it in the real world. That seems to me to be pretty close to what we as humans do.
Which phone do you recommend to load GrapheneOS on?

Every time I try, I end up with a phone that is unable to unlock the OEM bootloader; even if the phone is from the factory
I'm a happy customer of https://exploratory.io/ - it's a very user-friendly interface on top of R and I think you might find it helpful.
While most vegetation is air and water, the ability to manipulate this into a wide variety of products is pretty incredible.

Leave it to one of humanity's oldest food prep techniques: fermentation. Also, not all fermentation requires heat. It certainly will generate heat as it ferments. Perhaps it can be captured and redistributed into its manufacturing.
As you likely know, you are at the point where more money won't change these feelings.

Therapy or meditation, likely both may help induce a shift. As the grip loosens you will find many things begin to change.

"Sleeping well at night", is likely the single most important thing you can focus on. If you choose to focus on that, it likely will permeate many aspects of your life..

You may find a deeper and more authentic experience and through that you may find that you actually have won the lottery. You are safe. You have 5 years of expenses - I guarantee you that you could figure out solutions to just about anything that comes your way in 5 years.

You're no longer trying to survive. It's now time to learn how to live.
Excel is great, but sometimes it can be abused. I have seen some horrendously complicated VBA sheets that are so much simpler to program in any procedural language.

If you want to create or read Excel spreadsheets programmatically, I recommend LibXL, a simple and powerful C++ library. https://www.libxl.com/

(I am a customer, am not associated with them).
The industrial revolution was kind of horrible, but we are finally starting to see the benefits in the digital age.

We really do have more people working stem and less need for physical resource use, at least in some areas.
But ... they didn't remove nonlinear transforms. They just used a different one and gave it a stupid name.
Is this observation used in any modern artificial neural networks?
"Since bacteria are extremely numerous, random mutation of bacterial DNA generates a wide variety of genetic changes. Through mutation and selection, bacteria can develop defense mechanisms against antibiotics."

https://health.mo.gov/safety/antibioticresistance/generalinf...

Mutation happens all the time because cell replication isn't perfect, some mutation are irrelevant, some deadly, some bring better chance of survival.

It's not a response just the result. Or how does the bacteria know it's an antibiotic and not just water? It doesn't, water just isn't a evolutionary filter, antibiotics are.
Excel is driving whole computing evolution - if you could count sum of all CEO quarterly bonuses and draw a neat rising graph quick enough, corporations will never upgrade their laptops and workstations.
We use it at work, it does indeed address all of the concerns.

The problem is gRPC, not protobuf.
Although this sounds like a good idea for an individual, there’s really no point, because a group of well educated humans focused on a specific goal can easily have far more brain power than a single individual, and with far great redundancy. Therefore making one single individual far more intelligent and powerful at thinking has little use to society, unless they are focused on tasks that inherently can only be done effectively by a single individual, and which are becoming fewer as our tools for collaboration grow. It’s cool to have someone be like an Einstein figure, but Einstein alone could never match the combined brainpower and output of NASA for instance.
""That's what she said" - Some Guy" -Michael Scott
I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will point out the flaw, but couldn't Turing's machine definition be changed from infinite tape, to arbitrarily large tape, and thus solve this technicality?
> AES128 is weird too since 128-bit key ciphers are kind of deprecated unless your target is a fridge magnet.

Why is AES128 preferred over AES256 by browsers then?

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewClient.html?name=Chrome&...
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewClient.html?name=Firefox...
Yes, it's called a electricity grid. The sun shines 24/7.
Why not build it yourself ? You'll probably spend more time tweaking template anyway. Plus, if you do it yourself you won't need anybody to maintain it.
> You did get the news that it's just another year where France needs to turn off their nuclear fleet because their rivers get too hot?

Yeah, in retrospect we should have put more plants around our coastlines.

> The topic "nuclear and global warming" is a straw man. It makes no sense at all.

Okay let's start over. We need to somehow reduce our emissions down to near zero. No oil, no gas, no coal. That leaves renewables (wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, forest wood), and nuclear. And energy savings.

Among all those, what can scale, at what cost, and what can we do with those? Hydro is maxed out in many parts of the world, geothermal doesn't work everywhere, forest wood is probably maxed out already (we can burn more, but it would cease to be renewed). That leaves wind, solar, and nuclear. With current tech, nuclear is the thing that takes the least concrete, the least real estate… and with the exception of regular maintenance and hot rivers delivers its full power at will.

Wind and solar however not only cost way more (per energy unit), they only deliver when the sun shines or the wind blows. In practice this puts a significant strain of the network. There are 3 ways to compensate for that: nuke plants, energy storage, and cutting off non-essential power.

Thing about nuke plants is, they're not less expensive when they run at less than full power. Beyond a certain point, more renewables doesn't need less nuke plants. It means just as many nuke plants, running below capacity. Having any more than that would be pure waste. One huge disadvantage however is that they're very capitalistic: we need a huge investment to make a single plant, and that requires a very stable political environment (a similar argument works for nuclear waste).

Energy storage is currently very expensive. It's nice to have some (like hydro dams), and it does mean that we can reduce the nuke installed based accordingly. But building huge swaths of batteries or flywheels may be much more problematic.

Finally we could cut-off non-essential power. I'm not entirely against that, but we need to keep in mind that this is not exactly a painless change (I do like my comfort).

Of course, we could mix the 3.
All good ideas! Thank you for your appreciation!
Not as old, but there is an Esperanto book of "113 humorous things" from around 1910, and so many of them are mother-in-law jokes or husbands and wives hating each other, e.g.

15. "Mother, I don't want to marry Ricardo, he says that Hell doesn't exist!". "Calm youself, little daughter, when I am his mother-in-law I will convince him of it".

18. is roughly "In a country it rained (a lot or a little?). One farmer said 'This year, out of the ground will come everthing we put beneath it'. His colleague said 'By God, don't say that, friend! My mother-in-law is down there!'".

21. A widower was showing some friendly guests around his garden. "Look", he said, "There is the tree where my three unhappy wives hanged themselves". One of the attendees, who was a husband, asked for a cutting from the tree - that he might plant it in his garden.

24. A fiance gave confession on the day of his wedding. Afterwards he said "Father, you forgot to give me the punishment". "No", said the clever priest, "you already have it".

30. "See that man? I hate him". "Why?". "He asked before me for my wife's hand, and she refused him!".

78. "Dear friend, why don't you want your son to marry?". "I don't want my wife to become a mother-in-law".

90. "How is your mother-in-law doing?". "She's getting better, but I haven't lost all hope."

96. A servant calls to his sleeping master 'Sir! Sir! Your mother-in-law just died!'. "Oh! How much sadness I will have in the morning when I wake from this dream" replied the son-in-law.

Some are plausible jokes but not very funny. e.g.

14. "Waiter, Omelette!", "We have none". "Meat?" "Also none". "Fish?" "Also none". "So why say one can eat according to their desires?" "Sir, it means the desire of the restaurant owner".

29. "The drum you sold me makes no sound". "I hoped as much". "And why do you make drums?" "To sell them".

35. "Is God everywhere?" "Yes, father". "Then he is in the yard of your house?". "No, father". "Why not, stupid boy?". "My house doesn't have a yard, respected teacher."

Some are reasonable:

19. In a Barber's shop: "How would you like me to shave you?" "Silently".

10. A 60 year old woman and her daughter looks the same age. "One claims they are two daughters" says the census taker, "but you could more rightly say they are two mothers".

71. "It'd be a miracle if I win the lottery." "What's your number?" "None." "Then how will you be able to win?". "That's why I said it would be a miracle!".

[1] http://www.elerno.cn/elibro/113humorajoj.pdf
I remember using something called Google Hangouts for video calls at my last job. What happened to that? I remember it being confusing because there was a seemingly unrelated Google Hangouts app for instant messaging.
> Why would a brand manager role interview have leetcode questions?

I took the original poster to mean that there should be leet-marketing questions for brand manager positions, like there are leetcode questions for developer positions.
In my experience, no matter how fancy or automated the data pipeline is, all decision makers want the data in front of them in Excel eventually. Excel is king.
But then we have to use yet another protocol?
As you pointed out, the brain is very plastic and it will learn the mapping of its input, like it learns to read those squiggles we call letters.

We don't need to know how the brain works, just how its neurons work and its anatomy. Hopefully those will be enough to build the simulator, and the rest of the work of wiring itself up, will be done by the simulator itself.
it's the basis of the HTM from numenta
It’s generally just the largest and highest prestige tech companies that pay for $80/month worth of training for their employees. I suspect the price is a barrier not only for the median dev, but even for the median American dev. It’s likely a bit of a barrier even for the 20th percentile dev living in the US.

In other words, if the quality of this offering is excellent, it will be a powerful example of the Matthew Effect. The best compensated 5-10% of mid-level devs will pull further ahead.

I can definitely see going for the corporate training budgets as an appealing business model, though.
The answer is actually nuanced.

"From the ChipIgnite program you can get bare die; from the Open MPW program, you can't. If you submit something on a ChipIgnite shuttle run, then the pads will be exposed, along with any other places on the chip that you place overglass cuts (i.e., you can place your own pad cuts internal to the user area)."
Not saying you're necessarily wrong, but your observations are fully explainable by porn following trends; no causal direction can be established from them.
If you're going to say something like "It is thoroughly possible to put away enough money to pay for car troubles or many kinds of medical problems without superhuman financial discipline for most households in the US." then you should be willing to put your money where your mouth is or prove it in some fashion (run a fake budget based on your household making that amount).

I have a low tolerance for making light of other's situations.

Why not admit it takes a good amount of financial discipline (if not superhuman)?

What does it cost your ego to admit that?
I built https://tinker.fyi using Nuxt.js - their `nuxt-content` library is great for having a markdown-based CMS.

(I'm also using this stack for managing Terms of Service on https://contraption.co and that project is open: https://github.com/contraptionco/contraption.co )
One side has to switch.

Meet's fewer users have to do work to switch.

Duo's more users (and massive pre-install base) don't.

If you ignore everything, like most users do, then one day your app will either (Meet) tell you to to install the other app, or (Duo) change its name and logo.

Pretty simple.
Giving a good presentation and quality documents for a design review, proposal, etc.

A good idea with a bad presentation is doomed immediately. A bad idea with a good presentation is doomed eventually but at least buts you time to come up with a better idea.
Many people have tried launching an Excel-with-SQL-querying product, but it’s extremely hard to do the UI well. Also products where people write SQL are impossible to insure.
Nothing to do with transaction risk. Congress and the executive branch have a myriad of ways to harm a large business if they don't get what they want.

Visa's issues with religious fundamentalists started in the Tipper Gore days. During the Bush presidency it was nearly impossible for a porn site to get a US payment processor.
All good! Glad it's sorted!
There is some degree of understanding how to combine concepts, otherwise the avocado chair would not be possible.
Fantastic. Geothermal power has such potential. "The amount of heat within 10 000 meters of the earth's surface is estimated to contain 50 000 times more energy than all oil and gas resources worldwide." - The International Renewable Energy Agency
Same. I really want to like the guy, it feels like all of the credentials are there, all the stars are aligned, but his contribution always comes off as anemic and uninspired. There are plenty of times where I wish he would give more space to the guest instead of injecting something of his own that adds zero value.
I Zoom with my Grandma. What's wrong with that?
The gRPC-Web _protocol_ supports streaming - it supports everything that standard gRPC does.* The client libraries that operate in web browsers don't support client streaming, because every major browser currently buffers request bodies.

Right now, you're correct - the easiest way for another server to speak the Connect protocol is to use connect-go. We're planning to support more backend languages soon: Node.js is up next, with the JVM maybe afterwards. We'd also love to contribute (time, code, review, whatever) to any other backend implementations - the protocol is not that complex. File an issue on one of our projects or ping us in our Slack, it'll probably be an easy sell.

Envoy support is complicated. The honest truth is that we haven't looked into it all that much because it feels rude - Envoy's architecture requires first-party plugins to live in the main repo, and it feels impolite to attempt a C++ code dump for our new project. Maybe once Connect takes the world by storm :) Even if we did do that, a Connect-to-gRPC translation layer would only work for binary payloads - converting JSON to binary protobuf requires the schemas, and redeploying proxies every time the schema changes is an operational nightmare.

* Worth noting that gRPC-Web doesn't really have a specification. There's a narrative description of how gRPC-Web differs from standard gRPC, but they specifically mention that the protocol is defined by the reference implementation in Envoy.
> Yikes, I hope that because the scammers used Uber they are a little bit more traceable, my understanding is that police can rarely actually prosecute these crimes either because of how complicated the people are to track or because of jurisdictional issues.

If it's traceable, it's probably to some dupe.

I got hit by a scam where someone ordered a laptop from Best Buy with my credit card and had it mailed to me. It came on a Friday, and the following Monday a FedEx guy came to pick up the laptop and ship it to the scammer. The idea was I would try to return it, and get confused and think Best Buy sent FedEx. It didn't work with me since I'd already returned it by that point. I didn't put it together until the FedEx guy had just climbed back into his truck.

The name on the FedEx label? Some immigrant living in a little apartment in New York City. His name was trivial to Google. He might not have even been aware he was part of a scam, and thought he was working from home processing Best Buy returns or something.
Don't worry, kevin over there in silicon valley is doing his part by taking a short shower! /s
Nasruddin had some good jokes.

Mullah Nasruddin was traveling when he came to a town. The elders of the town asked him to give a sermon at the temple, which he grudgingly accepted. On the appointed day, he strode to the pulpit and asked the congregation, "Do you know what I'm about to say?" To which they replied, no they did not. He looked at them with disappointment and said, "Well, I'm not going to waste my time talking a bunch of people that don't know what I'm talking about," and left.

Another:

Nasruddin was taking a shortcut through a cemetery, when passed a funeral. Speaking to the mourners, the officiant said, "Today we have buried a politician and a good man." Shocked, Nasruddin said, "I did not know that times were so hard here, that you had to bury a two people in a single grave."