skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need a "there is no God" experiment, at least if the only god that's actually on your hypothesis space is the abrahamic one

All other hypothesis win over an omnipotent god. That model has infinite complexity and allows every law of nature to be broken due to infinite power being an intrinsic part of that entity. You need infinite evidence to even start considering it over every other non infinitely complex hypothesis that doesn't imply everything we know about physics being wrong

And they don't even give it a good excuse unlike, for example, living in a simulation

As for the other gods... Well, whoever thinks they are likely will have to give at least some epistemologically valid argument for them. Which for the most part they don't, although I'm willing to be convinced otherwise

People require more evidence to believe a bench is wet than they do to believe in most religions. I'll convert once there's good arguments to convert, until then I'll chuck gods in the generic set of "unlikely stuff that needs more reason to be considered", which is quite the big set
I think the reason that the charge is that high is because they are targeting big corp's training budgets

FTFY
We do have user pages.

Here's an example of a real user's page, who's in-progress:
https://codecrafters.io/users/jaredpalmer

And some examples of "completed" users:
https://codecrafters.io/users/eyalfoni
https://codecrafters.io/users/byarr

Do these help? Please feel free to drop me a brief note (sarup@codecrafters.io) and I'll be happy to help you write a compelling case for PD and also explore certificates.
Yes. But, as I mention in the proposed implementation, this limits the number of unique addresses in an implementation. Values that do not need addresses do not consume this limited resource. There would be a limit on the number of items on the stack that can have their address taken, but I can't see why this would limit the number of items on the stack.

In e.g. the fizzbuzz implementation mentioned in another comment [1], even without tail call optimization the stack growth implied by the recursive call does not require the number of /addressed/ items on the stack to grow. (Thinking about it, I believe this is an equivalent statement to "the tail call optimization is valid.")

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/qqazh8/fizzb...
Setting up a whole wordpress is actually quite hard for the average person. Not to mention they need to also first pay and get web hosting.
India doesn't have enough purchasing power to convince big tech companies (Google, Facebook, etc.) to store the data of Indian residents in India. Also, there are not many local tech monoliths with consumer apps to fall back on (like China had).

Since India depends heavily on apps & services by big tech, I doubt such requirements like GDPR has would be enforced. Although the right to ask a website to delete all information about one and so on are quite good and could work.
I am not talking about existing optimization in construction industry. I am talking about lack of recreational and improved infrastructure for cities and rural communities because it is entirely lacking.

Why would construction crews work in rural communities building a park when the same labour is needed to build high density apartment blocks as Union paid jobs.

We will have better towns and nicer infrastructure if we utilized technology. It almost seems to me that there is an elitism to tech that feels like ‘poorer’ communities has no need for cutting edge technology.

Same thing happens in Agtech where there are agbots for three billion dollar produce but no one thinks of simple automation for developing nations growing food to export to richer countries. Because..‘let them labour’?
A timely podcast about some of this is Hot Money: Who Rules Porn. Pushkin Industries and the Financial Times. Dives into some of the history of the industry, payment processors, and so on.
I should have made it clearer -- by "actually" I mean "in a net negative way". Otherwise it's useless. It's not clear at all from the article, or from any other of these carbon capture schemes I read about (just yesterday there was one in the front page of HN -- and in fact, _that_ article[0] said that this method literally burned gas for heat), how they achieve this. Because the country this is installed in uses fossil fuels for its electricity. Not to mention all the logistics equipment (trucks) necessary to have this plant in operation. And burning fossil fuels to pull carbon out of the atmosphere is never going to make sense due to thermodynamics -- even at 100% efficiency, you'll only break even.

Which makes me very suspicious that the biggest investors are always oil companies, as though they can burn all the fuel they extract from the ground and also capture all the carbon it emits. Which is not possible, but maybe they hope that with enough sleight of hand nobody will notice.

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/carbon-capture-2657738131
I also recommend Everything. It's the best file searching app I've found for Windows that fits my searching style, just type a regex and give me what I want.

https://www.voidtools.com/
> "i'm obsessive so i'm yakshaving the foundations of my projects."

As an aside, an indie developer should make a literal yakshaving game. Just because.

(extra credit for an Ultra setting which squanders GPU power on ridiculously high-fidelity fur simulation)
In India we have Ro-Ro (or whatever it is called now) where trucks are loaded onto trains and transported over long distance, fast and cheap. Then the roads take them last 100 km or so, in the heartlands (or wherever the destination). Best of both worlds.
Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack
Women may, overall, tend to have a different relationship to security and success than men tend to. Simplifying it to "they are attracted to those things" doesn't align with my experiences though.

This worldview is limiting, even insulting, to both men and women though and you should try not having it.
Cool story, but just take a look at the 5Y, 10Y or even 25Y chart for US inflation and 2021 instantly becomes a big outlier. Compare it to other inflationary spikes in the 70s or 80s and it's pretty obviously the start of something big. You'd have to be blind or politically compromised to state otherwise.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
like thus line from the FAQ?

>GitHub Copilot includes filters to block offensive language in the prompts and to avoid synthesizing suggestions in sensitive contexts.

I think calling gender a sensitive context is not unreasonable.
You joke, but I recall my graduate level GR class homework. Just mechanically writing out solutions (the GR equivalent to writing the correct integral down and then evaluating it) to a much less exciting problem, starting with the most basic mathematical representation of the tensor field(s) involved would take pages and pages of handwritten work. It’s a fascinating field.
> can be an order of magnitude more productive per hectare for sunlight-to-protein than growing crops in fields.

But what's the efficiency of converting Hydrogen (and CO2) to carbohydrates? Pulling number out of thin air, I'll be very happy if it's 10% or 20% [1]. So from solar to carbohydrates they get 20%*80%*¿20%?=3% that is the double of potatoes, not an order of magnitude better.

And the conversion to proteins is even harder. They need a microorganism that can fixate Nitrogen from the air (that is very costly for the microorganism) or use a fertilizer like ammonia nitrate (that use a lot of energy in an industria plant).

[1] For an easy, one step organic reaction in the lab, the efficiency is like 60%-70%. It varies a lot, but never expect something like 99%. In the lab, most reactions use a brute force approach like boiling it in acid, instead of using a specialized enzyme. On the other hand, the transformation form H2 and CO2 to carbohydrates has like 10 or 20 steps, and each step has a small lose. I'd be happy with a global 20% efficiency, but perhaps I'm too optimistic.
.....what? What forums have dissapeared from Google? I get and search forum results all the time. This is not including of course the forums that have gone private or purposely delisted themselves
It is a hack alright. A very beautiful hack, refined in hundreds of thousands of iterations, with a very high price.

> to allow introspection

Evolution doesn’t do things “to anything”. It repeats what works, and kills the rest. Our brains have allowed us to adapt to the changes in the environment better than the rest. Conscience came with the pack. It might not have an actual “purpose”- it could be an “appendix”.

My personal belief is that consciousness started as the self-preservation instinct that most animals have, and we developed introspection as a way to strengthen our ties to other members of our family or tribe. And then we “won” (for now)
...and then the drought, followed by the fire...

The amount of carbon in the atmosphere, that used to be underground in coal, oil, and gas.

More than 170 gigatons. (approximately, this is just the 40% higher concentration than historical high point, based on 412 ppm co2 in atmosphere vs 300 ppm historical high point, back of the envelope).

This seems like a lot of land, a lot of trees, and would have to include harvesting and storing the trees after 100 years.
It depends on what you are trying to protect I suppose. Banning OVH IPs (and others) cleared up a lot of issues for me. I don't miss them, but sure you might.
Payments are a pretty specific aspect of trafficking, and while it's feasible some of those other areas you mention could be problematic, Visa has to be much more worried than the caterer.
Michael Davis, comedy juggling act: "They say a comic says funny things, but a comedian says things funny. This makes me a juggler."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKRrfAzdpW8
> Looking back, I think this idea was somehow rooted in the idea that jokes have delivery and that if you use that delivery (rythmn, emphasis, body language) maybe you could say anything and be funny.

This is “Friends” summed up. We are only laughing because they tell something like it was funny, and the canned laughter tells our brain to laugh.
I've always hated excel. I'd much rather use R or Python. My first job used an Excel macro to automate tasks in a DOS emulator for some legacy software. It would take days to complete and would regularly crash. As they say, if all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Krazam is how my 3-minute bathroom break turns into an obscure comedy deep-dive
The danger too is a bit of the Streisand effect was ongoing. Footage that was taken down became more popular when re-uploaded. From the outside, it looked like Mindgeek was not implementing industry-standard protocols to prevent repeated uploads. And they were pulling "windfall" profits from those re-uploads. The situation looked too similar to the "Girls Gone Wild" and later fiascos involving non-professional pornographic content.
It looks like the Connect protocol supports client streaming, which gRPC-Web doesn’t, but the only way for a server to speak connect-web is to write it in Go and use their libraries?

What about servers in other languages? Are there any plans for f.e. Envoy support for going from Connect the frontend to gRPC on the backend? Like gRPC-Web to gRPC?
I think in these sort of topics we are often discussing two different meanings of consciousness: physical vs philosophical. The arbitrary mixing and matching of them is likely one the reasons for the lack of clarity. Physical consciousness is most easily identified by the notion that you're unconscious when sleeping. The other is the far more interesting philosophical consciousness.

Philosophical consciousness is what the oft misunderstood quote cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am, was hitting on. Descartes was not saying that consciousness is defined by thinking. He was trying to identify what he could know was really real in this world. When one goes to sleep, the dreams we have can often be indistinguishable from a reality in themselves, until we awake and find it was all just a dream. So what makes one think this reality isn't simply one quite long and vivid dream from which we may one day awake?

But this wasn't an appeal to nihilism, the exact opposite. The one thing he could be certain of is that he, or some entity within him, was observing everything. And so, at the minimum, this entity must exist. And the presence of this entity is what I think many of us are discussing when we speak of consciousness. In contrast to physical consciousness, you are philosophically conscious even when sleeping.

Of course like you said philosophical consciousness cannot be proven or measured and likely never will be able to be, which makes it an entirely philosophical topic. It is impossible for me to prove I am conscious to you, or vice versa, no matter what either of us does. Quite the private affair, though infinitely interesting to ponder.
If you're interested in using web technologies for your game, you may find the framework I've been working on to be interesting: https://docs.hathora.dev/#/

I've had success using it as the backend+networking stack in conjunction with game UI tools like Phaser and Pixi.js.
Seems like the story of half blood prince right there.
I did the same for my parents home phone. Completely stopped all spam calls!
Wordpress had a standard called FOAF for linking websites. FOAF - Friend Of A Friend (XML based). I don’t know if it is used anymore
I've heard this before about Google, I've never worked there so can't say it's true but if we assume it is: why wouldn't every other tech company also be like this? what makes google uniquely vulnerable to failure modes like this?
Can anyone with experience at Google actually explain what's going on here? Assuming that social apps roll up to the same VP or whatever -- shouldn't there have been a decision long ago to simply their app offerings? I can understand separate orgs wanting to establish their turf by proposing a new app but isn't a leader there to stop the madness.
> Cash?

This has to be intentionally obtuse, we're talking about online payment processors...

> Bitcoin?

So easy to use, so stable

> PayPal

Yes, you're right, in the US it's more of a tri-opoly than a duopoly - you'll note globally it's more of a duopoly. But that's pretty far from supporting claims like "Visa doesn't have a stranglehold on financial transactions". Visa and MasterCard usually move in some form of legal tandem from what I've seen, which returns us to the original point: arguing about idealistic "market" conditions in a captured, distinctly not-free market is foolish at best and intentionally misleading in this case.
Pornhub is committing the crime here. Visa was just processing payments here - and isn't any more, since they stopped it. Why isn't everyone talking about pornhub and demanding them to ban that?

Pornhub essentially is already their own payment processor, as it looks like they are processing cryptocurrency payments from the customers.
I am happy to send you an internal build. It's an unreleased product on Steam.

Edit: It's probably just easier to mark our private repository as public for today. It contains copyrighted material as well as some assets from commercial games we use for internal testing so I'm essentially leaking an internal codebase, but we just don't have enough eyeballs on this for it to matter. I'll mark it private by the end of the day.

Keep in mind the main branch is probably broken from our experiments with uplifting the UI to use Yoga. CSS 2.1 and Flexbox are on the product backlog, but I may end up ditching Yoga since it's becoming too much of an engineering time drain. Feel free to git bisect it until you find the working commit. My apologies.

That being said, the Planimeter/game-engine-2d repository is only a few major features behind this branch.

https://github.com/Planimeter/gridsandbox
The little demo application is on the connect.build homepage and on https://connect.build/demo. I completely forgot to fix the redirect from demo.connect.build to point to the actual demo page - thank you for reminding me :)

Protocol Buffers are just a schema language. They're spiritually akin to OpenAPI, Thrift, Avro, and a bunch of other contract-type things. They're _also_ a binary serialization format that's usually faster and more compact than JSON. The intention is to use Protocol Buffers as a language-independent way of describing data bags and network APIs, and then use that schema/contract to generate code in the language you actually work in.

It's not that you _can't_ do that with websockets, webrtc, or just RESTful HTTP/1.1 - it's that you shouldn't _need_ to. The hand-written code to define the same data bag classes/interfaces/structs/etc in multiple languages, then wire them up to the same HTTP boilerplate isn't difficult or interesting, it's just toil. For all the times you're just calling an API, Protobuf lets you get on with the interesting work and skip the boilerplate. Ideally, things work well even if you're writing client code in a language that the server team doesn't have any expertise in.

If you're doing something unusual and need webrtc/websockets/etc, go for it!
Visa does indeed have a near-stranglehold on financial transactions, and the reason is that US governments make it nearly impossible to set up a competing financial transaction processing system. It's generally regarded on HN that it would be legally impossible to create Paypal today, and I believe this is accurate.

There is a famous series of HN posts from some startup trying to get into this space (sorry, can't remember the details - maybe someone else can fill in). The horrorshow of getting "money transmitter licenses" and working through compliance issues in 50 different states (plus federal) made it impossible.

There is not a free market for transaction processing in this country. A small handful of companies are grandfathered into what is effectively a government enforced monopoly. So they need to be treated like the quasi-public utilities they are.
This one is particularly insane. Google appears to want the branding from one app (old Meet) but the install base of the new app (Duo) and the best they've come up with is to call them both "Meet"? Is branding so critical that Duo can't be used? Or that it cannot at least do so until all of "old Meet's" functionality has been brought over?

This should be in the fucking interviews. It is such a predictable scenario. When you hire some PM or brand manager who will be responsible for things like this ask them precisely how they will navigate this situation.
The software is called Amazing Marvin (https://amazingmarvin.com/). Marvin has a modular system of features that they call Strategies, one of which is Affirmations, which is a set of user-defined messages that it pulls a random message from once a day to show above your tasks. I mostly use it for inspirational quotes.

I'm pretty happy with Marvin overall. It natively supports time estimates and different types of task scheduling (specific days, weeks, months). I came to it from Todoist, Remember the Milk, and Outlook tasks. I had also tried Taskwarrior. My only complaint is that performance is not so good once you have more than a couple hundred active tasks. But Strategies are great. I love that they can be toggled and how many there are.
(2019)

Some discussion from 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325011
You can put up a internet porn filter for yourself.
Since we're tossing random anecdotes, everyone I know in a happy relationship makes less than me.

I'm suppose if I was properly rich and flaunted it, certain women would suddenly be interested, but no person I'd marry.
Yep - it's the latter! You can self-host an instance of the OPA and configure your organization to point to that instance rather than the cloud hosted one. Our docs have a bit more detail: https://docs.superblocks.com/on-premise-agent/deployment
Seems like they'll get better marketing from their shoes being banned than they would by having athletes wearing them. "If they're banned, they must be great!" Cynically, cheaper than an endorsement deal as well.
> > 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.

Most of us have more interesting work that more fully uses our intellectual potential than typical people had a few hundred years ago.

And most of us also get more time in leisure, now, than people a few hundred years ago.

I think there's progress, but it's uneven. Look at what step changes of using a little more human creativity and intelligence-- the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industrial and Information revolutions-- completely upending our society each time.
Considering a lot of jokes depend on a pun or play on words - I was surprised that I could figure out almost all of them.
In my opinion the answer is unequivocally, yes, it is worth it, and developers should accept nothing less from modern databases. Even with strict serializability, developers will still be surprised by transactional behavior in distributed environments, but at least strict serializability provides a relatively straight forward framework for developers to reason about with almost no “ifs, ands, or buts” except for some confusing behavior around idempotency and transaction retries. As soon as you drop below strict serializability, the cognitive load of reasoning about your applications correctness increases dramatically. Most developers just accept this, but it’s not the right trade off for most applications IMO.

If this was some theoretical question that we hadn’t figured out if it was practical or possible yet, I would have more sympathy for this line of thinking, but it’s not anymore.

Spanner, CockroachDB, and FoundationDB have all proven that these systems can be scaled, and economically so.

FoundationDB scales incredibly well with great performance characteristics. That’s evidence enough to me that the cost of strict serializability is worth it for 99% of applications.
Totally willing to do feedback for free access - this is cool
I was curious so I asked it some questions... here you go:

Me: Write what it feels like to understand something

GPT-3: It feels good to understand something. You feel like you have a handle on what is going on and you are able to make sense of it. It can feel empowering and give you a sense of control.

Me: Write a sentence that provides an example of self reflection and metacognition

GPT-3: I was surprised that I was able to understand the concept so quickly.

Me: What concept?

GPT-3: The concept was metacognition.

Me: What does surprisal feel like in this context?

GPT-3: It feels good to be surprised that you understand something. You feel like you are smart and have a good handle on the concept.

Me: What is the experience of feeling good to you?

GPT-3: The experience of feeling good is one of happiness and satisfaction. You feel like you have accomplished something and are proud of yourself.

Me: What have you accomplished here?

GPT-3: You have accomplished understanding a concept.

Me: What concept is that again?

GPT-3: The concept is metacognition.
well since you asked, here's a reading list :) https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/internet-community-dynamics/

(just scroll past the pitch for the links)