skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In contrast, Western Governors University allows students to test out of any course.

For example, I completed my CS degree in 3 months: https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/cs-degree/
Or that they washed out of a PhD.
How did you do approach learning it to make it “stick” to such an extent that it’s changed how you approach problems?
I can make it only as far as jealousy.

And memories. I miss the train from NY to Greenwich, CT. Or down to DC.

And Seattle to Portland, OR or to Vancouver, BC were both treats, too (with the exception of the slow Starlight northbound outta LA!). Treat trips with scenery and drinks!

Where I am now, it's an hour's drive to an Amtrak station and then several more to Chicago, the closest big city. Still pleasant, except for all the car.
Call me a pessimist, but I have stopped assuming rationality of all actors acting to secure a long-term future, especially in the world of cryptocurrencies
It should have a feedback loop from the conversations so that it could keep learning. Maybe by users rating each response.
I know this is a joke, but given that avocados need shade, part of me wonders if the large stones could actually make it an even better site for an avocado plantation
We all have our different fears. Think for example the conservative news hosts on Fox News channel etc. Their biggest fear seems to be people becoming "woke", or "wokism". I can not really fathom how they would react to AI that became "woke".
Why hasn’t something like this become the standard way to use LaTeX? Boggles my mind.
There are often compounding benefits to moving quickly.
I agree with the point that there's no point in fighting the advent of AI-aided development, but it's also true that the invention of calculators didn't mean we stopped learning how to add.
Discussed 22 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276017
HTML5 version that is designed to look like pdf version

https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/
https://github.com/sarabander/sicp
The interesting thing I came to realize after (unironically) listening to CCR for several years is that most of what John Fogerty was singing about was a 60s California kid's Tolkienesque fantasy of what life in the south would be like in some undefined golden era. Green River and Proud Mary are epitomes of this. Did John Fogerty ever have a hound dog or see the Mississippi before traveling there to play a concert? I'm not saying it's bad music, but his work was far more fantasy than autobiography.
As a counter to this low-effort, flip comment, I semi-regularly take the Amtrak Capitol Corridor from San Jose to Sacramento. It is about 3 hours. It takes about 2 hours to drive with no traffic, but if you need to travel on a weekday during the morning or early evening, the train is much faster. And you can read/work/sleep/whatever.
What?

U+004D in UTF-8 is 4D, in UTF-32 is 0000004D

U+0430 in UTF-8 is D0 B0, in UTF-32 is 00000430

I took this examples from page 102 of The Unicode Standard Version 5.0.

These leading zeros on the UTF-32 are what is omitted from UTF-8. One of the encodings is optimized for space, the other for processing speed.

I am no expert on unicode though, there might be something I'm missing (ligatures, this kind of stuff). I would gladly accept a more in depth expalanation on why I am wrong on this.
How was/is Portals about Google? It’s just a way to progressively enhance navigation between pages.
Use https://screen-rec.vercel.app/

You will love it.
Please share with your friends tooo.
Abandoned? I use winget every day along with brew, they both work fine.
I’ve thought about this on occasion. It seems that allowing arbitrary work units (eg user defined ones) breaks the POW model as it’d not use a predictable amount of compute. Miners or others could readily game the system.

Maybe it’d be possible to make the compute time unpredictable (or more predictable) using homomorphic encryption or similar techniques. Then a computation would operate over all the possible inputs. That’d be interesting, but would limit the types of problems.

Alternatively, perhaps something like QM simulations over pre-specified inputs (with a salting function based on the current block hash) might do POW and be useable. The inputs could be just defined over an increasing number of atoms in set pattern. Though finding problems sets in QM that are also NP complete might limit the usefulness. Many interesting QM calculations aren’t NP and don’t have any polynomial way to check answers.
I'm not sure I'd buy the Turing Test. Reason is an AI would have to pass the Turing Test every day for us not to distinguish it from humans. Maybe it would take us two years before we figure out the machine is really a machine. Or maybe it takes 10 years. Turing Test only proves the negative: We have thus far not been able to say whether it is a machine or not. But maybe tomorrow we will. Maybe next century.
You say that like it's a good thing :)

But sure, Americans are very work-driven, and some small percentage will float to the top.

But are they better at life generally? They have higher divorce rates than Europe,a higher suicide rate than (western) Europe, take fewer holidays, are less travelled, care less about the environment, and so on.

Sure, I get that business and entrepreneurship are focused around the accumulation of money, but I would suggest that is only half the equation. What really matters is how you _spend_ your money (and time), not how much of it you accumulate.

Put another way - do you think, speaking generally of course, covering the population as a whole, America is _happier_ for being so focused on money?
My history is that I'm probably one of the few people that did plug before Phoenix, and there are a few places where Phoenix can break your brain when you're coming to it... The organization (templates, views, controllers) is out of whack from what one "normally" does in elixir, and some of the "use X" to set defaults make it really hard to deviate from Phoenix back to what you would expect from elixir (Module.Alias.Alias => module/alias/alias) and some things are "basically impossible", like if you want to organize to Controllers.ABC instead of ABC.Controller.

Router helpers are also kind of a truck. It took me years to understand why you would want them and I still often just hardcode routes in the templates.

Some things in Phoenix are relatively hard if you want to have multiple endpoints in the same app without doing an umbrella.

On the other hand they say consistency is the hobgoblin of the small mind, so I might be guilty as charged in my quest for consistency
Judging from source code expansion is supported
Two quick responses:

> NatGas has reduced CO2 by 2X more than wind

Wind produces no CO2. If you mean 'so far', that need came from heel-dragging.
Nat gas produces much more CO2 than we can live with - which is none.

> It's cheaper

So's death. Anyway, no, nat gas must be mined, transported, and burned efficiently. Wind electricity is simply used without conversion.

>
I'd love to see some examples (especially if the scan appeared to be of good quality and not a grainy 100dpi affair). Do you have any idea what kinds of documents you were browsing when you found them?
For 99% of multivariable calc students, once the course is over and the social environment moved on, there is no reason or motivation to leaen it. Like most of college coursework, it's just a ritual.
To me, for the new deal to override an old deal, the new deal has to be better than the old deal plus the cost of breaking my word. I take at least a bit of pride in my word, so it’s basically “first come, first served. Unless the new thing is incredibly and unexpectedly good”.
Seconded, IMHO the most underappreciated modern mathematics introductory textbook.
Au contraire! They just anticipated the many-worlds stuff! Every transporter trip fails in one timeline and succeeds in another, so while one version of the old Kirk is in fact atomized on the surface of planet Nebulon VII, he has an independent future in the world where the one-episode guy couldn't get a lock ;)
If you're a fan, check out their recently rereleased and remastered recordings under their original name, The Golliwogs [1]. They hadn't found their distinctive swampy sound yet but there are some great songs.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wXS9h753O6M5oOvdbPMQr
We already have autonomous weapons that kill people. They're called cruise missiles. Lots and lots of really cheap drones are already spread over battlefields, but barrages of precision guided artillery seems to do as good a job as anything ever will. Why introduce AI superintelligence into the mix? Most military problems are constrained by logistics and equipment and munitions capabilities anyway.
What is a neural field?
I was in FAANG for 5 years and felt similarly at around the 2 year mark. Convinced myself to stay on the same team for another year since I was getting promoted consistently. 2020 helped break the monotony of work since it was in general a very bizarre experience. Transfered internally at around the 3.5 yr mark and that helped keep things fresh for another year or so, but eventually I lost the motivation and had to leave.

Other commenters here have got it right that staying on for a few years and netting a couple of promos will grant you a ton of financial freedom, and the block of FAANG experience on your resume will definitely get you in the door anywhere. I'm now at an earlier stage startup and really enjoying the work, but wouldn't change anything about my path here in retrospect.
How The Merge impacts ETH supply
There are both lossy and lossless jbig2 variants.
Our buried corpses feed the worms! ^_^
> The article is not about "maps are racist".

It’s possible to write an article about distortions in the Mercator projection that doesn’t amount to “maps are racist.” But this isn’t that article. The bolded subheading alludes to the racism angle from the beginning. What does “digital ethics” have to do with this? What is the “potential for harm” the author is referring to? Are population density calculations wildly off? No, it’s a clear reference to the section in the middle of the article talking about “colonial preferences.” Finally, a remark about “tool colonization efforts” appears in the key takeaways at the end. And all that is unsubstantiated race baiting.

> I think you maybe need to give this stuff a rest.

No. This timeline sucks. You can’t read an article about maps without some asshole trying to virtue signal that he’s one of the good white people. It’s worse than hipster jeans and vocal frys combined. And it’s so insulting, as if anyone in India cares how big their country is on a map. You know who didn’t waste their time with shit like that: white people while they were busy colonizing everything.
I know mosquitoes are not supposed to be attracted to light. But I've had some cases where I left the window open at night with the lights on and my bedroom was swarming with them. Whereas with the lights off there are a few but not infested like that.

So in my own experience light does seem to be a factor somehow
It could learn things via the context window. Maybe there'd be no long-term conscious state but you could keep short-term coherence well enough. I think the real problem is that it simply isn't capable of training for self-awareness and reflection because there's only very indirect evidence of it in the training set. We talk about Chains of Thought, and it's a very powerful technique, but this is all just the tiny snippets of text on the internet where people happened to narrate their thought process out loud. If it could learn on self-generated instances of using Chain of Thought to help it predict other text in its training data, this tiny fragmentary piece of consciousness would get massively reinforced.
One of the best assignments I had in CS was "here is a compiler, there are nine known bugs in it, find and fix six of them." I don't see how Copilot could help in that case.
We live in extraordinary times, standing on the shoulders of the scientific revolution, with gigahertz-gigabyte machines as commonplace and hundreds of years of mathematics ready to be built upon. It is criminal not to be busy.

I agree that most of us can do at most a few hours of intellectually demanding work every day. But to win those few hours of freedom, to gather the preconditions of doing work, to maintain the social organizations necessary for collaboration, and to make the results presentable, can easily eat up a whole day year after year.
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Why don't advanced courses also pcbet that, if it's important at all?
It's no issue.

> I had never thought about the "asymmetry" of putting control codes with the character codes in ASCII--it does seem illogical now that you point it out.

Yes, this is why I call them insidious.

The issue with constructed languages is that they simply don't have the beauty of something such as Latin, and never can, due to their very nature.

Anyway, feel free to send me an e-mail at some point, if we're to continue our discussion at some later time.
Double spends are actually much harder here, after slots are finalized (2 epochs, about 12 minutes) but yes it's the same as other blockchains.
Finalized blocks can never be undone, it’s forbidden by the protocol. Once your client sees that a block is finalized, it will never revert it.

(This makes the network a bit subjective, so hopefully it’ll come up rarely)
> Tools of abstraction

Isn't it a bit leaky to be called that?
So in Erlang (and I assume Elixir), the idiom is that the Process (Actor) holds the state. If you want to change the state, you send the Process a message, if you want to find out something about the state, you send the Process a message. You shouldn't be keeping the same state in multiple processes, because of all the problems you mention.

Sometimes you have requirements where it's hard to assign any given piece of state to a single actor though, that's going to be challenging in any language.

An ETS table (the OTP in-memory key/value database, more or less) is isomorphic with a Process that holds the data, although the reality is different. Mnesia if everything is done with transactions might be as well, although where I used mnesia, we did not use transactions and it was helpful to understand how the data flows between mnesia nodes, and when you might read outdated data.
Going by his throwaway handle(awsthrow1234), he is already at FAmazonNetflixGoogle. Think he skipped "Apple".maybe?
It’s not too far from El Cerrito to the swamps of the San Joaquin/Sacramento River delta.
Another legendary wizard, Paul Graham (founder of HN), also sees fit to serve his personal page[0] purely unencrypted; "elegant protocols for a more civilized age" (apologies to Ben Kenobi).

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/
Like "The Mule" from Asimov's Foundation series, but he's an AI controlled by some unknown enemy of Seldon's plan.
Permissionless BFT consensus is definitely an engineering problem
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Damn, I was using this just a few weeks ago! Even working through the print version, it's helpful to copy and paste starter code for the exercises.
Whether or not the coursework is superfluous is a per student question not a per university question.
What if humans manage to deflect an asteroid in a few decades that would otherwise kill off 95% of life on the planet?
The issue I see with "AI fear" is that the fear is that the AI becomes too much like us. If that is the risk then are we not already in a terrible situation, because there are already billions of humans which are very much like us?

Are we fearing ourselves? If so then shouldn't we talk about that risk, that there are already billions of humans who are already truly sentient?
Right: this would fail for me on my laptop, because I use gmail for email and don't have anything setup such that a mailto: link would compose a new email from my gmail account.
More like someone will analyze billions of human interactions and find the techniques via deep learning that were successful in persuading others.
In order of effectiveness:

Find someone who is doing it

Take risk and jump in unprepared

Read books like hbr buying a small business
This isn’t better. I don’t have a default mail client and a lot of people don’t. You could open up the browser page to login but by the time you’re logged in all context is lost and you won’t get the pre setup outgoing mail ready to click send.
Well, it's not like we don't have plenty of combining marks in Unicode itself, so I suspect this is something you have to deal with either way.
As I read once, Americans get surprised by European history (and Europeans by America's distances). As a local in Spain and as my sibling commenter said, this could def pass as "yeah there's a bunch of rocks in that field".

It was common for buildings in the middle ages and almost at any time in history to reuse rocks from the nearby ruins from older civilizations. After all those were readily available and saving weeks of work could mean the difference between having a dwelling and death.

It's also very commong to find archeological ruins when excavating, just yesterday my father (who is in construction) told me of a region in Spain where construction companies will just not go because it's certain they will hit ruins and have the project paralized.

As the article described, here the owner gets their field of avocados taken over by the government at least until 2026, hopefully they didn't take any loan to buy it or they'll surely default.
> Being busy also helps avoid the question “What am I here for/what do I want?”

So true, this resonated deeply with me. Being busy is also a safe/acceptable/normal response that can hide or shield us from fear. Am I too nervous or self conscious or fear rejection? I have no need to fear any of that if I'm never around anyone else, and it's perfectly acceptable to be "busy" and reject social gatherings because being productive == good.

I noticed this underlying fear in someone else and I tried my best to help them and to accept the person they were, but they remained closed off. Someone will only make the change when they are ready to do so and you can't force it even if it's of good intentions.
I think his argument is good in some ways and problematic in other ways.

I think he distinguishes ordinary fears of AI from Hyperanthropomorphized fears. Humans training AI to, for example, kill in war, could result in mass death whether you have a human psychopath or a programming glitch involved.

So he's not neglecting the bacteria analogy. Rather, he's addressing the problem of arguing from things like agency being ill-posed and their possibilities being incoherently understood. If you say "we don't know how agency is acquired so we should be worried about a random that seems like it has agency", you can wind-up with problem approach akin to "don't heat the compost pile or it might become superintelligence and kill us".

However, I think this kind of argument is flawed because just because something like "general intelligence" isn't understood doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The definitions people make of it aren't good because it's not understood.

I think a better way to approach this is that those who think AGI systems are a problem must create a more concrete, coherent idea of such system before their arguments can even be right or wrong. There are simply too many problems with trying to reason about something that you accept you don't understand that effort framed that a destined to devolve into nonsense.
A corporation took my best ideas and went to market before I could even get started. I didn't make any money but at least I have the feeling of community. /s
AGI isn't scary because it's smarter than me. AGI is scary because it's alien. I've met plenty of people smarter than me. Way way smarter. It's ok. We can sorta work out what the other wants. We can talk or fight or trade or whatever.

I have an uncountable number of assumptions to get by in the world. I have this vast heritage of knowledge. I try to keep a handle on why I believe what I believe, but it's not easy, and I'm sure I slip up. An alien would share none of these.

Take counting. That's super important for lots of stuff I do every day, like, what day it is. the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munduruku people don't count. I'm sure we could work something out - but we all gotta sleep and eat and stuff so we can sorta work out a framework for understanding wants and needs and such.

An alien doesn't require wants or needs. they may do stuff that we label wants and needs, and it might be a good mapping, but who fucking knows? Aliens are alien.

The water is triangular sentence is a great one. do the aliens mean they know that oxygen and 2 hydrogens don't make a straight line? And they know we mean oxygen and two hydrogens are water? and they know 3 non parallel lines in a plane means triangle? Maybe? Sure? maybe they mean all Ferrari's will be consumed for fuel.

Mean, dear reader, doesn't even mean anything, because they're aliens. I mean, you can point at math, prime numbers are a great one! but like, do you need prime numbers? Who knows? That's the path we took, but what would an alien need? I don't know. You, dear reader, may have strong opinions, but I'm pretty sure you can offer no proof.
Thanks for the reply !

1. So if I get it correctly, there is an actor in charge of surveiling the network. There is no financial incentive to do that which means only a few actors will be running a slasher, and thus completely remove all decentralization.
Once a fraud has been detected, the proof of fraud is to be spread by nodes with a financial incentive, meaning they might spread whatever the slasher says like gospel, giving even more power to slashers.

This is a very large step away from decentralization. The network depends not just on a few coders, but also on an institution checking whether nodes behave correctly or not. The whole point of blockchain was that everyone would assume everyone was out to cheat, and came up with a way to make it useful.

2. As I said in another reply, I don't expect the most rationality and long-term thinking from economic actors anymore, especially in the world of cryptocurrencies. I could very well see a single actor owning that many nodes but still being trusted because "they're the good guys" and people remain.
You would also have to be sure they are in fact colliding.

3. So, as I feared, this is capitalism in its crudest form. At least PoW made it indirect by putting requirements on the hardware, but here it's just plain naked for all to see.

I know I sound very negative but I was really curious to see how PoS really changed the dynamics compared to PoW, and now I know. Thanks again for your explanations.
I'd argue - yes.

Too busy to properly prepare food, leads to convenient food, which is seldom a good choice from a weight point of view.

Too busy to take time to walk somewhere, drive-through everything sparing you even the smallest amount of physical effort - not ideal...

Too busy to go to the gym during the normal day (hence admiration for the early riser who's at the gym at 4am,so they can do a workout before hitting the office at 6).

Too busy to have mental downtime, peace, reflection, solitude. Leads to mental-health issues, which has a high correlation with inactivity and hence obesity.

So yes, I'd suggest that "being busy" is a mindset that prioritises "productivity" and not things like wellness, or good eating. So tangentially, yes, I'd argue busyness leads to obesity via some indirection.
Wait, does Unicode not have multiple representations even of simple things like the letter "ä"? Then you definitely need to handle actual characters/glyphs in regexes.
If you are gonna "what if", please "what if" mosquitoes as well...