skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any realistic, actionable analysis or solutions in here.

> People need to get paid (very!) well for their work on the endeavor

Good luck with that one. Who, exactly, is going to pay? And if you did somehow pass a bill mandating $500/hour wages, how would the flood of applicants be managed?

> Similarly, with climate change, programs to develop ways to transport solar energy could help, if implemented at scale and with vigorous commitment and funding. (It would be fairly easy to produce the solar energy; the challenges are reducing toxicity of manufacturing solar panels and batteries, increasing storage capacity, and figuring out transmission or transportation over long distances)

I had the impression that many people already were working on all those. Is he saying that throwing more money at the problem would solve it faster?

Finally, Y2K and Ebola are only two examples. How about "nuclear war over Taiwan"? That seems like the ultimate risk, and it's not by any means improbable.
Here’s an old fan site for other games of the era, though in Spanish: http://islanegra.clandlan.net/ (The look is what’s fun)

I loved growing up with the internet where sites like that were dime a dozen.
Voyager turns 45: What the iconic mission taught us and what's next
This is neat, but I don't see why anyone would want this. Lego is about building things from lots of interchangable bricks. This just puts a display on one of those bricks. It's neat, but it's not something that will change a kid's Lego experience much.

It's just eye candy.
Were these people who got rid of their PCs once smartphones came out, or did they just never have a computer?
What's a blue-book exam?

You can test loop-writing in an oral-exam, too. Thus your proposed solution for GPT-3 writing ethics essays is so good, that it fixes the original problem.
lol please catch up on modern research, wengrow for instance. you’re repeating a colonialist distortion
At the risk of mentioning Trump, I thought this was what executive order 13771 was supposed to alleviate: make the regulatory state self-pruning by forcing it to repeal two regulations for every one that was passed. It was environmentally controversial, certainly. I don't see how the government will ever reduce its complexity unless it has a similar mechanism in place to force existing regulations to be removed to make room for new ones.
> This was not an issue with the old proof of work scheme.

Censorship of transactions because of OFAC is already happening in PoW mining.

https://twitter.com/takenstheorem/status/1560690035955011585...
> Thus the US has less spatial discipline than anywhere else in the world.

Even when compared to places like Canada and Australia? Canada's population density is 4 people/km2, Australia is 3 people/km2 and the USA is 36 people/km2.

That said, as an Australian visiting the Netherlands (508 people/km2), one of the first things that caught eye was the residential garbage disposal. In the Netherlands you don't have single house bins that are picked up house by house. Instead they cart their kitchen garbage bags out to communal bins in the street.
Those communal bins look like this: https://utrechtselect.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/recycleb... They are small on the surface because the bin is under ground.

It's more efficient in so many ways. They aren't just saving space in the street - the house doesn't need storage space for a weeks worth of garbage. And being the Netherlands, the weeks worth garbage is separated into 4 recycling types. And the garbage truck doesn't have to stop at each house, but rather just once per street.
Oh, that guy. He tends to be technically incorrect regularly and gets rather arsey when you call him on it.
We're going to finally crack general AI and we'll have a slew of new problems related to AI mental health care.

"Sorry, the presentation isn't ready. My AI had a psychotic break over the weekend."
Pydoc, pytest and mypy are simple, powerful, underused tools.

@dataclass can make a lot of code cleaner than it would be otherwise.

Sum types, only available as of 3.10, make a lot of things easily expressible now that were extremely awkward previously.

Also, learn Haskell. It forces you to learn to keep most of your code pure, limiting IO to a thin top level layer, which makes testing and hence correctness a lot easier.
That's precisely what ssh -Y or ssh -X do for you.
Tell HN: A new way to use GPT-3 to generate code (and everything else)
Hi HN,

One of the things that frustrates me about Copilot is that all tasks posed to it must be in the form of a completion. By writing clever comments you can get it to generate a few lines of code or a short function body, but you never get coherent long-form generations just from mashing the tab key.

I’m working on a different approach. Instead of requiring you specify your code generation task through stilted comments, you can use GPT-3 to fill in what I call “instructional templates”. They’re like f-strings, except the English goes on the inside and the Python goes on the outside. Additionally, each instruction’s location and surrounding context can aid in interpreting it, allowing instructions to be impressively terse.

I’ve collected 10 examples of the method on a Twitter thread here. Most code examples are in Python, but I also demonstrate generating CSV, NDJSON, R, Markdown, and HTML: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1559801520773898240?s=21...

I also have a few examples of more creative, non-program output in HTML and Markdown in this thread: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1560953991722418177?s=21...

Interested in any feedback, especially from anyone who’s tried to apply my method to their own problems.
All blocks are voted on by the validators. If 67% of the network is censoring transactions, someone else could not just pop in and validate a block, because they would not have 67% of the votes.
The decision was made by the exchanges. Bitcoin Cash wanted the BTC ticker, and didn't get it.

That's why in the ETH merge, the issue is who the money goes with. Circle and Coinbase are going with the merge, so it wins.
Can you elaborate? Im and Aero and while there is a defo a bunch of math involved suck, squeeze, bang, blow is pretty much the gist of how jet engines work and I don't find it really all that hand-wavy, its just a funny way of describing gas pressure and velocity graphs.
> Bitcoin transactions are not anonymous, they're public and can be traced quickly and easily.

They're arguing that Lightning transactions offer substantially more privacy.
Don't mistake the limitations of the archaeological record for the underlying reality. Humans are distinctive from most animals precisely because they have adaptations like culture that are perfectly suited to high speed adaptations to changing conditions. Someone born thousands of years would have found quite a lot different, just like you would if you were born in the Roman empire.
Get past the super annoying cookie consent banner and you get to a great essay on how Hong Kong inspired Blade Runner, and which in turn defined what we now call the cyberpunk aesthetic
Most people include the classification and treatment of entartete Kunst as part of the Nazi crimes against humanity.
I assume something like Moore’s Law applies tbh.

I agree of course it makes order of magnitude slower. The point is - how long until this slow is good enough to perform immensely useful things, with a better distribution of wealth generation than the current datacenter model?

I would say in the next 5 years we’ll start seeing breakthrough apps.

Like I said above I don’t expect everything ever to go on chain in the near future, you can have very useful apps that only touch on chain for the truly necessary. Even doing the “truly necessary” was painful until very recently, but now with Ethereum Layer 2 solutions, Algorand, Polkadot and Solana, it’s becoming more and more accessible over time.
The current approach is going to create an AI just as flawed as we are since it will have been trained on the sum total of human creativity.
Sadly not. Everything I've read assumes you are already very familiar with the obsolete executable formats it uses (COM, 6th edition Unix shell scripts).

I presume it uses tricks similar to those files that are both ZIPs and PDFs simultaneously or whatever - basically they've chosen formats where the parser starts by reading different bits of the file.

But that's an educated guess because I don't think there's a clear explanation anywhere.
A college degree used to signal competence. Now it signals you have the ability to show up and avoid doing something to get kicked out for 4 years.

I feel we'd probably get the same value to society if we just made grades 9-12 optional. It would remove the people that don't want to be there, improve the quality of instruction, and college would actually be a meaningful achievement so we no longer have requirements for entry level jobs to require a Master's degree.
No one suggested destroying the Mona Lisa or other artifacts. The comment was regarding the hype surrounding the Mona Lisa hundreds of years later.
>"While these are essential tools for maintaining complex societies it is particularly easy to see how over time their benefits decline and their costs rise when you only ever add laws and regulations but never do a partial or complete rewrite.

It is the societal equivalent of the accumulation of technical debt in startups."

What a great analogy!

At least for people that truly understand what technical debt is...
You might want to try https://drovio.com/ - it's not free, but I searched a few years ago for the best screen sharing software and so far never found one that beats it.

Key features:

1. Extremely fast and smooth screen sharing. I've used RDP, I've used VNC, I've used Chrome, I've used Apple's screen sharing. None beat it.

2. Multiple mouse cursors! You can see where your co-workers mouse is, and they can click and interact with your desktop just like you do (if allowed of course). So far this has been the best way to do interactive code review sessions and even some pair programming.

3. Smooth animations. I originally started using it (back when it was called USE Together) because I wanted to do a presentation remotely that would show smooth 60fps animations from an app I was working on. It was the only one that could do it.

I never used it on Linux however.
No such "Safety and Emergency" on Nokia 5.4
> C style casts (...)

Those are pretty much irrelevant since at least C++98, specially as not only are they used voluntarily but also under the hood they are already handled with explicit casts.

Is this the best argument there is to break backwards compatibility?
@hayst4ck we lost a family member to opioids in early 2019. He died in a Richmond bay area airbnb with his girlfriend, they were found by the owner several days after they died. He alternated living on the street and staying in airbnbs - he had to be narcan'd in homedepot (ironically while boosting power tools), and on the streets before finally dying.

Many addicts prefer to be on the street and not behind a door so they can be seen and revived when they OD. This is a fundamental flaw in governor Newsom's project homekey 'housing first' logic. What we are desperately short of are paths to sobriety as Shellenberger and others have pointed out. what we are not short of are 'non profit' bay area homeless industrial complex operations that facilitate street living. There are rumors the cartels donate massively to keep freshman clientele flowing.
It is a very grim situation. In most european countries a junkie self harming in public will be given a choice of prison or some form of rehab. We do not have those options in a lot of north America, just open air drug scenes openly operating 24 hours a day. Obviously addicts steal to get their fixes...this is not viable on multiple societal levels.
I use stevia as a replacement for sugar. This research is difficult to understand for a layperson like me (I'm too thick). Is anyone able to answer the questions below?

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Extract: "non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS), such as saccharin, sucralose, aspartame, acesulfame-K, and stevia, that do not contain calories and are thereby presumed to be inert and not elicit a postprandial glycemic response."

Question: Does this research confirm that stevia elicits a postprandial glycemic response? (Does stevia stimulate insulin?).

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Extract: "Notably, all four tested NNS (saccharin, sucralose, aspartame, and stevia) significantly and distinctly altered the human intestinal and oral microbiome, as would be expected for these chemically diverse compounds."

Extract: "Degradation of steviol glycosides by gut bacteria is an established component of their metabolism although some species may be more proficient than others in performing this task and thus, pre-exposure microbiome heterogeneity may conduce to differential responses to stevia."

Question: So stevia alters the human intestinal and oral microbiome. Are these changes a negative outcome and thus a concern for anyone using stevia?
Except in in PoW it only means delayed transactions, because only one miner has to "sign off" the block - everyone else accept it passively. A single miner, even with 0.1% mining power is enough to keep the network censorship resistant.

In PoS majority of validators has to actively approve a block containing "illegal" transactions, leading to permanent censorship.

The exact interpretation of validation vs mining responsibility in face of law and passive vs active is fuzzy , but it leaves miners is better legal position.
Guess how I learned query/replace in Emacs in 1985?

My friend who copied my Pascal programming assignment is now a director at a $1B hedge fund. I'm the founder of a series of scrappy, ramen noodle startups. I guess it's the "Senator Blutarsky" effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_%22Bluto%22_Blutarsky
>So: why should we--why should anyone--care about your half-arsed opinion?

I don't think you effectively critiqued yakshaving by repeating what he said about the commentating art community. Their opinions are worth no more than his, my, or your half-arsed opinions. You haven't defended them when he's speaking against pretentiousness.

Art is art, and it doesn't need an adhoc recital of catch phrases and in-words performed by those gathered around. In saying "You just don't understand", you gilt no dirt.

There's no need for a bait and switch. Yakshaving didn't criticise the art, he criticised the chatter, which is just a gussied up version of "I like the colour" and "The way it creaks in the breeze gives me the heebie-jeebies".

Its like a party after a hanging, and regardless of whether it is a painting, or an outlaw, there's something uncomfortable and unnatural about people gathering around to nod their heads in satisfaction.
I love their take at the end which is to not expand the already crazy anti-cheating apparatus and just give students more interesting problems and let them use all the information at their disposal. I wish more professors took this attitude. Having every student implement the exact same famous algorithms is really silly when you take a step back. You don’t gain any appreciation for them because they’re unmotivated and you lack all the foundational
knowledge. The proofs/explanations are all totally bespoke and don’t generalize.

You really win as a professor when you design a project that naturally causes you to reach for the knowledge you’re trying to teach. One of the best was my networking class where the project had us secretly rediscover tcp by trying to invent reliable transmission over UDP and then once we sufficiently cut our teeth the second half of the course was implementing a real working version on top of the professor provided userspace ip stack.
this is a straightforward, real-world use case for two systems. while memory could have been set equal perhaps, even doing so would not make it all even. you are only focusing on capacity while ignoring memory speed/timings and channel.

if Apple can advertise their findings and compare to desktop CPUs, then the TDP debate is completely pointless. moreover, each chip maker has their own way of calculating what they call "TDP".

to the intended reader (Linux users), this is a great guide to decide which options works best from actual performance standpoint.
Decoupling of the art and the signature??? Do you read what you write before you write it?

There’s a reason NFTs are easy and gallery placements are hard: one has value
CoreML is such a bad lib compared to Pytorch/Jax and even Tensorflow that im not sure why anyone should use it if they can just use other stuff (i would probably prefer pure MPSGraph for training on device at it allows me to control everything in easy and Tensorflow like way)
I haven't written a critique at all. I shared a fairly simple opinion

You shared a negative opinion, and did so in writing. Perhaps you wouldn't call it a critique because you didn't use sound reasoning, but I would call that defense critique snobbery: you still dismissed other people's pastimes by invalidating their experience ("it's not that deep").

I suppose I'm deeply into music snobbery. I enjoy analyzing good pieces of music, and even use high-falootin' words like tritone, dominant, resolution or syncopation. And I enjoy sharing such an analysis with peers, it happens quite often that they see structures or patterns that I haven't noticed yet. Because for me, understanding the structure behind a good piece of art heightens my enjoyment.
That appears to be a single miner, so the transactions will still go through.
Technically, you have a limit, but it would realistically take years to get there
You've discovered the strategy of: Come up with a way to get people laid off so you can monetize a portion of their salaries for yourself.

The cynical me says they weren't smart enough to automate away their own work (so they could be assigned more, different work), so eff 'em, right? That is, until someone else automates away your job.

The business me says, you found and fixed an inefficiency, so capitalize on it. While you're at it why not add in extra shadow surveillance "features", and you've got yourself a unicorn. Get that VC money!

The "boss" me says, uhh... you did this work on "your own time" (as if there is such a thing) but with proprietary knowledge of my systems, "open source data" notwithstanding. So, yeahhh that work belongs to me, and I'll monetize it for myself thank you very much. That work product is not yours. Get the eff back to work already.

The "Overemployed" me says, hey, with this automation, maybe I can "work" two jobs simultaneously and pull double salary for no net increase in work. Get that easy money! At least until my employers discover the ruse and they both fire me!
> One remedy was to try to make programming assignments harder and harder.

How is that going to stop cheating? Surely that will just make people more inclined to cheat, since they have less chance of solving it on their own.
I thought about posting this exact video, but you beat me to it ! Extra credits really has some very well done entertaining historical docu-series .... I recommend other historical buffs to subscribe and go through their videos
If someone is just looking to fill a course requirement and has no interest in being a programmer, my response is "meh, whatever".

If someone is cheating and actually expects to land a decent CS job, my response is "good luck on the leetcode questions and the 5-7 hours of questions you'll have to answer between the intro call, panels, and an offer".

And if someone magically manages to get all that way without actually learning the material they will get absolutely crushed at work. Meetings where you have to give your professional opinion will induce fits of anxiety. Making changes to your code based on feedback and not having any idea what the feedback means. Even just the amount of work alone that needs to be done at most tech places crushes great engineers. Without the knowledge it will just stack up on you even further.
Here’s more about Rose’s political beliefs and their influence on the project https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/little-house...
Do you actually work at Lego or are you just cynically ranting into the void?
Within the scope of calculus and modeling with differentials, this has a fairly simple geometric interpretation. I assume though the author you're quoting means f'(x), though.
Ugh, all the infighting seems tedious and boring. Neither symbols nor DL based approaches have ever produced a program that can tell you that you’re asking it the wrong question, or that gets tired of classifying things and just wants to sing, or that fights to survive. We like to anthropomorphize our software so much that we sometimes can’t see how really far off we are from general AI. What if the paradigm needed isn’t remotely related to any approach that’s ever been tried?
"Lego is about building things from lots of interchangable bricks." Did you really just try to define how millions of children enjoy a toy? You need to relax a bit. Kids (and adults) like toys for all kinds of different reasons that don't necessarily match your own.
I was mistaken. It wasn’t Hilbert (who had a somewhat similar ambition in Mathematics) but Lord Kelvin.

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/physics/lord-kelvin-...
Perhaps. VC money can make or break any product through mere marketing.
> In this particular case - it is better than a standard contract because the previous method of authenticating work is hugely expensive for the artist and has immense gatekeeping. Minting an NFT takes 30 seconds.

As you said NFT is just a signature so how do the NFTs solve the problems of authenticating art?
When male managers are poor leaders and the workers rebel, valid criticism isn’t silenced with accusations of sexism.

My experience is that bad male leaders either change or move out of the role quickly.

There is often a problem between the feedback loop with men and women about leadership that results in a hostile work environment.
Accelerators/individual angel or VC investors.

Put an email in your profile?
yeah i personally don't know anyone using in production, so i was a bit curious.
Thanks for the link :)
how is this any different than e.g. fs level compression with zstd on btrfs? seems enough people find that useful.
Most of the most knowledgeable people in the space probably have large holdings, since otherwise there’s not much incentive to learn about it.
> I don't see why anyone would want this

> It's just eye candy.

I think you do see why somebody would want this
Maybe he just enjoys creating and sharing. Why do people often turn to capitalism as the ultimate end goal?
> States can't declare bankruptcy, but California was insolvent a bit over a decade ago.

California had a cash flow crisis in 2009.

> The state was essentially bankrupt for a signification time, even though no proceedings took place.

Not really. It was unable to make payments because of the political inability (due to supermajority requirements in the legislature—one of the key ones of which has since been removed—legislative/executive disunity, reliance on voter approval for certain actions which failed, etc.) to decide how to change operations to do so, not because of lack of resources.
Medical literature and consensus says autism is one disorder with a spectrum of symptoms and that Aspbergers is not a unique disorder and that is currently wrong. So citing some other very similar research isn't going to do anything for me.

Autistic children are born not caring for faces, or eyes, and social interaction. Feral children do not have eyes or faces or social interaction to look at. So if it's not technically autism, it's not any different than the myriad of disorders currently lumped together as autism.
The close button was top left since 1984. Working in a left to right language means eyes and pointer spend more time on the left.
> I mean is it wrong to fathom he doesn't know his own name?

Yes, it's pathetic. Please stop generating noise in an otherwise interesting discussion over El Salvador.