skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody who came of age back then has a story of some huge system link game in somebody’s basement for a sleepover/birthday party at some point. It was an era where you didn’t need battle passes or constant content drips to keep interest in a multiplayer game
The answer is resoundingly no. If anyone deserves to be called the father or mother or modern music theory, it would be Pythagoras.
Wait, so the one method that isn't a massive hack is the one that's "frowned upon"?
I don't know the rest but +1 for munger.

They way he lay out and clearly communicate complex topics literally awe inspiring.

It is a deep pleasure to read and listen to him.
Ime, concurrent updates to the data set isn't a problem in practice and nobody cares if they occasionally get duplicate entries. The cluttered and sometimes useless urls cursors cause are, again ime, a much bigger usability problem. Sure, naively implemented queries suffer if the user types ?page=123456 in the url but such problems are quite easy to fix.
1. People like sexy things
2. Companies make or facilitate sexy things
3. Blame capitalism.
Notwithstanding that you don't leave a zero day unpatched til after hours, some other time sinks:

* M1 compatability issues.

* Problems surrounding containers. Yes, I have used Rancher Desktop, yes I have used Colima. Neither is a first-class citizen. (As-per usual with Mac dev tools).

* Dual monitor.

* External keyboards, keyboard shortcuts, and customizations.
Alexander Bogdanov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov

Walter Jackson Freeman III: https://web.archive.org/web/20160627160850/http://sulcus.ber...

Eric Schwitzgebel: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/

Walter Segal: http://www.segalbuildings.me.uk/

Adam Smith

David Graeber
I went to Chicago public schools. Most of my teachers had graduate degrees from degree mill schools, some even had phds that they loved to talk about even though I doubt they spent more than a few days to get them. That ended up meaning they all made around 110-120, with full pension after I believe 30 years. Certainly not an amazing salary, and they all worked much harder than I ever have, but nothing to laugh at I’d say.
Slavoy Zizek
Jordan Petersson
Hannah Arendt
I grew up on Christopher Hitchens.
David Chapman, hands down. The kind of insights I get reading his pieces can't be found anywhere else on the internet: https://meaningness.com
Important to point out, for those that try supplements and "don't notice anything different," sources (and types) matter.

In this case, fish oil sources matter. Oxidation, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) matter. You can filter for quality sources that meet the International Fish Oil Standards here: https://certifications.nutrasource.ca/certified-products?typ...
> it's also true that the state has no obligation to subsidize particular lifestyles

So you oppose heterosexual marriage as well? As it is also a particular lifestyle.
I read a study over two thirds regret quitting.
Send the kid home and fail them for the year? They can try again next year. Well behaved kids are the parents' problem
Here's the officially reported excess mortality from the UK and its neighbours: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores...

I'd say pretty similar overall, though the UK had a massive peak and then a sudden deficit in excess mortality where other countries didn't. France and Ireland haven't reported an uptick in excess mortality but their data hasn't been included from right around the most recent sudden rise.

The pattern seems to be that there's an increase in excess mortality, with peaks following drops a few months later coinciding with COVID spread. Sadly, this website doesn't show any data prior to January of 2020, but excess mortality rates were down right up to the spread of COVID.
> Why don't you find out and share with us

because it's hard to get, poopy. Even for the US.

I can find their total spending & their general policies on special ed (which I did share), but not that. On the other hand, we do have some Finnish people on HN, so maybe they know.

> If Finland is really significant to this debate

If? They have what's generally considered the best education in the world.
As a sharp technical writer told me, a picture might be worth a thousand words but a picture without context (or just plonked on a page) is worthless.
No, it doesn't, I meant they'll either actually try to help or give you paracetamol/ibuprofen and maybe tell you to come back in 2 months
This is such an odd extrapolation. You can see tons of Macs or Linux in use in Europe, at conventions , in lots of dev communities, in design studios.

I suspect you’re in a self selected bubble. Which you sort of allude to by saying “developers you know”, but I don’t see how that extrapolates to the continent as a whole.
I don't see how plain text in zip files is any more searchable than epubs (which are each just plaintext-heavy XML files wrapped in a zip file). And PDFs potentially containing malicious code is an argument against using PDF, not an argument for using plaintext specifically. Being viewable on every device is a decent reason, I just don't personally think it's worth the degradation in reading quality.

> if the book is missing (15%), that means the text could not be extracted.

I saw that, I just don't understand why a book that isn't included has an entry in the CSV file. If the automated tool fails to extract the text from the book to include in the archive, then why put it in the index file?
How Religious Are Americans?
Some people thoroughly enjoy a linear saccade search! See for example any social media app.

It definitely isn’t in the users’ best interest to have any method of scrolling through a lot of records.
Prof. Jordan Peterson

He has fundamentally changed some of my values and thoughts about me, the world and my place within it.

Highly recommend some lectures or talks from him.
Whoever says that usually follow a tautological way of thinking, that is "people in perfect health don't need it" but of course having a vitamin deficiency is not having "perfect health"
I Quit a L6 Job at Meta Just to Finish a Side Project
That would be a Fail Open type solution which isn't exactly great where security is concerned.
What is the use case? I can't imagine anything besides getting a real time view on the frontpage or likes of my own comments that a monthly static data dump wouldn't solve.
Did Pythagoras actually write any music worth listening too?
What on earth?
There are established way to escalate and appeal reviews with the App Store.

And it's hilarious that you think complying with government regulations is a clear and functional process.
Over 90% of Medieval Manuscripts Have Been Lost, Study Says
In my own testing this system is able to achieve 6500 tx/s on my laptop. That’s more than VisaNet handles, on average. I think a beefy server would be enough. No need for federations.
I assume you’re familiar with this, but if not: https://openai.com/blog/summarizing-books/
There is no functional difference between a tax break and a subsidy. And everything is private property only if a sovereign authority says it is. Much of it is not even remotely justifiable even by the most generous Lockean assumptions. But it remains private property because an entity with the power to do so has deemed it so.
Thank you. Cueing mirror keyword for others.
"Do markets not..." That's not my problem. Apple can't get busted up for all I care. I don't really have a whole lot of sympathy for one of the largest corporations in the world.
You're right, it's curious how the death rate increased right around the time COVID measures started being lifted all around Europe.
I just do real time photos to iCloud or google, and full backup of everything to backblaze.
In alphabetical order,

Ayn Rand

Elon Musk

Eric Weinstein

Jordan Peterson

Joscha Bach

Noam Chomsky

Paul Graham

Yeah that's cheesy, but his essays had a big influence on me and is the reason I'm on this forum.

Peter Thiel

Thomas Sowell
Yeah, was mostly talking about the German luxury automakers which is the market Tesla is trying to compete with most directly.
Elselijn Kingma
See my other comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32544217.
How else would you extract oil from a fish?
How does Starlink satellite internet work?
I do this with my possessions, but I will say that my house is pretty spartan as a result. Having a million knick-knacks and random junk around is sort of nice. When I go to someone's place and they have stuff everywhere (in a reasonable way, of course), it definitely makes it more homey. But all that stuff needs to be dusted constantly or you feel like you're in a mauseleum.

Also, I tend to put it in a box in the garage to be given away later, which I never seem to get around to.

Off topic, but this should be codified as law for all AI-powered decisions. If someone's automated car runs into the back of a firetruck, the owner should be considered negligent unless proven otherwise.
Go actually went in the other direction for a bunch of reasons (e.g. hash collision dos) and made key order quasi-random when iterating. Small maps used to maintain order, but a change was made to randomize that so people didn't rely on that and get stung when their maps got larger: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6719
100% false, special Ed is a spectrum from high functioning to low functioning. Some kids need extra attention and support to find their element and become successful.

The diaper-changing-babysitting end of things is probably the most difficult job in the school. Think about it, it's one step away from working in a mental institution.

The whole USA teaching system exploits nice salt-of-the-earth types, chews them up, then spits them out. The system makes it difficult to even stay in it as a teacher, the job is littered with madness compared to many other government and private sector jobs.
LOL! The first time I tried it, there where no announcements Because U-Block was blocking something, and I waited, and I waited... :)

Much better now though, with the announcements. Very soothing.

The only thing missing is the thick Scottish accent I was expecting. ;-P
Indeed, the voices of Dr Johnny Bananas and Prof Cominic Dummings deserve to be heard.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/09/herd-immunity-...
I have it too, and it leads me to irregular heartbeat, anxiety and stress disorders.
Tried CPAP and I can't just sleep with mask on, gave up after 2 weeks. What helping me now is melatonin and if I wake up sleep deprived, I do meditation at least one hr as soon as I can't sleep back. It helps me alot
Talk about Stockholm syndrome...
Because one of the few things more powerful than Google is national governments, and their mutual mistrust of each other.
Yes, much more. The internet didn’t go mainstream until the mid-90’s. According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system there “were 60,000 BBSes serving 17 million users in the United States alone in 1994.”
Can you do that over summer without frequent contact with the students?
Great video of his. I'd recommend almost all of the Asianometry videos, learned a lot from them
Honestly - it should be, considering how people are absolutely ignorant about it's potency to kill the liver. Especially because some use it as a hangover painkiller.
They never finished all the phases of the trials.
There are excess mortality graphs for multiple countries here: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
Where does this myth come from? Cable was first used to bring network broadcast TV with ads to places with no reception. Then came the “Superstations” like TBS and WGN. That were rebroadcast of local stations over satellite. Then came ESPN, CNN etc. cable TV always had ads except for the premium channels.
I'm not going to argue with that (not because I agree, but because it's not a discussion I feel like having). My issue is that it seems to have nothing to do with what I said. I was posing a hypothetical in which Infowars had influence comparable to the entire U.S. media apparatus, not making a statement about their history or how they obtained what little influence they have.
Thanks for the kind words.

Let me see if I understand your suggestion correctly. You want users to be able to not only support the idea as it is, but to also be able so suggestion additional features, or to indicate what parts of the idea are most important to them.

Right now, a user who wants to suggest specific features would select "share my contact info with the owner", or they'd fill out the "use case questionaire". In both cases, you as the owner of the idea would be able to reach out to them (an d they'd have indicated that they'd actually want you to do so). Though, as it is now, you'd be doing that outside of the platform then (say, through email, Zoom, or a Telegram group perhaps).
This is, more or less, how graduate school works.
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Quite reliable as well. I haven't touched my acme-client.conf since 2019.

Admittedly, I haven't updated my blog since then, but goddammit, my SSL certs are still valid! Cough Manjaro Cough
Employee salaries and benefits (costs generally) not employee taxes.

But agree in general. US 501c3 status is based on a variety of things that the federal government has determined are worth encouraging--including education--that it has historically deemed the private sector was not sufficiently interested in funding. This in turn comes with strings. Which is not to say there aren't large and wealthy institutions that benefit from this status or that donors to those organizations don't benefit as well from certain tax benefits such as donating appreciated assets.
> We aren’t quite yet at the stage of this technology that there is something like an OpenGL equivalent for NeRFs that can be expected to work across many architectures

If you export the original NeRF code to ONNX, it'll execute just fine on OpenGL GPUs using (for example) the DirectML nackend on Windows.
Online school went pretty well for my kid. No doubt in my mind that she was learning way more than during in person school. The key was probably that she was next door to me the whole time and I had some time to help her with homework that I didn’t before remote. Honestly my child and I both wish they’d go back to remote.
Thanks! When I convert the jp2k file for that page 58 with ABBYY default ("balanced") jbig2 settings I don't get any of the errors we see in the examples. If I convert to DJVU and purposefully degrade the image to 150DPI, I still don't get the errors on display in this example. Besides the errors talked about in your linked discussion (germauic), the pdf clearly has many 'c' -> 'e' errors which aren't in the jp2k files. Again, I can't reproduce this with the software I use. I've also extensively used djvulibre and you just don't see errors like this from clean scans.

So, I have to conclude that the original conversions were done with very aggressive settings (or very bad jbig2 implementations). If that's they way the internet archive did all its encodings, then I admit there must be several problem documents, and they should re-do the conversions from the original JP2k files they seem to have kept. Not sure if google books made similar mistakes.
Just because it is well known doesn’t make it true. S3 alone is made up of 100+ microservices
Great article! I've personally been pretty self aware with how often I "create doorknobs" in conversations, though I like to think of it in terms of "passing the ball" in soccer or basketball. If you do all the passing and never get the ball passed to you, the "game" of conversation is no fun -and it should be fun!
Autocracies tend to make catastrophic decisions
This was for unrelated feature upgrades. I suppose it’s possible people had flagged us and the flags weren’t reviewed until we submitted an update though.
This is effectively what is being allocated to the entire education system per pupil per hour.
> In other words, the hallmark of a religious mind is a smaller ego.

Is it?

In Jesus's teachings, the ones who were most egotistical were the scribes and pharisees. While the one with arguably the smallest ego was the good Samaritan. There's no real evidence that religious people (even by religious teachings) are immune to the issues of selfish, self-centered thinking.

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I say ego is independent. Religion doesn't affect it really. An ego-centric individual could be drawn into Religion for selfish reasons (ex: purely for the hope to get into Heaven without thinking about others), for example. There are certainly teachings within the religion about society and working together, etc. etc. But I don't think people necessarily follow those unless they were already predisposed into thinking about other people.

I would argue that any religious scholar (at least, of Christianity), would point out that the Bible has numerous examples and stories to remind us that "Religionism isn't good by itself". There are plenty of priests and holy people throughout the ages who have failed to live up to the ideals of the religion.

Ex: Moses's brother Aaron worshiped the golden calf with the rest of the Isrealites. Jesus was betrayed by an Apostle named Judas. The scribes / pharisees were some of the hardest set against Jesus, forcing Jesus to preach to non-believers (ie: Gentiles)
My school district is in a middle sized city with a dominant land grant university. A starting teacher makes $40k. Requires both a BA and a teaching credential. Hours are long, and teachers spend a decent amount of money for out of pocket supplies, especially at some of the schools that despite level funding seem to get the short end of the stick.

IT in my area pays anyone with a pulse and basic computer skills $40k. A rookie developer from our land grant university can easily start at $60K with no experience. And that same developer can earn $100k with two years of good experience. Show me a 3rd year teacher pulling in $100k in my school district. No such unicorn exists.

The city doesn't have a DB pension, just a 403k.

Granted, the newbie teacher gets 1.5 months off in the summer, compared to 2 weeks PTO for the developer.

After 10 years, even assuming the teacher gets a Masters, the pay differential is huge.
Most of this change is driven by something other than need. The high school mathematics curriculum is a bit of a funny beast in the US, but it is certainly not the weak point in the system.
You can argue that attaching a time zone to a `%s` doesn't make sense, but a lot of people do it, and more importantly: it doesn't hurt.

If you do `Time.strptime('0 +0100', '%s %z').to_i` you get the correct result: "0". That is: the number of seconds since the epoch is correctly parsed. The time zone is extra information that doesn't affect `%s` in any way. In other words: it's orthogonal.
Eros.
Someone needs to put together a single-click Docker-Compose-type solution that will work on any Digital-Ocean-type shared host.
Apple was never going to add Google or Facebook ads into the App Store or News+.

And iOS/OSX users will still see targeted ads whenever they open their browser or third party apps.

The apps just need to either (a) ask the user for permission to track or (b) authenticate them.
Not ideal, but still seems like net progress.

Making something not a crime is the first step towards full legalization.
I'd love to see that distribution at the end with a log-axis for the file size! Or maybe even log-log, depending. Gives a much better sense of "shape" when working with these sorts of exponential distributions
Is this the answer to the question of where to get enough data posed in the article about Chinchilla[0]?
If tokenized with the GPT-3 tokenizer, about how many tokens would this be?

[0]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Fpvch8RR29qLEWNH/chinchilla...
Yes, but with caveats. Disclaimer: just a hobbyist, not my professional area, corrections appreciated

- oldschool radio direction-finding with a couple of directional antennas that are manually positioned and rotated (i.e. based on signal attenuation) doesn't really work for point-in-time things like a single brief signal unless you have massive arrays of well-positioned receivers, which is fine if you're building an HFDF installation but not fine if you're a squad on the move

- multilateration on the basis of signal attenuation, analogous to that sort of oldschool RDF, is possible but IME doesn't perform very well; same problem where you often need a lot of well-positioned points to shrink the possibility envelope down to something useful

- multilateration on the basis of time of arrival, analogous to more modern pseudo-doppler / correlative interferometry RDF techniques, can perform a lot better but requires a very high quality shared time source - if the model is analyzing info from an array of observers, this can be a problem on typical battlefield network designs that prioritize availability over performance - but this approach also enables single site setups where a local time source and a handful of receivers can read a bearing without actually needing to network at all, though this involves a lot of math
Then we can use government to drag tracking out of Chrome.
Nice tool. There's been some real steps forward enabling non coders to put together workflows.

Personally I would love to see a Dalle 2 for automation. Would be great to just be able to write.

1. Go to toastmaster website

2. Find next meeting

3. Check if I have selected a role

4. Send SMS

And it magically works. Ahhh maybe one day.
Wow, this is from way back in the day when you were allowed to put actual music in videos. I wonder how this one slipped past Content ID, maybe it's grandfathered in?
My SO works in schools and she seems to work 60 hour weeks 10 months of the year for total compensation circa $60k, which is above the teacher pay scale for her years of experience. Schools seem to be undergoing a slow-motion collapse because every year the needs for specialized professionals go up, and the number of folks willing to do it goes down. Severe mental, social emotional, and behavior problems get worse every year, and even in K-5 schools people start to feel like they're just getting paid to get bit, spat on, and disrespected because there's no systemic solution to bad and crazy parents or neglected kids, let alone the fact that because nobody is willing to work in the conditions the average quality of those left is going down.
Bricolage – term for improvising with what you have
Agreed, we should also make sure to ban interracial marriage since same culture marriages are universal among all the countries in the world. I don't know of any thriving culture which frowns on same race marriage.

(Sarcasm if it wasn't obvious)
I'm really really curious how Ayn Rand and Noam Chomsky made it on the same list. Actually Chomsky is the only odd one out, come to think of it...
You get paid extra to leave and nothing to stay. Why I feel comfortable just fucking around and interview prepping between jobs.
Lesson plans vary by the day, so I’m not sure how exactly you would do that without the data from the previous day.
Yes, that is what "seems" implies. It suggests that there is gaps in the information and that one should come back with more details. There were also directed questions included to help guide one to where information was lacking.

Curious that a primitive emotional response has transpired instead. Given the greater context of discussion also about emotions, is there something about the job that attracts this type of behaviour?
I've recently learned that I have Avoidant Personality Disorder. I spend most of a conversation looking for ways to end it quickly before I make some sort of social faux pas that I'll obsess about for the rest of my life. (I still replay moments from 30 years ago in my head. Like I said, it's a disorder). The better a conversation is going, the faster I want it to end. Any exit I see, I take it.
Probably the atmospheric version of SOFAR; thermal layers in the atmosphere acting as a wave guide for very low frequency sound waves. In the ocean, the sound of explosions can travel thousands of miles in the SOFAR channel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOFAR_channel