skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d say when it’s that simple there’s nothing to argue with and no major brain power demanded, let alone a computer program needed to crunch the numbers and optimize in some highly complicated multidimensional space. There’d be no competing interpretations to battle out between lawyers and CPAs. The only thing that would be argued about is at what tax rate.

I’ve often dreamed about what the tax formula would look like in its full gory details as an unevaluated expression full of variables and piece wise functions and all that.

To the second point I’d say why wait until collapse to trim off unproductive regulatory churn. I guess that’s the fundamental thing—is it a productive pursuit on net and compared to what exactly. It’s hard for me not to imagine the free market filling the void with something more productive even though I can’t single out anything specifically.
Mostly agree. IME it really depends on the person. And Microsoft has valued backward compatibly and pragmatic solutions almost to a fault at times. I'd day that's been changing since Windows 8. Still as a DOS-then-Windows native I appreciate their approach.

Job's insistence on a one button mouse for decades, then a one button phone bordered on the absurd as devices grew in capability. Yet it did serve a portion of the market well enough. Even if it kept advanced features virtually impossible to discover with being taught. Doubtful my boomer parents will ever learn swipe gestures, yet my 4yo is doing them now.
There's a little bit of cute countryside on the back side of the mountain, but otherwise, yes, it's true for the entire country. Look, San Marino is barely 4 miles across.
Yup, thought that might be an explanation, though didn’t recall comment votes ever publicly being shown; and yes, realize it was 8+ years ago. Thanks clarifying things!
The Far-Right Book Every Russian General Reads
I think that Marshall McLuhan said that the ads are always better. Of course that doesn't mean that we like them more.
When I was selfhosting bulk email, I found it helped to have a large number of good reputation ip addresses, Controls to stop mailing at the first hint of problems, Scrutiny over the email list to avoid sending to honeytrap addresses, overzealous throttling. It can be done it’s just a pain when a mail server gets blacklisted and you have to shift your setup to a new mail server (preferably on a completely different address space to avoid subnet bans).

It’s much easier with todays orchestration systems, but I’m out of that game because unless you are a well known provider some obscure university or small business will block your mailer even if you follow all the rules. Not worth it
Someone should tell that to the author of the article

> A typical coal power plant emits a tonne of CO₂ for every 1,000 kWh of electricity it generates. Meanwhile, we learned that the energy needed to recapture 1 tonne of CO₂ from the air is at least 1,400 kWh. This means that recapturing the emissions of a coal power plant takes more energy than the coal plant produces!

And those calculations are based on the much harder to filter concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere. Anyway, CO2 isn't the only byproduct, nor is it the only source of entropy. So we aren't trying to reverse all of the entropy for free, just part of it.
Ask HN: Best organizing software for large photo collections on Linux
What is your favourite application for organizing very large (100GB+) collections of photos on linux? Features I am personally interested in is automatically detecting duplicates, various ways to view collections, for example by date range etc without having to do any manual work, automatically sorting photos into folders to keep the number of files per folder limited, etc.
It's guaranteed to be a niche app, an art project even. Thanks
In all fairness, I work in the cloud consulting department at $BigTech. I have to be able to talk about my projects based on results, not just that I billed the customer $x hours a week. You can get staff augmentation people a lot cheaper than us.

We don’t want the customer to have an ongoing dependency on us. We want them to either be self sufficient after we complete a project or be using a third party “partner”.
DALLE is trained on labelled data, if a photographer uses these terms to describe their work, using these in the prompts gently herds the image generation towards that kind of media.
Thanks, aware of the email, I don’t use email, and also don’t personally care for side-channel moderation; respect dang preference for it, just not one I personally works for me.
Given the month of preparation that normal candidates do? Sure. That’s basically what they do every time they have to take a test about a subject that doesn’t interest them.
Yeah, my thought on reading, "I still don't have a proper understanding" is that I'm not sure anybody has that. It seems like you only know too little or too much.

I have only worked with one person really who knew is backwards and forwards. That seemed helpful at first until he used his deep knowledge to try some sort of tricky fix-up and in the process lost some of my work. Given that a version control system's one job is to not lose work, I was very disappointed.
Yes, if you don't bound the number of tokens it's not obviously doomed as time goes to infinity, but there's still no particular reason to assume that the rate of mining rewards is either good enough to secure the network or not massively inefficient.
Related: https://news.yahoo.com/daughter-putin-propagandist-killed-ca...
Daughter of Putin Propagandist Killed in Car Bomb Outside Moscow
Cool definition of parasite on the wiki

"The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one""
Supposedly there's an genetic link: https://www.23andme.com/topics/traits/mosquito-bite-frequenc...
The Sony Bravia Core service isn't far off that to be honest.
The Gorn rocks are totally worth a visit. After we visited there, I showed my wife that episode, and while she still dislikes sci-fi in general, she now loves Star Trek TOS.
Sounds as though Fogerty is finally getting the rights to his songs back from Fantasy records and the publicity is now ramping up.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-fogerty-creedence-clear...

Interesting Fantasy Records' head Saul Zaentz isn't mentioned anywhere in the New Yorker article.
You can do lots of interesting things with bit shifts.

Like the famous Quake3 Fast Inverse Square

https://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/
Seems like there is one instruction it didn't follow: The first task mentions the usernames should be exactly like in the list, yet the AI responds with "firebob" (as in the comment) rather than "FireBob1990" (as in the list)

Funnily enough, that is exactly the kind of thing a human might do, as we too are terrible at following instructions precisely.
Yeah, this is why I think bitcoin is long term not worthwhile. While the vision was a digital currency which would be widely used to transact with, it was plausible that transaction costs would be sufficient to secure the network (though it would still be difficult to actually price them effectively). But as a 'store of value', it will start to become either expensive or insecure as the mining rewards peter out.
Sure. How many natural gas plants do you reckon we will need?

Following your idea, it seems like we will need to replace almost all existing base load with a stable options like nat gas.

But then why bother investing in these unreliable “sustainable” sources at all?

So we can collectively pat ourselves on the back while paying much more for electricity?

At some point, perhaps we should start asking why we are replacing base load with intermittent sources when we have no good ways to store energy at scale.
Can a Proof-of-Work chain use its computing toward real needs?
Is there a proof-of-work chain where all of the computing isn't just wasted on itself and instead contributes to something like protein folding science? Or allows businesses to rent it as a renderfarm? I imagine the security of that wrapper is impossible, yeah?

I thought that was part of the allure of Ethereum smart contracts... But is my understanding incorrect?
Would any other manufacturer be able to stand the heat ?

To note, it's really a plea for Lego to not kill them. The author's quote:

> There’s a difference between doing something that is acceptable and being able to actually fight if they decide to throw their weight around.
I know... I know...
Fortunately there's a constant supply of energy into the earth system, so conservation of energy is not violated! Unfortunately, that fact means you need much more complex calculations than "there's no such thing as a free lunch" to decide if the problem can be solved, now.
I used to support wind power and vilify natural gas. I was so wrong
Ivy (YC W23) is hiring developers to help unify ML
> If you're using multiple monitors and you're not using the rectangle app... that's kinda on you.

This attitude strikes me as snobbery. People aren't born knowing the best 3rd party alternative to their OS's shortcomings, and some have no control over what apps they can run.

Windows 10 has pretty good built in window management. IMO better than MacOS. I say this as a Mac and Rectangle user. (Though only Mac because of Safari exclusively working on it. I prefer Linux.)
Worth mentioning is The Echo Nests old genremap; which is also very interesting to roam around in: https://everynoise.com/
> I bet they conveniently don’t care that Russia can use those HIMARS which remain after territory is take from Ukraine.

Due to their long range HIMARS don’t have to be anywhere near the front line to be used. It’s pretty unlikely that any would be captured and even if it looked like they could be they could easily destroy them.
Previous answers are stored in an earlier layer, nodes are densely connected so the answers can "drift" to later layers.

In the simplified diagram below the network reaches the answer in the second layer at node "X", and reports derivations of it at 2 positions (obviously there are many more nodes and its a bit more complicated, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_(machine_learning_... as GPT3 is a transformer neural network)

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I referred to a particular point in the original cite[0], which is unsourced. Taking that to refer to my entire argument is, well, bad faith.

As for your new cite, I'd say it's the arguments in favour that are most damning. They tend to eventually concede the point that G&S did not and would not ban the behaviour leading to the crisis; They just lament that their policy choices weren't implemented at the time or lament some 'cultural shift' with no evidence to substantiate it (IMHO, everyone looking could have seen the culture shifting at least a decade earlier).

Aside, the argument was never that regulations are never repealed - but that the natural overall direction is ever expanding regulation. This thread is arguably somewhat of a confirmation, since people are arguing for a regulation which had little to do with the crisis...

[0] "The perception is that the Glass-Steagall Act created a sense of accountability among investors within the financial management industry... Thus a cultural shift was certainly in order after its repeal regardless of the loopholes that existed prior."

This has no source, and violates wiki's ban on original research.
It saves me more time than the monthly cost of the service. I've never tried things like Jedi or copilot before - I definitely enjoy it more than I thought I would.
It's not just the tooling of the modern world.

I remember installing teTeX (the predecessor of TeX Live) back in 2003 and I despaired at the file size because I knew it would take days to download on the shitty dialup connection I had at the time. Yeah, it wasn't 5 GB big back then, but it was certainly big by 2003 standards.
I also think it's both. I find that when I'm taking oral antihistamines, the reactions are much smaller (no surprise). But I realized that Cetirizine (Zyrtec) was having a negative effect on my sleep so I need to find something else.
> You went hard between "art is important because its novel" and "execution of the nonnovel Wordle is what matters" without recognizing those are the exact opposite point.

Apologies, you've misunderstood my point. Of course all art builds in n what came before, but when I talk about something being unique and novel, I don't mean nothing ever in it was thought of before, I mean it had just all the elements in all the right combinations, usually with just a dash of novelty.

Again, Dropbox is such a great example of this. Of course there were tons of "file sharing/backup" services before Dropbox, but what was unique about Dropbox was how it packaged it up in a dead-simple "folder on my Desktop" manner.

Heizer didn't invent site-specific sculpture, but he has certainly done it on a scale and timeframe that was unprecedented.
If you're referring to HN specifically, I fully agree. I've thought about starting an "ask HN" about it, but I figured I would get downvoted to oblivion.
Again, that has nothing to do with the power requirements of ASICs.
That only goes so far - without reasonable method names you still don't know if the operation actually mutates the parameter, e.g. in

void func(ParamType* param) {
...
auto res_1 = param->Operation1(1);
auto res_2 = param->Operation2(2);
...
}

the presence of -> doesn't tell you which method mutates. The only thing that would tell you that would be knowing which method is const.
you mean the 0 turn inductor? :P
Being an actual engineer (software) is different to just being a software engineer, and the former is very commonly highly regulated.
Yes they do. Intel writes this for example (not all drives use it, but some definitely do):

>Data compression via encoding algorithms enables a solid state drive (SSD) to write less data, which in turn yields higher write bandwidth. With a significant amount of data being compressible, performance benefits can be substantial.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
It’s Not OK to Change Someone’s Name Just Because You Can’t Pronounce It Right
Dirac delta being zero almost everywhere is sometimes assumed (when describing infinitely short impulse) but often it is a superfluous assumption, that is not needed for the use of delta. This is because delta is a distribution, not a function. It does not need to be ascribed values.

For example, delta can be put as initial condition for psi function in the time-dependent Schroedinger equation to search for Green's function. Evolution of this initial condition in time is a regular oscillatory function that looks nothing like 0 or almost 0 almost everywhere for any $t>0$. So if it isn't 0 almost everywhere for t>0, why should we impose that at t=0.
There's an article here explaining one reason why they put Checkpoint in front of Jenkins: https://slack.engineering/circuit-breakers/
The network would still create new blocks but wouldn't finalize them. Finalizing means they can't be undone without destroying a large percentage of the stake. Without finalization, you still reach a point where it's very unlikely that the block will be undone.

The non-responsive stakers would gradually lose their stake. The penalty for going offline is normally small, but if most validators go offline at once it's considerably larger. Their stake will shrink, until they don't hold most of the stake anymore and the network can start finalizing again.
This video by Computerphile is a great overview of transformers and how we got to this point [0]. Basically the networks we used before, recurrent neural networks, "forgot" prior information so they're not good at long tasks. The transformer architecture however does not forget (or at least as easily).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rURRYI66E54
A short list of additional benefits:

- Secrets are automatically kept in sync across multiple processes and servers.

- Easily and securely give other developers access (to what they need, and no more).

- You can automatically reload a process when secrets update.

- All updates and accesses are logged.

- End-to-end encrypted version control.

- You can limit access to specific IPs or IP ranges.

- You can edit multiple environments side by side (development, staging, production, etc.)

- You can use de-duplicate across environments and apps using inheritance or stackable ‘blocks’ of config.
Seems like you're arguing against something they didn't say.

They just said, "The culture around p.r.s is truly a high barrier of entry for many people." That's true and it's important to acknowledge that on any project that wants contributions from as many people as possible. When I was at Code for America I saw smart people putting plenty of time into helping people get over that barrier.

That's certainly the case here. If a professor of CS receives help from an open-source maintainer who's been coding for decades and still doesn't feel confident, then it's safe to say a) there's room for improvement, and b) until we figure out what the improvement is, we should make sure that we're providing the necessary support to everybody we want to contribute.
"suddenly I’m hearing a lot about “brown” identity (we’ve been reduced to a color) from white people and white dominated institutions"

Even here, you're committing the same fallacy by using the term "white people" which is promoted by the same people. There are no "white people". I presume you know something about European history. Try finding unity in that mess that could legitimize the notion of a coherent "white people". One "white" country subjugated the other. Much of the continent was never involved in any colonial endeavors, and it ignores the imperialism elsewhere in the world. "White people" almost smells like an attempt by former colonial powers to diffuse responsibility. They can't deny they were involved, but they can obfuscate it by unjustly spreading the blame across all of Europe, all Europeans. It's also a way to get ahead of the problem and to draw from victim cache by association. You see similar attempts by some to downplay German atrocities during WWII by exaggerating complicity in conquered countries.

But I agree with your general point and the right to your suspicion. There are political incentives to promote this kind of anti-intellectual stuff. All it does is reinforcement racist ideologies that e.g the Americans specialized in. It also results in division and conflict, something political regimes have long used to distract the people and keep the ire of the public away from the ruling class.
So what does dx mean in this setting then? If the answer is nothing, then let me suggest simplifying your expression to the following:

⌠
| f(x)⋅μ(x)
⌡

Now it occurs to me that the only problem with this new notation is that you risk confusing which term is the density (especially if there are multiple greek letters floating around). To clarify this potential confusion I have a solution! Add some notation to indicate which is the density:

⌠
| f(x)⋅dμ(x)
⌡

Wait...
Go Meta: a Case for Generative Programming and DSLs [pdf]
Thanks! Your jukebox prototype looks cool as well. I like the idea of playing songs over users's Spotify instead, will explore that idea, thanks!

I think you're right re: Spotify's built-in song discovery. Brew.fm's concept as is now would be easy to copy for Spotify, they'd be crazy not to if enough people seem to find value, and I'd love it if they do.

A way to properly differentiate would probably be by serving a (slightly) different audience. I can imagine Brew.fm is a little overkill for the average Spotify user, who'd rather hit play and lean back. It'd be cool if there's room for Brew.fm long term by serving the more hardcore music fan, who's more than happy to put extra work in, in exchange to feel on top of new music, and closer to the artists.
Ask HN: When did your startup start using Segment/Amplitude?
I'm curious when startups first integrate with a product analytics tool and start collecting events. Would be super helpful to know what stack you ended up using as well!
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This is great! I'd love to see a deeper breakdown of genres or a listing of all the ones I've listened to.
we think we want no ads. It’s only after we have the experience that we realize it’s more enjoyable when it’s interrupted.

In the 90's, I had a Panasonic VCR that could detect superblack and use those markers to automatically skip commercials on playback.

After several months of using it, I found myself not understanding a lot of general cultural references that my coworkers would make around the office. It became increasingly hard to socialize with them between tasks because I was left out of a lot of what the rest of society knew about.

It's how I learned that commercials were a big part of our shared culture back then. i assume it's sort of like being the only kid in high school without Netflix today.
> using the standard library

This is why I care more that you can tell me about the algorithm at a high level, and reasons to use it. I don't care about you writing code outside of a computer. I don't write code on paper and then write it in my editor. I open up my browser, look up the documentation and refresh my understanding of the algorithm to make sure I am not overlooking anything. I do some research to figure out if I even need it, maybe there's some even superior way to do what I'm trying to do in my programming language at that moment.
Wow - first Show HN I've seen in ages which I've been earnestly excited to try! Love the name as well, .fm is such a great TLD.

"Your listening habits have gotten less diverse over time. You've been listening to 95 genres over the last month, which is 9 less than your average of 104.

Your taste is set in stone. It was and still is indie rock"

I got a laugh, because this is absolutely and 100% true. Awesome job!
> 1. Punishment mechanisms here are kind of complicated, but in short, you're punished for mainly 2 reasons: being an offline validator, or for an attestation violating.

A malicious actor can cause the network to slash a validator's funds by inhibiting the validator's connection. Slashing funds seems completely disproportionate for a validator being offline.
Seriously. Take an rfc, change some of the clauses, and make them implement it.
What do you mean exactly when you say “deep learning”?
2011, he served time and probation, and is monitored until this day, what he did was terrible, but are people who commit crimes not able to be rehabilitated and re-accepted back into society? I am curious what people think
This is cool. Thanks for sharing how you did it. Nice to see awk being used in a post about awk!
I was surprised that the story of Gauss's schoolboy arithmetic tricks was the guy himself. Per Sartorius, Gauss "often related [the incident] in old age with amusement and relish". I suppose it makes sense. I cannot imagine biographers hunting down old schoolmates for stories without modern tools.

A lot of celebrity myths can be verified in 2022. Michael Jordan often recounted [0] that he was cut from his high school basketball team. Reporters found his high school coach who clarified that Michael was placed on junior varsity just like everyone else in his year[1].

[0] Here in his hall of fame enshrinement speech https://youtu.be/XLzBMGXfK4c?t=38
[1] An article about another article :/ but the links from here to the original are dead. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1020151-michael-jordans-...
I don't think modern big language models are conscious, mainly because they fail in absurd ways. But TBH, they don't need to. This "golden path" deployed properly etc could easily automate a lot of jobs tomorrow.
Same as for miners: new ETH issuance and transaction fees.

The issuance is much lower than it is for miners, because the cost of staking is much lower than the cost of mining.
You're not an idiot. It's extremely obtuse and only makes sense to insiders. It's orders of magnitude more obscure than how fractional reserve banking works and understood by far fewer people.