skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't moxie explicitly say Signal needed to now keep your contacts list in their servers via PINs/SVR? It is encrypted of course, and they feel they had to do that to enable identifiers not based on phone numbers. Some people disagreed on that last point.
I played God in the opposite direction. That way you teach the lesson without having to ban Wikipedia. (I should state that the purpose of this particular module is to illustrate the dangers of scientific misinformation. And this is only one of the exercises in that module. But all are illustrative in a way that students in the age of social media can readily relate to.)

1st Exercise serves as an intro to the subject

1 - Find articles on Wikipedia, or information on social media sources, with factually incorrect information in them. Science articles are a good source of these. Molecular weights are wrong. Physics formulas off. That sort of thing.

2 - Assign a short essay on a subject that these wikipedia pages claim to expound on.

3 - Kids will ask if they can use Wikipedia. Tell them yes, but emphasize that you wouldn't advise it as a person should be skeptical of anything they read on the internet. Let them know that lot of the information out there is false.

4 - Vast majority of the kids will ignore your advice and the same incorrect information will make an appearance in each of their essays. Grade them normally. So most will earn D or F.

5 - Since everyone did so poorly, agree to drop the D or F grades and just assign another short essay. This one on the use of internet information sources to disseminate misinformation. (In my case, scientific misinformation. But the same exercise works for whatever subject you are teaching.)

Use the entire exercise to inform the discussion of scientific misinformation. (Or, again, misinformation in whatever subject you are teaching.) This discussion is the real launch of the module.

Further exercises in the module go into the dangers of medical misinformation. Importance of factual information in decision making. etc etc. It's the most fun module because by the end, the students don't trust me. (In fact, they trust no one.) It has become a game, and they're all listening extremely carefully to every word I say expecting another gotcha. In a very real way, they've learned to be skeptical even of teachers. They've begun to trust only what they can verify. And you realize your work is done.
I see this plant all over the place in my area on the East coast of Canada. It's troubling.
Fat Bear Week
Using it at prescribed is all you need to do.
so you're saying $250k to build the app once you get specs from the $53,750,000 worth of meetings and planning committees? That sounds much more reasonable and not like $50million worth of tax payer money was stolen /s
>No free developer OS distributions or licenses, (so no way to run them on an emulator), no freely available emulators for modern hardware & OS releases, nothing.

Distro:

https://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/

Update to Distro:

http://www.prince-webdesign.nl/index.php/software/update-on-...

Emulator:

https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/hyperion

It's a MVS TK4- distribution and probably 99% of a z/OS functionality plus it's Public Domain.

Or VM/370 another Public Domain OS from IBM:

http://www.vm370.org/vm

Or even better you run MVS TK4- inside VM/370...for the real taste ;)

But if you really really want z/OS (i have no clue why you would do that) you click here:

https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/zxplore

(Formerly know as Master the Mainframe)

And some yt's to have a little base-knowledge (mostly MVS and VM/370):

https://www.youtube.com/c/moshix
Repeatedly flying in and elbowing the opponent can also be annoying for them, until one block successfully breaks the chain.
thank you this is what i meant.

it’s really interesting to me how unclear my original phrasing was without even knowing it.
Does it ever occur to Scrum people that it’s not a good idea to spend your entire life in a mad state of sprinting? Marathon runners don’t sprint 100m, then sprint another 100m, repeatedly, to cover the distance of a race.
I would argue that dev dependencies do not really matter. That leaves a mere 7, 2 of those belong to the same namespace as the style.

That said I am also against choosing libraries based on political/ideological concerns. React is MIT anyways.
> Pretty much every publicly traded firm has had MBA managers for the past fifty years, and yet somehow they still make a profit.

Does the paper make a claim that's falsified by this observation?
Often the HOA is just a covenant bound to the land, so you own the land but have to follow the covenant.

Getting rid of a HOA is a fun exercise, and it's sometimes done, but rarely.
The main problem here is that contact information is lost. If there's one problem that distributed blockchain technology would be the better solution for, it's a durable collection of self-managed identifiers and groups of identifiers.
I imagine JetBrains isn't too concerned with mobile interfaces considering desktop software is their bread and butter
Whoever owns the trademark isn't going to appreciate this.
Hah good catch and I definitely prefer C# over Java these days.
It’s abundantly clear to us that the office is the only refuge some employees have from their own lives - whether that’s the demands of child care one one extreme to loneliness on the other. As a small company, I think the office is a benefit and employee investment rather than a prison or salt mine.
Fair enough / TIL on the origin.

That said, your wikipedia link says: "Kellogg and Bourland describe misuse of the verb to be as creating a "deity mode of speech", allowing "even the most ignorant to transform their opinions magically into god-like pronouncements on the nature of things"."

While (objectively speaking) there are objectively true things, would you not disagree that "is true" is overused and leads to sloppy thinking?
The cultural worth of mash is immaterial to whether or not it has comparable reach to baby shark (i.e. whether or not baby shark is a “shared experience”).
Sure, I'll bite.

The vdom and batching updates is slow, the theory behind it that direct manipulation of the dom is worse has been pretty conclusively shown to be incorrect, especially with css "contains".

JSX doesn't end up bringing much value over vanilla html, but can lead to a lot of strange and difficult to reason about states.

The "execute everything on every render" style ends up being extraordinarily costly and not particularly beneficial, especially when you add something like redux to the mix.

Alternately, web components have a simple, lightweight and easy to understand life cycle.

Reactivity is trivially implemented via property setters and a call to a render() method.

Tiny, fast rendering libraries like lit-html work great, and for other components you can do without them completely, depending on the needs of the component.

React needs at least one build step, which distances the developer's code from what executes.

Vanilla web components are simple to wrap into framework components for pretty much any framework, and can be used natively by most.

React components are limited to react things, unless you want to include an absurd js payload size.

And "just use react" doesn't really mean anything. What version? With what methodology? Hooks? Class based? Look at how much it's changed. It's very costly for organizations to get caught up in the framework upgrade cycle.

There's a reason why Ionic chose to base their components on native web components. I recommend you read about it.
In soviet russia, government worries about you.
I'm not anti-connectionist, but if I were to put myself in their shoes, I'd respond by pointing out that in E=MC^2, C is a value which directly correlates with empirical results. If all of humanity were to suddenly disappear, a future advanced civilization would re-discover the same constant, though maybe with different units. Their neural networks, on the other hand, probably would be meaningfully different.

Also, the C in E=MC^2 has units which define what it means in physical terms. How can you define a "unit" for a neural network's output?

Now, my thoughts on this are contrary to what I've said so far. Even though neural network outputs aren't easily defined currently, there's some experimental results showing neurons in neural networks demonstrating symbolic-like higher-level behavior:

https://openai.com/blog/multimodal-neurons/

Part of the confusion likely comes from how neural networks represent information -- often by superimposing multiple different representations. A very nice paper from Anthropic and Harvard delved into this recently:

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/toy_model/index.html
Ask HN: Do you use any tools or techniques to help you think?
I see a lot of stuff online about mental models.

Curious if any of you use anything like this, if you have any methods for thinking through ideas, finding blindspots, figuring out what to work on, what to improve, review projects/yourself etc.

Are there any particular techniques you like to use, questions you like to ask, mental models you use, journaling techniques etc
You are mistaken.

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

> In January 2017, Trump signed Executive Order 13767, which formally directed the U.S. government to begin wall construction along the U.S.–Mexico border using existing federal funding.[5] After a political struggle for funding, including an appropriations lapse resulting in a government shutdown for 35 days, and the declaration of a national emergency, construction started in 2018.

...

> Initially, on January 20, 2021, newly inaugurated U.S. president Joe Biden terminated the national emergency and halted construction of the wall,[6][15][16] but the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security later hinted that the construction of the wall may continue under Biden's administration.

...

> In March 2017, the Trump administration submitted an amendment for fiscal year 2017 that includes a $3 billion continuing budget for "border security and immigration enforcement". Trump's FY 2018 Budget Blueprint increases discretionary funds for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by $2.8 billion (to $44.1 billion).[82][83] The DHS Secretary John F. Kelly told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during a hearing the Budget Blueprint "includes $2.6 billion for high-priority border security technology and tactical infrastructure, including funding to plan, design and construct the border wall".[82]

> In July 2017, U.S. Representative Michael McCaul, Republican of Austin, Texas, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives would seek to pass a special supplemental appropriations bill to spend money on initial construction of the wall, a demand of the Trump administration.[84][85] Such a supplemental spending bill was supported by then-House Speaker Paul Ryan.[85] However, _SENATE DEMOCRATS EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE THAT THEY CAN BLOCK AN APPROPRIATIONS BILL FOR WALL CONSTRUCTION_, with the aid of some Republicans who also oppose the construction of a wall due to its enormous cost.

...

> From December 22, 2018, to January 25, 2019, the federal government was partially shut down due to Trump's declared intention to veto any spending bill that did not include $5 billion in funding for a border wall.

...

> In February 2019, Congress amended an existing appropriations bill, adding language that specifically prohibits new funding from being used to build border barriers at several sites, including the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, the Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, the La Lomita Historical park, the National Butterfly Center, and the area "within or east of" the Vista del Mar Ranch tract of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge.[116][117] Soon afterwards, however, Trump declared a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States, which the administration claimed invalidated the restrictions imposed by Congress.

...

> Construction progressed during the final year of the Trump administration, including the filing of land condemnation actions in court and the issuing of waivers.
So what? That's what an open platform looks like.
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This is just classical first order thinking gone wrong. It seems "obvious" that if all things equal, you reduce costs (by reducing wages, your highest cost) that you should get more profit. This is true. But the premise is false that affecting this one variable will allow "all things equal."

What I've noticed is that the standard businessman MBA type believes the first order thinking and gloats about how "obvious" things are (always be wary of those that claim common sense). But the really effective ones understand the coupled nature of many elements and the complexities involved. Which there's some irony because the standard MBA types also talk about Google and companies that make their employees happy with high salaries and free food. Working with humans is a complicated solution space and should be treated as such. There are certainly no universal answers and no solution works forever because the environment is constantly changing.
I disagree that the old school books are better. It is like saying MacOS 7 is better than today’s Linux that has many people fixing bugs and expanding its features over the years
> Tuning a guitar in all 4ths lets you play like a snooty stuck up jazz musician

I'd love to play like Stanley Jordan, who famously uses EADGCF.
Dude, you couldn’t even get through complaining about people calling you names without resorting to the same thing that you’re accusing others of doing. I implore you: look into the mirror and seriously consider the idea that you might be part of the problem.
SDL + ImGui
> I love going to Waterloo Records in Austin

Adding this to my list. I've definitely ramped back up into the CD game myself.

I think I have spent $2k between la-la-land and Discogs this year already...

The biggest catalyst for this was Spotify removing content from their platform, presumably due to licensing issues. I don't like the idea that someone could memoryhole a piece of art that I had previously experienced.
It's both silly and a sign of my absolute contempt for them ;-)
Words of wisdom!
I have tweeted your first paragraph. Hope you don’t mind..
It looks like 'placo' is what USians call drywall or sheetrock. (pressed gypsum with a paper backing). We'd call those rails studs; low density residential construction is usually wood studs, but I've got a project going with metal studs because with current pricing trends it makes more sense; metal studs also require armoring electrical though, and there's some other issues depending on use case.
> I can send email... and communicate completely secure.

But what about PII? Goes against your Signal argument.

Signal needs a phone number, not necessarily yours.
Perhaps isometric would be a better description? We're probably getting into the pedantic weeds here though :-)
Why would a math article need citations? A proof is a proof.
Yeah, it was probably on purpose. Presenting that as "you know, the sorts of normal things one may recall when one recalls any particular 'last weekend'" was pretty funny, certainly. Maybe for young idle-rich socialites or James Bond.
I dont understand thr current trend on Wikipedia to add long quotes by various people to the articles. This makes fhr articles less concise. It also feels like reading material for 5th grade.

I tried deleting those few times but often this led to edit wars. It feels as if in some cases some D tier people want to be quoted on wikipedia for stuff, so they add own quotes and "guard" them from taking them down.
Get a spin-cycle front loader that bolts to the floor or a water extractor and hardly need to even use the heat pump!

https://speedqueencommercial.com/fr/products/hardmount-washe...
Specifically for software development, you have the example of Coding Bootcamps. It's not a guarantee, but the better your Bootcamp brand-name, the better your region's job prospects, the more time you spend hobby coding before applying for the Bootcamp, there's a very high likelihood of a successful transition into the software industry. And all in the period of 6 months to a year.
The main point of computers is not to make it easier for people, that mindset leads us to cede control of our lives to technology.

The point of computing is to be a tool to make people more powerful and efficient, an extension of our abilities, able to do more or better.
290 for me, I misclicked
In my experience, the answer is "no". YMMV.
That's why the Chinchilla paper (given a single paragraph in the article) is so important; it gives a scaling equation that puts a limit on the effect of increasing parameters. Generally for the known transformer models the reduction in loss from having infinite parameters is significantly less that the reduction in loss from training on infinite data. Most large models are very undertrained.
> Still doesn't explain what this is doing on here

Because someone posted the link. It’s not off-topic, and design systems are posted here fairly often.
Reminds me of them removing private chat channels at release of Starcraft 2 because everyone was using Facebook instead, apparently.

Yeah.
ng used to be angular stuff.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14669322/what-does-the-n...
SqueakNOS was a project to build a complete operating system via Squeak. In this way you can quickly hack it. There is a great page about these initiatives here: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5727

Prior to SqueakNOS we implemented this: http://swain.webframe.org/squeak/floppy/ (using Linux and modifying Squeak to work with SVGALib instead of X) in just 900mb inspired in this QNX Demo Disk.
Be careful, often this sort of quotes from famous people are invented or at least not documented, although they usually describe the character correctly.
Author here! I think running an HPC service that has a steady queue in AWS can be more than 3x as expensive.

What type of HPC do you work in? Maybe I'm over-indexing on computational biology.
Sorry, wait, also you're definition of social network is incorrect. It /is/ a group of friends. It's a network made up of social relationships.

Think of it like business networking, but for your friends. The connection itself is what matters.
You're solving for trust rather than "truth". Of course, there may be no truth, hence GP's:

> > Perhaps truth was always an illusion

But my interpretation of what they meant by "very concept of truth" is something like "consensus reality;" where the vast majority of people trust something is true. A network of trust is fragmented bubbles of distinct truths.

> What would be wrong with this system?

For starters, I don't know that it's a priori better than the current fragmented bubbles of distinct truths we have. Are more fragmented bubbles better? For some populations or people, maybe; for society? It's less clear.

But I think the real thing wrong with web of trust systems is that the value is tied up in network effects and you have to solve for adoption.

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I say that as someone who generally thinks this is a useful way of approaching the problem of trust. I've brainstormed building this too many times to count. :)
FWIW, if you're the administrator of the organization, you can disable 2FA from the admin console for that user's next login. I've done this a few times for similar reasons.
This nails so much of the discussion that should be had. When using any cloud service provider, you aren't just paying for the machines/hardware you use - you are paying for people to take care of a bunch of headaches of having to maintain this hardware. It's incredibly easy to overlook this aspect of costs and really easy to oversimplify what's involved if you don't know how these things actually work.
How else are people supposed to know that they could send a secure signal message instead of an insecure SMS.

I guess people could call this a growth hack, but without this kind of thing it's likely the number of signal users would be 10-100x smaller and the network effect would mean it's near useless for most.

Just imagine someone installing signal, not seeing anyone they can chat, and never using it again.
It would be great to see more focus on Chinchilla's result that most large models were quite undertrained with respect to optimal reduction in test loss.
A problem in mathematics is that mathematicians do not always agree on the definitions of things -- even very fundamental concepts [1] [2] -- and so Wikipedia in the interest of neutrality presents all definitions in use. In a given textbook, an author will choose one set of definitions and stick with them, which makes things manageable for the reader. In Wikipedia, the number of alternative interpretations of a sentence grows geometrically with the number of ambiguous terms.

[1] What is a "natural number" (do they start at 0 or 1?)

[2] What is a "function"? Does it carry along a "co-domain"?
Uh, no. Insofar as "the desires of the electorate" is a thing that exists, I am insisting that IRV sometimes does a piss poor job of picking it. In an election where 90% of the electorate prefers A to B, we shouldn't necessarily be picking A but we clearly shouldn't be picking B (especially with no indication of strength of preference); IRV can, and I think does in some cases that are both dangerous and realistic.

Getting a little more concrete:

Imagine a society split roughly evenly between 3 religions. Let's say 35% follow religion A, 30% follow religion B, 30% follow C, the remaining 5% belong to other religions or no religion. Approximately everyone with a religion (in our model; reality is more complicated but not sufficiently to make things inapplicable) prefers that society be organized as a theocracy according to their religion, would sufficiently accept secular tolerance, and violently opposes living under another religion's theocracy.

In this imaginary society, what is "the desire of the electorate"?

If everyone votes their honest maximal preference then the plurality says Theocracy A, which is violently opposed by 65% of the population! Picking secular tolerance over Theocracy A is not just something I (probably) prefer from the outside, but is actually preferred by the vast majority of the population over what IRV would pick!
>and I have zero idea how to even install the OS.

You definitely lack motivation, maybe search for something else then Mainframes then? ;)
That's great to know, thanks!
That might be slightly over exaggerated. Musk may have other equity investors and certainly has other debt investors (assuming they come through, but then the whole deal hinges on it). So he still has some level of fiduciary responsibility. And a need to cover his Tesla stock backed loans with generated cash flow. Though how much impact that would have is definitely debatable, it probably isn't zero.
Criterion Channel has 16 of his films. Over the years, I’ve cancelled and resubscribed to pretty much every streaming service. Criterion is the only one I’ve kept through the entire time.
Remember that we have a box that makes the inside cold inside a box that makes the inside warm (or cold) half the year in many places.

I heat my house so that I can run a freezer inside the heated house to lower the temperature back down to what it is outside sometimes. It's not entirely efficient.
I might be wrong here, see sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33123325
obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/