skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember it was posted here prior... I wonder if this is THE best way to report wrongs from big tech and then shame them into retraction so the little guys don't get crushed.
Seriously, though. We had a deck designed for me to build (I absolutely can build it, but I have no idea how to actually lay it out). We've been sitting on it since COVID, because the price of materials has been just astoundingly high. What was $1200 in early 2020 is now $2800-$3200. I just cannot justify that cost. I'm praying this stuff comes down soon, I want my deck damnit.
Not op, but given the supply side constraints (especially international with 0 Covid) recycling could have been a major solution.

It could still be a major solution. Novelis, an aluminum recycler in Georgia, claims $73m of aluminum are sent to landfills every year. If the southeast boosted aluminum recycling efforts it would drastically increase domestic "raw" materials. (Things like pontoon boats were aluminum limited).

Then do the same for cardboard (hello toilet paper shortage) where recycling paper products reduces energy and water inputs by 50%. Countries like Spain have cardboard thieves while in the US, it goes to the dump.
Rapidly rising housing prices is a sign of impeded growth.
I'll admit I haven't known many people addicted to drugs, but I have known some. Both of my grandparents were alcoholics, and both finally stopped after a lifetime. One was when her husband stopped enabling her - far too late, when she was already dying. The other was when he was forced into a long term care facility because again, he could no longer take care of himself and was dying.

People addicted to drugs are only going to stop if they have a reason to. It used to be a mantra: addicts will only stop if they want to and you can't force them.

There are plenty of enabling parents out there that eventually learn this lesson the hard way.
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I suspect a lot of members voted against Sunak because they believe he shafted Boris Johnson, who remains popular with members. Plus, Truss did the whole Thatcher 2.0 thing, which appeals to many Tories. I don't think race played a significant role. In my experience, the people most opposed to Sunak adore Kemi Badenoch and Suella Braverman.
I genuinely don't get this. Everyone older than 30 or so saw the writing on the wall... hey, this is 2006-2008 all over again.

Why so many people, even institutions, kept arguing otherwise baffles me. It's like CNN telling us to stick a fork in a light socket, their experts are sure it won't shock us this time.
You’re misunderstanding the problem. It isn’t storage, it is calculation. You cannot do away with decimals because calculations are not always linear. There are several logarithms, exponents and root finding algorithms used in finance which you’d have to write several additional rules for if you can’t represent decimals. It’s not like mathematicians thought decimals were just a convenience so you don’t have to show large integers. They’re fundamentally not integers.
What about managers and C-level people in multiple companies? I understand that these developers were fired due to performance issues, and that's ok (sort of*). However, this article implies that doing two jobs is "bad" for workers. If so, it should be the same for people in the upper-level of the company, right?

No, because (at least IMHO) it's not wrong per-se. It's wrong when (and if) it creates some performance problem.

* IMHO that's not OK for a reason: if the company cares about employees, it should understand the reason behind low performances and, if possible, help them. Often we hear that the "company is like a family": if your son will come back to school with a F, would you consider "firing" him out of the family?
You can deeplink with SPAs just fine.
> another cause of decline is our over obsession with landscaping and municipal lights

Very much unlike their incandescent and florescent predecessors, LED lights emit practically no ultraviolet wavelengths, and therefore have a drastically reduced attractive effect on insects. Whatever effect outdoor lighting may have on insects, should be showing precipitous declines over the past several years, as LEDs have become the dominant artificial light source.
We acknowledge you can use native Meta apps in a standalone way (we discuss this in section 5). The problem is that there aren't many native productivity apps running on Meta.
The alternative, admitting it was obvious to everyone paying attention, would point the finger at the responsible parties (everywhere) who either initiated it, sustained it, or profited from it. Which is a great many people in the financial industry.

Why self flaggate when you can pretend it was a surprise instead?
He's probably busy trying to get his forum back up after your years-long campaign to intimidate and harass anyone who provides him with services.

Once it's up again, people can link to your thread that contains archives of your tweets admitting to violating someone's consent.
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Russian forces “preparing to work under radioactive contamination” – Moscow
The idea is to just rent the house with the 2.75% interest rate or house hack it while you live there. Being below inflation, your mortgage payment will likely be below the comparable rents for essentially forever. So unless you absolutely need the cash out of that second home, should have zero reason to sell ever.
I've heard of tronscript [0], never used it but maybe this is what you meant.

[0] https://github.com/bmrf/tron/
> We shouldn't even try recycling the plastic, but simply burry it.

We can burn it in an arc reactor or properly filtered incinerator at a lower price than raw oil to produce energy
According to a late August Reuters article, Russia has deployed hypersonic missiles at least 3 times in Ukraine:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-has-depl...
Considerably out-of-the-money options on social media companies expiring this Friday are up very substantially, so whether the source is credible or not there is money acting as if it is.
I think it's a psychological quirk related to loss aversion[0]. Essentially, we view a house as belonging to the owner the moment the ink dries on the mortgage papers and losing a house is objectively a painful thing. Most people don't see the other side: people like me who never owned a home to begin with. I've likely missed out on 100's of thousands in gains by not buying homes with low fixed rates in 2008-2020, but nobody writes sob stories about that. The prevailing narrative is that all the gains from the crazy housing market belong (in some just sense) to the people who happened to buy at the right time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
"I left academia because of the toxicity of COVID science communication, both within the scientific community and at the science-policy and science-public interfaces."

This truly sad and bias inducing for academia.
The number of the beast is pretty explicitly the exact number six hundred and sixty six, not 'six six six', so any other concatenation of the digits should really be meh even to the apocalyptically inclined.
Real estate always draws in the dumbest forms of entrepreneurs.
I'm so bothered by the decadence of the tech industry adopting something so trivially useless, just because it can used to exploit people, either by appealing to their greed or need to be a part of something.

Meanwhile India revolutionized digital payment without any fanfare, by making something that can be used by billions of people today. With zero hype. It just works, and it's boosting the country's GDP by at least 1%.

Meanwhile meanwhile the ghouls of Silicon Valley are busy promoting inefficient solutions that don't work at all. It's like those hundreds of thousands of empty houses in China. It's all a ghost town, but we can't stop hearing how great it is. Can barely buy a pizza with cryptocurrencies, but it's the future. We reinvented music with Web3, but we have 600 users, because our tone-deaf service is unintelligible to normal people, and we are too far up on our asses to make something people want.

People don't want Web3, they want to eat, watch TV, work to get paid, talk to each other, sleep, marry and fuck. Your service should address pain points in these normal activities, not make up new problems. Oh gosh darn it, the site I use to Netflix and chill with my girlfriend is not decentramalized, take all my money, I never knew it needed to be decentrifugalized while it's playing in the background. Said no one ever.
Care to elaborate on the 'path dependency' part? What quantity isn't conserved here? (honest question)
That's an argument from authority isn't it?

Rational numbers are pretty easy to understand. There are easy to understand proofs that at least some irrational numbers (famously square root of 2) exist. That is, the square root of 2 cannot be represented as a rational number. I'm sure there are other such proofs.

My take is that Kronecker and Hawking were either making an ironic statement or just expressing irony or exasperation.
We know how Russia operates.

They are going to use nukes unless Putin disappears.
I see where you're coming from - we actually previously had cheaper plans but decided to remove them in favour of a Free plan which we introduced last month. We want people to use the platform, see the value they can get from it and then upgrade when they are ready (and content about the impact their apps are having in their organisation).
Not convinced that non-ionizing radiation is anything to worry about, but I think one argument is that life evolved with solar radiation as a baseline, but has not yet adapted to artificial sources of non-ionizing radiation.
I'll say that so far they have been perfectly fine for utility projects I would normally use 2x4 lumber for, like storage shelving. With some care in designing the structure I actually prefer them since they are lighter. Finally when the rough rounded edges are ripped off they even look somewhat nice.
Microplastics are now found in human breast milk. The implications of this on physical development are not yet fully understood and will not be for a while but the fact that the Flynn effect is now in reverse should be an indicator of long term consequences.

Native Americans were by and large much healthier than their European couterparts who lived in civilized squalor. Pollution from industrial activity is now spread out across the planet evenly enough that it is impossible to escape. Children born today will have synthetic chemicals in their bloodstream because of all the past industrial activity and there is nothing anyone can do about it at this point.
Well, I'm not sure how you square that definition(ish) of consciousness w/ the claim that consciousness can influence the universe. Because, how?

Yeah, intuitively somehow it seems absurd to think that "everything possible is happening", somewhere, in some dimension. It almost feels like a modern version of Zenos paradox. Like, in the limit, there are no universes in which you're alive...
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Maybe it was a bad example to talk about messaging. It's not just the "is this data really who they claimed to be", but also "is this data part of transaction between multiple parties who do not trust each other"?

You need to have distributed consensus to avoid double-spending. Can you have distributed consensus without blockchain? Yes, but only if your participants are selected a priori, e.g, Distributed Paxos.

The problem that blockchains solve is that it is the only practical way to solve consensus between parties that do not trust each other and that are not pre-agreed on.
> The problem here was that it was a used laptop.

How do you know this? I would expect a $500 used lenovo laptop to have decent-enough specs.
Kindle paper white, a few years old. Almost as good as a book.
No, I absolutely meant "less likely". The bugs don't hit as often against the old vehicles. The older boxy vehicles were more likely to push the insect away, while the modern aerodynamic vehicles allowed the bug to hit the windshield more frequently. I'll see if I can find the study, I don't have it handy at the moment.

As for the license plates, they are no more aerodynamic than they were 30 years ago, which makes them a better source for insect measurement.

Edit: relevant discussion from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31275879
That's FaaS, not middleware for the static contents of your site.
You don't even have to cancel Music to notice. My playlists and library albums are changing all the time. Even super-popular stuff just up and greys out. Tracks and entire albums disappear. Just like what's happening on Netflix, et. al., the copyright holders are going CRAZY, apparently working overtime juggling catalogs for some reason. If you really want to know that you have a copy of something, despite paying for it, piracy is the only solution. It's just sad. To me, consumers met in the middle with the copyright cartel and their DRM, and now they're just shining us on. Well, I guess, who could have seen that coming? Everyone.
It's not totally right, but it's not totally wrong, either, kind of like the way the dimensions of the space shuttle booster are directly affected by the size of a pair of Roman war horses' asses.

CRLF was used verily heavily and thus got baked into a lot of different places. Namely, it conveniently sidesteps the ambiguity of "some systems use CR, others use LF" by just putting both in, and since they are whitespace, there's not much downside other than the extra byte.

Beyond that, there are many other clear and obvious connections between Hypertext Transfer Protocol and teletype machines. Many early web browsers were expected to be teletype machines [0]. So while it might be a bit of a stretch, I'd say this is far from "complete bullshit".

[0] - http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Proposal.html#:~:text=it%2...
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Hi, one of the authors here (Leo).

To clear up some confusion:

1) The paper proves an architectural equivalence between two models: neuron-astrocyte networks and Transformers. This is different from studies of representational similarity, which look at Transformer "responses" and compare them to brain responses using regression techniques.

2) The paper provides testable hypotheses for what astrocytes are doing. We can either succeed or fail at rejecting those hypotheses after comparing to real brain data. That is future work.

Happy to answer questions.

- Leo
https://www.statista.com/statistics/240267/number-of-housing...

It's not hard to see that if we're adding a little more than 1 million housing units a year and our population is going up significantly more than that due to immigrants and their children that we're going to have an issue.
The title is “rent-setting” not “rent-seeking.” This is accurate because the software is literally used to set rental prices.
For this reason, I have tended to rely more and more on recommendations from obviously real people these days, e.g., as found in comments on Reddit, or in the New York Times's Wirecutter. The challenge with this approach is that Reddit seems to be gamed more and more by industry and other PR "bots", which makes it hard to sift wheat from chaff. But if the subreddit is not on a controversial topic, it's still possible to find disinterested recommendations, or so it seems.
Bit awkward timing with project loom looming in the future
It works as long as you can service the debt. Low or no reserves and you lose your income or your tenant defaults and you can’t make it through to eviction and re-renting? Godspeed to you.

I’ll give the same advice I gave in 2000 and 2008: don’t lose your job, everything else you can figure out on the fly.
Interesting, didn't realize that. This explains some of the weirder present queue requirements, I guess (it doesn't really act like a regular queue). So maybe you really can power down the GPU. I still doubt it would be lower power overall, since IME my M1 GPU takes very little power when I'm not using it intensively, but it's at least possible.
Prepare for the worst; hope for the best.

What will you do if it doesn't work on the first try? Second try? What's the backup plan? Hopefully you won't need it, but it will make you feel more confident.

Walk through a scenario where everything that could fail, fails. When do you stop trying? What do you switch to? How do you segway? Do you warn at the start of the demo, or just as you are about to do the thing you are worried about, or both? Is the audience technical, should you talk about the randomness or just say "it's somewhat random?" What are the important things to get across, even as things fail. If your brain starts going into panic mode; what are your top priorities?

The second way is to think about the positives of failing. During the on-stage Windows 98 launch party, the demo computer BSODed. Bill Gates quickly interjected with "I guess this is why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet", and everyone got a very memorable moment out of it. What are your one-liners to ease the mood and at the same time shift focus from the failure to the process of development?

Personally, I tend to say "let me try this..." right before I do something I'm not sure will work. If it doesn't do what I want, I (mostly calmly) acknowledge that it needs more work and describe what should happen in the finished product. Getting the word "finished" in there is my "not shipping yet." Then I move on to paint a picture of how the feature will be useful, and why it's worth continuing getting there.

I once saw a demo of a smoke detector. The demonstrator started talking about how much time they spent on making sure it gave no false positives. Then he took a can of fake smoke (used for testing smoke detectors, mind you) and nothing happened. He kept trying for at least a minute, but nothing. Was this a failed demo? Or did he demonstrate that there are no false positives? It's all in the framing of the recovery. I don't believe he had a recovery line, sadly, so I'm sure the part of the audience that didn't remember/listen to his initial speech had a very different take-away than did those who remembered.

I wish you the best.
"the timing" is the only thing to talk about; saying "The economy will, at some point in the future, contract." is not in any way an interesting statement.

So yeah, when they say "it's a story few could have foreseen" they are definitely talking about the timing.
I agree on a personal level as someone hoping to buy a home at a reasonable price in the near future, but you have to remember that most of the wealth of middle America is in the form of real estate. Sure, it's good that we're undoing excess, but that process will be painful for the economy as wealth effects are removed. It is a bad thing in the short term, even if it is better in the long term.
You won't get severance but unless you are fired for gross incompetence you will probably be eligible for unemployment insurance. Not so much if you quit.
Aye, we're diagnosing things at a much higher rate than before.
It's the same reason they told us inflation wasn't happening, and then it was transitory, then it was because of Putin, now it is actually a good thing.

They have no respect for you or your intelligence and they want you to feel scared. The goal of propaganda is not to convert you to anything it is simply to convince you that you are alone, so that you won't have the courage to point out the emporer is wearing no clothes.
People get older and retire or die, and their knowledge is lost. So it has always been, and so it shall ever be. Somehow, we survive.

Can we now build buildings that will last as the Coliseum in Rome lasts? Probably not. The people who knew how and why died. All these years later, we've cared enough to investigate, and it turns out to be because we don't use the same sort of volcanic ash those long-dead craftsmen did. But given enough time, we could.

Sounds like you work in an environment that burns people out. That's unfortunate. Fortunately, it's not system-wide. People are still out there doing great work, learning new things, developing new things, and so on.

Same it ever was. Same as it ever shall be. World without end, amen.
related and useful: "Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02515)

This paper does a good job of showing the space/time tradeoffs of various approximate sets.
These two treatments being anywhere comparable is a massive disservice and borderline negligent.

Feeling a little loopy from a hefty Ket dose and having permanent brain damage from being shocked are so far removed from each other that it is an actual failing in different regards.

Drugs may figuratively fry your brain, but it is certainly better than literally frying your fuckin brain.
Oh man, that’s not at all what I’m aiming for here (Railway Founder)

Could you bump the email in my inbox? Even if you hate my guts and have no interest in the company, I‘d like to know cause I don’t recall this at all :(

We do a 30 minute screen with me (to protect our engineers time) and share the problem ahead of time (to not surprise the interviewee)
It is great and works, but sonic has broader applications (I found it because it was actually being used as a way to index an existing SQLite database that pointed to file storage).
I think the basic problem with the claims that good missile defence would be destabilising is advent of rogue countries that have access to long range ballistic missiles and to nuclear weapons.

I simply can't understand how anybody could defend that it is actually good thing for North Korea to be able to send a rocket to Seoul, Tokyo or Los Angeles.

If you keep defending game theory and mutually assured destruction, the real solution would not be to freeze the technological race but keep that race up, keep everybody unsure about progress of everybody else and keep only the largest powers actually on top of the race and the smaller ones being unable to pose harm.

Because if you freeze capabilities you give smaller nations time to catch up. This creates situation with lots of players with parity (in this case ability to seriously harm everybody else). When the number of real contestants is low, the whole problem becomes a bit less complex and easier to prevent a real disaster.

The proper behaviour (if we go with MAD) right now would be to keep developing missile defense systems. Because this would force others to develop new, more advanced, more costly missile systems. Which would cut off small players like North Korea or Pakistan from posing much threat.
It's been known for a while that high noise levels are correlated with psychological disorders like schizophrenia. It might be related to the fact that noise prevents people from getting a good night's rest.
If I had to guess: home inspectors.
In PRC's case, it's also just a generic nuclear build up because the hereto alleged ~300 nukes was minimal (really poverty) deterrance posture that became no longer tenable now that war with US is possible. Other parts of triad is being worked on as well.

Apart from geopolitics, what drove PRC nuke buildup was US modernizing warheads for better detonation timing so less missiles needed for hardened targets = same controlled stockpile can strike 2-3x more targets. It wasn't better missile defense, but better missile offense.

I'd argue better missile defense drive adversaries to develop better missiles tech which are dual use and will enhance their conventional capabilities and perhaps create more vunerabilities overall.