skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point. "Private" encompasses a wide variety of experiences and quality. My private experience with my kid is of the somewhat elitist variety. They simply would not accept expelled students from any school. They heavily curate enrollment to create an environment for success. They're building a cooperative community of Families that will reinforce the holistic development of each student. Parental involvement is required and with fairly high expectations.

If you just throw kids together and expect the syllabus/curriculum to prevail, you'll quickly find the Lord of the Flies elements of public school social dynamics come into play and for a child often are more important than academics. At that point, simply being "private" has no advantage.
This will work right up until they check the mail logs and/or your work nemesis says "oh yeah, I forwarded it to Bob."
Praise be!
Yes, because rainbow table attacks are still surprisingly effective. Although what is even more surprising is finding password still stored in plain text somewhere.
>Plus it doesn't take into account our individual competencies and nature. It doesn't matter how much I think curing cancer is more important than my current job, I know absolutely zilch about curing cancer. Also I have no idea if I'm actually right about cancer being a top priority, or if curing it is even possible.

If curing cancer is a top priority, the EA advice is not that you should quit your job and try to cure cancer. It's probably to keep your job (which you likely have developed a comparative advantage in) and do serious research into which organizations will actually make progress towards curing cancer, and EA orgs will often try to provide advice on this latter front.

Yes, there is a big emphasis in these communities on various sorts of existential risks, but it doesn't imply that you can't be an EA if you have different beliefs on these risks, so long as those beliefs are informed by open-minded criticism and not "only privileged techbros could possibly care about this"-style sneers
Part of the problem with this is that conclusive demonstration that AGI is possible is not even in the same ballpark as a conclusive demonstration that it would have consequences like the EA folks seem to believe.

From everything I've read about their views, they seem to believe that either the moment an AGI is created or very, very soon thereafter, it will achieve the Singularity and "ascend" to something near godhood from our perspective, and it will perceive humanity as a threat to it and immediately seek our destruction—which, because of its near-godhood, it will be able to achieve far faster than we have the ability to respond to. Thus, what we have to do is either prevent AGI from ever coming to pass (because as soon as it exists, it's effectively too late), or make absolutely certain that by the time it does, we have strong measures in place to either fight back against it, or get humanity the hell out of Dodge.

This is built on such a foundation of shaky assumptions that giving it credibility is ludicrous.
I'm glad we can have both types :)
Adderall is just "amphetamine" which comes in two isomers, D and L. Adderall is 70% D and 30% L. Normal amphetamine is 50/50 which is known as a racemic mixture
>It seems unreasonable to me to call Ukraine fascist when it has a democratically elected government and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014 was a consequence of Ukrainians getting rid of a highly corrupt, dubiously elected leader...

There's another classic example. In the west, the 'Maidan Revolution' is reported as a popular uprising to overthrow a corrupt government. On the Russian side the same events are reported as a revolution fomented by the CIA to overthrow a democratically elected government, because it was pro-Moscow, and replace it with a pro-western one.

Is either version the absolute truth? Is either version a total lie? I'd say, as with most such tales, the truth is found somewhere in the middle.

You've even done it yourself. You said Ukraine has a "democratically elected government" which replaced a "highly corrupt, dubiously elected leader". But the previous government was democratically elected too. And was overthrown by a revolution [popular or otherwise].
>All societies engage in censorship in one form or other.

Of course. But only the west seems to maintain this pretense that "we" don't and "they" do.

EDIT: Oddly enough, I just closed this edit window to see a submission from the Guardian:

"China circles El Salvador’s economy as country edges toward crypto plunge" [0]

with 'circling' giving a nice predatory image of a shark waiting to move in for the kill on a hapless victim. I wonder how that headline would have been worded if the US or EU was in talks to buy up El Salvador's debt instead of China?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/15/china-el-...
People have this idea that you can just solve problems like world hunger by waving a magic wand, but you can’t. There are probably South Sentinelese starving right now, we can’t do anything about that because they won’t let us. The little world hunger that is left today after the advancements of the 20th century is almost entirely in war-torn messes, and you can’t eliminate war unless you eliminate human free will
That's a big if at this point. But I agree best to hold your coin yourself until you want to convert. Or maybe the future will bring wide btc adoption.
Yeah, MLFlow is a shitshow. The docs seem designed to confuse, the API makes Pandas look good and the internal data model is badly designed and exposed, as the article says.

But, hordes of architects and managers who almost have a clue have been conditioned to want l and expect mlflow. And it's baked into databricks too, so for most purposes you'll be stuck with it.

Props to the author for daring to challenge the status quo.
> Worry about marketing once you have something to market.

After years of research and experimentation, I have written a spatiotemporal comb filter for NTSC TV signals which consistently outperforms the state of the art.

It's done. I use it for digitally archiving Laserdiscs.

How can I market this?
If it was the cheap fare, likely around ~$100 for Spirit, then for a lot of folks it might not be worth fighting with customer service for the money.
The effects of experience curves vary widely between different industries. For semiconductors, it's huge. For mining, not so much. Battery costs are only 25% manufacturing. So at this point, battery supply is rapidly becoming a resource extraction problem.
I have a single markdown file that stores all my work notes for the year, and recently I imported it into Notion. My partner raves about how much she likes Notion so I thought I'd try it.

The files can take up to three seconds to load at times, and seemingly caches nothing on my phone so when I want to look at my notes on the tube, I can't load it.
Some of these are practically tautological in their reasoning for why the terms are "misused", though.

For example, they criticize calling drugs "antidepressants" solely because it's not their "primary effect". But the term is used to describe drugs which do treat "mood disorders" (depression), and do have effects in many cases. I don't see how that's any different from how the term "anxiolytic" is used, even though that's one of the examples they contrasted it with.

Likewise, the section on "hypnotic trance" talks about how hypnosis doesn't induce a sufficiently different brain state to warrant the term, but the term was coined to describe the state the hypnosis induces, which is subjectively distinct from normal waking consciousness. And from what I've heard from those who've experienced it, it's characterized by a reduced awareness of the self, which is the defining feature of a trance, if the term can even be said to have any definition outside its uses to describe hypnosis.
Top 500 Super Computers: November 2022
If I may comment on the abstract issue here... the experience of flying (US domestic) is a boiling frog situation. Flying used to be fun. 9-11 greatly accelerated the problems, but it had already been getting worse for decades as its popularity grew. Especially because I have long intervals when I don't fly, I absolutely dread the answer to my question, "What new, horrible treatment / experience / standards / fees / abuse will I be learning about this time?" Between the security, checking in, leg room, just everything. The airline's behavior from the post is just an example.
If most of the roughly 7-billion other people on the planet have never heard of it, then yes, most people have never heard of it.
China circles El Salvador's economy as country edges toward crypto plunge
The practical consequences of running an outdated eslint version are, for most projects, zero. The cost of upgrading is non zero. So upgrading only happens when there's a compelling reason to update like:

- A real security issue - things like the reDoS example cited are part of the crying wolf that causes people to treat security scanners less seriously

- A new feature (lint rule in eslint's case, or maybe new JS syntax support) is desired. The new upgrade can be deferred until that time

- You're doing updates _anyway_ and update eslint as part of that housekeeping.
> If I can passively generate wealth by doing nothing but waiting, so can everyone else. Only suckers would work.

Sure, no eating, heating, transport, comms, but you can do that. Also very ecological. Plus you safe like 0-2% per year on prices.

> This is basic macroeconomics

What do they say happens when you have 2% deflation?
They do have a "Dedicated workspace" tag (I'm in an Airbnb with it right now), although it doesn't look like you can filter by it (yet?)
I mean, obviously we use SSH where possible.

But in many cases out in the real world we have to support frankly awful old equipment that only offers telnet (if you are lucky).

I don't think we will see the back of such things before 2030 either.
US lags behind Asia in AI, robotics adoption, putting businesses at risk (2018)
It's a lot easier to catch up on sticking batteries, an esc and some brushless motors into a good car than building a good car. Elon succeeded, he got other manufacturers to start building quality EVs.
Does the email have any weight in court if he decides to renege on the 3 months severance part?
Called counting beans.
Elasticity of demand is irrelevant. this shifts the entire curve

Also, demand for housing at a particular price, size, and location is not inelastic.
This is absurd. As an Amazonian for eight years I can say it would be absurd to do this. First, hiring someone is a lot of work. Second, we don't get much value from people the first six months anyway. We don't hire people to do boilerplate. We hire people who want to obsess over their customers.
Discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33564088
Illumos has one: https://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/com...
A wi-fi strength map would be nice too. It really sucks to get to a nice place and find the living room is a dead zone, and the only spot with consistent signal is the bathroom.
Yeah, this. It's even quoted in the article. Picking the terminology from mafia movies is more cringeworthy than picking it from analogies to government, of course...

the idea that Page needed to step up as "wartime consigliere/CEO" in 2011 because Google was staring down existential threat if it didn't do stuff drastically differently to stave of the threat from social media is also quite funny in hindsight.
My completely non-scientific hypothesis is that sign languages were the first languages. I base this on the idea that hominids have been constructing tools with their hands for millions of years, but, as far as we know, modern human vocal chords have only existed for hundreds of thousands of years. It seems more likely to me that they would have created a language with their hands first, and then adapted that technogy to speech once sufficiently complex voice boxes came into play.
I like the idea of "anti-compression"

There are a limited number of ideas with consequence, and we used to read carefully written books about them (or at least some people did)

Now everyone just reads junk on the web that is recycled by computers from other sources, and quite often wrong

e.g. on nutrition, health, finance, etc. I even see it in my parents, who both got Ph.D.'s in the 1970's (when that kind of degree actually meant something). They don't read books, and read the web instead.
I don’t know how you made the leap from “digital currencies will exist” to “non-digital currencies will cease to exist.”

Even if that were to happen, you could still get paid under the table will gold, gemstones, bushels of corn, pallets of durable goods, etc. meatspace won’t simply end when a central bank issues a digital currency.
The latency. Accessing browser storage is slow, live syncing is slow.

Maybe ask the Google Docs team? They seem to have low latency online-first doc management figured out.
To summarize, IF you get the practical engineering resolved, IF you get all the consumer products designed and ready for manufacturing, and IF you get a de minimis infrastructure to scale from, that's ... 15 years?

Hydrogen infrastructure, if what we're talking about is on the scale of current ICE cars, can't "organically" compete, and won't "organically" develop. It has no chance without a massive government investment/buy-in on a decade long scale. It needs huge investment for each of the big IFs I outlined above.

Look at the cost curves of solar / wind / batteries for the last 10 years, and consider that there are numerous technologies about to be rolled out that will improve those at the same or better rate and the overall industrial scaleout / economies of scale isn't close to being done.

Hydrogen is marketed these days with "hey it will cost X and that is (theoretically / lies damn lies and accounting) competitive with wind/solar/batteries (which exist and we KNOW what they cost) price today.

But there is absolutely no chance of hydrogen being cost competitive in general power transmission/carrier, transportation, etc in 10-15 years. Heck in 5 years it likely won't.

So the hydrogen people are praying that their lobbying + fortune would produce some boondoggle subsidy to build this out, and then the government would limp it along due to the sunk cost fallacy.
I have mild success at $500/month by selling my $5 Video Hub App (though I donate $3.50 of every purchase to a cost-effective charity). This is averaging 100 sales per month for several years now.

https://videohubapp.com/ - though I also have it open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
Toyota Prius Is the Prettiest Prius Ever
Understanding react hooks through a timeline
I spent $600 on a flight from London, to San Diego. There's a stopover in New York - but the connecting flight is delayed for six hours. At this point it's 10pm, but they get a plane, we board, we're actually taxing to the runway... and then the flight is canceled. Turns out it would arrive too late in San Diego for noise regulation. We all get off, I get another flight with a different company next thing in the morning.

Few days later I hit them up for a refund on the canceled flight. They're happy to refund the NY to SD leg... to a tune of $24. Turns out their internal valuation of a $600 flight is $576 for the first 8h, then $24 for the last 6h. Lol. JetBlue man.
Pidgins are almost a completely different thing. Since by their nature, every speaker of a pidgin is a fluent native speaker of at least one other language, the pidgin doesn't have to meet all of the communication needs of all of its speakers. Once they cross over into creoles eg have native speakers, they fall into the same structures as all other languages.
That's exactly what tornadocash was doing, and the government claimed it was money laundering and blacklisted the exchange.
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
There are absolutely quotas for every org over a certain size. If you’re not a manager and not on the chopping block, it would be hard to notice.
This is factually wrong. There are even multiple different authentication and encryption schemes defined for telnet, see e.g.: https://www.iana.org/assignments/telnet-options/telnet-optio...

Just because some old and rudimentary telnetd or telnet client doesn't implement it doesn't mean it doesn't exist / isn't used.
I don't quite get why they have to keep updating formats. Or why there's OCR involved in the first place. Unless they're talking about scanned books specifically.

At any rate, I can't imagine a future where there's a trove of digital works from 100 years ago, but gosh darn it we just don't have the programs to interpret them anymore. No, there's going to be the interest in preserving it and they'll find a way. The cost per work will be minimal; they just have to revive each kind of software once, assuming they preserve the binaries or specs. Or just have one emulator for an old system that runs all of it. Or worst case reverse engineer the formats (again, once per format not per work). Is there a single case of digital material from let's say the 60s that we can't interpret anymore?

However it makes sense to me that DRM and physical upkeep of the drives are real blockers.
Hello, dear HN community!

My name is Pavel, and my email is pavel.konoplia@gmail.com.
I am Ukrainian and was banned from Upwork because of the Russian invasion.
Have any of you faced similar issues with Upwork before?

I've been following Upwork rules since I started working with them in 2019 and was banned in 2022 because I moved from the region that Russia has occupied lately. I've managed to escape the fate of many people who didn't leave those regions, some of them were killed, captured, or even started working with the enemy...
Now I am in Kyiv - the capital of Ukraine, where I restored my Upwork activity as it is something that I wanted to do at the begging of 2022 with my own agency. However, they banned me and sent me a link to the article where they explained that Upwork doesn't cooperate with Russia or Belarus anymore.
I don't live there and don't have any intention of visiting those enemy countries.
Anyway, I need to restore my account as I invested too much time and money into that, and it's the only real opportunity to earn some income for Ukrainian freelancers.

Could anyone help with some hints or share your experience on how the account can be restored?

Thanks!
just take a screenshot with a camera on the content [0], duh.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
That's what wikis are for but IMHO wikis are annoying to setup and customize, and good luck convincing people to document their knowledge

I wish we had a librarian on staff on my team to just keep data organized
Bending Spoons is based in Milan so you would be at an aperitivo sipping a Negroni or spritz with not so loud music :)
Cue Admiral Ackbar in 5, 4, 3...
Why do I like Feynman?
The elephant in the room with data is that we don’t need a lot of the fancy and powerful technology. SQL against a relational database gets us extraordinarily far. Add some Python scripts where we need some imperative logic and glue code, and a sprinkle of CI/CD if we really want to professionalise the work of data scientists. I think this covers the vast majority of situations.

Despite being around it for some time, I’m not sure big data or machine learning needed to be a thing for the vast majority of businesses.
Twitter employees/contractors, just leave on your own terms.....sheesh.
I'm still surprised that no one has just mined all of a company's e-mails to make a database:

- strip off all attachments --- these are archived on a central server w/ version control and links are passed around

- all e-mails are converted into threaded discussions in an hierarchical organization

Then, use an expert system to review and tag all messages and facilitate finding the correct forum thread/file.
It's the part where he says employees will need to be "extremely hardcore" and "work long hours at high intensity" with "only exceptional performance constituting a passing grade."
> Given the worlds ability to produce JIT it feels implausible that supply can’t meet demand if inflation were just left alone.

Just as you can not deliver a baby in one month with 9 pregnant women, you can not grow food faster than it takes.

Also, there is no "leaving alone". As a central bank, you have to choose an interest rate, and this affects bond yields, stock prices, and financing costs (such as to produce said food).
Loans. Having the central banks print cash is a great way to steal money. You just take on huge amounts of debt, pump trillions of generated cash into the system. Then the suckers (old people, working class) have their saved dollars devalued without any ability to earn interest. The corporations,rich, etc, then just watch as their debt value decreases over time [tomorrows dollars are worth less and less, and so is your debt]. The corps keep charging higher and higher prices - sucking up those sweet sweet future value dollars, while only owing yesterdays cash.
Its weird for you defend children sexuality and then bring up an anecdotal point to defend it. Your brother being sexually active in the 4th grade (10 years old by my estimation) is not a good thing.
I write my blog posts in VS Code and GitHub Copilot did the same thing. It completed many of my sentences...
> This doesn't even happen with new games on current generation consoles. So I don't understand why you're expecting it to happen with retro-consoles.

It absolutely does. What do you think https://www.nicalis.com/ as a studio does? They take hobbyists' indie games, acquire distribution rights, and polish them so they can see console release.

Also consider: ports. What is the re-release of Shantae for Switch, if not someone spending a year polishing an (admittedly already polished by 2002 standards) GBC game into a product non-retro-gamers are willing to pay for?

> If you're a retro gamer you are probably already aware, and if you're not then you're never going to play these games anyway.

...why not? I think you're setting your expectations too low.

People pay for (polished) Steam and console releases of RPG Maker games; and those often have far less effort or thought put into the gameplay, replayability, etc. than these games do.

Though the real point of comparison that should be made, is the market for indie commercial homebrew releases for non-portable consoles; which is thriving even among non-retro-gamers, in a way that the market for portables, isn't.

• Consider: there are more people out there commercializing just the ROMhacks of Super Mario World (by doing full engine rewrites of games that were already full asset replacements, to get away from Nintendo's IP, and then selling the results on console stores!) than there are GB/GBC/GBA game authors attempting to commercialize their games.

• Consider: there are tons of game streamers, speedrunners, genre-specific content creators (e.g. horror-game Lets Play-ers), etc, who play new console retro-games if and only if they come packaged in some accessible format. So they'll play Steam or console-store releases of these retro games; they'll play PC-accessible downloadables like Mario Multiverse or PokeWilds; but they won't touch a raw emulator. And, by-and-large, the developers of these new old-home-console titles are aware of that, and produce/port/polish their releases so that they can be consumed in this way, and so can generate virality. I don't see anything like that happening in the new old-portable games space.
They could have used HuggingFace models to embed texts, put them in a vector search engine and serve results.

- models here: https://sbert.net/docs/pretrained_models.html

- fast vector search here: annoy, faiss, Milvus, Elastic, Pinecone

It's like the hello world of current day NLP.