skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon's ebooks or the database that holds them?

Two different things.

I believe every book amazon has in their database will never be lost, at least until WW3. They won't rot. They won't be eaten by worms. Acidic ink won't deteriorate the cellulose. We won't need to have gigantic buildings to house them all.

Meanwhile the world's cloud storage will continue to expand exponentially, and the vast databases of books will be duplicated over and over and over again.

Way better than what happened when the library of alexandria was razed and the intellectual progress of the human race was set back probably several centuries.

I'm bullish on the cloud, if you didn't notice. :)
a tablet can also be used on other contexts.

the fallacy here is that they spend the money ONLY for taking notes
Nor does it mean otherwise, what's your point?

That's damage, regardless. If I go around and draw a very nice stick figure on a painting, versus throwing paint on it, are both not damaging?

Not his property, not his right.
I think _open_ is the important part:

Would make sense if anyone could come up with the score, following some "standard". That way one could make sure that no specific grader has incentives to give good scores speculatively (or even maliciously).
Nice Pink Floyd reference!
A lot of the important work is on back-end scaling for a centralized repository. Example: the segmented changelog allows answering merge-base queries in ~O(log n) time and very quickly in practice; these queries need to happen all the time as part of handling merges on the server-side. You get the front-end, a streamlined interface derived from Mercurial, for "free" as part of the open-sourcing.
It would be an ad-less culture, pedantically. Sounds like a win to me.
Kickass Markdown – GitHub Markdown tricks
Make that PR shine. Make a submission if you've got one
Canada does that too.

Throw out random question, see how you react. A friend got asked “Are you going to import this car illegally?”.

My friend went “huh?” then got waved through.

It’s an interview technique to see how you react.
I feel a little silly asking this, but how do you lower a weight without lifting it first? What does it mean to do eccentric-only exercises?
What is it truly about then, according to you?
Apple does not raise defect reports from the support site.

You need to raise a report on Radar. I think you can now create a free dev account and get access.

For an iMessage problem I had Apple engineers call me and debug the issue by remotely taking over control of the iPhone.
I'm not talking about the algorithm quality. I'm talking about considering something so threatening "extremely entertaining". It has to be some domain (moral maybe) where those concepts are mutually exclusive.
Could this be so that he does not loose it all?
Oh, I missed a very important part of what people found surprising about these dates!
> So would most people, and we wouldn’t call it altruism.

Most people would call helping a relative pay their medical bills altruism. It's also the selfish and rational choice. It's both simultaneously.
Not all philanthropy and charity are the same though. It's not all aimed through rigorous cost-benefit analysis. Which is not to say everyone should do that! But there's a difference between caring a lot about quantified impact and being guided by more qualitative considerations. What's the word to describe the difference? Quantitative altruism? Moneyball philanthropy?

Maybe you feel we don't need a word. But I find it odd, and kind of suspicious, when we insist we can't give a distinct name to something that is clearly a thing.
I have been using fossil for my own local projects. Super easy to set the fossil UI up behind nginx for small teams. Been enjoying it.
Facebook did contribute a lot to Mercurial back in the day; maybe not so much today.

Yes, this would be awesome for Mercurial.
Interesting to see comments suggesting use of constant recording as a defense against invasion of privacy via constant surveillance.

Interesting that the defense against the harms of technology is technology itself. When the humankind unlocks a new powerful technology, and when it is possible for criminals to use the technology to harm us, our best course of action may be, not to look away from it out of fear, but to spend more time understanding it and its implications, and to get there faster than adversaries do.
Well this didn't get very far:

https://galactica.org/?prompt=code+fizzbuzz
> Absolutely not!
Sorry if I'm missing something, but aren't you asking for literally a radio?

If you want to record, use the 3.5mm "aux" output or RCA outputs and send the audio to a DAW in your computer. Or record to cassette tape like in the old days.

If you want a programmable radio that's otherwise attached to a computer, it seems like this is not hard to DIY with GNU Radio.
But this centralized repository isn't available yet, so I cannot evaluate it.

And the problems you describe aren't really relevant outside a monorepo or low-volume repositories, of which the vast majority of open source code falls in. I much prefer the ability to clone an entire repository and be able to make changes in a distributed manner.

If this is for companies who aspire to have Google or Meta scale problems then this sure is a weird way to advertise it.
> Maybe this is superficial, but I was put off by the name "effective altruism". By naming it such, it felt like an implicit dig that most altruism is not effective.

As an outsider, I feel the same way about "evidence based medicine". It'll be interesting to see, in 40 years, whether or not either moniker was earned.
I got a TUF gaming mouse for about $20. It's the cheaper brand of ASUS. I got it for some casual(?!) RTS gaming. Having it set up with linear tracking means I'm not lifting and pedaling it in the air. Hardware butons to choose one of four programmable DPIs for the screen resolutions I use. Love it.
Use python doit system if you need what this setup.py is doing. Its a great task and build system.
I see a few issues on their approach for working copy and log search. Let me try out and see if I'm right on my assumptions.
Wait—there’s a FB fork of Mercurial? Would love to know more about it!
CEO and COO can be thought of as the same job, but CEO tends to be outward facing and the COO tends to be inward facing. (Not strictly or exclusively, of course.)

So you might think of the CEO being strategic or "leader", which isn't wrong, but the CEO is also actually "doing" things but the things he "does" are more with investors, other CEOs, and so on. To the extent that COO is outward facing it is more likely to be with suppliers, partners (after CEO has made the partnership happen), and so on.

I would say that generally you're quite wrong about COO not making decisions.

But also COO is one of those titles that can be anything at all. Chief of Staff, Fixer, EA.

I think an interesting question is, where do the various heads (product, design, engineering, sales/revenue, talent, etc) report to? That would tell you the most about how the job functions are split between CEO and COO. It's going to be company-specific.
To be fair, if I had a junior dev who couldn't skim a man page of 19 000 words, I would have freestanding concerns about their ability to contribute -- being able to inhale knowledge is a core competency of any engineer.

That said, I hear you when you say that most folks (think) they have better uses of their attention.

I daresay they're wrong, but it's not my place to dictate terms to anyone's curiosity, my own included!
Direct carbon capture makes sense whenever you have a high concentration of CO₂ emissions. The most obvious are cases where you can get pure carbon, not CO₂. Other times, it might be also worth capturing the CO₂ from something burning. Direct carbon capture from the air will probably be the most expensive solution, but it is still doable. You figure that eventually it will be subsidized.
$500 interest free loan to Volvo? No thanks. But the design is nice. Specs okay.
they're just points in a large vector space imagined by your mind for the purpose of hallucinations
afaik the new iphone is SOS and location only, no text bridge
For more info on ELIZA: PAIP Chapter 5. ELIZA: Dialog with a Machine [1].

1: https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/blob/main/docs/chapter5....
Attorneys both public and private pay through the nose for software like this to make their case to judges and juries. I don't think you'd face ridicule.
>the pilot depressurizes the cabin, turns off transponders, turns around to avoid civilian radar

wtf... Why is there a way for one person to depressurise the cabin?
Yes, two-way communication is a huge benefit since you can explain the problem and the responders can give advice in addition to ETAs.

However, a device like the Garmin inReach requires an active subscription for the SOS to work. If there's a glitch with your credit card and the service becomes inactive while you're on travels, it might not work.

Another difference is that an inReach SOS message goes to the Garmin-run https://www.iercc.com/en-US/about/ rescue coordination center who will the relay to rescue services.

Whereas a PLB or EPIRB communicate with the Cospas-Sarsat system and is handled directly by government rescue agencies (https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/mission-control-center). While the Garmin service works great, I have more trust in the USMCC being always responsive than any private company.

So the best advise is to have both. I have an EPIRB (for boating) and a couple PLBs in addition the the Garmin inReach. I use the inReach for casual messaging but if I ever have a real emergency I'll activate the PLB and EPIRB first and only afterwards start trying to message via the Garmin.
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> A programming language being Turing-complete isn't really news, it's... the main point, unless you are intentionally trying to avoid being Turing-complete.

For example, Bitcoin "smart contracts" are intentionally not Turing-complete, and there are not per-opcode costs like there are for EVM and eWASM (which are embedded in other programs than Ethereum)

"The Cha Cha Slide Is Turing Complete"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32477593 :

> Turing completeness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness

> Church-Turing thesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis

Halting problem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem :

> A key part of the proof is a mathematical definition of a computer and program, which is known as a Turing machine; the halting problem is undecidable over Turing machines. It is one of the first cases of decision problems proven to be unsolvable. This proof is significant to practical computing efforts, defining a class of applications which no programming invention can possibly perform perfectly.

Quantum Turing machine > History:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Turing_machine :

> [...] any quantum algorithm can be expressed formally as a particular quantum Turing machine. However, the computationally equivalent quantum circuit is a more common model.[1][2]

> History: [2005] A quantum Turing machine with postselection was defined by Scott Aaronson, who showed that the class of polynomial time on such a machine (PostBQP) is equal to the classical complexity class PP.

Complexity Zoo > Petting Zoo > {P, NP, PP,}, Modeling Computation > Deterministic Turing Machine
https://complexityzoo.net/Petting_Zoo#Deterministic_Turing_M...

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When I read the title, I too assumed it was about dialectical chatbots and - having just read turtledemo.chaos - wondered whether there's divergence and potentially infinite monkeys and then emergence of a reverse shell to another layer of indirection; turtles all the way down w/ emergence.
Good question. I know a few people that sell Bitcoin for USD. I either transfer the money from PayPal or some other service and then they deposit the BTC to my wallet.

The only problem is that you have to trust them (both the sellers and the buyers) or you can get scammed.
But, that's never happened in 10 years of doing this, and my own corrupt government is guaranteed to scam me no matter what.
It doesn't have a runway! Even as a concept that feels like wasting precious floating real estate. The hyper rich need to arrive somehow.
The fact that they have concepts like unamend suggests that they have thought about this in a way more turtles all the way down way than the Git designers.

You can thank the Mercurial developers for these concepts.
This was so fun to watch, thanks for the share
EA is basically Judas Iscariot's method.
While I agree with you that non-profits can grow to a point that they become sclerotic and lost in their own bureaucracy, I'll give a contrary opinion as to why non-profits that actually want to be effective care deeply about public policy.

For example, consider a simple animal rescue non-profit. While it may on its surface just seem like "this organization should just exist to try to find homes for pets needing adoption", it's actually more helpful to look at a more fundamental question: "What causes animals to be put up for adoption in the first place." It turns out that in most states there are a host of systemic, government-caused problems that are directly responsible for the reasons why many people need to surrender their pets to shelters in the first place. So yes, the animal rescue non-profit is still in the day-to-day business of finding homes for homeless animals, I would say a good organization would actually do more to try to change the status quo and fix the root cause problem, and that often intersects with government policy.
To an extent I think it's still true if you're on foot/boat (i.e. the way people travelled in the olden days). You could probably travel all of Africa and all of South America without ever showing a passport, and even between the two with a boat. It would require some deliberate approaches but I think it would be possible without playing mission impossible.
The informal economies in both continents are large enough I would wager someone could travel between and among those two continents for life and get by without ever having a passport.

For the most part, rigid passport control can really only exist at airports, controlled ports, possibly some 'choke-points' in roads, and some exceptionally closely guarded borders. If you're in bumfuck nowhere in the third world absolutely no one has time to mess with deporting you unless you did some dumb shit to make it worth their while. Watch some documentaries on people trying to immigrate (illegally) to EU or America. You always see the stories about people working from country to country all though Central/South America and Africa and when they get stuck at the border absolutely no one has the money to deport them all the way back to their home country. There are tons of people like this that get stuck somewhere like Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile with no papers and somehow their life just.... continues on. Eventually their children are born wherever they get stuck and there's a good chance after 1-2 generations their family are <new country> nationality.
I did mindfulness meditation for many years. The breathing is similar. Maybe the years of that and now the breathing are all tangled in my brain. But the Wim Hof Method stuff just feels different. I have been doing 10-25 minutes of breath work and 3-10 minutes of 4-8C water daily. It fixed a broken part if me nothing else has.
Because if you can't trust the pilot you're fucked anyway?
Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 – Artemis Main Engines – Space Shuttle Main Engine
that's an interesting top-level post... could she write about it anonymously?
Because it's gatekeeping. If the OSI rules my license doesn't meet the OSD am I going to be socially exiled for labeling my software as open source?

Like any person or institution, the OSI is fallible. It's like saying that only a certain organization can define what Red is, and now look what we have with Pantone.
Those execs are not very clever. Why not drop the support after just 2 months?
> But there's a difference between caring a lot about quantified impact and being guided by more qualitative considerations. What's the word to describe the difference?

Sure, if you needed a term to categorize. We can build ontologies (and identities) all day if we want. But I ask this: can you quantify the difference between a qualitative vs quantitative emphasis in charity work? Point being: I'm not sure the distinction has much substance or utility. If one's aims are merely to feel good, without any concern for concrete, identifiable impacts, that doesn't fit the definition of altruism or charity or philanthropy. And with mixed motives (as they always are), it's really only the selfless aspect that counts as any of those when we're being pedantic. Even the tax code recognizes this--something is a charitable deduction only to the extent you don't personally derive value from it, and the deduction value is (in principle) the actual value imparted.

But if being able to identify as an "effective altruist" motivates more people to perform more charity, then who am I to argue ;)
I've never heard of this software category before. For decades, I've managed this info with an online calendar (annual reminders for birthdays, for example), and online contact/address book (notes section heavily levegered). This is pretty cool - thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Sounds like an atrociously governed city. Not surprising really, when you think about it.
US govt:Facebook != CCP:TikTok
> The not-so-subtle air of I'm-smarter-than-thou, the hubris to think whatever they have thought of haven't been thought and dismissed by others (probably for good reason), and a bull-headed focus on risk and return that can be exactly quantified, to the point of ignoring other, "softer" sides of the issue.

It’s a little long for an HN tagline but it’ll do.
I don't think anything he said there flies in the face of kelly. Single event, he is explicit about his utility function and why.

He just doesn't seem very good at managing risk in the real world. If you spend any time at an investment bank or similar where you do a lot of trading, there are just hundreds of "gotchas" that those institutions are aware of and manage (or they aren't and don't and go bankrupt eventually).

There are lots of fields like this in the real world, just lots of gotchas. He didn't seem to understand that. I'd bet Jane Street understands this at the org level, but the younger folks likely just see a little bit of the whole picture, and have a lot of theory.
Got around to reading Closer to the Machine: Technophilia & It's Discontents. It's from 1997, and is kind of a memoir about what it's like being a techie, about the changes happening. It's incredibly hard to tell the book is 25 years old. So much of it seems apt & accurate today.

One character that shows up is Brian, a crypto-libertarian who is obsessed with anonymous money. Ellen has like all kinds of protests & qualms she goes through about how awful & bad this would be.

From the other side, I'm also reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future, (2020) and wow... using blockchain to track & follow & monitor all the money is a huge win for the good guys.
https://www.wvcr.com/default.html
https://wrpi.org/listen/
Yeah, you can "turn your belt black" all you want but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll eventually end up at a company that works for you.

First, it may take forever. Second, companies (and you!) are constantly changing, and a company that might work for you today might suddenly be a hellhole if upper management changes direction.

So, yes, "turn your belt black". But there are many ways to deal with a company that is screwed up: quit, talk to your boss, look for reassignment, grin and bear it until it changes, etc. Turning your belt black is only marginally related to dealing with whatever is happening at work.
Who told you that social constructs are meaningless? They're not. That's not what the term means.
Maybe not removing. I'd rephrase it like this:

Replacing the middleman I definetly do not want (the govt and local banks) for the ones I want.

Bitcoin is the only tool that lets me do that.
Good? With the prices still high and interest up it’s the worst time to buy a house in decades. A price dip would do first time home buyers a lot of good.
The situation you describe is exactly the "Chinese room" argument. I don't want to get too far into the weeds here, but the DALLE / Stable Diffusion models are cool because they do what you ask, even if they do so imperfectly. This model from Facebook cannot accurately answer a single thing I've asked it.
The Noria solution seems superior. It doesn't necessarily have to rerun queries from scratch because a single row changed.
I'll keep doing full range of motion squats instead of trying to rig up a jack to lift the bar back up to the hooks. The sample size on this stufy was quite small and only a single exercise was performed. THis isn't enough to get me to change my lifting routine.
I love his work in Praxis. He’s amazing.

https://youtu.be/1qoL9YLWV8g
To this day, I do not know. I always always gratuitous, grateful, and try my hardest to be pleasant. Maybe it was the ticket I didn't close before I left.

The grouse thing was the most ominous, though. My mom was an avid grouse hunter, and my favorite memories of childhood are when we'd walk trails together grouse hunting. Every time I've gone up there ("up north" we say locally), I have had a peculiar interaction with a grouse: one time two were on the side of the road — the first ones I had seen since her passing, and the first time I had been back up there since her passing too; one time, one wouldn't let me through the road and just stood there and looked at me for 10 minutes; one time one crossed 20 yards in front of my canoe, followed by 11 of its offspring (and 11 is my favorite number...). All good times.

Then there's the one that was shredded to pieces on the portage I was navigating on with one shoe.

When I tell this story I always hear "this is why you don't solo" — no, this is why you do solo. Except bring a sat phone and go on routes that you're at least vaguely familiar with... :)
Which brand/model?

There were some older SUVs that had a mild hybrid system that was basically using the starter motor to get the car rolling. It only resulted in a very small increase in gas mileage on a vehicle that burned a lot of gasoline. Those were no more reliable than the ICEV versions.