skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hadn't known of xymyx when I made chess2! Xymyx looks pretty interesting too - I wanted to attempt to make an interesting variation on chess with minimal changes to the classic rules!
Not only that but it implies that specifically targeted forms of advertising (ie aanti privacy) are the ideal. Certainly an interesting perspective
FTX's In-House Performance Coach Is Just as Surprised as You Are
The Sweet and Sticky History of the Date
If SBF was the second largest GOP donor, Vox wouldn't be writing a headline saying his political donations were overblown.

These are clowns and propagandists, not journalists.
Maybe you are not clear on what "zero sum" means?

But of course bitcoin is technically negative-sum, because miners don't pay in, but do cash out. And, some fraction of coin is lost and so not cashed out. Whoever can't cash out donated their stake.

When it gets where it has been more or less constantly falling for long enough, and everybody wants out, it will fall at an increasing rate, and everybody still holding donated their stake, too.
Last time I heard Fedora 37 will remove hardware acceleration for decoding video via VA-API. Not sure if there is a workaround yet, but I image it will be a deal breaker for many people.
This project makes me feel sick.
The Desert Changed My Life. It Can Change Yours, Too
> I'm a woman trying to figure out the different natures of men that are drawn to go live in the woods it's really hard to tell apart the Walden types from the Kaszynski types

That's very funny, but presumably you could just find one and figure it out? They have to come into town at some point for food, gas, liquor, and maybe ammo or the steakhouse. At least the ones who do come in, you don't have to worry about; the ones who don't ever come in, perhaps one should.
Ask HN: What is your favorite active mailing list?
I have been looking for some to subscribe to and found the cypherpunks one, but nothing in my interests other than that.
Science requires measured ignorance.

Really not hard to understand. Like .
Nooooooooooo.

Whatever is to come of my cute animations!

[Think of the trains!](https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl)
Being unable to filter by location means I wouldn't even consider using this let alone paying. What USP does this tool provide?

The product seems only to aggregate jobs, it doesn't help me get in contact with them, it doesn't provide any assurances.

Other firms such as Oxford Knight work directly with financial institutions, akin to a recruitment agency but with competency. If I apply through them someone talented will critique my CV, cover letter, offer guidance and if a good fit reach out to the firm in question. This in it's own right prevents the candidate being ignored which unfortunately happens far too much.

What your team can do better is properly explain why I'd want to use your product. The design comes secondary if I can't see a valid reason to open my wallet :)
What do you do to your books?? Chew on them while reading?

I've read and bought paperbacks more than 30 years old. Yeah, I imagine a popular book in a library that's constantly checked out wears out faster, but every 27 year old trade you have is ruined? Seriously?
You said "The relationship between body and mind has shifted dramatically since ~2000."

1. I still don't get how the body is changed, yes the mind is related to the body but maybe not in this situation?

2. I genuinely didn't know what you were talking about, which is, I assume, the culture changes due to mass information being easily available.

The normal way to phrase that would be to reference the cause of the change not just the year.

It's like saying "the french people changed after 1332". Now if you said 1776 or 492 those are widely known events.

Finally the mind and body stuff in the beginning threw me off
I asked the question simply: "How many?"

The answer is apparently 1.
We aggregate jobs (1k/week rn, 15k/week soon) so we don’t need to have the startups on our platform. Go apply directly on their site.

Also, our comp estimator tool gives you primary data from tons of other employees at very similar companies (location, $ raised, industry, etc). More accurate than something self-reported like Glassdoor. The goal is for you to be able to use this in salary negotiation. Actively working on this
Fwiw, it’s interesting to me that the unit of a “car length” would not refer to a literal car length (14-17 ft or so).
We use Excel to design Test Plan ATC’s, you know Given When Then test cases.

We have to follow the chief architects template that contains all these fancy column counting macros. I absolutely hate this because no one has any idea where the source template is, causing us to copy and paste one from the previous jira ticket, which inevitably breaks.

If there was a gui program that let you fill out a test plan form, it would make my teams lives easier, but instead all I know of is Gherkin. Learning someone’s domain specific language to fill out test plans sounds egotistically asinine. Idc how powerful it is, I need something simple that normal non hobby developers can jump into and do their job. Sigh
The SI unit for power (whether average or instantaneous) is Joules per second. Not Joules per second hours per year.
It seems about as accurate as GPT-3.

Electromagnetic flux:
> Album by OMD from 1980

Real band, fake album. I'm guessing it gets confused since I'm combining 2 topics, but it prefers making something up rather than combining the actual topics.

[0]: https://galactica.org/?prompt=Electromagnatic+Flux
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_flux
At the cost of only $8 billion, I'm surprised that more megaprojects like this aren't being done.

What monuments are we leaving for future generations? Why isn't anyone building a Great-Pyramid-of-Giza sized project every hundred years?
Also related, the ghost town of Singapore, MI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore,_Michigan

The shores of West Michigan are truly a gem!
Little Brother is one of Cory Doctorow's books: https://craphound.com/littlebrother/about/

I read it and it was as fun as it was chilling.
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> Btw, giving a special address would increase the lock-in, IMHO. The newsletter owner would be dependent of Substacks benevolence forever.

It is possible, but at least writers would have the option of importing those addresses or not. Those who are suspicious that Substack will lock down the app more down the road can always opt to "rip the band-aid off" and not import the Substack app addresses.

Perhaps my main argument is "If Substack doesn't let writers migrate without forcing a behavioral change on their readers, then it is solid evidence that Substack doesn't actually care that much about reducing lock-in." The inverse is not necessarily true, and certainly I'd advise anyone who's already convinced of the consequent to not write on Substack :).
I discovered letting Europe see it a few hours before the USA woke up was the best time of day. A post needed a few upvotes before the 'bury brigade' saw it.
Not if they are careful enough.
> Not if they are stored in the cloud

myspace was a cloud and lost all music.

I get your point, but books have proven to stand the test of time. We just don't know yet for digital media. I mean, very concretely, are amazon's ebooks going to be functional 200 years from now?
So if someone invented the best thing since sliced bread, it wouldn't need advertising?

https://wcsa.world/news/world-almanac-event-academy/wcsa-on-...
In Seattle, a number of people make a habit of leaving their car doors unlocked, just so the windows don’t get smashed in case of a ransacking. It happened to a family member just last week.
Horses were how humanity at large moves from point A to B.
It’s the classic federalism vs decentralized argument for sure.

Centralization can result in amazing efficiencies and higher standards, or amazingly large graft and powerful and effective despotism.
https://www.pss-1.com/media-contacts
Good thing the executive and legislative branches are not blind.

They are keenly observant of the benefits coming their way.
You may say you’re unhappy with it, but your actions say you’ve been contributing heavily here for 11 years. You support something that you think is a blight because you don’t think this is a blight.

Just like every HN commenter who thinks they hate ads, the truth is they hate the ads they hate and (at best) pretend the other ads aren’t ads.

Also I really like ads and am quite stupid so that might explain why I thought my comment was a good one.
What will happen to that digital knowledge if there is no electricity in the world for like… twenty years? I am not even thinking about “twenty generations”.
It's not expensive when it's compared to the alternative of not being able to call for help when there's no cell coverage.

But it's expensive if it's compared to $0 for a feature that's already built into my phone. (though it remains to see how long Apple keeps it free since they only say it's "free for 2 years")
Anon filtering is broken! Works with account, sorry fixing asap
(also the fact that it's for sale in a thrift store is a dead giveaway that it's not completely worn out yet; are there many 3-1/4" floppies, or even CDs, storage media from 20-30 years ago, max, that are readily picked up by a layperson and perused now?)
Amazon Begins Layoffs Tuesday
Amazon’s layoffs began Tuesday, signaling the first job cuts of what could end up totaling 10,000 positions.
Wdym??
When I go to Olin Library at Cornell to get physical books today I find quite a few that are seriously yellowing and I am not talking seriously old but books printed in the 1970s. Paperbacks I have from the 1970s in my farmhouse which is a horrible place to keep books are often still in usable condition but have gotten much worse in the last 20 years.
If you want to pay a fortune now, like your grandparents did then, you can get just as good and better stuff made now.
Yes I’m well aware of the problems. I just seems to me that being PHP-like but incompatible is much more confusing than useful.
The 'lecture notes' prompt is pretty good at generating blog-spam style articles. I tried a few non-STEM topics, e.g. 'lecture notes on starting a business', and the output was a well written article on the topic which flowed well and gave a good overview on the topic. Once you get into more specific topics it seems like it is lacking knowledge, as it quite often repeats itself or writes incoherently.
Well, YouTube has massive and expensive infrastructure behind it. So Elon wants to cut infrastructure bill, incentivize users to upload TB of data on underfunded infrastructure?
How far did the Challenger blow up off the coast? Maybe not that far. I bet the trajectory also could possibly bias towards the sea in case of an emergency for a less dramatic landing. Wouldn't want a shuttle landing on a building either obviously.
Certainly not true of every paperback from then. I wandered downstairs and found several books on my shelves printed in the '70s, '80s, and '90s in totally fine condition. On the oldest books the paper has started to yellow a touch, but are otherwise fine.

But even a book from the 90s is 20-30 years old at this point. I'm not sure if that fits colloquially with a claim that they fall apart in "months to years". I've never had a paperback book I've purchased fall apart within 5 years (hell, I can't think of a time one fell apart within 10 years with the exception of severe water damage).

I just...have never seen a book fall apart in months.
> For all the reasons that I just said. If you dispute that, then any response by me (or anyone else) is already guaranteed to be futile.

Your accusation was vague and your reply here equally unsupportive. You may claim anything you like, but if your claim is unsupported then it is unconvincing.
Supporting the Internet Archive is very much worth doing – but we also need a parallel effort to archive the Internet Archive. There are other ways for it to go down than just "we ran out of money". (Then again, I don't know that a parallel effort exists; Archive Team were doing one a few years back, but I think that's stopped. So donating to IA is still your best bet, here.)
Glad you liked it. I think this 8 second clip of a guy saying 'I'm lost' is hysterical, never gets an upvote though. Maybe you have to be English to get it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieWm9T_GgSA
My impression is that trade paperbacks really suck. Frequently the bindings crack when you open them for the first time. Mass-market paperbacks are not great but they have some minimum level of quality that is not certain in trade paperbacks.
The biggest issues are often DRM. Most ebook readers will lock out books if you cannot constantly ask a DRM server for permission.

A great example is when Microsoft shut down their e-book stores, and the supporting DRM infrastructure.

The books stopped working.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47810367

Then there was that one time in 2009 Amazon remotely deleted Orwell titles including, ironically, 1984.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-sued-for-kindle-deletion...

There was also the more recent incident where Amazon censored a book on transgenderism. You can argue this book has dangerous takes, but there is no excuse to delete any book. It was published and relevant for someone studying these issues. Even books by horrible people like Mein Kampf must be preserved for researchers.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/01/09/based-on-false-assump...

Other than rare exceptions like NoStarchPress, Ebooks on most platforms are not yours. You will not be able to loan them to a friend, pass them down to family, or resell them. They can also be remotely deleted or edited, and there are powerful book censorship political movements that want to legally mandate exactly that.

The CCP already makes use of this power, such as their edits to Permanent Record by Edward Snowden.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/12/edward-snowd...

I know it is a pain, but if your only digital book purchase option is a DRM eBook, the ethical thing to do is buy a paper copy.

Every DRM eBook purchase is a wallet vote that you find this situation acceptable.
As someone who can’t even solder, it’s fun! Messing with my gameboy color, N64, and Dreamcast, and made me more comfortable screwing around with electronics. Been learning slowly but surely!
The internet is insanely prone to losing stuff. What percentage of the first 10,000 YouTube videos from 2005 do you think are still accessible? With copyright and account issues etc issues I would be surprised if it broke 20% and that’s for a website that’s still around.

You can find old stuff due to internet archive and that’s about it. Making the internet basically a giant single point of failure in practice.
I’m waiting for the convolution video he promises in the video and the comments.
> Did the rewrite take way longer than initially projected? Yes.

> Was it a lot more effort than initially projected? Yes.

> Was it painful medicine that nonetheless left the business in a better place? Yes.

You make it sound like this is a net positive, but that is meaningless when you are not comparing it with the alternative:

> Would refactoring it be faster? Yes

> Would it require less effort? Yes

> Would it still leave the business in a better place? Yes

I don't think one can ever justify a rewrite unless

(1) the code is trivial to implement, or

(2) it is covered with extensive unit and system testing, or

(3) the technologies used are no longer available/supported, there is no upgrade path, and a new language/framework is absolutely necessary.
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

Irrational is contrary to efficient.
Scientists just found a hidden 6th mass extinction in Earth's ancient past
a throat mic would do the trick
Users are not able to download Google Play Books purchased
For me, if I can really sit and enjoy reading and that's all I'm doing I prefer a physical book.

But, electronic books do have a real convenience to them that I have to admit. If I'm reading one-handed (holding a baby, eating a sandwich, etc) I really appreciate a kindle for reading. Also, when traveling, the ability to bring 50 books with me on a flight, or camping, while taking up no space is amazing.

But, yea, for the endurance of the storage media, physical books definitely have an edge in my eye.
Isn't that the point of dealing with unregulated businesses? To cut through the red tape of protective regulation and responsibility? Huge risk, but potentially huge rewards.

The bankruptcy will divide whatever value is still left to be divided. Some of the missing value may be obtained from the malicious people behind the company through lawsuits, and some people may go to jail for knowingly scamming people.

In the end, this is not a bank, and the regulations protecting people from scummy banks, even the new legislations written after the 2008 crisis, don't apply.

This isn't the first business with millions of customers to go bankrupt. When such a company fails, getting your money back is your problem. Large-scale mismanagement and uneducated customer bases like this is the reason banks and other finance companies are under so much regulatory pressure.
That is to be expected. FTX was funded by influential VCs/PE firms with strong reach into the media, including NYT. Additionally, SBF was a major donor to the NYT-affiliated political establishment. It stands to reason that the paper would write nice things about him.
FS4 was also part of Windows/DOS Test Suite and archived as such in the MS FTP Site.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/Oemtest/v1.1/Winstress/stress/i386/stress/dos/fs4/
Okay, I was disgusted and quit reading right there, but I guess I should have given him a bit more of a chance. Maybe. Still a little bit disgusted, to be honest. Even if the reason was ultimately allowed to be communicated, these were still private words.
It's kind of weird how Nike owns basketball. The NBA is pretty much one of their marketing arms.
See also the Event-Reduce algorithm which is a more lightweigt version of the similar principle. https://github.com/pubkey/event-reduce
I had a similar concern so one of my side projects is a personal CRM with E2EE: https://mogulnetworking.com/

Someone could probably fork Monica and build an E2EE version for people who care about that kind of stuff. That would be pretty interesting actually.
I have a few sci-fi novels from the 50's that are in fine shape and many more through the 60's to 90's that are even better. Where are these people buying such poor quality paperbacks?

The oldest hardback in my library is right around 300 years old and beyond a bit of foxing in quite good condition.
> I just...have never seen a book fall apart in months.

I have. I had one fall apart on my first read through it. Pages just dropping out of it.

I also recall, as a teenager some years ago, buying a hardcover book from a store in the airport, and realizing that the last 20 pages were the previous 20 pages pasted in again.

Ultimately, the books I cared about re-reading, I've replaced with ebooks. Because aside from the convenience, I don't have to worry about the book's condition, deterioration, mold, et.al.
I feel like the article is building up to some interesting points and then it just ends.
Emphysema More Common in Marijuana Smokers Than Cigarette Smokers
More than just DRM, random bit flips are a problem too. One that's been thought about by places like the Shoah Foundation.
Feedback is your oxygen. Lol
If you bring DOTT to Scummvm, you'll get the two games.
This is literally the best job search idea I have heard in my life.
Writing software costs even more money. And software is more profitable if you break your old software and ruin the attached hardware after 2 years.
Vague snipes like this are generally not allowed on HN, FYI. (Source: I've done it myself too many times)
What about fans sitting right on the sidelines, or maybe the first few rows?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanPartridge/comments/ym8ljj/elon_...
One could very well argue that a Markov Chain as seen in Diffusion models is nothing more than following a graph from a point sampled from the prior back to the original distribution. The edges in a said graph are generated either via a scoring model which predicts an estimate of the gradient directly, or by generating a conditional pdf and sampling from it.

This is no different to tree search, not really anyway, it's just that ANNs are used to handle the intractability of expanding an infinite and continuous space or providing the probabilities within a MCTS - which is what AlphaGo and AlphaZero do.

One could argue that LMs / Causal Transformers are also doing treesearch, indeed one of our evaluation metrics, perplexity, is a measurement of the model's uncertainty in the transition p(token_i | token_{i-1} ... token_{0}).
MIT solved a century-old differential equation
The head of an exchange would also know the difference between "my money" and "customer money", or so you would have hoped.
https://archive.ph/X2hVC
Yes they are out on the street. They were already discovered in electronic billboards in Belgium.

Retinal scan no but face scanning is very feasible. The Chinese government has made an art out of this and will have no qualms selling it to western companies.
> citations

My own experience - having a brand new paperback litter pages on my first read. Or buying a book only to find that the last signature was a duplicate of the one prior to it.

I've also had a manga spine break on a second reading, literally dropping a whole section of pages on my lap.
You missed my problem with these threads.

(c) Git is a disaster that has destroyed source control for 15+ years and the industry is unable to recover from due to Stockholm syndrome

It’s impossible to discuss source control without people coming out of the woodwork to shit on git. It doesn’t work right. It’s too hard. SVN was better. Mercurial should have won. Blah blah blah.

Git isn’t perfect. And the command line has improved (I don’t care much, I use a GUI).

But the number of people who seem to insist that because it doesn’t work for them or they don’t personally like it it’s horrible and everyone should abandon it is crazy.

And it makes trying to read/participate in discussions like this painful.
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK
Don't underestimate the power of the veneer of legitimacy.

Also you're completely wrong here. Banks aren't a ponzi scheme. That's the stock market.
I'm starting to think the giant corps are less trying to prepare for the recession and more trying to create it.
What happened to last week's meme that NYT owner ordered the staff to only write hit pieces about tech companies? Why is FTX exempt?
Wouldn’t it be better to “push” or “advertise” these things science and medical journals though ? That’s what I’m assuming they’re for.

So it’s not advertising rather journalism which is required.
I’m not sure how you’re trying to define planned obsolescence in order to say it doesn’t happen. Maintenance has costs and it has benefits and a corporation tries the weigh those according to its best guess. But the biggest cost for maintenance as far the decision makers are concerned is not the extra 10 engineers required to support a product with 100M unit volumes for another year. It is the opportunity cost of not selling a new device next year. The fact that the device is not working as long as its usable lifecycle as a conscious matter of corporate planning is pretty much the definition of planned obsolescence.
And I can personally vouch that when execs are pressed about why they don’t commit the to longer support terms the answer that comes back is “we want to sell more units next year”.
Most paper used commercially is acid free, due to the manufacturing process.

I dunno if books use some other, cheaper paper, but it seems unlikely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-free_paper