skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is still way way more than is typical. For context I've worked on artificial hearts where they did a few dozen sheep and pigs before going to human implants, some other devices where you do 5 or 10. Never hundreds just to not even get there yet.
Apple launches Self Service Repair in Europe
Timestamping, so that people can know whether the signature that claims to have been made before revocation actually was, is one reason you might want to. Happily, that idea has been implemented on the Bitcoin mainnet and available as a free service for several years[1,2].

[1] https://opentimestamps.org/

[2] https://petertodd.org/2016/opentimestamps-announcement
I was just thinking the other day that what I really want is pretty much Duolingo for singing lessons.

I'd love to get better at singing, but not quite enough to actually find, schedule and pay for singing lessons from a human teacher.

But I'd happily do 15 minutes a day with a Duolingo-style app, especially if it could guide me through exercises to help me sing better.
No, the question was whether it was droplet or aerosol. Experts insisted on droplet even though evidence pointed at aerosol, and cloth and surgical masks don't block aerosols, the particles are too small. That's what people are referring to when they say "masks don't work".
Plenty of file formats support this, but they're generally for DAWs and not for a final mix. In order to support volume the file would have to be packed with each individual track.

Almost assuredly this is just ML-assisted frequency separation.
if the Internet is the watermark, I don't see how cell phones make the cut. The Internet democratized and distributed information sharing at scale, and cell phones created the means of economic capture of that technology (I believe this to be a massive regression). Oh, and we had significantly less planned obsolescence prior to the cell phone era, although that could just be coincidence.
> Nonconformity to the cultural zeitgeist is more acceptable now than it has ever been.

Until covid it looked to be true yet they reached to the same tools without a second thought

But it is true in that it turns around more quickly - it only took two years to understand the absurdity of COVID measures from mandatory masking to indoor lockdowns and vaccine passports - in the past that would have taken 50 years

so yes we are in a much better place
Not yet, it's coming this week however.
Let me gently point out the irony of you acknowledging Vitalik's intellect while simultaneously assuming that Vitalik, as such a smart person, hasn't puzzled through why the crypto industry will end up being obviously useful for humanity.

Do you think it's more likely that Vitalik is mistaken that crypto is obviously useful for humanity, or that he knows it isn't and doesn't care, or that your assessment of crypto being useless is incorrect?
Arizona actually already does this, in profound quantities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Arizona_Project

The problem isn't the pipes, obviously.

It's the fact that the 1922 agreement that divided up the water in the Colorado River (upon which Arizona depends) incorrectly calculated the amount of water available in the river every year.

The Colorado River Compact divides up 20 million acre-feet of water. Modern analyses show that the Colorado river's average flow is about 15.5 million acre feet, and has been less than 13 million acre-feet during the last decade or so. These reductions curtail who gets what water.

https://www.5280.com/how-the-100-year-old-colorado-river-com...
How about we just get rid to the government/insurance/lobbyist collusion.
My path was: operate a high-volume service. It will fall over and force you to learn (unfortunately, through Googling).

Less facetiously... I found searching for blogs by quantitative traders useful. You can write JVM code that has excellent latency and throughput characteristics, but you need to know the sharp edges to avoid.

A strategy that I think I used: find high performance collections libraries (trove, koloboke, fastutil). You'll likely need these anyway. Then find their authors, and go hunting for their blogs. They'll often list pitfalls.

It's been years, so I don't remember the names of people I read, otherwise I'd share them -- sorry!
How Do You Make a Baby Cartoon Wormhole in a Lab?
It is wholly incorrect that you can perform sloppy experiments that lead to excess costs of your research and expect this to be at all respectable or acceptable among your peers just because your research is particularly exciting or potentially useful.

If anything, being sloppy is a point against you when you’re working in particularly impactful stuff, because it shows your skills as a scientist aren’t up to the standards of the field you’re researching.
> Articles like this one, which are written by someone who apparently has chosen not to have children, are almost universally terrible at representing the true experience of being a parent.

"Here's this thing I have no actual direct experience with, let me tell you all about it!"
Well, if you already know before you order the server that you are probably going to cancel it, then it does sound a bit like you would be abusing the cancellation policy. A policy like this is not meant for testing out a dedicated root server for fun -- instead, you could ask people in our customer forum about what kinds of benchmarks they tend to get. (https://forum.hetzner.com/) A lot of our customers are happy to share these kinds of details with people on the forum, and perhaps even someone here on Hacker News would be willing to do the same thing. However, if you really do plan on keeping the server, and then you try it out for a few days and are truly disappointed with the performance, of course you can cancel your order within the first 14 days. --Katie
Paralyzed people might disagree.
Why are such low quality consensus-building posts starting to show up on hackernews? Wouldn't have seen this a few years ago.
I don't see announcing a public key being much different to PGP or other trust systems. If I say I sign my messages with `63847B4B83930F0C` and you save that information you'll continue to trust that it's me in the future even though there is no proof I still control the private key.

If anything, as far as I'm concerned, DNS-based challenges are a stronger proof that I own the domain as it requires access to the nameserver. HTTP-based challenges just prove that I have access to a computer pointed to by a DNS record which is far easier to get wrong. This is why wildcard domains cannot be issued to HTTP challenges, just because I can serve a file on a subdomain doesn't mean I own the parent domain.

But I agree, using a key-based DNS challenge would be a new feature. It was discussed before but at the time LE devs didn't come to a consensus with how to move it forwards.
My wife is buying a new laptop, hope to be able to nudge her in the direction of Macbook Air.

I do actually have one in my possession for day-job, but don't want to mix private projects on that laptop.
> Equity

> Eq"ui*ty (?), n.; pl. equities (#). [F. équité, L. aequitas, fr. aequus even, equal. See Equal.]

> 1. Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claims; impartiality.

> [....]

> Syn. -- Right; justice; impartiality; rectitude; fairness; honesty; uprightness. See Justice.

That's Webster's 1913, so it's not a new usage. And it's what was chosen for definition #1 (the others are, as you note, lawyer jargon).
He wasn't even working on Minecraft when Mojang sold to Microsoft. Jens Bergensten was the lead developer for years before the sale went through.
Maybe if you bought and held it, but there were plenty of opportunities to make a quick buck in recent years. Before the split the stock was down to like $5-$6 in 2018 and doubled in the price in part to the work that Culp has one.
zk rollups do not inherently provide any privacy, but there are different ways to use zero knowledge proofs to provide privacy on a blockchain. See for example the Zerocash paper, the currency Zcash started off the back of the paper, and various follow up systems.
> Like most anti-crypto authors he still misses the forest for the trees.

Like most crypto-maximalists you've missed the point, the article, the trees, the forest, and the entire planet Earth

> Trusting software is better than trusting humans because if the software is immutable you only have to trust it once!

No. You don't trust it only once. You trust it every time you use it. And software doesn't magically appear, or grow on trees. It's created by the people who "are fickle and decide to screw you at any time".

It is very clearly described in the article that you missed. Technology does not make human systems obsolete.
For people with your attitude, yes.
They had upvotes working before! Just bring back google+! I found it incredibly useful to land on a page and see a high upvote in the little plugin widget I had in Chrome.
Or some bright spark figures out a lovely pdf hack. Then is able to root thousands of phones for a swath of restaurants. As I am willing to bet most restaurant sites are not exactly hardened and a nice soft target for criminals to exploit. Pair that with the number of phones out there that are not up to date...
The article mentions 2 monkeys, not 1500. Where did you get that impression and why did you decide to state it as fact?
There are dozens of stories that show Musk is at least a narcissist with very little empathy, not necessarily a sociopath, but it's the same for the rest of the world.

Elon's callousness is legendary -- read what his first wife had to say about him, people close to him and the way they were fired, the way he named his son with Grimes, the way he baselesly insulted a hero diver as pedophile, the fact he has so many children he barely sees them.
Sorry, but why should I be excited about this?
It’s been a concern at least since the 1780s

https://adverts250project.org/tag/benjamin-franklin/
Once during a job interview, when asked about an accomplishment I was personally proud of, I mentioned defeating Morgoth in Angband (the classic roguelike). I'll admit, not quite as hard as beating NetHack but it still required a lot of self control, because Cocky -> Lazy -> Stupid -> Dead.
> Writing abstracted enough code often requires inventing new languages to hide the complexity behind abstractions.

Human attention may pick out symbols more easily, but human comprehension benefits from things that actually have meaning. Otherwise you end up with a soup of ASCII symbols that very few can parse since every library in Haskell seems hellbent on inventing new and useless ascii combinations for function names and operators.

Even the article goes (emphasis mine):

--- start quote ---

The basic operators here are ^., .~, and %~. If you’re not a fan of funny-looking operators, Control.Lens provides more helpfully-named functions called view, set, and over (a.k.a. mapping)

--- end quote ---

And then proceeds to use the ASCII soup instead of the more helpful function names.

It doesn't help in the least that there are multiple get operations ^. ^? ^.. Or this idiocy: "Here, a single < before the operator signifies that it returns the updated value, while a double << signifies that it returns the old value. This gets a little weird with the monoidal operator; <<>~ returns the updated value, not the old one". Bonus points. What does this do: <<<>~

Because "why have useful names when you can pretend your fake intellectual superiority by using confusing ascii symbol combinations"

> Software development in Haskell is particularly focused on DSLs, lens language being one of them.

The domain specific language for lenses is view, set, traverse, update etc. Not whatever this is.
"Space travel" not so much at present. But reduced cost access to space, for sure.

- geolocation (GPS, GLONASS, etc.)
- communications (Starlink, Iridium, etc.)
- earth sensing (weather, climate, etc.)

All of these are multibillion $ activities that benefit from lowered launch costs.
It’s not UBI if it’s not for everyone, Geniuses.
You can always reframe the video after recording.
There's obviously a difference, since animals can be slaughtered instantly and have not expectation of what will happen to them and no memory after. [0] On the other hand, experiments where they eventually die are likely to cause immense stress and pain.

[0] Now there can be a very complex discussion about this. I'm not saying slaughtering is unproblematic. I'm not saying you couldn't try to make a similar point for humans to which I would also have replies why that's a different matter. I'm just making the point for this specific purpose of comparing here.
Tell HN: My child's first program
Last night, I introduced my kid to programming. We'd done some stuff with Mindstorms before, but she never really caught the bug for it. But for some reason, last night when I showed her some simple Python scripting to solve math problems and write to the console, she was enthralled.

After guiding her through a few things, she took the laptop off for a while and then came back with her first program, giggling like a maniac

you='WOW!!!'
fart='So many poops!'
print(you,fart)

I'm pretty proud :D
We already do that via grants anyway.
It's not "balderdash". The concept of conservatism predates the existence of the US and its "conservative party" (in the same way that the views of your "liberal party" don't define liberalism).

See for an origin of the term https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conservatism/
I had expected the military to go with autonomous self-flying self-bombing
if necessary, kamikaze drone strategic bombers.

It could maneuver and operate in conditions a ride along pilot could not
survive.

As several others have pointed out the promo shots seems to leave out
ejection facilities and other nifty things for humans to survive.
And thanks to ublock origin and the steven black hosts list, I won't see a single one of GE's NYT ads, or pretty much any other ads from anyone, anywhere. Life is good!

[EDIT: although the HN title doesn't convey it, GE also bought out "most of [the NYT's] premier digital advertising real estate." ]
You're a bit harsh though ;)

> Boring company

They built and released a product already. Oh wait, it's not a flamethrower.

https://www.boringcompany.com/not-a-flamethrower
I don't think anyone has claimed that either. What the claim is, is that Neuralink might have abnormally high number of repeated experiments as they continue to commit mistakes which makes them either have weak value or having to repeat the same trials.

> the number of animal deaths is higher than it needs to be for reasons related to Musk’s demands to speed research. Through company discussions and documents spanning several years, along with employee interviews, Reuters identified four experiments involving 86 pigs and two monkeys that were marred in recent years by human errors. The mistakes weakened the experiments’ research value and required the tests to be repeated,
"Did not respond" is a legitimate result of an experiment and should be included when making statistics. Increasing sample size doesn't change this.

The question itself seems confused.
Before 100 years ago there was precious little nation-state level social security, so families were far more dependent upon other family members. Middle age parents needed to support their parents directly, so there was an obvious quid-pro-quo for the grandparent to take care of the child.

Our forefathers changed this dynamic by making this arrangement somewhat invisible, in that we pay social security tax instead. We still take care of our parents, but not directly, and it's by the gun of the tax man rather than by a family arrangement. There is little incentive for this kind of unspoken bargaining of the past where you may take care of shelter and the grandparents take care of a kid. There's an IRS agent waiting with a gun if you don't pay social security, so any unspoken bargaining power is gone and the working age parent basically gets the squeeze from both sides.
There is no scientific basis for this assumption (the idea that you rake in immunity "debt" by not getting sick, leading to worse symptoms /when/ you get sick).
Can you list some recommendations? For podcasts and some articles/authors to follow.
Now please explain why would the US send troops to defend TW if there's nothing actually valuable there anymore?
Ukraine was hugely important for it's position next to Russia, and so is TW. And still, no US troops on the ground in Ukraine, and there won't be any in TW.
This is a smart way of giving up on TW without actually admitting it, and there's nothing to be ashamed of, really.
In other words, "decentralization" is just a talking/selling point that evaporates on closer inspection down where the rubber really meets the road in the crypto market.

By going all crypto, you're rejecting fiat central bankers with some transparency and oversight in favor of crypto central bankers who have none.
> Which might be what he's looking for i.e. a bailout via printed money, which would allow investors to withdraw funds and OFC send inflation sky high...

They tried to do the equivalent by minting more of their in-house coin "FTT", right? Both after the bankruptcy filing, but I saw one analysis posted on HN suggest they had been doing that on an ongoing basis as part of their operations too, trying to cover shortfalls by simply minting FTT and calling that collateral for loans or what you have.

It just... didn't work.
> Machines will simply start pretending to be human…

Let’s be clear here: Humans are currently pretending to be computers, because we have to step in and “drive” them, rather than have them act autonomously. We’re currently trying to unpack the black box that is a computer and determine if it’s being driven by a human (e.g. “Was this quote from an actual person or was it generated by AI?”) which will become harder and harder to do as computers become more capable.
What’s the reasoning behind leaving out the word “karaoke”?
Onshoring in this case is a logical result of improved tax incentives. Almost every cost is higher in the US – not just labor.

Improved automation does reduce costs, but those cost reductions are even better in places where manufacturing is already cheap.

Semiconductors have a very high value to weight ratio, so shipping them globally makes more sense than it does for other items.
If you live in a democracy I can ask you the same question. Your government that derives its power and authority from you tolerates and collects tax from "evil" so how can you ask that question?

People work to eat.
Perhaps that is because they run out of money and can't keep throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks?
That's the sound of Apple completely taking over the East and SE Asian market
iPhone 8 that is the oldest supported for iOS 16 has an A11 chip; the second gen 4K has A12. The first gen 4K has an A10X chip - maybe it needs the "Neural Engine" that first appeared in A11 but the 2nd gen does have it.

In addition, the Apple TV is plugged in, it doesn't have to limit its power for battery reasons.
The opt-in nature of Zcashs privacy mechanism is not inherent. You can just flip a switch and disallow private transactions.
This is the real situation - you can see it most obviously in the view count of Youtube personalities that may still have millions of subscribers but only 10k+ views on their latest videos.

Even if half the NYT papers go directly into the recycling without being opened, that's still going to be a larger reach than similar-counted twitters.
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Company I'm referring to would fit the profile of a small/mid-cap publicly traded company. Compensation in any company of this size or larger is based on industry information. In essence, companies share their compensation via surveys and can then subscribe to a database which lists ranges for certain levels and roles and regions.

Companies tend to have a ladder and different paths/comp levels for managers and individual contributors. Different regions are then sliced into different levels and what you're left with is location, a role, and a level. These are combined to create a salary band which is the range an employee that fits into the profile.

It's important to note, it's a salary band. This means an individual can have a fairly wide range of total compensation across this band. Also, some companies are biased towards salary or stock options/RSUs. But generally, an employee will have a lower "comp-ratio" meaning they are under the middle of the band. This leaves room for raises, etc. At some point an employee will be at the top of their band. They are either promoted into a higher level, kept at their current level but only given CoL increases (bands tend to increase ~3% each year), or fired.

The company can decide how competitive they want to be in each region or choose to not hire in a region because it is too expensive to be competitive there.
This is a salient point. Any tips on hardware I could buy or build that can run many containers or VMs with variable power?
I tried to hire a few freelancers to do nothing but collect information from stores. Easiest job and offered good pay but no takers. I dumped the idea and since then i work on ideas that require no outsiders hand.

I refreshed my machine learning skills and using it to solve my problems or else i just deliver half baked product.no intention of hiring anyone period.
All that and with 50%+ less overhead. It being an unequivocal success is breaking people that have built their personality around hating someone and are desperate to see them fail.
The part of the story I am curious about is that I know in some cases VCs got issues some tokens along with their shares. There is the possibility that they knew they would get enough tokens and be able to dump them to make the deal make sense because the tokens could be instant profit. They say, we lost $x m investment. (PS: the fund is up, we sold $x+y coins)

Or it could have just been FOMO.

I feel sorry for the Ontario Teacher's Unions. Keep in mind with these frauds the money is coming from insurance company, your school endowment, etc. It's not other people's money.
big agree on contracting interviews being light. i’ve had about a dozen in the last year and only 2 asked technical questions. the rest were more curious about time lines and cost.
There is much diplomacy involved as the wider the scope of the project, more teams are involved, resulting in even more "right" ways to do X.

Although I'm not an "architect" by title, things I build do impact many teams as we move towards standardising how to do X.
I was a software architect at the end of the 90s before becoming CTO and then going on my own so it is a bit rusty.

Most of my time was spent on high level design of complex business and B2B products and making sure that managers, business analysts and programmers do their jobs. Also selecting technologies etc. I still had about 50% of my time left for actual work so I would always pick some particular chunk and create design documents with diagrams given to programmers and would also code some chunk. I could have avoided doing any "productive" stuff but I did not want to loose touch. Being converted to a pure manager was not in my nature.
However you feel about the technology it's obviously impressive and notable. That's going to get people interested and talking about it.
Yeah, there was a lot of "vote for your favorite station" activity when the Arbitron/Nielson diary was used as the main system.

I was working at a station when they switched from diary to the electronic PPM system. The station's cumulative numbers jumped 3-fold that month-- we had no idea that many people were listening.
We built downtowns like deserts, rather than mixing housing, commercial, and office space holistically.

Chicken coming home to roost.