skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to explain the near exponential increase in pathogen exposure when 20+ kids are in a room doing the least hygienic things imaginable for 4-8 hours a day.

I rode the subway every day for years and rarely got sick, but a few weeks of a kid in daycare and it was all coming at me at once.
They removed the origin label, e.g. Twitter for iOS or Twitter for Android or any of the scheduling services.

I always looked at that label to see if it's a manual or a scheduled tweet.
Has it ever occurred to you that this is a scam perpetrated by people who don't want to be left holding the bag?

Have you looked at how the underlying financials look for GME?
Part of me says "kitchen knife manufacturer sued over stabbing" and the other part of me says the fact that these tags can be rigged to avoid sweeps is screwy. The linked story says the tags just have a hole drilled into the tiny speaker so it doesn't beep. Just making it ping and not showing it on the phone itself seems like a dumb way to make "sweeps" work with these tags.
Kadence raises $10M to enable hybrid co-working
Generative AI is here to stay, but so are artists
Please, god, not another CMake "improvement"...
You’re 100% right. They were unable to convince the right folks that they were trustworthy, and they appear to be in a prime position to abuse misplaced trust due to some fundamental conflicts of interest, but “known to have intentionally issued false certificates” is a false accusation.
Thanks for the link. I've glanced at it, and so far my understanding of it says that the ZK proof allows verification that the results of each individual transaction is exactly as what is given, so that the resultant state provided by the ZK commitment can be trusted.

My original confusion was more about how consistency of state can be maintained across completely opaque commitments of transaction validity.

Now that I think of it, it seems that my original concern was a matter more trivially dismissed than what you've explained - my doubts were more about how state could possibly be consistently yet opaquely maintained, but the blockchain state machine, and I gather the ZK commitments, are simply not opaque with respect to the VM state - the opaqueness provided by ZK commitments is opaqueness in the intermediate transaction state (essentially irrelevant information - perfect candidate to be optimised away). The problem of double-spending is never relevant within a single chain of block commitments, as any second-spending of resources is simply an invalid transaction and is rejected, given the (necessarily public) hitherto state reached by consensus (- the problem of which, is precisely what the blockchain mechanism was designed to solve).

Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about with respect to ZK, and may be completely wrong.
If you're willing to go a step above cheapest, Speed Queen should last few years longer, and be repairable.

(judge the quality of appliances by how much BROKEN ones sell for on the various sites)
It was probably part of the training data. /s
No problem. Convert those commercial spaces to residential. There is a major housing shortage.
Farmers are selling their farmland to developers who then turn it into housing. Everyone wins: Residential water use is significantly lower than agricultural, the farmers get rich, and more housing is being built.
If there was ever a title which needed a native Linux build, this is it. ProtonDB does not list compatibility yet, have any of you tried?
There's no legal requirement here, it's just standard IRB stuff.

If you run a slaughterhouse, nobody is making you count the chickens you kill.
These same points are made & rebutted in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33880094
I guess one could argue whether getting upvotes, likes, views and such on social media counts as "real benefits", but that seems to be exactly what's going on with some of the Tourettes-on-TikTok people. You get lots of validation coming your way, you get to be part of a community, and you get +1 armor against trolls who claim it's ok to punch as long as you're only punching up.
It was the people placing the tags that knowingly was breaking the law. There have been devices available for years that makes it easy to track somebody, they're only suing Apple because Apple have a lot of money so the potential payout is big. This is like suing the phone company because your creepy ex calls and threatens you.
So there is ownership in an SPV and the land? Sorry, I don't quite get the structure. Does the SPV "encumber" the land to make a direct transfer not possible then? If I directly own the land, what role has the SPV?
This is a pretty good book that captures a lot of how GE went from probably the most influential company in the business world to what they are now: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50086786-lights-out
> It's pretty easy to go buy a completely unlocked computer

You will pay a premium if you consider "a completely unlocked computer" to be one sans Intel Management Engine or the AMD equivalent.
If only there was a way to turn energetic photons into electricity?
Policies like this actually move pretty slowly. This is still a reaction to Ukraine in february, not planning for anything in particular, just the possibility of a fucked status quo.
A couple non contestable points:

1. It has been useful so far as a challenge for technological development that finds other uses on the ground, and this is certainly not about to change;

2. It has been useful so far, in direct applications, and there are still direct uses to be covered (dangerous asteroid avoidance, as an example);

3. It tackles the SPOF we have as a species: living on a single planet;

But the more important one, for me, is one that is contestable. Space faring provides humans with an aspirational goal. Without a long term goal, we are reduced to either an hedonist life, or a never-ending struggle against entropy. We are better, as individuals and as a society, when there is something to long for in the horizon.
Musk IRS audit in 3...2...
It was an honest misunderstanding
Uber settles with Chicago for $10M over listing restaurants without consent [pdf]
> You still occasionally hear people saying that founders don't deserve to be rich, because their employees created all the value.

Nobody is saying this. As evidenced by several threads here, opinions are far more nuanced.
I wasn’t aware that every news article in the Facebook news feed was user submitted content. I for some reason was under the impression that there was some degree of automated aggregation involved.
I came here to say this. You didn't fail. Its just not a good fit. maybe they are incompetent, and saving you heartache in the long run. Maybe they weren't able to extract your relevant experience. maybe you didn't share effectively. Just keep moving and good luck!
My survey shows that 100% of people answer unsolicited phone calls.

Before running with missing data, you need to make the case that there's no plausible reason why non-respondents would have different answers from respondents.
> are enough to displace genius knowledge workers

I was more referring to the genius that does routine employment work mostly to support himself (like for the cliche example: Einstein working in the patent office while preparing his theories).

> an actual threat (let's say in the timeframe of a decade) or only a perceived one?

This is a big question. chatGPT is pushing some buttons a lot faster than I thought. is it just a jolt? is there an AI winter on the horizon? The fact that these systems are still mostly magical black boxes does not help us predict. So, who knows?
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> This narrative of predatory trans people does not bare out...

I didn't say predatory trans people. I said predatory men. Have you met men? Some men will put on a dress, call themselves trans, and fondle themselves in a women's locker room.

Again, pretending this is about trans people is disingenuous. This is about (some) men.

And, again, whether you genuinely dismiss the concern because you genuinely disbelieve that any man ever would take advantage of the situation, the faction that bring it up do genuinely believe that some men will take advantage of it. This faction will not go away. So, probably best to at least acknowledge their concerns so that trans people can get on with the business of doing their business.
NASA Awards $57M Contract to Build Roads on the Moon
> React's been around for a long time now and it's got a lot of momentum and people who know it.

That was true for jQuery as well; and yet, it is clearly no longer the right thing (tm) to choose for a project. Not because it's no longer cool; but because the underlying technology — the web browser — has gotten so much better it is no longer relevant.

Same fate may await React. At least, with jQuery it's pretty straightforward to gradually wean oneself off of it. I don't know how firmly we are going to be stuck with React when its time comes.
Perhaps Tyson isn't the best example.

Like I said, normally I'm not a "think of the children" type, but IMO you've got to give the kids (et. al.) a fighting chance, I really did watch the trailer for the series and think "WTF? This makes GH look way more legit than he is." and I count myself as a fan of GH, okay?

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's my reaction and my considered opinion. Take it for what it's worth. (Or not. It's just the internet, eh?)

Cheers!
If you can name a set of trust anchors (e.g., with an environment variable, in a configuration parameter, in a command-line argument, as a function/method parameter), then you've got the power to specify what to trust contextually. The problem is that a) apps usually don't give you such a control, and b) the names of these sets of trust anchors have to be meaningful to users.

(b) is a pretty tough problem!
Its critical soemeone like Elon posit alternative theories as to the motives of Paul Pelosi’s crazed attacker. Or engage in racist and the now failed Trumpism. /s
Add a camera and we have a TikTok?
It wasn't framed as "find an approximate/heuristic solution".
Yes you did a much better job of describing my feelings on the game. The systems are very simple and show it leaves nothing more than randomness and an almost complete lack of emergent behavior that happens in Dwarf Fortress.
Billionnaire automated founders. Think about all the hard work and risk those AIs will have taken to de deserve all that wealth !
Geniuses... that must be the people at the "Genius Bar"?
When I hear karaoke I think 90s looking machine with a tethered microphone, or equally old music videos with ugly subtitles. True or not, it is possible they just want to have full control of the image of their service.

Another thing is that when you sing a foreign song, the karaoke also means to read the foreign subtitles in your own language. It's an extra meaning they might want to avoid, I assume this is not a feature they have.
> And there is no evidence a basic income would have altered that trajectory.

If one does not try something, should one expect there to be evidence of how well it works?

> People with a particular drive are the ones who find a way.

Tautological thinking can be useful, but it is a double edged sword.

> There are smart people out there but a lot of them get into boring jobs because they are easy. They don’t particularly like difficult exploration.

Agreed, perhaps there is a lack of instruction in how to think in an exploratory manner. Maybe we are too short term results oriented.

> Will some opportunities have been missed? Yes, but that’s life.

a) Confident delusional beliefs about free will aside, it is at least plausible that the state of affairs at any given snapshot in time is a consequence of our actions that preceded it.

b) People in relatively comfortable positions often are more comfortable with the current state of affairs than those who are not in a comfortable position.

> Nature isn’t about maximizing everything.

It also isn't (or doesn't have to be) about having no interest in optimizing the environment in a manner that benefits all people, but it seems this is the local maxima we're stuck at, for now.
But IRB is required by law. The accounts of what Neuralink did would never pass a legit IRB panel.
I would reach the opposite conclusion that you reached. Any company that allowed those flags I would consider to be intentionally bringing politics into the workplace and therefore manipulating their staff and therefore evil. A lack of political signaling is one of the things I look for in the category of non-evil.
> I mean "effective altruism" is really just "I know things better than you.

No. It's rather "the marginal utility of this money for me is much less than it is for others". As far as effective altruism is imposing anything on anyone else, it's more of "It's immoral to spend money on things you don't need. You could be saving people's lives instead."

Note I'm not part of the movement. I'm using money to buy free time for myself.
>Raise your hand if you think any of this zigbee/wifi enabled junk will still work in 70+ years much less 20 with no replacement?

Surely you aren't also expecting to use the same lightbulbs for 70 years? Of course most of the Zigbee stuff won't last 70 years, but it isn't fundamentally all that different from light bulbs and other household appliances not tending to be able to handle regular use for 70 years. Especially lately with most 'smart' light bulbs being in the same form factor as 'dumb' ones.

As for switches, it's a digital system, if the switch breaks you are carrying a device capable of fulfilling the same function in your pocket (and potentially even wearing such a device on your wrist).
Did not respond is indeed a legitimate result, however (as the blog points out) if the non-responders differ from the responders then every evaluation you do on the responders will be biased.

For example, if you ask students about their satisfaction with teaching, I'd guess that students with a bad experience are more likely to reply to your survey. Based on the data you gathered you will think that the teaching at the uni is worse than it really is.
I think the surprising thing for me about the ChatGPT story is that there was almost no lag between the time it hit tech news sites like HN and it hit mainstream news sites like BBC, NYtimes etc. Or is this just part of a shift where all tech news is just becoming mainstream news?
Forget geniuses... Figure out UBI for everyone or at least a better social net. Even non-geniuses start businesses or do interesting things when given some economic freedom.

Thriving countries have strong business investment, lots of small business startups (not just tech), high labour force participation, etc... Giving only geniuses money would just turn it into a strange technocracy...
It was never amusing, frankly.

It's deep in the uncanny valley and just makes it creepy. I said once that AI generated text looks like it was written by someone experiencing micro-strokes in their 3rd language. I stand by that.
> Not anywhere close to 1500, this is criminal.

10 billion animals are killed in the USA each year, but 1500 is criminal?
To justify their valuations, both Tesla and SpaceX have a long way to go. SpaceX for example needs to get Starship working and win major DoD contracts like the big defense contractors. STARSHIELD needs to grow into a "Star Wars" type program and the employees need to go along for the ride to justify their crazy valuation.
My bad. I should just say that there were the same silicon lottery issues we see when we buy a chip from a single vendor, eg Intel today, compounded by the fact that the process nodes were different too.

The popular narrative at the time was that TSMC chips had the better battery life, but it depended on those silicon lottery results.

>What we know is that there isn't enough information currently out there to accurately determine whether the TSMC or Samsung A9 SoC has better power consumption, and more importantly just how large any difference might be. 1-on-1 comparisons under controlled conditions can provide us with some insight in to how the TSMC and Samsung A9s compare, but due to the natural variation in chip quality, it's possible to end up testing two atypical phones and never know it.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/9708/analyzing-apple-statemen...

However, when the chips fell as they may, Apple single sourced the A10 at TSMC, and they would have had the largest number of performance data points.
>> architects are fun killers!

I strongly disagree with this. Fun killers are working late nights to remedy poor planning, or getting paged multiple times every night because people didn't make informed choices. It kills the fun for the employees as well as others they interact with.

A good architect includes someone who understands the needs of the people in terms of growth and satisfaction. They'll push back on schemes that introduce toil and try to align around good bets that contribute to your skill set. That may involve blocking use of technology X which has Y long term consequences. The consequences of that long-term choice need to have counters to keep the people engaged, so the good architect considers how to manage that. They don't always get that right and we have some less well-rounded architects, but we should aspire to doing this.
That's what most people would rather have, too.

The issue is that the financial capital required to action these things rests in the hands of people who would much rather have this technology used for more profitable ad delivery services.
C is missing in the screenshot because the student had already used the elimination tool to hide it.
> If you've designed your sampling properly

You are making a much stronger assumption than this. You are assuming access to demographic information of each subject, as well as population base rates for a sufficient set of attributes to correct for non-response bias. Maybe we have that, maybe we don’t. If we don’t, option A is a good tack.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/zero-tolerance-suspension-rat...

Seems to be working ...
Predominantly, downtowns will have a financial, medical, and government district.

Government: police, city hall, courthouse, administration for city, county, state, and federal agencies.

Medical: usually a major or university hospital with various outpatient services in nearby.

Financial: banks, banking services, property and financial services.

Typically, just these 3 things were enough to compromise over 50% of commercial downtown properties. We're not even approaching cities that have a major HQ or specialty (manufacturing, tech, media, print).

For a lot of cities once a major tenant moved out, they really only had government and medical as the city's economic engines.

My city I've watched transform from being a violent, crack infest dump to a very desirable, fair weather place to be. And because of the loss of so much commercial business in the 90s they managed to avoid the glut of commercial properties. We pivoted to residential/mixed-use development in 2003 and it's really paying off now.

Our downtown doesn't do anything in particular (except maybe crypto) except be a place for socializing.
The argument that use cases aren't developing is quite brittle when you dig into it a bit.

Take the use case of global stablecoin transfers. The ability to send cash point-to-point anywhere in the world is obviously valuable and novel.

But for global stablecoin transfers to be generally useful 1) everybody needs crypto wallets, 2) crypto wallets need to be increasingly safe and easy to use, 3) transaction fees need to be sufficiently low, 4) stablecoin on/off-ramps to integration with the traditional financial system must be widely available, and 5) stablecoins in a variety of popular global currencies must be available and liquid.

The industry has made progress in all five of the above areas in the past few years, and so good progress has been made on the greater goal of generally available point-to-point global cash transfers. Saying crypto "has no use cases" is lazy, uncurious, and intellectually bankrupt.
Is there a way to play Dwarf Fortress that involves less losing? (maybe mods or some settings?) I know the slogan is "losing is fun", but to me it really isn't.

In RimWorld, you can install some slightly (read: extremely) overpowered turret mods, plus a moderate amount of save scumming, I can make my colony last pretty much forever (until I am bored hundreds of hours later). Are there techniques enabling similar playstyles with Dwarf Fortress?
That report predates the Singapore state investment fund Temasek realizing their investment of $275M into FTX had been lit on fire and burned to ashes, an event that has resulted in awkward questions being asked even in Singapore's pliable Parliament. MAS has been bearish on crypto for a while and you can rest assured this has not improved their outlook.
Well they didn't change their mind. :) I think providing feedback is work which also requires coordination from more than one people, so is easy to avoid.
> My impression is that the second group is much much more prevalent, but also seen as problematic by the first group. The first group is much more extreme, and has much more "interesting" talking points, so it is significantly over-represented in online discussions and media.

My impression is that extreme opinions are mostly from two subgroups of the second group:

- Those who believe that gender is essentially defined by physical characteristics

- Those who believe that gender is essentially defined by social characteristics.

Their inability (or unwillingness) to more deeply consider the concepts of "men"/"women" place them in conflict with each other because each of them want to use a different concept, and neither of them are open to exploring different ones.

The only way I can see this being resolved is by taking an attitude more similar to first group.
Because the plebs sign contracts saying they won’t.

It’s not illegal, just highly unethical. It’s also not true, he does not know someone doing this.
"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
are the final lines of Camus' essay
Proton fails to launch. I was able to get it running in Lutris with the caffe runner in a couple minutes though.
> A large university emailed a questionnaire to a randomly selected sample of 120 students in this year’s freshman class. ... Thirty of the students emailed did not respond to the questionnaire.

I don't answer questionnaires because they're almost always gamed by the sender to cheat me out of something -- or when I do provide answers they're always false in a way directly opposite of whatever I feel like.

For a direct example, the University sent questions and then asks other students to solve why some students didn't answer. I presume there's no field for a long-form answer for when none of the canned answers provide the nuance. That's a gamed questionnaire and provides zero honest value.

Other answers might be "the student's email address is invalid" or "the student is inundated with other duties" or "the student doesn't understand the questions" or "the student disagrees that any of the answers are valid".

The best plan of action is for the University to directly contact (in-person) the students and find out how to help the student to answer the question. It is, after all, in the business of helping students to educate themselves, right?
There's no right answer.

I suspect a few things are going on here.

1. The teacher forgot to include that the University wants 100 responses to the survey.
2. Missing answer C likely contains something like "Randomly select 14 more students to receive the survey"

That makes it an actual statistics question, you'd need to calculate the response rate from the original 120 and then compute the additional solicitations required to meet the response count goal of 100.