skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an even scarier story about Heisenberg, from late in WW2. From https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00963402114330... :

> In November 1944, the OSS learned that Heisenberg planned to visit Switzerland the next month. Former major league baseball catcher and then OSS officer Moe Berg was dispatched to Zurich with orders that “Heisenberg must be rendered hors de combat” (out of action) if Heisenberg gave evidence that the German bomb effort was close to completion. Apparently Berg alone was to decide whether or not to kill Heisenberg (Powers, 1993: 391–392).

> With a pistol in his pocket, Berg attended a lecture by Heisenberg, waiting for some sign of an advanced German atomic bomb program. Heisenberg offered no such signal and therefore survived. Instead, Berg reflected on his own “uncertainty principle” in regard to killing Heisenberg, a reference to the scientist’s most prominent contribution to the theory of quantum mechanics (Powers, 1993: 398–399).

> Later that week, as the Battle of the Bulge turned to Allied advantage, Berg attended a dinner given for Heisenberg and heard him lament Germany’s coming loss of the war. This appeared to clinch the case that Heisenberg could not be part of a successful atomic bomb project and effectively ended any further US interest in killing him (Powers, 1993).
Artemis I – Day 23: Mission Teams Prepare for Splashdown, Select Landing Site
> it's just easy to see how someone could convince themselves it's a worry

Trying to make sense of it for myself, I can only imagine it's from believing the reason they're healthy is because they live in a perfectly sterile environment, instead of it being simply because their bodies can handle the impurities of their environment.
Vouched for your comment. It looks like you are shadowbanned. You might want to send an email to HN.
This was after they sold the game at a fair price for many many years. The "freemium" play was I imagine, in part taken because sales flatlined.

I remember the transition. I kinda hated it, to be honest. Not because of the drops (they were introducing hats and loot well before this) but because the influx of players were...low quality
You should be a little more skeptical. People don’t always tell the truth. And reasons for quitting is probably one of the most frequent lies people tell.

Headline: Man arrested for robbery

Him: I didn’t do it.

You: Seems like he didn’t do it.
The concern isn't so much the existing model, as impressive and promising as it is, but equitable access to future models.

When this thing gets 10x better, which it will, it will be capable of passing a Turing test against any human interlocutor. It will also pwn the field at any programming competition at that point, given further progress in areas described in the link at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33914122 .

Massive economic advantages will accrue to the company or companies who control these models -- as in "Awesome, now we can fire a bunch of expensive programmers and engineers." A few weeks ago I'd have said that was the dumbest idea ever. Now it's obviously inevitable.

The C-suite shouldn't get too cocky, though, because it's possible that the lowly "language model" will be better at running the company than they are. New funding and business models can be expected to emerge on this basis.

Things are about to change in ways that seemed absurd to expect just a few years ago, and in areas where even the most well-informed people weren't expecting it. Full access to these models will be a very big deal, almost as big a deal as ownership of money and property is now. It will be very hard to compete with entities who have that access.
>The author is arguing against skeptics who are "infinitely hostile" to crypto because it consists of "100% scams". I don't think many skeptics believe crypto is 100% scams

This looks like the sanewashing[1] anti-pattern. Numerous comments say exactly this, every time it comes up. It's great that you personally have a nuanced opinion on the matter, but you should be careful about speaking for others, or saying what skeptics believe.

From a quick search of HN of "all crypto scam", filtering out ones that aren't endorsing the view, or are throwaway accounts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33566892

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012827

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33524215

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33654880

[1] https://andrewaustin.blog/2022/02/14/sanewashing-its-more-wi...
I read a lot on Twitter about the so-called "culture" of Google that prevents them from making AI based products, meanwhile OpenAI has made ChatGPT and is going to replace Google search within the next two months or so. I think this is the same narrative that's being expressed by the GP comment.

To add to your comment, Google has been using BERT to power Search since 2019:
https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understa...

I'm going to guess that the only reason they don't use larger models is because of the compute cost. ChatGPT at 4 billion users with today's hardware is an unsustainable business. However, that thought leads me to imagining: if Google offered Search "Premium" using the latest LLMs, how much would people pay for it?
Is this meant to be a snooty response to troll for a reply instead of an actual engagement based on your non elaborated assertions?
No, an atheist is one whose current Bayesian prior on the existence of God is close to zero. An agnostic is one whose current prior is close to 0.5. A theist's prior is close to one.
This would be great. In principle, this should be a `diff -ur` of /etc against the default /etc of the OS. Some complications ensue as the user’s own dotfiles might override some things, too.
bb is 1.32 ± 0.08 times faster on my computer (m1 mbp).
Why speculating then? There is plenty of hard data on skin testing of various sunscreens. There are physical sunscreens, too, which were around even longer. We have MUCH better understanding of biological processes as well than in asbestos times. What is this drive that makes supposedly technologically literate people flock to the GP question and come up with unfounded paranoid theories?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/bookings/boo...
>>I think merging Waze and Google Maps teams is actually smart,

Only if the Waze teams takes over for the Maps team..

Google Maps is TERRIBLE app, I hate it. and if the Maps team is going to start messing with Waze it will be ruined
Yeah, but if divorce is the norm a fixed term contract is a better option.

Personally I want an actual death do us part contract. But that no longer exists. Why can't we have both?
Ought to be able to find the wreckage of the drone to confirm.
> Why is "useful for illegal transactions" supposed to be a bad thing, when these illegal transactions are illegal for extremely dubious reasons?

Because some illegal transactions are illegal for very non-dubious reasons, but crypto doesn't make this distinction. (Crypto made ransomware a profitable endeavor.)
Techies have golf-clapped as Apple has borged more and more of the tech landscape. By time folks realize Apple is going to end up being 80% of what is "Silicon Valley", it will be too late.

The platform power of Apple's walled garden will destroy startup culture. Any great idea can vertically integrated directly into the platform, OR taxed 30% until the only real winner is Apple, OR nullified by kicking it off the app store without comment.

Not even Google is safe. Search is something Apple could do "good enough" at this point...and all they really have to do is threaten Google with being booted as the preferred search engine and Sundar Pichai will bid more and more and more until he is paying Apple $25 bln a year for the privilege.

Android will be relegated to Samsung making phones for poor people. Windows will die because other than gamers, no one under 30 uses it.

Who is safe? Amazon. Apple doesn't want to be in the warehouse business. Also Tesla. Apple will never catch them. Everyone else will lose and suffer the Apple monopoly.
This is my personal experience, ymmv, and maybe somebody needed coffee or something, but! I've found the zig community more friendly and open-minded than the Nim community.

Again, one person, one experience, I like them both, yada yada.

I suggest you have a look at both of them, and decide. The Nim book is very good.

I would NOT call using zig or nim a waste of time; yes, the ecosystem matters. But decent languages + good libraries for what you need to do = Total Win. IHMO, this is why Python wins so bigly in the (increasing) influence it has.

C wins, and will always win, I think, because it's the closest we have to a portable assembly language. We'll see, re: wasm. Maybe wasm will be the 'pdp-11' of computing for the 21st century.
Tesla has massive cash reserves, a backlog of orders and great products and will run just fine without Musk's hand constantly on the rudder. It would be wise however for Tesla to get a new CEO in the near future as all Musks twitter antics are reflecting on the Company.

Over the last 12 months he's gone down a lot in my opinion, I still admire the guy and want SpaceX and Tesla to succeed but he should stop trying to solve all the worlds problems by himself. Twitter was a huge fucking mistake and distraction.
There's a few highly suspect details in the way the author got the 34-35 degree estimate. Maybe he was just really lucky and the errors cancelled out, but don't count on using his method to produce similar results.

Polaris is about .8 degrees away from the celestial North pole, so using it alone can give a reading off by .8 degrees, and the orientation in the photo is actually nearing the worst case.

The horizon doesn't appear in the photo. I have done celestial navigation strictly as a hobby for fun, and using a sextant without a visible horizon results in a few degrees of error at best. And that's with the benefit of the sensation of gravity helping you estimate. It is theoretically possible to estimate the horizon using the man made parallel horizontal lines in the image, but the author doesn't give any indication he did that.

Additionally, the author used the angle measurement tool in Stellarium to measure the distance to another ambiguous horizon. This is incredibly odd, as just clicking on Polaris in Stellarium will tell you its elevation. But even more odd, is he would have had to explicitly set his latitude in the app in order to get that screenshot.
I indeed meant ‶that″, I'm not a native speaker.

The subtleties of this and that sort of elude me, just like these and those.
To your point - Although the post discusses possible PCI implications, I don't think exposing last 4 and PII alone are enough to run afoul of the requirements (at least 3.2 as far as I remember). We would need the full PAN or CVV or evidence that this was being stored improperly, etc. If I recall, a company can store first 6 and last 4 in plaintext. With that said, these problems may indicate bigger issues that would violate the DSS, he may have found more that wasn't written about, or I could just be mistaken.
I thought so too at first, but then how do you separate actual comp (and, say, sale of secondaries) from theft? Like, how much is he allowed in legit bonuses and at which point it becomes too much, and how do they decide that?

Because he could always just say I bought that place with a hard-earned bonus that year, and gifted it to my parents, who are of course even more clueless about those money things than I am.
I dunno... I am a software/data engineer who partners with data scientists. I think that comparative advantage here is a real and important. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy when my data scientist partners write good code or show interest in getting better, but I'm more than happy to take their janky code and make it production ready. It often needs to be optimized for scale or refactored for reusability, and a lot of that often falls very solidly in the engineering discipline.

I'll often tell my DS partners, "Don't worry about the code; you get the math right then give it to me. You can go about doing more math, I'll do the engineering." In my experience, this is often a really pragmatic division of labor.

This is also important because often, the data scientists are never on-call, so if something breaks in production, engineering needs to know what is going on.
This in only Quebec AFAIK. But FWIW, Canada in general is pretty progressive that way. While actual marriage exists for those that want to, there's no reason to marry just because of tax advantages as there is in other countries. After a relatively short amount of time (a year or something like that) you can apply for a "common-law marriage" status and you basically get all the same things as if you were married.
I'm sorry, I haven't taken any measurements to find out the answer to this question. I would be curious to hear about how much it affected Rust builds if you explore this. I remember I spent an afternoon trying to enable FastISel in order to speed up LLVM, only to realize that we had been using it all along.
shh, don't tell them the secret of job security. low code platforms have no version control system like git. it's perfect way to create silos of knowledge
Thanks for putting the list together, the commands have really helped me.

I hope your fortune turns and you soon find a job.

The offputting thing to me was the faulty logic of 14% of people starred donated. That’s a phenomenal donation rate that’s unprecedented. So it’s like prefacing my work with “if money rained on my front yard” or something along those lines.

And I don’t like the discussion that guilts people who don’t donate. I donate to projects on GitHub. Not much and not to yours. But it’s something. But I contribute in other ways and would like to discourage nagging people (not by you as your preamble comment was pretty benign) who don’t donate.
Not sure why anyone thinks weed is safer. Tobacco is dried, shredded plant leaves. Weed is ... oh wait.
Dollar Store not CVS. Dennys will be locally owned and not a Dennys diner. Might be the town bar though. May not be a Texaco, that will depend on where you live. There are some rural chain gas stations like Caseys though (great pizza). Your gas station might sell bait too. Maybe.
IBM AS/400: Databases all the way down [video]
As someone who only really uses google maps, what makes Waze so much better? (Specifically non car driving directions)
I've never worked on more painful codebases than when the "architects" don't have to bother writing actual code and so are ignorant of all the edge cases and special-case business rules that turn their pretty pictures into a horrific ball of mud.
What I am trying to say is it is the other way around, bad stuff ‘in your head’ an kill you just as dead as cancer.
This is nothing compared to S. Ramanujan.

The man, clearly a genius in mathematics, was also but merely mediocre in his Mathematics classes (and exams) at University. The struggle to be recognized for him must've been quite insane.

"So, you're telling me you're this math genius who can't even ace Math exams ? Yeahhhh right."
That is an issue right now at a lot of places. Distributed teams are pretty much stuck with video calls. But you deal with it. Most people aren't going to move cities at their own expense to avoid video calls.
Does no one recognize a made-for-AdSense content farm targeting the top pay-per-click keyword, mesothelioma?
Uranium glass is even more fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass

Glows under UV!
Look at numba, which is not quite but sometimes good enough :)
I find it a good capture of the the ‘M$’ vibes of the early 2000s. Someone is angry that emails are no longer formatted to 78 monospace characters.
It kinda answers it if you just ask it to explain it step by step to make it think harder about the question. Not perfectly because it says 3 examples but doesn't say that those are all the possible ones. And after that it started to explain all possible orderings as a bonus and ruins the answer with the last sentence.

My question was:

"
There are 3 events, A, B and C. They happen at different times. Event A happens after event B. Can you give me all the possible orderings of the three events?
Explain your thinking step-by-step!
"

ChatGPT's answer:

"Yes, there are several possible orderings of the three events A, B, and C. Here are three examples:

B, A, C: In this ordering, event B happens first, followed by event A, and finally event C.
B, C, A: In this ordering, event B happens first, followed by event C, and finally event A.
C, B, A: In this ordering, event C happens first, followed by event B, and finally event A.

To find all possible orderings, we can follow these steps:

Choose an event to happen first. This can be any of the three events, A, B, or C.
Choose an event to happen second. This can be any of the remaining two events, since one of the events has already happened first.
Choose an event to happen third. This can be the remaining event, since the other two events have already happened.

In this way, we can generate all possible orderings of the three events:

A, B, C
A, C, B
B, A, C
B, C, A
C, A, B
C, B, A

Each of these orderings is a valid possibility, given the information that we have."
I thought the article was going to tell us about a secret clothes closet aboard the new bomber.
Disney has some pretty awesome robots at their parks. They’ve come a long way since the Lincoln at the world’s fair.
If they wanted to learn, where would you point them?
Most definitely a myth. The mathematics of the physics he worked on is not simple. But of course there is also the time honored and long standing friendly animosity between physicist math and "real" math, in which scant few physicists are "good at math."
I suspect the author agrees: “if people wanted, this could be an NFT, since that technology excels in producing meaningless certificates.”
I dunno, we had a terrible experience with Go nils at my current job:

- It's super-easy to create a situation where some some obscure code fragment can cause a panic and crash the whole app due to nil pointer access, especially in multithreaded scenarios

- We had to start using linters to track possible nil errors early on

- Eventually we just moved to Kotlin, where this is not an issue

- And don't get me started on nil interfaces, good luck properly checking nilability and tracking these kind of issues
If OP wants to make models but never worry about them after doing the fun bits, it sounds like they might enjoy academia. The industry premium salary is in part from doing all the work around the “fun part”. As others have mentioned that’s where a lot of the value is, and nobody wants to be your servant.

Though even in academics, you have to write the paper yourself after doing the fun bits.
> Einstein

Because everyone knows Einstein was the smartest person that ever lived and the best physicist ever, right? Einstein is only famous because of the press he got, because the press glorified him without knowing why, and everyone read the press. Sure he was bright, but he was also all too human. Everyone thinks he single-handedly changed physics forever while in isolation as a desk clerk at a patent office, but the truth is he stood firmly on the shoulders of giants like Poincaré and Lorentz, not to mention his teacher Minkowski and his friend Grossman. Nearly all of the ideas attributed to Einstein were actually someone elses' ideas. Neither Relativity nor the constancy of the speed of light were Einstein's ideas, and not remotely so. History just gave him all the credit.
I think a good system would be if names followed mitochondrial and Y-chromosome lineages. So each child gets a hyphenated surname based on their father's patrinomen and their mother's matrinomen, but boys only pass on their father's patrinomen to their offspring, and girls only pass on their mother's matrinomen. It would ensure everyone only requires a single hyphenation, while having a clear system for tracking descent.

Eg, if my father's surname is Rice-Burroughs (where Rice is his patrinomen and Burroughs is his matrinomen) and my mother's surname is Baron-Cohen, then my surname would be Rice-Cohen, because my father has the "Rice" Y-chromosome (and if I'm a male, I have it too), and I have the "Cohen" mitochondria. If I am male and I marry someone with the surname of Bonham-Carter, our children would get the surname of Rice-Carter, since I can't pass on the Cohen mitochondria. If I were a female and married a male Bonham-Carter, our children would be Bonham-Cohen.
Isn’t this because they are hiring to solve the problem, like, a function that predicts X, and if the model engineer is also the production engineer this is one hire that solves the business problem?

The alternative is hiring two engineers and possibly additional pm/management workflow to make sure they mesh and the prod engineer is not blocked on the model engineer, and the model engineer delivers things that are usable. It’s a bit like when we used to have a “webmaster”, or now I suppose they could be a “full stack consultant” who was in charge of making sure the right pixels appeared on thecompanywebsite.com more or less by any means necessary because that was the business need.
Incident affecting Google Ad Manager
> Lots of average Joes saw a superbowl ad, put their money into a large, well-respected exchange that didn’t promise impossible returns, and lost everything!

Happens in everything. Corporations can fail. Trad-finance institutions can fail. Sovereign currencies can fail.

I still think that beats centralized finance, where I'm barred from investing in, say, startups. Because I'm not ~~rich~~ accredited investor, lol. Ofc that's for my safety, because apparently reducing opportunities of non-rich people is 'protecting' them.

For some bizarre reason one doesn't need to be an 'accredited' to start their own business. I wonder what's the logic here? Government should clearly fix that issue - after all, if investing into sth like OpenAI (for example) is considered risky, then starting your own business is straight up delusional.

> I had a nontechy relative call and ask me how she should go about selling her (literal traditional paint-on-canvas) paintings as NFTs!

What's wrong with that? Is selling physical merchandise bad too? Or digital goods in general? Commissioned digital art? Why is it illegitimate and, say, autographs aren't? Frankly, I find it to be a more elegant system than these other approaches. It would be nice if it caught on someday.

> For a little bit there it seemed like there might be enough momentum for cryptocurrency to become too-big-to-fail before skeptics even had time to object.

How great! "Skeptics" are a bit of a weird name for this. Tech innovation doomers is more fitting, I think. Narratively, I'll admit, you guys are currently on top somehow. VR, Metaverse, AI, whatever Musk ever does... (well, AI doomerism isn't quite universal yet, maybe).

Truly amazing, let's not ever do anything different or new, it's all shit after all.

(also, maybe I'm delusionally optimistic, but I don't think it's quite over yet)
Try ChatGPT right from your email
You don't need a morality detector, just a couple rules of thumb:

- Not your keys, not your crypto. I.e. don't trust a random foreign company like FTX to custody your funds. If you really don't want to self-custody, there are reputable, insured custodians like Anchorage or Coinbase Custody.

- Don't use niche DeFi protocols if you don't know much about them; stick to widely-used protoocls like Uniswap, Curve, Aave, etc.

It's not foolproof, but neither is traditional finance. There are plenty of ways to lose your money there, particularly if you're looking to get rich quick with exotic investments.

In fact FTX was getting into equities, so it's not just crypto investors who will probably lose money (pending bankruptcy proceedings). It's anyone who decided to trust a questionable Bahamian company with their assets, crypto or not.
There are agnostic atheists and agnostic theists.