skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really like this kind of idea because it really goes against a kind of fundemental freedom. "If you don't like it, you can leave".

Instead, laws around making sure that the profits generated from a countries citizens are taxed by that country make more sense to me. A lot of laws around that already exist, and I suppose a lot of people would say that they have not been effective.

A lot of it comes down to the treatment of Intelectual Property. A lot of the tax games that companies play relate to licencing their IP around between different countries. I wonder what would happen if a country tried banning licencing of IP between related parties internationally?
It's not on the Verily page because Santa Clara's monitoring isn't a Verily project. The page has "Source: Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network (SCAN) project by Stanford University"
Enablers
Emma Stone with pouty lips: "Bad bad bad."
But just imagine - we could have had Schwarzenegger…
Hey everyone, I'm Eric, one of the developers.

"Death is the destination we all share." --Steve Jobs

I'm seeing if immortality could be enabled via generative AI. I think this is the closest thing to uploading a brain to a computer.

What do you guys think? I'd appreciate any feedback.

P.S. Each message costs us $0.02 via GPT-3. After 25 messages, you'll be asked for an OpenAI API key to continue. Hopefully, that's okay!
Many books are padded by:

1. using thicker paper

2. using a larger font

4. more spaces between lines

5. larger margins

6. a bunch of blank and/or pointless pages at the beginning

7. ad pages at the end

I see it all the time. A book's contents can vary 2:1 in length compared to another one of the same physical size.
Absolutely. I'm not against the tech, I'm trying to spread word of what it really is. And that definitely includes finding ways in which it is useful and awesome. When you want confabulation, ChatGPT is definitely ground-breaking, a noticeable improvement over GPT-3 even.

"CiteGPT and will be able to substantiate the claims it makes."

It'll have to be a fundamentally different architecture. "Maximum probability extension" just isn't going to do that. I'm not saying that's impossible. Presumably it is possible. Humans do it, very far from perfectly (I'm below average on this front myself, I think), but we do it at least partially, so it's clearly possible somehow. But it'll have to be something other than just a scaled up GPT model.
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Well put. Though by that second metric, I'm not sure that the marginal utility of VSCode, relative to a world where Atom existed and was equally free and accessible, would place it in the highest echelon of widespread-utility-creating engineering marvels.
Ah yes, it is “brain dead” to say “The guy who is telling people to vote for republicans is a conservative.”

While that would make sense when describing literally anybody else, since it is Elon we must consult the ancient runes and see what the prophecy portends for the messiah.
I found project Hail Mary overall enjoyable but at times it was very hard to read due to the main characters internal dialogue.

I hope if they do an adaption they give it a more serious tone than the book
> We used to only have landlines and phortress phones

A few weeks ago I was at our local train station and there was an honest-to-god payphone. Walked up to it, picked up the receiver, and got dial tone. I had figured they were all gone now but apparently not quite yet.
As far as misbehaviour goes, this is one of the least consequential examples, and good thrill value to boot!
I have many biking acquaintances with darned expensive bikes and they are singularly unwilling to just bike to the lunch place leaving it locked to a parking sign pole. Diaclaimer: Pre covid data, now we are WFH
I think Prelude to Foundation could of been a nice mini-series, but overall Asimov's works are just too fragmented to hold up to being a series really.
What's your level of comparison here? Japan? New economies?

If you contrast it with the US, you'll find some technologies earlier in use in Germany, like texting, and some stuff that just went different (credit vs. debit cards). And talk to someone from the US or even the UK about mandatory ID cards, and you'll hear different things about privacy.

I think this specifically is mostly to blame on bureaucracy and the federal system, not a reflection of general German luddism.
Nobody really wants fax machines.
The trick with adaptations is to tell a story that resonates with contemporary themes using the bones of the source material. For example compare Thanos in the MCU to the character in the comic books. Same name and look, same actions (snapping away half the universe), totally different motivations and context.

This is an incredibly fertile time to be adapting Neuromancer. Private space travel controlled by eccentric billionaires is an actual thing now. Independent AI seems way closer than ever before. Hacking and security are huge topics among governments and technical industries.

Parts of the story have to be updated for base plausibility anyway (4MB of hot RAM). If the show runners do it right, they will update more than just that so that it resonates with us today. That’s a creative achievement too. Heck, a lot of Shakespeare’s plays were adaptations.
Was this conversation about OsmAnd+ by chance? Because that could use something like this.

Edit: glossed over the "browser" part. My bad.
Ask HN: If AGI hypothetically brings us utopia, would you still code?
Hypothetically, if AGI emerges and can generate code well enough so that software development is no longer a lucrative job. Let's say society adjusts, you adjust, and it goes really well. AGI is nice and gives us a life of ease with enough roofs and food to eat for everyone. You get to choose what to do with your days, everyday:

Would you still code? If so, what would you make?

I'll answer in the comments, but after thinking about this future, I kinda hope it happens. C'mon ChatGPT!
It was first optioned over 20 years ago, and it’s currently in Bradley Cooper’s hands, supposedly. It was going to be done as a series on Syfy, but now it’s apparently going to be a big studio picture.
The relevant section of the anti-doxxing law, California PC 653.2:

a) Every person who, with intent to place another person in reasonable fear for his or her safety, or the safety of the other person’s immediate family, by means of an electronic communication device, and without consent of the other person, and for the purpose of imminently causing that other person unwanted physical contact, injury, or harassment, by a third party, electronically distributes, publishes, e-mails, hyperlinks, or makes available for downloading, personal identifying information, including, but not limited to, a digital image of another person, or an electronic message of a harassing nature about another person, which would be likely to incite or produce that unlawful action, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in a county jail, by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
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Yeah, GPUs seem to have displaced dolphins for so many computational tasks.
Yeah I was also excited to get a $35k Model 3, didn't really work out either.

Is it that hard to make a cheap EV? Like 20k or less? China seems like they've made a few models but nothing in the US.
To be somewhat fair to PSE, it's generally simpler to plan for wind and ice than falling trees, which the Indiana plains relatively lack. As a proponent of "if the trees are such a problem why not bury the lines" who has since had to dig some trenches in the hellish rocky clay of King County, I am somewhat more sympathetic to their plight.
Midnight Mass is 7 hours of people monologing and is awesome.
I think there’s another thing driving “The Plan,” which is that each party involved is trying to race to the local maximum of efficiency. We need the plan to be finished so that the whole building can be value engineered to reduce waste (material, labor, whatever).

If you plan the whole building and know the exact forces it is going to encounter in different conditions, you can then spec the exact amount and type of materials you need, which means those have to be created to more exacting standards and there is less tolerance for deviation from The Plan.

There is an environment component to this in that we shouldn’t be intentionally wasteful, but trying to engineer in too much precision seems less efficient when you zoom out for anything that is not mass manufactured.
> Possibly by taking additional discounts for clauses like, "I can move you to a different suite in the same building in these situations" because maybe there will be a day when the guys on the fifth and sixth floor really want the fourth floor and meanwhile the tenants on the 3rd floor are downsizing. Some people will pay for those sorts of contingency.

What's interesting is this is exactly what happened to me and my existing office lease. Every tenant on multiple floors wanted to downsize, landlord wanted to do a complete teardown and rebuild of my floor, and so we all played musical offices and we all got what we wanted.

No WeWork style contracts needed, it was all laid out in the office lease agreement, that the landlord could do something like this.
true, but you don't match the parent comment's implied regex!
That can work, but it depends on what you're writing about. Different methods apply in different situations. But good writing has at the very least the advantage of doing what the article notes: it forces you to take what are vague convictions and impressions and justify them. You start to notice gaps in knowledge, inferential leaps, and logical inconsistencies. Only then, and only in empirical settings, do numbers come into play because they need to be motivated by and understood within some prior context. (Even when your writing begins with some number, that number is contextualized in your mind.) Of course, good writing presupposes humility and integrity or else you risk rationalizing and bullshitting.
Boots are a good thing to look for in thrift stores.

I got a $220 pair of redwings in good shape for $12.
OCaml is one of those languages that is a real joy to use and makes me wonder why its not used more often. I feel like if I jump into a Lisp or ML language, I am so productive and can write some really complicated software with relative ease. But they are relatively rare in industry, and I have never really crossed the t on why, despite various reasonings about it.

This is a great achievement for OCaml, but does anyone have an explanation on why it was so difficult to implement for them?
Someone sick should be staying home, not going into grocery stores with a mask on.
@delusional 'the super-rich in charge of these giant investment funds are supposed to be the smartest people in the world, that's what entitles them to command the huge resources they do.'//

..Which makes me wonder if the 'super rich' were on some big money losing scheme that somehow made them money elsewhere, against taxes or similar?

The Producers (1967) Official Trailer

https://youtu.be/z51xeox0Jlg
My answer is I would. I enjoy the process and at this point, is my most reliable way to the flow state. I am more motivated by the process and the learning of making than I am about finished products.

I have a couple of projects that I day dream about but are an unrealistic size for me while working:

1. Turning my emacs configuration into a electron app is a project that nobody needs but I want to build.

2. As much as I can, bring a lisp REPL experience to the python world. (or maybe I could just use clojure for the other projects.)

3. Apps and software for accessibility (including tools for the neurodivergent)

And I'd continue to spend time prototyping software to learn how it works and building developer tools.

Curious about other's choices, what would you choose?
Out of curiosity, how do you define where profits are made when it comes to selling digital services? There is no physical movement of goods. Do you determine it based on where the software was originally written?
I've been using Sprout for years. The things I like about it are:

* Easy to save and organize online information and track it in projects.
* Working with different kinds of information in one place – opposed to using separate apps for to-dos, notes, bookmarks, and project info.
* Less complex and more efficient to use than other project management apps.
* Experience is better for daily task management.
Your terms are agreeable.
> What is PMMoV normalization?

> In addition to the pathogens it tests for, WastewaterSCAN measures an extremely common, harmless plant virus that is consumed when people eat. It is called pepper mild mottle virus (or PMMoV). By measuring the concentration of PMMoV genetic markers per dry weight gram of wastewater solids, WastewaterSCAN can account for how much viral material is recovered from each sample and changes to the “fecal strength” of that sample. For example, heavy rain that drains into a wastewater system can dilute the strength of a particular day’s sample.

OK, that's pretty clever and it sounds useful, so I guess I should turn on that toggle. But then I read further and see this:

> Our analysis suggests that both the concentrations of the SARS-CoV-2 genes measured as copies per gram of solid waste and those concentrations normalized by PMMoV are proportional to laboratory confirmed COVID-19 incidence rates in the sewersheds.

How can both things be proportional? Do they actually mean positively correlated?

If raw data is already proportional to lab tests, then it doesn't seem like there's any benefit from normalizing.
My half joking advise to wework. Ditch the lame Kombucha taps and bring in beer.

I for one will happily pay a huge real estate premium for free* beer
There's a lot of people who show up in these threads whose only coping strategy is to go cold turkey. Maybe that's good advice, but it's not the only advice. There's no reason you can't carry a smartphone in your pocket without it becoming a pacifier.
As long as I can, prob 12 unless school requires a laptop or something.
I'll offer an opposing viewpoint that the show was totally watchable and not "brutal" for me. Some of the acting/story was a bit over the top, but overall still a pretty good show and interesting idea. I've read Neuromancer but wouldn't say I'm a William Gibson expert/fan, so maybe the show is more appealing to the average viewer like me.
This doesn't sound very forward thinking to me. What might not currently be abused is, however, now in place to be abused in future.
Not since 2002. Irix, HP/UX, Solaris.

Correction: It has been pointed out to me that I'm currently using macOS which, Darwin non-withstanding, is technically a proprietary UNIX.
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He left Witcher to to more Superman, but then James Gunn took over DC and scrapped that. But this is exactly what Cavil needed, a big show that he is also super excited about. Cavil plays warhammer as a hobby and is passionate about it.
Illumos is open source Solaris.
Your comment is kind of confusing but you seem to be supporting my point.

Godot is all about "disrupting" game engines by being super indie. It's 99% of the conversation about Godot. The thing is that nobody actually cares about their game engine being indie. They want to make games, and Godot is actually pretty crap at making a game you intend to release.

A game engine is defined by the games made with it. All kinds of games have been made with Unity and Unreal, by solo developers and by massive teams. Each engine can boast collective game revenues (of games made using the engine) in the billions this year.

Godot has been around for 9 years. By this point in their lifecycles, both Unreal and Unity already had massive adoption. Meanwhile, Godot's single claim to fame in 9 years is being used as the graphical engine for the Sonic Colors remake, which was critically eviscerated for its many graphics-related bugs.
I wear a flomask every day when I'm out and about and it works great. You don't need to wear it "around the clock." You just need to wear it when you're inside and there are people around you who might be infected.
Very true, but consider this: these jobs are better than whatever the immigrants are leaving behind. And US foreign/trade policy doesn’t exactly prioritize assisting the global south in becoming strong and independent.

For what it’s worth I am an American but naturalized. I sincerely believe in America but I’m not blind to its external posture either.

EDIT: raising the minimum wage for plant workers would also be a nice thing. The reason immigrants take these jobs is because Americans don't want them.

Plus, citizens have this unfortunate habit of being (usually) more educated and insisting on their labor rights and so forth.

EDIT 2: I’m fine with this being downvoted, but it doesn’t change that the US economy has a structural dependence on this kind of labor exploitation.
That was kind of what I hoped for, yes. (We did get a rather confused call from the manufacturer a couple of years later, they had spotted my stamp and were curious, but not hostile in any way.

If nothing else, they were probably grateful it hadn't been one of them working his way to Rabaul. It is hardly a world metropolis.
OO design was based on Christopher Alexander's work.

Check out Notes in the Synthesis of Form, A Timeless Way of Building, On the Nature of Order, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, and The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets: A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art for more!
So newspapers that like to dox other people in their articles they link to on Twitter are angry they got suspended?
He was fired from Superman and quit The Witcher (because the writers on the show literally hate the books).
I just watched the Foundation adaptation and thought it was a pretty darned good TV show. It had a reasonable compelling plotline, compelling world building, and interesting takes on how technology could lead to strange social dynamics.

Yes, I'm sure it wasn't the same as the books (though I haven't read any of those in my adult life), but taken on its own it was a good show.
+1 to render.com
Ugh I know, cowboy bebops adaptation was one of the most upsetting things I've ever seen.
Show HN: Flagicon: Receive a favicon of your country's flag
Whipped it up with the recently deprecated gorilla/mux using the X-Forwarded header from Caddy to make a lookup in MaxMind GeoIP2.

Not going to blow any minds here but I do think most people have an expectation that assets such as favicons are static.
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Uh, winter is windier than summer, caused by the stronger temperature gradients.

In the last 12 months in Denmark, wind produced over 3 times more power in January and February (the coldest month of the year) than it did in August. This is completely opposite of solar which peaks in July. In that sense they complement each other quite well.

Reference: https://ens.dk/service/statistik-data-noegletal-og-kort/maan...
Interesting there's no mention of the /proc filesystem (https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/proc.html).

cat /proc/<pid>/environ would be a solid addition to this list.
Daemon and Freedom should be easy to adapt, they read like a script to an action movie already!
Those are real page-turners, hard to put down once you start them.
You're contagious for 2 days before you have symptoms. You should wear a mask if you're around other people.
I wouldn't call a 15% tax on corporations "communism". The actual policy objective is reasonable even if many can argue both sides with rational debate.

The main problem is this idea that a bunch of people on the liberal side of the Western world can create "global goals" and try to strong arm the rest of the world into following, which then leads to the inevitable outrage and disappointment when the rest of the world does not follow. And yet it never seems to happen in the other direction -- e.g. Africa deciding on global rules and then trying to force Europe to follow them, assuming they have a right to set global goals. The global goals only flow in one direction.

The idea that corporate tax policy is something that countries outside of the EU have actually thought of, and are doing their best to address in their own way, and for their own purpose, is something that never occurs to these self-described "global planners" who are in reality deeply provincial and trapped in their own micro-culture.

It is also something that people on the other side of this debate have thought of, which is one of the reasons not to tax corporations at all, but to tax those who receive the profits of corporations and that are domiciled in a particular tax jurisdiction. There is a lot of self-contradictory results when you try to tax the business separately from the owner of the business -- for example, a corporation can deduct interest payments but not dividend or share repurchases, when all three are basically the same thing, and a corporation has the option of doing all three. So this incentivizes corporations to take on debt, which then promotes financial fragility. Lots of distortions happen in a vain fight against "tax loopholes", when the real problem is that you are trying to tax the company separately from the owners.

So then you say, "I agree that trying to define 'profits' is prone to tax loopholes, so I will tax corporate revenue". Good idea! But then you will penalize business that have high expenses, e.g. a retail store that buys an item and sells it for a 20% markup would be driven out of business by a 15% tax on sales. So you say, "I will tax revenue net of input prices". And all of a sudden you have a value added tax, which is a form of sales tax, which is regressive. And then people complain about that regressivity and say "we should be taxing income instead", which was my original point!

So you keep chasing your tail because you are making decisions without really thinking things through, much like the decision for the EU to cavalierly set "global goals" even as it's relative importance is rapidly shrinking, even as Asia is pretty much ignoring all these goals because they are following their own interests and don't care about EU global goals.
True, but for everyone except the richest, a tax that’s originally targeting the rich that ends up scope-creeping to include the common man down the line is still better than a tax that targets the common man right from the beginning.
What about protecting your data from AWS?
Being a taxi company or takeout business doesn’t seem sexy either, but several giant “tech” startups existed in those spaces space.
Sure, if you KNOW you're sick. Often you are contagious without feeling sick. Or maybe you just feel a LITTLE sick but still go to the store.
I picked up on this a few years ago and mentioned it briefly in
Digital Vegan. What struck me while researching was that the
accusation of "Luddite" is levelled mainly against older (Boomer,
Gen-X/Z) people and comes from the same group. Whereas younger
people, glorified as "digital natives" by our older group, actually
have more critical attitude towards gratuitous connection and
consumption.

It made me realise that the mythologies of tech (an inevitable,
ubiquitous force of progress and 'convenience' that we must slavishly
follow or be "left behind") resides in my generation.
Something I don't get...

Wind turbines are efficient (to convert mechanical wind energy into electric energy) between 20% and 45% (with a theoretical upper limit of 59%).

Solar panels between 15% and 22%.

Both with variable input energy.

So I am not sure how 34-36% thermal efficiency is so bad, especially for a near-continuous production (or at least, with a predictable thermal input)?
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