skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> His house was filled with petrol (gas) because he'd been paid and he had to buy something the same day that would keep for a month and hold its value or his money would evaporate. So we sat in his house praying there wasn't a fire.

I'm guessing the friend sold the petrol for USD, right?

Zimbabwean who lived through this checking in - let me add context and help deconstruct this for HN: People (and banks) were converting Zimbabwean dollars to anything that could hold value and could be easily resold (in US Dollars) ASAP - this could be petrol or petrol vouchers, groceries, cookies - anything at all that could be bought with Zimbabwean dollars and flogged for USD. One of the retail banks got in trouble with the central bank after adding masonry bricks to their commodity portfolio[1]. Petrol was definitely a risky. Bitcoin would not have solved this because the using Zimbabwean dollars to purchase of commodities was only the first step to procuring US dollars while arbitrating the delta between the official exchange rate that formal businesses had to use, and the much higher real exchange rate as determined by the market. The hypothetical bitcoin:Zimbabwean dollar exchange rate in 2008 would have always tracked the market rate with no opportunity for arbitration.

1. Not brick futures or other fiscalised instrument: the bank bought and took possession of piles of bricks for resale later to hedge against inflation
I'm not following that whole universe so I guess I missed it, I started following him when it was this little podcast interviewing computer scientists about AI, and now it's this huge thing, and I never figured how it went from A to B.
Quirks & Quarks

While this has been around for a LONG time, and not really a 'podcast'; I can't recommend enough: Quirks & Quarks

It's hosted by the CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp), and it's a "Weekly Science Journal". It has fairly up-to-date news and fascinating interviews. I started listening to it 30 years ago on the radio and still love it today.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks

You used to be able to download MP3's or OGG's of each show, don't know if you still can.
Several of the popular podcast platforms carry it as well.
This is a very shallow understanding of Crowley’s occultism. He truly understood the battle between free will and true will…the nature of man vs nature of the universal consciousness.

I see shades of Vedanta in his Thelema. I can also see and understand how the Abrahamic western world can view that as ‘black magic’.

The British colonisers always viewed pantheistic Indian religion as ‘demonic’. Crowley..imo..was more a brilliant and deep thinking religious philosopher than a ‘black magician’ or occultist.
I'm curious how this process works. Is it that the researchers are experimenting with different ingredients and seeing what works best? Or do they have a clear idea what sort of structure they want to build and the research complexity is in how to get the various ingredients to assemble into the required structure? Basically wondering how the researchers go about planning a research program and how clear the goals and timelines are.
> > "They didn't pay, so they die."

> This isn't a thing in the US. Hospitals will stabilize anyone, regardless of ability to pay.

It's weird that you think you've offered a retort here. A person who cannot afford medical treatment and experiences one or more of these emergency room visits followed by immediate discharge as soon as legally permissible is likely to die before their time, perhaps shortly after being discharged.

> First responders- police, ambulance, fire fighters- will save any life they are able to.

They do that sometimes when it suits them, but they certainly aren't legally obligated to.
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I think you should be using user-defined transitions (https://bazel.build/extending/config#user-defined-transition... ) to use sanitizers. They essentially duplicate the build graph, and you can set build flags on the transition so that all dependencies will be built with those flags.
possibly white mice and HeLa too?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_mouse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Henriett...
How does scaling laws of the fediverse differ to scaling laws of email? Hadn’t the success of email already shown that it’s possible to scale decentralized protocols?
I reference the GPT-3 preprint because it's the source of the latest twist to the meaning of "few-shot learning".

>> Given a task, a few shot learner is an algorithm that generalizes well with only a small number of training examples for that task.

I don't know where this definition comes from and I'd prefer if you had a more solid reference than your recollection of your undregraduate years, but it doesn't really matter because what you describe is not what LLMs do.

The input prompts to GPT-3 and friends are not "training examples". Training examples are labelled instances of a concept to be learned- that's PAC-Learning. LLM prompts are not examples, and they're not used in training. They're input sequences that an already-trained model completes with a sequence of tokens with maximal probability given the input.

That's indeed nothing new, it's how language generation with a language model works, and has always worked. But I don't remember ever hearing anyone referring to the input sequences given to Hidden Markov Models or Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars as "training examples", or the process of generating their completions referred to as "learning", let alone "few-shot learning". And yet, this kind of generation is exactly what LLMs do, too. Except of course LLMs have much smoother, larger models than any HMM or PCFG ever trained. But as the OP is arguing, that's not a qualitative difference, only a quantitative one, and renaming it is misleading. Doubly so if the renaming walks roughshod over long-established terminology, like "few shot", "learning" or "examples".

Btw, the OpenAI GPT-3 preprint gives a definition of their "few shot" setting but it's informal, long-wided and overall a vague mess, so it's really no surprise that so much confusion and chaos is generated as a result.
Really fun, great introduction to the exciting new features.

Which part of the example implemented using `nullptr` instead of `NULL`, which is also from the future, though?
Fair! I don't remember a crash, but I always assumed the save speed was just a limitation of the floppy drive
None; they are all hitting up against the same limits with the current technology someone would need to figure out something completely new to trigger another solar boom.
The Bobiverse
Always great to see new ways to integrate with Spotify. I think that if you're paying for a Spotify Premium subscription you should be able to stream music wherever you want!

However Spotify doesn't agree. If this is based on librespot its using stuff Spotify doesn't support and could easily shut down for unauthorized clients any time.

Their supported paths are iOS and Android SDKs for mobile, and the Web Playback SDK for desktop [1]. I've been using the web SDK in anger to build a jukebox app [2] and its only so-so.

First, you're under the confines of a web browser which has some pretty big tradeoffs over the experience and system integrations you can build.

Next, song playback works as advertised but there are many things you can't do like introspect the queue or prevent Spotify Radio from kicking in.

The latter is downright hostile to controlling exactly what songs you hear. I assume that always going into auto-recommendation mode is intentional to juice playback stats.

Kudos to spotifyd for offering total control over how and where you stream music you're paying for.

1. https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk...

2. https://www.getjukelab.com/
These layers are wafer-thin. Don't think you're going to be able to scrape off the perovskite and reapply it in situ.

https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/pubbin/news_datei?did=15064
That's all well and good if all you want to do it propagate the error up the call stack until some code prints it, but that's not really handling the error, any more than if err != nil { return error } is. If the calling code needs to behave differently depending on the details of the error, the worst way to do that would be examine the message string. A robust system is going to respond very differently if, for example, the error is one that indicates retrying is worthwhile vs an error indicating that no amount of retrying will ever succeed.
also strange wording given US banks are for the most part prevented from offering banking services of crypto exchanges.
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Insert Credit - casual, mostly retro, video game jokes

Unboxing - a new podcast about the business side of gaming

Podouken - arcade video games

Shop Talk Live - casual woodworking podcast from Fine Woodworking magazine
it could be auto(in)correct, perhaps via dictation.

i'm a language and grammar stickler and rewritten spellings in dictation and just plain autocorrect sometimes sneak by, particularly since iOS started correcting at a delay and several words back.

I once wished a girlfriend that her presentation would be "kick ass" but she got a text wishing it to be "lick ass". But it was obviously autocorrect being stubborn.
under the influence by terry o'reilly

I think it's the best storytelling podcast there ( or Marketing ).

with its archives, it has more than 15 years of productions.
The labels include "best before", "sell by", and "use by", and they don't mean the same thing.
In practice, though, PAdES has a lot more support and has the crucial property of being easy to view by end-users.

Is there any wide use of ASiC?
You play like you practice.
Always has done. Keep your music and any music streaming service as far away from each other as you can.
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Can you give a link to "Heavyweight"? I searched for it in my podcast app but there are loads of results - I'm not sure which one you're talking about
I listened to 20 or 30 of his podcasts and enjoyed them. But then let it slide. It felt more like Lex was asking interviewees for thoughts on his ideas and worldview than letting their own ideas breathe.
I know the HN reaction on this will likely be negative, but Rainbow Six Siege has a very real toxicity problem and I don't mean "people told me I suck".

I was playing with my girlfriend and the mere action of talking got her team killed almost every other game in casual. People would get around the reverse friendly fire by taking turn killing her.

It got to a point were I actually put in the work of recording and submitting reports because it was way beyond what I would have considered acceptable, and I'm the kind of person that likes the trash talking of MW2 and the overall insanity of things like gmod.

Maybe this isn't "the" solution, but she paid for the game and she should get to play it for fun without getting an insane amount of abuse just because she makes callouts and sounds like a girl.
In defence of traditional swearing – and against the cult of “cockwomble”
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Your Kickstarter Sucks. consumer markets, economic trends, web entrepreneurship - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-kickstarter-sucks...
> I had all the desires of a regular guy: a wife, kids, a house, meaningful work, etc. I mean I still do, but I guess I'm too late for the first few.

No, 42 is not too late. You have to take care of somebody, this will fill your life with meaning. This meaning is hard to describe (it may not look rational), but you will feel it. Also, stop looking for a "meaningful job" - it's unlikely you will find one. As soon as you realize that the only thing that matters is taking care of your family, the issue of "meaningful job" will automatically lose its importance.
How about... a recursive network of medium-sized public squares.
Not that this invalidates your point in any way, but returning a 503 for database (or any other resource) unavailable is useful to disambiguate server errors from transient connectivity/database is temporarily unavailable errors.
NIF isn't used for research into a new kind of weapon, in the context of nuclear weapons, it's used to generate similar conditions to an actual nuclear explosion, as the US government has signed treaties that agree to not test nuclear weapons anymore.
It was for a pretty senior role. Having joined, it was clearly not a red flag in hindsight; it didn't hunt at any actual dysfunction AFAICT.
So maybe a fair re-phrasing would be: "Facebook provided personal information to Cambridge Analytica and they used this information to assist the Trump campaign"

With the understanding that (1) the data was taken without the permission of all people impacted (i.e. if your friend installed the app and gave their permission, then you could be affected), and (2) it's debatable how effective the data actually was for the campaign.

I think the "public Facebook APIs" descriptor is a little off — Facebook viewed it as a data breach and apologized (and got sued, and fined, etc). So it was pretty shady, not just simple above-board access.
I'd add that improving logistics in terms of bundling packages and slowing shipping to handle reduced shipments would do a lot in terms of reducing an ecological footprint (not that I'm big on woke environmentalism).

+1 on reducing options and improving curation... I've gotten in the habit of nearly always selecting "sold by amazon" option in searching... if nothing else, at least the return process is less likely to be a hassle.
Financial transparency and integrity is a wonderful goal. However, I am yet to understand why any kind of blockchain is necessary or sufficient, or even a good solution. If you want to cook the books you can do it with or without blockchain. Same if you want to be honest. Blockchain seems like a very complex and expensive way of persisting transactions in a database.
So our Zimbabewe friend buys bitcoin at $60K and 6 months later has bitcoin worth a third of that. Or he puts it in FTX and has it all disappear. Not seeing how it solves his problem.
The cost of the panels is already such a small fraction of residential install cost. My panels were definitely under a buck a watt (maybe 15% of the total cost). The installation cost (i.e. paying for a team of a dozen guys to dangle in harnesses on my steep roof for three days) absolutely dominated the invoice (50-60%). The second most expensive was the batteries (about 20%). The remainder went into the hundreds of other parts (inverter, cut-off, conduit, circuit breakers, cables, MPPTs, brackets, safety stickers…) needed for a functioning & legal system. And a couple hundred bucks of fees to the city for permitting and inspection, and a couple hundred bucks for the off-shore engineers to draw the system design docs.

I won't make a profit for decades, unless the price of grid power shoots up. It would make more sense in a place with higher power costs. But I can keep the lights on if there's a power outage, without the maintenance costs (and noise) of a hydrocarbon-fueled generator.

If you're installing solar for monetary gain, don't put it on your roof, buy/lease cheap land and build a solar farm. My electricity provider even lets you buy in on syndicated solar farm deals, if you don't want to manage the process yourself; you get the generated kWh credited back on your power bill!
What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?
An Italian town did build a mirror to do that.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnvzn/viganella-italy-fake-...

[edit]
Looks like a town in Norway did it as well, and theirs tracks the sun.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/10/using-giant-mirror...
No the same isn't true, I can't sell my telephone for more just because there are more other people with phones.
Using the example of FTX, only FTX.us officially operated in the US (and was supposedly run more like a real bank), but there was always a "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" hint that if you want the good stuff you should go around the geoblocking and deal with FTX proper.

The other interesting element is that the most vocal crypto backers, often for ideological reasons, want to deal with this completely unregulated system that crypto has created. If the SEC had intervened before FTX collapsed, I'm sure you would hear cries of "authoritarianism" and "fiat banks are scared" from the usual suspects. Perhaps we should let these people have what they want - consequences and all - and just limit the ability to buy Super Bowl commercials in regulated markets for unregulated products.
I haven't yet seen anyone demonstrate a meaningful distinction between "digital currency" and "digital cash" that actually matters for how people use money.
Those random liberal democrats tended to follow other liberal democrats on twitter though, that explanation of Twitter's failing and salvation just isn't tracking imo.
Completely agree, maybe if the USA got rid of the FDA and the whole concept of prescription medicine we'd be able to buy cheap medicine without the all the protectionism that the state bolts on.
How does a Zimbabwean convert ZWR to USD? How does a Venezuelan convert bolivars to USD?
Also, the reason I made a Desktop app is that all other tools usually require somebody to know the Terminal, or how to set up a Webserver. Twitvault can also be used by non-tech people to archive their data.
Messi's great but he didn't have to deal with this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andoni_Goikoetxea#:~:text=Mara...
Two podcasts mainly related to history:

- El Weekly listen [0] from Engelsberg Ideas and I recommand this episode [1].

- Jacobin's Long reads by Daniel Finn, only available from Jacobin's main feed (just search 'long reads') [2], and for instance I recommand this episode on Belgium [3].

[0] https://audioboom.com/channels/5029938.rss

[1] https://audioboom.com/posts/7839871-ei-weekly-listen-iskande...

[2] https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/619be5c0705138001b9c847...

[3] https://shows.acast.com/jacobin-radio/episodes/long-reads-an...
So? If we were arguing about whether C was perfect, your point might be relevant. But we were arguing about whether C was more usable than Pascal. And your latest reply makes it look like can no longer argue that point, but still feel compelled to argue something.

C was more usable in unextended form than Pascal was. C extension more often took the form of libraries, which were more portable. This made C programs themselves more portable between compiler variants than Pascal programs were.

And that is a big part of why C won and Pascal lost. It wasn't just free compilers. (By the way, were any of the extensions and dialects free? To the degree that they caught on, that disproves your "free" argument; to the degree they didn't, that disproves your "but variants!" argument.)
Making it marginally harder to steal wealth from Jewish people would have only slightly abated the negative effects of the holocaust, but it would not at all solve any of their problems.
It really sounds like your main problem is your depressed. So I'd get a therapist, get on medication, and try some things one the urls below.

And to expand on that, if you're not vibing or getting results from one therapist see another one. Don't give up after seeing just one. I know plenty of people that didn't see much improvement after one therapist but did well with others.

Look into medications, they are a lot easier to stick to than seeing a therapist especially if you're depressed. Even if the first drug doesn't work try another one. The non-response rates to a single medication are much smaller than if you didn't respond to one you try another one.

In the process get started with this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Workbook-Depress...

This website has a lot of useful information too. (Written by a psychiatrist)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/16/things-that-sometimes-...
Last I checked, Twitter required SMS phone number verification for all new accounts. That takes a lot longer than 3 seconds, not to mention the privacy invasion.
Ha. Well maybe technically. In the government sector, you may control what the definition of a crime is, or maybe you exempt yourself from the laws that apply to everyone else (looking at you, Congress).
This seems like an interesting short survey of London firefighting history, but I'm missing the debunking people are remarking about. The only thing that slightly resembles debunking is that in the conclusion the idea that fire brigades ever let houses burn is referred to in passing as a "legend."

In regard to the legend - I don't think that anyone ever said that fire brigades would refuse to put out uninsured buildings where the fire might spread to other buildings, that fire brigades couldn't be induced by cash to put out the fires of the uninsured, or that cities never offered baseline inducements for fire brigades to put out fires whether the buildings were insured or not. That would be adding content to the "legend" in order to debunk it. Looking at the record and finding out that all of these things happened is expected and unremarkable.

The fires that we would expect not to be put out if the "legend" were accurate would be fires that happened to uninsured buildings that didn't endanger nearby structures, buildings owned by people who didn't have enough cash or credit to convince an uncontracted fire brigade to act, that were close enough to the city to be accessible to a fire brigade yet far enough away that the city didn't feel responsible for them. Additionally, the chance that a building owner might simply pay (under flaming duress) a brigade that showed up would mean that they probably generally would show up, and if they weren't ever willing to watch a building burn, they'd be undercutting their own last minute deals.

These are the exactly the fires that we would expect not to be in the record. Fires in detached structures, owned by people with no money.

It seems that the city started rewarding brigades for putting out fires in uninsured households based on the order in which they arrived. Additionally, they were consolidating/federating in order to take on larger contracts - which incidentally meant [original scholarship] that the consolidated/federated brigades would always get the first arrival bonus through this collusion. As the number of independent brigades dwindled and the socialist city reward money became large enough that the actual insurance element receded to only being profitable for large contracts rather than individual homes, the consolidated block of fire brigades organized their own nationalization.
I've read the Innovator's Dilemma, and it's not relevant unless you can point to something that Godot is innovating. It's just an also-ran to Unity and Unreal at this point. When people talk about Godot, they don't mention it's cool features over Unity/Unreal, they mention that it's free or libre. And there have been a million free and open-source game engines in the past, so that's not an innovation.
Your attitude is reasonable for non computer expert. Not someone who has to work with computers every day. It's mystifying to me to see that attitude in computer experts, programmers etc. It'd be like an expert 5 star chef eating mcdonalds for dinner every day, or an experienced car mechanic using a childs set of tools.
It's exclusive to Spotify, sadly (didn't use to be) https://open.spotify.com/show/5c26B28vZMN8PG0Nppmn5G
…but will it replace it for a significant number of people who matter (for whatever arbitrary definition of "people who matter")?

Think of the quotation of "The Velvet Underground and Nico only sold 10,000 copies, but each person who purchased the record went on to form their own band"
I would expect a lot of long-running things are lost to wars or big natural disasters.