skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-deterministic problems don't give you clear signs that they are those class of problems.

The system works so long as its deterministic, this is a requirement for computation to do work.

Then it stops working or doing work when its no longer deterministic. It does this in unknowable ways, unplannable ways, and you often won't know why something failed or even if it did fail. The only concrete characterization non-determinism has is the result was not expected.

Troubleshooting and repeatability doesn't work, you get different results each attempt.

Many things can happen non-deterministically including data corruption.

Its not nearly as simply or safe as you make it out to be.

You are making light and minimizing non-deterministic issues.
A human raised without language does not invent it on their own.
Do you need to be at top tier Uni to get properly drunk, drugged and rowdy?

If the uni is in a big city you have other places to discover and party.
Most index funds are quite transparent about their constituent assets. The purpose of index investing is to capture the market as a whole which includes assets held by the few people who make their millions / billions and the many others who blow up their accounts going all in in single stocks.
HN readers who didn't leave Bay Area for holidays: let's meet up
I know a lot of people stayed in SF for holidays. Why don't we meet and socialize/network? That way people who are spending Christmas away from their families get to spend it with the HN community, and folks who already do get to meet new people. Open to any ideas on this.
Less code, with fewer features iff combined with well written code is often better than more featureful code for advanced users as it is a better place to start modifying the code into what you need. So instead of a generic tool with tons of features, a simple tool that is simple to modify. Advanced tools have their place as well (eg. ffmpeg). IMO each has it's pros and cons but I wouldn't say one is necessarily superior to the other.
> But I'll tell you something -- some of the best "leaders" I've hired over the years were athletes -- especially collegiate athletes -- especially female athletes in underappreciated sports.

Hypothesis: having strong ability and interest in leadership roles causes people to pursue athletics.
no, the millenials are a very large group because their parents were an even larger group, the boomers.
Flightradar24 has flight speed - 727 knots, when I checked last

https://fr24.com/R3DN053/2ea2ef9b
The Caddos were living in east Texas pre-Spanish contact! The Spanish word Tejas comes from a Caddo word.

There is a gap in the literature though as to whether the Caddos had central air. We can only speculate.
Sure, those are all fair complaints about humans.
> "I regret to inform you that blogs are not scientific texts, published by academic publishers, so their value is nil!"

An academic publication is just a blogpost that got signed off as “not totally wrong” by someone who barely read it. It feels like the biggest supporters of the system are its leeches who produce no value yet benefit from the clout.
Did you try the 1 dollar a ten cent baseball and bat riddle?
Should each township build and operate its own cinema as well?
Sure it does. ADP has about 60K people, and 620K _companies_ as customers. That's on average 0.1 ADP employee per entire client org.
Tesla Shares Head for Worst Year Ever as Elon Musk Focuses on Twitter
That’s odd, I was just in Savanah and every place I went there smelled like mold. It was overpowering in one store I went into, where a local remarked that you don’t notice after awhile.
WIIFM?
So what?

Why don't rural Canadian indigenous villages have rail service, since Canada and other non-US countries love the general welfare so much?
Like OP, I keep being surprised by how easy it is to drive up bills with Cloudwatch. It’s small numbers here, but I’ve seen this happen at 4-5 digits as well.
>I don’t think ChatGPT can be said to understand what it’s talking about in any meaningful sense of the word—in the sense of being able to justify and explain itself coherently. Alas, too often, real people also can’t justify or explain themselves coherently, so to the extent that people can behave like modestly creative regurgitators of received ideas, ChatGPT looks pretty good.

After working in retail recently and also playing with ChatGPT a bit I can confidently say that ChatGPT is more intelligent than your average day to day human expression of themselves.

My first few minutes with it were much more sensical than the first few minutes I get to spend with hundreds of real human customers each day.
I think you and the OP might be making the same point - that if policy dictates that tax breaks on mortgage interest deduction are capped at 750K then why is it acceptable to give members of professional sports oligopolies tax breaks for hundreds of millions of dollars?
It should and will continue to! Paying $3,200+ for a 2-bedroom is insane!
I don’t want (and even if I did chances are I never would be) Buffet-rich. But that doesn’t mean I cannot be smart with money I set aside for investment. These studies offer one way of looking at things, they are based on “work looong time, put money for retirement into something you can’t pick (in most company plans or have limited options), pay high fees for… and be happy you are “millionaire” when you are with one foot in grave…”

no thanks, not for me
You can have hybrid smart contracts, that rely on oracles inserting real world data on chain (see Chainlink for example).

You could for instance have 5 independent oracles responsible for validating whether the concert happened or not. The "ticket" smart contract would release the money only if the 5 oracles agree it happened, or refund the buyers otherwise.

Chainlink is much more sophisticated than that and handle oracle reputation, cross chain oracle proof, conflict mitigation, etc.
Is this disagreement really about different meanings of 'safe'?

I think most people would agree that we're in a bit of a weird time financially. It seems possible to me that total market index funds might go sideways for a while, and that we might, in fact, have bigger fish to fry as well.

On the other hand, if you've paid down your debts, and emergency fund is in good shape, and you still have extra cash, is there a better bet than a total market index fund?
Elon Musk’s future as Twitter CEO is suddenly in question
Wealth isn’t just personal property in your own name or under your exclusive control. It’s almost always social, tied up in families, relationships, credit lines, trusts, companies, etc. And part of its power over you is your responsibilities toward and relationships with the others in its circle. You don’t want to be the guy who vaporizes your kid’s college fund. Or in SBF’s case, your parents’ house. Even if you technically have access to them when push comes to shove. (Maybe you think he would! But he found someone to place a very high stakes bet that he won’t).

It’s true that your access to resources in a pinch is not always aligned with cultural or consumption-based class markers. For example the family in Winter’s Bone clearly reads as poor, even though Jessup’s bond is paid-off house and acres of timber forest. Conversely, you could imagine a financier whose relationships are all burned and whose assets are all wiped out. But having something to lose is still going to be correlated with class on balance.
How many of those have customers who generate less than the average employee's salary in revenues?
Each other, mostly. But yes also our environment.

Most humans’ social/conversational speech appears to be little more than a Markov chain. From schoolchildren to restaurant workers to office workers…there’s generally accepted call-and-response chains which for some groups form 90+% of the communication.

And that’s not counting the nonverbal communication, most of which is as original as breathing. Even people who spend their lives practicing nonverbal communication still mostly just pattern match in the moment using a wider variety of postures, facial expressions, and gestures than the average person.

Even the seemingly original discussion in the final 10% is also almost entirely copied from others.

I myself only come up with about one truly creative thing per month, it seems like. Usually it’s a micro optimization like “oh this workflow in my kitchen can be improved with a hook to hang that here.” Or rearranging some furniture better. Sometimes it’s a good business idea.

But it’s usually just a very small step forward from the current state of things, no grand plan for multi-stage changes.

Most days I do the same things as some previous day, with just a tiny bit of random walk in my routine and assess whether the small changes were any better.
If it's not a status thing then then, respectful, why pay more than $20 for a watch that doesn't keep time any better? Quartz movements have been around since the 1980s. Don't get me wrong, watches are a (very) nice piece of jewelry in a world that otherwise prohibits men from vanity, so there's that, but you could get a stylish leather bracelet for way less than the cheapest Rolex.

I mean, I get it, my dream car's a BMW and not a Honda. Let's just not pretend luxury watches aren't, well, luxury.
Imo sports and movie stars are over paid.

I often wonder a world where people in STEM were acknowledged in the same way as sports and entertainment.

Personally I think it's sad they're not and the world would be a better place if they were.
I’m on call for a payment provider and have dealt with emergencies basically since the very beginning
You are doing a ton of good this Christmas. Thank you for your efforts here and there.
What kind of academic rigor is there in humanities? There is literally no subject with accepted methodology.
This is great to know. I've been interested in self hosting my own single user instance and it's been hard to understand the all-in cost.
I believe its because the person wants to gain a benefit from the post instead of being empathetic or giving his/her take on it.

Well, not everything is about you. Be kind and empathetic.

Merry Xmass everyone!
Cities need stadiums to host all kinds of events, not limited to sports. But if you're not interested in any of these I guess at personal level you don't need it. Just like roads are useless for people who don't leave their house.
Fun fact: this is a common technique when dealing with children.

> No, you can't leave the table until you eat your vegetables.

> No, you can't go play until your chores are done.
I’m a life-long Texan (more or less), and this sounds like totally logical analysis. I love living in Texas, but I don’t particularly care for our state government, but it also doesn’t affect me enough to affirmatively desire to leave the state. I’d love to live in California but not sure I could afford the lifestyle I’d like to maintain. In fact, quite sure I couldn’t - CA is a great place!
Yup. on-call, and working through the holidays. Thanks to the frustrating miscalculations of corporate upper-management. And, since I am on h1b as well, cant really quit my job either without changing my personal life drastically.

Need to spend another 3 months of leetcoding, and system design to "prep" for another set of interviews. Not looking forward for the 12 hr coding days.
There is an option I think for employers to pay to list jobs.
Thanks John. SL devs should check out Roblox, plenty of fun experiences in there.
I actually don't see what's special with that compared to any other API. Here's the analogous endpoint from the Gitea API docs: https://try.gitea.io/api/swagger#/repository/GetTree
Make Sunsets releasing particles into the atmosphere in effort to tweak climate
Broadly, I've found that Nassim Nicholas Taleb has the best advice here. I think his "barbell" strategy is perfect. Never invest "moderately," just put most in something really safe, and set some aside for big long-shots.

(You can also apply this strategy to not just "money," but e.g. jobs and projects)
If it brings traffic, it means it attracts people attending the events it's hosting. To me that's the main (or direct) purpose of it, and that (be able to host large events) is what differs big city lifestyle from others, at cultural level.

I consider "commercial or housing development" a plus, than the purpose itself.
People have posted books on arxiv for at least a decade. Their rules state: "Submissions to arXiv should be topical and refereeable scientific contributions that follow accepted standards of scholarly communication."
> We humans do many, many things that cannot be reduced down to algorithmic or computable steps.

What makes you think this is the case?
Indeed, ask ChatGPT to respond to complex prompts and it will confidently give you nonsense just like the average proud human being will do.
For me it's the opposite. I wish I spent less time studying, more time socializing and making connections. I don't think the marginal effort required to go from a B+/A- student to an A student is really worth it (unless maybe you're applying to grad school or something and they consider it a big factor, employers don't really care as long as it's above the cutoff). If one wants to spend that time productively better to invest it in working, doing research, or entrepreneurship.
But DFW is hotter than Houston? Houston is more humid and can sometimes feel warmer, but DFW is typically 5-15 degrees hotter on the same day in Houston, and the heat there is comparatively bone dry.
Came to post the same joke, seems like a good meme joke for the holidays?
It's not so much 'people who left California are Republicans" but more, 'people who post on social media about how they're leaving California -are- Republicans".
I would bet the cost would be lower if you use Digital Ocean/Linode and CloudFlare. Both have 5USD instances with no egress costs at these scales. No need to commit for three years or anything.

If you already own a domain you can use a subdomain and cut even that cost although it might make up for a long URL.

I think the main cost here is time. Probably far more expensive than all of those costs. Even on AWS.
As I reported, they encrypt everything but URLs, which is still very bad
Real-Esrgan – Practical Algorithms for General Image/Video Restoration
> OI. The parents of the millennials are the X-gens mate.

Usually, yes, but not always! I'm 29 (born in 1993), which I think is pretty clearly in the range of millennial (definitions vary, and I've seen cutoffs anywhere between 1994 and 1997, but I don't think anyone would put me in Gen Z by any reasonable stretch of the imagination). My parents were born in late 1958 and early 1959, which is probably not within the most common definition of boomer, but I've met other people my age with parents born a few years before mine. I don't think anyone would consider someone born in, say, 1955, to be Gen X, and having a kid at 39 in 1994 would have been somewhat unusual but not really that crazy (especially if the other parent happened to be a few years younger).

If that still doesn't convince you, I don't think I have anything else I could say, but maybe reading this comic might provide a compelling argument: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOdaSW2XUAE1Pxm?format=png&name=...
> To change anything you must recompile and relaunch.

When I used to run DWM this wasn't an issue at all, recompiled and relaunched nearly instantaneously. Easily scripted as well, not a problem to get editors to automatically recompile and send the restart signal if you needed to.
I'll be surprised of the features modern mail protocols like IMAP have.
I'm not sure I buy the author's strict implied definition of "understanding". Yes, ChatGPT sometimes makes mistakes, contradicts itself, and loses track of its own reasoning. Those are all things that humans do frequently, although the frequency of those mistakes and in what contexts they're made is different. I have on many occasions gotten minutes into a discussion before realizing that I was simultaneously arguing for and against my own position, and having to step back and reexamine. Yet I'm pretty sure that I still understand things.

Certainly, there are certain topics where ChatGPT can be said to utterly and consistently fail to understand, but again, there are many topics where a human will consistently fail to understand as well. I once sat in the middle of an intro philosophy class during which a room full of adults with highschool diplomas failed for thirty minutes straight to understand that "if X then Y" is not the same as "if Y then X" despite the TA's efforts using multiple real-world examples. I would not infer from that that those humans were incapable of understanding in general, but rather that they had not yet developed the cognitive tools to deal with logic abstractly.

I've also seen plenty of examples of humans following the format of an explanation or argument while filling in the details with vague jargon and inapplicable nonsense, making their words sound official and superficially convincing, without actually doing the cognitive work to say anything useful. In fact, I've seen that in documents written by people in their capacity as professional engineers and managers. If you've worked in tech for any significant time, you've probably seen it too. But it would be wild for me to claim that the authors of those documents were generally incapable of understanding.

Does that mean that ChatGPT definitely understands things? No. I think it means that we don't really know what we mean by words like "understand" yet, because up until now, we've only had to apply words like that to human brains, and we're generally happy to operate in a framework where we assume that human brains mostly work more or less the same way.

But I have noticed a trend of people dramatically underestimating the actual practical things that GPT-3 can do based on their assumptions about how it works and what its limitations are.
This is also a mandate in Canada for 2035, and I feel like you are being unfair and a little bit snarky to the other commenter (who didn't make the comment about Siberia).

This is actually a larger problem in Canada than the US, and most of the political and policy discussion is in favour of this change.
>I'd happily sacrifice that entire jungle if it brought wealth and prosperity to the people of the brazilian north and northeast.

Good luck fighting the climate change with nickel and cellulose.
Merry Christmas, may your celebration of the Savior's birth be a joy filled one!
> How can you possibly know what musk wants or thinks? This sounds like what you want, maybe what you want him to want.

I don't know, maybe because he has come out and said it?

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/twitter-cannot-become-a-free...

Quoting:

“The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence,”

“There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society.”

How about you take the time to research before belittling people?
> But a return on investment of 200 percent per year is not very exciting when you only have a few hundred dollars in capital.

Lets say a few hundred means $200. After 10 years of 200% returns you'd have $11.8mil. I could live with that.
Cool as always. Sadly, super broken on Firefox. the whole view is just a tiny sliver on the left size. Works well on Chrome.
Unfortunately, the only places that value these diverse skills more in line with the needs (rather than wants) of a society are the ones run by authoritarians.
> San Francisco is one of the most humid cities in the US

Yes, but its neither particularly hot (so it doesn't tend to be muggy), nor particularly cold (its cold for the densely populated parts of California, but that's not saying much), so the humidity isn't much of a problem.

Hence one of the reasons it waa attractive before it was a center of the tech industry.
I'm not this year, but I have been on call during Christmas and other holidays before. It is usually pretty quiet, both because there aren't a lot of changes with less people working, and at least for me, there are less customers using the product. But it can still be stressful knowing your celebrations or time with family can be interrupted by an alert. And sometimes you can get unusual alerts, like alerts caused by unusually low traffic, or a bug that only impacts one user, and that user happens to be the only one using a service at midnight on Christmas eve (is that you santa?).
Yes. Snow-related imagery is the way Christmas is represented in Australia.
the 220 circuit to your dryer and the 220 circuit to your electric stove do not have the capacity to add more items to the wiring (the stove is a much higher capacity circuit btw). Yes, it's true that you wouldn't need to use your car charger while you use your appliances, but that's not how residential building code circuits work. I suppose there must be or at least could be a solution to switch the power over? But you can't just go plugging it in and remain within code.

my brother does a lot of stuff with power tools, and whenever he moves he has to have extra lines brought in by the power company. While houses frequently have 220 coming in, they don't have 3-phase.
(E)Lisp/Scheme users disagree. Code is data, data is code. And they are used to set everything at runtime with total freedom.
Given the amount of absolute garbage I’ve come across in Kindle unlimited, this doesn’t surprise me. I’m not denigrating the service or writing in general, I’m just aware of how much it is becoming a dumping ground due to lack of curation. I’ve even seen advertisements on websites promoting how you can make easy passive income by outsourcing a book and selling it on kindle unlimited … ChatGPT is just removing the cost to outsourcing which was an issue until now due to the cost of using GPT3, because honestly some of the stuff I’ve found on kindle unlimited is unquestionably written by people with a thin grasp of English and to suggest they were even read before publishing let alone actually edited would be an insult to anyone that has ever done the job of editor. GPT3 while prone to waffling on like grandpa Simpson talking about an onion on his belt… it at least waffles on using what I would call coherent readable English.
> Sincere question: Do cities really need stadiums?

Do they need most things? No, of course not do the people living there want the ability to easily attempt stadium events YES.
San Diego Chargers owners tried to pull this and the city of San Diego voted to reject the measure. So they left to LA and play second fiddle to the Rams.
Exactly you’re imposing your will on other people’s property. You’re engaged in theft by other means.
Spending holidays entirely studying security stuffs to sharpen my skills, so a lot more of that. Kernel mode exploitation, mobile forensics and exploitation (beyond msf+social engineering). If i have more time learn ada, erlang and ocaml and then write offensive tools for the sake of it (and to evade detection). Too much shit on my list.
To play guitar and maybe some machine learning.