skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just started reading the article, it looks nice! In this sentence:

It’s a 7 bits codes, allowing to send bigger messages than with the Baudot (or the Murray) code, even including the luxe of lowercase and uppercase letters.

I think "luxe" is really "luxury"?
They also give zero justification or explanation for why they selected 2^36 as the complexity that is assumed for the reader's password. It's too bad, as their own page on PBKDF2 (https://support.1password.com/pbkdf2/) shows what the complexity and cost is of various password models, but they don't use any of that data, and just stick with the $100 / 36 bits number.

Based on their own page, I would probably estimate the complexity of the average user's password at around 50 bits (3 word, digit separator, capitalize one), but that would result in a $1 million dollar crack cost, largely wiping out their own argument.
Nah. I am definitely not that guy.

Toxic, perhaps for me. In that if I see something not getting done and I cannot get anyone to do something about it, I will try and handle it. I learn a lot along the way, but at times have too heavy a workload as a result.
Why do I feel this is a setup?? Still...Alright, I'll be the first to bite....

You're talking emigration, not just 'nomading'--which is that grey area of having a tourist visa but working remotely, thus technically you're not working illegally within that country.

Since most countries are very strict about emigration, yes even EU ones, your best bet is to go for that Italian citizenship which if gained will grant you EU citizenship, and thus the right to free movement of working in the EU. From that, you can leverage working elsewhere in the world.

Fun fact: got a friend who has the same benefit as you--he got IT citizenship thanks to both his parents, now lives & works in Milano in cybersecurity.

> felt like your US Passport was worthless

Don't say that. Don't even joke about that. You must have no oversea-living experience: a US passport will never be worthless - It's priceless--it's the best insurance you'll ever own - no, that you have a Right to - when traveling & working overseas. It'll allow access to more countries than any other passport; it'll help more than hurt your chances for employment in many countries; it'll provide you diplomatic services that most other countries have never and will never provide their citizens; and when the worse happens, it'll allow the US embassy staff to get your ass out of a country (yes, brooking the local rules of law) before you get thrown into its prisons -- even if YOU are the one at fault. If the 'worser' happens, it could be a literal 'get out of jail Free card' for you, depending on the diplomatic relations between the US and that country.
> Daunt is therefore succeeding by refocusing on “loving books,” as you put it, rather than on transacting books.

New B&N is much more focused on transacting (whether its books or other merchandise) than at any time in its past history. That’s why it works: B&N in the past has focused more than the current B&N on speculative/aspirational attempts to build demand and novel businesses (whether its effectively selling prime space for publisher’s promotions as discussed in the article, or the attempt to build B&N’s own Nook business by large dedications of space, or B&N’s bizarre restaurant business), the current version is focused on stocking and moving what the local stores know they can move.
I have lived in the US my whole life.

I'm well aware of how the justice system works, as I pointed out above.

My claim is not false, it is borne out by the facts of what actually happens. The comment above lays out the numbers. There is zero incentive in the law for a prosecutor or a police officer to punish the guilty person. There is great incentive to punish someone, anyone so that everyone's statistics look good for promotion.

The reason that not all cases are cleared is that not all prosecutors and police officers are crooks. One could even say that most of them aren't. That fact doesn't bear on my assertion.

And your accusation of me being a leftist is about the silliest assertion anyone has ever made.
There was a post here, a few weeks ago, by an author, complaining that Every. Single. Copy of his book on Amazon was a fake.

Books are ridiculously easy to counterfeit, and can bring in quite a bit of cash.

Amazon has made the conscious business decision to be a counterfeit souk. I guess they make lots of money from it, and I suspect they don’t really care about their retail brand anymore. From what I hear, it’s actually a loss leader.
Oh yes, I'm well aware of those numbers.
The Russians are notorious for black humor and taking the piss.

Of course you could trust Reuters and others to take it all seriously. That only only makes them and others in the MSM look even more stupid than they are.

The Russian April Fools Jokes are many. https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-russia-april-...
Except pop-sci books are cancers in and of themselves. The book has some interesting notes but in general prescribes really questionable conclusions to the data. For example, one poster here suggests sleeping less leads to cancer.

I don't personally think the article was in any worse taste than the book. Just because someone cites studies doesn't mean they know how to relate data. There's two entire websites dedicated to this sort of fallacy, here (HN) and Reddit. Pop-sci is the most annoying part of the 21st century to me.

I'm not convinced anyone actually understands sleep. We know too little and we can die. Too much, and we can die too. "Just enough" is the answer but as far as I can tell no one can quantify what this even means. I sleep enough to be rested. This seems to be >= 6 hours a night. The book would insinuate that I'm going to die of all sorts of terrible diseases as a result. The book itself isn't good science and I don't think a criticism of such a broad-strokes painting of a complicated subject needs to be any more kind.

To address your greater point if there's any place where you can throw a rock and find bullshit it's nutrition and health "science". In fact, the industry is so rife with bullshit it's often difficult to tease out actual actionable data. More people need to directly criticize these people in such a fashion until they simply go away.
> But I don't think that is so likely to result in genius, at least how most people think of genius.

Ignoring how ignorant it is to ever claim you know "how most people think of" anything...

The original thread referenced Kubrick and Picasso: intellectual, hardworking people. Unless your definition of genius means it is some innate, genetic predisposition for a subject, I'll first refer you back to my word "obsession" and also point out that if we've dwindled down to "IQ" as the lone factor, then what is the fucking point.

"Geniuses" are only relevant for their creative outputs. There are plenty of "high IQ, high promise" MacArthur fellows that don't even make a splash, so who cares about their semi-formal "genius" title.

The "genius" (person) takes the inkling of a "genius" idea and successfully carries it through to completion. My argument is that we all have genius ideas, and none of the characteristic problem-solving knowledge/infrastructure/time to realize those genius ideas.

In order to do that, you've got to know the medium, completely, that is part of genius. This is why Picasso was able to make the strange art that he did. He knew how to precisely capture subjects, lighting. He got bored with it, and wanted to see what else there was. He once said "the chief enemy of creativity is good sense." He only knew that once he studied the classics thoroughly.

You see the same story with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. Herbie was getting frustrated with what he was playing on tour with Miles in the 60's. Even though it was still masterful, it was boring Herbie to tears. Miles leans over during one of his shows and says "don't play the butter notes". The fuck does that mean? It doesn't mean anything, it's practically an oblique strategy. But Herbie knew everything, and so he took this to mean don't play the 3 in a chord, because it gives the chord too much certainty in its meaning. It solved Herbie's problem.

You hear Jonah Hill talking about Martin Scorsese in the exact same way: "Scorsese is a genius because here's a guy a who can walk on set, be handed any logistics blocker, and we're all moving again in under five minutes."

How do you get mastery of a subject so that you can solve problems at the highest level? You grind. and grind. and grind. Because you are obsessed. And then you get lucky that you have a genius idea that touches people.

So yeah, mastery, genius, they're the same thing, but the genius part is whatever society heralds as relevant.
Please, explain how disagreement over petty shit drives advancement. By my understanding, petty shit is of no value, and thus unimportant to advancement of anything but resentment and dismissal, and indeed is an inhibitor of progress. (Irony acknowledged.)
Could you plaese be more specific on "it"?
... and it's amazing how it works perfectly fine for a basic 1 day program as the og author needs. No need to make it "idiomatically correct"
Less athletic/cheaper version of tennis.

I prefer almost every alternative. Tennis, table tennis, racquetball, squash, badminton are all more fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFYyij4ykTI
Perhaps they are thinking frequency for a trip they take often. It matters less that your Dallas->Houston flight is late when there's another one in 30 minutes during peak times.
The fact that some people have a valid use case does not refute my claim
Seems to be correlated with everything else that was buoyed by surplus money
Bitcoin has been an absolutely terrible bet for the last 4 years.
On top of that most people in eth multiplied their holdings during defi summer.
Maybe it’s just in my head, but I think Apple Maps is already less likely to suggest left turns than Google.
In line with this, the owner of a book store in the Boston area told me that older folks lean towards digital books and younger folks prefer physical books. This seemed a bit counter-intuitive, given that one might have expected older people to prefer the paper books that they are used to -- as an example, an older relative of mine, an avid reader, has a Kindle but rarely uses it.

I don't recall how he explained this, but it might've been that older folks don't want to accumulate more stuff while younger people have room to grow a collection as well as the point you make about wanting to acquire non-digital goods (and, relatedly, perhaps to have experiences that take them away from their screens).
The MLK Library in Washington, DC, has such a room or rooms. It also has a room with 3-D printers.

(For those not living in the area, this is the largest of the Washington, DC, public libraries, downtown at 9th and G NW.)
What about a physics simulation to back into those parameters? Given a front and side image without wearing a bra are there really so many different archetypes that can produce the resulting shape?
I wonder when the term "pump and dump" became popular, but I certainly remember it since before crypto. I'm sure it's a scheme that first ran in Mesopotamia or before.
This just sounds like bad management. If people don't feel comfortable communicating their own skills then everyone is worse off
Lifestreams (1997)
It is close to deprecation. In fact it's already deprecated on a device ~50% of American's use (an iPhone). It's also deprecated on MacOS.

Many hardware manufactures are getting rid of it from their drivers and just using 3rd party libraries that emulated it on newer APIs.
His other videos are worth a watch too. Fantastic content.
Blogger is my fav. Unlimited everything and you can use custom code in every post. Plus it's free.
Thank you! I’ve not done the calculations but our solar system is 800 watts continuous output in full sun. We have supercapacitors that can deliver several kilowatts in short bursts. I’d suspect that it’s perfectly possible to run a suitably powerful laser off of that. I’ve got a laser cutter at home that draws 40 watts of power and cuts through heavy denim fabric, so that would definitely kill a weed! I suppose this means we could continuously run ten such lasers while also leaving overhead for the drive system and compute.
Cool project, but it reminds me of one of the golden rules of AI “if you can solve it with a simple rules based system, you should”

Having to tell chatGPT to make sure it gets it’s math right is not confidence inspiring.
Is that different from other diseases? It sounds similar to flus, colds, etc. A flu shot can improve the odds but they're never perfect. No amount of flu is safe, and the more times you get the flu the more likely you are to die.
Unfortunately, this thinking came about through my direct experience as someone seeking treatment for a chronic disease. For the specific disease I have, there are endless studies about various drugs, and very, very few studies about non-drug treatments, many of which are known to be effective in the patient community, but lack enough "studies" to be part of the standard treatments recommended by doctors. Instead, we're offered drugs that cost $10,000+ per month. (Drugs which are backed by many, many studies, and yet are only around 25% effective after 2 years.)
What is this? Ignoring the obvious issues (the amateurish writing, the bum kissing, the bad logic), is this just some dudes rambling blog?
While I hate to think how inefficient this is, it gave me a really good prompt idea I tried with GTP-3 and it works.

> Here is it in Json format: ...

Seems pretty effective to get GTP-3 to spit out the results in the exact format you want. This will save me so much time parsing to get out the results I need.
> shit like phrenology was real in that world

Ask pretty much any AI model, it still is.
> Seeing as stonks trade for often >40x the company's actual output, sounds pretty similar, doesn't it? Most coins should be worth a fraction of their traded value, and the same with Wall Street.

Well for one “40x their output” is meaningless. Ideally stocks are valued at their expected net present value of future dividends; implicitly assuming it’s baked in for growth stocks.

Second, I don’t care at all what you think is overvalued. The question was “why was this thing valued without crypto fundamentals?” And the answer is because the market cares very little for those things.
100% agree.

Google Maps sucks now. It's full of ads, pop ups, etc cluttering the interface. Also- why are we asking drivers to report things while they're supposed to be driving?

The experience while driving with Android has gotten terrible. In 2013 everything worked, now we are moving backwards.
Honestly, the other commenter hit the nail on the head in that "optimum" doesn't mean "necessary"—but 10 minutes of a commute isn't enough to get your engine fully up to working temperature and you are shortening its lifespan. Maybe it doesn't matter to you, and that's totally fine. If you're changing vehicles every couple of years you're probably not even going to run into needing significant repairs as a result of it, but if you're planning on keeping your vehicles for a longer period of time it's definitely something you should consider.
Submission statement: this is an old article about UIs that aren't organised in space like desktops are but in time.

With the advent of tools like git and nix, one wonders if the time is now ripe for chronology-centered interfaces. I frequently find myself wishing to have an integrated VCS in my filesystem (or at the very least, being able to treat my entire computer as if it were in a git repo so I can roll back changes) even if I'm on NixOS where you're basically on your own for files in your home directory.

It doesn't even have to be a complete replacement: you can imagine a tiny slider than can allow you to walk through the previous states of your desktop to see how your work evolves over time. But I guess (bi)temporality and immutability are still new ideas, and even in such a fast-moving field like ours it takes a while for certain things to trickle down from ivory towers.
> Why did we ever just accept colds and flus being so common?

Is the number of illnesses that exists the only variable that matters in life?

Do we know what the long-term cumulative effects of forced masking does on childhood education and development? How about social cohesion and people forming bonds with the community? How about the overall impact on freedom?
Tumbleword
btw I didn't downvote you. Do you feel my questions are not productive to a useful conversation?
What you may not be accounting for is the influences of the Americas on the rest of the world leading to their advancements. In particular in food production. Without corn and potatoes there may have been significantly less development in the old world over the last 500 years.
Yes. Tragic.
B&N is less of a place to get books than it was previously. Inventories are smaller.

But it's more of a place to discover books. That's what the CEO did.
Same thing happened to me a few months ago and it was 100% automated systems flagging in error.

If you contact support they will likely tell you it happened for...reasons...but they can't share any details because then the bad guys could find out how to get around their super-duper AI security system so, sorry this is just where we part ways, no way to appeal.

I was finally able to get my account reinstated, but eBay admitted to me in writing that normally those kinds of suspensions are permanent/not able to be appealed and the only reason they lifted it was because of my "social presence" after I made some noise on Twitter (and tagged some high enough up the eBay corporate ladder accounts in the process).
It hasn't been my experience so far with windows.

On every single windows or mac laptop, I just seem to the same peace of mind I have come to expect from smartphones. Click, system goes to sleep. Click, system is up.

On linux, every time I approach the laptop, it is with that small but unshakable feeling of dread. What is my laptop going to do this time? Will it decide to come up with the same state I left it in? Or will it decide this is a good time to reboot?
Your pants being permeable doesn't mean that every substance is permeable. Unless your jeans have been certified n95 by NIOSH, the analogy seems totally nonsensical
I knew the words. I did not expect it to have been a mixup as amnesia is a much more commonly used term. I posted the comment because I am aphantastic as well but have no difficulty navigating, in fact I am typically delegated to for the task (across urban, cross-country, and backcountry environments).
My buddy cop Sherlock and his overconfident cousin Elizabeth coming out soon!
A Christmas Eve Adventure
Nice wonderful idea, my 2 cents:

Instead of counting each amount, should be counting right/wrong answers.

Plus more words...i don't know where but there must be a place with a list of common nouns.
I would really want to work at the Twitter now, just to experience chaos when things break and all people who know details of the systems are gone. I’ve been part of my fair share of outages at other big tech, and even with right people it can be chaotic.

Question for ex-tweeps - what was state of the documentation/tools/procedures before you left, that would allow non experts to debug tricky outages?
It works fine (using GPT3.5/text-davinci-003) with a conversation look-back (+auto-summarization of the lookback when it is too long). Many people claim its more factual too.
Languages like APL, Forth and Prolog are different enough that this wouldn't apply until you learn another array, stack, or logic-based language. And with languages like Smalltalk or Lisp, learning how to use the environment will be just as challenging.
CL opened a satellite store in Tyson's Corner VA outside DC which lasted a couple years. Between CL and Reiter's (which still exists in DC), I must have spent several thousands on full price trade, textbook, and reference books. This made sense because I could look closely at each book before buying to see if it merited the investment. I've found that buying online works only if the book is discounted significantly. Too often now I find the online blurb and user opinions lead me to buy a book that I wouldn't have if I'd held it in my hands before parting with $50 or more.
What they are summarizing isn't a motte and bailey. The logical fallacy is, rather, that you can immediately dismiss anybody who warmly references the "defund" slogan, by attributing to them all the weirdest things defund true-believers say. No, you cannot. There are no cheat codes in these discussions.
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> I don't even know what hardware accelerated video playback in a browser is

It means that your browser uses the dedicated video card for rendering video frames and pushing it to your monitor instead of using the CPU.

Why you would want this? The same reason you use a straight-edge to draw a line and a compass to draw a circle. The right tool for the job. I'm sure most people here would have had the experience of the first time training their machine learning model on a GPU instead of the CPU and having their jaw drop at how much faster it was? GPUs are simply much better than CPUs at the things they are designed for. Sure, most CPUs are still powerful enough to push 1080p videos to the screen, but that comes at the cost of poor performance and battery life.
A viable approach if you're up for it is a mad frenzy of honking at the driver under question. Works wonders in the Mexico-America border crossings, where folks will try to slip in at the last minute of a 3 hour line.

The locals wont particularly care for you. But they may become incentivized to put up signs, or otherwise disincentivize the activity at an infrastructure-level.
to be fair it's pretty surprising you can find rust jobs at all, a luxury most languages lack
I wonder if you could treat it as kind of stateless, or maybe a ChatGPT-RDT could work.
Becareful from a privacy perspective. "User bob is active" is different than "User bob is active since <specific timesamp>". That said, in forensics, random things storing timestamps is a big treasure trove. The most innocent logs or entries can be correlated with something else about a user to figure out what they did.
> Salt mixes with water once it melts

As I recall, ice has a thin layer on top that mixes with a little of the salt, which lowers the freezing temperature, causing more melting, and so on. You can throw white salt on white snow and it'll still work.
They show ads in the maps app, so that effects revenues