skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the tone policing to be pretty low-caliber. This is hilarious. The page isn't long, and at the end you'll find why they did this:

> This is fucking satire. This site was heavily influenced by the geniuses behind Motherfucking Website and Better Motherfucking Website. Although this site has been created as a bit of fun, the message behind it is a serious one

There are dozens and dozens of blog posts telling folks they should create a blog. Plenty of options. This one has character & flavor. It doesn't detract from the others who take it more seriously. I for one think it's sad to brring such a dampened, limited, negative perspective to bear over something many people find pretty funny & silly. It's fucking epic. It's a good option, amid many other's also advocating for starting a blog.
>The car you drove to the restaurant in - the US Federal government subsidized your gas (ever wonder why US gas is cheaper than Canada/EU?)

US gas is cheaper than elsewhere in the developed world because a) the US is self-sufficient in terms of supply and, more importantly, b) US fuel taxes are less.

If you actually read the EESI paper you cited, you see that the "subsidies", whether direct or indirect, are actually varying accounting treatments; basically, the same amount of taxes are collected but over a longer period of time. In any case, even if you were to remove all the direct "subsidies", the paper does not claim that tax revenue would rise more than about $40 billion over about a decade. $4 billion a year is a pittance for a federal government that collected $4.9 trillion in 2022.
The Lua interpreters, "upvalues" sound suspiciously like the results of Tcl's, "upvar", can anybody comment on how similar they actually are?
I can absolutely see that the UI is better than Facebook groups if that is the alternative. But I would like the Reddit style community UI more if that was an option.
It's funny that this pops up now, as I discovered the existence of the game(s) only 2 weeks ago, and made a rough computer version for myself.

A good site that presents many possible rule variants and their balance: http://aagenielsen.dk/overview.php
This sort of business relies on the normalization of these practices through slow, incremental, change.

Unfortunately, it seems to be working. Younger people see being measured, tracked, and advertised to as table stakes for having access to anything.

I don't blame the younger folks for this, as much of the motivation for acceptance is the economics involved. They may not be able to afford all the 'requirements' of modern living if they had to pay the 'i am not the product' premium.
How much do you think they charge for associate time at a biglaw firm? It's well above $400/hr.
Why not Logos with a braile/tactile screen?

Should do the trick I'd think.
According to Ipsos (Oct '22), "6 in 10 support Britain’s response to the conflict" and "7 in 10 continue to support economic sanctions against Russia - but some evidence support could wane if there are further energy price rises"

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/public-continues-support-britain...

Personally I wouldn't say support for Ukraine is controversial here in the UK.
These are really good ads. I remember watching them as a younger person, not realizing how profound or accurate they were.

But of course, it's also interesting to compare it to the actual world we live today. The most notable thing is the unification of all these futuristic ideas into a single platform, the modern day smart phone.

What I see in the AT&T ads are seemingly all different individual devices operating with various independent protocols and support infrastructure. There's a commonality that AT&T is getting at, the early internet, but the devices themselves were never imagined as a single platform. A video screen in a phone booth, for example.

These ads remind me that the iphone (and other smartphone brands) have so fundamentally changed the way we live in just 2 decades. AT&T might have had some to do with our world, but I don't think anyone could really see it or execute the way Steve Jobs could.
We can thank the academic system and Goodhart's Law for that.

We measure students with tests, but all we get are people good at taking tests and rote memorization.

Maybe if we had a better way to access actual learning but are teachers even paid enough to truly care?
Why do power companies even buy back solar power in the first place? It seems like it's not in their interest to help their customers compete with them.

I do agree there should be a connection fee, like an Internet connection, that covers fixed costs. Watts cost more than bytes, so a usage fee makes sense too.
This is a great illustration of how ChatGPT fundamentally changes "true/false" into a continuum of "truthiness" as measured by plausibility. The infinite AI array is clearly marked as such, but how long will it be before generative extensibility is the (undeclared) norm?

We're all about to get some real-world GAN training.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34236632
If personhood begins at conception, does that mean we need to back-calculate birthdays? Can 20 + 3 month year olds legally drink?
The invasion started in 2014, not a civil war. Recall the Russians also shot down MH17 in that year as well
I've had an LG C2 OLED for almost a month. Turned off all those settings. So far so good, but will be keeping an eye out.

Before this TV I just used a first gen 4k Apple TV, but I noticed it was a bit stuttery and didn't support as many formats so I've been using the native TV apps. Maybe I rushed too quickly on that.
I’d be interested to speculate how cryptocoins would fair also, not that it isn’t already a sh1t show XD
Without seeing the ads, I can still recall the music.
There are plenty of voters who are registered independent/unaffiliated, but most of them still lean strongly toward one of the major parties. The number of consistent swing/split voters is much smaller. Most analysis/commentary I've seen says that partisan differences in turnout are a much bigger factor in winning elections than appealing to the center.
AWS is unparalleled in the cloud world. Azure is a distant second. That is the market share. If you are interested in a particular industry, then you may want to check the cloud choices major employers in your industry have made.
s/pleasant/unpleasant

If that's your position, I wouldn't call it reasonable. Central Florida is paradise. As they say, if you can't take the heat...
This should be at least somewhat offset by the fact that you generate power approximately where it is consumed, so the grid doesn’t have to grow as much. Turns out it isn’t so simple due to peak demand vs peak production etc but still. I wouldn’t have a problem with plastering PV on half of Nevada.
The same as Patagonia's Chouinard:

> The details of how Green will give away his company are unclear, but in an interview with Fox & Friends Weekend last week, Green said that 100% of the company’s voting stock has been moved to a trust.

Legally they're both giving up possession of their companies, but in reality I suspect they will both continue to exercise control over them and receive one kind of monetary compensation or another.
Super Nintendo Aspect Ratio
In the Netherlands, 400K would typically be the value of the land + construction combined. The land is often owned by the municipality, then to a developer, and this is the municipality's #1 revenue stream.

Regardless, 400K is unaffordable to the vast majority of people.
What we need is an audio playback tool allowing you to select VST plugins into the playback chain. We already have VST's mimicking tape playback (and they're good!). We even have VST's mimicking LP vinyl playback - complete with dust and hiss. Plug those into your audio playback app and voila! You can re-create any of the old sounds you want!
> It was mentioned already that Linux distributions are doing exactly this. On every major compiler update.

I guess you're aware not everything runs on Linux neither are all Linux deployments vanilla Linux deployments. At this point I think you're just intentionally ignorant or completely unaware of the world outside your bubble environment.

> For example by using some stable intermediate representation that gets compiled on the target to the appropriate machine code. Oh, wait, all big platforms starting with mainframes do exactly this already… (Mainframes, the JVM, .NET, Android, Apple stuff, etc.)

Eh?

> That's not an argument against the "editions" idea. Actually what you've said doesn't even go into the proposal.

It is an argument because suggesting to "easily introduce" the idea from another immature language which (1) is not proven and (2) which will take long long time before it does is wishful thinking, if not nonsense and far from reality. Rust "editions" do not solve the problem because, well, to begin with Rust doesn't have the problem of the same scale that C++ does.

We'll see what C++ will do in this regard but I wouldn't hold my breath. Disadvantages of breaking the ABI frequently currently outweigh the advantages and my opinion is that it will stay the same way for unforeseeable time.
> That’s due to the biggest problem of all: finding buyers willing to pay more for a TV.

The price is obvious before you buy it, the spyware isn't.
I am not affiliated either. But I have them at work as dashboard monitors and an old one retired to home as streaming TV screen.
You can run redlines of PDFs in Adobe Acrobat pro, no need to conver to word.

"The ideal system would highlight (sets of) text that that's common between both documents and underline text that is original. Or vice versa."

Just change your settings in microsoft word.
There are roughly four possibilities for P = NP:

* P != NP. In practical terms, nothing changes.

* Nonconstructive case. The resulting algorithm looks something like some primality test algorithms (which I'll describe): essentially, if a number n is composite, then there is some (X + a)^n = X^n + a in Z/nZ (X is a polynomial here). If you test "enough" a's, then you can prove whether n is prime or composite. A nonconstructive case would mean we have a proof that you only need to test poly(lg n) a's to confirm truth, without necessarily telling which a's you have to test. In this world, there is no practical change to problems--the proof doesn't yield an effective algorithm to actually solve any NP-complete problem.

* Combinatorial algorithm for an NP-complete problem. The good example here is what has been done to prove L = SL. The result is "technically" in L, but the factors in the algorithm run very quickly into "more than the number of atoms in the universe" phase. The goal is to find a memory-less algorithm (can't use a visit stack) that can prove a path between two points in an undirected graph, and it turns out that you can transform the graph into another one that will guarantee that you will visit every node in a certain amount of time. The found result has a new graph that replaces every node with more nodes than exist atoms in the universe, so it technically meets the requirements but is completely and totally impractical. Sometimes people handwave this possibility by saying that once an algorithm is found, people will find better results, but this result hasn't been improved on in close to two decades.

* "Simple" algorithm for an NP-complete problem. This is the result that really, really changes things. Once you get a simple algorithm for one NP-complete problem, you can generally find analogous ways to get simple algorithms for other NP-complete problems. However, the research done to date does suggest that this is perhaps the least likely solution: looking at the "hard" instances of SAT problems, it does seem that there is a certain complexity that is at best reducible via some sort of combinatorical nightmare construction rather than the kinds of decompositions that yields "simple" algorithms.
GPTZero is ambivalent as to whether Sam Altman's latest blog post was or was not written by an AI (score: 39).

Edit: it also believes that Paul Graham's latest essay was probably AI-written, and that an English translation of "The Death of Ivan Ilych" was most likely written by a human.
> It is important to mention that inducing birth before term increases the incidence of respiratory problems in the baby (beyond the abhorrent ethical issues).

Since this is so highly voted, maybe also note that the key is "before term", which is not the case as far as I can tell in the article.

Not that I don't find the practice repugnant, but let's not steer off into outright FUD when blasting our moral outrage.
Win the Week: Creating a homegrown habit tracking solution
You mean this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_SecurID
I'm not sure but I don't think this is OTP?
Yeah, I really don't get the nostalgia, but maybe it's because I lived much of my life in the vinyl and then cassette tape eras. There are so many downsides to both. Vinyl records take up a lot of space and they degrade just a little bit every time you play them unless you have a very expensive laser player and even then...). Cassettes also degrade quite quickly and the sound was never that great with cassettes. Of the two, though, vinyl nostalgia is a bit more understandable because you can watch the record rotate and the theory of operation is quite simple.
If you could get ahold of the remote at BestBuy, just reset the TV to factory and see what it does at startup.

With that said, they typically don't have them out for you to do that.
Appreciate your updating (and catching) that.
GoFundMe apparently thought it needed to be changed. No alert to me or anything.

Guess I'll have to make one minor change in iMovie and re-upload 2GB.
I hope they don't pull this again.
No doubt. But this one will probably focus on religious causes given this company's history.
> make instances "as big as possible, but no bigger"

Exactly.

But I am seeing more and more of the opposite: make instances as small as possible, and scale out (not up) if/when needed.
Do you mean you threatened your team in Slack?
Created my own blog with GitHub Issues as CMS, Next.js and OpenAI in 2 days
A kindergarden teacher is not "guilty of unlawful detainment" when they stop a toddler from wandering out of the classroom. A mother is not "guilty of unlawful detainment" by housing their young child.

OP has not made some profound statement about the personhood of fetuses. They have stumbled into the murky waters of children's civil rights and flailed about. Whether a fetus is a person or not makes no difference to their hypothetical scenario.
It's a low pitch roof which allows for a lot more buildup.

Also, if you read the article I linked, you'll know that pitch isn't perfect (pun intended), but it does go a long way in preventing snow buildup. A major snow storm with wind blowing snow in the right direction can twart a high pitched roof. But that sort of condition is a lot more rare.
> The 5.0 VM is a register machine, which operates on a set of virtual registers that can store and act on the local variables of a function, in addition to the traditional runtime stack.

This is a common source of confusion, because the name "register machine" makes people think about CPU registers. However, the registers in a register VM are merely slots in the traditional runtime stack. The difference between a stack and register machine has to do with how the bytecode instructions are encoded. In a stack machine, most instructions implicitly pop arguments from and push their results to the top of the stack. The instructions are byte-sized, encoding just the operation name. For example, to add 10+10

LOADK 10
DUP
ADD

Meanwhile, in a register machine the instructions can read and write to any slot in the stack. Instructions are larger, because in addition to the operation name they also encode the indexes of the input slots and the index of the output slot. But it's worth it because you need less instructions in total and do less stack shuffling.

LOADK 1 10
ADD 1 1 2
Haven’t used Cloudfront but every time I use AWS I always get a ridiculously higher bill than what I was expecting.
There is almost always a better solution available than “recurring group meeting” when the actual value and goal are clearly understood.
You don't need to be religious to believe in free will (in fact many religious zealots throughout history have said the opposite), in my opinion it is self-evident. When judging the actions of any individual you should of course take into account environmental factors, but to ascribe all actions to them wholly and reduce the individual to a deterministic automaton is not a well-balanced view, and personally I find it dehumanizing and cynical. I'd rather be 'stuck' in the 'folk psychology' of personal responsibility and free will than progress into the fatalistic materialism of these Europeans you speak of, sounds like they've got a sophistry problem over there
I want to contrast this paper with Shor's factoring paper [1].

One of the things that stands out to me about Shor's paper is how meticulous he is. He is considering the various ways the algorithm might fail, and proving it doesn't fail in that way. For example, the algorithm starts by picking a random seed and you can show that some choices of seed simply don't work. He proves a lower bound on how many have to work. Also, given a working seed, sometimes the quantum sampling process can correctly return a useless result. He bounds how often that can occur as well. He never says "I think this problem is rare so it's probably fine", instead he says "this problem is at least this rare therefore it is fine". Essentially the only real problem not addressed by the paper was that it required arbitrarily good qubits... so he went and invented quantum error correction [2].

The paper being discussed here [3] does not strike me as meticulous. It strikes me as sloppy. They are getting good numbers by hoping potential problems are not problems. Instead of addressing the biggest potential showstoppers, they have throwaway sentences like "It should be pointed out that the quantum speedup of the algorithm is unclear due to the ambiguous convergence of QAOA".

How many shots are needed for each sample point fed into the classical optimization algorithm? How many steps does the optimization algorithm need? How do these scale as the problem size is increased? How big are they for the largest classically simulable size (RSA128 with 37 qubits according to their table)? These are absolutely critical questions!... and the paper doesn't satisfyingly address them.

Is there somewhere where I can bet money that this doesn't amount to anything?

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9508027

2: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.52.R2...

3: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12372
It's certainly not illegal to post such links. People post links to sites that sell stuff all the time.

This does likely sit in a grey zone and will be moderated by the community as it sees fit
As with the the Chouinard / Patagonia situation, the "giving away company" line is unfortunately just another example of bad headline writing.

One really must examine the individuals making this decision + their track record before we make judgments about the merits of this choice for folks other than the family. Does Yvon's track record with Patagonia align with my values and make me trust his choice as being truly "beneficial" for the planet? Yes.

Did the Chouinard family also avoid $700 million in taxes by "giving away the company" (e.g. putting the shares in one or more trusts, like Hobby Lobby family will). Also yes. [0]

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-15/patagonia...
Hopefully the new owners will invest in barcode scanners. (The current checkout process is extremely tedious.)
What Elon Musk is teaching us about billionaires
The premium manufactures realized they would make far more money by selling spyware then an actual premium product. "Pay" for Windows and it still spys on you these days.
Not exactly that but: https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/
Google Analytics and Posthog are both running on the landing page, mostly because I haven't gotten around to removing GA yet.
I bought this same tv a month ago. I ended up connecting it to my wifi, actually. I hadn't planned to since I have an older 4k Apple TV but decided to try the native apps.

With ads and tracking turned off, I haven't seen any ads other than a single one on the homescreen, which I rarely use as it is, for a $25 off thing for LG's website.
My argument is that disagreeable people aren't inherently bad. Your argument is that I'm disagreeable so I'm inherently bad. I get it. You don't like disagreeable people. We can just agree to disagree here. I'm not asking anything of you.

If were to make demands, it'd be in the form of helpful emotional advice: Hire so that at least 1 out of 6 people at your company are disagreeable. Don't ever allow agreeability silos, especially not around top executives. Never let a disagreeable person serve in a leadership role unless they have at least one disagreeable person working as a direct report.
> (i.e. clickbait)

It is not clickbait just because you interpreted it wrongly. The AI in the title only aims to demonstrate his state of out-group in regards to math.
Any sort of battery system that lets you keep running in an outage is going to be pretty expensive, unfortunately.

But at that point your question isn't "what would be the payback period if I got solar" but "how much is it worth to me to have power when the grid is down". And so not surprisingly many people get solar but don't install a battery.

(Systems that provide a small amount of best-effort when-the-sun-is-shining emergency power when the grid is down seem like they should be a sweet spot here, because they can be implemented very efficiently. Unfortunately a combination of consumers not wanting it, the NEC not prioritizing it, and the shift to microinverters means that instead of adding ~$200 like it did when I got solar several years ago it's now more like $7k)
Depends what you're into and where you are, but these are the ones I'm keeping an eye on:

https://devpost.com/hackathons

https://www.eventbrite.com/d/online/hackathon/

https://mlh.io/seasons/2023/events

https://www.iquise.mit.edu/iQuHACK/2023-01-27

Itch.io is where I'd start for game jams:

https://itch.io/jams

If you happen to be near Germany/Europe and into games then I had fun at the Berlin Mini Jam when I went pre-pandemic:

https://www.meetup.com/game-developers-berlin/
There are going to be a few cases where keys are lost or stolen. It may be possible to build multi-sig wallets that allow for you to migrate an identity to a new key. What we're looking for is some kind of statistical means of trying to reduce bad actors. Even if there was no recourse for you and you were totally screwed I'm not sure it totally invalidates the concept of having a key or a mechanism for trying to remove bad actors from social discourse. You could trip and die because you wore shoes. You could get locked out of your house... bad stuff does happen - it doesn't mean we shouldn't wear shoes or have keys.
It's not in fact that impressive. The math for all sorts of cryptography goes over Schneier's head (as he sort of infamously implied with elliptic curve, over a decade ago). That's normal! Cryptographers specialize. Having a really careful, fine-grained, up-to-date intuition for differential cryptanalysis is crucial for designing hashes and ciphers, but less so for a key exchange.

Not writing this to dunk on Schneier so much as to relate that cryptography is specialized, and that generally there aren't a lot of people that you'd expect to be ultra up on PQ key exchanges and modern block cryptography.
Aside: Since there is a lot of commentary about 'being a real man' here, I thought I'd drop two links that really helped out those close to me 'snip the apron strings'.

https://www.artofmanliness.com/

https://www.scouting.org/