skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is completely false and exposes a particular warped worldview about other people.

Almost all humans lie on a very narrow spread of intelligence when viewed broadly, including other animals and "potential actors" like AIs. The difference between 20th percentile human intelligence and 80th is barely anything when you compare either to, say, a cat or a snake.

Virtually any human is intellectually capable of, say, supervising a child. An incredibly important activity no matter how you cut it. The reasons we may not trust a random person to do this have very little to do with anyone's intelligence.

People are far more capable and intelligent than you give them credit for. You aren't so far above us as you seem to think, and it's a constraint on your own experience of consciousness that you believe this. The conscious experience is both incredibly rare maybe unique in the universe and incredibly common and mundane on earth. You must be able to grapple with both simultaneously or you fall into this egocentrism-lite of believing selves as complex as your own are rare when, in this local context they are not at all.
Fun fact: Jane Street, Citadel and other HFT firms pay exorbitantly. You can see the base salary ($200-300k) posted public here: https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/position/4274288...

Even interns make $120/hr: https://www.levels.fyi/internships/
Qualcomm&Iridium to expand satellite connectivity to cars/laptops/other devices
Does this rule works for information signal speed in general? Does empire in space cannot be large than 1 month light in radius?
They usually have bins, which means you can pull the food out and shake it without worrying about burning your hands; or, plate it without touching it.

That's the big difference that I've noticed now that I'm reading about them.
People need to read this at least once. It was a very good read for me.
> ... little about their tax system ...

There's not much more to say, it just works blissfully (I lived there for 9 years).

> ... but a lot about the U.S. one.

Well apparently there's room for big improvements there.
https://archive.ph/qH5dG
Only due to the small size though. That's literally it.

You know what a larger air fryer is called? It's called an oven.
At some point people have to realize that just because there is a vast area of relatively flat land, does not mean that land is good for agriculture. If something cannot be grown there in the native environment without artificially propping it up, then it might just be time to not do that there any longer.
A solid computer chair mat that doesn't bunch up or shed. $15 wireless phone charger.

I don't buy anything, but these basics helped. Things over that amount that I think would be meaningful - good vacuum, good screen, good chair. Renting dumpster to throw away junk.
Also, they could focus entirely on their own vision for the project instead of being totally reliant on delivering for the marketplace.

They had "slack" (in the slack/moloch sense) to try out weird ideas that may not have been possible if they were relying on sales revenue instead of donations to stay afloat.
There's just one slightly opaque pitfall, not all laptops have a BIOS setting where you can specify what to do on power-loss and power-resume. So the laptop "server" stays off and you need to intervene manually.

I've had better luck with thin clients ...
AI had enormous potential for interesting artistic effects. Instead it's being used to make (for now) shoddy knockoffs, and maybe someday better-than-the-original knockoffs. I was hoping for the invention of a car, but all we got was a faster horse.

Would anyone have been able to sell a car if faster horses were already clogging up the streets?
I honestly love the idea of individual experimentation. Like, there has to be a not-quite-scientific-but-almost-scientific approach that people can reasonably handle on their own. I'd love to see a book that outlines how to find the right diet that works for you. Like an operational guidebook showing you how to cut out specific foods, and how to watch for and observe changes to see what the effects are on your body.
Yeah, as an exchange FTX was pretty terrible. The matching engine was notorious for being high latency, unreliable, and having all sorts of undocumented issues. Every algo trader there will tell you horror stories about trying to cancel an open order, getting a cancel confirmation, then getting notified that the order was executed. Sometimes seconds later.

What really gave FTX a competitive advantage was its cross-margining system. It was super easy to post collateral in any supported asset, and all open positions were automatically margined against each other. So if you were doing something like pairs trades between spot and futures, you didn't need to constantly monitor and manually move capital between the silos. In hindsight though it's not clear if this was possible because of better engineering, or just because Alameda was internalizing all the risk.
totally agree that for ~5-10% of searches DDG is not as good as google.

When DDG fails, I just re-run the search with "!g" and it goes straight to google and I'm good.
I have toyed with the idea of carrying a sharpie with me, and adding ironic graffiti to such messages. This article might just push me over the edge.
If you want to get a flavor of the article without being too much of a math person, you can watch the 3Blue1Brown video linked in the article, which captures a similar surprise that for certain values a formula maps exactly to a "round" quantity, then starts to diverge after a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851U557j6HE
Yes that's my point though. The patriot wars happened after the loyalists were well settled, and at a point when upper canada in general was almost as established as lower canada. French-canada was barely loyal, and would've probably been a huge torn in the backside of Britain if it wasn't balanced by a super loyal anglo population that counterbalanced the animosity of french canada.

The loyalists shaped the relationship Canada had with britain, and while I'd guess even their descendants were a minority (relative to immigrants) by the mid 19th century, it still defined Canadian identity even to this day. If Canada hadn't seen that initial influx of usually rich, upper class loyalists that became the founding stock of upper canadian politics/elite, we might have had a very, very different outcome. One that is more in line with most other colonies in the New World.
I think you're confusing "fine" with "perfect."

Fine is a synonym for "satisfactory" or "acceptable."

"Fine" in programming specifically, usually translates to "I can use it to solve my problem without the flaws in it inhibiting me from doing that" or "I can forget that I'm using the tool and just focus on solving the problem."

Many things in the world are "fine" by this definition. That doesn't necessarily mean they're all good, let alone perfect — but they're fine.
I wondered if the Greg Egan he named provided a comment on the integral was THE Greg Egan (author of Permutation City) and following the comment indeed he was!
Its wonderful for chilis, stews, pot roast, short ribs, etc. I've even made whole chickens in it and bone broth.
If you think about it, ADHD behaviors would likely be much more adaptive in the wild than non-ADHD. It is possible ADHD stems from genetic regression.
That’s a funny definition of ‘not killed’ you’re using.
Sure, HATEOAS can be useful when you don't have control over clients or over the routes.

Which is exactly the case for WWW: clients are browsers (not developed by you), and URLs can be images from another server (not owned by you).

And while it can happen for APIs, those cases are exception rather than the rule. That's why it's so annoying when REST purists are trying to shame people who are actually doing the right thing.

I would also be curious to learn how exactly sticking extra params would fix a critical bug. I can't help but wonder if bugs were caused by HATEOAS in the first place.
> Is "will disappear" editorial?

It's not editorial - it's lifted from the report:

> If this rate of water loss continues, the lake would be on track to disappear in the next five years.
I bought 3 things with total under 100$. been working from home for last 2 years, due to space constrains adding big office style furniture is not feasible . back pain is starting for me, a small adjustable table which I can work while sitting in sofa, a small laptop stand which I can keep on my bed, and a good natural latex pillow if I am lying on stomach and having my elbow on it.
>you'll be banned for life!

Or for the 30 seconds it will take you to make a new account.
I am one of those few who loves ads. Some banners catch my attention to the point that I start analyzing the design and marketing choices made by their creators. I save the most outstanding banners to my hard drive to enjoy them later.

Is this a full-blown pathology or just an eccentric kink? Who knows, but the presented sarcastic article resonates with me.

Needless to say, I watch hours of YouTube videos full of ads from the 80s and 90s. I just can't get enough of them.
Can you please elaborate? How does this not interfere with typing?
And those tools will be similarly illegal if the court strikes down Copilot. Also it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to train things like Copilot and GPT-3, so can we really rely on innovation happening in open source without any way to recoup costs? I get that you might not like OpenAI/Copilot for creating these tools in the way that they did, but surely you have to see that this decision goes WAY beyond what you blithely call a "shady cash grab".
Junk DNA, or near-junk DNA (active in theory, but with minimal effects) both:

- Is extremely difficult to remove, at a worthwhile scale, from the genome of any large & long-lived organism

- Can be thought of as a huge pile of tickets for the Extremely Favorable Random Mutation lottery
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In Europe - not where this lawsuit is happening
Using original titles isn't a strict requirement. The guidelines allow editing titles if the original is misleading or clickbait, presumably as long as the edits are reasonable.
The FTC Is Right: Noncompete Agreements Are a Scourge
this is really interesting and something I hadn't thought about. Could you provide some examples? I wanna look more into this
I’m not sure where you got that idea from. The thesis is that there is a distinction to be made between ordinary civility and “nicespeak”. The distinction is that the latter is insincere, and serves the interests of a corporate power structure.
Sounds like cheap skiing compared to alberta

https://www.skibanff.com/ski-ride/passes/day-passes

Half price
> Without a comment, even a “no comment”, it was impossible to tell what Microsoft knew or planned to do. And that was too much risk for the media organisation’s lawyers, because Microsoft have 1700 lawyers and unlimited financial firepower.

> And… it worked. Silence worked. The lawyers at the media organisation, understandably but annoyingly, lost their nerve. Because you fill silence with your own most vivid fears. Maybe Microsoft had a secret, second contract signed in blood at midnight!

I get the feeling that this is conjecture on the author's part here and only one side of the story.
CEOs have a much stronger motive to predict things that are convenient for their company than they have secret insights or expertise about the global economy.
not to disagree or antagonize, but the question was

> How on earth are you doing concurrency without touching these two key primitives

and not how to write high level concurrency frameworks.

I wouldn't trust very much a concurrency framework written by someone who just learned about locks and atomics on a book.

I wouldn't even trust myself to write low level concurrent code using locks and atomics.

I have 26 years of experience as a programmer and if there's something I've learned is that low level concurrency is really hard to get right, even when you perfectly understand the underlying concepts, and it's best left to real experts that dedicated their career to it.

edit: I'm sure the book is great and the authors very knowledgeable and I'm really curious to read it.
Why not just a scanner app for your phone? They work pretty well. I have a flatbed scanner that I keep stored away most of the time, until I need to scan a bunch of stuff quickly. If I need to scan the odd receipt, I use Tiny Scanner.
Cells perform a staggering number of parallel computations. Neurons are cells, and perform these same calculations and more in addition to emitting spikes. Spikes, rather than being the major form of computation, appear instead to be a means of maintaining synchronization.
> GitHub is still subject to the terms of your license though; they can impose whatever rules they want on you service-wise, but their use of your software should be dictated by the accompanying LICENSE file.

Again, the LICENSE file in the repo is not the only license for that code. A copyright holder can grant people licenses to their work with or without documentation and with or without that license being accompanied within their work itself.

By uploading code to GitHub, you are asserting that you can legally grant GitHub a license to that code for hosting as described below.

> If you're posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any Content you post; that you will only submit Content that you have the right to post; and that you will fully comply with any third party licenses relating to Content you post.

Note that this is literally only limited to the provisions set below; uploading to GH doesn't allow them to import or use your code in Windows or the Github codebase or anything like that, doing so would indeed be bound by the license terms you've granted the world via the repo's LICENSE file.

> 4. License Grant to Us
We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time. This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
This is a fun one because it can scale below and above 200. If you the loadable dumbbells (like Pepin) then yeah it's a bit of a pain but at least they can be expanded.

I got the 5 to 90 lbs powerblocks (700 Canadian used..) but with the way they are built I'll be able to use them 50 years from now. Just a solid long term purchase.
Well designed architecture will always be the guard against fragility. I do think there is a lack of architecture design and technical design discussions that contribute to the current state of software fragility. There's too many tools contributing to the noise, and not enough tools reducing that noise.

Software is hard because it is the last 10% ... Hardware was the first 90%, but anyone with project experience knows how long the last 10% lasts.
What did cpan.pm actually look like in 1993? Did packages ('distributions') have static metadata? Could the installer perform recursive dependency resolution? Was the resolver complete?

My impression is that none of that resembled contemporary CPAN, and isn't really what I have in mind with the admittedly ambiguous phrase 'modern package management'.

But I'd love to hear more! The history of package management is very interesting to me. Tales of ancient but sophisticated package management systems are very welcome. :)
That's only a 17 year span. If you're funding retirement you should look at longer timescales. Also, DJIA is not the total market, and as someone else pointed out, S&P 500 "shows a nominal 6.34% return with dividends reinvested from Dec 1964 to Dec 1981."

> That's the point, the stock market is not related to the economy. You're not getting the gains. You're getting whatever scraps the bored rich people playing poker with each other accidentally drop off the table.

I am, though. I am getting the gains. Over the past X years, my and my family's gains from investing in the total stock market in the last 50 years (not even outliers like Google or Amazon or GameStop) have been enormous, on average 7% real as TFA shows. Maybe you're not, if you're not investing, but the stock market has consistently given us gains. Again, most people who mention the kind of "rich boys club" reasoning have been in my experience people who don't, won't, or can't invest in the stock market.
I think of frisbee as being at its peak in maybe the 70s and 80s although organized ultimate frisbee probably came in later in the cycle and maybe was fairly common even after the peak for casual recreation.

ADDED: As you and others note, I guess disc golf is actually a fairly big thing although I confess I've never actually played it.
A Wikipedia admin is an unpaid volunteer (not a staffer) with access to extra functions of the MediaWiki software Wikipedia uses. They typically get these rights through a community vote like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminsh...

"Administrators, commonly known as admins or sysops (system operators), are Wikipedia editors who have been granted the technical ability to perform certain special actions on the English Wikipedia. These include the ability to block and unblock user accounts, IP addresses, and IP ranges from editing, edit fully protected pages, protect and unprotect pages from editing, delete and undelete pages, rename pages without restriction, and use certain other tools."

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All that long-term data and presentation is lovely and all, but I disagree with the conclusion of "buying and holding has been a simple and straightforward way to build wealth".

Saying investing $1,000 in 1871 would be $22M now doesn't help me. Saying $1,000 in 1969 is now $23K doesn't help me - I wasn't alive then. It's not practical.

I didn't have $1,000 of savings until my late 20s. After paying for bachelors and masters, I had to borrow $500 from friend to eat and live until next pay check. Then car, house, furniture.

And if that $1,000 I invested in late 20s turns into $2,260 in 20 years - whoop-dee-doo, who cares.

Conclusion should be "buying and holding has been a simple and straightforward way to store wealth". But not going to build wealth unless I'm active - building resume, building business. In addition, I might as well take that $1,000 and swing for the fences and turn it into $10,000 or more looking for the next AAPL, GOOG etc. like venture capital.
Niceness itself is a lubricant. Nicespeak may be more analogous to a higher performing synthetic lubricant that however has some severe downsides, such as inferior performance, when used outside of its design parameters.
Hugely inspirational. Wish I could have attended one of his lectures or talks.
> [...] Applications and interpretations of GDPR fail to consider adequately how research uses of personal data differ from other types, particularly as the data are pseudonymised.

> The present state of play is unsettling. Scientists are struggling to find a legal basis for sharing data under the regulation. US federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the largest global funder of biomedical research, and its sister public agencies have no pathway available to receive pseudonymised data collected by research partners in the EU. Without an adequacy decision, US agencies and many publicly supported research universities are legally barred from agreeing to GDPR data-transfer requirements. [...]

Every time I read complaints about GDPR, I am getting increasingly glad that it exists. The article doesn't describe the actual hurdles in the way of making the exchange of data for scientific purposes conform to the required level of data protection. Pseudonymised data is a really, really bad excuse for "oh, but it's fine, what can happen!" - there is a reason the GDPR explicitly doesn't allow for this kind of data transfer.

Given that no reason is mentioned aside from economical concerns, I have to assume that the reason for pseudonymised access is due to the much greater value it provides, since the pseudonymization can presumably be reversed. So - thank you EU for protecting our data!
Here is an article from 2014 that talks about it. It was recently on HN.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/08/31/california-drought-wh...

Here is a more recent article talking about the proposed Sites Reservoir the other article mentions.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/a-new-mega-reservoir-in-final-plan...
Stable Diffusion Weather Forecasts
What practical applications (other than selfie portraits) can text-to-image ML models like Stable Diffusion actually power?

I wanted to find out. Specifically, I wanted to find out what I could make when combining these latest models with JetML, my data science platform.

So I made an AI weather app for my favorite Oregon destinations. Find the code on JetML's GitHub to experiment with it.