skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a link to the YouTube lectures? I'm taking a course and this is one of the books that we're using
These lush green images are warming to cold humans in northern latitudes.

Some tidbits on plants and labor globalization:

> John VI created a gunpowder factory in order to guarantee the supply of gunpowder to the entire Portuguese empire and also the security of the new government headquarter[s] ... enchanted by the beauty of the place, Dom João VI created on June 13, 1808 in the vicinity of the factory, an acclimatization garden. Its role was the introduction and acclimatization of great value exotic plants normally transported to Europe, coming from the East, a traditional spice trade center by the time.

Artificial monopoly, piracy, non-compliance and a century of roots:

> ... the imperial palm blossomed and began to bear fruit in 1829. Serpa Brandão, director of the Garden between 1829-1851, looking for preserving the institution's monopoly on this particular specie, determined that its seeds had to be burned annually. However, it's said that the slaves working in the garden woke up during the night to climb the palm trees, in order to harvest their seeds and sell them ... After being an attraction in the garden for 163 years, it [the first imperial palm tree] was struck by a lightning bolt in 1972 and died. In short, all the imperial palm trees in the garden are descendants of the “palm-mater” (mother palm, in Latin).
You're saying, "if you need to know a hard fact, just Google it", but at the same time saying "I'm exploring and learning other programming languages at a crazy rate".

Those are somewhat contradictory to me. Information about programming languages are hard facts.

If it translates your code into another language how do you know it's using best practices? How do you know there aren't subtle bugs in its translation? Is it using modern syntax?

I don't really see much value unless in "exploring" another language like this. Basic data structures, control flow and logical operators are very similar in all languages.

If it could show me modern syntax following best practices that is correct then that would be insanely useful, but there's no way to know whether it's showing you junk or not.
I always console people by telling them there's no way you'd have held on to that BTC all the way to $64k. You'd probably sell it for a few hundred
There was no flying f14's in the movie, I think it was CGI over a f18. Same as the "darkstar", it was a blue angels f18 that did the low flyover of the guard post.
> The act of purchasing something creates a very small signal, but a signal all the same.

I agree with that certainly. Change starts individually. It really does, I mean that genuinely. As persons, as actual men and women in this world, we need to internalize the values we like to see flourish in the world. We just must. It would not be honorable if we did not.

> but in aggregate is powerful

The sleight of hand though is that this individual action, in and of itself, can always bring about meaningful change in every situation. It cannot. This disconnect between individual action and aggregate outcome is the main characteristic of a tragedy of the commons. To go back to the coffee maker example, the fact that our world is, well, quite literally, trash is such a tragedy. These traps never resolve solely bottom-up, without coordination.

> It's not unlike civic duty and how a single vote

Voting is a good example really. A vote is the lowest, least effective way to perform our civic duty. To see the change we like to see in the world, to do our civic duty, we must advocate, picket, canvas, stand on soapboxes, fraternize, run for office, assemble, cajole, badger, pick up arms, ... That is what it means to participate in civic society. A vote, that single small signal, means nothing, if we do not actively shape what we vote for.

fwiw - I really don't think we disagree. Just wanted to expand on that train of thought a little.
"incredibly weak" = #7 on the list of "Most Admired Companies"? https://fortune.com/ranking/worlds-most-admired-companies/
I am trying to create a product for EM's. Would love to get your feedback on it. I don't see your email in your profile my email is my username AT gitimprove.com
I don't understand why people don't instantly recognize this as an evolution in the cat and mouse game of "is this search result actually an ad". You can't inspect the production model, you can't inspect the inputs, and when this is the only tool you have left to find information, it's over for you. And for many things is society.

It's been a long time since most ads served were necessary to have a successful business (try to imagine/remember a world without ad platforms or appropriate regulations against their excess). It's just that if anything could be an ad, like say your TV or your toilet, then a non-ad product has to compete with people loss-leading to monetize their ad/surveillance surface. And then everything becomes filled with ads.
No way! I never imagined this could happen. I distinctly remember reading about this when they first came out years ago and thinking "goodness, I can't think of a single problem with computerizing the primary means of visually identifying a specific vehicle."

Something else that'll never happen: criminals hacking these things to immediately change the number right after committing a crime. It's surely not possible.
WSL has absolute dogshit I/O so that's not true
Sounds like you're testing wrong then ;)
clip works in WSL
They have the capacity, they just don't have the laws to do the job. If Amazon is effectively forcing their drivers to disobey the law, the solution is simple: have escalating fines for violating the law. The fines for most petty violations are based on the idea that the violation was most likely a mistake or an exceptional circumstance. If the violation is deemed to be just a cost of doing business, make the cost of doing business higher. If Amazon needs to routinely violate the law in order to operate, let them negotiate with the city to come up with a safe and reasonable plan. Otherwise, the city should make it unaffordable to routinely violate the law.
Just noting that it is Bitfinex that runs Tether not Binance.

(Although agree that Tether de-pegging would be catastrophic for all crypto companies)
From the article:

> The bug also allowed the researchers to update the status of any digital CA plate to “STOLEN,” which could alert police and possibly send them after a car falsely labeled as the object of theft.

It's like the old James Bond gag where the license plate rotates. Like this guy did:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6918263/Man-arreste...
What should I know about garbage collection as a Java developer?
Yeah, and my post office BOX is not in the same town as my residence. So, UPS transfers to USPS, which has no way of notifying me. And, it only happens sometimes - it’s unpredictable. Very annoying, especially since the UPS truck goes past my door every day.
Thanks. That clears it up a lot. I'll probably start hacking something in the next few days and see where it takes me. I've created an issue where you can track or discuss it further.

https://github.com/jonhiggs/jcb/issues/19
What does Bitcoin "becoming mainstream" look like specifically?

When I use it for normal internet purchases in preference to a credit/debit card.
Not all of the internet. I just tried "What is the most energy efficient electric vehicle available in 2022?" What I thought would be a softball question.

I got:
"I'm sorry, but I don't have any information about specific electric vehicles that will be available in 2022. In general, the most energy efficient electric vehicles are those that have a large battery pack and a powerful electric motor, which allows them to travel long distances on a single charge. Some of the most energy efficient electric vehicles on the market today include the Tesla Model S, the Nissan Leaf, and the Chevrolet Bolt. It is possible that even more efficient electric vehicles will be available in 2022, but I don't have any specific information about them."

Yeah, this thing is a demo. An impressive demo, but still just a demo. Big money chasing hype is nothing new. We have no idea what the backend of this thing looks like or how much potential it has, and its current uses are extremely shallow.
Seriously. Total bullshit claim.

I know plenty of people that think they can cook with their nice gas stoves and don't have a grill or smoker or know what sous vide is.

If I went to one's house and they had neither method available, I could easily say "they don't cook". And it would be a more fair statement than "induction are for people who don't cook".

Not very fair though.

I know people that can cook with just a skillet on any heat source. Ones that only use a grill or smoker. Ones that mostly use an oven. Some that mostly use slow cookers.

Plenty of people worldwide that can cook and don't give a shit about ANY type of oven or stovetop style or technology.
No amount of laws and regulations will make it possible to sustain jobs that the market participants are not willing to pay for -- not unless the government starts paying the wages of employees at uncompetitive firms to keep them from losing their jobs.
Microsoft in talks to acquire a 49% stake worth $10B in OpenAI
Successful penetration of Russian malicious interests into the American politics will probably lead the way to a much deeper impact than visible war efforts, even if only longer term. Politicians like those alleging "tax payers" protection (what other thing, second to religion, sells better to Americans?) are the cancer that will consume from inside. Slowly and surely. 2024 will then see the malignancy taking place to no recoverable state, probably, if Putin gets to survive in place until then.
How do we go about passing this kind of historic knowledge between generations of engineers? In my observation, most newcomers to the industry are trained either academically or through self-guided practical learning, i.e. by hacking and reading tutorials. Neither method exposes them to such 'contemporary history' of innovation within the field.
Any installable* induction cooktop in the US will be 240V.

* meaning “not a countertop plug-in hob”
Note that this can slow down your shell. Also it mingles histories from different sessions. Stop doing this myself for these reasons
Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-talks-invest-10-bil...
In 1974, FDIC insurance backed up to $100,000, or almost three median new houses sold that year. Now, it is $250,000, or just a little over half the median price of a new home. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPNHSUS

The value of that insurance has gone down significantly over time because of inflation.
Just like a dollar, digital currency would be liable to your central bank, whereas the digital forms of payment that you use now are liable to your bank.
So a digital currency would allow people to spend digital money without the need of a bank account.
How does that work? Asking as a layperson.
I know that everyone has a different idea of "mainstream" for bitcoin, but to me would be that I can expect to use it to pay for "regular stuff".

Maybe paying at the bakery is never going to happen with crypto, but would be nice if I could pay my next car or used car with it.
UBC researchers find three compounds that block Covid-19 infection
Not sure about the specifics, but the concept looks reasonable.
What does without complexity even mean?
I noticed this only studies a follow up for 1 yr. But I understand most of these diets, the benefits are reversed 90% within 5 years because of the un feasibility of keeping it up that long. Do we know if IF keeps its positive effects differently than other diets (benefits that reverse in the vast majority of cases within 5 years)?
Disappointing end to UK space mission as satellites fail to reach orbit
Would You Fall for It? [ST08]
There's some great classical organ pieces, but I suspect you've heard most of them :)

I had the pleasure of hearing this guy[1] perform with the local symphony the other year and was impressed by his take on the instrument. He not only played classics like Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3, but also his own creations.

He also built his own electronic organ that he takes on tour. Hacker and a musician.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Carpenter
The terms are not well defined enough in the dialog to know whether this is reasonable or not.
Article:
https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1873-3468.1...
I hope this catches on. I hate making 30+ character passwords only to be told I need to add capitals and whatnot to be secure.
You don't have to meet the requirements of "a mix of letters, numbers, and special characters."

e.g. a 15-character password without complexity could be all lowercase letters.
It’s terrible wording, but I assume a passphrase, e.g.

> john has many feats but this particular one is spectacular
Jump hosts seem like an anti-pattern in the era of AWS SSM and Tailscale.

It is far too easy to misconfigure network policies and grant them access to infrastructure that they shouldn't.

And with Tailscale you can run the agent within SaaS products like Github Actions or Terraform Cloud to securely manage their access into your systems.
Beat me to it :D
I don't think that covers the full extent of it.

In addition to opsec and "daily usage" there is a dimension of physical safety that requires people to keep the wallet and the seed safe in different places.

In the worst case of a fire or a flood you don't want to discover that all your life savings are gone as well because you stored them together.

Physical security of valuable, small and fragile items is a proven hard problem for regular people. It's one of the reasons banks were created.
I hope this catches on, to allow more xkcd-style "correct battery horse staple" passwords
i like this, it’s very user-friendly; allows for both “battery correct horse staple”-style passwords and the randomly generated mess you’d get from a password manager
You had youtube in your tv when you were a kid?
I mean built into the house, like a fireplace, stove, furnace.
Incredible that this needs to be asked, while the is the only western country with the death penalty. It's a remnant of a violent past.
Instead of hexdump one can use od, "octal dump". For example,

echo xyz|od -An -tx1|xxd -p -r
Do you know how ReCAPTCHA started? Digitalizing old analog books. Probably just as commercial, but it feels better than training a ML algorithm for an international conglomerate.
Why would a bank use Bitcoin instead of forking it? If a bank uses Bitcoin, they are buying out the early holders who got in cheap. They’d be better if with a fork - plus they can fix a lot of issues with scaling, cost, and energy usage.
Type 2 in many ways is a disease that comes from struggling with diet and exercise. There are many medically valid reasons for that to be so, but it still is necessary to try and address them as much as you are able if you're struggling with Type 2. It may save your life.
Induction seems to be the holy grail of cooking: electric (so it's clean and doesn't use fossil fuel from Russia), and highly controllable and repeatable. Everything else should just be banned, gas because it's polluting and problematic, and other types of electric because they just suck.
You buy oil with USD.

P.S. Currencies allow you to exchange debt obligations with entities you don't know and for certain entities to issue debt.

P.S.2 I think you should formally define your denotation of value, as you do not seem to follow the usual definition. Same for price.
Interesting (I'm really bad at math).

It seems dependent on measurement precision, effectively the bucketing resolution of the histogram. If you measure both 69.00 and 69.99 inches as 5'9" then the number of people in the "median height bucket" would be more than if you broke it into 100 buckets from 69.00 to 69.99. Since presumably nobody can be exactly 5'9" (or 5'9.00", or 5'9.000"...), then the number of people in the "median" bucket must represent the inaccuracy of the measurement.

So the greater precision you can measure, the less people are "inaccurately" at the exact median score - since buckets of .01 inches will contain fewer people than buckets of 1 inch.

(I've noticed a lot of problems end at this boundary of continuity and discreteness. I find it existentially disturbing. As a bewildered non-mathematician, I've gone down quite a few rabbit holes reading about the axiom of choice and intuitionism – My favorite was when I discovered the Hairy Ball Theorem, but I also enjoyed this idea from "Does time really flow?" that describes time as an increase in precision of measurement of uniquely numbered particles [0].)

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-time-really-flow-new-clu...
Do they not make money off the deposits somehow?
> if the war on terror wouod have been about anything other than nations willingnes to sell oil to the West

your comment is confusing, I can't quite grasp what you're trying to say, but just to clarify:

The first Iraq War was about Iraq invading Kuwait.

In the period leading up to the second Iraq War, there were sanctions on Iraq and Iraq was not allowed to sell oil. Iraq (and France) wanted to lift the sanctions. The war was not about getting Iraq's oil, Iraq was begging to deliver it.
Sure, I can think of plenty of movie/cartoon uses for it. But I mean, what's the legal, rational use case?

If I report my car stolen and the police care, they can put the license # into a computer and then (in theory) have it be detected by traffic cameras/police car dashcams. An E-ink license plate seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Banking is digital, and thus functionally money in general is digital and has been since the 60s. The dollar itself is physical.

No central banks are proposing the use of a blockchain, as that would be a completely ridiculous and counter-productive thing to do. But some are investigating good old-fashioned centralized ledgers that work, can scale, are cheap to run, have reversibility, have fraud protection, have identification, etc.

Introducing a digital dollar would be a new piece of the financial infrastructure.

Possible reasons to want it might be:

1) Better auditability

2) Quicker for the government to send stimulus payments to boost the economy

3) Possibility of implementing new monetary levers like demurrage

Ultimately, whether it is implemented or not, would not make too much visible difference in our lives. And we would almost certainly carry on with using deposit accounts, because digital dollar accounts probably wouldn't pay interest. Most of it would probably just be held as bank reserves, and individuals would generally want to move it out of there unless the government got into the business of providing deposit accounts as well.

I don't think the US will be rushing to nationalize commercial banking anytime soon.

Improvements like Same-Day ACH and Zelle have been rolling out, and these are much more relevant to consumers.
There's a difference between being known by the mainstream and being used by the mainstream. Bitcoin is the former, but not yet the latter.
It appears that Bitcoin's main use case is as a long-term store of value (like Gold, but digital). It will be very helpful to have a currency that anyone can use without one country's central bank controlling it, and with Bitcoin's strong network effects, its only a matter of time before it becomes adopted by more commercial banks, central banks, and individuals.
openai has specifically said it hasn't been trained with recent data. what did you want it to say?
> you stop being declarative

Pulumi uses a declarative model - actually the same model as Terraform.
I'd say that most of the distinction between books and blogs / other online writing is about the process and result rather than of the physical form of the product itself, though that has some bearing (see my recent comments elsewhere in this thread).

If you're familiar with the literature on writing itself --- fiction or nonfiction --- what becomes clear is how books are crafted. There's the idea, often research, organisation of notes and the like, writing itself, and then very often many, many, many rounds of editing and proofing, which go towards a result which ideally reads well, is factually accurate (where such things matter), that educational materials follow good pedagogy, is well cited and referenced, has needless fat trimmed, etc., etc.

Traditional publishing has multiple edit and filter points, from initial acquisition through revisions and translations. The upside is (potentially) well-crafted works, the downside is that many proposals don't get green-lit. The promise of the Web was breaking that editorial chokepoint, which has its own pros and cons.

Yes, of course it's possible to craft bad books, and as The Good Book notes, there is no end.

But blogging and article-writing frequently cuts many of these corners. Yes, a domain-expert can write a good blog, and yes, the process of blogging itself can be part of the process of book-creation, with feedback and corrections to the (error-prone, roughly-hewn) blog posts itself contributing to that finished product.

Books based on dialogues, lectures, commentaries, and essays are also a timeless form (Plato, Sun Tzu, Al-Kindi, Averroes, Smith's The Wealth of Nations, Feynman's Physics, all come to mind), and that's one useful way of coming up with a book-length compendium of material, though the result may lack in an overall coherence. (Overall coherence of course is not the principle goal of such compendia, rather, it is to create a usefully-curated set of realated or interacting works.)

I've been increasingly disappointed in the focus of many early digital-text pioneers on creating an end result that's specific to the domain, rather than on the process of writing works which is afforded by digital tools to increase capability and usefulness of something which, after all, ultimately is read in a linear fashion, if not necessarily how the author or publisher lineralised it. Reading is finding a path through text, the presented structure is itself only one path. We read novels through; we work through textbooks; we consult or query dictionaries, phone directories (if you remember those), and encyclopedias.

Concepts such as Niklas Luhmann's Zettlekasten, whilst analogue and paper-based are far more innovative in the sense of restructuring the authoring process itself. More modern tools would include Zotero and Calibre, perhaps.

<https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/>
Stopped caring when I started using Bitwarden to autogenerate and store long, complex passwords. That was the real game changer.
So ... 123456789012345 or passwordpassword
What about social media, is that a net negative? Gig economies? Every societal shift enabled by technology comes with significant negatives, but you won't know if it is a true net negative on society until it plays out to maturity.
And a few other mental disorders, yeah. "Depersonalization" is the relevant search term.

This was the real "sudden insight" I got from trying meditation off and on for a few years: that the complete detachment they try to achieve and the complete detachment I've been feeling for most of my life are the same thing. The only difference is they did it on purpose.

I have been enlightened, and it is the biggest source of suffering in my life.
Nice! It sounds like you would do well to capture the debug output if a request handler takes an unusually long time to return (not just if an uncaught exception occurs).
Or, you could just do what NIST recommends and not impose arbitrary password requirements beyond being 8+ characters and and not appearing in a list of known passwords. https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#:~:text=no%20....