skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was outstanding. Couldn’t put it down. She’s a really good and detailed writer able to find humor in the places you’d least expect.
`Everyone` refers to all people in a given subset of the population. E.g. "Everyone arrives to school by 7:30" Obviously you're talking about people at a specific school, not every human on Earth.
A couple of other major divisions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_believers
I feel like this really depends on the topic.

When I see a 1000 page tome about every single feature of Photoshop, then nope. I'll google it thanks.

History is non-fiction, too. And I'd definitely rather read a book than some blog, because there will be a long thread of things that build up on each other, and I think books are just better suited for that.

So, things that require prolonged attention because of an overarching concept I'd rather read about in a book.
Society is failing visual thinkers
While I agree, I also think that author is conflating two separate topics: visual thinkers and hands-on learning.

You can have hands-on learning that is both symbolic - "write a parser", and visual - "make a clay pot".

I'm more of a symbolic thinker/learner, and I actually feel that society largely fails me because everything is visual and mouse-based - pointing, clicking, dragging, scrolling - except Emacs ;)
> How many exoplanets have been found, and how many of those are Earth-size planets with a large moon in the habitable zone of a sun-like star?

I think this is down to how we look at the moment. One of the main ways we find exoplanets is to notice the star dimming with a regular frequency. This gets harder as the orbital time increases, as you need multiple observations of the planet transiting the star to conclude that it's a planet. This means that the vast majority of the exoplanets we know about have relatively short orbital periods, and the characteristics that go with that (e.g. they're close to their stars, therefore less likely to have moons, and if we consider them to be in the 'habitable zone', then their stars are relatively dim).

Actually, the fact that we've found so many exoplanets that fit in the relatively limited criteria that we can detect, suggests to me that there are probably a lot of exoplanets of all kinds, that we're just not as good at detecting yet.
Per blogpost:

> git clone requests with a GoModuleMirror User-Agent will receive a 429

So only one counter seems to be needed. Sure, it's doing work for an adversarial party, but it's not much extra work either.
> Donating stem cells was a moving experience. A teacher I had in high school used to say that everyone has an abundance of something in life, be it money, connections, friends, confidence, or something else, and that everyone should use their abundance to help others. Donating stem cells felt like a way to express gratitude for my own health by giving it to another person.

A beautiful sentiment. The world would be a better place were everyone to think this way.
Yep. A couple of girls got killed in Pittsburgh a few years back. They were kayaking down the river and didn't realize a dam was ahead. People die all the time in nature for lack of preparedness because they don't know the environment they are getting into and they don't know their limitations. This also endangers rescuers.
Well you need a datasheet from your sensor’s vendor. There are whole description of the register and initialization sequence. Few hundred values. And from these values you can construct your own register map for the sensor in the way as it was done for supported sensors. For popular sensors datasheets can be obtained just by searching.
It is pathetic that it was ever controversial, another victim of militant uniformitarianism. People actually insisted it was impossible because a comet strike could not be so recent, as if there was a schedule, and as if we know them all. Turns out we didn't! And there isn't.

A valid proof of Riemann that fails to elucidate primes would face deep apathy, and would probably never be reviewed properly, rejected over spurious nitpicks. There might even be one.
I suspect you will maintain your IQ longer by reading books instead of online articles.
While I would love for something like this to move forward, I think the focus in this bill takes a weird turn. E.g. the definition for "High-Risk Information System" includes as one its 4 criteria:

> involves the personal information of a significant number of consumers regarding race, color, national origin, political opinions, religion, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, health, gender, gender identity, sexuality, sexual orientation, criminal convictions, or arrests;

Systems that allow for discrimination against protected classes are certainly high risk, but I think most of us are more concerned by the identify theft risk online, and more likely to be discriminated against in person.

But the bill does _not_ anywhere mention addresses, social security numbers, banking information, etc. Maybe those things would reasonably be included under one of the other criteria:

> taking into account the novelty of the technology used and the nature, scope, context, and purpose of the information system, poses a significant risk to the privacy or security of personal information of consumers;

Separately they define Personal Information as:

> The term “personal information” means any information, regardless of how the information is collected, inferred, or obtained that is reasonably linkable to a specific consumer or consumer device.

That seems like a reasonable definition, but I think an "including but not limited to" list would have been helpful.
I have a two-character .org. I've never, in the 25 years I've owned it, gotten a non-scam offer for it. (Not that I'd sell for less than change-your-life money.)
Afeela good.

Not.
>>why would people want to cash out into dollars en masse and pay tax on that?

Because they see it as a likely loss, and would rather get some return than nothing. A taxable gain is always better than a loss.

Even if the gains were in other crypto and are now being cashed out via Tether to $USD, it's better to realize those gains in $USD and pay 0%, 15%, or 20% capital gains taxes (depending on your income bracket), rather than lose it all due to Tether becoming worthless. Manageable but certain cost vs unpredictable likely total loss.
This grumpy old man made a video, just made for this reply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFRy4IwUNog

Phones do not do capability based security, they could, but they OS doesn't offer that as a possibility, we get the low rent knock-off imitation instead.
> My steam account is old enough to vote

Is there a secret voting mechanism on Steam that I'm not familiar with? Mine is 10 years old so I hope that it would get access to it :D
Moose do not fuck around. I was solo camping just off Death Canyon trail in Grand Tetons in September of 1998 and a bull moose appeared a bit up the hill from me and started bellowing and shaking his horns at me. I really had no where to go, so I pressed myself up against a small tree, no really knowing what was going on or what to do. Just then two female moose charged through my camp down towards the stream a couple of hundred yards away. After that the bull turned and wandered around me downhill.

Turns out I had set up my tent on a barely-visible trail that they were probably accustomed to using to get up and down the slope. I don't know if I was really in any danger, but I gained more respect for moose after that.

Ironically, I'd spent the entire hike that day worrying about a bear encounter, but the only time I saw a bear was from long distance, across the valley, a mother and her cub.
https://archive.ph/G8b2u
It is not just about the numbers. There are more books produced than ever.

For me, it is the ease of finding the "best" on a certain topic (by rating...). This is because books are more "centralized" (Amazon, goodreads...) and identifiable (isbn). Web Articles, on the contrary, are more often like an ever receding stream: blogs, monthly magazines, Hacker news feed...

Concerning centralization, I wish sites like longreads [1] and Lindy Hacker News [2] were more popular, wide-ranging and organized (tags, ratings...)

And with respect to identification, I wish there was the equivalent of DOI for web articles : You can easily find that influential scholarly paper from the 60s, but you may never recover that brilliant magazine article from the 2000s (and search is getting worse)

[1] https://longreads.com/

[2] https://hn.lindylearn.io/
>even today i read on HN not to pay off your mortgage if you don't have any other loans or it might tank your credit score

Only when it drops off your report, which is 10 years after you pay it off.

If you were so concerned about having a line of credit on your record then open up a credit card and don't use it, no reason to pay thousands of dollars in interest to avoid an abstract fear of "tanking your credit score."

>it really sucks for the average consumer, yet there is no actual change coming

I am an average consumer. The credit system is great for me! I'm able to demonstrate my responsibility and as a result I'm able to obtain a large amount of credit products at very low cost as well as pay less for insurance. I guess you can argue that the government should be providing this service rather than private companies or there should be more regulations around security, but the system only "really sucks" for people who take out loans and don't repay them.
The age old story of the EU lagging behind the US in regulation. (snort)

What is the EU marketshare on stoves? As an importer, could EU natgas already have a premium attached that reduces any impact from regulation?
He is however at Google and they are in the inevitable innovator's dilemma. MS is going all out on GPT with Bing and Office integrations.
Compared to burning gas, no. Burning natural gas produces a lot of byproducts of that combustion - many of which are not healthy for humans in concentrations produced by gas burners - which is why it's a problem.
It's named after the parent user, and is called the "isitthough42 effect".

You can Google that term soon enough.
For me the key to making everything understandable was adding more constraints to keep myself out of trouble. Everything is a finite state machine, exclusively non-blocking assignments, always loops use the rising edge of the clock signal only.
This was posted eight days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34213549
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Case IH is one that I have seen starting to become more popular and farmers selling their JDs and replacing them with Case tractors. Case has good service and you can purchase most mechanical parts to replace existing broken parts without having to go through a service technician if you don't want to.
Invariant Point Attention from Alphafold2
Also keep in mind that his reference point for “overhype” is people claiming AGI within 2-3 years.
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd06xx/EWD667.PDF

> From one gut feeling I derive much consolation: I suspect that machines to be programmed in our native tongues—be it Dutch, English, American, French, German, or Swahili—are as damned difficult to make as they would be to use.
That's tangential to the point. You accidentally posted misinformation to the internet and somebody corrected you. Don't go off on a raging tangent, just say "thanks" or something.
Bootstrap dropdowns:

- don't follow platform conventions (don't trigger the actual system dropdowns with actual expected behavior)

- get cutoff by browser chrome when page is zoomed in (because you can't control that behavior from JS)

- default implementation's touch targets are too small

And that's for a framework which has had over a decade to make this work.

This is not to throw undue shade: they've done a very good job. But that's about as far as you can get.
i think to kill you either there needs to be enough power to burn organs, which still may only affect one limb and not be fatal, or to pass through your heart, say from one arm to another, or arm to opposite leg, and for your heart to be disrupted rather than just shocked. But the two aspects are the amount of power and the path the current takes. Maybe the floor tile was above a waterproof membrane, like a wet-room, and so inhibited the power current flow?
I find AI products incredibly useful and I save a lot of time by using them; I have paid subscriptions to MJ and OpenAI and I use them frequently.

On the contrary, web3 is nothing more than empty promises.
They're referring to the actual service domain not the public static domain.

https://git.sr.ht/robots.txt
300+ hours per level, and if you don't have a foundation you likely will have to re-take level 1. Every single person I knew in tech who advanced through and obtained the CFA changed careers into finance. Every single one. Good luck with your career change! :)
I don't use ZipChord for writing code specifically - I have found existing code specific completion tools to be better suited for most of what I code. I do use it for writing code comments.

Here's a pastebin of my dictionary: https://pastebin.com/Gafg5QN7

Of course I've removed a bunch of cords (people's names and email addresses, mostly, as well as some confidential stuff from my work). It's also specific to my keyboard (because keyboards without NKRO have different patterns of keys that can be pressed at the same time).
AI Race Determination From X-rays
> It may be illuminating to try to imagine what would have happened if, right from the start our native tongue would have been the only vehicle for the input into and the output from our information processing equipment. My considered guess is that history would, in a sense, have repeated itself, and that computer science would consist mainly of the indeed black art how to bootstrap from there to a sufficiently well-defined formal system.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...
Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2022?
The same guy has a video called "The Most Dangerous Dams" [length 8:43]. It seems so be less technical and more focused on the dangerous aspects.

edit: link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVDpqphHhAE
Aave, Uniswap, Opensea, ENS, to name a few.
Masses of average people just go about their day afraid of doing anything that's not part of their routine

You should only be scared of them if some Big Idea(tm) has them under their thumb

Governments and big businesses are far more willing to be adversarial
Ask HN: How do you build minimalist, future-proof, user-facing software?
Hi HN,

I want to ask your for a tech-stack/paradigm recommendation:

So I am a frontend web developer by trade and I am currently grappling with the following two observations:

* The deterioration of most "modern" software (especially in the web) is incredibly quick. As in, half my browser bookmarks from three years ago just straight up don't exist anymore. GitHub repos that are unmaintained for 8 months usually can't be run/build/executed anymore, or only with a long session of hotfixing and dependency issues. Even "simple" projects of my own (like a jekyll site) can't be ran anymore after a year w/o endless dependency- and deprecation-related struggle.

* When trying to solve simple problems ("I wish I had a program making this easier"), a painful amount of development time is spent working on what The Mythical Man-Month calls "Accidental Complexity". Configs, boilerplate, libraries. Making Heroku play nice with Docker, and make that play nice with Namecheap, and make that play nice with Stripe, and Tailwind, and LetsEncrypt...and so on.

So with these (maybe obvious) observations in mind, what is your recommendation for a tech-stack or paradigm better suited for small problems, MVPs, side projects, and so on?

I am really happy open for anything (languages, paradigms, tech, concepts, ...), the only requirements are simplicity, longevity and ability to build user-facing stuff nicely (doesn't have to be via GUI, though).

Thanks a lot!
I've blocked many of the people that called for Peter's ban on Twitter. I don't want to be on their radar or a target of some sort of witch hunt. I consider myself a nice person and not inflammatory/offensive, but I'm a belt and suspenders type of person. It's more important that I can submit an issue on the tracker than interacting "socially" with people who have a higher chance of ostracizing targeted individuals. The risks in my mind now far outweigh the rewards.
You mean, before it was known how it would affect the gaming landscape in the large?
You just convinced me to give another mobile game a try. I've tried a lot of them. But either they're free and riddled with ads and in-app transactions or they cost $5 but turn out to be quite boring or not that optimized for casual mobile gaming on the go.
There's a bunch of people making money from it and that usually takes precedence over whether it is fit for purpose in other ways.
>The author of this Twitter thread is François Chollet, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, creator of Keras and major contributor to TensorFlow, and author of Deep Learning by Python, considered by many a seminal book in introductory DL...

That sounds like someone who's great at API design, not a deep learning researcher.
weirs are drowning machines. Nothing more, nothing less.
Ask HN: Are you getting meaningful content form ChatGPT?
Hi HN,

I've been testing ChatGPT out for several scenarios (mostly comparing many data points between large cities. Some objective, some not), and I've noticed that most of the answers I'm getting are quite generic.

The phrasing especially is very repetitive, and I'm not getting any point of data that couldn't be trivially found on a statistics website.

Maybe I'm asking the wrong questions?
what’s the mneumonic here?
ZZ = sleeping
zb = zoom bottom
zt = zoom top
z. = zoom end of line (like a period)

but it’s not really “zooming” it’s scrolling or panning.
It's so strange to me that what you describe genuinely sounds useful and fairly straightforward, millions of person hours have gone into "web3" and it's all grifter stuff translating one shit coin into another and giving cheap credit or farming coins. Yet, something as obviously useful as you describe doesn't take off. Where does the discrepancy come from?
I think the strongest argument that AGI has been achieved is when ChatGPT vN can write ChatGPT vN+1 and have it be a Pareto improvement. Can we call it the User Test?

Now for some real User power.
or...get this

this will enhance accessibility to a vast number of people with disabilities. Also imagine reading your books/articles in voice of your favorite narrator.

A normal person will have to work really hard to do a 1:1 real time voice obfuscation with the processing it'd take.

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Why are you lot always doom and gloom and small-minded, is beyond me.
I got the joke, even if others didn't.
> And he also ranted about how people were all a bunch of morons. I don't blame anyone for getting tired of that.

Do you have a source?
If I am not mistaken, he doesn't have publications (edit: one publication, along with 70+ co-authors) in NLP:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=VfYhf2wAAAAJ...

His work on Keras is admirable, but that is about it.
Maybe, but users everywhere are like that and moderators elsewhere aren't the first handful of people that latched onto a keyword 15 years ago.

The weirdest thing about reddit is that you have this anonymous group of all powerful moderators who seem to spend their time overriding the site's most known feature: karma.

I'm not arguing in favor of groupthink, but it seems like the upvote/downvote system is almost never used to guide the direction a community goes in because people seem to have a proprietary-like interest in keeping it the "same" before it got "popular."
Thanks, I changed the URL to that from the (broken) https://abby.how/posts/parsing-layout.html
> not even mentioning the amounts of JS and the impact of it on performance

The only reason it performed better is because Google would preload over 1MB of Javascript needed to run AMP on its search page.

A cold start for AMP was barely better than most of the top sites that used it.

It was cheating, pure and simple.

Edit: IIRC it was also preloading the entirety of the search carousel, too. And you could get into the carousel only if you had an AMP page.
> gives them what they want

I did not get Half-Life 3 yet.

But on a serious note, we don't know how successful they actually are. They are a private company. Concurrent players & logged in users growing, with more and more gamers around the world and covid as a catalyst over the last years is probably not a good sole indicator. Those are growing for everybody, just compare them to Roblox alone.

I'd say maybe a better one could be pretty much every publisher returning or rumoured to return soon - but that could also just mean better deals for them and Valve also not making more money.

Besides that, doesn't seem all sunshine at Valve either. There were reports of a hostile work environment in the past, among other things supposedly due to the ego-fuelling bonus structure.

When Alyx arrived GabeN talked about how they'll ship two more big VR titles soon-ish, which didn't happen and which supposedly are at least on hold. We at least know that they currently work on a non-vr game called Neon Prime right now and that might or might not ship soon.

The Dota 2 and especially the CSGO community wishes for more communication and updates for their games. The Source 2 update for CSGO has more people coping now than HL3.

They let games like Artifact and Underlords just die. Especially Artifact, with being a buy-to-play title where you additionally had to buy the cards for additional real money, had quite some controversies around the game and how Valve handled everything.

At least in CSGO the esports scene is also not happy either with how Valve ignores and handles cheat & fraud cases half-assed. Their own anti-cheat in CSGO is also still shit.
`ZZ` is great when you want to save. If you're looking at a read-only file, or just want to quit a file without unsaved changes, I personally prefer `Ctrl-w q`. I do a lot of windowing in Vim (controlled with `Ctrl-w`), and if you follow that with `q` (and you're on the last window of the session), it will quit Vim. I have Ctrl mapped to Caps Lock, so I can do this quite quickly.
Practical Engineering has a video on the dangers of a lowhead dam - https://youtu.be/GVDpqphHhAE
By all means go ahead. People thinking and acting on these concerns mostly "have made their money", or at least feel secure enough to do so. The (large) complement of people who didn't are too distracted by daily struggle to relate.

Another reason for empowered individuals to act on their hunches is that there is no sure fire prescription of how to achieve change. We feel that things are "not alright" and we can reasonably suspect "nearby" alternate realities. Yet finding the pathways from A to B is basically by trial-and-error. In such context, the more trials and the more orthogonal to each other, the better.

More systemic processes might be slow but they are not "ineffective". Its a matter of timescale and perspective. The slowest of them all, the educational system, is actually the most effective in the long run.