skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After trying to use it as such so far :

Nontrivial problem solutions are wishful thinking hallucinations, eg. I ask it for some way to use AWS service X and it comes up with a perfect solution - that I spend 10 minutes desperately trying to uncover - and find out that it doesn't exist and I've wasted 15 minutes of my life. "Nudging it" with followups how it's described solutions violate some common patterns on the platform, it doubles down on it's bullshit by inventing other features that would support the functionality. It's the worst when what you're trying to do can't really be done with constraints specified.

It gives out bullshit reasoning and code, eg. I wanted it to shorten some function I spitballed and it made the code both subtly wrong (by switching to unordered collection) and slower (switching from list to hash map with no benefit). And then even claims it's solution is faster because it avoids allocations ! (where my solution was adding new KeyValuePair to the list, which is a value type and doesn't actually allocate anything). I can easily see a newbie absorbing this BS - you need background knowledge to break it down. Or another example I wanted to check the rationale behind some lint warning, not only was it off base but it even said some blatantly wrong facts in the process (like default equality comparison in C# being ordinal ignore case ???).

In my experience working with junior/mid members the amount of half assed/seemingly working solutions that I had to PR in last couple of months has increased and a lot (along with "shrug ChatGPT wrote it").

Maybe in some areas like ASM for a specific machine there's not a lot of newbie friendly material and ChatGPT can grok it correctly (or it's easy to tweak the outputs because you know what it should look like) - but that's not the case for gamedev. Like there are multiple books titled "math for game developers" (OP use case).
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Within a lot of projects, before starting to code, quite some engineering needs to be done. Engineering is making first models that mock reality, trying them, refining them, making them more performant and so on.
To me the title 'software engineer' summerize these skills nicely.
> the other has a mathematically demonstrably finite supply.

The argument I always hear against this point is that you can simply continue to subdivide the currency infinitely. We just get into smaller and smaller fractions of "satoshi's" or whatever the base unit may be.

> tries to be at least obfuscate what money is used for and by whom.

It really doesn't in any meaningful way. I'd suggest the true benefit is that there is no centralized preconditions on what transactions can be added to the ledger. Any two valid addresses can always transact if they pay the ledger fee.

> the other is designed to enhance freedom

It's designed to not have centralized control outside of 51% attacks. Whether that actually "enhances freedom" remains to be proven. Having to tether yourself to the internet and pay a fee on every transaction may strongly work against this actual point in practice.
Repeating RTFM (especially in such tone!) won't convince anybody to look into this. Quite the contrary…

You, my friend, are dismissive to the fact that people are only willing to put in their valuable time into something if it seems at least on first glimpse interesting enough.

You're doing an extremely poor job showing people why this would be the case here.

Math may be fun, but in the end your success in life will almost exclusively depend on your social skills. Skills which you're obviously lacking still.
Patreon was the word I was looking for :-)

So many thoughtful replies, thank you all! After reading them, it sounds like we currently lack a way of paying into an internet commons where funds get distributed to the sites we visit most. Something like a water utility, where its very existence is priceless, but we don't have to think about it each time we turn on the tap, because the unit price of rinsing dishes is almost too cheap to meter. Cryptocurrency has potential to power something like that, but concerns around privacy and having too much money pulled from bank accounts have not been entirely addressed yet.

To flip this on its head, some suggested that we're only looking at internet ads from the supply side. Looking at the demand side might show that people want to actively pay to support websites they enjoy. Especially if that suppresses ads where it's implemented. But there's currently no mainstream way to donate perhaps $5-30 per month to provide a kind of internet universal basic income with zero fees.

Off the top of my head, one of the most popular recipients might be something like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to lobby against dystopian legislation from the RIAA/MPAA, for example. The first legislation to target might be to ban bans and enforce transparency, so that all customers have a guaranteed right to dispute any ban and be restored within say 2 weeks, or be refunded any proceeds from before their account was suspended. Which might get ad companies to do their jobs and stop fraud internally, as well as cultivate competitors who advertize a lower ban rate.

Some good starting points:

Patreon
ACH
FedNow
Faster Payments
SEPA
NPP
Cash App
Google Contributor
Brave Rewards
Zcash's shielded pool
Flattr
Kindle Unlimited
Youtube Premium
Venmo
PayPal
This resource was very helpful as an addendum.
I am not going to educate you on what gambling is, or what is the purpose of money. You made me laugh by calling some magic tokens revolutionary. Yes a revolutionary new way of duping poor people of their money.
You really need to design it yourself to grok it. It's weird. Try using Falstad's online simulator.
As we say in Dutch, u vraagt wij draaien (your request is my command, roughly translated) : https://raymii.org/s/blog/Bare_Metal_Boot_to_Vi.html
Positive mass draws things towards it (gravity) so negative mass would push things away (anti-gravity), therefore they would just cancel out if they were the same magnitude
There are some degradations, just like other "engineering" like software engineering. I am pretty sure most people don't know the ins and outs of everything that makes code run, from compiler to CPU, especially not the CPU's of today, I doubt any one person fully understands them. You just know the abstraction layer you manipulate and learn techniques how you can make it do the things you it want. That is quite similar to prompt writing.

You can certainly get better at it by learning the basics of LLM models, as well as finding and applying certain methods that improve the results.

You can actually see quite a lot of difference between someone trying out some things, or someone who has spent quite a bit of time trying to make it do non standard things.

What you call "engineering" is of course up for debate, but it's not snake oil.
Nope. Businesses and housing have real utility. They are of value. Real value. Crypto tokens are a game of finding a bigger fool to make money.
> One allows a government to blacklist users that they deem unworthy, the other is designed so that can never happen

Seems pretty easy to blacklist a crypto wallet address.
If you are like me and wonder, "What's the point of a centralized digital currency in economies where almost all financial transactions are effectively digital anyway?" I found this HBR article[0] provides a good overview of how an economy with a CBDC looks different than our current economy, why countries may want that, and why countries may not want that.

[0] https://hbr.org/2021/10/what-if-central-banks-issued-digital...
That sounds like the sort of "just so" story that plagues evo psych[0]. Is there any way to disprove it?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
Probably not, I hate Elon more than most people, but like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Passat#Sales (U.S. column) a lot of cars just see demand fall off a cliff when all they see is small refreshes over a decade. There's talk of Tesla being in the process of a full updates to various lines and until that (does|does not) happen it's probably a bit premature to chalk anything up to Tesla's cultural positioning (after all, unless (like me) you're a terminally online twitter user Musk's politics are probably completely unknown to you)
In Japan in 1990, did people suddenly stop wanting to be in Tokyo? If so, why has the population of the country been pouring into Tokyo ever since? If not, how does that square with Japanese real estate being almost the most terrible investment you could make in that year?

http://www.thebubblebubble.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Ja...

Maybe land in popular places is always a good investment, or maybe that sentiment is already factored into the price when you buy in, and subsequent returns are mainly driven by macro factors like interest rate adjustments and banking crises?
Fascinating. Never heard about it before. Do you have to wait for one to settle at exactly the right spot, or is it more forgiving? Which muscles is the easiest?
I'm curious why this submission is lower ranked on the front page than numerous other article with fewer points submitted much less recently. This isn't the first time an article I've submitted about SF crime seemed to disappear from the front page very quickly.
If the police isn't sure if someone is driving 190 or 220 miles per hour in a 45 zone, should we just not ticket the person?

Or perhaps a "scientist" has spotted a suspected cancer in your brain but they can't quite pinpoint whether it's a 20x increase from normal size or a 28x increase. Based on the 28 assumption, you'll be in a wheelchair within seven years, but it might also be ten years. It's entirely preventable by doing the surgery but that costs money today plus minor lifestyle changes. Before doing a costly operation and bothering with, say, a daily pill and no alcohol, one could choose to wait while they refine their equipment over the next decades and then measure again before taking serious action. Can't trust dem scientists anyway, maybe it wasn't a problem in the first place.

That's the logic I'm seeing here. A "times worse than CO2" value for one of the elements might have been off by 30% so we should just assume nothing is wrong in the first place and not change our society away from burning carbon. Maybe it's just a coincidence that ~five of the past ten summers are the hottest of all the summers whose temperature we've measured... yeah I agree: maybe. It's a possibility, no matter how remote. But I'd rather not wager with billions of lives impacted by the outcomes that are part obvious (sea level rise) and part the prediction from yet more models. We needed to act yesterday if the models are anywhere near the truth and it's going to get exponentially harder to fix the longer we wait (because reducing emissions year-on-year is a lot easier than cutting+capturing at a moment's notice). If it turns out to be a dud, we can continue to dig up the remaining oil and have a big feast, everyone happy. If not, it's a good thing we acted and we're probably still not going to be able to prevent some level of habitat damage for the species we call human, but at least it won't be as bad as when we wait for more precise information on a problem where the conclusion remains unchanged.

(That's besides the healthy years of life provided by having cleaner air; I don't know how that would compare against e.g. cobalt mining.)
Yeah the issue is you can generate data, but it won’t be good data. Training over random strings won’t make you learn language, but it’s technically data.
Oh, I don't disagree. Although at this point, I doubt I could realistically parse normal spoken French at all although I can get the gist of simple written.

I do think that, for most people, a relatively low effort introduction to a language may be useful to set a minimal foundation. But you probably need serious immersion to get anything even close to fluent.
Problem is what companies say and do is not always aligned, things change and accidents happen.

Unfortunately, that means wide brushes are now used to paint impressions and what companies say in their terms are not trusted.
You might enjoy "Excursions in the History of Mathematics" - Israel Kleiner.

It's sort of inbetween popsci and Graduate Maths, probably undergrad level. Lots of historical "essays" covering Number Theory, Calculus/Analysis, Proofs etc..

Has some interesting history - apparently Newton developed three versions of his calculus: infinitesimals (geometric approach), fluxions (kinematic approach) and 'prime and ultimate ratios' (algebraic). He used a mix of all three to solve some problems. Never read that before!
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> They don’t locally manufacture anymore and have lost most of the Australian market.

Ok, sure. Rephrase that to "historically, as of a decade ago", if you like.

The point was more that the low-quality association was a more American phenomenon than anything. Internationally, they were either perceived fine or unpopular for other reasons.
This is clever gamification but probably most of the players would be the suburban and rural poor, for whom excess driving is more likely to be non-discretionary and the only option for local + regional travel. The effect would be to limit their quality of life, either by deferring access to money for basic expenses, by limiting access to employment, or by discouraging children's access to recreation and socialization opportunities. There are similar arguments against VMT taxes

How about we tax cars as property, based on Blue Book value and modulated by income bracket, and maybe even by specs like weight and fuel economy? Some states are already doing at least a basic version of this. And instead of giving the money back, we can fund fare-free municipal bus and rideshare programs
"As you would expect from the creator of deprocrastination, this short essay is practical, accessible and wise." Followed by four screens of cat pictures.
I understand that interpretation but I think "anyone else" is supposed to stand in for an everyman, not the most connable person you can find.
What required maintenance are people doing all the time that is taking up their free time? Everything I can think about are things that renters still need to deal with, like cleaning. The only big US thing I can think of is lawn mowing, which, as crazy as it sounds to a lot of Americans, is not a requirement to have outside of very strict HOAs. And you can also just pay someone to do it if you still want a lawn.
I've heard India has had some successes combining solar and rural farms/deserts. Though I'm not sure how exactly.
> Over the course of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Wagner has recruited tens of thousands of inmates, including murderers and domestic abusers, to fight some of the war’s bloodiest battles.

Did they really recruit “tens of thousands”? If true, that’s mind-boggling. What sort of desperation is that? Imagine if the US had to recruit prisoners to fight a war…this is failed state territory.
Alright. We are supposing for the moment that both inertial and gravitational contexts for mass give the same number.

The force between two masses, F is equal to G multiplied m-sub-1 multiplied by m-sub-2, and then all of that divided by the square of the distance between m-sub-1 and m-sub-2. Here G is the gravitational constant and the number being positive indicates a force toward, say, the first partner, m-sub-1.

Now, imagine m-sub-2 is negative mass.

Our force then becomes negative, so a force away from the first partner, m-sub-1.

BUT ...

Acceleration is equal to force divided by mass. Here the mass, m-sub-2 is negative, but so is the force. And so the acceleration is back to being positive and the negative mass "falls toward" the positive mass of m-sub-1.

In other words, positive matter ends up being a "falling toward" field.

Negative matter, however, well, run the numbers, only do everything from the m-sub-2 vantage point. The positive mass, m-sub-1, flees! Even as it attracts the other one.

And so once you have a negative/positive pair, they lock on, one fleeing, one chasing. One ends up with ever increasing positive kinetic energy, the other with ever increasing negative kinetic energy (all starts to sound a little silly here) and they cancel out, from a distance.

Gets wacky once you start imagining this for charged particles, which immediately bunch up into staggering Coulombs of negatively-charged nega-mass particles, and ditto for the positively-charged nega-mass particles. They just rapidly self-sort into these clumps due to the "electrostatic repulsion" going up against negative inertia. The EM force quickly dominates.

These two blazing opposite poles of charge, Q-pos and Q-neg, should naturally attract one another, but for that pesky negative inertia again.

And so all of the negative mass in the universe sorts into Q-pos and Q-neg, then promptly tries to approach the speed of light fleeing from one another, leaving just the slightest of electrical fields evident, but always asymptotically approaching zero as they more or less banish themselves to the further regions of normal matter.

(Some normal matter would be torn along for the ride)

It's a fun thought experiment.
You can go further back to the art created by our ancestors: cave paintings, carved stone figurines and cubism can all be understood by modern humans who are 99% of their time confronted with a high resolution environment.
Did you bother changing the graph to show world population instead of just looking at the default selection? Here is the link to assist you in this:

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/population-and-demograp...

It is a straight upwards line.

But as I said, they don't care about population, only CO2 levels, which also go up in a straight line.

It would indeed be a waste of time for you to argue further, because you don't seem able to respond to the points being made. Here is a graph of temperature as measured by satellites. It consists of long flat periods, punctuated by sudden rises. This is not correlated with CO2, which grows smoothly.

https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_...

Now, do you care to respond to the data that's being cited?
Link to paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ene.15812

nltimes.nl should be ashamed for not reporting their sources.
Ah I see now. Thanks to everyone else who chimed in.
Because they adopted the "Gillette business model".
Engineers of the human soul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineers_of_the_human_soul
Did you read the thing or what ?

"The second use will bring natural language queries and "data analysis" to SlicerDicer, which is Epic's data-exploration tool that allows searches across large numbers of patients to identify trends that could be useful for making new discoveries or for financial reasons. According to Microsoft, that will help "clinical leaders explore data in a conversational and intuitive way.""

Do you not understand what natural language queries on external data by access of/enabled by GPT-4 means/entails ?

The only thing worse than being condescending is being condescending and wrong.
By the time I realize I should have done that I have already been inconvinced. Also remember to copy .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG before you run it so that you don't loose your message.
Oh, and of course in /r/sanfrancisco they're calling crimes/area a useless metric and I was downvoted into oblivion.
ah, the auto-corrected version of 'rdfind'
I like the "blast my critics with bots" approach, even when you've been caught red-handed. Into every generation, a Bernie Shifman must fall.
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Their CEO has gone on Reddit a few times and came off extremely, probably insultingly poorly. I dropped the app like hot lead after they changed formatting late last year and his behaviour was the last nail in that coffin.

It's gotten progressively worse and more gamified which doesn't equate to learning.

There are some FOSS alternatives beginning to plant seeds. I cannot wait to see what they bring.
> It's amazing to me that in all this time Duolingo hasn't added a "supplementary materials" section.

They have(had?) one on the web version, but I think they cut it.
> almost always be done with a dc/dc converter in an industrial application.

thanks. lots of good details in this thread.

> if by AC you mean 50 or 60 Hz, definitely can and should be avoided.

Yes, i meant avoiding the maintenance and losses of an actual transformer
I think it’s a mistake to focus on ASML. Manufacturing silicon chips is incredibly complex, yes some of the complexity is handled by ASML but that’s one tool in a massive chain. Think about it partly in the same way as car manufacturers, point at a part in my car? Bosch probably made it. That doesn’t mean my car is a Bosch. TSMC is about bringing together the entire tool chain. To compare them to their biggest competitors- the reason Intel failed partly because they made a bet on technology for the next generation of chips and it didn’t pan out, but the underlying reason was their processes failed.
Specifically with respect to the methane cow farts, yes. That carbon comes from their plant diet (be it grass in a field or grain in a feeding lot), and the carbon in those plants came from the atmosphere.

This isn't counting the fossil fuels the industry also burns, or the carbon released during the production of fertilizers used when growing that feed. But the carbon in the feed itself all comes from the atmosphere, and therefore the carbon in the methane emitted by cows comes from the atmosphere.
Ask HN: Any Domain Registrars That Aren't Crap?
Back in the day Network Solutions was the sine qua non of registrars. Then they... well... let's just say they lost my trust. Then Nominum was my go-to until they too lost my trust. I was about to register a domain for a client with GoDaddy until it was clear they didn't take their business seriously.

Name.com seemed okay until... again... let's just say they're not behaving in a way that makes me comfortable with using their services.

I registered a domain through gandi.net and it wasn't HORRIBLE. As best I can tell they didn't retain my CC details after I asked them not to (looking at you, name.com.) I've yet to have to send in a support request to gandi.net, but I HAVE to think it's a better experience than name.com or GoDaddy.

So... what are people's experiences? Who's a good registrar?
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Hey George! We should catch up! (to readers: I was the guy who hired George as an intern and he was awesome. so AMA too!)

AOLServer was so, so, so far ahead of it's time. It had a WYSIWYG HTML editor years before Dreamweaver that could post content to the server. The integrated (Illustra!) Database and TCL interpreter meant you could build basically anything with it. Props to Jimbo and Doug...

We built what I think might have been the worlds first massively multi-homed, self-provisioning hosting service (called, creatively, "Navi-Service") with it. Think Linode but in 1997.
>I didn't disagree about how you can reproduce things. You have to do that to continue a conversation.

You do not have to reproduce the internal states to continue a conversation. When prior parts of the conversation are loaded into context the hidden states which generated those prior tokens are not reproduced. They are only reproduced if resubmitted in a piecemeal fashion, which does not happen in normal conversation continuation.

You seem to not understand what the internal state is or how it is differentiated from the external state of the overall conversation.
what does it mean in simple words? as one of many StackOverflow contributors (although very small) I don't want that my answers were wall-guarded by SO website, they are free to use advertising revenue from traffic generated by my content to remunerate for creation and supporting the platform, but the content itself is mine, why it shouldn't be that way?