skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You’d imagine this would only become a problem if nearly the entire flow was being consumed, which is unthinkable.

The Colorado River hasn't touched the ocean in decades man. Its been fully consumed for a long, long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Delta#After_dam...

Hoover Dam will probably not be a pumped-hydro plant in our lifetime. Its not about technology, its about politics and water rights management.
> cheap for people who own mining ASICs and expensive for occasional users.

Seems like it should be the same cost (barring the friction of having a wallet, etc.) for both sets of people since Bitcoin is just a commodity and the value is the same to everyone, miner or not.

For example, a miner should value some fraction of a BTC the same way anyone else does, since they can sell or buy it at the same price a normal user can. The fact that they can profitably mine BTC just means they have a profitable business on the side, it doesn’t mean they should prefer to pay for services (or emails) in BTC.
I absolutely hate the way fellow Indians will just try and deflect negative stories about India as western propaganda.

You do a disservice to your country by following that tired playbook.

Did you ever stop to consider that I am actually well informed and genuinely disappointed with my country.

Criticism of the country and party doesn’t mean I’m simply misinformed. I was critical of things when I lived there, I consume my news directly from Indian news sites.

Maybe you need to ask yourself why you feel the need to assume it’s western propaganda?
For torrenting at least one of the peers has to be accessible for outside world, either by having white IP, by using NAT with port forwarding, or by using IPv6-to-IPv4 shenanigans. If both peers are behind NAT, they cannot download data from each other.

If you're an active seeder, it makes sense to configure your machine so that it is accessible for all the peers, including ones behind NAT. If you're just a leecher though, it makes little difference.
> Why? I mean, it's logically inconsistent

That's pretty much it. If you say 2+2=4 and then in the following sentence say 2+2=5 without any change in definitions or axioms, something is fucky with your theory.

It's got nothing to do with efficiency or utilitarianism. You can define a horribly inefficient system which has an explanation that makes some sort of sense.

I can accept "the sky is red," and I can accept "the sky is blue," but if you tell me the sky is blue and then in the next sentence tell me the sky is red with no intervening information you probably made a mistake somewhere.
I appreciate your feedback.
There are some really great writers on Substack that provide tech topics from their subjective expertise, and as you, I'm also interested in that.
This newsletter is trying to achieve a different goal.
Reminds of this brilliance, which was also linked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns
Sam Altman is saying we are going to see a shift from labor to capital and that is going to cause more economic inequality along with possibly breaking the social contract.

It is probably nothing though...As if this gopher server is going to replace my TV someday. Give me a break. It only does text!
> Also, twitter shows the comments from "verified" handles on the top of other comments.

This is the exact main problem with paid Verification. Blue tweets surface to the top, disproportionate to the attention they actually receive, meaning you're more likely to see them. You're effectively paying for attention.
This is off topic but how can Mullvad be a no log vpn and still operate without impunity? What about Uber illegal stuff like csam or terrorist stuff etc?
the important thing is that it might not be a 'guy'. it would not be surprising that whoever is running the stream has serious internal gender identity conflicts/issues.

I have a friend who is going through this.

also, ironically, Starbucks makes it a point to ask for your name, or however you want to be called. you can tell them to call you Dark Moon or whatever. and workplace inclusion protips are also exactly about this topic, how to accommodate those who are different. small changes mean a lot to a lot of people. of course asking a whole team to WoW night elf cosplay with you every workday from 9 to 5 is not an easy ask, and it's reasonable to say no. where the line is unsurprisingly not an easy topic, but there are some usual minimum effort, like remembering the names of coworkers.
> You can use zfs send which is a append only operation

It's not about how the data gets there, it's the fact that the system is online and hackable just like any other system.

Good luck wiping offline tapes (Mr. Robot not withstanding).
It's also worth noting that CSS "pixels" are not real pixels. There are somewhat scaled to the relative size. But even better you can set your breakpoints in terms of `rem` which is the user's default font size. This usually gives a pretty good intuition to how big UI components need to be to be easily readable to the user. This can also handle differences such as a user with great vision on a small device (they set a tiny font to get the most of the limited screen space) compared to a user with limited vision on a large screen far away (their text size may be cranked high so that they can see it).
Deep fakes were always a huge concern for me in AI. That's just one way AI can be weaponized, and this example is very clear on the damage caused. Thankfully Twitter quickly corrects the issue, but sadly only because it became viral. Sadly, Twitter won't be able to correct all of the little cases of AI misuse that don't go viral.
> Click it. See for yourself.

I did. Please don’t call people liars.

It’s a graphic novel depicting a sex act, albeit not particularly erotically.

The entire point of my other comments was that I checked out other books in high school, books that are widely considered excellent and have been for decades, that contained far more explicit “inappropriate” content. The only things different here are the facts that it’s (1) drawn, and (2) concerns LGBTQ identity.

> They don't have any such right, best that I can understand the legal framework of the western world.

We live under a negative legal scheme, not a positive one. I’m not aware of any law that says that children cannot read what they’d like to read, either federal or state.

Obscenity in the US has a distinct legal test[1], one that you and I both understand this book (and Sophie’s Choice) would pass easily. It also doesn’t mention children anywhere.

Finally: nobody in this thread wants children to be hurt, or to be exposed to things that will hurt them. But books, especially ones that are presented and explainable within an educational context, do not hurt children. If anything, adults tend to hurt themselves and others more based on books than children do.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test
What a student should be able to do after finish an academic course is to participate and continue with other academic courses that depend on that course. If there is nothing that requires that course, and nothing that uses anything learned from that course, than the grades of that course has no possible meaning. It noises in the forest that no one hears.

What it also mean is that the measuring of quality of the teaching occur much later in the process. For example, lets say a student study basic math and then apply for an accounting class. We will only know the quality of the basic math education once the student has shown not to fail the accounting class because of poor understanding of basic math. The educator at the accounting class might over time find out that a particular schools or educators allow students to pass without actually being able to do basic math. At that point we know that the quality is low.

We can see similar failure with humanities. A person studying language in order to work as a translator will fail with their job if they don't understand the language which they are translating. It is poor quality when an educator passes students as translators when they can't translate. It can also be very unsafe (translators in hospitals or legal), so high quality in humanities can be just as important as in other disciplines.

We can imagine more difficult topics like philosophy, but from my own experience, those topics are more of experience based education rather than test-based learning. ChatGPT can't do in person group discussions.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that.

Is it meant to be a logical truth, independent of empirical facts? To me, it's a contingent fact even though it often is true. Nor do I see any reason to be certain that rationing which does cause some misallocation necessarily creates net harm.

Do you believe that markets can be evaluated based on some independent standard of appropriate allocation of goods and services?
I recognize this is probably similar to asking about how to get into fight club, but any tips on how to find a private tracker? I assume it involves becoming part of a community, but I don’t even know where to start looking for the communities!
brain fog, no smell, and reduced lung capacity. elevated liver enzymes in the bloodwork showed i wasnt crazy. oh, i should mention probiotics helped out too, along with the vaccine.

> asking for info, not doubting anything!

sure, just hesitant to answer because im not looking for a debate on this stuff anymore, got enough of that in my day-to-day while i was symptomatic. after the last 3 years i just want to put it all behind me and get everything back to normal.
What I see in that first image is the two rocks are the same shape, just rotated and scaled.
Not sure how this comment made it to the top. As its not so much about importing food, but exporting it from a starving country.

From another post in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36104069

"I think the question is was the resources diverted from same regions to fight the war or policy decisions taken which would accelerate the onset of famine?

Quoting from the book:

> The "rice denial" policy saw soldiers confiscate and destroy rice deemed surplus; according to one journalist, thousands of tons of rice were thrown into the water in east Bengal.[8] The "boat denial" policy saw 46,000 boats able to carry more than ten passengers confiscated; bicycles, carts and elephants were also taken.[9] One civil servant said the policy "completely broke the economy of the fishing class" in Bengal.

he answer seems an resounding yes - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill%27s_Secret_War#:~:..."
Journalism will have to go back to trusting individual creators. If Joe Bloggs signs an image then at least I know Joe Bloggs asserts that image was correct. If that's a trustworthy person (someone I find trustworthy), that's one way.

Of course how well that scales is another matter, but if Joe Bloggs loses my trust then I remove him from my "trusted sources" list.

The chain of integrity will be there, defined by more than just a byline. I may trust say Steve Rosenburg to tell me the truth if he posts a picture of something in Moscow, but if he misleads me then he loses that trust.

Ultimately it's of no difference to trusting what someone writes or says. I might trust a story with a byline on www.cnn.com, that's one thing. I won't however trust a screen capture of something implying it was shown on CNN.

Of course the main stream view for the last 15 years is to believe that journalists are always lying to you and always wrong, which is fine, you just have to accept that if you want to "do your own research" on say what's happening in Turkey with the election, you need to go to Turkey, spend a few years there getting to know and trust many different sources with many different world views.
I'm dyscalculic (with a formal diagnosis) and the "nobody is bad at math, just try harder!" attitude drove me into deep depression during my school years. I still have nightmares about it.

It's surprising since dyslexia is so common and accepted. We understand and accommodate their disability.
Yeah, me too. I hoped for a killer-reason to switch to Courier with a smug sense of superiority.
Software bugs that cause real-world harm
Here’s a photo of Las Vegas table. Could you mark it up to show where the wire is supposed to be?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/las-vegas-coronavirus-...
So a GraalVM competitor but on WASM.

I do want to see the WASM ecosystem grow and thrive, but it will take some time, although what I have seen so far is amazing. I am most excited for WASI. Havent checked up on it in a moment but its basically the WebAssembly version of nodejs but as a spec anyone implementing a WASM runtime can support, so there will be various options to run your code ultimately.
Scientists detected 5k sea creatures nobody knew existed. It’s a warning
>I don't know why we don't introduce elementary group theory at an earlier age.

Whenever someone says "we should teach X earlier", that necessarily means we have to teach some Y later, unless you want to add more hours to the schoolday. What would you evict from the curriculum, to make room for it?
Nvidia Announces ULMB 2 – Improved Motion Blur Reduction
I do use that. It doesn't work here though, because the author of that website "cleverly" decided to obfuscate their CSS class names.
Apple has bought most of the early N3 capacity. Perhaps Qualcomm will switch to Samsung Semiconductor again, as they have done when Apple bought most of TSMC's 5nm capacity for the M1 (Snapdragon 888, 8 Gen 1).
> Reducing kids intake of sugar requires a level of vigilance bordering on isolation from society

No, it requires… parenting and education? And stopping children from being exposed to ads for sugary crap 12 hours a day.

Habits are a huge part of it. Kids who “would only eat sugar if they could” are already used to consuming lots of sugar. They will definitely not starve themselves to death if no sugar/carbs are easily available in the house.

Here in the Netherlands a lot of (but not all) kids choose to snack on cucumbers etc and are quite reserved in how much candy they eat. School doesn’t allow high-carb foods. Parties will have fries, lemonade and cake, no soda or infinite amounts of candy. Mine is approaching the early teens and hasn’t ever drank soda, without suffering any peer pressure (yet).
You know, because there was a previous thread about this exact book, how misleading that claim is. The book was endorsed for 16-17 year olds, and the ALA category for books for 16 years olds is 12-18.
Ask HN: How do you work on tech specs?
Hi,

I recently joined a new company where things are kind of disorganized. When working on new features, people just create a ticket without description and start working on it the same day.

I would like to suggest a better process to write technical specifications when needed especially on cross repo / large scope projects. In my previous company, the tech specs were just files that got lost on a GDrive …
How do you handle specs? Any tools I could suggest to my team? How to encourage people to read and contribute to specs files?
We really need counter research to the commercial AI. Ability to identify or protect against AI modifications is a must have today, or well even yesterday.
And yet practically very little effort for Wikipedia to serve the correct version
Deep ocean currents in Antarctica are slowing earlier than predicted
I have a suggestion for the word to describe the current situation in the US:

Agitprop.

It's not just blatant, obvious lies. It's lies *designed to agitate people". I mean, the goal is "media engagement" (and secondarily, "political engagement"), but that comes downstream from getting everybody stirred up.
Mediawiki itself is built to support 10-year old phones (which is why the Moto G makes an appearance in the post - it's the official low-end Android benchmark) and older desktop operating systems. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browsers
I don't really desire the added complexity of having my files somewhere else.
Sun Makes Slow Light
How about candydate.app? Table is 2 options FREE and paid, simple, clean (we think). I just posted a Show HN (maybe too low on points to show anywhere) but you can see it on new or here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36114408
> I think your intuition is wrong here. The number of variables in the clause is not the reason why NP is difficult. XORSAT also has arbitrary number of variables per clauses, and is doable in P. Furthermore, the 2XSAT reduction shows that you can represent any 3-SAT clause only with 2-SAT and XORSAT clauses.

XORSAT is not NP-Complete because a chain of XOR boolean functions can't be chained to create arbitrary computation. 2SAT is restrictive because, even though it has a "fundamental" gate (NAND/NOR), the "splay" of variable interaction is so limited. In some sense, 2SAT and XORSAT, each individually, are conspiring to prevent general purpose computation.

> I don't think that's what P=NP would imply. ... What the result will say that you don't need to be exponential in the worst case.

If P=NP, then the program I listed above can be short circuited from exponential search to polynomial.
There has been an RFC about it (for years).

"Remove .m. subdomain, serve mobile and desktop variants through the same URL"
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214998
Ok I will bite. I travel to India once or twice a year for both pleasure and business. I can only tell you what I feel and see. I see incredible infrastructure changes even though India still has long way to go compared to other developed or even developing nations. Tons of airports being built and improved. Many highways being built and even completed in last few years.

"changed the calculation method to measure the length of highways."

Do I think Modi Govt doesn't manipulate some data ? Oh you bet they do. But I see real progress regardless and you cannot just throw some stats to change my mind. I see progress and I commend it and welcome it. Most people who live there don't care that Govt is manipulating how they measure the length of highways. They see that highways are being built. Congress didn't do shit for decades when my parents grew up in real shit 3rd world infrastructure. We are much better off in last decade or so.

I will agree with you that India has a long way to go but change is happening no matter how slow.
Can you still accept incoming connections on IPs that are behind the VPN?
For example, this site went viral because it resonated with so many people:

https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/
You don't even need to ftp it, you can run the client at home and it would connect to the seedbox through the swarm (or you can manually add a peer if needed)
Dating today is tough for many reasons, most of which are systemic. To go on a bit of a tangent from the main discussion here, a certain amount of the difficulty is self inflicted. People are convinced that dating apps are their only option, but my experience has been the opposite in practice. The actual trouble is how so few people are actually willing to meet and give others a chance IRL. I host a bar games meetup in Los Angeles, a place you'd think would be teeming with youngish people looking to go out and have fun with new friends, and yet a meetup in a hip part of town like the Arts District may only have 4 attendees. Everyone complains about how hard dating is, but so few are willing to put down their phone and actually go out and find people. Even if they do, they come up with excuses as to why everyone is not their exact type. There's women I meet all the time who are obsessed with a certain archetype of man, and even if they happen to stumble upon that kind of man by chance, they refuse to approach. Men are no better either.

What I'm saying is that these are choices people make. Companies like Tinder and the media we live vicariously through have definitely trashed the landscape, but we are also our own worst enemies, and I see that as the biggest problem. I'm not the most accomplished in terms of dating, but all of my long term relationships came out of just meeting people organically. I'm not even particularly good looking. I'm bald and have a touch of gray hair, but I've still managed to find opportunities with women. Even when I was fat I wasn't as hopeless as I thought I was at the time. Some people truly lose the genetic lottery, but at least 90% don't actually fall in that category.

I just hope someone reads this and figures out that a big part of the problem with dating comes from within. Not everyone has to be in a relationship or be some kind of Casanova. But if it's something a person wants then they need to get out of their own way. The culture today convinces people to remain in their own way because it's not profitable for people to stop using apps and TV.

> There was never a time in the past when the average person had it easy economically sipping champagne.

There's truth to both claims. Things have always been difficult. I think there are also ways in which opportunities were more accessible to some, and the only thing holding those opportunities back today is an economical bust-boom similar to those that many of our elders were able to benefit from. Where I live, many of those in my parents generation got into careers they weren't educated or experienced in because the economic condition incentivizes businesses to hire anyone with a pulse. That can happen again, but we haven't had anything like that (outside of some sectors of tech) for at least 15 years. Many younger people found themselves to be "failures" because they needed far more debt and time investment than their parents only to end up with less than they had at the same age.

To your point, things often seem harder because our expectations are higher than those of early generations, both in terms of person expectations and material expectations.
I couln't agree more. I have had the pleasure to work alongside David for the past couple of years. His passion for sharing knowledge, expertise and code has not only benefited our team, but is a great inspiration to everyone around him!
What's visible in open source is only the tip of the iceberg ;)
Rust is super amazing coming from C/C++/Python, but it's a bit meh coming from Scala. Of course no JVM, instant startup, small memory footprint, etc. etc. are nice, but also no JVM, no G1/Shenandoah/Z GC, no reflection, introspection, heapmap, etc. etc. :)
Nearly 90% of HTTP attacks on our website come from Cloudflare Workers. We've chosen to block huge subnets of their IPs because of it.

This new raw TCP connection feature will undoubtedly be used to attack other services in similar ways.
I guess the justification for the title comes beyond what we are allowed to read for free because my takeaways were that A) as is always the case, stock market bubbles include companies that shouldn’t be included and B) Nvidia is enjoying an immense profit boost due to being “effectively a monopoly.”
I’m still skeptical that the demand for AI-training hardware will persist. How many companies need to train their own AI models vs “just use ChatGPT”? ESPECIALLY if ChatGPT introduces a means of keeping user data out of its training data. At the snap of a finger, millions of dollars of server equipment would become redundant. No skin off Nvidia’s back, but the party would be over at that point and its stock price would come back to merely “excessive” rather than “ridiculous”.
Ironically, I’m seeing a need for lots of RAM for loading models locally. We had that one recently that required around 67GB of RAM to load. It was already trained, so no GPU required, but the desktop RAM requirement was what kept most of you from running it.
>> does not necessarily equate to more work and less connection. On the contrary, it can lead to a deeper understanding and mastery of technology, fostering a sense of empowerment and self-sufficiency.

Those are not alternatives though. It most certainly does mean more work, and even something as good as achieving mastery & empowerment in this area of your life has opportunity cost that might not be worth it for all.