skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he just very rarely has a moment when he’s just really done. Which is probably because he’s mostly worked on things that he wanted to be working on.

I find this mindset easy to replicate when working on my personal projects. Effectiveness may drop a bit after 1am for obvious reasons, but otherwise any hour is much like another.

The problem comes when trying to get yourself to do something that you don’t really want to do, or when you need to deal with the umpteenth time someone broke the same system due to the same mistake or the third discussion in a day where people miss the obvious solution. You can only have so much of that in a day before you mentally check out.
The obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/882/
There’s some interesting ideas here of the type I’m interested in. Can you eleborate a little further?
Because the real consequence of losing is not $0, so there is (potentially unacceptable) cost to gain knowledge which gives you enough edge to win?
Yeah I have to agree. Having worked in a US prison kitchen before, some of the food that gets served is worse than hot dog food and made me feel sick to even cook and serve to hungry people.
Stop. If it literally dehydrated you, I'd have expired by now. They've been weeks where I only drank sparkling water. There's no way I'd have survived, hell, even today alone.

Some soda water is salty (maybe tonic), but in general it's either just carbonated, or it's carbonated and has a bunch of minerals in it (more expensive mineral water that might have calcium, potassium, etc. in it).
Freezing water>ice shatters a cast iron pipe. It's just about the creation of a crack to initiate stress relief.
This is related to the fact that in a higher-dimensional space the hamming distance between two points is compact, compared to 2d/3d intuition. This problem is related to the way that e.g. embedding text into an AI for comparison purposes often produces surprisingly closely related vector distances for relatively unrelated strings.
Prices and financial markets in general exist solely for information transmission. The central problem of economics is "How do you produce the things that your population needs, in the quantity and at the time they need them, as efficiently as possible?" This is why every centrally-planned economy eventually fails, and why we were stuck in the feudal middle ages for a millennia. Information (and incentives) about what to produce and how to produce it efficiently weren't getting to the population at large, which caught us in a local subsistence minima. Financial markets give all the players an incentive (in the form of profit) to transmit information (in the form of prices) from people who want goods to people who can supply them.

This is also behind the theory of why certain forms of financial transactions are legal and others are illegal. Arbitrage = legal, because it converges prices in two separate markets in a way that gives producers in both those markets better information about true demand. Futures markets = legal, because they smooth out temporal fluctuations in demand so that producers only have to worry about producing, while also incentivizing the construction of just enough storage & buffering to hold that product. Pump & dump schemes = illegal, because they distort price information in the market in an unsustainable way and then leave later participants to bear the cost of this. Same with Ponzi schemes. Equities markets = legal, because they transmit information about the overall cost of capital within the economy to firms, which can then use it to decide the profitability or unprofitability of various investments.
I’ve seen a number of threads where regular people are discussing this and it seems plenty of people are just confused, didn’t know it happened, don’t know what an API is, or are rolling their eyes at the mods for unilaterally hijacking subreddits on a long bet Reddit will allow 3rd party apps again. Mods aren’t exactly popular on Reddit as it is. They are not exactly community leaders / established representatives that people are familiar with. They are just the guys locking threads and deleting your comments etc.

People also claim it was democratic since a few sub ran polls. The WoW subreddit ran one in the middle of the day and it got a few thousand votes before they closed it. The subreddit has 1+ million subscribers. So you can understand why some people were caught off guard.

The cultural difference between powerusers and the average Reddit user is probably pretty different (HN isn't representative either). Protests are fun, you get to stick it to the man, but most people just want to read some stuff while on the toilet. They aren’t that engaged.

r/nba closed it during the last game of the finals, the most popular time of year on the sub. People have already migrated in droves to other subs like r/nbadiscussion.
Yeah, listening to Carmack talk about working life is like listening to CEOs talk about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Good for them, but not really applicable to 99% of people.
I don't think it's supposed to index all sites. If you search for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or even Hacker News you will not get any official results. It's meant to only show obscure sites but I'm unsure of the actual criteria.
Same question, what specific "group think" are you so concerned is happening on reddit?

(Also, you are now banned from /r/pyongyang)
That would make a lot of sense. As a gold member, I would happily do that.
See the start of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site
I guess the question becomes if tectonic plates be more or less sensitive?

They are significantly impacted by tides for example.
Bogleheads Wiki
If you like to hear a counter perspective watch the Beastie Boys documentary on Netflix. It's not about Rick Rubin primarily of course but it paints a much more sober picture of the man.
Yes, they put her in solitary for extended periods of time and took away all her clothes and effects as punitive measures long before trial.
They voted on making their subs private.

Everything you wrote is a gross misrepresentation of the stituation.
On my Sony Xperia 10 II which has a 3600 mAh battery I have a full day of battery. My phone is 2 years old.
I don't use a lot my phone, example today at 8h30 I had 100% and a 0h00 I have 58%. i did like 30 minutes of social media and 20 minutes of Google Maps + 1 phone call + email sync every 10 minutes with 3 mail box + proton mail in the back ground.

A good 4 hours on YouTube(android app) is easily doable.
I'm not sure about the iPhone, but my AirPod Pros went through a wash / dry cycle on more than one occasion with no apparent loss in functionality.
Bad data point, plenty of people get divorced whom work regular hours. You’re also making assumptions about the cause of a divorce we frankly know nothing about..
No federation, not interested. For those that don't think federation can take off, go look at Matrix stats and at how many governments are adopting Matrix at large scale.

Points 1 & 2, together, are basically a dead-on-arrival style announcement. Would be fitting if it were intentionally ironic.

The lede is buried anyway, no politics/porn/etc. Again, see #1. We have no reason to trust, the folks that say "no politics" are always political in favor of the status quo and don't understand the full implications of social networks. At all

Edit: does OP's 8 month old comment talking about wealth redistribution from tech billionaires being tantamount to "Soviet Russia" count as political? Etc etc etc.
It boggles my mind that apple can do 128 bit, 256 bit, and 512 bit wide memory interfaces on thin/light laptops that are price competitive with PC laptops in the same segment while having excellent battery life.

In the previous gen even a relatively low end card like the 3060 Ti has a 256 bit wide memory interface. In the current generation the 4070 (which is a higher in the product stack) is 192 bits. The RTX 3080 (prev gen) is 320 bits wide the 4080 (current gen) is 256 bits.

Generally the trend is more cache, less width, and less bandwidth. Which is great ... for things that are cache friendly, but not everything is.
Show HN: Point ChatGPT to a Python module and have it call every function
It’s one of the most annoying things about people online in general honestly.

It’s easy to sacrifice oneself when it’s only theoretical and you’re safe at home behind a screen.
Ask HN: Where are you moving your Google domains to?
If you migrate them, to which domain name registrar are you moving them?
This isn't the first time I've seen this brought up. It's irrelevant here for so many reasons. It it unprecedented in ML models, the model was promoted as open source, the terms were absurd (10% for anything related to it plus some reporting requirements, for a foundation model that's not even tuned to anything).

In any event, bringing shitty practices from another industry into ML doesn't seem worth supporting.
> you know there are actual no go zones like austin area in chicago

This claim presupposes an objective definition of “no go zone” supporting the existence of actual examples.

Please provide the objective definition (ideally, with sourcing) and the evidence supporting the claim that “austin area in chicago” meets it.
> The fundamental purpose of bank loans is to enable measured private risk-taking by leveraging a small amount of bank equity (from risk-taking investors) with a larger amount of risk-adverse deposits. Sometimes the risks are opening a restaurant or buying an apartment building in an up-and-coming neighborhood; here the risk was a crash project to build charitable medical infrastructure during a crisis.

This is central to the author’s defence of the social importance of banks. And if only it were true, banks really don’t finance small businesses in a meaningful way anymore. At least not in the UK.
Gas stoves pollute homes with benzene, which is linked to cancer
Maybe it's a mindset thing, but I can't think of anything worse than wasting ~16% of my life like this (average male lifespan in the US is around 79 years). You're sacrificing a fair chunk of your prime years in the hope that it pays off long term; imagine if you followed this and died at 40? What a waste of a life. Or what if you make some bad investment calls and it doesn't pan out? What a waste of your time.

I made some good judgement calls and I've worked for decent companies where I'm not on a treadmill chasing every dollar; I'm still well paid to the point where I go on multiple holidays per year, own a majority of my own home, paid cash for our decent cars, and my wife has taken extended maternity leave because we can cope fine without her salary. AND I got to enjoy the shit out of those years.

No way in hell I'd trade that for the two million.
What model are you using in the backend? It’s pretty fast to respond. Very nice interface
I believe Snowden is still a US citizen; he never renounced it, nor was it stripped from him. He has dual citizenship, once he was granted Russian citizenship.
Will watch the TED talk, thanks for sharing. I come at this from a medical/epidemiological background prior to building software, and no doubt this shapes my view on the language we use around experimentation, so it is interesting to hear different reasoning.
> I gave it a shot, for no other reason than not being able to quite figure out why this supposedly impossible thing was impossible. Doing the napkin math, it seemed very possible.

I thought this too! So happy someone has tested the assertion.

Good luck! I’ve had Marginalia bookmarked for some time but this story will remind me to try it.
Camera to Cloud Filmmaking
> what is discoverability
It doesn't seem to me like he is generalizing from his experience and applying it to the general population. He's pushing back on the very specific claim that working fewer hours leads to higher productivity. He admits that this might be true for certain assembly line-type jobs or jobs where someone just wants to collect a paycheck, but it's not necessarily true in the case of knowledge workers who care about what they are working on. I think that applies to a substantial minority of people in developed countries.
Why couldn't they distribute it? They clearly could have. There's no law against it.

Perhaps you meant that they were nervous about companies using it commercially and either bringing them bad press or making money off their work? That's clearly why they only released it for researchers.
I think I may he conflating an early hack of them, which is my bad: https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/major-cyber-attack-on...

There was not date and given it was the same group, I made a bad assumption.
When they create a synthetic derivative that can be patented.

Exactly like happened with ketamine as esketamine.
But the ergonomics defines the needs for those computing devices.

I want that running watch to be pretty tiny, so it can only have a tiny battery. It doesn't have much of a display, so it doesn't need much graphics capabilities. Since it's barely interfacing with other devices it doesn't need a lot of peripheral support. It's not really going to load a lot of data files and doesn't need much RAM.

That fish finder is going to run a high resolution display as it's main duty so it needs a decent GPU. It's probably going to be connected to the boat's 12V system, so it doesn't need to be concerned with power usage. It's going to do a lot of reads from data files and need to hold chart data and overlay other information. It needs a lot of connectivity options for all the accessories I'm going to hook up to it.

In the end the needs for the compute are pretty different based on the different tasks. I don't want an ESP32 as a desktop and my watch doesn't need dual 3080's and 128GB of RAM.
It's how you get /r/X and /r/TrueX and /r/X_memes and /r/ECKS
Let us not forget that right now Assange is still roting in a UK prison and is about to be extradited to the United States. A discusting witch hunt against an individual which the US managed to turn into the bad guy in the publics view.

Shame on the United States and it's allies enabling this grotesque injustice!
Or just a basic web site that has some JavaScript. Or a form/submit.
I don't think so. Chat based interface is horrible on phone. You have to type what you want instead of tapping things.

Chatbot should be part of your ui instead of replacing the ui.
The thing with nix is that features are experimental for a very long time, even though they are quite solid. It seems like it is mostly used so they can still make changes, like the CLI options or the names of attributes in the flake.
The effort to use it is just adding extra line to the config.
Can we transfer this to the financial markets?
Note also that in some cases you might be the optimal person to hold the risk that your house burns down, if, for example, your liquid net worth is 100x the replacement cost of your home. And that's illustrative of the value of markets: you can choose to transact in them, depending on your personal circumstances. The insurance market exists because for the vast majority of people, rebuilding their home is not feasible with their current net worth. But for a small number of people it might be, and for a small number of firms it's probably worth it to insure many thousands of people, and then you can even slice up the shares of those insurance firms and sell them on the stock market so that the risk of your house burning down gets socialized across all the other shareholders but at the same time you have a stake in the profits.
For a totally different way of getting it to work than the others:

Back in my highschool there was an intro to programming course and no teacher, so every year one of the math teachers was recruited to take it over the summer and teach the class the next year. The best one was the geometry teacher, who kinda took the lazy route - she was the one I found out about this scheme from, and was totally willing to admit when she didn't know something.

She ended up encouraging students to help each other and was extremely lax with the rules, resulting in: two or three of us who wandered the classroom to help others, one showoff who kept people interested in what they could create (one example, in the classroom he made a chat program and gave everyone a copy, then weeks later activated a hidden feature that popped open the CD tray of everyone using it, which turned out to be about half the students), and another who joked about using the "blackboard compiler" - we somehow got one more student than computers so he volunteered to go without, and did his work in chalk on the blackboard (yes, where everyone could see it, and the teacher was in the room and knew what he was doing), only actually coding it once someone else was done and a computer freed up.

Some people did get frustrated at times, but it never lasted long because of how she encouraged us to help each other for all the work. Only during tests was she strict.
An LLM doesn't "think", it just puts one word in front of another based on the likelihood of it having been placed in that sequence before. On top of that function is an application layer that contributes additional rules. At no point are any of these pieces "thinking" in any sense. As for speed of output as a metric, I can write you a Python script in 60 seconds that can generate thousands of HTTP requests, print thousands of words, and even find and display for you a decent recipe for chilli con carne. Despite this incredible capability for output, it's about as frightening as a satsuma. Just because something can do something a lot isn't a reason to abandon sense.

While these misguided cinematic fantasies captivate everyone's attention, automated decision making is already deciding whether refugees are settled or sent back to be killed in their originating countries, whether people are given housing or not, or "deserve" welfare. The emerging research illustrates quite clearly the problematic biases entrenched in these models. Why this doesn't dominate AI discourse instead of hallucinatory speculating about some theoretical future is beyond me.
1. Matrix is growing so fast that I can't take seriously people that dismiss federation.

2. Name me something that has outlived reddit and not gone through enshitification (it's a term, I'm not being crass). Name one single product or platform.
Iphones can be submerged for significant amounts of time.
Am I the only one completely confused by the examples that appear to put command line arguments after shell end-of-line comments? Is that not a typical shell?

example:

nix run .#cowsay -- flakes are neat

Some explanation of what the heck this means would be really useful.
A deep dive into cognitive differences
> It boggles my mind that, given stories in the Bible like this, anyone would think worshiping such a cruel and vengeful god is a moral thing to do.

We're getting far afield from Ellsberg here, but let me just point out the logic of this statement:

1. There is a universal standard of morality -- a standard so universal that it would apply to God himself

2. "kelnos" knows what this universal standard says, at least well enough to judge the actions of "God" in this story as violating it.

Now, for the most part I agree with you (except the conclusion); and in fact, that truth -- that the immorality of killing innocent people applies to God himself, and that mere mortals like Abraham (and kelnos) can be said to know what it is -- is implied by the story itself. But those are pretty big philosophical propositions, and I don't think most people are aware they're making them when they make statements like this.
He was in transit to Ecuador, which was going to grant him asylum. The U.S. government revoked his passport, trapping him in the Moscow airport.

One may believe that Snowden's location at the time the U.S. revoked his passport was chance, but it's obvious that it was then used over and over to smear him as a Russian stooge. And we can see this smearing continues to this day.

"Obviously his freedom to speak freely about his host country is extremely limited"

Do you think the Russian government would prefer that he not say things like this?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/29/edward-snowd...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/world/europe/edward-snowd...
Why would you not put your maximum into it? do you not see a path to excel and grow?
I do have an EE degree, I just decided it was beyond worth-bothering repair at that point.

Much as I dislike the waste, as I said there are better options available gathering dust even of I do repair it. Someone may see it and deem it worth bothering at the dump, it's not immediate land-fill/recycling here for things like that. I gather electronics/white goods are generally taken too, for parts salvage if nothing else.
I mean how does Python handle asynchrony? Callbacks? I’m not sure if that’s really better.

I think my issue with it is where is Python widely actually used by programmers? It mostly seems popular with data science people.

So it just feels like choosing a language because the syntax is a little simpler on the surface isn’t a good enough reason, especially since when writing modern JS it’s not that much more verbose.
Yeah, I didn’t really “get” basic calculus until I started taking economics courses where there was an application.
Good questions.

> How many posts have you had taken down for dubious reasons?

Just checking my main account, of my top 5 posts of all time, 3 were taken down for dubious reasons.

Sometimes posts get modded fast, but that doesn't bother me much because often the mistake is mine. It's only when something proves popular with the masses and then the mods nix it that it feels wrong.

> Were they all from the same mod(s)?

1 is from /gifs and 2 from /todayILearned. I have not had as much of a problem with smaller subreddits or more narrow technically focused subreddits.

> Were they controversial to neutral(ish) third-parties?

No. All had upvote percentages well above 90%, and were taken down after hitting the front page. If anything I would say they were all inspirational.

Minor grievances in the big scheme of things, but in general was very annoying, as though it's ultimately trivial, it's very fun to hit the front page and feels cruel when you hit that and mods snatch it away from you anonymously. Makes me wonder if social media is just an illusion of meritocracy.
I first encountered this in my machine learning class in the context of solving ridge regression or SVM.

Simply put, when performing SVM you want to find a plane that minimizes the sum of its distance from coordinates belonging to two classes. The coordinates can be very high dimensional, which makes the minimization problem hard (primal formulation: $y = w^Tx + b$, w being the weights you need to estimate, which is equal to a very high dimension).

With help of the Lagrangian of the primal formulation, you can show that
$x' ~ w^Tx + b ~ ayx^Tx + b$. So instead of having to estimate a very high number of w's, you can do away with only estimating the dot product x^Tx, which is limited by the number of inputs. This is the kernel trick you can use to avoid the curse of dimensionality.
What?

It's anybody who criticizes anybody. Women journalists in particular, BLM activists, climate change scientists. You realize there's been a wave of scientists who have left Twitter recently?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/14/climate-...

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/08/09/lex-scott-steps-down/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ferguson-d...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/blm-activist-s...

I guess you're invoking something about trans people? I mean them too but honestly it's everybody.