skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fwiw I appreciate your comment a lot, it helps me make sense of why people are getting so agitated here.
This is me, exactly. I'm finding myself really liking Rust for this reason.

Although back in the day I was very productive with a Lisp REPL environment, although I still used the 'write-a-little-bit-and-test' approach.
When I am starting a new project I have learned to identify the unknowns.

"I don't know how to do X, Y and Z."

Before I begin working on the real solutions for X, Y & Z I start by making a test program that does X. It's ok if it requires a ton of scaffolding, or canned data... the important thing is to do X. Then I do the same for Y & Z.

Now that I understand the problem I do a software design. I do this on paper and I purposely do it super quick and not caring about how neat it is... and I throw away designs rapidly as I iterate and improve. Eventually the paper crumbling slows down and I approach a real design.

This is finally the point that I can write "real" code. The unknowns are gone and all the software design iteration happened on paper.
i always thought long covid is a variant of ME/CFS - it just got it's own name due to the novel virus, while non-covid cases of CFS are caused by viruses which usually have a far lower chance of causing CFS (epstein-barr/herpes/...). no idea if that's actually the case though.

"A review of long COVID research found half of those affected met diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9839201/
> Common falsehood that people believe is that rich people are smart.

I agree with all the rest of your points, but I think the problem with this is that Elon really is smart. It is just that you can see that he was mostly a really good salesperson of his personal brand. He also had his finger on the pulse of what was "cool" (internet, space, electric cars) for awhile (a lot of that is probably luck, but there has to be a certain amount of talent there I think--but that talent for fashion always wears off).

He's also smart enough to be able to regurgitate what SpaceX engineers tell him and to manage to sound like he's got a PhD. He must actually study that pretty well and be at least decent enough at physics/engineering that he's clearly above-average intelligent. But it is other people making the breakthroughs in the mathematics of how to hoverslam rockets, he's a bit more like a CEO version of a science communicator.

The thing is that people are largely just ignorant about where all the technology comes from (Lars Blackmore worked at NASA JPL when he published the first articles on successive convexification of the landing problem -- so the US Government really invented hoverslamming rockets), and they are horrible at judging what kind of intelligence a public personality actually has. They also think that smart people are smart at literally everything.

And as much as I hate to admit it, Donald Trump was also smart, but his talents are almost purely sociopathic. And one of those talents is being able to actually lean-in to a shitstorm of stupid that he creates around him, and make his sycophants write it all off as 4D chess. That is actually a talent. A genuinely stupid person wouldn't be able to pull that off.
I tend to think so, because markets are anti-inductive: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h24JGbmweNpWZfBkM/markets-ar...

That is, since everyone knows that everyone knows about technical analysis, the value it may have had is long since sucked out of it. And in any submarket where a participant has the market power to paint the tape, all following technical analysis will do is allow then to make traps for you and drive your trading activity in response to the technical analysis.

It is possible that super-long-term technical analysis has some meaning, and there's some generalized principles about how to read things like depth of the market off of the tape, but I'm not convinced deeply about the utility of technical analysis in general.
Thank you!

HTML Jinja templates seem to be fairly standard in this space.
Thanks. That helps.

So how can you update weights without doing back-propagation? Or is it still back propagation but with a different metric?
If the lights are on at SO then they must be in the process of training their own AI with their own dataset and documentation for the topics covered. That is what it would take for me to make SO my first stop again. It should be very doable for that talented group.
The book Open Society and its Enemies is moreso about how an open society cannot truly be tolerant, much in the same way that Herbert Marcuse expresses, in that tolerating dangerous ideas allows them to grow thereby destroying the entire concept of an open tolerant society. It was not specifically about opposition of free speech, that's absurd as even he would recognize that you can't protect free speech from dangerous ideas without being intolerant of those ideas. Hence, the paradox.

So people shouting their enemies aren't doing the opposite of what Popper suggests, they are proof of what he claims. Remember, he viewed socialism as a beautiful dream, but struggled to align that with his views on individual freedom and how reaching such goal would be very difficult without violent means of overthrowing the status quo (these means again infringing on his beliefs of individual freedom).

Perhaps you are due for a re-reading of his work.
I spent two years in bed, sometimes sleeping 16 hours a day and feeling like passing out just from walking 100m. All my tests were fine, all doctors thought it's just "anxiety" and basically ignored me until I had what looked like a stroke when they started taking it slightly more seriously. However, given all the tests were OK I went in circles from one doctor to another when I had better days, or being completely bedridden when I hadn't.

Then one day I got finally upset by my deteriorating state, started taking about 50 different supplements with any "word-of-mouth" evidence from Reddit forums from folks claiming it helped them, started slowly doing daily rowing machine workouts and within 1 month I was 1000x better.

I really think medical science gets many things wrong and knows only a small piece of puzzle on how the human body works, and people with long covid are stuck in that knowledge gap.
Yeah, that's the option I was recommended when I was trying to use Arc. But to me that kinda feels like getting an Android phone and putting a launcher and skin on it to look like iOS. If I'm gonna switch, I want to switch because it works for me, not because I can coax it into behaving close enough to the way I want, you know? Especially for as radical change as Arc is proposing. So I just decided it wasn't for me, even if I like a lot of their other ideas.
As a programmer interested in (mechanized) farming, how does one get started? Are there crossover interest groups where people discuss automated farming?
Take your chances with what? The vaccine was free for me all 3 times I had it. When I had Covid post-vaccine it was much more mild than when I had it pre-vaccine, though there are several confounding variables present there.
I am not a SV-based or US-based employee, and unfortunately I have to consider myself pretty lucky to be working remotely, and am therefore more stuck in an otherwise terrible job simply because I can't give up remote work.

Outside SV or some US hubs, a lot of average workplaces seem to try hard to get people to come back into the office, regardless of the requirements of the job itself. It might have started with banks and governments, but recent incentives and pushes from cities and the real-estate market can sometimes push people to go back into offices "to save businesses".

The pandemic might have offered some profound shifts, but not fundamental ones unfortunately. So I stay at my workplace for the time being, trading away some mental health for the benefit of remote work - and I suspect that not only I am not alone in this, I am probably more privileged than many (most?) who didn't even have a choice.
The thing is, plenty of people were hired with the expectation that they would stay remote. Sure, some of those people will be happy to go into the office. Others will most certainly not be happy about the "choice" of whether to move their family to another state and completely change their work routine.
privacy: would be nice if it didn’t send the UA header, does it? I think it’s time to get rid of any server side logic based on UA and this could be an opportunity to start
To me this sounds a bit like what Sandcats/Sandstorm wanted to be; open-source paas that allowed basically one-click deployment of applications from open-source repository of packages.

Problem is that all parts of this process needs funding, which makes it difficult to make work. Someone needs to run the physical infrastructure, someone needs to operate the paas platfrom, someone needs to develop/maintain the paas platform codebase, someone needs to develop the actual applications, and someone needs to maintain the application packaging/deployment stuff. And all those someones should somehow get fair market-rate compensation for the work they do.

One way of providing compensation is to hand out credits for the service, but in practice it is probably infeasible to make the numbers really work out. And even if all the labor is compensated through service credits, you still need actual real money flowing in to pay for colo and hardware etc, which probably needs to come from the otherwise non-contributing userbase.

Not saying it is completely impossible thing to accomplish, but it is really difficult to bootstrap, and almost as difficult to keep running sustainability, especially when individual people inevitably come and go.
(replying here because too deeply nested to answer on the comment)

> When did asking "how do we know" become forbidden in science?

What has been forbidden exactly and are you sure we are "in science" here?

> You are exhibiting a deplorable behavior here, equating questioning of a scientific hypothesis with creationism dogwhistling.

Let me sum this up. Asking "how do we know?" with a hidden agenda is OK, but asking "what do you have in mind exactly?" is "deplorable behavior" and should be... "forbidden"?

OK, troll, bye bye.
Sounds like a good way for me to never vote for you and your nanny party, and to become more likely to support extremist parties if you end up getting enough votes anyway.
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> Nothing prevents life from originating outside the region we will ever be causally connected to, but life that can never be observed doesn't present much of a handle for conducting science.

It is a mathematical argument, and not a complicated one, so I’m confused as to how we could be talking past one another here. If we model the chance that abiogenesis occurs on a planet as a random event for that planet, then the probability that it doesn’t occur on any planets is

1 - product(from i=1 to n_planets, 1-P_i), where P_i is the probability that it occurred on the i’th planet. (Sorry for the ugly notation, it is a limitation of basic text, hopefully it makes sense).

These are independent random events, there’s no need to have them linked causally.

> As for complexity barrier: consider the number of possible stable configurations with N atoms. It grows exponentially in N. You need to argue either that the chance of a random molecule being alive is high enough (which doesn't seem consistent with the structure we see in life) or that the sampling of these molecular configurations is extremely biased toward some that can start evolution (which is just begging the question.)

So this seems like an argument from first-principles in chemistry, I don’t know enough about chemistry to say much about it, but I don’t think enumerating every possible configuration of atoms is how they typically do it. I could be wrong though, it is outside my wheelhouse. I would be more comfortable with this argument if it was some well-sourced/well-known thing.

Anyway, this sort of argument seems like it will just shift the individual P_i’s in the equation up or down. We don’t really know enough about abiogenesis to make good estimates there anyway as far as I know, so I don’t see any reason to write off this explanation as a cop-out.
> I would say it's about 15% at the best for software and engineering roles.

I think it's likely that remote jobs get filled much quicker since they by definition have a larger candidate pool. At any one moment in time there may be 4x non-remote jobs posted, but if they take much longer to fill and the ratio stays the same, then 69% remote is very believable.
Archaeologists Uncover Oldest Evidence of ‘Curry’ Outside of India
The Youtuber MKBHD has a podcast[0] where they have mentioned that many in their office has switched over to it. I'm not sure I quite understand their enthusiasm for it, but I don't think they're paid shills.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEcrRXW3oEYfUctetZTAWLw
Even the popularization of the latin name Marijuana (Mary Jane) was to associate cannabis with latin American immigrants. In Spanish it's mostly called marihuana or mariguana.
I already knew about https://yourworldoftext.com

Going through his projects (https://github.com/1j01/diverge) I have discovered https://ourworldoftext.com/ which offers more features like public and private areas on the canvas and a lot more.

In there I discovered https://ourworldofpixels.com/ which is the same except it gives you a virtually infinite public canvas of pixels. There is a lot activity on it.

There are some incredible worlds on it

https://ourworldofpixels.com/countrysim

https://ourworldofpixels.com/planetsim

https://ourworldofpixels.com/jpdld
Without data this is just fearmongering.
James Webb spots water vapor in rocky planet-forming disk
Well that was pretty shallow. Only a single pattern was included and even that performed worse than the index. If you were to include the transaction costs and the cost of time spent analysing that, the perf would be even worse.
So a shallow article with a wrong conclusion.
Since past returns are not a reliable indicator for future returns any back testing will only show if a thing would have worked in the past not in the future.
Lucky you live anywhere close to any kind of interesting work.
The difference is the context.

Signal's target is more likely to understand the more true and subtle aspects of the word. But most importantly, Signal doesn't make money from ads. Ads that need eye-balls. So in that context, the word is definitely bait-y.
This approach, unfortunately, won't work in the majority of the (western) world where WhatsApp has already replaced text messages as the de facto standard.
I really really really hate the tone of this article. What would take me one sentence to understand, took me reading 5+ paras.

And then the sneering tone of this article, sounds unprofessional and disrespectful in my opinion.

I also am pretty sure he’s wrong or at least he has to change layernorm to make this work. Attention simply does a weighted average of the Value Vectors, his change breaks that and I think will push the output closer to 0 as you stack the layers (especially considering Layer Norm). He really should do some small experiments to validate his idea first!
> In what "example"?

The source example, that you yourself reference 2 sentences later:

> The code example is just a generic example of a union, change the names to ZQ, for all I care.

I'm not sure why you're so upset that I thought that might be a reference to Z80, but it's certainly a weird choice for completely random example code otherwise.

> The only registers I referenced were x86 registers (EAX and RAX).

In your example, you specifically called the structure "Registers" with fields named "AF", "A" and "F". Are you saying that it was completely coincidental that you happened to make a reference to a pair of registers called A and F that can be referenced as a pair using the name AF?

Maybe I'm wrong, but the only processors that have an AF register are Z80 and derivatives. In the 8080 and derivatives, the register pairs are known by the name of the MSB register (e.g. "inx d" compared to "inc de" on z80) and the pair of A and F is called PSW.

But, even if I was wrong in assuming you meant Z80, and this was a complete coincidence, then what of it? It doesn't change the fundamental point I was making - that these are two independent 8-bit registers that are occasionally exposed as one 16-bit register, compared to the x64 AL,AH,AX,EAX,RAX that are essentially 64-bit registers with smaller views into a subset of the register.

The rest of my post wasn't going off on a tangent either - the point I was making is that how the registers are split up and presented to the user isn't very useful, as it's far more interesting to know how many bits of total state there are in a processor, as exposed per-thread, per-core and per-chip.
It's funny, because the Amiga's heritage is far closer to Atari than Commodore, in both technical aspects and involved personnel. In another universe, it was Atari who could have been Apple.
Itsme identifies you as a person. You can't have multiple accounts. So a Itsme signature is a proof of personhood (in addition to a proof of identity)
Most banks have barely implemented 2FA, and when they have, they implement SMS.

The only financial provider I have that supports anything other than backdoors is Vanguard with U2F support.

Shit, AMEX still lowercases your passwords before (hopefully) hashing them.

We got plenty of time for those mandates to occur ;)
Good for you!!

Was there a particular thread that discussed this?
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Running a separate scheduling thread seems very wasteful and non scalable. What is your preemption condition? Can't you just increment a counter in isScheduled(this) and synchronously invoke the scheduler every N or so checks?
I'm not sure that's true. But I'm not sure it's wrong. The only experience I really have with that is Haskell, which is a write-only programming language for other reasons.
Based on the account you provided, your wife only agreed to it as a matter of conversation. Not as a matter of practice.
Theres a tweet going around claiming that people are scanning the iris of poor villages and getting the “reward” for themselves.

https://twitter.com/BlockBeatsAsia/status/165906095074878259...

This whole project is creepy and disgusting.
They address this in the whitepaper[0]:

> To validate the quality of the algorithms at scale, their performance was evaluated by collecting 2.5 million pairs of high-resolution infrared iris images from 303 different subjects. These subjects represent diversity across a range of characteristics, including eye color, skin tone, ethnicity, age, presence of makeup and eye disease or defects.

> It is important to note that many health conditions, like cataracts to a certain degree, do not impede iris biometrics. Already today, iris biometrics surpass the inclusivity of other PoP verification alternatives like official IDs since less than 50% of the global population has digitally verifiable identities. However, if the proof of personhood mechanism becomes essential for society, it is important that eventually every single person can verify if they want to. Although not currently established, there could be specialized verification centers to facilitate alternative means of verification for individuals with eye conditions, via e.g. facial biometrics. The introduction of alternative means of verification for World ID could potentially create loopholes.

[0] https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/
Oops, edited. Not sure if a typo or an autocorrect error. Thanks!
The entropy of a perfect crystal approaches zero (at absolute zero). All the positions of the atoms are completely predetermined, so there is no information stored.
Skepticism has been muddied by right wing conspiracy theorists and now people equate healthy skepticism with mild insanity.
I remember you! You posted something similar about Arc a few months ago in a thread I started. I hope you can ignore it this time. :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35086116
The folks selling technical analysis systems are much more effective scammers than astrologers.
I have been partaking in them for the majority of my adult life. Looking at this data I’m surprised the number is not higher - 8%.

My own impression is that it’s taking so long because even people familiar with them, like me, don’t actually reach for them all that often. They’re not habit forming. And talking about psychedelic experiences is a bit like talking about your dreams - it’s boring and personal.
I think a more compelling argument against technical analysis can be found by considering the outcome of a semi-efficient market, and how unlikely it is that simple, purely momentum-based signals haven't already been arbitraged away by the other participants in the market (who have significantly more sophistication and speed-of-execution than anyone publishing technical analysis strategies online)
Humorously, in my experience, if a response from ChatGPT ever got classified as AI generated by tools like ZeroGPT or similar, all I had to do was adjust the prompt to tell the model not to sound like it was AI generated and that bypassed all detection with a very high success rate. Additionally, I also found that if you prompt it to make the response be in the style or some known writer for example, it often made responses 100% human written by most AI detection models.
The 100K+-seat mega-stadium in my part of Michigan uses local non-profit organizations to provide much of their vending staff for games. If your church / club / kids' soccer team / PTO / whatever works at a game, you'll get max( $100 * $headcount, 0.10 * $sales ) + $tips as a donation to your non-profit.
It can be and some people treat it like that. But it can also be a tool used to identify trends and trend changes. The chart takes into account everything: financials, narrative, public opinion, future earning potential, etc. All of these inputs are probabilistically weighed against each other in real time. Keep the TA simple and it's an extremely useful tool. Anyone who dismisses TA entirely is leaving money on the table.
Merges was proposed in the article too, along with a link to Swiss railways i.e. outright nationalization.
It's incredibly easy for CO2 levels to get to uncomfy levels in an enclosed living space such as my office at home with no central air and a closed door, especially in the heat of local summer where I will try very hard to not open the windows, or a shitty small meeting room at the overpriced coworking space. It's emitted from my mouth with every breath I take yeah that's exactly the problem. :(

It's definitely not as bad as carbon monoxide poisoning but it's also much easier to inflict on yourself at least to the point where it can make you drowsy and worsen your headaches.