skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the article?

It didn't miss any of that. That was the point of the article.

>> Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

>> Our goal was to see if we could get students to stop admiring problems and work rapidly on solving them.
There is plenty of data that suggests societies respond to financial incentives.

As the cost of battery/wind/solar plunge, their use goes up. And fusion has the potential to be much cheaper than those.

A very very small percentage of CO2 emissions is due to people wanting to increase CO2 in the atmosphere. Almost all of it is because that is the cheapest or most efficient way to travel, heat your home, make products, etc...
Sure, but I'm talking about a day-to-day practical level. Most people will only ever need to modify A/CNAME, occasional MX and TXT, and maybe an SOA/PTR.

Even the more arcane record types (as far as I've ever used them) are essentially key-value pairs with the record type analogous to a namespace.
Do we live in the same city? The last few weeks has had multiple days over 90 degrees, with a very minor respite when it rains. We haven't even hit August yet (which is typically way hotter than July).

Also FWIW, the entire New England area may be prone to forest fires as bad as the west coast if the region continues to dry out. There is no management of brush in Maine or Vermont or New Hampshire (or even Canada for that matter).

You also can't exactly predict the effects of climate change on regions. I don't think anyone ever thought Washington or Oregon state would experience 24+ hour 100 degree heats during the summer, but they did and will likely experience it again in the future.
> So, maybe Boston is a good option for our climate change future?

Unlikely, given that places nearer to the poles have experienced greater variations. But I don't think Boston is at existential risk or anything like that, with ample water sources and enough elevation aside from a few places.

It will be a fantastic place for HVAC contractors over the next few decades. Not enough homes have AC (and the ones that do are underpowered), and there's a huge imbalance of tradespeople vs. PMC-type people, so the former will be able to command much higher rates.
there is https://www.capitoltrades.com/trades that tracks the trades of legislators and politician.

However I don't know of anything that goes in depth of what you are proposing. I think a clean UI that shows something as basic as politicians voting records can make voters more informed.

Is this information public knowledge? could it the extraction of information be automated or would it require journalism and looking through paper trails?
So you effectively want to merge your work applications onto your personal phone?

If your employer mandated use of a dedicated work phone in the first place, why on earth would they allow you to use this product to do that?
Maybe they are not lying, who knows, but their work can twisted for sure for other unethical results but still legal to do so, after, that team is motivated by money.
Historically I've heard and also experienced JSON + gzip/zstd to be faster and smaller than msgpack.
What does discogs run on? (2012) [editorialized title]
> And if we're getting down to it, this doesn't sound like an Obama or "liberal" thing, it sounds like a _government_ thing. Can we stop taking general concepts or universal behavior and pretending that when its bad only "my enemies" do it and when good only "my allies" do it? This is just dumb, and it happens even outside the context of politics.

I'm all for this, although it does require an agreement on epistemic principles, which seems like a tall order in the current state of our civilization. Which is why we are left with will to power.
I recommend against using Tor, simply because of exit node hostility and targeted intrusions when you use Tor. Intel agencies also run the majority of relays last I heard of this subject. Perhaps if exit node operators were publicly listed and vetted humans and most relay's owners volunteered who they are and validate that with the project, I could trust it more.

IMHO, financial incentives for relay and exit operators is the best way to make sure more people without ulterior motives participate.
You're attempting to make an argument against any anonymized data being used in research. You'd have to do better than a hypothetical to make headway with it.

Moreover, the logic would have to carry over to the very common practice of anonymizing data in professional communications (like training). Which would have HIPAA implications for some students.

The common anonymizing practices have been utilized for decades without privacy breaches of note. That track record is also what your argument would have to defeat.
The only thing that would keep you safe, if OpenAI bans people accessing the API outside of their client-side application, is if you make those requests from a different IP than what you normally use ChatGPT from.
If I understand correctly, what I'm getting back from their API is basically what lies between, but without any of the interesting data they're using the do the calculation. One can hope, but I'd imagine that data is priceless to them and won't ever be available to us.
After exploring a few constant access serialization formats, I had to pass on Capn Proto in favor of Apache Avro. Capn has a great experience for C++ users, but Java codegen ended up being too annoying to get started with. If Capn Proto improved the developer experience for the other languages people write, I think it would really help a lot.
They have already said it's in the works.
I'm going to be pretty pissed if the world lets itself get trapped into a technodystopian hellscape just because they didn't want to admit that those darned Christians over there got even a bit of something correct and therefore we gotta super duper virtue signal against that by slapping the shackles on as quickly as possible. What a dumb way to go that would be.
indeed, like when the experts were all telling us that we shouldnt use masks, as they dont work, and then they swapped and told us to wear them, only to be filmed not doing it themselves.

Or when the mainstream media couldnt emphasize enough how covid was only of a concern to countries without any healthcare, to then flipflop entirely.

Cant we just make them all unable to reach an audience?
I think I would take the other side of this bet. I do think that there will be at least one major U.S. urban area that is rendered permanently uninhabitable at some point this century, and the first one will be somewhere in southern Florida, but I don’t have any confidence in timing or specific local geographies.

My prediction is that large-scale abandonment will be due to persistent flooding and inundation that can’t be solved with sea walls/gates or levees, and not a hurricane-induced flood or storm surge. I don’t think that will happen in the next 10 years, though it certainly could.
That’s not what I’m taking from this at all. There is nothing preventing gay people from having safe sex using protection and testing for diseases regularly.
This article's first half was a general discourse on ML & the latter half seemed to revolve around how chip thermals & data center consumption can be managed by ML.

ML's contribution to reducing human-generated impact on climate isn't the prime focus of this talk. And that carbon footprint management is (as you might guess) miniscule in grand scale.
Moving data about within a blockchain is trustless - you don’t need to trust the network to move money. You can set up smart contracts to move money under certain conditions (usually other transactions)

When you want to interface with the real world, say trigger a smart contract on a stock price move - who do you trust to get that data? You’ve reintroduced a trusted authority.

This is the oracle problem. Now, if like me you don’t give a crap and are happy to trust middlemen in your day to day life because I trust banks over random merchants a million times… big whoop. But if you’re a cryptocurrency fetishist it becomes a big deal.
It seems to still use the OpenAi company's models on the backend.
DBTA's List of Top AI Companies in 2023
Not especially. I was around for a lot of it (I shared an office with one of the contributors to Unicode 1.0 back in the late 80s and used to have a massive binder with every ECMA code page in it (which included a lot of non-European codes). The other thing about Han unification that people don’t realize is that there were five different East Asian 16-bit encodings (the original draft of ISO-10646 had a 32-bit encoding which included all of them). I worked on a project in the early 90s where we needed multiple-script capabilities (Roman, Cyrillic and Japanese) and ended up using JIS because it was a well-defined encoding that we could buy fonts that employed it (although we still had to contract with Bitstream to get a version of their font that was split into 8-bit segments for our software). There was JIS (Japanese), the Korean code (which included both Jamo and pre-composed Hangul syllables) and not one, not two, but three, count ’em, three different Chinese encodings: Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Since the original goal of Unicode was to try to be a 16-bit fixed-width encoding (as opposed to the competing 32-bit fixed-width encoding of ISO-10646), there was really no choice but to do Han Unification. Even so, the five 16-bit encodings still linger.
> Adjusted for inflation, gasoline is as cheap as ever.

There's the rub. Perhaps our rampant inflation is essentially the result of "real" peak oil, except instead of gas prices steadily increasing, the US economy is taking excessive actions to keep our petrodollar supreme and causing massive inflation.

Especially as challengers to petroleum economy arise: Solar/Battery/Wind/EVs - it's possible the only way to stay solvent is to massively devalue $$.
The other fun thing of the PNW is that it really doesn't get too cold that often. :D
It'd be a lot more compelling to me if it had a "people I follow" feed. I get that they didn't want it to be empty on launch, but at least giving me the option would mean I could at least have a chance of seeing mainly people I know on there.
Apparently only if you changed the config and also only snapshots that are older than 14 days.

Still Bad but less impact than described in their first email. (Asked support)
> This is blatant advertising/shilling

Are the topics they're presenting "solved", or somehow not interesting? Do you think their presence pushed out more interesting topics?

I'm not sure I comprehend the immediate attack for, what appears to be, some neat research. Especially when that research is in the practical context of a game engine that requires good performance on extremely restricted compute.
Right? I spent decades thinking I was the only one.

> Most of my daydreams are world-building too, over time I’ve “built” cities, countries, continents, governments in my dream ecosystem. Like playing SimCity with daydreams.

Yeeeaaah, there's a lot of geology and fictional politics in my maladaptive daydreaming.
If you (US Citizen) marry out of the country, and stay with your spouse (foreign citizen) in that country, how long is the current wait to come back into the country and have your spouse with you on a CR1 visa? And are there any advantages to K-3 over CR1?
A part of these users might be europeans? Initially it worked here if you created a US App Store account, but after 10 days they disabled it based on VPN & IP. Like everybody in my European network had the app installed and is not using it anymore because of this.
This solves 2FA codes, which was indeed part of our problem, but it doesn't solve incoming/outgoing calls that ideally needed to be on the same number as well for when we dealt with humans.

This is probably possible to do, but probably hard to get right, and still requires having a device reliably available to receive calls, and has limited scale (what happens if there are multiple calls at the same time?). This is why it would have been great to be able to buy this as a service.
We have really made it a point to have our kid play freely as much as possible and minimize scheduled activities (piano lessons etc.) the problem is that most of his friends are in a million classes so even if he’s free, they often aren’t.

That’s been the big challenge. So then there are these magical days where they all don’t have any activities and those invariably happen to be the days ALL kids look forward to. Cuz at the end of the day, they just want to play with their friends.

But that has taken planning in the past where we coordinate with parents for those free play days.

But those days are the exception. I wish they were the rule.

We’ve actually noticed how amazing his mood is after a day full of unorganized play hanging out with friends.
"You can't think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something." -Seymour Papert

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/08/05/488669276/remembe...

I strongly second latexr's recommendation of Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics", and the spread he linked to above. Scott McCloud is the Marshall Mcluhan of Comic Art.
Yeah I'm aware of all of that. What I'm saying is that I don't see what about the Schema Definition Language pushes you towards the RPC other than that they obviously go well together, just like gRPC is almost always used with protobuf, or http with JSON.

> but it bothers me that what is ultimately a message encoding protocol has an opinion on how I should architect my server.

To me, this is like saying "Using JSON is unfortunate because it has an opinion that I should use HTTP" when I don't think anyone would argue that at all, and I don't see the argument for capnp much either.
> I was listening to NPR yesterday in the car. The topic fecal bacteria levels on the beaches. The host just blurted out that Climate change drives fecal bacteria levels on the beach. I was curious to hear his reasoning so I can understand the logic behind the statement. But.. nothing more was said of this.

> I have a similar but not exact feel about this article. It mentions a study, but the logic in the post does not seem rigorous enough. NPR is great, but I think they are doing a great disservice by not checking their arguments.

well, this doesn't seem to be a case of them not checking their arguments.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8834802/

https://www.health.com/us-beaches-fecal-contamination-755948...
I'm sorry you feel I've attacked your character. That wasn't my intention. If I've misread or misjudged you, please do correct me, and I'll add a correction to each of the comments I've made in this thread. This offer does not expire, if you correct me tomorrow or next week or something I'll still get the comments fixed (at least, as long as I see it).

I'm genuinely sorry that you feel frustrated and insulted. Hope you have a good rest of your day.
It's not an argument, it's a correction.
A worm has been revived after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost
which programming language and / or platform ? Is it too obvious to mention it?
> Also, the registration is basically fully anonymous.

You are uploading your iris scan into a black box, how can that be considered anonymous?
That launched like a day or two ago -- though it doesn't remember your last setting and is hard to find.
I’m not a lawyer or a gun enthusiast. To me, the 2nd amendment clearly articulates that the government has broad discretion to regulate firearms as part of the civil militia of the citizenry. Others disagree.

With the first amendment, competence and skill don’t apply. Anyone can express themselves, assemble, complain to the government or hand out manifestos, including ignorant or stupid people. I can go start a religion and exercise all sorts of bizarre practices without approval or reprisal.
OK, so I gaze into the orb, it generates me a private key, and assigns me a wallet. Now what happens when I leak that private key? Is it all over for me and my money? I obviously can't get another one – you get one World ID per human.
850 in 2016 dollars is almost 1100 in 2023 dollars.
Flatbuffers seems to have penetration in the games industry. And it sounds like from other posters that Facebook uses it.

I recently started a job doing work on autonomy systems that run in tractors, and was surprised to see we use it (flatbuffers) in the messaging layer (in both C++ and Rust)
> In the early 2000s it would have taken a network engineer with knowledge of DNS, IP, Ethernet, RFC1918, actual routing protocols and whole bunch of other stuff to set something like that up

You remember things differently than I
That's the problem: if you don't sign up (as I haven't), you can remain blissfully unaware of Threads. The same isn't true of Twitter.

I stand corrected on other Meta properties linking it, but, of course, they have to get links outside of that sphere to compete with Twitter on mindshare.
It is literally impossible for a simple deadbolt to keep intruders from entering your house. Are locks scams?

Separately, I strongly suspect that your idea of worldcoin's "stated purpose" is not something they have ever stated.
Do you have a link for these hardware devices ?
I mean you should pursue the ideal, and you will be pretty good if you fail. I don't believe you really answered my original question but it is fine.
What an AI Girlfriend Can (and Can't) Do
It may be an intentional misdirection...The guy may have had a contact that was easy to deduce, and neither of them wanted the attention it would bring...so it 'fell off the back of a truck.'
There is information, here, in the observations that all these "AI" demos contain blatant inaccuracies, with apparently no fact-checking having taken place. It's clear that these companies (Microsoft, Google, OpenAI) do not care about accuracy, correctness, or the truth. It is not part of their business model.

There is no respect for your time, your safety, your reputation. Your role as a customer is to be conned into using the products for long enough that a return on investment can be made; the companies will pivot to a new product as soon as the untrustworthiness of the old one becomes common knowledge.

Short-term thinking. Desperation.
> is there any cryptocurrency that provides actual value to people?

It allows people to bypass laws and regulations around currency exchange. This can be a good thing -- bypassing repressive regimes, making it easier to send funds over national borders, etc. It can also be a bad thing -- evading consumer protections, reducing the ability of nations to manage their economies, etc.
"Not getting 100%" is a bit of a straw man argument.

"Less than half" is significant, particularly when the CEO (to his credit) is calling it out as something that must improve. And it matters to balance the existing narrative from the Verge, which seems to just regurgitate Meta's VP's language about it being a runaway success.
>It doesn’t store biometrics and there isn’t a way to use the store information to know what the iris looked like that generated it

You don’t know this for a fact, is it an audited open source project and the security/privacy vouched by some known people in the field? No. It’s just marketing crap
Unlikely, but they seem to be different things altogether. BlazingMQ appears to be a traditional message queue (think ActiveMQ), with message peristence. ZeroMQ is more of a network middleware (think Tibco Rendezvous), and does not include persistence.

BlazingMQ also appears to be more of a "platform" or "service" that an app can use (sort of like Oracle, say) -- ZeroMQ includes libraries that one can use to build an app, service or platform, but none is provided "out of the box".

Which makes it harder to get started with ZeroMQ, since by definition every ZeroMQ app is essentially built "from scratch".

If you're interested in ZeroMQ, you may want to check out OZ (https://github.com/nyfix/OZ), which is a Rendezvous-like platform that uses the OpenMAMA API (https://github.com/finos/OpenMAMA) and ZeroMQ (https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq) transport to provide a full-featured network middleware implementation. OZ has been used in our shop since 2020 handling approx 50MM high-value messages per day on our global FIX network.
I am willing to provide a short communication some times providing information but the reality is usually a lot less interesting than people think.

Reality: I want to hire 1 person, we get say 5 past all the stuff before me, we interview all 5, and then we choose the one that we think fits the best culturally, personality wise, skill wise, etc. So our reply is usually "hey you were great, we wouldn't interview you if you weren't, we just found someone we liked a little bit more". Which isn't very satisfying but you have to think about it from my perspective too. How do you choose between 5 great candidates?

Ultimately, luck is playing a massive role here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LopI4YeC4I
Thank you for the response!!

How specific is “same or similar”? Say, going from front end web dev to machine learning. Or going from VLSI to full stack web dev. All very similar in that they’re software development heavy, but do have significant differences in the actual field.
Most countries have a treaty of commerce and trade with the U.S. that gives rise to the E-2 visa. In short, you must establish a U.S. company, you and/or others from your country of citizenship must invest at least $100k in this company, the company must spend a substantial portion of this on business related expenses, and you must have a good business plan showing, among other things, the employment of U.S. workers over a 5-year period.
>Personally for me it is about the traffic that may be routed through my computer by the Tor network

No traffic is routed through your computer by using Tor, running a relay is a completely separate thing that can't be done by accident.
.. and less than 24 hours later, on YNews

‘I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore.’ The Economic Cost of Houston’s Heat (wsj.com)
There should be one? Don't use it personally, but apparently they've introduced it a few days ago: https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/threads-update-...
Some of Yael's most prominent works include the original paper on ring signatures [1], some important results around the Fiat-Shamir paradigm for signatures [2], the invention of One-Time Programs [3], some important work on interactive proofs [4], and a bunch of early fundamental (negative) results on obfuscation [5].
And these are just the things that spring to mind immediately, nowhere near the majority of her output.

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RST01.pdf
[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/034.pdf
[3] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/One-Time-Programs-Gold...
[4] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
[5] https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0348
And you seem rather biased to the opposite, so it all evens out.
> Meta has since added new features, such as separate "following" and "for you"' feeds

I haven't used Threads, but it's 2023. People have years of experience and expectations using social media, also probably shorter attention spans. I'm fairly sure that an launch ready MVP in 2023 should be WAY more feature full than 5-10 years ago.

I know there are other factors at play here as well regarding retention, but I don't think one can easily recover from a highly popular lauch with uncompetitive features.
That whitepaper doesn't explicitly say "one person = one account", but it seems to be a really basic feature of the system:

- They clearly don't want accounts that don't belong to a person ("Keep the Bots Out" is an explicit goal).

- They also don't want one person with more than one account (World ID is intended to solve the problem of governance by ensuring that each person gets only one vote).