skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plot-twist: our entire society is essentially a cult, parenting and education is simply indoctrination, and the same psychological glitches which are exploited in order to produce compliant citizens are also exploited by would-be cult leaders to control their unfortunate members.

Can't fix the problem because doing so would unravel everything we call society.
Thank you so much! I'll check it out.
I think this is true
While any kind of "digital notary" service would be enough to prove the minimum age of the data, but that's all it proves.

Consider a scenario where I generate a bajillion "predictions" of different winning lottery numbers, and I only unveil the one matching prediction--with provable age--while keeping all the non-matching ones hidden.
Hey, who knows, it could just be a scaling issue. (The history of NNs would lend credence to this theory). In which case, if this room temperature superconductor stuff is legit, then maybe we're about to experience a major compute power leap that could result in AGI sooner than we think.
Can it? According to the constitution, specifically Ammendment XIV, "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned." Does that mean the US cannot legally default on its debts?
Isn’t it being pushed through by ultra religious and right wing groups? While I admit I don’t understand the Israeli high courts I do understand the impact of zealous right wing groups forcing unpopular changes to the basic function of the government.
Are you willing to open source this?
I'm speaking AI run on the edge. The kind of AI that will become pervasive. Digital personas on autopilot. The days of me having to do things like book my own flight are coming to an end.
Yes they are ... hidden away in about:config. I assert there is more than one way to rig a browser and the current config nonsense ... is nonsense and wankery. OK I am a bit peeved.

No one is served properly with the current model of one browser config fits all. Why can't I have a browser that accepts that I know what I am doing wrt SSL/TLS?
Everything you're saying is word salad nonsense.

> The very idea that you can do absolutely what you want to yourself is incoherent

You being confused has nothing to do with the idea.

> That annihilates all morality.

Your morality. Not mine. Here's where you learn morality isn't really a tangible thing, and everyone disagrees about what is moral.
Note-taking apps. It's TiddlyWiki+Obsidian for me so far. These are the ones that I think have the best chance of striking a good balance between powerful features and having the data useable as long as possible. At one point I was trying a lot of note-taking platforms to find a good fit for me like OneNote, Notion, Roam-research, Logseq, Athena, Evernote, Joplin, VS Code (Foam, Dendron, and built-in Markdown functionality), Org-mode (including Org-roam), Notable.app, SilverBullet.md, Google Keep, Simplenote, Trillium Notes, Zettlr, Standard Notes, etcetera.

Editors/IDEs. Unsurprisingly, it's VS Code because it's plug and play, easy to set up quickly. I've tried Jupyterlab, Jupyter notebook, Emacs, Neovim, Atom (RIP), and Notepad++.

Browsers. There's Edge (main) and Vivaldi. I've tried Firefox (including some tweaks for hardening it), and other Chromium browsers. Edge being native to Windows manages to eke itself a small advantage by not lagging my laptop so much when I have multiple tabs open plus other programs eating up CPU/RAM like OBS Studio, and background apps. I make do with NextDNS to limit the logs/tracking.
I’ve been shamed for j-walking in Germany. Sorry, you didn’t debunk anything you just invited a bunch of puritanical nonsense to the nude beach.
Thank you.

But I think it's still important to call Measure 110 itself a failure because Measure 110 included the policies defining how funds were distributed, which has been an abject failure by all accounts.

This sounds like a very reasonable conclusion and I hope people who want real solutions can make this nuanced distinction going forward and advocate for decriminalization as part of a broader solution to the problem while saying "This specific law doesn't work. Let's not throw out the baby with the bath water."
Your response misses the target the parent was getting at. There are laws that constrain behavior in public places derived from the taboos of the past. This is what you are referring to when you talk about limits to nudity and such. These laws may derive from shame culture of the past, but they have modern relevance largely due to the existence of laws.

There's another form of shame culture that isn't codified into law but constrains behavior due to the potential reduction in social status for breaking various taboos. Essentially part one's feelings of status is sourced externally and this provides a moderating effect on one's behavior. The problem is that modern society has seen a stark reduction in the effectiveness of this kind of shame culture. We've essentially devalued the prevailing culture in favor of various sub/counter cultures. Now every degenerate interest has a sub-culture formed around it that insulates anyone who identifies with it from the shame of going against the prevailing culture. The usefulness of shame for reinforcing social norms has been eliminated to disastrous effect.
Next is that UFOs are real
How else would you deliver the metadata accompanying the content? HTTP headers are too flat, they don't support nested elements.

In contrast, JSON parsers are a dime a dozen, and HTTP+JSON has been the standard in APIs for well over a decade now. Be happy Mastodon isn't based on XML-SOAP, that would have been a right fucking mess and depending how rigid the clients would parse it, you'd end up with immediate ossification of the protocol instead of people just adding new fields for new functions (e.g. polls).
Why would you say something so controversial, yet so brave?
Too many low IQ humans.
I didn't submit the PR yet, but opened an issue which has not been picked up. Maybe most of the USD files used in Blender do not trigger the O(N^2) behavior.
Prohibition wasn't an abject failure. The most pessimistic reading is that its results were mixed, with many scholars believing it was a success. (There was a reason it took 14 years to repeal and not because people thought it was an abject failure.)

Copied & pasted from Wikipedia:

"Alcohol consumption declined dramatically during Prohibition. Cirrhosis death rates for men were 29.5 per 100,000 in 1911 and 10.7 in 1929. Admissions to state mental hospitals for alcoholic psychosis declined from 10.1 per 100,000 in 1919 to 4.7 in 1928. Arrests for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct declined 50 percent between 1916 and 1922. For the population as a whole, the best estimates are that consumption of alcohol declined by 30 percent to 50 percent.[7]

Specifically, "rates for cirrhosis of the liver fell by 50 percent early in Prohibition and recovered promptly after Repeal in 1933."[4] Moore also found that contrary to popular opinion, "violent crime did not increase dramatically during Prohibition" and that organized crime "existed before and after" Prohibition.[7] The historian Jack S. Blocker Jr. stated that "Death rates from cirrhosis and alcoholism, alcoholic psychosis hospital admissions, and drunkenness arrests all declined steeply during the latter years of the 1910s, when both the cultural and the legal climate were increasingly inhospitable to drink, and in the early years after National Prohibition went into effect."[8] In addition, "once Prohibition became the law of the land, many citizens decided to obey it".[8] During the Prohibition era, rates of absenteeism decreased from 10% to 3%.[9] In Michigan, the Ford Motor Company documented "a decrease in absenteeism from 2,620 in April 1918 to 1,628 in May 1918."[6]
Perhaps an effect from how small the pieces are? Even a "non-potato" camera will have problems with tiny things at close ranges unless you have additional lenses/equipment.
I’m very much a layman, but my understanding is that LK-99 itself is not necessarily a superconductor. It’s polycrystalline which means it’s a very uneven material - not all LK-99 is the same. They both didn’t know it was what it was and also couldn’t nail down the procedure for consistently making it so that it has the superconductor properties. It took a long time to get the resources required to investigate this far - the scientists had their own lives and careers and didn’t get back to this particular investigation until recently.
Putting a conspiracy cap on, is relatively easy to find a cover for an array that looks like a magnet
It is immoral for you and I, but most of engineers and product managers don’t think so. “It’s a feature that’s been implemented by everyone else and it works” would be the argument during its proposal. If the users really opposed to it they would vote with their browser by closing the tab (like I do). It’s like calling “heavy JS websites” as a burden on user, when most of the users, time upon time, showed how they don’t care.

“Let your employer fire you” argument also doesn’t sit well with me. Like this is not some hardcore feature that will be tasked out to some principal engineer with decades of experience that can find a job easily. Some recent grad will be just labeled as “not a team player” and sidelined. If we want a fair game, we should demote these kind of features (and stuff like 20 clicks to cancel your subscription) in one way or another.
> one could argue that continued research specifically directed to making a room temp superconductor, absent some kind of new externally originated discovery or a constraint relaxation (like ultra high pressure), is objectively a waste of time.

Really? I’m not convinced of that. If anything, the prior papers published by other authors pointing in this direction say the exact opposite to me.
Uniformed opinion.

It takes a week to bake/whatever a test sample. Which is why this is playing out so "slowly".

So, they had an idea and have been baking/testing/refining samples for decades. Science and funding takes a while.

What idea they started with and why they kept at it for 20 years is beyond me, that's a long time to chase an idea of you didn't have results or a hint that your idea would work. Maybe they had a weird sample that came from some other process in 1999 and have spent the intermediate time convincing funding people and doing the repetitive lab work required to get it to this point.
https://archive.is/1K7sv

If you don't want to interact with 4 screen-covering message boxes.
US was bankrupt in 1895. JP Morgan set up a bailout.

https://www.businessinsider.com/morgan-1895-crisis-and-1862-...

Now that dollar is fiat, there would be no reason for US to go bankrupt. New unbacked dollars can be issued.
If that cancer figure is true, that’s depressingly low for something so devastatingly common and increasingly common.
I wonder why people keep/rely on a messaging app as a source/storage/backup (?) for things like pictures. Isn’t that kinda inadequate…?
I get what you are saying. Perhaps its a morphing of what exactly people find shameful is the thing OP was talking about then. Where he identifies a lack of shame, its really just the shame is concentrated on completely different actions, and it makes the culture seem strange and wrong to a person on the other side.
>How many other nations do our politicians feel compelled to make such remarks about? Maybe Ukraine?

Most of them that you take for granted? Biden made fairly similar mouth-noises when he went on over to Europe to bemoan that the Germans would rather plunge Europe into a depression and trigger a turn to the far-right than deficit-spend for a minute... and then Biden reassured everyone about the solidity of the US-EU relationship eternal friendship special relationship etc etc.

https://online.findlay.edu/2579-2/#:~:text=Many%20business%2....
How does the debt cause inflation? I don’t see the correlation. Here’s a chart: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2022/aug/inflation...
You can start to get to the answer if you look why metal layers aren't made with silver. If metal resistivity was that important, nobody would pass the chance of almost doubling the conductivity with a much smaller change than people are proposing here.

The reason they don't is because yeild is the one most important variable on the entire process. And silver adds enough complexity to decrease it. (A few chips do have silver layers. People manage to use them when the process is mature enough and the added complexity gets tamed. Including something like YBCO into a high-performance chips manufacturing process is a half-a-century project; LK-99 can't even be reliably done yet.)
Lol thank you. That’s hilarious.

Also, I think it kind of sucks that all that UFO reverse engineering didn’t yield a high temperature superconductor before this… but I guess what can you expect when you sequester away all your materials, silo your research and in effect keep your neural network of nodes (as scientists) really small.

This open shit, as flawed and maybe annoying as it is to some people, I think it’s a much better model of science. It’d be great to see some UFO/UFO tech breakthroughs happen like this too.
(2020)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22846250
Bayesianism is the only reliable way of creating knowledge, as it is the direct application of the mathematics of probability. All frequentism can do is tell you how poorly your data fits an unrealistic straw-man model.
There will literally always be heat from computation, that's Landauer. The point is that LK-99 could be or lead to a breakthrough in making computation produce much, much less heat because you're getting rid of most resistivity losses. Which is important, because heat is actually a serious constraint on a bunch of use cases.
In the event of that solar flare that wipes out the grid.
Taxis are expensive too. There's no reason to expect Uber is going to be cheap. It's a business. They just have to be more convenient and maybe a bit cheaper than the alternative. They were losing money to get the business. They don't have to do it anymore. I'm someone that thinks that the less Uber is available the more likely public transportation will get better.
If you had real empathy, you would understand how people would be upset that their streets are covered by used needles and feces rather than accuse them of being sociopaths. Anyways, I'm pretty sure GP was being facetious. If using drugs is were optimal choice for a bum, then, it would be a much better outcome for everyone involved if California diverted funding from million dollar per unit "affordable housing" into camps in the dessert that provide free hard drugs and basic necessities, and ship homeless people there, where they're likely to overdoes in a few weeks. That your immediate reaction is that of disgust suggests that the premise that drugs are good for the bottom of society is wrong.
I think people should either strictly allow or deny induced abortion, recognizing it as a conflict between the pregnant woman's bodily autonomy (since pregancy is sort of invasive and has a slew of complications) and the zygote/embryo/fetus' ("fetus") personhood. One takes precedent over the other. I don't fault people for believing the fetus takes precedence. It's the people who pay lip service but have ulterior motives (oppressing women) that are an issue. Ultimately they have no basis to stop others from getting abortions, so as long as that's enforced I think that's a decent society.
Unidentified Flying Objects are absolutely real, though the newer cool kid term is UAP.

(From the internet: UAP stands for "unidentified anomalous phenomena.")

It's flying saucers carrying aliens from another planet that's controversial and up for debate.
Only because they have unilateral control over their financial matters. If Microsoft could only spend whenever Apple approved of their spending, things would look quite different don't you think?
You tried to gather evidence and were unsuccessful or you are guessing none exist?
Fusion would be massively boosted by having room-temperature superconductivity anyways.
GDP growth (how we outpace out interest payments) is most likely counter intuitive to curbing climate change, IMO
> I suppose it's one of the two places they simulate nuclear weapons... errr, run large scale multi-physics combustion codes for stockpile stewardship.

Back in the '90s my friend (jokingly) lamented that they wouldn't let him try to play Everquest on their computer.
You won't pass inspection if you can't build to code. It isn't hard to learn that on the job. It also isn't hard for inspectors to tell who does a bad job. Even of the three you name, most (not all) of the qualification is just about doing time and isn't really needed for doing a good job.
I don't think asking for a sign up is unethical, at least not on the same magnitude as the actual Hippocratic Oath is concerned with. I'd envision the Hippocratic Oath for Software might have something to say about writing software for ICE or despotic regimes but not asking the user to sign up. One is unethical, the other is just annoying.
For anyone wondering what the quick conversion is: That's 4.6 km
Cult and society being one and the same: a shared delusional thinking that one’s value system is the one true answer. Cult being just a minority with particularly (in the majority’s view) extreme positions.
An Empirical Study on Bugs Inside PyTorch
It’s a meme in cryptography too. Cutting edge cryptanalysis and furry profile pics go together like steak and red wine.
There's technically still time for Starship to have a go at another test flight, so there's still time to add "Cheap reusable access to space" to "proto-AGI" and "RT Superconductors".
Fascinating. I'm German, we're largely peaceful as well - the most notable violence incident in parliament was all back in 1950, when MP Herbert Wehner beat up a vile Nazi apologist and threw him through a glass door [1].

[1] https://vorwaerts.de/artikel/10-maerz-1950-wehner-nazi-bunde...
Location: New York
Remote: Open to it, but in-office acceptable. Hybrid preferred.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Postgres, Redshift, DBT, Docker, Spark, Flink, Jupyter, Pandas, AWS

Résumé/CV: email for resume

Email: sam.kritch@gmail.com

I'm a "data generalist"—I can build a modern data stack on my own: data warehouse, ETL framework, analytics eng, DBT, basic ML and DS, streaming, etc. I have five years of experience across various data roles.

My preference would be to work on a DS or data/ML-intensive products, at a smaller company. Also interested in full-stack or pure backend eng on data-intensive products. Top priority is to work on a product in an effective org with effective people.
Docs: https://docs.nerf.studio/en/latest/

Src: https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio/

Draft: Neural_Radiance_Fields:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Neural_Radiance_Fields :

> A Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a method based on deep learning for reconstructing a three-dimensional representation of a scene from two-dimensional images. It is a type of generative model that can create 3D scenes from a set of 2D images.[1] The NeRF model can learn the scene geometry, camera poses, and the reflectance properties of objects in a scene, which allows it to render new views of the scene from novel viewpoints.
Sovereign credit ratings cannot be directly compared with corporate credit ratings.
My only major objection to C++ magic statics is that you can only use them for statics. Sometimes you find yourself with a task that needs to be done once per object instead of globally, and you've got to roll your own, and then you might as well use that same mechanism for globals too.

My minor objection to magic statics is that you don't have control over the size or packing of the control word, and it usually ends up being something awkwardly mid-sized like a size_t where normally you'd want it either as small as possible or cache-line sized.

I like to handle this something like this:

void once(char _Atomic *flag, void (*fn)(void *ctx), void *ctx) {
char st = atomic_load_explicit(flag, memory_order_acquire);
if (st == 0 && atomic_compare_exchange_strong_explicit(flag, &st, 1,
memory_order_acquire,
memory_order_acquire)) {
fn(ctx);
atomic_store_explicit(flag, st=2, memory_order_release);
}
while (st != 2) { st = atomic_load_explicit(flag, memory_order_acquire); }
}

There's a commented version here: https://github.com/mtklein/best/blob/main/once.c
Awhile back someone* here recommended the book "Days of Rage"* about US domestic terrorism/bombings in the late 60s and 70s. Weather Underground and their ilk were entirely a bunch of morally smug bastards fuelled by exactly this sentiment. It is terrifying to see the parallels between today's trends and things literally blowing up in the 70s.

*Thank you. Apologies for not remembering whom. Excellent read. Eye-opening as someone educated in 90s public schools.

*https://www.amazon.com/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revol...
And together, these two phenomena have just sucked all the energy out of the crypto excitation mode.
You're missing influence vs force. If I care about someone I will do everyone in my power to get them into rehab but I would never force them, even if I had parental authority over them to do so. The only time in my life I have ever deprived someone of their bodily autonomy is with their consent, "hey when I'm drunk don't let me smoke."
Just dropping in to second VSCode remote (assuming you meant code-server). My T480's display shot itself and I put Termux+code-server on a tablet I had lying around. Aside from the cramped Bluetooth keyboard, I had my full editing experience (even the embedded terminal in VSCode worked). Really stunning how far mobile work has come.

(I'm on a ThinkPad E14 now though. Missed the trackpoint too much :3)
It's not really a trick, it's just that the vast majority of freemium users are negative-value.
Well, if there is a breakthrough that puts us closer to fusion, it's room-temperature superconductors.
There are also Xperia Touch(G1109) and numerous other AliExpress projectors with Android device integrated. The idea is potentially valid but IME the lamp tech available are just too dim.
I wanted to say that but also as the first commenter I didn't want to start the flame war I was asking us to avoid. There's definitely a lot more non-conforming people of all types in tech (I came to work with nail polish on today, by way of example) and it pains me to watch what should otherwise be culture-war free spaces get overtaken by it. HN isn't some bastion of "wokeness" (god I hate that term but it's a useful shortcut) but so much of the other commentary / social media spaces I frequent are caught up in the current right-wing culture warring and I'd just like some place where I can read about techy stuff without having to wade through more shitty comments about me and my friends.
I currently found my way into a data analytics job within a pretty big oil company and it suites me well… but I would still claim my favorite job was manual labor (plumbing on new homes and the like). Something about doing something physical and feeling like I really accomplished something.

I was way out of my element but I really learned a lot from my co workers.
'Revenue Intelligence' is a new category to me, but looking at the products he mentions (Gong at least), they seem to be CRM tools, like Salesforce?

This seems like a good market for this tech, but I'm sure there are others, eg lecture highlights, etc.
Was I the only one that tried to clean my screen to get the piece of dirt off it?
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