skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheng talks a lot about colonialism inn _Is Maths Real_ but here is the closest thing to an argument for the claim that I could locate:

> “Now, at the same time as all this, it is true that mathematics as a field has grown carefully and rigorously according to a carefully constructed framework of logic and rigour. It is, arguably, the framework that is keeping some maths in and keeping some maths out. But... there are questions about the values built into the framework of mathematics. That framework is geared towards the principles of ‘progress’ and ‘development’. Deep down I have an uncomfortable suspicion that those principles are indelibly linked to colonialism, imperialism and the urge to conquer others.” (p. 320-1)

That's the argument in its entirety. What humanity was up to in the ten millennia of recorded history before formal mathematics is left unexplained.

The most parsimonious explanation for the military's funding of mathematics research is that mathematics often has applications to military technology. But even here, we have to be careful: it's typically applied math that's the most, well... applicable, which is precisely the sort of thing that pure mathematicians are supposed to look down upon as "not really math". (The pure math work at DARPA is AFAICT more a consequence of DARPA's idiosyncratic governance structure that gives program managers wide latitude to swing for the fences, accepting that there will be some strikeouts.)

But the fact that modern Western mathematics is indispensable for advanced engineering projects at all, in a way that Sanskrit prosody and Inuit kayak architecture are not, is pretty crucial to understanding the funding situation: it's funded because it's useful, not useful because it's funded. If we don't grant that math is actually unreasonably effective in explaining / predicting / manipulating the world then sure, what math gets funded looks like another courtly intrigue. But it seems that the unreasonable effectiveness is precisely what needs to be explained away on Cheng's view.

I'm all ears for the contrary view, but we've already written more on the topic than Cheng did in the entire book, which is light on argument and regrettably heavy on insinuation.
Thick radiation shielding?

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/parker-solar-probe/in-...
https://blitzbear.com/

Build user dashboards into your B2B SaaS product in five minutes, not five weeks
Your post was correctly flagged because it broke several of the site guidelines, which include:

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

and

"Please don't fulminate."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've used a series of them for over 20 years and never had this issue.
The conception of power is what corrupts. They feel like they have become protectors of thing they moderate and that's what leads to the downfall. I must protect/pet this thing that I love and I inadvertently kill it, see Lenny from Of Mice and Men.
My biggest issue with WP is that it relies largely on corporate news media for many subject areas and you’re only allowed to include the narrative of established corporate news. There is so much bias that is introduced this way and I don’t see any great solution to counter it.
Yes, it's pretty great but for some reason I never find the time to learn it properly. I've used it to call directly into .Net assemblies, that was pretty fun and rewarding.
What is Sarbanes Oxley and what’s it got to do with accounting firms?

Edit: court ruling (shortened SOX) has to do with security compliance for public companies. After Enron and other scams

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act
Indeed, the idea of having something like an ipaq with an internet connection was around, it just wasn't viable to build a consumer device yet.
>I don't see how this follows.

Yeah, it depends on how "benefit to the company" is measured. One way would be to take the company's current revenue minus equipment expenses, and say that was generated by current employees, and thus that's how much the current employees are worth, and divide that between the current employees. So that gives a profit of 0.

That ignores a lot of things though, such as value of past employees, value of investments provided by investors, and value that the current employees are producing that will only be realized by future revenue. It's hard to measure.

>the company would give raises to those under this figure and would withhold raises from those overpaid until inflation eats up the surplus

Yeah, that works, but it's not instantaneous. If you want instantaneous equality you need something else.
Also... The material was always a ceramic, and you can't do much with other ceramic superconductors either.
Someone once told me three-quarters of your photographs should be of people, since those are the only ones you'll care about in a decade, and the rest should be for people.

Perhaps Wikipedia photographs count as "for people".
Completely unrelated, but what blossomed in my mind reading your comment was the brief synopsis of a race of beings close enough to a black hole that it significantly began to alter the likelihood of them facing conditions no longer compatible with life and the stories of what life would look like for these societies.
I have been thinking about this lately. Things that are recently developed like language skills are easiest to replicate by machines. But things that too took a time to develop like walking and grabbing are still something that machines struggle with.
This would indicate that you reside there, not that you own the location...
Because even if we went 100% fossil free today, we’d still need Benadryl to breathe.
In a way, that's a good way to gatekeep the humanities majors, isn't it?

I noticed the same thing when I was in college though. Those of us trying to climb the ladder mostly took engineering or science things lol.
The problem is, this can make a random homeowner homeless. The article mentions a service member who comes home to find someone living in her primary residence, not a rental property. That person is now homeless because of this. It could also happen to a person on vacation.
As someone who has been majorly affected by the Hollywood strikes, I finally dived in and spent the time needed to make mistakes to continually learn how to program.

That said, ive been working on a node.js PDF Text screenplay parser that will ultimately push out a JSON object according to an initiative to standardize all screenplay objects in screenJSON[0].

Here is the github for my project, it’s messy but I’m about 80% there and just need to spend more time on Regex to catch edge cases. Currently working on a next.js front end that maps out the script into a visual format but that’s not ready to be seen yet. Also don’t judge me on the name, it’s not going to stay as that. No AI as of yet, but could use text classifiers to be able to tell the difference between a key prop, and say, a camera movement but I’m trying to get as far as I can without LLM help of the classifications.

https://github.com/mattrichmo/ScreenBaby.

[0] https://screenjson.com.
"Empire of the Summer Moon"

https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful...

This would make an epic miniseries!
https://www.bootstrapsite.com

I've been working on a landing page builder for sometime now (mostly just weekends though).

It's written in vue 3 and laravel. The usp is that once you enter the page data you can try on hundreds of designs and style and customise the components without ever touching the data.

My plan is it make it open source but just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Here is one YouTube video I made explaining it

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cN7E6REY7TM

Would love to get some feedback too.
for me, from the outside, it seems like there is some different approaches to computing that what I have done already. new stuff to learn. large network use and data requirements id imagine lead to problems to solve, that might have only been previously an issue in large companies. with ai becoming general more people will run into new problems that might not have clear answers.

I was working in the web and infra and feel a lot of it is solved in a way.

> machine learning that are not related to advertising, consumption, back office efficiency,

Im kind of at the point where most companies I think have products ill never be thrilled about (as long as its not a negative on the world/unethical), technical problems are interesting though so I look for that
Yea like, the whole "Social Sciences" aren't even sciences! Crazy right?
> Update: and in the past hour this repo is gone.

Which is interesting, since Digger (the company that created that fork) is one of the OpenTF Manifesto signatories. Maybe they're recreating it under a different name / without the Hashicorp/Terraform branding all over the place?
It's interesting to see how people react to being given choices that affect the life of the product.

There's a design trade-off between price, warranty, and how (much) a battery is (dis)charged. When they don't give you options like this it's because they've made that choice for you.
Can I roll an acrobatics check to do a sick backflip and try to impress the kobold?
The history of corporations are available from many different sources, from many perspectives, a lot of it accessible for free online.

If you find it hard to believe, you can look into it and draw your own conclusions.
Schedule a meeting with cynthia@yourdomain.com

Find 45 minutes with Cynthia next week, title it "1:1”

These two flows are the ones I'm interested in building out. Something low friction where you don't have to spend time trying to find a common free slot on each other's calendar
It used LK99 up until today!
Kind of off-path from my regular reading, but I recently got absorbed into the planted aquarium world. This book was such a great way to get acquainted with the ecology and methods required, though once you do it... It's extremely obvious that it works, and why it works:

Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise
https://www.amazon.ca/Ecology-Planted-Aquarium-Practical-Sci...

Having a slice of nature in my home that's genuinely self-sufficient by all practical means has been wildly educational, rewarding, and fascinating. So many species emerged from such small samples of local ponds, lakes, and streams where I found my materials. I thought I understood ecological diversity and the staggering number of living things out there, but seeing this thriving ecosystem in only 10 gallons of volume really drove it home... The earth is absolutely covered in life.

And it all came out of mud!

I highly recommend it to anyone who likes to nerd out on ecology, aquariums, water, etc.
You don't face months long legal battles over that.

These examples were otherwise vacant homes.

Landlords have fewer rights than home owners.
Y'all had previously forked Terraform in response; what happened to that repo? https://github.com/diggerhq/open-terraform
Aren't STEM PhDs usually paid for from grants? Are things different at Harvard? I got my degree from a state school. If they're paid from grants there's no zero sum game like that unless you're just talking about money from TA'ing. Is there a general RA pool, and at that, one that isn't department centered but is across the whole graduate school?
wasting time. Kind of balancing, do I watch a video here and there and satisfy my curisosity or take it seriously and dedicate time and cut back on other things going on, hoping for a serious roi later on
It's comparable to FBP, and indeed, such a comparison has been made, specifically with Linda: [0]

In effect, the difference stems from whether you want to explicitly allocate ports to processing nodes, or if you want nodes that discern connections associatively.

9p/styx is also worth bringing into the discussion for an inverted understanding of the problem: where these languages suggest what the graph should look like when operating correctly, as in a batch process, what Plan9 did was to reason through how to connect up the nodes dynamically and debug multiprocessing "in detail", which is relevant when your connections fail.

[0] https://www.jpaulmorrison.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CoordinationLa...
We've been broadcasting at quite detectable volume for "contact" (sagan) 100 light- years in a radiating spherical radius. We didn't even have to argue about it.

Beaconing, assumes random dice throw (of who to beacon at) pays off. I'd say the odds are worse than lotto winning: Higher input costs, lower chance of success.
No, of course. What was the link? Most likely some people upvoted it and other people flagged it.

Edit: oh, I see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112411. I thought you meant Charles!

Users flagged that one. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case they likely thought it was off-topic for HN. Sensational-political stuff usually is.
Have you tried just going image-to-depth map? You could render the image in 3d with shallow depth then just shift the camera a bit

The main issue with moving mouths is the relative stillness, it's enough to introduce coherent motion in the user's field of vision.

If anything it might give you a unique distinction vs d-id, the head movements it doesn't aren't natural at all, but it's enough to not make it feel stiff
Tape libraries all have active monitoring and have for a while.

But really, it's mostly about scale. Tape media is dense in a way that spinning disk can't catch up to.
You can click the X on that modal to close it.

(But yes, I agree that this is annoying, and this kind of sign-up-nagging is what prevents me from having any interest in using Medium or Substack.)
Does anyone know why Hacker News does not let me post a job listing in this thread?

Is it because the thread is too old?
You are allowed to own 25g in addition to 3 plants. They are very much aware that the ungarnered yield and the plant itself likely puts you over the 25g limit as this is explicitly mentioned in the elaborative part of the draft document. You are supposed to gradually harvest from the plants what you intend to consume, just keep the amount of produce at hand below 25g. (I don't know how sensible that is, I have no experience growing cannabis.)
My suggestion is if you happen to exceed the 25g you can always simply destroy the excess.
While I do believe there is an advancement here, I tend to take the source with a pinch of salt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrek

> Their positive coverage of Tesla has been criticized by some automotive journalists.[3][4][5] Its main authors have disclosed ownership of Tesla stock, substantial profit from referrals to Tesla, and ownership of Tesla cars.[6][2] The owner, Seth Weintraub, also disclosed near total divestment from Tesla stock on January 14, 2020.

Worth seeing whether their new investment is in CATL https://www.google.com/finance/quote/300750:SHE?window=5Y
Strictly speaking a touch screen is massively more complicated than a set of buttons. you now have billions of gates that have to be produced at nanometer scales in some of the most expensive factories on earth. The price to develop and manufacture a touch screen is many times that of a set of buttons. The fact that it is a generic interface drives the cost per unit down quite a bit. it does not hurt that the incredible manufacturing tolerances that must be maintained almost force the automation of the process allowing costs to be even lower.

I just wish we ended up with aircraft style MFD's instead of touch screens. You know those things with a screen and a row of buttons along each side.
I ordered the Nukit CO2 Controller, and it just arrived today! Super excited to use it to automatically refresh air in my basement office :-).

Naomi's tweets taught me that CO2 is a pretty good proxy for human contamination of air, so turning on a fan when CO2 is high is a pretty good mechanism for refreshing air that could contain covid microparticles. Also learned about UVC from her - she's a fantastic educator and I really hope she's OK.

Gonna play with it for a few weeks then might order a second to switch a filter in the living room to reduce the risk from having guests in our home.
subZero [0] - The TypeScript library to build internal tools fast

In technical terms, it's PostgREST + GoTrue as TS library (written in rust and go, compiled to wasm, with support for Ppostgres/MySql/Sqlite/ClickHouse)

[0] https://getsubzero.today/
I agree, let’s presume that we will expect some more functionality like Text to 3D generated content. CAD is big market
That may be covered by:

> Interestingly, the patent describes the CPU's own scheduling hardware submitting these decisions as "suggestions" to the operating system.
Even when accepting users' choice to submit personal data as a justification for retaining the data (which is illegal in more than just the EU, by the way), you may still receive personal data about someone which was not submitted by them voluntarily. This can happen in situations ranging from the normal course of business to customers actively attempting to use your product illegally.

You have a duty to deal with a situation like that, and since the GDPR already makes provision for third-party processing of personal data, there is little reason not to go one small step further and extend your process for personal data deletion to users directly.
Squatters rights are completely insane and irrational in some places. in a large upstate NY city that rhymes with smahchester, an acquaintance of mine's mother died early in the era of covid. his crackhead brother traded this information for a fix and the dealer moved in uninvited. because of the eviction moratorium there was nothing he could do legally to remove the guy. attempts to brute force the eviction were met with potentially deadly force. after time it was no longer worth it to pay the property taxes and as such the house went into foreclosure and eventually was auctioned off. the real slap in the face was that the squatter won the auction. mind you this was in a not so nice area but still it illustrates how strange the law is around squatting can be. stealing a man's house is on the level of destroying his career. there should be laws protecting property owners, not the other way around. I suppose there is a bit of nuance to squatting that should be considered and may be valid, but those times are not the ones you hear about
I'd encourage people to keep editing. From HN and Reddit I thought that my changes would be thrown out, but nothing happened except bots cleaning up my references.

An issue that I noticed is that scientific articles accumulate newsworthy theories. The prion article has a section on weaponization, and prion diseases often have sections on alternate theories, or say that the causes remain unknown. Years later these articles need to be updated or trimmed down.
> The cheapest energy systems are the carbon free ones

I would really like to believe this claim to be true.

Unfortunately my recent real-world data points gathered as a consumer while doing such mundane stuff as heating and powering my home and fueling my ageing vehicles leave me wondering what I'm missing.

I'd love to drive an EV. I'd love to have PV at home. A geothermal heat pump would be nice, too.

I just haven't got enough spare money to make any of these choices until they get considerably cheaper.
There's a unique statue of Spinoza in Amsterdam, he has a coat of parrots. The tram drives past, its one of those 'blink and you miss it' moments. People mostly just walk by.

Being shunned at any time is hard. Being shunned in the 17th century could be lethal. Being a Jew is hard at any time, being a non-religious Jew, shunned by your community in the 17th century was loading the footgun. Still, he did what he thought was right, it seemed to work out.
I disagree. The paper should never have been published. Science should not happen in the news with people making wild claims about non peer reviewed papers. More so about papers that were getting lots of negative public peer review in real time.

The only reason this story has a happy ending is the authors included manufacturing instructions. But everything else about the paper is not a good model of how to publish (wild claims that you will revolutionise the world, the title, the bad graphs, the 2nd paper that was published with different authors...).

The fact that papers get retracted is nothing new. Science as a field is already generally good at retractions. Science is generally bad at incentivising reproduction... But this case was extreme and not a good model. It should not require sensationalist news and dozens of labs to reproduce a paper that was failing peer review.
My dad has a g-shock that lasted 15 years. He loves it. Model: MTG-M900DA-8CR. I bought him a new one a month ago, snd he almost cried because he was looking for this watch in garage sales. He asked me to set it, we looked and both watches were already set to the correct time down to the second. The face has a solar panel that you can’t see.
https://apiforllm.com/

I've been working on this on and off for a few weeks now. The idea is to let LLMs interact with the outside world using function calling. Eg- I built a simple version of chatgpt web browsing using function calling. There's a django site which is responsible for the auth, managing chats etc and then there's a flask site that's responsible for running functions in a gvisor sandbox. Users will be able to upload their functions as docker images and I'll run them in a sandbox.

There is a lot of self doubt at this point: who is this for? Will people pay for usage? Should I open source the entire thing or part of it? To add to this: I have no online audience, how do I promote this?

I do have some answers to these questions. Eg- should I open source the flask site and get llama 2 to use it? It provides value to the community + hopefully I can get some attention for the project.

I would appreciate any feedback on this project. Please send me an email if you want some openai credits added to your account.

Edit: use testaccount/demouser to login, I've added some credits for testing.
How is Brazil’s President Lula doing on climate?
LLMs already know how to distinguish fact from fiction much better than random chance and the base non-RLHF GPT-4 model was excellently calibrated (its predicted confidence in an answer generally matches the probability of being correct). "Eliminating" it is not that important. Getting it to human levels is the goal. and boy do humans often "hallucinate", i.e have a poor grasp of what they do or do not know and confidently spout nonsense.
Correct. That, or "negotiate" with HashiCorp for a commercial license.
I’d counter further than this sort of estimation naturally arises in any discussion of a problems solution. The challenge arises from the recording, accounting, and aggregation of estimations for any purpose other than the development of the solution - which is important for the purpose of allocation of talent and sequencing of immediate dependencies. The thing is the error bars in these estimates are large and positively skewed so you need to make your estimates about the smallest possible piece of work, and attach as little importance and dependency on their accuracy as possible.

The problem comes when you string estimates together and compound the mistake by assuming a precise estimate is an accurate one. I generally refuse to give precise estimates for that reason.
Despite having done my undergrad in CS, I never understood what NP-hard really meant. I mean yeah, polynomial time, boolean logic, general-case not specific-case, transformable into other NP problems, I get it, but like, I don't get it? Anyway, after reading this article I feel like I've gotten one small step closer to filling in this gap in my CS knowledge.