skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is amazing reading about past pandemics.

I thought all of the crazy conspiracy theories, and protest were a 'modern' phenomenon because of the internet.

But, All of the past pandemics had:

Conspiracy Theories.

People Not trusting doctors.

People saying we must trust doctors

Protest The Government

Protesting the Protestors

Quarantines where people loose touch, get depressed, drink, -- everything we saw.

THEN, it is also common to all past pandemics that people 'Forget' them. They fade away.

It seems to be another natural reaction, to forget the impact, it fades away.
I'm sure autocorrect will fix that.
* 1 computer will eventually break (or one service will crash, or be replaced). To keep processing requests, you need more than 1 computer.

* Two-or-more computers can be fed conflicting information.

* Consensus algorithms prevent such conflicts from being accepted by the system.

* Raft is one such algorithm. It operates by choosing a leader and then routing all requests via that leader, so that no observers will see a different sequence of requests.
Repost #4 I believe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37305580

"I'll keep saying it every time this comes up. I LOVE being told by techbros that a human painstaking studying one thing at a time, and not memorizing verbatin but rather taking away the core concept, is exactly the same type of "learning" that a model does when it takes in millions of things at once and can spit out copyrighted code verbatim."
yes, but this takes time since we need to apply for this first
Fidelity is maybe ok. You really need to spend some time educating yourself and if you want help, need to get a fiduciary.
Denethor is an interesting character. He’s one of the only (if not the only?) antagonists who is not evil. Denethor’s flaw is that he has given up hope.

Denethor is the only cynic in middle earth.
Ask HN: Why there is a labour shortage in Germany?
https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/23/german-lawmakers-approve-a-plan-to-attract-skilled-workers-to-plug-the-countrys-labor-gap

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy-crisis-inflation-push-more-german-firms-into-insolvency-study-2023-06-29/

There were 8,400 corporate insolvencies in Germany from January to June, up 16.2% from the first half of 2022 and the biggest percentage increase in more than 20 years,

How come there is a labour shortage when Germany is facing deindustrialization?
My takeaway from social psych was that it was far easier and cheaper to convince 2 ignorant people than it was to change 1 educated person's mind.

Which boils majority democracy down to the median level of education.
That’s almost tautological - if it’s a necessity, you will spend.

It’s the stuff that was above the bottom of Maslow’s needs pyramid that UPI has enabled.
The asset split of 25% each of gold, stocks, bonds and cash would have fared relatively bad over the years since 2007-09.
NCO in the Army is a vastly different situation than a commissioned officer in any branch, and each workplace is going to differ in terms of idiotic bosses, harsh environment, intellectualism, and tolerance for innovation and invididuality. The rest of your items (chain-of-command, blind following of orders) are going to be present in some form everywhere in life, and you're welcome to push back on those if you're careful about how you do it.

Sounds to me like when you say both that you want to learn discipline while also saying certain things are not your cup of tea, one of the areas of mentation you may want to work on is "the ability to experience, tolerate, and overcome discomfort". Discipline may even be described as that ability, in part.

Not saying you absolutely need to join any military service to get that, but there are few other circumstances where you have no real option of quitting once you've committed to a certain duration of obligation.
Sure, every computation is equivalent to a lookup table over "predetermined answers". It isn't equivalent if we don't have those answers.

Eg., "what's the US President's telephone number in 2000?" had no answer in 1900.

> If decision trees were truly equivalent to NNs

They are equivalent. And you don't need to precompute answers you don't have. You can take the weights of a NN and encode them as a DT; just as you can also transform a NN to just be k-nearest-neighbors.

The reason we dont do that is prediction efficiency.

Also, of course, such functions are also basically impossible to train as a practical matter. That bares little on their equivalence.

All ML models are expressible as k-nearest-neighbors -- this is useful information because it demystifies the process. Countless papers end with "and we dont know why!" -- where the "why" is obvious if you reformulate the model.

ML is just ranking a historical dataset of size N, by similarity to some X, selecting up to N examples from it, weighting each by W and then taking an average.
Not all of the window is usefull all of the time. Sometimes only the terminal half of the IDE is, sometimes just the editor half is. Same to the browser, sometimes you only need to look at the console and not the website (while testing something over the IDE). Resizing windows is actually way more annoying than just aranging them the right way so you can alway trigger the useful half.

I think most tilling WMs fails to realize how annoying windows that keep changing size are. If they do, the entire concept of automatic tiling seems way less useful.
What are emerging/promising areas of tech to get into today?
What fields in tech are going to be prevalent, disruptors or gain a foothold in business or consumer markets?

I have seen that people on forums like this one and stackoverflow are usually able to predict the next big things in tech quite well. Like this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21324768&p=2

So, what CS areas would be good to invest time in learning for the near future?
oh how the kings have fallen. Square could have been Stripe, Shopify, Toast, Doordash, Venmo if not for Jack's part time focus as leader
Mississippian Culture
How many human lifetimes are wasted every year by unnecessary tax prep ?
For sure. Meanwhile this latest round raised $12M from 5,600 investors in a couple days. So the management team is getting a massive signal that “this is good.”
Rule #1 (your career creates your wealth) is a gem.

Rule #8 (make your own decisions) lacks self-awareness, especially after you read Rule #11 (bulletproof portfolio). I have been on a quest for a truly bulletproof portfolio for years. It's not easy. TANSTAAFL. Rule #11 also contradicts Rules #6 (no trading system works forever) and #9 (only do things you understand).

That criticism aside, the author did a service to us all by writing this. If I had followed all these rules consistently throughout my life, I would probably be a wealthier man today.
I bet they need more code challenges and soft-skills in their teams. That should fix it.
Yep. My eldest's boyfriend's parents won't buy Apple products because there's a bite out of the Apple. Imagine what FreeBSD would do to them!

Edit: I was winding them up the other day about how everything in their house is made by godless communists in China.
Heh, that is pretty funny.

> Tolkien's whole output has been less important than a single episode of Rick & Morty.

There, I understated his influence. See how easy that was?
Most people admittedly get to domains through Google these days so, assuming sufficient Google juice, that probably doesn't matter much. but yeah if I'm naming a company/product I probably go with a single word either just initial cap or fairly conventional camel case.
I thi k maybe it can be used in both ways, like " I cannot overstate the importance of this" or "you can not understate what I just said" cannot as in "I am not allowing you to understate what I said". Idk, that's my most generous reading of it.
It would require careful setup, but one thing that might be the case is losing light mentions across many documents and keeping heavy mentions clustered in one document.

With the summary-of-summaries approach, I think dense clusters in one document vs consistent mentions in many documents wouldnt get the same treatment.
Ah, my bad. Not a heavy vim user so I didn’t realize this was neovim-specific.
Has to do with the fact that visual studio for mac is being discontinued. Timing is right hence the HN front page.
What was The Founders’s ownership share
diluted down to?

It wasn’t.

What was Peter Thiel’s ownership share
diluted down to?

It wasn’t.

What was your ownership share diluted
down to?

Point-zero-three percent.
But they did successfully isolate the epithelial cells from the immune system, as claimed above. And those cells survived for a week and managed to "mimic several important kidney functions." I don't see how they could have survived if they weren't exposed to blood.

The filter won't be biological, so that part shouldn't trigger an immune response either.
there was an article about this on some news website recently. maybe the above one. ... i read, it is that one. good article.
Alternatively: buy AAPL :)
> GOLD not only does well during times of intense inflation, it does very well. In the 1970s, gold rose twenty times over as the inflation rate soared to its peak of 15% in 1980

Is this still true? As a layperson looking at the chart, it seems like gold has moved up and down a lot, but is more or less in the same place as it was 2 years ago.
loose for me is “loos” or “lewss” with an emphasis on making the “s” sound like “s”, versus lose sounding like “looze” or “lewz” that have a “z” sound at the end.

which is interesting for sure since “loser” still has the Z sound (mostly), and to make something less tight you make it “looser” with an S sound.
That's a long diatribe for what can be reduced down to "another techbro excuse why climate-destroying pre-mined (for shareholders!) shitcoin is better".

The only thing shitcoin made "better" was how to pay the ransomware industry.
When you say SVM, do you mean any classifier that finds a separating hyperplane, like a no-hidden-layer "perceptron" or Naive Bayes, instead of one which finds the maximum margin hyperplane? Or is finding the maximum margin important here? Thanks. Very interesting.

I think our own brains and nervous system use a step-function as their "activation function", so this could - optimistically - be a throwback to the roots of Rosenblatt's idea.
It's Neodada.
What I find entertaining/confounding is how difficult the abstracts to these new AI papers are to understand. It feels like academia is pushing this style, so it’s hard to blame the authors since they have to play the game.

For reference I have an undergrad degree in computer science, have been working professionally for 25 years, and am fairly data centric in my work.

I’m hoping when I run this through GPT4 to get an explanation for a mortal software developer something sensible comes out the other end.
I did not flag your comment, if that's what you're implying. I can't downvote comments I reply to and I'm pretty sure flagging has no effect either on such comments.

But yes, it's still interesting that you haven't responded to those other comments, as I've said.
Agreed, the movement itself may need a different name. Any suggestions?

I started Intercoin and Intercloud later. Our apps are named Groups and Calendars.
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Because if you say convex, you better damned well have a proof of convexity...
Technical Metrics to Track in Engineering Orgs
On SunOS, killall actually kills everything.
You know, after I wrote this I got to thinking, "Why don't I have have more social Zoom calls?"

The answer is that I never was good at social things like inviting people to coffee.

But it doesn't help that we're taught to "protect" our time and avoid unnecessary calls and meetings. Presumably so we can write more lines of code, close more tickets, or earn more points like the story and other anecdotes here.

I think I may try something new in my calendar. Worst case I'll end up sitting in front of my computer alone with a block for the next hour and nothing to do but work on all those things I need to do anyways.
> By that argument, every computation can be reduced to a lookup table. Take every possible input, memorize the correct output and store it in a database of sorts

You're playing into his argument. You are right. All computation we know of is equivalent to a lookup table since none of our computers are actual turing machines.

And this highlights the difference between the software engineer way of thinking and the mathematical one
It doesn't have to be a scam. The pie got bigger, but perhaps because other people added more stuffing (money) to it. So one's original piece remained mostly the same.
The funny thing is that this constantly happens in every field ever, humans truly excel at repeating history without learning from the past.

Another example:

- HTML served by static file servers

- HTML generated by backend

- HTML enhanced with small JS snippets

- HTML generated by frontend, but served by backend

- Go to step one, not learning why anyone moved on from the previous method
> a thousand page fan fiction set in the Harry Potter world where the Death Eaters won, Harry Potter is dead, and Draco Malfoy has been assigned to Hermione for “breeding purposes”. The premise sounds like trash, but she was describing the intricacies of how wars are fought and political intrigues and a very personal and relatable story of standing up to power.

Is that what Martin has been doing instead of finishing ASOFAI? Because that sounds exactly like him.
I want to say that jgroups has an S3 coordination method. I came across quite a few methods while trying to set up a Keycloak cluster in Docker Swarm, but ultimately the Kubernetes DNS method worked best for my case (Swarm seems close enough that I was able to use it with no problem). I'd also note that my understanding is that Swarm uses the Raft algorithm.
False dichotomy. Security does not have to come at the price of freedom.
Good as this is, it's missing the parts which lie outside browsers and it doesn't have much regarding mobile devices.

In a matter of decades or shorter, I expect the following to happen as well:

* Governments will give themselves new, expanded legal rights for mass-surveillance on their citizens through their electronic devices.

* AIs will be plugged to surveillance data-streams to search for "criminal behavior," whatever that be for each country.

* As part of the above, a signal-processing mechanism similar to the Chinese social score, but way more sophisticated and comprehensive, will be implemented, by almost every nation with the resources to do so. One nation, China, already started. In the decades to come, other major nations will lean on threat of XYZ to follow suit. (In case you need some examples of XYZ: ordinary terrorism, bioterrorism, avoidance of laws limiting AI, child pornography, access by children to pornography, minor solicitation, parent abuse, sexual harassment of nature X, lax morals regarding Y, information warfare by foreign powers).

Even if those things seem unimaginable to us now, it is a slow slope to roll down through a year at a time. Public perception will gradually change enough to tolerate the privacy invasions. And who knows, for certain category of threats, it may be that the general public of the time enthusiastically supports the surveillance. (For example, I would love to see a study where people with children are asked if they believe that the government should have access to the telephones of people who are statistically likely to engage in CP, like men who are single and under a certain age, in order to prevent CP).
>Rule 11 deserves a rethink. There is an official policy that cash will lose some % of its value each year! Holding 25% of your wealth in cash is planning to throwing away years of life.

That depends on lots of things including how old you are and the current economic situation.

For someone on the older side, getting a very low risk 5% on a chunk of their money doesn't seem like a half-bad strategy at the moment especially if they already own their home.
So, it is like Nim?
Templates, metaprogramming, custom iterators, Nim's comp-time is also powerful, but I heard that 100% of Jai is available at compile time?
How good is interop with other languages?
Does Jai's syntax have some nice features?
Syntax sugar like Nim's UFCS or list comprehension (collect macro in nim)? effects system?
Functional paradigm support?
And
PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved): A Chemical Love Story by Drs. Alexander & Ann Shulgin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k41PI54ExFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsX7mO4Iu_k
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/08/17/southern-p...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/years-of-turmo...
https://thefederalist.com/2017/05/17/12-ways-southern-povert...
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/09/10/southern-...
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/109266/documents/...

I can go on, the google results are quite numerous on this issue....
Rule #0: before investing in a privately held company make sure you understand the capital structure and obligations and if there are classes of investor with guarantees or seniority.
I fully support people getting paid for their work, and these actors deserve it. However -- when it comes to video games I personally do not mind if there is no voice acting, and I often will play the game on silent with some other source of audio playing alongside. Unsure of the impact of this one.
> ??? That isn't easy to understand

Distributed systems aren't simple, but compared to Paxos, Raft is definitely on the simpler side. I think they're also having a specific audience in mind (distributed systems engineers) rather than the public, when they write "it's easy to understand", which makes sense.
People unwilling or unable to spend cash leads to fewer businesses being formed. This should be obvious.

Therefore, anything which loosens the purse strings should lead to more business activity.

More business activity will lead to better resource allocation and hiring, more auxiliary services cropping up to support novel needs.

All this will lead to fewer poor people.

Now, reverse the arrow. If it were to become harder and harder to spend money, more and more people would fall into poverty.
I have two older teenagers. They got a phone when they were 14-ish, fist year of French collège (mid school).

We had conversations and whatnot and there were times when they were giving the phones to us so that they are not distracted when working.

These times are long gone and their phones grew into their palms it seems.

The older one is 19 and when he has lots of work he manages to disconnect.

I think that between 15 and 19 yo the battle is lost and I gave up. I preferred to keep a close link and contact with them rather than fight all the time.

There are probably better parents though, more strict and systematic. I am not without fault as I use my phone all the time as well.
Listed companies can and do this as well, typically not on a scale that is so noticeable.
> It involved men and women aged 60 to 85 without memory impairment. All were given a diffuser and seven cartridges, each containing a single and different natural oil. People in the enriched group received full-strength cartridges. Control group participants were given the oils in tiny amounts. Participants put a different cartridge into their diffuser each evening prior to going to bed, and it activated for two hours as they slept. People in the enriched group showed a 226% increase in cognitive performance compared to the control group, as measured by a word list test commonly used to evaluate memory.
This is interesting, but I like neither the TUI nor the fact that it's written in Python, lol.

My idea was to have namespaced wrappers for the commands which were designed to generate output as JSON and/or accept input as JSON. So for example "ls" would have a wrapper "qls" (queryable ls) or maybe "jsls" (json LS), etc. But in thinking about it, many questions remain- Would some of the structs or struct elements have types, like "file_path" or "file_name" for example?

Like for example they do:

> $ jc dig example.com | jq -r '.[].answer[].data'

and my API would be more like:

> $ jsdig example.com -- '.[].answer[].data'

(which would then pass those additional arguments to "jq -r" without having to pipe)

The core idea is that you can have seamless integration of structured pipe data with regular piped data without having to change shells.
Not the protocol itself. Your ID is an arbitrary alphanumeric string that you register with a provider. But most people just use their phone number.
> whereas we'd already spent the $20 to register our PayDemon domains.
In my experience, Datura isn't something I'd use for healing, it's something I'd use to break down myself. The experience with that is unlike others, and not in a good way.
Hit them hard and keep it up until they're all dead
In the US I have friends who are deliriously happy with their absolutely incompetent financial advisors.

The problem is that it’s a sales role and the usual customer manipulation applies strongly.
Subject line doesn’t match linked article.
>might as well call it the American Flu

Ameriflu
Why are we still using a dated GPT-4 benchmark score?
Author here. I've been working on this blog for a little while and am finally publishing the first couple of articles.

It's mainly a way for me to keep track of the many notes and bits of data I come across when reading ML research. I have a lot of content planned, revolving around AI Coding systems, Alignment, and Security.

So today is the first time I'm publishing it anywhere, I can only assume straight into a cold disinterested void ... :)
TV has no purpose connecting to internet in the first place. But that's the reality now. It's more or less guaranteed that this slippery slope will lead to TVs that won't start without an internet connection - and only such TVs soon afterwards.
Do you know why the issue was deleted? I find it a bit concerning a project would ever delete an issue unless it was spam or abusive in concept, especially a security critical project like DNS.
The economy is like an opaque operating system that none of its users truly understand, and in 2008 it blue-screened and had to be crash-restarted using hacks that we don't really know the repercussions of yet.
https://github.com/focus-editor/focus/blob/main/compile.bat:

jai -quiet first.jai

So... where can I find the Jai compiler?