skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this hard to get? One you tap a button that could contain any character or letter. The other is physically motioning said characters and you brain associates the underlying idea with the motions rather than a generic “tap.”
That was pretty much the scenario in which Clancy used them in the story - strafing enemy vessels when they got within a couple-few hundred miles of land
Something else less greedy would surely take its place.
> All NP problems have transcripts that are validatable in polynomial time

Sure, but are they provable in polynomial time?

Proof generation is much more expensive than just running through the original computation through standard means.

> However with some cool zero-knowledge crypto magic, you don't even have to reveal the Merkle inclusion proof, nor even the key itself.

I hate that the exact way that ZK systems work is always omitted from any discussion of the subject. It is very complicated, which explains why no one like to (or is even able to) get into the specifics, but somehow this also leads to handwavy assertion that all we need to do to avoid all that expensive and duplicative computation is to sprinkle in some zero-knowledge proofs.

Due to performance limitations, for all intents and purposes ZK tech is impractical to the point of being infeasible for truly decentralized blockchains with turing-complete smart contract capabilities. It works for more specialized purposes, but it is not a currently solution to the "duplicative computation" problem.
The OP's stance was that the right for people to have essential stuff for free should be granted NOW, not in some hypothetical future scenario.
Sure, but the question is not about distinguishing living from dead things, but about distinguishing currently and formerly living things from things that were never alive. More specifically, about distinguishing them structurally, not comparatively. If "death" is the point where the decay into entropy of something greatly accelerates then hypothetically we could say a rock "dies" when it's melted, or alternatively we could say that it doesn't "die" because it was never alive. The distinction does not lie on the thing itself, but on which things we assign the property of being able to "die".
Perhaps the real solution here is to let non-root use seccomp-bpf.
You are required to carry home insurance as part of having a mortgage. If you own outright, you can choose to drop it. If you still have a mortgage, though, the mortgage holder can foreclose if you stop carrying home insurance.

Disclaimer: I don't do mortgage law. This is just my impression from having read the mortgage contracts I have signed.
> Since I have been running my company 2.5 years now, a quick reminder: employees expect yearly salary increases, tech employees have very high salary growth expectations.

This is in opinion a very US-centric observation/expectation.
I find the phrasing of the hard problem very strange. It's fairly obvious to anyone that has done a bit of meditation, that consciousness is simply attention to autonomous actions that your brain performs i.e. the compilation and discrimination of data from disparate systems. If you stop being attentive you start performing actions less consciously.

This aligns fairly closely to what happens when we train ANN's utilizing attention based learning. We see that new emergent capabilities arise. We simply haven't built attention based multimodal training courses yet. I hope we never will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_(machine_learning)
I find him to be more of a sort of 'scientific theist'. He's so actively belligerent towards religious people, the way he spreads the gospel of science is very similar to some of the (to me) less palatable proselytising parts of Abrahamic religions.
> So here's how it looks from the other side:

I don't care.

> Now, you couldn't be bothered writing a comment about how the the duplicate flag is wrong

Right.

> but another user who already spent some time cleaning up the site

"Cleaning up" by mislabeling stuff. Sounds like they are making a mess. But go on...

> is supposed to thoroughly analyze both questions to begin with?

Yes, they should completley read questions before closing them.

> People on Stack Exchange tend to try to not be emotional like you

I hope they care about being accurate rather than being apathetic about it.

> , so they don't fight a battle with you. You just resign from a discussion, and then complain how a mistake has been made, that you didn't care to even point out.

There was no discussion. I didn't resign, I never engaged in any discussion in the first place. I just found a question and a closed question.

And I can't even comment on how it shouldn't have been closed. It's closed. That's it.

Your entire comment is about how SO fails, and rather than work to overcome it, it just blamed the people for "not holding it right."
We had a good run on the back of these cloud providers.

It’s about time to take some of the learnings and prepare to slowly move away from them again.
This is still true.

Since most Android phones and all iPhones cannot install freedom software, they don't have to explicitly put a DRM at the hardware level, because it is already there from Apple or most Android manufactures.

Apple devices can only install software from a signed key. Most Android phones can only install Android from the device manufacture signed key (unless Google Pixel for example).

However, Android allows installing apps from not just the Play Store on most devices, so either the Android OS would need an update, or the hardware would need an update.
Driving 10 hours both ways to an AWS event to look at some slide decks you can already find online and eat some mid-tier catering doesn't seem like a great use of a day to me.
Fixed the link: https://singleapi.co/docs/getting-data/ (the docs/schema was incorrect one). Thanks for that!

Yes, it's able to parse data out of a random pricing table somewhere on the page. Here is an exact example of how to do that: https://singleapi.co/docs/examples/scraping-pricing/

The prompt leakage is a pretty common issue that I still have to address, but ideally, it should just return empty fields for data that it couldn't find on the page.
I am not sure, it seems to be a combination. The FHA requires the homeowner to be 62 or older for an FHA reverse mortgage. I have never seen a private reverse mortgage advertised, but apparently they exist and from what I have read online, are offereed to those as young as 55- but apparently are marketed to those with fairly expensive homes.
I've done that a couple times myself moving from one platform to another :)
> There are so many knee-jerk reactions and hot takes about the really simple idea that people should be assured the means to subsist. The two most entrenched and, dare I say, ridiculous ones being:

> 1. "No one will ever work anymore!"

> Really? People do not care about material well-being, leisure goods or the feeling of usefulness? What does it say about our current labor market if, given a poverty line subsistence (!), the majority will choose to forego any superior value good? Maybe that we are forced to work, against our will? Where's freedom in that? If this is the case, we clearly have an economic efficiency problem here and now.

> 2. "Inflation will eat any gain, prices will skyrocket!"

> Simple. As for price increases, well we already have something to counter these and it's called the market. As in the price increase signals to actual & would-be producers that there's money to be made by producing more potatoes, lodging, clothes, etc. This is textbook economics.

bro, are you even Canadian? You never heard of our famous oligopolies?

oligopoly. An oligopoly is a market structure in which there are a few firms producing a product, and they may collude to set a price or output level for the market in order to maximize industry profits1. As a result, price will be higher than the market-clearing price, and output is likely to be lower1

we have them in every major economic sector and their lobbyists have regulatory capture preventing any meaningful reform
> Insurance is a Casino. Losses are covered by the dupes playing the games

Unless you can do the actuarial math yourself, going uninsured is the gamble. My go-to story is of a friend whose fire--in an apartment he rented--caused claims to be made against him by the owner, owners of adjacent units and the building. Not only was the risk uncapped. But now the litigation cost was his.

Insurers combine a team that calculates risk, pools that risk and then fights it for you with a team of litigators with practically unlimited budgets.
Blocking ads is also a perfect example of a Kantian non-universalizable maxim.
Show HN: Running LLMs on CPUs
Except that credit scores in the US include things such as evictions and credit card use, scores going down if you repay a loan in full and other bullshit, which a random bank determining your credit worthiness in France doesn't do. They ask for proof of income, check with Banque de France if you have outstanding debts or if you have failed debt payments, and that's it.
I've been reading an excellent book on the building of the Palomar Observatory[0]. It's amazing how small we used to think the universe was, a few tens of thousands of light years across. The book is very much a page turner.
[0] https://store.palomar.caltech.edu/products/the-perfect-machi...
Nah, as someone who popped into the industry around 2k, a bunch of people bounced out of IT never to return either during or shortly after 2000. To me, its felt a little frothy since ~2010 but this is clearly a subjective approximation. I'm sure a historical compensation chart will show when salaries started to grow precipitous and with them those keen for big wages followed.
You can ask them to look in a computer to find out which stores have an item?
> I've seen several examples over my career where the technically "more experienced" individual is not truly the better suited for the job. You won't know that until you hire them and, in my opinion, is a good reason for why you should pay someone based on the job (so long as they qualify for it).

We go through life making a lot of guesses and utilizing a lot of prior probabilities. Work history is, in my experience, one of the stronger signals available to us.

If an employer initially pays an employee less due to less track record, then finds out the employee is as good as other employees, and does not adjust the pay, then that employer is stupid and will eventually lose the good employees to places with better management. Assuming employees have access to sufficient labor pricing data and can see they can earn more elsewhere.

> But that shouldn't be a >5% difference.

What is the basis for this cutoff?

> Are you going to tell me that despite performing the exact same job and actually performing it objectively "better" that I should have made less money?

You should have made whatever the maximum you could negotiate. If this employer did not want to pay you more, you should switch employers. A good employer would have paid you much more than the others.

>This is the kind of stuff that routinely happens to women.

No, your example is bad management incentivizing bad employees and turning away good employees.

Women being paid less due to being women is illegal discrimination.
It can be done without a realtor but it's made harder by MLS and realtors to incentivize sellers to use realtors. There's no incentive to make it easy to sell a home. Just in the same way Intuit and other for-profit tax preparers lobby to make free filing of taxes difficult to accomplish.

Rent seekers and middle-men will always revert to their ways of bottom feeding.
Both are simply related to "tube" without having to use a word that would make them target of the youtube trademark holder.
All of those rent vs buy calculations get pretty ugly for ownership when you are paying 1% of the property value annually for just supplemental fire insurance through the state because your insurance company decided they could start cherry picking.
Wow yeah, that's bad. I don't get the "end every sentence/paragraph with a relevant emoji" thing.
That's not my perception of the industry right now. I think what you said was true two years ago, but not any more.
How would other countries calculate exit tax on private holdings like you describe? If you accept the general principle of exit taxation in a residence-based taxation system, then the only alternative methods I can think of either leave the tax authority vulnerable to not getting their fair share at a subsequent liquidity event or require putting up some kind of acceptable security or continuing limited German tax jurisdiction over those assets to prevent that outcome.
I'm absolutely entitled to whatever bytes some server is happy to send to my machine. It's up to my machine to then decide which ones of those bytes to actually turn into light and sound.
Yeah, I live in Germany close to the Polish and I know several people who drive to Poland once or twice every two weeks to tank up, fill a container or two, and maybe throw cigarettes and alcohol into the mix for good measure. One guy even takes his camper van with a fridge so he can stock up on meat too. The prices are that much cheaper that it's worth it for many people.
I obviously don't watch anywhere near as much YouTube as you do.

The price is higher than I pay for any other streaming service. I don't drink coffee, but a quick look suggests it's 4 to 6 cups of Starbucks coffee here in Australia.

I remind again that this is the price I'd need to pay for my household, not just one individual (just like the other streaming services I subscribe to which is used by the whole household).
This can be solved in the browsers while still keeping cookies. And it's not the sites forcing this, it's the browsers allowing this.
I meant "cannot accept it without broad support"
I can sympathize with the general notion that more encryption is better, even if I wouldn't go to the extreme of declaring it a duty. But the author just completely lost me at:

> We should all use PGP, SSL or equivalent tools; VPNs, Tor and/or SSH tunnelling; IPFS, or other distributed file systems — and ditch proprietary OS's in favour of Linux or truly free Android distros... Those tools and techniques should cease to be arcane nice-to-haves for nerds: we must get more non-technical people onboard.

This is so unrealistic and impractical as a moral "duty" for "all", it undercuts my ability to take the rest of the piece seriously. It's not any kind of seriously considered ethical analysis, weighing the pros and cons of what's actually best or most effective in the real world -- it's a pipe dream.
1. Learning algorithms and practicing leetcode is not actually useless. A deep knowledge of algorithms falls under the category of high value knowledge that is not frequently needed. Its still high value when its needed and you cant predict when it is needed.

2. Its not a hamster wheel because you get a high paying job for your efforts
The New York City Artificial Intelligence Action Plan [pdf]
My guess/impression is that the act of writing something down passes the information through different parts of the brain, and then you have two independent memories of the facts.
> panpsychism, the idea that everything possesses a shred of consciousness

What I find hard about that is that it would seem that consciousnesses are discrete -- mine is distinct from yours. I'm also probably the main consciousness in my body (or I wouldn't be able to type this). But "everything" isn't discrete.

If the sea is conscious, what about every individual liter of water in it? What about every drop? If the drops end up in my body, does it still have consciousness?
> Don't abandon pen and paper, don't regress human brain capacity.

Socrates believed writing regressed human brain capacity, by serving as a crutch for memory and thus leading to atrophy.

Maybe he had a point, because you don’t much hear about recitations of Illiad length works from memory these days.

I don’t think it’s quite as simple as all that though, because I imagine using your memory mostly as an index rather than mostly as a data store has its own set of adaptions. However, the development of that kind of comprehensive organizing memory is by no means ensured by the modern environment.
How exactly does this work? I guess it's not just showing embedded players for video. Is it scraping comments?
I would expect a full on junket at my favorite place in my town, with the presenters I want to see.
The reason is a lot of people think:

1. My government will use this tech only for good.
2. I don't live in China, so why should I care about that.

If you say that your current government loses freedom and how do you go back to freedom, then they think differently.

It makes them think they need freedom now in hardware and software, so they can go back to freedom, instead of being permanently stuck in non-freedom.
Ask HN: Is there an open source alternative to Digitalocean app platform?
Digital ocean app platform make things easy by deploying changes on git push (git ops), handling domain names. Is there something similar but opensource which can be used on Hetzner?
One can also try with alternative URLs: https://archive.today/q0uAI, https://archive.is/q0uAI
> They could just ignore leetcode and ask puzzle problems instead to test ability.

One of the hiring fads before leetcode was to ask puzzle questions, with a heavy emphasis on Fermi questions and trick questions. These had the same failure modes.

It turns out that hiring is hard, involves some risk, and always tends to illustrate Goodhart's Law: whatever process you put in place to avoid that risk will ultimately become worthless when people start optimizing for it.
It is undeniable that a tech worker in Norway negotiates for a wage with better information than the same worker in a country without income transparency.

To claim that the effects of this transparency should be measured by a simple comparison of raw average salaries between the two countries is to use a metric that includes all of the confounding variables I mentioned and more. I am simply explaining why it is a poor metric, and explaining that the value of state-mandated transparency is in personal autonomy, not in “will it magically elevate my individual salary potential in one country above what it would be in all other countries”.
If you have the concept of a soul or spirit as a metaphysical thing, you can nicely sidestep the question of what constitutes a living being by simply saying "the things that are alive are exactly those that have a soul".

Not all theistic belief systems do this (I don't think Christianity has a widespread belief that plants have a soul, for one example), and believing in a God indeed does not prevent you from questioning the physical world with a scientific mindset. And even many atheists believe in souls (you don't need to believe in a God to believe in the metaphysical after all).

But still, the two concepts aren't entirely orthogonal. Certain religious worldviews are mutually exclusive with certain interpretations on life. And if your interpretation of life conflicts with the locally prevalent religion that might cause you to become an atheist.
Cliques and Cronies be damned
The intuition is that a monkey typing randomly on a typewriter can come up with texts which either are or aren't valid proofs of ZFC or not, and each one which is a valid proof either is a proof of a contradiction or not. To check either of these things is mechanical. If ZFC is inconsistent, eventually the monkey should hit on the inconsistency.
I'd never thought about the water.. my wife started making sourdough bread a year ago, and now she's making them all the time.. extremely tasty. Her starter always seems to grow to nearly triple size. She uses mostly rye for that, I think, but she varies stuff.
The water around here has basically zero hardness. There's never any need to remove calcium from anything, ever. Never seen any calcium deposits, unlike when I lived in Italy.
It is a very bot level post, but the link goes to a real book (a scan so not that accessible) and it does at least give a bit of relevant summary on the topic to save a Google search (assuming you trust it). It could be better but I don’t totally hate it.
The time period from around 1600->1900 is so fascinating, in that there are some things we had correctly figured out that are just amazing, and other things where we were so far off it seems embarrassing in retrospect. It must have been a fun time for curious people, quite a lot you could discover without huge teams and huge sums of money and equipment.
FWIW the population of Hacker News is greater than 1 so your two comments are likely not the same person :)

in 2021 when I last changed jobs I specifically only looked for employers offering a workplace in my city(ie hybrid roles, which is what I had pre pandemic). This has not helped my work satisfaction, but the issue could be the myopic execution of RTO in this specific corporation
Ex-Bank of China chairman arrested on bribery charges
I don't believe the vast majority - if any - home insurance is 'state mandated' - it is almost always mandated by the banks that are lending you the money to buy - i.e. the folks who actually own your house until they get paid back.
That may be true for a small company, but any org with a standardized interview process will still likely put you through the whole interview loop. Best you'll get out of your call/coffee is a referral, and many places don't even place much weight on referrals either.
Well, as a thought experiment; should the CEO of the company know how to do every function he or she hires for within their business?
the moment government starts a UBI program, all our bills converting basic needs will increase. rent, internet, food etc.

many sectors of the economy are just oligopolies or straight up monopoly in some places
Based on the bullet points on the page, compared to the second generation Apple Pencil this new cheaper one lacks: wireless pairing and charging; pressure sensitivity; double-tap to change tools; free engraving.
> no one on the cross street was trigger happy

A green light is by no means a permission to blindly accelerate. This is something that needs to be hammered in during driving lessons.
Ok but you could replace the "Sending notifications about new listings in real time" duty by subscribing to zillow/redfin etc with specific filters... for free. It's hard to make the argument that that's worth 6% of a of half million dollar purchase? I agree it's a part time job to be a buyer in this market, but I don't think the buyer's agent really makes that job much easier in my experience.

"Answers a call at any time of the day" is definitely a great nice to have, but I suspect that puts your particular agent in the top 10% of the field. Most agents I have used will just let all phone calls go to voicemail and then text back or call you back hours or days later. YMMV a lot on this one.
this comment actually makes me mad because of how close to reality it feels. :-P
How do you find contract opportunities?
No, you clearly should have been making more, which is the other side of the "compensation for jobs that differ should not be mandated to be the same" argument.

Are you saying that "despite performing the exact same job and actually performing it objectively 'better' that they should have made the same money"?

I have software engineers on my team who are literally creating twice as much business [edit to add: value] per year despite being at the same level. (The actual peak to trough ratio is probably higher than that, but it's at least 2x.) Why should they be paid exactly the same or even within 5% of each other?
I agree. But the mentality of SV is essentially winner take all. People talk a good game, but everyone is really out for themselves. You see this all the time here on HN, this mentality. Everyone is happy to deal with the devil.