skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the creator really. It's a waste of time for me personally because I'm supposed to be grinding down some debts, paying the bills, and making sure there's food on the table. As I'm working freelance and billing hourly anything that doesn't earn cash directly or have the potential to be a new income source takes resources away from that goal.

Once my finances are more stable I'll be much more free to tinker with fun projects rather than focusing on potential business/income projects.

To be a bit more clear I only mean it's timewasting for me, not for humanity as a whole! I highly encourage anyone without my current constraints to code stuff for the fun of it without worrying about false starts or failed projects! :)
That risk of prostate cancer was reduced by 20 percent for men who ejaculated 21 times a month, compared to men who ejaculated four to seven times a month [0], A similar Australian study found the risk was reduced by 36 percent when men ejaculated seven times a week [1].

You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.

[0] https://bjui-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.104...

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15069045/
"Robbed" is an extremely charitable interpretation of anything here.
https://chat.openai.com/g/g-Fp4xqndm5-franz-enzenhofer-custo... here you go
4-5 years ago, I think cracked was already dead. Sometime around 2015 all the decent writers left, and they got sold. All of the writers were very political, and they were preachy about it going way back.
It's weird to me because the test cost was always more than enough to make it profitable. This is the kind of product where you can actually make a profit on every sale (funny I have to make that remark but it's the 2020s) ... and then ... they didn't somehow? :/
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> We've been using telescopes and listening to radio waves for decades but are yet to find anything substantial.

To add to what @ethanbond said about space-time vicinity:

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Article, subTitle: We have been broadcasting for over 100 years. Now a new 3D map of the galaxy reveals the stars these signals have reached that can also see Earth:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/our-radio-sign...

“1,715 stars within 326 light-years are in the right position to have spotted life on a transiting Earth since early human civilization, with an additional 319 stars entering this special vantage point in the next 5,000 years,” they say.

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A microscopically small amount given the total number of stars in our own galaxy, the total number of galaxies in the Universe.
There's no business edition.

There's Home, Pro, Enterprise (E3, E5); with variants for N (no media) and Education. That's it.

Enterprise doesn't have Appstore crap preinstalled, and has some features that you wouldn't want at home anyway (it is enteprise-oriented crap instead). Not every business runs Enterprise edition.
> Incidentally, if you were in a whimsical student mood, you could also chain all of the keyboards on a row of machines end to end resulting in five or six machines completely unconnected from their keyboard and the one at the end taking any and all input from the neighbours.

At about age 10, my brother and I chained two keyboards together and played video games like that. Once we did four with some friends but Escape Velocity would slow down to a complete crawl. Not sure why it did that.
If it were me, as soon as I found a civilization in my simulation, I'd shut down all the dust clouds and run many versions of the civilization. The big limitation of studying our civilization from the inside is that we only see one path, so it's hard to tell what parts of history were inevitable vs. accidental. In a sim, you could fork 100 copies of earth starting from 1900 and watch all kinds of different futures unfold.

We can't know for sure what would interest simulation runners, but they must come from a technological civilization and would presumably find other civilizations more interesting than dust clouds.
> Fast runs even at this price

what about: 'Cheaper doesn't mean slower'? It's pithier, and (in particular for anyone reading before/without looking at the page) better IMO in its place as a subheading. Scans better. Or even 'Cheaper != slower' (again, subhead).
How is 3+3+2+3+2+3+3+2+3+2+3 equal to 5?

The bug exists every time today's date is greater than the lowest total number of days in a month (28). So it's a bug for 3 days in January, (sometimes 1 day in February,) 3 days in March, 2 days in April, etc.
How could that possibly work!? (joke attempt, I read the article)
This is going to shock people, but remote work was very common for blue-collar workers in the 1800s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putting-out_system
>> An argument against simulation is that our universe seems gratuitously large. Why have billions of whole other galaxies in it? Given a finite computing budget, you'd expect whoever's running the simulation to want to simulate more planets with civilization and fewer giant dust clouds.

What if the simulation is done in a way like we render video game graphics. We never render stuff that is not "visible", well mostly to spare GPU and CPU cycles. What stops a super advanced simulation to simulate only stuff we can "see" or stuff we observe. If no one is looking at the Andromeda galaxy, no simulation needs to "render" it, saving processing cycles. Or maybe, the nature of the probabilistic aspects of quantum physics is an indication that that the simulators are trying to simulate in a "lossy" way, kind of like MP3 vs FLAC files.
I smell a new business model here - the USSF buys a Starship or few, and pays SpaceX for maintenance and launch services (SpaceX owns the Booster, launch tower, tank farm, etc.) Somewhat similar to how a dinky airline can own planes, but contract for most of the high-skill and capital-intensive support services. And the USSF might imagine a further transition - where they start acquiring the skills, Boosters, and ground equipment, to possibly move things closer to all-USSF operations.
The theory of concatenative combinators (2007)
Looks clean, but it's lacking some info. There is no portfolio of examples of your work, which makes it hard to understand what you actually do and what's the quality/scope of your work.
The X-ray sky opens to the world
Customer/employee service, executive assistant, front-line IT support...
Yeah its very true, the incentives are screwed. I think you're touching on the key difference here. Someone like Euler would have had to been forced not to do math, it was his passion. But you have all these "scientists" going through the motions doing "science" because its their job. Passionate individuals will always be rare and the worse part is that the current scientific system in place is tailor made to root these passionate individuals out. A good modern example is Grigori Perelman.
This is just an attempt to pit workers against other workers, both to make lower-proles hate WFH upper-proles (“middle class”) and to pit the upper-proles on notice that RTO will come for them if they don’t shape up. Do not fall for it. The real enemy is up top and always has been.

Anyway, RTO is more about fucking over people with disabilities—for unclear reason, because accommodated disabled people are, in my experience, the best people to work with, because they’ve seen real shit—and this attempt to create intra-proletarian dissension is just a distraction, at the end of the day.
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All they need to do is buy StackOverflow from the PE that owns it now, and the circle will be completely jerked.
Only the Paranoid Survive
> I think the time when one man could bring us a century forward like Newton or Einstein is gone.

I'm certain his contemporaries said the same about Pythagoras.

You're not wrong about how much more complex things have gotten, certainly.

But you don't know what you don't know. Another Ramanujan or von Neumann could be right around the corner.

Just look at all the wasted potential in our education system - it's impossible to quantify just how much effort is profoundly wasted.

This article points directly to that wastage. We've tolerated an academic system that's hated by just about everyone except publishers, in an era where publishing is as close to free as it could be.
> China is a latecomer to the project.

I remember reading somewhere that the project only became feasible because China came up with way to save on the construction costs of the telescopes (or something like that).
I hated the custom gpt experience.

1) the chat transcript is lost when you close/reopen the workspace. All that nuanced training conversation, gone.

2) the instructions for the gpt are just a summary of the training conversation. And those “instructions” were just too generalized- none of the nuance that was discussed.

I made a therapy gpt, but it simply wasn’t very useful after all of my instructions.
I assume Apple would have consulted lawyers before doing this. WOuld they really take such a risk.

I believe actual fines tend to be far lower.
Are they upgrading to Iomega ZIP drives? /s
Perhaps share price is not a good metric? And it would actually explain a lot of Musk's behavior in manipulating the stock price.
Yeah, that's not great. I guess that's slightly useful, but what I'm looking for is the ability is more like virtual desktops but being able to place each desktop into physical space. Being able to do that with individual windows would be even better, but I'd be fine with the virtual desktops. If Vision Pro can do Airplay, then I don't know why Apple decided not to do an integration with virtual desktops from macOS. Maybe they will, but not having that at day one is puzzling to me. Without that, it seems we've got yet another AR/VR device that is a glorified tech demo. I really hope that it gets better (and less expensive) than what we are currently seeing.
P(r2 | r1) = P(r1 ∩ r2) / P(r1) = 2P(r1 ∩ r2) = 2∑P(n ∩ r1 ∩ r2) = 2∑(1/101 * n/100 * (n-1)/99) = 2/3.

Just expand conditional probabilities and use the law of total probability.

Intuitively, first pick red means the urn is more likely to be filled with red.
You don’t have to turn off your phone 9-5 if you’re working on in a government facility. You aren’t going to be flagged as a terrorist because you turn your phone off.
this is overstating the case. Throwing out all publications is ridiculous. Yes, many fail to replicate, but not nearly all. A larger concern may be that many fail to generalize (e.g. mouse cancer cures fail to work in humans).

It's true that it's hard to ignore all of the citations a reviewer suggests, but that's part of the role of an editor, and the response to reviewers (while being a frustrating exercise) can make it clear what is and isn't an appropriate citation, which serves as communication to the editor. Yes, this process is frustratingly low bandwidth
Ha, no way!

All this time I thought this was him being silly!

(For the record, the banana did NOT split nicely)
> TSMC 5-nm process of almost 4 years ago

N5 is interesting because it's the first process fully designed around EUV and because it was pretty much exclusive to Apple for almost two years. It launched in Apple products in late 2020, then crickets until about late 2022 (Zen 4, RTX 4000, Radeon 7000). Launches of the other vendors were still on N7 or older processes in 2020 - RTX 3000 for example used some 10nm Samsung process in late 2020. All of those were DUV (including Intel 7 / 10ESF). That's the step change we are looking at.
Those points you have made are according to the latest science. But is that knowledge available for everyone?
The "if" was the entire scam though. They hired many smart people, and every one of them said that the proposed design was physically impossible to build.

There's a reason that these complex undertakings are made by boring conglomerate companies that have decades of experience in the industry, produce many different products in that sector, and whose CEOS don't try to get on the covers of magazines.
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same. I read through publications of my institute for my MS (EU, pretty big tech-focused university) and they pretty much also cite in circles (same institute and other related institutes of our university).
But it will and should increase the salaries for employees in fields where they cannot work from home.

Salaries for blue collar jobs will go up and for white collar jobs down.
Yesterday, in Microsofts earnings report, a number that stood out to me was their quarterly Linkedin revenue of $4B.

That revenue probably mostly comes from the old school hiring process where employer and employee get to know each other and then jump into a long term contract, right?

I'm surprised Upwork and Fiverr are still so small in comparison. Their model of letting people quickly band and disband on projects seems so much more natural to me in the times of remote work.
Reminder to use something like the date-fns library for immutable operations on dates. The native JS date library can be painful to work on when doing operations like adding or subtracting time.
The finale Futurama episode deals with this very topic. Well worth a watch.
I've seen it go in the other direction too. Groups deliberately not citing other competing groups because it might help them. It's like the other groups don't exist.
I am guessing that all of those previous jobs were non-exempt roles (non-exempt meaning Not exempt from regulations about overtime pay and mandatory breaks). It's worded weird and it took me a long time to even understand what the heck it meant. It is Federal US law, but there are also state laws that apply. I am not a Lawyer, I am just a guy who has had a lot of jobs before so take that for what it's worth.
Render distance is one pretty good explanation for the Fermi paradox
>If you are reading this, you probably are relatively wealthy, are almost certainly of high socioeconomic status, and quite plausibly have never paid one red cent for check cashing in your entire life.

I was speaking from personal experience within a cultural context, so your perspective doesn't apply. Whether or not you've relied on paper paychecks in the US has far more to do with socioeconomic status than age.
You don't need google for that, Works with duckduckgo aswell.
These big names are usually promoted beyond their actual achievements [0] because of the tendency to make stories about great people who changed the world.

The reality is murkier. Huge names like Lorentz and Poincare had worked on relativity before Einstein. Gregory and Barrow had proved the fundamental theorem of calculus before Newton, not to mention Leibniz's work.

If you mythologize the past it's easier to look around and wonder why we don't have immortals like Zeus or incredible warriors like Achilles anymore. But the truth is science always proceeds by steps that look small at the time and it's often only in retrospect that things seem amazing and unprecedented.

Semi-relatedly, I used to attend a seminar with a well-known Russian mathematician who would often chime in with Russian/Soviet priority over historical results mentioned by visiting speakers. The cold war created two mathematical cultures that had limited contact. So famous European and American mathematical results from, say the 40s to the 90s often had Soviet versions worked out independently in journals nobody here had ever heard of and written in a language they can't read.

So this is all just a way of saying that empirically, the big kahuna theory of mathematical development seems more fiction than reality. And it should be treated with skepticism when you hear things framed in those terms.

[0] Not that their achievements aren't great. They are all incredible. I just mean they seem more incredible than they are if we forget all the other incredible achievements. Shoulders of giants etc etc.
> However the fact that our first n=1 sample happened to be red (and not something else) gives a small (and varying) amount of confidence towards red-heavier mixes rather than the red-scarce ones.

I wouldn't characterize this as a small amount of confidence, as conditional distribution of the mix-rate after the first sample drastically differs from the prior.

Originally each mix-rate has 1/101 probablity. After the sample having a mix with n reds in it has the probablity 2n/(100101).
Between MegaGloboCorp and the CCP, I choose both to disappear.
IIRC there are some open packet data protocol intended as cost saving measures, but nothing mandatory or ubiquitous as Ethernet or RS-232C in PCs. A primer/tutorial level for hobbyist satellite communication is weather satellite reception using RTL-SDR.

1: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-noaa-weat...
The Census response rate is about 60%. It's interesting that this law is on the books but it is not enforced.

The census also has a constitutional mandate, where the NSA does not.
Seems too common as a format. Better stick to Iomega Clik/PocketZip instead if you want something obscure.
Not just an unpopular opinion, it’s also not supported by data. There are a decent number of studies that show that multiple monitors increases productivity.

Iirc though, there are diminishing returns fairly quickly beyond dual monitors.

Me personally, the sweet spot is three total screens.
> The pendulum has swung (is swinging?) for many companies back to on-prem for cost savings.

This is only true of very large companies, so it doesn't change anything about this thread, which was saying that FaaS only makes sense if you're a public cloud or a large company with many on-prem servers.
I really don't understand Microsoft. They work on VScode, Visual Studio, WSL and other product for developers and then they try as hard as they can to push them of the Windows platform with Candy Crush, spyware and a browser nobody asked for.

Microsoft wanting their own browser is understandable, but why not just make a good and secure browser? Same with Windows, why not provide a secure and private platform that people would actually want to use? Presumably they don't care, they also have enough money, so I guess they don't really have to.
Google is already way more advanced then this. If anything the question is more the reverse: Can Google Scholar publish a university ranking?
Probably 13th or 14th century, I thought?

BUT such a good fake of that age is interesting and valuable in itself.
> think the stored data they have is their only advantage, but they don't seem to know how to leverage it.

I really wonder what happens to that data if they get acquired or shut down. The possible new owner of the data might have a completely different business case in mind. This scenario is something you usually don't consider when you give your data to a company that you trust at the moment.
Someone's gotta meet that bonus target.
> Where are the gravity particles? Gravity is a fundamental process, yet the graviton remains hypothetical.

Gravity can be detected by its effects, even if there's no particle that propagates it. We've been able to detect not just the strength of gravity (by weight) but also its propagation through space (see LIGO).

>Has a mind dependent of a brain been observed?

Um, obviously? What distinguishes a person from a braindead patient is that one of the two has a mind. Are you saying that the fact that you talk to a person and have them recall facts is not enough to say that they have a mind? Also, to say that a mind has never been observed either dependent or independent of a brain would mean that the idea of mind has no basis in reality at all.

>At most it can examine its interaction with matter

Well, ultimately yes, because any instrument we are able to construct will necessarily have to be made of matter. The upside of this is that if there's a phenomenon that does not interact with matter in any way whatsover, even indirectly, then that phenomenon cannot possibly have any relevance to human life. If minds are an inherent physical phenomenon that can interact with brains, then we should be able to construct a device that's able to interact with them. If this is not possible even in principle, then I don't see how minds can be said to be fundamental. What aspect of reality informs that belief of yours?
History rhymes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift
They cut the cost of the test from $399 to $99, so maybe their margins were not as good. Also, it would be a red flag to investors if there weren't any tacked-on "services" on top of the main offeirng to keep squeezing customers after the initial sale.
So the use case is porn for people on business trips?
Once a measurement becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measurement.
I-375, along the northeast of downtown Detroit, MI, is being replaced with a boulevard.
I suppose that really depends on what the subject of the simulation is. If it’s you personally, it only needs to simulate other scientists telling you about quarks, the solar system and the latest JWST images. If it’s humanity in general then other civilisations are not required. Of course it might be that this is a giant quark simulation and things like gravity, planets, life and humanity are an interesting quirk that’s arisen recently.
I make this bug in my taxes every now and then. Most invoices are from EU, but the few US ones have the months in wrong order, I only notice if the days exceed 12
You could ad lib those like Rutger Hauer.
> A server idling on Function A can't be called for Function B

why not?
But to someone from Anglo-America it's probably a telescopic sight.
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Except for really frontline customer service, those jobs seem to require a degree nowadays or at least have everywhere I have worked.
> gratuitously large

That's very relative. That never stopped us either when overcompensating with hardware. Now imagine some very advanced quantum computer (or something 10 generations after it) that can scale infinitely after you just run the big_bang.sh. Who knows, they maybe even make it more scalable an stable as it progresses, by some self-scaling optimizations, which always play catch-up with chaos.

You would still need some giant factory sized next-gen quantum computer but maybe that's just worth their budget, after extracting discoveries from civilization x or y.

I think the hardest part, if this ever happens, is to fast-forward just enough an cherry pick from gazillions of civilizations, all while hoping that they to not evolve quick enough to escape your quantum VM. This and maybe the part with shutting it down and becoming a destroyer of worlds.
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That's because most of the ads come through a few ad networks, so if they get location from one app, they have the profile on you.