skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could turn off automatic updates so it won't matter who buys it
The claim in the post is that the replication crisis is real. Of course, it's among those you consider messageboard folk so you can dismiss it on those grounds, but I think you are wrong to say it has nothing to do with what you wrote since it attempts to deal with both the numerator and the denominator by taking a sample across fields.
What kind of performance? Read? Write? Bandwidth?
the idea of national rejuvenation by concentrating political power in a "founder" is not a new one. Mussolini styled himself "Founder of the Empire".
Journal of W. Ross Ashby
there are well working (official) generators of openapi/json schemas for grpc.

so once you wrote grpc, you get open api rpc for free.
Dunno. Wasn’t there for the ramp up.
> And Webrecorder doesn't have a Firefox extension

Webrecorder bug: https://github.com/webrecorder/archiveweb.page/issues/16
Does this mean California could go after Ulbricht for solicitation on the murder scheme, like, tomorrow?
It is cheaper than the other option, concrete.
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When you get old enough, your eyes stop focussing.
Users can put placeholders in the query (e.g. :student_id, :year) and then get prompted for those when they run the query. Results page supports filtering and sorting, and saving to CSV/Excel.

This wasn't intended as an end-user tool because few users know SQL or the database schema -- a few do. I wrote it because we get a lot of one-off or once-a-quarter requests for reports and CSV for Excel.
No they listened about TikTok
Transfers are taxable, either as gifts or income. Not sure why we would exempt inheritance flows. $66B seems like a pretty good haul, that could easily be much larger given the massive portion of wealth that is inherited, and is 5x the budget of the IRS.

And the disincentive effects are much smaller than taxing the equivalent in directly earned income.
Great list of papers.

I've read five of of the seven papers on the list. The two I haven't read are Cerf and Kahn's, and Berner-Lee's.

Turing's paper on computability was particularly hard to follow, for me, because he used these gothic-font upper-chase characters to name all sorts of objects, and all those characters looked kinda the same to me! I had to use auxiliary materials to be able to make my way through the paper. Today, I would recommend reading it with Charles Petzold's easy-to-follow book on the paper: https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Turing-Through-Historic-Com...

Cook's paper on NP-completeness was also hard to follow (again, for me). As with Turing's paper, I had to use auxiliary materials to make my way. Today, I would recommend reading instead an introductory book on computational complexity that works through Cook's proof.

Shannon's paper is a work of art, clearly articulated and beautifully written. It's just not casual reading, to put it mildly.

Brin and Page's paper, and Codd's paper, are not hard to follow, at least as I remember them, but understanding Brin and Page's work requires some knowledge of Linear Algebra.

Thank you for sharing this on HN.
Pretty cool, but it seems I crashed it to a grey screen. Even game counter stopped. I was battling someone, was fun though.
I don't think even Trump wants to call in the constitutional landmark case of a president pardoning himself. That'd be true chaos.

>I fully expect Trump to ruin Biden's final years with investigations and court cases

I'm still 50/50 on if Trump makes it that far, physically. He's older than when Biden ran his administration and not exactly in the best health.

But I guess they did get Regean through his last years. Nothing's impossible.
In my PM work I haven’t had an issue with being transparent with feature requests. I’ll straight up tell people “just because it’s in the backlog doesn’t mean we’ll ever do it.” Most of the time people just want to be heard. People understand you can’t build every feature that crosses the desk.
grpc "urls" and data are binary.

binary with schema separation.

3x smaller payload.
Google has just announced the ability to chain actions in Gemini
> I don't think it will be a whole bunch longer than that when AI systems are better than humans at almost everything. Better than almost all humans at almost everything. And then eventually better than all humans at everything, even robotics."

> Amodei also spoke some about the potential implications of highly intelligent AI systems when these AI models can control advanced robotics.

"[If] we make good enough AI systems, they'll enable us to make better robots. And so when that happens, we will need to have a conversation..."

Good luck... I'm sure some altruistic individuals will "hack" things so you don't need to be worried.
Isn't who is decentralization vs. centralization in your argument seems to be more about comparing a group of states to a single one than anything else?

Seems a bit like an apple vs. fruit basket situation.
Any lens can be customized for desired focal length, including distance, intermediate (e.g. computer) or closeup/reading.
The pretending to not understand how public services work shtick is so tiring.

Everyone understands that public services are free to use because they are funded by taxes. It's not the gotcha you think it is. People say that roads, K-12 education, etc are "free" when they mean there is not a direct fee to use them because they are paid for by the government using tax dollars. You don't have to pretend to not understand this
The Silk Road was "the corner." Do you think it would be any safer if it was running today? That makes 0 sense.
I've got a /48 IPv6 subnet with CenturyLink 1G/1G. It's a 6rd tunnel, but it's provided by the same ISP. Hopefully they'll go native soon, but it may not matter if I switch to Google Fiber.

My 1G/1G CenturyLink plan is $65/mo, which beats Google's $70 plan for the same thing in the same market, but I've had this plan for 5 years and it is no longer available.
I got lost trying to spell out how much I don't think immigration can save China - forgot to agree with the very end of your comment...

I was astounded when I finally could see the enormity of what I was looking at, absolutely dumbfounded. I have no idea how things were allowed to progress so far or even how it was so flippantly considered outright but it seems very much like all the data and statistics and trends and science of populations over time suggests that China broke their society with that policy, in a way that may not be fixable - as the entire world is also grappling with this replacing issue, just not so badly...

History is crazy. That was a crazy bad idea it turns out.
There's two parts to gRPC's performance

- 1. multiplexing protocol implemented on top of HTTP/2
- 2. serialization format via protobuf

For most companies, neither 1 or 2 is needed, but the side effect of 2 (of having structured schema) is good enough. This was the idea behind twrip - https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp - not sure whether this is still actively used / maintained, but it's protobuf as json over HTTP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_tablet
Hey Bryan, great work and very inspiring. This has me meta curious about how a project like this is possible. Besides the support from your school, I imagine that your parents have been a big part of your success?
I love we have a society where we are approaching AGI and a popular story is humans who figure out how to light their home office
I have similar reservations about env vars. I dislike how they can be read from anywhere--it interrupts the ability to reason about a function's behavior from its signature and makes impure plenty of functions that could otherwise have been pure.

If there were a language feature that let me mark apps such that during any process env vars are not writable and are readable only once (together, in a batch, not once per var), I'd use it everywhere.
afaik grpc did callbacks before we got sse/ws/webrtc/webtransport. so grpc was needed kind of.

and also canonical content streaming was in grpc. in http there was no common accepted solution at old times.
Here's a bsky link:
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I'm talking strictly client side. I literally said "unless stored on a server", and let me remind everyone that "cloud" just means other people's computers.

(Also that "serverless" really means "there actually is a server, but you don't get to manage it".)

Desktop apps can save files and read files. That alone puts them miles ahead of any purely client-side app. As for convenience, most apps today auto-save stuff when you're not looking, but lack of that feature isn't a big deal for me - I started using computers some 25 years ago, so I habitually press "CTRL+S" every couple seconds without even realizing it.
Agree with pausing hiring and causal expenditures. Why block external communication? What does that do
I help run our bug bounty program at a mid-sized company, and we regularly get subdomain-takeover submissions where the reporter has put zero effort into validating the report before submitting it.

They appear to be running some subdomain or certificate search for our domains, then running curl over the results. If they get a 404 they submit it to us as a subdomain-takeover report.

We use a bunch of vendors where we've got foo.example.com CNAMED over to the vendor, but the vendor's servers only serve traffic off some sub-path, and requests to https://foo.example.com/ are going to get 404.

So, I could understand larger organisations simply banning them outright.
These guys do very high quality lighting aimed at homes and offices: https://www.waveformlighting.com/
I don't know what point you're trying to make here. Is it that there are fraudulent research papers in journals? Everybody knows that's true. Is it that there are tens of thousands of them produced every year? That's made up.

People are counting on readers not to know or take the time to learn how much research is happening, so that individual instances of the problem (in the United States) seem systemic.
GRPC is a nice idea weighed down by the fact that it is full of solutions to google type problems I dont have. It seems like a lot of things have chosen it because a "binary" like rpc protocol with a contract is a nice thing to have but the further away from GoLang you get the worse it is.
If the power of _some_ humans depends on robots+AI, and there is a long track record of computers/vehicles being hacked, then there is economic incentive for competing humans to hack robots, including but not limited to competing AI systems.

For a fictional treatment of this topic, see Jonathan Nolan's Person of Interest, which begins with one supercomputer, but ends with competing supercomputers and their competing human owners in an endless arms race.

The incentives in this scenario are power, not altruism.
The propaganda is so effective in the west, we really believe the news is news.
So whats next?
I went with some cynicism. But completely wrong. These are it. Most every one recognisable as the root of many things we do.
Masa named who the partners are. You can search for financial numbers relating to soft bank and other firms who are involved and guess how much capital they can realistically deploy this year. They are claiming they will put 100 billion to work this year and all 500 billion before this administration ends. I am skeptical.

Given that all of the capital and implementation is private anyways, I am not even sure why this was announced with Trump on stage. To me it seemed like a spectacle to help Trump in return for maybe favorable regulation on things like antitrust or copyright or AI regulation or whatever.
> this isn't what many of them were voting for.

So, Trump loses popularity over his original administration over lies and underdelivered promises, "we" vote him out. Then 4 years later we vote him back in?

At what point do we come and accept responsibility for falling for lies? And yes, there are in fact some people that voted against their best intertests because they fell into partisan politics; they still got their results, they just didn't read the fine print of the Devil's contract.
> What works for me is removing the antecedent completely by charging my phone in another room at night.

A half-measure for this would be to arrange your charging-setup so that you can't use and charge the phone at the same time. For example, USB cables long enough to reach the nightstand, but not long enough to comfortably hold the phone in front of your face.
It seems unlikely that any court case would "uncover the truth" about the decision making behind that. Unfortunately, this has become so politicized that determining the steps that lead to NIH funding research in China, determining if a law was broken, and what the intent was, are unlikely to happen in the future.

It seems very unlikely to me that a knowledgeable head of an NIH institute would break the law in a discoverable way. My guess is that when this occurred, the decision-makers did not believe they were doing anything illegal.

(I think NIH funding virology research in China is dumb. That should not have happened.)
Pretty sure that would bee illegal in several ways today.
dang is about as politically neutral as it gets, but it's become very apparent that anything that points to something negative that may loosely relate to Conservatives or the Republican party will get flagged by users.
My original comment was regarding the claim that this is being done to politicize the NIH. To me, it requires the same tin hat that conservatives put on when they were making all sorts of crazy assumptions about the government's moves during Covid.

I never said you had to put on a tin foil hat to call someone malicious. I'm just saying that malicious people tend to do stupid things which have unintended consequences they didn't fully realize.
Who says roads or public education are free? Every gallon of fuel is taxed and, at least in any jurisdiction I've lived in, property taxes fund schools.

I'm not pretending to not understand here. Someone said it would be free and I'm asking how. The fact that "free" doesn't mean free is the problem, not an issue of me misunderstanding.
The actual presentations are usually the least important part of a conference. Most conferences would be better if you could cancel 80% of the program but still convince the same people to attend (and their employers to pay). Then there would be more time for informal discussions and ad hoc work, which often lead to new ideas and new collaborations.
If there is a new pandemic soon we will see it without any question. Hurricanes were redirected on a whim.
I think gluing wings to a pig will make it fly. Show me examples or stop the conjecture.
And what about changing direction on each line ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
Health insurance is already a huge transfer to older generations (not that that's a bad thing). Medicare pays for older folks but it doesn't pay anywhere near the cost of the services that older folks receive. Prices are higher for everyone else to fill the gap at health care providers.

Health insurance is in many ways not even insurance, it's in many ways a price negotiation mechanism.

Anyway the whole system is overly complex, based off a tax credit from the 1950s, but the transition to a new scheme is nearly impossible while one political party is dead set against any improvement, especially if it might be perceived as a positive for the other political party, and also they have become so hyper partisan that they are not allowed to work with the other party in a bipartisan manner.
I've done a lot of back-end and a bit of front end development. You're correctly identifying a crappy outcome, but incorrectly attributing the effect of shitty developers and project management with whole disciplines and common practices within them.
Choosing not to vote is a vote for the status quo. That still is a choice.

There are BS loopholes we need to correct, but people who can't do the bare basics to reserve a morning to fill out a ballot fundamentally have themselves to blame.
"Page Not Found"
Sure. As long as all the other fraudsters and science deniers that were just elected or waiting to be appointed go too
> In 2017, basically all the Google Fiber software teams went on hiatus (mine included).

What does a hiatus entail in this case? Did these teams all just stop working on Fiber stuff and sit around all day hoping they would be given something to do?
From my blog[1]:

"In 2017, Leveson revisited those lessons[2] and concluded that modern software systems still suffer from the same issues. In addition, she noted:

* Error prevention and detection must be included from the outset.

* Software designs are often unnecessarily complex.

* Software engineers and human factors engineers must communicate more.

* Blame still falls on operators rather than interface designs.

* Overconfidence in reusing software remains rampant."

[1]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/06/06/web-of-knowledge/

[2]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8102762
$149/mo for 1gbps doesn't seem too bad compared with the $699/mo I was paying for 8mbps DSL back in the 90's.

At the time, it was still cheaper than a T1 (1.544mbps).
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Not voting is a choice. It's a choice for "I don't care how this train moves, I'm moving with it". So yes, those non-voters tacitly approved of the idea of Trump being elected. They didn't hate it enough to get to the polls.

Those who thought "nothing would change no matter what"... well nothing has changed I guess. I suppose Harris would have done mass deportation raids and cutting funding from science and healthcare at all, right?
They weren't saying the NIH was unnecessary, but since that thread got flagged, it's not easy to see their clarification.
My only work experience with gRPC was on a project where another senior dev pushed for it because we "needed the performance". We ended up creating a JSON API anyways. Mostly because that's what the frontend could consume. No one except for that developer had experience with gRPC. He didn't go any deeper than the gRPC Python Quick start guide and wouldn't help fix bugs.

The project was a mess for a hundred reasons and never got any sort of scale to justify gRPC.

That said, I've used gRPC in bits outside of work and I like it. It requires lot more work and thought. That's mostly because I've worked on so many more JSON APIs.
Heh, I’m dumb enough now, then :)
There is an entire litany of complaints that I've seen. It typically centers around "we shouldn't have funded this virology research in the first place" and "the government should have been totally transparent about every single piece of knowledge it had, and clearer about things that were ambiguous" and "it was a mistake to lie about masks not working to save masks for health workers" and freedom of choice around vaccination.

Doing public health at scale is incredibly hard. Doing so in a politicized environment with active disinformation is even harder. I'm not going to fault the government response. By and large it did what I expected it to do. Ideally, there would be an honest postmortem and we'd improve our techniques for the future, but I worry that won't every happen again.
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As far as we know, universe is discrete at the very bottom, continuity is illusory, so that's still finite.

Not to mention, it's highly unlikely anything at that low a level matters to the functioning of a brain - at a functional level, physical states have to be quantized hard to ensure reliability and resistance against environmental noise.
How is this materially different from the Social Credit System implemented by the Chinese government?
I would argue with that looking at Argentina. I do see however there is not enough data to be biased against any side, but disruptive changes in management are in my perception more effective on changing the status quo.

Achieving change against current incentives with politically mindful measures I'd say is very time consuming and slow.

In regards to your point I agree that treating public services as companies that can't be running at a loss is been demonstrated to be bad, but there is a fine line between trying to make public services profitable VS trying to make them more efficient.
Google somehow psyoped the entire industry to use gRPC for internal service communications. The devex of gRPC is considerably worse than REST.

You can’t just give someone a simple command to call an endpoint—it requires additional tooling that isn’t standardized. Plus, the generated client-side code is some of the ugliest gunk you’ll find in any language.
Right, but if our answer is taxes then someone pays for it and it is not free. There's nothing wrong with that, we just can't call it free.

> You can say who's gonna pay for it for everything. Defense and meddling in world affairs is a big cost too.

For sure, no disagreement here. My personal opinion is that defense is only necessary in times of war and meddling in world affairs is never necessary.
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I remember reading --- and vehemently disagreeing --- with the report on the incidents, which danced around the matter but didn't point directly at the underlying cause: excessive complexity in the software, which easily created bugs and hid them. For example, they used multiple threads and a whole OS, when a simple loop would've been sufficient, perhaps in a misguided attempt at trying to keep the UI "responsive"; there would not be any race conditions if everything ran in the same thread.

As Tony Hoare says: "There are two ways to develop software: Make it so simple that there are obviously no bugs, or so complex that there are no obvious bugs."
There are uses where gRPC shines. Streaming is one of them - you can transparently send a stream of messages in one "connection". For simple CRUD service, REST is more than enough indeed.
My issue is more with the CDC. Are there state institutions that can take up the slack locally? Asking for a friend with kids who wants to move to a place with a lower risk of getting measles
But only if you have an account on Instagram and Facebook