skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPT models the world through text*

There are many other things that go into modelling the world, like drawing pictures, visualising things, communicating in non-text ways essentially. GPT can only model the world in the ways that text can model the world, which is limited.
Yeah copper wire and wheels are one of the few things that I almost always produce at the local site.
These things are true at present but are they true in the limit? Bitcoin is the first blockchain technology to see adoption and has a present market cap of over $200B despite scaling incredibly poorly.

Trusted brokers won't disappear but there's a big difference between being the only game in town and filling a niche in an ecosystem.

Technology makes social solutions irrelevant all the time. How many interactions intermediated by people no longer exist because they are now intermediated by software and platforms?
So how does hackernews work for you?
Murdoch's News Corporation and the currently incumbent Liberal party are very cosy with one another, so it's not surprising the government is legislating to prop them up financially. It's beneficial to consumers to have a well funded fourth estate, however I doubt this is being done out of public interest.
Voting and currency are 2 real world situations.

Bitcoin isn't convoluted or far fetched even if you really want to disagree.

It's nuclear chemistry proof (unlike gold), and outside the reach of government.
I think it's nuts too. I'd rather work from home and live in the middle of nowhere. 3k/month is a mansion in most parts of the world.
A few years ago, an HN'r posted his "bugsweeper" version here (https://www.ronilan.com/bugsweeper/). I have wasted hundreds of hours playing that game. If you haven't wasted countless hours, then you are at least smarter than me.
I'm not technical enough to disagree with Bruce. I'm also not an international law lawyer, fixer, intermediary, etc, to agree or disagree with how we have been trusting intermediaries for thousand of years and why this is impossible to replace.

The way I see it is that blockchains and smartcontracts have the potential to replace treaties, lawyers, corporate intermediaries, etc in an increasingly multipolar world where treaties would serve as a legal protocol to regulate transactions.

Maybe it is naive (I'm still trying to workout how this can ever happen if nation-states actively oppose these desintermediations) but I do think that privately orgs and people could benefit from technology that helps them transact with less middlemen.

In a world where China/Russia/etc is trying to avoid exposure to US money/laws maybe this could serve as alternative?
I remember installing flux when dealing with a very severe bout of stress induced insomnia. I kept struggling to fall asleep and then giving in and playing temple run until 7 in the morning
SF tax is paid by the employer. If we want to compare total employer costs for a given net salary, most of Europe is going to look much more expensive than California (see sibling comment).
How I avoid Intel's Active Management Technology: I don't buy Intel.

Even neutered Intel seems unnecessarily risky.
Having children took me from being able to sleep any time anywhere to having horrible sleep. One of my kids had an incredibly quiet voice in her first three months AND had a habit of spitting up copious amounts when we would put her in her crib. She would start crying and making choking noises but very quietly so I learned to be an incredibly light sleeper. She also would not sleep for the first month unless she was held (she got over it, it wasn’t a big thing, it wasn’t a medical problem, we checked), but it meant that I would stay up holding her and watching TV until 3am and then hand her off to someone else for the rest of the night, getting 4-5 hours of sleep. We sometimes had to keep lights on all night, sometimes TV on to keep adults caring for the kids from falling asleep themselves. It was brutal.

A part of it was the breast is best craze that has taken over parenting. I don’t disagree with it, but also some people just don’t produce enough milk to fully sustain a child and you need to supplement. When our kids were older my partner found out that her doctor actually noted that her breast tissue was likely to not produce sufficient quantities of milk on her medical chart, but failed to ever tell her. Hence feeding the kids 8-12 times a night, times two kids.

As a result years later I now can’t sleep for more than 5 hours a night without waking up and not being able to go back to sleep for an hour or two. I am slowly figuring out ways to combat this but I have yet to find a solution that lets me sleep a full 7-9 hours my body seems to actually need that doesn’t give me a headache or make my drowsy for the rest of the following day. Sometimes being human is a limitation.
Electronic circuits are a great example of "it doesn't really matter because for 99% of players the factory won't fall apart due to this decision."

In practice it can go both ways. Many of the production chains that take green circuits as an input require such low quantities that 1-2 assemblers is more than enough, so the marginal complexity of trickling them to where they're needed is low. And they only require the two basic input resources that are needed almost everywhere, so the alternative of making them on site isn't that complex either.

However, if you are trying to do a megabase (where you keep playing post-endgame and basically scale for the sake of scale), your green circuit demand shoots through the roof, and you will end up sinking half of your basic materials into making green circuits. At that point the plumbing itself becomes so complex to maintain high throughput that centralizing green circuits is an economy of scale decision. Additionally, the production ratios (number of assembler units you use for each intermediate product) will change, so it's easier if all of the green circuit production is in one place than to make individual changes in a lot of places.

Green circuits are distinct because (1) they don't save that much space compared to the basic materials you input to make them, and (2) demand for them is modest at first, but becomes a primary bottleneck if you're going for scale, and (3) their inputs are resources you need almost everywhere, so they're already there anyway. Most of the other resources for which you consider centralizing production, you do it because you save a ton of bandwidth by centralizing, or because demand is always high, or because the inputs are more complex to move (such as fluids).

In practice demand for green circuits is so huge primarily because of demand for blue circuits, so I will often make all circuits offsite and ship them in. The 20+:1 compression ratio you get from moving blue circuits offsite is a much bigger win.
My current go-to resource for gradients is https://uigradients.com. One feature I'd personally appreciate is a programmatic interface for getting a list of gradients, it's handy for generating dynamic backgrounds.
I’ve said it before, shame so many of you don’t appreciate SF. It’s not perfect but it’s so much better than where I grew up. To be able to go to Marin, Yosemite, Tahoe, Big Sur, etc. for a weekend is truly amazing. Granted I’m privileged I can go there and I’m not a night life person, it’s truly a dream for me. The city also has many pockets of nature that are huge (presidio, gg Park). I hope you find a place that makes you happy though.
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Looking at how many people opted out of MyHealth over the concerns of Government having their data, I think your reason will not resonate with many.
Why not just have a shared volume for your dependencies? That way nothing needs to rebuild.

Then just have a different Docker-compose config for prod
I can't agree, but to each his own.
i did not go to mission, so my comment about density may not be correct. which is why i asked. that's one neighborhood though.

as far as sake.. i don't drink anymore, for a while now, but you're wrong. serving it warm brings out the taste, and makes any cheap nastiness worse. serving it cold is what hides it. having a store that only sells sake does not make it 'the store for sake.' there are many stores stateside that have a good sake selection. they also sell japanese beer and plum wine. and in the style of true sf culture, you just said japan has crappy sake, which is why they serve it warm, while sf is doing the traditional japanese wine correctly. this -people like you on every corner, is why i didn't like sf. it's the culture -or lack thereof.
Releasing the code would help to make it more auditable.
I disagree about the mayor. But since I am not SF resident I won’t argue. I hope you enjoy what you are getting
I was mainly thinking how spritesheets tools are much more developed in PhaserEditor2d vs ctjs, but you're definitely right in that loading spritesheets works perfect in Pixi especially if you use a tool like TexturePacker.
> It appears they've blocked access to it from non-Australian IPs.

Wow, just turned on my residential VPN and selected my Australian server, can confirm it does load. Didn't even have to clear cookies.

Very sketchy google. Even if the Australian law has issues and alternatives cannot deliver for free, I would not support Google aims here. They are the big news business they are gaslighting into Australians into being afraid of.

I think I now want an auto-loader to compare websites accessed from different locations.
The same people who publicly supported the:

Russiagate conspiracy

Ukraine hoax

Jussie Smollett hoax

Bubba Wallace hoax

Covington Catholic Highschool hoax

Kavanaugh hoax

Doesn't report majority of the facts of Epstein case fairly

Riots are called "peaceful protests"

Antifa is called a "myth"

Looking at the Wikileaks emails is called "illegal" by media

Now they wonder why Qanon is catching up?

EDIT: I am saying this as someone who thinks Qanon is bs. But the same people who spread misinformation for years now questioning the spread of a conspiracy theory is quite hypocritical. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
I tend to agree with you - but actually I love programming itself and I could do it all day without getting tired. The things that tire me out about work are poor documentation, inconsistent requirements, team politics, other people’s mistakes, compiler errors, version conflicts, the stress of having to deliver by a deadline or having other people depend on me, etc.

Factorio has none of that, it’s just a constant stream of positive mental stimulation.
I'm the creator of AskGit - and this is something I've been thinking a bit about, unsure of the best way to implement and very open to ideas! Adding language specific analysis (this line is a comment, this is a function name, etc) is really interesting to me and I think could really kick this tool up a notch (there are still some more fundamental needs I'd like to address though, such as diffs and blames, query performance, etc).

I've been considering leveraging the syntax highlighting implementation in editors to make this possible (rather than something as heavy handed as parsing a "universal" AST, though I know there are projects to do this)...
I was a huge car audio nerd in the late 1980s/early 1990s. One bullet point you could expect to see on most subwoofer spec sheets was 'KAPTON' voice coil former. I often wondered why that fell out of favor, but it seems that we know the answer... Most kilowatt subwoofers now use aluminum or copper voice coil forms for what I can only guess is that they are just better...
I'm not sure what you're comparing it to, SF is known to have a world-class food scene. There are multiple examples all of the things you listed(except maybe british but who wants that?), as well as things that you don't find in may other cities: burmese, cambodian, laotian, peruvian.
God forbid if Sky News corners a prominent real estate in my Youtube results, they are already atrocious and have insufferable comments.
The article mentioned rents down, but have housing prices dipped?
As somebody who works on ranking and personalization products, I can confidently assure you that you would not prefer a less personalized experience.

You don't have to take my word for it though, you can opt-out of personalization on Google here: https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols

Try it for a month and see if you prefer it.
$20k is about what someone on minimum wage makes in an entire year hope this helps!
> What are good alternatives? Gold, cash, or ETFs have substantial drawbacks

The search for a good, long-term store of value has been around since the invention of money. Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" discusses this problem since the beginning of capitalism.

And, BTW, Bitcoin is no better. It's only worth what people are willing to pay for it. Just ask anyone who bought when it was worth around $20k! The only way they'll get their money out is if another sucker comes along.

A good store of value's value does not fluctuate.

The point of investments like ETFs, mutual funds, stock, ect, is that you're allowing someone to put your "stored value" to use, so they can create more value for you.

But, here's the thing: If society crashes, it doesn't matter what you've put your money in, we're all screwed.
Utah and Georgia install tech that lets roads talk
I'd definitely encourage more regulation in this area.

It's going to be a balancing act but at the moment, its is way too skewed towards the big corp in the corp vs consumer arguement.
If you are going to target WebAssembly outside of a browser environment, uh, why not just target LLVM, GNU, or uh, you know, Assembly... X86_64 or ARM are pretty standardized. Another part 1/1 "tutorial" with some brilliant insight as per usual.
> I'd probably trust the Australian govt to protect my data better than Google or even worse Facebook.

I would not.

The Australian government seems entirely incapable of creating any technical project of a decent size correctly. The list of disasters is quite long, but a few from recent memory are ones such as the census website which collapsed when people tried to use it [0] and the myGov project which has had so many data breaches [1].

Atop of which, the government's usual response to someone exposing flaws, is to attack them.

Whilst I don't want Google or Facebook to have my data, because they will use it in ways I don't appreciate, my government will leak it. And then claim it wasn't serious and excuse themselves from any repercussions.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-12/census-2016-site-up-a...

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/technology/revealed-serious-flaws-in-...

[2]
That’s cool. Hadn’t seen that one.

What is a “few kb”? Because last I looked Micropython was like 256kB and the smallest JS interpreter that had foreign function interface was 53kB.
Although a differentiating factor in the near-term, in the grand scheme of things that is merely an implementation detail.

The rise of computing and its myriad encoders is an existence proof that the world we humans know can be, to an arbitrary degree of precision, modeled by 0s and 1s and what are 0s and 1s but the purest essence of text?

Although fraught with many large implementation difficulties, a GPT trained on binary data does not represent a fundamental difficulty vs one trained on text.
Yes, and this has recently attracted some focus. Take a look at the example for embedding MicroPython:

https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/examp...
that's an excellent point!!
I have everything turned off on that page. I am doing fine.
Oh and last week Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway revealed their first ever stake in a gold mining company.

Buffett had been anti-gold since forever and had plenty unkind things to say about goldbugs (and he was right). So if he of all people are suddenly being long gold (albeit indirectly via a mining company) then it would be very unwise to write off the significance.
The 36% US rate doesn't include Payroll Tax, Social Security, or healthcare (premiums paid by both employer and employee, additional out of pocket by employee). The 48% France rate doesn't include Employer Social Security Contribution - which is significant but includes a pension etc. In essence a person making 211k Euro is getting paid a lot more than someone making $250k USD because of that pension alone (i.e. its more like someone making ~$280k USD, which would be a US combined rate of more like 40%, before payroll tax, etc etc)

401k is not tax free, it's tax deferred. You still pay tax, just when you cash out.
I feel less comfortable handing my data over to an entity that has a monopoly on violence but that’s just me.
> After the pandemic, I’m not sure people will be okay with that anymore.

I expect there to be a huge, sustained upsurge in travel and socializing after Covid disappears.

The predictions that - for example - air travel will never recover, are just bizarre. If anything, there will be waiting lists to get a plane ticket.
Was curious how fast you could be. Apparently there's a guy that can hit 360 words/minute.https://www.nyscr.net/news/2017/1/13/can-you-type-360-words-....

That makes him about as fast as a 300 baud modem. And probably around 1.8x the fastest keyboard typists.

Edit: Curious if this as "optimized" as it can be. Is there a theoretically faster way to get words from your hands to something digital?

I'm also curious how this works for court cases where a language other than English comes into play, alongside English. Canada might be a good example, where French and English dialogue might often co-exist.
For a FB offer in the US I saw but ended up not taking the RSUs started vesting in the first month. I treated that part of the offer as cash equivalent but with an uncertainty factor (could be more, could be less but wasn’t going to be nothing.)
Just curious if you experienced those issues with Phaser before or after they replaced Pixi and what's your strategy for sound and controls?
SF does have some very nice restaurants, but the vast majority are nothing special and quite over-priced for what you get IMO. And the very nice restaurants are so expensive they're not the thing you go to more than once a month unless you're very wealthy.
DuckDuckGo does exactly that. They call it "no bubbling".
Well, it is a good case for an honest merchant, that is dealing with people trying to scam them.
"with the intention of reverse-engineering the remaining parts"

this line strikes me as odd. Don't OEMs normally have a contract with Intel (or someone that does) for licensing the motherboard design that would prevent them from doing this?
Boise is converging with the coasts in terms of pricing and its infrastructure is depressingly inadequate.

The local paper ran a story saying that the median house price in the city proper went up $15K in one month[1] and wages are not budging. 84% of the city is zoned for single family homes. Downtown pre-lockdown had 80K cars fighting for 18K parking spots.

I live in a one bedroom penthouse Downtown for $2K a month. I don't have care. It's only the 7th floor though, and on a 5 lane highway that the city has asked the state to narrow (the state refused)[2]. It's very loud from the red state types driving through with big diesel trucks and obnoxious motorcycles.

Most of the metro treats Downtown Boise as a parking lot[3]. The largest private land owner downtown is the power company (for parking lots)[4]. And the nature outside the city requires driving hours in a place that desperately needs less traffic pollution and more transit.

I'm pretty set on decamping to Boston soon to be in real tower in a city with transit.

[1] https://boisedev.com/news/2020/08/12/boise-idaho-home-sales-...

[2] https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/ar...

[3] https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/eagle-narrows-where-ap...

[4] https://boisedev.com/news/2020/07/28/idaho-power-plans-to-co...
I think the last paragraph is worth quoting in full:

> The book ends with Scialabba’s own advice for depressives. In contrast to the political and economic themes set forth in the earlier sections and the clinical diagnoses of the documentia, this last chapter is personal, with deeply compassionate advice both to the suffering and those who live with and care for them. Friends, food, water, rest, exercise, caregivers, and reading are ways to take control, and if all else seems lost, remember what he calls a truth “close to a scientific certainty; depressions virtually always end.”
Although much smaller in scope than NumPy, MicroPython (and CircuitPython) now have the ulab library which provides similar fast array manipulations:

https://github.com/v923z/micropython-ulab
We've had 11 years of innovation in blockchain technology and so far, nothing has improved on the status quo. 11 years ago was right around when the first iPhone came out, for reference. In my opinion, that's because you can't solve trust with magic pixie dust. No matter what, trust represents a huge optimization. That means anything you try and do to reduce trust will introduce massive quantities of friction. Trust is good and should be embraced.

If something better comes along, great, but I've seen no evidence in the last 11 years that would indicate anything's at risk of coming down the pike. I've got no interest in championing a technology that hasn't budged a single iota (heh) in 11 years. If it does, I'll eat my... well. You get the joke.

[edit] note that market cap doesn't mean anything for a currency. There's no market cap of US dollars, because dollars have a fixed value relative to dollars. If I exchange my dollar for a dollar, the market cap of dollars is equal to the number of dollars in circulation. End of story. You value other things relative to currency to obtain their market cap.

The market cap of BTC is 21MM BTC. Less, given the huge quantities that go missing all the time.
That’s not true. It can if you go play on some servers!

Different strokes for different people of course.
> Yes, bitcoin eliminates certain trusted intermediaries that are inherent in other payment systems like credit cards. But you still have to trust bitcoin—and everything about it.

.... which is very tolerable to me.

Right now, it is more expensive to use blockchains do to both the novelty and specialization of it. As that becomes more ubiquitous it doesn't.

Whether we are talking about FX spreads to and from fiat currencies, or onchain transaction fees due to congestion, these all get better due to pressure and competition. A reason to improve. A permissionless ability to develop the improvements.

Even in things people pretend not to care about (after they lose money) like token sales, it costs token sale issuers more money to list on a random Asian exchange, than it costs to list on the Nasdaq. When the permissionless nature of the technology should mean the opposite is true. More competition and it fulfills that.
And surprisingly, not one mention of Murdoch.

Let's be honest - this is old media trying to push their weight to keep margins. Facebook and Google have effectively replaced both clickbait and tabloid news sources, as well as the well-resourced, quality journalism by taking ad revenue off their hands.

Google could easily setup a news sourcing hub themselves and self-cite news rather than relying on their external data feeds.

This is political. Neither Google or Facebook is going to be paying a cent here.

I find Google citing data safety annoying.
tbh im sick of seeing posts about stupid "kmart shopper finds.... bla bla bla" show up in my news feed
I don't think they care about the end user. The goal of this law is to let legacy media companies which are becoming obsolete and can't compete anymore to become parasites that are paid just because they want to get paid. It's anti free market law.
> grep...

Grepping my 47GB mail folder often takes longer than I'd like.

Notmuch is impressively near instant for the same searches.
Quality not quantity. Stalin was wrong.
People who are moving out now - are mostly renters. Homeowners will move out when they lose their jobs and cant afford high mortgages.