skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>QE, interests rates at near zero, corporate bonds near worthless, stock market at stratospheric 2000-like levels...

To be clear, the above is good, if interest rates on government paper were above risk adjusted market returns for new capital this would gridlock the economy. Stock market being high incentivizes creating new capital.

> how do you protect your treasury other than stashing it in hard assets (crypto, gold, commodities)?

The government should not create artificial assets that "protects" wealth from being subject to the real economy because people divesting from the economy destroys the economy.

Now there is a question whether the market will choose to go into crypto and divest from the real economy anyways. The reason this is a question is that people have been known to pile into bubbles in the past, and this is the tricky part, on some level they are not totally irrational in doing so. To the individual, being early in a long running bubble is advantageous. When you do it, and do it first, you gain. Everybody doing it however, may cost you and your friends, family's and everybody's careers.

It's a prisoner's dilemma, a bad Nash equilibrium. It's Moloch.
First off, just because the HN community lays on criticism doesn't meant that the people making the criticism don't think the technology is a good idea. If I spend the energy to criticize $technology, it means that I care about it to an extent. There's a baseline level of interest. If I didn't care about $technology, then I wouldn't spend the energy to break down into concrete, detailed criticism.

Also, the author quotes Peter Thiel, claiming that the current cynicism towards self-driving technology is a type of "indefinite optimism" that hampers people's ability to plan the future. This is juxtaposed with the 1950's-1960's America, where Thiel claims "definite optimism" reigned. That type of indefinite optimism, at least in 1960's America, did not account for minorities, people of color, people of disabilities, etc. There was no future plan for them. Indefinite optimism, though it may appear lethargic and slow, at least is able to investigate the multitudes of edge-case scenarios that any $technology will face.
Now that every car company has its own self driving arm and is also working on its own separate drivers assist, the limited time window for Comma AI go-to-market under its current approach is closing.
Thanks for the explanation!

> IMHO either give up hyperthreading, or give up security against the "MDS" vulnerabilities. I leave it enabled for my gaming system, I think there are bigger problems if attackers have local execution on my system ;)

I made a similar tradeoff for my non-critical systems. But maybe that's a reason to not pay the extra for a HT CPU for my servers :)
The type of free will that people subjectively think they have is so called "Libertarian Free Will" and it's basically universally understood by the majority of philosophers that this does not exist.
Minimally Invasive (and More Accurate) Analytics: GoAccess and Athena/SQL
my question is: who benefits? Follow the money. About if this hack is true or not: It should have been simple to prove true.

Just show a single compromised article with an extra chip, at least one is bound to show up on ebay? Can three letter agencies round up all compromised hardware in all of America in secrecy?? To this day none has shown up, it's all theoretically true. A compromised sample is worth at least 1M vues on youtube, it's worth real money, yet it remains elusive.

A compromised BIOS update is more likely, a BMC IMPI infected by a trojan thing; the new piece is hinting to that in the FUD. Then again, that should be possible to find in a compromised board on ebay (prolly worth less yt vues since nothing physical to look at), and therefore prove this article is not a hit piece for someone with a short position.

I think WSB best look into this... :-)

Cheers!
edit: typo
We have the most users in Australia so if browsing search Melbourne/Sydney
> Pushing pixels on screen and receiving key events directly almost certainly should be faster/more efficient than going through tty layer and terminal emulation.

Why do you think it needs to be faster? Do you currently have issues with complexity or latency? Have you measured it? Do you think that replacing the current abstractions with new abstractions will really be a net improvement?

A terminal emulator is pretty much the least non-trivial resource-intensive graphical application I can think of. I've been running Linux on the desktop for over two decades and can't think of a single time I thought the terminal emulator I was using at the time was too slow. (Which is why I don't really understand the need for CPU-accelerated terminal emulators, but that's a different kettle of worms.)
And then after those comes "Distinguished engineer/Engineering Fellow", which basically means: "You are famous enough that we pay you mostly to get a shiny halo effect from employing you. If you also solve some actual problems, yes please." People like Guido van Rossum and Simon Peyton Jones would fall into this bracket.
Just like politics can be a big distraction from the policies and governance that those pesky proles would demand otherwise?
Nope, in fact I used to work in a manufacturing plant routinely handling drums of concentrated fragrance for use in products and never any issues.
The thing I always want to know in discussions of free will or determinism is whether a determinist believes that the initial conditions of the universe lead to the creation of the world we live in, such that (to choose some absurd examples) the Lego movie, candy corn, and Youtube were all 100% inevitable and predetermined by physics, and could not have failed to have been created exactly as they are, at the exact moment they were created. That's what seems unbelievable to me. Maybe I don't get what determinism is?
You better weight your dreams, because I believe that it's definitely possible that EU would just say fuck yourself to Google, started using Bing meanwhile creating viable Search Engine and US' competitive advantage would be gone
Twitter verified accounts keep being hacked en masse
Imagine the July 2020 hack but it happens everyday. A hacking group is able to steal many verified accounts to post a crypto scam, everyday

today at least 4 accounts stolen in less than a day and changed to impersonate elon musk, all by the same group:

https://twitter.com/candacedfox45

https://twitter.com/taylorseely95

https://twitter.com/KJMonkou

https://twitter.com/334Upshaw41/status/1361592874232668161

edit: a 5th one now

https://twitter.com/sgallman

I know it is the same group because it posts the same website addresses

This has been going on for way too long. To get an idea of the profitability of the scam and why it persists, I have tracked three major actors. The least skilled of the three, who does not used hacked verified accounts, made $5-15 million by my estimate. let that sink in.
It'll just bring buyers back into the game when it's at a 50% discount.
I did as a kid but it went away after a few years
> Were you perhaps paying into the minimum number of seller features? Not FBA?

Full FBA

> Don't allow Amazon to be your sole selling platform.

Exactly.

I have friends who we know people who have had products suspended on Amazon for nonsense (or unknowable, due to the opacity you mentioned) reasons. They decided Amazon was more risk than they wanted to put on 100% of their income generation strategy. They started to work the direct channel. It took time and effort. Now about 30% of their income is direct and does not depend at all on Amazon. They want to eventually reach 75%, with 100% being the ultimate dream. They want to leave Amazon but they are stuck until they can replace their income through direct sales.
Honestly it didn't used to matter as much because the number of honest people leaving legit reviews outnumbered the influence of actors exploiting the system. But that was a while ago. But I swear at one point the fact that no one had skin in the game wasn't significant. People seemed to understand what they were for and used them accordingly. And the vultures hadn't discovered them yet.
So you are saying if we tax advertising housing prices will ease? I agree with you
What the Fear of China Is Doing to American Science
Imagine if I turned on my "radio" and it always was playing the most personally relevant live event happening in the world at that moment. This could be a live podcast, it could be a live sports game. It could be a conference talk from a programming languages technical conference talk for a language I use regularly. I would challenge the notion of "quite a few events that are live" to say that I could fill my day 24/7 with rich, live content. The problem right now is connecting me with it. I am missing so much wonderful live content that I would enjoy as I type this. Who is surfacing it to me? When I turn on my "radio" right now, it has no idea what I want.
If you believe you determine your actions in a literal sense you are saying you believe in magic because there is no mechanism that could make this possible in a deterministic universe.
The adoption rate is faster because people can communicate easier. It's not at all comparable to the state the tech is in.
I just purchased 1cm for $770
I saw that writing on tablets help me learn, so it's a good investment.

Needed something better, could serve my needs better.

Top candidates Samsung s6 lite $310
iPad air 4th gen $1080

(both +export shipping taxes etc as I'm not from US, and it's the iPad 256 GB version + purchasing also the apple pen ver 2)

My only single issue with the s6 is that it's about 1-2 cm width less the iPad, so I have some less estate to write I looked at YouTube videos for example they had 7 words on avg on row on iPad vs 6 words on avg, and it's just felt like I need this additional width, so I scroll less when holding vertically which I prefer.

So this makes it purchasing a 1-2 cm for $770
The thankless few who spend hours crafting good answers to help people asking in the void like this are the real heroes of society. So are those working on open source only to get hate from users.

This, indeed is a huge loss.
people shouldn't be "cancelled" - it's weird and orwellian
I don't understand why counterfeiting isn't just an immediate ban for the vendor. Isn't this a huge liability risk? Or do the get some protection because they're just the "marketplace", like a common carrier?
You are wrong here, at least in my case. I feel very strongly that the NYT was wrong to dox Scott Alexander, and I cancelled my subscription over it. But I also downvoted the comment you are referring to, because I think it lowers the quality of the discussion and even weakens the argument against the NYT. See my other comment nearby for more explanation.
Hestenes; The Genesis of Geometric Algebra: A Personal Retrospective (2017)[1]

[1] https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00006-016-066...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Thompson
Yes, I agree. Why is 30% to 40% of the time slot allocated to matters that are as ephemeral as the weather and of no long term consequence whatsoever? (For that matter, the weather segment has become much longer than it needs to be, but I digress). Afaict it's only bc it's cheap filler. Certainly most sports fans can either watch things as they happen, or can find out the results any time they want on the internet. Insofar as broadcast news makes any sense at all these days, more emphasis on information you might not otherwise seek, and that might matter beyond next weekend would be desirable
> Without a doubt the password manager with the best UX is 1Password.

I would agree for the macOS and iOS versions but the Windows version could get some polish. The default title and menu bars still hang around, the font choice isn’t that great, and all in all it feels less nice to use.
>Gamestop isn't Blackberry

You'll never guess what other company WSB loves pumping
WhatsApp Behaviour When Deactivating
I recently quit Whatsapp - I decided not to make a fuss (nor did I want to take the time), and just deactiviated my account and removed the app. Unfortunately for my social graces, I did not think much about how Whatsapp would handle my existing conversations. To my surprise, it put a "xxxx has left the group" in all of my group chats, but has put no indication at all of any change in any of my one-on-one chats. All that happens, apparently, is that someone who messages me now gets a single check mark "not delivered" status.

This seems completely backwards to me. To my friends, I have rudely left all of the groups I was in (and even if I knew about this, I wouldn't want to go back through all of my groups and leave a polite message).

I'm especially surprised that, for other users, there is no difference between me having my phone off, and having deactivated my Whatsapp account. Unless I took the time to tell everyone "I'm leaving Whatsapp" (which seems quite tedious), it now looks like I'm ignoring everyone.

Whatsapp - why are you so rude to the friends of people who leave?
I'm all for hostility to tech that's unnecessarily invasive and privacy-destroying.
Is this another way of saying “I think we have 0 bits of information on the reliability of bitcon’s value”?”
I thought so too. But it's hard not to notice that this article was supposedly in the work for many months, yet reads as if it took a day's worth of work (being generous). Why did it disappear for months and then come out shortly after Scott Alexander poked his head above the parapet again? That timing is awfully suspicious.

As for the NYT believing they should control the parameters of debate, that's not a conspiracy theory. That's exactly what they seem to believe. There have been many incidents showing that in recent years, most recently, the Silicon Valley reporter whose daring investigation of Clubhouse boiled down to trying to cancel Marc Andresseen for dumb reasons. The Tom Cotton op ed, the firings of editors and staff who believed in non-woke speech and so on.
On public roads. We don't know how many they've done if you include closed track testing, but I'm willing to bet it's at least as many as they've done on public roads.

The real point is that Google isn't selling their system to consumers.
>xI don’t think it deterministic, at the lowest levels the physics is probabilistic.

Probability doesn't get you free will. Sorry.
Burned two stroke oil!
Yes, or not import the constants from their module aka

import foo

not

from foo import BAR, BAZ, QUX
The paper describing the incentive scheme can be read here:
https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5cfe9427d35b15fd0afc4687/602...
Improved Gamification: Two New Criteria Conditions
It’ll also often produce one or more warnings in Rust, which can help.
> How is it possible to secure these nested trees of computers-in-computers?

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

Or, buy hardware from vendors who neutralize ME according to the link.
> You can choose not to use it.

I hear this a lot about features in Python. Type hints, dataclasses, walruses, and now pattern matching. Whenever someone complains about language bloat, the reply is “it’s optional”.

But that’s only true as long as you’re writing code by yourself. Most developers spend much more time reading code than writing it, and with no control over which features others use, it’s necessary to be comfortable with the entire language.
If the Vikings had brought the beads to Greenland or Labrador and trader with the Inuit, the Inuit could have traded those beads across the arctic of Canada in a couple of hundred years - EASILY. Remember that the Inuit of North America only entered from Asia in the last 4000 years or so, and speak a language that is closely related to languages in Siberia...

So these beads could have come to Alaska from east OR west. We will probably never know for sure.
The amount of grant funding! ;P
google cached version https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...

archive version though it seems slow https://archive.vn/UvZTZ
If we're talking about VOC's here, then in-cabin air filters should have carbon in them so it can adsorb all those bad off-gassing.
> Automakers and Comma are operating at completely different scales. Orders of magnitude apart.

Super Cruise has 7 million miles driven [0]. Comma has 35 million miles driven [1]

> Comma also incentivizes customers to keep quiet if the autopilot fails

How do you figure? The amount of weird hatred people have towards comma is much more than Cadillac. You can find literally hours of real life video of comma driving in cars. Professional reviewers like Consumer Reports don't have a pro comma bias. Comma doesn't have a PR guy or teams of lawyers. They're not a hundred billion dollar company. They're a dozen or so engineers. They have no influence over trade publications or blogs. I think people and reviewers would judge comma much more harshly than they would big auto.

> At minimum, automakers are working with safety regulators

> openpilot is developed in good faith to be compliant with FMVSS requirements and to follow industry standards of safety for Level 2 Driver Assistance Systems. In particular, we observe ISO26262 guidelines, including those from pertinent documents released by NHTSA. In addition, we impose strict coding guidelines (like MISRA C : 2012) on parts of openpilot that are safety relevant. We also perform software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop and in-vehicle tests before each software release. [2]

Please point me to the safety documents of the competitors.Most don't even have driver monitoring like comma.

[0] https://www.cadillac.com/world-of-cadillac/innovation/super-...

[1] comma.ai

[2] https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/SAFETY.md
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You should not leave WhatsApp, rather keep it unused.
>This 15 watt laptop chip holds its own with desktop machines

Can people stop being surprised that a 15W per core chip is on par with an almost 15W per core chip? Get this into your head. Per core power consumption is not the same as the TDP written on the packaging.

Laptops have a high enough TDP that they can run one core at full boost. Desktops have a high enough TDP so that they can run multiple cores at full boost. There is no free lunch there. The ARM Macbook primarily benefits from a better manufacturing process, SoC integration and a better instruction decoder. These factors influence the performance, not some fantasy wishful TDP napkin math.

I don't care about Ryzen vs Apple in this scenario. I'm just incredibly annoyed that this ignorance keeps perpetuating itself because people don't understand the difference between per core power consumption and package power consumption and then act surprised that two equal machines (in the context of single core benchmarks) somehow perform the same.
If they were just saying that there were BIOS alterations, code injection, something soft, I have no trouble accepting that as a credible threat.
It's feasible, and probably quite hard to detect.

But they made fairly specific claims that named companies had discovered extra/altered chips on their boards. So they are saying someone has the mobos, Supermicro has the BOM.
Is this part on the BOM?
Where did we buy this part from?
This is a resistor package, why is there an IC inside?

Altered firmware/software would be an admitted beast to wrestle.
But the easiest work of all these should be to find the funky part in boards.
I don't really follow. Why in your example can a locale not have both jobs? Doing one doesn't prohibit the other.
It would be stranger if TV news or newspapers led with sports coverage. But they almost never do.

What is stranger by far, and more alarming, is the creep of soft news -- celebrity news and other "lifestyle" news -- from the end of the newspaper to the front page. Here is an example: "Trump Attacks Warriors’ Curry. LeBron James’s Retort: ‘U Bum’" [1]. In 2017, that article was front–page news in the New York Times [2].

It shouldn't have been. Tweets and celebrity news should almost never be prominently featured by a news organization. And this article was both: it was about a tweet by a celebrity, LeBron James. It was a story that might be suitable on the cover of People or a tabloid, but not for a serious news organization.

Which makes you wonder what has been happening to the Times.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/sports/football/trump-nfl...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/images/2017/09/24/nytfrontpage/scan....
> As the saying goes, journalism is writing something someone else doesn’t want published, everything else is public relations.

There's a world of difference between this and what's happening here. I'm pretty confident that Scott would not have mind if the NYT run a hit piece on his blog while keeping his real name out.
It vaguely reminds me of the Tandy WP-2[0] that's sitting on my workbench. The WP-2 is primarily a word processor, but it does have a serial port with a DB-9 connector so it can act as a rudimentary dumb terminal.

I bet there's enough space inside the case for some variety of Raspberry Pi, battery pack, and the appropriate interface electronics to connect it to the serial port.

[0] http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/2720/Tandy-Portable-W...
Python shall be seen in the same light as BASIC and COBOL in the future: the language that taught a generation very poor programming practices it later had to unlearn.
That law is a very bad execution on a very good idea. Simply making adherence to a do-not-track header mandatory would have solved the same problem without annoying anyone.
Bitcoin is powered by a shared belief in its value. While it has been powered by scams as well, couch couch Tether, tt seems to be getting more adherents to believing that it is intrinsically valuable. The fact that it tends to go up so quickly also yields to FOMO.

Because Bitcoin is just shared belief, it is hard to dispel that belief via real-world events such as earnings releases and other things that affect more grounded investments.

Bitcoin is more of a movement and it is somewhat revolutionary in that it aims to replace our existing monetary system of central banks and interest rates, etc.

I think the main threats to Bitcoin could be governmental if it continues to grow. If it starts to be a reserve currency competitor to USD which could affect treasury sales, I could see it being banned by the US government and others... but I am not smart enough to work out all that would play out if Bitcoin became that important.

I wonder if Bitcoin will ever be forced to bend towards an inflationary monetary policy controlled by government like entities? It is code and code and always be changed. If it is so successful it becomes necessary to co-opt it into the existing system.... weird stuff.
You can buy products with that scent.

For example:
https://www.chemicalguys.com/new-car-smell-air-freshener/new...
Ah, nice.

I bought an old minitel for 3€ a year ago, still intending to stuff a pi zero inside to achieve mostly that -- but more bulky, owning to the CRT tube.

It would be nice to make it foldable. Maybe consider e-ink as an option for the screen?

I like the fact that this just charges over USB-C, and communicates over a "full-sized" RS-232 connector. How convenient ! But is it a typo and they meant a DB-9 connector instead of "DE"-9? I know no such connector, and it looks like a DB-9 to me, although I see no picture from the back.
The strongest hypothetical case for this story is that some NSA/CIA people told them on deep background that it's definitely happening, Bloomberg went out to try for parallel construction that proves it, and epically owned themselves with poor execution.

Falling back on "you can't prove it isn't happening" is a really weak defense. If they have stronger evidence, they should either present it or stop talking about it.
Yes. I should've said "proof that the optimal solution is uncomputable". My bad.