skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially in Texas, where in the interest of avoiding as much federal regulation as possible, they have largely isolated their electrical grid. Theres no reason other than political that it couldn't be connected to the rest of the region, or country, or continent. That would have gone a long way in avoiding the worst outcomes.
I don't think so.

Clevo are known to be the OEM behind many (all?) of System76's laptops. In Australia they're sold under the brand of Metabox.

The System76 Pangolin tech specs[1] match the Metabox Edge specs[2] and visually match as far as I can tell identically, and neither mention USB-PD or Charging capability. Metabox specifically call out USB-PD capability on their other range of laptops, so I don't think it's an omission.

[1] https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin#specs
[2] https://www.metabox.com.au/store/Edge-Range/Specs
I seem to remember reading one of his “incarnations” books twenty years ago or so, where the justification for a middle aged man having a particularly kinky relationship with a fifteen year old girl (in both body and mind) was that due to time magic being used, she was technically legally eighteen and so everything was fine.

He also wrote a YA novel entitled “the color of her panties” so...
Mining operations are pretty fucking sketch for the most part (in china they just straight-up steal electricity) and miners won't care about terms of service in the same way that a billion-dollar corporation would. You're not going to get ratted out by the secretary and have all your assets siezed, short of requiring an always-on internet connection and ratting the user out for mining (which would be incredibly unpopular) there's not a whole lot you can do, it's all possible to do stealthily.
Why in the world would you want capitalism?

Bonds exist because people want to lay off risk. Its not about the yield, as much as its about the risk. Sure, you want an upside, and the yield is about the upside. But the motivation in the first place, is about the risk.

"as safe as houses" turns out, not to be that safe.

"as good as gold" is still pretty good, but the next unobtanium is out there.

by and large, absent revolution, governments make good on their financial promises. Even the Soviets paid up on the baku oil shares, in the end. So sometimes, even WITH a revolution you get back some money.

Bonds are about risk. Why would you want to lay off risk? Because thats what risk avoidance is.
Ask HN: Will centralized or decentralized computing prevail?
Something I think about often lately is the eventual shape of our computing ecosystem.

It seems we are currently in an interesting stage where the outcome is up in the air. On one side, we have the oligopoly of Big Tech, and on the other we have the hype/explosion of various decentralized technologies.

Decentralized technology has an uphill battle against the ergonomics of centralized platforms, however, it seems to appeal to some base human desires (privacy, autonomy and a variation of 'support indie/local').

I find my opinion to be very in flux. What are your thoughts?
Bond yields aren't low because everyone is buying bonds, it's because the government is keeping them artificially low.
Not me, I get a lot of work done in bed, probably more than half. The easy chair is not a productive setting, I grant you. Lately I prefer to pick up the kindle or tablet for a short break from the desk, and this is probably more conducive to work than switching from "getting things done" to "browsing HN/Twitter" on the same machine.

I use a sit/stand desk but barely ever sit at it, so fifteen minutes of down time here and there helps.
I think it's quite a rhetorical lift to try to discredit W.E.B. DuBois given how the 20th century turned out, which is what you're inadvertently doing when you suggest DuBois approach wouldn't work applied to Asians. The circumstances of Asian Americans and Black people aren't directly comparable.

We probably don't disagree that much! The bullshit I am on, generally, is that left liberals underestimate just how conservative Black people are, and instrumentalize them in the service of their own policy agendas. It's not hard to find Black advocates of the Booker T school; I think you provided one a week ago!

I think it's important to recognize the validity of both trains of thought.

By all means, take potshots at trust-fund leftists. They richly deserve it! But I'm going to call you out when you pick bad targets, as you did here. There's stuff to criticize even in the specific BLM messaging about families (BLM is a deeply imperfect advocate), but to suggest as you did that "nuclear family" bias is a baffling leftward shift is beyond the pale. It's square in the middle of real, practical problems.

I appreciate the response, as always!
I graduated in 2010 with a degree supposedly in "CS with AI specialization" and was taught that neural networks weren't useful for much of anything at the time.

The best techniques we learned were MCMC and random forests, our computer vision was OpenCV and didn't work so well, and there wasn't any suggestion that buying a lot of GPUs and not bothering to understand the problem space would produce better results than our laptops.
This is definitely good thinking, though it seems unrealistic.

The stuff about AI is just science fiction. We'll see major advances in the next 15 years, but it's unlikely that there will be a compounding intelligence situation where robots are able to program and build other robots without human intervention. There's no scientific evidence that this will happen, but it's certainly possible on a long enough time frame.

A 2.5% property tax is a political impossibility. That's like $500/mo for the average homeowner. And homeowners vote. This would only happen in the most dire of economic circumstances. The remote possibility of super ai in the coming decades is not one of those circumstances.

I'm also not so sure about the idea of taxing corporations based on their market cap. Market cap isn't "real" taxable money like that. It looks like there's been research published on the idea [0], but it's kind of just one person.

[0] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1517925
Datomic database
No, I'm more concerned about the randomness of those degraded mRNA strands somehow degrading into instructions that cause harm. We know for a fact that prions exist that cause denaturing of nerve cells and brain cells. They are basically proteins that are misfolded that somehow cause a chain reaction of misfolding other proteins. Is there the possibility that just randomly the degraded mRNA will produce the wrong protein strands and cause people to experience the equivalent of Mad Cow Disease? It certainly sounds like it's possible, but I'm not sure if it's probable. But with them being so tight lipped about it besides pooh-poohing the idea, it really doesn't bring me much confidence.
Hi HN, I'm super stoked to share a passion side project that two friends and I have been working on for the past few months - Karaoke Nite.

This is something that we wanted for a while for ourselves and we got tired of waiting and decided to just build it ourselves. We just released v0.1 as a webVR app with multiplayer avatars and after chatting with some initial users, we decided to move towards a web app with face cams instead for v0.2; people want to see their friends' faces!

If you have any feedback or ideas, please let us know!
This was it: https://web.archive.org/web/20040612155253/http://www.kamaka...
Data Labeling Service–Machine learning success depends on the human workforce
Slight correction – it is for all your accounts at a single institution combined.
Also of note in this article is that the hospital drugged her until she appeared cheerful....and then released her. I think this article actually says more about the state of mental health care in this country than problems with meditation. That's not to say there aren't any, but it doesn't seem like this article summarizes it very well, so I will: Insufficient mental frameworks and support structures coupled with deep meditative experiences can lead people to harm themselves. That's pretty much the main conclusion I've received from here, but surprise, lots of people harm themselves without meditation too.

Maybe this is part of America waking up to how messed up it is underneath it all.
Meditation is a pretty broad term encompassing many different activities/intentions (though they all look pretty similar from the outside). In the studies I’ve read on the adverse effects of meditation, the style has a major influence. Due to historical accidents, vipassana is a common style in the West - I find this mind blowing, since it is probably the most likely to cause adverse effects.

As a long time meditator, my experience with vipassana is that it is the hardcore path, for those willing to risk crashing and burning to get to enlightenment faster. Techniques like mettā, tonglen, or dzogchen seem to be ~5-10x less likely to be associated with a psychotic event - which at that point, seems like it could just be about prior history [1]. It's worth mentioning that Britton, the academic meditation critic in the article is a co-author of this paper.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
How many emails was that back then?
> The difficulty will be making sure people treat it the same way, because it looks like a normal image.

Hmm. Mandating the use of style transfer to make it look like an artist's rendering would probably have the intended effect.
As someone who once competed with him for stories: Cade is a very strong writer with a robust pedigree who really gets the current state of play in ML, and has the chops to write about it for a general audience. At his best, his articles are able to help non-experts understand the stakes and wonder that make up this corner of the tech world.
Hinton has such a good story that I think it’s was clear from the outset that he was going to be the “face” of AI.

He was on one of the first backprop papers, worked pretty consistently on neural nets though the AI winter, and was pretty instrumental in the renaissance.

Was he the only person working on this stuff? No, but I think we as a society like to tell ourselves a story about science and scientists. The narrative of the “lone scientist” wiling away their days in solitude until reaching a breakthrough probably hasn’t actually existed since the 19th century. Pretty much all significant discoveries nowadays are the product of intense collaboration and iterative progress. Science is a team sport, just one where 99% of the team happens to be invisible.
Bonds are a safe way to get your money back. It just might not buy as many cheeseburgers as you expected.
Does anyone know how the academic world is handling this issue? I find it fascinating. I suspect many just won't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

My two cents: I think LeCun is totally right about this one, but it appears perhaps politically incorrect to be scientifically correct.
Recommender systems, text to speech (and the other way round), probably some problems in logistics like getting you deliveries and keeping the power running.
I don't want to respond with "you were doing it wrong" since I don't know enough about what you did/thought to evaluate that, but my view of Stoicism is that the "nonchalance" should be applied to things that are outside of our control, while we should do everything we can to be virtuous with the things that are inside of our control. E.g If it's raining we shouldn't be tearing our hair out in panic and cursing the weather, but rather deal with it in the ways we can by taking an umbrella with us. I do agree that some Stoic practices (such as the 'view from above') could bring about an attitude of "eh, does it even matter?"

I think it's possible to gain a large deal of motivation and drive from the concepts of virtues and doing everything we can to live virtuously and improve the world accordingly.
I owe a lot to DHH and Ruby on Rails. It landed me a job in Silicon Valley 11 years ago. It was a game changer for my life. Glad to see it listed here.
It really was a great marketing move to build up hype for NFTs.
The Olympics sound a little miserable to watch in-person because you probably won't have a clear view of a sport you're not all that interested in. And unlike most popular sports where it's an event where you pick a side to cheer for, most Olympic events are individual, so there isn't 90 minutes of cheering for your team, hoping they'll win.
The conclusion kind of scares me, especially coming from Dalio.

> so they could very well impose prohibitions against capital movements to other assets (e.g., gold, Bitcoin, etc.) and other locations. These tax changes could be more shocking than expected.

Who truly believes this is a likely scenario? A number of folks I know are already considering fleeing the US but if this was to pass, that number would skyrocket and I can't imagine a good outcome in the next few decades from capital flight in the US.
Everyone I know who did an intensive meditation retreat was warned up-front. It isn't just "sign here and pay" for reputable agencies.

I am also told, there is a strict post-retreat protocol regarding re-engagement in the wider world. People are amazingly vulnerable at this time. The facilitating staff are told to be strictly hands-off, and avoid situations of risk for either of them. (client, or helper)

I think that I'm just saying, its like the go-kart track down the road. the one which has a terms-and-conditions board a mile long: its a better choice than the one which doesn't seem to care about safety, even if its a bit off-putting at first.
> Maybe I'm old and cynical but does anyone actually think this was an error on NVIDIA part?

Yes. And I assume we'll see the mining brake return on 3080 Ti / 3080 Super and on 4000 series cards as well.

This looks very much to me like someone built a feature branch on an old version that didn't have the mining brake installed, and then pushed the branch somewhere they shouldn't. I see no reason to doubt that - classic case of Hanlon's Razor in action:

"never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

> Their goal is to sell as much GPU as they can, their shareholders wouldn't want it any other way.

Segmenting miners to a different, higher-priced segment makes them more money. You're selling two cards instead of one, on top of increasing your effective production capacity (because the mining cards are on a different, older node that is not bottlenecked as badly).
True, but Spotify was another 10x improvement. You click on ANY song, and, WELL under 1 second later, you are listening to that song. Closer to a quarter of a second. In 2010 or so, when I first used it.
Just hold cash...
Somewhat, but it still requires a lot of storage of state and coordination between systems. This isn't SAML specific, it's a property of any federated login (SSO) protocol.
112, disaster response is a great way to see the world.
Yeah we don't let them in to the fun defcon parties
Great counterpoint. I knew the Fed was purchasing a lot of bonds, but I had not grasped the scale of it. I didn’t think it would be that much higher than 08.

The Brigewater article would have been a lot stronger with that $7 T figure.
Having experienced the alternative, I don't like living in a society where people can't tell the difference between journalism and self-expression.
"a Texas grand jury chartered to investigate Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood but instead indicted CMP founder David Daleiden and member Sandra Merritt"

It sounds like they got people together to go after PP and then it didn't turn out that way.

Doesn't that cut against the dystopia in your imagination where things are predetermined?
The parent wikipedia article shows that CMP attempted to entrap Planned Parenthood by offering them $1600 for fetal tissues, but PP declined. Mike Pence's own investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing. So no, you're wrong, and the proof is in the link you're replying to.
I wonder if notams like this are diversions for activities else where. Pretty fun to imagine what our tax dollars are being spent on!
> Why in the world would you want capitalism?

because anything less is corporate welfare. if you can’t pay your way well then...
SQLite: "It supports only 2000 columns"

You can change SQLITE_MAX_VARIABLE_NUMBER or SQLITE_MAX_COLUMN variables before compiling, no?
One thing I've learned about professional investors is that no matter what, at the end of the day they're talking their book.

So whether you buy these arguments or not, Ray Dalio is simply promoting a position that Bridgewater no doubt has taken. So when he says:

"I believe a well-diversified portfolio of non-debt and non-dollar assets along with a short cash position is preferable to a traditional stock/bond mix that is heavily skewed to US dollars. I also believe that assets in the mature developed reserve currency countries will underperform the Asian (including Chinese) emerging countries’ markets."

It's not his avuncular advice. He has millions (billions?) of dollars committed to this bet and he wants to convince others that it's correct so it pays off.
Fundamentally, a blue box is, along with the essential 2600Hz tone, simply a DTMF dialer, like what is built into touch tone telephones, only it used operator dual tone frequencies, not the same dual tone frequencies used by touch tone telephones. You can't do much at all with a blue box unless you understand how the switching equipment that detected those frequencies worked, and that was only documented in unpublished Bell Telephone Company and then AT&T manuals, then subsequently by phone phreaks who either learned by trial and error or somehow came across one of those manuals. Blue boxes stopped working due to the change to digital switching equipment.

A red box, which emulates the tone that tells a pay telephone or a long distance operator that a quarter has been inserted, should still function, if you can find a pay telephone that still accepts quarters.
Agile Pods at Xendit
Reader mode solved it for me.
At that point, we just make less batteries and solar panels and call it a day. An order of magnitude less energy consumption means we basically already have the necessary renewables and nuclear installed as is, job done.
> About 96% of people used to work in agriculture. Today it's about 4%.

Let's say the 96% number is from 1750, which I think is roughly right.

World population then was ~800 million. Today it is ~7700 million. Most have jobs.

The human workforce has expanded almost 10x in this period.
The most perverse thing about lockdowns to me is that it seems additional suicides, the huge damage to youth and economic destruction isn't even a consideration in those decisions. It's not weighed up at all.

Which to me seems like we're saying as a society that the life of a 83 year old (median age of death) is more important than the life of a teenager or young adult who is more likely to commit suicide or experience depression.

That's opposite of society's usual policy, which would pull out all of the stops to provide an organ to a healthy child over a chain smoking 83 year old, for example.
Very nice - exactly what I was looking for & happy with the 50$ price
Is it? Half of it is every manufacturer from Shenzhen selling assorted components. The larger, prestigious booths mostly show the next iteration of consumer electronics, and there's the occasional thing that looks awesome enough for a world's fair, but is probably a mock that will never go into production.

Better parties, though.
So the solution is what, exactly? To isolate people and gatekeep them from learning systems programming?
Where would you go? The EU and Japan are already in a worse position than the US and if the US decides to commit to capital controls, they would probably follow. That only leaves China which already has capital controls.
thanks for sharing. Ramana is as rare as they come. a true gem of a being
Creating Ports for BSD Distributions
We’re arguably already in the AI revolution, and I haven’t seen things get much cheaper. Most everyday prices go up with inflation, like they always did. UBI is a wonderful idea but I’m not sure there is currently enough wealth for a scheme like that, even on small scale.
> Among the book-buying public, though, that parade may be mostly passing unnoticed. The scandals that loom so large on Twitter don’t necessarily interest consumers; instead, the tempest of these controversies remains confined to a handful of internet teapots where a few angry voices can seem thunderously loud.

The most important part of this, may be how inconsequential this actually is.
Audi abandons combustion engine development
> Now if someone could enable full CUDA on RTX 3060/3070/3080, that would be noice!

I thought there were no CUDA limits on the RTX 3070/3080/3090 cards?

I've got a 3080 from launch and have not noticed any artificial caps or performance issues when doing CUDA-related things.
$50? More like $2000-5000 to publish, then $50 to read one paper without a subscription (which itself is usually a multi-million dollar contract for Elsevier in the case of most US universities).
A crash would destroy both balance and the mailbox, since they're in memory in the same process, so it's OK. The code that updates persistent storage isn't shown.
Swift concurrency has that in other reviews. Although not "guarantees" since it doesn't define a realtime system.
Perhaps you're right, but I wasn't operating within a Buddhist or Hindu paradigm at that time. I was exploring a wide variety of practices as part of a novitiate with the Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros.

Even if someone had told me that it was risky, I still would have had the attitude of, thanks, but I need to find this out for myself from experience rather than just take your word for it.
Good thing ENRON got your Texas electricity market deregulated. That regulation sure is a bad thing....
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19222467
Neither will "prevail" - each might steal ideas from the other, they're both good for different types of problems, I don't see it as a one thing has to win the whole market.
We use GitHub as a push only destination. i.e. We never pull from it, and we never deploy from it. Our master repos are internal and don't have an upstream. This ensures that our source code is secure. Code that doesn't need to be accessible to the public, isn't pushed to GitHub at all.
Jay Miner's team doing their own chips (Antic, Pokey, C/GTIA) instead of assembling a machine off the shelf. It was a truly fun machine to program. It was amazing what could be done on the Atari machines that couldn't be done on the Apple ][.
Go? Archaic? I suppose you are referring to the paradigm it employs...
I don't think image computing is a good idea and so I don't think complicated memory updating abstractions like this are necessary.

The other problem is that Intel tried to add STM to their hardware, but it has so many bugs that it's been disabled in multiple CPU generations. I only know one program that uses it and it's a PS3 emulator, not a database.
What you say about metta etc being less likely to induce psychosis than vipassana makes sense, Goenka retreats especially are super-intense bootcamps. Do you have a citation for the 5-10x figure? I can't find it in the Britton paper.
Wild Animal Suffering
This is great, though I'm pretty sure cattle are slaughtered year round in the US, not just at CAFOs but at local farms.
> That only leaves China

There are 195 different nations on earth. That leaves a lot more options than the EU, Japan, and China.

A lot of crypto-expats are going to carribean island nations.
This is the syllabus I was working through: https://web.archive.org/web/20040612155253/http://www.kamaka...

It isn't obvious that asanas, breathing exercises, mantras and visualisation are somehow breaching any taboos of any society that I know of ;)