skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would someone who paints photographs for you in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night also be "cheap?"

Particularly if their website were called "StarryNightPhotos.com" and they clearly said on their site "these are painted in the style of Van Gogh?"

Because that's all this is. And there are plenty of AI sites that do exactly what I just said but poorly, and probably plenty of artists with a side-job of doing something like that better.
> People get rich now from companies because multiples have been artificially pushed higher by low interest rates.

No — this is not correct. In reality, multiples are driven by the company's growth rate, minus the prevailing interest rate. And while it's true that interest rates are historically low, the growth rates of today's successful companies are high enough that increasing the interest rate (from ~0% to, say, 5%) wouldn't really have a big effect on valuations.

As an example, note that Slack's 2020 revenue was around $1B, which represents an approximately 94% YoY increase over its 2019 revenue [1]. At 0% interest rates, that gets them a (very roughly) 10x valuation multiple. At a moderate-high 5% interest rate, their real growth rate drops to 94% - 5% = 89% YoY. One can argue that this should drop their multiple from 10x to maybe something like 9x. That drop is not nothing, but the reality is that it represents little more than a rounding error on the founder's wealth.

PG's point is that growth rate is by far the dominant factor in valuations. He correctly ignores interest rates in the essay because (barring out-of-band hyperinflation) their magnitude is too small to have a material effect on the conclusion.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WORK/slack-technol...
> At the end, there's a massive claim that isn't fully stated but implied. "Of course the Gini coefficient is increasing" translated means "income inequality is not a problem".

Now, I can't speak to whether or not pg's implication here was intended and unsaid, or not intended: it is likely intentionally ambiguous.

One thing I can speak to though is that it seems common now to read something as if the thing it implies is the thing the author actually intended to communicate. We should be quite careful with this sort of assumption. Sometimes it's a safe one, other times it is not.
It's not a silver bullet of course. Discord, for instance, just 'anonymises' message history by renaming your account to Deleted User. But most people's message history is enough to deanonymise them, making that completely null and void. If you ask for your messages to actually be deleted they will refuse your request.

I published a tool on GitHub for deleting message history in the most efficient way I could find. Yet users of the tool sometimes get their accounts banned because Discord's TOS prohibits unauthorised use of their API. I speculate this is because they don't want custom clients which don't send back telemetry.

Discord is either tone-deaf to common privacy concerns or they're completely conscious of them and don't want people to clear their message history.
Maybe give https://kakoune.org/ a try?
Nonprofit doesn't mean cheap. I see it as a defence contractor of some sort: it gets big money from the gov, hires the best staff, but is also regulated and doesn't report to wall st.
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In a practical sense, you'd pay for music in pre-internet day because you want to listen to that song/album. Then, people on internet started paying for music because it was easy and accessible (for some, it was easier to just download things off the "dark web" of that day). Now people pay music subscriptions because you don't have to think about where a specific song is: it's just there on Spotify/etc.

Note that nowhere do I mention artists. Certainly (some people) also pay for art because they want to compensate for what the artist did but I think that increasingly, people pay artists to keep doing what they are doing. Not for what they did.

So, no, I don't think the value that people pay an artist derives from a work that exists today, but derives from the value (speculatively) they will create on the future.

And ultimately, I don't think any contract can enforce this, even a smartone.
But OP does not contain discussion about sex with minors. That discussion was (in the past) on his personal web stallman.org .
I wrote a book about information
From emails posted here: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...

> The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin Minsky:

> “deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting one of Epstein’s victims [2])”

[ ... ]

> We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing.
I like the sound of a non-Apple arm chip for workstations. Given my positive experience with the M1 I'd be perfectly happy never using x86 again after this market niche is filled.
I'm confused by this conversation. What's important about the semantics around the words vs my criticism around that his view is outdated? Nobody seems to comment about the substance around my original post.

Paul Graham seems to think labor is now winning since it is able to get capital to do startups much easier than in the past. But nobody on the left is criticizing this. The left criticizes the organization of these companies as they grow bigger. Anti-capitalism is the criticism that only a small group of people end up owning everything and making all the important decisions. The criticism is the anti-democratic nature of how most corporations function.
> I think I misread “know” as “know of”; whoops.

Don't worry about it; you didn't misread. I wasn't aware of AppleScript and HyperTalk, and though I read a bit on Lua some years ago, I either forgot or never realized that it used `--` for comments.
I had wondered about phone keyboards. Part of the reason I switched back was that I couldn't change the layout on my phone and got tired of switching back and forth. (I know there are probably some options now, but there weren't on iPhone 4, Kindle touch, or feature phones with physical keyboards.)

I can imagine you'd need to use both thumbs extensively or you'd be jumping back and forth. I definitely found that when I was laying on my side on the couch, propped up with one arm, qwerty was easier to use with one hand. Not that that's an ergonomic or sustainable way to type, but I was a lazy college student and I didn't care.
The are bold, but not ridiculous. Look at the restaurant market, for example. Everybody's constantly working to improve things. And you find the best restaurant scenes in places with the highest competition. In contrast, a lot of bad restaurants I've eaten at are in places with low competition where some owner is just coasting.
And how much of your paycheck to landlords goes to the bank to pay off the mortgage
Obama on the matter, FWIW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM
> the situation in Europe is unsustainable with all the youth and elders voting for "free healthcare" (it's so hard to make them understand it's free for them but oh so expensive for many others)

I think you might misunderstand how the systems work. First of all, there is no such thing as European healthcare. Every country has their own system. In Germany for instance, 14.6% of your post tax income go towards healthcare (capped at a post tax income of EUR 58.050). No one thinks it's free and it isn't free for anybody except for those who really cannot afford it which have never heard anyone critizise.
Given the upgrade cycle for computers, they are making substantially less (and OEM gets a massive discount over the store shelf price of windows).

Since they arent getting a massive markup on very well integrated, mediocre hardware, they need to sell more than just Windows. Office, SharePoint, etc are where the real money is at for them.
Is Nuance into healthcare or speech/voice recognition?
Didn't knew about the Siri thing though
The lock in is real, but they are also the best cloud option and its not even close in my opinion.
> almost as dishonest, even if it's not saying he defended Epstein: "Famed Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Described Epstein Victims As 'Entirely Willing'".

Why "almost"? It's false, and clearly so for anyone who has the literacy needed to write that piece. It's entirely dishonest.
It'd be interesting to know if NVidia are going for an ARMv9 core, in particular if they'll have a core with an SVE2 implementation.

It may be they don't want to detract from focus on the GPUs for vector computation so prefer a CPU without much vector muscle.

Also interesting that they're picking up an arm core rather than continuing with their own design. Something to do with the potential takeover (the merged company would only want to support so many micro-architectural lines)?
That's not how mobs operate effectively, unfortunately.
CPI and inflation metrics generally do account for housing costs [1], but the problem is inflation in housing is not evenly distributed. If you live in a coastal city or tech hub, your housing costs have likely risen much faster than the national average. I've found it difficult to get realistic measures of city-level inflation data without trying to construct my own index from various data sources.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...
OK, now would someone please rewrite "gedit" in Rust, and make it stop crashing on large files.

I use "vim" mostly for looking at log files in the gigabyte range.
This kind of thing was on Ubuntu since years ago.
There is also a bit of context in the referenced mailing list posts, which are in response to a rationale given for Sawyer's initial Perl 7 plan - perhaps to us, repeating the argument previously used as justification for breaking code was a sore spot as well.
Paul Graham's articles always shoot immediately up to the top of HN, but I agree with you, they're generally cursory and pithy thoughts which don't convince my skeptical mind. I don't know, can someone explain why his work is so popular?

Think of all the amazing writers across our civilization whose work is linkable, and we're worshipping these decent but not amazing blog posts?
Given the massive concentration of capital to a small pool of behemoths that seem to be paying their employees to not start a competitor and the amount of debt being carried around by the majority of public companies, I'd say it's far more likely we're headed towards a period like 1982 but with new players than we are heading towards the 2000s and 2010s again. Companies saddled in debt will have a hard time innovating but their market presence is worth buying.
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"Are you comparing the rape of a minor to homosexuality?"

Yes, that's exactly it. Respectable people would have felt the same way about homosexuality 100 years ago as you do about sex involving minors.

Further, your characterization as "rape of a minor" is problematic. What's a minor? If one minor is involved, it automatically becomes rape? In much of Europe ages of consent are surprisingly low (14) to Americans, who tend to expect 18. What about a 17 year old and a 19 year old? Two 14 year olds? A 15 year old and a 20 year old? Is what's 100% wrong and prison-bound in the U.S. morally permissible in Spain because the laws are different?

Or maybe you have access to the Objective Moral Truths, such that this game is easy for you? If so, do share. It'd make all of this so much easier.
Maybe they are not competing with them right now but they have aspirations to break into their industry and then compete with them. They figured out it was easier to acquire them than try to build it from the ground up.
Okay yeah, but that's like "Forbes 400" level rich, which is almost nobody. What about "acquire $10M by 50 years old" level of wealth? To me, that seems like a much more interesting story because it captures many more people.
The difference is that people are stuck thinking it's still 1997 and that when Google does it, it must be good, because Google is an upstart and on our side. When Microsoft does it, it must be evil, because they're big and evil Microsoft and not on our side.
I suspect that the recent breakthrough in protein structure prediction is just a start.

ML techniques will be used to cut that latent variable space in both quantum chemistry and molecular mechanics based methods.
I think the consolidation thing he describes is happening again, and we are again entering a period like the 60s where access to the markets is limited by a few small, impenetrable companies, and the only meaningful path to wealth will be working at those companies.

I really hope I'm wrong, but the death of the web and the rise of the censored, anticompetitive app stores seems to be the writing on the wall.
I buy the main reason being the all-in-one solution; the comprehensiveness is attractive. However, I think you're underplaying the lock-in: migrating clouds is non-trivial - mostly due to stuff that's not running in k8s/docker/etc; stateful apps (Postgres, etc), and or just static data like s3. This takes time, and careful planning and sometimes downtime - and is mostly avoided due to it being hard.
Pages is indeed implemented on top of Workers.
Yes it does. It claims the allegations against Minsky are false. That has not been proven and the allegations are highly credible. It's an offensive and stupid thing to say, especially publicly, especially when you're "apologizing".
You could do console.table({x, y}) if you really want to see them initially expanded
> That's more important than this paper.

Author here. Deeply honoured that you carefully analysed our work. Yes, I agree that progress on the Sybil attack would be of high impact. We are in the process of strengthening our graph theory result. After already spending 18 year on it, we're getting close to a general "Universal Trust Machine" level result.

Recent science: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138912862...
Recent thoughts: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/The-design-of-a-trus...
> A rich individual can give their child $0 in inheritance but one introduction, referral or diner party later and they could be set for life.

It's a mighty big leap to go from a single intro to "set for life."
No, they were on his personal site where he writes voluminous “political notes”.

The only reason that didn’t create more controversy before is that he is very left-wing politically and so are most power brokers in the industry. So being outspoken about the Iraq war, etc didn’t get him canceled in the same way as happened to the Dixie chicks. If he were a strident Republican I suspect his political notes would have put him in trouble far sooner.

One could certainly argue that as an ambassador for FLOSS he should have avoided all politics on his website, on the other hand i guess it was only the two (very bad) notes on statutory rape that were dredged up later, along with a variety of other material, to justify the campaign against him since the initial Epstein/Minsky related allegation fell apart so quickly.
Yes, it analyzes your code and builds up a really detailed understanding of what your app does.

We use that analysis to do a bunch of stuff:

- Automatically provision cloud infrastructure

- Generate API Documentation and type-safe clients to easily call your API from a frontend

- Automatically instrument your application with Distributed Tracing

- And lots more planned :)
My favorite moment as a customer dealing with all of the random times _they_ would take us down (even with triple redundancy) was their suggestion of operating a duplicate 3 datacenter cluster in production as a hot spare.

They must think their customers are cash machines.
Intel CEO hopes U.S. can reclaim one-third of chip manufacturing industry
Something similar is available in vim via the easymotion plugin: https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion
TLDR; Content based ad. It's an intro for a multi-part Patreon article. For the rest of it: "To view this content, you must be a member of Alan Zucconi's Patreon at $5 or more"
So is ARM the future at this point? After seeing how well Apple's M1 performed against a traditional AMD/Intel CPU, it has me wondering. I used to think that ARM was really only suited for smaller devices.
DNA digital data storage
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage
Yes, but they all look awful! XD
Nuance is a speech recognition company, but due to their on-premise software which has a lot of integration options and having custom distributions for medical and legal jargon, they tend to be a go-to choice for adding voice to professional highly-regulated industry platforms.
The operators would argue this is where their "managed service" offering kicks in and gives you value.

Most operators haven't figured out their business model for NB-IoT quite yet (at least in Europe) - they're still dabbling. Some seem likely to try pair it with enterprise "private APN" type solutions. Under such a setup, you can actually get quite an interesting system in place - the operator locks the SIM to a custom APN, and that APN only allows comms to a managed, operator-provided IoT backend.

Then the operator's enterprise services team turns that into dashboards and other things the customer can use and access. In a sense, they're using "extra slack capacity" on their FDD cellular networks (as an NB-IoT carrier is only 200 kHz wide and can sit inside or adjacent to a regular 4G or 5G carrier), and delivering higher margin managed enterprise services.

Some other comments point out the potential to use LoRa - indeed, although if you can use LoRa, you probably aren't the target market for NB-IoT. If you want to deploy 50 million smart meters, a nationwide existing network and managed service from the operator starts to get appealing, as does them handling security, isolating the devices onto a private APN, and helping you update devices in the field.

If you are using LoRa, you need to handle this and deploy the infrastructure. To date though, I've seen lots of "unmanaged" NB-IoT testing taking place, but not a whole lot of the "full service managed offering".

Otherwise I would agree entirely with your point about connecting modern IoT devices to the internet, but in this case I think it will end up for enterprise type deployments where they're restricting that for you.
The "valid points" about how socialism will surely drive all of Europe bankrupt within the next decade have been repeated for the last seventy years. I'm sure they're right this time, though.
Mac and linux bundled in the same sentence regarding control? Amazing :S
If you have the data and a specific domain you can focus on then building a custom model [with kaldi] should always win. That's what I've done in the past (beating google, nuance etc.). You most likely didn't have the data and/or didn't know kaldi well.

> Obviously Nuance is more than just speech recognition, but still not sure why people are downplaying how good they were at it.

Because nuance wasn't very good.. at least in all the benchmarks I've seen. It's been a while since I compared numbers it's possible they've improved a lot. They're also known for kinda being dicks with the contracts they offer in B2B.
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The person you are responding to is probably not strictly talking about the Minsky/Epstein stuff but adding in Stallman's other statements.

"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
That also sounds a lot like Forrest Gump :)
> insurance is in most cases part of the job contract and that there are huge (cost) inefficiencies due to insurers battling over coverage costs with health providers.

To say nothing of how maddening it is to have to change doctors every time we change jobs, or to lose coverage for certain conditions when we change jobs, or to have to perfectly time certain life events such as childbirth or pregnancy to either before or after we change jobs, or to make sure we don't get sick during the probationary period while we're changing jobs, and so on.
I would absolutely not work with someone who held these views. Unprofessional, disturbing and illegal.
I am skeptical of any "top X wealthiest" lists especially for an analysis like this which claims that people are no longer getting rich through inherited wealth. Inequality has gone up a lot since the 1980s and to me a smart person who inherits wealth is not going to flaunt it and probably not going to want to be in any kind of Forbes list. There are plenty of ways to move wealth off of your personal ledger while keeping it in the family, ways that don't even count as "hiding" and I just know casually as a peasant who will never encounter a single one: foundations, generation-skipping trusts, CLATs (maybe the "charity" is your foundation!).
Can you link some source of it, can't find it
WavesNX may have been a good idea, but it's badly-made, fights with drivers, resulting it being in an actively-antagonistic piece of Dell bloatware, unfortunately.
Any grid energy storage technology.
Whether it's small home units (smart batteries, vehicle to grid, hydrogen packs...)
or huge grid scale (liquid air, gravity, liquid metal batteries...)
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I don’t think this will be enough in case they get sued if the messages contain personably identifiable information they will have serious problems.
Linux users have a "I could totally do that with bash better in a weekend" attitude. They don't pay and they will also shame the author with "how dare you evil monster not make this libre free open source ... this is worth like $3 max". Worst group to make paid software for (yes I say that as a linux user, I know the group I'm talking about).
I think the relevant part here is the discussion of the Gini coefficient.

There are those who argue that the increase in the Gini coefficient (i.e. increase in inequality of wealth or income distribution) means that the U.S. is diverging from its historical pattern of more equal wealth/income distribution and that this must be addressed.

Pg's counterargument is that this is actually mean-reversion, and that the comparanda are actually divergent.

This is somewhat important as it goes to the question of whether Gini coefficients tell us what they're relied on for, what a "good number" is, and if we do decide on a good number what the impact of the required policy changes would be.
>Nobody with power wants it.

Or is too influenced by big technopoly lobbying dollars.
Don't know if it's just me but this product looks like a beta-product for early adopters.
>It’s probably rich man guilt

it's hilarious to me how so many talking heads think the solution to guilt is more speech instead of praxis. you feel guilty about all of your wealth? give large sums of it away. charity works wonders for the guilty conscience (speaking from experience here). but that's unthinkable so they just go on engaging in this kind of sophistry. lays bare that they're not actually trying to cure their guilt but justify themselves.