skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No! It's negative WRT chip production rate! I have a phd in controls and meant what I said; I assume roboticsresearcher also knows some freshman-level control theory ;-).

Stability ==== good in undergrad engineering, but not here. We DON'T want production rate to be stable when we have a global supply shortage! Here, a negative feedback loop is stabilizing the system in an undesirable equilibrium.

I.e., the function that's being controlled in "supply of chips", the stable state is "saturated supply", and the negative feedback loop that maintains that equilibrium is "starving chip fab suppliers".

(meta: people down-voting comments on control theory terminology by two different experts in this field at least makes me feel a bit better about the signal:noise ratio on the vote counts on my other comments in this thread ;))
https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-02-08
Oracle says its new HeatWave storage engine is faster than Snowflake
Well, I agree that the combination of printing money with no taxation isn't going to work due to inflation.

I just didn't understand the statement that a currency's value "derives largely from the ability to pay [income] taxes with them". That statement by itself is historically false, as the gold-backed currency shows. It still makes no sense to me even without gold-backing. As long as the money supply is kept relatively stable, all you need is for a few government services to operate exclusively in USD (e.g. welfare, where funds are raised via land tax or carbon tax for example), and for a reasonable amount of trust in the government, and to perhaps kickstart the group delusion of trust with initial gold-backing, and you're all set. I can make sense of the statement strictly in the context of money printing, where you need the offsetting deflationary impact from taxation (not necessarily income taxation), but that meaning wasn't so clear from the original statement that I was responding to.
Home page under suggestions it says "them them"
Periodic reminder that Starlink’s 12k cluster will only support ~500k users[0] at a minimum $1bn cost to taxpayers[1].

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200928/09175145397/repor...
[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/12/07/spa...
Edit: removing my comment, I misunderstood.
How to work with handy startup valuation?
This thread is about iMessage, and the sub headline you quoted is about CSAM scanning that only concerns iCloud Photo Library.
As far as I can tell, HN isn't designed or intended for "good technical conversations", nor "on-topic conversations". It's intended for "interesting conversations in general" (or some variant) based on the guidelines, behavior of the moderator(s?), and content.

I don't necessarily like this kind of bent, but that's the way that it is. If you want consistent technical conversations, you should check out Lobste.rs.
You could, and if he was doing this on the entire corpus that'd be the responsible thing to do.

But, his project really was very reasonable:

- it fetched ~2,400 pages

- he cached them after first fetch

- Wikipedia aggressively caches anonymous page views (eg the Queen Elizabeth page has a cache age of 82,000 seconds)

English Wikipedia does about 250,000,000 pageviews/day. This guy's use was 0.001% of traffic on that day.

I get the slippery slope arguments, but to me, it just doesn't apply. As someone who has donated $1,000 to Wikipedia in the past, I'm totally happy to have those funds spent supporting use cases like this, rather than demanding that people who want to benefit from Wikipedia be able to set up a MySQL server, spend hours doing the import, install and configure a PHP server, etc, etc.
From my knowledge of history, even German, and Japan had no universal literacy, let alone universal women literacy before their troubles started.

Prussia was very literate (and very crazy as well,) but the rest of German states been a mixed bag.

Japan rural population was super illiterate well into pre-war years, to the point of not being able to write its own name (as was required per law.) Meiji started to require use of personal stamps exactly because of that.
LibreOffice Base is the only application I still use from time to time. I replaced Writer, Calc and Impress with WPS Office and never looked back.

https://linux.wps.com/

It's free but not open source but still it's so much lighter and fast and compatible than LibreOffice...
Most voters aren't as rational as you are. Though, I suspect that you would not vote against your livelihood if it became a political topic.

West Virginia has "Friends of Coal" license plates. Indiana has IUOE license plates. etc.
>We are over a year into a pandemic which involved wide-scale lockdowns. Physical key exchange is a nonstarter for broad adoption.

I think the emphasis is on the -ed in involved. That's a temporary condition which is already resolving in much of the world. You may also be overestimating lockdown compliance among average people.
Thanks. I'm sure this is worth listening to, but it's a much larger investment in time than reading over a transcript.

Having tried the automated transcription services on my own podcast, I know that they suck. You have to pay someone to at least fix them up, if not just transcribe the whole thing from scratch. So I'm not blaming anyone for not having a transcript immediately.
> Palit

I've never heard of this brand, are they big in regions outside North America? Or do they function as an ODM for other brands?
> I read people waxing poetic about the prospect of erasing international borders and becoming a brotherhood of man and then at the same time rejecting homogenization of culture.

Everyone who is against borders is openly in favour of homogenization. Specially when we talk about western countries. In the West, for some reason we need diversity.
In the rest of the world diversity isn't needed and preserving the homogenity of the natives is paramount.

I'm sure there aren't any hidden intentions behind it tho.
That's funny: I thought you were a proponent of exceptions because I read (a lot of years ago) a mail from you which said "who is going to check that printf failed"?

And this remain true: a lot of things can fail (arithmetic operations, every IO, etc) so the error system must be very "lean" otherwise the "happy path" is drowned in the error propagatio/handling code..
Proud to be a part of the Digibuild family
Can Facebook Make Virtual Reality Happen for Real This Time?
Dynamically Loaded Libraries
Proud to be part of the Digibuild family
I just wish I could get the DB form builder to work without crashing. I've become quite the Calc fan, due to needing to deal with Excel docs from my team constantly. (Also, csvkit is saving my bacon)
Reminds me a bit of the water conflict that has been unfolding in Africa between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57734885
Apple Invents a Deployable 'Key Mouse' for a Compact MacBook Keyboard Design
Rakuten is a billion dollar company often referred to as the Amazon of Japan.

They have a very different type of presence in different countries.
> There is gap in the market between VM oriented simple deployments and kubernetes based setup.

In my experience, there are actually two platforms that do this pretty well.

First, there's Docker Swarm ( https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/ ) - it comes preinstalled with Docker, can handle either single machine deployments or clusters, even multi-master deployments. Furthermore, it just adds a few values to Docker Compose YAML format ( https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v3... ) , so it's incredibly easy to launch containers with it. And there are lovely web interfaces, such as Portainer ( https://www.portainer.io/ ) or Swarmpit ( https://swarmpit.io/ ) for simpler management.

Secondly, there's also Hashicorp Nomad ( https://www.nomadproject.io/ ) - it's a single executable package, which allows similar setups to Docker Swarm, integrates nicely with service meshes like Consul ( https://www.consul.io/ ), and also allows non-containerized deployments to be managed, such as Java applications and others ( https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/drivers ). The only serious downsides is having to use the HCL DSL ( https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl ) and their web UI being read only in the last versions that i checked.

There are also some other tools, like CapRover ( https://caprover.com/ ) available, but many of those use Docker Swarm under the hood and i personally haven't used them. Of course, if you still want Kubernetes but implemented in a slightly simpler way, then there's also the Rancher K3s project ( https://k3s.io/ ) which packages the core of Kubernetes into a smaller executable and uses SQLite by default for storage, if i recall correctly. I've used it briefly and the resource usage was indeed far more reasonable than that of full Kubernetes clusters (like RKE).
I don't agree with the overall take that the world is binary in that way at all..

You create to sell? No, I think a fundamental part, for example of art, is that it can be created for no reason whatsoever. To give a personal example, I really enjoy music production and playing piano.. but I do it only for myself and have fun doing so.. i don't even share it with anyone. Does that mean I am creating but not selling? And does that mean it is wrong and a waste of my time and I should stop doing it? No, I'm just creating for the sake of creating.

Another thing I don't understand, is your end goal in life to get rich? And do you equal being rich with being happy?

That's not my worldview at all. I mainly care about three things, curiosity, ethics and empathy. But definitely curiosity, being able to learn everyday is what makes me happy. But that doesn't fit into what your explaining, I don't have to create and sell anything with what I've learned because the act of learning already gives me happiness.

Maybe I'm the weird one but I truly find that a life with the sole goal of selling and accruing wealth seems boring.
> The PolarBear CNC machine needed special CAM software to use the full potential of the PolarBear. So I decided to start an open source Cam software project.

> It's kind of necessary. Because there is no powerful and complete open source CAM software that is useful and easy for everyone.

That helps me understand where this falls on the plausibility scale
I'm pretty sure it's just in how people report it. I was always quite good at geometry puzzles because I could picture the shapes moving in my head. Does that mean I can see images in my mind or not? It's nothing like seeing with my eyes, but I can definitely "see" it in my mind.
The OP mentions Adderall but the cited study only evaluates Methylphenidate (Ritalin) and Sulpiride (Dogmatil).

Adderall and Ritalin can be addictive and are widely abused. Many studies show that these drugs are relatively 'safe', but we are only beginning to understand the long-term effects on the brain from chronic abuse [2][3].

To anyone out there who is needlessly abusing these drugs, it would be prudent of you to look for alternative and natural ways to massage your mind into a state that is conducive to productive work. Exercise, diet, and sleep are incredibly important.

> Higher dopamine synthesis capacity in the caudate nucleus was associated with greater willingness to allocate cognitive effort. In addition, methylphenidate and sulpiride increased subjective values and motivation to work specifically for people with low dopamine synthesis capacity.

> Collectively, our results support that striatal dopamine enhances motivation for cognitive effort by amplifying the effects of benefits versus costs attended early in a decision.

[1] Dopamine promotes cognitive effort by biasing the benefits versus costs of cognitive work
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6484/1362

[2] Acute and long-term effects of adolescent methylphenidate on decision-making and dopamine receptor mRNA expression in the orbitofrontal cortex
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5404501/

[3] Chronic methylphenidate treatment during adolescence has long-term effects on monoaminergic function
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/026988111880549...
US judge throws out Trump-era approval for giant Alaska oil project
I've read more than half of these, and for all but a few I think that they deserve their place on this list -- and for most of the rest, I think other books from the same authors would be better.

So, not a bad list at all.

I suspect the broadest popularity among HN readers would be:

- Ted Chiang's short story collection

- Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time

- Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries

All three of them feature really good non-human perspectives .
But in human's case, the lack of understanding of word Nixon is because they didn't know what that means in the first place and they don't have data to know or cross check what that word means. On the other hand, Google Search does have an access to the data (just strings in this case from an article) which it has to verify based on the user's query and then display it as the knowledge card and yet it couldn't because... (I don't know why exactly).
> It's fucked. Buy now.

Ok you certainly should go for it, but I'll give you one analysis that I have. We bought in a NYC suburb (for a bunch of reasons) and here's what I think constitutes price risk for me.

At the end of the day, a house is worth what someone can and is willing to pay for it. Right now, there's reasons the demand is high for near-NYC housing because (a) people aren't sure they need to be near NYC long-run and don't want to risk it (b) it's an easiest move to make to leave the city and not go far (c) supply is low because with covid, fewer people are willing to have an open house (d) now everyone is in a rush to upsize so space is at a premium.

All of these are demand factors that can change. EG: (a) it may become clear in 1-2 years that permanent remote is an option for many people, relieving demand pressure on NYC and the area. (b) once people are comfortable with leaving the city they may be comfortable moving further afield. (c) the pent-up supply of folks who didn't sell in 2020/2021 may come to market, especially if a and b occur, causing people to want to sell before it's "too late" (d) everyone who needed up upsize may have done it, relieving that pressure.

Also, for New York state specifically, with the number of wealthy people leaving the states, it feels inevitable that state and property taxes will rise, making all of this even less attractive.

And finally, interest rates are ridiculously low right now, rising rates will be a damper on prices when that happens.

Obviously there plenty of reasons it could also go up, but if your model is so simple "it's fucked so it's always goes up" you may get fucked too.
Children are taxed through their parents much as renters pay the property taxes of property owners. The difference is that children are taxed without representation since the vote is withheld from them and their stewards.
This description of Lex Fridman's research is generous. If you listen to his own podcast (previously called the Artificial Intelligence podcast, now the Lex Fridman Podcast), you'll find that he has a knack for missing the deeper insights of guests discussing those very fields of research.
Because diversity of thought, but sounds like you are happy being a sheep.
It could offer both brokered and brokerless key exchange, distinguishing between messages from parties verified through each method by, I dunno, the color of the text bubble.
Yes. Let's not waste time on the message because the messenger is not of the correct political faction.
Scrapping, especially on a large scale, can put a noticeable strain on servers.

Bulk downloads (database dumps) are much cheaper to serve for someone crawling millions of pages.

It gets even more significant if generation of reply is resource intensive (not sure is Wikipedia qualifying for that but complex templates may cause this).
Doesn’t positive feedback require a positive loop gain? Right now, not enough chips are available to make new chips. So the loop gain is less than zero, damping the output recursively.
Agreed that not releasing models might be a good thing, I'm just pointing out that's not how they initially pitched the organization. I wonder if they might have gotten less favorable publicity when they launched if they just said "we're starting an AI company to compete with Google".

As for the business model, there's nothing wrong with it in principle, it's just not what they said they would do. There's no reason a well-funded nonprofit research organization needs to compete with Google and Facebook. They changed their funding model because they wanted to compete, not because they needed to. And it hasn't been very long since they said "Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact." You have to assume they knew from the start that they'd probably want to pivot to a business.
Hey @AlbertCory,

How would having a transcript save you time? Wouldn't it take more or less the same amount of time (+/- 25%) to read through the transcript? Would you rather CTRL+F for a few terms? Or just quickly glance through it?

Asking, because I'm interested in the podcast space overall.

Thanks.
Westerners fail to understand tribalism, or any clannish attitudes.

Even the so called "experts" in charge are pretty much clueless about it.
For me, I don't define any variables via the cli, i put them all in the docker-compose.yml or accompanying .env file, that way it's a simple `docker-compose up` to deploy.
Then I can track these files via git, and deploy to remote docker hosts using docker-machine, which effectively sets the DOCKER_HOST env var.

While I haven't used it personally, there is [0] Watchtower which aims to automate updating docker containers.

[0] https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower
U.S. cannabis insurers get ready to roll as federal legalization nears
Agreed, Joe Rogan is, at best, a somewhat misleading entertainer, and at worst an evil propagandist. It should be a crime to give him airtime.
> The temperature of the house could have an impact.

Temperature cycles. The barn wort batches are always more complicated flavors than the steady temperature basement batches.
We actively decided not to report credit utilization, as it was hurting women's credit more than helping (lower limits = higher utilization).
>So outside web bubble

Yes. A lot of the conversation talk about image and video as if Web is the only platform. Just like how AV1 is suppose to be everything because of Youtube while completely neglecting the rest of the video industry from Broadcasting to Movies etc.
I wonder if the problem with 3PB is the poor quality of the translation -it was a real struggle for me to get through. AJ I thought was OK simplistic space opera, if that's what you want (and who doesn't, sometimes).
How much would it cost to set up TSMC inside US borders? One president cycle? 4 F-35s? One SLS? A nuclear submarine?

According to this page, sorting by cost, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...

the most expensive fab is 33 Giga$. TSMC is 17G$. pennies on the dollar in our 1-3Trillion infrastructure bill.

Make america fab again.

EDIT: it appears this is in the 2T infrastructure bill. https://www.eetimes.com/biden-ups-ante-to-50-billion-for-chi...
In a previous role we did some light research into this, you tend to notice latency in movement at around 40-80ms, but thats from your own movement vs avatar.

However, you don't notice it in other people's movements until there is a mismatch between social clues, Even then you have up to 250 ms (sometimes more, depending on the pace of the conversation)

In practice that means you can do an atlantic call without really noticing it.

the problem with VC calls is that because video needs to be matched to audio, the audio is buffered to make sure its lined up, this means that you have a 250ms+ delay plus any time to switch presenters.
Thanks. The board is extremely helpful in finding stuff. I really appreciate it.

I did a search on Bookshare (which I have access to due to having a print-related disability).

So far, there is a lot of common words with "Understanding Information Retrieval Systems" by Marcia Bates

You can download it here: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=40869A904ABC59F242AA50E8...

But, I don't think that this is what is being copied. But, it could be.

I would not be surprised if mosaic plagiarism is going on, where there is copying going on from a different book for each section. We shall see. I will keep searching.
FWIW Boost.Json in particular doesn't have any source files, it's just header-only templates. You don't actually need to build or link boost to use it; you just need the header files to be in the include path.
Good list. I'd add federal fuel taxes to that as well.
Yes.

One scary fact that I learned is that, in war games between China and the USA, China almost always wins due to superior production capacity. Those $100B American battle carriers and $40MM advanced fighter jets can be taken out by $50,000 rockets/missiles produced at a rate of hundreds or thousands per day.
> Indeed, there seems to be a difference worth noting between "industries that currently employ a large number of the population with little transfer of utility to other industry" and "objectively basic needs for a society".

Did you consider that it's because people need an income to survive? Employment is objectively a basic need for anyone who doesn't own sufficient capital being that they have nothing else to sell but their labor.
Yes! Great point.
Computer-savvy people dismiss dark patterns like this as mostly-harmless prodding, but it really disorients the less able.

For all industry pats itself on the back for accessibility, they still have absolutely no shame about this open and obvious UX manipulativeness.

I hope your grandfather comes to understand he's not at fault for this absolute bullshit. My father is almost afraid to ask me to fix his systems because he's too proud to keep coming to me with issues - he used to be the technical one!
The bias is more that we go through cars faster

Is that true though? Average length of car ownership is at an all-time high of over 8 years. It was under 5 years just 20 years ago. Maybe length of ownership doesn't correlate to length of car life, but seems like a strong signal that car quality and lifespan is going up.
"A just tax would be a consumption tax."

I don't want a just tax I want a tax system that is effective. When vast amounts of wealth continually become concentrated in the hands of a tiny amount of people, the only effective tax regime is one that extracts wealth from the people who have all the wealth.
Author here. I actually was not aware of cmark.ex - thanks for pointing it out.

In this case the code reuse was more important than pure native speed. We already had a Rust library that used pulldown-cmark [1] with some custom tweaks that we wanted to duplicate. Maybe this behavior could have been copied using cmark.ex too (we thought about doing this in pure Elixir, as mentioned in the post), but given how straightforward Rustler made integrating our existing code, this seems like the better choice.

[1] https://github.com/raphlinus/pulldown-cmark
I've shared this before in a previous thread but I'll do so again: https://wall.org/~aron/blog/

This blog has had a huge impact in my life and I'll be forever grateful to Aron for uploading it to the internet and also grateful to Fede_V who shared the blog in this HN comment a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18176929

My life is much more fun and fulfilling thanks to its influence.

There are lots of other great blogs but none have had as great of an impact on my outlook.