skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter is like click-bait, but without the actual article.

Prominent personalities spew cryptic "profound" comments. The masses are supposed to fawn over them and speculate whatever this enlightened sage might mean by it. Like we just discovered the meaning of life scrawled on an ancient rock if only we could decipher those symbols.

My advice is ignore any prediction unless there's enough data and logic to back them up. Even if someone has a track record of predicting correctly, there's little to gain when you have no substance to triangulate between viewpoints and form your own view.

There might be some utility in looking at a poll of subject matter experts asked the same question(s), or a prediction market, but one person's idle speculation is noise.
"Well-established scientific consensus" may not be perfect, but may I challenge you to provide an alternative with a better track record? It generally takes in new information and self-corrects over time. As I mentioned to someone else in this threat, Issac Asimov's essay "The Relativity of Wrong" may be old but it's still very relevant today.
I think about this all the time. The combining of seemingly unrelated skills brings new perspectives and it helps people go from being cogs to creators.
Raising interest rates won't be easy — up to 30% of the federal budget could be spent servicing the debt. From Drunkenmiller's interview in May of this year:

"[Drunkenmiller] projects that if yields on the ten-year Treasury rise to the projected level of 4.9%, the government would be spending close to 30% of GDP each year simply paying back interest expense (compared to 2% last year) unless it monetizes the debt, which experts think is unlikely and Druckenmiller believes would have “horrible implications” for the U.S. dollar." [0]

The Fed has less actions available than you expect. Either the Fed lets inflation run hot, or the Fed raises interest rates to combat inflation, wiping out discretionary programs from the federal budget.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/05/11/bil...
Build facilities to rehabilitate drug addicts and facilities to treat and house the mentally ill. Allowing those who cannot take care of the themselves to roam the streets and engage in behavior that is self-destructive and destructive to society is not compassionate or logical - its a system that has proven to be a failure.
This gives me idea: Train GAN from music videos and then generate music videos!
If you want me to believe that "profit motive" is aligned with "public interest", why is everybody running to the regulators to clear this instead of spending money?

It's a bit disingenuous to suggest that "profit motive" is aligned with "public interest" in the face of all the current evidence we have in other sectors that is quite to the contrary.

To start, it is not at all clear that super low cost, super low friction shipping from China is, in fact, in the general US public interest. But it is in the interest of WalMart. And it is in the interest of Amazon.

For example, from the standpoint of the public interest, consuming fewer Christmas goods (which are mostly disposable garbage and which is what the Asian shippers are all rushing to get transported) is probably preferable. A great deal of Asian garbage which is destined to be US garbage is currently clogging out the shipping of goods which have a steady demand and are far more necessary to the functioning of the economy.

You will note that "increased foreign shipping friction causing goods to be manufactured locally again" is not on the discussion table because it is not part of an agenda that people in the shipping industry wish to countenance.
Did you see how much they want for this? The hardcover is nearly $100.
I agree that tech CEOs say a fair amount of dumb shit (because they tend to be brainstorming, free associative thinking types) but if you think any guy off the street could have been Jack Dorsey, if the dice had just rolled differently, then I would disagree hard.
At the moment we have a monetary system that's a debt based monetary system. In practice this means that many people are operating under the assumption that someone's liability is someone else's asset, I think this assumption is rather systemic at the moment. Beyond a certain level of indebtedness a rise in interest rates triggers off a chain of defaults and that can cause a situation of credit contagion. An uncontrolled credit contagion event could very conceivably destroy the financial system. Much power is currently held by creditors and they will likely try to fight any attempts to change policy in such a way that reduces their power.

Here's a much more long form article that talks about the dynamics in play: https://desogames.substack.com/p/the-problem-is-too-big
Then use useful idiots (Twitter users) for your political advantage.

Historical context: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.robesonian.com/opinion/1359...
The universe may be conscious, say prominent scientists
Sounds like Liuson needs to be removed from Microsoft. I'm not usually looking for blood, but since they put this feature back it confirms that there was no good reason for it to be removed other than pure greed.
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...
> what is the mechanism that creates people like this.

I think it's pretty straightforward: take one part a person who sees an opportunity to earn a sizable income, and one part a person with ethics different than yours. And there you go. It's not complex.
Proton wins appeal in Swiss court over surveillance laws
Oh, was not aware that youtube was part of the federal government.
Simple. As your interest increases, sondo your payments as a % of taxes

At some point, if interest payments are too big of a slice off total spend, investors will start believeing the debt will never be repaid... And thus monetise debt instead.
Debt levels being high means that a significant portion of the revenue is there to service the interest payments and the remaining is not enough to cover all other expenses.
Therefore you either raise more debt, or default.
> There's no technical reason they can't, but practically, a central, easily discernible destination appeals to those looking to monetize their content.

That is very similar to what was mentioned up-thread:

> [..] we need to start by addressing the root cause of this concentration: Centralization is required to capture profit.

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> Email is a one-to-one (or few) channel vs broadcast. Completely different.

ActivityPub / Diaspora / Friendica were also mentioned; email was about interop between software and service providers.

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> The arguments about decentralization/federation remind me of the early days of the Net, wherein there was so much talk of democratization, but here we are (unfortunately).

Also mentioned up-thread:

> The idea of disintermediation was central to the emancipatory visions of the Internet, yet the landscape today is more mediated than ever before.
Some of these comments make sense, but this guy loves hyperbole.

> This is a negative feedback loop that is rapidly cycling out of control that if it continues unabated will destroy the global economy.

No, the global economy won't be destroyed because of backed up cargo ships in LA/Long Beach. Don't be ridiculous Ryan.
Maybe it’s not a simple problem, in engineering we’re used to cause and effect in a system. With human scale problems it’s more like observing a cat than a machine responding to inputs. It seems to me you could fill a page of bullet points with the many causes of homelessness in SF.

If that really is true, then it makes sense to have someone familiar Guide you through various aspects of the problem. Especially the non-obvious parts.
The first mention of Christianity is one in which it is rejected

"In Plato’s Timaeus, God does not create the universe, as does the Christian God; He simply finds it one day. It is in a state of total chaos. God sets to work to transform the chaos into order. That idea appeals to me, and I have adapted it to fit my own intellectual needs: What if our universe started out as not quite real, a sort of illusion, as the Hindu religion teaches, and God, out of love and kindness for us, is slowly transmuting it, slowly and secretly, into something real?"
Yes, I've had a man hate my mother so much he cyber stalked her, found pictures of one of my younger prepubescent sisters, and sent her daily messages about all the disgusting things he'd do to her along with pictures of her.

But my mother isn't a damsel in distress who runs away when people try to act stupid.

She called him pathetic, asked a favor from a friend who doxxed him, reported him to the police, and continued on about her day and posting on the internet.

It's the internet. Turn it off if you don't like what you see.

"And this is why I carry a firearm" says my mother.

The internet is fake and if someone physically stalks + attacks you, just shoot and kill them. You're sort of asking for it.

I really don't have a lot of empathy for people telling sob stories about the internet being mean to them.

You could be being brutally raped , tortured, slowly mutilated in some third world shithole.

You ever see Narcos videos of what some of the cartel members do to torture people, or the absolutely FUCKED ways they invent to slowly and painfully kill you?

Or how about Japanese human experimentation during war, with live, unaesthetized vivisections on women and children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Vivisection

Or freezing your limbs in the cold until frozen solid, then whacking your limbs with sticks and shattering them like icicles, all while you're still alive and lucid watching this happening.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Frostbite_testing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Rape_and_forced_pre...

That's a bad time. These people I feel bad for.

But being unpopular on the internet? Grow up IMO.
I remember first encountering Thai food around 1990ish and it seeming pretty exotic then. In the Chicago suburb where I live there are four within the boundaries of the suburb plus another nine in the adjacent suburbs.

When I lived in the near north side of Chicago there were easily a dozen Thai restaurants in the area bounded by the river, North Avenue and Wells Street, all of which had really nice decor, locations that couldn't possibly be cheap and menus at ridiculously low prices. I'm still not convinced that they weren't part of some sort of money laundering operation.

The big thing that I think Thai offers is that it feels light and satisfying and healthy and delicious all at once in a way that other ethnic cuisines generally don't. The Bohemian cuisine that I grew up with was satisfying and delicious but definitely neither light nor healthy.
Probably worth noting that many of these applications used the Harris RTX2010 CPU. This was based on Charles Moore's (inventor of Forth language) work on two-stack CPU design ie: CPUs based on the Forth VM architecture.
These machines built by Harris were rad-hardened silicon on sapphire and so were deemed good for space applications.

The CPU could run 12 MIPS with a 10 MHZ clock while having no pipeline. Rather instructions were bit encoded in a single memory cell so some could be executed in parallel.

Single cycle sub-routine call with zero overhead for return from sub-routine. Two cycle interrupt. (if memory serves me well)
Pretty cool.
The Homeless Industrial Complex is as responsible for maintaining the conditions in SF as Chesa and his hands-off enforcement policies are.

A lot of strife in our society today can be attributed to non-profits being incentivized to keep their raison d'être continuing in perpetuity.
So you’re saying his own experiences should be dismissed because he didn’t gather information through “official” channels?
Also, no president or congress wants to be at the helm of a ‘self inflicted’ recession. Every politian just kicks the can down the road.
Are you loading your projects from a network mount? Because the timings you're giving don't make any sense for those specs. I could believe it if the files aren't local though since VS does a lot of disk IO in the solution directory.
sure we are seeing inflation now, but the last many years, we have seen none to deflation, its a natural correction.
I started off with Windows development. Later on I developed using Windows terminal and WSL. I've also done development on Mac. Then one fine day I tried Linux. It blew my mind. What is coming to Windows now is a pale imitation of what Linux has been having for decades. Amazing terminals, terminal multiplexers, tiling window managers, keyboard driven tools, package managers...

I really regret those years lost.
Do you disagree that aggregate personal income was massively enhanced through stimulus spending? The facts show this.

You seem very intent on not considering that fact when it's the most obvious factor by a wide margin, with all of the data supporting it.

Are you aware of the size of federal deficit spending in 2020/2021? The level of monetary policy easing leading to more credit availability to consumers?

It's intellectually dishonest to attribute elevated retail sales solely, or even primarily to the substitution effect
'Panpsychism' Takes Hold in Science
Go take a walk through a housing project in Baltimore or Brooklyn and you won't have any doubts about the situation or have to trust the opinion of someone else. Just make sure you get your affairs in order first.
Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden
Almost all blue collar workers I know complain about how clueless their management is to operations on the ground. A complete "failure of common sense".

Bottom up communication isn't effectively or really in place because command comes from the top down. In many cases their boss and bosses boss never even worked a yard or understand the fundamental realities at the bottom.
The last two years make me think the government is quite capable of "doing nothing to stop" bad things from happening.

It is no longer ridiculous- I mean, they're working on trillions of dollars of economic stimulus as we speak, in the middle of an inflationary economy. You don't think that that will add fuel to the fire?
Anecdote: Number of departures around me has increased but not significantly. At least half of the people who departed was because companies they wanted to work for no longer required them to move to new state (ahm.. California). Number of recruiters cold emailing me has gone up at least 2X. Open positions are harder to fill these days.
> The court confirmed that email services can’t be considered telecommunications providers in Switzerland, and therefore are not subject to data retention requirements.

That's a great development. I think I read previously that their VPN service was also not covered by the data retention requirement, which meant that they were in the odd position of hiding your IP address from themselves. Bootstrapping the sign-up process for that using Tor and cryptocurrency might have been a bit difficult though.
Has there ever been a society that was not full of manufactured realities?
People just get distributed when the new ones are different than the ones they grew up with, but shit doesn’t change.
It's easy to blame the system instead of making people take personal responsibility for their actions.
Taking time to stop and look at a problem is for simpletons? I don't think thats right.
What’s “AP” here?
It's also easy to blame the system when the system has failed miserably. There is plenty of blame to go around.
The height that containers can be stacked on sites in Long Beach outside of the Port of Long Beach are governed by the city's zoning regulations. Until today the limit was 2 containers, and all of the sites were occupied so there was literally no more capacity in the entire city to store empty containers.

Today the 2 container limit was temporarily suspended which essentially raises the limit to 6 containers - the max height at which most stackers operate. That's a 3x increase in empty container storage capacity which should give the system some wiggle room.
Perhaps this speaks to your point, but the situation is just as bad in the outlying Central Valley cities. There are currently people camping on the embankment of Highway 120 through Manteca. Stockton's situation only kept getting worse after the 2008 recession, and there are tent camps in drastically unsafe areas along the freeway shoulder there as well. This has been going on for years.

It's definitely a regional problem, not just something isolated to a single city. I often wonder if people move around from town to town as their connections in the community shift, or they get a bad rep with local law enforcement... a friend who was formerly an EMT had an anecdote of a woman he picked up in Antioch for a meth-induced mental health incident who he saw, years later, stumbling around outside the hospital in Oakland in much the same state.

I think it's entirely possible that people come to SF or LA as an intentional destination and then, over time, get flushed towards the outlying cities, if they don't get ground into the dirt first. The current Atlantic article about the changing meth trade features a transgender person on skid row in LA who came there from the Midwest, believing that they could eventually gain access to gender reassignment surgery: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
More than anything… being remote gave everyone a wide playing field. Both for employers and employees. Employers started to look out all over the country ( sometimes world ) to find talent and employees jobs. If it’s remote, you don’t need change your settlement and still make more money and further your career at convenience and from same office room.
Poverty is the cause of drug addiction.

That explains the rampant drug abuse in the wealthy?
Yep. I remember the early visualizers did indeed display something akin to frequency spectral data. I wrote a few visualizers for SoundJam (later iTunes) and the API was exactly that: left and right bucketed spectral data.

I know, bar graphs got a little tiresome so people tried writing more interesting stuff but at some point the "visualizer" became so disconnected from the music that even if you paused the audio the fireworks and "flow fazing" just kept right on doing its thing.
Mandatory sheltering, mandatory substance abuse treatment, work requirement. I'm sure state government can provide sufficient jobs - the number of the homeless is not that huge (yet) in absolute terms. I'd also argue that shelter is not #1 problem - if anything this is one of the easier problems to solve. To have shelter you don't need to provide hotel type housing - hostel / dormitory type stuff with shared facilities would be quite sufficient. As far as I can tell, substance abuse is the main problem. There are shelters in Seattle area, but they require that people who stay in them are sober. So they just don't go there and shoot up drugs in their tents instead. Now they'll just be shooting up drugs in government provided (AKA taxpayer funded) $300K-each hotel rooms. I'm sure that'll work well, for the cartels and the various "nonprofit" hangers on. Local populace might think differently though.

There will be a small subset of people who can't support themselves due to disability and such, and I'd be OK with providing such folks permanent housing. I don't want anyone freezing to death on the sidewalk. Everyone else needs "tough love" as you put it.

There was actually an illustrative example in the public hearing: after the county representatives were done telling everyone how expensive it is to put people in jail, a former homeless person came up to the mic and told people how, if it wasn't for jail (where he ended up for stealing a bicycle to sell in order to get his next meth hit) he'd likely be dead now.

Jail is clearly not the answer, but forced rehab MUST be part of the answer. We will lose 100K people (yes, go check the stats for last year) this year to overdoses alone. We shouldn't pretend people can get off the needle on their own somehow, or that hard drugs are somehow socially acceptable.

And able bodied folks should be required to work, and pay what they can. Otherwise they aren't ever getting out their predicament. SF should have taught our local government something, but apparently they're so dumb they can't put 2 and 2 together anymore. It's now down to who signals the most virtue and funnels the most taxpayer money to the right nonprofits.
“ Introducing Worldcoin, a new cryptocurrency”
Interesting. How does non-strict evaluation match?
So a rich person whose wealth consists of crypto currencies make a prediction that could motivate people to invest in crypto currencies and make the rich person even richer. Why exactly should we believe him again?
> "how he puts together a story, constructed layers, and characters," [..]

It is also a matter of involving syncretic ideas into the expanding dynamics to animate feelings fixedly and methodically. As Frank signifies, this book draws proportionately from the nature of sand, and how men (who have come to adopt religious attributions towards the climate, which begin from the autochthonous roots and expand to more complex 'felt' actions) behave in certain environmental conditions. This can be examined from the winding death of Kynes (the ecologist of Arrakis) as he comes to understand the futility of his efforts, and the fact that his planet only impassively accepted him as a submitted figure of service, a scene described as "important" for the overall significance of the story's political interpretation.

"""
... about the death of the planetary ecologist in "Dune" being a very touching spot, I think you said... a very moving... Well, I felt also it was a very significant point. A lot of the story swung around this: how the ecologist died. I thought it was very important that the planet killed the ecologist. Even though he planet... I mean, even though the ecologist was technically able to subdue anything within that... Well, there he lay dying.
"""

With this, you can begin to see the complex symbolism of most of the characters' traits and their responses to certain conditions. I fondly remember reading, in rather vagrant patterns between pages, Dune for the sake of understanding how these different interplays of ideas paved the methods of plot construction, nearly all of which seemed necessary to some extent to portray (in story and in sensation) contention, mystery and of course the parched, suffocating desert setting. The latter, which I have quoted, resounded with me especially. In light of the sudden reinterest for the Novel, I suppose I will be reading it more carefully this time around.

Another interesting point you mention is rhythm, both in meter (".. I wrote certain parts of it in haiku and other poetical forms, and then expanded them to prose to create a pace") and the progression of ideas. His slight bawdry way of describing it, these ideas arriving at a closing halt towards the end for a more evocative summarization and interpolation (satiation), even if these ideas sparsely appear in the peripheral mind after completing the novel, describes the connection quite fully. Of course, such an experience can only come from an honest reading of the work, and an appreciation of dynamics.
You can usually script the database setup and teardown and have the test suite use the same scripts you have available in a nix-shell.

pg_tmp [1] also helps

http://eradman.com/ephemeralpg/
No, it's the result of policies that tolerate and support people refusing to engage with society. Why don't you try going to Chinese slums and seeing if there's homeless? China is equally as capitalistic and has more wealth inequality than the US. And the same problems in housing costs. Homelessness is an American (West Coast liberal) problem. Funny how East Coast cities don't have these problems.
I think so. I'm still surprised by how often it seems to be ignored.