skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice to hear. It's been a long time now that Intel has been affirmatively on the open-source side. Not always evenly, & in every product, but they've definitely been a friend. Lots of great support, lots of tools, usually decent documentation (unlike many computer chips) that's usually easy to get (again unlike many computer chips).

And beyond that, Intel has often gotten how vital it is to keep a healthy ecosystem. When things seem kind of stale, Intel often steps in. A couple folks at Intel had a huge huge hand in driving forward USB & seemingly also in making sure it was semi-accessible to the world, adoptable. Intel saw a bunch of ultra-expensive proprietary SSD systems being made & drove forward the creation of NVMe standard to make sure the market remained healthy.

Thunderbolt still seems like a mixed bag, but I guess we can't win em all. ;) It indeed went royalty free, but I don't think there's a clear specification folks can implement. And certification by Intel is mandatory for all products.

> An example like this shows how our collective future – our collective potential – is unlocked when we enable openness, choice, and trust among us.
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> This is why I fundamentally believe in an open source bias, which powers the software-defined infrastructure that transformed the modern data center and ushered in the data-centric era.

Point A sounds amazing & lovely to me. But point B is kind of sad. Because from the open, collective future, we've gotten unimaginably vast inside-the-firewall worlds that most of humanity can't see, can't learn about, doesn't have any power or choice in. Unlike the personal computer, data-centers are facets ofcontrol & authority, and I have little love for the open, collectivized world being used as industrial reagents to develop some of the most un-learnable objects possibly in the galaxy. That these points are so close together in this letter made the contrast all the more immediate to me.

Anyhow, one question... how is Intel's Open-source Technology Center (OTC) fairing? They have made so much good software over the years. Powertop is one everyone uses. I use their connman & iwd software over ye'old NetworkManager & enjoy it a lot, loved that it had ahead-of-their-time capabilities like wifi-p2p early. There's a lot of random good things of varying levels of need in Linux that 01.org has helped with over the years, and I'm curious what to look for going forwards. Efforts like OneAPI seem to be the main message, but there's a lot of general ecosystem health that Intel would pitch in with in open source. And notably few other chip companies on the planet that do or did anything like this.
FWIW this is the explanation by the lead on the project:

https://twitter.com/BenDelarre/status/1453038054503944194

TL;DR they're using everything that's on the standards track - just waiting for the others to implement them
How surprising /s
It's actually way below efficient: a Bitcoin only costs $7-11k to mine at scale. [0]

https://minerdaily.com/2021/how-much-does-it-cost-to-mine-a-...
From the article:

> And although free search engines such as Google Scholar have — with publishers’ agreement — indexed the text of paywalled literature, they only allow users to search with certain types of text queries, and restrict automated searching. That doesn’t allow large-scale computerized analysis using more specialized searches, Malamud says.
Honestly curious, how can riding 500 miles in a day be pleasurable? The only time I've done that is in a road trip in a car and it wasn't nice even with friends, climate control, no wind in my face, cruise control, and music/podcasts.

Were you just riding 500 miles around for fun or to get somewhere? Was it the scenery or just the ride?
Transparency is not enough. If the decision is "we ban everything that the Troika we appointed finds not to its liking" - it's transparent, but not helpful and has nothing to do with "integrity". Transparency is good, but not enough.
CQRS on its own isn't really going to get you what you want here as it's more about separating commands from queries.

For auditing, rewind, recovery, change history and other perks then Event Sourcing would be closer to the solution - but you shouldn't really be choosing ES just for those perks. ES should mostly only be considered in situations where complex data and business rules are being interacted with by simultaneous actors (financial systems might be one example).

I'd caution against going with ES just for the sake of auditing as it is quite the paradigm shift in both client and server architecture and you will need to be comfortable with eventually consistent systems and higher overall system complexity.
> This is just desperate whataboutism

Wat
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Nothing groundbreaking here. Ever heard of the Associated Press?

When dealing with large complex issues you need to collaborate to try and provide accurate reporting. It's best to operate under the assumption that most reporting is incomplete or it contains inaccuracies lest you fall for the trap of believing you have a perfectly accurate picture of reality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press
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Interesting, I hadn't considered doing this with triggers. I made my current stack save the user, time, and a diff of all changes to an event log (along with all the trace IDs.)

Harder to set up, and error prone to not save (if something crashes), but it works on non-database endpoints too.
Now former Google exec.
> Those towns are filled with indigenous people and Canada pays many to be part of a para military force in case of invasion or just to provide ground level information .

Okay but that's not about claiming the territory.

> Hans island is in dispute between Greenland and Canada and both countries visit every year to plant a flag. Having a settlement if possible year round would make the claim stronger.

Okay, that's a tiny island. Far over 99% of the land is not in dispute, and doesn't need towns to stop it from being in dispute. And even there, they don't bother to have anyone live on it! I feel like this island supports the idea that these populations are disconnected from land claims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nares_strait_border_(Kenn...

Also wow it super does not matter who owns this island when the strait is already split right down the middle.

> The northwest passage is seeing Russian / US subs crossing without permission. Having a population creates a stronger claim for situations like this.

How so? I could see how an active port could physically get in the way of sneaking through, but I don't see at all how a town gives canada a better claim for keeping those subs away.
I‘m not sure. The article only says, that tenured personnel is dispersed among other departments. This seems to imply that these people simply cannot be let go, because they are tenured. (But one wants them to go and their positions might not be filled again if they do.)
I have at least some control (though small) over the politics that control my nation's fiat currency. I feel I have much less control over 51% of the mining community. Considering that, why should I feel its more democratic?
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Some would argue that Bitcoin Cash is the real Bitcoin. People have to fight for the name when there is a fork. Miners were fighting for a different chain and actually lost
a pigouvian tax attempts to attain an economic optimum, while a sin tax disregards it, and in fact, blows right past and into economic inefficiency. by your own admission, you're making an non-economic argument (for sin taxes), and that was the point.
that's basically Julia. take lisp, remove the s expressions and add a bunch of really good math libraries and you've just reinvented Julia.
Yes, but my point here largely rests on the literal definition of the word "whistleblower" itself and how the use of that word, and who uses that word, impacts how issues are framed.

The US Government has, in a seemingly bipartisan fashion, pre-emptively branded Haugen a whistleblower. They've used the word before any debate over whether or not this is a whistleblower, has taken place. This person is assumed to be acting for the public good.

Manning, Snowden and Assange were not afforded that presumption. Instead they are first presumed to be guilty of revealing state secrets. They are not presumed to be acting for the public good.

Presumption of innocence for those who serve the government's interests. Presumption of guilt for those who expose the government's wrongdoings.
If you could take a computer, and reliably select a subset of resources and give only those to a process, it would scratch a lot of itches in the world. Mainframes have been doing this since 1967 with MFT, and its successors.

It's highly unfortunate that this can't seem to be done in systems with millions of times the compute resources, decades later. /s
Recent AI stuff from major labs on Arxiv is pretty good, but yeah, anything that's AI+some other field is usually pretty bad. It's usually written by someone in that other field who might be an expert in their own domain, but who knows very little about AI or even just numerical optimization in general. The fact that such "work" is accepted uncritically by publishers doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the value they purportedly add. It's right on the surface: "awesome" results are easy to achieve in AI if you screw up your train/val split, or deliberately choose an extremely weak baseline.
“Money doesn't interest me” – Creator of Blender talks about its future (2018)
100% agree, it is also impossible to quantify so can never really be a useful factor in decision making.

And Python is not a business with customers. It’s an open source volunteer project.
Ah, gotcha. I think we are in agreement then.
Oh yeah, in TBP, the translation notes noted some references to Ball Lightning, so they're definitely within the same universe.
> Central bank policies are not subject to voting by people. Did any of us vote for bailouts, QE?.

Isn't the role of a central bank to enact monetary policy and to contribute to financial stability? I mean, actively working to stabilize the value of money and to ensure inflation meets the government's policy goals, which are motivated by the need to ensure the economy stays healthy, don't sound like something that creates controversy. I mean, do we really need a vote do check if we want Zimbabwean hyperinflation?

Given the alternative is the perpetual risk of seeing the value of your currency halve in less than a week, like BTC experienced a few months ago, how exactly is the service provided by a central bank bad or undesirable?
It's volume on the exchanges. People trading back and forth on the exchanges shows up on the order book and influences the price. As you point out, USD is not the only currency BTC trades to.

But let's say they do $2B USD per day. That still seems to be plenty, given that supply is meeting demand.
now: google calendar, search for 'lunch with peter norvig'

2002: maybe iCal
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That is a slippery slope. Are you SURE WhatsApp doesn't auto forward all communications to itself AFTER the users read them? That too silently so you have no way of knowing
Yes (sort of). This is just a bunch of triggers that populate audit tables. In Mongo you'd use change streams (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/changeStreams/) which are based off the oplog.

Thus it requires a "replicaset" but it's fine to run a single node replicaset.
It would be more helpful if you could actually state an opinion or viewpoint rather than linking to a whole book (which, unless I'm missing it, doesn't even have a description).
If you can't think of one person who was banned by Facebook and isn't a troll farm, you're either very ignorant in the matter - which is ok, nobody knows everything, and it may not be a subject that is of interest to everybody - or pretending to be. I am not sure if there's hundreds - I personally know cases definitely well into two figures, but probably less than a hundred. But I don't do any systematic research on the subject, it's just what I hear from my acquaintances (none of whom work for any troll farms) or read in the press (usually when somebody high-profile enough gets banned). So I estimate there are many more cases than I personally know. Which would take it easily into hundreds.
I really enjoy Stephenson's work. If you have yet to read any of his stuff i'd recommend starting with Cryptonomicon
> nobody is dumb enough to eat this stuff

I think we can agree, at least, that the intersection of "people smart enough to devise a way to ingest this without premature combustion of the head" and "people dumb enough to do it" is probably n<1
The "word" segmentation seems pretty off, even for these hallucinated words and meanings. Are they generated by the same model?
Do these articles really mean we can stop vaccinating? If these articles are correct, then why are we still at 70k cases per day?

The only reason to not vaccinate kids is because the virus is not spreading anymore. That doesn't seem to be the case.
If you read further, the point is expanded on. Said another way, consider that we move to Bitcoin tomorrow, those billionaires would control 60% of Bitcoins instead. And as I said, its still not equivalent to the count of those controlling the exchange of money. Its simply a red herring to show a smaller number.
I recently had my internet snapped last month and I did not want reddit to know "last 90 days IP access log" so I had a dormant account and I wrote a post locally, called a friend living overseas and made him login to that dormant account and I dictated the text.
> from a mix of political backgrounds.

What kind of mix? There are different mixes. A mix of Socialist, Communist, Antifa, Democratic Socialist, Democrat and Left Anarchist certainly qualify as "a mix of political backgrounds", but doesn't exactly represent a broad spectrum of opinions on many important questions.
I love these hands-on write-ups! This one is particularly well written and thoughtful. It makes me feel I could follow along and do it myself.

For me, the posts underlines the argument that you’ll feel better if you stick to the tools or languages you know.

The $RET$ hack smells weird. Can you join the lines before flushing it down the markdown renderer?
I think the article misses the point on what a billionaire tax and a progressive tax system in general should be about. Tax systems in modern societies are not solely about generating income for the state but to a part also about distributing wealth more fair.

We are coming from a time where the marginal tax rates were between 70% and 90%. Now it‘s under 40%. [1] This is probably one reason why we came to the point were we have to discuss billionaires tax in the first place.

[1]https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/course/Labortaxes/taxableinco...
Thing is, though, USD is controlled by an even smaller group. Between BTC and fiat, BTC seems like a safer choice at the moment - at the very minimum you can't just go ahead and double the supply. Obvs, not financial advice and all that.
I used hired.com in the past with mixed success.

This recruiter is really good at matching talent with companies: https://recruitmyfriends.com/
> Loved the ebook, and now want to buy 20 paper copies for your friends? Just $4 each, so $80 total for 20 hardcover books.

Lost me here. Each of those friends would be expected to pay for the content also, in the same way you cannot legally buy 1 MP3 and share with 50 people.
I still don't see how a millionaire giving away 1/10 of his wealth lowers their quality of life. Unless you think a QoL of 15/10 is acceptable.
There's some percentage of people that always want to pay the lowest price and if the product turns out to be fake they return it. Say you order 100 things over a month and 5% turn out to be fake the only cost is time (Amazon pays for shipping if the product is fake I believe). That's compared to paying 10% more on every product plus the time it takes to go to the store.
I was wondering if extracting geothermal energy could prematurely cool the Earth's core.

Here's a few answers:

https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2302/can-th...
Sure, the basic version of this exists now and is being sold for less than a dollar. As chips get even more efficient, these sorts of devices will be able to break into new use cases.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/12/28/battery...
I love Lisp and Scheme and all their relatives (Clojure, Logo, Racket, etc.). However, the fact of the matter is, Common Lisp has not kept up with modern developments in terms of presenting a cohesive ecosystem with forward momentum. Everybody is off on their own doing their own thing with no shared goals or cohesion.

Clojure seems to have this (I have not used Clojure much, so I don't really know). Elixir definitely has this. I think Elixir is the language ecosystem to look at in terms of having a solidified core language that is essentially done, and now the goal is to continue to flesh out the ecosystem with things like Nx, Axon, Livebook, Liveview, Mix improvements, Phoenix, etc. Elixir is pretty similar to Lisp/Scheme anyway given its macros, ability to live update, dynamically typed programming, but it goes well beyond any Lisp/Scheme (and many modern languages) in terms of having a practical but expansive ecosystem with a strong set of idiomatic conventions.
It sort of both. There is probably more cool stuff out there today in absolute numbers, but less in relative terms as the businesses pushing clickbait and blogspam come in. The percentage of cool stuff decreases even as the amount increases, so it becomes harder to find even as it becomes more abundant.
It’s a cube truncated to preserve three adjacent faces. Both the solid prism and hollow (just mirror surfaces) work as practical retroreflectors. You can’t build machine tools, semiconductor processing tools, or accurately tighten the bolts that hold on a 777’s wing without them. If you have an array of them on the moon, you can measure the distance to the moon, at one instant, to an accuracy of a millimeter.
I'm not talking about trust, I'm talking about financial motivation.

We don't need to trust miners for bitcoin to work and if we do trust them, what is the downside to someone who is just validating transactions?

They built a better gold. People trust gold. They put the majority of it into vaults and trust the people who run those vaults. This is the best solution anyone has ever come up with to digitize gold. It doesn't tick all the boxes 100% and isn't perfect, but it sure does one single thing well.

The world revolves on financial transactions. I wish I could have said that I built something that can be validated by anyone at any time and then get people all over the world to freely invest insane amounts of capex/opex. All without a marketing budget or CEO. It has never been done before.
As far as I know, Polio is similar to Covid. I believe it is far less contagious compared to Covid. Can you help me understand why Polio is worse than Covid?
> an older LTS version of Python

There was an older LTS version of Python called Python 2.7. Last I checked people hated the transition and were still bitching about it in 2021.
I mean, phrasing aside, it seems to be working?

Recommend some of those better ways to promote EV?
Yes it is. But bitcoin has an even greater degree of inequality, way beyond. Almost all the bitcoin is in the hands of a few thousand people.
The Fed has a pretty straightforward mission to balance inflation and employment. If they're doing a bad job of that, then the president or congress (acting on behalf of the people) can act to hold them accountable. If congress decides that's no longer the right mission, they can pass a law changing it.

And there are countless historical examples (even recent) of peaceful or violent protests causing change to corrupt governments.
Blogs don’t make money, that’s about it. They don’t rank and content is paid for by interest groups and corporations.

If you want interesting stuff you’ll have to go to the fringe.
Totally agree, it was my intro to his work.

I’d also recommend “Mother Earth Mother Board”, an essay of his also in Wired about the laying of an intercontinental fiber cable. Hugely enjoyable and a good peek into his writing.
Does that monopoly result in increased cost for the customer? I assume there is harm to the general economy the problem is quantifying that and also convincing people to pay more for something.
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> Observe how _nobody_ can make a laptop that's better than MBP in spite of having several _decades_ to observe what Apple does.

I have noticed it in few other industries, I just find it amazing that some companies just dont want to change when you can clearly see that your competitor has a better product.
It’s a simple word. Racism.
I have heard of FAANG. I guess M stands for Microsoft. Who's ULA?
It may also be because only software developers call themselves that.

If you look up computer programmers or analysts suddenly it's not that lopsided (they are not even the first group).
What efforts has DDG actually taken to build a decentralized search index or anything to that degree? Do they make profit, and is their business model literally just acting as a proxy for Bing and what not?
Amazon does offer recommendations based on an algorithm while a book store either has similar books all in one section ordered in a more traditional fashion (maybe alphabetical).
I'd consider the deflation to be a tax.
This is an interesting article; crewscale is a B2B company that works with developers and businesses. Crewscale's hiring process is intended to find not only qualified candidates with the necessary technical skills, but also those with relevant domain expertise.

https://www.crewscale.com/
Nah, Snow Crash. And then Anathem.
Well services generally shouldn't be controlling what software can connect either!

The argument over whose computer it is applies pretty similarly. My computer is not part of their infrastructure, and they should only be controlling the software on their infrastructure.
Yeah, the primitive vs advanced brain struggle is real. Unfortunately it doesn't quite translate to social systems.

In the quest for ever increasing safety, someone might ban tap water because one guy choked on it. That would be hilarious.
Also: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
I wonder how many attorneys have a good understanding of prior art for patents in computing.

Judges, juries, and the patent office don't seem to.

And as Sparkfun points out, this patent is nonsense and should not have been granted in the first place.
So far as I understand it's a lot more than that. Their model has not only indexed but has also individually classified 900M+ citation statements by sentiment, the outputs of which produce a score to represent each paper's relative trustworthiness.

To your point though it's fun to think about generative applications too. I for one would appreciate a writing assistant trained on millions of scientific papers -- like OK I'll write that last-minute proposal for you but you better believe it's going to be chock-full of dispensable lexical arcana.
> Users have the money. If there's a fork, users can value one side higher than the other and then developers and miners will follow the money.

As the article shows, BTC's user side of the equation is actually controlled by a small group of investors. Thus, users like you and me have absolutely zero control or influence over the value of BTC, and are vulnerable to the manipulation done by this small group of investors.

We already saw BTC's value tank to half in a matter of days. How do you explain that as being something that meets the users' best interests?
It seems like Bitcoin's value is at least partly based on it being fungible to USD. Even though you can technically turn it into many currencies, would a halved USD value not influence the value of BTC as well?