skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think I had my eyes opened during 2008 crisis and FED was effectively buying everything thrown at it.

They definitely did not. [1]

The bailouts were largely loans, ones that were repaid to the US government for a pretty substantial profit, not less. And assets the Fed took on were literally that, assets, which the Fed was profitably unwinding before COVID hit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_responses_to_t...
Left’s Attacks on Rittenhouse Are Part of a Plan to Cancel the 2nd Amendment
I really like approach of buildkite CI -- they use yaml, but this yaml can be produced by an executable script.

So you write yaml by hand for trivial cases, but once it get complex, you can just drop back to shell/python/ruby/node/whatever, implement any complex logic, and serialize results to plain yaml.
It can be both, but in US real estate historically was seen as a good way to park money. I will venture to say that you are an outlier. I remember renting with my SO. The jumps in rent were getting onerous to the point, when it became cheaper for us to actually buy a place.

But again, each situation varies. Before living with my now wife just like you I lived in a small apartment, because that was all I really needed at the time ( and it was very budget friendly ).
> Personally I think I prefer devices which offload the UI to a smartphone.

In concept, I agree. As you mention, in practice, the apps used nearly always collect data about you and the use of your devices to send back to the mothership.

That makes their use unacceptable to me. Requiring the use of a smartphone app is a showstopper.

But even if that wasn't the case, it seems odd to require me to provide a device of my own in order to use a machine. There are a lot of people who don't own a smartphone at all (and I will join their ranks once my current one dies). Why exclude that part of the market?
For people wondering what the numbers on cumulative emissions look like:

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$fi...
> "1. Raise interest rates and stop printing. Crazy inflation stops, but asset prices crash and we enter a major recession or depression. The end result will likely be unrest and blood in the streets."

no, blood and unrest is an unlikely end result of this scenario, though vested interests would really like us to think that. the more likely outcome is a redistribution of wealth toward the lower 99% (concomitantly with a shrunken pie), since the wealthy and powerful have the most, and the most inflated, assets in the first place. that's what they're protecting as if our lives depended on it. that's what the infrastructure+extra spending bills are about, not us little folks. this is why the deflation approach is so threateningly disfavored, because it would flatten the wealth curve.
> Nobody here has provided any actual clash with the argument.

Well, I did actually.
Surprisingly, Johnny Fiveaces shows up as a playable character in the excellent isometric "top-down" mech shooter, Brigador. [0] Unsurprisingly, he's terrible.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/274500/Brigador_UpArmored...
It makes financing anything else a breeze.

It makes you more money than you earn. Imagine if when you paid rent you got a cheque for twice what you paid in rent. I’m $12,000 in “rent” on my current place and it’s returned $123K, I moved in in May didn’t start paying rent til July.

When you’re done with it you can rent it and have someone else buy it for you.

The market might return slightly higher but with leverage (mortgages) the returns are unbeatable.

In Canada selling your primary residence is exempt from cap gains.

When you combine all of these factors with modern zoning and rent control laws you basically can’t lose money.

If you buy presale by the time the unit is built it rents for more than the mortgage.
Maybe the “normal” state of the world is some form of feudalism where most people own nothing? I often wonder if the 20th century with a rising middle class was just an aberration and things will go back to “normal”. The rising inequality seems to be a first indicator.
Urban Area Cost-of-Living as Big Tech Moats and Employee Golden Handcuffs (2018)
I was surprised the first time I saw Daniel J. Bernstein's qmail configuration. Qmail uses separate configuration files for each parameter being set. The directory /var/qmail/control contains most of these files.

For example, to set the maximum message size to by 10Mb and to set the timeout to be 30 seconds:

echo 10000000 > /var/qmail/control/databytes
echo 30 > /var/qmail/control/timeoutsmtpd

There are many more files like this that hold simple values. /var/qmail/control/locals is a file that is a list of domain names, one per line.

Dictionaries are just subdirectories with one file per entry, for example this is how aliases are defined to qmail:

echo fred > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster
echo fred > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon

See [1] for more about qmail.

DJB also created a simple, portable encoding for serializing data called netstrings, see [2]. XML, YAML, JSON, TOML, and INI files all have some advantages over netstrings, but netstrings are simple to understand and simple to parse correctly.

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/qmail/1565926285/ch04.h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netstring
+1. amethyst is a lot easier to use than yabai. yabai has more features though.
IBM achieves quantum computing breakthrough
> Real-time, encrypted chat apps ... these same conditions that have fueled abusive and illegal behavior, disinformation and hate speech, and hoaxes and scams; all to the detriment of the vast majority of their users.

I reject their framing. From the centralized perspective of Big Tech it's awfully convenient to blame user freedom. But while individuals can propagate disinformation among themselves, what really spreads it is for-profit men-in-the-middle "driving engagement". Social media especially has hijacked our sense of social proof. It would take a lot of social capital to directly message your friends with say Covid conspiracy theories ("you really believe this shit?"). Whereas with social media you can lazily broadcast it and the "algorithm" will emphasize it to people who seem receptive while hiding opposing opinions from them. Creating these isolated memetic bubbles practically guarantees a healthy breeding ground for disinformation.
"Do you shrug off flu vaccines because they're only effective for a year" Yes, indeed, I don't go out of my way to get a flu vaccine. Flu vaccine effectiveness is underwhelming, 30-40% on average, see https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/past-seasons-estimates....
I agree. Having to use a computer to check the status of a machine is very inconvenient compared to just looking at the machine.
Dostoevsky has done pretty well on HN this year: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

This review piece is particularly good, though, because it goes into detail about Anna, and because it's so delightfully written.
Umm an American company increasing chip production in China over America in this geo political env. is pretty traitorous. Like investing in Russia in the 60's.
At least Wikipedia has its edit history. Or is that also editable by "Wikipedia Gods" nowadays?
The really frustrating part being they don't need to become Manhattan to keep prices under control. If the areas zoned for single family in the Bay had been raised to 3-4 stories and multi-unit 30 years ago you could have tripled or quadrupled the number of people living in San Francisco without the need for any high rises. Human-scale neighbourhoods would still dominate the city. All the growth of the city could have been easily absorbed without high rises if mixed use mid rise development was allowed.

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, but the next best time is now and California is finally deciding to plant some trees.
I should just point out that this is the view of one body. There are many others out there (including established ones) that support crypto trading.
I just wish you would acknowledge your habit of rationalizing everything convenient for you.

You rationalized they would change when faced with your otherwise failed FAANG tour.

You rationalized staying with them through 20 months of the pandemic because what, you were scared? It was “responsible”? The stock priced mooned? You got addicted to the signing bonus from the first year and vesting cliff, and wanted 1 more year of that gravy train?

Bet you got your girlfriend during quarantine too and now something less convenient is about to happen if you don't ditch Facebook.

I would give you a pass if you kind of disclaimed your own shortcomings here.

2 year stints at a FAANG is so normal that this “profound” realization is as mockable as the people that announce mundane milestones on Linkedin (see @linkedinflex meme account for examples). Good on your for leaving.
If they are getting a salary, that's probably right. The general rule is the first hire gets about 1% and it goes gown from there. But, the range for 1-10 employees is about 1-0.1%. It doesn't sound like much, but think about it this way. 0.1 percent, when the company goes IPO at a 10 billion market cap is probably 40-50 million dollars.

If you aren't getting a salary, but are working, you're a co-founder and the equity should be higher.
Part of the problem with the first item you mentioned is that developers don’t really want to build cheap housing (I guess this is an assumption, but it makes sense financially.) They can make way more money catering to the people who can “afford” to build a $500k home, and people who want a very custom design and lots of space. On the renting end, “luxury” apartments will make more money than really basic cheap units. So most of the new housing stock doesn’t help address the problem for people new to housing. Even if you want to build out a very basic, small house, you have to have cash to DIY without a bank, or find some way to finance a builder (increasing the significant labor cost) without having existing equity. So the part of the market that does want cheap, basic housing doesn’t even have a way to influence those units. There is loads of demand for them (young people without money make up a huge portion of the population), but no developers willing to meet that demand when they can just make expensive units. And not enough developers so that some need to chase the cheap market.

And in cities, the lot cost is very prohibitive too, before even getting into building a very basic house.
Add another log on the fire. Most every major news story whose only sources were active/loyal-former intelligence agents in the past few decades has turned out to be a lie, or so unsubstantiated as to be indistinguishable from a lie. The CIA performs torture, overthrows legitimate governments by coup, and wages propaganda campaigns. They're not supposed to, but they have lied to the American public time and again. Every modern US war has been predicated on false pretenses and/or outright lies coming from intelligence agencies.
Magnetic Locking Without a Superconductor
Wouldnt you expect an asymptotically increasing curve of utility?

I.e. if the jump from 10-40 is 11% the jump from 40-70 would be strictly leq 11? Haven’t thought about this intuition too deeply, fair warning
Am I misunderstanding what this is or is this something that would benefit a lot from having a few screenshot in "what is this" part of readme?
Most of those 99% have retirements of some form or another, and have their wealth trapped in their house.
Welcome to Cory Doctorow. Enjoy your stay... or don't.

I don't find his style of writing persuasive, either, to the point where I believe that it isn't meant to be.
When I am faced with this sort of nonsense, and if I really need to make the purchase, I just make up whatever data they're asking for.
Even for a momentary shot of a doorknob in ‘The Matrix’, the camera had to be hidden—in the jacket: https://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/matrix-doork...
Ok. Buy was not an accurate verb here, but just because it was profitable it does not mean FED did not throw money at it. My main point stands.
Were you trying to do optimization using a binary outcome? I am not familiar with many packages that do this out of the box. Your implementation looks like a good start for the binary case, but you will get better results by computing expected improvement on the probability of winning, (i.e., Phi(f(x)), rather than f(x), where Phi() is the standard normal CDF). For more on why, see http://proceedings.mlr.press/v28/tesch13.pdf and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.09361.pdf. AFAIK this should be as simple as defining a simple MCAcquisitionObjective (https://botorch.org/docs/objectives) that passes samples through a torch.distributions.normal CDF. You can then just pass that objective into qNoisyExpectedImprovement. Feel free to open a botorch GH issue if you try this out or need help!

I would also recommend using many more raw_samples and random_restarts in opimize_acqf(). 512 and 20, respectively, are good defaults. The current values are much too small to be able to effectively optimize the acquisition functions.
Hi, author here. The original author of the repo gave me permissions to push because he didn't have time to maintain it.
Pieces snap together when moving passed each other, even if they aren't both in front. I just had a lot of fun exploiting this by stacking all the pieces on top of each other and then just "printing" the puzzle by moving the connected pieced past the pile.
It doesn't really matter if you add new stock at the top end or at the bottom end, people from the bottom move up, and make space at the bottom for new entrants. Any new stock you add increases supply, which leads to lower prices across the board.

[edit] and btw, I think builders aren't tripping over their shoelaces to service the low end of the market because they know the city is so aggressively capping how much they can build. This means they will only build the most profitable units, the high end today. But once the high end is saturated, the low end ones will be the profitable ones anyways.
Ukraine Wants to Be the Crypto Capital of the World
Yes: I would expect them each to be willing to bid up to $27
I am getting sick of all these behemoth corporations controlling my life. It's becoming harder to do anything without interacting with them at some point. They're completely inside you, and they know more about you than you do about yourself. Imagine Google simply as a search engine + email + office apps + youtube + maps. No login accounts besides GMail - kinda like how things were in circa 2005. Accounts used to be for the end customer, not for the ad client. Sell me dumb ads please.

Today, I am feeling pretty claustrophobic. Adobe Illustrator wants to know my date of birth. Your health data is probably processed using Google (Verily). My subway pass is probably validated using an Amazon software service. Microsoft knows your minesweeper highscore. Everything in life revolves around these 4-5 corporations as a write this message on an Apple computer.
I remember when they asked for your address as well. But, at every one I ever set foot in, they also took "no" for an answer.
> WMF Legal Director Jacob Rogers

But will he sell me a saucepan, or a cook's knife...?

https://www.wmf.com/en/
Sea Capital co-leads $725m round of blockchain gaming firm
Sounds like a policy that won't pass muster then. Making things work for marginalized groups and rural areas is pretty top priority, unless significant and warranted backlash is to be expected.
Interesting product, I personally am quite invested in getting humanoids into the hands of people. But I am quite sceptical... Note that everything here is computer generated (nothing here is real). Essentially this is a page of promises.

> Teddy’s Intelligence comes from a GPT conversational model and its custom-developed skills.

It's not going to be the sort of intelligence people are expecting, GPT is still just an algorithm mimicking understanding. You need to manage expectations better.

> Teddy’s freedom of movement comes from its 13 reactive Servo Motors with 19 DOFs.

In the picture it shows the robot holding a bottle. It won't do this very easily at all, especially a smooth bottle.

> Teddy’s Empathy comes from mood-tracking the owner and trying to influence his mood through AI.

Handy-wavy use of empathy - this has not yet been solved.

> We now want to develop some basic apps for Teddy. What would you build on top of it?

Unfortunately you will never get this thing to walk on all surfaces reliably. Bipedal walking is exceptionally difficult and your robot is going to fall over - a lot. Those Dynamixel motors will give out really quickly (the large gears). Your customers are not going to continue paying $100 a month after the first month when this thing breaks.

And this is the least of your worries. There are problems I am sure you are yet to even consider. For example, this thing weighs 2.3kg (5lbs). The motors need to at least be 15kg/cm (I'm guessing AX12). Their stall current will be upwards of 1A. 10 servos in stall condition (legs trapped for example) could be drawing 10A. But you can switch off the motors under special conditions? Then you need to handle back EMF (which will fry all of your motors). This thing is potentially a fire hazard.

My recommendation is to pivot towards a teddy puppy. Walking is easier (larger numbers of ground contacts), less motors (cheaper), less expectation of intelligence, etc. You can save on production costs and ship with a cheaper SBC, smaller battery (dog walk motions can be more efficient), reduce the cost of your platform and get more of your monthly instalments before the thing requires maintenance.
Yeah I chose amethyst because the ease of setup. It’s not 100% perfect but it works decent enough. I really like the tiling workflow for my desktop computer in conjunction with spaces. On my laptop I still prefer manual management. One thing I would like to add to the tiling setup is auto layout switching depending on which space and application is focused. I think there’s a way to do it but I haven’t gotten that deep in the tools to make that work.
Yeah, I spent too much time making it and not enough thinking about how I would explain what it does!

Thanks for the feedback.
What about an app store that can sell the suggestions in this thread?
But since local landowners consistently choose the most restrictive zoning possible to the detriment of society with things like urban sprawl, car-centric development and locking the poor and youth out from economic opportunity local control simply can't continue. It's completely unsustainable both economically and environmentally. Local control means wealthy control.
Just a little fun animation.
It is (1) a misdirection from the trouble they are in right now, and (2) a long-term undercurrent in the culture.

20 years ago I asked a philosophy student for a list of Baudrillard books and I got all of them except for this one

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22617.Seduction

which was a mistake because when I read it a few months ago I understood what computers really mean and what I've been doing with them all these years.

Something happened to me like something out of a comic book a few months ago and I manifested an evil twin who had dark triad characteristics.

My evil twin set a trap for someone based on the ideas in that book (plus Robert Greene and Søren Kierkegaard.) They got away, but I realized that I could seduce someone without fail if I could become the environment.

People have been talking about virtual reality since Plato and the idea of virtual reality informs literature and art not to mention computing. When I tell somebody who does logistics for a big discount score I want to learn queuing theory they tell me "just simulate it on a computer"

Another theme people miss is augmented reality as a location-based service experienced through smartphones. Those QR codes on restaurant menus are the thin edge of a very long wedge. Objects that are half-digital and half-physical are outright easy: in my house you can scan a QR code and get a user interface to control the IoT gadgets.

At one level I scoff at the "metaverse", I think it's got very little relevance for Facebook and it's problems today because it is going to take 10 years to materialize. Facebook might capture 10% of the value.

Funny though I have side projects sequenced like Mercury, Gemini and Apollo and they are all metaverse-ready. (and were metaverse ready this summer)

The best thing Facebook has going for it is that it has good and affordable headsets. I am shopping for a VR headset to support the software development I'm doing and it looks like I'd have to spend $1500 to get the system I want outside the Facebook ecosystem. If I could bear to log in with a Facebook account it would be more like $800, but I deleted my Facebook account years ago.
It is behind a paywall :(
The real change was Intel shifting from manufacturing commodity RAM to creating microprocessors. The 4004 was a major factor. But it was the corporate strategy change, leading to 8008, 8088, etc which really drove the success of Intel and the microcomputer.
Yes, it's possibly true that failure modes could be more extreme.

Practically, in the discussed system the pumps themselves have built-in maximum boluses so the control-loop is limited in how badly it can fuck up. Of course, you have to trust the pump firmware...

That said, I've done some pretty stupid shit. Like the time I injected a huge bolus of novorapid, thinking I was doing my Lantus shot. Ugh.
It is quite sad that most Americans see Apple's exploitation of a lacunae in their law (not allowing easy cancellation of subscriptions) as some benevolent act from it.

Two questions:

1. Are you fine (edit) as a consumer (/edit) paying 30% more for this, especially when you are just trading data collection from the App maker to Apple?

2. Wouldn't you rather that everyone had this protection, and not depend on the mercy of corporates for this?

I absolutely am not fine allowing Apple to charge 30% extra, especially when other payment processors only charge around 2 to 5%. And Apple forcing themselves as a middle man is more of a concern here as they have more potential to exploit me commercially, using my data, than some non-BigTech app maker. The 2nd question is more pertinent to all of us as consumers - thanks to Indian laws and regulation, I can easily unsubscribe to any service, and that protects me from exploitation both from Apple and any unscrupulous service. That is what we should all be working towards (more consumer rights). Any support for Apple on this is totally misguided - if they genuinely cared about your rights here, they wouldn't be gauging 30% of you in in-apps payment, without even telling you that money goes to Apple.
You might like RON[1]. It's far from perfect (and far from complete), but seems nice so far.

[1] https://github.com/ron-rs/ron
rent is often lower, or the same, as the interest payments. The mortgage consists of both interest and principle payments, which is higher, but the principle payments can be considered equity, so it cannot be compared with rent.
I don't think anyone is forced to buy an Amazon Eco speaker, a Google Home or an Apple Homepod. Given that people are buying these tells me that some people want it and are willing to sacrifice privacy.

Similarly, a lot of people are willing to buy a Tesla despite all the monitoring that that car does. And so on.

So, it is obvious that a certain percentage of people don't care about privacy. Now, what is dangerous is that a substantial percentage of these people are so called tech-savvy and even people in the tech industry. So, if they don't care despite them being able to understand the privacy issues, the general population which looks at these people for buying advice is certainly not going to care.
Yeah why do we even have this acronym any more lol. I don't think I want to work at any of them anymore. I used to think it was cool, but now,ehh. Work life balance is to precious I think even if another 50k is enticing.