skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, could you do an ensemble type podcast? Story, gentle musical interlude, story in a different voice, lather, rinse, repeat?

Maybe you could even position the whole thing as glued together from bits of story a fictional other-podcast left on the cutting room floor!
I think you basically ask the right questions. But when you have progressed in your understanding, and you're confronted with the next problem caused by PoS, you seem to assume that PoS is flawed, because you can't immediately think of a solution (which is expected, that's quite a hard problem). The reality is that the issues you mention are well identified and they have solutions for them.

About VDFs, there is a tolerance, you need to be in the same ballpark as the fastest, not _the_ absolute fastest. The more tolerance you need, the less snappy the PoS blockchain will be. They plan to make a low-power asic for that task, to be as close as the theoretical max speed for that, and have the lowest tolerance margin as a result.

Also, there is a way to reduce all VDFs results so that only one of the whole set of VFS-ers need to be honest.

So it's not one volunteer, but a pool of volunteers, using low powered asics so close to the theoretical max (ie speed of transistor switching) that you couldn't outrun them enough to profit from that speed up. I am not sure if they are incentivized, because it's not costing a lot, but maybe.

> Edit: I suppose the VDF's input might not be "the block being computed" but instead "the previous block", and the output then used to elect participants who are then trusted to build the new block. This would allow the new block to indicate whether the VDF actually took longer than expected.

Indeed, that's what I thought I was saying, but maybe I was not clear enough.
This assumes that competition exists and self-regulates, it doesn't (always, or much in later states of a system), contrary to a lot of economic theory that's peddled as fact by those who benefit the most from it.
Sounds like NSO Group is about to be served a subpoena.
Either a government organization or "big tech" would be my guess.
> israel is the one democratic state in a region that mostly has our enemies.

Wasn’t there another democratic country in the region in the early 50’s? Oh yeah, it was Iran, and then the US took that democratic state and deposed it in a coup.

“We have to stand with the only democratic state in the region” loses a lot of rhetorical force when the US topples other democratic states it doesn’t like.
It seems privacy started issuing these "better" cards... a year ago? Maybe slightly less?

I had a bunch of privacy.com cards expire (original customer here) and had to re-generate them. Those cards that I re-generated didn't need to be re-generated again this time.
At the most basic, production is defined as resources_in x efficiency.

American energy consumption stopped growing so all growth has to come from efficiency increases, which has a physical maximum of 1.
Energy efficiency of computation has been increasing exponentially - and orders of magnitude increases are still possible before the Landauer's bound is hit. Cooling and heating is close to physical efficiency limits. Transport in theory could be near lossless, but required infrastructure makes that impractical any time soon, and open-air transport is close to efficiency limits.

Therefore, in the absence of an increase in energy consumption significant productivity gains can only happen in sectors where compute/storage/bandwidth expense is a significant factor. This very lopsided growth profile is likely to lead to an increase in social tensions.

The only other sector I can think of where exponential efficiency increases are also possible is biotechnology, and, by extension, medicine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#...
Feature flags are not meant to be used as a general settings, it's mainly for testing, flags also auto expire so they need to be renewed after certain amount of chromium releases [1]. Old features behind the flag are left for few releases so they can be rolled back in case something bad happens, not that users manually should toggle them on.

[1] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...
"These rounds measure at 57mm in diameter and an eye-watering 170mm in length"

I'd never previously thought "I was packin'"
The president signed it and pushed for it's passage. This is typically wording in the US.
The issue is not affecting all of the US. Some jurisdictions have been affected much more than others. And there's a reason for that.
Parents do all kinds of things with the intention of protecting their children. Not all of it is well-informed.
Crutches normally connote injury, but I bet a non-injured person who actually did athletic sports on crutches would become really dexterous with the things. Four points of contact with the ground. Or they could be used to assist when balancing.

Anyway, I don't think the crutch model is correct, even at the risk of disagreeing with Socrates. I think we just learn some way to learn, and part of that is a memorization ritual. Socrates learned to load things into his long term memory by discussing them. The vast majority of over-30 (at least) American who learned to load things into long term memory learned to do so by the ritual of writing them down with pen and paper. I'm sure there'll be a contingent who learn a ritual of typing notes.
Technically. In practice, you will get in trouble for saying certain things.
Somehow we’re supposed to believe that there’s no white supremacy, that mathematics simply lives in a platonic ideal world where it doesn’t matter that so few African America mathematics phds are awarded each year, for instance.
Suppose a person hired by Google is paid $60 per hour, and can review 20 video comments in that time with a reasonable thoughtfulness. So every human review costs Google $3.

The entire revenue of $20B could be blown through on reviewing 6B comments.

If you want to keep this activity to 10% of revenue, that caps you to 600M comments.

> No it's not

And I specifically said the site operators; people hired by Google to moderate are just hired help. They are not equivalent of a dang.
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The Solarwinds stuff was so obviously the fault of Solarwinds that making a big deal out of it would be an own-goal.
Housing demand is highly location significant and immigration for the relevant jobs are in areas of the country where there is a demand shortage. So little in this context.

Unless you are retired or a recepient of passive income chances are that if housing in an area is very cheap, you won't be able to afford it. That is the reason prices got so low is a lack of either income generation or demand from those well enough off (vacation homes do not need to be within commuting 'distance-factored-as-time').
YouTube's entire business model is to occupy your time; whether it's a waste or not doesn't matter to their bottom line. They will absolutely not do anything to minimize the waste.
> Don't Design for Multiple Cloud Providers

Designing for portability is important. Otherwise you expose yourself to dreadful uncertainties.

"AWS will not disappear". That is probably true. The average business can take this risk (and if you are huge you are not listening to me). But AWS might raise its prices to a point they are getting all your profit. DO you trust Amazon? Really? The particular AWS feature you depended on with the tight coupling "Don't Design for Multiple Cloud Providers" implies may get deprecated. What then?

This is as old as the hills: Design in layers. Have an AWS layer. If AWS goes away, quadruples their fees, deprecates your services, or you are hit with USA sanctions then there is a layer that has to be rewritten.

Old wisdom. Use it.
More seriously - I'm just wondering how many locals remember somebody showing them their collection, and now frantically trying to remember whether they touched it.
Then they'll get shadowbanned exactly like OP's video.
I do this with Obsidian + Git - I'll check out syncthing. Thanks!
“Leveraging synergies to create strategic multiphasic solutions” a bit extreme I concur, no zero information content nevertheless. I can see that the solutions will be delivered in phases but with a strategic intent. Need more clarity on the link between synergies and phasing but that does not make it bullshit or absolve it from being bullshit either.

Could be someone telling that he will align their team’s schedule with another team’s and therefore will split delivery in multiple phases. Could be someone throwing words in excuse for their failure to deliver a strategic project. Could be some random person saying this to demonstrate what bullshit is.

There is no scenario there where information is not conveyed and that does not have anything to do with bullshitting in the end anyway. Bullshitting is not about the vocabulary but about its use as a means to conceal something by saturating the channel of communication. There is an intentionality assumption as the key defining criterion. Also the challenge that while information in a communication is “well” defined, concealment makes many assumptions about the social context of expectations for information flow.
"meaning developers were constantly reading about some great new feature of AWS they weren't able to use or try out"

That is a feature! Bleeding edge bleeds.
Top 10 most expensive cities according to this article:

1. Tel Aviv

2. Paris

3. Singapore

4. Zurich

5. Hong Kong

6. New York

7. Geneva

8. Copenhagen

9. Los Angeles

10. Osaka
But the question is, what makes it more unacceptable than the destruction of other countries, countries who also have enemies, who are not such close allies? "Feel that allowing that to happen would be unacceptable" is the loaded phrase that holds all the content in that description. The US is not giving that much military aid to every country that has such enemies.
Nice insight. Reminds me of another problem: targeting.

If the target customers have already found each other, it's an easier sell. If they haven't then you have a "customer diaspora"

For instance, if I have a new game, there's plenty of organizations, institutions, and forums I can introduce my game on.

If instead, I have productivity software that helps disorganized people manage time better, there's no "disorganized users group" or "decluttering news" website to find the people ... it's a slog. Where would those people concentrate? A bar on a weekday night maybe? The most inconvenient parking spaces of an office park? I don't know.

At least to me this is a harder problem
I agree. I think the most valuable comments are the ones which have a balance of a large amount of "up" and "down" votes.

Those are not just "upvote if you agree with this positive sentiment", but often giving valid reasons against someones opinion.
It seems like the common thread is that all of the accounts being mysteriously banned are old, and KYC rules have changed. Is it possible that this (the "you're banned, make a new account" message) is just because it was too expensive to build a workflow for old accounts to enter updated info?
Languages with user-defined operators with user-defined precedence, like Haskell.

Languages with user-defined subgrammars, like Raku (Perl 6).

Languages with declaration-dependent ambiguity resolution, like C++ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse).
Analysis of Change of YouTube Terms of Service
The title of the article omits the word "labor" but the article is obviously focused on labor productivity so lets starts with a simple definition from Investopedia: Labor productivity, also known as workforce productivity, is defined as real economic output per labor hour. Growth in labor productivity is measured by the change in economic output per labor hour over a defined period.

I believe (through observation/experience) that workers are the key because without their buy-in and support, none of the business strategies or technological innovations management can introduce will matter. Individual workers have a lot of control over the economic output they choose to contribute. This is, IMO, very much about motivation.

RE your second point, I'm not sure if I'm conflating the two vs using a micro example to extrapolate a macro trend.
Memorizing facts is a pointless exercise and waste of cognitive energy because there is too much information and it's easily replaced by inorganic storage media. What's more valuable than winning Jeopardy! or being a London black cab driver is 1. developing critical reasoning skills, learning skills, and mastering first principles and 2. offloading important factual details onto searchable, error-free documentation that others can use. It's far more useful and reliable than fallible, car-crash-vulnerable, knowledge-hoarding.

Crossword puzzles and memorizing lists won't stave off dementia either.
> it feels like the laptop class liking WFH is one of the brakes for a return to normality.

So, people liking the what works for them makes them "brakes"?

And normality is forcing people to do what they don't like, for the sake of what exactly?

Sorry to break it for you, friend, but people liking things is not an obstacle. It's an business opportunity.

It's the people who are insisting on not moving with the times that are "brakes". And that's anyone who calls 9-to-5 asses-in-seats "normality".

Ain't nothing normal about that. And that ship, too, has sailed.
prediction: next, youtube will delete/hide negative comments to prevent people from looking at the top comment (as a proxy for up/down votes) and seeing that a particular video is not worth the time.
In my experience the major difference is that rbenv feels more of a convenience in upgrading ruby on truly outdated systems (or when you can't use prepackaged for reasons), and that for majority work minor version differences are at most one line in Gemspec away.

I really, really can't say that about Python.
While the reason is not necessarily correct (although it’s more of an over simplification than an outright error) the terminal needs to have the correct time if not the transaction would not be processed for a myriad of reasons.

The issue is that in the vast chain of networks that a single transaction flows through you have multiple NTP servers each of them taking their own time form a different source which is often backed by GPS.

If GPS services are disrupted globally this would cause payment networks to break down.

Yes there would be a way to recover from it and move away from GPS but you are still missing the point on day-0 of a GPS blackout the global financial system would go down and it would be a mess and it wouldn’t be a mess that is easily sorted…
VSCode Groovy Lint reached 100000 installations before its 2 years anniversary:)
This isn't the first time the Lego has lost its way and it likely won't be the last. You have to give them credit for being able to re-invent themselves and pick up the pieces every time this happens. The history of Lego is long succession of crimes and failures punctuated by spectacular successes.

As much as I'm sympathetic to the toy in its basic form, I'm very much disappointed in the company behind it.
but its written in Go
RDP was first available in NT4 Terminal Services edition, which Wikipedia tells me was released in 1998 - though I think it's fair to say that it became far more popular when Windows 2000 dropped.

VNC was first created by the Oracle and Olivetti Research Lab, Cambridge, prior to their acquisition in 1999. RealVNC (the first version I remember using (I think on an Acorn)) was founded as a company in 2002, TightVNC first released 2001. From memory I was convinced VNC was around much earlier, though Wikipedia set me straight.

For remote desktop use, it seems unfair to mention Xorg. The X windowing system was designed from day 1 as "an architecture-independent system for remote graphical user interfaces and input device capabilities." and version 11 (X11), was first specified in 1987 and is still in common use today. Its also worth mentioning that the implementation and resulting usability /usecases of remote X applications has caused its fair share of conversation and consternation over its lifetime.
Would it be possible to design a constrained syntax that would guarantee mergeability while preserving decent expressivity?
It pulls URLs from your history, and downloads them later. It doesn't download what you see, so if you're logged in somewhere, it won't be able to save that; or if content changes between when you see it and it gets scraped, it won't know.
You seem to be arguing that "everything affects everything else" is false because, moving to a concrete example, if Kristin Kreuk is beautiful, then she's beautiful in an objective sense that can't be affected by the motion of space dust.

But this doesn't matter, because every time her beauty is assessed, the assessment itself is affected by space dust. Her objective, Platonic beauty is only relevant in that it affects how often she is assessed to be beautiful. But this is precisely the statistical description that the OP argues for. In the world of things that happen, everything affects everything else.
It has taken everybody else thirty years to realise: Python is not very good....
Awful solution. There are wikis. Dokuwiki is a simple one, or Mediawiki.
We built our authentication around Amplify, but it was so horrible we eventually just rolled our own.
Most Americans would be surprised that the German interpretation of “the untouchable dignity of man” prohibits even insults (“Beleidigung”). There was a case in 2018 of an American who got in a tussle with German airport police, called them Nazis, and was subsequently charged with defamation.[1] Clearly she wasn’t literally describing them as students of the philosophy of Adolf Hitler, but rather calling them authoritarians in a demeaning and insulting way. In the U.S. one might expect her to be charged perhaps with disorderly conduct or something similar, but punishing her for her words would require that there be some actual injury done to the officers’ reputation. Obviously ridiculous statements that no reasonable person would believe don’t fall under defamation in the U.S. A famous example was in the 1980s when Jerry Falwell unsuccessfully sued Hustler for publishing a fake interview with him claiming he drunkenly lost his virginity to his mother in an outhouse.

Certain depictions of violence are also considered to inherently violate human dignity as a whole (“Gewaltdarstellung”). That seems to be why there’s traditionally been so much video game censorship in Germany, like green blood or replacing all characters with robots[2].

[1] https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/74262/3844730

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHIpHOVB9ew
Apple user permabanned, loses $1.2K in App Store goods for legit gift card buys
Some lively debate on this on Amazon's own Seller Forums: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazons-toll-road-...
Would it not be a common cold at this point?
They're not coming from the capital investment in the forklift. They're coming from the design of the entire logistics and marketing chain, which - for now - happens to use forklifts in one part of the process.

That part of the process could just as easily use robots. Or - potentially - genetically modified chimpanzees.

Value is contextual. If productivity is dropping instead of increasing, one possible reason is because the friction in value chains is increasing and both intelligence and efficiency are decreasing.

Another is because returns are being measured in the wrong ways, and the contextual element is being disguised or lost by current accounting practices.

These systemic issues are more plausible causes than any suggestion that front line workers are all somehow becoming less good at their jobs.
> Personally I have a hard time to trust anything after heart bleed. A very basic attack that caused havoc. It proved that the quality of open source is nowhere close to the promises of OSS.

Heartbleed made international headlines, and got fixed very quickly. The equivalent bugs in Mike's Proprietary Encryption Layer are just another Tuesday. Which is better: being able to discover a bug like Heartbleed, or not being able to discover a bug like Heartbleed?
Thanks for the link. I've been building a hobby looking into this space.

Personally I think we can use Vickrey Auctions for this problem. Vickrey Auctions are able to give not only price discovery, but also value discovery. Everything digital has infinite supplies, that we artificially constrain so as to pump prices. If instead of using price discovery, we use value discovery, the price can stay at 0, so long as a certain (limited) amount of people are faced with a choice that would have them go without.

So for example perhaps we sample 50,000 people and say 75% of people keep access, say when they vote. If you bid in the top 75%, you keep access for the period, and you pay the value that the bottom person that kept access bid. That money is then not used to pay for the IP, some other tax will fund the IP or Open Source Software or Meme, that 25% will then go to all the voters for providing their values. So the average bidder will pay nothing, the below average bidder will lose something they value low, but gain, and the highest bidders will fund that. We then take some other collection and sample another 50,000 people, until we find out the value of all of these digital items to people.

If you do the subsidization process correctly, I think the idea of IP owners holding their supply back would go away, as releasing it to all would always provide more value than holding it back. I think at the very least this would be an obvious answer to Open Source Software, and this would easily fund things like Linux and Firefox. I think this would stretch further to research, and colleges would now be funded through this mechanism, and the professors who currently waste enormous amounts of time doing grant writing would be able to be productive. Thus the whole issue of journals goes away. Even things like ads, people would bid on their service less because of them, so there would be no fundamental reason to include them as it would reduce the subsidy.
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It’s a one in a million shot, doc!
Any ETA?
I think maybe it is underestimated how much cognitive load there is in taking a photo. All your attention is going into the act of taking the photo (is it level, is the light right, is it focused, etc.)
Can you elaborate a bit more on what you got that wasnt available on AWS? For me (and I think this is common) there is a clear use case of experimentation on a low-end GPU to get things right (making sure code runs) and then moving to a modern GPU for real training.

But Amazon had K80s and a few other low end GPUs that serve this purpose. What is different about what you propose? The only thing I can think of is I might like a GPU with a lot of memory but low throughput, so I could check batch size related stuff more easily.
Amazon is not allowing the the price to be raised for the Consumer.

My local FiveGuys sells a Cheeseburger for $11.87 Thru DoorDash app but for $9.89 thru the FiveGuys App. We aren't even talking about a different service like Delivery vs Pickup, those fee's get layered in later -- its the same menu priced 20% higher to pass costs of the partnership onto the customer. This is anti-consumer and deceptive and is the sort of behavior Amazon prevents with their policy.