skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a Malthusian model there would be a larger share of poor and starving as food becomes more abundant, because remember necessarily population outgrows food production.

The Malthusian model predicts forever growing extreme poverty as a share of population.
Have there been any significant carbon taxes implemented, though? I have only seen very mild, half-hearted measures because politicians are reluctant to annoy their constituents and their contributors. Getting them to do carbon restriction by fiat will be even harder.
> (3) as mostly a non-problem (like, you do the best you can to get compromise recovery from a CSPRNG, you don't do nothing, but you don't hold up progress on it).

Mitigating that attack is the main selling point of Fortuna, which makes this attack way harder. I think this is the primary thing we would get from a Fortuna-like scheduler that we don't currently have or can't currently have given the present design.

> But from my read of the backstory here, the problem is userland regressions on (1) and (2), and I buy that you simply can't have those.

Yea so the way these interact with the current story is in two totally opposite directions.

The original thing -- unifying /dev/urandom+/dev/random -- was desirable because it'd prevent (1)-like issues. People who use /dev/urandom at early boot instead of getrandom(0) wouldn't get into trouble.

Then, in investigating why we had to revert that, I noticed that the way non-systemd distros seed the RNG is buggy/vulnerable/useless, but fixing it in the kernel would lead to issue (2) by introducing problem set B. So instead I'm fixing userspaces by submitting https://git.zx2c4.com/seedrng/tree/seedrng.c to various distros and alternative init systems.

By the way, running around to every distro and userspace and trying to cram that code in really is not a fun time. Some userspaces are easygoing, while others have "quirks", and, while there has been reasonably quick progress so far, it's quite tedious. Working on the Linux kernel has its quirks too, of course, but it's just one project, versus a handful of odd userspaces.
The ER-X were good until you started to load them a bit too much.
It's called a "first time abatement": https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

General penalty relief: https://www.irs.gov/payments/penalty-relief

I just went through this for an honest mistake as well, though I didn't qualify for a first time abatement. It took months to get a response as well.
@davidbauer Ugh. These commenters stress me out. In fact, there's potentially an argument that filtering out such personalities actually helps cultivate a good/healthy environment for you personally.

To my eyes the comments read like pattern matches on low-level grammar and lexical choice. RFCs are even more egregious users of imperative language, but I don't see many people getting their jimmies ruffled about that, so I wonder what kind of social background and circumstances could make simple grammar features feel like a strong signal of character to people.

As a point of contrast, if discussion brought up things like the following, I would instead feel eminent warmness and inclusiveness:

- There is not a social norm encouraging people to write "Me Manuals", so what factors might bring such an idea to salience?

- Cultivating such a document and sharing with people exposes a lot of vulnerability. What does this act itself communicate? (Cooperative intent? Perfectionist tendencies? Bravery? Narcissism?)

- How would a document like this parse out under various different cultural and corporate norms?

- What are the failure modes of trying to communicate nuances of human cooperation through low-bandwidth channels of explicit delineation?

- Engaging witch such a document also engages our Kahneman System 1 cognition strongly. What can we glean about our individual biases by the snap-judgements and intuitions we feel reading the article?

- Are there historical or anthropological analogies we can draw to a "Me Manual" practice that could shed light on how such it may operate?

Et cetera. Personally, the author's article pushes my priors about him/her in the direction of earnest, open, optimistic, defaulting to cooperation vs competition, and perhaps having perfectionist tendencies. My base-rate estimate for this personality is semi-low, but the article feels like a pretty strong signal, so overall, I would feel cautiously hopeful about working with the author.
Apparently insurance for legal defense is big business today. But yeah, generally even an unsuccessful suit will ruin normal people.
TP-Link devices have been shown to ship with backdoors baked directly into the firmware.

The TL-WDR4300 and TL-WR743ND have a special unauthenticated URL that causes the device to connect back to your IP, download a file, and execute it as root.

The TL-WA701ND and similar models create a hidden SSID that acts as an unauthenticated bridge into your network.

If you can even manage to report security issues to them, they will only patch models you specifically tell them are vulnerable. So as a researcher you have to buy one of every model to actually get things fixed.
for the majority of use I recommended them for the speed/pps bottleneck was the last mile DOCSIS3 connection (150-350Mbps down x 16 up), wouldn't try to use one with an actual symmetric gigabit link.
You're only reminded of the scale the universe is not
the beatings will continue until the geniuses running ethereum say uncle.

https://biblehub.com/proverbs/26-3.htm
There are plenty of articles you can find by googling buy borrow die, such as this one https://www.wsj.com/articles/buy-borrow-die-how-rich-america...
> just run that thing and send it to me and I can file an exception if there is something on it I disagree with.

basically how it works in Sweden
I think everyone should read Mein Kampf. I think it should be promoted in every school, assigned as coursework in at least one course in every curriculum. You can encourage people to read and understand even the most detestable ideas. You should be training everyone how to analyze them, how to argue against them, and even how to understand the mindset they worked on and what right points they had.

Mein Kampf is important reading.
I just came up for air after reading this. Holy shit. I need warm fuzzies for the rest of the night.

I absolutely believe this darkness continues to exist in the world—maybe in the US, definitely elsewhere; and it should not fucking exist.
What are some concrete examples of these deductions that people keep talking about? I'd actually like to know, so I can perhaps convince myself to get a CPA next year. The only deductions I have seen as a salaried person with some minor stock trades are things for home heating credits and such which I am always ineligible for on the basis of income.
federal reserve also uses as much electricity as Sweden and is growing exponentially, so you are right, bitcoin is more environmentally friendly than the Fed.

we need a carbon tax ASAP !!!! but no one cares
If the person has VPN access them there are better options available. The crypto transaction makes information available to attackers that wouldn't be available by any other method.

That's objectively worse.
This doesn’t seem to actually display 100k stars though?
There's a difference between content moderation and censorship. Not to mention shaping user experience.

For example, If a site has a mechanism where after X number of downvotes by users, your comment is hidden, that's not censorship.

You've spoken your piece, and other users voted on if they liked your comment or not, or if it contributed to the conversation or provided useful information, etc.

Those other things you mentioned, you do so without context. No social media site can function and be a useful and valuable place to visit without some form of content moderation.

The distinction lies in where the line is drawn. Can you (constructively) criticize the site mods or parent company? Speak your own views in a reasonable discussion that don't cross the line (calls for violence, unintelligible ranting, trolling)?

There's a fine line for a lot of this.
I agree. But it will likely cost tens of thousands of dollars and years of his life to defend it.
Grover Norquist wants to cut government spending. It's difficult to do that directly because people often like government services. Instead he suggests cutting taxes. This is easier to sell to the public because no one likes paying taxes. This will drive the government into debt, forcing spending cuts due to the risk of default. This plan is called "starving the beast".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

For this plan to work, people have to really hate paying taxes. So, despite the fact that Norquist and his allies often talk about things like "reducing the burden on the taypayer", they have in fact acted to make paying taxes as unpleasant an experience as possible. This means deliberately underfunding the IRS and ensuring filing taxes is slow, complicated, and expensive.

He is also the architect of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which is endorsed by the vast majority of Republican politicians currently in office. The pledge prohibits them from supporting any legislation that would increase taxes on people or corporations. The idea of "starving the beast" has been endorsed in as many words by a number of politicians, including George W. Bush.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform#Taxpa...

Any time a Republican politician starts talking about reducing the deficit, know that they are lying. Over 95% of them have publicly signed a pledge meant to deliberately increase the deficit. This isn't a conspiracy theory. The plans are public.
It is but you need to trust the hardware. Trust is the keyword here. Long battles have been fought over this. Many high profile authors have (successfully) argued against the use of unauditable sources of entropy being used in /dev/random.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND#Reception
Off my shopping list.
I feel deja-vu from reading this comment before.
Do those get overwritten if you use OpenWRT, or are they at a lower level?
Are you using Cloudflare DoT? about:preferences => Network Settings => Enable DNS over HTTPS: Use Provider: Cloudflare (Default).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
It was indeed the need to define the thunks outside of the slice that irked me, but with multiple thunks for a slice, I just wrote them as part of their own module.
> the 1040EZ form no longer exists

That is wild. I remember using it for my first job, and yep, it took me all of a few hours to fill it out by hand and mail it in.
It's one of the simplest ways to make random numbers. Multiply state by a constant, return the upper bits/digits of state.

There's some math that goes into picking a good constant, but honestly that's optional. Usually you'd also add a constant each round but this is going for absolute simplicity.

And the line with 'static' is just an awkward way of initializing the state integer.
What’s New Between Java 11 and Java 17? (2021)
Also natively supporting ZeroTier, which is a must for me
ClonePilot: A non-AI clone of Copilot which allows you to insert code from SO
They forced the plane to land in Belarus by threatening it with fighter jets while it was nearly out of their airspace.

IIRC they pretended there was a bomb threat or some other nonsense.
My exposure to Mikrotik is that you need to download some windows executable to speak some bespoke protocol to perform configuration of the device (specifically for RouterOS)? Is that true?

I've got some of their switches running SwitchOS, which is great, but my minute exposure to winbox has thoroughly put me off anything that uses RouterOS.
It’s not clear from the article but it seems like students do get a final course grade which is done by students suggesting what grade they feel they deserve and the instructor rarely modifying it if they feel it’s inaccurate. They mentioned they adjust grades up as much as down.
About 10 years ago I was pushing for ubiquiti at the fortune 500 company I was a jr network engineer for. Mostly because they were the most open vendor and didn't require an "appliance" to run the management software. The rest of my team laughed at me and we only really tested Aruba and Cisco.

Even though we never went with it I feel like a sucker every time they come up in the news lately.
The one thing I don't understand about this debate is that if tanks are incurably vulnerable to drones and ATGMs and therefore obsolete, then why aren't IFVs/APCs, artillery, and transport vehicles obsolete for the same reason? Logically, they would be equally vulnerable since both weapons systems work just as well on them.
I went to mikrotik and never been happier. Do it.
Well then I guess I'm finally done with Ubiquiti. The company that makes my network devices needs to take security seriously. Clearly Ubiquiti does not.
Do companies like Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, etc prioritize their customers over their own interests? Other companies in tech or outside of tech?

I don't think Facebook is some well run charity doing philanthropy - I just don't think they are meaningfully worse than their peers. I do think there is a concerted media campaign to malign Facebook and I think this is where the differential in how people think of Facebook versus these other companies comes from.
What made them obsolete, Snowflake?
E2EE doesn't really work in large chatrooms on Matrix either. I don't know how many large groups you're in on Matrix but just as a most-recent example, the Garage folks just tombstoned their E2EE room for a public one because Matrix still isn't ready for large-format E2EE encrypted chats.

Search history is painful and most often previous chats will show up as "waiting..." forever so there's zero context coming in.
So in essence I could think of types as functions (possibly nullary) from types to types?

Bool = sum(False, True)

Maybe = λ a . sum(Nothing, Just(a))
who said they wouldn't be able to take absolute control of the fed? My point was only that they aren't currently. They'd have to make some serious changes in order to do so!
>> Because the creator of crypto concept never understood why there are centralized institutions in the first place.

You are totally missing the point. Having to rely upon central banks was the fundamental problem being solved.

> The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts.

-Satoshi Nakamoto [0]

Getting central banks out of the picture is original philosophical motivation for developing a digital currency. All of the "cashless society" convenience aspects are secondary features. Everything that follows, regarding ledgers/records/blockchain/double-spending/trust-less is what's needed to make a digital currency work without a centralized authorities that mint money and validate transactions.

> A lot of people automatically dismiss e-currency as a lost cause because of all the companies that failed since the 1990's. I hope it's obvious it was only the centrally controlled nature of those systems that doomed them. I think this is the first time we're trying a decentralized, non-trust-based system.

-Satoshi Nakamoto [1]

Next up, the irreversibility of transactions is a feature, not a bug.

> For many purposes, reversal and arbitration is highly desirable, but there is no way anyone can compete with the arbitration provided by Visa and Mastercard, for they have network effects on their side, and they do a really good job of arbitration, at which they have vast experience, accumulated skills, wisdom, and good repute. So any new networked transaction system has to target the demand for final and irreversible transactions. [2]

[0] http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...

[1] http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...

[2] https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/th...
As a complete beginner to the Rails world (but not web dev in general), the official Getting Started guide at https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html was a short and sweet way for me to get an introduction to how it works.

After that I went through a number of Chris Oliver's GoRails tutorials (https://gorails.com) which I found really helpful too.
The more I think about it, I'm not even comfortable calling this collusion. Vote-buying is bad (some people disagree!) because we don't want people selling the decision, we want them to make it themselves.

But a conversation like "I was thinking four points on A but I see why you're all in on B now, tell you what how about we go two for two on it" strikes me as a good outcome in a voting system. The fact that linear voting doesn't have an equivalent of it doesn't imply we should consider this 'collusion' rather than 'cooperation'.
Maintainable Rails
Yeah, but I didn't bring it up because I wasn't sure how much is really the model choosing and how much is the human workflow: they emphasize the interactive part heavily.

Anyway, today another great paper dropped on self-distillation: "STaR: Bootstrapping Reasoning With Reasoning" https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14465 , Zelikman et al 2022.
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we have a basically flat population nationwide, and a growing set of homes. home builders, contrary to this article, have been building a lot of homes across the country. where I live, being a contractor means becoming wealthy and the building has been proceeding non stop for the last 20 years.

the thing is, the opposite is true in many parts of the country. populations are shrinking, there is no demand. where there is demand, in ex-urban and sub-urban places, there is building to meet that demand. there are basically a few locales like SFCA where there is a lot of demand and not as much building, but its a handful.

the perception is that NIMBYs are ruining everything. They might very well be in San Francisco, but that is in contrast to places like Miami, Texas, New York, Virginia, Georgia, etc, where there are very few limits to growth begin imposed. Look at the number of buildings being built in NYC and Miami.

And before you bitter antisocial weirdos start talking about how you dont like the city, well that puts you in an increasing minority. The future is big tall cities, just adapt.
Microsoft has done more damage than anybody by hiding known extensions by default.

Even the script kiddies fall into that trap, my old school got infected by a .pdf.js.js ...
Many government contractors couldn’t legally read the Snowden papers despite them being published in newspapers because they weren’t declassified.
> This would benefit Indians and Chinese nationals the most.

Many Chinese are actually against removing the per country green card limits, because Indian applicants are so many times more that keeping the status quo actually give Chinese a better chance of success.

But that was before the cap removal is limited to PhD only. I'm not yet updated on the latest stance.
Thanks. Like you, nobody has ever responded to me other than them "upgrading" me from being able to prove my taxes via fax to having to petition the tax court directly.

I'm sure this will be a nightmare for the next few years. As if selling that house wasn't a bad enough experience.

I shouldn't have to spend $5k or whatever else on a lawyer to deal with this. Insane. I walked away with $13k after paying everyone/mortgage off.
Can you send a link to reports of that issue on their standalone access points? Might just be their routers?
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"Don't look at me, look at the CEOs!"
As an almost 40 year old American, where it is perfectly legal for publishers/media/shops to actively promote Mein Kampf, I have literally never seen it done.
Before FB came into picture, Google, Apple and other big techs colluded to artificially keep the pay low [1]. Every dev with a massive TC needs to thank FB everyday for refusing to become part of the cabal.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-google-settlement-i...
It's worth pointing out that HNs 's heavily downvoted posts are intentionally hard to read. Thats hardly a gotcha. Now whether they should be is a whole different question.
This is completely my opinion, but I believe people are risking time and capital because they are motivated to get their money laundered cleanly, and at a stable exchange rate.

The Cutest YC Startup in the world can't wipe out the swaths of: illegitimate casinos, drugs dealers, and content for sale so awful I cannot describe it here. The foundational transactions the whole system stands on.
> The problem is there can be a price where some people can't drive to work but other people are still quite able to afford gas and you wind-up still not meeting the goal.

You're not charging enough. You need to charge more.
“My time being valuable” can legitimately be meant in a fully subjective way. In the sense of: I would like to cram a long list of activities (including thinking about certain things) into my remaining lifetime. If that list is a lot longer than my remaining life allows for, the value of my time is arguably pretty high for me - even if it isn’t for others.
Ubiquiti Seems to offer a lot of products so hard to know what everyone’s use case is but for home wi-fi I found Netgear’s Orbi mesh system surprisingly capable.
> I do have problem if publishers / media / shops are actively promoting it.

And what does active promotion mean in your example? Is having it on display in the "historic" section promotion? Should it not be in libraries at all.

I think most of us would agree that a bookshop proudly displaying Mein Kampf with a neon sign saying "Bestseller in Politics" might be overstepping, but the complexity comes from drawing that line.
To be honest I struggle with the frustration of programmers of dynamic languages building their own (mostly half-assed) type checkers, after years and years of dealing with their bogus arguments about why dynamic languages are superior and all you need is unit tests (the same cohort is also now on a misguided crusade against unit tests but that's a whole other story).

At least the JS crowd had the decency to buy into a whole new (far better) language instead of a bolt-on solution.
What kind of legal action was apple able to take that would stop companies from hiring from them?
I’ve been running into circularity bugs lately as well… I think. It’s incredibly hard to tell if you’re doing something dumb or it’s a legitimate bug.

Do you know of an issue that’s tracking a specific bug related to the circularity issue you’re seeing in createSlice?
Thanks for explaining this. I actually wrote a SIMD implementation of trig functions years ago, using the techniques you describe.

You can check it out: https://github.com/jeremysalwen/vectrig

I compared several different methods of generating polynomials of different sizes for speed and precision (spoilers: taylor series were the worst and minimax polynomials (Remez algorithm) were the best).

Another (surprising) thing which I learned during the project was that the range reduction was just as (if not more) important to the accuracy of the implementation than the polynomial. If you think about it, you will realize that it's actually pretty difficult to quickly and accurately compute the sin of large numbers like 2^50.

I also tried to directly optimize the coefficients for the accuracy of the polynomial on the required range, but that experiment was unsuccessful.

It's all there in the repository, the implementations, notes about the different polynomials used, and the accuracy/speed statistics for the different methods.
Now I finally can refer it with a name "crab mentality"

I only knew it as "fish ball mentality" (inaccurate translation from Cantonese)
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