skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've been doing this for years, it's hardly "automation gone wrong". They willfully abuse the DMCA system because they can't sell their puzzles to employers if interviewees publish their algorithms online.

Notice in the words of the CEO how he still doesn't think it's wrong to submit takedowns to code they don't hold any copyright over. At least he's honest about his bad intentions, so that's better than the drivel some tech companies come up with when they reach the front page of HN.

These guys are exactly what's wrong with copyright law and nobody has the time, interest, and resources to fight them.
This is only true for a primary residence located in the US. If it’s a foreign asset, it’s taxed normally. The IRS deeply screws expats.
But machine-oriented ATP is based on a symbolic-representation of formulas and terms. And the output is a proof formulated in the underlying logical calculus not just yes or no.
Alright. I agree we seem to be stuck in a weird loop where we agree about all the observable facts but somehow are on different wavelengths in spite of that.

And I totally agree, entropy is a property of a macrostate. The information step comes inseparably in when you go from a system description to a macrostate. And you might just shuffle the confusion from not knowing what entropy is to not knowing what a macrostate is.

If you think it's clearer to teach students by explaining that the entropy of a macrostate is an objective property of that macrostate, that's fine. Just don't leave them believing that the entropy of a brick is an objective property of that brick.
I recommend Information Theory for Intelligent People: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~simon/it.pdf
Twitter admits overstating audience figures for 3 years
This is not passive income. This is being an author.
For information theoretic entropy (I don’t know anything about thermodynamics):

The first thing you describe, that if you draw many symbols from your source distribution at random then you see a distribution of symbols that is equal to the probability distribution of the source, is called the asymptotic equipartition principle.

I think your confusion comes from two things. First, conflating bits and symbols and second assuming symbols are equiprobable.

Take English text where our symbols could be letters of the alphabet. These are not equiprobable, if you select a letter from a book at random you get a different distribution than 1/26. If you took as your symbols the individual bits that would encode those characters in ascii you would get something closer to equal probable symbols. Another choice for symbols would be the words in the book.
Might be a dumb question, but I'll ask anyway.

In the 00s, there were reflective color LCDs in things like phones and portable game consoles. The kind that isn't black when off. Why is this technology not developed further any more, and all modern color LCDs rely on backlight? If it's a dead end, why?
Actor system for the JVM developed by Electronic Arts
Did I hurt you personally for you to be so toxic with me ? Chill.
Knockout was definitely easier to get started with vs other frameworks of the time, but still not easy by any stretch. It took time to master the template DSL, debugging templates would take you all across the guts of Knockout, and complex 2-way bindings could have you spending hours debugging them. Getting good performance was also very tricky.

ReactJS of the time was pretty simple.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131105184444/http://facebook.g...

You could read every scrap of documentation in around an hour or so. There were only around a dozen-ish APIs to learn along with only a couple "unique" concepts like controlled inputs, refs, and JSX.

Meanwhile, there was never a need to step into React code unless you believed React itself was buggy (I only came across this one time and the bug had already been reported and was being worked on). Even better, React code was usually faster than Knockout before optimizing stuff and the ways to improve performance were generally pretty obvious.
While a lot of us learned from breadboards, you could go straight into surface mount these days, which takes up a lot less space. Can keep an entire catalogue of parts in the size of a large book.
NASA's Deep Space Network Now [Live Dashboard]
A reduction in people in the economy is good for some subsegments but for the economy as a whole, no

Think about the networks effects of an economy. An economy of one person has a size of zero units. An economy of two people has a size of one unit, an economy of n people has a max size of n^2 units, or more really nlogn, when you take into account the Gaussian distribution of value between each node of the network.
I always thought it was insane how nurses, a health profession, are forced into so many unhealthy habits, like working long hours with little sleep and with difficult access to healthy meals while they are working.
All inflation is a direct consequence of monetary policy
Then replace business with the problem you're trying to solve, the good you're trying to do for your users, etc. Keeping the big picture in view doesn't have to mean you're only interested in making money.
hmm, guess people will have to register with this service first, put some money there, then could tip someone later..
The Lotus that the GP refers to is probably Lotus Development Corporation / Lotus Software, the makers of the hugely popular Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet from the 80s. It's still around-ish: it was owned by IBM until 2017 then was sold to the Indian company HCL Technologies for $1.8 billion. Pretty good for a company thought to be two decades obsolete!

Zilog was the maker of the Z80 microprocessor that powered a huge number of games consoles and simple computers in the 80s. Also still around - its parent company was acquired for $750 million.

I had to look up Curtis-Mathis because it wasn't a thing in the UK.

And MicroPro / WordStar International does seem to be legitimately dead: acquired by SoftKey who were acquired by Mattel who have since gotten rid of all the associated brands.
The excess death were among active demographics too. And in addition, the long term covid was affecting active demographics too. And also, the parents who had to drop out of workforce due to childcare being much more difficult were also active demographic too.
It technically is, because the statement is taken under perjury, but good luck enforcing the perjury clause of the DMCA against a company in Pakistan.
It seems like a no-true-scotsman problem. The examples of seas that are freshwater are dismissed as not actually seas since they're freshwater.
There are in fact poor countries with competent central bankers, so the task of making a stable fiat currency is not as insurmountable as "become rich first".
Yeah, the power macs were usable in the early 00's but they were slipping fast. I don't know if I'd count macs as "alternative" because, despite their good qualities, they are more locked down than PCs.

SPARC was almost viable for a desktop machine in the early 00's, I had one under my desk that I was running a Sun Ray server on. We were hoping to use Sun Rays to provide access to the online catalog and other web resources but after Netscape became a non-viable web browser we were never able to get Mozilla to build on SPARC. It could have been ported but we didn't have the resources and nobody else bothered to do it. SPARC was slipping too and the price was not right.
Also due to the fact that we stopped building new homes after 08. If supply keeps up with rising demand prices don't change.
Copilot is closing
That's the whole point, to get them to reform the law, or to set courtroom precedent against spurious claims, while they're forced to take the position of its victims instead of continuing to side with the more well-funded perpetrators.
Yes it's the perfect storm for economic theories... increases in the money supply and actual product shortages both causing inflation at the same time.

Meanwhile increasing interest rates are in a nasty intersection with banks and other lenders stuck with low interest 30 year loans on their books, which make them very vulnerable to any new lenders.

definitely popcorn time.
Very few people know this but.

Information entropy and statistical mechanical entropy are two different things.

They share the same equation and the same name but they are two unrelated concepts. You have conflated the two. The person you are responding to is referring to statistical entropy.

Basically in this entire thread nobody, including you, is fully grasping the situation.
> crack down on spambots, and verify all users

This is the part that terrifies me. I enjoy my 'alt' accounts that have an anime waifu avatar and an assumed name. I don't want Twitter outing my real identity. That would ruin Twitter in a devastating way.
The first game I opened (Saloon Panic) has ads and isn't mobile friendly.
I, for one, consider myself fortunate that I'm not dead. :)

I guess you're saying that Keynesian doesn't work all that well when growth in supply is constrained. This doesn't seem necessarily to be the case, to the extent that people can be convinced to buy things that aren't in short supply? Demand for many essentials is inelastic, though.
It applies to pretty much anything these days.

To senior roles and leadership roles because risk aversion seems to be the most prominent driving factor behind any corporate decision today, and these roles tend to have more responsibility to up the anxiety some more.

To junior roles because almost every market has so many juniors they are able to make insane demands, and a general shift in idea from "they will grow with us" to "give them the minimum and see if they will stick around". Coupled with loads of "do your dues" years where one learns almost nothing, but is frequently met with leaders who prefer someone with experience to work on the problem / new project instead.

The latter is especially amusing since it leads to the lack of seniors capable of bridging that anxiety gap (read: seniors who are only seniors by YoE). Anyone who has looked a little into learning methods, gamification and such can also tell dripfeeding challenges is one of the worst ways to teach people, and how insanely quick people can learn when thrown in the deep, let alone feeding them challenges of increasing difficulty at a fast pace (with some measure of safety to cover failures).
> Low pay given the responsibility and working conditions

The pay to responsibility ratio for nurses is absurdly low. So unfortunate given the difficulty of the profession. I guess we'll see if anything changes over the next handful of years.
"food rotted" today != future "food scarcity"
No it’s utter nonsense.
Ministry, esp. old Ministry. Hypnotic and repetitive.
Ask HN: The Crystal programming language – what are your impressions?
It's a compiled language with Ruby-inspired syntax (but not identical to Ruby). It has fast performance and a good standard library. Version 1.0 of the language was released in March 2021.

Some disadvantages:

- Compilation is a bit slow

- Small community

- Few learning resources

- Windows version is still under development (not 1.0 ready)

I'm impressed by the language and find it very likable. It's not often discussed on HN, which is a shame.

If you are using Crystal, or have taken a look at the language, what are you thoughts on the language?
will document them in twitter
It's not a belief, it's outcome oriented. I have had more luck troubleshooting a niche issue or finding common viewpoints (negative ones being the most important) on products and problems I am trying to solve via Reddit than the autogen listicles and vaguely related quora posts that make up the vast majority of Google's first 10 page results.

All the signals I am picking up on/using to differentiate a real or usable comment (sometimes paid ones can still be useful!) can of course be gamed the same way Google search or Amazon product reviews can. Reddit can also still be botted.

But in practice I am currently finding more success at home with information sourced from Reddit. That will no doubt change eventually, but right now, it is indeed better for me.

I hint at it above, but we all use Google for different things - buying things, finding things, getting information on a variety of topics. If I'm trying to do something like solve a technical or software issue, it actually doesn't matter if the result is gamed or not - what matters is if I solve the issue. Stackoverflow, Reddit and wikipedia results easily help me reach that end far more often than Google does, especially when Google doesn't seem to often surface the more obscure hobby forums that might have niche information.
There was a documentary about the creation of copilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRL7YsXjSg
There's also sunk cost fallacy at work.

People get into something like Education, then spend a semester in a teaching practicum or something and hate it. But they've invested years into it so they forge ahead.

Not sure how that would translate into a Master's degree though. Maybe post-secondary inertia. You get the Bachelor's, then still don't know what you want to do so you just forge ahead with more school.
I've found these to also be pretty good, and work with mobile or desktop:

https://gamesnacks.com/
Regarding dress codes, I worked at a three-letter company in the 90s that changed their dress code to allow us to wear shorts, as long as they were "tasteful." And that worked well at the start. But then a couple of the rebels, who were more than happy to be considered rebels, started wearing the moral equivalent of running shorts, which back in those days went above mid-thigh.

That lasted about a month, and then shorts were no longer allowed.
CAR is partly run by an incompetent dictatorship, partly by a Russian private military firm that's really into massacres and diamond mining. That should tell you all you need to know about the likelihood of open ledgers bringing transparency to the country's operations.
> Then you need a centralised institution that people trust, which mostly defeats the purpose.

However, even with "purely digital assets" you will end up needing to trust people and exactly for the reason I outlined: unless you're able to read and debug code written in esoteric programming languages, you trust the creator of the contract not to screw you over. And even creators of contracts themselves can't find mistakes in their own code and have all their money drained or locked [1]

[1] Just this week, https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=akudreams-earns-34-million-...

"The contract suffered from several flaws, however. The first allowed an exploiter to stop all refunds and withdrawals from the contract... not so lucky with the second issue. A bug in the code failed to account for users minting multiple NFTs in a single transaction... the team can never withdraw the 11,539 ETH ($34 million) earned from the NFT sales—it is stuck there forever"
It's been a lot longer than a decade. Reagan kicked off the looting of the middle-class in the 80s, and both parties officially adopted that policy by the mid-90s, almost 30 years ago. It takes a long time to drive an airplane as big as the US into the ground, but we're finally starting to see the tires hitting the ground now.
> if you are predicting out 2.5 million years that’s important

I believe the stated claim is that there is enough fuel for 100,000 years, which is about 7000x smaller than the half-life of U-235. Even then, 2.5 million years with a 700 million year half-life is absolutely negligible. It's exponential decay, not linear, so you won't even get a 1% reduction.

> U238 is more plentiful

It's not radioactive enough; you need to subject it to a neutron flux to get something fissile, e.g. P239 through exposure in a reactor (https://www.britannica.com/technology/uranium-processing/Con...), which incidentally is what breeder reactors are designed to do.

If we're talking breeder reactors, then we have several orders of magnitude more energy available to us than the above calculations.
It's unfortunate the propaganda du jour is "Inflation is caused by $15 minimum wage and other table scraps for the poor."
Beelink makes some decent x86 boxes around that price
> is entirely attributable to the Fed's pumping of soft assets like stocks

The fed only stopped buying MBS a month ago.

(Also, they hold like $2T+ of them on their balance sheet. Im sure the 'experts' over at the fed will say this has no effect on the current market)
Heroku/Salesforce essentially just picked up the salaries for Matz and part of his team to work on Ruby, with no other commitments as far as I'm aware.
> caring for the weak and the elderly is a pillar of civilizations

I'm not sure that's true. Many civilizations, up to and including now, have the cultural practice of the weak and elderly destroying themselves (or being destroyed) when they become a burden on their relative/society. The most obvious example being the concept of east asian (Korean/Japanese) elders "going to the mountain to die".
The January 6th event brought tensions to a high point, and caused many Americans on the liberal side to rethink how they approach those on the right. The event left many Americans fearful of a violent attempt to subvert the democratic process, with those on the right believing that their votes weren't counted.

With a paralyzed legislative body, tensions are likely to grow in the future as the government fails to deliver reforms that either side wants while simultaneously beating the drums on issues that both sides refuses to compromise on.
Again, that’s not the first time that’s happened. We’ve had worse and it didn’t lead to civil war.

Think about what a civil war would entail. It is literally war between neighbors. You really think Americans are ready to kill each other en masse and give up everything they have, for what?

It’s easy to make proclamations about some abstract idea of “civil war” but the reality is that most Americans are doing relatively well and would not stake their lives on something that doesn’t even promise a better outcome.
glad it inspired u to write your book!
Depending on the need, it can be implemented on client side as well as on chitchat. We actually thought of this feature as a way for a node to normaly exclude itself from the cluster (maybe for application update). We are still evaluating how necessary this is because a node crash or normal shutdown can just work. Future experience will surely tell us.
Despite that being my own philosophy as a candidate, I never thought about it this way as a hiring manager. I feel kind of dumb! Thanks for putting it this way.
Wondering if y-comb will censor this??
> Do the various riots in 2020 America or the Jan 6 storming of the capitol count?

Is there any reason those would not count as "civil unrest"? And non-rioting protesters of whom there was plenty count as civil unrest too.

> On the other hand, Elon Musk Twitter purchase: $44bn. There's plenty of money out there still.

Not sure what that has to do with civil unrests. Some people being super rich does not imply all that much benefit for the other people in the same country.
This is a problem in other health professions like medicine (at least during the training phase), and pharmacy.
It's funny, because having grown up near the Great Lakes, the wide open land of the prairies and tundra appeal to me in a way that the geography of S. Ontario just doesn't. I like to see the horizon, and you just can't do that here, unless you're right on one of the lakes.
I'm pretty sure that's why they waited so long to raise interests, as they thought supply chain issue would be resolved and all will come back to normal.

Although that doesn't really explain the inflation of asset values.
It's not new, and despite this trend the unemployment rate in the U.S. is low at 3.6%. Americans are consumers as well as workers, and companies that can access lower-cost labor can charge lower prices. Higher cost-of-living regions in the U.S. should address their costs by making housing easier to build, for example.
It is completely related to being watertight, and that matters to me far more than user replaceable.
It is in fact not a bug but a critical, show-stopping feature. I will never denominate a contract in units of a speculative virtual scheme with no one at the (very technologically deficient) wheel.
Microsoft Edge is getting a built-in VPN powered by Cloudflare
Looks like the author gave up on his startup and joined Cloudflare
That doesn't mean it is a proof that human have the slightest chance of understanding. It gets out of hand quickly.
This is more closely aligned with the way I think. The more of a cluster I think the project will be the more I charge and the more I change the terms of my contract to get paid regardless of the outcome.
You are literally evaluating psychoanalysis as a scientific theory in this response - which is exactly what I pointed out we should avoid doing if we want to understand its value. Lots of types of thought and culture do not have scientific content, and yet are valuable.

Psychoanalysis, when tested empirically, produces therapeutic effects no worse than other talking therapies. In fact the great empirical paradox of therapy is that they are all similarly successful, regardless of the exact details of the theory they are based on.
“Glycolysis” – Excellent 3D animation of how cells get energy from sugar [video]
Or present NON-intrusive ads.
Could this post be unflagged please? I don't think it satisfies any requirement for flagging.
It was already priced in. On jan 3 the markets were predicting a 57.12% chance of interest rate increase to 25-50bp, 3.6% chance of increasing to 50-75bp.

https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to...
The old Orisinal Games by Ferry Halim would fit perfectly into this category, but unfortunately, they died along with Flash Player (AFAIK - I'd love to learn otherwise).
i make sure not to take a lot of time to write a book. I don't write everyday. Perhaps just 3-4 days in a week? And at most 45 min per day.

whenever i am busy with church, family, i will put writing down. Won't ever compromise them.

And, its just a hobby i enjoy doing.
Another one I've seen quite often is management wants "it", and then they hire someone who can do "it", but the company/product isn't nearly ready for "it". Think hiring a DBA before you have 100 total rows in your database, or hiring someone to write an AI recommendation engine before you have any users at all.

The "it" person sits around feeling uncomfortable and is inevitably asked to work on something they don't really know how to do and doesn't want to learn. They usually leave before the company ever gets to the point where the relationship is useful.
YC is a startup accelerator and VC. What do you think happens to the companies that grow after completing YC? Ideally they grow and hire (and sometimes, fire) people.

The HN community is way broader than just YC and their companies though.
According to studies, it only takes 3.5% of a population revolting to foment a successful revolution. I'd argue we're approaching that figure. Might take a few more years, but I could see it in the US in our lifetimes.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35...
If you aren’t going to invest your principal in something that will earn a higher interest rate than the loan interest rate on your house, then taking a loan and giving away more money to your bank is not logical or smart.

A $300,000 home with a 20% down payment and 80% borrowed at 5.0%* will cost you __$523,813.88__ over the 30 year life of the loan.

Logically, cash just sitting in the bank 1% or less in interest should go towards your loan costing more than 1% or towards avoiding $5k-$8k of closing costs on a mortgage.

*Today’s interest rates are 5.125% for a 30 yr fixed rate mortgage.
These still exist. Some smart watches still use them.