skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>'temporarily impoverished billionaires'

The Steinbeck that your are (mis)quoting is from the 30's.
Misquote because Steinbeck was talking about how the majority of the ""socialists"" at the time were "most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?'"

So the feeling of entitlement is much older and across political lines.
Proof that there's any connection here? Or is this just a case of "it feels right to me"?
Underscores the fallaciousness of thinking paper gains are wealth.

Profits aren't real until you have to pay taxes on them.
Me. I got psychologically raped by bitcoin-rich feminists from Berlin and I hope their shit burns down.
Seems unclear whether Musk actually wants it to go through, doesn't it?

The presidency didn't fix Trump's relationship with his deceased father, and whatever ails Musk won't be fixed by purchasing Twitter and having to deal with all of the attendant headaches.

And it will distract him from Tesla and SpaceX. SpaceX can probably get along without him; Tesla clearly cannot.
Is a "dollar" tangible? It's just a number on a paper.
I'm glad that it's becoming a lot less likely for new people to be sucked into the insanity. As long as "number go up" there will always be a bigger fool, and so the cycle perpetuates itself. When number go down, the supply of new fools becomes much smaller, and maybe the whole scam will recede into memory.
It's not surprising to me whatsoever that within that same sentence that as you said, "leads to authoritarianism", is a reference to absolute morality and sin.

The scariest part of this line of thinking being so common is that it has happened! We've bench-marked humanity towards productivity before: dosed drinking water with amphetamines instead of fluoride and outlawed art and mandated labor at tank factories. Productivity!

Down that path lies authoritarianism, but more than that: down that path lies mass murder. What could be more productive than removing those who block productivity?

I appreciate your comment but I am always blown away by how kindly people respond to that idea of "unworthy activity", as if its not one of the cruelest ideas a person can possibly have. It's more common here because it's a community of engineers - we work with complex automations all the time - so it's only a natural mistake to see humanity as a complex automation too, and want to engineer it. But I still can't forgive the callousness.
I've seen a few "insufferable crypto bros" that are overjoyed to see the markets crashing. Just like any other investment, there's a subset of people who don't want to see stable prices and steady increases. They want extreme volatility because that means a chance for extreme profits (and loses).
Terraform Restarts Blockchain Behind UST Stablecoin, Luna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend
Some of the copying of font style makes a bit more sense if you consider that Outlook used (still use?) Wingding to display smiley faces. Now whether they should have done that in the first place is another question, but for the sake of back compatibility I can see why it's important to keep.
My understanding is that we have only a small sample and growing things in it would ruin it for a lot of experiments.
> The ENTIRE point of parental leave benefit is to ensure that your employment status doesn’t change while you are using it.

That's strange, I always thought that the point of it was to allow parents to spend much needed time with their newborn child.
It's silly to say Two Sigma consistently beat the market. They have multiple funds and only one of their numerous funds (Two Sigma Enhanced Compass) has managed to outperform the S&P 500 over a 5 year period, the rest have significantly underperformed.
What makes it not a pyramid scheme is that by owning the stock you own part of Amazon, and Amazon makes money by providing a service to users. The inflow of money comes from the users of its product, not future suckers.
I think a key problem is our understanding of the quality of an ML system is tied to a task. Our mechanism of training is tied to a loss, or some optimization problem. The design, training, and evaluation of these systems is dependent on an externally provided definition of "correct".

But this seems structurally different from how we or even less intelligent animals operate. DALL-E may make "better" art than most humans -- but it does so in response to a human-provided prompt, according to a system trained on human produced or selected images, improving on an externally-provided loss. Whereas a human artist, even if mediocre, is directed by their own interests and judges according to their own aesthetics. Even if some of their outputs are sometimes comparable, they're not really engaged in the same activity.

Methodologically, how do we create agents that aren't just good at several tasks, but make up their own tasks, "play", develop changing preferences for different activities (I think this is more than just "exploration"), etc? Even a dog sometimes wants to play with a toy, sometimes wants to run and chase, sometimes wants to be warm inside. We don't "score" how well it plays with a toy, but we take its desire to play as a signs of greater intelligence than, e.g. a pet iguana which doesn't seem to have such a desire.

Further, how do we create agents that can learn without ever seriously failing? RL systems have many episodes, some of which can end very badly (e.g. your simulated runner falls off the world) and they get to learn from this. We die exactly once, and we don't get to learn from it. Note, learning from others in a social context may be part of it, but non-social animals also can learn to avoid many kinds of serious harm without first experiencing it.

I don't mean to overly discount the current methods -- they're achieving amazing results. But I think even an optimist should be open to the possibility / opportunity that perhaps the current techniques will get us 80% of the way there, but that there are still some important tricks to be discovered.
Wasn't LUNA in the top 10 coins? If so that seems like a big deal. That would be like Coca Cola going to zero.
Branching off, what I feel is more important is that in brokers like Robinhood you don't even OWN the underlying security of your investment; you're renting it. Not even that... you're being lied to about owning it.
Also "don't mess with parents"??? Who is messing with parents? What actual harm came to kids before this bill? Are parents just mad that trans people exist and that their kids are being taught not to bully trans people?
No, and anybody aside from those directly involved who tries to tell you otherwise is just making things up.
Most financial instruments are backed by other securities, so it "sounds like" the 2008 crash because it sounds like every financial instrument.

the problem with the crash is that the risk of the junk mortgages was not adequately assessed due to market failure.
The cultural difference doesn't seem like something to "cringe" over. I also don't think the hyperbolic use is restricted to the US. Pretty much any english speaking country will use "insane" to describe something with emphasis. Certainly normal in the UK and Australia.
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good point.

there are two types of dystopia:
the 1984 flavor or the Brave New World flavor

China and Russia are doing 1984, the "West" was doing Brave New World but they want to try something new. So why not a blend?
this came off as sincere, so congrats. Most of the things that offer us value are not paid for that. Most of the internet runs on PHP
"outage"
> I guess the UN could pass a resolution to authorize an invasion

Could it? Isn't that in direct opposition to the declared purpose of the UN?
"Leading" doesn't have to mean "first".

VisiCalc wasn't the first spreadsheet program. It was, however, the leading spreadsheet program for a while.

Lotus 1-2-3 wasn't the first spreadsheet program for the PC. It was, however, the leading one for a while.
I guarantee you all the institutional investors and big finance invested in crypto absolutely do know better, and they know they have better quality information and the ability to respond to it faster than the masses of "retail" investors. So they will be on the winning end of the bubble burst at the expense of the schmucks on Twitter.
I can remember carbon nano tubes and graphene mentioned couple decades ago in nanotechnology lectures by amazing professor. I was exited to live in a different future back then. But back in the reality nowadays I use Ryzen 3950x to program 28 nm CMOS FPGAs. I am still curious what manufacturing technology can replace silicon CMOS for worldwide electronics manufacturing.
Amazing.

I wonder if other plant species are better suited to growing in Lunar “soil”. Just like on Earth plants prefer one type of soil to another.
Unexpected question from someone whose nickname starts with "quasar"! :-)

Active in the sense of (from <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_galactic_nucleus>) "much higher than normal ... excess non-stellar emission" from the region very close to the central black hole. Our central parsec is simply dim in practically every wavelength compared to its enclosing central bulge. An active galactic nucleus in our galaxy would be very noticeable to the naked human eye: it would "light up" (with far ultraviolet to gamma radiation) lots of interstellar material that, having been heated, would glow very brightly in the reds and oranges.

The luminosity of AGNs and quasars (especially luminous AGNs) is mostly from matter-matter collisions between gas and dust on intersecting geodesics (a fancy sort of friction that becomes enormous in the material nearest the black hole), with a contribution from daughter products of those collisions.

There isn't much matter circulating close to Sgr A*. It's "starving". In the panel they tried to put it in terms of a human diet: if you were eating like Sgr A* is, scaled down to human size, you'd be eating a grain of rice every few million years. Good luck keeping your body heat up on that diet. :-)

In the past -- tens of thousands to many millions of years ago -- there might have been a lot of matter circulating around Sgr A*, being swept up into luminous jets, which generated the Fermi bubbles <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center#Gamma-_and_X-r...>. That's an area of current research: do central black holes eventually go radio-quiet in general? Is there a active-quiet-active-quiet cycle in central black holes in general? Or is this all an ultraviolet herring with the Fermi bubbles being produced by some mechanism that doesn't involve (or only very weakly depends upon) Sgr A*?

ETA: I forgot to re-read my own (grandparent) comment. The "luminous structures nearby" are not just an accretion disc. Jets count, too. Also anything that they strike (molecular gas clouds, for instance) will tend to become luminous in some part of the spectrum (sometimes this results in "frustrated lobes", sometimes "light echoes" or ionization echoes from flares).
Well, unless we’re talking about shares in a SPAC, which is a few pieces of paper filed with the State of Delaware’s Division of Corporations…
1000% agreed
Wait, it's disrespectful to the reader if they change the wording so that it's a pun in both languages? Isn't that like... the best possible translation?
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes

2. I said nothing about coercion.

Care to speak to the point I made, which I'll repeat for clarity:

> Arguing that this somehow means that NATO is more tolerant of having Russian forces "within its borders" is absurd

or would you prefer to find issue with other irrelevant or imagined details?
(nothing to do with DuckDB but..) SQL is complex enough, and allowing this (and acyclically as mentioned below) would do my $%^& nut implementing it.

But I know a user requirement when I hear one, so can you give me an large, real example of where allowing this would make things easier? That would be mega helpful, ta
The thing is, one person's crime is another's fight against tyranny/oppression.

Saying someone committed a financial crime depending on jurisdiction can be entirely different things.

And to be frank, I don't buy that financial Total Information Awareness is necessarily a good thing for a society to have.
I was a very happy user of sccache - it took some big CI builds from ~10 to 1.5 minutes on average. We had to add an Azure backend to it, but the code is very well-organized and it was pretty easy to hack on.

I don't work in native languages these days, but if I do again I'll definitely reach for this again.
I guess we have different definitions of "inordinate". Field replaceable batteries would of course be ideal, but that would result in thicker devices and/or smaller batteries.
> Kayvon was a huge driving force behind all the interesting product efforts of the last few years: Spaces, Fleets, topics, etc

Honestly not sure if you're being sarcastic. Fleets were killed within months of launch because they were awful and no one wanted them. Spaces will die when the nft bubble finishes collapsing. And topics are just a way to shoehorn crap no one wants onto their timelines without asking first.
To be fair I haven't explored the memory usage with Fortran 2018. But clearly there was a point where 18kb would suffice.
Maybe we just need a simple way to turn this behavior on/off at the operating system level? Clearly, there are strong arguments for both sides.
As a means to keeping this feature on when out in public, but not have it cause latency spikes at home, is it possible to configure the router to block these requests from location services? Or do we need to setup each device to automatically disable location services when on the house wifi?
I like this theory. Probably oversimplifying a lot of elements, but it can walk at least a bit. Kudos.
I don’t think will us inherent to the meaning of intelligence, as it’s commonly used.
So how long until someone trains one of these models to complete tasks by interacting directly with network/unix sockets?

At the moment, it seems like the model needs to be trained with each modality of data in mind at the start, but a generalised "supermodality" that can deliver all the others would allow truly generalised learning if the model were still capable of making sense of the input.

You'd obviously still need to finetune on any new modalities, but you wouldn't need to start from scratch.
That was interesting, thanks for sharing. Those parents were quite something. Karma tends to catch up with such people. I could tell you stories... :)
> the unintuitive part is that “location” means “Wi-Fi scan”

I was under the impression that this has been SOP for mobile device location forever: get rough location via WiFi and/or tower multilateration while GPS is...I don't know the proper terminology here, bootstrapping? That's why your dot tends to start somewhere nearby-ish and then quicky jump to your exact location.

It's possible that I'm way off base or my understanding is outdated, though.
As an example, Stonetoss' NFT sale had 1500 buyers across 5000 flurks.
> Kayvon is one of the best product leaders / visionaries I know.

Maybe this person is absolutely amazing and is just constrained by the crazy realities of working in a very large and political company. Maybe they did the best possible job under difficult circumstances. I'm not the insider and can't easily judge that.

But as an outsider, what I can judge is that it's easy to perceive the Twitter platform as basically doing nothing truly noteworthy in terms of design/features to improve the platform other than feeling like a slower and slower site, while at the same time it's increasingly hostile to the open Internet (stuff like blocking viewing Tweets unless you login), and has some significant and growing freedom of speech issues until Musk came along. The stuff that outsiders can judge doesn't feel too good.
Relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/927
Make no mistake, the C# VSCode extension is "slow" and sometimes break is simply because Microsoft WON'T allow it to be better than Visual Studio proper. It's as simple as that. Take the dotnet hot reload debacle for instance.
Those aren’t the points I raised at all. I was curious to know how you believe a person with tremendous wealth and power should comport him/herself, and whether Elon Musk's behavior is consistent with that.
Yesterday I got a voice mail from a cold call at work from some rando (I have no idea how they got my phone #), and they mentioned they work for some infrastructure tooling site. I share a name with someone higher up in the company so I occasionally get cold emails/calls from people thinking they're talking to someone with actual purchasing authority, trying to hustle some business.

Anyways out of curiosity I go to the site and it's a business that's built around a single api call that my organization uses internally. I'm simplifying a little, but I can't believe someone built a business around this thing that, to me, is incredibly simple. (I understand it's more complex than that, and we have entire teams backing the goings on behind this api call, but still). From their "who's using us" block on the landing page they look successful. It's interesting to learn how small businesses can find success in the most surprising of places.
> If only there was a way to set this as the default and format pasting as the shift setting.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/copy-paste-text-without-format...

(MS Office requires a slightly different procedure: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/287159/is-there-a-...)
China shuts down talk of Covid hardship; users strike back
What if it ends up in a USB scenario--fewer wires, but running at a higher speed? 4-8x smaller word size to get +10e6 sounds like a good trade. Just think, Z80s & 6502s coming back into fashion. This time, turbo-charged!

Chuck Moore was kind of on that beat already with his GreenArrays chips.

It will definitely be a while, but maybe not such a long one.
Negative comment's here are going to be prime meme material in the future.
> Go doesn't have an easy way to bulk-copy fields from one struct to another

FYI, In Go you can embed one struct in another and the embedded fields are accessible from the top/parent struct.

https://go.dev/doc/effective_go#embedding
How about "The author should be able to edit their tweet." Perhaps the community can delete or up/downvote but edit?? Maybe they mean that ownership of the edited tweet will transfer (irrevocably) to whomever made the edit?
But they're booming much harder and busting much harder...

Should the fed have stepped in to prevent a flash freeze in liquidity in March 2020? Probably. Did they go way way way too far? Maybe. Did they go way way too far in Aug 2020 and Nov 2020 and Dec 2020 and Jan 2021, etc? Definitely.
The beauty of bitcoin, in its unique status as the idealistic cryptocurrency, is that it never promised anything. Satoshi never tried to set an exchange rate with anything, never pegged, never said he'd provide any asset, product, guarantee, for any amount. Even monopoly money is based on the US dollar, and you can buy properties on the board with it, and they're symbols for actual real estate, have names from Atlantic City, get $200 for passing go, $2000 for landing on Boardwalk, everything in the game gives some tangibility to the paper.

With Bitcoin, there's absolutely nothing. It's only relative to itself, in that mining a block is worth 40 bitcoins, which are this divisible and no more, and there is a limit to how many there will ever be, 21 million. And a block is mined every ten minutes. That's it. Three parameters. Totally free-floating from the very beginning.
> What real math is involved in predicting the stock market?

I have a MSC in Statistics, studied quantitative finance. Generally I'd agree with you. For general investing there's often little math involved other than some simple ratios and comparisons. Three numbers I look at most often are the Price-to-Sales ratio, Gross Profit %, and annual revenue growth. There's no complex math involved here at all.

Where investing does get mathy is in calculating risk. When constructing a portfolio, generally the aim is to maximize returns while minimizing risk below some threshold. There is some very interesting and fun maths involved in this process that is beyond the scope of general investing.
Ridiculous claim. Here is some actual information

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/14/6196042...
Why must it apply for a job, rather than just DO a job?

But maybe some combination of this [1] and this [2] would do it.

If you want to know about a computer actually DOING a remote job for a year without anyone noticing, I'll conclude with many links [a-i].

[1] : https://thisresumedoesnotexist.com/ (Sorry for the bad certificates.)

[2] : https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktoker-wrote-code-spam-kel...

[a] : An original claim of just that: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/s2igq9/i_automate...

[b] : Coverage of that post: https://www.newsweek.com/no-harm-done-it-employee-goes-viral...

[c] : https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/p3wvdy/i_automate...

[d] : https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jcdad/my_wife_wo...

[e] : https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/277zi...

[f] : https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tenoq/reddit_my_...

[g] : https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vomtn/update_my_...

[h] : https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ew6gmd/aita_...

[i] : https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/7tjdk...

I mostly share the last few because of all of the "me, too" comments on them.

There are several instances in there where an employer has no idea they are paying a salary, but a computer is doing the vast majority of the actual work.

I feel like this is a "business world Turing test," like, "would an employer pay money for it, thinking it was a human." And I feel like I've provided evidence that has actually occurred.
Why would anyone else in the industry contribute resource to a FB-owned project with closed governance? They are in the bottom five companies in the world that need help with the open source projects they maintain.

I get what you are lamenting in general, I would like to see OpenSSL or Django or perhaps even Linux better funded for example. It just seems to me that this is not a case where any lamenting is justified. If the newly-community-owned Jest doesn’t get investment, then sure, that would be lamentable. But that hasn’t happened yet. Indeed, FB divesting ownership was a necessary condition for any serious outside investment to occur, IMO.
I was very explicit that I am discussing the land, not constructed surface.

My point is that the land close to a major attraction is forever scarce and thus expensive, and that this attracts only developers who want to build expensive constructions to maximize their return on investment. I agree with the article that this still pulls median prices down, but it does so by forcing middle class and poor people towards the peripheries. Taking this to the extremes, you get cities like Sao Paolo - with extremely expensive city centers and dirt-cheap favelas where people live in squalor.

Looking at my own city (Bucharest) this is very visible in new constructions - the farther away from the expensive city center most constructions are, the smaller the apartments, the less nicely looking etc. Of course there are exceptions, especially once you get to the suburbs, but this is the general trend for the city itself, and is a common trend in most cities.
VW will produce more EV next year than tesla (800K)
As someone who lives in Texas, that part seems pretty clear. If a company offers a service but intentionally excludes people from Texas (or any part of Texas) because of where they live, that person can sue here for damages.