skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pentagon has never passed an audit, and the Fed manages to have giant ($Trillion) "secret" activities that manage not to hit their audits [1]. Are they a Ponzi too?

[1] https://theweek.com/articles/479867/federal-reserves-breatht...
The term '«government»' was used by the parent poster, not by you, Sandy: you are the one with the onus of reading his language as was intended.

Remember the Servers: "Strict in formulating the output, loose in interpreting the input".
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-sh...

United States 288
Mexico 8
South Africa 6
India 5
Nigeria 4
Pakistan 4
Afghanistan 3
Canada 2
France 2
Brazil 2
Estonia 1
Hungary 1
Azerbaijan 1
Greece 1
Kenya 1
Germany 1
Turkey 1
Russia 1
China 1

It isn't true anywhere but the US.
why do these become effective on June 10th and not immediately when this was published?

new product/features on June 10th? ownership transfer finalized?
I’m getting a gateway error on your link.
Those $30,000 jpgs will be replaced by $300,000 gifs.

Remember it’s Bitcoin. What goes down must come up, again.
the more the merrier
You don’t get to just decide that regulation doesn’t apply. The SEC can decide to regulate you, for offering a security or fraudulent statement later for instance
Accounts Receivable, one assumes.
> and not spend ages talking about an institution our country does not need to try to ruin anymore: since it left.

absolutely, once "continuity remain" ceases to be a threat to the UK political system

until that happens, I will continue to refute the misinformation of its supporters
> NOBODY WAS ABOUT TO ATTACK RUSSIA.

I think Putin's reasoning is that Ukraine's very independence amounts to seizing Russian sovereign territory.

What I find remarkable is the rarity of reports of Ukrainian attacks behind Russian lines (i.e. in Russian territory). As far as I can tell, they've blown up two fuel dumps and an arms dump. Given the dependence of Russia on what appear to be thin logistics lines, I'd have expected loads of missile attacks on bridges and rail junctions.

Of course, there's propaganda everywhere; perhaps Ukraine has been attacking Russian supply lines, and we're not being told, because that would serve neither Ukraainian nor Russian interests. I guess we'll have to wait until historians get their hands on the records.
This is why I want a personal stem-cell account.

I would like an account of various bodily components, grown from my personal stem-cells, for injection / growth / use as I see fit.

My Stem Cells My Choice.

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(for example, I want to regrow my eyeballs.)
Is Tumblr still a thing?
> - "AI/ML can't solve scientifically useful problems" - then AlphaFold changed the protein folding field

AlphaFold is a big deal, but AI in science has been a really hot topic in the past almost decade.

Also, I still wouldn’t call AlphaFold really “intelligence”, it’s doing structure prediction which is cool but it’s a long way to scientific intelligence
This is a really long-winded way to say “it’s moral to force people out of their homes, destroy people’s communities, and ruinously tax them, all for not living the way I want them to.”

The fair allocation of a shared pool of taxes is a different question from LVT entirely.
You're damn right about that. Just take a look at ipinfo.io, site is generating millions for something maxmind had complete dominance for decades.

People give waay too many points to having an original idea and very little to marketing - yet it's the latter that is responsible for the lion's share of any project's success.
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Bad papers do get through, but anything as high-profile as the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way will get intense scrutiny.
Looks like the only substantive differences are:

You agree that you will not work around any technical limitations in the software provided to you as part of the Services, or reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits ..

and a pointer to a different doc with terms for paid services.
This!! Can’t agree more. AI will continue to surprise us until it takes over.
I'm sorry, I am really confused. Didn't we get "the first picture of the black hole at the center of our galaxy" like 2-3 years ago? I definitely remember seeing a nearly identical photo, and lots of press coverage about a particularly young woman who was closely involved in the project. What that something different?
I could be misremembering, I think the , had to be converted to a . in the email address. I still recall my ID, the box the binder for the manual came in, and the joy of exploring, wishing I could try out SABRE. That was out of my childhood budget though.
I am wondering if this round of collapse and decline will turn to the end of crypto as an asset.
Twitter's consumer product team is truly awful and have just made the product more and more miserable to use, so I don't cry too much about the change in leadership.

Having said that, firing someone on paternity leave is terrible and would be rightly illegal in many countries.
The Other Kind of Staff Software Engineer
To my eye, this architecture still forces too much needless boilerplate. Seems like it will work well for apps that have a low number of very important features. Apps that naturally have a lot of systems will end up paying a high overhead multiplier over time.
The comment I linked is from 2008. This is nothing new. You also might want to have a look at the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
I can't help but wonder if this is to ensure he gets a good severance package before Musk comes in and cleans house? I can only hope, but it doesn't seem likely based on tone :(.
tl;dr they don't conflict with each other, they conflict with a third assumption that particles have zero size. GR suggests they would be black holes, and those have mathematical difficulties. String theory is an attempt to model particles of finite size and thus eliminate black holes.
My guess: the new boss gets started on a more positive note if they don't have to fire people because the old boss did it for him?

Or at least, that would be a good explanation if we weren't talking about Musk.
Cost of living in Pittsburgh may be 50% of San Francisco but that only matters if you’re spending every single cent you make. This is not the case on $200K. You are far better off in San Francisco. This is how “Californians” move to cheap cities and buy homes in cash over asking.
Two Twitter Leaders Are Leaving Company Following Musk Deal
My initial reaction to this was that it felt more woo than I like, but I get your meaning and I even think it was probably part of it. And it was one of several changes I made in that time, some more impactful than others.

But placebo or not, I’ll also say that the physical impact was genuinely calming. And while the setting and circumstances might account for most of that—soothing music, dark room, being still for about an hour with no interruption—I also found different needle placements had noticeably different effectiveness.

It’s not for everyone. I wouldn’t dream of suggesting anyone try it who wasn’t already open to it. But it did really help me, regardless of the science. And I’m grateful for it.
If you get caught manipulating the stock market you go to prison.

Crypto world, not so much.
Sqlite's SQL is severely limited.

If you want to do something a bit more complex, you will have a bad time. Hello! With recursive.
Working at a tech company as a developer vs working at a non-tech company are very different.

These two types of roles were called line vs staff when I took a business school class and I think the differences between these two types of roles have a big impact on what the job is like, even if doing the same type of work.
No, he just had a lot of extra saline.

J/K

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I had a cat when I was in my 20s that got into a fight some eve...

Its face got infected and blew up. It was $8,000 for surgery, and I couldnt afford it - so had to put her down... but I did love that cat, and I would have paid it if I had it...
> There is no other way to sell to your electorate joining NATO.

Sure there is. "Look at what happened to Ukraine".
This isn't any critique of this particular comment, but I feel like you are ignoring the known dynamics of Sars-cov-2. R_0 is dependent on population density around the person infected. An infected person walking down the street for miles amounts to very little R_0, until they enter a crowded sphere.

Also, are you aware that there already have been lab leaks of similar nature [0]? Whether they go on to mature into a pandemic is a matter of state handling. You seem to dismiss the mechanism entirely just because it hasn't ever spread past a certain point.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/
For the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBA0AH-LSbo
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That’s at least what the CTO of Tether is suggesting: https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1524413029898719234
British Post Office scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
Quantum computers were theorized in 1980, and there still isn't even a basic prototype. 18 years later, the first 2-qubit quantum computer was built. There still isn't anything usable after 40 years.
Literally head of product at Twitter, and still not enough clout to have paternity leave respected.
Find people with similar interests on the Fediverse
I don't understand the argument that you're making. Black people expect not to be represented in movies, and so seeing someone like themselves is not essential to appreciate them (although a token certainly helps.) White people are alienated from movies they don't see themselves in. Therefore movies made for white people will not lose black audiences, but movies made for black people will lose white audiences.

You seem to be supporting that opinion, but angrily.
Is today the day?

Date Weakly General AI is Publicly Known:
https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3479/date-weakly-general...

(I really like the framing of "weakly general AI" since it puts the emphasis on the generality and not whether it's a superintelligence)

Edit: Probably not today, but mostly because 1.2B parameters isn't enough to get it the high winograd scores that PaLM etc have. But it seems pretty clear you could scale this architecture up and it will likely pass. The question is when someone will actually train a model that can do it
I assume the award was to pay for development. As long as it wasn't grossly in excess of prevailing dev wages, why shouldn't they be able to use their salary as they see fit...?
It's less that I'm glad the market is crashing, and more that I'm glad that the insufferable crypto bros are finally getting a punch to the mouth. Seriously, these people are the worst. Your average "crypto investor" has no skills, no mathematical foundations, nothing. Except for pure stupid luck, and the ability to spew inane crypto babble 24/7. And yes, they think they are much smarter than you, because they achieved better financial results than you did while only doing 1/1000 of the work to get there. I truly hate the fact that these people are so rich. It makes me want to move to Alaska and just try to ignore society for the rest of my days.

This came off as pretty bitter. I apologize, but I am bitter, and I'm having a shit couple weeks.
They only released the image of M87 back then.
One of SQLite's most appealing aspects to me is using it as an application file format, as described in this article: https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

How does DuckDB compare in that aspect? Does it have the same kind of guarantees of robustness, incorruptibility and performance (especially reading/writing binary blobs) that SQLite does?

In any case: DuckDB looks great, nice work! Good to have more players in this space!
There are two pretty fundamental problems with this:

1) The services are free, one is not paying for a given, well-defined, services, like in the case where contracts are actually binding.

2) Even in the above case (payment+contract), a contract may have provisions specified on how it can be changed; and most do.
The closer we get, the more alarming the alignment problem becomes.

https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/

Even people like Eric Schmidt seem to downplay it (in a recent podcast with Sam Harris) - just saying “smart people will turn it off”. If it thinks faster than us and has goals not aligned with us this is unlikely to be possible.

If we’re lucky building it will have some easier to limit constraint like nuclear weapons do, but I’m not that hopeful about this.

If people could build nukes with random parts in their garage I’m not sure humanity would have made it past that stage. People underestimated the risks with nuclear weapons initially too and that’s with the risk being fairly obvious. The nuanced risk of unaligned AGI is a little harder to grasp even for people in the field.

People seem to model it like a smart person rather than something that thinks truly magnitudes faster than us.

If an ant wanted to change the goals of humanity, would it succeed?
Much less easy than GCP/AWS, which is more my standard for that bit.

State is the hard part to manage compared to stateless web tiers and what not, so that’s a big value prop
This is a great idea. Kudos.
I’ve heard that before from another customer, that it’s a good product for ADHD.
as crazy as it sounds: that black hole was actually in a different galaxy :)
The image from a few years ago, was taken of a blackhole in a different galaxy.
Ahh, I didn't click the button to see the details which include the fact that the $0 PostgreSQL is only free for 90 days

That feels sneaky and I'm a bit turned off by it

That said, their $0 web service plan seems to have no time limit and no shutoffs; possibly equivalent to Heroku's $7 plan, which is all I've ever used
That image was also captured by the EHT of the supermassive black hole (M87*) at the center of the M87 galaxy. The woman you're thinking of is Dr. Katie Bouman, now faculty at Caltech. She is also listed as an author on this work of imaging Sgr A*.
I think you're overestimating humanity here. There's a reason gambling is typically so controlled / limited. Have some empathy for those who might be a little less "smart" than yourself, ultimately we're just fancy animals.
it is and its kinda coming back. alot of genz are opening accounts there.
I hope it ALL goes away. I completely hate this space with every vested bone in my body.

Even if it takes a huge recession to wipe these cryptobros and casino tokens out, I would be glad.

Obviously would not like the collateral damage that this inflicts on all these so called small 'crypto investors' but as long as this triggers tight regulations to make these tokens, illegal, unusable and banned completely as to make the common person not touch these tokens, then that is a good thing for all humanity and we can start to concentrate on more worthwhile issues.

I really hope this space gets destroyed sooner than later.
Feels less condescending than Apple "Geniuses" or Best Buy "Nerds", and pretty in line with "Googlers", "Toasters" or "Hulugans".

Is this a thing most people refer to other employees as most of the time? No, but it helps corporate create an image of a fun, playful workplace. I think it's utter bullshit, but you know, to each their own.
The manipulation conspiracy is a coping mechanism. The price goes down when a bunch of people are trying to sell their worthless set of bits. There are no more greater fools to offload it onto.
Reading between the lines of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

The sun itself may get ejected into intergalactic space when the Milky Way merges with Andromeda. (< 5 billion years from now)

Earth will probably be totally engulfed by the sun when it goes red giant, or it might not in which case presumably it will continue orbiting. (7.59 billion years from now)

By 100 billion–1 trillion years from now all galaxies in the local group are expected to have merged, so there will probably be other opportunities for the sun to get yeeted into intergalactic space.

By 10–100 quintillion it's expected that 90-99% of all stellar remnants will be ejected.

Finally, at 10^30 (1 nonillion) years from now, we get this gem:
Estimated time until most or all of the remaining 1–10% of stellar remnants not ejected from galaxies fall into their galaxies' central supermassive black holes. By this point, with binary stars having fallen into each other, and planets into their stars, via emission of gravitational radiation, only solitary objects (stellar remnants, brown dwarfs, ejected planetary-mass objects, black holes) will remain in the universe.

One thing to keep in mind though is that by the time our sun gets sucked into a black hole, the galaxy will have merged so it may very well be a different black hole, or this paticular black hole may have merged with multiple other ones.
OT but one thing I've noticed is that Twitter has scaled back its aggressive modal/login prompt when viewing the site without being logged in. This seems to have occurred recently. It seems like it would have nothing to do with the acquisition talks but, curiously, it coincided with them.
The Neuroscience of Intermittent Fasting
Maybe this is Parag trying to keep his job?
dupe. more convo happening here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356525
Nope, that was a black hole in another galaxy- Messier 87
> I'm waiting for the experts to chime in and explain why this is in fact not going to happen, before I even bite on that title.

As 01100011 points out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356408), the article itself already does that:

> It will probably be a very long time before this technique can be used in a computer chip ….
Definitely possible. OpenAI's CLIP model already embeds images and text into the same embedding space.

I don't know exactly how this particular model works but it is creating cross modal relationships otherwise it would not have the capacity to be good at so many tasks.
I wonder if there is one big performance improvement that would get it a lot closer to the CGO version or whether it needs 100+ little improvements to get better at all?
Free speech for me but not for thee.

> “The age of Republican handouts to Big Business is over.”

Yeah I call bullshit. This is much more of a “how dare you not push my narrative”.
Your eyes will quantize the display before the mechanism does.
(Interestingly, you may often hear Americans speak of the Executive (what many call, a "Government") as 'Administration' - there where others call an Administration the collection of the actors and systems you just called a Government... And this confusion is in fact odd, if one notes that some call Ministers the heads of the Executive, and 'minister' and 'administration' are clearly twins.

This becomes beyond confusing, impressive, when you realize that 'Minister' is an expression for "servant" (cpr. "civil servant" etc.) as a derivation from 'minus' - 'Minister' is the opposite of 'Master' ('Ma[gi]ster')!)
As others have pointed out, it's not incumbent upon those opposed to a policy to come up with an alternative. Rather, it's literally legislators' job to do that.

However, as others have also pointed out, child sex abuse has both existed and been prosecuted before this law has come into effect.

Thus, the alternative I personally prefer is that. I understand your principles and willingness to sacrifice privacy lead you to another solution, but hey, you asked.
Did anyone actually buy NFTs or was it just a bunch of people saying "this is worth X"?
> That doesn’t mean they don’t have optimal capacities.

> The metrics you’re optimizing for are not necessarily high density and high population — like a dinner party, which would be impossible to scale and would ruin the experience if you tried.

You continue to crudely reason by analogy without mentioning what these scaling limits might be.

> You’re ignoring all other negatives to living in a city and high population density.

> Crime.

What about cities are intrinsically more crime ridden?

> No need for community involvement;

What?

> everything is provided by paid municipal services.

False, even if I wish it were :P

> Not knowing your neighbors.

Again not intrinsic at all

> Not having space to breath, or to have a woodshop, or to garden.

You are confusing floor area per capita vs land area pre capita. Even gardens can be in boxes on balconies, see New Orleans.

> The list is endless. You might not care about optimizing for those properties, but lots of other people do.

> > Then why aren't rents lower?

> They are in plenty of places, you just don’t want to live there.

Hey buddy, if "weird city apologists" like me are not representative, then we can't bid up the the rent.

Clearly a lot of people are trying to live in the major cities or they wouldn't be as high.

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This is one of the worst comments I've ever responded to on HN. All vague NIMBY vibes, no actual reasoning whatsoever. Get that shit out of here.
> I think I was clear. My proposal is to have no geographic sub-districts to any polity

You said to have them incorporate their own city. This seems different?

> There is no meaningful contrast between the two phrases.

Sure there is: in these cases, there is no single well-defined all-encompassing goal, and it may not be possible to define one.
Yes, arbitrary images, you just have to specify the image url.

Here are the instructions, so you can see how it works: https://www.invisible-computers.com/invisible-calendar/image...
Yeah, let's eliminate all regulations. Some of you may die, but that's a risk I'm willing to take /s

I mentioned it to another, but have some humanity and empathy for those less "smart" than yourself.
Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?
I don't know if you have noticed that if you copy+paste into email pages/apps like outlook and gmail they bring over all the formatting and styling of the source. That is, it pastes the text in with things like the font color and background color, and the font type itself, which then become the styling for the rest of the email if you keep typing as well.

Who came up with this? It makes absolutely no sense that anyone would want to transplant styling/formatting into an email, where there is no guarantee (indeed, little chance) that it will mesh well. It's just baffling.
This kind of bubble will be back in another form, whether it's crypto-based or not.
> They are European

"European" is a rather loose term. When I was a kid, Europe stopped at the border with East Germany. Later, a bunch of former soviet countries became "european" countries. Then Ukraine. For a while, Russia was acclaimed as a european country (it's still often described that way in the UK press).

Call me an old fogey, but I'm still doubtful that the former East Germany is really european yet. Being "european" is a question of culture, not of political alliances and borders.
S&P total market cap is almost $40 trillion. Btc market cap is about $600 billion. One is completely unregulated and not connected to anything physical. It seems it would be a lot harder for "whales" to crash something like S&P due to its high market cap and regulations.