skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expenses of $100k/m with income of $10k/m can definitely happen outside SV. Often it is even more extreme, where you spend millions of dollars before you earn anything.

Let's say I have an idea for a new type of air purifier. I will need to build prototypes, test them, sort out manufacturing, build large numbers, get agreements with various distributors, and all this while not bringing in much if any money yet. If all goes well, however, the investment pays off and once I'm making my new product at scale I more than make up for those initial costs.
Maybe it'll happen, but one thing to keep in mind is that canonical EdDSA signatures (i.e. PureEdDSA) require feeding the entire input stream, not simply a hash of the input. That can be problematic or even impossible for hardware tokens, as well as other scenarios--e.g. BearSSL's API has to be substantially refactored to support X.509 EdDSA signatures, a refactor which may never happen. So when devising and/or implementing a protocol one must consciously choose the supplemental HashEdDSA variant, if one even has the choice. But as long as people indulge make-perfect-the-enemy-of-good urges, that's yet one more hurdle many won't overcome. (And hesitancy is actually somewhat understandable in this case as DJB and others explicitly discounted the value or need for secure hardware scenarios; they were explicitly optimizing for the most common scenario in typical FOSS environments where the private key is local in software.)

Perhaps Ed448 might gather more momentum as it wouldn't be a direct replacement for P-256. And usage isn't quite as common so selection of the prehashed variant may be more practical. But it's entirely possible we won't see a shift in hardware support as widespread as RSA -> P-256 until quantum-resistant schemes are settled.
This is quite suspicious considering that google AI research has an official blog[1], and this is not mentioned at all there. It seems quite possible that this is an elaborate prank.

1: https://ai.googleblog.com/
I think all your ideas are great and I’d be all for them if they weren’t just completely unrealistic and ineffective.

I grew up around those environments and was immersed in them. My experience as well as analyzing what we have done to “fix it” have led me to believe that a radical breaking of the wheel is necessary. And not only necessary but moral.

It’s time to put kids first.
First Stablegains via Anchor and now 'Pebble.' What do they have in common? Like a Chevy, they sink like a rock.

NGL for the most recent YC class of 'notneobanks!'
I'm seeing a lot of conspiratorial thinking on Twitter and elsewhere where people think it's just too suspicious that a new virus has popped up so soon after COVID-19. If you're harboring these suspicions, it might be worth reading a little about the Poisson Distribution[1] and Frequency Illusion[2].

Because the appearance of an emerging disease isn't generally correlated to the appearance of another, different disease (big assumption here), there is no guarantee of even spacing. Furthermore, we've had over 30 emerging infection diseases pop up in the last 30 years[3]. They're much more likely to receive increased attention now however, due to heightened worldwide awareness of infectious disease from COVID-19.

I'm not saying that there's definitely no conspiracy, but Occam's Razor says cognitive bias is a much more likely explanation for why monkeypox seems so oddly-timed than Bill Gates's secret world domination plan.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5618832/
This is some strange magical thinking.

"Your tan isn’t doing anything." you say, despite clear evidence that melanin is associated with ancestral UV exposure and how your body develops a tan in response to UV exposure. Now you're suggesting a separate unnamed method of resilience associated with darker skinned people.

I guess go ahead and fear the sun, you do you.
There isn't enough money in millionaires and billionaires. That's why they shout "Tax the Rich", because they don't care, and just want to tax the middle class with VAT and income tax etc.

They want control, and they want to spend YOUR money.

Oh hey! Here is a pencil, you can have it! Can I have your sandwich in return?
Until dog fooding happens, it's a hard pass. Wrote teams on electron / reactive native? Undo that and do it using MAUI. Prove to your developers it's a good stack to sink your time into.

> But but... it was written years ago when MAUI wasn't a thing...

Well it is now and you have infinity money so just do it. We need high profile application to be MAUIs face.
> With regard to consciousness, humanity is alone and unique on planet earth, and perhaps the entire galaxy. This is so evident that it is pointless to debate.

It isn't evident. The human hubris, on the other hand, is self-evident.
It’s a direct punishment for not being blessed by God, c.f. the ever-popular and uniquely American prosperity gospel.
I don't see where you think the article disagrees with that?
Blitzortung – Real time lightning map
So, in the dot-com bubble companies were rushing to market with ideas and no products because delivering products was a massive technical undertaking. It seems like we now have companies rushing to market with products -- which are seemingly much easier to build nowadays -- but without profitable business models. I wonder what the next bubble will look like.
https://github.com/lucidrains/imagen-pytorch
They are trash for IF. That's it. You would be better with Inform 7.
Why would I be aware of that? A quick Google Maps search shows some multi lane roads.
> Why not just use regular contracts?

It's just code, so the same reason we use APIs rather than doing everything by lawyers.
> If you don't think this is a real thing that happens to children you're not thinking especially hard

I believe that's where parenting comes in. Maybe I'm too cynical but I think that the parents' job is to undo all of the harm done by society and instill in their children the "correct" values.
Not really; the gender of a nurse is accidental, other properties are essential.
A variation on the axiom "you cannot idiot proof something because there's always a bigger idiot"
It's not about losing money, it's about needing to invest money before you are earning your investment back.

In software it's development costs. Outside silicon valley, in the non-techie world, there are many things that work the same way. Eg real estate - building a building is an upfront investment of piles of money that the building doesn't earn back for years. Or eg opening a McDonald's.

The main difference in tech startups is that it's not just entrepreneurship, it's innovation too, so it's unknown whether the product will earn back the money. But sometimes McDonald's falls, builfings fail, etc. The odds there are better though.
I believe the society ought to be involved in the decision to intentionally kill a person, whether we are talking about capital punishment, euthanasia, homicide, or abortion. This is the social contract we live on: the state takes the role of defending the defenseless.

Note that I am not saying that abortion should be illegal or unavailable. We still put serial killers to death, pull the plug with advance directives, allow for self defense, and we ought too allow abortions when the fetus hasn’t cross the threshold into being a human being (which is when?!?) or in carved out exemptions like rape, incest, life of the mother, etc. As far as I’m aware this is a rather centrist position.

The point of my story of my lived experience is that it made me realize the mainstream “pro-life” position is not trying to attack the autonomy of the woman (which is a straw man caricature of their view) but to be the defender of the baby, of which they feel needs but is lacking equal protection under the law.

That didn’t make me pro-life, and I don’t think I said I was. I said it is complicated and nuanced, and I can see the arguments made in good faith on both sides. It is easy to attack a straw man. It is much harder to reconcile with the steel-manned belief of the other side and not walk away without some certainty shaken. I still feel women deserve to have a right to an abortion when needed, but it is also not an unconditional right: society is allowed some say in determining rules and guidelines, just like other medical practices which affect the life of another are regulated. This isn’t a defiance of your bodily autonomy as a woman; it’s recognition that the child growing inside you is (after some point) a distinct human being with its own right to bodily autonomy. “Your right to swing your fist ends at my face” and all that.
Are you blaming me that archive.org crawls the web and makes archives?
I've interviewed hard of hearing candidates over text instead of voice before. Have you tried asking for that accommodation when interviewing? I am not a lawyer, but I would expect it to be a legally obligatory accommodation for the company to make.
Much like OpenAIs marketing speak about withholding their models for safety, this is just a progressive-sounding cover story for them not wanting to essentially give away a model they spent thousands of man hours and tens of millions of dollars worth of compute training.
Economists are lowering growth forecasts – and that's good news
Easy, you just measure the lines of code added. More code means more productive.
The issue is that predator drones will be shot down almost immediately which makes it a non-starter. It flies high and slow which makes it extremely easy to attack. Even fighters on both sides have been flying extremely low due to both sides having an abundance of anti-air.
It’s less about the thinking and more about the unfiltered blurting out such (when they are personal and/or unkind) thoughts in public.
This is very fair! We used a few guide posts:

- 1: Keep asking "why is this valuable" until you get to the money questions. It's often a few layers deep. Not being able to get at that (missing an ability to quantify) was in itself something that engineering leadership needed to work on. After all -- how can you prioritize between two things if you can't figure out what value they create?

- 2: Most engineering teams know that they might be able to save some time by refactoring. We figured out the average hourly cost of engineering effort and used that as a multiplier for time saved by a new project's implementation. You can take it a step further and subtract the cost of working on a project from the time it ultimately saves you to remove "dumb" refactors that take longer to deliver than time they save.

- 3: If you can't get to a tech debt's value, that's a red flag as to if it actually creates value. This was true for features and business requests as well. We also said no to features that "felt good" but ultimately created zero value (some redesigns included). "Rewriting something in a new language" because a new sr manager with strong preferences joined the team was a big culprit of these sorts of projects.

- 4: We also often asked if a tech debt project needed to be done independently of other work, or if it could be included as part of a new feature that we were working on. An example was that one team pitched rewriting a microservice because it had no API. On the other side of the company, we had a project to get rid of that feature entirely and replace it with a different functionality. If tech debt projects were handled entirely within the domain of engineering, we would have spent weeks rewriting something only to throw it away a month later. Hence the need for bubbling tech debt up to the single stack rank, and thus treating tech debt projects the same as any other project we were working on (with appropriate visibility, buy-in, and evaluation of value/urgency).
Ah, to my mind "algebra" is the structure. It sounds like you want a survey of mathematical notation?
>Note that APFSDS can only be fired from a gun that is too heavy to carry on anything OTHER than an MBT. Bradleys, Strykers, BTRs, BMPs, etc just can't take the weight/recoil.

What about the M1128 Stryker variant? Wikipedia tells me it's being retired, but as far as I can tell it mounts a full sized tank cannon (same as the original M1) and is not being retired due to problems with the gun per se. I certainly wouldn't call it a tank.

I'm a decade out of the Army and I only know anything about Strykers because I saw them around post. I never served in a Stryker unit. That said, it seems like the M1128 is a direct contradiction to this fairly central premise in your post.
When Everything is Grey but Nothing is Getting Read
It’s wild to me that the HN consensus is so often that 1) discourse around the internet is terrible, it’s full of spam and crap, and the internet is an awful unrepresentative snapshot of human existence, and 2) the biases of general-internet-training-data are fine in ML models because it just reflects real life.
>Using methods like get_post or the_content are great examples of why people hate PHP

The big problem with people getting into PHP via Wordpress is that Wordpress isn't, really, written in PHP. It's a WP-flavor subset of PHP, and a lot of it goes way, way back to when PHP could only be written with a hammer and chisel. It's been kept because a lot of things depend on it not changing. (I give the devs credit for not breaking a whole lot over the years.)

But compared to anything that's a bit more modern, or even writing something from scratch, it's a bit of a slog.
Calling green hydrogen cheap is a bit of a stretch. The Swedish government produced a government report on the viability of it a couple/few years ago and the price was around 10x compared to nuclear, and that just for producing it. Storage and transportation would be additional costs on top. There is a reason why there aren't any current investments Sweden/Finland/Germany in order to create green hydrogen for energy production. (There are project to create green hydrogen in industries that explicitly need the hydrogen itself, in which case the cost calculations is much better).

In practice we should simply apply the open market and allow energy companies to bid for direct decommission of existing capacity in fossil fuel energy plants. If a commercial company can produce a combined renewables + storage solution that is cheaper than nuclear then that is a major win-win for everyone involved. If it is a bit more expensive than nuclear than it might still be worth it, but then the question is how much more. The combination that should not be allowed to bid is the combination of renewables + fossil fuels, and if needed, laws should be added to that effect.
That would be a reasonable thing to do if the Davos set actually wanted to pay more taxes.

But, then, the U.S. Treasury accepts donations to the general fund, if you feel your taxes are too low. Your contribution is even tax-deductible.

The drumbeat of "raise millionaire taxes" from the Davos set is mostly about maintaining themselves as the mostly-hereditary global elite and minimizing the rise of newcomers by taxing them enough that they can't rise to the lofty heights.
I prefer to start from the assumption that money doesn't exist. Rather Moneyness is a property that various tangible and intangible items have to varying degrees. Moneyness is conferred by: rarity, usefulness, desirability, portability, fungibility.

Gold is rare, desirable (it's pretty!), reasonably useful in limited contexts, perfectly fungible, and easily portable due to its density. On this scale, Gold has a high degree of Moneyness and so people often say that "gold is money", and it has served as both exchange currency and store of value for millenia.

In contrast, cigarettes are useful, desirable, and fungible but not rare. Thus they form a poor medium of exchange or store of value. Unless you happen to be in a prison, where cigarettes are more difficult to acquire, and thus have increased Moneyness and can form the basis of a currency system.

With this background it's easy to see that digital US dollars possess the same amount of Moneyness as credit. Credit spends like dollars. Digital accounts spend like paper bills. If the context changes, then the relative value changes. Is the network down? Suddenly your credit card has reduced ability to act as a medium of exchange. The digital currency has reduced Moneyness. "Sorry, cash only", etc.

This is a long-winded way of discouraging you from trying to compare anything to "real money". There is no real money. There are only various objects and societal agreements that have greater or lesser degrees of Moneyness at this particular location and time in history.
whats right or not is completely an internal dialogue that you engage with and irrelevant here. if you dont like archive.org crawling your blog, the correct action would be:

- dont write it

- dont submit it on social media with unknown side effects
> That's not a bad restriction in practice.

Maybe, but it surely is inconvenient!

When our program can use pipe-line with several pipelines for concurrency (like GPU shaders work), sure, that's a good way to go. However the majority of what threads are doing is not pipe-line friendly work.

When we want our program to do different things at the same time (which is what we mostly use threads for), trying to do it in a pipe-line-like manner won't work.

For example, serving multiple http requests at the same time - some will be a POST to an API endpoint, some will be a GET for a static file, some controller code will make multiple requests to different backend microservices (each request in a different thread), etc.

Or maybe some client code, that makes several concurrent requests for different resources to different destinations, while each thread still needs to update the UI (progress meter, for example).

Or a parser for input from some upstream processes: you want to parse in parallel if at all possible.

Or the program in a microcontroller that cannot miss bytes coming in on one bus while it is sending bytes out on another bus.
Most banks taking this stance leaves the entire market for others. It is fuelled by fees. Green Dot fees are quite high. What you say is true, though. I was with an established prepaid company (acquired by GD) that got dropped by a bank or two.
You are making inferences with what was done with the data.

We all know that both sides used data nefariously to try to win the most powerful post in the world.

One side won and got praised, one side won and got shit on.

It's total bias.

Now let's do the 2020 DNC voter role takeover, harassment of voters, curing ballots, and general fraudulent "get out the vote" campaign that illegally targeted only heavy democratic areas.

Lol. You see? It's all a joke.
Hoping this adds the to conversation. I had been thinking about Brian Eno's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno) work and approach to creativity.

At the same time, what's the word, dismayed, with the application and evolution of various "ways of working" in my industry.

So from 27+ years of observation, reflection and participation, I've come to believe my work was always "journey" based. Get to base camp, get up to the hill etc... i.e. deliver, deliver and deliver. But when things go wrong, >>> work out a way around <<< the important bit; and what I feel Oblique Strategies might be attempting to resolve.

Its funny. When people leave projects they always reflect on the journey. Strange eh?

As such I attempted to developed a manifesto called "Push".

As in "I push the trolley around the supermarket. I push myself to exercise. I push my kids through school. Why is the creative process any different?" -- yeah, yer, corny I know (c:

"Push Manifesto is about vision, collaboration, inclusive behaviours, determination, communication, governance, learning, and above all prioritizes the journey; using waypoints over iterations and milestones, balancing desire for fit-for-purpose, targeting shared value outcomes for users and stakeholders.

Push Manifesto feeds the Maturity Model, evidence-based mindset, supporting the scientific approach daring to explore the latent space, with a pragmatic world-view."

Set yourself "waypoints" that have value. You can iterate, waterfall, tick-tock from there. However it feels best to get the ticks in the boxes.

Most projects fail, all journeys complete, one way or another.

Famously "creativity has no timeline" and forcing it tends to not satisfy the art form or the artist.

Can you use Push at work? Yes. Does it work with SAFE and Agile? Sure. Isn't it just common sense? Maybe?

- Condense your stand ups to just 2 a week top and bottom.

- Choose afternoon times not mornings. Consolidate multiple projects into these stand ups.

- Use software for card walls.

- Manage your knowledge and keep that with the assets. Do not update the card with "findings". JIRAs/workitems/ToDos/Output what ever you call shovelling dirt mutates assets.

- Kill ceremonies. Sure do reviews one-to-one or group, reflect; but inline and when it matters.

- Talk to each other. Like you're around the campfire of creativity.

Anyway enjoy, links below:

- https://www.pushmanifesto.org/
- https://github.com/wisejnrs/pushmanifesto

Feel free to PR me.

Mike
I wonder why they don't like the idea of autogenerated porn... They're already putting most artists out of a job, why not put porn stars out of a job too?
They had 60 Senate seats but not 60 votes. For every vote you still need 60 votes to prevent a filibuster regardless of whether your party has the majority of seats. This is why the public option (and single payer) was killed in the ACA. They didn't have the 60 votes to override a filibuster (Lieberman was, I believe, the main holdout)
I know that some monstrous majority of cognitive processing is visual, hence the attention these visually creative models are rightfully getting, but personally I am much more interested in auditory information and would love to see a promptable model for music. Was just listening to "Land Down Under" from Men At Work. Would love to be able to prompt for another artist I have liked: "Tricky playing Land Down Under." I know of various generative music projects, going back decades, and would appreciate pointers, but as far as I am aware we are still some ways from Imagen/Dalle for music?
As someone that spent an evening trying to generate images of Hitler Lego I think they have a point.
How do you pick what should and shouldn't be restricted? Is there some "offense threshold"? I suspect all queries relating to religion, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender will need to be restricted, which almost certainly means you probably can't include humans at all, other than ones artificially inserted with mathematically proven random attributes. Maybe that's why none are in this demo.
Parents, don't rush your kids.
It's certainly the case that our ability to aggregate and compound knowledge is unsurpassed, but I think you aren't giving individuals enough credit either.

If you were stranded on a desert island and managed to survive, you could probably start a fire, build shelter, collect rainwater, build tools to fish, and possibly even create a raft (with stored food) to try to get away.

No animal would ever do that.

You might argue that that's only because you already knew about fire and rafts before getting stranded, but you couldn't even teach any of that to an animal no matter how hard you tried. Animals can definitely learn tools, but even when actively taught by humans the level of intelligence and problem solving they have is dramatically lower than any single typical human.