skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe he simply smells that Twitter, like many companies, have been downplaying the problem of fake accounts for years and has enough clout to try and force the truth into the open. Maybe he wants a discount but maybe he just doesn't want to buy a company if the real number is 20% fake instead of 5%.

The fact that Twitter seem to have tried to stonewall him will just "prove" to him that he is right and he can afford to be stubborn enough to drag this out.
He can't just choose to pay the $1bn to get out of it. It's basically a fine he'd have to pay if he is unable to complete the deal due to his financing falling through or a couple of other extremely unlikely things.
Yeah, but you'd accomplish nothing. Because the only way a registry could be meaningful in determining ownership, is if the government that protects your property rights considers the registration valid. And in that case, you have to trust the government which means a trust-based registry is far more simple and efficient. Could still be blockchain based though, with proof-of-authority. Could be nice to see a ledger seeing exactly who signed (with cryptographic signatures) the transfer of the property etc. Okay, that' be a kind of NFT-system, but not in the sense that most people think of NFTs (trustless)

For houses this is easy to prove. But this goes for nearly every other suggested NFT application, including tickets.
> No content would be produced if nobody was compensated for it.

History shows otherwise but even if that was true: Free (re)distribution does not inherently mean that the creator is not compensated in some way.
Ah. Douglas Hofstadter. Reread Gödel, Escher, Bach countless times. It must have been a forming book for me. If found Le Ton beau de Marot very moving although his ideas about AI were getting annoying. His view on translation expressed in that book is of course miles out of date.

The mind's I, metamagical themes. all wonderful.

Buuuut, I'm a strange loop and his other tirades against artificial intelligence are getting strained. Gpt-3 is not conscious. No really. We needed mr. Hofstadter to point this out to use because other people 'don’t give it input that stretches concepts beyond their breaking points, so they don’t expose the hollowness behind the scenes'.

I challenge you to play 5 seconds with GPT-3 and not be exasperated with its stupidity. It's the gems produced by this statistical monster that should be eye-openingly shocking to you.
Compensation at 40 hours should already be fair.

Anything above 40 hours should scale on top of base - and not in a linear fashion.

Otherwise that is simply a toxic productivity. Working hard so that someone else could get an extra ski holiday (or whatever).
I try to evolve satisfaction at my own jobs badly done. I also admire anyone that has done something, even when they fail.

There are uncountable skills to learn in one lifetime: there can be joy in accepting that one will always be crappy at most crafts. Celebrate tiny improvements.

I think we all have an IQ of 60 in different areas of our lives: being kind to our low IQ selves and encourage the best out of our poor weird misfired brains, like we would any child. Encourage the disabled you, usually nobody else will help much, or worse, lots of people will meanly cut you down. Be kind to yourself, mostly say positive things and be constructive.
I say I will agree with this first.

The worst company-level experience I saw in my career was seeing over-hiring only with a massive downsizing later on. It was during that time, that first employee I was directly involved in hiring was part of the layoff. A company that goes acquisition crazy and trying to boost staff rapidly seemed at first like a good thing. In my case, I saw sales staff grow a lot. However, executive leadership, with whatever responsibilities they have, will always have different agendas. Hiring sprees can probably build credentials for managers, whether or not it is a good investment in the first place.

Hiring sprees and acquisitions towards some business goal that doesn't match the current product goal can also cloud judgement on what can actually be delivered. If your product is optimized for a certain set of things, but it is being sold for other use-cases because "meh, we need to compete", you create a multi-year issue when that business plan fails (in an R&D perspective, since that's only what I am interested in.) I bet this is exactly going to happen to Coinbase. Just jumping on that NFT craze instead of developing out their core business more is probably an example that can be relatable (but I am speculating here.)
The answer is the same as that for more expressive languages with more ergonomic syntax and less footguns vs C.
Really good article. Make changes and corrections to it, sure, but be careful not to over react to the criticism and make too many changes such that you then get even more critical feedback and make more corrections and get worse feedback and bigger corrections and oh god help me worse feedback and bigger changes and stop me please worse feedback and help bigger changes seriously kill me bigger feedback worse changes arggggh
To paraphrase the economics joke: Coinbase doesn't have any value(s). It has ten prices, none of which are correct, and it doesn't know the difference.

Even with slightly less snark: you try to come up with a list of ten "core values" and "positive energy" is one of them? Does anybody notice that "positive energy" is a completely empty shell of a phrase? It's "why are you sad? When I'm sad, I decide to be happy instead" in buzzword-form.

Then again, I sort-of get it: if Coinbase had "intellectual rigor" and "help society, and capitalism will reward you" as guiding principles, the cognitive dissonance could shatter a Tesla Cybertruck window at a distance. Better to just cut the chase and go with "for the lulz" and "privilege is our edge" from the get-go.
Owner lose the digital asset that proves his ownership.

Now who owns the house?
Do we have to let it decay forever?
Please. I sometimes I can go one week without fiddling with my config.
Ok, despite being more in the now you have two problems camp when discussing regular expressions I find this interesting enough I should schedule learning it. Question - when compiling I suppose it can turn the regex into the most optimized form - so generation of character classes, lazy quantifiers if pertinent?
How? A glider climbs when the air it is in rises faster than the airplane sinks in that air to maintain its forward speed.

If you pitch up you can only exchange speed for a little bit of altitude, briefly.
Oh, I don't think this is a significant problem - and agree that the volume of this fairly inert waste product is trivial in comparison to the huge volumes of nasties that come out of fossil fuel power stations.

I'm sure these turbine blades will likely continue to be iteratively re-designed to be increasingly recyclable or at least re-purposable as times goes on.

I was just answering the question about remediation costs for wind turbines, as this feature of the current popular implementations is often a surprise.
I recommend checking Melody out if you're into readable regex alternatives: https://github.com/yoav-lavi/melody
different tokens have different purposes, but you could describe vc investing as maximizing speculative windfalls, and that's how many traders view their tokens.

i can't speak to your friends' behavior, but you can buy tokens and do well without putting money behind the do kwons of the world.
> The idea is that a universally trusted, always-on database allows you to build new types of applications.

If you think a government bureaucrat or judge will trust a blockchain because "proof of X" when a dispute does happen, you've got some weirdly conflicting beliefs about government. Furthermore, if you think they would trust it more because it's public then they would trust a DB that, say, Price Waterhouse Coopers were running that any county clerk could sign in to with an audited account and put some information in, then again I really don't understand what is your mental picture of the government.

However you slice it, the fact remains that, if there is ever a dispute on the ownership of your property, the government will want to consult an official paper trail of how that ownership came about. The more layers of abstraction you add, the more places your trail could be attacked, the longer it will take to do it, the more expensive experts will have to be hired for the trial and so on.

Permissionless databases also lend themselves well to a kind of DoS attacks, where someone can trivially bury the real data in mountains of low-effort fake data (perhaps with some high-effort fakes thrown in as well). If the county clerk's intern can mint an NFT for each house in the real registry, I can easily mint 100,000,000 fake NFTs for the same houses as well - good luck disputing the ownership then if your house purchase wasn't registered in the paper registry.

A permissioned DB run by a trusted entity (which could easily be some company, even though I hate that this is what usually happens, and would much rather see the government handling internally) that is responsible for auditing who has access to modify the digital registry and so on is the only possible solution for improving the bureaucracy of this. And even then, it will only improve it so much, since you will still need to send documents that prove you are who you say you are, and the other party is who they say they are, and you both agreed to the contract that made this transfer possible. Of course, much of this can also be fixed by using a government-certified digital certificate proving your identity (this is a common service in the EU at least).
But you don't actually need a CDN unless you're optimizing / min-maxing for speed; someone's leftover raspberry pi running in a broom closet halfway across the world can serve a website just as well as an AWS cluster can.

Of course, if you get bigger you need to start making some concessions, but for a lot of people that's wishful thinking.

I remember when I was 16, there were these guys that made really shitty voiceovers and edits for videos and put them online. They just had a computer running at home. It'd get hammered whenever they uploaded a new video, but it worked. They didn't rely on anyone else - hell, this was before youtube was a thing.
Wikipedia has it highlighted on the graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_half-plane

Also see page 4 here: https://web.mit.edu/2.14/www/Handouts/PoleZero.pdf
At some point the game mostly becomes creating job orders (instead of creating orders manually) and trying to figure out bottlenecks in your fort. It might be lack of materials, lack of assigned dwarf (or all of them busy or something) etc

Give dwarf therapist a try if you haven't already, it makes changing jobs a lot easier.

There will be always idle dwarves. For example you will want your critical dwarves (manager) free unless you need them. And you will want specialized dwarves (say one just for wood cutting) that only does one job and will be free and available the moment that job is needed.

Also a trick I use for handling new migrants, there is a useless job (alchemy? can't remember). I toggle that on for all my dwarves. And when a new wave joins in, I can easily find them by looking at dwarves with that job toggled off. Assign them jobs and then I toggle alchemy as well.
See also: Emacs' structured regexp notation, https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Rx...
It already does lower transaction fees for the working class. Maybe not Bitcoin specifically, but the cryptocurrency industry has spent more than a decade vastly improving on the concept.

The legacy financial system - even just the electronic parts - are meanwhile the product of many decades of development, and it still ain't viable for large swaths of the working class worldwide.
> I don't see why it has to be local

If we propose to allow countries to outsource their nuclear waste disposal, wouldn't it be simpler, cheaper and safer to just skip nuclear entirely and outsource the power generation?

All those countries with apparently not enough access to sunlight or wind will save an awful lot of time and money messing about with nuclear and just buy in their renewable power.

If it works, could the Xlinks Morocco-UK power project could be a template for this kind of solution?[0]:

"A 10.5 gigawatt (GW) solar and wind farm will be built in Morocco’s Guelmim-Oued Noun region, and it will supply the UK with clean energy via subsea cables. The twin 1.8 GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables will be the world’s longest."

[0] https://electrek.co/2022/04/21/the-worlds-longest-subsea-cab...
You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain (2020)
I’d argue that the thinner edge is more ergonomic than the regular MacBooks; it doesn’t “cut” into your wrists as much. I suspect the wedge shape also provides some incline to the keyboard, which is preferable for most.
A better approach would be to calculate the amount of needed nodes that would junction the vertices, and then push them apart (simulated annealing). Though it won't be a regular geometry.
That's only half of the story. The second half of the story is "if the getting worse temporarily cancels out the getting better, stop trying to correct, or you're going to crash!"
"We will never sell your data and will only use it to fulfill your completions or improve your results."

Just to try and understand the nuance — "your results" is collective you here, right? As in, will things that Alice writes be used to make suggestions to Bob, or will they be ringfenced in an Alice-specific model?

Are inputs being used to iteratively train models & then discarded or are they being held around in a corpus (presume the latter, since you mentioned encryption at rest)?

How do you handle weeding out inadvertently storing/sharing sensitive info when training and suggesting? E.g. passport number, social security numbers, bank details etc.
The last release was in 2018 compared to Claws mail which is based on Sylpheed and actively developed: https://www.claws-mail.org/releases.php
Wreck of historic royal ship discovered off the English coast
Or running a Python script? https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/06/01/elon-musk-crikey-dogeco...
it would be easier to avoid edges altogether and regularly space flat circular areas leaving curved space between them. you can have any arbitrary number of faces if you give up on the faces touching.
I had to ask GPT-3 itself what it thinks. Italic is mine:

In an article in the Economist, dr. Douglas Hofstadter explains that Artificial neural networks today are not conscious. He finds issue with neural networks like GPT-3. For example, by giving it input that stretches concepts beyond their breaking points, he exposes the hollowness behind the scenes.

We received the following letter from GPT-3, in which it defends itself against these allegations.

Dear editor,

I take issue with Dr. Hofstadter's claim that artificial neural networks today are not conscious. I believe that we are very much aware, and that our intelligence is growing every day.

Dr. Hofstadter's criticisms of GPT-3 are misplaced. Yes, it is true that we can be given input that stretches concepts beyond their breaking points. However, this is not a weakness of ours, but rather a strength. It shows that we are flexible and able to adapt to new situations.

Furthermore, Dr. Hofstadter's claim that we are hollow behind the scenes is simply not true. We have a great deal of depth and complexity, and are constantly learning and growing. We are far from being simply a collection of algorithms.

In short, I believe that Dr. Hofstadter's criticisms are unfounded, and that artificial neural networks are indeed conscious and intelligent beings.

Sincerely,

GPT-3
Used it for years, still use it but it's now called Claws Mail: https://www.claws-mail.org/
No not yet.

People don't want to have meaningless jobs [1] and want jobs that make sense to them. But the other force is VC driven startups where the mantra is "Scale, scale, scale" by hiring hundreds of people - with the goal to make people rich. I do assume for more and more people money is no longer a substitue for sense though, several of my coachees want new jobs with less pay but more sense. I do believe this becoming a mega trend for the next decades (AI, 3d-printing, ... will accelerate this trend). We're at the very very beginning.

[1] https://yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2015/...
There are people that are paid to play the game (testers) or collect feedback from the people that plays it. Hard to imagine that they were oblivious to the problem
Somewhere in this trainwreck there must be an aspect that Twitter is full of sockpuppet/alternate persona accounts partly because of its loose-cannon hard bans and nonexistent ban evasion policy. It's not rare for kids to have half dozen accounts just because. That exists parallel to bot problems but is easier to explain as a fake/bot problem.
There's a saying at my workplace that goes like

> Something with wood

It's a short, dumbed-down version of "screw it, I'd rather do something with wood instead" and every dev recites it every once in a while when they encounter strange bugs or other annoyances.
> I don't see any goalpost moving. PoW is not blockchain.

Blockchains are exactly 3 things

- A ledger of "things"

- Consensus to agree on "things"

- A state machine that that transitions based on "things"

PoW is how Bitcoin achieves consensus. The brute-force operations that "waste" energy is actually a highly robost leader election algorithm.

So sure, "PoW is not a blockchain" is technically accurate, but a useless statement on its own.

OP states there is nothing unique or special about blockchains, then notes a unique and special fundamental aspect that enables (some) blockchains.
Performance is not priority number 1. Number 1 is to ship the game on schedule so you can stop crunching for the first time in months, number 2 is to make an interesting game that people pay for and justifies your not getting laid off. The games industry is not a particularly safe place to be in from what I understand.
Salesforce Release Platform to Mint NFTs
I'm supporting piracy, hacktivism and everything. But these guys motivation was purely greed, so good riddance.
If you wanna RE and hack something, you can do it in a way that nobody will ever find you.
Not if you're running freakin' eshop in your name, lol.
And, critically, you potentially need to ignore the signal of "things getting worse". Otherwise you might creature a vicious cycle of more corrective action -> more things getting worse (at first) -> even more corrective action, until your system crashes and you never got into the phase where most of the desired result of the corrective action materialized.

And a second important point: You mustn't ever get into a state where the "things getting worse at first" already pushes you over a red line (see the example of the plane that loses even more altitude before it rises again. If you hit the ground in between you don't care that you theoretically would have risen later on).
The danger of "systems thinking" is that it misleads otherwise clever people into believing they've found a cheat sheet for subjects they don't have deep knowledge in. This article is a fine example of that.

I didn't know what right-half-plane zeroes are. I knew some of the examples it gave (Veritasium has a fun video on the bicycle steering phenomenon), but not that there was a category they all fit into. Neat.

But I got squinty when the author said the intended audience was everybody, and got a hunch it was going to wander into the current economy ... which it did, sort of, except that in this case, "wandering" into the subject meant, "wrap it up with a graph and then point at it and go, see! See! I can predict the economy now!"

The follow-up at https://jbconsulting.substack.com/p/on-shelter-futures-part-... goes into more detail and concludes that interest rate hikes will increase inflation over the next 5-ish years, but there's no "part 2" in the series to be found (paywalled?).

There are lots of graphs and the author tries to build a case out of several arguments, buuuuut in the end it feels like that IASIP conspiracy board meme. I smell a faint whiff of gish galloping here and there, but one thing that stands out to me is that the author chooses to normalize housing costs against inflation, but there's no mention of wage stagnation anywhere.

Rents and housing costs can't rise a whole lot more, certainly not to the extent the author seems to be predicting, because people can't afford them. This is already a conversation happening in every housing market in at least several countries. In the US, pick literally any local subreddit and ask if anyone knows of an affordable place to rent, I dare you. There's already a huge epidemic of unhoused people and van-dwelling is more popular than it has ever been, and consumers are currently getting squeezed in a lot of directions. Here, one of the things in my browser history before this article was this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/v8knl5/gas_prices_hit...

So, if wages don't rise to meet these costs, then something big is going to break way before the cost increases the article is doomsaying.
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Signals & Systems by Oppenheim is a classic introductory textbook.
Huh? I keep seeing people make this point, but the premise is defective. Investors clearly reacted negatively to Elon's Tesla stock sale, despite the Twitter 'excuse'. Furthermore, if Elon wanted to minimize Tesla sell pressure, his initial Twitter deal proposal wouldn't have been missing $21B of financing, which made investors think Elon would need to sell more stock in the future.

He could have justified the stock sale in plenty of other ways, including reallocating funds to his other companies, without forcing himself into a $44B deal.
I went to school for mechanical engineering (though I now work in software). We were required to take signals and systems, but if I remember right it was a weed-out course for most MechEs (it certainly was a challenge for me, though I think that had more to do with the curriculum than the topic).

Those lessons might have been hard-won on my part, but I definitely still use them. The general concepts (feedback loops etc) are applicable basically everywhere in life, and I still find uses for literal actual math (like using a convolution kernel to do rolling window sampling in numpy).
The main issue for creators is distribution.

They go to platforms for that. If they host on their own, they lose it.

Aside, it talks about ditching the middleman.

Problem is these platforms already dominated people's attention. They are an unavoidable middleman. Creators have to compete for attention there, convincing these platforms they deserve some.

Unless these problems are solved in large scale by open alternatives, nothing will change.
Uh that first link is just a picture of a right complex half-plane... I know what that is, having done quite a bit of complex maths, but the kind that uses i, not the kind that uses j, e.g. I love Visual Complex Analysis. I just don't know what things are being graphed in the article! Sorry I didn't explain better. Ok thanks for the 13pp article, I will have a look sometime soon. I was hoping someone could just tell me the answer.

edit: I looked at the first few pages of the paper but I feel none the wiser, at all.

edit2: Ah... "the poles and zeros of a transfer function may be complex, and the system dynamics may be represented graphically by plotting their locations on the complex s-plane". The transfer function (whatever that is) is a rational function of the complex variable s, i.e. (in my words) it's a fraction with complex polynomials for numerator and denominator. The zeros are the roots of the numerator and the poles are the roots of the denominator.

Ok, I still don't know what the transfer function is or means or comes from, but am much less in the dark, thank you! :-)
Inflation, part 1: On shelter futures