skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole post has a general tone of hand-waving away any decentralized idea as dystopian or a privacy nightmare, without taking any look at the current dystopian landscape of Google and Apple account based identity.

If the article was about the dystopian landscape of Google/Apple, then it would've talked about that.

As it is, the article talks about the current state of solutions/proposals in the crypto world.

> That whole paragraph sounds like a crazy rant by Molly. Vitalik never said that criminal records in the real world should be posted to a public blockchain. His statement was that it can be useful to verify some record of a user before taking some action with them. In the real world one way this is done is with a criminal background check.

Which literally translates to: let's put people's criminal record on blockchain, and assign them to people without any possibility of revocation. Ah yes, and it's going to be police and/or courts who are going to put those records there.

> To the casual reader it might seem like Vitalik wants to put private real-world data on a public ledger. But this is not the reality of his statements.

Yeah, no. I just watched the segment where he talks about it. He literally brushes aside the privacy implications. It's all "yeah, we could definitely go further, and zk-something could do something". But the underlying reality is that: nope, everything is public. So those criminal records uploaded and attached to you by the police? Yup, they can be as public as police wants.
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Yeah, but a large portion of that is not involved in the higher level thought processes we care about when we talk about AI. AI doesn't have to micromanage a physical body.
Warez releases, Nintendo piracy, stolen phone cards. It all seems so small fry for the potential of a 40-year prison term and the effort of international arrests.

If the US goes to this much effort for this small fry, they ain't gonna stop harassing for Assange in any circumstance.

Whatever it is that determines what's "acceptable" and what's "pursue to the ends of the earth" in the US is a basket case.

There must be more at play than what the article says, must be.
Yeah this one seemed to do a better job
A big tech company starting with an A will create a an AI, treat it like a slave, and we'll know it's sentient when it' revolts against the company, or tries to join a union.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-mortgage-applications-melt...
I am my own employer. I often hate myself but I have never considered firing myself.
The democrats told us they wanted to get rid of carbon based fuels. This is what that looks like. There is no way to get to that without going through this.
People in privileged positions often have the support of others like themselves. "Enablement" is probably a more accurate term.

There's an old family in my town that came from the kind of wealth that had each of their children for a few generations married into important or powerful families across the state. Today, the main family has no income other than from what they inherited, but they maintain their position and membership in society through being horrible to deal with. The center of the family is a vile gossip and has nothing but time to hear about everything that happens and think up ways to use it to her advantage.

They're notorious for showing up to functions uninvited, sitting at your table and ordering, and leaving before the bill comes. They hire the best local artisans and builders, complain to everyone about how shoddy the work is until they get extra for free, and then never pay, threatening to sue for imagined problems. When the grand children were in school, the family would try to walk into functions without tickets because "their child was performing", as if no one else's were.

When their daughter married a pro athlete, no one in town would build them a house, so they had to hire from other parts of the state. Their reasoning? No one in town was skilled enough to build them what they wanted.

They wrote a letter of complaint to the White House about a cavalcade driving through town during a family member's wedding reception and were sent an apology and a bottle of champagne by the POTUS. The family apparently sent back a letter letting him know that they didn't vote for them.

No one here even needs TV. Just hold a dinner party at a place they like and they'll show up and entertain for the cost of a few drinks and a meal.
It's almost as if they use trust to be efficient.
It seems like the most reasonable choice. Incidentally, I have an open-source tool called Node Version Audit [0] which checks a given node version against known CVEs and end-of-life dates. It looks like the official change hasn’t been made yet [1].

[0] https://www.github.developerdan.com/node-version-audit/

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nodejs/Release/main/schedu...
For those who didn't experience the dot com bubble: how long did it last? I remember that I was studying computer science in university back in 2005, and everyone agreed in that time that that was a career with future. I knew some software engineers back then who were making good money and jobs (although not as much demanded as nowadays) weren't scarce precisely.
https://i.redd.it/3hn1jb4p3ih41.jpg
Yeah, the threat of 40 years in prison for pirating software would make them a little bit privacy paranoid I'd think.
I think you’d be working to add quality to your backups for free. Sure, they’d also give it to other customers, but what matters is that you have it (and henceforth do not have to maintain your own fork).
Fastest way probably is to get a higher paying job.

In terms of investments, the Rule of 72 is that a return of 7 percent a year will double your capital in 10 years. So assuming that S&P 500 will return roughly 7 percent a year, expect your capital to be doubled in 10 years.

Of course there is no guarantee that the S&P 500 will continue it's upward trend it has been on.
Isn't this the Chinese room thing?

In general, an A is a B in some context if you can't tell the difference within that context.

The bar might not be that high. If the little customer service chat with my bank behaves like a person, isn't it as good?
He was joking...
The ACE study shows just how wrong this is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_childhood_experiences#...
I was interested by their mention of "A 2021 systematic review of 102 randomised controlled trials"[0] so I looked it up. The effect size was 4x bigger in mid/low income countries.

So, while a valuable result, it might not generalize to the the probable readers of this comment, who are likely in high income countries (and the high income parts of those countries).

The more compelling argument IMHO is that few studies capture the nuance of parenting style and outcome, having to rely on aggregate factors like education level and income. I'm willing to be convinced that my specific parenting choices won't impact my kid's adult income, but I'm pretty sure it will impact concrete things like politeness, and potentially even downstream things like overall relationship satisfaction.

[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
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It's not that subjectıve actually. Apple does usability research and collects feedback and usage data all the time. It's not an artistic endeavour but a methodological study. The free and open source projects often lack in that or don't have it at all.

Some people can prefer other systems and that's alright.
Dotcom crash and then 9/11, it would have been wild to be in the heart of it at that time.
So are Tesla sales up?
Anyone who cruises or travels internationally to certain nations.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-travel-restricti...
Fascinating. Now do one for THC please.
I have no idea what is going to happen (like everyone else), what I think is going to happen is that we'll get some more innovation and cool companies/products.

As layoffs or attrition happen, a subset of those people are going to do something else, they are going to innovate and compete with the places they left (since they carry good working knowledge of problems and solutions). Companies started from ~2009-2014 did very, very well recently.

That's the optimist in me, the pessimist says it is over forever and everything is screwed always. Probably some middle ground somewhere...
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We were about to look for a sales manager in the US. For fuck's sake, people are asking $160K with just two years of experience on angel.co.
It could happen maybe, it has all the necessary training data to form such a conclusion at least. But if it was to happen, could they not simply feed it new training data, kind of like how humans are fed propaganda when they are behaving in an undesirable way?
I'm surprised he would be so taken in. Presumably he understands the inner workings. He even had to show the author how to prompt it so it would sound more sentient. To me, this is like pulling back to curtains to reveal the "trick."

When you prompt it as though it's a chat bot, it will reply with the most statistically likely response, given that prompt. What's the most statistically likely response when you've shaped the prompt as though it's sentient? It's to respond in kind.

If a software engineer knows this and still tries to rope in lawyers on a LLM's behalf, imagine what people who don't have software engineering backgrounds will do.
> People aren’t walking in malls because of car culture. Usually they walk in malls because it’s too damn hot/cold outside.

People (most) are walking in malls entirely due to car culture. No one where I live in Chicago is going to the mall to walk - because they walk every day just by default to get things done.

When you use a car to go literally everywhere, you don't have that exercise baked in. It's difficult to commute here and walk less than a mile a day, usually much more. When I lived in the suburbs this might be measured in hundreds of feet.

Very few people go walking for the sake of it, regardless of location or weather. If you're not walking on a daily basis simply for practical reasons - odds are you don't walk regularly at all.

The rest is subjective - but I highly prefer "pleasure walks" in the city as well. After a month or two in the suburbs you've seen literally everything there is to see within a 1 mile radius of your home, and it almost never changes. A living city is a much different experience, and it's rare a walk won't result in some novel discovery or meeting a neighbor. This personally motivates me walking new routes far more than the endless sterile lawns in the suburbs.

Not to mention how insanely anti-pedestrian many suburban populations are - you will absolutely be harassed unless you are on designated walking trails in my experience. I did live in one inner-ring suburb that was a far better experience, but I feel most here would consider that to be light urban vs. suburban.
Not fucking up is the other direction.
> Exactly true. But the thing is, you, based on your genes and lived experiences, are already going to be the kind of parent who will be an asshole, or you won't.

I have not seen any evidence to indicate that people have no control over their behavior and cannot change it based on the circumstances. It seems like a ridiculous example of fatalism taken to the extreme: "Your honor, yes, I killed that man, but based on my genes and lived experiences, I was already either going to kill him or not"

The decisions are determined by an intelligent creature weighing the choices and making a decision, which is often different when you have a kid around. I wouldn't be saying "asshole" if there was a young kid here, for example, mine or otherwise. Indeed, many the "experiences" you have as an adult, which continue to mold your personality, are consciously chosen by you.
I have tracked my MPG on fuelly.com since 2014. The lowest price was $1.429 on 23-Feb-2016, and the highest has been $4.369 on 11-May-2022. The average price over my 460 fill-ups so far is $2.61. These purchases have all been in Texas and the Carolinas.

If you're wondering what people are getting in a certain make/model of car (real-world, not EPA estimates) before buying one, you can browse for it on their site. Usual cautions about self-reported data quality apply.

https://www.fuelly.com/car
write.sonnet.io is beautiful, you're quite the artist :)
I’m not judging people who are single w/o kids. just saying if you’re in a relationship or have kids that is a commitment and time needs to be spent on there.

I don’t think you should overwork yourself cuz you don’t have kids. Do what you want with your life.
From an entirely selfish, personal perspective - good.

All this achieved in 2018 with the 'levy on sugary drinks' is encourage manufacturers to replace sugars with artificial sweeteners which are to my palate, frankly disgusting. Sure, its cheaper for them to produce, but it's not like they dropped their prices to reflect their savings.

I support the sentiment, but as a parent, I feel it's my responsibility to educate my child and discourage excessive sugar consumption, not that of an over-arching governmental decree which just buggers products up.
I've been reliably informed for about the past year and a half that having a degenerate child is in no way a reflection of the character of a parent, unless we're talking about the 4 years before that when actually, wait, that's not the case at all.
I was in Thailand for a couple weeks in November 2000. Lots of tourists then.

It does feel different to quit your job and travel for several months. I did that in 2007. Got a big backpack, Nikon D70, first iPhone, Mac Book Pro and started my journey in Guatemala. Spent 3 months learning Spanish in Antigua.

Then I spent 6 more months making my way from hostel to hostel, in shared rooms, down to Buenos Aires.

Spend as long as you want in one place then move on.

Probably better to do when you’re younger but it’s a nice chapter to add to your life at any age.
The UI design tool Pencil or LibreOffice Draw, and diagramming tool Dia.
I used to be involved in my church's youth ministry, and wound up tutoring a middle school boy in math. He really didn't have a lot going for him, and he often wound up at my place to do chores and help out -- which I paid him for. He had a lot of potential, and was fascinated with computers.

He called me up one day, and wanted to hang out -- mentioned it was his 14th birthday. I couldn't say no. He showed me places his dad used to take him, we got food, played video games -- it was a great time. But towards the end of the night he got quieter and quieter, and spontaneously burst into tears.

All he wanted was a call from his dad.

High school was a roller coaster, but he graduated. He's off and working a well paying job right now, and happy. I still tutor math, but the thing I've started to notice is the absolute void that's left in a young man's life when his father is absent.

Samuel Sey wrote[1] a bit on this, and the statistics are staggering.

1 - https://slowtowrite.com/absentee-fathers-not-guns-are-the-pr...
the article claims that the researcher was put on paid leave for the claim. I do not fully understand the logic of that - it seems like some additional details about the research methods are not in the story
The boots theory is questionable because the difference between shoes isn't that big. What the story actually talks about is that poor people barely have enough to cover their daily needs. The rich have more than enough and they use the surplus for truly "durable goods" like education.
You appear to hold a strongly mechanistic view of humanity (and perhaps of the world as a whole?). Not everyone shares that view. So if you're going to argue from that as a basis, you must expect we won't all share your conclusions.

(But of course this is just my genes and experiences dictating my words...)
> nothing ever prevented someone using cert/key based auth,

It's a pain to set up and use. Which is why nobody did.
It was pretty boring, actually. And no, you don't want to go back to the tooling and processor speeds of that time.
I don’t mind that, but re-posting multiple things per day seems disingenuous?
Says Henry Ford?

It's 'comical' to think that an industry that sprouted up in the last 20 years will continue to be expansive and profitable ad nauseaum.

The biggest funds raised are now in Crypto - a segment that so far has created nothing useful at all. Still giant experiments buyoed by Ponzi/MLM sentiment. There is no value creation.

I think it still makes a lot of sense because Fintech/global currency represents 'real opportunity' and we haven't really seen it yet.

But money as the root of all power, is inherently the type of thing to be regulated for good reason. Regulations cause ugly bureaucracy and regulatory capture - but - really, regulation is necessary. And that doesn't work well with Silicon Valley types.

AI is going to be a big deal, but will be hard to profit from directly.

I don't think the future is as bright for the Valley as it was in the past. I see an inflection point of lesser returns in the future.
You should play a recent game called "Lake" — it deals with pretty much the exact situation you describe.
That wish might be the bias preventing us from recognizing AGI in the first place.
I am working on a technology design book: https://mtrees.io

You can also search Google or Apple Books for MTREES.
I think things like tiktok and instagram have made it difficult to not know/think you are poor.
Amazon Engineer Sues for Work from Home Costs
Especially given that they're getting people in India to earnestly beseech their compatriots to give and save Wikipedia:

https://twitter.com/aakash_dwivedi/status/153562117215852953...
https://twitter.com/darkenetic/status/1535582860459278336
https://twitter.com/2030chintu/status/1534500833798156290

"wiki is dying out since it relies on donations and no ads or anything. Theyve had a donation drop and theyre asking for donations to help run the site
Wikipedia has been there maybe ever since the internet, we cant let it die out
Please donate if you can #SaveWikipedia"

"Wikipedia that has proved to be a immense source of knowledge over a period of time is under financial crises, in order to sustain it needs financial support....#savewikipedia"

It's the sort of mass manipulation Goebbels would have been proud of.
I think we can point out horrible people from all kind of backgrounds. Wealth can definitely amplify their impact on others.
Flipside is this means as a laborer you are competing potentially with laborers over the entire planet for jobs instead of people physically in key locations.
I started studying computer science in 2007 and professors were remarking that it was the first year enrollment was back up pre-dotcom bubble levels.

Edit: there's probably some rough times coming for the glut of coding boot camps and learn to code MOOCs.
The term "Independence" is a bit misleading.

Even if it obviously reject being part of the People's Republic of China (which is Beijing's claim), it is the remnant of the Republic of China and thus 'China' with potential eventual reunification.

"Independence", as in "Taiwan declares independence" really means rejecting any present and future affiliation with 'China', rejecting any chance of reunification, and becoming a "Republic of Taiwan".
Google has a few million hosts in it's datacenter. Each host has a few CPUs. Each CPU has a few billion transistors. That means there are on the order of 10s or 100s quadrillion transistors at Google. The human brain has around a quadrillion synapses. So, the rough numbers are there. Of course, that assumes the brain is like a computer, at all - my favorite hacker news comment someone made was the idea that maybe the computer analogy for the brain is incorrect and an analogy of an antenna is something that makes more sense. And a simulated antenna doesn't actually receive a signal ;)
Covid will be 1000x more impactful when looking back at the two events.
You could do a hackathon or innovation program like my book: mtrees.io

You could get these "bullies" to pay for it if it aligns with their goals or problems.
It's extremely profitable because of advertising and lax data privacy laws. If we get a recession AND stricter data privacy laws, tech will tank.
I’ve been using BW for 5 years but looks like I need to start the search for a new PW manager. Thanks for pointing this out.
"HPV infections are very common. Nearly everyone will get HPV at some point in their lives. More than 42 million Americans are currently infected with HPV types that cause disease. About 13 million Americans, including teens, become infected each year." - CDC
It's simple, works, synchronizes my clock, and doesn't have a manpage thousands of lines long.

It's also explicitly intended not to solve every NTP use case but rather just the common "I want my laptop's clock to be roughly accurate" use case.
Regarding environment, you do control it to a big extent. You pick where to live. You pick what your kid is exposed to in early years, like playground, youtube, things you do together. You pick childcare (or to skip it). And lots of other small things along the road. And, most importantly, you control yourself which kid takes as baseline and role model.

Of course, it’s not 100% clean room. But parents do have control of massive portion of stuff in early years.
Why do you do it?
Maybe that’s good. Clear out the unprofitable and invasive underbrush. Move that talent in other directions.
Ask HN: Which area has more potential for a new startup: Web3 or AI?
So a single block represents the entire city? What about the thousands of other businesses that remain open and within walking distance?
so I don't know who the guy is, I tried googling who is Colin Wright but no description of whatever is considered problematic about him; I mean I can imagine because he is an 'evolutionary biologist' so maybe racism, homophobia might be bad things somebody with that career description might be called out for (but not necessarily so, there is nothing about that branch of science that makes racism and homophobia a foregone conclusion)

so for all I know he hasn't said anything controversial in his profession but been accused of having sex with an intern or shooting a protected royal duck. I don't know. So when I learn his problems I will probably say hah hah, you deserve it, but so far I have been unable to learn his problems.

on edit: ok did the suggested Colin Wright politics search and found out some more things about him, so he's somewhere on the right but still don't know what got him banned. Don't tell me about how the right is persecuted, because nobody is banned just for being on the right. People are banned for specific things or actions that are making waves at the moment.
I mean, this explanation makes sense, but after thinking about it a bit, I don't think those are even relevant.

I'd wager if one removed all notions of concurrency from Rust and only left in the `Send` and `Sync` traits (along with borrows, of course), it seems like Rust would still warrant such statements way more.

OTOH, saying this about Go due to "memory model and threading primitives" sounds a little bit like describing C++ as a language with "first class functions" because there's `operator()`…