skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One other big thing this game is missing is that a big part of what a central bank does is maintain confidence in the system and steer sentiment. Central banks move markets just by talking about what they MIGHT do in the future. They don’t even always need to move interest rates, just talking about maybe moving interest rates can change things.

This is similar to strategic reserves. There is a really great planet money story about the rice shortage about a decade ago, which was completely artificial. There was plenty of rice, but a panic lead people to hoard rice which caused an actual shortage. The way they eventually stopped the panic was to announce they were going to sell rice from this huge strategic reserve… and just by announcing that, it caused the price to return to normal. They didn’t have to actually sell anything, just announce it.

Markets are not purely rational

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/169708534
My cursive was dead on arrival, or so I recall. It has been almost sixty years since I was introduced to it, so my recollections are vague. I thought that we might have started with pencil before moving on to fountain pens. I'm not sure how the southpaws, at least ones with fine-motor skills as bad as mine, kept the ink off their wrists.
As a user the most immediate effect was having to deal with the stupid browser selection screen.

I suspect it did have a cooling effect on some of Microsoft's more egregious business practices for quite a while, but that's a case of making things not happen that otherwise would have, which is impossible to quantify.
I'm not sure I agree - but also "elite" is not really a stable locus.

If we look back to ancient Rome, we have much more information about the life of elites than we do of the life of the common peasant. I am skeptical that the phenomena has entirely reversed in modern America.

> Occasionally someone is born into wealth and they turn out to be a great novelist, so they can write a novel that gives us some sense of growing up in the upper class. Interesting stuff. But in general, if I want to learn how poverty persists in Appalachia, I have many more books to read than books that teach me how the upper class transmits its status to its children

"Turning out to be a great [and widely read] novelist" and growing up with wealth are not independent conditions that are very rare to coincide. The people writing these stories and creating content are typically elites, writing from an elite perspective.
In the vast majority of the urban northeast— easily one of the most vibrant parts of the country— there's nowhere close to 1 or 2 percent turnover in residential building stock every year. Probably not every ten years.
I obviously can't talk specific numbers, but there are reasonable arguments to be made that in certain limited scenarios, we may already be hovering around or exceeding equivalent human metrics. Turning that into "unequivocally safer than humans all the time, everywhere" is still an open problem.

As for safety, that's both a big topic and a "I have explicitly told not talk about this in public by legal" topic. The teams and organizations I've worked for take it very seriously, but things can always be improved. Phil Koopman puts out some excellent information about where we are currently and where industry could broadly improve.
Doesn’t using crypto lead to more fraud, not less?
This doesn’t sound any better than the efficiency of Mitsubishi/Trane “hyper heat” heat pumps, which are already on the market.
Especially with an italic nib.
I had to mark about 100 end of term essays written by Indian students
for a British university. My unwritten instructions are not to take
language into account much. I must attend mainly to the technical
content.

At least half were written in what I took to be an authentic voice but
with such bad grammar and spelling as to render them barely readable.
Some had clearly been mangled in a laundromat of Google translate from
Hinglish via Mongolian and Swahili. They contained bizarre phrases and
comical statements. Many more were obviously written by some kind of
generator and fudged until they read well enough.

Since the student handbook states the threshold for academic
"plagiarism" is above 20 percent perhaps unsurprisingly the Turnitin
(an awful tool) score for almost every essays was just below 20
percent. An interesting clustering!

Students who cheat have a formidable array of tools now, not just GPT
but automatic re-writers and scripts to test against Turnitin until it
passes.

Add to this problem that my time for marking is not paid extra, is
squeezed tighter every semester, and that students are given endless
concessions to boost their "experience". The handbook also says that
if they fail, no worries, they get to try again, and again, and
again... and I am sure if I actually stuck to my guns and failed every
single student I'd be fired.

As I wrote in the Times last year, I think the technological arms race
against GPT (and the economic conditions that mean it's used) cannot
be won with the time and resources available to ordinary human
teachers.
I share so others will advocate for this at scale. It’s not some sort of impossible or unreasonable request.
> it eliminates the chance of fraud

Declaring a priori that all transactions are legitimate doesn't eliminate fraud, it just eliminates the system's ability to handle it. Actual humans can still get victimized. The gateway just says "Lalala can't hear you not my problem."

> and it moves the cost of customer support to the merchant.

Likewise, it moves the consequences of fraud onto the victim.

> for the cases where the cost of existing processors make the transaction not viable.

I assume you realize what kind of transactions end up being nonviable for existing processors that do have fraud prevention, money laundering safeguards.

Your site says:

> When you receive a payment, the money is yours. No hold-out periods, no chargebacks, no forced refunds.

Read that from the perspective of a bad actor. That's exactly the kind of payment gateway they would want. No way for a victim to seek redress once they've sent their money. You seem to be targeting merchants that:

1. Don't want customers to be able to seek any redress when fraud occurs.

2. Are willing to deal with the overhead of customer support in order to get 1.

Hell, your site actually advertises "No KYC" as a feature! OK, so, yes, you do seem to be deliberately building a system targeting ransomware, drugs, scams, and money-laundering.
Humans have a powerful tendency to ascribe human characteristics to inanimate objects, including computers. It's a kind of variant of the Pathetic Fallacy[1], except for artifacts instead of natural objects. The intelligence of an artificial intelligence is as real as the characters in our dreams. It's a construct of our own consciousnesses. That doesn't mean it should be discounted though. Our consciousnesses can do a lot and finding artificial ways to stimulate them is powerful to say the least.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy
The mosquito has no such qualm.
Send some my way too.
the dumpers didn't want the price going under $20k either, but they did want the ~$20k
If you don't grow, you fade away. There's no middle ground.
defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true; killall SystemUIServer

Windows registry is so user unfriendly they said...
That's fine actually. We (American cities) should adopt systems like they have in Singapore where the certificate of entitlement to purchase a car costs, buy itself, $70k-120k, on top of the cost of the car. The externalized costs of private cars are extremely high and it's completely insane that we have what amounts to welfare for drivers.
Shout it from the hills: OXO!

(As in the easy-to-use kitchenware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OXO_(kitchen_utensils_brand) "In June 2004, Helen of Troy Limited bought OXO housewares for $273.2 million.")

It's a general pattern, make your thing easy for old people and folks with disabilities and it's also easy for everybody else.

- - - -

Check out Elm's accessible-html module. Enforces accessibility at compile-time.

https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/tesk9/accessible-html/...

https://dev.to/nimmo/easier-paths-to-accessibility-in-elm-4o...
That’s uh, pretty terrible? My 15+ year old Nibe gets as much
The elites don’t care about public opinion. They manufacture it when they can and ignore or demonize it when they can’t.

source: any George Carlin set
I've come across a couple of (admittedly niche) cases where C++ code benefits from a goto:

- In some very performance sensitive cases. It helps you skip a bunch of extra checks or variables.

- When you need to convert recursion to iteration, but want to keep the code structure mostly intact so you don't mess up the source control history.
> There are endless curiosities in the universe.

I suspect that people who like to say that they would like to live "forever" or think that they would be interested "endlessly" in new things have not really thought through what infinity means. You might want to check Grahams number. And then spend a while thinking that even that number is not even a microscopic fraction of infinity.

And if you still think you want to live forever. How on earth are you going to use your puny 100 billion neurons to experience, store and decide the order of experiencing and studying the endless Graham numbers of curiosities without at some point getting into a loop after you have had your brain in every single possible state? And when your brain has been in every possible state for say a billion times, you think it is not going to get boring?
They implied that companies with high-paid employees are ok with working remotely because it increases their talent pool to include places like South America. Why pay $200k for a US software engineer when you can get four in Brazil for the same price?
I was waiting for the idea that the wow signal was a gun shot. One-off event, lots of power, beam, contains no information, laser blast.
I liked this, all except one sentence.

"I’m bored of knitting, bored of reading, bored of games, and there isn’t a country I haven’t visited less than three times."

I think I know what she means, but I read it over and over and I can't get the double negative to work out right.
Sure, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a great desktop experience, for which Windows and MacOS are purposely built.
It is... All my friends are moving away to cities like New York :[
> As I wrote in the Times last year, I think the technological arms race against GPT (and the economic conditions that mean it's used) cannot be won with the time and resources available to ordinary human teachers

Based on the rest of your post, there appears to be a stronger case that your students are setting a rather low bar for GPT to stumble over. It's unfortunate that there are so many cultures where widespread cheating is condoned, if not outright encouraged. They may be able to fool their teachers, but how much comfort will that be when the bridges are collapsing, the pipelines are exploding, the wind turbines are breaking apart, and all the other activities that ultimately report to reality and not some human superior who can be bluffed become impossible to continue?
US Shuts Down Botnet That Masqueraded as a Proxy Service
You really don’t. I’ve been in a house in Maine with spray foam in 20 degrees with no heat turned on and interior temp was around 65. It was pretty amazing actually.

A heat pump isn’t cost effective compared to Reno with spray foam. An average heat pump probably takes a decade minimum to pay off.
As per my message: we have the CT scan/Xray to the chest showing clear signs of reduced lungs capacity following a COVID infection. Let's call this "doctor diagnosed long covid".

We also have the other self reported symptom. Because it's crazy to give it the same name, let's give it another one. We might call it the "I am feeling less well than 2 years ago" disease. It's a very common one.

Now the "I am feeling less well than 2 years ago" disease might have many origin. COVID being one of them. But considering that it has been rampant for years before COVID appeared, it's unlikely that it is the main origin of it.

According to me, it's not up to patient to diagnose it, just like we don't let patient self-diagnose brain cancer after letting them read 5 health article on Google otherwise everyone would have it - you know that joke, since why shouldn't it apply to COVID as well ? And since "long COVID" is discussed everywhere online and in the media, so it's natural people will associate with that, that does not make it true.
I must break it to you that "blockchain" is a red flag in multiple ways.
Ask HN: Shouldn't an 8% inflation rate be synonymous to an economic recession?
> First, Any dissent around company product choices is acceptable but comes with a risk depending on the level of expression. Smart companies learn to cultivate this kind of dissent and provided it doesn't detract from the mission itself, its probably the right decision.

A long time ago when I was a young engineer I worked at a few hundred person startup. Many of the employees of this startup were from cultures spoke bluntly and embraced cynicism and pessimism. Every two weeks the CEO would have an all hands meeting. For any hour he would answer any question from any employee. Many of these questions were, to my American ears, as disrespectful. The question might assume the CEO took a particular action for some sinister reason such as having stolen company funds and getting ready to fire everyone. Or just blunt say to the CEO "I think all the executives are incompetent and should be fired". The hardest questions were questions about "if market changes and we are fucked, here are indicator the market is changed and we are fucked."

The CEO would listen to the question and then respond. The responses were never defensive, never rude but honest and straight forward. As far as I could tell everyone felt better after those meetings and respected the CEO more for openly facing and addressing as best he could the fears that everyone at the company had.

> Second, the company should fire on the spot any dissent that is not directly work related. It detracts from the mission.

I do consider this dissent at SpaceX to be work related. Musk does significant harm the SpaceX's mission with his public actions. If he was an employee he would probably be fired, but the issue is that SpaceX can't really fire Musk. There is no good action the company can take. I assume they have privately asked Musk to take actions which harm the company less and I assume that worked as well as when the SEC had Musk agree to pass all tweets through is legal dept. before posting. How to you foster dissent when the major goal that dissent is something which is not actually achievable and would derail the company. I hope this serves as a wakeup call to Musk and he looks at the problems he is causing by his behavior and decides that making life multi-planetary is more important than say calling a rescue diver a pedo or smoking weed on the Joe Rogan show.
From listening to too many comedian podcasts, the training is performing the jokes to assistances, and adapt from their reactions.

Again and again, year after year, until you've mastered the interaction.
Does anyone even know what changed in Windows? I can't recall a version of windows where IE was not available.

This is from the Wikipedia [1] article:

> Bundling them is alleged to have been responsible for Microsoft's victory in the browser wars as every Windows user had a copy of IE

I kinda wonder about statute of limitations but I do think that Microsoft should probably sue the United States government at this point because it has since been proven without a doubt that bundling IE did not present an unfair advantage in the browser wars [2] that eventually lead to Chrome easily overtaking all other browsers.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars#/media/File:Brows...
Really curious what kind of COP this technique can achieve. Cool tech if real, since it doesn’t need any refrigerant. Wondering if there are other downsides.
No different than saying casinos are valuable IMO
There are technicalities that affect the interpretation of the numbers. In particular, the "base money supply" was normally considered to be physical cash plus deposits of banks in their accounts at central bank, neither of which traditionally paid interest. But the US Federal Reserve started paying interest on these deposits by banks starting in 2008 (see https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reserve-balanc...), which means such deposits are not that much different from a short-term government treasury bill, depending on the relative interest rates. So the Federal reserve can now change the effective money supply by changing this rate, not just by creating or destroying base money. There are probably further complications - I'm not an expert on this.
I agree, I love skeuomorphic designs even though the common consensus seems to be that it's obsolete/outdated. I guess it's a consequence of the unusually high influence Apple has on the design world. It seems like no matter what Apple decides to do, every single designer will blindly follow them.
Maybe we're talking about different things? I'm in Norway and we got a Mitsubishi Kaiteki[1] for $1800 total, including installation and 25% VAT.

Of course, a multi-room install would probably get expensive quickly here too.

[1]: https://kaiteki.no/
Emacs? I'm only partially joking
Took me a minute to find this on mobile. Looks nice. Lots of chart types. Wonder how it performs.

https://elastic.github.io/elastic-charts/
> For an OS most of us would consider useless

It's almost as if readers of HackerNews aren't the target audience of ChromeOS.

> As to the pricing, it's not like Desktop Linux doesn't work very well on cheap hardware either.

It's almost as if potential Linux users aren't the target audience of ChromeOS.
Fascinating. I wish my physics courses had focused more on waves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoacoustics
Not an expert on these types of things but I think that there’s this notion of a type A personality that gets overly glorified in the self-help and corporate productivity realms...at least from what I’ve noticed. I’ve found it to be silly though because I’ve also noticed top workers that are perfectly calm, easy to talk to, and not competitive in the slightest.

And yes, these types of subjective things can be argued eternally but these have been my observations and experience.
85% of Americans have a driver's license too.
I'm going to rephrase the parents comment:

You're going to have a lot more luck correcting yourself than moving others.
Another point of the article that's compatible with what you're saying but still a concern - anything under Tim's $10b potential threshold gets more excluded from cross-team collaboration and attention and resources than they did previously
Yes, it felt like Ive had too much unilateral decision making power. Steve loved the push and pull of constructive arguments and disagreements and famously lamented that even he didn’t always get his way if others had compelling arguments. Ive is and was a designer. Design and—more specifically, his design asthetic—always came first under his tenure post Steve.
> the only downside to the tildeverse

Is rawtextclub related to tildeverse? I feel like I'm missing some context here without which this part of your comment seems like a non-sequitur.
It is a common, almost universal complaint that God sometimes plays favorites.

Ergo, we can deduce from this that God exists and does indeed have favorites...
s/We /A few of us/
HN comments tend to have an anti-leetcode tone, but that’s rooted in resentment at the reliance on those types of problems in the hiring process. The problems themselves are benign - fun, even! The contention is that your livelihood often depends on your skill in solving them.
> That made me lose a whole lot of respect for Ive.

You mean you lost respect for Alan Dye? Seems to have been the one who fired Imran Chaudhri.

> Shortly after the email, Dye fired Chaudhri.
just use stripe, the fees are small for all the headaches you avoid. refunds are easy and can be handled from a dashbaord
That's just a bachelors with 6 YOE (masters + phd). I have a bachelors with 6 years of actual experience and my target comp is 250k and actual is like 350k but in the meantime I've made a million dollars pre-tax in those 6 years. Totally different.
"It’s a huge Rube Goldberg machine slapstick custard pie clown car, where each custard pie triggers three more custard pies. A clown’s tie pops up, causing three other clowns’ ties to pop up. Several tons of organic cow manure fall from above. The clowns stick their heads up out of the poop, proclaiming how clean they are and what a mess everyone else is."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbY8M9Jg2as
You can still have fraud, can't you still get sued to return someone's tokens?
But how do you know that induction is valid to use on natural numbers? It's because their definition/construction follows a set of rules that makes them inductive. Some languages like Coq make this explicit by providing an 'Inductive' keyword for defining inductive types.
Nonsense given we are still in flat design territory (a several years refined version of it) unless you really consider the current state remains poison
It's technically not a double negative- "I haven't visited" is used as a colourful version of "I have visited"
This involves moving earth in places with suitable topography. The economics depends on both the vertical offset between the two reservoirs, and how much earth has to be moved per unit of reservoir volume.

Algorithms have been created to use GIS data to automatically find potential PHES sites. There are lots of candidates. Australia, for example, has 300x more potential that it would need for a 100% renewable grid.

http://re100.eng.anu.edu.au/global/
> It’s an insanely inefficient non-scalable tech. To sacrifice many orders of magnitude of performance, while pumping a whole countries worth of C02 into the atmosphere, just to have a system that is “decentralised” makes no sense.

especially when you have to go via Infura to get any work done on Ethereum - that's a glaring hard dependency that everyone pretends isn't one, as if anyone's going to telnet to port 30303. Approximately everyone just uses Infura, and Infura outages and sanctions enforcement affects the whole Ethereum ecosystem.
I remember having lunch at the JPL cafeteria and watching a TV monitor showing pictures of Jupiter being beamed down by Voyager. Exciting times.
Kilamanjaro!
From the pre-print paper[1]:

> ... we believe the next generation of language models must be designed not to undermine human intuition

Right, but isn't a major reason why we build these huge language models to replace actual humans in e.g. Level 1 support with chatbots? Almost all chatbots I used in the past (and most were not even ML based, someone programmed this in) were weirdly personal and tried to be non-robotic, with jokes and human-like reactions to inputs like "Thanks!".

Taking a look at some projects that used GPT-3[2], many try to imitate humans. For some, like Replika.ai, the whole "being human" thing is their entire schtick.

There is obviously a market for text completion AIs that imitate humans, so it's doubtful that we'll get this toothpaste back into the tube, IMO.

[1] https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2206/2206.07271.pdf
[2] https://medium.com/letavc/apps-and-startups-powered-by-gpt-3... (caution, 2020)
Obviously these themes have been explored plenty in SF, personally I would tend to expect any civilization that could manage interstellar travel would have also made enough social / moral progress to not be ruthless. That doesn't rule out some kind of total mismatch between understandings that could be dangerous, but I'd still be cautiously optimistic.