skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the HBO show Silicon Valley there is a joke about how it is better to be pre-revenue because your valuation is tied to an idea, nothing real. Companies with revenue have P/E ratios, tying them to reality in some way. If Bitcoin is a "store of value" and also " a hedge against inflation" the price in USD could go up to infinity as the dollar goes down in value.

Obviously at this point neither of those things are true. It is basically just a poker game. The miners are the casinos taking their percentages and the players are all colluding by talking about how much fun the game is in hopes of getting more people to buy in to the game.
I think that's the point, the bike example shows people have some concept of what a bike is (pedals, wheels, frame) even without an exact understanding of it, or a precise image in mind.

It's the same for "draw a house". You may do a square facade, triangular roof, windows, chimney, door. It is equally unrealistic, because people don't have a clue how tall floors should be, have no sense of proportion etc..

It's just that in the bike case it's more obviously wrong.
I won't be able to find the tweet but there was a woman that was watching children playing behind a fence from the sidewalk and was asked to leave. I forget the exact details of how it escalated.

It's so weird in America sometimes. In other countries no one even notices you.
…or Earth animal languages. We’ve managed to communicate with dolphins, but only to train them in the concepts we want, and they were smart enough to learn what we meant. But AFAIK, we still can’t understand any wild dolphin pod languages or dialects, let alone man’s best friend, elephants, other primates, or birds.
Ah, someone mentioned it in reference to Azure Blob Storage recently, and I had (apparently incorrectly) assumed it was also an S3 feature.

Any reason Azure Blob Storage couldn't be used as a no-setup, managed, cheap way to acquire distributed locks?
Spark 3.3.0 is out!
Nothing in the article contradicts that 'fact'. The question is only whether the development of eukaryotes involved other significant steps in addition to the mitochondrial endosymbiotic event, or whether the latter event was all that really mattered. In both cases, subsequent development of eukaryotes and hence multicellularity depended on the seemingly very rare endosymbiotic event.
I would say that everyone should watch and understand Office Space, but I did watch it and didn't really understand it until I lived it - I thought it was a comedy just because it's funny, but really it's a Gen X cautionary tale about burnout that I was too inexperienced to understand. The quote from the movie that you reminded me of was "I did nothing and it was everything I thought it could be."

But the creator, Mike Judge, (of Beavis and Butthead fame) worked in early-mid Silicon Valley - he understood the culture he was skewering.
Final follow up ;)

If you like Cloudformation, you might be interested in my Cloudformation testing library.

https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/cloud-radar

It's the most powerful Cloudformation testing framework that exists.

It allows you to unit test your Templates locally with out deploying resources. That also means you don't need valid AWS creds while unit testing.
Ask HN: Why do phones not notify you of malware?
We’re all aware of things like Pegasus infecting phones with info stealing malware, but surely it’s trivial for Apple et al to inspect a device for malware and notify the user? Why do they not do this?
This is an extreme level of productivity from an advanced not-doing-much perspective. Consider my Dad's old cat. Dad used to complain about how lazy the cat was. It would curl up on Dad's lap, on the recliner in front of the TV, right after breakfast. Then it would stay there all day, for program after program, with few interruptions until bedtime, when the lap went away for a few hours. Damn lazy cat, Dad would say.

That was years ago, now both Dad and the cat have found a way to do even less, and it's too late arrange an award from the Institute.
The difference is that cryptocurrencies, in general, are being promoted as currency—something you trade for goods and services—not securities—something you trade for currency.
It’s a 1990s BBS.
What does central bank crypto even mean?
Have you looked at Azure Blob Storage's lock feature? Could that be used?
“George:
Why would I want to know that?
Jerry:
I don't know. But with Datasette, you could easily find out.
George:
Really? That sounds kind of useful.”

Another instance of the lack of memory.

Why would I want? Kind of useful…

Not that it is not impressive but that would not get a pass anywhere.
We still don't know how big is the problem. Here is what happened this week:

- Celsius Network suspended withdrawals. The money in the accounts might be gone or they are going to get a significant haircut[1]

- Babel Finance suspended withdrawals.

- Three Arrows Capital is having troubles.

- Finblox limited the withdrawals

$40B - 50B are locked in this companies (or more likely gone).
Visa has value (on top of it's utility) because it is able to take a 1-3% cut of all payments that use the visa network.

Suppose bitcoin gave the equivalent utility as visa but for negligible fees. In this world, you would have the same utility for a lower cost, and the equity value of Visa would conceivably go to zero. My point is that converting utility to value depends on the ability to monetize something. If there was somehow a screw monopoly, I'm guessing the "value" of screws would go way up even with fixed utility. This of course was also true when the cost of producing a screw was much higher in the past. Technology is deflationary.

I don't know what the value of bitcoin should be (nor do I think it has comparable utility to visa), but we are undoubtedly in world where too much value is extracted from financial services relative to the utility that they provide. I think that will be disrupted, but have no idea what, if anything, will be valuable after it is disrupted.
I'm not sure, I think that a lot of people have convinced themselves via echo chambers that crypto always bounces back.
Okay so all of these are centered around unifying everything to Terraform. That's pretty much it's only use case.
Rice and beans have a hell of a lot more utility then silver and gold. The later definitely don't derive their value from utility.
Over the course of years, we figure out how to create AI systems that are more and more useful, to the point where they can be run autonomously and with very little supervision produce economic output that eclipses that of the most capable humans in the world. With generality, this obviously includes the ability to maintain and engineer similar systems, so human supervision of the systems themselves can become redundant.

This technology is obviously so economically powerful that incentives ensure it's very widely deployed, and very vigorously engineered for further capabilities.

The problem is that we don't yet understand how to control a system like this to ensure that it always does things humans want, and that it never does something humans absolutely don't want. This is the crux of the issue.

Perverse instantiation of AI systems was accidentally demonstrated in the lab decades ago, so an existence proof of such potential for accident already exists. Some mathematical function is used to decide what the AI will do, but the AI ends up maximizing this function in a way that its creators hadn't intended. There is a multitude of problems regarding this that we haven't made much progress on yet, and the level of capabilities and control of these systems appear to be unrelated.

A catastrophic accident with such a system could e.g. be that it optimizes for an instrumental goal, such as survival or access to raw materials or energy, and turns out to have an ultimate interpretation of its goal that does not take human wishes into account.

That's a nice way of saying that we have created a self-sustaining and self-propagating life-form more powerful than we are, which is now competing with us. It may perfectly well understand what humans want, but it turns out to want something different -- initially guided by some human objective, but ultimately different enough that it's a moot point. Maybe creating really good immersive games, figuring out the laws of physics or whatever. The details don't matter.

The result would at best be that we now have the agency of a tribe of gorillas living next to a human plantation development, and at worst that we have the agency analogous to that of a toxic mold infection in a million-dollar home. Regardless, such a catastrophe would permanently put an end to what humans wish to do in the world.
I flipped shields on/off with Brave. What was pleasant soon became unpleasant.
Citations aren't required, a basic knowledge of history, though, that is required and what you lack.

The idea, your idea is that there's a way to tell everybody what to do to make all the things work and everyone will follow the plan and like their spot in it. You lack the imagination to recognize individual will let alone the fact that society works because there are millions of experts making choices everyday. No central planning board to 'organize' 'labor' can accomplish that or house the knowledge of these individuals
Thanks, I aspire to be doing even less - I'll take the cat's example over the next week (or whenever I get around to it)
we'll let you know in a couple of weeks.
It's a stepping stone towards the integration between NeRF derived and DALL-E 2 CLIP diffusion type systems to create user defined on demand real-time volumetric 3D digital spaces for spatial computing.
How does one distinguish between intelligent contrarian views and a broken clock being right once every 24 hours? How to know if your examples point to an unnecessarily high failure to listen to contrarian views rather than reflecting a survivorship bias mistaking natural randomness for a problem?

I don't disagree with your observations or that we have a hear no evil problem, but
I'm a contrarian by nature, so I guess I'm being contrarian about contrarianism.
+1. I use emacs as my daily driver. Plus some tools I wrote myself to evaluate C# and JavaScript. Every now and again I hop over to a jetbrains tool.

I was slightly disappointed by i3 and xmonad and built my own WM in lisp.

In the old days we used to write our own tools by extending and combining existing tools. Now people seem to just download python and use whatever library comes with it after a day or two of experimentation
"basic opsec" and you've already lost 90% of the audience.

If you are next positive in NFT world, you are either a scammer or profiting indirectly from the scam. The funds are coming from people getting scammed.
Indeed, but they need to consider the height of the bounce. Like they say, even a dead cat bounces if you drop it from high enough
> So it’s not statically memory-safe. That’s not hugely attractive I have to say.

Ref-counting with mutable data (which this seems to be replacing?) works the same way in Rust. You need to take an Rc/Arc of RefCell, and calling borrow/borrow_mut on RefCell can fail at runtime.
Almost perfect. For a true gamer mod, it needs RGB LEDs.
I don't think sending video is a likely scenario if the sender wants to be understood. There are too many ways video could be encoded, even assuming the aliens have the same perceptual capabilities we have.

Flipping it around, if we were going to do send a message to the universe would we send an h.265 bgr video with aac audio in streaming mp4 format?

The only thing you can know for sure you have in common with someone receiving your radio signal is that they can receive radio signals, so using something about radio transmission would be a good bet for building a lexicon. Then there's the universal constants and mathematics which we could assume are known in common.
I agree! I have subscribed before to NYT, Economist using Apple’s subscriptions and therefore never had any issues in unsubscribing, or needing to call somebody to unsubscribe.
Can we call the smallest denomination the enso?
Microsoft and Meta join Google in using AI to help run their data centers
The Magnetar, nature’s ultimate superweapon
It's not trivial to detect something that's rooted your phone, no.
> We’re told it’d be nice if the racks looked nice through the glass.

> Something useless with a bunch of blinky lights?

Now I'm realizing what the purpose of all of those random blinking lights on the Star Trek bridge were for.
While I agree with some of the items on the list, unfortunately money CAN buy many of them.

Many of them like "a sunset on a foreign beach" kind explicitly require money. Many involve training or practicing that can be greatly facilitated by personal trainers and the leisure time money can buy.
If you like to do most of this directly in vscode check out Voop:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PhilippT...
The hardware looks nice but it's not for normal people getting normal work done. Things have gotten marginally better since Ive left, but they still have a long way to go.
It's not alt-right.

It's just dopey Internet slang, like lulz and omgwtfbbq, and alt-right (whatever that means) is also an Internet thing.
Citing 'college girls want to go abroad' is not particularly convincing
I think we do have a lot of leisure time. Otherwise, how would things like hustle culture or the other “make money while not at work” movements be feasible? If you got a side project going then you have lots of leisure time, enough for an entire second job.
Vulnerable Voting Machine Raises Questions About Election Security (2015)
Precious metals. Of course financial institutions often falsify their reserves. The real problem isn’t that no solution exists. The problem is that market makers only want to deal with exchange media that they can use for their own fraud.
That's the hill that almost every new UI toolkit effort dies on.

If I were going to start one, I would actually start with accessibility. If everyone keeps tripping over the same thing, start by tackling that thing first.

Edit: it's occurred to me that an approach of starting with accessibility could also lead to an approach that degrades gracefully into text UIs (TUI) and command line usage and then scales all the way up to a GUI. That would be super interesting. Not sure it's ever been done.
As a lower bound it would need to be high enough to support the largest supported transaction. If the market cap of bitcoin was only $100, you could not transact $200.
The state of EV charging infrastructure in Europe by 2030
Came here to say this. If this was a bunch of front end stuff that you could grab from Github then I would use it. Although for non-sensitive things it may be handy.
Wow, that looks bad. It's one thing to stay neutral and promote crypto-related projects, but it's another thing to promote obvious scams and ponzi schemes.
I think I would have had the exact same thought had I not known it was AI. It seems like AI has this rambling, dream-like quality where things just don't entirely make sense, probably because AI lacks understanding or context (my take as a layperson). The voice is surprisingly accurate sounding, but the cadence is stilted and really lacks any kind of comedic timing.

This seems to fall right into the uncanny valley.
The rise of free atmospheric oxygen and oceanic dissolved oxygen levels were almost certainly a requirement for the development of complex multicellular life. Using oxygen as the electron acceptor in respiration means far more energy can be extracted from reduced fuel molecules (sugars, fats, amino acids, methane, hydrocarbons, ammonia, etc.) than by using species like oxidized sulfur and iron, CO2, or nitrate (NO3) for that role.

This is really where the mitochondria come into play, as they allowed their host to utilize oxygen for this purpose. This can be seen by looking at modern eukaryotes that have reverted back to an anaerobic lifestyle:

> "In lineages of eukaryotes adapted to low oxygen conditions, mitochondria have been drastically reduced, functionally altered and, in one case, completely lost."

"The Origin and Diversification of Mitochondria (2017)"

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(17)31179...

Hence, looking for the signature of free oxygen in the atmosphere of exoplanets orbiting distant stars is considered to be a fairly good indicator of the possibility of complex multicellular life of some sort, and at least of an active photosynthetic microbial ecosystem.

(Incidentally, the historical divisions withing academic university departments led to evolutionary biology generally ignoring the importance of early Earth's geochemistry in the evolution of life, as they saw evolution as a kind of cellular/organismal process divorced from the physical surroundings - the latter being the province of the geology department. The renewed interest in exobiology and origin-of-life research has tended to bridge this gap.)
It does when employees can be treated as commodities and be at the mercy of employers because of the way our economy is structured.
441k and trying to keep interest rate at the same level amount as inflation seemed to do the trick for me. Did run it 3 times and basically got the same results.
> Has it occurred to you that the lack of people willing to pay for what you're trying to offer may be indicative that it's not quite as valuable as you perceive it to be?

This is how we end up with no art, no music, no culture, no raising of the future generations etc. If the only metric via which we value time spent and effort spent is money earned none of these (very important) things can compare even to the most useless widget making / admin job.

Do we even know what it is to be human anymore?
Also algo trading....
> Obviously it was a whimsical way of saying “slavery is the natural minimum wage” in the absence of all regulations (which is a proxy for government/societal interventions).

Then you should have said that to begin with. It shouldn't be incumbent on me to account for whimsy botching one's meaning.

> Some person/company will be willing to enslave people if they can get away with it.

Enslavement doesn't require a coherent political or economic philosophy. Hobbes has already proven that. Even governments have and continue to enslave people. I don't see how regulations solve that as governments have no higher power to answer to, except perhaps for atom bombs.

That some company may violate an individual's rights in a laissez-faire system does not itself prove that enslavement is an inevitable outcome of such a system. That is a false induction.

> Clearly volunteering is not what people mean by “working for $0 per hour”. This is obvious to anyone who reads what I wrote without being disingenuous.

What difference is there between volunteering and working for $0 an hour exactly? If one volunteers for an organization, that does not mean that one lacks a de facto or de jure employer. One may still need to sign a contract and still be required to perform tasks to a certain standard. Volunteer work is not required to be accepted indiscriminately.

> Equally obvious is that a laissez-faire system is neither possible, desirable, or scalable. I won’t convince you of this and you won’t convince me otherwise.

You and I benefit from one of the great successes of laissez-faire capitalism: the commercial Internet. It's obviously possible (in fact, it has already succeeded for the past 30 years), desirable, and nearly infinitely scalable.

> You are free to desire to live in a world where a wage of 0 is a reasonable thing for an employer to pay. Fortunately for me people like you have little chance of seeing this desire come to fruition. There is no point in responding further but I will read and contemplate whatever response you decide to make.

A wage of zero is a reasonable wage for the employer and employee to agree upon. What is not reasonable is forcing someone to accept a wage of zero under duress or threat of force.
Raspberry Pis, old thinkpads, and the like are how most people host their Gemini capsules
All the advice on this is way too generic.

I as a consumer need more actionable advice. Study after study focus on chemical substances I have no empirical understanding of.

- Give me a list of types of plastic that use these plasticizers.

- Give me a list of consumer brands that use those plastics.

- Give me a list of hygiene products that use phtalates under the "perfume" label in their composition.

Publish something like this and consumers will take their money elsewhere and the Unilever's, P&G, and J&J, of the world can take notes.
Yeah but third party tools like iMazing have the ability to check for Pegasus. All it does is look for the presence of certain files unique to Pegasus. Why can’t Apple do this too or buy such tools from iMazing? Not like they can’t afford it.
Checked the model, and the "model card" https://huggingface.co/dalle-mini/dalle-mini#bias is an interesting exercise in sensitivity absurdity:

"Bias

CONTENT WARNING: Readers should be aware this section contains content that is disturbing, offensive, and can propagate historical and current stereotypes."

Spoiler alert, nothing contained in that section requires a warning. It's just abstract descriptions of "potential" negative stereotypes in images.

"initial testing demonstrates that they may generate images that contain negative stereotypes against minoritized groups"

Minoritized is a new word for me. As though minority status is something actively attached to someone. But no duh I can ask dalle to generate "images of klan members at a lynching" or "inner city police brutality" and get negative images.

"When the model generates images with people in them, it tends to output people who we perceive to be white, while people of color are underrepresented."

I'd like to see real testing, because from what I can tell this is not true. Ask for "white people" and you get weird abstract models of white figures. Ask for "black people" and you get beautiful photos of smiling black faces.

Is this the kind of exercise AI researchers have to concern themselves with these days?
Holy crap I had no idea this was Galbraith's insight. I've heard William K. Black talk about Gresham's dynamics a few times, but always wondered why his use of the term didn't comport with Wikipedia's article on it. It's because he's using it in Galbraith's sense. I'll be checking out the book for sure. Thank you.
The name reminds me of the Monty Python sketch - The Royal Society of Putting Things on Top of Other Things!

https://youtu.be/LFrdqQZ8FFc
Bitcoin drops below $20k, Ether cracks $1k – what this means
It seems obvious that we have no more leisure time now than before.

But consider the huge leisure industries that have grown over the past 100 years. Movies, TV, now streaming services. Radio and now Spotify and podcasts. Video games. Sports and all the media around sports. Even social media is arguably mostly entertainment these days.

Or look at active leisure. How many more cyclists and rock climbers are there today vs 100 years ago? Or skiers or runners or hikers?

Judging by the shape of the economy, there is a lot more leisure time than before. As a whole, Americans spend a lot less time growing food and making clothes and, well, surviving in general, and a lot more time doing the things above. But Americans also spend a lot more time making the things we fill our leisure time with.
The Apple Lisa had preemptive multitasking years before the Amiga.
What if you hate the noise though?
> I'm involved with NFTs as an artist, developer, and trader. Slip ups do happen and I just consider them the cost of doing business.

Aren't buyers the ones holding the bag over those losses?

Because that is one of the key traits of a scam.
Really exit can be pretty useful though.

Doing if(condition) return at the start, before it gets going often reduces indentation and how many branches you need to see at once.

But I can agree sneaky returns can bite you sometimes
Again, nobody is saying anything about 1M colonists. That’s a stupidly high number.

100M is 100x stupider