skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know that someone is eating up Russian propaganda? I'll tell you: if when you say "Russia did something bad" their response is "the USA is something bad". Something something whataboutism.

But what I realize is that this is the biggest evidence of what a culturally irrelevant country Russia has become. Can you imagine, if a journalist told Biden "the USA is bad because it invaded Iraq" and his response was "Russia also invaded countries"? Wouldn't that be absolutely hilarious? It would. Why? Because Russia has become culturally irrelevant. Russia doesn't matter any more.
Thank you so much! I've similarly been trying to wrap my head around monetary things recently, and as with learning anything in physics (my field), I believe you don't really understand a model unless you can code up a simulator.

It's been maddening not being able to find a comprehensive model of how all the bits fit together, and I have many times wondered if the lack of existence of a game like yours meant that no such model actually existed. Happy to be wrong!

And of course a game is a brilliant way to build intuition whether you know the equations of the underlying model or not.

I haven't played it yet but am greatly looking forward to it, really hoping to answer various gaps in my knowledge. Thanks again!
Ha, I did the exact same thing. I guess the fed has it all wrong!

Edit: I guess it's not as fair to the player, but maybe there should be more randomness in there, or perhaps some kind of forcing function that makes things a bit less stable.
Practically speaking, this means we couldn't use the cyclic process to do work, because that would require it to have excess energy it could transfer. If a time crystal's periodic behavior were to spin, you couldn't use the rotation to push something. Right?
Therapists less likely to use CBT when treating Black vs. White patients
CPython’s Internals: From Source Code to Bytecode
I’ve been making my own kefir and have been drinking it daily for a few months. I feel more energetic, happier and my skin looks better.
What you can show/build with HTML/CSS/JS hasn't really changed that hugely in the last few years.
There are RAD tools for React apparently (retool?) and I don't doubt they wouldn't be appropriate for all uses, but there's plenty of cases where you just need to throw together something quickly where being able to "build" the page layout visually would be extremely helpful. I sometimes get the impression many React-based sites you just get whatever layout happens to be the default (based on HTML5/CSS specs, and whatever libraries/out-of-the-box stylesheets you might use), even if the exact outcome doesn't really match what's been asked for by the UI/UX designer (who almost certainly did use a WYSIWYG tool to come up with the wireframes/static mocks etc).
I guess they hadn't heard about Apple's tradition of Sherlocking.
That is correct. If you are open to a Mercury competitor that works with Circle and is more web3 friendly try https://every.io/
> "¡Es la microbiota, idiota!"

Ha! As someone who has done clinical research on human subject on gut microbiome following blood & marrow transplants, this title is truly, truly great. My old lab needs t-shirts with that on it!
I am aware that many people today would work at SpaceX, but that's not my point.

Elon Musk is not a god and his billion dollar ideas would be worthless were it not for thousands of people who have worked tirelessly because they believe in a common goal. SpaceX is nothing without the labor of others - they are the hand that feeds him, not the other way around.

I don't think people who are doing literal rocket science at SpaceX would "go back to designing widgets" if SpaceX folded tomorrow. This implies that they would somehow not be doing meaningful work without Musk's money?
Hey Yohan,

That is an absolutely lovely resource. Thanks for sharing! Concise, useful, references like this are great “core drills”[0] into the ever-expanding deluge of human knowledge.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_drill
Until we live in a universe where the harm to the victims can be undone I think we have to accept that ours is one where your actions are forever. If I could flip a switch so that we lived in the other kind of universe, I would, but I can't convince myself that that's the character of the universe we actually inhabit.

As for my own actions, I've never beat anyone's head in with a hammer or raped a defenseless woman in an alley or abused a child, and yet I think every day about the harms I have inflicted on others over the course of my life. I'm not sure I totally understand what people even mean by "starting over." It's not something I would expect for myself and if I ever do commit any of the aforementioned crimes (God help me) I hope I have the courage to put a bullet in my own throat before I'm ever tempted to ask for a "second chance."
The worst part about reading a Wolfram article on HN is having to read for the millionth time all the people complaining about Wolfram's ego, or his rambling. I understand, and agree (to a layerperson's extent) the criticism of his refusal to work within conventions for novel research.

Anyway, does anyone have a good rebuttal, elaboration on this idea:

> But actually I think there’s no lack of “alien intelligence”; indeed it’s all around us. But the point is that it really is alien. At an abstract computational level it’s like our intelligence. But in its details it’s not aligned with our intelligence. Abstractly it’s intelligence, but it’s not human-like intelligence. It’s alien intelligence.

There are a couple of comments making the point that this is reductionism, and is equivalent to saying any computational in theory exists in a dust cloud, but I'm not sure why we can't classify human intelligence/sentience/consciousness as simply a type of emergent computation in our neurons.

I've recently been fascinated by Karl Friston's work on the free energy principle, which models intelligent behaviour as a function of us trying to minimize the divergence between the entropy of our perception and a generative, probabilistic model of the world, and the entropy of the likelihood of evidence we collect about the world. From that perspective, at a high-level consiousness just reduces to a really, really, high-dimensional modeling of the world embedded in our neurons that is driven to minimize entropy.

Once a species evolves to have its own theory of its mind (which is how I think of sentience/consciousness), the entropy minimization gets really complicated, but ultimately still fundamentally a computational process.

I myself don't by this argument, completely, I feel like its missing something, but can't quite figure it out.
We accept LLCs at Every.io, which is a Mercury alternative: https://every.io/
for commenters assuming the US Government would step in, absolutely not. the death of Crypto is inherently in the interest of US foreign policy as it strengthens regional soft power in denied spaces by gutting uncooperative states (iran, venezuela, cuba, etc...) of their ability to sidestep western capital embargos. it also guts Wikileaks ability to defend itself in court, as its sitting on a good deal of crypto since being denied access to regular donations.

it also helps dampen inflation by strengthening the dollar, at whatever level that may be.
Fertilizer production uses a great deal of natural gas.

The claims of fragility are unfounded though as natural gas supply isn't going anywhere and the use of natural gas in the process could be trivially (at great expense) replaced entirely by [nuclear powered] water electrolysis.

We also grossly overproduce calories, both as a policy decision for anti-fragility and for raising meat. Both of which leave a lot of slack before starvation levels kick in. At least in the US, other countries may be closer to the limit.
What people are entirely missing here is the massive economic indicators flashing that are preempting this crypto stuff. The US dollar is about to be devalued and take with it, the entire global economy. We're heading into a serious depression, not just a little 2008 recession here. $9-10 gal of gas by October and double of all goods and food prices likely by Sept-October time frame. The outlook is growing very bleak.
Oops, yeah, my bad.
You mean Uber Capitalists want to pretend 'cost of labor' isn't an input to the economic equation? Shocker.
If that were true then the Victorian era should not have happened.
Canadian here. I have my doubts on that; I had some devs that's consistently pulled 280 hours a month and once hit I think 320 hours. His salary was $59,000 CAD a year, and I believe the junior devs working with him were earning $11/hr circa 2010 ish and were working fairly close to those hours.

The longest work day I've had is 40 or 50 hours without sleep to meet a deadline that and then had to be in bright and early the next morning. But there's been more then a few times a year that I ended up sleeping in the office because I missed the last 1:00am train out.

Not all Canadian companies are like that anymore then all American companies are like Amazon or Google. Nor do I claim to understand why this is the case, but at least from what I've seen, Canadian tech salaries do lag quite a lot compared to US salaries compared to the skill demanded.
Considering it's received HN's kiss-of-death, perhaps a pointer to the code is useful: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr
Where do you get your dáta from?
Personally I saw Dropbox launch there and was blown away by it. The utter simplicity of the interface and just drag and dropping into a web page, for the time it was ground breaking. Iirc they were preceded by a guy demoing an alarm clock webpage and just the contrast was striking...
Sure, but we need someone that both profit from increased incarceration and have the power to actually increase it, to make the theory that prisons are kept full for profit to be credible.

I attempted to show that the government, who clearly can fill up prisons, lose money from it, so they don't have the incentive.

Your mother's prison employer would benefit from more prisoners, but hardly has enough political power to make it happen.

I know prison warden unions always lobby for more prisoners, and they do have some political power, but I can't believe it's typically decisive.

So who else could it be?
Their work output is worth more than the compensation or Bezos wouldn't be authorizing it.
The Great Depression happened after the US central bank was created in 1913.
Even just basic malware blocking disables a lot of websites. I can't use some air and hotel sites (aa.com, ihg.com for example) anymore, plus unsubscribing from somewhat normal spam is almost impossible because the unsub links have trackers or something.
‘machine elves’ who speak in an elvish tongue and are trying to communicate some meme or message.

the message is "Universal love and Transcendent joy" ;) ¹

1) https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-th...
Surprised I had to scroll so far to see Ars here. I'm a subscriber too.
is there a leaderboard? 441684
Right, but that's not how that choice is framed in reality. The people watching prisoners in fact don't make anywhere near that much, because a lot more goes into the cost than wages of a single person watching a single prisoner 1 on 1. People still do the job. Teachers don't make $15,000/yr/student, either, for similar reasons. Your whole line of inquiry (I guess that's what it is?) doesn't make much sense to me.

[EDIT] and that's beside the fact that it's irrelevant if you're looking at "what could we have bought for this instead". No bearing whatsoever.
In and out of Russia? Use a non-sanctioned bank. My parents are still sending remittances to Russia.

Ukraine? Use a bank. Or maybe PayPal? My parents are also still sending remittances to Ukraine.

Lebanon, Iran, Venezuela? Probably Hawala, or maybe through China or India, but you'll probably get a more detailed answer from an ex-pat.

I will also point out that shitcoins and NFTs and the various pyramid schemes that are currently unraveling aren't a solution to this problem.

In fact, they only solve the problem of transferring money from the pockets of the greedy and financially illiterate to the pockets of the greedy and financially literate.
Sure you can do a binary OR but you need to examine all of the data in the table which effectively becomes a full table scan. The beauty of indices is that you only need to scan a subset of the data to find the information you're looking for.
For decades computers and related technology have been dropping in price. Yet people still buy and the industry is one of the most prosperous in the economy.
I like crypto, though not really what it has become in recent years. I too hope the US government does not step in. That would be totally antithetical to the entire point of crypto.
Yeah, these days we only have existential risk to our system via structural contagion twice per decade. Good thing we moved past that era!

Those issues were real and went o longer than they needed to but also weren't as deeply structural as the issues today. Our issues are different but not better.
If it isn’t selected, the browser literally won’t send anything for that field (undefined in js parlance). Your code/language of choice has to make a decision on what to do with that state. If you specify true/false, the page will reload with that state instead of “undefined.”

For some languages it is exactly as you describe, for lower level languages (as in closer to the raw HTTP protocol) like PHP, you have to make an explicit choice before rendering the response.
255Wh/kg? That’s not true. About 300Wh/kg has been available for over a decade. The next Gen lithium metal anode and lithium sulfur batteries can do 400-500Wh/kg, up to 650Wh/kg in the lab.
I agree that USDT will collapse at some point and it will have a massive effect across the market but that doesn't make the entire market equatable to the Enron situation.
sound doesn't hit the spot
What about this API makes it “modern”?
When you make an argument for companies paying that much, you are essentially saying "FAANG companies with lots of cash reserves should overpay new hires in the goal to attract as many of them as possible in hopes that a few of them make something profitable and offset the cost"

While a viable business strategy, from a personal value perspective, if you are an average CS college grad, you are by far not going contribute even close to $150k/year worth of value - you are going to do some menial basic code modifications.

So by all means, while you can go and take advantage of the inflated salaries to maximize your own profit as much as you can, but you cannot claim that $150k starting salary is too low.
I fought inflation in SimCB and my economy produced 440944 .
-0.5% interest rate to reduce inflation, 90% of the time.
His political stance is new though. A lot of people feel the same way as Elon, long term Democrats are bewildered at what the party has become.

Hell, even CNN is backpeddling with the current Democratic party's agenda: https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/15378570794105774...
To put it in perspective, heat pumps typically have an "efficiency" (coefficient of performance) of 250-350%, meaning they pump 2.5-3.5 times as much energy as they consume. So it's roughly 1/2 to 1/3 the cost to heat the same amount of space.
Yes I do subscribe to their Upshot and Weekender newsletters. The weekender especially shows the breadth and depth of great NYT journalism.
Under certain Keynesian views, Fed policy is mostly irrelevant, and only fiscal policy matters. Or actual printing... which low rates and QE are very different from.

Another view from the neoclassical school has a similar conclusion dubbed the Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition.

But others say Fed policy does matter because in the real world contracts and prices are sticky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy-ineffectiveness_proposi...
This is for reducing reflected sound, not transmitted sound. We already have building technologies to block transmitted sound. People just usually choose not to pay extra because it's not actually that important to them.
Lol. I admire your faith in the system.

36% of Harvard students come from legacy admissions programs, their admission has less to do with their personal merit than their last name. Other Ivy leagues aren't far behind.

A non-zero part of the product these schools sell is the ability to make friends with rich and powerful people. It's not the whole story, I'm not saying they're not good schools, but your average student isn't going to be that much smarter than your average well regarded public school, just a lot more wealthy.
In the comment you're replying to, I literally say "no one is saying this"

Why does prison labor get called slavery, but prison detention gets the euphemistic treatment of "coercive detention"? Why isn't prison labor "coercive labor"?
Saying "no one is saying this" is putting words in other people's mouths?
Do you load this entire table into memory or do a db/cache lookup every time?
19 passengers isn’t personal aviation. It comparable to passenger aircraft used in places like islands and elsewhere where demand isn’t enough for big jets and there’s no ground option.

Fundamentally, it could be nearly as cost efficient as large jets. The pilot wage is a small portion of the overall cost. A big reason big jets are big is because jet propulsion scales down poorly while electric scales down very well.
I feel like any interest rate higher than -0.5% will automatically lose you all your farms at some point in time.
PFAS more toxic than previously realized
That's a bit revisionary. Every time someone posted about Anchor's "15% returns" there was at least one comment noting that this is unsustainable and probably a Ponzi scheme that will collapse.

The thing with crypto is that there are so many scams and houses of cards that making an exhaustive list is difficult. People point to Tether because it's a house of cards that's #3 by market cap. Tether hasn't imploded yet but its market cap is dropping precipitously right now and if they're not properly backed they might run out of money to redeem USDT soon.
I wonder why the ladder isn't just built into the chimney permanently, like via ferrata.
> Every advocate of Progress I've read or spoken to sees it as managing and extracting value from other people - and not establishing a basic stability from which others can be free to actualize and thrive. Even basic income is really about putting the managers of such a scheme at the centre of it, and it's to the point where even the very word 'free' is triggering. I'd argue that belief in Progress is not a benevolent, charitable, or altruistic sentiment.

A lot of people talk about progress in this way, but it's really just their own aggression expressed in ideological form

But I do think that progress is an actual thing: just look at what the printing press accomplished, and what the internet is in the process of accomplishing. I think that making more information accessible at a lower cost is the core of progress. Who knows where this will take us, but it's made certain things possible that were not possible before. Life expectancies are also longer than they've been. But this kind of progress isn't a moral imperative like the political kind. It's just something that happens as a result of production
Let's just say that I don't subscribe to the conservative traditional view of economics and politics that you're using to point out how absurd this sounds.

Yes, I believe we should be paying much, much more for most of the things in our lives. Right now, those of us who make about 80% of median income and above are essentially riding on the backs who make less. I think this is immoral, although I recognize that changing it is a millenia long project that faces staunch opposition.

I want to see GDP distributed more evenly. In reality, the likely end game is not that everyone in Portland makes $91k a year or more, but that there is massively more redistribution within the economy, high end incomes fall, overall highest:lowest income ratios drop, housing prices drop (because more housing is built, and housing ceases to be an investment), and lots more good stuff that

I wonder, how do you personally justify millions of people working for less than a living wage? Do you feel that there just has be a bunch of people who lose out in life, and that's just the way it is? What makes it all seem OK to you?
It’s the same law in the US.

However just because the research is public doesn’t mean it’s easily searchable.

Someone still has to do that work.
Klarna just got a 67% haircut from $46B to $15B
Actually, I think the GP post is saying we don't all agree on 1. The way progress looks to economists like Cowen is very different from how it'd look if a single person asked that question to themselves.

Rather than agreeing on the framework of "progress means increasing GDP and productivity", you could say "progress means total families" or "progress means a growing number of independent, self-sufficient communities". Is it radical to think that to some, progress might mean _more countries_?
Yes. The twin anxiety makers - crypto volatility and threat of Coinbase bankruptcy made my decision to convert everything to cash.
In JS/TS, I use `undefined` for unset, then `true` and `false`.
> it really depends on what country you live in.

No, it's like that in countries without pretenses of democracy or civil rights too. If anything it's a fair bit worse.
> but life is too short to learn what all other smart people had to say on given topic.

You could just reach out to those people who are on the cutting edge and discuss your ideas… they’ll accelerate your work without you having to read / research the entire corpus yourself.
I don’t bother unsubscribing. Just filter to spam and ignore.
>The ideals of the French Revolution were themselves very problematic.

The ideals of the French Revolution were liberty, equality, and fraternity. Largely mimicking the American ideals, and the ones that most of Europe eventually claim to have adapted.
> Activist employees are toxic to company culture.

I think ESG is the overarching umbrella that has compelled corporations to normalize activism.
You can store columns for each bit in the filter, so a binary OR wasn’t a full table scan, just an index lookup for certain columns.
What materials are commonly used? People in older buildings definitely have sound issues

I was told lowering they ceiling and creating an air gap is effective
Considering we're talking about financial instruments: if you had inside knowledge that could help you time the collapse of something you'd be out there shorting it, not posting here. But I think it's safe to say that a lot of crypto assets are built on very shaky foundations. That's not the same as knowing when something will give though.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say a lot has changed in cryptocurrency since 2013
The article doesn't say if this is just for government business.

India isn't the only country that restricts use of file sharing services for government business, especially for sensitive information as defined by that country's legislation.
Well, in this you're seeing the result of living in a society that is responsive to the needs and desires of people with money and power. In this case, YC is an example of such people, and they've made the decision that what Overinflated Sense of Self's Startup is up to is potentially valuable enough that they'll fund it. OSSS has been judged "worthwhile" by enough money that for now at least, it can keep going.

On the other hand, Andy's Average Appetizers is of no particular interest to VC money, or any other money really, and so yep, they're going to go under because they don't anything that attracts enough money to make them viable (possibly at a higher living wage standard, possibly at current minimum wage standards).