skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched Office Space when I was younger and believed at the time that it was a gross over-caricaturization. It was a comedy movie, after all. No _real_ company could ever be that demoralizing to work for, there's no way you could put that much cluelessness, self-interest, and passive-agressive managerial evil into one building and not have it spontaneously combust, right? (Which I guess it did in the movie.)

Until I got a job in a mid-size financial services company. It was all that and a whole lot worse. It was literally forbidden to pin Dilbert comic strips to your cubicle wall. Not _any_ comic strips, only Dilbert ones weren't allowed. Up all night fixing an issue in prod caused by someone else? Tough, better be in your chair at 8:00 a.m. like any other day.

I lasted 10 months. It was horrible, but I don't actually regret it because it made me appreciate the value of a _good_ workplace run by and staffed by intelligent well-meaning people. Which still isn't as common as it should be, but definitely exist.
Additionally the environment changed significantly since then (for one example oxygen which was highly toxic to most forms of life that existed back then is now over 20% of atmosphere).

> Reverse chirality autotrophs sound like a scary sci-fi novel plot

Very ice-9-like.
That's a really funny wild idea
I keep saying the same exact thing. I never bought into, but wasn’t this one of the main “selling points” of bitcoin?
If a creator and a platform are splitting a dollar and “the real cut for a creator is ~15%”, I’d expect that to mean the creator gets $0.15 and the platform $0.85.
He was also self employed.
This is a "feature" that has been known about for _years_ ....

e.g. (2016)
https://www.mackungfu.org/massively-speed-up-time-capsule-ti...
Plenty of people pay for art and music. I didn't say they weren't valuable, I said what you're trying to offer specifically may not be valuable. I know you think it's some incredible service that everybody wants, but have you considered that maybe it isn't?
> how do we know the periodicity is there ... Just theory?

Theory guides us, but experimentally you can for example make a whole bunch of time crystals (especially straightfoward for driven time crystals, which have a period that's an integer multiple of the driver, the driving force being laser light or microwaves) with an expected set of states it cycles through, and you can test those states once per time crystal. If you reliably get the states theory predicts, that's good evidence.

> could you outline the proof of the existence

The excellent <https://physics.aps.org/articles/v10/5> and decent <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal#Experiments> (the former is [5] in that wikipedia article) are good starting points, with ample references.
Totally agree, I've been a long time fan of his channel. I don't have any real background in EE other than some personal projects with microcontrollers and fpgas but I've always been interested in the subject in free content like this has been a great way to learn. I would say that I'm a bigger fan of Ben Krasnow's channel applied science because it aligns better with my interests, but love them both :)
I would take that. Must be good clients.
That's a completely different sentence? This is like arguing that passive voice is always correct and one should never use active voice under any circumstance.
Just a form of dyslexia maybe?
Dentistry is less scientific and more gratuitous than people think (2019)
Pretty bad, yet simultaneously surprisedly good. Lots of promise.
Do we work for the same company? :) Jokes aside, I do feel they can be used for most of business problems. Compilers, etc are a different thing, maybe. But its not my area of interest.
(2016) https://www.mackungfu.org/massively-speed-up-time-capsule-ti...

Aka, this has been known by the power users for some time
In the case of Apple you’re really paying for access to the platform, as you don’t have a choice. But in the case of Patreon, I don’t think they offer anything in terms of reach - by this I mean I’ve never made the decision to support a creator because they were on the platform. Typically if I decide to support someone, I just go to whatever they point me to - and I think this was the authors point (especially for very narrow/vertical creators).

A better example of a more ‘reach’ offering would probably be YouTube’s similar offering (although I don’t know their fee structure), which goes beyond just reach and has very low friction for creators who make content on that platform.

Honestly I feel like Patreon as a platform is pretty underwhelming from the donator side of things, nor do I see much in terms of what’s changed to improve the experience over the years as their fees have increased - but I have no idea what has changed on the creator side.

I think the big takeaway (no surprise) is that the creator really owns the donator, not the platform - vs someplace like Apple where they have a much stronger relationship with the customer than your typical app developer does.
Mine have been through a full launndry cycle as well and still work. Don't worry the hinge is very solid, I'm regularly putting quite a lot of stress on it :D
Hopefully it means more people sober up about the shell game that is crypto, and we get some common sense regulation to stop the proliferation of get rich quick schemes and outright scams.
Will optic ever replace copper interconnects? We ask a silicon photonics startup
Here's a possible response from the UK: "No, we're not going to extradite a journalist to the US, to face 175 years in prison for publishing evidence of war crimes."

Extradition is first and foremost political, and the government of the UK has final authority in the matter. It's obvious that this case is political in nature, and that the US government is pursuing Assange in order to send a message to any other journalists who might try to emulate him. The UK government could tell the US to stuff it, the US would have no recourse, and the decision would be popular in Britain.
This has been debunked time and time again over the years; when you spec out something truly similar, the price is more or less the same.
I would say it's the other way round. Since creators need an income, patreon recieves a huge amount of free advertising from small and big influencers/youtubers/etc
I would never expect perfection from something that is mass produced regardless of the price
Decentralized also means no centralized rules of law. I'm not sure we want the wealthy crypto whales running around enforcing their own idea of what laws should be. Sounds like a path towards crypto cartels acting like the drug cartels in Mexico killing anyone that wrongs them. I'll take mainstream western courts and law enforcement over that horrific future any day of the week.
Ask HN: Is the BBC Dying?
These articles seem to pop up from time to time, and the persons numbers seem roughly accurate in my experience.

In my experience Patreon has been around 11% cut scenario, split very roughly between Payment Fees and Platform fees. But I am on the Founders plan, which is the same 5% platform fees as Patreon Lite, but with the extra features of the 8% Pro plans.

I do think it is probably best for creators to diversify their platforms, but I still think that Patreon is worth it just because of it being a very well known platform outside of just tech circles.
I don't think that's true, there's discoverability on Spotify. I often get suggested artists or podcasts based on what I already listen to, and some of them are very good.
Same here, looking at alternatives
This was the story quite awhile ago, when it was uncorrelated (basically, because it was unknown).

Just like "instant payments" and "non-inflationary" those have sailed. "Store of value" is looking a little weak.

"Transfer funds to Russia" is holding out ok.
Banks take care of an enormous amount of small transactions on credit and debit cards and only charge ~3%, some European countries have fees as low as 0.3%.

The high fees of patreon have nothing to do with payment support issues.
Have you data or are you just spouting the propaganda lines?
The IPCC did not do primary research. They cite a source. That source did not do primary research, either. The actual data comes from an estimate from the industry itself. The estimates came from costs. Estimating embodied fossil fuel energy based on cost is a not a bad estimation technique except when a huge amount of your supply chain is subsidized.
that some people like*
I make my living off of Patreon and I can confirm that they do jack shit to promote your work unless you are already one of their top earners. “Paying for the reach” is a bullshit excuse for the amount of money they’re sucking off of creators to try and make an immense payout for their VC.

My spreadsheet says the total cut of my take that goes to Patreon and payment processing is about 10-15%, but I am an Early Adopter who gets a much better deal from them. For someone like this dude who doesn’t have this deal and has their usurious international fees on top of it, it’s definitely a bad choice.

Patreon did one big thing: they took the concept of “monthly donations to support the arts” and repackaged it in a way that took off. I never got support via the old PayPal donation button like I have via Patreon.
What is the psychological phenomenon called for when an asset prefers nice round numbers?
> despite the increase in productivity we also have increased lifespan which results in large number of retirees who consume the resources for much longer than before

Don’t forget "rising living standards" which in Western cultures is an euphemism for "extravagant consumption".
I hope someone at Archive.org saves the Bitcoin, Etherium, DogeCoin and other blockchains. It would be nice to have all of the transactions saved saved somewhere, along with their source code, white papers, and other documents.

[Edit] Are there archives of the various forks of Bitcoin? What about all the "shitcoins"? Unless there's an active effort to save them, the blockchains aren't native to the web, and will get lost to history.
Regarding 2. I think the crux of the controversy around progressivism is not so "much what is to be done" but, "by whom?"

The separation of powers in the west has been a pretty good at being resiliant to change with a kind of meta-stability, and also facilitating growth. Dynasties provided stability for milennia, but somehow prevented humans from making any of the post-enlightenment discoveries from the last 300 years anywhere else, and over hundreds of millions of lives. Out on a limb, but I actually suspect in the 19th century as a conseqeuence of mass literacy, we figured out how to create the equivalent to internet viruses, but in language, and use them to spread variants of mental illness. Metaphorically, our current conflicts closely resemble the consequences of ideological botnets weilded by some very unsavory characters. One way to free minds from it is to inculcate them with the idea that everywhere there is life, it is evident that it was not meant just to struggle and suffer, but it was created with an intent for it to thrive. This is really meta, but I'd say logically we need to get upstream of materialism if we're going to find ways solve material problems, and if we don't, we're just going to stay in solipsistic loops that justify our will to power. The view of the world that is predicated on an identity founded on being oppressed by other people is really a perverse form of materialist worship, where it doesn't believe in creation or intent, but it does believe in its inferiorized self relative to the idealized (evil) object it sees its identity reflected in. The view has allowed itself to be defined by (and relative-to) its own peak experience, and one that was negative. This is heresy, surely, but it seems worth it given the alternatives.

Anyway, I'd say the thing to do is, make new stuff, discover new things, and if you can't, find a way align with those who are. This meta stuff is just articulating how to untangle some of the underlying morass of beliefs that I think are getting in the way of thriving life.
We understand dogs pretty well. It turns out their communication is not that complex.
Putting aside the questionable idea that it's a hedge, people weren't using that way, they were borrowing money at near zero interest rates and buying it up on margin.

Now the music has stopped and people are scrambling for the exits.
HAL/S Syntax
> OSX and iOS have anti-malware tooling built in

You ever seen them notify users of detection and remediation? Yeah, didn't think so.

> Malwarebytes, Norton, McAfee etc. don’t accept liability for what their scans find

Because they're not liable as not the authors of the operating system. Apple's position is "Macs don't get malware" and any contrary fact is quickly swept under the rug.
Thank you for the suggestion about networks. I will have to bend that a little to see if I can make it immediately useful by learning something like the HTTP spec. I have done a lot of backend web development but I do not know HTTP deeply.
Also, I wish I had done a CS degree - then I would have HAD to study networks! I am largely self-taught.
How many engineers does Patreon have?
Could this be because of wall street’s increasing investment in crypto? It just seems like every time there’s an investment that offers shelter from a crashing market that becomes accessible to joe investor, it ceases to be a good place to hide.
Yep, that's the one I remember.
Members are expected to take it easy and slowly ponder this and that, preferably on a sofa or in the bathtub.

One of the more unusual and interesting early 20th century physicists was Leo Szilard, whose daily 'work' routine involved soaking in the bathtub from perhaps 9am-noon, during which time he would think about nuclear physics among other things.

Likely as a result of all this pondering, he realized that nuclear chain reactions were possible, if an element could be found that released two or more neutrons when bombarded with one neutron... six years before the discovery of fission.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...

This is a useful anecdote to relate whenever anyone tells you to get out of the bathtub and get back to work.
I think this debate on AGI safety between major AI researchers is quite relevant to those who are non-expert in the area.

Debate on Instrumental Convergence between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador, and More
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WxW6Gc6f2z3mzmqKs/debate-on-...

Note that it was in 2019 when we didn’t yet see the capabilities of current models like Chinchilla, Gato, Imagen and DALL-E-2.

Sample:

“Yann LeCun: "don't fear the Terminator", a short opinion piece by Tony Zador and me that was just published in Scientific American.

"We dramatically overestimate the threat of an accidental AI takeover, because we tend to conflate intelligence with the drive to achieve dominance. [...] But intelligence per se does not generate the drive for domination, any more than horns do."“

“Stuart Russell: It is trivial to construct a toy MDP in which the agent's only reward comes from fetching the coffee. If, in that MDP, there is another "human" who has some probability, however small, of switching the agent off, and if the agent has available a button that switches off that human, the agent will necessarily press that button as part of the optimal solution for fetching the coffee. No hatred, no desire for power, no built-in emotions, no built-in survival instinct, nothing except the desire to fetch the coffee successfully.”
> The median price of Bitcoin over the last 3 years is $20,471. That means, today, half of the people who bought in the last 3 years are down.

To be more specific there, the people that are down in that 3 year time range are only those that bought since DEC 2020 (so 1.5 years ago). But even if you ignore that, that doesn't sound bad at all.

It makes no sense to compare to the SP500, of course the 500 largest companies combined are less volatile. Keep in mind something like NASDAQ 100 took like 10 to 15 years to recover after dotcom, and even QQQ isn't comparable to something as volatile as crypto. I think something like TQQQ is the most comparable, and they overlap quite a bit.

But going back to what I was commenting, my point was that if I was a 10+ year investor as parent said, I would not feel fortunate about not having bought bitcoin throughout my years. Of course very recent years are different.
> People have forgotten what unregulated markets are like. They assume a century of pretty good securities regulation, and the orderly markets and general prosperity that flowed from that, are normal — because it’s all they’ve ever known.

> But it’s not normal. It’s a lot of work to regulate a marketplace so that it’s free enough to work and innovate but not collapse, and the crooks are kept at least manageable.

> Crypto is almost entirely unregulated.

Daily reminder that the population at large has enough idiots (hard to quantify, maybe 20%?) and crooks (also maybe 20%?) that the rest of us folks in the middle need to accept regulation because otherwise all the idiots would starve and probably kill us all in desperation while the crooks would destroy everything in their path (look at Putin).
The French nuclear industry was mostly privatized and is ran now by Areva (rebranded Orano after several scandals)
It would help if he could keep his story straight and act like a rational human being.
I keep saying this and recently was told by someone that "during a crash all asset correlations tend to 1". Not sure how much there is behind that, but I'm skeptical: Bitcoin is finally proving more and more to be at worst a scam and at best a far too over-valued currency.
When the price is higher, it’s likely more people were buying (more demand = higher prices). So if the media price is 20k, likely more than half lost money.
What are the financial benefits? Lack of state tax? There are states with no state tax (check if they have correspondingly high property tax, they usually do): https://www.aarp.org/money/taxes/info-2020/states-without-an...

Everyone I know from PR moved to the states when possible, but then again, I wouldn't know people who moved the other way.
Nah, Putin's hold over the oligarchs is stronger than ever, now that they can't invest abroad anymore due to sanctions. Putin loves to bring this up in his speeches, arguing that getting burned by sanctions was the predictable consequense of engaging with those traitorous Westerners and that clearly the oligarchs should have invested in the Glorious Fatherland instead
do we really need 4+ discussions in span of few hours about bitcoin dropping under 20K? I wish HN had some rule about duplicates
I don’t think “mainstream media” is necessarily a “side”.

Either way you would have heard about a variety anti vax folks if you watched it over the years.
You are sort-of both half right, both half wrong.

Russia kept a lot of territory, including important sites where natural resources are mined. But they lost a lot of industrial capability. Not just in the former USSR, but in the former client states east of the Iron Curtain when they went their own way.

Places like the GDR and Czechoslovakia punched well above their weight when it came to economic functionality of the Soviet sphere. So did the Baltic states and Ukraine in USSR proper. For example, the only dock suitable for building really big warships like aircraft carriers is located in Mikolayiv, Ukraine. Needless to say that it won't be accepting Russian orders anytime soon.
> I think it's very unlikely to be profitable.

You're right, it's not profitable for the government (although it probably is profitable for some private prisons who also receive money from the government).

"The U.S. spends $81 billion a year on mass incarceration, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and that figure might be an underestimate."[1]

1: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/the-u-s-spends-billions...
I am a creator with the early adopter plan and I see about 10-15% of every month’s gross go to Patreon and payment processors.
Thanks for the valuable insight! Glad that you could find a rewarding project! Hoping to find something like that myself, at least temporarily, before I look for the next thing :)
There Could Be Four Hostile Civilizations in the Milky Way
Why stop at 4 digits? Why not 3? 2? 1?

Like good ol' Warren Buffet has said, bitcoin has no intrinsic useful value, unlike gold or even lead.

It's tulips all the way down.
I thought this would be about best practices for deployment of models like this.

I once asked in the LAION discord what that was and they said basically flask/fastapi server + load the model + gunicorn + ec2 instances.

I'm curious if any HN readers have any further insight or thoughts on ML model deployment for projects like DALL-E Mini.
Scala got lots of details right. The ecosystem is not as big as e.g. typescript but I'm already using it exclusively to build full stack apps in production.
RE: point 1, it should read "both partners have to work *for wages*; in the past, only one (at most)"
> It really boils down on how many people need how much resources and how many people produce these resources. You can argue over who should be your bourgeoisie, should it be (...)

How about we don't succumb to the desire to pull strawmen and focus on simple things to accomplish such as being able to make a honest living that leaves you with disposable income after covering all your cost of living with a simple 9-to-5 job?

Where does this need to create the illusion that there is possibly no grey area between a homeless slacker and a glorious millionaire investor?

Is it too much to ask the most prosperous economy in the history of the world to allow workers to actually live a modest life with your salary? Otherwise, why would those workers continue to support that absurd society?
There are aspects of it that should scale, but it's not as simple as "multiply up with the wavelength". They mention that the layer of air is significant, and that makes me think the Reynolds number comes into it. My guess is that the high viscosity of air at the scale of the scales makes it a fairly effective medium for getting rid of the energy as the scales vibrate. If you just make bigger scales the air appears correspondingly thinner, so there's less viscosity, so the scales wouldn't be damped as quickly. You'd want some other sort of damping mechanism to dump the kinetic energy into heat. But other than that, the main challenge is getting the scales to have the right harmonic characteristics, which is just a matter of shape and stiffness.
Surge pricing to settle stock trades? Obviously this is worse than the existing tech

To trade you need to be registered by regulated entity, it’s already a centralised environment. You’re also purchasing shares issued by a centralised issuer, the corporation. Your suggestion that bitcoin offers any solution to settlement (much less a superior solution), just escapes me