skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clicked their previous comments - they’re a neo-nazi Holocaust denier. For example, they posted this 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31722179

> Hitler is recognized and admired by many. If the change in world order happens when his significance is still fresh, he will surface back as a universally admired figure because it is not very difficult to piece together what the Nazi regime actually did vs what the Soviet occupiers accused them of (and what the US went along with).

And then they continue with pure insane Holocaust denial: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31728678

> The second world war was a biological war with typhus as the primary weapon. All of "holocaust" was Germany trying to quarantine and treat the infection... which is why SS doctors were at the frontline of it all. They still lost millions of people. The most affected were low hyegine communities who did not listen to government recommendations... but the 6 million number is downright retarded if you look at the population records.

Why do neo-nazis exist? I don’t know, but this person clearly is one. Obviously racists are not going to agree with Juneteenth.
Most commentators I hear point towards excessive spending as the primary cause of inflation, but I've been wondering: Absent supply chain interruptions, how does inflation manifest when price competition punishes the first one to raise prices?
This interpretation conveniently ignores all the previous BTC crashes. Did inflation go through the roof the previous times BTC fell like a brick?
One thing I really want to see in my lifetime is an "AI" I can feed episodes of a TV show and have it generate more episodes. Like a second season of Firefly or Gravity. Or re-create the finale of Battlestar Galactica and give that show the ending it deserved.
These comments assume that 1.3 billion people have made a decision on Bitcoin and they will hold this position until death. It also assumes the people that have invested already won't invest more as their careers progress.
The basket of goods approach always feels a bit off to me wrt capabilities, however I haven’t seen a compelling alternative.

Yes the sedan I have now also gets me from point a to b with seating for 5 as it did in 1970 but the safety, efficiency, capabilities are all much more advanced.

Less apples to apples and more red delicious to cosmic crisp.
Yeah, the dmcrypt queuing is also a nightmare for getting low latency IO out of your SSDs. IIRC dmcrypt ops go through like 2-4 different queues before hitting disk in the default configuration[1].

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-linux-disk-encryptio...
Vendr (YC19) Raises $150m Series B
They might be predictive of GPU prices!
2008 great financial crisis
Seen many buildings where the concrete walls soundproof the rooms but plumbing ducts in bathrooms transmit sound like crazy - as in you can hear conversations from people several floors down. The inspection hatch cover made of thin sheet metal seems to act like a microphone exciting the air in the duct causing the other covers to act like speakers
Yeah, I think the sibling comment has a point that I hadn't thought of. It does seem to depend on what you support. I currently have about 10 Patreon subscriptions, and zero where I consume any content at all via the Patreon website or app. I get that if people need to do that, it would be frustrating. (In fact, for the vast majority of the stuff I support on Patreon, I don't really consume any exclusive content or use any benefits. I support them because I like the main thing they do and I want to toss a few bucks their way, not because I want any rewards or exclusives.)
4K pages already tend to perform worse than, say, 16K ones.
Hmm mac os does this too (and tbh explaining to noobs that files are in the "Finder" gets perplexed stares, same with "Preview" for viewing pdfs?!?) "Explorer" isn't much better ...

However I can at least remember "Finder", "Preview" whereas I can never remember "eog" and have to look in old shell scripts to find out. Worst name ever with no way to discover it.
Elastic is a Ponzi because they make one of the most useful databases in the world, have hundreds of millions in revenue from satisfied customers, but haven’t completely figured out the monetization?

The crypto whataboutist apologies are something else.
Theres actually a name for that phenomenon: Braess’ Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
>Even if you only intend to do ML stuff with it, the price-to-performance ratio of Nvidia's next-gen GPUs are going to be insane.

Nvida specifically or are you using their name as a stand in for GPUs in general?
We've done it with certain services, we could do it for more - massive soup kitchens open to all for eating anytime, for example. By skipping the "money" part the desire for fraud drops, too.
They also feature richly in the canon-fodder department.
In improv that's a technique to collaboratively build a world/scene by adding constraints with no preparation.

It does not apply to standup comedy.
>They already have superchats and and memberships(paid, different from subscribing) on Youtube.

And you can have multiple levels od membership.

> I think you can give superchats on premiers

You can if you enable them on your premieres. However a lot of creators just publish their videos rather than ran run them as premieres. But you can also enable tipping which allows viewers to give a one off tip.

> Not sure if you can limit videos to membership only.

You can, you can also limit live streams and playback of past live streams to members only. However as not to fragment their Patreon supporters, these videos are normally just uploaded as unlisted and the link is shared on Pateron.

As for the cut. On Ad's its typically a 60/40 split with YT taking the 40%. On Superchats, superstickers, superthanks (yt's one off tippings) and memberships its a 70/30 split (yt's cut being 30%).
A reason not mentioned yet: people get divorced more often now than in the past. If you have relied on your partner's income for a decade, it can be really hard to get into the workforce on your own, with a ten-year sized hole in your resume and the professional experience of a 20-year old.

Heck, it can be difficult enough after a couple of extended parental leaves, much less half a marriage.
> Most startups are just Ponzi schemes.

Most startups (in the tech sense) are ventures. They are attempts to generate new cash flows and create something new that didn't previously exist (or a new twist on something that already existed).

They are unproven. They are risks. But the vast majority are not Ponzi schemes.
Can you use 1 bigger one instead of 3?

You may also not need to run them all the time. Perhaps only run them if the air quality is bad or at night when it's too cold to keep the windows open, etc
So it's over for Coca Cola, McDonald's, and Nike?
Yes, though the concepts are similar we use JIT instrumentation of the code to count time, instead of hardware performance counters.

It has the advantage that we work fine in virtual machines, even where they don't allow performance counters. For what it's worth, we work fine on Mac Docker Linux containers for x86.

For native MacOS support it'd be more of a proper porting effort - we'd need to implement a different set of system calls.
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back” - JMK

Edit: I always thought this was a cool quote, though in this case and many others I tend to agree with Milton Freedman. Perhaps it’s the voices in the air.
It still amusing to be that the founder of Patreon is the novelty band Pomplamoose.
Avalanche is probably the biggest disappointment out of the whole bunch. They started out strong with a new consensus algorithm, and then they started hyping 'subnets', which turned out to be plain L1s with artificial restrictions on who can be a validator. Their tokenomics are so skewed in favour of AvaLabs and their early VC backers that they removed the pie chart from their website to conceal it. It's probably the most centralized out of all the wannabe Ethereums, with Emin singlehandedly calling the shots (how much needs to be staked to be a validator, whether subnet validators need to be whitelisted...), and they don't seem to have much of an idea where they're going (they went from bashing L2s and saying subnets are so much better to saying 'let's build L2s, ours will be so much better than Ethereum's'; they still haven't managed to build a bridging solution between subnets and they seem to have given up on that, given that they don't seem capable of competing with the existing interoperability protocols that treat subnets like any other chain, Avalanche-related or not). They also lost an 8-figure sum from the Terra collapse (Emin himself promoted UST after the depeg had started), which does not bode well for an ecosystem where they are still the only truly active entity promoting new projects.

They're more than ripe for replacement by a standalone EVM-compatible chain that takes the only thing that's genuinely innovative about Avalanche, the consensus algorithms, and leaves the rest to the community (ie an actually decentralized project).
Again, there's no such thing as a deflationary currency. Under the gold standard, countries experienced periods of inflation and periods of deflation.
User Authentication in Django
> The only other explanation I have is that their direct download iso was corrupt

I definitely got this impression, after a 2 or 4 gig boundary was crossed. I think I tried a Raspberry Pi to rule out a Mac issue. I had success with https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng .
I find it very strange to read that "inflation is coming" was seen as a fringe view in 2020? "Inflation later is better than a recession or depression now" was the thinking behind all the increased government spending in 2020. Maybe "future inflation will be worse than any consequences today" was fringe, but I think at least eg Larry Summers was saying that.

I don't understand macroeconomics but "government spending causes inflation" is a pretty mainstream ideological precept - the opposite opinion is fringe.

Edit: maybe I didn't put enough weight on "massive" when reading the above comment
Yes, Fluke Electronics.
Yes we have it off. NYC-headquarted company with office in SF.

If you need to convince management, the federal government recognized it as a holiday in 2021.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/17/nearly-half...
Oh. The timeline is messed up then.

Celsius locked everyone's accounts on Monday, _BEFORE_ hiring those bankruptcy law firms.

By the time you heard the news of the bankruptcy lawyers, it was already too late. Your funds were locked.
I don’t necessarily buy this analysis, but the world economy between WWI and WWII would be one possible parallel. There were stories in Germany of people taking a wheelbarrow full of cash to the store to buy a loaf of bread.

At the extremes, the billionaires will be able to escape to New Zealand or some island retreat; the rest of us, including the middle class, upper middle class, wealthy, and the independently wealthy — even double or triple digit millionaires, could be very screwed.
Thank you, I suspect that I had a chronic infection of some kind like that. I'm leaving out a lot of details about my experience, because it's private and I lost hope several times. I want to stress that my self-medication and self-diagnosis prolonged my suffering. So please if anyone is reading this, see a doctor. They can run these tests and many more:

Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA)
Baylisascaris Procyonis intestinal roundworm
Celiac
Epstein Barr virus
Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency EPI
Find a medication that does what ashwaghanda does (like Wellbutrin?)
H. Pylori
Hashimoto’s
Lactose intolerance
Lyme disease
Parasites
SIBO
Testosterone level
Thyroid level
Wheat sensitivity tests: 1) wheat allergy 2) celiac 3) non-celiac gluten sensitivity 4) non-celiac wheat sensitivity 5) non-celiac wheat intolerance
Worms
That's the price of moving your population forcibly outside of its borders as a part of an occupation strategy. It wasn't really 'their' country to begin with.
Chrome ships with half a dozen pointers that are "smarter" than the code you mentioned. There are still issues because of thread safety and needing to extract dangling pointers at times.
Eggdrop is a bot for IRC. IRC is a low-fidelity text-based real-time chat system. There are many IRC networks (there were many more 10-20 years ago) and on these networks there can be channels (chat rooms). Those channels are often topical, e.g. #gentoo, #massachussets or #electronics.

Eggdrop is configurable with scripts and for what that allows I want to simply quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggdrop: Scripts are available to add and extend support for: online games, stats, user and channel management, information storage and lookup, greeting channel members, tracking last seen times, botnet management, anti-spam, file serving and distribution (usually via the DCC protocol), IRC services (similar to ChanServ and NickServ), and much more.
Aren't so few using I2P it's better to just use public wifi and maybe a vpn paid with hard to trace currency?

(Eg: grab a magnet link via Tor, change locations, and download with or without a VPN. Harder to spot algorithmically than using I2P, which is mostly used by people I've blocked, and I usually let folks say whatever they want and note it down for a decade or two.)
> Nasty dictatorships like North Korea or Putinistan constantly scam and hack the cryptocurrency ecosystem to siphon off money to fund their regimes.

Do you have any evidence of which chains this happened to?
It’s worth being clear about what AI risk is. This has nothing to do with “AI may do some harm by putting lots of people out of work”.

The idea is that there is _existential risk_ (ie species-extinction) once an AI can self-modify to improve itself, therefore increasing its own power. A powerful AI can change the world however it wants, and if this AI is not aligned to human interests it can easily decide to make humans extinct.

Scott said in the OP that he now sees AGI as potentially close enough that one can do meaningful research into alignment, ie it’s plausible that this powerful AI could arrive in our lifetimes.

So he is claiming the opposite of you; AGI is more relevant than ever, hence the career change.

I agree with your premise that non-General AI will continue to improve and add lots of value, but I don’t think your conclusion follows from that premise.
I like to just sit in a park and poison pigeons while reading HN.
Right now I'm in Potsdam Sanssouci, 91.4F.
Too hot for The Ministry of Silly Walks.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPFT8EnLUg
He mentioned this as well ( and i forgot to)
Could you elaborate on the implications/relevance? It seemed important to you and him.

edit: So is it lawyers being pedantic (no offense, its the job description after all) or is there an argument why the logic of criminal law would be more applicable here?
Most other features evolved independently several (or even many) times so this is not a good argument. It’s not as if once there was a eukaryote it instantly spread across the whole planet, taking up every ecological niche. Even today eukaryotes don’t exist in certain environments.
That would defeat the purpose of having a bigger screen. The other way 100% of their phone screen estate and our monitors would be used, at the price of a 90 degrees hand rotation on their part.
OS X disables volume control if you're playing on an HDMI monitor, for no particular reason. I don't think it's clear that Windows is worse in this area.
Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees
For "valves" there would be a stray underscore "_" on the right bottom corner of the second "v". To me it clearly is "values".
Consciousness is not computation
I see them as side bets on the stock market.
Amazon did it and look at where they are today. They weren't even profitable. What's the problem? /s
What does it being a federal holiday entail in the US?

Here it would mean a paid day off but based on your comment that's not the case.
I wonder if another reason you don't see them is because many are delusional about how their "work day" compares to others in the economy.
Yes, Monday is a company holiday for Albertsons Companies.
They're not all from cleancss, but they are all external sites.

I looked at the Twitter account expecting to learn who Dan was. Instead, it seems Dan is not a real human. Dan's Tools is some sort of roll-up company that acquires random tools.

> We're excited to announce https://commandlinefu.com has become a part of Dan's Tools. Complete with a redesign! Show off your command line chops.

https://twitter.com/danstools00/status/994927174993022976
Obviously a sufficiently large number of people do view currencies that are controlled by a single centralized entity as a problem; whether current cryptocurrencies are a solution to that problem is a different debate.
Technically, that ad never says the can’t get them, just that Windows gets them more. Definitely deceptive.

But also, that ad is 16 years old. It was released when Jobs was still alive. The Apple of today doesn’t make those claims.
Don't forget making and mending your own clothes, washing them by hand, beating rugs outdoors by hand, all the little chores that have been replaced by electrical tools or are cheaper to purchase than make yourself. Harvesting and chopping firewood, or managing coal.

If you visit an Amish community, they might talk about how people occasionally want to join them, only to realize just how much easier modern life is and not be able to take the constant work required to live without.

I've always thought the statistics for average television time for Americans seemed inflated, but even given that they might be, it is still pretty wild in perspective.
It harks back to time when politicians thought they were there to do something valuable for ordinary people. So last century! Like the NHS it's days are numbered.
If you are curious about these things, do yourself a favor and dive into Alberts et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell. I can't recommend it enough.
A simple way to think about it:

If everyone suddenly has twice as much money, suppliers will pretty soon run out of goods to sell if they don't raise their prices.
I think that’s the present (electron apps have been all the rage for the last few years), but maybe not the future. There’s much effort being put into native-ish GUI programming in recent years such as Godot and Druid.
Craigslist had 50 employees in 2017. But a lot of companies like to go down the microservices / complicated architecture path which adds to the dev ops burden.
Sure, but not unregulated fraud, not fraud at all, eh?

I've met "normals" that introduced themselves as "in tech" and then revealed that they meant some NFT/crypto scam BS.

That's embarrassing. The transistor and the Universal Turing Machine and the Internet were not invented so people could sell each other imaginary pet rocks.

I know why they do it: we all would like an easy way to make money using a computer! D'uh! (I count myself very fortunate that I'm good at programming, if I wasn't I'd probably be homeless.)

But... there has to be a better way!
Google's C++ guidelines have almost nothing to do with Chrome's memory safety efforts. The concerns brought up in the article are relevant to other browsers too.
I’m not sure about that. It just seems like too easy an excuse. Just to damn convenient to say, “If only the rich people...”.

I fear that the reason that applies much more often is that most of our energy is being spent on doing the wrong things, or being spent on competition with others.

Think of somebody building a web scraper: They are spending hours or days building something whose purpose is essentially to overcome defenses created by other people. So it’s a Red Queen thing. Both parties have to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place.

And I believe this is happening in many areas. Marketing. Government. Compliance. Software. You name it.

It’s what Hannah Arendt called work turning into labor. In other words, that which used to be the act of creating something once has turned into that which constantly needs to be repeated for the mere sake of subsistence.

The better question to ask, in my opinion, is not “Who is at fault for this?“, but “ How do I, personally, avoid wasting my own energy like that?“
If you dont get the allergy reactions without them; then they're not doing you any good, i'd say.

You might be able to reduce the maintenance by concentrating the filtering effort on the places you are; put one right by the bed, your desk, etc. Only run them when you're actually there.

More filter area and thickness gives more time between changes (but also more time for stuff to grow in the filter, if you're in a humid place). Commercial things are always tiny little things anyway; build your own. Go get some of the washable 20x30 filters and cardboard, duct tape, and a fan. If you want to get really fancy you can get a speed controller and run the fan at low speed so its quiet.
You've fundamentally mistaken what those large companies are. They're basically dividend stocks, not growth stocks. No one is expecting them to grow much.

Those companies make money with their customer base. Coca Cola has the ability to turn 40-cents worth of water, sugar, and flavors into $1 dollar worth of sales. Not only that, but customers are happy with this exchange (and will likely keep making this exchange... at least until people stop liking the taste of sugar).

Even without growth, those companies are insanely profitable. Because Coca Cola has a 3% dividend (and its assets are likely inflation-protected), they're a very safe bet.

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BTC makes no profits. In fact, the entire BTC system consumes tons of electricity constantly. So we can see that moving BTC around costs real resources, but no one seems to have explained to me where "money comes from", aside from a greater-fool.
Eh... If this is supposed to be an allegory to show that your convenience and aesthetic preferences don't dictate the greater good, then sure... However, there's a vast gulf of perfectly healthy states between constant churn and abject neglect. For example, many historically important yet populous areas are not under construction, yet their vitality withstood the test of time. Just because something isn't growing doesn't mean it's shrinking. Just because nobody's modifying something doesn't mean it lacks necessary modifications. Sometimes things just suit their purpose and a bunch of physical infrastructure churn wouldn't improve anything.
Speaking of which, what are people using to procedurally convert JSON to XML locally? Let's say for JSON API use by a language that provides an XML library.
> Adjusted for inflation the average cost of a movie ticket in the US in 1996 was: $5.46

Huh? Isn’t that not adjusted for inflation?
We all know what happened to Americans' earned leisure time in 1974
Been playing around with Nim for a while. Awesome to see this! Might as well try to get some adventure games running as so can be played directly on the three platforms...

Does the web includes mobile browsers? Let me try...
I had the same thought.

Though - to be fair - that old pyramid scheme costed only little money[1], so it was "affordable" to many, when we are talking of NFT's (or of those people that get burned because they put all their savings in a cryptocurrency that goes down to 0 or similar) and of hundreds of thousands (or millions) it is perplexing (to me) how they can risk all that money.

[1] taking into acoount inflation and what not it could have been at the time the same as 100 or 200 Euro, or if you prefer a dinner or two at the restaurant.