skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was quite strategic about how he grew his audience. For the first ~120 episodes his podcast was called 'the AI podcast' or something similar. He started out interviewing mostly notable AI researchers (via his position as an AI research scientist at MIT), but also non-AI people with higher levels of fame (eg Guido van Rossum) and gradually switched to more tech, then just anything. My impression is that he made a lot of effort getting exposure (via high profile guests, teaching an MIT course, appearing on Joe Rogan's podcast, etc.), and it just worked. One example: he published a 'paper' titled "Tesla vehicle deliveries and autopilot mileage statistics" which I imagine helped him get Elon Musk as a guest.

To be fair, his interviews are also fairly technical and (arguably) well done, and you can't blame him for being strategic with growing his podcast. Still, there is no way he would have reached his level of popularity if he stuck to interviewing mostly academics. Anyway, now he has famous people on all the time with a sort of intellectual person flavor, so it's natural that he would be popular.

Fun fact: I used to co-run a small event at Stanford's AI Lab, called the AI Salon. We organized little discussion sessions around various topics, and usually had to email people to ask if they might be able/willing to do one of these (there were usually 2 invited people with some level of expertise on the topic). Lex was literally the only person who ever contacted us asking if we might want to have him as a guest. He also set up recording equipment for it (we never did this), though I don't think he ever released it.
> people felt pressures to join in on employee activism they don't care about

Is this a thing? Like feeling pressure to leave a tip or something?
The case
I've also had anecdotal experience in agreement with this. There have been many studies on this but most of them have a similar small sample size. Wonder why it hasn't been conducted with a larger sample size yet, or maybe it has but didn't find anything so it's not being posted on HN ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes they do. This is basically Group Signatures. I am just asking whether BBS04 is the state of the art still. In there, the group manager is the only one who can deanonymize people.

Is there any way to provably opt out of this latter feature, so we can be sure NO ONE can link signatures to users? That’s Chaum’s original 1991 conception.

The alternative is to use ZK mixers on distributed ledgers that have solved the double spend problem, but the jury is out on just how anonymous and unlinkable they really are in practice: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.09035.pdf
Do you feel that Elon will exclude some forms of protected speech? I haven't been following that closely
Its completely centralized. They take user funds and put them in defi products, but the funds are completely under Celsius control not the users control. Thats how they were able to turn off withdrawals. Its like if JPMorgan were putting client funds in AAVE, that doesn't suddenly make JPMorgan defi.
No there is no such limit.
>The letter asked SpaceX management to publicly separate the company from Mr. Musk’s personal brand, and to take steps to address what it said was a gap between SpaceX’s stated values and its current systems and company culture.

>“Blanketing thousands of people across the company with repeated unsolicited emails and asking them to sign letters and fill out unsponsored surveys during the work day is not acceptable,”

So it was a mass internal email chain, using company resources? And it sounds like they were asking Musk to be gone, with plausibly deniability. Is it honestly any surprise that they got fired? Hijacking internal systems for a publicity stunt like this will always put a target on your back.
Why would governments be democratic? That would be an extreme historical rarity
The claim that the afghanistan withdrawal was botched has been subject to some criticism. It's certainly true that the (presumably) intelligence based assessment of what the Taliban would try and be able to do and how quickly was disastrously wrong. But compared to other large scale troop pullouts, it was actually remarkably smooth, especially for it's size and scale. The morality of leaving behind so many US collaborators is appalling, but the idea that the Biden administration had some total fuck up over there really isn't correct from everything I've read about. It's a POV widely held by Republicans, I suspect in part because a Republican president failed to even initiate the withdrawal, despite talking about it.

Anyway, I think that's largely orthogonal to the original point, which was more about what happens when you have one party whose political philosophy more or less dictates a smaller, less functional state and another that actively seeks to use the power of the state to accomplish things. "Lack of Democratic support" for Trump's spoken intent is real, but not really the same thing as, for example, the idea that public education is a mistake (widely held view among Republican primary voters).
I've been a die-hard thumbball user for nearly 25 years; I'm still nursing my old-school wired 1999-era Logitech Trackman Wheel.

Ploopy's thumb trackball looks great! What does the customizable firmware get me? I've never considered "layers" on a pointing device, like a keyboard.
Lex has like 3 or 4 canned questions he asks his guests and reiterates the things he learned in his own words. This is on a show run by a single person driven by authentic curiosity for an average of 2.5 hours/episode like 3 times a week.
Aren't you just describing your average industry-specific recruiting agency?
It's a special operation, requiring special signage, and awareness of the driver. Here in Hamburg, where the S-Bahn using third-rail got extended to service Stade, is using multi-system rolling stock now. Which traverses the gaps by rolling without power through that gap. I also remember standing on some platform above ground, where you could see them coming over a ramp, with the pantograph up, on a piece of track using third rail. Wondering how that happened, and what would happen if it goes back into a tunnel (with third rail),
like that. Or under a bridge, overpass, all built with low clearance, because: hey, third rail!

Nerd that I am, I walked up to the driver, knocking on the glass and asked: "Moin, do you know your pantgraph is up?" Turned out he didn't, and there wasn't any indication. He got it down by repeatedly switching up/down, and finally it stayed down. Two minutes late!1!! ;-)
Yes and all those existing mortgages have to be paid off which reduces the money supply. You actually have a system that ratchets itself back the moment people stop borrowing. The problem is that debt deflation causes the velocity of money to drop making it harder to pay off debt.

The central bank is perpetually scared of debt deflation so it targets a 2% inflation rate. If you could implement a -2% negative interest rate you wouldn't need inflation targeting at all. Debt deflation wouldn't result in a stagnant economy with unemployment making it easier for governments run a balanced budget or short term austerity without ill sideffects.
So, they just declared technical bankruptcy?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/technicalbankruptcy.asp
UK wants to replace cookie pop-ups with browser-based opt-outs
Well then Elon is openly anti-UAW and for good reasons, go listen to the reasons yourself from his own mouth.
I tend to agree. The formation of the UK Supreme Court was intended to give the Court more political independence but it seems to have had the opposite effect and resulted in extreme loss aversion on the part of the justices, as there is no constitutional provision to protect its existence, unlike in almost every other supreme court around the world.

Ironically, when they were in the House of Lords, the court was less susceptible to interference as it benefited from the constitutional protection of the Lords’ existence and affairs as part of Parliament.
Explicit control over the fastest memory is what GPU local storage or the PlayStation 3 Cell SPUs allow/require.

For x86_64 there are cache hints, no pinning/reserving parts of the caches (as far ad I know).

I wonder if Apple M1 or M2 cpu with unified CPU/GPU memory has anything like pinning or explicit cache control?
If I travel 25 miles in 1 hour, my speed was 25mph. If I go 100% faster, I'm going 50mph and get there in 30 minutes. If I go 200% faster, I'm going 75mph and get there in 20 minutes.

However, the original statement of "We have reduced the time for the computation by ~119%!" is still wrong-seeming, I agree. It should be "We have increased the speed for the computation by 119%" or "We have reduced the time for the computation by <WHATEVER>" :)
Can anyone confirm if the trackball is actually ploopy? Looks like ordinary hard plastic from the pics.
In case the relevance isn't clear, this is a headline that was inserted into the Bitcoin origin block, presumably to prove that it hadn't been mined before that date. However, the specific headline chosen is often interpreted as an implicit jab at conventional finance by Satoshi Nakamoto.
I suspect you and I (and probably most people on HN) have similar views on these issues. We skew liberal and we skew technically literate. My point is that "normal" people don't necessarily perceive the same dangers that we do in measures like the ones proposed here. On the other hand "making our children safer online" is something any decent person can get behind as long as you conveniently ignore all the nuance and practical details.

Given who the government here currently are it's hardly surprising that they resort to attention-grabbing soundbites. With a bit of luck the Tories will boot Boris before too long and that'll take many of his current Cabinet out of the picture as well since they were seemingly chosen more for their expected loyalty to Boris than any particular expertise or competence. Then at the very least there is a mini-reset in government and some of the more headline-grabbing but questionable policies of the Johnson administration might be quietly sidelined while whoever takes over desperately tries to steady the ship before the next general election. Although of course they quietly passed legislation earlier this year that pushed the latest possible date for that election all the way back to January 2025...
Proof is that the employees were free to say what they wanted. And now they get the door. Where is the problem? Free speech does not mean you don't get to suffer the consequences of what you say.
When I think of probiotics I think of this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJM_jC7j_4

because probiotics are the "ones that mother gives you [that] don't do anything at all"

(Right up there with Vitamin D supplements. Everything good, like low blood pressure and your team winning the Superbowl seems to be associated with high vitamin D in the population and everything bad is associated with low vitamin D... But when you supplement Vitamin D seems to lower your blood pressure as much as it makes your team win the Superbowl.)
Someone who can sniff your clipboard doesn't need your passwords, they can just lift your cookies or files directly.
If the data is contiguous in memory and frequently accessed it will almost certainly make its way into L1 cache and be there for the life of the program.

If the data is not contiguous it could make the CPU's life much harder.

There's also the matter of program size (the amount of instructions in the actual program) and whether the program does anything which forces it to go lower cache levels or RAM.

There are intrinsics for software prefetching such as __mm_prefetch, but those are difficult to use such that they actually increase you're performance.
Haha, what C/C++ web framework should I use instead of Django/Rails/JS-whatever? Performance is a consideration, but I'm not going to reinvent a bunch of packages because of it.

This kind of blanket comment that "scripting languages are too slow" makes it sound like you shouldn't use them for anything, but they are perfectly adequate for many tasks. I'm more likely to have network and DB slowdowns than problems with scripting languages.
Yeah but they take too long to adjust and recovery drags on for years
I've not found anything for mac as powerful.

The after tasks.
The 'capture last region and paste to docx without moving focus.'
Can you explain what you mean by crypto's forced liquidation rules? Not familiar with how that works at all.
The Fed helped create it via QE, and then convincing the market inflation was transitory, which kept rates suppressed below fundamentals for 2 years.

The arrogance was intervening as much as they did in the first place, creating a massive bubble.

Even if inflation subsides, they will likely sell MBS to keep mortgage rates high until housing cools off. Home prices are already far higher than the 2000s peak in inflation adjusted terms
He's 51 and some unlucky people start to slip around that age. For a person on that path the meanness and even psychosis might be the first sign.
> Unless Shotwell, COO of SpaceX, was on that plane and witnessed exactly what happened, she is not qualified to assist in burying someone’s totally insane traumatic experience.

Or maybe, just maybe, she knows more about the case than armchair experts like yourself? She would have been involved the investigation/settlement review so would know the full details.
Wait six month, when the Tesla stock has crashed and he gets margin called. He's going to go nuts and have an epic fall from grace.
Commodore sold a version of CP/M (2.2) with a Z-80 processor in a cartridge for the C-64. Due to slow 1541 disk drive speed, non-CP/M disk format, and a 40-column display, it was a slow and clumsy version of CP/M.

As someone else posted, the C-128 and 1571 disk drive had much better CP/M support. The 128 had a built-in Z-80 and 80-column capability. The 1571 could read/write CP/M format (and MS-DOS format for that matter) disks.
What are you talking about?

I've been in SEO for a while and there are a lot of myths but I've never heard anything quite this wrong before.
Twitter is the worst thing to happen to Musk. The social media addiction knows no class/age/wealth/religious/creed boundary. It’s like social cancer that slowly destroys your relationship to society.

Musk has done great things but these days I think he’s at his lowest point.

/I’ve said this about three times now in threads like these.
Not GP, but, can you send me via email?

Email on bio.
> Why we let this pass, I don't know, but its the reality we're living in.

Are you willing to hire armed and trained goons to make them stop their ways and kill, maim and/or kill them? Because they are willing to do the same to get their way.

And that's why we let this pass. The so-called "monopoly of force" was not given by a "social contract", as Hobbes postulated - it was taken by them through superior force.
I mean that'd be a minimum, good guidelines can go a long way. Who's going to maintain this backdoor if you get fired, uh? /s
> It would, if the only thing that could make the streets wet is rain; ie if we were in a limited model where that was true

We are in a limited model. Many factors affect software lifespan.

It's a heuristic at best.
When he has people on who don't have media training / talking points (for example Brian Kernighan is a great guest) the podcast is fantastic. He asks good questions and lets the the guest talk. The conversation goes on for however long it should, often several hours.

I found his demeanour a bit strange when I first came across him, but warmed up to it over time. For many of his guests, they've never done a better long form interview/conversation than what they did on Lex's show.
People find him boring.

His style turned me off in the beginning, but now it’s just kinda become his shtick.

My girlfriend makes fun of him cause she thinks he sounds like a robot trying to understand the human experience. He asks a lot of cheesy questions about love and our purpose in life. But in all honesty, it’s refreshing to see an interviewer ask the CEO of Pfizer what the meaning of life is.
Well, no matter how it came about, the US can build rockets again. The best ones in the world. You can pretty much get away with anything if you have a relationship like that with the DoD.
The popups are a revenge tactic used by data hoarders. "Oh, look at this terrible EU, they make us show you all kinds of popups [small]because we want to track your every move online[/small], poor you, the inconvenienced users! If only there was a way to prevent this terrible faith!"
Sample size of 1 here, but just hear me out.

Probiotics are a cheap and low-risk. If you have any general inflammation type issues that don't seem to have a cause, it might be worthwhile to just try probiotics.

My Dr. told me to try them for a digestive issue - and they sort of helped that.

But a handful of other things unexpectedly improved. Acid reflux went from really bad to barely noticeable, and my skin really cleared up. I had red, flaky skin on my face for 20 years and suddenly it's gone within 48 hours of starting probiotics.

Yeah... post hoc ergo propter hoc, but it's a cheap and harmless shot in the dark.

Worst case scenario, it doesn't work and you're out $10.

Edited to say "low risk" instead of "risk free".
This reads like it was written by a junior auditor trying to make a name for themselves, while not minding looking like a total fool in the process.
Ploopy has come up on HN before and I’m pretty sure similar complaints were made.

I’d happily buy the non printed parts too.
Do you think Honda, Toyota and every other car manufacturer would even be offering electric vehicles at this time if Tesla did not exist?
I'm totally ok with that if that "petty/childish/immature" person lands rockets on barges and revolutionizes space travel.
I rather suspect that Musk's definition of democracy aligns well with the Chinese government.
His reason is that they threaten his power. That is all.
> and yet the Fed still wasn't happy with the housing supply.

Why would this be a Fed concern at all ?

At most they can affect the demand side
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29577272 - Dec 2021 (148 comments)
If you publicly embarrass your employer, you will in many cases be fired: see James Damore, Juan Williams, etc. It may seem slightly unfair that Elon Musk is allowed to embarrass Elon Musk, mostly with impunity, but that's the way it goes.
"cry babies who think they deserve everything without doing any work"

yes, that's exactly what's happening, and precisely the reason why unionization happens. very perceptive of you.
I don't know much this topic, but if you are looking for supplements make sure they are refrigerated. Yogurt is probably the easiest/best way to ingest them though instead of specific pills.
There was a pretty interesting interview with them on The Verge last month:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/10/23065171/ploopy-trackball...
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1537465349976694786.html
They said, "some".
right I mean they overshoot everything, they wait too long on inflation, they take too long to bring rates back down after a hike... it takes years to recover
> But when you supplement Vitamin D seems to lower your blood pressure as much as it makes your team win the Superbowl

Because you need UVA to convert the vitamin D to nitric oxide, and if you're getting enough UVA to do that then you're also more likely to already be getting enough UVB to create sufficient vitamin D in the first place.[1] Not super complicated.

Taking vitamin D supplements is probably still better than not taking them if you're deficient, but if you understand the mechanism of action then it should be obvious as to why the science is always equivocal.

[1] Or, more precisely, vitamin D regulates nitric oxide synthesis.
Unions are when employees get together to demand better working conditions. The only people who should be afraid of unions are those who hold capital.
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I'm interested, too, but it might be a loose term - sometimes people say "non-invasive" to mean "minimally-invasive" or such. So something that involves opening the skull and placing electrodes on the surface of the brain can be considered "non-invasive" to the brain matter, and endoscopic endonasal surgery is much less invasive than going through the skull.

In fact, "non-invasive operation" is oxymoronic, because an operation or surgery is a medical treatment that is invasive.
> wages are one of the last things to inflate

of alternatively they dont inflate at all and you lose a lot of purchasing power.
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Unionizing is not lame. It's about a balance of power between owners and workers.
The fact that this comment is upvoted and is taken as a gotcha argument or something with any validity when it requires five seconds to realize it's easily refutable is not a good show for HN
In some of the houses I previously lived, a high-powered vaccum would just rip out the carpet :)

But seriously, I would use a medium-powered vaccum for loose debris on carpet. High suction in thin carpets can actually damaged them and for shaggy carpets it all depends on the design IMO (carpet mode), not the suction power. In fact high powered ones might be too close to the base and not suck the debris effectively.

I don't think using a reverse wind tunnel does any good to carpets, honestly.
It's a free market. Find another company who values your skill.
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I think for the reasons you give this bill is never going to actually get through in its current form, or, if it does, it won't be abided by nor enforced. The reason it's gotten this far is because government ministers don't have any idea how the web works and they've adopted an attitude of ignoring experts so they won't learn. Once ordinary Tory voters start to get irritated by the implications of the law (credit card to view porn?) it'll get quietly scrapped. In any case, I know otherwise-luddite 60 year olds who know how to use VPNs to watch geoblocked TV, so getting around it will be trivial for a sizeable chunk of the population. And there's no way the UK government has the resources and political capital to police the internet on the scale required by this bill.
Username checks out I guess. This is an extremely low-effort comment. It seems that you would _prefer_ to live in a society where job security is so fragile that a well-meaning letter can get you fired?
I would be willing to bet that in the employee handbook it requires that nobody act in a nature that is contrary to the advancement of the company. This most certainly is, and is also likely easily cited as a lack of productivity of the employee while being paid by the company.
I fail to see how this protects children from those evil people, tho.

It establishes the age and id of UK children to websites and services. However, unless all these services children use are siloed off from the rest of the internet and UK only, bad people from other countries (and those in the UK savvy enough to mask themselves behind some kind of VPN/TOR) will still be able to use these services without having their ids established the same way, and will keep trying and sometimes succeed to groom and abuse children.
I’m skeptical that prices are going to fall too much. Go to any Reddit thread on the topic of interest rates, talk to any of your young friends that haven’t bought a house yet, and you’ll find a common theme. “I can’t wait for house prices to fall so I can buy”. Isn’t that the definition of demand? If prices go down 10%, there is going to be a massive number of young people jumping into the market.

I’m wondering if we might see more houses go up for sale, but not necessarily a drop in prices simply because the demand will be there to soak up the supply for a long time.