skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if that did happen, that would not be enough to take over the country.

That assumes the next system is a democracy. Since the mob had been convinced election results were not trustworthy I see no reason that would be a requirement.

> A small group of people would never be able to resist the power of the US Military for very long.

How do you think that plays out? Is the capitol building even serviceable at that point? How many people die? I very clearly explained that this is more than a small group, and how escalation plays out.

> "Most peaceful" does not mean there were no incidents. In the history of actual insurrections, that was the most peaceful one ever, if you even consider it one. Insurrections cause massive death of civilians and police/authorities, and this was clearly not it.

You are the only person using the word “insurrection”.

My assertion is that the reason we didn’t see a bigger body count as a result of January 6th is that the mob failed. The potential was absolutely there and success was worryingly close.
If I would have to guess it would be codecs.
Meh - every step down that road has been fraught with significant issues. See: Flash or Silverlight, for example. (Yes, I know, not quite the same as if the browser did it natively.)

One of the beautiful things about the web is the ability to jump into the dev tools and look at the code. I know it's harder than ever to actually learn from that now, and I predict you are correct that someday we'll get to the point where it's a binary blob delivered. But I'm not holding my breath waiting for it and certainly not advocating for it. I'll adapt when/if it happens, but I feel a bit of the "magic" of the web will die that day.
Forget the internet for a second and imagine there was a collection of cases in a book compiled by a group of law professors and legal students, summarized for easy reference. That book omits some cases that are relevant to the subject of the book for one reason or another. A judge/clerk reads that book to gain insight to some of the cases in a particular area. Is that grounds for a mistrial? Clearly not, IMO.

This is just that with a different medium.
It's popular to hate on Meta/Facebook but those acquisitions were very prescient and evidently pure dumb luck, either. The same Zuckerberg is still a directional force now as he was then, so it seems it isn't cut and dry that the company will only trend down from here.

The bet on VR seems dubious to me, but I'm getting old and boring. I don't know what anyone likes.
The thing that may be hard to understand if you've grown up in a fiat-currency world is that prices moved in both directions, not just one. The periods of high inflation you name are real, but they were generally compensated by subsequent periods of deflation, except for the case of 01947.

Fiat currencies are often stabler than commodity money, but they very rarely deflate. Bitcoin so far seems to be acting a lot like commodity money in this sense; in the sense of prices rather than the money supply, it has currently inflated about 230% from its peak in value earlier this year.

The Warren–Pearson wholesale price index is the one usually used for measurements of pre-WWI inflation in the US, at least by people who don't simply use the price of gold; it is plotted on https://newworldeconomics.com/the-warren-pearson-index/ and appears to be about 80 in 01776 and about 80 in 01891, where they've suspiciously cut off the price data.

Warren and Pearson's book is apparently in the public domain in India and is available at https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/22256. They did a plot from 01797 to 01932 on p.6 which looks pretty similar: it's about 100 in 01797 and also 100 in 01932. It is indeed 79–85 in 01891. At the end of 01776 in their data table (p. 7) it was 86; at the end of the data table in 01932 (p. 10) it was 95.

So we could say that the average inflation rate from 01776 to 01932 was 0.06% yearly ((95/86)*(1/(1932-1776))). But this is probably overstating the secular inflation rate and is better understood as random noise; at the end of 01920 it was 226 (13% higher than the 202 at the end of 01919, close enough to the 15.6% you quote) and in 01894 it was 70. The same calculation thus gives us an average inflation rate of -0.17% yearly from 01776 to 01894 (that is, 0.17% deflation) or +0.7% from 01776 to 01920.

Warren and Pearson also include H. M. Stoker's data for the colonial period, even though the title is "Wholesale Prices in the United States, 1797 to 1932". It starts at 58 in January 01720 and rises somewhat steadily until 01776, at the beginning of which it is 75 before reaching 86 at the end of the year. Stoker's suggestion is that prices were lower worldwide during this period "due to the changes in the value of precious metal," presumably due to the Spanish flooding the world with cheap American gold and silver from Potosí and their other colonies.
Possibly for smaller projects, for anything remotely sizable, 2TB is likely not going to cut it. 5k prores is 1TB for every 30min of footage, which means you're only getting an hour out of a 2TB drive.

Storage needs for any pro video workflow get very large, very quick.
How does Warrant compare to other Zanzibar based solutions like Ory Keto ?https://github.com/ory/keto
For compare $16/TB is pretty awesome[1], which for that budget would be about 217GB. ~5.5X.

[1] https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new&capacity=12-...
Maybe we need a different spin on it: instead of a positive ROI, free school lunches provide a strong security posture by making stronger and smarter future-soldiers?
You’ve never been to Lahore I’m guessing.
There's a ton of legislation written by think tanks like ALECS

It would be nice if all campaigns were funded by small donations. We should get large corporate donors out of politics
I wish Strogatz would have asked Campisi about fasting as a mechanism to eliminate senescent cells
Plenty of stuff in the Linux world was done naming Microsoft in adversarial terms - that was definitely not the case on the desktop. All three main groups (GNOME, KDE, and Unity) always, always stated they were making bold design choices for practical reasons related to UX. To claim otherwise, today, seems very disingenuous.
I have no idea what all those people are actually doing. That seems so heavy a head count for the public end result.

Is there a break down somewhere of how many are SWE vs SRE vs support?
This. There is a decoupling happening at the economic, cultural, social and informational levels. Many people aren’t even aware it’s happening, and cannot even imagine why anyone would want to disassociate with their side.
Molecular device logs gene expression in a genomic ledger
I don’t doubt it, but the post does not lay out the timeline. Those events likely aligned the business interests to what the designers were already wanting to make happen. From what I recall, by 2004, Linux on Desktop designers were already looking to move on from mimic and displace Windows to win on their own terms. There seemed to be a lot of energy do something new and different by 2005. It seemed like there was a lot of wireframes and prototypes in both GNOME and KDE camps. Also around 2005, touchscreen tablets were also having a moment. I think I remember a popular Nokia model. 2006 had Sugar UI for interactive learning on OLPC XO.
What have you used since then?

One mistake can really turn someone away for good, but also wondering if you have had another poor experience with whatever you (initially) replaced Debian with?
> What if there were a perfect digital model of "me"? Would that be conscious?

If it is a perfect digital model of you, yes. Since you feel consciousness, the digital copy must also feel it. Otherwise it would not be "perfect".

In the case of the model, "feeling" means that some bits (probably a big number - billions or trillions) inside the model would flip their state.

> What other mediums might be able to support something similar to our notion of consciousness?

I believe that the mind is sustained by a particular set of physical atoms. A human brain is ~1.5 liters of water plus ~0.5 kgs of other stuff.

In theory you could represent consciousness using whatever else physical objects you wanted. In practice, the mind-bogglingly big numbers and processes involved that make it difficult. If you used grains of sand to represent atoms, each neuron would take ~450 liters / 16 cubic feet of sand to model, assuming that you can make each individual grain of sand act as an atom.

There's also the fact that modeling how atoms behave exactly seems to be extremely computationally expensive. Apparently Quantum Mechanics don't like being modeled on a non-quantum computer, and you rapidly reach the "you would need a computer the size of the whole universe in order to model that" limit very quickly. So your grains of sand would need to be Quantum-aware Grains of Sand.

You might end up needing a Jupiter-worth of grains of Quantum sand. I don't recommend using this approach. Definitely don't try to model the human brain using pebbles.
Don't forget to search on https://news.ycombinator.com/ !
I'm not familiar with NAS file systems. Is it fairly straight forward to use hard drives with SSDs as transparent cache, and make it look like a single file share?
The basic idea of a Bloom filter is that you represent each item in the filter by setting k bits, and you set and query these bits using k hash functions. The bits need to be independent and uniformly distributed, so the hash functions need to output suitably random values for the same input.

Even fast hash functions like Murmur add overhead, though, and the lower the desired false positive rate, the more hash functions you need (x hash functions for 2^-x false positive rate).

The conclusion of the paper is roughly that you can create new hash functions by recombining the outputs of two initial hash functions without compromising the statistical integrity of the filter, and this makes querying the filter a lot faster.

To be clear, even the two initial hash functions can be halves or quarters of a single hash function with an output larger than the filter needs, e.g. a filter that needs 64-bit hashes can run entirely on Murmur-128 using its bottom and top halves as the two hash functions.
It's not the dólar azul, it's the dólar blue. Also, people who travel abroad are allowed to purchase some more dollars at the official rate. Otherwise your comment is correct.
So you trust that a conspiracy is less likely than people just replicating and getting the same results (within tolerance).

If you are unsure you can convince yourself by replicating and then others can trust easier because you're probably not part of a conspiracy.

But it's all based on trust in the end. Again, no _one_ replicates everything.
> And then the iPhone happened and the whole UX world just went apeshit.

Oh, I remember when I could go to Medium every week or so, and there were numerous useful (or somewhat useful) articles tagged with UX - and then it slowly died out.
Jeff previously reviewed our all-SSD NAS, which is far more budget, if anyone is interested: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/kubesails-pibox-mini-...

Love seeing these projects from him, but this is a rare miss in my opinion. This is the strange middle ground where it's closer to professional than "budget", by quite a bit. At some point, only a tiny tiny fraction of users need 40TB of space. I guess what I'm saying is, this isn't so much a NAS as a specialized youtuber video recording appliance. We have a number of home-hosting users on our platform that run entire racks filled to the brim - and while that's awesome - it's just not what "budget" or "NAS" implies, and it's an extremely limited audience.
Does anybody remember Ubuntu from the early 2010s era, when I downloaded my first copy?

Ubuntu was talking about scopes and lenses in your Dashboard (basically, internet content in your start menu, which they thought was revolutionary), Ubuntu TV (nobody adopted that), and later, Ubuntu on Phones and Tablets with a (to put it mildly) bastardized Ubuntu 16.04 install that some phones are still stuck on to this day in UBports, in part because they were actually a Ubuntu/Android hybrid system with some Android driver compatibility blended in for good measure because they couldn't get all the drivers running in GNU Linux, so you had a mess of Android and GNU Linux drivers simultaneously? And after all that, the headline feature, scopes again! Not better privacy, not features any user otherwise really cared about, just scopes and lenses again and "it's Linux, on phones, with a Qt interface!" Oh, and it will have convergence in the future.

Convergence, convergence, that was a buzzword for a while. A neat idea... but Microsoft had the same idea, tried it on Windows Phone, and then completely abandoned the idea, years after Ubuntu had the idea and years before Ubuntu cut their losses.

That was a completely unnecessary disaster. I love Ubuntu as much as anybody, but looking back, it 100% deserved to fail as much as I would have wanted it to succeed. It's just an example of how, sometimes, it doesn't take a evil competitor megacorporation trying to undermine us - sometimes we've got plenty of blame ourselves for not succeeding.
The bloomd source I linked above provides an excellent simple practical implementation
I’ll do you one even better. We have a two-chamber legislature, and here is a prime example of what that actually means.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2187

Would have allowed for professionals in a given field to be accredited to make investments related to their profession. Or to put it another way, you would no longer need to already be rich to use the tools that the rich use to get richer.

The bill was passed unanimously in the house, and then quietly killed in the senate.

5 years later, we got a neutered version. Now you can make investments if you get a series 7 license, etc. But from what I understand you can’t just take the test and get the license, you need to be sponsored by an institution, but that misses the point of the original bill that represented the actual will of the people.
I like tiling window managers but I've hit too many problems/bugs... I just use XFCE now with an add-on that let's me snap windows to 1/4, 1/2 or full screen depending on where on the edge of the screen I move them and that's good enough for me.
Tens of millions is a conservative estimate. You could start with the overthrow of the Iranian government in 1953 and go from there. The Congo, Indonesia, virtually every country in Central and South America, up to the ongoing operations in Syria and beyond.

If you want to start your discovery I suggest reading two meticulously sourced books, which will open your eyes and give you further avenues for research whether or not you agree with the perspective of the authors:

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
You can click on the little star top right on Twitter and choose “Latest tweets” to get a mostly chronological feed
Hardly Anyone Talks About How Fracking Was an Extraordinary Boondoggle
Apple’s latest iOS 16 beta ensures you can’t hide your mistakes with an edit
Neat! Lots of goodies in here. Cloudflare has a tremendous blog also, but their video content is equally fun to watch and mentally stimulating.
Both are very enjoyable to watch and very different. Good for them.
options trading

when you calculate risk/exposure of your position, you want to consider Delta and its derivative, Gamma. But you also need to consider the rate of change of Gamma.
"If you build something like that before". I think I can add that to the list of famous last words. ;)

Please, excuse my sarcasm again. But, tell me what to do if I didn't built something like this before? What if I built something like equality saturation engine, pseudoboolean optimization using SAT solver and/or beam search? Will it help me somehow?

You estimated code size at 4.5KLOC max. Given that C++ programmer delivers 20-25 debugged lines of code per hour in the long run (IBM's stats), it would take 225 hours of work. Given that PSP/TSP recommends planning for 4 hours-on-task per day, it will take 56 work days. My calculation suggests 2.5 work months to implement all that in the worst case of 4.5KLOC. Even the best case of 2.5KLOC would take a month and a half of work.

Yours' proposition is not a week's project. Not at all, you can't squeeze it that much.

Query planning is hard. Even if you try your best to avoid it.

And we have not even started talking about WHERE, GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses' optimizations.

[1] shows the use of loop nest optimization combined with beam search. SQLite uses translation of joins into loop nests, and it transforms loop nests into a graph, the path in the graph represents a solution. The [1] shows simplified nesting graph that is linear, and in general it will be quadratic to the number of tables.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/queryplanner-ng.html

I really like that approach. This is exactly an equality saturation [2] (saturate loop nesting through loop nesting commutativity) with the beam search as a selection phase.

[2] https://rosstate.org/publications/eqsat/

I think that equality saturation with beam search is a week long project if you already have built something like that. The difference? It will work for arbitrary jons.

Of course I am making fun of your statements.

Equality saturation requires quite careful planning and will not work for couple of months, you will keep finding something that fails. Beam search is just as hard. You can encode optimal solution selection problem as a pseudoboolean optimization problem, which is more straightforward than beam search, and [2] shows that Pueblo is no slouch there.

This is not to say that query planning is easy when you do it my way. Query planning is hard. NP-hard, actually. Sometimes you can get away with a simpler less general solution, but it will bite you sooner than you expect.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/18/california-h...
How far back could one start and still do a practical upgrade path on commodity hardware?
You can get hands on with this at codecrafters.io. They have a ‘do it from scratch’ challenge that takes you from the .dbinfo command to implementing a full table scan with a WHERE clause. I got up to implementing a basic SELECT over multiple columns.
Wikipedia is a joke nowadays. I made a small correction on the ARM Cortex-M page (the listed instructions available in ARMv8-M base were wrong), I cited the relevant ARM document in the change. Nope, got reverted back to the wrong thing... Pretty sure I know this architecture approximately 1000% better than the joker who reverted this, but OK, whatever, let everyone have the wrong info. I gave up.
I think "ignorant" is the better word. They may be reasonably smart people in other domains, but this seems borderline like satire.
Gotcha, I see. I just wanted to use it to get around captive portals when necessary, but if DNS blacklisting is an issue, oof...
That's largely because it wasn't an extraordinary boondoggle. It led to America being able to produce the vast majority of its own energy needs at competitive prices, and made energy independence possible (though obviously, it was easy for the new political regime to undermine that independence when it was politically expedient)
> non prohibition is permission

That is exactly how things work. Unless the government goes through the effort of passing a law to prohibit something (and getting approval of the people's elected representatives, and the courts), then the thing is legal. How else do you propose things should work?
Video is nicely sequential and eminently suitable for spinning disk service.

What's really confusing me is the 10G lan configuration because it's leaving little headroom above uncompressed 4K 4:4:4 10bit (12bit is broadcast and where source permits archive standard). What about multiple streams for a/b'ing a grade or first/ second camera edit roll?

Ed. added "really" replaced "for" with "above"
https://archive.ph/ajZA8
Probably an unpopular opinion here but Edge is surprisingly good. Feels like they are the only browser actually innovating.
That's a fairly recent phenomena. It wasn't always a popular idea but the dam might be breaking:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-democrats-unveil-long...

https://news.gallup.com/poll/356939/support-legal-marijuana-...
Seemed to me that you were attempting to sniff out some heretical speech.
Because most people define sentience as 'a black box that reacts meaningfully to inputs in a sufficiently unpredictable and inexplicable manner', and for most people (especially researchers in these fields), current neural networks do not meet this bar.
> It should also be noted that Georgelin is willing to do anything in order to meet the 2024 deadline, even if it means botching all the work.

Almost everyone I know who is in charge of anything is happy to do this.
I don't think that Miguel needs to waste time trying to prove a negative.

He was there at the time of the supposed events. If he says it didn't happen then we can take him at his word imho.
I think it's largely sarcasm. That is, the part about Microsoft threatening to sue over patent violations is probably true, but I think the op is implying that granting the patents was ridiculous.
Kind of reminds me of the book Thing Explainer my Randal Monroe where he uses only the 1,000 most common English words. (Of course the drawings do a lot of the heavy lifting as far as explaining).
I think the problem with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (aside from being poorly named) is that it seems to posit that the lack of a word for a thing, prevents you from perceiving that thing (as for example not having fifty words for snow means you cannot perceive different kinds of snow). This is pretty clearly incorrect, since it is the very lack of a word for a thing that you perceive (and want to talk about) that leads us to invent new words (or repurpose old ones). Thus, English-speaking skiers come up with a new use of the term "powder" to refer to a particular kind of snow, once they have a reason to care about it and want to discuss it with one another.

The more general idea that language and perception affect political culture is not as controversial, although the degree to which the tail wags the dog or vice versa is still debated.
What's nice about that camera is that it will be good for even longer than a few decades to come if nothing otherwise falls apart. It will be good until you find the image quality unacceptable. Considering the image quality is already high enough to not be any limiting factor in most cases, I doubt you'd ever be hurting for an upgrade ever. The lenses too are unlikely to improve dramatically in the future. Lens designs at this point are 100 years old already because the laws of physics are sort of firm on what is possible. Autofocus motors are already plenty fast enough to capture a sprinting cheetah.

Once you are bought in, there's no point to upgrade because if anything it will be to spend thousands for marginal gains. Only worth it to pros who can spend thousands on gear a year as operating expenses for business where they bring in factors more with that equipment.
The alternative would be for us to all buy the book, so yes, I would say FabHK's comment was extremely valuable. Generally I find that comment length has a strong positive correlation with comment quality and a strong negative correlation with comment score.
Sydney Opera House, Australia.
> If experience is the name we give our errors, refusing to accept errors were made means stating you've learnt nothing.

That's a line worth memorizing. Well done.