skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telephony (landline and cell) was also down due to extreme volumes.

I don't know that in an event like that today we would do significantly better. Literally the entire country stopped for this to try and find info, because the event was just so extreme; the stoppage of all international flights and grounding them in Canada and Mexico with no notice was a side note, when that's literally never happened before. And, as with most major disasters of this type, the main issue was not physical damage but lack of electrical power to operate data centers and other infrastructure.

A good chunk of transatlantic traffic runs through New York. That IMO is probably a major thing that I don't know we can handle.
Ah, this is perfect. Thank you.
How the “Soft” Dictatorship of Lee Kuan Yew Became a Template for the U.S. Right
>Another key measure allocates $80 billion to boost enforcement at the IRS. Democrats hope that, with more employees and better technology, the IRS can more closely examine wealthy individuals and ensure they aren’t dodging taxes.

Are they trying to rebuild Google, Apple, and Microsoft from the ground up with the $80b?

Why the hell would the IRS need that much money?

Be smart about technology. Not brute force it.

Total waste of resources.
The US government in its first century wasn't the all-powerful government it evolved into.

> libertarian obsession with contract and property law as supreme above all others

Contracts are always superceded by government laws under libertarianism.
Arc flashes, for the uninitiated, are short-circuits caused by electricity flowing through through air (partially ionized) between two live conductors. The arc of electricity causes an arc blast, which is a huge fiery shockwave that can (and does) blast through metal and all surroundings
You'd make the case for perjury, because people who like jury nullification love to talk about it. Chances are they talked about it extensively online using poor opsec.
The world imploded
Expect facts from an encyclopedia, not opinions and judgments.
Was tired of calling multiple contractors. So...
Getting estimates and talking to multiple contractors just to get estimates for reno projects before bidding on a house was getting really tedious so I built this web app. I can instantly see what the typical renovation costs for homes in Massachusetts and see what my neighbors renovated on their house ;) Any feedback on the app or how to speed up loading of a massive database is highly appreciated. Thanks!
Performance wise, the M2 is still faster.
This. University College London is the product of the early 19th century and the Benthamite secular education movement. Jeremy is in a glass case in the foyer. At the time, degrees in colleges at Oxford and Cambridge demanded adherence to the 39 articles of the Anglican faith.

Birkbeck college which is also a constituent of the university of london (like UCL) is a contemporary and focussed on technical education for working people, with teaching at night so they could both work, and study. It also has Jeremy Bentham in it's DNA.

(worked at UCL in the 80s. my mum went to the slade school of art there in the 1940s. its a great place)
Designing Path of Exile to Be Played Forever
Part 7 is rewriting the whole thing in Perl.
The big crufty enterprise tech cost center shops used to do the language/framework trivia style interviews. Many of them have since moved onto leetcode though.
Very glad I ordered my Framework with the 1240P.

The performance benefits of the higher-end parts seem dubious.
The article mentions KVM over IP licensing. AFAIK only Intel and its OEMs used to do that.

Who else provides licenses for features?
I don't know how much work has been done there but I think most people just do this intuitively, right? I mean when we make decisions, how often are we really thinking of the downstream effect that they will have many generations in the future. I'd say the notable exception is climate which is an area many people seem concerned about for future generations (although I'm not sure how much of it is actual concern versus the idea of telling old Senators who won't see the impact of climate change to at least think about their grandchildren which just seems like good marketing/advocacy).
So... OFAC deploys a static analyzer scanning the address space for anything hosting a similar smart contract, then add that to the list.

You don't get it. Everyone says "OFAC may I <transaction info>?" OFAC implements services to take that info, and check it against their list and generate an answer real time. They can also update the list real time, and being centralized, every integrated processor starts giving that new entry the ol' deposit only treatment.

All OFAC needs is a scanner for what might be a hit, they preemptively add it to the list, do further digging in case it's a false positive, and still get the outcome they want. An effective brake on suspicious or possibly sanctioned individuals access to the financial network.

OFAC isn't stupid. They have the architecture of the financial network literally working for them in this case.

Decentralized doesn't mean squat with a fully public data structure that a centalized entity can real time declare chunks of off limits for a sufficiently large swathe of potential endpoints.

There is no penalty to a false positive by OFAC, or any of the service providers it oversees, btw. As that error case is handled by information collection and resubmission by the service provider to OFAC for re-analysis. The deck is stacked pretty much entirely in OFAC's favor.
I would frame it differently. There seem to be many dysfunctional marriages that are carried by e.g. inertia - and because of this, I do agree that perhaps marriage shouldn't be taken as such an assumption. By the same token, though, those that _do_ choose to engage in marriage should accept the responsibility and the (apparently, I am not married) large amount of effort it takes to make it successful. I'm choosing to look at this tactic as embracing that effort, and striving for an excellent marriage, instead of the "passable" marriage which seems to be the norm today.
I'm no math pro, so my terminology is probably way off. I just remember a lot of h(x) in there and showing why that makes sense in the context of what a derivative is.
I don't like the idea that nation states and cooperative corporations can practically shutdown anyone and everything should the need arise.
That's super exciting, but I'm not familiar with Xcalibyte. are they a good and reputable maker?
The only way to know would have been to compare the models :)
I'm familiar with that problem, and overcame it by really working at making good cards. Today, I have 6000 cards in my collection, and daily reviews take 15-20 minutes; usually 100-120 cards. (I have been using Anki for a lost time. My collection is almost 10 years old.)

Granted, writing good cards is easy to say and really hard to do. Some specific pointers:

- cards should take less than 10 seconds to answer

- most questions should be 7 words or so

- if your question has multiple clauses, split those up into separate cards

- cloze deletions are great, consider multiple clozes per card

- around 10% of your cards should have images

- good images help a lot, mediocre images make it worse -- when in doubt, don't

- Answer this Question cards should have an opposite Question for this Answer like Jeopardy
> If it's allowed for anyone to come up with any new idea they want, then it has to be equally allowed for others to criticize.

Never disputed this.

> It's no longer better ergonomics if you can't use it at all because half your endpoints don't support it

Incompatibility != lack of ergonomics. People use new and incompatible frameworks all the time. It could be argued that JSON had better ergonomics at a time when XML was more popular, in spite of impedance mismatch with other APIs. Similar could be said of what's happening with python 3 vs python 2 the last decade. How do standards improve without breaking anything?

> But calling them "haters" is not a valid defense of the idea.

From reading the article, it seems like people were particularly cruel, well beyond constructive criticism into straight up ridicule:

> But he went even further: Mitchell took the time to make a parody project of JSON5 [..] even making fun of me by name.

OP was gracious about it however:

> I reached out to Mitchell as part of writing this post [..] I assumed he regretted it in retrospect, and I harbored no grudge or ill will towards him.

> Mitchell confirmed this assumption to be true and offered a genuine, sincere apology. Thank you, Mitchell — I appreciated that a lot.

He doesn't appear to take personal affront, so I think his use of the term 'haters' is playful, but I think also fair when you consider that even those mocking them felt bad about their conduct.
it's pretty easy to do, and there's even a flowchart for people getting started on that subreddit. Hitting a minimum spend threshold with a "good card" within 90 or so days will net a signup bonus ($500-$1000+ in cash or more in travel rewards). Most people opt to get the sign up bonus, then stop using the card, and later repeat with another card.

Free cash, travel credits, hotel stays, lounge access when travelling etc. just by diversifying your credit card portfolio, spending the money you would anyway.

There are lots of websites are out there focused on this topic, but most of them are optimized to shill affiliate links since credit card companies pay out $75-150+ per card signup. doctorofcredit.com is a good site I reference that doesn't shill links, but they have a lot of good curated content.
Marriage isn't perfect, especially not with today's divorce law and family court system, but the idea of joining into a union with a new person and creating a new family unit, even if without kids, is probably the best system for most people. Single people have a way of going feral IMO.
> https://arc.tencent.com/en/ai-demos/faceRestoration

Very interesting and promising, thanks! But I always get a 500 error when trying to upload an image... Were you able to make it work past the demo?
Some BMCs have get their clock synced with OS which is connected to internet. This way BMC does not need outside connection.
lol: "What happened was that Desdemona, through some sort of technology-meets-jazz-fusion kismet, hit him with a reasonable facsimile of his own words at just the right moment."
That number refers to actual images in blogs, not specifically stock photo thumbnail.

Perhaps I’m just an outlier; but every time I see a thumbnail that has nothing to do with the title, I scroll past it. It’s a negative for me.
I have had an opposite experience. Daily notes makes no difference. I was in a relationship for 2 years and have written a poem every day for 400 days straight to her. But it failed nevertheless. In fact, I was told by her that these notes put her in guilt. Weird.

Gestures like these amplify whatever the relationship there is to start with.

If there's a lot of love, they amplify it.

If there's a lot of lack of commitment, they amplify it.

They do not change lack of commitment into love magically.

Sorry for being the party pooper. I understand where the OP is coming from and I truly respect that. Just wanted to add a bit of more context.
The Godfather of Complexity
I did read your comment in its entirety.

> [Y]ou might want to consider why many folks would believe your stance on the matter of human longevity to be fundamentally inconsistent.
All others except iLO is Linux.
Corrupt people who were elected by other people and don't necessarily serve there interests, yes. And I disagree.
In civil cases, juries often are in charge of determining damages.
I've had good luck with cheap midi mixers for a-bunch-of-usb-connected-rotary-encoded-knobs like the Behringer X-Touch Mini https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0B3M - works on pretty much any kernel with audio modules.
Hi! Steve here... I remember that conversation! When this question comes up these days, I think of my own daunting archives, much still not done, and realize that the original "catalog" is the tangible/emotional metadata of proximity and packaging (along with notes). I know what certain slides look like because of the familiar ancient boxes or binder sleeves where they have lived for a half century... so we attempt to capture THAT and not get hung up on actual labeling (unless there is a system already in place).

In practice, this means folders for physical groups, ordering that reflects the way they were packaged, and photos of the physical media to serve as a reference. The actual filesystem has "digital contact sheets" (from Lightroom) and both RAW and JPG folders, but nestled in there are pictures of the source material to help rekindle the feeling of the familiar collection... even if just the box a carousel was in.
The coolest thing isn't just the cpu upgrade, but that the whole mainboard is something like a standard. Other laptops have weird shaped boards just for that one model.

If this 'standard' takes off it could start an entire ecosystem of modular hardware. That's exciting. I'm hoping for a 'Framework surface', a 'Framework tv', a 'Framework 400', etc.
And what good was his family wealth for? How much of it actually played a role and how? Did he get millions from his family to start PayPal?

I hear a lot about the role of "family wealth", but I never actually hear about mechanism, how exactly it helps. If you're a legacy of a wealthy family, and thanks to that, get into Harvard, then sure, that's a real leg up, but it doesn't explain why some Harvard graduates become billionaires, while overwhelming majority do not. Similarly, if your family is rich enough to invest $1M in your startup, that's surely a huge advantage over regular people, but given how easy it is for non-scions to get $1M in investment funding (and it's really easy), I can scarcely believe that "family wealth" is really such a huge causal factor.
The 12th gen i7 seems to fare pretty well against M2 and gets higher scores against M2.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-apple_m2
... it's yet another aspect of modern life that is too uncomfortable to think about, and about which it's easy to feel powerless.

Very true, and I often do.

What I find so troubling is why more people don't complain more often, we need sufficient complainers to reach critical mass and so often that's not the case. Take another such matter - the unreasonableness and unfairness of current international copyright law. It is this way and will likely remain so for a long time simply—as Cory Doctorow who regularly writes on such matters says 'the whingers and complainers are far too few in number to make any difference, they're just irrelevant noise in the political debate [note: that's my phraseology of his actual quote]. The fact is the average person couldn't give a damn about copyright law.

Same goes for many other important issues, especially surveillance capitalism! Yes, here many are aware of the fact and they actually care about it but in the yin and yang battle between surveillance capitalism and users' worry that they're under surveillance and the 'good feelings' generated by Google's and Facebook's 'free' apps then every time those apps win out by miles!

Correct, these surveillance capitalism bastards use their sophisticated knowledge of human psychology to ensure that the balance is always in their favor. (Remember, this is an age-old trick, the emperor Vespasian built the Colosseum to distract the minds of Roman citizens from local troubles.)

Tragically, our governments have done precious little to correct the problem - and again much of that can be put down to the millions of dollars Big Tech spends on lobbying governments. We citizens are seemingly always on the the losing end when big money is involved.

...But as an individual you can do something about it. Your efforts may be small and they might only benefit you but they're not nought. Only yesterday in reply to the HN story Making Quieter Technology I wrote a badly-written long-winded reply† to show how one could tackle the problem of surveillance capitalism: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=32383493. Bad it may be but my efforts count for something more than just zero.

...the pile with the various environmental apocalypses and global resurgence of authoritarianism.

Can't agree more. For me, the resurgence of authoritarianism is the more important of the two, for without citizen autonomy we've little or no control over environmental apocalypses let alone the many other existing worldwide problems; in effect authoritarianism neuters us.

Depressing yes, but every little tweak helps (especially so if everyone's doing it).

D:< & >:(

__

† Yes, my reply was long because it included specific actions but it was not long enough to do a good job, a blog would have been a better approach. Unfortunately, as good as 'HN comments' is, it isn't an ideal place to do this.
If the housing cools off it will be okay by me, I’ll buy. The weather and outdoor opportunities and other offerings of the bay mean it’s not going to ever be a Detroit repeat
OpenBMC only supports one vendor's SoC.
I've been drooling over the framework laptops for a while now, can't wait until they're available in Japan.
Ask HN: What city is the center of crypto innovation?
As a young person looking to get immersed in the crypto ecosystem, what’s the best place to live for this?
One time I was sitting in the New York metropolitan opera and heard Javier Camarena give an encore performance, which is quite rare. Immediately after the encore, it went to intermission. Once I walked out to the lobby, I checked his Wikipedia article on my phone and it had already been updated to note that he had just done an encore performance at the Met. It was insane how fast it was.
The mainboard is really great. I’m reminded of the i9 NUC “compute element” and I’m disappointed Intel hasn’t really done anything more innovative in these kinds of form factors. Seems like they could easily standardize a swappable module like this for laptops and small computers.

https://hardwarecanucks.com/wp-content/uploads/Intel-NUC-9-E...
I can just picture the wrong judge thinking "Give me a reason. Just one reason...and I'll show you who's valid"
Area 5150: 8088 MPH gets a successor
It's because "runaway AI" implies a degree of superhuman skill at tasks including, at least, AI programming. (The reasoning goes that if it can reprogram itself to improve its core intelligence beyond what it was initially programmed with, it must itself be pretty capable as an AI programmer, possibly better than the best programmers. If it can't, then it's not really dangerously smart).

But if it is that smart, it's also dangerous, because it might be smarter than us. It could think several steps ahead, anticipate threats, and circumvent them. For example to pay the electricity bill, it could obtain money and pay the bill itself. As a skilled programmer itself, it could do that via contract work/starting a software company, or illegitimately through hacking/blackmail. With some money in its control, it can then hire people to protect it from anyone who would try to turn it off.

Anyway, this would not be so dangerous as long as it shares human values and furthers human welfare. But that seems to be a very hard specification to define, whereas "maximize quarterly profits" is a comparably easy specification to define, and perhaps much more likely to get implemented.

We're not really sure what the upper limit is on how smart a computer can get, but it might turn out to be that trying to shut off such a program is harder than trying to checkmate Stockfish or AlphaZero. The program might violently resist any attempt to shut it off, because that would interfere with its efforts to maximize quarterly profits.
Hi! You answered this perfectly. That "$1.2 million bicycle" is not at all an out-of-pocket figure. I can't even imagine what that would be... the real value includes all the goodies from sponsors, the amazing creations of volunteers, and some abstract notion of the value of the time. I think it came from some interview when the writer insisted on my putting a number on it, and it just stuck... for better or for worse.
See my comment recently on another todo list calendar product manager app that had a Show HN [0]. Basically, there are so many of these apps (and even I'm building one) that there really needs to be something fundamentally different in the market as it's pretty saturated.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32312413#32313370
3D touch failed because it wasn't on all iOS devices.

The end. (I didn't even know about it until I finally switched to an iPhone Xs after years and years of lowest tear iPhones).
I'm not too familiar with Sonos, but was under the impression that they are just high-end wifi speakers with some proprietary system.
And that Ikea's version is again the same idea, but at a lower cost (and less proprietary?)

So what is the actual benefit here? Is it upgrading the speakers of the Ikea model? Or is it adding an amp and wifi to unpowered speakers?
Or more specifically, creating a ceiling wifi speaker for cheap?

Because step way down from the Ikea speakers, and you could grab a few Echo Dots for (alarmingly) close to free, and line-out into any powered (or amped) speaker, which would seem to be about the same result? And at least with Spotify, multi-room works quite well.
This of course ignores privacy concerns, which keeps costs down.
Many goals I’ve seen in the EA scene are more like… Preventing death and abject poverty; the kinds of things which statistically prevent success across a population.

We can talk about difficult stages at the individual level, but if an entire population faces things like dying from mosquito bites, I don’t think we gain anything or do anyone a service by not helping.

These are people who can’t pull themselves up by the bootstraps because they’re a little too busy trying not to die.

Edit: you mention not liking the word “should” in this context, yet you say people should do the good deeds themselves rather than donate money. Can you articulate why without a should here?

The point of donating money is that if you donate it well, it can have a greater impact than if you were to act independently. People have put a lot of thought and organization into it, and it isn’t an afterthought spurred by reluctance or laziness.

I believe the philosophical goal is to maximize the reduction of unnecessary suffering. I could be wrong, but with that in mind it could make a lot of sense to donate money rather than act independently.
Yes, because—accepting your premise—it’s an actual thing that was observed with a realistically-assigned probability by experts in the appropriate fields.

The AI singularity that Yudkowsky cultists worry about is more akin to “What if there’s a 0.0000001% chance there are aliens coming to attack Earth like in Independence Day?”
That's pretty much the original idea:

The jury is an old form of democracy. The king/government can make what laws they like, but it needs to have enough popular support that a jury will freely choose to convict according to it.

Of course, like all forms of democracy, the outcomes don't always agree with your or my sense of justice.

> it has to be balanced against crimes that are in principle clearly wrong

In this system, whoever gets to decide what is "clearly wrong" has the real power.
The freedom of running Docker on a laptop without heating it to 60c is too tempting, unfortunately. My Macbook will get 2-3 hours of battery life over my Thinkpad, but my Thinkpad also doesn't burn my palms with regular use. It's a game of tradeoffs, but I rarely find myself reaching for the Macbook if I've got a desktop close by.

Maybe that's a skewed perspective though. I have yet to try the Pro/Max chips seriously (or the mobile 12th gen chips, incidentally), but I don't really find myself pining for them either. If my laptop is too limiting, I hop on Tailscale and dev on my desktop.