skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool he’s giving it a spin but AGI is its own beast and as a novice on the subject his predictions are probably not well founded
I like the polish of manjaro, I just prefer the stability of debian. Polish doesn't mean much when a rolling release breaks your computer.
I saw some systems that used single line, even in these cases. It had an ephemeral/transitory account to help on this.
And to map it together, all these entries would be related to a single transaction.
It seemed a nice solution for me.
I wish the pricing for the premium services were visible without having to make an account first.
Oh hell yes. Several times I've found my evening abruptly derailed by Admiral Cloudberg's true stories of plane crashes. It's a strange feeling, but fascinating and engrossing. The forensics of the accident sites, the failure analysis, the way the pilots are presented as humans making decisions in critical moments, often unaware of the factors which will determine their fate, and other times knowing their fate is sealed ... hazardous weather conditions, hubris, miscalculations, miscommunications, engineering failures which put them in a death trap, the brief instances of negligence, the systemic failures and oversights, the political contexts influencing people's expectations and behavior, ... All of it comes together, often in predictable ways, often in ridiculously unlikely ways, to bring about a catastrophe. Highly recommended.
True, but then you need someone to manage the escrow payouts. And doing that requires a trusted third party to do work, and so they charge fees to finance that. So, basically reinventing a credit card company, but on a blockchain.

And these services do exist and are in use on some tor network marketplaces.
My problem with reddit is the censorship by community moderators. If the subreddit has a particular bias, any dissenting comments are deleted by moderators with no sign of their comment having ever existed. This varies from subreddit to subreddit I imagine. For example on wallstreetbets, you'll rarely see advice not to invest in meme stocks.
> ideally we incentivize elimination of all carbon emissions.

I don't think such an absolute goal makes sense. What we want is to be at balance long term and pull out enough CO2 to not destroy our current ecosystem any further. I think if we were actually facing the opposite, we'd find ways to ensure we don't go back into an ice age.
> Lower prices also attract less affluent people

You are right! It looks like he might not give a crap about the actual financial "hit" from depreciation of his house as much as he worries that if the prices do go down, Atherton will become more affordable, and that to him is probably a massive problem.
Both of your statements are false. Things slip through cracks, but there's an extensive amount of enforcement effort that goes into regulating and restricting entry of plants into the US.

Further, of course inbound international parcels are inspected [1]. As with any sort of border inspection, USPS and CBP rely on random samples and targeted efforts of limited scope.

[1]https://www.uspsoig.gov/document/prohibited-inbound-internat...
True, the population is aging (people live longer) and birth rate is collapsing.

The result is that it’s not apparent when you look at population. But aging is having a massive effect on the economy, the job sector, etc.

At some point it’s going to collapse, but because we have been below replacement for a long time it’s not going to stop anytime soon.

Look at Japan, Italy to see what is coming (they are a bit ahead)
Last year japan lost 800 000 of population. At some point the japanese culture will disappear if they don’t start having babies (really not happening at the moment)

I heard that in Japan they sell more adult diaper than baby diapers...
Very cool. But...

Tesla warranties the Powerwall for 10 years at 1 discharge cycle per day (according to the internet), or "37.8 MWh of aggregate throughput". At that point they claim 70% capacity after 10 years.

Would participating in this, and potentially discharging your battery more than once per day (let's say the event happens mid-day), void the warranty?
Lot of info that they are independent, the extent is debatable. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201102120027.h...

In many ways it is a bad thing compared to a faster centralized brain. Seems like an evolutionary local minimum where the organism supports an energy expensive peripheral nervous system that is just good enough to function.
You get paid for the power your battery provides to the grid. Power is generally cheaper at night as there is less demand (at least the spot price is cheaper, not sure how your utility passes that savings on to you). It seems like it's totally possible that it's better for you economically to allow your battery to power the grid during the day. You'll have less charge in your battery for the night, but hopefully you can get power at a cheaper price.
Zelle, Venmo, and PayPal are the ones that should really be worried.
Great read. And obviously true IMHO. When you have 20 frameworks/languages/libraries/… all claiming to be the best way to do X they can’t all be true. They might even all be wrong.

The key is to accept this. And stop thinking that you of all people objectively know the one true way to do X. The reality is that you don’t. So act accordingly.
> The basic cause of NIMBYism is these are people's homes you're talking about. They live there.

You hit the nail on the head!

I'm often confused by how the vibe here is that thinking of housing as an investment is bad, and yet simultaneously consider that all housing-related decisions are strictly financially driven!

Reality from everyone I know is that housing is primarily about being a home. A nice place to live. A stable place for the kids to grow up. That's the primary motivation.

Investment? Sure, it's nice if it goes up over a lifetime, but that's not a driver in any decisions.
>The thing about debit cards though, it's a different system and they don't work for online payments which makes them effectively useless.

Huh? That hasn't been my experience. At all.

I make online purchases nearly (yesterday I made two!) daily with my debit card with no problem at all.

Perhaps that's an issue where you live. I'm in the US, so YMMV, I guess.
If you haven't already seen tom Scott's video on background noise giving the location of a recording due to power line frequencies being subtly different I recommend it. https://youtu.be/e0elNU0iOMY
We expect those free features to be free because THEY SAID SO.
The page says they're paying $2/kWh, the average electricity cost in (as an example) San Jose is $0.24/kWh. That means they're probably reserving this for emergencies, not for daily or weekly use.
We have a whole house window fan that was probably manufactured in the 50’s (“Homart Cooler”). It is excellent for upper Midwest summer nights. Our house is old enough to make ducted AC a nonstarter, so the ability to cool the interior of the house over night is very helpful.
Actually this library (match(it)) is more similar to Racket. You can see there are lots of patterns borrowed from Racket pattern matching, say app pattern and ooo pattern.
Commit... asked Swen... when they last voted. Now that question is only meaningful if the region Seen... lives in even uses e-voting, so Commit... seems to either assume that Swen... lives in the same country or that virtually all countries use e-voting.
Either option is US-centric - the first is pretty obvious, the second is more along "we do it like that, so all the others probably do it like that as well" (I'm US-centric as well, assuming the mentioned 2016 election was the US presidential election).

It's not like this is inherently bad or anything like that, it's just a remainder that sometimes the inhomogeneous composition of the HN commenters should be considered. And as you pointed out, that's also the case inside the US.

Also, others used the opportunity to state how their country/state uses (no) computers for voting. So there seems to be some meaning to it.
>the factory work done by people in developing economies is dramatically better in terms of quality of life and safety than the agricultural work that they would be doing without economic development

Wait, I think people were much happier and we should go back to an agrarian society and that people are miserable in the dystopia we created, so I need a citation for this.
Andreessen isn't telling other communities what to do.

'It's Time To Build' is not about 'building buildings', for gosh sake's, it's about building companies, innovating, organizing ourselves better and 'doing stuff'. Not 'building homes' in Los Angeles.

You can 'fuck off' with your 'fucking off' language, this isn't the place for uninformed mob rage.

People have their quiet neighbourhoods and want to keep them that, it's not really any of your business. There's plenty of room for you to express yourself and even get angry with other by telling them to 'f-off' just not in Atherton apparently.
This is an interesting take, and im slightly intrigued aa to how it works long term. What becomes of the culture? Does it create long lived partnerships?
I don't expect anything. I'm just telling you how it is, as a maintainer of the pinephone kernel that most of the distros use, and the rest heavily borrow patches from.
In Brazil there is no paper or paper trail to audit later.[1]

Indeed it is a very contentious matter because opposition claims paper trail will allow people to get a receipt and sell its vote (not true) but they don't want the paper trail system were after you confirm your vote is cast in a lacred box.

You are supposed to trust it because it is.

If you don't you are against the democracy.

[1] - You can at final hour generate a report from all electoral zone but there is no way to "go back" and audit it with paper trail.
I feel like all I really need is for the old registrar to provide the existing configuration files

The new registrar is happy to consume them directly and re-create them
Ah yes, the non-capitalist nations are known for their broad selection of consumer goods, competition and cutting edge innovation, right?
why would anyone want intuit to have money they don't deserve to begin with?

oh no! think of the companies.

lol.
I just held a somber funeral for my 1999 HP LaserJet 4000n. No app, no subscription, reasonably priced toner, built like a tank, survived thousands and thousands of pages, five house moves. It was finally done in by multiple critical plastic pieces that broke and a power supply failure. I don't know what I'm going to do with my life now. I feel there are no new substitutes anymore. I heard Brother is good but I can't imagine it being the same great vibes...
Is there a reason youre bringing this up?
What? I don’t understand your point. Credentials don’t matter. How is me saying the comment doesn’t mean anything, mean I care about credentials? I didn’t say “with proof of your credentials I would bow down to what you say”

Also, which part of my comment is shitting on some one? Saying something casually isn’t shitting on someone. There has to be some thing like bad faith involved. Like what you do including here.
Peter Wright's book (Spycatcher) about his (story of his) adventures reverse engineering the thing is a good read.

He had another trick of using simple phasing to make cocktail party type problems easier for analysts. Just play it out of phase in each ear and the brain works it out apparently.
> This level of efficiency used to belong to the US. I really hope US can revolutionize its manufacturing for this century.

The US consistently increases its manufacturing output through improved automation. US workers are also significantly more productive than other countries', though US labor costs often cancel that advantage.
> 10% flat federal sales tax

Rich folks only need so many mansions, yachts and designer sweat pants. This would further shift the burden of taxes onto lower income folks who spend 100% of what they earn.

The IRS could just present a form behind a login with an itemized fully calculated tax return with an accept? "yes" / "no". They already have all the information they need, and already do the work when checking returns for errors.

Taxes are a pain because both, corporate capture of government by powerful tax preparation companies and also because a certain political ideology wants paying taxes to be as unpleasant as possible to make the concept of taxes as unpopular as possible.
Can anyone provide some intuition on how efficient it is to actually send power back and forth? Some of the power has to be lost along the way moving around the wires or something right?

Especially if you're sending it from your house or whatever which is presume is mainly designed as a power consuming end-point rather than generating?
> all of those costs are a factor of the originating individual transactions

Correct, to a degree. Hub-and-spoke systems (clearinghouse, with banks at the periphery) are cheaper and more efficient than an everything-connected topology. The clearinghouse can run cheap rails because it knows it has pushed those problems to the periphery. The main missing factor, however, is float.

Float makes RTGS more expensive than batched settlement. If you give me RTGS rails, I can batch on top of it and recycle the yield on float into savings, possibly rebates (or credit, e.g. how banks front credit against deposited cheques).

The batch mechanism will always be cheaper under real-world conditions. That's what I want to emphasize. This isn't an artefact. It's fundamentally inescapable.
There is a fine tradition of "linear town" ideas back to the 1920s if not before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_city_(Soria_design)
Merchants pay different fees depending on their risk category. High risk merchants can pay 15% or more.
The difference between theory and practice is greater in theory than in practice.
That was an incredibly well-presented < 1 min intro video. Makes me want to try it straight away (and I shall)! Well done!
only if you limit yourself to a single planet?
Correct, that means nothing too.
The Finance industry is especially attuned to this type of distribution mostly from dealing with pretty intense risk. The strongest players rise to the top fast and a moat of trust weeds out the rest. Crypto despite the ideological objectives is not immune to this.
What about textiles? I'm ready to open my wallet wide for quality t-shirts that fit, and yet I'm faced with some low quality crap from previously reliable brands.

Talk about survivorshirt bias.
To those thinking "I want to sing but I just can't sing." I encourage you to get one on one lessons with a professional.

I started out not being able to sing at all. Couldn't match the pitch, I just sounded like I was trying to "talk in tune". My voice would get very tired very quickly too.

It took a long time, but the change is huge. I can sing in tune now. I can sing much higher. It sounds pleasant. My voice doesn't get tired.

Expect to take 2 or 3 years to really get somewhere. Singing is strange, you can't really see what other singers or yourself are doing. With the piano you can take a look at your teachers hands, but with singing you have to go on a kinda of exploration into sensations in your body, with the teacher as an experienced guide.

Singing is one of the few skills I would recommend to literally everyone.
Ok, I’ll bite. Can I see it? Can you confirm if anything was up in your prison wallet?
The death of the landline was laid, when CLI was invented. Before CLI you had to pick up or decide not to know who it was. Once you could screen, it was game over red rover, mobiles just accelerated it and VOIP cut the legs off.
I would have thought there is some form of loop detection, similar how mailservers ckeck for it in email forwarding or autoresponding
The only time I ever tried it, everything was broken during the installation phase. I wonder if it's improved since. I seem to have the worst luck with Linux Distros.
Yep this is true. I work in online escrow. It's basically the original "smart contract", and until we are able to reliably digitize purchase events it's hard to beat. I have friends who talk about smart contracts, not understanding that it's currently very difficult for a computer to recognize events like "buyer has taken possession of merchandise", whereas it's pretty easy for a human.
Here in Europe it's the complete opposite. They're hard to sign up for (banks don't like giving them) and you get registered for the loan which means you will have a harder time getting a mortgage or car loan. The more loans you already have the harder it gets. I heard in the US it works the opposite way.

And the pin is required here on both (and rightly so IMO to protect against skimming). Only for minor contactless payments it isn't. But the same goes for both.

And we don't get much additional fraud protection or other benefits like insurance on them that we don't get with our debit cards.

I'm surprised the payment systems are so completely opposite. Despite being the same tech from the same companies.

The only reason I have one is that my work insists that I get an Amex due to some dirty deal they have. Which is a horrible card for traveling in Europe, nobody accepts it besides hotels. Try getting a taxi in Paris for example..

I also had my personal one as my debit sometimes didn't work but these days it works everywhere.
It's not a honeymoon phase. It's scale and preserving experience. The first reactors built in the 1950s we're actually pretty bad on a dollar to power ratio. But experience and economies of scale drove prices down in the 1960s and 1970s. When you contract for a limited run of, say, 4 steam generators [1] it's more expensive than a run of 80 of them. Nuclear plants in this period averaged ~2 billion dollars per gigawatt of capacity (and remember that's at a >90% capacity factor).

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_generator_(nuclear_pow...
I would support federal sales tax (exclude uncooked food at grocery stores and some base amount of home energy use) if federal personal income tax is abolished and if sales tax is implemented and enforced by States (like the current road fuel tax which States collect and send part to feds).

Can't reply to a nearby comment, so -- few rich people have taxable personal income because they either don't receive W-2 income or they hire people to structure and pursue the deductions.
In other words, yacht owners are rarely rich people and instead are owned by companies (controlled by rich people) so it is a business expense.
Natural Language to Jenkinsfile Translator
I built this using openAI codex, google cloudrun and streamlit (visualisations by graphviz - codex is not bad at translating pipelines to graphviz without really much prompting which somehow surprised me). Let me know what you think. No fine tuning required for this (as Codex already knows quite a lot).
> authoritarian governments that have been oppressing their population to some extent keeping their labor cheap

to think labor being cheap is the work of the communist party is pretty ridiculous. Authoritarian or not, no government benefits from their citizens being poor (capitalism does). The problem with authoritarian governments is that they are incapable of raising income, not that they do that by intent.
I only watched the first 2 min or so, but the idea is that the bubble pops and the noise or air from the pop interacts with a pan flute. Would that make the closest instrument analog a mini organ?

It's funny to think of the same idea at the scale of a church organ, where you have to load it with air fuel in a giant bubble wrap bandolier.
It's better than flying to China and hiring a Chinese lawyer to dispute some aliexpress purchase.
There's also a middle ground somewhere between 1 and 25.
I lived in a country that did this.

I would get a message that my pre-populated form needed review.

I’d then track down all my statements that fed into those numbers - charitable deductions, payroll, retirement, investments. Then I’d sit down and add it all up to make sure the numbers were right.

Not a whole lot different than doing my own returns in the US.

Far simpler, of course, but not because the forms were filled out but because the tax code was just way less complex.
“ yesterday, I joined a technical call and one person proudly had a background featuring a rainbow-variant of the corporate logo”

Oh the horrors.
That's not a nice way to treat contributors.

Bugs are the community's responsibility. Anyone who works on them (reporting, fixing, testing) should be commended.

I doubt we'd have anywhere near what we have without Martijn and Megi.
VVPAT is worse than useless; creating the illusion of physical chain of custody. Most voters don't even look at it.

How can any one verify the recorded and tabulated votes match the VVPAT?

I've attended the "auditing" of VVPAT machines. The "audit" only demonstrates the printer is functioning. And each time, at least one of the printers failed (paper jam, bad hardware, etc). So they swap gear and reprint the VVPAT.

All DREs should be banned outright. They are and always have been an existential threat to election integrity.

--

PS- The VVPAT is not a receipt. Giving voters a receipt allows vote buying, coercion, etc.

It's been a while, and election administration is the wild west, so although I don't recall any jurisdiction issuing voting receipts, I wouldn't be surprised if someone does.
IDK. A Honda EU2200i (their second smallest portable generator) generates 2.2kw for a little over 3 hours with 0.95 gal tank [0]. Which sounds pretty close to break-even with fuel cost at this price. The efficiency generally increases with size. I'd imagine running a diesel generator (usually more fuel efficient) with red diesel could easily push you into profitability. Assuming you could somehow get this to work with the system - maybe trick the Tesla software somehow.

[0] https://powerequipment.honda.com/generators/models/eu2200i
>Taxi cabs drivers for instance were against being forced to use credit cards until they realized they got larger tips.

I only have anecdata about this, but every taxi driver (50+) I've ever discussed CC vs. cash (this is in NYC and limited to medallion taxis) has said they prefer cash every single time.

That's mostly because of the 5% CC processing fees on every transaction, as well as delays in receiving their money from CC transactions.

I imagine it's different elsewhere, but not (at least AFAICT) where I live.
the historical context beforehand is interesting too, it will provide context that even in our own written history, great technical gains have been lost, which most people probably don't realize
Religion is used to keep the masses in check but the elites are free to drink and womanize as much as they want.
"No standard library" might be too strong a criticism, but "a dozen or so built-in global variables with various methods" is still probably not the user experience that most desire.
If you go back and read old climate papers from the 80s a lot of them are pretty reasonable if they made a correct estimation of greenhouse gas emissions.
> One of the officers says

> “Someone has been caused anxiety based on your social media post. And that is why you’re being arrested.”

I cannot believe I am reading this.
My understanding of Finnish history is rough but from what I understand Finland was also industrialized in late 1800s as Russian Dutchy under Alexander II's reforms. IIRC reward for being loyal unlike uprising in crimea and poland. It got the benefits of empire. Granted much slower than rest of Europe due to geography. Civil war over russification not unlike purges in SKorean or Taiwan/ROC, at the end of the day you need get the population in line under a national identity either through ideology or coercsion so they can focus on development instead of be distracted by sectarian drama.
“ Russia’s “Mother Heroine” title will be bestowed on women who bear and raise 10 or more children.”

If he’s that concerned perhaps he should stop starting wars
Small world indeed!