skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither has SLS entered orbit to be fair, and it had a massive development budget and a half decade head start (plus existing engines).

Everyone is taking Starship reuse as an assumption because of SpaceX’s earlier work. It will likely be less easy than people think with such a massive vehicle, but even fully expended mode Starship will loft far more mass at less than an eighth of the cost of a SLS launch.
I don't think it is -- the suggestion is that there's a spectrum of positivity, where Americans describe things very excitably and Eastern Europeans tend to be more modest. So we'd both be outside the norm from his point of view (the actual norm if you polled every English speaker would I guess be skewed a bit more in the American direction).
If this tweet is being interpreted as namecheap granting permission to someone to try and access customers' data, it actually is against GDPR for namecheap to do so.

As data controller, namecheap has the following duty "the controller shall use only processors providing sufficient guarantees to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures in such a manner that processing will meet the requirements of this Regulation and ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject." (GDPR 28.1)

Of course, if that tweet is treated as empty boasting, then there are no consequences - but if you take it at face value, namecheap is granting permission to access data without a proper limiting contract, and it is explicitly illegal for namecheap to do so (GDPR 28.3 - "Processing by a processor shall be governed by a contract or other legal act under Union or Member State law, that is binding on the processor with regard to the controller and that sets out the subject-matter and duration of the processing, the nature and purpose of the processing, the type of personal data and categories of data subjects and the obligations and rights of the controller"); they have a duty to ensure that any subcontractors or licensees or partners or whatever accessing the data do so only in a strictly controlled manner.

This is why every proper external pentest in EU will have explicit GDPR clauses about the limitations of personal data handling if the pentester/auditor has any chance of accessing systems with such data - it's not acceptable for a company to hire external auditors without such restrictions, they can't simply grant access to other peoples' data to third parties.

And before someone says "...but terms&conditions..", no, terms and conditions can't override law, these restrictions apply no matter what namecheap has contracted with the individuals whose data they're storing. There are some clauses of GDPR which state "don't do X without informing the data subject" (in which case the T&C might inform the customer that you'll be doing X) but that's not the case for these requirements.
And they have, as a consumer you can choose ads or Premium. Some want neither, so out of curiosity I'm asking, how do they see things if not those two options?
> The root of inflation is the printing of money

It's always more complicated than that:

Stop printing money? After a few years population will increase, the workforce will be larger, and there won't be enough money to go around. This will result in deflation. (And is supported by evidence of what happened when people used physical gold and silver as money. As population went up, and people stockpiled, deflation happened.)

In this case, part of the cause (in the US) is a smaller work force. Not only did people retire early at the beginning of the pandemic, the baby boomers are retiring. This means there's less workers to go around. The remaining workers can demand more money.
Yes: https://lwn.net/Articles/903855/ https://gitlab.com/rwmjones/libnbd/-/tree/nbdublk/ublk
Word of mouth requires someone to learn about a product initially. Also, searching for something you ‘need’ presupposes that you know there is a product that addresses a need. You would never find improvements to things that you didn’t realize could be improved.
Lol I have never wanted a "big pack of dogs" until your comment today! Clearly I would have to establish a sort of compound in the forest for my family and my dogs! I love it already!
Netflix 25th Anniversary
The other march of progress is that everything on Google Images can and will be copied. Nobody cares unless it's commercial use. The biggest joke was in high school being told to only use Creative Commons images in essays/presos. As if any kid is not just going to Google "dog" then drag the first image that pops up.
> 1: The root of inflation is the printing of money

The root of inflation is an increase in the cost of goods & services.

If the money supply increased, but the head of every company willfully elected to ignore this (due to patriotic duty, for instance) and continue charging the same for their goods & services, then inflation would not occur.
> So, Google, Apple, Twitter, Facebook, etc should all shut down their scanning for CSAM?

What they should shut down, is their irrevocable deletion of accounts. When the false positives trigger nuclear bombs, then yes, a single false positive is too much.

As far as I know, only Google does this, so everyone else can keep scanning in this argument.
Shutting down this new type of scanning is not the same as no longer scanning for CSAM.

It's curious how the big providers have been scanning for CSAM for YEARS with nothing making the news...because hashes are much different and don't false positive like this.
Yes, of course, but that isn't an incredibly meaningful statement. Humans and bananas share about 40-50% of the same genes, but that only makes up about 1-2% of the actual DNA sequence [0]. If you think about it, sharing a significant number of genes with a banana isn't all that surprising, given that the genes are the portion of the DNA sequence that codes for proteins. Since all naturally occurring proteins are made up of the same ~20 amino acids, and you'd expect a lot of the basic "being a living organism on Earth" type proteins to at least be similar among lots of different organisms, I'd say having 1-2% of your DNA and 40-50% of your genes in common with a fruit doesn't seem too absurd.

---

[0]: https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/people-banana...
Fantastic... a blank page. Agree it is elegant, but not particularly compelling.

I needed to read the source html to see what it was about. Pentagrams in the source, btw.
As the author of "Digital Vegan" [1] and "Ethics For Hackers" there's
much about this thread that pleases me. Some very intelligent
discussion is emerging.

I feel both that the time has come for fundamental cultural change
within the tech/hacker community, and that expressions like "AI
Veganism" are indeed appropriate and useful on many levels.

They enable the discussion of lifestyle choice, rights, health,
ecology and many other salient factors in relation to digital
technology.

At this point, those still clinging to a rejection of modern
tech-critique as in any sense anti-progressive or "Luddite" are in
fact the ones woefully out of date and out of step with how the world
is turning.

[1] https://digitalvegan.net
> AdGuard

I'm not sure why you found their site untrustworthy, but, I've used it for years and I'm a huge fan.

Anyway though, AdGuard on iOS is a VPN and I find it unreliable, on macOS it works great.
It's immoral not to violate everyone's privacy, because some people are criminals?
You're confusing the analogue horizontal resolution, with the high bandwidth of up to 5 MHz, with the digital number of vertical lines, which is fixed at 625 per frame, or the low bandwidth of 15 625 lines per second. No amount of chroma noise will change the latter. And as for the former, the analogue horizontal resolution, the higest horizontal resolution you could get, even at 6 MHz bandwidth, would have been 380 analogue lines - nowhere near 625. So, that's 625 lines down, and that's fixed - you couldn't change it. And only about 380 across, and yes, that could be affected by noise, chroma subcarrier, etc.

And speaking of chroma subcarrier, yes, you will often see crappy chroma fuzz on a black-and-white image, but the reason for that is that the TV set did not have a chroma filter (exactly what they are talking about in this thread). In fact, as I'm answering that, I'm realising that THAT was probably the reason they had to filter out the colour - because it would look crappy on older black-and-white sets that did not have a chroma filter installed. Bingo!

But I have a couple of circuits from like 30 years ago that converted NTSC or PAL to RGB, and yes, they have the required filter, or you did indeed see the little blockies from NTSC or diagonal fringing on PAL colour transients.

Interesting discussion!
I think there is a knee jerk reaction against AGPL, because it can be seen as fairly restrictive in the case of software you would incorporate into your application, but it seems perfectly reasonable for a development tool.
I'm guessing it is something like "works with version X of dependency Y which is only available on Linux distro Z" and distro Z is only available with an ancient kernel which makes it a pain to run on modern laptops so everyone just develops in Docker.
> Investments are concentrating into unproductive sectors.

With all the bullshit startups over the past decade or two, I thought this was accepted as the new normal.
I have the same thought. Looks like Fed, like every other institution, is following sort of "KPI" and may or may not care about the implications.
That's not corruption in the way that word is commonly used. Equating the deliberate misuse of public funds with non-ideal outcomes because of broader cultural attitudes towards government just destroys the meaning of the word.
That seems like a technicality, like the laws and the categorization of FB by the law doesn't change my argument. No matter what you want to call it, I think a little bit of due diligence seems sensible.

On that tengent, you did get me curious though, why isn't FB considered a publisher by law? And why would publishers be upholhded to more strict rules?

I mean, Facebook hosts the content, delivers it to people, makes money of it, and it even markets the content through recommendations and tool assisted sharing.
From 2007-8-29 to 2017-8-29, the money supply doubled, while mean inflation was around 1.75%.

Couldn't you have easily proved yourself wrong?

edit: the date was chosen because of today's date, picking the year before the housing bubble burst as a start, then taking a 10 year period.
The first 19 Falcon 9s were "one and done". But even after the first, those next 18 still had a fair few launch delays between them too.

Getting your launches right is always a challenge for any new rocket family, and delaying your early test flights when (not if) you see unexpected telemetry data during the countdown should be seen as normal while you're learning how your rocket works in the real world.

Even with Starship, where cratering the first few test article hops was considered pretty likely, they had a bunch of holds and scrubs during the countdowns to those launch attempts. I expect the next test flight not to have zero delays either.

And SLS is being cautious. Delays should be expected, and not seen as some terrible bit of mismanagement. "Go fever" is real, and is a bad thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_fever
Bert is well-known and respected in the DNS world and at this point follows his own drummer.
NFTs can now be shared on both Facebook and Instagram
Instead you would have shortages.
American Real Estate Was a Money Launderer’s Dream. That’s Changing
Yeah, android is lightyears ahead in a few things, but hardware and privacy-wise iphones are simply that much better. I try to reevaluate the platform every now and then, but the closest I got to changing was Pixel 6 with Graphene - which I decided against due to frequent hardware bugs..
Disclosure: I used to work on GCE.

We got to go second, but I prefer the naming and separation of concerns we came up with (obviously): Reservations are capacity you're holding, while Commitments are things that get you discounts.

Reservations are things your operations team uses to guarantee capacity for scaling up, doing rolling restarts, and whatever else. Commitments (and Committed Use Discounts) are primarily what your Finance teams work with.

The original Reserved Instance product combined both of these. AWS now has the same decoupling with Savings Plans and Reservations as related, separate products.
A marketplace is limited… if you create a product that addresses an entirely new market, you wouldn’t be found.

Also, physical properties are heavily regulated partially because there is a limited amount of physical space for them.
> if there is a function p : A -> (A -> B) that has a left-inverse, i.e., e : (A -> B) -> A with p o e = id_(A -> B) then B has a fixed point combinator

I think you meant to write "right inverse" here.

Agreed that Lawvere's theorem is very cool. It helps that Cartesian closed categories are basically just categories where you can do typed lambda calculus, so the underlying link is already very close.
If the disruption of supply chains is the actual culprit for inflation, shouldn't we observe gradual deflation as they recover?

If on the other hand it's printing money (as I'd expect from the trillions of free money in recent months) it should only get worse. What I observe is more consistent with money printing than disruption of supply chains
At the height of the gas prices I paid $8.00 per gallon of diesel for several weeks (some drunk asshole totaled my other non-diesel vehicle) so I felt what truck drivers felt. It should be no surprise that when gas doubles, everything that is carried on those trucks goes up in price. When the truck is carrying super cheap items, the price of those super cheap items is roughly double. Transportation cost of expensive and small things aren't affected as much because the price of gas was already a smaller percentage of the overall price.

Large items, like RVs saw a roughly $4k markup (in CA) because they literally drive each one from Indiana. Not to mention everyone is buying them because they are alternatives to expensive homes now.

We really need to get off gasoline and encourage people to build. Messing with inflation with the feds "only tool" is fucking idiotic.
Did you try and adjust the hue? That was a necessary step in getting the colours right over in NTSC land. If you didn't adjust it, yes, you got pictures that were too magenta or too green. That said, I have an NTSC LaserDisc player still plugged in today, and if the hue is appropriately set, the colours are perfectly fine.
A couple of years before covid, Boston Haskell meetup group was active and wizzy. And bar discussion would repeated turn to what a "Haskell-NEXT" might look like. Aside from similar bars at conferences, I've not encountered such discussion elsewhere. Having such discussion work has seemed very sensitive to including extreme outlier quality people. Which very isn't me - I mostly just ask questions. They go home, and even though people left have wizzy math backgrounds and are doing their own language implementations... continuing can be hard. And the costs of such discussion in text, or in zoom... I can't picture that. So... I'm unclear on how progress might be fruitfully nudged. The bottleneck seems waiting for research papers to drop, and existing language efforts to incrementally improve, slowly creeping closer to "oh yeah, we could do that soon".

With a big caveat of its been years since I even slightly tried to track the big picture, here are two thoughts on directions which I then felt were getting less attention that I might have liked. First, having wizzy type system power, while not much caring about static typing. I thought of it as sort of a optional-typing CommonLisp attitude. Expressive power, but fine-gain collaborative-compilation tradeoff control over where to pay for what assistance. And second, extremely extensible languages, as can do bulk subsumption of others. So imported modules providing compiler cross-sections, from syntax to type analysis to optimization tweaks. ... Ah well, if humans don't get to it, maybe ML Copilot2030 will give "sure, just express what you want it any mixed mashup of different languages and math, and I'll try guessing what you're trying to say ;)

So... I'm unclear on a fruitful way to proceed...? Sorry... I appreciate the thought.
Where better to change things than from the inside?
> For me, and the company I work for, AGPL is strictly banned. GPL is gravely frowned upon, because the founder had a lot of lawyers involved that almost bombed an acquisition. I appreciate that's anecdata, but for sure it is a "conversation" in the company versus Apache 2 which requires no conversation

This seems to be a development tool that does not need to be incorporated into your software (I'm assuming the library that runs in your software won't be AGPL but I could be wrong *), so it being AGPL should theoretically be strictly less restrictive than just being closed source.

However, perhaps for companies with policies against (A)GPL software like yours it would be better if they offered it both as freeware under a closed source license that doesn't allow modifications AND open source under the AGPL so you could pick which license you like better?

*Actually strictly speaking even if the agent software is AGPL I believe that would only really matter if you distributed a version of the software including the agent outside of your company, so theoretically you could just remove it for production releases, but I agree that it would be a lot more justified to avoid it because of the license in that case, so I hope they intend to release the agent software under a more permissive license.
The deficit grew to twice what it was after 2008, the scale of spending is quite a bit different than the recent past (trillion dollar bills are the new $100 billion in the US). The same spending pattern has happened across western countries around the world who are facing similar inflation (and supply side) issues, so the pressure has been global.

https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/defic...

Everything plays a role even if it may not be the primary one.
Lots of empty houses already exist in low LCOL areas. Don't even need to build new ones.
The argument is slightly different. This isn't about taking away a person's job. This is about eroding something that we as humans had previously thought was uniquely ours, intellectual creativity. The point of art was to express something by humans for other humans. The point was not to make a pretty picture, or a pleasant sounding song. When an AI does this it is and likely always will be a mere imitation of what art is supposed to be. The sad thing is that this imitation will be good enough and cheap enough that it will flood our daily lives. AI image and song generation will do what mobile did to computer games. Endless piles of low effort useless output and concepts distilled to the smallest possible set of features necessary for us to be suckered into purchasing them.
For definitions of 'success' so narrow as to be useless, if not harmful. Having been raised and spent decades in churches, even the most liberal are toxic places that pollute the mind with fallacies, platitudes, or worse.
May I humbly suggest https://github.com/skeeto/endlessh for both fun and profit
I made a little side project https://totalrealreturns.com/ to plot inflation-adjusted asset and asset class returns, including the USDOLLAR virtual symbol which represents a nominal dollar. (Most users just enter symbols they care about, though.) In real (purchasing power) terms, I think this announcement means:

1. The Fed thinks the green line is declining too fast. (Green line = purchasing power of a nominal USDOLLAR, such as a paper dollar bill, or a zero-interest checking account.)

2. In order to make the green line flatten out a bit, we're going to raise interest rates more, reducing the supply of capital.

3. In the short-term to medium-term, raising interest rates will have an adverse effect on the blue line (bonds), due to interest rate sensitivity.

4. In the medium to long term, the effect on bonds may in fact be positive due to higher interest rates, but this depends on future Fed actions as well. (It seems to me structurally unlikely to create substantially positive real retuns for treasury bonds, at least. Maybe corporate bonds will benefit.)

5. Raising interest rates is intended explicitly to reduce aggregate demand in the short-term to medium-term. This reduces corporate revenues and corporate profits, which should hurt the red line (equities).

6. Raising interest rates also increases the discount rate which is applied to net-present-value (NPV) calculations, which means that future cash flows are discounted more heavily. This should also hurt the red line (equities).
I have pulsatile tinnitus for the last 12 years, however it's also accompanied with a CONSTANT sensation of pulse, as if I can feel my arteries dancing, all around my scalp.

To this day, the doctors have been unable to find the root cause for either. I eventually learned to live with both and came to terms with the idea that I will never find out why this happens.

With that being said, I want to pursue a diagnosis for curiosity's sake as soon as my financial situation allows it.
I wonder if there’s anything else that started happening in the late oughts that might explain the trend (to socialism) the author claims to see.
[PDF] - "The_Animate and the Inanimate": https://ia800903.us.archive.org/22/items/TheAnimateAndTheIna...
Yea, it strikes me as the sort of situation where monetary policy does somewhat intentionally live in a vacuum compared to more general policy. Changing the interest rate doesn't dictate what companies or people do with the money they're borrowing/not lending at that rate.

The Fed generally has pretty coarse tools. Whether the increased monetary supply is spent on "good" or "bad" things is up to more general policy choices made in other parts of the government.
This is among the reasons I very nearly converted to Catholicism, though doesn't everyone have to at least believe in the divinity of Jesus?

I've always thought that churches should solicit people of the same general morality to participate, regardless of god-belief. As such, it's sad that there isn't something like a community church that filled this need for those of on the outside.

Speaking of admin privies, I can verify. I had a close friend many years ago who was a card-carrying member of the Church of Satan. He went on to become a Catholic priest, swear to God.
You gave me my start in 2009 when you let me build Posterous themes. That experience introduced me into the world of startups, pushed me to become better at code, helped me get my start in design, and ultimately changed my life forever.

I can't thank you enough for giving a nobody like me a shot, and I can't wait to passively watch as you continue to do this for countless others!
Do people think that Rumble doesn't have a moderation policy and moderation team?

https://rumble.com/s/terms#policies
There is some value to a jobs program if it provides the basis for a larger rocketry industry. The type of knowledge necessary to build and operate these craft is highly specialized and without applying and passing on that knowledge we will lose it. Also SpaceX will have competitors, and those competitors will need a hiring pool, otherwise the growth of the industry will be constrained.
Our most recent two tickets were from speed cameras. In both cases we sent in checks.