skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Capitalism is when you exploit government policy to exclude others people from a market, in order to make more money?

Yes. Markets incentivize anticompetitive behavior.

Government policy is far from the only way to exclude others from the market, so you'll want to pursue other strategies as well: dumping to destroy small competitors, merging to incorporate them, deals with peers to avoid competing head-on, etc. In theory these are all illegal, but in practice they are commonplace, so don't neglect them.

> Being incentivized to make money is not all it takes to make it capitalism.

No, but strong property rights and perpetual private ownership of land are very much capitalism things, as is tilting the power equation away from "people" and towards "owners." In theory this incentivizes good stewardship and investment, but in practice it also incentivizes cornering the market.

> If the policy is a net-negative for the market as a whole then the market will work to get rid of the policy

Why on earth would you think that? "Monopolize resource, drive up scarcity, profit" is a quintessential capitalist hustle. It leverages the same machinery used to incentivize types of investment that are actually productive, but it's a lot easier than being actually productive. You just have to get in early.

> The only reason it would stick around is if there are motivations excluding capital/market aspects, such as equity, altruism, and social good.

Lol, so homeowners who don't want to see their property values tank have nothing to do with the problem? NIMBYs are just a bunch of misguided altruistic do-gooders who need to be persuaded of the merits in free market capitalism?

My sides.
Yes. It means that you can’t use a write primitive to simply modify an already executable page.
well, what if I just want to run this on my laptop...?
Also, are there benchmark tasks that you either created or that already exist that you evaluated the model on?

PS - please don't let this me used at a way to prevent human interaction. Chatbots are a disaster and literally the worst possible application of ML, as a shitty interface to a menu system. I hope this will be used in a way that is not consumer-hostile and that the company actively resists ignorant business attempts to use it to avoid paying for customer support.
Second that. Also what guardrails look like for it :)
Pretty accurate, actually. Even has details of the several recently built city metro rail systems.
Whether or not a particular set of executives (who have all left at this point) are shit at their jobs is a totally different question to what is a reasonable salary for an executive.

As far as early days of wikipedia. I agree the community is what provides value. But at the same time i think there is a lot of rose coloured glasses for that era. I remember there being a lot of downtime and slowness on the site in that era.
Of course what you're saying is true.

However, you're dealing with people that believe a market economy is fundamentally unethical. They believe that benefits such as housing should be assigned entirely according to the individual's need, not how much money they are willing or able to spend on it.

And who better than them as the judge of neediness?

So of course it makes sense that you have people protesting this development in the article, demanding that 100% of the units be "below market rate," despite the obvious economic unfeasibility of this. After all, profit taking or "rent seeking" is inherently unethical and exploitative.

They may have prevented 75 units from getting built, but at least they stopped a developer exploiting people's need for housing for profit. And, as a bonus, they send a message to other developers that you defy them at your peril.
The general answer to any 'How do I become a researcher in X?' is typically to get a PhD in X. It also comes with perks like being immersed in a lab with similarly minded people, access to resources, classes, mentoring and not lastly, job opportunities.

That being said, if all you care about is learning so that you can build on your own, and you can pay for the computing resources yourself (don't underestimate that part!), it should be totally possible to go your own way, provided you have a decent background in math.

I'd start with some of the basics like the Hastie et al. ESL and the Goodfellow DL books, if you haven't already worked through them, and then look at the papers at the latest conferences. Read them, look up the papers they cite and the papers that cite them, basically build up your Google-Scholar-Fu.

Depending on how motivated you are, I reckon it should be possible to learn how to build something cool (not necessarily academically publishable) quite a bit faster than the typical 4-6 years to get a PhD. But don't forget that in DL a lot of the edge comes from having access to gigantic data sets and the infrastructure to train 1bn+ parameter models on massive GPU clusters.
Don’t think MDM could do stuff like disable JIT.
I've been using it for the past few days. I mainly use my phone as a text-based communication device, with occasional feed-scrolling (such as reading HN or twitter).

So far, the only annoyance is that sites relying on custom fonts for icons can end up with indecipherable UI elements (e.g. a button with a "refresh" icon is now just a button with an empty square)
When I pay money for a service I compare the benefit I'm getting to the cost of the service and decide whether it's worth it. This works pretty well!

When I donate to a charity I compare the altruistic benefit my marginal contribution will produce to the amount I'm donating. This doesn't work very well, because it's really hard to estimate the benefit to society. But it still worth doing, because there are a lot of really valuable things that aren't going to be funded unless we put up our money.
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A lightweight self-hosted alternative to Notion, Paper and Google Docs for:

- product docs

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Here are advantages:

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2. Advanced writing experience based on Editor.js — popular open source WYSIWYG (20k stars)

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What do you think?
If they get more donations it does, though.
>Overall it's very interesting to see Apple invest so significantly in something that will benefit relatively few users -- not that I'm complaining!

Getting world leaders, celebrities and CEOs to use their devices might make this part of their marketing budget.
It is called inboard brakes. I think there is a chance they make a comeback with electric cars because the braking system can be zero maintenance due to regen and the half shafts are already very strong due to the powerful motors.
Implement some of the core utils on a standard Unix env.

cat, ping, netcat, grep, cut, etc.
A big shortcoming - 3rd party apps.

Many hacks these days exploit Whatsapp incoming message processing, etc.

Every app with push notification support increases your attack surface.
I'm going to vote against corporate racism by closing my Twilio account.
From contemporary technical documentation, it doesn’t really look like Microsoft had exactly planned to just sit on IE once it had won.

That first Web push gave us XMLHttpRequest, it gave us IDispatchEx and Windows Scripting (where JScript stagnated only after the Sun settlement, enough for a next-generation version in the form of JScript.NET to get developed and consequently die[1]), it gave us HTAs (“Electron as a Windows platform feature”), DHTML (a non-standard abomination, yes, but so was <IMG>) not only implemented in IE but supported in FrontPage and Word, Active Desktop with its channels (OK, one might argue those count as a negative amount of features, but they were serious about it), the Web Publishing Wizard and the Personal Web Server (bundled with an end-user product!).

This does not look like the work of people who were planning to do just enough to win and then stop—it looks like they were really into it (and they were really into a lot of things at the time, simultaneously), then came the “oh shit” realization that helping the Web eat the platform lunch is maybe not exactly in your interest[2] when that lunch is firmly yours at the moment.

(Java’s attempt at same they were very consciously thwarting—can’t find that Gates memo now—but then Java was pretty explicit and deliberate about that attempt, while the Web just kind of happened to be the only leak when a lot of people started feeling around the dam for a lot of different reasons.)

[1] https://ericlippert.com/2003/10/14/designing-jscript-net/

[2] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
Yes! We plan on putting out a more detailed technical post soon.
I think the radio engineers suffer at the hands of poorly-shielded switch-mode power supplies and inadvertent spark-gap transmitters caused by aging powerline infrastructure more than anything else.
Twitter IS a use case where relevant people post good insights.

Yet, Twitter as a product lost focus many years ago what they want to be and for whom.

The product has terrible discovery and search. Velocity is super-high so you are missing posts all the time (and people miss yours).

And unless you have an audience already it is broken for 99% of the users for content distribution.

Further, I am convinced that a lot of the reported "users" are copies of the same person behind it, bots, or apps.

All of this was motivation that led into building finclout. Having identity/reputation managed on-chain IS a use case where blockchain makes sense. and is really important to understand if a source is credible or not. There is a lot of spam, fakes, and pumps on Twitter which makes most "social sentiment" ML models worthless.
No, Apple uses mirror mappings or fast permission restrictions to flip the bits if available.
Shemya Air Force Base (now Eareckson Air Station) in the Aleutian Islands had a policy that weight limits were waived for entertainment media. So you weren't going to be charged any penalties for bringing in movies, comics, CDs, or books because they increased the quality of life of such an isolated base (you were expected to share).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eareckson_Air_Station
Shockley is the exception to the 'tolerating assholes' rule, he was far enough outside the rails that he was largely shunned by his peers, subordinates, and everyone else.
> 2. If someone posts a gif in an iMessage thread, it doesn't show up

This sounds like a positive for me. I disable animations in chat whenever it’s an option.
Here is what antirez (Salvatore Sanflippo), the author of Redis said when DragonflyDB was posting similar benchmarks few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31563641

TL;DR Unlikely to be apples to apples comparison and you can get much more performance out of Redis easily.
Looks like RMS addressed this 4chan shitpost in the GNU website.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.html

Actually pretty funny! I can't believe he wrote an article about it.
Yes he probably knew about Twitter's pervasive spam problem before but today has been a particularly bad day, as spammers are deploying a large number of hijacked verified accounts to impersonate the Ethereum founder coinciding with a major network change happening today.

While all spam is bad, scams posted from a fake "verified" account are particularly odious.
There's a nice Corecursive podcast episode with the authors about their last book.

https://corecursive.com/023-little-typer-and-pie-language/
I'm tempted to build a filter that automatically ignores any comment on HN with the word 'woke.' It is, legitimately, the most annoying culture war I have seen on any forum.
This one is absolutely golden. Read down typeclassopedia, do this one and you're basically ready to ship.
Essentially, the Buran orbiter had different function, and thus different forces on its form.

US' STS shape was ultimately dictated by its cross range requirements combined with cargo capacity. Explicit case of function leading to specific form.

Buran didn't require the same huge cargo capacity in the orbiter, because Soviets had already tested and verified self-assembly of space station in orbit from multiple launched modules (technology that they would later employ in ISS). For huge capacity it had Energia, which once proven could be also launched on Polar orbits (the specific requirements from USAF for STS involved heavy cargo on polar orbits from Vandenberg).

This meant that Buran orbiter had wider design space to explore, and previous experiments in crewed reusable spacecraft were centered around lifting body shape, to extent much higher than STS was. However, the command to make it look like US STS came pretty early in the project, in addition to general lack of documents, so we don't really know how they would go.
I can see your point, but it makes it very hard for new comers. I was talking to someone the other day who had bought 3 DACs for different purposes to listen to YouTube sound on their edifier speakers and headphones. Its difficult to tell them they could probably not bother with the dacs, but there's a whole echo chamber about these things that confuses the new comers.
I wonder what would happen if you replied to the post I wrote rather than the one you imagined?
We used a combination of human demonstrations and feedback data!
You need custom software both to record the demonstrations and to represent the state of the Tool in a model-consumable way.
Except you basically said "they quit solely because of money" and the article basically says "it wasn't at all about the money."

Those are very different things. One isn't a "simplified" version of the other.
It's crazy how they never patented it
> Literally every single example you're going to reply with is wrong

Well, this is a very extraordinary claim… also, one that makes me feel like any potential example will be dismissed by you, as you seem to have essentially considered every single instance of armed conflict involving firearms.

The rest of your comment goes over several examples but I think the foundation is flawed. There is no scenario where there would be 10 million AR-15s vs 10k “mechanized infantrymen.” It’s also akin to saying matches are useless in a competition to see who can detonate the biggest sick of dynamite.

Just touching on your first example. Of course to win an international war against the largest empire on earth, you will need more than just firearms. However, the mere existence of an access to firearms is an undeniable factor in the way things turned out.

Do you really believe independence would have been gained through “strong civic organization and rule of law” - as you claim? You then follow that by saying if that doesn’t work, whoever has more cash and weapons usually wins… certainly not what happened in the revolutionary war… nor the next big conflict (war of 1812).
Ask HN: Someone here could please help to scale my app?
hi everybody, i am the creator of talkfi app, i have close to 1M downloads, i am working alone, i need advice to scale my app, at night when much people use the app at same time the app becomes slower, my DB and servers are in AWS, someone here could you please help me and to say me how to scale my app? thanks in advance

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I assume it would be difficult for most users to make informed decisions on this
2FA Backup Paradox
Given what I've heard about people getting banned for "self-bots"[0] they seem to err more on the "ban humans that look too bot-like" side of that dilemma.

That being said, while there is some overlap between the two, it's not terribly difficult to detect specific things that bots would want to do, such as scrape a Discord channel, and ban any human accounts that match that profile. A regular human is going to be sending lots of messages and querying message history only rarely; a bot is going to hit the message history API as quickly as the rate limits allow and never send a single message.

Browser fingerprinting could also be used to sus out bots that don't look like a web browser enough. Most bot developers are just making HTTP requests rather than firing up a real browser and attaching to it with WebDriver[1]. Once you do that then you have to play walls-and-ladders[2] with the Discord user-interface team. Oops, your bot just clicked on the fake invisible "please ban me immediately" button that we snuck in right next to the link that opens #general! Oops, we decided to obfuscate all message content so that incoming message JSON is unreadable and outgoing HTML requires having your specific Discord CSS loaded to view it!

Just as there's unlimited ways to disguise a bot as a human, there's also unlimited ways to unmask them or frustrate them while remaining usable for human users. Turing completeness is a harsh mistress, and scrapers only work because people find economic value in being scraped - not that scrapers have an inherent advantage.

[0] Scraping your own Discord client token and using it to authenticate a Discord bot with your own account

[1] Writing a WebExtension content script to inject input into a browser would also work to self-bot

[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120117-00/?p=85...
The point is that just because you have something to hide doesn't mean you've done anything wrong. You might end up sharing that information in certain situations, but carefully. The framing those who promulgate that phrasing want to push is that not wanting to share information with the government makes you suspicious, because your only possible reason could be wrongdoing. This notion is hostile to liberty and security.
I roughly agree that get throughput is not generally a bottleneck, but

> 17.5k RPS which is an HUGE amount if we think that this would require easily between 50 and 100 machines beefy machines!

Maybe we have different definitions of beefy, but in terms of HTTP, we serve 2-4x this on less than half that.
Man, that sounds like an incredible system! The company that I am working for currently is, frankly, desperate to keep people on staff and struggling to hire competent people to fill the roles we have open. I really can't see them going for anything of that caliber of hiring process any time soon, but I will absolutely keep that in mind.

And, yep, even though it's only your and my own opinion, it certainly seems like some form of mandated quota, initiative, etc. does seem to cause some level of damage, whether it be as bad, or worse, than the thing it's trying to defeat. It's not so much an outer thing, but an inner thing that gnaws at your confidence and ability.

I find the idea of offering some kind of special leverage to be demeaning in a way I can't quite express. To my ears, it comes off as, "We know that you can't win without our help, so we'll throw you a bone. Be grateful to us now." I get that's not the intention, but man, it's hard to even see how the outcome is all that different. I just want to see myself, and others succeed purely based on merit. On doing a good job. And if that means that a manager, "See's a lot of white faces in the office" then it ought not be seen as a problem, but instead - shocker - the companies workforce. To not see those workers as some metric. The idea of being counted out like grapes for some fruit salad...it's just crushing.
Finding out about lisp-1 and lisp-2 when hacking in elisp turned me off so much I've decided to write my own editor in Scheme. This is my personal crusade for the next X months.
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It means an attacker with an arbitrary-write vuln needs to be able to target a page as the JITted code is being written to it, rather than being able to target any existing page with code in it.
The sliders labelled basic are slightly confusing, especially as it's dimmed suggesting 'basic' is off.

Maybe a down arrow and advanced?

Also as a non USian without a zip code, this is fairly useless to me.
Problems related to privacy are making wider circles, more people who would normally not care are being made aware and this is changing the society on scale which is hard to imagine.

> It is only a matter of time until governments will start prosecuting us en masse using the results of always on surveillance.

I know many who chose not to opt in to technical means allowing surveillance, and I come from the country where people were historically going very far to protect their freedom, including ending up in torture room... we have this in our blood. Many will simply stop using or even owning devices mandated by government, even if the price is very high.
How does the AI alter it's models during a process? I thought the weight models are pregenerated and not altered once used in a real-life app.
You reveal that you never had any intention of engaging honestly.

This is the very first line from the very first post in the thread:

>> It’s hard, if not impossible, to avoid use-after-frees in a non-trivial codebase.
Sounds like you could do with a week or two of leave. Don't let yourself burn out. Take a break.
Indeed this, it's more about platform control.

I really hope the EU will succeed in forcing Apple to allow third party app stores. That would be a game changer. People that are happy to stay in the walled garden can simply not use any other app stores but for someone like me it will open up iOS as an actual option I can choose. Right now there's too many things I can't do on iOS.

Though honestly, I'd be even happier with a real third option instead.
Buran had different design requirements (once you discard the political), because unlike STS the orbiter wasn't sole launcher of the system - Energia took care of shipping heavy cargo to whatever orbit you wanted. So they had different set of constraints including size & prospective contents of the cargo bay.

They have also flirted with the idea of just putting two jet engines into orbiter for extra cross range, which was probably not an option on STS given the huge dead weight of engines
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Unless you just enjoy the process of acquisition.

I’ve seen people shake and twitch with existential rage during negotiations that would result in their net worth possible going from ten figures to a marginally higher ten figures, and the same for the next order of magnitude. They were made either way, and they acted as though their life was at risk.

It is nothing but a greed impulse that most of us were taught to overcome during early childhood, but we give it license and credibility as some ultimate good.
I might be too simple of a person, but I donate €10 per year to Wikipedia which is nothing. In return, I get immediate access to a veritable wealth of accurate and up to date knowledge on more or less everything.

It’s such an amazingly great deal that I honestly think, who the F cares that they could have spent that money in a slightly more optimized way? Who cares that Jimmy Wales drives a BMW instead of a Volkswagen?

Who is the loser here? Do we really need to get this level of angry online because an already amazing situation isn’t perfect?
the noise floor at 16 bit is already low. 24 bit, much more common (and imo needless for consumers), is 256x lower than that.

there’s no part of the analogue capture process that can utilise such a low noise floor (as far as i’m aware): is there anything of value worth preserving there?
Probably can't, good point
Es liegt mir auf der Zunge welche Firma das ist.

I think it starts with a Wa ... you don’t have to say. I kind of remember to have been stumbled on a Twitter engineering ipv6 tweet. Maybe I m wrong.

For me it’s impressive to get so much data through a computer. But I have one question, what does count as a node, is a node like 1 machine with dual sockets, a lot of ram and a lot of nics or is it like multiple machines combined that act as 1 node like a whole 19 inch rack.
They know they have management problems. News at 11.