skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly Bobby was not much of a victor in this case. Related to TFA: if the Indians want their diamond back, let them come and get it. It's pretty clear why they don't, and who Tony and Bobby are in this particular version of the story.
Who would the neutral 3rd party be? It would still cause the same argument as above. The United States (Afghanistan would say no), China (India would say no), the Commonwealth (Afghanistan isn't a member), the UN (which Afghan government?), etc.
The way scientists are hunting down methane leaks and CFC cheaters using satellites gives me hope. Even in the cold war, there were nuclear test bans enforced using monitoring technology.
This reminds me of Bosch. The majority of the company is owned by the Robert Bosch Stiftung [1] which gets the most of the profit (after reinvestments into the company) to fund educational projects in the sense of Robert Bosch. In my opinion it's a nice concept to use the profits for things that benefit us. There are still other people in charge of advisories but they don't profit from it.

Let us hope that more companies follow the path of Bosch and Patagonia.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_Stiftung
Lesson learned: if anyone wants to try the same move, choose someplace where the host pays at the counter, before sitting down with the food. (What are some of the best Bay Area eateries that work that way?)
Apple needed Steve Jobs back then. It needs another Steve Jobs now as well. Under Tim Cook, Apple has been great in terms of stock-market price and profitability, but the company clearly lacks a unifying vision for the future. They've bought themself time, but sooner rather than later, we'll see Apple decline and it won't look good.
You should look up the definition of “democracy” in a dictionary before accusing others of making up a definition.

Im not just trying to “win an argument”, like you accuse me of, I’m pointing out an inaccuracy of your statement. Through your childish outburst I can see that you’re defining democracy to include other aspects of what you deem to be “good governance” — fine, but that’s confusing given the well known definition which doesn’t necessarily include those things.
Web design agencies and software body shops like WITCH are also tech companies.

They may not 100% own their own software work, foster a poor software development culture and probably build on spaghetti inherited from some offshore firm they paid no more than a few grand for. And I know many software developers that would advise against joining these companies. But still, these companies would not exist without computing or the internet. Therefore, they are tech companies.
You should probably ask for a refund then.
I never see anyone, always normal debit cards instead of paying on credit (loan), and the first question you get when your card's color looks unfamiliar and it doesn't work on the first try is whether it's a credit card because those aren't commonly supported. It's virtually nonexistent. My dad has one for booking hotels abroad afaik, but while in NL you just never need it and I never see them around.
"Compositionality" isn't there yet, but but the rate of improvement is impressive. Today there was a new release of CLIP which provides significantly better compositionality in Stable Diffusion - https://twitter.com/laion_ai/status/1570512017949339649

It'll be interesting to see how it fares against winoground once we get a publicly available SD release that makes use of the new CLIP.
If you are referring to Veritasium's Waymo video, it says it is sponsored content in the description above the fold and it has the standard paid promotion notice right on top of the video as soon as you open it.

As far as I can tell the "controversy" over the video is merely that one dedicated critic - so dedicated he made an hour-long response to a 20-minute video - is committed to the idea that machines won't ever be able to drive, and is irrationally angry over the fact that machines can and do drive, and do it well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjztvddhZmI
Ah! I stand corrected.
I own an Amiga and use Lisp all the time. But the Amiga's coolness peaked around 1990; Lisp's coolness peaked in the late 70s or so.

Lisp still feels great to use, but it doesn't really have an advantage over modern programming languages the way it did over languages from the 70s/80s, or even stone-knives-and-bearskins Unix development without an IDE. Many of the killer features of Lisp machines could be found in 90s Visual Basic.

It kind of parallels the Amiga situation: by 1994 PCs had closed the gap, offering more CPU power and even a better gaming experience than the Amiga but diehards still keep comparing their boxes to the 5150 PC with CGA to feel superior.

So if you want to use Lisp because it feels good to use -- it's fun to drive like an MGA is -- that's fine, but in the end you're no better off with Lisp than you would be with C# or TypeScript and in some ways you're worse off.
Thank you for the verbose answer, though I disagree with most points.

1) "having everything trading for essentially real money doesn't change that underlying level of engagement." It has been long established that this is absolutely the case. A classic example of this would be Diablo 3's RMAH effectively destroying the game by having the entire economy be driven by real-world profit-seeking grind

2) I consider this to be very misleading. All of these intra-game features are not made available by the blockchain itself, but by the details of the various Smart Contracts involved. In that sense, the set of instructions available to would-be developers to interact with a game is going to be limited by the operations (and the various rules governing them) that are present in the smart contracts. If a game features permission-less development like this, it's because its developers have decided to make the requisite operations available and documented. This is no different than a regular documented public API.

3) I see nothing preventing this from being done without the blockchain.

4) This is the one potentially interesting wrinkle, but I find it to have marginal interest at best. Assets are inherently immortal unless explicit steps are taken by developers to prevent them to be. What is actually at play here is Immortal Entity Ownership, aka Immortal Scarcity. That's very interesting from a revenue-making potential, but not really much more than that.

5) That does not make the game itself better though.
Space is "international waters". Any country has the right to remove dangerous debris from the ocean or from space.
Yeah this. I don't mind SaaS in theory. In practice it is just a more expensive and invasive way of a way to get your software.

Too many apps think 10$/mo is reasonable. Thats 120$ a year. Absurd.
Yeah I guess, but grinding/mining is not sybil proof. So the only thing that cryptocurrency improves is replacing that with buying and trading items with actual money, or mining stuff with PoW.

You couldn't have a blockchain equivalent of World-of-Warcraft. You have no meaningful way to testify that you recieve an item from killing a boss, for example.

The only thing you can really implement with cryptocurrency is a market game, gambling on the outcome of a game, or crypto-tokenized items/stats. These have their own problems as well, mostly being that their development structure is usually not decentralized enough to warrant the use of cryptocurrency.
The vuln in question here is: “an attacker could take over an IRC channel where a Matrix bridge is present by confusing the bridge into merging it with a different channel”.

It isn’t a bug in Matrix itself, or Matrix servers or clients, but an IRC-specific thing in that IRC bridge implementation. It’s obviously a nasty bug from an IRC perspective, but it really doesn’t feel like something that should stop you promoting Matrix. It feels a bit like we are being penalised for being transparent on publicising security issues…
Why solve this problem when there are other unrelated problems I care about?
Yes I’m sure there were never genocides and famines before the British got there…
Ethereum Already Showing Signs of Increased Centralization
That's awesome.

I always wish that I was able to do construction/trades stuff.

The few times I've tried, even on the easiest of easy stuff, it's a disaster. Know one's strengths, know one's weaknesses. One has to play to one's strengths.

But if I could, I most surely would do something in the trades.
The Reddit comment linked by the topmost comment here says that you claimed AI couldn’t do knowledge graphs and then silently stopped claiming that after being proven wrong. Do you dispute that telling of events?
This is like being sad to hear that lentils are healthy but broccoli is even healthier, but you only like lentils.

Just do healthy stuff that works for you and don’t worry about something you don’t want to do being slightly healthier.
We found sanity in a subset of Tailwind CSS
apparently it cost roughly $10k/year for an archive node back in 2020:

https://tjayrush.medium.com/building-your-own-ethereum-archi...

the point is that bitcoin has intentionally restricted block size to not expand the blockchain size at a prohibitive rate
My weird way is by looking at what my Tinder matches listen to. My Tinder matches have something in common with me and I notice that through their music. Thinking about it, I've learned quite a few things thanks to chats on Tinder. I jokingly call it "Tinder University"

I guess I just see lessons and stuff to learn wherever I am.
A massive PR move for a company in one of the most unnecessarily wasteful industries.
Or you can offer substantial tax incentives for founders to cash out by selling to their own employees; e.g., the ESOP system in the US.
Very much agreed, but…

My favorite AH score was a max stat level 3 chest piece that I sold for $25.

That piece was good for 5 or maybe 10 minutes of gameplay at the start of the game.

I knew it was a premium piece for that level and type. I knew they didn’t stay on AH long. That said, I didn’t want to compete with all of the lower price point folks, so i set the price to something absurd just to see what happened.

I have no idea why they bought it.

I had much better late game stuff for sale for much cheaper that never sold. It was a strange market — I’m glad it is gone.
Reminds me of zone 2 training [1]

My target (aka zone 2) is around 140 bpm which I can achieve by walking fairly briskly -- I can still hold a telephone conversation and breath through my nose.

I have tried running in the past but I kept injuring this or the other (not at all athletic). Doing "slow" 10k+ steps per day total did not help with my weight either. But just doing these 1-hr zone-2 sessions (3-4x per week) made all the difference. Ofc ymmv!

[1] https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/fitness/zone-2...
True, but that's hardly a use case.
If it's five unskippable 6-second ads, that's 30 seconds of unskippable ads. The skip point for Youtube ads has always been around 5 seconds, so that's 25 seconds longer than it was back when you just got one skippable ad.

My experience has been that when I get two ads, they allow you to skip, or they're a few seconds long.
I wonder how recent the portrayal you describe is. The popular view may have been influenced by Per Olof Sundman's book about it from 1967, it was certainly of that opinion. But I wonder if it was a widespread opinion also before then. I believe they got state funerals when they were found.
Not on the scale as afterwards, no.
A company can respond without a "media department" or whatever.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that we cannot rely on big centralized payment processors. First it was PayPal, now it’s Stripe.

I know HN has a natural dislike to anything crypto, but I really hope crypto can eventually bypass this bullshit
> "Different socialist and communist communities interpret this differently. The fundamental baseline is no one should starve, no one should be homeless, no one should lack basic medical care -- essentially there should be a baseline safety net for everyone."

Ok, well show me the communist country that lives up to even those ideals and doesn't have an elite ruling class that has privilege and benefits above the working class and poor.

> "I would say yes, authoritarian communism is prone to the outcomes you describe."

Well, yeah. That's pretty much the only type of communism that exists. You can't choose to not live by communism in a communist country. It's by its very nature authoritarian. Because if they were, say, to allow real deviation from that economic and societal system (not the "managed" deviation you see in places like China), their system would quickly fall apart. If today I decided to go and live on a commune in Washington that functions locally under the principles of communism or socialism, I would be able to do so. Nobody could say boo. You can't decide to go and live by the principles of free markets/capitalism (again, real capitalism) in China or any other communist country.
I mean saas as subscription, i don't think it's applicable otherwise. E.g. hotels are not a service as are not airplanes. Neither is uber, you buy itemized rides from individual riders, the fact that uber mediates it doesnt make it a xaas. Otherwise, every grocery store would be a xaas
It seems highly unlikely that grid PV solar has a higher EROI than nuclear and I can't find anything that supports this either (I find plenty of graphs supporting the opposite).
Just about every rant on Marcus or other AI critics is some combination of "you aren't admitting these things are making great progress on the benchmarks" (implying the false idea that "a whole lot of progress" adds up to human level AI) and "you are making 'human level' an unfair moving target by not having a benchmark for it". The thing about this is that if there was a real "human level benchmark", we'd be 80% done but we can't and we aren't. Marcus and other critics have drawn explicit lines (spatial understanding, composibility, etc)but even those being crossed won't prove human-level understanding. There is no proof of human, just a strong enough demonstration. And if someone can point to dumb stuff in the demo, it isn't strong.

PS: your link is an embarrassment. It would be flagged and dead if you pasted in the text here.
Fair point. A lot of these things changed in the late 1960s, as new narratives were furiously being constructed.
It's a very personal question, and thus there can be no wrong answer other than a lie. Even that would have to be taken at face value.

To OP those things are what they said- the fact you see them differently is fine, but irrelevant.

Do you have a lowest hill to die on?

I've been mulling it over, but can't come up with anything.

I'm quite sure I've got some pretty nonsensical ones.
I wish they'd use less plastic. It's hard to find anything from Patagonia that uses environmentally-friendly materials.

Perhaps they can research a way to make performance fabrics that are better for the earth.

Allbirds has been a real pioneer in this space, and they've shown that you can use natural, sustainable materials and produce a product just as good as the others.
There's some professionalism involved with not just dropping 0day against someone's consumer product when it enables piracy or bypasses security functions, especially when you're employed in industry. PlayStation also accepted these through their bounty program, so there's a monetary incentive as well.
Can the Figma founder do that … eventually?
I'm now working for a local software agency which contracts my clients for me. Through them I've been able to get my work visa/permit. Took me some time to arrive at this point.
Abstract link for convenience:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00521
Yeah, and AI is probably already near primate level intelligence, so what’s left is a blink of an eye in evolutionary timelines.
"Gaming" often refers to gambling. There is a whole world of gaming separate from video games—online slots, poker, etc.. Intentional or not, most crypto games are much closer to traditional gaming than video games.
In my opinion, nothing has ever come close to the rich economic system that emerged naturally in Diablo 2. Maybe it just hit me at a good time in my life, towards the end of high school.

I spent probably half my time playing that game just doing arbitrage trading. For example a sorceress or necromancer would always give you 4-5 Perfect Skulls for a Stone of Jordan (SOJ) ring, and you could pretty easily buy an SOJ from a barbarian or amazon for 3-4 Perfect Skulls. Through nothing but these trades I was able to go from a couple SOJ (the most valuable 1x1 item in the game) to about 40 or 50 over the course of a few months.
How much stories like this do we need to accept that this shit must be regulated?
thanks that makes 100x more sense!
https://jvns.ca/

Julia Evans blog posts are always a treat to read.

* Doesn't skimp on the technical details / resources / examples.

* Incredibly readable, human focused language that doesn't "talk down" to a reader.

* Wide range of useful topics: Networking, Careers, Soft-Skill, Writing, etc.

* Amazing & informative Art/Zines.

I leaned on her wisdom often when I found myself suddenly thrust into a career as a DevOps Network Engineer.

Her writing very validating for me during some particularly turbulent projects I was working on.

It helped me find my own language to advocate for my code/designs in the face of (often needless) scruitiny from technical and non-technical team members.

Even if you're familiar with the subject matter of a post -- there's a 99% chance that it'll still be worth it to skim, and come away with something you didn't have before.

Huge fan.
There were some really smart people out there working on the assembly line - accountants and other professionals. A lot of people had a second job or owned another business. The job itself is pretty mind-numbing, but if you're on a good team you can have a good time.
Roger Federer's Retirement Letter
I am completely in line with your thoughts on eating animals. I used to call myself a farmer but the truth is I can't even slaughter any of my chickens, and was shattered when one died last year. It's a luxury belief. I am also sympathetic to those who don't have that luxury.

I do know the farmers we buy meat from. I am grateful for what they and the butcher do for me.

TBH I have also worked through the ethics of bacteria but eventually came to the same conclusion Ben Franklin did. He was a vegetarian for quite some time. In his autobiography he describes seeing someone cut open a fish and seeing inside it the three fish it had eat recently. He went back to eating meat after realizing we're all on the food chain.

I have even thought about the research showing almost-sentient behavior, or at least chemical reactions, in plants. It troubles me a little. Again, they would have no compunction about consuming me if I were available to them in consumable form. I am certainly never going to advocate against eating plants though.
I wish more articles followed the standard essay format. At least state your main thesis in the first paragraph.

There are interesting things buried in here, but I don’t have time for rambling.

The edge cases of image models have been more succinctly summarized and speculated upon elsewhere.
I’d personally rather avoid something toxic (even if only small doses). My teeth will be fine
Here's the websites of one of my professors [1]. He teaches Multimedia from the computer science perspective. It's a hated/loved website and I really liked it back in the day because it really went intensely deep on the concept of hyperlinks. Web Archive [2] has crawled it since 2010, but I'm sure it's a lot older than that. Many crawlers of students have been crashing on it.

[1] http://eliens.net/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20100201000000*/http://eliens.ne...
Now it seems like you are the one moving the goalposts. There are tons of machine-learned models in production, in translation, text segmentation, image segmentation, image search, predictive text composition, etc. It's just that people forget the novelty of all these things immediately after they were launched. You can point your phone at printed Chinese text and have it read aloud to you in English. That is alien tech compared to 10 years ago.
Yup.

If it were sufficiently dense to fish, it'd be worth more to collect and keep it in orbit — that junk has a lot of high-grade materials and a lot of already-imparted momentum. Just[] move it all into a few large objects that can be managed as large craft, and the debris problem is solved, and there's a mineable resource already in orbit.

[] "Just" is doing some escape-velocity-class lifting there — all that junk is in such massively different orbital planes and altitudes that silly amounts of ΔV are needed to fetch each one and then to pull it back to dock with the new orbital junkheap.
I also walk in flip flops. I’d go barefoot if I could.
It's like the argument that California should be given back to Mexico, when Mexico itself was a Spanish colonial construct.
> And from what I remember Skyline drive was the original way to go north and south on the peninsula (dirt road)

PTSD, activated! I had a sadist as a DMV driving instructor who forced me to take my test on that road.
Consumer welfare is stupid, but all these SAAS rent-seeking makes me feel like you could actually make a case.
I'm curious what they're going to do, long term, about their use of PFAS (the alleged forever chemicals) in waterproofing. Apparently they've been trying to reduce usage or find alternatives, but the alternatives aren't demonstrably better.
You might not have a problem with your phone costing $2000 dollars in that case, but there's so much machinery, equipment, chips, materials and various other products that would massively increase in cost or simply couldn't be produced anywhere else.

How would that affect healthcare, education, manufacturing, whatever? I'm guessing that the amount of avoidable deaths that would be caused just because you can't get a chip that you need for a medical diagnostic device would soon be rivaling potential climate change deaths.

Climate change needs to be tackled and globalization isn't my favorite thing in the world, but I don't think this is the right way.
FWIW I think Page and Brin have retained voting control of the company through some differentiated class of common shares. So Sundar is probably more interested in pleasing them than some Wall Street analysts.
Ideally it should be “bought” from the 3 countries and they should receive a sort of donation.

AFAIK they need money a lot more than Britain, and tangible food and resources are a lot more useful than a pretty diamond.

Though I kind of doubt this will happen…
> Salesforce buying slack

I'm a very heavy slack user for work and personal workspaces and haven't seen anything bad yet, though I also don't pay the bill for those organizations. Im sure over time it may get worse, but for the meantime this seems to be one of those rare acquisitions where the child company is doing so well the parent may be afraid to touch it (rightfully so).

> Microsoft buying Github

This one haunts my dreams. Microsoft is drawing a huuuuge moat around the developer experience. I have to imagine they will tighten the noose within the next 5 years. Ditto for Gaming as they now own half the games industry: EA, Activision/Blizzard, Obsidian, and many many more.
The reason is simple - in math, it means solving open problems.
Maybe with your genetics a higher BP is fine. Health studies are often/usually wrong and BP has high variance. Not sure how you could know though.
Yes, especially when machine translation seems to handle it just fine.