skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's definitely a more sane analysis of the situation, thank you for your two cents.

In general, these things frustrate me just as much as they did on Windows. I don't want random processes jumping up to use 100% of my CPU for no reason. I can't even count the number of times my Mac gets pinned by mdworker processes running in the background. It's reminiscent of pulling my hair out trying to understand why OneDrive or Edge is pinning one of my cores even though it isn't open.

My overall gripe is this pattern of behavior. I'd rather spend 2-5 seconds waiting for my QR code to load instead of my OS deciding to randomly cache it at some indeterminate point. Maybe other people disagree, though. Us HN users don't really tend to reflect the opinions of Joe Shmoe and his feelings towards modern computing.
yes its talking about a whitelist/auth database
>Nah, us americans are too smart for all that. We'll just start a nice big war.

So what you're cynically referring to is the war economy. The caveat of debt to gdp is that it's a balance. If you could take on debt and invest properly to the point that the returned GDP is greater. Then you end up lowering debt to gdp.

The caveat of the war economy is that it's not spent on yourself. The trope as it were is that the USA has been 'nation building' in the middle east and ended up neglecting back home.

For example, I am super excited to learn more about the B21 raider later this year. I expect the cost per stealth bomber will probably be around $5 billion each.

How many schools could you build with $5 billion if they decide to build just 1 less? How many roads could be built if you build 2 less?
I don't know if I'm just lucky, but I've rarely gotten unsolicited (bot)calls in the 10+ years that I've had a google voice + tmobile number. Anything online related I use gv#, for immediate family I use tmobile#. GV, from what I've seen, usually filters out spam calls by default so maybe that's why I haven't noticed.
I think these companies are failing to implement STIR/SHAKEN and are running into expiring grace periods. That's not necessarily evidence of guilt - they might claim that as a small business they cannot afford these changes - but it seems like the only option to clean up the mess caused by spammers.

The protocols are meant to allow tracing which network originated a call - at their root is an attestation by the network that a call they are originating for one of their customers is allowed to use the number in caller ID. If you're a network who wants your originating calls to be carried across other networks, you can't just set up a promiscuous attestation system that allows your customers to just slap on any random caller ID that they want, or else you'll get blacklisted real quick.
But why is the US government investing excess cash in US government debt rather than paying down that debt?
How has progress like this affected people's timelines of when we will get certain AI developments?
re "daily"; Weekly?
Emad (founder of Stability AI) has said they already have video model training underway, as well as text and audio. Exciting times.
jarvis render a video of nutsome cream spread on a piece of toast 4k HD
If there weren't such anticompetitive behavior by monopolistic behemoths, one could "have a say" by choosing to buy or produce the product which offers demanded features. These specific customer demands are common and well-known, yet their effectively "not having a say" has indeed occurred, given the fact these options are not made available anywhere in the behemoth-controlled market.
Your racism shows in your tone deaf comments.
Give me a first world country name, and I will give you links to the same behaviour of the said country vs India.
Insane, terrifying, incredible, etc.

We're rapidly stumbling into the future of media.

Who would've imagined a year ago that trivial AI image generation would not only be this advanced, but also this pervasive in the mainstream.

And now video is already this good. We'll have full audio/video clips within a month.
Has this been accompanied by a rise in testosterone by any chance?
The US civil war was a pretty impressive display of desire to right historical wrongs.
AAPL is 7.3% or so of the SP500.
SUPER helpful. Very grateful!
Well, it's not indirect. It's quite direct. India has fossil fuel deals with Russia and gets most of its weapons from Russia. America armed wars against India in the past and continues to be the largest source of military aid for India's regional enemy Pakistan. Indian-American relations have become quite good in recent times but geopolitics isn't a schoolyard my side v your side thing. You just manage the amount to which people will align with one or the other on a specific issue.
This is a violation of the 1991 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in the "making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship".
When a poor country takes off, emigration doesn't decrease: it increases, as people become more educated, better informed and can afford travel.
Mine was one of the later 6800-series - an 8-bit CISC CPU with enough 16-bit extensions to not feel too constrained. It's interesting that everything which made it a great learning platform (orthogonal instruction set, instructions for common but complex operations, ability to access lower bits of registers directly) make x64 a horrible instruction set to learn as your first. In that regard, x64 seems more RISC-like: it's intended for compilers to generate that, not humans.
Interesting projects! I bookmarked boringproxy for later reference. Just a quick comment: the feed on your homepage is nice - like a personal timeline - but it misses an RSS feed! ;)
Germany was under a lot of pressure to end its reliance on russian gas and got a lot of flack for having allowed such high dependency. Its also a supplier of weapons and financial aid as well as a member of nato. As you can see even between allies there is a lot of critique. I suppose the question is, what is _your_ point?
> The federal reserve's remittances to the treasury are likely to be completely wiped out within the coming year. The reason is that the (low) interest it earns on its existing portfolio of government securities is fixed and will stay flat while the interest the fed pays out is rising sharply and will rise even further as rates increase.

Can you explain your reasoning here? It seems wrong to me.

The Fed has stated in speeches that they are planning on keeping trillions of securities as assets on their balance sheet. These will continue to earn billions in interest per year. Further, they do not directly "pay out interest" -- they pay out their net income to the Treasury. Rising rates on US debt does not increase what the Fed has to pay out to the Treasury except indirectly if they purchase more higher-earning assets.
Evidence from California seems to suggest that ending the drug war locally has actually strengthened cartels: https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-09-08/ess...
The first indicator was that he was a journalist.
This appears to understand and generate text much better.

Hopefully just a few years to a prompt of "4k, widescreen render of this Star Trek: TNG episode".
Can you elaborate? I'm not completely following. Are you saying RPi wants to sell cheaply to specific customers and prevent everyone else from getting their hands on the product, even at the cost of increased revenue and (probably) margins?
I wasnt aware india is doing that but that should also stop.
The fantastic book “Four Thousand weeks: time management for mortals” touches on this in depth.
Has anyone ballparked what a modern Hubble would cost to build?
Spotify acquired a company that detects harmful content in podcasts
Another is the build infrastructure. Right now, you can only use Rust on platforms that the official Rust compiler compiles for, which is a lot narrower set than where Linux runs. The long-term solution for this are the various GCC Rust projects, but those are still ways out. Correspondingly, there are a lot of kernel subsystems where Rust is not welcome until those projects mature.
Where do you all think that money in your savings accounts comes from (originally, not your immediate counter-party)?

Government spending. The government (or FED) are the only ones that can spend more money into existence.

Just imagine what will happen if the government starts to seriously make big changes to reduce that debt. Deflation is my guess, unless the FED prints to counteract them. In which case the "debt" just changes hands.
I CAN turn off AEB in my car, but I would NEVER do that, because it's only shown itself to be very reliable. It's radar based. I never get false warnings from stationary objects and I've only had a single warning that I would consider phantom.
Sorry but you veered way past "someone pointing it out" and crashed your car into the bike shed when you said "The author (Doeppner, it seems) should be embarrassed."
That is not true.

Messages on my iPhone shows me link previews for links sent to me via SMS, not just via iMessage. I just checked to make sure. Those are necessarily generated on the recipient's end.
Yeah that's a difference worth noting.
On the one hand, I get where you're coming from and I agree that this specific example isn't malicious (as I've highlighted elsewhere in the thread)

...on the other hand, this is the exact same technology Apple lets China use to hunt down their religious and political minorities. Maybe they don't intend harm to Americans, but one thing is for certain; Apple doesn't treat privacy as a human right. If you can live with that, then more power to you.
I used to live there many moons ago.
I think ClickHouse Cloud Beta addressed exactly this concern. It separates storage and compute and deals with scaling. There is no sharding so you don't need to deal with scaling.
For me that usually ends when a plugin is only available for jQuery.
You might be interested in https://cloudflare.tv/event/LaBW1BZ6
What’s more amazing is that the NRO has multiple more capable telescopes in orbit as we speak and we’re celebrating that NASA doesn’t have to spend money to keep that old piece of hardware useful for a few more years. Which isn’t bad, don’t get me wrong, but it just feels odd that priorities are shifted so much towards black projects.
"We have decided not to release the Imagen Video model or its source code until these concerns are mitigated"
Okay then why even post it in the first place? What exactly is Google going to do with this model?
And which one of these am I strongly partial to and intolerant of for those who differ?

I'll grant you a win if you choose people who worship Ray Dalio religiously. That's totally fair.
Keep in mind that the European gas crisis is because Russia are restricting supply, not because European countries aren't prepared to buy it.

Are India behaving any differently to European countries in trying to secure energy?
As you sort of suggest, there are two kinds of building codes.

"(component) in (buildings of this type) will be able to support a static load of x kilograms per square meter".

"(component) in (buildings of this type) will be made according to one of these specific designs".

The first kind provides for adequate safety. The second stifles innovation.

Geodesic domes should absolutely be held to the same safety standards as other designs. But you shouldn't have to go through some nightmarish variance process in every single jurisdiction to build one, especially since most areas use some variation of one of the national or international codes.

Engineers should be able to have a new design analyzed and tested by independent testing labs, and then it should be automatically approved across all jurisdictions -- now, not three years from now when the new edition of the code comes out.
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yes, or else they are the scammies themselves using a shell.

so, due to not taking mandated security measures thus allowing blackhats into your system, [company] is banned from the network.
I thought about that while back, how would I build an index on top of Durable Objects?

For sorted indexes like a b-tree in a database, I think you would partition into objects by value, so (extremely naive example) values starting with a-m would be in one object, and n-z in the second. You'd end up needing a metadata object to track the partitions, and some reasonably complicated ability to grow and split partitions as you add more data, but this is a relatively mature and well-researched problem space, databases do this for their indexes.

For full text search, particularly if you want to combine terms, you might have to partition by document, though. So you'd have N durable objects which comprise the full text "index", and each would contain 1/N of the documents you're indexing, and you'd build the full text index in each of those. If you searched for docs containing the words "elasticsearch" and "please" you would have to fan out to all the partitions and then aggregate responses.

You could go the other way, and partition by value again, but that makes ANDs (for example) more challenging, those would have to happen at response aggregation time in some way.

You'd do the stemming at index time and at search time, like Solr does.

I have no idea what the documents per partition would be; it would probably depend on the size of the documents, and the number of documents, and the amount you'll be searching them, since each durable object is single-threaded. Adding right truncation or left+right will blow up the index size, so that would probably drive up the partition count. You might be better off doing trigrams or something like it at that point but I'm not as familiar with those.

This is where optimizing would be hard. I don't think you can get from Durable Objects the kind of detailed CPU/disk IO stats you really need to optimize this kind of search engine data structure.
..and there are plenty of non-nefarious reasons to want to spoof numbers. I used to have a VOIP setup at home that, when I dialed out, the call would appear to come from my cellphone[0]. Google Voice used to be able to do that too (no idea if it still does). Businesses often use this to have all their calls appear to come from the main office line or a 1-800 number. Or, when forwarding a call, you could make the 2nd leg outbound call appear to come from the original caller instead of the forwarder, things like that. Unfortunately as with so many things, bad actors are going to ruin it for everyone.

[0] I also found out that if I dialed my cell phone voicemail number from this VOIP phone, it bypassed my security code and went straight to my mailbox - since the outgoing number matched my cellphone number, it assumed it was me calling. A quick experiment showed I could then access anyone's voicemail (on that carrier at least) by simply setting my outbound number to appear as their cell number...
GDP is not how debt is paid back. that number has some meaning in the grand scheme of things, but it’s the rates & Treasury and TAXES that are more meaningful.

Eventually the US will need to stop growing by debt, or it will grow its debt to the point that it can only pay the interest not the principal
The writer focus on financial dropping reasons, and neglect the collages part: the cancelation colture, the one sided propaganda, the education system where facts are replaced with narratives. Why would anyone pay for neo communism? At least in Russia it was free.
Show HN: Earn 9.62% on US Treasury I Bonds on Yotta
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This is an absurd yield for a security that is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government - the strongest guarantee you can get. For comparison, most high-yield savings accounts with FDIC coverage are paying ~2%.

The backstory:

I Bonds were established by the US Treasury in 1998 to provide returns linked to inflation to protect consumer purchasing power. The rate on I Bonds is determined from the last six months of CPI data and is adjusted twice per year. Inflation is typically around 2% per year, so I Bonds have never been relevant since the rate was never that attractive.

Inflation spiked in 2022 driving I Bonds reached a record high yield of 9.62% APY. If you buy them by October 31st, you lock in this rate for six months from the purchase date. In the last 12 months, around $27B has been deposited as a result of the insanely high yield. This compares to $348m in 2020. Note that you have to hold I Bonds for at least a year and you forgo 3 the last three months of earned interest if you redeem before five years. You can deposit a max of $10k into I Bonds per calendar year.

So if you can get 9.62% APY on a government backed security when savings accounts are yielding 2%, why doesn’t everyone have I Bonds?

A few reasons.

1. Most people have never heard of them.

2. People don’t want to tie up cash for a year in a CD-like product.

3. The only way to buy I Bonds has been on the world’s worst website, Treasury Direct. You have to fill out long forms, click on a virtual keyboard to type your password, can’t use the back button, and make one mistake and you get locked out of your account. The whole thing is a colossal pain in the ass.

To solve 1) and 3), we wrapped an easy-to-use UI to buy I Bonds within Yotta. Users opt into Yotta creating a Treasury Direct account on their behalf, and we automate the painful part - interacting with Treasury Direct on the backend. This enables us to provide a great customer experience, making it easy for people to get the 9.62%. If anyone wants to control their Treasury Direct directly without Yotta, they can request it, and we will transfer over their account to no longer be managed by Yotta.

Hope you guys check it out and can take advantage of the 9.62% rate before 10/31! Note that if you already have a Treasury Direct account, we are unable to support you for I Bonds unfortunately.

Happy to answer any questions and looking forward to any feedback.

P.S. We were featured in Bloomberg for the launch last week if you want to check that out https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-28/buying-i-bonds-there-s-an-easier-way-to-earn-9-62-interest
Proves over optimisation(rust, kube etc) vs coded in a language easy to pick, understand and perfect.
Funny no one suggests bringing it back to the USA. The margins are good enough on those products, and there is enough room for automation they could do it.
defaulting is worse than inflation. It means some people get 0 - whereas inflation spreads the pain.

Source: Argentina.
It's not that simple in the US.

For example, many states have proposition systems which is a direct democracy: the residents can vote directly on laws themselves. There's good and bad things about this, but overall I think it's good - it's a way around a state legislature trying to do wildly unpopular things.
Ask the "AI Ethicists". They have to justify their salaries in some way or another.

Or maybe Google is using "Responsible AI" as an excuse to minimize competitors when they release their own Imagen Video as a Service API in Google Cloud.

It's quite strange when the "ethical" thing to do is to not publicly release your research, put it behind a highly restrictive API and charge a high price for it ($0.02 per 1k tokens for Davinci for ex.)
If you pay someone to dispose of waste and they just dump it in the ocean and pocket the money, what do you call that? They can just refuse to accept the deal or charge enough for it to be feasible to dispose of it sustainably.
I also disagree (with you). I’ve been keenly interested in the national debt and I found this headline fine. There was nothing political about it

You probably hate Fox News so go yell at the NYT as well.. it says “ U.S. National Debt Tops $31 Trillion for First Time” which you should probably argue is more political than Fox News

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/business/national-debt.ht...
Also, individuals can only buy $10,000 of I bonds per year, plus your tax return up to another $10,000.
I was this >< close to doing the same, but chickened out at the last minute. Shouldn't have. Oh well, I'll be there for sure at Knuth90.
Wow. “The system fundamentally fails us AGAIN RAWR” is a hot take that I almost always go to eagerly, but I am vibing SO HARD on hitting the front page of HN (!!!?) and getting the community help glow, that for the moment I’m gonna let it go. :-)

Also, thanks for all the helpful tips.

At this point there is so much for me to go on that I am trying to think how I can put it all together and share it.
> It "doesn't count" if you ignore the accelerating wealth disparity in our society.

The parent asked about how interest rates affect the burden of servicing the debt. That is the sense in which it literally "doesn't count" -- interest paid by the Treasury to the Fed is returned by the Fed to the Treasury as distributed earnings.
This seems like a luddite's argument. Automation tends to make things less expensive, and automation hasn't lead to economic crisis' in the past

That's like saying computers are going to destroy a lot of jobs and cause an economic crisis, when in reality the opposite happened
I wonder if this is the equivalent of me having some 40 year old Nikon camera lenses.

Lenses are still great, sharp and clear.

But I’ve updated the camera sensors, housing etc over the years - all while still using the same decades old lenses.
Thats the catch. Automating here in the west means we can maintain a lower price while creating jobs that would otherwise be lost altogether. I think returning manufacturing with these constraints in mind is a must.
I agree that most features don't require a lot of money to build. But building enough features to make Sketch come close to rivaling Figma in terms of design department wallet share is going to require some $$$.

Also I think the multiplayer web native feature that is at the core of Figma is not trivial. It is possible that you can find a very talented small team of engineers to get it done but the motivation here needs to be more than just financial upside.
> "True agile" can really be summed up as "try some different things, keep what works for you".

I would argue that is more common sense than "True Agile." ;)

However, I think you hit the nail on the head with Sprints. I understand why organizations want estimates, planning, etc.. However, if I could predict the future, I would be working on Wall Street and not doing Agile. In my jaded experience, few things ever go to plan. I do think one should still plan, but I do not think plans should be immutable nor estimates turned into deadlines.

Sprints, to me, seem to be the antithesis of Agile. I find sprints turn Agile into a series of mini-Waterfalls.
Yeah I do it a ton.

Just look for the cheapest options (they're usually just as good as the post expensive options) who've done a lot of jobs.

Chat with the person and give him a rundown of what you're looking for.

I got really fantastic designs for like $5-10 a page.