skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you think about NY Fed's project I linked, which demonstrated that "blockchain-enabled cross-border payments can be faster, simultaneous, and safer" (their words, not mine).

Speaking of dissidents subverting their governments, I personally know people who are using cryptocurrencies to assist their families stuck under the said governments. There might be some risks, but when they don't have any other way to exchange value, crypto is a lifeline.
Calling it dystopian is a bit harsh. Some degree of moderation is unavoidable or you end up with 4chan (actually, even 4chan had moderation, I think; it's just unavoidable).

Ultimately of course you're supposed to choose a server that you like and trust. At least here you have that choice. On Twitter or Facebook you don't.

Of course it should have had end to end encryption. It sounds like a massive omission. I found a discussion about adding that to ActivityPub[0] where someone points out that if you don't want server admins able to read messages, you can't store private keys on the server, which sounds to me like it would hurt usability. Makes you wonder how unbreakable the end-to-end encryption of other systems really is. I'm not enough of an encryption guru to say how big of a problem this really is.

[0] https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/225
Capitalism is irrational.

What sense does a fixed positive profitability constraint make? It makes no sense. It discourages people from economic activity.
People talk about the profit motive but when you really think about it, profit is a demotivator.

The more borrowed capital you use the more profit you have to make. But in principle any economic activity that breaks even is worth doing even at no profit.
So in theory the return on capital should represent that competitors know how to use the capital better than you, but at the same time this would imply that unemployment and recessions are impossible. It's entirely possible for the interest rate to be so high and money to be so tight to cause mass unemployment throughout the entire economy as we have seen in the great depression.

Marx treated money as a simple "medium of exchange" and therefore sought for an answer in the sphere of production. In reality it is money that has the power to cripple capital and land.
A bit too minimal for my use case really.
>and successfully moderate video content faster than Twitter can moderate text.

There was the whole creepy men in diapers videos ending up on kids YT for months on end (Elsagate?), and mass demonetization issues if the topic is even close to controversial (of course they still show ads to you, the creator doesn't make income). Along with bans across all types of topics that are leaving more and more people confused. When you add in recent pushes for YT shorts because sites like Tik-Tok are pulling lots of viewers away, I still don't think the picture is near as rosy as you make it.

The one thing that YT has is a near monopoly on video serving and a 'special' relationship with the movie and music industry that prevents them from being sued off the face of the planet.
That seems like a silly opinion to me. I use unit tests to make sure that individual units work like I expect them to. And I use them to test edge cases that can be tested separately from their caller. If I had to test all the use cases for each function, all combined together, there number of tests would grow by the multiplication of the partitions of each one, N x M x O x P, ... rather than the sum, plus a much smaller set of tests for how they work together (N + M + O + P + N_M + M_O + O_P, etc). It's much simpler to thoroughly test each unit. Then test how they work together.
I really dislike when people downvote without commenting... wish leaving a comment was a requirement for a downvote at HN.

Saying that, my guess is that you are being downvoted for self-promotion.
Software Abstraction Barrier
Anyone who has known Microsoft from back in the day knows attributing anything positive to them is likely an error
That was funny, one of her posts she also mentioned Jeremy Renner app. Damn I remember that app.
It would be very bad for the tech progress in the West if these types of lawsuits succeed, while China can do this. The legislature would have to act to explicitly legalize it and that could take years and it could be too late by then. The US is already falling behind China in the AI progress.
I think the parent is acknowledging that the stripes have an effect, they're whether the authors considered that some other property of zebras is unattractive and the stripes are a good indicator, leading to an evolved preference among the insects against stripes.

Here's an analogy: people often fear and avoid insects that are yellow/black striped, not because the stripes are annoying, but because many such distinctively striped insects have a painful sting, and avoiding the stripes avoids the stinging insects.
>> one of the professors in my university has a quantum machine learning (TM) startup

I'm guessing you go to UofT or Waterloo.
I have been experimenting with multiple monitor setups for some time, using 2 - 6 monitors. Currently I have 5.

I like having Email+IM on a vertical monitor on the side. If someone contacts me, I always have this communication screen, and I can respond to people without forgetting what I was working on. On my laptop, I press Cmd-Tab and everything is gone.

I also like having a second monitor above my main monitor just for source control. It's always there, so I can review changes while leaving the source files I was working on visible on my main monitor.

I also work a lot with VMs, and seing them all at the same time makes it easier to work with them.

It's much easier if you can lay out your work on a big area, and when every task has its own designated place.

I also work a lot on a single laptop when I'm not at the office, and I feel way less productive. I spend way more time trying to remember what I wanted to do, because stuff always disappears when I press Cmd-Tab.
Looks interesting.
Though it doesn't seem to deviate from Mastodon other than being a Back-end focused rewrite.
Economic swings can be explained very easily. A currency where the circulation velocity isn't stable can have booms or busts from an increase or decrease of the circulation velocity. In practice the problem is that the circulation velocity is going down too much, to which the response so far has always been to increase the money supply rather than the velocity.
I can imagine a lot less code being open sourced purely to counter against this kind of mining.

I'd be all for it if creators were compensated.
I love trackers and still use to create some small songs or music ideas. After original FastTracker II, I used Skale Tracker, MilkyTracker and SunVox (this last one is one of the best music softwares I know).
Nowadays I use the new remake of FastTracker II https://16-bits.org/ft2.php. It's quite impresive how they copy almost identical the original one.
This is also possible on Mastodon now.

But I meant maybe there is a way to follow a whole instance like Misskey, or it shows users when it became aware of them rather than only when following them, etc.
Exactly. It's like people calling for Dall-E to be banned. Well Stable Diffusion exists, as do a dozen other similar projects and an entire ecosystem of training data and models. The march of technology rarely stops because of people crying "copyright!"
Google is reasonably centralised, though.
I used Milkytracker for many years, graduating from LSDJ and Famitracker. I eventually got my hands on a proper A500 and tracked on that for a while, before going back to the comfort of a modern PC running Renoise. These days it’s all Ableton for me, but I miss the days of using trackers like nothing else. I’m spoiled on Ableton, so can’t easily make the switch back to a tracker equivalent like Renoise, but there are still loads of things I miss about tracking. It is, for me, the most intuitive way to create the kind of music that I want to create with a computer.

Shameless self promo, but I released a tiny album of .xms using Milkytracker back in the day [0] on Disasterpeace’s (composer for Fez, among others) label, which I am still quite fond of. 4mat, of course, was, and is still, a huge influence.

[0]: https://jophish.bandcamp.com/album/distance
because milestones for children of the 90s
I expect similar numbers are found throughout the entire economy. Most businesses fail. The trouble is that we don't have a good sense for who the winners will be until after the costs are sunk, and since software has the one of the highest potential upsides we're willing to sink more into trying.
Actually capitalism wouldn't work even if you could clone yourself assuming you play by the rules instead of using your cooperation with yourself to ignore them.
Yeah it's integrated. You can't change it. Even if you break the strap apparently which is a bit worrying considering the elite strap for the quest 2 tends to snap.
VC investment in crypto. The 1% (too generous?) of proposed usecases where crypto can actually solve practical problemsgot hardly any VC funding compared to the idiotic ideas like smart contracts.
I’ve been thinking about this lately (as are many people, I’d imagine, with all the Metaverse hoopla) and I think the adoption line for VR is text resolution. Once a headset is in play that can match out of headset text resolution, rapid adoption, tooling, etc. will follow.

Something I’ve been thinking about is tooling, though. Like if I had a browser and file storage in an environment with infinitely scalable windows/resolution I could do a lot of my work.

It’s hard to wrap my head around. Like an OS running in an OS. The answer can’t be just a horrific amount of manual labor porting a bunch of open source utilities over to some new VR based OS, right? I need to be able to connect my headset to my computer and use my existing tools in a VR environment. It’s almost like emulation. Unless Microsoft and Apple make VR compatible OS’s?

Step 1: Headset tech that doesn’t require horrific vendor lock-in (looking at you, metabook)

Step 2: Highly interactive, scalable browser (too many apps are Electron for it to be anything else)

I think with those two things I could migrate a lot of my work. Then you’d need to start fleshing it out. Creating your own little space, figuring out the tech to use your other tools in VR, creating VR focused Linux distro’s, self-hosting instances of your little corner of this new universe, giant statues of Neal Stephenson reciting passages from Snow Crash like scripture…
In some ways that's nothing new under the sun.

One of my student jobs in the 1970's was with a company that provided and serviced the decorative plants in restaurants and hotels.

We would go there every week and take them outside to be watered, drained, and given the only sunshine they were going to see for a while.

Anything that was looking sick we replaced with spares and rehabilitated.
Have you tried a VPN connection to your powerful workstation? What didn't work?
Once on the interview in the part "what do you want to know about the company and our team" candidate asked me what kind of new code my best engineers are adding to the codebase. Almost immediately I answered that the best engineers here are mostly removing code, because it is much harder problem.
Haskell, of course.
> oops, just connected 12V RS-232 to a 3.3V device

Maybe or maybe not. I ran 12V RS-232 levels into a 5V Atmel 8515 for a year or two 24/7 without issues, and tens of thousands, maybe more, have too. And that's a CMOS part.

(This was for a paytv interface sitting between an iso7816 slot and an x86 based emulator. The Atmel 8515 did the inversion in software).

The RS-232 on the PC side would have no issues with interpreting +5 as logic0 and 0V as logic1.

Some would setup a Max232 or Max233, but it wasn't necessary.

Others would use an MC1489 to at least convert the -12V and +12V into 5V and 0V by doing an input and then output into the chip, but again, it was out of caution and not actually necessary.
They aren’t? I Thought it was pretty well established that they randomly turn on and send data to a 3rd world transcription service.
Move fast and break things. I'm very interested to learn whether this approach will turn out well or not.
In terms of length and density at least, the optimal solution is something like compression with Huffman coding, as it is fundamentally a compression question, where we want to represent the most frequent operations and operands with the fewest bits, on average. As with any question of compression, the optimal format will depend on the nature of the compressed data. So at least in that domain, there is no truly ideal solution, only approximately ideal solutions. (The approximately ideal solution is quite good though -- in practice Huffman-encoded instructions for stack machines with a rich operation set based on an average instruction mix, come around 4 bits per instruction on average, IIRC. I've seen the approach used with a VM interpreter on a memory-constrained embedded system to pack in more code.) I suspect the same is true of other criteria you might select for what makes an ideal instruction set; it's always going to be some compromising trade-offs, some of which depend on runtime properties like actual instruction mix.
To attribution I would add license compliance.
And a monad is an endofunctor of a monoid
I have the Airs. For the purposes of working, 46 FOV is more than sufficient. I find myself straining my eye to read the corners.

On the Nreals, the small FOV means the pixel density is much better than the alternatives.
That depends on the GC’s traversal strategy, I think. If you assume that linked lists are implemented as in lisps (a pair of pointers), then if you traverse the head pointer before the tail pointer, the compacting GC will tend to spread the linked list out over time.
Superconducting Super Collider
Wonka riches await, just need to human-traffic some Oompa Loompas.
I ran a hundred feet or so of RS232 over RJ11 (dollar-store grade). Did it for a year or two without issues. It was -12v and +12v in one direction, but just 0V and +5V the other way.

Just needed RX, TX and GND for our purposes.

Ran at 115k2 too.
Yes, but i perceive population population pressure more in terms of consumption or 'biophysical boundaries transgressed' which happens primarily in the global north / high GDP countries. See 'a good life for all within planetary boundaries' for more info: https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/

Regarding your comment about Africa specifically, I don't know enough and try to hold a bit of carefulness around Education if it's not being done with appropriate context. You might like this podcast that goes into a social facilitation framework being used in areas like Africa: https://www.outsideinpodcast.org/episodes/10-groupsofgroups
Macy’s is the largest department store in the US. It’s like an entire city block in one of the densest neighborhoods in the country. So lots more street area for things to catch fire, lots more impact when it happens.
And animation. Somebody is having fun.

https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=47.3695681&lon=8.5092646&zoom=20
> 4 or 8 bits per floating point number

Bytes, not bits.
>Most of the time copilot is giving you one-line completions that are heavily adapted to the surrounding code.

Keyword being "Most of the time"
To minimize the number of instructions for some finite set of nontrivial programs, you define the instruction set to have one instruction that performs each of the programs. Then each of those programs is one instruction long. (Other programs may or may not be possible to encode at all.)

If the set of nontrivial programs is infinite, the situation is more complex, because an instruction set as normally defined is finite. Also, you can't equally weight every program from an infinite set, so you need some kind of weighting function among the programs. Which instruction set is ideal for encoding this infinite set of programs depends almost entirely on what that weighting function is. In fact, you can usually derive the optimal instruction set directly from the weighting function. Which is to say, when you design the weighting function, you are more or less designing the instruction set.

As retrac points out, it comes down to a question of tradeoffs. There's no objectively optimal answer to which tradeoffs you should prefer.

I took some notes some years ago on the subject of dense instruction sets, optimized for the number of bits to encode programs rather than the number of instructions; perhaps you will find them of interest: https://dercuano.github.io/notes/tiny-interpreters-for-micro...
Full Self Writing, in this case.

(I'm joking, but honestly it would be pretty funny if one of his eight-buck features involved Twitter writing your longform posts for you via GPT-3.)
> But there's also less of a reason for anyone with permission to read DMs @ Twitter to do so, possibly with logging for any audits into unauthorized access.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/12/exclusive-extrac...

I'd expect there to be many Facebookers who weren't caught, and I'd expect the same to be true of Twitter.
I've experimented with the Meta Quest 2 for work and for gaming. Despite continual adjustments and trying with or without glasses/contact lenses and using the glasses spacer, I was unable to comfortably use this device for any use case without experiencing headaches at approximately 30 minutes per session.

I've never figured out whether this was a user issue or if this hardware is simply crap. In the end, it makes sense that OSHA guidelines suggest that your monitor should be at least half a meter away from your eyes.

Because of this experience, I'm quite pessimistic about VR as a whole, and the Quest 2 is sitting in its box on my bookshelf. I'd like to sell it or give it away, but that would require me putting it back on and de-linking my Facebook account, and I can't be bothered to do that.
I don't follow. Aside from the ignoring of all ethical and legal concerns built up in multiple societies to this point - if Microsoft loses this type of lawsuit, why would AI not continue to be researched? Don't they just have to build in attribution into the tool and everything's legal again?
Miniaturization really kicked up because we needed to shoot computers into orbit and minimizing mass was a crucial optimization for that problem.

Might see a similar bout of miniaturization if we can come up with a good defensive/offensive application for putting quantum computers in orbit.
Rejoice in the End of Daylight Saving Time
people taking short segments of code that are implementations of common algorithms and claiming those as "copied" by copilot are wrong. it didn't copy, it learned and wrote.
"right-wing discourse"

"self-professed nationalist"

Please stop throwing labels and start talking substance.

On that book suggestion I have another pointer for you to read which poses a number of questions related to the use of the "Jim Crow" moniker for explaining problems with the American justice system. You can download the PDF, no postage needed:

Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1966018
i believe all government played the same game ( at least us, eu and china did), which is probably enough to impact the whole world.

A few currrency which didn't play that game such as swiss franc saw their value raised tremendously, which probably means inflation is much less an issue there.
> Presumably if you are willing to work long hours as an employee you identify heavily with your work, probably also your colleagues, you value what you are doing.

You're assuming here that people work long hours because they identify with their employer. If a programmer works long hours, is it because they love their employer or because they love programming in general? I'd say the latter, it sounds to me like you're saying the former

As far as the colleagues part goes, if someone is truly close to their colleagues, they keep in touch even after leaving the job. If working at X employer is required to keep in touch with those colleagues, the relationship isn't that strong to begin with

> (severance payment – and this is not strictly about financial safety but about respecting employees – and communicating with empathy)

I mean, if you're laying someone off, how it's communicated is of secondary importance. There's a way of doing it professionally and giving them proper severance, doing the right thing, et cetera. But what exactly do you have in mind here, with "laying someone off with empathy"? Are you talking about Musk being a dickhead? Personally that's less insulting than seeing a CEO fake crying about laying people off on LinkedIn

> And in that context Musk unemphatically arriving with a fucking sink as a joke, overall handling the layoffs extremely badly and without a shred of empathy anywhere to be seen is fucking awful. And I’m just weirded out that that‘s not the tone seen here.

You might be generalizing a bit (with respect to attitudes seen here). Musk is an unprofessional asshole. Would you prefer he pretend not to be one and lay people off with "heartfelt conversations" instead? Personally I find the former less sickening than the latter, but ideally he would've just done a normal layoff sin theatrics and moved on

As for the employees, I'm sure it's awful and they're scrambling rn to find new employment. Luckily for them they have Twitter on their resume. I do however worry about the people on H1b finding new employment in this economic climate
>Open Source with GPL is a Tit for Tat system (you either make things better for everybody, or you don't)

The GPL doesn't force you to make software better for everyone. People and communities are free to steal the project, make it better, and keep it all to themselves.
Can someone post an example of a linked list? I don't really understand this article.
And if the instance-administrator on the old account decides they don't like you and drops the account or points it to /dev/null?
> It’s basically impossible for nature to evolve wheeled locomotion, and we aren’t machines.

Perhaps true. As a fun side note, Phillip Pullman imagines a way in the His Dark Materials series.
A very important distinction. The prevailing system people subscribe to should be known and properly labelled. Otherwise it's just a bait and switch.
I'm picturing a seat supported by 4 robotic legs and controlled by a handheld joystick. The seat could be self-balancing, self-stabilizing for a smooth ride, and have embedded cameras, LIDAR, etc. to prevent collisions. It basically walks itself, you just nudge the joystick to tell it which direction to walk in and it finds a smart path in that direction.

Probably beyond the reach of current technology, and impractically expensive for the time being. But in the long run, I can imagine that the cost of giving every wheelchair user something like this might be cheaper than the cost of making buildings accessible. Most relevant for newly built cities I guess. Basically run the numbers on the cost of providing exoskeletons vs the cost of making everything ramp-accessible and providing accessible transport. The exoskeleton could sprint over to your house when you summoned it ;-) Possible disadvantage: shortage of exoskeletons during city festivals when everyone wants to go out and there are lots of out-of-town visitors?
The argument of "the west" vs "china" is a bad one.

"US company sued for underpaying employees" -> "It would be bad if labor laws are enforced here, china has lower minimum wage and exploits workers more, we have to be competitive"

I know those situations aren't exactly the same, but you're trying to use that same justification, that we should think about our laws in terms of a competition with china, in terms of AI progress, not in terms of the arts or workers or happiness.
Those python examples at the end are both simple and great, thanks.
What did you expect? Messages have to be stored on the server, and the instance owner has access to the server...