skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots. The abusive ones get the press but there's a lot more than just never get attention. Obama issued a ton of clemency and pardons, a large portion of which were non violent drug sentences.
Lots of speech is illegal or defacto illegal in the US , though, why would this particular one get undone?
I appreciate your point of view and concerns, but this is not about an institution not delivering according to certain human values that everyone deserves, this is about multiple interactions letting someone stuck and with little options for exiting, the lesson here is that in such extreme cases don't expect human values to appear from out of the blue, and grab any option to escape the Trap.
They're suggesting 'government by jury', but what I expect it will turn out to be is 'government by the permanent bureaucracy'. The staffers who are there all the time will make suggestions to the current jury that is making decisions, and those decisions will probably 90% go with what the staffers suggest.
I don't think anyone is saying these people would be competent. Just on average more competent than a career politician. If you're baffled by the average jury, you should see what the politicians are like!
Jen-Hsun Huang, Co-Founder and CEO, Nvidia
That’s covered in TFA.
>Apple, Microsoft, Amazon?

Ads.
Because execs don't do all the hiring. Middle management and project teams go wild when no one is looking too closely at the costs and things can blow out pretty quickly.

Then growth slows and suddenly there's a need to tighten the belt a bit and a lot of waste is found
I was hopeful that the opioid thing would be a wake-up call for the US drug war, but apparently not.

Homeless people, addicted to Meth and/or fentanyl, stealing a bike.

I'm a cyclist, but if the bike is the part of that sentence you focus on then your society is falling apart.
Like bookmarks, history is an underrated and under-served feature.
Recurring stints of civil service as a form of taxation would be a good equaliser of opportunities as well.
Central banks care a lot about money supply. They do not want to have to print money to account for a debt on the balance sheet, because that (eventually) devalues the currency they operate, and causes deflation which they regard as bad for the economy. They wish to use the money printer when they choose (and provide maximum effect for its valid use cases), not because they are forced. There is a money printing capacity they do not wish to exhaust. If you printed money to buy a car, but it was only because you had to make a big trip and you had actually been intending to wait for the new model, then that’s a suboptimal use of your money printer.

So basically the money printer is not free. There is an opportunity loss that they’ve found a way to measure as a real loss to make it easier.
I believe it is true, and there was a good thread on twitter about Kelly optimal bets. It seems clear that SBF, and maybe therefore Alameda, didn't really understand the right hand side of the Kelly optimum.
The point of sortition is to apply the benefits of representative polling but while allowing the people polled to take the time to deeply research and understand the issue.

I don't see anything that is arbitrary about the process.
Even these accounts are deceiving.

The current holdings are valued at today / yesterday's spot rate.

Given that many of these holdings are in (comparatively) thinly traded alt-coins, as soon as you try to dispose of these levels of coins / tokens, the price will fall as supply overwhelms demand.

Of course, this is represented by the fact that many of the alt-coins are marked as relatively illiquid -- and SBF has put a lackadaisical disclaimer at the top about the shifting price.

But the reality is that regardless of how long you wait -- or how much you try to spread the disposals -- you will only ever get a percentage of the current spot rate, given the impact that the sales will always have on the price itself.

I can't shake the feeling that SBF might say... "Yes, but once we have reassured the market, etc, etc, these alt-coins might recover in value -- and then we can dispose at this level."

And, of course, the merry-go-round starts again.
Anybody's who gives this idea more than a minute of thought quickly finds out this is utter nonsense.
There are a number of problems with juries:

1. They're too small.

2. They're not totally random. The attorneys are allowed to eliminate members of the pool.

3. The jury doesn't actually run the trial. Nor do they run the police department, for that matter. The trial is run by the judge and the attorneys. The jury is mostly passive listeners. They're spoon-fed info at the trial and not even allowed to know all the facts.

4. Jury terms are too short. Contrary to what the previous commenter suggested, it's not ideal to have short terms. Citizen legislators should probably serve 1 or 2 year times. They need time to learn how to do the job. They probably need preparation before they take the job.
Fintech is having a difficult year
Happened to me once at $work.

We built a system with the most humanitarian application imaginable, helping people in need, and it was good. Turns out, it's hard to make money at that and the business people recast things into a new product that could suppress dissent in authoritarian countries, which they sold there. I'm positive it's been used to hurt people.

Ethically, all the people that make generic infra like roads or computers or sdr software are not responsible if someone else does evil with their product.
Like all monopolies and cartels, they do far more harm than good. If Twitter workers unionized, I'd suggest firing them all and hired new ones. Maybe in a country where unions are prohibited.
For what it's worth, the jellyfin web player worked fine for me on my ps4 web browser - never tried on my Xbox but would expect the same there.
Don't ask a browser vendor to fix websites in 2022. We know that it's rarely a problem with the browser, and mostly devs that decided (or been told) to do a chrome only website.

We did it once with IE, don't fall in that trap again.
Do we need complex legislation for complex issues? There was a discussion here on HN a few days ago where some people argued that maybe it's better to legislate just for the simpler, common cases, and exceptions will always have to be exceptions and judged case by case in court.
>Isn't this in bad taste? Isn't this continuing a meme long after it has turned from funny to sad?

The OS contains genius ideas, it's not called "TempleOS" it is public domain, the devel workflow is the same..i think it keeps one of Terry's good sides alive...i would be honored.
"Even more arbitrary"? The current system is not arbitrary at all.
The current system forces our politicians to spend a third to a half their time fundraising. We basically force politicians to sell out to keep their jobs.

Sortition would remove the structural incentives towards corruption that exist today so our efforts to combat corruption should become easier.
I think this is it.

Low bar of entry, largest marketplace, and a decent API
I found the contract bridge player.
kudos, we do need new browsers.
Appreciate you guys putting efforts.
Hope you guys succeed in your endeavor.
>Also who writes what could be complex legislation for complex issues?

The same people who currently write it - policy analysts and lawyers.
Beatrix Farrand: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden
Other people did e.g Peter Norton wrote a whole library around this stuff.
Some kaching on the side. ;)

Seriously though, a lot of influencers promoting this stuff have been getting paid in cold hard US dollars to promote these scams.

How do I know? I spoke to influencers to talk about my portfolio companies and many of them told me the crazy amount of cash they were getting paid from these scammers. Think 25,000 for a channel with hardly 100k followers.

That's why I feel like Sequoia partners should be investigated thoroughly. If a terrorist organization gets investments, don't we investigate those investors as well?

If you drop morals, like a16z did, by supporting another scammer and gritting on crypto, it's a very lucrative business.
Teleporter | Co-founder & engineers | $50-150k, 5-20% | Full-Time | Onsite | Dubai (to be confirmed)

Mission: Solve transit (between and across cities) by making PRT work. PRT (personal rapid transit) is the "podcar" idea from the 50s that a lot of people tried and failed, and now everyone has given up on it.
From a physics standpoint, it is possible to connect every part to every other part of a big city within a 5-10 minute distance. The questions are: can it be made confortable, within a workable budget, and is there a scaling path to build it by starting with a simpler version?

This project is at the idea stage, I am still committed to working on other ventures, but somehow the idea kept coming back over the years. My goal here is to find other people exited about it, and try to discuss the flaws and convince myself that it is a stupid idea. If it is, I can just let it go and continue my other stuff, otherwise I might actually do it. Depending on how aggressively I liquidate my other ventures, I can contribute $10 to 90M of personal savings for a building a prototype. I have studied the history of PRT and I think I have a decent understanding of what went wrong and how to avoid the mistakes.

Current proposal:
PRT also goes by the name ATN (decent overview, cannot find more recent stuff, everyone has given up: https://transweb.sjsu.edu/sites/default/files/1227-automated...)
Combine the best of cars (point to point, individual) and metros (high capacity, automated, central control system). Have individual pods on captive guideway. Reduce size of pods while still being comfortable, to reduce the size and cost of guideway. If small enough, guideway can be embedded in roads as sewers inside the city, and elevated elsewhere. Power the pods via battery or through guideway. Pods can individually route themselves and are summoned via an app (or ready at stations). Everything is controlled via a central planning system. For high throughput and better efficiency, pods dynamically form platoons of 2-50 units.

Scaling path:
The challenge is the high R&D and building cost, and how to convince authorities (as it is a very risky project). It involves software, hardware, and politics. You need pro-risk and co-operative authorities. I'd start with a crappy prototype intended for use by employees to commute to work, preferably in a developing country where authorities do not mind you breaking ground, and where sewers networks are not fully established yet. Prototype would be very much like a single metro line (but individual pods). Switching and extended network is added afterwards. After a full deployment is shown to work and provide very high value in any city, other cities will implement it as well.

If interested please contact me at_lv6@fastmail.com
Professional boxing was illegal between 1969 and 2007 in Sweden.
When your open-source project accidentally reinvents classified military technology? Awkward...
Only large and connected banks.

Small bank are unceremoniously taken over by the FDIC.
World Cup apps pose a data security and privacy nightmare
From what I understand, it was SDR[0] code which would allow using the antenna (possibly reconfigurable?[1]) into a passive radar aka a radar which tracks objects through their emissions (radio, bluetooth, wifi, ...) rather than emit electromagnetic waves and track their return.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconfigurable_antenna
Cities expanding is generally a good thing for arable land availability.

Not that there's no problems with cities and agriculture, just the big picture seems the opposite of what is suggested here.

Also "peak child" means peak baby. We need to support people in old age and in infancy (even supporting mothers pre-birth) so the correct comparison of workers to non-workers is those who have left school upwards to retirement.

Again, not suggesting there are no demographic issues, but even on that scale it's not "all downhill from here" even before you get into robots and longer, healthier lives and other details.
Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine' (2021)
>Switzerland

>Homogenous

There are four language regions, how is it homogenous.
I think democracy by lottery may be a good idea provided that the outcome of the lottery can be trusted. It could be done through a cryptographically-verifiable (e.g. blockchain-based) random number generator.

The average citizen is more principled and less prone to corruption than the average modern politician. I don't think it would be a problem if politicians ended up more naive as a result. Just having well-meaning politicians would be a significant step up.

That said, I think we should rely less on government intervention in the economy. We need to fix the monetary system to provide a level playing field, then once that's done, we need to trim back regulations. The way to solve the corporate monopolization problem is through increased competition. The government's primary role should be to promote maximum decentralization.

The government should not concern itself with equality of outcomes; it should only concern itself with equality of opportunities. It should not think about efficiency; it should trust the free market to take care of that.
Worked in Athens for a few centuries.
The coin the central bank issues is a liability in its balance sheet. If it prints 1 trillion, uses it to buy 1 trillion worth of commercial paper and those assets lose 10%, then the bank has liabilities worth 1 trillion (outstanding currency) but only 900 billion in assets to cover them. Technically in default, but also in a very special economic position, because no body expects the central bank to ever cover its full liabilities.
That's sounds like nonsense. For transmitting signals I can understand that there needs to be some kind of order so the various low throughput bands can remain usable, but this is just receiving what anyone can read with an antenna and processing it a bit.
Don't be turned off by people wanting everything to be perfect, to their taste, and right now.

Those people are very vocal on HN or on the Foss community, but they do not speak for most users anymore than I do.

What you are attempting is very interesting and a lot of work.

Even if it's not tor browser level of private, I'll be glad to give it a try. We desperatly need more diversity in the browser space.
I’m in the same industry, and find these attempts of constraining technology through secrecy extremely naive by our legislators.
I’d wager that if you already know how to operate an SDR, you properly will have little trouble with the fairly simple algorithm of measuring phase differences, filtering, CFAR etc. to make a passive radar. Synchronizing a bag of RTL-SDRs with a common oscillator is a trivial soldering task.

The cat went out of the bag the second SDRs jumped from DARPA R&D to DVB-T commodity.

That aside having a passive radar breadboard is not the same as a high-end passive radar where frequency/phase stability, use of wideband multi-source emitters, ultra-low noise amplifiers and N>>2 channels for increased angular resolution are integrated in an operational system. These systems that actually works, should be controlled.
The problem is that averages are constructs of the mind. It is a fallacy to think that random citizens are average citizens. You can average numbers, you cannot average people.
Perhaps Temple OS shouldn't be evaluated by ordinary software standards. It is more or less useless as a general purpose operating system. It may have value in education, but in my opinion, it should be treated as an artwork when assessing its merit
While random choice has some merit, it ignores some basic requirements of legislation: Legislation is interfacing with the executive and judicial branches (and you definitely don't want to randomly select your judges and governors). This interface works through legalese and other techniques. So someone with a certain experience or training in these techniques will be able to write better laws. Also, legislation necessarily works through specialization and work in committees. That's another thing people can learn to do better. That's where political parties are actually useful.

Finally, this whole thing reeks of identity politics. Representation as a proxy of good decision making or even just good intent. But think about what this would do to minorities. It would be quite unlikely to chose, e.g., transsexuals or people with rare illnesses. Also, people have many different identies at the same time but but cannot represent them all equally well, anyways. So some aspects of society wouldn't be represented at all during a legislative period because everyone is supposed to represent their own identities, not someone else's.

So unless we create a legislative assembly that's so large that it borders on direct democracy, I don't see the benefit. And in that case, let's just have direct democracy. If necessary with a legal requirement to vote.
A monoculture is fragile and will be prone to abuses.
Overall, a commendable initiative, but:

> portability is not my goal at this moment. It may or may not work on systems other than Ubuntu 20.04.

... that is not good. On the contrary, you should make it so that portability is not an _issue_. IIUC, this should not depend on much beyond libc, or even just libc, so - why should it be Ubuntu-specific?
New ones are born every day. We will never run out.
There's a big issue with the reliability of communications between the phone, and the watch.

We can't assume that communications will happen in realtime. Even Apple's apps have some weird lag, and unpredictability. It's far better on the newest Watches. I've watched it improve, over generations (I currently have an 8, but my earliest one was a 2).

Any app that requires realtime sync with the phone is gonna have issues (I have tried writing them, and learned this, the hard way).
Monarchies have worked for longer than democracies have been around. People had no stakes in the system and were fine with it for thousands of years.
Since I've spent over a decade this thinking about this, and think it clearly the best way to solve the problem of election, perhaps you'd care to enlighten me on why it seems like nonsense?
From mullet to math genius after brain injury (2014)
As someone else who has moved from Linux (Ubuntu budgie) to MacOS this doesns't make sense.

Load your music into "Music" and it is all there and not "hidden in a sub-menu". ITunes is terrible, but "Music" isnt bad.

Has items on the left for "recently added, or "Songs" can sort by ratings, search, etc.
proportional representation rarely leads to elections won with clear margins
> Last but not least, chibicc allocates memory using calloc but never calls free. Allocated heap memory is not freed until the process exits. I'm sure that this memory management policy (or lack thereof) looks very odd, but it makes sense for short-lived programs such as compilers.

I’ve thought about this – why isn’t this a more common thing to do for short-lived programs such as cli programs? Or is it common – could anyone give some examples of well-used programs that do this?

The reasons to not do it that I could think of is:

1. “It’s just bad practice”

2. You may suddenly find yourself having written some kind of malloc bomb, more easily than you think
Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking [pdf]
> Legislation is interfacing with the executive and judicial branches

Why do you assume there would be 3 branches of government like the current system?

As the article discusses, the founders of the US divided the government in order to dilute democracy and maintain the power of the economic elite.
The cynical view is...

Selfishness and egocentrism play well with consumptionism.

I think it starts with natural isolation and weak societal bonds in the US (haha, as far as it can be observed in Hollywood movies). People lack something then and they are offered a lot of entertainment. That entertainment is more often than not something you buy.

And then at some point the US corporates realized the US market is not so big. Or it is big, but the total world is bigger. And they can or even need to export their goods and services. And when exporting they often need to sell and market their products using feelings. These feelings are often pictured in American context, even if the content is presented abroad.

TLDR: I think it's intentional.
In their defense this is our current system, instead our lottery is confined to a smaller group of rich megalomaniacs.
I could buy bikes too, but as you wrote that's not enough to make a living. This is my full time project. I could earn a mid 6 figure salary if I work for a big tech, and I think I'm creating a more valuable program than I did when I was working for a big tech, and in return I make money that counts in "fancy bicycle" unit... I think it's not wrong to say it didn't work quite well.
It might have to do with UMAP making dot products and assumptions about the inputs. If everything is 0s and 1s, the vectors will have a normal distribution of magnitudes (more or less). Otherwise the magnitudes will just explode and I don’t think UMAP will work.
This is what I’ve always supported because it kills political parties dead and their corrupting influence.
Yes how a law is written is important.
Yeah, but a few more disorganized unwinding events like ftx and things could keep correcting for a while to come.
A central bank can go bankrupt - it cannot keep printing money forever.

When we look at places with hyper-inflation, at some point people lose all their "faith" in a currency (and in the central bank). People no longer want to receive a currency that can be printed at 'no cost', because this currency will only keep losing value due to constant printing. They demand other, "hard" currency, or just use barter. Of course it is illegal, but in case of hyper-inflation the fabric of the society is rapidly dissolving - those who had some savings were effectively robbed by the central bank/government, those who sold some physical good - are now "bagholding" some coin that will become worthless fast.. The spiral of inflation can become so tough that noone will accept banknotes or electronic money, since it is better to hold physical goods.

As far as I remember in places with real hyper-inflation (Zimbawbe?) the central banks introduced so many new banknotes that they couldnt even afford to print them -> the paper-mills didnt accept the banknotes, since they knew those would not be worth anything in few days.

Other example is how after people would use stacks of paper currency to buy basics like bread.

Paper currency is a very useful invention because it really facilitates trade, same can be said about credit cards - but in times of hyper-inflation often the credit cards stop working - due to no electricity. So people jump to another hard currency (e.g. in Yugoslavia or Africa they only accepted US dollars or euros and basically gave up on own currencies, even if it was illegal).

[on a side note, I bought few of those '100 trillion' Zimbabwean dollar banknotes and this was one my my best investments ever - bought them for something like 2 USD each and now they seem to be worth 150-300 USD each. The value here is that it is a 'novelty' item - that can be used as an example of hyper-inflation; all the economy 101 books show it as an example]
I hadn't known of ObservableHQ and see it seems a Javascript notebooks shout-out at what Mathematica started with their Theo Gray notebooks in 1988?

How is Wolfram Research not involved, since it's so clearly Theo Gray's invention?
Surely one can both have mullet and math genius...and without a brain injury.

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Are the labels higher quality or different in some way from something I could print myself with a 30$ sticker printer?
GDP grew last quarter.
What about the section that shows how dull random numbers are?