skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's quite a stretch to compare, as taxes are derived from rules for the economy that everyone collectively votes on. Everyone benefits from collective projects run by the government to some degree, and a tiered tax system also counteracts the snowballing effect of how it becomes easier to make money the more you accumulate.

Here, we have a guy who is taking money for a specific purpose under circumstances that he completely lied about. And he used that money to attempt to enrich his company at catastrophic risk to the customers.
Check this out: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/exce...

Stimulus checks contributed $844 billion to the $1.7 trillion of excess savings we still had by mid-2022.

> We estimate that households in the lower half of the income distribution were still holding about $350 billion in excess savings as of mid-2022—mostly stemming from the boost to income induced by fiscal stimulus in 2020 and 2021.

Personal consumption expenditure went up especially for the bottom income quartile, driven by stimulus. As soon as the bottom of the income distribution had extra money, they drove up the prices of things that are in the CPI.

In contrast, when the top of the income distribution has excess savings, they drive the prices of Tesla stock, NFTs, and real estate. Since they are not in the CPI, nobody cared and money printing could continue. This is what we had in 2010–2020. Direct money transfers to the poor were the thing that broke the system.
Both my phone and computer show in Australian subnets however when I had cloudflair's 1.1.1.1 app enabled on my phone it was showing within a Chinese range?
This worked really well when I tried using it to search for papers. I didn't record the details but it was something related to converting a mesh to boundary representation.
Ask HN: Does Mastodon Support the Santa Clara Principles?
> web mobile games would be a thing

If Apple is holding back “web mobile games”, why aren’t developers making games for iOS and the web instead of iOS and Android? As a mobile game developer wouldn’t it be logical to skip making a native game for Android and just make one for the web that covers Android and computers?
To be clear, you do mean makes the voters public right? Because the whole idea of this suggestion is precisely to make the votes public. And I do agree that, within hours, there would be models developed to effectively parse the ballots and help detect any discrepancy - something the current centralized operators just can't seem to manage.

The problem is if the people casting the ballots can be identified by third parties. And in this regard, I don't understand what you mean or if that is what you are even talking about.
Hybrid?

Request passed to a thread pool. Each thread is juggling coroutines representing in flight requests
Is there a way to export all of my countries IP ranges so that I can add it into a nginx filter to better protect my self hosted website?
The Ukrainian people have outfought him.

The US assessment was that Russia would overwhelm Ukraine in less than a week. Winning the war was not an American plan.
Here’s the thing: I never said he had issues hiring anyone. I simply said you might argue Twitter is not entirely his even though he owns it.

That’s where all your startup analogies (which I find interesting!) break: Twitter is a “turn around” case. Musk had never to deal with such. He always build up companies from the ground. That’s very very different to acquiring a large company with an existing culture.

Now I’m not saying it cannot work. Maybe it does. But you can’t argue he’s done it before.
Inflation is trending down from 9% to 6%. The longest CDs I can find are for 5 years only with 4.25% rate. 6%-8% inflation could stay for a decade.
Just context switch every 15 minutes. Set up a pi-hole that blocks reddit and hn during working hours and whenever you catch yourself auto-pilot typing it in the address bar do a context switch.
Sounds like you’re arguing that he has engineer’s disease, and that other people are falling prey to it in their perception of him.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Engineer%20S...
Australian Federal Police claims Russian cybercriminals behind Medibank hack
>I just got back from Portugal. 99% of places took cards. When you are ready to pay the bill, they bring out the portable POS machine, you tap your card, and you're done. No awkward tipping screen. No separate calculation for sales tax. No pressure to buy bottled water or charging of table fee like in Italy.

Here in Japan, it's much the same.

After you're done ordering, the server leaves a slip of paper in a special holder on your table with the bill written/printed on it. It's just a total of the things you ordered, which are clearly printed with prices on the menu.

When you're done, you go to the cashier at the front with this paper, and pay. Most places take credit cards, plus various online options (PayPay, LINE Pay, etc.). Many also take Suica/Pasmo cards (the contactless cash cards you use to get on the subway).

Sales tax is included in the price.

Tipping *does not exist*.

Water is free. (It's tap water though, but it's fine. Water quality here is excellent for tap water.)

Table fees (cover charges) I think exist in some places but not in normal restaurants, and they're clearly shown before you sit down.

Japan has more Michelin-star restaurants than anyplace in the world outside of France. Restaurants aren't much more expensive than cooking at home, depending on what you order/make of course.

I honestly don't know why anyone bothers going out to eat in the US any more unless they're rich. It's a complete rip-off.
this is one of those times, dang, where you're fanning the flames for your own entertainment.

Please see the HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."
The Myth of the ‘Math Person’
> As far as I’m aware, you can write any HTML in Markdown, and it will be rendered normally.

It depends on your parser. Commonmark, for example, has rules for entering html mode: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#html-blocks

Neither is truly a superset of the other.
I currently keep three cockroach species, mostly to feed other animals. There's actually a hobby around collecting cockroach species. Please refrain from obvious jokes about accidentally "keeping" cockroaches.
Market disruption is the key difference. We now know how CPU operate and it's almost taken as a commodity.

Before Telsa, nobody thoughts electric cars were ready for road. Before SpaceX, I don't think anyone tried reusable rocket thingy. The thing is when you come up with a radically new idea, you have to know enough about it to convince others to work on it.

Steve Jobs knew enough about computer(and general idea of programming) to sell it, and Bill Gates was once a good programmer. Intel, nVidia founder were also chip engineers.
Meow5: An Concatenative Programming Language
You can contact people directly instead of trying to shame in public. What you're doing here dang is flamebait
They have a harder time hiding under stones...
Have you seen him talking about SpaceX engineering? He seems pretty clueful to me.
I could see this being used as something like an adjunct to cop body cameras, and likewise military applications.

Maybe also a requirement for CDL drivers. From there it extends to car insurance companies offering consumers a "discount" if you give em your data, similar to that ODB thing they currently do.
Great plan. Now you got rid of all the people with options and you've kept all the deadweight. Many companies do exactly this with voluntary redundancies!
Archived: https://archive.ph/dviLx
I built a little hybrid bookmarking/notetaking app - https://www.showboard.ca/
It's not built for bulk usage like you're describing, but makes it easy enough to scrape, modify, share and search.
Let me know if this is of interest (it has a python backend ;)
> I'm left-of-center, yet... I find political tribalism really fucking annoying. Musk could only improve Twitter in this regard.

I'm not so sure about this, anything he gets involved in only seems to get worse in this regard.
This is a valid use case for a corporate instance of a server. If a big corporation did invite a mass of users to the platform, it would still be a win for the platform in my book. The platform itself doesn't specify any restrictions on big servers just because the owners of these big servers are bringing in new users that they have influence over. Deeming a valid utilization of a platform as a 'real danger for the Mastodon/greater Fediverse community' misses the point.
We know what mediocrity creates this garbage, but we can’t speak of it here.
Is it a really a firewall if you shut down a company that is spying on US citizens for the CCP though? One that has been given multiple chances and hints (warnings) to disconnect from the CCP?
Six Simple Steps to Save Twitter
Archived: https://archive.ph/JfPnd
Why Did Slack Win Out over IRC, Anyway?
Internet Relay Chat beat Slack to real-time chat by decades and helped define much of our early online culture, yet way more people use Slack. Why is that?
Mastodon isn't even really one thing from what I understand. The instance I'm on is based on a fork.

So, to the degree the principles must be supported in software there may be a lot of variance. But at least some of the principles seem easily supported fwiw.
And was fine afterwards.
That is actually cool, it is a tarpit for these bots!

On a well configured site the LB timeouts should be short enough anyway.

But it is a risk, especially on classic DOS attacks.
Generally speaking, very good points, just wanted to point out that writing is extremely recent in evolutionary terms. Modern humans are at least 10,000 years old (but more typically viewed as 100,000 years old). Writing, as you probably know, is only around 3000 years old (at least that we can verify).
If anyone is looking for a native solution on macOS, check out my app Anybox: https://anybox.app
No we didn't, I said at the time "even a broken clock..." and did most of my privacy/security aware friends.
It wasn't immediately obvious that you're selling stickers to stick on keycaps. My brain just read "keylabels" as "keycaps". And you have a picture of a nice set of APL keycaps. I immediately thought I should get one. Then I clicked on the n00b guide before I realised it was a sticker label. Do you only do moonlander keycaps or can they stick on SA blanks?

ps it's very nice to see something keyboard related in my local currency
Sorry to hear that. I’m a parent and that sounds scary and awful
I would argue "efficiency" is the wrong word for what we discuss. Efficiency means optimising resource usage while achieving goals. If we need flexibility to achieve our goals consistently (and you usually do) then flexibility is part of efficiency (and effectiveness and efficacy) rather than opposed to it.

Phrased differently: if you define "efficiency" to mean "optimise for a single proxy metric and not what you're actually interested in" then yes, of course efficiency and effectiveness will be opposed other than sometimes by chance. But that's a dumb definition of efficiency!
Showboard – Collaborate, Organize and Share Bookmarks
Thank you. We visited Cleveland Clinic as well and received very similar results. I briefly thought about starting a class for cancer patients to help them navigate the medical system in the US. I had to try to learn to fly from the front seat of the plane and it was a bad experience.

She passed in 2020, just two years after diagnosis.
Booting uses PARTUUID to find the right boot partition (there's a systemd standard for finding the right partition automatically if the right UUID is set, but nothing seems to actually use it? I did set up the right UUID from the standard just to document things).

Encryption is via fscrypt, which isn't as good as FDE - not sure if FDE is impossible here, but I think this is enough security for the typical adversary. If a three-letter agency was a threat, I'd be toast anyway.

Custom kernels: Module loading is disabled - I've enabled everything that a normal install would load and added some netfilter things. Firmware is compiled into kernel too. Of course custom key is used for secure boot.
White bread is often made with egg whites to give it that super dense but fluffy/spongy texture it's famous for.
I spent 10pm to 1am to finish a daily project. Very productive, during day just answer questions and attend meetings, is impossible
Yes - the idea is that modules can be pre-built into a set of add-on images that can be independently signed, and the UKI can pick those up. That way you still only install the module images that are required into the boot partition, rather than having to include all modules in the initramfs.
3D Printed Space Rockets
You almost make it sound like we're back to aristocracy. He's the fucking CEO, not a Lord over his servants.
Linkding: Self-Hosted Bookmark Service
Banks don't actually even 'lend out' customer deposits. That's a very common misconception.

In modern bank operations, incoming fund transfers (which involve deposits) do provide liquidity that help allow the bank to be able to lend, but banks are actually levering up capital (paid-up share capital, retained earnings, etc.) to lend. The primary limit on how much they are able to lend (by Basel III regulations) is a multiple of this capital, nothing to do with the amount of deposits. Delinquent loans are therefore a loss recorded against this capital, which is shareholder equity - not customer deposits. The real problem for the bank is if more loans become delinquent than the capital they have, and they can't sell collateral for enough to cover it. Then they become insolvent. The Basel III rules increased the capital adequacy limits to try and lower the chances of banks failing after what happened in the GFC.

Bank runs are a liquidity problem because the bank's assets aren't all liquid enough to transfer out all the deposits the bank holds, but they can borrow bank reserves from other banks or the central bank in an emergency.
I was diagnosed with ADHD and was prescribed vyvanse. The first day I took it it was an extremely intense calm feeling. I had a design doc I had been mulling over for weeks but for some ungodly reason was unable to actually put onto paper. When the drug kicked in I was fully alert and all the uncomfortable feelings that had prevented me from actually doing what I needed to do went away. The doc was written in 3 hours.

I will say, it definitely brings you above baseline in ability to concentrate, even with adhd. I was basically unable to do any deep work because of random 30 minute meetings interspersed throughout the day. With vyvanse I can basically leave a meeting and within 5 minutes of it finishing be in the zone working on a different task.

I'm on week 3 now and the intense calmness has faded but my ability to do tasks and focus remains to a certain extent.
Shuna’s Journey Is Hayao Miyzaki’s Folkloric Blueprint
I hired an intern. Pair programmed with him for a couple months straight out of a code bootcamp. Nothing will keep you in the zone like pair programming, especially on boring tasks.
Netflix is not doing this work to improve user latency, they are doing this work to minimize cost:

> At Netflix, we periodically reevaluate our workloads to optimize utilization of available capacity.

The idea being that if you pay for fewer servers you spend less money
Maybe you have specific aesthetic goals.
I remember my first website experiment, hosted on "20megsfree". 20 megabytes of free hosting on a subdomain, they'd put an ad banner at the top, and you could pay for more / to remove the banner.

..and oh wow the domain still exists. Homepage is unchanged from 2001. Copyright line in the footer stopped updating in 2005 though so no idea if it would still work...
Divers Discover Piece of Space Shuttle Challenger Off Florida Coast
Proof of work is an environmental disaster and a waste of energy.
I feel like i have to repeat this very often: if a single traffic jam or other predictable common-cause variation results in your JIT implementation costing "far in excess of inventory savings" all you're telling me is that you have a really shitty JIT implementation.

JIT means having the buffer on hand to handle at the very least common-cause variation. But it also should come with the flexibility to handle variation of assignable causes at a reasonable cost.

Critically, you can't just press delete on all your inventory and then call it JIT. You have to adapt your processes for it, work with local authorities for improvements to infrastructure, and then always keep a larger buffer than you think you need.

JIT is not about deleting inventory. It's about reducing variation in your processes until most of your inventory truly becomes useless.

When you have a good JIT implementation, you are more flexible to take advantage of changing external conditions, not less.
The issue was not in Java, but in the C++ implementation of the JVM. I think you can be forgiven.
As I said, it's not about convincing someone whether my idea is good. It's a deliberate choice I am making to not have a CTO.
Great article. I have two comments:

1. Procrastination seems to be a type of early stopping. I knew I had a good strategy in school!

2. Something that seems to be sorely missing in machine learning (I'm not a ML expert) are error bars. If you take the example of the figure at the end, as you increase the number of parameters in the model, your error bars become larger (at least in the overfitting regime), and they are infinite when you have more parameters than data points. Indeed, chi^2 tests are usually used in physics/astro to test for this. Of course, you need error bars on the data points to do this. So perhaps the difficulty is really in assigning meaningful uncertainties to your pictures/test scores/politicians.
Zendo is one of the best. If you’re into this game also check out Pyramid Arcade. Best board gaming purchase I’ve made in ages.
To be clear, I am against flying passengers into the ground.

Pilots don’t tend to roll passenger aircraft. But given enough altitude and skill they probably could without spilling a tomato juice on a seat back tray table.
Looks very nice. May I ask, how do you intend to handle moderation?
Yup https://simpleflying.com/the-mcdonnell-douglas-blended-wing-...
I have been on this journey since html 4 was coming out next year, and I’ve never ever heard of SGML. Wow.

I can see how JSON would be a reaction to that.
I have the opposite problem. HTML <a href> links are consistent with the rest of the language. <a href>Something</a> makes the same kind of sense as <em>something</em>.

But markdown? I'm always forgetting the order of the (link)[text] or [link](text) or [text](link) or (text)[link]. It's just something that's invented, and not consistent with the rest of itself.
In human-machine interaction "semantic" means "you know exactly what the computer will do with that". So "<i>" or "<b>" tags have very clear semantic, while "<em>" or "<strong>" are less so and things like "<article>" are totally vague.

Although this is not quite correct. "Semantic" is what makes sufficient distinctions for a given case. For example, assume I'm going to publish Ashby's "Introduction to cybernetics". It has an interesting structure: numbered chapters ("2"), smaller divisions within a chapter with a title but without a number, and yet more smaller units that are numbered like "2/17". Some of these smaller units have a title, some just a number. The point is that all this is rather unique.

So I'm about to mark up the text to indicate all this. A semantic way to do that would be to invent a notation that is as unique as this book. There will be "<ashby-chp>", "<ashby-div>", "<ashby-unit>" and such. We do not specify how this is going to be rendered, but at least we faithfully describe what we have without losing anything and without adding anything irrelevant.

Now we want to render it on a visual media. Here we have a different notation that describes fonts, styles, spacing and so on. These are very different distinctions from the structure of the book, but are very approriate for typesetting. We decide how we represent our "ashby" distinctions with these tools and write a transform from our notation into the visual one.

Same for a screen reader. Here we have a notation that describes pitch, speed, etc. No spacing or fonts, of course. We decide how we are going to represent our distinctions with these and come up with another transform.

At each step each element in our notations has a clear purpose. The "ashby" notation captures all the distinctions the author needs to make his point. The "visual" and "aural" notations are tools to express distinctions that can be made on a specific media. This is semantic. And this, by the way, is the original idea of XML (a multitude of notations) and XSLT (the notation transformer).

[And the description of the transforms also uses yet another notation with yet another clear purpose :)]
Fuck “project managers”.

The second you are subjected to one as an engineer you are being told you’re in the wrong place.

I don’t care what the stock options are, I don’t care what the free morning deviled eggs are like, that place is cancer and you need to escape it.
I use fscrypt, my typical threat case won't be able to break it, and I think the failure mode is more graceful (you can set up alternate methods for decryption, I use a backup password). FDE should be possible with the right kernel support, but not sure this exists today.
Seriously, innovation needs to be encouraged and all the gates hamper that. But being critical of the medical cartel gets flagged/downvoted quickly here. See comment higher up.
The issue is if somebody else has pulled the remote branch and then you remove the commit, suddenly their branch and yours doesn't match. And then they can't push without massaging it.

I hate revert commits but often you have to do them if you make a mistake because usually force pushes will be disabled on master for that reason.
Look at some code, hold your attention on it, think about the methods and types and interactions with other objects. Hold all of this in your working memory to the exclusion of anything else. See how long you can hold it for.

Now start loading more into your working memory, after you get N classes deep things will start to get fuzzier, you won’t be able to hold it all in your mind at once, you’ll get unfocused, and then go to hacker news.

Imagine if that fuzziness didn’t start, but you kept that sharpness of working memory easily. Imagine it was effortless to keep reading, and imagine other thoughts (biological needs or whatever) never distract your working memory.

That’s what it’s like for me, unfortunately I get terrible headaches after, and the amount of time it takes to recover causes a loss in productivity that is greater than the productivity I would have got working at a comfortable pace.

Much better is diet and exercise, with diet and exercise I have vastly increased my ability to focus and remember, much better than any artificial chemical enhancement.

There are no shortcuts
I think there are some similarities between Goodhart’s law and overfitting, but I don’t think the lesson or underlying mechanism or model is the same.

Crudely speaking, Goodhart’s law is a reflection of the system reacting to an intervention (ie.: dynamic feedback loops) and that just has nothing to do with overfitting.
It's kind of cool that they did not know what they found at first. Check out all the fish in the history channel video of this: https://twitter.com/HISTORY/status/1590722716931620864?s=20&...
Could this be easier done without install ipset command, by modify /proc/net/xt_recent/ directly?

https://ipset.netfilter.org/iptables-extensions.man.html