skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyma Omega – Polyphonic Physical Modeling Synthesizer
His problem basically is that the perfect is always the enemy of the good. Because Mastodon does not, today, solve all of social media's problems, it's not worth further effort. It's the easy hot take and there have been dozens, maybe hundreds of variations on this post on Mastodon lately, almost all of them with the implicit conclusion that it doesn't seamlessly replace Twitter, therefore the only way forward is Twitter. The same Twitter that was a service famously in search of a purpose for many years in the early days, with many pundits opining on its uselessness.
SBF wasn't just giving money to political candidates and journalists, he was giving it to a wide range of causes. The FTX Foundation was spending a lot of money on global health and welfare, for example: https://ftxfoundation.org/global-health-welfare/

Obviously those gifts don't excuse SBF's massive fraud! But it's not as if SBF was only donating to political candidates and nothing else.
I think that's a US English thing. How much is 'a lot of money'? How much is 'a heap of money'?
I get mine from lenskart when I visit home, get a pair of normal ones and sunglasses for less than 100 EUR. I guess they ship to EU too.

I have -6 so I get 1.7x<something> the thinnest possible.
Your comment adds nothing. Care to back up your comment with something of value?
you're absolutely correct, stealing customer funds is totally fine /sarc
That is a load of lying horseshit.
I don't gel with all of GP's views. Human-to-human competition is the driver of woe.

But when it comes to:
> they just hoard the money and put it towards whatever satisfies their ego.

Not a contradiction. Billionaires have wealth that easily makes both sides of this statement true.
Is having a broken link one of them?
That's a great example! Are there any mediums where this happened organically, or does this almost always happen as a result of regulatory actions?

jaredcwhite: When you say decentralization is inevitable, were you talking about as a result of government intervention?
At least they'd (Microsoft) have to make the changes publicly available, since it's AGPL. So they can't have secret shenanigans that others don't have.
Some municipalities love to pull the trick with a yellow road geometry sign with a yellow limit for the road feature. It’s a speed limit, but not on the traditional white sign with “Speed Limit”.
Did bolsonaro launder money from the US >> Ukraine billions to >> ftx to >> DNC/GOP/pelosi/biden/whomever

Remember the trips that congress members took to Ukrain after giving money to Ukraine? Yeah - that was to ensure the laundering could happen and they were there to ensure their cut would com back.

There are articles already about ukrainian VIPS who have been buying luxury shit...

Pelosi is the most corrupt politician there is. McConnell is next.

If you disagree with me, then prove it with facts not downvotes... I follow these corrupt politicians closely - so GFSY with knee-jerk-uninformed responses and dont ask me for a master class in 30 years of my following all these POS daily.

EDIT: You asked about DAVOS...

Apparently you know nothing about DAVOS.

Thats basically like CES Las Vegas for the elite corrupt...
Elon Musk Just Ended Twitter SMS 2FA
If wealth is assets that produce income for me without doing anything, then, logically, either someone else is doing work for which I receive some portion of the income, or I am benefitting from inflating asset prices, which make it harder for others to purchase those assets. This is socially unproductive and I have no real interest in it.
Yeah, this is exactly what GSIs are meant to do - see https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki/ for a nice wiki talking about taking advantage of that.

I thought mobian was distributing a GSI to do non-Android on the Android base, but I can't seem to find it if they do that.

Also, bear in mind that this almost intentionally doesn't solve some support problems - any bugs/vulnerabilities in the base layer won't get fixed by GSIs (which is why DivestOS says it explicitly doesn't ship a GSI).
The whales foot the final bills though. Unlike the vc's money which goes through economical cycles, there will always be suckers for those gacha gambling games
Personal AI: Your Guide to the “Super Landscape”
Apple is forced to share the data with the federal police and other agents of the state, oftentimes (30k+ per year) without a search warrant.

If you think it’s not a risk because they don’t sell it to advertisers, think of all of this lifestyle data, times a billion people, being used nefariously to undermine human rights by someone worse than whoever you think the most repugnant US president has been.

The collection of the data is the problem, because there is a player in the game who is not Apple but has 100% access to all data that Apple has.

If it were the FBI collecting all this dragnet data in bulk, would you be concerned or alarmed?
I gave up responding to them because they can't even use the right units...
Since the advent of stock exchanges, is this the first time London has not been the largest in Europe?
This.

The banks weren’t to blame for 2008 any more than were the hoardes of FOMO buyers - in that they were both pretty culpable but neither of them were the real problem.

Lax regulation of the rating agencies was the real smoking gun. I’m not even sure it was ever addressed given all the banker witch hunts that ensued, and will next time too.

Dave Chappelle was on Saturday Night Live this past week and did a bit in the monologue about why we can’t have good regulations. Worth checking out:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_m-gO0HSCYk

(Starts at 8:50)
> Profile the function that is called if object is not found in cache ? Have pluggable cache with plugin that just doesn't cache? That is not hard problem to solve.

The more the dynamic behavior of the profiled system and the real system deviate, the harder it is to isolate what's causing the slowdowns.

> Well, they delivered (I'm guessing) 10x improvement in a month by adding cache.

Yes, but by doing this they also tremendously increased the complexity of the project, and (unless the team has someone like GP in it) prevented further optimizations. It may still be a good trade-off, but the overall sorry state of pretty much all software everywhere suggests it may not be a good one usually.

> And frankly ability to use profiler and knowing some architectural optimizations seems to be pretty rare skill.

That's kind of reinforcing the parent's point, though.
Likely a regular meeting in a cafe or library at which people practice their Spanish.
This is called a CV stuffing position. It works very well because recruiters can identify brands, but not skill.
My zero deductible Obamacare plan is $400/m for just me. I imagine OP has like five kids??
Paypal has always loved keeping money they didn't earn. They should be treated like a crypto exchange: never keep your funds with them, only use them to transact then move funds away (if no other alternatives available).
> Large central services give reasonable stability as to not easily shut down altogether, having your account and all content removed. On Mastodon, this is a constant threat.

I'd be interested to see the halflife of centralized services generally to be able to tease out the patterns in a way less vulnerable to survivorship bias. I recognize that invoking Google's product shutdowns is like the free space on the HN comment bingo card, but... You could also point to the cases where Google shuts down someone's entire business or life on the internet for opaque reasons, without the user having any meaningful recourse, as a "constant threat" of a system that's scaled beyond the human.

This conversation was just very, very different before the move feature. When mastodon.technology announced it needed to shut down (https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/), yes, the users learned they would lose their little chunk of namespace – old URLs would break, old content would need to be downloaded to archive – but the crucial thing is the social graph, and the move feature lets you pick up and move your followers. This is like if I could reach into the contacts files of everyone who had my email and update it. This means that "having [my] account and all content removed" is just a lot less big of a deal than when e.g. Facebook nukes someone's account.
Well I mean there are asset-backed cryptocurrencies too, also ones backed by fiat currency.
I can see most companies not spinning up Mastadon servers simply because of the license.
There are deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics.
This isn’t just about currency rates though.

The gap used to be $1.5Tn in 2016. The sizes of the 2 exchanges are about $2.8Tn each right now.

The gap between London and Paris used to basically be about 50% of what the market cap for exchanges in either city is today.
Also, the equity investors are all solidly underwater. The debt holders are under water by maybe half. So anyone with an incentive package is last in line behind the creditors and the equity investors.
Those whales are something else. That's all I'm going to say.
PCs nearly-universally use standardized interfaces, phones go hard on cost cutting and everyone ships their own badly-done drivers that are never upstreamed running on custom hardware that wouldn't run a "standard" image if you had one.

Or more succinctly, because phones won the race to the bottom.
Right back at you. You're making a whole bunch of assertions which are, to say the least, not widely accepted, and unsupported by any evidence or logic.
The venture capital investment rounds are absolutely Ponzis.

Every round is for a higher valuation, and so every investory knows they are paying more for the same number of shares as a previous round. But they believe that a future scenario (investment round) will increase the valuation such that their investment will become profitable.

Show me _any_ startup where an investment round was at a lower valuation than the previous round. Unless you can do that, and show that the company was currently profitable, then it is a Ponzi scheme.

Why would an investor invest in something that has no profit? They would only do that if they believed that in the future there would be enough profit to increase their value given the time cost.

If you look at Uber, the amount of investment, and the 8+ years of zero profit, the only conclusion you could reach is that each round believed that there would be a subsequent round that would increase valuation and provide a profit for them.
I mean, it's definitely the kind of good constructive criticism that really helps improve the discussion. 


In all honesty, I will say that pointing out rhetorical styles is probably the least constructive internet discussion you can have. Mostly because even if you can point to a logical fallacy, doing so doesn't negate the underlying argument unless you can actually explain it.
As much as your current situation is terrible, I would never quit without a new position lined up. I've seen a number of people do it and it set them back years - they struggled to find a new job and as their desperation increased, they were forced to accept a lower position with lower wages.

If you interview for a new position while still employed, you are in a position of strength (as much as I hate to put it in those terms). If you interview while unemployed, you're likely to NEED the job and potential employers know that - this will inevitably affect your bargaining position.
I get the feeling that local regulators will eat them alive for this when the complaints start rolling in.
These groups intersect, so we can't just add the two numbers.
If ActivityPub succeeds, it's unlikely that the Mastodon server will be the only mainstream implementation.
> Accounts with zero balance won’t be impacted by this fee and this charge won’t result in any negative balance.

> You can use your PayPal account for any of the following simple actions before December 13, 2022 to avoid the fee: Log in to your account; or ...

So to avoid the fee, transfer out any balance and then log in once a year. Seems doable.
Neat! But I pay for Clion, so I'm hoping they can prioritize this so I don't have to write plugins myself... :)

We'll see when I start my next nim project, how I can contribute..
Am I the only one who never cared about free will? Either we have free will or we don't - we will never know - and it doesn't actually matter.
This definitely makes sense - my knowledge of that time period is much more relevant to internet/hacker culture, and much about the views of the general public.
I agree. I can’t say that I love speed cameras, but these do genuinely have a big impact. The other thing they tend to do is even out the traffic - everyone is travelling at a speed close to the vehicles around them. (It’s rare for vehicles to drive a lot slower than the camera-enforced speed - whereas there is a lot of speed variation between vehicles on motorway stretches without cameras.)

So in addition to the reduction in speed, you’ve got smaller speed differences between vehicles and also a much more even and steady traffic flow which can help prevent that traffic jam inducing stop/start behaviour.

I reluctantly think they should be used more widely. (And I say that as a U.K. driver who is not unfamiliar with receiving the odd speeding ticket in the past).
Individual Differences in Obedience and Prejudice
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.
Some product features are created by Marketing, then there's those made by Accounting.
Someone had a bunch of "parking lots from the ages" from the Model T era, the 50s, and to today, and what was interesting is how similar all the vehicles looked each time.
Note - looks like generics do work, the issue was my file names had dashes in them. Evidently that is not supported, but I didn't get any errors :p
>So again, you are still interpreting the expression literally?

People use it literally all the time. I don't buy that people mean it figuratively. Maybe you do. But this statement is banded out so often and with no regard to the situation except where the coins are gone, it reflects little insight into the situation besides what I have pointed out.

I am happy for you that you find such meaning in the statement. That you read that statement and it means, to you, so much more than what it says.

> It's not a literal statement, it's a concise expression that gets used repeatedly to get a very important point across unsuspecting (unexperienced, novice) crypto holders.

A group of people who just so happen to think that the crypto is somehow exempt from the law, which they reflect with statements like "not your keys, not your crypto" which is said with absolutely no reflection on how property law works. It's not as if this is even a new thing, intangible property has existed long before crypto. Yet in the crypto world, the statement which you find so meaningful goes so far!
We've somehow managed to recreate the 2000 and 2008 recessions simultaneously
'node'.split('').sort().join('') == 'deno'
Pfizer and Moderna have better PR departments.
These insecurities are not at the same level, and do not compare. Don't see it as the difference between zero security and infinite security, it's a spectrum or scale instead.

On FB, I can go back 10 years and my content is still there. All of it. With the exception of a suspension, FB doesn't delete user content. Ever. The same applies to Twitter. Their track record of content persistence is excellent.

On Mastodon, media gets purged pretty much by policy. So you can be sure that you lose it all, thus rendering old toots useless. Add to this that every instance can disappear at any time, so besides your content, your account is also not safe.

What Musk could and could not decide is speculation. Track record looks back, not forward.
> > really couldn't handle complex architecture

> What is defined as complex architecture/could you elaborate?

Earlier in its lifespan, Heroku didn't have an easy way to add common components of infrastructure to an app. If you wanted to use Postgres + some Postgres plugins + Redis + some kind of queue manager, you basically had to split those out into separate apps that would run on their own "dynos" (to use the Heroku terminology).

That makes sense, right? We all do that now. We don't usually have Postgres running on our application server.

The difference is that Heroku only let those things talk to each other over HTTP at the time, so you essentially had to put a REST API in front of every component of your system.

It was, predictably, a huge mess that I honestly didn't see many companies fully adopting.
not mentioning the 8110 is bananas!
I too immediately looked it up. No obvious match. Maybe it’s just dinner with someone in Spain?
I suppose the conditional request thing is silly because it already exists with `If-Match`/`If-None-Match` and ETags.
Sounds like most conversations I had with cybersecurity people until I learned about NIST 800s, FIPS, CNSS, STIGs, etc.
They still exist, and are really fun! I'm part of a community that has a webring and a Mastodon instance: https://webring.xxiivv.com/
You get a lower rate (higher baseline) if you install a heat pump ($0.28-0.30; 4x to 4.2x), and the coefficient of power for the heat pump should be well over 4 in California.

Current electricity rates:

https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/rate-plans/how-ra...

Current natural gas rates:

https://www.pge.com/tariffs/GRF1122.pdf

You seem to be on the cheaper residential schedule.
89% of surveyed Twitter employees say the company will fail under Musk
Why is this "stealing"? Seems like a really strong word to use.
That's because the easiest to get new customers for a mobile game are the ones who play similar games but not yet this one. The customers then play the game and buy more in-game currency than was paid for the ads.
This thread is getting silly. He's just trying to help explain some of the rationale behind the rule. But the rule itself is real; you can't argue it out of existence. You should mail hn@ycombinator.com if you've got concerns.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
You don't need hidden variables to have deterministic quantum mechanics (many-worlds is deterministic without hidden variables, and we haven't ruled out global hidden variables or superdeterminism afaik)
I guess you could compute "comment karma" for a user by subtracting the karma from their submissions from their total karma.

Also I suspect that votes on comments are a noisy signal of quality. A lot of those votes are driven by positive or negative dogpiling. Somebody who doesn't know what they are talking about but sounds like they know what they were talking about will always beat somebody who knows what they are talking about but doesn't sound like it.

It was a formative experience for me when there was a discussion on Slashdot about what was going to happen when Network Solutions was about to lose its monopoly for registering domain names. I didn't know exactly, but I knew enough that I was conspiring with a domain investor to register 1000's of domains as soon as they came available as we knew they would.

On the forum there were people speaking authoritatively who didn't know anything. Had I tried to school people on the truth I would have been shouted down... Any if anybody believed what I told them and took it seriously they'd be our competitors for registering domain names. So it was a case of "Those who talk don't know and those who know don't talk."
> The closest you can get to decentralization with the traditional finance system is to withdraw and store cash, which is expensive/risky and causes inflation to eat away at your savings.

I don’t see how it’s any different from the situation with, say, bitcoin. If you store a bitcoin, it just sits there, and its value follows that of the market. The fact that bitcoin is deflationary has nothing to do with decentralisation; a central bank could do that as well. They don’t because deflation is a terrible way of running an economy, not because it’s not possible.

> Good luck with other parts of the finance system (eg. investments or loans).

You could loan cash as well and get interests from that. Decentralised, anonymous, not traceable in any practical sense if you use regular used notes. Again, this has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies. The infrastructure that was built on top of cryptocurrencies enable doing it at larger scales and over longer distances, but that’s not a qualitative difference (besides the fact that this tends to concentration, running against the decentralisation ideal).

> It's ironic how you portray centralization as something that people willingly engaged in because it was beneficial,

It’s something that emerged because of economies of scale. Personally, I feel much safer with my money with an institution that is big and resilient enough that I am very close to 100% certain that it’ll still exist tomorrow. This can also be done with cryptocurrencies, but against this goes against the dogmatic ideal of decentralisation.

> the government refusing to make high denomination bills

How is it a problem in practice?

> instituting a monetary policy that causes inflation

Mild inflation is much better than deflation from an economic point of view. What do you think are the advantages of deflation? I can see the “the value of my pile keeps getting bigger”, but how would that work e.g. for farmers who need to invest to produce food, or people who need a loan to buy a house, if the whole system is deflationary?

But again, that’s a red herring because central banks can have deflationary policies. They don’t because that causes the economy to contract, unemployment to rise, and investments to fall.
HelloFresh accused of using coconut milk obtained from monkey labor
There are reports that it may be fixed
Ask HN: Is Twitter Hiring?
There's nowhere I'd like to work more right now than Twitter (I'm aware this might not be the prevailing opinion). Is it possible? Should I try to apply now or wait for things to cool down?
IBM has at least two processor families being made. POWER10 (and multiple versions of that), as well as this Telum chip.
I bought a car factory (in Detroit – 7 min video)
Millions of developers run random javascript on their computers on a daily basis. It's called npm. How is this any less trustworthy?
“The idealism of every era is usually the cover story of its greatest thefts.”

this is my favorite eric quote, which he also just applied to the ftx mess.

Eric's way of seeing things isn't a linear thing I can summarize, there's a few youtube vids you can search for the concepts of Kayfabe or his anger at the Consumer Price Index methodology which he's been making noise about for a decade, way before all the cool kids today tweeting about inflation.

It's about seeing narrative frames and language games that institutions play to intrinsically hide (to others and themselves) the mechanics of power/money. If you believe in beautiful liberal middle-class dreams it's really painful to square with reality of those machines.

He calls his own podcast The Portal because to see these patterns you need that moment where you step out of the calcified frame of current understanding, like in those kids books where youre stuck in a drab deadened state and then find a magical portal to narnia, can return transformed.

(You have to have those moments yourself, it usually feels like a loss of innocence imo)
Recent work that might interest you:

Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.29.509744v1....)

Collaboration with Neurospin, Inria, and Meta
(https://about.fb.com/news/2022/04/building-ai-that-processes...)
Please see my list of issues with /e/OS: https://divestos.org/misc/e.txt