skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Religion" section of the Wikipedia article is particularly interesting. I had known that the title was a Biblical reference, but it hadn't quite clicked that this is, literally, a nativity story.

I had next written a free-associating post here about Christmas, and paganism, and Diwali and Holi, and cycles of the seasons, and life and death and resurrection. And I backspaced over it. But then I returned to the article and saw -- details I hadn't remembered -- that the director had gone very far in this direction himself, with Sanskrit verse and final text.

I think that, at its core, it's a primitive and fundamental story.

The most important stories:

1. The seasons repeat, with spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

2. You are born, you live, and then you die.

3. When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much --

Let me put it another way, like maybe the Indo-Europeans did:

Father Sky lies upon Mother Earth, and his rains come forth, and lo!, she bears fruit.
A "bad ethernet switch" stalls progress to ignition.
In general, the issue with cryptocurrency is there is very little actual economy around it (that is, buying and selling actual goods, not just exchanging for different cryptocurrencies and tokens), so much of the value isn't really backed by anything.

It's mostly just speculation, which becomes a "greater fool" thing - you're only going to win if you time it right, there's enough pumping happening for you to profit, and get out before the next crash.
Those republics (Chechnya and Dagestan) have fewer than a million people and Moscow is not afraid of razing them to the ground. Other republics don’t have significant non-Russian population. Russia falling apart is just wishful thinking.
As was pointed out in a podcast I listened to this week, you’ve essentially described a Ponzi scheme. Fundamentally, making gains on crypto requires someone else showing up and putting money in so you can get yours out. It’s more obvious with NFTs because they’re not pretending to also be money.
A project like this must merge with Neom. Funding issues solved!
I get where you're coming from. But its also an interesting observation that CoffeeZilla (the youtuber) has consistently provided critical crypto industry reporting on par or better than most mainstream media.

I honestly trust him as much as Matt Levine when it comes to Crypto. Which is saying a lot as Matt Levine is arguably the best financial reporter of a generation
I was involved in the very early Bitcoin days, and it started for me as something else to do with lots of spare GPU cycles, then I started learning about the underlying tech, which I thought was quite an elegant solution for p2p trustless ledger. I still think it is.

I have not been involved for a long time though, as the original feelings I got from those early days and the community back then seems to have changed completely. Now its all bullshit shell games and scams.
Both are true, the situation is pretty much symmetric, as the Fourier transform is almost the same as the inverse Fourier, except for a sign change in the formula and some constant factor.
When you manage to combine those repos, you should post one of those big road signs that says: MERGE!
It removes a lot of unnecessary nuance, but by and large he knows as much, if not more, than any other asshole on the street.

Source: am an asshole.
Jaw droppingly kick ass tech. Gobs of bandwidth, incredible fabric acceleration. 22B transistors, 400Gbe/infiniband (maybe x4, hard to tell), PCIe 5.0 x32, 16x Cortex-A78 ARM cores, datapath accelerator with 16 cores 256 hardware threads. Via coverage from August 2021 of BlueField-3: https://www.servethehome.com/nvidia-bluefield-3-dpu-architec...

It could use a couple drops of AWS Nitro like acceleration, but so far that kind of hardware virtualization hasn't really shown up on the broader scene. But... RDMA, oh yes! That said, AMD had acquired SeaMicro who had an incredibly sweet Nitro-like virtualized-peripheral system, which powered some of the sickest most awesome ultra-dense systems built. All quite obsolete now, but it felt like where we ought to go.

The fabric is so the thing. More bandwidth, smarter bandwidth/connectivity across systems. CXL has killed/merged-in all competitors, and 3.0 finally actually does what the much better specs (Gen-Z) did semi-somewhat adequately (be a semi-long-distance capable fabric, rather than a fancy peripheral bus).

I have a lot of hope & trust Intel's going to do great with their silicon photonics. AMD has been shipping chiplets nicely, but Intel has been shipping far more advanced EIMB, Foveros (Lakefield was so under-rated for so many reasons), and photonics for years now.

I hope AMD can stay competitive. Epyc is just kicking ass everywhere, but I really don't see AMD as having any plans for connectivity. I've heard some recent rumblings that they want to start shipping CXL even on consumer hardware, and that would be a great place to get a strong lead, a big selling point, and to get competency. I'm still a little sad, after so many years of AMD being the open HyperTransport company that wanted to play with others- it never materialized, and they gave up. Now the follow-up Infinity Fabric (IF) is all closed- it's unclear what exactly IF really is or does or whether it's just marketing speak... does the IF on CPUs really resemble & work similar to the IF on the new RDNA3 gpus? IF would be interesting as a more fabric-like system, but it's an internal implementation detail we know nothing about, and that's unfortunate for AMD.

I'm hoping for a very interesting 2025+ as newer CXL-based RDMA like systems & peripherals & virtualizations emerge. Having very fancy flash drives and network resources that are fabric-attached, having systems doing next-gen RDMA to each other is very compelling. I hope hardware like this can have a role, but I also hope a lot of Intel e-core like acceleration gets thrown into regular core complexes as well & competes, integrated versus accelerators, each trying.
It would be totally possible to make the journey -- just remove the roof rack, drive 20mph slower, and spend a few hours in advance mapping out precisely where and when to stop for charging.

Or buy a gasoline car and just ... drive to your destination along any route you like, at any time you like, with any cargo you like, at whatever speed you like.
"Explain monads like I'm five"

https://galactica.org/?prompt=explain+monads+like+I%27m+five

"Explain monads like I'm five" is a popular aphorism attributed to English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead.

Aaaaaaahhhh.... OK.

The phrase was first published in 1947 in Whitehead's posthumous book Process and Reality. It is found in the following passage:

We are here concerned with an idea which is not itself a monad, but which, like the monads, is in a sense a simple thing. We shall call it the "idea of simplicity", and we shall now try to explain it like a monad. The idea of simplicity is not a monad, because it is not a physical thing. It is not a simple thing, because it is not simple to be simple. The idea of simplicity is not a physical thing, because it is a concept, and concepts are not physical things. The idea of simplicity is not a simple thing, because it is not simple to

OK, I have no idea if Whitehead's book actually contains the line:

It is not a simple thing, because it is not simple to be simple

But if it doesn't, it probably should. I think that is my new catch-phrase from now on!
The biggest threat to US security is cyberattacks by ransomware gangs.

Focus on that please.
How’d you like Atlas Shrugged? That speech goes on and on, doesn’t it.
> I'm extremely thankful that early in my career I realized that I enjoy working for smaller companies

Same. I have at worked at bigger organisations, at some mid point in my career, and it was reaffirming. I won't dig into the details, but when I think of the word "institutionalized" I think of how peculiar the way big orgs make you approach most tasks. Your skillset becomes intertwined with the institutions until you become encumbered and perversed with arbitrary approaches to things that don't apply outside your institution. You become ossified by these ideas and leaving becomes harder and harder.
>Immagine to join together the world biggest yacht firms in an unique project. (None of the below brands are now involved yet in the project)

lol. i'm having a hard time believing this is anything other than the imaginings of some 15-year-old
NASA's Exploration Ground Systems - @NASAGroundSys

Upper stage is now in fast fill at 58% liquid hydrogen filled.

Liquid oxygen for both upper and core stage are in stable replenish.

--NASA's Exploration Ground Systems - @NASAGroundSys

The 'red crew' team has successfully remedied the leak, and it has not recurred.

Bad ethernet switch is being replaced now.
I called their responses in the issue thread hostile, which they were. As to the limits of free speech, they're not just limiting what they hear/see, they're deciding to do that for others too. That seems to go against the ideas of free speech and of federation, especially in the open source space.

> It's unfortunate that you find it hostile - I consider the hateful conduct that they're banning much more hostile and support their methods of collaboration to that end.

It is hostile, but how is their hostility in that case justified by their stance against certain forms of prejudice? I don't see the justification. Moreover, the list of prejudices (if they are, they're just vague assertions at this point) they gave is not necessarily hostile. For example, a racist might publish a paper saying that the IQ of one race is less than another's. That is racist but not hostile. If they were to write "thus we should eliminate them" or "I hate them because of this" or, to a member of that race were to show any sort of aggression for simply being of that race, that would be hostile. It is eminently possible (and I'd say, easy) to be against hostility of any sort discussed here, and against racism while also noting that they're not synonyms and that they don't always overlap.

Nuance exists, even when discussing prejudice.
You need nothing that heavy.

Many printed out bitcoins fit in an envelope.
I don’t know. I was answering a question about the definition of a term.

Do you have a theory?
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Just don't try to charge your electric truck in CA during the summer :p
Science intensifies
You forgot to link the source
He’s describing a speculative bubble, not a Ponzi scheme. By your definition any enterprise where money flows in and out and involves more than one party is a Ponzi scheme.
The base model Roko's basilisk is pretty stupid, but I have talked to people who have worked on "improving" the idea, so it actually works in more realistic and diverse decision theories. It's like base model MOND vs improved versions of MOND, the idea is still pretty wacky but they did some fudging to get it to work better "empirically" (with that word being used very loosely, of course). I think some people don't want anyone talking about the improved basilisks, but if anyone cares I can try to dig them up. Probably don't care though, because it's really stupid.
You can't cue something that precedes the cue.
Jack Hargreaves explains why 79 Dorset Villages vanished [video]
I think this is a great metric. How do you find which hammer is better? Just use both!

It's rather pointless to look at things like material and size of a hammer. What you want to measure is the end result.
C++ constexpr parlor tricks: How can I obtain a string length at compile time?
In bed with the Tudors
Compare this with the $125B valuation for SpaceX from May of this year. Not bad.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-17/musk-may-...
this is quite common in Prague to avoid parking fees due to loophole in law, some go even so far to remove license plate completely while parking

OTOH Ukrainians park their cars everywhere in Czechia (CZ received most UA economic migrants per capita in world) without paid parking or straight up in illegal locations knowing there is no way to enforce fines outside EU and anyone being loud about it will be automatically labeled Putin lover
“His tribe”

Is this supposed to be implying something specific?
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I can see the behavior being useful in some cases (and not a _super_ common cause of mistakes once you learn it), but the issue for me is mainly that it's surprising and easy to get bitten by before you learn it. This describes git entire UX as well in my opinion: the underlying model is very powerful and generally pretty sound, but the API for it does a poor job of making it clear, and generally you have to make a lot of mistakes on the way to learning how to use it properly.
> But the US and friends will probably bankrupt Russia and it will all fall apart USSR style.

Probably not; certainly, individual republics might be temporary loci of power in a central government collapse, but they’d almost certainly reconstitute the central government, perhaps with a slightly different central/local balance of power. The Russian Federation doesn’t (for the most part) have the same centrifugal forces as the USSR held in by a strong central authoritarianism.
> Also known as social democratic governments that collect taxes.

Well yes, but in the absence (or inadequacy) of such government action for causes you care about, doesn't it make sense to donate to the charities that most effectively do the thing you care about?
CZ could have gotten paid $1B or whatever many FTT they owned for $22/coin. That would have still weakened FTX and Alameda a ton. Them having to pay out so much of that money would have put them closer to the tipping point and gaining over a billion for CZ.

Obviously removing a top competitor that’s doing straight up robbery is something that should always be done. We are talking about awful actions.
It sounds like one of those really bad Dubai megaprojects like the Palm Islands[1] and The Line.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Islands

[2] https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/theline
I'll cheer lead vaccines from a team sport position all day long; in this case I'm doing so from that perspective and from the perspective that the vaccine has shown to have a significant (order of magnitude) impact on death (etc, etc).

I don't think it's totally unfair to call it 'underwhelming' though. We are so used to vaccines being wildly successful at stamping out a bunch of diseases that when something as virulent as this comes along & the efficacy isn't as high (in no small part due to the fact that so many countries decided to make it the only line of defence), it's easy to be disillusioned.

I live in Queensland, Australia, where we had lockdowns that were similar in harshness but much more limited in length. I am very familiar with the Melbourne lockdowns (one of my colleagues got stuck there for months after he got trapped there after going down for a 1 week holiday).

We probably just got lucky that we didn't have a Melbourne-style outbreak. But the simple fact is the lockdowns prevented us from having a widespread outbreak before the vaccine was deployed. The lockdowns sucked but my anecdata from my network (certainly generally privileged people whose careers were not wildly affected, so not a representative sample) was the lockdowns were worth it.

It is trivial to look at mortality rate data between, say, US/UK and Australia to see the impact that the lockdowns had. It's simply undeniable that they saved lives. People complaining loudly about 'draconian' tend, in my experience, to be dipshit libertarians that would never brook any lockdowns under any circumstances simply because of their insane political views. Others complaining about lockdowns not working tend to be talking about their own lockdowns in their own contexts which were not as harsh as Melbourne (which, arguably, ended up working).

Of course we have more COVID deaths than before - we've dialled back all the preventions! The policy decision was made to let COVID run free through society and that the vaccines (which we both agree are imperfect, but perhaps I'm the only one that acknowledges they're vastly better than nothing) were the only mitigation that we're apparently willing to tolerate.

We've done fuck all about it and everyone seems surprised that the body count is still so high. I don't know why people are still surprised people are dying - we've clearly decided the policy position is to sacrifice people on the altar of the economy and that people are bored of dealing with COVID. We're not bothering with other mitigations despite it being a top 5 cause of death in Australia (top 3 in the US?).
I've seen this criticism a few times and figured it was just ambiguous.... while the FTX affair is obviously bad for the institutions that represent the modern EA movement, to me this doesn't represent a real critique of EA as a philosophy. "Most EA supporters are techbros and FTX reinforces the view that techbros are bad, therefore EA is bad" is not a real argument, it's a sneer. Is the implication that I should start donating money to the Red Cross rather than GiveWell? I don't think so. At the margin yes I should be more suspicious that my money won't be used well, but I don't believe that all of these institutions are corrupt.

The more material argument is whether from an EA perspective running massive scams and funneling the proceeds to EA causes should be applauded or not. Obviously the fact that this discussion is even being surfaced will cause brand damage, but again it says nothing to which perspective is correct, just that these discussions are subject to optics-based constraints. It's like the open discussions in the rationalist community over whether various horrible civilizational collapses happening to humanity might actually be desirable because it will prevent (or at least delay) an AI from killing us. There's serious discussions but it never plays well to bring this to a "normie" audience. But pretty much every movement has its Straussian elements where the "insider" narratives contradict the "outsider" narratives.
They're well connected ivy-league kids with a politically and financially enriched background. They had rich folks who know other rich folks, and they were trying to do a capture of an emerging financial sector (that they then lobbied to regulate with the government).

It was a scam from the start that would turn crypto into political party money - forever.

It's actually a surprise they didn't succeed
> I don't understand crypto (didn't understand derivatives either). I have worried that my ignorance will cost me in investing — that people smarter than me are going to make bank while I'm derp-derping with my index funds.

There are two sides to crypto. There is the technology side (blockchains, cryptography, consensus) and there is the finance side, the financial products on the blockchain. If you're an engineer you'll easily understand the technology side but there's no way around spending a significant amount of time learning about (traditional) finance to understand how exchanges, derivatives, market making, monetary policy, loans, leverage, and so on work. All of the same ideas apply to crypto.

This "absurd set of rules" mostly applies to the technology side, not the finance side. If you strip out all the marketing, the financial products you find on the blockchain are no different from the products you find in traditional financial institutions, with maybe a few exceptions like AMMs or stablecoins.

My experience has been that the people who understand crypto and who are successful are NOT the people who understand technology, but mostly the people who come from a finance background and can pattern-match their experience to crypto.
Will Computers Replace Mathematicians?
How many Enron moments is crypto going to have?
They are a modern invention, but the Karate belts were not made just for westerners given that Funakoshi introduced them in Japan for kyuu ranks (after consulting with the founder of Judo).
What are you talking about? My comment is about gitrevisions(7).
I used to try this, slowly lowering on an arm hang, but it hurts A LOT. Do you know possibly why?
None were found but inside rumors persisted.

https://curatedtaste.com/2022/11/the-cross-dressing-j-edgar-...
I can't tell if your response is satire or if we've really hit this level of insanity and lack of self awareness.
I misread that and thought it said “Harassed for productivity” and now I’m not sure which makes more sense.
The Kremlin will no longer have the means of razing every one of them to the ground once everybody wants out. They could raize cities, not entire republics.
can you speak to commit throughput of the sapling server? While there's tooling to make git scale better (like sparse checkouts) scaling commit throughput for automation is a pain.
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Thanks for this comment, for highlighting that we're all human.
It's not outright false but it holds for the black belt.
Once you complete all the black belt Dan's your belt is so worn out it starts becoming white again.

The master becomes a student again, they say
Really in this case CZ put a bullet in him as sure as he was holding a real gun. The need to build "trust" by not absolutely ruining one of his competitors didn't factor in here, because there is no need.
I think reading warren buffet’s letters to shareholders of berkshire hathaway is definitely worth it, there’s a lot of common sense about companies and investing, and kind of proves the feynman quote about “you don’t really understand a topic unless you can explain it to a motivated freshman” (“freshman” = 1st year undergraduate student in th US) . By that standard, Buffet clearly does understand finance, the ones who can’t explain either don’t really understand, or, as you implied, are trying to scam you
A more likely scenario is a broken up Russia. Russia’s boarders looked very different a few hundred years ago. And many of the countries Russia has taken land from in the past might lay claim to that territory of Russia falters.
Yeah, this works for me. One option I did early on was run a Pomodoro timer and bill every half hour, but a client brought up that I should also be charging for the hours I spend in traffic on the way to a meeting.

My wife once asked why I bill $115/hour and not a round number like $120 or $100? How did I get the 5? I just kept raising rates to say no to jobs I didn't feel like doing, and found a point where I got the jobs I wanted.
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