skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is painting things with an absurdly broad brush.

The vast majority of academics in China are exactly the same as academics in the US and Europe. They are not arms of the Chinese state.

It's frankly getting very tiresome to see literally everything and everyone in China painted in this conspiratorial, bad-faith manner.
https://archive.ph/2022.11.20-185524/https://www.wsj.com/amp...
Sure and you could use blockchain to store your personal recipes but there are better tools to do it.

There are many ways to prevent Wall Street or other organizations from becoming overleveraged.
I like the part where tea is a virtual environment with freedom and everything.

I do not like the part where "tea is creating new technologies that will change how open source is funded" with all those buzzwords, NFTs and stuff.

Those are totally different problems and I do not want a middle man who sits on both payments and distribution - this is a direct road to an utopian walled garden which it will inevitably become, sooner or later.
There is a kernel of truth in what you say, but only that. The article is basically right, but I would argue severely undersells the atrocity of an acquisition the F-35 represents. It's certainly a poorer dogfighter than the equivalent level of technology applied to developing a top-level dogfighter (like an upgraded F-22), and is truly ungainly. None of that is at odds with it also being an unparalleled capability.

The biggest challenge in any dialogue about the F-35, like NASA's SLS, is that it's hard to separate how one feels about the acquisition itself vs. the end product. If you're a mission planner, you want the F-35's capabilities and you don't care about the ugly history of how the capability became available. If you're a taxpayer, you should be angry at how poorly managed the F-35 program was and the profligate sunk costs. Any attempt to collapse judgment about the F-35 onto a single axis will lead to low-quality discussions.

One can validly be wary that exalting the capabilities will lead to future acquisitions which learn no lessons from the F-35 because in the end, everyone will just praise the delivered capability after you weather the storm. From my vantage point in DoD aerospace, there is certainly a widespread recognition of the baggage associated with the F-35.

One thing is for certain - wishing they would just stop all production and start over is pure fantasy. There is too much commitment and reliance on these aircraft being in the force mix across many nations. It's not going to happen.
USB Attached SCSI
I assumed this was a fake website that was trying to get people to buy dodgy insurance "because Warren Buffet recommends it".
Trans people are like 1% of the population. There’s 3 million of them in the United States alone. You’re literally talking about millions of people.
Twitter platform stats: https://botsentinel.com/stats/platform-stats
It’s completely congruent to appreciate the results of something without liking the CEO or the means to achieve it.

I like Disney products, but Walt Disney wasn’t a likeable person. I like soccer leagues but think FIFA are deplorable. I love Pixar films but dislike John Lasseter.

Regardless, I’d bring back the point that nobody is attacking electric cars. Tesla can exist independently, and perhaps should, of Elon.
Here is a thought experiment for beating AlphaZero. Randomly select 10K children at a very young age (say 3), have them play chess against AlphaZero but simply have them move the exact move suggested by AlphaZero (i.e. basically this is AlphaZero playing itself). Play 10 games per day for 10 years.

The hypothesis is some children will deeply embed the algorithms into their own playing style - leveraging the subconscious to the greatest degree possible. Basically, we are training the human mind in the same way that we train AI. Would it work? Probably not, but our current approach (studying openings, etc.) is obviously not working so it makes sense to try something new.
Got one, and we are much smaller than qcom.
AMD will be selling laptop chips of various older generations under one name soon in order to deceive consumers who aren't paying attention: https://youtu.be/MipuN4RU4m8

A 7000 series laptop chip could be Zen 4, 3, or 2...
That is a good point. Teacher, I’d like to change my answer.
True, but how long will the rest of the world accept the USD as universal currency. When they don't the US can't keep printing, so the US will do everything to keep its current position. The 'switch' will be the problem of our generation.
I'm the most ignorant man alive when it comes to war - but this is what I want to know.

Isn't sensor + tracking abilities far more advanced at shooting down planes than planes are at creating damage? And if that's the case, aren't hyper/sonic/long/range stuff better at evading defenses?

Seems like the next "war" will be LoL style to me.
In Emacs-land rcirc supports a bunch of them:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/net/rc...
A week has passed and it seems like they’ve fixed it up. Similarly for the last week I’ve had increasing issues loading tweet details and it peaked yesterday, but today all seems fine.

We’ll have to wait months before we can truly know if this diminished and demoralized crew is able to keep the site running with minimal issues, but for now they do seem to be (slowly) recovering.
Quite possibly their research takes this into account and it simply went unmentioned in the article, but there's at least a few other possible reasons other than climate change I came up off of the top of my head to explain the reduction in insect population (one of the biggest examples of problems) they cited.

> Increased use of pesticides

> Genetically modified crops having some effect on the entire animal ecosystem

> Water Pollution (whether chemicals or plastics) having some affect

> Increased Human development taking away prime animal breeding areas/food sources

To be credible to skeptics, I wish these types of articles would try and play a little devil's advocate and refute other possible causes of problems rather than just slamming people continuously over the head with climate change boosterism that isn't persuasive at this point.
Ask HN: How do you organize your important files?
TL;DR: By curiosity, which system/software do you use to manage your important files?

I use my computer and phone to manage important files like paysheets, official documents etc...
It's useful to have the files on several devices and rely on duplication to ensure they are not lost.
I currently use Google Drive, but I want to get rid of Google, and I'm hesitating between two options :

- use syncthings (https://syncthing.net/), but I might delete a file by accident and lose it forever, which I don't like

- use git (ability to have mirrors and control very carefully each file modification), but it might be cumbersome, and these important files are almost always heavy PDFs, so I'm not sure it's the correct tool

I also have a NextCloud server, but I'm not sure I will still maintain it in 10 years
> Yes, it may cost $1.5 trillion over the next 50 years, but that’s the entire program cost, including R&D, procurement, operations, maintenance and sustainment. This is a number that is only really relevant before the program has begun, when you’re using it to compare the cost of multiple ways of accomplishing the same goal.

Isn’t that double of the original projected cost? Also this statement reads like a textbook example of sunk cost fallacy. The aircraft is just ramping up production, not all bugs have been worked out so it is not know that the rest of its operational life will incur maintenance costs only.
Spreadsheets: Error-ridden models take a toll
They're about to get a big investment on electric infrastructure from the Federal government, so it'll all work out.
Would seem hard to enforce or unenforceable. Was that ever even a thing where a website could disallow linking to it?
The F-35 was designed to cover use cases for the navy, Air Force and Air Force. That almost certainly contributed to the greater production and justifies the argument that the additional design and development cost of developing such a flexible design would be offset by the greater need and use. Which is the crux of the questions surrounding the F-35.
If you want to know JS deeply, I think reading the EcmaScript language specification is a very good step. I've read through it before; it's quite long but not overly difficult reading.

Studying the source code for a JS implementation is also a good step. QuickJS is a good one.
What was the question? “Where would be better?”, or “who would accept me”, or what is it? The answer would differ depending on the question. But obviously if you speak English and have a decent UK education and passport you are in a pretty privileged situation when it comes to working “anywhere”.
sqlite3 has rather good articles on many topics on its homesite.

And to manage/search documentation I like docsets and Zeal a lot.
Surprised not to see mention of some of the massive LAN parties that were/are combined with tournaments. Some larger on the tournament side (DreamHack) and some larger on the party side (LPANE Nor'Easter).

https://hothardware.com/reviews/lpane-noreaster-2005-lan-par...
> he received little scrutiny in the media. On the contrary, he was celebrated.

It's not just this issue that the media plays follow the narrative. Not only that, they're all in on the ruse. That is, none are willing to call out the others for constantly half-assing it.

It might not be a corporate monopoly, but it's a monopoly of the mind.
The Modern Observability Problem
The UK is far from done, but the considerable number of good universities and good companies aren't, for whatever reason, translating into rising living standards.

The current crisis can be blamed on energy, but the post 2008 period of wage stagnation and low growth wasn't exactly great and wasn't due to energy.
On the upside, many of the newer translations are corrupted, so the copyright may work to filter those out more easily
What you’re referring to is the TV license fee and you’re not obliged to pay for it at all, you can simply opt out as outlined in the various letters you’ll receive if you don’t pay for it. It’s a deeply flawed system that many disagree with, but to say the public is forced to pay it is false.
Have a long unique classname on it and submit that for being blocked by major AdBlock lists.
Most humans are both good (empathy is a strong thing) and greedy (wanting what's best for yourself and those are you close to is also a strong incentive). Balancing those two, sometimes opposing, desires is part of being human.

It's worth noting that they're not always opposing. Sometimes empathy makes us feel better when others feel good, and the negative impact on ourselves can be more than countered by the good feeling from making others happier.
The brain is a physical structure. So is it inconceivable that some genes may code for phenotypes in both the brain and external appearance, or have some indirect purely biological relationship? I’m not suggesting that this would account for a significant portion of the correlation between external appearance and behavior (if any at all), but maybe it’s enough to be picked up subconsciously.

Domestication syndrome seems to suggest a link. [1]

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_syndrome
Was the hippie movement known to be more lower class people or upper class?
Bitcoin and reusable proof of work is the mind blowing innovation that represents a turning point for human civilization. Mutually assured preservation via softwar.

The rest will at best be iterative technology that may eventually be integrated into the traditional securities and exchange systems governed by the local monopoly on violence, but is generally uninvestable in its current form.
In my case, there is a specific reason: my parents taught me that my needs were not important, so I ignored them for a long time. I also believe that other people suffer from the problem.
I created many games for the TI-84 and TI-92 so this is in-theme for me.
Ubuntu with ZFS on Raspberry Pi 4 (2020)
If you actually let it burn , it s going to be more powerful than you can ever imagine. Imagine a generation that actually knows what financial risks mean. That generation no longer needs regulation, nor handholding, and understands the concept of being their own bank. So they can leave the banks en masse, irreversibly, and internationally. And then crypto will be able to fulfil its purpose, the destruction of traditional finance and/or central banking

If you don't bail them out, you 're only showing the cruel and elitist face of traditional finance. The 2008 crisis is too close to be forgotten.

(i hope they don't bail anything out, of course)
If this article was about avoiding bailouts, most crypto proponents would actually agree

But this article is about:

> Rather than creating a new legal and regulatory framework that legitimises crypto, we should simply let it burn.

in which case I don't agree, or only partially. Although crypto proponents are often allergic to the word regulation, there are some things that could be beneficial. But even with the traditional financial system, a couple CEOs in the 1930s thought it would be funny to get Congress to add confidence to their system with taxpayer dollars, none of this was default, and it would be naive to think the same couldn't be done with crypto.
The problem, as usual, is centralization.

Not your keys - not your crypto. Stop keeping your money on exchanges. Use Dexes like Uniswap, lending marketplaces like Aave.

The main problem crypto has is lack of adoption (user friendly interfaces, and community adoption) and lack of scalability in layer1.

People are too distracted with zero-sum games to focus resources on innovating out of them.

Similarly in the Web2 tech world.. advertising is a zero-sum game and Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook have been adding more and more ads obnoxiously over the years to compensate for the diminishing returns. This year they crashed whereas Apple and Verizon are going strong.

The point is — innovate and build more usedul business models that aren’t zero sum!
> If you apply the "Mastodon instance is a Subreddit" model, it makes a lot more sense.

Subreddit is a synonym for echo chamber. Feels like we have more than enough of those.
I am terrible at eye contact. First of all my eyeball FOV is set to like 60 and I wear glasses so when people are too close it’s hard for me to make eye contact because I just see their whole face lol. Also when I talk to some people who make strong eye contact I feel like they’re looking into my soul and it’s uncomfortable.

I know it’s a me problem, just my experience tho lol.
On Accountability in Software Development (2020)
FTX was not a trustless system. It was trusted, centralized exchange that happened to be trading crypto.

Uniswap is a good example of a trustless exchange. It runs on chain and doesn't have admin keys. If you have assets in uniswap, the only person who can move them is you.

We should regulate trusted actors that hold other people's money, and avoid interfering with trustless systems.
I spend hours a day on Twitter, and today has been by far the best in the few weeks. Things deteriorated temporarily but I’m missing where the concrete decrease in value is.
Also, they won't have a currency to speak of.
South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen
Newton was an Alchemist. Everything has to be evaluated for what it is. It's not because it's Penrose that it has any value. I think this time, this is just mumbo jumbo.
The bottom of the page already mentions that it's a direct response to that article
> Are you quite sure the root of the problem is centralized exchanges?

That’s the big hypothesis being tested right now. So far it’s only the centralized entities that are collapsing, and crypto market values are down as a result, but that’s not the same thing as a collapse or failure of the protocols.

But this train wreck is still happening, so we’ll see if it causes some cryptocurrencies to fail too. Possibly some of the weaker ones will lose too much mining/validating power and get hacked or 51% attacked. If that happens to the bigger ones then it will expose a serious problem with the tech and economics of it all.

This is arguably the most valuable informational period in crypto’s history - the first high-interest environment stress test it’s ever had. Either it will cull the weak and leave standing only the ones robust enough to withstand such environment, or will cull the entire industry. Either way at least we’ll empirically know the truth of it all.

> Everything in "tradfi" is centralized, and there are frequent frauds and bad actors, but it remains much more robust than the cryptoasset ecosystem.

I think the GFC demonstrated “tradfi” is anything but robust. If not for the govt and Fed bailouts, the scale of the losses could have exceeded the banking system’s cumulative revenue of its entire modern history, going back to the 1800s. And that was with regulation (albeit steadily weakened since the 80s).

You could potentially make the argument that certain forms of tradfi are robust, for example under the Glass-Steagal regime that separated commercial banking, investment banking, and insurance into separate legal entities, among other restrictions (a form of decentralization).

Also Germany’s local community banking system, which until recent decades was the main financier of Germany’s industrial economy, and which has never had a financial crisis since its origins in the 1700s/1800s, is also quite a robust model (also a form of decentralization).

> I’d submit the root of the problem is financializing things that are not economically productive

I don’t disagree. Low-interest cheap money environments tend to have that effect, crypto or no-crypto.
Pffft! That piddly little amount is nowhere near the 'Heist of the Century'.

Billions??? Nah, look at the trillions missing from the US Defense accounts. https://www.city-journal.org/html/americas-missing-money-157...
Does AI still struggle with “I can’t tell you how I derived this answer”? Is that improving much?
This lecture by Berkeley CS professor Nicholas Weaver is a fantastic overview of what cryptocurrency and Blockchain actually is and why it is a complete waste of time, energy, and money and needs to be reduced to 0:

https://youtu.be/J9nv0Ol-R5Q

I used to think "well maybe there is some real application of Bitcoin" but the more I learned about it I just realized the entire enterprise is awful and the only real benefit it has is uncensored money transfer. Which is great for ransomware.

Now that Bitcoin is practically controlled by under 10 miners, there really is no decentralized part of it.

Bitcoin maxis say you don't need to trust anyone, but that's not true. You gotta trust the code. Trust the miners.

Also what good is magic internet money if I need to keep everything in an offline cold storage wallet to be secure?

The only useful application now is using Bitcoin as a honeypot in your servers to notify you if a hacker has access to your systems (you'll see it when the wallet is drained!).
skifree on your website, that is awesome! in middle school technology class me and my friend Alex found a hidden cheat in skifree that racked up ridiculous high scores. if you situate yourself directly below the lift chair and press up so you stay right behind it, your score just keeps going up and up and up. without a doubt I can tell you that our high scores survived until that equipment was replaced and im certain it dumbfounded every kid in that class who played skifree for years how scores like that were obtained.
People here seem to really hate the blockchaininess of tea.

We'll see how it pans out. Had anyone tried registering any packages?

I have a toy package on npm, maybe I'll run through the paces
> There’s a reason Geico or Duracell’s websites (both incredibly famous Berkshire companies) don’t look like this. Berkshire is essentially an unorthodox investment fund, all of their websites are pretty sparse

Of course there's a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a good reason. Big commercial websites do not choose their design out of a desire best to serve their customers, but out of a desire best to attract attention and to funnel that attention towards their ends—and what a website most wants us to do is not necessarily what is best for us to do.
That's interesting, I stand corrected. I was on a budget at the time and definitely wouldn't have had lots of disposisble income to spend on a phone. Maybe I bought it as it was being phased out.
Actually the pressure sensor is on the PCB. Pressure is transferred from the mouthpiece through a flexible silicon pipe. You can see the details in the assembly instructions here: https://github.com/jcard0na/haxo-hw/blob/main/docs/assembly....
an extra avx512 fma unit means it can do twice as many z=a*b+c instructions per clock. this only really matters for matrix multiplication (for anything else you are memory bandwidth limited), but 2x matmul performance is a really big deal for hpc
> Was that ever even a thing where a website could disallow linking to it?

There have been lawsuits about it! See, for example, https://www.seroundtable.com/linkage-lawsuit-15131.html (the first useful hit in a Google search for "lawsuit about linking"), and a survey article https://btlj.org/data/articles2015/vol16/16_3/16-berkeley-te... by Mark Sableman.
Am I understanding you correctly that you basically want to normalize scams? That we shouldn’t proactively try to protect the innocent from bad actors, rather we should allow scammers to take advantage of them even when we know they can be irreversibly harmed?

If I understand you correctly, this is a terribly unethical take, lacking in any sort of empathy. But also lacks any historic understanding of scammers and psychological understanding of human behavior.

This plan won’t work, there will always be innocents to scam, and scammers will continue to exploit it until authorities put a stop to it. There is a reason why ponzi schemes were criminalized, if they wouldn’t have been, we would still see criminals exploit people from the same playbook today.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown

What a strange world.
This claim sets of my bullshit sensor.

By my understanding, the BBC license fee is only required if you get television service, if not you can opt out.

You'd think if someone was unable to heat their home they wouldn't be paying for TV, and thus wouldn't have to pay the BBC tax either.
> That is the premise of taxes, yes. I may not get sick enough to justify a hospital visit this decade, yet I contribute to socialized healthcare all the same.

Nobody should go to jail for refusing to contribute to the local "Pravda". Governments shouldn't be in that line of business at first place.

Finally it's not a tax, it's a fee.
Having watched numerous bits of military procurement from the sidelines via reporting over the decades...the problem comes down to the people running the program having no idea WTF they want, and only knowing what they DON'T want after they've received a prototype that fits the constraints they've laid out and realize that no, what they asked for was dumb and not usable or is literally impossible to make with the state of the art.

Go through a few iterations of refinement for them to get their heads out of their asses with something expensive like a new fighter and it's easy to see how the cost has ballooned. However, if they keep funding the program they can work through the right tradeoffs to end up with something that works better than what was before, while maybe not quite hitting the marks that were planned on at the outset.

It just costs $billions of development and years to work through.

Fortunately, Americans are willing to spend hilarious amounts of money on our weapons systems so we can get something useful at the end of the program.

Occasionally we pull the plug because the program was so ill-thought-out that there's no way to salvage it, like with the Zumwalt.