skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freedom isn't free. See Tim Wu's book "The Master Switch", with early telecom networks as a precedent, to understand why the glory days of general purpose computing were always likely to end, https://archive.ph/9BJ20

> “History shows a typical progression of information technologies,” he writes, “from somebody’s hobby to somebody’s industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel — from open to closed system.” Eventually, entrepreneurs or regulators smash apart the closed system, and the cycle begins anew. The story covers the history of phones, radio, television, movies and, finally, the Internet. All of these businesses are susceptible to the cycle because all depend on networks..

On a positive note, the current U.S. FTC has been making antitrust noises about tech companies and platforms, after years of relative inaction. There's a nascent global effort to enshrine "right to repair" in consumer hardware regulations, which aligns with circular economy initiatives and hardware shortages.

On a negative note, humans have deployed IoT "slave helmets" for realtime geofencing and control of construction workers with few legal rights, i.e. restricting not just the computing hardware, but the human body of the user, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675370

On a cage match note, banks and tech companies are at a 2023 global regulatory crossroads on the future of digital currencies, including crypto and CBDCs. The music/film industries led to DRM restrictions on consumer hardware. Now we have bank-vs-tech competition to be legal and physical custodian of private keys for digital currency wallets. How will that change computing hardware and supply chain security regulation?
What's so repelling?
What has the environmental movement accomplished? The oceans are still depleted, oil is still the number one game in town, our environment is awash in a deluge of little understood chemicals. It would seem to me that they're very ineffective. About the only accomplishment I can count is that we no longer clear cut forests, but we rotate logging land as a compromise.

But we have damage from them, they've stopped nuclear power. Maybe the risks were too high, maybe they did save us, but we will never know. But we do know that it was the solution to their number one problem for decades and they stopped it.
Okay let me get this straight...

Are you saying that I don't need to use parenthesis as much in lisp? Instead I could define a few "reader macros" and then immediately have a different syntax?

Say if I wanted to change

(if (test-clause) (action1)
(action2))

To

if (test-clause) do (action1)
else (action2)

Is this actually possible inline in lisp, meaning I just need to import a library that implements the if-reader-macro?
> How come you comment on HN?

Just for the record, karma is a useless metric to me. It gives visibility into how one of my submissions performs, but that's it. I don't chase karma.

> It looks like it falls in addictive experiences

Addiction is when a thing controls you, and you don't control it. I am in charge of my experience here on HN, and as I said, I don't chase upvotes & karma.
Also known as swales. There’s a lot of woo and ‘influencer’ stuff in the permaculture world but some real good concepts too.
They definitely aren’t. Pantone books expire after 18 months or so. Color accuracy is near hell at the best of times and even today we’re dependent on humans to validate matching. Printers don’t rely on digital tools for this because they require constant calibration.
Isn’t Fidelity FDIC insured?
Insomuch as this may be an adequate design, for many cases the fact that it’s not open source is a nonstarter. I’d certainly never touch it for my teams and workgroups at work, because we need to be able to host it and isolate and harden.

Discord is also sorta prone to this weird and cringy sort of internet culture which regular people find a little gross, I’d think.

I’m old enough to distinctly remember the rise of IRC and I can’t see a reason aside from better security for it to be reinvented rather than just updating the standard. Emojis and attachments and whatnot.
That's often the case - worse in the bigger places like JHB. No electric fence for us, but private security patrolling the neighborhoods yes (similar to ADT).
Because extremely few programmers which are attracted by creating protocols have U/X design skills.

In fact, they will probably say something like "just use the CLI, it's a superior way anyway".
Unpolluted brine from desalination plants and cooling towers can be returned to the ocean. To limit the environmental impact, it can be diluted with another stream of water, such as the outfall of a wastewater treatment or power plant. Since brine is heavier than seawater and would accumulate on the ocean bottom, it requires methods to ensure proper diffusion, such as installing underwater diffusers in the sewerage.[13] Other methods include drying in evaporation ponds, injecting to deep wells, and storing and reusing the brine for irrigation, de-icing or dust control purposes.[12]

Seems like a well known problem with some solutions already in place
> Absent clear and easily enforceable property rights, relying solely on private investors to monitor and discipline the behaviour of opaque intermediaries has never been safe and effective. There is no prospect for a technological solution to these age-old problems.

I disagree. If anything, technology would provide solutions to these problems, but Crypto in its current form ain't it.
EA is a mishmash of ideas and philosophy that's been changing over the past decade through endless pontificating debate, book sales, and billionaire largesse. Sam and his core team were all EAs since the beginning, I don't think it's all that important to ascertain which rationalizations they were using.

Ultimately Sam was admitting that his personal ethics, whatever they may ultimately be, are not what he was espousing. The others involved in the fraud have shown the same.

I don't doubt the sincerity of many in the EA movement, but ultimately it's dependent on and co-opted by a few extremely wealthy individuals. FTX has shown the public that a significant portion of those with power are neither trustworthy nor sincere, and the philosopher-kings of the movement itself are not able or willing to see through the charade.
The war could also be undermining corruption as viable world leadership.
I think NVLink is a memory interconnect more like NUMAlink, UPI, or Infinity Fabric. AFAIK GPUs can transparently access each other's memory over NVLink (probably at cache line granularity) while RDMA protocols require explicitly copying memory (usually in larger chunks) before accessing it.
Lots of RTSP cameras available - which would do exactly what you want and leaves you fairly open to whatever software you choose to implement on the server to share the feed.

I use lots of the Ubiquiti Cameras - I’ve had lots of success using them without the UniFi Protect controller app purely as RTSP devices.
The email goes to the same person you must ask before describing an NFL broadcast.
How Web Tech Got This Way and How It May Evolve in the Future
> what the planet can absorb divided by the number of people.

> why not ?

How do you incentive people to work if, in the end, everyone can consume and therefore emit exactly as much?

What’s the goal of studying hard if I’m not getting more consumption rights; Why wouldn’t we all coast school, since we’ll all get the same results; How would the society get any work done if no-one is incentived to work hard (That’s the neat part: You don’t, and you’re all poor as peons); Isn’t it always the same communist dream entering the main door after being kicked out for criminal activity by the back door for being at minimum the least efficient way to organize a society; If you’re going to react to the communist trope as being “not so bad”, doesn’t it confirm that it was what you intended all along.

Why would my consumption rights be exactly 1/8-billionth of the Earth capacity, independently on my work?
Newest tab, checking 3 or 4 times a day. This changed once deleted twitter and find it better / healthier. Before would check top stories once or every two days or so
Could you paste the output somewhere?
On my state-of-the-art desktop PC, Visual Studio has very noticeable cursor&scrolling lag. My C64 had the latter as well, but I used to assume the cursor moved as fast as I could type / tap the arrow keys
Probably they are using the same PCBs as their Datacenter counterparts and there NVLink is extremely important to minimize overhead.
> if you feel you're from a now enlightened society that once was bad, then you absolutely can criticise a society currently doing the same bad things.

This is exactly the cavalier attitude that caused colonialists to be colonialists. They called themselves ENLIGHTENED enough to go around colonizing the world and removing them from their "barbaric" cultures. We see the same behaviors and attitudes today.

Qatar has a rule against drinking and the western world does not like it. They have a rule against LGBT acts and the world doesn't like it. The Hypocrisy is not only they had the exact same rules less than a decade ago, but also they were far worse to LGBT individuals for centuries discriminating and treating them like less than human beings.
We just have an alarm system hooked up to a local security company (similar to ADT) which costs about $20/mo
Stockfish is stronger than AlphaZero.
> Do you have electric fences and private security?

Sure, but isn't private security and gated living (AKA security fences) becoming the norm in most of the middle-class suburbs in many other countries?

> Sorry but I'm going to have to disagree about "brilliant place to live",

Yeah, I wouldn't go so far as to call it brilliant, but my understanding is that, even if I move to another country, I'm still going to live in a secure place anyway, only it will be much smaller and more expensive, both at the same time.
That makes the phone the scanner and by definition it's before iCloud. Apple makes it very hard to use an iPhone/iPad without keeping iCloud enabled. I don't want my phone spying on me, that sets a dangerous precedent. I don't care how many times it is scanned by Apple after I store it unencrypted on iCloud servers, but scanning without my permission on my device before it leave my device is a violation of my privacy. Apple will look at it if your phone detects something and it will inform authorities without letting you know. With other companies, once it is detected on their server, they forward your information to government authorities. Apple instead wanted to have an inhouse team to filter false positives before notifying authorities. Apple is worse in every single way.
>8% yield for customer deposits is another one.

AFAIK that was limited to the first $10k in deposits, so it seemed plausible as a some sort of customer acquisition cost. Also, 8% was around the going rate for decentralized lending protocols, so it only seemed high in comparison to FDIC protected savings accounts.
Perhaps use a readily available solution?

https://aws.amazon.com/sns/
If they already have the infrastructure they should just skip ahead to 100% solar/wind power with no base load infrastructure. Storage/batteries at the endpoints makes base load redundant and wasteful.
If Elon were to focus solely on building and improving Tesla instead of diverting his attention to other things like Twitter, he could probably keep up.
If so I would think any power generation that uses steam would have the same issue? Coal, gas or nuclear.
Vespa seems like a great match for Elastic's text and vector search, but not for classic "OLTP"-style queries.

For example, until very recently Vespa did not even have case-sensitive string field matching [1]; doing a strict equality query on a string field was not possible, and the authors did not seem to see why it would be useful. Vespa lacks a lot of this kind of basic search functionality, making it less general-purpose than Elasticsearch.

It's clear that it's a very powerful search engine, though it also feels antiquated in many ways. It's very obvious that it's an ancient project that has been worked on by many different people throughout the years, with no cohesive vision or design, though it does seem like they're slowly cleaning things up. (The documentation used to be much worse, for one.)

[1] https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/issues/10991
What's wrong with your continent?

This whole thread is making me feel like I'm in an alternative reality...

The continent was raped, looted and pillaged by Europeans and Americans. Complete populations were enslaved. Natural resources were stolen, cultures were destroyed.

And of course, in the best traditions, divisions were sown where one set of Native people were marked as better than another set, in a move that takes many generations to heal.

My country (Ireland) was colonised, we lost half our population to famine and emigration. We, almost, lost our language, out culture. We still have sectarian conflict. We didn't have one quarter the shit that was done to many parts of Africa. And, without Europe's money, we would still be a state completely dependent on our former colonisers.

Healing will take time, but to not mention the damage done, and still being done there is nonsense.

The top post on this thread is saying the apartheid government was bad yes... But they made the trains run on time!
That is a fair assessment of the situation.
Documentation has limits. It’s not like you come out of med school ready to be a doctor. There’s certain types of knowledge most easily modeled by the search engine in your head. Heck the information may even be written down! But in a multi systems failure which page of documentation from the 18 different involved services do you read to figure out how to bring it back up?

Do you think someone brand new to a team with documentation in hand will be as effective as someone who’s been there a year?
We had simulators in our class when I was taking Drivers Education back in 1982.

That was the backwaters of Oklahoma.
It loses too much context in Jira. Could stay permanently beyond the Jira event horizon (since more tickets flow into the Jira than flow out). Or it could get culled in a grooming session ("Haven't seen the bug happen in a while. If someone complains we'll reopen").
NVSwitch looks around 1/4th the size of a contemporary Ethernet switch so it may be only ~100 W which is pretty small relative to the GPUs it's connecting.
There's a range of reasons why sharing ideas help foster a positive culture of creativity so if you don't already have a time and place to do so I strongly suggest brainstorming, 10xing, or whichever other method makes this process easy on groups of individuals. It's a lot of fun and we get a lot out of it.

- you never know who might be interested in your idea
- putting your ideas out there helps you to get feedback and improve upon them
- it's an opportunity to practice articulating your ideas to others
- sharing your ideas can inspire others, help in creating a community of support around you and your work (culture++)
- getting your ideas out there can help you to build momentum, gain traction, find allies in your project or business
- sharing your ideas with others they could lead to new opportunities or connections that you never would have otherwise
If you are into profitable information you buy a Bloomberg Terminal and also subscribe to Reuters news.

Finance types don't read WSJ/FT/Economist, this is the "popular" financial press.
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Teslas are fine(ish) cars, but they seem resistant to forming deals to provide skateboards to niche applications, like Chinese companies are doing. There’s big money there!
Fidelity is insured through Lloyd’s of London, among other vendors. You pay for that insurance as a customer. There is no reason a company with infrastructure based on different technology could not also purchase insurance.
People may not like it (because it will look similar to the inner workings of the eurodollar ["Eurodollar University" on soundcloud, "Monetary Mechanics" Substack] system that we all live in now, and will continue to interface with such off chain systems in more complex ways [esp as on chain liabilities become more and more valuable in more places compared to off chain liabilities]), but I think native on-chain credit origination, built on top of on chain derivatives protocols will be the solution.

Permissioned decentralized global monetary system will simply keep evolving into a more permissionless decentralized global monetary system.
What is the probability of oil getting in the way of an arbitrary hole whose position is picked for other reasons. Such as proximity to large population.
We don't work as hard as we used to, we don't produce like we used to.

Our society has gone from one of growth to one of decay.

You can't do as much when you want to work a few hours a day a few days a week with seasons of time off.

You can't do as much when the supply of energy is falling over time.

You can't do as much when regulations grow and grow, making building anything less and less worthwhile and less and less possible.
It’s been fabulous for coastal California real estate prices. Environmental impact studies are a wonderful NIMBY tool and keep housing prices on California’s paradisiacal coast high by restricting density and supply. I’m not even sure that’s a bad thing though. Would our nation really be greatly enriched by having Malibu look like Tijuana?
Spot on. Insufficient skepticism. We can hope he'll learn the lesson and apply more of it next time around.
In part 4 they try to figure out what BUND means, and have some really odd thoughts. It's probably just Bundle.
I'd be curious to know how many people access the Berkshire Hathaway website from a phone. If they do get any mobile traffic, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it's from more BlackBerries than iPhones.
The wealthier end of my acquaintance circle are buying Polestars. The Hyundai Ioniq is also getting very good reviews at the cheaper end of the EV scale.

Lots of Teslas on the streets though & anecdotally the supercharger network makes a big difference.
If you're talking about the same genre of concept art as I think you are, this twitter thread has some good reasons to dislike them (and more importantly, offers an alternative future aesthetic):

https://nitter.1d4.us/380kmh/status/935965568670273537

>if your idea of a future city involves:

>- towers inna park
>- flying cars
>- flashy geometric buildings
>- few or no people

>then it is not a very serious idea

---

>what do people do in these cities? walk around in the Green Space (tm), or sit in their Glass Box (tm) and admire the Futuristic Cityscape (tm)

>work? lol of course not

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>as architecturally implausible as they are, one thing I love about Imperial Boy's cityscapes is that they actually look like, you know, SOCIETY

>there are shops, there are workers, there are improvisations and decorations, there are cheap structures and ornate ones, etc etc

---

> most important of all, they focus on how the city looks from the perspective of the people who live in it

---

>The sterile glass renderings earlier in the thread suggest an artist who

>1) doesn't understand why people live in cities, and/or
>2) doesn't understand what people do for fun

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(back to me now) the "towers inna park" quip is really at the heart of it; these kinds of places exist in real life and they're just terrible. it doesn't matter how much grass and greenery there is in between the gigahuge buildings if there's nothing to do there. it's not a new idea[1], we tried it and it sucks[2]. it looks good in concept art until you think about it for five minutes and imagine living in this place at ground level. it's utopia as imagined by some omnipotent top-down planner (literally, we nearly always see these places from above).

it really has nothing to do with environmentalism one way or the other; they just look like awful places to be.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia
Some experts think, direct democracy will be more reliable, but it is not implemented.

Direct, mean, ALL decisions will be made by referendum, using latest technologies - blockchain, crypto, distributed document editing, govt in smartphone, etc, so everybody will have opportunity to affect decisions.

I think, this is more question of right geography, so will not work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
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> $50 fee per swap

That was five years ago; it's no longer like that. Blockchain software design has progressed past its dial-up era. If you haven't noticed that, you just haven't been paying attention.
Discord and IRC are not competitors. Discord is just a product you choose to use or not. Discord Inc. runs the servers, and you use whatever software they approve to connect. Using unapproved software could result in a ban from the service.

IRC is a set of protocols to enable a federated service. You choose which server implementation you want to host, and your users choose from dozens of available clients, which all work together because of the relevant standards, to which everyone has access.

The rest of your comment seems to be a comparison of Matrix, which is not IRC, and Discord. It's great that you've found a product you like, which suits your needs. Don't make the mistake of thinking IRC is competing with it, though. IRC will still be here long after Discord Inc. exits.
Once I got good at typing on it my Acorn Electron (we couldn’t afford the whizzy bbc master!) was an extension of my brain.

Instant response. A full reboot was a control break away. Instant access to the interpreter. Easy assembly access.

I thought, it executed.

I remember our school moving from the networked bbc’s to the PC’s and it was a huge downgrade for us as kids. Computer class became operating a word processor or learning win 3.11 rather than the exciting and sometimes adversarial (remote messaging other terminals, spoofing etc) system that made us want to learn, to just more drudgery.
No, I’m saying your hand-wavy “fintech is bad” doesn’t actually point to any thing in particular. Most of HFT is not “do the same thing as the other players, but faster”.
Note this was written in 2017. A lot has happened since the which affirms what GP is saying about the degradation of cultural capital here in the west.
Simpatico with a lot of the other content in this thread, but more direct. At least he isn't talking about angry blacks with a chip on their shoulder rejecting the white wisdom of the west. All of the Idiocracy mentions aren't very far away from this guy in essence, though.
This makes a critical point, one that needs to be taken to heart societally at large, but I feels like it undercuts itself by burying its main arguments. The problem isn't just crypto, or business, but rather something about modern society at large -- academics, politics, the workplace, and so forth and so on, celebrity or not. There's a sort of naive head in the sand acceptance or embracing of hype that pervades everything, without enough critical caution or skepticism. SBF/FTX is a good example but by framing the article so strongly around it the broader message is diminished somewhat.
Easy to make it look bad without taking local taxes into account, which make up a large portion of overall tax revenue. This is a shit piece.