skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rest of us are totally too young to remember that reference ;)
Note: I added my email to my profile after writing this. Feel free to reach out if you’re curious. I have a deep love for psychoanalysis.

I stumbled upon it by chance. I don’t know of a great patient introduction, but I linked some explainers on the ideas below.

Psychoanalysis as I understand it is about understanding your relationship patterns and changing them. The analysis I’m in works through free association, I speak what’s on my mind (including my most disgusting or hateful thoughts, criticisms of my therapist, doubts…) and my analyst mostly just listens, but occasionally pokes and prods, and sometimes opines. His role is partly to be a canvas against which my relationship patterns can present and partly to be an investigator trying to notice and observe behaviors of mine I might not be totally aware of.

It’s not just a matter of knowledge. Change in analysis seems to come through a felt experience, through the relationship with the analyst. I find myself talking and talking and one day I say something that I’ve known my whole life and yet never really said, and I start to connect it to all sorts of forgotten feelings, and it becomes a little less weighty, unstuck in time.

Because of my work in analysis I have developed a now 4 year long romantic relationship, several close friends, and become happier at work. But I still have lots of dissatisfaction and lack of meaning (in those same relationships and work) and that is what I spend most of my time talking about currently.

I’ve heard someone say psychoanalysis is about making you more free. Not in the civil liberties sense, but in a way that is almost a bit painful, as you will have more responsibility.

Personally I also have found the theory behind it rich and deeply insightful. Reading some of Freud (and others, like winnicott) has felt like something clicking in my head about people that I’ve wanted to understand for a long time.

If you like twitter you could try @jonathanshedler (he has a book too[1]) or @nyctherapist. Nancy McWilliams (Psychoanalytic Diagnosis) is supposed to be good if you want to understand the theory. I’ve actually really liked reading the original Freud. I also hear good things about Mitchell’s Freud and Beyond.

Less clinically oriented (and more lacanian) I also like the Why Theory? Podcast. But it really is less focused on psychological insight.

[1] https://jonathanshedler.com/PDFs/Shedler%20(2006)%20That%20w...
The real promise of blockchains is that they can provide a technological framework upon which to build new institutions that are alternatives to the types of institutions that are foundational to developed economies.

There's no evidence that this is true. People have been saying this for years and there's nothing to show for it.
Actual ear plugs. Dampens eveything. Eliminates most distractions. Music in background becomes more soothing.
You cannot replace illegitimate or suboptimal institutions with systems of record or value storage and transfer they don’t have to respect or acknowledge, just as a court who cannot enforce their ruling has no authority. The systems are simply tools, it is the execution layer (ie government very broadly) that determines the outcome.

If your property record is on a blockchain but those whose recognize such rights ignore it, it’s not a property record, for example. It’s an internet comment or public expression of opinion. Similarly, what makes your name typed on a Docusign a legally binding signature? Federal statute recognizing it as such.
> there are definitely non-profits with blind volunteers

This phrase implies that the blind people aren't getting paid. If they were, they wouldn't be "volunteers".
You can also fire the CXOs and keep promoting from within at 1% the current CXO stock options with a 10 year vesting cliff and the company will survive - may actually do a lot better.
I have some serious problems believing your argument. For example, this:

> Is a smart contract better than a written contract? Maybe it is, if there is no functioning judiciary to adjudicate contractual disputes.

If there’s no functioning judiciary, then who will enforce the contract? Who will decide if one side is not acting in good faith, or if there was coercion, or deception? I claim that smart contracts solve none of the issues actually caused by having weak institutions.
I learned C on an Amiga around 1989 or so. K&R second edition had just come out. The Amiga had multitasking and a flat address space, but no memory protection. If you slipped up, you got a visit from the old "Guru Meditation" error, followed by a reboot.
I wish I could do this on Amtrak
Imho blockchain == distributed consensus in a low trust environment. When you are talking about a database and managing it you are by default outside of the low trust zone (or there exists an authority that everyone trusts)
No actual evidence, but I get the impression that it was invented by the tiny fraction of Latino people who are at liberal arts colleges in the US, or involved in ultra-niche politics.

“Latine” and “Latin@” (and similar constructions for other -o/-a words) are not unheard of in some actual Latin American countries, though. The former has the advantage that it is straightforward to pronounce in Spanish (I assume for “Latin@s” you’d use the cumbersome “Latinas y Latinos”, and “LatinX” is just impossible).
Playing Devil’s Advocate here a bit: what’s the size of the tech industry today, compared to the heights just before the “.com bust”?

Maybe there is room for one more boom cycle.
In what sense is blockchain revolutionary? Merkle trees are many decades old.
i’d love to hear some Kafka as a database success/horror stories. What’s the general consensus?
Bettors have the financial incentive to consider all possibilities as objectively as possible.

Pundits have the financial incentive to become memorable caricatures.
Angel number 538 seems equally fitting …
What's most areas? The median US home is $400k, for reference.

And would donating 25% of her wealth make people stop complaining? I doubt it. But it's more of an increase than any tax proposal I've seen.
Why don't bots have some other distinction? Like a blue tick or <blink> or some screenreader function?

Why do their messages have to appear the same as humans?

If bots should all operate in a distinctive space, give it that space.

Mind you architectural foresight is hard so maybe they'll get there.
Prime numbers are the basis of most practical cryptosystems (including ones which you used to make your comment), and other applications of number theory, and are the heart of number theory itself.
If there's no functioning judiciary to adjudicate contractual disputes, then who is going to effectively and durably tell someone who won and enforce that with the threat of state-level punishment? If a state agency can be bribed, what's claiming to have an NFT going to do for the holder, besides radically increase their property ownership risk if they actually rely on that to be true?

The problem with all of these cockamamie blockchain arguments is that they talk about a problem, and then they talk about a (bad, expensive, difficult to use) database that might form part of that problem, but in fact the problem is always far bigger and way more complicated than the choice of the database vendor.
Twitter revenue was missing projections and mDau growth was flat. That’s a company in a death spiral.
> feeling of stagnation fell away in the face of the New.

Not to get too deep or philosophical, but that feeling of stagnation many times is a sign that you're lacking a true purpose in life. That shiny new thing is, sadly, a false God that is by it's very nature temporary, and the feeling of purpose brought out by it fleeting.

Personally I think putting your hopes in The Next New Thing is a bad idea, long term.

Take that all with as many grains of salt as needed.
Brian Armstrong is just as much of a public figure as Paul Graham, probably more so. Wouldn't it be odd for Brian Armstrong to send a tweet like this through Paul Graham's twitter?
Still at Clojure 1.x
> But if the boundary markers were on the blockchain,” he said, “they wouldn’t be able to do that, would they?

Or they could store the makers are stored in a free-tier dynomodb instance…
What are you trying to say? Python has had much bigger changes than Scala over the same time period - indeed I'd say that the changes of some Python "minor" updates are comparable to Scala's "major" update.
They have an iOS app which has different things you can purchase. Also a good way to support them.
Beflix
You cannot enforce the physical world through virtual means. It does not work.

What you can enforce is digital goods via virtual means. Depending of what you want to enforce the presence of a central authority in the physical world may still be needed
The discord username namespace is weird. You get to set a display name which doesn't have to be unique so you can have the name "Bob" and that's what shows up when you message people, but then you also have a unique version on your profile that looks something like "Bob#3922" I'm not sure what happens if 10,000 people pick the same name but as far as I know, there is no limitation to how many people can have the same username.

So it seems almost impossible that this is some technical limitation but rather Discord cracking down on a common deception tactic.
JetBrains IDEs are the only dev tool I pay for as well. I write kotlin professionally and for fun and the Intellij + Kotlin experience is the most I've enjoyed writing code since my early days learning Ruby.
Neuropathy. Lots of damage to my nerves. Makes me hyper sensitive to many medications.

Heavy vitamin regiment has reduced issues. LDN, and getting a previously undiagnosed autoimmune condition under control has given me some tolerance.

I still avoid Medication as best I can. But Family likes having a house.
> It's actually instant messaging without any client hiccups or latency (looking at you, Signal).

This is almost certainly poor wifi / cell coverage, not Signal having "hiccups" or "latency." I routinely have real-time texting conversations with friends and I can see the messages are "seen" almost instantaneously, half-way across the US.

I've also never had an issue with voice chat. It's been flawless, and very high quality audio. As good or better than Facetime.

Also, unlike Briar, Signal is available for iOS, which is superior if you care about digital privacy, allowing users to disable a slew of data reporting (particularly location data) back to Apple that Android forces you to give Google.
It's very hard to take the tweet seriously. It's like walking around in the California hills predicting a forest fire, during a super dry summer, while orange glows from nearby hills light up the smoke that is choking the air, and ash rains down.

So you're saying it's not something that's going to happen in the future but instead happening right now? Well that's reassuring.
A couple of interesting factors leading to liquid cooling in the commercial market (always been prominent in the top 500) and why I think this time it’s different.

First, we are designing smaller transistor leading to leakage and thus increasing chip thermal design power (TDP). We are also using bigger chips and chiplets also increasing TDP.

TDP on a GPU went from 200w to 1 kW in the past 5 years and even CPU are now close to 500w.
At 25k a pop avoiding throttling due to heat restriction is a must and is becoming incredibly hard with air cooling as air is an amazing insulator.

Second, networking is extremely expensive with the cost of top-end InfiniBand cable close to 1000$ a foot. This means you want to cram your CPU /GPU as close as possible to keep the connection electrical if possible and minimize optical cable lengths. This also decreases latency and increase cluster performance. On a 50 000 cable deployment, the saving can be … significant.

Third, we are now seeing the emergence of foundational model that requires government lab levels of interconnected compute. This is a new paradigm in the private sector and consume power in the 20-30 MW range. An increase in efficiency of 10% (from 1.2 to 1.1 PUE) brings huge saving on the power cost side plus important environmental benefits. It also becomes much easier to recuperate heat.

That’s why we’re seeing major announcement at OCP i.e. meta going the liquid cooling way.

I personally believe that’s where things are going and we are building a facility to optimize for the above points: https://www.qscale.com/
Adderal, vyvanse, concerta. And Xarelto (blood thinner) all cause burning pain
I think the farmers use case can totally work as long as those land parcels are also on the blockchain.
Thanks. For those who are interested, Lilienfeld's patent can be found at the Canadian patent website, it's CA272437.

From what I can tell, the active material was copper sulphide.
A company like Twitter isn't made up of just "software engineers". Besides writing software, (likely different) people are deploying and running it, testing and integrating it with other systems, monitoring it, securing it.

Also, some of the people who have been working at a company for a long time know the systems in detail. They may not be the people who'd win a popularity contest, but you don't want these people to suddenly leave.
I had a real experience that perfectly reflects the research presented here (safer ledgers useful, blockchains are not).

I accidentally got wrapped up in a project to automate some HR functions, and the product manager demanded that it must be blockchain because blockchains are the future.

It turns out that append-only databases are well-suited for HR records, and (especially when dealing with things like background checks, immigration papers, etc.) it doesn't hurt to have a history with cryptographically-verifiable date stamps.

We used an existing database that did all of the above, told everyone it was blockchain, and released the product.

That was a great strategy for a few years until everyone realized blockchain was a boondoggle, and now you never need to work with anyone who still believes in it. You can just understand their mention of blockchain to be a sign that you need to avoid doing business with them.
"Libra", i always thought that would be a name the EU would pick for their digital EURO, it fits perfectly
I'm not sure this is an application where using AI makes sense. For example, there are a large number of algorithmic ways to determine if a number of probably prime -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Rabin_primality...
Ummm.... devil's advocate: allowing for just integer value software engineer count, 80% percent of startup with just 1 software engineer leaves 0 software engineers in startup company of 1. Allowing for accountant, still gives an off by 1 error. Including a legal professional & accountant will at least allow for resolution of company issues without rehiring a software engineer.

Still think if a company needs to involve software engineer, removal of 80% of software engineer, the total software engineer count less 80% needs to total 1 or more.

Hopefully this wasn't the bean counter reasoning for minimum employees required for company health plan.
> Building everything into one protocol is just asking for problems (both legal and social).

That's what's been happening with HTTP. Now browsers are bloated and take a lot of system resources to run.
SMTP, IMAP, POP3 and MIME: understanding email protocols
I believe this is an unpopular comment because “training an AI to identify primes” is pretty much technobabble.

What sort of AI are you referring to? A deep neural network? Why should this be better than our current techniques?
How would you feel if I banned you from doing something the way you want do it? Like what if tommorow someone banned veganism or whatever you're into?
It is not a big deal if Argentina defaults on its bonds because they were already paying a huge premium because everyone expects them to default on their bonds, South Korean governments municipal to federal do not pay that premium because they are considered reliable - if there are doubts no one knows how to price their bonds - so they don't get bought. It has nothing to do with now vs then!

If you want an example of now vs then go try to buy some cybersecurity insurance for data breaches or flood insurance.. in those circumstances things have legitimately changed!
I’m lost.

I think @grogenaut is actually saying he agrees with OP and that super bowl ads and stadium deals are precursors to busts, no?

The big question is whether there’s any utility left. The dotcom bust wasn’t an indictment of the internet and maybe the web3/exchanges busts don’t spell doom for blockchain and related tech either.
Granted; I was very junior then--and I think my issues may have been mostly related to the finnicky nature of java tooling and dependencies rather than the IDE itself.
Bob Iger Named Disney CEO in Shocking Development – CNN Business
Tangential but just curious, do people make cookies out of acorns? Beside squirrel people that is.
Global Ping Statistics
I tried this but the sound is too… white? Is there a way of making it deeper? I’m not familiar with Sox at all.

EDIT: actually in that short time I got what I needed: play -n -n --combine merge synth brownnoise band -n 550 550

Put it in a .command file, renamed it as .app, dragged it to the dock, renamed it .command, and now I can quickly trigger it from the dock at any time.

Thanks a lot!
Huh. I’m not terribly surprised - Bob Chapek’s leadership has been “less than ideal” from many different angles (political skirmishes, scattershot Marvel Phase 4, Disney+ still being unprofitable, theme park cost increases). Still surprising that something happened about it.

However, maybe it isn’t. The stock is down 40% YTD, 10% over the last 5 years. Pretty mediocre. Not that it’s been a great year for any stock, but losing 2/5ths value is still an outlier.

It’s not hard to see why. A $1.5 billion operating loss in the streaming division last quarter, despite 164M subscribers, is a major black eye. With $5.96/mo. being the average worth of a user, that means approximately $977 million monthly in streaming revenue, or $2.93 Billion per quarter - yet Disney is somehow spending $4.43 Billion per quarter to keep the streaming subscription ship afloat. If I’m an investor, I’m skeptical that Disney+ will ever obtain profitability. Raise prices, lose subscriptions. Make original content to keep people subscribed - but it costs money to make, eats profitability, and so far hasn’t been a huge subscription-saver. Thus the ad-based tier upcoming to try to fix the hole…
Considering the recent insider trading issue at Coinbase [1,2], i wouldn't be surprised if he leaked an insider information, some work for the SEC ;)

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012462

[2] - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-charged-first-eve...
Amazon: Alexa
Microsoft: Cortana
Apple: Siri
Discord: Clyde
Google: Google

Disclosure, I work at Google.
On the one hand, Matt Levine writes interesting and insightful articles and I feel I learn from reading them. On the other hand, Levine also had multiple contacts with FTX and SBF including lengthy interviews and he seems to not have detected the FTX fraud early. It also seems like the fraud was, in retrospect, pretty obvious, SBF acknowledged to Levine that he ran a Ponzi scheme in an interview - and that was kind of it. Depositors were depositing their FTX money directly to Alameda's bank account and nobody noticed. In some sense it seems like nobody was actually doing investigative journalism.
I am hacker not suck from responsh from inda
Firefox and uBlock are non negotiable. PiHole is a good idea, make sure your DHCP vends out PiHole DNS to their phones, or set up their phones to VPN to your home so you can monitor traffic.

You'd probably want to monitor that. You can also monitor their phones if you are the owner of their accounts. Probably a good idea to know all the callers for conversations over a few minutes.

Gmail is probably as good of a choice as any.

You would absolutely want to make every attempt to whitelist their phone calls. Ignoring unknown senders runs the risk of missing important calls, but taking unknown senders is guaranteed to make them prey for the latest scam.

Password re-use is a scourge upon the elderly. Hard problem to solve because most methods work 95% percent of the time, but that 5% they don't is really painful.

Some amount of education if you can impress it upon them is invaluable. _NEVER_ click links on an e-mail without asking you first is a good one. _NEVER_ use trans union or any money transfer service. _NEVER_ use a number or e-mail provided to you to contact a company, always google the right number and use that rather than what is sent in an e-mail. _NEVER_ click an attachment without asking you first.
The root problem is that there is a troubled subset of our population who delight in smearing shit on the walls. We’ve all seen it in real life public toilets, in that literal fashion, but it also comes in the form of ratfucking, like Stone, and in QAnon-style promotion of crazy conspiracy theories, and in many variations in-between. They engage in acts of destruction against the public good; they are destroyers of peace, of reason, of society. Some are legit mentally ill, but other are very savvy and are doing it with deliberation. Social media has broadened their reach and increased the volume of their smear.

The root of the problem is not twitter.
So stop participating in society? Wasn’t that your advice re. watching sports?
Color inkjet printing wasn't a thing 50 years ago
I donate to the FSF and subscribe to iTerm2's patreon, FWIW.

I have to admit, though, I think the world would be a much more drab and less productive place if open source were completely dominant. We'd all be chiding each other to donate more and pitch in more, while barely scraping by in comparison to the vast wealth sloshing around today. Maybe it would be a BETTER world if it weren't all fueled by addictive mobile games, privacy invasive advertising, etc. But we'd be a lot less rich
The technology here is the least of that small shareholder's problems.

To register that land, they need to convince a corruptible human to accept their application, get another corruptible human to enter the data correctly in the database and get a third corruptible human to give them an authentic certificate proving that their land holding has been registered. You can already see three points where this can be trivially subverted, but it gets worse.

The hard part, you see, is defending their property rights. Local bigwig casually stomps on their land, now they need to convince the corruptible police to investigate (good luck with that when they're on the bigwig's payroll), find a lawyer willing to take this on (in exchange for what?), get the corruptible land rights registry to verify their claim, get a corruptible judge to give a true verdict, and then convince that corruptible police to carry out the verdict. If you're a poor subsistence farmer, it's nearly impossible to navigate this morass, and blockchain solves precisely zero of these problems.

Finally and most fundamentally, a land registry is by nature a centralized registry of holdings with a legal monopoly. Why on earth would you need to use a blockchain here, when an append-only database does the same job?
> There exists a non-serious branch of math.

This remains an unproven conjecture that many hope to be true . . .
They're public in a way that written contracts usually aren't. I can at least imagine scenarios where that might matter (even if I'm not at all certain they're realistic).
My favorite course was optimize coach. Heroic.us/optimize/coach

The biggest benefit I got was a deep connection to who I want to be. And through meditation and daily practices, I'm seeing myself progress towards someone whom I believe I would deeply admire. It's been an awesome start to a long journey!