skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banning rent seeking doesn't work. Christianity tried banning interest and it just causes non Christians to offer lending services which then results in xenophobia. Interest payments partially derive from the liquidity services provided by market participants (think long opening hours and storing products ahead of time). Money effectively becomes a public institution where people voluntarily give it value in the form of liquidity services. That public institution is then kept in private hands who lend out money and then get to market these liquidity services as if they provided the public institution themselves. Basically someone else does the work and you get to benefit.

The answer to this problem is a demurrage fee on cash. Banks can then compete by offering the ideal negative rate that is in proportion to the liquidity premium. Banks can then use this fee to pay for liquidity services.

Is anyone doing this? No and I don't think it will happen in the next 30 years.
Exactly, but why do so many people seem to have a problem with this? Sounds like a political problem to me instead of a scientific one.
European Parliament declares Russia to be a state sponsor of terrorism
I've stopped using slow cookers. Partly because I don't have the time but also I don't think safety around them is adequately communicated to users. e.g. FDA specifically warns that they don't get up to sufficient temp to make dry kidney beans safe (Phytohaemagglutinin toxin). Only found out about that years after I got mine (pure luck that I never made a dry bean dish)

Pressure cookers on the other hand are awesome. Fast, energy efficient and results in a similar outcome for the most part.
You typically had a few run time systems, like BASIC+, TECO, and others running (Compilers), and the Batch Queue, then a user with 1 file open and an edit buffer.

Yeah, it really was amazing how they pulled it off. Given my current machine with 32 Gigs of RAM, I could give 32,000 users a megabyte each. Moore's law was a wild ride.
Other distros have wikis but tend to focus more on documentation the distro specific details. Since Arch packages have very minimal modifications from upstream, this means much of the content from the ArchWiki is applicable across distros. But then once you have one wiki covering the generic advice, there's less motivation for others to duplicate that effort anyway.
Because you are a coward and lazy? Here's a summary:

Fix the heinous war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed by your own state, and only then will you have the moral authority to do anything, effective, about the crimes of other states.
It could be tricky with permissions on different users: for instance you authorize google.com/maps to track your location while logged as user A.

You logout and switch to user B to look at another Google service, but google.com is still allowed to get your location, and will stick it to user B, which is something you might not have wanted. This didn't happen with the previous domains, so could be a surprise.
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Imagine a ferrofluid, you could wiggle around a space via electro magnetic forces. You could create parts of a "mirror" at locations on demand, and sythesize the reflected light into a whole picture, without ever needing a huge, ground mirror. The whole optical body is only ever needed for us and parallelistic sensors.
That doesn't work. You have to pay the full costs of the robot yourself. If you hire a human the production cost of the human has been borne by their parents. In fact, employees are expected to pay for their own education via college tuition.
Paper bills are scarce and pack a premium in these places. Meanwhile someone could learn marketable skills over the internet and receive digital currency. You can argue stables are better but those aren't trustworthy.
Ask HN: Google Seems to Exclude IMDB?
In the recent days I've noticed that when googling movies, IMDb either does not show up at all, or the "Full Cast & Crew" page for the movies shows up way down the list.

From searching around, IMDb has not done any changes to their website.

Any current googlers with any insight on this, or what could have triggered this?
I've done this (vps for emacs). My tuppenth worth:

- NoMachine with X works really well, especially over a VPN. Full linux desktop, great scaling and kb support

- Use mosh instead of ssh, especially if connecting over cellular, as it is tolerant of dropped connections

- Like the person who switched to an X230, I followed a similar path finally settling on a Microsoft Surface v7 which was £300 second hand. The hardware is fantastic, with a glorious screen and lovely typecover keyboard. Live in WSL and it could be a linux box. I leave the ipad behind now when I travel.

Having said that, even if it had to be handbuilt against a testflight account, it would be wonderful to have a native emacs app. Seems like the developers of hummingbird eXceed or blink might be clever enough to do that?

Although I went into the purchase knowing about Apple's walled garden, I really do resent the way good hardware has been artificially crippled. It feels like being treated like a child, I should be able to make informed decisions with my own hardware! I won't be buying another ipad unless things change up big time.
Ah you were just looking for a tool that searches HN's comments from a specific user containing a keyword, so I linked the tool along with an example query.
> It's so weird this attitude so prevalent on HN.

If you want a quick rundown of what might be happening...

People have a very finely tuned sense of who is winning status games. It is clear that some people in crypto are winning by several billion dollars. Add to that a (fairly reasonable) argument that there is cheating afoot in this status game and you get people arcing up trying to do get something done about it. Very natural response - people don't like cheaters and do play status games.

I think they're mistaken though - I'm put in mind of Utopia, Limited (a classic 1893 production) lampooning the obvious stupidity of a limited liability corporation. Turned out limited liability corporations were a game changer and extremely beneficial to society.
DNS over HTTPS is the solution here.
One example that comes to mind is a GUI for interactive rebasing, which lets you re-order commits with a drag-and-drop interface. I’m thinking specifically of the one that (I think) is included with the Git ReFlow VS Code extension.

True, a CLI tool could be made to mimic the same thing the GUI variant does in most respects, but at that point you’ve simply re-implemented a GUI, just with all the interface restrictions imposed by the shell.

I’d agree that apps in general should promote some level of scriptability, and letting users drop down into the CLI is a great option for that. I’d just make an argument for giving CLI users an option to “rise up” to a GUI where it makes sense.
The whole "threat model" thinking is useful for security, but I don't think it translates well to privacy and data sharing consent matters.
Wikis take a lot of maintenance by a determined core of contributors, or else the pages deteriorate into a pile of incoherent edits. Occasionally I see this even on the Arch wiki. Main text says “do this.” That’s followed by some text saying “I tried this and it didn’t work.” That’s followed by a text box saying “that method is deprecated.”
Two days ago, NATO Parliamentary Assembly labels Russia a terrorist regime.[0]

Yesterday MEPs have recognized[1] Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, and just in few hours Russian missiles & strike drones heavy shelled critical infrastructure in Ukraine which resulted in ongoing countrywide blackout[2] (in my town electricity restored just hour ago after almost 24-hour-long full power cut including mobile network).

Later Pro-Kremlin group claims responsibility for cyberattack on EU Parliament website.[3]

P.S. I'm Ukrainian living in Ukraine. Here is my statement for HN:[4]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33701514

[1] https://twitter.com/Europarl_EN/status/1595394384995840000

[2] https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/15954642951601029...

[3] https://cybernews.com/news/cyberattack-on-eu-parliament/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395897
This is Spotify’s list of "genres".

To be fair (and more exact) Spotify data scientists detect patterns in the audio spectral features and use them to manually create/add new genres. The "collective wisdom" nature of last.fm and RYM will often give better results/phraseology.

You could say that Spotify could also be data mining these Music Social Media sites!
My own research does not show this to be true (at a large scale anyway). But they should (and pay them for it)
Is this the police version of "Life is hard, let's go shopping!" ?

I would think policy makers inside SFPD would be working 24/7 with the politicians in order to bring down the ridiculous amount of crime SF has ( most of it isn't even reported because police now say it outright they wouldn't even bother to respond ).

It feels like when I invent things to do when I really don't want to tackle that hard problem..
http://bowlingalone.com/
I'm ok with sharing my location with maps (and therefore google) WHILE USING MAPS.
Not when I'm reading my emails, or searching for something on the web.
Thanks, yeah, that would explain what happened - the game would start up fine, I could play for a while (saving often just in case), and then at some point (often when moving into an area I hadn't entered yet) it would suddenly get choppy and crash a few seconds later. I guess at that point it ran out of memory.

...any hints for Arkham City ;) ?
Apple Watch was released in 2015

On March 28, 2016, the first consumer version of Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift "CV1", was released.

Rivians just started shipping.

Electric scooters

“Hoverboards”

Those rent a bike kiosks seem pretty recent

Full-Self-Driving beta today.
Ask your local Information Commissioner whether this is GDPR-compliant.
Yup, it really is a good thing they haven't been forced to use open images.
Google could enable ESNI, if they wanted.
I'd rather pay with Bitcoin/ETH/xx than using Mastercard. Currently 1-2 big US companies have ALL my payment data, they know everything about my life. Is this good?

Privacy is the killer feature for crypto. Or is there another non-crypto solution to this problem?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accident...
Can't wait for law enforcement to start arresting people for looking at images.
https://m.youtube.com/c/themathsorcerer for math book reviews
Sure, but the current Air doesn't even have a proper heatsink, and still delivers a ton of performance with thermal throttling setting in quite late compared to what I would have expected. They're pretty much doing it badly on purpose and it's still really good.
Sound like an interesting concept, count me in, see email in my profile.
Tony Gilroy on the Screenwriting of 'Andor'
The main thing is that browser makers can implement it on top of their existing JS engines at relatively low cost, and the language model is basically just C so there's no difficult consensus building. In other words it's expedient for the browser guys, given that Mozilla killed all prior attempts to do things like NaCL, there was also an earlier initiative to teach V8 how to run JVM bytecode that got killed off by the same problem. Mozilla just systematically killed off any attempt to non-JS stuff. WASM sort of snuck in via the backdoor using hacks like Emscripten and asm.js and Firefox was losing market share, so WASM is what we ended up with.

Outside the browser as the other comments say it's about sandboxing primarily, and the feeling that it's not too dependent on a single vendor. Of course that means not much useful code runs inside WASM. The hard bit about sandboxing is not actually doing it, so much as allowing a usefully flexible set of permissions and features for sandboxed code.

Interestingly, Graal is also developing a sandbox. And with native-image you can compile the language implementations down to native code. So you could soon (even today actually but it's not really advertised) load a sandboxing JS or Python or Ruby or indeed WASM implementation from a shared library using a simple C API. Again though the hard part is actually that "real" code tends to have extensive OS dependencies. The JS ecosystem finds wide usage partly because so many modules are written for the browser which allows very little, whereas in the Python/Java/etc ecosystems modules frequently will assume things like filesystem access.
How to get out of a slump and restart good habits
Those things that claim to use blockchain but don't have the crypto are marketing technologies that could be better served by other and better solutions. Blockchain and crypto are intertwined and one without the other doesn't exist.
Australia went to mandatory house numbers in, I think, the 60s but my grandmother refused and gave out only her house name until she passed away in the 21st century.
Data has been transferable by electric means for 184 years, since 1838, an entire order of magnitude longer than transferable value (Bitcoin). It took nearly all of those 184 years to get to a point where a majority of people had a regular use for telecommunications.

Calling it "tech" misleadingly groups it with a category of things which largely tie into existing "tech" in every obvious and specific ways; most of which were created very recently.

This is the wrong way to think about "tech" as fundamental as one which gives every person 'the ability to transfer real world value over photons in the form of IP packets', which is the essence of Bitcoin (and cryptocurrency generally). A better comparison for Bitcoin is something like telecommunications.

Banking on regular use cases in the near term is probably a bad idea. But what is far worse is dismissing, much less prematurely regulating or banning, something fundamentally comparable to the advent of telecommunications.
Why not just put the actual headline? Research suggests humans were cooking their food 780,000 years ago?

Why turn it into such a meaningless title?

(Blaming The Guardian here not OP)
Oh shit, I think that means it's CPU only for me now.
Maybe in a few years we'll have Asahi Linux on eyepads.
I used to believe what you believe. It seemed ridiculous that any other thing was possible. Then I spoke to an unusually large number of professional archivists who believe that given their limited funding digitization as a storage medium rather than a distribution method for a subset of the archive has very serious problems. Paper is actually remarkably resilient.

This isn't a question of technology. This is a question of archives, funding, and businesses.
If you don't derive happiness from lasting value, why build it?

If you don't derive happiness from raising children, why have them?

These things aren't intrinsically valuable. You may derive happiness from them, and that's perfectly fine. Or you may derive happiness from rigidly following some moral code, and that's fine also. But there's no "we" when it comes to what one considers most important by itself.
Ask HN: If you could go back in time, would you still pick React?
1. There's one called Operand.ai which does exactly that.
He said "one can argue", he did not claim he was 100% right. They are definitely points that you can debate around, they are different from what The Economist was talking about.
Judge people not for what they say but for what they do.
> because I have fingers and can type my current address

How would you always know your current address? I often use maps with gps to find out where I am. Many places have no address.
Law avoidance is only bad when the law is good. For some it’s money stolen, for some it’s money intact.
I does for me with the default edition.

There is no way to delay it indefinitely.

I tried editing the registry, the parameters, everything... Literally everything I could find online.

The other non Home edition may allow to disable them.
12GiB VRAM cards are common places nowadays. A RTX3060 is around ~450$ and available to everyone.
Yes, "and everybody clapped". The reality is that widespread nuclear reactors are not safely manageable in today's society.

First find a solution to prevent all wars and social unrest now and it the future, then we can talk.
Ukraine electrical grid is Soviet one, so hardly crackable from remote being essentially purely electromechanical. Westerns grids on contrary...

Just to say one recent https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/23/microsoft-boa-server-energ...
Wow incredible work by the team that decides who can access the FSD they paid for, very impressive. Now let's see if the engineering team can match that with a product that works.
That's a good argument for continuing to explore cryptocurrency-adjacent tech (or simply programming, if you like), but not necessarily purchasing and promoting the use of cryptocurrencies.

There is a confusing entanglement between the thoughts about the technology vs the thoughts about actually doing financial transactions with it. I have admiration for the developers and awe at the websites, games and services that were spawned, the technology. As a financial construct it's a perfect storm for exploitation; human nature + unregulated hyper-capitalism = bad.
I think it is reasonable to expect Google to share the data and get sued for it, because it isn't reasonable.
Oh, it's simple enough, even with managed languages in the picture - it just needs to be decided once, and then everybody uses it.

The problem is that many existing ABIs don't optimize for small structs as function arguments particularly well, so just bolting it on like that can mean poor performance compared to old-school separate arguments for pointer and length. You want a hard guarantee that something like foo(slice1, slice2) will be passed entirely in the registers, not as two pointers-to-stack.
Your insistence on not understanding the point made makes me think you, my friend, are also an AI.
He's rich
The parent comment didn't say they are. It's a very well known talk in which the speaker describes a hypothetical future technology that looks a lot like WASM.
In this situation, it would seem like the suit would end up at "comparing the timestamp at which the public domain and copyrighted versions were published", wouldn't it ?

There is nothing that the generative AI can do in this process that's legally different from copy pasting the image, editing it a bit by hand, and somehow claiming intellectual property of the _initial_ image, no ?
Small? No. Simple? No. Great documentation? Yes.
You've never really been out in the American West, have you?

Just one example - the Nevada Test and Training Range alone is a bit over 4,500 square miles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_and_Training_Ran...

Vs. Wikipedia says the entire U.S. Army (active duty) has ~485,000 personnel.

Divide...and that's ~0.17 Army people per acre, even if the US Army had NO job except holding down the NTTR. (Which is actually US Air Force, BTW.)

[Edit: But +1 - because in the bigger picture you make a valid point. However vast the open spaces, at the spots where the cool & expensive stuff sits, there does have to be some sort of "real" security. If only so dodgy locals don't swing by with a pair of bolt cutters, and start helping themselves.]
You can replace the screen with just your bare hands, not even a screwdriver required?
A lot of the US road map was imported from TIGER (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topologically_Integrated_Geogr...>). This is an electronic mapping system set up in the 90s by the US Government to aid in conducting the census. The TIGER data doesn’t have any address information at all, just road shapes. No information about the type of road, the number of lanes, the quality of the surface, presence of sidewalks, signals at intersections, anything. Just the paths the roads follow, and those paths are often of extremely poor quality. The resulting OSM maps are barely usable; sometimes they are not even recognizable by locals.

So OSM has decent geographical coverage of the US, but relies very heavily on individual contributors to correct the deficiencies and add useful information to the maps. The only way it will be usable for you is if others have improved it. The only way it will be usable for others is if you jump back in and do the same.
How much software is safety critical in general, let alone software that uses deep learning? Very, very little. I'd actually be amazed if you can name a single case where someone has deployed a language model in a safety critical system. That's why your examples are all what-ifs.

There are no actual safety issues with LLMs, nor will there be any in the foreseeable future because nobody is using them in any context where such issues may arise. Hence why you're forced to rely on absurd hypotheticals like doctors blindly relying on LLMs for diagnostics without checking anything or thinking about the outputs.

There are honesty/accuracy issues. There are not safety issues. The conflation of "safety" with other unrelated language topics like whether people feel offended, whether something is misinformation or not is a very specific quirk of a very specific subculture in the USA, it's not a widely recognized or accepted redefinition.
Proton would exist even if porting to Linux would be trivial because many games would still not be ported.
> The debate is if tabs should be used at all.

You are trying to create your own debate. Nobody raised that here.

The parent is only asking why fixed-width fonts are not rendered with proper alignment (my assumption – on something that was probably already aligned before).
> it's really about performing actions that are likely to trigger a response with high information content.

My favorite metaphor about children: to them, life is a science experiment, and parents are the guinea pigs.
> It also doesn’t scale well for the size of modern web communities.

I guess this would be more of an architecture question, rather than one of the runtime itself.

There are many sites out there that scale decently that are running on slow or sometimes slower runtimes than PHP, like Python (the Django framework comes to mind) or Ruby (the Ruby on Rails framework comes to mind). For example, consider the following: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&l=z... (disclaimer: sometimes benchmarks contain pretty optimized code, but here I'm selecting for the more idiomatic and boring ones; I don't want to show the benchmarks that show PHP ahead of everything, because native plugins are used there)

Someone mentioned Wikipedia and WordPress being PHP, I'll also mention Instagram and Spotify using Python and GitHub and GitLab using Ruby. If your app is architected well, then performance of any of these runtimes (or others) can be good enough, though of course one can also talk about some of the benefits of needing less resources to do more (e.g. with Go, Java or .NET, or even Rust).

Though admittedly, PHP is also popular in shared hosting, which might give it a bad reputation due to the architectures typically employed there (single server with single instance) and security has indeed been a topic in the public eye, especially because PHP was easy to get started with, which lead to a lot of projects by devs that weren't skilled.
It's only an analogy, but it serves to underscore the last point you make. Initial versions of the technology can make some genuine horrors but you're blinding yourself to progress if you can't see the potential in it.
Ask HN: Are You a Professional Gambler?
When in college I worked for the racecourse (horse and dog) totalizator betting in Australia, and there seemed to be some regulars who consistently made money. Also, I've seen some folks at casinos playing poker and baccarat who also seem to earning from this. I thought being a professional gambler was supposed to be impossible. Do you do this, and how?
C++/CLI supports C++17...
Wow, the second point is really interesting. Binding a voice command to a key, in this case Enter.