skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine an agrarian low density country. There are no IT professionals in this country. Everyone more or less works for themselves on their homestead. The division of labour and the economies of scale basically dont exist.

As this country migrates to inudstrialization, what its really doing is implementing the economy of scale. It's difficult to get going though, if everyone is a poverty farmer, nobody is buying your widget. We have however measured and seen this entire process happen in about 50 years, several times now to huge success.

Despite this, people still believe the economy is zero-sum. These Malthusians in their politics believe that for the western world to be rich, requires them to rob the wealth from other countries. Which certainly has some truth to it.

This isn't how it works however, you can have a free trade agreement with palestine, but if nobody actually tries to trade goods, buy or sell goods. it doesnt matter. Each side in this trade of goods thinks they are getting a deal, otherwise they wouldnt do it. So we should in essence end up with excess on both sides. If someone selling their goods in palestine to germany has buyers. Then they can invest in producing more of those goods off the same labour hours.

BUT we have a problem: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/08/were-living-in-the-ag...

The malthusians, aka world economic forum, believe we are in fact zero sum because there are so many metrics since 1971 showing we are zero-sum. They aren't wrong. So what happened?

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4356705-what-went-wrong-in-...

So basically what happened is the gold standard broke. In so doing, these fiat currency countries technically lose the ability to tax. Instead of tax, they should be printing the money they spend and NEVER take any debt. When they tax AND print money causing inflation. It's a double tax and removes, paying taxes on taxes on taxes.

Basically government is paying for itself, or rather failing to pay for itself by having circular taxation. This however breaks the economy and turns it to zero-sum.

This is why you also see everyone promising to lower taxes, if fiat currency without gold standard is going to stay, politicians basically have to reduce taxation to 0. The problem, they aren't doing it. They want to do little kickbacks to their supporters in specific tax deductions only.
What if you were murdered under suspicious circumstances and the powers that be were covering it up?

(Not saying that is what is happening here, just a hypothetical.)
I usually tend to agree, but in this case the link would be a link to pirated content and would quickly get the site taken down. So "google XYZ" is the only viable way here
Bored Ape NFTs have lost over 80% of their value since April of this year
Can Biology Be Reduced to Physics? [video]
They are dominant in the market, so it's just a matter of time until they start abusing their position.
I'm really hoping that Emacs becomes multithreaded somehow. Or at least improves some operations so that they're non-blocking.

I've been using Emacs primarily for org-mode/roam/babel for a few years now. I'm very glad for its existence, I really think I've become a more effective DevOps person because of it.
The main difference I see is this project seems to be using C++ (plus C macros?) directly instead of a DSL. And some llvm magic thrown in for good measure.
The wheels of justice turn slowly
The rent is too damn high. It is no surprise that sales are down when used cards from Etherium miners are flooding the market but new cards are still priced high.

Unlike previous generations I'm not seeing anything special in terms of new features in the 4000 series that excite me although I'm sure even the most trivial demo from NVIDIA is going to going to require it.

The PC market as a whole isn't helping. I am thinking about building a PC but hesitating because I don't really believe in Intel's vision (fuse off AVX-512 instructions which are good for run-of-the-mill text processing as in your web browse, add a bunch of phoneish low-performance cores because... they've got cell phone envy) but I hear rumors of AMD stability problems (last thing I need is another PC that crashes) and high system prices for AMD machines that don't quite beat Intel in performance.

If CPU's weren't giving me an excuse to drag my feet I might by a new GPU but at these prices I'm likely to keep dragging my feet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33709426
I think he meant to say "poverty is the default state." After all, you are born with nothing, and if you do nothing, you will get nothing.
Rereading this was of text, I am always interested in how I can tie together notes from one meetings to quickly think - who was that vendor that does XYZ, they should acquire this other vendor. My only solutions would rely on NLP or more organized notes, but not sure how to do either at this point.
One thing I'm wondering about: what's the call overhead of wazero? Especially for function calls (rather than as a `system()` alternative)?

I understand that cgo has significant per-call overhead, aside from all the other curses it implies, does wasm/wazero have the same issue or not?
> so they should not be punished on that basis

I keep seeing the word "punished" used as though there are some parents somwhere who are meteing out deliberate action against their children. It's not like that. It's just bad situations happening to adults and children alike.

The only antidote we know of is having democracy and free(ish) markets to allow as much agency as possible to accumulate to individuals, rather than to state officials.
Always have to upvote for Yahoo Pipes. Also don't miss this great love letter to Yahoo Pipes:

My Heart Feeds a Series of Tubes: https://medium.com/message/my-heart-feeds-a-series-of-tubes-...
Google has avoided mass layoffs, but employees worry their time may be coming
In the sense that "match is a superset of if and if let's functionality", yeah it's just a style preference.

However, while style truly is subjective, I'm not sure anyone could convince me that

match foo {
true => println!("hello"),
_ => {}
}

is the same or better than

if foo {
println!("hello");
}

The RFC for "if let" has some good motivating examples as well https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/0160-if-let.html
> what is there to stop the rich from buying all of it

Isn't that already the case though? I'm not aware of any country that limits how much land a single person can legally own, just prohibitions on which people can own it (i.e. I can't buy land in England because I'm not an English citizen).
A human has to write this type of metadata.

If you don't include the right metadata, google won't rank you highly. If you include the right metadata, your content will get higher rankings and the snazzy preview cards on different social media platforms.

Metadata is good! There are structural incentives to be mediocre though.
Actual headline:

50 of Twitter's top 100 advertisers have pulled out of the platform since Elon Musk took over, report says

Half of Twitter's top 100 advertisers have stopped promoting on the platform, per Media Matters.

Since 2020, those 50 companies have spent $2 billion on Twitter advertising.

----

So that's ~$300M drop in annual spend.
It's like automotive safety, safety driving a forklift, etc.
The AI makes plenty of blunders (confirmed with Stockfish analysis), which makes sense in order to get a better estimate of the opponent's rating.

As I was playing I felt like I had a definite advantage, which I did as it turns out. But because I was playing a computer I kept second-guessing myself as I didn't yet know it was programmed to blunder. I then managed to resign in a drawn pawn endgame - I wonder if this was used as signal to estimate my rating.

It got my lichess rating right within 300 points after just one game.
Why?

Windows is what most gamers use and need
Weapons of Math Destruction is good book on the topic. Using ML to do tasks like evaluate employee performance (and trigger firings), issue loans, insurance etc. is affecting peoples lives in the real world today.
You shouldn't be taking my email just to demand lots of information from me after I already gave my email to you.

If you demand lots of information that should be clear right away.
> Really just wanna punch them in the face.

I had half the mind to when some asshole decided to show up and bang at my door in the evening, hours after typical business hours and asked me to take some survey. If someone is knocking in my door in the evening, it better be fucking important.
Click left half of square for ccw rotation, click right half of square for cw rotation.
"But the New York law ... establish[es] a two-year moratorium on permits for fossil fuel plants used for cryptocurrency mining that utilizes “proof-of-work authentication.”

A moratorium on new air permits as well as renewal air permits.

Actual law (text/pdf):

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/a7389/amendm...
OP said that we can’t possibly create a system which will result in equality of outcome, while quoting that 80% of the world are poorer than the average American. In that context, equality of outcome means that the whole world shares the same average. Maybe I misunderstood that part, but if that’s what’s being said, then I’m not sure what is that uniqueness. Surely, the fact the US exist is evidence that such a system is actually possible. Then why is it not possible for the rest of the world? So you’re saying it’s culture? That seems like something that can be changed. So can politics, obviously. So, what is the unique trait that will make sure there’s no way to achieve a worldwide average earning as an average American family?
Show HN: Searching for a Heroku Replacement
I got carried away: you can use ChainMap, but the __getitem__ is not going to get called: https://bugs.python.org/issue1475692

So your only valid solution is to use __getattr__, which is guaranteed to work. But either you load all missing value on first access, and you can only lazy load once, or you pay the price of a method call for attribute access every single time. And in all cases, you won't have type hint doing the ork for you.

An hybrid strategy would be to always use __dict__ pointing to an empty dict you lazy load later, and @property for attribute that are only for the local object. Then you will pay the price of the of the method calls only for non lazy attributes.

Depending of your work load and data shape, one solution will be much better than the other, but nothing as elegant as the ChainMap.
ABA votes to end law schools' LSAT requirement, but not until 2025
I can. I work on a ~20k loc Python service as well as a ~10k loc Rust service. The Rust service is only half the size, but the problem space is many times more complex.

Whenever I work on the Python service I feel like I'm working in clay. Like, everything kind of sort of works. It won't at first, but then you just poke at it with a stick until it does. In Rust, it works or you're told exactly why it doesn't and then you fix it.

I change a struct and the compiler provides me with a list of places that need updating.

I have many reasons (mypy, type system, testing, venv, python 2), but really the big one is rust's superior type system as well as general tooling (lsp is way better, cargo and clippy are phenomenal).
You might enjoy https://pypi.org/project/htmlq/
I'm not super familiar with the state of the art technology in this space and how these demos were presented, but I think all of these conflicts seem like they should be resolved if companies just put gigantic honking disclaimers on the work these AI tools produce.

If you wrote a flashing big red warning, something like the following, couldn't everybody be satisfied? "CAUTION. This technology is still very early and may produce completely incorrect or even dangerous results. Any output by this tool should be considered false and is only suitable for entertainment purposes until expert human judgement verifies the results."
Like the post on here a while ago about ai algorithms setting prices for landlords. Most human have a limit to what they will personally do to someone, but for whatever reason if they get told to do something worse and they can blame it on that thing instead people are willing to be monsters. So it only takes a few sociopaths making the software to make a whole industry even worse.
CLOS is currently slower, but there are some cool ideas floating around to greatly speed it up. The roadblock has been CLOS's dynamism: everything needs to be redefinable at run time, even the classes. But it's possible for an implementation to get high efficiency even with that, using separate code snippets that are reached by a single branch (although I don't know if any CL implementation does this yet):

http://metamodular.com/SICL/call-site-optimization.pdf

(I think a modern version of Common Lisp would take this idea and run with it, making most or all built-in functions generic.)

CLOS really shines when it comes to problems that benefit from method combination, which allows one to decompose computations into reusable nuggets that can be reassembled using multiple inheritance.
it's based on the documentary 'the salesman', but you don't even need to see both. they did a perfect job of parodying.
Amazon unable to keep up with inbound freight for xmas
What an absurdly stupid position. Fine, you openly want to encourage foreign adversaries to determine the outcome of US elections. Fine. That's a position you advertise widely, because it makes you look absurd.
I don't know about you personally, but google definitely knows I've never booked a red-eye and that I haven't booked a layover since the early aughts. I'm fairly sure Google could easily figure out not only where I'd be interested in flying to in the next few months, but when and for how long, and at what price points I'd consider upgrading my flight.

I know they know this about me not only because of my Gmail account but also because I use Google flights to find the flights before I book them.

Unfortunately they're not using this data to help me. Rather they're using it to target advertising to me. But they definitely have the data and the machinery to be more useful to me with more than just a few facts
Build a Simple Pulse Width Modulation Controller / PWM (2017)
It guessed my lichess almost rating exactly. Impressive!
If you wanna make a "the RNC and DNC are subject to FOIA" rule, fine. This isn't how you accomplish it. It wasn't an investigation of the DNC; it was an investigation of Rich's murder, of which there's zero evidence of DNC involvement.

A standard of "if you're the victim of a crime, your personal info is fair game to anyone who wants it" would be a very, very dangerous precedent to set.
I actually have a big problem with the fact that their peanut butter contains sugar!

It's not needed. Already WAY too much sugar in our diet!
> Some people formed an opinion of WikiLeaks as an organisation by how they conducted themselves during an election. How does a more nihilistic attitude towards journalism generally supposed to affect that.

That election behaviour is sometimes seen as distasteful because it's partisan. The OP's point seems to be that all journalism is partisan, in which case that behaviour isn't actually evidence that WikiLeaks is less reliable than any other journalistic outlet.
It's sometimes very lonely hearing everybody say only positive things about something which you not only do not connect with, but which you also think has objectively bad elements with respect to its art form. It makes you feel like maybe instead of being the most important and significant thing in your life, it is instead just another garbage heap of ambition and mendacity.

So sometimes when you read that excoriating review you think yes I'm not alone. I'm not mad. That was thoroughly bad. And you remember that it's important.
I would want a company where I pay them for their assistant, knowing that everything it holds is not shared with anyone and completely under my control.

The issue is of course, like paying for youtube, is consumers will wonder why they would want to pay for an assistant.
Well they arrest Joerg Arnu for photos of Area 51 on his web, should we start believe in UFO?
I think the point was that training riflemen en masse is easy and cheap, whereas bowmen need far more intensive training - I would find it hard to contest this assessment.

When I did my conscript service, we were encouraged to hit target 300m away, and generally people learn to do this quite fast (with a high quality AK-47 copy in this instance). Learning to hit a target with this engagement distance is infinitely easier with rifle than bow, especially if you need to train riflemen en masse.

Descriptive is that english longbowmen had to practice continusously. I would probably hit a target with a rifle two decades after my service without much firing range practice.

Automated rifle has enabled industrialized utilization of civil population as easily trained effective combatants like nothing else.
Not to take away from your point (I'd like the magic list too) but to some degree, this can be worked around using Shortcuts. If you use inputs, Siri will prompt for them which is a bit slow but you could even use a dictate text and parse yourself if desired.
Yann LeCun has lots of faults, certainly with how he treats AI safety in general, but a lot of the criticism he got was saying "He's not qualified to be in the position he is in" which is actually absurd if you know anything about him. Even if you knew nothing other than the fact that he won a Turing Award then he would be qualified for basically any computing/AI/ML job on the planet. \

Also the title of this post is deliberately inflammatory. Should be more like "Head of team that spent months building complex ML system annoyed when people spend undue amounts of time criticizing it."
>> The caveat is you really don't have true double resolution...

And only on the right side of a polygon. If video RAM is cleared to 0-black, there would be no "wide" background pixels, only wide polygon pixels and they're extended to the right only.

I will look at Doodle City and try to move things under the text overlay.

Also, what is that big chip in the linked schematic doing? HPOS6-15? PADD0-PADD10. It has a 5MHz clock (the dot clock) but that FF has a different clock which might be 10MHz?
KaiOS brings smartphones features to affordable devices in Africa
I just searched casio A1000 on amazon, and there's even cheaper actually.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GAYQJ0

A158

Do you know the difference between the A158 and the A1000? And don't say it's 842 :D
This is bad in the case of online orders, where the order will usually go through anyway (vendors want to sell even when you don’t confirm your email address, and don’t care a lot about someone else getting the notification emails), because if by mistake you registered your email address as new although you already had an account with that address, the order won’t get associated with your account. Or if it does automatically get associated with the account (or after confirmation), then that’s bad as well if you really entered someone else’s email address, because your order will then get associated with their account.

This is the reason why attempting to sign up for an existing account generally fails right away, at least for online retailers.
Google also identifies commute, it’s actually a maps feature and not the assistant’s, though.
Pale Moon Becomes First Browser to Support JPEG-XL Image Format
I am sure there's a greek word for this fallacy, but Finnucane is being facetious. They're just arguing that this longtermism is not long term enough, and if we really, really, really cared about the long term, we would argue with the collapse of the universe in mind.

It's a critique when someone's reasoning stops at random points that coincidentally align with someone's interests is just a tool to enforce their point of view, not a virtue of the argument itself.
I get "use", but why do gamers "need" Windows?
Kawaiicore playlist on spotify, Aphex Twin, Rezz, No Mana, lots of jpop, Alison Wonderland.

I have a subwoofer in my office and sometimes having a driving deep beat (Rezz) helps me focus much better. For me when I am able to physically feel the music there is a significant boost in my focus. When I can kind of dance or nod to it a bit while typing is a sign that I am at peak focus.

Aphex Twin really is magical for me. Sometimes the discord of something like syro u473t8+e[141.98][piezoluminescence mix] on a loop really helps me zone. Sometimes a more relaxed track like To Cure A Weakling Child works well. The ambient stuff like Xtal and Heliospan are great for relaxing and doing more creative tasks.

Jpop really improves my mood and something about interpreting the lyrics and singing along especially to the kind of repetitive cute nonsense of kawaiicore improves my creativity a lot. Its a good way to cleanse my musical palette.
Emphasis on the usually, though -- check your local laws before setting up an archery range on your back patio :)
I used to do this all the time in XP days. I think I'll give it a shot on my gaming PC
No. Not any more than I trust the USA Media parroting the same.

That said, I obviously wasn't critiquing the ultimate source. I was focused on the shite way the media repeatedly presents numbers, data, etc. That has nothing to do with China.
I ran into the same bug after doing a pre-move FWIW. Someone else also mentioned that the bug might be related to the speed of making moves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33719934
Funny, but I do feel like there's not much you couldn't throw a team of programming physicists at, if not just for their widened perspective and the fact that they have such a good springboard to study anything else - wouldn't work if they had the attitude of the guy in the xkcd comic of course.
Yes please. The Linux space needs some modernization too with a lot of applications, like Steam, segfaulting on 10-bit color, breaking at shebangs like #!/bin/bash, or some shared lib hell—and that's not even crossing the mess that is Windows-kernel-based anti-cheat systems.
How does a fan get power to drive the tach output, if the only power it gets is a pwm signal (which might be low when it needs to switch)?
Earlier lisps called it „flavour“

Defflavor instead of defclass
Personally, it's the scoping that drives me nuts more than the weird version of dynamic typing (which is awful, but can be fixed). A lot of "pythonic" syntax is also very python-specific and hard to read if you aren't a python person. There is also the implicit type conversion and the runtime errors for things a linter or a compiler would catch in another language.

If you only work on <1000 line scripts, Python is a blast. If you work on projects with >1M LoC, it gets very hard to keep everything you need in your head if you want to understand code that other people have written.
With the version of wazero I'm using right now, it's about 0.3 milliseconds to do a single call from Go to Rust and back in the best case on my hardware. I am told that a recent patch to wazero will increase this by a lot, so I'm going to try upgrading to that patch and see what differences it makes. I still think that it will be a bit slower than cgo, BUT the platform-independence and strict sandboxing makes up for it in my book.
Graphics drivers
dense, shaky mix of proteins that bump into each other at the right angle to make stuff happen
A trade deficit is an investment surplus, and vice versa. It's not like one is always good or the other always bad, you can't reason like that from a single number.
Solver in 0 clicks:

[...document.querySelectorAll("#game > div > div")].forEach(e => e.style.transform="rotate(0deg)")

It doesn't win the game, but can at least save the "preview" clicks.
"The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

"My favorite Erlang program" by Joe Armstrong — https://joearms.github.io/published/2013-11-21-My-favorite-e...