skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hard to verify, and easy to game.

Did you mean to write, "easy to verify, and hard to game."?
As long as putting the king in check isn't optimal…
Personally I would skip, or at least smell-test, such calculations by a trip to the publicly available hard data:

https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001418091/947c0c3...

Twitters cost of revenue was 1.7B in FY2021. That includes their data centers, operations salaries, depreciation of assets, and AWS costs (plus other categories, it’s defined in the financials). There’s also a delta of 400M from FY2020 and over half of it is salaries.

So from these pieces of coarse information and the suggestion in this piece that storage costs alone are around 1B, I can surmise that these envelope calculations are off by a lot.
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for install size, it depends on your architecture, we use wasmtime under the hood so a lot of the size is related to that: https://wasmtime.dev/

You can also take a look at our binary releases to get an idea: https://github.com/extism/extism/releases/tag/v0.1.0

In terms of memory usage, as the host you can constrain the memory that your plugin can use. There is a minimum of one Wasm page (64KB in this case).
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Burger and Starbird.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691156668/th...

Defies categorization, difficult to summarize. A tutorial for effective and fulfilling learning, grappling with challenging intellectual problems, and for cultivating creativity.

It’s easy to read it superficially. The authors recommend reading it three times through. I read it again with first semester college students every fall. In actual fact, returning to it always reveals more insights (at least for me).

Most students roll their eyes and miss the value. But every year students come back and tell me that it changed the way they think when they got to college.

I’ve gotten some colleagues hooked on it too.
> Honestly, if you're generating these responses with GPT-3 that's a pretty funny and creative use of the tool, and you completely got me for the first couple of posts!

Biological AI is not particularly novel either, the probability of this class of comment NOT appearing during disagreements between humans is rare...but only for certain topics. I wonder if we were to review our conversation, how many (at least plausible) instances of it we could individually nominate.

> If there's an actual human in there that thinks that it's tenable to argue that 'Epstein Island was taken seriously by mainstream media' is a "comprehensive and bold" claim...

a) "take X seriously" is not a True/False binary" - would you be willing to discuss this aspect and the significance of it to the topic?

b) considering (a), have you not made broad claims about the quality/intent of journalism organizations?

c) arguing a point is fine, asserting it as a fact (or in the form of a fact without acknowledging it as an opinion) is something else, and the acceptability of this behavior seems to vary depending on the topic.

> ...that no amount of articles which report on Epstein Island in detail in a serious tone could possible prove...

I propose: In human communication, there is a serious problem (in addition to many others, like dodging questions) with a delta between what is actually said, what is interpreted by the other party, and the willingness of all parties to acknowledge that this phenomenon is in play. (Like in this case: I made no such claim.)

Do you think there is any merit to this proposal?

> ...whereas assertions that normies run on delusions of omniscience is just something you know ... I'm a bit less impressed.

I am unimpressed (but not surprised in the slightest) that you say "is" "just something you know", immediately after me saying "Omniscience isn't required to tell when a human is running on heuristics, at least under certain scenarios (claims of knowledge that require omniscience, for example)."

> Can't speak for other normies....

Why not? You know what employees of journalism institutions do, do you not have the same ability with normies?

> (I'll leave that to you)...

Which I've done only in a certain way, and only to a certain degree.

> ...but personally I don't laugh at conspiracy theorists because they "care", I laugh at them because they make mind-numbingly stupid arguments.

Many of them do indeed, but what stupid arguments have I made? And do you believe that the fact that some conspiracy theorists make make mind-numbingly stupid arguments has any bearing on the truth value of the point of contention between the two of us? (Or, perhaps the comment was more for rhetorical effect, or simply an innate reaction.)

I think this (and related topics) has substantial relevance here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_and_indirect_realism

Any thoughts on that?
Taiwan also serves the role as an unsinkable battleship right next door to Chinas mainland. Its military value extends far beyond its chip production capabilities in order for the US to check Chinas influence in SEA region.
I want to mention that the person you reply to didn't seem to write it as a judgment of one's moral fortitude but just as an observation; I've observed the same in myself while acknowledging that it was indeed a tradeoff for having to live in a system built to push us towards making such tradeoffs (even more so in the US than where I live).

I'm now in the "dreamer" mode (I switch back and forth every few years, depending on circumstance & financial situation) and am enjoying running my own company despite paying myself 60% of what I used to earn (a few years ago, so would have probably be even a bigger difference today) and having a lot more stress as a business owner that has to worry about finances and payroll etc.

But I hope my career is still mostly ahead of me (I'm 39 years old) and fully expect at some point for the pendulum to swing back to "selling out" when the situation changes (and then maybe back again when it changes again!).

I actually know people in our profession (working actively as individual contributors) that still do very "in the trenches" development work in their 60s and enjoy what they're doing (and are very much in demand). I think even when accounting for agism if you're good and keep active/up to date/learning you can work as a developer your entire career.
To quote the article:

> Bankman-Fried has decided to “confuse, evade, distort.”

Even if you believe he's smart enough to build a massive exchange that takes in billions of dollars of customer money but is too incompetent to institute the most basic safeguards that seems fraudulent (and criminally negligent) to me.

Also, all the "incompetence" seemed to benefit him and FTX senior leadership. Funny how things shake out like that sometimes...
‘He tried to f*** me. He’s crazy. He can’t beat me,’ Trump says of Kanye West
Just read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. There's a beautiful metanarrative in there about first the "thought leaders" and then eventually the artists, and then eventually the media declining as they grovel and collectively are unwilling to check each other basically in the name of political correctness(I won't spoil it beyond that, great book).
"A society gets the military it deserves" -TR Fehrenbach, This Kind of War. The same is true of the media. I agree with what you said on the Economist. Probably 4-6 years ago, I saw the same thing happen with the Atlantic. Very sad. I use HN because it pulls from so many sources. Ill still enjoy stuff from the Econ here and there. 2 pieces of advice: Diversify your sources, and second, develop a system of personal morality. Too few people in our society have one of those... which means too few people who are philosophers have one, and therefore too few artists, and too few journalists. And eventually, people like you and me can recognize that not only is the bar low.... someone stole the bar and is chasing the contestants around with it beating them at random. Cheers.
Maybe the point was that they should have meant something by it. We're talking about death and misery on an immense scale, and certainly many of the people reading any comment here will have been affected, will be sitting alone reading this when they otherwise wouldn't. Is it so awful to ask people to consider that, to weigh their words carefully, given this context?
Sure, whatever. That isn't the point.
The tweets/second calculation seems to ignore the existence of bots (the permitted kind).

The number is derived solely from the MAU/DAU number, but bots are not counted there. One active user may be running several bots that automatically post content on a schedule or as replies to keywords.

I'm not sure how to estimate the number of bots, but by their nature they can produce a lot more tweets than a person.
Yes, that was a pretty outlandish suggestion.
The Spanish designer in Dieter Rams's shadow
Source code of the formula generator is at https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/pull/345 (there's a docker image). Shout out to Alex Hall for getting this rolling.

TLDR: Spreadsheets are the original low-code platform, but that little bit of code is still daunting. But for a spreadsheet with (1) formulas in a language with lots of training data (Python) and (2) an explicit relational structure that can be fed into a prompt, current large language models already look up to the job of taking care of the coding.
Wake me up when we apply this standard to Apple or Google or Amazon
Here is one more: internal web apps.

At one previous job, that supported vehicle registration for county clerks, there were enough situations where multiple users would "work" on the same vehicle registration that we had to let users know if some other user updated that particular record - rather than fail/error if that user presses submit "too late".
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I'm from Arizona and have thus wondered this and researched the perceived water dilemma myself. Fabs do need a considerable injection of water to start, but their systems are so advanced and their logistics so efficient that they end up reusing so much of it over time. Couple this with the fact that Arizona also has a great infrastructure already in place for water reuse and conservation. When Arizona had only 700,000 people in the 1950s, they used more water than they do now for 7,100,000 people. And it's still in the top 3 fastest growing states in the US (both by new relative to existing population, but also by total incoming population volume). Models also indicate that the once-in-a-century drought is coming to an end in the next few years, with huge rainfall amounts the last two years in the state.

There was a great ArsTechnica article and subsequent comment section where many of the water questions are addressed: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/why-do-chip-makers-k...
Nice little app using the Rembg Python package. Nice to get full res and not have to pay.
And it's reproducible since the entire system is built with it. Ansible is brittle as hell.
Funny that the monopolies you mention are all highly regulated industries with government-granted monopolies.
You could have two engines: a strong engine and a weak engine. If the weak engine suggests a move then it's allowed. But if the strong engines suggests a different move than it's forbidden.
Oh please. Any direct US involvement was long after the movement was well underway. The Ukrainians picked who should run the country (then and since), and the fact that they picked somebody who the US could work with is testament who they want to align with. Any subsequent elections, as well as who Ukrainians are literally fighting now, is only more validation that the maidan revolution was organic.
>That's because you're a right wing troll, no?

I am an independent libertarian that strongly believes in free expression, beyond the idea that only governments can censor people.

>>speech boosted above the free variety to make up for the lost ad spend

I think the reduced ad spend is temporary and in some ways unrelated to Musk whom they have used as an excuse to virtue signal for something they were already going to do in the first place

Also I think the plans are to expand twitters revenue model beyond Blue and ads so it will be more interesting what Elon plans to expand twitter into
It's more a story of, you have to do some hackery patchelf business, but creating a Nix derivation helps you do just that.

The unfortunate part is that creating a Nix derivation is no more approachable than the patchelf hackery was in the first place.
I love seeing more Industrial grade (fanless) devices like this. Not only do they make for great (overkill) gateways, I'm a huge fan of the mobile/car-PC/Amateur Radio/war-driving/etc. applications or possibilities.
Or, to be blunt, they tried to stick with non-fiction.

People asking for estimates that fit their agenda is quite predictable, but those estimates aren't very useful. Anyway, your point stays, ignoring the huge amount of estimates produced, and asking for them later is quite a bad posture.
I think we mostly agree, which is why I said:

> If you're uncomfortable with calling them bad people, then call them bad parents.
Each level also has a logarithmically increasing number of "fantasy" meta games stacked on top, don't forget to take those into account: https://alexshroyer.com/posts/2022-04-30-Fantasy-Fantasy-Foo...
> The fact that the whole tech world is dependent on chips produced in Hsinchu is a huge advantage for the safety of Taiwan.

But if they're entirely dependent on the US for defense in case of PRC invasion, is that healthy for the country?
Don't trouble yourself. We'll handle revoking your certs for you... ALL of them.
Looks interesting. Based on prior experience, here are some concerns people will bring up with this approach:

1. Spectre. You may have to assume the plugin code can read anything in the address space including any secrets like passwords, keys, file contents etc. If the plugin can't communicate with the outside world this may not be a problem.

2. When you say WASM has a "sandboxing architecture", this is only partially true. It's quite easy to define a simple language that doesn't provide any useful IO APIs and then claim it's sandboxed - that's practically the default state of a new language that's being interpreted. The problems start when you begin offering actual features exposed to the sandboxed code. The app will have to offer APIs to the code being run by the WASM engine and those APIs can/will contain holes through which sandboxed code can escape. If you look at the history of sandboxing, most sandbox escapes were due to bugs in the higher privileged code exposed to sandboxed code so it could be useful, but you can't help devs with that.

3. WASM is mostly meant for low level languages (C, C++, Rust etc). Not many devs want to write plugins in such low level languages these days, they will often want to be using high level languages. Even game engines are like that: "plugin" code is often written in C#, Lua, Blueprint, etc. This is especially true because WASM doesn't try to solve the API typing/object interop problem (as far as I know?), which is why your example APIs are all C ABI style APIs - the world moved on from those a long time ago. You'll probably end up needing something like COM as otherwise the APIs the host app can expose will be so limited and require so much boilerplate that the plugin extension points will just be kind of trivial.
This is pretty light on details, an overview adapted from a book but when I read about these people I believe they are responding to two phenomena:

1. An attention economy where you must get more and more extreme in order to get anyone to pay any attention to you

2. Frustration among the ruling class (whose attention and money they badly desire) over people, notably their inability to follow their edicts, and the environmental impacts of this.

The 2nd is a dangerous thing in my opinion, as individualism and humanism is falling out of fashion among the ruling class and you get outright admiration of collectivist societies like China's where the individual is not a roadblock for their goals.
It's only way when you know how. It's quite difficult to learn.
My experience is that the higher you go, the less rules and objectivity exists. You get paid more because you have to navigate this. An e.g. Developer just has to work on the backlog, there might be technical challenges but the requirement is obvious.

Once you get to Exec level, do we hire more to produce more work? Close a department because it's losing money now (but might not in the future)? Do we stick with our current market that we have most of or go after a new one that is untapped but less familiar.

All of this with the situation/world/people changing all the time. People can call it a shit show but the truth is that it's hard. It's hard to put relative values on things to help make decisions. Ultimately, it usually takes a step of faith and the ability to execute well to increase your chances of making your decision work. You also need to balance the need to stick with something and make it work with accepting it was a bad idea and canning it.

I suspect in the very large corporations, it probably gets very surreal because 10 levels of management make the execs completely disconnected from reality so they can make it look like they are making decisions without really knowing what is going on (and most of those might never happen because they take too long to fall down the soil pipe!).
I trust that these huge companies have done the market research and have came up with the names based on that. The people want items with names of familiar foods.
‘It's all bullshit’: Democrats unload on the crypto industry while hearings loom
I liked when it was Ethereal and someone in the hall at Defcon bragged they were gonna zero day the feds for literally sniffing around without a warrant after asking if I was one… apparently every once in a while they’d spit out malware laden packets to screw with them.

(I said no I’m just an angry bald man carrying around an Eee PC but I get why you think that.)
the main problem with tables (besides render speed) is that it's very hard to prevent them being stretched wide by long contiguous words (like aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...) and images, and the usual ways to prevent those things don't work right in them. also there's no css rules for rowspan/colspan
“When Everything Is Important and Nothing Is Getting Done” -> https://sharedphysics.com/everything-is-important/

Traditional prioritization is a broken process for most people.
Bikes are not dangerous (unless you're talking about e-bikes with beefy frames and tires), if you get hit by a bike as a pedestrian you're probably only getting bruised.

Cars are absolute murder machines.
Has anyone shown actual data that proves Twitter has dropped the ball on this front, despite all the raging commentary about how many people have been let go or left?
GPT and the Linda Problem
Congrats on the launch! Just yesterday I was pondering if I could do something like this for a saas I’m working on: I’d like to offer users the ability to extend their dashboard in certain ways (a la WP/Shopify plugins), but those ways require extending the ui AND the server code.

Extism seems like a great fit for this, I’ll definitely be checking it out :)
Wouldn't they already be pwned in that case?
It's quite a funny example of corporate culture running headlong into geek culture, because in this case geek culture has the upper hand. I feel that in other circumstances, the geeks trying to get a straight answer would be labelled "difficult" and routed around.
I'm seeing some rather naïve explanations here like it incentivizes spending and encourages economic growth.

There's absolutely no need to artificially incentivize spending. Humans naturally require and desire goods and services. Allowing people to store their economic energy without risk of devaluation would actually help bring people out of poverty. Inflating the money supply incentivizes high time preference behavior like excessive spending and borrowing. This leads to boom and bust cycles, and an increasingly growing wealth gap.

All inflation does in terms of growth is increase the nominal value of things in the economy. It does not encourage the growth of real wealth. The increase of wealth we experienced is due to the markets functioning despite an inflationary monetary policy and excessive regulation.

The real reason why the government is in favor of a "slightly inflationary" monetary policy is because they're incentivized to do so. They can spend it before price adjustments due to the new inflows of cash can happen in the wider economy. Its essentially a hidden tax. Governments, central banks, and their political/economic allies can benefit from this effect at the expense of everyone else in the economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon#Monetary_the...
If you deal with strings in Python 3 it kinda forces this distinction on you and I think is right to do so. It makes you painfully aware when you're assuming the world is utf-8.
We are going to eugenics them. You can already see the foundations of it in the "no one wants to work anymore" campaign, the immediate and intense denial of long covid as even a thing, the absolute refusal to consider or weigh long-term effects in covid policies, things like MAID in canada, the increasingly aggressive propaganda campaign against the homeless.

For people with long covid we're going to deny it's real, deny healthcare, blame them for their financial consequences, give no support, then offer suicide.
Never go in against a Sicillian!
"many" being gamblers or site operators ;)
The estimation for a video's average size seems nuts too

> 1% of tweets contain videos of about 100MB each

I can't imagine the average video on twitter is taking up 100MB of storage.
As others have said, the term "software" is confusing. Application or software product seem more apt.

The other small point I'd raise: there's mention that due to the sandboxing of WASM it's "safe" to run untrusted code. Maybe I've misunderstood. To me that seems true in so far as the untrusted code cannot break out and can only do actions the hosting app decides to allow, but this isn't much consolation if the app allows actions that can be subverted.

For instance, if the app allows control over saving a file, untrusted code only gets to handle that within the rails the app sets but that still means dodgy code could fill up a hard drive by saving over and over, or it could possibly save over important files.
The reason people like me don't get bullied is because I learned (and was taught) very early on to stand up for myself.

I once had a teacher make me stand outside in the hall behind the coats in the coat rack (ALL DAY), don't tell me I know nothing about bullies.
"Build the wall" wasn't about high-skilled visa-having and tax-paying tech workers. Separate issue.

Nobody's really campaigned on "the H1B system should be a byzantine nightmare" but somehow that's what we got.
> find the wikipedia article of your site of interest and bookmark it as a source of always up to date urls.

I don't recommend relying on Wikipedia as a source of up-to-date anything.
If you had the option to sideload apps, Facebook might have pressured you to do that (and leave them free from Apple’s oversight) or lose your friends. Because you can’t, Apple was able to have privacy controls imposed upon them kicking and screaming.

You may argue this argument is wrong, but it’s not like it is totally incomprehensible.