skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would always need a central authority to reconcile the state of the physical world with the digital ledger. At that point what is the blockchain for? Or, what does the network look like that "runs" the blockchain? Surely there isn't any mining or proof of work, because there's no internal token to produce this way; the value is all external.

And you cant trust random people to create the token or to reconcile (lie) about the physical/digital correspondence. Entangling digital with physical seems to devolve to just a database with a trusted authority administering it. I don't see any other way.
There's a flagged sibling comment here that I think should be the most upvoted one. The other replies trying to clear up the confusion are also downvoted. What's going on? Why are generic flame wars upvoted instead?
I heard they used Signal, which can have disappearing messages
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945863
Agreed. The amount of ADHD propaganda posted here is alarming.
How can they train a dataset knowing that their training participants were also telling clinicians what they want to hear rather than how they were truly feeling? In any event the truth is unknowable, so it is wrong to assert it with authority.
I think his major contribution at SpaceX was a the vision. And that the engineers could work on things knowing that the rocket may blow up in testing, and that was not only OK but also promoted as an example of success by the company CEO. Compare that to the DC-X which, while a 1/4 scale demonstrator, had the project canceled due to a fiery explosion due to a failed landing leg.

Also, I recall reading at the time that he took credit for coming up with the idea to use stainless steel on Starship. Stainless steel would normally not be considered for a rocket due to expense, but with re-usability that argument goes away. And it gets tougher at cryogenic temperatures. Now if he was actually the one that sprung that idea on the engineers and no one else thought of it, that is a question I'd like to see answered. Or did he just approve of the plan when it was brought up among a list of possibilities?
"That’s because they had to use 500 MJ of energy into the lasers to deliver 1.8 MJ to the target – so even though they got 2.5 MJ out, it’s still far less than the energy they needed for the lasers in the first place. In other words, the energy output (largely heat energy) was still only 0.5% of the input."
I think most criminals are dumb. Quick google search shows average IQ of a criminal is 85.
Twin and family studies reveal that it is genetic but don't reveal how genes cause it or which ones are involved.
The statistics you're not citing are from history. It could be that in the past it has been majorly under-diagnosed.
I’m quite sympathetic to that line of thinking. Your language is suggestive of an interview on Lex Fridman’s podcast/am guessing you’ve listened to it. Nietzche also basically recognized this over a century ago, though he put it in different terms/couldn’t articulate in as much mathematical detail as evolutionary game theorists allegedly can.

That’s actually precisely why I think evolutionarily adapted embodied perceptual systems need to be a part of any true knowledge: reality is so incredibly complex that we don’t know what our perception is or is not doing. We just know it’s doing something reality based because we exist. Perceptual models don’t need to correspond with reality like actual embodied perception (and corresponding cognition)

I don’t buy the argument that the correspondence with objective reality in evolved perceptual systems is zero as is claimed in that interview, simply because we exist. I think that conclusion is an artifact of precisely the same kind of over abstraction and non-correspondence that invalidates language models as knowledge systems. Our existence means our perception corresponds with at least some kind of compatibility with and ability to navigate through reality.

A system which does not have that embodied evolutionary history with millennia of required correspondence with reality, simplified or not, does not have all of the essential embedded context and understanding of complexity that goes into our sense making. Science is about discovering more of that hidden context, and perhaps these language models can help identify patterns we haven’t seen yet that do in fact correspond with reality. But the model can’t test it’s own correspondence.
> I'd have thought for most B2C sales you'd hold inventory yourself (that's always been one thing putting me off starting an online shop).

Not sure if this is what you're talking about, but drop shipping (you're a proxy store) and Print-On-Demand (you sell t-shirts but they're made and shipped to the customer by the order from a different company - again you're just a proxy) are very popular.

There's less margin but you remove all of the cost/risk of logistics and inventory
If you were making tech to track people, how would you incentivize people to think outside the box and come up with ways to circumnavigate your tech?

You run a competition and test your tech against the entries.

When your tech fails, know what you need to fix.
You can find the NY Times clip here:

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-poca...
Once you get some off Earth mining going, the mass requirements should hopefully get manageable for most places.
It is a story but not a big story. A private company did some very stupid things and made some bad and arbitrary moderation decisions years ago. Hilariously, the backdrop of the story is the same private company under new ownership also doing different very stupid things and making different bad and arbitrary moderation decisions. It's just not very surprising at this point that Twitter both was and is a very poorly run company.
Ok, what about an air raid siren? Someone speaking to you on the subway? A letter from the government about an upcoming election? A road sign warning of closures? Someone with a megaphone directing traffic?
He made dark money donations to Republicans according to him as well. We don't know the scale of those dark money donations, which is certainly convenient for those involved. Your last line betrays the issues with the post you've made.
It's an MSI GE66, about a year old. Great laptop for graphics and dev work, although the fan is nasty under heavy load.

> Since you've had difficulty troubleshooting Windows drivers

Apologies, I was unclear here. I have (almost) zero driver trouble under Windows. I just have Microsoft troubles. I'm afraid of switching those for driver troubles under Linux.

I do have a good amount of experience with Linux so it's not that I'm afraid I won't be able to handle it. I'm afraid it'll become a massive time sink.
For those who don’t know, Apple takes a 30% cut from app sales. Google takes a bit less.

But most of the time, if an app has a website you can purchase a subscription from there but cheaper.

This kind of price difference is pretty standard but when more consumers catch on to the fact you can pay less by via a different channel, I think more of them will do that. Cuts like 30% will eventually come back to bite Apple in the coming years as consumers become more savvy for a better deal.
This seems strange, how is that represented in the DOM, which is strictly a tree?
Hard time walking sideways through doorways
> Immigrants make their new country more like their home country

This is a more refined concern than "While slowly turning the country into Bangladesh."

There's no reason to believe that Bangladesh will dominate the influx.

We're talking changes in immigration policy to make up for a domestic population decline. It would be naive to think that the only change would be "Let's just take more people without constraints." The US has in the past put restrictions on who can immigrate, and continues to have restrictions (whatever moral judgement is attached to them is left for the reader). You can restrict the countries they come from. You can restrict the education levels. You can restrict the number entering. You can restrict how long they need to be here before they can vote. And so on.

Moreover, maintaining the current US culture is not entirely desirable. It has its good points and its bad points, but in general, a lack of change tends to become a regression rather than improvement. Many of my friends from different countries emigrated to Canada in their teens or early twenties, and I visit the country often. It's clearly benefited from the mix of cultures that came in. The US really doesn't deserve the image of a "melting pot". Do they occasionally have problems related to the various cultures that come in? Sure. Is Canada still better off? Definitely.

Also, more people coming from Bangladesh can't be all bad. At the very least it will supply interesting folks on HN to have discussions with ;-)
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”

― Theodore Kaczynski
Seems like he has been admitting this constantly, don't think this is a new scoop.
So one child which might have died is the same as nuking NYC? (and 99% it’s custody dispute, no harm done)
And they mention this right in the press release. Quote:

“The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory experiment shows that scientists can get more energy out than put in by the laser itself. This is great progress indeed, but still more is needed: first we need to get much more out that is put in so to account for losses in generating the laser light etc (although the technology for creating efficient lasers has also leapt forward in recent years). Secondly, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could in principle produce this sort of result about once a day – a fusion power plant would need to do it ten times per second. However, the important takeaway point is that the basic science is now clearly well understood, and this should spur further investment. It is encouraging to see that the private sector is starting to wake up to the possibilities, although still long term, of these important emerging technologies.”

While this spins it in an optimistic way, the challenges to make this work are significant. The laser is quite inefficient, so the gain must be much much larger before you have net energy gain. To scale it up to implode a capsule tens of times a second rather than a few times a day, is in the order of 100.000 times more frequent than today.Thus this is a long way from commercial production.
Protests and hunger strike take place at Apple’s HQ
More accurately, this doesn't happen except in "egregious" cases. Otherwise, if the judicial system tried to prosecute people for all lies under oath, they wouldn't have time for anything else.

Seriously. Ask someone who works as a judge or a lawyer.
I play SC2 and watch from time to time. I don't see how you can claim there are longer term strategies at work when the average game lasts about 6 minutes, and the first minute or two of the game are basically "filler". I think one reason SC2 is kind of boring to watch is because you get maybe 1-2 minutes of actually interesting game play, and the rest of the 4-5 minutes is just repetitive.
> Imagine how frustrated you’d be if every now and then, an application simply refused to add items to your cart, navigate to a certain page, or charge your credit card. The truth is, these minor refusals happen surprisingly often, but users never know because of systems dedicated to intercepting those errors and running the erroneous code again.

I want to live in the world this guy is from.
I'll save this and add to list for HN post in 2040.
Links mentioning Mastodon flagged as sensitive on Twitter?
To be fair, CZ was born in China and may have some ties to the Chinese government. He really is Canadian, though.
> "Just write a list, how hard is that?"

1. Remember to keep a list

2. Remember to update the list

3. Remember to check the list

4. Start a new list because I can't remember if / why I care about anything on the old list

(Personally, I've never started a list but I can imagine how it would go.)
> I don't expect too many tough questions.

Wanna bet? He's super unpopular across the aisle and politicians are quick to turn on donors if they are dead in the water.
T‑Mobile Publishes 2022 Report on State of Fixed Wireless
Rocket engines are actually extraordinarily efficient. They're the most efficient heat engines we have. More than 90% of the thermal energy produced in the thrust chamber is converted to kinetic energy of the exhaust jet (especially in high expansion ratio engines). The fraction of chemical energy of the propellants of a launch vehicle that ends up in the kinetic energy of the final stage is surprisingly high (well, it was to me, initially.)
How were you able to office an office and bought a house (close by?)?
I am assuming your office is in a big city or near an airport and not directly where you live?
Systems theory ? Cybernetics ? Cliodynamics ??
I don't see that scaling anytime soon, still more than two orders of magnitude away. But never say never.
I'd guess there is a bias-variance tradeoff. If you just want to make a certain kind of image, no doubt a manually labeled and curated dataset can be better. If you want a generic generative model that has learned a wide variety of stuff, scale wins.

I can see LAION playing a similar role to imagenet. The main application of imagenet isn't directly training image recognition models. It's pertaining on diverse data so that a "big" (big in 2016) model can be fine tuned easily on a small dataset, after learning to be a good feature extractor. From that perspective, the label quality (and concerns about bias and whatnot) are almost irrelevant
My mistake, I meant it in more of an 'often-abused mind-altering addictive scheduled drug' connotation.

Not that a drug being scheduled is proof of harm in and of itself, but it seems like many people (particularly on HN for some reason) are in heavy denial that they are addicted to amphetamines and that it maybe isn't such a healthy way to solve behavioral problems. If you're an adult then fine you can make your own decisions, but the fact that people give amphetamines to children because they cant focus in school seems very sick to me.
> Having followed a lot of the SBF discussion since he keeps giving interviews,

The better question is, why is anyone still interviewing him? You're far better off interviewing a terrorist than a conman - as dangerous as the former may be, they aren't going to talk you to death... Whereas the raison d'etre for a confidence man talking to you is so he can sell you a self-serving line of bullshit.

There's literally nothing that SBF says that isn't aimed at the singular purpose of keeping him out of prison. Until he's testifying under oath in a court of law, there's nothing he could say that's worth listening to.

We are generally smart enough to not hand a killer a loaded gun, but can't seem to resist handing a fraud and liar a loudspeaker.
I feel like ADHD is just normal for a huge percentage of people but the people gifted with an abundance of concentration are extremely overrepresented in medicine and management positions.
It's amazing to me that you haven't been prosecuted.

Edit: Some people really failing to see the point here, which is that it's meaningless to suggest someone should be prosecuted without specifying why.
The answer is yes since @ElonJet has half a million followers. The amount of violence committed by serial killers is minuscule compared to the total amount of violence in the world, yet people care a lot about serial killers. And yes, flying private jets is comparable to violence.
Author of the article: Volodymyr Agafonkin, Ukrainian developer, creator of the LeafletJS and engineer at the Mapbox.

Here is his continuous thread on Twitter:[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/mourner/status/1598710014956273669
At the top of Reddit is also this post:

https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/zjutsq/elon_musk_go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdBga225HBk

Which seems to be an account being banned for featuring a video and commentary of Elon being booed on stage with Dave Chapelle.
Yeah, there's been tremendous advances, but many of them aren't as "in your face" as older ones would have been. The A380 would be up there, but that's even on its way out already.
How noticeably slower is running 128GB DDR5 on AM5? Is it perceptible? I’m building a 7950x rig and am perplexed by the ram. The specs from amd are:

Max Memory Speed
2x1R
DDR5-5200
2x2R
DDR5-5200
4x1R
DDR5-3600
4x2R
DDR5-3600

Does anyone know if cas latency (CL) also drops if using 4 sticks? For example, if I use 4x32GB DDR5 5600 CL36-36-36-89 will it drop to 3600 while maintaining CL36 or will CL also slow to like CL 40?
Huh, that wasn't on my radar at all but it looks great, thanks for the suggestion.
> Our board could pressure us to take certain decisions, but Tim (co-founder) and I are ultimately in control.

Congrats on maintaining board control after two rounds - that's rare. However, you're probably misguided if you think you ultimately have control in all scenarios.

In the vast majority of VC deals, the VC gets veto power over acquisitions and buyout offers, regardless of board control. VC's have a fiduciary duty to their LP's to maximize returns. So, if you find yourself in a situation where you receive an acquisition offer that is clearly sub-optimal for your VC's (albeit life changing for yourself and other team members), you will likely be out of luck.

This, in my opinion, is the largest downside of raising at an inflated valuation (not the commonly quoted reason of making the next round harder to raise).
Definitely not the first eSport. People played Warcraft 3 competitively, not to mention you also had arcade game tournaments like Street Fighter 2 that go back to the 1990s.
And they should be so worried, because of Google's apparent lack of respect for user privacy, which has them using, selling, or handing over data to whatever authorities and 3rd parties at anytime they were asked, feel like it, or could profit. From the history, trusting Google looks to be insanity.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-handed-ove...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/06/27/google...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/17/google-gi...

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/news/google-hand-over-video...
Almost all doxxing consists of collecting a bunch of technically public information in one place. We still discourage it.
If that liquid metal is Lithium that is going to make the design of the reactor pretty simple.
I love substack. You guys have been doing a lot for the info landscape to return to the blogsphere. But I would love you even more if there was dark mode, I want to read in bed! -sincerely a huge fan of your platform
It is the same as in other languages: you do the simplest thing that gets the job done. Loops, particularly C-style "for" loops, often do not count as simple, despite their familiarity: std:: algorithms leave less scope for error.
> Lomborg has specifically advocated for taking urgent action

Lomborg has spent the last 24 years putting roadblocks in the way of taking action, all the while falsely claiming he supports it. This has been covered widely for decades. "While not explicit climate denial, [he] undermines climate action and the fight against the climate crisis." That helps the deniers meet their stated goals, and therefore is indistinguishable from denial by itself. "He attacks renewable energy, notably solar and wind, and other climate solutions while ignoring or downplaying the costs of fossil fuels and the effects of greenhouse gasses- melting ice, sea level rise, droughts, tropical storms, wildfires and other extreme weather events".

https://youtu.be/Ol7GLx4WpAo

If you fall so easily for climate disinformation from the likes of Bjorn Lomborg, then you probably need to work on your critical thinking skills.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/delete-system32
On #4, Coffeezilla got past the smokescreen and got SBF to admit there was "fungibility created during those withdrawals between assets" and that it had always operated this way.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o_jPzBZSIo (~15:30 in)
Decoding Equuleus
> Or I can't read long articles with topics that are important for me but don't tickle one of my interests.

Can't concentrate on boring things - surely that's normal? It feels like they're casting the ADHD net wider and wider and from reading the internet I'm starting to question whether my behavior fits into the ADHD category. And part of me wants it to so that I have a label that explains and excuses me.

But how do you separate it from this boring hyper-specialized world of bullshit jobs? As someone said it's no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society. I love Doug Stanhope's take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKyMvjPJdtM
Flagging is the best option in this situation. I flagged your original post (and upvoted this one). That eventually makes it disappear along with the replies if there is not much traffic.
Apple Notes
There can be a presumption of harm at times.

Child endangerment, for example. You can be arrested for leaving a pistol in a child's crib, even if they don't shoot anyone with it. Causing the potential danger is the crime.
There's a real "it depends" flavor to any answer you'll get. If your feature set could be handled by off-the-shelf Magento with a couple of plugins, then, sure, you probably should have gone that way. But if you have unusual needs -- and Magento's rigidity means it's not hard to hit that wall -- then either you create massive technical debt kitbashing Magento or similar, or you go with one of the high-end headless systems, which are both expensive and still require you to build front- and backend solutions around them.

In turn, depending on your needs and the regulatory regimes you're working under, you may find that you could have saved time and money going with an industrial-grade solution that can seamlessly handle taxes, accounting and revenue recognition, multi-vendor logistics, credit/refunds, reverse logistics, etc. (there's a lot of etc.!), but that could be overkill for your requirements. I've seen SMBs with small digital teams build and run bespoke e-comm solutions handling all their needs (and more effectively than trying to fit a commercial square peg into a round hole), but the more complex and general their use cases, the more trouble they tend to have, especially when they get into multi-stakeholder retail scenarios (e.g., things like splitting a net-90 invoiced order between multiple future dates, vendors and warehouses, and logistics providers, while acting as a subledger that can handle revenue and income recognition properly).
Converting the heat energy to electricity loses an additional 50-70%.
This is where the criminal underground can potentially thrive.

Black-market dollar markets already exist across the developing world, backing it with stablecoins allows these criminals to better operationalize illicit dollarization, rather than keeping massive amounts of risky cash on hand.

The on & off ramps in the West will have to be centralized due to political will and strong rule of law.
He wasn’t raised in China nor does he currently live there, but he was literally born in China and is ethnically Chinese. He doesn’t “look” Chinese, he “is” Chinese.
A good thread over on mastodon on multiple people finding the same thing. https://mastodon.online/@joshuatopolsky/109501217476449536