skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, but Imagenet is sort of a nightmare right now. I get it's a crowd funded and sourced effort, but hopefully at some point some brave soul(s) will step up to archive the data as-is in a very reproducible kind of way. :D :))))
The reason China was able to develop so quickly after Deng Xiaoping was because they didn't do it earlier. The same rapid development happened in Taiwan, HK, and SK decades earlier because they didn't have to deal with Mao and his sycophants who kept throwing wrenches in the gears.

Xi is more in the Mao class of leaders than his predecessors (both are uneducated populists who are not interested in developing strong institutions). I wouldn't count on China continuing to do well until they find a way to smoothly and consistently replace non-totalitarian leaders, which I think is related to free press/speech, as leaders want to set precedents so they aren't persecuted by the next guy.
ChatGPT is still not a meaningful threat because knowledge workers are paid to do things with the knowledge, not merely know things.

As well, there has been zero progress towards eliminating the need for a knowledgeable human participant to converse with the bot. A chat bot will, by definition, always need a human to push the conversation forward and that's the heavy lifting of the whole thing really. I have never seen an example of a chat bot questioning whether the human's query even makes sense let alone dispense constructive advice.

ChatGPT replaces use cases where Google was always a bad fit, not knowledge workers.
If you were going to install Windows ME, you might as well have installed Windows 2000.
Pretty unlikely that we would be able to find a complete DNA of a single species of dinosaur. More likely we would have to patch it together and while we're at it might as well modify it allow them to survive under current conditions. Just speaking hypothetically here but that seems like the more probable scenario.
I'm don't see why the ability to have improved kinetics for trackpad can't be at the driver level, tweakable or override-able by the GUI.
Probably. I think I am going to close all my "crypto" accounts because it is a scam as many of us thought it from the beginning. The only real value of blockchain is immutable history that is a pretty good thing in few cases.
Or beanie caps that use a IR laser to target and blind surveillance cameras like in Doctorow's "Pirate Cinema" novel.
Ordinarily I'd say no that doesn't make sense - their investors are sophisticated and they have teams that dig into this sort of thing all day long. After FTX, I don't think that holds as much water anymore.
I partly think the first animal born from such a process will not be a true representation of the genes it's born from-- that would require a second-generation organism borne from a pregnancy of its own kind.
It'll be interesting to see if anything blows back on binance here. If politicians see CZ as having blown up the business of one of their big donors, they may be unhappy enough to do something really dumb.
How parag isn’t being prosecuted boggles my mind.
primarily the crypto community (outside of the scam artists, which is an upsettingly large percentage) is working to build trustless and capture resistant forms of value & exchange
There is a neat history of the early syntax of conditional expressions here https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-el... titled “if-then-else had to be invented”. It seems “else” originated in Algol 60 as a hasty translation from German. The CPL project started in the early 1960s when it was not yet certain that Algol-style block structure and keywords would become the common basis of most programming languages.
They did not "forget to hire an accountant". They took customer funds and did whatever they wanted with it. Just look at that hilarious "balance sheet" that was leaked, it's not even on the same planet as a balance sheet of an exchange.

It worked until the funds ran out.

In a sense this is worse than a pyramid scheme because in a pyramid scheme at least a good portion of the "profits" is actually paid out. Here the funds went partially to fuck-knows-who, partially were lost in trading.
I used to find them completely meaningless, until I saw a piece of writing advice about making realistic characters from the other side of the political spectrum. The advice was,
"If you're right-wing, you want the state to be a dad. If you're left-wing, you want the state to be a mom".

Which is a weird take the first time you hear it, but I've yet to find even one example of a policy position that doesn't fit this filter. And of course, it leaves plenty of room for those of us who don't think the state should be a parent without invalidating the polarity itself.
Congress should demand in-person testimony
No, that isn't a realistic option. My grandparent's place over in Germany is a huge 3 story place heated by a hot water boiler system and plenty of rooms. There's absolutely no way that you can heat that place with electric heaters in every room without blowing fuses constantly, and if you switch over to an electric boiler, there's a good chance the connection to the electrical grid is inadequate as it was installed 70+ years ago when life was very different. Europe is not like north American as older housing stock is not easily retrofitted without significant costs being incurred. Plus there are plenty of high density buildings as land is precious and expensive, so we're not talking about 1 story bungalows being the norm. This is what happens when towns have already existed in place for centuries.
Mildly off-topic, but I'm somewhat tired of the reuse of names for different software. Originally, I was confused by this post and why Substack would be using Norton Ghost. There's also the Android post-explotation framework and ImmersionRC's Ghost radio control protocol.
The definition of fire is kind of not precise, Humans are on fire (burning calories with oxygen) well nearly everything in contact with oxygen is "on traditional fire", burning alcohol is invisible and no smoke, and the sun does not need oxygen (fusion), so you can say everything that "decays" is on "fire"....even your mixtape.
> Sweeney, a first-year student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says he uses publicly available transponder data from Musk’s private plane to track its location.

I am sympathetic to the idea that there's an overlap between "publicly available" and "privacy violating". Not for the flight data of the richest man in the world's private jet, though.
As soon as you have a few of their IPs, look them up on ipinfo.io/1.2.3.4 and you'll find they probably belong to a handful of hosting firms. You can get each firm's entire IP list on that page and add all of those CIDRs to your block list. Saves you needing to make 30K web requests.

In most countries in the western world, there are 3-4 major ISPs and this is where 99% of your legit traffic comes from. Regular people don't browse the web proxying via hosting centres as Cloudflare will treat them with suspicion on all the websites they protect.
Police in China arrest gang who laundered $1.7B via crypto
Geoff Dyer: The essayist on not having a career
What's the point in generating value if it's all being captured by the capital holding class?
No facists are something entirely else. Facist Germany/Italy/Japan did worse things by multiple magnitutes
Have you read Ray Kurzweil's how to create a mind? His definition of our mind is something similar along the lines. Pattern matching/ predictions are all that we do, according to him. I didn't think we'd come so far when I read it a few years ago. Agi seems like a real possibility now and I think I should consider developing some skills besides being able to write php.
Are millionaires okay?
What’s the cutoff?
Its also a red herring. The reason costs went down is that this industry jumped on the same bandwagon as moore's law. Reducing the part count of items (compared to their 1950/60s counterparts) and handling a lot of tasks in a single piece of silicon that itself has been going down to 0 in cost is what really enabled the price of all this electronic stuff to become so cheap.

Lets compare a 1960s TV to a 2022 TV for example. In the 1950s you had the power electronics, the control circuitry for the tube, the tube, the audio circuitry, tuning, and possibly some control stuff (primitive OSD whether visible or not).

Now in 2022 you have the LCD panel which follows moore's law to an extent, a simple switch mode power supply to drive the TV(single chip solution also follows moore's law to an extent) and a single chip solution to handle audio, tuning, OSD and any special value add such as apps(also follows moore's law).

We should really exclude this category from the cost baskets as it is only serving to mislead.
I came to the comments to see if anybody did understand it. (I know I didn't).
The idea I want to work on now is a micro-fintech but I've been busy with work. Honestly won't mind a partner!
Boorus [0] contain millions of images, manually labeled to a pretty high quality. Notably defusion models trained on booru datasets have had good success.

This is not the only example of well curated image-tag pairs, especially in artistic circles. It's just that most of them are not CC.

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/booru
> The entire system requirements of a windows 2k PC were 64M of ram,

It was 128MB (and XP doubled that. Which was on of the reasons I abandoned Windows XP for Linux)

> and yes it could display a background picture on a HD+ level display and pretty much do everything that is possible on a modern PC that your average user is doing.

Very very very few people had HD displays back then. I had a 19” display that could do 1024×768 and I was the envy of a few of my friends. Higher resolutions came a little later.

Also remember that icons were 8bit and 64x64 pixels. Desktops didn’t support widgets (unless you turned on ActiveDesktop but that ran like crap on even powerful machines of that era) and so on and so forth.

And that’s just the desktop. Everything was less secure back then. Telnet and rcp were still the norm. SSLv3 was still common. Keys were a lower bit length. There wasn’t as much bounds checks or any of the other stuff that have made our platforms more secure.

Sure there’s a lot of waste too. Like writing applications in browser sandboxes rather than native code. But a lot of the reason systems back then were leaner was because they needed to be rather than because modern systems are wasteful. It’s like the whole Y2K problem: why store a the year as two digits? Because memory was constrained and now it isn’t.

Source: was a software developer for Windows 2000, now I write software for Linux.
Could this have happened on Graphene/Calyx/Lineage/Divest?
What you really want for avoiding security cameras is more high-tech solution (and I know I might be crossing into science-fiction territory here):

A device that looks like forehead flashlight, but actually has a camera and some computer vision AI (or some other way of detecting security cameras), and a laser beam that it can use to blind those cameras.

Or you need something like this:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/watch-invisibility-cloak-milit...
What next for No next Next?
First off: weird take, and one that would be unlikely to hold up. But secondly: what is that supposed to matter, anyway? That is, why are you litigating the definition of the word "compiled"? No finding, whether for or against your argument, would have any bearing on questions about compliance with the terms of the MIT license, so the word's definition and its significance is null. It's a total red herring and a distraction to bring up in any discussion on the topic.
It already did, H1-B is how it started. Now it's offshore contractors.
Yes I didn't make any claims about this fact.

My post was in response to the prior poster's claim that US exceptionalism here doesn't have a clear rationale, and that one might expect some sort of "reversion to the mean" where "mean" there is the performance of broad equity markets in other countries.

In my post, I'm saying that one shouldn't expect that broad markets indices to grow comparably in other countries, and the fact that they don't says little about how well they do/should/will perform in the US.
> One might think the B-52H Stratofortress, sixty years old and counting, would be the most expensive bomber to fly, but the GAO states it only costs $88,354 an hour.

So we're looking at only a cool $135 million.
Here's a good overview: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n02/james-lasdun/fishing...
Rents.

/s (maybe?)
What on earth does this have to do with the parent post? Please enlighten me.
…which is exactly what this is?
I got diagnosed and medicated, significantly improved my ability to work, got promoted way past what I ever would have expected
... and still feel like a fraud who doesn't really have ADHD and who will get caught out any minute.

But I'm still glad I sought help, even if it didn't fix the underlying self-doubt and self-derision.
Oh, I love these. I will use some of them. Many thanks!
Smart people have been saying this from the very beginning but everyone wanted to drink the koolaid and believe.

My friend first started singing Elon's praise while watching the automated battery replacement "demonstration" vaporware, while at the same time getting suckered in by an MLM.
From the ending of https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2008/march/pilo...

> Before he passed away in 1978, Timm reminisced about his flying days and told his sons that he longed to locate 72B. His father’s wish eventually prompted Timm’s second son, Steve, to launch a focused effort to find and return N9172B to Las Vegas. He found it on a farm in Carrot River, Saskatchewan, Canada. He brought it back to Las Vegas in 1988. In 1992 the McCarran Aviation Heritage Museum (now the Howard W. Cannon Aviation Museum) obtained 72B for a permanent exhibit. It’s been restored to its pre-flight condition.

> Today, N9172B is back in Las Vegas. The 1958 Cessna 172 that holds the world endurance flight record hangs from the ceiling of the baggage claim area at McCarran International Airport. Next time you fly in to Las Vegas, take a minute to look up at one of the most prosaic record-setting airplanes in the world. And imagine what it must have been like to spend more than two months living in a Cessna 172.
> It’s also not China where police routinely murders random people on the streets with impunity.

Tiananmen Square?
United Flight 232
> Twitter does not have separate development, test, staging, and production environments.

It's legitimately difficult to imagine any software architecture running smoothly like this, much less a highly successful product with hundreds of engineers working on it...

It's necessarily criminal, but it seems everyone's suspicions about Twitter's codebase is being proven right in media res.
Same, but it also reminds me of another thing: I think it was the Solaris format(1M) utility; instead of the usual “y/n” question before performing a destructive action it said something like “will proceed with overwriting XXX in 15 seconds; press ^C to abort”.
> it is hard to know when to try to get help, or whether you are just seeing what you want to see and looking for an excuse

And that's why you see a professional. If you don't, you'll never know. It's hard, it's embarrassing, and ultimately, it can be redeeming to know that no, you're not just lazy.
Finally gave the build a go and really enjoyed playing around with it! Hope to contribute back someday. Kudos for all the progress.
It's good to feel like I'm a part of something larger than myself.
So you think from a business perspective Audible should also start streaming music?
I suspect this is survivorship bias: you're more likely to catch criminals who have bad opsec.
I rather strongly disagree when it comes to programming. Programming is as much communication between humans and domain modeling as it is instructing a computer to do something. Shortening names seems to be a cultural holdover when name length had some real effect or constraint, and now there’s highly subjective and debatable constraints like being shorter, faster to type, length symmetry, etc.

Mathematics uses symbols because there is usually no specific context for an abstract concept, and on other cases it relies on convention to provide context. Shorter names are additionally a side due to the density of information and the ability to write complex symbols on a chalkboard and in LaTeX. The symbols are the meaning and not some shortened version of it.
judging by past answers given, no. this is just so you can develop on serenity using zig, but anything in-tree needs to be C++ (or Jakt once that's ready)
It is a completely fabricated conspiracy theory.
Same. Doing any of these (exercise, trying to find a job that's intrinsically more motivating, etc.) would somehow work, for a limited time, but not consistently. And if I stopped doing any of them, I'd go back to exactly where I was before. Dealing with procrastination and self-hate related to it had been a constant for me for the past 20 years.

I consulted a therapist for many months (which I also hoped would help with this) and she confirmed that I should seek out medication.

I don't want to promote any specific company, but I had a really good experience with one of the newest online medical startups (check reddit for recommendations). I was able to make an appointment, talk to a doctor twice in two days, and get my prescription and medication within 48 hours of signing up... I'm lucky to be in the US right now (I'm not a citizen, just working here legally). Out of pocket (i.e. without any insurance) it cost me roughly speaking $250 all in all which is extremely reasonable...
Ask HN: Do ivy universities teach students well or do they pick good students?
When I went to college I had teachers that had great reputations but used lectures that they had used for years or didn't even bother to put a lecture together and relied on the teacher's assistant or textbooks to do the teaching. Somere were just terrible teachers. It seemed to me that we could have had the same education at a fraction of the cost somewhere else.

The majority of students could have succeeded in any environment. Are these universities just good at selecting the best students or do they have some power to create great graduates?

What do you think?

Note:

There's a comment below that points out networking as being the magic potion. That's a very strong point.

Whomever is still attending a university, make sure you take advantage of it. :)
Unfortunately, this is not true.

Many non-US engineers were paid salaries in stables or fiat on FTX. These people gained exposure to US stocks and crypto, or just held onto their USD on FTX.

I personally know people who lost their life savings on FTX, even though the majority of their holdings was fiat.
Your ego is getting in the way of seeing the facts friend. Just because it happened before your lifetime doesn’t make it somehow less of an atrocity. US was founded on slavery and genocide. Now we outsource genocide for oil, and do slave labor in our prisons in accordance with the 13th amendment.
Well, how does futurism fit into this statement? After all, it is about the future so eternally theoretical.
> I met someone who claimed they lost money in FTX

> Could have been just table talk -- you can't trust anything you here in that context

I was expecting something more noteworthy. Many people lost money.

Does anyone know if FTX.us users are completely made whole?
My reluctance to engage with the health service has led me to experiment with a few things like exercise, vitamin D and better sleep, which all had positive outcomes even if they didn't fix the problem.

Your description of ritalin is similar to what I found when I took my experiments further and tried modafinil for about 18 months. It was just about effective enough to justify the (legal but awkward) way of obtaining it. Speaking to a doctor would of course be the sensible next step if I wasn't so bloody stubborn.
Thanks for the advice. I will give a go to some of these. p.s. I can't remove the URL as the post is not editable anymore. I'm just waking up... in Australia.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33956300
Irony depends on your priors and expectations.

If you expected this to happen it isn't ironic, just business as usual.
See also "Zero History" by William Gibson (2010) (although the "invisible t-shirt" idea apparently came from Bruce Sterling).
Warren Buffett Lecture – University of Nebraska (2003)
As long as it's a distinctly different product category / market it's not a big deal. You can usually glean the meaning from the context pretty quickly.

If one brand becomes large then the other one's can just have context added like appending "Norton" to Ghost. Or just say "Ghost blog service".
Thanks for mentioning this as I was thinking the same. My SO is a PhD student and she often mentions her pay is greater than a post doc (or she would be taking a pay cut to pursue a post doc)
> At the same time many Americans don’t quite believe non-Americans are proper humans.

I think it's the broad, off-topic, pro-China/anti-US comments, like this that make people feel like it's probably a bot or human equivalent.

If the post was actually a reply or rebuttal to any of the comments content it probably would give that vibe.
Yes, we should make an exception when the government agency that manages the world's largest supply of nuclear weapons and materials vets a claim. Obviously.
Glad to see this article focus on more than distractibility. In my mid twenties I struggled with managing impulsive behavior. I would regularly say inappropriate things in meetings, unable to understand why I said what I said.

After a lot of work in therapy and many different types and dosages of medications, I'm in a better spot. I've turned what was a problem into something I'm proud of.

Through putting my foot in my mouth so many times, I've grown an ability to say the hard, uncomfortable things. Building a lot of empathy and mental processes has helped me be able to approach conversations and situations head on with (some amount of) grace. I'm a better manager because of it.

However, humor is a requirement for working with me, it's a way I've diverted the impulsive thoughts into something less abrasive. I often wish I didn't make so many remarks or jokes but on balance it's not too bad.
Ah! The third type of type!
Meaningless in that the phrase is used almost exclusively in the way you use it, and yet you (and others) aren't able to construct a coherent definition. Regarding your examples, Facebook was a weird choice of authority when viewership/readership are easily researched numbers. I bring this up partially because the only thing that you believe is "media" is news sources but the most popular news sources aren't "mainstream media"? There is clearly something specific you're filtering for but are unwilling to say. Until you do the term means nothing.
>whatsapp/signal

Hint, it's not the application you use but the microphone/speaker itself.
Wasn't Enlightnment the opposite of a lightweight environment. That is, if I remember correctly it included every single visual gimmick, it's only saving grace was the it was coded fairly efficiently.
With all respect, Chang has this exactly backward. TMSC manufacturing 100% of the world's most advanced chips in Taiwan is not "globalization." If anything, it's the opposite. Globalization is about leveling the playing field, so companies can source products & services from countries across the globe. A fab in Arizona is literally advancing globalization.
I think 'Gilead' is the setting of the Handmaid's tale. Threw me for a loop also till I saw the Atwood reference in a reply.
How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI into the Mythical “G-Men”
Naustalgia?
The mod can though, if you email him at hn@ycombinator.com.