skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that makes a lot of sense for fiscal policy, but what about monetary policy? A professor explained it "lower rates make it easier for businesses to get loans, so they can create jobs!" This seems wholly and obviously short-sighted to me. Where does the theory address whether those jobs create anything worthwhile? Inflated valuation of suboptimal or unprofitable business?

These are really elementary questions/conclusions to explore:

Iirc Keynes said you could jumpstart an economy in the short term by paying people to dig ditches and fill them in[0] and watch a local economy pop up to support that 'industry'. What if doing so doesn't help the other primary activities and you just wind up with a ditch-digger economy? You're wasting resources on useless work.

[0]The actual quote is about filling jars with money, burying them in a mine, filling it with garbage and paying people to dig them out. I'm no bitcoiner but I had a chuckle about the guy who hired people to recover his hard drive from a landfill.
> I’ll grant this, but no matter what it’s called, ultimately no group (consumer vs. business) is better or worse off. In such a spiral it’s just the nominal numbers that are changing and not the ‘real’ numbers

In the long-term, yes. In the moment, the experience of rapidly rising prices really sucks. It doesn't occur smoothly or evenly.

> What keeps this from happening, I think, is the presence of competition which would stop both cohorts, workers and businesses, from increasing their prices indefinitely

You are absolutely right. And inadequate competition in many sectors is definitely a contributor to current inflation.
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> As noted, things that make lossy compression more silent make the situation worse, not better.

Ridiculous.
Service Oriented Design Applies to ML Too
Why the Age of American Progress Ended
Scheduling {anything} for release in the 4th quarter.

It isn't going to make it, and it will annoy/discomfit/make life miserable for everyone.
> stor[ies] where MC has inside knowledge just get’s really repetitive after reading a few.

Agreed. The series may start off fun or interesting but the novelty eventually wears off and you're left with a mediocre plot and generic characters. It's as if the creators have never once thought about how their series should end, their primary goal is to keep it going as long as possible.

To be honest it's rare for me to actually complete a series. I'm usually hooked after the first 3 chapters, then 10-30 chapters later and it looks like a literal carbon copy of another series. It's gotten to the point where I stock up chapters for months then I read from where I left off. If I can't remember the vast majority of the plot, then I drop it. No point wasting my time on a forgettable story
During the pandemic I created an online, multiplayer version of the domino-based game, Mexican Train (https://mexicantrain.online). Ads didn't do much, so I switched to donations. It got quite popular during lockdowns. It's leveled off a bit now, but still generates more than beer money through donations every month. People are very generous.
The 1992 moratorium to allow the stocks to the recover is it being managed, correct. It’s an example of a coordination problem that that darn nanny state is decent at handling.

But restarting fishing won’t help the outports much if at all, because the efficient solution to the problem of someone needing to go out into the ocean to get a bunch of cod changed from being a town acting as an aircraft carrier for small fishing boats into a large fishing boat that returns straight to a larger port, and the industry as a whole employing an order of magnitude fewer people.
http://libgen.rs/search.php?req=Third+reich+of+dreams&lg_top...

God bless Libgen
There is more than a 10x price difference between slow run-of-the-mill sd cards and the high speed cards a photographer might go for. Why would it be any different for thumb drives? Higher speeds are more difficult to achieve and make up a small fraction of the total demand. And to make it worse people who need speed tend to be less price sensitive.
Have you listened to Brainwashed by George Harrison? It was his last album, knowing he had cancer and had limited time... wondering if you may have similar resonance with that one.
Hang on - I thought the consensus among ML experts was that language models don’t ‘know’ anything?
It should also be noted that one of the reasons thumb drives took off when they did was not just due to USB.. as technically USB has been around for a few years and there were things like CF card readers coming on the market, and other flash storage readers a few years earlier.. so why did it take until later? Because Win 95 and Win 98 did not have plug and play drivers for USB mass storage devices, at all. I think it wasn't until Win98SE (edit: for true generic controllers it may have been Win2K even?) that there was a USB driver for generic thumb drives. But theoretically the tech was around and could have been implemented as early as 1996.
>I don't think you need a backlit screen these days, though?

We didn't need it back then. Why would we need it now?

If anything, I'd expect current tech to give better contrast and readability than psion 5 series, at lower power, with higher resolution, while still running passive lit.
Even v1 can be sorted if the database is remotely smart about it - Cassandra clusters v1 UUID that are part of a clustering key (and partition keys if the ordered partitioner is used) by sorting on the time components first (and in an upcoming version by reordering the internal representation)

Since it’s less useful for Cassandra (as those conditions won’t be met in most cases), I hope other databases with more to gain have also thought to implement this when they offered UUID types.
In the 90's, I did some FEA, and wound up getting asked to be a formal sysadmin for all the Unix workstations doing this kind of work in the company. I cleaned up our sprawling mess by installing a central server, making a NIS workgroup, and hosting home directories, and versioned folders for binaries. In the process, I wound up dealing with all of these machines. I have a fondness for all the OS's, for different reasons. I found HP-UX to be the least intrusive, IRIX to be the prettiest, Solaris to be the most well-supported (with the shareware site I forget the name of), and AIX to be the most sysop friendly (with their TUI admin tool that would explain the commands it was running). I've looked at buying old machines on Ebay, but apparently a lot of other people are waxing nostalgic about them too, and the prices reflect this.
So there is one indicator: departure from the norm based on a larger body of text. But that's still not a hard judgment and it well could be that accurate mimic. After all, if AI software can mimic humans surely humans can mimic AI and the fact that it is already hard to tell which is which is a very important milestone.
So, the DoJ is in disagreement on when to charge them and not if. At least that's the way I read it.
How much does it cost to host? Where do you host it?
>> I can assure you I didn't have to issue

You did - if it was open source, you issued a copyleft licence that uses the system of copyright to disclaim your rights. It’s a licence.

Maybe you didn’t specify a licence, depending on your jurisdiction then perhaps the work is classed public domain automatically or more likely you’ve created a situation where technically your users are breaching your copyright.

>> I can keep making them

Sure, you can exchange some assets (paint, a canvas) and your labour to make a new asset (a painting).

>> By creating a new painting nothing is lost.

You’ll no longer have the paint or the canvas, you’ll have a painting. Zero sum.
Sure, a credit based system or some kind of "remaining miles" calculation would work, I think. Personally I would prefer just pay for what you use with interchangeable systems, but we'll only get that if governments step in to prevent "ecosystem" style rent-seeking where every battery is incompatible with every other battery.

We know battery capacity decreases with age and number of recharge cycles. There's randomness due to how hard the battery was used, temperature, manufacturing defects, but you could make an estimate about "miles remaining" and charge for that.

Then when you visit the self-service battery kiosk, you can can select "40 miles" or "30 miles" or "27 miles" (etc.) from a list of options. Pick one and the corresponding set of batteries lights up. Maybe the kiosks already do something like this? I've not seen one in real life yet.
I love getting downvoted when i make a proper investigation and sourced research, makes you wonder what karma is used for in this website ;)
You could always use EC2 from AWS but it requires a bit of config.

Seems like Arango has a Kuberentes operator. https://www.arangodb.com/download-major/kubernetes/

You could use that with a Google Cloud or AWS EKS.
Same thing happened to me and my service (https://next-episode.net) almost 2 years ago.

I wrote a HN post about it as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26105890, but to spare you all the irrelevant details and digging in the comments for updates - here is what worked for me - you can block all their IPs, even though they may have A LOT and can change them on each call:

1) I prepared a fake URL that no legitimate user will ever visit (like website_proxying_mine.com/search?search=proxy_mirroring_hacker_tag)

2) I loaded that URL like 30 thousand times

3) from my logs, I extracted all IPs that searched for "proxy_mirroring_hacker_tag" (which, from memory, was something like 4 or 5k unique IPs)

4) I blocked all of them

After doing the above, the offending domains were showing errors for 2-3 days and then they switched to something else and left me alone.

I still go back and check them every few months or so ...

P.S. My advice is to remove their URL from your post here. This will not help with search engines picking up their domain and ranking it with your content ...
Thank you, I will do that. Do you have a preferred brand/model for the high cri. shopping for bulbs is nearly as annoying as shopping for pc monitors.
That’s mostly the default subs tho, like worldnews, funny and so on. The first three comments are whatever the previous three comments where in the previous thread on the same topic. Subs like r/askhistorians has a brutal moderation where the only parent comments are well sourced informed ones.

But in general I agree on its predictability.
> The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop

Not even close. But we sure love to claim the principles were scientific. A programmer becomes good at his craft with time and experience. Not by studying in school and learning the principles there. A classic difference between a craft and engineering.

How many large construction projects fail due to incorrect engineering compared to large software projects?

> or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions;

Almost never.
Prompt: systemd is bad
We can revisit your comment in 10 years, and I'll be happy to have been wrong. Undoubtedly there will be interesting research arising out of this. Let's see how many people will be programming in Verse by then.
Reminds me of https://github.com/3b1b/manim , a python library for animation that was made by the author of 3Blue1Brown videos.
Does Mastodon not allow longer posts or does the OP thinks the story would be better in different posts?
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It's not wrong with ToSes that I have read, but I don't claim to have read them all. Defeatist? Perhaps. But if my experience shows a strong pattern, I'd be a fool to ignore that.
I think this is a top-down issue caused by people in charge who fundamentally do not understand development lifecycles. When the requirements change at all I have to completely reassess the timeline.
When I saw the word "cavitation", submarines was the first thing I thought about. Blame the Hunt for Red October for that word association. You'd think that this approach to propeller design would be adopted due to quieter running, but sounds like not.
And a lot of highly linked forum questions and answers tend to be of the form “how do you do X in library Y?”, “Use the Z function!” - so naturally chatGPT loves to reproduce this popular pattern of communication.
Social approbation is missing from your calculation, and is very powerful. When you don’t get invited to social events anymore because of crypto, that is the haters moving the market.
I suspect NFTs probably have even worse numbers
"The creative adult is the child who survived." - Ursula K. Le Guin
Yes but they're default initialized to 0 in this case, whereas it would be nice if there was some way be way they could be initialized to default potentially non-zero values.
Trust is key, it has nothing to do with the fees, PayPal is still the number one despite its fees

People will stick with your if you are trustworthy, it is more true with crypto where nothing is regulated nor safe nor insured by the SIPC
Microsoft to purchase 4% stake in London Stock Exchange
>unless it also somehow would manage to be extremely cheap.

It doesn't have to be cheap. It needs to be durable and easy to repair (e.g. by being modular, and largely 3d-printable).

It needs to use standards (IPP, postscript and so on) and thus not require specialized drivers.

It needs to be able to run on cheap and easy to refill/replace cartridges, be it ink or toner. Hell, I'd even take ink tape and dot pin. Just no DRM bullshit to deal with.
My experience building products for customers is that they're a few percent novel or exciting and >90% eating veggies.
Given what we're learning about the effect of propeller noise on marine life, I can foresee certain countries outlawing the sale of noisy propellers if reduced-noise versions become broadly available, even if they are more expensive.
What exactly is a dashboard?
A Power BI dashboard is a single page, also known as a canvas, that conveys a narrative through visuals. Because it is limited to one page, a well-designed dashboard provides only the highlights of the story. For further information, readers may look at associated reports.
That's great if you're in California, but even there, it only addresses privacy, not the problem with interpreting contracts.
Catastrophic Contagion: a pandemic tabletop exercise
No? It’s measuring the information content of a language model (which takes energy - and information - to make)
I mean we're already basically there, and have been for a while now. There are lots of spam SEO sites that already just aggregate and repackage content in extremely low-value, barely-coherent ways. Not to mention the huge quantity of real people who spout nonsense and untruths in their personal blogs or on forum posts.

Using the internet at all is an exercise in filtering out what seems relevant and credible from all the rest of the garbage -- and it always has been. It's why we rely on major news brands, trusted personalities, and other high-reputation sites like Wikipedia, etc. And one of the main functions of search engines from the very start has always been to try to direct you to high-quality content over spam (which is an arms race and the engines aren't 100% accurate but they're certainly pretty good).

So I don't really see ChatGPT having much material impact at all in this department. It's somewhat similar to Photoshop in this regard -- whenever we see a photo these days, we're aware of the fact that it might be entirely fictional. But we've got enough sense to know that if it's a news photo in the New York Times it's probably real, while if it's something coming from a random Twitter account without any history of credibility, we should assume there's just as much chance of it being fake.

The internet has always been swamped with fake/garbage stuff, and adding more isn't going to change much, because we just continue to use the same critical thinking and skeptical eyes we've always used, evaluating which sources are actually credible.
Higher ed is 90% credential farming and 10% education. It has value mostly for the same reason crypto nfts have value, proof of status.
I don't know enough about Fortnite, but at some point if the metaverse wants to escape the "it's just a video game" trope, it's going to have to be... More than a video game, I guess ?

Can epic do that ?

Facebook a least "invented" a form a "passing time" (I'm being generous not to call it wasting time) that doubled as an advertising and marketing platform. And even that only took aff with the advent of smartphones, which enabled "using Facebook / twitter on the go" (and, more accurately, "on the loo").

When there's a VR helmet attached in every toilet, though... I'll sell hemoroid creams :)
> I find that turning my phone/laptop/monitor brightness down as needed solves that problem.

Turning down brightness this much makes the content less readable, especially when it's low-contrast.

> There is a reason Google Maps switches between light and dark mode based on ambient light sensor. I challenge anyone to use maps in dark mode on a sunny day; there is no device bright enough to make dark mode content visible outside

I'm pretty sure I always use Google Maps in dark mode.

> It would also be absurd to burn so much energy trying to make thin colored lines and text be as bright as the opposite - dark lines on light background.

On AMOLED screens, dark mode saves energy.

> Probably because viewing the highest contrast dark mode color schemes is more painful than switching to light mode and dimming the monitor.

Not for me.
Also Warren Zevon’s last album. Keep Me In Your Heart For A While might be the perfect goodbye song.
The mirror is injecting their own ads. My guess is it was just a malicious ad forcing the redirect. It could still happen, but it doesn’t appear to be the main intention of the mirror site.
I don't think that's the issue - if you expect returns in a healthy economy to be below the cost of capital then we have bigger issues.
Network data is accessible by anyone, that's how crypto currencies operate, it's all public and trackable
Interesting ideas!

The 'dust detector' is 'Digtal ICE' that you'll sometimes see labeled on scanners. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ICE)
That used to be true, but since KDE4 hit the scene, KDE is typically just as snappy. That's probably not true for low low memory situations, but in general that's been my experience.

And my primary desktop is i3, if that tells you anything. OTOH, even when running KDE I tend to use small tools such as leafpad, konsole, vim, etc.
Speaking of dreams, I have friends who tell me that they never dream. (Or perhaps they never remember their dreams.)

I know that Vipassana meditation increases dreaming. And weed decreases dreaming. And maybe intense mental labor or media-consumption has an affect on it too.

What else affects how much you dream?
Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on
My wife is currently in Germany and had cell broadcast warnings disabled on her Android 11 device. Apparently, the local carrier she uses turns them back on remotely. She gets notified of this. "Settings changed by carrier."

(1) Were you aware that carriers can remotely override your settings like this?
(2) Any strategies to keep something like this from happening besides rooting the device?
(3) How do you feel about this type of remote control by a third party?

I must say I strongly dislike losing control over my own device. It feels dystopian to me.

I also couldn't find any mention of this particular power of carriers apart from one lonely Reddit post about someone trying to turn off Amber alerts [1].

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EDIT: Additional info for clarity:

The settings I am referring to are under "Apps & notifications"/"Wireless emergency alerts". They are about controlling whether to and which alerts one wants to receive on their phone.

It's an unlocked Android One device. The carrier seems to be able to remotely change these settings (see the referenced Reddit post as well), which I would never expect. It seems to be because of the SIM the phone uses and the network it connects to. No user-controlled software change like updates.

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[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/zebvs4/settings_changed_by_carrier/
The Gizmodo article about it: https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-booed-stadium-crowd-dave-chapp...

When Musk is wasting all his time on Twitter and stadium appearances it will be interesting to see how much longer Tesla is willing to tolerate him as CEO. It sure doesn't seem like Tesla is getting much work out of him these days.
That's the big problem with pay to post schemes. Even with miniscule payments the friction of including payments at all is a big barrier for the majority of people who fill out forums and communities so it's not just a handful of people clout chasing the void.
Iran's IRGC - Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (i.e. the ones guarding the revolution from interior and exterior threats) - is perhaps the most literal extant example of this phenomenon.
Looking at their monastery location on Google Maps, they very well might have their own quarries.
So at least for Gnome - the general strategy they appear to be aiming for is "Use it if you've got it, give it back if you're running low".

Which - is entirely reasonable, in my opinion.

> That's a nonsensical sentiment. What's the point in using RAM "you paid for" for something useless/wasteful - you're not getting your money's worth whether the RAM is idle or wasted.

It's not being "wasted" it's resulting in faster IO for anything that happens to be in it. Given the choice of having your RAM full or empty... you should pick full every time. You just need to make sure that "full" can be adjusted to make space for whatever application you might want to open next.

So... swinging back around to Gnome - as far as I can tell, they're trying to do exactly that (full disclosure, I can't speak for how well this is adopted).

The blog post outlining the goal is here: https://www.hadess.net/2019/12/gmemorymonitor-low-memory-mon...

The implementation and docs are here: https://docs.gtk.org/gio/signal.MemoryMonitor.low-memory-war...
Technically it's true that the depositor gives up "ownership" of his funds upon making a deposit, but in the US this is practically a moot point for most people because of FDIC protections. Depending on the state (for example, "right of setoff" in NY) there may be some unusual corner cases, but in general crypto exchanges have far more power over your crypto deposits than traditional banks do over your cash deposits.
I’m reminded of Charles Babbage’s comments on being asked about the capabilities of his difference engine:

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Where do you think a large language model is going to acquire the information to establish the truth value of a statement, whose truth value is unknown outside the context of the language model?
pretty sure it's broken, I've been playing for over an hour and haven't won a single deck! :P
On 4, SLS is also a strategic partnership with ESA and other external agencies. ESA is supplying the service module for example.
I had no idea.

If that is the case, then why do people argue that we shouldn't be going to the moon until all humans on Earth are fed and have homes? Over the past ten years the cost of an Artemis mission was 1/70 the cost of social security - and that price will go down every mission as the R&D phase is done. Would an additional 1.4% funding to social programs really solve hunger and homelessness?
Dlang is a statically typed language that is more productive than most dynamic languages
Orion returns to Earth to complete Artemis I mission
You bolster my point.