skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This neglects the reality that loans exist. In an ideal leftist world your local credit union redistributes wealth by collecting pepole’s savings from the community and hands them out as loans for slightly higher interest rate. That interest rate is the “cut” of the rewards. If an enterprise goes bankrupt and is unable to pay back the loan, there is usually some kind of insurance the credit union has to prevent going under with it.
Ask your hiring manager questions about decision making. Some I like:

“How do product/feature decisions get made? Walk me through the lifecycle of a new feature from customer/stakeholder to release and evaluation”

“What’s the org approach to tech debt? How do various proposed fixes get prioritized and worked on?” (In a top-down org even tech debt will be centrally groomed. In a fully distributed org the answer is something like “what? Folks just fix stuff that needs to be fixed.”)

“How do you align your teams to the company’s / org’s objectives?”

Basically you need to treat interviews as two-way. You are interviewing the company too, and you can always ask for another Hiring Manager chat at the end of the process if you still have Qs you didn’t get to.
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If there is enough volume in these trades to make appreciable fees then there is enough to continuously sell it.
I think the most impressive part is that it figured out that bar is something that could be an obstacle that you would have to duck. The other things like potential wordplay it can kind of try to bruteforce to see which words are most probabilistically used in order to create wordplay.

If it develops connections between words like "bar" => "sometimes an obstacle" => "can be ducked", that could explain it.

Like it would have all these attributes for each of those words, or concepts that relate to that word. "bar" has properties like "means multiple things", "often used in jokes", "could be an obstacle". But it must have quite a bit of properties.

I'm not sure how this AI is built internally, but if it works something that has this network of words and concepts that it can have weighted connections to each other, then you could retroactively come up with how the AI could have got to that result.

So user first says that they want a joke to be explained. It adds "joke" as a concept.

Joke has strong network connections to something like "puns", "unexpected punchlines", "absurdity", etc. And then when a joke is presented it will try to find connections with strongest weights and least concepts travelled. Like if it's a pun joke, it will go through all the words and will see that "bar" => "multiple meanings" => "pun" => "joke".

But then is it pre programmed to consider both meanings when it tries to analyse a joke that is a pun or has it somehow learned to come to it on its own?
Little daughters are God’s way to show us mini-heaven on Earth.
It's a little bit odd to connect "bettering yourself" specifically with moral character and nothing else, but for whatever it's worth, it's also pretty clearly possible for people's morals and general character to improve over time.

This is also a somewhat unique definition of narcissism that I'm not familiar with: narcissism is not just another word for confidence and struggling with body image is not the same as humility.
Fair enough. It’s a remote possibility for a company with literally no known legal structure and under criminal investigation in multiple jurisdictions, but sometimes unicorns fart rainbows.
> there clearly is no discussion possible, so good day.

Eh? I was being completely cordial. At least my intentions were such.
If you have a counter argument you have the all the space here you need to present it. I have no power to silence you or anyone else.
And they shouldnt be allowed to trade or issue tradeable tokens. Something like the Glass-Stegall act, abolished by Clinton.
The whole point of civilization is that generation to generation, our standards of living should increase.

Instead, they are regressing. If we are comparing to 100 years ago, we sure should have been doing better! If we compare to 50 years ago, there are some key ways where we have regressed within the United States.

The key here is that when we are speaking of standards of living, we are speaking within some narrow contexts. In the developing world, standards have blossomed. Within the United States, the GDP has continued to grow but the value hasn't spread equally.

I can say that in the lower 50% of people in the US, the standard of living has markedly decreased. For 50-80%, it's mildly increased. For the top 20%, it's doing just fine, but it's never been a better time to be wealthy as the pathway for compounding growth on wealth has never had so many tools.
One thing I found that helps in some cases, that I wish was said (and actually practiced) when I was a junior developer, is, “my main job is to help you get comfortable with everything and help you be successful. Everything else about my job is basically just filler for whenever you don’t need my direct attention. Never ever feel like you’re inconveniencing me because helping you is my job.”
He only moved into the part-time role in the past few years. Before then he was the legit CTO of the company.
Your fortitude is admirable. Please stay safe.
"It's hard to win an argument with an intelligent person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person"
Currently, RPis are quite difficult to obtain and have been since 2020. I was just looking at a project design that required 2 RPi Zero 2 Ws and I'm currently considering alternatives. Unfortunately, the software stack is Java, so I don't think this will work.
Much larger cross section when you expand "person" to companies. I probably wouldn't bother with chat, but absolutely would/have with smart contracts and wallet software. (Was a multi-human effort within an organization.)
> What? They have no “rights” to use Twitter. This is also not even remotely controversial.

> Or put another way: the government cannot coerce Twitter or any other platform to carry someone else’s speech.

You're making a straw man that's not what I said...

The government can't ask or suggest or apply undue pressure to Twitter to ban content. Social media has been sued for this successfully to get people unbanned.

The Twitter files are not even about Twitter being coerced to put things on their site. What are you even talking about?
FTX had many parts, did that audit actually cover all of them or was that just for a subset of companies?
Use your phone less by using grayscale mode
AMMs have solved this. The competition is amongst AMMs solving this better than they currently do. The need of custodial exchanges for trading is done. They can be just fiat onramps now as long as liquidity improves on AMMs.
> Signal can't even send messages to users with their phones off. Telegram (like WhatsApp) will buffer the message on the server (to the best of my knowledge) and can relay that message quite some time after.

That is exactly what Signal has done for years (if not from the beginning?). It's why there's a distinction between one vs. two checkmarks on a sent message:

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320751-Ho...
I’d wait and see how Apple’s device is received before making any long-range pronouncements.
>With low-cost products, the strategic response for manufacturers would be to lower new product prices and flood the market, thus reducing the appeal of repair.

>Manufacturers would be incentivized to raise new product prices, which hurts consumers

So to sum it up, right-to-repair could lead to lower or higher prices, which are both bad!
If you need some pointers about a specific subject feel free to email me at t@fust.us
Microsoft and Meta have contributed a ton of data to OSM, but I can't find any sources about Google supporting OSM.
Not your keys, not your coins
Not defending the first two (physical page turn buttons are great!) but on my 2018 paperwhite, the backlight will turn off entirely at the lowest brightness setting.
The "bankruptcy" talk is a bluff. Musk will do anything to avoid it because the equity investors would get wiped out and the banks would own Twitter.
> many printer makers till ship drivers for no obvious reason

The reason is pretty obvious to me. It's so that the "driver" software can the serve as an ad for the vendor, try to sell you overpriced consumables, surveil you and try to trick you into installing shovelware, malware, trial versions of software, etc.

It has nothing at all to do with making the operating system be able to talk to the printer.
It's amazing how some engineers will try to politic their way out of doing unit tests and will do as much as they can to avoid testing.

It feels like any process that requires discipline, they'll run away from. Theres even tribes of people who will intentionally group all tests as "unit tests." There are other tribes who will try to write all integration or feature tests as "their unit tests". It's pretty frustrating to see a ridged and very well defined group of tests get ignored.
Hopefully you look back later in your career and cringe at our PM's response for not understanding or knowing the value of metrics.
There are two drivers for AMD on Linux. There's the open source driver, Mesa, and there's the proprietary AMD driver, called AMDGPU. I'm not certain which driver Valve is using on Steam Deck (I've never had to look), but if they're funding Mesa, I'm guessing they're using Mesa.

Unfortunately, some of AMD's GP-compute infrastructure is only supported on Linux through the proprietary driver. I believe these are ROCm and HIP. I'm not sure about OpenCL. I'm not 100% sure what Blender uses for AMD acceleration, but if it's ROCm, you'd need the AMDGPU driver instead of Mesa.

Could have some of these details wrong, but I believe that's the gist of it.

You can, of course, install other OS on the Deck.
The FBI don't have "mandates" against the Talibans? That doesn't seem to make sense...
Congratulations man!
There's not much BNB volume outside of Binance: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bnb/markets/

They could defend the price pretty easily by rigging the price on their exchange by printing BUSD to buy BNB.

I will be shocked if we don't find proof they've done this in the past.

You can do this w/o screwing customers.

Let's assume that some percentage of BUSD is legit (likely a lot of it is).

This means BUSD has some value. Let's say everytime someone converts real money to BUSD - Binance spends 100% of treasuries and then an additional 10% to buy BNB.

They can keep that 10% in their own wallet - and if the value of BNB someone goes to $0 with them playing this game - they can just wipe that account out. They still have all the treasuries to pay their real customers.

However, if you're doing fraud - you're probably doing a lot more of it than this... So you probably won't be able to pay out your customers, because you probably blew all their money on coke and hookers like FTX and every other crypto company so far.
> You don't get rewarded for preventing bad things.

Akin to not being rewarded for deleting lines of code.*

* unless the deletion measurably improves performance and you get rewarded for the improvement
Being myself from Rome, I know that complex and have been several times there in the past, also in the late 90s knew a girl who lived there. That's a place you definitely don't want to roam alone in the night.
>CL is moribund, not unlike Smalltalk, APL, and COBOL.

If someone wants to do some hobby/small-scale but complex programming in LISP, what kind of dialect should they use? Scheme/Racket or something else?
I'm not very familiar with Wordpress, so don't know how auto-updates work in it. Does it really autoupdate the core remotely automatically, or it is a human who presses the update button?
This is a silly question, so silly in fact that I suspect it is only intended as reductio ad absurdum (which can be a fallacy if based on a false or inadequate premise).

A carpenter is entitled to the fruits of their labor, which can adequately be provided with money.
Money in general has transaction costs - even cash decays every time it changes hands. Is it all a negative sum game? It seems that in order to make that claim, you need to make some comparison between the value produced and the costs incurred. IMO, crypto is pretty scammy but there is some value (note that crypto is most popular in countries with unstable economies and corrupt governments). A crypto that’s optimized for lower transaction fees could be net positive.
IME Obsidian.md has become almost an OS for markdown files; it's extraordinarily capable and ergonomic. Highly recommend checking it out before building your own; then even if you still want to DIY, I expect you'll come away inspired.
I didn't even realize they had a paginated view, I haven't used that (on Apple Books or Kindle either one) in forever. Scroll view is much better.

My only complaint with the iOS 16 version of Books is that it's way, way too easy to double tap a bookmark into existence. I've gotten good at ignoring it. Kinda like it's too easy to create a section of highlighted text on the Kindle app. Both of these are probably just a case of 'holding it wrong' but whatever.
There were some paragraphs of the history of luddites that I found fascinating, but when the article turned in to a book review of Frankenstein, he lost me unfortunately.
The creators of Zig did something interesting to make it independent of a particular ISA: Use WebAssembly as an intermediate language form. (For bootstrapping of the compiler itself only)

But it's not just that, it's the use of an intermediate language in general. When you use an intermediate language, you are less tied to one specific architecture, and are instead tied to the existence of a JIT, Recompiler, or Interpreter for that intermediate language being available on the target architecture.
You can still design a GTK4 application like a GTK1 application...

People just don't because, well its not very usable.
The Termux app provides a pretty good fraction of the useful Linux stuff. It's basically a userspace chroot environment. You can run a lot of Linux distributions this way, though some of the features don't work. Can even have a desktop environment and run things like desktop Chromium. Or things like FTP servers, etc etc.

Basically you get most of the useful functionality from installing Linux, without needing root.
>>The page turn animation was truly excellent.

iPhone iOS design used to be excellent.
Since Apple switched to flat design, it was very clear that they were heading toward this path. I wrote about it in 2016:
“ I predict that the technological disparity will increase dramatically. Most of the efforts that Steve Jobs put to “push the human race forward,” by making tech products easy-to-use to everyone, will be wasted.”

https://medium.com/@maram5/could-the-iphone-sales-decline-be...
For a casual user who uses computer for work and gaming I would go with Windows. People say Linux is free and open source, more secure and you get privacy but is it really worth it? Idk.
Hmm, could you give a few famous examples that “failed”?
Easier Thread to read than Twitter: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1603834995830816769.html
My presumption is Binance is the buyer of last resort for $BNB.
Man MIT seems to really be losing its clout (PR capital) especially in the last decade or so. (And I am not usually one to participate in the “dumping on prestigious institutions” meme that’s grown in popularity as well.)

This is obviously one sided, but assuming most of this is factual… not good.
Spooky Enough: Japanese yōkai figures
The fact that everything is designed around cars is one of the invisible nooses around the neck of America. When you look around and notice that everything is covered in cars, that's hard to unnotice. All those cars, roads, parking lots, highways, box stores, mile of sewer and water pipe, cost a staggering amount and are going to start costing a lot more to maintain over the next decade as systems age out and need replacement or maintenance. Not to mention the cost of demolishing the country we spend the previous 300 years constructing. The vampiric system of automobilism has made everything much more expensive for everyone.

Living in a semi-crowded city, near your family and friends, should be the default, cheap option. Instead we've wasted about 10 trillion dollars pave the entire continent. Possibly the most expensive mistake ever made in history.
Agreed, this is my problem too. By the time I'm finished with a novel I have hundreds of pointless bookmarks.
1) That was a statement of arguments about whether or not a worker co-op driven economy is superior to labor unions, from a pro-labor perspective. Stating an argument doesn't mean endorsement of it; that's the entire point of steel manning.

2) To the extent I buy either argument, I don't think it's subtle that my sympathies lie with the criticisms of an economy of worker driven co-ops.
This is a property of human beings in general. We're all wrong about almost everything, and "wrong and confident" probably just means the same thing as "wrong".
Collapses often happen very gradually (in a time span relative the the majority proportion of the collapse) and then all at once.

As such, its failure to collapse as the crisis continues is not strong evidence that it’s not toast. Consider the examples of any system subject to cascading failures. But neither is there sufficient evidence to determine if it’s in the early stages of a death spiral.

What seems clear to me is that it’s unlikely to improve in value in the very short term, and might indeed collapse, so it could be prudent to transfer assets out while there’s still liquidity to do so especially in light of recent collapses. Of course this has the downside of accelerating or even making a collapse a self-fulfilling prophesy: that’s inherent to the nature of any asset where user confidence is a tent pole of stability.

It is also why traditional finance has evolved mechanisms to have lenders of last resort so that there is no death-spiraling perverse incentive to get your money out early in those situations. But that sort of back stop takes truly massive resources that need to dwarf those of the potentially failing organizations, which is why you see nation-states filling the role. It may take a nation issuing debt against the guarantee assets of a $trillion+ GDP (and really the taxation ability that comes with, though even that oversimplifies things…) in order to back stop and perform that role for organizations on the scale of many $Billions.
>> Services, such as healthcare, public infrastructure, public transport, energy etc should be run by the state.

That is a bold claim and from where I'm standing, it doesn't seem to be rooted in reality. The countries with the best health care system seem to be the ones where insurance (or state) pays for competing doctors. Those countries where doctors only work in state owned hospitals look terrible by comparison.
Im fine with that being a public health decision. Given how rarely mask mandates have been used it seems like public health officials prioritize choice except for extreme situations. That’s fair to my mind. At least in the US the Supreme Court has found public health can trump individual liberties up to a point, and that point is usually forced medical intervention. So they can’t force you to vaccinate. But they can levy fines or quarantine you by force if you refuse. This was decided several times but the key case was one where Boston was inoculating people against smallpox. Someone refused because they had already been inoculated and had had a bad reaction. They wanted to force it on him so he sued and it went to the Supreme Court. Instead he was fined for not inoculating. Interestingly compared to the covid vaccine, which had a whole kerfuffle, the smallpox inoculation was actually a pretty unsafe thing. The micromorts for the covid vaccines are extraordinarily low.
Did the Reichsmark and Rentenmark fail when they were replaced 10:1 for Deutschmarks, losing 90% of their face value?

Yes!

You are cherry picking by choosing the Euro. The point is that valuation loss to currency printing is currency failure. The vast majority of currency “replacements” are just abrupt failures, and generally coincide with a country being overthrown by a new authority.
FastAI gets recommended a lot I think, if you can already code - focuses on hacking with frameworks instead of starting with the boring linear algebra stuff.

https://course.fast.ai/
> Can't imagine being there in lockdown for months

We are friends with two separate Italian families who struggled with Covid lockdowns.

The first family live in Florence and were stuck in a tiny apartment with two young girls and weren't even allowed to use their building's communal (but private) garden. Fresh air was to be found only on their balcony.

The second family live in central Milan, and on the announcement of the first lockdown, fled to an extended family member's house in the countryside, far from the city. The parents described it to the (young) kids as "the unexpected holiday". They ended up ordering toys and bicycles online once it turned out the lockdown wasn't just going to be a couple of weeks.

My primary concern about our overall response to Covid is that next time around - and there will definitely be a next time - there will be substantially more suspicion (and hence less compliance), and that doesn't end well.
Prager Metis for international, Armanino for US: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/11/meet-the-metave...
"use Dalle-2 to create concepts of what you want and then bring those concepts to a designer" this saves so much time and communication overhead in the design process. "I want the design to be similar to this"
Not only GTK4 existing but also Nautilus doing the port to GTK4 first adding all of the missing features and fixing bugs found along the way.
Johnny Mnemonic isn't intended to be goofy and light-hearted, it's just a bad film. I really dig it for the Gibson vibe regardless.
Tell me how globalization has improved conditions in the Congo?
The primary focus of this video is on continuity, and the various kinds, which wasn’t really touched on in her earlier video.
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Isn't the connection that Maps runs ads?
Yes sorry I mean through cloud formation or terraform templates. I think you can do some config policy malarkey to at least isolate where it’s not happening and feed into a policy engine.
> Everything else about my job is basically just filler for whenever you don’t need my direct attention

That might be taking it a bit too far?
Breeder reactors. Fuel supply 142x. And it's not actually that scarce, demand more and they would find more.
It probably didn't cover all of them: all of the announcements I can find from the time just talk about FTX US and International.

But if you're trying to decide whether to keep your money in another exchange, and they talk about how they have passed a GAAP audit "did the audit actually cover everything I care about" is still a live question.