skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the Internet, the cost of labor for distribution of digital goods over that is cheap as all hell when compared to the cost of labor to distribute any sort of physical good because first you have make copies of this physical good, which starts off by requiring additional raw material input.

Say we've got this mp4 file that everyone wants. Let's use bittorrent for our digital distribution. So we need to: create a torrent, upload it, and then keep their computer on for a couple more hours? Let's pay $400 for the job. I think it's well within the realm for a clever teenager to do it, or a rando you find off of Upwork or Fiverr, that who knows what they're doing, to finish the first two steps in an hour, so I think that rate is plenty generous. But let's also pay for their Internet connection for the month ($100), and a cheapo laptop to do this work on ($500). This brings our digital distribution costs including the cost of labor, using bittorrent, to be able to make billions of copies to be... $1000?

Even if you pay an engineer to do that job, labor doesn't get residuals, so aren't paid for each copy made, so the cost of labor, whatever it is, is essentially flat. Compared to if you were trying to copy and distribute a physical good, the more copies you make, the higher your costs and $1000 just isn't going to get you far at all.

I'm more interested in what you mean by interest rate though, mind explaining how that fits in here a bit further?
Bleargh
It depends on the company and if they follow shareholder primacy.
Don't worry, the next time the agent's supervisor, excuse me, the Onshore Brand Advocate's Chat Performance Facilitator, reviews the call, they will be docked 100 points for being Confrontational and that will result in an Enhanced Deskilling.
It's tangential because it's not related to the content of the article in any way. This doesn't mean that there isn't a problem, it simply means that the commentary on HN is not the right place to have this discussion.
You can exploit workers without receiving 51% of the resulting income.

Also, that figure is before you consider the vast tax advantages of investing.
Your country very likely has a government entity that regulates radio spectrum use and has means of enforcing it.

Messing with Doppler weather radar is a usually a big thing that impacts various important services. Even in relatively backwater countries you will get someone knocking at your door if you do this.
Boxing Day
Very cool. Personally I've been using Instapaper for this. Awesome to see an open source and self-hostable version.
As a non-American calling liberalism 'left' is so weird. I grew up with the word liberal being a slur for right-winger. But even in an US context painting it as classic vs modern liberalism is wrong. Chomsky is definitely not a liberal, and the US obsession of collapsing every position to the left of conservatism into liberalism is dangerously reductive, and limits the answers for political questions immensely.
But it only takes 30 years to make a 30 year old. They're at least 3x more replaceable than 90 year olds.

[edit] also, do things for whom? To what end if not to build experience?
Japan is 100V, with frequency either 60Hz or 50Hz depending on which half of the country you're in.
Beside some other good advices (like picking an index) I would recommend investing in learning:

0. Define what's your emergency fund and lock that money into something that you can redeem immediately.

1. Pick a safe investment vehicle and put around 30% of your savings there (expect them to be locked there for 5 years at least)

2. Learn, and plan, about recurring investment/saving

3. Setup your recurring investing/saving plan

4. Learn, and plan, about investing/saving for your next goal like buying a house (this might mean an retirement fund)

5. Setup your investment/saving plan for that goal

6. Learn, and plan, about saving/investing for retirement

7. Setup your investment/saving plan for that goal

Assume this will take you at least 2 years to do.
I read the source code for the standard library.
I usually wake up just ahead of my alarm. What's up with that?
Primer (2004) is good time travel movie too. Low budget that was written, directed and acted by the same few people if i remember.
I see it like that - you can create any car or vehicle to be used on your backyard somewhere in distant village, until you start driving on public roads, selling it to general auditory - then, please, stop being cool kid and start using common practices - i.e. have stop backlights, safety belts, noise levels ...

Linux is just a tool. Yes, just another tool.

I've personally seen multiple, not even single digits of persons, who store they ssh private keys unprotected, not using Full Disk Encryption and so on - most of them even have no idea that booting with `init=/bin/bash` will open their system. Those are average Joe and needs curation.

Industry need to the way to ensure on such things => industry created MDM.

Actually it's finally a sign, someone starts interested in bringing Linux To Desktop. I'm waiting for telemetry to be added - that will assure me of the interest further of Linux as a viable Product, not just concept.
Institutions are intentional normalizers. That’s the definition of the word “institution”; an entity that exists to service an idea. To build consensus around its attributes and parameters.

Corporations normalize utilitarian agency. Government social policing. University thinking.

Institutions never produced interesting science or engineering; people did. Institutions took all the credit.
Yeah, just as an example religious Jews and Muslims do not subscribe to “material world is all that exists” but nevertheless does not belive in the ressurrection of Jesus.
> it has become more technically competent,

Let's not forget rampant corporate espionage, and deliberate IP infringement whereby designs used contractually to produce something, and then stolen to make knock offs as well.
2022 in Review – The Year in Computer Science
This comment is based on such a large amount of BS. Reasoning over facts, as a concept, is completely divorced from the function of these GPT models.
Compared to the vaccine’s? No, I’m not.
Too much eggnog
Additionally, a lot of the negative consequences due to COVID are not caught in the death rate statistics. Long COVID/Post-viral syndrome and related long term health issues are doing a number on economies and healthcare systems around the globe. Secondary deaths are also not counted, for example due to reduced quality of care in stressed healthcare systems.

Try getting ER treatment in China right now...
12 Monkeys is also a great sci-fi Gilliam movie, not underrated though :)

Is there some dislike for Terry Gilliam? Can't think why anyone would want to downvote Brazil here.
> My dish detergent of choice is antibacterial too so cloths, sponges, bowls and sink should be quite sanitary. Also using the dish cloth to wipe down prep surfaces after a meal adds some antibacterial hygiene to the kitchen.

relevant studies seem to hint that antibacterial detergents in households is associated with more (resistant?) bacteria around the sink
Even the first argument "no hidden control flow" is disingenuous :
either the object you are summing are complex and you have to call a custom function to define what "summing" means in that case (you need to provide the summing function), or those are a primitive type and you're just calling a function builtin the language itself. In every case, you are calling a function ...
I used to have an all-in 5x levered position on SPY.

I have now de-delevered.
You shouldn’t have a compiler on your webserver at all, and building a kernel should happen on a different machine than installing it. (And why isn’t the official kernel good enough?)

Beyond the security surface that’s just asking to brick the machine; if you never make any mistakes it’s because you never tried anything very interesting with it in the first place.

Furthermore, I claim that “you can write a script to edit /etc” is not how an OS should support configuration. Instead of being possible to keep a copy of the config in a script somewhere else, it should be impossible to do anything but that. So basically /etc and UNIX are bad ‘cause they’re not declarative.
start with password complexities, prevention of unauthorized access (i.e. screen locks), full disk encryption, so on, for those users who are close to cards/data management.

Using Linux not making people automagically smarter and setting simple passwords or not enabling disk encryption - that kind of stuff I can easily imagine to happen without external curation.
Because otherwise, we'd all still be writing FORTRAN.
I get your point, but it's as equally hindering of progress as it is valid.
Detection of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Human Breast Milk:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32998268

Detection of spike protein in brain and heart (single case study):
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/10/1651

The larger question seems to be the biodistribution of the vaccine in general, not necessarily via bloodstream. From the first study: "We speculate that, following the vaccine administration, lipid nanoparticles containing the vaccine mRNA are carried to mammary glands via hematogenous and/or lymphatic routes."
Did a Fourth Grader Write This? Or the New Chatbot?
It would be helpful if you made specific citations for empirical work. This isn't the kind of question that is benefitted by reasoning from first principles.
Did the gov founded a book talking about only death? This looks more like advertisement

You can barely explain death to a child, but you're going to explain the details of assisted death, maybe how the state thought a stair lift for grandmother was too expensive so they suggested assisted death instead

Disabled Canadian Army veteran Paralympian blasts government for offering to EUTHANIZE her when she complained about how long it was taking to install stairlift at her home
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11497589/Paraplegic...
Your interpretation of this is pretty popular today, but is completely historically false on both the first and second amendments.

On the second, privately owned ordnance weapons and warships were extremely common in the 1800s, and the definition of "well-regulated" was closer to "well-equipped" than to the modern word "regulated." In fact, the earliest "gun control" laws were about when and where you could fire your cannons. It took until the really 1920s to start thinking of the second amendment as a "collective" right which allowed any restrictions.

On the first amendment, it has been under societal attack since the founding of the country. The laws against sedition were some of the first laws ever passed, and were an attack on speech. In the early 1900s, it was all about preventing protests from labor groups and women who wanted to vote. The red scare was a very recent instance. Thankfully, the judiciary, since 1800, has been very good at striking down governmental attempts to control speech, and created the strongest legal regime around free speech that has ever existed. This regime had its last great test with the red scare. Twitter-FBI "state-informed" moderation and these ridiculous speech codes are just another attempt, in a 200 year old tradition, of the powerful to control other people's speech.

You are looking at a narrow slice of American history and generalizing from it. The whole history of the country is quite encouraging in terms of the rights of the individual, and I think we will see a turnaround on the current situation around speech, as we have every other time.

Meet the new puritans, same as the old puritans.
Google reshuffles to meet ChatGPT threat and Sundar's not having a happy holiday
Greece has Crete and a huge number of tiny islands whose economic exclusive zones overlap. Japan has such a big EEZ from very few remote islands and enough of those to form an enclave. The enclave is there because of a single island.
https://archive.vn/BPG3r
Pi-Cast cast HDMI to tablet/smartphone/USB-Ethernet
So many "aaS"es. It's definitely a spectrum. Thanks for pointing out App Engine, I will probably be using this in the future now that I read the documentation!
Cyber – Fast and concurrent scripting language for Zig
If it serves a purpose then that's a different thing and must be evaluated case by case. But if it serves you nothing then just dont enter your real data ever.
A preprint of the actual paper is here:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.28.22272975v...
Russia’s Road to Economic Ruin
Someone please explain. There are a lot of people who hate on Zig in this thread and say "why not Rust". Then someone comes in and says "Hey, I like C" and gets summarily attacked for that opinion. But it's the same in Rust threads, too. Someone always comes in and says "Ugh, not another Rust thread". And it's been getting worse.
It's to the point where I usually don't even bother reading the comments on programming language specific submissions anymore. It's highly predictable and it's quite tiring to read.
Everyone who does that is saying "My language is better than yours", and in the same breath criticizing someone else for thinking that, in fact, their language is better. When we all know neither is. It's different tradeoffs, different concepts from different times perhaps, or just different goals.
So what if someone wants to use Zig for their native Ruby modules? So what if someone wants to write their Python extension in Rust? So what if someone doesn't mind D's GC?
Instead of immediately attacking them for their choice of language, or excusing it by saying "Those people can't be helped", maybe we can listen instead. Saying someone's a lost cause is never nice. And maybe you'll realize that you have a bias too. And that people might disagree with it.
We'll get nowhere if we just scoff at everybody. There are good projects made in all kinds of different programming languages, and nobody is lesser for choosing a different one than you'd want them to. Instead of a nice discussion about native ruby modules or addons and a healthy discussion about doing that in Zig, or Rust, or C, or Crystal, or whatever, it's just about the languages themselves again and how people are wrong for using them.
Article 11 calls for the batteries to be "readily removable" by end users. There don't seem to be any further clarifications but the dictionary definition would call for batteries to be removable "easily, without much difficulty". I don't believe Apple's current self-service repair program would meet this bar.

> Portable batteries incorporated in appliances shall be readily removable and
replaceable by the end-user or by independent operators during the lifetime of the
appliance, if the batteries have a shorter lifetime than the appliance, or at the latest at
the end of the lifetime of the appliance.

> A battery is readily replaceable where, after its removal from an appliance, it can be
substituted by a similar battery, without affecting the functioning or the performance
of that appliance.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_instituti...
He's not battling his natural limitations. He's battling the genetic-discrimination-based oppression imposed by society: the police who will use force to stop him from doing the things of which he is naturally capable.

The hurdles aren't natural, they are human-made constructs.
How to Sell Your Startup
Reminds me of Sabine hosenfelder
Why not ! I'll add this feature when I have time :)
Can you tell me more about your need for political analytics ?
So they want indexation, in order to navigate the sources more effectively, which AI obscures and abstracts away (into cool funny neurons thou)
It sounds more like India was devestated by selfishness and misguided priorities. Covid just happened to be there to take the blame.
> It's like if someone gets cancer after Chernobyl.

I don't think this metaphor will hold up because both Covid infections and vaccines present an increased chance of myocarditis, the former at a higher rate.

Cause and effect for any disease is pretty hard to pin down because of the astronomical amount of variables.
This makes no sense, the AstraZeneca vaccine isn’t an mRNA formulation but rather a vector vaccine (genetic material from the COVID-19 virus is placed in a modified version of a different virus—the vector—which gets into your cells and delivers genetic material that gives your body’s cells instructions to make copies of the S protein).

The mRNA vaccines worked to improve immunity and reduce the effects once infected; and to your point about mutations, the mRNA encoding the spike can be modified accordingly as this is a very quick and scalable method of delivery.

Given the hundreds of millions of people that have received mRNA vaccines I think generally we have an understanding of their safety.

The only insanity I see is people still now trying to deny vaccine efficacy, either as government conspiracy theories or through poor scientific understanding.
I wish JavaScript error handling were better
I am not sure how you are reading this. The dose count across the entire EU in July 2022 for Astrazeneca is 67.18 Million doses in both July 2022 as well as December 2022. It has been at 67.17 Million at the beginning of 2022. In Austria the dose count for Astrazeneca is unchanged since September 2021.
I know that. I play the piano. I think I even qualify as a "fairly experienced singer and pianist" [1].

As others have pointed out, there is structure here beyond the fact that the tones are constrained in a way that results in harmonious intervals. This isn't random wind-chimes. Specifically:

* The mind tends to hear lines in the music, associating notes with particular preceding notes to hear melodies embedded in the polyphony. These lines move together in interesting and (to me) pleasant sounding ways, some moving together at fixed intervals and some moving in contrary motion. The avoidance of consecutive fifths and octaves in counterpoint is to prevent lines seeming to blend together into block chords, but here that happens a lot so the lines don't "live" for long. They briefly pop out of the harmony and merge back. There are many ways to hear that depending on what you focus on, so there's an ambiguity/interplay between hearing separate lines and hearing chords that tickles my brain pleasantly.

* The fractal is built step by step (in two different ways if you listen to the whole thing), which creates a rising/falling/growing pattern that builds a pleasing tension and release. It also provides a rhythmic framework and emphasises the self-similarity, as the previous pattern is repeated while further similar copies are added over the top.

Sierpinski's gasket isn't a picture. It's an abstract mathematical object. The image and the sound are both imperfect physical realisations of that platonic ideal and are directly related to each other by a very simple mapping. You could certainly argue that in the sound you are "hearing Sierpinski's gasket" to the same extent that you are "seeing Sierpinski's gasket" when you view the image. You'd be on far stronger ground than people who take physical phenomena such as black holes that in no sense "sound like" anything, arbitrarily map some aspect of them to a waveform and claim the result is the "sound of" the original phenomenon.

But the post doesn't make any such claim. It just points out that you can use the fractal to make something that both looks and sounds cool. I agree.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132576
200 years is an odd figure. If you replace it with 80 years it becomes reasonable enough. The post-war prosperity has been a long historical anomaly. A century of prosperity is not historically unprecedented, just relatively rare, and easy to take for granted.

What we're facing now is more like a return to what the world has looked for the most of its history.
That is a great recommondation: sleep nearby and go there as soon as it opens. One can also stay late. And the light is more beautiful in the morning and evening anyway.
Riots Erupt After MIT Enforces Free Speech Mandate
I suppose MIT now needs a supreme court, as they need to decide what is outside the scope of the first amendment.
I'm not here to judge the vaccine, at least in Europe it's fact that Astrazenca is not used any more for more than a year (except for really, really rare cases) and yet there has not been a note on this in Wikipedia.
> To the average Joe Blow, I don't recommend any Linux distro.

Windows + WSL is pretty neat and very close to be the best of two worlds.

The average Joe, friend of mine, doing mostly SEO stuff (so has some basic web background) was able to start using WSL to run his curl tests, running some tools like sitespeed.io in his docker and things of that sort, without leaving his lovely Windows system.

So I'm pretty assured here.
I strongly suggest not buying a house unless you can stay in the house if/when you switch jobs. The things can lose value and/or can be rather illiquid in downturns and it sux losing a job, having to move and learning what the term bridge loan means.

Of course, if you’re able to handle two domiciles due to high salary or successful career, consider getting a 2nd house where you’d like to retire to. It also sux having mortgage payments in retirement.
Awful article, probably has a lot of upvotes because people agree with the title.

> But the systems do not have any understanding of what they are producing, any communicative intent, any model of the world, or any ability to be accountable for the truth of what they are saying.

Same is true for search engines. (LLMs could include links to the relevant source material too, if that counts as accountability.)
I've watched it at least 3 times. Great movie.
The crucial difference is that the Google search results page, by definition of it's function, cites every source.

GPT vomits up word soup. How should you expect to verify every factoid contained? As others have pointed out: if you ask GPT to cite its sources it will very happily, and authoritatively, spit back articles and authors that do not exist.
I said I am not American for a reason, I am also familiar with my terms and what you write is somewhat a modern, American-centric distortion of terms as well. You listed what seem like talking points in the so called 'culture war' that I am not interested in fighting as it is very much an American phenomenon, (with some spillover) that in the end doesn't serve interests of anyone but the few profiting off of being spokepersons for one side or the other.

It's very much a modern distortion that leftism doesn't stand for free speech and that classical liberals, (in your context, I understand them to mean right-leaning libertarians), are somehow the only ones that do.

The left intellectuals I am familiar with are very much pro free speech, equal opportunity, (not outcome etc). As for markets, I very much question if such a thing as a free market could ever truly exist, (even without state interference), and if it's such a good thing but that's neither here nor there.

Point is, the left is very diverse, not a single box you can put everything you don't like the sound of in, label it 'the left' and be done with it. Same thing as not everyone on the right being a 'Nazi' if you will.
> Someone please explain

I think you know the answer. We can be a selfish and narcissistic creature and we often show our worst side on the internet since there are no repercussions. It's not as bad on HN but its definitely there.
> This model cut its teeth writing articles about the discovery of unicorns in the Andes

This is a different model, called GPT-3, released in 2020. ChatGPT has the same number of neurons, but is trained with both human feedback and web data, rather than just web data like GPT-3.

What you're saying still holds up, though -- ChatGPT still hallucinates information.