skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps this is philosophical, but how much actual “wealth” was created by humans in the past two years? Yes, assets values went up, but how much if any of the that growth was “real” vs inflationary? Did businesses get that much more efficient, did we invent new technologies to improve our standard of life? If the wealth captured isn’t real, meaning it can’t be realized in any normal sense (outside of big numbers on a screen) does it matter?
FUSE will let you create a virtual file system that does absolutely anything you want it to (and there are javascript bindings out there).
No, it's different in a major way.

Apple:

- Only ever uploads anything to the cloud after a *successful* wake word is detected on-device (and, critically, lets you know with a voice confirmation).

Amazon:

- "On most Echo devices" checks on-device against known commercials (the point of this article).

Then:

- "In the cloud: Every audio request to Alexa that starts with a wake word is checked..." — successful or not. Meaning, all audio requests are streamed, then problematic wake words are filtered, then the phrase is acted on.

From the article:

> Ideally, a device will identify media audio using locally stored fingerprints, so it does not wake up at all. If it does wake up, and we match the media event in the cloud, the device will quickly and quietly turn back off.

i.e. if a media match is not detected locally, the audio (all audio) is next sent to the cloud for screening & possible action.

Everything here on the Amazon side is about detected false-positives, on-device or not, and nothing is about protecting the user's privacy.
Is it?? I’ve been slaughtering that word for almost 15 years. Whether true or not, that’s what I’m calling it from now on.
Analogue clocks are helpful in low visibility situations. I have one in my bathroom because when I first wake up my vision is too blurry to see the clock, but I can see where the hands are and know what time it is. They are also handy when the clock needs to be far away, like outside in the yard. You can read an analog clock from much farther away than a digital clock because you just need to make out the general positions of the hands.

Also, it's a great way to teach kids multiples of five and fractions. :)
And losing their GPS to boot
I wrote mostly python and c languages before I knew anything about FP. Part of the appeal is how mathematical it is, so intuition from math and physics modeling can carry over more easily for some people. lazy evaluation and currying as in haskel are powerful ideas that can influence how problems are broken down conceptually. Earlier on i thought of a well-written large program like an octopus with a complicated brain in the middle and many tentacles coming from the body. Now i aim for programs that are more like a green onion with a clear flow from root to bulb to shoot, and elegant in their simplicity. I still mostly write python and c++, but banishing side effects where possible for example has led code that paralellizes more easily and is easier to debug.
Brad Feld: I Don't Hate Crypto
There is a difference between book value of an asset, which is a symbolic 1 $ after it is completely written off, and the price you get for said asset on sale to the open market. Nobody forces you to sell, e.g., a 20 year old CNC machine for one dollar...

Edit: Just realized, the correct term is depreciation... That's what you get after a long day, and word by word translating from German to English...
Are you open to connecting over email? I'm considering digging deeper in the Open Source DocuSign rabbithole and would love to hear your thoughts on needs etc.
I believe all of the AWS S3 SDKs except php support client side encryption, you could also roll your own. In my mind that is more secure then S3 SSE or KMS because you are the only one with the key.
Ugh, I just missed the hourly transition I was waiting for, while browsing elsewhere. Now I have to watch without blinking for the next 55 minutes.

(If I blink I will get distracted!)

Funny how little art projects like this are so intriguing.
> I find data organization to be a direct consequence of service interface.

Then, you will not like microservices. Microservices make it harder, not easier, to organize data.

You have to worry about problems such as eventual consistency, and figure out how to join data across multiple data sources.

It compounds the problem significantly, and the only thing it gives you is that it forces you to silo data. That can be a good thing, but it doesn't solve the data organization problem.
(Web) developers have gotten lazier and simply don't care anymore. The fact of the matter is that if you don't host your email with one of the big three, some services are probably not working anyway. I'd also like websites to show me things like news and recipes without having them run javascript, but apparently this means I deserve white pages because writing HTML is too much of a hassle for the modern web developer.

It's quite sad to see. It's also the reason I'm using somethingunique@domain.tld;, if cyberstalkers start normalising to a domain, they'll only hurt their own business.
Earplugs are uncomfortable and interfere with hearing your alarm go off. It's not raw sewage. It's a grill. It's occuring during normal waking hours. There's an extent to which you have to deal with the fact that you're not the only person for 30 miles. I've got no sympathy.
Author here. Technically, they can. HOWEVER if this threat is part of a customer's risk profile, i.e., they cannot risk even a possibility of AWS having access to their data, then use client side encryption.
Hopper seems to drop int4 support so maybe it's old news now?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper_(microarchitecture)
Man that's a lot of controversial opinion confidently framed as settled fact. Stahp
I'm signed up for Alexa Developer stuff and I've seen a huge uptick in emails about how to monetize your skill since last September. Amazon really wants folks to start charging money.
> a genuinely new category of doomsday weapon

Doomsday, perhaps. Genuinely new, no. Several countries have had the theoretical ability to leave a nuke on the ocean floor with a timer and/or a remote control, for decades now.
Could be 8-bit posits may be enough. Has that been done? At scale. I do not know.
Will Doubling Disk Size Solve Storage?
We've banned this account for religious flamewar. Not cool. I posted a whole other thing at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34404876 but this is well over the line.

(And to answer a common objection, yes, the same rules apply regardless of religion.)

It's a pity because you obviously also have valuable contributions to make - e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34404614. But the damage caused by bombs is greater than the benefit offered by flowers, so we don't really have a choice.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
As I wrote, the ssd will die at some point and can’t be replaced
> If you don't have access to the key, then reading the S3 object doesn't work.

I'm still not convinced. Just seem like theater. S3 has its own access control. If you don't have access to the S3 object then reading the S3 object doesn't work ... Requiring additional access to the key seems redundant - theater.

P.S. I'm not arguing against encryption at rest. I'll take it, but using my own key doesn't seem to offer too much over using one of AWS's rel low level access.
That and the not-fun part where you really don't have a clue if you are going to die when 60 or 65 or maybe 90. Then you also don't have a clue if you become a burden on your family for years - where that money would be used to take care for you - or you just don't wake up one day without means to use any of the savings.
Interesting project. Would it be able to run a fastapi project just like uvicorn in production?
I'm not sure I understand your question. How would this concept do anything to help with privacy preservation or the fact that ChatGPT runs on 800GB of VRAM?
Newer CPU faster than older CPU; can someone explain if I am missing something or if thats the whole story here ?
My heat pump was a retrofit to an existing home with a fully functional gas boiler. Being a ductless split system, it did not interfere with the existing baseboard heat in any way. By retaining the boiler I was able to afford the installation of solar panels and the heat pump in the same year and probably reap 85% of the efficiency benefit for a substantially reduced up-front cost.
Loads of countries have effective power grids which go down incredibly rarely. I can't even remember the last power cut I had - maybe a few years ago? It's certainly rare enough that I don't need my main source of cooking and heat to take it into account.

My parents live in rural Scotland and use a ground source heat pump for heat and an induction stove for cooking. Power outages happen more often - but still pretty rarely. If they do, they burn wood for heat and eat cold food for a few hours.
That's disappointing, I thought they were closer to Apple Silicon's performance/watt ratio.

The deceptive nature of such benchmarks is also troubling.
How would you know when they do this? Buried inside a "We've made some updates to our Terms of Service" email?
Another important factor for the premiums (both for car price and stock price) may be FSD.
If we were guaranteed that FSD would never happen, the stock price would suffer more than the unit economics, but both would suffer. (I think!)

But who knows, this is all armchair quarterbacking.
Boris Yeltsin's visit to a suburban Houston supermarket in 1989 (2016)
SF's reparations committee proposes $5M to each Black longtime resident
It is fairly obvious to me, they were trying to make their service part of infrequent product grocery shopping.

And not a bad idea, just one that didn't play out.

I certainly wouldn't call it 'so wrong'.
What to Do When the Trisector Comes (PDF, 1983)
> A trisector is a person who has, he thinks, succeeded in dividing any angle in three equal parts using straightedge and compass alone. He comes when he sends you his trisection in the mail and asks your opinion, or (worse) calls you to discuss his work, or (worse still) shows up in person.
I wouldn't count on prices not changing relative to other retailers on this sort of thing--or a particular SKU remaining the best deal.
> all nations of muslims are ruled by a-secular, illiberal dictators

This describes none of the Arab monarchies. Neither does it describe Iran, Afghanistan or Pakistan. (Indonesia and Malaysia are political science’s Rorschach tests.)

Secular dictatorships in the Muslim world are the exception, unless we’re using highly unorthodox definitions of secularity or dictatorship. (Secular government in Muslim-majority countries is common; most are not dictatorships [1].)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_secularism
Audi TT mk1 1.8T/180hp

Fantastic little car and surprisingly practical - roof bars on top have seen kayaks, bikes and surfboards.

It's the second mk1 I've owned.
GP is exaggerating, but they definitely do seem to be increasing the number of ads in apps. Apple News (even the paid News+) has tons of ads, often after a single sentence in an article. In AppleTV+ (a service I love!) they’ve removed the image cards of shows in your up next queue on the “What to Watch” page and replaced them with a big auto-playing audio and video preview of one of their shows that’s not in your list. There’s no way to get the old functionality back. I’ve stopped using the app other than from the Home Screen where I have it set to show my “Up Next” queue. It’s really disgusting that they’re making these changes and it’s really turning me off of their services which I loved until recently.
I think an Electron replacement would be a killer app for servo. I hope that happens.
Thank you for sharing your story.

When I was in college, I joined a community service fraternity. One of the most memorable and heartwarming event was our visit to a retirement home. We were there to help the staff, but the best part was sitting with the residents and listening to their stories. Stories of war, stories of love, stories of friendship. Stories waiting for an attentive and friendly ear. Sometimes, all you need to do is just listen.

I look back at that day with fond memories.
Not too different from Damien Hurst, then
I use this uBlock filter to hide all the shorts garbage. https://letsblock.it/filters/youtube-shorts
With the processor being rated "up to 106 watts" I would expect to see M1 Ultra in the list.
Right. I remember a very small non-profit that was so happy with my code the owner wouldn't let me fix a bug (lack of a fail-safe), having convinced himself it would never be a problem the way the software would be used. Despite the fact I was working for free. Two years later, someone else was assigned to use the software, and that "bug" incurred a phone bill that killed the non-profit outright, as I had predicted could happen.
Non-wobbly clock in SVG + JavaScript (without HTML): https://www.nayuki.io/res/full-screen-clock-javascript/full-...
Real GDP per capita is a better indicator of "economic wealth" than valuation.

Asset values swing most wildly on the basis of the risk free rate, which is where most of the new "wealth" created since 2020 has come from (ZIRP, QE etc). It is somewhat illusory in that low rates must be sustainable to support elevated valuations. Obviously we're seeing the other side of that with rates having risen due to inflationary pressures.

e.g. look at how much "wealth" Japan had in the 1980's before their economy imploded. The imperial palace was perceived to be worth more than all of California, something like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble
Google's assistant ain't better. Every few days something random will make it trigger on my or my wife's phone. Every time my mom visits, something ends up triggering it on her phone.

Google must have made an update or something, because all those false positives started suddenly a few months back. The first time was both the most irritating and the most hilarious.

We have an old phone loaded with some educational videos and select songs for our 3.5 y.o., which we recently let her handle herself when she asks for it (and wasn't otherwise misbehaving for most of the day). So one time, we gave her the phone when she asked, and a minute later, we heard an increasingly agitated voice from the children's room, saying "I don't like you. I DON'T LIKE YOU. GO AWAY." - and we noticed we are not hearing the music. I went over to check, and sure enough, Google's assistant somehow triggered in the middle of the video, pausing it, refusing to turn itself off, and saying some nonsense.

(The hilarious bit is that my daughter perfectly summed up what my wife and I learned to think about the voice assistants. We don't like you. GTFO.)
i can’t find the local news article because the link is dead, but here is a change.org petition about a Subway employee having a noncompete enforced: https://www.change.org/p/subway-restaurants-absurd-non-compe...

The NYT has more examples including a summer camp counselor: https://archive.ph/1BvoM

If the noncompete truly has no value, and it is also not worth paying out for, then it should just not be in the employment contract to start.
Wood pellet stoves are very efficient and semi-automated. Pellets can be cheaper than split logs (if you have to buy them).
Thanks for that. We had those as well. But third-grade me never really thought about the purpose. So it's fun to think about it now.

In contrast, I'll sometimes now walk into a lobby or reception area of a business where they will have like five different analog clocks on the wall representing NY, Paris, London, etc, (trying to look "international" I guess) and the minute hands are out of sync. Kind of sad in 2023. :-)
From this I derive that you believe you are compensated for the good you do humanity. I, too, hope this is true. Thanks for answering my question and defending your position.
> end of the Black Death occurred over 400 years before the start of the Industrial Revolution

“Right before” was hyperbole. The population, and in particular, labor effects, were nevertheless persistent. Western labor was anomalously expensive.
> What a bunch of hypocrites.

Is "your policies must be fully consistent with any advice given in any of your open source repos" really a standard we should hold big companies to? Because if we treat open-sourcing a text file of recommendations as the company making a statement or commitment to that effect, companies will be way more limited in what they allow their engineers to make public this way. With chilling effects that go beyond semi-humorous recommendations. ("Do you really want to try to open-source this library? You know how frustrating Legal and PR can be to deal with...")
Author here. Exactly, that's the biggest risk!
Recent and related:

Wikipedia admin jailed for 32 years after alleged Saudi infiltration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34278322 - Jan 2023 (65 comments)
> I'm not buying anything off it until I've deeply reviewed what I'm about to buy.

<...> and even then you might get a fake from due to commingled inventory. Even for books ([1], [2], [3]).

1. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6920552...

2. https://twitter.com/burkov/status/1369096357252849664

3. https://hairysun.com/amazons-book-piracy-problem.html
While analog watches aren't as precise, they are faster. It takes most people less time to process, as humans (apparently)[1] can interpret an image faster than numbers.

For example, 189/304 vs [####__]; the latter is probably faster to process.

Also, not related to clocks, but analog gauges in particular: a number lacks an important vector of information: rate of change.

[1] https://books.google.nl/books?id=nrtUgKzFhJ4C&pg=SA7-PA16&lp...
6) There are several similar but different societies that shared a common ancestry (with the Romans and Greeks)

This created an intense competition where the best ideas would survive.

As trade grew so did the exchange of ideas in Europe. Different regimes had different views on intellectuals. Famously, Da Vinci and Voltaire had multiple patrons through their lives.
this comment has successfully derailed the conversation. now we're talking about the arab person's disposition to freedom like it's twenty years ago and not what the kingdom of saudi arabia does to wikipedia editors, which is what the article you're ostensibly commenting on is about. what a waste of space.
the lower surface of the pack ?

Yes. In some cases, the battery pack also serves as a structural component.

https://electrek.co/2021/01/19/tesla-structural-battery-pack...
> Where are you going to get that, or any other raw material?

Bootstrap with whatever the initial mission payload is. It's not like anyone is proposing magically teleporting there without stuff, IIRC even Musk's optimistic idea is still several no-humans flights for each passenger flight.

> Robot miners? We don't have those on Earth yet.

Sure we do. TBMs. Not all of which are manned. A few of the missions on Mars right now are taking rock samples with drills.

(Honestly, I'm mainly thinking of the moon, but Mars has moons too. No idea if any of Mars, Demios, or Phobos have significant easy access to aluminium oxides).

> Where do you get the power for all of this? Solar panels don't behave well during sandstorms, the sun isn't very bright there, and how many solar panels can we really fly to Mars?

Sure, PV. They do suffer as you say, but that's not a critical failure when bootstrapping a colony or whatever, especially when you're in the "robotic labor only" phase that (a) is a prerequisite and (b) Optimus Prime or whatever random pop culture reference Musk named that middling demo after. While I don't have any reason to actually trust Musk's "million people" number as anything more than a nice round number, at that kind of scale you necessarily have a lot of PV. Like, "tens of square km" is the minimum baseline. How much is made locally vs sent by Starship depends what can be made locally vs. what can't.

Plus, a Mars colony is one of the few situations where orbital solar via microwave isn't obviously worse than "a big wire to the other side of the planet".

As Starship has ~100T payload, and this PV is 120 W from 5.2g, given 50% reduction in sunlight relative to Earth, even if all the semiconductors have to be shipped from Earth, it's only a few flights out of what you need just to get the people, never mind the other bootstrap equipment you also want: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ultrathin-solar-cells-for-lightwei...
today I'm with my father, he we scheduled for angioplasty which was unsuccessful as he will need heart surgery. His heart is to clogged up. We are now waiting to see the doctor for the next steps.

As I'm seeing him age and become more fragile, I also don't think I've done anything more important that what I'm doing right now.

thank you for sharing this story.
I love GraphQL, it makes generating types for any language very easy, with one schema, and you don't have to worry about the shape of the response on either the server or the client due to such types. If you don't need multiple clients and are using TypeScript, you could use trpc though (and with Rust I also know of rspc).

This article is interesting, however it seems `@live` isn't part of the official specification. Also, you can use something like TanStack Query to synchronize server state, which works with GraphQL as well as regular REST, or you can use a GraphQL client directly like Apollo or urql, which also does the same syncing, so I'm not sure for what purpose this directive serves exactly. Maybe it's for languages that don't have a good server side syncing library?
> If the wealth captured isn’t real, meaning it can’t be realized in any normal sense (outside of big numbers on a screen) does it matter?

I would argue yes. Not because there's more wealth, but because it means that a greater percentage of the existing wealth is going to the largest 1%.
That's not entirely fair - the default has been to ALLOW people to set buckets to public and/or to set public ACLs on individual objects. Both of these require the customer to Do Something in order to grant public access. The default has NOT been "public access for all" ever, that I am aware of.
Found the Amazon shill.
I just seen new interesting research using JAX like Kevin Murphy's "Probabilistic machine learning" https://probml.github.io/pml-book/.

Also using TF is a PITA so all in all, I don't want to spend time using it.
The problem in the UK is that conservatives and neo-liberals have been actively dismantling the service over the last 20 years.

At a time when there were already staffing difficulties conservatives dis-incentivised people from becoming nurses by removing training bursaries.

Parts of the system have already been stealthily privatised with the associated drop in quality and additional costs. In many cases employees of the NHS are simultaneously being paid private rates using public money through schemes like "right to choose".

At a time when staff nurses are being told they don't deserve higher pay, private agencies are being paid >3 times the staff rate in order to fill gaps in staffing caused by lack of pay and overwork. The result is artificially inflated staffing costs and an incentive for the remaining staff to move over to the agency for what is often double what they'd be earning.

The correct course of action is to bring costs back into line by expunging the parasitic private healthcare system. Every agency position eliminated pays for 2 staff nurses with a healthy pay rise. The improvement to staffing ratios would further improve the nature of the job.
> Richest 1% amassed almost two-thirds of new wealth created since 2020

Is that claim still valid when the current #2 richest person lost $200B?