skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If PG's writing is "pseudo intellectual philosophy" I wonder what true intellectual philosophy looks like.

Looking at other comments in this thread, I get the impression that people have this ideal of an essay that looks like an academic paper, that starts with a literature review.

But that is not how writing and thought naturally flows.

People write like this to suck up to the right people who might help them get a job as an assistant professor somewhere, or tenure or maybe just cite their own papers in return.

I find it repulsive.
why do people bring up humans and their brains, as if it's gonna affect how models create and store image data/derivative data in a very definitive form of bits on a disk? just as a distraction?
Now I can train my colleagues and friends and family to click on dodgy links.
> When I'm reading, I'm trying to be thoughtful, not titillated.

This might not be universal. I read for fun, I guess titillated is fun too. There are certain niche topics on which I don't think I can find tiktok videos. But I still want to know about them and many times there are articles, blogs etc available. Not all reading needs to be about the gung ho race to better yourself. Reading can be trashy too, and I love it.
There is the Walmartized rainbow culture that you’re talking about and then there’s the meat and potatoes queer culture that is and will always be counterculture for as long as human reproduction remains sexually binary. There is still a substantial amount of “queerness” that you don’t see on TV.

Primary culture loves to pull from counterculture after the morsel has been thoroughly sanitized and monetized.
That case is still a lot better than no backups and having to tell your customers that the data is gone.
Most small towns where remote workers might settle are not driven by agriculture. Agriculture matters, but we don't live in an economy where everything outside of metro areas is just farms as far as the eye can see.
If you think LGBT is the counterculture, Raytheon advertising wants a word with you.
> Everyone has different preferences. Based on those they get different outcomes. I actually have also met, and read on HN tons of people in tech who kinda resent people who work a lot because it makes them look bad.

The reason people resent folk who work crazy hard isn't because it makes them look bad (though it's probably factor to an extent). It's because that that preference has become the default for the whole of society in the West. The article points out that both policy in the US and social norms/values have become highly preferenced towards those who work crazy hard. The point isn't that it's bad for certain individuals to value work over everything else, it's that it's bad for society as a whole.

As you say everyone has different preferences but due to this shift people whose preference isn't to put work/career before everything else are being penalised. And despite the rhetoric here it's perfectly possible to value work and work hard without it being your top priority in life.
I’m curious if GP has any positive examples too, but did want to mention that being “the best of the awful” doesn’t make one not “awful”.
Yup. The fact this person doesn’t see this is evidence for the article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1
Hah, kids today. I’m half expecting cigarettes to make a comeback. Imagine the reaction millennials would have to a handful of teens smoking in front of drop off at a high school.
No but culturally they are much more obedient there. China has never known a free society.

And even there civil disobedience is growing, the CCP had to rapidly reverse its COVID policy to retain control.
Sure, when they're not in some meeting, or marked online and not actually there. To ask questions is a pain having to ring them constantly after ending the previous call.

Sure. one could argue that this would happen in the office too but at least you can grab their attention easier.
Because his son is a developer who wants to disrupt existing communities without the community having a say in it. He disguises it in a mask of egalitarianism. But his argument is the same as a pro-lifer who claims they’re the voice of the unheard baby to be aborted without considering the existing person who’s voice we can actually verify.
> Sending that to a witness using Signal's disappearing messages does sound like tampering

And incompetent - isn't it better practice to ask a mutual friend/colleague/third party to do the tampering for you so you can get plausible denial?

"I bumped into Sam last week - he was upset that his relationship with you might be ending"
It was prob the bikies that are associated with the union - a lot of drug money is washed via real estate development

The state politician who set the anti terror squad on friendlyjordies is more concerning from a freedom standpoint
This website breaks reader mode as well as the increase font size button on Safari iOS.
He wasn't using that functionality according to https://ia801508.us.archive.org/25/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.5...

(in addition to sending it over e-mail)
vb.ly is an example of this happening.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/08/bitly-lib...
Is this from International Genetic Technologies, Inc.?
Something needs to change in the digital payments sector. 1.5% is ok-ish but 3.25% to accept foreign cards in the EU is a lot of money!

I understand that costs are higher when using credit cards because of the credit part that introduces risk, but in my case for example I have a debit card that runs also over Mastercard, so either I have the money or I don't. Why should a merchant be charged the same fee of using a real credit card if the risk is highly reduced?

I still don't understand why it is so hard to break the Visa/Mastercard duopoly on card payments. Why isn't there a standard for payments that banks can implement? Why are Visa/Mastercard/Amex required? SEPA in EU is already something but it is taking ages for it to become an actual payment platform in everyday's life.
They are values which promote the functioning of a healthy and balanced society with people less inclined and/or enthusiastically supported for being inherently self-centered and self-destructive. Endless drug epidemics are a very prominent and visual symptom of the damage rampant degeneracy has inflicted upon society and that in general, things as they are currently are NOT alright.
I mentioned this in other comments, but the actual edgy counterculture these days is the tradcath types. They have all the funny memes, they make the media angry, Karens despise them – reminds me a lot of the hippies.
"medium is the message"

That brought back grad school memories. The Internet is an excellent example of this. We're watching -- in real-time -- the medium challenge society (at all levels and across boundaries).

The Internet is still an infant; yet look at its impact.
> I don't really buy this idea of "thinking for yourself". We are nothing more than the product of our experiences.

To think for oneself means to think based on one's experiences, not based on the thoughts of others.
What about your internet connection. Can you share you 5G in two different locations at same time?
It doesn't. Seemingly it's hard to keep yourself to the truth when shitting on SBF.
This will be a gamechanger for Domain-Driven Design.
Not to mention redpill, mgtow, incel etc. Counter culture aren't always rainbows and flowers.
Let's say you and your partner go out to each weekly and spend $100 per dinner. That's $5,000 a year. Cutting this entirely lets you have a loan a little less than $100,000 larger at a 6% rate.

This is a case of eating out a lot, cutting it entirely and the effect doesn't even cover the amount a typical home has appreciated by in the past five years.
That's easy. We work to get stuff. The better the economy, the more stuff we get for less work input. The ideal that we're slowly getting asymptotically closer to is a world where we get everything for no work at all.
The hippies were the counterculture, weren't they? Yet they weren't hard to find or identify. I guess it can get muddy, but what you're describing sounds more like underground culture to me. It can be happily compatible with the mainstream culture, it's not oppositional, it's just obscure and hidden because of it.
Very good read, content is that of any 14yo in a room with a computer in the early 2000s. Very nostalgic.
The Canine Model of AGI
Looks like Google Cloud CDN.

Cache egress $0.02-$0.20 per GiB

Getting on the front page of Hacker News might hurt their "pocket's" a bit.
"Businesses in the EEA who are paying out in USD to a US-domiciled bank account will now incur a 1% fee, with a minimum fee of US$2.50 per payout."

This is absurd. A 1% fee to transfer USD to a USD bank account?

The alternative is to charge in another currency - which Stripe will put a 2% currency fee on.

This is already on top of their expensive transaction costs.

Will actively look for alternatives now.
Some European alternatives you might be able to find/negotiate better fees with:

- mollie (Netherlands)

- adyen (Netherlands)

- Klarna (Sweden)

- Paylike (Denmark)

- Mangopay (Luxembourg)

- Quickpay (Denmark) (added in edit)

The ones I've tried of those, have an OK development experience, maybe not as polished as Stripe, but much better than the alternatives that were around before Stripe (huge hassle back then). Ideally, you'll support at least two providers you can switch between, if you can afford the development of supporting two, as at one point or another, it'll save your ass or at least a bit of money as fee structures change between providers. It'll also be easier to integrate a third one in the future when you eventually find the perfect one (until they turn into the next Stripe).

> Dispute fees (also known as chargebacks) will increase from €15 to €20. Due to costs for managing dispute evidence submissions, we'll no longer refund this fee if the customer's bank resolves the dispute in your favor.

This strikes me as weird. User buys something from me, regrets it and issues a chargeback, dispute gets started and bank says I did nothing wrong, so the charge still sticks, but Stripe gets to keep the fee for handling the dispute?
"stupidest available choice every time in every circumstance" yet was a billionaire? Sure.
Suburbs are economically insolvent, dense cities aren’t. That’s the case for basically every suburb and dense downtown in the US.
Since the advent of Spotify and other streaming services, I listen to a much greater variety of music. And it's music that I never would have heard if had to pay per song or album.
Guinness World Record for longest line-of-sight photograph
Lol. I’ve lived in Hyde Park or Woodlawn (the neighborhoods around UofC) for over 20 years. It’s not rough and kids play in the streets and sidewalks all the time. Soccer, baseball and hockey are very common, along with skateboarding and variations of tag. I’ve recently seen kids playing pickle ball which seems like they should be made fun of for. Basketball is less common than where I grew up in Indiana but that’s because there are a ton of courts in the parks.
Decentralized Security
If corporations don’t play along they certainly get punished for it. The audience expects them to be onboard or else.
> [...] he still believes that he has the power to change society and doesn't need to follow any laws

that's not a partisan position, there's fruitcakes of every political persuasion who think they're above the law. for every poly leftist who thinks ponzi schemes are justified because the money can be used to promote veganism, there's a person on the right who thinks ponzi schemes are justified because money can be used to promote christian values.
I was getting 800mbps on 4G though.
Put it through Lighthouse with a score of 30/100. No wonder
Not true.

The Canonical security team and wider Ubuntu contributors will still make best efforts to update universe. Neither the team nor I are interested in degrading a prior experience for our free users. We know what the criteria were for those best-effort universe updates, and they remain unchanged.

What's changed is that there is now a much larger team that will systematically fix every high and critical vulnerability in universe, with an SLA. That's a huge improvement, it's great for enterprise users, it enables people to use Ubuntu in regulated and mission-critical environments. It also makes me very happy that we give it free for personal use on 5 machines.
yes, mostly the user base are from LATAM and Spain
i need help on marketing to get users from other countries
thanks for your comment :)
What if the government helped people switch jobs after they're made redundant?
Oh that's a great example too. Big Bang was more about the hollywood nerd, but Silicon Valley is a great example of peak hollywood hacker.

Why is it taking till the 2020's for it to be so obvious though?
I don't think that what you described counts as counterculture in what the people in general understand as the "societal" meaning of the term. All societies in all epochs had their share of people living off of the grid or in hedonistic and socially repproachable ways.

A counterculture is a set of social norms that clash with the establishment to the point of generating a credible threat of replacing it and creating a new cultural reality. LGBTQIA people living in warehouses and doing orgies is not a common way of living for sure, but it sounds more like a bout of isolated risky behaviour than a new cultural norm.
History of Lisp Parentheses (2019)
The correct choice of infrastructure for a tech-based startup may help to cope with unpredictable user base growth, volatile demand, and server load. In other words, it’s crucial for scaling. And you should take a hard look at such infrastructure options as Firebase, Lambda on PHP, Kubernetes, and Docker Swarm to understand how to scale a software product correctly and timely, in alignment with business flow.
https://colossal.com/wp-content/themes/colossal/img/dodo/her... seems to be the main culprit: 10MB of JPEG at 2880x2400, absolutely unnecessary given that a simple re-export at 70% quality (imperceptible differences) takes it down to 385KB and a rescale to 1440x1200 takes it down even further to 72KB. Makes you wonder how many petabytes are pointlessly running between continents. Although in this case WordPress should have taken care by default to optimize the images.
Yes, so why WG14 or whoever in charge has not accepted that one simple addition responsible for so many errors ?
It's not like it would affect performance. For strings, it would even make it better, simply moving the lenght around with the compiler's help.
> There was no pressure from the U.S. to buy it

How would you know? Are you privy to all conversations between the Finnish and the U.S. government?

> there are no incentives from the U.S. to buy it

Right from the article itself:

>> However, in what is a major win for the team behind HX, Lockheed Martin provided a unique tailored solution to Finland – one described in their BAFO-press statement to “includes many opportunities for the Finnish defense industry related to the direct manufacture and maintenance of the F-35 that have not been offered before.”

Pretty much all buyers of the F-35 have been offered different sorts of kick-back deals, where they get to produce parts of the plane or handle maintenance, so the deal props up the national arms industry in some way or another. A nice boon for the politicians who can then brag about how they’re securing Finnish/Danish/Italian/whatever jobs.
I don't have a mac, do these voices rely on a cloud component to function or do they run locally? (without internet access is the real test I guess)
Yeah, exactly.

What an engineer thinks: "Why not attach this thing to a beacon so that it can't be lost?"

What everybody else thinks: "Why not persecute everybody responsible to the fullest possible extent?" Which is just our reptilian brain looking for somebody to blame but isn't actually helping anything.
Leaves the EU and have more financial independence and to negotiate own deals

Gets grouped with EU decisions anyway.
"Nuclear powered subs, there is no intent or request to provide nuclear weapons"

Oh there is intent - enough nukes to end a superpower from the grave is our goal
This probably needs a [2015], I don’t know about everything in the article but there are a few mentions of costs which will at least be out of date now that F35 is more widely produced
Maybe not a core engine, but certainly a lot of frontends have a NodeJS component.
> 35 can fly one hour every two days

This is wrong.

The F-35 Joint Program Office said that maintenance man hours per flight hour (MMH/FH) were 4.79 for the F-35A, 7.48 for the U.S. Marine Corps’ F-35B, and 7.55 for the U.S. Navy F-35C

https://www.aviationtoday.com/2022/09/02/lockheed-martin-not...
Broken window fallacy + slippery slope fallacy

I wonder why we never see slippery slope arguments about unaffordable housing.

Even if remote work is bad for the economy - its good to have the option and to not enforce it on people who don't need to do it.

It relieves pressure on roads.
It gives people time back they lost in commutes.
If people insulate their homes properly - it will lower carbon emissions.
It relieves rent pressures in the city.
We live in a time without major trials or struggle. It’s lead by and large to people that have little to say. Most people’s lives are by the measure of any other generation in history more-or-less perfect. The average persons quality of life surpass that of Royalty not that long ago - access to exotic fruits in off seasons, all the nations libraries in your pocket, lack of any kind of physical labor.

We are all princes of our own kingdoms.

Our gripes today are so minor previous generations would have largely found them laughable. It’s why so much of our decent media depicts the past. It’s hard to make a compelling story about social media addiction. It’s been done, but it’s difficult.

We’re approaching Brave New World much more quickly than I’d ever anticipated reading it in the 90s.
Low Amounts of Drinking Are Healthy
I see a lot of posts https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
about alcohol and in particular the WHF policy brief was very highly up voted with a title echoing a misrepresentation they make.
I lived between Barcelona and London through the lockdowns.

As far as I can tell, current studies indicate that in all likelihood only the first lockdown in the UK may have been "worth it" (and even then, it should have happened earlier and not lasted nearly as long as it did)

You'll easily find a bunch of rather credible literature on the subject, e.g. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.miles/document/7583/Mile...

Or more folksy news articles like https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/14/coronavirus-co...

Are you aware of conflicting literature?
ElevenLabs Voice AI misuse and prevention efforts
I think you are right. The US kinda feels like Asimov’s foundation, especially in the west coast. Fewer people acting like adults and more people chasing dopamine and letting entropy do its damage.

Maybe I just need to stop taking public transportation and walking the city. Perhaps suburbs feel further from the precipice.
Had a similar thing at my place. We spend extortionate amounts on AWS for a load balanced setup - we dont make any real use of any of their other services so its not like we're reliant on them for everything. The guy who set it up had (and really still has) no clue that you can get just as reliable setup at a fraction of the cost using a few bare metal servers.

Of course when I suggested that we use a huge provider (I think it was probably Hetzner) it was shrugged off as being a bad idea because "they probably run them out of their garage", ignoring the multiple datacenters spread out across Europe where our primary clients are based.
Saab JAS 39 Gripen, Eurofighter Typhoon, Dassault Rafale and Boeings Super Hornet were all possible options.
If signalling support for X is good publicity then X is mainstream regardless of intentions.
Would love to hear about the other tuning settings.
The argument I hear mostly from the ‘remote work is bad’ crowd is that there is highly valuable intangible benefit to collaboration in real life than collaboration remotely.

I can get behind the idea that remote work is not as effective especially when forming a new team or assimilating new team members. However the thing that the ‘remote work is bad’ crowd get wrong is the distribution of collaborative work and deep individual work.

My experience is that in person collaborative synchronization is needed far less than even once a week. In person touch points with a white board and plenty of getting to know each other as humans time is super valuable… and in my opinion 2-4 times a year in needed, not 3-5 days per week.
Speaking of bubbles, it seems like you're in a pretty big one. To speak directly to your comment. The shared fireplace is now composed of streaming services, news, and social media with its heavily censored content. There is a very strong dominant narrative in society right now, in the US it is somewhat two pronged but those tines are joined at the handle. The Western leaders all subscribe to the same clubs and seem to do a pretty good job of agreeing on the policies they introduce. The bubbles you speak of are all created and driven by the same underlying forces that have shaped media since the early 20th century. If you want to start to pull off the blinders, read Propaganda by Bernays. He lays things out pretty clearly since he was arguing for the use of it to intelligently manage society. If you take each principal he gives and imagine how it would be applied to modern media and technology you'll see things with new eyes.
What separates your app from thousands others that pretend to do something profound but end up rugpulling in a few months? I suppose the part where you actually need to get people's money before running away with it...

Have you even clicked the link and given the description a cursory look? It isn’t one app, it’s many. What separates them is that they are built to be used by entire communities, not peer to peer. There is documentation, there are interviews with regulators. And all you have to do to use it is press a button and it costs you nothing. It is altogether different than the scams that have hype and no product.

Prices of what, exactly? Your comment reads exactly like a cookie cutter generic cargo cult comment where you didnt even look at what is specifically being discussed.
It's claimed to have an operational range of 3000km.

Kh-55 has a similar range, but lower speed (sea-skimming, though).

Then there is the Kh-32 with operational range stated as 600-1000km.

And then there are plenty of missiles of ranges from 300-1000km.

Also, China is actively developing similar systems.

I suppose it's classified at what ranges these systems would be able hit targets such as carriers. But if they're able to at all, it would be at rangers much beyond what you can defend against with aim120/aim160 missiles.

RIM 161/SM3 would provide some protection, but they are probably not very accurate at the extreme ranges, especially if targetting supersonic attackers.

Which means that interceptors may be the best option. Against large groups of enemies, the speed of the interceptor is still relevant, and there are certainly some in the Navy that worries about the loss of the F14, in particular in the Pacific.

For now, I suppose it makes sense to have some F22's and F15's in the general area where such conflicts could take place.
Exactly. A counter culture needs some room to take risks. You can’t do that with the Damocles’ sword of visibility/virality hanging over you 24x7. The other comment about being offline is right. You’ll find some cool pseudonymous writers online too.
An elephant survived a 10M jump from Wuppertal's suspension railway in 1950
Yeah, this one is a bit over the top. 1% fee for USD to USD transfer.

People from Stripe will probably appear in this discussion any moment now. It’ll be interesting seeing them try to explain this one.