skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only reason to only do 100% remote is not about collaboration or similar stuff. It's plainly: I do not live near a big city (nor want to).
Yes, the web is a terrible platform for applications. Anything on the web that goes beyond the equivalent of linked PDFs will be wonky.

There's nothing on the web even approaching 1990s desktop applications. Specially if you care about latency, precision, and text inputs not randomly eating what you type.

Even with the wonkiness, the web is usually worth using because of the access you get to big amounts of data and backend servers providing nice services.
Then why by Linode, who's entire business model is small business and hobbiests?
Your comment comes across as rude (to me at least), since you don't explain why OP doesn't understand it, or what they miss about hip-hop or its history.
That is insufficient. An institution can be subverted and that isn't even too difficult. No, people need to control their own information and need to be empowered to do so.

Such indirection might make sense for data that must be collected anyway. But it should only be collected if necessary in the first place.
Buddhism's 4 noble truths. Aversion & craving, impermanence, etc.
This is certainly the goal of Akamai as that is their core business. Linode though targeted the lower and and success stories are much rarer on that end. For every discord you have 100,000+ new clients. Linode was doing fine with this structure and cashed out at nearly a billion with just small customers. Plus discord was probably best to leave as their network wasn’t designed to handle dos attacks well.
>This seems similar in a sense.

They exist in very similar segments portions of their respective industries serving very similar customer demographics (in North America). Naturally there is going to be quite a bit of evolutionary convergence.
To be fair to the journalist; editors usually write headlines so you may be unfairly attributing the word choice to them.
The last time I used cash was some dodgy kebab kiosk. I don't carry any coins or banknotes. I don't even have a wallet, just a card underneath the phone cover. However, I don't want my or any other country going full digital on it. Hell is already wallpapered with initiatives like this.
I’ll go esoteric.

Existence precedes essence.

I first encountered existentialism in HS within the book of “One Day in the life of Ivan D.” If a labor camp prisoner can find meaning and even beauty in those circumstances my HS self had quite a bit of opportunity around him. But it’s also a good entry point to stoicism, too.

Edit-special mention to Long Chen Pa’s “since everything in the universe is perfect in being exactly as it is, having nothing to do with acceptance/reject […] one may well burst out in laughter.” In a writing on Taoism (I think? Been way too long).
Edit2-Long Chen Pa must have been writing about Tibetan Buddhism.
Ok, I've read the whole post. It's quite long, but fantastic!

(It's also quite unlike so many ramblings from Stephen Wolfram that are always pitching "the Wolfram Language" or the Wolfram platform or some kind of Wolfram system. He does a little bit of that at the end, but not too much.)

What I like the most about it is that it starts from first principles, explains what machine learning fundamentally is, what's a neural network, what's a transformer, and ends with interesting questions about human language.

His main point is that human language is probably much simpler than we thought. Some excerpts:

> In the past there were plenty of tasks—including writing essays—that we’ve assumed were somehow “fundamentally too hard” for computers. And now that we see them done by the likes of ChatGPT we tend to suddenly think that computers must have become vastly more powerful—in particular surpassing things they were already basically able to do (like progressively computing the behavior of computational systems like cellular automata).

> But this isn’t the right conclusion to draw. Computationally irreducible processes are still computationally irreducible, and are still fundamentally hard for computers—even if computers can readily compute their individual steps. And instead what we should conclude is that tasks—like writing essays—that we humans could do, but we didn’t think computers could do, are actually in some sense computationally easier than we thought.

> In other words, the reason a neural net can be successful in writing an essay is because writing an essay turns out to be a “computationally shallower” problem than we thought. And in a sense this takes us closer to “having a theory” of how we humans manage to do things like writing essays, or in general deal with language.

(...)

> So how is it, then, that something like ChatGPT can get as far as it does with language? The basic answer, I think, is that language is at a fundamental level somehow simpler than it seems. And this means that ChatGPT—even with its ultimately straightforward neural net structure—is successfully able to “capture the essence” of human language and the thinking behind it. And moreover, in its training, ChatGPT has somehow “implicitly discovered” whatever regularities in language (and thinking) make this possible.

> The success of ChatGPT is, I think, giving us evidence of a fundamental and important piece of science: it’s suggesting that we can expect there to be major new “laws of language”—and effectively “laws of thought”—out there to discover. In ChatGPT—built as it is as a neural net—those laws are at best implicit. But if we could somehow make the laws explicit, there’s the potential to do the kinds of things ChatGPT does in vastly more direct, efficient—and transparent—ways.

Of course it's pure conjecture at this point. Yet it's all quite convincing and indeed, pretty exciting.
I remember when my mom got her first new car, and suddenly we parked at the end of the lot to avoid other people's doors scratching the paint.

I drive an old economy shit box that I beat like a rented mule. I'm indifferent to dings and scratches. It has been raced more than most Porsches. It cost the tenth of the price of one. I put the rest of the money into driving it to interesting places.

I took my not-adventure-bike halfway around the world and back with the money I didn't spend on a BMW. I shrugged after every fall, because it's not a BMW.

Tools are meant to be used. If you can't use them as you please, you have the wrong tools.
Unlikely. But it doesn't matter because the point is validated anyway by the countless other documented cases that aren't you.
The new one also has lower performance
Best advice I got was from my psychology professor. He said "if someone asks you to do something, especially in a social situation, tell them you will think about it". It prevents you from saying yes under pressure. I still rememeber using it when someone at my old workplace wanted me to sign up to be in a club (that had a fee). I never joined and I am proud that I didn't.

Also, I've learned a few things from Jordan Peterson: (1) reframe accurately what someone is telling you when they have a problem, and (2) give someome very specific positive feedback when they do something you like.

Finally, from my mom: don't care what other people think (in the sense of not letting it get in the way of doing something you know is right for you).

And a little bit of advice from myself: less is more. Don't accumulate things, don't go after the latest gadgets. Knowledge is power but too much knowledge (in the factual, scientific sense of knowledge) can take up mental space that would be better for personal development and care for others. And show respect for others AND the whole planet. It is what gave us life, and it's not a resource to use to create mostly irrelevant crap like AI and the latest iPhone.
Ask HN: Figma devs, can you add React Native?
Burner account.

Perhaps I'm being obnoxious and entitled but c'mon, could you consider having a dev learn react native and adds an option to have a complicated design be shown in React Native components. Simpler designs can easily be made with using <View>s and <Text>s - please consider it.
I love dystopian novels and have recently finished reading Limes inferior[1] by J. Zajdel. Policies implemented in the story (written in 1982!) and their similarity to present day politics are frightening! SPOILER ALERT: I'm describing the currency system from the novel.

Currencies were replaces by points stored on a device called the Key (= modern smartphone). There are red, green, and yellow points.

Red points are the simplest: all people are equal, so everyone gets the same number of red points per month, doesn't matter their skills, employment status, health, etc. That monthly allowance is enough to survive. It's like basic minimum income.

Green points are similar to red points, except they're paid out based on intellectual ability. A smarter person will always get more green points, irrespective of employment status. They were necessary because "all people are equal" is actually false.

Yellow points are most similar to a monthly salary. You can get the only by working. The higher your position in the hierarchy, the more yellow points you get every month.

Not all points are created equal, despite the official 1:1 fixed exchange rate. Quality goods are available only for yellow points, with other colors capable of buying substandard goods. That opened door to a host of black market activities for chameleons (who act as currency exchanges).

A central computing system, called _Syskom_, is used to track citizens' moves. Despite claims of objectivity, it's rules are often manipulated for policy goals.

A simplified example: some working people want to go up the hierarchy by faking their credentials. Criminals, called lifters, who can help them are often found in various bars. Those bars have slot machines allowing you to win hundreds of yellow points (an average salary is ~ 10 yellow pts). There's a non-zero chance that a winner, often drunk, will be approached by a lifter at a bar and hire him.

What does the government to catch more lifters? Increase the likelihood of winning at a slot machine and keep track of where the prize flows. "You pay 300 yellow points and you get a lifter" as they phrase it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes_inferior
Often because they need more than one disk installed. You could use a NAS, but then you've cost and additional energy consumption.
I reloaded the page a few times but it never gets past where I tell it my type of job.
War costs money. Civilians will be cut off from money and pushed down by security services and "law" enforcement, rewarded with privileges and confiscated money. So obvious, such a cliché, and works flawlessly every time ad infinitum.
Fair point. I would highly recommend to the author they take an hour and try it out. The amount of time VenToy as saved me over the past few years has to be in the 100+ hour range by now. Fantastic little tool.
You still need overprovisioning on NAND flash devices.
I keep seeing this and not understanding the point of it. Does anyone have insight? I already have a digital pound in my bank account.
When I wake from a dream, a world ceases to exist.
When I close a book, I didn't kill the characters inside.

Don't assume a subject where there is none. We create them in our imagination when we read a chat.

Maybe ask how an AI we could accept as a subject would look. Does it need individual memories? Does it need self-interest? Does it need a physical presence? Non-transferability?
That's how we know Bing was trained on Reddit discussions.
How does the performance of this version compare?
And it's not even a new thing. Previous generations already said the same, but they used the term "celebrities". The term "influencers" is just a re-branding, but it's the same as always.
Relevant discussion on profiling without frame pointers: https://twitter.com/halvarflake/status/1577644229853151233 / https://prodfiler.com/blog/introducing-prodfiler/ via the "prodfiler" tool.
Every time someone in my office mentions TikTok, my mental reaction is always “gag me with a f*cling spoon.”
The training data is also not great if you want to generalise the AI. There have been a lot of research showing that smaller datasets with better labelling make a far greater difference.

Remember, humans need less examples but far more time. We also don’t start from a blank slate: we have a lot of machinery built through evolution available from conception. And when we learn later in life we have an immense amount of prebuilt knowledge and tools at our disposal. We still need months to learn to play the piano, and years to decades to perfect it.

AI training happens in minutes to hours. I am not sure we are even spending time researching algorithms that take years to run for AI training.
Really old man it seems. He says “those of us who grew up in an age before the absurd legal fiction of Corporate Personhood” which puts him at well over 180 years old in the US.
ah, the sans-serif version of the Slipknot S

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/83/2f/a4/832fa4f4985dbcb7ebce92178...
I don’t understand your objection. It’s obviously well south of the middle. Even France is often lumped together with Southern Europe (esp in discussions about EU monetary policy) and it’s way further north than Serbia.

Also Serbian culture shares plenty of traits with other mediterranean cultures, despite not having a coastline (anymore). I don't understand who would be triggered, frankly.
I'd love to run a laptop, but I've yet to see good, cheap used laptops with ECC memory support.
Public awareness of ‘nuclear winter’ is too low given current risks
‘91, the economy was not so hot.
Absolutely agree. It's a fantastic piece. Here's my take on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34802764
I'm in my early 40s myself, so a gen X-er as they define it, but I'd say it's not only "old man shouts at clouds" thing, as I've stumbled upon lots of people whom I supposed were younger than me (and I suppose part of the gen Z age-cohort) and who were against this entire consoome mindset. I'd say it's the millennials who were the most affected by it (one of the many similarities between the millennial and the boomer age-cohort).
If someone does something once, they will do it twice
Yes I would sort of expect it to struggle/fail with more unique disc images. I only ever use it with official ISOs for this reason. If I don't see the OS listed on the compatibility list I tend to not waste my time seeing if it works or not.
Having tight positive feedback loops is great for motivation. For example when writing code, seeing immediately if it works. Either by hot reloading, automated testing or at least building it. I try to find the same in other mundane topics.
> Why? Just seems like a barrier to entry to me for no good reason?

The ABA considered the appropriateness in 1964 without a dissenting vote and raised the standard in 1965[1]:

WHEREAS, There is a lack of uniformity among the law schools approved
by The American Bar Association as to the name of the first degree in law
awarded to successful applicants; and
WHEREAS, Confusion has arisen in the minds of the public as to the dif-
ference, if any, between the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree and the Juris
Doctor (J.D.) degree; and
WHEREAS, Both of these degrees normally signify a first professional de-
gree in law; and
WHEREAS, Graduation from an approved law school requires the successful
completion of a course of study substantially above and beyond that re-
quired for the bachelor's degree in the Arts or Sciences: and
WHEREAS, The course of study in an approved law school is comparable to
or more demanding than other professional courses of study in which the
professional doctor's degree is awarded; and
WHEREAS, It is deemed to be in the best interest of the public and of the
legal profession that this confusion in terminology be eliminated and that
the high standards of professional training and the competency of graduates
of approved law schools be recognized by a uniform practice with respect to
the title of the first degree in law.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT: The Section of Legal Edu-
cation and Admissions to the Bar of The American Bar Association recom-
mends for all approved law schools favorable consideration of the con-
ferring of the degree of Juris Doctor (J.D.) by such schools on those students
who successfully complete the program leading to the first professional de-
gree in law.

[1] https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/mis...
> “War! What is it good for?” by Ian Morrison is a good read.

Few people know this, but that was actually the original title for "War and Peace". It was his mistress who insisted that he call it "War and Peace".
Why I Came to Hate Tokenomics
As someone who wasnt that young in the 90’s, i can assure you that young people then complained about the same stuff that the young people complain about today.

Now isnt a particularly unique or special time.
Your life is yours, you own it. Its entirely up to you how you live it - nobody can make that decision for you.

Don't spoil it by making excuses. Make goals instead, and then: attain those goals.
> However, only advertising "usable size" is truthful, everything else is misleading.

Sadly, this is extremely common for smartphones. 64 GB iphone, who knows what usable storage it has?

> It is sad that the legal system tolerates...

Just because it's not prosecuted doesn't mean it's not illegal.
Cloudflare revenues surpassed Akamai in 2022.
It is already illegal for businesses in Switzerland not the accept cash [1]. In fact the law specifically states that you need to accept up to CHF 100 in coins and all bills (including the CHF 1,000 bill). The issues is there is no penalty define if you don't and some businesses have decided they don't want to accept cash.

This vote however wont fix this, all it does it force the SNB to continue to make cash available in the constitution when the SNB itself already clearly stated they have no interest in getting rid of cash and it is currently in the law. There was pressure from the EU for Switzerland to get rid of the CHF 1000 note but they didn't.

If no one accepts cash the vote is mute. At least some should be forced such as food and clothing stores. Stores that are not 100% online.

[1] https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2000/186/en#art_3
"You are mistaken, your knowledge is partial, your certainty is a delusion, and real world consequences occur as a result. You desperately need to shut up. There are no exceptions."

You can test that advice here and now, first with your own apparent belief that advice can somehow be tested to be factually true, secondly by applying it to all of these comments.

Yes, I quoted myself.
> But it also suffers from all the inconvenient benefits a truly anonymous digital currency offers that cash does not

If you mean that it's used for criminal activities, how is it any different from cash in that manner?
> To be frank, while that number looks significant, when one considers how many miles of track there is in this country and how many miles the rolling stock travels (bad track is just as guilty as bad rolling stock), it could be far worse.

No, that's putting your head in the sand. Per ton-mile it's already far, far worse than in Europe & Russia.

https://i.imgur.com/CrzErQx.png

Taken from:
https://d-rail-project.eu/IMG/pdf/DR-D1-1-F1-Summary_Report_...
In 2021 Google introduced Logica, a Datalog variant. In their introduction blog they contrast it with SQL, so this may answer your question:

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/04/logica-organizing-...

In short, it's easier to compose (and decompose), which helps with complex queries that can be assembled from simpler, independently tested parts.

No personal experience in this, I just remembered that blog contrasting Datalog and SQL.
I regret reading this "article". 58000 views on one video, a tag that has 158 million views, and a whole lot of tempest in a teapot. I learned nothing of value from this.

People hating consumerism is not new. Just like nothing in this article is.
Ok, that made me laugh. Well done.
I wonder how many UFO stories are just unintended consequences of internal ass covering and procedural hacks.

Imagine there was an incident involving one or more flying objects, perfectly mundane and of terrestrial origin, being seen where they shouldn't have been, or misidentified in an embarrassing way. The kind of incident that would, normally, get some of the people involved fired. Except in this case, recorded evidence is scant and inconclusive enough that the people in question can report it upstairs as UFO sighting, and thus get to keep their jobs. Protocol having been followed, nobody bothers them about it.

Fast forward some amount of years, and the report ends up being leaked, declassified, or just read by the wrong person - either way, the public gets wind of it. What then? It would be nice for the government to tell the public what really happened, but the only people in position to do so are the ones who would get fired or imprisoned the moment they admit it might have not been an UFO after all. So of course they'll stay out of the spotlight, and hum the "X-Files" theme when asked directly.

In such cases, there would be no aliens, no secret military hardware - nothing The Government tries to keep silent about. Just ordinary people covering an ordinary fuckup with an unusual story, and sticking to it over the years.
> Some piece of psychology research said having others depend on you is a deep source of happiness.

I find it to be the absolute opposite. It's absolutely draining.

You can quickly become exhausted and apathic when constantly having people rely on you.
Right?

"At the other end, you could say I need a little wallet full of internet cash to buy things on Amazon"

It's already almost frictionless shopping on Amazon with my existing bank/pound?
> I also paid with a £50 for a few drinks in a bar and they did not have enough cash on hand to provide me with correct change

"£50 note in a bar" has been a mild horror story for as long as I can remember; bars hate accepting them. It's unlikely they didn't have enough cash to make change, unless you could see inside the till - more likely they wanted a non-confrontational way to refuse to take it, because £50 notes are the most common target for forgery, and they didn't want to give you real notes in change for a possible fake.

Nobody uses £50 notes regularly, the ATMs largest option is nearly always £20.
From my mom: If in a couple there is a wide intellectual imbalance, it is not going to last long. Whether it is intelligence or curiosity or culture.
Some things are more important than money. Studying at Harvard can offer a lot more than a good ROI on your degree -- including the opportunity to work and get to know some very smart people.

Lots of people graduated from Harvard to go on to make very little money but large contributions e.g. Richard Stallman is the parsimonious example that comes to mind. Noam Chomsky and other top academics probably aren't rolling around in cash either.
Well, of course a digital pound or any other CBDC cannot be used as a store of wealth. Like what the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is doing with the Digital Rupee; the UK is doing the same with a digital pound; a CBDC that will introduce savings limits of up to £20K to incentivise spending meaning you cannot save more than that and this cap can change at anytime.

Also admitted here:

> Money above the cap would be "swept" into a customer's commercial bank account given that a digital pound would not be a means for storing wealth, he told members of UK Finance, a banking industry body.

Imagine if this is forced upon like what is happening with the eNaira in Nigeria. [1] I won't be surprised to see the same thing happen in India with the ridiculous hype of UPI, which is certainly going to use CBDCs on there as payments.

Like I said before in [0] That should scare you.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33867672

[1] https://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/business-news/571691...