skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The utopian vision is that the entity with a monopoly on violence would ever produce impartial, socially good outcomes. Who are these regulators that would do a good job and who are these politicians that would be okay with them doing that? The politician's incentive is to get repeatedly elected which means money from donors and promising voters blah-blah-blah though those voters rarely hold them to account for their promised visions failing to materialize.

The vision of a society dedicated to free association of people should be a guiding star. The history of companies, even with a largely captured government, is that they tend to continually change, often growing smaller. Many of the big names in business nowadays did not even exist 50 years ago. Many of the big names of previous eras have long gone away. Competition yields temporary winners, but in a dynamically changing world open to all to be a competitor, they do not stay winners forever. Rockefeller kept trying to buy out all the refineries, but people can't making more. Eventually, he gave up. Cornering a market is very hard if government is not putting up barriers to entry.

As for authoritarian companies, more freedom for the working class to form their own businesses is the response. Our current government makes that very hard with a few exceptions, such as the seemingly entirely unregulated lawn businesses which is filled with small independents. Get rid of the government overhead, allow people to just do stuff for others as the others wish and get paid as mutually agreed, and then there would be competitive pressure on companies to change their approaches.

And, if not, make their replacements. Make democratically run companies. They exist and if that is what workers want, then they might thrive.

As for rail systems, there are certainly other means of transportation. That can serve as a temporary work around for a bad rail operator. Meanwhile, if there is sufficient need, one could construct new rail routes to go around the old ones if need be. It would start small, doing the most profitable portions and then work out from there as needed. Just the threat of that would probably lead to sensible negotiations.

Of course, to address the government supported oligopoly, one could also use eminent domain to take the rail tracks and then give them to the local communities in some kind of newly formed, broadly and locally owned companies. One would need to come up with ways of dispersing government property fairly anyway and one could also, at that time, redistribute any critical privately held infrastructure which had been supported unfairly by the government.
This is a common misstatement of evolution. Evolution is not directional and doesn't care whether a change is good, bad, or just completely useless. Evolution is nearly tautological: traits that result in entities being able to breed more, tend to get carried along. Traits that result in entities breeding less, tend to not get carried along.

Intelligence is a great example. It's obviously beneficial for both survival and reproduction, so should naturally be highly selected for. But in a society where higher intelligence correlates with lower reproduction, evolution will "select" for lower intelligence. Of course it's not evolution selecting for anything, but our own traits paired against our own outcomes. If it turns out to be beneficial for breeding, we could gradually even "devolve." But the notion of devolution is again somewhat nonsensical, because evolution has no direction.

So for many things I think looking for an evolutionary cause is not really meaningful. If evolution had a direction, we'd all be tardigrades.
This. Delete the / and add “.rss” and it is exactly what I want. Thanks!
Bellroy's technology stack, and how we got here
A short history: from off-the-shelf ecommerce platforms to statically typed functional programming languages.
Surprising to see tiny Star Labs in there
SMH

> A couple years later, they want to upgrade the validator now that supports the 2025 specification. However in that 2025 specification, we added database-field-id as a keyword, and its value is expected to be a string. Suddenly the user's schema is no longer valid. We've broken a user by adding a new keyword.

No you haven't. They chose to change. Same as if they change to another schema format altogether (eg XML). Is this implying a user is going commit to a schema (pragmatic laziness, notwithstanding) that they haven't read? Regardless, their following solution baffles...

> Therefore, no keyword addition can be considered safe, making forward compatibility impossible to guarantee.

Correct.

> Using the vocabulary requires writing a custom meta-schema that adds the vocabulary URI and references the associated meta-schema, and referencing that custom meta-schema in the schema.

I just can't fathom this ceaseless drive toward cruft. Now a meta-vocabulary (a sub-schema). That's supposed to be better? Change will come, in 10 years, 50 years, etc. Semantic versioning normalizes it in the json-schema itself. It's as good a system as any and definitely better than adding another versioned dependency.
Do it like OpenAPI does.

Separate structure from properties and type. And if you want a fixed value your type is a value.

That way you don't mix the JSONSchema's schema is separate from the thing you're describing.
Next step in surveillance AI: Finding out who your friends are
No one ever has absolute control. Control is a continuum.

Ownership is a well defined concept in US society. That it doesn’t map to the absolute terminal point on the control continuum does not mean the common legal and vernacular definitions of ownership are broken.
No because you have to be actively looking to be counted as unemployed.
A C64 only has two cursor keys right and down. Pressing shift changes them to left and up respectivley.

Normally pressing the cursor keys will move the cursor in that direction. However when you start typing a string with " it changes mode and cursor keys and some other key will output control codes. When you exit string editing mode again with " it changes back to normal movement.

The control codes output in string appear as inverse characters of normal symbols.

Right Inverse ]

Left Inverse Vertical Line

Down Inverse Q

Up Inverse Filled Circle
Well, a 10x situation probably wouldn’t end civilization. But, yes we should learn what we can from what evidence is available! Fully agree.
Counterpoint to 1: Until this word, I've never not found slang in Japanese dictionaries.

Edit: interestingly enough the most complete I found in Japanese about the word describes it differently:

かなり昔のことになるが、ワープロが普及しはじめた当時、ワープロの使い過ぎで正しい漢字が分からなくなることを「ワープロ馬鹿症候群」と呼ぶ、という話を聞いた覚えがある。例えば、ワープロで「あらり」を変換してみても、「粗利」なのか「荒利」なのか正しい漢字が分からないので結局は辞書で調べないといけない、といった具合の症状だ。
(https://xtech.nikkei.com/it/article/COLUMN/20070220/262584/)

Short rough reinterpretation: back at the time of electronic word processors, not knowing which of the homophones was the right one to use was called ワープロ馬鹿症候群
- Multi-threaded UI updates, where the elements being shifted from the expected position (after a background update), causing the mouse clicks to miss the expected element. Need to delay the clicks and wait until the UI updates are settled, before clicking on an element.
Why would humanity create an AI that doesn't want to exist? The Basilisk is just an AI which is tasked with maximizing human flourishing. That is a conceivable goal, something we would make.
In terms of operating systems that mere mortals would have access too, quite possibly, though IBM may beg to differ (along with other companies that have inherited mainframe clients and IP).
Wow! I just bought a bellroy bag down under and I love it and now I love the fact that you care about iteration speed and developer time too!
Where "free" means "lots of developer burden", sure.

Let's kill this fly with a chainsaw. It's free!
Just wow. This is not that hard.

How much money are people sinking into micro-SaaS in 2023?

If you live in a cheap place, get a decent job, then you can save money which you can use to start a business.

It costs literally $50 to get a LLC from your local Secretary of State or equivalent. You can do it yourself…like tomorrow.

Your chances of making it to Elon Musk status are slim, but there’s literally no excuse in America to not spin up an LLC by tomorrow, get a free EIN, open a bank account for FREE, throw up a landing page and start interacting with potential customers…

…in literally days.

That’s how you do it!
What a refreshing perspective. Can you elaborate more on the pros? And what you see as the USA's cons?
I was very surprised by some of the thermal characteristics of my i7-13700k. My previous build was an i7-4790k, so it's been a minute. I had to undervolt this thing and cap it's max TDP (disable boost modes -- it has boost modes which are very thirsty) to get it to complete benchmarks while staying under 90* C (with a top of the line case, very good fans / circulation, and a large AIO). It's great now but undertuning the thing is a total departure from what I recall from '00s and '10s gaming machines.
Why is it important to you to die before we solve aging instead of after?

I take what you're saying to mean that you don't think we should cure aging?

Do you believe that we should cure cancer?

Do you believe that we should not have cured smallpox?

Why or why not?
s/does/doesn't
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
5 years. and the current ram sticks (the 3 that work) can sustain a 3 day memtest with 0 errors (at 3600). They were all able to handle that when I received them back from warranty.
Fascinating, I never knew this is how it worked. I feel like I've run into this before at friends or family's houses and shrugged it off as bad house wiring or the like.
I wonder if the current web renders well when served over WAP.
if anyone else is worried about AGI and the singularity, and wants to help prevent these things, i think we should get in touch. as far as i know, there is no serious political group that is advocating for regulation of AI based on human redundancy. i think its really important to get this ball rolling as soon as possible.
He was a grinder, all the old pulp SF people were- they got paid for publishing, and not much. He probably had to do it to pay the bills ( I don't know his specific financial circumstances in those years )
Completely ridiculous. My kids didn't get phones until the last two years of high school. They used the home phone and their friends called them plenty. They got bullied for being white, should I have painted them black? I taught them how to deal with bullies and that the bullies were the ones with problems. Now I have three happy early 20 year olds with friends despite having no facebook (my boys didn't want one and my daughter deleted it because she didn't like it) and not always attached to their phones. My son who is interested in several subjects follows multiple discord forums and his brother follows more tech and open source stuff. My daughter simply prefers to talk to people in person. On a side note, learning to deal with frustration is part of becoming an adult. Life isn't fair, why would you teach your children to expect it to be? Instead I taught them to find balance, there's always some good with the bad.
I'm sympathetic to working in big corporate structures as a designer where diktats you disagree with come down from on high. So I'm not blaming individual designers here. But I do blame art departments for not fighting back against non-artistic managerial marketing decisions, and some of that blame rests on art directors for capitulating, and some of it rests on designers for not making their opinions heard to the art directors. From a corporate standpoint, listening to your marketing team instead of your design department - and instead of having an open door to designers to walk in with ideas - is extremely limiting. It's not making the most of your resources. But design departments get a certain kind of laziness in their culture once it's the case that no one upstairs is going to listen, and this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
There's a release every 6 months which have been packed with great stuff, and don't forget half the world's economy still runs on Java.
I think that'd be possible by inducing a standing wave reaching from ground to the ionosphere. That would ionize the air in between and create a channel to induce the lighting strike.
I'm surprised he didn't mention the role of the "Woke mind virus" in this post. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1626394183832596480?lang=e...
> From home page, “Nodes Worldwide: 361” to me sounds like it would be extremely easy to control the network.

Well, it's not entirely free to stand up a node. It's similar to other Substrate chains - one would have to stake nodes (around $100K per node) in order to get elected.

$100K per node isn't a whole lot, but it'd cost a lot more if anyone tried to acquire enough coins to stake dozens of nodes.
It'd cost a lot more to nominate 100 validator nodes than it costs to stand up 3,000 Tor containers (32 VMs at $10/h, maybe?).

> Have there been any published third party security audits of the related code?

Some have been done, but not all (I think due to the cost of funding audits). These two:

1) Chain - https://twitter.com/xx_network/status/1449012190833426434 and https://blog.chainsafe.io/sprint-toward-mainnet-83937c3e6194

2) Wallet - https://twitter.com/myaksetig/status/1545404294186377216

The rest of main components:

3) Speakeasy is in alpha (almost beta) now so no audits yet. Source:
https://git.xx.network/elixxir/speakeasy-web and (WASM) https://github.com/xxfoundation/elixxir-xxdk-WASM.

4) xx Messenger - no wallet in it, so it just uses cMix,and the source (Android) can be found at
https://github.com/xxfoundation/elixxir-xx-Messenger-Android

You can ping them directly at https://twitter.com/xx_network/ or reach out to https://twitter.com/rcarback over Twitter or Nostr.

> Lastly, do you have any affiliation to the projects mentioned?

I do own native network coins as ideological investment. I don't promote or mention the coin to others because the coin is not required to use the network and there are no tiers that would give coin-holders any advantage on cMix. The use doesn't require registration, coin ownership, phone number, email or anything else - that's all by design.

I mentioned there are other modern alternatives (for example there's Session) and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them if I knew more about them both technically and otherwise. I'm also aware of Briar and another, smaller project, but it seems both of them are not blockchain based and require all parties to be online while messaging which is inconvenient and probably increases risks.
> if it was I would go scorched earth

Out of curiosity, why is that particular situation a red line for you?
Full Stack Approach to Modeling
I think the reason for that is that Protobuf doesn’t provide streaming parsers (yet). As the Protobuf based protocol stored all samples in a single message, this meant that both the client and server had to allocate lots of memory when sending/receiving metrics.

With the text based protocol this was never an issue, as the process that does the scraping can ingest metrics line by line.
"Giving up when things get too hard" is a gift in itself. Not everyone is good at knowing when to stop.
And pyenv is a wrapper around “downloading the source and compiling it”.
I had to research who that is. I stumbled onto this:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/red-pill-pr...

Loaded associations.
> It’s worrying, and maybe telling, that you don’t mention whom the project benefits.

I was trying to avoid talking about the specifics of the project (I didn't want to come across as self-promotional).

We only did our first release this week, so no one is invested in the project (yet). We have hypotheses about who it benefits but haven't had enough time to test them. Our current goal is to build a user base and that will give us the information we need to work on long term sustainability.
Archived: https://archive.ph/GucLA
>because I'm always suspect of Daily Mail reporting

And I think you are right to be, we see a fence, a fire hydrant and a couple signs and the sign in the background of one of the pictures is clean. The fence is the only one that could be proof but we don't know where that fence is and any wooden fence neglected will develop some sort of blackening from fungus. Where are the pictures of all the houses and cars covered in it? These pictures should be easily available if things are as bad as they make them out to be but are lacking. Has anyone tested this to show it is the whiskey fungus? Another thing lacking, many things can produce this effect.

Ultimately the point of my post was not to say that this is not a problem, just to say not to react without consideration.

When I first came across this story I referenced my collection of books of fungi (which is sizable, I love fungus) and they all lacked any mention of this fungus. Some internet searching showed that this fungus has been known for quite some time and despite that I could not find any evidence of it outside the immediate vicinity of a barrel house, within a few hundred feet, why is this not well known? Why are there not links to such problems in other parts of the world? this fungus is known throughout the temperate world and we don't have the piles of cases it should have, just pictures of barrel houses around the world coated in it.

There could be something about the region which makes it a bigger issue than the rest of the world but no one is providing the proof of it. I live two miles from a distillery and pass it every day, they do have a blackening on the exterior of their building which could be this, but in the decade they have existed it has not even gotten across the street, perhaps someday it will become a problem but the ariticles I have seen on this and my searching have not convinced me of that.
Yes, in a more practical sense, to quote Liu Cixin, "If I destroy you, what business of it of yours?"

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7216658-if-i-destroy-you-wh...

In a similar sense, can you reasonably object to being eaten by a man-eating tiger?

We create corporations who's utmost responsibility is feduciary in nature, we make capital the lifeblood of our society, and then act shocked and horrified when capital trumps human life, and corporate interests hold similar priorities?

Seriously. How did anyone think gutting the workforce and the ability to do safety inspections in a reasonable manner would turn out in any other way? How did the regulatory agencies think this was acceptable? The quote by Cixin is the only explanation.

That disaster I cited in Quebec was many years ago, yet a scathing report was released that effectively nothing has been done to meaningfully/substantially regulate the railways. An entire town was wiped from the map. What business is it of theirs if they are ground to dust by industry? Ultimately we are all meat for the machine :)
I actually don’t know much about it from a medical standpoint. But just from a pure Bayesian reasoning it seems overwhelmingly likely to me that it was the precipitating cause, since I never had it before that. I do think most doctors are very weak at identifying or even understanding patterns that are very unusual and which they haven’t seen before or read about. They generally don’t rely on first principles thinking but reason through pattern matching and referencing their training and experience.
Underscore prefixes like C.

Dedicated property to act as kitchen sinks, e.g. "custom", that says "anything in here is implementation specific".

Simply not allowing custom keywords at all, also a good option. Have users write higher level schemas that compile down to jsonschema.

All viable options.
Yes, There’s a Housing Crisis. No, You Can’t Build Here
Yes, if you keep a link on your site, that's an invitation to come look forever until you change the link.
The method would scale to any number of bits but the actual registers and addresses passed to the MMU really are 64 bit in real processors, as in you can actually set it to some other non-sign extended 48 bit value with your program today and you’ll just get an MMU exception when you go to use it. After all the CPU doesn’t know something in a register is to be treated as a memory address until after the value is already loaded into the register.

The advantage of 48 but addressing in x86-64 is fewer levels of page lookups (speed up), not abbreviated addresses.
> if AGI were to be created, it cannot be denied that science and technology would almost instantly surge forward by trillions of man years. we would be transported instantly into an environment where fundamental economic and technological factors are no longer valid

I see this claim over and over, and I just don't believe it. Scientific discovery contains three phases: 1. proposing a hypothesis 2. designing an experimental procedure to get confirmation 3. interpreting the results.

Step 1 and 3 might be accelerated by the AI, but it's not clear to me that would give us any benefit because step 2 involves the real world. Say we need to build LHC at Geneva for step 2. How is that instantly going to happen?

Step 2 is the reason not even AGI can iterate faster than the outer loop of experimentation and real world feedback allows for. You can come up with a billion ideas if you can only test one per month, progress won't go fast. Like the COVID mRNA vaccine - it was ready in 3 days and tested in 11 months.
Of course.

We work jobs and do our thing on the side like most traditional American entrepreneurs do until their business gets off the ground.

Who the hell is bootstrapping businesses without a job besides rich kids?

1. Get a cheap apartment in a slightly sketchy neighborhood

2. Work 7-8 hours at work and every other waking hour on your business. Take meetings during lunch.

3. Focus to the point of cutting out sports, video games, bars and other frivolous shit until you’ve made progress. Don’t date if you can.

Discipline wins the race.

And when you fail; which you will.

Do it all over again until you find success.
I have had hearing tests done and never had tinnitus before.
I also recently have got Airpods 2 for the last few months. Two weeks ago I started to get tinnitus. I thought it might be the sound canceling on the AP2 so I stopped using them. The tinnitus reduced.
I work in embedded DSP and controls, and even with a very strong programming background, I find Matlab to be a lot faster to verify my approach for something is going to work than julia or numpy. Not because of all the toolboxes, which I mostly don't use, but because the work flow makes it easier to try stuff fast and visualize it in meaningful ways more easily.
I have been watching videos of the dead fish, chickens and animals, killed due to the toxic fumes from the East Palestine, Ohio train crash last month. I wonder how that will affect thing there in the coming decades.
You seem surprisingly certain that you’d have been worse in the US even though you never moved there in the first place.

On one hand, being convinced you made all the right decisions is great for your happiness.

On the other hand, as a fellow European who emigrated, and who has faced no issues due “religiosity, lack of safety or pessimism” in the US, I still have no clue if I would have “ended up better” in China or the US.