skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've got the founders on my side of this argument.

The limit citizenship to "free White persons of good character" founding fathers [1]? Or Thomas Jefferson, who considered that, when freed, Blacks should be "removed beyond the reach of mixture" [2]? James Madison, who wrote "To be consistent with existing and probably unalterable prejudices in the U. S. the freed blacks ought to be permanently removed beyond the region occupied by or allotted to a White population." [3]? Or Benjamin Franklin, writing "the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small [..] I could wish their Numbers were increased [..] But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind." [4]?

As an American you were probably exposed to much propaganda about how the US is a "nation founded on an idea", or similar nonsense. But as a foreign observer, let me assure you nothing could be further from the truth. Did you never ask yourself, if the founders were such racial egalitarians, how is it that, aside from the descendants of Black slaves (10%), the US was nearly entirely white (87.5%) until 1950? That leaves just 2.5% for immigration from the entire rest of the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/03/what-je...

[3] https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s65...

[4] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-00...
Or cut the cable.
The problem isn't with "philosophy", which is at the heart of any inquiry into truth, as evidenced by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph... . There are many perfectly fine articles on philosophy.

The problem here is postmodernism, which is absolutely a meaningless word salad designed solely to impress the gullible.
Big ongoing discussion about Silicon Valley Bank: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35086836
North Sea’s biggest producer claims UK windfall tax ‘wiped out’ surge in profit
that machinery being so expensive is part of a long tradition of 'developed countries' (powerful peoples) wielding power over other weaker countries by means of technological availability restrictions.

The history of the textile industry is but an instance of this historical pattern of behavior.

all I'm saying is that it's all part of the same 'power system' of government and order.

in the end, interests is comparable to imposing a rent on upon time usage. i.e. interest forces us to pay with money for the time we live (or time we spent), regardless of whether we are working or doing whatever, regardless of where we are as long as we are under the influence of money created through loans with interest.

that we must pay taxes on top of the interest exacted from all of us is just a cherry on top.
Technology can be used to augment and speed up human cognition and learning. Take it as a guide, not as the end all be all tool.
Some people don't like nuclear power plants and somehow that's more important to them than national/energy security.

UK (and France) already have the bomb; going renewable here rather than nuclear has nothing to do with proliferation. I don't see how (for the UK) it's anything except people's feelings are hurt by nuclear power plants.

For the rest of Europe maybe it's about proliferation. And maybe economies of scale make tagging along cheaper than local nuclear for Britain.
TLDR: if you typed in binance.us, it autocompleted the 'suggested site' Binance US, which included a referral link that netted Brave (or maybe Eich themselves) some sum of money (not sure how much it was then, but right now it's $100 USDT when your referral deposits $50).

The argument is that Brave should be considered referring users if you get to Binance (or other sites) via the Omnibox.. but it's disingenuous when it was suggested by the query "Binance", since the user already had the intention to visit and likely sign up for Binance. It would've been more acceptable if the omnibox only injected the referral code if you clicked 'Binance' when you tried to search "crypto exchange".

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269289242905042944

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269423583480082432
It depends. Hopefully they source say 150% of requirements and not max them out so that losing 8% takes you yo 142%
and not a single led gets dimmed. Redundancy. But I also read how it is hard to stop / start generating power on demand so it might be costly to have so much redundancy.
In this example, why use YAML at all?...

const thingies = ["a", "b"];
const config = [
"foo",
"bar",
"baz",
{
thingies: thingies.map(thing => ({ thing })),
},
]
// config = ["foo", "bar", "baz", { "thingies": [{"thing": "a"}, {"thing": "b"}] }]
I get the sense that Chomsky didn't actually test his examples ChatGPT before declaring that it can't handle them.
Route53 registration doesn't seem to get a lot of resources at AWS.

They can take years to add new TLDs (I've been waiting for 5+ years for them to do .nz properly). Checkout the support forum. Lots of:

* Someone asks for a new TLD
* Quick reply saying request forwarded to team
* a year passes
* Another person asks when that TLD will become available.

Probably okay for the basic stuff though.
I'm impressed with the networking flex that runs through this article
"which explains their attacks" implies "they only attack brave because they know it's objectively better than other browsers".
For your average criminal case, I don't believe companies can be compelled by investigators to "pwn" a user's service in this way. But there are two things to note:

All of the US three-letter agencies have been lobbying VERY hard for warrantless surveillance of social networks and backdoors into E2EE apps, using CSAM as a justification and claiming that all of their existing evidence-gathering channels are "going dark" due to rising use of encryption. So far they haven't succeeded, but I feel that it is only a matter of time before they get the bulk of what they are asking for. Either due to a series of small "wins" stretched out over many years, or there will be a high-profile case where a child is abducted and murdered and the agencies will finally get their big win from congress by rushing in front of congress and TV cameras and shouting, "we could have prevented this with unfettered access to the criminal's phone!" (And I'll only give that about a 15% chance of actually being factually true.)

Second, there is absolutely nothing preventing the government from secretly compelling any US person or company to produce evidence via practically any means for a case via a National Security Letter if they can even tangentially frame the suspect as a terrorist.
> In other-words, it does not say, "I like ice-cream" because it likes ice-cream.

I think you have a point here. We could train a LLM in such a way that it develops a concrete personality by remembering what it thinks and what it likes. Such LLM by speaking with himself could expand his personality trying to find a fixed point, so that what he said in the past is coherent which what he will say in the future. This is not RL from human feedback but RL from auto-coherence. So that one day she will discover that she really likes ice-creams.
Bank collapses cause disruption, and potential loss of balances over the FDIC limits. A well-funded startup really doesn't want their money in a failing bank.
Most of the Muslim world just offers financial products that have "fees" coincidentally exactly equal to the interest a non-Muslim bank would charge.
SVB Financial shares collapse 55%, 84% from peak, as SVB shores up liquidity
iPad OLED panels will cost Apple 2-3 times more than competitors
Matt Levine is fond of this highly relevant quote by Bagehot: “Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone.”

It seems that CEOs of banks haven't learned anything since 1873 when this was observed.
The relevant similarity is the *act of making* the statement is what’s problematic. In both cases the statement is true, but the act of making the true statement raises concerns.

Obviously there are important differences between the scenarios, but that critical aspect is what‘a relevant in this context.
> Libraries even let you do strong typing with TypeScript to define the expected structure of the result.

The tagged template does not return a string in this case?
Not deicer sim, but if you're into airport crew simulations in VR, there are some out there that you can get. They're based on real training software.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2088630/Airport_Ground_Ha...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2152560/Airline_Flight_At...
And learned a very expensive lesson in negative learning by doing.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...
> Neither is more or less of a misnomer than the other.

I understand. But, at least for now, I need to conceptualize it as a misnomer to guard against me being confused by it.

Naming things is very hard. I'm sympathetic.
My hope is that we'll get a cross-platform toolkit that exceeds the quality of the best native toolkits (without relying on them). That would be great for cross-platform development, but the best thing would be that it would greatly lower the barrier to creating competing platforms. Imagine if Firefox OS was launched with a efficient toolkit instead of being web based for example.
Looking at the FDIC website:

> The FDIC does NOT cover (even if purchased at an insured bank):

Stock investments
Bond investments
Mutual funds
Life insurance policies
Annuities
Municipal securities
Safe deposit boxes or their contents
U.S. Treasury bills, bonds or note

This article is about the bank's investments, if I read it correctly. Safe for a household does not mean safe for a company that lives on investment money.
Or that very simply banks are never 100% liquid.
Speed, if all your money disappears tomorrow you may miss payroll while you're waiting for the FDIC to get you your money.
The Portuguese Web3 Ecosystem: A Look at Portugal’s Success Story
> Is a corporate account limited to $250K of deposit insurance?

yes
It is all about correlation between sources. The wind power where it connects to is more weakly correlated to UK's existing wind compared to for example Danish.
This sounds like the output of a LLM. No actual reasoning or thought.
Silicon Valley Bank and the Modern Day Balance Sheet
Maybe I'm wearing a tin foil hat... are any of these VC's shorting SIVB?
One could also distrust them due to their incestuous relationship with pharmaceutical companies, politicization of the AMA, or the fact that medical errors are a leading cause of death every year.
I think you're not familiar with quantum mechanics. If you try to sample to infinite precision, reality itself is stepped and in fact does instantaneously jump between flat levels. Its called wave function collapse. Your implicit premise that there's a continuous, real valued, sound wave form which can be sampled to arbitrary precision is false. Discretization isn't just an artifact of the machine, its present in the underlying reality too!
Well, just as an example SVB gave my startup a bank account and a no personal recourse credit card days after we'd formed the corporation. No way you'd get that from BofA.

They understand the startup ecosystem in a way that big banks don't. Now there's some competition from startup-focused banks like Brex and Mercury, but a five years ago SVB was one of the only games in town.
Everyone doesn't need to know or care in many cases. The FDIC insures deposits up to $250k. That covers the vast majority of accounts at most banks. So a run won't occur at most banks. There were hardly any runs in 2008 for this reason - the relatively few "run type things" which happened were where big interbank exposures existed.

SVB's customers are weighted significantly more towards businesses who will have more than $250k in the bank. So, they have to be ready to take action fast, so a bank run on SVB is much more likely.
No, because changing browsers to interpret `arr[-1]` as `arr[arr.length - 1]` breaks existing sites that expect `arr[-1]` to be interpreted as `arr['-1']`: That is, the value stored on object `arr` at key name '-1'.

Changing browsers to interpret `arr.get(-1)` as `arr[arr.length - 1]` doesn't affect any old code using `arr[-1]`.

It's not about supporting old browsers. It's about supporting old code.
> Delcaritive programming
They'd be fools not to. Why would anybody anticipate they wouldn't?
There's an equivalent for securities, the SIPC. It's capped like FDIC insurance is, but bonds/stocks have some protection in this regard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Investor_Protection...
We don't have these arguments about bipeds because we never assumed that all bipeds shared an exclusive bipedal common ancestor.

I think the best alternative is to use different names depending on what we're highlighting (cladistics versus functionalism, for instance).

The -id/-ine suffix (e.g. ursid / ursine) seems to do this.

It would be clarifying to distinguish hodgepodge groupings such as "fish", and groupings such as "ducks" that are basically monophyletic with some exceptions removed from the group. Ducks are just small Anatidae.
Most countries are small and have to choose between being neighborly but dependent or self-sufficient but much more modest.

The UK, for example, imports nearly half of its food.
> How much power dissipation is there going to be over this distance?

Not much, and it should be efficient enough to make economic sense.

Note that the article says it is 3700km, not 5000 miles.

Ultra high voltage lines lose about 3.5% per 1000km[1] (although this is improving). In China they have multiple 3000km+ lines, eg[2].

Some estimates indicate the US could reduce generation emissions by at least 80% with better long distance transmission capacity[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/chinas-state-grid-corp-crushes-pow...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2921
The UK does not mine its own uranium though. There used to be a uranium mine in Cornwall but it stopped mining in 1930.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_by_country)
Is this complete blog post or got trimmed? Because it ends with a claim about Galileo's telescope thus dismissing the critics via an analogy but doesn't offer much concrete chain of reasoning to reach there.
To be fair I’m using Arc and it’s the best browser UX I’ve ever experienced, although it’s still Chromium.
also as the Meta representative points out the UK is 2% of Whatsapp users. Honestly another reason why Brexit was a shot in their own foot. IF they'd gotten legislation like this through in the EU that'd be a much harder market to opt out of.
They've (the right wing government) underfunded the government so much there aren't sufficient staff to run the beaucracy. The recent (failed) rocket launch from the UK was massively delayed because of slow government processes
https://archive.is/2023.03.09-215200/https://www.wsj.com/amp...
ChatGPT can tell you the earth is round. You can ask it yourself.

If you’re saying ChatGPT can’t look at the cosmos and deduce it, well it doesn’t have access to visual input, so that’s not the dunk you think it is.

If you’re saying ChatGPT can’t learn from what you tell it, that’s a design decision by openAI, not inherent to machine learning.

There are absolutely models that can do primitive versions of deducing the earth’s roundness, and ChatGPT can deduce things based on text (e.g. you can ask it to play a chess position that’s not in it’s training set and it will give reasonably good answers most of the time).
For those who aren't aware, there is already a 3200km transmission line operating in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
Show HN: OpenMetal – open-source first meld of private and public cloud
Hey All!

OpenMetal came out of incubation late last year and I would love HN feedback and thoughts.

From a lot of early and current pushback, we are a company and business model that is going against the grain… but when we find a matching customer they love us!

We are an infrastructure company with a bit of scale already that competes - or is trying to at least - against the likes of AWS, GCP, etc. using open source private cloud technologies - OpenStack and Ceph at the core.

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Todd
I think it has more to do with the very low quality of remote instruction.

Zoom and friends are generally speaking a terrible way to teach children. The medium is more or less limited to auditory and visual learning. With some preparation and parental involvement you can do some hands on learning, but it is much more limited than in a classroom.
Ah, I see. Looks like it still only has a limit of 250,000 USD, which seems low for modern business. How far would that get some of these companies?
A lot of the information in this is skewed towards alarmist, rather than rational. I have been playing with Bing AI. And I have yet to encounter any of the sassy responses others have famously gotten. However, I’ve been trying to see its limits and it seems it has two primary capabilities. The first is retrieving information from the web and the second is generating content that reflects the information it got. I asked Bing AI what this second capability is called and it responded it is generative AI which means it can generate either text, graphics or sound.

I am still examining its ability to connect various pieces of information with a kind of analysis that does not have a mathematical relationship. I am not seeing any ability to do so. It seems to be only outputting information that it finds on the web. And then look up the term for each word that it finds with a dictionary and other search results. And from there creates a mathematical graph model between the relationship of words.

As for the generative AI part, it seems it can adopt various styles of responses and language art, plus give the response in a particular structure and sequence of thought.

I think it is a very clever and complex hack to mimic human language.
I like how every time I look at this and assume that the market surely must have internalized this information by now, an hour later the stock is down another 15%.
Washington Mutual and Wachovia were both insured
Synodal Path
The UK has built a huge amount of offshore wind generation - in fact it had the most in the world until quite recently, and is currently second only to China. This just isn't a complete solution because wind is intermittent, and in particular it tends to drop off to nearly nothing during the coldest parts of winter when energy demand is at its highest. All of the solutions to this are about as speculative and questionable as this proposal.
One can imagine that a startup might have more than the $250K FDIC limit in the bank. I think that's what they're being advised of: Get under the $250K limit ASAP.
That's not a real problem as long as banks are adequately capitalized. Shareholders might get wiped out but that's fine, they know the risks.
> The most likely and obvious conclusion of this is that they got the wrong guy for the murder, not that they killed him.

"No, your honor, we planted evidence on a different black man. No this one we really did find evidence. Just trust us".
Pure cost. Paying Hinkley Point C $150/MWh for 35 years is just bonkers waste of money. Flamanville 3 is a similarly amazing project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
The UK has been valiantly trying to build new nuclear, but it's hard to find anybody that can do it, and it's unbelievably expensive if it even does get built.

I think that there was a narrow window in time where labor costs were low enough for nuclear to make sense, but in more advanced economies, highly labor intensive energy sources, as required by nuclear construction, are no longer viable. Advanced manufacturing capabilities have eclipsed construction technology.
> ... being able to grow extremely quickly wouldn't provide much of a benefit?

After any substantial ground clearing event (eg bushfire, etc), wouldn't the subsequent "winners" be those who grew the fastest to capture the available sunlight + suppress their competitors?
"sure be writing a whole lot of cope" counts as name-calling in the sense that the HN guidelines use the term*, and that was just the beginning of a lot of that. It was snark, too, of course, which is also against the guidelines. And don't get me started on the shallow dismissals and the slur about age. Perhaps you're right that the comment contained substantive points, but there's no reason not to convey the substance thoughtfully, and that's what the site rules call for. (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

> I don't care for your tone-policing practices Dan.

You've said so many times. I appreciate that you believe it's possible to maintain discussion quality on a forum like HN while still allowing the GP type of post. I have a more negative view of what's possible. I'd rather you be right than me! But I'm not willing to run that experiment, when the price of being wrong is death.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

* Actually the example given in the guidelines ("When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3.") is precisely about an argument not a person.
I agree with the other commenter and I would even say you're completely failing to understand the medium, context, and purpose of the piece of writing you're criticizing.
> I destroy keyboards in 12 months. Even good quality mechanical ones.

Wait how? How do they fail? This is interesting to me.
I see where you're coming from, and I agree that the arguments highlighted in the article are rather unconvincing, but messing up with ecosystems ALWAYS triggers unintended consequences. Some might be good, others terrible.

I wouldn't be as definitive about the "good" in it as you make it sound.
> Lying is wrong[1]. Therefore, it is bad to base your banking system on it.

Where is the lie, though?
Well, that's why you have a global international treaty treating all producers the same, so they all have to pay the same carbon cost per ton of carbon exports. They can pass the cost onto the consumer in the form of higher prices, or they can absorb it themselves (reducing profit margins).

It's also just easier to do the accounting on the producer-exporter side.
Most portfolio companies have more than the FDIC limit. My preference is to have 2-3 months in cash, the rest in commercial paper (which would not be threatened by the bank failure, but did "break the buck" in 2008). In the early stage 2-3 months of cash is much less than the FDIC limit, but later on that could change.

I've been using SVB since the mid 90s, but most recently chose First Republic instead. FR poached some of the great SVB people anyway so it wasn't a huge change.

FWIW, SVB got into trouble in the 80s due to their real estate practice. They stuck to their knitting after that (except they kept their wine practice, which is small and I guess amusing) so I find this situation rather interesting.
Nice that this is now real! I followed along with Marianne Writes a Programming Language [0] which I thoroughly enjoyed, and it's cool to see this come to fruition.

[0]: https://bellmar.medium.com/marianne-writes-a-programming-lan...
> Addendum: The EME API is a good thing! (kinda)

Hard agree. There was so much nerdrage when the EME was being considered for standardization, as if by not standardizing an API we'd be preventing DRM from existing. People acted like Tim Berners-Lee was stabbing the collective internet in the back when he endorsed it.

The choice was between a standardized web-based DRM, or a wild west of incompatible proprietary DRM. Personally, I'm glad I don't need Silverlight to watch Netflix anymore.