skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not know if Nix will be the answer, but I really hope it or a successor drags us to fully explicit and reproducible builds.
I mean, it's not like the last 10 years (2013+) have been a string of unwavering wins for the tech industry as a whole.

Facebook alone will damn us all.
Credit Suisse to borrow up to $53.7B from Swiss central bank
All current humans are intelligence created by other humans, so its just AI all the way down.
My point is that it's not obvious that this question even reaches the scope of "rights". Even if one were to suppose that citizens have no constitutional rights whatsoever under any circumstances, that would not imply that any state or local government has any authority to interfere with the exercise of the federal postal power.
I’m really not so sure. Maybe some will, but the overwhelming majority of people will not want to dedicate time and energy to learning a craft that is completely futile in the end.

By your logic, nobody would ever want to take up running as a hobby either, since no human could ever run as fast as a cheetah.

Chess is still popular, despite AI being able to defeat the best humans.
We've enabled authoritarian beliefs, fostered genocide, damaged the social fabric and that's just Facebook.

We've actively made the world worse.
Much of the tech industry is not about tech now. The actual tech was successful. Now, it’s all about locking up platform monopolies while confusing luck with ability and spreading that belief via right-wing libertarian politics. How many large “tech” companies are actually tech now?

Most are concerned with locking in customers, force feeding them ads, and caving to their worst instincts in the process. Crypto, as mentioned in the article, is a great example of all these. That “industry” has nothing to do with the tech.
This documentary on Venus is one of the most compelling documentaries I have seen:

https://archive.org/details/BBCHorizonCollection512Episodes/...

If you watch it you'll hear the story of Venus plate tectonics and they present it in such a way as to make it one of the most fascinating mysteries of the solar system.

It's a documentary worth settling in to for an hour on the couch and enjoying the ride.

Anyhow my theory (as a highly qualified astro geologist) is that Venus, whilst being the same size as the Earth does not have plate tectonics because it does not have a moon which pulls the magma around the planet, stirring it up nicely. Instead, Venus surface just cools off and then gets hot again periodically. I hope you didn't buy the astro geologist line.
I thought that his thesis disappeared because he had military connections and this stuff was too good to share with potential enemies. That would also explain how he could white-out and copy a document before xerox became widely available. The military probably had early access to the technology needed to duplicate documents, such as maps or code tables.
That was fringe, and it was limited to San Francisco, which has been dysfunctional and unaffordable since at least the 1990s. The broad-based and justified hatred for tech is new.

Startups did a really job of branding themselves as “not corporate.” It’s like Trump—claim to be populist and revolutionary but secretly replicate all the self-serving rubbish practices of the establishment you say you are fighting.
The hell? How are people misinterpreting this. It's a book about the corporate structure and changes in Apple over the last ~decade, which details a lot of internal challenges and execs leaving over the years. As well as Apple's struggle to maintain profitability in a lot of instances and taking decisive actions to do so. Pretty related to the headline!
Barney Frank is the Director of Signature Bank, so naturally he'd make up conspiracies about why it was shut down rather than recognizing it as the danger that it is. Even more than the bank's reputation and his affiliation with it, if he were to admit a failing at the bank, it would be a personal blow to his legacy since the Dodd-Frank Act was specifically supposed to prevent this kind of shit from happening.
The only way to make Etsy more useless
GPT-4 takes Bryan Caplan's midterm and gets an A
Working in it, I don't like it anymore - I would raise my eyebrow considerably high at anyone claiming they loved it 100%. Maybe it's because all jobs kind of suck in a way, but it definitely fails to live to its claimed prestige in my books. There are definitely bodies in all the closets and you don't have to look very far to find them. It's a cultural issue and it seems systemic at this point - I say this as someone extremely privileged.

I don't think it's just tech though - this seems symptomatic of a larger societal issue and trust across everything is broken.
Er, Reagan turned against Welch, but he wasn't bashing Birchers proper like his peers in the era. He still needed their votes. So he wasn't full metal Q-Anon of the era, but he was probably closer to them than blue bloods.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1966/10/11/reagan-juggles...
I hope there's a good plan for deleting all of the dead code that will be left to rot. It has to be immense.
It's a developer 'wants to provide real estate cash flow' issue. Same people who provide early startup funding in other markets looking to drive relo and office rents.
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/12080 - this should be the Consul issue that brought down Roblox
"When I started Kapwing in 2017, it was cool to be a tech entrepreneur. People looked up to techies."

There are always some people who have hated whatever new people have moved into the SF Bay Area and taken over things since before written history. It's a perennial Gold Rush. Each round of new arrivals thinks that they're coming here to be a part of something new and exciting and that they care deeply about the area and making sure it doesn't lose its special qualities. The reality is that there was all this amazing stuff that happened 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 etc years ago, and in a way nothing is new.

The "tech" industry of various flavors has had very mixed reactions at least back until the Luddites. Certainly in 2017 some people hated everything the "techies" were doing and wished they would stop. People were literally protesting Google Buses starting in 2013 as an embodiment of what tech was doing to destroy SF. [0]

(I'm not saying I don't like "tech" - whatever that is. I moved to SF in '94 to be part of whatever zeitgeist was happening back then - the web, whatever Wired Magazine was hyping at the time, cyberpunk, raves, etc.... I'm sure the generation before me was not all happy about that, and I know people my age or even younger who would prefer not to have so many people with insane tech salaries and techno-libertarian ideals distorting the economy.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_tech_bus_protest...
> I’m really not so sure. Maybe some will, but the overwhelming majority of people will not want to dedicate time and energy to learning a craft that is completely futile in the end.

We’ve had photographs for a long time, and people still do representational art of real places and things; we have superior industrial mass production and people do inferior handicrafts, etc.; we’ve tested your theory extensively and its false.

No, economic demands mean many people can’t do as much of these things as they like because they need to do something that will pay the bills, and demand for those types of crafts is lower than it once was. So, distributional economics is a concern. But will people do things even when there’s a “better” higher-tech way? Yes, absolutely.
I’m really impressed at how ChatGPT perfectly nails exceedingly generic writing.
I don't think people hate all of tech. FOSS is still beloved. Small dev team projects are still supported outside the tech community. Its just SV and its very... Clintonesque(?) brand of doublespeak is becoming a bit trite.
He is not delusional. He just started a Carbon business and raised money for it.
Don’t forget maximizing rent seeking while minimizing value returned.
Delighted to hear your choice of Ray and building atop Ray.
Shitty people ruin society at every level. Sure online scams are part of it but we have banks, locked doors, guns, an entire law enforcement and justice system etc. all to account for the small minority of humans who will hurt others given the chance.
This is a non-mystery. It looks like this was done with a Selectric typewriter using two typeballs, one of them "Symbols 10", and the other for text.[1]

The reason there are two versions of "4" is because you could type something like
"(4.10)" with either the regular typeball or the Symbols ball. Both have numbers, parentheses, upper case letters, and a period/decimal point. Switching typeballs takes a few seconds, so it's only done when necessary.

There was a little lever on some Selectrics which displaced the carriage horizontally by half a space.[2] So, if you really needed half spacing, it was available. But you had to hold the spring-loaded lever in place while typing, so this was rarely used. It was used for fixing typos by erasing two characters and squeezing in three. It was also possible to move the paper a half-line vertically.

This is tedious work, and there were pro typists who did it for money. This was a manual job.

All this is on Google.

[1] https://www.duxburysystems.org/downloads/library/texas/apple...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter
That doesn't mean it is universally relevant, nor does it mean it is more relevant than the maturity value in the asset table.

Most importantly, Banks already DO report the unrealized losses and Fair market value on HTM securities. Just not in the assists section, but in a dedicated section on the HTM assets. It is not some big secret.

You can even look at it in silicon valley Banks filings if you want(1). They break down the HTM losses and fair market value plain as day starting on page 125.

At the time of filing, they reported a mature value of 91 billion, fair value of 76 million, and unrealized losses of 15 billion. They break it down by the duration of maturity and interest they earn on them. Everything someone could ask for is there.

It seems to me that this whole question of reporting fair market value instead of maturity in the asset table comes from people who have never read a 10-k filing and think there is some conspiracy.

SVBs HTM loss situation should have been no surprise to anyone looking. The real conspiracy is their HTM position was common knowledge.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719739/0000719739230...
> Many Luddites were owners of workshops that had closed because factories could sell similar products for less. But when workshop owners set out to find a job at a factory, it was very hard to find one because producing things in factories required fewer workers than producing those same things in a workshop. This left many people unemployed and angry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

It wasn't a smooth transition.

What happened to horses after most of their tasks were done better by internal combustion engines? It's weird to imagine a world where humans have so few niches, but I thought we were decades away from passing the Turing test.
We got ourselves into a bind because of Nomad. We outlined a bunch of it here: https://fly.io/blog/carving-the-scheduler-out-of-our-orchest...

The short version is that "using Nomad and Consul for the type of global workloads we run is not a good choice". I do not believe we'd have the same problems with Nomad + Consul in a single region. But running a single, global cluster of each of these is suboptimal.

The second problem was using some Consul features that forced us to keep it single region. What we actually need is a global view of a single service. Federated Consul doesn't quite give us that. Earlier versions of our infrastructure were using a bunch of Consul watches to update local state, so we couldn't really federate.

Some of this I'd do very differently if we rewound. But we were also building an idea with no actual users. Nomad and Consul gave us a nice platform to experiment on. We just outgrew the "prototype" as we learned what people actually wanted from us.
I'm not missing that, I'm explicitly disagreeing that GPT shows evidence of this, and pointing out that human observers are mistakenly ascribing generalised intelligence to it because of some undeniably impressive, but explainable, results. The paper itself even opens with "GPT-4 is a Transformer-based model pre-trained to predict the next token in a document". I don't see any evidence of spontaneous development of intelligence, although I do think this work helps us get towards a deeper understand of the nature of intelligence itself, since a lot of what appears to be intelligent about GPT's behaviour is actually just the combination of a statistical model and an abundance of data, and perhaps that applies to humans too.

Also I would point out that emergent general intelligence would actually be quite an unsurprising result of deep learning for many people, given what we know about the human brain plus some hand-waving about emergent systems - I think many people actually expect something like that to happen, and that's exactly why so many people are jumping to that conclusion about GPT. It's confirmation bias.

But please enlighten me - where is the evidence that GPT-4 has generalised intelligence?
So not truly offline, rather low bandwidth and indirect transmissions, and unencrypted, and Lightning, and custodial wallets. Sounds like worse in every way than just a centralized mobile based solution.
The US is the top destination for money laundering in the world .. .Bar none
The most successful tech companies all drive negative social impact. Social media like Facebook, Twitter, et. al each inflict unique psychological damage on their users, widely seen as net negative for each of them. Amazon, Google, MSFT, and other huge players are all now known to be selling our data to just about anyone, eroding privacy and possibly also freedoms by providing data to governments. Many other tech companies are, at best, making it easier for companies to extract money from consumers and for employers to need fewer people. I like streaming shows and music, but even the net benefits of streaming are dubious since people are much more content to sit on ass instead of engaging each other and enjoying each other's company. Not to mention the effect social media all has had on political discourse.

I don't know how much of the above is actually tech's fault, but it definitely feels that way to me, and I'm pretty certain these are commom beliefs.
Your problems in life come from computers because your life is computers.

If your life was cars you would soon find most of your problems in life come from cars.
I'm sure Fairchild Semiconductor had its detractors, but I wouldn't say anyone hated them except William Shockley.

The article lists some good causes, and they are fairly recent (Juicero was where I started to see real mockery of Silicon Valley startups). There are others that the author does not list, perhaps out of discretion:

* Tech profits concentrated in one geographic region have contributed to a high cost of living that makes life very hard for non-tech workers in the area, fostering resentment

* A lot of tech companies have ad- and engagement- based business models that are... not necessary healthy for their users, or for society

* Predatory data harvesting has led to a justified mistrust of new products and services

* New technology has always "disrupted" careers (farewell, ETAOIN SHRDLU), but advances in AI are threatening to do so in a way that most people thought would not be possible in their working lifetime, with these changes happening in the timescale between the time where you enroll in a particular major and graduate to an obsolete profession.
According to one bitcoin maximalist[0] this was the real origin of fiat currency.

I’m not sure I understand everything that is said nor fully believe, given that it’s a bitcoin maximalist dumping on fiat currency, but what I took away was that the english pound was redeemable for gold. When they did this fake bond purchase, they just minted new pounds (that didn’t have gold backing it) and used that to buy back these bonds in secret.

This is significant because there was a fear of a bank run in England at the start of the war where everyone was afraid that this would happen. The Bank of England had to assure everyone that they wouldn’t do this to stop the bank run - and so, when they actually went ahead and did it, they kind of had to keep it secret

[0]. https://youtu.be/gp4U5aH_T6A
Yeah, before the rise of the computer, none of those things really existed. /s
We adapt.

We live in a society forged in the aftermath of industrial revolutions. Now in the aftermath of a possible AI revolution, we have to somehow divorce social well-being from individual economic throughput.

AI might just make wages obsolete.

In any case, we can still look to human needs to predict future demands. Humans will still need to eat, exercise, learn, consume entertainment, produce creative work (creativity is necessary for us), interact with other humans and engage with the world. There will always be demand emerging from those needs. AI might replace the means through which cultural artifacts are produced at scale to meet those demands, but every revolution kind of had this same effect.

On the other hand, if AI makes it so that few people would have jobs, and therefore access to goods, it will render itself obsolete because there would be no need to produce at scale, so it can't really substitute humans, it is paradoxical.
Maybe don't pretend a trivial semantic difference due to your point of view means I don't know what I'm talking about. Yes, Nix only alters environmental variables, but guess what, that's pretty much what Snaps do too plus a bit of bind use. The fact that people are constantly asking "Will Nix Overtake Docker" is another hint about actual usage.

Snaps bind in the libs, Nix sets env variables to set the available libs. The goal and end results are the same. The difference is more marketing than anything else.
And we ruined the internet with advertising.
It’s also socially acceptable to just ignore the passenger when navigating a tricky section.
Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI,by Reid Hoffman with GPT-4 [pdf]
Author doesn’t seem to understand that you can be in favor of tech entrepreneurism and opposed to an increase in banker moral hazard.
Do you remember the day, and location? There may be corroborating reports.
This was suspected for a long time from the radar surface imaging.
People thought depositors should lose their money because they made the “irresponsible” decision to bank with a large, stable, well-known public institution.

Unnamed, hypothetical people may have said this.

But this wasn't what the twitter post that that snippet linked to actually said.
Fastly Launches Ohttp Service
I've worked with Vault and clusters, not Consul specifically but generally there's a healthy cluster state until something happens putting the cluster into an inconsistent state.

Generally there's a master node or multiple nodes in agreement. If the cluster cannot agree on it's current state the entire system may run multiple versions or be completely unavailable or provide inconsistent response bringing down other systems that rely on it.

Inspection itself is hampered by elections or syncing state or other process/race related/caching/ddossing itself or other services.
What kind of GPUs do you support inside the secure enclaves?
Hah. Yeah, I don’t know about that.

I name things, articulate relationships between them, discover elegant formalities, probe complex systems, interpret ambiguities, mould systems into new ones, solve puzzles… most days, it feels like sculpting or writing poetry.

I don’t really care if AI does some of that too.

Incidentally, picking vegetables can actually a pretty nice time too.
But it's this exact argument I expect to see a video and not CGI
Unfortunately it is not a story. The group started with people who convened in small bible study groups who met in each others' homes and churches. These people thought that 'America' was lost, and it should be 'taken back'. They organized and slowly grew like a sect, eventually gaining great political and economic power with those who converted to their cause and especially through the business they exclusively did among their own lot.

Its not a unique story. It follows the typical religious sect proliferation mechanics that are seen in any other country.

> it’s probably unrealistic to pin it all on just that phenomenon

This phenomenon is the head that decides the direction of the broader American conservative spearhead groups from Reaganites to later 'Tea Party' types. They are pretty much meshed with the Evangelists now though, hard to tell them apart.
> The most successful tech companies all drive negative social impact.

A positive social impact — that is, a net positive externality — is created value that hasn’t been captured. From a corporate perspective, that is waste. A negative social impact — a net negative externality — is a cost that has been passed off to other people. Eliminating the former in favor of the latter is the natural incentive of any business.
You don't think your life has been substantially improved by Google? Or the Internet more generally? You'd rather go back to the '90s, when you had to carefully watch how much Internet you consumed, so as to keep from running out of AOL hours? You want to go back to an era when you couldn't instantly pull up navigation direction in a foreign city? You like to to take photos on film, paying ridiculous prices for every photo you took, and then paying again to have some stranger paw through your family photos while developing them? You want to go back to an era when batteries were heavy, polluting NiCd bricks, which required special chargers that would completely discharge and recharge them in order to avoid things like the memory effect? You want to go back to a time when you had to call a person on a phone in order to book a flight. You want to go back to a time when, if you moved to a different country, you got to talk to your relatives in the homeland once a month, for five to ten minutes on a noisy analog phone line, because that's all the international long distance you could afford?

Don't get me wrong, I dislike social media just as much as anyone. But do I dislike tech? Would I give up the all innumerable ways that my life has gotten better thanks to Moore's Law, ubiquitous Internet, and the proliferation of tools and services that take advantage of the above two? Absolutely not.
You’ve basically described one segment of the tech industry and assumed all tech is like that. You’re talking about consumer tech.

There is a wide range of tech that has nothing to do with consumers or anything social: manufacturing, medical, hardware drivers, command & control, finance, safety systems, etc…
One new thing is that Roam is supposedly geofenced to land. This is disappointing to sailing cruisers who had been using RV service from middle of ocean. And don't want to pay $1000/mo Maritime service meant for yachts and freighters.
Relevant song (rät)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqyXvMrQDk8
Why? The 6s is 7 1/2 years old and can't run their current iOS.

Sure, with a working battery it can still be useful to somebody but it has very little remaining market value.
ITU Facts and Figures 2022: 2.7B people without access to the Internet
Yeah when I worked at Amazon we found two computers with NICs with identical MAC addresses (and it was a long time ago when Amazon had an awful lot less servers). Some database process at the manufacturer had a race condition.
These are being rolled out across Australia. I believe they use computer vision to filter down the data and then pass it on to a human for manual verification. The proof is then a photo of you with a phone in hand.
Yeah, for me even when the CPUs are at 10-20%, the fans seem to be at full speed.