skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key element you're missing in that analogy is that a lot of this failure and damage is going to occur anyhow. Economic fragility is baked into the cake. We're looking at a down cycle for everyone here. There's no option where we all hold hands together in happy harmony and the economy just keeps going up for everybody, or likely, we'd take it or some approximation of it. In this environment, weighing out whether you can cause proportionally more damage in your enemy's collapse by some action or other becomes distressingly rational.

Contemplate a payout matrix that looks like the Prisoner's Dilemma, except the payout for snitching while the other player doesn't is still negative, instead of zero. If that's your game theoretic situation, complaining that a player took an option with an expected negative payout is a null objection. There was no alternative. So the game changes.

This is part of why I say it's different than a decade ago. We did have some approximation of a hold-hands-and-be-happy option and we did take it. One can quibble about the details; I'm definitely on team "can was kicked down the road" rather than "everything was fixed, hooray", but hey, that's debatable.
The docs are for centos but from the looks of it I don't see any major roadblocks for Debian based distros?

https://docs.openmoonray.org/getting-started/installation/bu...
Seeing as how no one else is stepping up to prevent abuse of prisoners, seems like scope creep can be justified in this instance.
> reserves are for more than a rainy day fund.

Exactly. Many HOAs are now required to get periodic reserve studies that calculate predicted maintenance costs going out sometimes 30 years. Association Reserves did our study (<300 homes) and calculated we needed $1.4M to be 100% funded. Our HOA policies require only 60%, which we think reduces the risk of special assessments to a very low level, but that's still a lot of money. Association Reserves believes that property values in HOAs with high percentage reserves can be 5-10% higher than low percentage (<40%) reserves.
A university PR office puts out a press release that is shallow version of the actual paper? Why I never....
I'm not going to say that I'm in love with the cops in NYC and I certainly have my own list of issues with them, but in general I'd say that at least NYC has usually felt pretty safe regardless of the area. Hard to say that about many other cities.
Yes I agree. It’s sad no one talks about who was in Taiwan before 1950s. From my understanding the PRC wasn’t powerful enough to invade Taiwan at the time. I don’t know enough about the PRC before or after the major Mao or capitalist reforms done in 78 and late 90s I think? to form much of an opinion on China myself yet. It’s clear this isn’t a situation of “China all bad”. Especially from any analysis that is not done from a Transatlantic or right wing perspective.
If you would like ChatGPT to talk about the mid-century Germans, it would be consistent if you support free speech.

I tend towards free speech, but I'm also a realist - the boundaries of speech are ultimately decided by power. It's no surprised then that Silicon Valley Leftists wish to use their power to surpress the deplorables who they despise. Lumping those people together with Hitler simply serves as a convenient fig-leaf for this activity.
There’s a decent point here, but it’s not insurmountable. If these people lived on $32k net (in today’s dollars) their entire lives, they definitely won’t need $1.5m (in today’s dollars) for retirement. That would generate about $60k (gross) in retirement income. Social security, assuming no future raises (and therefore higher benefits) and a 25% haircut to payout, would cover about $15k. So they’d need $17k in portfolio income, which is a $425k nest egg. Or they could work part time, or get a raise at some point, or delay claiming social security and work longer for a larger benefit.

This plan could go wrong. But it also makes a serious of fairly pessimistic assumptions about the person’s entire working career. And it doesn’t require extreme frugality either - the friends I have making <$40k still eat out and go to concerts. There’s this pervasive myth (exemplified by the top-level comment) that moving to a big city is an unmitigated financial disaster that requires an upper-middle class income to defray, and I just don’t think it’s true.
There is the business side of this to consider. Disputes are expensive--companies are forced to pay significant fees whether they win or lose the dispute. A dishonest customer lying to their bank about your product/service should be able to be banned from using your product/service. Otherwise, what's to stop them from maliciously charging then filing disputes over and over again?

To be clear, I'm talking about a different case, where the customer doesn't reach out for help, and doesn't give you an opportunity to correct the problem (which most banks ask them to do first but they just lie about it). With my business, this is the case for 9 out of every 10 disputes (and I have a very low dispute rate). The other 1 time is they just mistakingly reported it as a dispute because they didn't recognize it, but after you reach out they correct it with their bank (but guess what, you still have to pay the dispute fee when that happens).

When your SAAS product costs $5 / month, and the dispute fees are $15 / dispute or more, and customers go back and file disputes on the previous X months of charges, and they never give you a chance to make it right, it becomes a problem worth banning them over.
> It's not any great secret either, listen to Obama talk about healthcare back in the day, and the phrase he always used was, "bend the cost curve". I would think the obvious solution would be to set up one actual single-payer and then use monopsony power to force costs down. It would probably mean less profit for those sellers though.

I think everyone knows that is what Obama really wanted to do, but it was not politically possible at the time even in his own party, and it's still not possible today.
I haven’t dug too deep yet, but this sounds exactly like what I was looking for, thanks!
Right now you can buy the whole company for $10bn. Seems cheap. Their building on Madison square Park in NYC is probably worth a $1bn
This was confirmed for me back in 2021 when a personal trainer at my gym decided to do a quick coding boot camp and immediately got hired in the industry.
Half-Life: A Full RT/Path-Traced Upgrade for the OG PC Classic
Totally agree! This is part of the conversation with each of our customers. We have learned early that this is a part of the pain and we are solving it in two ways:

1. Rapidly developing a deep understanding for naming and meaning within each PMS so we can speak intelligently, and properly guide our customers to focus on the data they care about.

2. Technically, we have data transformations at a couple different layers so we can repoint data coming in to exist in customer-specific locations for their business needs.
I never understood what the big deal is about Kottke.org and I’ve been on the intraweb since early 90s.

Not being a hater. Just never understood the passion.

Maybe the appeal is he was one of the first to monetize being a blogger.
Social Security retirement benefits.
So, in short, most people think it’s wrong to permanently end a creatures life because you get some temporary good feelings out of it.

You can prescribe a value, but if temporary sensory pleasures truly outweigh the entire lives of other beings, there may be neurological issues affecting compassion.
It appears they currently only support a Docker container build and a CentOS build. I am working on a build script (PKGBUILD) for Arch Linux.
Globalization means that China of today and China under Mao are not necessarily the same, and can't be viewed through the same lens. The internet is a Big Deal in terms of providing an outside perspective to willing Chinese looking to see what life is like outside of the Great (Fire)Wall. That said, you can't apply a western perspective when understanding China and the Chinese viewpoint. I spent some time over there and was constantly surprised by how the Chinese viewed themselves and their government and the world, in contrast to how I viewed the same.
If you are part of an organization, you already need to deal with most of those ?
You and your OP both are right. Companies are totally at fault for muddying waters by using the same methods as scammers (or scammers are smart by using surprisingly similar tactics), and Customer too should be aware of situations.

Zelle, Western Union, Venmo, PayPal (family) literally gives you warnings, multiple prompts, to say that it is irreversible, pay it only to known people, dont use it for government payments, make sure to check registered name, and stuff.

We as customers should know that no utility company, gas, power, internet, government offices, their representatives accept or want payments by Zelle. Zelle is great for person to person, or one time cash-like transactions. If one handover wad of cash to a person claiming a utility representative, one would not expect to get that cash back if he was fraud.

Zelle is irreversible by design (unless receiver sends it back). Otherwise what would stop from people using it like credit card chargebacks?. The only time I have heard zelle txn getting reversed is if reciever asks & insists to his bank that this money is not for me, undo this txn. Although there is a variation of fake check scam reverse zelle too. Just liek check, scammers arrange a zelle incoming from victim 1 to victim 2. Then calls victim 2that it was mistake. Please zelle it back to "me". Victim 2 does zelle. Original txn gets recalled because either victim 1 found it or his bank found it. Victim 2 is out of his good money.
One thing about fluorine chemistry is that it is an exquisite engineering challenge. The reason these molecules are majority synthesized by the major chemical companies is that smaller players lack the capacity to run these plants. There have been catastrophic explosions at more than one plant in China.
How viable is it to fork Docker Hub ?
No, the taxpayers will foot the bill. Can’t have bank CEOs missing out on their hundred million dollar compensation, that would ruin the system! It’ll just be 2008 all over again - the people who screwed up will be rewarded, everyone else will be punished.
Why would you need $1.5M saved up to retire? Even if you live to 100, that still gives you $42,000 a year assuming no interest at all. Most people are lucky to pass 80, which means an expected $100,000 per year during retirement.

I know medical bills can be expensive, and of course you need to pay utilities, likely vehicle upkeep, food, etc. but 42 grand minimum per year seems pretty good to me?
>often with a similar tax burden

This isn't true
This is exactly why I do not want to use such companies. I do not want to be an accessory in this racist crap. Your IP does not define who you are. Hetzner could two things:

- stop operating in countries they don't want business from

- treat people equally

What they are doing is: pathetic.
Is there any way we can prevent these models from being abused by large corporations for profit?

I was just thinking today, it’s interesting how I can ask ChatGPT something that is hard to get a straight answer for - such as “how much does X usually cost?”

I wouldn’t be surprised if this type of tech was quickly censored by a company that implements it at scale (say, Google or bing) for profit.

I feel like it’s inevitable, and it’s depressing.

Will the future be populated by LLMs that all want to control the information I have access to?
At face value I agree with you but those two statements are also very complicated.

With respect to defense budget, one of the reasons the US economy is so strong is because of its military. Since WWII America has expanded its sphere of influence to encompass the entire world and dating back to the Monroe doctrine has operated with a 'f--- around and find out' attitude, that only works if you have the military hence why so much is spent on force projection. As a result the US has relatively unfettered access to natural resources, favourable exports/trade policies, IP protection (e.g. semiconductor exports to China) and economic power (e.g. the petrodollar) which stems from being the biggest and baddest. It can certainly be argued to what extent we still need to be doing this, but its not as simple as 'spend less on defense', or your sanctions won't mean anything anymore and there will be far less incentive for foreign powers to act in ways that are favourable to American interests. I don't know the answer to this question but the discussions by foreign policy experts have led me to believe this is far more complicated than it seems.

With respect to healthcare efficiency, looking at $ spent/resident is overly inflated. All healthcare systems are terribly inefficient with different tradeoffs, absolutely agree that it needs improving, but it's also not as bad as the media would have you believe. Another reason the US spends so much is that the level of care for complex cases is also much higher than anywhere else in the world and almost all major medical advances and research comes out of the US. Looking at Canada we are at historic lows in research spending and there are countless treatments we do not offer.

In both of these scenarios it's also worth noting that a large chunk of both expenditures goes towards paying salaries (and most to non-executives), so 'spending' at face value is not necessarily 'bad'.
Which smalltalk implementation are you using?
Time for a https://github.com/google/lmctfy revival.
> In real terms, you will get back exactly a hundred million. In the npv at that date will be exactly 100 million.

you wrote 'real terms' when you meant 'nominal terms.'

> $1 after inflation is still $1. It is just that the value of $1 is now different.

That is why we distinguish between 'real value' and 'nominal value.'
would GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 exist right now if they didn't?

I'm not one to hold up progress just so people can collect paychecks for a couple more months.
You misspelled Nixpkgs ;-)

I'm kidding, of course, but IIRC pkgsrc (and alikes, such as APT) has a number of limitations, for example a very limited ability to have multiple versions of the same package installed, making it less than optimal replacement.

(I believe a lot of people depend on ability to spin up a new version while the old is running, then do the cutover and shut down the old one after it's not is use.)
I don't think this is accurate. I have rented an OVH dedicated server (through SoYouStart) for about the last decade, let me share some maintenance experiences:

> They don't monitor other health issues however (how would they since you are running your own system?) and therefore don't do anything before they detect a "down" status.

My server has a hardware raid card. I have had one incident where OVH contacted me and said there was an issue with one of the drives, and that they will reboot the server at X time to replace it. They did so, and the problem was solved with no requests or intervention on my part.

I had another incident where I was told the motherboard died. IIRC, it died around 1am my time and was replaced by 5am my time. They of course turned the system back on for me. I was asleep the whole time, and this was likewise solved with zero requests or intervention on my part.

Besides this, I can count the number of times an internet or power issue made my server unreachable on a single hand. IMO, a great experience for a dirt cheap host.

That all being said: OVH's ipv6 solution is laughably bad and is the single reason why I would switch hosts, if a better one with a north American presence appears.
Not if you hit large enough scale, or serve too much non-"Web" content.
They just released a feature film with this renderer, grossing $462 million and widely praised for its animation.

Large studios don't update so regularly vs e.g. a startup. They have very specific setups, which is in fact a large part of why it took them so long to release moonray vs when they said they would last year. And they are moving to Rocky Linux soon IIRC.

>dumping it into FOSS community

They are not "dumping" anything. Would it have hurt to look into the facts before commenting?
I’ve had a few different dev jobs in that time. Some are better, some are worse.
Why so expensive? It’s just a PCIe card, some PCIe switches, and a lot of m.2 slots. I could see a few hundred dollars, but nearly $3k? Why?
I guess the SQLite team managed to do it by using an even more permissive license than GPL, which attracted big companies into funding them ??
Yep. I live in NYC because the my thought process was the same, with the additional constraint that I needed to be close-ish to family. Have not regretted it for a second
samsung: "someone is claiming we are enhancing photos with hardcoded data taken from other photos, let us respond to this claim. We are Enhancing your Photos with Hardcoded Data taken from Other Photos."

cant wait til it puts someone elses dog or kid there
Even with someone’s iCloud password and physical access to your phone, a normal app can’t access your phone logs, your camera while running in the background, record your screen etc, even with an MDM.
Just the Two of Us
Drugs are pretty freely available in prison; you buy them from the guards. If that were the problem they were trying to resolve there are other paths to take. It isn't though.
There's a bunch of really obvious objections to this idea around performance, privacy, economics, UX, and reliability. Impressively, the post did not manage to address any of them up front.

1. Performance. In terms of latency, this is adding an extra round-trip to each page request (to get the metadata). It's also likely going to load different resources from different servers (hostname, IP) preventing connection reuse. I guess they can't even start fetching data until the full page has loaded? And it feels like this scheme would make it much harder to reliably cache resources, since the browser will cache by URL while they'd struggle to make sure the URLs are stable across calls.

2. Privacy. Their threat model only addresses malicious peers changing content, not malicious peers trying to track users.

3. Economics. If running peer servers really was profitable, the company would do it themselves rather than outsource it. Given the "where can you get a server" section, it's not even that they're expecting this to just be running on spare capacity.

The problem with the setup is that incentives of the peers are badly misaligned with the network, the clients, and the end-user. A peer wants to maximize traffic; the clients and end-users want to minimize it. So a peer would be incentivized to set cache-control headers to prevent caching, to increase traffic. Likewise a peer would be incentivized to only keep copies of the most accessed resources, to be able to serve as high a proportion of the traffic as possible with a given disk budget, while all the other stakeholders would like each file to be available just N+1 times in each region.

4. UX. URLs will be really crappy compared to a proper CDN. Right-click copy a link to an image and send it to somebody? It'll initially be to some super-dodgy URL, and stop working in a day or two as the CDN node starts caching different content. And AMP showed that people do actually care about URLs.

It's pretty hard to take this seriously.
In quite a few places in NYC, including the subway, it actually feels like a crazy person could stab you at any moment.

When people leave the city and feel an unanticipated sense of relaxation, it's because they were used to living in fear and looking over their shoulders all the time, and they don't need to do that in their new surroundings.
A lot of this is generated by companies themselves as a kind of marketing that targets VCs and potential partner companies. A "platform" is better at raising money than a "product" because it seems bigger and more important. "We're not just an AI dog-washing company, we're a platform for intelligent animal hygiene services".
Where is this area?

1 acre lots 30 miles N/NE of Dallas in desirable areas with good school districts are well over $200k these days.
There's probably some obscure exception for government purposes. Or the government just won't prosecute if it interferes with their interests. Pretty common in all aspects really, even really simple stuff like off-duty cops not getting speeding tickets.
I'm surprised/pleased that this time around we have more 16x10 displays than not.

System76 Oryx Pro - Best Linux laptop for performance and customer service
Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition - Best Linux laptop for overall design
Star Labs StarFighter - Best Linux laptop for configurability
HP Dev One - Best Linux laptop for developers
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 - Best Linux laptop keyboard

Only the "System76 Oryx Pro" and "HP Dev One" are 16x9 displays.
Sorry but who cares what HN does?

Is this a business? No.

Should we follow any of the practices of HN? I do not think so. My personal website has a more scalable infrastructure than HN.
Thank you, that's an excellent point. I often forget that Ireland is still in the EU!
What a beautiful design. And it feels faster than Sublime 4. Using Treesitter + LSP out of the box like Helix makes Zed productive with zero config.

Multi-buffers seems genuinely useful for project wide search panel as well as for cases where multi-line strings are used to define external file contents but miss out on syntax highlighting.

Looking forward to trying the live collab features.
right now no, but we have an idea to opensource everything.
It isn't. Bitcoin isn't nearly big enough to cause systemic problems of banks, especially since most banks either don't have legal access to it, or because they don't see it as a valuable investment.

Please note that while Bitcoin is mostly built to counter central banking, it also heavily encroaches on the traditional yield generating business that banks serve to the people: storing wealth. With bitcoin, (excepting mining fees) you don't have to pay for storage or services. You don't run a counterparty risk, and you can keep a moderate level of privacy.
Yeah, but they’ll just blame immigrants, which will make it politically acceptable. Worked in the U.K. last time around, and Switzerland is increasingly xenophobic, particularly the older generation, who hold the power and the votes.
The ACLU is clearly no longer the institution it once was. Glad to see the EFF is stepping up.
Has assets? Sure. Has liabilities?
I had an 86 Honda Civic and have a similar story. I was just getting out of class and heading to work, walked out to my car, started it, looked behind me to back out and realized the stuff in the back seat wasn't mine. Turns out someone had a very similar civic that was even missing the same black plastic strip on the side panel mine was. And my keys worked in their cars.
Sorry, what is the "feedback hypothesis"? Also, despite my use of quotes, I'm not arguing about semantics.
No Framework?
There's a whole ...at Work series. Though 'Founders' is still the best. Read them all.
Generative has a more technical meaning than that.

Generative AI is essentially the opposite of a classifier. You give it a prompt that could mean many different things, and it gives you one of those things. A robotic arm could use generative AI, because there are many different sets of electrical signals that would result in success for, say, catching a ball.

Classification is an example of a non-generative AI in that there is only 1 correct answer, but it still requires machine learning to acquire the classification function.