skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a more likely scenario is that all countries did what they could and China succeeded better than any other major land country. But then, as victims of their success, the costs of doing less increased with each new wave and when Omicron hit Hong Kong, the death rate soared in a way it didn't in the West.

Hong Kong was not the only place to have high death rates from Omicron. New Zealand did as well. But none of the countries which had difficulty controlling earlier Covid outbreaks did.

We are often prisoners of our own successes more than we are victims of our errors.
I also take mag citrate: good for GI and kidneys.

In higher doses, it's a first-line laxative administered prior to routine surgery.
I wish I started a bank
iTerm2 has code to detect when the current host changes and then disables paste bracketing. An ssh session suddenly ending is a common cause of it being left on with annoying consequences.

After sending a bracketed paste, iTerm2 watches for half a second for `00~` to be echoed back and then offers to turn paste bracketing off for you.

Every modal reporting feature has similar problems: mouse reporting and focus reporting, in particular.
> Drive from New Mexico, through Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama to Florida sometime and compare the roads and bridges.

TBF it's much easier to maintain infrastructure in a mild climate.
What if the fish switch sides, though?
No, because the only way to determine "who collapsed the wavefunction first" is to communicate subluminal.

In other words you can't detect the event of the wavefunction collapsing.
> As long as the banks can't pass these costs onto customers

fat chance?
What type of spam are you getting?

Gmail is pretty solid. For the emails it misses, you can mark them as spam and it rarely misses similar emails again.
https://release-monitoring.org/ does a decent job, but it’s very good to have an alternative.
And the same goes for taxi driver, postman, or jobs in hospitality.

The technology isn't the culprit here.
> Why didn't banks liquidate their long-term bond holdings a year ago?

Too many bonds / too little time.

Bank assets are several times larger than the real economy. It's impossible to transact them in one year.

> long-term bonds have better yields so the bank can artificially improve its position (ie executive bonuses and share prices again) by adding risk to their depositor funds.

About this, that one seems right on the mark to me. Banks seem to love all kinds of "tails we win, heads you lose" games.

But then, I wonder if the US didn't increase their rates much faster than they should.
Author is just a smug duchebag with a superiority complex.
The goal was to encourage the banks to speculate using 100% of depositor funds as collateral. How could we have ever seen a problem coming?
A good example of how driven individual can have a positive impact in a domain (with help from all other contributors too of course)
Its a truly incredible film, but has a few subtleties that may be hard to catch at first glance. Pay attention to the colors that people are wearing (green, orange, red, and blue) for the deeper subtext of relationships of the political situation in Ireland.

I may be missing a detail or two, and would happily be corrected, but for the curious:

- Green = Catholics / IRA supporters

- Yellow/Orange = Protestants

- Red = English

- Blues = Anglo-Irish Treaty supporters (?)

edit: formatting
Chinese-Russian it seems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33922218
bitcoin is the perfect hedge against kleptocratic regimes and hyper inflationary economies such as cyprus, greece, venezuela, sadly the united states has not only joined but racing up the hyper inflationary economy list. the fed added 300 billion $ and swiftly have undone the QT of the past few months within a few days with a whiff of problems at $svib, $frc, $pacw, $wal, $kre, $cs. [As of Wednesday last week, 4 months of QT have been reverted in a single week: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL]

the other alt coins though might have a sympathy rally are at best grifts except for privacy coins like $xmr,$zec,$grin,$beam,$ada[haskell]. $BTC as the grand daddy of crypto reigns supreme again.
I'm very surprised that this is actually a single person's workload. "Because I am also a programming language designer and developer, I have worked in it for approximately 3 years, and it also supports compiling to WASM." https://github.com/KusionStack/KCLVM
Don’t Use a Drill for DIY Work, Use an Impact Driver
I'm trying to find reference, but I believe Fraunhofer has a bunch of patent encumbrances on LC3. Although maybe software encoding & decoding licenses are free? The tests where LC3 were chosen over Opus seem semi-dubious too, with only the general audio Opus codec tested at low complexity, in a speech test. I'm not sure but I think/hope Opus hardware implementations would not be hardware emcumbered, but I'm not certain. For headsets this can be a significant power consumption win.

LC3 is not a high quality codec. It's a decent quality low bit-rate codec. Fraunhofer has a complementary lc3plus but it's unclear what grants of use there are on it to me.

Qualcomm here with Apt & AptX has notably not released decoding grants of use at all. This allows systems to output AptX, to the benefit of Apt/aptx receivers having better support, and they all pay Qualcomm & I expect largely use Qucomm chips. This is opposite to the longstanding case of Dolby Digital 5.1 & newer, where many computers have decoders, but Dolby Digital or Dolbt whatever encoding is ultra ghastly super rare. People were keeping their ancient ass Nvidia chipset motherboards from 2001 because it was like one of the only rare options available.

It's deeply scarring to me that so many of the important relevant ways to send data around, that define our digital world, are so jealously guarded secrets. We raise worse people on this planet by denying them curiosity & experimentation & playing with stuff, and a huge subsector of our critical AV systems is deeply shrouded in red tape & black boxes.
Worse than the most atrocious watermarks.
RTMPose: Real-Time Multi-Person Pose Estimation based on MMPose
Gun-type bombs like Little Boy used in Hiroshima are less efficient, but much simpler. Shoot an enriched uranium projectile into an enriched uranium target, such that the combined volume they compress to is supercritical.
You can look at the cultural characteristics of different American groups that were here but didn’t build civilization. Look what the places the Puritans, Germans, and Mormons built. These are cultures that lean towards communal rule following. Contrast that against Appalachians, or the frontiersmen who populated the Oregon coast, and what they built. These are cultures that have emphasized individual self determination.
13 years of QE. You don't have to be an economist to see the coming recession or even worse depression.

Better prepare for the worse.
Emoji in name works in many cases as well
i bought one of those cattle watering tanks to make a swimming pool ( wife's idea ). When it was delivered it had some very large black widows happily living inside. I wanted to leave them be but they were so big, i'm probably exaggerating but i swear they were as big as your fist, and I have kids so an executive decision was made.
so either a banana republic or japan
Kudos to RISC-V International for acting on geopolitical concerns by relocating itself to Switzerland.

Thanks to this, we can truly have an open, high-quality, industry-standard ISA for everyone.
That's a graph that shows M2, not inflation. QE does have an impact on M2, but bank lending behaviour is not directly reserve constrained, so it has little impact on inflation.
Adding "sustainable" doesn't make it so. The article's solutions are not convincing.
And there's never a (proper) Winter night :)
> good playgrounds help kids develop motor skills.

Once again, your link doesn't show that. Your link only claims physical play is important, it doesn't mention the type of playgrounds. Yes we all agree a sedentary lifestyle is bad for kids and adults.

If you can't provide a scientific source for your claim that the type ("safe" vs dangerous) of playgrounds matter then just say that.
SiegedSec's announcement of it with the uwu buoys my spirit a little bit that the original irreverent hacker spirit isn't completely dead.
I'd rather read backreaction. These articles always handwave all the actual relevant stuff and give poor pop sci analogies that aren't helpful or accurate
Both misinformation and disinformation have been rampant since the dawn of media, yet people tend to believe everything they read. As Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy says: "Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge." I doubt the proliferation of even more misinformation via AI will change that.

On the other hand, I do think that humanity always finds a way to adapt, even if it's not the most ideal way. I'm not as optimistic as you, but not as pessimistic as the doomsayers.

Somewhat fittingly, I was unable to find a reliable source for Knoll's law aside from a 1982 NY Times article[0]. Perhaps even the law itself is a fabrication.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/27/us/required-reading-smith...
That sounds like a religious presumptive conviction rather than rational curiosity. It might be nothing, but then again, it might also be something.
So has there been any similar agita from literary types over text generating ML?
I would argue that the path to Japanese citizenship is easier than being seen as Japanese. One is a pre-defined legal process, the other one depends on the complexities of what is cultural identity.
Aichat: Chat with GPT-3.5/ChatGPT in terminal
I wish every programming language website was like this. First thing you see is a short description the language, with an image on the side showing example code. Beneath that, a short example program that does something non-trivial. This is the way.
For anyone looking to train on a specific style, this algorithm is useless. For any organization looking to scrape images on a massive scale, it doesn't matter as there are more than enough unaltered images out there.

It's a political solution that capitalized on fear, yet does not offer tangible protection. Even watermarking is more effective.
I kinda like it. Seems like a good beginning. Now only if it simulated the fluid dynamics of paint as it dripped, hit, and dried then the physics of a canvas taking that paint.
To the side that kills fish? Even fish that eat fish still wanna be the ones doing the killing and eating.

Am I missing something?
"The most extreme growth occurred in September 2001, January 2009, and January 2012, when the rate of M2 expansion topped 10%. These accelerated periods coincided with recessions and economic weakness, during which expansionary monetary policy was deployed by the central bank."[0]

This expasionary monetary policy failed to stimulate the economy, which is predictable to anyone who understands that banks having bonds vs reserves has virtually no impact on their lending behaviour. Bonds are, for all intents and purposes, as good as cash.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/m2.asp#toc-the-bottom-l...
Yes, in the past, the "toolbag" metaphor was used to sell us extremely expensive productivity tools like IDE's and the like. But as any developer who doesn't use them and still makes a perfectly fine living has realised, it was a hype-train setup by a small group of people that was used to accumulate wealth. But the end result was very modest or zero improvements in actual productivity.

Now these things are practically given away for free to drive people towards websites where you can be sold software you won't ever own (SaaS/cloud) which was the next hype-train that was setup by a smnall group of people and that was used to accumulate wealth. But the end result was very modest or zero improvements in actual productivity.

Here we are on the next hype train. And I think you've very much spotted the pattern. What these things are good for is driving up demand for new products and services that have increasingly marginal, zero, or sometimes even negative effects on human wellbeing overall.
If I were the doctor and the patient had survived the heart attack I would absolutely do my best to get him to stop smoking in order to prevent the next heart attack.

In other words if you don’t fix the root cause of the heart attack (or fundamentally unsound fractional reserve banking system) you are effectively begging for another failure down the road.
Indeed, people in this thread are way overestimating how many average people even know who Euler is.

It’s OK if mathematicians are obscure in the general population. That’s part of the deal when you become a mathematician. I don’t know many footballers either.

I would much rather the general public filled their heads with basic mathematical concepts, rather than the names of mathematicians. As Feynman said (paraphrasing), knowing the name of something is rather useless if you don’t know anything else about it.
It's interesting to have it called a script; implying that it is fixed and out of your control. For what it's worth, I was given the same script by my parents and especially the Catholic Church, but it all seemed pretty ridiculous on its face; even to a child it was pretty clear that it was a nice delusion, but we all end up gone and forgotten once the script runs out. I have zero desire to put children through any of it.
Same thing happened to me two weeks ago... Released clevercli[0] only to find out aichat[1] had more features and written in Rust.

[0] https://github.com/clevercli/clevercli

[1] https://github.com/sigoden/aichat/
This, the prompts certainly can't be corpus-recursive.
I don't understand why you're comparing to phone calls here when the post you're replying to starts with "Google Chat logs aren't direct p2p, they are most definitely logged records. Otherwise the messages wouldn't still be there when you log out and back in." which is simply not true for voice calls, which are synchronous. Chats are asynchronous and store history in the client so you can scroll back (even if history is eventually purged client side on a timer or when you exit), and if chat history is enabled on the server, they store it there too.

A better point of comparison would be voicemails, but I don't think we're talking about those.
Well the debt is worthless so one but the FED can afford to buy it.
How much of this is just because of housing costs (rent) going up?
Sinking a ship at sea sounds like a decent way to end up killing people by accident, I think targeting them at harbor would be a better play. Sugar in the fuel, that sort of thing.

But it wouldn't so much be about the practicality of the attack, it's just about messaging. All humans are put at risk by irresponsible fishing practices, so people that fish irresponsibly should have to worry about interference from any human--not just whatever agency would pull you over and give you a ticket.
> The last global conflict had the current Vietnamese government sided with China and the USSR against the US. I think you already lost that bet.

I didn't claim a bet, but anyhow I don't know how to tell you this, but that was 40+ years ago. Even then you're not quite right, they went to war with each other in the 70s. The world is much different now and China at that time was not considered a global power. Now it is, and a lot of its neighbors don't like it. That includes countries like India and Vietnam.

> I would like to ask you for sources on Vietnamese sentiment regarding China and the US.

Ok, here is one of many.

"Based on the latest ABS data, only 25 percent of Vietnamese respondents believe that China has exerted a positive impact on their country, but for United States, the number goes up to 85 percent. "

https://thediplomat.com/2021/05/china-and-the-us-who-has-mor...
Systemax (also acquirers of the brand CompUSA, which was like BestBuy today but less diversified).

B&H Photo could've went national direct simply by acquiring that name for ~ $10 megabucks.

It's now dead and folded into TigerDirect.

PS: Retail Ecommerce Ventures is a zombie retail brand collector. They're not doing so well. https://www.retailecommerceventures.com/
Definitely the UK, more specifically, RAF Lakenheath, a well-known F-15 OCONUS base.

From the pic[1], "LN" tailflash is telltale, but if your confidence is still waivering, this is the precise location[2] that the pic was taken from: you can see spot "03" painted on the flightline and tower in the background.

[1] https://images.axios.com/7Kz2FLdbEv-I_Pr-GjkRXdriQSM=/0x254:...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/52%C2%B024'02.2%22N+0%C2%B...
"Why can't they have a chat room w/o record keeping? Why can't I?"

It turns out when a company is big enough to generate billions in revenue yearly or has tens of thousands of employees, the laws governing it are different from the laws governing an individual! This may be difficult to reason about since Corporations Are People(tm) but we apply special rules to them because they have more power than a real person.

More seriously, one good reason to require reasonable record retention in big companies, is that if multiple employees at a company collude, they can do irreparable harm to others in a way that a single individual cannot.

Also note that in some cases as an individual you could also be compelled to retain records, like if you're under a subpoena, afaik.
Banks don't buy eggs, but they do buy mortgage-backed securities. The focus on eggs is a red herring. Eggs are what, 0.15% of a middle class household's monthly budget, and housing is at least >30%? I would have much less objection to this policy if it didn't have real negative impacts on median working Americans. Having a long term residence is a bedrock to stability.
> now you are applying a filter (creating a derivative work) to defeat a copyright protection mechanism,

Aren't you kind of jumping ahead and assuming copyright protection applies to ML training? I thought this remains undecided right now.
I was just coming to comment that I’m really torn about actually reading the article because I just know that it will ruin the amusement I’m getting out of the headline itself.

Edit: lol, didn’t even make the connection after reading your comment that it isn’t “windows”.
Opus is not lossless
There's cynicism and then there is naive optimism.

The time for the ruling class to be given a pass for their failures is at an end. Funny thing is they are the ones calling for and end to complacency, but strangely enough that does not extend to complacency toward their corruption, incompetence, and greed
There is no general requirement. But, the article refers to a “litigation hold”.

That’s something that will arise out of a specific lawsuit, and will be an order from a judge that says the company is required to preserve documents and other evidence that pertain to the litigation.

So, not a general law that’s required all the time, but an order from a Judge in specific cases, that apply for the duration of the case.
I think Xi also cares about China, and he truly believes that a fully managed state and economy is better than democracy and free markets. Also note that Deng was in control in 1989. It's a bit more complicated than good vs evil here (which is true generally).
> Playgrounds for children are a relative new invention, especially for the unwashed masses. The notion that children require a dangerous feeling playground to become well rounded and mentally tough adults is silly.

Prior to playgrounds, children climbed trees and did all kinds of other edge-pushing play. Modern urban/suburban (and even in many cases rural) environments provide less opportunity for that.
See also: "Curl 25 Years Online Celebration" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35092501
One important giveaway is that the impact driver doesn’t have variable speed, like the drill. It’s worth knowing that those speed settings solve the problem of different materials.

One rare occasion for using a Philips bit in a drill: gluing the bit to remove a screw. The lowest speed setting and no impact work better.
A lot of companies have a lot of eggs in JIRA to move now. That's gonna keep them alive until something that can kill JIRA comes along.
They didn't release the sources for aptX Lossless though, still seems like a good start
No one calls then immigrants either. They are temporary workers.
It's not exactly a both-sides thing. I don't have a strong opinion on the topic, but the side with the gun is the AI art generator side (not the artists).

The artists are saying "stop" and the AI side is saying "you can't make me". One side would love a pause to have a productive discussion, and the other side doesn't want a pause at all.
I recall seeing a video in which a senior vice president of Symbolics (yes, the Lisp machine people) claimed that their aim was to put the largest software projects within reach of a small team, and everything smaller would be feasible by a single person.

Had Lisp machines (as an idea) remained viable, we might've come close! But managers just love having large teams to command, and we've invented process and ceremony to fill up the spare time necessary to do the work of ten programmers with a hundred, as well as rejecting technologies like Lisp and Smalltalk that give individual programmers tremendous leverage over the problem space.

Should AI actually make people more productive, instead of being an endless generator of messes for fleshbags to clean up, I imagine some successor of Scrum to come along to tie up most of staff programmers' work days with meetings. Hell, that may happen anyway.
One of the issues that makes an index less valuable is that to make sense of a given rationalist idea you kinda need to have a mental virtualenv set up with most of the rationalist tools already installed (otherwise e.g. when someone says “this is a choice between Good and Evil” you will simply say “I choose Good” as in https://www.yudkowsky.net/other/fiction/the-sword-of-good), and the only reliable way to install all of those tools is to just read most of the rationalist literature. Likewise for the “dark cousins”, to make sense of a given neoreactionary idea you need a mental virtualenv with all the neoreactionary tools installed and to install them you need to read all of Moldbug. And don’t get me started on postrationalist ideas - despite being the most important of all, you can’t make sense of them without having all the rationalist and neoreactionary tools installed in the same environment, and have spent five years marinating in the dependency conflicts, and you also have to be so intractably contrarian that neither rationalist nor neoreactionary thought is contrarian enough to satisfy you…

I still think an index would be helpful, but it does have its issues as well.
every single election in the US is subject to a complete audit after the fact. counting quickly and verifying accurately after the fact are not mutually exclusive.
> China’s leadership has made clear that they will prioritize unification and Party integrity over the economy and the well-being of their people.

Even if China did conqure the land of Taiwan, it's difficult to support tens of millions of population to its pre-war living standards. Both mainland and taiwan had pension+aging population problems of their own. Conquest was the easy part, surviving the aftermath is difficult. Destroyed Taiwan economy, international boycott, etc.