skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now the common American mis-pronunciation of Reading in England makes no sense. It's the same!
My immediate thought was that they should have run this past any Spanish speaker in the company lol
What is so hard about Samba on Linux? UID and GID management?
As I said, I see cryptocurrency as a very complex technology that requires a bordering-on-academic understanding of privacy, autonomy, sovereignty, macroeconomics, the shortcomings of FIAT currency, centralized banking, the federal reserve, fractional reserve banking, asymmetric cryptography, computer security, and a litany of other topics to fully appreciate and realize the benefits offered by Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum, etc.

I understand it probably comes off a little misanthropic, but as I also said, I suspect (many? most? majority? plurality?) of the people involved in crypto really don't even care about any of that, let alone understand it. The unstated corollary to this is that I would presume the people who aren't involved in crypto, on average, understand and appreciate all of these things even less.

I understand that a lot of those 5 billion users weren't born with the privileges I was - I basically rolled all d20's for my stats by being born into one of the wealthiest and highest income countries in the world to a pair of responsible middle class parents and getting both the genes and parenting that I got, in an economic environment where I got to be exposed to having a home computers from the age of about 4, got lucky enough to be born into the highest income county of my state with a fantastic charter school that offered me a better early education than I deserved, all through no virtue of my own, and I think that opened life path doors for me that simply aren't open to an awful lot of people.

Even after all of that, to have the personality type that allows one to be extremely interested in what some would call "esoteric" topics like cryptography, monetary sovereignty, etc, as opposed to someone who just listens to whatever the popular music is, watches whatever the popular TV show is, and is glued to tiktok or Instagram 24/7 is far from guaranteed.

I think to be deeply interested in cryptocurrency for what I subjectively call "the right reasons" is in many ways to be an exception to the norm, both economically and culturally, compared to the user base of "all internet users".

In their defense, I wouldn't recognize any of the top players of the MLB, NBA, NHL, whatever the American football one is, whatever the big European football one is, any of the kardashians, virtually any actor or actress, or musicians, or other cultural figures if I was standing next to them in line at Microcenter - I think it's mostly a question of different interests being held by different people, and "the technical, economic, political, and philosophical aspects of electronic peer-to-peer distributed ledgers" is probably just not a very popular interest.

Again, sorry if any of that comes off as misanthropic, that's not my intention - I am trying to be completely civil.
Are you serious? LGBTQ+ are real people being dehumanized by MAGA's.

MAGA's are not good people, regardless of how scared they maybe of others.

Their fear makes them dangerous as they lack the emotional intelligence required to allow others to exist without their approval. Also, they are often well armed and have bene involved in many mass shootings.
All the money and talent devoted to these AR glasses should be spent on a Siri 2.0 project using the latest large language models like GPT-4.

Apple put neural network processors on its phone for a few years now but I don't see them taking advantage of it.

Siri feels absolutely brain dead compared to other speech recognition and GPT systems. It should be an absolute embarrassment for Tim Cook and all Apple employees.
Because we don't know what this model will do. Basically "why?" is the answer.
Crime is relative. Homosexual relationships are criminal in a significant portion of the world, along with many other activities that you may support.

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist."

Crypto's main use is crime insofar as its main use is denying monopolistic/governmental control, and anything that the government bans is a crime.
We're accountable on an individual level with our direct managers. The team lead, his boss, and product managers make judgements of priority when something takes longer than expected.
Most drive tests really fail to establish whether they are sustained or short tests. Lovely seeing some believable figures, where before & after the cliff are visible.

I would have guessed the Crucial's Mx500 was a decade old but it's only 5 years. Doing a respectable job at a bit over 100MBps sustained. The Kingston A400 is doing OK.

Still unknown is longevity. A drive that can last three times as long is worth a lot more to me.
I disagree with that. First, Faang salaries are way over middle class. If inflation reduced your salary by a bit, think about how much more ia reduction impacted the salary of an average middle class person. As you make more money you have more disposable income so the impact of little bit less money when you make more is smaller.
The headsets that exist today are very, very isolating. The whole idea behind them is to bring you somewhere else! To get AR right though, we need to be talking about something more like a projection like Google Glass. To bring the interface to you instead of bringing you to the interface means that pass-through must work when it’s powered off.
"never" is a long time.
Fair enough.

If anything, automobiles frequently utilise negative lift, as with a Formula 1 or Indy Car's inverted wing which generates increased downforces. On street cars you'll find spoilers and similar factors.

Aircraft can fly low and fast, though that's typically associated with combat aircraft evading radar or air-defence systems. Such missions are known as fuel-burners precisely because of the greatly increased drag.
You should take a quick look at EPIC. They dominate the electronic heath record space, and a ton of health systems use it. You will know if your doctor's office uses an EHR application, because they will be typing notes into it for the majority of your visit. I have not been too excited about the amount of time that physicians spend on EHR systems, but I am hopeful that taking the data they input (along with blood work and other test results) will make everything more accurate, fast and effective.
LEO orbit period is 90min, so it takes at least 40min for a missile to go halfway around the globe.

Going in straight line across the earth at the speed of light takes 42ms. Going around the earth at the speed of light takes 66ms. Let's be extremely pessimistic and double that estimate at 132ms. Going through the earth saved you 90ms in this best case.

You saved 90ms over 40min. A ratio of 0.0000375, or 0.00375%.

There is no way it makes any sense to spend billions to save 0.00375% in response time to an incoming missile.
Does anyone have a TL;DR version of what’s going on here
That isn't really how it works. Low observable aircraft flying in friendly civilian airspace generally have radar transponders turned on specifically to make themselves visible to air traffic control and prevent collisions. Those transponders are turned off for combat missions. And ATC mostly doesn't use primary radar any more so they don't even get skin paints on regular aircraft.
And because many of them see less sales, and they want to stay profitable. That's the obvious reason. Yeah some of them are just following the herd but some companies see less spending.
I think this is close. IMO, the problem is that we're talking about a group of concepts using vague language. Is it an estimate, a target, or a deadline? "Estimate" gets used in place for targets and deadlines all of the time and it sets up situations where expectations aren't properly managed.
well... 10% votes with only 75% (60mio) people eligible to vote and 76% people voting makes ~6% support of actual voting people. And this was in 2021. I don't think they have that much support anymore.

And while they are "just" exercising their power, they also do so by going against the coalition agreement they signed before, while being obviously influenced by VW/Porsche guys. I'm not sure there is much democracy left in this case anymore.
> "AI" is never going to be as effective at it as "me + AI"

Yeah, but which one will be cheaper?
That's a discredit to BitTorrent.
Wait a minute, do people have to be able to solve those problems to be considered intelligent in the AGI sense? My guess is there's about 8B people who wouldn't pass that bar.

Also aren't there loads of lower level math questions that are just as unique? A quadratic equation with large random numbers would be easily solved by a high schooler yet not be in the dataset verbatim. Or perhaps a proof of some geometry thing that is a corollary of some well known proof, eg I came across one earlier: it's well known that a cord subtending an angle on the circle has the double angle from the centre. Now prove that if you see two angles where one is the double of the other and they open towards the same line segment, you can draw a circle where the smaller angle is on the circle and the double is at the centre, and the line segment is a cord of the circle.

Anyway what exactly is the bar for intelligence? There's lots of people who can't do one task or another, but we don't think of them as not intelligent.
Dog Eat Dog is a game of colonialism and its consequences
I think the real damage was done between 2008 and 2018, when we spent 10+ years under zero interest rates in the US and negative rates in parts of Europe. I think that conditioned people to forget about things like duration risk and interest rate risk. Had we been under a "normal" rate regime during that period, I don't think people would have thought 10 year t-bonds paying 1.5% were in any sense of the word a "good deal." I think peoples' expectations were so messed up that Austria (?) issued a 97 year zero coupon, zero interest rate bond. Like it was a good thing.
"AI" is never going to be as effective at it as "me + AI".

That's what people said about chess ai.
Twitter has almost evaporated. What would someone buy it for today? A billion dollars? Maybe two? He couldn't have more effectively destroyed its value I don't think.
FWIW, he had told me that five years ago. I fully admit 5 is as close to 10 as it is to 0, though ;P. But like, even if he was stuck using an old stat the idea that he wants to know all of them isn't confidence inspiring from this angle. I asked him what he would do if someone came to him with a lead pipe and threatened him with a demand to poison his directory server and he seemed confident until I asked him the same question about his family and it frankly felt like he hadn't really considered it before, which was crazy to me.

The point being, though, that Tor isn't really a decentralized design as the cabal is too small and the community is too tight: I am just listing it as a thing that clearly isn't decentralized and anonymous / permissionless in one place (the servers) and just kind of throws up its hands at the issue of dealing with a bratty set of users; it works because, by and large, not many people want to use it and not enough people are unhappy enough that it exists to DoS it out of existence.
Got it, we only use liability since we drive a cheap used car.
You're not supposed to editorialize titles. Please change it back to "[tz] Lebanon DST change internally disputed".
Maybe your prompts are better, but so far I have found it fails at producing the right math code too regularly. For example, calculating an average of averages instead of a simple mean or producing code that doesn't run.
maybe they can use the expenses maintaining docker images of projects that are beneficial to a broader FOSS user community to pay less taxes or something, or brag about their phylantropy on accounting reports.

I don't believe the revenue from these avenues would save or kill the company anyway, so better make a lemonade of these lemons, right?
As AI grows stronger, the "me" part is going to matter less and less.

A "graduate + AI" might be nearly as effective as "you + AI", while being significantly more... cost-efficient.
Suit yourself.

It is just one tool among many for the acquisition and retention of knowledge.

I like used books with notes in it. It's interesting to see what someone previously reading felt was important or to glimpse into the past life of book itself.
True, but unfortunately we now live in a world where corporate landlords participate in a price-fixing cartel on regional basis and use income verification data to set your rent. This means, in many cases, an increase in pay means an increase in rent even if you change nothing else about your lifestyle.

Side note: price-fixing cartels are black letter illegal as fuck in the US, but we don’t seem to enforce the laws against corporate landlords
I think the better question to ask in the here and now is - is 1 developer + AI as effective as 2 developers without? What about 3, 5, etc?
Quite literally everything.

I don't know what it is about Samba, but it's an imperial pain in the ass to get it working right.
I am aware, and that is indeed very bad, but do you realize how irrelevant that is?
Even if all the jobs creating CRUD apps are automated away, there will probably still be an interest in automating them even faster. LLMs are currently the state of the art technique for doing so, hence there will be a continual need for more AI engineers/researchers.

And if something that performs better than current LLMs comes around, all those engineers will shift over to whatever field develops them.
well if they pay you for you and suddenly you are only 50% of the equation guess what will be your shareholder next move
> I also accept bending pages to remember where you left the story; I never have bookmarks handy.

I decided about 20 years ago I wasn't going to use bookmarks anymore. If I can't find where I was, I need to reread from whatever I recognize. If I can't figure out a place to drop in and understand what's going on, I should just start over from the beginning (it'll probably be faster the second time anyway.) I also really hate dogears; they crack off in about 10 years or so.
Yeah, something similar happened with IHS markit after they got aquired by S&P global in 2022, all their CDX data went private.

These types of things to me are warning signs.
Prime minister doing shenanigans via judiciary to give more power to prime minister. Defense minister said that could hurt military readiness due to unrest. Prime minister fires defense minister.
The progress in AI isn't fast enough for you?
I cannot begin to express how perfect the 1992 poster I had of the "year of space" was for me growing up. A creatively imagined shuttle with rigging & sails coming out the bay. Very modern-D&D-Spelljammer vibe. Eventually the poster was just worn to pieces but what a special place it has in my heart.

I go looking for it every couple years. These posters make me think of it. Maybe I can get an AI to make me something similar.
Remote work gains momentum despite return-to-office – mandates high-profile CEOs
As in there won’t be any more jobs for you to do…
My Chaotic Good take on this: one could implement a qs.auto_fetch_deferred() that emits model instances with weak back-references to a WeakSet of all instances emitted, and on a deferred get on ANY instance, it prefetches that attribute onto ALL of the instances... so that it doesn't just complain, but actually fixes your 1+N issue. But here lies absolute madness...
Almost all of RISC-V is Scala land!

Scala has actually some stand in HW development and high-performance computing. See also https://spatial-lang.org/ which is another Scala DSL, this time for accelerators.

Scala in general is a much underrated language. One of the most powerful high level languages, but with a concise and very clean core. Since the new syntax was introduced in version 3 it even looks amazingly beautiful.

I know, people (frankly especially here on HN) are repeating some FUD about this language, but this are usually issues solved a decade ago.

People should really reconsider trying out Scala. Especially the new major version 3.

https://virtuslab.com/blog/the-most-common-scala-myths-debun...
I think I've read it's based off Toolformer (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04761.pdf)
You're on the right side of the bell-curve meme my friend, but there are a lot more people in the thick-framework camp who spend their days getting lost in the complexity of ORMs and related tech...
> The 2017 peak happened in the middle of a US interest rate increase cycle. The 2021 peak happened 6 months before the most recent US interest rate increase cycle

Denominate the Bitcoin market cap in US M1 money supply. You will then see that it peaked in 2017, 2019, and 2021 (twice). This ratio also bottomed recently.

Effectively, when the central bank that manages the word's reserve currency starts printing money (or there is an anticipation of printing), Bitcoin appreciates. The opposite happens during tightening (ie rate hikes).
If I asked a human to digest a million line csv, I'd expect them to sample some of the first results and read through the headers, then maybe pull it into excel and do some summaries or make some graphs.

Not try to read all of the lines
When solutions really are that simple, yes, go for the solution that is simple. Of course. Society in general doesn't put enough weight on simple low-tech solutions.

But before prescribing solutions for the general case (the general idea of houses being cut off from the main land), assume that you will face the worst case scenario of complexity and tons of sub-problems -- for example, I'm sure some of the cases examined by this research will also have the problem of underground gas lines, plumbing, electrical, communications services -- and maybe a road that has been damaged beyond trivial repair. It's best to treat those scenarios as losses, especially if additional erosion is predicted in the next 20 or so years and the fix requires much more expensive engineering. Otherwise we will get trapped into a pattern that wastes the best resources of the entire system, for the sake of a few homeowners.
I don't think the paper says that. I would guess both SL and RL cause mode collapse.
Software is getting worse because there is a hell of a lot more of it being written and much of it is written for a quick buck. The hype around AI is because it is a big a step forward and the media is thrilled to have something new to talk about.
For those with enough Eth to stake, Ethereum has the bonus that so many stocks due: perpetual dividends. Unlike stocks Ethereum, as a whole, doesn't have a liquidation value. The dividends are it. And your particular share of the pie can be constantly diluted by further stakes. Is a vote required to allow further stakes? Or can anyone stake if they meet criteria?

This strikes me more like a buyer's club than a stock.
If I follow your train of logic, why does Russia carry USD reserves?
We could do that.

But the question is now: What is an appropriate amount?

Is it the amount that was appropriate for generations, i.e., in a full-service restaurant, 10% for mediocre service, 15% for excellent service, and 20% for truly outstanding service? Or is it the 20/25/30% scale, or the 20/30/40% scale I've seen at a lunch counter, where previous appropriate was nothing or if they had a tip jar, toss a couple bucks? It's an open question, and a screwed-up interaction either way.
apologies. edited.
Jack Welch was CEO of GE, best known for dramatic divestments, layoffs, and stack ranking.
It's not just issues of tech and economics but perhaps more importantly, of power. If workers have political representation (power) than these productivity increases can feed into wage increases and hour reductions. A big if. In USA, workers are pretty powerless. That means it is most likely to result in massive waves of unemployment and political instability.

When I first moved to the city in which I live there were NO homeless. That was in 1980. Since then the working class economy here crashed and the professionals took over. Now we step over bodies in the streets.

I think it is likely that the AI wave will be this, but worse.

BTW my last job was at an AI company as a high level tech contributor.
> In fairness how many languages have letters that are always pronounced the same regardless of context?

Finnish does. But the Finnish language only gained a writing system in common usage relatively recently, in the 1800s.
But we can watch it and learn and I don’t really see why not. I doubt we need to be so paranoid and see giving access to the internet to a LLM as so dangerous.
The specs are rather underwhelming in 2023.

While the Uno was a revolution in many regards, this very much feels like a weak attempt at catching up to an ESP32 board.

Not sure why I would ever want to buy one of these given what already exists out there.
This is a good strategy.

In the early days of widespread internet connectivity (dial-up) it generally went two ways:

1) You lived in a big city and AOL/Compuserve/Prodigy/etc was a local call. Practically everyone had it.

2) You lived "somewhere else" and some random guy you could pay had a T1 and a bunch of modems in a garage (this was me).

Eventually it became worth it and technology advanced enough (with demand) for cable cos to deploy cable modems. At first only in dense metro areas, then slowly out to more rural areas.

Point is - there's a TON of opportunity for "guy with a T1 and modems in a garage" in this space. There is a huge market of ignored and underserved businesses/customers/applications/integrations/etc that (like AOL/Cable Cos) the big AI guys don't care about (yet).
I doubt US intervention would involve sending ground troops to Taiwan. It would probably mostly be providing arms like anti ship missiles similar to what is happening now in Ukraine. If things got worse if might involve US fighter jets and nuclear subs but your kids are probably not going to be piloting those.
> The main winners of these trends will be all of us consumers, with access to much better content.
Also, the best creators, who will use these tools to generate lots of great content and rake in its benefits.

Maybe yes. But I wonder. Take that example with disappearing local football leagues: what is impact for local communities? When everything is "centralized" to very best providers... Is best always best?
Lend lease wasn’t a major contributor to the eastern front, however the North African campaign was.

It pushed German logistics off the edge, forcing them to allocate most of their heavy lift aircraft and fuel to try to keep North Africa.

That said Ukraine isn’t binary case either. Russian problems in Ukraine seem to go well beyond just logistics and are plagued by lack of strategy and even a remotely competent military leadership.

The technological advantage Ukraine has isn’t what led them to prevail.

If Russia could employ even basic combined arms warfare and conduct organized advances that serve a singular strategic objective the result would likely be very different.

The question is right now is where the people element of the Chinese military sits.
thanks, I'll take a tinge of mystery :)
Will Wright had a quote on this … if you don’t have any constraints you are just playing.

That said, however, The problem I run into during practice is dependencies— people want estimates to integrate into systems you have never heard of or used before. Not only that, there is no in place architecture or design before estimation. Imagine a construction company estimating a house without knowing how big it is or without having blueprints.

Often times software development is designing and architecting the system — not just implementing it. And that is the expensive part.