skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My point is (other than getting fined by the SEC for unlawfully promoting crypto scams) when will the crypto ecosystem deliver something of value/utility to the masses - from Kim K to your grandmother?

> On the flip side, what benefits does crypto actually offer?

> For most of the benefits I hear of crypto (like what you've mentioned) my response is "No one cares about any of that". On the contrary ...

Right now admittedly, the benefits of Bitcoin are relatively hypothetical.

I think the chance that in a few decades (say 20-30 years) Bitcoin will have turned out to have been a system/technology that will have assisted the world's financial system with converging to principles that'll have brought with them significantly more stability in this financial system and following from this more stability of society .. this chance is greater than zero.

I'd argue that one key problem of the world's current financial system is its (in my opinion) inherent dependency on economic growth. As most people will agree, economic growth has been a good thing for centuries, but humanity has reached a level of (ab)use of natural resources that far outstrips the capacity of ecosystems to recover.
Many people would be content with less material goods but for the sake of economic "stability" (and also because voters like presents) governments decide to hop from one growth stimulus package to the next, subsidizing consumption and thus nudging people to buy new stuff instead of maintaining/repairing existing stuff and incentivizing companies to churn out one new variant of an existing product that's often only minimally better and sometimes even worse than the previous one after the other.

Jobs/unemployment is _the_ justification for the never ending growth/stimulus policy that almost no voter will argue against, which is why politics isn't really able to solve this.

From this follows the key solution: for the sake of our ecosphere, the (IMO) inherent dependency on economic growth has to be done away with. Fiat currencies (through the expansive monetary policies they enable) are the basis for the growth dynamic and Bitcoin is a system that enables opting out of it.

You might say: now that's one vague kind of benefit.

Agree, it's vague. But the possibility that Bitcoin can help solve one of humanity's fundamental and existential problems _because_ unlike politicians it cannot easily be corrupted by big money is IMO enough hypothetical benefit to justify its adoption and use.
> Moreover, I would like to see the government grow, just not in the way the Democratic party and many democrats do.

In which way are those?

> Most republicans think like me.

I don't want this to sound like a snarky "[Citation Needed]", and I believe you believe that, but how are you so certain that this is true and no just your local circle or your own projection? I mean Ted Nuggent just called Zelensky -a man with a wife- a gay man at a political rally. I don't see what you are saying reflected in the republicans I see.
People could imagine a better world in the future like Arthur C. Clarke if flights in their imagination is their thing to do. There have always been servants and the people they serve. They did their thing. There was a time when a room had six servants, the team leader pointing and the team doing their thing.

The city idea could disappear and everybody gets to live the best version of possible life the technology affords, the inhibitor seems to be old heads in the machinery. We should be so far ahead to where things are because billionaires like Bill G and company don't get it.
I picked up Svelte to build my first non-trivial app, which is flying navigation aid for hot air balloon pilots[1].

Svelte is much, much easier to grasp than React or Vue, especially when it comes to state management. I like that it’s super lean and it never confuses me what’s native Javascript and what’s the framework (pretty important for a non-developer me). And I love not having to write huge amounts of boilerplate code.

Reactivity sometimes gets more complicated than advertised on docs. For example, I have a bunch of functions where I manipulate an object and need to reassign it to itself (feature = feature) to trigger refresh on reactivity block. Sometimes it’s easy to miss and not know why reactive statements are not being updated.

Also, docs are pretty barebones. For comparison, I think Vue docs are explaining details in better and clearer way.

[1]: https://balloonnavigator.com
If you want an alternative I've used these guys for stuff:

https://www.valueserp.com/
Statement of the Digital Humanism Initiative on ChatGPT
German press is just as bad:

https://www.golem.de/news/ki-auf-dem-intel-8088-entwickler-b...

"Entwickler bringt ChatGPT auf MS-DOS zum Laufen"

in English:

"Developer gets ChatGPT to run on MS-DOS".
English is not my first language and I never lived in the us. Chevy is very pervasive and also rarely used mixed with Chevrolet. It's also mostly used for more common cars, whereas corvette is very known, at least internationally as chevrolet corvette, and never chevy corvette. So it seems that not only using Chevy is very common, but it's so ingrained that people seemed to never mention Chevrolet is the same context for me.

At some point, I remember thinking that that weird I've never heard of must be a surname to an existing brand, like Chevrolet, and having done a quick check, but I didn't realized it must not have been that conclusive at that time, and I never clarified the situation in my head before reading your comment.
Somewhat relieving, if it was accurate I was going to say it was probably the most impressive GPT result I've seen so far.
This is what they do already for self driving learning. Also helps train on extreme outlier cases
I think KDE would serve users coming from Windows much better. You'd have much better experience out of the box. I have used Ubuntu, Fedor, and Arch Linux with gnome-shell and have rigorously kept my extensions for a few years up and working but eventually got tiered of them breaking with every gnome update and desktop crashing every few days. I switched to tiling windows managers since then such as i3/sway for work and to KDE for personal use (for example with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed).
To add to this good point — jazz is another genre where the performer is hugely important.
So if Microsoft shipped Windows without a web browser, you would say that "Microsoft Windows is not an OS anymore"?

No offense, but you should re-think your definition of "OS"
If thought of something similar but comprehensive and far reaching, as follows:

Any law voted yes by a politician would have:

A 6mo cool off period, and in that interim periodthe following would apply: the law in question would be Tripled (3x) and both ways (I.e. retroactive and future) to the elected officials, his immediate parents, sons, and siblings, as soon as the law is passed.

So if they pass a tax increase, the entire tax applies immediately to their family before it applies to the public.

Same would be surveillance. Same for healthcare changes. OR draft etc. They would eat their kill.

Its about time no?

Any regulatory body unelected chief + deputy should be subject to the same rules with a tidy bonus: agency rules would also impact the portfolio (materiality can be set at say FV in excess of 300% poverty line), or business relationships past + present for the "czars" and family members.

So If you want to run FDIC and want to make rules for banks, thats swell, but those rules will apply to bank X where your brother works, AND to bank Y where you were CEO. The new rule would apply to those banks first, the changes would be tripled, AND that would be applied retroactively.

Have fun with that revolving door!
can you elaborate why
which solid-dev-tool shows are graph?
Very much reminiscent of the British Rail Corporate Identity Manual, which includes such details as train crew uniforms and even clock faces.

http://www.doublearrow.co.uk/manual.htm
I believe they bought an app that was already providing a similar service, [0] so they didn’t need to purchase and organise the library themselves. I’d imagine this was pretty cheap and fast to build, compared to other apple projects!

Low investment and pre-existing user base to migrate seems like a pretty good deal.

[0] https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2021/08/apple-acquires-cla...
> For instance, if I want to see what the temperature outside is on gnome,

In the amount of time you took to do that, you could have opened a browser and typed weather.com to see the weather.

I think this is the grandparent OP's point: Showing you news or showing you the weather is not the job of an operating system. The operating system is there to manage system memory, the filesystem, networking, security and permissions, drive peripherals and accessories, maybe provide a desktop environment.

That said, I would expect my operating system's vendor to also ship high quality applications that I can optionally install after I install my operating system. Ubuntu should have a weather application, or at least a strong opinion about which third party one is the best and that new users should use. So, you're not wrong. The whole "search through 40,000 half-assed weather applications and hope user reviews are accurate" situation is also bad.
Yes, but, note for comparison how, firefox, chrome or its derivatives are treated when they try to use Origin, NoScript and the like. Websites don't like it. It used to be they would try to fail gracefully, but that is increasingly not the case. More often than not, I get an error suggesting I don't use firefox ( the error is not really about firefox since website works just fine with extensions turned off ).
Markwhen CLI
I personally hope we find a copy of Death by Starvation by Hegesias of Kyrene. The ancients could do pessimism just as well as modern philosophers :)
This is exactly it—it’s the metadata problem.

The question is not “how do we draw the line between classical music and non-classical music”, but how do we fix the problem of sorting / organizing music that has a known composer and multiple recordings by different musicians / orchestras.

Even though people play covers in popular music styles, people rarely care about organizing the music that way. I don’t think, “I want to hear Yesterday” and then look up a list of covers. But I do think, “I want to listen to Rite of Spring” and then look up a list of recordings.

Even though composers are a big deal in Jazz, I still usually care more about the performer. Most of the time, I’m not going to ask the computer for a list of Autumn Leaves recordings.
Sounds fair. And they support Android apps, which is cool.
ummm, I guess scale is similar. I am just a single person vs an organization. My google knowledge vs industry expert with years of experience.

My point was not about similar scale though. How hard is it to keep a system up? AWS is a whole universe compared to GitHub, yet it doesn't go down as often as GitHub.
Vercel, the hosting platform that created Next.js, employs Rich Harris who created Svelte. You can host Svelte on Vercel.

Next.js is a React framework. It does not support Svelte.
The government is a financial bully. It starts by printing money for itself, and using the value of the money in the present. Then it causes inflation which robs financial value out of everyone who lended to it. The actions of the Fed are extremely unpredictable.

If you're not a part of some inner clique you can't tell when will the Fed pivot. It took the Fed a goddamn one year too long to raise rates. Everyone who has no knowledge of the Fed actions beforehand is losing huge financial value. hundreds of billions of dollars rest on these decisions, and any common person who trades and does any financial decision in the wrong side of the Fed is being robbed of financial value by the Fed. Instead of playing capitalism we've been playing Simon says.
How I made open-source a habit in 6 steps
On one hand, I’m stoked because I only listen to instrumentals, so this seems great for me. On the other… Why not just fix the UI of Apple Music? It drives me bonkers that when I go to the browse section, it is 99% crap that I would NEVER listen to. Everything I listen to is instrumentals and sleep music. Ambient noise, etc. Why are you recommending The Beach Boys to me??? No, I do not want to listen to Cardi B. When the have I ever listened to country music? Never! Why is country one of the top categories under browse?

I want to browse for music that I actually listen to! Why is there no option for me to remove categories that I will never listen to.
By AI I mean AGIs, not LLM.
I dont use windows search anymore, it's way too slow and imprecise. I use wox and everything instead.
Seems like I'm in the minority but this is freaking awesome especially for newer investors who want to go beyond passive index funds (spare me any lectures)

Will going through the checklist for each investment mean you'll always be right? No.

But I think going through these questions as an exercise will help you understand what makes a good/attractive business which is a fundamental skill in investing.
I assume that the random numbers in bash come from an uniform distribution. Is there a way of getting random numbers from a different distribution with given parameters?

I can only think of one-liners in R or maybe python.
Never expected to see a healthcare site recommending WoW raiding!

If you're not careful, a game that addictive and time-consuming is a rapid route to weight gain, back pain, maybe even an unhealthy drinking habit...

(To be fair though, for those who enjoyed the game in it's early years, WoW Classic was really good 'comfort gaming' during the Covid period, but it's certainly added to lockdown weight gain)
Not yet for me.
Capitol Trades – trading history of politicians
It's actually a problem with the semantic web generally: it tends to assume that the world is compartmentalizable into neat categories. Instead, we live in a world where

(a) membership in categories is partial

(b) membership in categories is probabilistic

(c) membership in categories is contested (see Pluto for an innocuous example)

(d) definition, legitimacy, etc. of categories is contested

(e) category boundaries are vague, e.g. Sorites paradox:

Base step: A one day old human being is a child.

Induction step: If an n day old human being is a child, then that human being is also a child when it is n+1 days old.

Conclusion: Therefore, a 36,500 day old human being is a child.

(f) membership in categories changes with time

etc...

There are hot things, and there are cold things, and then there are things that are neither hot nor cold.
Democratic policies have consistently squeezed the working class into a perpetual grind. We are seeing that to an extreme level now with the current inflation. There is essentially no time for self actualization and the pursuit of happiness. If you can't break out of the working grind into being wealthy and you don't want to go into the bottom and become reliant on the government then you are increasingly fucked. The barrier to rising into wealth is ever increasing as well.

Life expectancy is quickly falling to intersect the retirement age. The median household income is about half of what's needed to own the median home. The student loan crisis has many starting out in tremendous debt just to be able to work until they die!
> The fact that open sourcing something is a good way to find errors in complex systems is a proven fact.

Is your evidence for this anything other than anecdotal? That ESR quote was given after one particular LKML interaction back in the 90's. And sure, sometimes an interaction like that happens. But just as often I've seen an email or bug report to an open-source project get completely lost. Not to mention that 1) new security-related bugs are still introduced into Linux, despite the number of eyeballs looking at them 2) people are still finding security-related bugs in Linux which are over a decade old. (Not to pick on Linux here -- but Linux probably has the most eyeballs, so according to this theory it should have the least bugs.)

Asserting that open-sourcing has always reduced bugs in all software isn't supported by those anecdotes; you'd need to do some sort of actual study comparing various types of development.

> AI isn't magical in that regard. It is a complex system, and experience with such systems, from economics, to climate mechanisms, to software, teaches us that predictions about them, including error detection, risk management and fixing problems, works the better the more people have a chance to look at its internal workings.

What "AI alignment" people are saying is that from a risk management perspective, AI is different. Namely, the fear is that we'll get an AI which is much more intelligent than us -- an AI intelligent enough to 1) gain a technological superiority over us 2) anticipate and counter anything we could try to do to stop it; and that this AI might end up with its own random "paperclip-maximizing" plans, and care no more about us than we care about ants; and that it might come into being before we have any idea how dangerous it is.

The worst think that can happen with a bug that gets into the Linux kernel is you may lose some data, or some other human steals some of your secrets. The worst thing that can happen from an AI alignment catastrophe is the extermination of the human race.

Now, maybe those fears are overblown. Or maybe you're right, that open-sourcing everything would be the best way to avert an AI catastrophe in any case. But to assert it's true, based on some thing a random guy said after a random email discussion 25 years ago, without even bothering to engage with what people actively working in the AI field are saying, certainly is an ideology.
There was a nice explanation here: https://twitter.com/jessiechar/status/1634361684960870400
they'll never remove it, because not shadowing variables really encourages you to break up your code into well-organized files. IMO, it's only painful if you

1) have bad coding habits. (playing with zig broke me of some of these)

or

2) you need to autogenerate code.

2 is a much harder nut to crack.
> Collections are not parametrized by an allocator, like in C++ or (future) Rust.

What does he mean by this?
I don't actually use Zen queries myself, but it does have a queries_disabled template tag, which would allow for more specific control.
The price of democracy in a region or organization is the minority of votes not getting the result they want and only that. Nothing to do with privacy.
Not having privacy is a consequence of authoritarianism, be it for a greater good (to find child abusers) or not (to find dissidents).
"Europe" is not a cohesive social structure. You see even less entrepreneurship in Asian countries. These are cultural issues.

The simple truth is that dropping out and starting companies for example is not deemed as an acceptable path in life by most of polite society in these places.

And well, there must be a number two after Silicon Valley. Who would you say that is?
I find it funny to see a GDPR banner on the privacy oriented website. It means that they are storing more PII and/or longer than is really needed, the question is why.
I had more luck understanding this by going to https://www.bosc.ac.cn/ and clicking on EN from there.

Open Source Chips to Benefit the World

There is no EN on any deeper, direct linked url. But once chosen from the top it sticks.
Still doesn’t seem like something that needs to exist. They literally could just have a classical section with these features in the base Music.app.

Calling it now this app will be quietly discontinued by 2025. Doesn’t justify the engineering overhead for a different meta data grouping/filtering. None of this sounds anywhere near as complicated as people are making it out to be.
My goto way of finding stuff is to ask a friend for a YouTube video and then use youtube-dl to yoink the audio. :)
It’s not xenophobic to question the motives of your greatest geopolitical adversary.

We should be questioning the motives behind any company directly affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army.
It’s the exact same command as a regular SSH prompt and it generates and uses the cert. that seems very simple.

Your command is disingenuous in that it only works if the certificate has already been issued to you. If you were to include issuance, your command would very much turn non-simple.
I think this is what you're talking about ? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/solid-devtools/kmc...
P. aeruginosa is an incredible organism. Not only is it antibiotic resistant, but it also is starvation resistant. So even when you have antibotics that work, it's often to difficult to get them to all the cells, since cells at the bottom of a biofilm just shut down completely for weeks on end. End the course of antibiotics, and they pop back up and start growing again.

Thankfully, there are major tradeoffs associated with those traits, which makes them not particularly virulent to healthy people.
https://www.privatebank.bankofamerica.com/solutions/individu...
I reply to myself. The cost of the 8 M1 mac mini is less than that.
You can probably find second hand for less than $500 each = $4000 for the complete cluster 64 cores total.
> Maybe it might be possible to do some type of transform where the question is transformed into a possible answer and then turned into a embedding but I haven't found much info on that yet.

Here you go https://twitter.com/theseamouse/status/1614453236349693953
Cool project.

Has anyone experimented with test driven development and GPT-4?

I can imagine writing a scaffolding program that prompts GPT to write a function that does X and passes a set of tests (included in the prompt), but then repeatedly re-prompts with type checking and test output. I bet this would succeed (in the judgement of an expert) quite a bit more often than a one-shot prompt.
> I now find myself writing Zig full-time

Seemed pretty clear to me. :)
I had similar issues... especially after Win11. Admittedly, I was running Insiders builds, because I wanted new WSLg features, etc. Then one day I was on Windows 11... okay, got the app bar pinned back on the left... a month later, oh, you don't have secure boot enabled, you'll need to reinstall... enabled secure boot, still had to reinstall... a few months later, the nvidia drivers kept borking out and blanking my screen. The Windows release kept overriding the newer NVidia drivers for w11. Figured out how to pin them... another couple months, start seeing adverts in the damned start menu search. That's it, I'm out. I reinstalled Win10 in case I needed it, disabled secure boot and tpm... and haven't booted back to my windows drive since. I've had two small issues in Ubuntu, both relatively easily fixed.

I don't think I'm going back. I use Win10 at work, and fortunately most of my actual day is in VS Code under WSL. And that's about all I can stand.
I'm glad to see this more optimistic view on AI coding. I agree with it.

When I see ChatGPT output a perfect React script, or 100 lines of CSS to make a responsive layout, I don't think "oh no, it's coming for my job." I think, "thank God I don't need to do that anymore." I want GPT to replace me, because that should be the end goal of any programmer. I want it to replace the boring stuff so I can focus on the interesting stuff where it can't yet replace me.
Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign
That was one of my favorite things about Primephonic, they had human-recommended recordings of most pieces in common repertoire.
You believe The Atlantic, is just somebodies blog? I’m curious where you are getting that from. The Atlantic is a well regarded news organization with excellent (imo) long form journalism.
"I am hostile to the very idea of my taste changing" is hopefully a minority stance and one I'm glad they don't encourage.
I use MobX with Vue and React; works great; decoupled from any UI library ecosystem and is transferable knowledge.
Unix has had containers before Linux ever had them, and certainly before the cloud hipsters embraced docker.