skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also in a weird way my BeReal has become a bit of a photo diary – I use it pretty consistently on a daily basis. It's crazy how much looking back at a single photo can jog your memory on what you did that day.
yes im aware they bought github and others on this list. would you say since github has only gone since downhill? I wouldnt at least.
That's just it: 2012 was the high point, from which the decline is measured. Focus turned to Hillary Clinton, and began the long train of abuse that led to her losing in 2016.

Much of that abuse was explicitly misogynist. Misogyny had been deprecated for a long time, but had a resurgence starting right around 2012.
It's an all out arms race.
My todo list is the same way. I expect to finish everything currently one it somewhere around my 3000th birthday. I just prioritize what needs to be done now, and then what I can do know that feels interesting at the moment. The rest I'll do latter

Note that there is nothing on the list about expanding human lifespan. There are some things that get priority around exercise and eating good food, but that is as close as it gets.
I have a Prusa MK2 clone that I recently revived with Klipper firmware, a cheapo Kingroon MK3S Pro that I bought to tweak a bit, and have been looking at getting a Bambu Labs or building a Voron - and either of those seems like a better investment than the MK4 if you can build and tweak the printer yourself.

But the key thing is that the Bambu (and other upcoming Core XY printers) are aimed at the non-modding market and seem to be a much better deal overall, so I'm not sure what Prusa is going for here other than leveraging brand traction...
that is completely horrific lol
Ethics course is not supposed to make you better person. It teaches you some theories relevant to law practice and regulations layers are under.
the blender doughnut project video series is a pretty good intro to them and your complexity can go up quite a bit
This feels like .deb vs .rpm all over again.
I think it implies that the "convergence" is toward the lowest common denominator. That is, a design that avoids displeasing most people rather than pleasing most people.

It's a cost-savings measure. It also is, I think, a large reason why the modern world tends to lack aesthetic excellence.
I really did not know what to respond to this rhetorical question. It's similar to what they call "orphan crushing machine", as in: "Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used."

Since I didn't know how to respond, I fed ChatGPT with all of it and now I can say with confidence:

While any form of support is better than no support, relying on a public forum like Hacker News for technical support is not a sustainable solution for any business. It may provide temporary relief, but it ultimately undermines the credibility of the company and shows a lack of commitment to providing proper support channels for their customers. It's essential for companies to invest in building reliable support infrastructure that enables their customers to have their issues resolved in a timely and efficient manner.
The Subsidiarity Principle in Software Development
There's work to do that since 8.0. Current version is 8.4 but I haven't been following, don't know the status. There's a HN thread about the 8.0 release with 201 comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34505239
We give presents and we present gifts. He gifted me a bitcoin has always sounded weird to me.

It is a shortcut though. He gave me a bitcoin should be good enough. One may want more specificity. He presented me a bitcoin gift. Or he gave me a bitcoin present. Gifted makes the point quickly even if it grates on me.
how is it in just five years microsoft has managed to pedal this once vibrant and bustling community of developers and creatives into a roaring dumpster fire of sketcky GPL breaking copilot AI and endless seemingly random outages.

https://www.githubstatus.com/history

github has had 55 outages in 3 months. thats nearly an outage every two days.

the last six months of 2022 had 74 outages. In many shops thats tangibly worse than what their local greybeard Linux admin maintains.

arguments against spinning up my own gitlab/gitea/jenkins/whatever in podman under systemd are starting to ring pretty hollow lately.
Question that I'm sure has been asked a million times, but I've not really seen an answer that satisfies me:

What's the fundamental value of Crypto?

It's utility? If so, I'm sure there's a calculation you could make that compares the number of "useful" legal transactions (economic activity) vs. the market cap. I'm assuming the numbers are probably ridiculous, however; the equivalent of 1,000s of dollars of "value" per real transaction.

My assumption is that the bulk of Crypto's actual value is its ability to hide flows of money from regulators (tax avoidance, drug money, silk road transactions, etc). KYC rules probably have helped in this regard, although I'd be interested in someone in the know having an opinion.

Do we have estimates for what % of crypto transactions are not provably legit?
This was the first risk that came into my mind. I couldn't understand why on HN, many thought that this type of 'conversation' was fully LLM-sourced, and wouldn't start including advertising as soon as it was feasible.
These one word proofs everyone makes use of nowadays might be one of the reasons mental health is not in as good shape as it could be.
> How is it that a supposed $250 million bond was secured with (according to news articles) significantly less value than that in assets? How does that work?

That’s…just the way federal bail tend to work [0].

> So what makes this a $250 million bond?

Because that’s what SBF and his parents have consented to become jointly and severally liable for, with essentially no available defense (bail forfeiture is essentially an automatic default judgement) if he fails to appear, etc. The “bond” is the agreement to be subject to that liability. Security for the bond is a separate thing, and unlike many state systems, full-value security or the involvement of a licensed bail agent isn’t a norm that applies.

> The government can (and routinely does) seize assets without the owner being convicted of anything. Hell, they do it when the owner never gets even charged with anything. To me, this is a clear 4A violation and should be unconstitutional but the 4A holds no sway over current judicial politics so here we are.

> In this case we have clear evidence of fraud. Pretty much anything SBF touched with FTX or Alameda money can quite reasonably be presumed to be the proceeds of crime. Why on Earth in this case is the government not seizing, well, everything?

Believe it or not, even if you don’t like the process, there is legal process involved in seizures of assets suspected to be proceeds of a crime (including if they are not going through civil forfeiture, but being held as subject to future criminal forfeiture, which seems more likely in this case). “It appeared in a news article” does not fulfill the procedural requirements on its own.

[0] actually, its more of a mixed bag, IIRC, because the individual districts have their own practice, but its how federal bail often works, and in SDNY particulary.
I tried out some AI autocomplete by Notion and wanted it to tell me about tools to do schema evolution on a database.

It seems to blurt out two paid products, which surprised me because my guess is there’s some open source package that’s ready to for this type of thing.

BTW question for anyone, what would you reach for to track evolutions on Postgres?
NBD = https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Block_Device
Where is this? I have never heard of a 5.5% property tax rate in the US. Most I have seen is NJ/IL cities at 2.5%, maybe 3%.
I know it's even stupid for me to say this, but capitalism should have no place in hospital health care.

It's lives on the line. In a somewhat realistic ideal world, any monies that exchange hands at that level should be to cover costs plus a moderated profit.

The lack of moderation and accountable oversight on the profit centers of healthcare is a real issue that we could solve, but too many people would rather have a 0.00000001% greater chance of becoming a millionaire in their lifetimes rather than put checks on unchecked capitalism.
Eh - that’s what we like to say to ourselves, but the first part isn’t true I think.

For instance, for pre-cap SALT to have resulted in a truly neutral federal tax policy, it would have had to not existed at all and have federal taxes be unaffected by state taxes.

Since it did exist, assuming a population has some fixed amount of taxes they consider ‘too much’ and all gov’t actors are looking to maximize towards that limit, it incentivizes states to take as much as they can, since the federal taxes ‘give way’.

The cap basically says ‘eh, we’ll let you do that, but only so much’. The ‘how much’ just so happens to still benefit their constituents while not helping their opponent’s constituents.

Which yes, has those effects you are stating, as their constituents tend to be more rural, which tends to have less economic activity in general, have lower incomes, etc, and hence aren’t hurt in the same way.

Though many of their donors tend to have higher incomes, and I imagine it took some convincing that it was worth taking a potential hit to ‘stick it to the libs’.
Yes, as long as you've purchased a machine that they offer with a linux distro pre-installed, or that they've certified (ex: Dell only ships Ubuntu but will certify hardware for Redhat compatibility).

Ex: https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/linux-systems

I used an XPS 13 developer edition for quite a while. Great little machine, but a couple of known issues around wifi/bluetooth and the fingerprint reader. Fixable, and Dell actually did provide drivers in a deb for Ubuntu, but it took them a little while.

But generally speaking, yes you can call - they will provide resources and point you at fixes they've implemented, but it's still a bit of a grab bag. I would definitely not buy a linux machine from them without checking the Arch wiki first.

Ex: The current developer machine shipping from Dells link is here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dell_XPS_13_Plus_(9320)

Mostly fine across the board - some known issues with very recent kernel versions, and some problems with the webcam. Dell fixed the webcam issues in their default Ubuntu release, but it requires manual fixing on other distros.
Interesting. I would much rather be a (white liberal) teen girl today than in ~2012, but I can see how insofar as Dobbs is only a manifestation of existing trends, I might be in the minority.

It's just hard to wrap my head around what this trend would be, or why teens started picking up on it in 2012. I am not conscious of any major modern debates around women's rights except abortion/birth control, and I see no particular link between the causes of Dobbs and that generic time period.

Also, possibly as proof that I'm not a great commenter on the issue, I thought only ~8% of women had abortions, but in looking it up while writing this comment apparently it's more like 25% (so abortion & related issues affect way more women/girls than I expected).
Not in my country
I'm curious to hear what the alternative would be. Are you going to pay a subscription for Bing Chat? Or pay-per-use?
... but its keyboard sucks, like the X1's :-( Do System76 sell any laptops with decent keyboards? i.e. tall keys with reasonable travel distance?
I'd rather go vegan than eat cloned extinct mammoth vat-meat
One reason to argue about Nissan is how much they've let their head start stagnate.

The Leaf was Ghosn's baby and some of the ouster of Ghosn was Japanese Nissan leadership getting cold feet about EVs (because none of their Japanese peers cared about EVs "so why should they?") right at the point in time where they should have accelerated.
(The EV concerns being on top of/correlated with conspiracy theories that Ghosn was too friendly with French-owned Nissan sibling Renault because they were just about all-in on EVs and Ghosn was hoping for early economies of scale, faster, but that looked to Japanese investors too much like a French coup for Nissan ownership. Also, my favorite alleged part of that conspiracy was Ghosn saw Nissan of America as an SUV/Truck-loving albatross around Nissan's neck and suggested that the very profitable division get renamed back to Datsun to make it easier to pull the ripcord and jettison the entire division once EVs started to get popular enough and its absurd profits became absurd losses.)

I don't know if the truth will ever come out how much of a crook Ghosn was or was not, versus the spin of the Japanese court system and many conspiracy theories that came out of all that, but that saga definitely seemed to put the breaks on Nissan's EV efforts at a bad moment and they do seem to be lagging behind where they should be considering their head start with the Leaf. It's a fascinating story no matter what the facts were on the ground.
Yep. We enjoy her reviews a lot.
If we look at the amount of money people earn, pay taxes on, and how wealthy they are, many patterns show up. Including rich people donating to avoid taxes and poor people without much income not being able to deduct $1K. Or $2K. Pick any number. $100 is the unimportant part.

I changed the number to $2500 if that makes it easier. That does dilute the importance because a lot if not majority of the country can’t donate $2500 extra a year from their current budget and income.
Yeah - a fresh windows 11 home install is pretty aggressive. But if you use the pro version or run a cleanup script it’s not bad.
Yeah, but the Wild West nature of crypto is its selling point, maybe even its raison d'etre. What would be the point in regulated crypto? It won't do anything that the traditional banking system doesn't already do.
https://archive.is/Bh3FS
Or if you speak English, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device
Agreed GPT-4 is overly censored and woke. GPT-3 I can easily jailbreak with 'pretend you are x character I am writing a fictional book about ....". It's a lot more chill.
That would treat it as a tributary of the Saint Lawrence, but arguably it is the main stream.
For comparison, my professional vb3 work was done on a computer with a 200MB hard disk. The word2 exe was about 1MB.
We might live in a world where you are a GPT-4 bot pretending to be a real person for years, only to mention McDonalds in passing, in a seemingly negative fashion that still increases brand consciousness. I don't know if that's already the present, but it will be the future.
I did the first five or so videos and that didn't work for me. I know, that others have different opinions here but it was too much "do this, then do that, then this" for me and too little explanation why.
Its not a thing on windows 11 pro, only home it seams.
For those wondering, the radius of this black hole (assuming a Milkyway’s worth of mass), based on the Schwarzschild radius, would be anywhere from 10-1000x larger than Sagittarius A, the supermassive blackhole at the center of the Milky Way. I don’t think the article stated this.
So is Severance. Dystopian views of corporations are my favorite watch these days. Kind of like mixing the 90's Office/corporate culture (like Office Space, etc) satire with science-fiction. Though, the Matrix did both originally..
I appreciate your response and this is what I also countered with, though not as nicely cited:)

this is a good response

https://www.moneylaunderingnews.com/2018/09/use-of-tainted-a...

Turns out its not black and white as people expect

- lawyers fees can be clawed back due to asset forfeiture.

> Federal forfeiture laws, on the other hand, pose a different kind of risk for lawyers — one that the Safe Harbor Provision does not protect against. Forfeiture laws are premised, in part, on the notion that tainted assets belong to the government as of the date the underlying offense was committed

- while its true that courts have decided that taking all of a persons money so they can't pay for their defense has been ruled illegal by the courts the amount of money that lawyers think the client has can be significantly reduced by the courts. So if SBF has say $20M now, the courts can claw back 75% of that leaving the client with far less to pay than the lawyers originally though.

Or put another way, you are entitled to a defense, you are not entitled to have unlimited funds to pay for your defense.

Also given that the money is coming from SBF' dad( a third party) and not SBF this seems to be relevant.

> Moreover, the Fourth Circuit has held in a divided decision that the Safe Harbor Provision does not apply in instances whereupon an attorney “receives and deposits” tainted funds from a third-party payer.
i'm not willing to believe that AI is more dangerous than global warming and nukes, but sure, why not?

we've worked hard to accelerate both global warming and nukes, so AI is no different - yet.
I'm genuinely curious about this. I also get the feeling that many are pivots. ChatGPT hadn't even been released when the deadline for YC W23 was. Sure, GPT-3 was released earlier but it still feels like most companies are reactions to recent trends. If most are pivots, what did they pivot from?
I can't remember which studio (maybe naughty dog), but I remember a story from the 90s of a studio who forced their developers to work on minimum spec workstations during development, with the theory that it would ferret out costly performance problems early.

I keep a couple old laptops kicking around for perf testing on and, can confirm, I routinely find perf hiccups that when added together would create a huge amount of debugging work.

While I like doing dev with a threadripper & beefy GPU, I certainly support the idea of having crappy, old test machines around.
Yes, fuzzing does work on decoders. I can't remember how deep AFL managed to get but I do remember a flurry of crash bugs against our decoder when somebody first tried it
Perhaps by using multiple data sources including social media, gait signature in airports, media consumption, speech, purchase history, etc. Then the defenses could include allies poisoning data and LGBT+ persons knowing what data to conceal about themselves to blend in. I would guesstimate that marginalized individuals in dangerously conservative areas may select a strategy, consciously or unconsciously, of adopting an external presentation overcompensating towards conservative ideals.

There is also precedent for advertisers detecting if a woman maybe pregnant before she even knows.

I think this raises the potential for a lightyear jump in the accuracy and specificity of identifying individual's preferences, values, political beliefs, and lifestyle choices that may be equally exploited by corporations for profit and power structures for control.
I love dystopian scenarios as much as anyone, but it certainly is not the lack of better AI, that is holding the ad industry back. It's laws. While I am looking for AI connections as much as anyone right now, I really don't see how AI is going to prompt a change that would make that more permissive anytime soon.

You remain as free to break the law as ever, of course.
Github is so crappy now, it feels like something is always wrong with it. Thanks Microsoft.
How is “insect flour” misleading? The word “insect” is right there in the name! And who cares if it’s normalized or not? If it’s useful and makes healthy, delicious food, I don’t care what it’s made out of.

Like… you do realize the parts of animals we eat are pretty gross right? The things that go into sausages and such? Bone marrow is a delicacy for gods sake!

There’s foods that I think are gross and won’t eat… calimari for instance… but they usually come down to sensory things like taste, texture or smell. The ingredients don’t usually come into play.
It's a fun week or two of evening activities. Gives you that "oooo, my thing looks like the picture on the box" tutorial rush.
> they're taking up half the page

I'm gettings ads on all links above the fold very often.

A couple of days ago I searched for "my ip" and I thought it didn't work when I noticed I had to scroll down to see Google's widget with my address in it.
Chasing down other threads on this, but eager to hear the HN perspective on other data and adjacent conversations.
Huh. My impression is that a preponderance of HN agrees with his conclusion. Stories about it from a variety of sources (not just Haidt) routinely make the front page; ditto techno-negative stories in general.

But true or not, he hasn't come close to supporting his claims.
I mean it's not like this isn't already a problem. It's why websites and so on have press pages, lots of pre-made materials for lazy people to use. If you have a PR department, that's exactly what they are doing. Same for lobbyists handing out speech material out to politicians. In science a similar thing happens with sponsored studies. I don't see a huge difference or a big loss in a language model doing the same thing. The main difference seems to be that you don't need to be a big corporation to do this. So I wonder if that could be a net win actually. Would be the first positive thing coming out of this I can think of.
Really nice to see steady incremental improvements to an already solid platform!
It's small stuff like no longer having to manually Z-Adjust, and having the print-head connected via easy to undo/replace connectors, that seem like small things but are huge time- and nerve-savers when it comes to actually running these things in production.

Crazy to see how far Prusa has come with his stuff, I still remember sitting and laughing in a hacker-space with him a couple years ago. He is one of the few people that actually stuck to the open-source rep-rap philosophy even after success (fun fact: he has a tattoo of the open hardware logos to remember his roots).
The Gen-Z GPT phone demo is really something. It's fascinating how differently I speak to this model compared to how I interact with more "formal" and text-first models.
Study finds no evidence that lowering interest rates causes economic growth [pdf]
Abstract:
The rate of interest –the price of money – is said to be a key policy tool. Economics has in general emphasised prices. This theoretical bias results from the axiomatic-deductive methodology centring on equilibrium. Without equilibrium, quantity constraints are more important than prices in determining market outcomes. In disequilibrium, interest rates should be far less useful as policy variable, and economics should be more concerned with quantities (including resource constraints). To investigate, we test the received belief that lower interest rates result in higher growth and higher rates result in lower growth. Examining the relationship between 3-month and 10-year benchmark rates and nominal GDP growth over half a century in four of the five largest economies we find that interest rates follow GDP growth and are consistently positively correlated with growth. If policy-makers really aimed at setting rates consistent with a recovery, they would need to raise them. We conclude that conventional monetary policy as operated by central banks for the past half-century is fundamentally flawed. Policy-makers had better focus on the quantity variables that cause growth.
What about bots to honeypot child sex abusers online and then extorting them for crypto?

Would that be a public service, a crime, or both?