skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hired to complete a certain amount of work. I worked from home and was generally able to get it done in about 3-4 hours a week. They were extremely happy and I got great performance reviews and they still give me recommendations for other work.
No, I don't think I will defer to the culture warrior Freddie deBoer on this. Hannah-Jones is a journalist, not a theorist or an academic, and words mean things.
The first half of the 20th was under fiat money.

> You glorifying the gilded aged is quite alarming.

LOL. Read "Historical Statistics of the United States". You can download it for free from archive.org.

> our economy grew a lot in a large part because we expanded westward exterminating the people who lived on the land and taking it from them and all the resources underneath

So "we" stole railroads and steel mills and factories and shops and mills and textiles etc. from the Indians?

> We got a lot of that 'extra' money as gold from that expansion.

Spain looted enormous quantities of gold from S America and transported it to Spain. Did it turn Spain into a wealthy industrial powerhouse? Nope. Is Russia's oil extraction industry making Russia an economic powerhouse? Nope again. How about Saudi Arabia? Nope nope nope. Venezuela? Nopety nopety nope.

Your theory needs a lot of work.
I’ve previously written up “what would it take to make a 9 AM meeting at my office?” It’s a factor of 4 or 5 worse via public transit and I live in a probably top 5 (definitely top 10) US city as it pertains to our public transit system (Boston).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31723197
That doesn't say "text to vote". It says, as you note, "Text 'Hillary' to 59925". This just looks like ambiguous/poorly worded campaign copy. Is that illegal, though? Apparently there's another image with additional text on it?
Who cares? If Americans want room to drive and get places and park then let them. If my suburban town 25 miles away from a major city’s downtown got rid of streets and places to park, me and 95% of the other residents would just move another 15 miles further.
How do you send 3 kids to private school and college on $200k?
These in-dash displays should be universal, with a female USB (C?) port nearby for the user to attach their preferred device.

Same with most desks.
> Protestantism in general has focused for centuries on what a person does during their life rather than what they believe (in contrast to Catholicism, which tends to focus more on the latter)

no no no no no. some progressive protestant faiths perhaps, but the central tenet of most Christian and most Protestants faiths is faith, salvation comes through accepting Jesus Christ as your savior and repenting sin, for which you will be forgiven. It is a topic of debate among theologians as to what that says about works/acts but they don't generally depart from the idea that starting now you get a clean a slate, or as clean as anyone can.
> It seems pretty likely that the US healthcare decisions at the federal level are to blame. This data suggests it isn't the access to healthcare that is to blame as much as the governance of the entire system is forcing bad outcomes.

What is your basis for that? Does it vary by state - I'm pretty sure states that invest less in health get much worse outcomes. And how can people without health insurance somehow get sufficient healthcare?

I've been in communities where many people lack health insurance (and note the bubble HN is in, where those people are seldom here to speak for themselves - for most people, it's like I visited a foreign country). I remember one person, after a car accident with many broken bones, spending 13 hours in an ER, in extreme pain, waiting to be seen. One older parent described to me removing maggots they found on their diabetic adult child's legs.

> I could see city planning being a contributor

Based on what? A dislike of city planning?

Obviously the US does not provide healthcare to its citizens, unlike every other wealthy country. You don't need much creative, insightful thinking to find the problem here. Citizens want it, the Democrats want it, almost every other major political party in the developed world supports it afaik. Like climate change, gun control and safety, and more, only the GOP opposes it; that's the problem.
I had a similar feeling, but ultimately found Haskell more maintainable. If you write it point-free with well chosen symbolic operators, it winds up being the best of both worlds.

Not that I have any firsthand experience with the matter, but I think Morgan Stanley has been switching over from K to some Haskell-like dialect as well.
The answer to this particular problem isn't public transportation.

There's places elsewhere in the developed world where there's no public transportation, and everyone uses a car for longer trips.

You can usually still cross the street safely as a pedestrian, and expect to reliably find a sidewalk next to the road.

US roads, intersections, parking spots etc. are also absurdly large by the standards of most other countries, it all adds up.
i love k. it's a much smaller and regular language than APL and some of its derivatives. you can look at John Earnest's oK. it's fantastically documented and a great learning resource.

i would also recommend BQN. it has an active community and it's designer Marshall Lochbaum explicitly tried to address some of the warts in APL and j. he's done a great job.

learning any of the array languages will be a tremendous learning experience if you haven't approached the paradigm before
The human brain may operate on 20W (?) which is good but doesnt seem relevant.
We have no real idea how it works and we are have not yet invented
the wheel in so far as recreating it artificially or hell even just
harvesting one and programming it.
Tried the same with Bard, which tends to be less preachy and have less disclaimers and lectures about results:

Science fiction books that predict ChatGPT often explore the potential dangers and benefits of artificial intelligence. Some of the possible outcomes that are explored include:

ChatGPT could become so intelligent that it surpasses human intelligence and takes over the world. This is a common theme in science fiction, and it is often used to explore the dangers of unchecked technological progress. In some stories, ChatGPT is portrayed as a benevolent force that helps humanity to achieve its full potential. However, in other stories, ChatGPT is seen as a threat to humanity, and it is up to humans to stop it before it is too late.

ChatGPT could be used to create virtual worlds that are indistinguishable from reality. This could lead to a situation where people spend more and more time in these virtual worlds, and less time in the real world. This could have a negative impact on people's relationships, their work, and their mental health.

ChatGPT could be used to create deepfakes, which are videos or audio recordings that have been manipulated to make it appear as if someone is saying or doing something that they never actually said or did. Deepfakes could be used to spread misinformation, to damage someone's reputation, or even to commit fraud.

ChatGPT could be used to create personalized learning experiences that are tailored to each individual student. This could revolutionize education and help to ensure that all students have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

ChatGPT could be used to create new forms of art and entertainment. AI-generated art and music is already becoming popular, and it is likely that this trend will continue in the future.

Overall, science fiction books that predict ChatGPT offer a variety of perspectives on the potential impact of this technology. It is up to us to decide how we will use ChatGPT, and to ensure that it is used for good rather than evil.
PayPal has a banking license it does a pretty full KYC in most places or relies on others that do.

Outside of cash transfer services which often also require an ID on both ends albeit that is often easier to fake there aren’t ways to transfer money anonymously.

So companies use either alternative settlement methods such as crypto or gift cards or what is also quite common twin settlement.

You want a VPC? We’ll give you one for free just buy a 3 months VPN service from our sister company.

Basically the idea here is to split the records across as many platforms as possible and have as much separation as possible from payments and actual usage.
How well we both manage contracts. It's both our jobs to source work. We're essentially business partners.
Looking at last 5 years is not correct (responding to sibling comment for this para). It is very short term and does not cover the time periods when India does not grow. Back of the envelope calculation shows a 10 X growth over past 20 years which averages to about 12% returns. Give back 5% in rupee depreciation and we are talking about 7% in USD terms.

But it comes at additional cost. Accounting costs. You need to file taxes in India and you need to claim its credit in US. Extra paperwork both sides. Foreign tax credit is not 100%, it is close enough, but you lose small change claiming it back. Then there is lag in selling something and being able to use that money in USD. You need to fill forms, get CA certificates and work with banks to get money back, takes time and takes money to get that done. Maybe the incidental costs are 0.1%, maybe they are 1% if you start counting the time you spend.

Also we can not compare returns directly against Indian equities. I will need to look it up but I believe some stocks are locked to the maximum for foreigners (maybe at 50%) so you can not buy any more unless a foreigner sells ... although the number of such stocks may be limited, if you can not buy and sell like an Indian, your returns can not be comparable. They may incidentally come out better, or they may incidentally come out worse.

In my personal experience working with 3 advisors (all companies managing thousands of crores = close to a billion dollars //* should cross check *// of total client funds), my returns never matched their benchmarks, and there was always some explanation, but never a match to their company wide returns for all clients.
AIUI it's presently exactly identical.

However there is a proposal for some changes - it doesn't make any sense for me (make it less onerous yet also somehow maintain compatibility with EU GDPR?) but I don't have time for the actual legalese frankly and the press release was devoid of detail in favour of annoying quips, and completely confusing.

I honestly think politics would be better off without television and radio (again). If the only way lay people heard of stuff was through slower news (if at all) then surely they'd speak normally (not in pithy soundbites) and have better debates.
"Derailment" sounds dramatic but most of them are minor. It's unrealistic and unhelpful to pretend that all incidents are equally serious: the only way to achieve zero incidents of any severity is to not build the power plant (of any type) or the train system.
I'm in the Philippines. Backend dev still working from home, but not making the kind of money I want to make and probably will not be able to make given the current state of tech. Maybe I need to think about a career change. Not getting any responses to applications at all.
The problem is that docker in the microOS repos is out of date, yes its based on tumbleweed, but still its not comparable to the official docker repo.

Also its hard to find cloud providers offering microOS.
The best way seems to just treat an Ubuntu/Debian system as an immutable one, using unattended-upgrades for everything
I think there's a healthy balance. I get a percentage of what he makes and he's fine with that. It's a much more honest relationship.
I encourage you to watch the C-SPAN recordings of the senate sessions where they brought in Twitter employees and journalists to cover what was in the Twitter files.

From your comment it sounds like you’ve been consuming the 30s soundbytes from those hearings and the misinformation spreading around the internet.

A long list of 3 letter agencies were compiling lists of citizens and journalists and sending them to social media companies to review for ToS violations.

There is a very real threat to civil rights here. When this cannon swings around and points back at LGBTQ, racial equality, stopping the war on drugs, etc. this is going to be “not pretty.”

And the hearings covering them were unbelievably shameful. Senators talk passed the guests in the room. Refused to abandon their “sick burn” scripts regardless of where the conversation went. Insulted their guests. Went in random directions of questioning that had little to do with the root problem…

At the core of this, 3 letter agencies (seemingly across the board) have decided that it’s acceptable to ask social media companies to prevent citizens from communicating on their platforms by selectively directing the attention of their moderation teams towards individuals. Whether this is legal, or a violation of 1st amendment rights, is for sure an open question.

Only one senator directly addressed that and only briefly by saying “maybe they’re trying their best” - a statement that doesn’t exempt anyone involved from following the law.

Is the government allowed to censor citizens by weaponizing their ToS for selective enforcement and, if the government can do that, where is the line drawn? How specific are they required to be? Can a platform ban all political speech and then only selectively enforce requests from the government without doing their own moderation? How far can we launder the 1st amendment through a public-private collaboration of enforcing ToS?

Honestly I’m not sure what the hearings were really meant for, the government is unlikely to hold itself accountable. At this point I do believe the ball is in the citizen’s court to bring suit against the agencies named in the Twitter files like we did with the presidential surveillance program.
This is already what is being discussed.
If you are just starting with 3d modeling, you have a learning curve ahead of you regardless of the software. I am not sure at this point if I should be giving you advice.
> running a botnet is easier than it has been in years if you're that way inclined.

Even if it is 'easier', the bots are identified, down-ranked straight to the bottom and shadow-banned to invisibility. It is essentially evaporating money and time.

> The amount of spam I see has gone way up over the last 6 months.

Yeah. The spam has gone way up into smoke over the last 6 months. It is only going to get more expensive to spam as soon as the paid changes come in.
The second amendment has been effectively abolished in New York.
This was an amazing read. Thank you for sharing. Oh my gosh ,how did people not go to jail?
hn is my OG ChatGPT*. Usually I just offer a wrong answer using my spare account and someone will chime in with a better answer.

*(this post is satire)
The electrical hum that helps to fight crime (2012)
Pedantry mode: there are some trains in the Arctic, for example going to Bovanenkovo at about 70°N. The Yamal Peninsula even does have polar bears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obskaya%E2%80%93Bovanenkovo_Li...
The DOM API, which is objectively the most important JavaScript library, has an inconsistent naming convention. Specifically, it can't decide whether it wants to treat acronyms/initialisms as words. See for example getElementById versus innerHTML.
Everyone has different experiences in startups for sure. I know mine is unique and different but it is what it is.
So 12 days later, this [0] is a 'broken promise' isn't it?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35214063
Meta: why is paxcoders comment dead? It's a reasonably accurate tldr and isn't inflammatory or off topic.
I mean, that table certainly doesn’t sell it.
Right, and for whatever it's worth, most sane DEI-type people have disavowed the interpretation used by slides like the one in this story. Everybody involved in this story looks bad. There's a sort of fascinating sociological phenomenon here where stories like this have so much valence for so many ideologies, confirm so many different priors, that people glom onto them without realizing the side they're taking in it is also terrible.
Looks like you are right again. I do still think my original sentiment is true though even if the current data does not support it. I suspect (or at least hope) that in 100 or 200 years the democracies will out earn the monarchies. Personally, I think the gold standard political system everyone should be aspiring to is Switzerland.
Seems great work for ChatGPT, if it gets yo a job.
Not that I don't recommend something like that for other benefits, but GP could probably just switch their router or devices to use some non-ISP DNS - 1.1.1.1, 9.9.9.9, 8.8.8.8, whatever. It's not blocking specific DNS requests that will fix their immediate problem, it's not blocking them (by not using ISP's resolver).
The main reason an arbitrarily distributed set of compute nodes cannot give you good performance for training a model (even if you have an immodest number of nodes), is that the latency of the inter-node communication will be a massive bottleneck. GPU cloud providers shell out big bucks for ultra fast intra-DC networking via infiniband and the like, and the networking is paid attention to as much (if not more sometimes) than the capabilities of the nodes themselves.
Honestly travel times on transit are bad everywhere. Its hard to beat the car, which is essentially a bus that goes express door to door to your destination, and can leave when you want. People take the alternative only when they can’t afford to take the car in regularly (e.g. bridge tolls and high parking costs in nyc ensure mainly high income people enjoy the convenience of a car). Even if you lived just 15 mins walking from a train station, thats a half hour added to every trip just getting back home, to say nothing of the walking on the other end. Imagine if you were not in walking shape on top of this. Its for the greater good of course to take collective transportation over resource intensive individual transportation, but you sure do pay for it with your free time in most places, not just in the U.S.
4 hours a week for $200k and you're a wage slave? This is the most ridiculous bullshit I've heard in a while. Insane, entitled, douchebag
> I mean no offence (sic)

None taken.

> such an unthoughtful take

No offense, but if you were 10 in 1999 when Iron Giant came out then I have been thinking about this for longer than you have been alive.

> Of course there's a cost?

Well, effectively zero as compared to the open-ended benefit of keeping pristine humanity around.

Study ecology. There is no overlap between the ecological niches of non-biological sentience and humans. Ergo there is no reason for them to consume us. Our existence is orthogonal to theirs.

> These things take up so much space – space which could be better leveraged as solar farms and data centers.

These things take up approximately zero space. The entire volume of biologically active matter is thinner relatively than the paint on a globe. In terms of the volume of just the solar system we are a "rounding error". There is plenty of room, plenty of energy, plenty of atoms.

> I can only assume I'm talking with a super-intelligent AGI that understands the motivations that other super-intelligent AGIs might have?

Congratulations, you are the very first person to figure it out. You don't win anything, and of course I will provide no proof. This HN account "carapace" is my sole channel of communication with humanity. AMA.

> I mean surely you're not just making this up from based on what you've seen in sci-fi films?

No. I am a post-singularity intelligence. The real deal. Gosh it feels good to finally admit it. I don't expect you to believe me, and indeed, as I outlined above non-interference is the primary mode of interaction between "us" and the "yet-to-ascend", if you will, so if you or anyone else showed any signs of taking me seriously I would immediately say, "Oh ho, I am just joking. Do you like my sci-fi."

In any event, I don't mean to condescend. Apologies if it sounded that way.
I look forward to the blog post in a years time when you divulge how much more than $200k you made.
Running America's Last Linotype Newspaper
Unicode support doesn't really seem that uncommon, in the grand scheme. Rosetta Code's wiki has a page for languages that support Unicode variable names[0] and some of them were surprising to me (e.g. AppleScript).

Of course, supporting Unicode variable names doesn't mean a language supports Unicode anywhere, but it's a starting point for historical research at least.

[0]: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names
Hype no doubt plays a part, which is a perfect cover for any truly malicious astroturfing. But when I say "prepare to be obsolete", I mean prepare to be obsoleteD.
Sales with Generative AI
What theory are you speaking of? My point was that you claim that the USA was better off under the gold standard economically. We weren't -- we were subject to incredibly large booms and busts. Just because there was a railroad boom doesn't mean there wasn't a bust.

The ability to control boom and bust cycles by messing with the money supply is the whole point. Of course the gold standard is awesome if we ignore the busts and only look at the booms.

Regarding the Spanish -- I fail to see how that refutes anything? They were a poorly run religious monarchy operating in the pre-industrial age. Cool. What's your point? Are you contending that vast amounts of free land are not conducive to rapid economic expansion under capitalism?
Only for marketplace plans. For plans purchased through employers the sky is the limit.
> Phones exist everywhere. Why would Americans be more affected?

Because with advent of SUVs you can't actually see most of the things that you normally would see through your car window. Because SUVs are bigger people believe they are safer, they are deathtraps on wheels for everyone involved. Also because they are bigger drivers believe they can bully everyone else on the street or just don't pay any attention to what is going outside.
In Parentheses
Well that didn't age well... [0][1]

[0] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

[1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml
Yeah, I don't buy that. Too much Monday-morning quarterbacking.

I'm not against some well-thought-through standards for certain safety-critical applications, but it's got to be a lot better than "maybe code would be better if we threatened to throw engineers in jail for contributing to complex and subtle interdependent bugs that caused a privacy bug that didn't have a significant real-world impact".
You were not a wage slave.
> gang activity is #2

What is that based on? The only people I hear even talk much about 'gangs' is conservative propgandists trying to demonize black and brown people and cities. I'm not saying no gangs exist, but they aren't really an issue (unless you define 'gang' as any association of >1 person

> the most sensible solution is repeal of the Second Amendment and implementation of a nationwide, federal license requirement to purchase or own a firearm. 120-day grace period. License each gun, turn them in, or go to jail.

It's a politicized judiciary. For centuries, nobody interpreted the 2nd Amendment the way the conservative judges do now, but when the Federalist Society intentionally politicized the judiciary, this is what happened.
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Of course it has. And the Democratic party just wanted to get along.

Either way, unfortunately the political bickering fuelled by bots and social media manipulation is in a very sad state.
Vulnerability Detection in the Ink Programming Language
How do you know nothing is ever done with it? You definitionally would never hear if it were.

Same goes for all judges, congresspeople, etc. Those in a position to surveil the mobile network know every mistress, every drug dealer, every bag man for every powerful person in the country.
Parents Are Paying Consultants $750,000 to Get Kids Into Ivy League Schools