skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you believe that globally, all of the thousands of exchanges in various jurisdictions all over the world are colluding, including Fidelity and every other regulated US exchange? What about bitcoin-only companies that don't do any business in altcoins? How are they managing to prop up the price?

It's reasonable to believe the market price is crazy. But it's crazy to believe the market's mere existence is a huge conspiracy theory 15 years in the making. Just call the buyers irrational if you must.

And don't forget FTX was an offshore shitcoin casino that held exactly 0 bitcoin when it collapsed. It's a stretch comparing that to regulated US exchanges.
> CRDTs don't _ensure_ ops are commutative (and associative, and idempotent) but rather they _require_ that ops are commutative (and associative, and idempotent)

I disagree. You can create a CRDT flavor of data structure whose ops are not commutative. For example, a Set's add and delete operations. These are not commutative. You cannot switch the order of the ops for meaningfully processing them. However, you can create a CRDT Set. You do that by adding metadata to the ops, and having the instances always process them in the only order that makes sense even if such instances receive the ops in a different order. In that sense, you are "ensuring" ops are behaving like they are commutative and not "requiring" them to be so.

> it's definitely not the case that any data structure is a CRDT

I could have worded my statement better. I meant any data structure that has the aforementioned duality property is a CRDT. Not that any data structure unconditionally can be translated into a CRDT.

> an important "eureka" observation about CRDTs is that the op-based model is theoretical,

I do not understand your statement. Perhaps you could elaborate. My understanding is that a CRDT is op-based or state-based depending on what is "communicated" between the instances. If ops are communicated, then it is op-based CRDT, whereas if states (or delta-states) are communicated, then it is state-based.

At least in that sense, op-based model is NOT theoretical. Perhaps you have a different point in mind that I fail to observe.
A shout out for Tiny Tiny RSS[1] for a self-hosted feed reader. I used a heavily modified fork from years ago but the current version looks pretty good.

(I made a couple of really simple contributions back in the day but decided maintaining my own fork was the easy path. The maintainer has a reputation for being a bit prickly to deal with. He wasn't uncivil or anything, but it was clearly his project and that's just fine.)

[1] https://tt-rss.org/
> I'm hesitant to ask for more features to a lightweight, stable RSS service,

Agree entirely. Which is why I never bothered to even ask the dev about my “nitpick”.

I did try a few git repos that would do similar, but they were based on old builds of ruby and well, it didn’t go too well (and I’m not a Ruby on Rails person).

That said I will just periodically purge all reads, and history, and refresh all feeds in background to keep it running smooth.

It’s actually how I came to this very thread.

Re: YouTube, have you tried putting in a channel URL? Miniflux is great at finding rss feeds from indirect urls. But I have noticed rss is increasingly being stripped from sites, probably in an attempt to drive actual traffic stats. I usually try to visit the external link for some sites to give them the traffic/hits. Nevertheless some of my favorite feeds like TalkingPoints Memo and The Drive have completely stripped RSS off their site, which is a shame.
Yeah yeah. It just takes protection money to protect the people.
I don't see the connection with the government on this one.

Garante della privacy is an independent office, and there were very simple motivators behind this choice:
- illegal or improper use of personal data
- nothing to protect children

That's it. Once they "fix it", there can't be so much that can be done on this.

After the TikTok case etc., I believe countries are getting a little bit ahead on such topics, before something small becomes the next Facebook and it's basically impossible to stop.
Allegedly whales set the price on Binance and arbitrage bots equalize the price on every other exchange.
I bet the previous CEO never thought of firing an employee for a disability through a public tweet thread.
> Salesforce will print money for a few more years until someone makes a less awful CRM solution and just crushes their business...so long as Salesforce can't buy that company, integrate it badly, and disillusion all the employees that made it great.

I’ve been hearing this for nearly a decade. There are VASTLY better CRMs out there. They don’t make a dent in SFCD’s business. That says a lot about the market.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Opening line of Pride and Prejudice.
Yeah, here in Chennai, Odia and Bihari cooks are much more common :P
If I communicate with you then that's enough to determine data causality, which is a weaker version of scientific causality. That does not mean that you necessarily shall do something as a result of my communication, so we shouldn't be talking in terms of you bonking someone with a bat as a result of receiving a communication.

In scientific causality, A shall cause B to the degree to which A is explanatory for B.
By pairing I mean something more than using chat gpt through iframe.
There were several interesting points in this analysis.

I really don't like that attempting to break out of your bubble is penalized. I wish he could distinguish between spam and providing references. And Elon apparently has not resisted the temptation to suppress content he doesn't like.

Granted he's probably doing it because he's afraid that an escalation of the Ukraine war will lead to nuclear holocaust. Also he's received a ton of criticism for his positions on Ukraine, and he doesn't want that to dominate Twitter discussion.

But he's using the same mechanisms that the Twitter Files say were abused for political ends earlier. The ends do not justify the means. If you're for free speech, you have to be for free speech that you don't like.

Still a lot of interesting stuff in there. And certainly some that is worth discussing.
Oh my god will you people stop with the bullshit psychoanalysis. People disagree about things all the time, it's normal, you don't need to invoke this pseudo-Freudian nonsense to explain why people disagree with you about the risks of AI. You can do better than this.
RFC 1607: A View from the 21st Century
You're right, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have revenge against someone you owe money. Perhaps the butcher frequently harassed the father about it, or aired grievances in public or something else that made it worthy of revenge.

As a side note, I'd use lent instead of borrowed, the butcher lent the father money. Borrowed can be used in this way, but at least in my experience typically is only used as the father borrowed the money (from the butcher). Regional variations exist though, some of my friends from other areas of the US do use borrowed in both ways.
Paywall :-|
Agreed! But there is no evidence of the eventuality described by these AI doomers.

The same hyperbole was employed by Ehrlich in the late 60s when we were talking about the population bomb, or Nevil Shute in 1945 on the nuclear apocalypse - both scenarios seem to be increasingly unlikely.

I think we can both agree on the fallibility of human beings – but the leaps of logic require such a tenuous series of gymnastic leaps that the polemic is not only hard to take seriously, but indeed can cloud our ability to perceive actual threats!

From Eliezer's recent article in TIME:

"A sufficiently intelligent AI won’t stay confined to computers for long. In today’s world you can email DNA strings to laboratories that will produce proteins on demand, allowing an AI initially confined to the internet to build artificial life forms or bootstrap straight to postbiological molecular manufacturing." (https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...)

C'mon.
Maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯? I have no affiliation to OP, feels like they just wanted to try out a human version of ChatGPT, strange as that may sound these days…
https://archive.ph/rLm7B
Bitcoin doesn't care if you liquidate hundreds of millions of it, exchanges fail, customers are scammed with Superbowl commercials, Hacker News commenters crying for than a decade about how Bitcoin has 'no value', etc.. The fundamentals hold. 14 years and still going strong.
I've seen bitcoin for sale on GSA auctions before. But $200 million seems like a lot for a single auction
The irony is the better ran the tech company, the more they can slash without short term consequences, but the long term impact might be catastrophic and difficult to diagnose.
love this! i'm wealthy and not creative or chartiable so i just walk to feel good. /s
Catch-23: The New C Standard Sets the World on Fire
Do you have source for the claims? I doubt especially of free parts. As of rumors I have heard about Broadcom it is extremely "capitalistic" company. If you move a lot of chips price can go down a lot (due the fact that NRE divides to more units). The cost of chip manufacturing alone is not that big - example Apple A14 bionic chip was estimated to cost 17$ to manufacture [0] and it should be waaaaay more expensive than anything in RPI.

[0] https://www.idownloadblog.com/2021/01/07/iphone-12-bill-of-m...
You are presuming that the owner of the vehicle threatened the occupant, instead of saying something like "that is my truck, it is stolen property, I am calling the police to resolve this." That would not justify force on the part of the occupant of the vehicle.

> Finally, theft doesn't carry the death penalty, and the people whose truck was stolen were not in danger. If the thief drew a gun they should have withdrawn.

This is such a tired cliche. All consequences follow from the criminal's initial action. If things escalate to the point where the criminal aggressor is pulling a gun, they have just made deadly force appropriate. Because that isn't theft, that's aggravated assault and an imminent threat of death.
I don't really understand what immutable means here. If you install Debian and then never touch anything other than your /home folder (therefore never touching the bootloader, any configuration files in /etc, not running apt for any changes/upgrades, leaving the kernel alone, etc.), isn't that "immutable"?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1968
Be honest. The reason you take the second candidate is because they’re easier to exploit.

Jfc - I know a lot of founders personally and they’ll all say that in private. You’re online - on an anonymous forum. You’re not at risk for saying something that we all know. Stop lying.
You can just do this anyway, you know. Firefox is pretty great these days.
What do the elevations mean?
I just recently read the Brilliant Abyss[0] and it was a really interesting look at the deep ocean and the complexity of life down there.

If this kind of thing interests you at all, I highly recommend it. I didn’t know much going in, but found it fascinating.

[0]: https://helenscales.com/portfolio/the-sea-beneath-us/
Here is the documentation for AOSP:

https://source.android.com/docs

There are also some books about Android's internals, but they are somewhat outdated.

One such book is Android Security Internals and is about Android KitKat (2014). Android has evolved since then, but the basic concepts are the same.

https://ia600608.us.archive.org/29/items/android-internals/a...

If you want fully up to date information about something not in the official docs you will probably just have to dig in to the source code.

https://cs.android.com/
The Marshals Service auctions seized property. https://jlopp.github.io/us-marshals-bitcoin-auctions/ Here's an example of a previous one: https://www.usmarshals.gov/what-we-do/asset-forfeiture/sale-...
Yes. this one is fun. Recursive, memoized Fibonacci, the 155th integer precisely.

{{(-&2 +&$: -&1) ^: (1&<) M. y}} 155x

It'll run in your browser in 0.003 seconds.

https://jsoftware.github.io/j-playground/bin/html2/#code=%7B...
"With AI on the rise, the industry may not be getting these jobs back."

Ha! While there was definitely a lot of over-hiring, and there are many inefficiencies in how software and tech companies more generally are run, AI is not one of the top several reasons for any of this. The closer one is to any topic which newsmedia report on, the more obvious it is that they don't generally know what they're talking about.
Lights and switches using radar have been around for a long time. Human presence radar detector switches are common in car seats. Light bulbs that turn on using microwave radar to detection human presence are cheap on eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255302776447

I'm not sure why they are not more commonly used. I have a few of the radar bulbs and they do turn off if motion is not present, so they are similar to PIR sensors. However they will turn on a light that is behind a door (such as in a stairwell or closet) before I even open the door. Maybe that is considered wasteful of electricity even though it is turning on right before it is most useful? Maybe they trigger too easily through walls?
There's a pizza mode. It works. I dunno it's basically magic. Also sensor modes on microwaves tend to work better when the food isn't frozen.

To quickly defrost I will usually stick a bag of pizza rolls in some hot water in the kitchen sink for a minute and if I want them crispy I will finish them in a toaster oven or air fryer.

Anyway my point was just that as an adult capable of basic food prep it seems silly I ever burned my mouth on pizza rolls even though the microwaves were dumber back then.
I included women in the comment as well. We’re just focused on the remote digital nomad type - which is often men.
For this specific case of MV3, I wonder how many of those developers are actually writing and maintaining extensions. Yeah, I know one suspected motivation of this change is disabling ad blockers but IMO even if we ignore this aspect this migration is planned badly everywhere. If they really wanted to focus on just kicking ass of ad blockers, it would be done much quicker without facing this level of backlashes.

Not just for MV3 (or even Google), but many of those "API teams" actually don't have a good understanding on its actual use cases so the incentives are usually aligned with their own goals and directions rather than the actual customers because what they see everyday is just their code base and some OKR. I guess they really didn't want to miss out the opportunity to clean things up so they put every single wish list into the bucket without much user study and then it's spectacularly exploded as we know.

I've seen a bunch of "internal migrations", which is supposed to be a way easier than this kind of external ecosystem migration. Unless it was planned and executed very well, those teams are usually shocked by the initial backlash and how "creative" their users are. Sometime those teams are able to come up with reasonable compromises, but in many cases they just deny the reality then blow things up (which sometime works if there's not much dependencies though, but many case it's just wasted as soon as upper managements kick in). This is why almost all successful API migrations are accompanied with some sort of extensive user study from the beginning rather than some arbitrary metrics/goals set by themselves.
No need for a hotel, if they get you there and back on the same day.
Who do you imagine has the majority of compute power?
He’s not saying that everyone had lower productivity through the pandemic, but that those hired during the pandemic and working remotely had much lower productivity.
looks like a joke
It's an April Fools' joke.
I doubt it's as deep as you think it is. The author found an interesting story to tell and told it.
Waste of time, don't bother reading
I think the only way to build the path up is to do it as you're traversing, though.

Here's a small example:

create table node (
name varchar primary key
);

create table edge (
from_name varchar not null references node (name),
to_name varchar not null references node (name)
);

insert into node values
('Hawaii'),
('San Francisco'),
('New York'),
('Houston');

insert into edge values
('Hawaii', 'San Francisco'),
('San Francisco', 'New York'),
('San Francisco', 'Houston'),
('Houston', 'New York');

with recursive route (destination_name, path) as (
values ('Hawaii', 'Hawaii')
union
select to_name, route.path || ' -> ' || to_name
from route
join edge on route.destination_name = edge.from_name
)
select * from route;

That works as long as the graph is acyclic. If you add an edge from New York to Houston, say, then the query goes into an infinite loop.

How would you do this after computing the transitive closure? And how would that avoid an infinite loop?
I used to make the schedule for a team of about 25 tech support team members.

It was not unusual that I would assign vacation days to people who didn't use their vacation days and had reached the limit and stopped accruing vacation.

We figured assigning vacation days was better than than have them miss out on days off / get burnt out.

It was a good place to work, good people, the folks who just didn't take vacation just ... didn't. They didn't mind getting it assigned either, we always talked about it first.
I refer you to Thomas Midgley Jr.
Yeah, I'd second this for a couple of other reasons, too...

First, I think this is an example of when it might be _good_ to find people outside your "bubble" and just filtering by demographics works against that for no good reason.

Second, if you want to filter people, timezone as already pointed out, and also spoken languages, and maybe some sort of "pace" or "hours per week" would be more practical and useful filters that are actually relevant to forming a study group.
What is a pinkerman
Triton Language and Compiler
> So long as the bill gets paid (and for an absurdly long time, even when it doesn’t), your data is treated as “this cannot be lost under any circumstances.”

Does anyone have experience with unpaid AWS S3 bills? I can imagine the work to delete some buckets is greater than traffic served.
I really strongly doubt that GC is a bottleneck for Erlang programs on either the BEAM or the JVM - the sophistication of the scheduler, and the way various language primitives interact with it, is where the BEAM is almost certainly gaining an edge over the JVM. That said, I'm sure there are a subset of programs that _would_ be faster on the JVM, just depends on what metrics are being compared.
> that is mostly a feature because we have found out that the alternative is even worse

This is the actual problem, that we've been trained to think that there are no consequences to trying everything ever and we will always be able to pick ourselves up after failure, until one day we find we can't anymore.

Sadly this line of thinking does apply to a lot of personal problems. People often say that you can't always succeed, that you can only move forward with failures under your belt to have first-hand experience of what not to do. That we have to experience failure first in order to stop ourselves from making bad decisions, otherwise we remain clueless.

But the stakes are so much higher at this scale, and the damage can become irreparable with a single mistake. It's to the point where we take as a given that people will just keep pressing on, without even exploring the reasons why we do, and why it's inevitable.

Pure ridiculous speculation: If needing to see the experience of destroying ourselves is necessary to stop us from destroying ourselves, a kind of weird theory has been floating around in my head related to that. Civilizations on the brink of collapse after they've moved too fast and broke themselves for the last time scrounge together their collective knowledge and shoot it off into space so that future civilizations can interpret them. Preferably in a way that makes encountering the time capsule seem like the word of some deity. The following civilizations would treat it as the word of God to prevent their own collapse, without the hard evidence of experimenting with <AI, etc.,> to the point where they cannot resist developing it into an unstoppable superweapon.

It would be like the golden record on the Voyager, except instead of communicating "we exist, and here's what our planet is like", it would go more like "we exist, and here's how to not end up like us."
> Llama 13B

> Llama.cpp 30B

> LLaMA-65B

the "number B" stands for "number of billions" of parameters... trained on?

like you take 65 billion words (from paragraphs / sentences from like, Wikipedia pages or whatever) and "train" the LLM. is that the metric?

why aren't "more parameters" (higher B) always better? aka return better results

how many "B" parameters is ChatGPT on GPT3.5 vs GPT4?

GPT3: 175b

GPT3.5: ?

GPT4: ?

https://blog.accubits.com/gpt-3-vs-gpt-3-5-whats-new-in-open...

how is Llama with 13B parameters able to compete with GPT3 with 175B parameters? It's 10x+ less? How much RAM goes it take to run "a single node" of GPT3 / GPT3.5 / GPT4?
Can't read the article, but was the company shuttle flying out of general aviation? The time saved by avoiding commercial flight screening processes was probably substantial. An MSN article [1] shows they flew out of Hillsboro airport, which doesn't have commercial scheduled passenger flight operations as far as I can tell, and is also much closer to the Intel office. So a lot of potential time and hassle savings.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/intel-grounds-employee...
> Guess how useful this knowledge is today...

But today, the useful bit is the process you learned to obtain that level of mastery.
Do you have a pointer for the translation? As soon as you have a transitive dependency on libc or any other Rust binding to a C library that approach would seem to fail due to the presence of build.rs.
Likely they are tracking performance verified politician accounts based on registered party affiliation. Why republican should count equal in the evaluation metric to democrat when nunerically there are less republican voters, let alone proportions on Twitter, is another question.
A Research-Oriented Top Sites Ranking Hardened Against Manipulation
Nvidia has you covered too with the A6000.
I'm not interested in recapitulating the dumbest academic culture war battle of 2023 on Hacker News.
Piecing together bits and pieces from articles I've seen, it sounds like the owner of the vehicle called police at 1pm. At 4pm, the owner and 2 family members drove to where the truck was located and that's when the shooting happened. It would be interesting to know what, if anything, the police did during those 3 hours
AutoCAD Civil 3D would be the big non-negotiable one for me. It's a shame since I love linux but I have to use windows for work.
I don't think we're close to a situation where they send us into a Matrix. But I can see a scenario where they are connected to more and more running systems of varying degree of importance to human populations such as electrical grids, water systems, factories, etc. If they're essentially given executive powers within these systems I do see a huge potential for catastrophic outcomes. And this is way before any actual AGI. The simple "black box" AI does not need to know what it's doing to cause real-world consequences.
>>Slack failed to compete with Microsoft

I dont know that is a fair characterization, by most accounts Slack is a better product, however Microsoft has a vertical integration and with the strong push to bring most orgs on to Microsoft 365 it is hard to compete with "free" in the sense that Teams is included in the suite products you are already going to pay for anyway....

I highly doubt it Microsoft would have made Teams a stand alone product each company had to buy per user that it would have gotten anywhere near the adoption it did.