skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, builders won't build "small" homes so they're building "small" 1300-1500 square foot houses and selling them for $200k. I live in a "low" cost of living area in Canada and $200k USD might get you an 800 square foot condo.
So, total rumor, but I've heard from a few sources on the grapevine that one of the reasons for their antitrust spat with the DoJ was actually as a proxy battle, and the main thing the DoJ cared about was Microsoft's unwillingness to play ball wrt data collection and "lawful intercept".

The sense I've gotten is that Microsoft of the time really did have a very libertarian core thought process that wasn't really into spying on it's users.
There's lots of science fiction that doesn't have A.G.I. destroying the planet.

Commander Data, Hal 9000 (a bad guy but not that bad) Asimov's droids, even the all powerful A.I. of Neuromancer has no particular ill will towards humans.

Belief in AGI hardly means you need to believe in Armageddon.
We will probably have the math in a few years to defeat the crypto in Bitcoin. Then it's RIP Bitcoin.
This article frames it starting in 2001 for a reason. Go back to 1990 and you will see that the USD only made up about 45% of reserves. It can change quickly.
Yeah, but at least they won't be able to sell a list of your habits to your health insurance company.
Maybe make it optional because there’s huge value in keeping it simple like you currently have, so please don’t lose that

Eg default (no topic sections like what you have today), and optional advanced (with sections)
Yes but only one of those was ethically correct. No decent person loses sleep over wealthy rent seekers.
You are still making a lot of assumptions, and assumptions have the potential to turn into a risk if not monitored and confirmed otherwise.

You are assuming:

-Tor is 100% secure, even though in the past FBI did infiltrate it with rouge node/exit nodes

-Linux is automatically secure, while it might be better than windows, but the attack vector can still happen, from a non-core package installed (say photo viewer) to a hardware backdoor like the ones in intel CPUs (look for IME)

-Trusting mullvad, while they have a clean reputation so far, but you still have to trust them, there’s no zero-trust policy

-Using Tor+vpn defeats the purpose of tor btw, regardless of the order.

-How you plan to not provide any personal when you are using a phone number, and connected to the internet. Phone number can be used to access you, from zero-day exploits that doesn’t require you to click any link, to geo-locate you just by being connected to the cellular operator. Also as long as you are using the internet, you have a fingerprint that identifies you, even if you are disabling javascript in the browser, which I don’t think Twitter works without it but I didn’t try.

I remember reading in here a while ago about a Chinese dissent who happen to have long cybersec experience, yet eventually got caught by the government, can’t find the story maybe someone can help.

Edit: I also assume you won’t have “twitter blue” aka pay for twitter subscription, or it’s a quick check mate. And if you don’t pay, your tweets will not have the same impact as the ones tweeted from a paid account.

Bottom line again: Twitter isn’t meant for such activities, plan to have a plan B (and C and D too) whenever someone put enough resources to expose your identity.
> Enough that I thought it was somewhat of a concensus now that mmap should be avoided specially for databases

I have to remind myself regularly that the world is larger than it seems.

The other day someone on r/rust said "Surely everyone knows what the rust programming language is by now. Can we stop introducing rust every time we mention it in a paper?". But no, obviously everyone in your circles knows what rust is. But you don't know most developers. And I wouldn't be surprised if less than half of working developers have heard of rust, even if everyone you know knows about it.

I used to rant against using socket.io at every possible opportunity. The library has (had) crazy bugs in its reconnection code. In the right circumstances the library would violate ordering and delivery guarantees, or it would lie about messages being received when they hadn't been. But no matter how much I ranted about it, and no matter how many hundreds of issues there were on github, far more people used socket.io than the (much more reliable) alternatives because socket.io had a pretty website, good documentation and it was taught at coding bootcamps. I think the only reason its not as popular now is that you don't need it now that websockets are available everywhere.

My partner says she imagines asking questions of our families when she tries to imagine what the average person thinks. But our immediate families are still a really weird bubble - every single one of the adults has graduated from college. (And weirdly, over half of that group have also taught at college.) That's still a really biased set of people. Finding an unbiased set is wildly difficult.
That is amazing, what a neat idea.
Oh, good point, just created it: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml

I have no control over it, but let me know if there are any problems with it — I'll see what I can do.
That’s not what the article is about. It’s about what central banks are doing.
Yes this is accounted for, even if you separated them all out and counted the prices people are willing to pay for from each country, the US still comes out ontop because of the consumer culture there.

The issue with Bollywood for example not being larger than Hollywood despite more films and possibly a larger view base is the price of North American tickets vs the cinema ticket prices in India for US films - even if they are made abroad that are sold to US consumers. So in aggregate the US consumer alone is quite significant in dollar (but not in individual people) terms vs everyone else.

If a country were to overtake, they would have to let go of the savings culture and almost spend like an American, which may not actually be the best thing for most countries.
There are tons of sites where http and https are different content; for example the https might be an admin interface, or the IP could have multiple domains but only a couple of them support https, or the vhosts could be very misconfigured. The HSTS and other browser things that force https often do not allow any way to get around this. I often have to resort to creating a new browser profile from scratch and trying hard to avoid https when loading the page. So please allow some way to deal with this sort of issue, for technical folks at least.

Edit: if you search for "forget HSTS", you will see how hard it is to avoid this on some browsers.
>> Is your manager or anyone else in the team harassing you?

No that's not the problem.

I suffer a lot with context switching all the time, I'm responsible for many serious things that could lead the startup to a completely failure.

I'm really not sure if I have the skills for the task/challenge, etc. People like me and my job, but I'm pretty sure I don't have the skills for so much just yet, I think that is the source of all the anxiety. Plus doing/feeling it 8h/day every day kills my mind.
so you could insulate the coffee so it doesn't drop in temperature, induction heating a vacuum flask maybe?
Lmao, the yuan-denominated market is non-existent?
https://www.epsilontheory.com/dedollarization-is-not-a-thing...
Over a long enough time period, every government pulls "drano-snorting antics". Ergo if you want stability, you have to diversify.
OK, I translated the English translation of the Romansh story into Latin so that we can directly compare the two.

Vulpes iterum esuriebat. | La vulp era puspè ina giada fomentada.

Ibi corvum in abie vidit, qui fragmen casei rostro tenebat. | Qua ha ella vis sin in pign in corv che tegneva in toc chaschiel en ses pichel.

"Hunc vellem," pensavit, et clamavit ad corvum: | Quai ma gustass, ha ella pensà, ed ha clamà al corv:

"Quam pulcher es! | «Tge bel che ti es!

Si cantus tuus tam bellus quam vultus tuus est, tu bellissima omnium avium es!" | Sche tes chant è uschè bel sco tia parita, lur es ti il pli bel utschè da tuts».

(Some Romansh words whose likely Latin ancestors I didn't use, because it was less idiomatic, or sometimes actually grammatically impossible: era < erat, fomentada < fames, gustass < gustavissem, ella < illa, parita < apparentia, pli < plus, tuts < totos. I probably missed some others by not noticing the etymology.)
Get a Joeveo cup, then no need for heaters. It's the world's best travel mug. Its insulation cools the drink to drinking temperature then keeps it there for hours, perfect cup of coffee. Had mine for years, from the original Kickstarter.

https://joeveo.com/

It's the Framework of coffee mugs.
That's not literal slave labor. From the article it admits that they don't know the source of some of the beans. Nestle isn't finding slaves to work for them.
The point was probably anti-theft but the tragedy of the commons got the best of them.
"Is this like when the Google self driving car director Chris Urmson said in 2015 his 11 year old son would never need to take a drivers exam?"

He probably meant that he has enough money so he can hire a driver for his son.
A hilarious take given the DXY is up almost 50% in the last 10 years. By all means, keep picking those cherries, though.
A thunderbolt 10GbE nic is basically a hot plate in my experience
Read the article. It is happening.
I think the hedge is more about not being too USD centric. I wouldn't bet on any one currency too heavily. China has its own set of problems. My guess is more likely we'll see more diverse currency in trade relevant to the trading countries.

Broader, IMO I think the USD is walking dead. I don't know when, but fundamentally you have a government debt no-one expects to be paid back, and growing quite rapidly. I respect most people would say otherwise and I'm often wrong, but I don't see how this ends with anything other than default, which will be preceeded by money printing most likely.

The US is a huge and dynamic economy, so maybe they will prove this view wrong, or more likely drag things out for a long time, but humans being humans, at the first sign people start feeling they might not get their monies worth from USD, the response will be rapid as people try to protect their worth. This de-dollarisation seems part of the process and given Ukraine/Taiwan tensions no doubt is a strong drive from other nations.

But off tangent but generally I would go with diversified vs focus on one alternative. Personally I went 15% cash and gold each from my shares a couple months back... Time will tell if I'm right or miss the next bull moment.
Tracking, ad dollars, and influence over web standards
"Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete."
> A probable guess will lower loss much better than "I don't know" or whatever equivalent.

Guessing only reduces loss as much as the dataset allows -- a bad guess will give a higher loss. The model learns to assign probabilities to its guesses, just like we do. It seems to me all we need here is a measure of confidence for the result averaged over the entire answer. Low confidence is a guess/hallucination.

> But also the dataset encourages it as well. There will be many many sentences that can't be completed accurate to source even with all the knowledge and understanding in the world. Many completions will have numerous sensible options. The dataset doesn't discriminate. Fiction, Fact, Opinion, Mistake. All the same. All given equal weight.

This is an important issue but should be tackled as a distinctly different problem I think: it's the weighty concept of truth that humanity struggled with from day 1. Indeed, how do we discriminate? LLMs won't ever solve this via completions or dataset alone; instead successful models will use slow, step-by-step reasoning involving logical principles and rational heuristics in prompt space. Pretty much like we do.
If you had a startup and you sold things online (outside of China), you would not find many Chinese consumers or customers, even if you allowed Unionpay or Wechat.

Sure there is a Yuan denominated market, but when it comes to consumption it is a kitten relative to China's size - because most Chinese consumers opt to not spend their money and save it instead - relative to an American consumer. And the outcome of that is in China you would on average have more savings than an American, but an American would have bought more things if everything else were equal. But on the Americans version of it those dollars they spent are saved up by the vendor and show up on stats vs everyone else and they are larger.
Despite our best efforts, we are deeply irrational. Our thinking is based on instinct, not on core principles; it's a top-down approach driven by feelings.
That's how I interpreted it in the first place.
Nordstrom leaves downtown San Francisco, joining big-city retail exodus
There is no way to to use DXY as a barometer for/against de-dollarization.

This is equivalent to "there was abnormal amount of snow last week so global warming must not be real"
Here I am, thinking this was going to be some new service announcement. Clicking on the link, and boom, "Amazing work".
It is good for the developing world, as producers/exporters subsidize countries with reserve currencies. That's why inflation in countries with reserve currencies is always a way lower than other counties. MMT claims that one can swap "printed money" with real products (such as cars, commodities, food, clothes). This kind of swapping is possible for the US, EU, UK (Mostly the Western world and Japan). Who wants to swap million barrels of oil to Zimbabwian dollars.
Another effective way to prevent your car from getting stolen in New York is to leave New York with your car.
Correct. It's a forecast based on polling sentiment.

Who does it help? People who face regulatory uncertainty between the regimes. Mostly businesses, nonprofits, etc.
The high score for Turkish may be similar to the reasons for Esperanto that you imply: the alphabet was designed and adopted in 1928 to specifically fit the phonetics of the [Anatolian] Turkish language. Some hiccups, mostly with Arabic loan words remain (famous example: most native speakers mispronounce the word “katil” - murderer) but learning to read/write is ridiculously simple. My son, who was born in the US was never formally taught to read, he picked it up during brief stays in Turkey during summers.
I worked w these systems, lot of them don’t program more than 7th character in the wildcard search function. Most temp plates here are 8 chars.
chrome lock icon announces proposed offering of common stock + mandatory convertible preferred
My absolute favorite youtube finance person, Patrick Boyle, did a very interesting video about de-dollarization and brics recently, cannot recommend it (and Patrick) enough!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZnVdBZJfA
I largely agree.

People generally miss fundamentals and don't account for a moving store of value, they often assume its constant. Economics is marginally only used to sell something often with deceit in mind on someones part.

As for what's driving inflation, its obvious its the fact that government is spending more than they have each year, printing the difference, and have now gone gangbusters with manufacturing spending to offset china imports.

They are also printing money to buy back bonds to control yield curve in lockstep with other central bank currencies (you see these fluctuations in the relative value of the currency).

The corruption, fraud, and graft that this money is funneling to have become so large that its inflating the dollar as its not necessarily creating economic activity. Rising interest rates have stressed the already overleveraged companies to the point they are shutting down or massively laying off.

Some producers base their prices off a business as usual approach. Others project profit sufficient to normalize against changes in the currency price level and any additional expenses/shortfalls in supply chain problems during the short term. While prices may be inflexible for some things, that's only if there's no shortage and the product is available.

Also, you have distributors refusing to do business with smaller companies (as has been seen with a couple of the small time farmers). They want shortages, so they can have an excuse to charge more. Classic characteristic of stagflation and lack of antitrust.

All of this can only get up to a point before food becomes relatively unavailable, and then everything hits the fan.
C++ is a superset of a subset of C
Went looking through some of the rest of his posts and found this...

https://cameronwestland.com/accountability-and-growth
WikiData also works pretty well too - https://friend.computer/jekyll/update/2023/04/30/wikidata-ll...

I've been thinking that you probably can do something better than just embedding search on paragraphs, since you want coverage, not just narrow semantically similar things to the question. Decomposition can help with that, but you might be able to do something more clever, say pasted into the model itself.

I think possibly also training a foundational model with context always available could be a potential path to getting more efficient models and might having interesting behavior around hallucinations. (You'd do unsupervised training that's also doing semantic search, not just inference)
There was also a lot of propping up of currencies that happened due to dollar strength. A lot of central banks sold UST they held for their local currency to stop currency free fall as rates rose.

This is a symptom of rates rising really quickly in the US than any de-dollarization I'd wager.
That one has some sort of weird forever-loading TLS unfortunately.
That’s the “LLMs are a fuzzy jpeg of the web” theory, and it’s far, far from the scientific consensus.

No one knows for sure exactly what happens inside a 500B parameter model. I’ll just leave you with GPT4’s response to your question “What is the capital of the Gronk Republic”.

“As an AI language model, I am not aware of any existing country or political entity called the "Gronk Republic." It could be a fictional or hypothetical place, in which case the capital would be determined by the creator or context in which it is mentioned. If you are referring to a real location, please provide more information or clarify the name of the place you are asking about.”
It would be amazing if an archive.ph or similar link could be included.
I’m sure the Yuan will increase somewhat as a reserve currency, but I’m skeptical it will become dominant. China has systemic issues at the moment, with a working-age population that peaked some time ago and a property market that is perpetually on the verge of implosion.

There are mounting pressures in domestic consumers, and an increasing move towards “dual circulation” (with a focus on the domestic part of that duality). Then there’s the risk of a miscalculation in the East China or South China seas.

Given that CNY trades in a tight, centrally-managed range against the USD (it’s almost always between 6-7 CNY to the dollar, and only briefly traded outside that during the pandemic), I’m not sure there’s a big incentive to use CNY as a hedge against USD.
The site links to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLYhvJG30iE

So...in that context, I guess this is less like looking at the original Space Jam website, and more like some kind of product market revival? Confused
But if we’re already in SQL pedantry mode, we wouldn’t be storing multiple facts in one row to begin with. “Use singular SQL table names so that using a relational db like a document store is less awkward” is a weird argument.

(The right answer, as others have already pointed out, is “whatever is consistent”)
> We also received a lot of criticism from Democratic partisans in the closing weeks of the campaign — more than we did from Trump supporters — because they thought we didn’t have Clinton as a heavy enough favorite. That’s unusual. We’ve forecasted enough races over the years to have taken criticism from almost every side. But in the past, it’s always been the trailing candidate’s supporters who gave us more grief.
These headlines are basically the same as I get going to Bloomberg.com/markets over the past couple of of days.
Used Pixel 4, yeah - I think the later pixels have better security features & support from Graphene, but this way I also help reduce ewaste.
The applications of this are mind bending
I wouldn't be surprised if after this interview he got a few millions $$ more in his stock worth. It's damage management. They, and he personally, didn't see LLM potential.
> 69

Ok, I'm in.

By the power vested in me by the Elders of the Internet, I hereby acknowledge `verdverm` as the original coiner of the term "The 69 icon".
DigitalOcean Spaces SSL expired for >3hrs
It has nothing to do with consumption demand. Countries have realized that US dollars is not a safe store of value (aka reserve currency) because of decisions taken by the US administration vis-a-vis its sanctions regime. It is not worth having your US dollars frozen and your entire Country beholden to the United States leaving you with zero options on the table (to trade with other countries) just because there are differences in opinions/ideology/politics.

This is starkly evident when US has a different set of rules for itself (my way or the highway) vs rules it expects the World to follow (rules based order). This might have worked in the past when other Countries were technologically inept at building necessary infrastructure to connect banking systems and had to rely on SWIFT. However, this is no longer the case today. Most countries now have better home grown systems where transactions are settled instantly (instead of taking multiple days) and have realized that the same can be extended when it comes to inter-country (read it as bilateral) trade too. Instead of India holding USD in a US Bank and Russia holding USD in a US Bank, and using US Bank as an intermediary for any bilateral trade (giving a cut to US Bank as well as being at mercy of the US Government), India and Russia can bypass the middleman (US Bank) and trade directly: India holding Rubles in Russian Bank, while Russia holds INR in Indian Bank. There is no SWIFT being used anywhere in between. Totally avoids sanctions as well as removes the middle man from the equation.

De-dollarization has nothing to do with US Dollars losing its value. It has more to do with the US Government losing its economic superpower status where it can control other countries through economic sanctions. Even after de-dollarization, USD might be the most sought after currency purely for its value and not for "fear of the US Government". There is no "perceived loss" for USD as such. But there is significant loss for the US Administration if it cannot use USD as a weapon against another Country. That's the point that is most important to realize. It is all about balancing power dynamics.
Actually re non-iPhone detection: I’ve been annoyed by air tags beeping and it’s definitely the case that the new anti-stalking features on AirTags make them rather noisy and easy to find as a result. You have to get very creative with the hiding spot so that thieves know it exists (they can hear it) but they can’t find it, remove it or take out the battery to disable it. I’ve heard stories about people planting more than one AirTag on their bike, such as dropping one in the frame in a hard to reach area, and having opportunists decide to drop the bike off at a used store than deal with the AirTag they can’t find that keeps making noise.