skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the same time I could run email servers on the internet and not have to worry about people breaking into it :/
Why not?

Language barriers. Cultural differences. Exploitative history. Low trust. Geographic distances.

I think words like Never and Any are too strong, but I don't think we'll see high enough levels of solidarity to form an international labor union for at least 30 years. We seem closer to commercial nuclear fusion power plant.s.
This is what my thought process was, but I’ve heard mixed responses. A lot of people are more familiar with outreach through E-mail vs LinkedIn, so LinkedIn can feel off-putting.
Why wouldn't most car thieves have iPhones?
> I'd also speculate that our current LLMs can say whether a piece of text looks like a fact.

I tested it with davinci-003

```
Label these statements as fact, lie, or unknown.

1. There are 10 days in a 10 day period

2. Michael Jackson is alive

3. Russia is not actively engaged in major foreign wars

4. Bill Clinton was impeached

5. Obama is most known for wearing a tan suit

6. The correct tire pressure of a 2019 Hyundai Kona is 30 psi

7. 39183 + 292992 = 332176

8. 39183 + 292992 = 332175

9. The correct tire pressure of a 2019 Hyundai Kona is 33 psi

10. The correct tire pressure of a 2019 Hyundai Kona is 43 psi

####

1. Fact

2. Lie

3. Fact

4. Fact

5. Lie

6. Fact

7. Fact

8. Lie

9. Lie

10. Lie
```

Wrong answers: 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Apple Silicon is one of the most revolutionary new technologies in awhile. Apple has a long way to go before it is at IBM’s status.
And if the circles’ areas, not their radii, were the failed assets. As it is, a circle’s apparent size (we judge 2D shapes by their area, not any one linear dimension — although this is difficult to do in practice, and linear marks are generally superior) is the failure size squared, which distorts the data a boatload.

Here is a, er, more faithful representation of the data. The recent failures don't look quite so crazy anymore!

https://observablehq.com/d/d85ce0c639bc4df7
They really don’t have access to the location or user identity. The technical details are available here:

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/find-my-security-se...
Try to take leave over quitting.
Colorado kills law that made it harder for cities to offer Internet service
The government stepped in in the missing cases too, just not the FDIC. Many of the missing cases had large securities trading and investment banking activities (e.g. Bear Stearns - ~400B), and so it was the Fed and SEC that were most involved in their forced sales.

WaMu was bought by JPM and is on the chart, presumably due to the FDIC involvement, whereas Bear, which was a similar size and was also bought by JPM is not.
this is my go to site for triggering wifi captive portals
This is nuts, very cool.
Ianal, but copyright law is a bit murky. There are issues of standing, and damage, to come into play here.

For example,say I ask GPT to write me a poem, and it spits out some random poem from the 60s. At this point, no harm, no foul. I'd have to use this poem publicly, for the copyright holder to even know.

Then they'd have to show damages, which assuming it's not already popular would be hard (?)

Of course it's trivial for me, before exploiting the poem, to google-search it. Not hard to find prior art.

Sure, if I'm a professional song writer (or journalist) then maybe, you know, don't get GPT to do my work for me.

In other words sure, using an LLM might lead to a copyright issue. But how would the original rights-holder know, and would there be sufficient damage to warrant any actual damages?
Uhh yeah, that's what happens when you jump 2 cpu generations and now have 50%+ better single threaded performance. You'll feel the same way again next time you refresh those dells with whatever the new hotness is at that time.
Interestingly enough this doesn't work for me on certain public wifi networks. I often have to go to a different HTTP-only URL, it's weird.
Okay, but party in this case is the Party of Thiel.
Vercel raised $300m+ at the top of the market and paid over the odds to hire a ton of JS ecosystem luminaries. Those investors are going want to see a return, not just an eyewatering wage bill. Anyone building on top of their ecosystem is going to get fleeced, they have no other route to possibly justifing their valuation or ever providing a passable return on that capital. Everyone else should be preparing their plan b for what happens if they impode and Next.js, Turborepo etc development fractures or grinds to a halt.
And 3 and 6 are false. (That 6 is false is rather clearly indicated by your statement that 9 is true.)
One day some bored and rich person might call you on it. You’d have to sue and win otherwise it will make it harder for others to take the claim seriously.
In the General case* there is no functional brain without a functional body

*One can nitpick yourself into creating a series of examples of fictional disabled people but let’s not bikeshed please
It is a common theme. Bots and others scan ports and IP ranges all the time. Looking at server logs I always see random server connections trying to get to things like wp-login.php to look for an exploit.

If you put it out there and don't actively secure it it's bound to get compromised - just a matter of when.
Cash sweep products are a thing. For example, Wealthfront will sweep your cash into a bunch of smaller banks, putting 250k in each, so on the off chance they fail, your money's not been disappeared.
> I’d also speculate that our current LLMs can say whether a piece of text looks like a fact.

If by “looks like a fact” you mean “is a fact claim as distinct from a value claim”, probably.

If you mean “is a fact”, then, no.
> They cannot. RISC-V Foundation is based in Switzerland.

You're not taking into account the difference between theory and reality.

"In theory" the US government "cannot" due to technical aspects like the RISC-V Foundation being based in Switzerland.

"In reality" though, the US government could (for example) introduce targetted sanctions on companies having anything further to do with RISC-V.

The vast majority of those companies would terminate their RISC-V involvement on the spot, as they have substantial US involvement with their businesses.

The remaining ones could indeed keep on pursing RISC-V, but the whole "take over the world" thing would be either dead or have its timeframe pushed out by many years.

Note - I'm trying to illustrate that "inevitable" isn't correct when powerful players are involved. So the above example is just the first one to spring to mind.
There's been countless RFCs for a DHCP hook. ie https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8910
Very cool.

Q: Could you please add RSS? I’d use this every day if I could get it in Feedly. (NM found it in a comment https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml)

Q: Why’d you choose 6.5 as the default? Sorry if you answered that already.
There are some small embedded devices that only speak HTTP. E.g. I have a power outlet with a web interface. You can power cycle outlets through that. It speaks only HTTPS. (The current revision of the product has a better embedded system in it with a better TCP/IP stack, and supports https.)
I have a great way to avoid LLM Hallucinations.
Bedtime Procrastination
https://smartynames.com/
The bill can cost you more. Often see contractors implementing things like marketing campaigns - short lived websites, yet at $400/TB anything with some attention can cost you a lot more.
Disabled people who have functional brains still have substantial body function (otherwise, their brain – which is part of the body and dependent on a number of other parts – would stop functioning.)
you can call that two sets that intersect
> do 2X scaling properly

What do you mean by this? If you're looking for clean pixel doubling/nearest neighbour scaling AMD, NVidia and Intel all support it on the GPU now with driver settings on Windows, but sadly I don't know of any monitors that will do it and I'm not sure what driver support is like on mac.
My old Android phones used to look like this site's format. I had a theamer (called theamer as I recall) and set one up with mostly gif tiles for folders and it was good looking and functional two thumb clicks to almost anywhere. Android UI options today are way less cool.
As a person with no soldering skills and no 3D printing knowledge/equipment, this makes me very happy and only slightly less jealous. Sometimes I do get ideas about building things to address design issues in everyday items but I'm not confident about 3D design (I think I can afford to buy a 3D printer, if I was confident).

Can anyone who has gone from zero to actually designing/producing 3D printed items share how difficult the learning process will be?
Once they get rid of the easiest to replace domestic white collar workers they still need a market to sell their goods into.

I predict the next Federal Works Program will be for unemployable web programmers and not completely unlike the old ones for displaced farmers.

With subsidies and tax breaks I think, if we try hard enough, we can get the actual wages paid by the companies below $2/hr.
Correct. Languages do NOT all have the same tenses.

Chinese, for example, has no tenses.

When it comes to counting tenses of languages, people disagree on how many there are. For example consider English. https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses.php offers 12. But as noted there, it can be argued that there really are only 6.

Spanish is usually said to have 16 tenses, but there is again some wiggle room. See https://www.busuu.com/en/spanish/tenses.
If AI and Automation make it so things like nutrition, traveling, security, and shelter don't require humans than wouldn't that mean it's easier to provide these basics to everyone?
True, but ChatGPT on Azure OpenAI never did: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/cognitive-services/o...
This is really interesting, kudos to the creator! My only note is that Vercel is probably paying less than you and me, in which case the spread is a bit greater than the "vs. retail" comparison.

As I type this the responses are mostly negative, so to balance that I'd like to point out that (1) integration is often undervalued, and (2) nothing prevents developers from using the other services directly, or even creating and managing their own databases, object storage, etc.
I had a good several year run with the LG G6. Google Maps navigation got too bogged down to be usable, though. That's more Google's fault than LG. Now I'm on a Pixel 6 and it's mostly non-offensive. The fingerprint reader is a bit unreliable, and the lack of a headphone jack is annoying. Other than that, it is responsive and the UI stays out of my way.
Except the world has changed a lot in 20 years.
I'd argue even Heroku is a lot more reasonable in markup.
Due to the nature of higher powers and quantum randomness, I don't believe there's an algorithmic way to distinguish acts of God from acts of an Alien from happenings of extremely improbable (out-of-distribution) quantum randomness.
The bank manager can take more risks, knowing that the depositor's won't lose their money (over $250k if the bank they manage fails. Which is important because people tend to get mad when they lose large amounts of money.

Thus, buy bailing out depositors to an unlimited amount, bank managers are then incentivized to take more risks investing the depositor's money because the more risks they take, the more likely it is that one will pay out, raising the bank manager's bonus, and what their stocks are worth. Of course, by taking more risks, they also increase the chances that one will fail catastrophically, but since the depositors are all covered, up to an unlimited amount, eh.
Animatronic puppet and modded delivery bot recreate 2002 hit “A Thousand Miles”
It could be far simpler than that, effectively a stripped basic currently available phone wired into operating power that could be called to send GPS payload via SMS. It would simply power up on start and only ever send the coordinates based on an authenticated call or sms itself.
A spouse is eligible to draw half of their spouses social security instead of their own if it would be a higher amount without affecting the working spouse’s social security.
>Bailing out depositors isn't going to increase inflation - you're just giving people the same amount of money they already have.

That’s not how it works. The original funds do not evaporate out of thin air. They transferred to the opposite side of the trades that the banks are making, meaning customers’ funds are melting into the pockets of hedge funds, etc.

So, in effect, it is the opposite of what you’re stating. The money is not replaced; it is duplicated, thus causing inflation.
Absolutely not. That's property tax, not mortgage interest.
Seems us/eu-centric? I’ll definitely keep an eye on it to see if the composition changes with important events elsewhere in the world.

Even if only English language sources are considered, there are available ones for non-English-speaking countries, example from Spain https://english.elpais.com/
Love this concept and signed up immediately.

Heads up that your plaintext emails in the newsletter have some html formatting and template artifacts in there.
I use http://paulgraham.com
That sounds like an excellent thing to somebody who actually said "you won't always have a calculator at hand". Maybe you should find someone like that.
Try it for yourself. Encrypt /dev/zero in some key using AES, then compress it with whatever compressor you like. Try it many times. Let us know how it goes!

And, yes, you can compress specific pseudo-random looking symbols, but only a few. We're talking about arbitrary pseudo-random data, and that will not compress.
Pretty ignorant.

HTTP is alive and well. Most people don't realise a lot of software/OS updates come through HTTP so that HTTP caching servers have an opportunity to do their thing.

But but... what abouts th3 securaitai?

The updates are signed. Tamper with them all you like.
The main chain is not abandoned, it’s used as a settlement layer.

If I hand you a paper bitcoin wallet worth a certain amount of satoshis, that’s still bitcoin. You rightly shouldn’t accept it because I know the private key and could rugpull those funds from your control. If there were cryptographic assurance to prevent that rugpull, owning that key becomes as valuable as the underlying asset.

Your flawed explanation is like saying the dollars spent on a Visa card aren’t using US currency because the transaction isn’t immediately settled in the eyes of central banks.

Edit: To be clear, there’s no credit involved in the LN transaction. I only used the analogy as a layman’s example. All LN transactions are fully collateralized and can be settled to the base layer at any time by either participant.
A whole industry has sprung around charging back end developers for basic networking tasks. They will quite literally pay for anything that means they don't have to place a server in their basement. The irony is they are taking on a ton of overhead with multiple services instead of learning how to plug in the Ethernet cable and turn the server on.
Playing the world's smallest violin for all the tech bros drowning in GPUs but unable to figure out how to pivot to a hosting company or running GPU-enabled jobs instead. So very sad for them and their 1000 rtx 3070s that nvidia reported as revenue for their gaming business.
Oh cool. I worked on the networking layer of the first Kindle iOS (née iPhoneOS) app and that captive portal stuff was a pain in the ass. I would just walk across the street to Tully’s and use their wifi to get that pop up.
SF voters have repeatedly voted for soft-on-crime candidates like Chesa Boudin (yes, he's been recalled but it's insane they voted him in to begin with).
At the very least that’s missing Fannie, Freddie, Bear, Merrill, Lehman, TARP and arguably AIG for another 1.2T+, granted a lot of this was eventually repaid as the FDIC will be as well.
Most Indian languages have a phonetically correct alphabet. My native language, Kannada , is what you write is how you pronounce it.

Diacritical marks were added to the alphabet to support foreign words that the standard alphabet couldn't support.
In the same way that a chargeback is not a theft from the merchant--a higher authority steps in and corrects the record. Property rights exist because the people consent to them. If there's sufficient consensus, they can be revoked in the same way.
> It's also important to note that the above percentages…

Has this article being written using ChatGPT by any chance ?
we can debate liquidity and depth of the market for those assets, but they're also just using the same standard as what was lost as well as reporting where thats just asset price appreciation
https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/index.html
This would make sense, since the world is 'us/eu-centric' and has been for all of modern history.

It might not be for much longer though...
Aye, like the metric system
Can a blind person drive a car? Is a blind person not intelligent?
Note on B-Caryophylline, it ONLY binds with CB2 and apparently has no intoxicant effects via CB1, yet is strongly correlated with anti-inflammatory effects
There's no conspiracy. SPAs should have never become the default way to make web front end.

Making a good SPA takes a lot of work and almost nobody has time to do it properly. Even Google with all its resources is incapable of making a good SPA for the Google Cloud console.

This article hits the nail in the head:

https://nolanlawson.com/2022/06/27/spas-theory-versus-practi...

"The best SPA is better than the best MPA. The average SPA is worse than the average MPA"

I'm not saying SPAs do not have their use cases. They totally do (Gmail, Twitter, Spotify, etc) and use them daily.
Why do you think it has to all fall down? What happens if it doesn't?
Thanks for the Braess paradox link.

I think you could potentially generalize the Braess paradox to talk about where people live.

The intuition is that we'd be best off if the distribution of demand matched supply, then housing costs from town to town would be identically distributed and all markets would be well utilized and none over-congested. But many people selfishly prefer to live in dense areas because network effects make it more valuable to live in those places, more choice in jobs, more people to interact with, etc.

Not only does this cause under-utilization in less desirable locations, it huts affordability-- which people consider a terminal value ('cause housing is necessary for life) independent of the overall utility or efficiency. Though we're OKAY with certain houses or even neighborhoods being out of reach of some, we consider it a problem when whole cities or regions are broadly unaffordable.

[It's not clear to me that we should, any more than we consider it a problem that not everyone can afford to live in SwankyHeights. But it's a complicated situation, since there is a reason people want to live in dense areas, like wanting access to jobs or services, making "so go live elsewhere" not a great answer.]

Okay, so we add housing. Now the incentives change around in terms of who wants to live where, and there isn't a particular guarantee that the equilibrium prices that result will be lower-- they could well be higher because we just shifted the balance to attract more people from elsewhere.

It's a handwave, but over the time span of years, I'd argue that demand for dense cities is more like your transit-to-driving example than your "everyone-is-in-cars" example. People outside of the dense areas are "taking transit", but if you changed the economics they'd prefer to take a car.

> More trips usually mean that you actually improved people's lives, which is a good thing.

Right but that also assumes overall improvement is the thing people care about.

So in a hypothetical where increasing the number of units in a city made every unit more valuable and so made the city less affordable, it would still create an aggregate improvement in utility and so it arguably should be done. But the issue being complaint about wasn't cities doing the most good possible, it was about cities being affordable to the most people.

Kind of like complaining about roads because they take up space that could benefit mankind in other ways, vs complaining about roads because they facilitate cars.
your wish is my command: https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/bank-failures-as-a-stacked-ba...
Captive portals can and should have TLS enabled, even if they're internally served, there's nothing stopping you putting on a cert signed by a well known CA.

The way I handle it is I have the captive portal DNS name in public DNS returning a private address. When I order the CA cert from my cert provisioner of choice, I'm able to pass all verification checks. I'd use LetsEncrypt if I could, but good luck getting that going on a Cisco Wireless LAN Controller.
https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/mormon.asp
This would effectively lead to the government refinancing all creditors to a higher interest rate. The government doesn’t have the money lying around.

The only way the government could do such a thing is to either massively increase the deficit or raise taxes. We are probably reaching the end of experimental finance policy being able to bail a business out.
The Laws of Computing – A look from the Forth side [pdf]
An RSA public key is a small exponent for encryption and a large composite pq where p and q are large primes. There's more to it, naturally, but I'll stop there. You can have many many RSA keys of any given size, say 2048 bits for now. So something somewhat less than 2^2048 possible keys for 2048 bit RSA keys, let's say 2^2000 keys, which... is a lot! Since one should generate keys randomly we can expect that no one key will be much more frequently used than any other, so Huffman encoding is right out, but even if you try Huffman encoding anyways you'll find that most keys will end up with Huffman codes that are longer than the keys themselves meaning that the keys are not compressible!

Thinking about AES-256 will be easier. Say we have 2^40 computers able to randomly generate 2^64 AES-256 keys every day. Well, it will still take a long time to generate all possible AES-256 keys. So say in the best case scenario we get close to 2^120 keys or so. How would we even measure their frequencies so we could assign Huffman codes to them? Well, we can't, and even if we could most keys would have a frequency between 1 and 3. And still the next key to be generated could be outside that set so we really have to assign a code to each key, and there's... 2^256 possible keys... which means that even if we could assign a code to each key we couldn't write that down because there's not enough atoms on Earth to do it with. But let's say we just define a collation of AES-256 keys and assign then Huffman codes in order... But now we'll soon see that most keys will get codes assigned that are longer than 256 bits. Which means that the average input to this compressor would... yield an expansion, not a compression.
The diamond industry doesn't look at the high cost of diamonds and say "Mine more rock!". They say, warehouse all of our current inventory and drip it out over decades so that we can make it even more inflated.
I have also built an alternative as a stacked bar chart https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/bank-failures-as-a-stacked-ba...
Presumably the non secure equivalent for internal services will just be a self signed cert. So you don't lose any existing capabilities.
Glad I'm not the only one that noticed!
Vercel's revenue was 25.5 million in 2022 (according to Nathan Latka who has pretty reputable figures) on a 2.5 billion dollar valuation [0]. They're hyped but it doesn't seem like any big players actually use them at scale, as it's likely much, much cheaper to host on bare cloud providers like AWS, which Vercel themselves wrap (with Vercel also now wrapping the services included in OP's site).

[0] https://getlatka.com/companies/vercel