skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of smoke in the comments here. The Fed is doing what needs to create relative stability. Uncomfortable, but real. Demand is outstripping supply and prices are going up. The least painful option is raising interest rates. Alternatives are hyperinflation, (very bad), or various price fixing schemes (which have literally never worked despite many attempts and are even worse in the ultimate outcomes). There are lots of reasons why this is happening, and none of them are related to a "fake economy:"

People and businesses came out of lockdown with saved money and basically free loans burning holes in their pocket which caused a spike in demand (Least important, probably no longer an issue)

Businesses came out of lockdown with a diminished staff and a ton of new uncertainty (much more important, takes a while to recover for some businesses that are planning production multiple YEARS in advance).

Deglobalization/ U.S. national re-industrialization, started by Trump, continued with Biden, which will increase prices on pretty much everything. This is both a reasonable response to the issue, and makes the issue worse in the short term.

There's a hot war with a major energy producer, Russia, which will increase prices for every product where energy is an input (almost every product).

The biggest manufacturer in the world, China, has randomly been shutting down factories and whole metropolises for weeks at a time for the last several years. We just got a correction in this regard, but it will take time for the supply side of the equation to ramp back up, especially given all of the moving parts and uncertainty outlined above.

Bottom line - lean supply chains function well when everything is stable for a longish period of time and it looks like it will continue to be for a longish period of time. In unstable/uncertain environments, supply chains break down, and supply can't keep up with demand, and the government can't keep handing out free money without causing prices to hyperinflate.
They sorta read like those ride reviews from the theme park denizens of SimCoaster tbh.
Still begging the question, i.e. assuming that which you need to prove.

How would you prove an animal has a "subjective, qualitative experience"?
Well, Roblox is almost as metaverse as any metaverse. Metaverse is just a buzzword for MMO's with level editors, that are also supposedly selling land that's worth something, a good place for a corporate themepark and having business meetings with uncanny 3D avatars that sound like your colleagues.
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Maybe so, but I'm mainly suggesting that such a law be written a way that targets any large scale and wasteful use of electricity rather than being so specific to crypto. Even if that means crypto is the only thing currently affected.

I don't like the idea of a law deciding what you can and can't compute or that some other wasteful industries get a free pass.
> Everything in the "fuck cars" movement seems to stem from that.

Yes, my hobbyist motorcycle track riding, self maintenance etc are massively hampered by apartment living (where they have dozens of rules against the things I expressly want to do like change my own oil).

And if I have to take the motorcycle to a mechanic to pay $140 to do a $20 parts and labor job. Suddenly that car free life (garage free life) is costing me $120 more this month.
It's weird though if they have two fabs and one sells chips for 30% more. I guess this situation is so far away from market equilibrium that weird things are normal.
It was done over two months ago: https://github.com/AlpinDale/sparsegpt-for-LLaMA
Not the first government employee, including law enforcement or military members, arrested in connection with it.
Well, they did try going with "Dapp" as in decentralized app, and that went about as well as one would expect.
The executive team of 5 did get paid $97mil in 2022.

https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1653798663917826048
Aside from being a pedophile, Jeffery Epstein was an incredibly wealthy man. He met with thousands of people. They weren't all pedophiles. That was part of his scam, to forge relationships with a lot of important people so they'd be less likely to believe the stories about his sexual predation. He banked social proof and used it to deflect scrutiny.
I've mainlined pretty much every documentary on D+ about Disney. :) Despite the fact that they are clearly paid for by the marketing department, I still enjoyed them immensely.

But also it totally worked -- after watching those docs I really want to visit Disney Paris and Disney Shanghai.
Biden Wants to Hit Power-Hungry Crypto Miners with a Big Tax Bill
Consciousness is only defined in the philosophy of mind as "phenomenological experience", full stop, i.e., "experiencing the color yellow" as something beyond just a certain wavelength incident upon and mechanistic reaction within the organism.

"Consciousness" as defined in colloquial settings, such as the one we inhabit now, is usually substantially more elaborate than thae one used by philosophers and includes things like capacity to develop cognitive models of the outside world and the capacity to reason about their environment having placed themselves within it. I usually reserve the words "awareness" and "sentience" for these two latter concepts to distinguish between the bare experiential aspects which are typically the subject of this kind of discussion and the more familiar everyday (though extremely high-level) experiences we have as intelligent beings.

It's important to maintain the distinction or else discussions very quickly devolve into people talking past each other with differing definitions. It's no surprise people don't know the basics of this when they're not philosophers, and it's only a slight surprise that people on HN will deviate so greatly from these conventions while nonetheless projecting an air of competency.
> Maybe so, but I'm mainly suggesting that such a law be written a way that targets any large scale and wasteful use of electricity rather than being so specific to crypto

Cryptocoin mining is the easiest thing to get rid of that's both large scale and wasteful.

If you got any other large scale wasteful uses of electricity, please let me know and we can work on getting rid of it too.

> that some other wasteful industries

Please start listing those "other wasteful industries".
It probably hit just the right time in terms of available CPU power and network speed for a text-based format to get accepted.
That's really interesting, indeed I can reproduce this by changing the comment. I also managed to get correct output for this sample by renaming the function.
> that would only make sense

You're suggesting that _no one_ ever used a pseudonym for another without explicitly mentioning it in advance/shortly thereafter?

Besides, "Young" as a false-name doesn't have to be a direct clever "reference" to "a young person". It could just be a name he thought of at the time.

In any case, I think Gwern is far too conspiratorial in the reasoning for this article. There are some interesting connections found but the evidence, while reasonable, is not nearly as conclusive as he suggests.
Well, knowing that Apple is member of the Khronos group, it would be very surprising that they did not get involved with Vulkan.
Unidentifiable unidentified flying objects
Nice. Years ago practical maths to my programming needs was Concrete Mathematics for algorithm analysis, combinatorics for data structures, queuing theory for performance analysis, mathematical stats for data analysis, and optimization theories for discrete optimizations. Calculus and linear algebra came in here and there as tools for those maths. It looks nowadays there's less need for diving into such maths as well-packaged systems and libraries solve most of my problems. I'm very curious what topics your book will cover for the new generation of programmers.
Godot is not overrated. It absolutely crushes Unity in a subset of use-cases which is quickly growing.
I don't. I expect MSFT to make a hash of it, and to do so in an environment (a browser) that I've never found equal to the task of "getting out of the way and letting me write."
Dave Lee Travis? <checks> Oh, you mean what everyone else calls blockchain.
I legit find myself long-pressing words in paper books expecting a dictionary definition to magically appear...
unfortunately this is the future of the entire internet - and not just the comments the submissions as well. the search for authenticity and actual human material will become the most valuable thing.

This isn't that different from what we have now as people have abandoned corporate messaging for communities and podcasts/youtube/etc to try to find authentic human voices. The difference will be how much harder it will become to catch the bots.
Notably from January 11, 2022

Also, the argument makes no sense

> corporations have always been greedy and there was no inflation in the 2 decades before covid

Corporations have clearly achieved deregulation at a greater scale than ever before, both thru devices like regulatory capture to weaken regulatory instruments, and by achieving wealth and therefore power at scales comparable to first world nations.

The past did indeed happen in the past, but our past - unlike the authors of that article - includes knowledge of a full year of ludicrous financials and outsized margins being published by corp after corp.

What does any writing not from 2021 say? I already addressed that point quite nicely for the audience, I thought.
You did parse the statement.
My gut feeling is that it is a bad idea too. But the defenders of the system do not bat an eye when the Fed pours helicopter money over the rich. The hypocrisy is maddening. It is so dishonest.
Even in the current HTML + CSS world, everyone writes their own date picker, file dialog, combo menu, etc. in React. It’s no longer acceptable to use built-in browser controls.
How might this work with AI? Journalling neural net operational state, and then analyzing that like a core dump to debug its logic.
Americans wouldn't say "Uni" so I assume you're from the UK.

By "US accent" do you mean that "COBOL" would be pronounced "snowball" in the UK? That's really news to me.
Ok - the best idea i have heard for a long time :-)
What about the famous persons who met with him after he was a convicted sex offender?

"Jeffrey Epstein Was a Sex Offender. The Powerful Welcomed Him Anyway." - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-...
I'm glad you found my other blog post on accountability and growth.

As you can see, I'm working on taking responsibility for my actions and working on self-improvement. I appreciate you taking the time to explore my writing.
Are there no hedging instruments for something like this?
But not too long ago there was a flurry of media stories sensationalizing these videos and basically concluding that they were UFOs, and the military was going along with the story.. no doubt in order to scare the populace and increase the military budget
Shudder is pretty cool, though I don't maintain a subscription (I will sub for a month or two every now and then when I'm in the mood).

I like the concept of streaming services that cater really well to one specific interest. I also like that I can do what I describe, and pick and choose which subs to maintain based on my interests at the time.

I do miss the good old days when Netflix had everything, but nothing lasts forever I guess. That is, besides the thrilling salt air of the wide open seas ;)
please travel to Vienna Austria where this is already implemented, none of the problems you listed are of major concern there in my experience. It's made that city a much cleaner and organized situation.
Yeah huge L for chomsky, bummer always enjoyed his stuff even if I almost never agreed with it
I definitely recommend GDScript, especially if you are using Godot 4 / GDScript 2. The language was designed to be used in Godot to make games, and in my opinion it’s very good at that. The editor integration is great, defining export variables for the inspector, adding doc comments that show up in the built in help viewer, dragging nodes and files into your script to get their onready and preload paths, etc… It’s just really nice to use, and takes literally a day to become proficient.
I didn't downvote, but I think one reason is probably the repeated characterization of sanctions and Fed actions as "stupid", since that kind of puts things in an us-vs-them mindset.

For instance, if I worked on a library and someone filed an issue saying "We need to remove the current networking implementation", I'd be interested to hear what they had to say. If someone said "We need to remove the current stupid networking implementation", I'd immediately be on the defensive (since presumably I had thought it was a good idea).

When trying to make a point, it's important to leave room for people that don't already agree with you to be convinced (especially when most people don't already agree with you).
New drug Donanemab Significantly Slowed Decline of Early Alzheimer's Disease
Price gouging once you are vendor locked seems to be the problem will any hosted SaaS platforms. This of course should be something you consider when building things. Maybe at the time when the author was building their app Auth0 was the easiest solution and now that they have revenue migrating authentication providers will be worthwhile.

Stuff like this though is sometimes a good problem to have in a way because it means you actually are growing your business.

Personally I tend to avoid most hosted SaaS for this exact fear, but maybe I shouldn’t so I can have greater velocity (and fail fast…)
UUFOs. Perfect.
Git for data that commits incremental diffs to Git itself
I have built version control for data, on top of git itself, that can commit and push incremental diffs. By tagging in git, a version snapshot can be created. S3 can be configured (a) for heavy files and diffs referenced by pointer objects and (b) for shareable snapshots, identified by repo, tag name and commit sha. The diffs operate at row, column, and cell level, not by block deduping. Datasets must have some tabular structure. The data will go wherever pushed, and to user S3 if configured.

The burden of checking out and building snapshots from diff history is now borne by localhost, but that may change. Smart navigation of git history from the nearest available snapshots, building snapshots with Spark, and other ways to save on data transfer and compute are all on the table. Merge conflict resolution is in the works. This paradigm enables hibernating or cleaning up history on S3 for datasets no longer necessary to create snapshots, like those that are git removed if snapshots of earlier commits are not needed. Individual data entries could also be removed for GDPR compliance using versioning on S3 objects, orthogonal to git.

The prototype already cures the pain point I built it for: it was impossible to (1) uniquely identify and (2) make available behind an API multiple versions of a collection of datasets and config parameters, (3) without overburdening HDDs due to small, but frequent changes to any of the datasets in the repo and (4) while being able to see the diffs in git for each commit in order to enable collaborative discussions and reverting or further editing if necessary. Some background: I am building natural language AI algorithms that (+) operate on editable training datasets, meaning changes or deletions in the training data are reflected fast, without traces of past training and without retraining the entire language model (I know this sounds impossible), and (++) explain decisions back to individual training data. LLMs have fixed training datasets, whereas editable datasets call for a collaborative system to manage data efficiently.

I am open to everything including thoughts, suggestions, constructive criticism, and use case ideas.
It seems like passkey isn't available for Google Workspace yet. (I'm a Google Workspace admin as well).
Tim also is surprisingly silent on countries that "mine data on the details of people's lives"...except his own, where he's been more than willing to take part in the privacy debate.

Ironic.
I completely agree that any form of harassment is unacceptable. As I've shared in another recent post, I'm committed to addressing my past mistakes, learning from them, and ensuring a safe and inclusive environment in my future workplaces.
I wish we could detach people from their work.

I was/am abrasive unfortunately, I'm working on it, but I still suck. I especially cannot handle when people give false knowledge, I will make a fool of myself if I see someone lying or misleading.

I also run a popular website, specifically educating people on a niche field of education. I've seen people write off all the data collected and conclusions because of my personal behavior. I don't even disagree about my personal behavior. Just leave my scientific contributions out of it.

I will be dead and people will be reading my conclusions, while I'm alive, it seems to always come up(in online discussions).
https://archive.ph/4CyWK
As much as I have no sympathy for any of these billionaires and celebrities, Epstein's entire modus operandi was getting himself associated with as many of these people as possible to insulate himself.

So while yes, I think there is dirt on some of these people, just being associated with Epstein through way of a meeting, photo at an event, or invite, is not the loaded gun many want it to be.
When they are unidentified they exist in a low information zone. Then if they are ever identified they move to a higher information zone.
It's pretty obvious by now that UFOs have advanced ElectroMagnetic Warfare (EW) equipment capable of interfering with optical devices in such a way that all photos are low resolution.

Basically next-next-next-next generation of current car camouflage patterns (but active, not passive) or anti-surveillance streetwear.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/fords-new-car-camouflage-...

One obvious solution is to fly a two seater plane, and put in the back seat a highly skilled fast pen artist so he can sketch a pen and paper detailed drawing of the UFO.
I find my biggest hurdle with estimation is often one small requirement which turns out to require a large amount of work. Like, "have this element behave in [unique way] on this page." Ok, well, that element was never even built to be touched individually, let alone have custom behavior. So now it's actually doubled the development time.

This is something which can usually be caught during estimation, but occasionally it isn't something you're going to notice until you're actually digging into the code and implementing it. And if you're going that deep during estimation, you're already practically building the thing, so estimation is now taking up a significant amount of time and effort. I am not a super experienced dev, but I haven't really seen a way around these issues cropping up often enough to make estimation feel close to worthless. (that is, it's unreliable often enough that it's unwise to couple any timeline too closely to any estimate)
On average usage case Tesla Model 3 is already cheaper than Toyota Corolla. Chevy Bolt, while they still sell it, is even cheaper.

inb4: I only buy 20 year old cars for $500 and I want to drive 1000km without stopping while shitting in my pants.
In general, if you are invested in believing something, you dismiss any evidence to the contrary with a variety of rationalizations. It's just how humans work psychologically and even scientists and other people who "should know better" can get caught up in this.
AMD's Mantle is the direct precursor to Vulkan. AMD donated it to Khronos.
I am responsible for a large microfrontend portal application, which consists of multiple modules and applications, which are wired at runtime with module federation. The build process is handled by webpack for each mudule...

I just wonder, if import maps could replace module federation now or in the long run?
There can be good reasons to acquire the commercial property your business utilizes. If you occupy >51% of the space there are SBA loan guarantees which only require 10% down. You can then lease out the remaining space to other tenants.
> all in one js bundle, but if i have http2 then i don’t care because the overhead of multiple files is gone

I think everyone who makes this statement has not tried this. While it is somewhat true for A->B, A->C if not using compression it is definitely not true for A->B, B->C. The deeper your chain is (regardless of if it is within the same package or within different) the overhead of fetching, parsing, building dependency map, fetching dependencies, repeat is pretty huge.

I say this as someone that has deployed both approaches at scale and A/B tested them.

The benefits of compression should not be understated either. You probably have many repeated things in your files that can be efficiently compressed. Even small stuff like `<div` or `useState` can make a huge difference when you consider them over a larger codebase. This part could have been fixed with SDCH, but only chrome and linkedin seemed to care about that before it was deprecated and removed.
The american version replaced David Attenborough with Sigourney Weaver.
Watching Andreessen of all people try to shoehorn in Web3 has made realize that "ICP" is in fact a fitting acronym for A16Z, assuming it stands for the name of a particular band.
Great question.

Thanks for sharing the link to the post on unleashing creativity—I hope others find it helpful as well.
It's unfortunately an unwinnable situation, from an external perspective.

You shouldn't have to defend yourself by explaining personal details of your life just because you once met with a wealthy businessman who turned out to be a criminal, especially one who made a point of making as many connections as possible, and especially considering that people will furiously point the finger at you if you even so much as smell like you might be one of their political enemies.

On the other hand, that's also a convenient excuse if you really did happen to collude in his crime.
I think they are referring to the EU's aggressive data surveillance and zero expectation of privacy to government organizations. While the EU has been very pro customer to business privacy they are vehemently against anything that lets anyone hid anything them the government.
just curious, how do underwater plants pollinate in general, while Ive never thought about it - I guess it would be currents?
>Woody Allen

I mean is anyone shocked that a known child abuser met with another?

"Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha like a Woody Allen movie, but funny weird like a Woody Allen marriage" - Norm McDonald
Inflation costs more than bank failures. The Fed can fix bank failures by providing liquidity on demand - without any limit, theoretically. But unless they tighten rates, inflation will just grow and make future tightening more urgent and less easy to control.
The idea that you will always be able to borrow money at no cost is pure fantasy. Except many, many start-ups and companies built business plans that could only work when they had a constant supply of free loans. A scooter rental startup for example could offer service for less than their operation costs because there was always a spigot of money to borrow.
Yes, there's a real "conspiracy theory" vibe to all of this - I think it seems like people want to imply all these people are part of some kind of sex-ring or something, when there's an obvious and benign explanation for all of it. You can plausibly accuse many of the people who took meetings of being greedy, but that's about it. This is just people trying to score cheap political points.
I swear: if it wasn't for the eerie woke mob mentality surrounding the language, I might actually give it a second glance; but there's no chance in hell I'll put my energy into something this fundamentalistic.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Balancing is crucial, and taking calculated risks can help set you apart. It's all about skating to where the puck is going to be, as you said.