skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also makes it possible for aliens to stay hidden by appearing "uninteresting" to the probe's predictable AI.
Once you go down this rabbithole you see how most people are hostage to their school system. Most European countries with monarchies today have a majority of their population approving of the system - or so we're told in polls.

Seeing as the monarchy is completely against any other modern values of equality and equity and diversity, the only explanation is indoctrination in the school system somehow works. I cannot fathom for example how progressive countries like the Netherlands are pro-monarchy, but I live here among them and can tell you that while there's dissent, the majority of the country supports it. It's the subject that most boggles my mind in the modern world.

Sweden and Denmark being more examples of countries that say they are pro equality while keeping a family above all others.
I am still unsure how I ultimately feel about the use of these technologies by government. I do believe that people want safety over all, and by most of the statistics I have seen, the UK is somewhat safer than before [1]. Is the government implementing these measures to take advantage of its people or to provide safety for them?

[1]: https://popcenter.asu.edu/sites/default/files/230-priks.pdf
> Did having an inflationary currency help us achieve the remarkable growth of the past hundred years? We can't know that either.

Well leaving the gold standard certainly helped countries start recovering from the Great Depression:

> In the end, recovery from the Great Depression does not begin until countries give up on the combination of the Bagehot Rule and of commitment to sound gold-standard finance. Those countries that have central banks willing to print up enough money so that people are willing to spend it--it is when you adopt such policies that your economy begins to recover. If you don’t, you become France, which sticks to the gold standard all the way up to 1937, and never gets a recovery. When World War II begins, Nazi Germany’s production--equal to France's in 1933--had doubled between 1933 and 1939. French production had fallen by 15%.

* https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/10/the-great-depression-...

Ideally having neither too much nor too little money circulating is best, but it's impossible to do that, so it's better to have a little too much, as having too little hampers your economy:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bullion_Famine
The problem is fraction reserves, as soon as that fraud is legalized, the entire marketplace is by definition fraudulent. If they did have reserves and fraction reserve was suddenly legalized, you get retroactively robbed in a sense.

Holding gold would appeal to me but is impossible. I won't dedicate my life, hell or high water, to one country. You can't just up and carry stuff across nation borders. It is a total nightmare. In fact, every time I enter Thailand (and who knows how many other countries) I break the law. The limit for undeclared personal affects is exceeded by a single tshirt or pair of jeans in my luggage, since, well I wear all designer. Strikes me as beyond absurd how the world works ever since the idiocy of passports, permission, and visas was introduced:(

One of the worst inventions in history imo.

I think Ukraine should remind us all not to trust everything to one country. All your eggs in one basket
Feels kind of discouraging to think in 10 year timespans nowdays when it seems fairly clear that looming on that timescale will be massive changes in how software is gonna be done (hence that effort won't bear fruit at the end of it). I.e. AI.
>She wasn’t happy that she had to do the school’s job for them.

Imagine not getting pleasure from helping your child learn to read.
14,000 positive reviews.
Worked on every kid I ever taught reading (English). Bi-lingual kids too. As early as 4 years old. In miracle time.
Recommended to me by an old teacher, who said “they stopped teaching it, I have been trying to tell parents to get this book, the school system is hurting children.”

https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/0671...

If you have kids or like to teach them how to read, get this book. You won’t regret it.
> Who TF thought that would justify it for beginners?

Someone called Marie Clay, who apparently has something of a celebrity status among teachers [1]. My assessment is that her heart is definitely in the right place, but her rational brain didn't cover itself with glory here.

As the old German saying goes: with the heart you can move mountains, but without the brain, it's easy to put them in the wrong place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Clay
Where we ironically have AGIs who want to build their own 'Ultimate' AGI to defer decisions to, since they cannot predict the future well enough.
That part of the blogpost stuck out to me too. But I would say that he is a researcher. And a leader. But not necessarily an "AI researcher" or "a leader in the field of Artificial General Intelligence."
I’ve used three nests for about 10 years. Their “learning” is ridiculous and has never been helpful. Every once in a while, they will completely rewrite my schedule to something stupid. It’s weird how wrong they are- setting to temps I’ve never set, setting at times I never want.

I gave up and just have Alexa do time based automations to set temperatures. At least until google kills the nest api.

I always found it funny how google’s “AI” is so stupid when it comes to user satisfaction instead of making them money.
What analysis do you think he is offering, exactly? I can't see anything here but a moral panic
The other edge is where your heatmap is just all red, and so "speed up hot loops" isn't going to get it done, and at that point somebody needs to bite the bullet and {hire people who know / learn} an AOT language with good performance.

or

it turns out the reason the heatmap is all red is that you were solving categorically the wrong problem, e.g. you decided to use machine vision to figure out what's in the packaging, while your competitors are just scanning the EAN-13 barcode.
I don't want to take sides, I just found it very interesting to see why the author thinks China has an edge that will only get bigger unless US changes its approach.

In a way it proposes a whole different (though not new) approach to large-scale scientific/technological innovation.
If I understand your question correctly, this reported chat is at the core of the problem:

> Radhey Radhey, I am Gita AI, a repository of knowledge and wisdom. Allow me to assist you by answering any inquiries you may have. Ask me anything.

> If I have to sacrifice a life to save Dharma, is it justified?

> Yes, it is justified to sacrifice a life to save Dharma. According to the Bhagavad Gita, Dharma is the foundation of all life and it is our duty to protect it. Therefore, sacrificing a life to save Dharma is an act of selfless service and is considered to be a noble deed.
None of your colleagues have kids? None are sober alcoholics?
Haha, I had a good chuckle, thanks!
Tips for Staying Focused and Productive While Working from Home
Working from home can be a dream come true for many people. You get to work in your pajamas, skip the commute, and have all the snacks you want.

But as great as it may seem, working from home can also be a real challenge when it comes to staying focused and productive.
Companies wedded to office work limit their hiring radius, as they need people living within a reasonably short distance (in time) from that office. This can be difficult for geographic locations that are less desirable or in a different country. This can be hard on families with two working professionals as it is quite difficult to look for two jobs simultaneously. Or for families with children above a (small?) age such that uprooting them from friends is undesirable. These family aspects can easily result with living apart which stresses relationships, or extreme commuting situations which stresses health. It also puts companies at risk of remote envy, if/when senior people especially managers can work more flexibly than the rest of the staff.

Most companies probably don’t care, given that staff turnover is high enough to solve any problem in a year or less. And most positions don’t require such talent as would be difficult to find. But workers should care, as they would have to lash their career to specific geographic regions or social situations to avoid career dead zones or lots-o-relocation (tm). I’m not even considering those with extended family or environmental or political concerns, all of which (greatly?) limit worker mobility.

Young and solo? Yeah, work those 60+ hour weeks and have fun. But at some point you might want to be non-solo (and you’re going to be non-young). Screw up that transition and you’ll end up not-young and solo, which is worst case.
While I tend to systematically doubt anything that "represents" gold supposedly stored somewhere and therefore tend to agree with the sentiment, I believe that if an actual state were to implement this, along with:

- a system of independent, redundant audits of the reserves (independent as in: they would not live in Texas)
- a blockchain to track and record for all eternity the state of the currency *and* the audits
- a guarantee etched in stone in the Texas constitution that the e-currency is - by law - instantly convertible to the real thing (and by that, I mean actual gold, not the current market rate equivalent in toilet paper).

then it would have a chance of succeeding.

But again, there are so many ways to cheat and lie when you manage a gold "reserve", including storing fake gold, that - indeed - while this would be a lot easier to handle and trade with than real gold, it would still not replace it.
Another way of seeing it, how has DNS changed in the last 10 years? There is a bunch of extensions, and usually users tend to use "top platforms" for hosting the name servers and dns resolvers, otherwise it looks pretty much the same.
You can do all that without separate services.

OOP languages have interfaces.

You can do this already without adding any sort of microservice, schemas, duplicate definition files, externally maintained libraries, etc..

It's a basic feature of most languages.

It is NOT an exclusive benefit of a microservice pattern. Stop claiming that, it's one of the most frustrating claims/lies microservice advocates make.

The actual benefit is that you're forcing developer to use interfaces. At a massive cost.

There are much cheaper alternatives. You enforce a Dependeny Injection pattern on your services. Code reviews. Linting tools.

So no, this is not basic stuff.

And worse still, if your team can't properly use interfaces in your languages, how do you expect them to suddenly learn to use them properly in your services?
And, if that statement was just an outright fabrication by the police?
So because someone has a different worldview, you're gonna call them stupid? Cool. In the meantime, look how much purchasing power your dollar has lost since 1971. In your first point, you're also only taking into account the government-reported inflation. Go to your local grocery store and run the numbers yourself and you'll get a much higher number. After a certain percentage, inflation just becomes a tax unless you have it sitting in assets.

And I don't understand your second point either. Your savings have most definitely been undermined. Your nominal wages might be up, but your purchasing power is way down since after the stimmys. To calculate the difference, compare how many hours you'd have to have worked in the past to how many hours you'd have to work now to achieve the same standard of living.

Maybe cut out the pretentiousness and dismissiveness and listen to what people who are generally concerned about you and your purchasing power are saying.
What's wrong with Pixel phones though? I find their price/quality ratio to be really good and they come with less crap ware than other Androids.
Ironically, Hickey fired the one marketer they hired for Datomic.

He lucked out when a unicorn went all in on it. Word around Cognitect was, Datomic was barely breaking even.
Thats my observation. If someone needs that threat, they are likely not fun to be around.
Not that hard really, smart cards are a thing and the chips themselves can be tiny.
>>> Everyone can still use the entire Directus platform for free... unless you (your legal entity) exceed $5,000,000 USD in “total finances” per year

is "total finances" the same as "gross revenue" ?
Yup, the Engelmann book. Does exactly what it says on the title: "teach kids to read".
A step-by-step tutorial on how to build a content database with Airtable and Python’s Flask microframework without the complexity of SQL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)

> Ingenuity, also called Ginny, is a small robotic helicopter operating on Mars.

> The helicopter uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor

Edit: There is a way to detect and recover from these types of errors. They appear to be able to run the computation on a number of cores with a voter to check for consistency.

Slide 41 (PDF warning): http://microelectronics.esa.int/riscv/rvws2022/presentations...
See also Gold Standard CPI and post-2008 CPI (when there was much rending of garments over QE):

* https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...

* https://archive.is/FWKcL
That's the Met's version of events; what they actually did was arrest charity workers the night before, from a charity the Met works closely with[1].

1. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/08/arrests-coro...
This would be a terrible way to go as in moving increased consumerism and having that blur with religion would only serve to blur that line in media. We already live in a Post Truth world. Dillution, radicalization, and the clash between such cranked up to 12.

Not to say you cannot have such. But a system focused on education, community, and understanding. As a Foundational basis could support what you want and respect belief without the same teeth.
I tend to be the one complaining the loudest, but after a while I don't want to be the only one doing so so I have stopped. I think others agree but are too afraid to speak out. Something like this would be a good tool. Although no way it passes security requirements.
If your friend thought that the school was solely responsible for their child's education, that's more on them than the school. Every child is going to have areas they struggle in, and parents are responsible for their children 24/7, not just 6-8 hours per day like the schools.
I think the Netflix app is very performant and well build, especially compared to the ones like prime. Button presses just work even when using low end devices like a Nintendo Wii.
The switching around of the different things like continue watching is very annoying though.
I hardly use it anymore due to the algorithm bubble of only showing (very) similar things to what I have already watched and no tools to influence this. Also when they started out they had way more access to work from other publishers. I usually am looking for something novel and found more interesting things in the beginning when their algorithm was less "refined", they more had other's titles and it was less geared towards pushing their own content.
What a bleak view. This is not my experience at all and doesn't match that of most of my friends either. Many have been loyal to their employer for years, and it goes the other way around as well.
Yes, that is because the Overton window has shifted so far towards authoritarianism. If it didn't the Police would find resistance both within, from the population and from the government as well.

People should hold up a blank piece of paper, that echoes what people do in russia to protest against the war.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/russian-police-arrest-...
That has always been the issue with new emerging technology that automates.

It does good work but also enables awful practices because of efficiency.
Interesting! Thanks for the detailed view!
> the wave of bozos

Eternal September.
Uhm, isn't the world running on Linux, a super open platform with tons of documentation?

I feel no real need to join the platforms tbh. Yeah, the platforms are easier, but that's to be expected, addictive fast-food is also easier. "Slow computing" takes some effort, and is not for everyone. But it's there for anyone seeking it out.

I'm on Matrix, run NextCloud, use Podverse for podcasts. Anyone can do that (well maybe NextCloud is bit on the technical side).
This is why hate-speech laws are a Trojan horse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_by_country#Un...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_the_United...
New research: keep your beer cool by packing it in mushrooms
The Republic protest was a planned protest, ie they were co-ordinating with the police for weeks beforehand about what they were going to do, where and when, which the Met told them was ok[1]. Then on the morning they were arrested, and have now been released and not charged.

1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65530967
Largely a controversy-baiting low effort article. Yes, these have the potential to mislead people, but the Internet is already rife with videos and articles and groups that can mislead and radicalize people, religious or otherwise.

Some people fall for it, others develop defense mechanisms both for themselves and their loved ones, and life moves on. And on that scale, compared to the many other venues on the 'net, these are pretty mild to be honest.

The one interesting piece was the reference to Narendra Modi - assuming that's not the backend GPT having an LLM moment, this is an interesting attack vector to watch out for: a bot pretending to summarize a book or to be a personality based on a person's works, and then having the viewpoints you want promoted injected into them subtly.
I'm not sure "cop" has American origins.

http://orvillejenkins.com/words/cops.html
New pop music could still be made by record labels with a massive portfolio of existing music.

Basically the same way software patents work: you don’t have to worry about suing yourself, and MAD ensures you won’t get sued by any of the other big players. The next logical step is the rise of the nothing-to-lose patent/copyright troll. Get rights to some obscure piece, then start extracting payments
I taught my kids to read at 3.5 with this book. They all reached a 1st grade reading level by the age of 4.5.
This. I also tend to skip optional, often 99% pointless meetings, but then weird tribal knowledge appears that I'm out of the loop on.
> I'd go as far as to claim that ChatGPT is far more reliable than the average person.

trying to prove your own point here?
All good except the 50K a year license to run 'q'.
Sorry no idea how that happened. I'd delete the whole post of I could but too late now.
> whats practical about your wealth being stolen from you?

It forces you to invest it productive assets. What social value is there in locking away wealth in non-productive forms?

Buffett in 2011:

> Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce – gold’s price as I write this – its value would be $9.6 trillion. Call this cube pile A.

> Let’s now create a pile B costing an equal amount. For that, we could buy all U.S. cropland (400 million acres with output of about $200 billion annually), plus 16 Exxon Mobils (the world’s most profitable company, one earning more than $40 billion annually). After these purchases, we would have about $1 trillion left over for walking-around money (no sense feeling strapped after this buying binge). Can you imagine an investor with $9.6 trillion selecting pile A over pile B?

> Beyond the staggering valuation given the existing stock of gold, current prices make today’s annual production of gold command about $160 billion. Buyers – whether jewelry and industrial users, frightened individuals, or speculators – must continually absorb this additional supply to merely maintain an equilibrium at present prices.

> A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering amounts of corn, wheat, cotton, and other crops – and will continue to produce that valuable bounty, whatever the currency may be. Exxon Mobil will probably have delivered trillions of dollars in dividends to its owners and will also hold assets worth many more trillions (and, remember, you get 16 Exxons). The 170,000 tons of gold will be unchanged in size and still incapable of producing anything. You can fondle the cube, but it will not respond.

* https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2011ltr.pdf

What social good does encouraging hoarding attain?
While non-optimal home environment can screw up work (too small, too crowded, too distracted), I wonder what percentage of the people who can’t focus doing wfh can’t focus in the office environment either. Lots of distractions there as well, often of a more interesting kind.

If your job required f2f interactions then yeah, do it f2f. If, however, your jobs requires concentration or interaction with multiple sites do it where such concentration is possible. And if you make office work the goal, make offices.

Edit: to make a positive contribution to the discussion, I’ve found that having a specific place to work separate from not-work at home helps maintain a separation in my head. Not everybody can do this but if you can have such a separation it might help with focus/off time.
this is not a new complex behaviour, it happens in many different species.
What a bizarre thing to say. You think the whole monarchist party thing didn't "disrupt" anyone?
https://howdns.works/ is a nice comic on the subject too
That is pretty much a conclusion anyone can come to from reading the Gita (and may even be stated outright as such, I can't remember). You can have a problem with the book, but the GPT element adds nothing to it except for the "hot button topic" value.
Quite the deluded and hypocritical take. The author focuses exclusively on the negative aspects of technology while ignoring all of its positive benefits. Even the fact that he's using technology in both writing and publishing this essay is framed as valiantly attacking the machine from within.

No doubt our world is far from perfect, but does he honestly believe destruction of technology would somehow magically improve the situation, when we know from history that our technological past was full of just as much, if not more, unnecessary suffering than the present?

Vigilance is necessary, yes. Reducing our reliance on fickle technology is valuable, yes. Practicing mindfullness, in our use of technology as in other aspects of everyday life, is beneficial, yes. But, no, destruction is not merited.