skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if pulse-wave beamforming can amplify the microwaves to the point where it is < 1/r^2.
Yeah let's just keep growing.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
I'm curious how much of this is due in part to capital outflow from Russia+Ukraine via the Cyprus route.
Such opinions only come from out of touch rich people. They don't come from people whose minds can be changed about them with a reasonable effort. It's simply not worth even trying. These people are extremely rare anyhow, except for on venture capital forums like this one.
Thanks for the links, anyway.

I won't try to justify why I'm doing this, but I've been at it for about 4 years now, though the GPU rentals are a new addition.
Enough? Enough for what? This is not mutually assured destruction. If Russia and the US engage, this is a madman shooting a tank with a 9mm. It may cause some damage, but he's going to be obliterated in the process.
Pre the latest version, grammarly was a just giant rules engine implemented in lisp.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-p...
Both the argument about why it’s reckless to speculate this and not knowing if the nukes will work is exactly why having nuclear weapons is a deterrent.. you can basically assume that it would be used as a weapon of last resort so if your plan is to completely take over a country then likely they will be used.
I have a lot of docker. I have a lot of ESX images. I have a lot of vendor tools. There is not a single professional application I use for work, that runs on ARM, outside of office/email. On an M1, I'd have to use a gimped web interface, which on the vendor side isn't even available for a lot of tools. For the gamers out there (not me), almost no games my little brothers want to play run on ARM.

>If 2x single threaded performance
the M1 is just an iphone chip on steroids, and the M1 design is indeed a minor tweak of the design by ARM. 2x compared to what? The cortex X3 or a bunch of cell phone CPUs? The M1 is indeed a minor tweak of a Phone processor, with bigger hardware to accommodate laptop/desktop use cases.

Other companies make CPUs that run what people want to run. Apple makes CPUs that don't run what people want to run, and expect the world to rewrite everything for their new toy. That's why MACs have almost no footprint in the real world compared to x86/64. Because my computer is a tool. I have some nails and need to buy a hammer. Apple gives me a screw driver and tells me I'm doing it wrong. It's a tool that can't do the job, so it's the wrong tool. Yes, there is a small niche where Apple is a good fit. That niche, is 7% of the market for laptops for example. Surprise - people don't want an expensive paperweight. They buy tools to solve their problems, not create new ones.
I tried Neeva, and the quality of results was just not there. Would have been happy to pay.

"It is one thing to build a search engine, and an entirely different thing to convince regular users of the need to switch to a better choice."

This line in post doesn't seem intellectually honest about why I think Neeva failed: it was never a 10X better experience. e.g. ChatGPT isn't complaining about acquiring users.

I believe Google when they say competition is just one click away. A bunch of things I would have asked Google now go to ChatGPT.
C2 (command and control) and Telem links can be communicated over different means, either cellular, satcom, or even LoRa, how you will differentiate the drone modem from thousands of UEs in the vicinity? what if the drone flying at a low alt, near power lines and other EM noise? one time I made a drone that detect interference sources for a gov agency to detect any violation of the spectrum, a giant LED can cause so much noise more than any brush-less motor, let alone a small drone ones. Maybe if you have a giant drone (plane size) and flying at a high alt in an empty area, maybe, anything else I would say it's impossible or very hard to reliably use EM as way for detection.
Where do you live, out of curiosity?
Calling things anti-capitalist is useful propaganda independent of it actually being anti-capitalist.

> private capital exists in societies that we wouldn’t describe as capitalist

Capitalism at its core is an outgrowth of respect for private property which creates incentives for further investment. A Neolithic hunter is going to invest time into better tools if he’s not worried about those tools being taken from them. As such, an inner city ghetto isn’t capitalist if people expect their stuff to be stolen regularly.

That’s the essential ground truth of capitalism, the minutiae isn’t nearly as important as the incentives. Civil asset forfeiture is directly anti capitalist in ways that changing specific IP laws isn’t.
Aww thanks for saying that.
LOL the control we don't have ;)
These models are designed to produce a _plausible_ text output for a given prompt. Nothing more.

They are not designed to produce a _correct_ text output to a question or request, even if sometimes the output is correct. These proverbial stopped clocks might be correct more than twice a day, but that's just the huge training set speaking.
Americans spend 40% of their income for housing. Nigerians 20 times more. There is something wrong with your statistics.
Visiting a friend’s place or in an Airbnb or something like that?
In such a scenario only cash works.
It is not the same if you can move out.
Yeah, I'm trying to think of a reason for a corrupt military official NOT to sell some of the nuclear fuel, or any other part. I cannot think of one. He's not likely to get caught, and if he is, well that means Russia fired their nukes, and so the fact that he's caught is not even the biggest of his worries.

More worrisome is the risk of a corrupt Russian official selling nukes (or parts thereof) to some other organization.
Thanks for sharing these links! If someone wants to start a Wikipedia page enumerating global instant payment systems, I'm happy to chip some fiat in. Email in profile.
> I'm talking about business success.

They are the most successful space company ever and their core business is a huge success. Their space transport business is also a success. Its a hugely profitable success that literally dominates the industry.

The only bases to say its not a success is because they decided to expand on that core business and raise money for that expansion.

Are you one of those people who didn't believe Amazon was not successful because they invested in expansion as well?
This is what https://test.pypi.org/ is for.
That is an extraordinarily big deal, which I think should have gotten a lot more notice than it did.
That gives a nice ethymology for spanish "crematístico" (pertaining to money)
is thi's their, the want you want?

https://en.meming.world/images/en/f/f9/If_Those_Kids_Could_R...
One of the remarkable pieces of data is that lower socioeconomic students actually learn more in school than their peers. That's right. They actually start closing the gap while they're in school.

Unfortunately, their higher socioeconomic peers outpace them significantly over the summer. And this swamps the gains made during the school year so the lower socioeconomic students are again at a disadvantage. This is particularly frustrating to people who really do want things to improve education because it is perniciously difficult to counteract--this is where the "year round school" push comes from.

So, the 3 worst states magically managed to overcome every mechanism arrayed against them simply by teaching phonics in the classroom? Even during the height of a pandemic in which teachers could barely corral the students let alone teach them something?

And, by the way, people have been collecting and pushing data about phonics for years--the data always comes back inconclusive to weak. Many places still teach it. Most places see the same things--focused effort regardless of system results in slight increases in performance.
> now every request has to hit origin servers and can't be proxied at network edges like I used to do with Squid

And presumably you ran your own DNS servers as well? And ensured your proxy wasn't in turn being monitored?

And what's stopping you from middleboxing your own traffic and re-encrypting it with a root certificate? Your technically complex privacy solution is still technically possible.

> making hosting harder for an average person

The average person isn't running squid. And the average person uses a service to host their website which will take care of the certificate for them.

> Even automatic LetsEncrypt is still a moving part that has the possibility to fail in <x> number of ways that plain-files-in-a-directory-behind-httpd never could.

In all my life, I've never had downtime due to an automatic certificate renewal failing. And I get an email when my certificates are almost ready for renewal. But I have had downtime because the httpd logs filled up the disk. And because my box had gotten popped because I was on an insecure, outdated kernel. And once because I was FTPing plain-files-in-a-directory at the same time as someone else was FTPing those same plain-files-in-a-directory.

The web never has been some impervious concrete thing that has been made complicated and brittle with HTTPS. We live in an era where HTTPS is fewer than five commands that you run a single time. And if you truly need anonymity to the point where you don't want to reveal the origins you're connecting to, use Tor.
Yeah, no. Not all traffic matters.
>> What is the most beautiful algorithm?

> Quicksort Algorithm

Definitive proof that AI must be stopped. Ranking quicksort as more elegant than heapsort?!
> By invading Ukraine he blew up his biggest asset: the fog of war around the actual competence of the paper-formidable Russian army, now shown to be less off a superpower and more of a paper tiger.

My thoughts exactly.

Even if the nuclear arsenal does work, I can't see any incentives the current Russian government has to use it.
Commander is the core format these days. It feels weird to me as someone who grew up on Standard/Modern, but Commander is apparently the most popular by far now. Arena is one of the only places it isn’t, and that’s because Commander isn’t actually supported. But paper still drives card development, not Arena, at least for now. But the rumor is they are working on getting Commander into Arena in the next year or two.
Wait until March 2024. Then yes.
This argument is toxic.
A lot of things that people think are entrapment don't count legally:

https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633

Another fun one is that if you join their conspiracy, they can charge you for crimes they committed as part of that conspiracy.
Apples and oranges to an extent. 1) Knowledge is being derived from said energy use, and 2) nerds aren't extremely bitter that they didn't pick up that millionaire-making space cash when it was handed to them on a platter, before the rest of the world, a handful of years ago.
Nice article on optimising tRPC on serverless functions, thanks!

Some of my thoughts: This is a problem that manifests only if you use serverless. also, unfortunately the solution shown is service-specific. The code to split tRPC routers into multiple API routes is different for Next vs. Cloudflare Workers, and so on.

I've enjoyed engineering serverless applications over the past few years, but there are some weird challenges like this one. Other issues (I use Cloudflare Workers) is that it:
- runs your code on V8 and not NodeJS, so you don't have the Node APIs (though it tries to add compatibility).
- has CPU limit: makes it impossible to resize images or even hash passwords using bcrypt.
- Running locally has been a pain (though emulators / miniflare have been developed in recent years).

I would suggest most projects should avoid serverless and stick with conventional technology.
If you mash together two ideas, is the new composite idea yours?

I'd say it's yours. In that frame, there are lots of ideas.

Lets assume there are 10 000 known ideas. Then there's 10^8 combinations of two ideas, and 10^12 combinations of three ideas. That's a lot of ideas, even for the internet! I bet not all of them are named. And different people are going to frame ideas differently.

I also believe trying to form your ideas in reference to existing knowledge is a great way to learn existing knowledge.
https://archive.is/lhlOf
>Telemetry/Control however is very easily detectable by design alone.

Is it? as I said in another comment, I would love to know how you will detect a drone C2/Telem link flying over cellular, or LoRa?

Consumer drones have RC links, flying either at 2.4GHz or ~900Mhz, that can be easily detectable, but you can easily equip a consumer one with other communications capabilities
PPP is for comparing consumer lifestyles. World-tradeable goods like military hardware are precisely the kind of situation where PPP adjustments should not be made.

Of course the sums are not directly comparable for other reasons, such as corruption in Russia and procurement dysfunction in the US. But those factors would need to be estimated explicitly.

(EDIT: Thanks for the replies, I hadn't heard that there also exist specific estimates of "defense-sector PPP", so I acknowledge what I wrote above was wrong.)
More worrying to me than Russia launching its nukes, is that their military is so corrupt they may sell some of them on the black market to someone who will.
Thank you.

It was a long winding journey. Generational trauma is definitely a real thing.

I tried a lot of things, from therapy to drugs to sex clubs, was grasping at straws, trying to understand what was happening.

It was a complicated and personal journey, but my biggest breakthrough occurred when I surrendered to the healing powers of my body and spirit.

I had to just stop and do nothing, and just allow all the hurt, shame, and fear come up to be processed. My ego fought like hell to keep them suppressed.

My mind was a storm of self-abuse, thoughtforms that told me that I was worthless and to be destroyed. I had to learn how to accept them and return to my heart (my emotional center) and just practice sitting with my feelings. Over time these thoughts dissipated, and I saw that they were driven by unrecognized emotional energy and signals from my body.

I was fortunate that I managed to create a situation that allowed me to lie fallow for a long time to heal.

There were many layers, but the crux of my issues was being severed from my authentic self. This happened because I grew up in a household with a lot of emotional abuse and coercive control, to the point where I suppressed myself and created a persona to survive.

If you read accounts of cult-abuse survivors, it’s like their real self is always trying to break through but they have been trained or mislead into ignoring themselves.

My experience was very similar.

I could write more about this, but pivotal points were recognizing that I had agency, learning how to trust my body and emotions over my ego, and understanding that at our core, we are love.

Had to learn how to love myself unconditionally basically; a constant practice.
wow Capitalism? Where?
I spoke to Patrik not too long ago about a newly formed stream where eels have started showing up. I dint know how they get up there from the sea, but spontaneous generation would seem more likely than swimming there :D.

Was out looking at them earlier today and this year must be a population record in this small stream.
The preprint of this paper spawned this r/hobbydrama post a while back. I think the discussion in the thread is sensible

https://old.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/zqvler/birding_...

I think this subreddit is fantastic, getting the scoop on a topic from someone within a niche community just gets you way more context than any news article. Basically, ivory billed woodpeckers are a meme in birding because the evidence for their continued existence is so laughably bad. News outlets are still buying it.
Good luck. OK Google just told me to put a "terabyte" of salt on my air fryer broccoli.
> No one wants to invade Russia.

History - and perhaps the game of Risk - has taught you well.
> Because Putin might see it and nuke us to prove us wrong?

Way to twist things around. No, it's reckless because you're gambling about the end of the world.
Companies can pay for wework all access subscriptions and issue them to individuals
Some examples here https://cactus.substack.com/p/openais-woke-catechism-part-1
I'd like to see a phone case designed to make using a phone calculator easier.

There are at least three ways this could be done. The simplest would be a case that covers the part of the phone display where the calculator buttons are, with cutouts in the case that go over those buttons.

This would let you feel the button positions so you could reliably operate the calculator app without looking at the keys.

A fancier way would be for the case to actually have physical buttons on the case. The buttons are placed so they are over the on-screen buttons, but not touching them. When you press one of the case buttons it would touch the corresponding on-screen button. The buttons could have conductive material in them that connects from the top of the button to a conducting layer on the bottom, so pressing the button registers as a touch.

Even fancier would be an active case. It too would includes buttons, but instead of actually pressing the on-screen buttons these buttons would be connected to the phone via Bluetooth. This would give a lot of flexibility, but would cost more and would require power.
Reminds me of that time AlphaGo got its ass handed to it multiple times, and then a short while later...
>My opinion is that in the end I don't think really wanting a change is enough for most people in sad social circumstances. They simply do not have the stamina, the skills or the opportunities to get out of the rut.

I would agree that it often isn't enough by itself. My thinking is more along the the lines that it is a necessary prerequisite, but not always sufficient by itself. Nothing in this life is guaranteed.

Im not interested in judging some random stranger. Maybe they should have tried harder, maybe they should have tried something else. Maybe it would have worked, maybe it wouldn't. However, I know if they dont try, then they have no chance.

My advice to a friend or someone I cared for would be different. You can't let your happiness be contingent of factors outside your control. If you can't make yourself happy, you are extremely unlikely to find someone or something else to do it for you. If you don't like who you are, then you need to start there because you cant run from yourself. The bad news is that it is your problem to fix, and the good news is that it is your problem to fix. Success is not guaranteed, but these are baseline facts you need to accept if you want to have a chance at change.

You cant force someone to be your friend, let alone a romantic partner.
> Just don't use "legacy parts" and be happy.

Maybe that works for some new codebases.

When you need to integrate with other code, you can't necessarily understand the code semantics without knowing a lot more of the spec.

Also, I challenge any normal programmer to remember all of the "good" C++ rules regarding overload resolution in an arbitrary context.
Every sentence of your comment is factually incorrect or irrelevant. I'm not going to continue a conversation with someone who doesn't have an interest in facts.
Surely the ppp is offset by the corruption.
I was curious about this as well. The paper you link is providing an extension of the binomial coefficients. Binomial[-1,-1] = 1 isn't the result of an "assumption" per se, but rather the choice of a particular approach to extending the coefficients (which are normally only defined for non-negative integers n, k). The paper does this by writing the coefficient formula in terms of gamma functions, and substituting a finite expression when the gamma function is infinite. Clearly, Knuth does not prefer this generalization.

The Knuth-coauthored text "Concrete Mathematics" takes a different approach, where instead of a substitution, the binomial formula takes its limiting value when the generalized gamma function form results in ∞/∞. So Knuth has

Binomial[z,w] = lim_Z->z lim_W->w Z! / (W! * (Z - W)!)

For any complex numbers z, w. It's not clear to me whether there is a further justification for this approach. I don't see a reference for this in the Concrete Mathematics text, but would be curious to learn more.
While true, an interesting data point is that prewar Rissian spend less on its military than did Britain. This is in non-ppp dollars terms, but interesting nonetheless.
Bars/restauraunts/cafes used to be very popular for me but things close much sooner now. There are some options but the ha bit has been hard to restart.

I do spend a good amount of time at some of the excellent local parks.
> $20 for the SMD TPU isn't bad, but it's definitely at the top end of the BOM for custom PCB projects.

Sounds great in theory, but show me a place where you can buy Coral TPUs at anywhere near msrp. Unless something has changed recently, finding a real live unicorn would be easier.
That is a weird way of spelling mergesort.
Apparently it has been hit by people too. I’ve seen pictures and it looks like a grey block in the middle of a grey road.
Because memes (in the Dawkinsian sense) get around and because people are not coldly rational, and if you’d like citations, I point you to the entirety of US foreign relations for the last two decades at least. The amount of times we’ve been pretty sure our opponent is weaker than they are ought be sufficient to suggest that speculating that our current opponent’s stock of weapons of mass destruction isn’t sufficient to end complex life on the planet carries risk.
Just btw I get a 403 developer hasn't given me access when trying to sign up with my Google login
So all the world's money will be owned by Sam altman. All the information will flow from Elon musk's starlinks and Twitter. Any other billionaires have a visionary future for the rest of us? I'm ecstatic about what they have to offer.
Russia has around 6000 warheads in all and 1600 strategic warheads.

While there are a lot of cities in the EU and the US critical infra is concentrated in a much smaller number of locations.

We know from Ukraine that Russia has no problem destroying civilian targets, and it's at least plausible that a nuclear first strike would be aimed at population centres, not - as doctrine has it - at missile sites followed by military and industrial targets.

So even if only 10% of Russia's nukes still work, that's still a very bad day for everyone.

And "work" isn't a binary. A nominal 1MT weapon that fizzles and produces "only" 25kT is still a huge problem.
> If we’re dreaming big, let’s forget the wimpy solar energy constraints and adopt fusion. The abundance of deuterium in ordinary water would allow us to have a seemingly inexhaustible source of energy right here on Earth. We won’t go into a detailed analysis of this path, because we don’t have to. The merciless growth illustrated above means that in 1400 years from now, any source of energy we harness would have to outshine the sun.

Let’s worry about that in 1400 years. _If_ we make it that far. As things stand we may not have to worry about it at all because we wont.