skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If globalization was a person it would be the ultimate Jekyll and Hyde personality

There is what one might term the good, if not sublime, globalization. For as long as there are vast disparities in, e.g., life expectancy and educational level across the planet, our tribe lives a life out-of-balance (in the Koyaanisqatsi sense), unfair, unstable, miserly, antediluvian. Good globalization means flow of information, capital, people, goods that is (or should be) the great equilibrator, restoring balance.

The other face of globalization is decidedly darker. It consists of what one might term conscious ESG arbitrage. Effectively pursuing short-term extractive profits by identifying global opportunities to hide environmental externalities such as pollution, exploit inferior labor conditions and benefit from poor governance systems (oligarchs and the like). Bad globalization means sharply raising inequalities within a region while modestly lowering inequalities between regions.

If localization was a person it would be the ultimate Jekyll and Hyde personality

There is what one might term the good, if not sublime, localization. For as long as one region lives at the expense of others, slurping (ultimately by force) resources and human talent from across the planet our tribe lives a life out-of-balance (in the Koyaanisqatsi sense). The good side of localization means that, by-and-large, communities in all regions become adapted to and live in equilibrium within their own ecosystems.

The other face of localization is decidedly darker. It consists of what one might term Ideology arbitrage. Effectively pursue narrow-minded, isolationist policies and otherization, based on politics, religion or other discriminating factors in order to prop and persist a sub-optimal power structure arrangement.

The bottom line on globalization/localization is that they are sufficiently ill-defined that every political agenda can find something useful. Yet as the above juxtaposition hopefully illustrates, it does not take that much to start being more honest, less obfuscating, about what we are really talking about.
There's kind of two parts to the design: design a part that is suitable for injection moulding, and then designing the tool itself - where are the inlets, dividing points etc. If it's multi-action, how do the action mechanisms work. Similarly making the tool isn't just "CNC a block of metal and then you're done", you've got to make and assemble the mechanisms and there's things like acid washing the mould surface to control what the resulting plastic surface will look like. It adds up.
With this whole AI push, there have been pretty serious advancements in technology. I wouldn't doubt in 5 to 10 years will have a vastly different threat landscape. Nation states can afford supercomputers, so can some private corporations.
It’s just one of the complex social things you have to deal with especially at work places
Every reduction in solar cost makes it more efficient to buy panels on earth.

The installation cost for space is so much more than the installation cost for earth. Even at 10x the cost, which is orders of magnitude off, what do we have?

We have a system in space at 10 the cost that needs a solar array sized receiving plant (double the cost) and has transmission losses (increase size of space and ground installations to offset).

It would have to be nearly the same cost or cheaper to install in space than on a field in, say, Kansas. Its a ludicrous proposition.

Anyway, this guy said it better: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/space-based-so...
What's with India and the shift towards the right? I thought it had too many religions and different cultures to pull this off.
in other words, out of thin air.
I understood that Drupal/php is compiled to WASM and then run on a WASM runtime.

So no WASM inside Drupal, but Drupal run as, and in WASM.
> Refusing to renew

It seems they’re trying to make it so insurers simply can’t cancel your policy out from under you. Note how it specifies “renew”. These were people already paying for wildfire insurance and the law prevented them from being screwed over. Insurers just want a way out of paying up unless they can renew your contract into an absurdly marked up premium.
This is just m5paper with the claim of developer friendly environment [1]

1 - https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5paper-esp32-development-...
> the test is not perfect at discriminating those who understand from those who mimick impressively well.

They discriminate all the time, just in the wrong direction. There are a lot of exams which are written in a way which counts on this mimicking, but in a way which makes tests way more difficult even if you understand the topic. It’s the same problem with remote learning: it’s way easier to cheat on them. In the past 3 years, (except the first semester when COVID broke out) remote exams were way more difficult than before to mitigate this. I had tests which were clearly made this cheating in mind. It was borderline impossible without cheating, they counted on it. At that point, I have no idea why they still tried to enforce any such rules.

And still, I know many teachers who clearly don’t understand their topic completely, they just “mimic” it.
That is what a lot of us think the real threat of "AI" is: not that it will autonomously produce bad outcomes for humanity, but because it's a tool that's indifferent to truth or falsehood it allows any kind of truth or reality based politics to be totally flooded out of the public sphere. Everyone ends up fighting in the hall of mirrors.
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This is not the first time they used AI. In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbrpkxIfb0M they made their Delhi president speak a language he doesn't know.
Yeah, okay.

I didn’t know that ThePHD was black. I think you paint “the community” as more homogenous and informed than it is. But I understand that the involved parties are aware of each other’s races.

I understand, then, a need to speculate on racism. But how do you advance from speculating about racism to inferring that it is or isn’t?
It's because all developed societies see collapses in birth rate since reproduction was a Ponzi scheme nature imposed upon us that, as the universal revealed preference, we're eager to escape given the chance. The first developed nations tend to be the most enlightened, which is why they're the most likely to challenge gender roles.
The US tech chiefs waving goodbye to San Francisco to set up home in London
Agree that compiling to at least a bytecode is preferable. If we don't mind dealing with only expressions or reading Haskell, this one is even tinier: https://tinyurl.com/47stkzvv
Was it Sanderson?
I sadly don’t see any true way to move past the BJP. They’ve really captured the minds of the majority.

I don’t think any other party has anywhere near the might to stand up to the sheer might the BJP has created, not without compromising their morals.

How do you compete with a government that will distort reality like this, where the majority of people won’t listen to the actual truth?
You’re forgetting about the rest of the computer. Processors don’t run in isolation.
AFAIK Serving content from Backblaze via CloudFlare is exactly CDN Usage
This, by the way, is why there is a thing called "sidereal time", with days that are slightly shorter than 24h.

The commonly used 24h days are solar days, defined relative to the sun, but since the earth goes around the sun too, that makes an extra rotation relative to the star background, which means a year has 366.25 sidereal days instead of the usual 365.25.
>That doesn't mean it translate to anything in reality.

Absolutely true and exactly my point: while you're feeling what others want you to feel, you're missing out on feeling things that do translate to actual, valid insights about your reality.

For example, this whole absurd notion of "self-worth" that we're discussing here. It's there to scam you into thinking about yourself what others think about you - even though they're not in your shoes, and may even have a vested interest in seeing you down.

Even the name of that concept is misleading (how is your self-worth dependent on your worth to others, unless you yourself make it so?). And here we are talking about "reality" as if human social reality is not predominantly a linguistic construct, and constantly subjected to these absolutely ridiculous abstract symbolic switcheroos, that people only fall for because they believe they have better things to do than get their thinking in order.

>You can feel whatever you want to feel.

But you can only want what you feel like wanting. So you're still trapped: desire is either intrinsic or mimetic, feelings are conditioned, yada yada.

And I'm pretty sure you can't actually "feel whatever you want to feel" - not without a Nozickian "experience machine" or years of advanced meditation practice, anyway.
I am not technical. I come from a science background so I am somewhat limited in regards to software development.

I used to try a lot of APPS to produce documents and scruture my mind. Notion, google docs, word, calc, excel... It was fine but it I agree that some times is a pain. Google docs run very slow in my computer, Windows overheats in my laptop , etc.

Finally I discovered Emacs. I am pretty bad with elisp but I love it. Now I just use, Emacs, a couple of web browsers, bash, Python and some perl scripts.

While this article oversimplificates some things It has valid points for specific cases. btw, I like this web design!
No mention of refunds? That's quite a significant change to the service.
Or... it's simply not feasible to declare pricing up front because it's going to involve some negotiation -- not just around price but support and terms. I think you're hinting at that, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's stupid-money expensive.

In general we've all been spoiled by open source. Someone likely put a lot of work into this. If I were building a device like this, I'd hate to have to hire staff to build this for me, and while it could be "fun" to build, money/time would likely to be better spent elsewhere.
With the mindset described, I'd say most of the software that the World runs on nowadays shouldn't be used. Also:

> My first resolution is just to bring less software into my life. It is still early days, we don't really understand computers yet.

While philosophically kind-of true, this approach - especially for things to come - will get you quickly lost in the modern "software-eaten" World, IMHO.
All of that is totally fine for them as a strategy. But it means the HN post here is nothing more than sales promo, which is against the submission guidelines. There’s zero information here.
"Verified" is now an anti-signal. It's more likely than not to indicate that the poster is a crank who's paying money to have their opinions disseminated.
IMO it doesn't even matter if the truth comes out, the truth wasn't first.
There are absolutely dumb questions. Such as sitting in class not paying attention and asking the teacher a question where the answer was mentioned 30seconds beforehand. 100+ times in a semester.

When said teacher has three of these students, the rest of the class suffers.
I recently decided to take on a personal #buildinpublic challenge where I set out to build and launch a SaaS product in just 10 days. It had been quite a while since I’d built a product from scratch, and I wanted to push myself to create something new this year.

I’ll be showing you the entire process of building a SaaS product from:

ideation
development, and
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But I won’t be giving any advice or pretending to know what I’m doing, since this is my first subscription-based product. Instead, I’ll simply be transparent with the development process and end results so that you can learn from both my successes and failures.

I hope you enjoy it, and I am curious to know what you think. If you have any suggestions or questions about the product, please feel free to share them. Thank you!
A significant chunk of it is open source: https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/
India’s promise of secularism has always been fragile.

The current party, the BJP, has strong roots in Hindu nationalism. It’s basically taken over a decade but they’ve successfully distorted the promise enshrined in our national anthem of an India for all.
I mean if someone dies young they won't be part of it
Compiling to LLVM IR is much easier than machine code and would still be satisfying I think.
It's not just UX it's everything customer facing.

Only organisations with a specific cultural focus on user centrism will have great products.

Apple at least has some of this, but not always.

Have faith: there is a payoff in the long run for many product focused companies. Not all though.
In real terms.
Plot twist: in the actual fact their prices may be affordable and/or you can haggle with them, but they put on the glamor to appeal to maybe a few fat businesses that will pony up the cash no questions asked.
Pretty much the definition of "win-win situation" in Elmo's Abridged Dictionary, right?
90% hit rate could probably be achieved with "take some panadol and come back in a couple of days if you still feel bad."
It's not like other parties have any morals in the first place.

Well none of my state parties have morals and sure as hell Congress doesn't have any morals
Exactly. The Drupal code is unmodified and runs on top of the PHP interpreter compiled to Wasm [0]. The Drupal PHP code is not compiled to Wasm.

- [0] https://github.com/vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes
Also the truth came out here, but I wonder if the truth will get out on Indian Twitter given that the Indian government is one of the most prolific issuers of Twitter takedowns, and the odds of them being approved has supposedly spiked from about 50% under the old leadership to about 99% since Elon took over. Previously governments had to expect some pushback against over-reaching takedown requests, but the new policy of rubber stamping nearly any request without a second thought means it's open season for them to censor anything inconvenient.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfillin...
This reminds me of that somewhat famous observation about the bright scientists working to increase clicks at Google/FB instead of finding cures for diseases and such.

So much brain power to defend something that existed a long time ago and was adopted as some kind of law of the Universe when there is clearly no good reason to be this way today other than "it's just how it is" and every new programmer has to pass for a quick phase where the 1-based it beaten out of his mind.
Business that operate in the physical world, like retail stores and healthcare clinics, stand to gain the greatest strategic advantage in an AI world because their data is the hardest to generate and access.
After you have a detailed cost estimate, triple it to account for inevitable cost overruns due to various "unanticipated" reasons, which always materialize, eg: tooling error, parts out of stock, incorrect tolerance, Chinese new year, or manufacturer just doesn't deliver.

Quadruple that number again to estimate your retail price.
You're welcome. That's perfectly fair.

FWIW, I wasn't trying to say that the position should be "supernatural by default" - just that there's a lot more to account for in NDEs than what you've described, and that I don't know of anyone who's looked into them seriously who holds to Blackmore's attempt at a purely materialist explanation (another way it falls down - if oxygen starvation accounts for NDEs, they shouldn't happen for people who aren't oxygen-starved, but they do).

As an agnostic who really wants to believe in the supernatural but has the same gut instinct that there needs to be evidence for it, I have a plausible materialist explanation for NDEs, but it's rather more involved and isn't especially rigorous.
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I agree. And unfortunately, I think we have reached an inflection point in India from which we cannot go back to the way things were just about 12-15 years ago.
More from Politico:

https://www.politico.eu/article/politics-election-poland-and...
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Have you transformed your self acquired skills into a business that runs well?
Suppose you learnt some skill all by yourself like drawing, animation, illustration, coding, designing, etc.

Have you been able to make your skill profitable be starting a venture or business?
With a recent announcement we are addressing this by dynamically moving the code to be close to the data when appropriate - https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-workers-smart-placeme...
Why I Think Rust Is the Way Forward
Rico Mariani gives his opinions on the future of system programming languages.

His main point is that C++ with EH introduces too much bloat; that the opaque error handling combined with no compiler assisted checking hides bugs; and that you can't write C++ codes from "the books" since it leads to more bugs!

With Rust you can write it like in the books!

"Modern C++ has so many hazards and is so costly that I can't but view it as anything less than a total failure in the systems space. I can't begin to tell you how disappointing this is to me. "
Can you go into some more detail as to how "UX has become universally terrible"? I'm a UX person, so I'm always intrigued when I hear people say that UX has become terrible.
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> As the article points out - a motorbike is much faster than a cheetah, and a supersonic aircraft is much faster again, and a hypersonic missile faster again, and a satellite in orbit is much faster again. A bulldozer can push harder than a bull, and a big hydraulic ram much harder. A metal plate is more damage resistant than rhino skin, and a bomb shelter or an aircraft carrier or an underground vault even moreso.

Yes, there are many criteria where engineering has trumped what evolution has produced. However there are many others where evolution has developed efficiency or finesse that we struggle to match. So far, intelligence falls in that later category.

> Bremermann's limit of computation throughput is around a hundred trillion trillion trillion trillion bits per second per kilo of matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_of_computation

Those theoretical limits are interesting, but not really relevant as they are intended to find a value that can't be theoretically exceeded, not a practical uper bound.

So far, our understanding of intelligence requires significant communication between different regions of compute. As you try to scale this, you need to dedicate more and more volume to that communication and your average latency between compute regions goes up. Then comes the problem of heat dispersion, which also starts to consume more and more volume as the system scales.

These mean that if latency matters to intelligence (and our understanding of intelligence seems to indicate that it does), then there are real, practical limits on the scaling of intelligence.

> Why rule out wanting to improve intelligence at least a lot further?

I'm not ruling out the desire. I'm not even ruling out the possibility.

I am pointing out that designing intelligence seems to be a lot harder than launching satellites or building a telescope. Intelligence is hard and I've presented good reason to believe that it gets harder the more you try to scale it.

Thus it seems likely that iterative improvements in intelligence will become progressively harder in a way limits the potential for runaway growth.

This doesn't rule out the possibility of a paradigm shift in technology that significantly increases capacity but such a possibility also isn't guaranteed.
John puts out a bunch of good information and I don't want to fail to acknowledge that while sharing the following. A few years ago, when he was launching Hardware Academy, he advertised somewhere (probably on EEVBlog) for people to join at a reduced price to help get it off the ground. I signed up, only to receive the following a few days later.

> Thank you so much for applying to be a Founding Member at the Hardware Academy.

> There were only 20 slots available for the first batch of Founding Members, yet within just 24 hours I had 130 people apply.

> Although you were not selected as one of the first Founding Members, you will still be given a great discount and early access to the Academy. You will only pay $35/month or $309/year.

As far as I recall, there was no disclosure of a limit on the number (only on time). They say people don't remember what you say, but they never forget how they made you feel. I felt like this was some combination of deception to pump up his email list and/or bait and switch on the offering.
I'm not sure what you're arguing here?
The problem was in the software too. It made an assumption that the height above ground could not change by several miles all at once, but flying over a very tall cliff caused the terrain height to do just that. Because we have reasonably accurate 3D models of the moon’s terrain, they could have done an exhaustive search to find the largest change that could ever be seen in practice and made their threshold higher than that.

(Or they could have searched google for “tallest cliff on the moon” and just gone with that result.)

As usual, it is only when multiple problems line up just right that an accident happens. They had to have both a flaw in their software _and_ a flaw in their mission planning process, and those flaws had to line up with each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
I think the primary issue is that, while internet users usually question the authenticity of photos (as a normal practice), they tend to subconsciously trust what they see in videos.

It will require a significant mental shift to now question practically every single piece of audiovisual content.
Then how will VCs convince others to spend money on it, then profit off of projected growth which never materializes?
Yet you can generally catch a thrown ball.

The point of the analogy was that the halting problem - like the uncertainty principle - is a result that says that you can’t know certain things about systems - and with small systems in particular figuring that out can be as complex as the system itself. But they don’t prevent us from doing useful things with larger systems. It struck me as a similar result to this paper - though only by analogy, not like, in some deep way.
That's clearly not what's being advertised here and this seems remarkably dismissive and incorrect. It's a library to do e-ink graphics -- which have different characteristics than standard raster rendering, so something like this makes sense.

It does that rendering on the class of devices you're referring to, and that's where the intersection ends.
True! Another reason why we need a more egalitarian society. If all the high earners are men, relationships are gonna be doomed with financial asymmetry. I think that sucks.

Unless you go the trad, Islamic route and say, "Yeah, this is my domestic slave." I think that sucks even more.