skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The natural rate of interest at base is zero because money is costless to produce.

Rates above zero at base are artificial. They should be determined in the market for money via competition - not by wonks in ivory towers

This idea that rich people need to be given free money from government has no justification. There isn’t a fixed amount of money. Nobody is fighting for it.

You can only get a cheap loan if you have collateral for it. Therefore you are doing nothing more than spending your existing assets via a liquidity loan. That’s how an economy rapidly develops and why ours are better off than those where interest and lending is frowned upon
tl;dr: Consider the birthday paradox.

In astronomy we call these resonances. Sometimes, two seemingly unrelated periodic events will occur together, synchronized by a ratio between some small integers.

I think the most typical example is the one they teach you in the first Solar System 101 class to wow you (it works): the 3:2 resonance between the orbits of Pluto and Neptune.

Sometimes it might turn out to be a coincidence with more accurate measurements, or when you find evidence that this moment in time might be somehow unusual.

For example, Earth and Venus also seem to be in 8:13 orbital resonance, but, in fact probably aren't. On closer inspection, it turns out that there is error of about 0.4% after 8 years and it compounds. It takes a while to compound, but effectively you can't use this "near resonance" to predict where the two will be in their orbits in a few thousand years.

In fact, with enough bodies in the solar system and the birthday paradox, there are many compelling candidate resonances with small integer ratios, but the majority of them are probably just random coincidences.
using it is the first step. explaining it to others the next, and finally to really understand, writing about it so others understand it really embeds the knowledge.

This is why written cultures in engineering organisations are so powerful, especially if you disseminate the responsibility of writing.
The only difference between fooling around and science is p < 0.05 ?
Absolutists tend to run into the walls of reality sooner or later.

Equating squelching propagandists of the invaders of your country to limits on freedom of speech shows that you don't actually understand that freedom of speech is a right, but not an absolute one, merely a shorthand for saying that you can criticize the government without ending up in jail. And in that sense spreading propaganda for an active belligerent enemy goes well across the limits set on free speech because it falls under 'aiding and abetting the enemy'. At some point in the not so distant past that got you a cigarette and a bullet, in that order. Freedom of speech is very important, as is a sense of reality and proportionality.
This seems to be getting a lot of national attention (good), and regardless of whatever comes of that (or the sexual harassment developments), I feel like at least they'll always be known in that town as the dirtbags who killed Mrs. Meyer and stole her Alexis.
> This is a good thing, at least right now, as it makes scammers/spammers/hackers/ddosers lives more expensive to acquire fresh addresses. This can only exist when a shortage exists.

No it is not. More and more people share addresses so more people would be affected and it would just move the problem elsewhere.
There are comparatively a lot less than github but they do exist.

Some examples of successful project using gitlab.com:
Wireshark, QEMU, Inkscape, F-Droid, Aurora, Commento, Kicad, Remmina, tortoise-git...
Yes, I remember those. And later, a light bulb flashing inside of the head when the character has an idea.
This was the solution that worked for me. I started writing things on Notion or Apple Notes because it’s just always at hand. I also started to use Microsoft To Do to constantly write down random ideas for things to experiment after I read a post about training our minds to constantly come up with new ideas to experiment with MVPs.
Using the analogy of a car, I’m not buying ANY car but a SPECIFIC car with features and quality that meet my requirements. My client is not getting ANY code, but featured and performant code. My client is fed up with basic code, they want “quality” and are paying appropriately for it. So yes, there are clients that pay for “quality” code because they do want more than just a solution.
Depending on local legislation, this might require testing from authorities in order to be road-legal.
You've picked up some misinformation there since your goal is to make some Christological point rather seek the truth. And thus, rather than accepting evidence you work to deny it. You may not be a Christian but you're engaging in the same kind of thinking - denying evidence that doesn't fit your beliefs.
I'm not that versed in Ruby, but I think similarly say the Django ORM in Python borders on DSL - especially with use of bitwise operators to build a query.

It's the tooling aspect that's my gripe with it in a string really, it makes it less likely (and more editor-specific) that I can have syntax highlighting, LSP, etc. That's incidentally the only way in which I don't prefer SQL to Django ORM - i.e. it really isn't that it's a DSL (SQL) that bothers me, it's the string.

But hopefully obviously it's not a big deal, I was just surprised at the look of it when I saw it described as 'really nice' and that the project describes itself as 'focussed on ergonomics'. It just doesn't seem brilliant to me, fine perhaps, par for the course apparently, but not remarkable.
People don't pay for welding, they pay for buildings, cars etc... but they also are going to be real disappointed if the welds fail.
They didn’t just hide it. They would vehemently deny it. And then when you tried to find help on Apple support and Apple forums about it you would be belittled when describing the behavior and made to believe you were imagining it all.

It was gaslighting at corporate scale.
The reason we have more than 120 words is because you need more detail than that.

I could say nuclear reactor, or I could say “hot danger room cook mix build make sun” or some other inane lengthy sentence mushed from smaller words. It’s inefficient and inprecise.

This is like an assembly language. Simple but unusable because of the simplicity and ambiguity.
Got blank results.

Interesting idea. I’ve had long conversations with ChatGPT about product ideas, but the experience felt more like a sounding board than talking to users.

If something like this works, it could be a game-changer for startups — the ability to “talk to users” before such users exist would empower founders to iterate before building.
This is actually quite good. Definitely better than I expected. Although the output looks obvious, it actually helped me realize that my ideas were disorganized. It did a great job organizing them.

Thanks for publishing it. What are your plans? Are you looking at addressing other needs in the same founder space?
Also discussed 8 days ago as "Cult of the Dead Cow wants to save internet privacy with new encryption protocol, 82 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37018404
I love watching fake deadlines go past.

Good, cheap, fast, pick at most two. Maybe one. Sometimes none. Occasionally negative.
The world will not stand for losing the newly gained capabilities of ChatGPT and the like. The fact that it costs $700k a day to run shows that there is still a very high cost of entering the space, and so the incumbent players have the advantage.

There are serious military advantages to having access to a machine learning model this advanced. Not only propaganda, but actual war planning. The only thing that's going to close this box is world war, or a catastrophic natural event.
Yes, indeed. Assholes continue to have a disproportionately large effect on the course of history, and yet, we seem to be unable to create methods of governance that do not select for assholism.
Then who are these Americans? For sure, to be the kind of people who support sanctions on people in other country to motivate them to raise against their oppressors you look to suck big time in doing something against your oppressors who are apparently not representative of the people of the US of A. For how long we're working on forced tips? Police brutality? Public healthcare? Gun controls? Redistribution of wealth? To me it seems that there are a lot of things that americans don't want but are all there right now undisturbed regardless of the party in power that I think maybe the population of the US of A is just the plain shit we all see and have to deal with on daily basis (I wouldn't have anything against US of A if its policies wouldn't metastasizes to the rest of the western world or wouldn't be used to oppress people in non-western world)
Completely agree. I wanted to learn Python, so I decided to write a book about it. In the end I published it and now I have two achievements: knowing python and having written a book.

I would have never learned so many things up to this depth, if I didn't have to teach them.
I've never run across that before.

I think a lot about the 20 percentage points who aren't reflected in the official BOLS' rate. Specifically about the ones who would absolutely work but are daunted by their significant barriers to job entry.

I'm hopeful these charts will reflect at least some of them.
* Until the transition is complete, I and everyone else is gonna have to use an ISP which provides a v4 address, whether they're end users or a server operators. Fair enough though that ISPs may have some incentive to making more people have v4+v6 (not that they seem to have realized...)

* I really don't think NAT could possibly make a noticeable difference in the time to first byte. My guess about what's "barely noticeable" would be a few hundred added milliseconds, my guess at what NAT would add would be a few milliseconds. Happy to be proven wrong though if there are any studies or experiments on the topic.

* I'm not sure what benefits there are to giving your VMs public v6 IPs when you still need to support incoming v4 connections.
Introduction to the Mathematics of General Relativity
The emails seem to go to spam in gmail.
Are you doing it mostly through fine tuning? Most of what I've been doing has been with prompt engineering and pipelines, so I tend to think about these things from that perspective. With prompting I'd be inclined to ask the model to identify issues and start to analyze them, resulting in follow-up questions/etc. This would probably be hidden (or softly hidden – viewable but not shown by default). I find this parallel "mental" process makes the responses more engaged, and lets the model maintain a conversational purpose across responses.

So using prompting I'd almost want to take Rogers' _teachings_ and incorporate them in the prompt, teaching the model to follow the Rogers' guidance for a therapist rather than simply cloning the behavior seen in transcripts.
welding needs to be repeated for every building

code is written once, then everybody can copy it to make use of it

why is this such a huge problem? what to do about it? I have a lot of opinions around this but it doesn't matter
No, 10 exabux, but it is a lotadollars.
Yeah this stood out to me as well.

I think the reason for this is that observed production failure is _certain_. Hard fails are undeniable. They obviously need to be addressed and obviously deserve resources. The amount of deserved resources can be clearly calculated by projecting the concrete, observed costs of the failure forward in time.

Before prod goes down, there is much more uncertainty:

- even an expert engineering assessment has some level of uncertainty

- engineering may not have a full appreciation for the business context of the work, and might over-weight technical issues relative to other concerns

- if the engineers are contractors, or otherwise organizationally distant from the experience owners, that inserts a trust gap which further increases uncertainty

- the business owner’s projections are themselves uncertain. Is the expected launch volume really that high, or is it aspirational?

- the costs of failure are uncertain too… if the system goes down, how hard will it go down? What will that actually cost in lost revenue? Fuzzier stuff like brand reputation is even harder to quantify.

Meanwhile the costs of paying the contracted development team another 2 months on the same project are quite concrete. The team already spent significant political capital to force a change on an incumbent team. Now they’re saying they want more money because it still doesn’t work??

The big open question is - what was the cost of the failed launch? How long did it take to get the system back up and running at scale? What did it cost in terms of user loyalty? How does that compare to the concrete cost of holding launch until the auth system was upgraded?

Different people will answer those questions in different ways. What matters is how the customer answers those questions, whether their bosses believe that answer, and their bosses judgment of the overall situation.
> we self correct

And that usually happens quickly and with zero casualties? I'm sure that Alan Touring would be thrilled to learn that years later his nation has stopped castrating gay people.

Progress also isn't linear, backlash over transgender identity has gotten worse recently. People are being prosecuted over abortions that would have been legal a year ago. None of the people who are in those positions are going to be comforted by knowing that eventually someday other people won't be attacked for the same reasons.

Self correction protects the future; privacy protects the present. They're not interchangeable.
Generally religions have some justification for practicing revolving around what happens after you die
You guys don't seem able to decide if he never said it and Reiss made it all up (an extraordinary claim), or if he said it but it doesn't matter.

It'll probably be another goalpost move but let's try again. Take the Hansen's 1989 written testimony to Congress you're keen on. No arguments about sources there, right?

He presented three scenarios and said "Scenario A assumes continued growth rates of trace gas emissions typical of the past 20 years". He also wrote "We have considered cases ranging from business as usual which is scenario A to draconian emission cuts, scenario C, which would totally eliminate net trace gas growth by year 2000."

Look at any graph of CO2 and it goes up in a straight line since measurements began, so we are on scenario A, business as usual. This enormously over-predicted temperature trends even after all the changes they make to the temperature record. Hansen and his supporters reacted by trying to claim he never said those things and had been predicting scenario B all along. His written testimony shows that this isn't true, but that's how it goes.

Hansen is for sure an actual scientist, so these problems are enough to disprove what you said about what actual scientists have been saying.
> Since 16 December 2015 three communist parties are banned in Ukraine (the Communist Party of Ukraine, Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) and Communist Party of Workers and Peasants).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decommunization_in_Ukraine
Just to clarify the difference between "true" resonance and a coincidence:

True resonance reinforces itself. For example, Pluto speeds up and slows down in its orbit as it passes Neptune and the exchange of energy between the two works out such that the lowest energy state is a 2:3 resonance, so that's where they would end up even if you "poked" the system a little.

A coincidence is not self-reinforcing. If you "poked" the system, it would disrupt the ratio and it'd stay disrupted.

Sometimes, the preconditions for resonance might disappear, and then you end up with a coincidence at a nearly perfect ratio that slowly drifts afterwards. The opposite also happens.
The history of engineering shows that most approaches to solving problems fail. That's because, as in ecology, there's typically only one approach (in ecology one species) per niche (in the market or in the ecosystem). The winner drives the losers to extinction.

For fusion, we have to ask why it's going to be an exception. The prior is that it won't be. If there's evidence it will be blocked, that's two (or more) strikes against it. Something very unusual is needed to come back from that far behind.

The continuing success of renewables, and their continuing progression down their experience curves, is bad news for fusion.
Its tough cause cost to broadcast is free on the internet.

They solve this in the RF world by licensing who gets to broadcast. The only spammers on newspapers, radio, tv, post, satellite are people with a lot of cash.
While truly awful that she died the real story is the police chief with sexual harassment allegations raiding the paper that was going to publish these allegations.
On macOS, I block the safebrowsing.googleapis.com domain and the com.apple.Safari.Safebrowsing.Service process with Little Snitch. https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/
Just wait until they discover Bayes on n-grams. Or even better FastText.
It is a good story.
At that point you give them the checkbox. “Here it is, you’re right it was sooo easy, oh you wanted it to do something… yea that’s why it takes longer”
Yes, that's the general idea - and it works pretty well.

It can also be a huge PITA. The fallacy is that a "feature" is an isolated chunk of code. You just wrap that in a thing that says "if feature is on, do the code!". But in reality, a single feature often touches numerous different code points, potentially across multiple codebases and services/APIs. So you have to intertwine that feature flag all over the place. Then write tests that test for each scenario (do the right thing when the feature is off, do the right thing then the feature is on). Then you have to remember to go back and clean up all that code when the feature is on for everyone and stabilized.

It's a good tool, but it's not an easy tool like a lot of folks think it is.
I think the world will be in flames with the climate and forced mass migration in the very near future - I figure the vast majority of the next generations population probably doesn’t have much of a future as the rest of the world is still too wrapped up in making year on year profits. If the AI wars don’t get us, I think our planet will certainly will.
A foreground app can play additional audio if it does not require system support (such as controlling the playback from a Bluetooth headset and appearing in the now playing widget/dynamic island). But only one process can play continuous audio in the background. You cannot have Safari play a video and also listen to an audiobook.

“wHy WoULd YoU wAnT tO Do tHaT aNyWaY¿” -typical Apple fanboy response
In US, increasingly like Western Europe free speech is gaining the equivalence of safe speech. Speech where no one questions the authority or assumes the best of them. But first amendment was meant for hard speech. It wasn’t for speech that just merely assumes you have the right to go to a square and put up a sign. And in a culture like that, nation states can easily get away with this kind of behavior.
I am stunned at how this keeps getting more appalling.

The judge signing a search warrant without a probable cause affidavit, the judge issuing a search warrant against the press violating federal law, the connections between the court and the hotel that houses Keri Newell's restaurant, the batshit public response Keri Newell posted, the fact she got a liquor license with a DUI, a claim that she had her identity stolen at a city council meeting.

The fact the cops raided a paper for a story they didn't publish, even though they would have been fully protected to do so at all.

It's not being widely covered by a city council woman's house was also raided. They took her phone and computer as well, leaving her and her sick husband alone with no way to call for help. Cops are scum.

Marion is about 2 hours away from where I'm staying now. It might be a good thing I don't have a car. I'm furious. Going to be stopping by the KBI office today, I'm sure that's going to go well. (The KBI is under Kris Kobach and has said in response to this raid that "the press is not above the law".)
Ray Tracing vs. Path-Tracing: What’s the Difference?
...mmm, I'm currently in the 'this is a technical limitation, not an artificial constraint' camp.

Sure, the artificially applied constraint in the APIs also exist... and sure, you can have a long context with for example, gpt-3.5-turbo-16k, but the problem is fundamentally that no amount of wishing can make an LLM into a compiler that executes code.

You cannot, and will probably never be able to define your constraints in free text to an LLM of this type and then expect it to also be able to execute those constraints in an error free manner. That's not how the technology works. You might be able to make it generate procedural code that satisfy the constraints and execute that code in a reliable procedural manner, but afaik no one has managed to get that to work reliably and at scale (if you're thinking of smol developer right now, you clearly haven't actually used it).

When you define an RPG system to an LLM, the issue isn't that it isn't allowed to say things, it's just that it cant follow the rules reliably, and it can't keep track of what's going on as the context length gets larger and larger.

...and, for an RPG system, where the contrived RPG rules and internal consistency are everything, it's a deal breaker.

> when the API is working perfectly and then starts apologizing that it cannot do something

eh, use an open LLM. That's 100% not the problem.
This is crazy. Solid implementation as well.
That's fair. So ISPs have a potential incentive to provide v6.

I wonder why they're not then. Clearly it's not a very big incentive.
https://archive.is/AoAwE
You say that because you’re 1st gen. If this language went anywhere then the people in the 2nd gen will start adding complex words and structures that you never taught them.

This has all been observed before and is inevitable. You want them to call it “telo pi lape ala” but that’s shit so they’ll call it tala or lapela or something. That will then become the word for it.
Seems to be paraphonic and not polyphonic? The filter section doesn't explain if we have filter per voice.
"I think you would have a very difficult time arguing that history wouldn't have been drastically different if say, Muhammad the individual hadn't made the decisions he did."

Would it make you feel differently if you knew that there were dozens of competing offshoots of Abrahamic religions in the area at the time? What if you viewed the Abrahamic religions as a set of policies and processes that were basically the genetic code of a society. Lots of what is in the Abrahamic texts is about how to conduct transactions effectively, establish a trusting relationship with strangers so you can edify an in-group while conducting trade with outsiders. IMO, his variation was based on determining how to set up an effective merchant society economy among groups of nomads where conflict was minimized enough to get spices from one location to another.

Many elements of islam were consistent among all the different abrahamic religious variations of the time. The fact that islam is so conservative is a result of continued incentives propagating more conservative forms of the religion. It's not inherent to the religion itself. There have been many less conservative islamic societies.