skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The quality at Fanatics has fallen off a cliff the last few years

And yet our courts are still under the sway of the Chicago school of thought that says monopolies are _good_ for consumers, because it drives prices down and normalizes a market.

Yet.. I've never seen that come to fruition, in any circumstance, ever.
Already happening: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-lying-flat-took-chinas-ove...
Yeah, I think this is just an ActivityPub server that supports the Mastodon extensions, right? I think we should embrace the fact that the federated world can be diverse, rather than just call everything "Mastodon"
I don't think the $15k price tag is intended for regular consumers. I didn't listen to the Lex Fridman interview (my patience starts to wane after the first two hours), but I did listen to another of Hotz's interview on another podcast, and I believe he referred to this their "Tiny Box" as more of a dev box. It's for the engineers and tinkerers who want a capable machine for AI. So while expensive, it fills a niche for those who don't want to deal with linking multiple Nvidia GPUs together and deal with the power and cooling setup that come with that.
> Lucky the crypto mining community laid the ground work for some of the hardware.

Are you using riser cards to connect the GPU's to the motherboards then? I thought about trying a setup like yours, but was worried that the riser card interfaces would create a bottleneck. Ideally I'd like to run some cards in a separate box and connect them to my main computer through some kind of cable interface, but I'm not sure if that's possible without seriously affecting performance.
Russia Discusses Return to Capital Controls to Stem Ruble Slump
That's all true. However it's also true in the rest of the developed world, and while almost all Western European countries have older populations than the US they still manage to spend significantly less as % of GDP with much better median outcomes (of course if we only compare US as a whole, states like Massachusetts are on part or even ahead of most of Europe outcome wise but still at much higher cost)
That's mainly because it's easier to grow from a lower base. (Also because they lie about their numbers more, but they're still directionally correct, just averaged out a lot.)
Overwatch 2's New Content Drop Is Its 'Broadest' Ever, Blizz Says
Me on the other hand, only code like 1996 if I have to.
They didn't imply anything about piracy.
> Finally "hard work", it self is a vague concept that I think often misleads young people into to thinking that effort is not merely a means to an end, but the end itself.

Really hit the nail on the head. I've been struggling to put this into words. I'd add that this really has to do with our notions of justice. When we see people not working, seeming to get away with something, it hurts to see another person try really hard and fail.

There's really this cult of work for work's sake. I'd argue that hard work is inherently bad.
What website did you build that made you a lot of passive income?
People who have built websites for passive income, what did you make and how much did you get out of it if you don't mind
What does it mean for hip-hop to be culturally owned by black folks? What does it mean for non-black hip-hop artists?
Finalists in the kids category of the USA Mullet Championship
Network heterogeneity of brain abnormalities in psychiatric disorders
"sponsor my channel and get 3 species named after you!"
> How is it possible that we’ve reduced the cost of building scalable applications by multiple orders of magnitude?

> You can begin to understand this by starting with a simple observation: you can describe Mastodon (or Twitter, Reddit, Slack, Gmail, Uber, etc.) in total detail in a matter of hours. It has profiles, follows, timelines, statuses, replies, boosts, hashtags, search, follow suggestions, and so on. It doesn’t take that long to describe all the actions you can take on Mastodon and what those actions do. So the real question you should be asking is: given that software is entirely abstraction and automation, why does it take so long to build something you can describe in hours?

> At its core Rama is a coherent set of abstractions...

This conclusion is alarming to read from a company that's trying to sell a new platform. The vast majority of the work in building Twitter or Reddit is not about building a coherent set of abstractions, it's working with an often incoherent reality, dealing with a myriad of laws that describe, as if your web app were a human clerk at a post office, how to handle PII and credit cards and CSAM filters and audits and copyright claims and on and on...

I'm honestly shocked that the technical implementation of a simplified, coherent platform took a full 9 person-months. That shouldn't be the hard part. What I'd want to know as a prospective customer is how you handle exceptions to your beautiful, idealized architecture, when some foreign country requires that you only store comments posted by their citizens within their borders or something like that.
It basically just matters what California does. There's enough customers there that it's easier to apply those policies nationwide.

Incorporated in Delaware hardly ever affects anything except corporate law.
Mob bookies kill other bookies who encroach on their turf.
going to be a rather unenthusiastic army if it is stocked with folks who thought they were getting cushy office jobs.
That is indeed an intentional part of Mastodon's design, which we tried to be faithful to as much as possible. We originally implemented search across all statuses and had to reimplement it when we realized Mastodon is a little different.
Hmmm, "Rama is programmed entirely with a Java API – no custom languages or DSLs" according to the landing page, but this sure looks like an embedded DSL for dataflow graphs to me - Expr and Ops everywhere. Odd angle to take.
Ah good tip thanks! Seems I can do that on iPhone too. At least there is a “share” option for highlighted text and I assume that’s what it’s for.
What?!?
I do think there is value in a larger fixed payment regardless of this implementation.

After all, a lot of the costs aren't in generation but delivery.
At the core warez was about money. All the elite boards charged money. How would you expect them to pay for 10 isdn lines? Yeah, all the culture around was teenage geek stuff. But at the core is was some serious underground business that's why it was busted.
JAMA: 24 of the 37 drugs the FDA approved in 2022 were based on a single study
Yes, a "mastodon-like Fediverse instance running on our proprietary new application/data framework" sounds like a better description.

And either way, I think the source code to their Mastodonlike will not be usable since it will be running on their Rama server framework.
For me code may have elements of syntax like literary language, its primary function is to convey logical instructions and operations. imho.
> We spent nine person-months building our scalable Mastodon instance.

+ the time spent creating Rama, the platform that enables it.

Very dishonest leaving that out.
> The US supplied almost ALL of the planets REEs until cheap labor outcompeted it.

I fail to see how that is untrue then, if the labour arbitrage holds then nothing is being refined in the US and is then still solely taking place in China were Xi has made it a priority to remediate destroyed soil after decades of dumping waste as Cheaply as possible during its Industrialization, mainly for export make to the West.
A piece of culture is important in proportion to the reluctance of people to assign an owner to it, whether legal or otherwise. No one would criticize a Frenchman for using Newton's Laws because it belongs to the British. Someone who is really enthusiastic about something will emphasize that it is universally appreciated. E.g., Shakespeare being put on by diverse cultures, Islam trying to spread itself to every corner of the world, Chinese silk being exported to anyone who will buy it, etc.

If I was a hip hop artist, there would be no bigger insult than assigning ownership of my art to a specific culture. If it's really so great, it should speak to everyone. If this isn't true of Irish step dancing, it's because it's a relatively trivial art form. You can trivialize hip hop too if you want, but it's not necessarily doing hip hop artists any favors.
Why what? Is it real? So is it why Apple and other attack everybody then?
neat read but I was expecting to read about twitter migrating and literally 100x savings being had.
Lol... they match up fine for solar activity from 2012 to 2020.

This sounds like: "the data doesn't support my thesis so I'll wait for 'better' data. What does 'better data' mean? Data that supports my thesis... thank you very much."
This is what I have come to expect from every person that calls themselves a "free speech absolutist." What they actually believe is that they should be able to say whatever they want and do whatever they want, personally, without any consequences for themselves. There is no grander principle than "my ability to do what I want and exert power over others however I want, without critique or criticism."

I really wish the term hadn't been polluted this way.
We have twitter at home!
Cost-benefit analysis is where we need to go.
Should Computers Decide How Much Things Cost?
This is what they've been hyping on Twitter for a week?

FWIW, why hype at all? Why "We'll more in a week. Then more in two weeks." Show the code today!
More ruined lives to follow. I had a few friends in college whose lives were ruined by gambling, one of them even died. Perhaps the pendullum will swing back the other way after it does a lot of damage in our society. Online gambling is like having hard drugs in your pocket all the time.
URL is wrong, should be https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2023
Docker compose allows you to specify multiple docker containers all running on a single host. It makes setting up multiple services on a single piece of hardware relatively simple and repeatable.
Thanks! It's on my list, I haven't gotten around to it yet.

Would you suggest the regular Buffalo Trace or one of their (many) variations?
You’d be surprised how many fail at step 1, skip step 2 and try straight step 3.
The insulation is rated for 600v almost certainly unless you're running the original knob and tube, in which case you have other issues to consider.

Each leg of 240 is only 120, so it'd probably work.

Don't do it! But if you do it make sure it's breakered correctly and use a AFCI/GFCI combo breaker.
Since Hunter Biden is mentioned tangentially in the piece, this was published today by Lee Fang, another former Intercept contributor:

https://www.leefang.com/p/emails-show-hunter-biden-hired-spe...

Fang claims emails show Hunter Biden hired PR specialists to whitewash Wikipedia's coverage of him.
you're refusing to discuss anything google has done which is imperfect

I'm trying to give you a chance to ground this discussion in unbiased reality

so far you're dead-stuck on defending google's decisions to harm people, but you've still failed to articulate a valid defense for it ("they also did good thing" is not a valid defense)

you're making the discussion (which, remember: is about google's wrongdoing) ridiculous and useless by refusing to discuss the topic and instead attacking people who do for "hating on google" or whatever other paranoid persecution fantasies you dream up

if you don't like people discussing the harms google is doing to people, why even join a discussion which is literally about that, and why attack people for discussing it? why not just move onto the next topic whose very existence doesn't personally offend you, and leave everyone here alone?
The LLM GPU Buying Guide – August 2023
"visually horrendous to read"
- someone on Reddit

Hi all, here's a buying guide that I made after getting multiple questions on where to start from my network. I used Llama-2 as the guideline for VRAM requirements. Enjoy! Hope it's useful to you and if not, fight me below :)

Also, don't forget to apologize to your local gamers while you snag their GeForce cards.
Like Ukraine, it also depends heavily on US political and military actions.

I expect an invasion would be triggered if the US were to significanty expand the Taiwan Relation Act, or intitiate a new mutual defense treaty.
ChatGPT fate hangs in the balance as OpenAI reportedly close to bankruptcy
I don't agree because current graduates aren't necessarily well-versed in theory and practice. In fact I've worked with CS graduates that don't understand theory at all and follow the worst conceivable practice. Of course CS education isn't standardized and I'm not talk about Stanford grads here. But I have a hard time believing that simply erecting barriers that require education will improve the situation when a lot of educated people still have no idea what they're doing.
Medical Billing issues are a symptom. The real cause is Middle Man Mafia Insurance companies dictating everything that happens b/w a Doctor and Patient.
How is this relevant for policy decisions now?
Build a time machine?
The first rule of creating any system is remember that 'everyone' is smarter than you. The problem with rule based moderation quickly boils down to the Sortie's Paradox. Everyone that is smarter than you will quickly find logical contradictions in your system based on the uncertainty of language and your system collapses in the meta argument.

When defining a rule based system, remember the problem space is enormous, potentially even unbounded. As your number of rules grow the number of conflicting rules will increase.

Then there are some things like politics that low temperature conversations are near impossible in already...
Be sceptical of your own work (2009)
Thank - I've changed the title to be consistent with what the article says.
Actually if you read the article you can see we tested way above Twitter-scale. We can easily run this instance at full Twitter-scale by just paying for more servers.

The point isn't the Mastodon instance, but rather that Rama enabled us to build it at scale with in a tiny amount of code and time.
> however you'll agree ... present tense

Yeah, I agree. I should've checked the validity before posting it, instead of just going by memory from years ago.

> ... finding this reference ...

It was a lot more effort than I'd have liked to put into my original comment, but hey, I was ticked off by your accusation of spreading FUD. Also didn't help that search engines today aren't what they used to be.
Pardon my ignorance and prejudice, but how are you not a danger to the people that surround you?

Or is schizophrenia a spectrum very much alike as autism?
I see it as a clever and extreme variation of the same underlying fallacy:
a) the favored outcome is slightly more probable (51%)
b) the expected value of losing could be expressed as negative infinity

That SBF answered this (rhetorical) question that confidently and quick with not necessarily but what followed was simply something like look on the bright side is effectively imho parroting but at least he handled the verb eloquently. It would certainly take me like 20-30 seconds to process it.
George Hotz misread the NVIDIA Inception pricing as per unit instead of as a rebate, believing the GPUs are 80% cheaper than they actually are.
Are you implying there is an easy way to learn Vim? :)

I remember the "Learn Python the Hard Way" web-site, but I'm having trouble even finding that. It looks like there is a book and a course instead. I wonder if the web-site version of these courses were eventually phased out?

This might be a good alternative:

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/vim/
because I prefer my cleaning solvents to be consumable in an emergency.
National Weather Service says Atlantic tsunami alert was an error
Of all the google services for them to sunset Google Domains was not one I was not ready for, but lesson learned. I've been trying to decide where to move to since the announcement.

Name.com is my tried and true fall back, but dyndot is pretty appealing with their app which is something I've wanted from a registrar for awhile. Just wish they offered more domain TLDs.

So my plan is to use dynadot for domains they support, and Name.com for everything else.

It's a real shame. Personally avoiding Google services from now on.
This sounds like the complaints managers level against open source software more generally. I assume you get to decide how it evolves, especially if there is no standard. Not that this is a unique model among PLs.
~~full text search doesn't appear to work... so it's possible they punted on one of the harder parts, which is fast efficient accurate fuzzy search, which moderation and a lot of those other harder things rely on.~~

eta: they say that had it but removed it because apparently it's not something mastodon supports. so I guess it is a pretty good high level implementation.
The approach in 1977 was that the problems we address with computer programs were static. It was up to the system developers to understand the problems well enough to learn their requirements and then implement the requirements as code. Writing the code was the last thing you did, after the problem was entirely understood, documented, flowcharted, signed off by the client, etc.

Now we understand that the problems often change as the code is developed, or in response to the code we develop. Priorities and requirements change as the work proceeds. We start writing code early, solving small parts of the problem, and building up a solution almost organically, the way a tree will grow around obstacles in its pursuit of sunlight.

The name Fortran is a contraction of "Formula Translation" it was developed to be usable by mathematicians and scientists. COBOL is another language that looks very wordy, as it was developed to be used by businesspeople.
You shouldn't trust anything online, but also remember that the intent of bad actors is to ensure that you lose any trust with the firehose of falsehood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes?
This happens because the meds deplete your body of vitamins and minerals. The information on this was very scarce some years back, but the info is starting to get out.

Here's a link on the subject: https://www.optimallivingdynamics.com/blog/7-important-nutri...

A good & strong vitamin B complex, magnesium & zinc are a starting point. Your doctor or psychiatrist SHOULD tell you this. For some reason this seems to be something people have to find out for themselves.
What one finds useful from a web application and what the web application actually is are usually two entirely different things.

I work in marketing automation, and I guess I have in one way or another my entire career. The clients who need to use the platform to communicate with their own clients over social networking may never touch our print delivery system, but that doesn't mean that print delivery doesn't exist or isn't important.

If you are unwilling to recreate the totality of the application in terms of functionality, then you are lying if you say that you have recreated it.
http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

For as many times as I have read and re-read that essay, I find that I still need to be reminded just how pervasive this sort of thing is.
I guess it's down to personal preference. The noise of data being written to a HDD is soothing like a lullaby to me. I can rest easy knowing that the hard drive is working away through the night, filling sector after sector with new surprises for me to find in the morning and carefully copying my old data keeping it safe and warm so that it's always there when I need it.
^^^ So very much exactly this! Yes! ^^^

Not only bikes, either. Cars, computers, phones, anything that I paid money for I now own and will do as I please with it. If I wanna repair it because it's broken and I happen to have to tools and / or knowledge, or improve it simply because I can, or freakin' break it just because I felt like it that's entirely my prerogative. Once it's mine ... it's mine, end of story.
Thanks. Another reason to move to another mobile OS.
It's not that it's +EV, it's that it's +EV for the average player at the "Table" which is NOT true of Poker.
Because you won't need to use Paypal, the functionality of sending money between 2 parties quickly and efficiently is built in to the protocol
Cool I was planning a chicken coop to build out and get a handful of them in the backyard, probably won't be reading the entirity of this Tome but interesting none the less. And some cool old art, pg 595 geese was the best one i randomly flipped to.
You are not actually able to read your counterpoint's mind, or the minds of all scientists, and you have not read all the writing of skeptics or "deniers".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi
Geezus was this ripped right out of HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130060
PostgreSQL Is Taking the Lead
The funny thing is that I am actually upset. I am upset at having to waste so much time on being forced to responding. If we don’t respond, then their propaganda gets to carry to online discussion.

It’s tiring, but ultimately, I have kids and am compelled to respond to the bullshit for their sake.
There is also a sense where it is frankly bad that having a lot of money means you get to do this.
I think Bo Burnham had a bit this reminds me of on Taylor Swift:

"Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you to sell everything and invest in the lotto." being the culmination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JgG0ECp2U
I think it would be more accurate to say the "most code is not literature" since it is not documented in a fashion which makes it readable --- and it would be more interesting if the examination/re-writing of the code was done in a literate fashion.

The largest project I ever did (typesetting back-end for an on-line interactive ad design system) was done as a literate program, and over the course of years of maintenance was far easier to work with than other smaller code bases which I hadn't taken the effort to so structure and document.

Arguably, I need to re-work my present project thus: https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/
Maybe someone will indulge an ignorant question: Is there any reason someone couldn't make a cargo E-bike powered by a car-battery, or a marine-battery?

Of course regular E-bikes need a battery with a slick form factor, but a longtail or a bakfiets could fit a big rectangular box somewhere in the cargo space. Are there electrical engineering reasons why I've never seen this done?
So the harm is shifted from the gambling addicts to the people exploiting them is what you're saying?
I wouldn't call our instance a load test, as it's a legitimate instance available for anyone to use. It's very much production-grade.
> Ethereum would probably be the worst choice

I said Ethereum, not ETH/ether. Ethereum is a blockchain where you could transact many tokens including stablecoins.
Yes. After factoring in labor, our $XXmm company saves low-mid six figures per year by self-hosting the majority of our infra.
There has been some more recent arguments that Nero wasn't all that terrible, but more so disinterested in the job. Coupled with two facts that the article mentions (upper class Romans despised him for acting below his station; Christians despised him for putting them to death), it is no wonder all the records of his reign are incredibly negative. The people who hated him wrote the history. This is not to say he was a morally "good" person, but he also doesn't appear to been the tyrant he is made out to be.

Both "Nero: Emperor and Court"[0] as well as "Rome is Burning"[1] are great reads on the topic

[0]
https://www.amazon.com/Nero-Emperor-John-F-Drinkwater/dp/110...

[1]
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172316/ro...
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