skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One trope I've been mulling over for a while is that of the "marketplace of ideas", which is literally baked into US jurisprudence.

So far as I've been able to trace the origins, it's actually an adaptation of free-market ideology and promotion, and was likely suggested to Oliver Wendell Holmes by Francis Wrigley Hirst, former editor of The Economist, a publication literally founded to promote free-market ideals.[1][2]

But ... is a marketplace really the forum in which ideas are best formed and developed? Or even transmitted? Because ... my understanding is that this takes place far more often in studies, libraries, workshops, laboratories, and academies. Usually amongst a small set of people qualified in the task they are undertaking. Yes, there's often correspondence amongst that group, and there may be distributed work or teams. But one thing it distinctly is not is the absolute hubbub and all-comers-invited nature of the marketplace.

I've yet to see a full critique of the notion, though Jill Gordon's "John Stuart Mill and 'The Marketplace of Ideas'" comes quite close. Among other points, she makes clear that Mill never actually used the phrase, and had some sharp concerns with what are now key elements of it.

<https://www.pdcnet.org/soctheorpract/content/soctheorpract_1...>

Ultimately, markets reward characteristics which are strongly at odds with information in various ways. This appears both in how markets for information goods are tremendously skewed and have enormous deadweight losses (actively impeding access to information to virtually all), but also in what types of information are promoted and advantaged by marketplaces --- rarely that which has a strong truth valance, or which stands against orthodoxies.

(Markets aren't the only structures which stand against information, but given that they're often portrayed as the essence of informational genesis, the conflict is highly notable.)

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Notes:

1. Holmes didn't quite coin the modern form, but came quite close and strongly influenced the ultimate formulation. The Hirst connection is revealed in Thomas Healy's book The Great Dissent: <https://www.alumni.columbia.edu/content/great-dissent-how-ol...>

2. See The Economist's Prospectus: "[A] weekly paper, to be published every Saturday, and to be called THE ECONOMIST, which will contain— First.—ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day" <https://www.economist.com/unknown/1843/08/05/prospectus>
I wonder if this is a misunderstanding on accountability.
The demo days hold people accountable to others AND themselves.

There is a general movement to eschew accountability which is a huge mistake because this concept is critical in continuous improvement.
Standing up is a lot more work.
I find that dream to be selfish nonsense, and at best it should not be subsidized by taxpayer money. But I realize I'm in the minority
It's also a matter of decoupling; a machine running Windows (for example) might have ancient firmware, but at least it can run a current version of Chrome and Windows, which means that it degrades gracefully.
Open-source LLM software development assistant
You should go to Brazil and try your luck there:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/in-a-blow-to-e-v...

From what I gather they banned any paper trail verification. Putting 100% trust in digital registry of the votes.

Must be the first unhackable system in history. /s
Because 3d graphics are mostly matrix multiplications.
Perhaps they were thinking of https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd
Wow, thanks for your response!

I'd be interested to hear about the PBR material workflow in the catalogue rendering department! How on earth can you match real life materials at a satisfactory level?

How do manufacturers like IKEA collaborate with professional interior designers/architects these days?
Are there even professionals outside IKEA who'd wish to produce photorealistic renders with these models?
It's not as nearly universal as he thinks. That's his point.
This is quite off-base, unfortunately. Don't read it as fact, but as a vibe, and take note it's an infohazard if you have any managerial responsibility in a tech company.

Among many, many, things, the EU was not beat back on messaging interoperability -- in fact, it's due to announce the draft list next week.

And it wasn't messaging interoperability -- its a set of requirements for gatekeeper services with over 45 million users.

I didn't expect this from Ben, but when I think back, I haven't seen much work from him over the last 5 years. Did he drop out of industry?
I remember my parents credit card bill coming in on punched cards - would have been the mid 70's. Ha!
Apple, Microsoft say flagship services not popular enough to be ‘gatekeepers’
https://archive.today/mA62y
Unless external factors kick in, like depletion of resources and soils. There's no any law of nature that says homo sapiens must be able to survive. Smaller scale examples are:

1. Easter island -- we, humans, deforested the island, that degraded and depleted human population significantly even before the first european ships discovered the island. From what I've heard, "Rapa Nui" movie is unusually historically correct on the events.

2. St. Matthew Island -- 29 introduced reindeer rapidly overpopulated the island and ate all the available food there, so the whole population died.

Same thing can happen on planet Earth.
Lambert has also created new homebrew works that run on original hardware with the N64 SDK. His team has always been a finalist in the yearly jams.

[1] https://teamultrarare.itch.io/telocation-gemini

[2] https://teamultrarare.itch.io/mission-lost-control

[3] https://teamultrarare.itch.io/styx
One use case is that if you have a folder of (presumably legitimately acquired, or you know what I mean) movie files, you can figure out how long it will take you to finish them. Although number of video files * 2 hours/file is also likely a very good estimate.

Although I seriously doubt data hoarders care about that. A movie will be eventually watched someday. If they run out of space, they'll get another drive. Storage is cheap.
Call me a cynic, but I think a patent regurgitation machine will more likely have a successfully defended patent against the other AI makers than be shut down for the patent infringement it enables.
Radioactive boar flesh, as with all other biomass, is already in the biosphere, that is, it is not fossilised carbon being reintroduced. Contributions to increased greenhouse gasses would effectively be net zero.

(Note that non-combusted boars are already expelling CO2 through respiration, as well as more potent gases such as methane through metabolism and decomposition of solid wastes. Methane production through human livestock is among the concerns of climate forcing, though I suspect wild boar populations are sufficiently small to not have a significant impact.)
You're grasping at straws now. Just admit that regex is a much more fundamental technology than some ad-hoc, badly specified commercialware and we can be done. Go on, you can find it in yourself ;-D.

Sure, Makefiles are a DSL. Just a horrible one. They just make my point in a different way. Have you used a Makefile recently? They are AWFUL. Brittle, complex, half-bash, invisible-tab-prefixed, abominations, sent from another millenium. Let's take a modern codebase - say Python - you're much better to just use something like pyinvoke - handles all the CLI-level stuff, and you get the full force of the programming language you were writing in the first place.
awesome, thank you for this... always looking for test files.
Ironically, this is also the downfall of most "agile" practicing dev teams. They've adopted scrum, they've adopted all the overhead of Jira and 2 week sprints that they never rethink, but nothing gets shipped unless it's perfect, and so nothing gets iterated on, nothing progresses, no evaluation of the work ever actually feeds back into a positive reinforcement cycle, and so you just get waterfall with much more agony.

In my last company, we were trying to ship refactors and improvements at the same time, and it inevitably broke down horribly when we'd discover some requirement that had originally never been documented or built in some component. So the scope for shipping would change from a one-to-one refactor with incremental iteration in subsequent sprints, to many cycles of QA and fixes before even minor design improvements could be shipped.

It's characteristic of every dev team I've been on that's tried to use off-the-shelf agile practices, because there's no risk tolerance at any level higher than IC. Everyone's afraid of how they'll appear, and nobody trusts anyone lower than them on the org-chart.
> gets us to about 150 trillion humans in 1,000 years

I realize the big issue is settled here but just to scope this detail:
the total land area of earth is coincidentally approximately 150 million km^2

At 150 trillion humans each human would get just about a square meter. Many of those square meters are uninhabitable.
Simpler than that - look up the phenomenon known as Not Invented Here
why not both? If you want to do something incredible, sacrifices often need to be made.
But $2T is market capitalization, not yearly sales.

This mostly means that AAPL is seen as a safe asset to park large amounts of (fiat) money.
I've been using it since Youtube Vanced died and it's working perfectly and I'll keep using it until it dies too.
I would change the title to:

Python Library "llm" now provides tools for working with embeddings

I initially was trying to parse that, thinking "is this an open AI thing?". Of course the answer is just a click away, but people might miss this if they are interested in Python coding and AI.
I think our setup was very particular to the UK. We didn't (and still don't?) have free local calls like the US, so we paid per minute for ISPs.

Almost all ISPs went through a scheme setup by British Telecom - you could either have free internet but you paid for your calls, or you could pay for your internet, and have access via a freefone number - so effectively flat-rate.

But the flat-rate option disconnected after two hours, on the dot. Which was hugely frustrating because we had a voicemail variant that was hosted by the telco, and let you know you had messages waiting by pulsing the dialtone. And my modem did not recognise the pulsed dialtone as a valid dialtone, and refused to connect until we called the number and marked them read.

Which lead to one of my most UK-centric retro stories. I tried to connect to the internet, and it refused to dial. I blew away my wvdial config, and it refused to dial. I blew away my ppp config, and it refused to dial. I grepped / for the error message and it didn't exist. I ended up blowing away my OS (and accidentally installing onto the wrong drive, and blowing away everything non-OS too), and it still wouldn't dial.

So I dragged the modem & extension cord to my mother's PC, and shot off a mail to my preferred mailing list (one hosted by John @ linuxemporium, my preferred source of mail-order distros), and swiftly received the response that in order to be certified by BT to operate on their network, one of the rules equipment had to obey was to refuse to redial the same number x many times. And that all I needed to do was power-cycle the modem. Which I'd done by dragging it upstairs to my mother's PC. And my own machine had been wiped twice over needlessly.

Aside, there was a lady named Helen on that mailing list who knew everything about everything, and is everything I aspire to be today. She had opinions on which harddrives best survived salt/sea air, and why they weren't deathstars. Just an incredible amount of lived experience. I miss mailing lists.
Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
Hang out with friends
culture starts building on day 1.
This is a fantastic library. I plan to use some of the search functionality with a system that tries to figure out how to manipulate/work with/add features to existing code.
You can use pyright instead[0]. It is the FOSS version of pyright, but having some features missing.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/pyright
The lesson that constant percentage (that is, exponential) growth cannot continue endlessly is the fundamental message behind the concept of Limits to Growth. That is, there exist intractable limits to growth, and that no matter how convenient it may be to pretend otherwise, humans ignore this fact at their extreme peril.

Long-term ongoing economic growth, expressed as a constant percentage, is baked in to most current orthodox economics and economic policy. Even apparent mavericks such as Thomas Piketty assume that growth will continue interminably (noted in Capital in the Twenty-First Century).

Rather than being a critique of Liu, you've actually written a criticism of those he himself is generally addressing.
Break them up, way past the point of too big
He should publish an emulated version on steam with an option to download the rom through it. Valve usually lets others use their IP then.
> I don't think they'd learn to speak whale any more than kids learn to speak other sounds in their natural environment.

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work either, but kids do learn the sounds of other animals and they love to reproduce them. Many kids can make dog or duck sounds before they can even speak like humans.

The problem is that of course, dogs, cats, ducks don't actually have a language, just a few different sounds, so that doesn't prove anything about kids' ability to understand a hypothetical actual animal language.
> To the outside observer, some of the quiet comedy of Sheehan’s work comes from the fact that we don’t necessarily consider snack-food flavoring to be “real,” and from the startling idea that anyone would. For Sheehan, though, the farce is the deception itself. “ ‘Smokehouse’ almonds,” he muttered. “These almonds have never seen a smokehouse in their— and Blue Diamond never owned a smokehouse, either.” He has sued the company eleven times.

This is the distilled essence of parasitism. Nitpicking product labels to sue large companies in the hopes of winning a jackpot -- or at least a settlement. Producing nothing of value whatsoever, but leeching off otherwise productive (and necessary) economic activity.

It's not a quiet comedy. It's a shame and a disgrace.
The performance of public schools in SF isn't solely (maybe not even mainly) related to the quality of the teachers.

Even if it were solely to do with the teachers, this doesn't mean that all (or even the majority) of teachers are bad.

Even if we're the case that all teachers in SF are bad, this would be more likely to do with the hiring standards (e.g. you have to have gone to teaching college) and firing standards (LIFO), than to do with salaries offered to newly-hired teachers.
> Like your example of a new smartphone or new steamdeck replacing the old Xbox Original: it is almost certain that the electrical consumption gains would not compensate, in terms of total energy and resources spent and pollution made, the discarting of the original xbox

Citation needed. We're talking about a huge difference in electrical efficiency.
At least read the article before commenting. It's talking about the total transactional value of the app store. Not apples market cap.
It’s the job of the display manager / compositor to handle screensavers.. yes any arbitrary app can’t become your screensaver welcome to the 21st century.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

For me, it is not a question of computer science.

It is a matter of practical engineering for manufacturing and distribution in a the context of reified political interests.

Cryptography is a munition. All the technical details of current common methods are shaped by that fact or alternatively the military-industrial complex has given up its interest in controlling it.

I never saw a press conference announcing the latter. If I saw one, that’s when I would put on my tinfoil hat…maybe Devo style flowerpot?
I'd rather we just stop trying to be unixy and support every workflow instead of just having a large but fixed set of things.

Like, GitHub actions could afford to crappy if you rarely had to deal with them. It would be better if you did in fact have JS...

But GH actions take multiple minutes to run, and a linter is near instant.

A less powerful solution would be saying "Here's some prefab instant actions that don't spin up a new container, just tell us what paths to include in for this linter and this formatter and click this box, and since we control it we can optimize it and fix the bugs and all that".

People invent DSLs instead of just exposing code often because they want it to be easy and expressive, but they make the easy things moderately hard, and the hard things near impossible.

But if the easy common things are just built in, you don't need any DSL at all, and you're not tempted to, because you just say "We cover common stuff already, if you want to do weird stuff we have Python for that".

But for some reason programmers would rather spend 10x the effort on a custom system rather than implement a specific common feature, because they want everything to be like a math equation, a description of something general.

Back in the early desktop era, adding stuff just because X fraction of users want it seemed to be all the rage, now people add things based on whether it fits with a vision or an idea.
> Sure, but this is a very arbitrary threat model to prioritize that doesn't seem to affect people.

Credential stealer malware is abundant, it's often enough how attackers gain initial access to a company's internal network - grab the credentials off of Chrome, Firefox or one of the other popular password manager apps, and you're bound to find a set of credentials there. Now all you need is some piece of software that's reachable from the Internet and lacks 2FA (which applies to a shocking lot of legacy software), and you got some sort of persistent access to the network.

And in ye early days of cryptocurrencies, before hardware vaults became the norm among crypto enthusiasts, a fair amount of people got their wallets drained by targeted cookie (=session) stealers.

> What about ads? Tracking? Apps sending fingerprinting home?

That is bad, but not "someone can drain your bank account or take over your social media accounts to spam" bad.
> The Canadian government told Google and Meta that if a link to a newspaper story ever appears in search, or if a journalist ever posts a link to a story on Facebook, then they have to pay the newspaper for sending business to the newspaper.

This is first-class bullshit. Google and Meta made their money by co-opting third party content, concentrating audiences into their own portal, and selling advertising against it - often through algorithmic dark patterns. This is a disreputable business model that’s as old as iframes, but somehow its acceptable for these gigacompanies to do it.

To characterise this as “they have to pay the newspaper for sending business to the newspaper” is just buying into the kind of self-interested “no” that the article purports to discuss. They systematically took these audiences away from the content providers, and then started to charge a premium to the providers for placement in the algorithms. Meta has been the most egregious of these but Google has been moving in this direction for years.

These companies have more than enough money to pay for their content, but that would break their protection racket business model.
https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64/releases

You need a file from the official Portal game, then it's an easy single step with an online tool to generate the demake ROM.

edit: or see bhaney's download link on this thread.
The ANI number was an MCI service and I think it still works. I used it to identify a fax line that no one knew the number to (and wasn't tagged on the 66 block in the back) a few years ago. Can't remember it though.
> the market for normal headphones [...] has simply died while I wasn't looking

Are we living on the same planet?
The article is about an estimation of the total volume of transactions going through apps on the app store, both in the app store and outside of the app store direct to the app publisher. It's currently at 1.1 trillion, they're projecting given the growth rate it could be 2 trillion in 2 years. That is the figure being discussed.
I see a disconnect between your pargraph 1 and 2. In 2 you describe something that actually sounds reasonable - re-socializing by establishing clear rules and giving prisoners something to do to feel that they are rehabilitating in a structured way. If I were in prison I’d take a job, paid or not.

But that wasn’t your point in 1 or the rest so I’m pretty sure you think other way around, no?
Market cap has absolutely nothing to do with the article and the (fiat) take i ungrounded.
Is it not the case that the moon-earth system may become locked, irrespective? I mean if we're worried about future decades.. As long as this happens before the sun expands to make the earth uninhabitably hot, it's a risk for .. some intelligence?
every editing command in nano is either ctrl-key or alt-key. vi/vim is the only editor that i am aware of that doesn't make me stretch my fingers across the keyboard.
This is true! Although I'm also really excited at the potential speed (both for loading the model and token generation) of a 1B model for things like code completion.
It can be finetuned. Bing is a finetuned GPT-4.
The move away from globalization has had an unfortunate side effect: greater political corruption, where local politicians enact laws for the benefit of their local corporate buddies, and pretend (usually successfully) that it is an act of nationalism and standing up to big tech.

That’s what happened here in Canada with Bill c-18, as mentioned in the article. It’s been rather sickening to watch the government defend this bizarre law that is little more then a shake down for their buddies at bell and Rogers.
Oh no, I don't know what to believe anymore.
> Fly my own 737 to a new city every day?

That's literally the billionaire lifestyle.

Meanwhile cryptocurrency is seeing decades of power efficiency undone as miners bring old power plants online and want to burn tyres to power their scams.
Suing people for false claims isn’t parasitic. How about don’t lie then you won’t piss off people who get enraged about lies.
Horace is one of the better thinkers regarding Apple’s business. He consistently ranks relatively high amongst the independent analysts at predicting Apple’s quarterly earnings, although to be honest I don’t put much stock in that.

He did a lot of analysis to determine how many active devices Apple had in the world before Apple even started reporting those figures.

He was one of the only analysts who understood Apple’s position and scale, as well as some of the internal culture that helped explain a lot of their seemingly abstruse decision making.

Recently he got really focused on “micro-mobility” (ie, Bird/Lime scooters, etc) which hasn’t really been as earthshaking as he predicted, but he’s been mostly proven right about Apple.

It’s unreal to see the scope of Tim Cook’s Apple (or the iPhone Apple if you prefer).
6.46"? Why not rebrand it from fairphone to fairtab at this point?
Wasn't the PDF format based on the Illustrator format?

The weird thing to me is people using a distribution format as an original source. It's right up there with video cameras shooting an acquisition source as an MP4 and all of the negative baggage that comes with that.
Apple and Microsoft want iMessage and Bing off the EU’s ‘gatekeeper’ list
> What about algorithms where register pressure is an issue

Then you'll probably saturate the processor without using a larger LMUL, but I think many algorithms can work with LMUL=2, without running out of registers.