skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh good, you finally agree that there are, in principle, physical limits to infinite exponential growth. I was worried we'd never get there. Now we can start haggling over what those limits are.

> When the pair of people in the article were talking about space they meant within the realm of reasonable projection

Oh good. In that case the reasonable projection is that we'll never leave the solar system, probably barely leave the Earth. You were the one making wild predictions about sustaining infinite growth by colonizing the cosmos, not me.

>That may be so, but again, if those limits are hit in 50,000 years then nobody cares.

50,000? You fail to appreciate the scale of exponential growth. The whole point of the original article about tides, and the discussion between economist and the physicist, and for that matter this entire comment thread, is that exponential growth hits physical limits really quickly - hundreds of years, not tens of thousands.

You keep hopping between "unlimited physical growth is possible because SPACE" and "actually growth doesn't need to be physical to count". I hope we've knocked the first one down. As for the second, I ask for the third and hopefully final time - when everyone's fed and happy and jacked into the Matrix, what's left to grow? What even is "productivity" in that scenario?
I happen to know other folks who also “actually do work” who prefer watching a video explainer. I usually prefer text, but sometimes people document features better in vocal conversation vs writing.
> All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label -- making cars the official worst category of products for privacy that we have ever reviewed.

So it's "worse than smartphones" in the sense that for smartphones, at least there are options that are privacy-friendly.
If you keep trying the illegal thing, maybe you'll get lucky and be allowed to do it.
Falcon 180B
It's totally possible to shut down your smartphone, set it in a drawer, and go out somewhere, like a protest or a courthouse or something, where you don't need a smartphone and it isn't tracking you.

You may find it more challenging to leave your car at home while you go someplace like that. Sure, take Uber or public transit; that's all tracked too.
A side effect of that cramming is that word order doesn't affect meaning as much as in e.g. English, which makes poetry and wordplay different.
I feel like "she'd been saying goodbye too often" is "zbyt często żegnała", but adding "zbyt często już żegnała" is like "she'd been saying goodbye too often, but now she's fed up with saying goodbyes, and doesn't do that anymore".

Of course "Kiedyś żegnała się zbyt często" is more explicit and understandable, but not as efficient for this competition :)
130km/h is just ludicrous. The consumption compared to 100km/h is about 50% extra and the time saved is wiped out with just one bathroom break.
> "companies are using your reading history to target ads" really the same level of dangerous as "your government wants to read all your messages"?

The problem is that companies tracking your every move for the purpose of ad targeting means all that data is concentrated in a single place where the government (or another bad actor) can search through.
Manufacturing Consent is a must read.
You can reduce "demasiadamente" to just "demais". I realized later that I was being silly. That would be 7 syllables.
Before typescript and node > about 16 I’d reach for Python or more organized bash for these things. Now it’s Typescript from the client down to my system scripts.

The ability to use the same language all the way up and down my stack, to import code I use in my program from my script, and get Type-checking means more often than not I’ve got a hash bang with npx ts-node.

Especially useful for testing server code while skipping the HTTP nonsense.
Finally, my favourite pastime: natural language golfing!
> Meta told a two-day court hearing in August it had already committed to ask for consent from users and that Datatilsynet used an "expedited process" that was unnecessary and did not give the company enough time to answer.

So, in other words, Meta is complaining that Datatilsynet moved fast and broke things. Interesting.
HIBP receives a lot of commercial support from Microsoft and Cloudflare, and in turn provides their API to organizations like government agencies and Mozilla. Half of the articles about it are "this company gave me this free/cheap thing, here's how I implemented it" and I can't feel too bad about it.

What's weird is that the current implementation is broken. Once you do get a CAPTCHA to fill out, the redirect will fail and you end up starting over, only to get a new CAPTCHA page. That's rather unfortunate.
Hackersnews don’t have to be programming or tech
Yeah, there's lots of these floating around sometimes called "scraper service" or "residential proxy". Not sure if it's still around, but one of them enlisted machines by paying users to install a browser extension.
for me the worst part about speed limits is - a lot of people can't even reach it, they drive 10-15 km/h less than speed limit and it drives me crazy
Mine shows some serious oxidation, too, but, if I'd go with this, at all, I'd prefer, "saepe valere dixit illa antea nimis"

(I guess, "saepe" is really a bit luxurious here, while I can see the need for expressing, even emphasizing the gender related aspect.)
The embedded software industry in the US is nearly non-existent in the home router and IoT space. It is all leveraging ancient open source code, outsourced to the lowest bidder.
> Governments can also compel the private company to reveal information they have about people.

This is the big deal.

Private companies collect data at volumes, and at levels of detail, that governments would never be allowed to do.

It's easier and cheaper to let the private folks do it, then buy it from them.

They are already doing this.
> Shouldn't it be "she'd" past tense?

Yes, probably (I don't know the context), but it seems to me that in colloquial US English the traditional complex tense system has been somewhat simplified: perhaps another example of the historical influence of Germans and other non-native speakers in the US. I'm British, of course, so I don't really know what I'm talking about here but I think I've heard native speakers of US English say things that are just wrong, because of the choice of verb tense, in any form of British English that I am familiar with: things like "Did you already do it?", though I can't guarantee that's a good example. Of course it could be that the verb system of colloquial US English is just as complex as the verb system of British English but the subtleties pass me by: I just notice the things that to me seem wrong, like failing to distinguish between "Did you do" and "Have you done".
I would just mandate that hardware not receiving security updates (this needs to be defined carefully to avoid people just version bumping) should be required to open source the firmware for said device and even allow commercial versions to be created from it by other vendors. I would think some serious updates to enhance the working and extend the life of IoT devices would come along if this was the case and it would create rather than destroy a lot of value for the public.
> You could measure the efficiency of a language by computing how many bits are required to store the semantics of a word/phrase/sentence losslessly. Assuming ideal encoding to bits of course. Think of things like perplexity and the like.

This has been done! The answer is about 39 bits a second.

https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-hav...
that would be fitting, I thought the same.
> Is "companies are using your reading history to target ads" really the same level of dangerous as "your government wants to read all your messages"?

Yes. Because the line between companies and government is very thin. (government has access to those companie's data, more or less legaly).
Companies have had several decades to not do the crap they are doing (laws regarding privacy of people's data have existed in various countries for a long time).

How long, in your opinion, should we not dilute our resources and focus? I mean, there's always more stuff to focus on all the time.
Oh man. Great find! I stumbled across this a few months ago while researching gritty 90's BLJ + mirrorshades cyberpunk for a game setting I'm working on (pre-the current cyan + magenta synth-pop conceptualization). If you end up liking GUNHED, some others that might be up your alley to look up: Hardware (1990), 964 Pinnocchio (1991), Testsuo: The Iron Man (1989), and Burst City (1982).
Could that be due to consumer vs industrial 3D printers? The external providers are probably using more expensive industrial printers designed for more frequent or continuous usage vs a typical consumer printer.
In addition to being funny as hell, I actually kind of like the Liturgy idea, but it's an uncomfortable middle ground between private enterprise and taxation. I want to like it more than I do.
In the UK we're starting to install average speed cameras in lots of places. Almost every major road in my area has an average speed camera on some stretch.

And I, for one, I think it's great. It's not a popular position but I'm a speed limit enforcement maximalist. I think if you're going 31 in a 30, after accounting for measurement errors, there should be enforcement action. Driving is one of the most dangerous things we do so I'm not sure why we're all so blasé about breaking this particular law.
Like Facebook messenger and Google chat both used to support xmpp, they don't run those services in that internally but they built gateways that let clients that talk xmpp talk to them.
If you believe that anyone can learn anything, that might sound plausible to you. The evidence does not point in this direction, however.
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The U.S federal government is a crony capitalist system where lobbyist, NGO's and well connected private industries (Sackler family, Pfizer) coerce bureaucrat's and lowly paid senators (they only make 200K). Much of the time regulation is a thinly veiled attempt to price out smaller competitors and to build moats around industries. The bureaucrat's that illegally manifest these fly-by-night rules (in the U.S they're not allowed to legislate yet they try to all the time) typically leave public service and work on the boards of companies that benefit from these regulations. One of the latest examples was the push by the tobacco industry -- and states that depend on tobacco taxes -- to regulate Vaping out of existence.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/19/romney-merkley-introduce-bil...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitt-romney-bain-tobacco_n_19...

I would expect that any attempt by the FCC to regulate hardware would be done in conjunction with the stakeholders (K Street)

https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/chip-lobby-spending-wash...
Literal Code Golf.
That's too lossy, and "despidiose" is trying too hard.
Lossy compression though. The songs meaning was lost because “too many times” is very important to make sense of the lyrics that follows.
I will tell you that three letter agencies in the US have a proven and undeniable track record of lying incessantly and basically nothing that comes from them can be trusted.
While there are more residency spots that graduating medical students in the us every year, they do have to compete with foreign grads, of which there are more than enough. So the us grads can’t be completely and openly incompetent. So some of them do fail to even graduate, and obviously not get residency spots.
The bots send out half a million requests, who cares if they need to wait ten seconds per request. You're adding a total of ten seconds to hours of scraping.
Magical practice (and occultism and gnosticism in the wider umbrella) is such an interesting phenomena. So many modern activities are connected to or quietly very influenced by it, particularly therapy, along with many notable figures in the natural sciences, computer science, philosophy. It's my favourite bit of anthropology (which I seem to be drawn to more the older I get).

Some reading in this area I've enjoyed:

- Magic, Science & Religion - Malinowski

- Technic and Magic - Campagna

- Stolen Lightning - O'Keefe

- Ramon Lull (no specific recommendation)
Good Design Is Imperfect Design Part 1: Honest Names
Looks like apart from Germany there is no country in the world that allows more than 140km/h

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_by_country
I followed the link and gotta say, love the approach you took.

About AI, totally. I guess my hope is big publishers waking up and realizing they are too being ripped off by big SV tech that's just blatantly ignoring copyright.
So use the privacy laws against corporations as a wedge.
But these companies do not collect chat data. Whatsapp is end to end encrypted. It is my government who wants to break that encryption.
Speed limits are a classic safety vs economy trade off.
Many things in lean/agile software development processes come from Toyota Manufacturing - kanban is essentially just-in-time.
> And not spend so much of our time worrying about Facebook targeting me with ads for iPhones, because they know I am in the markt for an iPhone. That's pretty meh.

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The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil

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Governments increasingly rely on the vast amounts of data stored by private companies to target specific people or groups of people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
Amen. Enforce the limit as written or change the limit.
"YouTube works" is ambiguous because YouTube is two distinct things: video playback and the actual website UI. E.g. YouTube video plays Ok on Raspberry Pi (I believe this can be attributed to hardware codecs) but the rest of the elements of a YouTube page work painfully slow and YouTube is not alone in this, there are other websites (including ones lacking any multimedia content) which work really slow as well. I haven't seen any which would be completely unusable though, it's just really annoying to use some.
The NHS is a monopsony employer and has hardly any competition, I don't think the limit on trainees has any effect on salary. Surely if what you're saying is true, junior doctors would not be paid less per hour than someone working in Aldi.

A friend of mine runs a successful business bringing over doctors from the Philippines, Pakistan, etc to work in the NHS, so the gap gets filled that way.
It is customary, when comparing performance of compression algorithms, to include the size of the tool needed for decompression in the compression benchmarks, since otherwise one can simply smuggle the uncompressed data in the decompression tool.

ISTM a similar principle would need to apply here: learning the "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" language would involve absorbing many volumes of history and mythology where for the usual sort of language a dictionary, grammar reference and maybe a book of common idioms would suffice.

Whatever metric is used to compare languages for efficiency should reflect this.
I think it's both Helium-3 and Helium-4?

(Tritium (3H) decays into 3He with a 12 year half life. Before 12*n years, tritium is radioactive and denser than water and so it will pool and concentrate in ocean cavities for example at the seafloor. Tritium also probably has affinity for certain types of trash floating in the ocean, which Seabin and The Ocean Cleanup are addressing.)

Is laser-based nuclear transmutation of e.g. He4 into He3 easier with the high heat of a nuclear fusion reaction?

Helion's fusion process involves both He3 and He4:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37403522
This is incorrect, because you're assuming that all the buyers have to have it, when the chip manufacturer is selling into many industries/markets.

Since the specific "IoT device for the USA market" set of buyers is actually a small percentage of sales for most of the parts they sell, they really don't care to support their product from the IoT security perspective. This support is expensive, so it would very likely be cheaper for them to ignore the market completely.
> I wonder how one could measure a language efficiency.

An area of active research:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/co...

* https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingvan-2020-...

A constructed language:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil

* Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/zyi8q/what_is_...

Doing a search for "language information entropy" also gives back a number of results.
Emulators are a whole different story, I didn't realise that's what you were talking about. But emulators are a very niche use-case and they're already running modified images, so they could easily include a way to write certs. The most important (at least from my perspective) uses of custom CAs are done on real devices though, which have always needed a lot of work to modify, so little changes there.
Singapore solved most of those problems decades ago. Essentially:
1. Force children to take care their aged parents.
2. Entice children to buy housing close to their parents.
3. Ensure priority of children living within close of a school to get into that school.
4. Massive subsidies for childcare. Bigger subsidies for working parents and little for those stay home mum dad. This is to avoid situation in the west where you get free money the more unemployed and children you have.
5. Baby bonus tied to the more children you have. Bonus is locked in a special account with very special and limited use for children needs (hospitals, childcare, school fees). Unlike the western countries baby bonus which parents can redirect to buy TV for themselves.
6. Build clusters of community close to each others with facilities to promote society integration.
7. Allowing low cost domestic helpers from neighboring countries with low wages or unemployed. Unlike western countries asking for equal living minimum wages to wrongly think on citizen would rather be domestic helpers or laborer. Use market force to ensure workers able to change jobs as they like to force employers to increase salary to retain workers.
8. Improve low cost healthcare access (though Korean doing this better).
9. Tightly control property market which dont contribute to national productivity. Ensuring everyone has a home and not hoarding homes to bid up prices (one of the downfall of Japan in 80s because allowing overinflated property....Korean and China seems to following Japanese route which can tie up monthly child support money for servicing debts).
10. Superb public transport and highly subsidies transports to ensure the poor can be as mobile as those rich within country.
11. Encouraging more willing to give-birth-foreigners as citizens to damp down arrogant locals of just want to enjoy being singles.
12. Actively tie subsidies with willingness to start family and having more babies throughout every facet of available subsidies. For example subsidies depends on number of households in a home rather than per individual citizen.

This is largely governance issue and not corporate. Korean officials largely undereducated and lack integrity as those in Singapore where they sack officials if even involved in marital affairs NATIONALLY.
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How often does the US put military equipment on the borders of countries like Russia and China without invading?

All the time
I've used GPT-4 extensively for translation to Vietnamese and it's _incredible_. It's the one use case where, after my wonderment wore off, I'm still consistently amazed. Vietnamese is extremely difficult to translate to and from English - every other system I've used sucks badly.

It doesn't give us a rough first draft. It gives us the equivalent of a second or third draft. The equivalent to the final result we'd get back from translators after a lot more back and forth.

Honestly, it's better or equivalent to any human service I've used. Usually when it translates badly, a human would also translate badly and it means that section needs rewriting.

It handles all kinds of things that I wouldn't expect, idioms, jokes, technical writing. There are very few mistakes.

I can only imagine it's even better at Spanish.

We don't pay for human translation anymore. The workload is reduced enough that we do the final editing ourselves.

We still use human translation for legal stuff because that has to be done by an official translator. So I guess that's safe.
Well Europe is doing it with the Digital Markets Act
Romanian:

11

Ea și-a luat adio de prea multe ori (înainte = before, optional).

9

Ea și-a luat adio excesiv.

8

Ea și-a luat adio prea mult.
There’s some 85 mph in the USA in Texas. Mostly 65 mph in the rest of the country though.
Leaving aside the political aims of the governing party, the NHS employs a lot of people, it's the biggest employer in Europe and one of the biggest in the world, so even a 1% raise costs a large sum of money.

Large nominal sums of money are really easy to turn into a negative headline, rather than the cost of using staffing agencies which requires a bit of analysis.

See Brexit for an example. "We're spending £350m per week on this, isn't that mad?!" versus "various analyses and projections show that raising trade barriers and reducing staff mobility will likely have a negative effect on domestic businesses"
For reference, we've just had "Speed Day" where the Garda goes out and mans the speed cameras. There are generally a set of known locations where this happens, and motorists being motorists, there's a bunch of headlight flashing just out of view.

The Garda then give statistics of 0.3% are speeding, but look how fast some people went (typically 160 in an 80 or similar). The RSA, when they did free flow analysis, found more than 50% speeding, and higher percentages in urban areas than rural motorway.

Meanwhile, small roads have slowly had their speed limits upgraded without corresponding infrastructure changes, such that 2 lane N roads over bogs with no shoulders can have 100kph (up from 80), in places where you can see the scrapes from frames hitting the pavement. The boundaries of towns have moved in, so that places that used to be 50 are now 60.
> There are 2 countries I've driven in in Europe with higher limits,

Austria, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Italy all have 130 km/h speed limit on highways.
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