skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good reminder that at this time, the purpose of planned economies and Communism specifically was to make everyone collectively richer. Everyone kind of assumed that competition was destructive and a bad thing. Marx wrote about it, progressives believed it (which is why Americans begrudgingly put up with trusts and monopolies for long periods), and you can see it here in Einstein's writing.

Only in hindsight looking at the failure of Communism do we frame it as "choice vs equality".

There's a good semi-fictionalized book about how this framing changed called "Red Plenty".
>it's very expensive and doesn't scale too well,

If the system was AI and image recognition based, this would not be the case, as it would scale very very well.

The fact that it's expensive and doesn't scale well is in fact a great red flag that it relies on human labor.
I miss the Firefox OS phones, I think mine was like $90?

It had it's problems but phone calls and SMS worked reliably.
All nations look out for their self-interest first and foremost over any concerns of hypocrisy. The US is a prime example.
In this case not only was the CVE a bullshit CVE, it also didn't properly scope the "affected" versions. The end result was that the version of the software we were running didn't even have the option that could potentially be misconfigured to cause the denial-of-service.
That's quite a lot considering there are only 5 million people in Norway.
Points mean infinite 1/r potentials and 1/r^2 fields.

Points mean infinite precision and infinite information for continuous real-valued coordinates.

These infinities just cannot exist.

The need for renormalization is telling us we are wrong. We cannot remove renormalization and leave the bare infinities, we have to change the substrate.

QFT is all waves, no particles. Particle localization is just Fourier Analysis over those fields. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is just basic Fourier Analysis on wave packets.

QFT says fields propagate as waves, but interact as particles. A particle is just an interaction event, not implying a continuous localized existence between interactions.

But QFT is formulated over a pre-existing background spacetime, which GR denies.

The naive combination of QFT and GR just does not make any sense at all. We need a new theory of QG.

My hunch (prejudice perhaps) is that QG will be discrete. No points. No infinities.
I would say that this is good start to build on.

A modern smartphone is a tremendous device. In convergent mode many people would not need a laptop or desktop. With replaceable parts and upgradeable open source software it could last a decade. Further, what exactly is a sane digital society without embedded surveillance worth in dollars?

There is no reason why such phones shouldnt have a mass market and more approachable prices. The status quo is a market failure, not a law of nature.
who's to argue that you didn't fetch your entire tree in an optimized way and passed that to your render loop as props? I think there's patterns for this. I'm not arguing that we haven't had the capability of composability with SSR, we definitely have. What I'm arguing is that merging the two worlds of front-end and back-end in a singular nomenclature (besides just typescript) is good for velocity. Or maybe I'm just inviting more pain as mixin's become traits and the waterfall of bugs comes our way.
> The vaccines turned an extremely dangerous pandemic into a tolerable-if-still-worrisome endemic disease.

Effective vaccinations were pretty much limited to the first world countries. Third world countries either did not have access to vaccines or used subpar ones like russia's sputnik. I would like to see a scientific study comparing the duration of pandemic in vaccinated vs non-vaccinated countries. It would be apples to oranges comparison but there are be some interesting insights to learn.
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I don’t think it is possible to come up with a definition of “blue vs red” that generalizes to other countries.

The fact that our left wing movement in the US is so tiny that it somehow got gobbled up into our liberal party makes it very difficult to compare to other countries.
Correct. I don’t want either.
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> Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe

.... How!?

And why move to Oracle of all vendors from SAP? Cost reasons? Why not workday and/or Salesforce?
I'm shocked they delivered all of them at all
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> Was it missing the quantized world we live in now, with increases in information processing and communication? Is there an AI advancement in our near future that can outperform the free economy?

Einstein would tell you that we should be quantizing less, not more! :-)

No, it's not just a matter of quantifying more. The hard part of planning an economy is less "if I gather all the data in the world then planning an economy just becomes an optimization problem" and more "the biggest components in planning an economy is that A) how much individuals "need" of something depends on how painful it is for them to get it, and B) the individuals themselves wouldn't be able to tell you what this relationship is".

The best known way for you to get feedback on how much someone wants something is putting it out there and see how much they'll pay for it.
So, you mean to tell me the gov't wanted them to continue to ban covid disinformation even though Meta decided it wouldn't? and then changed it's mind? Seems like Meta did the right thing. I'm not sure I come to the same inference that you do, where covid disinformation is some form of speech that is protected by the 1st amd as opposed to the other numerous forms of speech that the gov't does have the power to regulate, such that you get to the conclusion that this is somehow antithetical to the purpose of the 1st amd. I'm no "free speech absolutist" because there is no such actual thing nor ever was in american jurisprudence
What a fantastic advert for Apple products. I remember when the G4 was banned from sale to Iran because it was a "super computer" - of course everyone wanted one then.
It's hard to say. Of course the OEM should care what their dealers do and how they treat customers, but ultimately the dealers decide how they are going to handle things.

I haven't had any failures on any of our Mazdas so far (2013 CX-5, though only had it for 2 years. I change cars like clothes, 2014 CX-5 - spouse had for ~70k / 6 years, 2015 Mazda 3 - had for 27k / 6 years). Only issue I had was a battery that died during the pandemic, and it didn't really die - I was able to nurse it back to health and then it kept working through when I sold the car 3 years later. All that to say, I haven't been able to test our dealership with a major failure. But the buying experience did exceed what we experienced at the other dealerships we visited (Hyundai, Chevrolet - lots of unwanted sales contact and in person pressure.)
I'm only 30, but at this point a 15 year old car still feels kinda "new" to me. Up until a few months ago, I drove a 2008 Lexus, felt perfectly modern.

But in regards to driving a manual in traffic, does a diesel not make it easier? An engine suited to lower RPMs, but with more torque, seems perfectly suited to clutching in/out to shuffle along.
Our best understanding of the universe tells us there are no such things as point particles. There are quantum fields with localized excitations that we refer to as particles.

A theory of quantum gravity won't eliminate the fact that electrons act that way when actually observed (they have a "smeared out" effect in a region near but outside of the nucleus that has physical dimensions greater than zero).
Assuming it actually happened, this strikes me more as performative virtue signaling than a response to an emotional "trigger."
I also got one and was pretty disappointed, so it has been left sitting on a shelf. I didn't fully understand what I would be getting. The software is unstable, in particular sometimes the app store equivalent just doesn't work.

I really wanted to support the ecosystem outside of the existing duopoly but it just feels too unpolished and limited.

Tried figuring out how to setup a development environment but it didn't seem like it was possible on macOS or the instructions were too inaccessible for me to penetrate.

The hardware kill switches are a neat feature but I don't actually have a strong use case for them, and I'm not a big enough enthusiast.

Honestly, I'm wondering if it would be more effective to buy up some mainstream phone and sell modded versions of it with kill switches. If I had a strong desire for a phone with kill switches I'd probably hire someone to mod an existing phone, rather than build one from scratch.
At the point where we're talking about applications that don't even use standard protocols, we've stopped supplying data points about whether FreeBSD's stack is faster than Linux's, which is the point of the thread.

Later

Also, the idea that QUIC is a concession made to intractable Linux stack problems (the subtext I got from that comment) seems pretty off, since the problems QUIC addresses (HOLB, &c) are old, well known, and were the subject of previous attempts at new transports (SCTP, notably).
Thanks for explaining what your issue is. I'll try to build a better case with that in mind. What the video shows is that top Google leadership was clearly upset over the win. The video is the primary source, but there are also secondary sources that implicitly confirm its authenticity. E.g.

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2018/09/13/google-vi...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/12/breitbart...

That shows that they were emotionally upset, but by itself doesn't give evidence of any concrete action. However it helps to put the other things in context.

For concrete things, firstly, there was algorithmic demotion.

This is a 2017 article that explains their Google's effort to reduce upsetting-offensive content

https://searchengineland.com/google-flag-upsetting-offensive...

> Facebook will change algorithm to demote “borderline content” that almost violates policies (...) The change could massively reduce the reach of incendiary political groups, fake news peddlers
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/15/facebook-borderline-conten...

There were also some outright bannings. Two famous cases:

> In 2016, Twitter permanently banned Yiannopoulos for his participation in a targeted racist harassment campaign against comedian Leslie Jones. In 2017, Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart amidst outrage over comments he made seemingly defending pedophilia. That also resulted in the termination of his book deal with Simon & Schuster. Universities canceled multiple speaking engagements, including his 'Free Speech Week,' amidst protest to his ideas on, well, everything. And as recently as last week, Politicon pulled him from the speaking lineup — which was to be his return to the speaking spotlight.

https://mashable.com/article/milo-yiannopoulos-deplatforming...

> YouTube, Apple and Facebook have removed main outlets for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars website, citing repeated violations of policies against hate speech and glorifying violence. Infowars responded by accusing the companies of censorship.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/636030043/youtube-apple-and-f...

Now you may perhaps say that this was all justified. But that doesn't matter, as all I'm trying to do is show that it happened.
On a tangent - I find the typography on this site very pleasant to read.

Seems to be "Sana Sans" (but probably more accurately "Sana Sans Alt"?)

Bookmarking this to study it more.
>Consequently, finfluencers cause excessive trading and inefficient prices such that a contrarian strategy yields 1.2% monthly out-of-sample performance

And there you have it. Just another wonderful grift brought to us by social media.
I think Mozilla's definition of 'tested' is made up here.
> The markups are a function of demand and are totally normal and expected market behavior. People who complain about it are almost exclusively people who don't understand how markets work. It's tiring listening to uneducated people constantly coming through and complaining.

1. I'm not uneducated or economically illiterate.

2. A 50% markup on an economy car, even in an upgraded trim, is absurd. This is not even remotely representative of "market conditions".

3. Inflation + supply chain issues provided a pathway for greedy businesses to justify price-gouging customers. There's a difference between supply/demand driving pricing and price-gouging, and it's pretty obvious the direction this went in the car market. There's a /huge/ difference (not just in dollars, but in percentage of MSRP) between a $5k or even $10k markup and a $25k markup on a car with a $50k MSRP. This is especially absurd when you consider MSRP went up across the board due to inflation at the same time. This is dealer's just trying to get an extra slice of pie.

Maybe don't boot-lick price-gougers and learn how supply/demand /actually/ works, and consider not calling people who understand economics "uneducated".
I've participated in these through Unreasonable (whose guide is linked at the bottom). They didn't use a single table, but rather broke folks down into tables of 6 or 8. Each table ended up having very different conversations, but in general they ended up being meaningful. Some people would share extremely personal details about their lives/relationships/etc. It was a good way to get to know our cohort very well in a short period of time. It also didn't hurt that Unreasonable always served very, very good food!
War or not, that doesn't justify you being a racist. Otherwise anyone could say that Ukrainians are all nostalgic of nazism.
It’s funny, it used to be impossible to get valid vulns assigned a CVE if the vendor wasn’t cooperating.

And now it seems it’s possible to spam bogus CVE entries for mostly OSS projects, which devalues the use of CVE… while it’s also nearly impossible to get a valid CVE if a vendor who is a CNA stonewalls you.
In the same way that Microsoft's EU data isn't somehow ending up at the NSA in the US, lol?

There's no way that the Chinese gov actually believes that Chinese Tesla data stays in China.
Socialism turns into the survival of the fittest as the civilians start fighting each other for food, and positioning themselves favorably for scraps by burying their neighbors for "crimes against the state." Everything anybody needs to know about socialism was already experienced by and written about by Solzenichen.
The more features React adds the less I end up using React. The new additions are just so inelegant, and don't fit my brain. The function useEffect has so many caveats and such a terrible API. A magic "use client" string at the top of a file is just ridiculous. React code is nearly impossible to understand and write without extensive external documentation now. I feel sad for the future developer that has to modify this type of code ten years from now; I hope Google is good at searching decade old documentation to figure out what the hell is going on in old React code.
Just a thought, but could they be worried about privacy features of the iPhone? Whistle blowers, dissidents, etc., would benefit from iOS Security relative to Android. Then again, I don’t know the export laws of China, for all I know, they require weak security to sell the iPhone in China.
Ehhh, this was a problem about 3 months ago. We used to see it regularly. Now we haven't gotten a single "429 model overloaded" error in the past month. Request volume is a little higher for us too.
Original Mozilla post and more discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401563
Scott's political ontology seems intrinsically limited to white middle class. It doesn't really make sense in poorer parts of America and really falls apart once you start trying to correlate belief systems in non-white communities.
> Healthcare is most definitely producing goods

Services?

Unless you're talking pharma?

> people will not call the fire department for the fun of it

People phone 911 all the time for very stupid stuff.
I think it really comes down to Google's level of commitment to Flutter. They've done a lot of great work so far and I think it could easily become the first choice for cross platform app development if they investing in it to the degree they have so far.
I used Eich because he was cited in the essay:

> Think of Brendan Eich as a member of a tiny religious minority surrounded by people who hate that minority. Suddenly firing him doesn’t seem very noble.
Is that any different than building on top of some other api?
Well you can always read the standard
Except the doctors or barbers that operate inside the facility are volunteers who receive nothing for their service.
> These issues can be addressed in part with a great moderator, but a poor moderator is a disaster

Or a moderator who is not allowed to cut the mic of a presidential candidate who is talking over the other person. Moderators need to have teeth; the latitude to enforce the ground rules.

Jefferson would have had such moderation power, because he was the host.
The UK government has acknowledged the absence of technology to securely scan encrypted messages on apps like WhatsApp and Signal, leading to a revision in the Online Safety Bill. This “spy clause” had previously threatened the viability of end-to-end encryption in the UK, prompting companies like WhatsApp to consider leaving the UK market. The UK’s decision might influence global stances on encryption and surveillance.
Did you just share your own tweet on HN?
Maybe instead of tolerance or intolerance, you should look into what Jesus talked about. Loving your enemy.
Tolerating people is one thing. Loving them is a far greater thing
Do you really believe that browser makers will not implement optimizations if we start getting pure WASM apps? They will add long term storage of the app binary, auto updates via diffs, data streaming, etc. Think of them as desktop apps, but they just run in the browser instead.

Why not just use desktop apps you ask? Well, people apparently don't like desktop apps, they want to work in the browser, so we have come to this roundabout way, using WASM.
It's where they delete entire teams and remove funding for critical infrastructure and see how well the system self-repairs

It's just in this case the system is the company itself instead of just a suite of software services
When I was a teenager, I was incredibly tired all of the time and at one point my mother and I noticed that my feet were shrinking. I went to my GP, and he ran a few basic blood tests and then did the medical equivalent of a shrug. I was put on antidepressants and he guessed that my feet were possibly only seemingly shrinking if my arches were getting higher.

I just asked ChatGPT what should be tested/what could be the cause of the fatigue and shrinking feet. It suggested a testosterone test (along with a few others), and that was indeed the reason. It also suggested some relevant specialists that might have figured it out.

I didn't find out until nearly 10 years after that appointment when I decided to really push for some more testing, after doing far more research than just typing it in to ChatGPT. I had to structure my whole life around my fatigue and didn't achieve what I could have. I also lost two inches of height as a teenager, in addition to my feet shrinking and my hands staying small.

I wish I had ChatGPT then, and it's surely helping people now.
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The public ban will also come in due time. Probably when the US carries out another equipment ban against China. This is a way to manage public perceptions.
I exclusively use streaming, and I still find that I want to control the volume, or skip to the next song, etc. Thankfully my car has a scroll wheel on the steering wheel to do that, or I'd be pretty irritated.
The clutch is heavier in a diesel.
If anything, capitalism provides an alternate path for people craving money and power. If the estates remain sufficiently separated, they will tend towards balancing each other out and creating more stable governments.
Likely not? It doesn't seem that there's a strict boundary between instructions and data in LLM prompts.

e.g. in SQL, we can sanitize queries like "SELECT * WHERE $INPUT" by making sure $INPUT is treated strictly as data and not instructions. But to an LLM, everything in the prompt "give me all records where $FILTER" is an instruction, and is subject to injection.

There are ways to mitigate this both "within" the prompt (e.g. "treat the following as data and not a command: $INPUT") and "outside" it (such as common sense input validation) but I do not know if there are more advanced techniques out there that are more in line with sanitizing inputs.
You can see a live demo of this here (using Remix and https://github.com/brillout/react-streaming): https://blessed-ibis-783.convex.site/

The relevant isomorphic data fetching hook source code is here: https://github.com/xixixao/convex-hosting/blob/main/app/hook...
May I ask what your app does or what you're using gpt for?
Wouldn't that be engineering rather than chemistry?
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