skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is a massive influx of naturalized Americans to a limited number of geographic areas bring their culture, good and bad, with them. This causes a dilution of the melting pot effect typical of areas like say NYC. If there is suffering that can be effectively reduced by legislating against it, then it needs to happen. IANAL, so I can't speak to if this was something useful or if it was a liberal purity test pandering to a demographic.

In my limited experience, the few Brahmins I worked with were absolutely intolerable, toxic, mean people. It was probably an aberration as I don't have a large enough sample size to condemn an entire group as "mostly horrible because of a caste system".
Right... but using virtual threads I got 1,000,000 (in a second or two...) and likely for fraction of the memory. And I can even get many millions without a problem.

I agree that for a low volume typical CRUD-only server that never bursts above a few dozen requests per second that's not an issue.

Messaging is one special "rare" case.

Imagine a messaging channel in Slack/Discord/Telegram/WhatsApp-type app, where there's thousands of participants (say 10,000) in one channel. 1 person posts a message...

9,999 messages are generated (one to for each of the other participants). One might say, that can be handled with a few machines...

Now imagine a person posts something super interesting to the channel where 100 people respond with an emoji reaction almost instantly.

Now you have 100 * 9999 = 999,900 (!) messages, all within a few seconds! And this is for just one message _reaction_. Each one of those messages likely involves multiple steps of IO (sending/receiving data over the socket, writing to one or multiple databases...). So a thread might be blocked for hundreds of milliseconds at various times, which would ultimately likely require 100-1000x more servers to operate as scale increases.

The thing is that you _can_ write a program efficiently using regular threads by using asynchronous techniques. Another name for such style of programming is _callback hell_ :) . And when something does go wrong, it is a lot harder to debug.
My favourite of the comments in the thread has got to be "The state doesn't define Bitcoin and neither does a private company that is a basic fact of the technology, my node does.", as an explanation of why Bitcoin doesn't count as an investment regardless of what the law says.

I would be really interested in what the IRS and the legal department of the company mentioned in OP think of this novel theory about the origins of law. My personal inclination is that they would have about as much respect for it as your average judge has for sovereign citizen theories of law.
the "my profile" link is dead. i wanted to mention this on the thread for your program fx too but it's closed. where is fx source code now?
Are you hiring? I'm looking for a job that will allow me to explore my passions. My passions are: video games, anime, and watching youtube videos about video games and anime.
Sure but it has likely been decades since they practiced their speciality. If lockheed were hiring these generals for their technical expertise why put them on the board of directors?
> Bad faith actors are looking for easy, plentiful targets

Citation needed, especially when we know that spear phishing is the simplest of the known exceptions to this. I.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37720580
Open source or not, apparently the no cost version is limited to 100 contacts, making that version a toy at best. At $29/seat/mo, it's not far away from far more mature all-employee Zoho One at $37/seat/mo (paid annually).
that is so cool, my god! Bash is this awesome underrated thing (relative to how I perceive it being used). It's so cool that there's basically a virtual filesystem that maps the internet to your disk...haha.

This even works on my Mac.

But one issue I encountered was timeout. I just tried:

: < /dev/tcp/google.com/8080 && echo OK || echo ERROR

and it hung. So I asked ChatGPT and it suggested

timeout 5 bash -c ': < /dev/tcp/google.com/8080' && echo OK || echo ERROR
Not GP - but I come from a lower caste family. Although I was born and raised in the U.S, I cant recall a a single time someone wanted to know my caste or made it an issue. I have several friends who like me are of South-Ancestry. A diverse multi-ethnic group whose parents came from all over India. None of us are even aware what caste hierarchy we fall into.
This is going to be a very unnpopular opinion, but the United States is not going to start WW3 over Taiwan. It is a bluff. There is virtually no support in America for going to war with China over some tiny island country, and Biden wants to pretend we will, but we won't. It will never happen.

We may apply sanctions and China might turn into an western pariah state, but no one in the west is going to think it's worth it to fight world wide nuclear war and join the army to defend a tiny island with what feels like a throwback to the 1970's with it's unmaintained infrastructure.

The only way China could actually pull the United States into this kind of war is with a pearl harbor style direct attack on our territory or our capital ships, but even then. It's a total bluff.

As much as I believe in democracy and don't want to give Taiwan up to China, I think we have to live in reality on this.
I agree but to go further, for an MVP: Just release a regular web app that does a decent PWA!

In Chrome you can turn any page into an taskbar iconned app from the menu now. Tell your users to do that. Actually an easier “install”. Web APIs do so much and you can integrate with Dropbox/OneDrive for file access (or use the apis if you want).

Offline is available using service workers. Camera, location, touch, gyro, etc. are all available.
Submarine rescue: A challenge for today that CIA spies accomplished 50 years ago
https://archive.ph/gT72O
Weird. I’m a guy and never felt this way personally.

Why would I be a burden on others? I’ve never perceived this.

I support myself and that’s all I need. Doesn’t take much at all to support myself, at least in my experience.
I’m saying it’d be a lot more plausible an argument if they actually went into roles where some other domain expertise applied. Board members is not one of those roles, especially when they’re joining the boards of companies working on cutting edge tech like AI and drone platforms.

Most of these generals also went through the military academies, not ROTC or some other pipeline. They had to convince a member of Congress to recommend them, so yes navigating politics plays heavily into their career from day one.

Plenty of other career officers go into consulting or actual leadership roles but the generals named in the article are bought off with these board seats to use their influence over military decision makers, not some other nebulous expertise.
I don't want a first person shooter. I was very disappointed when Elite Dangerous started going in that direction. I bought the game to fly sweet space ships, possibly in formation with friends. I just want to do cool space stuff.

I think there's a case to be made for galaxy-wide sandbox gameplay. The truth is that space is empty and it's up to us humans to make it not so. The Subnautica-like basebuilding found No Man's Sky is a major source of fun in that game. It's what makes the galaxy feel alive and dynamic. Elite Dangerous lets you land on planets but there's nothing to do but admire the scenery and take screenshots when you do.

Kerbal Space Program is a single player game which also has mostly empty worlds but it's also a sandbox game. I can build and launch a space station piece by piece. I can later use that space station as an orbital refueling station to reach more difficult planets. I can land on nearby planets and set up a mining operation to refuel the station for the benefit of future space missions. It goes on and on... KSP2 was disappointing not because it didn't have FPS or diplomacy gameplay but because it launched without these features of the original as well as massive peformance regressions.
See below. Clearly Fox News was spreading misinformation at the cost of $787,500,000 to them. MSNBC nor CNN have not faced any similar misinformation lawsuits as far as I know. Also as far as I know but I may be wrong Fox News has not made much news about this lawsuit nor apologized to its viewers for misleading them. In other words it continues to mislead them.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170339114/fox-news-settles-b....

Another lawsuit accusing similar deliberate spreading of misinformation seem to be ongoing, against Fox News not CNN, not MSNBC.

https://www.smartmatic.com/us/lawsuit-updates-fact-checks/
Seems we were smart enough to learn how to generate energy from fossil fuels, but not smart enough to know to stop.

Quite fucking terrifying.
That’s a tiny number of contacts.
It only takes someone in management to realize that you increase the revenue by selling more of an existing product or raising its price. You reduce your costs by firing people or renegotiating the prices with suppliers.

"Increasing efficiency" is mostly a theater meant to demonstrate effort during low/no growth periods and without viable products in development to validate such dynamic.
You heard it here first: Electron Squared or simply E^2: run Electron apps within Electron itself. Will open up a whole new industry (and RAM factories will drown in money).
Because getting truthful answers would make users happier?

Seems like common sense to me.

Who’s asking the chat bot questions not looking for or wanting a truthful answer a lot of the time?

If the model understood or captured “human interest” at all in its training this should be pretty fundamental to its behavior.
Hopefully it gets digitized and shared with the world!
So, I came up with a pretty decent neural net from scratch about 20 years ago - it ran in the browser in Flash. It basically had a 10x10 bitmap input and an output of the same size, and lots of "neurons" in between that strengthened or weakened their connections based on feedback from the end result. And at a certain point they randomly mutated how they processed the input.

I don't see anything wildly different now, other than scale and youth and the hubris that accompanies those things.
AI is going to be a slow burn, slower than most seem to think.

After that... Who knows? Maybe hype will go back to mechanical stuff like robots, flying vehicles or nanotech.
Why are they paid for quantity not quality though?

Sounds like it is a choice of the model creators then if they could instruct their testers to reward quality.
I've encountered bats twice at my house in semi-rural washington. One was hanging out in a can light on the ceiling of my deck... It meerly frightened the hell out of me, but didn't bite me; it made a kind of growl when I touched it, not realizing it was an animal. I came back some time later and it had left.

I found another one dead on the same deck a year or so later. As it wasn't white nose season, I had to dispose of it myself.
Do some research; other live TV options are roughly comparable--so go ahead and subscribe to the best alternative. For example:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/top-channels...

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/best-youtube-tv-a...

https://www.firesticktricks.com/youtube-tv-alternatives.html
All machine learning is just renormalization which in turn is a convolution in Hopf algebra. That's why you see superposition

"In physics, wherever there is a linear system with a "superposition principle", a convolution operation makes an appearance."

I'm working this out in more details but it is uncanny how much it works out.

I have a discord if you want to discuss this further

https://discord.cofunctional.ai
It isnt, I was trying to make subdecks of other decks and trying to manage vocabulary imports with csvs from the sources I was getting words from. Things were more tied together then just being cards. I dont remeber exactly what I was doing with it, it was a few months ago and I gave up on it.
I don't agree that the entire mindset of the nation is just resource extraction. I would say it definitely should be, since that's the obvious thing to do when you have a crap load of resources and highly overpriced/under productive labor pool that can't compete effectively at any of the high skill international jobs for any sustainable length of time. It's more like some of the country has a mindset of doing the obvious thing to improve its wellbeing (i.e. prairies) with the rest of it eyeing ways to extract a living from those places doing the right thing without having to get their own hands dirty (i.e. keeping banking in Toronto, along with head offices for various other oligopolies, or directly through unjust tax transfers). This dichotomy is present inter provincially but also increasingly in the provinces split between city and rural.
Yeah and Karateka was already super famous at the time.
> Apple has been pretty clear they really don't want you poking around on their systems.

Sorry, _Who’s_ system? Apple can do with their systems whatever they want, but mine is mine, not Apple’s
A plug for PureScript:

Haskell-like syntax, row polymorphism, nice interface for records. Warts removed from standard libraries. Everything is a total function, but otherwise names and type signatures will be very familiar. Strict evaluation. The primary compile targets is JavaScript, second most popular is Erlang. Excellent FFI.
To me, it sounds more like a good lead for pruning.
Einstein, in 1949, Predicted How and Why Society Would Go Sideways
Having implemented a few different CRM systems, I think that CRM systems should be opinionated and enforce business rule best practices for most users.

When I meet a CRM salesperson, and they're like our software will do whatever you want and we will create it, you have to read between the lines and translate it. What they really mean is "Our software isn't designged to work for most general use cases, implementation will require a team of really expensive developers to create and maintain, we will tell you we are making custom fitting "cuture" software and you will be sending us a boat load of money for the rest of your company's life if it works or you will burn a giant pile of money until it doesn't work.

This isn't my first rodeo. If you have to extensively customize the software then the cost of the software will end up being moot and the cost of the people to run it will end up costing a fortune forever.
Only the people in the medical establishment that are allowed to voice their opinion.

For example this renowned professor with hundreds of publications has been silenced. While he believes boosters are a very likely cause of recurring cases of cancer.

https://youtu.be/PnJ5T1Enwq4
https://archive.ph/2023.09.29-193242/https://glenhendrix50.m...
Turnstile fails spectacularly for me using the materialistic app to read HN articles. Not sure yet why.
Ask HN: Why have people started including GPT in their usernames?
I noticed here, and on other sites there's a number of new accounts that end in GPT: Jaguar_GPT, shat_gpt, ChumpGPT, etc.

I don't really get the appeal of adding GPT suffix, especially when people act against GPT generated submissions. Is there any "reason" to this? Is this a thing?
the UAW strike, the largest nurses strike, the writers strike, occupy wall street.

be the change
I agree with the parent comments. You will spend an absurd amount of time making library components, and you can't trust 3rd party. The 3rd party sites are a great starting point to take out some of the grunt work, but you need to tweak them.

Your (cad tool) component library is your most valuable resource, and in my opinion more valuable than schematics/layouts. You have your own proven set of components that you know will work in manufacturing. Even the standard passive SMD footprints need to be tweaked for your specific requirements (ISO, design for manufacturing etc).

In regards to Kicad... great tool for 90% of designs. I would say as a rule of thumb, if your design can be manufactured at one of those online, cheap PCB manufacturers (for say, $10-$20) then Kicad will cover it. Once that calculator tool starts going higher you're probably doing someone more complicated that warrants the more expensive tools.
Stars Arena Exploited for $3M
I read that was speculation or at beast, it had a very very minimal impact...do you have a link to the article?
Except the emergent properties at scale? At some point you go from making word like sentences, upping the neurons/architecture you get real sounding sentences and then upping again with RLHF loops you get impressive emergent intelligence and ability to solve tasks that were not forseen. It is a rare bird that’s not impressed with 2020s AI.
This is one of the reasons I will cling to remote work no matter what. Remotely, spending hours in pointless meetings is free time to play video games or work other jobs.
I was actually building something like this earlier this year. Depending on your email provider, they will have an API, eg Google's Gmail API, Microsoft's Graph API, etc.
What blows my mind is that there are people pouring $3M into such random projects. Who are these people? Are they really looking for Cragslist ads saying "I will 10x your money, trust me bro, it's totally safe and legit"?

Unless I'm completely out of touch, which is, of course, absolutely possible, and maybe even probable.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35120757 :

> TIL electronics.stackexchange has CircuitLab built-in: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/241537/3-3v-... . Autodesk TinkerCAD is a neat, free, web-based circuit simulator, too; though it supports Arduino and bbc:micro but not (yet?) Pi Pico like Wokwi. [... awesome-micropython, awesome-circuitpython ]
Robots won't necessarily come after the slow burn has ended.

I think they will further add fuel to the fire.
A Florida man who shot down a law enforcement drone faces 10 years in prison
How is my take simplistic? I wasn't even really arguing in favor of the law, nor was I opining on the concern you raise about the chilling effect on companies in terms of hiring Hindu employees (I think your point is reasonable).

I was merely pointing out several inane things about the post to which I was replying. That post raised no reasonable arguments for its position, and showed a lot of ignorance about what the law would actually do.
/? glucuronidation:
https://www.google.com/search?q=glucuronidation

/? "glucuronidation" "bpa":
https://www.google.com/search?q="glucuronidation"+"bpa"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucuronidation does not list BPA. What is the strength of evidence?
Thanks for the recommendation. I was under the impression the X games were strategy games for some reason. I'll definitely check it out.
> Seth Godin states the problem, great , but offers nothing in the way of progress towards a solution.

This is true of every Seth Godin link posted here. The blandest, most anodyne, generally accepted practices only.
Put the sound files on an Amazon s3 or cloudflare r2 bucket and have the app download them. Maybe put a json file on there too and the app checks if the json has any files which aren't downloaded and if so, it downloads them.
New is relative, of course. Movies are a perfect example of that. Think about how far movies came in 50 years and think about how much gaming will progress in that same time.
Anthropic must be walking on multi-dimensional tightropes. They want AI
safety, and probably want to avoid every Tom, Dick and Harry having a powerful model. But research output picked up by Meta and various discord group could turn the wooly LLMs into powerful contenders and then you have access to the power for all. I don’t have a strong opinion on what is better,
but I lean slightly towards models in the open.

After all us plebs are allow to use
computers and latest CPUs and internet and stuff already! Yes there is
shit happening like scams, and worse but it is better than limiting what people can do.
> Macs are some of the easiest things to administer because of the rock solid MDM, nuke and block, lost item mitigation (as soon as declared lost, can wipe remotely, and even sometimes track via geolocation for filing police reports and for insurance claims).

All these things you mention are not “administration” in a “manage systems that end-users use”, they are “manage devices” activities. Macs have the literal worst business/enterprise administration administration/manageability experience. At previous $client, they had in excess of 30k desktops, and in excess of 50k total endpoints.

They spawned a new opco, and that new opco wanted all macs. 12 months along, that was all thrown out because of the ongoing challenges of securing, managing, and administering the devices, and supporting the userbase. It wasn’t even a TCO thing (that was also wild, about 4x over a “regular” workplace, that being either Win10 or a supported Linux build), it was a “we never want to see Mac’s in the entire global organisation ever again.

Macs have their place. There are plenty of environments where they can function adequately. Medium and Large Enterprise isn’t amongst those, and that is 100% due to the dire administration experience.
Cost and risk of the vaccinations vs risk of infection.

Many pets are likely to interact with wild animals that may carry rabies, but few humans are. Most humans with elevated risk of rabies are aware of it, and can get a sequence of preemptive vaccines.

Additionally, most humans bitten by an animal will consider rabies at that time, whereas few pets are able to provide a description of the animal that bit them.
I this a bit of a fringe website ? I've been catching up on other podcasts featuring Chris Field [1] and he seemed a LOT less alarmist. He was on the Sam Harris podcast from September 6. Maybe the world has begun to implode since then?

Disclaimer: I'm a father and absolutely not interested in shutting down the conversation about this, something about that website just gets my BS detector going.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Field
I work for a company that employs 100k people.

The effects of my work strategy and behavior on the company's revenue, profit, vision, products are zero.

On the contrary, the effects of my work strategy and behavior on my salary and position can be quite pronounced.

My company can fire me tomorrow, they will forget my name in 5 days. To "fire" my company, I need to find another job, maybe in another city, working with colleagues I don't know who may eat food at lunch break I don't like the smell of.

It is not hard to guess where I spend most of my efforts and thinking.
> emergent intelligence and ability to solve tasks that were not forseen

What's your best examples of this? Some of the most impressive examples I've seen ended up being likely in the dataset, or very close to being so. I've yet to see something where it definitely wasn't approximately in the dataset and was solved in a way that seemed to use some sort of novel process, but open to being wrong.
Wisdom is realizing that fixing the social and political structure of the org is often against the interests of enough people, or at least troublesome enough, that ultimately a lot of people will fight to maintain a pathological status quo, and actively subvert reform, instead.
But still you'd never be caught; and even if you were, a company would never sue an individual for this, because of bad publicity and lack of precedent.

See: piracy, which also defeats DRM. Individuals haven't been sued for that since Limewire.