skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
net harm in other parts of the world?

Illegality is not directly corelated with harm, sadly.

I mostly agree - but would argue its a lot more gray than black & white.
Here's more info on the case for others interested. https://thehill.com/business/4231072-supreme-court-agrees-to...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair is a timeless classic and it could very plausibly be in a future Earth home, as could any Mies van der Rohe design. It'd be worth a small fortune in that condition. The Emeco Navy Chair is another one that could plausibly appear in a future Earth setting. Putting the Goodform Model 2123 in the offices of the alternate future/past in "Assignment: Earth" is a nice touch.

I have a hard time believing anything from IKEA not have fallen apart in a couple of centuries.
You can say asshole, it’s 2023 no one will get offended. No need for this pointless self-censoring.
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I've now had Covid 3 x times. The first time I had incredible taste and smell loss, taking in excess of 4-5 months to recover, perhaps not even fully.

The other times, I had no loss of taste or smell. I do wonder why it only impacted me the first time. Different Covid variant, or something biologically changed in me, causing it to impact me differently?
When I was interested in trading a long time ago it was common to move shit around in Eth or BTC or whatever until you found your USD exchanger, typically coinbase. Why would this be news?
In other words, a probability-based text generator does not behave like a sentient being. That's hardly an attack; isn't it more of a misunderstanding of the technology?
> God help us.

Good luck, I think God is too busy refactoring his Perl code.
It really doesn’t. Steam or other stores still have to cooperate ro implement the items on each of their stores to make them work on their platform and then have to honour what the NFT claims. That’s still very heavily replying on the platforms and they can still ban you or pull the item out form under you (and we can trivially see this by the fact that people have been selling things they don’t even own as NFTs).

For it to truly destroy the monopoly, the items that the NFTs represent would have to stand on their own, outside of any particular platform, implemented entirely in the NFT smart contract itself, but outside of the most trivial use cases (eg displaying an image) that’s not a technology that exists as platforms would have to at a minimum agree on a standard interface and functionality of items. Right now, it’s also held back by storage and transaction costs (although some blockchains are cheaper than others).

But even then, if there was a common item standard and you could use that to somehow implement cross platform (or cross game or whatever) items, any particular platform could still decide not to honour it or to ban you or whatever they want.
Tax evasion is not a victimless crime.
>in the rest of the world is a harm

Have you ever considered what might happen if that distant, authoritarian state suddenly appeared within your country? It has happened many times before, and I don't see why we should think it won't happen again.

Things turn around faster and faster as technology progresses, at least from my perspective
Are you insinuating that Hamas is not an Islamic jihadist organization?
for businesses, successfully means it is profitable and does not require layoffs.

But it sounds this kind of business may be not scalable.
Try posting as a conservative.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I completely aggree with you. You'd need something advanced like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliers#/media/File:Long-nosePl... to even be able to remove the mic. It's impossible. Don't reward those hackers!
Tax evasion is not its killer app, but I reckon cryptocurrencies can be misused that way.

Tax evasion is possible with or without mechanism. Real world example in Argentina: the way most landlords evade taxes is by charging tenants in cash. They expect you to go to their place with an envelope full of 1000's ARS banknotes.

So far I've not seen rents paid in cryptocurrency, but by extension, would you say cash's killer app is tax evasion indeed?
Hold on to your papers...
That example isn't a linux file system, it's a Conan package. Conan packages are built for a single configuration/architecture, and only used when compiling your project. They live in a local Conan cache folder, and not installed on the system.
if presence of crypto accelerated various central banks towards faster digitization like India's UPI or very recent US FedNow then I'd consider that a success of crypto. you cannot claim otherwise just like you have to acknowledge role of Linux in us not be completely beholden and nickle & dimed to death by the likes of MS/Apple.

to be clear I still think crypto is completely take over by grifters & charlatans & the environmental footprint of proof-of-work is abysmal but still its good to have a decentralized alternative to central bank fractional reserve paper money. its as close to gold as we are ever gonna get now. if it were not so they (not just US but all around world) would not be trying to kill it that hard.

PS: dont own crypto
> Nearly 14 years in, where exactly is this “ton of real world utility”?

You can exchange cryptocurrency for goods and services, even the ones governments and banks don't want you to buy.
The problem is that "simply put it on the blockchain" also means "change the laws around edge cases in nontrivial ways".

For example consider title on property. Just putting it on the blockchain would run into trouble when you try to implement squatters rights https://propertyclub.nyc/article/squatters-rights-in-califor..., or the government takes the title back with eminent domain https://ij.org/issues/private-property/eminent-domain/califo..., or you fail to pay taxes https://www.sco.ca.gov/ardtax_public_auction.html, or the bank forecloses https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-foreclosu....

Additionally what happens when the keys and person separate? Some scammer gets your key off of your computer and sells the title to themselves? Or someone loses the computer on which they had their title, and now can't sell because they can prove that they are them?

The real world is messy. And for most of the messy cases that the world has to deal with, the blockchain makes things worse. Not better.
The Greatest Threat to Generative AI Is Humans Being Bad at Using It
Crypto is used everyday by millions in many countries including turkey, argentina, africa. You may be lucky to have a great financial system in the US but thats a very narrow POV.
This is assuming that they'll look at a non-interactive demo and get why someone would insist on not pre-rendering everything in the first place instead of comparing it against pre-generated video. That was becoming a problem already 20+ years ago in explaining to people what made a given demo impressive, because most people aren't interested in the technical limitations.
Relying on something volatile sounds like a contradiction to me and trust is the core of all currencies.

Every crypto "currency" was dead the moment they dropped stability for personal/miners gains.

Edit: Imagine a system where nodes would gain progressively less by dicovering new blocks but would prevent a timed decay of their wallets by doing so. A naive inverted incentive structure. Would this be a more long term relyable currency?
I hope it comes to fruition! It's too bad that the computational parts aren't outside of the headset so the headset could be MUCH lighter, then I'd definitely be willing to get one. I'm a real VR nerd myself and play often, I've had the original Oculus, CV1, Vive and now Index - the next one will have to be super-light because it's frustrating to not be able to use VR for more than an hour due to neck and face pains.
> Such people never understood velocities, they just memorized some rules.

These are the ones who always express a special dislike for word problems.
Sounds like this was only an effect in 2020 and 2021 covid. Since then, it's seemed to lose those symptoms.
The power of an executive branch agency to propose new rules. (ie new rule making without an act of congress).
The US have copied that shamelessly.
> to compensate for their lack of budget

of the scanlines wink
No, I won't do a bunch of work because a stranger on the internet asked me to, but you can Google it yourself if you want.
Developers target where the market is. Until 2027 or so, that will be the PS5, which is somewhere around RTX 3060 or 2080 I think.
The blockchain is a perfect tool of government surveillance. They can track the flows of money like never before, while most users think it is completely anonymous.

There has been hundreds of stories about how blockchain technology has been a boon to investigators trying to track drug, terrorism and illegal porn money flows.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-blockchain-hacking-arre...
I haven't tested the theory yet, but I do need a longer USB-C cable, the recommandation I heard was that even if you just need a USB-C cable, go buy a Thunderbolt cable, because they you'll be sure that it will also work for all USB-C use cases.
> are they really hand-soldered?

Probably not, at least not in the way most people think of hand-soldered. There are hybrids where a human drives the soldering iron electronically rather than holding it in their hands, although even this the rate of defects would be so high it would make it impractical at even a small scale.
I wanted ARM to succeed too. I have the original Rev2 RasPi board sitting 10 feet away from me, for all the good an ARMv6 SOC does me in 2023. Even back at release it was little more than a glorified embedded SOC that could boot Linux for giggles. I'm willing to acknowledge goofy trash for what it is.

RISC-V feels like it's coming around to the same track. Much like how Broadcom had to shoulder the software support of the Raspberry Pi, Qualcomm et. al are going to have to do roughly the same thing now. If the support on top of those cores is good enough, it won't really matter who makes the chip (a-la ARM's ecosystem). The current cores are certainly on the simple side, but that's the name of the RISC game. Simply having a capable microcontroller spec is enough to dent ARM's market share.
Ugh... I know everyone uses automatic, but I don't really like automatic. Is janky as heck, especially with SDXL, especially if you want to dig into the code and make some manual hacks.

Still, you are right, a native a1111 extensions is quite impressive and exactly the kind of thing Nvidia should pursue.
I made no such assertion. However, PIJ != Hamas. It's factually wrong and unhelpful to conflate the two.
As someone who has been regularly transferring money between the US and UK for nearly a decade, using standard banking means has always been faster and cheaper for me than any of the crypto solutions that I've been presented.
> Claiming Biden "literally" promised to blow it up is a clear falsehood.

You want to say that the video where he gives a promise that he "has means" and "will find a way" to stop the pipeline is a deep fake?
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> Nearly 14 years in, where exactly is this “ton of real world utility”?

That's not a helpful comment, and you aren't even correct. the web was around in the 80s, 70s ... no wait the 1960s.

The number of years its been around is irrelevant to its current or future usefulness.
What real world utility?
Dollars and euros are in areas with the strongest economic regions in the world. What about the billions of people in emerging markets such as turkey, argentina, africa etc that dont have a stable currency to transact?
Your reward function inside your brain works like this.
Every bit of evidence is that the crypto boom has crashed to Earth. In tech it is basically a dirty word now and is overwhelmingly associated with the worst products, the worst teams and the worst get rich and quick sorts. In the rest of the market it has made little to no impact.

Yet somehow BTC is still trading at close to historic highs.

Now to be fair the market cap of all of BTC is 1/4 Apple, but if it were remotely a functioning market or were at all "real", it would be trading at a tiny fraction of that amount. The fact that it still holds is the best demonstration of how illusory the whole sham is.
FYI:

It's an advertisement for the book Shift Happens, a 3 part full-color book about the evolution of typewriters that was originally funded on Kickstarter and should be shipping soon (with limited overflow stock available). I'm patiently waiting for my copy:
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I heard about it on Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod, when they did a long interview with the writer about the process of researching and creating it:
https://techpod.content.town/episodes/171-gratuitous-stroke
It's actually easier to perform tax evasion with cash, as it doesn't leave a transaction history.
> It seems unlikely that any significant number of developers quit using SO in favor of blindly trusting ChatGPT.

Man, maybe it's just me, but I have switched almost exclusively from Google searches and Stack Overflow to just asking ChatGPT. I've been doing dev for 20+ years and GPT4 is like switching from regular tools to power tools. Granted, it's only useful for things that have been done before and are well documented, but most professional software development is exactly that.
Cool, a headless netbeans LSP server is great. It was a while ago but I failed to get the Eclipse based LSP client to work smoothly in neovim.
This should answer your question: https://www.reddit.com/r/streamentry/wiki/twim-crash-course

First impression may not be great. It's kind of cringey at first. It helps to think about this on biological level - there are parts of brain that give meaning to our lives, and this is how we train them.
> Python is hopefully less likely to come with breaking changes in the future.

It's a lesson they're supposed to have learned going from 2 to 3.
It’s likely due to not being able to predict the economy, and progressively becoming more bearish based on the data
Amazon reaches 10k Rivian electric delivery vans in US
I've been using Conan for years with great success. I think you might have missed the documentation: https://docs.conan.io
there's a difference "healthy" as per the philosophy of $coin and "healthy" as it relates to a market.

P2P Bitcoin with no exchanges or ACH-based fiat offramps will reduce the number of coin holders to probably what it was in 2011. That in turn will reduce the credibility of the currency and overall market liquidity as there are so few holders that would be willing to accept it as a medium of exchange.

This is playing out right now in Russia, which accepts INR for oil exports, in a bid to limit the dollar's influence.The problem this has created is that Russian banks are flush with Indian rupees that aren't accepted by other vendors. Everyone takes dollars and euros and yen, but the INR isn't considered as portable.
> a single inference is limited by context length,

Yes.

> multiple agents model is able to process more context at each steps of the reasoning chain

What?

How can a multi agent model have more context at a single step? The single step runs on a single agent. It would literally the same as a single agent?

The multi agent approach is simply packaging up different “personas” for single steps; and yes, it is entirely reasonable to assume that given N configurations for an agent (different props, different temp, different models even) you would see emergent behaviour that a single agent wouldn’t.

For example, you might have a “creative agent” to scaffold something and a “conservative” agent to fix syntax errors.

…but what are you talking about with different context sizes? I think you’re mixing domain terms; context is the input to an LLM. I don’t know what you’re referring to, but multi agent setups make absolutely no difference to the context size.
If you don't like the law, lobby politicians to change it.

You don't get to decide that speed limits are stupid and go 100. You don't get to decide that taxes are stupid and not pay them. You don't get to decide that rules against murder are stupid and ignore them.
Anyone got recommendations on dj sets that are more like offbeat psytrance but contain big drops that make you want to dance?
In a web environment each request is an invocation of a script - sort of, apache spawned a process, nginx used a socket, but generally speaking each request was it’s in own context. You maintain session states in an external storage (disk, db, in memory, etc).

As such errors would be contained within the context of that request, while memory leaks if any would be a non issue since gc is done when the process literarily ends. So that covers that aspect of scaling.

Then all of these external state maintenance dependencies each scale independently. For instance session data can be distributed against endless clusters of redis or nosql instance. Heck some people even used remote file systems for it. Databases would be clustered too - say a couple mysql percona write instances and endless read instances. If that’s not enough then use an intermediary localised storage and queue writes. Or use something like cassandra. Database connections can also be round robin’d since each script would be re executed and connection reopened anyway (can be reused if needed) so they can connect to any server in your cluster. You can also use a database load balancer and sharding, or nosql for fast writes than then get further processed into a relational database.

All in all php webapps can be scaled infinitely. Not as efficiently per instance but fairly straight forward by even average devs with the right guidance.

For some past clients i scaled apps to billions of unique monthly requests with a fairly low effort. Happy to answer any specific question.
I presume you mean Google Earth VR: https://store.steampowered.com/app/348250/Google_Earth_VR/

I'm keen that it gets the credit it deserves - I'm terrified it will stop working one day soon and the world will have lost a true wonder.

(They did just open up the underlying APIs so it would be possible to build a replacement now - although it's free in preview and pricing hasn't been announced - so no idea if it's economically viable)
I have designed and built something that could be described as a microfrontend system (though it's much more restrictive than "do what you like within this part of the page") and though it's been pretty successful I agree totally with the article. It's a lot of complexity if it isn't definitely worth it. Our "microfrontends" are really dynamically-loaded JavaScript modules of a particular type. They conform to one of a small handful of well-defined extension points, including defining UI (in React components, as it happens, but clearly this isn't React-specific). In this way engineers stay more or less on the golden path, and we can do some runtime checks to try and give better error messages. I think if we'd built something more general it would have been a mistake.
You can always hire someone to come over and poke you while you have the headset on.
I'm right there with you, I also grew as a programmer writing lots of PHP. There are many things to like about it, such as the ease of deployment. And how forgiving the language is, especially for beginners - which in retrospect was great for exploration, building my own abstractions and design patterns, but the flip side is that a ton of terrible code has been written because the language lets you.

As I gained more experience, I've become wary (and weary) of how a language or framework can mis-guide programmers into messy code that's difficult to grow and maintain. But then again, as long as the work gets done and money gets made, perhaps it doesn't matter much to some people. For myself, I want to take pride and pleasure in the work, and there are other languages with better design and developer experience.

Living with some of the hellish code that exists in the wild (and honestly terrible code that I've written myself) has been a great learning experience, making me a better programmer. It's important to be sensitive to code smell, noticing how it's going in the wrong direction and what can happen in the long term, understanding how it happens, what can be done to prevent it - and better yet, how a language (syntax, patterns, tooling, ecosystem) can be designed to guide oneself and others so that good code can be written "naturally" by following best practices that are built into it.
That's interesting - did the psychiatrist explained it like that ? I feel the same way for so many months, but also wouldn't call depressed. Just always anxious, never rested, always in a mood... I attribute to work and other stresses though.
>I can distribute revenue from my business between different types of collaborators, without incurring in paying 120% in taxes for having "employees"

Paying in ethereum, gift cards, gold, etc doesn’t change if they are employees or reduce how much tax you owe
God what a crowded market. There aren't just all the established products but for some reason everybody and his brother and his sister and his uncle and his dog wants to make a project management tool.

I can't see how pricing is a problem for startups. I mean, you are paying somebody several thousand per month can't you afford $50 a month a seat to make them productive?

On top of that the low price comes right out of your pocket and makes you automatically less profitable.

I'd rather make a high priced product that can convince people to pay the price. There are very similar products used in areas other than software that are called "case management" it is a market I'd researched looking for applications of semantic technology. You might want to pivot to one of those markets. With software devs you are up against

https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-dont-use-software-that-cost...

An alternate idea is to make this the "anti-agile" project management tool to target the many people who think they hate agile... Maybe it is really agile but it tries to persuade people who hate agile that it really isn't.
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If all you have to do is convert to a stablecoin then convert to USD, isn't that the same thing? Or do you need to take your stablecoin somewhere else and convert that?

I'm not a crypto guy. (obviously)
Intel 4, which will be a very short-lived node that is likely to be used for a single Intel product, i.e. Meteor Lake, is advertised as being the first Intel process that uses EUV.

The next Intel products, i.e. the server CPUs Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids, which will be launched in 2024, will use the Intel 3 CMOS process.

Like also when they have launched their 14 nm and 10 nm (a.k.a. Intel 7) processes, Intel has difficulties in obtaining on the new process clock frequencies as high as in their previous mature process, which is why they had to use Raptor Lake Refresh for desktops and restrict Meteor Lake to laptops (like when 10-nm Ice Lake was paired with 14-nm Comet Lake).

With the previous 14 nm and 10 nm processes, eventually Intel has succeeded to reach very high clock frequencies after many years of tuning and tweaking the processes.

With Intel 4 they will not have the opportunity to do the same, because they will pass immediately to another process node, since that is their only chance to recover a part of the advance that TSMC has over them.
I agree. One of those gems I wasn't expecting. Thanks again HN. The comments are great too.