skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BB(6) might be too large even to store (let alone compute) using all the mass and energy of the universe. I think the computable limit if you converted all the mass in the observable universe to energy (E = mc^2) would be BB(5), assuming adherence to the Laundauer Limit[0].

After calculating this I found a quote in wikipedia[1]: "There is not enough computational capacity in the known part of the universe to have performed even S(6) operations directly." That cited this paper[2], which is probably better than my model at utilizing the total available physics of the universe for calculation purposes. Anyways, the mass of the known universe is on the order of 10^56 grams[3]. Converting this all to energy using E=mc^2 yields on the order of 10^70 Joules (10^88 electron volts). Setting or clearing a single bit of information requires at minimum 0.018 eV. That allows about 10^90 bits.

BB(6) may require on the order of 10^90^2 bit flips. So it is absolutely not computable using all the mass and energy in the universe. In fact, I don't think it's even storable using all the mass and energy in the universe.

I don't really understand Busy Beaver, so if I got any of this wrong please correct me for the record.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver

2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0110141.pdf

3: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=mass+of+the+universe
Pass legislation that makes housing more affordable so that you don't need to have rich parents to buy a house...
Again, though, we're talking about a web dev who had previously been managing their own hand-rolled blogging solution.

Something like sticky menus should be trivial for any web dev: find the menu you want to make sticky in the web inspector. Modify the styles inline until you make it work. Grep the theme for the selector that you modified. Copy your modifications.
I used to fix hacked Wordpress sites, top causes were:

* Using a plugin written by a someone who has no idea how SQL injection attacks works.

* Failure to update WP/plugins after a known security vulnerability.

* Poor general security practices. Tip: don't use your domain name with the "o"s replaced by "0"s. Also, don't create a secret backdoor into your site because the owner has trouble remembering his password.

* Your web host itself has been hacked (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/godaddy-hacke...)
Not that I want US citizenship, but if that was the case...
> Rethink the logic here, not sure if it makes sense.

That invites pointless discussion when most of the points in Linus review are a clear "hell no". Quite sure the last thing someone in Linus position wants is never ending discussions of already rejected ideas, it only wastes time on both sides.
This kind of stuff makes me wonder, are investors really this dumb? Surely they must be able to see something strange is going on when every company ever is suddenly shoving AI into everything, because this has happened many times before but with different things. Maybe they try to keep up the hype because they benefit from it?
It might be different if you could go talk to the boys - with these modern folks you can often literally interview the victim(s) and I think that makes a difference for the reaction
Please stop sending me news e-mails without a one-click unsubscribe
Show HN: SquareDB; a database in 200 lines of code
some men. As well as some women.
Right — the technology we need is not the technology that is incentivized and produced by the market. Indeed, the market is tending to block the development we need.
Google has a large number of experienced and dedicated kernel engineers who are well versed; it should have gone through thorough internal review with them first.
Very cool. The latent space is a wild place.
Saltwater threat to Louisiana drinking water to grow across US, experts warn
Technologically, there is nothing different.
That lowers productivity, which is the topic in question.
It's the nature of their business model.

Wall Street expects that kind of company to put up better earnings quarter after quarter. At some point they have close to 100% market penetration and can't grow by adding more users. But they can always increase the ad load.

The ads in the videos have gotten out of hand. I feel really bad for one of my favorite YouTubers who, in desperation, started his own brand of pre-workout caffeinated chewing gum which seems like such a dumb idea to me. (I think Singapore has it right about gum)

Shorts is another example of business theater, they have to do something to convince investors they are taking TikTok seriously. Trouble though is that it is very hard to convince people involved in online activity A to try online activity B. Look at the lack of success of Threads... Instagram users just weren't interested. It is why Facebook has had to buy so many competitors because even though Facebook has 1B+ users they just can't convert them to play some new game.

Really though, there is some setting to hide "Shorts" and after all the time they tried to show me pictures of pretty young girls shaking their asses they finally showed me something I will click on which is an older lady in the UK who has foxes coming up to her front door, meets foxes in the street, etc.
I'm only a few pages in, and perhaps this paper redeems itself later, but here's my problem:

> To put this problem starkly: allocative efficiency and thus an efficient
market economy is impossible in the presence of private ownership.

What the paper's early pages are saying is that study A found that things could be allocated more efficiently, and study B found that sometimes people hold out from selling things now to gain more later, therefore to increase the efficiency of global (literally) allocation of resources, people should be forced to sell things or pay more taxes to keep them.

This seems to have several problems on its face, that might be dealt with later, but still:

- This is all theory. There is no global optimum to observe, no matter how many papers might be written. Only to theorise about.

- This is relative, and time-sensitive. I might value a property at X because at that moment it's worth that much to me. It might change in the future, or depend on how markets are doing. Should I instantly sell because I have an ice cream shop and people are all eating gelato, and I can't afford the tax so I reduce the valuation to a point where some shark can grab the building?

- Perfect is the enemy of good, particularly when perfect is so poorly defined. This can get a lot worse much more easily than it can get a bit better.
ummm can it get weirder
You're expecting a group of startup employees holding illiquid stock to come up with the cash necessary to buy the finders out on a company that could otherwise sell for (apparently) $273 million?
Purely anecdotal based on my own experience, typing information does very little for me but hand-written notes vastly improve my ability to retain information.
>The act of me giving him credit or not doing it has already been determined.

Scientific predestination? /j
All those bottles of Kary's and Savoie's are not selling themselves to old Cajun ladies. But yeah, you might have gotten a skunky bottle given that the oil can technically go bad. Roux is something I do by hand if I have the time, but I don't sweat it otherwise. There's a methodology for doing it bulk in the oven I haven't tried yet.

The tomatoes thing was mostly just me remembering what Kenji did to jambalaya on Serious Eats here https://www.seriouseats.com/creole-style-red-jambalaya-chick.... That pot would be laughed out of any football game south of I-10. It's so wet that it's gross.
Also has what the product actually IS in the header and everything!
"Updates about mypy, an optional static type checker for Python"
The issue isn't directness. The issue is repeatedly taking needless swipes at the author's competency or intent ("worthless", "complete nonsense", "totally illogical"), when Linus' criticisms are really mostly just small (if valid!) gripes about naming conventions and readability.

This is particularly funny because I remember that several years ago, he publicly apologized for being abrasive and promised to get better... but old habits die hard.

He has every right to run the project as he sees fit, but then, people here have every right to be mildly cranky about that too.
It doesn't actually have a token for Estonian dog, the word " koer" is tokenized as two tokens, " ko" and "er". In my language it's three tokens. In Russian it's seven(!). So any relations to dog and puppy in other languages would have to happen deeper within the model. Just as the tokenizer can't capture that a base64-encoded "dog" is related to a base64-encoded "puppy"
Because SpaceX doesn't want their engineers to have to worry about when & where they can talk about work while they're at work.
If it costs YouTube 2 cents to stream a video to you, and they get 3 cents for delivering the ads with it, let’s say they could pay you half a cent and keep half a cent of profit for themselves. For that to be worth it, you’d need to watch 2x the videos (and ads) for them to break even on the deal, and more than 2x for the deal to make more than the current deal today (you watch 1x and they keep the whole 1 cent). Would actually watch 2x more content to earn those pennies?

These numbers are made up, but explain a possible model of why YouTube doesn't try to induce more views with a monetary incentive.

> Otherwise they have polluted their value prop

> Please. Don't "but you get something for FREE" me -- we're the product and that ain't right.

I think the economic deal is clear to you. You don’t get something for free. You’re paying by watching ads (same as OTA TV broadcast for the last 60 years) and with the collection of your habit data (modern surveillance capitalism). In exchange YouTube serves you videos.

If you don’t like the deal, and they won’t negotiate with you, then you should walk away.

Personally I pay the $14/mo to not see ads; YouTube doesn’t produce content directly but they incentivize the production of a lot of niche content creators who otherwise would never get a deal from Netflix etc, and the YouTube mobile app is the most reliable one I use (better than Netflix, much better than Hulu).
Jehovah was formed by taking the vowel points from Adonai and putting them over the tetragram (Yhwh) in order to remind the reader not to say the actual name of God but to instead say "my lord." https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/840-adonai
To be fair, my own musical projects and every one of the 50 or so bands I've made money playing with has had the same business plan.

I am sure that this effort will be similarly successful.
> Yet another strawman! Nobody demanded ownership forever, but some form of compensation for things you enjoy.

> What you describe isn't art, but the service of creating an artwork on demand as a service.

Not a strawman (and also relevant to copyrightable art) while copyright is able to used to enforce royalties. Fair compensation is 1 work = 1 payment, not 1 work = pay over 100+ years.

(Related aside: Private entities have the right to enter into contracts they wish (e.g. if you personally want to pay an artist over and over during your lifetime, fine), but when it seeps into law that enables third parties to sue, then it is no longer a private matter.)

> If we were doing that, society would be at a net loss,

> Instead, by spreading this amount over consumers, we can have accessible content for most people

Mass media dilutes art, makes it impersonal, limits attention span by encouraging a "fad/fashion" approach to creative works, and forces art to be subservient to things like advertising. You sure it wouldn't be a net gain?

It does make artists lives more difficult, but things that are more important to society are difficult as well, such as being a doctor, so ... no sympathy.
Copyright doesn't apply to AI generated works, so licensing doesn't apply
I recall a comment on here a few weeks ago about how HP printers sold there didn't need you to register them, and never required ink to be installed to use the scanner. Of course this came with a totally different model number.

God, I wish costco existed in my country. The closest thing we have requires you to show them invoices to prove you're a trading business.
My response would be the same one I gave here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37916016

The degree of the subject's immorality has no bearing on my point. In fact, it's arguably better to use a "worse" example, by your definition, since it actually challenges the reader to consider the point more carefully. If the subject's crimes are petty, the reader might accidentally ignore my point, instead just jumping to the easy and fallacious thought, "yeah I agree, that person didn't do anything terrible", and moving on.

That said, to be clear, I don't have an opinion on where Feynman's indiscretions fall on the spectrum. I don't know the details beyond womanizing/objectifying/going after women in relationships. Again, I'd make the same comment regardless of the answer.
https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/10308aee-b9a1-4f08-8236-fa86...
You guys friendly but too noisy, entitled, and bordering being offenders...from my single sample experience, take it as you like
Taxing primary homes is regressive and counterproductive. Tax empty lots and commercial / industrial zones to encourage better uses. Tax personal income, not property.
"something like this" i think i would replace with "embedded applications".. too late to edit of course
how many youtube alternative frontends are there?
Yes and: Seeing Like a State, the notion of legibility, really gelled these concepts for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
They've in the past raised some concerns about what it means that an old post re-surfaces on a new URL, signed by an old instance and it does make sense to do some thinking about exactly how to handle that. One option is to have the instance sign it, and drop the old actor id etc. from it, but then it will seem like it's originated from that instance to anyone who pulls it. So it's just a little bit of a hassle to work through the edge cases.
The seeming frequency in this thread with which people seem unable to distinguish between love and lust (or how one can lead to the other, and their otherwise complex interworking) is evidence many have yet to experience one or the other. The 'other' being rather self evident. And that's quite sad.

One of the few times I'm reminded how much time I spend posting in an online text forum, and oh boy what a bubble we enjoy conversing in.
> The vast majority of Finns reading kirjakieli aloud are going to subject it to many of the puhekieli sound changes

Then I'll be surprised. After all, that doesn't match the general understanding of Finnish having very shallow orthography (see e.g. the Wikipedia article). I'd be interested if you know research on this.

But even making all the sound changes does not turn the standard written language into the colloquial language, which entails some vocabulary and grammar changes as well.

Let me reformulate the experiment: Someone reads a text aloud as it's written and you ask if people still understood, if something was said incorrectly or even if they notised anything weird. It shouldn't be weird in any way, as you hear non-colloquial language all the time on TV etc.

> if they speak a regional dialect with significant phonetic changes, they will apply those sounds

Then I'll be very surprised. To begin with, wouldn't that in most cases go totally against the phoneme-grapheme correspondence of Finnish?

Secondly, when you intend something to be read aloud in a non-neutral way (colloquially or in a dialect), you write it that way to begin with. Why would the reader translate neutral language to non-neutral language and how would the reader know which dialect to use?

Finally, as the reader would be essentially translating the text from the standard language to the dialect, it would seem unnecessarily demanding for an otherwise simple task.

> The languages I gave as examples above, are typical examples of diglossia.

Finnish as a typical example of diglossia? The differences between the two registers are not that big to begin with, and it's a continuum with e.g. the languages spoken on TV falling mostly in some unspecific region in the middle.

I do understand that the prevalence of the two extremes can be problematic to learners of Finnish as a second language, because in a way you have to learn two dialects at the same time even though one is mainly written and the other is mainly spoken, and you never know which exact spot on the continuum is used by someone.
> I find "dynamic during runtime + static during development" to be a highly potent combination

Except you miss out on massive performance gains and your software runs 10x slower because of runtime type-checking. It's actually the worst of both worlds.
People trying to introduce logic into the study of religion & spirituality do not have your best interests at heart.
At first glance I thought this would be an article about corporate HR's "Performance Improvement Plans"
I want a system (a wiki?) where there is a table with the Greek language transcription on the left, one row per section, and English on the right. You can access the original image easily. You can edit and talk and comment.

What systems exist like this for managing manuscripts and their collaborative translation and discussion?
There sure won't be any AI metal songs, they even filter out the word "angry"..
This is a vibes based argument though. I can make similar claims about how improved worker satisfaction will lead them to work harder, make less mistakes on the line, boost morale and have a multiplied effect on productivity as they not only work better themselves but the entire team works better if they're happier. There are even some studies to back up these claims, so I was just curious if there's evidence to the contrary.
And 1.5% is a ridiculously high amount for what they actually do. Strike will list you on rightmove for free, and do photos etc for about £800. Purplebricks in the £1k range (£1300?).
The Fight over the Future of Encryption
> So I am unclear how the explicit taxation of land value and improvement value that exists currently causes differences in behavior from the land value tax system you outlined.

Land with a skyscraper already on it and land next to a skyscraper have related but not equal market values. Switching from a tax on market value to a tax on land value rewards the the owner who developed their land and punishes the owner who didn't.
Is there any clout in providing unpaid labor to a body shop? I'd think the opposite, but I am probably an outlier.
Based on my e-mail they appear to have a sprawling monarchy with poor financial infrastructure
That's kind of weird, the whole thing strikes me as a reasonable fudge around the GPL (which I agree is incredibly important.)

Do your homework in the ecosystem and you can get that experience, or just pay to get around it seems reasonable, if definitely not ideal?
From my understanding of the union model in the Nordic countries, the intention is to push the business to be better, not simply a game of competing adversarial interests
Where is "why" in this repetitive review? Also, what is the values of bluntly repeating in a more aggressive style vs bluntly saying the same thing once in a more professional manner while also explaining the reason (lack of details)

> First off, the simple stuff: the commit messages are worthless. Having

check seal for mmap(2)

as the commit message is not even remotely acceptable, to pick one
random example from the series (7/8).
"May", but really, it's best for `setenv()` to leak.
As far as I understand, the idea is to incentivise the kind of wealth-creation that is good for society by taxing it less than other kinds. The idea is definitely not to introduce a land tax on top of all the existing taxes.

Historical Georgists were also called "single taxers" because of the idea to abolish all other taxes, but make up for this by a tax on land ownership that leaves the state with the same income stream as before. Apart from being (in their view) socially good, this would also have the advantage that landowners couldn't just move their land to the Cayman Islands to evade the tax.

I don't think modern Georgists are quite that single-minded, but I do get the argument that, for example, VAT is a tax on the poor in the sense that even people whose income is low enough that they're not paying income tax in the usual sense have to pay it every time they buy something (unless it's exempt), but taxing land would truly be a tax on the more affluent only, at least in a country where most poor people rent their accommodation.
I'm not as familiar with those cases, but yes, it seems to be similar for them.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133523740/cvs-health-agrees-...
Ay, yes. Though it could be made lock-less.
What do you mean by "leftists being lefists"?

In Sweden nine out of ten employees work under a collective agreement. Are you saying some 90% of Swedish people are leftists?
I sense some dissonance here:

"I interview at FAANG companies and refuse to interview at FAANG companies"
Been there, done that. It's already hard to scale those two apps beyond your immediate circles and people won't just stop using WhatsApp or Viber or whatnot. But then try to convince your friends that they have to convince their friends. Friendships are not a pyramid scheme.