skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any thoughts on preventing the general Nazi atmosphere of modern Twitter seeping into the mainstream discourse via your journo buddies? It's a real sewer there at this point. How do you inoculate yourselves?
You missing my point and moving focus away from the specific question I'm trying to ask.
Instead you question my moral compass.

Can you please stay on track for a while?

Here is one of many stats you can find about US being a leader in charity and donations https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics-on...

I agree that maybe the way it is organized in US is not optimal, but the amount of money is way beyond many other places.

> it seems obvious to me that they would commit fewer crimes, require less resources of policing and punishment

Remember not so much time ago it was obvious for everyone that the Earth is flat?

I wonder what evidence you have for yourself to support this for yourself? Just an intuition?

> Do you think more police, more prisons is the best solution?

Nope, I don't think so.
Why? Because police and prisons most of the time address the symptoms, not the root cause.

And I assume that some seemingly immoral ideas like UBI contribute to the root cause, so I try to find more opinions and views on this.

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Anyway, can you please answer a more simple question — is it moral to choose to be a free loader in a society (if this is your free choice)? Or it depends?
This is both trippy-looking and very informative at the same time. I love these!
A 500km range sounds like the range of a fully charged electric battery, but not the range from a single day of charging off the solar cell.

As a concrete example: folks have tested the 2024 Toyota Prius Prime and find that a full day of charging generates just under 1 kWh of power over the whole day (not 1 kWh per hour, 1kWh total) which yields just under 3 miles of driving (given 40 mi range and a 13.6 kWh battery). And as a sedan it also weighs about 25% lighter than a "typical SUV". Suppose this student car has 3x the solar panels as the Toyota -- that would only give you 9 miles or 14.5 km of range.
> ...less likely ( the sort of) people (who will tend to congregate and can/must tolerate being) around you are to tell ...

I suspect that a deep seated constitutional aversion to hanging around insufferable egoists who strongly or completely discount the role that chance has played in their success is one of the main reasons I would never make it far in politics, hollywood, or the Silicon Valley tech scene.
I think the writer is an AI...
Yup, that BC's UI hasn't changed since 2016 is a good thing.
Which AWS Cert in particular?
I believe that the point is the processor was designed to please C (by emulating PDP-11). And this design complicates things immensely, which is how we end up with side-channel attacks on our processors.
That sounds like the exact opposite of what the original poster intended. And I’m pretty sure when either Drew DeVault or the OP is picturing a neoliberal neither is thinking of Margaret Thatcher.

I guess words don’t have to mean things any more.
What do you mean by manual tracking? And how is there no volume control? Can't you just change the volume on your device?
do you have anything to say on the topic?
These are all great points - who or what you ask to manage memory is a design decision and IMO there's two main ways to do it (in the context of chatbots):

* implicit memory management, where the "main LLM" (or for chat, the "dialogue thread") is unaware that memory is being managed in the background (by a "memory LLM", a rule-based script, a small neural network, etc.), and

* explicit memory management (MemGPT), where one LLM does everything

Prior research in multi-session / long-range chat is often implicit, with a designated memory creation process. If I had to guess, I'd say the vast majority of consumer chatbots that implement some type of memory store are also implicit. This is because getting explicit memory management to work requires a lot of complex instruction following, and in our experience this just isn't possible at the moment with most publicly available LLMs (we're actively looking into ways to fix this via eg fine-tuning open models).

The tradeoffs are as you mentioned: with implicit, you don't have to stuff all the memory management instructions into the LLM preprompt (in MemGPT, the total system message is ~1k tokens). But on the upside, explicit memory management (when the LLM works) makes the overall system a lot simpler - there's no need to manage multiple LLM models running on parallel threads, which can add a lot of overhead.
Mastodon, Threads, and blogs. News websites like CNN.

edited to add: the problem now is that it's often genuinely fake news on Twitter and you have to separate the wheat from increasingly large piles of chaff. You have to be extremely diligent about curating your account to do that.
GitHub WallOfGreen
or where the journalists go to find that one tweet with outrageous claims, to then spin in a full article on how "people believe X!"
Nothing is "unstoppable", especially a vulnerable platform like Twitter with DMA coming up.
It sounds like someone described a real problem (ambiguous interactions with everyday things) and someone else stole that term and said "we can apply it to the thing we add to fix the problem we created with our bad design".

Sadly, this kind if linguistic trick is quite common.
ec2 is just vps. you can put whatever you want on it. my startup uses eks (aws) with some extra tuning. for one, you need to allocate one container per vps as the beam likes to grab all the cores. there's also the additional network configs to make sure the nodes can discover each other. swarm has tooling for this. I won't say its easy but its doable and pretty resilient once you have it up an running.
I'll have to go try this out again. Lately I've just been relying on Feedbin to let me watch subscribed channel videos (quite a nice experience actually), but that misses out on a number of features which I might be able to get from this.
what is the source of this data?

the fallacy is that global free markets are exclusive to capitalism. we're trading with china, and aren't they supposed to be socialist?

and i'll add to my reading list to challenge my bias!
Ok, so dumb question, how many crimes in the US have used a 3d printed gun?
Reminds me the Deja Vu movie and how they maneuver angles.
The fact that YCombinator doesn’t need to optimize the platform for profit/advertising for the business to continue to run profitably means they can afford to maintain rules which encourage only niche high quality discussions and keep high standards for moderation.
They're not being asked to give up their IP rights: they can create new franchise entries. It's about making the original z-code files redistributable.

How OpenAI and text adventures could possibly fit together is beyond me, though.
That sounds like very basic code review - which I guess is useful in instances where one can't get a review from a human. If it has a low enough false-positive rate, it could be great as a background CI/CD bot that can chime in the PR/changeset comments to say "You may have a bug here"
Well, as long as you're being entertained with hotter takes...
Not seeing how that is related?
Real Estate Brokers Pocketing Up to 6% in Fees Draw Antitrust Scrutiny
The question seems a bit confused as posed. On the one hand, asking God "why is there something rather than nothing?" is odd if one is looking for the cause, rather than the reason or motive. If you're asking God, then you're addressing the Cause! But why does God create the universe? If God is perfect, then He has no need to create, thus it must be a free act. It must have been for the sake of those created.

If you're asking why there is existence, first, existence does exist, as existence "is" existence, and second, God is Existence Itself (Ipsum Esse Substitens) by which everything is, so again, if you're addressing God, you are already addressing the Act of Existence Himself!
This whole approach would massively increase the cost of distribution due to how CDN networks scale.
There is a lot wrong with your statement. The US economy has parts that are centrally planned.

The PRC had enormous economic growth - and also a famine that killed millions of people. It was a centrally planned absolute catastrophe. Then in the 1970s, they realized that central planning wasn't going to keep working, so they moved to more of a free market approach - not totally, but much more than they had. And growth continued for several more decades.

> But the distribution portion of the economy for the US is compared to the centrally planned production if the other economy. It makes no sense.

Where are you getting this from? Certainly not from the parts you quote.
I’m a junior engineer and my manager recommended this book. A lot of it flew over my head but now I can sit in meetings and kind of following along with what’s going on. It’s a dense book and I’m glad I read it!
I upvoted your response to me though I have no response on that particular topic as I don’t have depth on Christianity.

I do think religion encourages engagement and wrestling with faith as a matter of process so I agree with you there. But I don’t think the story of Thomas is taken to mean you don’t have faith in anything besides tangible proof.
(I studied with one of the founders)

Soundclouds problem was always that they started out as basically a free service for a particular niche(artist to label contacts), starting to charge(pissing off people who expected free forever) and then moving out of the niche made it so they never really had a footing for something people would pay for.

The problem with so many "internet unicorns" from the 2000-2010 era is that they handwaved per-customer costs as hardware/network costs and assumed that as long as they scaled then salaries would be a minor part, we as an industry are now trying to dig ourselves out of that hole with a even shittier AD experiences just as that AD market is crashing down.
If that's the video of the construction-worker looking guys pulling the dog from a canal-looking waterway, that video was awesome.
it says in the comments that it does not check correctness.

impressive feat with sed but not really worthy of the term "chess engine"
My mum finds the iPhone hard to use (she has early stage dementia), she has an Apple Watch for fall detection, I've tried turning off everything but still there's stacks of stuff you can't turn off. I'd love to make a simple interface with "Answer Phone" and a list of people she can call but its not possible, once you see her use it, you realise how insanely complex the UI is. Swiping is also harder for older people because their hands are dryer and less conductive. We need to keep the iPhone though for the fall detection, I'm examining options but there's not much around.
And how do you think a government reinforcing a monopoly comes to be?
He's been world-famous since the '70s. He's just a much-appreciated German film auteur. Although he's gotten pretty big in Hollywood, too, since the 2000s.
I got GCP certified for Cloud Architect and Data Engineer in the past and it's been actually super helpful to get a rough overview what products they offer and how to connect them together to solve (hypothetical) real world problems.

I don't regret doing it, but don't see the benefit in maintaining the certificates on their renewal schedule.

The certs themselves won't help you at all, it's really the things you learn along the way. There was also a cool "Cloud Architect" sweater that I'm still wearing that they threw in :)
Let's put it this way - how many biplanes do you see being made?
What is your meaning of life? Do you see any reason to be a good person instead of being an egoistic one, where the latter would benefit you?
Okay, let's use money just as a generic synonim for value, in a sense that UBI is about giving people some minimal amount of "value" to be able to exchange for other "values" (buy food, clothing etc.) produced by someone else.

With all that — how can it be moral to be obliged to pay for freeloaders (those who choose to not work)?
I wish there was a way to never accidentally click on or navigate to the feed at all on LinkedIn. Could be a good opportunity for a browser extension to just nuke that part of the DOM.
Cloudflare does registration privacy as well. I think most decent registrars offer that for free now.
$15K should feed a family of four in the Bay area for a year. How on earth do you spend $25K on food for one person?
dang is very active with moderation on HN.

You will frequently see the top comment is by him when he describes merging / redirecting threads, explain title changes, or try to set expectations for hot/contentious topics.
> A lot of people forget that the word "press" in the phrase "freedom of the press" refers to an actual printing press, not the modern term that people confuse for corporate journalism.

That's an ancient document written by people who couldn't even concieve of modern day "assualt" style printers. We need common sense 3D printer control. There is no reason any person would ever need more than 4kg of filament, these high capacity fast manufacturing printers pose a threat to our society.

Should we just let anyone who wants to buy a 3D printer? What if they do bad things with it? What if they print weapons? I don't think we should allow just any person out there to be able to purchase a 3D printer and start printing guns. We need mandatory waiting periods before allowing people to purchase 3D printers.

Should criminal's be able to have 3D printers? What if they print them to make guns?

Not only should we have strict requirements on who can own a 3D printer we should also require 3D printer manufacturers install technology that allows the government to ensure it isn't used to print dangerous things.

I honestly am glad at this brave and stunning move by New York to set an example for the rest of the nation that will prevent dangerous weapons from getting into the hands of criminals. It is only this kind of thinking that will allow us to eventually be able to be as safe as places like the UK.

And let's be clear here anyone that disagrees with me or downvotes me you are only doing it because you hate children and want them to be massacred, how many kids have to die due to 3D printing before the government will step in?
> People live with long term treatable illness.

None of what were treatable at the 1800.

> People don't have basic necessities like shelter or food or water.

In relative terms, almost none. I'm not sure how they compare in absolute terms, but just the answer not being obvious while the population increased by an order of magnitude already makes your claim quite bad.

> People live with very little prospect of escaping a life of drudgery.

And nobody had no prospect back them.

You can complain that there are some people living almost as badly as people lived in the 1800s. But it's not the majority by far, and you can't claim they are currently living worse.

And, of course, none of that is reason to not demand better things.
> Nobody reads the Quixote, the Mio Cid or the Amadis with the Spanish orthography of their times.

And this is actually a loss. I have a fantastic edition of the Song of Roland with facing pages in Modern English and Medieval French, and there are nuances that would be lost in a straight translation to either Modern English or Modern French.
I agree, a modern FS is the biggest oversight in OpenBSD for me.
I can overlook a lot of things, but filesystem corruption isn't one of them.
you're right of course, beautiful dreamer is the best urusei yatsura movie :)
But neither one specified a falsifiable hypothesis. Which, to this layman's mind, means that any general statement made based upon the data is itself a hypothesis.
> What are non-developers going to do with source code?

What do you do when your car is missing a feature that you want? You bring it to a mechanic, and you pay them to add the functionality you want. The GPL means freedom.

And telling someone they need to respect the freedoms that you grant them is not restricting their freedom. It costs nothing to share your source code, and it should be the default state of software development. It's like the silliness around the tolerance paradox. An action that creates more freedom in the world can never be seen as "less free" than one that doesn't.
According to whom?

This says it's down 6% just by June: https://twitter.com/xDaily/status/1668274511383240704
I get that Mastodon has a Twitter-like goal, but since it's federated does that mean I have to join specific instances to find out about international news, US politics, etc.? Honest question, since I've not tried Mastodon.

I thought Threads was not supposed to be about news [1], and at any rate its traffic is dropping.

CNN is probably one of the first-movers in the news space, but surely it's behind Twitter in terms of timeliness.

1: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/7/23787334/instagram-threads...
Thanks a lot Edwin, appreciate it. Maybe there's been a recent change, as there's been a 100% rejection-of-ITIN-application rate in my accelerator cohort. In any case, if you could please let me know if this invalidates my 83(b), that would be really useful to know. Cheers
> whatever looks like Apple.

and IMHO apple's design went south post-jobs with ios 7.

The main problems that I didn't like:

- the flat look meant buttons didn't look like buttons anymore. This means that you didn't know what is actionable on the screen

- hiding stuff offscreen. This hiding of complexity also hides common uncomplicated actions and requires extra swiping and fiddling for routine actions.
> The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein

"if you democratize power, the powerful will hate you for it" and "if you play with powers beyond your ability to control, they may backfire" seem like really different myths to me

> We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.

huh, I don't know that I've ever been told this

> We believe the market economy is a discovery machine, a form of intelligence – an exploratory, evolutionary, adaptive system.

I love how intellectually shallow the power of this reasoning is. Oh, a person who is drowning will pay more for a gulp of air? Wow, what an amazing conclusion, how could we have ever figured that out without the beautiful Divine Glory of The Market?

> Decentralization harnesses complexity for the benefit of everyone; centralization will starve you to death. ... Our enemy is statism, authoritarianism, collectivism, central planning, socialism.

centralization is bad, collectivism is bad, only markets and individuals are good... yeah, this is anarcho-capitalism. Like at no point do they recognize that under this line of thinking, people with a lot of money may be incentivized to cause harm to people without a lot of money, gee I wonder why they might not be so keen to acknowledge that?

> Markets prevent monopolies and cartels.

ah yes that's why the market produced the Sherman act. oh, wait, shoot, that was statist action motivated by collectivist goals.

> We believe there is no conflict between capitalist profits and a social welfare system that protects the vulnerable.

I dunno man, thought experiment here, do you make more money by curing someone of a sickness or by keeping them sick and charging them for treatment forever?

> We believe the ultimate moral defense of markets is that they divert people who otherwise would raise armies and start religions into peacefully productive pursuits.

yeah the idea that everyone wants to be either a murderer, cult leader, or billionaire is ... a totally normal idea that totally normal people have. Beyond being a deeply problematic worldview, the existence of the military-industrial complex challenges the notion that "if if weren't for markets people would do war". Marvelous logic on display here.

> To paraphrase a manifesto of a different time and place: “Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive character. Technology must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before man.”

he's quoting the Futurist Manifesto here, which ... pretty weird move, my dude. The Futurist Manifesto paved the way for the Fascist Manifesto, and if you're going "that's a reach", the guy that wrote the Futurist Manifesto cowrote the Fascist Manifesto with Mussolini. Yes, THAT Mussolini.

> Techno-Optimism is a material philosophy, not a political philosophy.

brave to make a bunch of sweeping politically-motivated generalizations and then to say it's not a political philosophy. Ok, if you say so!
Understanding the 4th Dimension
It’s romanticism that’s afraid to admit it and dresses itself up in dubious “reason” and “rationality”, which is why it always ends up seeming confused and self-contradictory and to be relying on a lot of magic to fill in the gaps.

This piece is better than some in that it at least makes the romanticism explicit near the end, but it’s burdened with the same self-conscious need to try to “prove” it’ll also make everything better in any terms one might choose, which is why these are all silly: they want to make believe that there aren’t meaningful costs or trade-offs for their romantic ideal. Nuance and shades of truth can’t be allowed, because they threaten the fake-reasoned rationalization for the romanticism, which romanticism is the point of the whole exercise, so cannot be threatened or alloyed, else they’d lose interest in it.
Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of a controversial text and he got that copy in a weird way.
Pig butchering scams conducted by trafficked slaves, no less: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zb5d/pig-butchering-scam-c...
But with each day, the case for using Twitter grows weaker. I get ten times as many replies and reposts on Mastodon, though my Mastodon follower count is a tenth the size of my (increasingly hypothetical) Twitter audience.

So, maybe it's not just me that my current handle is getting no traction.
Didn't realize "god" was purely ego.
Seems a bit egotistical
Yup, it's like RSS for video on steroids, and you can easily engage with the Fediverse!

PeerTube is amazing, its P2P nature makes it scalable so that you won't need as much bandwidth as with a traditional streaming server. It has a nice chat plugin that doesn't require logging into a YouTube account...

There are so many interesting instances. I especially enjoy Yiny, a punk-oriented one: https://www.yiny.org ;)
Every alternative will kill even more people. Other herbicides are even more dangerous, and not using herbicide will cause food prices to go up. High food prices kill far more people than herbicides do.
Have you got some text describing the process of building trust, by any chance? I'm going through a similar challenge (but it's on agriculture instead of banking): 3 years in, trying to build trust with large clients.
What do your employees think of the offer.
Polymorphism and Inheritance in the Database
they're calling themselves "a polymorphic database"
> It’s very hard to see a situation where it’s logistically feasible for the US to transport so many people over that it exceeds the number of soldiers already in the military.

The US military has about 1.5 million people at present. When Germany surrendered in 1945, the US had about 3 million people in Europe alone - entirely ignoring the whole Pacific front.

It is generally unwise to underestimate the logistical capabilities of the US military.

(The other points seem more grounded, especially about the nature of modern western war.)
I could see one being a techno-optimist and also not be a capitalist, but this strikes me more of a half-baked libertarian manifesto with some technology sprinkled in as a garnish.