skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep a big notebook (12" x 9" I think) that I write quotations I like in, with a fountain pen. I try to transcribe one quotation per day, from a computer file of such quotations. This keeps my hand in with respect to handwriting, keeps my fountain pen from drying up, and doesn't take too much time.

I also keep a journal, but I do that on computer because I value being able to electronically search it.
I was thinking that, especially having just read the book Number Go Up.

Andreessen's firm put a bunch of money into the Axie Infinity play to earn ponzi which ended up taking money from thousands of hard up Filipinos and then the company was then hacked by N Korea with the money likely ending up in some weapons program.

I'm a techno optimist and a believer in markets but regulated markets where the worst effects are mitigated.

(some from the Number Go Up author on Axie https://youtu.be/THdU00jutvo?t=1864)
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I've only read this article, not the rest of the series, so take this as a grain of salt...

But the author's conclusion about decentralized networks seems extremely understated and optimistic. She correctly points out that they are vulnerable to the same coordinated actors as Facebook & co, that hostile actors are likely to have many more resources than the people running these decentralized networks, and yet she concludes with:

> The inescapable downside of not relying on centralized networks to fix things is that there’s no single entity to try to pressure. The upside is that we can all work toward the same goals—better, safer, freer networks—from wherever we are. And we can work toward holding both centralized and new-school networks accountable, too.

So basically, "it's up to all of us to hold 'them' accountable". And she acts like this is anything but wishful thinking.

If you have a single soldier defending a position against a full battalion of tanks and an artillery barrage, you can hold your soldier "accountable" as much as you like, the enemy is still going to take the position.

As the rest of the article points out, the problem is "scale". Propaganda network can output more content faster than individual users, and moderators can't up. This is especially true when the content already plays off the audience's existing biases: unfortunately, most of the Myanmar population did not bat an eye at the horrifying atrocities perpetrated on the Rohingya. So your Fediverse instances in Myanmar are going to be full of Myanmar citizens with conservative/regressive opinions who will actively promote the government propaganda and ban any users linking to pro-democracy content as foreign agents.

(And it's not like the "resistance" will be of much help. Many of the politicians in the NUG didn't protest at all when the Rohingya genocide took place.)

And that's another problem the article doesn't address at all: "truth", "propaganda", "hate campaigns" and "resistance" are subjective and interchangeable terms. The author ends with a mention of the renewed Israel-Gaza conflicts, but how the fuck is Facebook supposed to moderate that?

When you're asked to consider "We should kill all the jewish oppressors / We should put down the muslim terrorists in gaza / We should slaughter the russian orcs until our land is free", which ones count as defensive patriotism and which ones count as hate speech?

The author acts like good and evil are legible concepts that Facebook and social networks ought to enforce. I don't pretend I have a solution for these problems (and we do need to make progress, urgently), but if we ever find one it won't be with the mindset she displays.
But you will have people watching you work and you will be under time pressure in normal work as well, so if you just turn to spagetti at interview are you actually going to perform any better at day to day?
House prices don't change at the drop of a hat. If gentle changes in taxation are too much for a person, they might just have purchased a house they couldn't afford in the first place.
The ecosystem was great and now it’s gone. Because they were not just clients, they were third-party clients, they were second class citizens. The more second class citizens we have on the web, the worse everyone gets. Because a random crazy billionare du jour can wake up one day and destroy a big chunk of the third-party ecosystem in a single decision.
It can scale consuming the same amount of energy. But you already know that.

BTW you’re always focusing on this energy consumption topic that you’re becoming annoying.
Do pls your own research: there are thousands of situations that benefit on a daily basis of using PoW as energy store of value. Not in the west world where you live, obviously.
Maybe the region would have more women in the field if the companies were transparent about pay and benefits?
I probably did a poor job on my perspective. I see them as commodities in regards to the agent workflows. Sub $500k (picking a number) homes all have relatively the same workflow for agents, almost like buying/selling commodities. The parallel I would make is how Carmax treats cars closer to a commodity then a unique snowflake. They have a fairly good idea of the use price of a vehicle, there is no haggling, the sales person is there to facilitate the deal but is not the sole determining factor.

In my worldview homes below a price point are very similar. They are all different, condition, location, features etc, but generally you can get an idea of the potential price based on comps. There is still human touch here to get an idea on listing price but outside of that the workflow is pretty mundane and is just facilitating the process. Maybe in other housing markets its different but all the homes I have bought in the last 10 years, nobody was highlighting positives or downplaying negatives. My (buyers) agent shows me the property, lets me look around and does not really do much else.
I think this is not about morphology but about entropy. If we divided organisms on entropy basis we would have the viruses classified as non-living, as they tend to increase entropy.
I couldn't find a preview for the 2nd edition, but the 1st edition seemed quite out of date?

The frontend work I tend to be dealing with at this point in my career usually involve proper web "apps" (dashboards, visualizations, editors, etc) rather than the web "pages" that the DOM was well suited for. The main difference is the need for client-side state and realtime interactivity that doesn't need a full backend rerender every time. Yes you can write all that in plain JS but at some level of complexity you'd just be reinventing your own framework.

What I'd like to see isn't so much getting rid of all the frameworks in favor of vanillajs (unless ecma improves it dramatically), but a good guide on how to integrate the various pieces of modern frameworks in a neat and maintainable way. I'm not sure that it's really doable right now given the pace of change and how quickly everything becomes obsolete. Clean Code has some interesting ideas but isn't exactly a drop in fit to the JS ecosystem.

Anyway, just thinking out loud...
Well, the limit is much higher now, I can tell you that, but that's only because I just never missed a payment for a few years. They expanded my limits pretty quickly. I mostly didn't use credit cards before that when I made less money (and was younger and dumber), so there wasn't much credit history. But then why approve me quickly to me if they only were giving me something that low in the first place?

FWIW, I knew several people who got approved around the same time, but only in the $800-$2000 range. I saw it as no harder or easier to get than an average card, I guess is my point.

It might have been first mover advantage, when it first launched. Or maybe it's one of those things where you can make it over the gate if you're in the far tail ends on the left or right, but if you're just in the middle of the road credit wise, it's easier to get denied? Credit scores and the like are mostly a bullshit mystery, in my opinion.
The counterargument is that not-wildly-violent-and-corrupt police forces do actually exist. Clearly "giving them guns and fast cars" is not a sufficient condition for "they're going to escalate whenever possible".
Do you think that 10% will become 1% or 50% in 5 years with GPT-7?
I was under the impression if a store exists, sells a product, that store is technically illegal, and it is never shut down (has existed for years) that does murk the waters quite a bit between gray and black market. That's why I believe it's much closer to gray than black.

I adjusted the parent message to remove black market references. I agree with you.
The fossil record is not, as you put it, "completely subjective." There are some cases where the evidence is insufficient for a determination to be made, but that does not justify your sweeping generalization.
For a system to be Turing-complete, it should implement at least three operations: addition, negation, conditional jump. If there are similar processes inside a star, then yes, that star can be considered Turing-complete. "Computation" is just how we call it in math; in a star, it can be physical gas expansion, thermal convection, etc. But the outcome and its fundamental properties are essentially the same despite different forms of a particular presentation.
This is cool. I stand corrected. Thanks for sharing.
> The gov't (re: JT) pushed this through to some fanfare but has resulted in oversupply

I’m not sure what the PM should have done here then. Protecting capitalists from misreading the level of demand, or maintaining cannabis as an illegal product?
It's certainly not a sufficient criterion. I argue nothing about my air conditioner is living and is no closer to living than any other rock.
Most likely it's just a shitty job of curating the training set. Estonian is related to Finnish and they probably got some of the texts mixed up, because who cares about all those silly languages, amirite?
>Even if you have a rock that looks exactly like a human being, say one of Phidias' statues, it will decay until it looks like every other rock given enough time and exposure to the elements.

The same is true of living things. Given enough time, anything living is reduced to a pile of oxides.

Some physical processes decrease entropy locally, sometimes by incredible amounts. That's how we have the sun. What we really take from the sun is not energy, but its stored negative entropy; energy is just the medium to move it around.
Right. I’d say this problem could and should be solved by decentralization. It’s impossible for a single actor to keep up, for a monoculture to stay healthy.
Online games have always been rife with cheats.
Google Proposes New Mseal() Memory Sealing Syscall for Linux
For some reason it is only monolingual people who ever say this.
I see, okay, I suppose you guys are probably right.

I was only "pretty sure" in my original comment, not "so sure!" :)
I think the idea is that VCs and private companies can't force their will onto people. They can indulge in abstract theories, but it never becomes legislation that others have to abide to (e.g. laws that curtail speech meant to "protect democracy")

They can socially engineer but voluntarily, or in other words propose social norms in form of ux and product. But things get out of hand very quickly in a market. For instance, no one designed the method people use for retweeting, it wasn't engineered. Some decisions were made but with limited desires effect.

Similarly the market connects you to the real world. You put a product out there and it loves and dies on its usefulness to others.

Same with the rest. Everything is voluntary, which is kind of the point as opposed to mandated from top down.

Even big tech like Google have trouble controlling their own inventions. Think of SEO spam and bots, which is a constant battle. That's an example of the worse, but there are good things like distributing unfiltered information.
Both Chomsky and Pinker have been decidedly debunked.
The base pay is effectively capped because salaries are taken out of money that is taxed. That's why CEO's used to stop at $1M. (Maybe they still do.) Everything else is stock because it's "free" money for the company to give away.
Probably because you pay the state the other 6% as stamp duty who is the true broker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(Mars)
I was just thinking yesterday that there needs to be a 3rd party tool that reintroduces the thumbs down button.
There is research into how an interview should be done to find who will be a good or bad employee. Most companies (not just our industry!) don't appear to have even looked at it. (I'm not sure how useful the research is for real world hiring)
As an aside, rent is public information in Singapore, at least for private rental (not for rentals of public housing).

Since all tenancies need to pay a stamp tax to be legit contracts, the government lists every contracts rental price on a website.

https://www.ura.gov.sg/property-market-information/pmiReside...

The information is specific to a unit and published monthly (e.g. if 6 units were rented out, there are 6 entries in the database). It’s quite helpful when looking for a place to rent because you can look up the exact building see what people are paying.

The data is obscured a bit because units are described as “50 to 70 sq m”, so while you can guess if it’s a 1 bed or 2 bed, you cant tell if it has 1 or 2 bathrooms, what floor it on, whether it comes furnished or not.

But you can look at a group of transactions that are similar to the unit you’re looking at and get of what the market rate is.
> where you can mix and match your devices as needed to any one account.

I appreciate what you're trying to do and I'm happy for more providers to build implementations, but you can't individually solve the ecosystem problem because you're only one provider. You can't force Apple, 1Password, Google, and Microsoft to all allow import and export from your app. You can't force Amazon not to do attestation or to accept multiple keys, even if you do everything right you don't have the power to force them to go along with you.

This is a problem that has to be solved by the FIDO Alliance; individual providers can't solve it for them. The Alliance itself has to take some responsibility for the direction of the spec they're pushing and for the direction the industry is going. Ecosystem portability is not going to be solved until interoperability is as a mandated condition for certification.
> That’s why streaming service’s completely beat out piracy

ime this is only true for the unwashed masses.

piracy has a trove of benefits, but you gotta know your way around the sharp edges.
Yeah, "checking your credit" doesn't exist, really, outside of the US. When making loan decisions, your income and loan totals/history are the main things considered, not an arbitrary score by private third parties that couldn't keep the data safe if their lives depended on it.
This acts like cheaters didn’t exist before AI, give me a break.
"Evolutionary psychology" is not a real discipline. It's like calling yourself a "karmic surgeon" or whatever.
I'm pretty sure they know what you made if you worked at a large company anyway. For small ones they can probably guess better than the job seeker can. Excluding insider info because it goes both ways.
Makes sense, any ideas of dead Github projects to use for interviews? I assume most projects evolve so difficult to count on their current status to present them for code review.
Almost everybody calls getenv(). malloc for tunings, checks, tracing and such, half of the string library for localization specifics, all of the locale and time and timezone functions, many math functions need fegetenv().

Also most set errno, ha!
Music piracy is much harder today than it was 10 years ago. Your logic is consistent, but it doesn't match reality, which is that piracy is on the decline.
Thank you for this link!

I cannot access the paper right now, but the abstract mentions that most research might have been confounded by the distractions provided by computers rather that by typing/handwriting.

Which is actually a big problem, but suggests that there is a need for better tools --for example support of 'activities' at the Desktop Environment level, such as KDE, which might only give access to a subset of the available applications. This would allow one to have archived and searchable notes typed at full speed --rather than the slow handwriting which might be hard on the wrists-- and not suffer from the distraction problem.

I would even go one step further: while I was translating a book, I used a dictionary on my computer to check some words from time to time. Nowadays I would just use wiktionary to do so, but that means that google might suck you into a rabbit hole at the first failing of will; it would be even better to have the ability to block any other sites when in this activity.
Humans light lots of fires, do we increase entropy?
The Selfish Gene says pretty much this.
https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Popular-Science/dp/01928...

However, I've never grabbed onto Dawkins atheism as much as come to believe that the ways things "live" is much more diverse and amazing than we can even imagine.
same in germany.

you have to get a prescription from a doctor, get registered (and leave a massive paper trail) and then pay the same or more as usual.

most consumers don't bother
What’s currently stopping people from developing them though? Detroit is a huge city and its population has largely vacated to the suburbs. Maybe they havent been developed because the current demand is already being met.
So are you abandoning the initial thesis that computation is a sign of life, or are you implying the sun is a computer built by some unknown form of life?
Apple survived thanks to Steve Jobs and Steve Jobs alone. He could've built his vision in any company or startup though, when he took over Apple was a few weeks away from bankruptcy.
Apple may soon start wirelessly updating sealed iPhones before sale
It can be finite, but you have to definitively prove the non halting cases are infinite (which, being infinite, can't be computed with brute force)

Look, you're arguing the collatz cobjecture can be proven by counting up by 1 & seeing when a number hits a loop without reaching 1 (which, if there is such a case, would eventually prove via refutation, but if not, you'd never know if you were about to hit an answer or not)

Mathematical uncomputability for problems with answers is a thing. Read up on Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem

& some conjectures have been refuted by computers: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2638897/conjectures... but until it's done the question remains unknown
Time will tell, but there optimists are already predicting that in just a few years great programmers will feed requirements into AI and then review the code it produces, not write code themselves. I'm not sure I believe it, but given that someone who can make AI produce good results is worth a lot more than a great programmer without an AI.
Actually addresses being public are causing issues. Sweden has a lot of problems with gang violence, and gang members often register their public addresses to other peoples addresses, causing innocent people to be killed. The address you enter is in no way being verified beyond it needing to be a valid address.
Professional tip: work isn't meant to be fun. (If it was fun then it wouldn't be called "work".)
All organism increase entropy
The biggest counter-incentive for realtors is that they make more money on volume than added-value-over-replacement.

Both sides are incentivized to move each house ASAP, rather than for the best price, as they make 3% of any marginal price difference, but 3% of the total price of an additional sale.

Consequently, you're really only getting value from a realtor if "getting the deal done ASAP" is your priority.
Some updates

• We want to get as much feedback as possible, so we made Turbine free for now.

• We also added a web dashboard// console through which you can try it out easily.

• Turbine now supports bringing your own OpenAI API key, Pinecone index, etc. Let us take care of just the data pipeline.
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That's nothing. Try handcoding machine code some time! Using only pen, paper & cpu datasheet. ;-) If you feel generous, throw in a calculator for offsets or hex/dec conversions etc.

If I grow old & senile some day, I'll forget how to wipe my ass before the last Z80 mnemonic slips from my mind.
Not sure if the parent's concern is valid but I think the argument would be that companies can conspire to all suppress wages so they don't have to compete on comp. That would be hard to do now because they can't "officially" conspire in this way (eg sign a binding contract with each other) because that would be illegal. Without an enforcement mechanism it is too easy for any one company to defect from the "gentleman's agreement" and offer higher wages. If all salary information was public though, then as soon as one company defected and offered one high-value employee a higher salary everyone else would immediately know it and start competing on salary again. So that makes the informal agreement more stable and leads to lower wages.
For fruit, the price negotiation always tries to drive down the price, but there are something like 10 big buyers of fruit in USA alone, so Coscto and Walmart don't have a monopoly and the fruit sellers go elsewhere when the buyers turn the screws too hard. If Walmart ever becomes the only grocer in the USA, then yes, the farmers are toast. Otherwise, I know of one big fruit grower in my town with a Mediterranean yacht and another that drove in to the office with his Ferrari, inspected fields all day, being flown in the company helicopter, then showed up the next day in his other Ferrari. Huge grower, but then regulation and compliance is killing small growers in USA. Soon you won't be able to farm unless you can have a lawyer on staff.
> US realtors seem crazy -- charging tens of thousands for doing what exactly?

It's not just the US. In Germany, it can be up to 7.14% of the purchase price (depends on the state [1])... so for a 750k unit you're looking at 53k of realtor fees alone, and anything between 3.5-6.5% of sales tax [2], 1.5% for title fees (notary + land register), and on top of that fees from the bank for the credit line... so for that unit you're paying at least 115k in taxes and fees alone. It's nuts, and yet people complain nobody is buying houses any more.

[1] https://www.immobilienscout24.de/wissen/verkaufen/maklerprov...

[2] https://www.finanztip.de/grunderwerbsteuer/
Possibly because many quality candidates work / think better when not being watched. It is also likely far more natural for most people.
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It only encourages new building for people who can afford to develop the land. It would likely discourage small time investors and further the concentration of corporate owned real estate.
Agreed, and unfortunately you as the buyer don't have a good idea of who is a good inspector in your area. People don't buy homes enough. Sure there are google map reviews of inspectors but for such a large purchase thats still less than ideal.