skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It really seems beyond dispute

I'd dispute that completely. All innovations humans have created have trended towards zero cost to produce. The cost for many things (such as bioweapons, encryption, etc) has become exponentially cheaper to produce over time.

To tightly control access, one would then need exponentially more control of resources, monitoring & in turn reduction of liberty.

To put it into perspective encryption was once (still might be) considered an "arm", so they attempted to regulate its export.

Try to regulate small arms (AR-15, etc) today and you'll end up getting kits where you can build your own for <$500. If you go after the kits, people will make 3D printed fire arms. Go after the 3D manufacturers and you'll end up with torrents where I can download an arsenal of designs (where we are today). So where are we at now? We're monitoring everyones communication, going through peoples mail, and still it's not stopping anything.

That's how technology works -- progress is inevitable, you cannot regulate information.
Certainly, and go already comes pretty close that explicitness via returned errors. At that point, we are down to a style choice between exceptions and error returns.

Honestly I'm not sure it matters and depends upon other factors being balanced in the ergonomics of the language. I don't see any reason why you couldn't accomplish the objective in either style of language.

My point is that Go today, both as matter of language features and how it tends to be used via communal norms, incentivizes explicit error handling. The parent comment stated, "You are less likely to silently/accidentally drop an exception vs Go's tuple return values" and while I could easily imagine language features that discourage bubbling exceptions ... in practice, I think that tends to be more the norm than explicit handling of tuple returns.
So the constant shelling of crimea by Ukraine prior to the war never happened?
My Serious Progressive Nerve Condition
This is a fascinating (and disturbing) insight. I'm curious about your 'weaponizing economics' thought -- are you referencing anything specific?
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This person is a good writer, I'm looking forward to seeing what else they've written.
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HN is where I heard about it! About 3 months ago I think.

I think this is it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36189705
X is what happens after add S(hit) to UX.
The first "D" in "DDos" means "distributed," which means there _effectively is_ an infinite supply of devices with which to conduct the attack. It's a hard problem, which is why DDoS attacks are so prevalent and difficult to defend against without sophisticated mitigation devices and services. You have to block the "bad" traffic by some characteristic and many DDoS attackers have gotten _very_ good at making their attack traffic look almost identical to legitimate traffic.
MWII ramped up the aim assist so much that MnK is the inferior option, regardless of platform.
One of the interesting bits:

> But the ones who came were nothing like what was described by the Dutch. We expected a small number of boys who had persistently declared they were girls. Instead, 90 percent of our patients were girls, mainly 15 to 17 years old, and instead of being high-functioning, the vast majority presented with severe psychiatric conditions.

and after treatment...

> The young people we were treating were not thriving. Instead, their lives were deteriorating. We thought, what is this? Because there wasn’t a hint in studies that this could happen. Sometimes the young people insisted their lives had improved and they were happier. But as a medical doctor, I could see that they were doing worse. They were withdrawing from all social activities. They were not making friends. They were not going to school. We continued to network with colleagues in different countries who said they were seeing the same things.
For what it's worth, OP also recommended that approach.
They have also just signed a new long term contract with Arm.
Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
The author of the thread forgot to mention the deck is from 2008. I was reading one of the tweets in his thread about funnels. Google has argued in court about funnels is outdated, and he read this deck and concluded that Google is lying.

We are gonna see a lot of such threads/articles/substacks/videos in the near term. Already saw what happened with the Wired article. It's a combination of engagement farming, creating content that gets clicks, and misunderstanding/misrepresenting what is there in the exhibits which would lead to a lot of rumors and false narratives.

A question I thought of while reading the thread was: If this was so important and crystal clear as in the thread author wrote, why did DOJ not use it directly in the trial? (We would have known given there are bloggers who are covering the trial on a day to day basis)
Nothing like em either. I have a dear memory of them...
> going one by one in the regular Google Photos app, and downloading each album as a ZIP

But be careful here. Some files will only be available at reduced quality and have all metadata stripped (even if the owner has elected to share it and it is visible in the web UI). The only way to get the original seems to be to contact the original uploader.
Nix is two steps forward in these ways because they chose to focus on making things composable and repeatable instead of being curators of quality and trustworthiness.

One magical thing about Nix is that there's a very small divide between managing to install software in the first place and creating an artifact that others can use for the same purpose.

Because of this, practically every NixOS user has their configuration in source control--we're basically each building our own Linux distro with only packages that we trust. Some of us probably sign those commits too.

The ecosystem is useful because it encourages this kind if participation. Having a list of privileged maintainers would interrupt this.

It's unsurprising that a group of people who has worked quite hard to make this possible would be uninterested in creating a scheme whereby they are now responsible for determining which of their users creations is legitimate. Nix attracts users who are interested in that sort of thing, so let it be a userspace problem.

If you want to curate a list of trustworthy packages and work with their developers to set up a chain of trust that starts in a yubikey extends to a signature in a flake output, then I'll help because that sounds like useful work, but I wish you would stop criticizing a brick for not already being a house.
grug not experience large teams stepping on each other's domains and data models, locking in a given implementation and requiring large, organizational efforts to to get features out at the team level. Team velocity is empowered via microservices and controlling their own data stores.

"We want to modernize how we access our FOO_TABLE for SCALE_REASONS by moving it to DynamoDB out of MySQL - unfortunately, 32 of our 59 teams are directly accessing the FOO_TABLE or directly accessing private methods on our classes. Due to competing priorities, those teams cannot do the work to move to using our FOO_SERVICE and they can't change their query method to use a sharded table. To scale our FOO_TABLE will now be a multi-quarter effort providing the ability for teams to slow roll their update. After a year or two, we should be able to retire the old method that is on fire right now. In the meanwhile, enjoy oncall."

Compare this to a microservice: Team realizes their table wont scale, but their data is provided via API. They plan and execute the migration next sprint. Users of the API report that it is now much faster.
Sounds like a SISP (solution in search of a problem). Or throwing a solution at a problem not understanding the root issue of it.
The new treatment applies only to one specific cause of deafness at birth: a defect in a gene that produces a protein called otoferlin.
I just recently did Google Takeout to duplicate my backup into iCloud and I found the EXIF data in the files to be 100% there, down to the GPS location and lens the photo was taken with.

I've been wondering if the different experiences are related to the "Original Size" setting in Google Photos. I've always stored things at original size since originally using Google Photos years ago. I'm wondering if the compression they do when not using this option causes the EXIF data to only exist in the JSONs.
Sounds like Excel
Aren't they like 4x the price too?
No one retires at age 55 unless they already have substantial wealth. The expectation is that you continue contributing until you retire at about age 67.
> Newer companies like AirBNB and Uber went public at what could be their max market cap

Uber is worth 50%+ its IPO valuations.(EDIT: No it isn’t. Sorry, jet lagged.)
Good article, and thanks Maksim for the contribution!
Game not being available on steam is a pretty weak excuse for piracy. Epic simply doesn't want to give 30% to a competing store.
> This is tautologous.

No, it's not, and it's a problem that you're thinking this way. A tautology would be "Americans in the top 10% of wealth are wealthier than the bottom 90%." A tautology is necessarily true according to logic.

Logic does not dictate that the top 10% own 90% of the equities. And, in fact, there's a strong argument that societies with extreme inequality in wealth distribution are structurally unsound societies (I don't mean that they're economically unsound, though I'd argue that, too).
Shaping a Privacy-First AI Approach in Customer Service
The two are not exclusive. Companies can run hundreds of programs many of which are not productive and actually hurt and frustrate engineering teams. Just in the same way government can hurt the environment by throwing up a lot of red tape on green initiatives, companies can hurt quality and productivity by spending thousands of hours on things like employee annual reviews.
That sounds fun for an engineer but if it’s a business then you should focus on your core business and not trying to become a anti-ddos service.
My arguments is: whoever understands linear algebra has to be able to explain it to anyone having a sufficient math background. The failure to do so signals the lack of understanding. Presenting it as a pure algebraic game cleverly avoids the problems of interpretation, but when you proceed to applications, it leads to conceptual confusion.
One "discovery" I made while learning LA is that most applications are based on mathematical coincidence. Namely, the formula for the scalar product of 2 vectors is identical to the formula for the correlation between 2 series of data. There's no apparent connection between the "orthogonality" in one sense and "orthogonality" (as a lack of correlation) in another.

I submit that not only the subject is not well understood, but even the name of the subject is wrong. It should be called "The study of orthogonality". This change of perspective will naturally lead to discussion of orthogonal polynomials, orthogonal functions, create a bridge to representation theory and (on the other end) to the applications in data science. What say you? :-)
Neither side is correct IMO. Qualcomm wants 32-bit only instructions, but that leaves out many use cases that require longer instructions.

On the flip side, a 48-bit instruction takes FIVE bits just to specify the length which is a massive amount of overhead.

I think 64-bit instructions which contain between 1 and 4 instructions (not VLIW as no ILP is specified) would be a better solution offering more compressed instructions and much lower length encoding overhead for 48 and 64-bit instructions while still leaving a potential opening for very long instructions composed of several 64-bit groups. This beats out the Qualcomm proposal in terms of cache, code density, fusion, jumping, and many more without losing any of the benefits of compressed instructions (in fact, it increases the compression benefits).
In a sane world this would have to be satire, but unfortunately I believe every single word of this
Not sure about this particular text, but much of the earliest writing we have is record-keeping for taxes. You could definitely imagine this kind of math being important for tax collectors to learn, since they would typically travel around to collect taxes at some interval, and would have to calculate the amounts on the fly.
I've heard that in all nations, FtM vastly outnumber MtF transgender people in the population. For some reason MtF get all the attention.
You can always do a S&P 500 fund in a 401k
No, because of variation in linearity and emission of the cathodes
Math.

(As in, math is it's own motivation to some minds.)

These read to me like very abstract problems cast into everyday (for that time) language to make the concepts more approachable. Like "word problems" today the situations described would be apocryphal.
> biological or nuclear weapons,

You know aside from the AIs the intelligence and
military use / will soon use.

> watermarked to make clear that they were created by A.I.

Good luck on that.
It is fine that the systems do this.
But if you are making images for nefarious reasons
then bypassing whatever they ad should be simple.

screencap / convert between different formats, add / remove noise
Concrete is probably underutilized as a building material for homes in the US. Though there are high carbon costs for cement production, there are a lot of benefits to concrete: very strong against wind, very fire resistant, impervious to most pests, sound proofing, air-tight, good insulator when sandwiched with foam. https://www.iconbuild.com/ isn't yet 3D printing concrete homes at scale, but they have a small neighborhood of some really good looking homes going up in Texas.
No, it was just to shorten the code block length for the comment section (for a and b, iters makes more sense as one might want to allow the caller to change that) :)
It's noteworthy but sadly not surprising[1], that someone like Peterson is listed as an 'intellectual'.

This man talks like ChatGPT when asked to clad a text of the most basic ideas, frequently completely missing the point, into sophisticated-sounding language.

The other names tell me nothing; but having the former in the list kept me from looking up the latter.

[1] https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-d...
> I can't imagine you'll find some other owner-operated clinic to visit out of spite

No, but I did organise a few patients to grant our vet a loan to open a new facility. (It wound up creating some Michael Scott Paper Company drama between the vet and her former colleagues, which was interesting.)
ever since cloudflare went political and started kicking off customers for their opinions, i never touched that service and never will. and i have a very long memory. but alternatives are welcome.
Also all the older workers who do have enough used it to buy multiple investment properties, helping make house prices absurd.
I find it odd that there is this widespread meme—on HN, not in the industry—that microservices are never justified. I think everyone recognizes that it makes sense that domain name resolution is performed by an external service, and very few people are out there integrating a recursive DNS resolver and cache into their monolith. And yet, this long-standing division of responsibility never seems to count as an example.
It increases the threshold to enter, but with the intention of increasing public safety and accountability. There’s also a high threshold to enter for just about every other product you can manufacture and purchase - food, pharmaceuticals, machinery to name obvious examples - why should software be different if it can affect someone’s life or livelihood?
My current job hasn't been a great experience with microservices. It's a industry where I've worked with a monolith that did a lot more but having everything split between like 17 different services makes managing anything not so fun. The other big blocker is small team and only one of us met the original staff who designed this.
> Team velocity is empowered via microservices and controlling their own data stores.

Bologna. Choosing clear abstractions is an enabler of focus, but that doesn’t necessarily imply those abstractions are a network call away.
It might be the case, but "lots" is an overstatement in my opinion. I was able to pay with card even in the most remote locations within the country. The restaurants that don't accept it are usually the exception and that argument of taxes over transactions is mostly bullshit for them to be able to escape proper taxation. A customer who pays with money and doesn't ask for receipt is all profit for dishonest owners.
> The story goes something like this, I get recommended a clip on YouTube, there’s a man who is calm, articulate, and says something that completely violates the narrative. How fascinating. Is my understanding of the world completely wrong?! I need to read everything this man written.

Read books. Watch Harvard/Yale lectures on humanities. Write notes on them. Think for yourself and write essays on the those topics. Once you get comprehensive education, random YouTube celebrities will stop being deep and fascinating to you. Or at least you will have 30-40 other perspectives from renowned thinkers to complement your worldview.
Buy bitcoin and forget the debt, if possible. Preach to the next generation do not go to school (public school is marxist-originated gov't propaganda at it's core; if not then why does the law require you to go to school in some areas), do not acquire debt. Learn real skills and trades. Tune in, turn on, and drop out.

I was home schooled until 4th grade. I finished my schoolwork in 2 hours and then played outside and read the encyclopedia the rest of the day.
Because those deals are targeted "offers you can't refuse", by design.

Consider: surely there is a price for which you would be willing to sell me your business, or your house, pretty much on the spot. The current value of your assets could be X. Maybe you're reluctant to sell for anything under 120% X. Maybe you know your neighbors will hate you if you sell it, so you really won't do it for less than 140% X. I come to you and offer you 160% X. At this price, I can be certain you'll sell. It's a deal of a lifetime. It would be stupid not to.

The trick is, as a PE firm, I can make this profitable for me all the way to say 250% X. I can just keep repeating that deal with every other person like you in the neighborhood, certain they'll all individually agree. And by the time the neighborhood realizes some critical service or area is now owned by a profit-obsessed faceless corporation, it'll be mostly sold out already.

The trick is to target a market segment when you're able to make offers the other side can't refuse. Then you can literally divide and conquer it.
The Long, Long View of Interest Rates
That's a function of the software and not the hardware. If you run Linux bare metal LPAR (no one does) or as a z/VM guest you'll have ASCII.
Hydrogen bombs, because allowing anyone to raze a city during a temper tantrum is bad.
I love this, but in practice I find things like this are yet another problem I have to work through. I have a hard enough time getting both the nvcc and nvidia-smi commands to work at the same time or two Nvidia GPUs (one internal and one external via TB3) to work on the same driver version. PopOS usually “just works”, most other distros it’s some kind of hassle, especially if the Nvidia GPU has to handle the display output too. I try to have an AMD APU as the CPU so I can have solid graphics support on Linux.

Anyway, do you know if this is just for pytorch? Is performance roughly 100% of what you’d get on an “equivalent” Nvidia GPU?
Perhaps, but that's not very relevant for the dating of this specific physical piece of text.
Not knowing anything about him, do you think I should weigh a 2 minute off the cuff answer in a Q&A segment over what I might find in the 320 page book ubermonkey suggested? The framing of the video is plainly and severely biased, so I have to be suspicious about editing and what context or expansion/correction I might find in a longer clip, plus how the framing itself affects my own interpretation.

edit: Having read all...this, I think I'll still go with the free book, courtesy of my library.
Millionaire is a fairly trivial threshold these days. Social security is now paying some people 54k/year inflation adjusted which would take well over 1 million to safely generate.

A couple living on social security + 2 million in assets may be financially secure but they are still middle class.
but all how are all these services able to let in valid traffic? won't they simply cut me off altogether to protect my infrastructure at the cost of no access for my users?
Unfortunately there are very often bozos in your team or complete teams of bozos working on the same project as you. Im sure Microservices are easier if you work in a development team of smart, competent, intelligent developers. However Im sure everything would be easier then!
You can also whitelist the cloudflare IP's and block all other traffic, that way the only traffic hitting your origin is through the proxy.
Freya is such a talented educator? Storyteller? Her stuff is always a joy to watch.
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> PE is popular for one reason and one reason only: taxes.

Well, I'd say it's zero interest rates.

Any extra cost will reduce your profits. It doesn't matter if it's tax-deductible. The reason PE can get so big is because that extra cost is minimal.

The PEs that insist on antagonizing their customers and depend on being large will be bankrupt soon enough now that being large is expensive.
It's seemed to me that there was a real turn in western society at some point in the last decades. Our family has been watching Star Trek TOS and one thing that's really stood out is how open Kirk, Spock, and Bones can be about their feelings. In the first episode Bones is talking casually to Kirk about his feelings for an old flame, how he still misses her and wonders if he made a mistake. It was almost startling.

Of course where all that got us was the origin of 'slash' fiction. Men speaking affectionally to each other has gotten popularly reclassified as a coverup for deeper feelings. I think that explains a lot about where we are now.

> men who do decide to be emotional sometimes tend to be ignored (or despised) by women

And other men. No need to make this a gender war.
> Why? I wish a textbook tell me why, right there

If you're a programmer, consider whether it's easier to reason about a function that always returns a value, or a function that sometimes returns a value and sometimes throws an exception. The latter is a partial function and typically complicates reasoning because of the exceptional cases, the former is a total function and is fairly trivial to reason about (like multiplication vs. division where you have to consider division by zero).

Before complex numbers, the square root function was partial, but adding complex numbers made it total, so it simplified a lot of theory and enabled new types of analysis. Fortuitously, it also turned out to be very useful when applied to the real world.
Firearms. Biological weapons. Nuclear weapons. Chemical weapons. Certain drugs.

I don't know, seems like there's a very long list of stuff we don't want freely circulating.