skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Generally speaking, "the value of a graph is proportional to the square of the number of edges"

No, what Metcalfe's law assumes is that the value of the graph is proportional to the number of edges (not their square). And from that assumption and the fact that the graph is fully connected follows that it's proportional to the square of the number of nodes. (Because you can have (n-1)*n/2 edges with n nodes in a fully connected graph.

And hence, the Reiser quote above is similar but it emphasizes something else: it states what Metcalfe's law (I think) uses as a premise (or implicit claim) that the value is in the connections. Because it's not necessarily a fully connected graph.

Edit: originally I've given (n-1)*2/2 as the number of edges instead of (n-1)*n/2.
I’ve said and done stupid things that hurt people I cared about. Anyone who’s been a teenager and yelled “I hate you, Dad!” in a moment of hormonal overload has.

Ain’t killed anyone, though.
Huh? The newest AP1000s in Georgia cost 34B (and counting) for 2237MWe. That’s like 4x the cost per GW in the numbers you quotes for the solar installation.

But wait, there’s more! horrible ROI and massive cost overruns:

> During the construction of Vogtle's first two units, capital investment required jumped from an estimated $660 million to $8.87 billion.[7] ($18.3 billion in 2022 dollars[8])

> Two additional units utilizing Westinghouse AP1000 reactors were under construction since 2009, with Unit 3 being completed in July 2023.[9][10][11] This last report blames the latest increase in costs on the contractor not completing work as scheduled. Another complicating factor in the construction process is the bankruptcy of Westinghouse in 2017.[12] In 2018 costs were estimated to be about $25 billion.[13] By 2021 they were estimated to be over $28.5 billion.[14] In 2023 costs had increased to $34 billion, with work still to be completed on Vogtle 4.[15]

So why bother? Because base load? I mean damn, why not just toss in a couple Moss Landing type tesla megapack installations instead?

At 2.2GW, even if u wanted to store power for 12h, thats 26GWh. Moss Landing is 2.8GWh and it cost $560 million.
> You spend around 8 hours on travel weekly which amounts to around 45 days of full-time work per year and will sum up to 450 days of full-time work (3600 hours) over 10 years.
It's 4 years of full-time work days (9000 hours!) over 25 years.

Kind of wish I hadn't looked... :(
That does not seem to be an example of how you would fix this.
No, the caption on that picture of Scrooge McDuck in the article says it's /similar to/ the first image displayed.
Sorry, I meant f150 and my big thumbs failed me.

The ecoboost v6 150 gets 26 highway
more on the tool - https://huggingface.co/spaces/EQTYLab/lineage-explorer/blob/...
At SMART Technologies (the whiteboard company), I got an iPod nano and a glass cube.
Brave is building this functionality into the browser.
My 2cts about Nextcloud and why *I* think it's not viable as an alternative for the average user:

I host my own nextcloud since a few years.

I mostly use it as an alternative for google photos/icloud photos, basically backing up all the images from my smartphone.

Hosting the instance is one thing, but setting up the automatic upload on your phone is another thing.

The automatic photo upload feature in the official nextcloud app is most of the time broken and slow.
And on iOS you need to keep the nextcloud app open and the screen unlocked, otherwise it won't upload.

That's why I use FolderSync on Android, but I don't think the average user wouldn't want to set this up and might even misconfigure it, which could just delete all images.

And Nextcloud itself is just very slow.
With google photos you can just scroll through thousands of images and easily find the image you took 3 years ago.

If i do this in nextcloud, I already had the following stuff happen:

- Your browser freezes

- The Nextcloud server (php-fpm in my case) OOMs (it used around 15-20G of RAM)

(The OOMs also often happen when syncing with FolderSync.)

I definitely wouldn't recommend it as a google photos alternative.

I'm not complaining as I didn't pay a penny for nextcloud itself (only the cost for the dedicated server I rent). And I still use it, as there is no better alternative.

But for the "mass" there is no convenient and comparable alternative to the "surveillance capitalism" services.

Nextcloud is good enough for me, as its the only viabke option, but IMO it doesn't cut it for leaving the other services at scale.
There is none. I’d be surprised if you can reliably get 20mpg in an F250 that’s not diesel.
Certainly, I don't have a problem with the quote. I just don't want to face the inevitable "Hans Reiser? Isn't that the one that..." quagmire that pretty much everybody is going to step into.
I think anything done "at Scale" eventually resembles "Surveillance Capitalism" since most of the advantage of what is often referred to as "Capitalism" is people finding valuable uses for the refuse of others.

An alternative more practical guide is Derek Siver's "Tech Independence" which as other's have noted has many dependencies.

https://sive.rs/ti
Here is Bob Bishops website (he is mentioned as the source of the Duck images in the article):
https://web.archive.org/web/20181105111956/http://bob-bishop...

Does someone know where he is now?
I'll give an even different example that what others are saying here. I would love to carry my medicine around in little bags so that I don't have to carry a whole bottle. It keeps things organized, more comfortable, and reduces problems if lost. But doing this can be illegal or suspicious no matter what that medication is, including simply ibuprofen. This is not dissimilar from the others saying they just want to not carry around a giant tub because the item is bought in bulk.

The important take away here (combined with the white powder examples) is "just because you don't see a reason or understand a reason doesn't mean it isn't a rational thing that someone else might do." The law is supposed to be about reasonable doubt. Even deeper, the law is about protecting citizens. These activities might be "suspicious" but that's a vague term. At worst, these would be drug __users__ and not __distributors__ and I'd say those are the higher priority. They're also easier to identify because having many small bags is much more suspicious because it is harder to justify the convenience of replacing a storage container and/or taking a daily/lower quantity of whatever that substance is. It might seem weird to carry a bag of creatine, but it much weirder to be carrying 20. But maybe I'm falling trap to my own critique, though I'm saying I'm placing this on a sprecturm of suspicion instead of a binary condition to allow for other context.
You definitely should blame the contractors.

It's become very clear as the public enquiry has progressed [1] that Fujitsu were:

- aware of several bugs - including ones they'd fully understood the cause and mechanics of - that would induce double-counting of transactions

- aware that criminal prosecutions were underway against users of the system in which just such double-counted transactions would clearly have had a material impact on the case and the evidence aduced

- failed to raise the above in a timely manner, either to the Post Office who had directly requested audit logs, to external auditors, or to the justice system itself

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/17/post-office-...
> If someone can actually point out a real example on the real world how all this madness helps to a better world, much appreciated, because honestly I don't see it.

Anecdote time.

My sister, who doesn't care much about computers, found ChatGPT useful in her job, as it gave her a template to build from that included things she'd not thought of initially. I've just listened to the latest Numberphile podcast, and was surprised to hear Donald Knuth saying similar about a handful of the responses it gave him when he was playing with it.

I play around with the GPT models regularly, even before ChatGPT came out, and it broadens my abilities by producing code in languages I don't have much professional experience with, but which I can verify.

I sometimes use it for translations, and have occasionally tried using it as a foreign language conversation partner (it's OK at that, one limitation is that it keeps going back to English, though this is also a problem I face in real life with actual humans).
Assuming there's no actual deeper political or financial implications, no. The standard for libel and slander for a public figure are
1. The content is inaccurate.
2. You knew it was inaccurate (you have to have known they don't feel that way about green beans).
3. The content does measurable harm to their reputation or business.

If that feels like a borderline impossible standard to reach, well, now you know why celebrity tabloids are so prevalent, despite their wealthy, powerful, influential targets hating them. We take free speech very seriously in the United States.
The word "more" is missing from the first half of the sentence: "more proportional".
It's easy to check through their verification service if your passwords have been compromised.

Hash your password locally

$ echo -n fredflinstone | shasum
95e47d937e105fa1cc84bfa476b10f091304c090 -

Then take the first five characters of the hash and invoke the API

$ curl https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/95e47
...
D8F3BA8D3952AA8917C78295EE1122F675C:17
D910D224A8450006478ED28D2CE2D005343:10
D91C102088F1D91469B803235DB60903259:874
D937E105FA1CC84BFA476B10F091304C090:290
D96BF2796784C142392D8B46AEF68B991D0:4
D98009835A90E46EFFD43AC3E5C6BD1C14B:5

And there we have it -- my password is compromised (the suffix D937...)

Easy enough to script this up with minimal information leakage. All you're sending is 20 bits; that's not enough to do anything malicious even if your password is compromised.
We aren't, not yet, because those digital goods still have an initial creation cost. Digital goods that people consume are made by people.

Yes, they can be copied infinitely for free, but we're only "post scarcity" if we never make anything else new.

With the advent of generative AI, we might just barely be starting to be post scarcity in a couple narrow fields.
That he still wrote "in prison for killing my wife Nina" when she wasn't his wife anymore at the time indicates IMO that he still doesn't get it.
finally an implementation of printf especially for c++.
> Even psychopaths don't want to end up disgraced or in jail. So maybe it's the lack of punishment we dole out to these kinds of people.

You're describing effective regulatory oversight. That is a manual control on capitalism, and something capitalism inevitably fights against. Psychopaths exist and look for ways to exploit capitalism, including "fuck it, we'll risk loss of human life and possibly having to shut down the company", which you said isn't due to capitalism. But it is: it's due to the combination of capitalism and human nature, but we can only control the former. The solution is regulatory oversight, as you just pointed out.

Also: realize that psychopaths will absolutely risk shutting down the company if they think they can exit with a personal profit before that happens. CEOs routinely fuck over the longevity of the companies they lead, knowing they won't be around for the fallout. In fact it's hard to find situations where this doesn't happen -- it's almost always private companies or companies where the CEO is completely entrenched.
More accurately, Capitalism is an ownership model. People like to retcon all forms of market-based commerce as a kind of "proto-capitalism", but that makes it hard to talk about Capitalism as a distinct economic system. The main defining feature of capital markets is their use of private property as a tool for extracting profit from a market system. There are useful and socially positive applications for capital, but Capitalism places profit above all other concerns because extracting profit is its function. Capitalism was born in feudal Europe, and grew up during the colonial period and is, factually, only 500 years old or so at most. Markets have existed all over the world for literal thousands of years. Capitalism tries really hard to pretend like they invented something, but there's far more choice and affordability in the free markets around the world than anything that has been enclosed by the american financial system.

Then again, I don't subscribe to the notion of capitalist realism. Aside from the exported violence used to impose and sustain it, the model is flimsy and constantly in crisis.
Boeings use mechanical yokes and not sticks. They have force feedback by design.
They should be about rehabilitation.

That said, I think at least part of it is related to risk to the outside population.

i.e. Inmates performing illegal activity or otherwise directing people on the outside to do so.

Yes, You can do that with phones and visits as well, however those are a bit easier to monitor.
Xonsh – A Python-Powered Shell
We are working hard to uphold all the licensing rules but nobody can absolve you from all legal risks.

There may be a court ruling/new law that any training needs a special permission from the original author and then even a CC-BY license won't cover this.
This. We need many fewer disposable things in this world, not more.
Post-scarcity just means the rate of use is less than the rate of renewal for all used resources. In a sense, hunter-gatherers were "post-scarcity." The challenge is supporting our modern quality of life at our scale of population. I think enormous strides would need to be made (fusion energy + matter synthesis, ie Star Trek replicators) in order to achieve post-scarcity on a long enough timeline without changing any of the other parameters.
Interesting, thanks for your reply
i love how accurately you told us the model of the stand mixer
Samsung at least indicated that "many" of the AI features they announced for the S24 series will also be made available on earlier flagship devices (including but possibly not limited to the S23 series, Fold5, Flip5 and Tab S9) once they get the OneUI 6.1 update. It's not currently clear exactly which features are included in that "many" though.

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-one-ui-6-1-galaxy-a...
> because he's not like the rest of us.

He's human and killing other humans is something a humans can do, given the right circumstances.
They have very ambitious goals, I think it's okay to give them the benefit of the doubt for a bit. Keep in mind that Rust took over 9 years to reach 1.0, and C took about 19 years to be standardized.
In practice a file system is not at all like a traditional database as it lacks querying of the data itself
That's still the same as "move on".
Just a somewhat tangent thought: do you know of any tricks to speed up the construction phase of Aho Corasick? A recent problem of mine needed to use Aho Corasick but with several million strings in the dictionary it took a bit longer than I thought to construct it. Any tricks you know of to speed up construction? Don't particularly care about memory.
Very roughly, it's the same distance from Hong Kong to New York through either Panama or Suez.

Like if one raises transit tolls the ships can immediately chose to go through the other.

But to directly answer your wish, this site does exactly what you want https://sea-distances.org/
Protein powder supplements come to mind.
The site gets hung when browser script blockers are on. Works fine without any blockers on though.

Cool concept and the summary has good detail. It gives a level deeper than the Abstract
And in a VM, not bare metal.

"Boot" isn't even a sensible concept in a VM, IMHO, you could just toss an image into RAM. There's no hardware to initialize, the caches are probably already warm, etc.
That’s nice but it’s no waffle party awarded to refiner of the quarter.
He was denied two years ago.
At the time it was seen as extremely dubious; the criminal charges are the least surprising outcome.
Does any of that have anything to do with bing market share ? (also no, not 100% of chatgpt users are paid users, far from it)

Impressive or not I don't really care, all I'm saying is that even if they all left chrome to go to bing (and they didn't) it wouldn't have been much more than a 1% market share movement, which is what we've seen, hence there is no reason to be surprised.
I'd say cloud is basically a conservative business. The last things customers want is to get their cheese moved.

XBOX is a Google-esque side project with the exception that Google would have killed it long ago. So far as I can tell they were afraid Sony might have created a competitive "home computer" platform by broadening Playstation and Microsoft. I personally feel I made a mistake getting an XBOX ONE instead of a PS4 a few years back because there are just so many stupid things about XBOX such as you can't play couch multiplayer unless you buy multiple subscriptions. And the fact that the video codecs are deficient so Jellyfin and Plex "just don't work" despite working just fine with trash Android devices.

The most striking thing about the Microsoft-Activision hearing was that Microsoft's management came across as indifferent to games. It would be one thing if Microsoft had a business plan that really makes sense (e.g. dominate an industry so you can make money) but as it is it just seems that they want to dominate games because they are a big dominant company that dominates things.

The most notable thing about the Microsoft-Activision hearings is that management seemed absolutely indifferent to games.

A lot of other changes are less radical than they seem. With cloud they can take your money just fine if you use Linux or Windows. Microsoft has always courted developers and often been generous (it's amazing what you got with an MSDN subscription) whereas once the Mac came along Apple has consistently seen developers as money bags that they could bleed dry. It was painful for Microsoft to realize that POSIX culture is here to stay but getting behind GitHub, NPM and stuff like that is consistent with their history of winning the hearts and minds of developers. Office365 is about as revolutionary as Adobe's Creative Cloud, a product that didn't really change much, now they just bill you by the month. It was just necessary to get parts of the office suite on mobile because that's where the users are.
Once we have established with high confidence that other planets don’t have native life, We can start looking for life forms which can survive natural environment. Imagine we seed Venus with life. ;)
Even if it did mean that, so what? Shouldn't the goal of public policy be to benefit society? What's more likely to benefit society: Sticking people in big expensive torture boxes or trying to cause people to not do things that convince a bunch of other people that they deserve to be stuck in big expensive torture boxes?
As society levels-up, the definition of scarce will continually expand as we confound wants with needs. I'm not sure how in a world of infinite wants you can "out-technology" resource demands.
US applications for jobless benefits fall to lowest level since September 2022
It depends on the kind of game he wants to make.

If it's about 3D scenery or physics, I would recommend Godot. Just import some 3D models, place them into a scene, add lights and physics, and you need very little coding to have a simple 3D game.
You can add complex logic and UI later on.

If the focus lies on UI, NPCs, combat, or inventory, I would recommend GameMaker instead. It's 2D, but it's made for that kind of stuff.
Vaguely reminiscent of another Xkcd: https://xkcd.com/979
"Impaired judgement". I'm not supporting it, just stating that's the claim.
Apple M2 consumes roughly 20 watt and snapdragon X elite is at 23 watt. They are comparing an active cooled snapdragon with Macbook air which does not have a fan.
> Can you be specific about what kind of (productive) gatekeeping the society brings to the table that is not and cannot be fulfilled by a peer review process outside of their purview?

There are certainly other ways of getting to the same thing, but what I think a peer review process in isolation lacks is a sense of trustworthiness of the peer review.

I.e. as a layperson, I'm not particularly qualified to gauge the quality of an arbitrary paper. I am implicitly not qualified to gauge the quality of peer reviews, because I can't gauge the paper itself.

I can defer to the opinion of experts, though. These societies unify the diffuse expertise of who knows how many people. I.e. I don't work in sociology, so I have no idea who is a reputable sociologist, but I have some degree of confidence that the peer reviewers they choose aren't total quacks.

It's a useful heuristic for non-experts. I don't know anyone or anything in rocket science, but I can defer to what NASA says. I'm not a marine biologist, but I can defer to the NOAA. Etc, etc. There's value in that heuristic, even if it's not perfect.

> I have no first-hand experience, but my intuiting would be that a lot of the gatekeeping these societies do is focused on reputations, organizational hierarchies, and funding considerations.

This is indirectly useful to my thinking. The society is focused on funding and income, which is largely predicated on them being trustworthy (theoretically), which gives them an incentive to provide quality peer reviews. I would imagine a society with 0 standards loses subscribers pretty quickly.

arXiv could certainly do the same thing, but my impression is that arXiv is more focused on making papers available than being an authoritative entity on anything. "This paper is on arXiv" doesn't imply the same level of trust that being in a journal does. They derive value from being open rather than from being trustworthy.

arXiv definitely has value as well, I don't mean to imply that it doesn't or is bad in some way. It just has different goals, from my limited knowledge. It's likely invaluable to people in their field, especially for those qualified to gauge the trustworthiness of an individual study.

arXiv could definitely build some kind of trust system like that if they were interested, but I really think their primary audience is experts who don't have a need for a trustworthiness score simple enough for a layman.