skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: not stated at all in this, but which my main point, is that the mistake was that the jury messed up on the compensatory damages, not that the punitive damages are wrong. Coffee is still kicking in...

Ok, so active harassment of a person, by a think tank, perpetuating lies and making comparisons to pedophilia is "no damages"?

This spurred on harassment including hacking of email contents.

What is possibly "icky" about a defamation result, other than the jury didn't find higher compensatory damages?

If it's OK in our society for individuals to be attacked with lies like this, with money undirected through think tanks, are you OK with your professional life and personal life being intruded in this way with lies? Really?
This is a ridiculous Sam.
Not disagreeing, but adding: Cloudflare also uses it between browser and proxy, which is a huge amount non-trivial amount of the small internet.
World of Warcraft was distributing updates as torrents 20 years ago. It was fine.
What exactly did happen to Canada? Were they wiped of the map or something?
If the license is not tied to a physical object that you can safekeep, then it has none of the traditional benefits of ownership as you can only exercise your license through a stack that others make available. That's the real issue here.
The color blue is responsible for a lot of misery.
You'd be surprised, there's a lot of low-hanging fruit in there.

Years ago I was poking at the 'blobby' generator code and managed to make it a lot slower by adding multi-threading -- once it overcame the overhead of multi-threading then it ran faster but, IIRC, that was not really within the typical use case so I just gave up. Undoubtedly I made some mistakes...
> this works in other countries, in the Czech Republic for instance

Our current Chevron regime works here under our existing set of laws and structures.
Context changes impose substantial cognitive costs, disrupting reaction times, perception, and attention maintenance, and yes, memory.
Context has a huge role in memory, and context shifts can lead you to not recognize familar people, like encountering your college professor at a dinner party.

The ability to perform in spite of context changes improves over childhood into adolescence, but the costs remain there and will become more pronounced as working memory loads or task demands increase.

Those who design GUIs should really take this into account. When, for example, clicking on a menu replaces the whole screen, like a version of Windows experimented with on the start menu, the complete context change imposes real costs on cognition.

I apologize for not providing citations, but a google scholar search will quickly provide relevant materials; this comment was written from what I learned in my PhD studies on the development of memory.
My solar Casio will keep working after the zombie apocalypse: no batteries in it. Works great, even in low light conditions.
There's an interesting bit of complexity here though because a fair amount of Mann's status as a public figure is because of the climate-conspiracy community's singling him and his work out as a target to be attacked.

If a group elevates someone to be a public figure, and uses the fact that they're a public figure to defame them in ways that would not be permitted for non-public figures, should the group really be allowed the same protections that random members of the public have talking crap about people who are incidentally famous?

(I suppose it gets a bit complicated that Mann didn't retreat from the attacks, and used the notoriety thrust upon him to become a fairly prominent science communicator. Even so, giving his attackers any benefit of the doubt doesn't seem right somehow...)
(2009) http://legacy.hanno-rein.de/hanno-rein.de/archives/349
It's complicated.

For 1 employee which disobeyed orders and saved the company you'll have 99 which disobeyed orders and don't produce anything useful or even made harm.

This is called the Halo effect.
He only said there is no legal "right", not that gun ownership was completely illegal.

The point being, reasonable countries view gun ownership as a privilege that can be lost, instead of a right that cannot.
I'm looking for __pink__ leds, but can't find a good source. Digikey has only very limited options with many packages like 0805 missing.
And how much energy does maintaining the military that backs US currency use? Much more and it's violent. The use of energy to protect bitcoin from attack from nation states is non-violent. It really is an efficient and ethical use of the energy.
It's a reference to an old 4chan post I believe.

"I accidentally a coca cola bottle"

"accidentally what?"

"a coca cola bottle"
I disagree.

It's much more common to go from C to Python, Go or even Zig, rather than Rust.

I think the C++ to Rust transition is by far the most common one.
> the age of talking in terms of trillions for innovation and investments

Or maybe the dollar just isn't worth as much as it used to be ;-)

> Type 1 civilization in the next 200 years?

Jokes aside, yes, one can only hope.
Diogenes is a good source for quotes, here is one of him and Alexander:

Alexander went in person to see Diogenes, and he found him lying in the sun. Diogenes raised himself up a little when he saw so many people coming towards him, and fixed his eyes upon Alexander. And when that monarch addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, "Yes," said Diogenes, "stand a little out of my sun."
> this total value would likely be spent over many years across many different companies/investments in order to grow the entire AI industry.

Sure, in total across many companies, ventures and years as part of an ecosystem. But one entity raising the entire sum? That seems ludicrously unrealistic.
I tried the one YouTube to TikTok and I got this error :-(

" Generate Image Failed!
Error code: 400 - {'error': {'code': 'content_policy_violation', 'message': 'Your request was rejected as a result of our safety system. Your prompt may contain text that is not allowed by our safety system.', 'param': None, 'type': 'invalid_request_error'}}"
A lot of naysayers missing the point in this thread.

Is the most likely outcome that we shortly 10x the market for AI chips? Probably not. But, if OpenAI get AGI, or even just strong agents or expert tools, you can easily imagine the demand skyrocketing.

If you are a founder or VC, you are into low probability, high payoff bets. Think of this investment in those terms.

Let’s say Altman thinks there is a 20% chance of OpenAI getting AGI in 10 years. (Maybe you think it’s lower, I suspect he thinks it is higher) In the possible world where we do get AGI, the value that OpenAI can create will be hard-capped by chip production, so placing a complementary bet on chips means he can prevent this from limiting OpenAI’s growth in the happy case.

If this bet pays of 100x in 10% of worlds, it’s a great bet. From Altmans perspective the chip business could break even as long as it unlocks that 100x growth for OpenAI. He’s basically doubling down on his existing portfolio.

Another obvious issue in the imaginary AGI world is energy production; and indeed, Altman has big investments in nuclear too.

The first company that gets AGI will be the world's first $10T company. Work backwards from that.

(None of the above requires particularly high probabilities of actually achieving AGI to make sense as a bet.)
I am also a nixos enjoyer but I have mixed feelings around the fact that I still don't really understand the configuration language.

I'm happy in the sense that its simple enough that I can install programs and do all the other usual desktop stuff with minimal knowledge. But I'm unhappy in the sense that when I started with nixos I wanted to replace docker and docker-compose. I still haven't accomplished that.

But all-in-all I'm very happy with Nixos for desktop use. No crashes, no bugs. Its the reason I was able to permanently drop Windows.
That is a weird place to focus the blame when the entire healthcare system is equally terrible or worse, and is clearly the result of plain capitalism.
I don't know. Is Tomcat some version of Apache server? It says 'apache2' at my localhost while installing the server, and at the webhost I don't know (might be some other server that can run PHP). I usually don't dive deep into server territory, so I'm a lucky guy that I can focus on the design and the webdev.
The problem is that he was unfairly compensated by the economic system (capitalism) he works in, and had to fight for years only to just about break even on legal fees.

The guy's gumption led to the invention of a multi-billion dollar pear year industry, and he got basically none of it.
>Because NATO did not expand. Countries decided to join NATO. You may think this is the same with other words, but it isn't.
In the first version

That is sort of a weird argument. Do you believe that is the case for the US as well? The US did not expand into Indian areas those areas just decided to join the US..
Futuristic Fashion
Look how many company are using most of the crude oil. They're allowed to buy this commodity and they profit from using it, what did you expect would happen?
how is thermodynamic linear algebra different from monte carlo algorithms? I'm willing to believe that there are efficiency gains to be made by exploring the time/energy trade-off, but i bet they have a long long way to go before they are better than general purpose compute (CPU/GPU) running well designed monte-carlo algos...
One of my favorite scenes is from Apollo 13 where Jim asks Houston to confirm his numbers he calculated by hand, then it cuts to all of mission control using their slide rules to confirm his results.
I agree with the other poster, do you have a repo someone willing to share?
> would it be helpful if I said "likely a major diplomatic contact"?

No, this is still wrong.

> being naive about international politics, obsessively pedantic, or knee jerk argumentative

I'm telling you the reality from D.C. Musk is not a diplomatic asset. To the extent he might be, it's indirectly. His contacts in Russia are simply not unique and deep enough to merit that designation. (And the risks of blowback, given his public profile, too high.)

> we absolutely risk losing the rideshare (diplomatic point of contact, beyond just musk)

Roscosmos needs NASA more than the other way now. Due to SpaceX.

> and upticking the risk of nuclear conflict

This is a unique perspective.
> Aside from the fact the ATF hates anything fun.

This is an objective fact.

> The person was trying to skirt the law and got caught.

What law? The law that says you can't distribute a chart of a lightning link? That's not a real law. The point here is that the ATF created the law out of whole cloth.

> Or let me put it another way: if this keycard isn't a big deal, why do gun owners care?

Are you serious? The guy is going to jail under the charge that he distributed a machine gun, for distributing legal information in a country that has freedom of speech as the first amendment. He didn't even violate ITAR. I have a shirt with the CNC instructions to create a lightning link printed on it. Should I go to prison too?

"First they came for the $some_group..."
I agree that a bad implementation may lead to poor performance. However, this is irrespective of the architecture. The effects of an architecture are more noticeable in the context of maintainability, scalability, and extensibility.

Or perhaps I am misunderstanding your comment?
One awkward thing is that Google's Gemini app is currently the third result searching Gemini on the Play Store-- after some bitcoin related applications. The namespace is occupied.
That sounds dangerous, since not all emissions will be converted.
It would be "astronomically expensive", they said. :0
Or by using a bash builtin that duplicates a normal command.
Optimizing the Metal pipeline to maintain 120 FPS in GPUI
We had it 14 degrees warmer 50 million years ago and earth is still hospitable.

Burning all the fossil fuels is (at worst) just going to put us back into a Cambrian/Devonian greenhouse earth configuration.
I'm sorry, I didn't make this clear! You very much own the audio generated! That was my intention from the beginning and will make sure that the app along with our terms and services reflect this prominently.
I'll make some updates today to make it straightforward for the user to download an .MP3 of what they create on Oration
There are multiple slippery slopes, some good, some bad.

It’s a slippery slope to a national park system. It’s also a slippery slope to a public-private partnership to maintain natural sites.

Both are great.

It’s also a slippery slope to a system where natural entities receives court appointed “guardians”, who sue and defend based in the interests of their client, whatever that means.

That would be a mess.

There really needs to be some sort of board, selected by parties with interests in the well-being of the river.

Or just a regular old national park.
I would say that those two Canadians put themselves in danger the moment they entered an authoritarian country.

It is ridiculous to expect that one will get a fair trial in these kinds of countries; law just exists there not to protect the general public, but the dictator himself.
> Mozilla started to implement some nice privacy-preserving features,

They try their best all the time not to do what actually improves users privacy and hurts Google the most, blocking admob.

They do everything but that, while also using Google analytics for most of their products.
I once commented on HN how much I loved Accelerando and Charles Stross responded suggesting I read his The Rapture of the Nerds. I read it soon after and loved it. I very much enjoy the genre of people living inside computers; I welcome recommendations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapture_of_the_Nerds
A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics
Do you think the US wouldn't need or want a military if the whole world switched to bitcoin tomorrow?
and tape falls off, can impede functionality depending on the device, etc
You were quite close but then decided not to do the final proper mental step. When I put leftists in a line with nazis, what kind of leftists could I possibly mean?

Also, I'm German, so I mean people like this for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction There are plenty anti-state leftists group, even in the US. And you probably very well know it, so I'm kind of annoyed at your question tbh.

> Do you want to reconsider your phrasing?
Absolutely not. Leftist means in support of left politics. You imply that the political left has no extreme wing this way. Same as with muslims, there's a range of beliefs, and a subset of those groups are not ok.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-28/electric-...
Calling someone or something a fraud is different from simple disagreement.
You're right that it was difficult, that's part of why React caught on. But lots of apps did it anyway—its not as impossible as you make it seem if you take the time to write some abstractions around checking what needs to be done or centralizing all DOM operations to reduce the chance of other code modifying then. I worked on multiple complex web apps that did things like this. It's just tedious and error-prone.
The reasons are clearly stated in the article

>It awarded punitive damages of $1,000 from Simberg and $1 million from Steyn, after finding that the pair made their statements with “maliciousness, spite, ill will, vengeance or deliberate intent to harm.
> just because some action isn't on the top 2, it isn't reason to stop doing it

Since you don't quantify a cost-benefit of any action, how have you arrived to this effort ordinality?

Given a ranking, would any efforts in combination have higher impact than a higher ranked effort alone?
Yup, you didn't hear? Canada no longer exists. Now y'all are gonna have to consume that inferior Vermont maple syrup.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230509-the-key-issue...
How much energy do the data-centers of the 4 hyperscalers use?
Your argument could be valid if bitcoins were actually useful.
Fixing this is not going to fix the energy crisis but as uses of fossil fuels go it is among the most egregious
Yes and if your doctor tells you that you need to do one will you argue?

My understanding is that we’re already “over testing”, though would defer to someone with a citation on the topic.
Ban it already. We're in a global energy and climate crisis. Stop wasting it for make-believe computer money.
just throw it in the TOS >:^)
Not divulging boring details of stuff you have clearance to and keeping quiet about the biggest adventure of your life, while being a person so talkative that you once spent 44 billion on your favorite blogging tool? Those are very different challenges.

OTOH, "cryptonomicon ultra plot line" could be the ultimate Musk lure, so the gates are open to even the wildest speculation.
a good leader need to be humble enough to spot when they are wrong and correct course. This guy sounds like he had control issues, and kept a grudge. very childish behavior.
It always seemed to me that perhaps the Anglosphere tends to consist of both many secondary speakers and many primary speakers who don't speak any secondary language. This creates an environment with both an interest in bits of other language and speakers able to supply those bits.
Pink LEDs need a custom phosphor so they may not be available in some sizes. They are also not in high demand, so not a lot of different parts are made.
I got bit hard doing network troubleshooting with Wireshark. I was trying to debug connectivity issues and was filtering for HTTP packets, but that was excluding QUIC! Turns out my packets were QUICked through Cloudflare. Figuring that out when hair is on fire isn't my preferred time.
I really need you to connect the dots for me here. What you described is vastly different to what I described. Why do you feel they are equal?
Keep going back to:

>> Explain Bitcoin as completely as possible in a single tweet.

> It's like if idling your car 24/7 occasionally produced solved Sudoku puzzles that you could then exchange for heroin.

* https://twitter.com/VessOnSecurity/status/113524359527398604...

Edit: per /u/tgamblin (of Spack fame), this was originally from @Theophite.
Combustion furnaces deliver very hot air so they can cycle on once in a while and then turn off. Heat pumps deliver warm not hot air so they have to run longer cycles. The slower rise in room temperature can even mean that it makes more sense to set a constant temperature on your thermostat instead of letting the temperature fall when you're away during the day (the conventional logic to save energy).
The amendment is just one minor manifestation of a very fundamental cultural value. People who do not believe in freedom of speech will often excuse curtailment of it when such curtailment is not prohibited by the amendment, as freedom of speech is just that one law. So no, the amendment LITERALLY is not what freedom of speech is.
Yeah those companies generally use that energy to produce things of value to people
Works for me but I’m in the US, member.

Also handy to know if you might want to find it elsewhere.
There is an absolutely vast literature studying the effects of context and context changes on many different forms of cognition, going back decades. Your posts really adds little of value, and relies on some over-broad stereotypes of the soundness of psychology research. Do some google scholar searches.
Yes, but the odds that someone who invents the blue LED also invents something else amazing is much better than a random employee who did not invent the blue LED inventing something amazing.
Can it really be that simple? I'll remain skeptical until I see some numbers.

But it would be cool if I could travel to a quarry and crush rocks for a while, and it would actually meaningfully help with the climate.
Well, if they really thought it was a waste of time, they could have fired him in the first few years, but instead they kept funding his research. The company was doing one thing with its right hand, and something entirely different with its left.

I'm not saying the halo effect isn't real or not applicable here. But a multi-billion dollar invention warrants Extenuating Circumstances, and it's oh so very convenient that the CEO can say "well we don't want to inspire this kind of behavior in other employees!" after the profits are realized.
While yes, the military uses a ton of energy and shouldn't exist at its size, that doesn't mean the crypto internet casino is a good use of energy.

I'm curious about the statistics of crypto use to buy goods and services vs the crypto use for investment, gambling, scams, rugpulls, etc.

I wonder how much energy was used for NFTs which are neither efficient or ethical.
I think this verdict is both good and bad. We've been dragging people through the mud over nothing now for a while and celebrating it. Society is sick. It needs to stop.

At the same time, I worry about a "chilling" effect on anyone who questions "the science". Whether you like them or not, we need people who question climate science. We need people who question vaccines. Yes, they are annoying and in this case they went way, way too far.
I liked Nix, because it worked very well to reproduce "the same system" every time. However, it became unmanageable and a huge time sink to constantly remake how I scripted together my nix flakes per the current/modern way of doing that. And then finding a repository of how someone else managed this on Github and rewriting my configuration again.

Nix ultimately made me feel like I was running Gentoo. Excellent build system, but I could not invest the time in learning ebuilds, and I could not invest the time in using Nix's language to manage its packages. It was just a huge time sink and baggage to maintain.

rpm-ostree is lowering the barrier to entry greatly to produce layered [open container] images that we can rebase off of. That is the future among all this atomic stuff. It would be entirely possible to /someday/ build a system with the nix toolset, then commit the image through rpm-ostree, and have others rebase from it. Best of both.

In the future, with immutable systems, it probably also means being able to have those very robust update systems in place like Chromebooks where you update and switch to partition B with the new image, while having the fallback on partition A. It would also probably make it easier to verify and sign these images for secure boot purposes so then enabling secure boot on Linux becomes easier/convenient, and the secure default.

I still think the Nix language is yet another language I don't see the value in. I'm not learning this, or becoming comfortable in this language, or convincing myself it's a comfortable language to use ...just to maintain my 2-3 laptops when I don't use Nix anywhere else.

Time sink. But a very solid system.

PS: I want them to layer everything on Fedora CoreOS. Make CoreOS the secure thin base, then create all these atomic "Spins" as a derivation of CoreOS.
Thank you for your work! Last time I praised Accelerando on HN you commented that I should read The Rapture of the Nerds. I read it shortly after and loved it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapture_of_the_Nerds
The project is code-named “Skynet”
Quickest Acura Integra Does Quarter-Mile in 7.7 Seconds at 195 MPH
Yeah, China arrested Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, the latter later admitted he was used by Michael Kovrig to pass intelligence information to the Canadian spy agencies. [1] The Canada paid them off to remain silent [2].

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-spavor-kovrig...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-ready-pay-sett...
In my experience, congestion control in hardware would be the very last thing I would want. Everything needs to be pushed as far toward the edges of the system as possible. This is what quic offers.
Those data centers generally do useful things though.