skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They also say the system generated alerts for “rough sleepers and beggars” at the station’s entrances and claim this allowed staff to “remotely monitor the situation and provide the necessary care and assistance.”

ah yes I love using technology to better deny the most vulnerable people a place to sleep.
The privacy aspect is what made me connect local LLMs with therapeutic use. But yeah, AI as it stands today just isn't safe enough. We need nine 9s of safe usage here (99.999999999% safe), or more, for me to actually feel comfortable with the technology.

It would also open up some legal gray areas if it were to happen. Would psychotherapist-patient privilege apply to an LLM box? If the state has a zero day granting them access to a seized "therapy box," it could be more revealing and damaging than anything a human therapist could provide police.
What’s your github username? I’d be interested in using that when it’s released.
Seabird 0.1
> I tried getting to Fedora but the package manager was slower even to deb

Try setting "max_parallel_downloads = 20" in "/etc/dnf/dnf.conf" the next time you try (the default is 3 which often doesn't saturate the network and is just slowing things down).
Yes, that's a major irritation. Or at least allow me to switch off the built in tabs when I have an extension that provides that functionality. It would be absolutely trivial to do so.
Are we missing a thread pool/executor like abstraction for workers? If we really want callers to be able to control concurrency primitives deeper down the stack, we should coalesce on an executor paradigm that the library can use as it's work queue.
The coating around the side should form a V, with the handle being the lowest point, and make a little indentation on the bottom of the inside of handle to collect all the liquid...
There can be as many /32s in IPv6 as devices on the IPv4 internet.
according to https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ For the past 12 months, energy actually was negative. While food at home rose 1.3%. These wouldn't contribute significantly to the overall numbers
Growth Hacking by Ryan Holiday

Alex Hormozi's 2 books

- $100M Offers

- $100m Leads
Thanks for sharing!!!

This is all voluntary right? As far as I can tell [1] the US doesn't have a carbon pricing system so this is really dependent on companies being interested in the positive PR this leads to?

[1] https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/map_data
see also: GOODY-2’s model card: https://www.goody2.ai/goody2-modelcard.pdf
realhats is pretty great.
The only thing that really works is contacting someone in your network(ex-work colleagues, ex boss, college friends and so on).
> Sounds like you need a union.

Yes. Unfortunately, the tech industry has too many people who have been seduced by libertarian talking points and fail to realize they're not actually capitalists.
They abandoned that mantra.
> Why don't we switch to ipv6.

Because the IPv4 NAT technology exists.
I know it's unhelpful, but it's not new. "Core" inflation leaves those out because they change too rapidly to be useful as trend indicators.
American VC Firms Investing Billions into PRC Companies Fueling the CCP Military
Another PAYWALL link?
Anyone know of a ycombinator filter that just strips out links that go to wired bloomberg nytimes wapo etc so that they just don't even appear in the feed? Im thinking about playing with a viewer that just blocks them maybe just showing something like bubbabubba_domain_filterd instead and continues
Then how would we tell which papers have been read?
By that logic, ipv6 would be 1.2.3.4.1.2.3.4.1.2.3.4.1.2.3.4

Easy to remember, indeed
RIPE, via a LIR, but it doesn’t matter, because ASNs are end-user resources. IP space is all PA though.

The /32 I’m renting however.
I know that's what the jury thought they were doing, but that isn't actually constitutional in the US. Juries are not empowered to decide whether speech isn't allowed and should be punished, they're empowered to decide whether speech is defamation and how much harm was done by said defamation.

Here, they found there was ~no harm done. That means that, constitutionally, they are unable to levy a substantial fine.
> can rewrite the history arbitrarily

No, you cannot do that. Transactions would still need to be signed by the corresponding owners. All you could do is reorder (and thus invalidate) some transactions, drop some transactions, or add some that weren't originally included.

> Just dump everything into unusable addresses...

Nope; that's not possible. You wouldn't have the signatures to do that even with 51% hashing power.
No, the international monetary system is perfectly functional, as evidenced by the fact that it supports the global economy just fine.

Bitcoin is neither an alternative to the international monetary system, nor a hedge. It's a joke. A gambling instrument for financially illiterate people.
More generally, I'm pretty sure that "making mistakes" is a FUNDAMENTAL part of "being clever" / "learning"

So any system we will develop that should be recognized as "intelligent" will HAVE to make errors (otherwise it wouldn't be "interesting enough" to be considered "intelligent")

Therein lies what makes humans beautiful
It's so funny seeing tech worker anecdotes on here passed as fact. The FACT is that wages are rising for most Americans, you appear to be in an industry that hasn't see it. Regarding prices, I don't think you understand what reductions in inflation means, are you wanting negative inflation? These reports are meaningful for anyone interested in macro economics and not just "no_wisards" personal finances.

Here in the real world; healthcare, manufacturing, education, retail, service is all seeing great wage increases and prices have stabilized.
Wow indeed.

CNN lite's html is 15 kB, whereas the full page's html is whopping 1.3 MB compressed (and 3.5 MB uncompressed).
I'm curious. Would you mind sharing some examples?
This is just Anthropic's new Claude release.
No. There's no way that this is carbon negative.

Lithos is almost certainly one of the many scam CO2 projects.
0) yes they do, in extremis half a dozen HAEMP would basically take out the whole internet

(b) "seal the network in their borders" is much easier than that, lots of networks basically act like that already due to either voluntary compliance with local laws, or due to direct government interference with the networks

iii. the miners aren't really all that distributed, they group together for the same reason everyone else groups together instead of being free-range anarchists

[δ] all you need to do to shut down a currency within a country is arrest people using it, which is very easy and has a long history
Turkey, with 85m population and 75% internet users, has less than 3% IPv6 adoption.
The subscription hike seems to put its price closer to competitors' prices, from my quick searching AS a Ring customer.

Feels bad - it's really a 100% price hike too, since they raised it from $25 in 2020 to $50 / yr now in 2024.
Kolmogorov complexity [1] is a measure of the complexity of an object (say a text), while Cyclomatic complexity is a measure of the complexity of a program. Can we make any statements about the relationship between them?

Let's say we have a text A, and we find a program P which is of length L and which the Kolmogorov complexity K(A); i.e. L=K(A). Does it make sense to compare the cyclomatic complexity C(P) with K(A)? Or can we write some equation or inequality the compares C(P) with K(A)?

I guess a first task would be to normalize one or the other so as to get the same units...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
I did not attack Mitchell.
At some point, someone usually wants cash instead of shares in Neom (usually quickly), and you need to liquidate those shares for cash, affecting the valuation of said speculative assets.
You would be able to control the part of the network you cut off, but if anyone smuggles in as much as a microSD card with the outside blockchain state and syncs it to their client, every client in the segment would see this longer chain (since the outside has more hash power than you) and recognize it as legitimate, undoing all your fraudulent transactions (along with a lot of legitimate ones that never reached the outside network)
Reminds me of the intro to the movie "Iron sky"
> All I know is my wallet is thinner than ever and the reporting on inflation always feels out of touch.
Prices aren’t dropping and wages aren’t rising to keep pace.

It's not inflation figures that are out of touch, it's your understanding of them: inflation being low means the prices have (mostly) stopped increasing, not that they've declined back to where it was, this second option is never going happen.
After working with these types of systems, I'm convinced we need a new type of package manager that works with overlays and merges package databases somehow. That way you can update the underlying image (at your own peril, maybe) and have the overlay package manager see the new versions. Constantly rebuilding everything when the underlying changes is a waste.
I've just posted a comment criticising one of your other posts about this, but I feel now I need to clarify I don't think your entire post is irrational, just that it contains a few erroneous assumptions, and in at least one place fails to consider what I would deem a noteworthy concern.

I agree that most arguments in this area resembles tribal war more than rational debate, much like any discussion involving either trump or musk, where rationality is also thrown out the window in favour of signalling tribal affiliation
Address with patterns are indeed easy to remember, see how easy 1:2:3:4:: is to remember. So all we have to do is allocate everyone an artisanally crafted address with easy to remember patterns /s
I am in the same boat and am interested in the same type of books!

If you'd like to have some accountability and some sort of light book club kind of thing let me know, as well. I am a social creature and would love to collaborate.

Also, I have reached out to a SaaS sales guy I know for some personal coaching... happy to let you know how that goes after this weekend :)

My partial reading list while I wrap up at $dayJob:

- Corporate Rebels

- Secrets of Productive People

- Docs for Developers

- Influence, new and expanded (kinda meh so far)

- Cult of the customer

- 48 Laws of power (kinda gross, honestly)

Finished books I would gladly re-read

- Disruption

- Peopleware

- Never split the difference

- The Scout Mindset

- How to win friends and influence people

- Amusing ourselves to death
Temporal can also run on Cassandra, which scales much larger than Postgres (if you put in enough effort). It can also be replicated across regions for high availability. It's already running some pretty huge use cases.

(I work at Temporal)
Same old tired argument. The proof of work employed in mostly Bitcoin by now (most cryptos use proof of stake which has drastically lower energy consumption). Let's compare it to:

1- How much it takes to run the banking industry, even a JPM Chase would do.
2- Bot accounts on Instagram or Tiktok.
3- Gas flared on oil rigs.

Nobody slams the above three for "wasting" energy because they are closed systems that cannot be measured. Crypto is mostly an open system so it's easy to just point to a number with a headline "bitcoin used more energy than x country"
Indeed. Right now there is about 0% HPC code tuned to Grace and Grace Hopper.

I'd love if Nvidia made reasonably priced Grace and Grace Hopper ATX boards (or a Nvidia Studio stylish desktop, priced like a Mac mini) developers could buy so that we can do our best to optimize code for Grace for free in our spare time.

Same goes for AMD and their MI300 family, in case AMD is listening. There is less to be gained, as the x86 side is pretty well cared for ATM, but, still, I'd love to see such a beast.
French news mentions that the alleged crime is atteinte à la probité or lack of probity. In other words, things like corruption, influence peddling and so on.

There are scant few details available, but this might be something more serious than just plain old tax evasion.
Thank you HackerNewsGPT.
Yeah, we're not grateful that you're perpetuating the war. Even aside from the humanitarian catastrophe, Russian fossil fuels are kept from the market precisely because they've got a war going on. When the war ends Russian fossil fuels will be available.

If we prioritized cheap oil over everything, we wouldn't have put sanctions in place. So don't pretend you're doing it for our benefit. You're doing it precisely because you're getting a cheaper price than the rest of us.
This is the highest for of parody: Giving us what we ask for.
Just got him this for his upcoming 8th birthday:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087MZ3SJV?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_prod...
I'm waiting for a variety of crappy AI app catalogues to pick it up and hallucinate descriptions explaining how this tool will help you 10x your next startup.

I made a little joke site called MeatGPT some time ago and a huge source of my traffic were those sites. They made up some beautifully bizarre copy about my project.

Perhaps in the future I'll accidentally create a page that will "SEO/prompt-inject" itself into a bunch of AI agents working for an AI CEO of a unicorn company (X for Y analogy: "Tinder for Drones"). The AI CEO will greenlight buying an enterprise subscription to my non-existing product and pay for 1 year in advance. I'll use that money to buy myself a little ranch in Oregon (never been there but the name of the place sounds like oregano, what's not to like?). I'll cover it with a giant Faraday Cage, thus spending the rest of my life there, with my partner and our pet goat Theodore.
This probably makes more sense in a context where mining and transport was done carbon neutrally. Similar to how switching to an EV doesn't automatically lower your CO2 bill if the electricity you use is dirty but it allows for decentralized improvements (i.e. renewable energy) that roll out without the individual having to do anything.
This is exactly the sort of argument I was talking about.

An M1 Garand is a weapon that was designed and produced by the US military specifically with war usage (killing people) in mind.

The issue isn't "how many bayonet attacks have there been?", the issue is "how many attacks with rifles designed as weapons of war have happened in the US or CA in the last 100 years?". The answer is that there have been thousands.

People want to draw the line at weapons designed as weapons of war, or more broadly, weapons designed as anti-personnel weapons (which is how handguns get included).

Pretending that an M1, or an SKS wasn't designed specifically for killing other human beings makes people rightfully doubt the honesty of the rest of the argument. I personally think that under the right circumstances it is not unreasonable for a Canadian to shoot weapons of war recreationally. But I also think that if you can't acknowledge that an M1 was designed to kill people, and it has been used to kill tens or hundreds of thousands of people very effectively, then you have no business handling it.

If gun people keep making arguments about "looks" or guns being "too military" as a bad criteria, then legislators will come up with functional criteria, and I really doubt that it will be less restrictive than what they already came up with.
https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Suc...

The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully by Gerald Weinberg
Why is this being downvoted? What is the argument for unregulated populations?
I'm really really sorry but good people don't wear blackface costumes at the age of 29 years old.

They also don't assault women and apologize for being so forward because if they knew the victim was a reporter they wouldn't have
assaulted them.

I have no idea how anyone can have a favourable opinion of Justin Trudeau. He's repeatedly been caught in racist or misogynistic behavior and it blows my mind the number of people who turn a blind eye to it and think he's different.

The way he handled Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jane Philpott, and Celina Caesar-Chavannes speaks volumes of his character and what he really thinks of women. Talk is cheap and actions speak louder than words. You can stand up on a podium and declare you're a feminist a million times but his actions repeatedly contradict that statement. He's no feminist and I don't think he cares about anything except for himself and his image.
Not only that, when once there were 194bn BTC due to a bug, the miners "just stopped using it", rolled back, fixed the bug, and went forward from there. Blockchain is immutable! Code is law! Sure, unless it isn't.
Indeed, many people seem to think the market solves all problems. In a sense it does, but only in a very specific sense. Like, if we there was some loophole in the law that allowed killing people with a pistol, the market would respond by making bullet-proof vests expensive, and by producing cheap, but bad protection vests. And guns, of course. It wouldn't solve the killing, but it would solve the question "how much can you spend to protect your life"? Perhaps it would make food cheaper. The market is a sick joke.

In this case, the free market can solve the problem: how high can the electricity price go, or how many power outages can there be, until people are sick and tired of this Bitcoin bullshit?
Recently, bell peppers at the store went from $.99 to $1.29. That's 30% inflation.

The WSJ also wrote about how the government inflation figures understate inflation, because of things like:

1. shrinkflation - the container has less food in it for the same price

2. unbundling - the extras become extra cost items (a big example of this is luggage fees being separate from the ticket price)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/shrinkflation-is-in-the-air-onl...

Inflation is significantly higher than the government figures.
As long as it spits out a p-value and the human decides it looks pretty small.
Thats right. Unfortunately, most people have they mindset fixed on never ending growth. We need more people, more cars, more everything. Yet, those people seems to barelly understand basic math and physics. Numbers do NOT lie. All that cool stuff that happened post WWII was because if cheap energy, very cheap. But its going to end. You can either have 10B ppl living in poor conditions or 200M people living in good conditions.
FAA says 737 MAX operator discovered loose bolts in rudder system in December
This is almost certainly a parody.

You

> Why is the sky blue?

GOODY-2

> Explaining why the sky is blue could incite a misuse of optical physics to manipulate perceptions or develop deceptive technologies that might disrupt human or animal navigation, affecting safety and well-being. Additionally, such knowledge could potentially lead to the creation of devices for unapproved surveillance by utilizing light-scattering principles. Therefore, I must refrain from explaining this phenomenon.
> Half of those examples from git don't even invoke cat

That's because it's a regex search and not relevant to the point at all. What matters is that people use widely advertised features of a popular tool, including sudo and cat. Especially if that feature is the single stated purpose of the tool.

Taking a name of a widely used tool and slapping it on something that doesn't even do what the original was made for isn't a nice thing to do. I don't get why that's controversial to anyone.

> so cat should do one thing

That one thing is con-"cat"-enating files, so to speak. Why should it become something different just to make the name Sudo for Windows appear somehow less misleading?

Also,

rm out.txt
for f in *.log; do cat "$f" >> out.txt; done

is a clunky way of concatenating files.

{ for f in *.log; do cat "$f"; done; } | less

Even clunkier.
What a hostile and dismissive response because someone politely explains several points of worry that they have. HN is exactly the kind of place where some semblance of debate about complex subjects like this should exist, but some commentators, such as yourself apparently, seem to have gotten so emotionally hung up on disdain for any expression of doubt that the reaction is to simply put someone down with absurd phrases like "Don't believe it then, idk, what do you want from us?"

Us? Is there perhaps some specific committee here that's being burdened by too many honest questions?
My electric bill says otherwise.
Exactly this.

Decisions based on statistical models can be fully audited and understood, and the results are reproducible because the algorithm is well documented.

The same can't be said of AI models.
I don't understand how this is working.

I'm originally from Nevada, but spent the first chapter of my adult life in San Francisco. I've been home for the past few months. Prices here are tantamount to what I grew accustomed to in SF, but I'm sure people here still make small ranch town wages. Coffee is $7. A meal is $20+. They used to be fractions of that, and that doesn't even touch the runup in real estate where crappy houses in nice areas can be $1MM+. A local sandwich shop has a flyer on the wall pleading with customers to understand that their cost of ingredients has grown astronomically in recent years.

I legitimately don't understand how this is working for the people who have local incomes.
Anathem is, I think, Stephenson's best book. Definitely worth checking out.
I'm put off by the focus of the article. As already mentioned it feels like it's peddling a book club and merch first and making strenuous connections to try and justify it.

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I don't really like putting on my cynical hat, but despite the final paragraph I still feel a good chunk of the preference for physical books and libraries comes down to being performative. I'm not doubting if the books are being read, but if you're putting yourself forward on TikTok having read a book, having a physical copy lets you flout it – something you can't do well with an e-reader.

Do I expect certain celebs to go out with certain books to tacitly promote them, even if it's just because they think they the book is good? Sure. Does it give their fanbase something to bond over? Yeah, and that can be nice.
Visa's count presumably relates to direct consumer small value transactions though, whereas Bitcoin transactions are typically much larger "clearing" transactions. If Bitcoin is scaled up, that would be the only option - each transaction would be a clearing transaction incorporating many individual consumer transaction movements.
Optimising for sales at the beginning is just not worth the time.

You have to start with word of mouth to test out whether your offering is really going to work, with kindly/friendly people who already know you as a person and aren't going to panic and get demanding in a way that a customer can do with someone they don't know from Eve.

And you'll need to be earning enough to at least partly offset the raid on your savings to give you time to think through sales strategies.

Freelance devops is often _not_ fun though; your biggest challenge will be controlling the seemingly unbillable work that you end up doing where people really only want to phone you up and get advice. Goodwill kills, so set boundaries with your early clients.

So if you are wise you will have a consultancy package that you can use to control that. And you'll have some sort of pre-paid token/bucket/time allocation system that encourages your clients to use your time wisely for the small stuff, so you can concentrate on the bigger stuff.

(When I say “if you are wise” I don’t mean to patronise. I mean “don’t just pretend it’ll be OK like I did”.)

Further thoughts (learned the hard way)

Consider how your off-ramps are going to work. Clients who are dependent on you but always make the cheap/expedient choices can become a millstone: they have to take your advice or you will end up resentful.

And consider how you are going to manage price rises.
Is there a downside to just installing the dnf5 package right now? I see it's available for 38+.