skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found a more detailed explanation [1]:

> 32,000 schillings were printed (in denominations of 5 and 10 sch.), but only 12,000 schillings were issued by the parish by paying its workers.

> The local currency was redeemable, on demand, for official currency, but there was a 2% fee on such redemption.

> For each schilling of local currency issued, one schilling of official currency was deposited (at interest) in a bank account to cover demands for redemption.

> The depreciation (demurrage) rate was 1% per month. This was called the ‘Relieftax.’

> In order for a note to maintain its full face value, it was necessary to affix a stamp at the end of each month. these stamps could be purchased at the parish office.

> The notes expired at the end of the year, but could be exchange, free of charge, for new ones, so long as all the necessary stamps had been affixed.

…

> Another major ‘gain,’ which von Muralt mentions in passing, is the windfall profit associated with the substantial amount of local currency which was never presented for redemption. He says, ‘However, of the 12,000 schillings worth of relief money issued, only about two-thirds is in circulation. The remainder has disappeared, having been annexed by souvenir hunters and collectors. That such substantial amounts of depreciating money should vanish in this way, contradicts the theoretical intention which aims at accelerating the circulation and not at hoarding. For the parish, however, the disappearance of notes is not unwelcome, since this represents for it a net gain.’ If the stated estimate is correct, this gain would amount to about 4,000 schillings.

So this is essentially about paying workers with a bond instead of with cash. It’s not something the workers would normally want to accept, but it’s better than nothing. (Presumably a worker who wanted to save would exchange their money for official currency?)

Although the circumstances are different and worse, it seems similar to how some local governments in Argentina were forced to pay their workers in script because they didn’t have the cash. [2]

[1] https://reinventingmoney.com/greco-comment_on_worgl/

[2] https://blog.sbensu.com/posts/pseudo-currencies/
SASL can secure the login without encrypting the whole session. And most other things benefit more from signing than from encryption, though I'm not sure how much support for this there is.

That said, server software supporting SSH is getting common these days, so it might be a matter of just updating and/or reconfiguring the server. (It's difficult to make too general a statement about all servers though)
That's quite an obscure reference and book; how did you stumble upon such a thing?
I do think models with incredible memorization is sufficient for enormous applied impact. But it remains an open question of how that relates to AGI, which I think most people think needs some amount of generalization ability that we may not have at the moment, and may not know how to achieve at the moment.
Seems like an issue with how budgeting is managed. Its always important to find the correct incentive structures.
See also Will Ruddick (Grassroots Economics) on 'demurrage' - Shillings from Heaven / Wörgl's Miracle ( https://grassrootseconomics.org/worgl ) - (film youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uz4PRWr3ns )

The movie references the book Silvio Gesell - The Natural Economic Order - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Natural_Economic_Order
i thought the "little prince" came later...
Have you scrolled his twitter feed lately? He's going to throw a huge tantrum about this.

https://nitter.poast.org/elonmusk
The other nice part of `hledger` is the web UI (`hledger-web`), which is handy for checking out your transactions.
> The issue isn’t the doctors, it’s that society, or even just the human condition, often makes it impossible to eliminate the source of chronic stress.

Indeed, all my chronic stress can immediately be solved with large quantities of money.
There are still some states that require health insurance.
Took 10 minutes of nonstop drawing, but my record is now 98.5%. My wife got a 97.4 on her second try and I just couldn't let that stand.
and how many of the other ~200 countries is it common for their respective anthem to be sung with diva-ness? i'd suggest the fault is with the reader if you can't figure out something from context clues
Aren't those tiers just functionally accomplished by other technologies better suited? For instance, a Slack/Discord/Matrix with themed channels for people to talk and share relevant stuff about some hobby or topic for sharing among a group of friends, and then a public Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr that your friends may or may not follow and may be anonymous?
To be a bit glib there is no competitive market to give me an emergency surgery if my appendix has burst.

But in a sense I think we have some agreement that it’s much more interesting to discuss a set of characteristics than can make markets work to deliver value. I just think “free” isn’t a useful distinction because it’s approached usually a shorthand for free of regulation. I think that all markets are artificial and require rules to form a functional marketplace of exchange.
Is there even an industry standard format? I've been dumping CSV to my accountant and I plan on doing the same for the tax authority if they came knocking.

Something tells me they can't be too picky about such things. My experience with the tax authorities in three countries now tells me they'll take whatever odd format data you hand them.
Sporting event tickets outpace CPI
when his name is Julian Assange and he publishes information about American war crimes.
OK, first. It's my opinion.
I don't think generative AI is up to mark where it can revolutionise such as Internet. Look at ChatGPT or for example Perplexity and Suno Copilot which you have mentioned in the example, they just predict the next words and give it in a fine-tuned version...That's it.

So we can't creating anything new yet. It just finds similarities between different niche topics and gives an output. And when you tell Ai is controlled by big players with enough GPUs. I don't agree with it to that extent because there are many open source models like LAama. And recently Google has released an Open source model, Mistral, Falcon. There are many such.

Would like to discuss about it if you are interested. : )
I’d be interested to learn more about pre-power-tool techniques for dismantling a meteorite of that size. Do you have any reading recommendations? I’m having trouble getting much further than https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron
"UNRWA re-opened its new inscription process in 1992. Palestine refugees who were not registered in the early fifties can now apply for registration, provided that they approach any UNRWA registration office in person and are able to produce valid documentation proving their 1948 refugee status. Since 2006, husbands and descendants of registered refugee women, known as ‘married to non-refugee’ (MNR) family members, have also become eligible to be registered to receive UNRWA services."

https://www.unrwa.org/what-we-do/eligibility-registration

And this nice graph:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_number_of_Palestini...

There is actually no mechanism to take someone off of UNRWA membership roles! Once a member, always a member, and so are all their kids. Forever.
I had both an Android TV device some years back, and am now exclusively on Apple TV. Man. The difference is night and day. I'm not going back.
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> Especially problematic is that the type system doesn't necessarily reflect the correctness you care about, but just some properties the language cares especially about.

You're neglecting that these guardrails guide you towards solutions that can be naturally expressed and checked by the language. That's a feature, not a bug.

> The future is on-the-fly checking of arbitrary logical properties of your program, which can always contain what static type systems used to be for as a subset.

Yeah, except for logical consistency or soundness, but who cares about that?
Maybe he's doing it for selfish reasons.
One of the most interesting things for me over the past 18 months was seeing the difference between this behavior in GPT-3.5 and 4 (especially the early versions of it).

You jumped from being extremely context sensitive to leading questions to almost ornery in its stubbornness and disagreement. Was one of the big early indicators to me significant differences were occurring between the two.

I really do wonder just how harmful the disconnect has been between people hearing accurate praise about GPT-4 powered agents and then interacting with GPT-3 level agents and assuming the same competencies.

GPT-3 was a very convincing text generator with lackluster reasoning capabilities, but 4 has significant reasoning capabilities and is less prone to parroting. But the majority of users are likely interacting with 3 because it's free.

It's been very hard to explain to lay audiences the vast difference between two similarly branded products.
no such corrective structure can exist, since the organization will cease to exist if the problem is fixed for eternity.

For example, homelessness. There's hundreds of different programs, all trying to "fix" homelessness, using different methods. Ultimately though, they do not make progress - not deliberately, but as an aggregate.
>If cops quit because they want to stand in support of a convicted murderer then they definitely don’t belong in the force.

Its not that they are quitting to “stand in support” of Derik Chovin, they are quitting because they dont want themselves personally to end up like Chovin.

How do unions stop quality people from becoming cops?
It’s funny, you’d probably not be able to pop off like that if it weren’t for the dead at Ft. McHenry.
A quick example of what I mean is the art gallery sora video; the individual paintings are not specified in the prompt, I'm pretty sure. Where did they come from?
How did we jump from "this is not mandatory" to "you're not allowed"
https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/apq6je/hows_the_loca...
I haven't sung a hymn, pledge or anthem since I was 11 or so. I just stand there and watch, be it church, baseball, hockey, whatever. 32 years and nothing bad has happened yet. (Hooray freedom?). I don't believe there is any pressure whatsoever.
I replied to you in a different part of the thread.

What you are missing in that conclusion is that the UNRWA has no mandate to even try to get their members full citizenship in Lebanon. It's easy to blame Lebanon, and you should, but UNRWA is utterly complicit be encouraging this status.
This works when the person evaluating can distinguish between the subject matter being correct or not.

But the models can generate compelling devil's advocate positions, particularly when they confabulate supporting facts, which might appear convincing to non-experts.
In fact, I generally don't. On the other hand, that is not because I am bothered (or not) by such practices.

I'm really not sure what this has to do with the opinions being expressed by myself, parent, and GP here. I can avoid a behaviour and simultaneously have an opinion on the behaviour, which I am expressing here in response to others' opinions on said behaviour.
antimalware / antivirus companies are another example.
It does. But cache clearing only goes to a certain point after that it will stop you from updating apps and installing new apps, until you free up space by uninstalling an app.
Why would we use proven processes involving experts with over a decade of education like this when we could use an LLM thrown together by a software developer who may not have even taken a biology course?
Delivering the video isn't where I think most of the costs are. They've a few times its the free transcode service they offer to just about any one who streams on the platform is where much of their costs are.
Would it? You didnt need to explain the theory behind the KS test. The result is easier to interpret - it could be something like “the $500 tip results in answers that are 0.95 characters closer to the target, on average”. That seems a lot better than the unitless, weirdly scaled KS values.

Bootstrapping works great for any volume of data. Its also nice that mean-difference bootstraps have extremely few distributional assumptions, which is really handy with these unmodelable source data distributions.
lack of information....
Think of it ChatGPT has 100m MAU whn compared to 5.8B ppl who have acces to internet... people are not well informed or they lack the curiosity to discover more for specific use cases...
Calling crime in the 80’s and 90’s a “norm” is quite the soft on crime position you have there and no, crime is still much higher than it was before the derik chovin conviction. Im not sure why you are bringing up covid in this context
Yet somehow Japan achieves both free and clean bathrooms... In the biggest city in the world, no less!
Needs the keyboard to pop out on mobile for additional realness
That is why they really hated it when Mr. Beast actually helps them without giving them their usual 90% "management fee".
Nobody will volunteer their unpaid debts so terms for those a good credit history will suffer.
That's a very very small list of vulnerabilities for such a widely used piece of software.

Using fail2ban with SSH is very widely done and is thoroughly recommended. It increases security and is objectively a good idea.
Their CEO was on his own channel recently talking about what I think were layoffs and how they weren't currently profitable.
This keeps popping up but while technically true, its essentially nonsense- normally when people talk about kernel machines, the kernel doesn't depend on the data, or at least not very much- we might use a Gaussian kernel and tune the radius or even the covariance.

This construction has a kernel which depends on the entire training trajectory of the neural network! So its completely unclear what's happening, all of the interesting parts may have just moved into the kernel. So basically this tells us nothing- we can't just add a new data point as in a kernel method, incorporating it just by adding its interaction- every new data point changes the whole training trajectory so could completely change the resulting kernel.
I have take a weakness for languages like Candy. A word of warning for those eager to dive in like myself. Candy seems to require a nightly build of Rust from 2024-02-22 (that's two days ago). After building, it gave me a 157MB binary that either seems to panic or print nothing when I run the examples. I assume the only way to really use it right now is from VSCode, and trying to run the CLI tool (as I did) just doesn't work. I'd love to give it a go, but I might have to wait a few more weeks.
Disabling SIP also disables your ability to run iOS apps on Apple Silicon :-( It might be for copy protection reasons. iOS apps are partially encrypted and without SIP you could probably access the decrypted version.
I find this criticism interesting. Among the people actually doing it, it seems to be a near universal experience that Tailwind projects are easier to maintain than class based CSS.

What is it about Tailwind that is unmaintainable, in your view?
Breaks.

Methods that expect the same input to map to the same output don't work with feedback.
On the contrary, utility classes actually drive you to HTML components/composing HTML fragments for HTML reuse, thus eliminating duplicate markup. This is a big problem that CSS, SASS, etc. are not solving and probably can't solve.
This article is a strawman. No-one who has compared utility classes to inline styles is asserting that they are the same on a technical level, because that is obvious. The argument that utility classes are basically inline styles refers to how both assign style directly to a single element in a way that is not re-usable at a level of abstraction that promotes DRY. If your counter to this is "well those styles are contained in a React/whatever component which makes it DRY", you're making a different argument where the suitability of utility class frameworks relies on coupling with a component framework.

To take this article seriously I would need to see a section on the maintenance obligations imposed by utlity classes and inline styles, versus an approach such as semantic CSS. Until then it just looks like "well ackshually they aren't the same". With some strange lofty bits about knowledge.
Medicine being hard is in fact an excellent reason to use AI tools.
> I would imagine that the vast majority of MIT undergrads come from households making >$225k

Median family income for MIT students is $137k, per this article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...
I was the lead developer of Unity and the creator of Ubuntu Netbook Remix and can also confirm the article isn’t slightly true.
Most group health plans have COBRA continuation option, which means you can stay on the same plan for 18 to 36 months. If you haven't found work during that period, you'll likely qualify for one of the subsidized care packages. The catch of course is that COBRA premiums have to be paid out of pocket (or, given some foresight, HSA savings plan) and for a family plan they can be pretty costly (my last COBRA plan had $1600/month price tag). That said, if you had a well paid hi-tech job in a major company, you usually have some savings that can sustain this coverage for at least a several months until you find the next job. So the situation is not exactly like you lose access to care the moment you lose a job. There could be exceptional situation where you for some reason have no savings but your past income does not qualify you for subsidized plans, and in that case it can be tough, but it's not the usual case.
What will they do if Twitch doesn't pay the fine?

Suspend twitch? Oh wait
Because the person suggested that I not go to the event.

Also, as "not mandatory", have you ever chosen to remain seated and experienced the reaction from those around you? You'll definitely get the feeling "not mandatory" is a very much incorrect description.
This is a pretty standard technical term in machine learning which isn’t necessarily a pejorative but a description of behavior. Memorization is different than generalization in that it doesn’t reflect some sort of synthesis from learned knowledge but rather repeating something from training directly. It usually indicates overfitting and is distinct than responding appropriately to something that wasn’t specifically trained on, which is generalization.
Cool, but does it even run and compile?
SFPD no longer polices traffic. They have offered various excuses for why, but the fact is, citations are down over 90% from 2014. Anyone who stands by a busy intersection in SF during rush hour will see dozens of violations. I have no interest in expanding the power of the police force if they cannot make progress on this issue. In fact, I would move to relieve them of traffic duty, if this is the kind of result they are getting.

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article...

[1] https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-traffic-citations-pedestr...

[2] https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/sf-police-union-declares-im...
TLDR: It would give more power to the police department.
You don't need to automate this. I routinely do it with Google images. Just make two images from a slightly different angle centered on the same center. I prefer oblique images. Export them to an iPhone. Flip back and forth between the two images with your finger. It's easy to perceive stereo. I use it for stereo images when I'm in remote areas.
What is a regulated industry? I'm not aware of it as a legal term. Basically all industries are regulated in my understanding to a greater or lesser degree. Even in a lesser one, you can run up against those regs
Actual memory chips are often measured in bits. Even though the devices are always measured in bytes.
I thought we fought a war because we didn’t want to free our slaves?
I wonder if comparing Gamma posteriors would yield more conclusive or interpretable results?
Nailed it

> Thiel explained in a 2009 essay that he had come to "no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible", due in large part to welfare beneficiaries and women in general being "notoriously tough for libertarians" constituencies, and that he had focused efforts on new technologies (namely cyberspace, space colonization and seasteading) that could create "a new space for freedom" beyond current politics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
I'm confused as to why you think corporations can be in any way considered noble, but OK.
> A human doctor couldn't bring up a list of citations in literature instantly regarding a diagnosis. A LLM can.

Which it will happily make up.
Wow, thanks for pointing that out - didn't realize I'd had these ATV 4Ks since 2017. They feel a bit sluggish.. probably just that everything else got faster.

Time to upgrade.
this is a bunch of spooky correlations and conspiracy style "just pointing out facts" thinking.

show me a causal relationship between the depth of utility ownership, the percentage of employment being in the financial sector, and the problem described in the article. please.
Go, 3340, I believe in you!
I don't think you are alone here - there's a reason Chrome invested so heavily in dev tools and made them (and things like view-source) accessible in the core distribution even though they were also perfect candidiates for being addons. Many of us owed our careers to the path that view source opened, and we wanted to pay it forward.

I do regret not finding ways to do more - for example, an unrealized goal of mine was to find a way to add a 'create' button to Chrome to nudge everyone to be a creator - my favorite simple+cheeky idea was to have a way to enable contentEditable on the current site, then save the resulting changes as an extension you could give to your friends, allowing you to graffiti the internet in private small groups.
Selfish reasons to want more humans
I highly recommend https://hackertyper.net/ if you want to look like a stereotypical hacker.
So in other words, you disagree with the post I'm replying to?

> I don't believe there is any pressure whatsoever.

You've clearly not been to some of the events that I have. Also, there's the whole matter of various public school systems. Regardless, if there hasn't been any pressure for you, then this is sort of a non-sequitur, as my comment is talking about situations where there is pressure to begin with. Non-pressure situations are out of scope.
> but the message cops themselves got was that if they actually do their job and arrest criminals, there is a chance that a politicized mob could send them to prison for the rest of their lives

That’s the message?

You know That cop killed a guy right? Suffocated him. On camera. If he just did his job and arrested him the politicized mob wouldn’t have put him behind bars. But the problem is he killed that guy, and it wasn’t some freak momentary lapse. He suffocated him. If cops are quitting because they’re worried they might go to jail for killing a completely incapacitated individual in a very deliberate manner, they might be doing society a favor.
What's the deal with why it isn't available on Firefox?