skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the history, here's a good post [1] on getting small farmers to pay rent and/or taxes. This goes back to ancient times and money wasn't required, though it made it more efficient:

> The oldest – and in pre-modern societies, by far the most common – form of rent/tax extraction is extraction in kind, where the farmer pays their rents and taxes with agricultural products directly. Since grain (threshed and winnowed) is a compact, relatively transportable commodity (that is, one sack of grain is as good as the next, in theory), it is ideal for these sorts of transactions, although perusing medieval manorial contacts shows a bewildering array of payments in all sorts of agricultural goods. In some cases, payment in kind might also come in the form of labor, typically called corvée labor, either on public works or even just farming on lands owned by the state.

...

> if you want to collect taxes in money, you need the small farmers to have money. Which means you need markets for them to sell their grain for money and then those merchants need to be able to sell that grain themselves for money, which means you need urban bread-eaters who are buying bread with money, which means those urban workers need to be paid in money. And you can only get any of these people to use money if they can exchange that money for things they want, which creates a nasty first-mover problem.

> We refer to that entire process as monetization – when I talk about economies being ‘monetized’ or ‘incompletely monetized’ that’s what I mean: how completely has the use of money penetrated through this society. It isn’t a one-way street, either. Early and High Imperial Rome seem to have been more completely monetized than the Late Roman Western Empire or the early Middle Ages (though monetization increases rapidly in the later Middle Ages).

...

> The irony of all of this extraction is that while it is often nasty and predatory, it can have some positive long-term effects, because the extra food that the farmers are being effectively forced to produce moves through either state-redistribution or market mechanisms to an increasing population of specialist non-farmers who in turn provide benefits for the broader society, sometimes including the farmers.

> Metal tools, improved plows, large mills and bakeries would all be impossible without specialist smiths, wood-workers, architects, millers and bakers, for instance. And those merchants, moving food around from where it is common to where it is scarce can – if there are enough of them and trade is sufficiently unrestricted by things like wars – serve a valuable stabilizing role on the otherwise wildly destructive volatility of prices for things like food and other essentials. Moreover, specialization and trade encouraged distance travel, which might bring foreign disease, but might also bring new agricultural technologies.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2020/08/21/collections-bread-how-did-they...
Ai assisted rage farming is something I'm part of and it scares the crap out of me. Nothing gets attention like opposite AI personalities raging against each other.
I was just thinking of this book as a recommendation to the parent post, and here the author himself posts it. For what it's worth, I can totally recommend it. I had written rasterizers in the past but not ray tracers until I went through this one weekend.
Remember when Firefox was the new hotness because it blocked ads?
>even though IMHO it's extremely unlikely that GME will go to the moon again the same way it did last time

FWIW, it hit about $320 during pre-market trading this morning, in terms of the price it would have been before the stock split in 2022. Currently sitting at $200, in those terms.
I'm imagining an orbital trailer park for nanorobots, with wispy power cords and network cables trailing all over the place as everyone participates in one big LAN party.
imho (!)

idk ... but i have to admit, i'm a bit baffled right now:

afaik: linux is a unix-like operating system ...

first sentence / first line:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like

so the answer is: all of them ...

and the medium sized businesses, and the SOHO businesses and every private person which uses the internet!?

just my 0.02€
Well Nazis had like ~30% support in Germany so that's probably enough to monitor the remaining 70% (1 person to monitor ~2 others)

However, if your regime is even smaller like 5% or 10% it's going to be extremely difficult to manage the remaining 95% without more advanced technology than pen and paper.
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I wonder how that compares to business owners more generally; I would assume there's not that much specific about "startups" here.
Do you believe there is no utility in knowledge? Do you believe absolutism is the only philosophy for privacy?

I think telemetry and the data software collects can help with usability, design, and product enhancement and that it's very likely this can be done to some extent without harming privacy.
I've never seen outsourcing of a company's core product result in anything but litigation. If a team legitimately made a 2000% leap in throughput and it wasn't just from manipulating metrics, and then that still wasn't good enough then nothing will be satisfactory in the eyes of that owner, you rightfully should give up that battle and find greener pastures. Expecting someone to come in and wave a magic wand of 4000% productivity is absurd. Expecting that you can outsource that sort of demand is plain stupid.
Accidentally read the last post first. My mind immediately jumped to copy protection as the purpose for that large nonsensical routine.
> allowing procedural/local mutation, but making the procedures themselves 'pure' and taking care to control side effects on the program scale?

This is what Haskell does by encouraging you to bundle the part of your code that does mutation into, for example, a state monad, and pass the result of the monadic computation to other pure functions.
My takeaways:

>"What Tony Hoare was writing about when he said that references [a.k.a. pointers] are like jumps was the problem of mutable, aliased state.

If you have in a language the ability to alias two variables so that they refer to the same location in memory, and also the ability to assign values to variables as execution progresses, your ability to locally reason about the behavior of a component of your system becomes badly inhibited." (PDS: This is especially true for code which is shared by multiple threads!)

Related article: "Understanding Pointer Aliasing in C and the `restrict` Keyword": https://hasanisaeed.medium.com/understanding-pointer-aliasin...

>"Depriving the user of the ability to mutate aliased state by accident is critical to enabling the user to easily create correctly functioning systems.

[...]

Rust’s entire claim to fame is that it has shipped a type system intended to solve this problem.

In Rust, references [a.k.a. pointers] are mutable or aliased, but never both

, and the entire system of lifetime variables and borrow analysis is designed to ensure that this remains true."

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)
This was a good read. Seeing the story of AI infrastructure is a breath of fresh air. Too much witchcraft and hand waving in the AI space at the moment.
> If it were a lie, why would so many take that to the point of their own death?

Consider a weaker question: if it weren't a lie, why would so many take that to the point of their own death? While most people are usually opposed to lying, if they felt their reason for lying was important enough - and if they're willing to die for it then it must be - they could easily overcome that.
Some institutions in China were literally paying their scientists cash bonuses for getting papers published in Western scholarly journals. That policy has now been scaled back, but as you can imagine it had a corrosive effect. We have to assume by default that any paper out of China since circa 1990 is fraudulent until proven otherwise.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/07/12/150506/the-truth...
> "15 years ago self driving of any sort was pure fantasy, yet here we are."

This was 38 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntIczNQKfjQ - "NavLab 1 (1986) : Carnegie Mellon : Robotics Institute History of Self-Driving Cars; NavLab or Navigation Laboratory was the first self-driving car with people riding on board. It was very slow, but for 1986 computing power, it was revolutionary. NavLab continued to lay the groundwork for Carnegie Mellon University's expertise in the field of autonomous vehicles."

This was 30+ years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HbVWm7wdmE - "Short video about Ernst Dickmanns VaMoR and VaMP projects - fully autonomous vehicles, which travelled thousands of miles autonomously on public roads in 1980s."

This was 29 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAMVogK2TTk - "A South Korean professor [... Han Min-hong's] vehicle drove itself 300km (186 miles) all the way from Seoul to the southern port of Busan in 1995."

This was 19 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a6GrKqOxeU - "DARPA Grand Challenge - 2005 Driverless Car Competition"
I've looked into it in the past, but I have no idea who's maintaining that software or what's included in it. I understand their claims, but I can't verify that's all they're doing due to my lack of time/interest.

It's more risk than I'm willing to take for a software I use or everything critically important to me - including banking access.
Oh, wow, that would just be the crowning glory on this nonsense.
Sounds like it would be difficult to transfer everything to a new company.

One thing I have seen in the past is people holding the IP separately and licensing the IP to the startup. that can avoid this situation or zombie companies, but hindsight is 20-20.
It's a bit deceptive to claim you have a Privacy First policy when it's opt out. True privacy is not opt out, but opt in.
[After the dot-com crash], the lesson people learned from that was not, “I should never speculate on overvalued financial assets.” The lesson they learned was, “I should never speculate on internet stocks.” And so the same people who lost 90% or more of their money day-trading internet stocks ended up flipping homes in the mid 2000s, and getting wiped out doing that. It’s dangerous to learn narrow lessons.
8086 wasn't really much faster. It just allowed you to use more memory and was easier to write assembly to.

BASIC was actually slower on the original PC than on the 6502 and the Z80.
iPadOS still doesn't have a native calculator.
somewhat fair. i'm not in the market for commercial plotters so i guess i can avoid that purchase decision. regardless, i'm happy to see them running meetups and stuff for plotter folks, and i'm interested in where they take the product/software over the next few years.
On reddit challenging intermittent fasting or keto can easily get you insulted, then banned.

These fitness yahoos just won't stop.

I also want to take a moment to call out all the deadlifters. Virtually 100% of people I know that have done substantial deadlifting eg. over 300lbs (give or take), for extended periods of time (several months to years) has wound up with either stress injuries or traumatic injuries; often it's both.

Meanwhile the deadlift crowd will insist they are just idiots, doing the exercise wrong. The point was that many people have poor coordination and don't have teams to watch over them and correct mistakes. Even mentioning this will lead to mass ridicule from bros that will insist that heavy deadlifts can only make your body feel minty fresh.

I'm not actually anti-deadlift, btw. I personally saw big improvements in the early stages. These problems seem to occur when the body starts fighting you, and you still want to keep going. Variation can help.

Or you could just do vertical loading and/or more moderate exercise and don't worry about proving your worth.
From the article, presumably the partial destruction of New York and subsequent political struggle over how to rebuild, as metaphor for modern American democracy in light of the late Roman Republic / early Empire.

Or, in other words, what it's about probably depends on whether or not someone classifies Apocalypse Now as a movie about the Vietnam War.
Sure - use whatever machine you prefer. I found the axidraw hardware and software to be good value back then, though it looks like the prices are higher now and IP was purchased by Bantam tools?
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The "maybe you don't need a linked list" proposal at the bottom seems significantly better than the options presented in the post:

- almost no cost in the non-erroring path

- no extra data structures to manage

- a lot less code

I think the post would benefit from a better analysis of why this doesn't work for them.
I installed firefox on my new computer and it reminded my of Microsoft Windows.

Lots of ads.

Its just a glimpse into the future of this company.

We are past the peak.
And here I thought we all sacrifice private lives for work, startup founders or not.
Appreciate your feedback! I've fixed the thumbnails on the homepage. Thanks for pointing it out!
IIRC, NBBO isn't affected by odd lots except outside of regular trading hours. You'd have to trade shares in multiples of 100. That's after the order book emptied to the ask/bid and a corresponding trade appeared. Then, someone could immediately decide that price was too high/low and the next trade moves it back, where the consensus keeps it.
> Too much witchcraft and hand waving in the AI space at the moment.

Yeah +1: I found most frameworks (like langchain, llamaindex) to be abit too magical for my taste where as the well understood and well structured OpenAI API makes for building ontop of inference much easier. Things are moving really, really fast, but I'm excited for where they're headed.
If you declare all communication to be the same as spam because all communication is just performing some messaging, that's so abstract as to make discussing this practically useless. Are you really saying that this is literally not different from me posting MY PUSSY IN BIO 5 times?

Even dolphins have regional differences and names for individuals, man. Many animals broadcast (wolves howl, lions roar, elephants use low-level frequencies felt through their feet) but the purpose, pattern, and meanings can all be quite different from each other.
Young me would've seen this as an astounding feat of engineering.

Old old me sees this as something to be scared of.
Also in Austin. We should have a HN meetup or something.
> As I already told you, that's not pumped hydro.

Yes, you made that claim. However, it's not true. The page is about all hydro in Germany.

https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/klima-energie/erneuerb...

You also need geography for pumped hydro. Somewhere to pump the water to.

> Battery storage is approaching $100/kWh

"Approaching". A Tesla Megapack is more than 3x that.

It's funny how EE fanboys just extrapolate trends into the future. At the rate nuclear power plants were getting cheaper they'd be free now. Well, had we not stopped building them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Of course, this is very little battery, because that particular Fraunhofer study did most of the backup using gas. With 150 GW of gas fired plants.

150 GW.

Let that sink in. That's more than double the current total demand. Just for backup of the 750 GW of intermittent generators. No wonder that scenario doesn't need all that much battery.

Now add the cost of the electroylysers needed to create all that gas.

https://taz.de/Wasserstoffprojekt-abgebrochen/!5974569/
Semantic arguments about what is and isn't a public square aside, the salient point is that an enormous share of our national and international dialogues about culture and politics take place on a handful of social media platforms. Those platforms have sufficient power that state actors _indirectly_ use them to influence elections (and if the platforms can be _indirectly_ manipulated to influence elections, then the people with hands directly on the levers of these platforms can necessarily directly influence those elections).

The goal isn't, as you suggest, to eliminate bias, it's to democratize control. Consequently "all a protocol can do is allow you to created biased silos where different types of speech live which may or may not federate" is a perfectly good outcome! The goal posts are not and never were "eliminate bias" or "force everyone to hear opinions they don't want to hear".
I was curious, so the context is that current Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was the head of AWS and he hired an outside executive, Adam Selipsky, as his replacement when he was promoted. Adam worked at Amazon a long time ago, but left to found Tableau and then sold it to Salesforce.

By contrast, the incoming CEO of AWS is a longtime AWS veteran. But he's head of sales? Should be interesting
But they already put the effort in to build it. So why not let everyone use it?
Single codebase with free updates will be good for security.

Free personal use license as commercial moves to $120/year.

Do VMware desktop apps collect telemetry on install or usage?
The cognitive dissonance here.

70B models arent better than 7B models outside roleplay. The logic all sucks the same. No one even cares about 70B models.
It does matter becauae you can use an anonimizer for seach on Firefox just fine, but if you use Chrome then Google can collect everything you enter in a form and see where it's sent. Not sure if they do, but they could. One element of security is comparmentalization: avoid using a client and server from the same adversary, if you can, to minimize correlations.
File manager in macos is better imo because its just a unix distro under the hood with a sexy gui, and you don’t need to learn powershell or install wsl. It works out of the box. Same old bash you always knew.
If they get close enough to Apple M* processors and I can run Linux on it and not have to deal with Windows, they get my money.
I want them to not replicate google.
I use Firefox to fight ads, not to get ads in my searchbar.
The ethical way of doing this is opt in. It could be done like Debian's Popularity Contest[0], where you're offered a chance to install the data collection software, with the default being don't install. Firefox could do this with an extension.

[0] https://popcon.debian.org/
Fully documented source code for Elite on the NES

https://github.com/markmoxon/nes-elite-beebasm
Lets ignore the great carbon additions of the oil industry and fight zero sum battles over essential agriculture that is going to reduce itself drastically due to climate change anyway. To the last guy, please write this into wikipedia under madness.
I don't want to be given a "browsing experience".

I don't want to be treated as a product, sold to data brokers without my knowledge.

My browsing experience is already tailored to me by my own actions.

I guess I'll be migrating to LibreWolf.
The browser is, at this point, like a public utility. You can't get by without one. How is it okay to bake in privacy compromises?
Agreed, I don't understand this Tinder-swipe craze. You should check out my competing app Bandit, at bandit-app.com, which offers what you're looking for without the superficial dating/swipe aspect. You can browse musicians without having to reject any, you can come back to them at any time. Also, you can pick any area you would like. There's a lot of features coming soon including integrating audio samples, equipment, etc and many third party integrations!
Gear trains are the killer robots' weak point, eh?

Good to know.
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Are you suggesting we've got a statistically valid sample of Android users here to suggest that drive-by RCE exploits that have been published and patched on modern Android devices are essentially just a fantasy and aren't actually concerns at all for unpatched devices? And that the people in this sample would always clearly know their device was compromised?

FWIW, while I don't think I personally had an Android device hacked, I do think I've had family members with devices potentially hacked. One family member running an older version of Android continued to have lots of accounts constantly getting stolen despite using a password manager and unique complicated passwords. Pretty much any time they'd be logged in to an app there would begin to be fraudulent orders or other mischief on that service. They never installed shady apps. Rotate the password on another device, no problems for a while. Log in on the phone again and within a day or two have the mischief start again. All that stopped after replacing the device.

Another family member started getting popover ads on their device despite not having any odd apps installed that would be the cause. Even after a "factory reset" the popover ads continued to plague the device, as if it was embedded in the ROM.
I said environment not build.
This is something I'm fascinated by; did this type of financial cult always exist, or is it a new thing? Like, people investing in the South Sea Company had some very silly ideas about it, but they didn't believe it was going to bring around a fundamental restructuring of society or anything. The first manifestation of "if you invest in this, you will become part of the ruling elite in a pseudo-apocalyptic new world order" I can think of is Bitcoin (remember the citadels); the meme stocks seem to have taken that absence of crypto-nonsense and dropped the crypto bit.
Here we go again. This is why i use waterfox. I switched when they put ads in the address bar.
Re: The Expanse. I must have missed that. Maybe that’s the point. People no longer think of a computer as some separate thing that needs to be interacted with.
> but, on the other hand, being client focused and continuously delivering client facing feature, might be the thing that keeps the revenu streams coming

I firmly reject this. If you can't build quality then you don't deserve to be in business

I'm so sick of the fact that everyone is ok accepting "just barely passable"

It has lead to everything new being built is crap. New housing is crap, new furniture is crap, new software is crap

I get that building nice things is expensive and takes time, but I want to live in a world of nice things instead of this constant race to the bottom, produce endless quantities of crap world that we are in right now

Doesn't anyone else feel like we're being crushed under all this crap we're building?
There are so many sites that all follow the same template... To sell sponsorships & ads and to companies, and then slap the illusion that public participation is vibrant. The only good model for a social site these days are smaller communities specialized around a niche, like specific cars or musician communities based on genres.

Even back in the day, people had extensive problems with community forums because operators usually worked based on collusion and favoritism and ad profit. There are far too many agendas involved in major "social" communities, and social is in quotes, because if you look at the tools dedicated to communication on these platforms, they barely facilitate communication and connection beyond public fandom, a lot of that is based on bot traffic.

If you look at live streaming, a ton of generic comments flood celebrity sessions, many operate chat bots to make their live streaming sessions look "active" with users. I think users are now beginning to wise up to the façade that social media is not really helpful once it grows big.