skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The vast majority of money that is in the economy is created by banks with credit creation

That's the way it's described, but banks in this respect are only acting as agents of the government. They can only "create" money under rules prescribed by the government, and the government, through the Fed, controls how much of it they can create.

> The government, especially in the US, hasn't had a money printer for decades.

Whether I take this literally or metaphorically, it's false. Taken literally, the government does still print bills. Taken metaphorically, even apart from what is discussed above, the government, through the Fed, has done "quantitative easing" and other things that involve direct manipulation of the money supply, recently enough to make your claim false.
While the Congress certainly plays a major role, some of the hugest debt sources are wars, and getting into a war is never done without a presidential decision. Especially starting a war, like in Iraq in 2003.
It is clear to me that Russia, Iran, North Korea are playing a zero-sum game. Anything that creates chaos in US politics (or European politics) is in their interest. Donald Trump represents chaos.
Yes but for gaming wait for X3D CPUs. We already knew this before release?
Eh, not anymore. Arbitrary inheritance chains are frowned upon in C# and people get mad when you do so. You also occasionally run into everything sealed by default because of overzealous analyzer settings or belief that not doing so is a performance trap (it never is). Enterprise does like (ab)using interfaces a lot however.
As we all know, the technically best solution always wins.
My point is that I as no expert in fraud can in about 5-10 minutes find many examples of clear fraud online that nothing is being done about.

If anything, ONLY buying through the Apple App store would probably result in a safer buying experience for most folks with MORE protections not less.

One of the value propositions to consumers is that Apple has enough power to push back against big corps.

Ask to Track was a push (originally apple was going to ban totally but in "fairness" let businesses track) to let users decide if they wanted to be tracked. If they said no full features of the app had to remain available.

Compare even that to the pointless privacy notices they send in the mail saying you can send a letter to some address to ask them not to track you and sell you data?

I worked in an elder care adjacent setting - financial fraud is wild against the elderly. It's getting sophisticated. A nice robot voice calls, your account at XXX has been compromised or accessed from Russia, if this was not you you please enter the 6 digit code we've sent to confirm. That six digit code is the 2FA for your real account, which is then drained.
> Sadjadpour went on to argue that the question the U.S. needs to be asking is: "Is there a viable strategy in which we could, instead of further uniting these countries against us, is there a strategy that could potentially create divisions between them?"

Not really. All these countries are uniting against us now because of the same behavior he's suggesting we double down on.

> He continued: "Because China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are very different regimes. Iran is a theocracy, [Russian President] Vladimir Putin has probably killed more Muslims than most world leaders and China has obviously persecuted their own Muslim minority.

Now is not the time for U.S. to be grandstanding to anyone else about persecution of Muslims.
Thanks, it’s good to get counter arguments and wider context. This isn’t an area I’m very familiar with, so I’m aware I could easily fall down a an intellectual pothole without knowing. Paper below, any additional context welcome.

I misremembered however. The paper noted evidence of thresholds at 2, 5 and onset of puberty as seeming to affect p mental plasticity in these capabilities so there’s no one cutoff.

https://riojournal.com/article/38546/
China's invasion of Taiwan could be thwarted by a lead chipmaker's "kill switch"
Expanding on Withoutboat's Pinned Places
also attracts 3 letters when they see "carding" on clearnet
Aging Europe: Rising costs threaten EU pensions
I don't think that would matter. I live in the US and I would guess there are plenty of people in this country that work for countries that aren't allowed to use it. Same goes for other countries having people who work for the US.

I really don't think it would take that many people to run propoganda campaigns with modern tools.
I'm willing to bet that there are a bunch of users here that don't work for those companies. Even more that might, but not in those departments. The latter might be more in line with what you're getting at, but we need to be careful casting too wide of a net. I want to convert those people, not push them away.
CDK is literally terraform for developers:

https://www.terraform.io/cdktf

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
> 12 years in military multiple tours of various warzones.

How recently? I'm guessing, recently enough that the military you served in is the dysfunctional military described in the article, which suffers from a severe lack of leadership. People whose service was further in the past can tell you a very different story.
Well, you certainly don't get it under control by removing it from the key metric. You don't get it under control by pretending it hasn't been removed and then gaslighting the public by saying everything is ok, that is under control.
> Hmm, I guess I don't really consider throwaway assertions in pursuit of debugging "tests" in the typical sense.

I agree it is not "tests" in the documentation sense, and I did mention that, but, regardless, you do seem to align on "throwaway". Now you have me curious, what kind of ephemeral "tests" were you imagining if not something similar to what I described in more detail later?
PyTorch beat Tensorflow because it was much easier to use for research. Jax is much harder to use for exploratory research than PyTorch, due to requiring a fixed shape computation graph, which makes implementing many custom model architectures very difficult.

Jax's advantages shine when it comes to parallelizing a new architecture across multiple GPU/TPUs, which it makes much easier than PyTorch (no need for custom cuda/networking code). Needing to scale up a new architecture across many GPUs is however not a common use-case, and most teams that have the resources for large-scale multi-gpu training also have the resources for specialised engineers to do it in PyTorch.
Unless you hold a lot of money, you're at the mercy of someone actually caring to fix it, and if not an annoying and possibly expensive lawsuit

My experience has been the exact opposite.

Even for errors under a dollar, even big banks like Chase and Bank of America have fallen all over themselves to fix things immediately.
Water treaty between Mexico and U.S. faces biggest test in 80 years
That's actually something nitric helps with, it provides an API for deployments, separating it from application code. Those other teams like devops/sre/etc. are free to customize that process how they see fit. They can enforce naming standards, tagging, sizing, etc. all through automation.
If I saw this on a real website I would have to be physically restrained.
I wish dex-lang [1] had gotten more traction. It’s JAX without the limitations that come from being a Python DSL.
But ML researchers apparently don’t want to touch anything that doesn’t look exactly like Python.

[1]: https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang
IcePanel has a free tier. [0]

[0] https://icepanel.io/
Yes they fixed it, thank goodness! I will continue to think it was because of this article.
I don't think this is clear at all. What I am experiencing is mostly the inner narrator, the ongoing stream of chatter about how I feel, what I see, what I think about what I see, etc.

What I experience is self-observation, largely directed through or by language processing.
> But do we have any reason to believe that in the absence of Google, the next dumper won't just come along and take their place?

A new dumper would have to compete with the split out Google Ad Company for ad resources in order to have enough money to cross subsidize. The Baby Bells reformed, but they never again reached "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company." levels (other companies took on that mantle).

> Hosting video (efficiently and performantly) is still actually expensive, and YouTube is eating the cost of subsidizing most of the Internet's archive of videos.

That's even more reason to crack them up immediately. Did Google not just shut down the DejaNews Usenet archive--something that had negligible storage cost?
https://faq.altstore.io/

Also no, 24gb isn’t enough to run the good models right now. Ideally you need 40GB-ish.
There absolutely are access control systems out there using PKI. For example, the PIV specification (a la DOD CAC) slot 9e is intended for "card authentication" without a PIN typically being required.

PKCS based cards get all the benefits of smart cards (hard in theory to extract keys, side channel resistance, etc), with the usual risks (trust in vendors and issuers to not add backdoor APDUs to applets etc.)

Doubt anyone would want to use FIDO2 for a door access control system, but in theory there's nothing really to stop you, if you come up with a clever URI schema for your doors and know what public key to expect for each identity on each URI. That's where FIDO2 wouldn't be ideal, as you'd get a different identity on each URI, so it would only really work with a single URI (zone?) for the whole site, and implementing zone access checks at each individual verifier.

Realistically, doing a PIV style PKI verification would give you all the benefits of FIDO2, but also with the ability to handle card revocation etc via a CRL that's distributed through the system.
That's essentially the idea with nitric, you ask for cloud resources in an abstracted request. How that request is fulfilled is determined by the provider used. What "read" access in nitric means can be up to the platform engineers.
The Cause of Alzheimer's Might Not Be Amyloid
Indeed, it's not a number. The loss of AAA status would mean the loss of the US's economic, technological, and military superiority first. After that, the specific number would matter as little as it does now.
Nothing ever happens
> Russia, Iran, North Korea

You're missing China & Israel: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/30/o... / https://archive.is/y0V3A

And, according to OpenAI, they're interfering not just in the US: https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha/openai-says-sta... / https://archive.is/RWn8X
> It will just remain in the hands of the original earners who will, presumably, spend it according to their own desires instead of entrusting the tax receivers to spend it. Again, the money won't disappear.

Seems like you're a believer in the trickle-down economic model? Unfortunately in most cases it will be moved to a tax haven where it joins a big pile of money that will simply never be spent on anything but the incidental super yacht or a luxury mansion on a private island. Even the government can spend the money more effectively than that.

There are exceptions of course, but we shouldn't be dependent on voluntary acts of philanthropy to get the money invested back into the country that it was already owed to in the form of tax in the first place.
Pulumi > CDK's (TF or CF) > HCL

Nitric may work if you fit within its guardrails or golden path, but the stuff I work on never does.
Fiber 2000Mbps up and down ~5ms latency

It’s slow regardless of my internet connection
There’s a screenwriting markdown variant called fountain that has underlining and basically works perfectly for nearly any writing. Wish it were more widespread.
> When you aren't paying for the product, then you ARE the product.

Sometimes, even when you are paying for the product, you are the product. Nothing prevents companies from taking money from you and then making more money e.g. by selling your personal data.
The Window-Knocking Machine Test
From the article:

> Some of the X accounts posed as progressives, and others as conservatives.

My impression is that these influence campaigns know that they need to produce a LOT of content that appears to reflect different opinions and perspectives if they're going to appear to be "real" - that way they can build trust with an audience before attempting to influence them in one direction or another.
Funnily enough I have never seen a snail in water.
On the other hand, the box tree moth seems to be doing fine - to the dismay of many gardeners. And boy oh boy can they ravage boxwood hedges. Unfortunately, insecticides are the only effective option in Europe and America. In Asia (where it's native) there are some natural predators, so the damage is limited. Birds aren't interested in the caterpillars. Some types of hornets are, but introducing them into non-native habitat brings other problems.

Hotter than normally springs and falls don't help either; the moth thrives in the warmer weather and can go through as many as four cycles (generations) during a single year.

https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/invertebrate...

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant-pests-diseases/box-tree-mot...
Not the parent, but as I understand it the post is saying that morality is not defined by outcome, but rather by consistency of the object's purpose. A sentient chair choosing to fall apart when you sit on it is being "immoral", opposed to its purpose.

> I'd argue that Scholasticism, that is, the marriage of Middle-Ages Christianity to the truthy-sounding gobbledygook of Aristotle, set the case for the moral authority of the church back a thousand years.

a) maybe the Roman church; I don't think the Eastern Orthodox embraced that. And the Protestants more or less junked it, too.

b) "truthy-sounding" is awful dismissive for something that took Europe by storm when Aristotle was re-discovered. Modern thought has rejected Plato and Aristotle, and especially Post-modern thought, but does Aristotle sound "truthy" because you've bought into modern/post-modernity or because he's poor quality? We might have reject Plato/Aristotle because us moderns are so much more enlightened than the ancients. Or we could have a serious case of hubris. Given that large segments of the West are espousing that gender and even species--previously seen as immutable--are mutable, we're either seriously wrong and headed for disaster, or we've discovered something seriously novel.

c) I'm not an expert on Scholasticsm, but as far as telos goes, the Christian telos for humanity is to become like God--to love each other sacrificially as Christ loved us, and to participate with God in creating/stewarding the material world. It's the most expansive telos I'm aware of, and I don't think I've even properly grasped or expressed it.
Hyperbolic is only provider delivering Llama 3.1 405B BASE model
Harbor: Claim your identity on the internet Link social profiles
Software built with nitric ends up with considerably less cloud related code in the application. The bulk of it is split into the provider, enabling separation of concerns.

For example, instead of AWS client libraries, environment variables for ARNs, etc. existing in the code you instead have 1 line defining a resource using the SDK. That other code is separated into the provider, enabling testing in isolation and separation.
Fortifying websites against bots, spam, and users.
RFD 53 addressed why they avoided NoSQL in general:

"NoSQL systems (e.g., Cassandra, Riak). The challenges of building relational, transactional applications atop these systems is well known. These systems also generally predate the modern emphasis on hands-off operation, which is critical for supporting a system that we will not be operating directly."

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0053#rfd48
Texas school bans all-black clothing, cites mental health concerns
Using a JSON feed for self-published indexes
NB: Title wordsmithed from original "2024-08-16 JSON feed for indexing" plus some content text for clarity.
He was very engaged in the business side, and kept close contact on the creative side but knew to leave well alone.

Pixar is a great example of Jobs understanding what he should NOT be doing, and not doing it. That must take incredible discipline.
Agree in general, with minor caveats:

* Schwab's roboadvisor product has decent rates for cash sweep, but their self-directed brokerage has the rather weak rate of 0.45%.

* The first $10k at IBKR earns 0%. Also, IBKR Lite also has a weaker rate (3.83%) compared to IBKR Pro (4.83%).

Of course, with a bit of extra effort, you can buy SGOV etc. in your brokerage for better rates.

[1] https://www.schwab.com/cash-investments

[2] https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/pricing-...
It is kind of the accumulation of a lot of different principles that seem reasonable in isolation.

People can incorporate companies for the purpose of carrying on their business. Businesses can trade with each other. Businesses can trade with businesses in other countries. Businesses are taxed on their profits. Profits should not be taxed twice. Sovereign entities can set their own taxes and tax rules. And various other principles like these. It's when they all interact, particularly when the principles are implemented slightly differently in every country, that there is a lot of room for shenanigans.
Why is this flagged? Is sexual assault not perceived to be a major issue here?
Agreed. For my personal sensibilities, Python or TypeScript are better default languages. Of course, I'm a bit obsessive about quality/safety, so I'm probably going to use Rust for most tasks :)
Gold is less risky (in the counter party risk sense) so perhaps that.
I am not making a "those were the good ole days" argument - the News "business" changed in a fundamental way. The objective became to "make money" as opposed to "deliver news". The profit motive changes everything - taking that thinking to a logical conclusion you end up with 2 minute videos that are chosen specifically to punch your buttons so you will keep watching. The way in which people consume their news now is simply chaos.

https://niemanreports.org/articles/the-transformation-of-net...
If they don't that is something new. Do you know when that started (or rather, stopped)?
I think this is definitely the best way. It feels like you're violating DRY, but you're not.
There Is No Website
We really like CDKTF and Pulumi, they're two options nitric uses for deployments, but it's also a layer on top that helps decouple application code from the target cloud(s).
Yes but I see the fleetingness of life allegory as applying to everyone. Including Christians.
Unsurprisingly another case of Dave "The Scammer" Plummer exaggerating/lying.
Aren't humans also prone to this?

Take the classic trick question, for example: "A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?"

Most people give a wrong answer because they, too, "pattern match".
Sorry that was clumsy and insensitive of me to suggest values should
go ahead of money.
Some of these are amazing https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/233201888
I used to work for a company that used AGPL. For databases, in particular, it's not as noxious as people make it seem, other than if you are a hyperscalar trying to commercialize someone else's hard work and run them out of business, or a bottom feeding hosted service company also trying to commercialize someone else's hard work and coattail on their success.

Otherwise it works great for end-user adoption.
Just wanted to take the time to appreciate this comment. It is a rare thing when someone takes the time to read beyond the headline, and decide to dig deeper to understand something. Thank you.
That's like crediting a football team's chapionship win 100% to the players and 0% to the coach. It's true in the most literal sense, yet widely missing the mark.
Here are a couple lists of mathematics topics, organized be level, with suggested books for each topic/level. The second one has pretty extensive commentary on each of the books.

"How to Become a Pure Mathematician (or Statistician)" [1]

"Chicago undergraduate mathematics bibliography" [2]

[1] https://hbpms.blogspot.com/

[2] https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm
Among other misdeeds. Every now and again they kill a local in a bar fight.

Americans are far less popular in Okinawa than the rest of Japan.
All blanket statements are false.
> Microsoft is one of the few companies that goes toe to toe with world governments every day of the year.

It's also the company which was the first and longest member of PRISM, meaning very deep ties to the less savory parts of the US gov and {five,nine,fourteen} eyes. I know it's a boring advice, but I'd take this kind of declaration with a truckload of salt.
GATT, at the lowest level, is a spec that allows you to access what is substantially a key-value store over bluetooth. It was part of the 4.0 spec.

Keys are 16-bit "handles", values are arbitrary byte bags. Handles may change between connections and are not considered stable, which is why there is a higher level of abstraction used. Each K-V pair is called an attribute.

On top of that simple kv-store, are built higher-level concepts like characteristics and services. A characteristic, for example, is made of a few attrbutes with sequential handles: a "header" attrbiute that declares that this is a "characteristic" and states how many next handles are part of it, a "name" attribute, which is a UUID, a "permissions" attribute, a "value" attrbiute, and possibly a "control" attribute that allows one to ask to be notified of value changes.

A "service" is a collection of attributes which describe one cohesive "thing"/feature/whatever.

Some "services" are defined in the spec and any device implementing them properly can talk to any device expecting to access them. But many devices use "manufacturer specific" services, mostly defeating the point.

GATT also specifies a number of operations to perform searches on this database, such as by-uuid, by-type, etc
LLMs have access to the space of collective semantic understanding. I don't understand why people expect cognitive faculties that are clearly extra-semantic to just fall out of them eventually.

The reason they sometimes appear to reason is because there's a lot of reasoning in the corpus of human text activity. But that's just a semantic artifact of a non-semantic process.

Human cognition is much more than just our ability to string sentences together.
I'm curious what you think wouldn't work. Nitric doesn't cover every use case, but in those cases you just continue to do what you would have already.
> It’s not just that we choose our own distractions; it’s that the pleasure we get from being distracted is the pleasure of taking action and being free. There’s a glee that comes from making choices, a contentment that settles after we’ve asserted our autonomy

An interesting take, but I don't feel like I'm making a choice at all. In fact I'm often screaming at myself to stop scrolling and go to bed, but I don't. I never feel more powerless than when I am stuck in a distraction loop. I literally want to stop, but can't. There's no glee, no autonomy in that.
He had nothing to do with the limit. That was just another lie in the long list of his lies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39812561
Reminded me of University of Eastern Colorado and also a certain fungi.