skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brexit isn't mentioned because it's not relevant - the perception that it was important economically is a hangover from the times when the establishment was telling everyone it would be. In fact there was no economic impact. Britain continued in about the same place it was before rankings-wise, there was no Brexit recession and even trade with the EU continued on its prior trend line! An outcome so embarrassing to the Remainer classes that they just ignore the real outcomes and talk as if the economist's models were accurate.

> What's the underlying mechanism that got them to that state?

The Foundations essay discusses that. It's a combination of a big overhang of very socialist regulation from the 1940s, especially related to construction, combined with the lack of a big enough libertarian faction in the right wing party that would fix it. America has a strong Republican movement that pushes for pro-capitalist, pro-freedom outcomes (or did pre Trump), and inter-state competition makes it easier to compare outcomes. The UK had such a government for a while in the 1980s but British society didn't produce enough Thatchers to keep it up and the reforms were never completed. Blair accepted the 80s changes were necessary but didn't continue, and after Blair stepped down Labour shifted to the left (reverting to its historical mean). Cameron took advantage by steering the Conservative Party towards being continuity New Labour i.e. a center left party. They found that maintaining and doubling down on super strict building regs satisfied both the left wing greens and the right wing pensioners/house flippers, making it into a winning electoral strategy. They didn't have enough people making the long term arguments about the economic damage of that strategy, and indeed the Conservatives set things up to suppress their own right wing in the belief that this would yield bigger victories. Everything continued to drift ever more listlessly to the left until their activists, funders and ultimately voters basically gave up on them. Labour won more or less by default (not because they became more popular) and is now acting much like they did in the 1970s, so it looks like history travels in a loop and things will get worse for Britain before they get better, unfortunately.

> NIMBYism is brought up as "logical" given the incentives at one point, but I'd argue it's fundamentally a social issue

It's mostly not a social issue but financial. The USA has unusually sophisticated investing culture, it's common for people to understand and engage in stock trading there. In the UK it's normal for people's only investment to be their houses, and the social expectation that house prices always rise is abnormally strong. Therefore, anything that could lower house prices became political death -> NIMBYism.
> So is Sam Altman the modern day alchemist?

Alchemists were early scientists who later branched into fields like chemistry, mathematics, and physics (Newton explored alchemy).

Altman leads a team of experts in neural networks, programming, and HW design. While he might be mistaken, dismissing him outright is difficult.
> and it’s faster than the 911

Kind of, but not really. It accelerates from 0 faster but that's just about it. I don't think anybody would prefer a Taycan on the track versus a 911, and if you were actually racing them, I think the 911 would win every time.
Recommendations Are Tough, Commercialization Is Harder
If the context starts with the Budapest Memorandum, then you mention "other agreements", it's natural to assume you meant legal agreements.

And unless we're going to talk about legal agreements -- none of this dissecting of what was said verbally or how it was understood at the time has any bearing on how the West should respond to the current situation. Now that Russia has made unilateral decision to move the relationship beyond merely "adversarial", and into the realm of outright aggression.
Or requiring a license to make toast in your own damn toaster?
Sure - we are just beginning to scratch the surface of 3d stacking.
I do hate it whenever somebody says that line to me, because it's up to the player to choose if they want to play, and that automatically puts them in a certain bucket.

I believe the game is rigged from the get-go. Nobody should be able to get that big without having a level of accountability that matches their size, and our current economic system doesn't support that. That's why X can go one way with content moderation, Meta another, etc. and whole countries get pissed off. That's why I hate the game. The players have scaled past it.

Web infrastructure is headed in that direction more and more too. I personally think that for all their reach and influence Cloudflare does a great job protecting the internet, but that can change at any time and it would be in nobody's control but Cloudflare's. For now I'm glad it's them and not AWS or Alphabet. I don't know how I'll feel in five years.
I'm not an energy engineer and know only basic high school/college physics and chemistry (and not very well).

Other than corrosion/filtering concerns, what's stopping thermal desalination being done at the same time as power generation? We pump water into a power plant, make it hot, and use the steam to turn a turbine and generate electricity. The steam just goes up and away. What if you collected it and let it condense back into water? Would it still be too salty? Would it change the characteristics of the steam too much? Just a logistics problem of what to do with the brine/particulates? It just seems silly to burn natural gas to make steam to make electricity just to use the electricity to pull the salt out in some other way. Seems almost guaranteed to be less efficient.
It doesn’t seem that dangerous to me compared to: genetic engineering (see gene drives), nuclear power, PFAS, climate change, laser light shows, handguns, and other technologies for which regulation has been controversial.
https://www.thinkingaheadinstitute.org/research-papers/globa...
says pensions control $55 trillion. you'll have to define "the elites" a bit more to have a point of comparison, but the richest billionaire has "only" $200 B.

So at the very least it's not miniscule, but it depends on how you want to calculate the other side of the equation.
How is the measurement for the area the oil has spread over performed? Visually or some other way?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Golson
> For his community, it's all about certainty over the future of their streets

My biggest complaint about NIMBYism is this behavior. Why are current owners allowed to dictate so many rules about "the future"?
> User data is a liability, not an asset.

Yeah Google and Facebook are all losing money in those liabilities.

No theyre not, they're printing money because user data is an asset. Stop repeating silly sound bytes.
That's still a lot more predictable than my human cashier experience. I wish I didn't have to dread being held up by the only cashier in store holding a riveting conversation with 4 groups in front of me. Will the other groups hold up the line too? I guess we'll see!
I loved the first two seasons of Wheel of Time (and also loved the books growing up) - what is wrong with it?

Never read The Witcher or played the games but also really enjoyed the netflix series
These are the best kind of posts, where there's something I've never even heard of before. I never knew 'oiling the seas' was a thing, or that it (apparently?) works.
It feels intuitive that a thin fluid on a low-friction surface (like water) would spread out "as much as possible" given enough time. There certainly may be confounding factors, but it seems like a reasonable thing to pin as an "assumption" in a hypothesis. I.e. he didn't have to "know" - assumptions are OK, and I don't feel like this one is huge.
It also can't be overlooked that the anime style is both highly flexible and also very easy to reproduce. Like I remember it being old hat to see books on "how to draw anime" when I was a kid, and anime didn't have nearly the presence it did in the west as it does now.

I'm genuinely not trying to be a shithead or anything, it's just a style that lends itself well to industrialization and specialized tooling to speed up the process of creating. Unless you get into highly stylized executions, if you as a company just want to turn out a perfectly average and forgettable anime, you can do so at scale pretty easily, and the glut of artists looking for work means you don't have to pay a lot for the labor either.

I have nothing against this but frankly as a creative it is slightly demoralizing to see just more and more consolidation and mechanization in industry. There's so little that feels genuinely creative anymore, and it feels like year over year the art people produce is crushed harder and harder into pre-made molds that do well on content algorithms.

Maybe nobody else gives a shit.
I'm on:

Image

- Terminus Research Group, from bghira of SimpleTuner/diffusers https://discord.gg/cSmvcU9Me9

- AI Toolkit https://github.com/ostris/ai-toolkit https://discord.gg/VXmU2f5WEU

- Stable Diffusion https://discord.gg/stablediffusion

LLM

- LLamaIndex https://www.llamaindex.ai https://discord.com/invite/eN6D2HQ4aX

- Nous research https://discord.gg/nousresearch

- LangChain https://discord.gg/hMrfPpUk

Platforms

- Replicate https://discord.gg/replicate

- Fal https://discord.gg/fal-ai
Perhaps if there's no official event it will actually be possible to get a beer there!
There are free ftp server apps you can download and you access them using any ftp client on Linux.
This may interest you: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=totally+mad+magazine&ia=web

> "Totally MAD" is a collection of the issues of MAD Magazine from the start until 1998 published by Broderbund
Right. And anime tends to stick very closely to the manga which inspired it, because, commercially, it's often a vehicle designed to increase the sales of that manga.

Take Dungeon Meshi, for instance: The anime only covered about half of the material of the manga. So if you liked the show and you want to know how the story ends, you've got to pick up the books. If the showrunners changed important plot points, finishing the story might not be so easy...

The Dungeon Meshi anime probably made some money on its own account, but there are a lot of marginal anime series that aren't really designed to make money, but are intended to increase awareness/sales of various manga properties.
I don't doubt that there's tons of work ahead to even just integrate current-day capabilities of LLMs into our society and economy.

But when talking about future growth potential, I don't think you can get around making assumptions about the shape of the growth function.
Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01873-w
No doubt that it would be best for fans if a16z stayed far away from anime, but you're wrong about quality declining. There's a ton of great stuff from recent times: Vinland Saga, Ranking of Kings, Chainsaw Man, Dr. Stone...

There's always been trash anime, but it feels like there's some very original work being produced.
Well, the fact that Telegram wants to cooperate to me suggests that they previously could have been cooperating but weren't, which makes a charge of complicity make a lot more sense now. Thanks France!
> People who want an alternative to advertising-supported online content? This is what that alternative looks like.

Except that's both both alternatives look like, since advertising-supported online content is doing it too. Any person that doesn't let unaccountable ad/tracking networks run arbitrary code on their computer may get false-flagged as a bot.
Not sure if they're using user agent. Probably not because it's so easy to forge UA.

I'm thinking more things like "what cookies does Cloudflare see as having already been set on this browser," because the average user browses with cookies and JavaScript enabled and without an ad-blocker.
> a16z has a games division?

They got into games during their Web3/Blockchain/Metaverse phase so you're forgiven for not noticing given that hype train went absolutely nowhere.

Now they're all about AI being the next big thing in games, because of course they are.
Universities maintained legacy systems for sure, but in 1989, 4.3 was already a mature, gold standard, for the right hardware.

Personally I was put on SVR3/3B2, and SunOS on IPX/SLC type systems, along with an awareness of all kinds of other stuff available there, such as a "recreational" 4.3BSD VAX.
They might be looking at things with the AMS thing that lets you do multiple colours. Mini with that is about £300.

Without that, the mini is £169 and the A1 is £289 as you say.
Which shows that there is something wrong with Seattle. In my city the vast majority of people cycle. In my 42 years, I can only remember one person who lost a tooth cycling. We were kids and there was no car nearby.

I cannot even think of many people with a serious injury at all. And me and my peers started cycling when we were 4 or 5 and most still do it daily (it’s the primary means of transportation within the city).

Build a bike infrastructure, make car drivers more responsible. People will be healthier because they have daily workouts.
https://www.youtube.com/@SECourses
I know that this is a website for startups, but looking at art that people enjoy and put their soul into and thinking "how can I extract profit from this" I think is actually close to a mental illness.

I understand that commodification is inevitable (and yes anime is already a soulless business), but goddamn if it doesn't look like some form of neurosis. It's like walking into an old growth forest and seeing the potential for a toothpick factory.
Demon Slayer is incredibly popular with younger people.
That tracks with what I would largely expect, but https://www.worldometers.info/water/ has Germany at 856? That has the US at 3732. Such that I don't think I can just correct up.

Sounds like a lot of ambiguity on what different people are measuring, which is obnoxious. Understandable, mind. Still obnoxious.
"cloudflare is engaging in monopolistic behavior" would be the saner take here, but the OP was specifically accusing cloudflare of being a "protection racket". Ticketmaster might be engaging in illegal monopolistic behavior in the ticket space, but nobody seriously thinks they're engaging in a "protection racket" over access to venues.
The most important part about anime is- with computer assisted tooling, its cheaper to make - cheaper to make means less oversight by creative handicaps like financeer gremiums, means artists get a shot earlier, instead a few making it to the honey pots. Thus more artists, who want a shot try the medium instead of waiting for there day in the sun in some cooperate mausoleum.

Tl,DR; All of culture is constantly fleeing the curse of the MBAs - the destroyers of all things good with the Middas touch.
*paid editor

There are a lot of great and fast IDE-like programs on Mac (CodeEdit, CotEdit, etc.) - try those before forking out $99 for a text editor.
Similar reaction to seeing FF lumped in there. FF7 in particular might travel in some of the tropes, but I feel like it was pulled in to bolster the game side rather than being a true exemplar.

On a semi-related note: A16Z, stay the hell away from Square Enix.
If you’re new to anime, it’s hard to figure out where to start.

If you’re able to tolerate some more intense themes, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is widely regarded as one of the best anime ever created, and rightly so.
Indeed. It sounds like the kind of thing the OceanGate Titan sub's CEO would have said. Except all of humanity is on board Sam Altman's submarine.

There's a good reason we get pessimists to design safety-critical systems!
In my case my office offers: Horrifically uncomfortable chairs, desks that are fought over because the monitors aren't shitty or flickering or buggy on a select few of them, constantly breaking power bricks that we have to call facilities to fixup, not a single person is happy with the temperature, the internet is slow for the amount of people there, CONSTANT distractions by the people around me. I can go on and on about this. All of this for the sweet, amazing convenience of having to commute to the office either in crammed busses/trains or by cycling in shitty weather.

In contrast, at home I control my environment, have my hyper comfortable chair in which I can spend 48 hours sitting without complaints, my own monitor setup that is infinitely superior to the crap they have at the office, I can control my own AC, I can control my noise level, I don't get casually interrupted by someone wanting to contact me out of the blue with irrelevant questions, I have 8 gig symmetric fiber internet that is literally never down and it's entirely 100% dedicated to only myself and my machines rather than being shared with 100 other people, and who uses whiteboards still? You can just buy a pen and paper if you really need to scribble something down
> One company that was inspired by this was the British East India company which introduced an exam for employees

I would assume they were based on the exams in the English navy introduced in 1677 (which I think was almost 200 years before EIC)?

They weren't fully standardized by modern standards but I'm not sure that they were influenced by the Chinese exams as much as common practices in European universities, guilds etc. It's not that obvious that standardized in the 1800s didn't just gradually develop from previous practices with limited external influence.

AFAIK was the first country in Europe, they had standardized for judges in the 1740s (so 100 years before the EIC) and the "Abitur" exam for school graduates was introduced in 1788. I doubt had any links with the Chinese exams. Pretty much all Western Educational systems were significantly influenced by Prussia.
Who gets to define whether someone is ‘exploited’ or not?

There are artists who would rather be paid even less, but given more creative freedom and control over the final product, (deciding on dubs, script changes, etc…) Especially in anime production.
There's a lot of great anime being produced today. Have you watched Vinland Saga or Chainsaw Man?
>the government comes to them with a legitimate warrant

Which government, such as the French government for all Russian users, the Russian government for all Ukraine users, or the USA government for all users?

Whose standard for warrants, and how much use of coercion and force are they allowed to use for enforcement. Can the USA kidnap the owners for non-compliance, can the Russians?
>I wouldn’t really be confident in identifying a „stolen face“ online because you’re bound to look similar to someone when creating a face. Does that mean that the look was stolen or is it just coincidence?

Luckily, national ID can easily solve that problem offline. It'd be a more interesting problem if some company searched far and wide to identify someone that has a similar face to [famous person]. And that's part of the issue in that there's no way to verify "is my voiced sampled here?". Opening the black box can help with that, but that's something companies are fighting to the death to not allow.

> What is the likelihood of a random AI voice sounding similar to some real online creator?

Given how much data was scraped, less likely than the fact that their data is in fact in the training set.
yep, and reading the news lately "legitimate warrant" means things like "has a harris poster on their lawn"
Even worse! Forcing you to wear seat belts and drunk driving, which is just the purest form of communism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xcQIoh3FQQ
Rust is a step sideways if anything. Yeah, you don't have manual memory management headaches in .NET, but you also don't have Rust's fairly strong compile-time guarantees about memory sharing and thread safety.

Which enables stuff like rayon where you can basically blindly replace map with parallel map and if it compiles, it _should_ be safe to run.

(I'm not super familiar with the .NET ecosystem, so it's quite possible there's equivalent tooling for enforced thread safety. I haven't heard much about it though, if so.)
I think Jobless Reincarnation is a perfect example because of its paedophilic undertones if not outright being so.
Differentiable Programming from Scratch

https://thenumb.at/Autodiff/
User data is only an asset if your business model demands it, like Google and Facebook. If you don’t have, and won’t create, a way to monetize it then yes, it’s strictly a liability.
This is awesome and a great demonstration of where 3D printing and a bit of design nous can get you

Last year I tried to design my own magsafe stand but it was proving to be too complicated to meet my criteria of looking good and be stable (the 15 Pro Max is big and heavy) and I didn't want to go down the route of making many prototypes/iterations so I ended up just printing a design someone else made [1] and it's been solid.

[1] https://www.printables.com/model/184106-magsafe-stand
I was expecting report to acknowledge "AI Waifus / Husbandos" at some point, nevermind first point. Whatever the artistic merit of anime, it's nice to see analysis that acknowledges anime popularity is simply driven by sheer horniess by both genders. IMO functionally PG13 softer softcore pornography.
All countries have laws that are controversial for some other country.
Could certainly be a US thing, but I've found the tech crowd and the anime otaku crowd to overlap a lot. Ditto for science fiction.
That is interesting, but Model 38 was also a very late model (1972), launched at a time when teletypes were becoming obsolete and more than two decades after the line printers that have established the 132-character width.

The existence of such very late wide teletypes did not have any influence on the appearance of the 132-character width, which had been used in line printers since around 1950.
Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so (2022)
I won’t trust this until I myself can calm an acre of water with a teaspoon of oil. (Or at least see a YouTube video of someone doing it)
You can burn CDs and print a sleeve.
Whoah, I didn't know there was a prequel video!
At least as important to me, is what is battery life like? With a 61 Wh battery on what is essentially a mobile processor, can I get 20+ hours of use out of it?
I can't say I'm completely on top of the Java world, but I think the String Templates are one of the very few preview features that have been actually withdrawn and removed, right? Are there others?

I know some drift a bit on their implementations over time, but have not be wholesale yanked out.

Obviously the solution to this is to not rely on these preview functions for production code. The way to do that is to run production in an LTS version of Java. I don't think that's an extreme point of view, frankly.

The new stuff is interesting and cool, and in time, it ends up in the LTS version.

Having lived through Java 5, 6, and 8, these are halcyon times for Java. It's moving VERY fast, and has been for some time.

Are there preview capabilities in the LTS versions? Yes, there are. But they're not under the LTS tent. Don't use them. The demarcation between the development releases and the LTS releases are a smart program to get features out into the world, and set some real lines in the sand for advancement. It helps keep preview items from staying in preview mode for an indeterminate amount of time.

And the two year LTS release cycle for a notoriously conservative eco-system is ample.
You are right, I cannot generalize. In fact our main flush function in newer toilets is the same flow as almost all countries (Australia and Japan being the exceptions) but we also have far fewer "Duel Flush" toilets (apparently, I'm just learning this myself) and the low flow on duel flush toilets uses much less water.
Ya, my first reaction was I'm not taking advice from a16z on what's "eating the world".