skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been looking around for some kind of design documents that explain how you were able to ditch the central broker, but I haven't found much. Do you have breadcrumbs?
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Good grief. How is this even possible ? What on earth is going on ?

Extra points for answers in the form of questions.
don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Simply restrict hard asset purchases to US citizens. See how that works.

if the real estate broker lobby doesn't like it , you are probably on the right track
I do think the Digital realm, where the cost of failure and iteration is quite low, will proceed rapidly. We can brute force with a lot of compute to success, and the cost of each failed attempt is low. Most of these models are just large brute force probabilistic models in any event - efficient AI has not yet been achieved but maybe that doesn't matter.

Not sure if that same pace applies to the physical realm where costs are high (resources, energy, pollution, etc), and the risk of getting it wrong could mean a lot of negative consequences. e.g. I'm handling construction materials, and the robot trips on a barely noticeable rock leaking paint, petrol, etc onto the ground costing more than just the initial cost of materials but cleanup as well.

This creates a potential future outcome (if I can be so bold as to extrapolate with the dangers that has) that this "frenzy of talent" as you put it will innovate themselves out of a job with some may cash out in the short term closing the gate behind them. What's left is ironically the people that can sell, convince, manipulate and work in the physical world at least for the short and medium term. AI can't fix the scarcity of the physical that easily (e.g. land, nutrients, etc). Those people who still command scarcity will get the main rewards of AI in our capital system as value/economic surplus moves to the resources that are scarce and have advantage via relative price adjustments.

Typically people had three different strengths - physical (strength and dexterity), emotional IQ, and intelligence/problem solving. The new world of AI at least in the medium term (10-20 years) will tilt the value away from the latter into the former (physical) - IMO a reversal of the last century of change. May make more sense to get good at gym class and get a trade rather than study math in the future for example. Intelligence will be in abundance, and become a commodity. This potential outcome does alarm me not just from a job perspective, but in terms of fake content, lack of human connection, lack of value of intelligence in general (you will find people with high IQ's lose respect from society in general), social mobility, etc. I can see a potential to the old world where lords that command scarcity (e.g. landlords) command peasants again - reversing the gains of the industrial revolution as an extreme case depending on general AI progress (not LLMs). For people who's value is more in capital or land vs labor, AI seems like a dream future IMO.

There's potential good here, but sadly I'm alarmed because the likelihood that the human race aligns to achieve it is low (the tragedy of the commons problem). It is much easier, and more likely, certain groups use it and target people of value economically now, but with little power (i.e the middle class). The chance of new weapons, economic displacement, fake news, etc for me trumps a voice/chat bot and a fancy image generator. The "adjustment period" is critical to manage; and I think climate change, and other broader issues tells us sadly IMO our likely success in doing this.
whod want to acces ur husbands phone or pc? shouldnt u tell him instead of publicising it?

...and by the way that email address is difficult to read, its hackxtechn@gmail.com
Amusingly this is something that I see as being a huge divide in rural and urban politics.

Yes, it’s inefficient. Yes, some people want that!
Color is the biggie. Color lasers are expensive, around $300 or so last I checked? If we printed more, I'd definitely get one, but we don't (and likely never will). At our usage, buying a new color laser would take a few decades to pay itself back vs this subscription.

PS you don't have to wait for new cartridges. It's all connected, so they will automatically mail you a new cartridge as soon as the printer senses it's low-ish, long before it's totally dry.

Their customer service bot is generous too. I lost a cartridge during a move, told it I was running low and it automatically shipped me a couple new ones, no questions asked.

I don't really know how HP manages to make any money on this, but it's incredibly convenient. Probably they hope you'll end up moving to a higher subscription tier, but that makes no sense because if we printed more, we'd just get a laser. Shrug. I'll enjoy it while it lasts though!
I'm sure the next generation of supercomputers (eg anything upcoming with Nvidia's GB200 architecture, Tesla's Dojo, etc) will have their own share of challenges that need to be solved, at their specific scale.
Depends on how you define success. If it's Olympic gold or bust .. you're gonna have a bad time.

Given the 2 x 2 matrix of natural talent and ability to focus/ give effort / practice deliberately (whatever you want to call it)

High High > superstars, top 0.1%

Low Low > duh

High Low > flame outs, weeded our early from higher tracks, big fish in small ponds

Low High > stars (not super), top 10%

Showing up really does count for a lot. It absolutely leads to "success" even if not the highest stratosphere.
You’re not just “on an island.” You’re LITERALLY STUCK on the island FAR past when you were supposed to leave. So the boat coming to get you off the island is literally rescuing you.

I know you hate Elon musk—I don’t care for him much nor do I harbor animosity towards him—but a rescue is a rescue lmao. You guys would never be this ridiculous if the situation wasn’t politically charged, or if the circumstances favored your political leaning (almost certainly progressive left).
Right. Living is not an optimization problem.
Correct. There are two major steel producers still operating in the UK: British Steel's Scunthorpe steelworks in the North East of England, and Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in South Wales.

Both have announced plans to convert from blast furnaces to modern electric arc furnaces. This will greatly reduce emissions - they are among the largest industrial polluters in the UK (along with the Drax wood-burning power station). But conversion to arc furnaces also means that fewer workers will be required.
Why no FOSS color pencil or pen plotter with robotic paper stack management (next sheet, and bonus: turn-over), ready to 3D print, flash onto pis, and forever replace the supply chain cumbersome ink and toner-based printing??

We can 3D print, why no easy common pencil/pen printer replacement plotters?!!
Visualising another in a series of great migrations, where a mass of leaderbirds takes wing and suddenly the entire flock is in the air and heading south.
I agree this is weird, but I think it's largely an analogy issue: Ruby and Crystal both explicitly document blocks as not being closures, even when they can be converted into closures. They're their own weird thing.

Crystal also documents that it will fail if the block contains return or break statements[1].

[1]: https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.13/syntax_and_semantics...
A lot of effort and money has been spent on trying to make this program sound more successful than it was. They put together a long, design heavy packet to spin the results for media: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fdc101bc3cfda2dcf0a2...

When you look at the details, the results aren’t as good as the headlines. There are major selection bias problems with how both the control group and the $1K/month group were selected and retained.

Even the results that differ between groups aren’t all that amazing and feel like they were cherry picked to be easy wins in a study like this. Of course giving people $1K/month results in that group self/describing as feeling like they’re in a better position to handle an unexpected $400/month expense because you’re literally giving them 2.5X that per month. It’s like the study authors handed themselves a guaranteed win and then congratulated themselves on it.

The claims about employment aren’t really supported by the data, either. The PR piece claims this:

> Guaranteed-income recipients also were more likely to secure full-time or part-time employment, or to be looking for work, rather than being unemployed and not looking for work, the study found.

But when I look at the data on page 57 of the report it shows the treatment group ($1K/month) had higher unemployment at 18 months.

If this was a study about a psychology paper or some social sciences hypothesis then the comments would be all over the glaring dishonesty of how these results are being spun. Something about UBI type research causes a lot of people to assume it’s positive and ignore the issues with the research, though. The numbers in this study do not support the enthusiastic headlines at all.
I declined a job offer from Boeing recently because they can't execute anymore. Complete clown show run by accountants.
There are many algorithms to implement a single wait-free shared register. I like Basic Paxos, don't get me wrong. I also love the Part-time parliament paper's description of it. What I don't care much for is the generalization to multipaxos; too many things left to the imagination, which, in the hands of people like me without Lamport's reasoning skills, is headed for disaster. There is a reason why they say Paxos is too hard, but few people say that about Raft. A raft implementation is maintainable by ordinary mortals, because like I said, there is only one documented recommended way to do it.
> How often do people expect to compile open-source code and get _exactly_ the same binary

_Always_, with the right options. And that's the key point. If distributed code is different it means it may be infected or altered in other way. In other words it cannot be trusted.

The same with models, if they are not reproducible or verifiable they cannot be trusted. Trust is the main feature of open source. Calling black box with attached data 'open source', even 'the first' is a bit of a stretch. It's not reproducible and not verifiable. And it's definitely not the first model with open data.

To be correct you should add 'untrusted' if you want to call this thing 'open source'. Like with Meta's models who knows what it holds.

PS: finally I'm negative, fanboys don't like it ;-)
Very cool that even at this scale the right vanilla SQL database just works. No fancy document store, map-reduce, or GPU implementations needed.
Maybe start holding back all the state money to a county if that county's average HUD wait is (say) longer than 3 months. Should really kickstart fixing zoning, fast!
I feel that a 100% efficient system is not resilient. Even minor disruptions in subsystems lead to major breakdowns.

There’s no room to absorb shocks. We saw a drastic version of this during COVID-19 induced supply chain collapse. Car manufacturers had built near 100% just in time manufacturing that they couldn’t absorb chip shortages and it took them years to get back up.

It also leaves no room for experimentation. Whatever experiment can only happen outside a system not from within it.
What about kerbal?
Notion is cool and many new project owners/managers love it while grumpy oldies live by Jira/Conflience.

However, Notion kind of gives me the vibes Evernote cult of the ancients we have forgotten.

That being said, I used Notion on early days as my brain-dump for everything until I found that my needs are just putting some text and images, then I moved to simplenoteapp(also from forgotten stone age) and substitute with Bear or Apple Notes.
Yeah but in a prison it's more difficult to use bureaucracy and shame to stop people from utilizing those services.
Sells ads I guess.

If your friend bails and you get someone else to give you a ride home, they’re getting you or retrieving you. You only call it “rescue” if you’re trying to add some drama to connect with the person who comes to get you. Like a relative, or someone you’re trying to flirt with.
To the person who's paying an exhorbitantly overpriced rent, it's little consolation if they're paying it to someone who owns 2 units rather than 200. They're still being effectively enserfed via the artificial housing shortage.

Conversely, if there is no lack of housing, it might actually be more efficient to have a few large landlords than many small ones.

If something is wrong and immoral, it doesn't matter much if it's perpretrated by a small-time crook or an industrial-sized one.
The book is a difficult read but the above wikipedia page gives a good summary of its major points.
Ensure mixed zoning to reduce car and transit dependence, but also ensure every 1+ br apartment gets 2-3 parking spots to fight against the creep of European cycle-philic anticar building practices.
What If the Universe Did Not Start with the Big Bang? [video]
I was fortunate enough to see her in that on stage. She and Nick Farrell were on top form. It's a highlight.

I shed real tears when I saw that she had passed. The other week, with James Earl Jones, as well. We're losing a generation of actors with real, deep roots in theatre, who then adapted to TV and cinema as those media matured. They're a bridge generation, and their experience will not be replicated. The profession and the culture are the poorer for their loss.
Same here. Shared memory is one of those things where the kernel could really help some more with reliable cleanup (1). Until then you're mostly doomed to have a rock solid cleanup daemon or are limited to eventual cleanup by restarting processes. I have my doubts that it isn't possible to get into a situation where segments are being exhausted and you're forced to intervene

(1) I'm referring to automatic refcounting of shm segments using posix shm (not sys v!) when the last process dies or unmaps
If your concern is to have secure tunnels between hosts, you should probably use spiped rather than SSH, since it uses a separate TCP connection for each pipe -- this avoids the "connection dropped" problem and also the "multiplexing many connections over one TCP connection" performance hit.

Also, spiped is way simpler and more secure than SSH. (On my servers, I tunnel SSH over spiped, to protect the sshd from attacks.)
Ahem, *"before 2008" is what I had in mind, i.e. too old for the teen gamer look.
The example TODO app doesn't seem to be doing so well https://todo-example.htmgo.dev/
Depends where in space. From the article: "the International Space Station orbits within the Earth’s magnetic field, and so it is exposed to much lower radiation levels than the lunar surface".
Evedel: Instructed LLM programmer/assistant for Emacs
I have been working on & dogfooding this package for the last two months and I now believe it's in a semi-presentable state to hopefully be somewhat useful to others.

I know I really should have, but I haven't exactly explored the existing space of similar packages, so I probably have done a lot of wheel-reinventing.

Evedel is an extension to the wonderful gptel package with the goal of introducing its own unique [citation needed] AI workflows, delusionally hoping to compete against other mainstream LLM-centric IDEs/editors.

It started as my own Elisp config, but outgrew it enough to the point where I decided it would better act as its own, standalone thing.

Main features: AI instructions through overlays decoupled from the buffers, navigation, filtering, overlay reference commentaries, categorization through tagging, saving/loading of instruction overlays, patching instructions for outdated/mismatched files, and more.

I believe once RAG is added to it, the package would be pretty, pretty, nice and good.
Why books though?
>> If you are a scientist looking for research ideas which are pro-social, and have the potential to create a whole new field, you should consider building formal (mathematical) bridges between results on overfitting in machine learning, and problems in economics, political science, management science, operations research, and elsewhere.

Translation to laymen: ML is being analogized to the mathematical structure of signaling between entities and institutions in society.

Mathematician proposes problem that plagues one (overfitting in ML, the phenomena by which a neural network's ability to generalize is negatively impacted by overtraining so the functions it can emulate are tightly coupled to the training data), must plague the other.

In short, there must be a breakdown point at which overdevelopment of societal systems or signaling between them makes things simply worse.

I personally think all one need do is look at what would happen if every system were perfectly complied with to see we may already be well beyond that breakpoint in several industrial verticals.
For many people the fact that discord is not easily discoverable is a benefit, just like in many other messaging services
It's obvious that simply printing money and handing it out won't solve anything. If it did, let's just give every individual $10 million via direct deposit. Cool now we're all rich and can retire, right?

But, if that money (which is a claim against future economic output) was diverted from somewhere else, it could have an effect. The total US GDP is $25T and the total population is 330 million, meaning if it were cut and divided equally we'd each get... $75k per year.

So I guess in a hand-wavey sense it's true we generate enough economic activity to have everyone capable of living a decent middle-class lifestyle. Of course that level of redistribution would require some extreme form of socialism / communism which just wouldn't work out.
Yeah not a fan of his cause all his big promises / lies like a used car salesman but him buying X and trying to put the brakes on the radical lefts real out there stuff I personally think did just that. He's in the middle / an independent with both conservative & liberal leanings.
But real estate investors can already buy any property they want.

The post was about removing restrictions on building properties.
About Jacques Ellul's book "The Technological Society" - https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...

Another overview (2021) - https://medium.com/@NimaCheraghi/jacques-ellul-the-technolog...
Well, I don't have Trump on the brain nor talk about him constantly.

I had fun writing all that! This is the most bonkers election season ever, very entertaining, much better than 2016.

I wonder what the D's October surprise is going to be? Better be good!
You must of missed the multiple points where I said "three out of four" and "echoes" of a wiki; but reading comprehension is hard, don't worry you'll get 'em next time.
> mediocre but still existent MLB careers.

If you have a MLB career at all, you are an elite baseball player.
what you're saying is similar to the taxi industry pre-uber, they had similar attempts but they could never do anything to undercut their main existing business. The service experience with grocery stores that delivery (similar to taxis) is poor and the cost is higher. I'm thinking a pure virtual play can at least compete with brick-and-mortar.

Cost, and being able to browse visually and pick specific items are the two main obstacles, which today's tech can solve, albeit with a high startup cost.
But real estate investors can already buy property. What is your objection to lifting restrictions on building property?
I was a bit confused what use an FFT had here since I was only familiar with the Fourier transform in the _forward_ direction (compute the component frequencies of a signal given samples). But this uses the _inverse_ Fourier transform, which effectively lets you take samples of a signal given its component frequencies. Here, those component frequencies are generated by mathematical functions developed (by other researchers) to model ocean waves, which are explained in https://github.com/2Retr0/GodotOceanWaves#ocean-wave-spectra.
> I was commenting on a statement you made about the cost of upgrade. Somehow you've found a linkage (or absence of a linkage) to war in your response.

My comment is about danger of RBK-1000 in real life, which cannot be upgraded to a safe reactor type, because of huge cost of upgrade.

> Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons it inherited from the Soviet Union

Ukraine can produce more at any time. It's not a hard problem for the country, which developed nukes and missiles for Soviet Union and RF. Currently, the main problem is that Ukraine cannot produce long-range missiles fast enough.

> The captured power stations are not of this kind; they are all VVER.

Yes, but Russia has RBK-1000 type nuclear reactors in production and they hire former Ukrainian operators to operate their nuclear stations. Do you see a problem here?
> Many of us worked in fields where good research tends to be more nuanced and open to interpretation

I've had a hard time getting people to understand this. It's always felt odd tbh. It's what's meant by "truth doesn't exist". Because it doesn't exist with infinite precision, though they are plenty of times where there's good answers. In our modern world I think one of the big challenges is that we've advanced enough that low order approximations are no longer good enough. It should make sense, as we get better we need more complex models. We need to account for more.

In many optimization problems there are no global solutions. This isn't because we lack good enough models, it's just how things are. And the environment is constantly changing, the targets moving. So the complexity will always exist. There's beauty in that, because what fun is a game when you beat it? With a universe like this, there's always a new level ahead of us.
When we optimize we typically have a specific scenario in our head. With the proper tools one can probably make the mathematically optimal decisions to deal with this exact scenario.

However: 1) This exact scenario will likely never materialize 2) You have not good quantification of the scenario anyway due to noise/biases in measurements.

So now you optimized for something very specific, and the nature throws you something slightly different and you are completely screwed because your optimized solve is not flexible at all.

That is why a more “suboptimal” approach is typically better and why our stupid brains outperform super fancy computers and algorithms in planning.
For me, it seems that most of the notion users in my circle(very small one) are non-technical people. Even if your AI vomits some other user’s private data, it’ll be considered a glitch and will be forgiven because non-technical users does not panic or gets flame-baited because these are irrelevant to them.

That being said, I appreciate that you understand the risk, and want to believe that the people on the helm of the AI feature and people on the leadership also share your opinion.
> After 70 years of working with fission reactors, we know how to build and operate them at 95%+ efficiency. Fission can provide all the power we will need in our lifetimes.

We still don't know how to build fission power plants cost-effectively. In the last week I saw an article saying that projects can't get financing in the marketplace.

If we still don't after 70 years, it seems doubtful that it will work.

If we can find a cheaper way - even if we could build fission plants cost-effectively now - we should probably do it?
Web Components Are Not the Future – They're the Present
Porque no los dos? The purpose of a beverage is what it does.
Agreed, but only in the circumstance that the flirty someone else picks you up from the International Space Station after your other friend bails, otherwise seems like a poor analogy
It annoys me sometimes how effective B-trees are.

Every decade has some cool breakthrough in compression, and a handful of other disciplines. But OLTP databases are still basically better B-trees.