skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GH/CF Pages are only "free" if you have no/minimal traffic. Also, even that free tier will go away if you start popularizing it as a Wordpress alternative or make the barriers to entry lower. Let's keep it free, please
> From an economical standpoint, the emancipation in the West Indies and the general abolishment of slavery was a failure for Britain

That seems a bit light as sources go and I suggest someone is misinterpreting the data. The slave owners are obviously going to be worse off in the short term. They used to have slaves, now they have to do the work themselves or pay for it. That much is pretty straightforward to see.

The issue is the slave owners are stuck in a local maximum where their society will be overwhelmed by the superior productivity of non-slave owning societies. There is a reason that none of the economic majors today are interested in re-instituting slavery - it is inefficient. The sort of thing you wish upon your enemies so that they can't challenge you. You'll note that after avoiding emancipation because of economic fears ... the economy of the South was then beaten up much worse than what happened to Britain! Which is what exactly what we'd expect to happen to the sort of state that commits to a system of slavery in a big way. It isn't going to be able to maintain a military edge.
> (way under-calling the amount of data human vision reports I would suggest)

It doesn't matter because the amount of meaningful data for learning is accessible at a lower resolution.

If someone is born with bad vision such that they effectively see at 1/2 or 1/4th of the resolution of a normal person, It's not like they will grow up to be stupid (as long as they can sit in the front of the class to see the chalkboard).

In order for visual quality to impair learning it would need to be pretty bad such that you couldn't make out objects or symbols at a reasonable range.
> Money ask = 2.1M USD;

Feels like it should be

Money<USD> ask = 2.1M USD;

Then methods like .plus() wouldn't even be defined for incompatible currencies. Of course that doesn't work for .equals(), so you'd still have to fall back to exceptions in that case.
Blogs were great when they supported RSS, you could subscribe to feed and get updates if they happened every day, or randomly months or years in the future. There was no need for refreshing to see if there was something new.
Several steps smaller: Royal Portbury Dock.[1]

This is a small container port with a two lane access road. Not much traffic. No automation.
Container stacks are only two high, three high at most.
Driver is led through stacks of containers until they find the one they want to pick up. After some yelling, someone driving a stacker removes the container from the top of the one they want, then loads
the desired container onto the truck chassis.

Although there's one container ship at quayside, no loading or unloading seems to be happening.

There's a very British feel to all this.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDXzIACg3j0
This is a silly distinction because by that standard you could equally say that my employer pays my rent because they are the source of income which I use to pay it.

Property tax in the US is a liability of the owner. This is in contrast to other systems like the UK where it is a liability of the occupant.
That quote actually comes from an early technical conversation I was having about proof-of-sacrifice. Specifically, a conversation lamenting the fact that we kept on inventing neat tricks faster than we could actually use them - by "world's leading expert" I was making fun of the fact that I was technically the world's leading expert in something relatively simple and obvious to Bitcoin experts... yet even I hadn't actually put the technique into practice in a production application.

If you freeze-frame the film at the right point and actually read the full conversation, this is obvious. I don't have it handy. But some people posted screenshots on Twitter (which HBO may have taken down via DMCA... they were getting video clips taken down too).

These days some stuff actually uses proof-of-sacrifice in production. The best example I think being Joinmarket: https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/bl...
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I don't think this makes sense? You need to specify an exchange rate somewhere.

> just as meter is a unit type of Length

The difference is that length units are fixed, but exchange rates are constantly changing.
Dicts can be a problem, but this particular example isn't that great, like in this diagram from the article:

External API <--dict--> Ser/De <--model--> Business Logic

Life's all great until "External API" adds a field that your model doesn't know about, it gets dropped when you deserialize it, and then when you send it back (or around somewhere else) it's missing a field.

There's config for this in Pydantic, but it's not the default, and isn't for most ser/de frameworks (TypeScript is a notable exception here).

Closed enums have a similar tradeoff.
Related Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN (31 points, 1 hour ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41783867
A caveat is that this strategy requires owning assets with a lot of liquidity. One of the points raised during the whole “taxing unrealized gains” episode is that the vast majority of assets (~70%) held by the ultra-wealthy effectively have very little liquidity. As a consequence, they can’t really be used as cheap collateral for secured debt.
I think making a game engine is less like making your own knives and more like having a herb garden at a restaurant.

There are some games that are just not possible using someone else's engine. Consider Factorio, non-Euclidean geometry, the early MMOs, or anything else which pushes the boundaries of what's possible. On the other hand...are you really making a game like that? Similarly, there are good reasons why you'd want to grow your own herbs, and the deep knowledge of growing conditions really does add to your ability to understand why your parsley is bitter this year, but for most restaurants it wouldn't pay off.
What's illegal. 1. Monopoly power plus 2. anti-competitive conduct.

Apple and Google both have #2 but only Google has #1.

"Illegal monopoly" is strange terminology. What does it mean. Monopolies are not illegal. Anti-competitive conduct by a party with monopoly power is illegal.
They will never reach us because the rate of expansion is accelerating.
>I believe that great leaders have to be able to dig into the details, have an incredibly high bar for quality, and ultimately do great IC work themselves. Great managers have to manage the work - they should primarily be responsible for quality and speed of output. Managing people must be secondary to managing the product.

Some nice take always:

-Never make someone a manager if they are not capable of being an being an reasonably competent _technical_ IC.

-If there is a situation where a manager who is not a capable ( for what ever reason) IC manages a team, then a capable IC member must be given authority to overrule any decisions that the manager may make. In this case the manger is just a co-ordinater/secretary.

- When a potential manager joins a company, make them do IC works. (already covered in the essay : ' customer service for one day a month..' )
True. Though technically multicast could be used, which helps somewhat.

On the other hand, everyone can get their own personal "radio station" via streaming...
It is simpler than that. Wolfram has a long history of plagiarizing ideas and passing them off as his own.
How embarrassing, I had one of those "autocorrect moments". I somehow put the lambda inside the softmax when thinking and trying it without realizing. So what I was playing with in a spreadsheet (so not so obvious as plain code) was

softmax(A) - softmax(lambda * A)

And as so happens, normalizing the output of that that with my test vectors seems to really boost the output the largest component if A and B are equal.
Ukraine can join NPT back in exchange for safety assurances. No need for sanctions.
There are just so many good examples. If you get stuck or aren’t sure you at least have safety rails.
Another salvo in the PR campaign to pump and dump AI stocks, or?
The world's not all tobacco advertising and chemical spill coverups, there are also dishonest mechanics and dirty restaurant kitchens.
Teacher Hannah Willow crowned as Glasgow's first tree-hugging champion
Product-market fit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product-market_fit
To me yes, it just feels kind of morbid. “This is the grandkid we made from our dead son…” vs “this is my son, we conceived him using surrogacy after we lost our other son tragically”.

I’ll admit that there could be a cultural component that is in play that may change the perception where they live.
> less speculative

we're well on our way to replacing truck drivers; baristas are probably safer due to social acceptance more than technology

> Needing one in every elevator equates to a massive workforce, probably bigger than dock workers.

Back when elevators required an attendant, there weren't that many elevators compared with today. I'm talking about displacing large existing workforces. Also, people wouldn't spend their lives standing in an elevator; whereas millions of people do make a career out of truck driving or working at a port, both of which require skills developed over time.

> Everyone else would also benefit from cheaper espressos and goods (through cheaper shipping)

That's assuming the price of espressos and goods would drop; I don't think that's likely.
I really like Next.js + MUI: https://mui.com/

It's incredible how easy it is to make a dashboard-like app and customize it/extend it later. Check out their templates for some ideas: https://mui.com/store/#populars
This is the end result of having compute as a utility, without having equivalent protection mechanisms in place all the way down to the endpoints.

Imagine what would happen if we didn't have fuses and circuit breakers everywhere we use electricity. Any defective toaster could bring down the entire grid it was plugged into. There would have to be entirely new teams of inspectors and certifications and laws about even plugging in a lamp.

Madness

Yet here we are, 40+ years after collectively deciding that MULTICS was too complicated, and Unix was the way to go.

I thought we'd be able to see the folly of our ways by 2025 at the latest, but it's not going to happen. 8(
> It was pretty much obsolete at the beginning of the war.

In what way was it obsolete? Can you go into more detail?
Is it a question about nature of time or about our perception of time though?
Among us technical folks. The kind of people likely to pull off a kidnapping aren’t going to know until this hits mainstream media.
TypedDicts "aren't real" in the sense that they're a compile-time feature, so you're getting typing without any deserialization cost beyond the original JSON. Dataclasses and Pydantic models are slow to construct, so that's not nothing.

This of course means TypeDicts don't give you run-time validation. For that, and for full-blown custom types in general, I tend to favor msgspec Structs: https://jcristharif.com/msgspec/benchmarks.html#json-seriali....
> There will never be future changes in state from one that result in effects in the other.

You are assuming that the Principle of locality is true and proven. This is far from being the case from my understanding.
> Peter makes it just after joining the form, so he is unlikely to have detailed knowledge of bitcoin.

The fact that the inputs, outputs, and fee of a transaction must add up isn't exactly "detailed knowledge" :) I don't think it took me all that long to figure that out when I first tried understanding how Bitcoin worked.

And frankly, the core of Bitcoin really isn't all that complex! You can have a very good understanding of all the parts after just a few days carefully studying it. Which is exactly what I did: I sat down with the Bitcoin Core codebase and figured out what all the code did. Especially at the time, it really wasn't that big of a codebase.

> After watching the doc it does seem like Adam and Peter know a good deal more than they are letting on, even if it wasn't them specifically, it seems likely that they have some idea who it was.

I can't speak for Adam. But I have no idea who Satoshi is. If anything, I think it could be literally hundreds or even thousands of potential people. Bitcoin is something so simple that you didn't need to be a super-genius to come up with it. You just needed to understand some relatively high-level, basic, cryptography and have a brilliant flash of inspiration. Satoshi was a very competent C++ programmer (it's a myth that his code was bad). But there's lots and lots of very competent C++ programmers out there.
The incidence of taxation is a well-studied concept in economics, with a solid theoretical foundation and empirical evidence backing it.

You dismiss its application as a 'silly distinction' and repeat the fallacy that the incidence of taxation falls on the party who is legally liable.

If you don't believe me, and don't want to read up on 'tax incidence', consider what would happen if sales tax were paid by retailers instead of customers. Would the flow of money change at all? Would any party be worse off or better off?
RTP and multicast though...
I have nothing to hide so I don't care
It is definitely not Hal Finney. Hal’s wife has been through enough.
Partially agree. It also seems like a desperate way to connect themselves to "AI" and the hype.
Wow - that is the fastest loading site I've seen!
I wonder at what point it'll be replaced with "site:4chan.net".
Teaching design students to code with LLMs, 1 month update
Assuming for a second these federal requirements cited are a) valid, and b) for a good reason, it still says right there in the response that it's not just the lab, sadly.

For example, your Genetic Information, date of birth, and
sex will be retained by 23andMe
It is my view that television and other propaganda can hack persons.
Turns out there’s good reasons to do that
> Do physicists think time actually exists?

Yes, spacetime is important for General Relativity, cosmology and thermodynamics. Whether it's fundamental or emerges from something more fundamental is an open question though.
So you can't go back in time for the same reason you can't go left in Super Mario Bros.
I just bang out a quick systemd service and let it do all the lifting
Ya I asked that also, as well as "is the information you are retaining personally identifiable to me?" but sadly I think I know the answer to that one....

no response yet. I'm sure the privacy department is busy.
it's not any of them
Most tremendously wealthy people don’t want to be known for being tremendously wealthy. Unless being known for being tremendously wealthy is a part of your wealth accumulating strategy, the attention it brings is almost entirely negative. Being tremendously wealthy without millions of people constantly chirping about clawing as much of it away from you as possible, or demanding an explanation from you every time you wipe your ass is a far better outcome, and most people who are savvy enough to become billionaires are savvy enough to figure that out pretty quickly.
> By contrast FM radio is free, and we have some bloody good BBC radio stations in blighty

Unfortunately my antenna can't pick up the FM signal, and iPlayer is geo-blocked, but... I do seem to be able to stream some BBC radio stations and program[me]s via the magic of the internets.
I disagree somewhat, influenced by the teachings of Nancy Leveson.

In the 1930's, yes, component redundancy was the way to reliability. This worked at the time because components were flaky and technical systems were simple aggregations of components. Today, components themselves are more reliable, but even when they are not, redundancy adds only a little reliability because there's a new, large, source of failure: interactive complexity.

Today's systems are so complicated that many failures stem from insufficient, misunderstood, or ambiguous specifications. These errors happen not because a component failed -- all components work exactly as they were intended to -- it is only that in their intended interactions they produce an unintended result. Failure is an emergent property.

The solution is to approach reliability from a system theoretic perspective. This very early draft contains the core of the idea, but not yet fleshed out or edited: https://entropicthoughts.com/root-cause-analysis-youre-doing...
And guess who's going to renounce to US citizenship and/or start companies outside the US after that? Are entrepreneurs still going to immigrate to the US knowing that their wealth will be confiscated once they become successful? Who is going to fund the startups? etc.

If the US were to implement such measures, get ready for an exodus of talent and capital.
Neither does this project of it contains parts that needs a rust compiler to be bootstrapped
Personally I find it is often helpful to keep Dicts in a BigBag ie:

BigBag<Dict>
it's ridiculous. unless I'm missing something, they basically have this entire fluff piece of a privacy policy, data control, deletion, etc, and then just keep your genetic info after deletion for sale to the highest bidder / nation state.
I love that too. It's clear, easy to reads, and loads near instantly. I miss how the web used to be more that way.
> Define "Jew"

Nope. Not my job.

But thank you for confirming your anti-Sematism proving my point and explaining the article so perfectly. People like you (and 2000 years of violence) are the reason Israel feels paranoid. That's exactly why they do these sorts of things, and in the case of Israel it's not empty paranoia. Enemies are literally seeking its destruction.
An MWI universe would be hard to simulate though. There's an unknown vast number of branches.
i'll ask...
>To replace it you must come up with something that works even better.

Huh? I thought it was obvious: don't hire the MBA types as managers.
Look at my reply to your sibling commenter wormlord’s reply
That's interesting to think about. I'm not familiar with the literature on this but I'm 100% sure there's some interesting work on it (and related fields such as distributed and federated learning). I guess the simplest solution would be "centralized" - periodically aggregate all the raw data from all robots, train a model with all the data, redistribute the model. In that case there wouldn't be any "individuality", but (maybe again, by analogy with evolution) one could think it'd be advantageous to have some. But even if all the models all the same, the robots might be different types and operate in different environments, which raises issues of generalizability, transferability and specialization.
Either way the centralized would have some scaling problems, naturally - some way to transfer/aggregate experience (possibly "peer to peer") without resorting to training from raw data then becomes attractive, and I'm sure something people are working on. It does turn out that at least in some recent LLMs, weights appear to be sort of linear and people have been using that to merge them with fairly naive methods with good results.
Speed is the most important UX feature.

I've emphasized this, repeatedly, to ~every product owner I've worked with in my 26-year career.
Well said! I feel better already
Eric Weinstein also has a PhD in physics; it doesn't preclude you being (or becoming) a crank.
Yes, and after we confiscate their assets, we turn them into delicious meat pies. Surely this is not unethical because each billionaire, turned into meat pies, will feed many dozens of us.
If you do not serve your own priorities, then you are serving someone else's, and you might not even be aware of what you actually serve.
they’re saying they think it’s adam back
Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT) Basics
I think it is likely the 2014 message was actually Satoshi and there really is no evidence to the contrary. It rules out Len or at least Len as the exclusive creator
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Word censoring? Ease of use? Console commands (i.e. from Quake to minecraft)?
I’ve only used this so far to quickly create a local git repo for backing something up and it seems very promising. The interface felt nearly identical to GitHub as far as creating a repo, ssh key, and pushing an existing repo to it.
Thanks for sharing, albeit this is an old article, from 2021.

The end result is very similar to even an older concept defined in RFC2317, but here instead of creating 256 cname records, one dname that causes cname to be synthetized.
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Yeah that's what monopolies do. Make people use inferior products. The US used to break up monopolies all the time. This was followed with a wave of innovation.
A national treasure, but I've stopped reading their news in the last year due to the clickbait headlines.
Because the universe is evolving from a low entropy state to a high one.
That’s the history of 99.9999% of ideas based on the average token generation rate of humanity.
Oh no, I know how it's done, I'm just surprised by it. There are more straight forward ways of expressing the same thing without using infix functions and those extensions (e.g. `val price = USD(100)` or `val price = Money(100, 'USD')`).
Some of their argument:

" ... owners focus on aggressive cost-cutting and “streamlining” operations to boost short-term profitability. This is extremely destructive, leading to mass layoffs, reduced benefits, and wholesale outsourcing. "

could just as easily be used to claim "tech companies ruin tech companies."
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You vastly misunderestimate infinity if you don’t recognize that anything feasible will happen.
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I don't know, when I was in grad school back in the early 2010s I definitely agreed "big data" in computer vision was important and probably stated that in the intro of some paper. My advisor at the time was very vocal about this. But I was still surprised at how well GPT/CLIP/diffusion/etc started working in the last few years.
They just don’t need to hire people, isn’t automation a loophole, especially when it’s more efficient even if the labor could be done manually by lower cost workers (why Chinese ports are automating). I don’t see any easy way out of this, and it will just get worse as the automation gets cheaper and more efficient.

> If it's that critical, give the older workers their pension early and let them enjoy their life.

We expect ports to be run like efficient businesses, who pays for that? Consumers I guess via increased shipping fees. Isn’t that just stealing from Peter to pay Paul?
Hurricane Milton tracker as it makes landfall in Florida
Simple tracker for Milton with some historical storm benchmarking
I look forward to the day when Google's dominance in everything is also unwound. It's shocking (and concerning) how much of the internet they've essentially controlled. From video to search to email, advertising, Android, and your browser. Wild it ever got that big.
Curious about how these developers were selected.