skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't expect you were genuinely seeking an answer, however I'll point out that the crux of the mystery described in TFA was that it was such a rare event - someone tremendously wealthy didn't avoid this tax - that it was note-worthy.
To speed up turnaround. Musk used to talk about a goal of having turnaround times including refueling and payload loadout be similar to those of passenger aircraft - much less than a day, not the ~half a week of the Falcon 9.
Your original claim they last only 20-25 years was false. I'm glad you at least became aware of that.

This next round of criticism is also weak, it seems to me you just have an axe to grind.
Time is just a measure of change. No change. No time.

We are interested in a peculiar rate of time based on the heart beat of our experience.
It seems like they used "non-profit" in that sentence to mean:

"an undertaking being conducted for a purpose other than making a profit"

…rather than…

"an organization that has been recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as being organized and operated exclusively for exempt purposes as set forth in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code."
> Taxes are also money invested, in schooling, infrastructure, etc.

Not presently. Most tax dollars are spent elsewhere and infrastructure/education get less than 7%: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

Even that spending is not effective. Drive California roads and you’ll often see fixes that aren’t much better than the damaged roads they replaced. And let’s not talk about our wonderful train projects…

In theory, this money would make a lot of difference. In practice, it’s heartbreaking.
Cool to get a reply from you directly, thanks!

It seems unlikely to me that it could be thousands of people, given the correspondence had with various people it seems likely to me that a few people have information that could lead in the correct direction. But I guess we'll never know.
Please don't accuse Hal of being Satoshi, these accusations have resulted in his family being threatened and extorted.
Well, if you look into the whole ordeal regarding the planned ban of the NPD a few years ago, the whole NSU ordeal and the things regarding the AfD i would guess not much has changed...
This is superb! I have a small tool with a web frontend, that I use a specific emoji to represent but I didn’t have a favicon yet, because if I used a PNG of an emoji that Apple made I’d be infringing on their copyright.

Using SVG and having the browser and OS provide the rendering of the emoji is perfect for the favicon of my tool!
What is specifically crank about his theory? From outsiders perspective having theories that require a bunch of extra dimensions just to make the math work sound no less cranky.
How would a bag shaped universe experience time? https://youtu.be/FYJ1dbyDcrI?si=9Ga7PCeac4EV4Y4_
I don't understand how computational irreducibility matters for the perception of time. Surely, even a computationally reducible universe could be so insanely expensive to predict that it wouldn't matter?

I also don't understand why our inability to predict the future is related to our perception of time.

Overall, my impression is that this is an essay in philosophy (i.e, devoid of any content) rather than science.
But doing it the ridiculously complex way is something that professionals can't afford not to do.

I think the tide is turning, as people are starting to realise the fragility of complexity.
Definitely, if you can cut costs, do it.
The mother of someone who was a friend in the 90s used to always pepper her speech with attributions for almost everything she was saying (in any "serious" conversation). "I think it was Popper who said ..." "Schenk developed this idea that ...")

It was * so * annoying to listen to.
You don't need netlify, Github pages or Cloudflare pages would do just fine. Email is a problem though and I'd wish you could easily integrate with your own email provider (ie: Fastmail, Gmail, etc..) to send newsletter to your 100s of subscribers.
Yes, the iPhone was nicer to use than what was available in the market the day before it launched.

But the iPhone did _not_ have any first mover advantage. If anything, Apple was late to the party.
Thank you. Looks polished and trustworthy.

Do you know if it has nagging with upsells to the paid products that they offer?
Also, at the time petertodd's account was named 'retep' and didn't have any immediately obvious connection to his identity. If there had been a slipup he could have just abandoned the account and certainly not later had it renamed to his legal name!
I'm guessing she'll be pretty sarcastic as she's not overly fond of mathematical theories that aren't testable, to say the least.
The Unicode Standard states that U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK is the preferred apostrophe character.

0027 APOSTROPHE
[snip]
* 2019 is preferred for apostrophe

https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt
I do remember Knoppix. In particular, being able to recover my very important data (ok, fine, it was pirated music) from a computer that wouldn't boot anymore.
only possible if he had a never disclosed frontal lobotomy. the guy is a technical idiot.
> but there's no reason

What is it that you refer to here?
Everything you say might be true, but I wouldn't necessarily call that first mover advantage.

> [...] when most devices had tiny screens and half their physical size was a keyboard.

Ie Apple introduced a new, arguably better, entrant into an existing market, and managed to grow that market.

But I can see your argument that you can re-interpret being that first to really commit to a big touch-screen only and (almost) no buttons to be a 'first move'. (Though a different comment mentioned that Apple wasn't the first here either?)

The iPhone was definitely a successful device!
Asking out of ignorance & curiosity: did other cultures make cemeteries before Christianity spread that practice? I specifically mean burial plots with marked graves, for which Egyptian mummified pets don't seem to qualify.
We're still eons away from passing the Turing test, we just keep lowering the bar for what the test is because some people spend too much time on the internet and want Her to be real too badly. This is a conversation I try every time a new version of some LLM comes out: https://chatgpt.com/share/eee38567-99d2-4dd2-a781-08b297e86d...
New Technique Slashes AI Energy Use by 95% (2024)
Repeat Offenders
> It is much easier to add features to reliable software, than it is to add reliability to featureful software.

Not sure about this tbh. In a lot of cases yeah maybe. But when you are dealing with complicated business logic where there is a lot of bells and whistles required, building a simple reliable version can lead you into a naive implementation that might be reliable but very hard to extend, while making an unstable complicated thing can help you understand the pit falls and you can work back from there into something more reliable. So I think this depends very much on the context.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29728339

Can you prove what you were doing on 2009-01-10?

I find it interesting you have a curious prior interest in that IP leak and your spin on it.

If you are Satoshi then you should think carefully if you have any other OPSEC slip ups and then if you think there might be more … It’s better to confess and handle the issue of your coins.

Your safety should be priority number one.

It’s not bad for Bitcoin or you if it is you. Whomever Satoshi is they gifted the world with something incredible and it’s bigger than them now. The problem is the coins and the uncertainty around the intentions of them.

Destroying the evidence, I’m guessing smashed and/or magnets on drives, that one is Satoshi probably seemed like the best idea at the time. Perhaps burning the coins wasn’t given enough consideration. It means there is a dilemma. What in the game is the best move next?

Investigators who work in the real world have intuitive skills and will find the connections if they exist. Those of us who live in computers and data and math can sometimes underestimate the human pattern finding capabilities. They might be able to see and prove clearly who is Satoshi even if Satoshi thinks well all the data is gone, wiped, they “can’t” prove it, but that doesn’t mean that’s how the rest of society sees “proof” they might be able to “tell”.
That would explode the costs for marginal safety improvements. I think the same effort spent on better requirement engineering would yield more payoff.
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310808
Why is that a problem, anyway? If machines can play chess better than any human, it is reasonable to assume that they can write articles better than many humans. What's wrong with Internet filled with good content generated by AI?
this is not an issue at all, Ukraine is at war with Russia, yet Russia continues to pump natural gas through Ukraine to Europe and even pays $$$ to Ukraine for transit (!!!!)

When it comes to commodity trading - $$$ trumps everything.

uranium reserves are plentiful, given that you dont need a lot of Uranium to recharge the plant

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-global-uranium-rese...

the most importantly: for Uranium producer there is zero reason to withhold uranium. Like what are you gonna do by stockpiling radioactive rock ??? You just gonna lose your customer to another country. Isn't it better to get rid of radioactive rock and get $$$ instead?

even OPEC cannot agree to maintain oil production to keep price stable, there is absolutely ZERO chance someone can cause trouble on uranium market
And then there are those who try very hard to get on the list. I know at least one famous one.
FTA this jumped out at me:

“Eventually, by reaching out through friends of friends of friends to find someone inside Google who could help, we got in contact with a Google employee who was very helpful in getting the process started.”

Sounds exactly like dealing with an incompetent government agency.
At least one of the Satoshi fakes moves around with a big security detail. For them it's presumably just a cost of their faking business and paid for by the people they're defrauding.

But for someone involuntarily accused that's another matter. A security detail is eye wateringly expensive -- particularly one comprehensive enough to stop kidnappers in general.
> The browsers on PalmOS and Windows Mobile were jokes compared to Safari and most devices didn't have WiFi so we're always stuck on relatively slow cellular.

Again, everything in your comment this seems like Apple made an arguably better offering in an existing market. That's not a first mover advantage.

If anything you can say, Apple was late to the party and learned from the mistakes of others?
I created such a system (though to transfer Bitcoin Transactions/Signatures from an airgapped system). The problem is that if you have a lot of bi-directional traffic, you'd want to automate the process of scanning/storing the information. Suddenly, you just have a slow USB device.

What you want is to minimize your data to less than a 1Kb so that it can be manually transmitted.
Maybe I'll run it by my homeowner friend who suffered through the rat-chewed-PEX flooding that a PEX booster I came across considers her experience an "edge case". If I want to see her cry tears of blood, that is.

For good measure, I might also remind her that notwithstanding the flooding, the rats were a "major issue". Just in case she was confused about that!
Addition is all you need for energy-efficient language models
There's bias, and then there's this kind of bias (from WP):

MintPress News supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and the governments of Russia, Iran, and Syria. In one contentious article, MintPress News asserted that the Ghouta chemical attack in Syria was perpetrated by rebel groups rather than by the Syrian government, a claim pushed by the Russian and Syrian governments and rejected by much of the international community.

I wouldn't trust them to tell the time of day.
Time "exists" in physics in the same way everything else in physics does - namely, the value we measure with clocks in the real world satisfies all of the same properties (at least in certain regimes of the universe) as the thing we call "time" in various physics theories like relativity/classical mechanics. And those theories make (reasonably) correct predictions about the values we measure in the real world.

Is it possible that these properties are the result of some other interactions that have very different laws at a lower level? Absolutely! But the discovery of particles didn't cause the sun to disappear, if that makes sense.
SuperHTML README says:

> This language server is stricter than the HTML spec whenever it would prevent potential human errors from being reported.

If your goal is to output minimal HTML, let a tool automate that. Forgetting to open <html> is more likely a mistake than shorthand, and as shorthand it's not valuable.
It’s part of their life cycle https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
In flight entertainment systems are a regulated part of the safety infrastructure onboard. A phone is unfortunately not a replacement for them, yet.
A Lifetime Under the Hood – From 6502 Machine Language to Fabric Parquet Files
There's side effect benefit of big kahuna companies mainly on the significant breakthrough and game changing research output because these excellent researchers are paid handsome money compared to conventional universities or research institutions.

We saw this with AT&T Bell research labs with their inventions of transistor and Unix, among others. The same thing happened with Google research with (arguably) deep learning and transformer.

Split them up at your own (US) perils, not unlike killing own Golden Goose.
There's a hidden condition here.

How do you know every event to every particle?

The answer to that will literally change what gets written in the log book.
There's a discussion happening in a new Rust config management crate at https://github.com/cbeck88/conf-rs/discussions/1 about a similar sort of ideal.
Lol. Even if it's with the QR code, it will not be safe. If you can read a bit, you can read a file. Security is a mote, and the hacker is a catapult. Any sufficiently complex system, any metric of security will be incomplete or ignoring that Turning complete and uncomputable. Security is about intelligence in all layers of the stack, from the electron to the application and even the front door. A USB exploit attacks a driver or the OS. A QR code attacks the application. There are other ways to exploit besides breaking and entering. Sometimes it's about influence. In the age of AI, the entire internet and all knowledge could be shifted to reframe a single organization to make an exploit possible. Pandora's box is wide open. It's pouring out. Even a machine on the internet can be secure, but an air gap is only the transport layer. It's a false sense of security. You need to be worried about the full stack because that's the only way to be safe, to never be safe, the eternal guard and gaze. The vigilance. Security in layers. Security in depth.
Those sound exactly like the newcomer detectors GP was referring to. What you want is a case-insensitive string comparison, and outside ASCII that's not equivalent to just turning both strings to lowercase and checking equality (or doing a substring search or whatever the task requires)
I have https://fav.rt.ht for you too!
Let's you pick formats and customize layout/size.
The first point is one that resonates strongly with me. Counter-intuitivly, the first instinct of a programmer should be "buy that, don't write it"

Of course, as a programmer, this is by far not my first instinct. I am a programmer, my function is programming, not purchasing.

Of course buying something is always cheaper (compared to the cost of my time) and will be orders of magnitude cheaper once the costs to maintain written-by-me code is added in.

Things that are bought -tend- to last longer too. If I leave my job I leave behind a bunch of custom code nobody wants to work on. If I leave Redis behind, well, the next guy just carries on running Redis.

I know all this. I advocate for all this. But I'm a programmer, send coders gotta code:) do it's not like we buy everything, I'm still there, still writing.

Hopefully though my emphasis is on adding value. Build things that others will take over one-day. Keep designs clean, and code cleaner.

And if I add one 'practice' to the list; Don't Be Clever. Clever code is hard to read, hard to understand, hard to maintain. Keep all code as simple as it can be. Reliable software is software that mostly isn't trying to be too clever.
I agree.

Also believe that Unison was the perfect NNTP client and I miss it still.
> The pull of oligarchs is more real in Russia than anywhere else in the world.

It may have been true at some point. But, Putin put an end to it. He killed oligarchs when they fell out of line. There are some ex-oligarchs living outside of Russia, no longer super rich, after Putin took away their wealth.
The forum is/was public, so there is no reason to create an account until you're planning to post something or send a private message.

Why is this my first post on bitcoin-dev: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2011... ?

I'm sure you've heard the adage, "It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."

But online when you're silent you're not thought of as a fool-- you just don't even exist at all. Many of us whose contribution to world is primarily our knowledge and insight often prefer to self-educate to an advanced level on a subject before commenting on it at all.

My first bitcoin-dev post wasn't actually my first public comments on Bitcoin, but I'd read the entire bitcoin code base before ever saying anything about it...

It's not surprising to see Bitcoin developer people emerge from nowhere somewhat well informed, even back then (though to be fair fairly few people really understood txn internals).

I've known Peter and Adam for a very long time. Both have resting smirkface. Petertodd grins like he ate the canary any time he says something even the slightest bit clever. Adam too, now that I say it, though the clever threshold is a bit higher. That combined with talented editing can probably make either of them look guilty of whatever you want, or at least anything that they enjoy talking about.
This post reminded me of this killer btree implementation for swift. The analysis on GitHub is fantastic and reads like a thriller novel :)

https://github.com/attaswift/BTree#why
UBI supported by a tax on robot labor might really be the way to go. With the speed that automation is developing, I might see it in my gen-X lifetime.
The seat-back screens on planes are mostly crap. Thick, heavy, poor color and brightness, and shitty software. They should just get rid of them and instead provide a bracket for the tablets or phones that everybody already has. Would save a decent amount of weight too. I'd still want a moving map and video feed from the tail camera, but they could just stream that over WiFi.
Your comment makes me think about statistical mechanics and microstates. That is to say ... in a complex system with properties that are a function of microstates, whether the internal structure of the microstates that correspond to a given property matter can depend on your point of view or interest in the system.

Heat, for example, is a statistical property of a system, and a given temperature can correspond to a vast number of possible microstates of the system. For some purposes, you care precisely which microstate the system is in; for others, you do not, and the temperature property is entirely adequate to describe the system.

Rules may describe the microstate, but may be (depending on your POV) be irrelevant to the property.

Using Wolfram's model of the world, there may indeed be a cellular automata following rules that underlies the property, but there may be no reason to care about it in a given instance; instead you're interested in the "evolution of states" (i.e. values of the property).

Some complexity scientists are quite taken with this idea of not needing to care about the lower levels of a system when consider higher level behavior. In their view (and rightly so, IMO [0]) you don't always need to consider the rules that drive (say) physics when considering (say) psychology.

[0] except that I think that Hofstadter's "heterarchy" idea is likely to be even more accurate - interesting systems are the ones in which there are complex feedback systems between different levels of the system.
Exactly as expected, here comes the FUD.
What is purpose of the lambda parameter? Why isn't it a constant of 1?
Awkward: asking Google.com "What is Google and why would DoJ want to break it up?", it does not answer anything about what Google is. Half baked website
>1. Growth in the number of firms

2. The average growth rate of each firm

3. The market share of high-growth firms relative to low-growth firms

Accelerating any of these three factors will increase a country’s growth rate. I can’t emphasize enough how important this reframing is. [...] it is almost a mathematical truism that if a country’s firms are growing on average, then that country’s economy will grow.

A truism? That's false. Consolidation increases the number of employees per firm, but reduces the number of firms.
How does that burn the money? If the government is spending the money, it's going to federal employees and purchasing good and services from the general economy.
Why do you need CarPlay or Android Auto? I'm using my car without any of them and it's perfectly fine. I get calls with Bluetooth and I can play music with Bluetooth too, both from a Samsung and an iPhone. I navigate by looking at my phone on a holder close to the wheel. The screen of the car is further to the right.
I do not believe this is true anymore and WGSL is a "real language" now that actually requires a "real language frontend" to compile. The original spec didn't even have while loops, they expected you to effectively write the SSA graph by hand (because SPIR-V is an SSA IR). Then the design drifted as they kept adding pieces until they accidentally made an actual language again.
You might like the movie Videodrome[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videodrome
That last point about dropping HTMX as a dependency but keeping the benefits is why I personally find Phoenix liveview so compelling.
This is a problem with all kinds of virtual world economies. Players accumulate so much gold that some substitute becomes more useful. Diablo II had the Stone of Jordan, for example.