skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not GP, but if I recall correctly, "taking money away from mismanaged companies" only occurs if the companies choose to do another issuance of shares in the future to raise equity, or stock options in the future to compensate people, in which case they would have to issue shares at a lower valuation, or issue more stock options to provide a similar benefit, than if they were a desirable company.

But stock trading also penalizes well-managed companies in slow-growing or more mature industries by giving them a higher cost-of-capital, just as it would if they were poorly managed. It seems a haphazardly blunt instrument for allocating liquidity to value generation. It piles on where rewards seem ready to be reaped, and makes it harder for mature sectors to renew or reinvent themselves.
Reminded me of “talent is everywhere but opportunity is not” essay: https://ourworldindata.org/talent-is-everywhere-opportunity-...
Keep in mind that Netscape "Communicator" 4 wasn't just a browser. It was a browser, an email client, an NNTP client, an HTML editor, etc. Firefox was a fork that stripped all that junk out and made it lean and mean again.
> Do you think it is plausible that we will see an incredibly cheap anti-aircraft missile ...
Google. I can't imagine Facebook having tens of EB.
Italy may strengthen digital services tax in 2025 budget, sources say
> Classic. PG would be proud.

That’s bad?
If you're getting paid to work you're a professional.

Don't sell yourself short my friend.

People who know a fraction of what you know call themselves professionals and ask for raises.

Chin up!
>A better example would be replacing all baristas with robots, or truck drivers with self-driving trucks.

For something less speculative, how about elevator attendants? Needing one in every elevator equates to a massive workforce, probably bigger than dock workers. Why shouldn't we bring those back aside from status quo bias?

> while bringing huge returns to some lucky corporate winners, in effect a massive transfer of wealth from workers to shareholders.

Everyone else would also benefit from cheaper espressos and goods (through cheaper shipping)
There was no novel vulnerability. The pwned machine just replaced a recently-accessed folder on the stick with an exe to trick the user into executing it on the target machine.
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Regular two-way IR diodes and sensors were standard on 90's business laptops for ordinary RS-232 file transfer between machines wirelessly. Before wifi or even ethernet was everywhere, and before USB and Bluetooth came along. The first smartphones had it too so you could dial up the internet on the road in the years before phones had a browser and stuff like that.
What email should I reach you folks at? I'm an ML engineer and have specialized in computer vision, both on edge and at hyperscale.

I'd like to help how I can.
Imho, the problem is that it is hard to estimate trade-offs. Optimizations (not just in computer systems, but in general) often seen as risk-free, when in reality they are not. More often than not one will be celebrated for optimization, and rarely for resilience (dubbed as duplicate, useless work)
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/505/
It’s not always possible, or not always obvious. I finally hung a jacket over my screen on one flight.
I don't think you can consume your way to a higher standard of living. The only way to sustainably increase the standard of living is to increase productivity. This can only come from investment into hard capital and into human capital (education).

So to me, it would be very hard to make an argument that it trickles up. It has to come from investment. And investment in the private sector is usually done by rich people, because you need money in the first place to invest and also because investing well makes you rich.
The advantage of Chebyshev polynomials over ordinary power-basis polynomials will be much less in that situation. But sometimes you're approximating something that doesn't have convenient domain-reduction relations available.
The GOP are huge hypocrites and they'll complain about anything to take down the libs. People like Zuck have to ignore them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF
The IRS doesn’t track assets, so unlikely. They don’t really even know how wealthy small business owners are
I don't know Kotlin very well. Can it track the currencies involved at the type level, so that trying to combine (say) USD and EUR amounts in an error?
Ditto. Even if the probability is 1/100, assuming they have at least $1bn net worth, that's a $10m expected payoff.
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Time and space probably belong to consciousness, rather than the real world. The objective "true" reality may be utterly incomprehensible in its complexity, but we can imagine a "slice" of that reality that arbitrarily defines space and time so that the interior of that slice follows some reasonable rules. That slice of reality can be thought of as a high-level consciousness that defines rules of our physics. Other slices of the same reality are possible, GR-like or QM-like, including those that are computational and discrete in nature. One universe, but many interpretations. Within each slice of reality, it may be possible to define smaller subsets of reality, corresponding to smaller consciousness, down to the human or even more primitive levels. So what Wolfram is describing may be true, objectively, to the observers of a computational slice of the universe, just like the MWI may be simultaneously true to the observers of the MWI slice of reality.
I made a web app that lets people check their bikes in and out of a bike valet service at a big hospital near me. I set up a usage dashboard and it’s neat to see that 300-400 people use it everyday to make their commutes a little more hassle free.
I was thinking about possible motives for Satoshi to be out of the limelight and now I have a question for those of us who have significant security/signint/encryption experience:

Given the info we have, what are the chances that state actors, such as intelligence agencies, are aware beyond doubt of Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity?
That is my take, isn't R rated in US equal to G rated in Australia ?
This is sorta genius. I could totally see Musk and Bezos engulfed in an ever escalating leaderboard feud:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2021/09/28/elon-musk...
These people obviously did amazing work, but shouldn't a physics prize go to... physicists? It's not as if there aren't physicists doing active work. While the foundation can do whatever it wants, I do feel awards and prize categories should be honest.

Like if there weren't many good movies they wouldn't start giving the Oscar for Best Picture to a videogame.
This isn't arguing against them in general, but against the unfortunate Javascript-esque abandonment of specified semantics.

In particular, whenever anyone thinks that "deep clone vs shallow clone" is a meaningful distinction, that means their types are utterly void of meaning.
OpenAI Starts Hiring in Singapore for Second Asia Office
Almost like time is the stack and space is the heap.

Meh. Almost.
The decline didn’t start with them. Just look at Intel and GE as well.
the real data wall is ten years of childhood's interaction with real world.
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> Security will never be a "largely solved problem", when there are humans involved (and probably even when humans are not involved).

It absolutely will. I didn't say completely solved, I said largely solved.

> There is no technical solution to people uploading high res photos with location metadata to social network de jour.

Bad example honestly, since most social media sites strip out exif data by default these days. Not sure there are any that don't.

> Or the CEO who wants access to all his email on his shiny new gadget. Or the three letter agency who think ubiquitous surveillance is a great way to do their job. Or the politician who can be easily convinced the backdoors that can only be used by "the good guys" exist. Or the team who does all their internal chat including production secrets in a 3rd party chat app, only to have them popped and their prod credentials leaked on some TOR site. Or the sweatshop IT outsourcing firm that browbeats underpaid devs into meeting pointless Jira ticket closure targets. Or the "move fast and break things" startup culture that's desperately cutting corners to be first-to-market.

Yes yes, humans can be selfish and take risks and be bribed and negligent and blah blah blah.

The context of the comment was in neuralink implants getting hacked the way an out of date smart tv might. As when it comes to the actual tech, security will be a solved problem, because most of the problems we see today are due to everything being built on top of insecure foundations on top of insecure foundations.
A mountain? Multistorey car park? Both? Inside Shanghai's £225M summit
I have some modern (mapping) roombas laying around. Any idea what they could be useful for?

If it involves vacuuming, mopping, or returning to their docks, they are pretty useless.
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Oh okay, that makes sense, and I agree with you. That said, paying tax is still important for a number of reasons; and ultimately the national budget is a large bucket made up of small drops.
Its super easy to prove !! Show the sha
I was literally thinking of the same similarities. Barbour's exposition of the principle of least action as being time is interesting. There's a section in The Janus Point where he goes into detail about the fact that there are parts of the cosmos that (due to cosmic inflation) are farther apart in terms of light-years than the universe is old, and growing in separation faster than c, meaning that they are forever causally separated. There will never be future changes in state from one that result in effects in the other. In a way, this also relates to computation, maybe akin to some kind of undecidability.

Another thing that came to mind when reading the part about how "black holes have too high a density of events inside of them to do any more computation" is Chaitin's incompleteness theorem: if I understand it correctly, that basically says that for any formal axiomatic system there is a constant c beyond which it's impossible to prove in the formal system that the Kolmogorov complexity of a string is greater than c. I get the same kind of vibe with that and the thought of the ruliad not being able to progressively simulate further states in a black hole.
The entire point of the stock market is to get capital to companies to allow them to do things that may increase wealth (could be local, state, country or globally). Successfully doing this means the companies he supported did well.
Expected value doesn't really work for rare events. A 1% chance of $50M and a 1% chance of $2B are barely different to a person.
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What kind of edge does such intel give? Their work (bitcoin) spawned thousands and thousands of people who have taken the foundational technology and made many improvements to it. It seems like trying to figure out who they are incentivizes hobbyists to figure it out rather than state sponsors.
On my 2023 Subaru, the "Telematics" device is a small box behind the dash on top of the radio. I simply unplugged the GPS and Cellular cables attached to this device. Of course, now I can't use the OnStar-like emergency button anymore to call for help in an accident.
Absolutely insane.

(1) It's not Peter Todd. Anyone who knows Peter Todd and/or was around in the early days, can clearly tell Satoshi and Peter are not the same person.

(2) No good comes from speculation over the identity of Satoshi. When someone living is named, their life becomes absolute hell and the security risk imposed on them is very real. When someone dead is proposed, that hellish experience is passed to their family and heirs.

(3) It's not Peter Todd.
what actually uses x265? I thought pretty much everyone used AV1 for their next gen codec.
Microsoft Azure flaunts first custom Nvidia Blackwell racks
> I could not find the exception you spoke of in the constitution.

It's usually based on the article 4°. And yeah, I do agree it pushes quite a lot from the literal text.

But anyway, it's the courts interpretation since the 90s. But you are right to question it.
To add, the divorce occurred after she allegedly cheated on Brin with Elon Musk, who had just recently been given a $500,000 lifeline by Brin while on a longterm-stay (rent free) at Brin's house.
The first aqueduct went up in Rome around 300 BC. That is half-century before the Punic war... No, not that one with Hannibal... The one before that.

That's a longgg fall.
As a backend dev who has to do frontend against his will, I always check out if there is something that makes it less annoying to do, but web component articles, including this one, fail to explain why or even what web components are about and how they would benefit anyone. Maybe, as the article says, the term is confusing and web components don't mean anything to/for me.
I was gonna say, I do shed a tear now and then dreaming of Lisp machines and the future that could have been.
But then you'd have to have a NASA department of machine psychology to ensure it isn't hallucinating or going crazy.
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In 2021/2022 there were 60 people in the UK who probably fall into that last group. Together their taxes accounted for about 1.4% of the UK tax bill despite being something like 0.002% of the population.
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Just to point, but this is usually applied with the article 4 of the Constitution. Otherwise the law would be plainly invalid.
It isn't just about replacing the system, because as you say it works for the people that stand to benefit the most from it. A better replacement can never emerge until we have reprogrammed the culture of maximization and "efficiency" that has been allowed to fester.

I don't claim to know what a replacement would look like, but I personally think it would hold 'servant leadership' as a primary tenet, and destroy the notion of shareholder primacy, and have some sort of increasing level of entropy that scales as the business does, to the point where large companies are simply unsustainable for all but the most important of endeavors.
Yeah good point, they probably don't care.
OpenAI plans to open Singapore office this year to support regional expansion
It is absolutely not Adam Back. The bitcoin protocol is not based on Adam Back's work (though Adam loves to claim otherwise). When Adam came to the bitcoin scene in 2013, he harbored some very large misconceptions about the incentive structure and capabilities of bitcoin.
Disregard anything Stephen Wolfram says about anything other than his Mathematica software. He's a pretentious, arrogant twat who thinks he's unlocked the keys to the Universe and is trying to convince the rest of the world of his brilliance.
>HBO’s theory relies on a message from Peter Todd claiming to be the ‘world’s leading expert on how to sacrifice your bitcoins’

I just can't imagine the real Satoshi saying something this stupid.
I've always thought based on the number of $10+MM condos in NYC that sit unoccupied (i.e. 2nd or 3rd or more homes), that there must be an order of magnitude more billionaires out there than we know about, and this certainly gives credence to that.
> It doesn’t actually exclude the “something extra”, it is neutral as to whether or not there is any “something extra”

Roger, that's even better. I tried to clarify the log book idea in another reply.[1] The question is whether you can have reality (from the observer's perspective) just based on whether coherent information exists in any setting.

Basically the question is whether we can go from "I think, therefore I am" to "something is constructing information." The latter is obviously a simpler, lower-level proof than other concepts of existence.

That brings us back to the "something extra." Is it required for our observations to be possible, i.e. can we rule out the log book conjecture? I don't think we can, but I might be wrong.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41783599
I suspect that the US likely has effective means of jamming drone communications. If you have a seeker that doesn't need human intervention, why use electric motors when you can use rocket motors for your drone, aka "missile".

The drones I would see as maybe being effective is some kind of anti radar drone that can loiter in an area without comms and strike when the radar lights up.

That said the CAS role requires radio comms to the helicopter / airplane, so I mean maybe a drone with an LLM that can use human comms to figure out friend from foe.

Obviously the drone has to send back a TV signal to the controller, I think the US would figure out some kind of HARM missile that would just lock onto the drone transmitter. Or a CIWS system with a radar that locks on to the transmitter.

I think solid fuel rocket motors are cheaper than electric motors and batteries.

Maybe drones are the future, but I sort of see it as 2 broke countries duking it out. There's probably a reason why Ukraine wants US weapons like ATACMS and not a container ship full of drones. If you look at the $120 billion in aid to ukraine, that would buy you 100 million drones at $1200 per drone. Or 10 million at $12,000 per.

I guess what I'm saying is if NATO fought Russia it would be over in a few weeks and no one would care about drones. I think drones, except for Ukraine's sea drones, are highly useful in this conflict but probably not many others.

Sea drones could be a game changer, its a super long range torpedo and for anyone fighting the US, its probably safe to assume vessels beyond the vessel that launches them, are those of the US military / the enemy.
Not being able to delete every possible record that may have been used during testing doesn’t mean they shouldn’t delete the data they do know about in the main system. If I can change my username, password, or email address… and those functions work. A delete should also work.

Why a prod db with sensitive user info is being used in testing is a whole separate issue. Those can be deleted in their entirety.
Mostly because of a very successful propaganda campaign by people who sought to loot the post-war economic boom

Generally speaking, the sad truth of a complex economy is that coordination is hard, and there's usually a short-term privatized gain to be had by someone willing to poison the future and the commons. No amount of benefit to humanity overall or even the specific society such a person lives in will convince a person who simply doesn't care about anyone else. Fortunately for humanity, a very small minority of people actually operate like that. Unfortunately for humanity, some of them have managed to accumulate a lot of power
The Case for Rivian
Building the noise filter is part of the learning. I don't see any reason to believe that it's "structural". Babies aren't known for their stellar information processing.
TypedDicts solve the linting problem, but refactoring tools haven't caught up (unlike e.g. ForwardRef type annotations, which are strings but can be transformed alongside type literals).
Here’s an out-there take, but one I’ve held loosely for a long time and haven’t shed yet: dicts are not appropriate for what people mostly use them for, which is named access to member attributes.

dict is an implementation of a hash table. Hash table are designed for o(1) lookup of items. As such, they are arrays which are much bigger than the number of items they store, to allow hashing items into integers and sidestep collisions. They’re meant to act like an index that contains many records, not a single record.

A single record is more
like a tuple, except you want named access instead of, title = movie[0], release_year = movie[1], etc. And Python had that, in NamedTuple, but it was kinda magical and no one used it (shoutout Raymond Hettinger).

Granted, this rant is pretty much the meme with the guy explaining something to a brick wall, in that dicts are so firmly entrenched as the "record" type of choice in Python (but not so in other languages: struct, case class, etc. and JSON doesn’t just deserialize to a weak type but I digress).
That's the only reason I can think of for this - like, Alfred Nobel or some other dead donor set rules that they aren't allowed to change now. But I haven't seen anyone confirm it.
Looks interesting. Is golance.com/hire free to use? I've been using HubStaff Talent, which is.
He was 93 when he died. I think he knew his time was coming soon.
Yes, you are absolutely correct, but please don't continue to spread this. Len Sassaman left behind family and heirs, and although it is very unlikely that Satoshi's mining keys survived in any form, if this rumor spreads they will never be safe.
<old>I would really like this, if only to be able to read things close up like I used to be able to do. </old>
Python does typing pretty darn well now for data like API requests and responses.

"Typed Python" does poorly (compared to e.g. Typescript) on things like overloading functions, generics, structural subtyping, et al.
Uh wrong-- we aspire to be like Hungary-- that is to say with enough hard work and deportations maybe one day we can reach comparable levels of civilization as our Magyar overlords but it is far from certain.
The obvious answer is Satoshi Nakamoto is functionally dead.

His wallet would be worth around $70 billion dollars today and he hasn't touched it in over a decade.

Either he is A) dead, B) lost the wallet and wishes he were dead, or C) has achieved such spiritual enlightenment that has no interest in the personal or societal impact that $70 billion dollars could have.

He is not coming back folks, and even if we figure out who he was, that $70 billion is gone.
That's literally what I fall into, making an engine then falls deeper into making programming language and editors, it's an endless hole.
> without the transition to a more democratic model

Are you saying that SK has not transitioned to a more democratic model since their colonial independence in 1945? I beg to differ. SK is not SG. Yes, I know they have chaebols. Since their transition in ~1988 to a full democracy, the President and parliament (whatever they call it) have certainly shifted between multiple parties -- peacefully. If you study the development of democracies, this is an important step to a long-lasting, mature democracy.
I still think it's Paul Le Roux, on the basis that this would be the funniest outcome.
I think most modern Python codebases are using dataclasses/ something like Pydantic. I think dicts are mostly seen, like the author suggests, because something which you hacked up to work quickly ends up turning into actual software and it's too much work refactor the types
What are you smoking, we hear about breaches of super important databases all the time and that doesn't seem to convince any company to give a single shit more than just enough to avoid negligence. Not to mention social media's entire business model is hacking people - keep them on your platform by any means necessary.
> lost the wallet and wishes he were dead

At least it's a good tax write-off. (Well… $3000 a year for life in the US iirc.)
Pretty much, the domestic releases of Bluey have a lot more dogging and swearing than the expurgated US market releases.
You're already using IntelliJ just use tracepoints and get a ton of advantages without forgetting prints in production. Stop living in the 70s, that quote makes sense when you're building a kernel not a modern user space app.