skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be honestly very interested to see what people end up doing. You're right that there's no good/easy place to run. But there's probably a good option or two. Once someone finds it, people will start flocking out and renouncing citizenship. Very curious what that place would be. (Or they'd just sit around and let the US drain their reserves I guess)
I think I’m missing your point- is your (overall) point that I should have known what age range 8th grade is in the US without looking it up? And that I should also know what activities happen in a US kindergarten?
See the Milky Way with your own eyes (2018)
I wish org mode had a syntax for end of line comments. Why do comments have to be their own line or in a space eating comment block? Sometimes I just want to comment something I've written without the extra space and ambiguity of breaking to a new line.
That'd only help if they'd retracted it before the storm hit.

Given that they didn't undertake other, "lesser" preparations before the storm hit...
Maybe it needs even smaller steps, and a programmatic (i.e. multi prompt) habit to always double-check / validate the assumptions and outcomes.
I moved reasonable driving distance from OSCON right around the last time it was held. Too busy to get tickets, I’ll just go next year. There was no next year. Four years now and I still think about it monthly.
Yes but not firmware and circuits! :-)

Unless they studied sth like electrical engineering?
Something has to die, so that something new can live
That argument might hold for other countries but not for Norway, which is one of the richest in the world.

Norway values equality over tax revenue, so when billionaires leave, it actually enhances the country's equality.
>the Gulf States are a decent option, yeah, their kids won't be playing lacrosse anymore

That's just it: what's the point of being so rich if you have to live in a place where you can't enjoy your lifestyle?

Plus, what do these super-rich people do with their time? If they're retired, then sure, they can just establish residence in UAE and then spend their time traveling I guess. If they actually do stuff (like running companies, etc.) which makes them richer, that might not be so easy outside the US.
From an engineering point of view, yes. But not from the business point of view.

It's like a restaurant. You can make sure they new dish tastes like what you intended and isn't going to poison anyone, but until it's on the menu you don't really know if people will want to eat it or if it will be a success for the business.

This does make me wonder whether there's a place for a system where you split your usebase into N shards, and only deploy new versions to one of them; reducing the update rate from a user perspective by a factor of N. Of course, this means you have to maintain compatibility with N versions, but that's still better than N feature flags.
Normally you have to explicitly install and use a cloud stored password manager, automatically making the choice for you is a big no-no
You have some examples of that?
Perhapse the tax shouldn't be based on residency but rather capital within the country...
Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds
> Ghost has been lucky that their own conflict of interest hasn't been an issue

But the whole point of this article is that it wasn't luck, it was intentional from the beginning...
It costs USD $2,350 [1], which is a low price to pay to avoid double taxation for life.

[1] https://au.usembassy.gov/loss-of-nationality/
The issue is a very specific one in this case. Maybe not as much for the person mentioned first in the article, the problem is more easy to see for a bunch of the other emigrants (and is a continuing problem for the many more who can't or won't emigrate). The tax is a fortune tax, not an income tax, and those affected are often people who actually live off a "normal" (sometimes very high, but sometimes surprisingly standard) salary from their company. However, because the company has a certain (typically large) value, the owner gets taxed as if that were actual real money. The owner then has to either extract more money from the company in order to pay their personal tax (leaving little or nothing for investments), or even sell off stuff in order to pay. Obviously this is backfiring, and obviously the specific politicians who went for this are doubling down on it.
The same applies to airplanes. Which combines into the "If it floats, flies or f.. ehm.. fornicates, it's better to rent it"
Do you have children yourself?
Most binaries you encounter today fit in this cache. This is what makes AMD's x3d chips so fast in games. And you're off by 8x on the size, it's 104MB.
Finally, something useful to read
> f you actually want to be secure against state actors, you need to start from things that work, or at least things that people believe could, in principle, work and then work down. Historically, there were systems certified according to the TCSEC Orange Book that, ostensibly, the DoD at the time, 80s to 90s, believed were secure against state actors. A slightly more modern example would be the Common Criteria SKPP which required NSA evaluation that any certified system reached such requirements.

Right. I was around for that era and worked on some of those systems.

NSA's first approach to operating system certification used the same approach they used for validating locks and filing cabinets. They had teams try to break in. If they succeeded, the vendor was told of the vulnerabilities and got a second try. If a NSA team could break in on the second try, the product was rejected.

Vendors screamed. There were a few early successes. A few very limited operating systems for specific military needs. Something for Prime minicomputers. Nothing mainstream.

The Common Criteria approach allows third-party labs to do the testing, and vendors can try over and over until success is achieved. That is extremely expensive.

There are some current successes. [1][2] These are both real-time embedded operating systems.

[1] https://www.acsac.org/2009/program/case/ccsc-Kleidermacher.p...

[2] https://provenrun.com/provencore/
While in a way true, I highly doubt it would be that significant unless there are studies showing that.
It's really funny how the Internet shifts the "best company in the whole
world" to a "worst company culture, needs cancelling" in just a few
years. Makes me wonder about the point of current internet trends in
general.
I think this really demonstrates how valuable nixpkgs is. It’s the Wikipedia of building packages, and 10 years ago I wouldn’t believe it could exist, or be this good.
Apple knows an M4 is a hard sell for M2/3 owners. Except if you have specific workflows that can take advantage of the newer silicon, you'll spend a lot of money on something you probably don't need. I have an M1 32GB with multiple software packages running, and I see no reason to replace this machine.

This is why Apple is comparing against M1: M1 owners are the potential buyers for this computer. (And yes, the marketing folks know the performance comparison graphs look nicer as well :)
Isn't that the point of the story though? To say "we need to have a conversation about facts, rather than something like always saying "we need to be more careful next time" when there's a problem?

As far as I can tell, the author doesn't really give any generalized advice on how careful you should be, he's just pointing at the "carefulness dial" and telling people to make an informed decision.
The bias of the article is pretty blatant: "wealth creators" rather than "wealth hoarders", "Atlas Shrugged", etc.

Of course the issue is an important one. Rich people can move their wealth really easily, so attempts to tax them need to take that into account. International tax measures are more effective than local ones. But it might also be more effective to tax people not on where they live, but on where their property exists.
I'm not a parent, but I see why someone might want to always know exactly where there child is and invest in anything which might improve their safety.

On the other hand, raising children without GPS surveillance seemed to work pretty well for many years. Is saying something like "Put on your timex and be back home by 6." no longer feasible? (Or if you want be even more old school "by sundown".)
> Next time I get a chance to organise an online conference, I'll steal from Jamie's playbook and invert the model. Viz. ask for pre-recorded talks, distributed to attendees just prior to the conference, with curated live chat + demo sessions with the speaker(s) about the talk. Make the Hallway Track as big and boisterous and charming as possible.

Agreed. This is so much better than having to watch live talks of people stumbling with their camera setup causing the Q&A to be canceled because of that.
That’s the gold digger’s approach. It’s quite saddening! When I find myself looking for a new job, I do my best to look for open opportunities shared to everybody, not through obscure connections. I like to imagine that everyone should have access to the same opportunities. Of course that if somebody gets in touch based on past experiences or circumstances that’s fair!

Maybe some of these networking people are the same that force others to come to the office to entertain them?
link to paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277318632...
I am referring to all of their AI stuff, kagi assistant included. Personally, the best feature is the quick answer. It essentially scans the top several hits and uses an llm, reads them to see if it answers your question, and will display a summary that also includes links to the full source. I find that feature to be wonderful. I will usually look through the quick answer and see if the site actually answers the question I have, and then we'll click through. If everyone implemented it like this, it's possible it could save the current model.
Because AGI is probably going to be incredibly expensive to develop, require mega-scale access to data and compute to train, etc.

And unless the models get leaked or stolen, whoever gets there first likely won't give out the secret sauce.

Then you have a single actor with access to, basically, limitless productivity. Would they share it? Given any use case for it, the owners of the AGI technology could trivially outcompete anyone else. Why would they let anyone else use it at all?
Is "self goal" meaningful? I suspect you mean "own goal", but I can't tell from context
People who have something meaningful to say usually do it anyway.

The others can shut up.

Research is usually not paid by ads.

Some of the best scientists did it for fun. Einstein wrote his 1905 papers while working at the swiss patent office.
When I look at an image of a dog on my computer screen, I don't think that there's an actual dog anywhere in my computer. Saying that these models "understand" because we like their output is, to me, no different from saying that there is, in fact, a real, actual dog.

"It looks like understanding" just isn't sufficient for us to conclude "it understands."
No way that gets gamed
Yep. And they work quite well actually.
That metaphor is skipping the most important part in between! You wouldn't be transplanting anything directly, you'd have a separate step in between, which would attempt to translate these action potentials.

The point of the translating model in between would be that it would re weight each and every one of the values of the embedding, after being trained on a massive dataset of original text -> vector embedding for model A + vector embedding for model B. If you have billions of parameters trained to do this translation between just two specific models to start with, wouldn't this be in the realm of possible?
As far as I can tell, VirtualBox supports KVM and Hyper-V personalities for its paravirtualization, presumably to be able to reuse virtio/hyperv guest drivers. The host side still seems to require their custom kernel module.
See also https://melt.cs.umn.edu/ableC/ that has a similar goal.
The problem is not their personal fortune. Nobody has a problem about taxing their bank account. The problem here is that they're taxed as if the value of their company is a personal fortune. Thus, money that actually exist in the company will have to be extracted in order to pay a personal fortune tax. You can't actually start to sell off doors and windows to pay taxes. But that's what sometimes happens - otherwise there's no money. And where there's money, there's less money for research and investments etc.
I think it's ok to combine simple booleans into one box for the same reason we do that in code.

You generally write `if a and b { foo }` not `if a { if b { foo } }`.
It's worth noting that the article starts with the mention of Kjell Inge Røkke leaving for Switzerland, a country in which there is wealth tax. The only reason Røkke might still be interested is that as a foreigner he is able to "cut a deal" with the Government [1].

For non-UHNWI, you can have a wealth tax of 0.6% (this varies between cantons, and I'm already taking into account here cantonal and communal wealth tax).

[1] https://www.knightfrank.com/research/article/2021-03-08-why-...
Cemeteries are filled with people who had the right of way. The person you're responding to didn't mention legality, they said it was a "problem".
NextDNS does support creating a profile, you can just install that and it does the dns configs for you etc that method seemed to work fairly well for me.
> Google switch to ML-based search

The very earliest form of page rank used a form of ML.
I think lesson here may just be that wealth tax, like corporation tax, will be most effective as an OECD-wide tax[1].

1: https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/press-releases/2024/07/ne...
A bit unfortunate choice of the name since there is another CIL too: https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/st...
VMware Workstation/Fusion team has always been underfunded and understaffed. Every year, they release a reskinned version with a few minor features to justify the cost to buyers. They really don't have the cycles to maintain a competitive product that would include major changes or large feature advancements. (Fusion is basically a dead product because it can't do performant x86_64 emu/v12n on arm Macs. The closest replacement is UTM, based on QEMU, but it's really slow.)

The problem this introduces is it probably won't work with existing customer tooling built for W/F, won't work with open-vm-tools, and will be incompatible with existing VMs. IOW, this will likely have a net negative impact on users.

Sad.
We experience our own minds and we have every reason to think that our minds are a direct product of our brains.

We don't have any reason to think that these models produce being, awareness, intention, or experience.
Every year this post shows up. It’s based on flimsy evidence, and the pledge itself is nonsensical peer pressure. All children are different in how they interact socially. Some do better with a computer or phone as an intermediary. This has been true since the BBS scene in the 1980s through smartphones today. I have had two teens with very different relationships with their phones, one is a socialite, the other just uses it to read manga and text close friends. Both have used their phones since grade 6, and had access to phones and iPads and PCs since age 3. They’re comfortable with technology and understand the risks of talking to people online because that was my job as a parent: to teach them from a young age to see these devices as an extension of themselves, that they will eventually be the ones in charge of their privacy and how they wish to be treated.
Yeah the reason is the cache doesn't need any connections outside the chip, and those connections are on the bottom.

With this solution they now need a load of vias going through the cache die to the pins at the bottom.
Addressing Innovation in Textual Communication
The only way to get an honest electronic vote is by giving realtime visibility on who voted what and where publicly.

Everything else is a scam.

It would mean no secrecy of vote, but I think that secrecy of vote is for places that are new to democracy.

It could be anonymised to a point a clever system of personal certificats, but the idea is that in a 100 people district, the citizens should be able to count themselves and check if their real votes are correctly registred.

If the list is public, everyone got a proof of vote and can confirm that the global list is correct localy, then there is no way to hide cheating.
I celebrate your choice haha I'd do the same honestly
Sounds like they didn’t update their prior.
This is all speculation based on the development of AGI. If we achieve AGI, yes, it would enable humanity to have a Star Trek-style fully automated space communism utopia. However, that hinges entirely on access to AGI and the fruits of it's productivity being distributed across the population, instead of hoarded by a small group.

If AGI is developed and kept closely guarded, whoever has it will have essentially limitless productivity, and quickly concentrate all wealth and power. They wouldn't even need to engage with markets, they could simply build overwhelming autonomous military power.
Could you include information about the hardware necessary to run it?
Yes, you do. I fundamentally disagree with you and don’t think you have reliable evidence to back up this claim. This reads like the pseudoscientists that are convinced aspartame causes cancer.
Yes. But with how many people are wanna-be courtiers to plutocratic princes, or wanna-be princes - it's the normal state of affairs for "logic" standards to be non-existent when the thesis is "the rich getting richer will somehow be good for everybody".
I've worked in highly autonomous and empowered teams that still root cause-analyzed every incident to death. The rationale being that if you'd get PagerDuty-ied in the middle of the night, it better be worth losing your sleep over. And it was great. I've also worked in slow, bureaucratic environments. They're not the same. Turning the magic dial (up) towards "more care" apparently doesn't move you along the same axis towards bureaucracy per se.
It does exist in VR. In fact I've met interesting people this way when I was in the virtual auditorium in horizons watching meta connect 3 years ago.

But the last 2 years meta didn't pay much attention to the VR part and everyone just started watching it in a browser. 3 years ago it was pretty amazing. For every speaker the VR environment changed and you saw products and even avatars synced in 3D. So there was this attraction to the VR experience.
rich people escaping the country is never a good thing. never. wealth gap can be solved in different ways.
>you sort of can't make standalone ELisp apps (or at least nobody does). Otherwise you'd just have an `org2html` and `org2pdf` application at the command line.

Because I don't like emacs and I wanted to lean on command line apps for getting data into and out of my orgzly org-mode electronic brain, I've been doing this by combining orgmode with jinja2 (I do this with a cli app I wrote called 'orji').

I think it's a very powerful combination. I use it to generate latex/html/whatever and short bash scripts which are then run. E.g.

* Generate my CV using a latex CV template I found on overleaf that I converted into a jinja2 template.

* Send the contents of a TODO note tagged 'sendemail' as an email with a tiny templated bash script.

* Create jira ticket with the details of a note.

* Generate reveal.js presentations.

All from my phone, using orgzly and one big button which runs a single termux script that seeks out TODO notes with labels (e.g. cv/sendemail) that match the scripts in my library (cv.sh / sendemail.sh).

jinja2 certainly has the capability to end up creating a huge old mess if you abuse it, especially to generate code, but I find that using it to template tiny 5-6 line bash scripts or a latex or an HTML file hits a sweet spot of usability and flexibility.
Maybe some ESP32 or other MCU and accelerometer ? That should comfortably fit into a magic wand.
Here is the media player I wrote in JavaScript: https://github.com/prettydiff/mp3-master-list/blob/master/li...

I suspect there exist filters in the browser APIs to adjust play back timing and rate. I have not attempted to modify the media in that way myself but I did see API filters to alter stero panning, tonal quality, wave shape, biquad, delay, and more.
Most (but OK, not all) ultra-rich people will be diversified and hold some of their wealth in securities, real estate and other assets. They'll have family offices and expected rates of return, they can arrange for enough of their wealth to be liquid to pay the taxes... they just don't want to.

Given that wealth tends to appreciate around 4-5% (ok that's Piketty - but pick your favourite number) a 1% wealth tax is a "moderate headwind" on wealth growth for the very rich.

On the other hand, I agree the founder on 1st company with most of their wealth tied up in it is in the worst position, and also that the threshold in Norway seems very low (170k USD) and would hit many small business owners - who also will find it much more difficult to change their tax residency than the truly wealthy :/
when i spoke at an online conference in india i insisted that my talk be prerecorded to make sure there were no interruptions since i was worried that from china the quality might suffer some times. i sent the talk to the organizers to stream and after the talk we did a live q&a. i don't know if the participants felt a difference, but i thought it was the prudent thing to do.
To be fair to the (epic) work of the author, a spacecraft likely wouldn’t have darks off to blue. I recon balancing the color was within their means and is likely their stylistic choice.
I use:

* portmaster on any desktop - for better security and privacy

* tracker control on android - not technically written for ad blocking but it works for 90% of ads

* ublock origin + decentralzeyed + consent-o-matric and cookie flag on Firefox.
Is there any benefit to fine-tuning a model on your corpus before using it to generate embeddings? Would that improve the quality of the matches?
Switched to Adguard a couple of months ago and have been very happy. Before that I mostly used UBO on Chrome together with consent-o-matic for cookie banners.

What I like about Adguard is that I can more freely switch between browsers without needing to take into account how well their builtin blocking works or if they still support Mv2. And just like with my choice to use 1password over self-hosting Bitwarden, I’ll gladly pay a bit more if it means not having to maintain yet another service.
It seems like you're interested in frontend - Clang, not backend - LLVM.
ControlD is now replacing nextdns apps and functionality
Pfffft. Old news. How about a 49x49x49 cube instead?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZeylpCG3IE
The I in FAANG stands for IBM
When I used to buy Wired in its paper form, they had this thing about how "information wants to be free".

Did the original author approve the work being behind a digital pay wall and get rewarded for their work, or was it some later private equity style ghoul who couldn't help but gatekeep and rent seek the duplication of bits as a middleman?

If the latter then maybe we should be sad and angry.
As the co-founder of Arduino I can confirm this was a great inspiration for me. I learned electronics with this kit when I was 7 and it gave me also a great appreciation for design as well. The way I taught electronics to designers was also inspired by the method used in the book that came with the kit. I still have the book from my original kit. It’s an amazing tool
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