skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Other instruments are suppression of ethnic identity, deportation and encouragement of emigration.

Thank you. Again, though, the histories of the European states don't mention efforts at suppression of ethnic identities, deportation, nor encouragement of emigration - at least not up until the 1930s.

If there are good sources to read about this occurring I would love to read them. Otherwise the insinuations are baseless.
Most people from eastern Europe agree that communists should not be treated differently than Nazis.
| If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000

I would love to know what it was about England that meant it's end was nigh, I mean what about France, Norway or Belgium ?

Also, when he said "England" was he actually referring to the United Kingdom (as Americans often are) or were Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland going to be spared in some way ?
Gaming is effectively irrelevant to nvidia now. The stock appreciation over the last 8 years that brought them from a niche to a global dominant company is all from revenue that first came in from crypto and then got absolutely dwarfed by AI.
OED take note: liztruss as an adjective:

> Many groceries are perishable, after all, and e-ink shelf tags allow grocers to reprice their goods every minute or two, so yesterday's lettuce can be discounted every fifteen minutes through the day. Some customers will happily accept a lettuce that's a little gross and liztruss if it means a discount.
> Chances are, I signed up to see if your tool can do one specific thing. If it doesn’t, I’ve already mentally moved on and forgotten about it. So, when you email me, I’m either actively evaluating whether to buy your product, or I have no idea why you’re reaching out.

Let me get this straight: author clicks around on B2B SaaS with un-focused sales models (both the heavy account rep / sales engineer sales-driven process, and the free trial product-driven process) because they want One Small Feature that's too big to build themselves (but still small enough for someone else to build and open-source, sustainably), knowing that expressing interest to purchase will result in an Enterprise Sales Cycle yet being pissed off that it resulted in an Enterprise Sales Cycle?

Methinks the author doth protest too much to cover up their own misaligned expectations. If you want One Small Feature then it's either covered by the product-led pricing (i.e. credit card based, no Enterprise Sales Cycle) or it's not. And if it's not, if you have to click a "Contact Us" button, which, being an industry veteran, you know will launch an Enterprise Sales Cycle, then maybe what you're asking for isn't really One Small Feature, because you're going to pay Enterprise Pricing for your One Small Feature, and so maybe this isn't the vendor to get it from.

The Enterprise Sales Cycle exists because the number of people who can put Enterprise Pricing (~$25+k/year) on a corporate credit card, without any internal checks, is close to zero. The Enterprise Sales Cycle exists precisely to align the many stakeholders whose alignment is necessary to sign larger deals. If you have a corporate card, are looking for a solution that you can buy independently, then you are not in the vendor's market and you're doing everybody a huge disservice by trying to force a deal anyway. Go find a vendor that actually targets your market segment.
I’ve only briefly worked with these but got a rundown from someone more broadly experienced with them. Essentially you treat trust as a checklist. I accept this message (and any subsequent transactions implied by its existence) if it comes from the right person, was emitted during the right time frame (whether I saw it during a separate time frame), and <insert other criteria here>. If I miss the message due to transmission errors or partitioning, I can still honor it later even though it now changes the consequences of some later message I can now determine to have arrived out of order.
A lot of these intermediary languages are not trivial to parse safely and are a vector for exploits. It's not something you can really do on your own unless you're just supporting a specific subset for your application. Even then, you really need to know what you're doing.
Having had the misfortune of navigating a particularly ineffective large corporate purchasing machine, this resonates.

Nobody in the chain is interested in outcomes, they’re interested in completed process.

The value of something to the business is totally uninteresting to a purchasing person. They care about contractual arrangements, compliance with all sorts of poorly thought out ethics agreements, and making sure that all the process has been followed.

The result is far more money spent for far less outcome than if we’d just got a credit card and bought something. There’s a whole ecosystem of companies which are terrible at actually solving problems, but know exactly how to meet all the requirements of a large corporate purchasing department.

It’s depressing.
I can relate. I got diagnosed a bit after taking the pandemrix vaccine, after I started showing the symptoms, back in 2010-2011. As mentioned by someone, sodium oxybate is one medicine to maybe look into, but I don't think it'll necessarily help with wakefulness, more so with sleep and cataplexy.
Pretty fucked up to say that people that don't have dark skies even on their radar with everything going on right now are heartless and lacking empathy. It shows a gross misunderstanding of the average person today and really shows your lack of empathy.

I shoot astro, I love it. I wish skies were darker. But I certainly don't blame my comrades for not giving two fucks about how the sky looks when they are asleep after working two jobs to pay rent.
It’s weird, but in 2002 I could always find one person working at a McDonald’s in Haidian who spoke English, but come back in 2007, that was no longer the case. Starbucks was the same, I think those places just decided that English wasn’t important anymore. Now, Shanghai is much better than Beijing, I was shocked when even a taxi driver spoke English to me, and even the no name corner store they could often converse a bit, something that just would never happen in Beijing.
> I'm not an EE, but would love to know how I can disable these incredible unsmart features

I am an EE, so let me tell you.

Use a hammer.
It's just an excuse to pull you over. The only time I ever got a "fix-it ticket" when one I was already middle aged. They're just taking advantage of your naivety as a teenager to sniff around. Teenagers with disposable, conspicuous consumption are profiled. With no record of the reason for the stop, there's no reason to fix it. I did replace the lights, obviously but that didn't stop them from pulling over every time I went through that part of town.
> I could go on

Please do. It just sounds like you’re nitpicking.

If you can open a browser, open docs.rs. The GitHub repo usually contains a link to docs.rs because that’s how people prefer to read the documentation.

If you prefer working without the internet that’s fine too. Use cargo doc, which opens the rendered doc page in a local web browser.

If you prefer being in a text editor exclusively, no problem! Grep for `pub` and read the doc comments right above (these start with ///). No toolchain necessary.

Look, most normal people don’t have some intense phobia of web browsers, so they’d prefer docs.rs. For the people who prefer text editor, it’s still a great experience - git clone and look for the doc comments.

The point is, the existence of docs.rs only encourages Rust library developers to write more and better documentation, which everyone, including text editor exclusive people benefit from. That’s why your comment sounds so strange.
I'd add to your list of problems: Publicly offered AIs are tuned to present a puritanical, sexless, inoffensive view of the world aligned with "the man" and kowtowing to corporate america's rules.
All that is to say that the Malthusians are not just wrong, they are not even wrong.
The more people we have, also the more people we have available to keep these systems running and figure out new replacements. Assuming the caloric ‘profit margin’ stays positive anyway.
Personally I think RTO is unreasonable regardless of compensation, since it isn’t required for the job and improves nothing. It probably hurts the company more. To me taking away 1-2 hours of time everyday from people is a huge change in working condition.
> The true hack would be to purchase a mechanical water filter, probably much higher quality for the money spent, and have it attached to the plumbing. Bonus is it works when the power's out.

Well, no. That's a solution, and it's probably practical, but in no way is buying a replacement a "hack".
People get used to using Windows and think that being used to something is the same as something being intuitive. Years ago (like 20) a previous girlfriend had never really used computers before and ended up adopting one of my old machines using KDE.

After we broke up but remained friends, she complained about her new boyfriend subjecting her to XP and how nothing "worked like it should", needing to scour the web and download shit from random websites for software, every installer needing you to click next a dozen times, borderline malicious shovelware and how hard it was to get Windows to do things sensibly without scouring the web for hacks and having to edit one giant config file with a really overcomplicated editor.

It's hard to tell the difference between bad UI and unfamiliar UI.
> I don't think the elephant can be solved by a tweak to LLMs.

I doubt that too. But solving it is essential to the valuations of OpenAI and NVidia.
I found this map a few years ago and had it printed online on canvas, to hang on my wall near my bike area, I recommend doing this with other old maps as well.
things never really "run out", they just get expensive as availability becomes lower. But some people consider this the same as running out, because it is indistinguishable from running out if you could not afford it.
I think you are saying we should blame the victim.

Bullies want you to fight back because now you're playing their game according to their rules which they know how to win and you implicitly authorise them to hurt you and often you have handed them a moral highground excuse they can spit back at you later. Bullies don't "listen" to a slap in the face, instead they escalate further: good luck!

Fighting is high risk. I do believe in fighting when necessary and here is a fantastic article that perhaps supports your view: https://radicalcontributions.substack.com/p/escalation-theor...

To win against a bully often requires changing the game so that you can win by other rules.

However not everyone has the ability/practice to handle conflict - a friend talking back with a female bully recently had a panic attack which was a horrific side effect for them.
https://i.imgur.com/e0GPhSE.jpeg

1. zak stone, memamp

2. steve huffman, reddit

3. alexis ohanian, reddit

4. emmet shear, twitch

5. ?

6. ?

7. ?

8. jesse tov, https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/simmery

9. pg

10. jessica

11. KeyserSosa, initially memamp but joined reddit not long
after (I forget his real name)

12. phillip yuen, textpayme

13. ?

14. aaron swartz, infogami at the time

15. ?

16. sam altman, loopt at the time

17. justin kan, twitch
Machine translation is also much better than it used to be. It is trivial to translate documentation or scientific literature now, or to dub on demand using AI.
I would say quiet.

Every place I've moves to in recent years looks nice, but you can't enjoy it because passenger cars and trucks have gotten louder without restraint or consequence. This doesn't mean right next to a major freeway, either; half-a-mile (about a kilometer) or more away from most 4-lane roads isn't far enough.

For an example, look up how many tickets in any given city have been issued for an improperly maintained exhaust system.

Police only care about speeding tickets. So much so, that even if a noisy "sports" car is pulled over for speeding, they won't be issued a noise citation in concert.

Why? ACAB.

Cops probably drive around in noisy cars/trucks after work (and some jurisdictions have police cruisers with a throaty exhaust because of course they do), so ticketing those violations isn't in their own best interest.

Anyway, noise is way more of an IDGAF issue for any city in the US.
I know I support what aaronsw did and I don’t think he shouldn’t have gotten in any trouble for it, let alone to the tragic level it went to. As for sama, I’m not sure, on one hand I like the innovation and on the other hand it’s very worrying for humanity. I appreciate the post and the fond memories of Aaron but I’m not in complete agreement with the author about sama.
is this the last place on earth to build that kind of industry?
> I’m sure people can continue to imagine more examples

Hopefully they’ll imagine more compelling examples.

If the hypothetical person’s phone is capable of browsing GitHub, I don’t see why they can’t also browse docs.rs. It renders well on small screens. That’s not a hypothetical, I’ve actually read the docs for libraries on my phone.
Its not obvious to me that what is missing here is another technical protocol rather than more effective 'social protocols'. If you havent noticed, the major issues of today is not the scaling of message passing per-se but the moderation of content and violations of the boundary between public and private. These issues are socially defined and cannot be delegated to (possibly algorithmic) protocols.

In other words what is missing is rules, regulations and incentives that are adapted to the way people use the digital domain and enforce the decentralized exchange of digital information to stay within a consensus "desired" envelope.

Providing capabilities in code and network design is ofcourse a great enabler, but drifting into technosolutionism of the bitcoin type is a dead end. Society is not a static user of technical protocols. If left without matching social protocols any technical protocol will be exploited and fail.

The example of abusive hyperscale social media should be a warning: they emerged as a behavior, they were not specified anywhere in the underlying web design. Facebook is just one website after all. Tim Berners-Lee probably did not anticipate that one endpoint would succesfully fake being the entire universe.

The deeper question is, do we want the shape of digital networks to reflect the observed concentration or real current social and economic networks or do we want to use the leverage of this new techology to shape things in a different (hopefully better) direction?

The mess we are in today is not so much failure of technology as it is digital illiteracy, from the casual user all the way to the most influential legal and political roles.
could you move the industry there?
There was a psychological study that decided that community moderation tends to be self healing if, and only if, punishing others for a perceived infraction comes at a cost to the punisher.

I believe I have the timeline right that this study happened not too long before StackOverflow got the idea that getting upvoted gives you ten points and downvoting someone costs you two. As long as you’re saying something useful occasionally instead of disagreeing with everyone else, your karma continues to rise.
Pandas' Lifecycle – A Tale of Renewal
Translation, Phi-4 available on llmacpp
I wish C had a jinja2-like preprocessor!
"...when they are asleep after working two jobs to pay rent."

No one else sleeps or works, right?

Plus, who knows why they work more than one job. Maybe they were "too smart" for school, found out later that they weren't, and now are grasping to close the gap due to hubris and ignorance early on in their life. No shame in making up for lost time/wages, but that's not our fault and we shouldn't have to constantly bend and bow in order to appease the LCD crowd.
> That's possible, and directed/shielded lighting is commercially available.

Given the size of the site (over 3000 hectares), even lights purely pointed at the ground will still create large amounts of bounce lighting. The ground reflects light up in the sky.
Have your own domain name
for most rust ive done (not tons) the docs were very basic as onky auto generated with minimal content. totally useless, have to read sources to find out what is in there.
auto documentation to me ia just ti satisfy people who need to tick all of these boxes and want to do with minimal effort. has dox has tests etc. such artitude never leads to quality.
Interesting to see how apparently low deployment of IP v6 we have achieved in Sweden. I wonder why.
I think Simons point was that afford and need equipoise. There's also substitution going on all the time, and innovation. Battery chemistry has changed massively over the life of batteries for EV (the thing most often cited as a modern day Ehrlich/Simons bet)

Ehrlich thought need would exceed afford at scale. And that it would have massive societal repercussions. Well, it just didn't historically, and there's no reason to believe the (misnamed) rare earths and metallic ores are limiting things for any reason other than price motivation.

This last decade we had a temporary chip shortage affect car production rates worldwide. Localised supply chains for Diesel additive have been a problem. There were discussions about ring fencing nitrate fertiliser as a strategic supply. None of these are "limits to growth" stories. Capital investment followed.

That said, the price of copper spiked enough to make people start stealing it again worldwide.
OCaml .mli interface files are the same, but better.
Test-driven development has its uses. But it is wrong to make it mandatory. I myself run static checks/unit tests almost all of the time. Still it is useful to skip them from time to time and just run the code to see the results (make it work before you make it "right" according to some linters rules).
My understanding is ESO uses local labour where possible (e.g on building the ELT, maintenance, catering, transport), so it's not like it's one guy in a shed, there are jobs and economic benefits. That's why this seems so confusing to me, I can't see why you can't have both?
Very cool! I enjoyed watching my mountain hikes like this in the 30-day free Premium preview on Strava, but no way in hell am I paying $12 a month for a novelty feature.
I can’t help but feel like one of the author’s last experiences was with Okta or Auth0.
Aaron was a developer himself but Sam ... ?
not really - there's a lot of existing investment in wordpress which would be lost if this is the case.

I think it's better for wordpress community to push out Mullenweg, and establish a community owned source. It is both a fork, but not just of the source code.

I think surviving this sort of disaster makes the whole stronger/resilient in the future. Starting anew will surely just have history repeat.
Is Amazon not demand? Do they exist outside economics?

(Legally they're supposed to use those addresses within a year(?) of buying them, but I won't pretend that anyone would really notice whether that's the case or not.)
Sure, they're capable. They can be assigned to a new task after getting instructions and tools for that task ; )
This post misses a lot of nuance. Aaron Swartz was an activist who did obviously illegal things and got caught and prosecuted. What OpenAI is doing is in legal gray area because it might be transformative enough to be fair use; we just don't know yet.
> A gigantic advantage: a single-pass-compilable language is simpler. By definition.

That's only "by definition" if you take a language that needs multiple passes, then remove the features that need multiple passes, and don't replace them with anything else to compensate.

The "by definition simpler" version of C would not only disallow forward references, it would have no forward declarations either. As-is, forward declarations add some complexity of their own.

(Also, if you can figure out a way to emit jump instructions in a single pass, you can probably figure out a way to call unknown functions in a single pass.)
I think it's pretty clear they don't want us to have such a protocol. Google's attack on RSS is probably the clearest example of this, but there's also several more foundational issues that prevent multicasts and similar mechanisms from being effective.
If you're surprised the night sky isn't top on people's minds today, you live in a very different world than most.
The two are seen on the picture together! So more similar they could not be. That highlights the irony and hypocrite of capitalism, of better say of human society.
While I welcome the clarification, I ended my comment with "...the community being welcoming of the host environments where Clojure is a guest."
So in Ruby, `map` and `select` are eager-by-default, but you can just write `lazy.map().select()` to make the whole chain lazy? That's really nice - much better than Python 2, which was also eager-by-default and you had to change every function call to make it lazy (`map` => `imap`, `filter` => `ifilter`).

Python 3 changed to being lazy-by-default. I assume that improves CPU/memory usage, but in some cases it does have less predictable behaviour. I can see why Ruby, with its goal of "developer happiness", would choose to retain the predictable behaviour of eager-by-default.
I don't believe you're asking this in good faith because the answer is so obvious. But just in case, it's because OpenAI is by a ridiculously large margin the most well known player in the space and unlike the leaders of other organisations his name is known and he has a personal brand which he puts a lot of effort into promoting.
I think that's just called "code".
Nope. It would have been much easier to “fall in line” and “take covid serious” than to dare tread into non-dogmatic thinking like I did. Then I wouldn’t have pissed off my friends and family. Then I’d still have a good career and good network. My life would have been very much easier to fall in line like the good little west coast liberal caste I was set into.

But you know what? Fuck those people. They are wrong. And so are you. None of our response to Covid made any sense at all. The math never made sense. And it never will. All your “science” and “data” amount to nothing but a pile of appeals to authority. And even then it was the layer of tribal politics that really sealed in the multi-year mass hysteria.

Pull your head out of your ass and it’s clear as day. None of it adds up. Sorry. You are quite simply, wrong. Wake up dude. You got tricked. You are wrong.
I agree but as a customer it’s still worth asking. I recently asked a salesperson if I could get access to some enterprise features on a PAYG plan because I literally couldn’t go through the procurement motions fast enough for my needs. They said yes and just had an engineer toggle some feature flags on my account.
Misty: A secure distributed actor language
The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder
The main issue is a lot of smaller providers are clearly incentivized to get into the industry simply for the opportunity to eavesdrop into what other companies are doing. If you want to confuse or cloud this perceived motivation, also provide security services.