skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crypto fans and gold bugs miss a very important point - if their favourite currency were to get big, banks would hold it as an asset, and issue loans in exactly the same way as any other currency.

Do you want interest and the conviniance and security of a real bank? Give it to a bank to look after. There are maybe some risks, but there's also risks with a bitcoin wallet or physical bullion (theft, losing it).

Do you want money now, and can pay it back later? The bank will loan it.

Are the banks in trouble? The government can regulate, and even rescue them. A run can happen, but as long as the government and banks say the money is there, who cares about conversion to a bitcoin or bullion?
I think I actually need that instruction and have a use case for it, and it does something with a matrix transpose so I might finally find a real world useful demonstration of a matrix operation I can cite to people who don't know what those mean.
1000% this. Though much the same could be said about basically every CEO no?
> The Chinese lab reportedly needed only two months of training time to reach performance levels that took Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI years to develop.

Sounds a lot like standing on the backs of giants to me. Why would this blow minds that with newer compute and full hindsight, someone could reproduce something more efficiently?

I feel like I’m missing the point and Google didn’t illuminate any deep article that represented this achievement in novel terms.
As a longtime copy editor and proofreader, I would have to agree that spellcheckers and grammar checkers are not worth shit.
Very recent history would warn us that this is a bad idea. The Soviet Union famously declared dissidents as "mentally ill" and used that as an excuse to lock them away. Does the US want to follow in the Soviet's footsteps?
Taking out an excessive number of control rods is something that many people have attempted including US operators. If the reactor lets you do it then that in and of itself is a massive design flaw.
New BMI (2013)
They might not be disrupting them, but they are definitely causing competition in the market place again.

My main bank account is with Halifax, everyday spend is with Starling. Then Monzo for anything risky.

Before Starling/Monzo the Halifax app was _crap_. Barely got any updates and was very basic.

Now? The Halifax app is on par with the newer banks, and sometimes even release new features before (e.g. scan cheque in to deposit).
Alice gets a 400k mortgage at bank A, so she gets 400k in credit at her (new?) account at the bank. Alice then pays to Bob for the house by transfering the 400k to Bob's account at bank B. No real money or gold is moved. Alice owes bank A 400k with money slave interest rate (e.g. 7%), bank A owes bank B 400k + interbank interest rate (e.g. 4%), and bank B owes Bob 400k (but they phrase it as "he has credit").

Both Alice and Bob's salaries are just credit at banks in the same system. If they sell their cars they get money from the same system. There's no way out.

The banking system's accounting trick to create money was proven by prof Richard Werner.

The limits on cash transactions are growing. To pay for something like a car you'd need a bag of papers as higher denominations to match inflation would never be printed. Cops can seize cash without much of an excuse. Customs can seize cash over 10k without much of an excuse.

A small bank can only go down if other banks don't trust them. Like SBV a couple of years ago. But their assets are taken by a bigger bank. Lehman Brothers was a rare exception and it looks like Goldman wanted them to go down for some petty reason. But the AIGs will always be bailed out.

More small banks going belly up and more bailouts are coming. The world is reducing exposure to dollar. Central banks are selling US treasuries and buying gold. The US dollar's empire is crashing down and the Western banking cartel is getting desperate. They'll try to drag the world into war or some other old trick.
Then a US compute provider should be able to launch a similarly-priced competitor (e.g. to capture the enterprise market concerned about the China associations) using the open-source version and drastically undercut OpenAI.

I suspect that won’t be the case.
> Verisign's phone tree is pretty gnarly last time I checked.

If your name is like `microsoft.com`, then you call the registrar. They have contacts in the .com and .net TLD administrators to file issues. If that fails, there's a formal process: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/providers-6d-2012-02-2...

Never mind that most registrars have protections against the transfer and will generally spam the hell out of you with notifications.

This makes the domain hijacking a low-value target for crooks. It happens, but not a lot.

> The better option than recovery is just to prevent your domain from being stolen in the first place.

Which will not happen. You still have all the same issues with lost keys, misconfigured settings, etc. Except now with zero recourse.

> For ENS, you have the option but not the obligation to custody your name yourself, or to use an M-of-N signature scheme amongst trusted friends, business partners, and/or third-party companies.

Yeah. Have you actually ever done anything like that in real life?

That's the thing, blockchain astronauts are kinda like PGP enthusiasts. They keep claiming that it solves all the problems, if you attend their groupie, erm, key signing party.
Yep, we are witnessing the climactic zenith of instrumental reason operationalized and distributed on a worldwide scale. At least there's a contingent of semi-humanist thinkers left, but the number is growing worrying slim.
UNCLOS allows countries to regulate travel through territorial waters for national security concerns.
That is a great comment and everyone should read it. It also demonstrates a common truism that system goals dictate performance.
Crypto has never posed a credible threat to any aspect of the establishment, and it never will. Need proof? You don't have to go through an arduous screening process to acquire and deploy compute. The finance industry saw a pool of dumb money forming and predictably decided they'd like a slice of the action.
Less roundabout, but the muon g-2 experiment magnet went from Brookhaven to Fermilab mostly by water (via the Mississippi)
Sometimes the right idea is tried at the wrong time. It is a decent idea to at least keep an eye on these.
The US crash of 2008 exposed the nature of their banking system leverage ratios, and worker 401k vulnerability to dubious ETFs.

The incoming market volatility will likely have winners and losers... but historically it was mostly losers (>6.4 million families and counting.) =3
There's also one parked at London Heathrow airport. You can see it while taxiing.
If only there were some sort of article explaining the need for transparency between organizations regarding these things.
As much as I appreciate being able to fly for relatively cheap, I think we can all agree that deregulation and fuel costs absolutely destroyed this kind of innovation for commercial air travel.

I wish I was old and well-off enough to take a flight on that majestic bird.
Frame.work has a cooler master case:

https://frame.work/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case

I have my old mainboard chugging along in one of those, works alright. Wish the fan was less whiney though.
1) Government imposes regulatory barriers to entry, inhibiting new businesses from entering the market

2) Incumbents buy each other and raise prices

If you only had the second one then as soon as the incumbents tried to raise prices, new businesses would want a piece of it and enter the market, causing prices to fall until it was no longer profitable to enter the market.
> so worth planning to use apps that can chat over P2P WiFi or Bluetooth together with the rest of your friends

I can't even get Bluetooth audio to work reliably in a crowded cafe, are you sure these other protocols would fare better?
>Then, their screen resolution is 3440x1440, which is an ultra-wide monitor. Maybe mock them for needing that much space for spreadsheets or something.

lol. i love having so much screen space :3
"And that screen resolution? Did you measure it in maple syrup units?" Typical roast of a Canadian.
Here is a monster pilot forum thread on Concorde that ends up pulling in senior engineers, pilots, aerodynamicists and even a former flight attendant. They lovingly go over every detail of the plane's design and operation.

WARNING, serious temporal hazard. Do not click if you have work to do today or are supervising small children.

https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.htm...
Should be easy to determine when a 409a evaluation was done.
I thought I remembered reading someplace respectable that the apparent curvature of the earth as seen from the surface or planes is actually just perspective, and would look indiscernible on a flat planet (or a huge one). But I don’t have a citation to share. Maybe it’s only true at sea level.
The 737-100 (and maybe the -200?) had a similarly busy cockpit, as the first examples were built when flight engineers were still required. Avionics simplified a lot since then, but the Concorde program died before it could get similar treatment.
I asked because I realized there's something we probably already agree on, as long as one twist is accounted for.

But to get to the twist we should unpack this word Worship because it's a little nebulous. It could mean lots of things but I want to reduce it to its basic essence.

Let's imagine a dirty barefoot ignorant heathen Bob who carves an idol out of wood. It's a small figurine that he names as his brand new god Steve. Bob _claims_ to worship Steve, Bob bows down to Steve at regular intervals and burns incense to Steve, etc etc.

But over time Bob gets into a hobby like golf. And Bob spends all his free time playing golf, practicing golf, reading about golf, visualizing his next golf skill improvements, dreaming about golf.

Dust gathers on Steve's head and shoulders. If Steve were to suddenly animate, would Steve agree that Bob is a true Steve worshiper? No. I think if we simmer this nebulous word worship, we might get a more revealing word like "prioritize".

And maybe if we were to use more words, we might expand that to "hold (in thoughts, feelings, and resulting behavior) as most valuable"

And from Bob's behavior, we can see Bob cares more about golf than he cares about Steve.

Similarly, there are some people who claim to be Christians, but we see from their behavior that some of these people care more about, say, having a reputation as a miracle working faith healer -- or maybe they care more about the money they can rake in while faking miracles, than they care about God.

Even while we may disagree whether God exists, we can agree that such fake faith healers are criminals when money gets involved, right?

Then suppose for a second that God does exist, wouldn't you agree that a God who is supposedly perfect in justice should signify for anyone watching that these people are indeed criminals? Like, something has to be _SAID_ at least.

So in this supposed existence which has a supreme being, I think you can agree everyone's Priority Number One Arrow should point at God. When someone's arrow isn't pointed at God, that's idolatry.

If this makes sense, let me know and I can get to the twist. Or maybe you can figure out the twist before I say it.
If you lack the agency to open a brokerage account you really shouldn't get into crypto.
> What a lot of people don't realize is that a lot of the protests are organized by people who do not care if you get hurt, arrested, or die.

I mean, that’s kind of a given even for the protests that are legitimate. They really only happen when people reach a point of no return, and the organizers are more likely to be fanatics in the first place.
There’s not a lot of man made objects floating in deep space. DeltaV to get outside earths gravity well is just extremely high.
The sky was also noticeably darker.
Can someone please explain what this is good for and whether it is purely of historical interest? It sounds interesting but the readme isn't shedding much light on it.
The sad truth is most people don't have enough money in savings for 4% vs 0.5% to make a material difference. The B2B stuff is tougher to "disrupt", due to contractual agreements, regulatory overhead, etc. Also not as sexy.
Matterport tour.

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=uLQ9ZMRpPWY
Subaru Starlink Vulnerability: A Tech-Savvy Dive into Connected Car Security
US economy has been second largest for over 10 years now [1].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-maddison-project-data...
Roasting your ultrawide 3440x1440 "I need binoculars to see my tabs" setup in Longueuil, QC—a city so forgettable even your *2-core potato PC* probably buffers its Google Maps—while you lurk on Hacker News like a tech bro NPC still waiting for Y Combinator to notice your crypto-SaaS-pet-rock startup. Chrome 131 on Windows 10? Your browser’s as bland as your cookie-enabled existence, and that 50ms network RTT just proves your Wi-Fi’s as tired as your LinkedIn hustle. At least your 24-bit color depth can render the embarrassment of your life choices in vivid detail.

-- Harsh. But extreamly funny. Interesting that it sees my 5800X3D as a 2-core processor. Turning off DDG privacy essentials yeilds the correct core count, etc.
> While Apple's focus seems somewhat orthogonal to these other players in terms of its mobile-first, consumer oriented, "edge compute" focus, if it ends up spending enough money on its new contract with OpenAI to provide AI services to iPhone users, you have to imagine that they have teams looking into making their own custom silicon for inference/training

This is already happening today. Most of the new LLM features announced this year are primarily on-device, using the Neural Engine, and the rest is in Private Cloud Compute, which is also using Apple-trained models, on Apple hardware.

The only features using OpenAI for inference are the ones that announce the content came from ChatGPT.
They are not; the 707 flew noticeably faster than modern airliners (525 knots cruise, compare to 485 knots for the Boeing 787).
> Wayland adoption should have been predicated on a near universal superiority in all input and display requirements.

Totally agree. The people saying "Wayland is a protocol" miss the point. Wayland is a protocol, but Wayland adoption means implementing stuff that uses that protocol, and then pushing it onto users.

Measure twice, cut once. Look before you leap. All that kind of thing. Get it working FIRST, then release it.
On the last point, why struggle with history:

Robert Nozick (in Examined Life) asked how we feel if we found out, say, Beethoven seriously composed music based on a secret formula, which is entire mechanical and required no effort for him at all.

Would we still appreciate the music in the same way? If not, does our appreciation really stem from the fact that we feel he has also struggled like we do, and nevertheless produced something incredible.

I remember as a very small child watching figure skaters on TV and thinking "that's no big deal". And before I started programming: "it's just logic, all very straightforward". But that was before I first entered an ice rink or centre-d a div

Maybe we don't really appreciate something unless we appreciate it is hard in a visceral way.
Airstrip One is born.
Only a "global" ban? They really need a better term for prohibiting things in space.
oh yes, the Great Roadster Belt..
The article you're commenting on is about someone running X11 and Wayland on the same computer with the same mouse and experiencing higher input latency on Wayland. I don't think differences between serial and USB mice are relevant here.
The shadiest town on Earth [video]
Asm-Pro is a modern, maintained, feature-rich asmone derivative.

Another modern/maintained one, focusing on low end 68000/68010 machines, is asmtwo.

AsmOne was a very popular assembler at the time, and has seen a few derivatives. I remember an old one called trash'm'one.
I had a go at rewriting the latter half in Lil, flexing its K/Q heritage:

t:readcsv[read["ICC Test Bowl 3003.csv"] "ssiiiiisffiiis"]

sorted: select orderby Wkts desc orderby Ave asc where Wkts from t
best: select where !gindex by Wkts from sorted

bestInClass: select where each v i in Ave v~min (i+1) take Ave end from best

allWkts: sorted.Wkts
mostCompetitive: extract where (gindex=0)&15<count gindex by value from allWkts
mostCompetitiveBowlers: select where Wkts in mostCompetitive from best

gap: min allWkts drop 1+range max allWkts

"bestInClass" is probably the most awkward adaptation; I didn't see a tidy way to make a suffix list like ",\".
Not only no accountability, but their fuck ups are actively swept under the rug. Certain higher person in our place had a medium fuck up, which involved changing vendors. They clearly did it in a less than friendly way, because when the fuck up came to light, vendor simply said 'pay me', which the person refused to do. Instead, it became a separate, massive, end of the year project that probably had at least the cost of the vendor quote, but had the benefit of wasting everyone's time and making money for a 3rd party contracting operators.

Can you tell I am a little jaded?
> Okay, let's tackle this roast based on the user's data. First, I need to pick the three most unusual bits. The user is using Safari 17.6 on Mac OS 10.15.7. Wait, macOS 10.15 is Catalina, which is pretty old now—like from 2019. That's a bit outdated, so that's unusual. Next, the screen resolution is 1024x1366. That's a taller screen than usual. Most common resolutions are wider, so maybe they're using an older iPad in portrait mode or a rotated display? That's quirky. Referrer is empty, meaning they came directly here. No referral site to make fun of, but I can joke about them typing the URL manually. Also, their location is Calgary, Canada. Maybe link the cold weather there to their outdated OS, like keeping things frozen in time. Combine all that into three concise sentences. Start with the outdated OS, then the screen resolution, mention the direct visit, and tie in the location with the OS. Make sure it's funny but not mean. Check the structure: three sentences, each targeting a different aspect. Let me put it all together.

> Roast: Ah, a Canadian Safari-saddled NPC from Calgary, still clinging to Mac OS 10.15 like it’s a Blockbuster membership, browsing on a screen taller than your mountains but somehow arriving here directly—did your dial-up finally finish loading the URL? (Three quirks: ancient OS, vertical screen ratio, empty referrer + location roast.)

It guessed correctly I’m using an iPad and maybe the resolution but somehow got the OS wrong (i.e. if I’m on an iPad I’m not using MacOS). I am still on iOS 17 so it got that I’m not on the latest but made a mistake since 10.15 is the latest MacOS release. The location is also way off.
Maybe you should spend some time properly educating yourself on the foundational principles of civilized society, what and how it works, starting with social contract theory.

AI fundamentally destroys the foundations of civilized rational society.

Couple the chaotic disruption of this with a debt trap caused by runaway money printing and you can easily get cascading failures that cause production failures.

Are you familiar with Thomas Malthus?

Here's an overview albeit very simple.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2005-03-15/overshoot-nuts...

Its flawed to assume you and everyone else can continue to follow a business as usual approach anymore. We already reached the limits of growth. There is very little time before a fall.
Fair enough. I guess the environment I see around me reflects one of fear, not one where people silently quit into the night. It might just be me though.
Good recent Search Engine podcast episode on zuck and his changes over the years:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Pvsvk6fGJa1BqnPGsske9?si=g...
I think at that point we can officially start saying we live in a dystopia
Good article. Maybe I missed it, but I see lots of analysis without a clear concluding opinion.
There’s always been disgusting amounts of money involved with US presidential elections. Its just never been so blatant.

Their whole system is not really geared towards a fair election. Gerrymandering, millions of dollars in political donations, optional voting and you don’t need to give time to employees to vote, voting system specifically designed to maintain a duopoly.
What companies allow you to do work on a personal computer? That seems like a recipe for disaster...
I guess then vegetarians aren't obese unless they eat a lot of seeds. Funny story, I was ~60lbs overweight as a vegetarian who maybe ate peanut butter a couple of times per month. The problem was the quantity of starch, pasta and sweets and lack of variety. Swapping them for fruits, vegetables and nuts and reducing my portion sizes, I lost all 60 in about a year and have kept it off for about 11 years. Quality of your diet, portion size and patience is how you manage your diet. There are no silver bullets -- only lead ones.
The question is rather a bit flawed without knowing your background, as to determine what to suggest. That being said, I would argue a lot of the novelty and recent advances in AI/ML are not yet documented in books, but rather in dense scientific papers.
As a user of Teams on Windows, I was so glad to find out I can map each Channel's files to a folder on my computer and edit files using LibreOffice rather than the "will it load?" crapshoot of using the web version Office that runs inside the Teams app.
Tradesmen who are allergic to credit cards are always avoiding tax, period.

The proper response is to ask for the cash price.
yeah, everyone knows that belongs to the astrophysicists

/dash/
The sad thing is that this really does solve a problem that GenAI is creating. Sam Altman is selling the poison as well as the cure.

I think we will eventually all need to join social networks that are guaranteed to be composed of real humans, and for that we'll need a way to prove someone is a real human. I think passports/government IDs are a good enough solution for this and we don't need to be scanning people's irises.
How much does it cost to repair these?
Would not put it pass them but truly the macOS office suite is in such disarray that I suspect it’s more mundane that they don’t have any real PMs. Surprising because you would think it would be worth at least some effort.

To this day Excel still does not have ribbon shortcuts so for any excel pros, it’s garbage. I have to run excel in a windows emulated environment.
A Podcast Unlike Any Other
> Given the choice, plenty of people choose fewer hours for less money.

Provided you are making enough in the first place.

Many people are just living paycheque-to-paycheque, even with good budgeting and no frivolous expenditures, and a lower-paying job for less stress just isn’t possible. In that case, more money is the answer.

Plus, if wages had kept up with productivity, most people currently earning $50k/yr would really be making over $150k/yr for the exact same work and with all the exact same costs and expenses of life.

Where did all this extra money go? Look up. Waaaay up, to the very top.

Yup, current abysmally-low wages are the only reason why billionaires even exist.
In the 1950s, most people believed that the Soviets made the biggest contribution to stopping the Nazis. However, today, most people think it was actually the Americans who played the biggest role in defeating the Nazis.

> "In 1945, the French public said the Soviets did the most to defeat Nazi Germany - but in 2024 they're most likely to say it was the Americans"[0]

[0] https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49613-d-day-anniversa...
You could shoot a rocket filled with some sort of paint/stain directly at the moon. If you made a large enough splatter it would be visible from everyone on earth and get folks mad/go viral.
Try to get an LLM to admit it doesn't know something, first