skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unions have done more to increase the wages of the working class than tax cuts for the rich have ever done.

If you want to live in a country with rampant poverty, homelessness, crime, etc then go to a country with low or no income tax. If you're not a lord in a feudal society then you're a serf.
Perhaps you see things differently because people here and in tech are generally near the top working class pay. The median individual pay in the US is 40K, and even that is a jump from just a few years ago. I don't know anyone that works in tech for $40K or less. Not to mention the other benefits that people making $40K don't get.
no, when hitting Command-? the help menu bar opens a search box that takes you directly to matching menu items -- like Spotlight for menu items. you can activate them directly from the search box. no learning involved
I like it. Coprophilia guy, they could call him.
A basic education should include a lot of stuff you never use. If you're not exposed to things that don't interest you, how are you going to find the ones that do?
Disclaimer: I wrote and maintain a MessagePack implementation.

To be uncharitable, that's probably because CBOR's initial design was lifted from MP, and everything Bormann added to it was pretty bad. This snippet from your great post captures it pretty well I think:

---

CBOR records the number of nested items and
thus has to maintain a stack to skip to a particular nested item.

Alternatively, we can define the "processability" to only include a
particular set of operations. The statement 3c implies and 3d seems to
confirm that it should include a space-constrained decoding, but even
that is quite vague. For example,

- Can we assume we have enough memory to buffer the whole packed CBOR
data item? If we can't, how many past bytes can we keep during the
decoding process?
Well, unfortunately "Africa" is only mentioned in the article's title (which got cut to fit into HN's character limit) and not repeated in the article itself.

But I can understand the concern: most agriculture (not only corn) is highly mechanized pretty much everywhere in the world except the poorest countries, so this would be limited to the crops that can't be mechanized.
The more interesting statistic is that the 3 richest Americans hold more wealth than the bottom 50% of the US.

So, to not inconvenience these 3 individuals, you wont make a significant impact to the bottom 50% of US citizens.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2017/11/09/the-3-ric...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder
To invest, you need to have a surplus, and receive some form of education, not necessarily on investing per se, that would enable you to think in certain ways.

Asking why is it wrong is similar to asking why it was wrong that most people couldn't read or write, for many of them were quite happy being illiterate.
From the article:

> Oral administration of luteolin provided similar results.

So taking it as a pill might be good enough.
How did you manage that!?! It was my impression that increasing housing prices is a problem all over, and that it partially stems from the mega trend of people moving to cities. Most countries have a lot of room to build houses, just not where people want to live!

So why is it different in Finland? Is there a lot of free space around then cities? Or doesn't everyone want to live in Helsinki?
Are these bugs in the website or in firefox?
As long as there are countries that allow for tax avoidance it's not gonna work. If my income is in the 10s of millions I am better off paying a few millions to some firm to handle every single thing for me to hyper optimize my life. They make you change residence on paper and buy fictitious tickets to prove you have been in country x at least y days during the fiscal year, and much more. You still end up saving way more than paying 20/30% of taxes on those 10s of millions.

There should be a global minimum tax, but trying to make every single ruling party in the world agree to that is a fool's errand. I think that what the little that got leaked by the Panama's papers few years ago is just the tip of the iceberg.
There's little difference between enabling a single screen shot and allowing screen recording. The rights owners require blocking of screen recording, so all screen capture gets blocked as a result.
Initial Rust development set out to avoid symbol soup. With some switches in leadership, this was forgotten.
Skype is dead. What happened?
I personally think we should resist the temptation to separate out values from the discussion. Like, even if it was the case that some extremely high-level of inequality turned out to be "optimal" in some GDP-maximizing way, the question still ought to hinge on some notion of fairness or justice (in my view).

(Although, I guess if your metric is "citizen satisfaction" maybe that's not as terrible).

In any case, there are lots of case studies showing what happens at the extreme inequality end of the spectrum. As I mentioned in another comment, my favorites come from Piketty "Capital in the 21st Century" and Acemoglu & Robinson "Why Nations Fail".

In the latter, the case study on the rise and fall of Venice is particularly fascinating - huge economic growth due to inclusive economic institutions that promoted social mobility, followed by a downturn once the aristocracy moved to entrench their own interests at society's expense. This seems to be the central thesis of the book, although I'm only a few chapters in.

The parallels with modern US politics are pretty hard to ignore though.
Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8
Decoding any part of his memories would be the greatest archeological coup in history, by a massive margin.

By some estimates, the cerebral cortex can store hundreds of terabytes of information. Recovering even 0.1% of that would amount to possibly hundreds of GB of information about life in a major Roman urban center.
> Yeah they fixed that, but there's other parts of the spec that are basically unworkable

Yeah it just made me chuckle cause it was such an obvious oversight and a fun way of pointing it out. That said I totally get that writing specs are hard, so not dissing the authors as such.

> There's no reason an MP implementation has to be slower than a CBOR implementation.

Yeah that also struck me. Like ok that CBOR library might be faster than that MP library, but could be either is just missing some optimizations. And it didn't look like there were orders-of-magnitude differences in either case.

Anyway I've only looked at CBOR and MessagePack when I dabbled with some microcontroller projects. I found both to be too big, ie couldn't find a library suitably small, either compiled size or memory requirements or both. So I ended up with JSON for those due to that. Using a SAX-like parser I could avoid dynamic allocations entirely (or close enough).
"People took a cursory look at a codebase I published and found glaring mistakes they discussed publicly as examples of how bad it is" is not the flex you think it is.
> it's not at all obvious to me that the set of axioms would be finite or even computable

The reasoning is representable with and by a finite number of elementary physical particles and so must itself be finite. Because it is finite it is computable.

Said another way, you would need an infinitely large brain (or an infinitely deep one) to create infinite reasoning.
We are living in feudal system at the moment. Amazon, cloud providers and everything seems to be subscription based nowadays - as Yanis Varoufakis calls it "techno-feudalism". We have system which funnels unimaginable amounts of money to few overlords, it'll keep reinforcing itself creating more and more contrast with time. Open source everything seems to be the only answer if you ask me.
Marxism is when people stand up for their rights I guess?
> using <> for templates (rather than something like []) was a medium mistake

I never get this take. Array indexing is done with []. This would just confuse the hell out of me.
I disagree, if anything we need to know what the distribution is before we make such sweeping claims. While pretty much every country has an income tax, which means that we knows fairly well who makes what, there is no equivalent for wealth. Most wealth distributions are estimates which get progressively worse as we near the top percentiles, because really big wealth is very mobile and international.

So yeah before we say: "it always looks like this, it's just about what the parameters are", we need to measure it and have a clearer idea of what it looks like in different societies otherwise we won't be able to decide what the desirable parameters are like.
> That's really the only explanation you can think of?

Another is the fact that many choose to own luxury items or buy drugs (tobacco, alcohol are included) instead of... you know... saving. And then self-proclaim to live "paycheck to paycheck"⋆.

Middle class gets poorer and the rich get richer because inflation is literally eating away the former's life savings while the other has doubled his net worth in just 10 years.

⋆I am not discrediting those that are truly living paycheck to paycheck. But a lot of people blaming the system and getting poorer are usually spending a shitton of money on useless things. Financially literate people prefer to save and invest this money because they understand the cost of opportunity.
From the text in the link below, it appears that permacomputing
is primarily concerned about lowering how much energy you use
on tech, and refurbish and reuse old technology.

https://permacomputing.net/getting_started/
Wars are largely started because of poor relations. The US overtly supported and encouraged an effort within Ukraine to overthrow a democratically elected president because he moving more towards Russia than the West. Russia then ended up invading Ukraine for fears of having NATO not only right on their doorstep, but right in their geographic Achille's Heel.

If the US and Russia were on good relations none of this would have happened, Germany's economy would still be booming, and just about everybody would be so much better off today. And no, the article does not say the Pentagon will "unilaterally disarm." It ordered a halt to offensive operations against Russia - e.g. the Russian government which is certainly going to be reciprocated. Criminal elements are a different topic, but I do expect as relations between US and Russia warm, they will no longer be looking the other way when these groups target the West.
LandingAI by Andrew Ng Releases Agentic Document Extraction
Goedel's theorem is only a problem if you assume that intelligence is complete. (where complete means: able to determine whether any formal statement is true or false). We know that anything running on a computer is incomplete (e.g. Turing halting problems). For any of this to be interesting, Penrose would have to demonstrate that human intelligence is complete in some sense of the word. This seems highly unlikely. Superficially, human intelligence is not remotely complete since it is frequently unable to answer questions that have yes or no answers, and even worse, is frequently wrong. So not complete, either.
Nope. In a crash the poor get thrown out of their houses, have to sell their land, etc. The rich can endure more, buy that stuff and after the crisis it is even worse.
Agree. And code libraries should be similarly isolated.
It's Weird That Eggs Were Ever Cheap
If we got rid of the federal government, and things didn’t break put into war or anything, would the issue be solved?
Good ideas, thanks!

I have a 2u drawer that could accept a face panel. It would actually be super useful to be able to access the equipment behind without taking the rack off the wall.
> Still, expert reviewers will occasionally disagree in their labelling. To ensure quality, an audio clip [box characters], at which point [...]

Have they censored their own article?
Ask HN: How to draw up a business plan for software?
It's the unusual vacations that get time in the coffee break.
Huh, I didn't know it had a TCP option, I thought it was UDP-only.
Keep a changelog: Don't let your friends dump Git logs into changelogs
Try lighter fluid, that should work better.
In don't think they meant formatting details.
> The compression can't be a bottleneck when you've got a correct library.

It absolutely can tho. You’re not going to do memory compression using zlib regardless of its flavour.
I admire your restraint while responding. Saying "at least you're not a feudal lord's slave!" is the most uninspiring argument by the intellectually lazy status quo apologists.

(I'm sure the parent isn't in this category, so I'm speaking in general.)
Yes… but from my point of view, if there is an alternative solution without those restrictions, I’ll go with that. I’d only consider a solution with such restrictions if its other advantages were so compelling as to overcome that (and even then, if one has to ask legal, it isn’t guaranteed they’ll say “yes”)
Next time give lighter fluid a try, that should work better.
Actually, when you watch the trench warfare in Ukraine a bit, a lot of the bunkers and frontline drone teams run of basically large power banks (eco flow & similar) powering their starlink terminals, running their computers and charging drone batteries.

Those power banks are then charged by various means, from generators (noisy & having a significant heat signature so need to be far from anything importannt) to solar panels (quite big, reflected light might give off their position but are possibly harder to easily destroy remotely than a single generator).
That's a great distinction actually. Thanks
I know people who worked on it. It was real. They used real people for some calls, in some cases, but a vast majority of calls made through the system with 100% automatic.
It changed in the same way cheating on your wife changes the dynamic in a marriage. It ruins trust that may never be possible to restore.
Comparing the landuse efficiency of corn-based biomass vs PV is about 60-75x.

It just doesn't make any sense at all to use crops for energy production.
You should be able to remove the stickiness with lighter fluid.
Wood lathes, and generally woodworking tools like saws and routers are substantially more dangerous. Especially at the scale of machinery you have in vocational classes.
In this context, of course. It is not a general statement ;-)
I lived through all that, I know. Torvalds didn't dream up git btw, it was a bad, but performant copy of monotone's DVCS UI/UX.

We can do better though. Patch theory shows that we shouldn't even need to care about commit history, for example. If we could just get off the tree-of-diffs model.
A JPEG Image Compression Service Using Part Homomorphic Encryption (2019)
Just because there is a power law relationship doesn't justify having such a steep curve. Flatten the curve, the rich should pay more tax.

The alternative is returning to a feudal gilded age where there are a very very small cabal of asset owning lords, a very small class of scribes for the lords, and then a sea of serfs.
George Washington didn't have Lockheed Martin's hand in his pocket.

Wars were much cheaper when all you needed were men, horses and small arms.
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> Researchers found an AI bot is pretty good at helping people rethink false beliefs.

So glad it:

- Works only on false beliefs

- Is used on all false beliefs equally, without cherry-picking. Sure the article explicitly only mentions Qanon, covid-19, and the 2020 election, but they state it "held across a [wide?] range of topics", so I'm sure they also used it to debunk such conspiracies as anti-Black bias in the legal system [1] and media [2], the false belief that Israel does not have undue influence in US politics [3], or that Cleopatra was Black. They just forgot to mention them in the article.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42598246

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085539

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073152
There is reason to believe this time might be different. Individuals can't revolt. It takes a critical mass which is only achieved via organisation. Why do you think privacy is forever under attack? The way we are going, future generations won't even have this option.
Hmm, so what is your opinion of what the NSA is doing these days?
> What has it been historically?

In the latter 20th century we had 80% tax rates.

> Are we still better off than soviet Russia?

That's the wrong question (a very poor state to aim for!). The right questions are: are we better off than we were? And are we as well off as we could be?

> It so easily becomes: capitalism = bad

It so easily becomes "capitalism vs. communism". Where is our imagination to dream better?

(both are bad in my opinion, and for similar reasons (centralisation of power))
> That was my point though, to highlight how relative differences in percentages represent vastly different actual performance jumps. It quickly becomes meaningless since it's not the percentages that matter, it is the actual number of transistors.

But it is the percentage that matters? If I have 10B transistors and I add 1B to it, the speedup I can expect is 10%. If I have 1B transistors and add 1B to it, the speedup I can expect is 100%. Tremendous difference. Why would I ever care about the absolute number of transistors added?
Excellent question. No, I am not. I am just attempting to use my very limited knowledge on this subject to hopefully further discussion on a topic that feels really important.

I would love other people to jump in and elevate this conversation.

Sure, CVEs might not be the ideal metric. Could you, or anyone else, suggest a better metric?

If GitHub is too lethargic to do even contemplate this type of change, maybe this could be a differentiator for GitLab?
> a future where we get to keep doing the same destructive practices

If anything, I see it as an antidote to the trap you describe. It doesn't reject technology (it's fundamentally progressive) but it also doesn't imagine a future where technology solves all the problems.

The objective of Solarpunk is to promote self sufficiency and living within natural limits. It is very much about re-imagining culture and exploring what a meaningful lifestyle looks like with a strong focus on community and creative self-expression. It resists the ideology of limitless growth and necessary scarcity while also saying that human societies can continue to progress and flourish in ways that matter.

Every genre of "punk" has explicitly resisted the status-quo and this one is no different.
Well, to clarify at least one core aspect, tariffs can't cover the gap.

I think the estimate was income taxes in the US represented a few trillion dollars while estimated tariff revenue was a few hundreds of billions. Leaving a gap of... a few trillion dollars.
That reminds me of a humorous parody where the "CEO of Skype" is going apoplectic at the company's decline and loss of first-mover advantage.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0w_pwZY3E
Nowadays is different from the feudal times you referred to. Because the majority of us are brainwashed by the media. When the brain is chained, there is no hope for a revolution.
Because you pay for it
I don't think weatherproofing them is as much as a lift as making them work autonomously: once you have a proof of concept, it's much easier to evolve it to whatever spec you need.

For replication, probably not by themselves, but as part of an industrial system run by elites? Sure, why not? You progressively automate all the prerequisites to the manufacturing of your robots until the entire supply chain is automated. If they're unlucky, The Machine Stops [0]. If they're not... well, they won't need us.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
There's a lack of niche consumer stuff. Like not iPods and such but stuff like Commodores, vintager Macintoshes, etc
Without access to the .NET ecosystem it would be dead in the water
Does anyone have a collection of all public courses on latest AI techniques?
Impressive. What kind of valves? Including the boiler?
Chiming in with a Purdue alum perspective.

If you can get away with this, keep doing so, but definitely recommend putting some time into the 59000 / 69000 classes taught at the grad level.
Advisors let you swap elective classes in your track for the higher level ones, and they’re far more interesting (especially for the AI/ML track).
Also connects you with more professors that would be research oriented (if that was something you were interested in).
The program also had an exchange with ETH/KTH which unfortunately I couldn’t take advantage of due to COVID.
Basic Awareness in Addition to Deep Understanding
Wow, I didn't know that! In Germany, everyone get's at least 4 weeks of PTO, most jobs get 6 weeks off.
Yeah it's tough. Unfortunately game design is not my strongest attribute. Hopefully someone more creative than I can think of something though!
Beyond Conway's law: bridging structure and function
> The bigger issue for them are people who move away, lie and invent medical problems to avoid work rules.

Don’t worry, people are perfectly capable of doing that in the office too.
Ah but consider if the rich own 87% and the poor 13% and pension funds 40% and foreigners 17% then there is 157% to go around! Or maybe it's 87% of the rich directly own equities? Or maybe this is a wind up for clicks and gibberish. (I am also commenting ignorantly).
I think that doesn't work, because we don't know how to represent and predict the state of a cloud of elementary particles to that level of detail. You could argue that the mathematics proves that this is possible in principle, but I counter that you have no idea whether the theory extrapolates to such situations in real life because it is way out of humanity's compute budget to test. Like the rest of physics, I expect new regimes would come with new phenomena that we don't understand.
What, "Increased leakage current on Bank 0 GPIO when pad input is enabled"? How does that relate to the pulldowns?
Thanks for clarifying! I thought that Cap'n Proto allows for evolving schemas, but I guess it's true that if each of your messages is completely different, it's not going to benefit you as much perhaps.
I guess the decimal equivalent would be multiplying by 10 vs multiplying by 5.

Or for hexadecimal: multiplying by 0x10 (16) or by 2, 4 or 8.
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I'm fairly sure it can read them now.
Over where? I see you're working at an agtech company. Are you perchance in Uttar Pradesh? Brazil?
I doubt money has been Elon's primary motivation for at least the last 25 years, possibly longer. He is seeking approval and recognition, maybe power. His love for Mars might go beyond the recognition he gets from it. But Money is just a gateway to all of these things, and in a way a byproduct.
Sure, but what are you going to do about that? (edit: formatting)
Well it all comes down to trust eventually, you cannot inspect every single line of code of every programs you want on run on your computer.
Nowadays even Github stars are not worth that much trust because malicious actors can just make fake accounts or buy them.
My public school never gave me any classes on financial literacy while children of global elites receive the best guidance for it. My classmates and I were then instructed by every counselor and parent to take out six-figure student loans with variable interest. We were teenagers in high school without fully-developed brains.

I can keep pulling examples out of the rabbit hat, just let me know.