skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing stopped NASA from doing what SpaceX did. Or New York City. Its not like they started with billions and billions. In fact, many claims that it was all funded by the government. Well, why didn't they just built it themselves?
It can be very abstract for some, but I am actually eligible for a magical summon letter to participate in this team sport involving drones
Answer to sibling about Romania
Elections were nulled because of illegal campaign funding.
Russia literally bankrolled the campaign and it wasn't reported as part of the campaign funding.
The point is, that when Charles Dickens came out, people also blamed him on lowering the literacy rate. Called something different back then.

But maybe, it's not population wide.

More people were reading Dickens, so rate of reading in population was increasing. But the elites that thought everything should be in Greek/Latin, thought everyone reading Dickens was a downgrade.

Every generation argument.

Weren't Egyptian hieroglyphs basically emoji's.
There isn't a well-defined / binary boundary to an "actual script"; I'm assuming this "note" thing is something like a 10-liner in Python. It's simply two curves of scripting in sh/bash/zsh becoming more difficult vs. Python starting with more effort but a more shallow curve — at some point the curves cross. But that crossover point is different for each person, and the other option doesn't immediately become impossible.
Right, but see how the complexity budget is prescribed ahead of time: we first set the regularization strength or whatever, and then optimize the model. The result is the best model with complexity no greater than the budget. In this standard approach, we're not minimizing complexity, we're constraining it.
I was part of the Digg-to-Reddit migration 15 years ago or whatever, and now i don't even remember what Digg did to piss us all off.
didn't knew that!

Even though I am part of this secure messaging group chat on matrix thing and I had even created a whole tierlist of security of protocols etc. and saw delta chat & have it running and fiddled with it.

The fact that it is written by creator of pypy is wholesome!!
Well if we're being rational about it - how confident are we in the accuracy of that assessment, how likely is our attack to succeed, and how likely is our attack to have a positive impact? Worse, what is the probability that our attack instead has a negative impact?
This techno-fascist trend can best be understood through the lens of a cognitive bias called 'elite projection': where the rich and powerful believe that everyone shares their preferences and plans accordingly.

'Freedom' from the likes of Peter Thiel is best understood as "I should be allowed to do what I want". On the surface, it's silly and lame: Adam Something, a vlogger, did a great video demonstrating how Elon's driverless pod concept could never work in the real world. So it's easy to dismiss as rich people being stupid, but what we're seeing emerge here, is something much darker and far more sinister.

Money amplifies speech, reach and political power, and so one's freedom is commensurate with their wealth. Combine that with how big business and private equity have switched to basically strip-mining the middle class through rent-seeking, and we are looking at a future of fascist billionaire feral elites ruling over everyone else as serfs.

Peter Thiel is a key supporter of the 'Dark Enlightenment' intellectual movement: a metastasis of the alt-Right into an overly White-supremacist, elitist neo-reactionary movement, and they are getting serious traction everywhere.

Be afraid. I am.
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> that tech has gotten to a point where user hostile moves don't have as much of an impact anymore

It’s because the small dozens of us that care about the freedom that the small internet afforded vs algorithmic content discovery is now the minority and no big platform cares about us.

In the early days of the internet, they had to care. They had to convince people to leave their beloved forums and IRCs and move to Facebook or Reddit.

Internet users were fairly niche and fickle. Now everyone uses the internet and most people don’t care about their own freedoms wrt how they interact with technology.
The most annoying thing is society's (especially American society) admiration for Billionaires and the belief that their IQ is in the four digits or some crap like that. More than intelligence, it takes ruthlessness, narcissism and questionable ethics (or no ethics at all) to amass hundreds of billions of dollars in a couple of decades.

I feel sorry for anyone who worships people like Musk or Theil. Sure Theil was supposedly a talented chess player in his youth, did well in school etc. But so do millions of other kids. These dudes don't have so much money because they are intelligent, they have so much money because they are willing to do damn near anything to get it - including trampling over people that helped them in the first place
> "Wait, e-mail can do this, we just need a pretty UI"

This reminds me on this nice comment thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19217818
Theoretically there may be an exploit via data in the print jobs sent to the printer.
> nobody tell him

What?
This makes it sound like the police just passed by, saw him there and decided to arrest him, when in fact:

"On the day, he was asked to leave the area by a community officer who spoke to him for an hour and 40 minutes - but he refused."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9kp7r00vo
Again, because of duality, these are not really different things.

To your point in the other thread, once you start optimizing both data fidelity and complexity, it's no longer that different from other approaches. Regularization has been common in neural nets, but usually in a simple "sum of sizes of parameters" type way, and seemingly not an essential ingredient in recent successful models.
> Thiel’s pretty unique in that he was involved in this elaborate and secretive litigation campaign that resulted in the destruction of a pretty substantial media outlet when he secretly funded Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media.

Nick Denton is a terrible person in my opinion; a gossip columnist and the things he often published were pure trash. Anti-semantic drivel, outing people against their will, and other salacious click-farming nonsense. Let’s not forget that Gawker lost a jury trial and the verdict bankrupted him. That Peter helped fund the case doesn’t change that the jury found Gawker liable. Gawker’s actions caused their demise. If you want to play with gossip and attempt to destroy people, you have to be prepared to suffer the legal consequences when the targets seek legal recourse. Blaming Peter for the destruction of Gawker is ridiculous — Gawker did the thing and the thing had consequences.

As far as the article claiming that Peter Theil’s philosophy borders on fascism — that’s complete nonsense. Libertarianism is the opposite of fascism. Suppressing free speech, forcing businesses to close — all of the Biden era Covid policies — that’s fascism. Remember the days when we couldn’t talk about vaccine injuries? Or the times when scientific journals scrubbed articles that contradicted the prevailing directives on masks? Specifically articles published with flu studies that showed surgical masks as ineffective. One day, the articles were there, the next day, those articles seemingly disappeared aside from within the print versions which are harder to scrub for obvious reasons. Remember the social media bans for even expressing skepticism about mRNA covid shots? How about sharing opinions on the lab leak theory? What about the Santa Monica surfer who was arrested for surfing in the ocean with nobody within a half mile of him? That’s faciscm.

Fauci was unelected yet wielded incredible power, Sara Cody in Santa Clara county — also unelected yet had the sweeping power to shut down everything in her county during Covid. I never voted for her. Yet she had the singular, unaccountable power to destroy businesses and destroy children’s education. Covid-America was almost pure fascism, yet nobody on the left wants to have that conversation. People complain about Elon being “unelected,” while forgetting that Sara Cody shut down an entire region — including private businesses and schools.

Reducing the size and scope of government is not fascism. Using lawfare to go after political enemies is fascism. People are attempting to redefine words such as fascism in order to make their political opponents look scary, but ironically the real fascists are the ones calling everyone else fascist.
Neat summary but you forgot Grok!
I agree. As a fund or holding company manager, Mr. Buffet has a fiduciary obligation to shareholders.
None of what you laid out actually explains why it is waste. Doing things costs money. The $65 billion spent on consultants could be providing $650 billion in value.
I’m unable to read the full article linked but from the first two paragraphs it was not setting itself up for explaining why it’s waste either.
> Romania, who had their election forcibly cancelled because the EU

Well that’s wrong for a start. The election was cancelled by the Romanian constitutional court, not the EU.
My country's subreddit had a pretty big chunk of the country reading it, and it feels like the courts section of a newspaper gets posted to it every day, which I wonder how much that contributes to people's perception of the crime rate being worse than reality.
Most chinese are storing wealth in real estate its the prime investment vehicle. People in china have been speculating on properties for decades. The chinese government realized a bubble was forming because house builders started using crazy leverage. The fact this crazy bubble formed has shown the regulators were in fact asleep.
Any changes to ~/.bashrc or even ~/.tmux.conf would not reflect in any newly created session unless you terminate all sessions and start afresh. In screen, every new session starts from the current host environment which is more convenient
The jury is still out if Tesla is is still a success, losing 50% of sales each year for the few next years could clearly go toward bankruptcy.
> Ah, at worst, all humanity will go extinct.

To be honest, I don't care so much about humanity going extinct in 500 years. But somehow I care about me or my children dying at an early age because we as a species don't manage to not screw up our lives.
> Google Docs renders to a virtual canvas in the browser in the same way an applet would've back in 2003, except it would've been able to open files directly from the file system.

I'd have said the situation back then was a bit better than that - a Java applet wouldn't have been able to access your filesystem by default, for instance.

Part of the benefit of Sun's Java was that the bytecode itself could be statically verified to only have good behaviour and the plugin would then sandbox what it could access at runtime. The plugin itself would obviously have had bugs - like all software - but it's not obvious to me that was intrinsically worse than having all that code as part of the browser (as we do now).

I'd contrast it with ActiveX and (I think), which was very free about what its applets could do (basically just Windows executable code, I think). Flash I'm less clear on the limitations of.

We have moved on in other ways, of course - browsers are architected to isolate processes more, including use of things like seccomp.
NFS originally stood for "No File Security".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33384073

Speaking of YP (which I always thought sounded like a brand of moist baby poop towelettes), BSD, wildcard groups, SunRPC, and Sun's ingenuous networking and security and remote procedure call infrastructure, who remembers Jordan Hubbard's infamous rwall incident on March 31, 1987?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31822138
What kind of company needs formal verification? Real time systems?
Doskey is a (kind of) Windows replacement for shell aliases, and it can be configured to auto-execute macros file in new cmd.exe windows.
Maybe it was a small group of drunk civilians on rented yacht?

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explos...
Yeah, I do something kind of similar, using Dash [1] snippets which expand to full commands.

Since I'm almost always on my mac, it means they're available in every shell, including remote shells, and in other situations like on Slack or writing documentation.

I mostly use § as a prefix so I don't type them accidentally (although my git shortcuts are all `gg`-consonant which is not likely to appear in real typing).

[1] https://kapeli.com/dash
We need it, Reddit has become terrible.
That's what gives it that nice tangy flavor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33681531

I've frequently written about Mitch Bradley's Forthmacs / Sun Forth / CForth / OpenBoot / OpenFirmware on HN. I was his summer intern at Sun in 1987, and used his Forth systems in many projects!

[...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29261810

Speaking of Forth experts -- there's Mitch Bradley, who created OpenFirmware:

[...]

Here's the interview with Mitch Bradley saved on archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120118132847/http://howsoftwar...

I've previously posted some stuff about Mitch Bradley -- I have used various versions of his ForthMacs / CForth / OpenFirmware systems, and I was his summer intern at Sun in '87!

Mitch is an EXTREMELY productive FORTH programmer! He explains that FORTH is a "Glass Box": you just have to memorize its relatively simple set of standard words, and then you can have a complete understanding and full visibility into exactly how every part of the system works: there is no mysterious "magic", you can grok and extend every part of the system all the way down to the metal. It's especially nice when you have a good decompiler / dissassembler ("SEE") like ForthMacs, CForth, and OpenFirmware do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9271644

[...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38689282

Mitch Bradley came up with a nice way to refactor the Forth compiler/interpreter and control structures, so that you could use them immediately at top level! Traditional FORTHs only let you use IF, DO, WHILE, etc in : definitions, but they work fine at top level in Mitch's Forths (including CForth and Open Firmware).

[...]

https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware

https://github.com/MitchBradley/cforth
here you go, guy got jail time for a crude joke in the UK

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925
AI was a term that was around for decades as well, but it’s meaning dramatically changed over the past 3 years.

Prior to gpt-3 AI was rarely used in marketing or to talk about any number of ML methods.

Nowadays “AI” is just the new “smart” for marketing products.

Terms change. The current usage of AGI, especially in the context I was talking about, is specifically marketing from LLM providers.

I’d argue that the term AGI, when used in a non fiction context, has always been a meaningless marketing term of some kind.
The central tenet of techno-fascism / the hard alt-Right / the Dark Enlightenment, is that democracy itself is incompatible with "freedom" (as techno-fascists understand it).
Honestly the amount of vitriolic comments has increased, and that seems to be more part of the problem than what you've presented here.

Sure, most of them are still downvoted to shit, and it's not clear how many are trolls vs true believers, but I do think it encourages the true believers that their views are more widespread.
Love me some good old whataboutism (sure, LLMs are now super-intelligent at writing software, but can they clean my kitchen? No? Ha!)
And it is specifically their buddies in the suits, like Rick Scott.
what's the fancy_module you are talking about here?
> The IETF is not a committee process and your claim of "which if anyone knows anything about IETF it's that" is very likely something coloured by your bubble and context. Committee means the members of the standard body itself design things.

There's no reward to this argument. I concede there's no actual committees. OK how do I add an "address" type to CBOR, that's right, I email a lot of people on IETF mailing lists, try and build support among people who have influence, spec authors feel persuaded/pressured, spec changes. This is a distinction without a difference, and is what almost everyone really means when they say "design by committee".

> What I don't understand is the hostility at the fork.

MP creators asked Bormann repeatedly to not submit anything to the IETF, and then to withdraw what he did submit. That wasn't cool of him!

> IETF people needed something for use in other protocols, with a standards doc to reference.

"needed" isn't the right verb here.

> They had a choice of either making up something completely new

That's fine. Or they could have waited. I think MPv5 came out like, a few months after Bormann's 1st draft (I'm guessing I don't really know). It's not like there was real urgency here. Nothing the IETF does is urgent.

> They acknowledged MessagePack as a good design and extended upon it to fix issues

CBOR's spec literally includes a section about MP [0] which was wrong when it was written and has become more wrong as time passes. Also not cool!

> That's the most pessimistic view possible, and ignores that changes were made. An optimistic view would be, someone acknowledged your serialization format as good, extended upon it, and took on the hassle to standardize it.

The changes were universally very bad, there was a good chance of causing huge confusion with slightly different very similar differently named formats, and there was an existing community of implementations. Imagine coming up w/ a pretty good data serialization format, building a company around it, fostering a diverse community of implementations, and some dude comes by, submits a similar yet incompatible version for standardization, adds a bunch of bad things to it, disses you in the spec, and names it after himself. What did standardization get them?

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8949#name-messagepa...
Why seat-based pricing will slowly die (for most categories)
They tried on the moon, but there does not seem to be an assumption that this is limited to the moon? So one could obtain a position anywhere in earth's orbit, up to heights of 380.000km? 1.5km accuracy is impressive then.

Apart from the attenuation from distance, I would expect that the navigation sallellites point their antennas mostly downwards to earth, but you might find some that radiate outwards. I don't think you can expect to receive from half the satellites though.
Homo Ratiocinator (Reckoning Human) – Communications of the ACM
And yet Gum Arabic is extremely cheap for the amounts needed.

At $4-$7 per Kg in the US, the cost per Coke can would be in the order of 0.025 cents (guesstimate).

This is interesting considering that 80% of the supply comes from Sudan.

It is a nearly universal ingredient in processed foods and professional kitchens. I wonder how the economics work to push the price down.

EDIT: Apparently naturally abundant Acacia trees produce it with barely any oversight and it is easy to harvest in large quantities compared to how much volume is needed in end-products. I suppose if Sudan tried to squeeze their monopoly other suppliers would easily come up in other regions. The reason for the monopoly must simply be a combination of a favorable environment and the fact that they are willing to do it very cheaply because unfortunately they don’t have many other options to sustain themselves.
> support for more than half a terabyte of unified memory

Soldered?
I have doubled my battery life on Moto Edge with Rethink DNS, blocking everything per app. There's so much junk I don't want to phone home that tries 50 times a day.
Inside The Lab with Atlas [video]
From the article:

> Many people are, however, concerned about pharmaceutical content in the urine. "It's the biggest question we get," Shupack says. REI has conducted research to find out just how much of common drugs like caffeine and the painkiller acetaminophen are evident in vegetables grown using urine fertiliser. The final results are yet to be released, but the preliminary findings suggest the amount of pharmaceuticals in vegetables fertilised with urine to be "extremely small". "You'd have to eat a pretty obscene amount of lettuce, every day, for way longer than you can live" to get a cup of coffee's worth of caffeine, Shupack says.
Yes. Many such cases. Big campaign spending need not be legal, let alone the norm.
It's the upcoming Minuteman missile replacement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-35_Sentinel
96gb on baseline model m3 ultra with a max of 512gb! Looks like they’re leaning in hard with the AI crowd.
It felt like the Lemmy instances really died off in a month or two.
SvelteKit. All data is just markdown files preprocessed with mdsvex.

When I'm on the go I don't really do any building, I'll add/edit a markdown file, push it to the remote in a branch. Cloudflare Pages will then give me a preview environment. If I like what I see, I merge the PR and it automatically deploys to "production."
I’m sure we all consented when we clicked through the driver installation screens…
Being able to print doesn't mean you have drivers for your printer - both the phone and printer support a semi-standardized protocol (probably bastardized postscript).
I understand not wanting to live in fear but if SHTF what are you gonna do? You’ll be less informed than the “scared” ones and you’ll be screwed. I wouldn’t say I live in fear. I still enjoy day to day life but I also stay informed and ready to scram if need be..
As are all Apple M devices.
You mention China, Russia — who are the billionaires over there we are counter-acting with Musk, etc.?
Your brain might have a spoon-sized amount of plastic in it
I still don't understand how one of the most popular website with free content and moderation and extremely cacheable content was never profitable.

Unrelated but they removed the <subreddit>.reddit.com shortcut some months ago.
US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine
Silicon Valley existed before billionaires and plenty of university/government funding flowed in. Silicon Valley doesn’t require billionaires but billionaires require Silicon Valley.
Unclear what devices this will be in outside of the mac studio. Also most of the comparisons were with M1 and M2 chips, not M4.
to be fair, I don't think vibe coding is "precision software" - as described, it's much more slapdash than that
Ultra disappointing, they waited 2 years just to push out a single gen bump, even my last year's iPad Pro runs M4.
Hiring a professional costs a lot of money. Like euthanasia is only for rich people who can afford it. The ludicrous thing here is that you geniuses are actually discriminating saying only rich people should be allowed to off themselves.

> I want to choose for me, th1t's it. We have the way more difficult and impacting choice of having the ability yo have children, suicide is a personal thing.

So what if a child makes this personal choice? Should we stop it? No right? Is the reason because the child is not sane enough or mature enough to make the right decision?

What criteria makes a person sane enough to make that personal choice? Is it an arbitrary age? Say 18?