skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My advice is the near debt free option. You will be so far ahead four yrs from now.
London is great and you will have a wonderful social life.
If you are full up serious about studies, you will be too busy studying to fully enjoy the glamorized university experience. Graduating debt free is a huge plus.
Finally, think about two steps after college. Not just the next step. Good decisions made sequentially tend to compound. Your BBC networking will be great.

Good luck!
- Home page layout is broken on narrow screens.

- Citations seem to just be the titles of the papers? Changing the citation style doesn’t do anything.
low net profits margins are simply how retail works, it's not news that retail requires scale. and in fact both target and best buy did see record profits shortly after the pandemic started.
This just isn't true, of course you can, you just need to use a hosting provider or ISP that allows it. Plenty do.
Fascinating history. Do remind yourself and read about the history of BMW at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_BMW too. They also made aircraft engines and motorbikes (still).
You may not have realized but China needs more room and resources, and Russia has them. Russia is a natural ally with us against China, if we let them be.

>Nuclear holocaust? lol

The left used to march to stop nuclear war, now they laugh about it maniacally on the Internet... You are truly unhinged.
I don't think the parent is saying that. I think the idea is that if you have two buildings with utilization of less than 50%, you move people in one single building and sell the other one.
i feel like you're overgeneralizing here
The leader can do no wrong. All its decisions are justified and without nuance. The idea of questioning the logic doesn't even exist. It's a cult.
Chemists find greener path to making ethylene oxide, a key industrial chemical
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which is a win! less concentration in a single country, particularly a hostile one, is a positive outcome
If it is half the cost to produce it over seas, 25% more is still much less than on shoring. On shoring is more than just the CoG, it requires capital investment which may no longer be needed in a year or four. It's not a simple or no brainer decision for most of the tariff targets with them being so broad
It's stupider than that - a lot of people believe that the manufacturer will just eat a 25% hike in tax. Build a tariff wall and make China pay, as it were.
If You're So Smart, Why Can't You Die?
Next should be Visio, which is more than replaced by diagrams.net/draw.io
> Now, 50 years later, they appear to have lost the title of the world's major superpower.

And how is that causally related to the abandonment of the gold standard? Is the CNY somehow backed by gold, or the RUR?
You make a lot of claims about the future, but you are guessing. We have no idea. All I hear is fear mongering and hate against people with more than they have.

Fwiw, I think there is a upper bound where inequality starts hurting the average (we aren't near it) however all the solutions I hear are worse than doing nothing. The government forcing equality by taking from one to give to another will never work. It's been tried and it fails horribly.
> The US has been our 'closest friend and ally' for 70+, hell nearly 100 years now

Yes, which is why it's absolutely idiotic to start calling them our enemies after a couple of months of President Trump

We will weather this rocky part of our friendship with America and come through it later
They could be at an evolutionary equilibrium already.
The minute that Republicans allow one penny of cuts to social security, senior citizens - the most active voters - are going to abandon the Republican Party in droves. It might even turn Florida Blue again.

If they cut Medicare reimbursements or force senior citizens to pay more, it will have the same affect.

Modifying health care benefits that people already have has hurt Democrats in 2010 with the ACA and Republicans in 2018 trying to repeal it.
Based on what logic…?

There’s not a widely agreed upon definition of intelligence last time I checked. So it seems impossible for “idiocy” to be any better defined.

There’s not even such an agreement that all human adults are even sentient in the first place, or what the critical threshold is.
And yet there's a Return To Office mandate, and now selling off offices. You're trying to rationalize selling off
> abandon all hopes of being an empire

I should hope so! Imperialist ambitions are what Russia is still doing, but most other nations have realized that war isn’t profitable. Fighting a war to conquer factories will likely result in owning rubble.

This article has a more convincing description of how it works in modern times:
https://acoup.blog/2023/07/07/collections-the-status-quo-coa...
The government has their tentacles in them to make sure the microdots are printed. They're trying to lock down 3D printers too in NY state.
What a horrible way of looking at the world. Not everything needs to be a competition.

Sure, do what you get paid for or care about intentionally, but framing it as being in the "top x%" is just so off-putting. I don't want to constantly compare myself to others. I'd rather compare myself today to myself yesterday. Or, you know, just do things I enjoy because I enjoy them.

As for wanting influence, I can't relate at all. I just want sovereignty over my own life.
It's an unsolvable problem, because any sufficiently complex job will therefore be complex to measure. I mean, if you could measure it, then you could just do it, no? Why spend all this time measuring how good an engineer is?

If you really want to know, you have to look at the code, sit in on the meetings, write the code and see the challenges with integrating with the existing system, submit a PR to see the pushback and... oh wait now you're just an engineer.

If we hire two engineers to act as one then maybe, maybe, we could measure performance. At the cost of the largest inefficiency imaginable.

It's not unlike using generative AI for coding. Writing code is the easy part! Making sure it works is another beast. Honestly, I'd much rather write code than read it. If it takes X time to write code and > X time to read it, which in my book it does, why bother with the reading?
> "Brain drain" is what we had been doing for the past 80 years or so.

Really? For at least 20 years, if not quite a bit longer, the US has made it obnoxiously difficult for foreign students studying US universities to travel or to remain in the US after graduation.
It is a perfect plan when you are trying institutionally destroy oversight mechanisms. Fire the people and sell the buildings they worked in. Create maximal damage and work to restore oversight. It's actually quite brilliant, even though it is evil.
It's almost as if they're being willfully obtuse and acting in bad faith.
Interesting, so to extend the metaphor - in the game of soccer it's the scoring of goals that matters, not the raw physical stamina of the player, but if that facade of civilized competition breaks down, then it's back to the basics.
> or people who actually study these things

How do you define "actually study" here, and what makes you think the author didn't study the topic at all?

Its totally fine if you disagree with the author's view or have additional information that they missed or didn't consider.

Writing it off as coming from someone who didn't "actually study" the topic is unnecessarily dismissive.
The Soviet Union had strong consumption power, but they did not know how to manufacture. The final result was obvious.
There are other important outcomes of an economy, like better healthcare, education, housing, and well-being. But it seems like those real, tangible outcomes have become decoupled from “the line goes up” economy.

I think the original reply was itself a strawman of the point the article was trying to make. Manufacturing isn’t the only important thing about an economy but it’s an important one.
At least the vast majority of sane economist rejected it long ago. That's why people who preach it are called goldbugs.

The US and *every other country jumped from it because it didn't work well and caused frequent instability*. The countries who dumped it quickest recovered from the great depression the fastest
> Basically give those workers a visa along with their diploma.

> Obama thought the idea was intriguing and mentioned it multiple times to his advisors. It never went anywhere though.

This sounds like OPT on an F-1 visa. If the OPT employer likes you, then they sponsor your H-1B application, and with your masters+ degree from an American institution, you get two shots in the lottery. (And if there's a recession, the caps might not get hit anyway). Kind of a drag because you'll probably need to get a masters degree, but it'll help your immigration file later if you want to try for permanent residency, or if you give up and pick a new host country.
> Brain-draining the world is really the key to cementing American Hegemony in a post-Cold War world.

Why should we want that instead of an orderly, well-governed democracy? Do you think people in Sweden or Denmark are upset their countries aren't hegemons?

And what would that do to the country? Do you really think that, say, the top 5% of India and China (100 million people) would do better maintaining a democracy than median Iowans? That's a real bet that your assumptions about how society works actually reflect reality.
His point with respect to the questionable nature of the modern economy is a good one. I’d guess that 20% of GDP is tax avoidance.

Everything with respect to real estate is a scheme to get government subsidy. If you go to a modern Courtyard or Hampton Inn, you’re sleeping in a tax shelter that rents beds
I gotta say, switching to an Epson EcoTank printer was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

It has ink reservoirs rather than cartridges, and small, permanently plumbed tubes that go from the reservoirs to the print head.

Not only does that mean there's no way it can tell what kind of ink I'm putting in it, it also means the tanks are fucking massive. It's so nice being able to go O(years) without refilling.

It cost about twice what a comparable, cartridge-based printer cost at the time. To this day I still consider it one of the best purchases I've ever made.
Clinton wasn't able to get a significant number of his own party to vote for it while significant numbers of republicans supported it. At the time free trade was a rebuplican talking point and many democrats opposed it.
shpool is great, but it’s still Linux-only AFAIK. There was a Mac port coming along last I checked, but I don’t know the current status.
I've been using maddy. It seems this has more features (like web interface, reputation tracking etc).
> In the 19th century, the US had a more or less continual stream of panics and recessions. In 1932, everyone had to get off the gold standard because there was no mechanism to stop the deflationary death spiral otherwise.

Disabling the feedback mechanisms isn't a win. When it had the feedback from continuous minor panics the US built an economy capable of taking on the entire word and winning by a massive margin in the 1940s. And I bet there were alternative mechanisms to deal with the "deflationary debt spiral".

Now the US keeps telling itself it is OK while it is increasingly marginalised. There isn't much evidence is it can win a major war or compete economically against more serious Asian efforts. The election of Trump suggests that US citizens don't even feel particularly fat and comfortable in their own economy. At least all the economic indicators say the US is OK though! The money printing is sure to lead to prosperity.
Well, bitcoin does have an upper limit, but rug pull coins don't. The exact number is ₿20,999,999.9769
> I’m talking doubling the US population, bringing in all the factory workers, farmers, miners, engineers, literally anyone who produces value

Based??

> Back the dollar by gold

Oh haha lol

No bud, gold isn't money.
farmed trees could theoretically cause more harm than good, if the plantation was from bulldozing a native area which had biodiversity.

It really is circumstance based, rather than always good.
I will happily read his hot takes over Musk's.
And everything you say or hear is propaganda, see how useless Ad hominem are?

Maybe I am subject to propaganda and you aren't, either way I'm on the side of peace. You are on the side of war and death. I'll take the propaganda.
> Not really, no. If China cut off the US, for any reason, who gets hurt more?

China gets hurt more. They are an export economy. US will face some temporary pain, sure, but other countries build stuff as well. Meanwhile what does China do with all the materials piling up, millions out of jobs and a half a trillion dollar hole in their economy?
I have a feeling that any cost to other nations might not be a concern to TFA in any way, given that the stated goal seems to be to somehow "save the American empire".

Geopolitics from a less civilized time making their comeback, this time without mincing any words.
how does it compare to migadu?
Free trade and globalization have been around a lot longer than most of us here have been alive, maybe all of is

It has been a rising tide that lifts all boats on our blue marble
HP does this with their printers. The trick is to refuse all the updates so you can use 3P ink.
Is there any mechanism to ensure you use "genuine" ink, or can you just dump whatever in?
I wouldn't call that brain drain then.
Serif makes a very capable alternative also called Publisher. I really like their software - you can buy it without a subscription and it's very polished.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher
seemed like a good article until he went into "back the dollar on gold" and revealed he was a total crackpot, sad
This betrays a very naive concept of "knowledge" and "understanding". It presupposes that there's some kind of platonic realm of logic and reason that an AGI just needs to tap in to. But ultimately, there can be no meaning, or reasoning, or logic, without context. Matching a pattern of shapes presupposes the concept of a shape, which presupposes a concept of spatial relationships, which presupposes a concept of 3 or even 2 dimensional space. These things only seem obvious and implicit to you because they permeate the environment that your mind spent hundreds of millions of years evolving to interpret, and then tens of years consuming and processing to understand.

The true test of an AGI is it's ability to assimilate disparate information into a coherent world-view, which is effectively what the pretraining is doing. And even then, it is likely that any intelligence capable of doing that will need to be "preloaded" with assumptions about the world it will occupy, structurally. Similar to the regions of the brain which are adept at understanding spatial relationships, or language, or interpreting our senses, etc.
Reality isn't simple enough to peg responsibility on any one person.

Unless you go with the "shit rolls down hill" approach and ultimate land blame for everything on the person in charge, it'd be extremely hard to find a clear line between 6 weeks of Trump's presidency and an attack on the scale of 9/11.

Maybe you could tie it back to connections with his first term, but any attack on that scale takes years to plan, not weeks, and has plenty of facets to consider when it comes to what motivated the attackers to actually do it.
The part I don't like is it confuses the situation to make it harder to tell if goods and services are getting cheaper or more expensive in real terms. But I don't know if I'd say it was causal. I'm more just pointing out that there isn't much evidence that the gold standard failed and there isn't a reason to think that all the economists reject it. They're more probably neutral to it.
He is pretty clueless about a few things, namely 1) China inflated an even bigger asset bubble in the form of real estate and they are using dumping and aggressive trade to keep afloat, and 2)the regime can be ended in a few months without importing food since it’s not self sufficient in terms of food supply
At least the site footer "A home for poorly researched ideas" is appropriate.
if e-ink "paper" could be made as cheaply as real paper, so much so that you could just post it like a letter, then i do think it can end print.

But at least as of now, it doesn't seem like that's the case.
Right, velocity of money! I think this is the meatier part of the essay and I wish geohot would have skipped the bit about the gold standard - our main measure of growth is how quickly we hand money back and forth (is there another measure that allows expenditures to cancel out ? Net Domestic Product ?)

The graph that shocked me tho was the electricity production, I didn't realize US was so flat but it rings true, I know there's a 2 year wait-list to even have your energy production considered to be hooked up to the grid, but I assumed there was some at least some throughput, now we're taking about onsite mini nukes while China is building.
FSF's Venn diagram:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html

Some people seem to have gravitated toward saying that only copyleft licenses are "free software" (because FSF promotes both concepts?), but this is contrary to historical usage, where copyleft and permissive licenses were both considered both "free" and "open source".
I read the beginning of the post and it looks quite interesting. I'll read the rest tomorrow when my mind is sharper.

I checked my blog and I also wrote a post about some crypto related things shortly after I purchased the book. It's a post about a bug in the JDK that I stumbled across, which I am certain I would not have understood without Bruce's book:

https://blog.heckel.io/2014/03/01/cipherinputstream-for-aead...

Btw, I was a bit of a fan boy back then and I got the signed copy of the book, haha.
It works in the sense that if you open the website it will open... probably.

Based off of what I've seen on Twitter, I'm not convinced it's very popular. I regularly see the stupidest people who walk this Earth making obvious rage bait. You know, Nazi stuff, women shouldn't vote, that type of thing.

The naive thing to say is that these people are morons because they're Musk supporters and surely that's the only thing left for Twitter. But I don't think so. They're bots. Millions and millions of them. Bots talking to bots talking to other bots.

The reason this bubble hasn't popped is because nobody has told advertisers. They're essentially burning their money but shhh it's a secret teehee!

In Twitter's defense, they're not the only ones doing it. Facebook deleted what, 1.5 billion bots a year ago? But if you log on, you'll see AI Jesus made out of cornflakes with 200,000 thousands comments that all say "God Bless". Hmmm...
I use C-Space, easy to type, doesn’t conflict with other shortcuts
Well, if you believe that that somehow makes Bitcoin immune to scams, I have a wallet address where you can send me some right now and I "promise to return you twice the amount to give back to the community"...

Note that Bitcoin might have a monetary cap built in, but source code is not actually capable of preventing people from denominating IOUs in it.
Yep, all the times presidents of countries make scam coins for their citizens. Amongst other current events. This shit isn't normal.
I'd be very surprised if SVG animations don't use substantially the same rendering paths that CSS animations do. In fact, if anything, I'd expect CSS animations to receive more time and attention from browser devs than the old SMIL elements and attributes, to whatever extent that they aren't equivalent internally.
I comment a lot, mostly to acknowledge the lofty brilliance of some people. ( Like you ), but I do not know what my karma is or how to downvote, but no matter.

I have no idea what percentile I am in... I am absolutely sure someone is tracking/ranking it, because if I were actually training and AI, I would absolutely start at this large collection of bainiacs - but first I would ask permission, which I would guess would be politely declined.

The article itself is fairly mind blowing.
I've left Hungary ~10 years ago, partially because of the politics. Hungary is essentially a failed state, people just don't know yet. Like ~100 years ago, poor hungarian leadership managed to position itself on the wrong side of history, and once the phase transition comes and passes, and the better part of the world gets back on track towards more liberalism and democracy, like it always does, nobody will be doing Hungary any favors.. same as after WW2.
> I've never understood what's the point of attracting good students if you don't want to keep them later on

US schools attract international students because most will pay full tuition, subsidizing costs for local students.
> Not only does that mean there's no way it can tell what kind of ink I'm putting in it
In the past week I created two apps within 3-5 iterations. No manual edits (other than .env).

Another one I thought was pretty cool was handing it some API docs for something, then had it build a UI and admin interface from scratch.

The dev agent tools these days aren't half bad, and they're getting better.
Do you have a recommendation for a particular color model? Preferably with a scanner (but it's fine if not)?
Well, it's deferring to experts, but whether economists are experts at anything is a hot debate.
This reminds me of the Japanese principle of "fuben eki". Sometimes it makes sense to make a task more difficult in order to increase mastery or improve a person's understanding of how the process works.
The US is already the brain drain destination #1. Nowhere else can highly skilled people generate comparable levels of income.
We had to bail out soy bean farmers last time to the tune of $25B. That's just one instance of how they backfired and did more harm than good
50% utilization is good for preventing covid spread tho just saying
I am liking the kind of articles on this blog but unfortunately. I cannot find an index page that lists every single post every written with a link to it. Could you kindly add such a page or point me to it?
It's not whether the hosting provider or ISP allows it, it's whether the address they give you has reputation so that mail servers all over the world allow connections from it.
Also great about an easy pathway to CITIZENSHIP, rather than a 'work visa' is suddenly they aren't a serf to be abused by the employer (any more than any other citizen at least), and thus grow the market rather than undercut employment.
What of the people that are born who don't produce gametes?

( For example, no gametes are produced in 85% of individuals with streak gonads )

The whole human sex | gender thing seems superficially clearcut but the real world edge cases are messy AF.

The aspect I personally find confusing is that the exceptions are relatively rare .. human births are straighforward enough for 98% of births, and of the 2% that pose a challenge the really curvy edge cases are rare (but real).

Why then do some people seeming lose their collective minds over real but rare occurrences and attempt to hammer every triangle into either a round or a square hole?

I have a purely empirical observational view of the world at large, forced a priori prescriptiveness at odds with the world seems more than a little flat earthy.