skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm just trolling.
Yeah, but how long did it take to truly drop to the $5 mark? When bluetooth stuff came out (mice, keyboards, etc.) they were exorbitantly expensive. It was way cheaper for manufacturers to sell stuff with their own RF dongles instead of using BT.
> How about we check the 30 years before that: medicare, social security, the tail end of the new deal,

And Vietnam, depressed inner cities, social strife, crime and unemployment...
It also potentially means the state partly owns the free speech platforms, which may have some risks.
A startup shouldn't get these funds anyways.
I still do not understand the logic. Let me put it straight.

1. US Government has unlimited funding, heck, it came up with 2 trillions _during last month alone_ with some financial alchemy which I don't fully understand. But clearly it's not starving.

2. US Government has kinda poor record producing tangible results during last 30 years, in terms of advancing science, housing, whatever. I mean, can CDC quickly figure out in 2020, are the pieces of cloth on my face help to fight the virus or not? Seems it's still up for discussion.

3. Private capital, during the same time frame, gave us google search and maps, smartphones, movies on demand and god knows how much other stuff.

So, based on these 3 observable points, we should "Tax the living hell out of capital"? I still not getting it.
It's interesting, but I think the speaker would have done better to concentrate one language for each archetype, with examples.
> You realize he’s one of the main players in your enjoyment of the internet as we see it today right?

I know who he is.

> Then you somehow proceed to say “well why is Michael Jordan talking about how X player isn’t performing!? He should be out there playing right now”... uh what?

If he is on the bench and is talking about how performance is desperately needed, yes. Michael Jordan is old. He can't play as well anymore. Marc Andreessen is in the best position to be a builder in his life.

> So a player moves to becoming a coach or some support character after decades in the game and that’s your great comment?

Players generally stop playing once they for some reason can't (injury, age, etc) or begin to have other priorities and don't view the effort of playing as worth it.

I don't see a reason that he can't, so this is of lesser significance to him than the essay alone would indicate.
French brotherhood burying the dead since 1188
Fun, learning, an occasional surprise practical applications have all happened.
This is why judges cannot be the highest power - the people still need to be able to hold them accountable to ensure that the legal institutions don't become inaccessible to the common man.

(Not that they are accessible now... but it could be worse.)
We don’t need to build more things without a market, we need to buy more things that are built right. There’s a surgical mask manufacturer in the states who had capacity a few weeks ago but no hospital would sign a contract, they wanted masks immediately and then go straight back to buying from Asia once this blows over. This same thing could be said for many other categories in the post.

If you buy it, people will build it.
From my perspective a lot of the problem is indeed about _motivation_ and _imagination_, like Marc says.

One place where I'm finally starting to see this kind of desire to build making its way into the public sphere (and not just resonating in tech circles) is with all the growing energy around a Green New Deal (https://www.sunrisemovement.org/green-new-deal).

This is the first time in at least a decade that I can remember politicians talking with the same attitude Marc was. The climate crisis is an incredible opportunity to BUILD! And to build like we haven't built in generations!

I love your desire to find companies working in this space. I am interested to see what responses you get on that front. But I also think a serious way we can help is by shifting the public consciousness towards _belief in our ability to build_, by advocating for things like the GND. So this is how I'm spending my outside-work time right now: volunteering and organizing to spread the vision of a society that BUILDS, and fighting for political candidates that share that vision. :)
For me one of the main positives of dat is there isn’t an attached cryptocurrency.
IME, blogs that develop a readership worth the time and effort (up to the author, really) are devoted to one topic or a narrow range of related topics. I'm sure we all know of a few. But people's time is limited, and competition for their attention is fierce.

If -who- you reach is more important than -how many- you reach, then blogs might be the right route. I'd bet that Socrates was seldom surrounded by a crowd. Blogging doesn't require many technical skills, but it does demand that what we say is valued by those we can only hope will be back ... and that they have a way to contribute.
Curiosity doesn't require a practical purpose. If you're not curious about this story, that's fine; there are others on the front page, and thousands more if you click 'past' at the top. Please don't punish the readers who are, though, by posting off-topic bile to the thread.
Taxing the hell out of capital is a good idea, but our current political reality makes it hard to maintain any public service that's not extremely visible.

These are emergency preparedness problems so funding them means setting aside a pile of money and resources until the emergency actually happens. That pile of money makes an attractive target for capital, who can afford to fund campaigns to privatize those services and then get the emergency stockpile as a reward. That sort of maneuver has to go through a vote, but most voters get their understanding of the world through capital-owned media, so that's not much of an obstacle.

Edit: More and more, I think we need worker-owned news.
I'm not sure I understand the thesis of this essay, and it seems like rambling to me. Is the thesis "we need more desire"? That seems so abstract as to be meaningless. Obviously we all want companies to build new cool useful stuff. I'm failing to see any actionable suggestions or even new insights in this essay.
I also don't think you can just ask a court to answer a hypothetical in a binding way. You basically need to get into the legal problem first.
> Changing a name doesn't propagate backwards in time.

> you're certainly free to conform to whatever meaningless social convention you like.

You don't see the irony here?

I'm not going to waste any time replying further but I'd simply point out that human empathy and care for others costs nothing here.
>What if the key to making necessities like housing and education more affordable was to get the federal government out of the business of guaranteeing loans and backstopping reckless investors?

I would like my representatives to have a say in what is a reckless investors or not.

And I'm not really interested in schooling or health becoming more profitable as a vessel for investment in free market.

I would rather have decent, cheap public education for my kids and something else than whatever we're having for health. That the goal.

Unfortunalty, I don't think it's a great fit for a friction-less market. We're not selling financial instrument, we're trying to give young citizen everywhere a decent education, and have access to health.
If you're actually set on the ideas laid out there, don't join a pre-existing company. Find a domain you're passionate about advancing, learn what you need to validate your hypothesis on improvement, then do what you need to do to advance it. If you don't have any passion about whatever you'd be doing, there's not really any point; the world doesn't advance because of people who don't care about what they're doing. Those people make a whole bunch of money, though.
There is 0 evidence to suggest that private corporations wouldn’t have figured out the same thing. Or those same people sitting around at MIT wouldn’t have built the same thing without darpa.

It’s not like “communication“ is an industry that is starving for investment or talent.

The government sucks at spending money. Giving to the banks is the least stupid thing to do. The banks at least have some way to propagate it down to large funds and eventually to smaller funds that have some sense in what is a worthwhile investment or not.
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Here's something a friend of mine wrote about one of Žižek's movies:

>I don’t usually recommend movies, but I really got a lot out “The perverts guide to ideology“

>Essentially it’s a well presented theory that any particular ideology is a sum of components that can be combined to create a complete undeniable way of living. Nationalism, ethnicity, religion, atheism, capitalism, socialism (and many others) are all components that can be combined in different proportions to create a complete ideology. Like a cooking recipe. The interesting thought is that no matter how one combines the variables, they converge to the same point. Which is, you must think and behave like we do, or you will be cast out. The filmmaker presents societies as swinging between the extremes of pure capitalism to pure communism, with the wealthy always maintaining an advantage. Interesting stuff.

That reminded me of Jonathan Rees' a la carte menu of features or properties of "object oriented programming" ideology (or objectology):

http://www.paulgraham.com/reesoo.html

"Because OO is a moving target, OO zealots will choose some subset of this menu by whim and then use it to try to convince you that you are a loser."

I'd love for Slavoj Žižek to do "The Perverts Guide to Objectology”!
The Sun is always shining somewhere on Earth. We have the luxury of a nuclear furnace about ~92 million miles away and not going anywhere. Build a Ultra-High-Voltage World Electric Grid as Bucky Fuller described 40+ years ago and we'll make better use of it as a continuous power source.
> serves no practical purpose

Not everything needs to serve a practical purpose.
There is no equivalent to an USK because dat doesn't give direct access to old revisions. What you get is always the latest.

The old content is still there though, and you can access it, just not in an "easy" manner: https://docs.dat.foundation/docs/faq#does-dat-store-version-....

The dat url references a given private key, and that's about it in terms of privacy. Transfer is done between two endpoints on the normal internet, so neither peer is "hidden".

It's a shame but the dat content is spread in many places and it's hard to get access to all the documentations. The most impressive and interesting part of the project right now is probably Beaker, you should have a look: https://beakerbrowser.com/
He could have properly investigated the identity of the claimants at any time. More like he didn't want to know.
That's interesting. Slightly off topic, but this seems to reveal a small error in the movie Primer.

The two main characters travel back in time one day to use their knowledge of the stock market to make money on some good trades. Their doubles are of course also in the past, so they make efforts to avoid them at all costs so that they don't interfere with causality.

One of the characters mistakenly brings his cellphone with him back in time. When his wife calls, they assume that since the his phone is ringing that the double's phone couldn't be ringing, so he decides to answer it and pretend to be at work as his double is.

In reality it seems both phones would have rung?
If it bothers you, just drop both - apparently you don't have issues finding replacement. You can even send back a note saying why you're dropping them. Otherwise, it's likely not worth worrying about.
It's disingenuous to say that monopolies are an outcome of lack of regulation, when they are also an outcome of over regulation
Housing, schools, and hospitals also have ongoing costs and costs which don't have meaningful economies of scale. A nurse can only watch so many patients. A teacher can only tend to so many kids.
I do largely agree with this, but this is slightly outside of the typical use case for these masks. I'm not an industrial hygienist or other true PPE specialist, but I am a chemical engineer who has decent experience with a wide variety of PPE and it's been difficult for me to determine when I should replace my 6006 cartridges or 5P716 filter pads for home use (cleaning cat litter, preventing coronavirus).

Here they say to replace when "It becomes difficult to breathe comfortably (this will vary from individual to individual)." https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/565214O/3m-cartridge-fil...

This other brochure essentially implies the OV cartridges last up to 6 months, but those don't filter particulates. It does say however, that N95 masks become more effective as they get "dirtier", at the expense of being able to breathe easily. In this case, a tight seal would be extremely paramount, because eventually it would clog enough that you'd be breathing "around" the mask instead of through it. http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/447121O/filter-change-out...

They do have a web tool for calculating service life but it assumes you have at least one chemical contaminant, so the tool simply fails to calculate anything at all for hospital or home use.

The "documentation that come with the masks and filters from the manufacturer" are of no help to me:
N95 pads - https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/528213O/userinstruction-...
https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/994802O/userinstruction-...

These are verbatim PDF's of the documentation in the boxes that I have.
RDP also supports showing only the windows instead of the full desktop session.
* Improved access to the democratic process, e.g. allowing testimonials in formats other than attending a town hall in-person

* Improved version control and auditability of all Government documents - the authoritative source of all bills/legislation should be a markdown file in a public Git repository with each contributor accurately recorded, rather than a hard-to-find PDF on an obscure website

* Mandatory open-sourcing of code that is funded by taxpayers, in-line with what https://publiccode.eu are campaigning for

* Competitive salaries for technical IT staff - the IT requirements of Governments are so complex and diverse, yet they have the lowest-paid IT staff working on them
In a World where virtualization has allowed to run several virtual machines on one physical machine (not even high-end) for 15+ years, it looks like a strange concept to need one physical piece of hardware per VM.

I actually understand why it makes sense, simplification and best performance for GPU intensive context, yet it feels like "let's virtualize, not really".
Having watched the video, read this post, and written serious amounts of non-trivial code in Javascript, PHP, SQL, C, Assembly, Perl, Regex, Java, C++, Python, C#, Ruby, and Scheme...

I don't disagree.

The "melancholy" hit especially hard.
On average, if there is no growth in the economy, then the average debtor can not expect a positive return on investment (obviously). As a collateral, on average, a bank can not expect that the debtor will be able to pay interest on the loan. So selling loans honestly becomes impossible. This is not a theoretical concept, this is the reason why in pre-industrial times lending with interest was all but forbidden.

Let's expand on the example of your factory. Say that you have a factory, that needs to be replaced in ten years. Why would you take out a loan over ten years with substantial interest, when you can simply save up over ten years to buy another factory? Since there is zero inflation, this is incredibly better for you. And so, there is no reason for you to take a loan; and you won't take out a loan. For an economic transaction to happen, it needs to be in the interest of both party, and in a no-growth economy taking out a loan is either in the interest of the lender or the debtor, but never both, on average, for a given lending policy. This is not the case when there is growth, which is why we have banks, whereas we didn't really have any kind of lending infrastructure in times were growth was of or near zero.

The only people that might want a loan are people that don't have enough capital to get started, but in a zero-growth economy you cannot expect that they will be able to repay you, so you won't lend to them, and if you do lend to them expecting that they will not pay you back that will be at astronomical interest rates and will essentially be usury.
"Because we have few of the industrial titans which are required to spearhead that and round up (or possess) the necessary capital."

One of the people capable of that would be... um.... him! Yet he wants us to demand that other people do it.
...and also when 2+ people are trying to talk during a remote meeting.
> Private capital, during the same time frame, gave us google search and maps, smartphones, movies on demand and god knows how much other stuff

I was perhaps too coy.

https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660...

I'm not even sure what to say about maps.
Start by being a reseller.

https://www.namecheap.com/resellers/ssl-certificates/how-it-...
This is an American doctrine, that there must be an "actual case or controversy" - Canadian courts can and do issue advisory opinions to interpret regulation.
This is supposed to be helpful:

First, it reads as if you are horribly insecure and / or lonely. Your need to signal superior intelligence to convince us of your self-worth is a sad state of mind, and, from my experience (I am also "gifted" so this means something to you), denies you a lot of meaning and happiness. I also realize you seek to display your bitterness. It doesn't hurt us, though. Not in the way you think. Rather, it's just me being sad you had to go through all that and become all that.

Second, your need to insult or demean others makes you extremely unlikeable, even to people who would have something to offer to you and who would live up to being a worthwhile companion.
There are probably more people like you around than you realize, but many would have little interest to engage with you.

Lastly, there are areas of life where I am sure you lack a lot of experience (I am not going to speculate what applies to you, but things like genuine love or being loved, sincere pain, war, near death, creating a human life, ending a human life, crushing poverty, decadent mind-blowing hour long intercourse and many more things may come to mind). Your standards, especially that quip about travel, may really seem laughable to someone else. Just so you know.

I hope you get better, sincerely.

Edit: My reading of your further comments make me think I should have written this less confrontational, but let it fill the urge you had. In any case, what I mean is that I sympathize. I do think you could get to a place where you're less trapped by your past.
Please refer to the following article on how to respect transgender people and something fundamentally core to another person's existence:

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/stuck-how-refer-tra...

Kind regards, member of the LGBTQ community and HN.

P.S. It's just about respect, nothing else.
Ha, we joke about that in Oregon, too, and it rains quite a lot here. And after a long, rainy winter, it gets a little nuts for a few days when the sun comes out again, because it seems like everyone has forgotten how to drive on sunny days.
Just to address "producing science".

Science is incremental, often is done with out clear end products, and value can only really be measured much later typically in terms of wide spread effect. Like the internet existed decades before everyone used the internet. And only because tax dollars supported it.

Thus if you want more output, they only true solution is to fund much more science than is funded today.
The problem is the failure to differentiate between wealth creation and wealth appropriation.

The USA has a system that makes it easier to appropriate wealth via rentier activity (for example becoming a landlord), than to create wealth (for example building accommodation).

Until this mentality changes you are going to see your living standards continue to plummet.

Rentier activity is a zero sum game. For you to win someone else has to lose. Making this a cornerstone of your economy is a disaster.
Hmm. If I'm a city administrator, I'm not going to license fair weather robo-taxis to operate in the city. They would drive out many other taxis and then people can't get home when the weather turns bad. Anything else is just bad resource management.
> Why would it matter if it was AI or not?

I think people's idea of what a computer should be doing has changed a lot since then, due to the common knowledge of AI applications.

Perhaps we're close to the situation where when a person makes a mistake they're asked 'why weren't you using the computer?' I've seen this happen myself.
When did I run that command? Update your Bash prompt with the command start time
This is what Platform-as-a-service (PAAS) is and has been around for a long time. Google's Appengine, Heroku, and many others offer it.

Since then we've seen "serverless" or functions-as-a-service (FAAS) which is just smaller bits of code (down to a single javascript function) but the same concept of everything else being managed by the provider. This is AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Google Cloud Functions, etc.

The latest offerings now take a Dockerfile or container image that you build, which means you can run anything on any stack while the provider manages the rest. Google Cloud Run, AWS Fargate, Azure Container Instances, Fly.io, Zeit Now, etc.
This is a monumental piece. I loved it.
China begs to differ.
Have we though? Fat Activism didn’t exist in the 1950s.
Yeah - that is one problem. I would love to have MX switches in SPDT format. I have find these a while back ago: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32430367243.html
The start of the article is simply wrong. It was forseen, and some governments have handled it well. Just because the US is a shitshow, no need to tarnish the rest of the world with the same brush. Elsewhere there is competence and people actually wanting to do the right thing.
For years I wanted a Bash prompt which would show when a command actually ran.

I don't mean that it would show the time when the prompt was written to the terminal. That's easy.

I mean that it would show the time when the command entered at it was executed. Those two times can be very different.

This little hack updates your Bash prompt with the current time when you execute a command.

As someone who spends many hours every day in the terminal, it's improved my life. Maybe it can help you too.