skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> False, capitalism successfully prices products every day. The failures are eliminated in a process akin to natural selection of species.

Capitalism doesn't do that either. This entire comparison is a category error.

In this discussion, capitalism is being conflated with markets and socialism with planned economies. Neither of those conflations are valid.

> the only form of socialism that capitalists oppose is the one where socialists restrict the form in which people own productive capital.

That is all forms of socialism. It's the only thing socialism is consistently about.

> all those alternative forms of socialism you advocate are free to exist in a free market

No they aren't. They're fundamentally incompatible with the theory of a free market. They are all focused on the abolition of private property.

> but they are as rare as hen's teeth (not to say nonexistent). why is that?

Because when they get a footing they're actively attacked by capitalists. Economically attached with sanctions, invaded, coup'd, bombed, etc.

Rojava is doing an experiment in communalism as we speak. Turkey is bombing it once the US got what they wanted from Rojava (fighting ISIS). Chile elected Allende, who was coup'd within two years by CIA-backed Pinochet. EZLN survives through the weakness of the central Mexican government and their relative irrelevance to capitalists.

Most political systems do not actually allow for the election of such parties to power. They have powerful propaganda campaigns baked into their education and mass media systems, with bourgeois infighting characterized as the extent of acceptable debate. Many force a two-party duopoly where only bourgeois parties have any chance of winning. Many outlaw socialist/communist parties or kill and harass their leaders. Many aren't democracies at all and would require an ideological military process to establish it - and have their opposition strategically funded by Western powers.

There are many reasons that ruling powers maintain that power.
> It is kinda like ipconfig.

I assumed you were talking about windows until:

> AFAIK, ping is a setuid binary

Which unfortunately means you’ve partly helped make the GP’s point for them. Under Linux, the command you’re thinking of is ifconfig, which has long been deprecated and doesn’t ship by default anymore in newer distributions.

Times change, tools move on.
> Of course they did, this is Marxist doctrine. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

It doesn't make any sense to jump straight to "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" in a Marxist tradition. That's a state reached with communism, a proposed end state to a socialist transition of undetermined length - and no actual prescription for how, exactly, any of that would happen.

That would more aptly describe some (non-Marxist) anarcho-communist movements, who believe you can jump straight to a communist way of being without a transition.

> Why would this be a bad thing? Who would want to change this aspect of central planning?

If you are actually punished for making production work better you will become alienated from your job and actually want to do a worse job in order to improve your own personal conditions. People care more about their families, their friends, their local well-being than a far-off bureaucrat's.

> So did they fail to solve these problems because they were prevented from doing so because of dogma?

Not really, they were heavily focused on foreign policy and a growing domestic intelligentsia that was increasingly bourgeois, believing Western propaganda about how much better life was elsewhere and lacking real experience with rampant homelessness, hunger, and the state of poorer countries. That group was actively vying for power and eventually won as the public grew weary of defensive wars and focusing industry on defense and also began to buy that propaganda. That led to serious internal struggles and, eventually, what amounted to a bourgeois coup that dissolved the USSR at the barrel of a tank.

All in all, the problems I described were not dealbreakers. Western bourgeois democracies have plenty of "bullshit jobs", yet we don't refer to that as a problem that's failing to be solved due to dogma - it's failing to get solved because there are dominant systemic forces responsible for it being that way in the first place and they are so fundamental to our typical understanding of how the economy should work that we don't even talk about them, instead distracted by fights between center-right bourgeois politics and far-right bourgeois politics.
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They likely use the same panel and settings, but your request is reasonable. Edited the title.
Big Tech and Central Planning: Building a Middle Class Algorithmically?
I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted. This is a totally succinct summary of the situation.
62.7% of the U.S. population lives in just 3.5% of the land area: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-33....
The modern "Insanity defense" is a secularization of Christian Law (say, Canon Law). What does secularization consists of? Replace the theological reasoning with non-theological ones. Here is what Harold Berman says in his "Law and revolution: The formation of the Western legal tradition":

"A bizarre example may shed light on the paradoxes of a legal tradition that has lost contact with its theological sources. If a sane man is convicted of murder and sentenced to death, and thereafter, before the sentence is carried out, he becomes insane, his execution will be postponed until he recovers his sanity.

Generally speaking, this is the law in Western countries and in many non-Western countries as well. Why? The historical answer, in the West, is that if a man is executed while he is insane he will not have had the opportunity freely to confess his sins and to take the sacrament of holy communion. He must be allowed to recover his sanity before he dies so that his soul will not be condemned to eternal hellfire but will instead have the opportunity to expiate his sins in purgatory and ultimately, at the Last Judgment, to enter the kingdom of heaven. But where none of this is believed, why keep the insane man alive until he recovers, and then kill him?

The example is, perhaps, of minor importance in itself; but what it illustrates is that the legal systems of all Western countries, and of all nonWestern countries that have come under the influence of Western law, are a secular residue of religious attitudes and assumptions which historically found expression first in the liturgy and rituals and doctrine of the church and thereafter in the institutions and concepts and values of the law. When these historical roots are not understood, many parts of the law appear to lack any underlying source of validity." (pp 165-166)

If you strip away this interesting theological context, the insanity defense doesn't make any sense.
The power is more decentralized, though. Certain elites in say US democracy do want to slow down change for their own benefit, and sometimes they are moderately successful, but they don't have as much power. They certainly don't have the whole power of the state behind them.
Wait until the social justice warriors find out we call something "prod". That should incite them into action. I mean, what kind of pointed instruments are we even thrusting with these microcomputer aggressions?
In the following HN article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24131831

The author (somewhat of a crackpot!) writes:

>"In classical physics, you have the particle/wave duality. Basically, one is the other, depending on frame of reference.

That particle wave duality (I've determined) is actually a particle/wave/field TRINITY.

That is, particles ARE waves (depending on how you look at them), waves are particles (depending on how you look at them), BUT ALSO waves are fields (depending on how you look at them), and fields are waves (depending on how you look at them), and fields are particles (depending on how you look at them) and particles are fields, again, "depending on how you look at them".

Google "Starlings". A single starling at rest is a particle, in motion, it's a wave, and many of them together moving in unision, that's a field.

Also (and this is the advanced lesson), you can have various degrees of recursion in this, for example, a whole field of starlings could be viewed as a single particle, then that could comprise multiple particles if teamed up with other fields of starlings, and then those things could move like wave.

Think nested particles/waves/fields -- inside of other particles/waves/fields.

Also, the smallest unit of space (to implement all of the others), DOESN'T NEED TO PHYSICALLY MOVE; that is, it only needs to state-change, like a pixel, if it were a magnet, it could change from a North Pole to South Pole (or possibly neutral), if charged, the charge could go from positive to negative and back, if a region of force, the force could push one way and then the reverse, etc., etc."

PDS: I don't know; but the author of that post sounds like a crackpot, and pretty delusional to me...

(Oh, wait a second... I'm the author of that post! <g>)

(I resemble that remark! Doh! <g>)
Completely independent of my comment about ADHD... whatever fictions we need to tell ourselves to function well are only damaging if they mask or enable other dysfunction. If people thrive by believing there’s a god or a magnetic force or lucky numbers, it only hurts if there’s some other harm done. I know we nerds like to focus on metrics and evidence. But the evidence is mixed on self deception.
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Ethics was an elective module in my CS degree. I took it because it seemed easier than some of the more advanced programming courses. 20 years later, I’m glad for the choice I made as a lazy youth.
when you use these open api generators or protobufs the transport is abstracted away. yes wsdl is soap and POST for everything, but when it’s abstracted away, does it really matter? the value is from not having to think about the transport layer at all
They do, and have, the Therac-25 as noting by the GP is a great example, but this kind of thing is still done, even often.
> a minority of states imposing their will on the majority of the remaining states

These are arbitrary ways of cutting up the vote. Right now we have a minority of people imposing their will on the majority of the remaining people. I don't have any allegiance to one state or another. I'm an American and go where my job needs me. Why do I deserve less representation in government just because I need to live in a city for a profession instead of living back with parents in the middle of nowhere?
vietnam n thailand did way better...
Maybe I am doing something wrong here, but I use Windows for 10 years, then switch Ubuntu for 5, and Mac for less than a year right now (so I am on Catalina).

I feel that I spend 2-3x times troubleshoot my mac than Ubuntu. I still haven't been able to find a cause for intermittent entire UI froze I experience 2-3 times a day.
Yglesias, Greenwald, and Taibbi are on Substack because they are minor celebrities, and Substack is lucrative if you're a celebrity. I object to the idea that Yglesias & Klein share a bucket with Greenwald and Taibbi; the former are serious policy pundits, the latter are trolls.

People talk about how Yglesias is unable to speak his mind, but David Shor is _ubiquitous_ in the mainstream media right now; nobody ever did anything better for that guy's career than the Civvis Analytics people who fired him. Not that you should let any of those people off the hook, the moral dimension of what they did is unchanged, but it's a strong bit of evidence against the idea that Yglesias was somehow being suppressed at Vox or anywhere else.

Yglesias will do better on Substack than as a cog at a media company, and that's fine. (I like him too.)
That's like saying AMD doesn't have microprocessor technology, yet, TSMC does, as do other companies.

It's true that Tesla doesn't manufacture the batteries, but the technology behind the batteries is proprietary and exclusive to Tesla, atleast for the time being.
It's great that you can recognize obvious biases in the information available in another culture.

Now, do you not think that we have any relevant prevailing biases, created by our education, media, history, culture, economic system, and government? [1] Ones that are so deeply ingrained in our society, that we don't even notice them?

If we were to apply your rubric, that would make arguments between people from different cultures completely unproductive - with each person hailing from each culture being able to dismiss the other's out of hand.

The argument you are dismissing as brainwashing seems pretty straightforward to me. It's entirely possible, even reasonable for economic stability to be a goal worth pursuing for government. You may find it anathema, but that viewpoint isn't particularly privileged, in the global space of ideas.

[1] That's a rhetorical question - of course we do. They are incredibly obvious to anyone who's lived in a few different countries.
I discovered Babylon last year iirc and was impressed by demos, docs, and support by Microsoft so I figured I wanted to build something worthwhile in it to try it out.

I decided to start developing a 3rd-person MMORPG using Babylon v4.0 as a side project, however after investing far too much time and getting it to a decent point, I came to question why I was bothering with a strictly web-based engine for a rather complex and extensive game.
If I was going to go to the effort of creating this game, why not use some kind of game engine that can then export it to multiple platforms including web?
So since then I've halted dev on the babylon version of the game, and begun porting to the Godot game engine, which can export to web among other platforms.

With all that said, I still enjoyed my experience using Babylon, it was just the wrong tool for my chosen project.

Babylon is a great choice for a lot of web based 3d content, but if you're intending to build any kind of significant game I'd recommend using a proper game engine from the start as it will enable you more flexibility in the long term.

If however you do require a character controller for Babylon, I used babylonjs-charactercontroller [1] for my project and found it dynamic enough to work for most situations.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/babylonjs-charactercontroller
Super secret spy agencies are much less competent than you'd be led to believe. I'd be more afraid of Google and Facebook.
> In this discussion, capitalism is being conflated with markets and socialism with planned economies. Neither of those conflations are valid.

Perhaps but I'm not sure it makes much of a difference. Socialism (absent central planning) doesn't have a means of allocating capital, so no one has ever tried it for long. When they do, everything falls to the tragedy of the commons. Even authoritarian socialists agree to this. Socialist anarchists have various opinions but agree that socialist organization is an unsolved problem. No one is prevented from setting up a socialist organization in capitalist countries, its merely the case that when they do, they aren't able to externalize their costs and they don't achieve very much.

> That is all forms of socialism. It's the only thing socialism is consistently about.

Then all forms of what you consider to be socialism will fail because of plunder.

> No they aren't. They're fundamentally incompatible with the theory of a free market. They are all focused on the abolition of private property.

yeah, its not cool to mess with other people's stuff. that's the problem here.

> Because when they get a footing they're actively attacked by capitalists. Economically attached with sanctions, invaded, coup'd, bombed, etc.

Maybe if "getting a footing" wasn't synonymous with expropriating the capitalists this wouldn't happen.

> There are many reasons that ruling powers maintain that power.

This is true. its also the case that rulers over a mixed economy have vastly more wealth at their disposal than rulers over a command economy and a collective that has norms prohibiting the collection of rents. This is because the market generates more wealth and rulers are able to extract more wealth because there is more wealth.
This is like a super lofi version of Camlistore and I love it. Will play soon.
I'm not an expert in the field of GPU/CPU benchmarks.

Is it a synthetic benchmark or not?
Still impressed by M1's overall performance. If the M1 could only drive 3 displays (eg 2 external + 1 internal in a Macbook) and not just 2.
> Why should people who cluster in a few cities get to decide how the rest of the places are governed?

Because those who cluster in the cities pay the bills for the rest of the places.

Taxation without representation was one of the grievances that founded the US.
Same here. I don't agree with the parts I understand, especially when he veers off into an attack on Proposition 22, but I also don't really know enough about the larger subject to hold a qualified opinion one way or the other. Is the primary purpose of money to facilitate taxation? Beats the hell outta me.

It sounds like he's basically refuting the whole of Austrian economics. Is that a reasonable birds'-eye view of his position?
The early 2000s is right on the steep upslope of DVD sales, famously encumbered by DRM. Depending on your definition of "early" it's also the time of iTunes's initial growth, which also had DRM in those days. Video games also merrily rolled along while requiring various DRM schemes in this period.

Regardless, the post does realistically allow that no such boycott would be forthcoming now.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081634
But that's not battery technology, is it?

If you wish to be the guy insisting "That's not batteries, that's battery packs!" nobody can stop you.

Not really a good look though.
I think this is talking about digital music, where there was intense competition in the 2000s between services that imposed DRM and services that didn't, and in the end the DRM side capitulated. (Of course, then streaming music arrived and was a whole other can of worms.)
This issue means that we couldn't connect to chrome debugging port. Maybe we couldn't open chrome, maybe because we couldn't shut the existing chrome.

To possible remedy, and diagnose more, try

$ export DEBUG_22120=BLEHMEHEKTAA
$ npx archivist1@latest
Certainly having real time GPS transmitting your cars location and speed to the State is a wonderful idea.

The state could tax electric car charging stations and charging devices instead and tax electric car ownership additionally to cover road wear.
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Especially when we're prodding cattle, not pets.
FYI - if you're getting a max red line on this site make sure you're not using the https version (and you may need to whitelist it in https-everywhere).
In which case we can remark Windows and macOS are not without problems either. I do remember having hardware support issues with those this decade.
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Exploring the S&P 100 Index Stocks Using Graph Machine Learning
Ideas do not have the same dynamics as real property (scarcity). Rather than being an example of property rights, copyright is an example of government undermining property rights. The concept of real property rights predate nation states by thousands of years. Just because a government says that black is white does not make it so. “Intellectual property” are weasel words, of the same tradition as “people’s democratic republic”.
Doesn’t look meaningfully different to me.
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As someone with, unfortunately, direct personal experience testifying in a murder trial where an insanity defense was attempted, I have to be incredibly skeptical about doctors ability to declare someone 'safe' for society in any capacity. Especially when a wrongful death suit revealed them neatly discharged from any duty to the public.

I feel like this is fundamentally misguided on some level when, apparently, there's fundamentally no one charged with any meaningful duty towards protecting those who get victimized. But most people never have to think about this, so how many even think about kids who find brain matter from a badly beaten "hat" staining the basement walls?
I'd like to see them "pay bills", or even just function, if the rest of the country stops working for a few months. I'm pretty sure that groceries and durable goods do not materialize out of thin air.
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For all we know, audio "mastering" will be next.
The insanity defense literally didn’t exist before the 19th century.

It’s very much a product of the enlightenment and post-enlightenment and post-enlightenment liberalism.

It doesn’t exist under Roman Catholic canon law - which lumps the mentally ill together with children as “lacking reason.”

The quote you’re citing isn’t about the insanity defense. It’s about not carrying out a sentence on someone found guilty. That’s a very very different thing than the insanity defense.
There are hierarchical levels to the "economy" and central planning may work well at some levels. Companies at the lower levels of the hiearchy are centrally planned entities with managers assigning tasks to employees instead of using a free market to distribute them within the organization. At the middle layer, the free market links these centrally planned companies and force them to compete. It's an open question whether having a centrally planned top layer to handle national economic strategy and steer market forces is better than letting the free market handle that as well.
My experience with SOAP and wizzles indicates that one of the primary problems with statically typed protocols is the proliferation of types. Corresponding types need to be created in each language, and these object representations reflect the original implementation language (server), rather than whatever idiosyncrasies fit the current language (client).

The core benefit the world gained by migrating to REST/JSON was the total simplification of types, and the ease of interacting with them in any language.
There have been a series of beta releases since June. (For some reason, they say in the linked page that beta releases have only been available since August, but that's not correct).
I used this for viewing mysql binary logs recently to understand the format. I was upset when I realized the $10 version was severely nerfed. With lack of scripting I couldn't write even a basic grammar to parse out the binlog file. At that point I was too annoyed to shell out another $40 for the pro version.

If you are considering this, get the Pro version. I would recommend to the owner to just make the non-pro version free.
Haskell has a better and more mature runtime as well.

Of all the languages I've used in production on the backend (Haskell, JVM, Go, Python), GHC's RTS is definitely the best.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201101054340/http://matpalm.co...
Modern versions of these languages have these features to a varying degree.
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Worl population of https://population-hub.com/en/list-of-countries-by-populatio...
If you are interested as to why that is I very much recommend you to read I to the toxic transparency paradox that James D'Angelo has written extensively about

http://congressionalresearch.org/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gg4dJ8nyiPo

The short outline is that congressional transparency serves interest groups exponentially more than to the public itself through intimidation tactics to the legislative branch

The public has secret ballots to avoid vote buying and all sorts of deviancies of the democratic process, yet the entire legislative branch doesn't?

Toxic transparency