skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The attack, in which gunmen fired on 17 electrical transformers, resulted in more than $15 million worth of equipment damage, but it had little impact on the station's electrical power supply
From AutoCAD 2D to Revit 3D
> and why we never had millionaires back when the top bracket was > 90%

some caveats apply to this offhand quip (very different tax laws and perhaps even widespread evasion meant almost no one was paying an effective tax of 90%, regardless of actual income). I suspect you know this.

I'm sure there's a lot of slack in the tax brackets. I doubt we are close to a laffer curve inflection point. all I'm saying is I'm not convinced by the style of argument that goes "we already have enough food for everyone; we just need to radically reorganize the economy and then no one will go hungry!". more analysis is needed.
As you said, this is a subset of C++. But everyone debates what the right subset should be. In reality C++ is incapable of solving the problem, it can only propose good practices.
Advanced radio chemistry will produce meta-materials which will enable time travel. Problem solved! Wheeee!
That's great advice. Thank you very much!
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OK, disclaimer - I am going on over a decade since this happened:

There was a phone that came out (nokia??) that had a docking station and you could have a screen on it and a keyboard attachement etc...

I presented this in ~2004-ish as a white paper... (lost to hundreds of machines since, and poor data mgmt over time)

I met with a few engineers friends from google over this idea and they said they didnt think it was possible (which at the time it was not - even though I wrote about it in 2001) - and then there was that phone that came out which allowed you to have a phone docking station and use it as your primary computer.

This was at the same time whilst I was talking to my buddies at Intel about stacked procs - and they were doing 64 cores in ~2004 in test dies... and they worked.

It was in 1998 when I was at Intel that I asked "Why cant we just stack multiple CPUs on top of eachother?" and was laughed at...

I sat right next to Andy Grove, but I only spent all my time in the DRG Game lab testing games on AMD and Celeron procs to get subjective results on game perf.

Anyway... I posed a lot of things that were laughed at, which then became reality later.

I worked with a MIPS proc eng about Slot-Rack-Servers, in 1995 - this was deemed impossible... later we have HPE based systems... His name was Kent... he was one of the chief MIPS designers...

I was saying "lets make 'slots' that we can install a switch, a server, storage or whatever on the backplane..."

Yes - I am not lying - these were just things I imagined in the early-mid-late 90s....

I had a good career - but I cannot take any credit for these taking production due to I didnt ever implement any of these ideas... aside from expressing them earlier than others who were far more capable of executing.

Its just like IFTT - I literally whiteboarded IFTT for a bunch of engineers from Lockheed a few years before that existed... They have built a lot of what you interact daily with (netflix) among others...

My soul flaw - is that I think of something early, I have no ability to bring it to fruition and even though I have exceptional famous engineers as friends, I cant bring my ideas to market...

and then a few years later - things I designed hit the zeitgeist and hit market...

I have, as a consultant, made people MANY billions of dollars - and havent received anything in return.
Came here to say this (that parsec, the old standard, didn't backtrack).
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I think this could extend to major public figures, but offers no recourse to the average joe who doesn't have 100 hours of talking footage online. Deepfakes require a lot of data to produce. Anyone who doesn't have this much data, you could reliably assume the content is real.
How can a currency that is so tied to two brands become mainstream? Those two brands are Satoshi Nakamoto and Elon Musk. What happens to Bitcoin if Elon Musk for any reason decides to sell Tesla's coins and announce it on Twitter?
This *FEELS* (not saying it is) like a false claim. Much like the much upvoted (and later debunked) HN post from a while back when a iOS developer claimed that Apple always keeps it 30% commission, even on a refunded purchase.

I consider it worrying that a claim wholly lacking evidence is getting so much attention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23995750
Agreed, you are technically correct, but you are missing the meaning.
Most people did not self censor much due to fear. They held socially acceptable opinions and not much of what they thought should be kept bottled up.
Now? Who the hell knows what to say and if you’ll be hunted for it later.
Support feminism? Some now see you as transphobic.
Support trans causes? Now some feminists say you’re raising up men and oppressing women.
Don’t care about either causes?
Well now you’re a monster!

Don’t worry though, much like the weather in Virginia, survive till tomorrow and it’ll change.

Also, it literally is mutating at a breakneck pace, not only compared with historic norms of idea change rates, but also even compared to people’s ability to keep up.
It’s insanity.
Interesting thing to me is they haven't had any failures of primary components either. 18 launches, 10 engines per rocket, 180 total, no failures as far as I've read.

Don't know if they are going to stay with the electric pump-fed engine design or not for the neutron.
> We were talking about whether Malthus is still relevant, whether we can still use him to make predictions.

We can, and we do, just not for human population in future. Again, Malthusian models are completely standard way to model past human populations, and also animal populations.

> Apparently Malthus can't be proven wrong because the Earth can't support an infinite number of people. That's true, of course, but it's not a model. It's the statement of an obvious fact.

Yes, that's why Malthusian model is so popular: because it is obviously correct, and because its assumptions cover very wide range of observed past and future conditions. We live in pretty unique circumstances when they don't: we both had the technology grow carrying capacity faster than the population had grown, and also we had population growth slow down a lot, and then go down to shrinking regime.

I expect these trends to continue in my lifetime, and probably in the lifetime of my children -- but not forever. Instead, I believe that in around 200-300 years we will return to high-fertility regime, that will require governmental measures to curb, if we want to preserve the quality of life. However, I have much less confidence in this prediction than I do in the validity of Malthusian model.
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Tesla Standard Range cars are shifting to LFP batteries from Lithium-ion
I doubt he ate a whole hat. He probably just put a bit of a hat into his mouth without eating it.
For right-leaning, racist, sexist White male elites? Most of it.

Which is why that's where most of the whining that this is a new and dangerous phenomenon is coming from.

Heck, the government hyperfocus on rooting out Communism began almost immediately after the suggestion of turning the same apparatus against the KKK was rebuffed because of that organizations loyalty and patriotism.
I mean, GP said America was becoming a third world country. If you look at the list, it's pretty clear that second world (former Soviet) countries generally have higher social mobility than third world countries but still lesser than the United States. I wasn't trying to spin a near win - just objecting to hyperbole.
well it has been claimed that they want to direct the news rather than tell it, as in they want to push what they think is right and that moral imperative is more important that presenting the facts.

this is what worries me the most about the changes seen in the press, many publications are already bowing to pressure and far too many jump on the vilification bandwagon as if to say "See we know how to act and we agree" without regard to context or much else.

cancel culture or whatever you want to call it is hyper destructive and will simply lead to a world where trust is never possible

if you wanted to destroy Western civilization you could not do much better than this. McCarthyism is back on the menu.
Is this analogy true?

Mining Gold + having a mass of gold relates to Money

As

Mining bitcoin + Energy relates to Bitcoin
Because some of the money also goes to Sally who genuinely needs help. I don't understand how you can be okay with people starving or working themselves to death to survive and provide for their families, just because others do things you disapprove of.

You're also ignoring the fact that someone who is eligible for this kind of social security and spends it all on booze is probably unwell and needs treatment for addiction and the conditions that cause it. In many cases, the cause of addiction is poverty itself.

This fear of being "scammed" by the Joes and Steves of the world is completely irrational. The government is taking a big chunk of your money anyways. What's being proposed is that instead of spending tax dollars on killing poor people abroad, you spend it on helping poor people at home, regardless of their work ethic.
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Where I am, you are a first time offender if you have no previous record, or your previous records were expunged (which happens after enough time has passed from the completion of the sentence, unless it was for terrorism, war crimes, genocide etc.).

That does not mean that you won't ever get a custodial sentence - for crimes severe enough you surely will - but the benefit of having no prior record still applies to you.
I have come to the conclusion there are two kinds of audience and two kinds of diagram, abs they almost exactly overlap

1. Engineering diagrams, explaining concepts to other engineers who are using the diagram as a jumping off point to deeper explorations

2. "Business" diagrams - the sort of thing we want to see in a Medium article or presentation. The style and correct placement matters far more than engineering.

The first is very amenable to markdown style production - often we want to spend no more than a few minutes creating the diagram. We get (60?) 80% of the way there with 20% effort.

But with every markdown approach I have tried the remaining 20% is flat out days of work. There is almost always a need to place that box there and have this one below and to the right and dammit the layout engine will not agree.

What I would ideally like is a combo - markdown to get me most of the way there, and then drop into some vector format that lets me tweak.
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I've recently played with making simple JS-based parsers without reading anything about the theory. My conclusion was that making a parser by itself is a relatively easy task. The hard part is making grammars easy to read and write, as well as handling various errors.

My best stab at representing something like EBNF in JS looked like this:

class ArrayGrammar { //e.g: [1, 2, 3, [4, 5,],]
array =()=> ['[', this.entries, ']'];
entries =()=> many(this.entry);
entry =()=> [either(this.array, this.number, ''), /\s*,\s*/];
number =()=> /\d+/;
}

This is a grammar for "arrays" of positive integers. I tested it out and concluded that this is too awful to be of any practical use. Now I'm seeing something with significantly more involved representation making it to the front page of HN. Hm.

---

Edit: Not much to look at, but here is the source code of the toy implementation if anyone is interested:

https://jsfiddle.net/306jrnt9/1/

The only "cool" part about it is that the parser implementation is close to 100 lines of code.
Pretty clear that GP understands this, since his next point specifically addresses Google. I think he's saying that Xiaomi is also a big company, albeit less big. Seems like a fair point.
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I remember when this paper came out, I tweeted at the author about D's "Better C" mode since he used that very term. It really is a better C, because C is almost a subset of D. You get nice features like array bounds checking, but no runtime, no garbage collector, etc. It's a good choice for those that prefer to stick with C but wish there was a 2021 upgrade.

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
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Not completely new words, just regular words glued together.

It might be surprising for an English speaker, but German language just works this way.

Source: I drive a German car
What's jarring to me is the author's characterization of car repair as "poor-people skills". Knowing how to use tools can be part of being poor, or it can be part of being an engineer who designs things that can actually be manufactured and assembled.

Either that or I'm a lot poorer than I think I am!
I got to experience wealth and poverty growing up, unfortunately in that order. Parents were pretty wealthy and then we moved to the US at 13 and had to leave everything behind. Going from a house with pool, BMW's etc to food stamps, constant threat of foreclosure and no health insurance is pretty jarring. I was way better off than many others though. Far better off than OP's start. Worst part of being poor or being raised by those that are poor due to both circumstances and bad choices is that you dont learn to make sane financial decisions. I was never taught how to balance a check book or to live within my means and that lack of both education and discipline has haunted me my whole life. Reached a point where I make over 200k now and finally the surplus of funds have been a wakeup call that 'Hey, you can save and you can eventually retire if you just wake up and stop spending like you're going to die tomorrow'. Another vital lesson is to focus on the long run instead of trying to hit a home run with every investment.

Financial literacy should be the a 4 year highschool class. Not being fluent is a detriment to millions.
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Apple has done it before. So I am not surprised.

John Gruber ( and only him ) [1] suggest Epic was making things up when Apple would terminate Sign in with Apple on EPIC's App. While I dont fully side with EPIC on their case against Apple, on this issue alone it was clear the fault was on Apple [2].

And imagine you are in a dispute with Apple on this matter for longer than 30days without resolution, the time your iCloud would keep your backup before it is completely wipe out due to Account termination.

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[2] https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/131179493779778355...
I think you fundamentally misunderstand free speech and the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor. It's precisely because of free speech that we can collectively condemn geocentrism, racism, holocaust-denial, authoritarianism, etc. Indeed, authoritarianism in general and Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, etc in particular always starts with speech restrictions. The idea that free speech and authoritarianism are bed fellows doesn't make sense; these are mutually exclusive.

Moreover, "marketplace of ideas" is a metaphor for what happens in a society that has a high degree of free speech: the best most valid ideas rise to the top. You argue that the marketplace metaphor doesn't work because bias exists and because ideas vary in validity, but that doesn't make sense--these facts are the very mechanism by which the marketplace metaphor works: in speech-tolerant societies, a diversity of ideas compete and the best, most valid ideas rise to the top irrespective of bias.
This is one of those projects where there are lots of great words, but honestly, a simple code example would speak a thousand more in terms of helping people understand what's possible and how it works.

I read through this and their documentation and literally have no idea what this feels like to the developer or how to start.
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There is a little game/visual novel-esque thing called "Emily Is Away" you may enjoy.

It's basically an AIM nostalgia trip, particularly if you were in high school/college during the mid 2000s as well.
I doubt it.

RocketLab has already been doing that, and he still has praised it.

Musk doesn’t have to be your villain to be an imperfect person.
Ah, I get it now. Thanks for the information.
Thanks for that distinction. This is the right framing and clarifies things for me.
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Can anyone tell me why there are shortages of these chips, as opposed to the prices being set so that demand is more in line with supply?

(I'm not asking for possible reasons why this sort of thing can happen; I'm asking whether anyone here knows which of them applies in this case.)
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Why do we even let Apple do our banking in the first place? I can't really imagine a situation where I'd rather let Apple have all my banking data instead of some random bank. Centralizing your entire digital life like that is begging for identity theft, at least from where I'm standing.
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One more to add for consideration: electrostatic sheets. You can get a whole roll of them for just a few bucks and turn your entire office into a whiteboard. No hanging, no mess. Surprisingly effective as a low-cost whiteboard-like solution.

And if you're sharing that whiteboard (in any form) with remote colleagues, try sharetheboard.com. Our team put it together precisely because we didn't want to say goodbye to the ol' board.
>the mere utterance of the epithet, even in a sentence like "You should never call someone a <racial epithet> because that is extremely offensive" is considered itself racist by younger people.

I'm not sure it's really younger people, it's more a journalist / leftist thing. Consider pewdiepie is a Gen X and he's supposed to have been cancelled 10x over by now for being racist / anti semitic / etc. And what gen X'ers are reading the NYT anyways?
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The noprocrast setting on your HN profile can be useful. Having e.g. 10 or 20 minutes a day max on HN tends to concentrate the mind wonderfully.