skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reeve is a long-time Plato scholar; do check out his edition.

I also consulted in parallel the Allan Bloom translation[1], which is more literal and aimed at the "serious student", as he puts it. It also comes with a long (and controversial?) interpretative essay.

[1] https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/allan-bloom/the-republic-o...
We’re just getting more and more hypothetical in a complete vacuum of real information though right?

If we’re trying to get something even somewhat defensible, there has to be some grounding on SOMETHING, or it’s all just fantasy.

If they spent 10k ly getting here, and the ungodly amount of energy and time it would take to do 20% of light speed over that distance, and they had since the great oxygenation event to notice us and get here (and have such a technological and energy advantage over us they were able to do it) - then why are they being seen randomly checking out military aircraft (not very smart or subtle it seems?) but never talk to anyone else? And show no other signs of existing?

Not impossible, but seems like a truly massive amount of energy and commitment of time over what far exceeds the timescales life as we know it works on to check out what could just be a puddle full of gooey algae for all they knew. And then potentially just sitting and watching for 100 million or a billion years.

At least seeing radio signals or a double flash from a nuke test means there is something like intelligent life?
List price doesn't matter in US healthcare FYI.
It's a great (if tragic) demonstration of the limits of human governance. We cannot do long-term (let alone multi-generational) planning.

But maybe that's just my Western experience.
I imagine you avoid Google because you don't want to get locked into their centralized closed source ecosystem and don't want them to track your entire online presence.
So I'm surprised to see you say email should be avoided, as a completely open decentralized communication protocol.

Your stances on these two topics just seem to be in contrast with each other, would you care to elaborate?
> You need to let people start getting ready

Maybe they don't? They seem to have plenty of games coming out in time for launch from great developers.
Please don't. Most of the Python/R/C code I've seen from scientists was terrible. 100% of the Perl code was, though.
Have you tried the new chromium based Edge?
You still have a massive massive number of loop-holes to fill and complexities to answer for.

Does my collection of rare coins count as one asset as a whole, or individual assets that are each under X amount? Who decides what my random painting is worth so I know if I have to declare it? What happens when my asset depreciates?

Also, once you go to X being "somewhere in the neighborhood of a house" you lose a TON of taxable income with this policy to the point where it's probably not worth it. You're not going to gain much money taxing a few mega-yachts and rare paintings, especially when you have to include the money spent dealing with more complicated taxes and audits.

We can just raise income and capital gains taxes instead and it's a whole lot easier. Wealth taxes that include assets are so fragile and complicated.
> 250-400ppm Normal background concentration in outdoor ambient air

So we’d expect this site to be nearer 250 given its ideal location away from humans and industry?
Somewhat telling how none of the characters they offer have jobs that would actually be important here. You really need things like "general contractor", "boat mechanic", or "welder". Instead, they have things like "maritime lawyer", "encryption" (whatever that means), "zoologist", which would be almost useless.
> By definition a stock is not a liquid asset.

"By definition"? Which definition are you using?

Liquidity exists on a spectrum and is not binary:

> In business, economics or investment, market liquidity is a market's feature whereby an individual or firm can quickly purchase or sell an asset without causing a drastic change in the asset's price. Liquidity involves the trade-off between the price at which an asset can be sold, and how quickly it can be sold. In a liquid market, the trade-off is mild: one can sell quickly without having to accept a significantly lower price. In a relatively illiquid market, an asset must be discounted in order to sell quickly.[1][2]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_liquidity
> With the exception of octopi, primates, birds and cetaceans, animals that do extremely intelligent actions turn out to be automatons.

[a lot of citations needed]

Yes, some invertebrates have been found to execute fairly rigidly preprogrammed behavior patterns, and some reptiles as well, IIRC. But others seem to be capable of much more adaptive behaviors. And mammals? Exactly what evidence do we have that cats and dogs and horses and elephants are just mindless automata? To make such a claim certainly requires extraordinary evidence.
When I bought my home in 2008, I made $80k, and mortgage + taxes allowed me to itemize my charitable and some work expenses. It was not a ton of money, but helped with the community work that I do.

I wasn’t exactly living in the gutter, but would say I was “rich”.
Markets are not necessarily based on money; they are about exchange. In the web search market, users exchange their attention for search results.

I don’t know whether this kind of market dominance factors into the legal determination of monopoly, but conceptually I think it makes sense to say that Google has a monopoly in the web search market.
I don't see CSS-in-JS as a rejection of separation of concerns. In fact, one of the big advantages of CSS-in-JS is that it lets you decide how best to separate your concerns.

Using hand-tuned CSS will undoubtedly be the most performant option, but it leaves you with very difficult problems at the boundary of your styling and content/structure concerns. If you have even a sliver of dynamic content in your website, it will quickly become near-impossible to verify that your content and styles work together as expected, or even to verify that your class names match between your CSS and HTML.

On the other hand, if you use CSS-in-JS, what you lose in performance you gain in compatibility guarantees between your concerns, regardless of how you prefer to separate. Are you putting your styles in the same files as your layout components to fully separate one feature from another? Great, you can unit test those components and be reassured that the elements are styled as expected. Are you isolating your styles to only a certain subset of components that deal directly with styling concerns? Also great—if you're using TypeScript, you can guarantee correct use of those styles at build time.

For a large enough team, those guarantees really pay off. If you have lots of customers using 2G/3G networks and want to hand-roll your CSS, I commend you! For most products, I think there's a better way to make that tradeoff and your users won't mind a slightly slower experience that has fewer bugs.
Electric truck startup Lordstown says it doesn’t have cash for production
They may start doing so, if said providers start banning and censoring people based on political beliefs as Google does.
Astro: Ship Less JavaScript
> The biggest feature I would like to see is the ability to dump a pure representation of your evaluated configuration.

Are you asking for a dump of existing state or desired state? For existing state, see `terraform state pull`. For delta between desired+existing, see `terraform plan -out`. My apologies in advance if I completely misunderstood what you were asking for.
The fact that most people interested in Seasteading are the kind of libertarians who think things like "building codes", "safety inspections", "occupational licensing of marine engineers" and "paying taxes to fund a water rescue service" are all unconscionable restrictions on their personal freedom is just the icing on the cake. You couldn't pay me to set foot on whatever floating death traps they might manage to cobble together.
Off-topic but I tried https version of paulgraham.com but got a bad cert domain name error. SANs are for store.yahoo.com, leftover of Viaweb?
Nothing you said contradicts what I said.
Seems to be awesome - you've got my star. Could you write how to use it? I am not a python guy - the simple walkthrough would be great. And some meaningful example would also help - does it take the netflix subtitles or tries to transcript the sound?
That was kinda Socrates' schtick: demand a definition, and then show that it wasn't a good one. Which was true, but not really all that useful.

The best I can say for it is that it shows the way people think they have definitions of things, but they don't. Push on pretty much any nontrivial definition and it will fail. That observation, at least, is kind of interesting, in that it shows the limits of the way we think about stuff.

But we do think about stuff, and both bio and silicon neural nets do a pretty good, messy job of it. If Socrates had pushed harder on that, he might have gotten some real work done about the nature of thought. Instead, he always just struck me as being kind of a jerk, rather than contributing anything.
>What are you basing that off of? Because they didn't detail the specifics of how the games are going to be distributed?

https://play.date/dev/

>As for a more official way to distribute them, we’re still exploring different ideas for the best experience of getting games out to Playdate owners.

For a product advertised as a hobby device for devs and gamers, not having a distribution system planned for user made games is not going to help this product thrive.

Things like this tend to be made or broken by the community that builds around them. Look at something like the pico-8. Not exactly the same product, but the markets for them I imagine certainly overlap. The Pico-8 makes distribution of community created content a priority, something that's definitely been instrumental in its success.

Without a community of devs that can support the Playdate and a system they can use to easily distribute content, it's not going to last long.

It seems backwards to try and build a community of devs around a product after it's released. I seem to recall at least one console that died sometime in the 90's for exactly this reason.
1. Planning to avoid Google is a lot easier than being forced to with little/no notice.

2. You’re thinking as an individual, but there’s also how Google treats businesses. It’s a lot harder to replace Google Ads than gmail.
I guess it’s good news it took a century of effort go from 200->420 then.

Hopefully we can stop it around 600 or so.
Why are you using Terraform for orchestration?
Given that 2020 lockdowns was about as massive behavior shift we could hope for in the West, yet seemingly had no impact[0], what's the alternative to these schemes? Is the rise mostly now Chinese manufacturing?

[0] https://research.noaa.gov/Portals/0/easygalleryimages/1/864/...
> Our society is not capitalist. New currency is constantly being printed out of nothing and pumped into the system. That's not a free market.

I don't know which it's more of; mysterious or annoying that people keep repeating this... simplistic fallacy. WTF does one have to do with the other?!? "Capitalism" or "a free market" is how the game is played or what it is about; "currency" or the monetary supply is just the markers used to count points in the game. They're not the same thing.

In the game of Monopoly new currency is injected constantly, when players get 200 $ (? IIRC) for completing each lap around the board. Does that make the goal of the game not about amassing all the money[1] and bankrupting the other players? No, of course not. The goal of the game and the markers used to count progress towards that goal are different things.

Conflating them is committing a stupid fallacy, even more so in real life than in the game.

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[1]: All the money in circulation, regardless of how much that happens to be.
Even if individual countries or cultures could do long term planning, myopic cultures can harm them. We would have to have a global EPA. We have a global Tragedy of the Commons.
The "elementary freedoms" you list should more properly be considered entitlements.

The advantage of the seasteading scheme is that different groups can pick different hills to die on.

There are probably people who would like the worst of both the US and Germany: no shopping on Sunday, alcohol only to be bought at state liquor stores, no noise at certain hours, no driving over 55 miles per hour. I think it would be great if they had a floating* island all to themselves.

* if it didn't float, that would be fine too
Does it at all change the equation that you could trivially fly the drone 2 feet above the ground?
Can you copy those comments here by chance?
> Or is it more that noticing plaque reduction is fast while noticing outcome improvements would take a while?

This statement is true, but the trial will have gone on long enough to note whether or not both plaque reduction and outcome improvements happen, because plaque reduction isn't considered sufficient evidence for outcome improvement, despite some attempts to force the FDA otherwise. (Although I guess the FDA has kind of caved in at this point, given that it's conditionally approving this on the basis of plaque reduction despite seeing no outcome improvement.)
You need to be super good at naming stuff/or load CSS based on module.

You don't need to be that good, and there are methodologies that can help eg BEM.
MEDICARE DOESN'T PAY LIST PRICES!
I was briefly a customer but after the first year I got very fed up with their billing model.

Most services offer either pre-paid subscriptions where you buy say a year upfront and it doesn't auto-renew and/or some auto-renewal where they charge your credit card at the end of the previous billing period. If you decide you don't want the service, you can, in the first case, simply not renew and in the second, you have to cancel but you're made quite aware that your credit card will be charged.

This is not the case however, with Protonmail.

With Protonmail, you can go through the whole checkout process without saving a credit card, which one would assume means the plan is prepaid, as it would be basically anywhere else on the internet.

But it's not possible to have a non-recurring payment on Protonmail. If they don't have a credit card on file, they'll put an "invoice" (what I not-so-fondly prefer to call a ransom) for the next billing period on your account, which they expect you to pay. If you don't pay, they block your _entire_ account.

If, for example, you buy a year of ProtonVPN to try it for a while and end up not liking it much but also don't think it necessary to explicitly cancel, at the end of the year you'll get an "invoice" for an entire year of ProtonVPN. If you try to ignore it, your Protonmail inbox will no longer be accessible. If you leave it for several months, you'll be forced to pay for them, even if your entire account was locked and services inaccessible for that time.

I've talked to support but they show zero sympathy.

The whole billing model feels like a malicious scam to me.
The whole political system is designed to deflect and diffuse popular demands, not to be responsive to them. We could design better political systems.

But, if you want a responsive, accountable political system, you cannot also maintain enclaves of extreme wealth, power and privilege. People wouldn’t put up with it.
The parent's point was that breaking up Alphabet in any way that leaves Google Ads contiguous is insignificant. When you go to the barbershop and get a haircut, you've broken up your person into 100,001 individual pieces, but that hasn't solved your weight loss problem, because the 100,000 bits of hair are only a few hundred micrograms each and the one piece that is your body still weighs 90 kg.

Google Cloud is big enough to be significant in terms of revenue, but AFAIK is only maybe breaking even in terms of profit. If you break up Alphabet into 26 or more different companies, you haven't broken up the monolith into non-problematic small companies 1/26th the size of the original, you've got 25 irrelevant companies and then one subsidiary that gets Ads which is almost as big as the original. Google even says as much in their financial statements, most of those listed companies are listed as 'other bets' and are a tiny fraction of the main line item that represents ads.
The Danger of Big Trucks
As a former driver of a full-size pickup, "hidden" is an overstatement. The safety difference really is quite obvious.

The physics of a larger mass and stiffer frame are already unsafe, but the poor near-vehicle visibility and maneuverability in a large truck make things even worse.

Anecdotally, I see more aggressive drivers in pickup trucks and oversized SUVs. But who knows which causes the other, or even if it's my own biases shining through.
“When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.”
The goal of the Federalist Society is to replace every single member of the Judiciary with hand-picked candidates that strictly agree with a narrowly-defined canon of legal doctrine.

Their members may be less openly confrontational - more genteel - than some ACLU employees.

But if you think they're any less certain of their morality, or any less self-righteous than those ACLU employees, you're not seeing reality clearly.
I'd argue it's more of a right-wing idea than a lowercase-l libertarian idea.

Libertarianism (left or right) argues for reducing coercion in society; right-libertarianism wants to focus on property rights as the basis of that liberty (even though we already know where that leads). Hence why they have this idea of creating closed-off separate societies based on property rights that can internally structure their economies how they wish.

The cruel irony of right-libertarianism (at least, the stateless-capitalist kind) is that it's not terribly difficult to imagine a sequence of events by which one could construct the same arrangement of coercive governments through property rights rather than conquest. In other words, the ancap argument against sovereign nations is that the US didn't get clean title to it's land, not that it's inherently illegitimate or coercive to have one person control the land that another lives upon. After all, what's the difference between a government charging taxes and a landlord charging rent?

Likewise, the only reason why we don't have competition between governments to provide services to citizens is because sovereign nations collectively decided to not play such games. If you want to switch governments, you need to make an immigration case for yourself to another government, which involves fitting into a small number of restrictive visa categories with yearly quotas on how many new migrants come in. You are not allowed to "just leave" without having somewhere to move to, which is where most of the restriction comes into play.

This is, again, not materially different from a landlord who refuses to provide housing to people who don't make a certain amount of money. Something that, again, is very much up right-wingers alley. Hell, you can do this the other way around, too - high housing costs are effectively a small-scale shadow immigration system. If I want to move to California, I have to be fantastically wealthy, while long-term residents have the advantage of rent control.
> It's really just a single business (advertising) with a gaggle of loss leaders adding up to less than 20% of revenue

A better way of looking at it is that Google is a collection of traffic drivers (YouTube, Gmail, etc) and monetizers (ads).

If you break the monetization into a separate company, the traffic drivers aren't profitless: because a large part of the ad profit was created from their traffic.

If Google Ads had to buy space / share ad revenue from Google YouTube, Google Gmail, etc then economics would look a lot more reasonable.

And I'd frankly be shocked if that isn't what they do internally, albeit more in the sense of "How much ad traffic do you drive, from your corner of the company?"
It's in Hawaii.. The way it was worded, it initially sounded like it was thousands of miles from everywhere.
I've really enjoyed tailwind after using styled for a while.

At least for my applications, the computers my users run on can't handle the performance implications of styled.

But beyond the performance, I legitimately build faster using tailwind. I also find it easier to understand the components others build as well.
Show HN: Ora.pm (a Trello alternative) now free up to 10 members
The concern is climate change, unlike indoor CO2 concentrations.
The first thing that occurs to me, and this may be superficial, is that bioinformatics has a linguistic character to it, with pattern matching of sequences and so forth, and this is something where Perl is more adept than most other languages.
The cost of living in Sweden is not quite a bit lower than most of the US. It may be less than Manhattan or SF but it's certainly not cheap, especially compared to most of the US. I visited Sweden a few years back and found most things to be very expensive and I just did a quick Google search now to confirm before writing this comment.
Really? Say you blow a 1" hole in a wing that's got some balsa struts and some thin fabric? Or a wing just made out of a sheet of foam? Both are common on cheap drones.

Sure the 20mm round represents an amazing amount of kinetic energy, but the drone doesn't offer any resistance, and I wouldn't expect the round to even notice. Sure the disturbance in the air might throw the drone for a few loops, but any decent software will recover.

Sure hitting more substantial targets the target itself becomes of the shrapnel that causes an ever increasing zone of damage. Not clear to me that a piece of paper or thin fabric would exhibit the same behavior.
To a certain extent, utilities differ in that they are regulated monopolies protected by the government. Any competing water company, for example, can’t just start running water mains without government approval. In exchange for that protection, the existing water utility incurs additional regulations, like needing approvals to raise rates and bring required to provide services to areas where it may not be profitable by itself.

Regarding your electrical example, that only works in isolation. You cannot just decide to tie your solar or generator to the grid, for example, because that utility is a regulated public good.
You can address points 1 and 3 via (s)css modules.

But point 2 and 4 stand.
They should, but they mostly don't.

And I don't think it's easy; I suspect corporations do bad things despite the good intentions of employees. Each one, driven by subtle incentives, makes a somewhat less ethically sound decision than they would otherwise. And the effects of those decisions are often abstracted away from the decision-makers. The status quo gradually becomes worse and worse.
That doesn't do much to break up the effective monopoly these services have in their respective markets. You split off Google Search into it's own company and they will still have 90% of the search market share when you're done.
I suspect it’ll be higher than that, 700 at least
The article mentions the Portia jumping spider. Children of Time is a novel that explores descendants of Portia spiders who evolve to become a complex technological society and it’s a really enjoyable read :)
when people talk about the "the internet" being a public utility, they mean internet access. which is "a thing", and is a single discrete idea.

public utility status for the internet means that every packet delivered over internet protocol (aka "IP", which again, is a thing) must be delivered by the carrier/ISP without discrimination.
Not if you're allowed to build a well, which is a lot of places. Install a pump. Same for electricity - solar and huge ass batteries for the night. Definetly not only providers despite being classified as utilities.
Rafael Systems sells Drone Dome anti drone mobile defense.