skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Investments flow to the highest-returning investment.

> Which is the most productive.

That's just a tautological statement. "It's more productive because it returns more money. Why does it return more money? Because it's more productive."

And you go on to contradict yourself about 2 sentences later when you say:

>> patent trolls

> are unintended consequences of poorly conceived laws, not free markets.

Which means not every investment that makes money is productive.

In a hypothetical free market where every actor has perfect agency, it might be true that money follows productivity. But just like "true socialism has never been tried" (scoff) there has never been a true "free market". In the market we actually operate in, wealth accumulation can be zero-sum.

> is the process of finding the value of something, which is productive.

Depends on the thing. IMO if the underlying thing (such as crypto or gold) isn't productive in and of itself, speculation on it is also zero sum.

Land may or may not be productive, depending on how it's being used. Poorly conceived laws also make it possible to achieve massive profits through real estate speculation without "producing" any wealth - which is zero-sum.

I reject the reductive view that someone only earns money when they increase productivity. Productivity increases will create new wealth. But wealth accumulation for individual actors is possible without providing any productivity increase whatsoever.

Every market participant is a neural network whose objective is to increase its own wealth. How this is done is rarely part of the equation.
> Gamestreaming (Stadia etc) shows that this absolutely is possible

Aimhacking is still fully possible on Stadia. You have the problem here of even if the client only has visibility into what they strictly should, machine reaction time & precision is vastly superior to humans. So aimhacks will always be viable, regardless of how little the client is trusted.
Luckily there are many models that show divergence from the norm many years ago and continue to show stable and accurate predictions. Like the IPCC reports, and well, most climate CO2 models.
Now it's less about determining if divergence is occuring and more about the slope of the divergence.

Will we have societal collapse at 2 degrees or 3 degrees warming seems speculative but the general consensus is that it'll be in range of bad to terrible to apocalypse.

All eyes on those slope lines!

And yeh, phone your representatives and demand faster and more consequntial action!!
You started using arch after it became stable. I've been using arch for a decade and Voxl's description of a `pacman -Syu` just completely hosing your system used to happen a lot more back then, but I haven't had an issue like that at all in the past 5-6 years.
It is defined and is predictive. For example, educational attainment , job performance, income and wealth. The DOD considers it real enough that all recruits must pass a cogntive screening test, the AFQT, which is like a proxy for measuring IQ.
I’m excited for these developments for two reasons:

1. People who, for whatever reason, have defective or non functional reproductive tissue generation (eggs or sperm) will be able to have this tissue synthesized on demand. Being semi or totally sterile becomes inconvenient, not a forgone conclusion.

2. Permanent birth control (tubes removed or a vasectomy) doesn’t carry the irreversible weight it does now, which makes it more attractive to folks who really, really don’t want kids currently but are fearful of regret in the future.

In short, more options are better.
It can run Kodi and Retroarch natively. They released an SDK for it but it kind of flew under the radar.
Netflix's CEO has been vocally anti-WFH since the beginning.
> It’s an illusion. The world goes ‘round.

So it is and so it does. And while it does, empires collapse, species go extinct...
It means if one was asked to bet on an event between 100k death from a virus outbreak and 100k death from climate change, one would place their bet largely on climate change. Even though we have been warned the hidden systemic risk of pandemic preparedness l.
For us, two places. When the feature is ready to be merged in, it is reviewed by the scrum team. When they say a set of code is ready for production, it gets tagged - and that tag gets the formal peer review.
The Steam Link, released in 2015 and discontinued in 2018, is still getting firmware updates to this day.

Valve's long-term support of the hardware they do release really is impeccable.
Just one question: why he says that clojurescript is a pain in the ass?

Because you have to deal with a lot of BS for no gain over modern JS.
Or maybe that was just part of Feynman's 'brand' and he got a lot of media attention. It's not like someone surveyed 100s of scientists and ranked Feynman as the best at explaining things.
I don't think most people have issues with non-mainstream positions or interest groups, or at least to the degree of their being banned. What's at stake here is Facebook's role in amplifying content that is at best misleading and at worst outright falsehoods. We've got a situation in this country where half the population believes the election was fraudulently stolen from Donald Trump and a significant portion believes that COVID vaccines are dangerous.

FWIW, I think it's perfectly fine for people to make those claims and put them in the town square, but Facebook doesn't just provide the venue, they amplify and drive users to that content, encourage them to engage with it, and then reshare it to their own networks, putting a veneer of truth and acceptability on it.

EDIT: I said "half the country", I should have said "half of the republican party" - apologies for the mistake.
It's unfortunate that people tend to think that smartness is just one-dimensional thing, i.e. a person can be either smart or not smart.

To me, it seems that there are at least two major components: breadth and depth. "Depth" people are probably what we normally call smart people. They have excellent memory, analytical precision, quick decision, etc. They're good at navigating through a well-defined problem space quickly and confidently. They're more like athletes. They are intelligent as machines are intelligent.

On the other hand, there are "breadth" people. They are much more distracted. They're always looking for different viewpoints and hidden variables, and sometimes they worry too much about what depth people would think trivial. But sometimes their worry turned out to be crucial. Their intelligence can be sometimes characterized as "thoughtful".

The thing is that, breadth people often look slow or dumb to depth people, because they tend to digress to a seemingly irrelevant tangent. Their intelligence is more subtle and hard to measure. But I think they're definitely "smart" in their own way. We need both kinds of intelligence, but we tend to be attracted to more visible kinds of intelligence, which I think is unfortunate.
If you're in your 30s and are still thinking in political binaries of "right" and "left" or believe in infinite growth theory you are indeed doing something rather silly
Perhaps in the future you could avoid leading with things such as:

> that's about as useful as a story of how someone prayed and their mom's cancer went away.

All I did was comment and say, "Hey, we did this and it worked for us" and you replied with the equivalent of "Go fuck yourself, I don't want to hear it"

Of course modern birth control opens many doors, I don't think that was ever in question. It's a highly personal choice and I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

Anyway, cheers. Hope you're having a good day.
Could you please demonstrate an example of such a break? I think if we really look at it, we might see that it's really just convention and semantics. I don't want to seem like I'm cherry picking by providing my own example.
The person who receives the contact email usually allows posts to be re-opened.
That’s not even remotely true if you’re comparing the new OLED model switch to the base model steam deck. $349.99 vs $399.99.
Gentoo wants to compile from source, because of the USE flags. Thats hard on battery life, and maxes out CPUs creating thermal issues, both of which are notorious issues on mobile.

You should be able to accomplish the same thing by using your own pacman repos with compiled binaries that have the right USE flags. They all have the same hardware after all.
I've used zig for projects before. It's a nice language with some improvements on C, just not ones I care about. I did adjust, finished the projects I was doing, and I decided to move on to something else. I had a problems with the C interop as well. It's likely that I was doing something wrong, but the documentation is poor and I want something that just works.

Again, the language is great. It's a young project. I'm glad you like it. Andrew seems to have a very firm idea of where Zig is headed. It's just not for me, in part because operator overloading is not a "little thing" for me.
It is a laptop with less than 1kg in weight, with embedded controller support and touchscreen.

Now if it can somehow act as wacom tablet I'll instantly buy it, though it may be not the case.
It would be interesting to apply a varying degree of regulation based on an organizations size/revenue.

Startups less regulation, global conglomerates more regulation.
It's not called doxxing if you actually had their real life information to start with. You need to be linking an anonymous identity with another that is not. In this case you linked his identity to his address. That's not doxxing, that's just finding out his information. People misuse the term however to be "any secret thing I found out about someone on the internet".
If you want to handle abuses of NVC, then learn some NVC!

To begin with, a fundamental principle of NVC is that when you make a request, you cannot expect the other person to agree to the request and if you are frustrated when they decline (let alone show frustration), then you were not making a request, but a demand masked as a request. As such, call them out on it! His behavior that you're describing is literally something the book says is a violation of NVC.

Given that context, NVC is not an appropriate way to communicate an order/demand. No matter the words you use: If it's a demand, it's not NVC by definition.

So respond NVC style:

"When you say your need is to work as a team, I am confused as I do not understand how that is a need. Would you be willing to expand on that?"

Or even more boldly:

"When you say your need is to work as a team, I am confused as that sounds like a evaluation/judgement/narrative and not a need. Would you be willing to clarify your need?"

(Judgements are a fundamental violation of NVC. If he's trying to manipulate you this way, call them out on it)

"When I work late to finish the tickets, I am [exhausted/dissatisfied/insert-feeling-here] as I need rest. Would you explain what will go wrong if these tickets are addressed tomorrow?"

The other NVC lesson I'd like you all to learn is that it is very explicit:

You are not responsible for other's feelings.

If your perception is the other party is offloading feelings on to you because they use NVC, understand that NVC itself tells you not to be burdened by it. The ideal is that you respond to people's feelings out of a sense of compassion, not out of obligation. And you're never wrong if you ignore their feelings (it's merely not ideal to do so).
It's unclear if these were private messages. It's possible these were posted on public channels. AFAIK, Slack doesn't allow companies/IT access to private messages unless there are legal implications.
>there was very little consideration or toleration for anyone suggesting it may have been a lab leak

This wasn't my observation. There was a lot of championing of the theory motivated by politics or xenophobia, a lot of backlash against that attitude, and a little reasonable hypothesizing suggesting a lab leak. Of the three, the last was by necessity least common because there was so little evidence. That may create a false impression that the "lab leak" voice was oppressed, when what you're actually seeing is the result of the high levels of ideological pollution in the "lab leak" voice itself.
I thought it was outdated since Epimenides. It requires the axiom of the excluded middle, which is about as false as axioms can possibly be, on account of having concrete counterexamples. (eg "This proposition is false.")
My childhood dream is potentially realised! I would love if it's possible to run PCSX2 on this thing, damn.
Same here, small town in France, I get 5 Gbps downstream and 700 Mbps upstream for less than 30 euros (35 USD).
I have no problem with this. I worked at a company about five years ago where employees used G chat to say some really nasty things about other employees. I only found out because one of them was using a temporary laptop that we had to do presentations, and I opened it up and G chat loaded and there was this disgusting talk about other employees trashing them, talking about the religion, all of this stuff. People vent, I get that, but letting employees gossip about one another on a work provided service undermines cohesion and the ability to get the job done. If you want to complain about your fellow coworkers, go to a bar, don’t do it on the company provided slack channel. It’s grossly unprofessional.
> They need to both be good at their respective goals and cheap launches will follow.

Is Blue Origin good at its goals? On New Glenn, which is what matters here (not New Shepard), the jury is still out. By contrast, for Falcon 9, the jury returned a verdict long ago.

> The business case to sell a $1000 terminal for under $300 isn't closing. They're subsidized right now, and public perception will be very different once the real sticker shock comes in.

They say they've been cutting the manufacturing cost from $3000 to $1500 to $1000; you are assuming they aren't going to succeed in cutting it further. Even if they can't get it all the way down to $500 (the current sticker price), if they can get it down to $600 or $700, a $100-$200 price rise for new customers caused by withdrawing the subsidy is unlikely to be a huge issue. (The $300 figure was just an aspirational goal Musk set, nobody is paying that little right now, who knows if anyone ever will.)
This to me is also an indictment of the meta analysis field. If only one study completely skews your analysis and you don't know it, then it's just bad statistics on those authors' part too.
> This is exactly my point in terms of exclusion, by enforcing such a communication style you would effectively shut down this discussion (depending on the people involved) before it even begins.

If you've ever read the NVC book, you would realize that the notion of "enforcing an NVC communication style" is fundamentally an oxymoron.
It becomes intuitive. APL primitives are particular instantiations of clean high-level concepts. While a C programmer would think "I'll make a sparse encoding of this boolean array" a K programmer would just write Where. Having a rigorous definition for a pattern like this is a nice guide for the intuition, but it's possible to get in a situation where what you want to do and what the language provides don't line up. And there are domains like graph algorithms that largely don't fit into an array style. For these you'd have to fall back to writing scalar-style code.

There's not much of a custom DSL problem, because APL/K emphasize using the primitives that are built in, and user-defined functions will have names not symbols. Some codebases will be a challenge to read because these languages tend to attract programmers who write things their own way, and for K in particular many users—the inventor Arthur Whitney most of all—don't like to write long explanations of how their code works. The OP, while well explained, is pretty advanced material. Knowing a lot about array programming makes the high-level picture clear but I would say many of the code examples would take some effort for even a good array programmer to understand.
There were at least a dozen stories on this stuff that made the frontpage: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ivermectin, including such gems as “wonder drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27778458) and “No bigger story in the world: why are journalists not covering Ivermectin” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27329461). The comments on the top story, getting 300+ votes, are also a sight to behold: ‘I truly hope in the coming years the censorship of this topic will be the catalyst for allowing free speech to prevail on social media.“ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27562412). Also: “Please do not spread fake news. All current vaccines are less than 1% effective.”

Let’s see if the people who read those stories get a chance to see the correction, as well.
I am not surprised. Samsung are well known for bundling a load of crapware on Android phones to the point where every review of lightly themed Android phones screams "clean, stock interface".
> Software is something which is relatively easy to change - I'm a software guy - and it has this property and advantage over hardware.

Ha...you've clearly never been a software engineer in the encumbered world of fielded defense systems.
> sophomore level Real Analysis

Hmm?
It was an insurrection in the same way that any other large scale protest was an insurrection.

It was not, however, "the worst attack on our democracy since the civil war" like Biden, other Democrats, and the media at large have claimed. [1]

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/right-wing-erupts-af...
On any storage system you will eventually run out of memory, so there will always be a maximum integer that you can write down with what you have, and we can only write down a vanishingly small subset of the natural numbers.

Of course, this isn’t what mean when they talk about “writing down” a number, but I’ve long thought that assuming the existence of natural numbers that you can’t write down is poetically apt.

In some sense, the set of natural numbers is “too big” to be about everyday finite numbers alone and it seems fitting to acknowledge that our usual axioms can’t exclude weirdo large finite numbers that are simply too big to ever reach.
There wasn't just a TP shortage, there was a sudden shortage in prescription medications as supply chains were interrupted. The FDA had a list of medications that were impacted and were in short supply, and many of them were on the WHO list of essential medicines.
A place I worked at had an ASP app in vbscript + one stored proc that dynamically executed raw sql strings from a database table. It worked so much better than it ever should've.
I guess the problem is there is no clear, technical definition of what a TLD is. There are many weird cases as described on the public suffix page (e.g. edu.au is a TLD unless it is catholic.edu.au, which is a TLD itself).

I believe it would be much easier to work with domain names if everyone agreed that all domain names should follow the same convention (e.g. hostname(s) + domain name + TLD type + country suffix) from the beginning.
The noxious branches have mutated into kudzu- invasive, ever-spreading, and damaging to the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits. Madison's analogy imagines a world that was true up until 20-some years ago, where most people believed in a common view of the world, with different philosophies about that world.

Today, a significant percentage of the population believes that the election was stolen from donald trump due to extreme election fraud. Another, similar, significant percentage believes that vaccines are at best dangerous and at worst implanting microchips and turning people magnetic. That's people not operating under the same basis of facts as everyone else.
The Deck is not closed though.
Or Android.

So a solid majority of all computer users.
Morally, maybe, but not practically. You can send emails or answer the phone during your regular job. The odds of you being "caught" are near zero.
To be fair, James Madison didn't live in a time where someone could easily spread their beliefs to millions of people instantaneously. Historical comparisons have their place, but this probably isn't it.
It's unfamiliar, but highly learnable. The problem solving style can then be applied elsewhere to great effect.

If anything, K is the opposite of a language where everyone disappears into DSLs- you can write expressive code without wrapping it in custom abstractions. An anti-lisp, if you will. It's not uncommon for K programmers playing with a puzzle to independently arrive at character-for-character identical solutions.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned lock in. It is very difficult to swap out your db if all your business logic is weaved into it.
Citadel or another MM is almost always the other party in an options trade
A popular portable platform to target provides an incentive for PC game developers to improve their power efficiency. I wouldn't be surprised if PC games mostly didn't even measure power consumption.
> Facebook's role in amplifying content that is at best misleading and at worst outright falsehoods

That's nothing but an excuse.
While caution is laudable, it's also frequently an excuse for inaction (not by you). As a person of middle years who has regarded CC as An Issue for ~25 years now, I'd say the new normal has arrived.
>> A rowdy protest is not “an attempted coup”.

Oh is this referring to the so called "insurection"? That was like a mild protest compared to other recent ones.
> SD class UHS-I is about as fast as a SATA HDD

As fast for sequential data, but at least an order of magnitude more IOPS.
Leaked Kremlin documents suggest Putin holds blackmail leverage over Trump
It’s already expensive enough as it is! My state just updated their laws but it’s still illegal to grow which is frustrating. I very much want to grow my own supply, anything but spending $50 on an eighth of unknown origin.
That makes no sense. Trading desks at the banks are not dedicated to "efficiently allocating capital", they are there to turn a profit no matter what. What's good for a trading desk might not (and often is not) always good for the economy.

You say that passive investment provides no value to society because it provides capital for failed and successful businesses equally. But there you said it: it contributes capital to companies that will succeed. How is this "No value to society"?

>It's only more profitable than mutual funds because ETF's have lower fees due to special tax rules around rebalancing.

No, it's the other way around. It's because ETFs have been found to be more profitable on average than mutual funds, that it was heavily incentivized to invest in them. ETFs are profitable for structural reasons, because it's really hard to beat the market on average.
Cruise ships are absolutely not paying US salaries to crew.
I see the value of this, but I find the wisdom of it to be highly questionable for anything but the highest-level TLDs.

For example, it enumerates the domains of many US state school districts:

k12.pr.us
// k12.ri.us Removed at request of Kim Cournoyer <netsupport@staff.ri.net>
k12.sc.us
// k12.sd.us Bug 934131 - Removed at request of James Booze <James.Booze@k12.sd.us>
k12.tn.us
k12.tx.us
k12.ut.us
k12.vi.us
k12.vt.us
k12.va.us
k12.wa.us
k12.wi.us
// k12.wv.us Bug 947705 - Removed at request of Verne Britton <verne@wvnet.edu>
k12.wy.us

These seem like awfully specific subdomains to be hardcoded into general-purpose software and entirely reasonable ones to want to set a cookie on or otherwise treat as not-TLDs. The list itself includes evidence of this in the form of exclusions due to bug reports and even makes this point specifically in the case of Hawaii:

// k12.hi.us Bug 614565 - Hawaii has a state-wide DOE login

It’s regrettable that browser vendors, even generally responsible ones like Mozilla, feel an incentive to do this.