skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The body of the post is similar in tone:

"Ah, whitespace. Another reason why Python is garbage. In a sane language scope delimiting is done with curly braces, or BEGIN and END keywords, or something similar."
At the tine it was the only game in town for "general purpose" use in a sense in that everything else lacked applications for entire large subsections of use that could compete with what an Amiga could do out of the box.

E.g you could draw higher quality art on an Amiga than machines with far fewer colours or no bitmap graphics at all. You could compose music on an Amiga that was not achievable on any other computer in it's price class without extra peripherals.

And so on.

It's simply false to suggest the primary function of the custom chips was cost cutting - there was nothing that provided what they did when they were introduced. Making it cheap enough was certainly also critical, but making it cheap enough is irrelevant without making it possible first.

I think the problem with looking back at this without a very clear timeline is that things did move very fast. In '85 it was astounding and revolutionary. By '87 it started seeing some competition, and without considering that most of the competition was too expensive it starts looking less impressive. Then prices for PC cards kept dropping. By '91 it was getting dated, and Commodore was desperate to survive and get AGA and AA chipsets completed. By '93 it was all over.

In '88 the custom chips would have looked like just cost cutting if introduced then, but when they were introduced they were expensive and extravagant compared to what was on the market.
The recent "covid crisis" crushed several nice businesses in my town. All small businesses, locally owned.

Walmart didn't even blink. The big chains are just fine.

In fact, the failure of small business has provided big business with opportunities to scoop up cheap properties. Not to mention the removal of competition.

And by "covid crisis" I actually mean the policy and propaganda ostensibly generated in response to the "covid crisis".

Because compared to the damage done by our politicians and media, the damage done by covid was actually quite small.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I don't love the language. It was patented. It could have been licensed no? The patent holder refused licensing at any price?
This whole argument always struck me as silly, for two reasons.

Yes, you’re still using fossil fuels for power. But are you using the same amount of fossil fuels? Are power plants, with much fewer design constraints, the same as car engines in terms of efficiency?

And even if the situation today is not great on the first point, you can’t easily convert an ICE car into a different powertrain, but new power plants would sort of automatically convert EVs to using whatever power source.
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I would like to read more about this. Is there a source or anything?
> Only if you spell it out. I've never seen it abbreviated in English, but I have seen it spelled out.

I've only ever seen it abbreviated. The only time I've seen it spelled out is when I looked up what it meant.
Is there a toggle for "don't scrub content we have deemed 'misinformation' from search results"?
Python import system is by far the worst one I dealt with. Using Setup.py and regular or namespace packages, relative import, having complex sub packages and cross importing, running a script from somewhere inside one of your sub packages, and many more craps like these. Import system must be intuitive and easy to use!
To be honest, I didn’t think the big benefit of electric vehicles was in fact going to be a massive direct reduction of greenhouse gases, but rather the decoupling of vehicles from a fuel source that emits greenhouse gases.

If our cars run on electric, that’s one less huge thing that stops us from switching over to non-fossil fuels and it doesn’t matter if we fuel the car by solar panel, wind turbine or oil power station.
Yes, I've checked it.
Some presents it as our future dystopia.
Other are more factual, saying this is the natural process, like Mayan, Egyptian, and other civilizations before.
I think this would happen at some point. But it is not instantaneous. There are different steps before complete civilization disintegration, which may takes maybe 10, 50, or 100 years.

Among the different civilization that collapsed, it often start with one event triggering the others.
Today we have covid, next what do we have ?
Collapsology allows to list all possible directions. My initial question was more "what are the week signals and what do you think it would transform into".
> [..] if you expect change from the Middle East.

That the point, that's why Norway reducing Oil production will make no difference.

> The same with expecting the low-per capita producers to change first.

But what matters is not Oil production (as we can't expect major improvements here due to the point above) but consumption and Norway does invest a lot into improving this internally and externally. And while I don't have any stats I would not be surprised if the per-capita Oil consumption is pretty good on a global ranking.

I mean the fact that Norway not only internally but also externally tries to improve the situation around Oil consumption show that they are not Hypocritical but instead try to balance differently problems in a reasonable way. Sure maybe not perfect, but nothing is really perfect.
All you have to do is make oil more valuable. There are many options for that. Gold is valuable because it’s a legal form of banking reserve collateral. If the World Bank did that for oil reserves, petro states would lend reserves to banks instead of pumping it out.

But of course this has been tried before, most recently in 2009-2011. I’ll leave the details as an exercise to the reader.
Yeah slurping and barfing in Paredit are quite similar to basic restructuring operations in tylr, eg selecting a parenthesis and moving it somewhere else. Some differences:

(1) In tylr you move the parenthesis itself, rather than making the parenthesized term slurp/barf its neighbors. This may seem like a minor difference for simple operations like this but I think it's an important primitive UI metaphor that makes the editing experience feel more direct/linear/text-like rather than you having to translate your editing goal into operations on the AST.

(2) tylr generalizes beyond S-expressions to infix operator sequences and other multi-sorted syntactic forms (eg it understands you shouldn't be able to move expression forms in patterns).

(3) tylr generalizes beyond parenthesis moving to near-arbitrary range selection moving, eg I could make the selection (specified by the square brackets)

`( 1 + 2[) * (]3 + 4 )`

and directly move it over to give

`( 1[) * (]_ + 2 + 3 + 4 )`

(where tylr has inserted a hole `_` to keep things well-formed)
According to Buddhist and Hindu thought, because it doesn’t have a body.
socat is the tool for this. No need for a full blown webserver.
Hololens (and most other AR headsets) is an additive display on a transparent waveguide. The Quest2 is passthrough video on a full face LCD.

The display technologies are fundamentally different. HL is additive so you can't show blacks. You have to make due with tricking the eye with grays. Its a lot harder to get realistic lighting on objects. The FOV on the Quest2 is much better.

The Quest2 is a couple SOC generations ahead of the HL2.

The Quest2 has a much bigger install base.

The Quest2 is 1/10th the price.
It's illegal because of the DMCA. It's not legal to sell tools that bypass copy protection.

You wouldn't need to send your phone or anything, you can do fully remote jailbreak from a web browser with the right exploits.

You'd be surprised how popular pay-to-jailbreak shops are/were in places where this isn't enforced. You go there and the guy jailbreak your phone in front of you then hands it back to you. There's absolutely a market
We got click-baited by an interesting headline, friends.

Instead of trying to tackle all the problems with this piece, I will just address the most glaring ones:

1) Norway is a nation, not a company. It does not have maximization of shareholder value as it's primary driving force. Yes, there is the sovereign wealth fund. But, that is about managing the assets that have been collected. It has nothing to say about where the assets come from.

The author conflates these things, when they are completely separate. In fact, the wealth fund is in the process of divesting itself from fossil-fuel related entities. [1]

2) Speaking of Norway being a country -- it has 5 million people and dozens of political parties. Most of those people and political parties do not actually support further north sea exploration [2]. Much like in the US and most other countries I suppose, the actions of the government do not represent the will of the majority of the people.

3) Given that Norway is well aware of the climate crisis, they have spent considerable effort trying to make their economy less dependent on oil. Since 2008 or so, the share of oil as a percentage of total exports has been on the decline [3]. This has been the result of a conscious effort and set of policies to diversify the economy. Norway wants to stop being dependent on oil because they know it is shitty for the climate and it is an economically precarious position to be in.

And yet, this piece suggests Norway should just drop oil all at once and further suggests that it has not made any effort at all to do so in the past. In fact, a lot of money and political will is being exerted into this very endeavor [4]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-swf-oil-idUSKBN1WG...

[2] https://naturvernforbundet.no/lofoten-vesteralen-og-senja/hv...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1025405/share-of-crude-o...

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-35318236
> If they were blocking administrators from executing arbitrary code or having arbitrary access to I/Os, that would be a different story.

I think this is the exact story being discussed here.
Huh. Since it sounds like you do vote on videos and subscribe to channels, is it possible Google is actually just making (correct) predictions based on that?

I'm just surprised because it really does work for me. But, I make a point of never voting/subscribing/commenting/queuing/etc. And the difference between when I'm logged out and logged in is very stark.
Large co's play different games than mom & pop. They can afford some near-term losses if they can make the case it prevents competitors from gaining a foothold. Banks can justify rent on a seemingly empty branch in an expensive retail area if it supports catchment area of desirable clients that visit in person once every 18 months. Etc.
Many of the common reasons that make companies able to pay more rent do not align well with preferences of locals. They could have higher prices, pay employees less, use lower quality ingredients, give less personal attention or externalize costs through say noise pollution. They also often have competitive advantages through brand recognition or company support, that don't actually increase quality
> But, I've never seen anyone discuss second order effects from hedge funds, or rich developers.

I think we do. We discuss startup culture, unicorns, huge companies with no revenue, the effects of quarterly reporting on long term thinking and many similar topics. These are all in my opinion second order effects of how business is financed nowadays. If you can think of other second order effects which are not widely discussed please do write about it. They are usually all super interesting and more insightful analysis is always welcome.

> Can someone explain why second order effects are only relevant and as powerful when it is a government entity

I don't think that they are only relevant when it is about government. See my previous point, but it is easier to talk about governments in this sense. Our governments in the "free and democratic" world are very transparent. We have freedom of information laws, the laws and policies of our countries are published, and politicians leak info like a sieve. Of course there are secrets, and backroom deals, and honest to goodness conspiracies too. But when you compare how transparent our governments are to how transparent hedge funds are it is day and night. It is much easier to talk about what you can observe, therefore there is more discourse around the second-order effects of transparent government action than the intentionally more opaque hedge funds.

Likewise people discuss more what they can influence. At least in theory we all can influence our governments. I'm not voting on hedge fund managers. They don't really care what I think. They care enough to not anger so many people that they grab pitchforks, but the opaqueness and lack of information helps them there. Curiously the easiest way the average Joe and Jill can affect a hedge fund is by convincing the government to enact and enforce some law. This is another reason why people might be talking about the second-order effects of government action more.
It most certainly will not. Colombia may have had a competitive edge climate wise in the 70s when almost all cannabis cultivation was illicit and outdoors, but in modern times most legal recreational and medicinal cannabis is cultivated indoors in climate controlled environments. Not to mention the widespread breeding and sharing of genetics over the past five decades.
Carbon-Capture Pipelines
Yes, intellectually speaking, 20 months is not an entire childhood. But from a relative perspective- let’s take a five year old- that’s about 40% of his lifetime to date. That feels very significant to him/her.

That said, having kids that age, I would say my kids handled this pandemic way better than most adults. They adapt quicker and don’t have the emotional baggage (“masks are an evil plot to control the population” for example) to get through.

We have been lucky that they were able to attend school in person though - very strict COVID protocols plus a small population ensured that we never had an outbreak. Things would have been different if we didn’t have that ability.
Yeah, this is literally the strangulation pattern in software engineering. You intermediate the dependency with an interface, then switch to the functional alternative gradually, then remove the old dependency, then remove the interface.
So long as you understand that all taxes get passed on in the gross price to the renter, and this causes bubble of inflation in the very thing you intend to make accessible.

While I don't necessarily advocate it, I'd say disqualifying empty buildings from insurance would do more to that end, as no bank or lender will take an uninsured asset as collateral on leverage/debt. The ones who do lend against that uninsured asset will impose interest rates on the debt to where it is cheaper for the owner to just rent the space.

It would be anti-inflationary as well, since it would reduce the amount of free money caused by cheap debt in the economy.

When you see empty buildings, you have to ask who benefits, and in the end, it's always the banks.
Indeed, this possibility is the key underlying assumption of Chomskyan linguistics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
Not true.

Saturn V's lift to LEO was 120-140 tonnes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V) while SpaceX claims Starship's is "over" 100 tonnes (https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf).
Columbia's budding cannabis industry? It used to be considered so seedy...
Yeah, I won't say it's always the case but if you're asking some low-paid worker to bend a rule for you the way to guarantee they won't is to be rude, no matter how ridiculously inflexible they seem to be being.
It seems that you’re making a claim about what policies are possible; I don’t have enough domain knowledge here to disagree.

My point was just that If most voters are opposed to your solution, it won’t happen - even if that means nothing happens and we maintain the broken status quo - regardless of whether it is the only way forward within our current legal framework. In other words, noting that while it sounds viable from a raw economics perspective, it might hit problems with voter acceptability. And voters do care about what “aught to have happened”, for better or worse.
> But DAMN that quote above is really showing me how bad it is out there !

Actually Windows is quite awesome nowdays. I was using mentioned OSes for years during periods of Windows downs, and since Satya Nadella took the leadership I was very happy with Windows (I primarily spend my time in PowerShell, browser, vscode and using dev tools but have different dedicated installations for games, media etc.)

Now with this can't-turn-off-helicopter attitude I am really considering switching to some Linux variant again. Mac is totally out of question due to similar concerns.
> Reading an entire zip file's contents and writing out a brand new zip file could be an extremely slow process.

That’s not the reason. Writing to disk and reading it back is bad, but keeping the whole file in memory is far worse and people seem to forget that routinely.

If you read from the beginning, you can stream the decompression. If you are already taking care not to clobber important files on your filesystem, this isn’t much worse.

The other advantage in the modern era of this format is that you can stream compression of the archive too. Need to send someone a bunch of files? You can start writing the file to the client while still compressing the data. If you’re very brave, you can start sending it while you’re still globbing the file system or pulling database records. This means you aren’t turning CPU time on the source into latency at the receiving end.
Just enumerate them all, if none is missing it's fairly easy to compress. (And 1b per number is really inefficient) ;-)

main = traverse print [1..99999999]
If I had a choice, I prefer that these millions were spent in a way that's governed by the same democratic principles that ultimately enabled generating them.
“Impossible” Somatosensation and the (Ir)Rationality of Perception
Your comment was noticeably worse.
Robinhood's Challenge
"Huge neural nets" as the parent suggested tend to have hardwired architectures but randomly distributed parameters. Whether or not that is analogous to the human brain is anyone's guess and probably more of a philosophical question than a compu-biological one.
> it is insane that cities are more expensive when city dwellers consume less resources and incur fewer environmental externalities, and are more productive

If people in the city earn more on average than people elsewhere, then everything will cost more, just supply and demand. Not sure what you can do about that besides put price controls on literally everything.

That and the extra taxes and other business costs. When the hot dog vendor has to pay a million dollars a year for their spot at central park then they're going to have to charge more.
> I particularly enjoyed this function that returns the ASCII-art logo for the current platform

I wonder how much of it is copied from screenfetch[1], which (I believe) is the "grandfather" for a lot of these kinds of information viewers.

I wrote my own version of screenfetch[2] a very long time ago, and I'm pretty sure I just ripped their ASCII-art directly :-)

[1]: https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/blob/c3a47890441166...

[2]: https://github.com/woodruffw/screenfetch-c
And will be able to refuel in orbit
I am waiting for AR lenses.
Told y’all so!
(Nearly?) All ChromeOS devices use CoreBoot. You really can't get much more open than that.

Android is open source and if you don't buy a locked down device from a carrier, the bootloader is unlockable and the system easily rootable.

Your two examples of something more 'not my pc anymore' than Windows aren't exactly good ones.

Now, if you were to mention MacOS and iOS... then you definitely would have had a point.
You seem to be misunderstanding the guidelines against flamewar and political battle on HN. Your comment clearly broke them and you've done this many times before. This sort of thing is obviously flamewar:

The same government and the ruling party on their claimed achievements -- how dare you question our rock solid reliable numbers. You must be a traitor, unpatriotic, anti-national, tukde-tukde-gang-urban-naxal-protest-jeevi, why dont you go to Pakistan.

We need you not to do that here regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. Actually your entire comment was flamewar - using sarcasm to sharpen political points, ridiculing opponents, and so on. None of that is ok, and being right (or feeling that you are right) does not entitle you to do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How is your email deliverability though? My main issue was having my mail sent to spam even if my IP was clean. I resigned and moved to O365 and haven’t had issues. But I hate that I had to do that.
Yes they could, why not? From the perspective of the consciousness being created from the rocks computing, it doesn't necessarily need to know what the material is of its hardware. ie let's say we were in a simulation and the layer above us were using rocks to compute, we wouldn't even know that that is what they are using.
Hell is the right word for it.
> You just never hear about the dozen plus games Soderstrom made/released before Hotline Miami or Thorson made/released before Celeste, etc.

Thorson isn't a good example here, because Celeste was only their 2nd commercial game, and their 1st was Towerfall, which was successful.