skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only a "threat" because they don't have the tax base to support the infrastructure that is needed so it requires massive federal subsides and they are massively inefficient.

For the entire recorded human history, people have lived in cities just fine.

The problems today are entirely self created and imposed by governments and culture of people.

Take housing, the easiest way to solve the housing crisis in Canada and the US is to build more supply and a variety of housing (boarding homes, multi-family homes, 12-unit condos, mixed housing, giant apartment complexes, studios, micro studios). That would likely alleviate a multitude of problems cities have and probably solve a few others unexpectedly (increasing the tax base, the variety of people that live there, etc).

But walk into any public development meeting you will see a few dozen people force the process to a crawling halt because of a myriad of reasons. The needs of the few now outweigh the good of many.
Steel makes sense for extreme durability - I suppose you could use extremely thin steel wire for in-ears to make it flexible, though it might require a very special alloy to be thin and low resistance?

In my experience, litz wire is exceptionally flexible and suitable for getting shoved in a pocket frequently. Each wire can be quite thick due to the flexibility.
Tech culture is infested with Horatio Alger stories of supposedly hard work, grit and gumption leading to success and riches. When you get Sand Hill Road investors they constrict an origin story with you that follows this path. So luck and pre-existing family wealth and connections get written out of the stories of people like Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos, you name it. The true believers get drawn into tech.

Only after careful readings do you get to "wow this rich smart kid was incredibly lucky"

Instead, all these things work together to promote an illusion of unbiased meritocracy where if you got a clever idea and work hard you'll make it. The rich, smart, and luck get scrubbed out and replaced with a "Flowering of New England" Protestant Work Ethic.

For the more cynical people they go to the likes of Christensen, Geoffrey Moore, Drucker, Steve Blank, Ries & Trout, Blanchard, etc who are certainly not critical of free markets, labor or capitalism in any way.

You walk away from them with a less trusting and more cut throat version of essentially the same story.

So it's constantly reinforced which is why it's really not that surprising that programming has a lot of people who frankly believe in essentially free market magic, unfounded hogwash and other nonsense, it's the only thing on offer.

The myth of fantastic riches that avail themself to those who struggle is essentially one of the most common narrative archetypes there is. It's thousands of years old, even the cornerstone of many religions.
I once did something similar to that on my previous job. A colleague came by asking who printed several pages of garbage. Me: "Sorry, I just inferred every reputable printer supported postscript". The problem: the job was an outsource for a pinter vendor. They obviously did not like my comment.
From the video and https://everydayastronaut.com/starbase-tour-and-interview-wi...

Musk overviewed his five step engineering process, which must be completed in order:

1. Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are definitely dumb; it does not matter who gave them to you. He notes that it’s particularly dangerous if someone who is smart gives them the requirements, as one may not question the requirements enough. “Everyone’s wrong. No matter who you are, everyone is wrong some of the time.” He further notes that “all designs are wrong, it’s just a matter of how wrong.”

2. Try very hard to delete the part or process. If parts are not being added back into the design at least 10% of the time, not enough parts are being deleted. Musk noted that the bias tends to be very strongly toward “let’s add this part or process step in case we need it.” Additionally, each required part and process must come from a name, not a department, as a department cannot be asked why a requirement exists, but a person can.

3. Simplify and optimize the design. This is step three as the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist.

4. Accelerate cycle time. Musk states “you’re moving too slowly, go faster! But don’t go faster until you’ve worked on the other three things first.”

5. Automate. An important part of this is to remove in-process testing after the problems have been diagnosed; if a product is reaching the end of a production line with a high acceptance rate, there is no need for in-process testing.

Additionally, Musk restated that he believes everyone should be a chief engineer. Engineers need to understand the system at a high level to understand when they are making a bad optimization. As an example, Musk noted that an order of magnitude more time has been spent reducing engine mass than reducing residual propellant, despite both being equally as important.
But then we lose several useful mathematical properties! :-p (Thanks; I hadn't thought of that, and it's useful.)
Probably the biggest problem in automating construction is not just that every job is in a different location but these materials are so bulky and heavy and composite that the cost is not in the labor of installation but moving the materials to location.

Asphalt paving requires 4 guys to level the asphalt but a truck to pour it. The best you can get is an attachment on the truck to level the asphalt. This attachment is called a paving machine. And it requires an operator and two-man crew to maintain. So no real advantage besides workers won’t be tired. And the leveling will be done super well.

Other automation problems are similar. If there is no need for precision, there is no need for automation.
I think this response assumes snark in the post - since emergency calling has been around and is a feature of the phone - has something notable happened that would bubble this up. I don't believe the intent was to assume this didn’t belong - but a request for more context on why it was being posted / voted up.
> There is a limit to the amount of expansion that can happen with a gold standard.

This is wrong. Banks can issue bank notes that on paper say that they're worth gold, but are in actually just banknotes.

This expands the monetary supply (or shrinks it, when the reverse happens like in 1929). I don't see how there's any limit what so ever (today: this still happens with stocks like AMC: who are continuing to print AMC stocks and raise money as much as they want)

> Banks will be banks but they also want to keep customers and stay in business. A single bank failing due to their bad practices is preferable to an entire nation failing for the same reasons.

Not for the town that Bank was part of. And when many small banks fail at the same time (such as in these historical "panics" from the 1800s or early 1900s), you have a nationwide depression.

Just because they're small doesn't remove the fact that they're correlated. Indeed, greater economic trends continue to affect small banks: causing all of them to surprisingly panic simultaneously across large sections of the country.

Again: 1929 disproves your thesis entirely. The US banking system wasn't a single entity back then. Lots and lots of little banks failed simultaneously. That's why we invented FDIC insurance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_United_States

Note: Bank of United States was a private bank / company. Its collapse was one of the biggest, kicking off the Great Depression.
Only some of them. And many of those houses will be sold to pay for healthcare.
I was taught as a kid (80s) that if you accidentally dial 911, stay on the line and tell the dispatcher it was a misdial. This saves them the callback time; the person you’re talking to is often the same one on the radio to fire/police/medical, especially in less populated areas.
From your link:

> The National Labor Relations Act provides protection to employees who wish to join or form a union and those who engage in union activity. The act also protects employees who engage in a concerted activity.

That's the law you should be looking for. Check it out. It has some provisions about distributing union literature in break rooms and stuff. Pretty interesting.
> It isn't "society" that's absorbed absorbed increased worker productivity,

Yes it has. Food is way cheaper now. Clothes are way cheaper. Transportation is way cheaper. Housing is way better (and cheaper if you want what passed for housing in the 40s).
They state in the article that the main problem is not in positioning the bricks/blocks, but on handling the cement mixture (non-Newtonian fluid...)
I'm getting strong vibes of the work of indie game developer thecatamites from the site.

Not quite sure what sort of site, on which I was attempting to actually accomplish something, I'd be happy to find something like this on, but there's probably some use I'm not thinking of.
It's useful to know.

The phone I have right now doesn't have such a feature. I've idly wondered whether it's in breach of some law because of that.
Do prefabricated brick wall elements count.
Are there buildings that aren't demonstrations that are being printed? There's always been demonstration homes and buildings using novel techniques, and that's no indication that the technique will go anywhere.
That thing is well-known to break all the time. You can even find people on Yelp talking about how the robot is broken. It's mostly old technology anyway; it's still a fundamentally mechatronic system similar to what AMF made several decades ago.

https://youtu.be/FmXLqImT1wE

That one didn't make money either, and it also broke a lot, and had all sorts of other problems. Believe it or not, the core technology has improved a lot less than you might think. They may have put a prettier skin on it but it's still the wrong approach.
I expect that Honda will set the terms under which I can use the car, and if I don't like them, I need to buy my own car.

As for the stuff in the car, it's a poor analogy. The stuff in your Gmail account is easy to duplicate, unlike physical stuff, and it's your responsibility to back it up.

As you can guess, I don't use free email services, and I don't rely on the mail always being in the hands of a provider - I always have my own copy via IMAP. This was the normal way to do email, and the barrier to entry is low - most people doing this in those days were not tech folks.

It's just silly to demand that a company spend money to provide something to you for free, and then demand they be treated as a utility. Especially where plenty of alternatives exist.
No? She didn’t help make it.
We use Renovate for this.
There are microbes that break down hydrocarbons for energy, but they aren't necessary for oil to break down.

Hydrocarbons can break down on their own, which is why you are supposed to change your cars oil every 3 months regardless of how many miles you drive.
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Bony fish evolved in rivers, and eventually returned to the sea to kick... what? Analogies fail.

Those fish are overwhelmingly more closely related to horses than to sharks.
and a murderer.
> dev speed is way more important to me up front

Having written many parsers, I can attest that the time spent writing and debugging the parser is about 0.0000001% of the time you'll invest in the compiler.

Heck, I spent more time trying to figure out how to integrate the tag name space from ImportC into the host D compiler's symbol table mechanism, than I did writing the C parser.
Strain relief for cables has been a solved problem for decades, but Apple intentionally switched to an inferior design around 2008 [1] for aesthetic reasons.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/yAywo.jpg
I mean the word I used.

NPR is "notorious" because it carries itself with an air of impartiality, while definitely being partial.

Where CNN and Fox are openly biased and understood to be so, NPR and its fans tend to argue that it isn't - but 99% of people making that claim vote blue, and disproportionately towards the Bernie end of blue.
Consumption of music streaming declined significantly during lockdowns worldwide
1990 dollars, $1200 in today's dollars according to this site:

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Bullshit article. the FDA isn't attacking, they're pointing out that a drug certified for treating roundworm and similar parasitic infections is not certified for treating COVID-19, and that relying on it for that purpose might turn out badly.

From the headline onwards, this whole article is concern trolling. Could Ivermectin have promise as a treatment? Perhaps so, but the non-trolling way to make that argument is to say 'The FDA should consider this drug based on these [encouraging findings].'
Yes, they can ban all literature, or they can ban none of it. They can't ban some and allow some, which is what happened here.
I stayed at my previous company for five years, but worked in four different roles across that time:

- 1 year doing iOS frontend/product
- 1 year doing low-level iOS systems
- 2 years as a PM
- 1 year doing backend

I was never bored. I think giving engineers the flexibility to move around (provided they stick with one thing for a year or so) is a great way to retain folks. I can also say my efficiency during year 5 was fairly absurd (I won't necessarily say overall productivity was higher at the very end, since my interest in the company was waning, but I saved a lot of time by knowing exactly who to talk to and how systems across the stack worked).
Oh fascinating. If I use the system dialogue, I can choose the application to print to. There is an `lpr` option, and I can specify the application it invokes in a "Command Line" field.

I can put `nc [printer_ip] 9100` there and it will just print. I just printed your comment this way.

That's cool! Thank you for teaching me something!
Trying to grow plants outdoors is a humbling experience for sure
Implement window.{alert, prompt, confirm} removal from cross-origin iframes
Really the trick is to use react-spring or react-transition-group and leverage powerful community tools that have solved these complex use cases.
Obviously, it's a conspiracy by the Freemasons to control their ancestral art. (sorry)
How is a browser downloading an html file any different than requesting a PDF other than size? If anything it's useful to be able to pop it over into the Documents app and read later.

I guess it's not responsive but to be honest that's a feature not a bug lol. I guess the editorial concern is the bigger issue.
World population in 1700 was 600 million, which is a single order of magnitude.
Because my engagement with unions has only been positive, I am interested in the amazing number of people who seem motivated to say how negatively they feel about unions. I get that in an oppositional sense, if you don't want what a union wants, then they tend to cast into the bad, but for the middle ground who are not VCs, owners, Managers, and are candidates for union membership, I find it really strange how much people cast them into a class of "money grabbers for no benefit"

Do people feel the same about life insurance, car insurance? Its not that you actually intend being harrassed or sacked (fall ill, have a car accident) It's that you don't want to find yourself on the wrong side of an employment dispute (accident claim) without some insurance.

Unions may be taking your hard earned money. They may be doing things which you don't like (do I love my car insurance company?) But, they have a neccessary role in risk management.

We talk about risk management in the ICT sector all the time. Why can't we talk about risk management for labour hire?

Amazon used "dirty tricks" to win this election. I am sure the Union bust some minor rules too, but overall I am reasonably confident that the vote was neither free, nor fair. I also do think there is no latent 100% pro-union vote out there, and that a large number of the polled workers don't want a union, or the cost of the union, or the risk of jobloss from Amazon if they join the union (which is illegal but still has a risk of happening) -So I don't for a minute believe a re-vote will magically reverse the signal with an overwhelming result.

What interests me, is the basis for opposition to the union in the first place. Do people really think the garment workers in New York were backing the wrong horse? Do people think the machineguns which Ford arranged to turn on a union march in Detroit didn't happen?

"oh, that would never happen now..."
The utility of money is the ability to trade it for any utility that is for sale. Money itself shouldn't have any inherent utility, other than being able to reference any other utility in the amount that the money holds value. It's like a magic wand that can make a wish true. The medium of money is just there to store and transfer the information for the amount of magic you can wield. This is why money is always overvalued compared to the medium's inherent utility.

There are many other things that are overvalued, such as real estate - because there's an expectation that they can be used to trade for something else later. In other words, they're bought solely because they're expected to hold their buying power, i.e. they're used as money. The reason why this happens is because modern fiat money doesn't have this property - it's expected to not hold its buying power.

Now, there is money that holds its buying power - bitcoin. It's expected that in the coming years most of the value from real estate and other overvalued assets will transfer into bitcoin, because there's no reason any more to own them other than for their utility.
I love how Elon just geeks out about engineering. So many sessions for software development as well.
Oh FFS, conspiracy theorists come up with the most impenetrable thickets of BS.
When he bought the title after the founding of the company, totally normal.
What you're saying resonates for so many new products. I find that most time or labor saving ideas save time on something that is not actually the problem, or address a charicature of the actual workflow. I dont think it means we should give up and stop trying, rather that its critical to test with real users IMO before trying to sign deals on a product that doesn't make sense.
No, we’re not. I’m pointing out that you can’t even trademark common names even in the scope of a narrow business. You wouldn’t be able to trademark “Jim’s restaurant” at all.
So how did you cancel it? I assume killing the nc process wasn't enough because it had buffered the whole file, so you had to do it at the printer?
If you think the definitions of religion or the press aren’t ambiguous I don’t know what to tell you, and that’s before we get into the exact meaning of the concept of “establishment”
I suspect it's the printer doing the pdf->ps conversion. I have a beefy printer, so only run into this for large documents. But I'll cat through `gs` then to `nc` to do the pdf->ps conversion locally, and it is much faster.
We need a way to move goods without emissions. If hydrogen can do it, then it is definitely a good idea.
He isn't building anything, the actual engineers (whom he likely also routinely abuses) do.
They're much, much too small for MRI[0], but we do know a crazy amount about the structure of C. elegans: there's a complete wiring diagram of all the physical connections between its 302 neurons, a fate map of the embryonic origin and final role of every single cell, and so on.

[0] Each voxel (='volume element') in a "standard" MRI is cube 0.5-1mm on a side. A C. elegans is about a millimeter long, but only 100 µm wide, so you could fit about a hundred into one voxel. The resulting scan therefore wouldn't tell you much spatially, though I suppose you could do spectroscopy if you wanted to know what a worm was made of.
How do you know that's what happened here? The OP linked article does not contain such information.
>I was surprised to realize how enormous Apple's profit margins must be on these chargers. These chargers sell for about $30 (if not counterfeit), but that must be almost all profit.
Adjust for population and the nature of the country (ie values freedom highly), and then testing rates, and you'll see it's not as unique as you think.

Many other countries had huge death rates but didn't test much before and don't test the dead, unlike the States.

Then control for age and obesity, the two factors that make a population most vulnerable.
That makes sense. That's why you want to do print spooling on client devices, which run on extremely fast CPUs in comparison. I guess that is why we don't send documents directly to printers.
> The fallacy here is the equivalence of economic goods to material goods. Many economic goods are not material.

But what part of the economy does this represents?
Most of the Internet run through ads, whose objective is to sell stuff.
The real fallacy is the knowledge economy here.
The value of Internet is that it sells physical stuff, not that it makes people smarter or happier.
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