skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a compelling case that it is.

This number is probably the truest measure of a person’s real wealth: What is the largest unexpected financial shock you could sustain without the cost of that to you suddenly becoming ten times the original cost or more? That number isn’t something easy to calculate; it depends on whether you have a family that can help you out, on your income, on whether that shock involves losing your job (and thus your health insurance, if you live in the US), on whether you have access to any other sources of security (including public assistance).

From Yonatan Zunger's "Your 'Financial Shock' Wealth".

https://medium.com/newco/your-financial-shock-wealth-4845e6d...

Other commentators have similar arguments. Economist Emma Rothschild makes the explicit point that Adam Smith's "liberal philosophy" was one of material liberty, that is, of an abundance of material wealth at the individual level, which allows for a freedom of actions without catastrophic consequence.[1] Several recent modern commentators have noted that the chief characteristic of poverty is a lack of choice: if there's only one way to do things right, without consequence, you have no freedom.

Among Zunger's references is the point that very nearly a majority of US households, 47%, cannot sustain an unexpected $400 expense.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secr...

Whether or not living paycheck-to-paycheck is necessarily a characteristic of poverty is of course debatable in specific instances. But one cannot look broadly at the population of the US and claim both that market economics succeeds on the basis of individuals making intelligent and rational economic decisions and that many millions of those people, very nearly if not majority of those same people fail to do so.

Something is very rotten in the "free market".

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Notes:

1. I'm trying to track down the Emma Rothschild reference, though I suspect it may be in Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment.
Low power density (at least an order of magnitude worse than fission), high complexity, need to maintain large complex objects for which hands-on maintenance is impossible and for which there are many parts for which no redundancy is possible. Fusion reactors are the opposite of "Keep It Simple, Stupid".

The engineering undesirability of DT fusion has been known for decades. All the recent excitement doesn't address any of the known showstoppers.
For comparison Tesla started construing of their Nevada factory in June 2014, it began production in 2016 and was producing 20GWh in 2018. That’s the equivalent of 2026 to 2030.

Toyota has been manufacturing lithium ion car batteries since the 97 Prius, and plug in hybrid since 2012. So, I suspect they can ramp up at least that fast if not faster. Will they is of course a completely different story, they aren’t making great EV’s even if they have the expertise and technology to do so.
Are there compelling reasons that these systems can't be broken into parts and then each part gets gradually replaced in turn?

Clearly some aspects will be tied together, so for them it's all or nothing.

It does feel like these companies have got to bite the bullet and get started, otherwise that facade of being conservative will fall, to reveal recklessness.
And the type of treatment
You are right, people who flippantly dismiss fusion just don't understand it.

-Fusion has made consistent improvement, roughly in line with expectations for the level of investment (20 years away predictions were considering if we invested massively, which we did not).

- Fusion is in theory something that could give us true energy abundance. Want to just desalinate water like crazy? Want to extract gigatons of carbon? Working fusion enables these to happen woth existing technologies.

I like to think of solar, batteries, fission, and wind as compelling ways to go mostly carbon free and lower energy costs about 2x over the next 20 years or so.

Fusion is what reduces energy cost potentially another 10x, which really changes the game for lots of things. Exciting stuff. Kudos to this team.
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Don't think the rod matters, it is just the indication that the person holding it has reacted to something.

It was very accurate the one time we tried it.
TSA doesn't go around saying 'we are here to waste your time and humiliate you'. They are also saving lives. In perpetuity.
Keep in mind that filesystem paths aren't strings. On Linux, they are raw bytes without any fixed encoding (but usually UTF-8 on UTF-8-based locales), and on Windows, they are sequences of 16-bit codepoints which are expected to be UTF-16 but not validated.

Rust's OsStr is my favorite approach so far. It stores Linux's raw bytes as-is, and stores Windows's possibly-valid UTF-16 as WTF-8. This makes path management "just work", with the ability to operate normally on invalid UTF-8 or UTF-16 paths, and zero-copy conversion from UTF-8/ASCII strings to OsStr (though converting OsStr into UTF-16 requires parsing). (Qt's QString-based file dialogs on Linux fail to convert invalid UTF-8 paths like those in https://github.com/petrosagg/wtfiles into QString, causing Qt-based apps to open/save the wrong paths.)

However there are difficulties in printing an OsStr. For example, a file dialog that shows filenames as raw bytes can't show non-Latin/Unicode characters in a human-readable form, and a file dialog that shows filenames as Unicode strings can't handle invalid Unicode filenames. GTK3 file dialogs show filenames as Unicode strings, and when encountering files with invalid Unicode names, instead displays "file�name.txt (invalid encoding)".

Worse yet, how should a file dialog allow users to rename files? If it's based around byte arrays, the user can't enter Unicode characters directly, and if it's based around Unicode (or a locale-specific text encoding), it can't display existing files with invalid Unicode/etc. in the name (probably not an issue if it allows the user to rename to a valid name), nor allow users to enter invalid Unicode (which is not an issue IMO).
> Bolts are crappy?

“GM recalls every Chevy Bolt ever made, blames LG for faulty batteries”

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/08/gm-recalls-every-chevy-...

I think having to recall every Bolt ever made for battery system failure, which is the primary part of the car is “crappy”. The other parts of the car might be fine but the actual battery system has been giving people trouble for years now. That’s why I say it’s no good. The other parts of the car are probably decent. But having to recall every car and swap the battery is a massive failure on GM’s part (and their partner LG).
Wow, good one. Thank you!

Few interesting things about that file:

- that video has a higher bitrate -- ffprobe shows 4338 kb/s, which is probably an average value. One of the "regular" MD5-named videos I tried has 2256 kb/s as its bitrate

- the resolution of the file is the same as the regular MD5-encoded filename videos i.e. 1080p

- as the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448361 comment mentions, it does have WB watermarks

- the Internet Archive grabbed 4 similarly non-MD5-named videos in total:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://thechoiceisyours.whati...

(I can't link to the list of files directly because the asterisk in the URL breaks HN formatting -- follow the "Click here to search for all archived pages under" link)

- The 7000k/12000k values in those URLs do correspond to bitrate. The 12000k video (downloadable from the archive.org link above) has an average bitrate of 6131 kb/s. It also has watermarks.
Sounds like politics more than technological. Although I guess it is unavoidable.
Only if the company is barely hanging on as is. If they're profitable, they still have room to increase wages. There is no law out there saying a company has to make as much or more money this year than last year.
I think you mean an absolute mad scientist ;)
I’ve heard an interview with the Dir. of Photography of Matrix 1/2/3 and he said the Wachowskis lost their way after 1, changed their entire way of dealing with actors (it shows) and he hated the experience. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t the only one.

Tbh my impression is there was some genius ghost writing done by one or multiple individuals on Matrix 1, which as per Hollywood rule, is never to be acknowledged (this happens all the time). The Wachowskis are now stuck in this weird loop of making films that are not as good as that one while having far more than enough opportunities to do it at this point.
I’m aware of the other groups existing.

When such a group represents police it is fundamentally different and should be treated with much greater suspicion.
Coming from a long career in ops and systems administration, k8s was very straightforward to learn. All the complexity is in automating the things that I’ve already had to know how to do - scaling, failover, resource planning, etc etc.
Zig's build system has a first-class notion of packages that satisfies exactly this requirement. The Ziglearn documentation[0] has more details.

To make things a little more interesting though, Zig's shape in this regard should be roughly congruent to C's, so you should be able to do anything with Zig that you can with C. This includes linking against shared objects for C libraries like, e.g., SDL2[1] or building mixed-language Zig+C projects[2].

0: https://ziglearn.org/chapter-3/#packages
1: https://dev.to/fabioarnold/setup-zig-for-gamedev-2bmf
2: https://tiehu.is/blog/zig1
Take it with a grain of salt just like any self reported study. Their preference may very well change when they become the patient.
Can a Nonprofit [Ameelio.org] Disrupt the Pricey Prison Phone Industry?
Previous Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042558
Pancreatic cancer has a notoriously low survival rate, and undergoing pancreatic cancer treatment is a horrible way to die.
https://github.com/koenrh/delete-tweets

See also for reddit: https://github.com/x89/Shreddit
The first step to correction is awareness right? Lets turn this tanker of human behavior away from these pitfalls.
those 4 HN links refer to these 2 articles:

http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die...

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/feb/08/how-doctors-c...
Don’t even ask about the app which take 20+ Seconds to load in content.
We made a tool that helps to determine leakers of documents
Gyfcat / gif slowness I think is a big part of this. Now that did not answer your question, but at least reddit routinely pokes fun at itself under /r/funny and /r/yesitstrue where its servers are depicted as 1 old overheated pizza box. Also 34% of all resources are spent running rule engines to "enforce" posting compliance.
Usenet became unusable due to spam / people trolling with illegal material of the worst kind. You can kind of filter it or pay for a good Usenet provider to sort most of that out, but the good old days of being a Usenet node and having a manageable amount of traffic disappeared 25-30 years ago.

The moderated platforms looked better (Slashdot for example) but the spammers and chancers ruined that too.

As a link aggregator, Fark or Digg or (threw up in my mouth) 4Chan all either censored themselves stupid or became a cesspit of humanity that no self respecting adult could tolerate.

Reddit looked like it might be able to find a way forward but as others have suggested, if your business model completely relies on your community doing your work for free, it is eventually doomed to fail as soon as it becomes popular because the amount of work becomes overwhelming.

Yet we are stuck because the conclusion all these sites seem to come to (heavy, paid moderation) makes the sites so antiseptic they stop having anything interesting on them.

The real answer seems to be: use it until it can't be used and move to the next thing when that happens. Reddit is not quite unuseable for the specialist subs but it's getting close.
Doesn’t help me. I don’t have android.
Yes, their neural-net based image tuning is the core IP/feature for the vision part of the product.

The comparison images/videos look like their ISP tuning (/ neural net) is cranking up the saturation too much and metering only in the center. Might just be the way it was set for the promotional video, so time will tell. All of these can be easily integrated into Macbook webcameras via software updates/tools.

"We gave the Opal C1 the fastest neural processing chip ever on a webcam. At 4 trillion operations per second, it rips through ML models at blazing speeds"

If they want/wanted optimal lens+sensor performance, the industrial designers would need to give a bit. The 0.9" depth is tricky for all-glass wide-angle lenses and 1/2.3" format type sensors. My guess is the device would need to be ~1.4" to incorporate an all-glass lens that's fully suitable for this sensor, particularly at F/1.8. Can talk more about this offline (commonlands.com).

It sounds like they are still figuring out their lens. The writing on the camera says 3.3mm~=100deg DFoV; 19mm equivalent on 35mm full frame. The webpage indicates 4.81mm~=78.6deg DFoV; 28mm equivalent on 35mm full frame.
One of the best things I've watched in a while!
You've been vindicated, it's definitely bitrate! :-)

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28464228
> A common assumption is that when dealing with the Police in the US the problem isn't that they will operate within the law and apply it as intended to punish you but rather that they will not operate within the law which almost invariably end with someone getting needlessly harmed.

This is complete bullshit.
If wages are higher customers will have more money to spend on goods and services.
The problem is the principle is hypocritical.

The deliberately hyperbolic scenario which results from what's being proposed here - that platforms be forced to publish all legal content regardless of their intent - is that governments declare all websites to be platforms, and thus governments directly control all online communication and publishing, and then simply declare any speech they dislike to be illegal.

In essence, what is being argued is that in order to protect free speech we cannot trust private citizens or any communities they form to exercise freedom of association. Yet the same community that considers everything else that governments do a violation of their fundamental civil liberties and a naked and obvious pretext towards rounding up dissidents for the gulags seems to implicitly trust the same governments to act as fair and impartial arbiters of online speech, to the point that they consider giving up what were (until some point in 2016) considered essential liberties to be a necessity.

If the scenario where governments cede all of their authority and property to private interests you mentioned earlier is reasonable enough to be actionable, then this scenario which at least describes things that governments have historically actually done, should be even more actionable.

Yet, given the choice of Facebook not having secret police, and it being possible to simply create other networks on the open internet if you disagree with Facebook's terms, and Facebook having secret police, and the creation or moderation of any new network being directly overseen by governments, and terms of service being enforced by the state's monopoly on violence, people would rather Facebook have secret police.
podman has no revenue model, it is an open source project managed by https://github.com/containers
Observability is key to the future of software (and your DevOps career)
it’s not only suitable for google scale problems, rather it isn’t for all problems. Like a lot of new shiny tech, it takes time investment to find out if something really is the solution to a problem. Don’t just jump in with both feet.
I have a pet theory that the major cause for cost/time overruns on large projects is the cost constraint itself. In other words, attempting to do things on too small of a budget results in the overall cost increasing, not decreasing. I suspect that there are a few main mechanisms for this:

1. As budget constraints tighten, the number of man-hours spent wrestling with bean counters (and/or waiting around with nothing to do until the bean counter wrestling completes) increases exponentially.

2. "Cheap solutions" often end up being unfit for purpose, and have to be reworked later at great expense.

3. Budget overruns lead to time overruns which lead to more budget overruns, ad infinitum.
Decentralization and local governance aren't foreign things for China. It has a remarkable amount of authority on a local level (at least provincial). You can also google ratings based on share of subnational public expenditure in total public expenditure, China is the top.
Tk seems stagnated, no hidpi in wayland for example?
Have you tried LINQ to SQL?
Most physicians would forgo aggressive treatment for themselves at EOL (2014)
At 16 T you can levitate a frog purely through diamagnetism. I imagine you could do the same for a human as well if you could create a chamber that large with a uniform field of that magnitude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlJsVqc0ywM

That said, assuming 16 T cancels gravity, I imagine being imaged in a MRI machine at 7 T horizontal magnetic field would probably feel like a net gravity vector at an angle, i.e. lying on a steep slope of arcsin(7/16) = 0.452 radians, which is pretty steep.
yea totally changed my mind, it does sound like things just aren't fair and the other "groups" have it better while the white man "deserves" it's fair share. Should we start a group or what? Which other group should we target first to get the "support" that we need?
If a 7.8mm sensor counts as "DSLR technology", does that mean our regular cameras are now "spy satellite technology"?
This is false. Probably cause just means they can search your car. Not that you are going to jail.
A 3d animation would be highly interesting, though we could probably really only guess at how this thing actually moved.
> Google has launched an "antiracism" initiative claiming that America is a "system of white supremacy"

A system of white supremacy would not have instituted and kept (for decades, uninterrupted, regardless of the party in power) immigration policies that assure their country will become minority-white in a decade or two. If there's white supremacy in America, it's completely politically impotent. One has to be willfully blind to not see this.
This is consequence of open source.
How to Build Responsive Web Apps
Especially with something as heavy as "here's your choice of the last two calendar dates you can expect to be alive"
A restaurant that’s closed due to lack of staff is taking a much bigger loss than one that hiked wages to $15. Complaints about worker shirking become less severe as you move up market a bit. Sometimes you don’t have to out run the bear, just a faster than the slowest person.
China is lying and New Zealand is one of the most remote places in the entire world.

I hate to be this blunt but you're kidding yourself if you think this was ever an option for the United States.

With respect to "preventable causes", I already responded to that point. Most death is preventable. Or at least delay-able. That does not mean everyone agrees with your scorched earth campaigns to prevent it.
One of my favorite examples is the control lock on some light aircraft. Aircraft are often parked outside and in windy conditions, you want to prevent the control surfaces from being banged around, so you put in control locks.

You also don’t want aircraft trying to take off with locked controls (such as the G-IV mishap at Bedford* a few years ago).

Enter the control lock that blocks the starter: https://www.csobeech.com/images/ControlLock-Late-36_58.jpg

The pin on the right locks the yoke (ailerons and elevator), the clip retains it from falling, and the rudders are locked with the spring pin. The red “flag” part with the lettering extends to block the magneto (ignition) and starter controls.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Bedford_Gulfstream_IV_c...
Personally, I tried pgtyped in a greenfield project but ended up switching to Slonik. Both are brilliant packages-- if you ever peak at the source of pgtyped it basically parses SQL on its own from what I could understand. The issues I had were-- 1) writing queries sometimes felt a little contrived in order to prevent multiple roundtrips to the database and back and 2) pgtyped gave weird/non-functioning types from some more complex queries. I've had better luck with Slonik and just writing types by hand.
Or, here’s a radical idea, companies could reduce their profit margins and shareholder returns.

But we all know those shareholders would quickly fall into poverty if their returns reduced.

Equally if that’s not possible, the company should fold. We shouldn’t prop up companies with cheap labor, that’s just forcing the poorest in society to provide corporate well fare, and basically the same excuse that was given for preventing the abolishment of slavery.
It's "working age population" for a reason
'A system that just works' isn't a universal constant, so we have these discussions because 'just works' means different things to different people.

You're no more right or wrong here than anyone else is.
Agreed, and Rust folks have been working on a gcc backend to get off the llvm monoculture too.

As much as I lean on thinking Zig will achieve it first it seems unfair to make claims about things that haven't been done in a language that hasn't even been finalized as reasons it's better than a stable language in the same boat at the moment.
You as an individual will have no clue if police have reasonable suspicion or probable cause to detain and identify you. Police do not have to tell you why, they do not have to prove they are in the right. If you do not comply then you are criminally charged with non compliance, refusing to identify, obstruction of investigation, etc. And now you are arrested.

Reality is police have far too much power, and the few cases they lose mean nothing to them. That's covered by insurance, paid by tax payers, and those officers never face criminal charges for their criminal acts, because DA's value their jobs.
Networking is working just fine over here; I rebuilt the machine to be using the latest (Sept 4) FCOS stream, but it was fine on the previous version (Aug 21) as well.

Are you using short names to pull your images, i.e. 'requarks/wiki:latest' rather than the full path 'docker.io/requarks/wiki:latest'? (Note: official images in Docker Hub are under the 'library/' namespace, e.g. 'library/fedora')

Other networking issues, like the port publishing through the host bridging by default without needing to pass '--network' I believe are slated for the upcoming 3.3.2 patch release.
Try reading the article before commenting.
I wonder how this is going to impact the Amethyst project’s Legion ECS that also uses archetypes.
The point is you don’t know which path you’ll go down until you go down it.

Look at any cancer drug trial and there is a massive spread in outcomes. Some people take a drug and die with horrible side effects in 2 months, others live 10 years with mild side effects.
Thats the only way the patient discovers pancreatic cancer. It is only discovered earlier and treatably when a coincidental different test finds something. Sadly nobody even knows how fast pancreatic cancer grows so even increasing the frequency of tests doesn’t give you any recourse.
Shutterstock pays $110M to acquire PicMonkey
Is China Uninvestable? (FT)
> Very few people are buying cryptocurrencies over fears of a USD monetary crisis.

You should join some of the Telegram groups. My experience has been generally the opposite.

Checkout the channel for LN support group PlebNet or the PirateChain channel for example.
These are all derived from the original 2011 Zocalo article.

The bottom of the Cancerworld article says:

> This blogpost was first published in 2011 on Zócalo Public Square

The bottom of the Guardian article says:

> Taken from an article originally published at Zócalo Public Square.