skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be a giant elephant in the room with this analysis. Where is the cost of manufacturing the extra car? 10 people can ride in the same rideshare car in one day, but they would each need their own vehicle if they didn't do that.
Its not about humans being able to "do the same", its about Tesla not being programmed _at all_ to avoid anything other than Cars and maybe pedestrians on a crosswalk. It doesnt consider any other obstacles on the road and plows into them.
90% of central planning is having a central bank. That's pulled form a quote from Lenin btw.

In much of its early history, the Soviet economy outperformed many other leading industrial economies, which is what scared capitalists in the West so profoundly in the 1930s. It did so at a great and terrible cost that would be unacceptable in a free society, but it performed nonetheless.

China today is another example of central planning and high performance.

In any case, the US is clearly a planned economy - the Fed even states its inflation target, and there is a target employment rate.
Can't remember where I read this (David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest?), but in the 1930s, a nonagenarian Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) told a young lawyer, "young man, you are speaking to a man who once spoke to a veteran of the Revolution"; IIRC, in the late 1960s or early 1970s, the now-middle-aged lawyer spoke with Halberstam.
Ogre is the renderer for a number of robotics projects, like rviz (robot visualization) and Gazebo (robot simulation). I don't know that either of those necessarily showcase it in the best possible light, but more just to say that it has a rich history serving in a variety of cross-platform use cases.
Why is what a couple of people think a news story?
> The SCC ruled that it was under the federal government's enumerated powers

To clarify, I said the POGG was the catch-all provision. This is semantics and we directionally agree, but I wouldn't characterize the POGG as an "enumerated power". If the CA constitution explicitly said the CA federal govt. has the ability to place a federal carbon tax, then that'd be an enumerated power. Due to a lack of an enumerated federal carbon tax power, advocates had to rely on the [implied power from the] "catch all" POGG provision.

Your article goes into why it's not an enumerated power (and consistent with my interpretation):

> Very briefly, the federal and provincial governments get their power to pass legislation from sections 91 and 92 of the Constitution Act, 1867 respectively.[7] These two sections list a bunch of subject matters and, essentially, each government can only pass legislation dealing with the subjects that it has been assigned. This is why the provinces deal with health care and education, whereas the federal government deals with the criminal law and the military.

All of your articles were interesting. Thank you.

edit:

Checking wikipedia about the context of Canada's POGG provision[0], there's more explanation as to why POGG's not an enumerated power, but this is all semantics and above my intellect.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace,_order,_and_good_governm...
Presumably the "capitalism" in "surveillance capitalism" is to make it clear they're talking about private companies - as distinct from the traditional concerns about government surveillance.
Considering the prevailing incentives are all criminal, no wonder they failed to "get it" [sic]
> In California, the last nuclear powerplant was shutdown this week. I am going to do what I can as a responsible citizen for climate change but I am not a fan of this asymmetry.

Do you realize how myopic it is to have nuclear power-plants along the San Andreas fault line? Have you lived in California for very long? Do you not realize that CA is in a very unique position when it comes to renewable energy? And for what 9% of CA's energy needs? More could and should be done to increase it's reliance on renewables (~33% but growing).

San Onofre was the most dangerous of all nuclear plants in the US and was left operational only due to industry standard vow of secrecy, and it had tons of violations prior to it being decommissioned. Diablo Canyon couldn't keep it's emergency cooling system operational for extended periods of time [0]. This should be a major red flag if you understand what occurred in Fukushima and caused not just the melt-down, but the melt-through and how they had to rely on external water sources to continuously douse the reactors then inevitably ended up in the Pacific Ocean.

I am anti-nuclear, or better said, I'm anti 20th Century Nuclear plants, because of how incredibly bad things get when they do go wrong.

Not to mention the profoundly stupid approach entities like the NRC have taken towards incredibly inept nuclear waste storage policy--paying NC to store it, and leaving what they can't send out in canisters along the Pacific Ocean or in the decommissioned pools.

0: https://calcoastnews.com/2016/12/pge-cited-cooling-system-fa...
Ah, yes. Gallium is itself a bit like Vulkan IIRC, though a bit higher level.

There are state trackers for OpenGL, D3D9-10, OpenCL, and probably others. I guess one could make a Vulkan "state tracker", but it might not be efficient.

Gallium can be used on top of bare metal, but also CPU (LLVMpipe/OpenSWR), Vulkan trough zink, or now D3D12 thanks to Microsoft's recent work.

https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/zink.html
Some time ago, someone posted a link walking through writing their own H261 encoder. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the post again, but it helped a ignite a huge interest in media codecs. These are some good notes I found which walk through the key "tricks" leveraged by the JPEG/MPEG image formats to compress raw pixel data effectively.
No, there never is.
So basically allow 'named joins' in SQL and we are done.
> build a graph of dependencies of a system

You mean in the sense that every application that comes with statically linked libraries should also come with some metadata indicating which libraries/versions are in there?

This would work, but then you have the problem metadata always has: It can get out of sync with the actual thing, developers can forget to properly maintain it (or even to provide it at all) etc etc.
Considering the only thing you can actually buy with cryptocoins is paying ransom, then yes.
He is lamenting that the football graphics look like everything else on the network, that they don't make an exception for the spectacle of pro football.

> It just looks like “CBS,” because it’s the same font the network uses to brand its news shows, comedies, and paint-by-numbers crime procedurals. The name of that font is TT Norms
I’ve had tinnitus for ~20 years. I’ve tried everything (as far as I can tell), and by far sound therapy has been the most effective. It’s basically the same techniques used to manage chronic pain, but used to teach you how to minimize and even ignore the perception of tinnitus. It’s not a quick fix, but I went from being constantly consumed by my symptoms to not realizing I have a constant ringing in my left hear almost all of the time, and being ok with the ringing when I do notice it.

The other thing that had worked has been tinnitus masking hearing aids. It’s basically noise cancellation for tinnitus. It’s not perfect and I don’t use it anymore, but when I was learning how to deal with tinnitus it was valuable in giving me temporary symptom relief.
Change happens when the necessary force is applied. Sometimes this takes the form of violence, other times of pressure of some other lever of whatever system is in place, in any case it requires people investing in it. Now, the notion of people “fighting for what’s right” is romantic at best. People invest (read: act, put in time / opportunity-cost, resources, take risks, etc.) with the same rationales of any investment: is it worth to them specifically in terms of costs/risks/success-likelihood/payoff? When it comes to these things, the answer is just "no" for too many so that the critical mass required is not reached. We are at a point when most people in first world countries are just either comfortable enough or think have too much too lose (or both) that it takes stuff seriously threatening their way of life at scale to trigger any reaction with a relevant chance of real impact. As long as the bad stuff is either very-bad-just-for-some or not-bad-enough, basically we’ll see people (and lobbies, and companies, etc.) get away with anything.
No, people will start to read other news sites.
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i’ve thought about this a lot because i use a whiteboard on my fridge. i would do this if it was huge like my whiteboard. like 2ft by 3ft. then i can read each day at a glance. seeing the whole month is huge. and writing on it means it should be a touch screen

i find myself wanting larger displays than is for sale a lot. i want an electric photo frame but not some 12in screen. i have great photos i want to see them 4ft tall. this is an underserved market
And in reverse you can't assume that they don't own a car just because they use rideshare services. Would be indeed interesting to know how much availability of rideshare services reduces car ownership.
We will see if this will hold up in court. When the ultra rich are threatened you can bet that a long lawsuit will follow.
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Perhaps I was unclear, but you get that you're lecturing me about what I just said, right? What you are describing is the goal for a person to apply to have a corporation created for them to manage. That's not the reason that society allows corporate charters to exist. Society need not allow a corporate charter to be established that does not benefit that society, and can revoke them should they not be achieving the goals of the society that grants them.
It would be nice if the era of economic theory were to end.

Herbert Weisberg argues in Willful Ignorance (paraphrasing for brevity; read and come to your own conclusions) we’re using statistical and probabilistic tools in economics that were purposely left crude by the mathematicians that defined them, as they were defined to handle abstract quantities.

Applying them to human economics means we’re mathematically accepting rounding errors that leave people behind.

That is the pattern we have to break politically. We spend a lot of time emotionally promoting certain stats and hand waving away at a number like “2% reduction in poverty” still means we’re leaving millions behind.

Not having services like universal healthcare is clearly politically gamed, but we refuse to see it as anything like a government bombing civilians.
> I feel like once you have the knowledge to pay attention to design language you are now cursed to do so everywhere.

For a long time in my career as a software engineer I mostly avoided this, but a little over a decade ago I had a designer who beat tiny details into everyone on the team. I kinda feel like he took away my innocence to some extent, as I can’t look at fonts, colors, and other design details anymore without noticing all the flaws so pervasive all around us.
Except if the increase in car prices is known to be temporary than it doesn’t really drive overall inflation. I for one just fixed a car I would otherwise have replaced, due to the used cars I would replace it with being in short supply.
As already noted, it's blocked because adult content filters were imposed by the largest ISPs and mobile phone networks to avoid having the government putting legislation in place to make it mandatory.
Except they don't. They create corporations to do it for them.

As long as creating a legal fiction is a mere matter of having someone else do paperwork, you either need to extract tax from legal fictions, or kiss a big chunk of taxable activity goodbye.
It's up to the person making the claim (in the GGP) to substantiate what they say, not up to others to disprove it. Otherwise, misinformation and disinformation (being intentional misinfo) have a field day - just keep posting and leave it to others to spend the time and do the work. It's a well known tactic for disinformation - the people telling the truth can't keep up.

And look at the Internet - mis/disinfo is having a field day.
You don't use properties to point to other entities/nodes in a property graph. That is what edges are for. So you could have an edge of type father, or maybe a "parent" type edge and the properties on that edge denote further details like whether it is biological or legal, et cetera.
>intellectual property

A concept invented by and for lawyers. Call it imaginary property.
Electric leaf blowers utilize non-renewable rare earth metals, should we outlaw those too?
That is absolutely not "we have no idea". It's a very precise prediction, not like a [10%-90%] range. If you look at all their 50% prediction, the half of it should be rain and half should be no rain. This is what this number tells you.
> This makes air-breathing hypersonic devices a much bigger challenge than air-breathing supersonic ones.

Indeed, and the Virgin Galactic vehicle isn't even either of those; it uses a hybrid rocket engine instead of breathing air. Hybrid rocket engines are fairly simple compared to liquid fueled rocket engines and are fairly safe compared to solid fuel rocket engines (although the fatal V.G. explosion some years ago should perhaps challenge this wisdom?) However they're probably a dead end technology and I don't think V.G. will ever get to orbit with them.
Think about who got fired, why they were fired, and who wasn't.
Is it just me or has the Pentagon and the complex largely replaced the word "soldier" with "warfighter"? Feel like I've seen it a lot lately and I'm not sure what the change implies
> That was a non-binding memo.

That's not the problem of Ukraine. The whole world sees what agreements like that are worth. Alternatively, if that would be the binding memo, and USA broke the "legally binding" promise, nobody would prosecute. The reaction of the world would be about the same.

Bottom line: non-bindingness doesn't matter here.
You don’t always have missile interceptors on the target land. Aegis is a mobile platform that can be deployed anywhere, and being overflown is a real possibility. For example, your missile defense platform might be off the coast several km, and the target to intercept flies over it aiming for the land behind it. In this scenario, any interceptor launched from that platform would have to “catch up.”
"Don't buy smart TVs, they are loathsome privacy vampires that treat you as the product." That's what I would say, if there were any intersection between my priorities and the priorities of people buying smart TVs. Instead, I save my breath.

Obviously I'm very much in favour of smart TVs carking it. I won't rejoice in case perceived as unsympathetic.

I'd be more concerned about, ooh, ATMs, for example. What should we _actually_ be worried about? Defibrillators? Check-in kiosks... aeroplanes?
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Where is my mother's safety net?
It'll just slowly go back into the ground where it came... I find it funny that a lot of self-proclaimed "environmentalists" who love to espouse the benefits of using "natural" stuff get outraged by things like this, as if oil wasn't a naturally occurring substance.
You can still update the code as long as you host it in your server. A static server is sufficient.
Vernon Vinge True Names. It’s prophetic.
I don't really understand why you would assume that the only alternative to surveillance capitalism is "surveillance socialism".

This sophism seems to be built on two errors:

* that there is nothing outside of pure capitalism and pure socialism

* that adjoining "surveillance" to capitalism means we're talking about an inevitable aspect of our society that is combined to capitalism, rather than a specific subset of the way business is done in this age.

To be honest, this lack of ability to conceive alternative social systems is concerning. The deformed Churchill quote comes as a cherry on top.
Also people working on thermodynamics get to test their models a lot, and it’s noticed when their models fail. I’m not even sure supply demand curve is good for a specific product, having spent some time around consumer packaged goods analytics. Consumer behavior around frozen pizza alone is massively complicated, never mind cleaning supplies, candy, beer, or cosmetics.
Makes sense; you can't take credit for the Arab Spring and then hold yourself harmless for the Capital insurrection.
While you are technically correct, ldd is literally a bash script which runs ld-linux.so...
This write-up itself appears to be of amazingly high-quality. What an incredible thing to give away to the world.
What my intuition is lacking is the difference between an applicative and a monad.

Relatedly, what does one need to add (with concrete examples) to a functor (or an applicative??) to turn it into a monad.
I wasn't talking about the protagonist.
Tragic.

I hope in the future humanity is better with mycoremediation.
> It's also incredibly successful in destroying social mobility.

I find it difficult to agree with this sentiment. Social mobility might have decreased in the last four decades. But in the longer perspective there has never been a more egalitarian and meritocratic social structure than in our time. And that structure exists mainly in the democratic states of the world.
Can’t explain why but all these E-Ink projects are so awesome and attractive to me. I’m surprised I can’t just buy a bunch of E-Ink style gizmos from some company to decorate my home and office. My wallet would be wide open to it constantly.

Great work and congrats on this!
I can’t tell if you’re being willfully obtuse or not. Harvesting people’s data for the express purpose of manipulating them into thinking/buying things that they otherwise wouldn’t is wrong in every sense of the word.

Capitalism has its problems just like everything else. Pretending it doesn’t is just as disingenuous as pretending that socialism would fix everything. If you’re concerned about people attacking capitalism, help fix the problems. Simple as that.
In my Systems Analysis course back in the 1980s, at one point the instructor said something along the lines of "we could just automate the existing processes by taking the existing documents, making digital copies of them, and writing code to analyze them. But no-one would do that, because it's stupid."

Here we are.
It doesn't matter what it says. It only checks for OEM requirements and thus only lists new CPUs that are still being produced/shipped in new hardware.

If you look at the same requirements for Windows 10 21H1 [1] it will not list old CPUs even if they where listed for older versions of win 10 and have no problem running 21H1.

[1]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/min...

Fact is the current version of win 11 runs on any 64-bit CPU you can find I tested it on a T7500 from the early 2006. Its maxed out for 30 seconds after booting but other than that no problem running the OS.
Good call. Seems unnecessary, like the slow transformation of “emergency room “which used to be known as the ER to “emergency department“.
take what the romans already knew about democracy, sprinkle a little fluoride on it, and there's your answer. also, this is not a smart crowd.
Who else doesn't communicate? The vampire isn't a candidate for having done anything to themselves.
Sure, the root cause hasn't been completely proven. I don't think the burden of that falls on mac users, but upon apple.

Besides that, the investigation has produced some practical and useful advice.
Churchill was referring to democracy, not capitalism.
This was fun, thank you for putting this together. Please keep going, I look forward to more of it. Apple history is always so fascinating.
I would like to download these files if possible.
The revolution will be sponsored.
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Well for one US citizens might have to quarter warfighters.
Jupiter has a perfect code editor
I think you're missing the point. When the only alternatives are intellectual dishonesty or ignorance, assuming ignorance is the more generous option. Therefore, assuming he didn't know is giving him the benefit of the doubt.

The reasoning behind your differing assumption is beside the point, even though your reasoning is more likely to be true.
Rothschild, Rockefeller, Warburg, Zuck, Musk, Bezos on the list? Oops, no? Then you know its entertainment.
Maybe the average person is just too well off to care?

When you're barely getting by, or worse, have had family members die of starvation, it's more offensive, and you have less to lose, and so more likely that you'll take out the pitch fork and hit the streets.
> While the term "tax" is used proverbially, if the government does not keep the money, it is actually on? This was a constitutional question in Canada, and the majority of the Supreme Court ruled that it was not

As far as I can see, the text you quote does not answer your question. It presents an argument based on whether a regulatory scheme exists (step 1) and whether the charges imposed serve to alter behavior (step 2).

It's easy to come up with examples which do answer your question: a large part of tax revenue (especially in Europe) is used to finance social welfare programs, including direct payments to individuals.

As an aside, a government literally keeping tax money (beyond personal compensation packages) is probably not what you have in mind.
What problem ? And what solution ?

I think you should start with explaining those first.

Thing is, it's probably easy in theory, but very hard in practice.
Because if the main bulk of your problem is getting solved with external executables, like the ffmpeg example given, then it makes more sense to call them from a scripting language that is designed around forking other processes. Python be far more powerful than your average shell but it sucks for writing shell scripts.
I think the best example (although it's not a digital platform, and the ownership is for the benefit of employees rather than customers) I know of would be the John Lewis Partnership in the UK.

It's incorporated as a public limited company, but all of its shares are owned in trust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Partnership
Breaks down instantly when you try to define which activities count as businesses, or try to define why individuals are offering goods and services to one another.
Consider the source. It is by an employee of the Fed. The fed, like Federal Express, is a private corporation. It is not an arm of the government. I’m not saying the analysis is untrue. I’m just saying that this is not an unbiased source.
> The titanium structure was complex to maintain. Welding needed to be done in "bubble" work stations under protective gas

Operational complexity is orthogonal, and tends to be inversely proportional to simplicity in implementation...

For instance they needed to refuel the thing immediately upon reaching operating temperature in flight, since it leaked like a sieve on the runway until everything expanded. Rather than try fix that somehow with more engineering, they shifted the complexity into operations.

IIRC it couldn't even start its own engines cold, relying instead on hot-rod v8s setup on the runway to bootstrap the thing. More operational complexity in favor of leaving an entire subsystem out of the plane.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of the SR-71, but so much of that appreciation stems from its ruthless pursuit of its narrow operational goals, for as much what it isn't as it is.

It's the polar opposite of stuff like the space shuttle or F-35 where the aggregate complexity is through the roof to accommodate a kitchen sink.
a) because "field goal range" is subjective and differs among kickers

b) the football field is extremely well-marked to easily determine the field position