skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every US politician that anyone would actually know is extreme right, so this is a very big group. Not a very useful classification, you may as well have said "any US politician". Then we get to the point where it is unclear what your actual problem is with their wikipedia pages.

The only thing that can be concluded is that you apparently believe the wikipedia page of every US politician is somehow anomalous. It tells us nothing.
Who else gets slightly suspicious when reading this:

> I’m not going to say this could never happen. But I’d be shocked. AWS has been doing cloud at scale for longer than anyone, they have the most experience, and they’ve seen everything imaginable that could go wrong, most things multiple times, and are really good at learning from errors.

I thought the vast majority of failures seem to be born out of software and operational errors and almost all of the other proposed problems seem to be solvable by avoiding these?
Can you show me where CARB says it's currently happening? You only posted a link to and quote about a prediction made in 2017.
$700k/year and $7,000k/year are the same thing to someone who occasionally has to decide which essential bill to incur a reinstatement penalty over.
This isn't a fair or useful way to see things. Just because "American minimum wage is a fortune in India" or something doesn't mean someone making minimum wage in America isn't dirt poor.

We all have our costs of living, and how "rich" we are is relative to where we live.
I live in a town of 10,000, and it’s the biggest “metro” area for 150KM.

Yet still:

- houses are being sold as soon as they go up

- foreign investors are buying sight-unseen (I even know the direct story of a Caribbean buyer who purchased a run-down house sight-unseen only to have it immediately shuttered by the town. They had given up on getting money out of the previous owner, but it was not livable even at the time of purchase)

- people from other parts of the country and other parts of the world are flying in then taking taxis to go see empty properties

- people are successfully flipping houses they buy for >500k

I can’t imagine that the story is any better in places where “the market is hot”.

Source: Conversations with taxi drivers who don’t talk to each other, constant exploration on foot and in vehicles, conversations with neighbours of new owners, conversations with municipal employees, and watching town council meetings
Only if predators are eliminated and there is no [food] scarcity.
Wildly low-quality comments, as always happens when zerohedge is posted.

(including this one)
>> they are free to choose another school

I wish that were the case, I fully support School Choice, and a Voucher system that will put the money in the hands of parents to make the choice best for their child instead of only having school choice be an option for the wealthy
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According to [1] it's 200 Wh per gallon so 52 Wh per liter.

Average car burns 10 liters per 100 km so that's 0.5 kWh per 100 km.

According to [2] best Tesla uses ~15 kWh per 100 km.

That's 30 times more.

[1] https://www.cfr.org/blog/do-gasoline-based-cars-really-use-m...

[2] https://driving.ca/features/feature-story/home-on-the-range-....
Hm... both Tesla and SpaceX took about 10 years to be "obvious" breakthroughs.
I struggle to find essence in that article as well. Text seem to suggest it's a 1/0 thing, good and bad design, but pictures don't seem to confirm that. A lot of them that are described as good I would hate. Horribly uneven sidewalks, uneven and slippery paving stones, horrible kerbs with no flattening for easy access, too narrow and very badly maintained sidewalks.

A lot of the examples are bad for me. I struggle to find pleasant ones. The ones that are designed nicely and look good are a wheelchair, baby stroller and old people nightmare.
My pet peeve is 'third world' (in lower case), originally intended as Third World (in upper case). An alternative presented by certain countries as the Cold War heated up. Binding together to resist ceding functional sovereignty to either the First World (US and its allies) or Second World (the USSR and its allies).

It is today usually employed neutered of its casing and tossed around by First World citizens as a general unfalsifiable pejorative towards places that are less politically or economically stable. In many cases because of First World decisions such as Bretton Woods 1973.

Yes words can change meaning, but this is a particularly devious evolution.
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Even outside of the whole wider decades-long "Jobs: Sinner or Saint" discussion, it's interesting to see from this one incident just what kind of things don't even register as questionable in certain "dog eat dog" business circles. Both the OP and the replies not only pay little attention to the fact Jobs called OP a liar in a very aggressive way simply for using the almost intrinsically abstract English language in a subjective way ("I know" vs "I think"), they seem to almost think Jobs should be thanked for giving OP a character building experience. He could even have been blunt without sugar coating it: "I admire your conviction, but you won't ["I don't think you will"? lol] be able to make those targets and so we can't go ahead. Best of luck." To then go on to steal the idea anyway? That's just Grade A Hole.

I understand large companies dealing with large amounts of money need to be ruthless, but I've always hated this kind of attitude (in general, not just Jobs)

edit: to be clear I'm not saying OP didn't pull the figures out of his arse, just that it quite clearly wasn't an attempt to be deceptive based on the language he used around it
Mathematically, yes. (More-or-less.)

Commodity price fluctuations usually are not.

But "rising exponentially" seems to have become a way to say "going up very fast, and you should get excited about it!".
"Zero Hedge has accurately predicted 200 of the last 2 recessions."
You are missing the bread part, as housing, education and healthcare become unaffordable
> If nuclear made economic sense it would get VC funding.

This isn't the next unicorn startup, we're talking about energy sovereignty and the future of humanity. If the only thing we care about is the economy we'll never get out of this....
Fine but zerohedge is not really one author or one agenda, it is an aggregate of many different views and you can’t trust all of them equally…
You're right. Thanks for calling it out.
I think that is a bit inaccurate.

In a republic the head of state is usually directly elected; in a constitutional monarchy, the head of state is usually hereditary. Whether the head of state has any real power varies greatly.

The head of government (e.g. the prime minister) is most often NOT directly elected at all, since most multiparty democracies apply parliamentarism, i.e. the parliament has the power to select and remove the head of government.

So the voters focus on voting for parliament members and the head of government is INDIRECTLY elected by the winning _coalition_, so the head of government usually represents a coalition rather than a party. This a bit more dynamic as the coalition can change in between elections when parties realign, sometimes resulting in a new head of government or an early election.
Perhaps.

I'm not sure how much of what you're describing was limited to the USA for the span of 42 years, and how far it can be extended to the rest of the world, and a longer time frame?

Ralston-Saul's book 'The End of Globalism' is a heavy read, but does dive into this with a significantly more serious tone. There's doubtless many other works on the subject, from myriad angles.

Certainly it's difficult to argue that since 1973 everywhere that's abandoned the gold standard, toeing the line as it were, has not suffered a sinusoidal cycle.

EDIT: Apologies, I failed to properly respond to your assertion:

> The boom bust cycle was much worse on the gold standard because when it busted, there was no way to stop it, and it could be manipulated by anyone with enough gold.

Is there a way to stop a bust in the a post-Bretton Woods? Are there some examples that you could cite where this has been done? (Australia's relative success through- and post-GFC I think is often held up as an example of something -- however it was, as is often the case, some accounting shenanigans whereby the selling of assets was shuffled into the revenue column.)

Follow-up -- do you consider the point of TFA to be that anyone with 'enough money (gold)' can manipulate the system to ensure legislative, and therefore legally binding, retention of that wealth (gold) is better, worse, or much the same?
It is in essence the triumph of words over violence, which is never a bad thing. It sucks if your words do not win, but it is better than your family dying and then not winning anyway.
Nobody is wondering anything. Advantages are obvious. They were wondering why you’d prioritize that over the aircraft’s ability to stay in the air.
The French Leclerq tank had the specs revealed. Previously they leaked the specs of the British Challenger Tank:

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/classified-challenger-tank-s...
Not necessarily. I recommend checking out forth :)
> Also note that the author of the article is the actual inventor of RCU.

I know, so?

> On the other hand the author is probably saying that the kernel RCU C API itself has been proven correct,

But this is not true right?

There is no formal proof, e.g., in Coq, that proves a useful subset of the RCU C API correct (as in, if you stick to this useful subset, you can't introduce UB).

OTOH, a safe Rust API could be proved correct to use at least, and an implementation of it that uses unsafe, like the one in crossbeam-rs, is typically very amenable to theorem provers (much more than C).

So what I am saying is that the author is ignoring the value of providing a safe Rust API for RCU, like crossbeam-rs.

If the Linux RCU APIs can't be mapped to it, then maybe they are incorrect to use, and this is why we can't prove them correct.

Doing the work of mapping them, and understanding any issues, could lead to changes to those APIs that might allow us to prove them correct.
> as is the case in many European countries

Correction, as was the case in many European countries. Freely available tests in e.g. Germany ended today, as the cost of a vaccine shot is cheaper than that of a rapid test while tests need to be repeated every 24h.
> Rust in core Linux would probably be a horrible idea, given all the complexities of the language.

C is a very complex language as well. It's just that when you're not aware of all the complexities in Rust, the compiler will refuse to compile; in C, you'll get a security vulnerability or weird crashes at runtime. Yes, this is a generalization, but only slightly.

C is deceptively simple – its complexities are well hidden.
It's hard to think of something completely new.

I suspect we will see something that aims to reduce the influence of machines over humans, particularly in the workplace and/or around AI, because that balance is getting out of whack in ways that are becoming more and more difficult to ignore. It will be mixed with some anti-capitalist content; the system will discard the latter and coopt the former, somehow, in the same way it did with the sexual revolution and civil rights.
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Or more on point, this book:

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/th...

" Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. "
But it would appear that the way they are stopping the boom-bust cycle is by steadily giving ownership of everything to the 1%. I'd rather own more wealth that busts occasionally than the 1%'s wealth stays stable and high and I can't own a house.

The cure is worse than the disease.
So maybe if google curated their store a bit, you wouldn't have that problem!
What is the RAM usage like? Does it reserve a big block?
If you are completely, militantly and with your entire being opposed to it, it is in fact still a part of you.
With the segmentations these models create, you can create reports that quantitatively describe the changes in different tumor tissues. That info can be useful for guiding chemotherapy and radiotherapy decisions.

Currently, the accepted practice is to report these changes qualitatively without using segmentations (the way it’s been done for years). While the segmentations created by the models are probably good enough to use in practice today, the logistical challenges of integrating the model with the clinical workflow impede its actual use.

Sure, you could manually export your brain MR to run the model, but that’s a pain to do when you’re reading ~25 brain MR cases/day.
Epigenetics, the misunderstood science that could shed new light on ageing
I wonder how much wealth the 0.1% has compared to the rest of the 1%, because I'm sure the problem is about that 0.1% or 0.01%. Very rich people must have a lot of influence.

This chart is always quite revealing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

I made this to summarize:

https://i.imgur.com/BgoGzrI.jpg
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They manage because politics pushes these things through while creating new regulations for renewables.

E.g. in Germany one of the chancellor candidates was state MP and personally & illegally forced expansion of coal strip mining while enacting new rules making wind power essentially impossible in his state.
I don’t know where to start.

If you in the long run make more money by shutting down your business and put the money in a bank account, then of course, you should do that because it wasn’t a great business to start with. But no one expects the feds to keep the interest rates that high for very long.

It’s only in a near monopoly that a few businesses shutting down will make a big difference on the prices.

But if you shut down businesses, that will increase unemployment, which will keep wages down which will keep the inflation low.

Quite a bit of empirical evidence are by now showing that you are wrong.
I found the same when I came across the article a couple of days ago. There was no real revelations, but the doctor in question has worked on some new medications which work better than previous medications and are now coming on stream.
I'm a Content Architect and sometimes content developer working with several dozen (hundred? I have lost track) over-engineered aerospace and mil-std specifications. Technical Publications software has been a garbage fire since I entered the workplace (at least), and I hope that, at the end of my career, I can look back and say I helped some.

I wouldn't call this high tech. Most of the time I'm working with very primitive IT environments, trying to introduce little bits of technology as strategically as I can. Other times I'm trying to bring in tools for dealing with other data formats. Half of the day is just training people on stuff you dev types might take for granted (i.e., regex).

HN keeps me abreast of the latest movements of the content software stack. It's what clued me in to Asciidoc a few years back. For whatever reason HN seems to have built an insanely good commenter culture. How they've avoided brigading with such an open system I have no idea.
That is so interesting! Thanks for sharing! I liked the example with dating apps. This would definitely be a huge step forward, cause there are so many ppl who just can't match with the right person. Me, for example, I'm not too successful with dating apps. That's why each time I register my new profile (like my last registration on https://megapersonals.one/), I add more truthful info.
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NPM package publishing has been broken for hours, still green
That's the second obvious omission from the article, other than the Conway's which is in the playground link.

Checkbox made out of checkboxes should then be put into an animation loop, zooming out to single chexel.
You all need some jesus
Yes I agree, these articles give me a headache.
Packages are not published since this morning.
No response on twitter
No update on status page
I'm just getting tired of google search results not actually being search results.
maybe i'm oversimplifying. i had the same thought about the "thispersondoesnotexist" site...but are these not just composites of things that do exist?

or maybe that's the point.
Mullvad really shouldn't partner with companies like this.
To make it somehow easier to read:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1447251334814523392.html
Zawinski's Law:
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
-circa 1997
The additional refcount takes space that could be used for the payload that now either needs to spill into the next cacheline or needs to be compressed further.

You can still use double linked lists in high performance code, as long as the list traversal doesn't happen on the critical path (or at all).
> i wonder if the average professional coder, still has. chance to beat the big teams ?

The common sentiment in r/ML is that a) big labs need some accountability because they keep getting credit for work they published but never released source code and therefore third party audit is impossible *. Furthermore, Resnet-50 is back to sota because of up-to-date training protocols, and every paper that claimed superiority was using outdated training techniques (or even none at all) for the baseline.

Furthermore, there are many suspicions that the current generation of DL/ML has reached a local minimum because we have collectively pushed for models, architectures, functions, and optimizers that did well on existing hardware. For example, one hypothesis is that the Adam and AdamW optimizers are doing so well on average because we optimized model architectures for them.

* Before somebody claims that this is part of the research process and we should be able to validate and implement models on our own, I would like to point out that there have been multiple instances where the math appeared sound, but the implemented models were bugged, and outperformed the existing models *because* they were bugged (NB biased) and the test sets didn't capture that. When corrected, the models didn't perform any better than existing unbiased methods.
Anybody knows of decent inflation metrics that are independent of the country‘s official inflation?
Senator Cruz did in fact tweet this: https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1447327311095910402

The informational content of that tweet, or if you regard it as more than mere uninteresting noise, is an entirely different and more subjective matter.
I think basecamp is working on this kind of technology, but I think it is somewhat common for some performance focused shops to pre-render their initial HTML and cache it in their load balancer.

Basecamp I think is taking it a step further.. read more here: https://hotwired.dev/
Mullvad highlighting the fact that Malwareware bytes is using their network:

https://mullvad.net/en/help/partnerships-and-resellers/

The essence of the article:

Except that Malwarebytes Privacy is just some paint on top of Mullvad and various open-source tools, which would be a parasitic albeit fine behaviour if this was clearly disclosed (as Mullvad is (amusingly) doing on its website), but there is no mention of this whatsoever on Malwarebytes' one. Worse, they're using a possessive voice when talking about the servers (that are Mullvad's) and the code (mostly Wintun and wireguard-windows amongst other, to which they didn't contribute back a single line of code.

Speaking of code, it's shipping

7z.dll from 2018, licensed under LGPL, and some parts under BSD, violating this license.
wintun.dll, from the Wintun project, without mentioning it, thus violating its license.
Most of the embedded dependencies are from 2018, and subject to documented vulnerabilities:

OpenSSL 1.1.0h
pcre2
7z, as mentioned above
Poco 1.9.0
Why attack me and put down my worth instead of provide an answer? You are assuming my question is a rhetorical trick, which is also against HN's policy that states you should read people's comments in a charitable way.

That's not rhetoric. It's a real question. Reel mowers don't produce emissions, don't require batteries which harm the environment, don't require electricity to be generated and transmitted, don't require copper or electronics, and they force people to get exercise. The arguments here have been that batteries are good enough for most lawns because most lawns are small. If most lawns are small, then reel mowers are a suitable replacement as well. If it was really about the environment and people's health, then they should be pushing reel mowers.
I disagree with the premise of the article. If someone has negative assets, they are poorer than people with zero assets. The article paints access to credit as a form of wealth, which it is, but in the end wealth is measured by accumulated assets, as a proxy indicator for earning potential.

If you use credit to acquire assets, real estate for example, you won't move the needle on your total net worth. So, the overindebted in the US are those who used credit for expenses or for failed investments. They are poorer than those with zero debt.

The only exception that I can see, and which the article does not mention, is the use of credit for acquiring untangible assets, such as education. The correction would be to measure earning potential per individual, instead of net-assets, but that is basically impossible at large scale. We are stuck using net assets as a proxy for earning potential. Sum of wealth is an acceptable measure of income inequality.
Sounds like you’re suggesting a microkernel architecture. It’s not a terrible idea, but it’s not a new one either and it hasn’t gained a huge amount of traction.
These data points often just omit the opposite happening during down cycles of the economy. In 2008, the richest 1% lost, by far, the most money, even measured as a percentage.

The reason these trends seem perpetually unsustainable is because the authors of these articles are always switching metrics and altering class definitions in order to make dramatic titles that folks will click on.

These exact same titles have been present for as long as I can remember reading newspapers - since the 1970s.
I programmed AutoLISP, and it is cool, but you need AutoCAD (or other CAD with AutoLISP feature). I found Rosetta [1] six years ago, that is a universal language for doing CAD/geometry/procedural stuff, that uses Rhino or AutoCAD as its backend for execution and display. The hope was that it would allow people to learn a geometry-based language that could be used with many programs to give them a procedural, programmatic interface as an option. I tried to contact the author several times, but no response. I haven't seen it move at all. Racket is the environment it uses to create in, and hook into the CAD program. I was hoping someone would pick it up and create a generic viewer and export functions for target CAD programs. Maybe I could someday work on this...

[1] http://web.ist.utl.pt/antonio.menezes.leitao/Rosetta/index.h...
> I've seen sites start heavily censoring themselves because someone complained to Google and they pulled the ads. Stuff like this ruins the web.

You mean my web is ruined because I don't see more those ads selling the newest crypto ponzi scheme which promises 10000% yearly returns?

Let's deal with it, if advertising was totally uncensored that would be a nightmare for average user.