skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "small monopoly" in this thread is Paul Graham, who created his capital himself.

First-a, he deserves what he has (as far as you can make such a statement in a complex society). He provided some value, got paid for it, he now takes a risk helping others do the same. The only difference between him and me consuming X, providing X+Y value, and using the Y to buy tiny parts of public companies to have some claim on their profits is scale.

First-b, and yes, if someone came and took away my Y for "fairness", I would start working less to just make what I consume. And I mostly /like/ my job, unlike most people.

Second-a, after critically thinking about it, I actually believe it's better for people like him to allocate capital, instead of either some "democratic process", or even worse some semi-elected bureaucrats. I wish we could have people like Bezos, Buffett, Graham, etc. run MANY MORE things (generally speaking, not attached to a particular implementation). We have all of history to indicate who does things better. Second-a-a, even if we were to say "free market is bad in this area, no free market is allowed [e.g. healthcare or housing]" (to be clear, I disagree with that, but let's say we did) I would prefer to install a conventionally-defined-self-made billionaire from another industry to run said area, instead of a govt bureaucracy like we do now.

Third, as others have mentioned you don't have to take his money, you can bootstrap (and then get rich and loan money just like him).

Second-b, combining second-a and third in a more narrow scope, do you think either voters or bureaucrats would fund startups (and, do it better than the likes of VCs)? It has happened, but rarely and almost always in response to an existential threat. Viaweb FAQ says they were financed by angels to the tune of $2m 90ies-dollars. What are the alternative sources of funding you envision in the "fairer" allocation structure for such startups, be it Tesla, Google, or Viaweb, given their success rate?
I just do it by hand on paper. For folks with just some W-2s and maybe some light investing stuff (no, this isn't everyone, but it is a lot of people), it only takes an hour or two to do by hand and the instructions are actually pretty decent.
Looks like there are a whole bunch of towns with similar names: Csíkszentgyörgy, Csíkszentkirály, Csíkszentmiklós, ...
(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cs%C3%ADk_(disambiguation)) - Csík was a county of Hungary that's now in Romania, so a lot of towns in that area have Csík in their Hungarian names.
Are you saying in Germany there are enough rich greedy German businessesmen who will further enrich themselves so obviously on taxpayer money with the help of German politicians feigning corruption as incompetence? In Germany, the most efficient country in Europe? Nein, I can't believe that! Everyone knows only South/Eastern Europe is corrupt, never Germany. /s
How unsurprising that a government wanted to further obfuscate how much money they want to take from their citizens.
The left doesnt really have any power in the US.

What passes for the left (the socially liberal corporate elites that run most of the democratic party) are pretty much just as invested in protecting the rentiers as the right wing.

Rentier money is structurally geared towards destroying any populist politicians who threaten their rents. It was a fluke that AOC won given her Democratic opponent (when she was unknown) outspent her something like 7:1. People like her arent supposed to slip through the early stage political filter.

If they do slip through there's also an enormously powerful and effective propaganda machine dedicated to character assassination.
Absolutely. There's a kernel of wisdom here, but the argument buckles without examples where the OP actually was "stupid" and wasn't proven to be "the smart one" in the end.

Learning isn't a straight path. It's unusual to not veer off and misunderstand something for a while, during which time others might be right to assume you are "stupid".

The willingness to look stupid will sometimes reflect that you are, in fact, actually stupid. A lack of any examples in this category makes this post read more like a humble brag.
I'm a big fan of trees and promises as more complete representatives of monads. Trees give us free monads, where `join` grafts the child tree contained in a leaf onto the parent tree; and promises are a bit more viscerally monadic, as you really can't get at the value in a promise, since it probably isn't even there yet.
Musk: "complex planning requirements [are] at odds with the urgency needed to fight climate change"—IOW "get out of my way already, I'm important".

If we want to fight climate change and reduce emissions, we'd better not switch from fossil fuel SUVs to luxury EVs, but rather turn to alternatives like living more locally, and using trains a lot more. But that step is not what is being promoted, surprise, and it's also not a step that many people are ready to do. They fiercely identify with their vehicles and can become quite aggressive whenever one threatens to make owning a car more expensive. At least, should climate change 'happen one day' (/s), they'll have a car to drive somewhere else (again, /s).
This headline and article are essentially, "Foolish people are often foolish."
We don't mention IQ around here. It explains too much. Too much to handle. Enjoy your downvotes.
Plogue has been around for a while but nobody could fault you for missing them. I have been and active member of KVR VST for over 20 years which is where I heard of them but never owned anything of theirs. It was only recently announced that they released this 'sample accurate' DX7 clone.

I have TX7 for and the Arturia DX-7V. Typically FM or Phase Distortion(Casio CZ synths) arent really the type of sound I go for, but they definitely shine in clanky metallic dissonance.
I'm sure this could happen I just don't see how when there are bigger fish such as bankers, lawyers, and doctors.

I know people that get this to happen to them. They get a union job contract, the person that got them the job demands a monthly gift. It's not small but it's not half. The else is they don't get anymore work. This scenario is more common in immigrant communities, not Wall Street.
I need to add that virtually no railroad operating companies own any railroads in Europe - even the private operators use public infrastructure. That is the case for Flixmobility’s Flixtrain as well.
> The reading I've done on the Framework laptops makes it sound like this situation has not improved.

And yet I hear otherwise.. maybe your referencing the original review units that didnt run on 5.14.
Mods are the last people you want to give dox / location data to (especially if you have children).
I see, so people are in poverty because their houses are too big...

Maybe you should check your privilege. Your 50% discretionary income is FAR from the norm.

Median income is less than 45k (gross - this means before tax, etc) - than means 50% of the population earn LESS than that. 25% earn less than 24k. 10% earn less than $9k...

These people cant afford a small house, let alone a big one...
Citation needed on the 24/7. A launch complex probably has much higher peak power usage than steady state usage.
If you can it's better to avoid LAX and fly into one of the smaller nearby airports like SNA.
Bible definition is quite interesting. AFAIU it defines consciousness as an ability to discern between good and evil
This. While maybe not the 'single biggest improvement', as a single woman who likes to travel in the city, cabs feel about as safe as buying drugs off a street dealer. Actually, I've often felt safer buying drugs in my 20's then I did getting in a cab as a woman.

Even without them coming on to you when you're trusting them to take you home at 2am, you'll always end up with them pretending to be confused or surprised that - yes - you want to use debit, and then them pretending the machine is broken until it somehow isn't... (I'm assuming they do this so they can pocket the money or do some sort of tax fraud?)

Cabs represented a combination of the worst service and experience I have not really seen in any other industry - say what you want about them - but Uber has a kind of accountability that cabs never have.

I hope cabs as they were just die. Good riddance. I'm so tired of the harassment.
I suppose, although Parler came at it catering to a very specific and volatile community.

"Don't get hacked and dump PII" is sort of a prerequisite for starting any online business these days, so I don't see that as a huge downside beyond the already comically difficult signup flow. Ideally, ID verification comes from someone like stripe or visa who's core business is handling that data, so the host is only storing a hash and a location.
We need at least 3 shots for each variant.
Choose Your Own – Radiation – Adventure
I find it more annoying that standard websites don't just work on a Roku. I'd rather Google didn't have to maintain yet another app for yet another proprietary device, it should all just be build on open standards.
True to a degree but in the end you get what you pay for. If you want a more standardized experience, take an IC bus, or the train. Just like an Uber. Compared to Uber I agree the aggressive branding of the busses is misleading though.
I am in no way a Musk apologist but the polish workforce you are refering to is the construction workers.
If I found out my kid's friend gave them $1000 to jump off a bridge, I think I'd be equally mad at both of them.
I think that's true in some cases but YouTube on a settop box, in my mind, is really just a "nice to have".
Anecdote and all, but I felt the same way. Hired a car service to pick me up at 6am. Morning of, at 6am, car hasn’t arrived. Dispatcher blames “mechanical difficulty”. Yeah right. Called the Lyft while on the phone with them. It arrived on time 10 minutes later, thankfully still made my flight.

I don’t live in an urban area but do live about 15 minutes from the airport in suburbia.
They have been granted multiple permits, however the final and most important one is still missing - yes.

But there is a high likelihood that they will be getting this one as well - at least according to the latest information I could find...
> The topic of load average is generally very broad and it is calculated differently on various UNIX systems, so a separate article may be dedicated for just that.

I have never seen an article explaining how the load average in Linux is calculated.
Agreed. May as well have one lecture developed in high quality, with a charismatic speaker, etc.

It’s like with books.
Google makes too much money from the video sharing app ad revenue on Roku.

Also even if they toss the Roku platform for TV, they keep the subscription revenue for YouTube TV - users will just use another device.
You’re talking about phenotypes. With height people with entirely the same diets will end up different heights based on their genes. I used to think that intelligence was earned due to exercise and that others just needed to try harder. I’ve since seen enough people try really hard and fail that I no longer believe that. As with strength, some mutations give some people a big advantage. I don’t think it’s an assumption, there is a lot of evidence. Even the low studies have IQ at 50% DNA and that’s without the greater understandings we have today, I would put it at 80%. Plus likelihood of IQ supporting genes would be much much higher at the extremes.
Another Elon Musk company is building what is basically a subway in Las Vegas.
I heard a discussion on the radio where a lady was describing the potential use of a third party identity provider for all social media. This would be instead of the government.

If I understood it correctly, the third party would hold your ID etc, and would vouch for you on signup to services. Users would be anonymous/pseudonymous until a warrant was acquired by the police.

A third party would be better IMO than the government. Not sure I like it either way tho. Who is the third party? Breaches would be an issue as the other poster has said. And too much like big brother.
The difficulty is that recycling is a mixed bag. Recycling of aluminum is a resounding success environmentally and economically. Steel recycling seems to be a pretty good deal for everyone, and last time I checked glass was environmentally good and economically break even.

Unfortunately the term and concept of recycling covers all of these plus plastics, which have been largely a failure. This confuses both consumers and policy makers.
An experiment based on drawing red or grey balls/fish/things...

You know, this really isn’t a valid experiment. If you do the probability calculations then 2-3 draws is all you need. All this is based on the assumption getting red or grey is high probability, >90%.

This is exactly how distributors do defect testing on lots incoming goods.
Stripe is the preferred way if you want to pay by CC no doubt. But at some point in the future the regular Joe might want to pay with his crypto wallet. Then MoonPay might be the preferred way.
This may not be the answer you are looking for, but OccamBSD seems to be a way to produce a minimal image for use in FreeBSD jails, FreeBSD bhyve and Xen: https://github.com/michaeldexter/occambsd
This. You have the set of all sets problem... As soon as some part of you steps aside to inspect the other, it's missing out itself.

In the words of Alan Watts: You can't touch the tip of your finger with the tip of the same finger, you can't bite your own teeth.

It's an irreducible problem. Lest there is some social way we can achieve it...
That is what I thought too when I first started using them. "They just aren't as good as Google!". I have found this to not be the case as often as I thought it would be. In fact, 90% of my searches I'd say never require me to leave Duck Duck Go to find the answer, that includes technical queries.

That isn't to say that DDG is perfect, but for the times that it isn't perfect tacking an !g or !b to the end of the search does the job.
Tesla vehicles are full of German parts. The most obvious instance is the turn stalk in the model S/X borrowed from Mercedes.
The US is such a stressful country, tax filing, healthcare, none of these basic things just work. Add to that the lawyers culture and you get a good basis for emotion filled Netflix dramas, but not really for real life.
There is absolutely no problem to give money to the government. Filing in taxes with extra is fast and easy. Filing for the exact sum is hard.
Why assign all the blame to Intuit?

> They persuaded the Internal Revenue Service for more than a decade to pledge in writing not to adopt California’s innovation or develop any other offerings that threatened their business model.

I think the IRS deserves much of the blame for yielding to Intuit's persuasion.

Every American should be upset with both Intuit and the IRS.
Lift the minimum wage and employment still rises? How to anger the establ (cont)
No, they don't. Why do you think Amazon retail isn't using CloudFront for mission critical product images?

It's because it sucks, and that team knows it. Amazon retail signed a huge deal with Fastly for content delivery.

Lambda@Edge is even worse. Horrible developer experience, bad pricing, and wishy-washy performance. I know I'm biased, but I'm also currently an AWS customer as well and use them every day. From a customer perspective, it sucks. All of their products are 7/10 tier at 15/10 price. AWS Cognito is a 7/10 to Auth0's 9/10, for example. They don't have any class-leading products on an individual level. They are only competitive when you zoom out and realize AWS is a true one stop shop. But, like Cloudflare says, it's Hotel California. There's a literal exit tax to leave AWS.
Phizer bringing planned obsolescence to the Healthcare industry
Yeah, exactly. I build weird machines, and I need parts that aren't designed for the weird machines (because nobody has built them before), so I usually go to unrelated shops.

Last time this happened, I needed steel wire, and I went to a guitar shop to buy guitar strings. I told the employee "this is going to be a bit weird but I want a string that is 0.3mm in diameter for a machine I'm building, do you have any?" instead of letting him be puzzled why I would want a "0.3mm string" rather than a "C string".

Usually people even ask and talk about about what I'm building, which is nice, but if it will take a long time to explain I say something like "it's not very easy to explain what it does because it's for a specialized purpose, but essentially it does <whatever general thing>".

I've never had anyone think I'm stupid, but not for lack of asking stupid questions, I think. I just take a little more care to spend two seconds explaining why I'm asking the thing.
It's all about definition here. Seth Godin once said:

>One common insightful definition of AI: Artificial Intelligence is everything a computer can't do yet. As soon as it can, we call it obvious.

What is AI? Let's define it first.
There are degrees of conspiracy theory, and as a term it's been highly undermined and politicized, sort of like 'fake news'.

I think that it's easy to fall into a false dichotomy between 'believing that everything conventional is true' and 'conapiracy theories are real'.

Sometimes conspiracy theorists defend themselves by asking things like 'do you trust the government/corporations/church...?' as if I must either trust everything a government has ever said or (eg.) believe it's harbouring secret ET bases. Or that no doctor has ever lied or they are hiding the secret cancer cure.

And yea, maybe I am missing something that's real. The issue is that there is such a deluge of crap, that no one can possibly know every theory. You could spend months or years just researching one of (9/11, crisis actor, qanon, moon landing, telepathy, etc).

We may just be talking about different types of conspiracy theories though, as mentioned by the other responder.
> Are you contending that somebody who grows up in complete social isolation would not be conscious?

I read GP's comment that in this case that someone wouldn't have a concept of consciousness in his consciousness.
> It doesn't have a real type system. It's dynamically typed under the hood, type declarations are just hints in PHP, the code will fail at runtime not compilation time.

Just like Java then? Your average Java code will be more solid than your average PHP code of course, but Java is far from free from runtime errors due to a not good enough type system.

> You can argue subjectively for Python, Ruby or Node.js - to me these are all in the same class as PHP and have similar quality frameworks (Django, Rails, Nest.js) but are all objectively inferior to the production languages

> As someone with a background in all of these scripting languages I don't think it's possible without some crazy mental gymnastics to not see how the production languages are clearly superior for almost all professional use cases.

What is even a "production language"? Lots of people are using Ruby, Python and Node in production, and it's working very well for them.

> I think the most likely case is people that think otherwise just have never tried them, at least not seriously enough to really grasp them.

That's a strawman.

You seem to have a very black/white view about production vs non production languages, that mostly maps to "used by classical big companies", and that doesn't seem to reflect reality very well.
Never. That would be disastrous for all politicians involved. Tesla has support from the highest ranks of the state government.
Lyft saves me plenty of time so I'm not sure I can agree here. The alternative would be relying on regular cabs or the public infrastructure here in NY which has on multiple occasions proven to be less reliable for me. I'll gladly pay a little extra to not arrive at my location 40minutes to an hour late because of a service disruption in the subway. If we actually took all the money invested in transportation in the city and made things better, instead of I assume pocketing it, maybe I would have different thoughts, but for now these services make my life significantly easier.
This is an exciting idea, but the style of the paper is off-putting. It's written in the style of an academic paper, while clearly eschewing associated norms like not giving blatant opinion or waxing philosophical.

"The rationale is not to customize the ranking according to the implicit interests of the user, but to offer a mechanism to define multiple rankings, plural, open and explicit, for only if it is so, can it be trusted."

Please put opinions in a blogpost and uphold the (reasonable) norms of the research community, for only if it is so, can your work be trusted.
If a disease native to the Americas emerged and became endemic, it would have infected Europeans when they arrived. There’s a good CGP Grey video on this called Americapox.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
> Presumably the same problem exists when using these IDEs in conjunction with a path containing non-ascii characters in the Linux or macOS world.

Why would you presume that when the problem seems to be that one tool uses the systems native 8-bit encoding while another tool expects UTF-8 - under sane systems these are the same.
Putting an auto formatter as a commit hook is just one of many small things that accumulate to make your develpment experience frustrating and annoying.

If you have a guy who always does a diff spam, just talk to him and ask him to separate his commits and minimze the diff spam. You don't need to ruin everyone's experience just to counter that.
Overseas hiring playbook for engineers (Djinni)
Thank's for the confirmation, I think Docker is not going anywhere soon, so yeah.. But your impression might be correct (that it is faster..) I read they use a new virtualisation, hyperkit vs hypervisor. This guy even carries a second laptop just for running Docker https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-m1-as-dev-machine-d... :))
Prediction: this will be a complete train-wreck and within 12 months it will be quietly shut-down and subsequently forgotten about.
I maintain a library implemented mostly in python with some simple cpython extension modules for performance. Since you can't run unit tests against an extension module before you've built it, my Makefile invokes setup.py just to get things compiled:

python setup.py build_ext --inplace

I don't see a valid replacement for this invocation, but fortunately, it's the only one.

When I include the library from a project that uses it, the same `pip install' command that brings the library in also performs all the compilation described by my setup.py.

All I'd need to move away from deprecated syntax entirely is a way to build the module when I'm testing it within it's own source directory. Until then I won't be changing anything.
It says that your software is open source. What type of open source license is it and why did you pick that particular license?
> Apple takes 75% of smartphone profits, despite fewer sales than Samsung

https://www.cultofmac.com/755598/apple-smartphone-profits-q2...
For most Finns (bar the self-employed, business owners, and the very rich) filing taxes is like 15 minutes per year when you want to add some deductions the tax man wouldn't already know about.

It's literally 0 minutes, if you don't have deductions.
> It's not badly defined. Consciousness is our subjective experience of color, sound, taste, smell, touch, feelings in perception, imagination, hallucination, illusion, dreams and inner dialog. It's something we're all familiar with.

I don’t know this doesn’t seem like a great definition to me. It lists a dozen distinct properties, most very complicated in their own right, and then kind of collapses into “we all know what it is anyway”