skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you must have missed the conditional "would" in your parent comment's second sentence. Whatshisface was not writing about our world with our universe's physics. The "only" in his same second sentence is doing work there too, removing beta decay.

You could object that such a hypothetical world might not say something useful about our world, of course. I would not automatically agree with that assessment, however. It depends on whether "only" also ousts gravitation of free neutrons (or isotopes, if they exist in that world) or other means of testing the masses of bulk collections of matter with different neutron enrichment.

At the very least, we all seem to agree it was illustrative of a point about very weak interactions.
I don't think prediction markets make sense. The information about whether a country will become a dictatorship is usually private, and impossible to obtain. It isn't like a betting market where the relevant information is public.

I probably agree with your aims. I think that systems should exist to make better decisions but there is limit because no-one can make perfect decisions (and it is probably more important to consider robustness at that point). I think attempting to reward predictions makes no sense, everyone is prone to these biases. I don't think rewarding a certain group of people makes that any better.

One part of markets that people often get wrong is that sometimes markets are totally wrong. With Enron, the information that the company was fraudulent was publicly available, and relatively easy to find. But the price for the stock was set by people who didn't want to find it. Mayweather vs McGregor...crazy odds. In 2012, the US prediction market Intrade had wildly inaccurate odds for the Presidential election, this was a market that was trading hundreds of thousands per day. Markets work most of the time, they don't work all the time (I would say financial markets are the best evidence of this, you see stuff that makes no sense almost all the time because investors have such different aims...you think no-one is this stupid, then you see it happen in a megacap stock worth hundreds of billions, and your perspective on human reasoning changes significantly).
Probably "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century"
Thanks to Facebook, the word meta will soon sound like a curse. Words like “metadata” will start sounding very sinister.

Anything else you can do to ruin our day, Meta?
spam calls are also a solution we know the answer to, at least in part, but small carries played the small biz card to buy their corrupt operations some time: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/us-hits-anti-rob...

"The requirement also doesn't yet apply to small phone companies because carriers with 100,000 or fewer customers were given until June 30, 2023 to comply. The FCC is seeking comment on a plan to make that deadline June 30, 2022 instead because "evidence demonstrates that a subset of small voice service providers appear to be originating a high number of calls relative to their subscriber base and are also generating a high and increasing share of illegal robocalls compared to larger providers."
So in short, NIMBY zoning rules caused the port to suffocate on its own containers, even though it is merely a stone's throw from working oil pumps and LAX.
Hilariously, when you follow the above link, the site doesn't honor the back button. Figures.
He wasn’t in his right mind for that to be held against him.
Thank you!

I found a version on Audible that I'll add to my library.

https://www.audible.com.au/pd/The-Gulag-Archipelago-Audioboo...
> he means 'ruin how he makes money using email

No, it would ruin email in general. You are always in control of whether you want to read an email or not.
I can't seem to find the complete list online either, I just tweeted at the @MerriamWebster account to find out, we'll see if they share a link. Does anybody else have it?
I think some background noise reduces distractions, because it causes our noticing apparatus to raise it's alert threshold, and we no longer notice every tiny micro-noise.
Isn't cash looses its value over time due to inflation? Why Apple maintains a cash reserve?
Fixing Interface Erasure in Go
Are these horse antidepressants by any chance?
Fwiw that is the stated intention:

> I think the most important piece here is that the virtual goods and digital economy that’s going to get built out, that that can be interoperable. It’s not just about you build an app or an experience that can work across our headset or someone else’s, I think it’s really important that basically if you have your avatar and your digital clothes and your digital tools and the experiences around that — I think being able to take that to other experiences that other people build, whether it’s on a platform that we’re building or not, is going to be really foundational and will unlock a lot of value if that’s a thing that we can do.

https://stratechery.com/2021/an-interview-with-mark-zuckerbe...
Franchising isn't just licensing out the brand. I can't own two Taco Bell locations unless I live in one. And forget a third. And once you get into trying to figure ways to allow for that, you've created loopholes for people to exploit. Wherein they'll be technically within the rules while violating the spirit.

> It has nothing to do with "good" or "bad" ownership. It's about limiting the wealth-storage potential of real estate and promoting more decentralized/egalitarian access to property.

In other words, using real estate solely to store wealth would be a type of bad ownership.

You're trying to avoid making a value judgment so as to not have to defend the values. Or get into a discussion of whether or not we should be deciding these things on values. But it's turtles all the way down.

I agree that more people should be able to acquire property to make a home. Home ownership should be within the reach of a lot more people. And I think real estate speculation for its own sake is bad.

But I also know enough to know that the problem is bigger and more involved than I've given thought to. So any solution I toss around would be half-baked at best. Even if I consider everything I know.

So, I recognize the problem. I agree something must be done. But I also think that limiting ownership of property to "two" is a bad solution.
I've very little respect for intellectual property. I don't see it as much more than a way to stifle culture and innovation in the sake of greed. You could have a sensible implementation of IP where an intellectual product can be considered your property for some short duration. Not decades though.
> Finally, the exemption isn't limited to e-commerce sites.

It isn't really an exemption, anyway, it is a limitation under then-existing federal law on the power of states to impose taxes.

> According to wikipedia, it includes "companies doing mail order, online shopping, and home shopping by phone".

That's misleading.

What it actually applied to, at the time, was companies without physical presence in the state into which the sale was being made. So companies that exclusively did those things would be covered (except in the State they operated from, but they could operate in a no sales tax state), but companies that did them alongside physical operations would not, and before the web, those other models alone had so much less access to customers that the sales tax hack wasn't worthwhile.

> Why did amazon dominate while sears languished?

Because while Sears also had mail order business, it was a ubiquitous brick-and-mortar retailer, and thus was paying sales tax on its mail order sales, because they had retail everywhere.
I suppose it could also mean increased investment in plant, R&D. aquisitions or reduced margins.
I didn't have this problem with emails, but with signing off on phone calls. The only people I spoke to on the phone growing up were family members. Probably confused a few telemarketers.
Foam: $10

Flight controller: $15

GPS: $15

ESC: $20

Motor: $20

Receiver: $15

Two servos: $5

If you want video, that's another $30 for camera+vtx. That's it, $130 for the whole thing, with FPV video.
Yes, they are “massive” by normal people’s standard, but they are usually minuscule relative to their equity holdings.
Australia has mostly solved spam phone calls with a 'Do Not Call' register:

https://www.donotcall.gov.au/consumers/register-your-numbers....

I can see the USA has the same thing: https://www.donotcall.gov/

Does it not work?
Sounds like an idea for a new coin, TBH
Facebook/Meta is a consumer company. All the worthwhile applications of remote presence are going to be in industrial spaces that combine robotics with VR. I see no way that Facebook/Meta will do anything worthwhile or useful in that space.
If he bumps people off his mailing list whenever he's getting this email, isn't it working as intended? The recipient didn't whitelist you, which means he/she doesn't really want your email.

I implemented this for my personal email some years ago, although I did put a third "grey" list for people I didn't want such emails to go to (but were still not on whitelist) - mostly because I didn't want to annoy the sender (a non-profit, etc).

A lot of my non-tech friends have asked if I can start up a service to offer this to anyone and they claimed they were willing to pay. I never bothered, as such services already exist. The point, though, is that a lot of people do want this.
The author has nothing of substance to contribute. This could have been a tweet but they wrote an article repeating the same thing over and over to get a click on their site. These are exactly the kind of misleading advertising that I want to get rid of and a paid email service (never heard of it before this) seems to do that based on the author's reaction.
Toyota became significantly less JIT after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which severely disrupted their supply chain. That said, JIT involves many useful lessons for organizations with higher inventory levels as well.
Is there even a better solution than to let the current supply chain issues play out?

The status quo with supply chains and manufacturing is there for a reason, silicon in particular reflects its boom bust cycle as well as the absurd costs of CapEx.

I think people are reaching when they table the hypothesis that current supply chain issues are due to mistakes or mismanagement of some middle manager, in some corporation somewhere.

Maybe, just maybe, the cost of having a bunch of spare infrastructure for a once in a lifetime rearrangement of the supply chain due to Covid isn't worthwhile?
Earn wasn't making anyone use their service.
I wish the article had mentioned more about the tools they use to track performance of links. My guess is a lot of perfsonar https://www.perfsonar.net/ or iperf nodes. Network performance testing is tough. It's interesting to hear of a company doing it
I think a lot of people just read emotional language and turn off their minds. So let's expand out what you said to make it a bit easier for others to reason about what you said.

We're talking about founder owned companies owned by billionaires. So let's use an example of one: SpaceX. You're maligning "disruptive innovation" so let's expand out your claim with the specific example: an order of magnitude reduction in the cost of space flight and the introduction of competition in rural internet service.

So you're saying enabling access to other planets and the moon while providing people in isolated areas with internet service is an example of squeezing out profits and you're saying that you think it is rent seeking. Rent seeking is defined as an economic concept that occurs when an entity seeks to gain added wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity. Typically, it revolves around government-funded social services and social service programs. We already had programs to access space. They were an order of magnitude more expensive. We already had programs to provide internet. They didn't serve well the subset of people that are in remote areas. So in both cases it just isn't the case that the company is doing rent seeking.

In other words, you are completely wrong when we use a specific example.

This applies to more specific examples. Lets use the specific example of Flexport. It is owned by a founder and you're replying to things posted by them so it's even less of a reach than before.

They are introducing computers to an industry that has competitors from the 1400s era. These competitors sometimes have legacy processes built on physical paper and for some of them excel is an example of the use of cutting edge technology. You're saying that doing better than that for people using modern technology is an example of rent seeking.
I was involved in a startup project the first couple years of college. We didn’t know anything about what we were doing so it languished in development hell and is still in it as far as I know, with a new crop of kids. I can’t imagine being stuck in that mindset, there’s a lot of maturing that happens when you have a boss and need to work with a team and he’s always been the head of this college project that’s worth a trillion dollars now. Doesn’t sound healthy at all
They have it stored around the world, moving it to the US would force them to pay taxes
Never said that - I'm mostly commenting on how glib the commentary is. Not saying there isn't room for improvement or optimism.
This causes yet another rich v poor divide. Poor people may not even be able to pay a few pennies to send an email (perhaps at a downturn when they need to reach out). Hopefully they have a phone, but at least the library might have free computer use for your currently free email.
This article is completely hyperbolic, and seems to intentionally misunderstand what the goal of a service like Earn is (was?), based solely on a single one of their users having forgotten to add a newsletter to their allowlist.

For me, email _needs_ to be an allowlist by default. At this point, pretty much _all_ communication channels, be it calls, sms, or physical mail, need to be allowlist by default. There are too many people out there willing to do shitty scattershot marketing or exploit phishing for me to want to open my inbox to the world.

Earn, it seems, did it, and I wish they'd kept doing it long enough for me to hear about it. The fact that they then extended the allowlist into an "allowlist-or-pay-for-my-attention" is a neat feature that I probably would have enabled without much expectation of any real results. The real feature for me is the allowlist-by-default.

So yeah, this author is a dingus, Earn may well have _saved_ email if they'd succeeded, and I hope someone else tries.
I await your citations of American spooks fired, indicted, convicted, and executed for torture and other war crimes.
Which is also an option for Americans? Middle class city Americans are rich compared to middle class rural Americans, and the later are rich compared to other places in other countries still. Shrug.
Presumably App Store fees as the 30% is under scrutiny / threat in lots of jurisdictions.
A cheap FlySky radio costs $30 or so. The receiver costs another $15. It's really not expensive at all.
What Facebook wants and what the public winds up doing isn't necessarily the same thing.
It's true but just looking at supply chains or 'the economy' misses that this isn't just how we do business, our entire culture runs on fumes.

People during the pandemic didn't just learn that their toilet paper is delivered just on time, people learned that's how their friends and family are organized. The amount of people who were basically alone during the last two years with no actual communal support if there even is still such a thing as a community at all was staggering.

The founder of flexport thinking that giving founders more control isn't exactly surprising but misses the point that the problem he's talking about has already infiltrated just about everything.
> The main reason is I find it hard to believe that people who do not need to wear glasses will want to wear them.

Replace glasses with watches and you will find that Apple is leading the market of smartwatches sold and that remains undisputed and unchallenged for too many years in a row.

As for AR or VR, Facebook has the resources to execute both due to Oculus and shrink it into a piece of sunglasses or whatever form of glasses they choose. Same with Apple.

They both have the games, the hardware and the billions of users to bring adoption of AR and VR. The difference? Are we going to use sun glasses for AR/VR or remain on smartphones for AR/VR?

The future of AR/VR is heading towards the former (glasses) and either of them is going to execute it right. Maybe Google North could try as well. Regardless, that reinforces my point on where AR/VR is heading next and I just don't buy your anecdotes as a convincing argument here.
Musk isn't a great rhetorician, and many people don't like his personality either. But some like him nonetheless, they empathize with him and see beyond that, because they see some of the drives and desires behind the unusual facade. I'm sure Zuckerberg signed up for such courses, but I don't think it's comfortable for him, or his audience either. Ignorance is bliss, forcing oneself to be hyperaware of ones own appearance, gestures and statements to please others seems wrong. Who enjoys such a lie?
The value of a single rockets cargo can easily be worth more than a container ships cargo. The average TEU at Port of Los Angeles is worth ~43k USD and the words largest container ship is only 24k TEU, that’s up to 1 Billion in 2021 USD and plenty of satellites have been worth more than that.

The ships can be worth quite a bit when new, but their also depreciating assets with only a few percent of that in scrap value. Only using the least valuable ships in areas that can be pirates seems like an obvious optimization.
I don't think he's an evil villain. I really do think he's constantly running away from reality. It's why he created Facebook in the first place. It was meant to replace real world social interactions.
The definition he's listing is the definition I've used for bit rot in the past, somewhat jokingly about bugs in old code
It might create yet another poor v rich divide. See my comment elsewhere for more of an explanation
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
And maintain and evolve and debug and work on different machines, etc.
It probably was, but it's pretty simple to add waypoints to a mission via SMS, just text it the coordinates (and altitude) you want it to go to.
I know someone who, for all practical purposes, destroyed their life after an Ayahuasca trip. He was a VP at a major international company and is now a new age hippie.
Being subscribed to a newsletter for a year does not correlate with me actually wanting to receive that newsletter anymore.

Every once in a while I go through my emails an unsubscribe from all the junk. Junk I've been receiving for months (or more, if I've been lazy) without actually wanting to read or receive them.

With that perspective, this sounds like someone who doesn't realize that not everyone wants to continue receiving their newsletter, even if they've technically been subscribed for a year. Instead of unsubscribing from dozens of services every 6 months, including this newsletter, they set up an allowlist.
The Murderbot Diaries is a recent series I enjoyed listening to.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/191900-the-murderbot-diarie...
One alternative to fluorine that has been shown clinically to be equally or more effective is nanohydroxyapatite, which was developed by NASA some time ago to treat astronauts for loss of tooth enamel and bone density. (Some background info here https://www.oralscience.com/en/ingredients/mhap/

The rights were sold to Japan where a leading toothpaste has for decades used nanohydroxyapatite rather than fluoride. The exclusive rights of the Japanese company have expired, so nanohydroxyapatite toothpaste is not also made in Canada and the US. It's more expensive than fluoride toothpaste but if you'd like to avoid these questions, might be worth it.
I'm not sure if you are mistakenly replying in the wrong place, but that doesn't seem related to the basic-needs argument I (and, in a slightly different way, the thread OP) are making.
What exactly is the "RAM" if not inventory?
I think it does. The author asserts that rather than focus on too much money in the system as the cause of inflation, we should really be focused on how the means of production has been shutdown or inhibited.

The assertion is that government-imposed supply chain disruption is the primary factor currently driving inflation.
What's the design like?
I'm not an assembly programmer, but my intuition is that this is safer. You can only rely on "zero-copy" behavior when you have total control of the program and know that that memory region is going to stay put and remain uncorrupted. Therefore, most external code will make a copy because they can't insist on this (and because for most people, making a copy is pretty fast).
> The cost of hardening electronics and shielding is also not going away even if launch costs were non-existent.

Of course, but what about hardened electronics exempts it from the principles I discussed with scientific instruments in general?

> the cost will still be orders of magnitude higher than comparable commodity options.

Irrelevant, no one is comparing the cost to commodity hardware, we are comparing it to what the cost would be if we don't increase the number of scientific missions and continue with the current demand.

> in order to get RTGs you need to build, maintain and operate an entire specialized nuclear facility.

Yes, needing more material is going to cost more money, but does the cost per unit stay the same or go up the more you buy? We are going to need to increase production Pu used in RTGs anyways, if we are going to build facilities to might as well utilize them to the max.

> How exactly would a cheaper launch cost solve the problem of a Venus sample-return mission?

There will be unique engineering challenges that require unique solutions, but engineers will have a large shelf of parts to choose from if they have a specific issue they don't have to invent the wheel for.

> that cost is also unrelated to launch costs

That one is true. Missions that involve complex maneuvers, landings, driving rovers, etc, will require large amounts of staff and engineers. Other missions that don't involve those things could utilize a shared staff, so something like a general purpose probe network taking measurements across the solar system. Fleet management tools, policy, and procedures need to be developed so we can manage assets like we do with other LEO constellations.