skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part is the lack of a party system and part is the way votes have been made fungible. The politicians say we vote publicly so the public can see how we voted. This is false, they vote publicly so other politicians and lobbyists can see them do their paid duty. Literal bribery masked as lobbying. The lobby contributions are suppose to be public, and we see those. What we do not see are the paper bags of cash and the offshore wire transfers of huge amounts. The chicken feed we see under the rubric of allowed campaign contributions is a public sop.
Make all vote secret. You have a secret ballot? Why do the politicians have a pubic vote? = keep the gravy train in the USA flowing. In Canada we have strict party politics and you MUST vote as your party directs or get the boot.
So there you have it, the rich have 89% + of the politicians in their waist coat pockets - that is all they need.
Have there been any publicized studies done on the reliability of aircraft engines, with and without lead? I’m guessing this is what made the transition take so long, but I can’t seem to find any references.
Instead of playing the strengths of the UNIX desktop they are purposefully omitting them and trying to be a subpar copy of Windows/Mac all while throwing backwards compatibility out of the window for no apparent reason on a regular basis. They are pure garbage to such an extent that they appear to be deliberate sabotage.
How can any serious person with knowledge of the subject say this with a straight face?

There are entire classes of financial instruments in use today that could not exist in the tradfi ecosystem. Pretty sure that's "financial innovation".
...or to your own citizens, who you may be looking at as a domestic threat.

Let's be clear
There is no reason to assume that this type of thing is constrained to "just the type" the government can have their arm forced into admitting to.
> But my point is that total demand for goods has actually increased and not by a little, by a lot. Buffers in the supply chain can't help with that, can they? An increase in total throughput is needed to solve that, and that's going to take a while. Is there something I'm missing here?

(You didn't ask me and I'm not an expert but) Not if you just use them as a pure buffer (and there's no re-re-adjustment before they're used up), no. But they'd give you some time to think 'Hm, stocks being depleted faster than usual, we need to reorder sooner, and more.'
I'd sneeze at them if they tried to make me live in a window-less room.
This is exactly my point though - hiring disabled people is simply not an option for most people. If information on meaningful accessibility was as readily available and consumable as learning how to code, I'd bet a lot of money people would be more inclined to make accessible software.
> Are you assuming that all costs are financial?

I'm assuming he's assuming that... :)
Why are they helping Apple kill the web?
Biden has been meeting constantly with Manchin at least (Sinema has been ducking his calls). He has been putting his weight on them to make a change.

But honestly, Manchin is a democrat senator in a red state. Manchin pissing off Biden and the rest of the Democrats is likely GOOD for him there.

Sinema has no excuse and should be primaried in AZ.

> I will readily admit that the Democratic party deserves more blame than Biden himself.

I don't agree with either Democrats or Biden being blamed here. Democrats do not have a filibuster proof majority. Why blame them when Republicans are filibustering nearly every single bill put forward? This isn't an example of a party failing, this is an example of simply not having enough votes to make a change.

> remember that some votes are way more valuable than others.

Definitely agree, but also remember to never say never. Georgia, of all states, put in 2 democrat senators. I would have never predicted that would happen.

And to that point, I don't think a single bill would have passed had that not happened. I think Democrats take way too much blame for Republican obstruction. They've been shockingly unified throughout this legislative session. They've finally started playing some harder ball. Don't blame them because it's still incredibly tight margins.
Bitcoin addresses are pseudonymous. There are ways to make transactions safer for all parties involved such as escrow and social recovery.
It's hard to quantify, because the market is so elastic.
Nonrenewable fossil fuels are a waste of energy and pollute, but there are both natural and artificial means to undo the damage, sequester the carbon, or produce gas out of biofuels etc.

When you use helium, it literally floats to the top of the atmosphere and escapes into space. It's never, ever coming back. It's a totally different class of "nonrenewable".
The problem is the system is incredibly complex and adds no value to anything, and opens up tons of risk.

It's one thing for crypto to be a fun thing where people can day trade on made up numbers, arguably harming 'no one', but when major transactions get problematic, then it's a huge source of pain. Civil and legal lawsuits galore.

It demonstrates that net-net crypto is a value destroyer and is just a bad distraction.

The moment we try to regulate it (and we would have to do this if we wanted to normalized it and make it usable in the commons), then 'all the fun' would be drained out of the bubble as it boils down to just regular banking, more or less.

It's like an intellectual 'Chinese Finger Trap' for smart people with a bit of money to burn, that has negative externalizes.

If it's going to be 'money' then regulate it as money, and watch it the Tower collapse under the weight of it's own complexity.
>"I actually believe that law enforcement has the legal right to subpoena information, with a judge's consent, while investigating criminal activity. This is exactly the solution to that _problem_."

Absolutely. The other side of that coin is that people are not required to keep (or in this case, even gather) information in a way that allows the government to obtain it.

I'd also point out that this isn't about information that could prove a crime. It's about the government demanding information from a third party about unknown persons and the contents of their personal effects.

Given that Signal doesn't collect or have access to such information[0]:

"...this subpoena requested a wide variety of information we don’t have, including the target’s name, address, correspondence, contacts, groups, calls."

It's not possible to provide it. Are you claiming that Signal should be required to gather such information solely for the benefit of the police?

As the Fourth Amendment[1] to the US Constitution says, in part:

"...and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"

And since the subpoena was asking for Signal to identify the subject (their name), such a demand is clearly outside the bounds of the Fourth Amendment.

I'll say it again: Whether a judge (in this case, it was a grand jury and not a judge, but why split hairs?) agrees or not, Signal can't provide information it does not possess.

I suppose a law could be passed requiring them to collect such information as was demanded, but it's hard to see how that would be defensible on any grounds.

[0] https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United...
Interesting take.

I think I only agree in part. If this is an accurate picture of what's going on, though, the "elite" effort is doomed, because as the pie shrinks the masses are going to become increasingly resistant to the elites wasting resources on make-work programs for their allies.

And, that question at the end? The only politician I can see that could pull off such a thing is Trump. He would do it on behalf of a different set of elites, though - ones with less structural power than the regular set. (And one could guess that the incredible hostility of the establishment elites toward Trump was caused by him threatening their gravy train.)
Some years ago I got a workstation (either a VAXstation or MIPS DECstation) that originally belonged to a university group where my then-boss had studied. Since the OS was old enough to have used the original weak crypt(3) for /etc/passwd, I checked… and yes, he did still use the same password.

(I wiped it and installed NetBSD.)
https://electrek.co/2021/02/16/tesla-owns-electric-car-marke...

About 79% of EVs in the US are Tesla. They exist, but Tesla certainly absolutely dominates the market.

The major drawback to other brands has many facets:

- Reputation for low range. The first Nissan Leaf made in 2011 had an EPA range of only 73 miles. In 2016, they started giving a bigger battery, but it still only had a paltry 107 mile range. It wasn't until 2019 that they started offering a battery with a 226 mile range, but by then, the reputation as a short-range EV was essentially set in stone.

- Slow charging speed. Teslas can charge at up to a whopping 250 kW, which can grant 75 miles of range in only 5 minutes. Meanwhile, the Leaf only supported up to 50 kW until 2019, and even now only does 100 kW.

- Lack of charging infrastructure. This is related to the previous note. If you go to a site like PlugShare.com, you can see TONS of chargers in any metro area, but the problem is, the extreme majority of them are J-1772 plugs that charge at <10 kW. At that speed, it takes an hour to get just 30 miles of range.

All that is compounded by the fact that car dealerships are often disincentivized to sell EVs. Dealerships make a significant portion of their money in the repair and maintenance bays. Since EVs require far less maintenance, and so far are proving far more reliable, dealerships don't want to sell them.
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I think the more "developing" or "relatively recenylu developed" nations who have university infastructure are more likely to go with the more European "paid to be a student if you can pass the gatekeeping exams".

It has less to do with any ideology and more a combination of mathematics and pragmatism. Namely an insufficient number of people who could afford even free college from the opportunity cost of not working full time.
Even if the economy advanced enough that they could technically go to a more American model.

This is meant to be broad brush "first principles reasoning" and includes many disparate nations and situations. Some may also have a sufficient percentage from traditionally priveledged strata who could afford it. Often families who were traditional bureaucratic, military, or priestly occupations.
For your convenience: https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver...

More info: https://www.theregister.com/2007/08/24/vulture_central_stand...
I bought a MacSE at an estate sale and found a bunch of half written stories [novels?] (they weren't very good).

I'm so glad everything is password protected & encrypted on my machines now. Wouldn't want some rando to buy my funeral estate and find personal stuff on my hardware. My next of kin are my parents so I don't think they'd be very savvy about destroying drives.
Yes I was referring to the "WebGPU Shading Language" which I abbreviated with WebGPU which should be obvious. The WebGPU API is the boiler plate you need to make WGSL over the wire work. My original proposal was an X extension in a similar fashion that makes SPIR-V over the wire work.
Why did they even incorporate in the USA, I'd guess they'd have less work in like the Seychelles or Belize.
> why hasn't it been removed?

nobody owns a language

>can I please have

Take your pick. There is Esperanto, Loglan, Lojban, Ithkuil etc. The rabbit hole goes as deep as you want
I for one am excited to be able to visit Hell on Earth within my lifetime. This is usually a privilege reserved for the dead.
The issue with SQL injection and XSS is that there is usually no cost to the website with the vulnerability. They can keep on doing business as usual, after a suitable mea culpa, without significant consequences.

When there's a crypto vulnerability, the contract usually gets drained. It goes bankrupt. There is no funds and no viable business there. Therefore, there's not just a significant incentive to guard against security holes, but there's also a selection mechanism.

People underestimate the power of bankruptcy, failure, death, revolution, nonexistence, and other selection mechanisms. Selection bias is the most powerful force in nature, because natural systems without a selection mechanism tend to get selected away. Arguably a lot of the problems with our current economy come about because we fail to let things fail.
"Java is far from minimal"

My web servers run with like 300MB of RAM and work fine on t2.nano serving thousands of users??

And also Java gives you full access to primitive types if you don't like OOP
>If you use a passcode, they police cannot force you to unlock your phone:

And that's a good thing.
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There is at least one intermediate step: it's not prohibitively expensive to set up a charitable remainder trust. You have more control than with a DAF. But you have a fixed cost to set up the trust and some annual administration and tax compliance costs. It can make sense if you plan to donate more than, say, a million dollars.
In the recent Stratechery interview with Zuckerberg, Mark seemed to indicate FB has no intention of _owning_ the metaverse. Rather, they want to build the technology and platforms that will go towards enabling it. His quote below:

>We don’t think about this as if different companies are going to build different metaverses. We think about it in terminology like the Mobile Internet. You wouldn’t say that Facebook or Google are building their own Internet and I don’t think in the future it will make sense to say that we are building our own metaverse either. I think we’re each building different infrastructure and components that go towards hopefully helping to build this out overall and I think that those pieces will need to work together in some ways.

https://stratechery.com/2021/an-interview-with-mark-zuckerbe...
https://archive.md/Xmb1A
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> feel simple to write

that's what i'm talking about. people don't want to know about first class functions, closures, immutability, monads, object orientation, polymorphism, inheritance, generics, contravariance, covariance, threading, concurrency, race conditions, memory safety or package managers. they just want to whip up some shit and have it work.

and you're right they don't care about long-term maintainability at all. that leads to all the conceptual overhead though. they'd rather have a horribly bolted together language than be forced to worry about the concepts that lead to long-term maintainability.
Doesn't every country have it's own "weird unit of area"? :-)

In completely metric Germany, we often use "Saarlands", which is also, like Wales, the smallest country / state.

1 Wales = 8 Saarlands
Contexts spawn a goroutine to block on the Done channel. You always need to call cancel otherwise you'll leak that goroutine. It's an annoying thing that comes from the fact that contexts are implemented in user space and there's no way to block on a channel without block a goroutine.
I have a bunch of 8" floppy disks I got from fleaBay that have student records from a community college in California.

I have no use for them, so I just have one framed on the wall for nostalgia's sake.
Signal is the best we have on mobile at the moment in my estimation, but after a cursory analysis of Moxy, I totally expect one day it will be revealed he has been compromised somehow. Nation state actors already have baseband roots, so as long as those arent your threat vector, you are probably, maybe, ok on signal.

I find it really interesting that Bill Binney says, despite years of me hearing the opposite, that we shoild all be rolling our own crypto because its a form of decentralization. The more time goes on, the more I think hes onto something.

The main problem I see is this: a future where only the hackers have privacy, and everyone else apathetically accepts their servitude and abuse. Furthermore, to maintain that privacy, hackers will have to be extremely selective in their friends, due to the invasive nature of the privacy violations from those around us, unbeknownst to them.
Kids hooked on a game vs adults reading a scary message for an app are psychologically very different. Even if fortnite retained millions, how many users did they lose?
Wow. This article is excellent. It’s not just the content; he’s even made nice graphics… And the aesthetic of the post on mobile is 10/10.

The issues at hand in this post are real.

1. Problem 1 - Awareness

Many marketers outside of mega super super high paying startups are BARELY aware of these factors.

I’m an amateur at this stuff but people look at me like I’m a wizard when I get my - VERY SIMPLE - Spreadsheets out.

That’s one thing.

Problem 2 - The tools

these platforms and analytics tools are kind of shit at piecing the story together.

I’m the sole marketer at a (very rapidly growing, if I may) software startup.

Every so often, as an exercise, I go back and piece together the entire journey of our highest value opportunities and prepare a nice little report.

The idea is to show the team that the buying process is complex and that tracking in our neat little funnels is a rough proxy at best.

Problem 3 - untracked interaction

We sell a product that is used by teams. This means that a TON of our traffic is going to be from team members coming in to have a look after team member A discovers us. But what happens if it’s team member C that gets in touch? How do you attribute that?

Doing regular deep dives on individual customers is the best way to maintain sanity in an organisation and stop the inane conversations that non-marketing team members tend to start. The deep dives, in my experience, tend to be the thing that most generates trust in the marketing activity - because it goes from being just an abstract game of big numbers to ‘oh hey, that actually works, how clever.’
We aren't comparing the global average to the global "best person". We're comparing the typical outcome of a pair of parents with the best possible child those parents could have. Any effects on the outcomes of that child's life based on their genetics will be completely outstripped by how they're raised.

We also aren't discussing selective breeding, the same distribution of people would be pairing and having children.

After several hundred years I could plausibly see a stratification happening among those with the earliest and most advanced access to a technology like this. But given all of the above limitations, I think it would still be fairly limited.
I used hydrogen cyanide for the balloons at my birthday party, and I didn't hear anyone complaining afterwards.

Bear in mind that it boils/condenses at about 26C, so it's only suitable for parties with lots of dancing or warm summer nights.
I can't imagine needing a bed like that for any other reason besides hosting giant orgies. I hope your ridiculous bed brings you many more years of enjoyment!
Following the second search item found eventually got me to https://muse.jhu.edu/article/794729

This seems to be the actual article.
Going to ask: do you know _any_ desktop software using Qt Quick ?
The crime rate in those burbs was nil for the last 50 years and has not changed 'because spy cameras'.

In my urban neighbourhood, the crime is visible, I see people trying to steal bikes. Crack deals out in the open. I left my door unlocked for 15 minutes and had Mac stolen. And I don't think cameras would make a blink of a difference.

Semi-smart criminals with resources, driving across town to random middle class suburb to rob people of their Mircowave ovens is not really a thing. Surely it does happen, but it's a very rare event.

If you live in the Hollywood Hills, you'll want cameras everywhere, or adjacent to a serious 'problem area' likewise, but otherwise, no.
How is it political? One of the primary reasons I started using the damn thing is that whatever Eich's politics, they don't seem to affect the product. Vivaldi seems the same, and at least some of their staffers have politics opposite of Eich's. But both teams bring a simple professionalism to work: They all believe in user control and privacy and try to build a good browser on those principles. They're not interested in external political evangelism a la Mozilla, and to me it shows. Even though both of them have the same ethos, the angles they're coming at it are different.

But in the end I can expect both teams to deliver a tool that's built to enable me and my wants, regardless of what our opinions on things outside the browser are. After all, they're irrelevant to the browser. Within the browser space, there are politics, but both orgs' politics are of user control and less tracking and spying.
the "doesn't" camp, of course. Brenner in the context of the larger debates or on his own? Have you read Jairus Banaji?

What's particularly interesting in Sapolsky's work for you?
Perhaps a stretch, but maybe like a color filter (injury) affects the perception of a rainbow (immaterial).
I think philosophy sits on either end, making it a circle
ooh I didn't know they do that. How easy is it to wrap and existing PWA?
>Is this really the case? I don't know Latin, but AFAIU, adjectives have to go right next to their nouns.

I don't know about Latin, but here's examples from Russian (also true for Acient Greek) where adjectives can be found far away from their nouns (word-by-word translations in their original order, just found on Lenta.ru):

"Lost his family in fire Russian critizes verdict"
("lost" refers to "Russian")

"Found in car minister's corpse moose's seized investigators"
("found" refers to "corpse")

"Recreated existing inside planet giants dark ice"
("existing" refer to "ice")

Gender and declension help tell what refers to what.
I think this speaks to my issue. Facebook is far too ban-happy and obsessed with verifiable identity for me to ever be comfortable associating it with an expensive piece of hardware.
Just wanted to say - I hope you’re able to find ways to get those things back in your life. Remote work is certainly not without its challenges and of course, not for everyone. Companies should let the individual decide for themselves.
I don't think anybody is saying that the lack of windows is itself a good thing, even the "forced socializing" line of reasoning clearly uses the lack of windows as a stick to get people out of their rooms. It's just an acceptable tradeoff for a sizable subset of students.
While the details of the connection would of course require a long article to discuss, I think the basic observation involved is simple. Just compare these two facts:

(1) Americans expect to be able to get 30 year mortgages at rates around 3 percent;

(2) Americans expect to be able to invest their retirement savings in stocks and bonds with a long term rate of return of 8 percent or more.

These two facts make no sense when put together unless somebody is putting a massive thumb on the scales somewhere. In a free market such a situation would be impossible, because nobody would have any incentive to lend money for 30 years at 3 percent when they could just invest it in stocks and bonds over the same time horizon and get 8 percent.
They really shouldn't be able to afford drones of that class.
I think what folks tend to miss is if you subtract out the notched area, you're left with a bog standard 16:10 display. It really is extra bonus space.
They have your phone number and (trivially reversible hashes of) your phonebook.

They must keep this data hot because they can send "this specific person in your phonebook just installed signal" messages.