skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks I didn't see that. So this whole thread is dupe then.
He fully addresses that in the book. Don't take my word for it, I don't have his explaining skills.

But what he addresses is radical equality, as a fundamental value, as opposed to "less inequality". Equality under a ruler or rebellion against abuses is not the same as thinking the whole society as composed of equals. Think of no-slavery, equality among genders, sexual freedom, etc. Even thinkers that thought about equality before Iluminism (e.g. Thomas More) didn't go that far.

I strongly recommend you reading, at least, chapter 2 in the book. Is way deeper than what I explain.
(Author here) Just did a quick search and I'm so delighted to hear from you. Strange that you considered yourself as "cranky." Really? I mean, really? I genuinely thought you were THE most helpful and approachable dev. You were always receptive and open to problem solving.

Thank you for reaching out. You made my day. Hope our paths cross again.
So the graph is basically showing two different datasets on the same plot line, nice.
Just ask anyone in NYC if this is familiar:

“Excuse me everyone. I’m sorry to bother you. My name is Mark and I’m homeless. I’m between jobs right now and I have two kids. If anyone could spare a few cents or even a dollar, then I would really appreciate it. God bless you.”

Happened multiple times a day on my commute.
I generally agree that this isn't actually a markdown alike, and so the tag line doesn't make much sense. In their defense, though, there isn't really a popular ~semantic lwml to refer back to in their elevator pitch--I can understand how they end up framing it like this.
Art Bell was amazing in the late 1990s........then I think his son being sexually assaulted messed him up because was all downhill after that. He would constantly flake out and always had an excuse. He finally got a new show, then claimed people were shooting guns outside of his house so he had to cancel his show. Always some kind of drama with him for the last 15 years of his life.
FTC Appointee Was Pushed Out of Google for Political Activism
I don't say Toyota is anti-EV obviously, but they advertise too much for FCV car in Japan. FC is great but FCV is already lose for most (family) car use cases.
Motor oil? Mercury? Cigarettes?

And kids will lick a lampshade.

Regulations always have dumb results. If you put the warning on anything with lead in it, people make fun of the warning on a Tiffany lamp. If you don't, people are shocked that you don't have the label on a child's toy with lead paint.

Regulators are never going to thread the needle that well. They're not capable of it. This is a huge problem when they're banning stuff. When they're labeling stuff, eh. People will figure it out.
Not to mention their children he left behind.
Spaces in path are a pain for the shell autocompletion, since you have to escape them by using either "" for the whole string or use the "\ " instead.
I really want them to be successful. My dad had the audacity to instill a lifelong love of movies in me and I would live at my local theater if I were able but the economics never really worked out. AMC’s A-List lives in such a weird zone for me. Three movies a week for $25/mo is enough money where I feel pressure to use it and guilt if I didn’t but three movies a week and zero options for guests isn’t really enough to make a day of it, ya know?

Like if it was unlimited movies for me and three “day passes” for friends it would be a no brainer purchase.
No, this is false.
The stiffness issue is a second order issue (which is why larger conventional planes actually have LOWER dry mass per passenger than 9 seat passenger aircraft) and IT AFFECTS ALL PLANE TYPES, and can be addressed via truss braced wings as I said. There are more important minimum gauge type issues at small scale that tend to dominate and make small scale worse performance than large scale.

The claim that larger size in particular is a problem is false. Efficiency, including structural efficiency, actually tends to improve with scale beyond 100 seats.

> We sadly cannot make large battery powered airplanes with a usable range and speed unless we get up the gravimetric density.

This, again, is often repeated but false from a technical standpoint. 9 seater and 100 seater, for the same range, scale just fine between them and with clean sheet design we can use existing 200-400Wh/kg gravimetric density. Scale. Isn’t. The. Problem.

Large planes tend to be used on longer routes, in fact. Smaller planes are needed for their granularity on short routes.

The reason we see 9 passenger electric planes first is pretty obvious: cheaper and faster to develop small planes than large. Big aircraft manufacturers are much more risk averse as well. A large new clean sheet aircraft can take literally decades to develop. Not true for small aircraft. And again, generally the granularity of small planes means they’re more useful than large planes for shorter routes. This all reinforces the false notion that there is some technical reason why we “CAN’T” make large electric planes when there really, truly isn’t.

For instance, consider the Learjet 70/75. 8 passenger, dry mass of 6 some tonnes. Over 700kg per passenger. 14 passenger Falcon jets do better at about 500kg per passenger. 737 Max8 with 210 passengers gets about 215kg/passenger. So if anything, overall structural efficiency improves with scale! At least up to ~200 passengers. (Caveat is that these are typically private jets with a different seating arrangement... but so are the example electric aircraft. So they'd similarly benefit from scale up to larger seat capacity.)
Optimizing Git’s Merge Machinery
> TfL is a great example: sucks down tens of billions in public money to subsidise the wealthiest people in the country...the North-East is still missing motorways and we are spending £20bn on the Elizabeth line...okay.

TfL no longer receives any central government funding (beyond COVID money, but every aspect of public transport in the U.K. got buckets of money for that), this is despite being required to maintain a significant chunk of London surface roads and bridges. Something that councils normally receive central subsidies for.

Additionally for Crossrail, the Dft only provided £5b in direct funding. The remainder is either loans TfL will have to repay, or has come from locally collected taxes like council tax, and business rates. All of which only impact London residents and businesses.

> also, we had to bailout TfL twice I believe, they are not an example of the system working, tbf there isn't a lot management can do with the workforce

That’s hardly fair. London is the only capital city in the world where it’s public transport get zero subsidies, and costs have to be covered entirely by fare collection and advertising. The central government told people not to take public transport, then forced TfL to run a full service, despite there being 60% fewer passengers. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that isn’t going to be financially possible, despite TfL always having 6 months of emergency operating capital on hand. Additionally TfL’s status as a local authority means it can’t operate in a deficit, ever. So it can’t borrow to cover short term cash flow issues. Long story short, government rules and requirements placed TfL in a position where it was either getting a bailout, or collapsing. Nothing short of 3 years of spare operating capital, approximately £30b, would have prevented this situation.

Also worth mentioning that every other public transport operator in the U.K. also collapsed, and needed to be bailed out as well. So it’s a little unfair to single out TfL.
Giscus is an other Github based comment system using Github discussion [0] which I use for my blog [1]. It has reply, and recreation feature. And its theme is better than Utterances, in my opinion. Give it a try.

[0] https://giscus.app/

[1] https://imblien.com/posts/harry-potter-related/happy-christm...
Most of note taking happens at work. I tried local plain text notes, then stuck with confluence for some time. Confluence is slow and resists a lot.

OneNote is what I have end up with for now. Every page in one note is like a whiteboard where you can put anything anywhere. I sometimes store screenshots of code snippets. Sometimes even full files. Use it for small temporary todo lists. OneNote is a great place for putting down random info as quickly as possible.

Not worrying about how and where to put your thoughts down is very very important. Thoughts get lost in the process otherwise.
great news. as someone that really dislikes react but is forced to work with it I hope someday I'll be able to use svelte on my project.
Airbus and Boeing have plenty of competition in the smaller jet range: Embraer, Comac, Sukhoi, until recently Bombardier. If it was easily to scale up, it would have happened by now.

I do agree that an electric/hydrogen jet is the kind of disruptive tech that could upend the market, but due to the long lead times, stringent certification and very political markets it's an arguably even tougher market than cars or rockets.
As I was watching the simulation, I thought it would be cool to have a Play-Doh sculpting learning environment, as physically deformable as computationally allowable ;)
> I care what my experience is when it comes to things I use.

Let me stop you right there: I don't give a rat's ass what your experience is.

See how dumb it is to yell at people for sharing their opinions about tech on an internet forum for sharing your opinions about tech?

It's OK to disagree. I disagree with you too. Maybe all these people come out of the wood works because they genuinely have had great experiences with Ubuntu/ whatever
The thesis of 'Bullshit Jobs' was also dubious at best.

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/06/05/why-the-bullsh...

"In his book, Mr Graeber relied heavily on surveys of British and Dutch workers that asked participants whether their job made a meaningful contribution to the world. This seems a high bar to clear; it is unsurprising that 37-40% of respondents thought their job didn’t qualify. By contrast, the academics used the European Working Conditions Surveys, which by 2015 had talked to 44,000 workers across 35 countries. They focused on those respondents who thought that the statement “I have the feeling of doing useful work” applied to them “rarely” or “never”.

and :

"Furthermore, those who work in clerical and administrative jobs are far less likely to view their jobs as useless than those who are employed in roles that Mr Graeber regarded as essential, such as refuse collection and cleaning. Indeed, the researchers found an inverse relationship between education and the feeling of usefulness. Less educated workers were likelier to feel that their jobs were useless. And student debt does not appear to be a factor. In Britain, where its level is the highest in Europe, non-graduates under 29 were twice as likely to feel useless as their indebted graduate peers."

In contrast to the high share of bullshit jobs reported by Mr Graeber, in 2015 only 4.8% of respondents in the eu felt their work was useless. And this proportion had fallen, not risen, in recent years, from 5.5% in 2010 and 7.8% in 2005."

Link to the paper discussed by the article:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170211015...
I often ear this "vast majority" claim but is it true? Every slow website I encounter is react or angular based. Maybe I just don't notice the fast ones, but react and fast enough are not really my experience
Know how the Beatles ended? Peter Jackson may change your mind
I can't wait for more cheap movies while they burn through more venture capital!
The shuttle progam's motto was "beat the russians" more or less, so that checks out.

There is a lot of background in the biographies of both Chuck Yaeger AND John Glenn about some of this if you like that sort of thing.
so you're just describing what amounts to packets, which is basically like udp or tcp.

The reason http is good is due to the text nature (along with whatever drawbacks associated with it being text).
Sounds like an iPad Pro.
It is, because of the way the server has to recompute packfiles. I realize that you may choose to optimize for the user over the server, but a partial (blobless) clone should satisfy both.
Psychological abuse is plainly a subset of domestic violence.
Robert's Rules of Order is not the pinnacle of human achievement. It's just a tool.

New forms of collective decision making require new tools.

I wouldn't ever run an endorsement meeting using joint application design (JAD). Just like I wouldn't use RRO for eliciting user requirements.

Source: 8 years on exec board for local party, former UI designer.

PS- In fact, we're always tweaking our bylaws. To be more fair, more efficient, more representative, etc. For instance, we now use approval voting to stack rank motions to endorse, for maximal fairness. Doing so completely short circuits gaming RRO and mostly eliminated drama around the process.

PS2- OMG, experiencing traumatic flashbacks. Using RRO to craft platforms, amend bylaws, etc is literally hell on earth. Transmuting trivial activities using any other conceivable methodology into soul sucking unending torture. Last time we amended our bylaws, we had rapid response team from suicide prevention hotline physically present to monitor our members and preemptively intervene as necessary.
Having watched the trial they had very good reason to disallow this, the enlargement in this case was of critical importance (angle of gun) and the expert testified how different algorithms might fill in pixels, he explained how bicubic interpolation[1] based enlargement of a frame from a video which was taken by zooming in an iphone.

The video in question was taken from far, in night time, with shadows, and street lights.

[1]Expert Testimonty - https://youtu.be/pyppmuFxwKk?t=20976
[2]Image being enlarged - https://youtu.be/pyppmuFxwKk?t=22814
You aren’t missing anything. Everything is public and I am an open book about this situation. I’m a privacy advocate, I delete accounts on social media from time to time, just not on HN, thus the posts. I have chatted with dang, posted, and emailed HN.
A related graph on Currency in Circulation (I assume this is the total worldwide?): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CURRCIR

If I'm reading it right, that's like a 23% increase on US dollars in circulation (anyone understanding that differently?). If this is true, that should amount to about 23% inflation in the last ~2 years.
Interested to try this out one day!

My Data Engineering team has spent weeks building API integrations this year, so this would be valuable.
You mistake my disagreement with HOW to take care of those kids with whether or not I care about them, or want to help them. There are other solutions.

I was one of those kids. My mother was a drug addict, I spent a large portion of my childhood in a trailer park. There was nothing a teacher could do without me having a structured home life. She would frequently interrupt me when I tried to do my homework, and then yell at me 2 hours later for not having it done. She undermined my teachers at every turn, and when they called to complain about my behavior, she took my side instead of theirs. Once I was provided this structured home life (courtesy of the courts finally giving my father custody of me and my siblings and getting us away from our psycho mother) suddenly I was able to focus on school. If I disrespected a teacher, one phone call to my dad, and I was faced with a terrifying man who made my life hell. This was a powerful incentive to behave for the teachers, and do my homework as well. Bad behavior at school resulted in consequences for me at home.

The current public school system isn't capable of fixing this problem. You are just throwing good money after bad, and dragging the kids who would do well in a better school down with the kids whose homes make it impossible for school to do any good.

Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone is an example of a model that works. He keeps the kids at school for very long hours, and minimizes the time they are at home.

Public schools were not designed or intended to replace the role of functioning families. Trying to force them into that role is a bad idea, and very ineffective and wasteful. Society has changed, an increasingly large percentage of kids across all ethnic groups (except for Asian Americans) are living in single parent homes. You were a teacher, so I think you are aware of. the fact that they are going back to homes where they are entertained by screens all night. The parents frequently throw their hands in the air, and ask "how can I keep him off video games?" seemingly unaware of the fact that they can take the controllers/phone/laptop whatever away and god forbid take the TV out of the kid's room. The point is that teachers can't fix this.

Teacher's unions and public school districts are incentivized to pretend they are capable of addressing the problem, provided they get more money. That's what institutions and organizations do, after all. They always want to expand their scope, get more personnel, do more, and get paid for it. It's dumb in this case.
It's hard to get right, sadly. On this page here, I have to scroll down to see the last quarter of a column and then immediately after scroll up again to read the start of the following column.

I love these kinds of layout, but I dont know how to get them to work properly.
> What single book of Graeber should I read that has his most important ideas? Is it this one?

I read both Diamond's and Harari's and am reading this one.

All three are very, very good.

Graeber makes heavy criticism of Harari and Diamond, but I found his criticism to be marginal. He really doesn't touch the core of those 2 books.
Yeah, there's little regard for legalities as long as it's not _obviously_ bothering clients. Lying to both customers and partners doesn't seem to raise any eyebrows.
Access to capital is the underestimated aspect of the entire scenario.

Sheer amount of money available and accessible to you once you are rich is tremendous. From stimulus funds from US Fed to parent's trust fund.
This looks super cool. Love the git integration.
I guess reading the article isn't necessary to make comments anymore!
We see a novel use case around low/no code.

We hire engineers (usually ML, computer visions, etc.) and embed them with clients.

They meet 1-1 with their team members to walk through what they actually do in their daily work.

The eng. can then build light-weight solutions in real-time to optimize & automate those workflows.

It’s like prototyping as a service.

There’s certainly a huge movement around “citizen developers,” but what we’ve seen is these makers get stuck quickly when their solutions need to scale, be used by someone else, or integrate with other workflows.

Computational thinking is the key.

Initially we thought, like everyone else, we’d hire no coders and teach them to think like engineers.

It became obvious quickly that is was more about finding product-minded engineers who enjoy building things that help people and then show them how fast they could do that with these tools.

It’s made us incredibly opinionated about no code tools. Most are too limited for this approach.
The sudden rise is because they started counting Savings in M1 in May 2021:

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/05/savings-are-now-more...
> Are you a car person? They are as rare as Land Rovers or Lotus or Alfa Romeos or Fiats. What's the marketcap of those companies?

I have never seen any of these (are these cars? what are these?!). Stagecoaches we see in western movies? Other than producers of western movies, who would buy stagecoaches? Marketcap of stagecoaches can't be that great! Millions seems like a lot.

> It's always the same, it's the promise of StarLink, the idea of StarLink...number of customers? In the thoudands.

On HN, we see articles on starlink from early adopters. Not sure what your point is. Everything starts directly with a billion users? This is how all companies have operated in the past?

> Enron too, sold products and services...that doesn't mean it wasn't a financial scam engineered by the CEO to enrich himself.

You have proof this is a scam? Short it! Publish your research and convince other people to short it with you.
You would last 3 hours in my shop :-)
The dollar is strong right now because people are speculating that the inflation figures mean that interest rates will be higher sooner and that QE will be rolled back more quickly.

The more an asset earns, the more it is worth.
You know, I've actually done a few multi day trips by bus, around Croatia and its many places to visit (all the way from Plitvička Jezera to Baska, Krk and Vrbnik, then over to Venice), as well as Egypt (Hurghada to Luxor and later to Cairo). Oh and also a bit around Norway (though i only have Flåm tagged on my map, don't remember the route).

I would say that longer trips by bus are not as unpleasant as you might suggest - as long as you don't attempt to do them in one go, but rather make stops along the way and get some fresh air, walk around and stretch, get something to eat, or maybe do some shopping if needed.

There's probably something to be said about travelling more slowly and enjoying the locales along the way and maybe using motels for the longer trips, as opposed to viewing travel as purely getting from point A to point B as fast as possible. Of course, to be honest, that might not always be possible either in our fast paced culture.

Now, there can be certain drawbacks in practice:

- certain places will only have old buses, so no Wi-Fi
- for some reason many buses don't have USB outlets for charging
- many buses also disallow you to recline your seat, what's up with that?
- some of the older buses also have pretty poor AC, then again, the weather in Egypt was pretty hot to begin with
- for some reason the head rests are always smaller when compared to those in planes, making sleeping less comfortable
- some of the drivers really love to drive in ways that appear unsafe to the passenger (perhaps due to the long wheelbase and suspension)
- this feels especially uncomfortable mountainous roads

In short, try to take the newer buses whenever that's possible but otherwise just hope that the old ones will get replaced eventually.

Though personally I'd still say that trains feel like the safest mode of travel, followed by buses and then planes feeling the least safe of all, regardless of what engineering excellence goes into making them. That's enough to sway my personal choice.

And if that's somehow better for the environment, then why not? Plus, the food in roadside eateries seems better than airplane food.
No. No it’s not a dupe. Just as if FB still hadn’t changed one of their boneheaded policies a year after it was raised as a concern the first time.
Yeah I agree with that. I talked about it at the bottom of the article in “the sourcing problem” section. It’s something I’m aware of and hope to correct.
I think what they are trying to say that the people doing the teaching in the university are not research professors and that there is some kind of classism involved. I don't know about tenured administrators though, I don't think admins get tenure but maybe if you count Deans and Chancellors who might be faculty.
> it's really not a huge stretch to predict 90% of tasks will just vanish

You may be falling for AI propaganda: https://monroelab.net/attack-mannequins-ai-as-propaganda
Markdown lets you drop into inline or block-level HTML doesn't it? And if that isn't enough and you want your own markup vocabulary, render-to-HTML pipeline or markup decorator/macro expander, there's always SGML which can be customized to parse Markdown to HTML, or your own extension or custom syntax.
Most of the stuff I'm seeing aren't anywhere near the Mona Lisa in quality.

> Similarly the original creator of the digital item (tweet?) makes a public statement that they're assigning it to you.

Ok, and what does this actually get me? How meaningful is "ownership" in this context?