skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s an angle that a lot of these discussions tend to miss. We are running out of easy energy. The step change in civilization we observed in the past 200 years was because we found an abundant source of energy.

Ideas don’t build sky scrapers energy does. If you don’t believe me you can look up the per capita energy consumption per American and observe that it is basically stagnant since 1970. Which is also curiously the date since when the American dream started to fade.

We got around this by outsourcing some activities to economies with a low energy intensity, loading up on debt and improving the energy efficiency of our devices. But these cannot result in the kind of step change improvements that we got used to over the last century.

Why have we seen such amazing progress in computing and the internet ? Moores law allows us to extract twice as much compute for the same energy every 18 months. The energy burned by a transistor scales with its area. This is nothing short of miraculous. It’s as if your car doubled its mileage every 2 years. This has allowed computing to cheat the stagnation in energy we have been seeing elsewhere. When compute gets cheaper transporting information gets cheaper as well as it is computers that transport the information. Hence the biggest growth industry continues to be technology and the internet. Batteries or solar panels do not double every 18 months. Batteries have barely moved in comparison. The newer iPhones feel heavier after they made the battery bigger.

There was a fear for a time that “Peak Oil” would lead to some kind of a total collapse. The reality is more of a slow burn stagnation as we wring the oil out of ever deeper deposits.

The much heralded green transition got a dose of reality this year in Europe as they realized how reliant they are on natural gas to not freeze to death.

Building tens of thousands of Nuclear plants is far from trivial although it is in theory possible.

We will in general struggle to maintain the standards of living we currently have especially as we expand it to the broader population.
This is a harsh truth many don’t want to confront. Perhaps the elites realize this and have decided to squeeze every last drop out of the orange so they can experience the growth that was once the norm for all first worlders. The elites being the top 2-5 %.

The entire third world that was looted and colonized is also now stepping up to claim its fair share of global resources. The more they develop the higher energy prices will go. And yet it is inevitable.

Hence I struggle to see how first world living standards will not stagnate even in the presence of interesting new technologies and breakthroughs. The meta verse might be the answer as a simulation of prosperity may be cheaper than actual prosperity. It might also explain why everything is moving into the virtual world. Energy constraints apply a lot less here.

And don’t get me started on Climate Change.
The police unions could pull a coup off in a day with adequate preparation.
Yeah, I like that interpretation.
If you do it by hand in 6 minutes, then you can play Factorio for 5 hours and 54 minutes!
Can we just all agree on an alternative language that means "no ads"?

How about "coool" spelled with 3 o's? As long as you use that everyone will know it means "no ads" if we can get some media to write about it.

I mean, this is exactly what happens on the internet in China when words are banned. No media writes about it but it spreads through social media fast enough such that it's not really possible to ban words. We can do the same for censorship in the US by Google.
From https://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/h6.html

>> Consequently, [February 23 2021]'s H.6 statistical release combines release items "Savings deposits" and "Other checkable deposits" retroactively back to May 2020 and includes the resulting sum, reported as "Other liquid deposits," in the M1 monetary aggregate. This action increases the M1 monetary aggregate significantly while leaving the M2 monetary aggregate unchanged.
Can we just all agree on an alternative language that means "no ads"?

How about "coool" spelled with 3 o's? As long as you use that everyone will know it means "no ads" if we can get some media to write about it.
This is a pretty empty comment. Access to scarce events has been a solved problem for thousands of years the Ancient Greeks used tickets for example. NFTs don’t really add anything to this system even in the secondary market aspect. So yeah, imagine thinking this when billions of events over thousands of years have successfully negotiated the problem.
Trying to unify Art, Science and Politics into a grand theory about American stagnation seems dubious. Each one of these are complex and can be broken down into more meaningful interpretations.

Art: It seems we are in the golden era of Television. We have solidly left the world of sitcoms and into shows with arcs, beginnings and endings. In the past most shows didn't want to invest in characters only to have the show end, thats how you end up with 20 season sitcoms. There is more innovation in TV than there ever has been. Does this counteract the narrative of cultural stagnation?

Science: Theres been plenty of theories on this, but in general, most economists seems to view technological progress as random, spurious, and fundamentally unpredictable. However, there is no doubt there are more papers and researchers now than ever.

Politics: Gerrymandering seems to be a primary driver of this, which is Ezra Klein's theory (who is actually quoted in this article). Is this really a fundamental truth rather than just a quirk of the system?

Anytime someone tries to pull together multiple disparate threads into a unifying narrative, the analysis becomes watered down.
Does this mean that all the documents (emails from tech executives) that are part of the evidence for a court case will be publicly available?
> If more people understood why a steam governor or a 1914 autopilot or a corporate bylaw were primitive forms of AI, they wouldn’t be looking for magic. “If I can understand it, it must not be AI”

By the same argument, a person could say "AI is like a steam governor. I understand completely how steam governors work, and I know they cannot possibly translate from one language to another or recognize faces, so any claim that AI can do so is nonsense." This, of course, would a completely fallacious argument - and where it goes wrong is precisely with the assumption that AI is anything like a governor, except in the broadest possible way that gives precedence to a commonplace resemblance over all the substantive ways in which they are almost completely different.

I understand your desire to persuade people to not regard AI as magic, but I do not think this is helping.
Thanks for the link and information. I don’t think my phrases are examples of this phenomenon.
Only at the federal level, which is not the majority of taxes for most people. State taxes and local property tax are significantly higher than they used to be in most places in the U.S. Other things like sales tax, fees, permits, fines, etc. have all likewise increased substantially.
Ah, I see you fall into the no-coiner camp which dismissed this 10 years ago and uses bitterness as fuel.
Maybe have some tax-thing so they show up on your tax statement.

Same for other discouragement tax and also fines. Making them flat for all is basically saying poorer can we financially ravaged some something the rich would not even worry a tiny bit.

If you know how alcohol is sold in Sweden you may get the drift of what I'd like to see: totally available but very controlled.
Lots of people in replies below have speculated on branding/availability, &c. For me I literally found it on a site that showed code and you could switch between different themes. I liked Dracula the best. If it hadn't been available for Vim, probably 50-50 on whether or not I would have taken the time to port it to Vim. It doesn't take too long once you have all the color codes.
Genitrust is another such ponzi scheme.
I have seen claims that fluvoxamine cures long COVID. This would be for after the virus has been cleared from your body, but you still have cognitive impairments.

The NIH has acknowledged that the drug is useful for treatment of acute cases, but I don't know of any guidance for treatment of long COVID.
This is wrong, all PoS cryptocurrencies are extremely centralized. Try running a validator on Avalanche, see how it goes.
Right; and because they effectively control the legal system, there is zero accountability. Some cops in my area were murdering drug dealers in order to steal their cash and got caught red-handed. They didn’t even lose their jobs, much less go to jail.
There's also the matter of eliminating errors.

There's one script I wrote to partially automate posting podcasts. (I really should add a couple of additional steps.) It's almost certainly saved me time over time. But it also automates a fiddly process that's very easy to get something wrong if I do it by hand.
That depends on the field, especially in areas of pure maths I see this "slide-deck" style way less.
> Crypto is not just Bitcoin, and crypto is not just Proof-Of-Work.

Sure. Theoretically. Are you suggesting "crypto" isn't almost entirely proof-of-work - de facto? You think those invested care for proof-of-stake? Lol.

> same tired and lazy arguments that crypto-skeptics make

HyDrOpOweR!1! (Deprecated in 2021)

But hey, I am all for the wiki. Actually, I wonder why that hasn't happened yet...

Anyway, I don't want to make the impression all innovation in crypto fanfiction in the last decade has been lost on me! For example, I do recognize, that Bitcoin isn't promoted as currency anymore - because it utterly sucks for transactions. It's "like Gold!" now, or something. Very progressive.
Yes, but not to "escape harassers". It actually sounds like Byuu himself was trying to be a harasser. I posted this already, but there has been an exchange between Byuu and the owner of Kiwi Farms where it shows that Byuu was telling the creator to take money in exchange for taking down a thread, and if he refused, then Byuu would kill himself. It's an extortion tactic with no proof that it actually happened

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/my-response-regarding-byuu-nea...
Unions in the US have to be more defensive, because they're constantly under attack. Unions and management are pitted against each other as enemies, and the only way for the union to protect its members is to make and enforce rules. Each of those rules is in place to protect against some past abuse, and in that hostile environment, they know that flexibility on the rules invites a return of that abuse.

Not that everything in Europe is sweetness and light with unions, but they are more widely accepted. That leaves more room for amicable rule-making and flexibility.

The anti-union forces in the US, of course, put all of the blame for that on the unions -- which is exactly the kind of hostility that makes it difficult for the unions to negotiate flexible, reasonable contracts.
Schools are closing classrooms on Fridays. Parents are furious
> I'm currently going through TAOCP[1].

When someone without a formal CS career is asking for a CS fundamentals book and you're dropping TAOCP I'm not sure if this is a humble brag or an attempt at trolling.
I think OP is alluding to the fact that often the most severe penalty a legal person could possible be given is a fine. I.e. a slightly lower profit that year. And that could be seen as a cost of doing business, nothing disruptive.

Compare that to saying that an organization is a bunch of individually liable people. Now you can take away their freedom, or deport, or whatever. Much more at stake for the physical people making the actual decisions.
If you really believe that, you got another thing coming. https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/14684462752385105...
Actually there was a Quattro Pro version for GEOS (it's still downloadable somewhere). That's the Ami Pro part I rememeber incorrectly :)
If that were true, why is it so rare? Even during bad periods in the U.S. there's never been significant levels of out migration, the way you see with other countries.
> There are some multi-boot tools, that enable putting many ISO files on the one USB-stick. I have never used them, and don't see the point of them, unless you are a crazed disto-hopper.

I use Ventoy specifically to avoid the issue the article describes with standard ISOs file where it leaves the rest of the USB storage unused.

That way I can carry and easily update a bunch of installable ISOs on a single USB thumbdrive, just in case I need to install a specific OS from scratch (Ubuntu, Windows, etc) or launch a live recovery environment (SystemRescue, GParted Live, etc).
That's one of the accusations of ex-prime minister of Israel Netanyahu's corrution trial.
The old "He who has the gold makes the rules" trick works even better when those without the gold only get to learn the rules when & where convenient to those with. Or they have to give up whatever silver they've managed to scrape together in order to learn some of the current rules.
There was a lot of scientific advancement during the so called “dark ages.”
Ingresses on EKS will set up an ALB that sends traffic directly to pods instead of nodes (basically skips the whole K8s Service/NodePort networking setup). You have to use ` alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-type: ip` as an annotation I think (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/alb-ingress...).
Roots is probably the most famous of them. Winds of War, and its sequel. The Thorn Birds. Lonesome Dove.
Maybe science has just picked all of the low hanging fruit? Internal combustion is a lot easier than fusion.

Queens Gambit the show was amazing and original screenplay/book.

Maybe streaming has taking so much of the resources away from Hollywood movies so that the only movies that are relevant are the fast food of movies.

Maybe the author of the article isn't looking at the full picture.
there isn’t a universal standard for scientific papers.

more’s the pity.
> many of these economic problems are tied to disconnecting the currency from gold,

By tied, you really mean correlated. There is at minimum no consensus on the idea that this was causal.
I think this is spot on. There’s something to be said about the availability of incredibly high-quality entertainment from things like Netflix and AAA games.
counterpoint, everything worth discovering has already been discovered. the guy urging the closing down of the parent office was right, but 150 years too early.

everything left in particle physics is minor bookkeeping that will never have any practical relevance to our lives. we've shooken down all the low hanging fruits from most other trees of knowledge, and at this point it requires a multi year international team to gleam further fruits

the world we'll live in, in 50 years (scientifically) will look virtually identical to today's world. there's nothing that can be done about this, and it isn't a symptom of societal decay, but rather thar humans are rapidly approach the asymptote of knowledge possible by humans. ai isn't going to swoop in and save us, and Moore's law is all but dead

the death of scientific advancement doesn't mean progress can no longer be made. we've reached a world where we have the technical ability to solve nearly any problem, but our social and political problems prevent us from doing so. it's time to focus on that instead of celebrating capitalism and advancement above all else
Well it's narrow historically but apple did seem to be implying it could game competitively with the latest from Nvidia. Which it apparently can (although there are practically no games), just bump the model down a step from what apple are saying.

Also M1 Max seems to be on the order of a £1000 more than a 3080 equipped laptop, where are you getting that figure from?
Sounds totally believable.

The app stores are scams. Look at Apple's deliberately defective search functionality.

Both these companies think nothing of stabbing developers and partners in the back.
Underrated comment.

This is the purpose of a national trade deal, so an American company has the weight of the US government for contract enforcement with foreign entities, regardless of size or influence, and so all American companies operate on a level playing field with regard to US law.
You mean the 100 years during which there were few cars on the road, meaning the overall lead contamination of the environment was small, and it only became a problem as the number of cars increased? Ok
Not listening to insulting people is not lack of intellectual curiosity.
> since Byuu died in June

Sorry, I'm not going to respond to you until you prove that this actually happened. You're the one making the claim that Byuu killed himself, but have not provided evidence. Anyone can post a note on Twitter and then stay offline.

Edit: If you're going to downvote me, why not post some proof to discredit my assertions?
You can’t have a decentralized school system without providing quality childcare. Plus lack of care from ages 0-5 is inexcusable. When are districts going to stop giving a blind eye to this ?
Some months ago when the Paramount+ streaming service launched in Latin America the top Google Result in Argentina was for a fake site that imitated the original and stole credit card numbers. The domain seemed 100% legit except that it wasn’t the real one.
And are very cheap as well (relative to how expensive they used to be)
The running theme here (cheaper gas or more profit) seems to be putting the value of money over the value of human health.

This seems to be a repeated theme throughout United States culture, it is a bad thing
Depends which malware outfit pays for top search ranking.

Also crap like sourceforge might be the official distribution platform but looks like an adware shit show site.
It reminds me of how ISO standards, from date specifications, to the hz for the musical note "A", to railway engineering, have to be purchased from ISO just for the PDF.
Most historical figures are very complex.

Ronald Reagan supported apartheid South Africa. He accelerated the War on Drugs, ruining the lives of millions. He trivialized HIV, failed to take action, causing untold levels of suffering.

He's still one of our most important presidents. It's important to learn why these things happen. You can even celebrate Ronald Reagan, without celebrating the above.

History is not, and has never been a comic book. It's not as simple as good vs evil.
The article mentions Bhutan’s ban but fails to note the unintended consequences: a huge increase in smoking and black markets [0]

[0] https://www.vapingpost.com/2017/07/18/bhutans-tobacco-ban-di...
Jouhatsu
Same for most science - physics, chemistry, etc… I have a Physics PhD and I still wouldn’t consider myself a physicist as applying the physics skills is not what I do day to day.
I don't see how it is different from what Iran or China is doing! Wow
I’d say this is what it looks like to be in one of the longest running economic expansions and eras of peace and security in modern history. Necessity is the mother of invention and destruction is its father. It’s perhaps not a bad trade and we can still go to the old art to learn about the depths of humans sorrow and heights of joy. Still, this too shall pass.
You're right. I haven't done that in awhile. Thank you for the reminder.
It is interesting and I have not seen these terms before. Its not really surprising though as the majority of tech workers tend to lean left.
> Explain how pump and dumping penny stocks doesn't apply?

That's just market manipulation. Going on Twitter and saying "BTC to the moon!" isn't a Ponzi. It requires an actor (like Charles Ponzi) to take new investors' money and pay it to old. Bitconnect was Ponzi scheme, not in some abstract sense.

> You get in early, you win, you get in late, you lose.

So vague it applies to everything that pays interest...
Paint with the Colors That Don't Exist
How about “Let’s go branding!” /s.
Citation needed. It looks to me like it's just GPL, which has no such clause. I'm also skeptical that any license with such a clause would qualify as open source.
Osama bin Laden was an ally of the US. As was Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi and many others.

Never forget that.
Are you asserting that domestic violence is "non judicial punishments" or that it's violating the general populations right to peaceable assembly?

Is there a domestic violence problem in the police force? From the evidence you're presenting, possibly. Is that evidence "There is widespread use of non judicial punishments by police officers. Police regularly punch, kick, or otherwise cause pain on people with no repercussions or reporting. People engaged in constitutionally protected activities are often subjected to intimidation and brutality with no recourse."? Absolutely not.

This is why I'm asking you for your sources. The argument that you're putting forward is specious. The lack of particulars is a dead giveaway. When pressed, you're falling back on statistics that have nothing to do with your argument.

I expect hackernews users to be more reasonable than this.
Always text over video. When people say they prefer video, they don't know better, haven't actually been learning anything or are extremely lazy.

For example, to do a gradient in Gimp, you should know a few shortcode keys. Now how do I look up which key to use again? Load the video and keep fiddling with the player until I hit the right moment where he explains this little detail? It's extremely annoying to look up anything in a video.

You also waste a shitload of time because you can't just skim through all the stuff you already know.

Video tutorials are only popular because Google boosts Youtube videos over text in search. The creators don't care that it's a bad medium for you, because it's an excellent medium for them. Way more revenue to gain from a Youtube video then some blogpost
No, it's really not. The costs of healthcare have increased massively in the last 2 decades or so without a concomitant increase in the quality of care.
Novelty isn't the question, quality and originality of the series is.

I'm no fan at all of television generally. But the quality of programming available since the year 2000 absolutely dwarfs virtually everything that came before. Shows such as Miami Vice, Moonlighting, and Hillside Blues were considered landmarks of their time. They're at best mediocre by current standards against The Wire, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Firefly, etc. The remake of Battlestar Gallactica towers above the original in all aspects --- production, casting, writing, effects, complexity.

There remains a great deal of dreck on television, but the best that there is exceeds virtually all that came before it.

(I'm partial to some earlier PBS and BBC programming, as possible exceptions.)
The posted code isn't terrible, but it is a bit denser and harder to read than I'd like. Some small changes (like importing the macros to avoid a full path) makes a bit easier to read

// SAFETY: This device doesn't support DMA.
let base = unsafe { IoMem::try_new(res)? };

let mut data = new_device_data!(
RegistrationWithIrqChip::new(),
PL061Resources { base, parent_irq: irq },
// SAFETY: We call `spinlock_init` below.
unsafe { SpinLock::new(PL061Data::default()) },
"PL061::Registrations"
)?;

// SAFETY: General part of the data is pinned when `data` is.
let gen = unsafe { data.as_mut().map_unchecked_mut(|d| &mut **d) };
spinlock_init!(gen, "PL061::General");

let data: Ref<DeviceData> = data.into();

I imagine code like this would be the body of a small function that does all this unsafe preparations and gives back a Result<Ref<DeviceData>, Error> once it's done, which would change the end to be

Ok(data.into())
> "oligarchs" and their families who - surprise - don't actually live in Russia!

How would Whatsapp's service with a $300 maximum transaction limit, that's only available in the US, allow them to evade a hypothetical disconnection of Russian banks from SWIFT?