skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because the Industry is still CHOCK FULL of people who are POSEURS.

In the ancient past, such influence was confined to weekly print magazines that mainly embellished upon the intellect of press releases from the once highly credible vendors (companies that were judged based on their length of time in business, annual sales, management team, etc). Then came the great tech purge, termination of most domestic tech people in the aftermath of the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble Burst (in April and again in October) and mass destruction of traditional vendors (even IBM, to a great extent). The workers who were over a certain age had to crack open their retirement, etc. and there really was no coming back from that, because the ensuing nuclear winter lasted until 2006. During that time, the "warm bodies" that had once been hired to write (HTML) scripts during the three year run-up to the Burst and had since returned to "living with their parents" (so almost no overhead) and emerged to fill what few temporary jobs there were for rock bottom prices ($10-$17/hr) even as "away teams" from India were beginning to arrive, pitching "themselves" (in reality, emailing their work to India overnight) at even lower prices ($7/hr!). Because there were virtually no highly skilled/trained people to guide these workers, they relied on the Internet for guidance (which got them into all sorts of trouble back in those days) and their perceptions being guided by the unfolding dystopia (eg, leading to the rise of PHP, created by some unemployed dude who wanted to post his resume bc CFM was too expensive) and ultimately the reconstitution of IBM (first order of business, update PHP lol!) and the rise of Amazon Web Services (to do the heavy lifting for these people that think a doorbell interrupt has something to do with Ring) and the rise of Linux (because people who don't pay rent aren't going to buy WindowsServer --an alien concept to Redmond where it was assumed Linux was taking off because of the inconsequential rise of "tech studs"). The correction began in 2006 and, well it takes about 20 years for a generation to move through the system, so we're still dealing with chatter-heads that non-tech people can't tell from the real deal (because in every respect, they seem like perfect professionals and have so many YEARS of experience now, but...think that doorbell interrupts are a "product" sold by Ring).

For extra credit (and tremendous profit), consider the impact this has had on cryptocurrency.
On my i9 2.4GHz 8-core, 64GB RAM, 2019 Mac, and with no extensions:

- Chrome v99: 168

- Firefox v97: 132

- Safari v15: 139

Of course I forgot to benchmark Chrome _before_ I updated it. :(
> The prohibition on steroid use has more to do with fairness and ensuring a level playing field, so no athlete has an unfair advantage over another.

This is somewhat circular logic - it's only 'unfair' because you've defined it that way. IMO the idea that there is a level playing field is somewhat of a myth to begin with, there are plenty of other ways to gain "fair" advantage like better training and nutrition, and access to those things is clearly not equal across all competitors. I think you could probably argue the current situation is less fair than just allowing them considering how many top athletes likely use steroids anyway and just haven't been caught.

That's not to say that I think we should allow steroids in sports, just that "a level playing field" doesn't seem like much of a justification to me. I think the simpler reason is that lots of sports already have rules to make the sport safer for their athletes, and banning steroids/drugs simply falls into that same category because it has a clear risk of spiraling out of control. Yes, sports are unsafe, but they're also generally designed to not be so unsafe that competitors are dying all the time due to going to extreme lengths to try and win.
I'd imagine direct and indirect infiltration. Hackers charged with crimes, who are part of a larger group, sometimes get plea deals. As part of their deals, they might give up accounts, keys, data, or evidence from the group, and/or work as confidential informants for the government.
> And the field could not exist if it were zero-sum.

Is that an Economics law?
Your theory is that a free lunch hypothetically exists. It does not, and the belief it does leds to the endemic inflation we have since 1914.
This was my thought as well. Tesla doesn’t have a truck. When they have a truck equivalent to the Ford Lightning it’ll be 2x as much and lack fundamental features. That alone cuts Tesla out of a huge market segment. Their sedans are barely price competitive on the low end and quality seems worse than early Hyundais. They have cool features but also seem to not be ideal vehicles by any means.
This statement is fair but it only somewhat applies to a few famous whistleblowers.
That's definitely not the reality at all, and it's also not actionable.
Free lunch is an extremely vague term. What is your exact hypothesis?
I think part of this is Apple constantly deprecating core functionality, combined with the threat environment.

People can't just not update their computers anymore. And when you do, old software stops working. So you have to update that, too, often upgrading to a new version and paying for it (or else already being on a subscription plan).

This means that a large part of your software budget is eaten up by the overhead of just keeping up to date.

Relatedly, SaaS/subscription pricing means software companies are less incentivized to make new software versions enticing. And the hassle of switching subscriptions means transaction costs and lock-in. Consumers aren't likely to switch apps and newer versions of apps won't likely get any switchers because their improvements are incremental at best. So what's the business proposition for a new first-class desktop application?
You will never be a developer at Oracle. If you are okay with that stay and if not leave.

It happens all of the time. You applied for one role and interviewed you and hired you a different role. Your job title and responsibilities made within your offer should mention this change. Were you hired as a developer with title or ops?
There is little incentive for them to do so.

It takes a lot of money and time to spin up a new production line, and you don't really effect total sales that much... as someone willing to spend an extra $50k for a C8 Corvette or a Bronco will also happily pay sticker and wait 12-18 months.
I was a bit cynical with the absolutism it is true. I know you aren't wrong on your other points too, believe me. I implement a lot of your suggestions already even. It's just that it will be for nothing if we can't convince our politicians to force the hand of industry to change.

As well, while you and I are doing the right thing, it's likely we are the minority, and for many it's just due to the economics of their situation. We have built a societal appratus that pollutes, it's not fair to put the onus of change on the individuals when they have the least agency of all. Although of course we can do our various parts to help.

My cynacism is probably better seen as exasperation, because it is absolutely mind boggling that we are at the point we are yet the only levers we have are to eat less fruit, or take a bus. Why isn't one of our levers "ban fossil fuel entirely in industries where there are alternatives"? Why is it up to us to correct for profit chasing industrial practices?
Don't forget that if you have millions in EC2 spend that you'll be able to negotiate an additional discount.
Where I think this comes from: the F150 is currently the most sought after consumer truck on the market. You cannot get a new one at the dealer. To help the process Ford has set up a way to order them online directly from them. The process isn’t ideal but you generally get the VIN assigned, get notifications of when it’s manufactured, etc. and then eventually delivered. Due to the stupid high demand for these they say that the direct sales like this work and work well. Electric vehicles are similarly hot so they might as well repeat the process and even improve it.
What kind of parts do you print? I imagine engine parts are right out, and I'm guessing fins might melt as well. Nose cones? Body or internal stuff?
That was kind of my thinking too, the ball was right rolling 2-3 years before the Soviet collapse. Though I know 1994, after the collapse, was a major milestone is finalizing the end of apartheid, so I'm not sure if the Soviet collapse had a large effect... I'm don't know (I didn't think) the Soviets had much influence in SA, but it seems plausible that the upending of world power structures in general broke down the realpolitik dynamics that might have preserved toxic power structures like apartheid, even indirectly. I honestly don't know, except to say that change began before the collapse.
Theoretical physicists use probably more math than other subjects. Generally the litarature to use math is called 'mathematical methods for physicists'. The book by Arfken is considered standard by many. Did you mean something like that?
To be fair, ten years ago in Afghanistan I observed a lot of difficulty with encrypted radios on the US side too. The SATCOM radios on our very expensive aircraft seemed to work only a bit more than half the time. Actual military radios are cumbersome and limited, and the keys change constantly, and the keys are a pain to load. Civilian cellphones and cheap walkie-talkies were used for a lot of communications that probably should have been encrypted.
Tesla claims a lot of things that end up being...less than 100% true.
Got a great laugh that the 3 people mentioned are Nixon, Trump, and Putin.
> Ukrainian refugees can probably go back home within the year.

They probably won't go back if they can. Ukraine is a very poor country, at least by European standards. [1]

Because of their brave resistance to the invasion, we tend to see the country in an overly optimistic light.

[1]: It's the poorest country in Europe by nominal GDP per capita: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Ukraine
I'm sure they recognize that weakness but also that it's necessary. Wikipedia can't be "The source" of information, that would change its fundamental premise.
Here is the html documentation from the Micropolis source code, which I typed in from the original SimCity manual (originally into FrameMaker, but then I converted it to HTML), that was released by EA under GPL:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/tree/master/Micropol...

Introduction:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/master/Micropol...

Tutorial:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/master/Micropol...

Reference:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/master/Micropol...

Inside the Simulator:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/master/Micropol...

History Of Cities And City Planning by Cliff Ellis:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/master/Micropol...

Bibliography:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/master/Micropol...

Here is a pdf file of a scan of the HyperLook SimCity manual I made with the NeWS version of FrameMaker:

https://donhopkins.com/home/HyperLook-SimCity-Manual.pdf

And here's an illustrated transcript and video of the Hacking at Random talk I gave about Micropolis:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/har-2009-lightning-talk-transc...
That's better, because with the PCIe layer and a real host controller on the dock/hub, you finally get 480Mbps per port for USB downstream devices. Thunderbolt hubs are the only standards-compliant way to do this, today.

USB4 with native USB3 tunneling but no native USB2 tunneling is a regression over TB3, and as silicon switches from the TB3 way to the USB4 way with native tunneling, we're now bringing back this problem, all thanks to the USB-IF's incompetence at designing standards. There is absolutely no reason for USB3 and USB4 not to support USB2 encapsulation/transaction translation the same way USB2 did with USB1.
The money supply increases naturally with supply & demand. Inflation happens when the government prints money it has no intention of ever covering.

> Economics is not physics

Countries often deny the reality of economics, until their economies crash. Not one has successfully repealed the laws of economics.
Former champion Safari has been dog slow since v15. My benchmark https://youtu.be/5yCXPCVvUBY
Deficit spending benefits from inflation. The value of loans decrease as a currency value decreases. So a govt can get $1 of value with each $ spent now, and pay less paying off the loan later.

Put another way, if inflation is 10% then you get 10% more tax dollars in, to offset the loans.

Of course _never_ actually paying them back is even cheaper :)
Got to switch jobs if you want to stay ahead of this.
Unless Tesla has no appealing or useful options for you. If I need a little goofy sedan I might take a look at Tesla. I need trucks and real vehicles though.

Right now Tesla is coasting on VC and IPO and being early entrant innovator. The bitch slap of truth that is automotive manufacturing and marketing is about to land it's hand. Ford understands that bitch slap better than anyone.
> > Wikipedia's job isn't to push forward the frontiers of knowledge. It's to summarize the stuff you can look up elsewhere.

> Citation needed.

The exact policy under discussion in this sub thread (and, to a lesser extent, the other two in Wikipedia’s trio of core content policies) is exactly a statement of this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_resear...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_v...
i think seoul has something like this where the residential areas or "blocks" are basically this area of highrise apartments (prob covers a few minor blocks). inside this block there are big public square type areas for kids and fams to play or do whatever, usually a strip mall connected for convenience stores or what have you. no cars can really drive through it.

i do understand the appeal to convience and safety, but honestly it's super boring to me. having grown up in suburban sprawl and then living in NYC for a few years, this type of community is basically just bringing the suburbs to the city in a different form. i enjoy the bustle of the streets. for seoul it may be borne out of necessity, but in the US if i had a choice i'd rather not.

if you know know of stuytown apartments, just imagine if that was 50% of manhattan. it would totally suck IMO. just blocks of gated communities within the big city and ruins the "vibe" for lack of a better word.
Wait. That’s a double negative, so there is free lunch after all?
Communists, for example, are always trying to rewrite the laws of economics. They've failed at that 100% of the time.

Wishful economic thinking never works.

It's almost as if it's fundamentally a law!
Maybe not in this case, however Lion's Mane is objectively helpful and has been shown in the literature to be so. Cultures have been eating it in dishes for centuries... As with all nootropics, it's usually better for those who are older.

See science: https://nootritious.com/nootropics/lions-mane/
So I love the concept, but the execution is kinda buggy, at least on macOS 11.6.3. I opened it and typed 1+<mash on top row of keyboard around 190 digits><return>. It calculated it correctly, but the Stop button never turned back into the "=" button (even though the computation and display had clearly finished; clicking it just ran "output(1)" repeatedly). When I quit and relaunched it, and typed output(1), it crashed. Is there a place to submit bug/crash reports?
Didn't vikings do shrooms before they went and hacked at each other with iron weapons? I felt very peaceful and empathetic on shrooms, but it might be too much to hope that is a universal response...
>you're so scared of hearing is that in fact reality and fantasy are exactly the same thing.

Yes, that is scary. And it should be!

When someone stops being able to tell the difference between fantasy and reality, they join people suffering from psychosis in being vulnerable to delusions and hallucinations.

It's often said that psychedelics mimic schizophrenia. I think we should not overstretch that analogy, but the attitude of some that artificial 5-HT2A agonism somehow grants your brain access to some deeper fantastical truth is worrying.

You're nudging a lever that your own body built and placed.
If there was value in permanently pushing it all the way, would the body have evolved to leave it at baseline?
I had a scheduled task to turn of my desk top at 21:50. then multiple tasks but they were subject to the whim of just disablin them. Turns out if it's a random moment between 21:30~22:30, I dont get the urge to disable it. but then it has to non nullable when it happens.
> Economies are chaotic systems, but the long term trends are predictable.

A nitpick: these are contradictions in terms. Chaotic systems are precisely those systems which are not predictable in the long run. Perhaps you mean stochastic?
> Due to various off budget expenditures the fed's total debt continued to increase even when it declared a budget surplus.

Any private company doing government-style accounting would find themselves in jail for fraud. "off budget expenditures" - what a scam.
Not sure I see a reply to another comment of mine!

>> Don't open their website

Sure, or just don't allow them to load these things.

Honestly I'm moving in the direction of not visiting. Instead of a useless do-not-track header, I'd much rather send a "will-not-render" header. I'd be quite happy to tell your server that under no circumstances will my browser be participating in tracking or even rendering your ads. If you'd rather not serve me the page at that point then cool, lets go our separate ways.

I imagine a company like uber eats, who I am actually trying to pay when I visit their site, might still like to serve me the page. Ad-supported content less so.
What USB-IF should have done is specify USB3 to USB2 and USB4 to USB2 transaction translation, like they did for USB2->USB1. It doesn't mean they need to get rid of the USB2 wires, but it means utilizing the 5Gbps+ USB3 bandwidth to host multiple downstream USB2 devices without bottlenecks would be at least possible, and you can always fall back to USB2 hub mode if USB3 is not available.

By refusing to make that part of the spec, they have doomed us to always being limited to a total of 480Mbps per host port for USB2 devices, no matter what you do or how many you have sharing it, whether that host port is USB3 or USB4 (unless you use PCI mode). That is ridiculous.
That's impressive. Of their suite of apps, OmniFocus is the low hanging fruit, though. I doubt OmniOutliner would even be possible in SwiftUI because I imagine they're heavily relying on TextKit. Part of me also wonders, though, if OmniGroup had shifted to building web apps 10 years ago, would they be making significantly more money?
The FDA has laid out the ethical groundwork: if a patient has no other options, a safe (sterile) surgery may be performed. It's only because they revoked his approval to use the specific type of implant. Would it really require so much money to demonstrate sterility? Or did Kennedy just not want to have to deal with bureaucracy and barely functional/dying patients and therefore took matters into his own hands? If so I don't blame him; if you can't communicate with your subject it's hard to make sure everything is being done right.

To Kennedy, he had no other options.
I kinda ran out of steam building my own calculator, which is here: https://recomputer.io/ . I haven't seen insect before, and it looks great! Especially given the landscape which I documented in the github readme: https://github.com/xixixao/recomputer
This reminds me of Judge Dredd, does this open up the same pitfalls?
The USA certainly tried to, but were rebuffed by the superpower of the time, Britain.

Anyway, back on topic, I don't think the corruption in Ukraine can be denied. Its every hit as bad as in Russia, and it could also be a wealthy country.

It's slightly more democratic than Russia, but only slightly.
Look up power laws.
See https://nootritious.com/nootropics/lions-mane/

Specifically, erinacines and hericenones.
I would quit if I was forced to pair program. Pair programming is loved by incompetent software developers because they can hide in the shadow of more competent developers. That's my experience anyway. YMMV of course.
The best success measurement is described in Google’s SRE book: you’re doing it right when you can scale the number of services/features/products/customers you support faster than the size of your ops/devops/sre team.
You are pedantically correct.

But it's like the weather. We can predict long term climate reasonably accurately, but we can't predict next week's weather.
> I don't think you have much insight into this.

I don't think you know who wtarreau is.
>the fact that Google has continuously failed to do that one thing is a testament to how difficult it is

Their network had nothing to pull people into. Parler didn't have that problem, in fact, I hear it was doing relatively well until they collapsed due to their own technical incompetence.

>Then in the case of censorship, you have to deal with being a persona non grata that socially conscious people and institutions won't touch, and that you need to build it in like a month before any political momentum gained dissipates and people move on.

Again it seems like we had evidence of a platform that managed to overcome this. Maybe I could have my memory wrong but Parler started off small, got promoted quietly by right wing people but was somewhat ready to organically grow as discontent grew among right wing people on existing platforms. Maybe it was just a honeypot all along (as some say) but it feels like they could have been an example that disproves your theory. The pieces were definitely there.

>Even if you manage to succeed after all that, and get adoption, all you have done is manage to create the same type of platform that censored you in the first place, with the only difference being that it is your hivemind of your own beliefs.

I wonder if liberal people went on Parler and confronted right wingers. I know they gladly ban people for doing the same on /r/Conservative but Parler being a "free speech" platform I wonder if they just let people be as they are.
It means you pay for it one way or another.
That seems to be an okayish price for the power generated. Wind power costs about $1.5 per W installed and has a capacity factor of around 1/3, this costs around $5/W. So this reactor costs about as much to build as wind power. For wind of course you ignore storage costs, and for nuclear you ignore fuel and waste disposal related costs. I'm not sure that costing around as much as wind power will be a sufficiently strong argument to sway public opinion on the construction of nuclear power plants.
I think deficit spending was a very tiny part of this. I think the bigger factors are:

1. Demand experienced a little blip while supply was and still is decimated. Most of the middle class kept their jobs and kept spending, despite the fact that factories shut down for significant periods of time and crushed the supply chain so badly that it will not catch up for years.

2. Consumer spending categories changed abruptly, again, exacerbating demand issues.

3. Many service workers got a chance to involuntarily experience job hopping in a high labor demand economy. Labor is most expensive on the margin.

4. A lot of people dropped out of the job market for good. Boomers are retiring. And a nontrivial number of people died too.