skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree with criticizing of "bothsidesing" the US poltical climate. That is intellectually lazy and simply not true. Conservatives mainstream Nazi propaganda [1] and the liberals are really just an inefective center right party that likes the aesthetics of social causes without having to do anything.

> Democratic goals: ...

This is propaganda I'm afraid. The goals of the Democratic Party are to systematically erase any progressive element from the party (eg Bernie, AOC) while positioning themselves as being not as bad as the Republicans for pure fundraising reasons without ever actually having to do anything.

Roe v. Wade was handed down 49 years ago. There have been multiple opportunities since then to codify this in Federal law. Most recently Obama the candidate campaigned on doing this as his #1 priority. Obama the new president, who had a super-majority in the Senate and thus didn't even need to repeal the filibuster (which he should've anyway) decided it wasn't that important. To the contrary, Obama actually made abortion less accessible [2].

The Democrats are absolutely feckless and are quite happy to do so as long as they can maintain office. The Republicans are straight up monsters but they are effective in that they give their base what they want.

Example: compare whipping efforts by the GOP and disciplining its members (eg Kevin McCarthy and Madison Cawthorn) vs the Democrats. If the GOP was faced with a Manchin or Sinema they would be primaried and stripped of key committee positions (most notably Manchin's on Energy) to bring them into line.

Don't for a second think the Democrats actually want to do anything.

[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fox-news-g...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13535
That's a big one though. It hits food and energy prices which are very fundamental.
Yah stock won't go to infinity. But TSLA joining the S&P 500 created synthetic demand that synthetically increased price/valuation.
There's many channels/groups where the validators coordinate and communicate for all kinds of chain related activities, tasks, upgrades, etc.

Actually, the Putin analogy is basically exactly what happens. Putin pushed the "red button" and everything else is a direct consequence.

That's not how it works with validator based PoS chains. Absolutely Kwon can "suggest" to do something, but has no omnipotent influence or control unlike your Putin analogy.

Validators are absolutely free to discuss, debate, and agree to whatever they think is best. Additionally, the validators in the active set with this power are put there mostly by the community of token holders.
I love this point. I had honestly never thought of the question this way before.
Is this article satire? It does not offer any bounds to imagination nor scope creep. Seems like a good way to justify writing code that doesn’t help achieve immediate (or even foreseeable) goals.
There's some kind of market segmentation at play where nobody will make a high-quality board with a low-end "chipset" even though it would be perfect for many customers.
The Coming Collapse of Elon Musk
Most of these graphs can be explained by the Nixon shock as other people have mentioned. This also factored into what is considered backing a currency, in this case the global reserve currency. Leading up to the “Nixon shock” there was a decades long move away from direct gold to dollar conversion. The replacement was the petrodollar combined with the move to more of a fiat reserve currency. Then you had a geopolitical struggle over the 1970s with oil producing countries that exists to this day. By 1979, Iran’s revolutipn happened which pushed the U.S. closer to the Saudis, cementing the defense agreement that had been in place for decades, itself mirroring one the British had with the House of Saud. The petrodollar concept underpinned much of the next few decades and we have only begun moving away from it.

Since the debate at the end of WW2 that led to Bretton Woods, which currency or the Bancor would handle reserve currency functions, in addition to the petrodollar, the U.S. bond and treasuries specifically have been closely tied to this system. Also during the 70s, you had China begin opening up, then as a way to kind of solve the trifflin dilemma, the U.S. would grow the world economy being an importer, so long as the money found its way back with treasuries and other foreign investments. Japan began playing a bigger role here too and as everyone continued industrualizing and globalizing, the U.S. economy grew along with it because of this system. It was also a great way to sort of export inflation along the way too. A big problem in the 70s that we are seeing again today.

So if a big crash is coming, expect another Bretton Woods type agreement first with an attempt to control the strength of the dollar.

The difference this time is that there really isn’t another China to bring into this system, and in fact, many foreign countries have looked to avoid using USD all together. Just ask Russia about that.

Of course, these are just a few reasons for all of this. There are many factors, like the increase in productivity from computing, and advances in other industries that increased productivity and output.

Historically you will see patterns like this, similar ones exist between 1929-1945, 1864-1918, and so on.

Unfortunately, everytime this system is challenged, a sort of global reordering, there are economic crashes, and often large wars. We might be seeing another example of this now…
>> I have both a software/programming and industrial/product design background with extensive experience of professional CAD tools such as SolidWorks and Creo(Pro/E).

We can use more people with both backgrounds to work on Solvespace ;-)
I don't think that's an accurate way of saying it, and that a better way is that "Solvespace doesn't have tools to generate fillets and chamfers. The developers have shown some limited examples, but adding full-featured tools would be very difficult."

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/149

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/453

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/577

edit: dang, got ninja'd by one of the devs in the cited threads!
Autodesk inventor architectural looks very easy to use but might be way too expensive.
Diversify your investments. No matter how promising any particular investment looks, don't put up principal you can't afford to lose.
Then why are people like Steve Jobs held in such esteem?
I'd like room for addon cards with more NVME drives or existing RAID / JBOD bulk IO cards.

I'd be fine with PCI-E 4 across: x16 (gpu) + x16 (gpu/accessory) + x4 (nvme) + x4 (nvme) + x4 (their slow IO chipset).

PCI-E 5 is 2x the bandwidth, so maybe some higher end boards might offer more choices for splitting those lanes up at slower speeds that work well with older addin cards.

A (1.25GB/sec) 10GBit Ethernet card is on the radar for the lifetime of these systems. A 4.0 x1 link is sufficient at ~ 1.97GB/sec.

I'm worried too many boards will ship with two GPU slots (5.0? / 4.0 x8) and at most 2x NVME slots, and load _everything_ else on those x4 slots for the board chipsets, including accessory slots.
Those kids are my cousins kind of, in a sense based on where I come from and the people that I go home to visit. I don't think I have any misperceptions about the good things that those people can do and the hard work that let's say "rural people" do in their lives.

But I also have learned they're pretty much universally believing in things that are not true, from the election being stolen to q&a stuff and an unfortunate fixation on racism. Pretty much they're mostly influenced by Fox News, their elders more than the younger generation, but plenty of people in the younger generation have inherited some kind of white grievance. I see those kinds of people as really unhappy because they see that there is not a good economic future in general for people in farming and rural areas. In my family the people that still have farms call them hobby farms and they have real jobs out in the world doing something.
"Any barrier that exists between the user and some part of the system will eventually be a barrier to creative expression. Any part of the system that cannot be changed or that is not sufficiently general is a likely source of impediment. If one part of the system works differently from all the rest, that part will require additional effort to control."

Ironically, Smalltalk drives what the Clojure/DOP crowd considers the cause of this: custom languages. Creating classes means you have to know specific method names (a new language) to interact with a specific object. Eventually you can't wrap your head around it - but Smalltalk offers an env where you can come up with custom visualization to compress all this knowledge.

Another approach is DOP: your programs are all mixes of {} and [] and your functions mostly transform data.

I guess the question here is which approach represents your problem-solution with less concepts? Classes and method names? Or keys (as in {}) and functions?

You'll still end up with namespaces that contain all your abstractions, but it seems like DOP minimizes accidental complexity as the building blocks are simpler.

What Smalltalk brings that other systems lack is the visual environment for building different representations. Clojure (my DOP example) has the REPL and data browsers but these lack the expressiveness of the Smalltalk VM.
WFH, buy less, metaverse.

Why are we transporting our bodies around so much?
I totally agree, broadly speaking, that people in SW age out quickly. But I live in New Mexico and have observed that white collar/software eng. people are not nearly as affected. I'm kind of a night owl who gets out after 6pm and I can say my wrinkles are age-appropriate compared to my farmer friends who look 10+ years older than their age.
If you're asking why banks lend money to each other, it's mostly because banks need liquidity (e.g. $ in an account) in order to do transactions and meet legally mandated reserve requirements. If I'm a bank, rather than constantly be sitting on a huge pile of money for the (relatively) rare event that I have a huge transactions to make, I'll mostly do something more useful with my money, and then borrow it from another bank on a short-term basis when I need a bunch of cash.

The fed does this for banks that can't find another bank to transact with, albeit at a slightly higher rate. The fed will also borrow money from banks at a slightly lower rate. This causes the banks to naturally lend among each other between those two rates. This is how the fed controls the interest rate.

The other thing the fed does is buy treasuries. I think this is where the "printing" of money happens. The fed buys a treasury on the market and pays for it by printing money and placing it in the appropriate account. This is how the fed controls money supply.
“Electric cars” has come to pretty clearly refer to battery electric vehicles (BEV).

Hydrogen fuel cell seems to be a failed dream, at least for normal people. I don’t know enough to know of it may be viable for fleet vehicles. But they tend to be known now as FCVs or FCEVs - Fuel Cell (Electric) Vehicles.
I think you're correct re the signalling. Any org with this on the books is going to be rife with bureaucracy. For better or worse you'll have to decide how much you care.
I use Telegram! Syncs automatically over the cloud. No hassle. Sweet. Simple.
As do private dirt roads. Very handy.

I'd rather live in a real suburb - e.g. large plots, wells, septic. I'm not ideally fond of dirt roads in general, but nobody is going to be road racing a 1AM. It's at worst a minor inconvenience.

But for 80% of people its a deal breaker. Good! Now I found something I don't mind too much that saved me loads of money. And dirt roads come with no HOAs as a bonus.

Find something where your preferences run counter to the masses and profit!
They seem to have lost their initial short term objectives, and the fog of war is real/I can’t tell how good or bad they’re currently doing, but I think regardless of their competency or resolve it’s foolish to underestimate a China-Russia coalition’s resiliency long term, if only due to their much more totalitarian hold over their populace. The lack of easy avenues for a change in leadership even if extremely disastrous for most Russians is a significant difference.

That said, I think there are rumblings of regime change in China. The housing market crash and extreme lockdowns seem to have a lot of people upset.

Seems like we’re living through interesting times, unfortunately… I’m probably delusional, but I’m somewhat optimistic that people will be better off once the dust settles. Depends on how rough it gets and whether we can manage a smooth landing.
Ignoring the possibility of a specific change or kind of change is not so bad if there is only 1 line of code or 1 block of code that ignores it. Beyond that, you are wandering you know not where.
why not replace car airbags with bayonets?
Another reason why I'll stick with Android now. Thanks!
Criminal is a strong and unwarranted claim.

TFA posits the 'the numbers keep rising' - that's not in contention so you can't use it as a counterpoint - though the idea that it's attributable to diagnostic changes isn't new.

I'm sure I read about this in one of the Freakonomics books, but can only find this reference to a paper they discussed on their site 15 years ago:

https://freakonomics.com/2007/06/revisiting-the-autism-epide...

In terms of credible causes, changes (in DSM) to diagnostics, and incentives around the subject have changed, and that seems to be a sufficient cause to explain the numbers.

Do you have other credible causes in mind, with some citations to accompany?
> Also, I'm not clear why you think riscv style vector instructions will perform worse on 2-4 length vectors.

Assumes there’s no switching cost to changing it and there won’t be restrictions on the values it can be set to. Weird restrictions on memory loads are pretty traditional for SIMD instructions after all.

The switching cost is the biggest problem; this is exactly the kind of thing that x86 has specified, then found they can’t do without microcoding it or otherwise making it cripplingly inefficient on different HW generations.
Say you’re piloting a sailboat downwind and there’s an obstacle between you and your destination. You will need to plot a course to circumvent the obstacle. You have a choice to turn the boat toward the wind (edit: not through the the wind, just toward it) to pass the obstacle on one side, or away from the wind to pass on the other side. One of these two options retains optionality at little or no cost, that’s likely to be the better choice. Likewise in software, look for zero cost opportunities to retain optionality (eg. free ways to defer decisions till later).

This is a bit sophisticated to teach junior developers, so we just teach them “consider the implications of your design decisions with regard to supporting future needs, including those not yet known.” Yes, you can certainly over-index on this dimension, but that doesn’t make it a useless or necessarily harmful consideration. (Not implying the article disagrees with this; it does appear to be satire)
Squid games is for work HR departments? I must have missed some subtext.
The fact is that experienced back country skiers are more likely to die in an avalanche.

Part of this is complacency, but honestly most of it is just probability. The more you do something, the more chances you have for just the wrong combination of factors to happen.
This is actually not a new idea at all.

I once worked in a place in the 1990s that took it to such an extreme that every table name, column name, and variable name had to be approved by a naming standards committee before it could go into production. IIRC the committee met once a month, maybe twice? Which was not ideal for the developers but changes only went to production once a month during a "change window" anyway.

Naming conventions can help with code readability, but don't let the process become more important than the goals.
> The most annoying things about neighbors are dogs that bark all day, and the leafblowers and lawnmowers.

Do you not encounter leaf blowers and lawn mowers in a HOA community? I would have expected it to be much worse because there would be maintenance crews doing it for every house in the area vs maybe a few houses on a ~20 house block.
Reads like a press-release directly from MasterCard. Is there any proper articles on the technology that doesn't read like it wants to sell something to me?
Knowing what you look like is different than owning you.
At most, I would think it would destroy one server if there was major defect. But solenoid valves are pretty reliable. It's easy to imagine some absorbant material as a fallback, a negative pressure loop, and pressure/humidity sensors that could shut everything down within seconds of a minor leak.

There's no pressure to push anything off it's connector, and in the event of anything failing and disconnecting in a major way, the loop starts draining the other way by atmospheric pressure.

Water pumps are pretty cheap, you could have triple redundant pumps per rack for an irrelevant cost.

Air pumps are also cheap. You could even enclose your connections to heat blocks in a second layer of slight negative pressure, that would both contain any drop-an-hour leaks that somehow happened, and funnel it to a humidity sensor.

If they use anything like Fluorinert, I'm pretty sure a whole rack of this kind of tech could cost less than a single gallon of that stuff.

I'm actually kind of surprised consumer water cooling setups aren't like this. It might be a pretty fun project, and you could probably use 3D printed parts depending on how much you trust the active controls.
Dumb question, but why don’t we boil nitrogen for cooling?

That seems to have immersion properties, without having the same toxicity.
Even though the one-party (it does not matter which party, by the way. The key is one party) California wreak havoc in the state, the Bay Area is still the best place for meaningful tech jobs. The Bay Area still has the highest concentration of the companies who are willing to invest in solving hard problems that in turn demand solid tech solutions. For me, that's distributed systems (especially distributed stateful systems), machine learning, and statistics. Throw in handsome pay and the Mediterranean climate, there's really not much incentive to leave, despite the disgusting lies in politics and wokeisms in every level.
America is a good example. A country that has a population that is essentially 50/50 divided on almost every single thing. There is no "hey we kicked them out" and now everything is good, it ends in a massive pogrom. The us has elections where we have the option to kick them out every 4 years, the current focus on eroding trust in that process is weakening America and has me more concerned than anything else. Elections provide a way to vent pressure, one side takes over and then the other. Messing with elections and eroding trust in them leads to an increase in that pressure without a vent.

No matter what the revolution, it never leads to utopia, it just leads to another group of politicians. An effective Democracy is the best option. Issue is a ton of people choose not to vote and instead just complain. Its far from perfect but better than the alternatives.

"Look at global realestate prices. Look at the profits vs wages ratio" these are the results of capitalism and while I agree there are some massive limitations to it, it has lifted billions out of poverty and subsistence level living. Perhaps technology will lead to a better solution but right now I dont think we have one and just kicking over the sandcastle is not going to make things better and will very likely make things much much worse.
I don't think people think like this enough: which is why you will get bespoke double entry accounting code mixed up with all the other business logic in almost every application that needs it.

The idea of making an abstract double entry accounting module that is extensible it's own thing is rare. It's probably Conway's law at play. There is no one responsible for doing so, the teams were set up with their goals and everyone shares that code.
Not directly related to your comment, but from the linked piece:

> “A cousin of mine was a broker for people looking to invest in these pyramid schemes,” explains the CEO of Tirana Business University, Artan Hoxha (no relation). “She was advising people to put some money in scheme A, some in Scheme B. Some in Scheme C. One has high interest but is not so secure; the other has low interest but is more sound. In her mind she was building a balanced portfolio. She didn’t know they were all the same shit!”
You could mandate it to the company that sells the final product. Ford/GM/VW show no signs of disappearing any time soon, even if the individual part supplier they purchase from might.
They likely don't have orange canker issues then. It isn't a blanket ban, it's just "if bad thing happens then there's swift and large response"
I agree. The iOS ad blocking is weird. I used Adguard on someone's device and I was stupefied with the poor results. Safari is really bad, and it hasn't seen any innovation in years. My content consumption isn't much on the phone, but when I do, I need to have things working or what's the point of having one. Thanks for the insights!
I've come to the conclusion that nothing is simple. Nothing. It's only "simple" because thousands of years of work were applied to get us to where we are today and we are building on top of that. It's arrogant to think anything is simple.

Just to build a key cap for this laptop I'm typing on, very difficult if I actually had to do that. I need to use tools that were ultimately kicked off by stone age men thousands of years ago that progressed by building tools with those tools until we go to the point today where we can create a key cap for a laptop.
it's called parasocial
"Public Domain Is Not Open Source | Open Source Initiative" - https://opensource.org/node/878
For browsing I've given up on one for all, now I use different browsers (and profiles and Firefox containers) for different things.

There are browser launchers that can help with this strategy, though IME most don't route from within one browser to another. So I started my own [1].

For non-browsing stuff there are a lot of ways to organize things. Generally I like to try to isolate apps on my devices for work or personal since I have little overlap. On mobile some crossover may be unavoidable, though on Android one can make different Android profiles.

[1] https://paulrrogers.com/products/browser-routr/
How does that explain why only medium/lower class incomes have stagnated?
In Wreck-it Ralph, there is a scene where you see Oreo cookie guards in front of King Candy's castle. I thought to myself, "Are they gonna chant 'O-ree-o, o-ree-o'?" Spoiler warning: they did.
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Accept that you’ll never get to it all. Let it flow away like a stream in a forest. Let it glide beyond the horizon like clouds across the ocean.

You’ll be fine.
Camera on the Ultras is phenomenal. You have to check them out to use them effectively.