skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not being able to withdraw your vote isn't liquid democracy.

So we can definitely conclude that since liquid democracy only exists when it has been enforced once and for all without modifications under the rule of the High Priests of the Liquid Democracy church, it is incompatible with democracy as we know it.

If nobody ever wanted that and when they tried in a not so insignificant western country it failed to be accepted in its pure form and has become worse than the other parties after only a decade, are we allowed to believe that LD is not something people want or should want, or not? Do I risk to be prosecuted by the Spanish inquisition for saying it or do I get by with an excommunication and three days under the snow? [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Canossa
Interesting to note that Nixon essentially did nothing more than come clean by making official what the US had already been doing for years, printing money they didn’t have gold for.
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> If they hike the rates too much then debt servicing would be costly.

The Fed doesn't care about the cost of servicing the debt. That's the US Treasury's job. By law, the Fed has the dual mandate to keep both inflation and unemployment low. That's it. Nothing to do with the cost of servicing the Government debt.

If the interest on the Government debt becomes too high, nobody will point the finger at the Fed. If however inflation is high (like now) or unemployment high, you can start hearing people accusing the Fed of gross negligence. In the extreme, the Chairman of the Fed may be sacked, then brought in front of various Congressional investigations, and may even find himself in contempt, or some other very unpleasant situation.

Bottom line: the Fed really cares about inflation, and doesn't give a damn about debt servicing.
Yeah I want this too. Jest Snapshots are great for quickly saving the expected output and asserting that it doesn’t deviate, but it would be nice to have the same sort of “snapshot” of inputs as well.
Not the test but the society that allows some groups to continue to be undereducated in mathematics. The fact that many people don't understand this and loudly proclaim their lack of understanding, typically of certain backgrounds who are not affected, is also not due to their race making their brains incapable of understanding but due to society allowing them to continue to be undereducated on this topic.
I used to run a shared webhost provider back in the early 2000s. Flat-file software was a big deal for our customers back then because MySQL and PostgreSQL databases cost actual money.
The idea should be that it probably will change, and to prepare for that you need to code it a way that if it does change, you have to update the code only in one or two places, you haven't scattered the knowledge of that detail all over the code.
what's wrong with the riscv approach?
And that’s without even mentioning light.

Sure, sunlight can be piped down underground for natural lighting, but I’d really miss being able to see trees and blue sky from my office desk.
> An armed society is a polite society. -- RAH

You may wish to actually look up the Heinlein quotation and its context:

> To begin with, the quote isn’t a Heinlein quote any more than “I seen that black n****** yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” is a Harper Lee quote. The “polite society” line comes from a Robert Heinlein character in the novel Beyond This Horizon. That character is a privileged product of generations of eugenics. He lives in a society where genetic manipulation has extended lifespans and overpopulation is a prime concern. In that world, dueling has been re-introduced not because it makes people “polite” but because it kills people. And the character likes it because he believes it specifically kills those lesser people, those genetically inferior people, who need to be weeded out to make room for the übermensch to thrive.

* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/2/1881430/--An-armed...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_This_Horizon#In_popular...

Further:

> There are two problems with this line of thought. First, there is plenty of evidence that it is not true. Second, even if it were true, we shouldn't settle for this kind of "politeness."

* https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/ethics-everyone/2022...
No. The proxy is almost never the bottleneck.
Nobody buys treasuries to get rich.
If you used it somewhat like how you use redis , you’d probably run out of inodes and other performance issues. Directories aren’t designed to have millions of files in them.
I'd assume their dataset are professional couriers, <30, skewing male, which would be a high risk-taking pool. If that's the case wouldn't that make their conclusion conditional on being in that demographic? What if you're not?

Despite that, there are actually a few good examples of safety equipment causing more injury. Off the top of my head, striking combat sports have a similar opinion of headgear in sparring, it causes the participants to throw harder resulting in more head trauma. Similar sentiments with helmets & padding in football.

A bit apples and oranges with cycling as these are more example of mutually assured self destruction vs a car pulling out in front of you.
"ugly" is entirely subjective.
Ok, so what you are saying appears to support Pedal Me's position as reported in the article. They say: (a) wearing helmets encourages risky behaviour; (b) the added risk of accidents outweighs the increase in safety during an accident. You are giving an example of a community who only engage in a dangerous activity if they wear helmets, supporting (a). And I imagine you would agree that you are less safe wearing a helmet and going downhill longboarding than not wearing a helmet and not going downhill longboarding? If so, that supports (b).

It's not a conclusive argument, of course, and I have no axe to grind on this issue. It's just that I think that you might not have taken in to account what they are saying.
This would end up with more shows like Bright and less like Squid Game.
There's a waiting list.

> DALL·E 2 is a research project which we currently do not make available in our API. As part of our effort to develop and deploy AI responsibly, we are studying DALL·E’s limitations and capabilities with a select group of users.

https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
There's some photos at Tom's:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-x670-motherboard-diagr...
All organizations mature into "fat, dumb and happy" which ultimately seals the doom of 95% of them.

Even companies that were wonderful to work for (e.g. Hewlett-Packard when Bill & Dave were alive) have shriveled to irrelevance and horror. It happens.

It's what's convinced me that leadership is all their is to prevent this - the 5% of organizations that thrive longer all have charismatic and ethical leadership that is focused on the mission being done "correctly". Every time.
Same as any other prepared individual. Analyze your home, take note of individual entries to rooms, plan out to set up 90 degrees to the opening in the event of a break in. To stop bullets from leaving your house, set up full bookshelves behind the doorway when looked at from your chosen spot, or live in a brick house. Go with a sighted friend to the shooting range and have him call your shots to understand what distances you can point shoot at and hit a silhouette, this will let you know your capabilities without sight.

Or alternatively, the same exact thing you’d do as a responsible gun owner who was not blind.
> Ukraine war is in Europe

so what... A country has a minority, minority wants to separate, the main country won't let them, and fights happen between the main country and the minority, a big player steps in and destroys the main country to "save the minority" (and gain whatever their geopolitical interest was). Kosovo, ukraine, same shit, different players.

> The current situations are caused by politicians but politicians from dozens of countries. Politicians chose to invade Ukraine. Politicians financed the making of vaccines which provided enough confidence for economies to open up again. Politicians chose China's zero covid policy. Politicians flooded the market with money which led to inflation but also prevented a collapse during covid and allowed the poorest among us to survive. Politicians do both good and cause harm. They also provide representation, without them your other options are dictatorships or anarchy.

Meh... you need just one large country to succeed in their "revolution" (or whatever it will be called), by pulling their politicians out from their high security buildings and removing them from power one way or another, a few more will follow, and the rest will get scared and start actually doing something good for the people. The hypocricy we've seen during the covid era should not ever be forgotten, and the human rights violations neither. Let's also not forget the people who fly to Brussles twice per week in private government planes and tell their people not to drive cars due to ecology.

> "they're the first that will have to go, if we want to return to somewhat normal future." how are you suggesting they "go"?

In serbia people stormed the government buildings until milosevic stepped down. In france, they used a bit stronger, headless approach. It all depends on what works.

> This is a normal future, there is very little going on right now that has not happened a dozen times before, its just people doing people things.

Not really... in the past, the politicians were "removed" one way or another many many times,... this current peaceful era is more of an anomaly.
Thanking people for the work that they've done -- unpaid -- that has benefited me directly and saved me money just feels like the right thing to do. I was raised to appreciate efforts that others take on my behalf and it's served me well so far.

I hope your approach is working as well for you.
Why Is the FDA Seizing Baby Formula During a Baby Formula Shortage?
> […] protect themselves from the country (ie government).

Non-violent civil resistance has greater odds of working than violent resistance.

Over the last century movements that used violence only succeeded about 25% of the time, and generally resulted in autocratic regimes when they did. Non-violent movements succeeded about twice as often, and generally resulted in non-autocratic systems afterwards (main exception probably being Iran).

See the book Why civil resistance works by Chenoweth which does a review of the literature.
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...
If you’re up for a left-field idea… give yourself a 6 month free pass to keep doing exactly what you’re doing (so in your case that sounds like buying that extra storage!) but start collecting data on what you consume.

Don’t do anything manually, you’ll probably find it hard to track everything that way - but a script to parse your browse history (usually a sqlite file in your profile - and depending on browser you may be able to see sync’d history from other devices), your watch history in your video storage/streaming services, your # views of photos etc etc

See if you can enrich your metrics collection with the inevitable global variables of life (time of day you consumed something, what was the weather like, was that a work day, check the hours of sleep & exercise you had from your phone or wherever…)

Best case: you get to know yourself a little better.

I’ve done this twice now, first time was a complete waste of time. I learned nothing of value. Second time lead to me ditching a ton of podcasts, renewing my audible subscription but changing the types of books i get, it was also the turning point for coming off facebook for me, there were a bunch of really high value outcomes that second time.
Even if it's roaches fighting over twinkies, likely still true.
A physics paper with 8,778 authors
It’s not about protecting their rights, it’s about encouraging corporations to release the processes of their invention. The point is that we provide legally enforced protection in exchange for it entering the public domain after a few years. The alternative is corporate secrets that never become public (unless stolen), like the formula for Coca Cola.
You usually want as much of your database stored in memory as possible. Binary blobs would bloat out the db pretty quick.

Fuse for s3 might work but you risk the chance of a generic abstraction triggering a massive set of actions that cost a lot. Something like running find or checking the size of a directory could end up costing you thousands.
Do you use Logseq and NotePlan together, or as separate silos? I’ve been trying to figure out a way to use them in sync, but it doesn’t quite work. NotePlan is pretty good at making org functions possible just in markdown files tho so I keep leaning towards sticking there — but then I remember how powerful org is and I’m back where I started.

Basically, if you have your workflow written up anywhere I’d love to read it.
What is the maximum performance % difference between optimizing for perf/$ and perf/watt?

Alder Lake and M1 Pro are good demonstrations of those two approaches.
I have two piles: "Time to do something about", and "Time has done something about". Amazing how many things kind of fade out in time.
How much extra latency are we talking here? Anyone have any actual numbers?
AWS & Salesforce are among the most expensive for saas, those aren’t going anywhere
Ask HN: Where do you take notes now (2022)?
I have gone through different things and back to where I had started. I primarily take notes on widows notepad now. I just dislike mac note taking apps: first there are two native apps. One app tries to be more than just notepad, it's whole note management system. And second one preserves formatting and frustrating to get spaces right. Windows notepad does one thing and it does it well. Text Editor that saves a file, fast, clean, simple.

I started to use Evernote many years ago, then it started to lag and just suck, switched to MS Onenote, it just didn't know how to sync, 8 chapters worth of summaries I had written from reading a book disappeared and that finally made me quit it. Google docs kinda work but has the worst UI for file explorer and too much like MS word and since it's not standalone app the tab gets lost among other tabs, where standalone app is easy to switch to visually and through shortcuts.

I now just create bunch of text files on desktop: todo, book summary, appointments, etc... and when I'm done with them I just move them into giant unorganized folder. I have found notes from 7 years ago this way. Sure if there was a native clean app to search through all txt files it'd be great. But not so bad tbh.
> Also just want to point out what is touched on in the article - melanoma (skin cancer caused by UV) in the USA kills about 7000-8000, with that trend line decreasing. Heart disease kills around 700,000 people a year in the USA alone.

This is actually borderline nonsensical in the context:

> People with low levels of vitamin D in their blood have significantly higher rates of virtually every disease and disorder you can think of: cancer, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, heart attack, stroke, depression, cognitive impairment, autoimmune conditions, and more.
Auntimoany Ethnographical Questionnaire (great for world building)
By knowing the layout of your house? And what direction you can safely shoot in? Brick homes or strategically set up bookshelves go a long way.

People who aren’t blind have the same exact considerations, except they orient themselves with vision, whereas the blind use their other senses.
Every time i get the same feeling in some enviroenment, i switch, advice you to do so, advice you to go for freelancing too
This is interesting. Can you elaborate a bit:
- What do you expect to happen with EUR?
- Why do you think USD or CHF are safer to hold than say, gold?
I feel your pain. I love vs code but sometimes I miss classic visual studio. I know it still exists but vs code is awesome for better or worse. the problem is it aims to be the swiss knife of development environments, everything is extensible and sometimes it's overly complex rather than simplifying.
they need to rework their extension store imo. not sure what but feel like unfulfilled potential.
Correct. I was motivated to use m4 to solve the problem I had, because m4 is ubiquitous. I wanted to know more about it, and I wanted my config files to be generatable on any machine where I spend some time.
That is an entirely pointless hypothetical. The medical reality is that alternative treatments can only deliver a subset of the benefits of UV light exposure.
He probably doesn't get out much.
Can’t wait for something better to come along. The text orientedness of SQL is annoying. Something like Linq without the underlying SQL.
There is no limit to the amount they will spend. Could be 100% still wouldn’t be enough.
Banks don’t Usually hold loans. The loans are typically packages and sold as bundles to institutional investors and banks get a cut of the deal with minimal risk. But to do that banks have to follow rules on what the packages look like so only certain products get loans and everything else isn’t worth dealing with
Just because OpenBSD does it does not mean it's not a security issue. It just means that they have to. OpenBSD is not some impenetrable vault of an OS.

Yes, JIT is insecure. You best hope that you don't have some kind of vulnerability in your JIT or an attacker can do return-oriented programming by making their own gadgets, i.e., they don't have to find the gadget they want, they can just create it.

In fact, this exact problem with JIT's is why I don't implement interpreters with JIT's. Instead, I generate bytecode and then run that because I can more easily sandbox it that way.

But that is ignoring the biggest elephant in the room. You're doing this in a libc. The libc is where attackers usually search for gadgets. It's not a good combination to have a libc, one of the highest value targets, to allow self-modifying code with an easy way to activate it.

I remember trying Cosmopolitan once. Ran into a bug right away. It couldn't handle spaces in a filename. I can only imagine what kinds of bugs it still has and continues to get as you add features. And what bugs of those will allow creation and exploitation of gadgets now that you have this?

We had a conversation on lobste.rs where I talked about why I don't think what you're doing is a good idea. You deleted everything you said. That's not a good look. The bug I ran into trying Cosmopolitan was not a good look. Not understanding the risks of what you are doing is not a good look.

All of that has made Cosmopolitan radioactive to me. I won't touch it.
many projects allow web reload, see python httpwatcher for example.
Well not directly, but you're heavily penalized for not keyword stuffing and then passing it through an AI tool until it is 'simple to read' (ie. says what you're trying to say extremely badly five times with almost-correct words to avoid anpiece of jargon).

As a result even the content made with earnest intent to communicate has to read exactly like blogspam in order to rank.
That would actually be pretty cool
Please don’t. This will drive millions out of California to more sane states.
Some interesting hardware also at https://www.ipu-system.de/
No idea if they support coreboot, though.
First state to legalise no-fault divorce was in 1969 and in the late 1960's was when birth control was becoming widely available.

I suspect a lot of this is to do with the effective doubling of the full-time workforce.

To be clear, I'm NOT saying women being able to work full-time is a bad thing. But I DO think that average people have been totally fucked by the transition to 2 person incomes economically.

Prior to the 1970's, one middle class partner could bring in enough money to support a family, own a home, pay all the bills etc. Whilst at the same time having one person at home meant cost of living was lower and everyone had SIGNIFICANT amounts more free time.

Now, the average middle class family struggles to survive on two incomes and once mum and dad have both completed their 40hrs a week each at work, they both have another 20hrs a week of domestic responsibilities to complete in "their own time" that originally would have been done by the stay at home partner.
PCI-E 5.0 has a ridiculous amount of bandwidth for consumer purposes. They just don't need as many lanes.
they are not. you can load and reload them to see their starting point.
Hmm. I think the principle of not making trap-door decisions is still important though.

You shouldn’t spend a bunch of time preparing for something that never comes, but you should consider which scenarios would leave you totally screwed.
The issue with many of these things is that they aren't simple, not really, it's just that our brains are super good at them and computers are almost entirely unlike our brains. Human brains are able to do things like read context clues and extrapolate from them. It just makes sense, for example, to wrap your lines to the space available on a given piece of paper. But a computer doesn't know what a "line" or "space" or a "piece of paper" is. It has to be told, via a mathematical abstraction, which a human must devise.

That is, any adult human being carries around an absolutely massive amount of mental context which they are capable of applying to every situation nearly automatically, without realizing it. All of the things you mention are tasks any sufficiently educated human can do easily - draw a shape? sort some things? do math with fractions or complex numbers? - because you can teach a human a general concept and then assume their brain will do the work of applying it to new situations, breaking it down, etc. 2 + 2 on a TV screen is exactly the same as 2 + 2 in a notebook is exactly the same as two sheep + two sheep in the field.

But until someone invents strong general AI (hehe), computers just aren't gonna have that skillset.
Nowadays most zip programs will default to using AES (in the way WinZip invented) instead of ZipCrypto.
Different methods of taxation create different incentives and have different side effects.

For example taxing income is basically a tax on giving people jobs or being economically productive , two things we probably don't want to discourage, so I rate income taxes pretty poorly.

Taxing gasoline discourages people from using gasoline, which might have the side effect of encouraging adoption of other methods of creating and storing energy. So that's not all bad.

Property taxes have the wonderful side effect of making it more expensive to own property, which discourages speculation and other non-productive use of land.

I'm sympathetic that the tax burden in CA is already too high, but we can repeal prop 13 and maintain (or even reduce) total tax revenue by simultaneously reducing income taxes. IMHO, replacing some or all income taxes with more property taxes would be a massive improvement.

Many proponents of repealing prop 13 openly support cutting other taxes or would be open to such a compromise.
They are all have very positive cash flow, so it is unlikely they will be cutting significant amount of fat.
I'd be curious to understand why this is the case. It seems that businesses generally have highly network style data -- think of your average system for a "widget" business... it ranges from orders to suppliers to manufacturing processes, advertising, all the way to orders from customers. All stored in different systems with disparate join keys.

Most of the hard part of BI I have seen is joining these pieces of information together that are otherwise uncorrelated -- e.g which clicks corresponded to conversion is a tracking problem, then correlating them with actual business actions (e.g running a marketing campaign or improving a process)

It's more about data joining and data aggregation than "ML"