skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From [1]: “economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence.”

And "The bigger spender wins congressional races 91 percent of the time" [2].

But if that's not credible enough for you maybe go see the speech by President Eisenhower [3].

Don't you remember the "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq?

There are so many examples that I have no idea how you think this is a conspiracy theory. There is no need for that, people just act on their perceived best interest, and when you have the top ~1000 people controlling almost every asset, isn't it obvious that they will dictate the course of history?

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/0...

[2] - https://www.vox.com/2014/10/27/7077647/midterms-spending-mon...

[3] - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eisenhower-warns...
I expect we will see lots of indie comic books made using these tools, and perhaps this kind of comic will ironically be seen as less corporate and more authentic?

XKCD is doing fine with minimal art, because it’s about the writing. Other writers will make comics very different in style, without having to settle for minimalism. Very long, story-driven comics will be more feasible for amateurs to make in a shorter time. Instead of drawing a few pages a week (which is a lot of work), they could write and illustrate a short chapter.

More labor-intensive comics that are more about gorgeous artwork than story will probably still be around, but a smaller niche than before.
We also have umbrella investment funds doing the same thing but without crypto.
Expect a steep drop.

Leverage is much more expensive (from sub 3% mortgages, we already have 5%+ rates), which means buyers can afford less, plus significant withdrawal of “cash” buyers from the market who were really just borrowing against their (now much smaller) equity positions.

I wouldn’t want to be in a forced sale position anytime soon.
> its a dull, average artist creating derivative images.

Which is primarily what sells.
Thanks very much!

I will take a look at Kleros ( https://kleros.io/about ). The White Paper and Yellow Paper are very interesting! This is different than the problem that I was solving but it fits in very well as the next step if my simple dispute flow does not work.

The dispute flow is the main idea. I have worked out a rough logic. My next step is building a proof-of-concept to confirm that it can work.

I am not familiar with Gnosis Safe ( https://gnosis-safe.io/ ). I will take a look.

The alternative to irreversibility that I am thinking about is not so much based on multi-signature (my concern is that overreliance on a private key/public key is too limiting) as much as on additional attributes included in each transaction that can be used to initiate a dispute associated with the transaction.
Do you really though? If you are a long term investor, just picking a couple of core asset classes and then rebalancing regularly (rebalancing is key because it is an automatic way of selling thing when prices are higher and buying when they are lower), and never paying attention to the news, it's a winning strategy.
Here in Germany, Lidl and Aldi don't even have baskets anymore. At my local Lidl the security guard won't let you in unless you have a cart, which you need a 1 euro coin to get...
"Burrito" is not a word of English origin...
Some stores like Target and CVS have wheelie baskets now. They look like this[1] or this[2] and you can use them either handheld or roll-along but I’ll admit they’re a bit cumbersome to carry. For me, at least. Maybe they’re the perfect size for bigger/taller people.

[1]https://thefixturezone.com/shopping-basket-on-wheels-with-pu...

[2]http://m.thai.groceryshoppingtrolley.com/sale-3255999-colorf...
Anything from nothing to a small correction.

Mortgage payments set a ceiling on how high property prices can rise. However, people seem to be willing to spend more on mortgage payments than they probably should, so it’s likely that this ceiling hadn’t been reached yet.

The other factor is simple
supply and demand. A large factor in 2008 was a large inventory of housing that came on the market. As far as I’m aware, there is no current corollary in the US now.
That page is about the idea of helmet mandates, not about the safety of an individual decision to wear one.

I think people most on the thread understand that there are negative consequences to mandates. The question is about whether you as a rational individual should choose to wear one.

I think the answer to that is an irrefutable yes, if you want to reduce your risk of catastrophic head injury. But that doesn’t mean it should be mandated. We take calculated risks all the time, and the law can’t know all the variables and circumstances for each person at each moment. The mandate is ineffective because the most important safety factor for bicycles is frequency of cycling — the more bikes there are on the road, the more everyone is aware of them. But if you still had all those cyclists and put helmets on them, they would be slightly safer.
> I'd love a tool that would observe my code during runtime - capturing all inputs and outputs from every function, as well as the value of each variable at each point in the execution flow. Because this would probably incur a performance hit, I'd want to have the option to toggle it on/off.

There's a class of integration tests dubbed consistency tests, which tracks the output that an interface provides give a specific input in production, and the test consists of playing back a sample of said production traffic to verify if the service remains consistent before promoting/dialing it up in production.

This class of integration tests is also used in UI tests, and Selenium provides explicit support for them.

https://elementalselenium.com/tips/62-web-consistency-testin...
And even Aldi here has to station a guy to give you a cart and collect those in the parking lot, mainly because people often don’t have the quarter to get one.

It’s a cute idea but I’m not sure it’s practical in the long run.
It's not obvious how to translate this figure into a standalone plant cost. The COB study is quoting the acquisition cost premium of a nuclear ship over a non-nuclear ship. I believe that estimate is the premium for taking a non-nuclear design and adding a nuclear reactor to it, so it does not include a lot of plant infrastructure that is part of the cost of civilian power stations. Also I would think the requirements for the containment structure and safety systems would be significantly different.
Sure, but a permit and inspection does not cost 500K. Making a lot conform might cost that much, sure.
There are lots of people who have not paid much attention to these “macro events” you speak of and it has not impacted them in any meaningful way.

Covid came closest to impacting my life. But I got the Pfizer shot as early as I was legally able, same thing with a booster and pretty much have just gone about my life as usual for most of the pandemic while never getting Covid.

The rest of it going on - I just don’t even pay attention to it.
But does it matter that the category of "active managers" achieves near-parity (after costs) with index funds if you're not able to maintain a running bet on the whole pool of active managers (i.e. you have to pick one or more specific managers)?

For instance, if today's active managers always lose their asses to new active managers arriving tomorrow, then any active manager you actually give your money to today is going to do way worse than an index fund, not just somewhat worse due to costs.

The set of active managers actually available at a given moment in time might be 100% long-term losers.
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Check Mosh, Mosh works on ISDN level speeds.
It might be the case that we need to consider owning competitors an illegal conflict of interest, as if the whole market is majority owned by passive owners it's not so much a market of competitors as sibling subsidiaries.
I'm not very good at go, only European 4dan, but I also have some opinions on teaching :)

In my experience, ko is confusing and shouldn't be explained until the players encounter it in their game, play it for a while, and say "wait this is stupid", which is a good time to explain "actually you're not the first to encounter this situation, and there's a rule to handle it!"
The strap makes it more difficult to turn your head if it's properly tight. Probably also will hit your head on the ceiling if you're in a sedan.
Long term demographics shifting older and growth shifting lower has driven interest rates down since as long as most of the posters here have been alive.

We have hit an inflection point where interest rates are being raised as a tool to fight generational highs in inflation. This is the usual tool the central banks use in such a scenario. The resulting slowdown in markets and economy is the usual result. How smooth the slow down is to prevent overheating is always the risk they take.

What is in question is how effective this will be if a lot of the inflation was simply pent up COVID demand, supply chain constraints (China shutdowns), car makers getting caught flat footed while transitioning to EVs but unable to secure battery&chip supplies, and war induced energy price spikes. Some of these things will be resolved by demand dropping due to interest rates rising, many will not. For some things this will cause double pain - cost of money is higher and energy prices remain high due to war.

So we are probably in for 6-24 months of pain, with 12-18 months being the 90% scenario. Another question is if the clock started ticking in November when tech peaked or January when the broader market peaked.

Another question is the amount Wall St vs Main St, is this just going to be a market drawdown or a wider economic recession. So far what we've seen is GDP/unemployment have not really reflected the same bearish picture (yet).

GFC was more of a broader economic collapse story versus DotCom collapse which was more sector & market specific..

So now would be a good time to hunker down, manage your personal&company burn rates, and maybe be an opportunistic buyer or investor if you see specific opportunities.
Gotta keep that fear alive somehow. COVID just doesn't get the fear and obedience it once did, so the next thing was required.
Agreed. Unfortunately, we’ve inherited the mess that our parents and grandparents left for us.
I don't know if you watch Technology Connections already, but his videos on this are really good. He lives in the Chicago area.

I get the sense that you've evaluated this thoroughly and it actually won't work for you, that does happen.

We get bitter cold as well as sultry summers, and I have an AC which I keep thinking about replacing with a heat pump, just because it bothers me aesthetically that I can't run it backward for the intermediate months when it's cold but not that cold. The bill would be cheaper but the depreciation on replacing a perfectly good AC would take a long time to balance.
I always feel so dwarfed when I push a Costco cart. They're massive.
It’s all a function of interest rates. We are seeing prices stabilize now after a couple years of meteoric rises. If interest rates really climb for an extended time then home values will fall.
I would add The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
The most notable theocracies - Iran and Saudi Arabia, do fairly well compared to the other two forms of government. I wonder why they're do better than one might expect.
People who bought houses will be fine, since they secured low interest loans, and will hesitate to sell because won't get good interest on next loan.

This will cause low supply -> high prices -> people who didn't buy are very screwed: they will face high prices together with high interest.
One of the first commercial US PWR nuclear reactors was a burred in the ground nuclear powered air craft carrier plant. It was built by the AEC under the direct supervision of the Navy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shippingport_Atomic_Power_Stat...
In addition to this, you can keep a dual markdown version that uses a much more human-readable syntax and preserves both code and markdown sections of the Jupyter notebook. This is also via jupytext. In both jupyterlab and jupyter you can pair the two versions (something like what is discussed here: https://www.wrighters.io/jupytext-notebooks-as-markdown-or-p...) and they will stay in sync automatically.
When we lived in the Netherlands, my wife rode her bike infront of a car at an unmarked crossing where the car had every right of way. The car driver sued for repair fees, but in the end, the car driver had to pay her compensation instead. It doesn't matter that he had right of way, he was the "stronger" side and hurt someone weaker by not being cautious enough. There's obviously more nuance to the laws there, but this is a good example of the common mentality.
when the spec is inherently broken an impl can't do shit.
Don't you realize the absurdity of deffering the decisions of multi-domain highly technical topics to laymans that have an attention span of 3 milliseconds and a remarkable lack of erudition and critical thinking? Epistemology isn't even taught in schools, the joke is at its peak
We should not listen to a "community" that wants to stop treating autism spectrum disorder as a disorder and wants to prohibit treatment because it "normalizes" people.
> A nuclear power plant is "just" a steel cylinder in a concrete building, attached to a very ordinary steam turbine hall and a set of transformers.

If you save the quite expensive steel cylinder and concrete casing, that quite ordinary steam turbine and set of transformers can run on coal just by themselves. And guess what, this is already too expensive to compete with the alternatives nowadays.

(And no, there is nothing ordinary about that steel cylinder.)
Iodine+Mosh against a VPS/Unix Tilde=huge array of text based services.

IM, Mail, Text web, ebook reading...
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That sounds like a financial adviser, not a manager of an active fund.
I don’t know if the UK is sufficiently litigious, but if this were in the US, one bad accident causing a head injury would lead to the company being sued into the Stone Age.

Helmets may inadvertently create more accidents, but they also protect the most vital organ in your body during those accidents.
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I used just clone the MAC address across my iPhone and laptop and switch between them, so I guess you could use your phone to get through the captive portal and then connect with a travel router that clones the phones MAC address.
Yeah, but I guessed that one correctly because that sort of art (taking symbolism like a game-boy and putting it in a "cool" medium) is pretty common on the internet already.

It makes sense that someone would think to make that because a gameboy is basically already a grey brick. So it's really just a change of texture- it's a comparison of two things that look similar that a person would probably make but an AI might not. it has some artistic intent.

The other DALL-E prompts are just "a <random subject> doing <random thing> in <random medium>", like "a dog building a fence in watercolor".

Would it make sense for a person to paint a dog building a fence in watercolor? Probably not unless they're writing a children's book.
It works significantly better when there isn’t any real choice - you have creamy vs chunky peanut butter instead of forty different brands thereof.

Give me whole milk is easier and simpler than “give me this particular brand of whole milk”.
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I'm curious to know what your data is. Offhand, sounds more like most riding is with helmets, so will dominate the numbers. But it's being interpreted as causal? Feels unlikely. What is the mechanism?
Huberman’s quip on the topic of dopamine based reward systems being absolutely demolished by poorly moderated screen time in kids was conviction alone for me to reduce, randomize and limit the amount for my children.

Another thing to note is the irony of tech workers actively frightened by their own creations affecting their children. The problem is like a collective Frankenstein in a lot of ways.
Should they? Probably (perhaps in somewhere like "more info" not to clutter the UI).

Would they? No! Why would they want to break the part of the illusive loop that keeps people attached to endlesz scrolling? People don't want to see the reality, they want to see "perfect" shots, "perfect" bodies and don't want anyone to wake them up to the reality telling that what they are experiencing is not real.
Maybe it is just a reflection on the state of filesystems vs databases.

There is no fundamental difference between a database and a flat file, it is all bytes on a disk/memory in the end. So it is mostly a question of balancing the roles of the hardware, OS, and application software.

For example, if the reason you are using a database is that it does a particularly good job at limiting disk IO, then it may not be necessary with fast SSDs. If your reason for splitting into small files is to save RAM, it may not be necessary if you have more RAM. If you want to do to a distributed architecture, maybe your filesystem is not up to the task and you may want a database server.
Oh, I didn't realize you were talking specifically about people on dating apps...
This is a hard one to trade off, as the engine does need maintenance even if it isn't used and still limits the lifespan of the PHEV.

Even for commuting, having an oversized battery extends lifespan because of the reduced charge cycle per cell (and battery will generally last much longer than any engine).

I do like the range boost of the engine though. Especially when exploring new areas and not having a consistent route and supercharge routine. Although going back to the pump always reminds me why pure electric is the future.

(I've had both a Tesla and a Volt).
Very good point. The reasoning in the post assumes that the rider is responsible for all accidents.
I like this a lot.

OpenCL microbenchmarks applied to many iGPU systems. What we see here is that AMD/Apple has a lot of L1 and L2 cache, while Intel does not.

They further go into analysis, and figure out that all three systems have similar "cache-per-flops" (or at least, more-similar compared to raw results).

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I'm surprised to see that only Intel has an iGPU that has cache-to-cache transfers between CPU-and-GPU. I would have thought that both AMD and Apple would have had this implemented.

I wonder if you need to do a "special memcopy" or maybe a shared-virtual-memory kind of setup to actually have the cache-to-cache transfers?
You should really give Solvespace 3.x a shot... it's come a long way and a lot of performance issues have been solved.
I'll reply with the best examples I know. It's likely that this phenomenon is very personal, though.

Carlo Gesualdo, Tenebrae Responsories. Three nights full of "Expectancy violations", unparalleled word painting, cross relations... definitely do reference the text in translation, because the word painting is a huge part of the beauty of the work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtYMrQjbSak (1 of 27)

Bruckner, 4th symphony, finale.
https://youtu.be/o0g82i784bw?t=4440

Bruckner, 8th symphony, finale.
https://youtu.be/elVHvTrEM34?t=5610

The 8th symphony is titanic, but worth it if you can set aside 2 hours. I like Celibidache's recordings best.
> What works much better is pointing the fan out of the window!

I just remember: hot goes to cold. So pushing the hot air toward the cold air is more efficient. If that means pushing the hot air inside the home toward the outside then sobeit.
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You're right that the last thing elections need right now is for identity politics to be built into the voting process, but I think the article's premise would be equally valid if it assumed that the electorate cared more about policy and less about physical similarities between candidates and themselves.

This does suggest an interesting hypothesis, though. While innate qualities are (or should be) a poor proxy for a politician's voting record, we might be at a stage in many democracies where a politician's stated policy preferences are also a poor proxy for how they end up voting. In a "market for lemons" way, voters might feel that it is best to focus on immutable characteristics of the candidates, rather than believing a word they say.
I mean, according to a physicalist's view of the human condition, yes. You are a function of the haploid cells your parents conceived you with, and the environment those cells responded to over your lifetime.
> companies like Apple are almost certainly going to remain valuable for a long time

Based on what? At the end of the day, that's speculation. Who's to say Apple and other stocks you're holding won't suddenly stop beating the market?
When Target was just starting to expand as Super Target in my area they somehow had the barcode for turkey ringing up as 25 cents total instead of per pound. I tried to explain to the cashier that it had to be wrong and they started to get mad at me, so I gave up and took my 25 cent turkey.
Yeah, I would think in a city with a runaway housing market (like Vancouver), it's more like 5%
I had a traumatic brain injury as a kid from a fairly-low speed* fall where my skull cracked on a sewer manhole. If someone told me I couldn’t wear a helmet I would tell them to eff off.

*I have no memory of it.
Yeah can confirm that's doable, unfortunately it's very disruptive since you need to keep light levels down before opening windows and during it otherwise your place becomes mosquito and moth central.

The silver lining is that it will get better eventually since bugs are dying off rapidly but for now it's either eye strain or buying nets for every window.
Oh no! We can't have dirty republicans participating in our new free economy!
That wouldn't surprise me at all. But as for a 3m bike, that's still shorter than most cars? Broadly speaking, bikes of any size are classed as vehicles in the US, with the same rights and duties (though that may vary a bit state by state).
The US is enormous, with almost no public transit outside of dense metro areas. As a result, cars hold a sacred place in society and jurisprudence. It is simply impossible to live without a car when your driveway is 10 miles long and the nearest "town" is 30 miles away.

You can get a neverending stream of OUIs and keep your license after paying fines in most cases. We often joke that the best way to get away with murder is to run someone down and tell the judge that "they came out of nowhere".

But lord help you if you get caught walking down the street with a joint in your bag.
More image based development. Developing against the running program. Ability to debug unhanded errors in real time while you fix them. Like how you do with Lisp/SLIME.

I think this is the best way to develop hands down. But its flown under the radar through the entire 90's era up to the present.
> inform users that the image has been enhanced and improved

They could just add a statement to their ToS that all photos on the platform have been algorithmically enhanced and/or compressed.
It's my opinion that we need regulation around this. Car manufacturers should be required to offer buy-back programs for their batteries, and then properly dispose of them, ideally with as much recycling as possible.

I also believe manufacturers should be required to offer replacement batteries for sale for a certain number of years. It's mind-boggling that some companies have stopped selling replacement battery packs within 5 years of selling that vehicle.