skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "There are very few tools the US administration has because the biggest drivers for gasoline prices are driven by global fundamentals"

More "disinformation" being peddled to excuse this administration of the high prices they've caused. If anything, Putin has probably increased production and been forced to give discounts to entice countries like India to go against the US sanctions, so blaming the Russian conflict is ridiculous.

There is probably no other good or service in the world more sensitive to global politics than petroleum. The whole "gas lines and stagflation from the 70's" that we're reminded of were absolutely due to our political support of Israel and against most of the Arab block - very little was based on supply and demand.

Likewise, other mass price increases were almost entirely due to either military conflicts or currency issues caused by central banks.

If this administration just came out and said, "Listen - we think fossil fuels are a losing bet. We're gonna make it as painful as possible for our citizens to continue to use them. Lube up, but it's for our own good." then I'd at least respect them, even if I don't agree with the policies.

But I'm not even sure that's what's happening. What I think is that it's just massive mismangement, an uncoordinated and ad-hoc set of policies being pushed by dozens of different actors, causing price increases. And the administration is just flailing around throwing out false narratives and talking points that their hacks in the media regurgitate to the public.

I'm afraid there is no competent technocratic "elite" easing us into a sustainable future where we're all driving Teslas with a nuke-powered charging grid as ubiquitous as gas stations are today. Instead, we're gonna end up with rolling brown-outs, $1500 domestic airline tickets, severely reduced mobility, etc. It's a disaster, IMO.
I used those examples because they’re easy to understand. But how do you think angel investors like YC make money? An angel investment is also using leverage, banking on either future earnings or fundraising rounds to magnify your initial investment with a convertible note.
>What makes a Wordle square yellow

One thing I had wondered--but not enough to figure out what the code does...

Let's say you enter Mamma for example. And there is one M in the word but in the second position. Which M square does Wordle choose to turn yellow? (But maybe it doesn't matter?) There may be other cases like that as well.
I've recently gone back to buying CDs.

I got annoyed with stuff "going gray" in my Spotify playlists, just vanishing out of the blue after I'd fallen in love with it and wanted it to be part of my mood and given that mood a name and curated a whole menagerie to go with it.

Soma's no answer to that, so this is way off-topic. But streaming services are no replacement for the CD. I'll rip and encode and curate on my own devices, especially now that it's trivial to pop a 128GB microSD card into my phone.
One petaflop DP linpack achieved in 2008. Supercomputing "Moores Law" is doubling speed every 1.5 years, order of magnitude every five years, a thousand-fold 15 years. Pretty close to schedule.

Onward to a zettaflop around 2037?
A standard career is about 40 years, so mid career is about 20 years in
If you're talking about ISIS please just specifically call out ISIS, it's arguable whether they ever achieved statehood but their terror base approach (toward their citizens rather than global terrorism) seems like a pretty big outlier in the modern world so I don't know if their state would have been sustainable even if major powers hadn't stepped in to erase them from the face of the earth.

Even ideologically extreme countries like Iran, UAE and Saudi Arabia have placed a strong emphasis on historical preservation - there are always compromises and violations, but I think that's a pretty safe broad generalization.
What's a Good First DevRel Hiring Process?
I fail to understand how this would result in any meaningful differences from the current reality.

The work of some is worth, at least fiscally, more than others. I’m not justifying that or defending it. I’m just saying that my work is not as financially valuable as Tim Cook’s (for example), which is easily demonstrated.

The same would occur under this reality. Let’s say I create this awesome new Widget and I retain the rights. The Widget goes on to make my employer billions and I get millions in royalties. That’s effectively our current system.

And what about issues like confidentiality and conflict of interest? If I own my work and my agency decides to do business with, say, Vivendi, then what prevents me from screwing over my agency and giving the same or extremely similar content to, say, Disney?

I’m not asking to rhetorically write off what you say or refute it. These are the questions my mind went to as someone who owns his own small business where creating and manipulating IP for clients is a nontrivial part of our output.
Wonder why Psilocybin was left off the list, given it isn’t addictive and doesn’t have the societal problems some of the others have.
Which also costs time and money to handle and secure, potentially more than card charges do.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180130005244/en/New...
Turns out making increasingly complex things was a better strategy than making increasingly complex financial instruments
I mean, we celebrate when GDP growth rates hit 3 percent, and here we show a 4 percent decline in the workforce that generates that GDP so I don't think it's that misleading, perhaps as a lucky coincidence. Travelling 7 years in time is a rather huge deal.

Really, where this chart is misleading is that there are likely different cohorts. If stratified by decade of birth I would expect boomers to be most of the difference, and maybe even millenials offsetting it. And if so, there are at least two great resignation stories to tell:

1. Boomers resigning, as long predicted. in the 2008 crisis everyone expected them to retire but that didn't really happen. maybe happened this time

2. The rest of us resigning one job to start another, filling the vacancies created by story #1, and creating its own cycle of job hopping for salary bumps.
I just forwarded the email to them. I will update what happens once its sorted out. I am hoping this is a mistake on my end, because it would suck so much to move all the stuff from cf, this is pretty much the ONLY issue I have had with them in the last 6ish years of using and recommending them to everyone.
I have a similar experience. Had a Mac from my previous job. I insisted on a Linux laptop when I switched because I just couldn't use macos as effectively as my personal Linux laptop. I didn't find the hardware all that special either
> Was there a period in humanity, or in the life of any living creature, where they just sort of stopped engaging in productive activity and it was a good thing?

Humanity as a whole? I don't think anyone has advocated that here, just a certain segment of the population in their later years. As for any living creature, I didn't spend any time doing anything productive over the weekend, and I think it was a good thing. In fact, I've been doing that every weekend for a long time, and I plan to keep doing it!
Closely related (meaning: I think it might be exactly the same game): Antiwordle, https://www.antiwordle.com/ .

[EDITED to add:] Not exactly the same; with Antiwordle the idea is just to last as long as you can, rather than having a limit of 6, and it doesn't have undos. Also, UX-wise, I don't think Antiwordle tells you how many possibilities remain (win for Don't Wordle), and it doesn't have such slow tile-flipping animations (win for Antiwordle).
https://web.archive.org/web/20071208094622/http://www.dadhac...

https://dadhacker-125488.ingress-alpha.ewp.live/newton-stora...
> Some of those found had succumbed to disease, Yellowhorn said, citing one cemetery where it became apparent many children perished from the Spanish flu a little over a century ago. [0]

[0] https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/kamloops-mass-grave-debunked-b...
>> Unfortunately, the scientific method is a bit annoying sometimes, given it's absolute insistence all things may be disproved.

> In no way, shape or form does the scientific method suggest this, let alone insist on it.

You are right about this. The scientific method doesn't insist things are disproved. It makes a practice of disproving things until there is faith that it isn't disprovable. It doesn't continue forever, but the practice of doing it with another thing continues after, doesn't it?
It definitely was still in its infancy. But I think this is where Rocket.Chat's decision makes tons of sense. Matrix has spent as many years I think as Rocket.Chat focusing on a protocol. So makes perfect sense to leverage all of that time and learnings.

Not to mention it means Federation with anyone that chooses to implement this common protocol. So beyond business interest alone but contributing to the greater ecosystem hopefully.
Did you miss the part where I say that you shouldn't bother commenting if you aren't using Windows frequently?

You just don't know how bad you have it, that's it.

But sure, MacOS is great, go back to installing a 3rd party software to snap windows xD
> Assets grow faster than wages.

In the USA over the last 50 years that is true. But it isn't generally true.
Indeed, at higher speeds it would waste an awful lot of time waiting for ACKs, and that's why XMODEM ACK Spoofing was a feature of higher end (error-correcting, obviously) modems.

They would recognize the protocol, immediately forge ACKs, deal with error correction and retries, and swallow the other side's ACKs when they eventually came.

Truth to be told, by the time this feature was available, many had moved to YMODEM, ZMODEM, BiModem (Bidirectional transfers whoohoo!) and HS/Link (Bidirectional as well, and even chat with the SysOp while transferring data!).

But those spoofing modems were very valuable for environments where the protocol was hardwired and you couldn't update.
America spends more per Capita than any other nation.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/236541/per-capita-health...
Even a dedicated subnet won't be enough, because these devices could be made to connect to any open wifi until they can phone home or even use the cell network, without the user even knowing about it.

> I guess, at this point, the other commenter's solution of "just stop using those things" may be the best.

Yeah. Assuming this doesn't change, this is the end result for me, at least.
HS/Link was invaluable for QWK swapping, especially combined with a {COMMO} auto dialer. I still miss QWK, which was essentially a two-way hybrid of RSS and RFC822.
I know this sounds very cynical, but there's something funny about a company doing this automated trust and safety with zero recourse spiel while being entirely okay with hosting sites where people are bullied into suicide because we can't just deny service to technically legal websites as a pseudo public utility.

Pick a lane.
Or the Steven Soderbergh movie 'Kafka'
Ok! Slightly jealous with your setup, that sounds like a nice bit of kit you have there.
This is such an old discourse... Back in the 1990s we used to say that the journalists were left-wing but the person who owned the paper was left-wing.

C. Wright Mill's "Power Elite" is still worth reading

https://www.thoughtco.com/c-wright-mills-power-elite-3026474

What I got out of it is that there is more than one kind of elite: there is the person who owns the trailer parks and car dealerships in a small town who is pretty important in that town, there are college professors who have a certain kind of status, there are politicians and the titans of industry. There isn't just one elite, but many kinds of elite.
>Homes have been going up in price for far longer than 40 years.

Homes going up is not the problem though. Yes, they've been going up for longer than 40 years, but back in the 1950's their growth was basically tracking inflation and wage growth, or even going down in value since they were seen an any other depreciable asset, just a place to live in till you die.

It's in the last 40 years that housing massively outgrown wages, as it became a speculatory investment vehicle instead of just being a place to live, plus the introduction of NIMBYISM regulations to restrict supply, and that's where the issue is.
Still have cassette tapes of Thump Radio shows on KUSF, and memories of enjoying the RealAudio sets. I also remember them calling out the show identification in various languages, where the only words I understood were at the end: “… Thump Radio.” Great stuff — thank you.
> even if we could make all those EVs and solar panels in the first place

Production of both is currently rising rapidly.
There's gripe from people because they didn't update the GitHub repos for the server code for a bit. Client side code was always up to date. There's also another complaint (imo this one is more legitimate) that Signal only allows messages to be passed through their servers. I don't think the parent is really arguing in good faith tbh.
> The entire purpose of what people do with state management and contexts is to decouple this.

I think I now understand what you're saying. You're saying people spend lots and lots of time trying to work around this exact problem, which is introduced by Angular, React, Vue, et al. Realize that this is entirely an extrinsic problem introduced by "component-based" architecture and that a different approach (HTML as one output of the program) avoids this entirely. Managing state is still hard (as it always is), but there's nothing that needs to be decoupled in the first place. It's similar to how "design patterns" are really workarounds for the limitations of OO programming: Redux is a workaround for the limitations of React.
Yeah, not sure what I was thinking.
I've been using it in daily chats with friends, and with my gaming groups, for about two years. The end-to-end encrypted, Google-free comms have elevated the quality of our online conversations: We no longer feel the need to self-censor, so we talk more freely about personal matters. When I noticed this, it felt like an invisible weight I had been carrying for ages was finally gone.

I'm avoiding public rooms until my Matrix clients support multiple accounts/identities, so open source chats are still on an irc client for now.
That's also how the stock market works. For someone to win someone else has to lose.
> A critique of a strawman of empiricism, is not really a justification for an alternative truth system (mysticism.).

That's over my pay grade, but yes, I understand what you are saying.

I think that "knowledge" in the case of mysticism is just "knowing" something to be true or not, but not having the rational understanding of it. Maybe that's still off, so thank you for helping define it better.

Regarding the last comment, I was saying that some believe that believing something to be true makes it true, but I'm not so sure about that for myself.
Simple vertigo treatment rejected by experts (2006)
I mean, what if it only beeps when it's being read and the reader doesn't mind you knowing about it? Not that it's necessarily happening but I don't see how that would be impossible.
Japanese weather satellite accidentally watched Betelgeuse go dim
I've done this too, taped a bunch of impenetrable code to the wall and scribbled on it with pen to figure out wtf was happening. I propose that this be called the "Pepe Silvia" debugging method since it looks like a crazy conspiracy chart. Eventually you'll figure out why nobody is getting their mail ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nTpsv9PNqo
Same reaction. My Tower subscription is up for renewal next month, so I'm primed to give this a try. A cursory look, however, and I find the user interface to be baffling. As one example, on loading the app presents a list of repositories to manage. Select one and you get to interact with that particular repo. But, as far as I can tell, there's no simple way to go back to the repository list to select a different repo to manage. At least, no way other than closing the app and relaunching it. Maybe I'm just used to the way Tower presents things and Fork is simply different, but I felt totally lost in the app, unsure of what to do or how to accomplish non-trivial tasks. With Tower, by contrast, all the interactions seem intuitive and straightforward. Looks like Tower will be getting my money in June as scheduled.
I don't know how you got that from my post, but I can assure you that you have misunderstood.
Some people simply cannot decouple their moral outrage from their ability to assess a situation. Good for a particular type of comedian, though it's not really to my taste.
Spoken like someone that wasn't around for the 2008 crash, but not the 1980, 1982, 1990, or 2001 once.

Iron Law: During recessions capital always takes care of it's own and foists the losses onto the working class.
That's not really the same. Investing in some companies adds value to society while "investing" (more like gambling) in crypto does not.

For example, some tech and semiconductor companies, because the whole world benefits from better compute (research for vaccines can be done faster; imaging for medical equipment results in better diagnostics; cars, engines and batteries can be simulated better and made safer and more efficient etc.) The whole world benefits.

"Investing" in crypto on the other hand, added zero value to society, or actually added negative value through the environmental damage being done.
And you did what, moved into a van down by the river or moved into another overpriced house immediately after?
Teachers are not waiting. I know of several who retired mid-year. That NEVER used to happen.

Covid didn't break their back--shitty parents did. Covid just ran the parental shittiness meter up to max.

And, to put a cherry on top, practically all teachers now have multiple students who actually had a parent die. In a normal year, that would be rare and that child would get lots of counseling. With Covid--it's too common and the teachers have to deal with it. Just like everything else.

And people wonder why teachers are quitting ...
Not one but several individuals have done just that, sometimes going into excruciating detail. James Lindsay (of the hoax grievance studies fame, co-author of "Cynical Theories" [1] - a book which goes a long way into answering this question) has lately made a career out of describing the ins and outs of these things [2 (and elsewhere on that site)]. Charles Pincourt (with Lindsay as editor) wrote Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond [3] which is a more practical description on how to combat this ideology where it has taken hold. There are many other sources but these are a good start.

[1] https://cynicaltheories.com/

[1] https://newdiscourses.com/tag/critical-education-theory/

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59606831-counter-wokecra...
Glad I'm not the only one. Got down to 20 possible words, but could not think of any that were valid choices given the letter/position constraints I had gotten to.
From experience, the first M.
You should come to southern Spain. Here, no one speaks English.
> Yes yes, you are only gambling your "winnings" that you won earlier, it doesn't make a difference here.

It makes all the difference because you don't know what those "winnings" are, and what you're potentially wagering them for depends on what they are. So ultimately you're not really wagering anything. (Again, I think this is the crux of the "paradox".)

> Look, you made the claim that expected value doesn't matter for anything at all

I never meant to claim it doesn't matter for "anything at all", just not for this envelope game. (Apologies if the meaning of "at all" was ambiguous in my original post.)
I tried a few of these in one of the available CLIP-guided diffusion notebooks, but wasn't able to get anything that looks like DALL-E meanings. Not sure if DALL-E retrained CLIP (I don't think they did?), but it maybe suggests that whatever weirdness is going on here is on the decoder side?

All the cool images that DALL-E spits out are fun to look at, but this sort of thing is an even more interesting experiment in my book. I've been patiently sitting on the waitlist for access, but I can't wait to play around with it.
A small pedantipoint, the big unveilings started years before that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-XwPjn9YY
For example if you want to go buy a rental property [classic "passive" income route - and yes loathe are landlords i know) the price at which you would buy the property currently would put pressure on having unsustainably high rental rates such that you have to make a bet on the price of the asset going up significantly over the next twenty years.

Current rental rates (in my city) would require pushing tenants to untenable rates and even then you would only be covering principal payments and maybe property tax. Interest is out of pocket. So you tie up a heavy capital load for twenty years on the hopes of an escalating market. If you end up in a recession you end up holding an overly expensive property that you now have to pay for yourself.

I am not saying feel bad for the land lord - I am pointing out that that assets are very difficult given macro conditions to find that look attractive in the medium to long run at current valuations.
Oil price:

>Rather, supply, demand, and sentiment toward oil futures contracts, *which are traded heavily by speculators,* play a dominant role in price determination.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/determini...
Good to know. I'm just thinking it might be useful as a default.

I'm also thinking that it's related to that "why didn't Outlook end up using 'subway diagrams'?" question: maybe strict chronological ordering isn't necessarily the best focus for commit ordering with respect to "top-level" merge commits.

Anyway, not a direct criticism of your app specifically, more just a long slow stewing of my own thoughts on the subject that I likely won't ever get around to even prototyping, in case they do congeal into something worth prototyping. You are certainly ahead of me there by having built a thing, and I appreciate that.

Right now I don't think enough people appreciate the idea of --first-parent as a default in as many views as possible (especially as opposed to how many seem to prefer squash/rebase-based workflows solely based on gut reactions to how the "subway diagrams" can look), and I like mentioning that in case it sparks ideas for other people to maybe find workflows that they like more than that (and can take advantage of the 2D nature of the git DAG possibly better than "straight line" approaches).

I'm probably rambling at this point, because yeah I still haven't quite found the right "shape" of this idea and it is interesting to think out loud about it.
Coffee and tea have a lot of secondary ingredients that are beneficial in other ways. Or not beneficial - coffee has a lot of good minerals in it but also the oils and acidity aren't good for IBS sufferers and IIRC are bad for the heart. Paper filters or Swedish coffee (that one where you make it on the stove with eggshells) help there.

Just for stimulation though, there's also theanine and theobromine you're missing for a better high.
you seem to be describing the tragedy of the commons, not economic rents.
This one is still pretty close though.

You need to be able to trust that your doctors guidance is genuinely what they feel is best based on their training and experience rather than a sponsored treatment they have been paid to prescribe.