skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a direct counterexample for this post.

Linux was created to meed common needs. For scratching each others' backs and sharing costs and risks, similar to investing in 1/10 of 10 risky enterprises, rather than taking on the full cost of one.

Linux does not care about "software quality, grandiosity, perfection", rather, to get/keep things working and address the needs of its stakeholders: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/our-members-are-our-superpow...
Altough the slow charging is changing. Newer models can use DC charging at 350kW, which should increase to 500kW in the future. This is unpracticle at every home, but it should lower highway stops to 5-10 minutes, which isn't significantly longer then with gas currently.
GitHub – CompVis/Stable-Diffusion
IMO there is little value in actually quitting facebook.

If you aren't using their apps and block their embeds on third-party sites it just sits there and allows you to be what our parents described as a global phone book.

I deleted everything I uploaded, unfollowed everyone, locked it down and made a backup. Most of their indeed very creepy practices are optional.

edit: this is also probably a good learning for other services: have a working non obstrusive mode to retain almost-off users.
That still doesn't exactly solve the "30% of seniors thing", though.

And quite a few of them have will have unplanned trips to do from very sparsely distributed locations (also known as "houses in the countryside") to other very sparsely distributed locations (aka "their doctor" or "their family").

Also, car loan is perfectly suitable for planned, long distance trips with lots of cargo, which unfortunately happen at the same time for everyone (they're also known as "vacations"). I would not want to be Hertz on the 15th of August in a world without personal cars - unless you ban people from traveling cross country to see their family twice a year, which might be required.

I used to bet on "small scale on demand public transportation", but it requires either "communities paying drivers" or "engineers solving self-driving in rural roads", none of which is happening anytime soon.

In the meantime, though, we have to invest in trains, bike lanes, and downsize cars at the same time as electrifying them.
Then why do people buy cars? You can also manage without running water, people did it for most of human existence, but it doesn't mean it's what we want to do. Money talks - when they afford it, a supermajority of people prefer to own a vehicle. And we're on the cusp of making it non-polluting, cheap and sustainable. Let's not blow it because "trains are marginally more energy efficient".
Getting with the times these days means adopting ipv6, not putting more bandaids to ipv4
You can use your own partitioning though? One for /, one for swap. Done.
Obviously both charts start with a filled tank/battery and ignore fuel/energy production. It only makes sense to belabor charging loss if you take the gas equivalents like fuel used in transportation to the gas station into account, and gasoline evaporative losses, and storage tank losses and so on.
For now I think it's primarily down to economies of scale, not to mention the subsidies supporting the meat industry and its feed crops.

For an example data point on subsidies, this article mention that subsidization reduces the cost of a Big Mac from $13 to $5, and the cost of a pound of hamburger meat from $30 to $5.

https://www.aier.org/article/the-true-cost-of-a-hamburger/
What a ridiculous argument.
For what it’s worth, I treat C++ as C with a basket of goodies that you can use if it makes your code better (at least in the context of performance-sensitive stuff). Things like templates and classes can help if you don’t overuse them. STL is nice for rapid prototyping and writing tests. But I agree with you it’s often the case where people go overboard with the abstraction and cause an incoherent, slow, buggy mess
> forget about rain and/or tone down the epic action set piece, etc.

But this is the stuff which make the movie cinematic and draws the audience. Hiring a stunt man which looks more like the lead might not be possible - historically this have been solved by filming stunt scenes at a distance, from the back etc. But this makes the scenes less engaging.

A set with full crew and actors present is extremely expensive. For any mistake which can be fixed with VFX rather then a reshoot, it is probably the prudent financial decision to use VFX.
Time has great value, we only have a limitdd amoint of it and getting to spend less of it in transport and more of it spdnding time with loved ones or making art is good.

Those forms of transportation are slower than cars.
That's what google does with your data and it's considered security.
LEX FRIDMAN - Lex interviews many guests about a particular topic/interest in a row and then releases several episodes on the matter, e.g, artificial intelligence, bitcoin, war, love, etc.

TIM FERRISS - Long-time fan, and I believe this was one of the shows that encouraged me to start my own podcast. He's interested in learning methods from top-performers and dissect them in the show so you can get actionable advice.

CAL NEWPORT's Deep Questions - He's been answering guest calls and always adds a more conceptual block to develop some ideas from his own writing, mainly about personal productivity, deep work, career advice, and digital minimalism.
The author seems to take confidence as being hubris even though he quotes the definition as 'excessive self-confidence and pride'. They are not the same thing but he writes as if they are. Just because you have the confidence to start a business does not mean you are hubristic, this is a weird piece, probably because it is downright sloppy.

Ah, the link at the top gets you

"The Honest Broker / trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, and culture"

Sounds like... what's the word I'm looking for?
> you can't tell people "you can't speak your language here".

Yes you can, and that has been standard practice on the Internet since forever.

Things are much better now with Unicode etc., you will still run into problems with things like directionality and non-Latin scripts all the time.

If English is the default language and if English support is always the highest priority compared to every other language, that’s effectively the same as saying “you can’t speak your language here”.

And it works the other way around too. If you build something local and support only the languages used locally, you’re effectively saying to everyone else, “you can’t use your language here”.
Probably the economies of scale that come from factory farming of animals. Vs the lower volume production of plant based meats.

The fact that its a dietary choice typically made by those who are more affluent and they are willing to pay for it.
Are you serious?? Lots of awesome new films come out every year.
> I’m confused. Why would you pay someone to spam you?

For not letting others to spam me without paying as it is happenning today hundred or thousand times a day. I have not understood your second question, but I am talking about some requirement to pay me a 0.001 dollar for each letter in my inbox. Totally payable by even the poorest cheapster among my friends.
Actually older movies (80s-90s) didn't have much special effect, I find the more realistic, rougher nature of the scenes much better than the cartoonish, hyper-polished SFX today. When you see a fire, it's a real fire, not something digitally added, etc.
I don’t believe anybody has ever suggested that bikes should cover everything.

People have pointed out that most people can use bikes for pretty much everything, but obviously there will be a need for the occasional car.
Some people will need to use cars more, other less. But if you make the simple mindset change of first planning to bike there and then falling back to the car if you deem it infeasible, we’re already most of the way.

Most of the safety concerns for bikes disappear as soon as a certain amount of bikers are in the streets and the infrastructure isn’t actively hostile to them.
Reminds me of Billing’s character quote on The Shield:

Steve Billings : I'll be back, all right - putting in my required hours, mandatory paper work. But as far as effort goes, I don't know what's between zero and the city mandate minimum, but from now on, let's call that "the Billings".
Microsoft would like to have a word with you.
There are two ways to make causal claims: by empirics and by theory. That is a theoretical claim, not an empirical one. Ideally we should have both.
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I don't understand why "the base would have to be underground" is such a deal-breaker for so many people. I mean it would suck if your whole environment is like a typical basement, but these could be quite large living spaces, well lit with plants and trees and big empty spaces. Lava tubes on Earth that are spacious and miles long aren't all that rare, and on Mars I think the expectation is that lower gravity should tend to result in larger lava tubes.

The perchlorates are a problem, but not one that's impossible to deal with. One possible workaround is to have space suits that you never actually bring inside, you just sort of climb in and out through a hatch in the back that docks with the habitat. Similarly with vehicles, they could dock with the habitat so you can get in and out without going outside.
The article is behind a paywall so not really sure what's it exactly about. New or not, they're definitely gaining popularity down here in Australia. I'm seeing more and more of those on the supermarket shelves. I treat them as processed food and occasionally have some just to understand where exactly they stand. Some of them are good but mostly utter rubbish.
Depends on how quality is measured...
I bought my first vehicule at 32, when I moved to the US.

Prior to that I was relying on public transportation, renting something for vacation, and coordinating with others.

In the US that was not sustainable.
There was such a roundabout constructed by my prior job just outside the 4k factory parkinglot entrance.

Almost everyone were going from the highway to the parking except me.

I had to wait for a bus that was going straight so you could enter or two cars going straight in a row.

It got so bad that the workers started to give way to those coming from the starved road so it sorted itself out I guess.
As a lapsed vegetarian I've always seen mushrooms as the original meatless meat. Praise be glutamates.
Except that I'd say this applies to Linux as well. The main reason why so many commercial users of Linux leave their drivers closed source is because they don't meet the quality requirements to push them upstream. Commercial work is typically done on project bases, you write the drivers once and that's the end of your job. That's not the case for Linux. Someone has to maintain the drivers, so you want the code to be maintainable. If you maintain something long term, you have to care about the quality.
What do legal framework and economies of scale have to do with you tasting it?

I have and frankly it doesn't taste like meat. Sadly.
> And if the future requires decarbonization and reducing energy consumption, wouldn't that mean that complex global supply chains will be drastically reduced, and food production will move back to a more local level?

Food production won't move back to a more local level, you lose the economies of scale. You get more expensive products and more pollution, not exactly what we want.
Also, there was a recent episode by the YT channel "Not Just Bikes" that really opened my mind to the possibility of 80% of these situations being comfortable accommodated by cargo bikes. They're really amazing and a bike-centric future in cities is actually pretty realistic.
Sure, if you were happy to have a trident card do 800x600 instead of 1024x768 like on Windows.

This after fine tuning, as it started with 640x480.
I suppose targetting bytecode takes a toll. Hy targets Python itself instead.

http://hylang.org/
Also, there are items that may not themselves generate lots of profit but do attract customers who spend a lot as well. Like if you have the plant based meats, I can probably pick up the plant based milks, and the produce, and maybe some snacks, etc.
You are spreading misinformation. The nice thing about science is, that it is based on reviewable parts. It is "open source", if you want to look at it that way. Yes, there are always single actors, which might have an agenda and some parts of science are in active discussions. But most parts of science are not.

So there is no scientific doubt about that if you jump from the roof of a reasonably high house, you will get injured or die. Feel free to demonstrate the opposite in an experiment. You don't? A good decision!

The science behind the climate change caused by humans is known for way over 100 years. Arrhenius did the first calculations in the 19th century. This is very basic science, verified by experiments and observations over and over again.

So why are you claiming it isn't? If you are into conspiration theories, try this: The oil industry is the richest. If there were any scientific evidence showing that humans with their CO2 emissions are not responsible for climate change or that climate change itself didn't exist, why wouldn't the oil industry finance research in this domain? A scientist, who could prove that could make millions if not billions. Yet there isn't any of those. Actually, it is on record that the scientists of Exxon in the late 70ies did correctly predict the global warming we experienced in the last 50 years. Because, well, the science is pretty simple and clear.
It does not incur debt. Sweden or Denmark has been having debt to GDB ratio constantly declining.

I think social democracy can work but it’s hard and requires huge discipline from government and people. Also, it seems much easier to introduce in smaller countries.
If parents agree then the school can have access, however the default should not be that they can demand access or punish parents for not providing it.
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Funny side note: the German high speed trains are called InterCity Express ... short ICE.

Writing this from one right now, going 200 km/h while having breakfast.
In 1y, 1 BTC went from USD$47,113 to USD$24,735 (365 days period). If you compare from the high point, it went from USD$67,582 to USD$24,735. Doesn't sound like a good store of value, sure it's (theoretically) better than the 500% inflation of the Turkish Lira but anything is better than that.

> [...]but after it was demonstrated that even a nuclear armed country like Russia can lose its USD reserves overnight,

That's purely due to sanctions, which can affect cryptocurrency as well due to the entire ledger being public.
It's possible that the supermarkets did some market research that misled them about how popular these products would be, but there is another option.
Supermarkets can arrange all sorts of deals with suppliers. In some cases, the supplier will pay the supermarket to stock a new product, hoping that high margin sales or even just market penetration make it worth it.
Yeah, that discipline works when you're solo, but in a team each person will have their own ideas. Mine would be to avoid using classes, and someone else would OOP it up.
All three are BEVs.
> from what I've been told most of the products just end up being thrown away because nobody is buying them

Who told you, and why do you consider them a reliable indicator, for what you imply are all supermarkets across the globe?
Nothing "fixes the problem". That is a non-argument. But electric cars are a huge step in the right direction and important in enabling the transition to renewables. Be it only by being a storage by nature.
"Good luck getting online trackers to require consent"

Except the EU pulled that one off already. When you have one of the biggest markets in the world and the ability to levy high fines, you can make companies do all sorts of things.
And if you don't read the entire book (that's fine, lots of its criticism was valid but now dated so it's of historical value)

at least read the excellent anti-preface by Ritchie. It's hilarious.
How to unionize when the studios create VFX divisions in 3rd world countries and then tell you if you want to continue your career you'll follow the jobs overseas? I was at Rhythm & Hues Studios thru two Oscars, transitioning thru programmer, digital artist and then financial analyst. I was a lead game developer before doing VFX, and I thought the games industry was bad. Well, at least in film the people are vastly more diverse, but the work is still 6-7 days a week, 10-12+ hour days.
> most of the products just end up being thrown away because nobody is buying them

There's also a problem with discovery: If the meat alternative section is directly adjacent to the real meat, vegetarians and vegans are a lot less likely to discover it.
I saw something recently where the producers of Andor were saying they used The Volume a lot less than on the Mandalorian because of the number of fast shots that simply couldn't fit in it. The Volume is great for some things but it's not a magic wand.
If you are doing so little miles, you should of course either not own a car at all or an older, used car. Which will last very long under the conditions.
>Time has great value, we only have a limitdd amoint of it and getting to spend less of it in transport and more of it spdnding time with loved ones or making art is good.

Agreed. So much time gets killed by the mathematically unscalable car infrastructure, where many many hours get killed when people are stuck in traffic. These hours are essentially impossible to make more productive as well, as drivers are unable to perform other tasks while at the wheel. Public transportation does not suffer from this shortcoming, and bicycle infrastructure is inherently more scalable and hence traffic congestion is not a thing when it comes to bicycle infrastructure. Time spent bicycling also doubles as exercise, further enhancing the time-efficiency of this mode of transport.

>Those forms of transportation are slower than cars.

Not inherently. This is a mere matter of infrastructure, nothing else. Dense urban environment and rapid transit is clearly less time-wasting than the suburban car-oriented development, in essentially every aspect imaginable.
>the benefits of writing it have to be elsewhere. In the satisfaction of a job done well. In the beauty and elegance of the code. The timeless perfection.

or, more realistically and less rose tintedly, people want to implement a functionality for their personal use case and hack together some code and libraries to get it done as quickly as possible
https://archive.ph/Xyez1
What I mean by that is that I will only do so if it will be available as a ready product in my local supermarket.
But they are not FDA-approved at this time, let alone available anywhere in the EU.
Looking at Beyond Meat you are probably right - their shares are in tatters, they are bleeding money without any prospects to break even. Maybe only second generation of meatless companies will make it.
I would assume that electric bikes are in turn beaten by electric velomobiles. Those easily go 25+ km/h with muscle power alone. As long as you are reasonable fit a motor that is restricted to 25 km/h is dead weight on those most of the time.
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Actual meat doesn't need so much marketing
I read more about your repo, and it looks like typedload only does Python lists/dicts -> typed python objects(like named tuples, data classes, attrs classes, etc). Ie, the benchmarks don't include the time required to parse the JSON.

So I modified the benchmarking code to include loading JSON[0], and your library still came out on top!

But, it turns out I was wrong about pydantic using serde under the hood. Pydantic version 2 will. And the maintainer aims for it to be about 10x faster [1] than version 1.

Nonetheless, this was definitely a surprise for me, and if I ever go back to using Python, I'll definitely check your library out!

I'm curious, why do you think pydantic took off and your library didn't? It looks like your library is both faster and easier to use to me.

[0] https://github.com/davidatsurge/typedload/pull/1/files?diff=...

[1] https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-core#pydantic-core
No government subsidies and low production volume
Well if your IP address is that much of a security risk for you, then I hope you have the discipline to never visit anything without vpns/proxychains.
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Lebanon has practically two different currencies. If you put money into a bank account now, you can access it. It's the old bank accounts that are locked unless you're willing to take a 90% loss.

What has happened in practice is that the old bank accounts contain have actually dropped in value, but the banks nor the government can admit that. Hence, this situation.

Disclaimer: I have been to Lebanon a few times, and a lot of my colleagues are Lebanese, and my knowledge of the situation comes from them.
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> the Linux levels of software churn

What are you talking about?
Not if the Fed keeps raising rates because that will make cost of borrowing high and given at this point how debt reliant the US economy is it will not be a comfortable path.

But yeah that has been my thesis as well that after a point there will be another “hedonic adjustment” in defining the inflation and that will bring down the official inflation number even though the real numbers are far higher. Just like how the housing market has inflated far more than the actual inflation numbers in last decade but the real numbers barely took it into account.
> Jung in particular has helped me deal with issues around psychosis and depression. I understand it's not for everyone, but it helped me a great deal, when little else did.

The same can be said for supernatural belief systems like Christianity: oftentimes people find them useful or helpful.

That doesn't make them true or accurate or related in any way to reality.

Your article has an authoritative tone on a scientific topic. You should fix that, given that modern science has rejected the cited models as without merit.
> ...but anything is better than that.

And how many Turkish people can hold something that is not Turkish Lira as easily as bitcoin?
I think this is under-calling both how miserable people were before the modern era and the remarkable impact good birth control has had on modern society. Suddenly there is lots of free time and a lot more choices to make than there were even 50 years ago and all the choices have unsatisfying outcomes. We live in a world that is too complex to understand, and people keep screaming that everything is about to collapse (which, in fairness, may be correct).

People have identified that both the traditional roles - child rearing and working very hard all day - are not much fun. Human society and morale doesn't cope well with hedonism. There aren't obvious alternatives. I don't see how a specific social theory could overcome these practical realities. Unusually, I don't really see economics as a factor here - everyone is, by historic standards, absurdly wealthy. Even most poor people.
>Paradoxically, this age in which everything must be measured, approved, certified and stamped, has made the amateur-professional distinction more about the rituals and symbols of quality rather than measurable quality.

I'm not sure about it. it's more about the behaviour you display. If you want a secure job it's better to display servitude and finish your degree even if you would make more progress on your own. When you want to become an artist or entrepreneur it is better to display a strong will, risk taking & inability for submission which sometimes means to drop out and follow your own thing.

I truly believe that if you want to get to the top you need to leave the path most people take with the risk to land at the very bottom.