skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To establish the reliability of the person saying this, here's them a bit later in the thread:

> the US government is running concentration camps and Palantir is directly responsible for putting people there

But then again, these tweets are from June 2020, and the world looked very different back then. This might have seemed like reasonable critique.
>There's an 80 year old guy who did it in half the time

Isn't that worse when it comes to travelling? I'd rather experience 7 things in 7 days than 7 things in 2 days.
my reading of this is that the long tail and media distribution via internet means that there are now largely popular rich celebrities in a subculture of your culture that you do not know about, you don't even know the subculture exists.

Let's take Science Fiction fandom, 40 years ago, people knew it existed but probably couldn't name most of the people. But a lot of people who were not in that subculture could probably still sort of identify the top lights of that subculture, er Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov might be identified as science fiction writers by people not particularly into science fiction. Isaac Asimov's autobiography the second part was full of anecdotes of him meeting famous people and having them somewhat be familiar with who he was which he thought was nice, not so much focused on his breast-grabbing routines though.

This guy however is just a little bit future shocked that there exist niche celebrities by virtue of the internet that are wealthy and he does not know who they are at all or what their niche is. This might also have existed in the past, but I think probably most people knew a niche existed (rodeo rider, huh yeah I heard of that), so yeah I do believe the internet has made it that you cannot keep up in what in the 'old days' would be thought of as part of your culture.

on edit: although to be clear knowing that Asimov is a Sci-Fi writer in the old days was akin to knowing that Addis Addaba was the capitol of Ethiopia, you knew basically enough to think you knew something but didn't really know anything useful.
Assume (I don't have an Economist sub) it's based off this paper
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/BFI_WP_2...
Others include this from 2015
https://sci-hub.se/10.1111/isqu.12143

What the data explicitly shows is that night light intensity increased faster than GDP increased in countries classed as "free" than countries classed as "non-free". (the model itself makes no assumptions that the most democratic countries report growth figures accurately. An alternative interpretation equally compatible with the data is that democratic countries deliberately underreport their GDP growth, but that's a lot sillier than assuming autocracies lie, or exaggerate more)

The obvious perturbing factor is that countries classed as "non-free" also tend to start off poorer and more inegalitarian (the link between the two is generally assumed causal, but both ways causal) so the oilfields raking in cash doesn't necessarily translate to more electricity for the average citizen, and the countries classed as non-free are on average growing faster (even after taking into account the estimated inflation of the GDP figure) and since it's not estimated on a per capita basis the GDP figure grows through population growth. Economists can try to control for this, but controls aren't perfect. The "free" countries are also a relatively homogenous group of countries which started relatively wealthy and experienced modest GDP growth with relatively little disruption or demographic change.

Satellite light data also isn't a particularly great proxy for citizen welfare. It's an indicator as it's broadly proportional to increased access to electricity (and its regional distribution) and light intensity growth correlates well with GDP growth. But those "free" countries tended to have affordable household lighting everywhere anyway; the extra light being pumped into mall car parks and advertising hoardings and bigger traffic jams are pretty loosely linked to the welfare improvements we've experienced since 1991.
65 year old, very healthy for my age, apart from the damage to my body as a young man.

Your heart is a muscle just like your bicep.

Exercise your heart with cardio exercises and it will grow bigger and stronger just like doing weights to increase your muscle size and strength. I used to cycle 15 miles every morning and at 55 years of age I had a resting heart rate of 50 bpm.

I have a huge heart both physically and metaphorically.

I have been eating a Keto diet since before it became fashionable.

Excess carbohydrates, the modern phenomena of fast foods and obesity, leading to a slow death.

I changed to a keto diet when one of my therapy clients had terminal cancer and I wanted to learn more about cancer. I read a research paper back in the late 90's that mentioned how cancer feeds on sugars and carbohydrates which are in fact sugars. Simple really, No food for cancer no cancer. Our brains prefer to live on fat (ketosis) not sugars.

Avoid hard labour jobs.

Before I trained as a psychotherapist I worked in the building trade for 20 years. I spent half my life on my knees and humping heavy stuff around all day. Now I have painful knee problems and lower back problems.

Keep reading, learning new stuff and doing human things.

Avoid the likes of zoom and any digital screen forms of communication. We, as humans, cannot read and engage with another human being through a screen. We miss all the wonders of micro-expressions and bodily expressions in our fellow humans.
Nord stream 1 was finished in 2011 but Nord stream 2 finished in 2021. Even with lousy maintenance, one year old pipelines shouldn't break by corrosion, concrete cracks or fatigue of materials.

Four old and new pipelines breaking in exactly he same day or week is very suspicious. Shouldn't happen, unless there is a common cause and they are correlated somehow. I assume (could be wrong) that Nordstream 1 and 2 don't run exactly by the same location in the sea bottom so one minor explosion in the old one shouldn't affect the other one.

If is not fatigue of materials, only could be (I'm speculating) the pressure raising in the pipes for some reason until blowing it. I don't know if this can happen with the pumps stopped or a half speed, but looks like a plausible cause.

In any case a drone with a small explosive charge was found yet in nov-205 near the Nord Stream pipelines not far from the location that was damaged in 2022.
Basically xpcom and XUL can be treated in same way as gnome-shell.

XPCOM was a object model from the 90s and had several legacy issues. On top of that was XUL and XBL were obselete by improvements to web api and was badly mainatined. Like Gnome-shell, xul extentsion were monkey patching firefox internals. So firefox was limited on certain security and performance improvement. By removing old addons, firefox could start replacing the mess of the old subsystems. XBL was removed for example and xul I think still exist but a fraction of the former self. I don't think the can remove xpcom until they can port a 50% of firefox to rust though
Just wait till he finds out there are languages other than English, and they have internet too.
How rude it is for eight billion other souls to go on existing, and without even giving such basic consideration as to notify me of their doings. /s
Let's assume there were 150 "cancer treatment breakthrough" stories in that time (about "every other month"). Then it is a reasonable guess that any "cancer treatment breakthrough" improves survival rate by 0.1 percent points, far below the effect size that could be reliably demonstrated in an academic study. Which is great, but not what the layman reader would take from such a headline.

"Breakthrough" implies "you have to update your mental model" - but no layman has to think differently about cancer treatment after reading this story.
To be honest, if your JWT access token expiry is over ten minutes from creation and you have no way of invalidating tokens, you are doing it wrong.
Or plot twist, the year is 4765. Turns out physics is deterministic, the universe still may or may not be a simulation, but that hardly matters because the only variable in it is human experience. While interstellar travel remains impossible, we can perfectly simulate any point in spacetime to enter as our reality. We create our own multiverse out of curiosity, powered by other verses we simply run backwards to restore entropy. We no longer know what's a simulation, nor do we care and choose difference experiences for lifetimes for infinity.
what's the result though if you are the best linocut person in the world and aren't succeeding but you see the 82000 results of people evidently succeeding with something worse than what you offer.

that must suck worse.
> I think people just can't handle the complexity of distributed decision making, so are consistently biased to believe that small, centralised & appointed authorities make better decisions than the hive mind.

I absolutely agree with this. There is a natural process that occurs, where people are able to route around or resolve problems with no authority to "help". It is our natural state. In fact I see authority as a parasitical attempt to control and steer individuals at mass for the personal benefit of the parasites. Still, government has become an entrenched habit it seems, with many people still believing it is worth the ~40% of their income they pay for its wars, military, governance apparatus, etc.

Nb - we do not have democracy - we have representative democracy - we do not have a say on any of the thousands of decisions that government makes in our name, the person we elect chooses on our behalf, and can even do the exact opposite to what they promised with zero repurcussions! Hurrah, what a system!

> Dictators cannot manage multiple constraints simultaneously. Democracy is just better at resource allocation. Insofar as somewhere like China remains ahead of somewhere like India, I think it depends on the ability of the CCP to simulate a typical democracy internally.

I think you're dreaming that the CCP works on democracy! But, it is the chosen, future system. We will have (perhaps already have) citizen scores. We will be run (overtly, in future) by an unaccountable, technocratic elite.
You need to factor in that China is pushing heavily for EV and Chinese car manufacturers will handle part of the demand for cheaper EV in China and other countries.

Same for India, Tata will probably not stop making combustion engines for a while but they will have to produce cheap EV for their market and abroad.

Toyota may resist for a while but they will lose market share in luxury and middle-range cars as combustion engines get banned or at least restricted in wealthy countries and will remain too expensive for emerging markets.

So Toyota may end up producing the cheaper models of ICE cars only.
Ask HN: How do you get your potential customers?
I'm wondering about this.

I discovered the twitter's holy grail. Custom audience lists feature.
I turned this method into a product.

So, what is your most used and most effective method?
With all of human tech and science, why do we not have better hair management by now?

Growth, removal, color…

You’d think the richest people would want to invest in that research as they grow older.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted, I think it's a good insight. There's often more than one way to solve a problem, and ML has shown that one can solve certain problems by extracting commonalities from existing solutions, without understanding the true mechanism below. AlphaFold showed that we can "solve" protein folding without solving the underlying quantum mechanics, which is something that can probably be done in other areas as well.

That said there might be some problems that might only be solvable using a full quantum simulation, though personally I think that class of problems will be rather small.
I have a "FamilyTube" server at home with videos the kids can watch without the same level of parental supervision as when they are on YouTube.
The same issue can happen with Stripe.. They approve accounts before doing underwriting, once you hit a threshold your account is reviewed for underwriting, funds will be withheld, usually a 'rolling reserve of % of last X days of transactions' sometimes it's more. :(
Honestly, I just send a request and see if I get a 403/401 or not. With DRF you get an additional "auth credentials required" error JSON object back, so you can just evaluate that client side. Since I use fetch for my current project, I just need to check the response.
This is a good start (reachable from the top link in the home page): https://paragonie.com/blog/2018/03/paseto-platform-agnostic-...
Perhaps wasting 40% of food is economically optimal for us? As food becomes cheaper relative to other things, you'd expect waste to increase.
The UI is one of the most important parts of a machine, look at the Therac-25! The FDA regulations require a lot of effort goes into the human factors, too, and the UI definitely had to be as reliable as the rest of the device and be as well engineered as the rest.

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/human-factors-and-medica...

Honestly, the FDA regulations go too far vs the EU regs. The company I worked for was based in the EU and the products there were so advanced compared to our versions. Ours were all based on an original design from Europe that was approved and then basically didn’t charge for 30 years. The European device was fucking cool and had so many features, it was also capable of being carried around rather than rolled. The manufacturing was almost all automated, too, but in the USA it was not at all automated, it was humans assembling parts then recording it in a computer terminal.
Kinda reminds me a bit of the operations of the nation states and counties of past Europe…
And people's plans are already made for whatever days they get...

Maybe I'm unusual but I rarely have any plans further than a couple of months ahead. Whether I'll be going on any long trips in the next 12 months isn't something I have any idea about yet. It depends on loads of factors (money, weather, work, whether I can pick up a bargain, etc.)
You mean an offer that delivers an equivalent 15Y cost to buying it yourself? There's no return on the investment. If the NHS had any sense they'd in-house finance brokering; try and thumb the scales towards the raw £22.4m instead of the external £30m, by offering 15y bonds, but spending time on putting together internal bids with external finance for tender seems to be frowned upon.

Publicly Funded Infrastructure is a thing for Big projects, but what usually happens is the people asking for the money are so local and desperate that those with the money call the shots. A recently built nearby hospital has it in their PFI contract that they have to repaint the whole hospital with a specific provider every year for 30 years at whatever number they come up with. I'm not sure if the NHS trust even ends up with the buildings. Many school-improvement projects go through PFI and end up with public land being transferred to private interest. "Give us your old buildings and land, and £50m and we'll build you a new shiny one that's further away that you can rent from us forever." It's the budgetary simplicity that sells these awful deals.

Where it's important to draw the distinction between the NHS and the Bobby Bonilla deal is the UK government can generate money for public capital infrastructure through public debt and taxation. When they need money for war, state funerals, or propping up banks, they just do it and we burden the cost. They could say "We need a dozen MRIs in the next few years", raise some tax revenue, make a bulk deal, and actually make the saving the NHS was designed to make. They could in-house road building, centralise a prefabricated school building factory, employ local government services directly.

But public debt is bad and saving up is apparently somehow worse, and in any way competing with private companies [with deep ties to Ministers] is strictly verboten so we're left bouncing between external private providers and PFI.

Even before the corruption, I do understand the scale of the problem insofar as anyone can understand volumes of money that end in "tn". But shying away from it, cowering behind awful deals while losing public assets isn't a solution either.
It worked, it’s just a very small machine with an equivalently small transmitting antenna, so even with the big dishes of the deep space network it’s going to be a while before we get all the data back. We have some data already https://www.ssdc.asi.it/liciacube/ and more is on the way!
Source: https://www.sistrix.com/blog/why-almost-everything-you-knew-...

TLDR: on the second results page, each result gets <1% click through rate.

So it‘s not nobody, but statistically speaking not very many.
Do not persist or store access tokens anywhere but in-memory. You can use a session cookie as a refresh token, and use it to get a fresh JWT whenever you need.
> "integer math is allowed to panic on overflow"

This is configurable, by default with optimizations on math overflow doesn't panic in rust, it wraps around.

Obviously the kernel won't enable panics here unless in debug mode.
I don't underestand what all the fuss is. It is renewable energy. Carbon "neutral" ( although taking into account that they will use machines to cut it which run on diesel or gas - it might not be so neutral after all) /s
Nah, that's all democracy at work. The Farm Bill's continuous reauthorization since the New Deal to placate the voting populace in swing states subsidizes many crops to below their cost of production. Americans spend less of their paychecks on food than any other country on Earth. It's again a case of mis-priced externalities leading to poor resource allocation.
Based on your interesting response I would then say:

Without violating the speed of light limit, intergalactic messages are highly improbable but not impossible. The science could conceivable allow it but no practical path has been found yet.

Give it 100-200 years. If civilisation does not collapse before that, we might be able to revise our answer. It took decades of experimental research before gravity wave detection become possible. Who knows what 100-200 years of research might uncover?

Would you agree?
Looks like a very cool tool, which could make a difference in our development process. Definitely going to give it a try.
No mention of ethics on the "Philosophy" page of the documentation.

https://maigret.readthedocs.io/en/latest/philosophy.html
While I'm always excited to see Electron alternatives, they all try to address the same issues and fall short on the exact same areas.

Yes, Electron eats a lot of resources and generates big distributables. I would love to give my users snappier and lighter desktop applications while still being able to build them with front-end web tech. On the other hand, what keeps attracting me to Electron is how feature complete and well documented it is. I tried many alternatives but there is always a point where I can't do something because the API is missing.

I wish all Electron alternatives would join their efforts to make one good framework that can compete, not only in terms of performance, but features too.

So far, I've been working with Tauri[0] for a small project and found it to be working really well despite missing a few features that I needed (and that Electron has). I have high hopes that Tauri will become the best Electron alternative out there and to use it for all my future desktop projects.

[0] https://tauri.app/
I think you're supposed to do this with Stylometrics[1]. So I guess this is sort of the greedy hacky approach to try and associate users across websites.

My operating assumption of Palantir as a company is that they have a very advanced system of a similar shape that tries to accomplish the same goal of linking accounts across services, but I have no insider knowledge.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry
Houses last for centuries, a few thousand new builds in Cali is not going to make the slightest difference. I think EV will remain a niche (<15%) until they can charge as quickly as filling a tank and until their (real) range is 700+ miles.

I'd say by 2030 buying an EV would be a viable option for most. The people buying them now are usually early adopting Tesla fan-bois who are happy to pay through the nose to be a crash test dummy for self driving.
> Americans waste almost 40% of all the food that is produced in America, and for all sorts of reasons.

Put another way, free markets produce 67% more than required. When it comes to food, most populations that eat prefer a market that favors the buyer.
Nukes in space are actually not all that great. The same goes for explosions in general. A lot of our intuition for explosions come from how they interact with atmosphere, which will compress and expand, and mediate a shock wave in a way vacuum categorically does not.

A nuke is essentially reduced to a flash of ionizing radiation and a few kilograms of gas rapidly cooling and diffusing into the vacuum of space.
In a way it doesn't really matter where this came from.

NSO, NSA, MI5... boys like their toys and can hardly help themselves.

And cyber-weapons - which are persistent, portable, infinitely
reprodicble at zero cost, reusable, indiscriminate and liable to
blowback - will always fall into the hands of assholes, common or
garden thugs and bullies. There is not even the merest possibility of
strategic limitation of such knowledge hazards.

So how about stop blaming the spooks. That's a distraction.

What does matter is that the entire ecosystem of "smartphone"
technology is compromised to the hilt. And it was built that way to
make few extra bucks. Our desperate, suicidal stampede to make
ourselves totally dependent on it is the problem.

Digital self defence starts with not sticking your dick in a
meat-grinder.
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It's appears free, but advertising companies pay Google so they don't have to charge you for the cost of running Gmail https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603. And clients of those advertisers charge their customers (mostly retail) for their ad expenses as a % of their sold goods and services. So we're all paying your Gmail, society is your patron and you're a free rider. That what "I don't care" mean.

I'm happy to pay my ESP so you don't have to and so they don't collect your email data (as sender or recipient). You're welcome.
So google is trying to both kill Mozilla and keep it alive? Are they trying to create a Schrodinger's Mozilla?
Au contraire, the US is so wealthy and efficient at food production that to waste food is much more efficient than to spend the manpower to allocate or recycle it properly. (Most food waste goes into sewage and trash, which is efficient on a per worker basis.)

On the other hand, the second round of China's high speed rail investments are not expected to ever pay themselves off, and so the question as how "good" HSR is in China requires considering its positive economic and environmental externalities. There is a case to be made that given the distances and ridership involved, China would have been better off building airline capacity between cities connected by HSR (which seems to be the US solution).

The US certainly has a problem with decentralization making it harder to build large infrastructure, and the US path of infrastructure development has been corrupted by car companies, but I would argue the real vice of the US system is its failure to build maintainable infrastructure: roads are left to crumble quite simply because there are too many of them, serving too few people to make their maintenance affordable.
I admit I still don't. Would you try explaining it?