skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Google (specifically GMail) is rent-seeking, the Republican lawsuit isn't an example of it.

The study Republicans cite only displayed a bias in the default training of a new email account that had never trained the spam filter:

> "Shahzad said while the spam filters demonstrated political biases in their 'default behavior' with newly created accounts, the trend shifted dramatically once they simulated having users put in their preferences by marking some messages as spam and others as not," the Post article said. [1]

In other words, Republican email messages are more likely to use spammy phrases. Once a user starts marking any messages as "mark as spam" or "move to inbox", the bias dissipates.

This is not anywhere close to a good example of rent seeking.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/republicans-sue-... (money shot in last 4 paragraphs)
I sometimes call this puppy language or toddler-speak - intentionally beyond childish. With extreme emphasis on emotion and attitude - which I believe is often the missing component.

We are all very very clever, but often miss the emotional part.
awesome feedback. thanks a lot. I don't disagree about project vs hourly billing either, but it's such a routine debate and sadly very common that clients _want_ hourly. In the last few contracts I've had, I've only been lucky to have 1 go project based.
> Given that most renewables average around 25-40% capacity factor when working well, 65% during a maintenance period is a pretty good thing!

Not if it's correlated, takes months, and is unplanned. And each reactor takes 5-10x as much money and resources as the same gross power. Noone builds a utility solar plant claiming it will produce nameplate wattage at night. Nuclear is always sold as if it has 90-100% availability.

> The USA already generates 20% of it's electricity from nuclear power. 10% of global electricity generation is through nuclear power. Recycling alone would reclaim enough fissile material to offset the increase in generation. Where are you getting the figure for 40x increases in uranium production? The reality is 5-10x at most - probably less than that because nuclear electric power isn't the only application of uranium.

You need to load your reactors. Bringing them online takes around 6 years of fuel -- an AP 1000 takes 100t of enriched Uranium. Your 800GW-1.2TW (minimum required to meet peak electric loads without storage, but does not touch other energy) of reactors in the US will require a 700, tonnes of natural uranium. A single fuel load for enough PWRs to make all electricity 100% nuclear world wide will require all known reserves. This is including reprocessing (MOX only gives you 15% or so more). Then you still have the other 60% of primary energy to cover.

The nuclear industry has never been at the same scale as the current lithium battery and renewable industry. And it cannot be at the same scale because it is limited by critical resource reserves -- not just a temporary limitation on extraction of a critical resource for one possible chemistry. Just matching the scale of the existing industry by installing 50GW/yr (which you've asserted is 2% of what's needed) requires doubling uranium mining.
>I think Perl's decline started 15-20 years ago, as that's when Perl 6 was "coming soon", and people didn't bother learning Perl 5 because of that.

Reminds me of the Osborne Effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
A special move being done in a crucial moment is interesting / amazing.

If it's too effective and everyone start doing it, it loses its charm.

Imagine if in Dota every game only consist of 3 tanks and 2 dps carries because it's too effective, it'll get boring soon.
Have a crew member kick in the right place to create a vortex gap and Eraknoplan it?
3D-Printed iPhone MacBook Mount
> Your usage of emojis may be different from mine, but personally I'd estimate they appear in text about once per sentence (or even couple sentences) at the absolute most. That's quite a bit lower than the symbol density in most code.

That's completely past my point.

The point is: People are using special keyboards to input their emojis. (You can even buy those as hardware gadgets!)

So there shouldn't be any issue with the requirement to use some special keyboard (layout) to input code if even causal people mange to use such special keyboard (layouts) for very mundane purposes.

> > An "international" keyboard layout gives you already a shitload of "special" signs.

> Unfortunately not always the _same_ shitload - for instance, the OS X layout for Norwegian has the seemingly-ordinary ( and ) on Option-Shift-8 and Option-Shift-9!

I was talking especially about a so called "international layout", not some country specific one.

https://dry.sailingissues.com/us-international-keyboard-layo...

http://arjenvankol.com/dvorak.php

Also for billions of people there is no direct correspondence between keys on the keyboard and the symbols they're trying to type. Just think about Asiatic languages.

There is just no valid reason to limit the symbols used in programming to the ASCII set, as in every day use ASCII was already replaced by much richer symbol sets, which are perfectly fine to use for even less techy people. Only programming languages are caught in the "tradition" of drawing some "ASCII-art" instead of just using some proper Unicode symbols. That's laughable.

Changing this would make in the end programming languages even simpler to read as, like I said, programming is symbolic by it's pure nature.

Of course there is still a kind of balance needed: Using symbols for just everything wouldn't be helpful, as nobody wants to learn hundreds or even thousands of symbols just to read code (I'm not proposing to mimic an Asiatic language, as this wouldn't be accessible). But using a health mixture of symbols and words would be beneficial. Language level features would be better encoded as proper symbols (instead of the "written out symbols" we mostly use today, like e.g. "keywords"), but most user level code like APIs in libs should still remain word-based.

APL got this almost right. Only that the code is too dense, imho, so it's hard to parse (for humans).

But a modern language that would replace for example keywords with symbols would be a step forward again.
Hrm, I went to public school in the 1980s and received a fair facsimile of a classical education.
FBI announces identity of Provincetown's Lady of the Dunes
That was not how he was campaigning, was it? Nor was it his fault he was born that way.

The most difficult attacks to stop are inside jobs.

Where he came from doesn't dictate where he was headed.

The most difficult attacks to stop are inside jobs
I get that he’s not going to slide off the track, but I don’t understand how he wouldn’t be slowed by the friction of the side of his car against the wall, though
When I was a student, I went to a programming lab one very hangover morning, new teacher. He was a bit ambitious and he had us program a visitor pattern in smalltalk, it really openend my mind on using the vtable as a flow control system.
But who is disagreeing on facts? Stolen is an opinion about whether the purge qualifies or not. The 2020 deniers have no fact based claim at all.
Yes, I thought so too

Edit: Also, I was generally quite impressed with their notes
> Tesla has no board of directors.

Do you have a source on that?

https://ir.tesla.com/corporate

Edit: oh, I see, Twitter's BOD got dissolved. The amount that people are confusing the two companies is bewildering
Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life by William Green. I learn a lot of lessons from great investors.
>From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, as-measured productivity significantly declined and then stayed at a lower level*

*in the USA.

The post-bretton woods era is one of globalization, with American jobs being sent overseas (to more productive labor forces)
Here's the bulk of the code used to generate the code they're building: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/blob/main/crates/turbopack-c...

They're building basically the same thing over and over again. This surprised me, given their intro post: https://vercel.com/blog/turbopack

Relevant quote:

> Turbopack is built on Turbo: an open-source, incremental memoization framework for Rust. Turbo can cache the result of any function in the program. When the program is run again, functions won't re-run unless their inputs have changed. This granular architecture enables your program to skip large amounts of work, at the level of the function.

I'd be curious to see if a real-world app (or even one generated with more variety in components) showed comparable performance numbers
The App Library feature is underrated. A clean screen and search is just so much better than having to scroll through page after page of icons.
Open access, interoperability, and DTCC’s unexpected path to monopoly
I went through and commented the Perl tokeniser (toke.c) back in the late 90s/early 2000s, and my mind was blown by the "is this regular expression syntax involving $ or is it a variable interpolation involving $"? logic which was basically "here are some things we might have seen, make a weighted sum of which were actually seen and then if it's greater than x, let's assume it is variable interpolation".

You'll note that we were busting that clean separation between tokeniser and parser. Yup, sometimes it's hard to DWIM and still stay in your lane.

Just checked and, thanks to the hard work of far smarter people than myself, the whole thing has been refactored and now the better code has better comments. Progress is wonderful! (I couldn't find the weighted guess, so maybe they found a way to work around it)
I work in EHR as of this year. About a week into the new job, one of the older software engineers made a comment about how what we do should really just be a function of the federal government. I was like, "but wouldn't we be out of a job of they did?" And he said, "sure, but we'll probably be dead by the time they figure it out anyway".
Not a Tesla fanboy, but it seems you're dismissing many of Tesla's accomplishments here. Unless @Kye is the username secretly used by Jeff Bezos (hi Jeff!), I'd recommend you weigh how difficult it is to build something similar to Tesla.
CVE-2019-13054

CVE-2019-13055

CVE-2018-8117

CVE-2010-1184
I worked at Papyrus (maker of Indycar and NASCAR games in the mid-late 90s and several alumni founded iRacing).

I’d introduced arcade mode and double-tap-hold to do a burnout (intended to make tight pit-out and 180° turns after wreck easier) to the Playstation version.

Inadvertently, I neglected to reduce forward traction during the burnout, so a burnout was the fastest way to do a standing start (by virtue of getting into the higher power RPM band). Made for interesting standing start races. Burnout made it into our “Hawaii” multiplayer code and NASCAR2 code; I don’t remember if Arcade mode (looser but more catchable cars and much better brakes) did or not.
The blurring of boundaries and/or the lack of separation in everything from small home tasks to personal calls and cooking and cleaning the kitchen to caring for family = chaos and complete energy depletion for this introvert. See, I almost forgot to mention work in the previous sentence. Odd how separation via things like a commute are actually needed by some of us.

While WFH has definite benefits, the downsides of WFH are numerous for roles that require technical knowledge or experience to be shared across the team, let alone inspiring team-work or team cohesion. e.g., Slacking "dumb" questions in public for public shaming and having no management correction of the behavior (because sometimes it is management) is just toxicity online instead of in-person. And bonus! It's permanently enshrined for all to see, misunderstand, and revisit.

Well, humans gonna be human. Given a choice, I'll take the hybrid schedule.
Yeah, I don't like Meta but it's great that they heavily invest their profit to xR/"metaverse". I don't know will finally "metaverse" used well , but it's exciting to see growing.
> I'll not stupid enough to give the passwords away easily?

Don't underestimate a determined adversary. Secondly, look for single points of failure and eliminate them as best you can. If someone gains access to your email, could they perform password resets?
"API first" would indicate bots only to start.
We need https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEO_Surveyor
now.
I imagine you've never really engaged in political philosophy very thoroughly?

Much like any political system you can imagine, a democratic system requires a complex web of rules and regulations to function properly. For one, so-called democracies always require more specification. Are you talking about direct democracy? Are you talking about deliberative democracy? Are you talking about representative democracy?

Democracy does not mean, by the way, the "rule of the majority" because "demos" does not mean majority but people. And for the common people to rule you need a system to encompass it. Of course, over time there have been a lot of criticism and a lot of work done in deciding which rules and which structures are the most appropriate to make the necessary compromises for our political systems to work.

To put things on perspective, in Switzerland for example they have decided that the will of the swiss people is above international treaties. And this does pose a problem, for example there was a referendum a couple years back for the banning of face covering; a policy which affects everyone, yes, but affects most a particular group (muslim women). But in most cases, swiss people have a very full participatory democracy and their political system is incredibly stable. It's not perfect, and a lot of experts in the field consider countries should never be above international treaties such as the human rights treaty that most countries have signed.

When you say "we are stuck relying on the intelligence and wisdom of the masses" you're making a pro-elitism argument. In that the masses ought to be ruled by people better than the masses; and in many ways, this is the approach countries like China have taken. To me, a big problem with this approach comes from the ego of individuals. Is it really possible to change someone's mind who happens to be in a position of power such as that? Is it easy? Personally I believe this to be a much more dangerous prospect. A good example of this can be seen, I think, in Meta (the company) where Zuckerberg is pretty much destroying the company and everyone but him can see it. Yes, this man build the company, but does that expertise translate to every future challenge? It is why we tend to prefer collective decision making, usually smaller bodies, but could there be space to make better use of bigger collectives? I think so.

So in short, I think you should probably read a little more about political philosophy to be able to say something as big as "Democracy is incompatible with freedom". It's a pretty big statement.
Probably up there with The Pass: https://youtu.be/cBthxGThBkc (wait for it)
> I suspect the OP would be perfectly fine with Wikimedia hiring translators to translate more of the 6.5 million English articles into other languages which are often considerably less developed. Or funding more development of their textbooks, dictionaries and other content. They clearly have ample funds that seem to be going to more dubious ends.

...I would rather that the translation efforts be done by the community & translation services than by the foundation itself. Pushing the effort of translation onto the foundation gives them authority over the translated material, & consequently authority on the original material itself.

In principle, I would like the scope of work for any foundation to be as minimal as possible, & to be directly related to the direct operations & maintenance of the service being provided. Any additional efforts beyond that invites scope creep & will inevitably bloat any organization with non-related work.
My explanation for the Fermi paradox is the most mundane. All our experience starting with the Industrial Revolution shows that all the various Moore's laws that we've had come to an end. We like to extrapolate to infinity, but in reality it's quite likely that no mater how advanced a civilization gets, they will never be able to exceed 1 percent of the speed of light. If that is so, then interstellar travel would be possible, but infrequent. Civilizations would consider carefully their next move to another solar system. The galaxy could be filled with populated solar systems like a spiderweb, but the strands of the spiderweb would go from one hospitable system to another one. It could be that 99.999% of the systems are not that hospitable, or are not close enough to other hospitable systems. And so, aliens could be all around the galaxy, but the closest to us could be 2000 light years away. How could we ever tell they are there? Come to think about it, how could we ever tell if some aliens were just next door in the Proxima Centauri system?
How would you handle clicks and stuff?
And in the case of new goods, only the final product sold to consumers or held in inventory at the end of the accounting period counts towards GDP. Intermediate inputs do not count. So one paper clip sold one million times counts as one paper clip.
Weird that rebuild is absent in these benchmarks.
If it was a contraction when the IRS got smaller, it seems logical to see it as an expansion when it gets larger.
No.

Any password to a bank, or credit card, or whatever dies with me. It's for their own safety. Lest lawyers in some future time come collect a bill that my dead self forgot to pay for.

Everything important is either written into a will, or has a well establish next of kin process associated with it. All other things die with me.
Built it myself: https://github.com/ysftaha/altair.vim
don't forget, these days, that once you "pay for it", you'll pay another 50-100% of it's value in rent to the gov "property taxes" over the next 50 years.
As a CEO I have learned this one the hard way: ask the workers like an adult what things are wasting their time. Economists out here like 'how do we solve the vexing problems that ail us' meanwhile the top comment is about how doctors spend 50% of their time doing paperwork. we could double the amount of doctors by hiring secretaries again! Duh.
As someone who enjoys HTML with java, images and cookies turned off, with several blocklists in the browser on my main reading tablet, a text only protocol would suit me just fine as a modern browsing standard (privacy browser downloaded with aurorastore btw).

I still use other browsers on the tablet when needed, but have dropped websites that are incompatible with basic text webpage rendering.

I also use an ipad just to watch youtube and listen to podcasts on distrowatch (i always multitask).

And use a 5g phone just as a hotspot with an LTE travel router.

As an aside, I was visiting Washington state this year just south of Mount St Helens in the spring and with a verizon unlimited MVNO (and only one bar of signal), i was unable to open normal websites to view (and didn't have a VPN configured on my devices), but lo and behold, youtube loaded just fine and played videos the whole time.

Its 2022.. I don't think browsers are going to fix the faults/toxicity with tcp/ip

A text-only browsing standard (htxtp://justwords.com server and client side) would make < 56kbps useable though :p

Build it from scratch, not from bloat and ads.

/Just my 2 cents
The original ADVENT game in FORTRAN. It was way, way beyond my pedestrian programming. It even had OOP in it: "a troll is a modified dwarf". And it did the marvelous thing of once it had gone through the world-building initialization, which took some time, it would patch its own executable with the results!

I used that trick for years until the virus scanners shut down that sort of activity. Sigh. This is why we can't have nice things.
I've not had luck with either. The application may allocate more than a single GC segment worth, so the best workaround is to detect an imminent GC and migrate the workload. Unfortunately, migration would incur even more severe penalties than a typical gen2 collection.
> an environment where social expectations and pressure don't really exist.

It’s almost inverted. The expectation is often for gamers to be as exploitative as possible. There is a lot of hilarity to be had by all with a play that gets a win in ann unexpected way, and it has quite a culture around it. It can go too far to be sure, but in good measure it’s often what is best about multiplayer games.
The biggest load of egotistical self-congratulatory tripe I've read in a long while. There is no point to this article, just the author crowing over some scientific facts he learned from episodes of Popular Mechanics. What's this got to do with computers you say? Not an iota.
Same here. Working in a global company I’m on zoom with coworkers from 6-7 cities on three different continents daily. I have much closer relationships with all of them.

The lack of a 2-hour commute is an incredible boost in energy and productivity.

Quality affordable home cooked meals, pleasant spacious ergonomic work environment I have 100% control over allow me to minimize interruptions and do deep work.

After work I “commute” to the beach for a run.

Most of my communication is in written format - organized in Basecamp, easy to locate and leaving a visible paper trail of my activity.
> stupid

Phishing victims are not categorically stupid.
A book called "Astronomical Algorithms" was written back in the 80's or 90's. It was very exciting and inspirational for me that the sun and moon and the position of planets - nature itself - could be predicted by code. It still is an inspiration for me today.
Replacing RedHat's OpenStack to acquired container platform is one of the reason https://www.lightreading.com/service-provider-cloud/rakuten-...
The proximal cause for a lot of people is military in origin ("send it" as slang for "fire", especially in a pseudo sniper context), and military usage probably derives from crossover with extreme sports community. "Military in origin" at this point also encompasses secondary media like COD.
You should ask what’s wasting their time and then do some studying to confirm or correct it. People aren’t very good at objectively reporting how they actually spend/waste their time.
interesting framing to use "historical accident" to describe the directed US gov funding that turned into today's tech sector.
Saw this recently. Amazing and frightening!
> and yes, its primary real-time chat community is an IRC channel, not some Slack/Discord nonsense

As a counterpoint, I have only interacted with the Discord communities and they've been great for all my dumb questions! I barely go a minute before getting a response when I ask something.

Whether you prefer IRC or Discord, it sounds like you're well supported by the chat communities.
“Input factors” have many imperfections, but at least they can lead to more objectively comparable metrics.

When comparing between populations, subjective measures such as surveyed happiness make for very poor and very noisy metrics - you often can’t even simply compare answers between different populations within a country. It is even dependent upon your age demographic https://archive.ph/sAzDA and there are some surprisingly counterintuitive properties to reported happiness: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easterlin_paradox

I would think that life expectancy is a poor metric, because: (1) the differences become smaller as it rises so it becomes dominated by noise, (2) it overvalues the last few years of life compared to the rest of a life, and (3) expectancy is highly dependent on how it is calculated along with parameters such as input factors, similar to those that you dislike!

In summary: intuition can often be a very poor substitute for research, and before relying on your intuition it is a good idea to look at the basics.