skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What is then supposed to happen is that profits are taxed sufficiently, feeding back in to the system, but that part appears to have broken down lately.

How do you figure? Tax revenues are basically at all time high, and going up further.

Consider that 40% of US GDP now is collected in some form of taxation.[1] 40 cents of every dollar earned is taxed and spent as the government chooses. This is more than between FDR and Regan, and much more than the 20s (~15% of GDP)

Also consider that size of the pie has also increased! US real GDP per capita (accounting for inflation) has grown ~4x since the 1940s, and total GDP has grown ~20x! [2]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Federal%...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
My favourite resources for FEM were the book and courses that Hans Petter Langtangen (RIP) wrote at Simula. FEniCs made FEM so easy, it’s truly an excellent software project that is unfortunately not as well known as it should be within the community.

http://hplgit.github.io/num-methods-for-PDEs/doc/web/index.h...

http://hplgit.github.io/num-methods-for-PDEs/doc/pub/index.h...
Crows are capable of recursion, scientists claim
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29119180
Oh, there’s definitely value in seeing that in a PR diff. I don’t think that’s a management thing per se.
From my experience, people with higher social status (and thus money/power) tend on average to be somewhat smarter, but not by a large margin.
Yeah, they are great! I usually have like three virtual desktops with two monitors, so it's 6 screens. Switching between them is also much better than it used to be couple of years ago.
Just describe your sorted list as "a balanced binary tree with implicit child links" and then you get credit for being fast, space-efficient, and using fancy data structure.
Hold my beer, says DigitalOcean, who are far ahead of Linode, and even other classically laissez-faire providers like Hetzner and OVH for originating scans and abusive traffic.

Second only to China’s major networks is quite an achievement!

https://viz.greynoise.io/query/?gnql=last_seen%3A1d
FYI for others:

It starts on page 6.

It's just 17 pages long, and is very conscious about keeping the reader's attention.
interesting thanks!
Switching a few key libraries like OpenSSL to using quantum-resistant cryptography is WAY WAY easier than constructing a viable quantum computer (in secret) that is able to break 512 bit or 1024 bit key RSA.
There's proof and then there's the recommendation that you ask for when trying to find your next job.
Very interesting. And indeed, especially being adjacent with the very interesting “golden ratio” comment, this shows that there is more than one definition of “best” dependent on the task, and that one always needs to verify their hunch by actual profiling.
They're not claiming it does either. They're claiming their engineered plant cleans the air like 30 normal plants.
Do you mean Cloudflare is sitting in front of torrent trackers, or something else?
> Otherwise just go for any "general" server

That's exactly what I tried, and failed, to do. As far as I was able to discover, including via the site being discussed here, there are no such servers currently available for new signups.
I actually read through the introduction and got to about page 6 when I realized that most people making comments here aren’t even going to do that. I agree with you, it’s not hard to read this and to have an opinion. But most people won’t even bother reading the first page. Becasue, internet.
Why continue to use the incorrect and offensive term “indians”? You even quoted it, so I’m confused why you used it at all.
I’m only missing the simple/centralized everything.

I’m not interested in any kind of community/network/discovery effect. I know which people I want to follow so I just want to find them, be fairly sure it’s really them, and then only read their tweets and retweets.
This sounds interesting. Just generated a summary.
Also, no one advocates banning single use syringes.
Top seniors at my job almost write no more code. They mentor, teach, design, troubleshoot etc. By Musk metric, they should be fired even if they basically run company systems.
The Birdwatch note also assumed he was using lifetime risk of dying in a car crash, which he wasn't (I double checked).

I am not 100% sure that miles traveled is the most meaningful statistic, FWIW. Wouldn't it make more sense to use hours spent on each form of transportation?
That is part of the less pretty side of how unions perform their capitalistic functions. Killing companies that threaten established worker rights, so as to not get races to the bottom. For another example they should also cull companies or even industries that have become so unproductive that they can no longer compete on compensation.

> Accounting for selection effects and the potential endogeneity of unionisation, the results show that increasing union density at the firm level leads to a substantial increase in both productivity and wages.

https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/130/631/1898/5824627

> After controlling for differences between studies, a negative association between unions and produc- tivity is established for the United Kingdom, whereas a positive association is established for the United States in general and for U.S. manufacturing.

https://library.fes.de/libalt/journals/swetsfulltext/1755676...
> I wouldn't worry too much about safety once its small, there is minimal amount of harm caused by ultra cold or ultra high vacuum

In a previous life I worked with NMR machines, the ones with superconducting magnets cooled by liquid helium which is itself cooled by liquid nitrogen.

I would dispute "minimal amount of harm", part of the our training involved what to do if the magnet quenches, I recall "run for the exit before you suffocate" was basically the SOP...

Anyway, they were loads of fun to work with, I won't ever forget that time I nearly had my house keys snatched out of my hand by one, but back then (25 years ago) they occupied entire rooms. AFAIK they still do.

OT but I had an MRI a couple of weeks ago, and forgot to take off my gold wedding band. I could distinctly feel the magnetic field pulsing in my ring as the scan started. After a brief moment of sheer panic I realised it wasn't a problem ... and as I lay there I was idly wondering about just how much gold was in my ring :)
Really depends where you live, but I suspect for most of the globe that is true(though not necessarily for most of the population).

In that case, just open the windows! Or use a heat exchanger if the temp isn't reasonable outside.

But, I was imagining a house sealed up with perfectly clean air and then "dirty" outside air getting in
Something similar was already done in Soviet Union with glass containers (standard for obvious reasons) - instead of being recycled the usual way, they were washed and reused, so you could return them for a non-trivial fee[1]. I wonder if the only reason it doesn't work in the US for big companies like Coca Cola that have existing distribution network that could be used to e.g. collect intact standard bottles for a discount, is it's just not worth it, cause everyone is too rich to bother returning the bottles. Or maybe the US is more efficient so it's not worth it economically to bother collecting, transporting and cleaning them (or maybe it wasn't even economical in the USSR, I dunno).

[1] the joke is, the first derivative of a drinking session is another drinking session you can have with alcohol purchased with bottle return fees from the initial one; and a really good party must have a non-zero 2nd derivative.
It's completely true.

FY21 AMD revenue 16.4 billion dollars

FY21 Intel profit 43.815 billion dollars
Super interesting thanks, I'll have to read up on the Danelaw, first time I've heard of that!
People do that to allow them to run the software video decoding decryption modes of widevine and similar -- but typically that is limited to lower resolution videos. To use the higher resolution like 4k streams, the browser will load the widevine lib (which is closed source) and then will try to determine if there is something like a trusted execution module that will allow decrypting the video frames with the hardware video decoder in a trusted buffer that can be sent out to the display without being accessible to the kernel or userspace. So unfortunately it is not trivial to work around with software -- but of course working around it via hardware is pretty much always possible one way or another even with HDCP.
I worry Twitter won’t be around forever. And a lot of the people I follow on Twitter moved to mastodon already.
See also: Renoise, a modern cross-platform DAW/tracker hybrid

https://www.renoise.com/
> The public should confront all claims - no matter the source - with ample skepticism and indeed an assumption that the information is likely false unless proved otherwise.

I'm 100% for parodies, but this is a nearly impossible burden for the public.

For example, if you don't have medical training, how would you go about proving a medical fact? You could spend years educating yourself and doing experiments, or like most people you could find a source that someone else recommends (a friend, Google, etc.) and choose to trust it. We don't prove the fact ourselves, we just assume that someone else before us proved it, but we can't verify their proof as we often don't have the knowledge, time or tools to do so.
I’m going to let you in on a secret: people can have deeply held beliefs. Yes, some people are dishonest about their opinions for political or social advantage. However, a knee jerk reaction that people vocally expressing an opinion you disagree with are simply posturing or virtue signaling is a form of denial.
You might also enjoy llvm-mos, which allows you to use very decent versions of clang on the 6502!

https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Welcome
> The possibility for argument already proves my point.

Was just correcting something wrong:

> But as a heads up, Map<string, JsonValue> couldn't be representation of all valid JSON documents.

So,

> As much as I can just happily ignore JSON because I don't do webdev

I think this is why you're going wrong here. JSON is pretty much a solved problem, and Map<string, JsonValue> is pretty close to how it's used in Java and other languages that don't have native types that match its structure (like javascript and python do).

> (Trivial example, as an embedding in an HTTP response object)

This isn't json, it's what you get when you stringify/dumps/convert the json into a different datatype. When you need to be specific it's often called a "json string".
NASCAR manages to pull in spectators though.
Very interesting and eye-opening talk! I checked one of my old Reddit usernames (I don't really use Reddit anymore) and was gobsmacked at how many (I thought were relatively innocuous) comments that were shadow-banned. And then others in the same subreddit that were nearly identical passed right through!

Also some of the links on your slide-deck are just as eye-popping (eg. the public-private discourse document with crosstabs). Lots of good info in there.

Good work!

However, I am not sure what to do with this information except perhaps sharing it with some people I know own Reddit (as per your FAQ), but then that makes me think "then what"? What happens then? Getting Reveddit exposure is good, but there does not seem to be a clear stated strategy of how any of that traction will be practically used.

Also, on slide #60 of your presentation you have a slide title of "There is no evidence that censorship doesn't change minds." I don't know if I am just having a slow brain day, but I was not sure how to interpret this in the context of what you were saying and the bullet-points on the slide itself. It this just meant to be a more non-committal version of "Censorship changes minds"?
Used it in its infancy for my PhD work - absolutely loved it, despite its teething problems. Also +1 for Langtangen!
Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving
It's been a month that Jadi (real name: Amir Emad Mirmirani), an Iranian geek, has been imprisoned in Iran's most notorious prison called Evin in Tehran.

In Iran, he is one of the most famous people active in the field of programming and computer education. In his personal blog[0], he has been writing about technology and society for years. He has also a YouTube channel[1][2] to teach and encourage Iranians to programming and Linux, and a podcast[3] that has been explaining technology and science news along with his comments for several years. All this in a country with a dictatorial government where standing in the right place has a heavy price.

His arrest occurred on October 5, a few days after the recent nationwide protests[4] began in Iran. Arrest at home with beating. The reason for this is not yet clear, but it is probably due to his efforts to increase awareness of the society about Iran's internet censorship system, and his positions against a company called ArvanCloud. Many claim this company help the government of Iran in implementing the internet censorship's system (something like Great Firewall of China). In Jadi's own words, this company has made it possible for the government to turn the Internet into an intranet at any moment and block people's access to international services. Something that happens in every demonstration in Iran including right now.

The reason I am writing here is to raise awareness about him, which may lead to his release. All this may be nothing more than a false hope, but it is what I can do. From the news he covered in his podcast, it could be guessed that he is one of the regular readers of Hacker News. Perhaps hearing your support here will boost his morale behind bars in Evin. The prison which is also known as Evin University due to the number of educated political prisoners [5].

[0](Persian) https://jadi.net/

[1](Persian) https://www.youtube.com/jadimirmirani

[2](English) https://www.youtube.com/geekingjadi

[3](Persian) https://castbox.fm/channel/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%AA-%E2%80%93-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%86%D8%AA-%7C-%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF-%D8%A2%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF-id22150?country=us

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Prison
The point I'm making is that public health officials were making "decisions about other people's lives" despite being "a small group of people (or one person), unaccountable to those impacted by the decision, with a massive interest in the decision". Those people are not morally or intellectually superior to Musk, far from it. There was simply no moral culpability for defying public health during COVID - it was and still is a tyrannical and expertise-free group of people that should not have any power or really, exist at all.

Musk was correct that COVID was wildly overblown and similar to flu. Fauci himself said it was flu-like back in March 2020 iirc, because it was. Musk is meanwhile highly accountable; people can just not buy stuff from him. You can't get public health officials out of your life that easily.
I'm not convinced this is bad for Twitter - if they reduce their scope with it.

They should open the API back up and let third party developers step in and start doing all the stuff - filtering for example - that they don't do a good job at.

Just be a login and a platform.
I'm unhinged? Hmmm...

This is "no true scotsman". The ideas underpinning Communism, Marxism, Socialism, and Social Justice are intrinsically linked and overlapped. Castro himself supposedly said "No hay comunismo ni marxismo, pero... justicia social". At the core is the proposition that certain classes / socio-economic groups are "oppressors" while others are "oppressed", and that we in the present must right the social injustices of the past. None of this is controversial or a mischaracterization.

My professors at Brown of course advocated for socialism and social justice, and I too drank the kool-aid while I was there. I graduated 15 years ago so good luck finding links :) (As an aside, there is current a prof of econ Glenn Loury who publicly takes the anti-social justice stance, he has a YouTube channel. Other profs I knew such as one who escaped the Cultural Revolution in China are surely opposed to it as well, but they keep it on the DL.)

Back to the original post, employers who play the SJ game find their employees dividing themselves into oppressor and oppressed groups, and starting grievance wars which ultimately distract from the mission of the company. It's a silly exercise at companies like Twitter where most employees would be within the top 0.5% of wealth worldwide.
Counterpoint: I stopped using Linode after nearly a decade because their support is so absolutely garbage. We were paying ~$5k a month and couldn’t get anything but absolutely dog shit canned responses. It was a few years ago but I’m still upset by it. Truly awful support.
I should note that, in the western US, a lot of the land use fights are over things like ranching land, where the users of the land don't own the land (it's BLM land--owned by the US government).
$179?! What's the performance compared to $25 worth of furnace filter taped to box fan?
I’m pretty sure that’s just the typical watering requirements of pothos. It’s an extremely neglect-tolerant houseplant.
Much of the history of the Internet has been exactly like that. New services (or new-you-you) constantly going down with an influx of new users, services (like email) that allow anyone to set up their own machine ... this mild and temporary inconvenience is familiar. A week from now it will be fine.

But I think that's the important point. Right now, there's nothing wrong with Mastodon. Mastodon is working fine. A couple of servers that people commonly encounter first are having growth issues. But those servers aren't Mastodon any more than Gmail is email.
It doesn't even define the acronym!
>> hoarder logic.

And the US intelligence community is the greatest data hoarder on the planet, rivaled only perhaps by the combined forces of facebook/google.
> fire and rehire

That'll cost you dearly. If the guy you're jerking around like that has any sense of pride, he won't come back for the same salary he was satisfied with before getting fired.
Anarcho-Syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker

Government in the Future by Noam Chomsky (essay/lecture)

The Anarchist FAQ (Online)
I need zebra patterned socks.
>yearly interest payments of roughly 1bn

This is on top of the principal? They pay 1bn every year and none of it counted against their debt?
The flies might still hang around for a slice of pie.
CO2 emission from plastics is pretty small. Only 4% of fossil fuels goes towards plastics, and they mostly last so long that that doesn't even turn into CO2. If CO2 is your concern, there are much larger producers to focus efforts on.
Not exactly. As I understand it furnace filters will just filter out particulate matter which is measured on the order of micron. It doesn't really do much for VOCs, which are measured on the order of picometers(0.2 microns = 200,000 picometers).

You need another filter like activated charcoal which works differently than particulate filters (adsorption vs merely trapping particles in a winding path)
If you are working stationary, you might as well neutralize the weight with industrial pulleys, as they are used with robot cable packages and other situations were too much weight is in equipment for the work required.
Exactly this. Mastodon seems to still focus on the community aspect of federation, yet few people want to have one or a few interests/groups. Decentralization is a great idea for operating, but I’ll never see the point of a “node” where I have more interest in interacting with those on the node than with others.
Are you using the hobby license for professional work? Or do they drop the price to less than a dollar a day if you ask nicely?

Licenses that you are allowed to use for commercial activities are a lot more than a dollar a day according to their website.
There is a YouTube video from megaprojects about how mechs are actually pretty bad war machines. I suspect it's similar for sports.

A wheeled, tracked, or flying vehicle of similar size, weight and cost is always superior. It's just a fundamentally inefficient way to go about building and locomoting a machine.
Amazing what emergency powers and justification can allow you to circumvent.

Also, why the hell does this matter other than to imply conspiratorial intent?

>Palantir has provided technology used by the CIA and controversial US immigration agency ICE.
This doesn't make too much sense. For example, (on 64-bit Linux) long, unsigned long, long long, unsigned long long, double, void*, char*, int(*)(int), []int are all stored in exactly the same way: they are a 64-bit value somewhere in memory. You could argue that double is different since it's just packing a mantissa and exponent, and that signed is actually a sign bit + a 63-byte number, but that still leaves long*, int(*)(int) and long being the same thing: a 64-byte number. Not to mention that struct X { long X } has the same representation as well most likely.

Instead, it's more normal to think of types (primitive or not) as descriptions of what can be done with a particular kind of value - from this point of view, it's obvious why long* is a different type than long (you can dereference it) or int(*)(int) (you can't call it). With this new definition, we can also see why we may want to distinguish EmailAddress from String - you can send an email to an EmailAddress, but you can't send an email to a String; conversely, you can sort the characters of a String, but you can't sort the characters of an EmailAddress.
Some teams (accessibility, diversity & inclusion) were fired because Elon doesn't give a shit about those areas. That has nothing to do with lines of code.
At this rate they'll be manufacturing 0nm chips soon, and in a decade they'll be on -1nm.

But despite the weird naming scheme, it's clear from transistor density [1] and GPU prices [2] that foundries are still making progress in transistors per dollar. That progress is just barely beginning to make large neural networks (Stable Diffusion, vision and speech systems, language model AIs) deployable in consumer applications.

It might not matter whether your cell phone renders this page in 1ms or 10ms, but the difference between talking to a 20B parameter language model and a 200B net is night and day [3]. If TSMC/Samsung/Intel can squeeze out just one or two more nodes, then by the middle of the century we might have limited general-purpose AI in every home and office.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count#GPUs

[2] https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/video-card/

[3] https://textsynth.com/playground.html
My problem with assertions is that they can be turned off. I've seen things that could never happen happen in production on daily basis.
What do you mean? The outside air is also typically an unwanted temperature (although heat exchangers can mitigate that) and may contain allergens or particulates from smoke or exhaust.