skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We elected the electable, not necessarily those most appropriate for the role.

Furthermore, in the majority of cases, we are only allowed to elect those who are pre-approved by The Red Party or The Blue Party. Both parties have biases. Worse they, like the examples mentioned, tend to leans towards self-serving (the party) and/or serving their own mwmbers (i.e., don't offer the best possible representation). It's like cliques in high school all over again.

What I'd like to see is simple. Add "None of the above" to every race. Let The People fully express themselves. Let them give the parties direct feedback about the products they're marketing. Yes, that's kind of what not voting it. Unfortunately, the fact is, the parties don't recognize that as a possible "Crap products" votes. They can phantom that. NotA would stuff it right in their face.
> “…there are so, so many people waiting to buy in the downturn with money saved that it will create its own boom.”

I think this is basically what happened in mid/late 2020. There was a short-lived crash across all asset classes, from stocks to Manhattan condos, and people piled in with the Fed and other central banks willingly feeding stimulus money to the frenzy.
From a practical point of view, if you’re already “just” using it as a media-server, wouldn’t a more realistic approach be to just install Linux on it?

That way you can dedicate almost 100% of the limited RAM to Plex and it should keep running fine?
Here's my hunch: a lot of top performers valued security during Covid and didn't move for a couple years. Late last year mobility resumed, and company went into hiring frenzy because the market was filled with top performers looking around.

At the other side tech companies enjoyed lot of growth during Covid as the world digitalized, and are now, well not yet in a crunch, but flatlining toward where their natural growth would have been if Covid didn't happen.

Pair lack of growth with over hiring and you get a readjustment.

I don't see reason to call this a jobpocalypse yet.
Yikes. After railing against hypotheticals, he says:

it seems morally hard to distinguish a
cryptocurrency trader from the millions who
deal in options, bonds, and all manner of
other speculative assets. And a traditional
investor who made billions on successful
gambles, or arbitrage, or creating liquidity,
then gave virtually all of it away to
effective charities, would seem, on net, way
ahead of most of us morally.

Okay, ignoring the fact that you can’t make billions off of trading derivatives without significant side effects— who has ever done this?

Warren Buffett maybe is the closest. He has promised to give away his fortune but he didn’t earn it in option trading. And whether his money will be used “effectively” is still an open question.

I’m sure lots of people have a fantasy of making billions and then helping the world with it. But more often the people who get there start believing that helping the world is best done by continuing to grow their own business interests. Couple that with the toxic ideas of EA and you start believing that any abuse you place on people today is fine because it’s in service of Long Term Propserity. That you never have to define what that is or exactly how your actions contribute is a feature.
At least, valuation-wise, I agree. We've been on a ridiculous, risk-on market rally for a decade and a half, fuelled by incredibly cheap money and plenty of discretionary excess, and tech stocks have been the vehicle for speculative trading. My money is on energy and associated mining sectors outperforming in the next market cycle. I think we're about to see the return of Peter Lynch style investing after the washout of excess from tech.
Is it glowing too?
Verbing weirds language (https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25), but in English, you can verb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(word_formation)#Ve...) a lot of phrases.
Sounds like demarchy to me.
What's the workflow beyond opening up the app and starting to type in a new or existing document?
It is quite measurable. Some details. At the top of .zshenv

zmodload zsh/datetime
[[ -v ZSH_TIME_STARTUP ]] && t0=$EPOCHREALTIME

and at the bottom of .zshrc

[[ -v ZSH_TIME_STARTUP ]] && echo $[EPOCHREALTIME-t0]

This is better than alternatives mentioned here which also time .zlogout - i.e. start up & shut down. Now, when I do something like

(repeat 20 ZSH_TIME_STARTUP= zsh -il -c exit)|sort -g|head -n5|mnsd

I get

0.03635 +- 0.00034

Now if I

rm .zcompdump.zwc digraphs.zsh.zwc

and then repeat the "mean,std.dev of best 5 out of 20" above, I get

0.07270 +- 0.00015

So, basically 2x faster start up time by just by doing zcompile on those two files. Also, if I re-run the (repeat..) then I get numbers within +- 2..3 std.devs. So, the numbers and run-to-run consistency all get along fine.
Calling a suspended sentence "didn't go to prison" is accurate, because you do not go to prison.

So I'm not sure what you're correcting here.
At least in part intentionally. The CIA supported Jackson Pollock (without his knowledge or consent) for example. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-did-the-cia-sponsor-jackson...
Makes sense. Was it Nick Fury who said something about as soon as the third human was born a plot formed against one?

Definitely feels like we are the root of all evil, we always find a reason to kill one another.

Hopefully we are a young species and will grow out of it eventually.
Is there a Presidential pardon that wasn't abusive of the system? From Nixon to Iran-Contra to war crimes in Afghanistan?
As proposed, that seems sure to result in a series of unattractive-to-one-side legislation backed by 1 vote requiring the other side to use 2 votes to stop.

You could 2:1 amplify the power of your votes by creating a bullshit generator and the side with the most voluminous BS would end up with the only votes left.
I don’t know if hubris is a sufficient explanation here.

Bankman is a bit hard to pigeonhole. He isn’t a textbook narcissist like Adam Neumann. He doesn’t appear to be a psycho/sociopath a la Jeffrey Epstein or Harvey Weinstein. He also doesn’t have the moral elasticity of someone like Madoff. If I had to guess, I think the relationship (which may or may not be platonic) between him and the people at Alameda is what sunk him. He got into some kind of situation there which he couldn’t deal with effectively. He has various neurodiverse traits IMHO, that make this more likely.

But who knows, he could also just be a crook who is good at maths, or the high priest of a cryptosex cult.
If you were using their browser, you wouldn’t have to worry about that :)
Easy enough hybrid fix; those people that are judged to perform well in direct sortition local area politics who also wish to further that work are in the pool for a combination draw|election for state roles .. and then tier upwards to national.

The general public get to know their national candidates first at the local and then state level, and those candidates are judged as "better than a head of lettuce" by their peers in office.

The political wing of government is essentially (ideally) just about debating policy - it's the civil service, military, and judicial wings that get tasked with making things happen (subject to checks and balances).
-Probability of Tether ever collapsing is incredibly low-

Tether has nearly $50b of cash or cash equivalents.

Tether charges 0.1% on redemptions, and min size is 100k.

It would take $50b + $50M in redemptions before we find out if this "hole" exists or not.

-Commercial Paper backing Tether-

https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports
Currently Tether states their commercial paper exposure to be 0.07%
That doesnt seem to be any significant amount.

Now you can complain that there has not been an audit. That's fair. There could be a hole. But most of the stuff you are saying makes no sense, and if there is a hole we will probably never know.
i wouldn't mind sortition as long as there was a way to at least "unelect" the person in the case that someone really turned out bad for whatever reason
Over the centuries many people have said some variation of "The total number of minds in the Universe is one" (Schroedinger). If you view enlightenment as aiming to get back to that fundamental, underlying consciousness, surely you'd be outside the simulation at that point.

Hallucinogens may offer a faster, temporary experience of that state for some people (or at least a hint that there's more than just this material world, a bleeding through to the outside of the 'simulation')
Government is theft by definition. They get your money just because they have guns and you're going to jail.

I don't think most crypto projects are fraud. I don't think most ponzi schemes are fraud.
They're just terribly poor investments and people who are too stupid to understand or people who want to gamble their money hoping the greater fool will pay, fall into it.

I know people who got rich with crypto shitcoins, I know people who got rich with MLM schemes. I never joined any.

Crypto is a technical solution to a political problem: governments own you, can do virtually whatever they want and they can print money at will.
You won't solve a political problem with tech, even if the tech is really ingenious.
Why not?

If economic conditions continued going well then they had the staff to meet their needs.

If they didn't then they'd cut the worst performing employees and anyone else they didn't want. Since every other company would also be doing layoffs they'd get no bad PR for it and low risk of employees leaving for greener pastures (since all other pastures would likely be closed).

Layoffs aren't some massive horrible thing for a company. They're just another part of doing business.
It might sound good on paper but I think in practice you would have various ways of exploiting the system or the system breaks down (what if say the left party has spent all its points fighting against tax cuts so now it doesn't have enough points to increase welfare and Healthcare programs or vice versa with the right party).
Did you ever write a book? I'd love to read up on this kind of stuff.
Browsertunnel – Surreptitiously exfiltrate data from the browser over DNS
Oh come on. We already have a working system: direct democracy. An entire well-developed country works like this: Switzerland (and quite successfully). I absolutely do not understand why it is not adopted elsewhere (except politicians egos, of course, and this is quite a strong force to overcome).
> communism DOES work

No it doesn’t. Communism destroyed itself, at the end western powers had very little to do with it directly.

Honestly I can’t tell if your whole post is sarcasm. Tanks go brr, amirite comrade?
Probably much, much faster to move the command output to a separate file and sourcing that (which requires no subshell, process substitution etc.).
I'm so lost. I'd never heard of this guy or FTX until a couple of days ago. Can someone give me a link to the best and (this is important) most succinct summary of what the hell happened here? Why did all this money vanish, and what crimes did SBF commit?
You prompted me to do some reading. I suggest not doing the same. It's a story of people who generalize their personal experiences into the state of the world berating other people for generalizing their personal experiences into the state of the world. It's a great lesson on why communicating your feelings as a man is still liable to subject you to scorn.
Question from someone who was not yet in the industry during the 2000 and 2008 crashes: during that time, were there companies which took advantage of this situation and picked up all of the available talent?

I'm surprised that Google and Amazon aren't jumping in and poaching all of these talented engineers from Meta, Stripe and Twitter.
Again, this is subjective, but I found "Luca" beautiful and poetic. Some of the dreamlike sequences about the scooter brought tears to my eyes.
I recently had the same problem with Conda's and Pandoc's initializations in Bash.

At first I did the same as the author and just dumped the output from `pandoc --bash-completion` et al. into a file, but then I'd have to deal with cache invalidation on every machine that I use. Doing it manually isn't that bad, but remembering to update the file in a bunch of machines is a bit too much ugly for me.

After a surprisingly short Google session, I ended up settling with lazy initialization [1]. Unlike the post I found, I did it all manually, though. Now I just have this tucked at the end of my `.bashrc`:

function conda {
unset -f conda

# shellcheck disable=SC1090
source <(conda shell.bash hook)
conda "${@}"
}

function _pandoc {
unset -f _pandoc

# shellcheck disable=SC1090
source <(pandoc --bash-completion)
_pandoc "${@}"
}

complete -F _pandoc pandoc

[1]: https://dev.to/zanehannanau/bash-lazy-completion-evaluation-...
Not very on topic but Siri is such hot garbage. I have dozens of screen dumps where the text is correct but the Siri interpretation of the prompt is just completely wrong.

It would have been better if they just gave me a shell-like language. Example case: “To each person in Jane, John, send text message with text 'I am on my way'”. This is completely impossible to do with Siri as is, it does not understand the difference between sending ONE message to many recipients and MANY messages to EACH recipient.
It was Russia. Even toddlers know it was Russia, ffs. They just wanted out of the German gas supply contract. Ffs, they ran "winter is coming" ads on social media for a purpose. They've warned Europe they'd turn the gas off if they helped Ukraine. Where have you been living?
Tried -fno-builtin-malloc on a hunch and it does seem to prevent the zero-initialisation logic from getting optimised away: https://godbolt.org/z/xWbEqcenn

musl probably uses -fno-builtin to disable any special handling of "builtin" library functions like malloc and memcpy?
>>You're taking a point of concentrated wealth in a system designed to create that concentration and comparing it to 1 individual and using that to support the system.

I wasn't able to follow. Could you rephrase or elaborate on the last part?
> this was the typical disruptor cosplaying grifting

Being connected and well off, should now be a sign of lack of inventive mind than having one. VCs think they are risk takers but rather go for well connected SV folks unconsciously or consciously to avoid risks. I hope these two three episodes like Theranos put some sense in them.
Conspiracy answer:

Siri: Okay, setting timer for 23 minutes
At this point a philosopher king sounds way better to me.
Ye I don't think network capability fits the design philosophy really.
That’s not a disadvantage, that’s a feature. That the way it’s meant to work.

It’s precisely intended that if a party wants to spend all its its capital opposing, then it does that at the cost of being able to advance its own policies.
Games are tricky things to balance.

When distribution is equal or in your favor, the obvious gambit here is to propose abhorrent legislation to the opposition. They will be forced to spend more votes to stop it. Leaving you with enough votes to strong arm any legislation you want.

Any minority of power no matter the margin would be effectively silenced.

Maybe it’s different with multiple parties in play but if we could stabilize a more than two party system then that changes the calculus of the status quo too.
> If they need to buy a license, that's fine, that's part of their usual business

Why not release mold linker under a dual license (open source and commercial) and sell them a commercial license?
Yes. I was a tech recruiter in San Francisco from 2005 to 2013. Recruiting from 2008 to about 2012 was much easier. 2009 was super easy. There were many applicants applying to jobs.
You have invented direct democracy (except that we don’t need parties as middlemen, the votes can be spent directly on legislations — the role of parties is limited to helping drafting legislations and recommending how to vote — and these recommendations can be ignored, of course).

Switzerland works like this. It is a good system.
You are surprised families aren't gathering around a 14 inch laptop screen to watch films?
How would you use zcompile? The help page reads to me I need to point it at a file. But which one? .zshrc?
So you’re using a populist and speculative media narrative driven by the attention economy as your foundation?
Kubelog – a graphical log viewer for Kubernetes
Hi, I've been working for quite some time on kubelog now, and I'm happy to finally share it with you.

The official website is here: https://kubelog.de/

Kubelog works with your existing Kubernetes logging infrastructure - like stern, but with a GUI.

Some highlights are:

- Tail multiple pods in one view, even from different namespaces. The log output is combined and sorted by timestamp.
- Timeline view to identify problems and navigate to results quickly.
- Search with regular expressions. Use custom colors to visually highlight, and a summary, to quickly find and navigate in the results.
- Save searches, so they can be easily reused. Mark them as default, and they will be active directly when opening a new log.
- Multiple tabs and clusters

You can find some screenshots here:

https://kubelog.de/docs/getting-started/introduction/
I've lived in Australia for 10 years. The country is one big vacuum pulling in aspects of culture from all over the world via internet, media, and immigration. That's to be expected for such a new country (Australia in the post colonial sense) but it does make for a weird melting pot of a place that ultimately is pretty void of its own identity.
> during the 2000

Google itself in that case afaik. Times are different now.
The Bellingcat book goes through several of these kind of investigations. They also discuss the potential for AI to help.

One thing they mention is getting approx time from shadows when you know the location.

That photo has a blurry date/time in it. Which lets you use shadows to find approx latitude I think.
Note that very few places have this for elected representatives during their term.

The UK recently got one: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04... - MPs can be recalled if they are jailed. Quite significant as during the Northern Ireland civil war several MPs were political prisoners.
Llandegley International Airport
True, but make even one classification mistake (and people upload stuff they don't own with the wrong license all the time) and you have to retrain your whole system for each mistake you make, as people trickle in and want their (wrongly classified as CC or public domain) stuff removed from your dataset.

It would chill the whole ML space significantly for decades, IMO, as the only truly safe data would be synthetic or licensed. This can work for some applications (e.g. Microsoft used synthetic data for facial landmark recognition[1]), but it would kill DALL-E 2 et al.

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/DenseLandmarks/
You don't put those on until you're actually in bed trying to sleep. It still messes with you that it doesn't get dark when it's late and bedtime is approaching.
Good riddance. Big tech firms have been able to make as many questionable investments as they want for far too long
> adding client web application firewalls, different, customisable jailing schemes, detailed easy to understand monitoring, file monitors, inviolable fine-grained per-io-device permissions, better Tor and IPFS integration.

How many people really care or even know about these things? 1 percent of the populace?

Privacy is one aspect, sure, but it seems to me that the majority of the population simply doesn't care one way or the other. It's not a "killer app". Otherwise, everyone would be using something like Pale Moon by now.
Both. During most of the second half of the 20th Century, the United States Information Agency pushed American culture. As for Chicago Bulls caps, the National Basketball Association doesn't need government assistance for marketing. (It won't object to sweetheart deals on arenas, but that's a different level of government.)
> I'm surprised that Google and Amazon aren't jumping in and poaching all of these talented engineers from Meta, Stripe and Twitter.

My hunch is they might be doing exactly that, even if they don't want to grow a lot at the moment since their profits and share price are lower than they have been. Poaching top experienced people can be done almost quietly, as it doesn't result in significant headcount expansion by itself.
It didn't work. If it is available as open-source, they don't _need_ a different license. Anyway, it's off-topic.
Honestly, I've relaxed about that part quite a bit.

Array tables are usually iterated with `ipairs`, appended with `insert`, popped with `remove` and so on. The difference between putting new stuff at `tab[#tab]` (the usual) and `tab[#tab + 1]` (the Lua style) just doesn't come up much.

What is a genuine mistake, which I'll never get over, is the one-based semi-open interval string indices. Representing the spot before the first character as `1,0` is just awful, and it has real consequences for interval arithmetic, which is frequent with strings. The bugs are usually shallow, but I get really creative with cursing when I see something moved by two bytes, because I got the sign wrong on some fencepost arithmetic. pretty simple: is it (a - b + 1), (b - a + 1), (a - b - 1), or (b - a - 1)? There should only be two options.

That said, it's pretty fantastic to use a language with a flaw, rather than a flawed language. I would definitely change how strings are treated, if I could, and yeah, probably zero-index tables as well, but that's about it.

The lack of multiple return values in Python, requiring changes to every call site if you decide a tuple is better than a scalar, is dramatically worse than this, and I don't see people complaining much.
10k LOC of *.c including comments and tests within sources.

Binary size of compiler is 300kb where libc is the only dependency.

My test case shows generated binary takes 3x time during execution compared with gcc -O2. Not surprising as it's not optimizing compiler.

I would say excellent.
I don't think it's the end of an era. IMHO, it's only a correction of a super-estimate mistake done during the pandemics.

People tends to believe that the current situation will last forever, the bad and the good ones.
I'll say this to anyone who will listen, we need to stop treating browsers as OS'. Whatever happened to good old desktop applications?
Something that I think might sort of provide a starting point of exploration
is this 2019 article "Hollywood Films Funded By the Pentagon" https://www.liveabout.com/pentagon-support-for-war-films-343...

Depending on how in depth you want to go you can also take a skim of this https://web.archive.org/web/20011107151615/http://www.guerri... for some search terms for a deeper dive.
> why would a VC like Sequoia invest in such firms?

I thought the rationale was already widely known by now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

Or in more charitable terms: if an investment has a positive expected return according to their model (meaning that they think they can sell their shares / tokens in the case of some VCs), they do it.
Of course it's not strictly points, but capturing a large chunk of profits that would inevitably be earned by someone in the zero-sum trade that occurs in financial markets (though traditional finance, despite the trope, is not zero sum), and donating it, means having a greater positive effect on society than most.
Why Shazam when in iOS already has all the information it needs? Title, Singer, cover art work, etc. All that info is shared by Spotify so that it can be presented via the iOS native controls, like your lock-screen
Any restrictions about how long you can keep it turned on? I tried to do this but found I'd need to flash the cam's firmware to override the 10min recording limit.

(I read that cameras which can record longer are taxed as video cameras, so they're deliberately crippled)
You’re asking a mob with torches and pitchforks for calm-headed appraisal?