skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would hope that liberal young people (and we millennials) wouldn't be against paying for old people's health insurance at all. The hardest part of believing in a principle is doing so when you aren't benefitting from it.

While I have little patience for Fox News lemmings of any age, I have noticed that the relative lack of older folks in our daily "internet trenches" has caused the digital zeitgeist to take on a distinct anti-elderly tone. From lighter- hearted mockery, to blaming a nebulous organized "boomer" class for birthing every modern sin of civilization, and everything in between.

In any event, as more internet literate adults experience the full lifespan, it may create a corrective trend.

By the way, nearly every reply in this thread has been more informative and thought-provoking than the original article on Substack. A really interesting thread to follow, thanks to the contributors.
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It's also worth noting that you can skip gears. For example going straight from two to four and then six when accelerating hard. It depends on the car, engine size/power, conditions, gradient and a few other things. Same when changing down. I'm personally a fan of using the gearbox to decelerate rather than just the brake.

I'm currently rocking a 20 year old Nissan Micra "Twister" with an auto gearbox - a proper granddad car (I am as it turns out). It weighs about two kilos and has about 2 BHP but it is a bit of a Q ship. I've seen off some expensive cars at roundabouts with some local knowledge a careful choice of lane and a stomp on power when it counts. It does make some odd noises when turning right (a CV boot is quite fucked). Lane one on a roundabout is often quicker than lane two due to less curvature, unless you can transition from lane two to one to straighten it out.

An auto always has some drive engaged so a standing start is often quicker but in a manual you can stomp on the accelerator and run up say 4000 RPM and give your clutch a good old work out whilst using the brake to hold in place. If you have enough power, you can start off in second or ideally you have one of those flappy paddle jobs and stay in first for about a half second and then change up as you go.

I prefer a manual box - you feel more engaged with the vehicle but then an auto can also be played with too. You can make it change up and down when you get the hang of it by blipping the throttle and getting to know what it wants to do in certain circumstances.
Banks and trusts management firms generally have a good track record. Lately banks have been much more speculative but historically existed because they had peoples trust. Trust management firms that manage trusts have to last because it’s part of the purpose of a trust. I’d imagine a digital trust could have potential, where you add some sort of digital artifact and it’s expected to be accessible.

Churches and universities are not something I would bet heavily on in the next 100 years. Some will survive, but society may not continue to favor them like we’ve seen recently.

Churches surely have ahem a hand in the afterlife planning of many people, and a good track record for being their at time of death, but they’ve recently taken a massive beating in terms of attendance in much of American.

Universities were pretty rare a long time ago, and society has seen lots of new ones recently. I don’t know if I’d bet that any but the biggest names (endowments) eg ivy leagues, Oxford etc. can be counted on to last another hundred+ years.
> you tweet something bad, the tweet won’t show up on your followers feed

As far as I can tell, this is already how Twitter works.

I have plenty of people I follow who I almost never see tweets from anymore in my timeline, but if I go to their accounts directly I can see they are saying a lot of things.

People call it being shadowbanned.
Aside from the massive prison population growth during the Reagan years (for drug and minor offenses), it was the Just Say No campaign which was _everywhere_ during the 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Say_No

As far as I know, none of the first ladies from Nixon, Ford, or Carter were on TV regularly talking about drugs.

Edit - added: The Clinton years saw even greater rate of increase in prison population, and for most of the same reasons.
I don't like the situation either, but I find it hard to blame Mozilla for not pushing monetization hard enough. I can't think of anything more I'd like Mozilla to actually do.

I'm rather against being sold out, and suspect most Firefox users feel similarly.

Offering services essentially entirely separate from Firefox could work, but comes with substantial risk. Mozilla will be more trusted than some fly-by-night startup, at least among the techie crowd, but also can't just burn investor money and start over until something sticks. (Ironically, the only thing that comes to mind here for me would be a privacy-oriented email provider.)

The only maybe, theoretically, kind-of, plausible route I see working would be more of an open-core-esque model, where their paid offerings essentially implemented extension-like capabilities that would benefit substantially from deep integration with the browser. Think things that would otherwise be impossible with the extension API, or have substantial performance improvements if only Firefox internals could be messed with.

But. So many buts.

I'm not even sure their organization is setup to allow this kind of thing. I'm sure their codebase isn't, especially if it might require special considerations to comply with their charter.

Mozilla would also gain a bunch of perverse incentives to restrict or cripple base Firefox, which would bite them every time they added a new paid offering. For example, just how much more flack would they have caught for the new extension API if their own offerings wouldn't have to abide by any of those new limitations?

And it seems inevitable that they'll have to spend some serious effort to minimize the amount of browser fragmentation issues that would now occur within Firefox itself.

After all of that, the extensions most likely to get me to buy in - literally and otherwise - to the whole concept, would be ones that would seriously strain Mozilla's relationship with Google and many other companies. Things like deeply integrated ad-blocking and other privacy-focused features would be most likely to get me to not only accept the practice but even spend my money. But step one of weening themselves off Google's money probably shouldn't be "Burn bridges with Google."

So... yeah.

What else is Mozilla supposed to do? I'm not overly enamored with Mozilla these days. Increasingly I feel I'm sticking with them less because of anything they've done, and more because of what Google's done. But still, I find it hard to blame them too much for treading water.
The app is still showing me a "sign up to be part of our testing program" screen, and I'm currently in the city of San Francisco.
There was a board, but "FTX’s board, though, had only three directors as of earlier this year: Mr. Bankman-Fried, an FTX employee and an Antigua lawyer who specializes in gaming."
Nothing would have stopped her from banking her eggs and carrying a child after she gets out, or having a surrogate mother, etc. Lord knows she can afford all of that.

How is it harsh to point out that this child will grow up almost to their teens without a mother around? Apparently because the child's mother wants to have a child naturally?

Sorry, but having a kid under conditions that will be pretty harmful to the kid's development just because you want to have a kid is selfish at best.
>If this is changed, some decades-old systems, some of which may be critical infrastructure, may have to be substantially modified to account for leap seconds in some other way. The mention of GLONAS in the article is one such example.

GLONAS and other GPS like systems already have to deal with the temporal effects of special AND general relativity in their time keeping. Pushing leap seconds off on to the already special case system seems like a fair trade for making every other programmer and sysadmins life easier. let the extreme corner cases deal with their problems not everyone else.
But this will need Oracle's Graal rather than the one contributed to OpenJDK? Because of the JS runtime?
The article is about the entire country of the UK. I'm sure you can find individual cities within the UK that have much higher electricity prices than the country's overall average.
Lmao. Dang contain this thread pls we need your obligatory “everyone, please behave” post at the top.
I think GP means a lot of these projects are just links that people click and go 'oh cool, but i'd never build that and can't get one'. Which makes them glorified blog pieces.
It is representative of how he is shown on HN.

Judging by other things discussed on HN that I do understand well, it is likely highly inaccurate picture.

It reminds me of Knoll’s law of media accuracy: “everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge” and especially The Gell-Mann amnesia effect https://effectiviology.com/knolls-law/#The_Gell-Mann_amnesia...
Scaling the back end is tough, the problem of handling the notifications when somebody with a few million followers tweet particularly.

If I remember right, the first version of Twitter was written in Ruby on Rails and they had the hardest time keeping it up, they got VC money and brought in some distributed systems experts quickly.
A cardboard cut out could have done a better job than Musk.

And it would scale better, one for the boardroom, one for the lobby ... and you could put one on each floor by the lifts.
> Let me introduce you to people I like to call Muslims.

I don't believe Muslims is a political party. But yes, I agree that Republicans in America are closer to Muslim theological societies than western liberal societies.

> Republicans believe in liberty from the government, not liberty from social and moral norms.

And liberty from government is exactly what I seek. I don't want government telling me to produce children.

> Because kids are a positive externality that society needs and everyone benefits from. Nobody likes it when they do the work and other people won’t carry their weight.

Right. And I have been shortchanged enough in life where I also don't like that I did so much work but others didn't carry their weight. My life also matters. I am battered and I cannot afford (mentally, physically and financially) to raise children in the precarious American society. We are in agreement then that other people need to carry their weight before I start having children.
New floating solar farm follows the sun like a flower
That’s a good direction. I think you’ll need to deliver a core set of functions that you can promise to run. And describe all the ways you’ll guarantee it to run and even what happens when your company ceases to exist.
> Because Germany launched an impressive project to reconstitute their grid quite recently and are now at risk of freezing because it turns out their plan didn't work

Germany did not follow the plan and did not deploy enough renewables to cover their energy needs. They barely did anything to shift their energy generation profile.

However, it was still enough to have a big effect on the solar industry, even if it didn't affect Germany that much. They drove down solar costs for everybody else, which we can all now enjoy. And now there's 100s of GW of solar produced annually, and in nearly every area it's the cheapest power you can get.
That figure includes the social security fund which is not included in the japanese figure. The social security fund is a liability, while the bank of Japan is fully a government asset.
ok, fair point, bad example. But having to declare a constant for the number of percentage points in a unit is insane and needs to stop. Bad linter, bad.
The Google Play store is banned there, so there's no obvious "default" choice. Other than whatever your phone manufacturer preloads, which will probably be its own store, not necessarily a good store.
Eh, you would have to prove that the capital would have been allocated to something more useful in the absence of Theranos to prove that that hurts anyone. Most of her investors were not in the medical field, which is part of the reason they never realized she was selling snake oil.

> Penalties for misrepresenting your company help ensure that society devotes resources towards actually good ideas.

I agree with this in theory but I think fines and a ban from working in certain industries or founding companies is probably enough, not a decade in prison.
I prototyped this as a Java Robots in like 2011 so I could fall asleep to Futurama. I guessed Netflix would take steps to ban it, but later they embraced it.
If the person is a professional, lying is a huge risk, as in the end of a career even if not convicted.
Most EVs don't use permanent magnet motors. Try again. The curve you linked is seriously misleading.

Like just look at any EV dyno curve, it is not "torque starts at top and immediately starts falling"

Transmission means extra losses and extra weight tho. It's not just "free" increase in efficiency.

It does make sense but in typical city/reasonable highway speed it's just not worth it
Was there a big difference in accuracy depending on which model you used?
I will set a timer.

I used to be a pretty damned good lawyer (if I do say so myself), but I never practiced federal criminal law, so I have to admit that was pure gut feeling and general lawyerly instincts. :)
It depends a lot on the specialty. Obgyn is particularly hellish.

But yeah, there's a good reason why suicide rates are so high for doctors...
USB ports can do a lot more than just charging
There's nothing wrong with voluntary communism. It's the forcible kind, though, that is unjust.
How many of these innovations have been open sourced?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316721412_Blame_it_...

https://epar.evans.uw.edu/research/environmental-implication...

Its inconclusive on the goats. but the overall appearing cities and nomadic lifestyle selling whool to cities might have amplified the whole situation. Todays nomads definitely amplify the situation
Cars, it's all transportation and land use really.

Food choices are a rounding error compared to the terrible transportation options available for Americans. If you want to live in a walkable neighborhood in the US, good luck. Want to live in a desert where you have to drive 15 minutes to accomplish the most basic errand or buy a pound of usage? Here you, go have your choice of place to live cheaply.
I hope that the existence of this tech doesn't end up being used as a cover to justify censoring real videos.

At the end of the day, in the current tech environment, the most reliable way to know what is real from what is fake is using your own critical thinking skills.

It's just unfortunate that most people have really terrible critical thinking skills.
Let's translate him:
"Tweets that are negative about him, Tweeter, Tesla, and things he likes will be shadow banned from public reach".
I’ve tried various versions of this and have always had deliverability issues. Never tried with Cloudflare though.

Can anyone who has done this exact setup report on their experience with deliverability?
For what's it worth my approach has been running a tweaked whisper-asr-webservice[0] behind traefik behind Cloudflare. Traefik enables end to end SSL (with Cloudlare MITM, I know) and also helps put the brakes on a little so even legitimate traffic that makes it through Cloudflare gets handled optimally and gracefully. I could easily deploy your express + node code instead (and probably will anyway because I just like that approach more than python).

Anyway, I'll be making an issue soon!

[0] - https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice
With enough energy almost anything can be done. The most extreme example I go to is solving adverse effects of climate change on crops: simply build giant greenhouses - you have the energy to power artificial sunlight, desalinate water, etc.

With that in mind, this isn't the sort of lead you could easily (or even reasonably) catch up to. The manner in which an energy superpower would operate would be completely alien to compared to what we know today. China will come to economically dominate the planet unless America (or some another country) catches a wake-up call.

High speed rail is a convenience by comparison.
One of my first developer projects. Was working for a GIS company reverse engineering ancient geospatial databases (and our own). Nothing had foreign keys, there was a "global connection table" that provided many-many-joins, primary keys were strings, etc. Hundreds of tables and thousands of columns.

Most of our days on the data migration team were spent tracking down missing connections between entities, inconsistencies in the data that our clients had found, etc. I took a "find a string in every column" stored procedure and rewrote it as a python desktop app. Once the basic functionality was there I multithreaded it to run each query simultaneously. After that, I provided a graph-layout GUI that the users could click through and build their queries dynamically based on existing connections they'd already found.

No idea if it's still a thing anymore but it was amazing for my team. We went from guessing at relationships between entities because we didn't want to wait for the stored proc to run for hours to knowing which entities had what relationships in minutes. Single best thing I've ever written.
Is there any way to actually know that was a car out for delivery, and not being picked up? When you sell your vehicle to Carvana they come to you with the same flatbed truck and haul it away.

Not that I don't doubt the cars they sell are sometimes (often?) trash. I sold a 370z to them this summer and the amount of due diligence they performed before paying was practically nil. They didn't even open the hood, or drive it more than the half mile around the block staying <20mph and probably <20% throttle too. It was mildly horrifying to this ex-gearhead who's bought and sold over a dozen cars/bikes in my time.

Great way to sell your car, awful way to buy your car.
While we're at it, put force feedback on gas pedal, when wheels start slipping make it gently push on the driver's feet so they can "feel" the grip.
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33655544>

"Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in" <https://phys.org/news/2022-11-earth-ronnagrams-metric-prefix...>

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Sounds like the people you’re describing are highly anxious and highly insecure, it could be as simple as that
SBF will get a lower sentence or might even dodge jail altogether considering how many political palms he's greased, including throughout the current administration.
Things like these will lead to Twitter losing market share eventually to a more non-authoritarian platform "eventually". People want to police themselves.

Nobody likes to be policed this way. The road to tyranny is paved with good intentions. We went from "the bird is free" to the bird is free according to one minds view. Hitler also had a vision to cleanse what was deemed rotten and also had one mind. He surrounded himself with yes men and we all know where that story ended up.

It's very difficult for one mind to be aware of it's own biases especially when so much power is concentrated towards it and around you are a bunch of ass kissers who want to claw at your pockets.

Let's all call it what it is:

Twiranny!
I am really wildly speculating here, but I wonder if his source of energy is something like Aderall, and if that has any effects on people who are already “troubled” by their giant egos. And lack of sleep doesn’t help.
This comes up every once in a while when discussing the crazy 24+ hour shifts that doctors in residency are often assigned. One argument in favor of keeping the hours is that continuity of care is by far the factor most strongly correlated with good patient outcomes. So the argument goes that a change in caregiver is more detrimental to the patient than continued care from one doctor even if that doctor is sleep deprived.

I am not knowledgeable or qualified enough to weigh in on this, but it's something I've heard cited by multiple friends in the field.
I'm not using twitter (and not going to), so please explain, what that means, exactly. So, let's say it is decided by Musk&co that X (written by xxx) is a hateful Tweet.

- I am a follower of xxx. Will I see it?

- I specifically go to twitter.com/xxx. Will I find X on that page?

- X is a reply to a popular thread I'm reading right now. Will I see X?

So, what exactly being "deboosted" means on Twitter? It just won't appear among all the recommended trash on some "most popular" feed, or does it mean that it's basically invisible unless I somehow guess the specific ID of that tweet?
Elon Musk summons Twitter engineers to headquarters amid mass resignations
This is probably pedantic but since she is still alive, I highly doubt that she killed anyone directly via suicide
> Do I really need to spell out why it is a really, really bad idea to go down the rabbit hole you suggest?

You should! Where does the rabbit hole of "platforms get to choose what they ban" lead us? Are you suggesting that a YouTube channel is a human right now?

> You don't believe me? Look at Biden's laptop saga

Here's the problem: your thesis assumes that these groups are acting in good faith. They are not. The GOP has repeatedly stated that they will impeach the president over anything, regardless of if it's true or not. Remember Benghazi? Remember how Trump pressured Ukraine to open up any investigation into Biden? He didn't care if it was real, he needed the headlines and the political edge.

There is no universe in which they go "oh nevermind, we were wrong about the laptop." It is in their interest to ignore facts. And here you are, suggesting that the solution is simply to make it more public as if it has any credence. Should we also widely disseminate QAnon literature and talking points, simply because they exist?
IDK, fraud gamble for the chance to become a billionaire sounds way more attractive if the worse case is 3 years in prison. 3 years is less than college whereas 11 is basically k-12.
I am sure there are further carrots and sticks inside the prison, and of course 11 years is not life so she isn’t immune to extra punishment for more crimes.
>> But your average house in the US is for sure more comfortable than your average house in France.

"For sure more comfortable"? Like you said though, by what measure? I'm visiting my sister in London right now. She lives in a 750 sqft two bedroom apartment. Sure, it's smaller than my 1700 ft house back in the US, but she seems fairly comfortable.
Our zero-downtime release process (brainstormed and built with one other dev).

We went from 2-4 hours of downtime for every release to sometimes going over a year between order gap-inducing downtimes.

Some trickery with database views to merge multiple transactional databases, scripts, a script execution structure, and a list of fairly straightforward rules to follow were the only technical parts needed.

It was in prod from August 2005 through March 2022 and likely saved 60-100 hours per year of downtime (annoyance for users and revenue loss for the company).
Mini-golf, but life size?
The script for this video seems written by an AI or something. The sentence structure is "<state a few facts>, because of this, <other things unrelated to previously stated facts>". He's speaking as though he were explaining something, but he's not.