skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And contact your country's customs agency as they monitor ports and try to watch for counterfeits. Assuming they came from outside the country.

Here's where you can report this fraud in the US: https://www.cbp.gov/trade/e-allegations/violations
If you look at C and UNIX, you will see that there is a very intimate relation between those two.
If you write an operating system, what is the easiest language to use if you want to build on top of that operating system? The answer is almost certainly the language you wrote that operating system in.

In some sense C was the DSL to build UNIX. It becomming a general purpose language happened after that and because of the success of UNIX.

Also in general operating systems are extremely complex and need a wide range of functionality and extensibility while being able to easily interface with assembly. That makes a DSL tend towards a general purpose language, as has happened with C.
But knowing if there is reality behind the model is not a scientific question. There is no tool in science which can answer that. The only thing that matters is how well the model predicts what we observe.

One can believe that’s a form of truth but people should be conscious that it is merely a belief.
It doesn't change my mind, but this is a valid counter argument and you shouldn't be downvoted.
When I was poor[0] it wasn't really the food that got to me. No, rice kept well and I'd cut up some hotdogs into it or melt some butter or oil or something. The problem was the crushing depression of thinking of every single quarter.

Things you take for granted like wanting to read a book or going downtown Toronto to visit friends. Every drive with the car was a gamble. It's this sort of constant pressure that eats up so much of your mental energy.

Healthy food on a budget is easy if you're not depressed. Bake some sweet potatoes. Raw carrots with hummus. Eggs. The problem is that you didn't clean the kitchen because you hate your life and now there are all these little ants all over the place. And now you don't want to be home to cook and you can't really go anywhere either because you're broke. But you do anyway, because you want to be around people, and so you stretch that $5 pint of Labatt 50 across as long as you can.

It's not a fun life. I don't recommend it.

[0] Startup poor in 2009, as in, my startup was failing but I could get an above average job with little more than a resume. I understand that this is not the same thing as proper poor, but it sure felt horrible anyway.
The article is written quite incompetently.

1. Talks about 45 percent decline in stock value when amd /Nvidia declined by almost 60 percent in the same period.

2. Talks about Nvidia revenue growing by 50 percent in Q3, when in reality they fell 17 percent vs the last year. AMD's revenue fell too. Perhaps the author is confused that Nvidia's earning calendar runs 1 year ahead and they reported q3 2023 results recently, not 2022.

Extremely poor reporting.
> but only because violent psychopaths were in power.

There were way more problems with socialism than just the fact it breeds dictators.

If you're starving your people in the time of greatest abundance of food in history it might be more fundamentally flawed.
At the moment Musk didn't fix anything but he removed the safety net. Like removing all fire extinguishers doesn't mean your house will burn tomorrow.

It won't fail immediately but at the first major problem it will get interesting.
Good God, why would anyone work for him?
I stopped ordering books from Amazon after twice receiving books shipped loose in oversized boxes, with obviously inadequate padding, leading to corners damaged in transit.

This would've been unthinkable in the old days (Amazon customer since 1995).

I'm assuming you order from Amazon marketplace retailers who you trust, and do their own shipping.
What occupation does an ordinary worker have in your books? I'm curious, since for example I have always held doctors in the higher end of middle class workers: not quite 'i own a yacht' rich, but still economically set for a more cushier lifestyle. Yet, according to NHS[1] doctors in the UK earn 120k at best, so I'm sorry but something doesn't add up.

[1] https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/doctors/pay-d...
What were you not able to say before?
> Who is selling oil in gold?

India might be willing to trade refined products for gold.

> such a move would typically result in being cut off from world bank + WTO, if not invasion.

Typically? Has this happened enough times before that there's a discernible pattern?
I agree. In the US it’s really not hard to get into the top 1-2% as a salaried employee in the software industry.

The difference in feasibility between top X% of income vs wealth is large. Last I checked it was like $600k gross household income to get into the top 1% of incomes, but like $10mm wealth. You’d need to make a top 1% income and invest a good portion of the after-tax income for quite a while to get there.

All these punching up class warfare policies hurt the wrong people IMO. I have a 98%ile income and I live in a studio and can’t afford a house in the neighborhood I live in. Meanwhile Joe Rich works in a stereotypical rich boy field like sales, has a lot of family money ultimately stemming from things like land grants or moving to a US metro area a hundred years ago, has way more money than me and a more lavish lifestyle, and pays less taxes.

As far as I see it, higher income taxes actually just entrench class divisions and make it harder to enter upper classes. Rich people aren’t affected much by income taxes and remain rich, except even more unattainably so
Collapsing companies can be an excellent way to jump several rungs on the career ladder at a time.

If you're an ambitious Level 2 Hierarch and you know your Level 3 and 4 Hierarchs along with many of your fellow Level 2s have just departed, you can roll the dice and maybe become a Level 4 Hierarch before you depart in 6 months time. Experience allowing you to become a Level 4 Hierarch at a company that isn't collapsing.

Of course, it isn't clear that Musk is looking to promote any Hierarchs, so this would be a gamble.
if you want something you are going to have to deal with those that get in the way. Ethics aside, you can only fail by not wanting it badly enough.
That's subjective. It clearly interests lots of people.
Cases are not built in a week. Especially white collar cases where they have to prove intent and they can't just use drugs they found on their person. They have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that SBF devised any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice. Plus they probably need records in the Bahamas and international legal cooperation is very slow. Literally any prosecutor would beg to take this case because it would be very good for their career.
If you mean the last revolution, this is wrong. The last successfull French revolution (1830) had nothing to do with starvation. Even the 1871 revolt didn't had much to do with what and how to eat. We killed factory owners for far less than an empty stomach.

But at the time, we understood that the police was really representing the business owners (landowners, industrialists) more than the government and put their crimes not on the individual, but on the hand that lead them. I feel like this understanding is coming back in the US.
Wasn’t Python originally conceived as a systems configuration language?
When I had children, a family of my own, I came to find Thanksgiving my favorite holiday. Seemingly immune to the commercialization (I'm going to disassociate Black Friday with Thanksgiving), it became for me a day to relax, hang out with the family and ... be thankful.

How pure and unencumbered is that?

Best thing the U.S. has come up with. (Landing on the Moon was cool too though.)
You can't be authoritarian if you have no authority over others. The NAACP can't force Musk to do anything. Using collective action to achieve social goals is called democracy. You should take some time to learn about that before rambling about Stalin.
Well, the concept of ether/aether had many forms and some of them were definitely disproved. The wiki link you gave basically confirms the absence of aether at increasingly smaller scales.
I sometimes remember horrors of "undefined index of null" which are for new developers quite frustrating. Good job!
The best 14nm++++++ joke I've seen was at SemiAccurate:
Tick-Tock-Tock-Tock-Sproing
I had to buy a replacement USB cable in a pinch the other week. Probably the first time since pre-COVID where I could justify next day delivery (where I would normally be happy to just wait however long it takes from a more local retailer).

I knew exactly the kind to look for but I couldn't just search for that and pick the first item on the list. I could have easily bought the wrong thing in one click and not known it.

Instead I had to spend about 30 minutes tweaking my search query, scrolling through SEO-spam listings ("NEW iPhone 14 Galaxy S21 MacBook Pro Windows 95 SE USB 2.1A cable 6cm!") and other listings which were all just the same listing but with a different no-name logo laser printed on the casing. Was on Google cross-referencing some of them to see if they'd actually be legit, since I'd trust a post in a niche forum over a review on a marketplace.

It took me longer to verify what I was buying than it did to go through checkout. Reminded me why Amazon stopped being my go-to.
Your first two points have no evidence to support the notion that CEOs need to be paid as much as they are. Your third point is useless because all of the employees also got shafted.
I am surprised the NYT didn't de-platform him.

Actually, I am not surprised the NYT did not de-platform him.
Like most people I think that this is ludicrous, but could someone give a shot at playing devil's advocate and justifying this? Are competent CEOs so much harder to get, do they really produce a 1,460% more value compared to '78, etc.?
Stable Diffusion made copying artist, generating porn harder and users are mad
The valve cap thing is really funny. It's funny. I upgraded to a nice aero bike with Dura Ace everything, and then promptly got in an unrelated motorcycle accident and gained 25 lbs.

My weight gain is some multiple of how much I saved. Those Zipps have been outdone by my own gluttony. But one day I shall make the valve caps matter!
> When he is, his actions weren't violent.

He stole tremendous amounts of people's money. I hope you're as forgiving to him as you are towards to the people who caused the 2008 economic collapse. At least they weren't actively stealing people's money.
If you were him, would you not focus your time on making sure what you just bought will become even more successful and be what you envisioned it to be when you bought it? Of course, one might argue against buying Twitter in the first place, but that’s done. What makes you think that SpaceX and Tesla aren’t already in good hands?
Unfortunately this is often standard procedure when companies do layoffs. The first round gets generous severance. In subsequent rounds, the company's death spiral has become obvious and they no longer spend on niceties like unnecessary severance.

Lesson: if your employer offers you a buyout, take it.
And the American national identity goes back primarily to the Anglo-Saxons.
In Windows 10 it took a few versions before the Settings UI would agree with the underlying Control Panel for ethernet IP address.

For quite some time when you set a fixed IP in the Contol Panel that's still what you got, but in Settings it still indicated DHCP.

Eventually they got it right in Windows 10.

But it's defective again in Windows 11.
Dude you live in one of the most in-demand cities in the world, expecting cheap rent is a pipe dream. The only way prices will go down is if lots of people, maybe even you, move out of London!
In other words they may have/earn (big distinction that is often overlooked) 100x more which seems egregiously unfair but if there are 10000x fewer of them, then it's not a big problem unless you're trying to appeal to emotion with single case studies.
Capital allocators are always paid top dollar. CEOs are only a small part of it. Wall street bankers are paid top dollar too? They find investment opportunities that can generate returns. Traders make a lot of money too. What value do they add to society? They help in the price discovery of assets. Are they paid fairly, who knows?

From a job complexity standpoint, CEO jobs are more challenging than bankers since they have to manage a real business to generate a positive return. Bankers have no skin in the game and yet make millions.
> we have no strong evidence to prove it, but no strong evidence to refute it either

How is that different than "speculation"? That sounds like textbook definition of "speculation".

"Speculation - the activity of guessing possible answers to a question without having enough information to be certain"
Google has what 3 or 4 cities where they operate as an ISP, each with a pretty small footprint. It's no surprise anyone knows where you are.

A cable or telephone company has generalized coverage measured in states; some of them organize their network and customer IPs by small geographies, but sometimes all of southern california is in a single pool of IPs.
These remarks about the salary of the last percentile of the population only serve to raise controversy.

If you want to see how people's well-being has evolved, you have to make somewhat more intelligent comparisons: for example by looking at what people can afford today compared to 50 years ago, or through quality of life indexes. The only thing that has changed for the worse seems to me to be the cost of real estate in the big cities, because of an obvious concentration of the population in them and not because the 1 percent of the population has bought everything.

But outraged people will always find something to be outraged about.
Wow, this is not a topic I expected to see on HackerNews!

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My startup has been working on this problem all year and we just launched a semaglutide program for $149/month - including medication and provider visits.

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Ultimately the more centralized the power the less efficient the system is. Markets are great because they push decision making down to the fringes, closer to where the ground truth is. With highly centralized systems there is a bottleneck both in getting information to the decision makers, but also in overwhelming those decision makers with too much detail and losing fidelity.

The flipside is that markets are only efficient at distributing things that can have a price on them. They're mostly blind to externalities (pollution!) and to problems that can't be solved by distributing the goods most efficiently.

This is why both pure command (Communist) and pure market (Capitalist) solutions fail. You need to decide which system is best for each problem and use the one that works. Consumer goods are absolutely best handled by markets. Healthcare is far more efficient in a command system, because the demand curve is a total mess so markets can't price it efficiently. Utilities are another example where markets are typically worse.
Centralized finance and inflationary consumerist policies seem to be a major underlying contributor in all of this.

Credit is most available and most advantageous to those higher up that get new money first, and creates a moving target that makes long term stability artificially difficult for those with no capital.

Material poverty was much more prevalent in the past than now, but the kind of housing instability and moving goalposts people experience is I think relatively new for the US. I’m not entirely sure/my history is not good enough to know, but I think local ties and familiarity with neighbors used to be much more instrumental for housing stability. Local banks used to be way different/loans were much more about community buy in and local sponsorship than the kind of disconnected financial blob it is now. That came with all kinds of cons, but I think there were some unappreciated pros we’ve forgotten about; I think the different social dynamics when banking was local is part of why housing was treated like more like a commodity than an investment.

A lot of the problems we have now seem to be a consequence of scale and increasing disconnect. Modern access to cheap low interest credit seems increasingly political and disconnected from the real economy, and responsible for keeping old, creaky, dysfunctional behemoths from imploding and restructuring.

That kind of credit heavy policy made sense when there was massive growth opportunity, but it seems increasingly perverse and going to maintaining existing systems instead of investing in new systems, and is I think partially responsible for the amount of centralization of assets we’ve been experiencing.

Without cheap credit, it’s much harder to suck up as many assets as have been centralized the past couple of decades, and wage decreases are much more transparent and difficult to get away with. Cheap credit also severely distorts prices signals/makes it hard for both consumers and producers to know what is getting cheaper to produce and what isn’t.

On the other hand, without cheap credit, a lot of capital intensive research heavy startup companies would be much more difficult to start, which is essential to lowering production costs. The material advances due to production efficiency are under-appreciated in the US, which makes sense when cost of living and basics keep expanding, but are still extremely beneficial, especially on a global scale.

I wish it was easier to know what a good solution was to lowering the cost of living without hampering innovation. They seem somewhat inversely related right now. But this stuff gets complicated and is not my area of expertise.
And why would you price it at $0 if it's already known it does cause damages. Just because you can't fairly price it doesn't mean it costs zero, that's an absurd logic...
Why Node.js is cool (2012)
> General relativity contains solutions in which two distant black holes are connected

I can see these as artifacts of insisting to work in 3D coordinates and dealing with artifacts of projection where it breaks down, instead of working in honest 4D coordinates where formulas are much simpler and everything is smooth.

How would two connected black holes look like in Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates? Where's the firewall in case of Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates? Where's the firewall at all if the event horizon seemingly moves away from you as you approach the wormhole?
If macOS has a DSL, it's AppleScript.

AppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple. It allows users to directly control scriptable Macintosh applications, as well as parts of macOS itself. You can create scripts—sets of written instructions—to automate repetitive tasks, combine features from multiple scriptable applications, and create complex workflows.

set targetFolder to POSIX file "/Users/Me/Desktop/MyFolder"

tell application "Finder"
set finderFolder to item targetFolder
set lstTargets to target of every Finder window
if {finderFolder} is in lstTargets then
set target of (make new Finder window) to targetFolder
end if
end tell

That said, AppleScript is probably not long for this world. The future looks more like visual programming via Shortcuts.
Speak freely about what? You think these random printout code reviews would spare you just because of your political views? That would imply Elon's Twitter is still more vested in politics than software.
Fermentation: Embrace what may be the most important green technology ever
AUR makes me stop on trying other distros.

Oh that distro is great. Is there some community package repo in that, equivalent to Arch's AUR? None? NVM.
It is a well-established concept called https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sumofpartsvaluation.asp. A company's value is estimated on net present value (npv) of its projected, discounted future cash flows. If a company has a large, stable subsidiary that is growing slowly but is cash flow positive and a very fast growing but money losing subsidiary, it makes more sense to value parent company as if both subsidiaries were separate companies than the average of the two. A famous example was AWS within Amazon before it became noticeable in the bottom and top lines.
I keep hearing about a BRICS+ commodity-backed currency, but I haven't seen any documentation on it. Where do people find out about these things? And could it be that Ghana will just use that and that settlement system? Do they have dollar-denominated debt?
Yes, I understand. I did mean it like that. My point was that the material capability of the societies in the area of the former Western empire to record things, to write history, the sheer number of literate people with surplus time and access to writing materials, the inclination and ability to preserve existing documents, etc. -- that seems to have sharply contracted during the period in question. Is that not then a Dark Age in the historical records sense?
Researchers suggest that wormholes may look almost identical to black holes
... Why???
Granted that Google is basically the exception here. But when I query the IP's for maps.google.com I get 142.250.179.238 and when I query google.com I get 142.250.200.14

If make a http get request to 142.250.179.238/ (the maps IP) but with the host header set to "www.google.com" I get the search page returned to me. If I make a http get request to 142.250.200.14/maps I get google maps.

OK. /maps might be a bad example because well google.com/maps is already a thing :-p

So if I make a request to 142.250.179.238 with the host youtube.com I get youtube. This is because most of googles public facing servers can act as the front door for many other google services not just the service that its dns is set to.

Not really sure it it comes under "domain fronting" because isn't that tactic many used to bypass censorship, pretend your connecting to one CloudFront customer when really wish to connect to another. Where google explictly configured their services to do this so they can easily load balance as demand and network conditions allow. Anyways I'm rambling now.

My point is, with google you can't rely on the ip address alone to determine the service (however it still wouldn't stop you peeking into connection and pulling out the host header unless ESNI was used) but as I said at the start, Google is more the exception here.
Most of the things that a company produces are created by the employees.
A less politically charged framing would be: The EU would, quite rightly, prevent Twitter from operating as a business in their jurisdiction due to their refusal to conform to EU regulations.

That would then prevent Twitter from charging customers in those geographies (whether those customers are advertisers or users). And given the EU economy is one of the largest in the world, that could seriously impede Twitter's revenue potential.
I actually disagree somewhat. A great of MAGA rhetoric was/is about elites abusing their positions at the expense of regular folk. Trump was viewed as an insider telling people the truth about how the sausage gets made.