skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Hmmmm... spending money you don't have is how modern economies work, to a great extent. Companies take out loans to fund investment when cost of capital makes sense. People take out mortgages to buy homes.

I think it's worth distinguishing between different kinds of debt here. The article is discussing consumer debt (caused by consumption). The debt you are referring to is capital-debt, ie debt incurred to purchase an asset (which could be resold) or used to build an income.

Consumer debt is typically bad, and asset debt is typically good

But your point is not wrong. Western economies are largely fueled by consumer debt. If consumers all spent according to their means, and saved as much as they could, the effects on the "economy" (which is literally the "movement of money") would be devastating.
So how do you propose anyone ever buys a house, then? Waste money on rent whilst saving for 30 years so they can finally buy a house in cash at age 50? A modestly sized mortgage seems better than that.
TBF Las Vegas has a much lower summer humidity than New York.
I'm not quite sure what the long game would be of buying up land. Obviously, in an escalation of contentions between the two countries, the US would simply seize said land.
Russian, Cuban, Venezuelan, etc governments.

I know your reply will be along the lines "But those aren't communists" Truth be told, there never was any communist.
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I'd add a small caveat that it's irresponsible to buy liabilities with money you don't have. Buying appreciating assets with money you don't have is how our entire economy is based around, and is also what all of the rich people do.
Super helpful feedback, I'll update
The market substitution assumption was not ignored (do please make intelligent comments in HN).

The assumption was (rightly or wrongly) rejected on the basis that long term thermal coal demand (over the lifetime of this particular project) is projected to decline.

eg: Standard and Poor Mineral intelligence report (2022)

https://www.spglobal.com/en/research-insights/featured/speci...
Seems like a massive waste of time.
We never tore down patronage networks. Trickle down is essentially the same mechanics in the abstract, hidden by contemporary coded virtue signaling, and legal jargon.

Families that benefited from 50s-60s social programs legislated them away in the 80s, leverage mathematical inference to assign themselves exorbitant wealth through arbitrary valuations they decide on, buy up the most valuable assets, and pay as little as possible to us to maintain them.

Horse and Sparrow economics is from a similar era of political thought as spoils systems.

A $200k salary in the 80s had the buying power of $600k now. Past winners were not about to have their legacy deflated, so they changed the rules.
Check out the English audiobook, read by Herzog himself.
>Except for the synchrotron part I guess? Maybe?

They were using 6.2keV x-rays from the Swiss Light Source, a multi-billion Euro scientific installation. 6.2keV isn't especially energetic by x-ray standards, (a tungsten target x-ray tube will do ten times that) so either they needed monochromacy or the high flux you can only get from a building-sized synchrotron. Given that the paper says they poured 76 million Grays of ionizing radiation into an area of 90,000 cubic micrometers over the course of 60 hours suggests the latter. (A fatal dose of whole-body radiation to a human is about 5 Grays. This is not a tomography technique that will ever be applied to a living subject, though there is some interesting things no doubt being done right now to frozen bacteria or viruses.)
Frontier Airlines drops its customer service line
I'll give you $5 if you give me access to your email account in full and let me see what you buy, what newsletters you sign up for, etc. I won't even steal any of your data or anything nefarious outside of collect some stats for my own uses.

If you let Facebook do this for free, you should at least take the $5 from me.
As the first reply says, this is just straight up untrue. And the examples they give are fantastic; Figma literally changed the way most UX designers create their designs and prototypes.

And even using the most generous interpretation of “built” to mean “innovate”, products in 2000-2010 are also hardly innovative.
I've been making Notebook.ai for over 6 years now, so I have a little experience with the other end of the spectrum. A standalone, downloadable Mac app is one of the most common "feature requests" I get, and I used to get a lot of support requests that basically just boiled down to "where is the mac download".

I try to treat Windows, Linux, and Mac all as first-class citizens on the web (especially since I'm close to ~40/60% Safari/Chrome usage), but ctrl+f'ing my feedback/request spreadsheets produces 4x more results for "Mac" than "Windows". I can see how other companies that are more focused on growth would be incentivized to prioritize Mac.

I definitely agree with your sentiment though. I'm a PC writer and wish more tools were available to me! (In fact, I made Fiction.Tools with an available-on-Windows filter, which might be helpful for you!)
This is based on nothing, isn’t true, and doesn’t make sense
I just live the quote from the movie Heat:

”Assume they got our phones, assume they got our houses, assume they got us, right here, right now as we sit, everything. Assume it all.”
"it's the Orwellian thought-suppression psy-ops stuff."

I mean that's like a "bigger" issue. I think it's a completely fair to decide you should just not conduct business with companies under authoritarian regimes (see N.Korea Iran Myanmar etc.). If you wanna blacklist the whole country then okay.. but here it's some indefensible middle ground where you continue to do business with them, until it's inconvenient and some bureaucrat decided it's making you look bad so lets just ban some of their strongest companies to cripple them. We will do business with you as long as you only make low end widgets thankyouverymuch.

That might not be what's actually happening, but that's how it looks
Countries with the Highest (and Lowest) Proportion of Immigrants
> He has principles and he's willing to put himself out there for them.

He thinks that Twitter is despicable but will still continue to use it to promote his blog. That's not having principles and sticking to them. That's selling out for cheap, and coming up with a lame justification for it.
I had always heard this saying as an undergrad in CS but never understood why names were supposed to be a hard problem until reading about modal logic about a decade later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_and_Necessity
that was kinda tongue-in-cheek.

Back when you could do it in garages, things were a little simpler.
Figma? Slack? Discord? VS Code? Stable diffusion?

Those were just the first 5 things that popped into my head, all released after 2010.
Sweden needs that law because it’s a tiny country where you can’t be outdoors for extended periods for more than 6 months out of the year. The US is huge. People aren’t really missing out if they don’t go on other peoples properties.
This is absolutely bonkers. I tried it with my alt and it got my original correct! So I'm writing this comment with a fresh account which hopefully will not get correctly linked too lol
I have no illusions that this debt will be paid (I have perpetually uninsured friends - one even says he just gives a fake name at the ER), but the debt is incurred anyway.
I don't understand the tweet. What is a tech product?
And is based on cordyceps mushrooms. Which are actual parasitoids of insects. They're the famous "mind-control" mushrooms you see in every nature documentary that features ants in the Amazon

Reishi on the other hand... eats trees.

For some possibly useful context. When wood (lignan) first evolved there was nothing that could break it down. And for possibly thousands of years much of earth became "polluted" by dead trees that couldn't be broken. It was fungi that finally evolved ways to decompose it. They're obviously really good at it at this point, but hopefully that gives you a sense of just how specialized an organism has to be to primarily live off of wood

You got nothing to worry about :)
This is an american problem and an american choice that started with white flight in the 50s and a lack of investment into public transit to make it you don't need a car in the city. Many other countries do cities correctly, for cheaper, and far more social order. Most american cities are also not cities, except maybe the grandfathered in choice of NYC and SF somewhat.
HN community, let's do our job and downvote. This is not the content we come here for.
Edit: Oooops, no downvote button on HN. I guess Iĺl just close the tab then
Someone hasn’t used TikTok…or paid attention to anyone in Gen Z on their phone.
> LIGO has been able to confirm theoretical properties of the event horizon.

What specific properties has LIGO confirmed about the event horizon? It is not quite clear to me how the gravitational waves of two merging bodies would be different between a merger of normal stellar objects and black holes.

> The EHT has imaged a black hole, which effectively images the event horizon.

The EHT image is mostly an accretion disk. I think accretion disks can also form around things that are not black holes. If something were of the sufficient density, I believe it could make the same image without having an event horizon. I am no astrophysicist though so maybe that image would force the density to be sufficiently high to make a black hole.
I think singling out China or the PLA is kinda the problem... Just any government/military controlled company from any country arguably is an issue. If you make it more country agnostic then it's going to be taken more seriously
So this is anecdote and not data, but I'm interacting a lot more with Quakers on Mastodon than I did on Twitter.

Honestly, I don't think services need to be dumbed down so much, people can figure it out. And having a little friction might be a good thing, unless the goal is just to rack up engagement numbers as high as they can be optimized - and arguably that incentive is one of the things that was really wrong with Twitter.
The survival rate of life is already 0%. There’s no need to try and lower the odds. The question is more around timing. The traditional ways to leave all suck.

Does this sentiment make a person better or worse at their job? I’ve heard it’s impossible for a human mind to imagine its own death. Someone with the raw creativity or intelligence to do that might be more helpful than not?
You're the only one I've heard pitting "girls" (as you say) against "boys and men".

I find it hard to believe women's rights has anything to do with the decline of men's social health
I mean, it's a wonder women still choose to have children. I see it is a triumph of the human spirit, because through a purely capitalist and individualist lenses having children doesn't make much sense.
Okay should be updated now
This may be a shocker but the banks in Singapore are worse.

You can do routine things online but anything signed needs to be in person.

They have a number you can text to get to a queue number, but it’s not unusual for all queue numbers to be used up 20 min after the bank opens.

Doing anything in person is a half day experience of sitting for a couple hours at the bank. And they are all like this.

I yearned for the days of Citibank where I could walk in anytime and the worst was a 30 min wait in line while 4 customers were helped by one teller.
It's very interesting that Dan discusses the issues of cloud latency vs on-prem with on-prem being faster; something that some on HN have pooh-poohed as not being something that mattered.

And that bandwidth costs they were paying suprised GCP , when it's been pointed out that bandwidth costs can be quite low vs the cloud providers. Granted Twitter is operating at a very large scale...
> our implementation of the Lua table uses hidden class, instead of a naive hash table as in Lua/LuaJIT.

What is "hidden class"? Is this a data structure?
It really does read like a paid fluff piece for CATL. I have a hard time believing that's not the case TBH.

> It seems like CATL has made a near-perfect EV battery. So should Tesla be worried? ...

Not sure how 160Wh/kg equates to perfection.
At HEB, the primary grocery store chain in Texas, there are 2-3 different basic chicken breast packages. They're all found as the same product when ordering a curbside pickup order online, but one has 1％ added water content and others have up to 15%.

So they're all $3/lb but one has 14% less meat for the price, and it's not possible to determine which you're getting when you order online.

Additionally, the ones with >4% added water content dont brown well on the stove, they just kind of internally boil.
Interesting. How long did you consider yourself a libertarian, and what year did you decide that you were a fascist?
You’ve got a place here on Earth for a reason.
Protests erupt across China in challenge to Xi Jinping's zero-Covid policy
It's not just the US which has adopted this approach. Iirc Germany for example doesn't allow Chinese tech for telecom infrastructure over concerns about security.
Well characterized. You've summarized here the more clear cut examples of smuggling meaning of "correct" by presenting them all in the same context, from "consistent alignment" to beknighted stylistic choice and further to manufactured consent.

Perhaps these claims are the result of A/B testing and measuring differential engagement. In which case: Cool! That we lowly internet addicts can guess or determine the most effective from design rules, aesthetic preferences, and stockholm syndrome (kidding, a little).
Marx was wrong about some big things (innovation, depressions) and right about some big things - alienation, meaning destruction of community.
Learn to code or Find technical co-founder?
I'm a non-technical person (College junior) who can build solid web app prototypes on Bubble.io (and I can convert them to native apps).

But most of the technical people I know aren't good co-founders / don't have great chemistry with me (even though I go to a very good school). If I know I want to do a startup within the next <4 years (one that will likely be consumer and have an app component), is my time better spent learning a language like Swift or finding a technical co-founder?

Let's say I have 300 hours of free time over the next 6 months, and I'm pretty sure that by the end of those 6 months, I'll want to have started working on a startup. Is that 300 hrs better spent on learning programming or finding a technical co-founder? What if it was 500-1,000 hours of free time over the course of a year?
Why colour support. As a tmux user, I never use it. It's utterly wasted. But seriously, here is one option.

Tmux is a BSD project. On NetBSD, it replaced window(1), which was quite basic and did not have GNU screen or tmux bells and whistles. Thus, to avoid such features, one could use window:

https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/window-20120215....

Linux users can use pkgsrc to compile it.

The expression "doesn't try to reinvent" may suggest that the desired alternative needs to have been written after tmux, not before. If so, then window will not qualify. It dates back to the 1990s, at least.

Footnote - I admire the minimalism sought here. I consider myself somewhat of a minimalist and the size of tmux has never bothered me. Looking at the source, it is relatively easy to remove features. I have not used a mouse on computers I own for over 20 years. There are many tmux features I do not use. Still, I have not felt the urge to remove them. I use a statically-linked tmux with a few customisations that weighs in at 1.2M. That is smaller than the statically-linked text-only browser I use which comes in at 1.3M. But perhaps I will try to trim down tmux as an experiment if these unused features are in fact taking up significant space.
Thanks very much for your post once again. I just setup every lisp refer to yours even though I can recall every step you mentioned by now. Still such a great post.

But for paredit …

whilst it is useful when it is useful it is in the way when it is not. I find the best way is to use ; so to disable it and then edit and then re-enable it by erasing ; There is option to disable but need a few jkeysfroke. Hence ; all the time. The most annoying feature may I say.

Anyway just to say thanks thanks.
I don't know how you people do it, if I had to have 18 months of weekly calls with Apple support about an account issue before then emailing the CEO, I probably would have burned all of my Apple devices and bought a dumb phone instead.
> It's possible these companies are doing nefarious things. In which case create a country-agnostic legal framework and take them to court and prove your case. If it's all super-secret-spy-stuff then just do the damn parallel construction and show all these secret backdoors you claim to have found.

Are OTA software updates considered a “backdoor”? Because they essentially are one, even if the company is not doing anything nefarious yet.
No cure for loneliness
>pure monotonic core of the language

What does that mean? Monotonic describes a function, or a sequence, that only every increases or decreases, never a combination of both. What does an "always decreasing" or "always increasing" language core look like? This may make sense for concatenative languages.
As you point out mortgages can be bad for some people, but equally they are an enormous benefit for others.

If your life is "unstable" in the sense that you change address frequently for work reasons, or your income is insecure, then making long term commitments make no sense.

On the other hand lots of people live stable, productive lives, and are lucky enough to have good job security, and good financial discipline. Let's call this group the "middle class" - they earn a reasonable salary, with good job security, but don't have access to capital, but equally are not as insecure as the masses living day to day.

Providing this group with access to capital has benefits to them, and society as a whole. It encourages long-term decision making and promotes community stability. Ultimately it allows people to "rise up" the economic ladder.

On an even longer scale than the mortgage, it provides security. Someone approaching retirement discovers they will forever now live rent-free, or alternatively have accumulated capital that can help fund retirement.

If you never get a mortgage you still have to live somewhere, but you'll be paying rent for 50 years, not 20.
Haha! Twitter image preview would beg to differ indeed. It's a hard problem.

But you don't get to be a hard engineer without solving hard problems without any help. Just toughen up and study. :/s
As someone that has the FSD beta, I certainly hope so.
LAUSD is gigantic, spends about $20 billion a year (I think about 10x what LAPD spends) and to really throw aspiring accountants for a loop, has its own police force and police budget.
Wilson, liberal? Besides nearly eradicating the 1st Amendment, he was a promoter of the KKK and did his best to reverse any gains Black Americans had made that hadn't already been erased.
Point taken. I agree Tim has history of doing the principled thing.

I’ve just seen so many of these “leaving Twitter” posts lately and it’s interesting that Twitter seems to be a really sticky product for people.
I wonder if this covers Baofeng radios. (I'm not sure who their parent company is so hard to tie them to the Covered List)

Trade barriers cloaked in National Security cloth are nothing new, they were common in the old Soviet Union (a lot of US made computers were forbidden from entering, and of course the US refused to sell more advanced computers based on National Security concerns), they have been active on and off with China as well.

But the interesting thing for me is the reversal, which is as good an endorsement that Chinese industry is legitimately reached parity on a development scale with US goods as any press release the PRC would push out to the news wires. What it says is that China can deliver compelling solutions in the communications and surveillance space with entirely organic (and thus not controllable) supply chains resulting in products that US customers want to buy and US security interests can't insure aren't compromising their buyers. Having the shoe on the other foot has got to feel a bit weird right?
He also points out the problem of the politics: Issues affecting men aren't taken seriously, as if politically it's somehow seen as attacking or detracting from women.

For example, the issue of gender balance in tech is widely discussed and taken seriously. The issue of gender balance in prisons is not.

It's not that you can't do both, it's that we haven't, and a primary reason for that is the incumbent political climate, which needs to change.
I use https://hn.algolia.com/ - so let me try - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Like Superfish?
I completely agree. With the proviso that the economy also revolves around the existance of consumer debt, and the willingness of huge numbers of people to squander it.
1.5 million people are employed directly by the Pentagon (fact check me plz). Trillions??? in capital assets (planes, boats, ??).

750 installations globally plus deeply integrated relationships with multiple allies (military and fiscal). Allies train in the US and visa versa.

I can understand the monumental undertaking it would be to audit the Pentagon.
And yet I found the parent comment interesting and on topic and yours tangential and pedantic.
I think the concern is they could be using it for surveillance of sensitive nearby targets leading up to such an escalation.
would probably work better with case and punctuation preserving n-grams, sentence length, paragraph length and use of whitespace stats.

also maybe a tf-idf vector of top n words per user.

also could maybe do a same phrase analysis across the corpus to find some hand picked features.

timestamps could be interesting.

or, of course, let the machine do it with comment2vec.
The anti-natalist movement is a good example of this.
Oh yes, I forgot the audit also has to prevent leakage of national secrets.
The role of vision during Lower Palaeolithic tool-making
Huh... well that's disappointing. That doesn't sound like a hardware bug to me at all. There's nothing unhandleable about this circumstance that I see, any combination of SS/SP points to a "valid" address, code just has to be sure the combination always points to enough memory to store an interrupt frame.

In the overwhelmingly common situation where your stack started with an SP of 0, you just assign SP back to 0 before setting SS and nothing can go wrong (you are, after all, about to move off this stack and don't care about its contents). Even the weirdest setups can be handled with a quick thunk through an SP that overlaps in the same 64k region as the target.

It's a clumsy interface but hardly something that Intel has traditionally shied away from (I mean, good grief, fast forward a half decade and they'll have inflicted protected mode transitions on us). I'm just surprised they felt this was worth a hardware patch.

I guess I was hoping for something juicier.
Omicron boosters probably aren’t effective against mild Covid illness
Thanks a lot! This is incredibly detailed and very useful!
La last bit of the oath is so jarring…

Aside from that problematic bit, is that oath performed before the jury hears the case or just before they deliberate?

I’m asking because the details of the case may themselves reveal an unjust law that the jury may feel obligated to decide against.
> Huawei singlehandedly destroyed Canada's Nortel Networks through espionage and sabotage.

Riiiiight. The dotcom crash followed by the accounting scam had absolutely nothing to do with it. It's not like the management pretended that they wouldn't see a downturn and then faked the numbers so that they'd get their bonuses.

Oh, wait.