skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's something I have noticed with a lot of programming books. They are super long and are just pages of unfocused blablabla and screenshots. I miss books like K&R that are well written and concise.

Problem is that padding most non-fiction books is really easy while padding a fiction book is hard. So expect non-fiction to get longer and fiction to get shorter.
It's going to be really bad.
> He, and only he, is responsible for SpaceX. He literally built his rockets in a cave from a pile of scrap.

From what I've seen people mostly don't credit Musk with building SpaceX on his own. What people found admirable is that of the numerous individuals who could've founded a "SpaceX" and had the means to keep the it afloat through the rocky beginnings unavoidable to newcomers in that field, he was one of the few who actually did. The number of people who fit that description can be counted on a single hand because the majority who are that wealthy are too risk averse and prefer to use their resources to pursue things with greater, safer, and/or more immediate profit potential.
Low level:

We would have powerful APIs built in for things like distributed hash tables, and talking to certificate and domainless devices by their public key instead of a URL, like what FlyWeb would have been.

We would have a standardised and very easy to work with abstraction for what "An account" looks like, which to a user would probably be something like a WebDAV storage space plus a SyncThing-like replication protocol for redundancy plus a distributed MQTT-like messaging system.

Content wise:

You can keep the ads, the tracking, and whatever, just please make endless scrolling and algorithm curation go away.

It's fine for social media news feeds I guess but horrible elsewhere.

We need to be looking at old forums and what they did right, and looking at how we can capture what made old personal sites special without having to actually run a site.

I'm imagining a forum where everyone's initial post has rich theming possibilities, Wiki style linking to your other posts, tagging and heirarchal organization so you can easily browse everything a specific user did, and easy zip file import/export so you can take your content elsewhere if needed.
I can't speak to WeWork, having not seen its books. It seems a more real business than FTX.

This is... not saying much.

The FTX collapse has been eye-opening on this front. FTX was a less serious business than the coffee shop your neighbor opened in 2018, in terms of the books it was keeping. The IRS will be up that coffee shop's ass at the drop of a hat if they claim a bedroom at home as an office, and your neighbor's coffee shop will have a thick packet of receipts and books accounting for every penny spent, at least after they learn their lesson after the first year. FTX could literally not answer the most basic of business questions with any specificity. I'm not talking projections, I'm talking past history. FTX's books were basically a one page napkin scrawl in Excel.

And the list of venture capital was not just long, but prestigious.

Jeepers, Sequoia, give me a billion dollars as an "investment" and I'll personally guarantee you that you'll lose no more than half of it. I've got a napkin right here that says "cryptocurrency" on it. Apparently that's enough for you; where lambo?
> Laptops and phones are simply not designed to input video.

OK, but you get PCIe passthrough with Thunderbolt, so you can put a capture card in an eGPU enclosure, assuming you have TB.
If it's 9 hours long, I'm in.

Oh yeah, I remember he announced who's playing Rocky: https://twitter.com/andyweirauthor/status/150996900478120345...
I can't find any evidence of this: the earliest US income tax was levied for the Civil War, and amounted to a 3% tax on anybody making around $27,000 (in 2022 dollars). That's not a particularly "rich" cutoff.

Edit: about $27,000[1].

[1]: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1861?amount=800
Been using arch as my first and only *nix for about 4 years now, most of the pain points have been smoothed out, usually you can find answers by searching whatever errors you see or checking dmesg. If you're a CS person, it really isn't hard to solve most issues and reason about, it's just normal debugging / docs / forums. In the event that you're doing something weird and niche, or you really cant find your info, you might reach out to the community and it's likely some linux wizard will solve your issue, like this post.

I was much more frustrated on windows when i ran into issues and your best bet was some incompetent support, and watching blue screens til you come to the conclusion that your system is scrapped, who knows why, and you need to reinstall and start over from scratch.

On arch you can save your dotfiles, make snapshots, chroot to fix things, and so on, there's tons of safeguards you can put in place, and tons of options for remediation. You really just need to RTM.

On top of that if you have a gripe about some software not working how you think it should, you can usually hack it or replace it. If you have an idea for some new functionality you want you can usually find/install some existing software for your needs in like 2 seconds, or you can find the repo of your software and submit an issue or PR.

Alternatively you can also just string together existing tools in a script in order to fulfill your needs. I did this recently to create an OCR screenshot to clipboard tool using tesseract and flameshot, something I wouldn't have even considered possible on windows.
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The best parts of the show (the genetic dynasty part) had almost nothing to do with the books. To be fair, especially the first ones would are very hard to adapt.
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I think there's a selection bias here; the ones who are performative are more likely to cross paths with a NYTimes journalist than the ones who aren't. People who keep it low key don't often rise to the notice of others.
Why do you say that? I don't follow celebrity news.
Yep the movie is strangely prophetic. To be fair though I remember hearing people talk about the risk of airborne virus pandemics since the 90s.

One thing they got squarely wrong were cybernetic dolphins being used to crack decryption LOL.
https://archive.vn/ZMAWe
I worked in Japan right at the beginning of the dotcom boom, and Japan was in the grip of a massive financial crisis at that time. And by crisis I mean people committing suicide with alarming regularity.

My boss got most of his money from people trying to find some place better to put their money. Since the DotCom boom only felt long to people who said words like "internet time", I imagine the whiplash on that was pretty bad for everybody there.
Most of its usage is on platforms where engagement is how they make money. Any kind of engagement. Considering flamewars, nitpicking and arguments are goldmines that capture user attention, it's in the platform's best interest to draw attention to threads via notifications.

Is this the right thing for HN? I don't know. But they've decided it's worth the trade off, I think.
Fra-gi-lay
Your wondering is justified, and (like almost every other EU issue nowadays) Hungary was a holdout opposer, and used the vote to blackmail in other areas. They struck a deal in a "package" that includes Ukrain aid as well, in return they got some of the EU funds that was held back because of corruption. What a great happy Union this is.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-deal-hungary-drop-vetoe-r...
This isn't really as big a deal as it's been made out to be, IMO.

This is Pillar 2 of the OECDs tax reform for corporations.

Pillar 1 is much more interesting, and would require corporations to actually book profits where they are made (so not putting everything through Ireland for example). This will have a much bigger impact imo than this 15% ruling, because right now there are a bunch of tricks you can use to get round any tax rate.

For example, even though Ireland's headline tax rate is currently 12.5%, the effective rate after all the tricks for many US tech cos was <1% to the Irish state.
If a certain law or policy instructs you to jump off the roof immediately, would you necessarily do so? Also, technical means (ads-b) and regulations around accessing the data are two different things, no?

Also, why do you have to show that directive agressive tone to me? I didn't do anything bad to you.
Yeah, and I came here to mention this, as I tried to watch it and got 4-5 episodes in before giving up.

Some of it was really frickin cool, and you can even feel some of William Gibson voice shine through into the world.

I probably want this to work more than anybody, but even for me the show was just unwatchable. So often the characters get nothing to do, nothing to say, it's nobody's job to create narrative momentum. It's just brutal.

That said, I'm still not deterred from wanting to watch necromancer just because I want that type of show to work. A show where technology isn't just window dressing, and there's real curiosity about how it impacts the world, and there's real imagination about how to extract original and interesting visual aesthetics from it.
Bill Gates-backed reactor delayed on worries about fuel from Russia
Basically, yes, because a lot of people don't really know what being pretentious or a hipster actually means. The passage of time has lead to both terms being misunderstood and simultaneously conflated.

In order for someone to actually be pretentious, there has to be a pretense. Being purposefully non-mainstream doesn't make someone pretentious as much as a more normal individual would like to believe. Hipsters aren't necessarily pretentious, even when they have a pattern of rejecting the mainstream. A hipster might be pretentious if their image is disingenuous (ex. wearing some article they don't actually identify with, pooh-poohing something publicly while appreciating it secretly), but that doesn't have to describe all or most hipsters.

I get called a hipster because I often reject or have no interest in many things that most people consider good on that basis alone. When something becomes mainstream, I like it less because I believe something going from unknown to mainstream is usually a bad sign, and that instinct is almost always right. Breaking Bad was way better until everyone started slobbering over it and chanted "get back to cooking meth bruh", and look how it ended. Such a long way for a ham sandwich. haha
They actually have a dedicated streetwear/hipper line called WIP (https://us.carhartt-wip.com/)
I loved the Foundation series when I was younger, until the fourth book or after it just got draggy and dull.

Rereading it though, there are bits of brilliance in a sea of cigar smoke and 50’s atomic futurism. The suck fairy hit it pretty hard.
Waste storage.

If zealous supporters of nuclear asked for nuclear waste to be stored in their neighborhoods, I'd be on board for more nuclear power right now.
That could have worked. Haven't seen a good sci fi anthology in awhile. "Black Mirror" seemed to have run out of ideas, and "Electric Dreams" was of very uneven quality.
Probably agree with you on directionality of that demand but maybe that's not the full picture.

For example, right now I work out of the spare bedroom in our house. If we have another kid, that bedroom is no longer spare. People in that situation have a few options (a) make it work (b) buy a larger house (c) go into the office.

Option C is probably not much cheaper than $300/m. I bet Option B became a lot less available to a lot of people now. Spending 3600 a year on a place to work may be a lot cheaper than moving house (heck, your real estate taxes may go up by more than 300/m alone)

None of this is to say that We is a good sustainable business, just building on your analysis to point out there are some cases where We has emerged as the more likely/affordable option.
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I was trying to answer the question generally; I don't know what the US NRC has or has not done in any detail.

But in the US, the government seems to have funded a lot of the practical research activity on Nuclear energy - tens of Billions of USD:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies_in_the_United...

and I also suppose that the contracts with private corporations are such, that they don't just lose their money if regulation changes. Although, again, I'm a lay person when it comes to the US energy sector.

(PS - I didn't downvote you.)
You first have to define what playing field are we talking about?

The playing field in this context is basically latency arbitrage. Who cares what hedge fund is collecting what alpha?

We live in the most golden age for retail trading. Retail electronic trading inside a Roth is basically perfection for the individual right now. I think people are confusing the market micro structure for the account returns in a bear market.
Why do countries have lower tax rates to start with?

For many small/remote countries, lower corporation tax is a way to attract companies that would never have come if the tax rate was higher.
I guess you guys are right. The return of "big men" aka dictators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_man_%28political_science%2...
Really makes me wonder what the world would be like now if Watergate hadn’t happened: https://atomicinsights.com/why-did-richard-nixon-so-strongly...
I thought he got a ~$500m payout from softbank? Can easily leverage that to buy a billion+ worth of property.
Devs also quickly rebelled against carrying a pager and being oncall.
> EU does not care about good laws they care about good headlines for the news not matter how shitty the things they do are

What political system could not be accused of this? Heck my small town is like that.
This could just mean that the ESB had a budget and schedule w/ sufficient margin. The rise of more managed planning meant that everything is pre-optimized and all margins are slashed - the planning process as it is operated in the modern day is generally all about getting to minimized commitments.
> But to the point: a U.S. state can't nationalize a private company. It simply lacks that power. The closest it can get is buying a private company, or creating a public agency or public-private partnership, all of which California has done before.

Or build its own competition. Quite a few califonia cities run their own utilities; Palo Alto started and ran its own phone company (sold to Pac Bell in the late 50s) and cable system (foolishly and destructively sold to crapcast in the '00s) but runs its own water, electricity, and gas system. Several counties run their own utility systems, often in cooperation.

However the high speed rail project suggests that this is not the time for California to enter into such projects. A century ago progressivism flourished, building water, road, and other crucial infrastructure that we still depend on. But the "revolution" of the late 70s and 80s cut away all the maintenance and support for further such projects in the name of ideology.
The primary mechanism these things are spread by is water droplets in the air expelled from the nose and mouth. A sick person wearing a mask will expel more moisture into the mask, and less into the air.

None of this is binary. It's not sick or not sick. There is a viral load component, where a persons body can fight off a certain amount of virus.
Ironically during a nuclear winter event which may or may not be a fraudulent science meme concocted during the cold war. And yet we have had points in fairly recent human history where we had years long stretches of problems caused by volcanic activity. All we need then is some way to turn nuclear fuel directly to enriched calories.
Incredible how many pieces came together to produce such stunning results. Congratulations to the whole MuseScore community!
FTX’s Bankman-Fried could face long road to fraud trial
I love the Golden Age and the entire trilogy from John C Wright. I can’t imagine how anyone could possibly adapt it with any success.

So many fantastic, dense, and challenging subjects are explored in those books.
He hasn't actually done any physics or engineering work though, that's my point. He throws money at problems, it's the spaghetti method of hiring engineers to work on problems. The only thing he contributes is capital

That's not even mentioning that half or more of his projects fail
It maybe un-movieable, but is it un-serialized-storyable? Personally, I’m excited to find out.
Alright then now it makes sense, the degree of what the word betterment entails is our difference.

I thought it meant to alter yourself, far more than just the results of adopting a healthy lifestyle, and i really believe it's not possible to really alter oneself.
Well, that’s just like, your opinion, man. I think it lays out a pretty succinct overview of the ethics involved in building any system in a wholistic manner. He changed his statements later to say that “the quality without a name” is, in fact, wholeness.
Ah, thanks for those details and that link.
Look at the date ;)
The next step after this epiphany is to realize you can do this without actually giving up the phone. Just because it's in your pocket doesn't mean you need to pull it out constantly and look at it. It's just a tool, relegate it to that position in your life and don't use it like a pacifier.
I've heard that if you write a technical book on programming and work with a publisher, they'll encourage you to stick code listings in your book.
Yeah, and it's pretty good, although if you like the idea, I'd recommend just reading the book. It's very different from Neuromancer, it feels like a very different Gibson has written it (more considered, but perhaps less agile - there's nothing quite as vivid as "the sky above the port"), but the central conceit is really interesting. There's already a sequel (Agency), and supposedly a third book on the way.
You're doing the right thing.

w.r.t. "what will you do when they get older and jealous?", learning to deal with jealousy is a good lesson to teach kids. Giving a kid everything they envy and demand is how you raise an entitled brat.
In Germany at least there are several measures in place to make this slippery slope a fallacy (as it usually is) and not realistic.

You can pick whether you want to have an ID card or a passport or both. You are not required to carry your ID card with you.

In general the actually existing surveillance of mobile phones that were in a certain area at a certain time is much more worrisome to me.
Thanks for the feedback! Recently a community member created a Terraform provider: https://github.com/eabrouwer3/terraform-provider-airbyte
You can get a composite output board for the ZX81 eg https://www.ebay.ca/itm/124844441452 which makes it a lot clearer
>Jack Ruby was a supporter of the president

So he claimed, yes.
I think they're referring to the one that was enabled by the amendment.
Maybe Im missing out but Ive never felt the need to spend so much on shoes.

There’s countless of alternatives to boots/shows that aren’t name-brand Doc Martens with that aesthetic.

Personally, I just shop at the clearance sections or sales (ive never seen doc martens there ime)

I always feel like a fool if i drop money on something expensive.

From reading On The Road, I just remember that they were always broke, drunk, drugs and chasing experiences and not aesthetics. at least thats what I took out from the book
Ah, so much software is available! But, I'm not on any wired connections. My primary use case for Synergy is mobile.
Looking at you, Ireland.
Agreed, that's an extremely high quality of life! I was thinking of a working class lifestyle in the USA, whose lives would include all of the points I mentioned (driving a barely running clunker, eating cheap food from a discount grocery store, etc).

Residents of the global south live much less energy intensive lives, but that comes at a cost: they don't have lifestyles of the developed world. When masses of working class people in developed countries hear 'we need to reduce energy consumption', they fear that third world poverty will be forced on them because of the points I mentioned. Increasing costs justify their fears. That might be why climate proposals haven't gotten as much traction that many would have hoped.
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For all the talk about Europe and Asia being ahead of us, I think we have the about correct amount of adversarial legal culture, maybe only slightly too much, and everyone else doesn't have enough.

I hear people saying the hot coffee lawsuit should have been thrown out , and to me that's just crazy that anyone would want to allow safety standards to go on ignored to that level.

Outside of safety related stuff our laws are a bit messed up, but I do appreciate the fact that we make an effort to keep people safe.
> I'm curious about what design decisions lead to OCaml not having Multi-threading when version 1.0 came out

You do know that C (edit - didn't have multithreading in the language spec until C11, right?)

It was common on languages of that era. Also Ocaml has had libraries for multithreading for many years, just like C has POSIX threads and things...
Eh, as I said last time we had a Neuromancer adaptation news story, Dune was said to be unfilmable for years until Villeneuve went and did it and made it seem both natural and almost a little bit conventional.

We're in a golden age of IP right now, and now that superheroes are getting a bit tired, perhaps it's time for classic sci-fi adaptations to shine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33886166
Rivers can and do dry up or reduce significantly in flow.
If Elon is truly worried about his children's safety - irregardless of the baby mamma - he simply needs to stop using/owning a private jet. If he time shared or chartered a jet it would be impossible to know which jet to track on a regular basis or who was on it. It would also be cheaper for him since he is homeless. Better yet use the airlines - better for the environment like a Tesla.
Unbelievably arrogant of Apple TV+ to continue to appropriate for itself the moral right to adapt sci-fi classics after having created an almost unending stream of absolute garbage for three years.
Didn’t mean it as malignment, just felt that the characterization with beatniks didn’t seem right.
Don't forget that companies easily get around this by having higher brokerage fees when the brokerage arm and market making arm have the same beneficial owners. Just do what Susquehanna does: instead of filling an order 0.05 too high, fill it at a fair value, and charge a 0.05 fee. Then no other auction participants can better the fill, since all of the money got shifted from a bad fill to a high fee.
It's so funny to me, because I love the books, and I believe John C. Wright would absolutely despise all of my politics. I feel like the College of Hortation is a great idea, and I'm pretty sure he thinks it's the bad guy.
hopefully it will turn out much better than Foundation series fiasco.

Still, I am very optimistic!
China has built an impressive amount of high speed rail in the last two decades, but I expect they must have been planning that through the 90's, and the amount is probably because they dared to construct several projects simultaneously.