skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right there in the title - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Soviets are worker's councils and the individual republics are supposed to have some degree of autonomy on paper. For at least a couple of months in 1917, some amount of collective decision making did happen, although (as you stated) with virtually all Russian governments, it quickly devolved into one-man personality cult enforced by brutality and the machinations of the NKVD.
I'm not disputing your point - This is a very useful technique to practice - this awareness of what people are really asking. Unfortunately this is a twin edged sword - politicians for example will frequently reach in to the question they've been asked and answer the question they want to answer, not the real question that's beneath the surface. So much so, to the point that they look disingenuous or false. Jobs' speech here was very prescient or rather it was in essence him setting out what he wanted Apple to be, from where it was in 1997.
Sorry, yes. Non-passthrough AR.
Thanks for the recommendation, it's definitely on my list!
This is the Robert McNamara strategy for answering questions: don't answer the question that was asked, instead answer the question you wanted to be asked, and by the end of it the asker will usually have forgotten that they actually asked a different question. It's pretty common, but I think few people were as explicit/honest about it as McNamara (later in life, that is).
Their use of 'there' instead of 'their' could've been done purposely as a means of not being unmasked. A tool was posted the other week that took HN usernames and found accounts that it deemed as being alt accounts/similar writing styles.

Could be an attempt to throw something like that off
Works for the 99.9% not using a VPN. They don't care about the last few users.
I appreciate your suggestions but would really need to see some simulations to digest the potential effects. Not that my opinion counts for much but it's always good to suggest alternatives when one criticizes.
That said, the duopoly isn't always so bad historically. Many cases of individual candidates who broke party lines or walked the fine line. It depends to a great degree on party discipline or the lack thereof.
The default is that is updates automatically.

It has a very unique "cron job", wherein pages effectively fork by doing a "curl wp-cron.php". One of those jobs is a daily check for updates, and it will apply one if it exists. I've had people argue that they want to disable they behaviour, and do manual qa before updates. I can see why. But the last person I argued this with had their website replaced with a gore image because they got behind in updates.
It fits our mental model of one sided printed pages
1. X isn't happening

2. X may be happening, but you're overreacting

3. Sure, X happened, but let me tell you why it's a good thing
I grew up on DOS 6.22 and quick basic 4.5, so I have a huge amount of nostalgia for how low friction it was to start programming back in the day.

There's a scene in Stranger Things where Sean Astin's character tries to brute force a code using a basic variant, and it was surprising to me to see code on a popular TV show that was remarkably faithful to the original.

https://specularrealms.com/2021/04/21/strangest-things
OP is using the term loosely, but the issue is with FPTP a candidate can win with one vote over 1/n percent of the vote. So if there are 10 candidates the winner need only 10% of the vote plus 1 vote to win.

That's an impoverished version of democracy.
Is Jobs' answer technically a non-sequitur rebuttal to a technical question? Only that charisma has "carried the motion" through
Google changes the UI language in its first party apps based on IP, which is a much bigger deal than advertisers chosing to send Spanish ads to people who spend time in Spanish language countries.
That’s because back then your interaction with the public was maybe twice a year. Now it’s daily. Apples and oranges.
One result of digging at these issues is I think the whole free market stuff is a canard to cover financialization of everything. That's explains a lot of about reflexive policy choices and the stripping away of the power of labor and consumers.

Anything that's entangled with responsibilities towards anyone other than nominal owners is harder to turn into a paper asset that can be traded as if it were money. Ergo all those things need to be stripped away.
Right and China is also set to produce 80% of the world's batteries. Emphasizing "China alone" seems strange shen china alone produces the vast majority of the world's batteries. Between that and the lockdowns in China, I'll be interested in seeing if the final figures for lithium batteries are even close to the 1,000 GWh global production figures that people had predicted. Moore's law unfortunately doesn't play out in heavy industry.

And again, the question is how do you move the water around when the wind isn't blowing? Or do you think citizens are just going to be okay with plumbing that only works on windy days. The point is that household energy use is hardly the only kind of thing that needs to be backed up by a storage system. Energy demand cannot easily be cut without making significant sacrifices in standards of living and industrial output.

Yes, people have used wind pumps to pump wells in villages and homesteads. But that's because they didn't need that water on demand, it's just a labor saving device used opportunistically. But it's a lot harder to pump water to the top of a skyscraper, and to a city of millions of people. This kind of pump [1] is not a drop in replacement for this [2] kind of pump.

In conclusion, we'd need a way to provision massive amounts of storage to get renewables and o become a reliable source of primary energy. It's costs are being measured in the context of opportunistically replacing fossil fuel power. But in a context where fossil fuel use is not permitted, it would be highly impractical without an incredibly performant form of storage. Perhaps heated sand, compressed air, electrolysis, etc. will deliver that. But thus far they haven't, and in the absence of such a storage system nuclear power would be a more reliable path of decarbonization.

1. http://www.historyofwindmills.com/images/historyofwindmills/...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Wood_Scr...
My favorite part is when audience clap to “some mistakes will be made and that’s good because that means decisions will be made “. As a guy who just quit 18 year career at multi billion dollar corporation, that was the biggest reasons for my quitting.
> Because the voting map looked like this, and the UK just can't do that kind of subdivision

The UK has plenty of experience drawing partition lines in other countries. I have full faith that they could manage it here if they tried.

Looking at the map, these would even be very clean lines by British standards.
the goal is communication is not always clarity

the fun of sarcasm is knowing enough to recognize it

if somebody is too out of the loop to recognize it and picks an argument, it's collateral damage
> back then your interaction with the public was maybe twice a year. Now it’s daily.

If you choose it to be. Plenty of CEOs are relatively recluse. For example, Apple’s, today.
Hardware has less competition. China doesn’t know how to build the next Apple, only how to copy it. Yet, at least.
Making Snowflakes with Cellular Automata
Much thanks! I really appreciate the posts that provide a link to paywalled content.
and mac os can be ios
FB (and to a lesser extent google) allow targeting via phone numbers, emails, and addresses.

This [1] shows the attributes Facebook Custom Audiences allows match on, and it includes email, phone, first/last name, address, dob, and age. So if any of those were shared with the store, they can upload them to FB (and very similar to Google) to show you ads.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2082575038703844?id=2...
Apple c. 2010 disagrees [0]. They registered "There's an app for that" as a trademark. I lost my phone in an Uber yesterday so now I have no apps.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2010/10/app-for-that/
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> Australia and the sense is that it tends to dull the extreme fringes of the party platforms

even if thats true... you still have the overton window [0] to worry about (slowly lurching in one direction or another towards extremism)

still though, i feel its more fair if 99% rather than 30% of the people decide how they want to run their country

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
At F5 while I was there it was explicit coding practice to never use size_t, "because it wastes bytes". If you used size_t it'd get caught in code review and you'd be asked to remove it.
I think some people are drawn to this video because they want others to think that Jobs made big changes that were painful and he was very successful, therefore when Musk makes big changes that are painful he will also be successful. I disagree and think the similarities are only superficial, but I can see why some might think that.
Solar power from a battery is the most expensive electricity.
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this is amazing, thank you for building this, i was literally in the process of doing this with the same stack but as a chat bot.

would you be open sourcing soon? totally understand if you want to keep it private but if you are open sourcing there’s a few other podcasts i’m interested in running this on for myself, like some parenting ones.
This works if done right but it's surprisingly easy to mess up. A lot of people have fallen in to the trap where the tool they use didn't put a perfectly black rectangle in and the text can be extracted out. And on PDFs you can very easily end up just adding a layer over the top which can be removed later.
I feel you’re presenting a straw man. I’m not suggesting we hold corporations blameless in all circumstances, merely that we can’t abdicate all personal responsibility for our own safety.
Maybe it’s gonna be t2.social then :D So many brewing now.
I think it's worse than that, it feels like the end of the exponential part of the massive growth S-curve that started after WW2 with rebuilding, tech breakthroughs, the transistor, electronics, computers, globalization, etc. Now all that is finally in steady state and the structures that built up around the growth are falling in on themselves. People try to blame whichever government is currently in power or whatever but it's mostly irrelevant.
In the case of my small example: I am the rural vote so I don't see our collective force as tyranny of course. As long as basic rights are respected. Ours is a case of a region with specific identity and interests not shared by the single metropole so a purely proportional result is not ideal from our perspective. But I understand your point.
The “opioid crisis” is a crisis because (1) it is easy to accidentally kill yourself with opioids; (2) drug criminalisation makes recreational drug use a lot less safe than it could be were it legal and regulated

I doubt overuse of a “happy button” brain implant is going to kill you; and I doubt it is going to end up in a similar legal situation to recreational drugs. So, whatever the negative impacts of overuse of such a button might be, I expect they’ll be a lot less severe than the opioid crisis
I think I agree with you on the point that there is no excuse for the absence of a proper audit.

However I don't think there is a shared understanding here of what an audit is.

You can find audited financials of public companies on sec.gov, and see for yourself that they are not lists of "wallets" controlled by the company.

It makes me think of Three-card Monte, a classic con. You see the target card, so you know it exists in a certain place at a certain moment. But the whole con is making you think you know where it will be. Which you don't, since it's a con.
I haven’t looked into this question before, but it’s fascinating to compare the second-hand characterizations of what Johnson has apologized for with his direct quotes: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson...
Is that really that much better than an ipad air/pro? I don’t particularly care, but some people buy a paper-like screen protector as well.
If your leadership chain is good, then it is easy to have a great experience and good scope to grow.

As you get higher up, the politics and limits become very visible. Strategy and focus are really hard to scale up which creates limited scope for continued growth.
Nobody said "not fine". You mentioned "economically disadvantaged". Such a person person literally is disadvantaged in some economic ways. Not all. Not most. But some.
> Fast integrated GPUs like Apple's allow for directly accessing the main memory without copy, making the GPU more viable for general purposes.

My understanding (and I would be very happy for any clarifications/corrections!) is that you must use Metal Buffers (MTLBuffer) with the Apple Silicon GPU. If your data isn't already in a Metal Buffer (why would it be?), you have to do a copy into a buffer (but it will be extremely fast). Metal Buffers use raw bytes so they will work well with C/C++ arrays, but if you are using something like a Swift array, that is not such an easy to use pairing - you can only get a Swift UnsafeMutableRawPointer to the data.

Further complicating things is that for the best GPU compute performance on Apple Silicon, you want to use Metal Buffers that are private to the GPU, forcing you to use a "blit" operation to copy data to/from CPU-visible memory.

I've been exploring general purpose computing with both CUDA and Apple Silicon and am having a lot better luck using SIMD intrinsics instead. While the GPU compute is incredibly fast, there is just so much time spent synchronizing data. There really seems to be some sweet spot where the GPU wins out, but in a lot of general purpose uses you won't ever get there. But I would really like to be shown that I'm wrong!!!

PS - the very basic ARM Neon stuff that the M1 supports is insanely fast and gets even better when you use multiple threads.
> The government doesn't actually have a right to speak? Without some evidence of threats or coercion I don't see the problem.

This is like saying employees have the right to reject when their bosses make sexual advances.

In theory, sure. In practice, not really. Employees fear for their careers

This is why it's such a big no even if employees have mutual romantic interests.

Same with the FBI. They can fuck up your life beyond repair if they want to.

Thus, "the implications"!
Italy can't control what others pay, but using your example does Italy pay all of their players the same, or do they generally pay more money to their better players?
Absolutely none of that is true.

The UK has the highest energy prices of any country in Europe and - not coincidentally - its energy companies make the highest profits.

The UK could have promoted renewables, and did for a while. But the current government - like you - is actively hostile to decentralised solutions that work, and prefers to promote corporate choke points over energy supply that have put the entire population at risk of fuel poverty.

It's been the same story across most of the privatised industries. The concept of the common good has been replaced with an oligarchic dystopia in which a few corrupt winners shake down everyone else.

The root cause is neoliberal dogma, which has been aggressively promoted to the population since the 1970s. It was sold as "freedom". But it's only ever been used to justify increasingly extreme economic apartheid and incredibly poor strategic planning.

The UK is not a poor country. It's not even an energy poor country. But it's on course to having the poorest working population in Europe.

That's not the fault of windmills and solar panels, and it's disingenuous to suggest it is.
Wow that new animation is horrendous.
I think you are conflating socialism with statism.

Personally I don't believe Marxism to imply state control, or public ownership to mean state ownership.

I'd also see ownership models to include workers and customers. e.g. as a seasonal reference Building and Loan from It's a Wonderful Life.

Of course not everyone sees it that way.
Yes pain can indeed be an incorrect signal. Phantom limb pain is one example that comes to mind.
Electric motors don’t (by themselves) prevent burning rubber. The more sophisticated traction control systems though…
It's very strange that there is like a 70% of Windows 10 and like a 5% of Windows 7, but no Windows 8.
We talking pronouns? This/these? Who's Cramack? That quote from his letter sounds like someone who constantly overstepped their bounds.
Other comments rightfully address Jobs' extraordinary talent in presentation and persuasion. He was certainly right in the diagnosis about what ailed Apple at the time, and where it needed to get to (or get back to).

Having said that, I have to feel for the guy asking the question, and by extension, all the developers who invested time and money building on top of this platform (OpenDoc) that Apple previously championed. OpenDoc sucked, that's for sure, but Apple killing it they way they did, and the lack of empathy demonstrated here by Jobs to the developers facing the loss of their investment in the platform - basically telling them "tough shit" - must have felt like a real slap in the face.
I think the poster isn’t talking about the remote server seeing client MACs (because, as you say) but, rather, about the way mobile OSes use nearby wifi access point SSIDs to provide GPS-less geolocation. Samy Kamkar raised my awareness of this way back in 2010 or so, and this article about his DefCon talk provides a good quick explanation: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-10850875.
if the minority parties work together with the opposition to form a majority representing a majority of the public surely that's a great example of real democracy in action, it may be a 'peril' to the governing party .... but at that point they represent a minority of the populous - this is not 'shocking' this is how a democratic country should behave

I live in New Zealand we have a proportional representative voting system (MPP), since we changed we've had coalitions and minority governments .... but we haven't had dysfunction or anarchy, largely I think because our parties know that if they go beyond the pale they wont get reelected
And we have our own version of this in Croatia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamutica
That number is not really accurate though because ethnic Germans from their diaspora that ended up back in Germany post-WW2/USSR collapse are considered to have migrant background.
Well, it's not a size, it's a page count.
> Blair saw that the centre left was politically the best bet, and pragmatically that social policies needed the private economy to produce wealth.

in the end, what happened to the produced wealth? is everyone doing much better now than then?
I envision a tool that can make people more agile and learn things as they go. Do you see GitHub copilot as a shortcut? Because the idea is the same.
Say what you will about BASIC, but it was (like Python) designed to be a programming language that beginners could learn in an afternoon and do something useful with. It was also compact, which made it scalable to support hundreds of users on a timesharing system, and small enough to fit on tiny, underpowered 8-bit systems and microcontrollers. BASIC, like Lisp, is also simple enough that it is easily implemented.

The computing era of the 1950s-1980s is interesting in that it was assumed as a matter of course that in order to get the most out of a computing system, users would write programs for it. As a result, the systems were fairly programmer-friendly and provided programming languages and instructions for using them in the box, including materials aimed at beginners.

Now that there are zillions of prefabricated apps that you can download almost instantly, there's a whole lot you can do with a computing system without ever touching a programming language. As a result, systems like macOS/iOS/Android/Windows are designed to create app and game users/customers rather than programmers or engineers - educational micro platforms like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and micro:bit being notable exceptions, and Linux largely retains its programmer-oriented Unix heritage.

It's too bad, because JavaScript is included in every web browser, other languages like Python, Java and C++ are readily available for free on nearly every system, and even BASIC itself is still available from Microsoft in forms such as Visual BASIC, VBA, and SmallBasic. (And there are free and web implementations as well.)

What seems to be missing from iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, ChromeOS, and web browsers is an easy, visible, built-in onramp to programming. For example, Swift Playgrounds is neat, but I expect most iOS and Mac users don't know it exists, and would probably have little interest in it if they did.
Not the companies who are afraid. It's the employees that are afraid of FBI.

This is like your bosses make sexual advances at you. The power dynamics would make you uncomfortable.
I agree, he doesn't look even remotely angry. The guy asking the question sure did, but Jobs looked pretty relaxed. And his response was amazing. No wonder he could create the Reality Distortion Field ;).
Eh I think it’s fine. You work with it for enough years you will have accumulated enough code to quickly bang out new projects. But yeah if you don’t bring your own toolbox it isn’t great.
How does this reconcile with scenarios where there is no discernible physiological explanation for the pain experienced by a patient?
The LAMBDA function in Excel can define an infinitely recursing function without using scripting.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing...
"Enhance the Z-axis" came close.