skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As lazywebbing failed to work, my marks to market:

> ...and other macho sci-fi novelists whose future worlds were always filled with space traders, superslick salesmen, genius scientists, pirate captains and other rugged individualists...

In some cases (eg The Space Merchants, Pandora's Planet, and arguably The Ayes of Texas) these rugged individualists were parodies.

Is the "Virtual Class" of this essay (symbolic analysts, according to Robert Reich) impacted by ChatGPT?

> Electronic Agora or Electronic Marketplace?

Do both of these possibilities seem a little quaint, in a world which also contains 防火长城, شورای عالی فضای مجازی, and Роскомнадзор?

> the question facing the emerging hypermedia industry isn’t whether or not it will be organised as a mixed economy, but what sort of mixed economy it will be.

Now, this holds up, even in hindsight.

> Freedom is Slavery

I once asked someone of that generation why the hippies thought they could change the world. "After the successes of the Civil Rights Movement, anything seemed possible" was the reply. From the standpoint of 2023, I'd say Reconstruction continues to have yet to be fully in the past, for the Old Country is still dealing with the aftermath of 1868 and the 14A.

> Forward Into the Past

Ah, yes, the twenty-first century, when I can see "flyover deplorables" in the Old Country forming their own separate but equal social networks, sharing memes in which the fine christian Donetsk and Lugansk forces are flying a starred St. Andrew's flag (as opposed to the what, non-christian? Ukrainian forces?) Now, these memes are nowhere to be found on RuNet, but my maximal entropy source attribution is that it's highly likely that's where they'd ideologically originated.

> Cyborg Masters and Robot Slaves

Recall: the Virginians were only carrying on in the traditions of the Athenians.

> There are Alternatives

The specific alternatives mentioned don't seem to have panned out; or at least they are not being publicised at the moment. I am, however, optimistic that other alernatives will eventually be adopted.

Americans will always do the right thing ... after they have tried everything else. — WC

> The Rebirth of the Modern

The EU is trying to assert itself here (and full props to balsam for the Mundaneum! chapeau !); I would just suggest to my former landspeople in the Old Country that it might be nice if the net were indeed a place "with Liberty, and Justice, for all"
So a country like South Africa can just turn off their coal plants and continue as normal ? Of course not ! They will go bankrupt ! Solar+storage is still too expensive !

Whereas if the US consumer stop buying oversize trucks and stop flying cross country for social events, they will actually save money!

It's simply not equatable to expect a poor country like South Africa to make sacrifices while the US (a rich country) refuse to levy a carbon tax.
In gas form, hydrogen is much worse. You need about 18 truckloads of hydrogen stored at 200 bar to match a single truck load of diesel in terms of energy.
Honestly, it feels like something Apple might be working towards with Universal apps (allowing you to run iPad apps in "macOS mode") and iOS-ifying macOS (Settings, larger would-be touch targets).

Stage Manager being a feature that shipped to both macOS and iOS and requires Apple Silicon is also a pretty good hint.
He specifically asked about a straight flags.

Non property owners are discriminated against?
But it's not about who has the most number of studies. It's about having a sufficient number of diverse studies that can be used to have a reasoned conversation about the topic instead of always ending spinning in circles with generic allegations linking one or two "papers" "proving" that "everybody is wrong!!".

If everybody is wrong then it shouldn't be that hard to prove it. You don't need big pharma pockets.

If in principle you can't find 500M people willing to invest $10 in a crowd funding campaign it means that the vaccine skeptics are actually a minority and why are we having this conversation?

With 5 billion dollars you can find enough scientists to seriously research and rigorously destroy any bullshit that big pharma is selling to us!

But it's not like this research output in itself would prove the anti vax point. It's not a quantity versus quantity, my word against your word mechanism.

Once we have that body of well written papers, then we can have a next level discussion about it.
The article has a good point from a few Faroese guys about how the mass inhumane US harvesting of beef, chicken, and pigs, is probably very similar in aggregate.

But when the food item is something Americans culturally eat, it becomes difficult for animal rights activists to push on because they get labeled as crazy immediately. Whereas food items Americans are not used to eating like whale or snake gets a round of applause from Americans and justifies a bit of underlying racism about how that other culture is simply an inhuman culture.
They could send that journalist to almost any country and experience a better tax system than the US. Although it sounds like a nice trip and he got some hikes in.

> Filing taxes takes up an estimated 6.5 billion hours each year—as the right-leaning Tax Foundation points out, the equivalent of 3.1 million people working full-time for the whole year.

It's just a staggering level of waste. But hey, keep shuffling stuff around until that ”obnoxious paperwork” is technically only one piece of paper (except for all the schedules you need to also include). It's beyond dumb. Sort yourselves out, America.
Only if you use a vacuous definition of "growth" that fails to distinguish between an actual change in the underlying physical situation and a change in people's perceptions.
> loop would support application-defined clauses.

lisp loop is a macro, can be modified to support above request.

> * in the area of pathnames, I would have the language specify precisely how POSIX and Windows paths correspond to pathname objects.

Elang/elixir approach where (pathname <file stats parameter>) provides a standard way to access file/path without having to know what the underlying file system is (unless check atrributes)

> * structs and CLOS would be integrated together; conditions would be CLOS instances.

strucs are just segmented arrays or multi-values in (). (condit ()) is a 'clos instance'.

The way python sets up it's class/object system is similar to lisps, just not using lisp ().

> ... we don't know whether the f binding is resolved before or after the arguments. ...

whats order in a tree/heap, other than way tree/heap traversed.

why not make use of setq/quote if binding order is important?

> * redefine "binding" as being an association between a symbol and a location.

first item in () s-expression is the symbol/location association. Doesn't # provide a way to get at what the symbol/location association is?

> ... I'd fix that as being tear-down-as-you-go. ...
Traditional lisp, nothing is garbaged reclaimed until exit REPL.
It seems we are more and more at taking a shot at kernel dev, I mean a full kernel.

What is really annoying with linux (and *BSD), it is their dependence on gcc/clang. It is not C, it is a dialect of C using too many bazillions gcc extensions. It means in the long run, we are hit straight in the face with planned obsolescence from C syntax, as ISO tantrums(c11/c17/c7489374893749387) or some ultra-recent gcc extensions ("sorry, you need THIS extension only available in gcc from 2 weeks ago").

I have been coding assembly lately, and being independent of those compilers gives me an exhilarating feeling of freedom.

Who said 64Bits RISC-V assembly written (with a conservative usage of a preprocessor) linux compatible enough kernel which runs the steam client, dota2/csgo and those horrible "modern" javascripted web browsers (I personnaly use only noscript/basic (x)html browsers)? Would even be fine for a self-hosted mini server (email, personal web/git(mirrors) site, p2p, all ipv6 to avoid that disgusting ipv4 NAT, etc).

To stay real, I would go incrementaly: I would start slowly by moving back some linux code to real C (namely _NOT_ compiling only with gcc/clang, and this will be hard), port some code paths to assembly, probably x86_64 at first then 64bits RISC-V would follow (and why not ARM64).

I am more than fine with linux GPLv2, actually, I would provide the "new" code under affero GPLv3 with a similar linux "normal" program exception (but more accurately defined, to target drivers in userspace and stay explicitely ok with closed source userspace programs using those drivers) _and_ as linux GPLv2(and more based on their author wishes) to be legal with re-used linux code.
Jamstack Architecture in a Nutshell
"the context of why the painting is banned inside of Islam is relevant"

How is that relevant to anyone not muslim? Because this is what this is about - (some) muslims wanting other people to follow their religious rules.
Mog: “What truly is fire? The divine blessing stolen by Prometheus? Concentrated Phlogiston? The element of change? Is it not madness to seek to create something we don’t even have a good definition of?”

Grog: “Grog rubs two sticks together” Lowers voice and looks around furtively “really hard.”
I didn’t say other marginalized groups don’t have to fight for human rights.
Rust is definitely NOT a higher language than C and there are dozens of OSs like TockOS, R3 and OS-like frameworks (like embassy-rs and RTEMS-inspired RTIC) written in it in the embedded world and quite a few in nonembedded world (i.e. world where you have MMU not just MPU or less).
What we honestly need is to make sure all major cities have substantial public transportation infrastructure as well, so that people's incentives to drive are much lower. People need to be walking more, biking more, and taking public transportation more.

I personally live in a crowded area of a fairly large city, but not a huge one. Anywhere I have to go that's within 1 mile of me, I walk. 2 miles, I bike. 3 miles or greater and within the city limits, I take the free public trolley and metro. I only drive when I absolutely need to. This mentality needs to not be limited to just me.

We also as a society need to realize that urban sprawl is a really bad thing.
Yeah the more I learn about history in my spare time, the more corollaries I see with medieval papal censorship and suppression of freedom of thought, and some movements today going in that direction.

I yearn for the, looking back, somewhat balanced days where not everyone was head deep in politics, and we could have useful debates about maybe health care or national budget, without degenerating into blanket character attacks. Then after the debate, everyone is at least cordial.

Just finished the first season of white lotus. Did not expect to see some good dichotomies of two generations interacting with one another (re: the scuba family)
I look at that thing most of the day.

I don't think it is that unbelievable that I'd like to look at something a little bit nicer than default i3. :shrug:
Is that the VCL or the FMX library? VCL should be nothing more than a wrapper around native windows controls, FMX emulates native controls in a cross-platform framework. I would find it surprising to see these sorts of bugs in VCL, not in FMX.

Edit: never mind, I see the mac window controls, so FMX it is, and that’s the explanation. Those aren’t mac controls at all, they’re emulations of mac controls.
Not really. We're talking about car-oriented infrastructure, which came about in Europe at the same time it did in the U.S. (even a bit later, if we're being honest).
Thanks for your work. I have a lot of experience being the engineering in inefficient organizations and I don't see how society would survive if all the dead weight was fired.

The 10% of us that do real actual work would make 90% of the wages and the management class would live in poverty or be forced to take manual labor or customer service jobs. But there wouldn't be enough customer service job available because there are so few of us actual productive employees, and this problem would only get worse as those of us that understand technology are able to leverage it to remove the need for even more people.
“The system also makes drone warfare much easier.”

Drones are making artillery, tanks, etc much more accurate.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/05/12/drones...
I've read this nice quote which I can't correctly replicate without butchering:

"Schools are banning chatGPT but children won't let schools tamper with their education"
The main question for me is: why are you looking at ads on YouTube?

Since I've been using adblockers forever, I went ten years or so before I even realized YouTube was showing ads...
I think thinking in terms of affordances and goals already makes a lot of assumptions about how a potential AGI would work, but imo the kind of "radical emergence" talked about in the article is totally within the realm of possible applications of modern machine learning.

If you think about how a language model works, it's not totally clear that it should work at all.

Humans use sentences to communicate pre-existing ideas - ie. we already have the object, subject and action in our heads prior to forming the sentence. In order to generate realistic sentences, an LLM needs some ability to plan ahead, so that when generating the logits for the first token, it needs some idea of how the sentence will end.

But if you think about it, nothing about next-token prediction should necessarily lead to this planning ability. It can easily get into a feedback loop of predict the same token over and over (and small LMs do in fact do this) We also didn't tell it explicitly that sentences should have objects, subjects and actions, these behaviors are purely emergent from the task of next token prediction.

In a similar vein, I think artificial agents would not need explicit goals or affordances, just a sufficiently complex environment that a large model would not overfit on.
like this kind, bud? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01tCZdONkRA
I do too, but I find it distracting when for example something opens a popup menu and the original window dims/fades away.

Tried also transparency and it really does not work for me either.
>My understanding is that they still try to limit the number of managers

IMHO this is really the point. Somebody has to hire devs, run the evaluation/promotion stuff, facilitate communication to/from upper management, and so on.

I've just never been to a place that couldn't do that with 1/2 to 1/3 of the EMs they have. For whatever reason the standard is one EM per team. A better ratio is on EM per 2-4 teams.
> Also Ebikes are more expensive to buy, maintain, and run. I doubt they last even half as long too. I'm still using a hybrid buy I bought 10 years ago for 200 (exdisplay).

Do you have any stats to back that up? Sure, an ebike will be more expensive than an equivalent non electric version. But if you’re more likely to take it out over a car or paying for public transit, that’s much cheaper per mile of use.

For some anecdata, I bought an ebike 4-5years ago for about $1600 and put a little over 1,000 miles a year on it mainly in NYC. In total I’ve spent $600 on repairs and upgrades, with $300 being a new battery after 4 years. The rest was just replacing brakes and changing some of the stock items, mainly for aesthetic reasons. This bike replaced $40-60 cab rides to other boroughs and my unlimited metro card($130/mo). In less than a year it paid for itself and more, and I definitely would not have put as many miles on my regular bike.
For those wandering why this is an issue. If you are using virtualised scrolling [0] to display a very long list of items, this limits the maximum length of the scrolling area, and therefor the maximum number of items.

Say you have a display that will show all items in a database, each row is 20px high, this limits the maximum number of items you can show to 894,784. That may seem absurd, but if you have a UI that allows you to jump to a specific item in the scrolling list, you would expect to be able to do it.

0: https://blog.logrocket.com/virtual-scrolling-core-principles...
What you should be concerned about is future inflation. Past inflation is already accounted for, you can't avoid that. I think in the future, if the FED keeps its tightening policy, we are not going to see much inflation or the reverse: prices going down. We are already seeing some of that effect in the stock and crypto markets.
My understanding of the wework debaucle is that it ultimately came down to the s-1 filing. The s-1 was so poorly reviewed that it raised questions with the LPs and others that it blocked the IPO.

On the other hand, Uber still loses >1.2 billion per quarter on a 13 year old business. It’s unclear if this trajectory will ever change - but their stock goes up when they lose more money.

There is no guarantee that the markets choose to value profits in the future… which begs many questions.
Wait are we reading about “the 36 questions that lead to love” or “the 36 questions that lead to loving where you work”?
That's indeed how hydrogen is transported around today. The thing is, the volumetric density of hydrogen is quite bad. About 3x less energy than methane in gas form, which is similar to the difference in energy density in liquid form too.
> This, however, is just straight up alt-right talking points.

Doesn't make it inaccurate. Trying to cudgel GP into submission by casting aspersions of being "alt-right" affiliated is evidence of it being true, even. The gaslighting is unwelcome.
You can effectively accomplish the same thing from an environmental perspective by running your house as efficiently as possible. If you already have home solar, you are reducing the amount of carbon put into the air by power plants. Since CO2 molecules are indistinguishable from each other, that carbon reduction could just as well have come from burning renewable synthetic fuel made at home. If you have a big solar setup and sell excess back to the grid, that carbon reduction will be larger than if you used the same energy to inefficiently synthesize fuel.
https://archive.ph/UZy3w
I lose a bit of hope in mankind every time I see (grossly) estimated unrealized profits being blindly equated to personal fortune like this.
Good thing that crime rates are one of the few things that get people to vote in council elections.
SMS changed to MMS when moving from iPhone to Android
I took the text message backup from my iPhone. Most of these text messages were simple SMS which companies send when you buy something online e.g. "Thx you for shopping, you spent 3$ here.." When I moved these SMS to my android (Samsung), all of them show as MMS on android. Any clue why its so?
But does the data fit in compute? Assuming computation needs to be done on the data you could quickly run out of compute power on a single machine. Especially since cost of CPU power is super linear with some pretty hard limits.
If you’re building an app at all you are most likely already building way too much. Try validating your business without building an app first, then what to build will be more obvious.
I don't think OOP has failed at all. It has become the foundation of all reusable code in every language. What failed was the idea that internal state can be managed and shared with derived classes.

The key to OOP is extracting the idea of types/concepts into interfaces that may have different implementations.

You don't even need a language that supports polymorphism as a first-class concept in order to do this, though it is certainly much safer. Python chooses duck typing, modern C++ uses "concepts," etc. You can do SOLID under any of this. Some languages or frameworks take it too far and think of everything as an instance of a base object, for no great reason.

I guess a summary of my thesis is that the "L" in SOLID is what makes an architecture OOP.
From what I gather from reading Matt Stoller's newsletter on monopolies, there has been little meaningful enforcement of antitrust for a very long time.

Did you know there's a huge cheerleading monopoly [0]? There is essentially one company that runs the competitions, sells the uniforms, and sells the equipment. A quote from the article:

> The most interesting aspect of this case are not the legal arrangements, but the fear that I found in interviewing people in the cheer world. Virtually every interview I did was under the condition that the person remain anonymous for fear of retribution. Often people would email me saying that I had no idea the depths of the scandals in the sport.

How about monopolies in port-a-potties and MMA? [1]

The alternative seems to be that you do...nothing? And just let them keep consolidating a market? That can't be good.

Antitrust needs enforcement so that we can have competition.

[0]: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-democracy-i...
[1]: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-land-of-monopolists-fro...
Interesting concept.

Although I'm not that technical, I can see the value in simplicity.

Some feedback:

- provide LOTS of examples
- show references (if you have...)
- find partner services which complement yours

Good luck with your SaaS :)
One key thing I'd say is it's about using your power that you rightfully gained in one sphere to unfairly win in another.

I've spent years working towards having this motorbike why can't I use it in the Tour de France?

Google got into trouble for doing this with their terrible shopping thing. They didn't compete on having the best shopping tool they just forced theirs to the top knowing it was worse. This is bad for consumers as the assumption is that things get better as companies compete.
Saying Islam feels far too strong. There are still groups of Christians who demand the death penalty for practicing gays.

Certainly some Islamic groups are incompatible with secular values.
Trammel hooks are still used in the corner of Portugal in which I live - quite a lot of families have an old house which still has a hearth covering half the kitchen, filled with chains and hooks for setting various fires and putting pots on at various heights.

Of course, most folks also have a modern kitchen, but for high days and holidays they cook the old way still. Not unusual to see an old lady cranking a kid goat on a turnspit, either.

Thing is, some of these “old” houses were built as recently as the 70’s, using techniques which hadn’t changed since the medieval era - stone and timber, lath and plaster, packed earth floors - such are the privations of nearly a century of stunted development, particularly in rural areas.
In the case of the featured Bełchatów the problem might solve itself earlier than the stated 2036 shutdown date - it's already not competitive economically and the lignite used to power it is running out anyway.

I wonder what's the future of power generation in the region, because the planned replacement nuclear power plant still exists purely on paper after at least a decade of talks.
These systems are also learning how to operate in the real world, just look at self driving cars.

The famous LiDAR image of a woman chasing ducks on a wheelchair with a broom comes to mind. That’s a true WTF moment but the system dealt with it just fine. They don’t work everywhere, but you can get picked up by an empty self driving car in a few cities and driven to your destination. Meanwhile these systems are currently being tested on snowy mountain roads etc.

When your camera picks out faces in an image you can literally point it at anything and it generally works quite well. That’s the future of AI not constrained games like chess.
I'd much rather cycle in busy Amsterdam than drive in congested Los Angeles, Paris, Tbilisi, HCMC etc.