skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Too many humans - decision-making is slowed down & and it's expensive

Cut half - faster decisions, more money. Will you have more problems, Yes. But you'll never know how bloated you were till you get lean again.

2. Too expensive humans

Most developers at FANGS can be replaced with mediocre devs in iowa or India. They will cut high-priced salaries soon and replace them with entry-level talent.
I'll bite. What about ...

a] we could be a positive example of a sustainable approach to earth stewardship, by switching to plant based diets instead of eating ourselves to extinction, what we do they copy, by switching to plant based we would save 75% of agricultural land (enabling reforestation and stopping biodiversity loss if done properly)

b] don't f*ck up the climate much more, so they won't have to migrate to save their bare existence, no walls will stop those hundreds of millions once they start moving (50+C temperatures near the equator, melting glaciers threatening water scarcity for hundreds of millions in asia, overfished seas etc.)

c] help them develop / educate their population instead of insisting on exploiting their natural resources, only education and abolishing idiocy and indiference can help us (by curbing population explosion and protecting the last remnants of the ecosystems we have)

d] help them save/reforest their local ecosystems so they'll be able to take care of themselves, without functioning ecosphere no functioning economy is possible

e] stop deforesting ... we could start making clothes, paper, furniture and houses from cannabis again for example, it grows much faster than trees do

f] stop behaving immorally, exporting bad laws and practicies to the world, just to protect national interests of a single country - e.g. instead of cannabis for textile production we have clothes from plastic materials (= microplastics in water everywhere), enabling production of forever chemicals and agricultural herbicides/pesticides even if we know how destructive it is, industrialized agriculture degrading soils all over the world, we could go on and on
Maybe you missed their prior investment announcement.
I think Microsoft is financially backing OpenAI through some venture deal.
A pre-election article

"If Not Cross-strait Issues, What Are The 2022 Elections About?"

> CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS are not the dominant frame of this election cycle. Namely, nine-in-one elections, which serve as midterms between presidential elections, are primarily about local issues rather than cross-strait issues. Cross-strait relations are for Taiwanese, after all, largely a matter of foreign policy.

> As such, it would not surprise if the KMT performed well in this set of elections. The KMT has always had a stronger grip over local politics, seeing as its local clientelist and patronage networks date back to the authoritarian period. As the party that rose out of Taiwan’s democracy movement in past decades–and which may have had two presidents but never controlled the Taiwanese legislature until the first term of the Tsai administration–the DPP is still unable to break the stranglehold of the KMT over local politics.

> However, the key domestic election issues that voters will be voting on return to Taiwan’s economic outlook and its demographic challenges. Taiwan’s economy has seen growth, particularly with regards to exports, due to the minimized effects of COVID-19 after going for more than a year without any lockdowns as the rest of the world saw, and outbreaks that were contained with relative speed when COVID-19 did finally enter Taiwan. But such growth has not trickled down to the population writ large. As such, the issue of stagnant wages is a major issue up for contention.

https://newbloommag.net/2022/11/24/cross-domestic-issues-202...
Its described here https://support.apple.com/en-md/HT212049
> url = https://github.com/gitster/git

huh, I would have thought for sure they would have linked to git/git from which that repo was forked

Also, the 2.39.1 tag alleges it was created Dec 13th - I wonder why they held it so long? I would have thought maybe embargo but the actual commit says "security fix" https://github.com/git/git/commit/01443f01b7c6a3c6ef03268b64...
The US government obtained that data by illegally tapping into Google's data centers, which means the government was still the entity violating the 4th amendment.

If you want to criticize Google's data collection, fine, but doing it in terms of the 4th amendment is just nonsensical. If you want to criticize companies for collecting data that could subsequently be illegally collected by the government, then every single company that collects any PII/private information could be criticized on the same basis.
>India eat China alive

Of all the Zeihan tier analysis this one is the weakest. The entire point was PRC simply had too many excess people, more than even a competent state can handle. India having 1.7B by 2050 with significantly less capability to organize or generate talent is recipe for much greater disaster. BTW if you think CCP lying on population (like the 1.3B guestimates) then it would have entered high income years ago. Keep in mind if PRC was going to lie, it's going to over report population or under report GDP, in combo to NOT become high income since she'll lose developing nation perks.

Anyway, India has much worse demographics trend than PRC. All the productive Indian states with good HDI indexes like education are trending where PRC is in terms of births - most births are being generated in back water states, the kind that produced 600M informal workers in PRC. For reference, reason so many left behind in PRC was manufacturing peak employment was like 300M, world demand was not enough uplift every PRC citizen like it did small Asian Tigers with fraction of population. India is never going to get 300M manufacturing jobs, geopolitics won't allow such concentration again, and most of it is going to ASEAN or held in PRC with automation. The PRC path for India is gone.

In short, India is trending towards the problems PRC planners were trying to avoid - 1.7B with majority doomed to poverty simply because there's no opportunity or resources. Combined with medicore governance and it gets even more grim. Like PRC relative to where India is right now in terms of gdp / level of development already had hosts of supply chains connected by massive amount of infra, HSR rolling at scale. India is way behind PRC milestones, which Indian systemically is not capable of correcting fast like in PRC 5 year plans. Again, those plans have 10-20 year lag effects - all the indigenous innovation, R&D, S&T from building up industrial and research base to convince top talent to stay vs getting brain drained to west is unfolding now. In short, India currently does not remotely have her shit together, and likely won't until mid century, if lucky, and by then she'll have a MUCH worse demographic transition to than PRC to handle. If anything expect her best and brightest to continue be brain drained to west while country hobbles along.

>China pissed off literally

Yet surveys last few years in region consistently conclude countries view PRC to be most important future partner, reflected in exploding trade / economic integration. Decompose out western influenced opinions (i.e. NGOs) and focus on leadership opinions it's embrace PRC economic orbit and balance US for security just in case.

>China'd be lucky to exist in 2050

Insert PRC will collapse 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004... meme.
oh i actually did play it a few years back when I launched Terrastruct (company behind D2). It was just a solo-effort bare bones project at the time, but I reached out to a hunter and all that. Got 112 upvotes (https://www.producthunt.com/products/terrastruct), and got a few paid subscriptions from it.

It was a material morale boost at a time when I didn't know if anyone would find it worth paying for. We've since grown a lot. In total it was only like $20/mo, but felt like a big success to me at the time.

I guess I A/B tested playing the game vs not playing the game, as much as one can.
Huh, the app is already on your phone, if it wants to know your location, it can already do that. If it wants to know the ISP, it's also probably quite easy...
Or Eastern Ukraine for that matter. If there were actually concern about the self-determination of people who lived there, they would have been asked. We don't ask, because we know what the answer would be.
FAGMAN works just fine.
Could be a `Result<T, T>` which would seem to express the intent better.
He overpaid massively for the company, yes. That was a critical mistake and why its now encumbered with debt.
Sure, I agree. I was only implying that nobody takes the "One-country two-systems" promise seriously. Much less the Taiwanese.
A company that can't figure out what do with employees is just as much a warning sign.

It's a bad signal that Microsoft can't think of any development worth doing.
Likewise, with an Apple Watch. Works great but only issue is the battery life < a day when it’s being used that way.
Nations don't have friends, they have interests. Leaders may act friendly towards one another, and policies may seem friendly when interests correlate, but no nation sends their young men and women off to die on foreign soil for the power of friendship alone.
Yet many of those depend on having something like Apache, NGIX, HA Proxy, IIS,... taking care of the actual load.
All of the things you're describing involve selfish behavior on the part of the adults. One partner wants this, both want that, but "should" seems to be missing from the equation.
Indeed. Popular landmarks used by ATC in the SF Bay Area include a sunken ship in the middle of the bay, a (particularly large) church, a community college, an AT&T telephone office, the KNBR antenna, and major freeways. Among others.

It's different when flying IFR, but pilotage is an important part of VFR navigation.

It's also worth noting there's an IFR visual approach plate for DCA that basically says the same thing - "follow the river":

RIVER VISUAL RWY 19 - https://www.fly.faa.gov/Information/east/zdc/dca/atcCharts/D...
expose yourself to, and seek out, lots of music, poetry, sculpture, photography, ballet, etc. when you find something that you think is cool, ask yourself what it is about it that you like. the colors? the craftsmanship? the beat? use that to guide further explorations, rinse and repeat.

someday, you'll see/hear/read/touch something that makes you feel something that you don't even have the words to express. congrats: you've just discovered your appreciation of Art with a capital a
I read the article the feeling got was "losing" was used similar to losing a district in an election.

Not ownership of the district, but definitely a decrease of the party's (owned) influence and power due to that districts allegiance.

Another more mundane analogy, a sports team can lose a player in the say way.
Assuming Tesla prices and full cycling of battery (aka from 100->0), draining a kWh puts about 2cents wear on your battery, so compensation would need to be above that price.

In practice you'd never allow your operator to drain you to 0, so 2 cents is very much on the high side.

In the California Tesla VPP trial, they pay 50 cents per kWh.

(correction: 20cents wear, not 2cents)
Let’s see where those power users go, shall we?
There are other exits besides bankruptcy, I think a lot of companies kind of whimper into near bankruptcy and then sell to others or just cease operation without bankruptcy, would need to get actual data, but that is my speculation.
I worked at LANL for a few years as a contractor, building out their SCM tooling.

I loved every minute of it and, by proxy, got to see some really really interesting projects and meet some really interesting people.
>> I envision a future where individual appliances (including EVs) can opt in to spot pricing for the electricity they consume (or produce).

I remember when high speed internet was coming into being and there were a lot of pundits talking about how high speed bandwidth would be sold as a commodity on the NYSE. If someone needed say an hour of high bandwidth for a video conference, they could do what you're saying, buy an hour of high speed access. Of course, high speed internet eventually became so cheap and so readily available, those ideas faded pretty fast.

I might be remembering this wrong, but wasn't Enron doing what you're talking about?
Is that caused or exacerbated by being diskless, though? Or is it just inevitable that 12k+ machines are going to have a certain rate of memory errors regardless?
First time I've seen Gas, suppose I'm out of the target demographic now.

As someone who's made a lot of internet friends on Discord over years of use, I get the nagging feeling that this app hinges on the premise that receiving e-compliments (that the app writes for the users) minimizes the workload needed to give a youth internet validation. Internet validation is rather addicting and (in my experience) debilitating for youths that allow themselves to become hooked on it. Almost all youths aren't aware of this, it is not taught to them.

That said, there aren't enough compliments in our world, especially for those suffering through highschool. If Gas avoids aggressively pursuing its users' engagement like more popular social platforms, I find it foolish to condemn software that aims to help kids feel comfortable in their own skin. I know a past self who would've given a whole lot for something like this.
Extremely Hardcore – Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
So how is programming in Common Lisp these days? I know a bit of Clojure/Fennel, but I feel like the Common Lisp ecosystem is a lot more fractured(I might very well be wrong tho)?
Pi with arbitrary precision using Bernoulli numbers (the slow way)
In the recent discussion here on Plouffe's new formula for calculating the decimal digits of pi [0] it was noted that fast calculation of Bernoulli numbers often requires knowing pi with decent precision. In Plouffe's paper he notes that it can be calculated using a multi-modular algorithm, but that would be too complex for a toy project like this so I stuck with a double sum.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34389145
People said the exact same thing before WW1. That "the economies are to interdependent", "no one would want a war it would make things worse for everyone.", "anyone that tried to start a war would be bankrupt in days"

It turns out that economic interdependence didn't stop the Germans from marching on France when the Russians declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and once it started it turns out the economics weren't powerful enough to stop a way in progress.

Economic realities only are in play so long as no one feels they are fighting for their survival as the world geo-political maps continues to change, Russia facing a complete collapse, the coming Chinese demographic problems combined with their food supply issues, etc, many nations will see their only future being through conquest.
Most news is boring; e.g. look at the first 15 minutes of the CCTV 7 PM news cast, it is just what Xi Jinping did today! If you just want to consume opinion pieces, then why not just look at FoxNews? WSJ and Economist, especially, are in a different boat since they cater to business readers, and they would lose money if reporting on China was constrained to just opinion pieces.

> journalists with on-site reporting

Despite China's best efforts to deport foreign journalists, there are still more than a few left.
I do mean debuggers in embedded systems, but slightly above the JTAG level.

Think something like an Arduino.
Read-only access can still be allowed. I suspect the "violation of ToS" is simply privacy - they don't want to serve traffic to someone they can't stalk.
"Google orkspace"? So many eyes and no QA?
That is NPR's analysis of the situation, based on expertise, available information, and reliable polling such as that which I linked above. "Opinion" is reading an article, then entirely ignoring its conclusions and supporting data because you think you know better.
>PR wise to who though?

To give an example in microcosm, this news about layoffs is affecting my decision of what UI framework to use with .NET projects. .NET MAUI was already low on my list because I don't trust Microsoft to commit to supporting a UI framework long-term, but if any of these cuts are to the MAUI team then it will put it out of the running completely for me. I'm sure there are other devs in similar circumstances (and who likely rank MAUI much higher as a candidate than I do) who will weigh this layoff announcement into their decision. And there will be some who ignore it because they see it as a general symptom of the economy, not a sign of trouble at Microsoft etc.
they are a different ballgame but the song remains the same in that AUS's largest trading partner is China and we've seen China exert a ton of soft power in AUS in many ways. They'll march to China's tune eventually if we don't actively keep China in check - because they'll have no choice in the matter.
The person you're replying to didn't say that no one has affection for Taiwan. You (likely) have no part in deciding US-China policy.
They were asked repeatedly, in several interviews starting from the day they announced it, and they always sidestepped the question entirely. At some points they even framed it as the customer or interviewer being afraid/not ready for the future and other patronising ways of saying "clearly we simply won't ever shut down" instead of answering the question.
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World’s oldest runestone found in Norway, archaeologists say
You're describing a monopolized labor market. Sure, there may not be felonious collusion, but many of the illegal elements of a monopoly are very much present.. as you essentially point out. I'm also not sure why you would be surprised to learn there is collusion, the size and timing of these blocks are certainly curious, and I think further investigation would reveal quite a bit more than you're imagining here.

I also wouldn't describe it as a "war on talent" when it is actually a "war on wages." This is is also the reason I wouldn't be surprised to find actual collusion here.
Regarding first vulnerability with gIt format, how can malicious party exploit it? Someone needs to convince you to run git log format with some unusual format specifier, right? And then they need to access some specific memory location this way so they still need to store something malicious elsewhere. Sounds like it would be really extremely hard for anyone to exploit this.

Overall fixing this it looks like routine house keeping and nothing major.
Acquisitions mask a lot of it.

Its why almost no YC companies have “gone bankrupt,” someone one will usually pay a nominal amount “for a team” and founders are happy for the soft landing.
> Madness has always been the case.

Perhaps, if one is using a reductionist methodology that represents non-binary variables as binary...but then, that is only a representation of the real thing, though it often tends to appear otherwise. And as luck would have it, that very much is the methodology we use here on Planet Earth, and on Hacker News....so in some sense you're "right", though you are not correct.

And if there's a disagreement, I will lose every time because you are conforming to the Overton Window of beliefs/"facts" and thinking styles (cognitive styles & norms are what guarantee victory in propaganda and memetics, not only facts/information as most people think). Credit where credit is due: it is an extremely clever, hard to see, and thus resilient design.

It would be very useful for humans to realize when they are working with models, and sometimes they are actually willing to do that, but there are certain subjects where they will not (and it seems to me: can not). Unfortunately, there are numerous learned/taught "outs" in our culture that enable people to avoid discussing such matters (and f I don't watch my mouth, I might run into one of the more powerful of them!).

There is a kind of "epistemological stack" to reality and the way humans communicate about it, and it is extremely easy to demonstrate it - if one simply digs slightly deeper into the stack when discussing certain topics, humans will reliably start to ~protest and eventually refuse to participate (or stay on topic) in various highly predictable ways.

> Do think WWII occurred because we're sane rational actors? How about WWI? 100 years war?

I do not. What I do think is that the actual, fine-grained reasons these things happened is not known, in no small part because cultural norms thus far (human cultural evolution is an ongoing, sub-perceptual process) have made it such that not only do we (both broadly, and down to each individual[1]) not discuss certain things at that level of complexity (while we have no problem whatsoever tackling complexity elsewhere[1]), we seem literally unable to even discuss it at the abstract layer (above petty object level he said / she said nonsense).

> Do you think...

> If you think...

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34415287

[1] It is not a question of if any given individual selected from the pool of candidates will tap out, it is a question of how quickly they will tap out (and, which of the highly predictable paths out from a surprisingly small set they will take to free themself from the situation).

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model
China is far wealthier and more integrated with the global economic system, though. Wouldn't they have far more to lose than Russia did?
If disabling the API were intentional, a well-run company would have announced it beforehand.
It's a move designed to garner political points and take advantage of the China-related fear-mongering. They don't actually give a shit about your privacy otherwise they would indeed block Facebook and other equally-malicious US-based spyware operators.
They also give it a brand-new housing so it looks brand new, full testing/inspection, and provide a one-year warranty. It makes sense you'll be paying more for those, none of which you get buying on eBay.
So, you are saying that "Might Makes Right"; the rulers of largest economy in the region should rule the region, regardless of what the people of that region want. I doubt you will find many people in Taiwan or Japan who would rather live under the government of CCP.

So, Why should the West have more influence?

Because any person or group of people who want to live a self-determined life and with a self-determined government, must always be better armed, better prepared, and have better alliances than the abusers and autocrats who will steal from them and rule over them the instant they are given the chance.

If you don't stop the neighborhood bully, he'll steal your lunch every day and keep you from walking where he likes to walk.

At this point in history, all the "...-ism"s are irrelevant, and we can see what it is - a deadly serious conflict between autocracies and democracies. It is now a hot war with Russia waging a genocidal war of aggression in Ukraine and threatening the Baltics, Poland, Germany, etc.. Zero of those countries want to live under Russia's rule, even though you think Russia should have the right because it is the largest and nearest player.

China is openly threatening the entire south China Sea, none of which, again want to live under CCP rule.

If it is not stopped, Russia, China, Iran, and other authoritarians will not stop. If you would rather live under the rule of Putin or the CCP, I suggest you move there, rather than attempt other free people to not defend themselves.