skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Even without questioning the capitalist obsession for infinite growth (despite finite resources and markets),

Seeing how communist regimes aren't exactly practicing degrowth, I think it's more accurate to say it's a human obsession.

>we should not have had the practice of hiring more than is essential to run the business. Who thought it was a good idea to make a success metric out of headcount?

Ostensibly companies aren't hiring for the sake of headcount. What they're actually after is market dominance, which can be obtained by building a better product, which require people.
The fact that an animal might be surviving right now is no pointer to the ultimate fate of that animal. How long has it lived in that area? What has it been eating? Where in that area has it lived? Has it got survivor's bias? *

Many people have been exposed to radiation and appear to have survived. But then they die later or develop cancers with carry them off prematurely several years later.

It's interesting to look at the figures from the soldiers who witnessed nuclear explosions in the fifties and were covered in dust by the shock waves. In later life, a much higher proportion of those succumbed early to various cancers.

* It can be fascinating to read about survivors from a disaster. Often in an attack on an objective a soldier might see men all around him get killed. He then then lives on another 80 or 90 years, eventually dieing at the age of 107.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/last-wwi-digger-dies-aged-10...
cassandra is a woman from a greek myth that was cursed to make prophecies that would always be true but no one would believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
The ability to know if someone responded to a comment not on the first page of my comments. Maybe sort comments by last response date.
When I searched for it just now, it appeared on Amazon Prime Video.
I just like to have the discussion, but the disclaimer helps to keep it civil.

>Politically I'd probably identify myself as an anarchist, so if I could change the world to look exactly like I thought best, I'd probably get rid of nation states and governments all together

For me it doesn't matter if the final stop is minarchism or ancaptistan. Steps towards either are an improvement. Bureaucrats regulating software development isn't it.

>Alt-right...

Maybe you could be more specific here? There was recently an article and video submitted here which accused Murray Rothbard of being a "right-wing extremist". It was yet another sloppily argued anti-cryptocurrency hit piece. Similarly we can call anarchists of all flavors extremists. The term alt-right or extremist is mostly a scare word from my perspective. It is hard to find meaning behind it.

>It makes me think that there's a growing number of users here on this site who are only here to further their political agenda of authoritarianism and violence

>Authoritarianism...

Isn't an authority dictating which kinds of software you may publish authoritarian by definition?

>That scares me much more than having to make sure that the code I write doesn't have security vulnerabilities

Agreed 100%, authoritarianism and individual autonomy is a bigger concern. Which is why I'm not a fan of these regulations. Furthermore, I suspect most users here already put forth an effort to avoid security issues.

In the US there is a bureau called the EPA. When polluters pollute within the guidelines, they have no liability. Perhaps now that software development is regulated we will see similar protections for incompetence.
These days nearly all ebooks I read are copyright‐free editions from Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenberg, precisely because I can (and do) fix typos and make other improvements, freely shareable with no restriction.
I like this impulse. Are you looking for a roommate?
Because it's a folkloric tradition instead of a proper feature documented under comment syntax, not everyone knows about it. So half the people use code blocks instead which break on mobile, or double quotes, or use italics, or don't do it at all.

Blockquote exists in HTML, why not have syntax for it on HN? Its a 2 line change to the comment processing code + 16 bytes of CSS for arguably one of the most important tools in civilized written discussion forums.

Edit: quick example off a frontpage article I randomly clicked (open in mobile to see what I mean) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015639

Another:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35012745

It would actually seem the code block line wrapping was "fixed" on mobile which means now code blocks line wrap (I don't think they should) so quotes don't look bad anymore if you use code blocks, but code does :shrug:

Edit 2: Yep
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29835072
they could theoretically take you to court to get a judgment against you and take just about anything of yours.

any debt you get in puts all of your assets at risk
Modifying code is like a mix of surgery and construction. In both cases, you need a plan.

If your plan cannot be executed by Grug's 120-character-wide text editor, it is too complex and should be broken into smaller steps.
I would rather rely on well-structured legal limits rather than brutish physical ones. People who advocate for physical violence as an arbiter of disagreements tend to either be the types who prefer to get their way by strong arming others or have not experienced the devolving of the rule of law for extended periods of time.
Cool comments don't change
What you call understanding is assumption. There were retail jobs back then too and a hell of a lot of people worked in those factories. Being able to raise a family in a nice house that you own, drive new cars, send your kids to college without scrimping and retire in your early 60s with a pension is a pretty compelling reason to endure difficult work environments. Meanwhile, in some states, 3% of full-time non-elderly non-disabled Walmart employees need medicaid and food stamps. Again, the amount of poverty and decay in once vibrant rust belt cities are a living argument against the assumption that everybody just sort of figures it out when large swaths of people are rendered obsolete.
> Limestone is soft and porous and will never glisten the way marble does.

It was polished fine limestone, though. Maybe it wouldn't have had the same optical qualities as polished marble, but it could [in theory] easily have been incredibly bright with a high reflectance. Modern polished limestone can have a strong gloss almost indistinguishable from polished marble, but maybe that's from modern sealants, polishers, or power tools?
Nah, it's like that old saying:

> No man ever visits the same URI twice, for even if it is a cool URI which does not change, he is not the same man.
In 2019 I thought that by now I could buy a bunch of 8GB Raspberry Pi 4s (or equivalent) for $20 apiece, install them all over the house and car for various purposes, and occasionally use them as a cluster for video editing or whatever.

The pandemic and trade wars put a wrench in the gears of that plan, but I still think that would be way cooler than lugging around a 128GB laptop and using it for everything, a.k.a. single point of failure.
> no android device beat the social experience of the iPhone.

???

Android phones (and iPhones too, for that matter) can have third-party apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Zoom, Skype, WeChat, Viber, etc installed.

iMessage absolutely pales in comparison to Telegram.
> The publisher should definitely be able to choose what they wanna sell, and issue new revisions as they see fit.

I agree with the first half of your sentence, but not the second. If an author finalizes their work, then that's it. The publisher can choose to publish or not publish it, but they do not own the copyright on the work, and are not permitted to make modifications and then distribute what can only be considered an unauthorized derived work.

Granted, copyright holders may of course contractually allow publishers to do this. I can only assume this is the case for Dahl's works, as I'd be surprised if a major book publisher did something that would infringe on an author's (estate's) copyright. But I don't think this should be the default, and I'd hope and expect copyright law agrees with me.
That will diminish the number of books one gets to read though, personally I'd rather rip a drm-ed ebook than not reading it at all out of ideological reasons.
property tax is based on home value.

people lose their homes all the time because the neighborhood gets gentrified and their home values go up and they can't afford the property tax.

insurance can skyrocket based on natural disasters in your region. a lot of the Gulf Coast has trouble getting homeowners insurance. if earthquakes ever pick up on the west coast. the same thing will happen
I thought 'invalide' was a much older term for disabled people in German? French had this term for a long time at least.
>How do I convince him that this peer pressure is unacceptable and that iPhones are not automatically 'better' just because they're marketed as a premium brand are are nothing more than expensive jewelry?

I would just buy him an iPhone, or sign him up for Jiu Jitsu class.
> You said that, "People still had kids because they needed them to tend farms." If you started a farm, then you too could have the same excuse! Is this an act of cruelty? I don't think you can know unless you have the kid and then ask them.

This doesn't even make sense. If I was to start a farm I would need large combines and other equipment modern farms use, not kids. If you mean as if I had lived centuries ago, having kids was necessary simply to produce food and keep the species alive, and unlike today did not mean parents were subjecting them to a worse life than they had experienced themselves. Often times it was the opposite. Today kids are not necessary to run farms, and above a very low level will not assist in sustaining the species since most will just be extra casualties in mass die-offs.

> On the leopards/asteroid, just imagine, I realize you don't believe this, but just imagine that you realized that AI wasn't going to hurt people. Imagine the weight that would just lift right off your shoulders. This is how most people feel because they aren't convinced that AI is going to do anything that horrible. Deepfakes, misinformation, etc, those will all be problems we pretty much all realize we'll have to face, but imagine letting go of all the more apocalyptic visions.

I'm not sure what you want me to do with this. "Imagine as if your problems weren't real" is mindless false hope at best, and insulting one's intelligence at worst. Sticking our head in the sand and pretending everything is okay is not an effective way to manage emotions or disasters.
https://github.com/closedai

> This organization has no public repositories.

A nice touch
I wonder how much bullying Apple's closed
silos leads to. Add it to the list of reasons never to buy Apple products...
Why should they ban some people because of their political views? Why should they ban ISIS members?
I can see banning people because those people damaged houses (out had the places damaged during their rental) but not for political views.
Whatever happened to "I may not like what you have you say, but I will fight for your right to say it?"
For europeans - you'd have to go to southern Greece islands like Crete to get below 37th. Even Athens is 37.59 and northen Greece is 40 and above. So basically most of the Europe won't get enough during winter.
Like a lot of people, you misunderstand what MLK was about and the context of that quote[0]. He very much would have been on the side of the "radical hateful narratives" you're against, and you "compromising your morals."

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/colinseale/2020/01/20/mlks-i-ha...
The preprint and link to a sharable-with-drm Nature article are linked on the SETI site here: https://seti.berkeley.edu/ml_gbt/overview.html
Open Letter on Artificial Intelligence
No argument about the point on communism, but as regards the headcount--I was referring to what I've seen mentioned more than a few times in HN comments where, apparently, FAANGs or some teams therein have engineering manager positions where the size of the team that one leads greatly translates to that employee's success (perceived or real) in the company. It's also a good number to look at for recruiters when said managers start applying for jobs elsewhere.
18 hours battery life is mostly marketing. Not even sure how to test that, maybe on 20% display brightness with no programs running, other than the OS...assuming it doesn't take screenlock/display off into account?
...You serious?
Well, that might make sense for natural language terms, but it's still really bad coding advice: changing variable names is easy, or at least should be easy, if you have tooling worth a damn.
I tend to think of it as not dependency gated but social-technology gated. As you say, the critical resource was leisure, sufficiently widely distributed as to lead to humans playing status games like, "who can polish the shiniest mirror." And that requires a fairly sophisticated society in terms of number of classes, the way they depend on each other, possibilities of social mobility, resilience to sudden resource constraints, etc., etc.
Yes, I think I have 0.60, good point. I'll update the version and try again later.
IANAL, but i feel this argument would fail since the change wasn't really material. If they cut half the book that would be one thing, but a paragraph changed is a pretty different matter (in the windows example - a kill switch would be obviously bad, some random changes in the interface after an update would be business as usual). Plus there is probably some shrink wrap agreement with the kindle saying that amazon could do this (which if true) would make it hard to argue you were decieved.
Yes, seriously. I have never seen two to three percent property tax increases.
I doubt we'll ever know when they use this data inappropriately since there's no way for consumers to know when it's happened and whistleblowers are very rare.
The complexity and amount of AWS-specific knowledge required to efficiently use it is pretty much absurd.

Even though AWS offers multiple different solutions (AWS SAM, Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CDK, AWS App Runner) that in theory should make consuming AWS services easier, these options still assume you understand and know how to use AWS.

In my previous job, I've been tasked to create an abstraction that will make using these AWS services easier and more developer-friendly.

I failed.

Yet I realized how hard it is, and how many people/companies are struggling with it.

That's why I've founded https://stacktape.com/. It makes using AWS simple to a point where any developer can efficiently use it. Let me know what you think.
That's a major benefit of numerous older desktops.

XFCE is one of my own fallbacks (I usually prefer WindowMaker), though fvwm, twm(!), the boxes (open-, black-, flux-, hacked-, etc.), tiled WMs, etc., are all perfectly serviceable.

Some may look* vaguely dated, but tend to be rock stable and blazingly fast.

XWinMan is still live, I find: <http://www.xwinman.org/>
> RDSC had to approve the changes.

Where in the link does it say that?
I don't think it has anything to do with the type of human organization really. Rather, it's really just a matter of the wills of people, and whether they have access to capital.
Obligatory nod to the tag URI schema[1]. Embed them in your blog pages or whatever and at least they'll still be discoverable after a URL change.

[1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc4151.html
Now try Box64 on it
It exists, prefix two spaces like so:

This is a quote
This article is bad journalism.

The issue with using an NHTSA statistic to say we "avoid" crashes at a particular rate is that it only covers what it measures, which means an event was significant enough to enter one of the various agencies that are part of the survey, and that generally means "it was reported to police". It biases our assessment of ourselves positively by omission. [0]

The companies do present data if you actually lift a finger to search it out. Waymo's figure in their "first million rider-only miles" report [1] has 20 collision events, or a 99.998% rate per mile. That encompasses every bump of any significance, a considerably more rigorous standard, and it is more likely to produce events-per-mile because of its urban service areas. Although they didn't attempt to turn these events into an apples-to-apples "vs NHTSA urban crash rate" figure, this is a small enough quantity that they present every one in a table for your own assessment.

In the quantities that are out on the streets, the additional 9's being asked for will be noise, and a more qualitative assessment is called for anyway.

[0] https://cdan.nhtsa.gov/tsftables/tsfar.htm#
[1] https://waymo.com/safety/
> economic advantages of real estate are a byproduct of regulatory capture

This seems correct to me. I don't think it's been specifically designed to be a store of wealth.
My Redhat experience always seemed to devolve into "this package that I want has a dependency that isn't listed yet..." (cue 2 hours of recursively and manually tracking down dependencies on the early web).

But I was a lot younger and didn't know a lot of what I do now, so was probably doing everything RPM wrong.
They're kids. They're probably already doing that.
I need to go back and watch the marketing material, but I think everytime they brough up battery life, it was under conditions. Like 20 hour battery life browsing the web. 18 hour battery life with video playback. I don't think anywhere they claimed 20 hour battery life using something like Blender.

Which of course should be expected. My M1 probably gets about 18-20 hours when I am just web browsing. If I am compiling Xcode projects, half that. Messing around in C in Emacs, probably 14-16 hours battery life.
> arious System76 laptops, Thinkpads (among many other laptops recommended by Linux users) give you battery life comparable to macOS on the M1.

that is a lie. system76 and thinkpads are nowhere close to giving you a full day of battery life on Linux.
> If you have a mortgage, the bank has a mortgage lien on the home, which gives them a legal right to take it from you if you don't pay. I.e. you will get kicked to the curb on an underwater mortgage if you can't make the payments any longer, but also can't afford to bridge the gap in order to sell.

In a non-recourse state (or, to a lesser extent, even in a recourse state) foreclosure on an underwater mortgage loans isn't a great deal for the bank; it either eliminates any chance on recovering part of the mortgage (non-recourse), or turns the amount above what can be realized in a foreclosure sale into a non-secured debt (recourse). Depending on circumstances, there's a chance they'll just choose not to do that for a very long time (much longer than would be the case either with an "above water" mortgage that wasn't being paid, or than a landlord would float a tenant that wasn't paying.) They also have a pretty big incentive to approve a short sale on an underwater mortgage, since you'll probably get a better price than a foreclosure sale and cost them less money than foreclosing and trying to sell.

(Have I been underwater, gone an extended period of time withput paying a mortgage both while living in the home and then after moving out, getting a buyer, and proposing and waiting for approval for a short sale, in a non-recourse state? Yes, yes I have.)
I adhere to a fundamental faith in Jesus, and He enables me to break those emotional loops. The loops are - theoretically - foundational issues that are driven by lies that you believe about yourself or existence in general.

Humans aren't really equipped to deal with those lies lodged in their hearts. God, however, can. He can replace those lies with Truth (with a capital T because a Supreme creative God is only found in an absolute reality).

I'm an ideologue and I'll admit it, but my God has brought me an incredible amount of peace even in the face of a seemingly fracturing world.

I can expand here or via email, if you'd like.
> A fuel rod assembly with 500kg of uranium produces about 200,000,000 kwH over its lifetime (https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi...), which comes out to 400k kw per kilogram of uranium, or 400 kw per gram.

You can't even distinguish between energy and power, now you're mixing kw and kWh. A reactor with about 100t of fuel rods produces around 1GW and refuels every 3-6 years. Ergo 100g of refined uranium (plus zirconium and gadolinium, then caesium indium and silver for control rods).

The toxic slurry in a uranium mine is waste from producing energy. It outmasses everything else you are talking about combined by orders of magnitude and is rarely dealt with in any permanent or safe way, see the Indian village of Kadapa or any of the mines in Niger or Uzbekistan for examples.

Then bringing up the most abundant element on earth as if mining it is a relevant impact is another huge stretch. Quartz mining doesn't even need the same grade of sand as concrete. What an utterly intellectually bankrupt claim.

You're the one trying to concern troll over the space and minerals used by PV. Demonstrate that the total land use and mining impact of the entire supply chain is actually higher.

I also note you've cherry picked a report that talks largely about vehicle batteries but tangentially mentions thin film panels (an obsolete technology being abandoned) rather than monocrystalline, and then doesn't quantify it per MW (hint: the numbers in it are nowhere near your claimed 4t/MW). Where is all this copper supposed to be? You're claiming that there's 100kg of copper hiding in this photo https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

You're very narrowly trying to compare SNF with the entire solar module, ignoring the reactor, the upstream fuel supply, the low level waste, and the waste containment. The sheer stupidity of thinking you have a coherent enough lie is mind boggling.
That is so cool. Also makes the shenanigans Scotty pulls a lot more… er… realistic? Like, it’s cool that engineers have some wiggle room like what’s depicted.
Tom Sizemore Has Died
An animated clock app full of technology for macOS
I haven't tried this with recent versions, but this was great fun early on:

https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts#act-as-an-ai-tr...
Yikes, no way. You are saying to hire a PI so they can have their child blackmail the bullies family? This is not teaching thr right thing to do in this teachable moment.
none of that matters though to the true definition of ownership which is complete control over the object

people.seem.to want to identify as an owner as it makes them feel good.
Doesn’t matter if your friends don’t use it
Making an issue between children into a war between families doesn’t seem wise. Especially when they decide to pay you back with the same or call your boss and make things even messier
Isn't that the current definition of neuro-divergent tolerance?
> The sky-high potential of AGI means that a few very rich people/companies will be willing to pay an enormous amount of money to have a monopoly on the technology.

Companies regularly pool resources to share the cost of building technology, and they regularly do it for competitive reasons.

Kubernetes, for example, is an open source public good that splits its development costs between several companies. By sharing the runtime code as open source, the cost for any one cloud provider to build a competitive Kubernetes offering goes down. Google built it to compete with AWS’ offerings.

The edge I see these AI companies potentially having is data to train or knowledge how – not money.