skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We may be having completely different conversations. When people like me say the billionaires ought to be taxed more, we're not complaining that "people richer than us" exist.

> If you drive a Civic or a Ferrari, you still arrive to your destination in about the same amount of time

We're on the same page on the diminishing marginal utility of wealth[1].

> If you can't afford a car and have to take a bus it takes you 2-4x as long.

Perhaps if we taxes the billionaires at the same rate we tax those earning $240k, we could afford to improve bus services so it only takes 2x as long.

1. Incidentally, I hold that to be a strong an argument for higher-than-average tax rates for the ultra wealthy - but that's an argument for another day
In this[1] SO answer there are two plugins, I tested the one for Chrome and it works, except for styles added via properties such as `table.bgcolor`

Chrome Plugin: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-developer/bfba...

[1]https://stackoverflow.com/a/14046754
I suspect in this case clone companies may just "shutdown" and then incorporate a "new" company making exactly the same products with the same branding whenever they get close to $N.
If a country becomes dependent on information (or anything really) like that, it becomes a bargaining tool for geopolitics.

The US, in particular is notorious about weaponizing sanctions.
This is reductive in that it implies if the answers are yes you won’t be the one sitting in bed screaming or drugged up.

I’ve seen this situation enough (whole family works in hospice) to know it’s not the case.

Do the best you can, but at the end of the day you either go super fast or it’s super scary and often painful. Drugs help.
> They awarded Obama a Nobel before he ever had a chance to do anything.

That one was the celebrity-hungry Norwegian Nobel Committee's fault. They award the peace prize.
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Also be sure to check out "They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror" if you like Candyman.

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Canadian Here, but it looks like Murdoch, and especially Tucker/Hannity etc. knew what they were saying was BS, but said it anyways because after gas-lighting their viewers for years about non-existent vote fraud, if they told the truth their viewers would switch to some other station - OAN or whatever.

How can they care so little about their country? Especially for a person they hate?
> The business/enterprise stuff is meant to last because they cost a lot going out the door, and so are built robustly. You just have to ensure either a low page count, or some sort of proof that the machine had been serviced regularly by properly-certified printer techs.

On the large format side, OG DesignJet 750Cs were pretty dang serviceable for the longest time. The first one I had to repair took a good day or so to disassemble/reassemble, but the next 2 I was able to handle in the second half of a workday.

(Also, they're built better than the newer ones)
Becky has made a choice for the best and keeps getting messages that she should not settle for less. She waits for mr right and turns away everyone else and gets sad no one matching comes.

All young guys have to do is buy followers and likes on social media and generate a few lifestyle photos the illusion is preserved. Like spending money on rims for your car.
Pretty much 95% of all hybrid data structures.

Now hybrid data structures are only used in systems programming, because they require to be particularly careful about object lifetime and such.
> None of those are perfect, but it’s better than Creality selling Prusa clones in every Micro Center.

Prusa i3 themselves are evolutions of the reprap Mendel design, so I'm not sure if it's fair calling creality enders prusa clones.
One situation where I painfully learned that it doesn't, is when you iterate over one hashtable to fill another. To defend against that one needs to add some per-hashtable randomized state into the hash IV.

Through bad experience I also learned that you need to not just grow due to fillfactor, but also due to disproportional chain length, even with the above defense in place.
I put a paper towel on food in the microwave to stop splatter. As a bonus, I've found a moist paper towel helps when microwaving leftovers that got dehydrated in the fridge.
populism will always seek to implement inexpensive grandstanding like this, because its cheap and requires zero-competence and in return for spending zero effort and money you get to virtue signal to electors that are nationalists.

I wouldn't class this as anywhere on the pendulum as its not an economic policy and social issues are a bit of a fudge into the classical left/right spectrum.
Untangling cause and effect (it clearly works both directions) is near-impossible, the intensity of the steps obviously also matters, and anyone trying to exercise to the statistical minimum before diminishing returns kick in probably has other issues.

I don't think many people need to worry about limb damage from over-walking, and the ones who have already experienced limb damage need to find alternative exercise rather than minmaxing steps...
I wonder if not thinking hard makes the brain atrophy?

What is the prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases amongst chess grand masters or some other intense psychological activity, I wonder if the studies have been conducted on this.
Exactly why I said "or something along those lines".
Agreed, we should be doing much more of that. There are still some things that the government would still need to pay for like infrastructure improvements though.
> seems very young given the renown of Japanese longevity

Well, Sakamoto-san didn't exactly live a traditional Japanese life. Three marriages, playing in a band in the '70s (so disreputable!), jet-setting around the world... Shit takes its toll (unless you're Mick Jagger, of course).
Yep.

> I challenge anybody who downvoted this post to provide any other explanation for their decision.

Let me provide one:

A lot of Americans dont think that anyone could do a concerted, systematic sociopathy like the one I told in my post. Simply because they themselves wouldnt do such a thing, they think that those with whom they identify also wouldnt do that. Anything bad that happened to others or anything bad that is done by their establishment must be some 'coincidence' or a mistake.

This mentality is strengthened by two things: The Just World Theory and lingering Christian behavior patterns that still dominate the American public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

The just world theory is utilized by people who need to escape reality to avoid cognitive dissonance. Because not doing so and acknowledging the evil and the evildoers in their own society would make living in that society very demoralizing and kill hopes for the future. So, any bad deed must have an explanation, any victim must have 'deserved' it, and everything must be alright with the world.

And lingering religious behavior patterns, because in Christianity, the Christian god and the faithful can do no wrong. They are the good ones. Whereas all evil is done by the unbelievers, heretics and other gods. This belief is translated to modern culture as 'being on the good side' whereas anyone else that is not 'with them' are evil. And so, Americans can do no evil whereas any evil can only be done by others. The manifestations of this can be seen in how every incident like the 2003 Iraq war is interpreted as 'a mistake', or 'an ill advised war', and in things like every US enemy being Hitler.

And these behavior patterns poison the minds of the well-intentioned Americans. Additionally a lot of Americans just flat-out keep the late 19th century manifest destiny white supremacist belief patterns - like how 'brown people' etc not being 'that important' and any bad thing happening in such countries being something unimportant even if it is done by their own establishment, hence it can be ignored.

But mainly, the obsession with being 'on the good side' and projecting every evil and ill to outside to escape cognitive dissonance totally poison the American mind and cause them to ignore even the biggest evils that are being committed in their own society - like how their country kills its own people if they cant pay for healthcare and so on....
> secularism, gun-rights, access to abortion, universal healthcare, labour laws, privacy and regulation

I think most of these things are political rather than cultural. Specific laws take a variable amount of time to change/evolve, but are generally downstream of culture. Listing these kinds of political issues also tends to create a weird bias as you’re generally paying attention to the most extreme takes on all sides (e.g. you’ve listed access to abortion, but I would hardly consider this to be an indicator that the US was more culturally liberal than most of Europe pre-2022, just as I wouldn’t consider it an indicator that it is less culturally liberal post-2022,… it is more a political artifact than a genuine measure of culture).
>than about the people who consume every drop of it

but but but, how can you become a thought leader if you don't slurp up this kind of content to regurgitate on your own blog as if it was your original thought and then relentlessly post about it on $theSocials?
If you're going to apply that argument you should apply it to everything - music, art, software, money, property of all kinds.

But you won't, because the argument always comes to down to "Stuff I want should be free because I want it. Stuff that profits me personally should have legal and moral protections unless I personally have the luxury of choosing otherwise."

That aside - it's skill too. Of a specific kind. Producers have - actually have always had - two jobs. One is the admin side of delivering the project on time and on budget - which is not as easy as it sounds when band members may be drunk, high, unreliable, on the verge of a personal or professional breakdown, or at war with each other.

The other is having the taste and instinct to hit the market just where it wants to be hit.

Taste and instinct are incredibly nebulous and hard to define, but music buyers know them when they hear them. They're the difference between a record that sounds polished and a record that somehow has a life of its own.

With respect to Albini, having an EE degree has absolutely no relevance to this. If anything it will get in the way, because EE degrees teach you nothing about taste and musicality.

Nor - unfortunately - does talent in the abstract. Some musicians are just too talented for the mainstream. In a saner culture we'd subsidise them - somehow - without relying on the middle-of-the-bell-curve markets to do something they're fundamentally unable to do.
"between the average of the US and the average of Europe"

I'm not sure how one even defines these. As an example, most of the examples you give have a near 50/50 (+/-10%) split here in the US.
> Chinese manufacturing is all-to-happy to take the plans, churn out clones, and not even open-source the code (let alone the hardware) changes they made

American programmers are happy to take free software, make a profit on it and not even open source changes they made.

I, personally, bought Prusa because it was claimed to be open source and I wanted to support it, as I respect those who go open source way, however hard it is. As it's no longer is, I probably would choose another printer next time, as I don't really care about Czech economy.
Honestly, there's too much garbage in the code dump they made.

Maybe an UML graph or even a presentation or written guide on how they measure and apply each weigh or group policy would make it easier to have some solid take on how it works
This seems... dangerously careless. What if it uses the internet to seek out zero day vulnerabilities and exploit them routinely? Sure humans also do this, but we're talking about a new level of 0day exploit carried out at scale. Sure, maybe it won't, but do you trust a hallucinating, left-brained, internet-trained intelligence to be strictly logical and mindful for all it's actions that is taking self autonomously (as this project aims to do)?
Dont you think a large number of those were people in on the joke, and texted as a way of upvoting? Or people who knew they weren't eligible to vote (too young, not registered, not a citizen) who thought maybe a text vote would allow them to be counted without the verification normally needed? The idea that Hillary Clinton lost 4900 legitimate votes is not even alleged, let alone proven.
whenever someone makes legitimate criticisms of American foreign policy and expresses a desire for a world where their needs are given a higher priority.

You think the grandparent comment is what you describe here?

Ironically, GGP's comment was a well thought out comment supporting American 'hegemony'.

I think you have your "lash out" backwards in this case.
Obama got a reception like he was the Pope on his first European trip. It spans more than just the Nobel committee.
> simultaneous reduction in productivity

Hasn't productivity been on the rise the past X years? Shouldn't we have a little slack by this point?
There were some attempts in the Java direction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor

But ultimately it seems that the idea of language-specific CPUs just didn't survive because people want to be able to use any programming language with them.
“Nature” and “natural” are normative terms that commonly distinguish the world altered and created by humans from the world that isn’t altered or created by humans. It’s clear in context that Sakamoto is using the term accurately in a normative sense, not making a semantic error.
Technically, even then it only rules out efficient local hidden variable theories. A theory where every particle carries a local hidden variable containing the entire state of the universe can (obviously?) emulate any other theory, quantum or otherwise (with a bit of finangling for things like quantum field wierdness).
The absolute worse thing you can do for your knees and other joints is be obese. The constant weight and stress wrecks you. This is also why young, fit males come out of the military with wrecked knees, not because of all the running, but because they march around constantly carrying 100+ lb packs, on bodies that would be at a healthy weight of 150lbs.

There's even evidence that distance running strengthens your knees, contrary to common knowledge. https://archive.ph/utsUF

Worrying about too much exercise for the average person is like worrying about drinking too much water on a desert hike.
Things like TV shows and movies and music are precisely where people people tend to consume the stuff they actually like, regardless of what is being "pushed". Word of mouth from friends travels fast.

I can't think of any industry that is more merit-driven than entertainment, and never more so than today -- both in terms of creation and distribution. A good movie is a good movie period. No amount of advertising and promotion can make people go watch a flop.
> What if it uses the internet to seek out zero day vulnerabilities and exploit them routinely?

How would GPT-4 make this more likely or scalable?
> Programmers being bad at naming things isn’t very damning

You’re right. But Musk was hosting Twitter polls, posting memes and proposing territorial borders and conflict resolution that seemed to be much closer to the Russian view than the Ukrainian view.

So you’re right that more info is needed, but Musk inserted himself into this topic in a way that raised a few eyebrows.
I'm part way through a third party toner for our M15w and it seems to be holding up well.
This is how Iceland exports the bulk of its hydroelectric energy, but they use aluminum
Is AI Coming for Coders First?
GM's Cruise, though it was an acquisition, feels more futuristic than FSD. They are operating driverless.
>>> Managers should be planners, resource allocators and stakeholder communicators. They should work to bring their team into alignment with their org's goals and their company's goals.

But there are either better ways to do these things, or they still require coercive (supervisory) activity.

So planning. yeah it's important. Have a clear goal and work out what you need to achieve it. Frankly the new intern can achieve most of that in one day, and all the senior team can easily do it. And prioritise it. The hard part is where you have multiple parts in parallel. Sometimes people think they are some Moriarty style genius who can direct each part to develop and land with precision six months in the future. Total bill ox. If you aren't doing daily integrations you aren't co-ordinating and so you aren't "planning".

Yeah there is a function of logistics - but that's spreadsheets and gaming out scenarios - not a "management task" but certainly a "management input" - and if instead of giving it solely to managers you just published it to the whole org such logistics would be available to increase discussion and awareness (ie the workers would understand the plan better and not need managers)

Resource allocators - pretty much as above - plans, resource budget all different sides of same coin.

Aligning goals ... that's incentives. That's easy - pay me. Otherwise ... looks a lot like coercion.
There's no 'average european culture' as inter-european differences are bigger than US-europe divide. The US is basically our common cultural base now.

> secularism, gun-rights, access to abortion, universal healthcare, labour laws, privacy and regulation

At least 4 of those issues are american , not european. this just goes to show how much attention europeans pay to the US issues instead of our own issues (aging of population, demographic deficit, unaffordable housing, unemployment , lack of global competitiveness, old money, brain drain etc). And what about european tech? I only discuss about it on HN, a californian forum.

> privacy

While these are interesting issues, they are nowhere near the top of the mind of average european person. Nobody went out on the streets because they wanted cookie prompts. We are just letting bureaucrats run the show and tell us we should like it
> Producing ammonia via the Haber process means losing 40% or so of the energy

This seems wrong. I believe that green HB process would be 80%-90% efficient since the heat is re-used? I have read conflicting papers.

Of course, HB is still a capex-heavy process.

Maybe the 40% number is for fossil methane to ammonia?
The spatial element makes total sense. Placement of windows and elements within windows on a desktop computer is really not that different from stacks of papers arranged on a desk, and spatial memory makes keeping track of it all much more feasible in both situations. It turns your desktop into something resembling a physical space rather than an arbitrary hierarchy.

This is actually one of the reasons why I prefer to have a "mess" of freely floating windows of assorted sizes on a 27" or larger screen as opposed to having the same windows all maximized/tiled on a smaller screen. The former of the two setups gives persistent windows a unique place that they "live" on the screen, which makes picking each one out faster for me than if I were e.g. spamming alt-tab or scanning a taskbar to find the window I want.
Why C++ though, when there's Rust? I understand that rewriting/refactoring projects from C++ to Rust may not be a good idea (in most cases at least). But starting a new project (or porting from a different language) in C++ doesn't make sense to me nowadays (unless pretty much any potential dependency of that project is written in difficult-to-wrap-in-Rust C++)

Especially if you're coming from Swift anyways (which is more closer to Rust than C++).
I started open sourcing hardware and then in the middle I realized, that I am digging my own grave. While any optimization in software can be done in a weekend, this takes weeks in hardware (5-7 days printed circuit manufacturing and couple days assembly). Plus my final hardware will be optimized to pass EC/FCC testing which also costs money. So investing time and money for open source hardware design… I don’t know, there is no advantage left for me if I choose commercial path later. Building hardware for fun isn’t really my thing, I do this already for living.

Edit: I have seen enough parts of open source projects incorporated in commercial projects without any credits and ignoring all licenses. Chance of being caught and punished is in most cases zero.

Edit2: I work for a big corp right now and that’s first workplace who cares about using open source code from Internet. All the smaller owner led companies were happy copying code and accelerating development despite restrictive licenses. I asked the bosses about this and it was just laughing all the time.
A lot of the fraud originated overseas with some of it from state sponsored groups. Prosecution is essentially impossible.
They forked a sample paging driver from the ddk (driver development kit) so it probably wasn't that hard.
Ryuichi Sakamoto - "andata" (Electric Youth remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g9LEBYJ1oU
You really think a three line "sorry, not sorry" reply isn't lashing out?
> It'll be the health, limbs and lives of future Ukrainians and other Europeans too, if invaders are appeased.

What exactly are you imaging?

IMO, given the current direction, the chances of a much more massive conflict in 10-20 years are only increasing, all while currently there is realistically NO actual threat to Europeans.

> I think this mindset betrays a lack of understand at how power-hungry bullies work. They aren't reasonable. It's not a case of "negotiate with them THIS time, and all will be fine" (as if they have a single, specific grievance).

I think we really shouldn't anthropomorphise geopolitical processes as it substitutes the actual nature of what is going on and what is at stake. It's not some bruises, bloody nose and a bit of pride. This is serious. This people securing their futures and livelihoods.

And yes, there should always be a negotiation when it comes to fates of so many people getting crushed between leviathans. This whole blood bath could have been avoided with proper negotiations, but instead people of Ukraine and Russia were pushed into a conflict they both hardly need. Remember how Minsk agreements were a thing? Good times.

> Choosing to defer pain now invites much, much more later.

This is a horrifyingly cozy outlook on condemning someone else to die. What is even a definition of win here? Currently all participants of the conflict: Ukraine, Russia, Europe/GB/US seem to be enchanted with ritualistic slaughter, afraid to take a wider look and realise what they've done.