skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I want the America I grew up in before a guy from Australia and another from South Africa ruined it.

Hah. I moved here from Iran and I want the America I landed in as well. I miss it. We've lost something (but that happened long before the boy wonder arrived. the other character was present..)

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I guess I've missed a lot of this drama since I banished both TV and NYTimes
a bit after the time of hanging chads. The OL itself is irrelevant, imo. That was the thrust of the OP per my reading.

The debate that it is creating is an opportunity however. There is public attention and a sense of urgency. As you say, some may be exploiting this. What I am saying is that they are not the only ones who have this opportunity, atm.
Bitcoin and crypto have demonstrated one great strength, and I don't mean crime and fraud (which crypto does excel at facilitating).

Crypto has demonstrated an unbelievable ability to survive repeated failures, debunking, scams, fraud, and even government bans. What other technology has failed to deliver on any of its promised benefits for over a decade and survive in "any day now" mode for so many people? What other technology has enabled so much fraud and financial ruin and evaded regulation for this long. As a meme crypto shows more tenacity than COVID does as a virus.
I love watching young Ryuichi Sakamoto in this film clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fvFIJpZmZA

tidbit: he had rather large hand with long fingers for someone who is 171cm. I went a museum that had a cast of his hands and I was surprised at how large they were.
> 2. Glucose is transported in intestines via a glucose-sodium antiporter protein. Maybe we can find a drug that blocks this and you can eat as much sugar as you want! (Turns out you’ll have uncontrolled diarrhea if you do).

It's very cool! It's the SGLT protein. It's actually a sodium-glucose co-transporter and is why gatorade is so effective! It's the perfect mix of salt, sugar, and water to take advantage of that very protein (where salt goes, water follows).

And yes there is a drug that targets these - it's the SGLT inhibitors and they're very in vogue right now. Ozempic and Mounjaro are the two big ones in the news right now. They act on the SGLT I (found only in the kidney) so that you urinate more sugar. They don't act on the SGLT 2 (only found in the gut) but other medications in that class act on both.

But congratulations and alas! You nearly invented gatorade and a multi-billion dollar diabetes and weight-loss drug. Hardly bone-headed ideas.
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Who is colluding? And price increases in the US are not restricted to only when cost of goods sold increases. Any seller can change the price they want to sell at at any time, unless there is an emergency such as natural disaster where price gouging laws come into effect.
As someone who replaced a 2014 MacBook Pro with a system 76 oryx pro.
The oryx does get warmer and has terrible battery life, but mine is currently 4 years and and working fine. It’s significantly faster than the mac (it’s newer) and can play games (it has a fairly decent video card). You can do unreal development on it.

A more apt comparison would be that MacBook with a pangolin amd 5600? machine. It’s much better on battery, has the same ports. It’s been my daily driver work machine for almost a year. I’m not going back to Mac or windows if I can help it.

The 2015 MacBooks were the greatest apple machines, but I doubt they’ll get any support in a couple years
I don't underestimate kids, but I suspect healthy skepticism towards 1st graders 'hacking Android' is warranted. What exactly did they do?
I actually know the author (my daughter went to pre-school with two of hers) and she is a perfectly grounded and no-nonsense parent.

Cities are way safer today than in the 80s when I myself was growing up and as a 11 year old it was perfectly normal for me to commute by train and Tube from Reading, UK to Kensington, London for school with my 7 year old brother in tow. I aim to instill the same confidence in my daughter, albeit a year later.
There’s conflicting info flying around. Elon said somewhere that the “Top 10,000 organizations will be grandfathered in.” [1] Lots of publishers — Vox, Buzzfeed, Washington Post, CNN — now have a gold checkmark, which denotes an organization. I question whether they all signed up for the $1,000/month plan. I think Elon stripped the NY Times and kept them out of organizational status out of spite, because they publicly tweeted that they wouldn’t sign up.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23664923/twitter-verifica...
Yes this is a big part of it. NASA's budget is often micromanaged by congress.

Rather than giving them a budget of $X to accomplish goal Y, specific rocket designs and decisions are written into the budget to try to ensure facilities and contractors in various states are given a slice of the pie.

SpaceX's success has come with direct partnership with NASA, within specific projects where those inside NASA fought to run the development as an open bid for commercial services, rather than as NASA-engineered projects with work doled out to cost-plus defense industry contractors. SpaceX is not the only beneficiary of these projects, the goal is to try to cultivate multiple successful service providers that can sustain their own businesses.

There has been plenty of opposition to these commercial bid projects within congress, but the success and efficiency of these projects so far have made them hard to argue against.
I did the the first time I played and then I realized the mistake. If you pick the highest difficulty in the game, you won't be able to rush through the main storyline because your character is under-powered. You'd then need to play the side mission in order to accumulate gears and cybernetic stuff. That makes the game even more interesting. Try it again with the hardest mode.
Politics doesn't directly kill people earlier (usually), but policy can either tamp down or exacerbate other problems.

Utah and Oregon both have large urban prosperous populations who can afford healthcare and these areas are known for outdoor healthy lifestyles. SLC is loaded with fitness oriented businesses. They are socioeconomically very similar.

In contrast, many of the worst outcomes are in places that are poor, have major drug or violence epidemics, and also have little in the way of public support for healthcare.

Bad policy can make a bad situation worse more than good policy can improve an already pretty good situation.
I’m sorry but you clearly know nothing about what you’re talking about. Throughout the entire industry she is absolutely credited with SpaceX’s success. SpaceX dominates because of reliability, and the reliability stems from business units Shotwell manages, not Musk.
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one of the hacks i always suggest for social anxiety is fixing status to a middle or lower value. socially anxious people, are always assessing their status and that puts lot of stress, in addition to anxiety. assuming a fixed but middle or lower status gives some stability and reduces the stress part. it at least frees part of your brain and you can focus on what is going on around you.
> I presume it’s not the enormous amount of asymmetric financial assistance that pours into the south every single year from the “patronizing” coastal elites?

No, this is largely a myth. [0]

[0]: https://mises.org/wire/no-red-state-economies-dont-depend-gr...
We may never know. It is frustrating as a parent to be held to the social expectations of those at the most extreme ends of normative conviction. It speaks volumes that we mediate these interactions through police rather than through mutual dialogue.
Remind me of the "free-range" kids (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/free-range-kids-and-our...)
I'm not sure how Clarke came up with the number nine billion, but the short mentions 10 places, and shows the computer printing out some script that may be Tibetan or Sanskrit. I wonder how long it would take in 2023 to generate the nine billion combinations. Probably a few seconds.
On the one hand, sure, status probably is a trap and won't bring "true happiness." And I think this is well meaning advice.

But on the other hand, I think it's possible that an Ivy League educated founder/VC partner/executive coach might not be in the best position to see the whole picture. To paraphrase the Aviator[1], you don't care about status because you've always had it. I think that for many people who have experienced precarity, rather than being driven by vanity, this pursuit of status is a rational way to increase security.

[1] https://youtu.be/br-ljup5Bow
I'm not defending you either.

I agree with the gist of the other posters (even if they have over-reacted): most of your comments reek of paternalism, Western exceptionalism, hypocrisy, holier-than-thou sanctimony, and clinging to stereotypes about Indians and having a grossly mis-informed view of Indians and India.

Your comment was the initial one, and it was not in good faith at all, ergo the cascade of defensive comments from Indians (whose sentiments I understand).

Whether what you said is racist or not is debatable, but stereotypical? Definitely. If you want to criticise India, there are many, many other things to say (such as its lengthy and backwards bureaucracy) without attacking ISRO of all things and subsequently linking it to rape (???).

Fact of the matter is that through ISRO and its projects, education is made more important for boys and girls alike, money is funnelled into research and education, and more education means a more civilised populace.
> We tend to forget that the main purpose of a language is communication, when invoking cultural issues. If you have to penalize usage of English words, you are doing something really wrong.

The people pushing for this do, in fact remember that the primary purpose of language is communication.

Imagine being an aging Italian, or Quebecer, who has spoken Italian, or French all your life, do not have a good grasp of English, only to become unable to understand much of the discourse in your own mother country.

I, myself, am not super keen on seeing Spanish, Mandarin, or Esperanto become the lingua franca of my area.
this seems to just link to the 'about page'
Nobody talks about the possibility of chained hashing, where the chains are vectors and not linked lists. After hashing the key, you chase only one extra pointer. First the pointer to the table, as usual, from which you get a pointer to the "chain", which is another cache-friendly array.

Open Addressing has an ugly problem with deletion. You can never delete anything, because any present node might be a needed stepping stone to another entry. Chained hashing has no problem with deletion: an item is just spliced out of the list. Similarly, chained hashing with vectors could do the same thing. In any given secondary vector, we know that all the entries hashed to the same slot; we don't have to leave any tombstones. We don't have to move entries to close the gap; we can move the last element of the array to the deleted position and decrement the length.

Chained hashing with linked lists has a nice property when you reorganize the table; you don't have to reallocate any memory or do a lot of writes; just reshuffle the linked list pointers to reassign the nodes to the new chains of the resized table. If chains are vectors, this becomes more of a hassle. When growing the table, we allocate new vectors for the odd chains and then move about half the items from old chains to new chains.
I’d hypothesize that people drive more recklessly as a byproduct of less pedestrian activity especially children. I see many cars speed through school zones and it makes sense why, because there are never any pedestrians observed over years of my commute I’ve never seen a kid walk to school. The car pool line is longer than ever but it’s also usually off street in a parking lot area of the schools (where I am). Also as a dad of a 4 year old, I commonly witness other drivers quickly adjust their driving style when the spot my kid. It’s as if they realize kids are erratic and May jump out in the road so they become more defensive. If kids out playing was normal still, I think people would still drive closer to that as default.

The car size thing is valid. Although I remember cars in the 80s, often of the 70s, were massive steel tanks and I doubt the braking distances were all that good.
All of this is so strange to me. I grew up in Spain. I walked alone to school as young as 6-7 years old. This was completely normal. Most kids did this.

I even remember taking a plane alone at 10 with a one of those UM tags.
Independence is really the only way to have a good chance at achieving what you want, rather than only what others want or expect of you. There's surely some value in being able to branch out which requires lots of skills related to resilience.
The stated position of the labour party, and what they campaigned for, was Remain. At the time, there were many people like you saying one thing about Corbyn while he said another. Nobody liked Corbyn, so he surely must have been a Brexiteer! Despite him not having made Eurosceptic comments for many years.
>> Multiple apps will wake each other so they always stay in the background and become impossible to kill
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> One can Force Stop an app to make sure no component (service, activity, recievers, or resolvers) can run in the background, until the user explicitly starts the app process again via the Launcher.
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> Android also limits background processes, tracks per-app CPU and memory use to limit it, and "caches" processes aggresively if need be (puts their threads to sleep so they aren't executing anything but could be resumed quickly).

Amazon's apps love to do this. If any one of {Kindle app, Amazon Shopping, Amazon Music, Prime Video, Amazon Appstore} launches, one or more of the others will launch in the background. I first noticed it on three low-resource devices. Force-stopping ones I wasn't using at the moment resulted in them relaunching in a few moments. The only solution was to not have more than one Amazon app one each low-RAM or aging-CPU device.

Google does something like this, too, but I can't as easily disperse Gmail, Play Books, Play Music (erm, YouTube Music), Google Services, and whatever else. They also seem to do it more like "O, device just woke, or wifi state change, so lets update all the things", instead of Amazon's "User asked to load Kindle into 864 MB of RAM? Better have all the other large Amazon apps check for updates, too!".

2 GB RAM? Same sudden glacial slowness and unresponsivness due to background semi-related apps running unnecessarily. 4 GB? Well, that mostly works; a moderate slowdown, but no UI freezes.

(Yes, I'm saving up for a Galaxy Tab S8+with 16 GB, but…it costs as much as a real laptop without including a keyboard. I almost miss my Palm IIIx with month-long battery.)
Page 41 is awesome. Must have been a fold-out.
How are you so sure? You've never even heard their music.
An AR-15 is a single weapon that can be used in a specific context by one individual to a limited degree. AI owned by major organizations is a highly complex thing that can be used by all sorts of multiple actors simultaneously, at scale, in all sorts of ways ranging from good, to iffy to ambiguous to dangerous to extremely dangerous. AR-15's in the hands of mentally unstable people or those with malevolent intentions of any age can be very dangerous things, but the nature and level of the danger is of a totally different, much more limited type to powerful AI tools in the hands of mentally unstable powerful people, or self.interested leaders and organizations..

Note; Edits for a bit more context.
From the linked thread[1]:

> One misconception I also want to address: the dreadful US performance does not disappear if you “adjust for race”.

> This is way way overstated.

I wonder where the is? Different data sources?

[1] https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1641799890605932544
The development of Falcon 9, Dragon Cargo, Dragon Crew, and now Starship have all been partially funded as Government Programs.

The difference is that a faction within NASA has been fighting to run these and other projects as open-bid commercial service contracts, where NASA can provide detailed requirements but not dictate specifically where and how the vehicles are built, and this has encouraged diversity and competition in these markets.

Traditional NASA development projects (like the SLS rocket) are micromanaged by congress in the budget, where congress dictates specifics of rocket design to ensure specific contractors in specific states receive a slice of the pie in defense-industry style cost-plus contracts.
When did he say profit was bad?
I don't think even hard science can save the masterpiece of a movie, The Happening[0].

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949731/
I get this from other parents.

A few years ago I let my 3 year old ride his bike with his older sister and brother (5 and 7 years old).

I walked with them, but allow them to get ahead of me, up to about 500m - 1km (~0.6mi). My instructions were always "wait at the next road so we can cross together."

Once, when they were out of sight for a while, I rounded the corner to find them surrounded by a concerned couple who proceeded to tell me off for allowing the youngest one out of my sight. I disagreed with them and continued to allow my youngest to ride many hundreds of times since. I got dirty looks from them a few times on subsequent walks.
Moving is far from an easy solution, but there are some places that take the opposite approach. We lived in Utah for years and they actually have laws on the books to guarantee parental rights (I think they call them free range parenting or something like that?). In the more city dense areas you'll still have people who do that kind of stuff, but it's much, much less socially acceptable to interfere than in many coastal areas, and if somebody does call the police, there's a strong chance the police will tell them you're in the right and they are in the wrong. There are tons of tech opportunities for work there too so definitely worth a look if it's important to you.

We live in Idaho now and it's similar up here though I don't know about the laws. In our neighborhood kids will run around playing outside together unsupervised all day and nobody bats an eye. It's expected!
Really? All my daughter needs for school is access to a decent browser.
Frankly, this reads like a vendetta post, and HN isn't your personal army.

I've read over your Substack, other posts you've submitted to HN, posts made on Twitter, and a very lengthy thread you went on recently. You haven't listened to anyone who has said this to you in less direct words, so maybe this will help: your posts make you not seem well.

I wouldn't make you my boss, I wouldn't hire you, and I certainly wouldn't invest in you; not in this state anyway. You seem detached from reality, angry, and entitled. Delete this crap, delete your comments on HN (dang can help with that), and get into a therapy session showing them all of this. They can help you deal with anger, stress, and disappointment. Maybe you've just dealt with a lot of that lately.
> But the role itself has a critical flaw. The bloody history of every church demonstrates what happen when men speak for God and are believed.

To quote Chesterton, “There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.” Pluralism is a dogma like any other. The stereotype of bloody religious wars is a tired and melodramatic one. The bloodiest wars were not religious, or I should say, not traditionally religious. Look at the bloody revolutions and wars fought for the sake of liberalism, liberty, republicanism, communism, socialism, and so on. These, too, can be said to be religious wars because man is religious in the broad sense. What he takes to be the highest good becomes the object of his worship and that which orders and organizes the rest of his life. That is why there is no such thing as "neutrality". "Neutrality" is a liberal concept that attempts to establish liberal norms and sensibilities as the One True Way by trying to pass them off as something prior to debate or beyond debate. It's a need trick to attain hegemony.

And consider that if a "theocratic" power tried to extinguish your preferred variety of pluralism through peaceful means, and the "pluralistic" camp was unable to resist through peaceful means, is it really that improbable that the latter might resort to violence?
>I think that pursuit of status is a rational way to increase security.

I agree, I would recommend increasing security as the priority, not status. Status doesn't pay the bills necessarily when the recessions hit, security does. If you can get security without status, that's better than status without security.
Those kids were probably from relatively poor families. The neighborhood I live in, the kids of person who is probably the most well off hardly leave the house. When they do, they are closely watched by the helper.
Hmm, I'd say the Surface line are the direct competitors, and have real nice quality. Better keyboards and a nicer screen form factor 3:2. Was quite a fan of the Surface Book 2, and recently picked up a Laptop Go which is great, for less than a Macbook Air.
You can't fake a domain registration date
I often feel like I disagree, sometimes viciously, with the details of his arguments (see: these four particular cults) and especially with the context into which he puts them and thus the resulting conclusions, but I usually also feel like he's hitting on something important and true nonetheless. Guess that's a good reason to still read his articles!
I thought it was Jobs.

The clones licensed System 7, so jobs took the next version, branded it 8 and forced it out, cutting them off.
The semantics of a bare file system cannot be (easily) changed, I think. What would be nice is having a thin shim layer on top of their existing semantics to handle more advanced file abstraction. Applications nowadays need to repeatedly do something that file system doesn't provide, but sometimes their solution partially overlaps with the fs. A middleware that provides clearer separation would be nice.
Speaking of AI generated pages, I wonder how OpenAI filter these low quality web pages out of their training set as they continue to training.

Also, I wonder how they decide what code is worth training on. Because a lot of code is written in poor style/has technical debt, it might be the case that these LLMs in the long run lead to an increase in the technical debt in our society. Plus, eventually, and this might already be happening, the LLM are going to end up training on their own outputs, so that could lead to self immolation by the model. I am not certain RLHF completely resolves this issue.
As concisely as possible, could you please connect French retirement age with global warming? Please do not change the subject or go off on a tangent. Simply draw the straightest line.

Now, do it without passing through a billionaire’s pockets.
The mortgage interest deduction is "qualified residence interest" in the statute. 26 USC §163(h)(3) allows deduction of interest "with respect to any qualified residence of the taxpayer."

"Qualified residence" is itself defined at 26 USC §163(h)(4)(A)(i) as the taxpayer's "principal residence" and "1 other residence of the taxpayer."
I really have to give a shout out to NBA Jam by Reyan Ali[1]. It was a fun ride looking at the development of not just the game(s), but the teams and companies around them.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36597600-nba-jam
Winthrop Sargeant's translation of is very accessible: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-Winthrop-Sargeant/dp/93...
I’d like to know who the author is and what their background/professional experience is. Is that information available? I see they use a handle “moire”.
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