skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly cloud is profitable. Even being 3rd, GCP is a 30B dollar business growing at 27%.
https://youtu.be/t4RgBZlKlJI

This was a fun video during Covid homeschooling I found for the kids.

Helped explain the fun fact that humans are made of some crystals.
Wasn't he working on solid state batteries?
The IRS wants to. They're not allowed to.
All this above. Dystopia for you: Track digital exchange or currency at the Fed level, but they still mandate you file a tax return. It's a control mechanism. That and some taxco maybe has a nice condo in the Bahamas for use by friends. It's a whole accounting industry, not just apps. Have to start somewhere I guess, but it won't matter.
On the contrary, I think this is the only solution that will actually occur.

The reality is America is incredibly difficulty to change. There are just too many people and groups with interest.

And I don't even mean this in the conspiratorial way--it's just that simple taxes are in opposition to some of our other goals.

For instance, we want simple taxes. But we also want to use the tax structure to incentive certain actions (having kids, buying an electric car, or whatever). Every exception is another check everyone else has to do. This is why every year you need to select whether you were a member of the railroad workers union, or invested in tribal lands, etc.

I just am very pessimistic about America's ability to adjust. America is legacy software.

By analogy, there's no way we could have reformed the taxi system. It was only by flanking the issue that anything changed.
I use the built in note from apple in my phone. The one on top are the most recently touched.
It works for me.

The bottom is stuff from years ago. It can be nice to revisit
I would love for someone who knows more about this to also explain to me why goods sold on Amazon, which 20 years ago would be something I need to replace once per generation seem to universally break within 1-2 years.

Has Amazon sneakily enforced planned obsolescence somehow? Does the cutthroat market create conditions where only low-quality products can survive? Is it just that the rise of planned obsolescence happened to coincide with Amazon's takeover?
I like Notion but it's so horribly buggy. Just basic operations like deleting text using backspace or copy pasting break often and you end up deleting the wrong stuff or pasting at the wrong position.
The first link I clicked brought me to a $2000 bar stool. That's nice I'm sure, but I'm out.

I'll buy used.
And you compare that to what the government can do?

I could live my entire life without using any one of the large corporations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_sample_displays

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_lunar_sample_display

Assuming it wasn't lost or stolen since 1970, I wonder what the Taliban is doing with its moon rock.
Both, I would assume.

I don’t know what a “Blu R1” is so I can’t bother to go off with you on that tangent. But my point was only that all of these products are designed and priced for global-scale mass consumption. Apple isn’t a Michelin-star restaurant. They’re about as much better as that difference in price is.
I'm skeptical that plant glue alone would work without additional lashing. Its brittleness is used as an intentional feature in hunting weapons so that the small blades detach and stay lodged in the prey.
Perhaps you mean mix a little more noise into the dense signal? There's very little noise in F#, it's almost entirely dense signal.

One good thing is the ability to bind new operators, so if you don't care to learn to read <> you could make it something else. Or you could have a local binding for Sequence so you don't have to use just Seq.

It's also possible to avoid almost all operators if you don't like them. There's nothing wrong with using a limited pool as long as you can get done the job!

I also prefer to name variables, functions, and parameters with nice clear names, and I've not found F# to get in the way of that.
Huh, that strikes me as such a large-carbon-footprint way of living, but to each their own.
Sounds like coping to me.
I don't know what you're talking about, but I don't think you need to worry about this.
Give me a Spotify for reading. I don't want to subscribe to Economist, New Yorker, Atlantic, Walrus, NYT, etc. Sometimes I want to read from one, sometimes another and all together to expensive to subscribe to all.
The lack of fiscal responsibility by US governments has been pretty disappointing. This includes local, state, and the federal government.

I understand that since the USD is the current reserve currency, it gives us a bit more flexibility with regards to debt, but it doesn't seem wise to abuse this over the long term. We've normalized taking on huge amounts of debt that I don't see ever being paid back, it only keeps increasing.

I'm not sure what the solution is, or what the consequences will be, but it gives me an uneasy feeling that at some point in the future, the US will default and economic problems will ensue.
Religion and extreme politics seem to go hand-in-hand.
Seems like the big deal here is Cloud finally turning a profit, though it seems partially attributable to a change in the amortization schedules.
Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time. The rest are listed at jobs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
https://www.opendesk.cc/
All it takes is US Congress to vote to raise the limit. This is McCarthy's Republican house hoping that Biden would get blamed, and any consequences to everyone else don't matter.
I'm extremely anecdotal but my trucks runs off veggie oil I get for free. It's maybe $200/year to drive for me.

That being said, it's not great how gas is very expensive. It's a much better conversion, and wastes less in the whole grand scheme.
This is amazing. I didn't know he wrote non-fiction. And I can tell there is little difference between this piece of essay and what we read from Emmanuel Goldstein in the book. Perhaps Emmanuel Goldstein is Orwell in 1984, or even Winston and everything else in the book was written "based and around" Orwell's non-fiction essays. Who knows? Thanks for sharing anyway.
Have you seen emilk's own company, https://www.rerun.io/? All build on top of egui! Check out the webviewer on https://app.rerun.io/. It's all open source, https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun.
My understanding is that there is something like a Goldilocks part of the curve (e.g. 115-125) where you get above average intelligence and high motivation (‘hard working’).
Thanks for letting us know about the details, honestly not being able to select text between blocks was wan of the UX deal-breakers for me, seemed like a way to avoid -exporting- your docs or whatever not allowing to copy the document fully easily. Glad its solved
More importantly, it announces a 70 billion dollar stock buyback. That's what the market is reacting to.

Interestingly enough, it looks like everything except cloud grew at a rate less than inflation.

Ad revenue is falling. What implications does this have for internet companies reliant on the assumption advertising revenue will be going up forever?
Safari in “I’m a journalist and gonna die” mode (lockdown?) is surprisingly usable and very hardened against tracking.
> Right now EVs are just starting to become affordable.

We're lucky ("lucky") that the bar for affordable changed a whole bunch in the last few years. Used ICE cars getting wildly more expensive has made EVs seem like a less-terrible deal.
I guess you could say that removing all their content and/or shutting down complete channels and/or accounts is 'just not actively promoting them' -- but you wouldn't really be telling the truth then, would you?

Regarding VK and Russian social media, I'm a US-American, so i'm mostly concerned with what US companies do -- because they're much more destructive, and I can do a lot more about them.
I started an LLC for my side business and the taxes for that were way more complicated than they should have been even with me paying for software (TaxAct) to help me. In the end I had to go to H&R Block because I was worried I was going to mess something up and over/under pay (more worried about underpaying). I ended up watching someone else enter data into a computer (they messed up my address and my phone number so I had to correct some forms) and while they were able to e-file some of it, other parts I had to send in (paper). It's absurd and my business is tiny and relatively simple.

The fact that I couldn't even find the info I needed online for /what/ I needed to file (let alone /how/) makes me furious. Having to pay ~$400 for someone else to enter basic info feels like robbery. I think for next year I can figure it out but I'm still wary (TaxAct kept asking for all these forms I didn't have and couldn't tell if I needed to "generate" them from my LLC to myself or if that was only for partnerships/corps).

I have zero issues with paying taxes, in fact I'm somewhat happy to pay them but figuring out what I owe is miserable and fills me with anxiety and dread that I might mess up something and get in trouble.
GrapheneOS has settings to disable connectivity checks or use common Google servers in order to blend in.
Tag with [video], please
It doesn't matter whether a human or a robot drills into Yellowstone, the resulting eruption will kill off all humans on earth anyway.
It’s already lost in appeals court yesterday. The next step is the Supreme Court. Do you really think they are going to take it up?
Back when I did olympiad math we would sometimes solve classical geometry problems with a "complex bash" --- you assign points complex coordinates and then do some algebra to show that the desired property must hold true.
Maybe they should be focusing on building something robust enough to land or even crash on the moon's surface and keep transmitting for a while, then work on the cool rover payload after that. It's perplexing to me not that it failed, but that they don't (so far) have any idea why or how.
Not to mention the wooden beams, under the portico, which are also original. They of course, are out of the rain; so are a solution to a lesser problem, where aging is concerned.
wow, Google is in full damage control mode. Seems like only the cloud business that's growing healthily.

What about their hardware business?
These are all stunning. Excellent craft is worth it. It’s beautiful when something lasts forever.

Maybe I’m too young (I don’t think so, I’m 32), but I have been impressed with how long some of my IKEA pieces have held up. Since IKEA products are so easy to disassemble and often modular, they are easy to buy and sell. I’ve bought countless used IKEA items over the years and sold nearly as many. These products are perfect for people who constantly move or have changing needs.

IKEA does not make throw-away furniture.
At 6cm spacing, a 10km by 10km ground array with 1mm^2 cross section wires has total 1667 m^3 volume; this is as much conductor as you would get in the equivalent of a 1111 km long 1 GW HVDC cable: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=10km*10km%2F6cm*1mm%5E2...

It's not exactly the same thing, of course, but it means 40 such ground stations would use as much metal as a 1 GW line looping all the way around the planet and back to itself, and a global grid is another way to obviate storage.

That's 1 GW with standard existing cables; I assume if you actually want to go that far one can improve the design as the optimisation goals are different. Parallel cables lower resistance.

I'm also not sure how much maximum current would scale in such cases.
Social change follows an S curve too.

Rapidly changing now
Why couldn't the FSF just develop such software on their own?

You don't even need to make it complicated and walled-garden with eFile, just have the program end up with a printable PDF that you mail to the IRS.

Want to incentivize the IRS to open their eFiling system so someone like the FSF can eFile or make their own ? Just send 10,20,30m paper 1040 forms. That will quickly cause the IRS to want alternatives. This will never work for a simple reason.

The problem, as I see it, is that people misunderstand what value online eFilers offer their customers.

I could have gone on TurboTax website the day I got my W-2, filled out their forms and "get your money in as little as 1 minute," deposited directly into their bank account where you get a virtual debit card. Regardless of your opinions about that scheme, many people are very attracted to it and in my hypothetical paper filing logjam scenario it might take 6 months and legislation to resolve it, nobody wants to wait for their refund, not even for the week or two it takes the IRSs normal ACH, I want it in 1 minute! This is (part of) the real perceived value from companies like TurboTax. Is the FSF going to fund advances like this? Of course not.

The other half of the value proposition from them is protection against mistakes. Again, regardless of the actual utility of these claims, some people are very afraid of making seemingly minor errors on their tax return and being faced with a huge tax bill with huge fees and fines and penalties. Yes, I know that the IRS is actually a semi-reasonable organization and for the average filer the chances of having something like this happen is effectively nil, but, people are attracted to the security of those protection guarantees. Is the FSF going to back their software with a similar liability promise?
I time my work diligently and typically amass betwen 6 to 7.5 hours of "pure" work per day. Meetings included, breaks not included.
removing all CSS rules on the chat window DOM node and its ancestors that say either

overflow: ...; or

height: 100%;

works for me
They will try, and it'll work for a while, but they won't be able to maintain it, and doing so would speed the death of oil

As EVs get cheaper to buy, and more importantly, to run, the petrol-fueled vehicles start to become uneconomical. As use declines, availability of fuel declines, as petrol stations become more unprofitable. Further encourages EV adoption. Range anxiety now comes to petrol-powered vehicle owners as it is now for EV owners, further incentivizing the switch.

While the general impression is that this will be gradual, I think it will be a gradual decline, then sudden, as the overall inconvenience and cost levels cross. Then some minor precipitating event changes the overall mindset, and petrol-powered cars become a perceived liability, and those still stuck with them will barely be able to unload them.

As the decline happens, OPEC will surely try to manage the price of oil, but with demand declining, one of two things will happen. To the extent that they keep the price high, they speed the transition away from oil. They are also much more likely to fail, as the US is now a major producer, and has every incentive to work against OPEC. Plus, their friends are gone. Teh car companies figured out in the 2008 price spike that the oil industry is NOT their friend as that economic crash and oil price spike forced them to look over the cliff of doom as auto sales nearly stopped dead. Then we saw Russia's blatant attempt to use their oil & gas supply to blackmail the world into yielding to their genocidal invasion of Ukraine. No rational businessman now thinks that the oil industry is a reliable supply partner, and will cut them out of the equation at the first opportunity. The oil industry and countries may have some good days ahead, but beyond the intermediate term, they are absolutely screwed.
Yes, EVs haven't yet reached the goal of zero fires, but they're closer than fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/study-electric-vehicles-involve...
Atlassian's Confluence is apparently launching databases as a feature soon. The screenshots I've seen look very similar to Notion.
> If you aren't feeding cattle antibiotic in a CAFO where they're crowded, eating spent brewers grain (mostly from fuel production), and living in filth, then they will get sick and die

Much citation needed. I don't know exactly what you mean by CAFO when it comes to cattle, but the EU banned routine administration of antibiotics with no noticable effect on the practice of permanently housing cows or beef cattle
AMD’s Ryzen Z1 chips could power a new wave of handheld Steam Deck clones
> Also this move to hide the full url comes at the reliance of instead looking for a green shield or some type of lock icon

The move to hide the full URL is to make the URL readable for the average user. People on this site might know how to parse URL components in their head, but the average user does not inherently understand the DNS hierarchy nor do many completely understand URI delimiters.

https://secure.bankofamerica.com.0-0.pw/login/securelogin.aspx

might look okay to a lot of people

0-0.pw

would be a little better indicator that it isn't their bank.

The padlock is mostly useless in today's world. It was useful in a time when ecommerce was young and otherwise legitimate sites were collecting information via http. There was an attempt to make it more useful with extended validation certs, but that solution didn't really end up being effective. Phishers could still register EV certs that spoofed other names, and adoption was too low to change user behavior.
How does asdf not handle Python and node well?
This so much. Taxes every year consist of me telling the IRS what it 100% already knows and doing the math it does to check my filing anyway. All the income related forms I get are copied straight to them too. It's such a waste of time and stress, just send me the bill, with my status and what they think I made. If I think something looks terribly wrong fine I can deal with that. If not I pay it and I'm done. Same with states.
I have bought and assembled 6 billy bookcases one by one over the last 15 years and the drop in quality over time has been quite perceivable.

The latest one I assmeled used plastic locking mechanisms to keep the shelves in place instead of the metal of all my prior bookcases. Probably good enough, but doesn't inspire confidence.
Just clicked on the first link: $1225 for one chair (https://www.thejoinery.com/furniture/dining-chairs-dining-ro...). I have 4 Ikea STEFAN. Around $47 each. Been 4 years already and they are still intact. Sure, the quality of the Hayden is way better, but 26 times better? I don't think so.
I agree that we need a policy to better deal with externalities on a faster timeline.
Isn't it possible to radiate heat into space, like with a directional radiator? Or are you saying that it is possible to do that, but it's not possible to convert heat in the atmosphere into radiant heat that goes out of a radiator without somehow generating more heat that goes into the earth?
Link between herpesviruses and giant viruses no longer missing
>If I make a trip to (for example) Target, it feels nothing like Target of 20 years ago. The chances are good that they don't have what I hoped to find there.

What are some examples of products you've had this issue with at Target? This sounds like the exception rather than the rule based on the positive way most people talk about Target both around me and on social media.
Disagree.

The market is reacting to Cloud turning a profit for the first time, and faster than expected.
In you keep increasing the ads screen real estate by 20% every year, eventually you run out of screen.
> IKEA has always fallen apart when you try to move it, none of these changes alter that.

This keeps getting repeated.. but when I was studying, I bought used IKEA furniture, moved it around several times to different apartments, and then sold it again when I moved from that city.

I've also renovated my house recently which involved disassembling and reassembling some IKEA furniture. They're still fine.

It depends on the type of furniture of course. Yes, there are some specific ones that are harder to disassemble and move without breaking them. But not all.

> I want it to be cheap and disposable.

Isn't it possible to sell them on something like craigslist? I've bought and sold used IKEA furniture before, but I guess it depends on country/culture how willing people are to buy them.

> which is for the current apartment only because it fits it specifically.

I think this is an excellent point. We live in a home I intend to stay in for a long time. It's a bit on the small side, but we try to make the most of it by optimizing the furniture for that specific home. I've even customized IKEA furniture, cutting them to the right width etc. This lets us avoid moving to a new, larger home. That would certainly cost a lot and would be very resource intensive.

I can imagine the next owner would want to keep at least some of the furniture for at least the first few years too, depending on their life situation.
I interpret it as Americans just have awful taste in cars.
Zero trust for Zoom calls: ChromeOS getting universal microphone/camera toggles
Science-fiction tropes shape military AI
No thanks. How about 0 income tax (which is already on shaky legal ground) and only usage tax?
Google Network 2022 q1: $8,174 2023 q1:$7,496

Yikes. that's a steep drop. Youtube revenue is almost flat too.

Pretty worrying as a shareholder :-/
> On the other hand, removing energy from a system seems like a good way to make it safer...

Nope, that one rule of thumb can't help you. There is way too much energy for that to make any difference.

Just notice how the timescale of an active disaster is completely different from the ones estimated for success.
Is that product commercially available at low prices? Regular OSB took a while for me to understand but now that I do it's used in all sorts of stuff I build. It's cheap and much more dimensional than lumber, which often has a slight warp to it.
sounds like a win to me.
Thank you for your reply, would love to read the essay when its finished!

However, I feel the answer more memories, more experiences, etc, is not the answer to this question.
its more aching to, making sure not to waste time, to have more to show for it at the end! of the day.

My question is more about aware in real time, to slow it down and be aware of the time, now, to appreciate it more. because, if you are having fun, time flies. and new experiences and memories can be very fun to create.
Brave also has discount Tor which is nice at times.
My gripe with IKEA in this regard is: yes, they'll keep the same product lines, but they change up the product finishes enough to matter. I had a PAX unit in Beech Veneer which, once they got rid of, I could no longer extend. Also did my kitchen with them and they got rid of the finish I picked shortly after, which meant that I couldn't replace panels like I thought I might have been able to.

Could still get accessories for the inside of this stuff though, which definitely isn't nothing.
Linux (NixOS) working fine without ads here :)
It’s almost all woods… so, of course, no, I don’t rake it. But it generates a lot of leaves that blow up against my house and such places, and that I rake. The mower just runs over the leaves in the lawn.
I tried using Groebner bases in grad school to solve implicit polynomial equations (part of an optimization problem) but found quickly that it didn’t scale. I ran into trouble with a system of about 300 polynomials and this was with Maple which implemented state of the art algorithms at the time.

The computational complexity of Groebner is doubly exponential in the number of variables.
Now Ozempic patients say they're going BALD while on fat-loss shot
This is exactly how a company I used to work at interviewed. We did all the typing to remove that layer of stress and focus on their problem solving ability. It worked extremely well.
You need to know how much to withhold for taxes. 1000 brackets makes things a lot more complicated.

Edit: the fact that it requires software proves my point. No one thinks it’s a difficult programming problem.