skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that 61% of Republicans believe the election was "stolen" from Trump. "

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/53-republicans-view-trump-t...

60% of 40 million republicans was 20,000+ million

That number may have gone down since May 2021, but is still significant.
cygwin has a different ABI, and does weird things for its POSIX compatibility. In that sense, it's not native.
As respectfully as possible: what on earth are you even arguing at this point? You claimed that Hollywood superstars "don't need unions" -- I pointed out that the superstars seem to feel they do, and that prior to unionization they were oft exploited. What does their compensation relative to a handful of tech entrepreneurs have to do with that?
> Then they locked everything down to the point until there's no computer left, just a $1000 passive consumption machine with a nice camera.

This is nonsense. Have you seen Obsidian.md and its plugin ecosystem for not just writing but a (ahem) bicycle for the mind?

Have you run VSCode against a remote code-server from the park, coding all day on 5G and still having a pretty full battery?

Have you use Affinity's content creation suite with the Pencil 2?

What about M365 Office?

All this works on a full size full quality keyboard with a touchpad and 13" touch screen on an iPad that also cheerfully works with a USB-C cable or dock to also drive an external 4K screen with stage manager, full two screen windowing manager, and other things like hardwire Ethernet.

You can do much of that from an iPhone 14 Pro Max as well. Obsidian.MD and M365 Office both work fine with a full size bluetooth keyboard/charge stand, along with mobile Xbox cloud gaming with a Razer kishi controller and Plex of my own content at home, over HDMI to a hotel TV.

https://www.cultofmac.com/721704/why-you-should-add-a-second...
I'm reminded of when Boba exploded in popularity. The story goes there was one store in the food court, then it got super popular, so then there were five stores, but there wasn't the market to support five of them in the same food court, so then they all folded. There was a market for one of those stores. Increased competition split the market up too much so there weren't enough sales to sustain any stores, leading to a failure of the market to maintain a Boba store in a food court that's able to sustain one.
Li-Po isn't difficult to ship. You just slap a certain sticker on the outside of the box and pay a little extra. Otherwise, it's no more effort.
Acme has a handful of keybindings, like the usual ^A, ^E for navigation, ^Z for undo, etc. Plugging in new ones is a few lines of code, for example my ^S for Putall (saving all windows):

https://github.com/dexen/plan9port/commit/78324a4666c4b5e0bd...

Most of keybindings you might want to add are handled by Acme's "commands" - like Edit. If you repeat them any often, it's easy and straightforward to connect the keybinding to the command in code. Alternatively, to avoid going into C, write a shell script with ready-made command; Acme is well prepared to be managed through shell scripts. The shell scripts have full access to Acme's Windows (open files, directories, scratchpads etc), including ability to edit content, open new ones, interpret right-clicks in new ways, etc.
> There's not the same market, for the third time. Stop ignoring that aspect.

But the argument today is literally that we should be homogenising the practices of the market which pays employees well with the practices of the market that is famous for forcing women to sleep with people for opportunities.

I refuse to back down on this point - that is a terrible strategy and we should not do that. We should be doing the opposite of what Hollywood does in this instance. The evidence is overwhelming. I would not choose to work in Hollywood if I wanted to make money and be paid well. None of us would, I suspect, since this is a tech forum.

I would rather be working for Red Hat, even with this round of layoffs.
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Year of the Linux decktop and suddenly it's Eternal September all over again, eh?

Its a far off hope but like maybe after some time of not everyone being chained to the cave wall looking at a marionette version of what computing might be, maybe, maybe maybe maybe, we'll start to build a better culture. If we are lucky.
Its so funny you state that,

I wanted to use "great grandparents" but I made the false assumption that the HN audience wouldnt have identified, but holy crap we do.

I think we need a knowledge archive asap.... we are going to start dying off soon.

The next decade is going to decimate some minds.
Yup this really feels like the media capitalizing about writing more articles to get the public irritated about Musk, for clicks.

I have plenty of complaints about him but the non stop articles have just become comical at this point.
What do you expect, it’s Salon.com. They’ve been anti-Elon for years. This is nothing new
He's probably referring to the _business_ of search. The B word taints a lot of things.
I never said they claimed it was right, just that it was more acceptable. Again, I don't see how one could interpret it otherwise?
> Consider these criteria when you’re choosing a cofounder -- it’s one of the most important decisions you’ll make, and it’s often done fairly randomly. You want someone you know well, not someone you just met at a cofounder dating thing.

And yet...
It's impossible. Everyone will clone your idea. If profits == x1000 then everyones x100000 also. So, the fast growing with money and slowing clones is the key.
That's one hell of a tax!
The Code of Mathematics
> a magnet for grifters who were doing beer bongs while others were learning to code

My experience as a test dev is that testers, especially the ones who can't code, are into credentialism and overly-technical taxonomies that describe their field. I claim people who can't do get certified (and those who make money from the certifiables teach).
The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes
First of all, AI doesn't just write text. It (Midjourney v5) can generate realistic images that humans can’t tell if they are really not not. They can also generate music and that’s so good that shakes the entire music industry (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/26/grimes-ai-generated-drake-...). It can also generate the entire courses and even be your private tutor. All of this is happening.

Please note that GPT-4 is not just a bot that writes text. It’s a reasoning machine. It has many emergent abilities. If you read the paper “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4”, you will know it’s a baby AGI. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712)

The article is not saying GPT-4 will replace human jobs but GPT-7 might. GPT-1 was released less than 5 years ago and look at how much progress we have made during this time.

AI replacing most humans’ jobs is not fictional, the progress of AI is real and very happening very quickly.
Can you link to some resources where I could learn how to implement this for my sites?
There's a bunch of Starlink coverage maps like this; the most useful one (IMHO) is Mike Puchol's at https://starlink.sx/

The nice thing about that Mike's is you can see exactly where you are in relation to nearby satellites and base stations. And get a pretty good guess as to where your packets are going to go. It is all guesswork - SpaceX only shares what they are required to by the FCC. But it's been pretty accurate in the way I can test it.

(Also try clicking the little ringed planet icon in upper right to get an orbital chart.)

In the early days there would only be 1 or 2 satellites in range of my house sometimes and I could feel the lag as the dish switched. Back then it only switched every 15 seconds whether a tree was about to block the view or not. Now there's regularly 10+ satellites to choose from and a smarter algorithm for switching to maintain signal. There's still significant problems compared to a wired connection or even fixed wireless but Starlink has definitely been a big improvement for my life.
The US passenger rail system is badly mismanaged and offers lousy service. If the network were to be expanded, I'd expect more of the same lousy service.

I like commuter rail and subways in Boston. I wish the parking was better at the railheads, that would encourage use. If I lived in Boston, I wouldn't need to own a car, I'd just rent one as needed for trips outside the area.

Once I drive as far as Boston suburbs, I might as well keep going in. It's faster to cover the final distance by car, and the parking fees aren't too bad, once I subtract the rail and subway fares I'd otherwise need to pay.

Also, I can load all my packages and bags into the back of my car. The subway is really inconvenient for that.
Guessing YT was thinking of a no cookies solution, and realized it was impractical. So they settled for promising to isolate the viewing data to avoid influencing ads and recommendations among ones usual YT activity and an embed.

Perhaps YT has convinced regulators the local storage and on-play cookie in this "enhanced privacy" domain are essential features and not sufficiently identifiable to violate GDPR.
Rates of Spontaneous Mutation (Drake et al., 1998)[1] says that a human's genome accumulates around ~64 new mutations per generation through meiosis alone. Those mutations are propagated into every cell of the newborn baby. Over a lifespan, all cells in the body will mutate at a rate proportional to their division rate, leading to thousands upon thousands[2] of uncorrected mutations per individual, among the trillions which are ultimately corrected by DNA polymerase[3].

[1] https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/148.4.1667

[2] https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41586-022-04618-z

[3] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf9011
But, but, but! Musk claims the past three years have been a demographic disaster for the US because there aren't enough kids being born:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1529097667858546689

He says that we need to "celebrate having kids" and if we don't then civilization will be sterilized.

Musk says he's "sort of worried that hey, civilization, if we don’t make enough people to at least sustain our numbers, perhaps increase a little bit, then civilization’s going to crumble":

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

Cutting parental leave doesn't mean Musk is an incoherent, inconsistent flake whose actions don't match his words, does it?
Just the market rate of return. If your money could have done better in an index fund, you've lost.
Except 1929 didn't happen again, the problems in 2008, and in 2023 were completely different.

The problems in 2023 were made significantly worse by the rollback on liquidity rules in 2017, which, if we may recall, was not a year that Obama was exerting any influence on banking rules.
I think people struggle with this because:

1. They think the letter has to say "I will buy this today" instead of "I will buy this if it does xyz"
2. People think someone seeing a product (e.g. build something great is all that matters) trumps everything.
I've used everything. Windows for gaming/work, linux for prod/home and now Mac for work/play. I use docker every day and it's performance on Intel Mac used to be pretty terrible.

Until the M1 came out. It hands down beats every machine I have ever owned. I have an M1 Air, no fan, 10hr battery life, tiny package. It is amazing hardware. Docker is fast on it. Not linux fast but fast enough to always be running a dozen containers.

I find the recommendations saying that 'the software on mac is terrible' to not be the case for me. Sure, I am not running a fancy Wayland/sway tiled setup but the MacOS desktop is not THAT bad; at least it is not Windows.

I mostly use open source software every day. Alacritty (terminal), neovim (IDE), zsh (shell), firefox (browser), obsidian (docs). Spotify, slack and zoom are pretty much the only applications that are not open source.

I use dotfiles and use brew/brewfile to install packages. Brew has problems but apt/yum/etc have problems too. If you really want to keep things clean then you can use Nix on Mac if you wish.

And the Apple ecosystem? It just works and that is all I really care about. I put in my airpods and they can connect to all my devices. If I need to share files I can just air drop them to whatever device I want or just let them sync with iCloud.

I don't have time to fight with technology as I want to spend that time building things or hanging out with the family.

I think Asahi linux on M1/M2 laptops will be pretty amazing in the next year and you can have the best of both worlds.
Wow, this is incredible. Why the GPS satellites are far away from the planet, compared to the other ones?
Frequently Commented Questions:

Yes, space looks crowded in these visualizations. But the size of the satellites is exaggerated here by thousands of times. Space is huge and the collision risk is extremely low. If displayed at their true size the satellites would not be visible, and indeed the vast majority are not visible in the real life night sky. The exception is recently launched satellites that are still in transit to their final orbits, but even those are only visible sometimes and generally only within an hour or two after sunset or before sunrise.

No, Kessler Syndrome is not a realistic concern for satellites in these orbits. Satellites here experience atmospheric drag and fall out of orbit in five years or so. Collision debris has a higher surface area to mass ratio due to the square-cube law and deorbits faster than that. And it takes a lot less than five years for debris to fall below the orbits of other satellites where it no longer poses any threat of a chain reaction. And no, a collision between two satellites in circular orbits cannot throw debris into much longer-lasting orbits, due to how orbital mechanics works. And even if Kessler Syndrome did somehow happen despite all that, it wouldn't trap us on Earth even for the five year period; a debris cloud would still be quite sparse and launching rockets through it would be no problem since the time spent in the cloud and thus probability of collision would be negligible.
This is an even more obtuse point than your last attempt.

Go open a non-unionized laundromat and see if you make more money than Hollywood. That's all that matters apparently, right? Or maybe a sweatshop - seems like another great "free market" place to work!

You're a political tool making statements of faith instead of objective evaluations.
And now somebody edited it to put the simple example first.

I was really confused how anyone could glaze over with such a concise description, but they saw something different than I did.
Can someone explain what is the point of having long lines of satellites traveling on the same path?
This, a million times. I am not principled enough to live without closed source hardware and software. But I've experienced too many changes to tools I didn't ask for and didn't want to try to advocate that closed source is better than open source alternatives.
Do you have evidence for those statements, or are you just generally in the habit of stating your beliefs as fact?
Can someone tell how to interpret this global coverage map?

The legend and the help sections are not very helpful.
The rewards programs use your information to market to you, and sometimes third parties. Terms and conditions vary. As always, consult a lawyer before clicking accept on any EULA.
ASUS still has sdcard slots in their phones. Sony phones too but Asus is a better bet at this point for long term supportability.
The closely packed dots you see are a train of satellites just after launch. They'll spread out over a couple of weeks.
I get the need... but that is one perverse incentive right there.
I'll tell you what your doctor might not be telling you, doctors have the highest suicide rates of any profession. Should I trust them to tell me what is healthy?

Retail managers have the lowest suicide rates.

I don't trust them either.
Now reframe the above, normalising as a portion of wealth.

Tax analysed in absolute dollar terms is misleading. What should be analysed is the tax's effect on a person's quality of life. A person with a million dollar income paying 50% tax still has 500k to burn.
A person paying 30% at 50k a year has 35k left. That 30% means a lot more at the lower end, even though the dollar amount pales in comparison.
Literally just got fired from a company that was just like that. Had a great idea, but wanted to build everything themselves vs just pieces of system that could differentiate us. Add onto that a weak business plan plus trying to compete with others in the greens space and it didn’t go very far. A lot of fun to work on though!
SELECT count(likes_a) FROM facts as likes_a, facts as likes_b WHERE likes_a.attribute = ‘like’ AND likes_b.attribute = ‘like’ AND likes_a.value = likes_b.value AND likes_a.entity_id != likes_b.entity_id AND likes_b.entity_id = 123
Even if they could handle accounting information precisely, large language models are anything but rapid. How many trillions of floating point operations would be needed to add two numbers correctly?

Maybe AIs will be able to parse useful numbers out of a mess of documents in a year or two. The actual handling of the numbers will probably be left to less intelligent algorithms for the foreseeable future :)
Do we tax the rich?
https://www.revolver.news/2023/04/supreme-court-unanimous-le...

9-0 Supreme Court letter supporting just Clarence. Thomas.
If being bound by tight social norms is the key to bringing birth rates above replacement level, then Japan’s population should be skyrocketing.

The factors behind population decline are multifaceted, complex and vary from country to country.

Both Russia and China are also in decline, and cannot be accused of being bastions of promiscuous, individualistic Western liberalism.
A good read but should mention that its from 1999.
That should lead to a great deal of weight loss in California
No, I used the term yield correctly. $1 in the sp 500 over that time period would have increased to $3.50. Or a yield of $2.50 while maintaining the underlying asset of $1.

As for it being a muni bond, the risk is low but still there. Municipalities do in fact default sometimes.
In name only. Domains with those TLDs are available to anyone willing to pay.
I thought by this point we'd have an official version of steamOS released for the public.

The user experience of steam OS is much better than windows on these kind of machines, it's not comparable. The problem comes from support for these alternative machines, so Linux which requires a bit more fiddling might be more challenging. But I mean, it seems to me like a smarter business for valve to try to get as many of these other hardware manufacturers to use steamOS.
Britain Is Dead
Sperm donor who fathered 550 children ordered to stop
one way to defeat this problem is to connect the charger to a timer plug so that the charger can turn off at night. I use this approach to keep some lesser-used laptops connected and charged (edited) without so far running into the spicy pillow problem.
AI Will Rapidly Transform Labor, Exacerbating Inequality, Insecurity, Poverty
I've actually pondered this question a lot, while driving, canoeing, and otherwise self-propelling through the world. The closest I can get to it is, there's an embodied intelligence that's activated in the open air in our natural habitat.

Humans have remarkable powers of sensory perception outdoors, evolved over eons. Those skills can atrophy in modern built environments. We mostly use our big brains there, which aren't nearly as smart as all our intelligences put together.

But those powers come alive again, when exposed directly to the elements they've evolved to understand: earth, wind, water, ice, mud, weather, plants, animals.

It's true that we also gather lots of sensory input when, say, driving. It keeps us alive! But it's a recent adaptation, to highways, traffic, concrete, motors, metal boxes, compared to the elements we've evolved to perceive over many millenia.
I bought a Sun Ray about ten years ago I hoped to be able to connect to a Linux machine or maybe even a Sun Blade workstation. I DON'T POWER THAT ONE ON MUCH BECAUSE ITS SO LOUD. But I hoped to run it in the garage and connect to it with the Sun Ray in my office.

I abandoned this project...almost immediately after buying the Sun Ray but maybe now I can get it running. I thought the Sun Ray was a cool extension on the idea of X terminals.
Presumably ChatGPT is better at writing database queries or answering questions about a large Csv file than somebody who doesn’t know how to program. This was the subject of a PR talk last week be an openai cofounder - https://youtu.be/C_78DM8fG6E - my guess is something like that is what inspired this article.
> Every decade or so, the UK finds itself in crisis. These are the moments that open up rare and brief periods of reflection on the decline of the country’s geopolitical relevance and of the British state. Then the gates close, the crisis diminishes, and an overpowered financial services sector—combined with the prestigious longevity of British institutions—cushions the downward trends until the next crisis. The British governing and commercial classes may well vampirically draw on financial and institutional soft power for at least another century. But the cumulative effect of these moments makes it increasingly difficult to deny the British elite’s profound inability to prevent national decline.

> British institutions exert impressive amounts of soft power for a tiny island nation. One can think of the country as playing the role of an Italian city-state in the fourteenth century: it capitalizes on historic cultural prestige, educates the children of elites from its former empire, and serves as a playground for wealth and status games while not really producing anything of hard value.
Unless you’re bill joy or an owner with a chunk that must be noticed “demand a share” often equals “exits the business”. Why would they have to pay attention to somebody when they’re probably leaving in 2-3 years or can be replaced anywhere in the world? Gotta have leverage to threaten.
Yes, I have found that in many areas, you can match or beat the 3rd party price by going direct. Especially if you have any additional discounts like AAA. But quite a few highly competitive areas like las Vegas, you can save 25-50% by going with hotwire or Priceline.
Can someone tell me why they didn't just build a flame diverter and/or a water supression system?

From someone who knows nothing about this stuff, these seem like very simple things to solve given the vast complexity of the rest of the system.

And they also don't seem like massively expensive investments.

> In a tweet from October 2020, Musk wrote "Aspiring to have no flame diverter in Boca, but this could turn out to be a mistake."

Why? What is the aspiration for?
Considering that a lot of the internet is still behind a NAT I’m not sure that’s a completely bulletproof solution.
But we already have the actual, real-world, non-hypothetical example of Hollywood pre- and post-unionization, and the latter is more effective at creating millionaires (to use your own arbitrary metric) than the former. So why are you insistent on comparing it to an entirely different industry?
When SVB was failing, I told anyone who would listen we need 100% FDIC insurance for all normal bank accounts. The usual response was we need to punish startups for being reckless, and we need market forces to encourage banks to be well-managed. It turns out having the time or know-how to identify poorly managed banks is rare (and if you did, you should be in the business of short selling, not making widgets), but we all know which banks are too big to fail, so just move your money there.
Amazing work. Of all the great projects on this thread, this is my favourite
Biden’s Push for Power Lines
Cloudflare and AWS?