skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one uses everything of a system they pay into. Many people pay taxes on things you use that they don’t.

Many people weren’t given the opportunities nor had the privilege to be given basic social safety nets like a way to finish high school. Most people don’t have easy lives. No one loves to part with money to pay for the “decisions” of others. I quoted the word because i don’t understand the notion that people are making such major decisions independently of capitalisms grasp on all of us.
My hobby is repairing coffee machines...
related:

"Nearly 1 in 5 academics admit close encounters of the anomalous kind"

"Boffins call for end to UFO stigma"

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/23/academic_uap_experien...

"
A survey of academics has found that nearly one in five reported an experience with unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs, previously known as UFOs and unidentified aerial phenomena), which researchers say signals the need to ditch the stigma surrounding sightings and broaden inquiries.

In a paper published today in Nature, a trio of scholars said they surveyed 1,460 tenured and tenure track faculty at 144 "major research universities" to learn about their attitudes toward UAP research and reports.

Their findings uncovered an academic community curious about UAPs while retaining a healthy reservoir of skepticism. Despite around a fifth of respondents saying they may have witnessed a UAP, nearly 40 percent chose to exercise their academic integrity by reserving judgment.

..."
Zero gravity is easier than opposing gravity in this case.
> Humanity will benefit enormously from this huge increase in the availability of intelligence.

I know corporations will, but Moloch doesn't necessarily represent humanity.
Not relevant and not simply picking apart your example but I’ve been nerd sniped:

Wheels are not trivial in a biological sense. Topologically most life is either a tube or a cup depending on digestive systems. Wheels are separated from the body, which would be difficult for base cell division to produce.

Some animals like the pangolin are round shaped and do roll, but it just seems non optimal.

I’d say it’s curious nature hasn’t produced more creates that like making wheels like the dung beetle does, but nature made us and we do like making wheels.
During the pandemic, some of my company's Lenovo laptop orders were backlogged by weeks (or months for a brief period). We had difficulty obtaining laptops for remote employees, even when lowering requirements to "Anything reasonably suitable".

At the same time MacBook Pro's did not have significant changes in order times. I suspect this is because that for large corps, Macs are not as prevalent as Windows laptops. More "specialist" less "commodity".

Personally, I have 10 year old Macs still usable. This message comes from a 2012 MacMini - laptop level hardware. Equivalent age Windows laptops are either Linux (which is also not as corporate common) or our of service.
> but both Linux and Windows support suspending to disk out of the box.

At least with Linux, out of the box all you'll have is the message "Lockdown: systemd-logind: hibernation is restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7" in your logs.

(The trick is to either disable Secure Boot, or AFAIK make use of an encrypted swap partition; IIRC, there's a bug which makes it not recognize a swap volume within LVM within LUKS as encrypted swap, so it has to be directly on a disk partition.)
Shout out to your Vaio-p! I bought a Vaio-p waaayyy after the fact (2018?) & used it for a while. What a machine! Incredible. 1600x768 8-inch screen is the star of the show.

I replaced the battery but it still wouldn't run off it's own battery alas. I had a crazy ass lipo & dc-dc converter I'd use it with. Now a days with usb-pd I could just make a simple dc adapter cable for it, but I got rid of it. One of the only laptops I've ever actually discarded. But great machine.
Imagine starting a small company, and having it grow at a slower, but sustainable pace. The idea you develop makes sense, and so you start being noticed. You are offered funding opportunities to grow faster.

Now you're facing a choice: either take the money, and start answering to VCs, or don't take the money, and face the risk that someone copies your idea, gets lavish funding and buries you by, litterally, selling at a huge loss for years. The scenario of VC-funded companies doing price-dumping for years isn't outlandish, it's what Uber did for instance.

To answer your question, what's supposed to replace the VC model is the people that took the second option and didn't make it, and those that would have, had it been a viable option.

More sustainable companies that take the time to build a real product that they grow over time with their customers' money.

And for companies that need heavy funding to start, well, they can still secure loans, find industrial partners, get grants, etc. Many companies started like that and do fine to this day.
* https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-ethics-quar...

* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-6486.0...

Thanks.
The former is a sunk cost fallacy, and the latter is solved by changing how education is financed -- making public universities free like most of the developped world.

I took up debt to study at the graduate level, I won't use that past painpoint to defend forcing people to enter into debt now.
that was my immediate reaction, too
Have you seen modern CAD software? That's pretty compute intensive. That's just one of many tools in the engineering space that is compute intensive. Remember, there are a lot of engineers!

Movie making and editing is still pretty compute intensive, as is animation. Thanks to YouTube, a lot of people have video editing work streams and they're looking for ways to get their work done faster and make their content stand out so that viewers will click those 'Like' and 'Subscribe' buttons so that they make more money.

Music making is getting more and more compute intensive, especially nowadays as all the what once were physical processors in the signal chain are all being virtualized. Add in amp simulators, cab simulators, AI drummers, and of course nobody wants any latency, and you need some modern processing muscle to make it all work.

Apple makes the Mac Studio for a reason - and it's not for gamers!

As far as developers are concerned, no, you don't need much horsepower to "compile a lot of code", but you may need a lot of horsepower to run that code if it's in one of the aforementioned software categories.
Now I kind of want to see a browser extension that deletes all the intensifier adjectives from runs of text, and is able to be enabled/disabled per domain.
If a precedent gets set for countries to be able to block sites even outside of their own borders, then what argument will we have against China when they want to take down pro-democracy sites around the globe?
> Open localhost:8000 in a Google Chrome browser (other browsers are currently unsupported).

I wish they had said why that is, or created GH issues to draw focus to the problems. I also wonder if they mean quite literally only Google Chrome or they mean Blink-driven browsers like Edge et al because Firefox and/or Safari are missing some dragy-droppy something-or-other
This isn't "viewing a home from public space".

When you walk down the sidewalk, and you see the home for the 30 seconds it takes you to move past where it is in view, you are "viewing" it. When you live across the street, and every once in awhile you pull back the blinds to see if the mail has come, and you incidentally see the house, that's public viewing.

When the government installs surveillance cameras aimed at the house 24/7 for the rest of eternity, they have access to details that no one could possibly know if they were "viewing a home from public space". 35 years later, they'll be able to search through the footage to see who left and at what hours of the evening for all of October 2024. We can't even know right now what they might be able to infer from the footage.

Even if an unmarked car sat out in front of the home, watching it for a week straight... that surveillance is ephemeral. No one will be able to ask the surveiller what happened 35 years later, he won't remember much. He was there for a 12 hour shift for 6 days straight. Not up for 5 month's non-stop. Not digital and losing not even a single bit of detail.

The two things aren't equivalent, not even slightly. Ephemeral and limited, versus forever and all-encompassing. That's the criteria.
I always ask this, I've been around for decades of pearl clutching and doomsaying, and the dystopia never arrives. "This technology could be used to blah blah blah," but is it actually used that way?

No one ever seems to have information about non-hypotheticals and I'm tired of slippery slope hysteria.
I don't get it either. I'm a very senior engineer and I also live on a horse sanctuary. Taking care of horses is hard, very physical work that has to be done every day, regardless of weather or how deathly ill you feel.

It's a pain in the ass. People ask if it's rewarding. No, it's just pain in the ass labor that has to get done. The only reason I do it is so my wife doesn't have to do all the work by herself.
I was with you until “only” in the very last sentence.
Loan forgiveness is a temporary solution to appease voters with debt. It doesn't solve the root cause because in 10 years, the number of people with crushing student debt will be back to up to the same levels.

You solve the problem by re-allowing student debt to be dischargeable through bankruptcy again. This is the root cause of the problem. The fact Clinton and Bush allowed this to happen is disgusting. All it did was allow banks to give loans to EVERYONE without any fears. Then schools could raise rates knowing kids would still pay the predatory prices, and that's how we get into the mess we are in now.

By allowing student debt to be dischargeable, banks are now taking a risk of losing their money, which means that they won't give loans to people who frankly are wasting their money. A parent at my workplace was asking how she could afford to pay her daughter's $80k/yr tuition for a sociology degree. The fact that this completely stupid idea was even being considered shows the depths to which society is fucked up.
Sounds like a two project studio that just had one of their big projects cancelled. That's the sort of thing that will cause a massive blow like this.

Looking around it's really hard to say that the Vancouver games industry is looking terribly healthy right now.
I didn't find this, I was given it by a grizzled veteran, but...

Back in '99 I had a lot of experience with Adobe's SVG plugin, especially around the javascript capabilities. I had been commissioned to build some demos but given free reign. One of them was a 3D molecule structure. SVG doesn't have any real 3D capabilities, so I was effectively using it as a canvas with a ton of javascript to move things around.

Today I know that the "proper" way to do this is with a matrix for camera position and orientation with a bunch of math, but this is back when I was young and dumb. So I ended up writing about 3 full screens of trig calculations to figure out exactly where each atom should be and to track mouse drags to rotate the whole thing. Remember that this was back in the 90's, so my 2-3 frames per second was nothing to sneer at. It worked pretty well, but there was a bit of weirdness with the coordinate systems; dragging up would rotate the top away from you at first, but if you turned the model around to the side it would be backwards.

So I show this off to a coworker of mine. This guy worked on some early Sega Genesis games, and he was like "oh cool, how did you do it" so I pulled up my source. He goes "huh. Try this" and deletes all of my trig code and replaces it with this:

dZ = 0.001 * mouseDeltaX;
dX = 0.001 * mouseDeltaY;

for i in atoms {
atoms[i].x += dZ * atoms[i].y;
atoms[i].y -= dZ * atoms[i].x;

atoms[i].y += dX * atoms[i].z;
atoms[i].z -= dX * aroms[i].y;
}

It was glorious.

My frame rate shot up to an easy 30 fps and because this calculates the next position iteratively the weird orientation problem I had was gone. This approximates circles, but it was close enough that 48 hours of spinning led to no visible degradation.
I wonder if this is driven by AI already. This could be a good example of how dominoes will start falling. Companies will start grouping and flattening the hierarchy of the people who will be replaced by AI. I'm not even sure what the solution could be.
>Extinction events are seldomly this sudden and extreme as climate change is currently.

How do you figure? An asteroid impacting the planet "making life miserable for a few thousand years, wiping out 75%" in seconds of an impact, or a cataclysmic volcanic eruption that happens in seconds/minutes/hours. All of that near instant destruction compared to the 100-200 years of man made pollution on industrial scales.
> As someone with arachnophobia, what a terrible day to be able to read.

Although I can't fault someone for having arachnophobia, as it's extremely common and we're potentially hard-wired to be susceptible to it, I encourage you to open your mind to the possibility of seeing spiders as incredibly beautiful.

Exposure to images online might be the easiest way to start, but seeing them in 3D is more impactful. I grew up terribly arachnophobic, and in my 20s I decided that (because I was living in a place brimming with spiders[1]) I would stop being arachnophobic. I decided to actively suppress my reactions first, simply to not panic, and over time that genuinely reduced my fear. Eventually I began to appreciate the weirdness and coolness of their little hydraulic bodies, and to see them as the valuable and amazing creatures they are. Truly, my life would be less full without spiders.

[1] I later learned that this is actually true pretty much everywhere.
Perhaps I missed the irony. But why do you think that is hostile?
I shared my experience above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36060204).

This improvement for me has been really recent. Maybe it helps you too. Good luck!
Dunno who GP is but I was paraphrasing Eisenhower, in that any individual plan can be made useless very easily by stuff out of your control, but the planning process is essential.
A fixpoint algorithm for translating labels to absolute addresses. Nothing new, but I’m still proud of it.

For this architecture, the size of a jump depends on the address, which is not known until labels have been converted. Converting a label may trigger a cascade in offsets.

I was working on a compiler where all jumps used the maximum possible size (zero-padding the address) instead of 2-4 bytes in order to avoid solving this problem.

https://github.com/sshine/evm-opcodes/#accounts-for-size-of-...
2018: I am playing a SEGA Genesis game from 1988 called Super Hang On, which is itself a port of an arcade game from a couple years earlier. Being an arcade port, this game has a high score screen but it's reset to the defaults every time you turn off your sega.

After getting a high score, i tell the machine my name is SEX. To my surprise it records my name as NAO instead. A couple more playthroughs confirm that this happens every single time.

I contacted the editor of Super Hang On's page on the cutting room floor wiki (which tracks easter eggs and unused content in video games) and confirmed that they were not previously aware of this.

I checked the rom in a disassembler to see if it was a bug; it explicitly checks for SEX and changes it to NAO so it's definitely intentional. It doesn't do this for any other word, either.
I'm a huge proponent for generative AI, and this seems very interesting - especially with support for plugins - but a lot of the use cases for this kind of thing (specifically OS level integration) is still very fuzzy for me.

I see value for less technically inclined users to be able to trigger actions they would be unable to find / adjust themselves - I'm very excited to be proven wrong though.

And yes shame on Apple for being so far behind in this.
> limited availability of fuel and oxidator in space

And don’t forget—-you have to fly up Tory Bruno each time to fire it.

But as a platform for assassination, it doesn’t seem so far fetched. The two main things I can think of that would make it difficult would be the much higher attenuation and scattering from the atmosphere, and the need for a different (telescope based?) target acquisition method.
I find the juxtaposition between professional and manual jobs to be quite odd ;D
“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? [pdf]
after the ultimate changes in climate, will there still be 7bn people?
Sodium alginate didn't help me at all (same as OP- weak LES muscles).

I've been taking Nexium for 15 years and recently tried stopping, while replacing with sodium alginate. Sure I'd expect a few weeks of withdrawals, but even after over a month the reflux was still absurd. I was popping sodium alginate and calcium carbonate (TUMS) throughout the day.

No, I had to go back to Nexium. All reflux symptoms stopped the following day.

I do suspect it's long-term Nexium that's causing 5 years of foot whip in my gait, but I have no way to prove it (MRIs are normal, neurologists don't think it's Parkinsons/MS/ALS). While I was off Nexium that month the foot whip seemed to almost disappear. Now it's back full strength.

Magnesium on my bloodwork seems on the low edge of normal range. I'm gonna redo my B-12 serum levels next week and check if it's low.

Can long-term PPIs cause foot whip on every walk (after 1000 steps or so)? I haven't seen any literature on this.

But it's clear to me I can't easily get off long term PPIs.
You're the second person to pick up on this. I don't really even understand what you're saying.

In the UK (and British English) there are professions. Those professions are things like Doctor, Banker, Salesperson, Teacher etc. I didn't write the rules of how British English works.
"Making a quick billion" is so astronomically rare that it should be considered a fluke rather than the result of business acumen. A million monkeys with typewriters, etc.
Why would anyone invest in a venture that loses money long term?
I am prescribed hydrochloric acid supplements for the same reason. They've eliminated reflux for me and have helped my digestion.
Among many others, obesity is a big risk factor.

It's not just weakening that's the problem, but also more pressure from below, and obesity can cause the stomach to be pushed up.

I have a hiatal hernia, where there's a too large opening allowing part of the stomach to slipe through the diaphragm, and that massively increases my acid reflux if I don't take medication.

Weight changes dramatically affects the strength of my symptoms. As I've lost weight the symptoms have largely disappeared again.
Seems clear to me. Paraphrase as "want to do good", as opposed to doing well.
The streaming rights for Friends, South Park or Big Bang Theory seem to still be a big deal, and their first episodes are 29, 26 and 16 years old respectively. Breaking Bad is 15 years old, one year older than Avatar (the James Cameroon one, Last Airbender is 18 years old). And then of course there are classics like Star Trek (TOS is 58 years old, TNG is 36 years old) or Star Wars (Episode IV is 46 years old).

99% of media is forgotten about after 20 years, but the rest makes up for that in profit. Of course for some of them you could argue that having the old stuff freely available would boost the popularity of the newer adaptations, spinoffs, reboots, etc. But I think that's rocking the boat too much to be viable, and some content does genuinely take years or decades to start to be appreciated.
Have you looked at https://kompose.io?

I have used it to get 80/20 of the work done when converting from docker-compose to k8s.
The data from the article basically proves every one of your points wrong.

> They can do everything they need with mobile phones, smartv's, smart devices and whatever other device is more adequate.

Yeah, sure, I see everyone working from home on their smartphones. All those college kids are writing their term papers on smart TV's, gotcha.
> The claim specifically made in the article that the delay in publication from 1936 to 1946 was due to CIA action through a front group.

It doesn't say that anywhere in the article. You've created a conditional in your head that is found nowhere in the article.
They aren't "perpetual fires". They are a one time decision that we convinced people to make after we have spent their whole lives telling them it was the only way to become successful. We have repeated for decades that going to college will earn someone an extra million dollars in lifetime income. We then asked most people to make this decision before society has deemed they are mature enough to vote in elections, smoke cigarettes, or rent a car.

Yes, my analogy ended up being a stupid system that doesn't make sense. That was my intent. Asking 17-year-olds to make decisions about taking on 6 figures of debt is also a stupid system that doesn't make sense.
A Founder's Guide to Navigating a Difficult Fundraise
Everyone could get the same tax credit that is also itself taxed. Forgive the loans of people and get poor people crucial money.

No one has said that to you?
It may be a "one-liner", but it's the kind where the engineer had to have broad and detailed knowledge about the system and how it works. Well done!
> Users will reach out to us first, not to debian, because we're easier to reach for help

Maybe. That is indeed a risk with third party distribution.

But do note that Debian has its own support channels, and infrastructure (like the "reporting" tool: https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/reportbug ).
they should consider doing this for a living
"Whataboutism" is not a proper argument.
Lol you have bought 4 in the last 9 years or one every 2.25 years. About as often as I get a new phone. Way more often then I buy a washer, dryer, game console, TV, fridge, car, furniture, etc.
Because the government doesn't care whatsoever about the 4th amendment except when it applies to gov't representatives and their puppeteers.
Do you have any examples of books where this is the case?

I can believe that there are books that Amazon won't carry but I don't believe that there are books that Credit Card networks won't deal with.