skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's so obvious that an appeal to common sense is all that's necessary. How many markets do you think are in China? 100,000? 1,000,000?

This is why "common sense" is very often wrong and we have to refer to data instead. You're making assumptions that are very wrong.

The wet market was over 50,000 square metres in size and one of the largest in China. The idea that there are hundreds or millions of these things is completely backwards.

The conditions were unsanitary, animals were slaughtered on site, and large numbers of wild animals were sold.

This is exactly the sort of place you'd expect a zoonotic spillover event to occur. It was flagged beforehand as a danger site.

It's not impossible that it could have been a lab leak, but consider that this market had hundreds of thousands of animals being kept, slaughtered and sold, in unsanitary conditions, shitting and pissing on each other, bleeding everywhere and biting humans and each other.

Now compare that to a secure biolab holding a small number of samples whilst following biosecure protocols. Even if they weren't perfect, which environment provides the best chance of a spillover event?
The difference is that Gates is an industrialist who does acts of philanthropy. MrBeast does acts of philanthropy to be an industrialist.
> Why the hell would you buy a company and then screw it up? In the case of Ballast Point, all Constellation Brands had to do was leave the bought company alone.

It would almost never make economic sense to buy a business and then leave it alone. The profitability of the current operation would be factored into the price, so leaving it alone means you're just wasting money buying it. There are obviously exceptions to this but that should be the general rule.

No, you buy a company to make changes. Perhaps you intend to find synergies to cut costs or expand distribution -- or other ways to increase profits that the current management isn't doing. Obviously they wouldn't intend to screw it up, but I'm sorry that your beloved brewery was a victim to corporate shenanigans.
Many humans are also often really bad at doing speech related things when writing.

I've known many native English speakers who write things like "an healthy" (because they learned to write "an" before words starting with "h") and write poems that don't rhyme because the words end with the same letters (e.g. "most" and "cost").
Thanks for calling me a bigot, you're definitely elevating the discussion /s

The point isn't that there are no culture war issues that matter - for example I'm pro choice and pretty disturbed by recent right wing activity on that front

It's that the culture war is basically unwinnable and if people fixate on that to the exclusion of economic issues, everyone but Blackrock and Goldman Sachs will end up owning nothing.

Blackrock is laughing its way to the bank every time you start a flame war with some imaginary bigot. Classical Marxists, classical liberals, hell classical conservatives have actually been making this point for years and they've all been called bigots for it
where "spends" includes his undisclosed wages ? (guy does not seem to have any other source of revenues)
In creativity, unless you are a savant it takes grinding to increase your ability to match your taste.

If you started very young, then bravo, the grinding is out of the way and you were likely to be able to focus on the fun parts and have fewer distractions.

If you're starting as an adult, then it's gonna take some grit to get to a level you're satisfied with.
Public ledgers? When did the government start running ledgers?
I wonder if it would be possible to emulate/translate CUDA to target non-NVIDIA hardware.

I suspect it would be more of a legal challenge than a technical one.
We Measured Mountain Bike Suspension with a Laser
Hey! Project I worked on with a buddy using the vl53l1x ToF range finder. Hope you like it :) !
I agree, like you can stow whatever commentary of envy and capitalism, I can tell you the precise reason I don't like MrBeast is the thumbnails.

Absolutely sets off the uncanny valley alarms in my dumb lizard brain. And then like you mention, people have latched onto the aesthetic because it works, so it's all over the place. But it's just instant unease and feeling of "Absolutely not." that I don't get from something like e.g. this person does not exist. Very anti-asmr like.
federal funds rate should be more than the calculated inflation rate. So, both interest rates and the calculated inflation should be 'manipulated' at the same time. So far, we know the federal reserve sets/manipulates the interest rate, but there is a hidden incentive to set/manipulate the inflation rate, as both of them needs to be in sync. Since the USD is the world reserve currency, interest rates in every other countries are based on the federal reserve interest rate. So, there is an incentive to keep the interest rates low in the states, hence the appearance of, or the desire to set, low inflation. Just sanctions regime, military power, NATO are not enough to keep the USD as the reserve currency; low interest rate (low inflation in the states) is also necessary besides sanctions, army, NATO, etc.
Worth extending that to: somewhere to live where you have more control over your tenure there (can't be kicked out year by year), and ability to make more than basic changes to your living environment (knock down a wall, add an extension, etc).

I remember as I approached 20, I was watching the real estate market weekly and bought my first property at around 22 (which felt two years later than I wanted). I expected that the market would grow slowly, but that aforementioned control over the home was the main factor for me at that time. Now I bet it feels like you buy ASAP or get priced out of the market for the duration of your working life.
Do you buy a car as a financial investment? No, you buy it to turn money into motion.

Housing turns money into living. Don't expect a financial return on things you buy to keep you alive
My understanding is that having that structural separation is part of what is required to be registered as a securities exchange, and Coinbase is being sued for being an unregistered securities exchange. (That's why the question of whether crypto tokens are securities is important in this case.)
As a long-time Linux user, the Nadella era looks far better. Back in the earlier eras, MS was my clear and present enemy: they did a lot of stuff to me, personally, to make my life hard because I didn't want to use their software, and tried to force me to be their customer with various tactics.

These days, that's all gone. I don't feel any pressure to use Windows, and I don't see MS doing various legal shenanigans to try to destroy Linux. I'm able to do what I want and not worry about MS much at all. It's very different from the earlier eras that way.

Instead, the difference these days seems to be that MS is the enemy of its own customers (or should I say "users"?). If you use Windows, MS will make your life hard with all this built-in malware and advertising. But if you're like me and you simply don't use Windows, you never see this stuff, except when people complain about it on forums like this, or if you have the misfortune of having to deal with a relative's PC.

Personally, I like this new era much better. I'm able to easily opt out of MS's shenanigans by simply installing Linux. When other people gripe and complain about that stuff, it falls on deaf ears here. ("but but but... I need to play $game on my PC!!!") I feel the same way as when sports fans complain about how much they're getting raped by the media companies so they can follow their favorite team.
We must have government to save us from the evil capitalists!
This is never how the law has worked
That may be the case, but refusing to state which ones and why is not "clarity". Plain and simple.

Like I said, I don't care what happens - but as an outside observer - it's ridiculous.
Wow. Cataract surgery? Australia provides cataract surgery free under socialised healthcare. The big concern is that some patients wait up to 2 1/2 years after diagnosis for the surgery, and that indigenous Australians lack access to medical care for even diagnostics. But to just say, we know what's wrong, and how to fix it, and have available doctors nearby, but nah the kid just gets to grow up blind? What the fuck.
> "Google wants to help provide faster AI photo editing for all"

honestly shocked they didn't call this as "democratizing" AI photo editing
Look at the amount of money that Wall Street has access to since 2020 began and it should tell you everything you need to understand what caused this. Your dollar is suddenly worthless.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
And I can choose not to give my money to someone who will use it to fund politicians who want to actively harm members of my family.

Ain’t capitalism grand?
It is a problem; that's why they put dates on them. You claimed it's for marketing, and it's not. Wine in supposed to be aged, most beers are not (sours and stouts are the exception). It's like eating day old food from a restaurant and pretending that's how the chef intended it to taste.

I've had almost every year of abyss going back to 2011. You picked a beer and a style that is intended to be aged, and the flavor changes over time much like wine. That has nothing to do with Budweiser, IPAs, pilsners, etc that are not supposed to be aged.
High technology hardware needs a lot of investment, and it's hard to gather enough resources (human, capital, market share).

But AMD is coming strong, and they are trying to compete with Nvidia now. https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/05/31/lisa-su-s...
IIRC around 75% of carbon offsets are "non-additional" i.e. bullshit. Of course Meta is only buying the "high-quality" ones so maybe it's not too bad. https://www.offsetguide.org/high-quality-offsets/additionali...
imo cgp grey was a lot better 5-10 years ago, before it got too clickbaity.
Doesn't matter. He refused to give any indication either way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhA1dZXeao0
It does not require sudo, by design.
The problem was the pandemic improvised remote work.

Remote work is a cultural thing more than anything. You can't turn remote and still take hours to answer a simple yes/no Slack message. You can't push everyone into remoting without emphasing the need of keeping written documents and meeting notes accessible to the team. You can't turn remote and just use Slack like an extended mail inbox you check three times a day. Remote will not work if don't have a documented onboarding.

Remote needs people to embrace this change and embrace other collaboration tools, such as Discord, Teams, Zoom, VSCode Live Share etc. Remote needs a commitment from everyone involved, it's not just sitting at your couch and doing everything like you did back in the office. And needs a different management mindset too, managers need to push people into doing remote right too, or the whole team gets penalised.

Until people figure it out we will keep having examples of "wow remote works great for X company" and "remote was a disaster for Y". I've been in productive and unproductive remote workplaces. I hated remote before until I saw it done properly.

And yes, remote won't work for everyone. And that's fine. If you hate Slack and Discord, that's not a problem, offices exist for a reason. Just don't try to measure the whole world with your ruler.
To oversimplify: the Standard Model is pretty great when you've got two particles. As soon as there's three, it's too hard to calculate most things people are interested in. Oh, or gravity. Gravity's a problem too.
I find this take on him so strange.

I also don't understand the take that altruism/philanthropy has to be zero sum. i.e. true altruism means that I lose something and you gain something.

Maybe it is a hold over from religion and the idea of sacrifice being the ultimate good. The times I have had the most impact (helping people in need, teaching, starting my own NPO) it has been very much positive sum.

If he has zero impact, then everyone else here has negative impact. I certainly haven't cleaned up an entire beach.

Can someone give me some examples of philanthropy that is NOT predatory/extractive?
This isn't a functional approach in the age of DNS over HTTPS (DoH).
Increase in wages goes directly into the pockets of landlords. It’s hardly the kind of redistribution of taxpayer money everybody wants.
As someone who has also built websites alone and on zero budget, I thank you both.
>this makes it better for renters as corp owners give long term stability for a 'home'

I can't take this seriously. Given who writes the rules the end result will always be "better long term stability for whoever can afford it" - if the corporate owner things they can get more money then they'll kick out the current renter by raising prices again - like they're doing with the private market now.
If a DB check is needed to see if a sub is private or not it has to happen for every request. You can’t just limit the check to private subs because it’s not known if they are private or not at the time.

Reddit goes wrong often so I expect this outage could have any number of causes.
> There’s no visual indication that there’s more content present in this window—the only way to discover it is to scroll downwards. However, without an affordance to indicate the presence of additional offscreen content, the chances are low that someone will bother to check.
> This is why Apple introduced a preference to always show scroll bars.

But the proper solution is to add the info/affordance in that specific instance instead of always wasting space even when you don't use the scroll bar. This would also allow you to have a more convenient wide scroll bar for when you actually need to use it (in very large documents/lists, though currently you can't setup your scroll bar to depend on that)

And here is the main problem with the article - this general approach blocks would block all UI innovation until some browser/OS vendor implemented something poorly (of course, this doesn't mean your implementation will be better, but someone else's will be)
I hope they didn't ban lossless JBIG2.
It's actually even worse on some sites. For example Reddit does not necessarily show the real sum of votes to begin with, but a different one created in an intransparent manner since the code isn't public. They call this "vote-fuzzing". Arbitrary changes to the ranking algorithm have over the years completely changed what users see when they look at the vote count¹, and I suspect that's just the tip of the iceberg that's made public.

¹https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/28hjga/reddi...
A tax on the speculative portion of the home (land).
In Australia if you install a moderate number of solar panels on your roof at home, you'll be paid between a few thousand dollars and several thousand dollars through a carbon credits system.

It can work out to close to half the cost of the installation, and combined with other incentives (like getting near free electricity for your own consumption) it means you'll generally recover your upfront investment in full after about five years. Solar panels last 20+ years, so it's a very good investment that has lead to Australia having the highest update of rooftop solar in the world.

Without the carbon credits scheme, it'd probably still be a good investment to install rooftop solar, but you'd be waiting a lot longer than five years to get your money back, and the longer timeline increases your risk substantially (what if severe weather destroys your solar panels?).

Yes - they are rife with abuse. People and companies routinely make promises about how much carbon they've saved that don't reflect reality. But they are also great — they absolutely encourage and fund investments that reduce our global carbon footprint.

Just because a system isn't perfect, doesn't mean it's a bad system.
His videos make hundreds of millions of people happy and probably more likely to donate or be charitable. That seems like more than zero impact to me.
Also known as "poggers"
If you need your machine for $DayJob, you're not going to trust that to a hobbiest solution. And now that the transition to Apple Silicon is complete, don't expect future version of macOS to have an Intel version for much longer.
Is this within bitwarden server or on your self hosting server ?
"everything that underpins everyday life" is not everything. A more precise way to put it would be that we understand physics at the energy scales we've been able to probe.
Xi Prepares China for ‘Extreme’ Scenarios, Including Conflict with the West
> antitrust is really simple in my view: companies should principally be in one line of business[0] as that's the most efficient configuration for the economy as a whole. some of those businesses will be larger than others as a natural consequence of the given industry (e.g., capital-intensive businesses like aerospace), but no business should be larger than it needs to be (in the long-term; short-term dynamism is "inefficient" but promotes longer-term optimality).

Would this limit vertical integration? E.g., could SpaceX exist under your scheme, making rocket engines, rockets, and satellites? Is that all one line of business, or is it multiple lines of business? Is Apple's hardware and software business one line of business or two (hardware, and separately software)?

It seems to me that your approach is easier to apply when a company strays from its line of business rather than vertically integrates. So a company that makes hardware, then years later gets into software for its hardware, that might be a problem, but then how could that be a problem if Apple-like companies exist concurrently.

I think all antitrust schemes are tricky and slippery. Not that we shouldn't have an antitrust scheme, but that I'm not sure how to construct one that doesn't somehow suck.
Sort of. You can use Pulumi for free as an individual. As a team you'd have to use a backend for your state other than Pulumi cloud, and your responsible for your own concurrency control [1]. In a team environment that's such a big foot gun I don't really consider it usable.

That limitation makes Pulumi a nonstarter for me. Even if I am paying for it, this is super sensitive data and I want control over how it's stored. I'm sure Pulumi cloud is excellent, but I hate it's the only real option.

[1] https://www.pulumi.com/docs/concepts/state/
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/50689/carbon-...
Again, though, I think you are imagining a hard-and-fast distinction where there is none. Fundamentally, if I'm considering buying a house, I have to ask myself what the projected financial outcome is if I buy a house versus if I invest the potential down payment and continue to rent. Asking people not to make this analysis is asking them to throw rationality out the window, and I'm not sure how that would help the situation in the slightest.
I am not sure but my gut tells me this is far far too convenient a narrative. I don't think this is such an explicit choice. The free hand steals from us. Without such consent. Easily & readily.
Weather (short term local fluctuations) is chaotic.

Climate (long term parameters) isn't.

As an example of how this can be so, consider the classic images of spinning wingnuts in space ( Dzhanibekov effect | Tennis racket theorem ).

The tumblings of the wingnut, moment to moment, are chaotic and unpredictable.

The long term trajectory of the wingnut is clear to see, the centre of mass arcs in a smooth manner and the eventual impact point on the hull can be marked in advance.

( In answer to your question, I've spent decades in geophysics and related disciplines, I've measured gravity, ground radiation, cosmic radiation, continent scale tides to determine mean sea levels, etc. )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_racket_theorem
"In Ethereum, a centralized group of people put together a public sale of the token, promising great returns in exchange due to their visionary ideas. This is all perfectly fine, except they didn't register their sale as a security"

If I write a book with visionary ideas that promises to change your life (great returns) and continue to work on revisions as I come up with new ideas - should I register it as a security before I can sell my book?

The whole concept of securities laws makes little sense if you try to expand its reach beyond narrow traditional finance use cases... if even those cases make sense in the first place.

Might be better off repealing all this complexity/bureaucracy and better enforce existing generic laws about theft/fraud...
As the author of original comment I have nothing to add to this. Explained perfectly.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scrollbar-g...
Are there better deals readily available?
Would have preferred Wired provided a pdf of the report instead of writing a fluff article about it.
True. Which is why a lot of people recognize this and perform acts of charity anonymously.

Curb Your Enthusiasm did a whole episode on anonymous donations. Absolutely roasted the entire premise! The ego of anonymous donors is just as big, if not bigger! The anonymity is worth even more ego points!
And people saying "it should be free though", maybe should read Mr. Beast's tweet on the issue... he *agrees* it should be free and is advocating for that.

I'm glad MrBeast is the top YouTuber, it could've been anyone, but philanthropy and a spirit of giving took the #1 spot. Good on Gen Z.
Looking over the VC-funded tech landscape, Reddit is close to the best case outcome.
It's a little odd to describe taxes that aren't paid as a government contribution.
I love articles like this. The writer seems to have no idea they're revealing severe psychological trauma to the readers, and despite it they try to pass it off as sage life advice. Like telling everyone you spit in the soup at work but it helps strengthen people's immune systems so everyone should be unsanitary.
I'm wondering the same thing too. I have tried multiple monitor setups dozens of times now, but always end up coming back to a single display. I can't imagine having a tonne of widgets floating around my work space in 3D is going to do anything positive for my productivity.
Americans should prepare for cyber sabotage from Chinese hackers, US warns
1) His way of giving away things for free undermines the suffering people go trough to make a living; it makes effort and hardship look like a joke (maybe in the future no effort is required, and we are reminded about this possibility here, and it's sad); 2) It promotes consumerisms: getting stuff (phones, cars) is supposed to liberate us, and doing it in this way reveals how empty it all is; 3) It feels rarely personal and well-thought: he just throws away stuff, so it undermines the gift giving culture also.
By the way, when it comes to math like this, wolfram alpha simply can't be beaten: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2+minutes+of+10+years+p...

As for GPT, it's not about the training data having errors in it - GPT doesn't parrot the training data exactly, there's randomness built into it (otherwise you'd always get the exact same output to the same input). It just generates a random plausible response, it doesn't actually know math.

To highlight this, I've just asked it the exact same thing you did, exact same words, and got an entirely different response (and this time it was correct): https://i.28hours.org/20230613-051307-0ae6.png
It suggests bad faith to ask why the SEC didn't crack down earlier. Sure, it was politics, but it seems entirely understandable.

We all know that before the crypto bust, a lot of people would've been starting a witch hunt if the SEC had tried to enforce the law. Congress, for starters.

Gensler is being opportunistic now because that's the reality they have to work with.

The wealthy and powerful in this country take it on themselves to personally ruin public servants who get in their way sometimes.