skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consumers and regulators have most of the power there.

Regulators can be purchased.

> If people allocate resources in a way consumers don't like they go broke really quickly. That is one of the reasons free markets are so successful - they punish people quickly and effectively for bad decisions no matter how much economic power they used have.

That's not true. In fact, the wealthy are uniquely able to lose money for long periods of time, producing "loss leaders" to drive all competitors out of business and monopolize markets. In recent decades, this money-losing strategy has been weaponized time and again. It's practically a badge of honor for VC-funded startups to brag about how much money they're spending and losing.

It's also crucial to note that consumers are not an undifferentiated mass. They're not all the same. To go back again to your example of Musk, he become the wealthiest person in the world by selling a luxury brand to well-off consumers. Needless to say, Teslas are not cheap. It turns out that the wealthy catering to themselves is quite profitable, even if it doesn't help the non-wealthy much. And to look at another example, Apple became the wealthiest corporation in the world by selling luxury brands, iPhone and Mac.

> The most democratic successful society in the world is the US

I'm not sure I would agree with that characterization.

> The people who wanted to decentralise economic power were the communists and it turns out committees and big groups suck at making good economic decisions and lots of people literally starve.

Communist countries are not decentralized, nor are they democratic. To the contrary, they're extremely centralized. All power is in the hands of a small group of unelected (or sham elected) political party leaders. And you'll have noticed that both Russia and China have migrated from communism to capitalism while retaining their totalitarian governments. It turns out that political and economic systems are separate. There are plenty of other countries in the world as democratic or more so than the US but with significantly more socialism and social safety nets. The US is practically alone among industrialized nations in failing to have national health care, for example.

> On this point the article descends into nonsense. The authors believe this is a thing and will be proven wrong in an experiment.

I'm not sure what you mean by "will be proven wrong in an experiment", but it sounds like, uh, nonsense? It seems like a strange response, because you've already said multiple times that redistributing money from the ultra-wealthy won't get us very far, so doesn't it follow by your own logic that any significant redistribution of wealth in society and social safety net will have to come from the 99% rather than just the 1%?
Individual examples notwithstanding, I don't think we have the data to support claims that humans need to work etc. They might need stimuli but those could come in many shapes and sizes that are not work in any traditional sense.
Sure, but the difference is compassion.

Unfortunately, many people have little compassion for those sent to prison, so they don't particularly care what kind of conditions prisoners face. It's terrible, but that's just how many humans are.

I think most people wouldn't find it hard to show compassion toward an Alzheimer's patient, and want them to be in a safe place with good conditions and good medical care.

Why is it so hard to extend that compassion to a wide variety of mental illnesses? We've come a long way from the late 60s in our understanding of mental illness (when many abuse-riddled mental institutions in California started being forced to release their patients and eventually shut down). The stigma around mental illness has not completely evaporated today, but we've made a lot of progress.

I think it's fairly safe to say that if we opened a bunch of mental institutions tomorrow, we could come up with and enforce a humane set of standards on them, and that the abuses of the past would largely be, well, a thing of the past. No system is ever perfect, of course, but I think we'd do a lot better than back then, and we'd overall have a better situation than we do today.
> It provides mostly only low skilled jobs (just like mining)

Someone's severely out of touch.

No jobs in semi autonomous robotics for you then.

https://www.riotinto.com/en/about/innovation/automation

and that's barely scratching the surface of the range of high tech job oppoprtunities in the mineral exploration and extraction sector.

Quick, just whip me up a low tech magnetotelluric imaging station, integrate that data with EM, seismic, radiometrics, bore hole samples and knock out an optimal pit design with workable angles, power sources and estimates for plant and machine construction and deployment costs.

It's no wonder the US barely operates at scale with attitudes such as that.
I took piano lessons as a kid through my late teens, and then didn't touch a piano until 20 years later...about a month ago.

I've been on a work sabbatical, and realized that I really loved playing back then, and that part of bringing balance back to my life might involve bringing music back into the picture.

When I got the piano, I started easing myself back into the basics. But occasionally, I'd try to play some of the very technical pieces I'd learned as a kid. It felt as if I'd forgotten everything about playing them.

I stopped trying, and refocused on learning new things. About a week into this, I sat down, and just played the technical thing without thinking about it. It was always there, and I hadn't done anything to relearn it, it just was somewhere beyond the circuitry that typically fires.

Shortly after this came flowing out of my fingers, a flood of memories surfaced that shed light on issues of my childhood. My memory of that time period is mostly non-existent (trauma/abuse that I've been working through for many years), so having any glimpse into it is pretty surprising.

Also disturbing, as it turns out, but it gave me something to work with where before there had only been pain and a sense of feeling lost.

There's something magical about closing your eyes, and feeling the keys, and the keys becoming an extension of your thoughts and feelings in that moment, and feeling like you can spill your emotions onto the keyboard, and these beautiful sounds come out.

I don't doubt that music reconnected some pathways that haven't been active for awhile. I'm trying to be more careful about playing music I learned back then though...
I would have thought they have different enough inputs. ChatGPT would get fed curated literature vs Google just crawling everything.
The goal is to sell.

Just like how people go nuts over “insane” MRR/ARR while fueling unsustainable enterprises. I guess it’s one way to wash money.
The problem is, self sacrifice for the "collective" is usually self sacrifice for some dude who has all of the power.
You are not addressing my concerns and are mostly creating straw men to avoid that I am pointing out the historical, real, already evidenced harms of the proposed solution.
I'm with you here, I say "its leet time" in my head. Pretty sure no one says leet anymore
When I started grad school in semiconductor electronics, I noticed everyone pronounced it "si-li-cun", while normal people usually say "si-li-con". Maybe it's just a west coast thing.
Determining value is the value of money. Without it we might get too busy making paperclips and forget to feed people all the same.

It's a crude system, more ad-hoc evolved than intelligently designed, and definitely historically manipulated at every chance. Nonetheless, anyone who lobbies for the dissolution of our monetary systems can't be taken seriously unless they also are arguing for a suitable replacement of this functionality.

In the past, systems that relied on the opinions of a small group or single individual to determine the value of different types of production to society have failed spectacularly so the solution will need to be more robust than that.
The US also has a lot subsidies & protectionism: Boeing, the space industry, agriculture, chip industry, ... the US tries to get TSMC and others to open plants there with generous incentives, etc

Plus they added even more subsidies and protectionism lately.
Don’t start with mozzarella. It isn’t a beginner cheese and is much tougher than it seems.
I started playing around with nvim-dap, but after struggling to get it working and learning how to use the UI, I think for me it's a step beyond what I find Neovim good for, and instead I'd rather stick to something like VSCode for debugging.
Check out Wright Tool, still made in the USA at a not totally outrageous price relative to other Made in USA brands.
I regularly inform my coworkers of my dumbass status. It’s funny and keeps me humble
Related, the narcissism of technical differences
[https://muskdeer.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-narcissism-of-tech...]
Cyanobacteria use gas vesicles, this looks like green algea (chlorophyta) which AFAIK do not have them.
Which is why we need an open source robot than can run locally and we know what it was trained on.
I might need to dig up college notes because I didn’t even know there were 3 kinds of aether theories…but yes, the Lorentz aether (so far) reads a lot like special relativity.

Thanks for the rabbit hole!
Ah, is he back on the teardowns again?

I was an avid watcher of him for a few years until he went off the deep-end with covid and backing the canadian caravan. If he's gone back to what he was good at(teardowns of tools with explanations of the materials and manufacturing choices) I might start watching him again
When I first posted, I didn't know Jake was on HN or that you were here either. If my critique hurt either of you, I'm sorry.

I hope the chemo he starts on Monday works and Jake recovers.

I hope that you and Jake find some comforts and joy during the upcoming battle.

The best of luck.
Would moving control of web standards under governmental control help? The FTC and similar government orgs can take ownership and enforce standards, labeling browsers commercial utility.
Safeguards can be put into place, and these days it's easier to shine light on things (and get information about abuses out to the world) than it was in the past, but I agree that there will be abuse.

I think we have to accept that, unfortunately. Our current situation is untenable, and there really just does not seem to be any way to "fix" someone on the streets with a mental illness without committing them to a mental institution. If you do believe there is another way that will be broadly applicable and successful, please suggest alternatives.

I'll agree that we also need significant structural changes to society (which will lessen the number of people who end up in these bad situations in general), but those changes will take years (if not decades), and the bleeding needs to be stopped in the meantime.
Definitely true for hacking, but if we're talking about testing then it's really not so different from adding `if test_mode then ...` to your code.
Asylum does not necessarily mean people are forced to be there. You can go out, advocate or hell, even be a part of running one, defining rhe rules. You can make an asylum that doesn't do that.

I'm behind you, when are you starting? We have lots of people that need help, please hurry.
Can you name a few people positions as an example? Particularly in lifetime earnings and total comp government work in teaching, chemistry, and administrative work is 1.5x or more that of theprivate sector median with much stronger protections. In particular pensiins, health care, and early retirement make up for a lot in terms of starting hourly wage.
My dad and damn near anyone I've ever mentioned it to apparently.....
Might it also be associated with fewer deaths?
My oscillating multi-tool is great for working on the house, but just murders my carpel tunnel.
That was 12 years ago! But you're spot on, because they barely changed anything in those 12 years and everyone rolled their own solutions.

This year, they've _finally_ introduced a higher-level API that does what you're describing, but it's still in beta: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cloudkit/cksynceng...
Gavin Webber: https://www.youtube.com/@GavinWebber/featured
I'm merely pointing out that the criminal system is an extremely poor example that the government won't further abuse people once it takes their civil liberties.

If anything its an example that suggesting to bring back asylums should be considered synonymous to an advocacy where the abuse of detained people is taken into account as an acceptable cost.

But mind you: The last time we implemented detaining people, this was in border control, and resulted in the border patrol trafficking children through abusing the child separation policies at the time. There are still tens of thousands of missing children from this policy, implemented for a scant few years.
what is the actual effectiveness of it per rigorous research?
Err, perhaps you meant to say that nobody in central north america cares.

Countries with far higher per capita uptake of solar panels and battery farms are already well past this, eg:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-05-30/solar-farm-graz...

Eventually non metric backwaters will very likely catch up.
Stable Diffusion and ControlNet: “Hidden” Text (see thumbnail vs. full image)
Paper: Moving Off the Map
I'm not disagreeing with your point about confidentiality, it's good for people to have that kind of outlet where they can speak without consequences. The liquidation of that confidentiality is very very bad because it destroys an important outlet for emotional support

The disagreement we have seems to be based on what the actual goal is of mental health intervention. It sounds like (correct me if I'm wrong) that you're saying the purpose is emotional growth. A neurotic is in more of a position to benefit from therapy than a psychotic. But I'm not considering things in terms of that, more so in terms of public safety
Securing the software supply chain for software updaters and VCS systems means PKI and/or key distribution, cryptographic hashes and signatures, file manifests with per-archive-file checksums, and DAC extended filesystem attributes for installed files; Ironically, there's more to it than just `curl`'ing a binary into place and not remembering to update it.

And that is why package managers.
For what its worth, Merriam Webster traces the first use of “democratize”, in the sense of increasing availability, to 1798
Can't wait for their stock price to go up after this leak.
I’ve been dealing with a herniated disc for almost a year now. It’s completely changed how I view my body, and it’s made me forever grateful for my health - along with complete respect for those dealing with chronic medical issues. For the first few months I could barely get out of bed. Nine months later and I can only walk a mile or two a day.
Unfortunately, I was laid off right before it happened and haven’t been table to get surgery. Talk about bad luck. This experience has accentuated how horrible the American healthcare system is to me. Even if I wanted take another turn in the service industry until I get back into engineering, I can’t, because I need my body fixed first.
I guess the problem is more that experience is often implicit knowledge and intuition that is hard to teach to others (or even put into words)
I like them when errors are just information bubbling up.

When they're actionable I prefer actual types.
> "For most customers, the existence of this rooting solution should not be a big issue. It would take considerable technical knowledge and physical access for a moderate period of time for an attacker to be able to carry out this attack."

Is this glossing over the concept of replacing an existing unit with a rooted unit? Enemy realizes you have one of these in your house. They break into your house while you're gone and replace your existing one with their hacked one.

Edit to clarify: It sounds like the responses to my comment are missing what I'm focused on. My point isn't about the feasibility or sanity of such the idea that I gave as an example. My point is about the OP skipping over other possibilities as a justification for their action.
Like finance/finance
ubiquinol is the reduced "active" form of coq10 ubiquinone and while ubiquinol can be much more expensive, studies seem to indicate in people older or ill where nutrition absorption may be far less than ideal, the "active" form is absorbed better

But like all FUD in the supplement industry, you do not need mega doses
No? Where did I say that? I just don’t blame people for bypassing that paywall.
They make supplement companies richer.

Other than that, "more studies are needed":

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-coq10/

(Every solid potential benefit is larded through with how inconclusive the studies are. The only thing they're willing to actually say is that CoQ10 is probably harmless. I couldn't even find that much about CoQ4.)
Wealthier, yes. But meaningfully wealthier?

Money buys power and the political economy is zero sum, so: concentration of wealth -> concentration of power -> most people lose power -> most people's lives get worse.

And wealth has become much more concentrated. Consider that in the US:
* billionaires increased their wealth by ~$5T during the pandemic [1]

* the top 1% own ~30% of wealth and the top .1% own ~13% of wealth [2]

* unlimited election spending by corporations and labor unions has been legal since 2010 [3]

* in FY2018, the top ten Fortune 100 companies receiving the most federal funding achieved an ostensible ROI on lobbying of 100,000% [4]

The trend is only picking up speed.

[1] https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ten-richest-men-doub...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/203961/wealth-distributi...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/05/14/how...
If you’re sitting at a desk all day with a laptop you’re doing it wrong.

Laptops are made to be moved around. You can lounge on a couch, or lay in a bed, thinking of solutions and occasionally sneaking a nap – working while dreaming. You can carry it to the kitchen, typing some text and reading some words while preparing a sandwich. You can even sit for a while and stand when you’d like. Laptops are made for working in odd places in odd positions, the variety reduces the possibility of strain.
A big part of good life is stepping out of your comfort zone. If you are young, make a serious commitment and follow through on it. If you are old, take something you have not tried before and try to become reasonably good at it. Retirement can also mean opening a little shop after a lifetime as a software engineer. Reinventing yourself is a bit like living an extra life.
So? We are agreeing?

Sounds like you understand and agree that markets need some regulation ('edge case' being the debated gray area).

And you are ok with Governments stepping in to prop up competition to Monopolies. Guess that is a different way of doing it. Instead of breaking up monopolies to foster competition, seems you are arguing that it is better to allow monopolies to exist (to be free to do what they want), but to help keep a free market the government can step in and support their competitors until they can compete? Not sure how well that would work in practice. I think when the US had had the stomach to break up monopolies it has worked out better for the free market, because it keeps competition. I don't think AT&T and Standard Oil would have been taken down by more efficient rivals. That is the entire problem with monopolies, they don't have to be efficient.

Also, whatever your opinion about modern Unions. The Free Market created Unions. If workers could actually compete for fair wages, their wouldn't be the need for unions. Workers were living in squalor in factory towns as slaves. Unions arose to fight for safer conditions, less child labor, and pay. When a few humans come together and form a company it is ok? But humans come together to form a union it is bad? What if a group of people came together to call themselves a 'consulting firm', and hired out their labor? Would that be more appetizing? So have labor firms, that are companies, that could negotiate working rates and supply labor? Would that side step calling it a 'union' even if it could do all the same things.

I really don't get the backlash to unions. Almost all of the 'freedom's people take for granted today were from unions fighting for them. Weekends? 40 hour weeks? Vacation? Do you think the free market would have provided those? The free market treats humans as cattle.
This https://www.cockos.com/team.php
9/11 and the Global War on Terror pretty much killed anything like optimism and kicked off the rise in authoritarianism worldwide.

Throw in the 2008 recession and collapse in generational mobility worldwide.

Add to that global media/internet access and increasing alienation with the increase in inequality worldwide.

Finally top it off with a fat pandemic and you have at least two generations (X and Millennials) totally get their future put on hold while everyone older cashes out.

Everyone younger is looking at all this in horror and are just waiting us out while innovating humor in the most refreshingly gallows way.
Fossil shows mammal sinking teeth into dinosaur
Realistically, Peter Thiel would praise the guy. He's talked before about our current level of stagnation and how the US needs to prioritize real advances in technology, especially in fundamental areas like physics. A Caltech Nobel Prize Winner who won his award for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions would naturally help advance that agenda.
Honestly, you’re doing great. I think the best things I see here are precisely the ones that aren’t “ready for HN yet.”
The goal of communication is to share ideas and reach an understanding, not to be technically correct. No one else was thinking about websites when talking about "support" and I'm guessing you knew that.
Would you recommend RDkit for use with pyodide? I.e. vscode.dev (w/ the Jupyter and pyodide extensions) and JupyterLite run in a browser tab, which is slower but maybe ideal for students and instructors without time to get mambaforge installed for everyone first
de·moc·ra·tize

/dəˈmäkrəˌtīz/

verb

introduce a democratic system or democratic principles to.

>"public institutions need to be democratized"

but ever since arab spring, when twitter was the closest any app has ever been to that meaning, every app has been democratizing something.

I'll say it again: whether you were aware of the arab spring or not, whether you were aware of the uptick in this misuse of the word or not, whether you are aware that you are part of a cult or not, you still are part of the cult.
Remember,

std::result::Result<T, E>

does not restrict

E: std::error:Err

Whereas the article doesn't say that this is the case, but it mentioned it in a way that confused me: https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2022/06/30/error-handling#:~:tex....
> ...I perceive that cotton clothing has gotten worse...

Well documented problem. There has been a drastic decline in production of high quality cotton over the past two decades. I think the biggest change has been in Egypt, but there was also a major shift in USA production. Lower quality cotton gets larger crops and has been more profitable. Egyptian cotton used to be high quality because a government agency forced farmers to produce the better stuff in order to maintain the reputation of "Egyptian Cotton". The political turmoil after the Arab Spring disrupted that. You can find many articles about the resulting decline in quality of cotton clothing and bed linen.