skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our political party system is extremely dysfunctional. If the Democrats manage to actually pass this legislation, they will lose the “civil liberties” voting bloc so there is a perverse incentive for them to appear to be trying without actually succeeding.
Batteries and nuclear fusion. With easy energy, you can pull the carbon out of the air.
Thanks for the rabbit hole!

It's hilarious how extensive a prop can be re-used (last starfighter, STNG, The Flash etc)
Talk about a problem begging for AI. Vast item / material composition and identification is perfect for AI as well, especially since there is an relatively huge (25% in your example) dropout / oh well / error / fallback bucket for the unidentifiable waste items.
Sounds like Nix is what you're looking for.
> That's the parent's rights to be hyper-religious nuts which in the US

No one is arguing otherwise. The argument is about giving the government the power to decide how information should be surfaced to users.
Interesting, I'll have to follow that.
I was quite disappointed that the Photoshop generative fill stuff insists on running on Adobe's servers rather than locally. So however good it is, there are many of us who will never use it.
AGPL and GPL are quite different beasts
What "OS differences" are you exposed to if you're shipping a static binary?

> It's a tool, not a dogma.

The idea that containers are the only or right way to do service orchestration is absolutely dogma, enforced by kubernetes and friends.
AI Could Help Produce Weapons, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says
Says bad things about their moderation; this is literally the worst video in the world and any other large company would have it autobanned instead of leaving it up for days. Though I expect the mandatory legal reporting still works.
And yet Democratic state governments have been legalizing cannabis left and right and none of them seem to lose whatever the ""civil liberties" voting bloc" is, curious!
I've stumbled onto a similar algorithm, trying to pay attention to when I feel strongly about things, good things and bad things. Then I try to dig into what's under there (if it's bad) and figure out how to go further into it (if good). It's been helpful so far. "Follow your nose" for sure.
> Congress is now a needy manager who needs to be told they are doing a good job?

Yes. Elected representatives, like everyone else, respond to incentives. Pointing to inbounds is one way an e.g. Congressperson can convince a Senator that the issue has pickup.
I don’t think so, but the tone of the article seems to indicate it.
I'm amazed this is worth it vs just investing in really high power charging -- Tesla just opened the first 350kw charger. In the best case this must still be expensive and limited.

Assuming the vehicles have 400km range (that's about what a Model 3 gets) and are charged overnight, they can still average 40km/h over an 8 hour work day. That seems ample for deliveries for me, but what do I know.
> straightforward and direct solution to "this company has too much power" than breaking up the company and just making it less powerful?

Or just not give the government more power and let people use their own free will to decide which websites they go to
I've got a battery pack for my odroid system, and the whole thing is completely local with the exception of pulling weather data in. My next plan is to build out a voice system around it- there are a lot of great options for this now too.
They cut out quickly (with the plastic attached) with our kitchen scissors in a pushing motion. Those go in the trash and the plastic to our supermarket plastic bag collection. (I’m not 100.00% sure that’s right, but I’m pretty sure and enough to do it.)
Seattle here. Unfortunately, "a lot" isn't useful - as you point out, it's relative to demand. Sure, it's not AS BAD as SF, but it's still very bad. I believe I saw an estimate that the city alone would have 200k more bedrooms now if not for all the morass of crap that stops upward growth. And that also means there'd be tens of thousands fewer homes built out at the edges, saving farmland, reducing energy costs of transportation, reducing CO2...
I'm sure you can find differences, but here's an example adapted from the docs[1]:

Gambit v4.9.5

> (let ((x 10) (y (- 1 1))) (\* (/ x y) 2))
\*\* ERROR IN (stdin)@1.30 -- Divide by zero
(/ 10 0)
1> ,e
x = 10
y = 0
1> (set! y 2)
1> ,(c y)
4
>

[1]: https://gambitscheme.org/latest/manual/#Debugging
Yes, keeping them oblivious of the very thing central to modern society will surely prepare them well.
You will inevitably dedicate thoughts to whatever is placed in front of you. The only relevant trick is to be in control of what is placed there. Let the canvas be an overly familiar place and sustenance be an endlessly repeated ritual. Everything must be as boring as possible.

I had a hilarious conversation one time with a wealthy guy who owns a sizable plot of land with an enormous house. He lives in a single room in the basement. The rest of the decor is only there to keep people away. It started out as a place to occasionally smoke weed back when it was a crime in the US. It gradually turned into a place to think.

I suppose it is a comical instance of things having to get worse before one takes action. The weed really helped show who people are.

It takes a lot to keep society running, most of it is careful repetition. Many will end up thinking this is all there is and change is a terrible thing by definition. I'm not at all convinced they are wrong about it. All other animal species just live and do their familiar thing. They are finely calibrated for it.

Then one day someone just had to bang rocks together and make fire. Perhaps it was all down hill from there. Whatever it is we are doing today is trying to get back up the hill. It is not just that each answer we find raises many new questions. It is that every solution we find creates many new problems.

And so we end up scavenging the world looking for something that was always inside our heads.

edit: I forgot the emotional part!

Emotions are our encyclopedia build over hundreds of millions of years. There is no correct emotional state to think, they are all good. Think deep why you feel the way you do in the historic context. Why was this feeling hard coded millions of years ago?
For macOS users I recommend moom to manage window tiling.

Although the defaults work fine, I always setup the following:

1) Bind cmd-m for activating moom. You’ll get a warning but seriously, who uses native macOS minimize? Not me, ever.

2) Setup single key “sizes” for keys Q, P, M, Z for the four quadrants: upper left, upper right, lower right, lower left, respectively.

3) Setup L and R for 50% left and right. F for full screen.

These 7 keys will allow you 3-finger shortcuts to any windowing. You’re free to setup the grid as fine or as coarse as you need.

Thank you to whoever developed moom. It’s made macOS feel mature.
It's a tricky one. The government is less sensitive in some ways to negative reviews - what are you going to do? move to a different countries? while bad PR can still affect companies like Google. On the other hand, with a government you might have legal recourse (if you live in a functioning democracy) and if you can't get any attention on your problem (which is hard enough to do) then Google is going to ignore your complaint.
I'd expect it's more to do with various entities checking Real ID to verify residency for the purpose of state benefits and voting.

It looks like it's a DHS regulation (?), but I'd assume states were supportive because it made their lives easier.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/6/37.29

You could probably skirt around the rules by applying for and keeping a passport, which isn't tied to a physical address.
P.S.: While this time it wasn't a big difference, for contrast I'll recycle this comment from two days ago about air-travel:

> It's kind of like looking at airplanes of the 1950s, with beds and champagne and caviar, and ruefully comparing them to the ones of the 2020s.

> Is it because airlines became greedier? Did the average passenger (in the same income-bracket) lose their desire for fine things? Nah: It's probably because once you remember to adjust for inflation, those 1950s passengers were paying $7,300 per flight instead of today's $600.
Commercial airlines apparently experience crashes at a rate of 6 per 100,000,000 flights. I wasn't able to find a figure from the testimony as to how many craft are claimed to have been recovered. The best I could find was an anonymous quote from a Vox article of 12+. Applying the commercial airline stat to 12 crashes over 80 years results in almost 7,000 alien flights per day (just over the US). There are 25,000 flights per day (again in the US). A ratio of alien:commercial flights of 1:4 is really hard to buy. The alternative is that these alien craft are incredibly more advanced and yet somehow worse at flying than human aircraft. To play devil's advocate, maybe the government is intentionally shooting them down. But how? With what? Human knock-offs of their own weapons?
Capitalism at least tries to use human selfishness to achieve a better outcome, even if imperfect.

Could it be better? Obviously. I’m not convinced communism is the answer.
>So, Bosworth does not see power of the unions as the reason for the slowing productivity.

Bosworth is referencing the period after 2005, which of course had its productivity affected by the financial crisis. The slowdown since 1973 has other more structural causes.

>These people have tax lawyers for a reason.

It doesn't change the fact that their effective tax rate is much higher than a typical janitor's.

>Just 1993-2000 the U.S. economy lost an average of 30.3 million jobs per year.

You're misreading your sources. They say 300,000 - 500,000 jobs per year.

And outsourcing was in large part a symptom of the widespread hostility to industry in the wake of its takeover by unions.

>A finite world can only allow for finite growth. It's basic physics. Not that that matters; corporate profits are still sky high - and growing higher still. But labor's share is shrinking and shrinking.

The primary cause of the slowdown in wage growth is the slowdown in productivity growth. So you blaming a slight decrease in labor's share of income is misplaced.

As for corporate profits, of course as long as revenue growth is not negative, new profit records will be reached every year.

As for the physical limits of growth: we are nowhere near them. There are orders of magnitude more physical resources that human civilization can harvest for production.

The slowdown is most likely due to obviously harmful economic policy, like increasing forced income redistribution to pay into wasteful union run social programs, and letting unions take control of industry through laws mandating that companies engage in collective bargaining with unions to the exclusion of all other parties.

>European manufacturing, although also impacted by offshoring, seems stable despite much, much stronger union laws than those of the U.S.

European manufacturing growth and global market share has plummetted right alongside the US's. And Europe, due to higher income redistribution through social programs and more labor regulations, has been outperformed by the US. Since 2008 in fact, US nomimal GDP has doubled, while Europe's has stayed stagnant.
Sam - if you keep breaking the guidelines we're going to have to ban you.

We've probably cut you more slack than anyone in the history of HN. That doesn't mean it isn't finite, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
examples please, because so far i have only seen this from common lisp and smalltalk. there is also pike where i can reload classes or objects at runtime, thus avoiding a full restart, but it's not as closely integrated as in smalltalk and you actually have to build your app in a way that allows you to do that.
I was wondering the exact same thing with that wording. Maybe someone, somewhere was required to put in a notice like that (or worse, make it so that it does work better in Chrome for whatever reason) and decided to word it like that to fly under the radar. Unlikely, but I like that imaginary world.
The title isn't literally saying they're equivalent. It's pointing out the pointlessness in having an 'everything app' - our phones can already do all these things and cramming it all into one app isn't a significant benefit.
What does RealID (or "only one form of it") have to do with having a license or not compared to the pre-RealID days? Are you thinking of someone trying to maintain licenses in multiple states or such?

And is it "RealID for Greyhound" or "photo ID"? (Not that passports are super easy to get if you're homeless and had your documents lost or stolen in the past or such either... IMO the lack of proactive work by government agencies in *getting homeless people the documents they need without a permanent address is a huge shame.)
In the first few of years of TiddlyWiki (mid/late '00s), the way it worked was that you just had a local copy of your tiddlywiki.html. You just opened it in a browser, and did your editing. Then you could just click the save button inside the page. And the page was saved to disk. This worked on every desktop browser.

Obviously, generically letting webpages, even local ones, have this sort of access to disk had lots of security implications. So, eventually all browsers removed this functionality. Now, you need all these extensions or tools to save the file.
The Pickleball noise problem is a real thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/sports/pickleball-noise-c...

And it’s an extremely annoying noise. I am fortunate there are no Pickleball courts near me, but where we play basketball there’s also a Pickleball court. And even while in the heat of a game out in the open with court fairly distant from us the noise was extremely annoying.
Not sure if using cat scratcher as fictional example or actually ordered a handmade cat scratcher...
> You can build a pretty good mental model of flight with either simplified mechanism, but you end up underestimating performance by a fair bit.

I've never hear of a good mental model built on Bernoulli's Principle. They are either:

- Wrong

- Give no intuition

The key question is /why/ air moves faster on one side, and once you get away from the misconception of same time, I've never heard an intuitive argument.

Redirecting air down:

- makes complete sense

- can be demonstrated by sticking your hand out the window of a car

- works with flat airfoils (sails, kites, etc.), and explains those well too

And the shape of the wing comes in from wanting the leading edge parallel to incoming airflow, and the other edge parallel to outgoing airflow. On a sail, I can adjust the shape. On a steel wing, I can't much, so I make a shape which works across different angles of attack.

All of the other mechanisms, you can gradually work in from there to get accurate models. Toss in air moving to the low-pressure area, and having momentum, and you get why helicopters are less efficient than planes, as well as vortex shedding. It all builds up.

As a corollary, Bernoulli tells you where air moves faster, but that follows from lift. Not the other way around. At least in any model which fits the human brain.
For static builds, if you're willing to run a slightly older version of sbcl daewok's work on building and linking sbcl in a musl environment might be solution you're looking for. I've tried to port his patches to more recent versions but there are segfaults due to changes in upstream.

https://www.timmons.dev/posts/static-executables-with-sbcl.h...
https://www.timmons.dev/posts/static-executables-with-sbcl-v...
This is maybe indirectly a good thing. Cash has a lot of advantages from a privacy perspective and I feel like it has lost a lot of luster with younger people in general. This may keep it alive.

Another poster mentioned that buying weed with cash is just a good idea as having credit card transactions at Bill's weed shop forever on your permanent record isn't a good idea.
Even if we replaced all fossil fuels overnight we still wouldn't have "solved" climate change--the damage we have done is locked in for the long term. We need active mitigation to restore Arctic ice, de-acidify the oceans, save coral reefs, bring back old weather patterns, etc.
Lordsburg is a pretty odd place to stop. Going just slightly on to Deming seems like 10x better.
It seems to me, the ideal answer is to send everything to these sorting machines, and have them sort out what can be re-used and what should be buried/burned.
> What "OS differences" are you exposed to if you're shipping a static binary?

I dunno, probably stuff like ulimits and selinux rules that you don't think about until it burns you. Not to mention whatever idiosyncratic configuration your customer might perform.

> [It's] absolutely dogma, enforced by kubernetes and friends.

The dogmatic people are wrong to be dogmatic, but in the context of this particular conversation, I would like to point out - meaning no disrespect - that it is you who is advocating the more maximalist and less pragmatic view.
Look, I'm not going to get into a debate about whether or not Facebook has too much power.

The absurd part is if somebody looks at Facebook and says, "wow, they have way too much power -- I guess the only thing to do is get rid of this constitution here." It's this weirdly additive model of power where the only solution to power abuse is more power. You can't not have a gatekeeper in front of the public square, that's unthinkable -- the only thing you're allowed to do is choose a different gatekeeper to have instead and to make them as powerful as the original gatekeeper. You're not allowed to pass laws directly removing an abusive behavior, you can only empower somebody else to arbitrarily decide what is and isn't abuse.

I'm not going to debate with you about whether Facebook is large enough to be a problem that requires a regulatory response; but I suspect regardless of your views on that both you and I agree that if Facebook does have too much power, requiring age verification online and massively expanding the government's ability to perform targeted censorship is not a rational response to that problem.
That sounds intriguing as a Clojure dev but what happens in the following case (not very lispy code but it's just to show what I don't get):

(do-it (do-it first))

What if (do-it first) works fine, but it's the call to (do-it (do-it first)) that fails?

I get control right where it's broken, so I can fix the do-it defun. Great, I like that. But by fixing it, this means I changed the result of (do-it first).

So the point at which the machine (?) is is a point that's unreachable anymore by the current code.

I hope my example is clear enough.

I really don't understand how that works when fixing what would allow you to continue would change the state at which you're given control to fix things?
She wasn't complaining about child abuse (by anyone) onstage at SNL.

She ripped up a photo of a pope, who...hadn't abused any children. It was a cheap and safe provocation, and she got the response she wanted.

The existence of valid and necessary criticisms of Church conduct doesn't oblige me or anyone to match each of them to some dinky justification for (in this case) performative juvenile attention-seeking.

I could be less condescending and dismissive, but that would require me to pretend that a pretty basic taunt was some kind of deep commmentary. IOW, taking the piss.
To me, the most compelling telling of the Grothendeick story is this:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201707/the-mad-g...

A different telling of another profoundly gifted character is this:

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1638/divinity-in-th...

The state of mind where new ideas are born is a liminal state that integrates disciplines effortlessly. Think Herb Simon, Marshall McLuhan or Arthur Koestler.
Yes. Poe's Law.
Thanks for your write up. I am looking forward to the next installment.
... you think he wasn't?
If someone sells a good or service, knowing they will fail to deliver, they're committing fraud. Whether one believes in prayer or not should not apply in the judgment.
“I don’t understand the US system”

No, you understand the system perfectly fine. The current situation is completely dysfunctional. The federal government has absolute authority and supremacy on this matter, and has the legally uncontested ability to lock away any person involved in the production, distribution, sale, possession, and consumption of cannabis. However the people who are in charge of those federal police are fully aware of how deeply unpopular that would be, so they just turn a blind eye on a national scale and just choose not to take any action. Every now and then a random cannabis store will be raided by federal police as some kind of publicity stunt. Then the news articles and protests will flare up. Then we go back to the current situation of utter insanity.

As a result of this illegal status, all banking surrounding the business is completely broken, and the entire industry runs on burly people with guns driving around duffel bags of cash, even to pay taxes to state and local governments.

Please send help, our government is very broken.
> So why would they prevent me from having two forms of Real ID, like a driver's license from one state and an ID card from another state

Why would you want/need to have them both?

Also remember that revoking someone’s license is a terrible way to get them to stop driving. If it worked people wouldn’t be out getting multiple DUIs. When driving is the only option to get around, taking away a piece of plastic doesn’t stop people from doing it.
> A world with community ownership of the means of production

You seem to be trying really hard to avoid the word "communism". Is it a banned word in HN?
You literally missed the most common magnetic phase - antiferromagnetism
Final will and testament: When I'm dead, move all the money from account A into account B. What is "not feasible" about a government API that answers whether a citizen is alive and a banking API that runs a funds transfer? Let's stick the code for this in some large cloud provider where it checks the credentials and conditions involved every minute.

We could debate whether this is a cheaper/easier/safer approach than trusting a law firm/banks/clergy/clerks to execute things on your behalf. But it's absurd to say that this is not possible (because every part of this is already done), or that it is not useful (it has exactly the same use-case as a classic will, but moves trust from a law firm to a cloud provider).
Wow... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody
>But why were there picket lines?

Because of greed. There was no justification for using violence to coerce employers into paying them above market wages.

>Which is what happens if corporations control all jobs, and thus removing the option to 'shop-around' in a free-market of 'job opportunities'.

The evidence clearly shows that these people who striked were not contrained in employment option from some imagined monopoly held by a corporate cartel on jobs offered.

>If enough people are starving, and there are no safety nets, then the situation does get violent. This is where more dramatic violent revolutions come from.

People were not starving. Millions were migrating to the US because its free market economy was providing unprecedented wages. Wages doubled for unskilled labor between 1870 and 1900 despite this massive influx of new workers.

The answer was to not tolerate violent strikes, and not buy into the strikers' unfounded claims of being victims.
I didn't know about TiddlyWiki. Once, I experimented with creating a "decentralized" microblogging platform that carried itself (code+data) in its URL, so it was impossible to censor :) It wasn't a serious experiment of course, but TiddlyWiki's database being its own source code has reminded me of it.

[1] https://github.com/ssg/ourobs