skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and you have an unreliable power grid

I'd argue there is a bit of an anti fragility element here. The fact that the approximate black swan event did occur absolutely forced changes throughout. I'd agree things are probably still not ideal but the power grid is about engineering and tradeoffs.

Consider this game theory: Why would Samsung continue to aggressively construct semiconductor factories in Taylor, TX after having suffered a 7-8 figure wafer scrap incident due to the very same grid outage? I can assure you of one thing: There is no way in hell they are running those factories using standby generation, UPS, etc.
You think Soviet Union.

I think Boeing and 737 Max:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-the-faa-al...
US military spies to embed in Australia's Defence Department
Australia is really bending over to please the judges in the competition to be the 51st state.

My favourite line in the article is this:

"The Defence Minister also denied the United States was making the move because it had been unsettled by the security pact signed by China and Solomon Islands last year — a move which blindsided Australian officials and undermined American confidence in Canberra's intelligence capabilities in the Pacific."

Yeah nah, totally not that. We know what we're... sorry, yep, was that an almond latte sir?
> Wouldn't this deplete the atmosphere of oxygen relatively quickly, and in a way that's not easy to reverse?

Then that brings rise to an industry producing and selling breathable air! Think of all the jobs this would create and how it would boom the economy!

It would also end all crime, because the government simply could forbid selling breathable air to criminals. Think of the amount of money we all could save without prisons existing!
No. The standard bonfire topper is Guy Fawkes or nothing. There are a handful of places that go for the pope (Lewes perhaps?) but anti-Catholicism is much weaker than it used to be in England.
Andreessen: American nuclear tests might've been faked to freak out the Russians
What is confusing?

There is more risk working for a smaller consulting firm or going out on my own than there is working for the second largest employer in the US. But the reward could be potentially higher working for a smaller agency or independently where they would get a smaller cut (an agency) or working for myself.

There is also a risk/reward calculation between more cash up front vs less cash + residuals.
Who is to say we are not reaching the levels of irreparable decay or physical damage to render death more likely? Instead of death, how about the years or months before the eventuality where we are losing our capabilities in a variety of methods? I say we are reaching this type of milestone you have spoken about in your comment. Even the tidbit about rich people hogging resources because they are doing exactly that right now!

I say this because I do believe that a lot of research into aging is just finding a lot of strange oddities in our genes, and biological mechanisms. There was never any long term biological process such as natural selection, darwinism and survivorship bias to remove or refine them into something that works better or works for indefinite lengths of time. It is only recently that more humans are able to live 60+ years and that there is billions of humans compared to the numbers of live humans in previous centuries.
Just like with rhubarb.
This looks absolutely fantastic and I want to go over it in more detail later. You'll go over most of this in a typical physics degree. But like a good movie or book, the concepts are interesting enough to go over more than once.

I will say that as a programmer some of these techniques look a lot like hacks. You start off with a perfectly reasonable integer index. And then you realize you can generalize the index, effectively cramming more information into the index than was originally intended. The really shocking thing is that these stupid, abusive ideas seem to always lead to something really insightful and useful down the road. It's a little bit magical.
anarchists (well maybe except for insurrectionist anarchists) believe in communism as an outcome, but they most definitely do not agree with vanguardism as a means of achieving it. vanguardism is just a kind of elitist authoritarianism.
Go Vegan! It’s easier than you think, especially since you live in a city. No judgements from me if you can’t/choose not to, it does take work. Just a bit of encouragement, and a thank you for making the compassionate and ecologically sound choice.
I use ffmpeg often because it's so powerful, but its api cannot fit in my head. It should have a LLM frontend.
Can you elaborate on what is competent spending?

The theory of privatization solving problems is predicated on the assumption that competition will exist. Competition in the private sector cannot be assumed to always exist.
>Those tall buildings? They provide great shade no matter how sunny it is which is critical for walking to bus stops and subway stations.

Did you just make this whole post up? This is obviously wrong.
To what end? You’d have to ask the author and hope for a grounded answer. Probably internal satisfaction, virtue signaling, or advancing ideology.

> Take a step back and think about how your statement really sounds.

Why dont you tell him how you think it sounds instead of misrepresenting a consensus?
The downvotes only make me stronger
States with the Best and Worst School Systems
That # depends on if you count eastern front WWII casualties (& related civilian deaths via famine etc) in the total, and if you consider them Hitler or Stalin's "fault."
Their tests aren’t wasted. Negative validation adds to the corpus.
Neat. Would be nice if there were some examples of what a beads rendition looks like. Maybe it's obvious for people in the game. I assume they are hexagonal?
I doubt it is much to do with COVID. Mid 30’s is about the time when you have to start paying closer attention to things like sleep and exercise or everything starts to go to shit.
"I am the worlds greatest interest rate trader, look how cheap my mortgage is" was their battle cry in the days prior to it being "all Central bankers fault".
OP did not claim their comment wasn’t an anecdote…
Seems a third theory, the other 2 existing theories are in the article

>Recent ancient DNA data suggest that the Anatolian branch of Indo-European did not emerge from the Steppe, but from further south, in or near the northern arc of the Fertile Crescent
The mind is more than the brain.

Dualism is proposing that there is a clear division between mind and body, which is your original claim that I'm debating.
I happen to be a vegan myself, so it is weird to be accused of "anti-vegan flame bait".

Precisely because I am a vegan and I am aware of the difficulties that I had to surpass when switching to a vegan diet and also of the health problems encountered by some relatives who followed a vegan diet, but without adequate supplementation, because they believed the bad advice that is easy to find on the Internet, I felt the need to reply to these comments that perpetuate myths.

Much of the advice for vegans that can be found on the Internet is completely BS, some of which must have been written by false vegans who have never followed their own advice, while the other suggestions must have been written by rich vegans who do not care whether they pay $5 or $50 for a meal, so they believe that e.g. buying plant protein extracts that are 5 times more expensive than animal meat is a rational food choice.

Now I am happy for switching to a vegan diet, but this change took several years, until I have found adequate methods to ensure the correct daily intake for all nutrients, without paying more for food than before and without gaining weight rapidly.
Almost every book on goodreads has between 3.5 and 4.2 rating and it seems unrelated to the quality of the book or it’s sales stats. Anything above 4, theoretically, stands out, but often not, often it’s just a rating shortage or something in the zeitgeist leading to high ratings that year, which may not apply to next year. I only use the site myself to look for 3-4 star reviews, hoping somebody with this middle of the road rating said the good and the bad, but also, there’s a ton of spoilers in those reviews, so even then, I avoid them…
It is an extraordinary claim to say that people think as fast in their 30s as 30s. Billions of people have direct experience over thousands of years.

Yes, accumulated knowledge and wisdom can make you more successful with age.
It doesn't mean your fluid intelligence and ability to learn new things is keeping up.
They are definitely part of the landscape on the banks of the seine, it’s an iconic if very small part of the city.
I think this explains a large portion of the gig work that the author of the blog post pointed to, instead of the author’s theory that employers are doing it intentionally.

This means that wages will eventually rise further as those boomers take on less work and eventually enter full retirement, or stop working due to illness or death.
> What about sales tax, VAT, fuel levies, consumption taxes, gift taxes, inheritance taxes, etc. Your state or country may not have all of the above.

Sales tax adds less than 1% to my overall effective tax rate. Sales taxes are disproportionately low for high earners because high earners save larger portions of their income rather than spending it.

Gift and inheritance taxes don't start until eight figures. Not exactly something I'm especially worried about.

> Same goes for withholding or "Pay as you earn" taxes which serve to not let you see how much taxes you are paying.

???

You can adjust your W4. The very wealthy also have considerably more flexibility with withholding since less of their income is W2 income from an employer.

> No one will be happy if more than half their labour is taken from then.

If I made the 7+ figures annually or whatever I needed to approach 50% effective taxation I'd be pretty damn happy. If my taxes were raised considerably without a change in my income it wouldn't really change my life either. I'd just retire early a little bit later.

> it's a few steps away from slavery

Extremely high earners who have very high effective tax rates have some options available to them. They can change careers or work less to reduce their income. They'd just earn an income that was more comparable to the typical worker. Or they could stop working entirely - extremely high earners have plenty of opportunity to save enough money that they could live off a typical budget indefinitely using their savings. Or they can advocate politically for policies they prefer - even by spending their money to influence elections via nearly unlimited and unbounded political contributions.

Slaves can be arrested, tortured, and murdered for fleeing their captors. Heck, they can be tortured and murdered pretty much for no reason whatsoever. They can be raped and forced to bear their children of their captors. Their children (whether conceived through consent or through rape) can be permanently taken from them and also forced into slavery. They can have literacy denied to them. They can be worked to the bone in extreme conditions. And all this for a fat zero dollars in income over their entire lives.

So I'd say that there are more than "a few steps" between these things.
> Given that, why not have a government spend a bunch of money to buy the rights, then release it to the public domain.

I find your faith in governments, or naivete, quite disturbing. There is no such government that would do that. They'd be stupid doing it, too.

They'd just keep it and profit from it themselves.
The spaces part is actually hosted on Twitter. If you want to watch it, you'll have to cope.
> But vscode has basically all of it out of the box.

Are you sure ?
Back then about just anything was better looking than Windows 95. OS/2 was slick. Mac computers had a very enjoyable UI. SGI machines had a very good looking UI.

But people mostly only knew Windows 95, so that's what they remember.
Swifties cause 2.3-magnitude earthquake in Seattle
I think you misunderstand the exceptions that I listed. These are not examples of "bad officers", but entirely bad departments. Your original claim was that British police (excepting the Met) are 'just fine'.

They’re not, and pretending that they are is disingenuous. Compared to American police services, they may seem fine. And the nominal theory of policing in Britain (Peelian principles) is more sound than the theory of policing in America…but that does not mean that police forces in the UK are free from power-trippers, abusers, and even systemic bias against whole classes of UK citizens and residents.
There's just no time to work this way, in the US at least.
I mean I think the tougher claim would be "there is no competent public spending in the US". The US across the Federal, State, and local governments alone spends a lot. It's pretty likely that some of it is competent.

But separately, what does "competent" mean? Is it a measure of waste, as in we could've done what the DoD does for less? Is it a measure of useless spending, as in we shouldn't have spent money on X because X doesn't work? I don't think the (narrowing to the federal government here) the US has a monopoly on wasteful or misguided spending. I think anyone here who's worked for a company can come up with plenty of examples of incompetent spending by their employer.

I think "the US is bad at spending money so it should spend as little money as possible" argument is really weird framing, because it implies that there's some entity out there that's actually good at spending money. But if anyone can find one at a large scale, or even define what "good" means, I'm interested.

Or, I'm sympathetic to a "large entities are necessarily bad at spending" argument, but then I think we need to assail big corporations with the same zeal we assail big government.
ffmpeg.guide looks amazing, but it feels like ffmpeg should really have something better itself. It's crazy trying to shoehorn a graph (non-linear) into a commandline (flat, linear). Even just a more verbose json config would be great.
https://www.jax.org/why-the-mouse/excellent-models
You could also just use the "Redmond" theme with the Trinity DE:

https://baloo.neocities.org/TheGuide/TheGuide-Part1 (bottom of page)
I built a service to check if websites, APIs and web apps are online, or not: https://onlineornot.com
> should we extrapolate our experiences into universal ones? What makes you think all libraries are great like yours?

I’m specifically saying we should not do that!

The OP asked for examples of competent public spending. I consider my local library to be one such example. Someone else’s library being awful doesn’t make mine an invalid example of competent spending, they’re two separate things.
What do you want to do as a rich person?

* Own and enjoy fantastic properties:

- You own so many properties that you'll spend maybe a few weeks per year in each one

- So donate these properties to your own charitable foundation, give tours while you aren't there.

* Have lavish parties

- Call it a charity ball, hold an auction at some point, now you look great and the canapés are tax-free.

* Fly private

- Book a meeting for your charitable purpose wherever you are going. Now you can deduct at least part of the gas for the private jet.

* Enrich your friends and family members

- Give them sweet jobs in your foundation. Pay them competitive salaries without going through a competitive candidate search. Continue this even after you die, essentially a tax-free annuity.

* Lobby for your own business and ideological interests

- Your private foundation can advocate for all sorts of things. Fund self-serving studies. Give full-ride scholarships to top thinkers that think like you. Host tours, vacations, parties and events that benefit your position.

* Improve your social standing

- Give some money to PBS. Open a wing at a school or museum with your name on it.
Does inter-universal Teichmüller theory have any application outside of this supposed proof of the abc conjecture?
What does inflation even mean these days? I thought it means when you increase the money supply the purchasing power of one dollar goes down. Then when you go to wikipedia it says inflation means "general price level of goods and services in an economy". I thought that's just a possible and likely outcome of inflation, not the definition.

Then they talk about stuff like "food inflation" and at first you think well that's good the price of food is going down as the amount of food in the markets increases, but then they say it actually means that the price of food is going up. What? In "money inflation" the value of money goes down but in "food inflation" the value of food goes up.

This doesn't make any sense. Why can't we just use the old definition for inflation? These days it seems like inflation simply means price increase and has nothing to do with monetary policy. So what is the "old inflation" called these days? Like when you increase the money supply the value of one dollar goes down. What's that called these days now that "new inflation" simply means general price increase and even supply chain disruptions can cause "inflation" somehow.
> iirc I only had 128MB on my pentium 4 computer

Which is quite strange, because even P2 level machines already had 64-128MBs of RAM, eg look at Quake 3 sysrq.
Shshsh – a bridge connects Python and shell
I rewrote my spreadsheet from ReactTable to Vanilla JavaScript
Ask HN: Looking for discussion forums dedicated woodworking
Does anyone have recommendations for high-quality discussion platforms, like Discord or IRC, that are specifically focused on the hobby of woodworking?
Factorio is actually quite fun. There have been "upgrades" of factorio off late, Satisfactory I think.

> There's the other thing: some things simply don't need automation

I agree. Automation makes sense if a larger section of the task is abstracted away as a function. However, with note-taking and such, it really depends on the end goal. If there is a scenario wherein some report needs to be submitted, note-taking apps have the potential to reduce time taken produce the report, relative to hand-written notes.

Honestly, I don't understand the point of internet connected fridges
> People who actually use Git understand that "master" is a metaphor

I don’t think thats actually true. I think everyone knew the etymology was not slave owners. Which is the problem - its fighting a manufactured battle. Creating “systemic racism” out of thin air.
We overthrow the government every two years.
I interpret "aims to be fully compatible" as meaning the operations it implements are intended to be compatible with how Git implements those operations. I do not interpret this statement as saying they implement all features of Git.

They offer a document which directly shows what is and isn't supported, and it specifically notes quite a few things that aren't supported yet: https://github.com/go-git/go-git/blob/master/COMPATIBILITY.m...

The godoc also says right upfront it "nowadays covers the majority of the plumbing read operations and some of the main write operations, but lacks the main porcelain operations such as merges." - https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-git/go-git/v5#pkg-overview

> I'm saying it's not a reasonable choice over just using git directly, and is unlikely to ever be.

OK, that's apparently true for your use-case. But again, what go-git implements is directly useful to a number of very popular projects, as well as literally two thousand less popular ones.

I find the exported functionality to be high quality, at least for my own use-case. I'm not commenting on the code quality. If I need a shed for bikes, and someone is giving out free but ugly bikesheds, I'm thankful. I don't complain about the color of the bikeshed.
I have had at least a dozen Lightning devices and I have never had the springs wear out. I’ve never even heard of this happening.

In fact, if those springs are steel and properly designed to prevent unexpected loads, they physically can’t ever wear out.
This is already every parasocial relationship on Insta / Twitch / OnlyFans / celebrities.

In fact, in your scenario churn is the problem - supply will far exceed demand for companies offering better giflfriends.

But there's only one Taylor Swift / Ninja / your favorite camgirl.
Is this a quality article? It starts badly:

> ... elevation of the land is equal to the value of the function (the “profit”) at that particular spot. Gradient descent searches for the function’s local minimum ...
capitalism relies on government to establish and enforce private property ownership/enclosure
The games played by the wealthy and well-advised are largely within the gray areas of tax code buried between legal avoidance and illegal evasion[1]...in other words, certain sophisticated behavior remains "legal" if the IRS never gets an opportunity to audit and pursue litigation against. Herein lies the moral hazard bullshit.

To tilt these game-theoretic bets overwhelmingly in favor of the wealthy, assert continuous political pressure to defund IRS activity tasked with holding these actors legally accountable while shilling it to the ignorant public with a bullshit title like "Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection" to bait popular support[2; § 251].

The CBO too is well-advised[3], but the wealthy very much dislike projected outcomes summarized[4] as:

> The proposal, by contrast, would return audit rates to the levels of about 10 years ago; the rate would rise for all taxpayers, but higher-income taxpayers would face the largest increase. In addition, the Administration’s policies would focus additional IRS resources on enforcement activity aimed at high-wealth taxpayers, large corporations, and partnerships.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w28542

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3746

[3] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56467

[4] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57444
I find the wording extraordinary because it suggests that it was a decision by the US like if they could do whatever they wanted and that Australia was in effect a colony.
my understanding is options in the cli are tied to either global options, input file options, or output file options; so placing options after -i option(s) would tie it to the output file... i'm definitely not an ffmpeg expert though.
It is possible that this tragic accident would have happened even if the operator paid full attention, but that is besides the merit of this case. Their job was to supervise an autonomous driving test, and they did not pay full attention at the critical moment, with no justifiable reason for this lack of attention:

"Records indicate that streaming began at 9:16 pm and ended at 9:59 pm. Based on an examination of the video captured by the driver-facing camera, Vasquez was looking down toward her right knee 166 times for a total of 6 minutes, 47 seconds during the 21 minutes, 48 seconds preceding the crash. Just prior to the crash, Vasquez was looking at her lap for 5.3 seconds; she looked up half a second before the impact." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg
Very interesting, I love how it all rests more around the rules of engagement for who should apologize first, and is intertwined with some "but if you don't wanna just shoot at each other"

When I was fencing I learned the foil, and our master of arms was giving us some context behind it. The big difference between foil and sabre on one side, and épée on the other, is that the former has lots of rules of engagement (there's a whole system of time, distance, valid zones, and priorities and ways to recover the priority), whereas the later is very straight forward (you touch, you score). The main reason that is apparently all these rules was that it was a discipline training you for duel, and the training was targeted at avoiding "making two widows", thus making sure that people are trained into not just killing each other and going in only when it is "safe" to do so (ie when you won't get stab at the same time).