skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China has an income tax and VAT, but the central government takes most of that, leaving most local governments incredibly underfunded. Property taxes could solve that, land transfer taxes can only be collected when property is built (and so they build).
> At the time, though I was a child, I don't remember cleanings being a thing

Dentist cleanings are to remove tartar buildup, which even if it was a thing you may not have needed (depends on diet and how good you are at cleaning your own teeth).
For older people, do you ever find what you are looking for, at least at a reasonable price?

I was once the way of OP but then decided that fixing that would involve mostly eliminating other people (and I am highly risk averse, so doing my own thing is not acceptable to me) and I decided that was not feasible.

So I embraced apathy and am now the time killing bureaucrat calling meetings about status codes that both OP and the old me used to hate and apathy and indifference seem comfortable enough.
It’s exciting to see a complex crpg get so popular. It had something like 700k concurrent steam players yesterday.

I think in 2-3 years time we’re going to see a wave of rpgs that focus on freedom of choice over action riding the success of BG3.
energy demanding businesses can be moving closer to energy sources with population and infra following. It can be continues evolution.
You’ve just demonstrated mine! Ironic.
No. A car can cost much less than $400. Hence I own a car instead of taking taxis.
US approves US$345M landmark military aid package for Taiwan
User scores are completely broken, and probably beyond repair.
It's pretty much everyone who wants more stuff, when they can afford it. But the kind of stuff different people want varies a ton cultural and individually. But no, it's not that "regular working people" eschew possessions while the rich consume. "Minimalism" and "FIRE" and "#vanlife" type things are all distinctly wealthy phenomena. It's people who can bail out of that lifestyle into a life of bounty if they decide to. Working class people may have fewer possessions (though this isn't even necessarily true IME), but that doesn't mean they don't want more stuff. Every "regular working person" I know is trying to save up money for stuff they really want but can't yet afford. The only people I know who talk about consumerism and people having too much stuff are those who can already afford anything they want.
the aforementioned feedback, that had close to 250 upvotes and stayed active for 3-4 years, actually never got a reply from Discord. It's in the 90 most upvoted stories, and in the 50 most commented stories of all times under Account & Server Management. And overall, only 15 of the 120 most upvoted stories on this board got a reply from Discord (including the 8 that were completed).

(the top story is even funnier, as Discord didn't even reply to it, but comments were closed because there were too many.)

When the board about yubikey was the most active, Discord maybe somehow replied to it by doing the opposite. Instead of increasing their security as users asked, they decided they would fancy lowering it and introduced QR codes, because services are no fun if they don't experience of wave of hacks.

And now, they're not referring to anything from the past, but are cluelessly posting generic talk and external links on a blog post.

Also, as throwaway1777 mentioned, hardware tokens for staff is definitely something that had to be done before the second half of the last decade. It's the standard in any company I work with nowadays.

So, IMO, OP's blog post doesn't show how Discord is being innovative, it's just a statement of "sorry, we're catching up on security" and "was this a topic before ?"

Thanks for the reply, anyway.
Cromite-specific features:

https://github.com/uazo/cromite#cromite-specific-features
Nuh uh! - your dentist probably
> Better technology does not necessarily mean that you will have the better business.

Right, sometimes an existing company can spend you out of business even if your product is superior, even if consumers prefer your product, and even if your business is more efficient. That's what happens when there's a monopolist in your market: innovation is futile, consumers lose, the monopolist wins. The end.
Don't know why you are so downvoted since your question is valid:

A single sexpr with only atoms could be written without parenthesis and with a EOL.
Wow I thought I was the only one - fried a Yubikey and a Logitech webcam because I forgot I plugged it into the “cursed” port. Took a bit to convince IT to req me a new laptop.
Wake me up when a dark matter theory actually reproduces MONDian dynamics.
an exclusive is an exclusive. "timed exclusive" is an exclusive. Also not interested in dealing with piracy and other things for switch emulator - there's no way for a normal person to buy the game and play it on a switch emulator - you need an old version of the switch to dump it even if you wanted to, so you have to have the platform to emulate it without piracy anyways.
yankee running dog speaks lies
It would be more than just half productivity. Not only do you have to do the work twice, but you add the delay of someone else replicating before something can be published and built upon by others. If you are developer, imagine how much your productivity would drop going from a 3 minute build to a 1 day build.
Thank you, I was understanding the difference just not why it was worth pointing out. That makes some sense now.
I love DOS2, but BG3 is SO much more polished in just about every aspect, better visuals, better writing, better combat, that I expect this accounts for a lot of the difference.
I’m sorry, but once an attacker can run arbitrary commands on your machines, it seems like your personal security battle has been lost. Cloudflare Tunnel isn’t doing anything that an attacker couldn’t do with a huge list of other tools, including a script that just loads some remote HTTP address for evil things to do next.
TL; DR Classic international relations “theory was based on agrarian states or early industrial states. And one of the features of agrarian interstate relations was that returns to war outpaced returns to capital, which is a fancy way of saying you could get richer, faster by conquest than by development. Under those sorts of conditions, most powers were going to be, in some form, ‘revisionist’ powers because most powers would have something to gain by attacking a weaker neighbor and seizing their resources (mostly arable land and peasant farmers to be taxed)…

But, as we’ve discussed, industrialization changes all of this: the net returns to war are decreased (because industrial war is so destructive and lethal) while the returns to capital investment get much higher due to rising productivity. In the pre-industrial past, fighting a war to get productive land was many times more effective than investing in irrigation and capital improvements to your own land, assuming you won the war. But in the industrial world, fighting a war to get a factory is many, many less times more effective than just building a new factory at home, especially since the war is very likely to destroy the factory in the first place. This was not always the case! The great wealth of many countries and indeed industrialization itself was built on resources acquired through imperial expansion; now the cost of that acquisition is higher than simply buying the stuff. War is no longer a means to profit, but an emergency response to avoid otherwise certain extreme losses.

So whereas in the old system, almost every power except potentially the hegemon, had something to potentially gain by upending the stability of the system, the economics of modern production means that quite a lot of countries will have absolutely nothing to gain from a war, even a successful one. Now that dispassionate calculation has arguably been true for more than a century; the First World War was an massive exercise in proving that nothing that could be gained from a major power war would be worth the misery, slaughter and destruction of a major power war. Subsequent conflicts have reinforced this lesson again and again, yet conflicts continue to occur. Azar Gat argues in part that this is because humans are both evolved in our biology (and thus patterns of thinking and emotion) as well as our social institutions, for warfare and aggression. We have to unlearn those instincts and redesign those institutions and this process is slow and uneven.”
Food probably won't get me to come in. I'm on a diet so I'd probably try to avoid the temptation. Everybody has preferences. Work is a serious place to me so going to a gun range (another serious place) isn't a big context switch in the same way something fun like a game is. I can't turn off enough to enjoy a game at work, or even during working hours.
Startpage uses Google search results.

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Isn't the HVDC loss from the center of the country to either coast going to be under 10%? Balancing that against the maintenance and construction challenges of offshore wind, is it really better to construct offshore projects just to save a few percent?
Is there space in the world for a few publications that only publish replicated work? Seems like that would be a reasonable compromise. Yes you were published, but were you published in Really Real Magazine? Get back to us when you have and we’ll discuss.
Another scam is that the 1h lunch is not paid in most parts of Europe.

Like in Switzerland it's not 42.5h week but actually 47.5h if you include the unpaid lunch. When I tell this to a British/Canadian/American they are kinda surprised.
So it’s like, apple will just announce “incredible performance gains” while in reality just piggybacking an improved process (by tsmc) ?
Okay, then I asked him why he did that.
This resonates so much. I have had some heavy dental work in the past because of actual problems that got my mouth (or rather both the issue and it's fix) published, but then I moved far away and had to change dentists. And since then...

> Your dental work is lousy

This makes me fly away faster than anything else.

> Some of your crowns have jagged edges and need immediate attention. They will trap food and cause decay

I've also heard this one for the first time from a dentist that I thought I could trust. She initially said the previous work was nicely done, but one day, curiously while she started renovation work in her office, this became a problem that "she wasn't comfortable with anymore"

This is to the point that I switch dentists often and only get cleanings, reject everything they propose. Nothing they recommend ever align, and I'm quite open to them about that, and they still go ahead and affirm that the previous one was wrong and they know their shit.

> what I really ought to do, he said, would be to crown all 28 teeth

How can you reasonably be comfortable proposing that to someone? I can't begin to imagine all the problems you're gonna create for your customer at this stage.

Incentives for dentists are built in a way that only a very strong ethical sense will make them do the right thing. And since the standard is so low, of course things are going this way.

Unless ethical boards are made to be more independent and get much stronger on this kind of malpractice, or you reform training so that dentists don't start with huge student debt, there's no good way out.
it isn't for you solely/exclusively. If it "improves" the service for everyone - that includes "you".
Luckily that one doesn’t even come up. “Kids these days” don’t know about it :D

I jest, but I am at least 5 years older than everyone else on the team. And have the unfun background of getting into professional webdev before jQuery.
Ever since machine learning became practically useful with OCR, the the experimentalists took over more and more. It's now mostly about what works instead of about proving theorems.
Cloudflare's business has always been that your ISP is just a dumb pipe not to connect you to the internet but the Cloudflarenet. All routing, security, etc decisions should happen inside Cloudflare and you should be helpless to do any local security on your network.

It is amazing to me that if AT&T came out and said they were buying up every other ISP in the world to form one big unified network HN would be losing their shit, but Cloudflare slowly boils the frog and everyone cheers and evangelizes for them.
Not sure there would be a decent enough return on investment, especially if the other tools they regularly use provide more reliable service at no additional cost.
I agree that most labs are probably not out to defraud people. But without replication I don't think it's reasonable to have much confidence in what is published.
But why the redundant FNCLEX and io writes then?

As I said, if you just had 100 push pops, fine. But it isnt, it's push pops mixed in with other seemingly redundant code.
Precisely. They way I see it, MOND is a useful effective theory. But it is beyond me how people still think of it as a fundamental theory when the closest that anyone ever came up of a general-relativistic version of it is a total mess. As it is, MOND fails solar system tests. So at best, it's a useful effective model for some galactic-scale phenomenology, which would need some fundamental explanation.
"The experts are great until they have a case that is unusual. "

I was so pissed by this I created a way to find experts. People that actually studied the issue, have actual publish papers on the topic. What I found was no one cared. No one wanted "experts" - they want a specialist that is in their network and close.

Example of searching for mohs surgury.
https://www.opendoctor.io/research/?research_papers=mohs&zip...
there’s some concern in new england about how they could affect the critically endangered right whales, but there’s little practical evidence of risk… and sometimes the risk is overblown by nimbys and fossil fuel companies who will align with anyone that agrees with them

at this point the ocean temperature is a much greater risk
Is there a model anywhere for this having been tried, successfully or otherwise?

The obvious hesitation I have is just that some companies really do benefit from a lot of vertical integration. Could Apple be Apple if they were forced to spin off the phone business, or the chip design house, or the OS?

What would it mean for the startup ecosystem if getting bought by a conglomerate was a less plausible exit?

How would regulators enforce that the split off entities were truly independent vs faking it and then having exclusivity deals that meant they were basically still the same singular entity?
The issue is that the API can change unintentionally, breaking clients because of an implementation change.
The health stuff doesn’t add much compared to the LTE and base hardware you need anyways. It is cheaper for Apple to just make one board with everything then to separate the health stuff, which is mostly software on top of cheap sensors.

It works like that for everyone else also. The health stuff is easy to add and conveniently usable on your wrist, so it gets put in by default.
I always push back on decisions that have benefits with reduced debugability. It's rarely worth the hassle to take on a "more performant" or easier to develop tool if devs can't easily figure out what's wrong with it. Especially in a big company where people move around, and tend not to be familiar with tools...
> for the first couple generations, the overwhelming majority of people who lived in the Roman Empire weren’t even aware there was an empire

Source? Even at the peak of the Republic, Rome was an imperial power: economic gains came principally from new conquests. Caesar had to enact land reforms in part because the Romans were half crap at maintaining the agricultural productivity of the Italian peninsula.

> Europe is de facto a military protectorate of the USA. They are imperial clients in all but name

The article provides evidence directly undermining this claim.
Can you explain the precession of Mercury with MOND?
Chrome has one of the most transparent, pre-declared software delivery models on the planet.

This does sort of seem like the system is working as intended here. Give people enormous power, but do so in a transparent clear way with lots of review. Rather than a top down organization, this bottom up engineering allows in a lot more potential.

And some of the potential is bad. Do we the technical masses trust in the process, in the various discussions & checks built in to the w3c system? How much is our hunger for attention & excitement & drama fueling a mania, a craziness? 0? Maybe a tiny bit? Or is there real harm to the media cycle blow up beyond proportions to every potentially salacious idea that shows up on radar?

Like Alex, this was a huge deal. A huge issue. But it seemed unlikely to get far as a standard, and had barely begun review cycles, just getting some standards positions, not even getting TAG or security review requests started.

I really like Chrome's model, how proactive & transparent they are, so early. In contrast, most web vendors just ship stuff. Safari just shipped Private Access Tokens, which are Web Environment Integrity, in different name. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36866355 https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2023-07-25-web-integri...
It’s surprising how powerful Postgres is and seeing tools to make it easier seems extremely nice!
I have the exact same feeling as the author. I got a corporate tech job after leaving academia and quit five years later. It was a good job to save up enough money to do something else that I actually wanted to do. Money was literally the only benefit. As a person, I didn't grow at all and the only intellectual development I ever did was outside of work hours.
Cloud customers love it when they can just attach stuff to their VMs without having to recreate them or even reboot them.
Sundar Pichai is a CEO of Google that makes 75B per quarter or ~300B annually. That is $300,000,000,000. Him earning 225M worth of shares is a fair compensation for the head of a company who's decisions can earn/lose the company billions.

Same with Satya Nadella, Tim Cook and the variety of other CEOs.

We only see the news. The richest who own the bulk of stock market make billions per day at times when the share price rises a few %.

US was built on the idea that if you can create value, you get to capture some % of the value.

Sure the rich get richer and they have big advantage, but if you create the next internet sensation, that billions is yours.

We should definitely fighting against Big Tech when they abuse their monopoly like power (which they do), but when a company creates great technology to move humanity forward we should celebrate it.

It's not a black and white scenario though. Big Tech has plenty of good and bad depending on which perspective we look at.
At this point, unless the title explicitly states a new breakthrough has been seen in humans, I immediately assume they're talking about mice or a test tube.
I believe it depends if you're showing it to hackers/creators or to the peanut gallery.

The second group really won't care about how it's made or what can be learned, and won't care about sharing the experience... Which is fine, but makes their opinion absolutely useless, unless your product is targeting them.
"Collapse" is not turning into a war-torn wasteland. I's just losing much / most of the power, and getting by in that mode somehow.

Japan is a mild example, but I bet you have much fewer "Made in Japan" things in your house than you would in 1985. Argentina is a much more painful example, with no recovery in sight. Wait what's going to happen when Russia loses the war.
The more that China holds in foreign currency, mainly USD, the more that it can do RMB to USD conversions, which means the more RMB that it can print locally.

The tie to RMB is critical for the Chinese economy because of its dependence on foreign investment
I've been using Kagi for almost a year now, and I love it.

Every now and then I'll check Google out of curiosity, and it's always shocking how bad the results are. Inaccurate results, spam sites everywhere, and sensory overload of advertisements.
That sounds right. It could just be coincidence that the range estimate for the Prius is close to the product of EPA fuel economy figure and the tank size.

I'm mostly commenting on all manufacturers being conservative with fuel/energy use/metering. Even older vehicles I've had (carbureted pickup truck) usually have a gallon to so left in the tank on empty.
It is the case in my field (ML): if I care enough about a published result I try to replicate it.
I'm not from the U.S. but I was that kid. I broke my teeth when I was 6. My dad took me to the local dentist who told me to "leave him as it is" for a decade.

Except my teeth were my second teeth, and they were half broken. I was walking around with half-blackened by the rot teeth, which caused all sorts of health problems on top of all the bullying and the first kiss kids tend to take came to me after I fixed the teeth.

And don't get me started with my chronic illness that I've been looking for diagnosis for the last 10+ years.
Unrelated question. I was recently appointed to a citizens energy commission and I'm finding my self modeling energy use and generation in Python. I'm curious if you would suggest any models of residential and commercial energy consumption and renewable energy generation. I'm currently generating a lot of my own from scratch and I'm being (rightly) criticized by my colleagues to use something off the shelf.
Yeah, just explaining why it looks weird
I've had to deal with fragmentation at some point or another across most titles I've shipped or larger programs. Small allocations are actually worse in some ways because they incur a lot of fine-grained fragmentation. My favorite was logic in a fairly well-known game engine that would allocate a generic name for an entity and then immediately rename it to something unique. That 5 byte allocation would be left behind multiplied by every entity cost us ~30mb of a 256mb fixed memory address space.

If you don't deal in those sorts of domains that's fine but don't dismiss them as those are some of the primary use cases for native languages. Pimpl is a hack, it's a clever hack in the context of C++ but it's not something intrinsic to native development. For instance it's a non-concern for languages like Rust(which just handle this whole domain much better due to not having to inherit a bunch of legacy behavior).

There's a bunch of feedback in adjacent threads that you seem to be ignoring so I suspect I won't change your mind here but I would encourage you to be a bit more open and consider that there are use cases where things like this matter rather than dismissing them offhand.
I really lucked out that Indians families push for Doctor/Engineer career so hard. My family has dentists, surgeons, general practice doctors etc. This gives me immense leverage as trusted second opinion is just a call away.

Also, Can anyone tell why don't more people fly to other countries for these procedures? Paying something like 6k$ for a crown is pure extortion. In India, a decent one (with quality equivalent to US) costs around 60$. That a difference of 100x.
In some fields, replication is already the prerequisite to benchmark the SoTA. So the incentives boil down to publishing them along with negative results. Or as some have suggested, make it mandatory for PHD candidates to replicate.

Though, it seems that it is possible to game the system, by creating positive/negative replication intentionally, to collude with/harm the author.
> is needed only if you intend to hot-plug devices that were not present in the first enumeration

Correct. I regularly use VMs with more that 14 statically configured PCI devices using QEMU with libvirt without having to resort to qemu:cmdline.