skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But money gives an answer to some problems, and in the absence of it, an efficient answer is not possible.

Absolutely wrong. Money gives one answer, but it's not the most efficient: it's the one that profits the most to the one that already has the most. It doesn't benefit all the producers, and it doesn't benefit the consumers. It doesn't benefit society as a whole, because everyone is a competitor instead of working together.

Your example is interesting because you start with a situation that only exists in a capitalist society, as if that was a sensible default. You're basically taking the example of a duopoly, and show that keeping that duopoly with one actor taking even more place is... good ? When has an oligopoly ever been good ?

Why should the avocados producer make more avocados ? Do we need more avocados ? You say the land is uncultivated, but why is that a problem ? A third of earth with only avocados and another one with only olives is an absolute disaster in terms of ecology, biodiversity and health. It's the kind of situation where diseases are born. In that view, uncultivated land is something far more valuable than either farms, and yet, in your conclusion, the logical answer is to make even more avocados: that is a mistake on all accounts.

You say avocados are going to be cheaper, but that's completely oblivious to reality: a farmer who owns 2/3 of earth will not reduce their price. They will hold even more power, have even more influence over a capitalist governance and will do whatever they want. Again, when have the prices of an oligopoly ever decreased without intervention from a government ?

> The same exact formulation can be applied to torrent seeders. Which one of the seeders we want to buy new computers and better internet connection? The seeders of information who are the fastest and more reliable, we want to extend their production and sharing of information.

That's opposite to P2P. We don't want bigger torrent seeders, we want more torrent seeders. we don't want to centralize production of information, we want to distribute it.

Now, sure, money is needed to buy equipment, connection, and time. But we need money only because those things are not gratis. Which is why we must fight for more domains free of exchange of value: if more things do not need money, more people will be able to share information. Inequalities will vanish.

> So, money is an automation. Automation as in the "increase of production".

Anyone who's been paying attention to the climate change discussion in the past 50 years should understand that "Increase of production" is definitely the last thing we want.
If the Chinese Communist Party really wants to score a win, it can offer a free apartment and residency to anyone from around the world who can pass certain (relatively achievable) minimum requirements (e.g., a college education or trade certification, plus kindergarten-level language skills).

I've already found examples of Australians who've responded to Australia's housing crisis by moving to rural China (one opened a restaurant serving an exotic dish called "pizza", made with a wood fired oven). If China really wants to subvert the West, it just needs to show Westerners that life is better under Chinese rule. Which, if they can offer apartments, they might be able to demonstrate.

We could use some competition in the government space. Without it, we can expect Western governments to remain captured by, in this case, homeowners.
> It’s certainly not going to write films and television most people are ever going to want to watch.

Time will tell, but I think you're wrong. I've heard way too many people say "computers will never X" in my life, only to see it to come to pass. Computers will never provide useful language translation... Computers will never be controlled by human speech... Chess computers will never beat the best humans... etc.
I could hold of for a few seconds, but my eyes kept rejecting the image. It's like they somehow knew that they were more than the usual spacing apart (if that matters, for stereoscopic images?)
Dankwiki, the Wiki of Nick Black
As someone who used to broker Lexis data, lemme tell you, you don’t want what comes out of their API either.
Why do you think it matters if they are high volume submitters? Is the content not good? If it gets to the front page, it’s on the community and censor algorithms, not the submitter, in my opinion.
Which are worthless on OSes like UNIX, with advisory locking.
I once stopped my car (in the middle of the city) to take a photo of an old, bright red truck over the crest of a steep hill. The woman who lived in the house I parked in front of asked if it was a class assignment, because several people had apparently stopped that afternoon to do the same. I thought that more beautiful than the photo itself.
Is there a reason you're being opaque about the fact that it runs on Elixir? Why not just say right at the top "a framework for elixir lang" or something similar?
That's not true. Neither of them claim it.
>I don't see how any of this solves hard problems. You need to know a formula to compute what you want regardless of the underlying representation.

The thing with geometric algebra is that the function is the same regardless of what you're working with. In projective geometric algebra, joining two points into a line is the same function as joining a point and line into a plane. Intersections, projections, rejections, and transformations all have the same function, regardless of the objects involved. Reflecting across a plane, around a line, about a point, really any transformation, uses the same A * B / A, formula, regardless of whether B is a point, line, plane or transformation. You still need to learn it, but you only need to learn it once.

>I also think the more abstract you get, the smaller portion of the population can understand and work with it.

That's exactly the point. Geometric algebra is a large step down in abstraction from quaternions, yet explains them fully. The rules of geometric algebra build directly from vector algebra and could be taught in a single lecture, with several semesters worth of material in geometry, calculus and physics that follow from those simple rules. But the people who use quaternions already know quaternions, and the physicists who work with complex matrices already know complex matrices. They think they're standing on isolated towers of knowledge they had to scale by their own hard work, and see geometric algebra as a separate height that offers no advantage on its own, when it was actually a shallower ascent, that once climbed, reveals that what had appeared to be distinct areas of study were actually linked and could be understood together.

Projective geometry and special relativity might seem like different subjects from the outside, or from within either, but when viewed from geometric algebra, they're just algebras with different signatures (whether the basis vectors square to 1, -1, or 0). A Lorentz transformation is little different than rotation around a line, and if you can work with one, your knowledge transfers directly to the other. All built from the building blocks of vectors, no complex matrices or generators required.
An element to this this I'd like to see explored is how reliant some are on social media for most if not all their information. Said platforms already heavily tailor what individuals see in order to maximize engagement.

Not only is it significantly harder to debunk misinformation than to create it (i.e., Brandolini's Law), but there's a good chance on social media platforms that the types of individuals presented with misinformation from some party A will never even be exposed to the debunking information from some party B at all.

So, for many, they're effectively already in a censorship-rich environment. The idea that there is or has ever been a truly free exchange of ideas seems disingenuous at best.
Don't you think making long commutes a crime would put more pressure on a city like Mountain View CA to provide more housing?
the right to strike has been protected by US law for almost 100 years [0]

your opinion about "How the system is supposed to work" is ahistorical and not based in reality.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act_o...
>If you make it free, then everyone will choose the fastest one.. which means it will no longer be faster. So in order for time saving measures to work, you have to require selectivity.

Or you can increase staffing.

> The idea that this is meant to put tranches of society on display is ludicrous.

It may or may not be meant to put it on display, but it shows it for what it is. People who can afford to pay to save time get prioritized through public infrastructure, and people that do not pay have to wait.
Running this exact implementation with 47M jobs processed and counting. SKIP LOCKED is great for VACUUM, and having durable storage with indexes make otherwise expensive patterns like delayed jobs, retries, status updates, "at least once", etc. really easy to implement.
Yeah man, everything about the N9 merged hardware and software well. Like the curved glass and smooth edges going along with the edge swipe interaction.
It’s hard to answer that concisely but one way to answer it concisely might be: mbti are often described as personality types, “The INFP tends to like x and often does y, they dislike z, …” the big five are just five arbitrary dimensions arrived at through factor analysis, they are descriptive more than predictive, they were not developed by Jung, a personality theorist. My point is that the things we can easily measure are not what we think of as personality. Your wife, daughter, dog, are not reducible to the big five. Whatever the extra stuff is, beyond those five dimensions, that’s specific to individuals and persistent, what we call a personality, is a very real thing that cannot be demonstrated empirically. That should humble us to the limits of our ability to understand the human mind, and complicated human mental processes like learning.
The ocean helps. Vancouver, BC is even a bit further north and it’s the same.

One year I was there the flowers were blooming in late January. The middle of a Canadian winter.
And EV mandates that are going to end ICE production lines in a few years. And millions of Chinese EV's at bargain prices, poised to enter the U.S. market.

It does seem like not very prudent for the union to demand a 32-hour work week & 40% pay/benefit increase, at a time when nimbler competitors are waiting in the wings to basically come in and take over the market.
it is hard to convey to people how much of our modern world are cultural beliefs and how much it's shifted. So much is commerce and IP now. it's horrible.

I openly gave a talk in my primary school pre-1992 (when we moved) about overcoming copy protections. no one thought i was doing anything wrong. I believe i connected to the internet from our home in AUS sometime around 1994 (when we moved again) or earlier. I can time it because a mortified little me had to find a way to dispose of a picture of a topless lady i accidentally printed out and i rode all the way down to the local shops to throw out in the bin before we moved. I never realised how cutting edge my father was to get us a home connection at the time.

But anyway i digress. back then it was HOPE that this technology would result in free sharing of art and knowledge that everyone wanted to place online at their own expense. Now it's fear that it will cut people out of commercialisation. Such a depressing dystopia we live in, and such a horrible shift as the Web (and subsequently all our societies) were gradually taken over by commercial culture :(

i can't overstress how important that early internet connection was to me as a child growing up in Australia...
I propose an another strategy. Bail them out and hand over the company to the workers, organized as a equal shareholder corporation.

The workers are the ones that have to most to lose when the company goes under. For the shareholders, it's usually just one of many investments, managed by a fund. They are not really stakeholders. The management has golden parachutes, is well connected and will find new employment soon.

For the workers, it is the job they have been doing for years and years. It's their livelihood. Whereas a new management or new finance shareholders will just seek new ways to squeeze as much money out of the company until it has to be bailed out again, the workers might actually try to keep it running for long time.
Who benefits when, from FAIR data? Part 3: The Public
AFAICT it's a survey based study so there is no definition. It's whatever the participant thinks it means.

Given the esophageal cancer, I'm going to guess that most participants considered a hot drink to be skipping breakfast as a drink isn't food whether or not it has calories.
Yes and no. Without self-awareness, those thoughts are just instinctual desires, e.g. 'need food'. Without self-awareness there won't be much going on in any dreams either.
The legal stuff works. I remember bickering with a Comcast agent once, and after saying “you see, this contract is a legally binding agreement between us…” I got escalated right away.
The Relentless Pursuit of Moore’s Law, Part 2: The S-Curves of Computing
I'd take issue with the statement about no one taking them seriously or being interested in making them. It seems like a pedophiles dream.
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You're making an awful lot of assumptions that contradict our scientific understanding of animals. A being without self-awareness would only have thoughts that are basically instinct, i.e. 'need food', and those thoughts are in no way equally valuable to more complex thoughts.
> but anybody who has been paying attention can see right through it and it's beginning to look as though the legal system might catch up.

Can you explain what you mean here, then?

I’m talking about the current legal system here like you, so I’m wondering what’s fundamentally so new that censorship is the only answer here?
it wont work with a timestamp because each write will have an affected row of 1 beacuse the writes happen at different times. setting a boolean is static
I still don't see it anywhere other than the small caption mentioning ElixirConf (still not obvious that it's meant for Elixir) and the mention of Phoenix + Elixir ecosystem under the "Compatibility" section (way too far down the page).
I wish it would be easy to filter for pure crates, as well as no-std crates on crates.io. I know there is no-std tag but I'm not sure how reliable this is.
The first thing I'd do is to turn on the slow query log (or lower the threshold). Once you have a few logged, run an explain/analyze on them and see if it's an issue with the queries.

On the instance itself, you can check memory usage (free) and cpu usage (top).

Most of the popular graphical clients for PG (I've used pgadmin a little) have some way to show current resource usage as well. PG keeps quite a lot of statistics by default, the manual is quite good: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/performance-tips.htm...

Check the EC2 dashboard for your instance as well, to see if any other resource usage is high.
Have you had a look at the southern border lately? The working class is forced to compete with illegal immigrants.
I could not agree more, and it makes perfect sense to zero out shareholders and recapitalize with workers having substantial ownership when management destroys value sufficiently to require a reorg of the capital structure.
I agree with all of this except for the part about “cron”. Cron jobs in my experience quickly become hard to manage and effectively invisible over time.

Use almost anything else to manage job scheduling….
We've been running a large web application backend written in Elixir for over three years now. It's awesome and we've also rewritten some of our microservices to utilize Distributed Erlang. No need for a service mesh this way. :-)
> I guess the standard Ruby compiler doesn't allow you to spit out binaries

Ruby is an interpreted language, programs are not compiled (except for the JIT compiler).

I wonder what makes this different from mruby[1] which seems to be very well supported for many years.

[1] https://mruby.org/
If you EQ your headphones, e.g. to match the Harman curve[0] to better replicate the sound of loudspeakers in a moderately treated room, you'll probably find they need a lot of bass boost. This means you have to turn everything down to avoid clipping, which hurts the signal to noise ratio. If you only listen to low dynamic range music you still might not notice it, but for high dynamic range music, like orchestral music with natural sounding mastering, you will probably be able to hear noise from low quality DACs in the quiet parts.

Fortunately, good DACs are cheap now, e.g. the Apple USB to 3.5mm adapter [1].

[0] https://headphonesaddict.com/harman-curve/

[1] https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r...
I love Italian food. But even though the cuisine is known for tomato sauce-based dishes, those recipes didn’t really exist until the 17-18th century regionally and 19th century in general.

Pasta was introduced to Italy earlier than tomatoes, but the toppings were pretty strange compared to today’s tastes.

https://www.trafalgar.com/real-word/history-pasta/
Just do user interviews of FAANG devs that work in Ruby or something?
Office team is already on that path, I suppose they fit the bill.
Better than no work
You can move the cursor up maybe 10 lines from where you start before going off the edge of the keyboard.

Now try moving down 10 lines from where you start. Hopefully you will see the issue with starting from the spacebar at the bottom edge of the screen.
There are already regulations requiring ppe and ventilation that aren't followed, they are already dying despite regulations.

I'm not saying that we need more delays. I'm also not saying that there isn't room for more regulation here, but just slapping any poorly considered regulation down may not solve the problem.
> A "bumbling amateur film exercise" it may be, but Fear and Desire is
also a blueprint for everything he went on to do, and that may be the
real reason he wanted to keep it a secret.

What makes film directors, composers and maybe some writers and
philosophers interesting is something that you don't see until end. A
60 or 70 year career as one long project of psychoanalysis, with the
seeds in earlier works getting ever better formed and expressed later.
So it's a privilege to live outside a great person's lifespan and see
the "full works" as it were.

Here's where I cannot see AI comparing. Even if an AI could make one
brilliant box-office killer film every day, using generative scripts,
the hottest CGI and so on, those movies could not collectively compare
with a human who is working out a deep question through the medium of
an art and audience.
Dip in Tech Salaries in U.S.
Impossible to skip breakfast unless you never eat. Breakfast is simply the first meal of the day when you break fasted state.
if the final outcome is that everyone will be on strike eventually, the automakers would be wise to just cut to the chase and lock them out until resolved.
Because they are trading off in this instance: lower productivity (that to be fair, they have trouble measuring) vs tax breaks and/or high values of commercial real estate the corporation owns.

I'm guessing about the other side of the trade off, but I'm sure there's something with an easy dollar value vs employee productivity, which is much harder to give a dollar value of.
The invasion was a follow-up of events going back to 2014 and earlier. It didn't happen out of the blue.
Currently Croatia manages this territory as its own until the dispute is resolved; so while they don't claim that this is their de jure land in perpetuity, they clearly assert (and demonstrate with their actions as seen in this article) that their law applies there right now.
> Hollywood is not really in transition

Bob Iger, the Disney CEO, said TV "may not be core to Disney."

https://fortune.com/2023/07/13/disney-traditional-tv-bob-ige...
Terraria also moved, in a similar move.
https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Terraria_Wiki
Without commenting on all the complex dynamics of WFH vs the office, I can say that I, personally, enjoy working in the office more. I am an individual contributor software engineer, without millions in equity in anything.
How am I only discovering this now..
If true, would that still hold now? There is so much politics and polarization and agendas - I'm not aware in Linux specifically but in tech and open source generally. Without benevolent dictators I think a lot of projects would fragment very badly and leave big openings for companies like Microsoft. I think we're going to see that as a failure mode in big open source projects more and more.
> Hollywood is not really in transition.

This is not true, the pay and corporate culture in Hollywood has changed dramatically in the last decade, there’s a ton being written about this right now.

The streaming services are a huge part of Hollywood now because they’ve represented the growth while the networks have faded as people cut the cord. All kinds of folks have been seeing the stability of their jobs disappear in the Netflix era.
A New Dinosaur Discovery Challenges ‘Everything We Think We Know’
Does anyone else think that if news of underwater life on Europa being found is announced someday the reaction from the general public will be something like “Meh, cool. Now what about the economy or who is dating who?”

New creatures being discovered in Earth’s deepest oceans don’t really even make most news. Europa is just a deeper ocean.
At this point you are either just trolling or being a hypocrite

There isn’t a single organization that doesn’t do marketing one way or another (just putting a sign outside a restaurant is marketing, maybe you also consider that to be tricking people and playing games?)

Pretty sure that without marketing you would either not have a job or not get paid

So you are actually fine with marketing making you money, just as long as you are not the one doing it. Sounds like denying reality

Btw, marketing != advertising, and 95% of people don’t even have the time, budget or large enough audience to do any kind of A/B testing
Wow I've looked up stuff on the vampire survivors wiki on fandom a lot in the last year and this comment surprised me. Going to that website in regular ol' chrome without an adblocker was an experience indeed. I had no idea. You might find joy just putting a little bit of time into your browser setup. I was blissfully unaware of how bad that user experience was. Hope this helps!
What the heck?!? Don't they want to deter crime with harsh punishments?
It's a cool project, but I'm not really sure what the point is. I'm doubtful that you could ever match the full expressiveness of Ruby in C++ or any compiled language. If you wanna play with it because it's fun, that's fine, but I doubt that it would ever be able to do much with most of the Ruby code out there.
Taxes, import duties. For example, the early US government (excluding the slave south) was fairly libertarian.
I just expect bad service from any company these days.

Enterprise tried to claim I damaged two tyres on my rental car. They the tyres changed and tried to charge me, and because of the way the rental was organised by my car dealership this would have gone through my own insurance impacting my no claims discount.

They sent me pictures of the damage as proof, but when awfully quiet when I sent back stills from the video I took before even touching the car showing the exact same damage. They didn’t seem interested in clarifying if they had sent me out with illegal tyres since the same damage apparently warranted changing the tyres on return.
Hydra – a Framework for configuring complex applications
That's how it works. By default it does cache all the mail headers and additionally all the message content if you allow it to. If the message are limited to say, the last 90 days, it will ask to load more from server. First way is content but store heavy.