skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely do not agree that (a) is obviously true, for several reasons, so you are going to need to clarify and then provide some evidence to back that claim.

1) What does "understand objective reality" mean, specifically?

2) Please provide evidence that we currently do not "understand objective reality."

3) Please provide evidence that we do not possess the ability to _ever_ "understand objective reality."

> we all operate on it

[citation needed]

> prayer is in the domain of religious faith, so it's meaningless for a non-religious person to test it out

This is extremely presumptuous. What is your rationale that Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was "non-religious" at the time she conducted the experiment? (Hint: you'll need to show that she had a complete lack of religious belief, not only a lack of belief in the religion(s) you're familiar with.)

EDIT: there's also a whole load of other fallacious crap in your comment that I haven't even addressed. We cannot assume the universe was created at all for any purpose; atheism has nothing to do with "random accidents" or any supposed meaning attached to them; having no reason to assume something does not imply its negation, etc etc.
I have been self-employed under a Polish business (działalność gospodarcza) for the last few years. With income tax plus mandatory pension and health contributions, over a third of my income goes to taxes or other mandatory fees (like the requirement to have a licensed accountant keep your books). It really isn’t much different than most other EU countries. And of course one pays a comparable VAT on shopping.

Often in Poland people say “Why are you running your business here? Base it in Czech Republic!” The grass always is greener on the other side.
Since you single out Google Meet, have you tried updating Firefox? There was a recent bugfix -- I think on the Google side -- that improved performance and unlocked a number of broken features for Firefox users.

https://www.howtogeek.com/google-meet-is-finally-being-fixed...
That's true. I could pay might electric bill without a fee.

https://utilities-self-service.ebill.seattle.gov/SeattleUtil...

Even PSE doesn't fee it. I guess why I bothered with checking account is that my credit cards expire far more often than I change bank accounts, I had a nasty fee once from Comcast because I didn't update my auto pay credit card in time.
> The big problem is; if you have a thread reading from a socket, how can you ever interrupt it if you wish to do so?

Poll + an eventfd (or another socket). IMO, signals create more problems than they solve.
This was a significant problem for me across a few consulting clients. What ended up making things significantly better for me was doing my SSH over GPG: https://opensource.com/article/19/4/gpg-subkeys-ssh This way, I can create and delete GPG subkeys all I want, export the SSH files for upload to a client's system. When it comes time to authenticate, I only ever have to unlock a single secret, which in my case is my GPG keys on my Yubikey devices: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide
Afaik source code is open, maybe you can contribute if you think that's that easy
To that end, I'm kinda surprised it is a low wing. High wing makes for better visibility for scouting and is easier for less trained pilots to fly.
I am sorry but you can not work in the company or build a company in the country and avoid taxes. Your taxes go directly into these things. All the rest of the society has to pay taxes, they can't avoid taxes on their car via an elaborate foreign holding structure. The only way to change it to your liking is via politics, or build it in a different country respecting their rules. Get involved in local politics, especially the state of the school system and many other things are decided on a very low level that can be directly influenced by your district.

Everyone contributes and we get back free education (our universities are still good btw. and for certain topics really good) and from what I hear about schools from parents they still work, even with expanded care times. Bürgergeld exists if you really hit a rough spot. Super cheap public transit (50€ per month!) and autobahn is still existing.

You say that what Germans lack in competence they make up with arrogance, but it's really to complain about everything and be super pessimistic all the time. You can not just choose to avoid taxes, that's just highly unethical and unfair to everyone who's paying their share and super selfish. I stand by my word:

F*k you if you avoid taxes
> I wonder what the strategic plan Microsoft had in mind originally was? Was it really as simple as “we are all about business, that is the business network”?

I thought that’s what they bought Yammer for - but then they also bought LinkedIn.
Assuming you're comparing two chips with the same architecture.

Intel Prescott chips hit just shy of 4ghz and their performance certainly doesn't hold up.
Point of sale, like every other taxed commodity.

Asking corporations to track their supply chain for their carbon usage is a complete waste of time. All the information a firm needs is already reflected in the price of its goods/services.

This is why economists are in near universal agreement that a carbon tax is the optimal policy. It’s dead simple to implement
as it only requires tracking the sales of producers.
ELMA :-)
It should be the norm, but it is what it is. I hate to have to give a response like this.
My paycheck has not increased in size relative to increase of prices of necessities. Every dollar going to necessities is a dollar that can't go to discretionary spending.

Lower discretionary spending for a long enough time means growth slows. The prices traders are willing to buy stocks is a function of a company's future growth prospects. Slowing growth rates makes for a recession.

Too many politicos define "strong economy" in terms of unemployment rates because they're simple scalar values. Full employment with high prices doesn't make for an environment where anyone can eke out margins.
That doesn't even read that bad IMO. They are recognizing that they're organizationally bloated today and are laying people off to be more cost-effective. Pretty straight forward.
Most reports of GDP growth use "real" dollars, that is inflation adjusted.
Those continue to show growth.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1
I mean, the math may be a bit off since measuring GDP and measuring inflation are both imperfect things, but they do try generally.
Biggest online corporate circle jerk there is.
> That’s the malice you are assuming.

Again, that's not malice. I'm kind of wondering if our understanding of what "malice" is might be different though.
I know we're chatting on Discord, but figured i'd leave the link to what I was working on a couple of months ago here if anyone else is interested: https://gist.github.com/Tostino/3f0b0887591ed06aa9f54ca2ddbd...
Why do you find the title misleading/clickbait?
I believe the US is near the top in second homes per capita as well, and near at the top in owning additional homes on wheels (RVs).
Who's claiming that it is?

Why are people in such a rush to shit on this company?
I like SAC (and to a lesser extent SAC:2) as much as the Movie, but they are very different. They are some of the best cyberpunk in any medium.

I think the manga, while decent, is inferior to both.

Edit: and yes, they are all separate universes.
from the YouTube description...

"""
While usually reduced to short clips, the full hour-long debate – presented here in its entirety – is a remarkable historical document in its own right. Conducted in front of a large, almost entirely white and predominantly male audience at the Cambridge Union, the encounter offers a sense of campus intellectual life in the mid-1960s through the atmosphere in the room, the things that made people laugh, and the particular references made by the debaters. After the always eloquent Baldwin evokes his personal experience to describe a perpetually disorienting and demeaning existence for African Americans, Buckley responds with facts and figures – as well as an ad hominem shot at Baldwin’s speaking voice – to argue that there’s an American Dream available to all those who would pursue it. In the end, Baldwin prevailed, earning an ardent standing ovation and a landslide victory in the Union’s vote on the motion raised.
"""
Usually they out-compete yours because they burn coal and you have to buy solar, they commute in packed trains while you drive tesla to work, they live in tiny apartments, while your house has a backyard and frontyard.
Perhaps there is a flaw in the measurement of nominal GDP, or in the measurement of the real GDP price deflator
Yes, unless something like the Texas Two-step divestment scheme is also available to that hypothetical entity. Then the entity which owes the debt would no longer be the one with the revenue/assets.
Thou dost maketh a most excellent argument, yet methinks thou mightst have carried thy reason to its just termination. The grandeur of the English tongue did attain its apogee in the time of Shakespeare; therefore, 'tis meet that we should converse and pen our words in the idiom of that age, rather than employ the clumsy, degenerate form that hath dwindled through the succeeding years.
> Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform?

This has been the case for years, IMO. I noticed a rampant increase in it through the 2016 election and everything that followed.
is there something similar for aws identities?
It can, but not retrospectively.
It seems like the half-life in water is less than that in soil:

>* From literature studies, glyphosate’s half-life in surface waters and soil ranges from 2 to 91 days and from 2 to 215 days, respectively (Battaglin et al. 2014; Castro Berman et al. 2018).

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8827352/
I get the sentiment, but I think a batter example is needed. Telnet is still very useful for troubleshooting purposes.
Food stamps get taken away if you make too much ("the welfare trap").
I think that's probably fair for FAANG-scale; if google bans you, that's impactful enough (and they're big enough) that having some kind of appeal process is reasonable.

For every website, even on a free plan, I think that's a bit ridiculous.
> Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but not everybody is bothered by that. Most languages popular nowadays (C#, Javascript/Typescript, Java, C++, etc.) are popular partly because most devs can jump between them pretty easily.

Definitely not defending Linkedin, though. A coworker of mine writes posts about his stance on abortion. I don't know what Linkedin's policy is about it, but it's super awkward, and I just stay far away.
That hasn't happened at BC.

What has happened, for example: listening parties. Not a massive feature, but no doubt something that required a few person-years of effort to get right (and they did).

What hasn't happened but should: "buy my wishlist, now" (again, not crazy hard, but probably a good few person-months to get right.

BC's basic page layout and page flow have not changed noticeably in years. Thankfully!
>Well most people see LinkedIn as a central place to store resumes.

Or as a self-updating Rolodex of which there were quite a few at one point. Obviously it can serve other purposes as well but that's all I've ever used it for.
But they won’t change me to another team because some Spotify model and long lived team bullshit and I’m forced in the sidelines
The market is:

- Down 1.x% the last month

- Up 2.x% YTD

- About equal over 6months

- Up 13% over last year

That's "tanking"? The article talks about 52-week lows. The market is up nearly 13% over that 52 week period.

How is this even newsworthy? Yes, the market goes up and down.

The next time the market goes up 1.X% will they post an article about how much the market is "surging" and how strong the market is?
Looks like they are using Mission Planner in their video, suggesting Ardupilot.
I abandoned LinkedIn years ago because of the incessant bottom-feeder recruiter spam it got me. I've only grown happier with that decision over time.
More discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37848074
You are right, stdlib doesn't have much of stringly-typing.

However the core language way of dealing with enums for example is extremely weak. It's common to have a typed enum on a struct. When parsing the struct, random string (or whatever the alias is) values sneak in and the only thing you can do is validate.
What? Yes you can. I do it all the time.

import code; code.interact(local=vars(foo))

where `foo` is the module object you want to set as current. This launches a subREPL in that module's namespace. (EOF kills the subREPL and returns to main.)

Python has a debugger in the standard library that can also do post-mortem inspections.
Why do you need multiple keys for "a few consulting clients" to begin with?

Yubikey's have a limited number of slots for GPG keys by the way... I'm curious to know how you stuffed as many subkeys as you want into the single AUT subkey slot (or even stuffed subkeys usable for authentication into all 4 of the slots it gives you)...
Maybe we can, but I don't think we should. So called "trusted hardware" is and will be used against users (DRM, WEI, forced subscriptions, making it impossible to repair the device and so on).
Indeed?
Just wanted to share a good experience.

I love music and good sound but didn't know how to enjoy Spotify with my setup. I have an older hifi amplifier with great speakers and I was searching for a way to stream Spotify in an easy way. For a year now I use an old Pi3 with a HifiBerry dac.

I installed HiFiBerryOS [1], which includes Spotify and works OOTB. The HifiBerry get's recognized by Spotify apps on your local network. It is not a bluetooth streamer. Your phone or laptop is only a remote, once the music plays you could disconnect, the music will play forever...

So if you never heard of it and don't know how to how to make good use of your old analog amp... have a look! :)

[1] https://www.hifiberry.com/hifiberryos/
Once you stop looking at Intel the situation is a lot less dire. The x86 perf/watt problem is primarily an Intel problem not an x86 problem.
... and this is the problem.

Any license that doesn't help feed the non-free SaaS ecosystem is a non-free license.
This is because the American home buyer isn't competing with other American home buyers anymore.

They're competing with VCs trying to build developments and companies trying to turn a profit. Gone are the days of the "Fixer Upper" that Tim Taylor would buy, drop a reasonable amount in repairs, preform the repairs themselves, and then turn a modest profit.

Everyone who buys a house today wants the value to go up. Nobody who can afford a house needs one. They are not commodities that you utilize and repair. They are now investments, vehicles to grow your money.

That's great for all the snobbish out of touch retirees. But the middle class needs somewhere to hang their hat so they can rest up and make it to work tomorrow.
And you know the criteria used for data requests? Do you know whether by virtue of a piece of metadata whether I (an innocent) would be included in a data request?

If you can’t protect non-Tor users from wrongful classification by the government, then you dang well better protect the privacy of everyone, whether you like it or not.
yep, agree on that, don't see a better way to react
It does mention Kowloon:

> [...] in nearly every other respect both the imagery and soulful mood depicted in the film mirror reality very closely – especially when contrasting the modern skyscrapers of Central with some of the older neighbourhoods in Sheung Wan and Kowloon.
Which the sysadmin knows, because they reviewed the changelog for the major system upgrade they just did. You wouldn’t install a new major version of a database without any precautions either, right?
This is one of the comments from the article, though I have no data to support this claim. Might be interesting if that's the case.

>The people likely to buy and iphone and sign up for an apple card are not carrying balances and racking up interest.
[dupe]

Discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37887049
The article is talking about consumer stocks, not the overall market.
The title says they were fired, but vercel says appropriate action was taken. Eg, it could be a reprimand. Did I miss that bit?
Tell me one area that has not gotten more political or partisan in recent years.
I'm 100% convinced the traffic lights in my city are times so that you catch every red light. I can see the antenna that communicates with the next light. And when I get to the next light it turns red just before I get to it. Every. Single. Time.

I assume they're trying to collect more taxes from gasoline. Either that or they are about as stupid as you would expect from people in this part of the world.
Been using DDG since the early release, but recently results started to get strange. A lot of relevant results are suddenly on bottom or second page while the top ones are usually content farms. I am not sure what kind of algorithm they use but rot is already visible.

Unfortunately though, bing results had suddenly improved a lot recently, which is surprising as I presumed the DDG also uses content from Bing, but they also now serve their own content.

I briefly also tried Qwant and the results are fairly ok ish.. The other Ecosia seems to have decided to spoil the interface design entirely and injects strange ads like the early days of google rot, so didn’t try it much.

Alternatively, I am finding Brave search more tolerable with results being relevant and less content farmy. I tried Kagi a bit and results are pretty nice but it seems to degrade a bit when I search for non-technical stuff there. But they just started and given their duration in service their results are pretty awesome.

P.S. Not affiliated with any of these search engines, just sharing my experience.
So the default priority that it shows to search engine crawlers is the wrong one?
Super-long-term stable Linux Kernel arrives
I use MATE, an old desktop environment descendant from GNOME 2. If I apply the principle of "It should last at least about as long as it's been around...", I can hopefully use it in peace :) (It'll probably look the same in another 20 years!)

I really don't see the benefit of almost anything else that came later (I did add an app launch shortcut that I rarely use). I also autohide most of the UI by default (bars and menus), so it's just there to do its basic function and allow me to focus. Performance is excellent.

That said, I think the main difference is mostly from community-focused development, it tends to bring out genuine usability concerns (which is why I think most *nix DEs work fine).
I think the issue can be party broken down to this: UX != HCI.

I can't remember the last time I sat in a meeting with someone with the title "interface designer". Everyone in this realm today is a "UX something" and commonly it seems these people have never:

- heard the term HCI or know what it actually stands for.

- read and/or internalized the human interface guidelines for the platform(s) they're building for (there is a lot of overlap but still).

- thought in way that puts ease of use/discoverability/context dependence front and center, over anything else. How to do something seems often arbitrary/there seem to be no HCI-based guide rails by which decisions are taken.

That said, there are exceptions of course, but they seem rarer by the year.

One issue is that we now have a generation of young people that just grok stuff because they grew up completely digital and with apps that already have arguably crappy interfaces.

I.e. they can and will work with even the worst interface or something that shuns all standards/guidelines of the platform/OS it runs under.

When you then have people from this generation getting jobs as "UX something" you have self a perpetuating loop that inevitably leads to the increased enshittification of user interfaces.

And no one is really to blame for it.
I'm surprised it took this long for LinkedIn to do layoffs. The amount of recruiters looking for candidates, tech companies hiring, etc. has gone down since the beginning of the year. As such, the income from LinkedIn that is tied to job postings has decreased. In order to continue looking good on paper they have decided then to layoff employees to cut costs.

The same thing has happened at other companies that make money from job postings.
> For example, I buy significantly less beef than I did five years ago because it is now too expensive. Putting less weight on beef prices because of the reduction in consumption would indicate that inflation is less than it actually is.

If people spend on item X less or no more, why would it be included in the index at the old weight? For any given period of time being measured, the basket of goods and their weights should reflect what people are actually doing. Why would you run a model that samples the wrong things?

This is one reason why (e.g.) StatCan went from updating their basket every 2-3 years, to annually in the last little while: spending habits shifted drastically in over the course of the pandemic.

* https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/statistical-programs/document/2...

Substitution is a known source of (possible) error and there are attempts to take it into account:

> 9.22 The other potential source of error with respect to the basket weights is referred to as upper-level substitution bias. This bias arises because of the use of the Lowe formula, which is an asymmetrically weighted fixed-basket price index. Because the weights are obtained from a year that precedes the price reference period, the expenditures are not likely to be fully representative of consumer spending patterns in the price observation periods. This is because consumers tend to adjust their spending habits in response to changes in relative prices, buying more of the products whose prices have fallen or risen less rapidly, while reducing their purchases of products whose prices have increased the most. In other words, they substitute towards relatively cheaper products from relatively more expensive ones. The asymmetrically weighted fixed-basket formula of the CPI does not account for these types of changes in consumer spending until a basket update is performed.

> 9.23 Unlike the Lowe formula, there are five known symmetrically weighted price index formulaeNote which are theoretically free from upper level substitution bias. These index formulae use expenditures from both the price reference period 0 and the price observation period t and therefore account for product substitutions that consumers may make. In this regard they are representative of consumer spending for the periods in which price change is being calculated.

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/62-553-x/2023001/chap-9-...

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/62-553-X
Further to that, my feed have been filled with Certification posts. Folks would boast about their 3 hour Certification courses with long cringe posts! And LinkedIn would not stop it, because they need to sell LinkedIn Learning!
In 20 years of running Linux on spinning rust I've not had to fsck. *Knocks on wood*. My first Linux FS was ext3.

Correction: I realized I've run it in vain attempts to recover SD cards. It always failed.
Congrats!

We’ve got a group with other visionary founders / Unicorn founders that might be great to have you a part of.

A@175g.com is my personal email.
The article doesn't mention it, but part of the answer is equity risk premium: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/valuation/eq...

If I can get ~5% risk free return from treasuries, I need to believe I can get MORE than 5% return on equity to pay for the risk. So prices have to fall.

I'm surprised prices haven't fallen more given we've gone from 0% risk free return in a short period.