skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't understand market making and it's not ok to pretend you do.
The part that gets me is the insistence on technology-as-purely-good-and-beneficial and an obsession with population growth (if you’ve not read to the end: yes, the population-growth stuff drops off a little in the middle, but by the end “obsession” is definitely a fair characterization) without ever addressing that technology is the reason population growth is leveling off.

I disagree with basically all of what he was getting at with those things, but the pointed failure to even note the tension there was downright funny by the end. Putting aside my material disagreements with the whole thrust of that argument, it’s just comically inept on its own terms.

“Technology is one of three ways to increase production, and another is population growth… uh, actually, I just noticed, as the alert reader may have, that that whole bit was dumb, it’s just technology… also population growth especially is very good… what do you mean, ‘and why is population growth declining’?”
Literally it was worse than almost anything I've seen on reddit.

Idk if they put a stop to it or not but it was madness
> Having fuck you money means you can make the ethical choice next time.

If you weren't able to make the "ethical choice" the first time, you almost certainly won't make it the next time, either. All of the motivations that informed your first choice will equally inform your next.
I wish I had the link to the YouTube video where a researcher described one of the main reasons why MYCIN failed. Because when you optimize for number of patients per doctor, it is a lot more cost effective to prescribe a broad spectrum antibiotic that kills all pathogens and move on to the next patient than it is to spend time with one patient and MYCIN to narrow down to the exact pathogen.
If you design a system that can only really last for a single generation or two it's not really an appropriate model for a civilization is it?

The USSR had 3 decades of solid growth? That's cute. The U.S. has been booming for hundreds of years at this point.

The US economy is not centrally planned. Government expenditure is 37 percent of GDP, not even a majority. Even much of the government expenditures that do occur are not planned (ie a social security recipient is not dictated how they must spend it).

The USSR from the 20s to 60s made decisions based on what was good for the leaders of the USSR and what would hold power. Stalin ran the Gulag from 1929 through 1953. This was not just a form of modern slavery. People died by the millions. Up to 7 million people died in a Soviet famine from 1932-1933. The U.S. may have had bread lines at the time, but people weren't dying of mass starvation. There were a number of political purges in the 30s that cost a million or so Soviets their lives. Another famine cost 1 to 1.5 million Soviets their life in 1948. Millions more were force relocated.
No doubt there are people doing that for awhile now.
I think this needs a close reading by a historian or something. I'm certainly not qualified to do it but still there are so many lines that even to my layman's understanding seem like just obvious, fortune cookie horseshit (ironic, given how aggressively the author is touting "truth-seeking"). The Nietzsche stuff reads like something a stoner freshman engineer would post on /r/atheism.

> Our enemy is the ivory tower, the know-it-all credentialed expert worldview, indulging in abstract theories, luxury beliefs, social engineering, disconnected from the real world, delusional, unelected, and unaccountable – playing God with everyone else’s lives, with total insulation from the consequences.

Coming from the mouth of Andreeson-Horowitz this is...beyond rich. Didn't they just hand Adam Neumann a massive stack of cash (and to do nothing but extract rent from urban economies, no less)? Their entire milieu does nothing but play god and dick around with abstract theories. How is The Precautionary Principal delusional but cryptocurrency not "a luxury belief"?

This whole post smacks of a god-complex masquerading as a commitment to rationality. Clearly Marc Andreeson knew what he was doing at some point, but if this is representative of the current thought leadership in Big Tech I think we're heading towards some dark years. Victory has defeated us.
They may not have been losing money, but perhaps not making as much as they had predicted/wanted.

We'll likely never see the numbers, but I'd be curious how valuable the Apple Card franchise is vs. the Costco card franchise (now run by Citi).
But how can you pay the ceo millions when 22,000 other people need to make a living wage?
Ah thanks, yes, it doesn't mention how much time they spent charging. Although it does say the panels are extendable when stationary.
The Finnish word kalsarikännit means "that feeling when you are going to get drunk at home, alone, in your underwear — with no intention of going out" (I am given to understand)
Replying for better reach.
Quobuz’s search is also world class terrible. I only use google to search them. But ya they do have a ton of stuff in lossless quality!
And who are the highest bidders?
> inherently worthless

I think you are misusing this phrase. Gold has the second best electrical conductance, is virtually indestructible, highly biodegradable, a superb heat conductor, and almost impervious to the effects of water, air, and oxygen.

This is why it is heavily used in the aerospace industry and is vital to the exploration of Space.

I'll emphasize a prior point for clarity. Gold Can’t Be Destroyed, only Dissolved.
So cool to see Coolify on hacker news' fp. I spoke a lot of times with the guy behind this platform (andras) on Twitter... I mean X & he's really nice.
A human on the internet loves to argue, stand and prove a point, simply because they can. Guess what the AI's were trained on? People talking on the internet.
I really don’t get why all of the fanfare and hand wavey attempts at outreach are necessary here. You have a well defined problem: high rates of property crime and drug use. How to solve it? Maybe try what they did in El Salvador, since that’ll actually accomplish something

The impression that I get from this article is that the city has too many bullshitters in it to actually solve concrete problems: the same problem of a company with way too much management
Can We Make Ethical AI? – Philosophy Tube [video]
FWIW, I'm a staff backend engineer, I've been involved in hiring many times and I've never paid attention to certifications.
This is dumb.
It should only changw to benefit others, not to just make it worse for you as a driver.
> Believe it or not you can buy that

I don't believe it. That is, I believe it's true for some people, but not all. It's not true for me.

Buying stuff is not an accomplishment.
They're paid to be the hatchet man, not for writing this. When the shareholders tell them to swing the ax, that's their job.
What if technology has worked out as well as it has because of techno-pessimism? I.e. what if it's because we're suspicious of change that most change has been positive? Maybe filter out the bad ideas through a slow but necessary process.
> What is your meaning of life?

I’m not sure I understand the question. If you’re asking about the purpose of my life, at a biological level it’s to procreate, and on top of that I additionally make it a goal for myself to 1) try my hardest to leave the world
a better place than it was when I arrived, and 2) try my hardest to raise children that are decent people and set similar goals for themselves.

> Do you see any reason to be a good person instead of being an egoistic one, where the latter would benefit you?

Of course, I try to take actions that contribute to the well being of others or humanity as a whole whenever I can. I think we can all have well being as a goal without resorting to any unsubstantiated religious dogma.

I’m curious to know what you think any of this has to do with “the meaning of the universe” (whatever that means).
Industry-wide unions have been stomped out over time, some by direct actions from companies or the government, some from corruption, some from propaganda campaigns. It is one of the many sad parts of being in the U.S.
Every release has an upgrade guide, like this: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade74.html

Make backups, make sure you can restore them, then just step through it one version at a time. Things got a lot easier around 6.6 when sysupgrade was introduced.
Depends on the situation.

My current job is primarily using a new-to-me language (C#) on a platform I hadn't used in 10 years (Windows), and though I have some buyers remorse (Windows is still terrible), everybody was on the same page about my skills, I've picked up C# easily enough, and it's worked out fine so far.
Is this basically https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ but for SSH? If so, that is great. In the past, it has been great to point my sysadmin team at that site and say "My goal is get to an A+ on SSLLabs, the site will tell us what settings to tweak to get there" or to tell external stakeholders "SSLLabs gives us an A+, now stop telling me that LetsEncrypt is somehow not good enough". I'd love to have a simple tool I can point at my internal SSH servers and get a single letter grade like that.
please, even if they were caught by "the authorities", it would just be a fine of such low monetary value that it will be considered cost of doing business rather than punishment.

people don't get charged with criminal counts for something they did as an employee of a company
4chan is way better than HN, sorry.
Is there a place you share your playlists? Would be curious to have a listen.
Aim 65 Summary Card Manual
Exactly what I’ve seen. I don’t think anyone can afford to become a farmer at these prices unless they already own the land
Gold is not "highly biodegradable". Are you confusing that with biocompatible?
OCR spelling correction is hard
This is a pretty crazy post full of misunderstandings and misinformation.

For example, the existence of government spending does not mean the country's economy is centrally planned. Central planning refers to a very specific type of system where the central government plans the minutiae of the economy, such as how many widgets will be produced per year and how much they will be sold for. In Western economies, those decisions are made by market participants.
> do something with garbage collection (but what? I’m confused about
this still.)

It's an almost hilarious technique. In a garbage collected,
multi-threaded virtual machine the runtime may at some point decide it
is time for garbage collection. However, all threads must first be
stopped because allocating memory while the garbage collector runs
leads to badness and/or the garbage collector moves objects referenced
by threads.

There is no direct way to signal to a thread that it should stop and
having the thread poll some flag would hurt performance. Instead the
compiler inserts dummy instructions (safepoints) at the top of every loop body or
function entry point which writes to a page the runtime controls:

mov [addr], eax

Then when it's time to stop all threads, it just write protects the
page! Every thread eventually stumbles upon the bomb. Boom! SIGSEGV!
Boom! SIGSEGV! Boom! When every thread has exploded the garbage
collector can run in peace. Then the runtime removes the write
protection and resumes executing all threads. Something very similar
is used on Windows (though I think it's called events and not signals)
and sometimes you use read-protected pages rather than write-protected
ones, but the principle is the same.
Yeah unfortunately that is the case for most products. Only if they are overwhelmingly popular such as Apple products does this usually prove to be the case.
God please no. I already have to yell talk to a human to get my problem solved with support phone calls. I really would rather not get spammed by AI bullshit. If you're trying recruit me, at least have the respect for my time to get a human to talk to me.
Oh that sucks. Luckily here the city even has flyers on how to have more natural lawns, which works naturally against grubs etc.

We have lots of dandelions, especially close to the street. So do the neighbors though they are the religious once a week mowers.

The trick I find is to let them be beautiful while it's mostly a sea of yellow and then mow as it turns into just ugly stalks with blown away seeds. And have a hedgerow so that you only need to mow the part between that and the street.

I've also sown in clover on purpose. Something many will try to eradicate. Stays green much longer and better in summers when the grass just turns brownish. Some neighbors around us irrigate. I refuse to do that. Very sandy soil to begin with (there's sand pits around) and grass on top of the septic system just doesn't thrive in hot dry summers. So we either get clover green, white and red or brown. Their choice.
I don't see the issue? No one is asking you to replace your PC with this. Simply an alternative way to play. Input latency is not an issue as people seem to make it out. Yes it exists but the perception is so slight that you forget about it after 5 minutes as you get lost in the game you are playing.

Cloud gaming is super cool tech and convince wise, but not a replacement or a service needed if you already have a gaming setup you are comfortable with.
As someone who has been on the maintainer side of a bug bounty program - they are a mountain of BS with 1% being diamonds. This report probably didn't make much of a difference.
I don’t see Bandcamp having nearly the same network effects as those social media sites tho. Yes there are some elements — trust I think is the big one — but there’s very little if any relationship model on Bandcamp.
Which is fundamentally different from how our brain chains together thoughts when not actively engaging in meta thinking how? Especially once chain of thought etc. is applied.
https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/cji/2-PenalLaw/265/265-01(9)...
https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2021/S14A
https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2021/S13A
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/080823zr_dc8...
A couple of good examples of "good usability benefits everyone":

The company OXO makes kitchen gadgets originally designed for reduced mobility (i.e. older people) but now popular with everyone.

The ADA: having, for example, a ramp, doesn't just help people in wheelchairs: if I have something difficult to carry (or am using a cart) or have a temporary injury that makes steps hard to navigate I'm glad there's a ramp.

In many ways I consider the vast majority of designers and architects to be working away from their putative goals, instead pursuing egotism.
While not as efficient as Apple Silicon, I've had good experiences with AMD processors in mobile hardware, noticeably more better than Intel as well.
I love PHP and I'm unironically doubling down on it.
if you dig this, give podcast "Drifting Off with Joe Pera" a try - similar idea
Salaries in India have increased a lot-- they used to be one-tenth that of Silicon Valley but now they are more than one-third and closing in on one-half
I don't see it as a problem to make a mobile-first experience. A volume setting takes up screen real estate and is really not needed on mobile.

Perhaps it will be added to desktop Shorts as the product matures.
>> The Morogoro-based aircraft company, Airplanes Africa Limited (AAL), displayed the first-ever assembled aircraft in Tanzania on Wednesday.

First ever commercially marketed aircraft. There must have been someone in the country that once put together a kit aircraft, an ultralight, or even a balloon. No doubt countless have been "assembled" in Tanzania.
It's true that for NPR the effects have been negligible (overall traffic dropped by 1%).

However, this is mostly a function of the fact that less than 2% of NPR's traffic came from Twitter in the first place. Even if it lost all of its traffic from Twitter, the effect could still have been described as "negligible".

But when you look at this in terms of percentages, NPR's traffic from Twitter dropped by over 50% after it deleted its account. So another publisher that's considering making this move should expect to see its Twitter-sourced traffic to drop by a similar percentage.
I live on a street that is two-way for 99% of its length and one way for the last bit ("do not enter" at that end). The purpose is to prevent drivers from using a neighborhood street as a cut-through to avoid traffic on the parkway.

It sounds like the lights timing as described is similar: make these streets less advantageous in hopes that drivers will take other streets (presumably a ring road in the upthread case).
I don't have CKAD, but it seems to prove more practical skills than theoretical skills. I think it has value.
I wouldn't be so sure that SA_RESTART is the right thing, because using SA_RESTART means you have to do actual work inside your signal handlers. The nice thing about EINTR is your signal handlers can be dumb, and just set a "got_signal = true" variable, so you know 100% for sure your signal handler is signal safe. Then your read() loop just ignores EINTR and checks that variable, to know when it needs to do work.
curious why this hasn't happened more often?

(edit: if it's a real problem and it damages the batteries; I don't have a Tesla so I have no idea)
Mission: Impersonal – The Psychology of Ethan Hunt
Chapter 1, Verse 4:

> 1) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2) The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. 3) Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4) God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5) God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

He felt like it, and saw that the light was good.

Something, light, is better than nothing, darkness. 'It was good,' I believe is the answer to that question.
The phrase "you must be trippin'!" is commonly used by some when they say something completely nonsensical. I can easily see where how/why hallucinating was chosen.

It's clearly meant to poke fun of the system. If you think people are going to NOT use words in jest while making fun of something, perhaps you could use a little less starch in your clothing.
I am not a pilot but I've been told by many that a large chunk of a new airplane price is the cost of certification which also provides a great incentive for manufacturers to design one product, get it certified, and sell it without major modifications for decades to avoid re-certifying it.

How did they manage to produce a $120K aircraft then? Is it not subject to the same certification requirements as the Cessna 172 which features similar specs but at 3x the price?
also - my bad formatting aside, I am NOT in favor of 3D printer registration or legislation in any way.

That will be silly, counterproductive and even less impactful than having to show my license and sign an affidavit just to buy properly working cold meds in a gorram grocery store.
Now we're just another animal species frolicking in urban jungles dying at our own hands. Progress!
That story has cost Tesla more than 17000 quid! It makes sense for Elon et al. to cover this one.
That's wild man. They should track people that buy pipes and a hacksaw from home depot. Could be a gun, don't know.
There's very little correlation between a company that's deeply integrated with LinkedIn tools and what it's like to work there. If you're going to judge all companies based on their recruitment toolchain, good luck finding an acceptable position!
I smell performative legislation. What percentage of the guns used to commit crimes in NY include significant parts which were 3D printed at the consumer-ish level? If NY could magically achieve perfect enforcement of this law from the day it went into effect, what percentage of would-be criminals would be more than slightly inconvenienced?
I would watch him eat his shoe.
Well, Rule 34 is about to happen. And "splatting" is already a decent name...
Web Summit derailed by founder's public fight
That's pretty much corporate culture? Have you worked anywhere that wasn't like that?
The mayor of Carmel IN is my hero. He replaced over a hundred traffic lights with roundabouts.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/16/why-roundabouts-are-so-uncom...
Not surprising, Tesla is notorious for pulling this kind of shit.

> The thing is, Elon Musk could buy everyone in the world a Tesla if he wanted to.”

Is there a name for this kind of math error? For this to be true, a Tesla would have to cost something like $30.
Is the story untrue?
Not very clear what it actually is
It is interesting because the fossil fuel industry may or may not like them. In the short term they are probably good for coal, bad for refined petrochemicals. Long term they make both irrelevant.
CNC controlled lathes and mills specifically match the following excerpt (aside from the term "printer"):

> "For purposes of this section, 'three-dimensional printer' means a computer or computer-driven machine or device capable of producing a three-dimensional object from a digital model."
One nice thing about a machine code reviewing is no tedious passive-aggressive interactions or subjective style feedback you feel compelled to take etc.
While I agree in principle, I think the harsh reality is that hosting video content is a much heavier lift than text. I don't have confidence that a decentralized video platform really any legs atm. Being wrong about this would be a pleasant surprise.

Stuff like individuous is better positioned to start mixing youtube content with videos from decentralized hosting. But I don't think anyone has committed to doing that. I'm sure google would not like it either. I know Freetube has already committed to not being interested in this. I'll be on the lookout for a fork.
While I generally agree, I can’t help but read it with a “back in my day…” mountain of biases.

I remember how I grew up. I want better for my kids, while recognizing that plenty of things were fine enough and that scrapes heal.
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Chris Rock solved this ages ago:
"We don't have a gun problem, we have a bullet problem."

Make bullets very expensive and hard to get.

It makes much more sense to control the supply of gunpowder (and bullets) than that of 3d printers (or guns for that matter).
When I did a control-F in the study, I didn't find the word "cause" at all. Nor "zebrafish". What document are you looking at?
Social Influence: Compliance and conformity [pdf]
What if you buy parts and build one yourself? Ghost printers.
Tesla would have been the electric car to buy many years ago, but the well established auto makers have proceduced excellent electric vehicles that outmatch in terms of build quality, features and support.

A car is not a joke. It's one of the more expensive purchases in one's life and having confidence in your vehicle is important. Quality, reliability and after care support is what the established automakers do well.
What about a future machine that has the possibility of 3D printing 20 MT nuclear weapons?
I guess that's because you were specifically aiming for success (app usage / income) rather than for the primary reasons of enjoyment or learning?

Would you recommend that people don't take up a year+ long project unless they are sure they won't regret it even if nobody uses it?
Personality tests guarantee successful conservation of wild animal populations
I think the problem is that you're trying to apply logic to a plot device.