skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People can legitimately own hammers, which are the work of human hands

> Claims of ownership of land (or radio spectrum, or so on), if you mean chattel ownership, can't ever be legitimate, because people can't make land, only seize it.

These two claims aren't logically consistent. As a factor of production, land includes all natural resources. 100% of the input materials used for the production of a hammer are land, and so are 100% of the input materials used for the entire hammer supply chain. If you claim that ownership of land is never legitimate, then how can ownership of a hammer ever be legitimate if it's made of 100% land? Nobody made the iron or the wood in the hammer with their own hands.

I can see that you prefer to invent your own vocabulary, rather than use the long established vocabulary of economics. But that doesn't make the inconsistencies in your arguments dissapear. The only thing you've consistently expressed that a person can have a legitimate ownership claim over is labor (which yet again, takes us back to seizing the means of production).
> Japan, Iraq, Germany, etc are all Parliamentary

Not relevant. The House behaves like a parliament. It's currently hung.
aren't also ATMs using a protocol of the same "species"?
It can do it if you have enough load following and overbuild plants, it's just expensive.
I would love to get into this field to disrupt it. The whole system is antiquated.

I believe it would take a lot of capital to kick it off, mainly trying to establish a 2 sided market place. The whole multiple MLS entities (per state) all seem to be cartels and realtors are scared off them (as they don't want to be booted off).

I've spent considerable time thinking about ways to create a wedge (I walk my dog a lot!), but it's hard without creating another MLS clone.

Can't read the FTA as it's pay-walled and archivePH thinks I'm not human.

I really don't understand how this can operate in a capitalistic/non-monopoly-favoring society.
I just keep a kanban board in Trello with lanes for:

Backlog, TODO, In Progress, In Review, Done

Good for keeping notes on issues, attaching files, etc
> It really astounds me how much money and effort there is behind ostracizing already marginalized people.

The males who compete in women's sports aren't being marginalized, in fact quite the opposite, they are dominating the competition and causing female athletes to be marginalized in their own sports. It's rank misogyny, centering male demands and desires way above any sense of fairness and safety for women.

If this website is indeed a parody aimed at the male intruders ruining women's sport, then I'm all for it. These cheating men and the sporting bodies that enable them deserve all the criticism they get.
Having no speaker is also a successful situation if you don't want the government to do anything, which seems to be the preference of some Republicans.
> To be clear, Whisper is not building a leaf blower (just the propulsor), but the company is already in talks with a few potential partners to bring the ultra-quiet blower to the market
~$800M of SPY traded in the closing 1 minute candle today, ~$40B in total. That’s a single ETF.

$3B is peanuts compared to real equity and bond markets.
One interesting thing Feynman figured out is that diffraction can be calculated in terms of spinning arrows. It's procedural, so it's easily turned into a program. I've always wanted to do it someday.

To follow this thread, read through QED (https://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Theory-Light-Matter/dp/06...) – it's quite readable.
What’s the threat model here? Javascript sandbox escapes are extremely rare these days (subjectively they happen less frequently that image or video codec bugs).
"Can't" is a strong word. You can get auth with a CRDT with effort, for example you can put a server in the middle of everything and have the server reverse any changes it sees which are unauthorized.

This ends up being a lot of work to maintain and easy to break as the application gets bigger, and it also defeats some of the benefits of the CRDT in the first place (now the server has to mediate everything and you can't have peer-to-peer sync).

Also if there are side-effects of any actions which require auth which aren't undoable, then that gets more complicated.

If you already have a server in the middle, it's a lot simpler to just use a protocol that allows the server to reject messages in the first place.
> some point they’re going to need to be disowned if they don’t fall in line

They're still being elected by their voters. In many cases, with high approval ratings. You aren't going to mute them without addressing their districts' problems.
There was a brief window when Pandora was available in Canada (long ago now), but I still remember how good their recommendations were. Nothing matches it even today
Honestly, not really.

I'm sure there are a few exceptions, but VB was never used for "traditional" app development in the first place -- you weren't going to write a Photoshop or Word in VB, or even something small like a CD ripper or a music player, since it was so cumbersome to access any of the Win32 API's -- and performance wasn't anywhere close to C/C++ either.

VB was used for business apps that connected to databases, and those apps really did just entirely move to the web. It was such a gigantic benefit that web apps were inherently cross-platform, didn't have to be installed or deal with different versions of binaries, and could add new features instantly for everyone.

And Microsoft inadvertently hastened the transition by making VB.NET backwards-incompatible with VB6, at just the time that web apps had become capable enough. Since all this software was going to need to be rewritten to some degree anyways, might as well rewrite it for the web sooner than later, and get all those new benefits.
And Huawei overtook the iPhone in the No. 1 spot for market share in China [1]

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/16/apples-iphone-loses-top-spot...
Who decides if they've done their job? And what sort of objective measurements would be used to determine that?
learn to find something of worth even in the mundane. they’re there.
There are multiple 'games' being played. The article is about the game within the Republican party, between leadership and the Freedom Caucus. The Democrats are playing a different game with the Republican leadership, which isn't the core focus of this article.

In the game between Democrats and Republican leadership, McCarthy promised to work with the Democrats on several issues and then back tracked multiple times. McCarthy then assumed that the Democrats would simply support him since the alternative was the chaos we have now. Democrats intentionally adopted tit-for-tat, and 'went low', which is why McCarthy is now no longer speaker.

By playing hardball, the Democrats have increased the chances that the next speaker will be a moderate willing to have some semblance of bipartisanship.

This is a longer video but here AOC gets into the politics a bit more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahEgoH8UfLU
Google can simply decline to run any ad which has the words "download here" as an image. how hard is that? I guess people do not come forward and less media coverage, unlike crypto losses and scams.
I agree that the boundaries are not naturally enforced and need to be put in place by the developers. It is a team culture thing to enforce these types of boundaries in code review.
i dont consider "not using a database" as a "best practice". a best practice is more like: use the best tool for the task at hand. What you describe would be in-line with this example.
You must be quite certain your government will never break bad.
Education doesn't just belong in a building. It's not an artefact of institutions. Education and learning are what we do. With our hands and pencils.

Feynman wasn't a product of MIT or Princeton. Feynman learned at MIT and Princeton, but Feynman also learned in the laboratory he setup as a child. He learned when he would go and volunteer at labs during the summer. Or, would go to the library and ask for maps of cats. Feynman became Feynman by sitting in a corner and doing hard problems in class. By learning and doing and becoming better every day.

It is antiquated to assume that science can only be done in academia or Big Name Institution. In the middle of the 20th century, the two became intertwined, but today, I think that academia is more of a hinderance than an aid to the process of doing science.

Every single scientist I know tells me that they regret becoming a scientist — not because the love of the subject has faded, but because they spend more of their time writing grants and jostling to become a PI than doing science. And the universities take a cut and push them to get more grants, while offering nothing in return.

There is no contradiction here.

It was different in Feynman's day. It is different now. We live in the age of the internet and cheap compute. We can all learn, grow and do science.
This looks great! I'm curious what the recommended use cases are for something like this. Is it worth adding the additional complexity for complex crud-y saas? I know Linear is built on this local-first model but from seeing their presentations on the challenges they've had scaling it, I'm left wondering if it makes sense for something like a full-featured CRM with hundreds of tables. Is Reflect/Replicache suited for that kind of use case?
I haven't played SC but ME feels a bit shallow. I played the trilogy and yes there is a ton of material but each material seems as if can be expanded into a DLC.
Nuclear could succeed if the plant size (and cost, and time to build) got smaller. I think it's at a disadvantage wrt wind/solar (see my other comment), but I guess the 'tiny reactor' designs have a sporting chance, assuming that they solve the time-to-first-kwh problem and piggyback on the same storage solutions as wind/solar. There are definitely cases where micro-nuclear might be good, the trick is to scale it past those use-cases.
Too bad Google seems to always be behind the curve on stopping this . Fake wallets and other scams on AdWords and Google Play store
That's addressed in the comments, it's probably a Sunbeam rather than a Hamilton Beach
I refuse to copy/paste ChatGPT but it breaks it down well enough to help you target specific slices of the statement to google yourself and do your own analysis of the accuracy of the claims.

This shouldn’t come across as “lmgtfy” and also nothing ChatGPT says can be taken as fact, but I do think it provided some helpful restructuring of the original.

I think its probably (mildly) overly pessimistic about some less-supported claims, and it may be worth reviewing the latest work on those claims first.

I personally feel that pregnenolone supplementation had a noticeably negative affect on my mental health. High prolactin would also be somewhat miserable but it makes slightly more sense that it could be better for alzheimer incidence rate. Drugs to lower prolactin, like cabergoline, have profound effects on the brain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33186046

ChatGPT log can be viewed here: https://chat.openai.com/share/e79afa6f-ee58-42a9-99c1-bd3a1a...
I wish the writer would let us know if the total number of activations went up or down.
We need an Oxford comma for a two item list.
It really depends on what you mean by that. In terms of this article, the gut biome would have to be changed by that. There are definitely different things people do in preparation for anal sex that could change that environment but I'm not sure how much anal sex itself actually changes that. This doesn't account for STDs that have been known to involve the nervous system for a long time already.
There's no max enforced. Right now, it will fall apart pretty quick around 25-50, depending on how much work is going on.

For the GA, we plan to implement a scheme that will allow the room to support up to ~100 concurrent active users (actually doing things) and thousands just watching.
You know, I hadn’t considered that as a consequence of endogamy! You’re totally right.
> When I try to compare myself with less educated/poorer people I realize my advantages can be significantly if not mostly attributed to my upbringing

Probably looks that way to the billionaire founders too. Gates, for example, happened to grow up when only a few kids had computers at home, and working with them was not that far separated from the hardware. He happened to live in a region that needed traffic control software, so he ran with that and succeeded. With one win under his belt, he and his small team were well positioned to parlay into PC software at a time when IBM was uniquely vulnerable. Had any of those variables been different, Chuck Robinson might have become the richest man in the world.

(Chuck, though fictitious, had a mundane career like 99.999% of SWEs that have ever lived)
Battery storage does not raise environmental impact or resource shortages. This is a fabricated story, and holding the industry to a standard that no other industry has ever been held to.

As we electrify our cars and trucks, every house is going to end up with 2-7 days of household electricity requirements parked in their garage. Most models show that that alone should be enough to smooth over the daily variability. Using stationary, cheaper battery chemistries opens up an entirely new world of resources too.

Battery + solar is already beating out new nuclear on cost, and we have decades of novel development of the techs to bring down costs even more.

Unless nuclear can figure out a way to start dropping in cost by 10% every year, and having shorter capital lifetimes so you're not locked into the high initial cost of today for 60 years, it really will be doomed.
Can you explain what are the limitations in Durable Objects?
Do you mean $50/month? Or maybe $5/day? I’m reading:

> Ampere A1 compute… with cores billed at $0.01 per OCPU-hour and memory billed at $0.0015 per GB-hour in all regions.

So for 6 cores and 32gb memory I’m calculating $78.84 per month.

I’d love to get 32gb of ram for $5/month.. but it sounds too good to be true.
No insult taken - totally understand the overlap of politics and age groupings.
Before the internet I was just reading a lot. I'd like to get back to using books as a balm.
https://www.flightcontrol.dev, easy deployment to AWS (I'm cofounder)

https://www.flightcontrol.dev/docs/getting-started/python
It looks like the pipe they're blowing through in the video is a bit wider than the competitors. Does that affect the sound? It would seem that if you force the same amount of air through a smaller pipe, it would be louder.
I see I misunderstood the question & context. The rivian delivery van is about 100 miles apparently, but that's only because the customer, amazon, gave them specs to meet. All they have to do is add more batteries to get more range. I could pull the rivian ev delivery truck on a trailer behind my r1t and get 150 miles easy, and at slow city speeds probably more. My truck probably cost a good bit more than a delivery van, but has better specs.

I thought the question wasn't about the delivery vehicle, I thought it was asking about rivians in general. There's nothing limiting that range inherently, it doesn't have the greatest aerodynamics, but the goal is carry all those packages.
A discussion on the potential future of Television from 1940 - when the FCC had doubts, but the public were mesmerized.
Great interview! This summarizes the book well:

> The microbiome is not a panacea for our health problems. It doesn't explain them all in their entirety. I think it just shows how important microbes are in our lives and what a strong influence they have.

I'm optimistic. With the current AI wave and being able to process datasets once impossible to do, we can at least come up with findings (that we may not understand) but may help us to understand these diseases and life conditions through the lens of trillions of microbes.
lol probably not the most geologically safe location to build such a thing.
Literally any $5/mo VPS provider?
At the end of the day McCarthy chose to do the right thing by keeping the government open and doing a bipartisan bill with the Democrats.

The reality of it is that parties are not in the United States Constitution, and our enshrinement of them is becoming an increasing problem.

So let’s set the record straight, it was not Republicans that provided 95% of the votes to punish McCarthy. It was democrats. And when they’re looking at President Trump‘s second term in January 2025, this will be on them. There was a moment to showcase good government and defy extremists, and they chose what was electorally better for them but worse for the country. like they did the same when they started giving money to the most insane MAGA clowns, because they would be easier to beat in a general election. When the government is shut down because moderates were purged by the companies and parties reveal their moral and ideological corruption like this it plays into populist hands.

The parties are cancer on America. They will kill the democracy.
Why jump directly to the stick approach and not the carrot approach?

Make electricity cheaper at night. Demand will shift and it'll be a popular program rather than another eco tax that creates opposition.
I just want a tool. Just let me use it. Thanks!
How QLoRA works to fine-tune large models with small GPUs
AI proof assistants are like "flying cars". It's such an obvious idea, but it doesn't make sense. In reality, writing math proofs is the absolute last thing that AI will be able to do.

There's a perception that "Machines are good at math therefore they should be good at proofs." Couldn't be farther from the truth.
Yes, I was deeply disappointed that they didn’t test any reputable cable advertised as equivalent to the Apple one. So it didn’t answer the interesting question of whether there’s any point in buying Apple vs say, Anker.
C=64 has a 1 MHz cpu and 64 KiB of memory but that doesn't stop magicians from creating things like this:

Booze Design - Edge of Disgrace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLIUkBa_mA0
The disappearance of RSS didn't help much either.

Instead of being able to follow 50 or 100 blogs and just see the new stuff daily, I tend to rotate through the same five or ten blogs hoping for something new, or else look on Twitter and similar platforms hoping for something interesting.
That’s not the reason that we spent the 20th century installing governments that look conspicuously unlike our own: it’s that the US model has been known to have several severe, practically irreparable flaws for more than a hundred years, among the kinds of people who study governments, and those same sorts of people had some say in how we set up new governments, and evidently not a lot of pressure on them to make those look like ours.

We can’t fix ours in-place—technically, yes, but practically, no, largely for game-theoretical reasons—so we’re stuck with, effectively, an obsolete constitution. Fortunately, those who’ve set up new states in our name haven’t been forced to install that same known-bad model, so they’ve done better.
I just wrote to the them about this. Devs of new stuff are often approachable with improvement ideas.
Do we wanna? It's not like anyone's itching to overhire right now.
If there's money to be made. If not, not so much.

That's a fantastic quote though!
Depends what you mean by very large. Reflect can store up to about 50MB/room. For a PNG, that's "fairly large" I guess. We plan to increase this limit in the future.

You'd have to split up the image into chunks of about 1KB each, this would be fairly easy to do by pixels. It would be a fun project to try.

See https://hello.reflect.net/rooms#data-model for more information.
It reads like borderline marketing spam, something from the 2012-2016 era when productivity apps and gurus were all the rave , like Tim Ferris and Neil Patel and such
The NFT was issued by the creator of the artwork. It’s like a moon certificate issued by god plus we don’t have space flight.
I used to be into Occult, but never mustered the courage to learn Latin, Greek or Hebrew. I think French is also an important language. Of course there are English writers such as the beast.

Just curious if anyone is into this kind of stuffs. I got into this in late teen, believing that Lovecraftian is a really thing. It quickly turned out to be made up by the great writer, but nevertheless Occult drew me in. I was never deep into it due to lack of time and my belief in science (or we can say modern science especially Physics and Mathematics are the modern Occult).

Maybe I'll dig deeper and learn a few foreign languages after 50.
I searched the article and the comment section for "surprise" and couldn't find anything. What makes you think anyone was surprised by this?
I one time naively downloaded wordpress thinking I could read some of it. Turns out it has 5000 files. My blog has only 1 small php file. If I had more time it would be smaller.
Fine not dupe, plenty of related discussion. Can add to the thread over there about the specific Union aspect
A typical characteristic of a parliamentary system is that there's a system to trigger a snap election if nobody can command the confidence of the parliament. Unless the parliament you're copying is Norway's, which apparently serves fixed four year terms no matter what, this kind of nonsense wouldn't go on for long.
They assembled in China, yes, but it is not what makes an iPhone an iPhone.

Big Apple campus in North Cal is where all components of iPhone success are made: hardware and software design, marketing, logistics and strategy planning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom
There are corded blowers, mowers, weed-whackers, and chainsaws. Those are not for indoor use.
Sure it's not for everyone. I learnt a lot doing cash strapped startups where there wasn't a devops person. AWS can get expensive, especially when you start using more and more services (lambda,dynamodb,rds,elasticache etc) although it can be easily scaled.

Note, you probably shouldn't do it by hand (setting up your own servers). You'd use Ansible/Terraform.

For those that are interested but not quite ready, here's a great article [0].

[0] https://github.com/fpereiro/backendlore.
As a Northern European you’ve been culturally colonized by Hollywood if you believe movie stunts represent reality
Every time you see an article about how some gene makes people like to eat potatos, or grow toenails really fast or something, you're about a minute of searching away from finding exactly what you need to grep for to see if you're a match.
FYI: The first "picture" for each cable is a 3D model you can rotate.
IMO where they really excel is getting grass clippings and detritus out of flower beds and off gravel, places where a broom or rake don't work at all. And once you're using a blower for that, you may as well use it for the leaves too.

FWIW I never had much luck with a blower when I was in the north east outside Boston, we had masses of leaves across 2/3 acre in the Fall. I used a rake.
I briefly worked for Facebook. Their cloud dev environment blew my mind. Way better than trying to get that stack running on your machine.
True. I was thinking of a simpler criticism that, if it held, would also make Reflect less useful. aboodman replied in the sibling that (of course) they thought of that, so my criticism doesn't apply.
I’m far from a financial analyst myself, but I’m pretty sure the people who come up with the “expected” numbers are financial analysts who would be well aware of Tesla’s public pricing changes. So a better way of looking at is that people with a vested interest in correctly estimating earnings based on all available knowledge were surprised to the downside.