skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what the hell does that have to do with quarterly measurements of economic growth?! Wildly conflating every issue into different random grievances helps nobody, and arguably delegitimizes an otherwise very real problem.

Making everything about everything is an extremely effective way to paralyze any potential improvements. It’s unhelpful and exactly what I’d do if I wanted nothing to change.
The money is coming from somewhere. If it wasn't lent to the government, it would be spent in other ways. So the only reason that it should cause a recession is if the government is spending it in better ways to grow the economy than the private sector would/could (e.g. because the best investments are infrastructure related).

But if it's actually providing a boost to economic growth, it also means the debt isn't actually unsustainable. If you boost economic growth this year by 0.1%, and afterward it returns to previous growth rates, then the economy will stay 0.1% larger than it otherwise would have been perpetually. If your interest rates are comparable to the base line economic growth (true now, last decade they have been lower), and you take a twenty-year view, then taking on 5% of GDP in debt to generate a one off 1% growth boost to the economy is a no-brainer. The real issue is to understand when the government (vis a vis the private sector) actually can spend money to generate genuine extra growth, and when it cannot (e.g. if it only shifts growth that would happen anyway forward you would expect growth to dip after the initial boost, but that would be true whether the deficit spending stops or not).

The argument against debt is often not based in economic sense or sound science (remember the debacle when a widely cited study on the problems with high debt turned out to be based on an Excel mistake?). In my view, it's based on an aversion to the government having too much spending power. After all, a version of the argument, above was used by conservatives to sell tax cuts that were supposed to pay for themselves. They didn't because the tax cuts did not actually generate growth, they merely redistributed wealth to the top. For deficit spending, the evidence that it can boost economic growth is much more robust.

The real debt crisis will hit once countries start to seriously shrink...
Yup, that's a humidity sensor. It's entirely useless in my experience -- the steam generated by food tells you that something is cooking to some degree, but you're still just as likely to wind up with rubbery overcooked hot spots while half of your item is still frozen.
Well, the idea of spending more, is working more, which the latter is reflected by GDP.

If the government spends more, it should cause more work, which should lead to higher GDP.

This is one simple way to look at it.

If the government is spending more, but GDP isn't growing by the same, it might be a sign that the governments expenditures are wasted.

Now, I'm not saying that's happened, but it could be. Government spending is historically the most likely to be wasteful, in comparison to individual/retail/business spending.
Even inflation "truthers" truflation.com had to stop showing their chart of "true" inflation because it had dropped so much. Prices now are higher than they were 3 years ago, but continued inflation is not currently a problem.
Reddit should not be the yardstick.

Besides, what's really to follow? I have it installed and it runs great. What else do I need to know besides looking at the roadmap occasionally?
> Apple’s market position allows it to pocket $18 billion a year in pure rent

Google's market position both allows and makes it financially beneficial to pay $18 billion to suppress one single source of competition. Nobody forces google to buy the default search spot.
Follow up question would be how much are equivalent solutions from established rack providers?
Adjusted according to whose measurement of inflation? The party in power's?
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When I say prototyping facilities, I mean as prototyping for the other factories. As Musk has previously said, since they want to mass produce Starships and boosters, the challenge is to design "the machine that builds the machine". That's why I mentioned changes to production being tested and optimized there rather than changes to the vehicles specifically.
We have two!
If you're rounding, the growth is 5%.

Not that comparing those two numbers is at all meaningful.
I know you're playing devil's advocate but at this point it's just sunk-cost bias ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Fallacy_effect

Yes, I agree that that the AI-generated virtual worlds are getting better each day, but Mark & Co are making a pretty massive assumption that people (a) want to spend large amounts of time in a virtual world and (b) his virtual world.

We'll see very soon from the uptake of the Apple Vision Pro how many people want that (virtual) reality. ;-)
> If there was oil or gold on Mars it would have been "discovered" several times over by now.

There is something even rarer than gold on the moon: helium-3, usable for cryotechnology and potentially in nuclear fusion reactors. Helium on the Earth is about to run out (partially because the US keeps on selling their stockpiles, that are then wasted for stuff like party balloons) - that is why everyone and their dog are pushing moon missions at the moment.
People who don't produce anything and live from getting money to spend... I think you just described the rich!
Medicaid coverage often has many requirements to qualify. Most notably, in many jurisdictions, there is an aggressive asset limit that requires you to liquidate almost everything you own, in order to get coverage when disabled or elderly. Those limits can apply retroactively up to five years, and can also prevent disabled people from being able to marry, because they would lose benefits due to a partner's assets.
That's the entire point we're making. Rust's type system forces you to deal with the problem early on and saves time towards the end. It's not like that's impossible with Python with addons like mypy. But Rust's type system goes beyond just data types - lifetimes are also a part of the type system. I don't know how you can tack that on to Python.
JetBrains released an LSP integration for their IDEs sometime ago: https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2023/07/lsp-for-plugin-d...
Yes, it’s still new and somewhat buggy, but I am using Zig LSP plugin and it works pretty good.
On a per capita basis Gen X and Millennials in the US are now doing better than their parents at the same age[1]. A lot of studies showing the opposite use raw numbers and share of total GDP, but don't account for the wildly large size of the Baby Boom generation.

And anecdotally, pretty much anyone I know who isn't the child of a doctor or lawyer is doing better than their parents.

[1]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/millennials-just-wealthy-pare...
The amount of available documents has skyrocketed in recent past, especially for present-day history, and they're not always easily usable. For instance, if your interested in the Stalin administration, there are millions of orders, notes, studies and transmissions stored in boxes somewhere. If you were a historian in that time period, studying new documents, a lifetime would only let you see a very tiny fraction of existing sources.

Remember these movies where a small-firm lawyer is hammered with tons of document boxes in a discovery process against a big corporation? Well, historians are like that, but they have less money and they don't know how many boxes there are. Also they have to look for the boxes themselves rather than them being delivered at their office.

In older, well-studied fields there are few boxes, they are already referenced, and historians have a chance to see everything over their career. In more recent, less studied fields, there are countless unopened boxes.
I live in Texas, and as far as I know as an adult man, I'd not qualify since it is not a medicaid expansion state. Perhaps if needed I could move to a different state, but that poses plenty of problems as well. My plan is mostly to save every dollar I can in the event that I'm unable to find suitable employment. I'm actually pretty happy with my job now, but it seems inevitable that that changes; every employer I've ever had is now out of business or consumed by private equity and a shell of what it was. I guess that's helping the GDP though and I should be happy? I'm not particularly though.
I think what the comment is saying is, if the government is spending a lot of money inefficiently (i.e. spending $100,000 on a weapon that has $10,000 in raw materials plus layers of bureaucracy that are hard to quantify as costs) and accruing a lot of debt in the process, it is hard to understand what your cost is for basic things.
Which is an interesting aside, but unless I'm missing something the amount of wastage due to the prefetcher isn't at all proportional to the number of available memory channels so it's non sequitur.
What's the point of the economy, though? If a bunch of people think the economy's not doing well, that seems like a pretty strong indication that it in-fact is not in terms that matter, regardless of what GDP growth et c look like.

To pick an extreme to illustrate the point: if GDP shoots up 100%(!) but it's all a dozen people trading with each other a whole lot and everyone else is now impoverished, is that better? GDP is better! GDP/capita is better, too! But the economy is definitely worse.

Another exaggerated example to illustrate the point: if GDP is outpacing consumer inflation—let's say 4% growth in a quarter, and 2% inflation in the same—but only because we've made the "basket of goods" to calculate inflation qualitatively worse, and meanwhile several important things that aren't part of that basket have gone up 1,000% and everyone rightly reports feeling poorer—is the economy doing well?
I dreamt about eink boardgame components. Put new graphics on tiles and small tokens to change to a new game, or to upgrade or expand a game. Maybe a deck of eink playing cards, if that is ever feasible. I never thought of having an entire eink board to play on, but now I want that as well.

But it would also require a good supply of games to download. Unfortunately there has never been a successful standard file format to download boardgame graphics, so all virtual tabletops use their own (usually closed) formats.
It bugs me more than it should that they flirt with hexadecimal numbers in their branding with the whole 0x thing, but the logo is 0xide when clearly it ought to be 0x1de. Designer came up with a clever idea but didn't understand hexadecimal, and no one had the heart to tell them? :o)

I'm kidding, mostly. The engineer in me is bothered by it, but the part of my brain that cares more about design and branding understands that 0x1de would cause inconsistencies in the branding elsewhere. (E.g. 0xDocs: https://docs.oxide.computer)
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That is only a problem if you insist on hiring people from such expensive areas. Given Oxide hires remotely, I doubt this is an actual problem for them.
Simple answer: the stock price.

If gaming is profitable but the ads business is more profitable and less capital intensive, you would be advised to stick to ads. Particularly when it's expensive to borrow.

Reality Labs have spent $20bn already. How much does the return on that capital have to be to convince the stock market that it was a good idea?
This kind of makes sense. A company wants to do the better thing but "can't" because its not competitive, and their competitors won't do it, so they advocate for a level playing field.

In Apple:s case, this may even help them, as they have wider margins to absorb the cost of repairability stuff than their competitors.
Do they usually have guest account access disabled, and would that help if enabled? I once saw a theory that guest account access can help because it grants the third party the ability to connect it to any WiFi network, allowing it to “phone home”

On iPhones, there is the ability to get the medical id (their name and emergency contact) from the Lock Screen too, if people set that up. I set my notifications privacy setting to show preview only when unlocked, so that it won’t show names of my contacts or one-time PIN codes texted to me
No harm in emailing dang asking for a feature request. hn@ycombinator.com

Perhaps if enough people asked for it then the 
 markdown equiv could be added ~~ in some apps.
The shipping and handling fees are astronomical. Sending gold to Mars is very expensive. Sending gold from Mars is even more expensive. In particular there are no oil deposits in Mars, so kerosene for the return rocket is very expensive. (Hydrogen and Oxygen are very expensive too.)

Note that there is already a huge amount of gold in the oceans, but it's very diluted so it's too expensive to extract. You don't want to just know that there is gold. You want to know how much profit you would get after the gold bars arrive to Fort Knox.
That is if you believe the threats in the news that Russia is an enemy of Europe, which is of course not. Any claim that Russia would plan to invade the EU is just propaganda. A little knowledge of history suffices to recognise that.
Conjecture?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-air-fo...

Is Ukraine free when the US is meddling in its internal politics and orchestrating coups to protect ‘American influence’? Where is the freedom and riches you promise in all the countries the US has bombed over the past 60 years?

Protecting ‘American influence’ = an unending payday for the corrupt military-industrial complex monopolies and nothing more.
i got ubuntu container transpiled to wasm running in a hermit on Windows.

wat? https://github.com/dylibso/hermit/releases/download/v0.1.0/u...
Would you therefore be in favour of putting the Amish and the Mennonite communities in re-education camps?
On a side note, I really liked their website. The ASCII animations are interesting -- wish there was a video game that had those.
Anyone know specs or prices?
US regulators are working tirelessly on that very task.
Sure, it’s almost always the case that a corporate culture is heavily influenced by the incentives put in place by management. But those incentives and that culture influences what engineers value. That’s how the mechanism works.
> The Apple Reality Distortion Field still definitely exists.

Sure, but which side of it are you on?
Totally true that their progress is demonstrable and profound. It's just that the GP did such a dismal job expressing it. That's where the "angry hype" and "blind argumentation" bit came from.
> 25 years

If that was true we'd have all the Kennedy assassination docs.
Ah yes, thanks! This:

> The most remarkable potential impact of the change is that we will no longer be held to the line of “bug-for-bug compatibility” with Red Hat, and that means that we can now accept bug fixes outside of Red Hat’s release cycle.

So you might say CentOS was a clone or RHEL (and Rocky, Oracle are trying to continue that), while ALMA is a fork (like SUSE, but much closer to RHEL).
It would make a good story. I imagine if someone did pull that one off they'd have to blend in data from other people and maybe even what they knew historically about the time to make up for information that is degraded and lost.

Some of the better sci-fi books that have ressurection as a theme are

https://www.amazon.com/gods-foxcroft-David-Levy/dp/B000GR593...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
Microsoft seeks EU Digital Market Acts exemption for underdog apps like Edge
Sorry, this completely misses the point that many firms don't want to design their own CPUs, which is why Arm became so successful in the first place.
Here's some food for thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_cake-cutting

I was introduced to this subject through this concise book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/evolution-of-the-social...
Recently, it has come to light that the relative rotational speed of Earth's core seems to have a decades long cycle of leading and lagging the surface.

https://www.space.com/earth-inner-core-slowing-study
Yes, for some users. That's what led me to write the article.

ChatGPT apparently has some recent facts in it, but it doesn't feel like a model that is truly trained with recent data.
It's like rectangles and squares.

Ritual murder = we kill because it's our custom; e.g. captured warriors could get killed to celebrate victory.

Human sacrifice (a form of ritual murder) = we make an offering and we expect certain rewards. E.g. we sacrifice 100 citizens because we believe we need to meet a quota and otherwise the sun won't go up.
There's a fundamental misunderstanding of what The Cloud is that seems to pervade discussions like this. Too many technical people don't understand what they're looking at.

The Cloud is not "a computer". The Cloud is a public utility. You don't rent the transformers at an electric utility company - because why the hell would you? It's just one component of a much larger system that is valueless to the consumer without all the other components.

What these people are selling is more like a battery that you can purchase that plugs into the electric grid. But why would you want to purchase a battery? It degrades over time, losing value, and eventually needs to be recycled, and somebody has to deal with all that. Renting is the perfect way to push all of that time-consuming and complex maintenance out to someone else who can lower cost with volume.

The idea that renting servers is not sustainable would suggest that somehow computers are not like housing, cars, shop vacs, or any of the million other things you can rent. A computer is an expensive commodity like any other, and renting makes perfect sense a lot of the time.

If you need to purchase, for economic, load, tax, regulatory, or other reasons, there are already ready-made computers with (or without) service contracts and supported OSes that can be plopped into any colo, and colos sell dedicated machines already. This pitch doesn't include anything new other than buzzwords. Yeah I'm sure they did a bunch of engineering - that nobody will ever need. I'm calling shenanigans.
Astronomers May Have Witnessed Worlds in Collision
These issues will change when people fought for his labour rights and not for a culture they weren't part from long ago. They relatives where Hispanics, maybe; but by just watching the 'quality' of translations of some public traffic signs iinto Spanish, as I Spaniard I could say these people are barely Hispanic, they have no bounds to any of the zilions of Hispanic subcultures; and, even worse, they aren't even fluent in their supposed 'own' language.
So the best these people could do would be to keep their customs such as the gastronomy and join the Anglosphere without a hitch.
If you are talking about "slave wages" then I am asking for some pointers to numbers that show that the US is relying on imports more, rather than less.
You claim that static code analysis has different responsibilities, but then you leave out what those responsibilities are.

So what are those responsibilities?
+30 seconds quick start is pretty common already on microwaves.

But it doesn't cover all use cases -- I regularly cook things for e.g. 15 minutes at 10% power, to defrost and warm them evenly. That's one of the main thing I use my microwave for, actually.

I don't want to have to hit +30 thirty times in a row. If it's digital, I'm gonna need a number pad.

I would be perfectly happy with clearly labeled time and power knobs, however -- but I'm not sure it's easy to make a knob that works accurately and intuitively for both 30 seconds and 30 minutes.
Yeah. And on this topic, a Canadian channel just installed spyware on a PC, and loaded it with lewd images, then asked a bunch of shops to fix the computer. And all of them except a couple that either didn’t turn the laptop on yet, or just full wiped, accessed, and even copied the images.

I would definitely like for some things to be reasonably accessible to me for fixing so I didn’t have to rely on privacy disrespecting repair shops.
The ISS is way more limited in what it can do because it exists in a vacuum, which inherently limits the size it can reasonably have, and there's zero gravity. The moon has a bit more gravity, but zero atmosphere.

In contrast, there's enough atmosphere available on Mars to make it possible to build larger, pressurized structures and even use aerial flight, and more gravity than on the Moon.
buried half way down the article

“Going forward, the consumer’s not going to spend at the same rate, the government is not going to spend at the same rate, and businesses seem to be slowing down their spending as well,” Arone said. “This suggests this might be the peak GDP figure, at least in the next few quarters.”

These figures are from before things like student loan repayments kicked in.
I think I am missing the metaphor. Gatsby made his money as a bootlegger, and presented himself as a cultured guy. Yet he owned a library of unopened books. And so do many academics make their careers fronting, or using faked or fraudulent data?

Gatsby died in the end and the Old Money moved on quickly?

You should have beautiful shirts to be a good academic?
> But, that tends to not show up in the numbers or in practice

Oh yes it does.

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/04/13/from-strength-...

People just ignore the numbers.
That is contrary to my experience tracing a stolen MacBook Pro to a specific apartment over find my and being told by the San Mateo police I could file a report if I really wanted to, but not to expect anything to happen.

I’d expect it depends on the context of your jurisdiction, and so really is not that simple.

(I never got that MacBook back).
Ruby's IRB has always been nice to work with: https://github.com/ruby/irb#commands

Of course LISP is the example to look at with REPL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93prin...

...esp with Emacs: https://slime.common-lisp.dev/
Remote sensing-based investigation of fortifications on Rome's eastern frontier
This is nice, thinking about buying it. Couple questions:

1) Who manages the OpenAI access? Do I need to provide an API key or do you provide that (and if so how do you make it work with a fixed-price model)?

2) Is there any analytics/telemetry/etc? Does the app reach out to anything besides OpenAI?
I hear this a lot for immigrants and I'm curious if you could be more specific on the advantages and opportunities you notice? Is it really a US thing, or a first world thing? Why do these opportunities not exist in other countries? It seems to me that a Canadian or UK or German citizen would have basically the same opportunities as a US citizen, but maybe I'm mistaken.
No discussion after 4 hours of existence, wondering if this is leaving people speechless or not... ;)

CLIP is a very interesting development in AI these days, so demystifying it is a great idea. Is anyone using CLIP or similar models daily and will find this research useful -- and willing to discuss it? I'm curious what you're doing.
This literally always happens during a Democrat presidency: the numbers are good but everyone goes “well it doesn’t FEEL that way so I’m gonna ignore it.” At what point are you gonna admit that your feelings are a crap metric?

The fact of the matter is the feelings of public are the feelings of the rich propagandists who, on principle, don’t want a leftist in power, regardless of whether he’s good for the economy or not.