skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an article about economics. 9 times out of 10 when you talk to people about the US (especially on the Internet), they want to talk about politics.

The reality is that US politics is utterly fucked up, but the US economy is by far the strongest in the world, it might be the most resilient economy in all of human history, it's continually astounding how it manages to surge forward, overcome obstacles and grow. If you are a US citizen, you have access to this economy in ways that other people don't.

So let me throw out a couple examples of this.

* Energy. A shale revolution is now well underway in North America, what this translates to is energy independence and some of the cheapest oil on the planet being well within the USA's grasp. But what you will hear Americans talk about if you bring this up is the POLITICAL problem of how we can't regulate emissions and the climate apocalypse is going to cook us all. Look I'm not saying that climate change isn't a serious problem. It is. But keeping with my theme here, it's going to cook India a lot sooner than it cooks the USA. And the ECONOMIC benefits to the US of the shale revolution are enormous.

* Home-shoring. The amount of money going into rebuilding domestic manufacturing capacity right now is staggering, we're in the early stages of an enormous boom and a resurgence of stuff that's made in the USA, including very high tech companies like TSMC building factories in the US. Again people want to talk about the POLITICS with China and how messy they are, but ECONOMICALLY, the US is going to benefit from a ton of manufacturing growth over the next decade.

* Demographics. In the long run, economically, China's doomed, Japan's doomed, the outlook for much of Europe is bleak because they're not having kids. The US still has kids at a somewhat decent rate and has tons of immigration. So again everyone will want to argue about the POLITICS of illegal immigration, but the fact of the matter is, ECONOMICALLY the US will benefit greatly from its demographics.

* Tech, rocket ships, you name it - in virtually all bleeding edge industries, the USA is #1 or #2.

Betting that the US economy will win (even just in a simple form like using your spare cash to buy the S&P 500 and hold it, something that billions of people in this world can't easily do), just keeps on being the right call, almost continuously since WW2.

I'm not saying the politics aren't totally fucked up. They are. I'm not saying the wealth this economy creates is distributed fairly. It's not. But especially online the discussion is way way way way way skewed towards "look how bad these awful US political problems are" meanwhile the one big advantage you have as an American is you have direct access to this unbelievable economic machine, you are actually a member of it, you can buy and sell things in it (and that is how we get to why the entrepreneurial stuff is important!).
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The number you’re using is deceptive. You’re citing the Dept. of Defense’s (mandatory) budget, as if that is all the funding that goes to the military. It is not. After mandatory spending (DoD mandatory funds that you cite, social security, medicare, Medicare, interest…) about 25% of the budget is left for discretionary spending… BUT, nearly half of discretionary spending is government wages that, surprise surprise, includes military salaries and benefits. Then, a huge portion of the remaining discretionary funds are again allotted to the various military branches and war spending. Discretionary spending more than doubles the actual amount we put towards the military.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-is-discretionary-spe...
Sounds like a win-win then.
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>"It feels a bit ridiculous to release Next.js 14 today as we're still getting used to Next.js 13"

I guess it had to be ready for the Next.js Conf event.
The 'Zoom Wave' at End of Virtual Meetings Is Here to Stay
What other times? People did not live in car centric societies before the 20th century. This is a relatively new problem, why do you think there were multiple attempts at solving it that did not work? The US has only gotten into this mess the last couple of generations.

And we can point to societies that were following a similar path, like the Netherlands, and then decided to stop and focus on a less car dependant society. It appears to be working over there.
This is discussed in detail in the article
https://archive.ph/wrsu0
If you just need to cook a few seconds, stand next to it and open the door to stop it. It takes more time fiddling with the control to select just the right amount of seconds than it takes to actually cook for those amount of seconds, so your time is wasted anyways.
>> With fewer and fewer printed works, I wonder how future archeologists will discover human knowledge from our era. Especially after a world-wide catastrophe. Human language written in the physical world seems more durable long-term than the electrons in a flash drive.

> Consider: the Library of Congress has (literally) a copy of every work that has ever been in print in the U.S. The Internet Archive has archived much of the public internet.

Those are both very centralized.

The benefit of print media is its forced-decentralization and stand-alone nature. It can survive for 100+ years on a shelf, and I don't think any digital data format could match that.

> Is there even more data that could be saved in principle? Of course. But the amount of data we're talking about is already so much dramatically larger than what we have about, say, the antiquities, that it seems like an absurd comparison.

That sheer amount of data may work against preservation in another way: too much noise distracting from identifying and preserving the valuable stuff.

> The problem in the future (excluding extinction-level events) will be wading through that data, which even in the handful of resources I've mentioned above will be so far beyond any single human's ability to understand that it's just unfathomable.

Not necessarily: all that data is very fragile. Besides format conversion and migration issues (about that flash-based website...), you have site/platform longevity, and the time-bomb of cloud hosting costs (someone stops paying a bill? Poof, it's gone). Then you have the spectre of a dark age: a few decades of a teetering industrial base after a major world war that destroys a couple of high-tech manufacturing centers, and that data is pretty much all gone.
It is a very sad thing to remove TLD for any country, no matter if it does not exist anymore. As the author underlined, tons of valuable and interesting historical resources are lost for good.
ICANN should change this rule, IMHO.
> German doesn’t have a word for “mind”. Does that mean Germans don’t understand the concept?

As a german native speaker I belive "Bewusstsein" is the german word for "mind".

Interesting fact:
"Bewusst - sein" written in two words is retranslated word by word to something like: "Beeing mindful"
I believe this is how humanity will die. Internal TomTom degradation!!!
I've written to companies in the UK before with similar deadlines, it can be statutory - I am giving you notice that this communication starts the clock on the 30 day period I am required to allow you to give me a satisfactory resolution before I will escalate this case to the relevant authority.

Last time I had to use that sort of language was with a deranged ISP who had failed to deliver an internet connection, then decided to chase a debt for unpaid bills for this non-existent connection two years later.
Sitting on public transit doesn't have to suck, though. Have you taken the Paris Métro? Or the London Tube?

They're totally fine experiences.
OpenAI justified that in a paper the other day, saying that DALL-E 3 performs better on longer, more detailed prompts describing all aspects of the image in rich language - so they put GPT-4 in front to expand the typical user's short and vague prompt, so such users get nicer results by default.

My own observation: this kind of hack is possible only since/with GPT-4 - it takes an LLM this powerful to reliably extend and enrich arbitrary user input into much longer prompt, that's coherent, consistent, and a plausible (to human) interpretation of the original input.

Now this may fan the flames on the "is it or is it not" AI discussions, but: you could almost say that GPT-4 is engaging in creative process here.
There will be new terrorists anyway as even UN institutions teach kids to repeat the cycle. Otherwise an attack like this has to net a response, if only to destroy infrastructure so future attacks are mitigated.

It won't end the terror of course.
The majority of FOSS programs don't connect anywhere - although there has been an increase, for sure.

Last year we had an argument this regarding LibreOffice, where an option to collect some telemetry was suggested as a nagging-opt-in. Opponents argued against this because some fraction of our users will press Accept just to get through the installation, or without understanding what they're accepting; plus we just didn't want this kind of mechanism in a respectable piece of software. For now the idea seems to be dead in the water.
> Well ideally sim "ticks" are completely seperate from rendering

I have a counterexample: there was a game called der Omnibussimulator, in which the simulation and rendering were 1:1 coupled.
people voted with their life decisions and it turns out your view is not very popular.
yeah that's one of the many reasons i don't like reading textbooks or anything substantial on a computer
Raku is surprisingly good for CLIs
It only takes a single look at a Neato Botvac returning to its base station[1] to understand why we named it... Mr. Wigglebutt/

[1] for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERPRf7SsfvY
> After years of bureaucratic delays, the domain was finally shut down in 2010. Over 4,000 websites, some of the earliest examples of internet culture from the region, suddenly became inaccessible via their original domain. For many, the deletion of .yu represented the final loss of the former country, the erasure of its digital identity.

...

> With the deletion of .yu, historians and researchers lost access to websites that contained important historical records. Gone are firsthand accounts of the NATO bombing and the Kosovo War; the mailing lists that scientists used to update their colleagues on the progress of the conflict; nostalgic forums and playful virtual nation experiments.
About erythropoietin (EPO), I understand it's a hormone whose amount is regulated by the need for oxygen in the blood (i.e. a feedback loop which regulates the amount of red blood cells to be just what is needed to satisfy the oxygen needs of the body).

So EPO is not limited by the ability of the kidneys to produce it (I expect, by a large margin). So one kidney would just as well be able to produce all the EPO you may need, the kidney is not the limiting factor.
Well the people of Kosovo don’t think that way.
Yes, that's perfectly normal. It's not like the US where everything is $x.99. Prices can be anything. With the latest inflation, they've been going up, but I'm guessing they just make a calculation for what the price should be based on their costs, whereas in the US they always round up to do the x.99 thing.
Quoting from the automated translation:

> In general, patience is a little too great with greedy employers. "Making a mistake" or "not knowing" is, in the eyes of too many, an okay excuse when an employer does not fulfill its part of an agreement or does not follow the law.

I wonder how this attitude relates to reports of extremely high injury rates in Tesla's German factories. Those high rates are (allegedly) not caused by lack of safety measures, but by legal obligation to report all incidents. Ie. working conditions might be / are probably worse in Tesla's Texas plant, China, ....
I'll be astounded if we have autonomous vehicles in the snow in my lifetime.

More cars that suck at navigating weather is not the answer to traffic problems.
Virgin Media by any chance? I had them do that to me when I clawed back the money through my bank that they took for an install they never delivered.
I really like todo keyword.
Especially if it will be possible to make this warning into error in CI build only.
So I will be able to run & debug unfinished work locally, but have guarantee that it won't get into master branch.
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I would translates "Bewusst sein" as "being conscious".
An interesting side effect of that is the impact on ICBM defense protocols. If everything looks like an inbound missle you couldn't protect against them anymore, unless your protocol becomes "shoot down any ICBx trip not registered" but now you have a theoretical gun pointed at every passenger transport, ready to fire automatically for the sake of missing paperwork.
> It's a shallow attempt at self preservation by the rich and powerful and that's simply not going to work in the modern era.

I'd say it's working for them very well so far. The commoners may no longer believe the bullshit excuses, but they've still proved powerless to prevent the erosion of their freedoms. The rich and powerful are only getting richer and more powerful while the gap between them and everyone else widens. You call it "a shallow attempt at self preservation" but they're not just surviving, they're thriving.
What’s interesting to me from this is that the technique they are using to integrate dalle into ChatGPT is pretty much the same as they are using for plugins.
I think this is a sad evolution which will ultimately result in fewer people reading the journals & transactions (which are often quite interesting). I specifically joined the ACM for the print versions of Communications and Transactions, and have a bookshelf dedicated to both. I haven't seen any other compelling reasons for an ACM membership, so this will mean farewell from me.

Reading, especially technical material, on screen is still an inferior experience to paper. Even with my Remarkable. Flipping pages is slow, browsing is slow, it's impossible to have multiple documents open side by side.

Maybe I'm just an old grouch. But I'm not happy about this.
> Evolution has equipped us with two kidneys for presumably good reasons

As the article pointed out, on average you live a totally fine life with only 1 kidney, so clearly no.

Like, that same argument would be "evolution gave us poor eyesight, so glasses must be bad. Why else would evolution make so many people's vision fail? Blurry eyesight must have an evolutionary advantage", or "evolution made some people white for a reason, don't use sunscreen, skin-cancer research says to sunscreen up, but we shouldn't second-guess evolution and play gods".

Evolution is random mutations with a very course-grained utility function. Rejecting evidence in favor of it gives you nothing but nonsense. And fad diets, but mostly nonsense.
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> Basically nobody has money for "custom treatment" -- it takes years to do medical research, if not decades, with no guarantee that it will pan out before you die.

No-one has money for original research, sure, but there's a level that's above "going to the place you would normally be referred to for condition x" where you instead go to the best hospital in the world for condition x, get treated by the world leading expert on condition x, etc.. And that level is not generally covered by regular people's medical insurance in the US, nor by public healthcare systems in other industrialised countries.

> The rich people in other countries come to the US to get largely the same treatment as ordinary people in the US with insurance get, and it's not for no reason.

They do? Are there really more people coming to the US for medical treatment than other wealthy industrialized countries, once you control for size? (Like, I'm sure "the best hospital in the world for condition x" is in the US more often than it's in Switzerland, just as a function of there being more people and hospitals in the US, but I'd be surprised if that's still true once you control for that). And are the institutions they go to really accessible to regular people with in-network rules etc.?
There are many ways to share contact details. One is to use an app provided mechanism, which can ask confirmation about sending and receiving contacts. Another one is to just type them into a message. The confirmation of the intention to send is implicit but no confirmation is possible at the receiving end: they read the message and get the contact, willing or unwilling. All they can do is delete it before remembering it and report the other party. There is a provision about reporting unwanted interactions.

About circumvention, one could think about a way to detect contact details in messages. There are several problems with that.

1. If it warns the sender, the sender will try another way until the obfuscated contact passes unnoticed (text, image, vocal, link, whatever.)

2. If it automatically reports the sender there will be many false positives, some due to copy and paste, keyboard autocompletion, etc.

3. We're back to automatic spying of people.
Do the polls ask "are you male and do you think web design is women's work?"
I've often tried to get interested in the subject, but could never find an accessible gateway: I found it with this introduction! Super fun and playful, thanks, can't wait to read the rest!
Pain from 'dem stones moving around in the bladder I think - but I don't really know, since the USG after passing didn't indicate anything.

For a long time any significant g-forces would cause pain in the abdomen, which I unwittingly started ignoring at one point. But the fear of that pain stayed and I couldn't identify where it came from.

When I the plane started its ascent and I felt nothing, I connected the dots - especially that the passing and flying were just a few months apart.
You got no idea bud...
It's very easy: Complaints should be directed to whoever is listed in the Personal Data Protection Policy issued by (in this case) Microsoft. The privacy notice (Which nicely seems to be the same one across microsoft products!) clearly says how to complain, as it should https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

And that method is not a github comment.

The commenter might have followed the correct route to complain too, but could then at least have said that "I have contacted microsoft at [..] as outlined in the Personal Data Protection Policy and expect a response within [..]"
My man you are arguing with an established case verdict.
https://rewis.io/urteile/urteil/lhm-20-01-2022-3-o-1749320/
The wording that is irrelevant what Google does with the IP (just the theoretical possibility of misuse is enough) is in the case verdict.
Technology connections made a video about this a few years ago, apparently microwave technology already peaked in the 90's, but it never caught on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0
Haha sorry typo. Indeed, one whistles and the other beeps.
The military budget both in absolute and relative terms is ludicrous.

The nations with a more irresponsible budget than the US are mostly state-terror organisations. Which doesn’t mean that the US isn’t one
How to draw software architecture diagrams (2022)
.xk does not exist. https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db
I've done this for some PDF books I've bought online using local (online) print shops. It's *insanely* expensive. IIRC the last ~400 page tome I had printed set me back 50eur in printing/binding/shipping costs.
I would continue to identify myself as "American" if USA broke up and each state became it's own country regardless of whether I went abroad prior to that or any other situation of that sort.

Some states that cause residents to have conversations like this:

Me: "I'm American. Freedom flavored." (don't make assumptions, anyone from North or South America is American)
You: "Cool, which state?"
Me: "A united state!"
You: "What in the actual fuck? They're all united. What specific state do you reside in and/or originate from? (Smartass...)"
Me: "Look... If you sweat all the small shit you're gonna die from a heart attack in your 50s."
You: "Holy shit... So... Florida?"
Me: "Worse."
You: "Ah... Question retracted."
> Right, the business people are dishonest and the engineers are honest.

On the whole, yes. You get what you incentivise.

> Cringeworthy naïveté.

Yeah that's exactly what dishonest people tend to call it when they're called out.
I don't consider myself a Rust expert, but this feels like a semantic argument? You can use `unsafe` to erase lifetimes, right? I'm not saying it's a good practice, and it's not globally disabling the borrow checker or anything like that, but in theory it's possible to produce unbounded lifetimes that are incorrect. In practice it probably doesn't happen very often. Certainly less often than UB in C or C++
This was Bulldog Broadband, back in the mid 00s when they were about the first to advertise 8Mbit in London at a relatively reasonable price, but were then swamped with orders and couldn't seem to even keep track of what they were doing, let alone deliver anything.

But you're right it could be any one of a number of them! I had problems with quite a few over the years.

Among the amusing misfeatures of bulldog broadband was their cancellation process, which required confirming by sending an email to "cancellationconfirmation@..."

Said cancellation confirmation address had not been set up and would just bounce.
> In terms of space use they're still cars.

And energy
to the best of my knowledge, yes
Of course the difference between oil and tobacco is that the world's population would be 1/10th of what it is without oil.
The UN publishes a list of recognised member states. ISO maintains a list of codes. IANA uses that list to determine whether a country code TLD is valid. But that's the extent of the UN's involvement in the governance of the root zone.
Let me tell you about me Gear Fabrication Syndrome
Are you OP from git thread. why so butthurt?