skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the original comment can be summarized by this quote "without new economic opportunities, the only way to get ahead in life, is by taking from others, which leads to violence and tyranny".

To which you responded that japan is empirical evidence against that. To which I replied it is a good example to the contrary. Now you are saying 2 things
1. thats not the model
2. I have only explained why growth is useful, not why its necessary.

To 1, I agree, I totally reject this model, this is a curve fitting excercise, not real science and not real economics.

To 2, in a sense you are correct. There is something waiting under the surface to strike any country of today should they decide degrowth is the policy, should they not decide to print it off for another day.

See, all the dollars in the economy, the dollars in your wallet, and in your bank account, were created through the issuance of debt, such as home loans and government debt. Those debts have interest rates, meaning for every dollar in existence there is a multiple owed to the great abyss of currency being taken out of circulation when those debts are paid. If our monetary system doesnt continually increase the amount of debt in the system, eventually all the dollars would seemingly vanish from the system and we would still have debt that there were never enough dollars to pay for. There is the death of all your modern monies should degrowth be the objective, democracy or otherwise.

Now, the monetary system doesnt need to be that way, money could be a commodity that doesnt come with these strings attached. You might even find that the worlds largest polluters cease their operations immediately if that were ever to come true, I dont think the Pentagon would have the same incentive to invade oil rich middle eastern countries if they didnt have their precious petrodollar to defend.

Could a democracy work, with degrowth, and without the pitfalls caused by implimenting the credit theory of money? Sure, just start killing everyone, because for the first time in generations people would have a money that routes around attempts to inhibit growth, what else can you do at that point?
Sometimes i feel that reporters should be needed to add a basic statistical analysis before they are allowed to claim something like censorship.

How much content is posted every day on meta?
How many content removal decisions are taken every day by meta?

Hint: Over 1 billion Stories are posted every day.

So even if 1049 content removals would happen on a single day - but this "evidence" is collected over a much longer time period.

You have to read about HRW and its campaign against Israel to maybe understand why HRW continue to post this type of propaganda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Human_Rights_Watc...

The guardian did a very bad job at picking up this biased content.
I wonder if the fixed costs associated with employing an individual make that more challenging in some regulatory environments?
It depends on what you mean by "accurately enough". To teach a student the interplay between pitch and power, how changes in configuration require changes to pitch and power, etc, they can be useful. They are very good as instrument procedural trainers. For flight at high angle of attack, e.g. slow flight near or beyond stall, the models are not very accurate.

Also a simulator will never help a student overcome the fear they will invariably feel when they do their first power-on stall.
this is indeed the logic.
Looks amazing, love it.

Unfortunately, the Codepen doesn't work on Safari (iOS and macOS both), and from my perspective that's absolutely expected when dealing with SVGs: standard is wild, you never know how exactly it's going to be rendered.
iOS Safari, other details include Mullvad blocking...
That's a misleading title. The blog post is just a big sales tease.
What? Anyone can create an LLC if they want to, it's $100 a year if you want to do it completely online (less if you want to deal with more paperwork). I just sell things over the internet and don't want the entire planet to know who I am because of it.
scientific conclusions rest on specific arguments in specific papers by specific people, including specific evidence. the people don't have to be famous or prophets; they just have to provide evidence

but it is the antithesis of science to repeat that 'scientists say' something without knowing which scientists say them and why. it's just as easily used to support false statements as true ones; for example, climate change deniers often say that scientists say we are in more danger of global cooling, or that scientists say that volcanic emissions of carbon dioxide vastly exceed anthropogenic emissions
I've found that REST Upload/Delete feels worse than FTP, or other similar protocols with like 45+ years of tool development.

There was once a HTTP standard called WebDav IIRC but it seems rarely implemented. Why haven't these sites tried that direction if they wanted HTTP-Backed security measures?

Upload/Delete as REST is usable though.
How close are they to other named places? Back in the 1990s my father was astonished to see his little hometown in Canada on a map of North America but it is in an area with few other settlements so even though it isn't a seat of any level of government, it's still the "major" population center for the area. Meanwhile around Toronto cities 50x larger didn't make the map.
It's not the same at all. OP's port 443 is not 'open' in the same sense that GGP's port 80 was 'open'.

In the old days, only the port number mattered. Today, DPI means the protocol matters as well.
Merry Christmas from Norway!
"wish" in what sense? Like wishing to get in to Hogwarts? Or like how some cancer patients wish for their end?
> to make drama around free speech.

I remember when free speech was an ideal that was universally recognized as crucial to a functioning democracy.

"Making drama" by refusing to participate in a censorship program strikes me as admirable.

What a strange world we live in where so many people sneer at the concept of free exchange and the marketplace of ideas, and those that seek to support it.
for WSL2, with nested virtualization - it should

for WSL1 - virtualization is not used, it's more like syscall emulation
>So obviously, infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible, yet most people deny this basic fact. The idea of modern civilization coming to an end is so unthinkable that they simply refuse to believe it.

Not gonna read the whole thing, but why would you think 'modern civilization' would be limited to one planet?
I don’t think “civilization will go on” should be interpreted as a message that everything will be fine and the future is necessarily bright. I mean if you are worried about war, then you aren’t worried about civilization totally collapsing, because some level of civilization is necessary to execute wars, right?
Sorry, I skipped a step in explaining my thought process, the reason people want access to this information is for some form of mob justice, otherwise why else would they want it?
The CSS Podcast
naturally, but obviously argumentum ad verecundiam is the opposite of science
I thought the turns are fixed
Keeping this sort of secret knowledge to yourself is so isolating, but sharing it only makes it worse.

Pretty soon, the only people who find your company enjoyable are malthusians, christian apocalyptics, and emos. I mean the smiths are great, but have you heard....
A small company handles that by offering equity to the critical employees and having them share in the success of the company.
No, we shouldn't, because it isn't true. Civilization will muddle on, as it always has, with periodic ups and downs. The oceans aren't going to boil. The economy will stop growing, almost an inevitability as our populations continue to shrink, and we will find ways to accommodate that.

Doom prophets existed in all ages, telling us the end was nigh. It never was, and it isn't now. Trying to convince people that everything is hopeless and that despair is all that remains to us is not only incorrect, it's downright evil.
Suddenly I have an urge to make a Voronoi map of the US using each Springfield as the capital of its own state.
Postgres does not store the actual time zone information, it just stores it in UTC. Is a bit counterintuitive but this is how it works [1]. The "with time zone" part is just for parsing and displaying back. When is displayed the value is converted from UTC to the local time in the current timezone which can result in some very interesting discussions :).

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.ht...
The Netherlands Bach Society (which sounds like an organization for people who are into Bach, but it's an ensemble, though one that has been in existence for more than 100 years) is fantastic. Some of my favourite Bach performances are by them [1].

Another Dutch "complete Bach" project from recent years that I enjoyed: Leusink's complete set of recordings of Bach's sacred cantatas with the Holland Boy's Choir and Netherlands Bach Collegium (1999-2000), recorded over the span of just 15 months. A year ago I listened to the entire thing, which took me three months.

(It's quite good. But in my opinion, this haste is reflected in the performances a little bit; they are very competent, to be sure, but they lack some nuance, perhaps especially in the sound mix. For whatever reason, I much prefer the NBS recordings of most of these cantatas. (I don't really like Sytse Buwalda's voice, either.) Compare their BWV 21 [2] with NBS [3]. The beautiful interplay between first violin and oboe in the NBS recording is rather lost in the Leusink version, and the sound muddier. Admittedly the NBS version appears to replace the organ with some extra strings, but to me it just sounds crisper and more carefully performed. This really extends to everything. I hope NBS will one day release a complete cantata box set.)

[1] https://youtu.be/N6sUlZa-IrU?si=0Ls7CTQ4UiMyDB0b

[2] https://youtu.be/JGT0iPpU9is?si=qVMJTYhANI8adHop

[3] https://open.spotify.com/track/6MLmB5GDhAJr3cxMKKXUzs?si=xcV...
The existence of a non-compete can be a real showstopper, especially at smaller firms even if the noncompete probably doesn't apply. I worked for a very small company for a number of years and our business office basically wouldn't touch anyone who had a noncompete of any kind.
I could have qualified "can't" with "reliably" or "consistently", I suppose.
They want to smugly prove their others that I’m right.

Seems a commonality among any kind of end-of-times cultists, they’ll try to befriend you and woo you into being on their side. That their bunker was a sane investment, that you should sell all your assets and invest in silver or sheep or small arms. That their calculations are a bit off, that it’ll actually be next Fall not this Spring.

But, above all else, that I’m right and you can be too if you just believe like I do. Except I don’t believe, I know.

Oh, you won’t know like I know? You’re just another sheep, another one of them.
The best part of that story is that at least for small planes, I feel like landing is one of the things simulators are worst at simulating and least useful as a replacement for experience in a real plane. Maybe the whole approach and decent is simulated OK, but I don't think I've ever flow a sim (even the "real" ones) that quite captures the last part settling gently down onto the ground. But trainers can also take some pretty rough landings :)
for a product that has yet to find a growing, enthusiastic market amongst the general public.

or correct me if i'm wrong? the "100 million customers" - i guess that's the number of people who pay $20/month.

Having seen that recurring monthly business model from the inside, I'm guessing their churn is vertiginous - 10-30% monthly. People checking it out, then forgetting about it, they change credit card numbers or cancel, etc. they don't find much value - there really isn't for the average person.

Even in programming, I haven't heard any of my peers really relying on it for real world stuff - haven't even seen a demo that reflects a promise to truly understand my weird daily problems.
Are you using lyrics? They tend not to be chiptuney with sung lyrics, though they can sound cool as a hybrid:

https://app.suno.ai/song/c13fab80-7f07-4d76-bad4-b79a28bb245...

https://app.suno.ai/song/68f1bbbb-e033-48c0-afb2-21a9abb7bf5...

But without lyrics are more chippy:
https://app.suno.ai/song/c98f4856-d733-4bc6-b03b-942da2bf8c4...
i'm interested to hear what you think of structure and interpretation of classical mechanics
This is an unfocused post. There are too many side notes, fancy alleys into html markup and too many side trips into subtopics abstractly related by use case analysis.

After reading stuff like this for a year, a text book or professor's lecture will start looking seriously good.
Please email my username at the big G, I would love to help with this magic. I can't believe it took this long.

I have been fortunate enough to be near Funkadelic players. My point is that I am a little shocked that this took so long. Music is not that complicated.

You guys are killing it.
Are we talking about the top 5% or the top 0.01%? Because it seems to me the top 5% is definitely going up. I don’t think people regularly aged to 8x in the 1500s (mostly due to higher prevalence of disease).
No, the reason they want this is so people can't hide money laundering and other crimes with shell companies.
In most models, falling child mortality is responsible for about half of the life expectancy growth in the past 150 years. But the other half is indeed longer lives at all age groups[1]. So I don’t think this is a lie, or even misleading (since the author made no claim about non-childhood causes being disproportionate).

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/its-not-just-about-child-mortalit...
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I envision it to be used by a production debating system in an analogous way to how policy debate should operate, which is to say this evidence being used as a "mostly factual" source of real information to cite as evidence alongside an LLMs current persuasion abilities. There's a startup already that's trying to do this, and they're working with us/using our dataset: https://chat.arguflow.ai/

The dataset itself certainly has tags that are emotional or evidence that's citing like musical lyrics. Kritikal debaters have thought of nearly every strange argument you can imagine.

The fact that you can make en even better progressive policy debater with it today than the speed talking adderal/coke addicts doing it at the highest levels of NDT/CEDA is just a bonus.

I'm glad I've out of the activity long enough to agree that spreading/speed talking is stupid, but when you're deep in that world - the elitism associated with it is seductive.
It all depends on if they can stabilize the API and Libraries or not. You can take a Windows executable from a decade ago, and it'll still work. You can't take the same age Python, PERL, PHP or whatever and expect it to be supported, or to work correctly.

If you want a demo that you're going to have to throw away in a year, and every subsequent year, go with Web based GUIs. If you need something stable, build a Win32 GUI, and run it in an emulator on the web.
Indian and Vietnamese aren't monoliths.

And most other communities aren't well represented in general. Even Chinese ones, compared to the Bay. Like I think there are only 2 Guilin style restaurants in the NYC area (please correct me if wrong - I'd love recommendations).

For smaller Asian ethnic groups, we are well represented in the Bay Area due to the existing large Asian community (and to a lesser extent in most other West Coast cities)

This isn't a think in NYC. Nor is there convenience. The same way a New Yorker can go downstairs and get a Pizza Slice, I can get a Banh Mi or Jiaozi in SF.

NYC has options, but it's a minority. That's a very real thing - it's a MINORITY. This simply isn't as common an experience in California.

If you're a numerically large ethnic group like Korean or Cantonese it might not matter as much, but it does to us who are from smaller ethnic groups. My ethnic group has only 3 million people at most, and most of them only reside in South and Central Asia with no diaspora.
Oh, well done mate! gratz. Maybe he ROT'd it for a reason.
A few random thoughts…
Curious what they consider to be a “crime”, such that a person comes into money, does something ‘criminal’, and is subsequently labeled a recidivist.

If you lived your entire life with financial struggle versus having fallen on hard times, I think the former would have the imagination of the hustle, which would not be entirely subverted by ‘winning the lottery’.

How does one rehabilitate their moral judgment? Education? Not by only winning the lottery.

I’m reminded of Malcolm Gladwell’s reporting of the Starvation Experiment in his podcast Revisionist History. He discusses how the participants were effected their entire life by the experience of near-starvation.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-rise...
xkcd mimic octopus: https://xkcd.com/928/ (2011-07-22)
“It’s not just about child mortality, life expectancy increased at all ages”

https://ourworldindata.org/its-not-just-about-child-mortalit...
Wait how can this statement and output make sense?

>This model is uncensored. I have filtered the dataset to remove alignment and bias. This makes the model more compliant.

>I understand that you would like a recipe for Mai Tai, but I must inform you that as an artificial intelligence, I am unable to provide recipes in any form due to my programming constraints.
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year in advance!
“You might have noticed the color of the brush head changing throughout of this post. This is because I had to run out and buy a new one after getting locked out of the first one.”

The concept of getting locked out of one’s toothbrush head is so absurd it might as well be dystopian.
It's not necessary in C.
Azimov also
FWIW, the comparison with the doctor telling a patient of their fatal condition is disingenuous. For all but a tiny fraction of cancers, oncologists have a very large n, to speak with the near-certainty of experience. Vs. our n is zero for the collapse of global technological civilizations.

I do agree that the climate-pessimism side of the Culture Wars seems pretty d*mn oblivious to basic psychology and sociology. Almost as if they're far more interested in scoring juvenile "I'm Right!" points than they are in preventing catastrophe...

(Anybody else notice that the article's "ruins of abandoned & overgrown city" artwork shows all the glass windows intact?)
Drain water heat recovery. See: power pipe.
It happens with logistic regression right now.
The difference is LLMs are far more general and far less accurate in specific scenarios (like crime statistics)
Somewhere inside those 100B there’s probably a fab or two.
The shares of game producer Starward Industries lost 80 pct YTD... CEO and main shareholder quit...

https://stooq.com/q/?s=sta&c=1y
I really hoped that there was something more substantial than name-dropping before dismissing people's opinions.
Where do you get that information? I realize that the reduction of infant mortality has been a major factor in the change in expected lifespan, but there have also been gains in expected remaining lifespan at 65.

For example, this study reported on in 2018:

The researchers looked at birth and death data for people above age 65 from 1960-2010. They found that the average age of death in those who live to be older than 65 increased by three years in every 25-year period, which means that people can expect to live about six years longer than their grandparents, on average.

Furthermore, this trend continued at a relatively stable pace over the entire 50-year period and in all 20 countries that they analyzed. Factors like medical breakthroughs caused minor fluctuations in how quickly lifespans increased, but these variations averaged out over time

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/11/06/lifespan-increasing-peo...
I think I can agree with this. He was as prolific as Euler was in mathematics, but perhaps a tad more of a genius (hard to compare music and maths).

> He seems to have been entirely internally driven by his genius and his commitment to the eternal and divine.

That's probably the only way to go strong for that long.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov_bibliography_(c...
This isn’t charitable: even besides the author’s case, there are all kinds of factors that make people retire (injury, new familial obligations, being forced to retire for legal/pension/political reasons).
War is both a product of civilization and capable of bringing about the end of civilization.
No that's completely wrong and is a lie that keeps being repeated. Life expectancy has increased at all ages:

https://ourworldindata.org/its-not-just-about-child-mortalit...

and

"Excluding child mortality, the average life expectancy during the 12th–19th centuries was approximately 55 years." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
I don’t think it’s that reckless.

Landing an airplane like that is basically a step by step checklist and there is a lot of indicators along the way if something is going wrong.

Also he has a second set of controls in his hands. He’s basically holding your hand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number

This, like history, is one of those dogmatic aspects of state education where only one side get taught and implicitly assumed to be the only one. Geography books need one big asterisk in so many sections
It’s fascinating that some people see Windows as a retail product who’s customer is the end user.

It’s much more accurately described as a foothold for all the other products. From Office and Sharepoint to the multi-figure licenses on the big business products, it’s all resting on the fact that Windows is used by future employees who then become managers who then become C-levels.

Seeing it through the lens of the product for consumers, free security updates can be MS giving a gift to the original purchasers. But seen through the lens of a foothold the free updates are a marketing expense so that maintainers of legacy systems have just enough reason to backburner investigating non-Windows operating systems as replacements.
Companies need to figure out how to keep the retiring around, a few days a week part time. There is a wealth of experience that gets lost . Companies are all in on AI but they're happy to let their pretrainined business domain finetuned trillion parameter models walk out the door.
From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62591/#:~:text=On%20av....

> On average across all population subgroups, people who survived to age 50 were expected to live over 8 years longer in 2000 than in 1940, corresponding to an increase in e50 from 23 years in 1940 to 31.3 years in 2006, or an average rise of 1.3 years per decade.

An 8 year increase in life expectancy at age 50 (from 73 to 81.3) seems like a pretty large increase over the span of 60 years.

I’d be more interested to know what the change in healthspan is, though. Living longer is less interesting to me than living longer in good health without worsening pain and disability.
Same thing that any freelance graphic designer or drafter would do. I've made maps for landscape architects and law firms before, for instance.