skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post is mind-boggling to me...

> > We could be running fiber-optic cable to every house in America, and we even know how much it would cost.

> That's the problem, isn't it? It costs too much.

No it doesn't, and we already paid for it at least four times over. The large-scale ISPs (and even small-scale ones) have been given $400,000,000,000 by Congress since the 1990s until now to bring broadband Internet to people in America. They still didn't get it done. They didn't get it done because they used the money to buy back stock and give themselves bonuses after wiring up a few hundred thousand homes at most: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...

And the reason we paid for it at least four times over, is because the Pentagon commissioned a study some time ago on the amount of money required to bring a strand of fiber-optic cable to every home in America. They estimated it to be around $50,000,000,000 to $100,000,000,000.

There are a lot more problems we can solve with more severe punishments and more certainty of being punished. We can solve even more with re-instituting shame in our society. This idea that nothing is shameful is not only disgusting, but objectively stupid... and we can see where it's led us.
I agree it is rare. And rarer when you learn to make your PRs smaller!
See https://srush.github.io/annotated-s4.

I also think state-space models will make a comeback.
If you are worried about externalities, either look into Coasian bargaining or slap the obvious Pigovian tax on (or do a cap-and-trade scheme).

The latter has worked really well against acid rain. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Rain_Program

No need to intervene further to prevent some 'evil' race to the bottom. Just narrowly address exactly the externality in question, and stop there. Compare https://openborders.info/keyhole-solutions/
https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app

You still would need to add Stripe but there are so many examples publicly available that it should be straight forward
And yet, if you have two tasks that each take 1 hour, and only 90 minutes until the deadline, only one task will be completed by you, regardless of quadrant, and you will then be reminded that priority is singular.
I didn’t see it that way - I think they have a valid point. I know people personally affected by deaths in their family due to the virus and I know people who caught and fought it like it was nothing, so I know exactly what the poster is getting at.

When it hits your loved ones, you start to take it more seriously. Wearing a mask and socially distancing doesn’t matter if it means not losing another family member. Conversely, if you experience just a minor cold, you start questioning all the media you’ve seen about the death rates and this and that which can definitely lead you to thinking everyone’s exaggerating the whole thing for a reason unknown to you.

I’m not anti vax at all (studied biomedical science) but I do see how people can be pushed towards having those views, even subconsciously, through highly manipulated algorithms that can use emotions to extract content in the form of comments, reaction videos, memes etc from real people. Come to think of it, AI has been milking humans for content for years.
100-200, you say? Sounds familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Also, an overview of other SQLite replication strategies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38602175
When and where were we invaded in 1942?
In my opinion, we always overlook what the natural environment has done for us, almost everything else under our control is a disaster in one way or another or requires very significant effort to keep operating. Anti-biotics overuse, holes in the ozone layer, top soil degredation, climate change, nuclear accidents, microplastics, broken arrows etc.

We're lucky we live in an environment that mostly provides us with the basics to survive. We hope that powerful tech like AI will give us the power to put us in control of our destiny.I think we need to be careful what we wish for because I don't think we actually know what we want.

We can't go backwards now anyway, so best of luck to us.

Cool article though, we seem too like to waddle around in our own shit.
>The white French government is mad that their previous imperial subjects are now really defining what French will be into the future.

whats wrong?
Are you suggesting using the unit tests at the HEAD selected by the current git bisect step as the binary signal for bisect?

Because if so, I agree that a commit that introduces a failing test will break bisect (there will be a pass->fail transition AND a fail->pass transition, and bisecting requires there to be at most one such transition). But even more importantly: Without the separate commit containing only the failing test, every commit will pass. That is, bisect will have no useful signal at all.

I think that can't be what you're suggesting, so could you clarify what bisect process you have in mind?
Autoscaling, replication problems, undesired application behavior due to database slowness, database misconfigurations etc. are some other things were this can be used.

We use it internally to figure misconfiguration, CDC behaviour as well as trigger performance.

Another thing that is in works is, replaying audit logs on the database as is.
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Some small towns have started building fiber to every home that want it, as a public utility. It has confirmed cost is the only question that voters care about.

In one example it cost something like $200M for a population of 150,000. That’s $1.3k per person. Good luck getting the taxpayer to sign up for that without a clear revenue model.

It’s being done, but not as some kind of blind “hey you know what would be great” leap.
Terrorist attacks are defendable against. But anyway, you don't need to defend against terrorist attacks as much if you convincingly show terrorists you can come to their home and blow it up if they try.
Changes can be made, but that has to be discussed as part of the solutions not as something extra.

Problems are not purely technical, they always have a social component.

If you have a solution but its too expensive, that's not a full solution, that is half a solution. Maybe the other half is government grants or whatever, but you can't just talk about it as if the problem is solved. The social factors are just as much a part of the problem to be solved as the scientific part. Someone needs to figure them out. It is hard work that needs to be done and is how problems actually get solved.
Having tried out Rebol some, earlier, and liked it a bit, I was quite interested in Red, until they went the crypto way for fundraising :(

Their two-layer design with Red/System (IIRC) and Red, was interesting too.
> I would love to see this principle updated to set a time limit, along the lines of: existing code that has been maintained to not use features marked deprecated, obsolescent, or removed in the past ten years is important; unmaintained code and existing implementations are not. If you cannot update your code to stop relying on deprecated functionality, your code is not actually economically important — people spend time and money maintaining things that are economically important.

i have been posting FOSS code since 1998, much of it in C, and not one line of it is something i would dare classify as "economically important." It was written for fun and much of the fun of writing in a language is lost when updates in the language break old code. (The reason i won't touch PHP anymore is because updates broke my long-working code too many times.)

C Charter folks: by all means, break long-standing features when folks build with -std=cNEW_VERSION, but keep in mind that -std=c89 or -std=c99 are holy contracts with decades of code behind them, all of which should still compile in 30 years when built in -std=c89/c99 modes, regardless of whether they're "economically important."
Subsidize - with taxpayer dollars.
I'm guessing when you have a $450 back pack you're also taught to take care of it. A zipperless buckle/draw string bag with performance fabrics would probably be just as durable as these bags. And I'm not convinced these bags are provide buyitforlife value since a lot of videos show old bags getting repaired/restored which considering the materials and construction involved, probably cost as much as a new bag. The manufacturers has a section on leather care and maintenance when alternative is to throw a fabric bag in the wash.
If your solution would work except for some reason, then you don’t actually have a solution. A drill that works in space except for all that vacuum and radiation isn’t actually a space drill. It’s a space drill for some alternate reality, meaning the one you’re not actually in. You haven’t solved the problem. You’re not as good of a problem solver as you think you are, sorry. Stop acting like you’ve solved it. You haven’t.

In the exact same way, any solution that would work “except humans” is a non-solution. Maybe it’s a near solution, or a solution for a different time. But it’s not one right now.

When you find yourself getting angry at the world, it’s worth considering that just maybe you’ve made the approximately easiest mistake in problem solving: underestimating the difficulty of the problem (especially someone else’s problem).

If I ranted and raved about how it’s a crime against humanity we don’t already have underground moon bases, you would just think I’m unhinged. Sure, it’s theoretically possible, but problems don’t get solved at the speed of my imagination.

“But if we had perfect coordination…” yeah, well, if it didn’t take so much energy to leave Earth’s orbit, we’d do it more often. But it does, so we don’t. We also don’t have total software security and all cancers cured. I’m sorry. Everyone is doing their best.
I actually want to do this (one day i'll get to nerd-out again) but then tie it to a totp setup so the knocking-algorithm changes ever so slightly; could even utilize different ports
> tries to limit my commit messages to 50 or 55 characters

The tools try to limit the summary line of Git commit message to 50 characters. Not the whole message. That is a useful convention. The usual convention is described here: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#_discussion
Nice! I didn't know of DMN (https://camunda.com/dmn/). Are there any detailed literature (articles/books/etc. on this and related decision techniques) that you can point us to ?

PS: I had posted another related article which you might find interesting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38822320
There's no stereotype there. I'm explicitly talking about people I know. If what I said happened, their tunes would change. It's happened before, and it'll happen again.

And yes, the loudest ones about it in the family are dumb and emotional. That tends to be the case for most people who do less thinking and more repeating their point louder and louder.
Long term you may be right.

SEO isn’t dead but it will slowly die off. Being a reference link is second place but by that point you only get visited if the AI wasn’t trusted or didn’t solve the problem.

Therefore I think viral/word of month or links from other engaged sources will become more relevant.

Right now though why lose out on free SEO traffic just because you used JS to render most of your site?
You're not free to supply whatever letters you want - the words are specifically prescribed. The dew point indicator words are on page 41 of the handbook linked by the parent.

I'm not sure why the dewpoint indicators had to be arbitrary, rather than using the same scheme. Maybe it was a way of providing some robustness because fields could occupy variable numbers of words, so an identifiable dew-point word would help to mark a specific field in the report.
Well, in this specific context, not really.

It would be hard to argue that Afghanistan lost that much. Although I guess they "won" (if you call what happened winning. )

But the "war on terror" wasn't a "traditional war". It wasn't like some landing by foreign forces at Venice Beach. It was a manufactured political construct that served political purposes.

It handily created a jobs program called the TSA. Which is grossly over equipped to confiscate shampoo. All the world has airport security. Very few places have (or need) TSA levels of intrusion.

The "war on terror" was indeed lost. It was lost when the US became "terrified". In all of the troubles the IRA couldn't do that to the UK. Endless bombs just resulted in "carry on".

In the US the war continues all the time. The TSA bears witness to this.

But at this point it employs so many people, doing meaningless, unskilled work, that you may as well treat it as a jobs program.
So I’m not allowed to watch content specific to my country just because a person in another country says so?
By what means have you seen into this other commenter's heart to determine they are fundamentally selfish?
Started reading this and felt my head start to spin a bit, is it just me or does this author seem to have misunderstood the term "coordination failure"? This example about UEFI is like the perfect OPPOSITE of a coordination failure, seems like the issue at hand was just a classic engineering challenge. And likewise with the popcorn button/tragedy of commons example, don't really understand the connection and it feels like the author didn't either.
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I don’t see China officially entering into recession even if they enter into one unofficially. Each time a recession has happened in the past since 1990 or so, it was not acknowledged and the only clue that they realized it at all would be the talk about “economic recovery” afterwards.
Edge used to support ePubs directly, but they removed that functionality for some reason. There is a little more to it than just rendering. E.g. ideally you’d want some popup table of contents support.
Face your situation as a challenge.

Solve problems in the standard way.

Be humble and tell your professors that you ‘think’ you may have an alternative solution as well.

Get your degree.

Then get out of there.

Good luck!
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via https://vercel.com/templates?type=saas
The OP is like if High Modernism were a teenager. All adults are stupid, they don't understand anything and can't see what is clear to any normal person (i.e. me). I know everything that is there to know, but nobody wants to listen to me because they are all stupid.
The post presents a simplistic point of view - that there are universally-agreed-upon solutions to these problems that, through a failure of organizational or coordination capacity, we're unable to enact.

The actual reality - that these "solutions" are not as simple or effective as he thinks and that's why we're not doing them - is a lot less gloomy than the thesis he proposes.

His call to "build social systems that cooperate" basically just amounts to "All you people need to start doing what I say". Join the club, dude.
> Because, unlike what classical-liberal economic theory stipulates, human beings aren't inherently selfish.

If you actually knew anything about the history of classical liberalism you wouldn't perpetuate this nonsensical stereotype. Classical Liberalism is not the same as Objectivism.
I agree, factually, with almost all the content of this article, although I find its tone a little grating.

There's a joke online - "nobody speaks more confidently than a 15 year old who has smoked weed twice explaining how to smoke weed to a 15 year old who hasn't smoked weed before" - nobody writes an angrier blog post than someone who has watched two YouTube videos about a subject.

Doing the work to improve society is boring and slow. It's talking to people in the community. It's local politics. It's generational shifts. It's a warm smile to the older person in the store, in the hospital, as we try to move the needle ever so slightly in the right direction.
According to the author, right? Those results aren't backed up by Porcus's comments in that thread.
Cool! I thought about this idea
as an IaaS! A CDN that can figure out your rendered page and serve it. Regardless of tech stack.
Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/my-notes/lkeeogfaie...
The problem is when irregular spelling is intended to capture a vernacular. It does a disservice to everyone, erasing the author's intent with homogenized language.
You are right about grey areas. However, eg Taiwan and Belarus are still organised and run like nation states, even if their diplomatic status might be a bit wonky. Eg they have an army, they enforce laws, people pay taxes and obey regulations etc.

Compare that with the state of eg Europe a thousand years ago, when things were organised differently. Or have a look at most of the rest of the world back then.

Historically, one big change was the spread of gun powder. Fielding armies powered by gun powder required a lot more state capacity and organisation but provided huge military advantages. A tribal or feudal society couldn't cut it on the battlefield anymore, so they were outcompeted. (The whole process is a lot messier and complicated, of course.)
Wow, someone used crypto for charity work.

Don't get me wrong, that's great, but what exactly are we saying here? Fundraising for a good cause is all that is needed to make something punk? Are church collection plates also punk?
A few years ago, I wrote a summary of Napier's conception and construction here: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/47927/motivation-fo...
> First trend: Moore’s Law, or rather, its lack thereof. Despite all the efforts of Apple to hide its flattening curve with ARM-based chips, it is vox populi that a computer from 2014 is just about as powerful as the one you bought as a Christmas gift in 2023, bar the amount of RAM or the speed and capacity of the SSDs therein. On the other hand, consumer PCs of 2014 were, by all standards, widely superior to those of 2004, and immensely more than those of 1994 and, needless to say, 1984.

Generative AI and local LLMs have really changed this. It is an amazing capability to be able to run Stable Diffusion and LLMs like Mistral in the privacy and control of your own hardware.

Despite whatever assurances OpenAI may give you about the privacy of your data, you are not in control. They already deem certain prompts problematic. How long before they forward problematic prompts to law enforcement? Also, how safe is your IP? We already know that LLMs can reproduce some of their training material verbatim. Do you want your source code to be able to be reproduced like that?

The latest consumer hardware is able to run a lot of these models at acceptable performance. I think that demand for that might drive at least some people upgrading or else getting a more powerful computer and/or GPU.
Probably not. Though I did leave plenty of stuff behind in Singapore (like on the train etc), which is about as safe as Japan. Much of which, I got back, and some was lost forever.
I can only make my local observations... but it's about the same as ever.

What's changed is relationships, not sex. If there really are fewer men having sex (however you want to measure that), it's probably because they now have more partners in their lifetime and can't find a woman who will commit. It's everyone's standards that have increased, not just women's. Either way, I just think people are more honest with themselves today compared to the past.

I think it's a great thing people today take commitment way more seriously while still being loose enough with the sex when they really need it instead of feeling entitled to it or being too prudish. If guys just want to get laid it's definitely out there. They just have to lower their expectations or be flexible and learn the increasingly diverse world of what women want. I think women are naturally more responsive to handling shifting social preferences and fashions/trends which is why their line on the graph is relatively flat. Men on the other hand depend way too much on "village knowledge" or tradition and they get bitter when it burns them that women really do demand you to "be yourself" more than ever. It makes a ton of sense to me. It's not a big deal just that some of these guys didn't get the memo. Grooming matters, fashion matters, money matters, humor and experience and standards of living matter, etc.

It's a very tired and old statement to make but men have gotten a bit lazy (not entirely their fault) and it's currently a huge advantage for those men who put in just the tiniest amount of effort. The god-awful beards, ratty clothes, dirty cars, bad taste in furniture, etc. it definitely adds up to a bad vibe but the biggest one is a sour attitude.
Of course, you could also just coordinate with the kid sitting next to you, to share one textbook. Lightens the load by 50%.
Any links/resources that you can share?
Oft repeated but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709556 lays out a compelling argument that maybe the government didn’t actually hand out $400B in subsidies/tax breaks but instead it’s an artifact of how the researcher for the book chose to classify profits but that you could make an alternative pitch. I’m not well-versed enough in the law to know but it sounded like this person did research vs quoting a summary of the book by its author.

Not disagreeing with the rest, but if the other poster was correct it may be worth correcting the record on whether or not we actually did attempt to fund building fiber throughout America.
I love how some announcements of developments still occur in good old-fashioned forums; it really warms my heart to see that. Kudos to the author for the hard work!
> First trend: Moore’s Law, or rather, its lack thereof. Despite all the efforts of Apple to hide its flattening curve with ARM-based chips, it is vox populi that a computer from 2014 is just about as powerful as the one you bought as a Christmas gift in 2023, bar the amount of RAM or the speed and capacity of the SSDs therein.

Is this really true?

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/2275vs5022/Intel-i7-479...

Only on the CPU side, there's an 86.4% difference between the two top models. Even between the top Apple CPU at the time, there's an 80% difference.

And in terms of GPU & energy consumption, the difference is exponential..
I guess things have changed since I went to school 20-30 years ago.
The problem here is we need solutions that work, not magical thinking. Otherwise credibility goes in the toilet. It’s self-evident in the face of an aerosol-generating respiratory pandemic that social distancing, surgical face masks, and immunizations that don’t produce a muscosal response do not constitute a complete solution. At best, they’re good things to do that may help a bit. Likewise, ending our own reliance on fossil fuels by decree won’t work—energy transitions are driven by economic viability.
Independent of the origins of the 80 character line lenght rule. Some say it originated on punch cards. It is a useful rule. Classical news papers also have narrow columns. Why? Because it helps reading.
Does the person who wrote this article think that a custom disk image == a custom logo?

A mistake only possible from someone with extremely poor subject matter expertise, or by text predictive AI?

Or, am I totally out of whack and have no idea what the author is writing about?
I'm talking about classical-liberal economic theory, mostly Austrian and Chicago school.
People talk like there is one cure for a hundred types of cancer.
Possibly one of the worst opinion pieces I've ever read.
Not "economics", but classical-liberal and neoliberal ones (Austrian and Chicago school)