skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On April 2, 1995, Mosaic for Windows users awoke to discover their browsers were behaving oddly.

About three weeks earlier, the team was celebrating wrapping up a release at a reasonable hour (for once) when I uttered the words, “You know, this is the last release we are putting out before April Fools’ day.”

Everyone in earshot somehow thought this was a tremendously valid point. By 1:00 am there was not one but around five separate Easter eggs set to go off on April 1.

You will note I said April 2 above. I sat with the lead dev as we verified how date and time offsets worked so we didn’t have any off by one errors. Seems that some fields were zero indexed while others were one indexed. Terrible MS API. We came to consensus on what was right, we may have even tested it, and I left.

But unfortunately he had a crisis of faith an hour later and created the off by one error. Luckily for us April 1 that year was a Saturday. A lot of our users, who had internet at work, never saw the prank at all, even with the off by one error.

On Sunday the tech support emails started rolling in, and our clever little joke started to reveal itself as poor judgement. Some people got the joke, but many thought we had been hacked. By Monday we had a canned response, apologizing for our bad judgement and anyone who got freaked out thinking they got a virus, or that we did.

Three proper adults and three college seniors and nobody said stop.
No, that just means it makes economic sense to spend it. Doesnt mean that IRS is run the most optimal and efficient way. You can have a very inefficient monopoloy that still makes a lot of money because it is a monopoly. One can imagine where IRS is more effcient and 1 dollar spent results in 20 dollars more etc.
I like Schneier's opinion on blockchain: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/blockchain_an...

Essentially saying that the only valid use for blockchain is cryptocurrencies (and then you have to decide if you want cryptocurrencies or not).
IMHO it’s lazy, and lazy can’t be good.

Uber for dry cleaners.

Interesting. Uber managed to lose over $ 30 B —- how much do they plan to lose?
With Tesla specifically, Elon promotes a "short sellers are evil" line.
Because Southwest Airlines won’t let them.
I get you, though I do think of the noise scene as having a somewhat separate lineage to the more academically focused dialectic of the WDR and places like IRCAM which still operates.

I can see both sides of the argument about publicly funding music but for me the big differentiator is that something which is publicly funded will inevitably be publicly debated, and I think that critical attention can be very important in creating cohesive schools of thought in art that can have enough appeal to make a difference.
That and most of the merged or fine tuned models focus on overfitting for specific rankings.
You misunderstood, I was criticizing the majority of people who study humanities in college, because they don’t have the requisite skills to make valid conclusions about what they are learning.
Worked on a similar problem (when looked at from a very high level), and the solution was to alternatively invoke each algorithm until everything is done. That is, do as much as possible in one form, then do as much in the other form, rinse and repeat.
There is $254.20 billion in Toyota shares and they made 8.7 million cars in 2023. Tesla's market cap is $744.17 billion for 1.8 million cars, 14x higher per car.

If Teslas price were based on the possibility that they could eventually reach a bit over double Toyota's production, they wouldn't already be almost 3x more highly valued.
Initial outlay is high, but it has no wear. Mine is 8 years old, easily could go another 10. So 5$/mo over 20 years.
It can be very warranted. For a client I'm working with now I'll routinely comment out big swaths of code as they change their mind back and forth every month or so on certain things. They won't even remember it used to exist.
Not sure how much of an issue that is outside of the US.

For sure urban planning has changed all a lot in the last 2000 years, but I actually meant more human desires around "luxuries".
I have used Node a lot.

And many other systems over the decades.

Node is catastrophic because it perpetuates mistakes make fifty years ago where other modern systems (looking at Go and Rust) learnt from the past mistakes not to repeat them

If Node were not popular it would not be catastrophic
At present rates we’re likely to end up with an order of magnitude more renewable capacity than nuclear capacity, with that availability showing up as an equivalent number in cost. Any novel industrial process that relies on using huge amounts of energy will use the cheapest source of energy if at all possible, meaning that it will be engineered to deal with cheap but intermittent power sources. Unless there is some fundamental physical reason that it can’t work that way.
BTW I can pay $30-$100 for a decent Android phone (low end Motorola/Samsung) and a year of talk/text/data in the US.

These deals are extremely common in the US: https://slickdeals.net/newsearch.php?q=tracfone&searcharea=d...
There are so many game engines, why are there so few browser engines?
Is it harder to make a browser engine than a game engine?
It's decent but nothing crazy. I think most men could achieve it within 4-6 years. Generally, you can build muscle until age 40 without TRT at which point sarcopenia sets in and you lose on average 10% of muscle mass per decade. Thus it's better to have a reserve. When you look at causes of death for old people, there is case after case of falling -> broken hip -> catch something and die in the hospital. Having a good base of muscle makes this significantly less likely.

WRT to injuries: in terms of physical activity, lifting has some of the lowest injury rates, leaps and bounds lower than something like basketball or sprinting. While they are possible, joints adapt to loads over time and having a strong back + spine makes it a lot less likely to pull something in daily life. With intelligent load management (sleeping + eating well, not putting in more volume than you can recover from, listening to your body) injuries are extremely infrequent and generally minor---I have not had a serious injury in the 5 or so years I have been lifting.

I think lifting is too-often overlooked in health discussions, and, given how important avoiding metabolic conditions and immobility is for general health and happiness, I would argue it's just as important as cardio as a physical activity.
We just had a close call with this where I work. Bought a company, because they were failing and being crushed under their own weight. Somehow they convinced the management at my company that they knew the path forward and we've been in complete gridlock trying to get anything done for a couple years, eventually they hired outside management for the company we bought, set clear KPIs which they failed to deliver on (in some cases failing to even attempt to deliver on) and the got fired.

But god damn, when you buy a company that can no longer afford to support its own weight, don't let those fuckers convince you that they somehow know how to run your business too when they can't run theirs.
I wasn't aware of SuperCollider and OpenFrameworks which seem really cool, so thanks a lot for your tips.
Something about finding a population that maybe fall on the short side of the curve of critical thinking skills.
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It wasn't exactly that obvious at the time. IIRC North Korea outperformed the south in the 60s and didn't really fall significantly behind until decades after the war. After the war South Korea was both extremely poor and ruled by a very brutal and oppressive regime. Which if we're being fair was not that that different compared to the North (which actually had a stronger economy at the time due to Soviet support).

> If they had just worked with the US peacefully they could have achieved similar results way earlier.

It's not like they really had a choice? Truman ignored Ho Chi Minh in the 40s and later the US stayed neutral until deciding to back the French in their colonial war in Vietnam. Communist countries were willing to help the Vietnamese to fight for their indepence (well.. oversimplification but the French were pretty brutal and they South Vietnamese regime they put in place after the withdrawal was dominated by Catholics who were only ~10% of the population) so it was pretty much their only choice unless they wanted to remain a colony.
Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely.
Disregarding all of bitcoin's shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better.
https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html
I aspire to this...

And...

How do you connect with employers, employees, look up companies, jobs, etc.?
Price discovery doesn't rely on short selling. An active investor with stock in a company is already motivated to monitor if the company is overvalued and sell their stake. Short selling may improve the efficiency of price discovery but given the relativly high costs of needing to pay interest on the borrowed stock while you hold a short position (in contrast to a long position where you get payed dividends), I'm skeptical on how much selling actually helps with this.

There are certainly ways to use short selling as a hedge for other positions. But in those cases, loosing money on the short is typically good because it (hopefully) correlates to making more money on your main investment.
It’s probably less than 99% but it could be the majority in a given year.
Nietzsche predicted this surprisingly early into modernity - that in response to the Death of God, society would become decadent and nihilistic. It’s the best explanation I’ve come across.
The Cypertruck design is also weird, impractical and difficult to manufacture. Maybe that's probably a good reason to bet against?
> the editors seemed to address the issue he raised only after he and his colleagues submitted a comment article

Yikes. And the Lancet is generally regarded as a very reputable source. After reading the linked post I think I understand their initial defense, a little anyway.
The 737 is made at Boeing Renton and Boeing Everett, two factories in the Seattle area, Boeing's home town, that have been running since the 40s. Fuselages are made at the former Wichita plant, which also dates from the 40s.

737's problems do not stem from being made at a new plant.
Flagged as irrelevant to topic of discussion.
You asked how "killing people on the other side of the world could achieve anything," and clearly South Korea is an example of a successful contrast to North Korea given the same people. If you think North Korea is only where it is because the US bombed them, comrade...

Also, Germany, Japan, Serbian conflicts, etc. You'd have to never have seen a world map to think history never "achieve[d] anything [positive]" from interventions "on the other side of the world."
Fourth Turning and great reset are as close to conspiracy theories as one can get (opinion)

The mainstream media once again show that anything positive, or exhibiting the human capability to pull out of crises and create a decent future are boring, whereas gloom and doom are newsworthy.

One might speculate how things might be if we hadn't built up such an insane concentration of wealth, with consequent insane amounts of waste, or if humanity had been spending on beneficial uses of wealth and technology instead of some 50% or more (estimated) on war and preparations for one or more.

The old saying "no weapon goes unused" has migrated down to our streets, schools and other gathering places. Only nuclear weapons seem to have escaped this "rule".

So far.

Nothing is "inevitable". People make choices. They often choose poorly.

What about death and taxes? Well, the rich are working on those. They are pretty successful with the latter.
I mean, I think they were only arguing long- and short- selling are gambling, not any form of investment. I would also say most daytrading is at least gambling-adjacent. We get a little more fuzzy once we talk about investing significant amounts into a business (e.g. "Angel Investors") where you can meaningfully be said to be influencing the outcome you're betting on in a significant way, and we can probably say that investing in vehicles like index funds are a pretty safe bet as long as the economy writ large doesn't crash, but like many terms in the english language a whole ambiguous grey area exists where the connotational choice you make in describing it is pretty subjective
I guess it is - the API surface (HTML and JavaScript) is enormous and it needs to run websites that are not designed specificly for that browser engine, the opposite of game engines, where the game is designed for the engine.
Sure. Please tell me how I can possibly read this interview in any other way than NDT doesn't see the value in philosophy:

https://scientiasalon.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/neil-degrasse...

As far as I can tell, he doesn't say one charitable thing, and more, his attitude comes off as smug and arrogant.
Less weight, put it down gently? If you are a nerd about it you know that Eccentric contractions build more muscle than concentric.

If I know I'm going to bother my neighbors (with parties for example) I buy them gifts and talk with them about it. Sometimes they just want to party along. Can adapt the schedule etc

Gyms are not forbidden if it makes sense?
He did say "When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm" and he does seem to have been successful at making it into something other than a great engineering firm.
Missing from your calculation is the fact that Tesla makes almost 10 times more profit per vehicle than Toyota does, and is still growing sales at a much faster rate.

Market cap is much more closely related to total profit and future company outlook rather than a current snapshot of the number of cars sold.
Whether decision fatigue is a real thing has been called in to question: https://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_stor...
It’s not so much that people were trying to drive Tesla down as that the fundamentals simply don’t support its valuation.

The people shorting really just miscalculated how long the meme can carry on.
or perhaps Nextdoor
They have a dealership where I live in a southern Japanese city now. Seems like a very bold move, Japan must be a very difficult market for a Chinese brand...

I'm visiting Australia now and you see lots of Great Wall trucks
It's a bit of a weird double edged sword. Cannabis can act as a bronchodilator and relax the airways which can help breathing. But on the other side ingesting via vape or smoke and it can act as an irritant at the same time making you cough.[0]

On the other end of performance things, I do wonder if when doing stuff while under influence of cannabis since it can seem more exhausting/labor intensive for some users. Does this mental state of things being harder during exercise have an effect on the exercises effectiveness?

E.g. Do same distance run whilst stoned vs not. It's going to probably feel a lot harder when your high. Does this mean it would be the equivalent of doing a longer but just as exhaustive run when not stoned? Can we make shorter exercise sessions more effective by making them feel harder to a user because they are stoned?

[0]https://allergyasthmanetwork.org/news/cannabis-marijuana-use...
Thanks -- I'll remove that postscript, as it appears to be wrong. A quick search doesn't make the story 100% clear, so it's better not to spread potential misinfo.
Basically, build in vacant lots.
Looks good and it did come up with responses that I would have also gone with.
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There should be some indication that the chat request is being worked upon.
Nice.
Yes, it's actually an FAA approved document for each aircraft type called the Mimimum Equipment List (MEL). It defines which non-critical equipment is permitted to be inoperative and not prevent dispatch of the aircraft.

Commercial aviation would come to a halt if every aircraft had to be in 100% perfect condition for every flight. There are many systems that have redundant backups or are not essential for safe flight.
I don’t think trains need as many roads as the other options in your list.
They drop another door from the same place, this time with an airtag taped to it
New Rocket Launching a Major Moon Mission on Monday
Aka privatize profits, socialize losses.
uhm.. so it extends my lifetime at the cost of my lineage? lol
Some of the dead equipment was indeed connected through a high quality surge protector. From what I’ve read, they just can’t do much about the amount of energy in a lightning strike.
It's not at all clear how quantum mechanics in general, or a thought experiment like Shrodinger's cat, should be interpreted.

In the lab one can perhaps coax a few atoms near absolute zero into a superimposed state, but not a large room temperature object like a cat, so that particular thought experiment is just that - not an observed experimental outcome.

Is quantum randomness actually real, or just a reflection of an imperfect model of reality ?

In any case, isn't William James really just considering the issue of free will ? If the world, including ourselves, is just an automata evolving according to (say) Schrodinger's equation, then does it really make any difference if it's deterministic or not ? Even at a classical level the future is unpredictable due to chaotic dynamics, and from a subjective (presumably misleading) POV we have free will, regardless of what the reality is.
Do we really know the root cause this quickly?
I can't link you an independent source just my word as an aircraft mechanic.

I have never seen a 100% serviceable aircraft, as far as I'm concerned a aircraft where everything works to spec and the spec works to needs is a myth that we strive for but can never achieve.
> Who cares what gamblers lost?

You have an odd view of how investing or trading works. Why should the only choices be "this will go up" or "im gonna sit this one out". What's wrong with the equally valid scenario of "this is overvalued and will go down"?

Were they incorrect? Sure. But that doesn't mean believing that something will go down is inherently wrong or invalid behavior.
I highly recommend Michael Coorlim's video series on Ultima [1], which balances some playthrough with background on the game's design.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFCs_cDvTi4
Highways are more important to business than passengers. That government bus isn't going to be hauling the logs, gravel, and any other resources that are the lifeblood of BCs economy.
Citroën Sabotaged Wartime Nazi Truck Production in a Simple and Brilliant Way
> I don’t know why the subject of short selling makes peoples brains melt.

Because it's an easy target among the financial world, which is divorced from reality in general.
https://www.youtube.com/@micro_safari has some recommendations (disclaimer: they do run a small shop, but he seems knowledgeable)
They're the small web, and it seems to be a very small manifesto. What exactly am I supposed to be signing in support of?
Just a note that if jargon upsets you to the point where you self-consciously and deliberately avoid it, cryptography might not be the specialty for you.

We're talking here about one of the very simplest tasks in cryptography, of simply encrypting a discrete message. To steal a rhetorical device from Watson Ladd, after a long discussion that started with a gravely broken system, we arrived at something that might work, and that would almost certainly get you a D in a first undergraduate course.

The experience you'll have trying to design anything more complicated is that, even with a lot of effort and careful thought _and experience_, will be that the first cut of any system you come up with will have vulnerabilities. Of course they will. Look at the track record of (checks) everybody else that has ever tried to ship cryptography.

But the problems you're going to run into aren't going to be described intuitively, in "plain language". Just like being a medical doctor, you need to be conversant with the terminology of the field to understand what the pitfalls are. Very serious vulnerabilities in schemes you come up with are going to be described in the literature in terms of acronyms related to proofs that are themselves stitched together with jargon and acronyms.

Cryptography is hard! I solve this problem for myself by simply refusing to design cryptosystems for other people. It's much easier being a vulnerability researcher that dabbles in cryptography than it is to be a practicing cryptography engineer.
or godot or obviously js in the browser
There are reasons for short selling and we'd be in stone age without it.

Black-Scholes delta hedging (more fancy called "replication of theoretical option prices") relies on it. Shorting for Black-Scholes also has two facets: one where your loss is limited, when you buy a call then delta-hedge by shorting against it. And another one where the market is up to get you, selling a put and hedging by shorting. Works in theory but in practice you get funked and there's little to nothing you can do against it when it happens. I suspect most "betting against Tesla" shorters were actually institutional put sellers. Case when they weren't "betting" at all but hedging.
Ultimately we’re going to need to get lucky on grid decarbonization (recent solar PV and wind bulldouts, particularly in China, are an incredibly welcome sign that this is happening.) And I’m afraid we might also need to do some kind of geoengineering. I’m much more nervous about the second part, because the first seems to be on an economic glide path that might make it self-fulfilling. But the second relies on a lot of coordination that might not happen.
Should you want to try map drawing again, it's alive and well in games like Grimrock, Etrian Odyssey, and others. In Etrian Odyssey, you use the lower screen as a map drawing tool.
Which is an integral part of Tesla's PR and marketing strategy.

The idea being to cultivate an underdog attitude amongst owners.

Even on Reddit's EV and Tesla forums you will see people default to wild conspiracy theories in order to defend the actions of the company or explain why EVs are having issues in certain areas.
Dopamine is certainly a factor, but low serotonin is at greater distinction. The dopamine cycle exists to regulate task completion and is associated with reward stimulus. Serotonin is associated with mood regulation. In manically depressed persons and persons with advanced ADHD serotonin production is extremely low compared to normal. The primary compensating behavior then is seeking external mood stimulators. For the person in my family with ADHD their drug of choice is anything with large amounts of red dye 40.

Although persons with ADHD have lesser DRD2 and possibly lesser DRD4 receptors using prescribed medication to raise serotonin production reduces the urge to hyper stimulate and thus drives behavior towards a more normal homeostasis, which then also solves for the forgetfulness.
That's not how organizations work. You can't just slowly take out the "bad" people and replace them with "good" people and expect that to fix anything. It's the wrong mental model.

Organizations are sticky. They get stuck in a rut, basically. The slow trickle of new people gets indoctrinated into the Company Way (or else selectively ejected), and the people that are able to leave often use it as a lesson of what not to do.

In short, turnover isn't a magic bullet.
Right, statistical models are not sufficient for science. I agree. But they are necessary. So I recur to my original question.
Index funds aren’t the entire market. Just specific major stocks (eg, s&p 500). You want someone “thinning the herd” to keep the index sound over time.
The designs are unsound and the strategy for fixing is to persuade the regulators to look the other way. No way to blame that on the manufacturing teams.