skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If nothing else, because parking in major cities tends to be a nightmare, and finding a spot for one car is easier than finding N (reasonably close) spots for N cars.

A vehicle which isn't moving is not performing its job as transport; and is instead wasting space. Your scenario is better served by public transit, which doesn't require any parking (outside of official maintenance depots, etc.). It also scales to groups of several hundred, whilst a car can only take around 5 individuals (perhaps a few more in a minivan, but that just makes the inefficiency of moving it around and wasting space on parking even worse for the entire rest of its lifetime!)
We have booms and the horns still legally have to blast the entire neighborhood at 12am...or 4am.
I’ve been deploying 3xAZs in 3xRegions for a while now (years). The backing store being regional s3 buckets (keeping data in the local compliance region) and DDB with replication (opaque indexing and global data) and Lambda or Sfn for compute. So far data transfer hasn’t risen to the level of even tertiary concern (at scale). Perhaps because I don’t have video, docker or “AI” in play?
I didn’t name it to not sound like one of those owners but it’s the best selling EV: a Tesla model y. It also has a LG battery pack, that performs better in the cold than the Panasonic, CATL, or BYD batteries Tesla also use.

About the worse EVs for winter, that would be the ones with no or small battery heaters. The old imiev for example.

A 20% drop of range by -5 is pretty good. Your wife may enjoy a cold interior or trust the temperature display of the car AC.
> Why do i get this faulty patch if i'm not even using Bitlocker ?

You might not be using it now, but you might want to switch it on later.

And more importantly, it prevents an exponential explosion on the amount of different variants of the code. If you allow people to not get this patch, and later another bug is fixed, either you force people to get this patch before getting the next one (leading to N different versions), or you'll have to develop a fix both for people who have and for people who don't have this patch (leading to 2^N different versions).
No one likes the truth, buddy.
>the question is whether society should strive to prevent individuals from acquiring great power over the masses

Whatever people or person has the authority to prevent individuals from acquiring great power over the masses.....has great power over the masses.

The power-hungry don't like being told they can't do something. Another possible outcome is the uber-rich start converting their wealth into men-at-arms to secure their power. Every time my wealth ticks over from $998M to $999M I burn $1M secretly acquiring the loyalty of violent men. Eventually my wealth goes from $999M to $1B and the Equality Enforcers pay me a visit....only to find out the hard way that they didn't bring enough bannermen. I don't think its particularly far-fetched to conclude that eventually men with near-limitless resources and near-limitless egos will resort to armed conflict before they allow some paper-pushing bureaucrats to put them back in a box. Maybe that's not the character of Buffet or even Musk, but on a long enough timeline I consider it a certainty. It's better for everyone that they collect yachts and "atmosphere models"( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSvvvrKhx0w ) instead.

> For example, poor people can't afford to buy a Tesla, so what has Musk done to raise the standard of living for the poor?

I think in a system as complex as the world economy it's difficult to pinpoint this with any certainty. MAYBE one could argue that Tesla forced a paradigm shift onto other automakers and that the entire industry dragging its feet to produce EVs is a net quality of life improvement for the civilization in the aggregate due to reduced emissions?

Why are we judging the wealthy by their utility to the poor anyway? Belle Delphine isn't a billionaire, but at one point she was making >$1 million per month shaking her butt on a webcam and selling used bathwater to lonely males. Are we going to judge EVERYONE by how they've raised the standard of living for the poor? Where is the cutoff point? $1B net worth? $1M annual income? The market principles which have elevated Elon Musk to the top of his industry have similarly elevated Belle Delphine to the top of hers, with massively disproportionate earnings compared to the bottom-tier OnlyFans content creators. Do we have enough moral outrage for them both? Why or why not? Who has the authority to judge?

> how much personal freedom would you trade just to have more material goods?

I'm a military reservist who is considering returning to full Active Duty for several years so trading away my personal freedom is.....quite normal to me. That said....I have pretty modest material desires, and am mostly trading my personal freedom for.....wealth accumulation! If you're going to own something, own something that other people need, and that generates revenue.
Hmm? Dotnet on Linux uses LLVM for codegen so that seems to be a wash. Lots of nuget packages are wrappers around native libraries as well.
Bedrock

Bedrock is the more interesting branch.

It’s WAL2 + CONCURRENT

It’s also the branch Expensify uses to scale to 4M QPS, on a single node (6-years ago)

https://sqlite.org/src/timeline?r=bedrock

https://use.expensify.com/blog/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a...
"100% free" it is not. It's free trial, then you must purchase credits.
The effect here is more about people claiming lateral authority, rather than the base claim of authority in the first point. But I take your point.

I’m also underqualified for my position and am wary of credentialism. But if I’m looking at a topic I don’t know well — e.g. seismic building codes- I have to start somewhere.

Software engineering is thankfully a field that is particularly accessible to people without formal training. Demand is high, functional skills can be proven on the spot, and employers are (usually) not in a position where their hiring decisions have potential legal consequences.
The new feodalism. We let space,transport housing, land and more in the hands of the lords. And they are building their bunkers and moats and private armies.
I’m looking for dev with consumer experience. Non-technical, but strong in corporate and product strategy. Can run marketing and partnerships as well. Atm working on an AI concierge service to help new parents find healthy and safe baby products. Let me know if you want to connect!
Between two governments and a guy that owns a bridge exactly who should I consider to be the adult in the room?
Hi, I really appreciate your feedback, thanks.
I will surely look into suggestions you shared and will try to act accordingly.

And regarding free options, 2 generations are free initially and then you have to buy credits. So you can create 2 revamps kitchen free of cost.
Exactly this. People on the right in Canada like to blame all this on "socialism", but it's really the opposite. The state in Canada has always been captured by private interests, for the purpose of enforcing monopolies. Sometimes justified by nationalism (protectionism relative to the massive US economy next door), sometimes justified by expediency, but almost always working in some private sector interest at the expense of the public's.

In the west it's the oil & gas sector (or forestry), in Central Canada its banking, service, and manufacturing.

The reality is we have very little "socialism" in Canada, and a whole lot of corporatism which has worn a liberal facade for its own survival. It dates back to colonial times, we just replaced the British colonial parasites with our own local ones.
1. I launched on Mac, it immediately put itself in the "Open at Login" items, almost deleted right away. I know that making this default is getting popular, I still always feel like uninstalling when that happens. Turn it off by default or at least ASK, don't make the assumption that users want this.

2. I am trying to install "JS Paint", it says "Installing" and the wheel has been turning for a minute, I have no idea what the progress is, what the download speed is, anything. Is this intended? I also cannot cancel the installation once running.

3. "JS Paint" installed eventually, I cannot launch it, nothing happens when I click "Open", other than the "Open" button animating on mouseover. Restarted EXT, still cannot open it.
The critical piece to any framework is how work is prioritized. If it’s by 1 guy, you will have the problems you describe.

If you have an approach that forces the people doing prioritizing to weigh Return on Investment (benefit or value / estimated time) to largely guide the priorities, busywork with little benefit like you describe won’t be prioritized.

It’s critical.
That sounds like what the City of Chicago did with their parking enforcement rights.

They sold a 75 year contract to metered spaces for 1.5 billion dollars in 2008. Currently there have been 2 billion in revenue, and there are 60 years remaining on the contract...
Generally I assume that holes get larger due to certain muscles tensing and smaller due to certain other muscles tensing. (It's also possible that holes get smaller due to swelling in the tissue surrounding them, and larger when that swelling subsides, but I don't think that's what we're talking about here.)

Are you saying that the muscles that dilate the hole are themselves "dilating" when they tense, while the muscles that contract the hole are not "dilating" when they tense?
This literally looks like a webpage generated from someone's RSS aggregator.
I just cancelled my subscription for the second time (restarted after reading hype on how productive everyone becomes with it). I don't think I will be going back.

It felt amazing at first, but it keeps giving answers that are almost right but are actually wrong. Overall, it just does not provide a net benefit.
Marx didn't really predict the slave-like conditions. He (and especially Engels) described the conditions that were created in industrialized countries (especially UK) by capitalism.

The marxist analysis had a major effect to how capitalism was reigned in to make the working conditions and living standards better. In the 20th century almost all European countries had major socialist and communist parties, often in power, and enacted major socialist policies. E.g. almost all concrete policy demands of Marx and Engels[1] have been implemented in most (western) countries and most of them are nowadays taken for granted.

Marxism has very little to do with envy you described. The luxuries aren't really a problem. The problem is the economic (and political) power of concentrations of capital whose interest it is to make working conditions worse. You're attacking a strawman, and most likely against your own interests.

[1] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/03/24.htm
For everything VDI, take a look at Parallels RAS[1] or Parallels Secure Workspace[2]. For the hypervisors and cloud part, probably Nutanix[3].

[1] https://www.parallels.com/products/ras/remote-application-se...

[2] https://www.parallels.com/products/psw/

[3] https://www.nutanix.com/uk/products/nutanix-cloud-infrastruc...
If you need remote access personally I'm a fan of tailscale, really easy to setup if you have system access.
Potatos work as batteries with very little lithium. New Scientist apparently doesn't care about those properties that make batteries useful, so maybe they'll write up potatoes next.
Japan has way less inflation though, so if the whole culture is on the same page then I guess it's fine
This article didn't ring true at all given all the supermarkets near me have been expanding their self-service offerings while reducing their staffed tills.

Even my local Waitrose now only has 1 or 2 staffed tills.

Then when I got to the examples I realised the article is entirely US focussed. Is there a cultural difference to explain why self-service would be more of a failure in the US?
Quantum computing is only 20 years away!
There is also a middle ground: vignettes. Basically, only a car with a valid vignette can get on such a road, but unlike tolls, the fee is not per-trip, but valid for some time period (week, two, month, year).

So in the result, only those who use (or intend to use) the toll road pay, but without the toll booths that slow everything down. The price also happens to be more reasonable.
> they truly believe that, in the absence of some pressure, a person who has their basic needs provided will ultimately venture to do nothing.

They might venture to not work for the 5 richest men for starters. And we just can't have that happening now, can we?
Found the reference (see section 2): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Fpvch8RR29qLEWNH/chinchilla...
It's mentioned on the Gordie Howe bridge page:

"In July 2020, Matty Moroun died aged 93, with his family maintaining their ownership of the Ambassador Bridge. In 2022, the Detroit Free Press reported that Moroun's family were preparing a case for damages, following the acquisition of properties by eminent domain for bridge construction"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Howe_International_Br...
How do you define "users"? Say something you ordered or bought in a store was shipped along that road, did you "use" it? If one of the employees of that company had to use that road to get to work, did you "use" it? one of their family members, without whose job they wouldn't have theirs?

Should the owner of a toll road have to pay money back to subsidize the costs of the roads which give access to their toll road? Vehicles need to be able to get on/off the road before tolls can be collected.

Or, if we apply your logic, then it is impossible for people to live in rural areas, because the cost of the roads is more than the local economy can bear.

Road networks are an infrastructure investment. Since they are networks, the value comes from the entire network. What is the value of a road with no on or off ramps?

Because the value is so diffisive over both space and time, the only effective way to account for and recoup the cost is through a mechanism that can take a share of the economic growth resulting from the network.

i.e. taxes.
This whole report is very worth a read.

I particularly found section 2.4 to cover something I've felt for a long time. The bottom line is we really need to reevaluate how the stock markets and finance work, and if they are working for society as a whole.

> This financialization of corporations, which sees enormous
financial markets play an ever-increasing role in the
economy, has exacerbated the focus on short-term
profits over any longer-term goals. It has also directed
investment away from productive uses, instead acting
in the interest of extreme capital by reorientating many
non-financial businesses increasingly towards financial
instruments and activities.

Financialization of all human enterprises seems to be driving society towards a state where no actual productive work is done and instead companies become financial manipulation instruments. Eg Boeing outsourcing all plane manufacturing, airlines making most of their money from points schemes.

The report also covers that most equities are owned by the wealthy, something that refutes a common idea that somehow the "shareholders" benefiting from company greed are regular peoples' retirement funds.

> The super-rich are more likely to own corporations. In
the USA, one of the very few countries for which there
is regular data on the distribution of corporate equities,
the richest 0.1% account for 19.8% of shares owned by
households, the richest 1% own 44.6%, while the poorest
50% own just 1%.146 New research on 24 OECD countries
found that the richest 10% of households own 85% of total
capital-ownership assets – including shares in companies,
mutual funds and other businesses – while the bottom
40% own just 4%.147

It also covers the phenomenon of index funds which is something I also am very interested in. The conventional wisdom for folks lucky enough to have excess money is to put it in index funds. Then you end up in a state where a fair amount of the companies in the world are effectively controlled by the wishes of a few index fund managers. It seems there must be a better way for folks to ensure their ability to retire comfortably.

> Beyond private equity, the ‘Big Three’ index fund managers
– BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard – together
manage some US$20 trillion in assets.218 Research
suggests that this kind of market concentration reduces
incentives for companies to compete and in turn deepens
monopoly power.219 Together they control close to one-fifth
of all investable assets in the world.220 Common ownership
in so few financial firms undermines fairness across the
economy.221 Further to this, Harvard research has argued
that the economic power held by such index funds is
so concentrated that ‘in the near future roughly twelve
individuals will have practical power over the majority of
U.S. public companies’, concerns that were previously
echoed by the founder of Vanguard himself.
So long enough to fit hundreds of bridges. And also a few miles to the north there is the St Clair river which is even longer and less populated and already has a bridge.
> But it wasn't just luck.

Agreed that success such as yours is not only luck!

But as a co-founder of a SaaS company that has survived over a decade, I would stress that luck* is also part of it.

Many people work very hard at a startup and the thing just crashes and burns, sometimes very quickly. It's not just hard work and being competent at your job - other things outside of your control or influence have to happen to align, too.

* I think "luck" is a pretty good descriptive word for things outside of your control and influence going your way.
They've also said they're trying to spin off the EUC element (i.e. Workspace One, Horizon and associated bits). (Potentially Carbon Black may be up for and exit as well).

Link: https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2023/12/an-exciting-new-era-for...
The current premier's dad was in that gov't.

Ontario don't care, it seems. Canadians just bend over and take it.

Around here (Flamborough, outside of Hamilton/Burlington) there's a whole layer of people who rant and rant and rant about being amalgamated into Hamilton.

Except those same people who rant about it, are almost all conservative voters. And it was the conservatives under Harris who forced that amalgamation.

It boggles the mind, the short memory people have.
Kind of.

ChatGPT is a product built on top of gpt-4.

It includes many features that were built on top of the api (not as a a part of it)

So it’s the same model, but the chatgpt product has more features than just text generation
Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter
There is https://gioui.org/ for Go.
I was trying/planning to get out right before the market nosedived. I was planning on my previous job being the last job I ever worked in software, at least for the time being.

Of course when I lost my job that all went out the window. Now it just seems infeasible to leave. I’d be fine paycut, hell I already had to take one, but the cost both in time and money to retrain to something else (that I think I wouldn’t enjoy at least) are too high.

I didn’t really want to go into software in the first place, but I was in a position in early adulthood where it looked best option available to me. In retrospect I wish I had done something else, and possibly later moved to into software development, because it seems a hell of a lot easier going that direction.
Yes, just use Excalidraw to sketch what you really meant.
Limited styles, limited colors, no burden.
Sketch easy and go back to work...

https://excalidraw.com/
Node.js – v21.6.0
Ah Bryan Johnson, the guy who claims his body is clinically 18 while having the outward appearance of his actual age (46). When you Google "Bryan Johnson" it autocorrects to "Bryan Johnson creepy".
Ohla' was about to ask where was the lacche' riding on their white horse in order to defend the multinational corporation, welcome to the conversation
I really struggle to understand the mindset of people like Manuel. He was already obscenely rich, to the level where gaining additional resources must have been useless to him. He had surely already discharged any responsibility he might have to provide for his future descendants.

What did he gain by attempting to protect his investment in this way? He made the world a bit worse, and in doing so gained... absolutely nothing of any practical utility. Why bother?
I need a cofounder(s). Anyone interested in the following?
1) Scheme autograd
2) GPT based autocompletion for Scheme / lambda calculus
3) GPT based assembly to source code
Most people want to get rich quick/easy, so it’s quite hard to actually do so (there is a lot of competition).

It’s dumb to want to get rich unnecessarily hard (‘overpaying’ in effort for the actual outcome).

Somewhere in the middle is a good trade off. A big part of being a founder is finding the right people to contribute to make it a success.

There are a lot of freeloader/non-effective types, everywhere.

Big corp and gov’t often has no choice but to accept them, but not so for startups.

The founders ultimately are responsible for who they hire and what they produce.
Tech sector is pouring billions of dollars into AI. It keeps laying off humans
If it needs "to be kept under the radar" ... why would anyone discuss it? Would that not, rather by definition, put it "on the radar"?
From the paper...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04070

>Here we demonstrate how this vision became reality by first combining state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) models and traditional physics-based models on cloud high-performance computing (HPC) resources to quickly navigate through more than 32 million candidates and predict around half a million potentially stable materials. By focusing on solid-state electrolytes for battery applications, our discovery pipeline further identified 18 promising candidates with new compositions and rediscovered a decade's worth of collective knowledge in the field as a byproduct. By employing around one thousand virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud, this process took less than 80 hours.
The US used to have this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1935

75% marginal tax rate on income over $1 million (in 1935) which is 22,241,021.90 today. Crazy to think how “low” that is relative to the top incomes today.
Would love to connect but don’t see your email…
I think getting clean tables/ETLs is a big blocker for move fast and break things. I would be more interested in actually github copilot style sql IDE (like datagrip etc.), which has access to all the queries written by all the people within a company. Which runs on a local server or something for security reasons and to get the nod from the IT/Sec department.

And basically when you next write queries, it just auto completes for you. This would improve the productivity of the analysts a lot. With the flexibility of them being able to tweak the query. Here if something is not right, the analyst updates. The Copilot AI keeps learning and giving weights to recent queries more than older queries.

Unlike the previous solution where if something breaks, you can do nothing till you clean up the ETL and redeploy it.
In what way? Can you elaborate?

From a poweruser PoV, the only complaint I have with MacOS is its lackluster tiling support which I need to install separate applications to fix.