skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I’m disappointed that the fed has such assymmetric ability to deal with the money supply. The velocity of money went way down at the start of lockdowns. The correct move is to inject huge amounts of M1 to conpensate. The fed did this mostly with direct lending, I’m not even sure if they still buy government bonds the way I was taught in school. But the fed also greatly encouraged all the stimulus spending as well. Unfortunately, what we know quite well from video game economies, is that for every money source you need an “equivalent” money sink to avoid inflation (it can get quite difficult determining equivalency, since inflation is not uniform, and there may be hidden multipliers). Basically there needed to be massive taxes once the velocity of money rebounded, and that is a much harder bill to pass. What we really needed as part of the stimulus package was new taxation built in, something that directly taxed profits and per unit price increases might be something I’d try to include next time we have such a need. The fed was truly surprised at how well direct stimulus to consumers worked, they’d always been of the mind that you want to make money available to business. But it somehow makes sense to me that you’d want to put the money in at one end and pull it out the other. I very much recognize the dysfunction that price controls can have, and their contribution to the great depression, but there needs to be some way to claw back money, and some kind of targeted taxation I suspect would be better than just general tax increases.
The only people who I've talked to at length who lived somewhere without police were Somali living in Minneapolis

They do not have good things to say about no police (also tends to go hand in hand with no firefighters, and everything controlled by warlords).
I'd say, maybe once or twice per hour of driving around town on local roads. Essentially just when someone in front of me brakes hard.
I did not use, or even hear of Ello, but I am sad to see this story play out.

What is more sad is that this exact story has played out hundreds, thousands of times with slight variation.

I don't understand how the people involved cannot see those patterns. Cannot see the history. Cannot see beyond the current moment.

I'm really not sure if it's greed or self-deception or ambition or something else entirely.

For a similar, but different story:

Some time back, a game development studio called Harebrained Schemes was created from passionate individuals in the Shadowrun and Battletech community - founders who had been involved since the early tabletop days. They rebooted Shadowrun with 3 new games, and in 2018 used Kickstarter to create Battletech, which is loved by the community and has an active modding scene.

Then, immediately following the success of BT, they sold out to Paradox. Paradox is not a terrible publisher in the grand scheme of things. But that sale did change HS's priorities. They were prevented from making another Battletech game, because frankly it's a more niche product with older fans. It does not have 'mass market appeal'. They instead made Lamplighter's league, something that clearly they did not have their hearts in.

In the end, it flopped, HS had massive layoffs and now was let go by Paradox. We will likely never get another game from them. There will never be a Battletech 2.

It's so frustrating. They had passionate individuals and a loving fan base and GREAT games, and they threw it away.
As someone off this thread, lol, I hope you have a great weekend too.

Whether it happened or not, it's a reminder of what can happen. Better to learn from mistakes you haven't suffered from so deeply yet. For starters, when in doubt, it doesn't hurt to get rid of the software dependencies you don't need.

For how to know you can trust a dependency, I'm afraid there is no solution: no theorem prover nor isolation, cryptography nor layerizarion can save you.

Though the dead weight loss of mutual distrust weighs on us all, shouts echo in the void, so go home and read code, and when the next day knocks its ugly knuckles, tears at least wet dry watchful eyes.
I thought Graphene was just a form of Carbon, and mostly produced from regular carbon through some sort of process.

Are you saying Graphene can be found in nature?
Even Amazon in the past has at least asked me to reenter the card’s CVV when attempting to add a new address.
To elaborate, the Swedish astronaut, Marcus Wandt, is part of ESA's "reserve astronaut" pool; the ESA press release [1] mentions that this "is composed of astronaut candidates who were successful throughout the entire selection process but cannot be recruited at this point in time."

[1] https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex...
IMO, the old tonnage scheme is pretty weird and outdated at this point. It was originally meant to be based on payload, but those days have long passed. CT is in a weird in between. Payloads are similar to modern half tons, but GVWR is closer to 1 ton.

In the market, it really competes with 1/2 ton vehicles, so I'm going with that, but there are good arguments that it doesn't really fit that class well.
Anything written by Langdon Winner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langdon_Winner

I would begin with "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" and continue with "Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought", M.I.T. Press, 1977.
This is an interesting example, becase telco has an actual API standards committee (TM Forum). Telcos have decades of experience and extremely well defined (and to a large degree shared / interchangeable) domain model. It's an ideal scenario for APIs.

Meanwhile your product companies each develop different product, there's little standardization. API designers have only vague idea what the API will be used for and how. Fast evolution is important.
Graphene (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene) is manufactured from carbon. You don’t pull graphene out of the ground, you manufacture it in a lab.
LinkedIn is a community of people showing off their status shields ad nauseam.
> I wonder what it is about leaders like Steve Jobs that makes them popular despite how programmers working for them know the guy in charge has never written a line of code.

People want to believe in the genius that conquered the world, because it gives them the impression that success is a function of individual agency. It is much less impressive to hear that some world changing product was made by hundreds of engineers who all have been in the industry for decades working late nights on boring engineer stuff. These Jobs like figures are then chosen by the masses, because they are the only ones putting themselves out there and thus receive a disproportionate amount of the credit.
Does it bind me to an ecosystem or worse a single provider? Is there a SaaS cost bomb hidden in it somewhere?

Is it simple and well designed or will it be a complexity and therefore time sink?

Does its addition evolve the product toward where we want it to go?

Does it add cognitive load by adding languages, platforms, processes, etc and if so does the benefit outweigh this?
You can plug it to the wall and keep using it tethered, some airlines offer this right?
I agree, it's a small amount. But you can't paint broad strokes like that. What we consider staple foods is completely different then China, Africa... The world is much larger then Canada and US.
https://www.tocn.no/travelling-in-norway-during-winter/
lol.. unless brazil is the only country in the world with carbon, this is absolutely not true
Related and worth the read: https://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf
It's very good. I've tried it after hesitating a bit because of the price tag compared to Khan Academy — no regrets.

K.A. is great and I still use with my kid, but M.A. is more condensed and to the point for my needs. I was properly guided through the first program choices according to my profile, and the diagnostic exam you start with was perfect to highlight what I actually need to work on given my limited time.

Explanations and courses are super condensed, with the right amount of example and pedagogy that clicks for me.
They did, but before it was released it was predicted to cost over $1000, often confidently assumed to be well over a kilobuck. Instead it was $499. It was also much thinner and with better battery life than the experts had predicted.

It was more of a shock than the M1 was in recent times.

Not defending Apple here: I do believe the Vision Pro will be a resounding "meh".
So around 3x of what AWS has? I guess this is more about what motherboard they have, and not an on-prem vs cloud difference.
What a useless measure. For the civilized among us, that's 0.00000026 olympic sized swimming pools.
Press conference has begun.
It’s the same thing as when Python calls out to a module written in C.

In this case they’re using https://crates.io/crates/pyo3 to make the process easier.
Yeah, of course, there are many much worse effects from this invasion. But one, while less harmful than the many deaths and displaced people, that hits close to home is that it is not really possible to collaborate with folks in Russia anymore. Hopefully their country will relent and allow them to rejoin the international community.
Doesn't that make them guilty of fencing?

Do they at least refund the illegal purchase?
Yeah the AirPod Max is pretty egregiously heavy compared to competitors, 380 grams compared to 250ish, largely because Apple doesn't seem to like using plastic.
> Apple Maps, Apple Health, Apple Music (as you mentioned) the App Store, Siri, Safari and Password Manager all come to mind.

What can Apple Maps do that Google Maps can’t do? What can Apple Health do that third party apps can’t do?

Third parties like 1Password can be used in place of Apple passwords. There has been an API for for it years.

Siri - there are third party hooks for Siri. Today if you have ChatGPT installed, you can activate Siri and say “Ask ChatGPT…”

And as far as SMS, “consortiums” always lead to slow progress and least common denominator. RCS doesn’t even have encryption.

Apple Music. What can it do that third parties can’t do?

> It's part of a continued, overt and obvious strategy to stop cross-platform developers from porting their code to Mac.

And yet there are Electron apps galore on Mac today.

> which is probably why MacOS doesn't have any games to speak of, innit?

It couldn’t possibly be because until three years ago that most Macs had poor graphics hardware and even today the Mac market share is tiny.
A city is not a tree. It is more about the limits of systems thinking. Must read for Smart-City IoT but applies to anything where you might think Tech is an easy fix to some social problem:

http://worrydream.com/refs/Alexander%20-%20A%20City%20Is%20N...
Something interesting is that this is not limited to one or a few countries but a situation that is currently encountered in most developed countries.

Here in France, authorities are whining because the tax income that they get from house sales is desperately low because of that. But they are highly responsible for the current situation. Especially by milking buyers with high taxes.
we had finished blue tuna in Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, too
I just attached the palm of my hand to my face ...
> If the charges go nowhere, the record of the arrest and charge remains on the public record forever.

This isn't necessarily true. It's dumb that it's not automatic, but you can request in the destruction of non-conviction information.
Nooooo! You can't compare a Cray vector processor
to a general purpose Raspberry PI!

https://imgflip.com/i/8cwqf1

Seriously though, I think the fact that the PI is general purpose makes it even more impressive.
That sounds like it would lead to an Evitable Conflict.
Not in my experience. It appears that way to the CC user, but usually comes back to the merchant as a chargeback.
They don't allow development on GNU/Linux.
>And when there is so much money in the economy, you will be raising prices just to keep products on the shelves.

This begs the question of what the production bottleneck is. The popular answer seems to be monopoly and cartel behavior, but what are the barriers to entry? Is it complexity? Regulation? I understand that someone cant easily spin up a serious Amazon competitor, but what about beef or a can of beans. You wouldn't think the barriers to competition would extend as broadly as the the data suggests
I have an 11" iPad Pro and find it to be pretty light on its own. Much of the heft comes from the Magic Keyboard case that it snaps into, which has to be heavy (on the bottom) to keep it from tipping over. But iPad Pros on their own are not especially heavy IMO.
It wasn't fanboism, it was something else entirely: solidarity of the ingroup.

Hard to believe for the younger folks around here, who grew up in a culture that praised and valued technical skills, but Slashdot was a place for the prior generation, for whom technical skills were mocked and ridiculed.

Hans was "one of us", and it's a very human thing to believe that a member of your specific outcast group would ever be one of the baddies.
Neural networks were known about in the 80s, they were theorised about in the 1800s ffs, and the first computer based NNs were in the 1950s.
I do like to imagine that there's almost certainly intelligent extraterrestrial life in frame in at least one of the JWST photos... Depending on what you plug into Drake's, I suppose.
Consumers making substitutions is how an economy functions. I do not eat caviar toast at every meal, sometimes I have to settle for potatoes. But we are not seeing massive consumer shifts to lower priced options - if anything luxury products and segments are the fastest growing right now.
Do you agree or disagree with the following sentence?

Lobster is not a staple food for the majority of the world's population.
Do you believe that your enjoyment/convenience makes the meat consumption ethical, or just that your consciousness is less of a pain than eating vegetarian?
This doesn’t sound like how GDS operates.
Sounds like it's meant as a living document (they reference github, and it's available here: https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/README.md ), so doubtful. You could always clone the repo and "print" them to PDF though, and there's a bunch of results for a quick search of "markdown to PDF" if you want a batch/automatic tool. Actually, it'd be kinda cool to have a PDF version that gets automatically "compiled" every time the repo updates...
That's fair, shall I put the names in the article and a link to the repository? Really, it's a war. Do you think I will risk my own wellbeing just to have clout for a few days?

Not to mention opening myself up for the possibility of being sued by one or more contributors for "slander". I chose this approach and won't budge on that - it's not a fairy tale that people are dying and everything is affected by it, the list of embargos is considerable.

Consider that you are connected to the world - including Russia. Would you trust your Russian neighbour if he pivoted his development style, opinions, pace, characteristics? No.

Have a great weekend. Thank you.
There are no virtual card options
The Scene System – s&box
A 25% markup on component cost is shockingly low to me considering the work that must have gone into developing and assembling this. Not to mention the development that goes into the OS. If I had a good use case for this product, I don't think I'd be unhappy with the sticker price.
The dense part is geographically confined.

SF really has a perfect storm for real estate hyperinflation: high paying jobs, NIMBY attitudes that can be summarized as “keep everything like it was in 1972,” opposition to transit links to less constrained areas, and geographic constraints.
It's the new oil, so I would be careful. Democracy and camaraderie and all those greater good things tend to come where the cheap resources are.
I enjoyed his writeups about the fuzzballs back in the day, I learned a lot and had fun doing it.
Explainshell – paste a command to see the help text that matches each argument
While the site you provided is completely off the rails now (thank you for the lesson in content moderation). I see people have been using this comment section to complain about rejection messages, while I share the feeling and in no way condone about how poor the situation is, I think it's too negative and depressing. On a light-hearted note I'd like to share the best rejection message I received.

Whilst still a student in university I messaged Valve my resume, I knew they only hired wizards or people with extreme seniority, but I really liked what I knew about the company and I said hey I'd be really cool. I received a rejection in ample time, sent by an account that has an actual person's name (not just hiring@company.name). The message was a few paragraphs long of (what seemed like) personalized non-auto reply text about what skills I lack, what Valve looks for in a hire, and how the people at Valve acquired their knowledge.

Checking back on the details of the person I now see it wasn't even just an HR person, but an actual engineer. And I do need to say I applied to a lot of considerably smaller (in number of people) companies than them and never have I received such a nice experience.

It is not enough to say that after dealing with hundreds of rejections that one was actually the first uplifting one I ever received. And also the only. So for that I want to thank that person @Valve.
Science's fake-paper problem: high-profile effort will tackle paper mills
http://education.greenemotion-project.eu/the-big-picture/how...
The Many Faces of the U7
For much of history lobsters were considered "sea bugs" and reserved for the poorest of the poor to eat, much as one might treat a cockroach. The idea that they are valuable is a rather recent invention.
Cache. Lots of cache.
Out of order dispatching
Speculative execution
MMUs
Clock speeds

Oddly enough, i don't compiler technology has gotten that much better.
I don't think any of the mentioned companies paid to be included in the article.

It just seems to be an interest piece on a new fad.

This is very naive.

https://thehustle.co/pr-firms-paying-tech-journalists/

I wonder what these companies do?

https://www.badenbower.com/

https://www.prnewswire.com/

https://9figuremedia.com/

https://www.prfire.com/guaranteed-publishing/

https://getfeatured.news/

https://www.prdaily.com/

https://www.edwinelliscreativemedia.com/

https://www.axiapr.com/blog/how-does-your-pr-firm-generate-e...

https://www.imperiumgrouppr.com/pressreleases/

https://bettermarketing.pub/how-to-get-your-company-featured...

I've personally seen the whole process. All it takes is a little money and these companies will find a way to get an "article" that features links to your product on a "news" site. Sites need content, companies need exposure. Thinking wording needs to be "salesy" to be useful is just wrong, there is no way to sugar coat it. Neutral or mildly positive exposure is still hugely valuable when it comes to marketing. Do you think coke or apple's ads are always "this is better than everything"? A lot of the time their ads are almost just saying "this exists, keep thinking about it".
I agree the smaller the better - maybe a controversial opinion but I don't really think a few megabytes is a big concern. There's a much bigger elephant in the room in the form of phone apps - Facebook, TikTok, etc are over 300 megabytes. Instagram is over 250 megabytes. iOS even implemented background updates to update apps unobtrusively in the background.
Efficient Deep Learning Systems Course (Yandex/HSE)
You seem to fundamentally misunderstand stoicism. The idea is not to be passive but to understand the difference between what is and isn’t in our control.

One of Marcus Aurelius’ most famous quotes actually encourages action:

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Oh wow I did not know this. Are there any other services that have a fairer model?

If not, why is the EU singling out Spotify?
Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel
Amazon is one of the largest companies in world. They have a responsibility to be more trustworthy than this, and should be held accountable.
I love this idea of “status limbo”. After college, I found myself in a “limbo” of sorts. I had just graduated with a degree that was fairly unemployable, and didn’t have good enough grades to go to grad school in the same field. Feeling a bit dejected, I decided to poke around in a subject I was once good at in high school - math. I took several classes at the community college and even won a school math contest. During that time, I applied to grad school in biomedical engineering and was accepted to a couple of good schools, ultimately attending one of them.

I felt a true sense of despair during those first 6 months after undergrad though. It really felt like I had no clear prospects. Not the wildest story for sure but just my 2c
I’m sure even an up-and-coming Microsoft was seen as a “good guy” at the top of the ‘90s.

Uh, about that…
Deposits appear sufficiently distributed to not cause geopolitical conflicts [1]. This is not oil. Lithium is relatively abundant, and a mineral to be reused, not energy to be consumed once through. To keep it conflict free, we must continue to discover reserves and drive down the value of the commodity. No one goes to war over say, salt, in the 21st century (at least not yet!).

[1] https://lithiumfuture.org/map.html
The PPI of the Vision’s screens is supposedly high enough to render a virtual 4k display without loss of detail, which should be sufficient for text but time will tell.
"Almost as much" gives me the impression that it is heavy, at least compared to the expectation of the writer. "Less than" would give me the impression that it is light. "about" would be neutral.
when valuable resources are scarce, people have an incentive to find and produce more of those resources. As Henry George put it: "Both the jayhawk and the man eat chickens, but the more jayhawks, the fewer chickens, while the more men, the more chickens" [0].

[0] https://www.econlib.org/archives/2009/12/the_gist_of_jul.htm...
New $3k Couch Might Be Garbage in Three Years
All developers at our company get one of these delivered as part of their onboarding. They're pretty amazing. My only gripe is I re-imaged the machine and getting all of the drivers working and configurable is kind of a pain in the ass (the byproduct being the fans are going 100% always)

I treat mine like a server, sitting in a rack. I ssh into it to create ad-hoc test/dev environments. It's really fast and reliable. Love it. Having 64 cores and 512GB RAM is a treat.
DIY Perks' Interrotron[0]

Btw "Tron" the movies are a reference to the BASIC debugging command TRON/TROFF for trace on/off.

[0] https://youtu.be/2AecAXinars?si=fK2Vd1Q2e73IZ3Bq&t=663
What's that in football fields?
I guess the real question is how many people matter. Is it 1 million that we care about? 50k? 10k?

Lobster is a food item, just because it is now treated as a special food item on special occasions does not mean everyone does.
Does this mean other elements like cobalt are becoming the bigger bottleneck in battery production?

The US found a large lithium reserve in Nevada not long ago; or to be clear a large reserve that they can now more affordably extract. As another commenter said its not that rare, just wasn't cheap to extract before.
To be fair to reporters, Axiom does both; their first mission had three space tourists as passengers, their second mission had one space tourist and two passengers from the Saudi government (a military pilot and a biomedical researcher).
> I think there aren't a lot of creators willing to pay to have a small social network just for them.

They might, if you pitched it as a professional network - LinkedIn for Creators.
Related discussion, from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39050163