skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big difference is that the character of the President is very competent and does everything right as the situtation develops. He is the only character with common sense, alongside the British officer. The failures of the system are beyond his control.

The text implies that the elected officials act in the people's interests, and that they are actually good at their jobs -- but that it isn't enough to go against the military. Don't Look Up presents an even bleaker perspective IMO.
"We seem to be grasping at some of this intuitively. TikTokers talk about training 'my algorithm.' But that still offers an unearned personification to the machines."

That's anthropomorphism right there (italics added).
> You don’t want all truck drivers putting in the maximum hours humanly possible. It’s a safety hazard. But having to pay for health insurance makes corporations try to optimize for this at the expense of human lives.

... what?

First, I don't understand how paying for health insurance means they are trying to get the most hours out of their employees. I guess you could say thats somewhat true for literally every overhead cost including social security payroll taxes, training, heating buildings, etc. At best, it seems a little true in a very indirect way so why the laser focus on health insurance?

Second, it its truly a safety hazard then it disincentivizes employers from doing it.
You also had to go in store to buy cigarettes, so the application of regulation would work a little differently in the case of social media.
I did manage to get a base model Nissan Frontier. The features it has and lacks are pretty interesting. It's not manual adjusting mirror -- and I don't mean it's got a little knob on the inside. You roll the window down, and then push the mirror itself with your hands to adjust it. I don't mind it being so basic, but it's interesting that this exists, but not the option for manual locks or manual windows.
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> does that actually matter to the customers who are buying these?

It's not like we specifically say "oh btw there's illumos inside and that's why you should buy the rack." It's not a customer-facing detail of the product. I'm sure most will never even know that this is the case.

What customers do care about is that the rack is efficient, reliable, suits their needs, etc. Choosing illumos instead of Linux here is a choice made to help effectively deliver on that value. This does not mean that you couldn't build a similar product on top of Linux inherently, by the way, just that we decided illumos was more fit for purpose.

This decision was made with the team, in the form of an RFD[1]. It's #26, though it is not currently public. The two choices that were seriously considered were KVM on Linux, and bhyve on illumos. It is pretty long. In the end, a path must be chosen, and we chose our path. I do not work on this part of the product, but I haven't seen any reason to believe it has been a hindrance, and probably is actually the right call.

> the fact that this is fundamentally not-Linux (yes I know it runs Linux binaries unmodified) would be a reason against buying it, not for.

I am curious why, if you feel like elaborating. EDIT: oh just saw your comment down here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39180814

1: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/
Best new car dash/interior I've seen was inside a U-Haul. I'm holding onto my old cars for now. If/when EVs become default, that'll be a compelling reason to buy a new car.
Infrastructure is a public service that shouldn't need to make money, which is another reason why central planning is necessary for some things.
I haven't kept up in recent years. Who are the better competitors these days?
We used to fund basic research in this country. Now we don't even give corporate handouts in strategic industries.

(Okay we do, see CHIPS Act, but too little too late?)
Using static typing in Python is a serious mistake. The point of static typing is to allow an compiler to compile your code for performance reasons and nothing else. People do not normally compile Python code with a compiler.

Static typing significantly increases code length compared to duck typing, significantly increases development times and significantly increases bug count per delivered software feature.

It additionally gives developers the false impression that you can write large projects in Python without splitting the codebase into small micro-services. Hint: You can't, it is always a complete disaster as Python's support for static typing isn't good enough for large projects.
This has been / will be the market education challenge; Its the same one Joyent had with SmartOS. Theyre correctly pointing out that the end user or operator will basically never interact with this layer, but it does cause some knee-jerk reactions. All that said, there are some pretty great technical benefits to using illumos derived systems the least of which is the teams familiarity and ability to do real diagnosis on production issues. I wont put words in anyones mouth but I suspect thats going to be critical for them as they support customer deployments w/o direct physical access.
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I know this is what most of the SpaceX mission control systems do. They're set up with ~3x/5x redundancy for effectively consumer hardware. If they detect memory misalignment between 1/3 of the nodes, they'll power cycle it while the other 2 take primary control. Big cost savings by not having to purchase radiation-hardened hardware and AFAIK they see similar reliability.
There's a fair amount of prior art in battlebots hardware, recovering from flipping over - nothing quite as weight-constrained as an actual lander, but at least there are worked examples...
Maybe that's because they employ so many people, law of large numbers etc.
I mention this in the article, and there’s definitely some truth to it. It reminds me of how we might trap ourselves in earth with all the space junk we generate - for libraries, we might trap ourselves to using tools that reached enough training data and will hurt the development of new tooling
I guess I’ll stop watching YouTube. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> The only major hurdle to this is Apple continuing to treat web apps as second class citizens on iOS

If you add a site to iOS' homescreen it automatically becomes a PWA. The best example I found of a site fully leveraging this feature is Cryptee[0]. They talk about the PWA thing here: https://crypt.ee/download

[0] https://crypt.ee/
How do we get to a world where every still has there basic needs met but we value the things that bring us dignity over productivity?
No, it's a VM, running a bhyve-based hypervisor, Propolis.[0] LX branded zones were/are great -- but for absolute fidelity one really needs VMs.

[0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis
Agree! However article is comparing to a $100 option and he spent about $60 on DIY supplies. The price differential is small enough that nobody should DIY. The convenience of having an auto-sensing device that turns on and off when based on changes to air quality is well worth the extra. As is the ultra low noise operation and added aesthetics.
Down from the $15B they were valued at before they went about cutting themselves off at the knees, no?
So after neato announced bankruptcy now iRobot will? That leaves the market all for china?
In general insulting or threatening statements that end with an "I'm just kidding".

"For legal purposes I have to state that everything I'm writing is fictitious. :wink:

Got that? Everything I'm telling you to do here I'm not actually saying you should do. You obviously shouldn't do it because it's illegal. :wink:

Here's how to get guns and other weapons.

Here's where we should gather and at what time.

Here's the rest of the plan for killing all of those X people and tearing down the government.

I'm definitely not saying to do this. :wink: This is just criticism and parody of what actual bad people would do."

That's a pretty extreme example.

Less extreme examples are "based on a true story" accounts that demonize some real people just to make a good villain.
I dont think anyone is confused about this.

Do you want to see/measure/track air quality? Do you want to be able to remotely control the purifier? Do you want a device that looks good? Do you want other features like heating/rotation/etc. Those are the reasons you might buy one...
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> while those who say 'works fine for me' are people fine with not being whitelisted.

I mean, my working theory here is that it's easy to get whitelisted - in fact you'll probably be whitelisted by default if you have working DMARC and DKIM etc - but companies who operate large mail installations also operate AI 'agents' that aim to drive traffic and users towards their service. That includes spreading negative sentiment i.e. convincing users on forums that setting up their own mailserver is an impossible task and that they'll never be able to achieve delivery etc.

Of course I could be wrong.
Wrote Hacking Healthcare, managed hospital systems, blah, blah... I remember first learning about cancer treatment and encology in detail when we took over management of a health system with a large set of encology centers. It was very eye opening to understand that one word, "cancer", is really an inappropriate blanket term for hundreds of more or less distinct diseases. Yes, they share a base element of disease mechanism but in terms of diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and morbidity, they are wildly different.

I think the HN crowd may be interested in learning more about TNM staging (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNM_staging_system) and the staging process in detail (https://www.facs.org/media/j30havyf/ajcc_7thed_cancer_stagin... pg 457 for prostate) . This was once "open source" but is now locked behind a proprietary API of sorts (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sa2Qlv03-E-nBJuUynZuFxIaMsO...)

These are US oriented resource links.

Regarding the posted article, there are two big related factors that the average patient has a difficult time appreciating. First is that "doing nothing and or waiting & seeing", even in 2024, is still the best course of treatment for a huge array of situations. The second related factor, is that the rate of preventable medical errors is absolutely staggering. In my multi-decade experience it typically hovers over 20%. As a patient myself I have been the victim of three near fatal preventable medical errors. So 1/5 of the time doctors are creating new problems and complications that are preventable if all of the known best practices at the time are employed, while attempting to resolve whatever is wrong with you. A troubling amount of the time the treatment can be worse than the disease.
There are multiple ways to solve your case:
- set up an account with email notifications and use something like KillTheNewsletter to deliver them via RSS
- set up your own alternative YouTube frontend (or register for a public one like kavin.rocks) that supports RSS feeds. Things like Piped or Invidious support it iirc.
- get an actual YouTube account and work with subscriptions. You support the channel you like with it and have everything in a handy overview.

I am a big time RSS user but never took the time to move it all over there, been using the subscriptions page as my YouTube “homepage” for a decade now and it works for me.
Because trailers are no fun to park, or run through drive thru for lunch.

Trailers are for "occasional" loads, rather than daily loads (unless you're a semi-truck).
I didn't realize there were still companies where you could work your way up the ladder like this. It's good to know this still exists. I wonder what the average age of a store manager is, and if someone who aspires to this has to move a lot to move up the ladder.
Of course there'll be negative effects for other American businesses.

But so long as the collusion has a greater negative effect for foreign businesses, and most of the money extracted from American businesses stays in America - that's more money for America.

Hypothetically. At least, this is what I assume American legislators are thinking when they ignore competition issues.
Um... most poor people and teenagers still have jobs they need to get to. Usually the kind that are much less forgiving of missing work than higher paying jobs.
Many people, including part of the founding team, are ex-Joyent, yes. Some also worked at Sun, on the operating systems that illumos is ultimately derived from.
The speed of light compared to the size of the universe means that even if there is life out there they will not find out about use before we are gone. Even if they are going to all solar systems odds are against them finding us. Not to mention there is no reason to think they would survive a trip to us.
Being pedantic and wrong is peak HN.
Ah, thanks @dang
Is it same as CRC?
Multiple studies have determined that the dare program is entirely or almost entirely ineffective.

Here's just one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448384/
bcantrill used to work at Sun then became CTO at Joyent, so the reason why Joyent ran Illumos is probably the same reason as why Oxide is, because Cantrill likes it and judges that it's a good fit for what they are doing.
I don’t know if they’re better, but from watching reviews I believe Roborock and Dreame are considered pretty good competitors. I’m certainly happy with my Roborock (which has no cameras, and their latest model also comes in a no-camera variant)

I wouldn’t touch an iRobot (or any camera vacuum) after their camera scandal: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-i...
Indeed, if I post some shit on some platform, that platform isn't responsible for what I say. However, the underlying mechanics of the platform can influence who sees my post and how it subsequently read, used, transmitted. And people who work for those platforms--programmers, managers, and so on--are responsible for making choices about how that works. There should be accountability there.
Regardless of the scope there will always be cases that aren't covered by it without draconian legal compulsions.

It's much easier and more legitimate to force the original defamer to make the defamed party as whole as possible. And otherwise try to prevent such defamation. Or at least it was before anonymous internet publication.
I would think charging infra would tend towards being cheaper as it's built out, if only because you don't need enormous tanker trucks trundling around cities distributing the fuel - running electric lines is almost one-and-done in comparison.
> the company is worth MORE when people buy the new stock shares

This is a huge "when" (it should be more of an "if"), and one upon which the entire theory rests. But we can't just assume infinite demand for shares at any price. So: will people buy the new shares, at the current, pre-new-issue price?

No, they won't. The current price is too much for those people to buy shares. If those people wanted shares at the current price, they could buy them from an existing holder. They didn't, indicating they don't want to.

Thus: no people buying the newly-issued shares; means no cash going into the company; means no increase in company value. The company would need to offer less than the current price (thus decreasing the price) in order to get anyone to buy the new shares.

>Let's say [I] have a company worth $2 and [I] have two shareholders, each with one share. So that's a dollar a share, right? Now [I] sell a third share for a dollar (pronouns edited to respond)

Who would you sell it to? Who would buy that share for a dollar? I could have bought it from one of the 2 existing shareholders for a dollar. Offering a third share says to me that you're on shaky financial ground, and that your company is probably worth closer to $0 than $2. In fact, I suspect you might apply my third dollar towards executive compensation, rather than towards increasing the value of the company, and that's why "the company" needs my cash in the first place.

This is basic demand theory: there is no marginal demand for a share of your company at a price of $1. Only 2 people were willing to pay that, and they already did. I bet the new-issue antics are giving them pause, too: they'll probably offload at a loss, if anyone will buy at that point, even for pennies on the dollar. But I'll tell you what: I'll offer you 30 cents. Take it (and lower the share price to 30 cents) or leave it. Trust me, I got two graduate degrees in this ;)
Trying to force independently owned and operated forums to enforce laws that might not even be applicable in the country that the owners / admins live and work in is going to be about as effective as trying to force foreign VPS/server/hosting providers to delete copyrighted content from their server using laws that don't apply in their jurisdiction.
At the time of the iPhone release, Blackbirds were widely available, as were high-spec phones from Nokia and others. We don’t recognize them as smartphones today because the iPhone redefined the category, but at the time, we did.
Geopolitics giveth cheap consumer electronics, and it can also taketh them away.
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> But the only way to do this is to require ID checks, effectively regulating and destroying the anonymous nature of the internet

That seems intuitive, but it's not actually true. I suggest looking up zero-knowledge proofs.

Using modern cryptography, it is easy to send a machine-generated proof to your social media provider that your government-provided ID says your age is ≥ 16, without revealing anything else about you to the service provider (not even your age), and without having to communicate with the government either.

The government doesn't learn which web sites you visit, and the web sites don't learn anything about you other than you are certified to be age ≥ 16. The proofs are unique to each site, so web sites can't use them to collude with each other.

That kind of "smart ID" doesn't have to be with the government, although that's often a natural starting point for ID information. There are methods which do the same based on a consensus of people and entities that know you, for example. That might be better from a human rights perspective, given how many people do not have citizenship rights.

> (and probably unconstitutional under the First Amendment, to boot.)

If it would be unconstitutional to require identity-revealing or age-revealing ID checks for social media, that's all the more reason to investigate modern technical solutions we have to those problems.
Ah, then that went right over my head. Of course, the car would certainly be less safe without brakes.
... ever.
I'm not ashamed to admit I'm learning a lot from the chatbots. And it seems to stick better, as compared to reading a manual.
https://curlconverter.com/ is a great example of intelligent UX. Whatever browser you're using is shown in the instructions for "Copy as cURL". Very clever.

See: https://github.com/curlconverter/curlconverter.github.io/blo...
Take a step back and realize that in order for this statement to be not true, there would have to be the possibility of _endless_ exponential growth, which, on a single planet is technically impossible due to thermodynamic laws, regardless of how much techno-optimism copium you consume daily.

So yes, it's more difficult. It was never supposed to be easier. You live in a world where wealth is tied to energy per capita, and your parents used a lot more energy than you in the 60s and the 70s.

P.S. Also maybe realize that wealth shouldn't be the end all be all goal for people in general. There are multitude of things you can do without wealth and the most essential aren't necessarily energy-intensive.
Thanks for posting the details.

> f. Interactive gaming, virtual gaming, or an online service

This bill is already out of date. The new generation's social media are games like Roblox. And these are as addictive as the old social media.

Good luck with this whack-a-mole. A comprehensive bill would stop this at the source: kids owning smartphones. But addressing smarphones would upset too many parents and too much business, so it won't get done.
The landing page says the app was built by working closely with "hyperpolyglots" which are described as "people who speak 15+ languages".

For these purposes, what does "speaking" a language actually mean. Fluency? A1 level? Did the Assimil course? Bluntly: are "hyperpolygots" really just beginners in 15+ languages? Why would I want to use an app that caters to them?

The claim seems to be: do what hyperpolyglots do to learn a language. But do these people actually learn the target language and if so, to what level?
If a place has a service fee, that's a mandatory tip in my view, so I won't add yet another tip on top. And I won't be coming back to that restaurant.
> Every time the EU tanks some local company, or prevents it from being viable in the first place, that productivity just goes to the US or China.

China, where the government promotes local monopolies and sets unreasonable hurdles to foreign competitors? That China?
There's some nuance here. If you soak your meat in lime juice for several hours, the acid is going to penetrate deep into the meat. It doesn't do nothing.
It's amazing how car prices vary around the world with taxation. Especially taking into account the purchasing power parity. The cheapest cars in US are sold as entry-level luxury cars in a place like India. The entry level cars in India are deemed to cheap to be even considered selling in the US.

For instance, a Hyundai Venue costs $20k in the US. Taking into account the PPP, an Indian has to spend nearly $80k to own the same car.

Same logic applies for phones. Your $1000 iPhone cost me nearly $4000 (again, not currency conversion but PPP).

Not everything is too bad though. App prices, books, etc are usually adjusted for PPP. Spotify Premium costs us $2/month. Books that cost $400 in the US usually cost us $5-$20.
Ah, yeah, I was just going off a simple Google. Probably ended up on the wrong BLS page. I agree it does seem low, a search for "Software Developer" turns up on this BLS page with much higher stats—1.5M developers.
I'm willing to buy an argument that certain kinds of "social media" have negative impact on kids under 16; but I'm absolutely not willing to buy an argument for a world in which the government is able to ban your communications with other people because you're under 16.
2015 is a curious date to use.

It just happens to be when about 7 years of funding cuts ended.

Funding in 2009 was £19.3bn, which is £32bn adjusted for inflation to today.

22/23 funding was £24bn (£27bn inflation adjusted)
As I elaborated above, bcantrill did not decree that we must use illumos. Technical decisions are not handed down from above at Oxide.
Do not discount the car buying service available from Costco. It's well worth investigating, and can make things pretty easy.
It is common to capitalize the names of famous equations or theories.

Maxwell wrote tons of equations during his life, but there's only one set of "Maxwell's Equations." Maxwell himself never even wrote down Maxwell's Equations in the form we now know them.