skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was always surprised that the browser oligopoly together with the W3C already had started building a site for web platform docs - webplatform.org - and then just mothballed that in favour of MDN. Seemed weird.

Snapshot: https://webplatform.github.io
Basically the only way you can achieve the metric you desire is by ignoring slavery. Understood.
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By definition Google's board, and shareholders who elected them, can 'solve every problem' within Google, since they have the authority to wind down the company.

It's just that practically nobody in the world can credibly demand Google's board, or even just upper middle management, to make a decision on small matters.
You may only get 3 cents in the same time period if no one likes your music enough to listen to it.

You don't just get to throw anything up there and expect to get the same $250M.

Certainly you understand that they don't pay by time period, right? Value to them comes from time spent actually consuming the content and how much they can make inserting ads during that time or getting new subscribers to avoid the number of ads.

Maybe musicians are getting a bad deal, and I'm no longer fan of JRE either... but your argument is clearly so off-base.
I found contact lens to be cheaper here than in Sweden
> Yes, I will be rude to you if you are lazy and don't read.

I'll be blunt: you're acting like an idiot. You gain nothing, you help no one, you create a shit environment, you do not contribute to prevent the same issue from happening again, you institutionalize unhelpfulness and petty behavior, and to top things off you insult and belittle colleagues who had the audacity to look your way for help.

There is a reason why companies filter out candidates based on soft skills or lack thereof. It's because people who act like your example are a net loss to the company, and drive down the company's productivity by being hostile towards people who reach out to them for help. All companies are better off without antisocial idiots who unload their frustrations on other workers. Miserable people who try to compensate by making everyone around them even more miserable, and any company does well avoiding them and the cultural cancer they create and spread.
More importantly, Bezos did nothing. Nothing.

He used money he hoarded from another venture to allow the thousands of engineers to build it. Anyone can do that.

And I'm 100% sure Bezos was not the one that came up with the idea either. He just benefited from being in a position of power with tons of capital at the right time.
If a person is concerned that there is a looming downturn, they are likely to reduce their spending in advance. This action is likely to have the effect of increasing their net-income before the downturn comes.
Wouldn't it be the opposite?

In a hypothetical country, if there's 1B dollars and no limit, one person could own the 1B and everyone else in the country be dirt poor.

If there is a 1M limit, then one person could own 1M tops, and the rest of the money is still there.

Therefore there would be more entities capable of allocating large sources of money.
I mean, they also gave us the Dred Scott ruling too. The courts sometimes make the exact wrong ruling.
The creation of the Fed was a complicated process with lots of political horse trading.

And until at least the 1980s the Fed did worse than the (broken!) system that they replaced.

See https://www.cato.org/policy-report/november/december-2012/ha... about the Fed.

On the positive side, Canada would have been an excellent role model to emulate, instead of coming up with the Fed system: https://www.cato.org/blog/there-was-no-place-canada
Surprised I had to scroll this far to see this
I think you could make a case for C4 rice fitting that description.
Why? Wouldn't you be able to position virtual displays however you like, and view them from many more body positions than is possible with physical displays?
One major paint point for me is their policy concerning the mobile app. I paid for the lifetime pass for my account with the goal that Plex would work well for my users and myself.

This is not the case anymore since now users need to pay to be able to use the mobile app to stream from my server, otherwise they're limited to 5 minutes.

I ended up making a small web UI where they can log in, search for movies and episodes, and download them.

Why? Why do my users have to pay to stream from my server?
The number of private actors capable of acting in a space has not been that small since like the 50s, if ever. You're trying to equate this to corporate cases like Apple and Google in smartphone OSes, but this is far broader. This is the entire economy. I feel like you're thinking just about corporations, which is a different conversation IMO.

You can even look at space exploration as an example since when we talk about rich people everyone thinks of Elon now. There are so many space companies started with private investment. SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Virgin Orbit, Armadillo Aerospace, Rocket lab, Polaris, a planetary resources, and more that I've never heard of. That's way more than 2 or 3.

I think humanity is at its best when it can organize into small groups working on big things that can be made available and/or useful to everyone else and that's just really hard to do without money. I don't want to spend my time allocating capital. Randomly assigning the job to as many of those interested in doing so as possible seems like the best solution, with augmentation from the government of course.
Is there a paid version without ads? Or all the tracking in the permissions?
> Ambition and envy are basic human traits.

So are compassion and generosity. And contradiction.

The role of systems in society should be to oil the pathways for the better parts of human nature to come forth, and make the other traits less convenient.
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You'll get soft-wrapped text in vim, with no line limits.
You wish it was money printing. It's just plain greed. Without money printing what you'd get is even higher inflation. (Though probably only by some percentage.)

Any excuse is good to raise the price if some people really need your product and it doesn't jeopardise your demand enough.
(This is called demand inelasticity.)

No price fall is needed or done when the excuse goes away.

If you control supply side sufficiently, you can also use that to further raise prices and keep them high.
Thus equilibrium economics efficiency arguments fail.

Housing has limited but highly inelastic demand. So does food, water, healthcare, energy, fuel.
Some of these cannot be substituted easily either.

And the smarter capitalist to get maximum profit will do anything to make this demand yet more inelastic by reducing choices, especially away from their control. Be it by monopoly, cartel, tacit cartel, hostile takeovers, PR to bury options, government intervention, over or underregulation...

Assets are liabilities unless they're directly in demand or are actively capital (as in used to make things). For example, having houses nobody can buy that will disintegrate is a liability. It's even clearer with office buildings which are a bit more elastic in demand.
Unless you control most housing and can thus enhance relative demand, of course...

The justifications for current capitalism are very vacuous based on willing misinterpretation of it. Even ignoring the whole monetarist view which is a second order misinterpretation.
I live in japan and they have implemented what you are requesting. ive recently been to a relatives house here where they live off government handouts despite having jobs. the government pays the woman for having children. as you can imagine this is a perverse incentive. She and her four ish children have jobs. Despite collectively having more than 100k a year to work with, they live in essentially a dirty crack house with a toilet that hasnt worked for years. They fight over money and emotionally blackmail family to get 1-10k dollars at a time, and never pay it back.

Being poor like this is not a money problem. Its a behaviour problem.

You cant fix this by giving them money. They just spend it on alcohol and cigarettes.

Having interacted with them I know they arent obviously stupid and they are educated. My wife attended the same strict japanese school. Very high quality compared to an average american school, they made it up through calculus as high schoolers. She still remembers reiman sums 15 years later.

Your current perception of the world isnt quite right. It sounds like youve got this magic fix in your head, but in reality it just wouldnt work. Youre ignoring the thing you profess to actually care about... the people.
You could, instead, ration the amount of electricity that you can consume for an industrial facility (at least at "normal" or long-term negotiated rates). Every additional KwH needs to be purchased at spot rates.

That will protect the conscientious consumers of electricity, and punish the profligate wasters (or encourage them to create their own sources of energy, preferably renewable).
Had the opposite experience. Row-level policies had minimal overhead (<5%?) but improved security at the app layer tremendously. It was intensely satisfying to have cases where UI developers were complaining that data was missing. Turned out the access tags were wrong, and the data as tagged shouldn't have been visible in the first place. App had set the wrong tags but turns out would have happily returned the data if the policies hadn't been there.

Apps forget that extra AND on the WHERE clause *all the time*. Just one ad hoc script querying the database can ruin your whole security-oriented day.

Do policies make schema design slower? Yes. Do they make queries slower? Not in my experience, but that may be due to our familiarity with Postgres and its planner. Do they basically eliminate data leaks to the end user? Absolutely.

DB policies to me are like Rust vs C++. Someone maybe able to write C++ faster and with less training, but having those extra checks at the outset can save so much time and heartache down the road. It's an investment, not a cost.
bash has builtin support for vi-style navigation. It's kinda convenient to use same keys to edit shell command string.
It's less than a mile from a train stop. That isn't accessible?
That is the tip of the iceberg from what I've seen in the space. I've seen poor security, amateur hour with servers, connectivity etc..
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yeah i thought it was going to be about transgenic rice when i clicked.
What do you use for the metadata store?
There is a sort of sleight of hand being performed here. Communism is being blamed for the consequences it has on its own country.

Capitalism on the other hand, you can look at and say "look how well it works for this country", because meanwhile it is doing terrible things to other countries.
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I'm sorry, but this feels like a non sequitur.

I completely agree with both of your statements. But I don't see it being related to what I said? Unless you're saying that having any rich people contaminates the system?
Just to be clear, you've regretted abandoning projects every single time? Or just when a similar project took off? How often has the latter happened?
>> You don’t pay property tax to keep your car

I pay property tax to keep my car. I get a yearly bill based on the value of my car, and I pay taxes based on that. I pay property tax to keep my house. I get a yearly bill based on the value of my house and I pay taxes based on that.

The car/house comparison makes sense here because I get a bill in the mail for property tax on my house and I get a bill in the mail for property tax on my car, they are from the same locality in two different envelopes.

I own the land. I own the car, I get property tax bills for both of them in the mail every year, they are precisely 100% the exact same.
I think the comment was more about their ability to execute from a base competency. It’s REALLy hard to suddenly ship complex software like an OS.

These companies have hundreds of engineers just on release processes and tooling.
No one has an EV that will last 50 years. They are also not made from renewables.

CO2 is plant food, and is a red herring to the energy discussion.
I mean, if someone says something like that and they’re conjuring it up directly or they’re quoting a piece of art, I think that’s obviously relevant to interpreting it. Without taking a position on how severe to interpret it, it’s plainly obvious this important detail is glossed over and ignored and the media coverage of this is desperately trying to leave readers walking away thinking this was a more direct straightforward statement not subject to interpretation of how much to take it at face value.
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Short term driven thinking for sure.
> What happened?

Um, the US?
That's exactly what might happen. Just like browsers made https mandatory.
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You just type it slowly so that the waiting time for command expires
Sure it matters. It doesn’t mean you ultimately would judge it appropriate, but take any scenario where violent rap lyrics are used and revoke a person’s ability to know they are quoting a song and it will be interpreted wildly differently.
For vague, nebulous, frog-boiling decision-points, it's good to decide on a threshold, for what would it take, for you to decide to stop.
Someone who spent that much time at CMC would know!

I also love her book.
Yes. I also own a Meta Quest Pro and abandoned it to leave it collecting dust soon after getting it.

The Vision Pro wildly exceeded my expectations.

I would say that it feels very good and feels like a real consumer product, not just a toy. Apple having full vertical integration and great software really helped here.

I put it on upon receiving it and then didn’t take it off until the evening, charging it whilst using it along the way. It didn’t strain my neck or feel heavy. I should note that I switched to the Dual Loop band after the first hour: the Solo Loop put some stress on my face. I should caveat that I didn’t find AirPods Max to be super heavy, which others do.

It gets a lot of subtle things right, it feels intuitive to use, the image quality is incredibly good and I can do everything using the pass through cameras, including reading very small text. Apps are crisp and Mac mirroring is very good.

Using it in parallel with a Mac is great, because it absorbs the screen and also the keyboard and mouse, making it very easy to navigate and use on the couch or at a desk.

The virtual environments are beautiful and immersive and you can adjust immersion level to bleed through objects and the world around you.

The weakest points so far are…

- my contacts mess with the eye tracking (my lens inserts are being delivered late)

- there are some accidental ‘clicks’ with the pinch to click

- this is only partially a Vision Pro thing, but Apple’s Screen Mirroring still causes a very slight amount of blur, I presume due to their video codec
Because I follow these people on Twitter and have seen their histrionics and hypocrisy on the regular.
That's why there are games where, ya know, you can do stuff that isn't safe / legal IRL but is exciting.
> Do you think your standard of living under such a system would be lower, the same, or higher than it is now?

that would probably depend on whether you're being exploited by the current system

Imagine looking at a group of slave owners and slaves and asking a similar question with regards to ending slavery, and being all like "well let's hear both sides".
Also you can (at least in zsh) hit a shortcut to open the current line in $EDITOR when your one liner starts to get a bit long
Previous discussion [1] on a related story from WIRED [2] (2021, both).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27729402#27729935

[2]: https://www.wired.com/story/how-underground-fiber-optics-spy...
If there was such a button that had no side effects, perhaps it would be best to press it infinitely, as you say. But clearly "economic growth" doesn't lift everyone up equally. Somehow, there are still many poor people even in the US. Or take the average person in the entire world. Are they better off because of Starlink. Can Starlink solve world hunger? Cancer? What world changing breakthrough does it accomplish that makes the likes of Elon Musk untouchable? On HN, the community is fairly insular to people who already have many means and opportunities.
Well, Microsoft is killing off WMR so my headset will go with it... And frankly I don't want any VR stations when my headset worked just fine without them.
Here's some examples of pixel art made with the framework.

https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/File:Notcurses-1.0...

https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/File:Pixel-orca.pn...

Very impressive.
Consider the world before industry...

You really want to have 10 kids and have 50% or more of them die before 10 years old? You want a world before penecillin and antibiotics? No computers? No travel. Women getting marrried off at 15 immediatly pregnant. Most of the world in absolute poverty. Destroyed by a single bad season. Mass famines, plagues, tribal warfare that sweeps over your village. No clean water and soap. malnutrition.

These are just non problems for huge portions of the planet now.
The parent comment said:

> are you open to the possibility of the answer being "Despite the apparent potential benefits, it isn't beneficial overall to society or humanity to have extremely rich individuals starting research projects, and perhaps not beneficial overall to even have extremely rich individuals at all" ?

That seems to me to say "maybe no one should be rich enough to fund a major project on their own".

I'm not arguing against a limitation on wealth, I'm actually in favor of one, because like you point out then there would be a less extreme distribution of wealth. I'm saying that if such a limit were to be imposed that it should be high enough to allow significant projects to be started by an individual. That limit is still probably really low compared to the high valuations some billionaires have today.
People make mistakes, and should hopefully learn from them, but it's not right to comment with nothing but dug up dirt, especially with such a negative accusation of malice, while they try and move on.
Why post junk at all? I’m here to learn.
oh yeah - Can't believe I forgot about Perl and PHP !!

Those could be good bets too. Always fun to speculate whats still gonna be around in 20-30 years :-D
> On most of UI changes nothing stops React to update only local portions of the tree - elements that have their state changed.

In practice, it still re-renders a lot. It’s easy to get a significant performance increase by not using React (usually at least one order of magnitude) - browsers have improved a lot and what looked like an optimization for IE6 is largely overhead now.
Complains about Git's tag/branches difference is a high chance author left Mercurial boat before they made proper branches.

BTW jj's documentation does a better job explaining what's the revs and changes are.

My only grudge with jj's CLI it uses `-r` to specify first class entities. Git here does rare proper thing and uses positional args for commits and ranges.
What time series data do you have that you'd like to run through it?
Immediately ceasing use without suitable replacements would cause a non-trivial amount of economic and social disruption. I'm not sure I'd consider that ideal.
For speed on large repos, you can try using `watchman`. It's briefly documented at https://martinvonz.github.io/jj/latest/config/#filesystem-mo....
When it comes to CF bonds I'm more concerned with bioaccumulation than direct skin contact. Besides, polonium-210 is also harmless upon direct skin contact, it's not as if skin-contact is the most dangerous form of exposure.
pl/pgSQL is very good (and ergonomic) for a logical extension to SQL, aka set theory programming with intermediate state. It isn't and was never targeted toward general purpose programming like Python.

That said, 100% agree that unit tests should live outside the DB. Querying for sets inside or outside makes no functional difference, and your DB doesn't need all that extra cruft.
TL;DR: I agree and favor the "boring" uses, but chose emotional examples since GP sounded disappointed by those

I intentionally chose heroic examples because GP's viewpoint is understandable. Not everyone is as excited by window management and good UI as I am.

OP's article touched on attention management through UI a little bit, but I think that concern isn't given enough attention. Using the most heroic scenarios possible helps drive the point home without getting grim, but I will now. To be blunt, it's a historical fact that bad UI kills people [1][2].

> AR definitely has real industrial uses but 90% of the examples people can think of are not better or are worse than current methods.

I agree completely. My main concern is pinning manuals or reference sheets next to my work, even if paper fallback is still crucial. That's pretty much the use case for multi-monitor anyway.

The surgical example is the same thing: CT scans are used to tell the surgeons where it's ok to cut. However, there's an extra benefit here: reducing the need for a physical 3D print of the skull reduces infection risk. It's one less thing to moved into and out of the OR.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

2. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/uss-m...
I have a personal copy in a box someplace, I think.
I did the starving artist thing as a young man, decades ago. On one hand, there's really no limit, it's about how committed you are to this starvation thing, but on the other hand, yeah, less than $1k a month in current dollars, you're out of the joke starving artist level and into the real starving artist level.

Now I'm an old man and I'm looking at it from the other direction. Is $x amount enough to get me by until SS and Medicare. It's scary because as an old man I don't think I'm going to be able to jump back in to a software developer job once I quit. And on the other hand, the clock is ticking.
> You only hear about this one because it's Tesla.

So.. you're saying that power steering failures are common and then proceed to link to articles listing power steering related recalls. But then in the next breath you claim that we only hear about this one because it's Tesla.

Seems a bit contradictory. If we didn't hear about recalls from other car companies, you wouldn't be able to link to examples of them.

Your comment is an example of the "Tesla's just another car company like all the rest" line of defense offered up when there's bad news about Tesla.
Probably because they don’t have a way to replace the built in web view with one from another browser (yet)? So they are now bookmarks that open in the user’s default browser, which may not be WebKit backed (complying with the law).

Smells like a bug, or something they had to rush out the door (although I’d bet wholesale replacing the default engine for web views would break stuff)