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The entire administrative class needs to be flattened and replaced with doers. ZIRP phenomenon.

The doers are checking out, entire system designed to discriminate against talent.
Highlight engineer here. Thanks for raising, this should be back up. We synced our GitHub app and Firebase auth urls.
The second story is evidence of a new phenomenon: The far right political movements thinking about an anti-constitutional policy, a new step on the ladder of escalation.

There's a reason it's a big deal in German politics and already had some fallout (and thankfully multiple dozens of counter-demonstration of ten of thousands of people all over Germany.)
Although it is pretty agressive there is a 'no thanks' option .. then you can just read the article.
Guess you looked it up, realized your mistake and want cover anyway
If you don't know it could be a bug. Next time I find it, I will report it.

I have heard that sometimes the submission time is reset, such as when returning from the second chance pool. This could also create an unnatural ranking order, so the original time before the reset should be listed as well.
>Is there a similar term for people that go 6 years without upgrading their os? Especially when it's been declared unsupported?

You mean installing the default linux for EC2 instances? I think there are quite a few of those people, actually!
Yeah but then you have to futz around with NAT.
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This is basically Georgism: a tax on idle assets like land paired with very low or non-existent taxes on income and capital gains. Land value taxes would be on the land only and not things like buildings on it, so this would heavily incentivize maximally efficient use of land.

I'm generally a fan though I would also add pollution taxes and short term capital gains (gambling) taxes.
Who said anything about communism? This is a false dichotomy.
It doesn’t seem like you’re reading your comments or my replies?

The concern about the chemicals we’re talking about is that they are in the water you are using to water your lawn, anmong other things, and have been getting made at scale for over 50 years. And is a family of 6 million something chemicals, some of which we suspect now may be dangerous - including causing cancer - and some we have no idea.

We can only test for things we suspect are an actual issue and have a test for. And for which we actually test.

Which we don’t really have reasonable tests for ‘doesn’t bio degrade over decades+ and bio accumulates to potentially dangerous levels’ yet. Except watching nature, anyway, which is how we discovered this problem. There are millions more chemicals that this hasn’t happened either.

So what do you propose doing here besides freezing it until such tests can be put in place and developed?
At least with Family Link I can control everything on my kid's Android tablet from the web or my (Android) phone. My other kid has an iPad and there's nothing I can do remotely. I have to mess about with screen time codes on the device, it's a nightmare. What does Apple expect, that I'm going to buy an Iphone just to have parental controls on my kids Ipad. Why can't I do anything from icloud.com or something?
It also pulls in about a hundred separate Haskell libraries along with it. Not really complaining, but it's funny that pandoc accounts for about half the programs on my laptop.
Hard mode: write a nontrivial program the intersection of javascript and brainfuck (no characters except []+-,.<>), which does the same thing in both languages.
"suffer 60s"
> Crypto mania, AR/VR mania, and Gen AI mania

One of the things I will never stop finding weird, is the tendency to group together things that aren't really related.

I wonder if I do it too? If I did, I expect I wouldn't notice…
Thats also six year old data; a lot has happened since, especially outside the US. For example european connectivity rate has doubled, and the top 1000 websites is close to 50% now which is also almost double that of 2018.
The early LED replacement bulbs were bad and flickery, they are better now. They even make add on boards to smooth the on/off state to mimic incandescent bulbs https://www.cometpinball.com/collections/led-ocd-boards
We should have regulations to limit the price of such books and how much royalties the author is receiving to make the books accessible and not make his income deviate too far from the rest of his fellow authors that don't make any money.
Wealth isn't zero-sum. Your earnings aren't extracted at a cost to someone else.
ACA subsidies or, in most states, expanded Medicaid would be available for health insurance for someone living off $1 million in assets.

You can get an apartment in a cheap city for under $800 a month. In a cheaper city it will most likely be downtown, and that will be a bad thing.
I don't think I've seen anyone call it financial independence except the financial independence crowd. Usually, people don't have a word for it. You're either hating work, enjoying work, or retired.
I have found google to be aggravating enough these days that I've experimentally switched my default search engine to Yahoo. It feels a lot like the old (good) google, though only having 5 results per page is a bit disappointing. So far so good, will probably stick to it for a while.
Your comment is related to the Politico articled cited, not the actual techdirt article, right? (the techdirt article has 0 named mentions of Biden or Obama, and only one of 'former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page').

Yeah, Politico's use of "Biden's court... Biden's proposal" is annoyingly lazy DC shorthand for "the Biden-era DOJ/DHS/FTC/etc."
> You have a lot of faith, it seems, in the ability of the already rich to somehow make better decisions (by some metric) than an arbitrary political process.

I have faith that an Olympic athlete is a lot better about making diet and exercise decisions than I am.

I have faith that Mick Jagger is far better at crafting a new song than I am.

I have faith that Tom Hanks could make a far better movie than I can.
By what authority are those assets "yours" in the first place? Whence did those assets originate?
That place is awesome. Couldn't believe they had the dual player pinball Joust there. https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/joust
Hi! Per "Would be nice to be able to see the product without having to sign in.":

You should be able to see the demo product at https://app.highlight.io/demo, but let us know if this isn't working
Why is asking you to turn on your video a red flag for you?

An applicant not wanting to turn on their video is a HUGE red flag, especially these days with all the scams going around.
That isn't how it works. Oil wells cost a lot of $$$ upfront to get the first drop of oil. Every liter of oil after that is practically free - there is a little electric or gas needed to run the pumps, but that is so little it doesn't count. Most of the cost is in finding a spot to drill, getting permissions to drill there, and then drilling. (mineral rights are really complex, but generally whoever owns them gets a % of the sale value of the crude, so if the price goes down or the well produces less they get less money)

Which is to say oil wells don't shutdown when the profit goes negative because that never happens. Oil wells do shutdown (or more likely produce less because the pump is slowed) if the owner decides they want to control supply to bring the price up - but you have to have a lot of wells to even think about that. During the pandemic oil wells shutdown, but that was because there was no place to put store the oil - if you could store it there was plenty of value in pumping it (though it was an investment).

Refineries don't shutdown when the profit goes negative. Again, because the sunk cost in machinery is a large part of the cost. If the profit goes down they will often not remodel and eventually shutdown because the equipment it wore out. Many have shutdown because the right crude wasn't available (and they didn't want to invest in machinery to handle crude they can get) - and then reopened a decade later when someone started pumping the right crude again.

Yes of course if profit goes negative they will both shutdown. However long before profits go negative they will be managing things and so in practice they are shutdown for other reasons first.
I think unfinished projects are important. On a personal level, I've had many unfinished projects that felt (at the time) like failures. At one point in time, I had two different ideas for parse libraries that I had to give up on because I couldn't figure out how to make them work in a way that was remotely useful. However, a few years later, I was able to create a third, otherwise unrelated, project that I realized I could use to unify the previous two.

If you're not running into situations where you have to put away a project as unfinished then it might mean that you're not pushing yourself to and beyond your capabilities (which, depending on your goals, can be totally fine). And just because something ends up unfinished, doesn't mean that it might not be able to come back later in a different form.
>In 2021, Zuckerberg’s net worth peaked at around $142 billion.

>at its lowest point in October 2022 and November 2022, Meta shares could be acquired for around $90 apiece and Zuckerberg was worth $36 billion

>The CEO now has a net worth of $165 billion

Wow, really impressive swings. How would this have been handled by Bidens proposed wealth tax?
How can titanium burn in nitrogen? (2015)
I like this article. It expands on the big question for VR. We have this technology, it's here, it's mostly good enough (with the caveats the article lays out) for a variety of purposes. But what is the purpose consumers will want to use it for?

Apple has been the king of telling consumers what they want for years. If they can't sell VR, I don't think anyone can sell VR. This feels like the make or break moment for VR, where we'll know what people want to use it for/if it's capable of living in the mainstream, or if it's forever going to live as a niche product, as it has been since the VR renaissance started when the Occulus Rift came onto the scene.
These days I leave Lego for my kids.
It's not a difficult problem to reconcile capitalism and sustainability from a technical perspective. Just a question of political will.

Carbon taxes. Water prices reflecting scarcity. Compensating people living in rain forests to not cut down their trees.

Capitalism is still the best tool we have for setting prices and incentivizing efficiency. Just needs to be guided to place appropriate prices on externalities.
Off topic (sorry), but has the quality of searches been on a steady decline over the last year or two? If I'm not just imagining things, wonder if it is because they changed the algo or if there is too much noise for the algo to work well anymore. Frustrating nonetheless...
That's not the same thing as hoarding. It's always the case that the wealth of even unelected untouchable oligarchs is comprised of productive assets, not hoarded in a secret pile.
Where I work we ask some candidates in client-facing roles how they’d respond to a hypothetical email from a client about a situation they’re likely to face in the job.

I know an LLM can easily generate a pretty OK and boring reply. But I want to get to know how the person we’re considering would answer it so we can talk about their approach in their next (and final) interview.

We ask people nicely to not use an LLM and explain our reasoning. They can still use one if they want of course.
Keep in mind for low traffic sites, it may be cheaper to use NAT, if you already need it for something else. All those "VPC endpoints" can really add up. It's kind of crazy you gotta pay for the privilege of connecting to AWS from within AWS.
My point is that you can still get nauseous from chuggy app rendering even if the passthrough is flawless. Any change in perspective will require an app draw and even if Apple is able to reproject old frames of your app, they will be warped and disorienting. They can't really do enough inpainting to make it flawless.
"commercial success",

I think it is a common dream of escaping 9-5 worklife. I find myself trapped in that quite often, trading fun for possibility of financial independence.
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead
Obviously the monetary policy is important. The innovation part is deflationary and the money creation part is inflationary, if they cancel each other out you end up with more money supply and the same price of goods.
Do you wash your dishes and clothes? Do you shower with soap?
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Borrow from your library before the waitlist is massive
SpaceX, the topic of this thread, was wholly started by him, with him being very hands own since the beginning till at least the first F9. Just watch any fab tour with him, be the old ones from 2005 or the new ones at Texas.

He is also a founder at Tesla, as when he entered the round A financing Tesla was just three guys, some networking, and nothing more. Even the "Tesla" trademark and logo registration was made by SpaceX people. He didn't found his own car company with just J. B. Straubel (another Tesla founder who was being paid by him to develop electric car batteries at the time) because he thought it would be better to cooperate with that other group that was was inspired by the same idea and he though he would be able to concentrate more on SpaceX that way. He was wrong and had to take the CEO position on Tesla later to avoid bankrupcy, move the Model S design headquarters to SpaceX, etc. And it's now nothing like what it was when he first put money on it.
I’ve tried various methods for playing media files on my TV over the years. I’ve settled on an AppleTV with the Infuse app as my gold standard.

I used to use Kodi, but got tired of endless minor issues and UI skins that haven’t evolved since 2005.

PCs have also been left behind when it comes to HDR, Dolby Vision, and streaming options due to DRM.
I also love that game but that's hardly how I would describe it as of late. It has become more of an optimization puzzle where you try to run through the game as efficiently (which does not necessarily mean "as quickly") as possible and has gotten shockingly deep and increasingly challenging to solve, which I guess shouldn't be surprising given that it's been continually worked on for 21 years now. All that to say that maybe puzzle game devs (and aspiring comedians) have more to learn from it than survival crafting ones.
Who did JK Rowling steal her billion from?
Agreed. Interesting that Yahoo was your choice. I may try it as well (have experimented with DDG and Bing a bit, but haven't used Yahoo since it was the only option back in the day).
Is watching those around you starve/freeze to death due to having $0 (or less!) not a reason to care about whether some people make more than $15M? How many people could that hoarded wealth have housed and clothed and fed?
> Even if we assume that 5% of cars will always be fuel burning ICE

By the time it gets that low, I agree, they're done. We're a very long way from that. 85% of cars being sold globally are still ICE, and the population of vehicles on the road lags sales figures by a couple of decades. And even with the increase in EV sales figures, oil demand is not dropping, because the total demand for cars is increasing.

But if demand for oil starts to drop due to EV adoption, OPEC is for sure going to make sure it's cheap as hell to operate an oil burning car, and people in the majority of the world where it's still legal will have a huge incentive to keep buying them.
One place I'm surprised I don't see this more is sets. In my experience arrays are used without a second thought when any collection type is needed.
> I'm not certain how I would use people's wifi passwords without being at their home

Doesn't Google track router SSID names and MAC addresses? This definitely used to be a searchable database that was connected to Maps. I can't find any of the old websites but it looks like it might still be accessible via API.

> but I'm certain somebody on Hacker News could tell me exactly why it is a bad idea to share your wifi password to the internet.

Not a hacker but I'm going to give a easy but not critical example. If you have access to another device in range (say, because you run a botnet) you can jump into another neighboring network. I'm sure someone on HN could give us a much more worrisome example.
And in addition, if we grant the idea that Bezos created those things, it was not the super rich Bezos we have today who did. The parent commenter is arguing for the existence of a Jeff Bezos who is not the Jeff Bezos who exists today—rather they want a significantly poorer Bezos, because that is the Bezos who accomplished those feats
I understand the frustration. When you bring up a possibility one can't disprove, such as dark matter/energy, or life-after-death, we get stuck - there's no way to move forward without something that can give us a model with some predictive power.

Intelligence and consciousness (in the context of AGI or LLMs) is one such thing. When someone starts saying that LLMs can't possibly be conscious, at first I tended to politely point out we don't have a good, testable, definition of what conscious is and, therefore, we can't claim an LLM can't be conscious. Nowadays I just avoid the discussion altogether. I'll let them bring me back from the dead when we have a usable definition for "intelligence" or "consciousness" we can test.

I'm sure it'll be a machine waking me up.
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> But the truth is that living in V.R. makes no sense. Life within a construction is life without a frontier. It is closed, calculated, and pointless. Reality, real reality, the mysterious physical stuff, is open, unknown, and beyond us; we must not lose it.

This is one of the throughlines of Interstate 60. It's an absurd existential comedy from the writer of Back to the Future with an insane cast for an indie film. It was one of my favorite movies in college; I wonder how it holds up.

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From the movie:

> He said the frontier was a safety valve for civilization, a place for people to go to keep from goin' mad. So, whenever there were folks who couldn't fit in with the way things were, nuts, and malcontents, and extremists, they'd pack up and head for the frontier. That's how America got started - all the crackpots and troublemakers in Europe packed up and went to a frontier which became the thirteen colonies. When some people couldn't fit in with that, they moved farther west, which is why all the nuts eventually ended up in California. Turner died in 1932, so he wasn't around long enough to see what would happen to the world when we ran out of frontier. Some people say we have the frontier of the mind, and they go off and explore the wonderful world of alcohol and drugs, but that's no frontier. It's just another way for us to fool ourselves. And we've created this phony frontier with computers, which allows people to, you know, think they've escaped. A frontier with access fees?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? [1]

Who watches the watchmen?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%...
There are countless programs that redistribute wealth. Welfare payments. Public education. Public health insurance programs. Retirement programs.

Recently there has been a down swing in willingness to fund new programs that redistribute wealth. But that could change.
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I've bought non-working pinball machines from Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist for great prices and brought them back to life. They cover a range of the pinball spectrum from electromechanical games from the 1970s through 1990s games with dot matrix displays. I fix these up, play them until I get bored of them, then sell them to make room for future projects or trade them for something new-to-me.

Separately from that, I've bought, sold, and traded to end up with a set of games that I enjoy playing. There are a couple of modern Stern games in the mix along with some mid-90s Bally/Williams games.
Shameless plug: for protection against thundering herd, cache stampede and various transient failures on .net I created FusionCache.

Hope this may be of help to someone.

https://github.com/ZiggyCreatures/FusionCache
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55, but I also live like a pauper, and was maxing out my retirement options for 30 years.
The relationship between money and political power is vastly overestimated.

In the US, the mega billionaires are hated in Washington by left and right alike. Bloomberg spent a fortune on his own campaign and didn't win a single state in the primaries.

Even if you look abroad, the billionaires are not the ones with political power. In places like Russia and China, billionaires have to suck up to the politicians or they risk getting disappeared, disbarred, or thrown from windows.
Thanks a lot to you for the kind words, that's great to read!

And I explain the generation method in another comment, but here it is as well:

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The generation is inspired by what Oskar Stålberg has done for his game Townscaper. It is done with those steps: - start with triangles (ideally in an hexagonal pattern). - merge pairs of triangles into quads, randomly leaving some as triangles. - we subdivide both quads and triangles, and end up with quads only. - smooth the whole to get nicer shapes

It can be a bit abstract with just this list, so you can see some videos in my tweet: https://twitter.com/fradingue/status/1712218108826460428

I've also created a webgl engine to solve this type of procedural modeling for the web, and you can see 2 examples scenes where you can play with parameters that affect the shape of the irregular grid:

- https://polygonjs.com/gui/irregular_quads/edit

- https://polygonjs.com/gui/irregular_quad_relaxation/edit
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So even though you're currently seeing a flat grid, it's all 3D under the hood. So I'm also considering having those grids on a sphere, a torus, or even a custom 3D model. I had done some earlier test: https://polygonjs.com/gui/minesweeper_torus_sphere/edit So it's technically possible, but there's more work to have this easy to navigate around, and to still look visually minimalist while still being pleasant.

If the steam version becomes profitable, I'll definitely explore those directions. I agree this can be stretched further.
This is similar to how I used the internet in the early 90s as well, but instead of the library I was lucky enough to have an older cousin who got me the University’s dialup number to some VAX system gateway that was supposed to do something or other but probably not let me telnet anywhere without signing in.

I had to hunt for servers that had gopher/lynx on them which didn’t have any login. I vaguely remember having to do something similar to this post to navigate somewhere that would allow me to bring up search or enter a URL.

This was all done on a C64 and a 1200 baud modem, along with this incredible software I was able to find on local BBSes called NovaTerm - an 80 column terminal on a Commodore 64 was black magic at the time. That disk was my prized possession and I almost wore it out.
Speaking of...

"AWS Free Tier now includes 750 hours of free Public IPv4 addresses, as charges for Public IPv4 begin"- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/02/aws-free-...
If he said "I will kill you" it'd be a pretty open threat. I'm sure it'd still be argued a lot in courts on if it's genuine but it'd be an actual argument.

Saying "die motherfucker" makes it less obvious. Since the other extreme of "this person should die" is crude, but not a threat (lest Twitter would be shut down overnight). So it'd come down to the judge and how they interpret the phrase to get any headway

>People talk shit all the time

And that isn't right as a concept. "Shit talking" is almost never necessary in modern discourse. But the US has strong libel laws so "talking shit" won't lead to much legal consequence.