skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it didn't - there were multitudes of loopholes. Nobody paid that much.

The real way to measure the size of the state is % of GDP. This includes shadow taxes such as printing-induced inflation and deficit spending.

And guess what? The size of the state skyrocketed from a historic baseline of 1-2% to 35% in recent decades. Every now and then there's a war or a crisis and spending pops up like crazy, but it always used to go back down. Not anymore.

The only time it's been higher than this year is in WW2 and during Covid.

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA
Isn't everything on the same focal plane?
I don't think a naive cost-benefit analysis is sufficient for making the decision to administer what amounts to medicine without informed consent.
I think we're all likely to suffer some degree of self-deception and I've occasionally seen it in myself but deep down my rational self keeps telling me such thinking is bunkum and I'm left with no option other than to change my view.

From experience self-deception is different to being wrong about things. I'm often factually wrong about matters and whilst I'm often surprised to learn about it I'm always thankful that I've been corrected.

The question remains why do many of us find self-deception worrying whilst others are quite happy to live with it.
> generally the defense only works if the accused can show that while not in immediate danger of life and limb, they felt sufficiently credibly threatened by the victim to believe they were at continual risk of injury or death if they didn't strike first

That doesn't seem very relevant?

If the fans are bad enough, sabotaging the fans should be more than enough.
Or... the entire Intel MacPro7,1 [which the wheels attach to] basically having only two years prime-time after an even more embarassing Mac"Pro"6,1.

MacPro5,1 forever [the entire machine with VEGA56 cost me less than those 7,1 wheels]. Although the M2 Mini is pretty sweet — the base model is less than those wheels.
100% agree. Apple actually says a few times during the setup not to use it outside.

Even if small and light I doubt that they’d ever change that messaging.
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Interesting that you perceive a dichotomy there, can you elaborate where you see the conflict?

As a reviewer, I see myself as a (extremely near, time T+epsilon) future developer who is trying to see what the hell is happening.
> it's worth keeping the barrier of entry higher than just being able to order it.

Exactly! Keeping groups with lots of resources from synthesizing harmful things isn't a battle we can win (and in a decade or so biological design tools will make scanning synthesis orders a very weak precaution) but raising the bar means fewer people are in a position to cause large-scale damage.

(Long term we also need to make society more robust to biological attacks, with better monitoring, better PPE, and faster countermeasures.)
The link I posted clearly states it's a loan/lease. Sure apple does not charge for it. It's still has terms though.

As for thinking not locking bootrom takes choices away that is false. Apple could ship the device without the eFuses being blown yet. Then give you choice to blow those to permanently/irreversible lock the device down to only software signed by Apple or some set of keys of your choice. These loaned security devices are just that these eFuses have not been blown yet and some additional software to get started poking around a little easier, but that software is not necessary in the general case.

Anyways I will just repost this and I also recommend reading the linked legal article:

Also you should be able run unsigned code on hardware you own if you want. One tenant of property ownership is the right of exclusion. Normally you would be able to choose what software to run or not run, but in this instance apple also has a say and they can say nope not that.

Here is the rub, normally when you sell something all rights are transferred, by the sale. If you wished to reserve rights it generally would require a contract/lease ect... However, apple here is using cryptography to effectively reserve the right of exclusion regarding what software can and can not run on that ARM core. The problem is you can go right now buy a iPhone and without even opening the box and agreeing to anything Apple has effectively already kept that right from you. Let me explain.

Let's say you did not want to use any of Apples software and install Linux on your phone. Apple still has the keys to the boot-ROM. The hardware will not boot any code not signed by apple. Here's the rub apple sold you the device which should have transferred all rights of that device. However, even after that sale Apple is maintaining the right to exclude software from executing on hardware they no longer own. This should be illegal, but they get away with some how probably because most people don't understand fully what's going on here.

In essence, Apple is encroaching upon individuals' personal property rights, particularly the right of exclusion. By employing cryptography post-sale, Apple effectively reserves the right to control what software can run on a device they no longer officially own.

For a more in-depth exploration of the right of exclusion, I highly recommend reading the paper titled "Property and the Right to Exclude" [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/33139498.pdf]

in particular the section "A. The Logical Primacy of the Right to Exclude"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232188
Updated, thanks: https://github.com/highlight/highlight/pull/7644/files
Wow! I was an avid reader of the XKCD comics about 15 years or so ago but I somehow missed this one. For others who are wondering what this is, here's the link to the relevant XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/917/

What is so clever about this phrase is that it naturally completes to a full sentence that contains itself as an acronym!

I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym IS META!

A wonderful tribute to Hofstader's books that are full of such fascinating self-references.
What's the source for that number?

I'd assume that when you have IPv6, the majority of your traffic (in bytes) will be IPv6 simply because all the CDNs and big video services do support IPv6.

Once my router at home crashed in a way that IPv4 stopped working but IPv6 kept on working and it was actually kind hard to figure out what went wrong because so much of the internet still worked fine.
I'm trying to parse if this is meant to be an argument against enforcing limits on wealth, and if so, point out the humor that we already reached the road of monitoring through having corporations have uncapped power.

An argument could be made that the big social media companies are also taking care of re-education, although through less overt means.
> Informed choice is (was?) a crucial tenant of medicine.

We are not talking about doctors doing medical care, but governments making choices for the governed and that gets in to moral and governmental theories for how the consent of the governed is granted/gathered.
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It is to run the physical machines, and control the hardware. Not a video game itself.
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Damn you are productive. I have spent longer on building simple circuits.
Qualifications aren't in play here. It's effectively random capital allocation. So they have been randomly entitled to those decisions. This seems far better than having a single entity to do so.

A majority of Americans disapproved of the Apollo program. So the government does not avoid doing unpopular things.

I whole heartedly agree with 1. Society in aggregate doesn't support all the things that would benefit it. In the case of 2, if society has suddenly decided that in fact it does support the project from 1 now, then yes, it should of course fund it. And this actually really demonstrates the value of private investment. A project can be started that most people don't think is worthwhile and then it can show benefits and the general population can support it further. That's wonderful.

I don't recall proposing no government. Those first two were illegal and the government willingly ignored the third in the past, so IDK why you think the government would have done differently.
> Sathya Sai Baba

They're an odd bunch
No there isn't.

What practical difference is there in your life now that Musk is worth 200B versus when he had 100B or 0B? Probably your life is actually better because there is now Starlink and Tesla and you have more options.

Let's say we can push a button and grow the economy 10% in real terms, but some rich guy like Bill Gates gets his wealth not increased 10%, but 10x. Do we press it? Next time we press it, some other billionaire gets 10x-ed.

The rational thing to do is to smash that button an infinite number of times. That button exists and is called economic growth.
We (https://hivegames.io/) use this for storing 50+ TB of multiplayer match recordings ("replays"), heavily using the built-in expiry feature. It's incredibly easy to use and to built on top off; never had an issue updating, migrating or utilizing new features.
How does M3 stand with SvelteJS?

Seems like these are two conceptually similar things.

> React traverses the virtual DOM tree to update the UI, resulting in O(n) time complexity.

That's the worst case, on initial load. On most of UI changes nothing stops React to update only local portions of the tree - elements that have their state changed.

Educated guess: In Million and React.JS cases major bottleneck is inside browser re-layout mechanism, not on JS side I think.
You don't need government spending and fiscal room 'dry powder':

Fiscal policy is a really bad lever to pull to get the economy out of a slump. It's very wasteful, and doesn't have much of an influence.

(For an example: do you remember the 'fiscal cliff' in 2013 or so? Because of some debt ceiling shenanigans the US federal government dropped spending by a lot, and virtually all pundits were predicting recession. See eg https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fiscal-marketdeal-idCNL1... I can dig up more, if you need a reminder. It was all over the news.

The fiscal cliff came, and despite the fiscal austerity economic growth actually accelerated.)

If you have a competent central bank that's targeting inflation or nominal GDP, they will counteract whatever the fiscal side is doing. The Fed can add or remove money from the economy as they please, and thus bring total spending up or down.

The best thing: they can undo mistakes. If they inject too much money, they can subsequently remove that money by selling assets off their balance sheet. That's much easier than 'unspending' on the fiscal side, which is basically impossible.
Unpopular stance, but the Fishtank Graph[0] tells the story.

PHP is actually a good bet.

[0] https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...
I've heard IBM used to be the same, if the customer had an unlimited expense account with them.
> almost-sort-kinda solutions like base64-encoded bytes in HBase/postgresql/etc

why you would base64 encode them, they all store binary formats?
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We could come up with a fun explanation, like the "secret browser" [1] in Android being responsible for this seemingly un-trackable aberration. :-)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39226754
If she made most of her money from ebooks would she be stealing it from Michael Hart, the inventor of .epub file format? Or what? At some point we have to admit this is ridiculous.
its distributed: will survive if your server dies..
the light and dark mode seems backward. to get dark mode I click light mode and give versa.
I only used in store but the software seems to have some way of tricking your eyes, but no macro or anything like that.
A data store *that enforces valid data at all times*. Far too many people miss that part. They skimp on foreign keys, check constraints, and the most appropriate data types. Time is far better spent getting the schema right at the outset than trying to fix bad data already mixed in haphazardly with the good.

And then there's audit trails, which are best made centralized in the database with triggers. "This change was made by X at this time."

Row-level access policies are yet another. Doesn't matter which app or user is querying, what joins are mixed in, etc., the DB simply omits data the user shouldn't see. Period. No "oh, my script forgot to include part of the WHERE clause for that".

Totally agree about pg_cron (and MySQL scheduled events while we're on the topic). It artificially limits scheduled actions to just those that affect the DB, cannot adjust to current DB load, and are hard to find. Better to run cron jobs all accumulated in one place from the cloud provider a la EventBridge or from a dedicated schedule server. (I'm not a fan of app cluster leader elections either for complexity and opacity reasons as well. Put the schedules in one place to be audited and enumerated as needed.)
Unfortunately that hasn't stopped him from suing and causing millions of dollars in time and expenses.
In this case I do not understand your point.

President Biden created this court via his executive order privilege
in October 2022¹.

""
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
""

Did he write it all.
Did he come up with it all.
Probably not.

If the criteria is that you cannot hold a politician responsible unless he or she has written the laws or orders themselves that they vote on, then no single politician in at least a western democracy can be held responsible for anything.

It is their responsibility, as democratically elected representatives, to take responsibility for how they vote, what the sign and whatever orders they are issuing.

¹ https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14...
Some additional thoughts.
For Shopify store owners, they can definitely install Highlight if they have access to the site that they're hosting (we have some customers in this space!). This can help with optimizing their user experience, etc.. For our tracing SDKs in particular, they would only really work if the shopify developers have their own proprietary code running, however, because this requires application instrumentation.
It's a serious forum for a range of topics with many people contributing serious comments.

You're correct that this is not a serious COVID forum, nor a particularly serious biochem forum and that's OK.
>You really can't hide information from the operating system

why should tab information from Chrome be exposed to the OS to begin with? Of course an executable can prevent leaking unencrypted data. But we're not even talking about this in a 'hard' sense here. Edge is likely just using some API or export feature or reading some history file. Of course browsers can prevent this.
High interest rates make house prices drop, until new mortgages are about as affordable as before.

(This might be easier to understand in the reverse: low interest rates make houses prices go up until the mortgage is just as (un-) affordable as before.)
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Most wealth is not derived from exploitive labor practices. The poor developers being shackled and slavedriven at Meta put $150 billion in Zuckerbergs pocket? Absurd.
Also: Summer AI [0] which uses mostly wikipedia but also ties in other content.

[0]: https://summer.ai/app
We have the concept of “public health” for this reason. This is no more or less non-consensual than vitamin-enriched foods or municipal spraying for malaria.
Just FYI, the selector of the FISA Court Justices is the Chief Justice of SCOTUS. The SCOTUS Chief Justice is selected by the President [with Senate confirmation].
I stumbled a bit using jj on a big repo [1], but I too am very interested in seeing it grow and evolve.

I plan to return to my experiment sometime, would love tips on large repos and making it more manageable.

[1]: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2023/11/23/exploring-jujits...
The cited problem was trademark infringement. I had used “jazAwake” as the name and the drive was the Iomega Jaz(tm) Drive. They also mentioned that it might shorten the life of a drive, but that was not their primary complaint.
Do you know how fractional distillation works? Fuel doesn’t compete for oil. Fuel, bitumen and other heavy fractions is the main reason we distill oil. Those are the hydrocarbons that are actually hard to make. The light fractions used in plastics fall out of that process. It’s not a competition, it’s a synergy.

If they’re going to turn ALL the oil into plastics, at the very least they have to have more processing steps. It’s not hard but it will require bigger refineries, in other words, more expensive plastics.

Also, they will be competing with bio-plastics and other alternatives, that will probably get more favourable regulations in many countries.

Plastics won’t go away. Even if we don’t pump for oil it’s not very hard to make the same plastics from biological hydrocarbons.
Most unixes allow for static binaries. And most unixes allow for you to run a static binary compiled for an older OS on a newer OS. In order for that to work, the syscall interface needs to be at least mostly stable.

Yes, if you're writing netstat or lsof or ps or something, you need tight coupling with the binary and the kernel, and you can argue Linux does that better, but most people aren't writing netstat or lsof or ps.
In an abstract context that all seems dandy.

However when the power is held by people who would potentially face significant financial loss from either theoretical or empirical evidence, it shouldn't be a surprise that such evidence is lacking, no?
It used to be faster in Windows and you could disable omnibox suggestion and autocomplete stuff (google won't because they need that traffic for ad revenue).

Then microsoft started adding MSN type of bullshit to it (rewards, bing chat gp nonsense, reset new tab page / privacy settings / games (wut?) / shopping suggestion).

Switched back to firefox after using edge for around two years.
Why? Don't try to time the market, especially if you are a passive index investor. (If you do believe in active investing, why are you investing in the S&P500?)

Just buy when you have money, and liquidate your investment when you need money.
The definition of democracy is NOT limited to one person one vote. For instance, corporate board seats are democratic, but you only get to vote with as many shares as you own.
A shell alias can fix this.
I looked at that supabase blog but the problem in my experience is that a refactor is not just about changing the database tables, but also rearranging the data within those tables - the data in a production database is obviously the most important thing. So I think the schema diff is actually the easy part. And for that, I wouldn’t use text tools like “show create tables”, I’d use the PG catalog tables directly.

The problem I had was that I could never come up with a declarative scheme that would allow reliable data transformation for all databases over the long term.

For example - if I have a table “lookup” with two columns “key” and “name”, over a period of years we might see a transformation like this:

alter table lookup rename column name to description;
[…later…]
alter table lookup add column name text default description;
[…later…]
alter table lookup drop column description;

Assuming “name” and “description” are modified between upgrades, then running these updates over time would result in a different transformation than if you just apply the latest definitions to an old database table.

I couldn’t ever come up with a solution to this that’s simpler than a sequence of migration scripts, which is always repeatable. I haven’t had a look at Skeema yet but am curious how you deal with this?
Surely there is some other site where you can hear these dissenting voices loud and clear.
> To people who say "Word sux", I say "That just means you don't know how to use Word properly".

"Word sux" because it takes forever to start up and I forget what I went there to type. It's like opening a jetbrains ide to take a quick note. The only time that's worth it is when I'm sitting down to write for several minutes at a time, which happens (maybe) once a quarter, vs 17 times a day for quick notes.

Now, you could argue that I just don't want what word offers, but that's what everyone means when they say something sucks. It doesn't do the thing they want (usually because the implementers made trade-offs for other things).
Better to be overworked at Kmart? That's a red herring.
I don't think so. It's not like we have a branch of the military dedicated solely to maintaining the dominance of the USD. It protects our national security interests as a whole. The fact that it also scares everyone into using the dollar is just a bonus.

And while there are police dedicated to investigating financial crimes involving dollars today, we would still have them. They'd just be investigating crimes involving BTC.
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One of my go-to heuristics is:

Belief drives behavior.

It applies across the board, at all times, to all reasonable humans.

The question here:

- What does the team believe that makes other things a higher priority?

- If all / most have felt the pain of lacking documentation when the infrastructure person is out, and they still don't see the value in their own documentation, what's superseding their belief in the value of documentation?

- Do reviews consider documentation?

- As anyone ever been recognized / rewarded for exceptional documentation?

I don't have The Answer. I think you have it / those. The key here is to apply my heuristic.
Which country is that? And who made that excuse that you quoted about inflation? That sounds like something that would be very weird for a private employer to say; so I assume you might be in the public sector, or something with very highly regulated wages?
>> and indeed in 2013, he cited the failure of WinFS as his greatest disappointment at Microsoft,

Failing to capture any of the mobile handset market while missing out almost entirely on search and social media businesses would be higher on my list if I were in BG's shoes.