skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The guy's gumption led to the invention of a multi-billion dollar pear year industry, and he got basically none of it.

But... the billion dollar industry is also capitalism? This logic is circular and makes no sense. If there is no capitalism there is no compensation to be distributed in this case, period.

The argument that he was unfairly compensated based on merit is fundamentally a capitalist argument. You can't play it both ways.
“What fragility is that? The one described in detail in this document?”

Yes, indeed it is
> in fact perhaps it's possible to buy actual matchsticks.

That's exactly what he did.
Crushed basalt can be used as a substitute for mined fertilizer that would need to be applied anyway, notably potassium and phosphorus. It is one of the reasons volcanic soils tend to be fertile. The rock leaches significant quantities of mineral that are important for plant growth.
Power of small optimizations
It's a Dutch name. There is a whole world outside of your culture and your language.
Jobs moving to where they can be performed cheapest is simple economic force. Through black market or white market, communism or capitalism, that populaces goose was cooked as soon as other parts of the world could perform and deliver their jobs cheaper.

The strategy at that point is better comparative advantage. Education, capital improvements, infrastructure. Protectionism doesn't generate value .
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> China's median income in the 2020s is still 33-50% that of Thailand's, Mexico's, Poland's, and Turkiye's in the 2020s and these countries are still in the process of democratizing

Uhh no
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/thailand/annual-househ...

Regarding "democratization" I'd say again that the most effective killers of Chinese democracy movement are Pompeo and Trump.
I mean yeah, lets destroy our civilization (or whole mankind, who knows what desperate collapsing nations with nuclear weapons will do) as we know it so that we won't risk breathing 0.3% higher co2 concentration, seems logical. We would be such losers to use some simple cheap trick to give us some time to figure things out.
By "a site powered by VC money", I presume you aren't talking about selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov, but rather hacker news? Hacker news links are submitted and voted on by the website members, and you don't need to be part of a ycombinator startup to be a member.
Ok let’s try it:

> It takes both intellectual and emotional maturity to understand and accept the wisdom and power of free markets. God is delivering what the market wants an uncensored currency outside the control of governments.
This is only the beginning of the outrage over God, wait until he does another 10x gain in value and fiat currency failures grow worldwide. The next few decades will require a lot of popcorn to watch the show when calls to ban God only result in more rapid spikes in his value appreciating.

Not really getting the cult leader vibes, sorry.

but I sure am getting some creepy authoritarian vibes from your comment. Feels like you’re itching to help hand out this violence …

I know you will smash down the doors of these disobedient Bitcoiners and seize their coins from under their pillows! or maybe bomb some mining facilities.

Good luck with that state violence. It’s obsolete.
What if the company is nationalized?
> most in the US/West consider China a strong threa

North America and the Pacific does.

The EU is still indifferent as they feel Russia is the larger threat.

And it makes sense. Living in the West Coast, China is much closer than where the fighting would happen in Eastern Europe.

For most of Europe, it's the other way around.
Oh god forbid that us special people should be using the same parts as those horrible common Android users!
They're a fun branch on the programming tree. I've tried to nibble a bit from all of them to see what's available and there were a couple that really altered my way of thinking, the lambda calculus inspired minimal programming languages, the Prolog/Erlang branch and the FORTH derived branch. All of those offer fascinating insights into what it means to compute.
Similar with the Texas Two Step Bankruptcy (create a subsidiary when you're facing massive lawsuits, offload everything that relates to those lawsuits to the subsidiary, promise to fund it to be able to pay out expected judgments, then don't, or massively underfund it, declare bankruptcy, and walk away with no further liability while still making massive profits).

One law firm specializes in this, and the story above has been the case in each of the five or six times it has been done.

Yet they claim, with a straight face (and even have writers like Matt Levine carrying water for them) that really, truly, honestly, they're not doing this to avoid liability, they're doing it "to make the process easier for the plaintiffs and streamline their legal efforts".

Like how utterly stupid do they think we are? Why on earth would a multinational for profit company spend considerable effort to actively assist people who are suing them?
No, they’re correct. “End up being” does not imply that you ignore the existing track record. That’s why OP clarified “only if you ignore their existing safety record” - given that other planes have had 0 crashes and 0 fatalities, I’m not sure how the 737MAX could even ”end up” being “safer” even if you ignore existing issues - you can’t get better than 0 issues, so at best it would be as safe as most other aircraft.
Wow, that does seem harsh. I a always assumed (without thinking) that regional prices reflected regional costs of living. Guess not :(

That sucks. Thanks for showing me!
Yes, please do! The author actually has some very insightful comments here as well: https://lobste.rs/s/z9rb82/i_don_t_care_about_memory_safety
This issue is not specific to Linux and anyone who's worked in development should be pretty familiar with it. You get onboarded to project A which requires Node, okay, you install Node. Some time later you get onboarded to project B which requires a different version of Node. Fine, get nvm and jump between different versions of Node. A bit later you're asked to help out on legacy project C, which only works with Python 2, while you also need Python 3 for newer stuff. After that it's only a matter of time until you need something which requires Homebrew and then all the cards are off the table. Etc.
Completely incorrect and made up.
> Usually these discussions get end with everything being miraculously cured if we all go libertarian.

Well, going more libertarian would be a great start.
> 737 and other Boeing models have been flying for decades and are a very safe airplanes overall with a very well-known loss risk profile.

This is the catch, though. The 737 MAX is a 737 in name only. It's a bit of a ship of Theseus design, because Boeing management didn't want to take on the cost and time to build a new plane from the ground up. The company was under pressure from the A321neo and wanted something fast. Certifying a new aircraft also takes time and money. By altering a 737 Boeing was able to claim it was still a 737 and retain the type certificate and, important for the airlines buying it, not have to retrain pilots on a new type.

Like many other things in creaky corners of the commercial passenger airline industry, the foundation is from the 1960s. Solid and appropriate for the time, it's now aged and unsuitable for modern applications. Like building an extra story on a house with a foundation made for a single story, the compounded risks introduce so many unknowns as to make it impossible to calculate the real risks.

Insurance companies should look at the MAX again and consider whether or not it deserves to be classed in the same risk profile as the 737 type.
> Of course, they didn't liberalize, and now China's using its massive industrial base that Americans funded to increase its capabilities for a showdown with the US (and other Western nations) for global economic and political supremacy.

China's going to be way too busy with internal affairs to try and start a showdown.

China is not anywhere near a global economic supremacy.

Nominally, China is close to half the size of the US.

The idea that China is so big it runs the whole world is laughable. It's not even close to being the biggest player - and even the US is not that important like it was after WW2.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when I'm walking in a crowded area, and as I follow someone through a doorway or other transition space, they stop and look around.

The doorway or (whatever) is already a natural traffic bottleneck. And these people are making it worse by stopping right in the middle of it.

I suspect it's because of this psychological effect. But it's so annoying that many people's response seems to be to stop in their tracks. Okay maybe you've forgotten why you went through this doorway. But have you also suddenly forgotten that you're in the middle of a crowd of people trying to move around? Apparently so.
> Does it reduce the amount of load on network devices?

This is not a goal of QUIC: Ideally, network devices between two TCP hosts don't do anything to TCP segments that they wouldn't also do to UDP datagrams, so there shouldn't be much difference.

> I mean, for 99% of Wordpress sites the problem is Wordpress, not the transport protocol.

Addressing Wordpress problems or rendering issues is also not really a stated goal of QUIC.

It does solve some real TCP inefficiencies though, especially when used on older OS/kernel versions that'll probably never be updated to make use of some of the newer developments there (Bufferbloat avoidance is a big one, for example).

These might not be very high on your list, but they absolutely are on someone's. And as long as you don't host your own webserver, you don't need to do anything to benefit from the results, since your hoster/CDN/proxy will just transparently provide them for you.
No, I think if a law is called "Right to Repair" then it's not possible to contain anything bad in it.
In the UK, hospitals hide their number when they call you so you have no idea who it is.
Having looked at some parts of the code, I think there's still a lot of room for improvement. There is a suprising amount of code which is similar to mentioned in the article where the approach is very complex in the name of optimisation but it's about as likely that it's making things slower (texture painting, for example, does something like 3 pointer indirections per pixel! And does chug a lot on my PC).
It’s not treason because words have meanings. It ain’t good, but it sure ain’t treason.
Wrong. You’re thinking of tesla dropping mobileye back in like 2014. Nothing to do with ditching radar last year
That's not what the Constitution says, it says treason is "adhering to [the] enemies [of the United States], giving them aid and comfort." So there are actually two separate conditions that both need to be satisfied, aiding the enemies of the United States and adhering to them.

By saying you think aiding the enemies of the United States alone is sufficient you are disagreeing with the Supreme Court. If simply aiding the enemies of the United States is sufficient for a treason conviction then would everyone who goes on strike at a factory that makes something important to the US military (steel lets say) be committing treason? The Supreme Court and myself say its only treason if the strike was done out of adherence to a foreign power and not if done for other reasons (like better working conditions).

I think the Supreme Court's interpretation is much more practical and less prone to abuse then yours. https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/art...
In the apple ecosystem analogy, you would just need a time capsule-like device (or any server for that matter). A single copy would suffice. Locally, you stream as is, since wifi is more than enough for 4k content. On the go, after connecting to your server, if upload isn't enough, the server could transcode the movie scaling it down. Perfectly doable without having to have a copy in each device.

> Are you really suggesting that it would be a good mainstream product to offer video downloads - in 2024 - where people used a computer to download movies to a computer and then upload them to all of their devices?

If it was the sole offer, I think it would be too restrictive, but as a lower or cheaper/advanced tier, why not?
> Gemini sounds like the space program

That isn't at all the association I have with that word. I think of the astrological sign instead, so to me the association is pseudoscience and a hint of being bipolar.

This sort of thing is part of what makes naming things difficult. You can't count on any name having the same connotations to everyone.
> No company anywhere close to this size cares about anything other than money

Doesn't this describe every company, is there any company in a capitalist market would care about anything other than money? I might be wrong or shortsighted but happy to be proved wrong.
I think the endgame is going to be automatic penalties deducted from universal credit or added to payroll tax via the tax code.
I didn't realize it wasn't as cut and dry as a simple majority vote among shareholders, thanks for teaching me something new :)
I attended a university which DHCP'd unique, public-facing IPs to every device on the network. Although this requires tens-of-thousands of unique global IPs, the university only utilizes a small percentage of their allocated IP range. Having worked in the IT dept during school, I know it would have been a nightmare to attempt merging ours with another IP-range.

Back in 2006 I gave a presentation on IPv4 end-of-life, when it was then predicted IPv6 would be entirely necessary by 2020 (i.e. that IPv4 would die out by then). This explainer/demo, almost two decades ago, got me a job offer... and yet two decades later I still don't use IPv6, myself!
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315648)
> If the tech is good enough it can't be overcome by the rebound effect.

Yeah: ifs, whens, maybes and "trust me bro"s

On one side you have wishful thinking and on the other-side you have 200 years of technological progress that brought literally everything besides an energy or pollution reduction

The entire history of technological progress is a rebound effect, if it wasn't we wouldn't be talking about it here and now.. so yes you're free to believe that in some hypothetical future the trend will automagically invert itself, but it isn't backed by anything at all.

> people won't in fact run ten toasters per person around the clock to make the rebound effect possible.

Asia + Africa's population will double by 2050, and they pollute way less than the average westerner by capita. Do you think they won't want their part of the cake ?
This really shouldn't be a surprise. Companies do what's best for them. For the moment looking like they supported it was best. Didn't mean they were serious about following through. Look at actions not words.
But then someone will complain these guys keep talking about themselves :-)
I agree that Apple only cares about money. So do they dislike this law because it means people can repair and hold onto Apple hardware longer, because it compromises Apple's hardware security somehow, or because it adds some other cost to Apple? I don't imagine many are self-repairing, but there are independent repair shops too.
That's one way to prevent a malpractice suit I guess.

Why doesn't the AMA expel these doctors from its ranks?
>> Remember China is not the ally of the US.

The raft of trade deals, tourism, cultural exchange, investment and massive trade relationship would say otherwise.
Thanks, that article helps too. As you say, it's a lot of security and identification.
Although learning new skills is fine, I think your question is hinting at a deeper problem: it's difficult to acquire customers in this field. Presenting that problem as "I need to learn about sales" may be to misunderstand the problem.
It's possible that (for <reasons>) there is no decent market to sell part time ops services and no amount of sales chops will solve that problem.
In seriousness, this doesn't sound very different from some of the replies I got when I gave Google's Gemini a quick test yesterday. You should have seen the ticking-off it gave me for asking whether Joe Biden or Abraham Lincoln would win in a fight - the responses were exactly like this
What other mechanism do they propose to distribute scarce resources? Let's say it's FCFS. I'd like to see cnn-critters write an outrage piece: "larks [people who tend to wake up early] are first in line at Disney World". Genetic (probably) privilege! It's not other guys' fault they have to sleep in! Of course not, it's always the "wealthy". Then they themselves say Clear apparently has 19m members and is planning to expand. Given realistic rate of adoption this is probably top 10% at least (and that would assume more than half of top 10% are enrolled - seems unlikely), hardly "wealthy". Of course, if you don't say "wealthy" you don't get the outrage.

One tech angle here is... posting this political, non-tech drivel on HN, for me, just helps convince me that mainstream media is pernicious and that most journalists cannot be trusted. I'm trying to cling to the belief in the importance of the press as an institution... but no, I think with stuff like this, we'd do better without. Can AI, Google, Substack, e/acc, whatever please compete them out of existence already?
But we're not starving. I hope you're not. I'm not. We're living in
great times. So we have the luxury of not behaving like animals
towards each other, right? So I'm saying we can do much more to demand
ethics of work-life, now we're not reduced to base necessity and
penury?
By the time China became the world's manufacturer, Japan and automation had already functionally killed lower-education jobs. On the other hand, the efficiency of Chinese manufacturing has enabled more desirable and lucrative jobs in services and entrepreneurship. Americans already the second highest incomes in the world [1], which have continued to trend upward despite the rise of China [2]. The pain that Americans face rose internally (healthcare, housing, and college).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
A socially acceptable method would be to say something like “haha sorry I can be a bit socially awkward at times”. It’s relatable, true and explains your behaviour.
Sorry, when I saw this, my first thought was "What kind of an MBA won't charge? If there's one thing those guys are optimized for, it's generating revenue!"

Then (doh!) I realized what you meant...
This is funny... I thought I was the only one who did this. I work in an org of over 1000 people and have found doing a programmatic dump of the org chart gives me insights I would never get from reading our status update. Often it is the only way I learn about colleagues who have left (and returned!) because not everyone sends goodbye messages or even has the opportunity to.
Musicbee is the only piece of software that I consistently missed when I stopped using windows.

If it was maintained I might consider using wine for it but as it is I completely gave up on the idea of a music manager, I just use mpv to play whatever album I listen to (and I always listen to albums, get out of here with your playlists).
> If Facebook, X, Pinterest, Reddit, et al. can't exist freely in China, then TikTok doesn't get access to the US (until ByteDance becomes a minority shareholder etc).

TikTok follows US law. The companies you mentioned exited China because they didn't want to build out their own part of the Great Firewall. The irony in this criticism is that the US companies were mostly responding to domestic political pressure not to abet Chinese censorship. So it was more like export controls that caused the exodus of US companies rather than import controls.
I always liked the self-contradictory nature of "This page was unintentionally left blank."
Not the worst analogy. Microsoft Windows did turn out pretty well after 20 years.
Consulting!!
If your Wordpress site is hosted by one of the big hosting providers and/or behind Cloudflare, it's quite likely to already use QUIC.
Excuse the self promotion, but: I spent quite a bit of time researching and thinking about the liminal spaces phenomenon. You might enjoy the resulting blog post:

https://onthearts.com/p/what-are-liminal-spaces-and-why-are?...
Are you saying the outcome here is fair and desirable?

The first step to fixing a problem is admitting one exists. This seems clearly like a failure of capitalism to reward the innovation of a person who actually did the innovation.
That train's probably gone with the rise of LLMs? As in, in 2020s it would be more than often just delegated to the chatbot and called quits. At least that's my thought.
> nobody seems to care?

Clearly people care. They are literally checking every bolt for proper torque. When they found a few undertorque bolts it becomes a national news, it gets shared so much it ended up on Hacker News, and you cared enough to comment.
> Remember, a screen assembly also means replacing the front cameras, Face ID sensors, etc. If you want to buy just the LCD or OLED and put it into an existing assembly, which is the only way any of this shit makes financial sense to repair, sorry, you're not allowed to buy just that.

My MBA had a failure in the charging circuit. Battery was fine, laptop was fine on AC power. Apple said that because of all of the components they'd have to replace, it'd be nearly $900. For a perfectly functional laptop with a perfectly functional laptop that just could not have one chip tell it to allow current to pass through.
Optics - Eugene Hecht

Undergraduate level reference text that I see in almost every optical engineer's office. It's dense, but it's thorough.

https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/5054148/mod_resou...
The supreme court has never put a cap on punitives and in fact, for egregious conduct they've affirmed that no ratio applies. [1]

In fact, if anything it looks like the supreme court has basically left everything to be determined in a case by case basis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXO_Production_Corp._v._Allian.... (Note, there's a period at the end here that HN is removing)
yes, devbox is definitely something I will try!
Consumer is not a job.
You know what happens when your library spins a goroutine and that goroutine crashes? Your program crases, and you don't have the chance of putting any recovery on it.

Your library with buggy goroutines take down the whole program, and there is nothing you can do to fix it.
Yep. And whenever I've implemented a recursive-descent parser and dealt with left-associative operators, I've just inlined the equivalent of additive-expression2 and the loop. E.g.:

def parseAddExpr():
parseMultExpr()
while peekToken in ["+", "-"]:
consumeToken()
parseMultExpr()

Honestly, I really like recursive-descent parsing, even for expressions. It's very straightforward once you've learn a few simple patterns like that.

Decently large precedence hierarchies (15-20) don't bother me; I'll typically just number the levels rather than use names like "term", "factor", "additive", or "multiplicative". It can get a little verbose, yes, but it's easy to write and skim through. (Golang-like from what I've read, though I'm not a user of Golang.)

But I also find it scales better once you start adding things like ternary expressions, function calls, and type casts -- things that aren't just simple binary operators. Handling those feels a lot less clean to me with Pratt, precedence climbing, shunting yard, etc.

One main downside that I'll admit to recursive descent though is that it's a bit harder to have a language with user-defined operators. I don't like those much, though, so that's not much of a loss to me.
> We're not at war with China!

yet. (?) Seems to be a ton of money being spent to 'defend Taiwan' https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202312230004