skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with separation of powers is that it can ultimately lead to no power. If you neuter the executive branch agencies out of fear that an opponent would use them against you, then you also have no opportunity for those agencies to do you any benefit.

To do something beneficial, you have to do both. You have to make some mechanism by which the government can accomplish things, and then vote in a government that does what you want. It's an ongoing process.

Separation of powers is the reason that the legislature is practically useless for defending your rights. You have to get many different groups to sign off: the House and the Senate (by a filibuster-proof margin) and the President, and hope that the Supreme Court doesn't just throw it all out. There are so many places where a defender of the status quo can just put their foot down and say "no".

The executive branch is just about the last place where action can actually be taken. And that, too, is incredibly slow and cumbersome, but it's at least not impossible.
>And don't forget where most of that money finally ended up - as absolutely massive corporate windfalls

So... it wasn't UBI at all? :)

> and ended up where it always does, in the hands of those that are good at making money

I think you mean "in the hands of our most productive citizens" ahaha
The Fine Article: https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/MonmouthP...

> 34.Do you think that a covert government effort for Taylor Swift to help Joe Biden win the presidential election actually exists, or not?

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373632

I guess we could spin this as "18% of people polled have an idiosyncratic definition of covert", but given the context, I find understanding of the usual def'n to be most likely.
They didn't say disruption free. The quantity of disruption reduced is the part which is no longer necessary.
The East Coast Is Sinking
Corporations don't have voting rights, they just happen to be slightly organized, and even that is highly questionable.

Anyone that has worked for a large corporation knows how much of a shit-show they are, staffed entirely by unimpressive and unimaginative people that virtually guarantee mediocrity and terrible communication at every step.

What you're implying is a concession the voting population is so pathetic they cannot successfully organize themselves sufficiently to overcome and push back against a handful of people.
Side projects don't have to suffer the same fate. You can maintain them as long as you like.
Connected or complete then.
Poettering got drunk and read it?
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> To all who criticize and ridicule someone who would like to have more samples, why do you think 21 is such a perfect number in this case? Wouldn't 15 be enough, if statistics and all applies? 10? 1? Would 30 be too much?

This is the point that you are fundamentally misunderstanding. Nobody is making the argument that "21 is such a perfect number in this case". The rest of your sentences ("Wouldn't 15 be enough, if statistics and all applies? 10? 1? Would 30 be too much?") seem to point to a belief that people are pulling numbers based on a finger in the wind.

The whole point of (a lot of) statistical testing is that it allows you to come up with a specific number that determines how likely a particular result is due to chance. That is what the p < .05 "standard" is about - it's a determination that the results have less than a 5% likelihood to be due to random chance (though that 5% number used as "significant" is just basically pulled out of thin air, and p-hacking is another topic...) That is, I and the comment I replied to aren't making the argument that 21 "is such a perfect number". We're making the argument that even with a small sample size it's possible to determine the relative error bars, with precision, using statistical methods, not just pulling a number based on feels. Yes, larger sample sizes reduce the size of those error bars. But often not in ways that are "intuitive". You have to do the math.

None of what I wrote above is meant to imply that statistical tests can't be misused, or that they often require assumptions about the underlying population distribution that may not be correct.
I don't think there's anything that's technically not-doable in VS Code that emacs can do. For me, it's more about ease of use that differentiates the two. Specifically around extensions.

https://code.visualstudio.com/api/get-started/your-first-ext...

That's the VS Code description on how to start writing extensions to VS Code. The first steps involve installing node.js so you can install another tool so you can generate scaffolding.

In emacs it would be:

Step 1: Open emacs

Step 2: Open a scratch buffer (q&d extensions, put in a .el file if you want to preserve it)

Step 3: Write some lisp code

Step 4: Evaluate the lisp code

Step 5: There is no step 5, use your extension

Caveats:

You have to learn programming to extend either of them so that's a common burden.

You have to learn lisp to extend emacs, but that's an easy thing to do.

You have to read the documentation to really get going with extension development, another common burden.
Yep, Banks and insurance companies love AS/400.
Indeed. Also when you consider that a chunk of Showmax subscribers cancelled their DStv subscription it's more like they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
> (Also technically no CC licence is an open source licence, since they don't require works to release the source code, because they aren't intended for source code)

The MIT and BSD licenses also do not necessarily require the release of source code. It is just that if you license code under those terms and pass it to someone else, then they receive the rights to do a lot of things with the code, including releasing it. I don't think that is much different with the CC licenses (the non-commercial variant is definitely not open source though).
You're greatly overstating the performance requirements here, DNS could just hash the string and farm out to 256 subservers running subsidiary hashmaps to the associated IP address. The multi-level schema is absolutely not a performance requirement, comparing this to Electron is silly, it is in fact much simpler than the DNS we have, with comparable demands in terms of memory and compute.

We agree about the utility of heirarchy in domains on a social and administrative level, though.
> I imagine they went with the first option you listed, since they famously ship Google Apps as a sandboxed unprivileged optional package through their own mini-app store. Do you have any idea how they got around those licensing requirements?

The important difference (I imagine) is that they still don't deliver Google Apps built into the ROM (which was what Google was disagreeing with 15 years ago).

The current consensus is that it's OK for a separate Google Apps package to exist, and that Google will turn somewhat of a blind eye under the assumption that the package will only be used on devices that have been licensed for use of Google Apps by their respective OEM.
The fact of our unintentional alteration of the climate does not give us permission to do so further. Imagine this logic in other scenarios, e.g., "he has killed six people, what's another two more?"
i didn't see any text on mobile. on desktop it's suggesting moves that are impossible, fyi. sending a rook to a spot that's already occupied, or castling when under check

still overall pretty cool. i could see myself using this
Universal Basic Income has NEVER been tried. i.e Giving every citizen of a relatively large country (> 10 million) a fixed sum of money every month.

It works on small samples because that doesn't suddenly change the demand curve relatively to supply.

Everytime the govt prints money and gives it as a stimulus check, that is akin to UBI.

The problem is usually supply. One can always pump up demand by dolling out free money. Even if you gave every US citizen a million dollars but the housing inventory doesn't go up, house prices go up by a million dollars.

Money is merely a means fill demand with supply.

Universal basic distribution is a phenomenal idea. e.g everyone receives free basic healthcare (Most modern countries do this).

Capitalistic competition is a good thing when there are multiple players working hard to output the highest quality at cheapest prices.

Governments as single player monopolies aren't the most efficient at distribution.

Universal Basic Supply is an idea I can get behind. UBI has a big gaping hole called inflation.
> Sure you in theory vote for union leaders, but in practice it ends up being just as bad as any other politics

This is not at all universally true? A union can be dysfunctional just like any other collaboration between people—that's hardly a reason to not even try.

Specifically, I joined the Glitch union along with my coworkers in 2020, and we were pretty united on what we wanted to negotiate for. The union more than paid for the effort we put in to forming it and our dues when it won severance and health coverage for those hit by layoffs later.

> What is the difference between being fired and being told we don't have any work for you? Labors often do lose their job - they may still be in the union and thus early in line if there is another job, but they don't have control of when jobs come up.

What does this have to do with a union improving the power balance in negotiations between employees and a company? If you're suggesting that even with a union companies can find ways to get rid of you, well, that's one of the very things unions can fight against with the help of the labor board being threatened in the article above.
as the article says, the correct solution is to provide an API that applications can access to check if the functionality is offered at all.

functions that return correct null responses isn't the ideal behaviour, it's the fallback for when you're already off the happy path.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/a-sneak-peek-simd-enhance...
I guess you don't like our Constitution, then?
> Spending $100,000 and making two minor changes that triple your revenue is an absolute bargain.

The hard part is knowing what "minor" changes needs to be made.

Unless you have evidence of what the problem is, you're just stabbing the dark. $100k is probably best spent on a session capture tool that allows you to see how/when/why users are dropping off, hire a UX designer who can think up solutions for the highlighted problems, then use the capture tool to gauge effectiveness and sneak up on a solution.

I won't deny that there are great UX people out there with a natural intuition for this stuff. But there's still the problem of figuring out which ones are great.

Old school UX used to involve video taping users interacting with software.
Lists of links don't tend to make good HN submissions because HN itself is already a list of links, and because the only discussion the list provides a foundation for is the generic thing they all have in common—that is, the lowest common denominator of the things on the list. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...)

In this case, the common factor is "debuggers", and a generic thread about debuggers in general is probably going to remain shallow the way most generic discussions do.

What tends to work better is to pick the most interesting element of the list and submit that instead.
I'd like to try the service and try the local content. Does anyone have recommendations for what is particularly good and what is particulary influential? I've seen some West African and Nigerian film, but very little.

Also, when they say localized content, does Showmax localize it to each country (or sometimes region, e.g., Fracophone West Africa?). 'Content localized to Africa' is as meaningful as 'content localized to the Americas', from Canada to Argentina.
If we don't fight this concentration of power, we're doomed to a Microsoft future. You might make good profit for a few quarters on the way there, but "not healthy for the ecosystem" is a gross euphemism for what's at the end of that road.
Why would you try to get a cert just to have one? Seems like backwards thinking
> consider that interpreting a word in a way at variance to the rest of the conversation will leave you, unnecessarily, wondering what the conversation is even about, as in this case

True.

So why did you do so?

You're well aware that in common parlance, markdown refers to any of the following incomplete list: Gruber's Markdown reference implementation (practically extinct in the wild), Git-flavored Markdown, and Commonmark. There are others, Julia's version of Markdown has some extensions and is missing at least one feature from the original. Its standard library for parsing this is called Markdown.

To write the comment you wrote, you had to pretend that you didn't know this. That's disingenuous. That kind of "what you're referring to is actually GNU/Linux" sort of nitpick is annoying.
Docs say its compiled into the Linux binaries by default:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/quic.html

"Also, since 1.25.0, the QUIC and HTTP/3 support is available in Linux binary packages."
> 1. That’s not a very nice thing to say

This is not an undeserved sentiment. Russia's every neighbour will tell you that.
Hitler was convicted.

Democracy ≠ mob rule.
The shortcoming of most RAG-based approaches is the assumption that the question resembles the answer in a way that also jives with the embeddings model. Thus far, I’ve not seen strong evidence (or in my testing) that this is true or works well, but at least citation allows for better assessment. The problem seems to be that we don’t have a good feedback loop for ranking RAG retrieval, as we have for LLMs with things like DPO.
With anybody paying attention to the SpaceX history there should be little doubt this company did groundbreaking achievements in an important technical industry. It's sad the founder and frontman of the company, Elon Musk, demonstrates such a lack of vision. However the company itself used to maintain its course, sometimes despite Elon's actions. So now it's double sad that the company can't maintain the balance necessary for its longer term prosperity and for the benefits of people closely related to the company.
Reading the change logs speaks volumes to the maturity of this ecosystem. A lot of really great quality of life improvements here and the always welcome performance improvements.

Congratulations and thank you to everyone involved!
It's not merely 'best practice' for some hypothetical delay tactic.

This is a coordinated effort to get cases in front of SCOTUS that can gut the ability of federal agencies to do anything, especially agencies that are inconvenient to large corporations by regulating labor, environment, standards, food quality, etc.

See Project 2025 [0], which is a plan to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The plan would perform a swift takeover of the entire executive branch under a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory — a theory proposing the president of the United States has absolute power over the executive branch. Project 2025 envisions widespread changes across the entire government, particularly with regard to economic and social policy and the role of the federal government and federal agencies.

They are taking every possible approach towards their goals, and this is just one line of attack.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
You really do not want to preach this to a bunch of people who will have nothing but free time and growing rage at their situation

That has never worked out
Maybe they'll buy the local company.
This reminds me of the "vote with your wallet" argument. Sure, I'll just [pick a candidate|buy a product|...] that suites all of my ideals... as soon as one shows up for the first time.
Maybe this makes the point better:

Say your webserver isn't scaling to more than 500 concurrent users. When you add more load, connections start dropping.

Is it because someone programmed a max_number_of_concurrent_users variable and a throttleExtraAboveThresholdRequests() function?

No.

Yes, humans built the entire stack of the system. Yes every part of it was "programmed", but no this behaviour wasn't programmed intentionally, it is an emergent property arising from system constraints.

Maybe the database connection pool is maxed out and the connections are saturating. Maybe some database configuration setting is too small or the server has too few file handles - whatever.

Whatever the root cause (even though that cause incidentally was implemented by a human if you trace the causal chain back far enough) this behaviour is an almost incidental unintended side effect of that.

A machine learning system is like that, but more so.

An LLM, say, is "parsing" language in some sense, but ascribing what it is doing to human design is pretty indirect.

In a way you typing words at me has in some way been "programmed" into you by every language interaction mankind has had with you.

I guess you could see it that way, but I don't think it's a particularly useful point of view.

In the same way an LLM has been in directly "programmed" via it's model architecture, training algorithm and training data, but we are nowhere near the understanding of the process to be able to consider this "programming" it yet.
This isn't related to my comment. I wasn't asking what if an AI invents a supervirus. I was asking what if someone invents a supervirus. AI isn't involved in this hypothetical in any way.

I was replying to a comment saying that nukes aren't commodities and can't target specific classes of people, and I don't understand why those properties in particular mean access to nukes should be kept secret and controlled.
Fantastic thread: https://twitter.com/LucasNuzzi/status/1758232805882970562
I feel this way about the internet being taken over with user generated content.

It’s strange taking information at face value, and then when you come across something you’re deeply knowledgable about and it’s horribly incorrect yet has thousands of upvotes, you start to wonder just how much you’ve read is actually junk info.

Little wonder that LLMs can’t get things right when they’re working off knowledge bases of absolute shit.
The network tab in Firefox reported 462MB to load the demo at https://play.spacelancers.com/

I know this is super early, but I wonder how useful this is considering how bloated UE5 projects tends to be. I'd be interested in seeing what a slimmed down demo looks like.
> Who cares anyway?

I can’t tell if you’re just joking. Proofs of facts that seem obvious or irrelevant are very important not for the yes-no question they answer but for the development of the deep mathematical theory they necessitate.
The fault here is thinking that Republicans operate in good faith or consistently. They don't. They just want to be able to persecute people, and maybe get richer along the way.
A file that was written in Word '97 did not even open exactly as expected on two different computers 25 years ago. Formatting depended on the installed printer drivers. Good luck with that document today.

My LaTeX files from 35 years ago, on the other hand - they just do fine.
This thing https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/diy-kits-and-boards/audiophon... is a C13/C14 block with a 3.5mm control. AC power on if 12V minimal current applied via the 3.5mm, otherwise off. I haven't got around to it yet but my sketchy DIY idea is power-over-ethernet into a splitter into that. That'll power off the server when the switch port is turned off.

Strangely I haven't found a relay in the same packaging anywhere else.
Here's a rather large (5MB) vintage 1996 Microsoft Word document: https://archive.org/download/cd-pn-0527a/CD_ROM.ISO/APPENDIX...

That file opens and appears to render just fine for me in Word 2016.

This has been my experience w/ Office files in general. Old files open and render very well in newer versions.
> Also, having the compiler throw an error doesn't mean that an older, already compiled executable won't work.

And when the older, already compiled executable calls the API, how do you make things "work"? That's exactly what the article is about.
> households

I wonder what metric applies, people or households. If most people watch streaming on their devices, it would be people. If they want on the family tv, if that's a thing, then households.
Absolutely terrible. Now we pray time/entropy delivers us a world without Putin. Smh.
Which was actually a lot less dramatic than how people seem to remember it. A 70 foot section disconnected at one end. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_Bridge_collapse.jpg

Freeway construction has changed a lot since the 70s and 80s. We now use ductile concrete that can flex without breaking, do extensive soil analysis for footings, and add seismic isolation systems in high risk areas.
I was surprised Sun/Oracle's JVM (or Apple, after their 3rd architecture migration) never took a page from AS/400's TIMI (Technology Independent Machine Interface) and compile an architecture-independent representation to native code at installation time.

As the Android Runtime later demonstrated, nothing prevents you from distributing an architecture-independent representation, AoT-compiling to native code at installation time, instrumenting the native code, and then re-optimizing at runtime and/or in a background batch process if your instrumentation statistics deviate substantially from what was available the last time you re-optimized.

Apart from the extra disk space for both bytecode and native representations, something like TIMI allows for the best of both worlds as far as AoT and JIT. (It's also nice that TIMI doesn't require a garbage collector to be running.)

I'm not aware of modern AS/400 dynamically re-optimizing binaries, but doing so wouldn't break anything. Given the conservative nature of mainframe users, I imagine dynamic re-compilation would need to be an opt-in feature.
I can't speak for valuations, but I don't see the 'no logical buyers' argument. This product has multiple competitor products, mostly at far higher price points, any of those manufacturers would seem like a logical buyer to me (if only to get rid of the competition). Can you elaborate?
Sometimes YouTube shows me news or political commentary from several years ago and I'll watch for fun or even by accident.

And I'll remember watching that segment years ago and thinking it mattered, and now years later I realize it didn't matter at all. Makes me feel stupid for caring about today's news.
ad hominem arguments. "Those bad people are saying it, so it must be wrong."

Read the Constitution and the Federalist papers someday. Also read about "Chevron deference" which is going away soon.
Everyone is someone's child. Attributing all the deeds anyone does to their parent is ridiculously reductive.
Yes. We need to end growthist economic thinking. Slowing or reversing population growth would also help.
I think a critical one would be: init.defaultBranch master

Especially since places like GitHub are making main the default unwittingly
> creating a company that should be valued (and eventually sell) for 7-15X Earnings

Only high-growth, high-margin businesses can get 7x+ earnings.

Creating a sufficient level of growth to garner 7x valuation is very tough to do bootstrapped.

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EDIT: The only reason anyone gets a 10x etc valuation is because they're doubling+ year-over-year, and very likely they'll be 3x bigger in 18 months.

So basically, that's a 3-4x valuation...of your probable revenue in a year and a half.
Regardless of this terrible concept, at-will workers will always have substantial power here. Any time they walk out as a unit, the company is dead until the rift is resolved.

Undoing the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 would be a tragedy but even then, the workers were getting employers' ears.