skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The economy is rigged such that in the absence of any positive action, workers' purchasing power goes down over time by default.

It's not rigging. Here's a few observations from a study in 1776.

> It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labor.

> China has been long one of the richest, that is, one of the most fertile, best cultivated, most industrious, and most populous countries in the world. It seems, however, to have been long stationary. [...] The accounts of all travellers, inconsistent in many other respects, agree in the low wages of labor, and in the difficulty which a laborer finds in bringing up a family in China. If by digging the ground a whole day he can get what will purchase a small quantity of rice in the evening, he is contented. The condition of artificers is, if possible, still worse.

> The liberal reward of labor, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the laboring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they are going fast backward.

At risk of derailing the conversation, your post is an excellent demonstration of how conspiracy theories come about. You notice some basic social truth, and since it's a harsh and unpleasant one, you blame it on some sort of deliberate action.
How to Run Turbo Pascal on an Android Phone
Any chance you happen to know the latest code to get into the hidden menu on the EV6? Used to be 19190307, though it was changed in the 231215 infotainment firmware update.
Another important distinction to make for those that might not be aware: in the US, mortgages mostly are a set-rate when the loan is issued, usually either at 15-years or 30-years. In most of the rest of the world, I'm told, mortgages are typically variable rate
> that is present in the research and documents behind the recent US government paper, is that memory safely in terms of allocations and references is only one of many elements

Can you provide a reference to the "research and documents behind the recent US government paper"? I still think that adding Delphi/Object Pascal to the list of examples of "memory safe" languages was by mistake. You can do exactly the same ugly things in Delphi/Object Pascal as you can do in C++, with no obligations imposed by the language to mark a section or module as "unsafe", and - on the other hand - both languages offer about the same number of "inherent language features [which] protect the programmer from introducing memory management mistakes unintentionally".
Delusional project planning kills products and companies. How many years before Starship rockets achieve rapid reuse after being caught by launch tower chopsticks and are reflown quickly enough to supply a yet to be designed and launched orbiting fuel station before the fuel and oxidizer boil off so that Starship can go beyond Earth orbit?

The critical path will bite you in the ass especially if your idea of project management comes from software projects. If you pile on enough dependencies, especially on untried concepts, you might not know which possible critical path will bite the hardest.
Not really, most businesses pay above Glassdoor rates.
It's an even better deal if you live in Europe, now: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/29/24086792/setapp-subscript...
Definitely something we're looking at -- do you have more any details about your use case?
For me the presence of a stale bot that automatically closes issues after 30 days - like Bulma - is a major red flag.

Sweeping issues under the carpet actively makes your library worse, only because one really values the vanity metric of "closed/open issue ratio".

Github star count is another useless metric, often inflated by "star this on github" widgets on the homepage.
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You kids today and your new fangled 'old school' references.

As someone born before the cola wars, the title of this thread was very misleading.
It works thanks to liberal doses of handwavium.
I've heard this called Musical Ear Syndrome because it can manifest as either muffled random voices, or random music.

Sometimes drugs trigger it. I was on a medication for a week that made my washroom fan seem to emit choir music. It was quite entertaining.
I guess everyone is too busy entertaining themselves to bother commenting let alone have kids.
> training machine learning models on the DNA data of thousands of volunteers with 3D scans of their faces

... thousands?

You need several million participants to identify a single gene in GWAS. What is "thousands" supposed to accomplish?
If it's on the map it's not a secret.
They have a lot of money to launder. Better to spend some of it to reduce exposure, and increase SEO ranking.
As a younger millennial my take is that it’s simply incentives not mixing. There was no benefit to reading the books in high school. A very poor skim was sufficient. English tests were just intelligence tests. I got 5s on both AP tests for lit and lang without taking the courses.

Generally speaking I think average kids reading and writing skills are poor, but I don’t believe that’s novel.
> Sub-8-hour LA to NYC by train is beyond any currently known technology.

But oh so close!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26589001

;)
Haha, if I had enough power to pass rules and make laws, AI would be destroyed already.
> It seems like you haven't really worked through this stuff too much

yup not at all - i just wandered in off the street and knew accidentally that you were talking about non-standard analysis.

> The rest of your points I think I have already addressed

please show me the source line number in pytorch or tensorflow that defines this number

> we add one called "h" with h² = 0!
Because AI will significantly damage society and we should be exceptionally cautious about it.
article links to a study where lifestyle changes have a measurable impact on MCI
> There's clearly market supply/demand driving changes in gold price

Of course. And in all other commodity prices.

But in a world where the money supply was stable, those price changes, over time, would average out to zero. Or, if you factor in increased productivity over time, they would average out to a steady (if probably slow) decrease in the prices of goods and services.

What you would not see is an average increase in the prices of goods and services over time. You would certainly not see such an increase normalized in everyone's expectations, so that everyone expects cost of living increases in their pay, everyone expects things to gradually get more expensive, etc. That requires monetary manipulation by the government.
Cute until someone straps a gun to it
Stationary diesel engines could still work in iron don’t you think?

The cylinder walls could be very thick.
Having enjoyed your other comments in this thread, I'm curious how Bitcoin fixes this issue. Because it can't be created out of thin air? Or is there something else I'm missing?
lighthouse performance scores are perfect. accessibility fails. best practice category is 90+ (very minor issues). PWA is not applicable.

https://lighthouse-metrics.com/lighthouse/checks/38f2276c-bc...

lol,
Zip is extremely simple, and well documented.

I wrote a ReadableStream to Zip encoder (with no compression) in 50 lines of Javascript.
Do you feel that a focus on dismissing and defending dark patterns is appropriate or constructive? What world are you helping construct, and what values are you supporting? Are you aiming for a world where open hardware becomes dominant and beneficial?

I feel the point was a valid red flag. This org may be more interested in marketing itself than it is in supporting open source.

Looking at their repos, we find that the designs for their robots are not public. This company is using the open core / artificial scarcity model for their hardware, while presenting themselves as a fully open source organization.

This is an organization exploiting open source for its marketing, without supporting open hardware.

This is important: Contributors looking for a real open hardware project to work on should consider looking elsewhere. If they contribute to this project, they would be contributing to a partially proprietary ecosystem. This tends to compromise the promise of Open hardware, which includes low cost replication and iteration on hardware designs.

Tldr: when an open source organization practices dark patterns, people need to hear about it. It's not a minute fact- it's a major compromise of Open source values and outcomes.
Diana Deutsch has something called the HIGH-LOW effect, where one ear hears the words high and low repeated, and the other ear hears the same thing, but in opposition so when one ear hears HIGH, the other heard LOW.

After a while of listening to it with headphones on, you'll start hearing different words phase in and out.

Pretty wild.
I can vouch for this. You can tell how much YouTube doesn’t want you to do this by the way the app shows you a big, error-looking message on boot: “Your watch history is off - update setting?”. No thanks!

Only real downside (and it might be deliberate) is that the app will quickly forget the current video you’re watching. Still worth the trade off.
Problem is, Mozilla is running in all directions at once like a headless chicken.

So we worry Firefox will die.
> Right, but maybe OP has some more exotic method of shorting the company.

It is possible to do this with standard CFDs (Contract for Difference) to long or short any company once they have listed on the stock exchange and this is available in EU countries and outside of the US which CFDs are banned.
I didn’t try it but am surprised it’s using a DB. I thought it would be… plain-text.
What do you mean? WebSockets require a TCP+TLS connection in most cases, unless you're using HTTP3
just hardcoded things :)
Hopefully it just makes sites remove the ability to edit or delete things once they've been published. Especially forums where things have been referenced by other things.

As much as I routinely fine-tune and fix up a comment after initially writing, I will happily go back to the old days before such ability became common, in trade for the sanity of references that don't disappear or change meaning after the fact. The typos don't hurt as much as the swiss cheese and schitzo conversations.
the idea with the second statement is: the cost of bringing innovation to a market where inflation is higher makes it easier to pay back to cost of the innovation. ie. you pay your salaries at index 100 and get to sell them at a higher index.
Communism is the American nightmare
> I can draw on to “have faith my car will start”, whereas “faith” in the context of religion means to “believe absent evidence”.

I have some bad news for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_and_indirect_realism

The implementation of reality/"reality" is Indirect Realism, but you experience it and (implicitly) assert it to be Direct Realism, due (in part) to the ideology you are "subscribed" to, whether you know it or not.

Your ideology has taught you to respond with (predictable) memes, perhaps we will now get to see them and I will increment my counters.

Oh, in case you "don't know what I'm talking about":

> whereas “faith” in the context of religion means to “believe absent evidence”

You think you are referring to reality, but you are actually referring to the model of reality contained within your mind, the composition of which is what you have been trained on by your culture, ideology, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism_(psychology...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychology-normative-cogn...

(I could go on and on and on...there is so much for you to learn, if you still have adequate ability.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning

The sad part about Western Civilization, Planet Earth, 2024, is that there are some conceptual spaces (the one we are in right now) where you are "disallowed" (it's complicated) from using science and the scientific method to figure out what is going on, because either of the two are more than capable enough to figure this out on your own....what I am saying can be learned directly from science.
If a genie appeared and granted one wish, I would wish that we find an extremely powerful machine learning technique that doesn't scale. Imagine if an average desktop computer was almost as good as a billion dollar super computer.

In other words, I don't really care if it scales. I almost hope it doesn't.
You haven't understood the issue. The issue is involuntary dilution created by fractional reserve banking. When a new loan is created, the bank and (especially) the borrower benefit from the increased money supply. That increased money supply dilutes everyone else. The rich get loans to pay for college, buy houses, expensive cars, and own stock in companies that use leverage to grow faster, whereas the poor get loans to buy mobile homes and cheap cars. Overall, the poor wage earners experience a net dilution compared to the rich.
Could be with a proper addon
The costs of running the bank include the costs of administering the loans, the cost of the bank paying interest on reserves it needs to borrow and the costs of defaults. No "money laundering" is involved.

Banks are going to earn money on the margin between the rate they can lend at and the rate they need to pay to secure reserves regardless of monetary system. The alternative without Fed access is the population paying much more interest plus random bank busts, and this doesn't seem to be an obvious improvement to anyone except the superrich earning much more interest on the money they can offer long term loans on.
That has more to do with California not funding the UC system as well as they used to.

Prop 98 in 1988 shifted funding away from UC and CS systems towards community colleges. The UC system went from about 6% of the budget to a bit over 2%.

That amounts to a loss of ~$15,000 per student in today's dollars.
After all, building turbines is not exactly rocket science...
Historically, the first amendment has never been used as a defense in antitrust law (and for good reason). A business and it's self-expression is kinda besides the point when you're analyzing market harm and extrinsic impact. Microsoft was not within their means to "self-express" coordinated first-party limitations to stifle competing browsers. Apple using the same tactic does not automatically make it legal because they're percieved as some form of underdog.

If Apple really wants to express themselves, United States law won't stop them from disincorporating and relocating their private assets to a nation they're more comfortable with like Russia or China. They could become a PRC-subsidiary and fulfill their destiny of being the man in the glasses on the grey TV.
Any argument would make for a much better argument than your deranged repetitions.

I've claimed X doesn't exist, all you have to do is demonstrate it does for you to "win". It should be very easy, given how confident you seem.
> Can't believe no archive survived.

https://bluelander.neocities.org/mr-teal/#pfsc
This put the fear of God in me when I was a child. Sleep paralysis, which often joins it, feels quite frightening to a kid who doesn't know what's going on.
People are demonstrably poorer, medical bankruptcies, the homeless pile up in fetid camps, but everyone has access to multiple lifetimes worth of social media content and fake AI waifus.
SSH. Tailscale.
There's a world of difference between 2000 lb and 20,000 lb thrust though. And as you mentioned, they teamed up with GE in the end because, to be frank, turbojets are just hard.
X bans revealing naming anonymous users after scrutiny of antisemitic cartoonist
But it's impossible to control...
> If the banks are all publicly traded and the shares evenly distributed

Which of course they're not. Nor will they ever be. Even if you forced things to be this way on some particular day, they wouldn't stay that way, because people have different needs, different expectations, and different judgments about the best ways to use their money. And in a free market, they will act differently because of those differences, and quickly trade away from any "even distribution" of anything.

> If you have a healthy banking market with several competitors the banks will compete to the point where none of them can extract too much profit.

I agree that banking should be a competitive free market (as I think every good and service should be).

> you end up with companies extracting wealth in any market where they get too much of a monopoly

If "monopoly" means "ability to buy favors from the government to avoid free market competition", then I agree with this. But such a "monopoly" in no way requires there to be a lack of competition in an industry. There is plenty of competition in banking. It just all takes place against a backdrop of monetary manipulation by the government.
Your are confusing non-standard and dual numbers. The dual numbers are not ordered and contain non-invertible nilpotent elements such as h which squares to 0.
Complaining that all existing tools are old, but I'm looking at the documentation and the what immediately catches my eye is that it doesn't use any modern convention I've gotten used to?

Overwrite with "-w". I've never seen a tool not use "-f"

Not reserving "-h" for help text is also an interesting choice. Makes me think of the mantra "be conservative in what you send out but liberal in what you accept". Per that philosophy, both "--help" and "-h" should be accepted because neither gained a decisive majority in usage and so people might try either. It's not like you'd know what to use because it hasn't told you yet

Forcing use of a long option "--press=N" (for the zstd level setting) is also new/unique terminology for what is usually "-N" (like "-1" to "-9")

(Basic) drop-in compatibility with every other tool from gzip to zstd would also have been nice, but archiving and compression are different things and everything from zip to 7z to tar works in unique ways so this makes enough sense I guess. Still, could have been useful

It's still better than tar or ps, so if it catches on that's still a step forwards in terms of command line standards
That's fine and all, but if the information is not necessary, then it's only a liability. It could be revealed in a hack, or subpoenaed.
That Wikipedia section makes it sound like his whole life story is just an elaborate work of fiction. I don't think that counts as fraud. It's more like santa claus and the deception fits in with his story. Is he doing any actual damage other than annoying the FBI?
This seems less like a CSS framework and more like an article theme. Maybe I misunderstand the common definition of "CSS framework".
It's not just the 0.1% who appreciate amenities over speed. A more-comfortable, reliable high speed rail so I do not have to go to airports would displace a lot of Boston-NYC-DC air travel.
Whipping Star has some amazing alien vs human discourse (at least, that's my memory from ~20 years ago!). It was the first time I found alien dialog that didn't sound like repackaged English.
I’m a pretty big fan of my live cat and the software she shipped with, I’m not interested in building a robot cat, and I think TCO is the wrong criterion to base this decision on in the first place—but a cat costs real money to take care of correctly, and people need to consider TCO if they adopt an animal.
Tox Core is one of the nicest-to-read C codebases
A company normally intends to charge the most profitable price. Ascribing their actions to one force or another is useless, it mainly is supply and demand that force them to set lower prices. When their input costs go up, they raise prices because they otherwise their last product produced would be unprofitable, and when prices go down it is because their customers would go elsewhere if they did not.
So funny thing is you're in a thread about aerospace. If I might hazard a guess, discussing the concrete reasons why you think this is a scam can help educate curious readers about the challenges in this field and can probably start a discussion on the technical details of supersonic aircraft that has less emotional and more technical content.

It doesn't always work out that way though shrug.

From my own context, the work of certifying the airframe alone takes forever, let alone prototyping another engine and one that requires the thrust requirements a supersonic aircraft needs, so I too am really dubious of the timelines. But I'm curious why you think this is a scam as opposed to general exuberance, or why you think innovation in this space in particular is unlikely. There's other variables here like United's purchase; we all know companies like Theranos have defrauded established players like Walgreens, but do you think United did not do their due diligence here?

(I'm also deeply curious on why you feel that high-level criticism of the idea is relevant for this forum but the details of your criticism are not. I feel it'll teach me a lot about what motivates folks to use HN these days, but that's just my own curiosity.)
Not sure if I understand the question.

Having a shared encoding dictionary is called compression.

If you want one across many zip files that you cannot modify, then compress them into another archive.
I got to use space filling curves in my first ever professional programming experience to build image pyramids in a cache efficient way
This is not true: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
This is real GDP per capita
Oh, come on. CPI inflation since 1960: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=rocU

Nothing about the current conditions are particularly abnormal. CPI was at 2.5-3 through the entirety of the dot com boom, higher than that still in the 80's, and of course between 1968 and 1982 it was almost entirely above 5%.

I really don't think you're considering all the things, all things considered.
let me try something else:

If you take out a lone you get money in exchange for signing a contract that forces you to pay everything back [say] 3x over 30 years.

The party giving you the money loses nothing, they trade one kind of paper for the other.

They get more money in return because there is a small risk you wont pay. (if they get 1/3 they have their money back)

This would be sensible if the bank had this money. They don't, they bring nothing to the table and give you freshly minted fiat.

This is only possible because you've signed on the dotted line.

If you are buying a house the risk you wont pay is tiny! Government could easily force you to get insurance and give you an interest free lone that you won't need to pay back.

This would bring some serious fiat into circulation.

Ask Gaddafi what happens next.
I wouldn’t waste my time learning about RAG. It’s quite likely GPT5 will make all current methods obsolete.
Or getting it certified that it's safe.

https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/airworthiness_certific...

"Amended type certificates typically take 3-5 years to complete. By comparison, the certification of a new aircraft type can take between 5 and 9 years."
Their comment is about the math, which has to be true. There can still be countervailing effects, but the math still works out the way it works out.