skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, yes. This [1] is the first paragraph of the first article of their constitution: "The People’s Republic of China is a socialist state under the people’s democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants. The socialist system is the basic system of the People’s Republic of China. Disruption of the socialist system by any organization or individual is prohibited."

They are a self described democratic dictatorship with a system that openly and voluntarily chooses to sacrifice individual liberty and freedom for what they see as the collective good. That is their right as a sovereign power, but it is not a system I would like to live under. And any movement in this sort of direction is something that I think should be actively opposed.

[1] - http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/englishnpc/Constitution/node_282...
I have but don't get your point. Could you elaborate, please?
I get there is a lot of trash in the crypto finance space, but I just wanted to see and have conversations about the very fascinating technologies, ZK proofs, etc. Every time it comes up we just get drowned in a thought-terminating-cliche style discussion rehashing other (often entirely unrelated) events that happened in the past that were egregious or comical.
As someone who is not a furniture maker and doesn't have access to a CNC machine, I was surprised by how good of a joint I can make with just a doweling jig. It does end up slightly more visible (assuming you aren't painting it), but it creates a very strong joint that is hard to mess up.
"in a private area near a sacred shrine to the Muses"
The article is not very well written imho but I love it when conversations about free markets come up because I certainly do not understand the free market ideology. Some people really love free markets and blame regulations for their inefficiency and inequality (or just say that inequality is a normal product of efficiency). But I have never been able to see that. Accumulation of wealth on the scale of Amazon allows them to squelch any semblance of enterprise with ease which seems to defeat the original point of free enterprise. One could argue that this level of inequality is better for everybody, and it probably is for material quality of life, but is that a permanent thing and is it OK to have large chunks of our lives be at the mercy of one or two giant monopolies?

EDIT: I love enterprise by the way, in case that is lost in the argument, but it seems to me like growth and enterprise are at odds with each other.
> Thanks to emulation, x86 software lock in is no more, and the moat loses its significance.

Tell me you've never attempted to performantly emulate x86 without saying those words.
As a small example, go look into the difference between x86 memory model and the weak memory models used by modern architectures, when it comes to ordering of accesses as seen by other cores.

Now imagine emulating this correctly on a weak memory model system
Хватит пиздеть, ватник.
A/B Testing at Scale: How We Engineered a Solution for Users
Yea, I was gonna say! (And I'm glad you did)

Walmart was honing and perfecting this devour-everything strategy long before Amazon was a glimmer in Bezos's eye. They moved into every rural area in the country like a vampire, sucked out every drop of value, undercut to the point where they were the only game in town, converted the previous small business staff into mid- and low-level WalMart drones, and in some cases, skedaddled when the store couldn't make obscene enough profits, leaving the area stripped barren.
We evaluated most of these (minus Workato) and landed on Nango. Was by far the most flexible and having the source code available was a big plus (vs. the closed-source alternatives). The team is also reactive to feedback in their Slack community, they even added a few new endpoints for us in < 24 hours
I mean, if you count Russia as a European colonial power - and you should! - then it's far more recent. Chechnya fought a war over its independence in 1994-96, then another one with an active phase in 1999-2000 that tapered off into guerrilla warfare that lasted until mid-2010s.
Vendor lock in combined with sunk cost, combined with my favorite, keeping up with the joneses, aka "industry standard".
I sometimes draw an analogy between low-probability catastrophizing and the Drake Equation.

The Drake Equation attempts to calculate how many planets there should be in the universe where intelligent life exists, by multiplying together all sorts of probabilities. But if you put error bars on the various estimates, what you find is that the overall calculation can result in anything from "there should be trillions of planets with intelligent life on them" to "humanity is some kind of fluke; even we shouldn't exist." Which means that using the Drake Equation to make arguments about what we "should" be doing about intelligent alien life is actually useless. It doesn't tell us anything meaningful or useful; it's just a way some people justify their own priors.

There are a lot of things I can spend my time, money, energy, and attention on. Some of them are entertainment (sports, video games, TV/movies, music.) Some are serious day-to-day life (family, parenting, work, chores.) Some are trying to interact with the broader world from a positive influence perspective (political/religious advocacy, voting, charity, counseling, encouragement.) Some are planning for negative outcomes to protect myself and my family (having good insurance, canned food, filtered water storage, ways to create winter heat, an evacuation plan or two.) Someone using Drake Equation type reasoning can suggest that their particular negative-outcome scenario has such high costs that I should expend literally everything to mitigate them -- but as soon as I allow for error bars and for alternatives that they might get me to ignore if I'm all-in on their issue, that transforms my whole thought process. The AI signularity might be so dangerous that I should invest everything to stop it, or it might be such a nothingburger that it's not worth the Doritos I ate while writing this comment. Without a clear way to distinguish, I should just filter it out. If they can't do enough in the time they've already had to convince me it's actually a real issue, they haven't earned the right to my attention.
Aka death. Sorry, not into death cults.
Checkered shirt and pent-up semen, I study mechanical engineering.
Are foldy ears an indicator of intelligence?
>Compare Walmart retail to Amazon retail.

>AWS and its 30 percent margins are the only thing propping amazon up vs Walmart.

In 2023, AWS had 27% margins while North American retail had 4% margins for Amazon, but that still meant $15 billion in income from North American retail versus $25 billion in income from AWS. By comparison, Walmart US is operating at a 5% margin with about $22 billion in income. Both companies have worse margins internationally.

I agree those numbers make AWS look a bit more attractive, but it doesn't mean they're "the only thing propping amazon up vs Walmart". Walmart is running a bit larger and at slightly better margins, but the difference isn't as stark as you're making it out to be.

All numbers were hastily pulled from recent earnings reports, so apologies if I made any sloppy mistakes.
No. None of the ones with an increased Hazard Ratio are or contain them.

The researchers also did not control for PUFA consumption, only SFA consumption.
Author here:

Happy to answer questions.

I've been enjoying the journey of bringing Nix into the supabase community. There are some interesting challenges here, and we're already reaping some of the rewards. One of the most interesting and innovative things that has emerged has been to use nix to test upgrade/downgrade issues for postgres (as discussed in the blog post).

Nix has also made testing version of postgres, extensions etc in development far more streamlined, and I've spent time recently working with people internally to start to learn to leverage the ability to switch to any commit or branch, and build/run/test versions.
Except why would Walmart leave if there were still sufficient consumer demand to capitalize off of?
> Even more annoying is the whole Section 174 debacle. Completely killing the field of software engineering in the US.

Elaborate?
>> Evidence of this? Because I mean, the obvious retort would seem to be, "well then the retail could come back then?"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/09/what-happene...
Unfortunately true. I like to call the Linux foundation the megacorporations LUG (Linux user group). They want to use Linux alright, but they would prefer to do with it whatever they want, so they are not really friends of the GPL and a few other things.
Just debate, talk more. You'll get lots of kudos and people agreeing with you. The dummies will stay dumb.

Why do you lack confidence in your positions and feel justified in appealing to power to silence your opposition? Probably because your positions are debatable and that scares you.

Demonstrate your ability to convince everyone with your dazzling philosophy and concrete facts on any topic you choose and see where all that smug superiority gets you.
I went in the last few years to Porugal with my partner and it was so beautiful and modern history was so dark and rich and self aware. I loved Lisbon and Porto. I immediately went back to the site of what I call the Museum of Torture in Lisbon which was essentially the old political prison with the worst rep. They did a fantastic job breaking down torture and the collapse of the end of Portuguese colonialism and fascist rule. Now that I think of it maybe one of my top three museum experiences. Do go if you ever have a chance.

https://www.museudoaljube.pt/en/
‘Everyone was in the streets. I just felt happiness’ - Portugal recalls the Carnation Revolution:

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/everyone-was-i...
Build with Gemini (an LLM model) [video]
I love this . This whole story is chock full of cultural details like this, woven in in such an engaging way, you make it come alive!
The rubber hose cyptography xocd comes to mind

https://xkcd.com/538/
Since there are zillions of Model Ys out there, what will the replacement battery market look like when mine finally fails in n more years? Will there be relatively inexpensive batteries with the same kWh as mine? Will there be more expensive batteries with more or much more storage available? I guess I'll find out.
> The rule making process takes time!

No, it doesn't take this much time. It's just that net neutrality wasn't a priority for the Biden administration, so they dragged their feet until the very last minute. IIRC, there's been a flurry of rule-making just now because they are running up against a Congressional Review Act deadline.
And then there’s Discord, which also takes over from existing forums, but which has the additional distinction of being a complete pain to search.
Original Paper on Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte (May 25, 2010)
Interestingly, I stumbled onto this but haven't yet seen a release announcement nor an official Docker image for 8.4.

TBH, assuming this is comprehensive, I'm kinda disappointed not to see any native support for vector search.
... which on its own is one of the better reasons to ditch a distro.
Something that appears to be hardly known is that the transformer architecture needs to become more compute bound. Inventing a machine learning architecture which is FLOPs heavy instead of bandwidth heavy would be a good start.

It could be as simple as using a CNN instead of a V matrix. Yes, this makes the architecture less efficient, but it also makes it easier for an accelerator to speed it up, since CNNs tend to be compute bound.
It was half that pre-Covid.

‘Market rate’ is exactly what I’m talking about.
Presumably, you know your cost base, and how large a percentage of your cost is hosting.

If that percentage is low, AWS is fine. It's expensive, but it's not worth your time optimizing a small proportion of your cost in an early-stage startup.

My current (not a startup) employer is on AWS and it makes sense for us as it's not a big deal relative to what customers are paying us, and it's an easier sell at the kind of deal size we deal with and our customers often require specific providers.

If it's a high percentage, but you're still at bootstrap level costs, it's fine to stick around for a while - just keep an eye on it and avoid AWS-specific services/lockin.

If it's high, and your costs in absolute terms are starting to bite, then look at your options. AWS is expensive, especially if egress bandwidth makes up a lot of your AWS bill. But you also need to consider your customer base. If it's a B2C business, then nobody cares. If it's a B2B SaaS or similar where your customers are businesses that might assign a lot of trust to AWS or have their own infra on AWS, you need to understand whether or not they care, because worst case any savings will be eaten up by lost business.

In the past, I've worked somewhere that was nicely profitable on cheaper hosting but where the margins meant using AWS would have been certain bankruptcy. And many other places where we made significant savings.

You need to understand your costs well, and whether optimizing hosting is even worth it, in other words, and even if it is worth it at some point, it might not be worth it now.
> Evidence of this?

These are an overview of the impact when Walmart leaves a small town [0][1]

Walmart has been downsizing it's presence in small towns for almost a decade now [2] and pivoting to global markets [3][4][5] or e-commerce [6]

[0] - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/when-wal-mart-leaves-small...

[1] - https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois-economy/2018-12-13/when...

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/business/walmart-to-close...

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/china-embra...

[4] - https://inc42.com/resources/how-walmart-is-pivoting-its-stra...

[5] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-walmart-ecommerce-brazil/...

[6] - https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2024/walmart-counters-ama...
They have all of these big monuments to their "Guerra do Ultramar" too, I don't think there was any sort of nationwide realization of what that implies.
And a fraction of initial load time... and HTML rendered on first load without adding anything to the framework.
Ergo, the TL;DR :)

Even so, I oversimplified things a lot (a lot of the processes to leverage the silicon wafer, but some don't):

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

One of the things to keep in mind is that a silicon wafer starts with a near-perfect silicon ingot crystal:

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

The level of purity and perfection there is a little bit crazy to conceive.

It's also worth noting how insanely tiny devices are. A virus is ≈100nm. DNA is 2nm diameter. We're at << 10nm for a device. That's really quite close to atomic-scale.

There are something like ≈100 billion transistors per IC for something like a high-end GPU, and a single failed transistor can destroy that fancy GPU. That's literally just a few atoms out-of-place or a few atoms of some pollutant.

The level of perfection needed is insane, and the processes which go into that are equally insane. We are making things on glass, but the glass has to be nearly perfect glass.
personally, i’d love this, as long as i know everything is staying local and not being sold/shared for a profit.

i regularly find myself thinking things like “what movie was i talking about with that guy in the gym?” or “what did i tell my wife we needed to get at the drug store?”

while i have gotten into a habit of keeping a long running note in my phone, there are still lots of blind spots in my memory that leave these fragmented mini-mysteries. having a machine that i could ask “what was that song playing in the supermarket i wanted to download?” and get a useful answer would be a huge boon in my life, if only to quiet the anxiety of leaving these threads hanging in my mind.
What about Luna?

The plutonic discourse aside, Earth-Moon is often described as a double-planet system.
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I assume all the devs at the large companies know what they're doing with react, since I rarely hear that much complaining, so I suppose it's well suited for very large projects.
Well, it cost me $15 more to deliver food from there. I save roughly an hour of time and do something more interesting instead. Also, not walking through the isles saves me from buying random junk.

Jokes aside, I save money by using grocery delivery.
Parabéns!

Yet to celebrate their 50th anniversaries:

24 Jul 1974 Greece (Türkiye in Cyprus; still a frozen conflict)
20 Nov 1975 Spain (Official death of Franco)
> it is so manifestly obvious that pizza has none of the properties that we typically associate with consciousness that the theory is merely eliminativism in disguise

The problem with this, other than the obvious point that "extremely complicated physical processes inside the brains and bodies of humans, which we are only beginning to work out the details of" is very different from "pizza", is that no physical process can possibly have "the properties that we typically associate with consciousness", at least if "we" means Strawson and those who take his side in the debate. The only way for something to exist that has all of the properties that Strawson et al insist on is for that something to be non-physical, to violate physical laws.

Is this non-physicalism logically impossible? Of course not. That's why, as I said, nobody is going to resolve this debate with arguments. But lots of things are logically possible: Russell's teapot, Sagan's undetectable dragon in the garage, etc. That doesn't mean everything that is logically possible should be taken seriously.

The non-physicalist argument for taking them seriously with regard to consciousness boils down to a simple assertion without argument: it is just obvious to them that no amount of physical processes could ever produce the conscious experiences we all have. But this isn't science. It's just throwing up your hands and refusing to look any further. That is what Dennett and those on his side of the debate refuse to accept. There is a lot of science to be done in this area, and only a small part of it has yet been done. Let's do it and see where we end up. Is it logically possible that we will end up just where Strawson et al are now? Yes. But is that the way to bet? Dennett didn't think so, nor do many others, and nor do I. As I've already said, we'll see.
It sounds like you want a tablet w/ a data plan and not a smartphone. I don't know who makes one in the form factor of a phone (though, to be fair, phones are crazy big now and almost pass for tablets). I find that the market serves my desires very poorly, too.

I don't regard people who are call the same way you do. That's just a difference in our experience and outlook. I don't think calling someone is inherently rude. Some people who call me have rude intentions (advertisers, scammers), but I've done what I can to insure I'm not bothered by those people while allowing the people who I want to share my attention with (family, friends, paying Customers) to reach me asynchronously.

I can heartily share being frustrated with the whole "phone" product category. I think phones should be portable general purpose personal computers, completely under the control of their owners first and "phones" second (or third, or fourth). The market seems to disagree (and lots of people make special pleadings about how "phones" shouldn't be under the control of their owners because "they're phones" and not "computers"-- much to my frustration).
The players you mentioned pre-build standard integrations, in specific categories (e.g. HRIS). We build a platform that lets developers build custom integrations, for any API.

We do offer integration "templates", but it's only a way to get started and templates are meant to be extended.

That's also why our catalog of APIs is extensive. Anybody can rapidly add support for any new API and start building custom integrations for it, and share templates with the community.
> because these institutions protect them.

All I am saying is that you could replace your antagonists in that line with "journalists" and you'd be like, "no wait, that's not true," and you'd be as wrong about journalists as anyone else.

Either there are some powerful institutions protecting journalists too, OR Tor is powerful enough to protect journalists. If it's not good enough for journalists, why bother? If it's good enough for journalists, listen, it's also good enough for criminals.

Anyway, some journalists are themselves powerful people! Maggie Haberman, John Carreyrou and Ronan Farrow are powerful people, and they don't need anonymity. There are powerless criminals too, I'm sure, who need anonymity to engage in criminal conduct without getting caught. You could live on an island with a Starlink Internet connection, literally divorced from institutions and communities, and you could engage in anonymous criminal activity with Tor, it would be your only way of doing that. It would be practicable and realistic. Where we really disagree is: I think the average person already lives in a metaphorical island, this isn't a fringe opinion, and thus no matter what they are doing, Tor is providing them not with anonymity - they are already anonymous in almost all ways that matter, already nobody cares what the average person is up to - Tor is providing them protection from law enforcement.

> chaotic and anarchic coalition

Those high drama characters were the only ones foolish enough to run exit nodes or relays. I am confident this is true but I have not investigated: not a single professional NGO employee or grant recipient, living in New York or Los Angeles, under the age of 40, is personally running a Tor exit node.

Those professionals are absolutely correct in their assessment that they would receive a much harsher punishment for so much as breathing on the third rail criminal activity on Tor compared to their colleagues who engage in some civil disobedience on highways here or there. And without exit nodes or relays, there's no Tor.
It's helpful to think of Corporate America as one gigantic factory that produces "billionaires and millionaires" as product. The raw materials that come in are investor capital and workers, and the waste that gets discarded are communities and the shells of people that are used up to the point where they can no longer produce viable economic surplus.
Also Tarrafal:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrafal_concentration_camp
>they just can't cry foul about what other people do with these lawful products.

I think it's a bit more nuanced. This statement is mainly related to manufacturing defects, but there are other avenues to liability more related to "reasonableness". It's also important to note this has changed over time, from former negligence liabilities to the current form of strict liability. (Point being: how society defines liability changes)
They are currently trying to regain one colony as well.
Reverse Engineering a Fancy Disposable Vape
By "they" you mean voters. This policy isn't top priority for very many voters, but the battle lines on this are clear. Trump will overturn (he already did once). Biden will protect it. A vote for Trump is a vote to overturn.
The projects I think of most are redis and ansible—both of which I've used extensively, and quickly went from 'neat thing I spotted on Hacker News' to 'now it's a startup', then a few years later 'it's just another corporation, the open source project is buried somewhere deep inside'.

The projects weren't as much open core as they were literal open source projects made to solve some problem the author had with other existing tooling. The open core part was injected when the startup decided it had to turn into a platform to sustain the beefy staffing budgets while they figured out how to generate revenue off something that was freely available.
Mohamed, how many alt accounts do you have? Obviously a lot :-)