skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we don't seem to be able to do anything about it.

I thought that, with our democratic structures, it would be really easy "to do" a lot about it, but you seem right:

I don't get it and have been guessing that

> It's always just a massive kickback scheme,

is correct.

A first problem is some basic vote counting: A politician does something, e.g., a "kickback scheme", that pleases < 10% of the voters by essentially stealing from > 90% of the voters. Soooo, at the next election, the politician should lose by at least 9 to 1, but apparently not and I'm wrong and the politician, correct?

Uh, maybe the politician partitions the voters into 10 parts, has 10 schemes, and for each of the 10 steals from the other 9 to please the one, and everyone is happy even though everyone gets stolen from 10 times?

My guess was, if a good majority, 80%, maybe as low as 55%, of the voters would write their Members of Congress objecting to the scheme, then Congress would STOP it, in a few minutes. But, nope. Apparently tough to get > 20%, maybe > 5%, of the voters to write their Members of Congress about even a "brazen" scheme.

In simple terms, Congress is awash in powers, e.g., that massive one, "power of the purse". So, I have to believe that in any 10 minutes, Congress could have gasoline under $2 a gallon and falling, but Congress declines to do that.

The blame is the media that wants eyeballs for ad revenue and, thus, creates divisions, grabs people emotionally, avoids exposing the schemes??? Or the voters are "apathetic"??

Politics is goofy, inscrutable, and the media is right? Uh, ABC, CBS, CNN, ... WaPo are short on money so are not really "right"?

Back to something that makes sense.
As fan of the amazing quest 3, i'm interested in seeing what a "OEM" ecosystem can do.

I do think that stand alone VR is where it's at because it frees you while still being completely capable for PCVR so i'm hopeful some PCVR "first" headsets can join a program like this and deliver on stand alone while still keeping their bread and butter.
The Journey of a Lifetime
It is $300B/year company growing at 15%. I don't think growth is an issue here
Seed oil avoidance is right-wing coded, it's undeniable.

To be clear, a segment of the online right-wing, I'm not saying literally half the population.
> The difference between the two parties isn't that strong.

That's the kind of thinking that led to Bush in 2000. Say what you like about Gore, but his administration would have done a great number of things differently from how it worked out.

Additionally, you wouldn't see e.g. Trump's EPA turning up the pressure on coal power plants. In fact hundreds of effective EPA staffers left (/were purged from) the EPA in 2017/2018.
> Don't pretend like the Democrats wouldn't be just as obstructionist if it suited their political objectives.

So if someone throws a stone at you, you might reasonably be tempted to throw a stone back. If called up on this, you might be tempted to say "he started it". Legally speaking, that might or might not be a defense.

What if instead you throw a stone at someone and justify it with "he was going to throw a stone at me"? Would you consider that a sound defense?

Take it further. Your defense becomes "he would've thrown a stone at me if he had the option so I had to throw the stone at him". No reasonable person would respect that argument.

So why is the hypothetical "Democrats would block a Supreme Court nomination if they had the chance" reasonable to you?
> The parties have been calling each other every dirty word in the book since forever.

I don't know why you think this is relevant to what I'm saying.

> Of course, your team have always been standing for the common sense but the other team is just crazy now.

That's not what I said at all. I said both teams used to be more similar in a specific way.

And neither one was very good.
>When trying to draw on a digital medium (be it by mouse on desktop or by browser) I have yet to find an program where freehand drawing feels as precise or dexterous as it does in physical media such as pen and paper?

The "constraints on emulating free-hand drawing in Digital media" are more about the drawing tool.

An actual pen on paper uses our hand, which can guide it directly on the target surface, with great precision and immediate direct feedback under the pen's point.

A mouse on the other hand means indirection. The mouse is designed for general pointing at UI elements, not for great precision work.

Try an iPad with the Apple Pencil (not a third party one). If you can try with the Apple Pencil 2, and an iPad with a 120Hz refresh rate (aka "Liquid Retina").

Or try a Wacom tablet/artboard and pen as markx2 advised. One with a display if possible (else you still need to get used to indirection).

Both are as close to paper as you can get.
Tennessee lawmakers pass bill allowing teachers, school staff to be armed
I recommend looking at your motives. Thinking that people who disagree with you politically want nothing else than other people to suffer, while being unfair and inaccurate, probably betrays your own desires.
It's a bit funny considering the latest zelda game took so much gameplay design from Garry's mod to begin with
Translating 197 M/mm2 into the dimensions of a square, we get a dimension of 71nm. If we compute the "half-pitch", that's 35.5nm.

230 M/mm2 translates to 33nm "half-pitch".

Of course, transistors aren't square and aren't so densely packed, but these numbers are more real IMO.
I hate to tell you this, but if you can believe it, they're for the second time now, electing the most sadistic candidate to represent their party. This guy has promised to deport millions of people, put them in "camps", use the military to quell "woke" protests, etc.

The sincere Conservative electorate had every opportunity to choose a less-sadistic option. They chose. OP's characterization is perfectly valid.
Not as much as I thought. MIT is more common it looks like.

https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/repositories?q=license%3Ag...
Exactly. If I put something out in the world for the benefit of others, and someone packages it up for profit, I'm still achieving my goal. In fact, that helps my goal to advance even further! That's not depressing to me, that's exciting.
> Homogeneity also comes with its own problems -- smaller, more homogenous governments are much more likely to discriminate against the "out group", for instance.

I discriminately support my family more than my neighbors. You probably do too.

I also discriminately support my circle of friends more than the random stranger. You probably do too.

I also don't think a random stranger can come into my home and get equal footing with myself as the homeowner simply because the other person was "out". You probably do too.

Hell, even at the broad government level, US citizens are prioritized over non-citizens - like literally every single country that has ever existed.

This isn't a real problem.
I am announcing today that I am spending $32 billion on 7 EV Factories.
Minecraft is likely one of the easiest popular games to find a crack for in existence. You just Google "reddit Minecraft cracked launcher" and you'll find the popular choices.

Of course, you'll only be able to play on servers that do not authenticate accounts this way.
I made something called shell workspaces[0] for this.

I like to tinker with bash and this has helped me keep all of the commands relevant to a particular project discoverable, accessible, and documented.

It uses a function "," for command execution. So, for instance, if the workspace file defines a function "build", when you're in the workspace, the command `$ , build` will run it.

It's not the most comprehensive solution to this, but it's probably the bit of shell programming that I use almost every day and has saved me tons of time.

[0] https://github.com/nepthar/ws.sh
It's possible that "Open Source" here is the OSI definition, which FSF has some objections to. If "Closed Source" just means "not Open Source as OSI defines it", then it is true that some non-OSI software is "free" software. Free software still requires source to be available and that you're allowed to modify and distribute it.
Not only is there more false info on Tiktok, the user comes away with high certainty they are being reliably informed. Because accounts popular on Tiktok focus strictly on presentation and entertainment, not anything actual journalists prioritize.

The effect is less informed with higher certainty, and terrible combination for training citizens for actual civil discourse.
Resume padding and conversation starter during interviews. It also filled in some gaps in knowledge.
I'm still torn about whether I want to stick with Ubuntu a little longer or move onto Debian/Fedora. I've been a happy Ubuntu user for a long time, but each package that gets converted to snap makes it harder for me to stay. I'm getting really tired of having to fight the distro and look for a bunch of my applications elsewhere to get a version that doesn't suck.
>Meta already sells the Quest systems basically at production cost

This is of course scary and why the VR market is now pretty much a monopoly. Perhaps the next versions of the vision pro will be lowered cost and have more games, but Zuck is just throwing money at each headset so how can groups like HTC compete? HTC and Valve never really had a chance when a headset that costs $300 to make is sold for $300.

Zuck and Carmack running victory laps now trying to Android-ize VR is probably not super surprising, but all of this show what happens when there's no real regulations to stop this kind of monopolization.

imho, Apple certainly saw this coming and fears a new Android-like competitor in a space they arguably could do well in. So the Vision Pro was pushed out before this got traction. Now its a matter of titan vs titan because smaller players are probably not going to enter this space anymore outside of hardware partners for Meta.
Don't you think that is a very cynical view? The party or parties you disagree with may not share your views, but they do have many things in common with you. In order to build bridges with other parties, it's important to believe that the majority of people who get involved in government, regardless of party, are motivated primarily by the desire to serve their neighbors and their country; otherwise they would find better ways to spend their time. Without that belief, it will be near impossible to form agreements across the aisle.
Yes. In the early decades of the 1800s, the asteroids Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta were commonly included in the list of planets. The number of known asteroids exploded in the 1840s and 50s with the 100th being discovered in 1868. I'm not actually sure when schoolchildren stopped memorizing their names.
Twilio cofounder Jeff Lawson appears to have just bought The Onion
These rankings are entirely false.

There is no richest town in America as a single individual moving anywhere could make it that overnight.

Also just prima facia there is no way belle mead is as rich as billionaires row Manhattan, Pacific Heights in SF or Bel Air in LA. Let alone the Hamptons/Jackson Hole zones.
> This document has deep details on moderation/censorship schemes across the industry.

It's not deep. It's Ted Cruz.

> How can you claim it’s a lie when there is significant evidence throughout the document?

Quoting another's lie doesn't make it evidence.
Congress had decades to make actual abortion laws, and both sides had times where they were fully in power - not that they shouldn’t have compromised on something like 12 or 15 weeks instead like most European countries.

As far as people’s opinions of the court goes, it really grinds my gears how most people assume the Supreme Court is there to essentially make or strike down laws on their own whims. That’s not how it’s supposed to work. I’m no judicial scholar but it seems to me the current court is doing the best job of what they’re actually supposed to do than they have in a long time.
What is your definition of a Unit, Integration, and E2E Test?
So this is a compilation of responses that spawned from a Discord discussion and led to more discussion from other communities.

I figured why not post those results and see if anyone else wants to add to the discussion as I'll most likely update the doc with top voted and/or worthwhile answers, thanks!
> This is what happens in a race to the bottom.

Are you saying the states should have no fiscal autonomy and everything should be decided in DC? Which, I don't doubt it, would magically happen to settle on the highest tax rates possible.

Is this the world we should strive more? Ever bigger, ever more centralized state (the US, the EU, China) pushing for ever more taxes?

What you call "race to the bottom" is competition and it allows to keep some of the states who'd be tempted to go all-in on socialism in check.

I don't want to see what happens when there's no tax competition anymore anywhere in the world. I know how it ends and it's not going to be nice.
When you're a monopoly, you don't need top performers, you need infantry that can say "yes sir"
Why do you say that? You can get a new battery for the 2011 Nissan Leaf. You can even upgrade to a bigger battery than the original had without an increase in weight.

It’s expensive, perhaps not worth it to most. But it’s a very, very niche model. And many of them still work just fine on their original battery. The market for battery replacement is tiny. No economies of scale.

Imagine 15-30 year down the line when there are millions of Teslas, Ioniqs, etc in the market for a replacement battery, and we have a huge battery recycling industry willing to pay a decent sum for an old car battery. And significantly reduced costs for producing new cells.

Getting the battery replaced will be just like getting a new transmission for an ICE vehicle. Big investment. Painful on your wallet. But it’ll be worth it. Especially considering that the motor and inverter can probably last another 30 years without any issues.
I think your interpretation is correct, but I'm not convinced it's just a matter of ambiguity. It looks to me like the caption on the graph is stating something that simply isn't true.
There is also the constant political turmoil. Leaving San Francisco and California for Austin and Texas is trading a frying pan for a fire.
Can you expand on that? Thank you.
> If Comcast knew that it wasn't going to get overturned, then they would take advantage.

So now our logic is based on a crystal ball? Do the goalposts ever stop moving?
It's not like they can make any major acquisitions in this political environment.
Random Sample Overlap
Understandable, it's delicious. It's great for salad seasonings too, but you're surely aware of that :P.
You search by "voting" for certain content over other while TikTok probes you. Then it learns and gives you more.

But the materials that are "acceptable" to give to you in the first place is mostly garbage on TikTok and highly curated on the Chinese version.

That's the point.
I'm not sure what the alternative is or what you are advocating. Antirez stopped working on Redis 4 years ago. We were lucky someone created Redis "for the love of the game". Now before you there are a couple options

1. Antirez2 pops up and works on Redis because they love working on Redis

2. Someone is incentivized, with money, to work on Redis.

(1) didn't happen, so we must go with (2), and with (2) comes the problem of the actual business model that will be used to sustain (2).

A. Donations/Support contracts

B. Open "Core" aka I'm the only one allowed to sell this as SaaS.

Method (A) has shown to be an abject failure while AWS takes your revenue. Companies have successfully chosen method (B). Either you have a method (C) in mind, or you just aren't being reasonable in asking people to work on OSS for free. You can be mad about the "rugpull", but between the choice of "rugpull" and abandon the project, I don't see how "rugpull" is the worse option
The proponents of net neutrality thought without it ISPs would just arbitrarily block data and require bribes from data providers to even serve up their data. In reality, no net neutrality would mean things like Netflix not counting as data on your mobile plan through some kind of sponsorship, or free basic internet like Wikipedia and news at a lower cost.

I don't support legislation that bans something undertaken voluntarily unless it proves to be very harmful and the last few years have proven that we don't need this legislation.
That's just about as totally wrong as one can be.

There were thousands of independent bookstores, record stores, hardware stores, you name it.

The oligopolies are criminals, period. Th eUS population is so distracted with the computer in their hand, and regulators so allured to the prospect of the revolving door, that there has been no adequate response...
Trump supporters resonate with that rhetoric because the rent is too high, groceries are too expensive, and inflation doesn't seem to apply to wages. The causes of unrest haven't changed in thousands of years, but they can be convenient to forget.
I got slower and can't compete with younger players while playing action or even RTS. The other day I decided to give AoE2 a go and was quickly obliterated (and yelled at) by the online competitors.
I have also developed a certain sense for patterns and game logics quickly become repetitive and boring.
As the LLM's need to talk to various API's ?
The state of realtime and embedded Linux
I was there too. I work in the game industry. That culture you're describing was completely destroyed by not having to leave the house to participate in it.

It's even killing off conventions, it even got major ones 20 years in - like E3. Covid just hastened the slow decline.
The number of people I met who say they don't smoke, but actually do...
> The FCC was deadlocked until September 2023 and started this process a few days later.

I am aware of that.

> Maybe they could have started in 2022 if Biden had nominated someone else after Republicans blocked his 1st choice. But Democrats believed Republicans would block anyone who would restore net neutrality.

And they were proven wrong, and didn't even try to test their theory until half his term was over. That counts as "not a priority" in my book.
> after California's rules limiting coal for power generation.

Great example & case study for the beauty of the US Constitution's "interstate commerce" clause, and one of the areas the federal government _SHOULD_ focus its attention.
I've inspected my code closely. Every clock cycle, the NAND gate is used 3,234 times :)
I recently re-licensed a large open source project from MIT to a source-available license which restricts redistribution after someone decided to fork it, completely rearrange the code and introduce subtle breaking interface changes, and then package it up with basic Electron UI for sale on a platform digital store.

I don't know what the answer is, but the OSI definition is clearly not built to withstand this era of late stage capitalism and the "hustle culture" that permeates through it.
Don't forget that Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta were once considered planets as well. Generations of schoolchildren memorized their names right alongside the others.
GenesisOS: Publishing My Micro-Kernel
Back in march Google approached Meta to try and push XR in a very one-sided arrangement. https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-google-android-xr-quest-reject...

The timing of this is probably just a manifestation of the f-you back to google from Zuck and Boz.
Next up in my series on meditation is about Fostering Spiritual Enrichment through Meditation.
Deepening spirituality through meditation is a deeply personal journey, shaped by beliefs, traditions, and connection to the divine. Each path is unique, reflecting the individual's inner landscape. Embrace the exploration and trust your inner guidance.
There is literally nothing you can do. The intelligence agencies are building the top of the funnel for the gulags to host us in the near future.
Based on my previous experience on payment systems, there's a surprising amount of value in not having to maintain direct business relationships with the underlying payment providers. It is much, much easier to work with a company like Stripe than to work directly with Visa and MasterCard and the ACH network, and heaven help you if you're a small company that needs to do automated cross-border payments to a wide range of countries without a middleman. You'll probably also get much better support from a tech-focused company when an API starts freaking out.
> Alphabet’s Board of Directors today authorized the company to repurchase up to an additional $70.0 billion of its
Class A and Class C shares in a manner deemed in the best interest of the company and its stockholders

The most important item on the report
Not just kids, adults. Everyone.
M-x tutorial

or

C-h t

How fun it is probably varies by person, but I found it kind of enjoyable, also coming from vim. One of my favorite things emacs had that vim doesn't is a simple default bind to scroll the "other" window, good if working on two text files or if you have documentation open in the other one. I'm back on (neo)vim these days, but I learned a lot of neat stuff using both spacemacs and emacs with my own config, and they influenced my vim config later on. I have a bunch of custom binds using space as the leader key in vim now. Both duplicates of default binds like saving the file, and new macros/functions I use a lot (such as deleting the second line from two side-by-side files and saving both).

If you're into streams or stream recordings, watching Xah Lee can also be insightful. I learned about M-x describe-char from him and I consider it a killer feature. One of my very few neovim plugins I use is to get a similar thing outside of emacs. Nice for identifying emoji you can't see clearly (or want to know the shortcode for) or checking if some weird zero width stuff is in your text or if that colon or period is actually a unicode lookalike.
I've recently used a ruby script with a bunch of methods that I can configure with a few yaml files to generate a shell script which I can then run.

Each run generates a timestamped folder with not only the bash script, but also a copy of the configs used to generate it, and all the data that the commands in the bash script needs (json files). I find this style of generator a common pattern for commonly used but frequently tweaked scripts.
Minimal impact. A model 3 uses about 1kWh to drive 4 miles. An hour of using the inference computer at that power level would reduce range by 4 miles.

My hardware 3 computer @144 TOPS draws 72 Watts.
rather than invoking the script with arguments, you could just define the variables at the top of the script and run it
I thought that this earnings announcement would be the first one where we'd see some impact from competitive knowledge engines, e.g. Perplexity, You.com, ChatGPT + Bing, etc., but Google still grew search $6B/15%.

This is impressive both because it's hard to keep such a big business growing at that rate and because essentially everyone in my social circle has moved on from going to Google first for information. I guess our demographic is not predictive of the larger market.
The article states that the settlement money is to be used to treat the water systems they contaminated. So a better analogy would be amputating someone's finger and then paying a large sum of money towards their new prosthetic.
I'm assuming they are referring to "traditional old Asian culture" aka the combination of old patriarchal/sexist beliefs, a toxic workplace/exploitation culture, society-over-individual attitudes, and that topped up with a healthy dose of racism to xenophobia (depending on the country).

I mean, some of this is rich to talk about given I'm European and most Western countries share a lot of these traits, but from what I hear(d) from friends from Asia, it's the "the needs of the society/family are more important than those of the individual" that they find the worst compared to the very individualist attitudes of Western countries.