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Ask HN: Do you use the scroll to top button?
If yes, what's the purpose?

Assuming that:

- The navigation is always visible on desktop
- On mobile devices it's accessible via hamburger menu

I personally have never used it, but I wonder if people really find it useful
It turns out in a lot of (low skilled) knowledge work the nonsense that AI spits out is superior to humans.
+ https://easypanel.io/
They also changed "did you mean Y" into "showing results for Y". So annoying.
Yes I did. Show me a “communist” state without authoritarianism.
I believe the word "trite" generally implies overuse to the point of uselessness. These warnings very much have a use to indigenous peoples, and they serve that use well - so I'd argue that they don't qualify.
What you’re describing are just run of the mill backend jobs. They aren’t very sophisticated in terms of algorithms or theory. What I had in mind is working on say Cassandra or ElasticSearch, or internally within FAANG on one of their database engines. If you’re high enough there (which, granted, may take multiple years) to decide on the future direction of the engine, you get to ponder a lot of theoretical or at least very complex stuff.
Examples of this are quite common. Many tech company blog pages offer tag-based searches. The articles published can be tagged either by the system or manually, allowing us to filter content we're interested in by searching for these tags.
SanDisk Pro-Blade SSD System Review
You can only really hold the "printing more money" analogy in your head, if you are prepared to balance your thinking and accept that taxation and loan repayment "shred money" and that financial savings is "putting money in a drawer".

At which point you will realise there can be no devaluation since money is destroyed as it moves around, and money in drawers may as well not be there.
> It is important to disguise between: 1. capitalism as a form of free market. 2. capitalism as a form of corporatism. We can argue that 1 has never being tried any where. As markets are never really free currently.

This is the fallacy of the excluded middle. There are plenty of markets that look a lot more like 1 than 2. You can have 1 with regulations. A free market is about who's allowed to trade with whom, e.g. can I buy a car from Japan without the government adding something to the price tag (a tariff; in addition to the tax also added to the price tag)?

You can say in the extreme that regulations are not free market, or at least how they are currently implemented. Possibly state-funded bodies could generate safety logos instead of regulations, and people could check for the logo for their product, and shops could only sell with that logo, and it might work similarly, but without regulations, but instead by consumer choice. I don't see a lot of practical difference, though.

Regulations are often (or should be, in a decent capitalist system) about enforcing minimums for fair competition. So a bank has to offer so much insurance on balances. A toy company has to make sure it doesn't use cheaper toxic materials. And companies can compete within that framework. That's still pretty free trade, and definitely a capitalist system.

Types of corporatism are too broad a church to discuss, unless you specify which type you mean. But they are often nothing to do with capitalism.
Munich is HCOL even for European standards. Just a tiny bit behind London and Switzerland.
> We should have limits on the size and scope of big companies

We could get really far by simply removing legal and political protections that make massive companies possible. If companies and their leadership could actually be held accountable by employees and consumers, they would be much more hesitant to continue to grow and chase profits indefinitely.

Similarly removing tax loop holes would also likely help. Massive companies get to a scale where they can play ridiculous tax games that just aren't possible on a smaller scale.
That's the one I mentioned before from 2022.

Note the date in the metadata: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_geologic_map_of_...

i.e. 15 June 2022
Yes, but they don't need to be able to communicate with the entire internet. A few routing and firewall rules would go a long way for most stores.
For interest, Precision Vs Accuracy, Atomic Clocks Vs Sapphire Oscillator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28232645

Detecting gravity waves with large laser triangles required a few advances in technology - precision clocks was one.

Not so long ago had you asked your question the answer would have been "detect gravity waves".
Global social media can never be a utopia simply because no one cares for anyone else on the platform. Large-scale anonymous interaction outside of specialized communities doesn't work.
On iphone I always tap the top of the screen to scroll to the top
By that logic shouldn't they be okay to provide software, for people in the business of killing people, since they are not in the killing people business, but in the software business?
My buddy works for such a company, https://www.atomionics.com/ and they are doing pilots with mining companies.
I think you're doing an admirable job of explaining things, but what you might be missing is that many pro-capitalist/pro-libertarian public figures seem to be constantly trying to undermine the very government oversight and competence that you are saying is the real problem with capitalism. I don't mean to suggest that you are in that camp. I'm just trying to explain why people seem frustrated with the idea that states and companies are distinct entities which should be considered separately when thinking about society. In practice they interdepend on one another and many people with power and money that inhere in private institutions actively try to undermine the state's ability to pursue them.

I think that reality is something we ought to acknowledge, although I'm not sure what to do about it. From my point of view European style socialism (modulo a few things) seems to be the optimal balance, but I'm happy to acknowledge it isn't trivial to predict in practice how anything will pan out.
Introducing Notesnook v3
Post and comments have to be unique or unheard of, otherwise the can't be made or are invalid. What???
TIMTOWTDI
(There Is More Than One Way To Do It)
Exactly right. And we also need ways to combat the fact that large businesses have the money to hire a basketball team of top-notch lawyers that can crush much of their legal opposition. Basically, large companies get to a point where they are not competitive and use loopholes and other devious strategies to their advantage.
I think in terms of etiquette the best way to deal with disagreement of how an open source project would be to fork the project instead of trying to take over it.
Finally sideloading and real firefox on iPads! Hopefully virtualization and JIT will follow, making it a bit closer to a real laptop replacement.
There could be many employees. At some point the 20 years would compare. It isn't strange for people losing income to die or lose quality of life.

We also don't put people in prison without explaining why. You have to earn it.
> I understand that's the context, but I'm not sure that it's unfair nitpicking.

The OP is about much more than that, and taken as a whole, suggests the author is well aware that human beings absorb a lot more data from multiple domains. It struck me as unfair to criticize one sentence out of context while ignoring the rest of the OP.

> It's common to talk about training data and how poor LLMs are compared to humans despite the apparently larger dataset than any human could absorb in a lifetime.

Thank you. Like I said, I agree. My sense is the author would agree too.

It's possible that to overcome some of the limits we're starting to see, AI models may need to absorb a giant, endless, torrential stream of non-textual, multi-domain data, like people.

At the moment, we don't know.
I believe it just says that cancelling a card doesn't automatically kill recurring payment associated with that card. Sure, recurring charges are something that streamers do, but aren't there other "as a service" sectors that do the same thing, like say your electric or ISP?

Left a decidedly click-baity lingering aftertaste.
I can't find the original of this story but it goes something like this:

- Father was a lawyer

- Aged early 40s: is married, has kids, successful career as a lawyer

- Quits law to go to medical school

- Becomes successful pediatrician

- Loves it

I will always remember the quote from the son (who is telling the story):

"At age 12 I remember thinking: this is a little strange. Now that I'm in my late 30s with kids, I realize how absolutely wild my dad's decision was. Anyway, here is a picture with him and one of his pediatric patients" (cue picture of dad with a big smile on his face holding a baby).
I wonder if anyone called Yasir (male Arabic name) has been upgraded, due to the name being interpreted as Sir Ya.
https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained
> can't lock you in a box for failing to give it some of your money.

But they can hire a private prosecutor to legally harass you and force you into house arrest for winning a case against them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger

It's silly to argue that Corporations don't have violence as a tool. In a literal sense, they might not be hiring thugs to break your legs, but with money comes many good lawyers who can tie you up in court for a decade, milking every bit of money(the thing you survive with) from you. This is a form of violence, an individual is defenseless against a large enough corporation that can basically spend 100x what you can on lawyers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OtnGAenWEs
Thanks, but I’m more interested in the automated deployment aspect, nginx itself I’m too familiar with ;)
Yes. All societies used to be like India is before they finished becoming industrialized.

Ask young people in India today if they want to live with Grandma, more and more say no compared to a generation ago. The wealthier they get the more this will continue.
So why not fork the project?
for korea at least:

- culture that prioritizes "status" heavily. this manifests as a consumerist/materialist society. everybody wanting designer clothes, live in a nice apt complex, go to the best colleges, drive a nice car, kids go to the best schools and after school programs, etc. this is present elsewhere but it's amped up to another level here.

- housing prices are crazy. huge increases over the last decade (and it was already running hot before that). failed gov't policy and covid pushed this to the extreme. at one point you needed something like 60% down (purpose was to reduce speculation) but all this did was empower the cash buyers to snatch up everything. salaries are not keeping pace at all.

- women feeling more empowered in the work place, not having to follow the typical path of getting married and stay at home and take care of your kids.

basically all the pressure of even making it here WITHOUT kids... OFC nobody is going to prioritize it. people have had enough.
The NixOS foundation is a non-profit organization registered in the Netherlands. Since non-profit can mean a variety of things, maybe someone with more insight can explain a little bit. It would be especially interesting to know which of the various US 501 variants is closest to what the NixOS foundation is.
pdftk is a CLI tool that can extract and edit PDF metadata such as tables of contents*, if that's what you mean?

*(Table of contents? Tables of content?)
I'm not a slow poke driver...
> Take, for example, "Day," which is even, and "Say," which is odd. Since the "-ay" suffix is consistent, it indicates that "S" is the first letter in the target word.

Am I missing something? Given that information, couldn’t the D+a or D+y be correct?

(I understand those cannot be correct because of “May”, but not from the consistent suffix alone)
It's a much more generic way of saying it, e.g. you can't use the other way for

ls | grep -P "roc_(nightly|weekly).*\.tar\.gz" | xargs rm

(forgive me if I got grep -P regex syntax wrong)
I think you probably don’t want the application user to inherit from the superuser you may use for migrations since some migrations require a superuser.
That explanation would only work if lobbyists were limited to sitting down and having conversations with those in power. In the real world, US politicians make off with plenty of "donations" and gifts/favors that greatly influence them.

The NRA, for example, hasn't kept politicians from meaningful gun control laws because they hired the most convincing lobbyists/conversationalists.
""I know the solution is not more freelancing and contract work, which America’s corporations are addicted to. That’s the worst of both worlds: The exploitative nature of capitalism with the inefficient bureaucracies of communism.""

""... but most people only accept part-time contract relationships today when they have no other real choices.""

Great to point out.

Free-Market would require people to be free. But if you work for the company in the company town, you're not free.
For comparison, over the last several years there has been a lot of research into optical frequency standards. Because they run at a higher frequency than (microwave) caesium frequency standards, optical frequency standards can be more precise. The current candidates https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1681-7575/ad17d2 have wavelengths between 750nm and 250nm. Caesium frequency standards use a wavelength of 32.6mm, so about 100,000x bigger than optical frequency standards.

Based on just the frequency, I dunno what makes the thorium nuclear transition much better than optical transitions. Unless the excitement (as it were) is about scaling up to even higher frequencies.
This seems nice but looks like it's closed source?
AI code testing (JetBrains vs. Codium vs. custom OpenAI)
This goes into more details, with receipts: https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained
> The point is that major interventions aren't really necessary for that level of weight loss

It’s about effective interventions. Obviously major interventions are needed as there is a huge amount of obese and overweight in the US and many other methods have been attempted.

It’s not about theoretically possible (ie, a bodybuilder can do it) but effective population interventions that result in people successfully losing weight.

Think about people going to medical school and becoming a doctor. It’s obviously possible but if you said the solution to income inequality was for everyone to go to medical school and be doctors that would not be a very effective intervention.

Not being obese is not being wealthy. It’s simple what to do, but difficult to stick to a successful plan.
Apple has crippled iPadOS and consumers need the EU to force Apple to make moves that actually benefits the consumer. The fact that the real Chrome browser is not allowed on the iPad means the iPad as a web browsing machine is literally worse than a cheap Chromebook. Most developers put the majority of their effort to optimising their apps for the web and the best extensions are made for Chrome on desktop.

Safari is just a piece of junk. The only reason it has any marketshare at all on iOS and iPadOS is because Apple is being anticompetitive and doesn't have to compete with Google. When they do have to compete on MacOS, guess what. People are voting and the vast majority like and chose to install Chrome. Apple users claim Chrome users don't know any better and Safari is so much better but that's the argument Android and Windows users like to make about Apple users in general so that argument is moot.
As much as I hate to submit to Apple having to Notarized my software, I have to admit that it’s a useful measure to detect and prevent malware. The end user is protected by Apple’s “Good Housekeeping” seal of approval.
Sometimes it doesn't even mean extra pay. It can even just be some genuine and sincere recognition that they are doing it. Extra pay should be the standard of course, but many employers are just come off as entitled, like they are 'owed' that extra free work and just take it for granted.
I'v tried these two and must say "it works out of the box" is only true maybe 50% of the time you try to deploy on them
> That's not the same as having power.

Sure, to first order, it isn't the same. But in practice they end up being very similar things and I think its a genuine issue with a system which justifies capitalism by saying "the excesses will be restrained by the state." In practice, capital spends quite a lot of time and money capturing and restraining the state.

I've come to feel that people are just fundamentally ungovernable at some deep level and so all solutions end up with glaring imperfections. We just have to ride the dragon of history, basically.
Most likely for Docker/container users using Alpine Linux or similar.
I'm being passed by SUVs going 85 mph. My speed has nothing to do with whether or not other people are recklessly and aggressively driving huge, unwieldy death machines.
It says perl 4 style OO Perl, not perl 4 OO style Perl
... to a proper car simulator internal to manufacturer (KSP loaded up with mods).
The radiation emitted when nuclei transition between their internal energy levels is known as gamma rays.

The gamma rays normally have energies per photon many orders of magnitude greater than for visible light and also much greater than for X-rays (which are produced by electrons accelerated by very high voltages when hitting a target).

The thorium 229 nucleus is the only one that can emit gamma rays that are so low in energy that their energy is not only lower than for X-rays, but it is also lower than for many sources of ultraviolet light. For instance the ultraviolet light used in state-of-the-art lithography for semiconductor manufacturing has much higher frequency (shorter wavelength), by about ten times.

These gamma rays of the Th229 have a wavelength that is not much shorter than the 184-nm ultraviolet light that can be obtained with a mercury-vapor lamp.

What is important is that for such a frequency/wavelength it is possible to build laser sources, which enables the design of an atomic clock that will use thorium 229 nuclei instead of neutral atoms or ions of other elements (like ytterbium, lutetium, strontium, aluminum).
This goes into more details, with links: https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained
Scalable, reconfigurable building switches modes like a big Meccano set
когда фанфик по пульту
There's a big difference between simply shooting stuff at Earth (or even simply off the moon into space) and actually sending it back. Yes, SpaceX charges $300k for sending 50kg to SSO as a rideshare but that's with all the infrastructure and logistics already in place.

Landing on the moon is a very different endeavour than simply reaching Earth orbit from Earth. In order to refuel and reuse rockets on the moon, you'd need to build out all the infrastructure for doing so first, not to mention the resources necessary for continuous operation. Even getting running water on the moon would be a huge logistical and infrastructure challenge, let alone operating a launch pad.
"The NRA, for example, hasn't kept politicians from meaningful gun control laws because they hired the most convincing lobbyists/conversationalists."

Counterpoint: arguably they have.
Ask HN: Website monitoring tool that will wake me up when site is down?
Hi.

I'm looking for a tool that will open my website every minute. When the site goes down, it needs to send an alert to my iPhone that will pierce through possibly enabled sleep/silent mode.

I'm using Uptime Kuma + pushover currently and on critical alert level it will make the phone vibrate every couple of seconds until I wake up and click "Acknowledge notification", but I might sleep through vibrations, so I'm looking for something louder/more reliable.

Thanks
I do not personally see money in those terms.

I see money as units of resource allocation. There are only so many available resources at any given moment. More units of allocation means less resources allocated per unit.

I'm also not an economist. :)
Depends on how good autonomous robots get.
On certain platforms this rule still holds. Recently I have been working with the ESP32. Although some versions have an FPU, floating point math is still slower than integer math. Also, the FPU can only process 32-bit floats, 64-bit doubles are emulated in software and terribly slow.
No, Apple will detect and suppress malware as part of the vetting process.
We are working towards this if you'd like to get in touch. I feel like "web3" as an interface/discovery platform is a very good topic.
An interesting exercise I went through while reading this article was taking these observations about centrally-managed top-down organizations and considering them in the context of centrally-controlled distributed systems. A couple of snippets:

> One of the core principles of the free market is that central planning committees can never be as efficient or as effective as the people doing the work. By definition a free market economy lacks a decision-making hierarchy; the ‘free’ means every agent (individual or corporation) can decide for themselves, without needing permission from a manager above.

> ...

> It should be immediately obvious why this fails miserably: The distance between the central planning committee and the farmer is so great that good decisions are nearly impossible. It’s nearly impossible for critical feedback to make it from the edge, where the farmers are working, to the central planning committee in time to affect decisions, and then for those decisions to make it back to the edge in time to be useful.

One of the core arguments for using a centralized control plane (versus a distributed one) is the ability to perform a single global optimization, which can yield better results compared to local optimizations. I find it interesting that the free market principles dictate the opposing conclusion that this global optimization is infeasible, although it may come down to my next point:

If you're not careful, and your centralized system injects dozens of minutes of delay due to the additional complexity of performing the global optimization, you end up with the globally optimal decision from 20 minutes ago, which in the context of, say, load balancing is an eternity. Or in the bureaucracy of government (or hardware planning cycles, etc), you may see months to years of lag between the inputs your model accepts, and the outputs your model produces. And all the while, you have a full pipeline of decisions coming down the line, based on stale data.

(There are other reasons for centralized control, such as orchestration of distributed computation being difficult to do correctly, and it being easier to reason about a single node rather than the complex system-wide interactions.)
Have you checked the deployment tools mentioned in this thread? Such as dokku, piku and coolify
> We, as a society, have absolutely no reason to be obese. Yet, we choose to ignore the root of the problem

This applies to lots of conditions, right? I mean, society has absolutely no reason to have HIV. Just wear condoms and/or be obstinate. Easy peasy, right?

Fortunately, we have medication to treat and prevent HIV. Quite expensive, but they save lives.
Perhaps you can use lesspipe with sed/awk?

https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe
Interesting, is there any feature roadmap for future reference ?
> Instead, in modern corporations the shareholders and the executive team - again, the central planning committee we so despise - make the majority of the money, while the front line does all the work and makes very little.

The answer to that one is unionization.

Unfortunately, unions are rather looked down upon in tech, for fears that "high performers" would not be able to set themselves apart financially from "low performers". And as a result, everyone loses out.