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The author states the purpose of the Jones Act was to preserve US maritime capacity. He then claims that because the US does not have a global hegemony on this market, the Act has failed. Therefore, we should end Jones Act protectionism to compete with China.

I don’t see how removing a guaranteed market will spur investment in the capital intensive activity of ship building.

It also occurs to me to ask how much domestic shipping traffic there is in the first place, and if it is actually price-sensitive. Unlike Japan and Korea, most of the US is far from coastal and riverine shipping lanes.
A link to Hart-Smith's paper, "OUT-SOURCED PROFITS –THE CORNERSTONE OF SUCCESSFUL SUBCONTRACTING" It has been posted as a front page article on HN a few times but did not generate much discussion. Interestingly, although it was released 4 years post-merger and has Boeing markings on it, it was released in the heritage McDonnell-Douglas document management system, as indicated by the "MDC 00K0096" document number. https://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2014130646...
> You also get stuff like the POTUS repeating lies like "40 beheaded babies" and "a mother and child had kerosene poured on them" with none of the usual media freakout you usually see over "misinformation."

Yeah. The politicians who repeated this also never apologized for inflaming tensions without any evidence or investigation whatsoever. But anything Israel is accused of, requires thorough investigation by Israel (or sometimes independently - without ever mentioning Israel will not allow independent investigators into Gaza), before we can even think about trusting the people they're killing currently, regardless of affiliation.

Then you read https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231215-israel-social...

And you see that 20 children 15 and younger were killed in total, and out of them 10 by rockets, which starts to paint very different picture. So militants killed 20-36 children depending on how you wish to define a child, out of 1200 people in total. So that's 1.7-3% of killed victims.

On the other hand, you get at least 16 000 killed children by Israel in just the last 8 months. 60 a day at least.

https://time.com/6909636/gaza-death-toll/

And you can see 10-5 a day individually just scrolling through video posts on telegram https://t.me/eyeonpal/

And we're supposed to think that Hamas are child killing monsters and Israel is not and somehow uniquely righteous. Yeah, right. Just the math alone on this doesn't compute for me, at all.
It's a war. It's about doing wrong things until someone capitulates.

I mean it'd be nice not to have them but as a species we're stupid animals with stupid ideas so there's no end of it in sight.

I don't agree with any of it for ref.
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Hacker News regularly makes me feel very stupid, and none more so than blog posts by Alyssa Rosenzweig.

I couldn't even write an engine that used Vulkan in six months, nor a software rasteriser; meanwhile, Alyssa wrote an entire compliant driver on a non-native operating system running on locked-down hardware in one month flat.

What am I doing with my life?

EDIT: I point this out because I'd eventually like to write GPU drivers too, having been fascinated by video games since I was like three.
Only possible with the existence of "billionaires".
Nobody required USB-C charging for laptops and iPads. It would have happened on iPhones eventually too.
Well, this one does, so what’s the point of this observation in this context?
> Liza Powell-Jobs

Laurene Powell Jobs?

Lisa Brennan-Jobs?

Liza Powel O'Brien?
Sadly, that is my experience with some of my nice, but not too sophisticated relatives. One of the funniest things I ever heard was: "California is so hostile for business!" I pointed out that the fastest growing, most world beating corporations have been coming out of California for the last generations. The reply: "That's not business, that's tech."

These people in general had jobs working for the state or local government. But they were very sure in their views about the economy. My point is that they also didn't really directly benefit much from tech, or international trade, or global finance. So they really didn't have a big stake in being right or wrong.
I've seen proof on twitter before. People showing the downvotes on corrections of demagogue posts.

Twitter is littered with high profile false information with no community notes. So the system isn't working.
This is the issue of agile. It is a blanket prescription for every scenario which of course … fails.

If you are talking about customer expectations, yes, you can manage customer expectations. As long as you are honest and upfront, customers tend to be forgiving.

On the other hand, if you are talking about a core API or building block that downstream APIs will depend on, then no. You can't deliver a API that writes to the database/storage layer that only works 90% of the time.
"value"

I hate that word in this type of context. I consider it to be mostly meaningless, yet also leads to decisions that involve eliminating cost centers like IT, security, and customer support, because those aren't seen as creating value.
An intermittent radio signal from space has astronomers puzzled
While that's true, I don't think they'd need the trademark. They can call it Apple StraightforwardY, duplicate any trademarked APIs and redirect the old ones to their own methods for "compatibility". The Oracle v Google lawsuit proved that APIs can be implemented, even by competitors.

I see even less incentive for Apple to concede defeat and implement Microsoft's API than for them to port Vulkan. After all, they've already shipped a graphics engine that a handful of games have ever used with their OS so they have experience!
Self-sustaining human colonies in space or on other celestial bodies are very distant dream, probably it will take several centuries or millennia to happen. The main reason is human body: we haven’t figured out reproduction in low gravity yet. Unless some fascist state will do it, we will never experiment with it until full confidence in safety for the mother and the child.
> General expressions of opinion

> Comments fell into this category if meaning could be interpreted from them, they were not illegal, did not contain linguistic attacks or fell outside the scope of the report (e.g. CSAM, revenge porn, marketing). Most comments belonged to this category.

https://futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Prev...
"There was a spillover effect," said Kevin M. Esterling, a UCR professor of political science and public policy and a co-author of the study. "It wasn't just a reduction from the de-platformed users themselves, but it reduced circulation on the platform as a whole."

I believe the term that you're looking for is "chilling" not "spillover" effect. This not a novel effect of censorship by deplatforming.
> Criticizing Israel is the like the "Anti Social Social Club" t-shirt of our time

Nice bit of deflection. It’s not even true, either. People are being blacklisted from companies for speaking out against Israel, their faces being paraded through streets with threats made against them. Speaking out against Israel comes with significant risk, particularly for politicians and journalists - the proof is in the pudding, when you look at their insanely soft-balled coverage of anything Israel does. Anyway…

> A political organization or world government is astroturfing on social media you say? And they're targeting lawmakers directly? Well, clutch my pearls!

Sure, if it was Russia or China I wouldn’t be surprised. But it’s Israel. The US gives Israel $1,000,000,000s and $1,000,000,000s of dollars per year and is supposedly Israel’s closest “ally”. _That_ is what makes this interesting.

I don’t really know why I’m bothering replying to you, given your incredibly thinly veiled bias. But here I am nonetheless.
A gravity tractor is the simplest solution with enough lead time. It's theoretical, but doesn't involve any exotic technology or materials.

Essentially you have a spacecraft park itself beside an asteroid. It's gravity will minutely change the asteroids trajectory. With enough lead time that's all you need. Since you're not blowing up, or applying a large focused amount of energy to the asteroid it doesn't matter what the targets composition is. You won't break it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_tractor
> A few years ago I read a similar anecdote of a woman being accosted by a photographer on transit, taking photos of the baby she was carrying and persisting even after asked to stop. She wound up having to physically shield herself and the baby from being photographed and the guy kept taking other shots every chance he got, like when she was leaving the train and such. Super rude, but technically legal.

I think there's a line somewhere between "being annoying/rude/obnoxious" and "politely refusing to stop recording."

You can see this when you look at a few different "First Amendment Auditor" content creators. Some of them are obviously obnoxious, belligerent, and clearly looking for conflict. Others just quietly keep recording, politely but firmly ignoring the subject's (often themselves annoying) demands for them to stop. I don't have any problem whatsoever with the latter behavior. The former is kind of cheap and trashy, even if it's still legal.
And let's keep in mind that the term "Public Relations" was explicitly chosen as a Newspeak-term because Edward Bernays realised that the actual term for a war time methodology, "propaganda", was too loaded.[0] And honest.

Internet is a communications medium. It was destined to be flooded with propaganda, whatever you try to call your particular flavour.

Or as I have been saying since the 1990's, the only difference between marketing and propaganda is that with marketing at least you are trying to peddle a product instead of an ideology.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Agree, LLMs cost millions to train and we only have a few, who knows if the next LLM will be an Einstein
People also seem to discount the effects of internet operations by enemy states. For example, in 2022, the FBI blamed the state of North Korea for a string of hacks on US health systems. The "meatspace" equivalent would've been North Korean operatives infiltrating dozens of hospitals and destroying records or supplies. If that had happened, there would've been a bigger response from the government than "Mind your physical security, hospitals." But it's the internet, so who cares (besides the people immediately affected)?
Yes, exactly. That's why I advocate starting with some known process, even if you modify it. Starting from scratch, IME, tends to lead to just creating a non-coherent mess.
> How do you even know it is not ambiguous to begin with?

By knowing what makes a grammar ambiguous, and not doing it, and having a test suite that I need anyway.

> If you stick to only using productions which are valid LL/LR, then why not have that enforced by the tool, so it can warn you when you go astray?

A large part of the reason why there are so many parser generators is that we to date do not have a parser generator design that generates parsers that most people like to use for major projects. I've written about 5 generations of parser generators myself over the last 30 years, and I hate every one of them, yet every one was written in response to not finding a parser generator I consider tolerable to work with.

Most of the time it's easier to work with a hand-rolled parser. Parser combinators makes that easier, and more reusable.
It is only because it already existed it isn't branded as AI.
> Our work highlights the importance of exploring strange new spacetimes, to (boldly) simulate what no one has seen before.

cute
This isn't a 1st amendment issue.

Before social media things were generally better and we didn't have big groups like qanon or people storming the capital trying to end democracy.

Back then we did have centralized authorities doing quality control on the airwaves.
My favorite recent one I read was encoding it in the http packet delays. So the content of the server is innocuous but you measure the timings

I wonder how many packet sniffers record exact extremely-accurate timestamps, maybe you could even use synchronized gps clocks so even if the saved a millisecond (or better?) timestamp, you send enough packets with enough exact timings that you need to have saved higher resolution
I think that's just paranoia. The citizens generally are the government. It's not optimal but without the citizens there is no government.
What do you think are the current problems contributing to your slow transfers?
I have spent years building cars that ran once, twice to great effect/happiness of all involed.

Getting to space SEVEN times off one poweplant/project is nothing short of incredible.
If by that you mean "average people pooling their billions to further advance science and technology", sure.

None of this was done in a vacuum of billionaire self funding.
China's plan to dominate EV sales around the world
Then you have a somewhat unconventional personal definition for "propaganda". Almost always people use that word to imply something clandestine, misleading, or both.

What you showed is a paid advertisement from a US-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, JewBelong, with public accounting on all donations, and a relatively clear mandate for how it spends its money.

Again, you're simply saying that a (really only slightly edgy) billboard paid for by your fellow americans with their own money and aimed at changing your opinion via argumentation should be disallowed as "propaganda" simply because you disagree with it (and again: I disagree with it too!).

Tough love: of the dueling philosophies at play here, yours is by far the most dangerous. Let people argue with you, for crying out loud.
The $64M mystery: Anonymous donations fueling the presidential campaign
What? No it doesn't.
> Do we want access to space at scale?

Who is "we"? Evidently a sufficient number of people want to to make private ventures have a reasonable expectation of profit. If you personally don't want to, then just don't get involved. But why should that stop people who do want to from doing it?

> It’s just leisure.

No, it's exploration with the expectation that it will lead to profitable ventures. The same thing that led people to spend months in sailing ships traveling around the world a few centuries ago. Plenty of people back then did not want to participate--but enough people did to eventually lead to the very profitable and wealth-generating system of worldwide trade we have now.
It's a very interesting thing, it demonstrates something uncomfortable & scary to me as a goy Zionist, who hangs out in a private, predominantly Jewish, space.

Note the biggest word in the cloud: UNRWA. All my confirmation bias was in one direction in October. The oddly dissonant and desperate messaging you'd see made things extremely difficult to maintain that, like, you have to be of a very specific mindset to see message after message about the evil UN and not say, "uh, did we go off the rails somewhere?"

(n.b. this was in a lefty Jewish space, broadly denigrating governmental institutions isn't a usual virtue signal)

Going back to the beginning, there's an uncomfortable willingness/ignorance of Overton window widening, in a way that reduces sympathy rather than engenders it, and all of a sudden, otherwise kind people are engaging in rank racism*, glorification of destruction, and extreme conspiracies**.

* lots of "no such thing as innocent Palestineans", "Palestineans love redacted", when questioned, turns into "it's not racist if they're not a race, and they aren't because bla bla bla"

** Day after day after day of the bailey, "World Central Kitchen was trying to smuggle terrorists", coupled to the motte "Jose Andres held a barbecue buffet! Lol!"
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9. Use ChatGPT to study
What no one had modeled before.
> we had a launch system that could take humans to the moon in 1972

Saturn V was ridiculously expensive [1] and very unsafe.

Apollo was built to get to the Moon fast half a dozen times. We’re building more ambitiously today.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V $1.5bn in 2024 dollars
> That wouldn't prevent one off extinction type events like asteroids. We can improve our understanding of ecology by trying to design such systems for lunar colony artificial biospheres.

To be kind of blunt, even an extinction-level asteroid hit with near-total biosphere destruction is probably still more conducive to human life than any other planet or satellite in the solar system, as evidenced by the continued existence of at least a few forms of life past the extinction event. And many of the events people worry about are far less destructive than even that (nuclear winter, for example, would probably roll Earth's climate back to pre-industrial temperatures, maybe as far as Little Ice Age, which is, uh, nowhere near extinction-level threat to humanity).

It's also worth pointing out that it's possible to do closed ecological studies without the expense of running it in space (e.g., Biosphere 2). The only thing you need space for studying in that regard is "what is the effect of non-1g environments on biological forms?" (to which existing studies suggest the answer is somewhere between "bad" and "horrible").
Why seaweed is a jack-of-all-trades in the fight against the climate crisis
Bloomberg and WSJ (but not the opinion pieces) are my default sources
(sigh)

Is this the methane flaring argument, or Peter Thiel’s “windmills in Vermont”?
I think you should read the case material for NY Times v OpenAI and Microsoft.

It literally says that within ChatGPT is stored, verbatim, large archives of NY Times articles and that they were able to retrieve them through their API.
It's fun that people can get paid to do this.
At [1] the first chapter is "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet". I think it continues to be valid, we are currently amazed about AI but we need to keep our eyes open for more.

[1] https://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/01.html#Chap01
Yes, this happens. But giving up and letting the lies fly willy-nilly has a still worse record. Every measure to combat disinformation is imperfect. Many are better than failing to combat disinformation in any way. And lumping the Chinese state together with fact checking organizations is not a good argument.
Just unrolled the thread for you here!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1794082465398812770.html
Find a profitable tech business, do it better and cheaper with AI and "steal" their customers.
You do have a right to do a metal concert in your living room on Saturday at 1AM. You don’t have a right to violate the local noise ordinance or, because your example has you as an apartment owner and not a building owner, the condo association rules.

You do have the right to paint your frontage the way you want with respect to the GOVERNMENT.

But more importantly, the GP wanted the government to TAKE VIA FORFEITURE any building that is merely vacant. Your examples are limits on use, not relinquishment of property. They are not the same.
Accessibility is important and the good thing is Mesop is built on Angular Material components (https://material.angular.io/components/) which has invested in supporting a11y. Mesop components are likely missing aria-* attributes, but it's pretty easy for us to add them (essentially plumbing them from Python into the Angular components), so please file an issue on our GitHub repo to let us know what we're missing, thanks!
This is presumably just the tip of the iceberg
From what I’ve heard there are a ton more than 2. But none of them have the power.
Join a Toastmasters club. The best way to get better at public speaking is with practice.
I was able to do it with no words. I 'saw' the steps as if on a piece of paper. I saw 3x=22-1=21, then x=21/3=7. But I have a degree in applied math. Perhaps not internally vocalizing is just being extremely familiar. It also happened very quickly, perhaps there was no time to vocalize anyways.
It's really more of an historical fact than a political talking point, as per Forbes, contemporaneously:

ROMNEY: Actually, Newt, we got the idea of an individual mandate from you.

GINGRICH: That's not true. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.

ROMNEY: Yes, we got it from you, and you got it from the Heritage Foundation and from you.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-...

The Heritage report (1989), now disowned, antedates both the Dutch reforms and the Clinton Administration. Obama namechecked Heritage at the time.

Seriously, we lived through this. ObamaCare came from the Heritage Foundation.
The original study [1] doesn't say it was plant based at all:

> the Mediterranean diet score ranged from 0 to 9, with a higher score representing better adherence to Mediterranean diet. This Mediterranean diet score is commonly used for assessing adherence to the Mediterranean diet and is based on regular intake of 9 dietary components. Higher-than-median intake of vegetables (excluding potatoes), fruits, nuts, whole grains, legumes, and fish and the ratio of monounsaturated-to-saturated fatty acids was given 1 point, while the less-than-median intake of red and processed meat was given 1 point.

So not plant based, not even vegetarian!

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
>To what end?

To have the species survive if anything ends all life on Earth - apparently not a priority for you but it is for those that enjoy humanity existing.

Also to explore and learn more about the universe we live in. Do you truly not see value in that? Have you never left the city/state/country you were born in?
Thanks yes - we've seen quite a few inbound customers to our SaaS as a result of this!

We are trying to find a pricing model that can work for consumer facing apps/sites and companies, as well as B2B!
Parent is right though. Tech, computing power, software, OSes etc have advanced enormously.

And yet, run 20..30y+ old game on emulator often gives more satisfaction than ad-riddled, bloated modern incarnations. Pathetic! And still many people put up with the latter.

Ok I can understand a big mobile game on which a whole team of developers worked over a year, needs funding. And ad-supported is how it's done these days. But Tetris? A simple chess game or breakout clone? Come on...

Never mind that if [funding to create games] were a goal, then "open source, or at least remove ads once creation cost have been recouped" should be considered. Ever seen a (big) mobile game developer do that?
There is no "environmental impact". Environmental impact comes from energy production, not energy usage. It's incoherent to argue others should tamper down their energy usage because most folks producing energy aren't doing it in an ethical way.
If anything, OpenAI's affection for bullet lists is probably a window into why ChatGPT uses them so frequently.
When I read through all the subjective moral judgements I simply find that censoring users that promote a URL/person/view reduces its popularity.
An exercise with war casualty stats you can do is look at previous wars and look at the variation in estimates in body counts for each side. Then factor that into the news you are reading it.

End game is there has never been a credible body count from even a small scale war. So to claim anyone is right here on either side is probably selective bias on your part. At best when the dust has figuratively and literally settled, it'll be a decade before anyone has an even remotely credible count.

Manipulation of the body counts is easy material for propaganda. It has been since the dawn of war.

Factor child soldiers into these arguments and it gets very grey. The number itself without compounding facts has little meaning.

And for the sake of credibility, the figures were later revised so you're not even quoting their current estimates and compromising your own credibility!

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/...
Though at some point it feels like you reach a ceiling even if you change jobs.