skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn’t there a HN rule against comments that are both dumb and negative?
The photos feel like a story being told. Meant to be in an almost serial way.
Project to preserve the original promotional GTA Flash sites from 2001 to 2008
Contrast this with SVB failing and uninsured accounts (over $250k) being made whole. Well, they were not insured so whatever FDIC did was an exception. But I don’t think Synapse customers were SV startups owned by VCs who can collude in chat apps and fire tweet storms at the FDIC+Fed to get exceptions.
The power of two test is simply

x & (x-1) == 0

which could be special cased through templates too
It was not done throughout, but cities with trams with doors on only one side posed a problem. So it is my understanding that when such retrofits would have been to costly, the trams were decommissioned instead.
You will not be price competitive with commercial plain and simple. You need chemicals volume , machinery and free water.

Grass clippings are great but you will need to weed like crazy. Homemade compost is really hard
It works with Godeps. Module support was always a bit in flux when we added that, but it should be an easy first contribution…
Should be marked 2021. The current release version is 16 with 17 now in beta.
The issues have been well understood for decades but the fixes involves dismantling existing power structures so nothing simple about it. Short summary of the issues - https://michael-hudson.com/2023/07/global-economic-history-i...
This is interesting. If you only had IPv4, you’d block a ddos by filtering ip ranges. If some of those ranges were CGNat, you’d be cutting access to possibly millions of innocent addresses or even entire countries.

As IPv4 addresses become more scarce and more people get on IPv6, so more people end up behind IPv4 gateways to reach your IPv4 only service, the greater the chance that they’d be cut off for someone else’s bad behavior.
It does look good until we get to the generated apps, they look so bad. It gives reason to people complaining that most AI generator apps look like toys rn.

I'd recommend develop a UI/UX library specifically for the app generation that creates good looking components that can be changed with simple flags/properties (changing flex direction, changing to grid, responsive, etc).
If that happened you probably haven’t refined your whitelist of commercial businesses that would qualify a high street. It’s pretty much the same stuff nationwide.. A McDonald’s, some banks, a foot locker. Etc etc.
I find your comment to be both dumb and negative, now what?
F41 Change Proposal: Anaconda as native Wayland Application
> method for understanding the economy is flawed and is not properly capturing what all consumers know intuitively

It’s not flawed, economic literacy in the general population just sucks and thus so does the popular discourse. The closer you are to the minimum wage or tech sector, the worse you’re doing; the more you make and more assets you have the better you’re doing [1].

The measures are there. They show a bifurcating economy, and in particular, one fracturing along social lines, thereby inhibiting information permeation. They’re just buried in e.g. the Fed’s Beige Books, which aren’t consumed as vociferously as TV news.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/economic-data-paint-a-...
The piku micro-app that does the deployment is just a 10-line Bottle app that validates the GitHub hook and does a git pull with a private SSH key, so yes.
If I think about London there are some obvious shopping/eating/drinking streets and districts and there are large areas that are primarily residential, governmental, etc. But there are also a huge number of streets that are something of a mix and you certainly wouldn't point to as a shopping/entertainment destination.

And for the average resident, the pharmacies, small grocery stores, etc. probably count for a lot more than the high-end luxury clothing places.
The fundamental problem all these examples are linked to is the rise of centralized power in the economy, and the antidote has been known for a long time, see this 1952 book by John Galbraith:

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

> "...private decisions could and presumably would lead to the unhampered exploitation of the public, or of workers, farmers and others who are intrinsically weak as individuals. Such decisions would be a proper object of state interference or would soon so become."

Economists like Michael Hudson (I'm a fan) repeatedly refer to the rentier class in this context, and a rentier system (wiki) can be described as one in which

> "productive investments are largely lacking, the highest possible share of income is skimmed off from ground-rents, leases and rents and thus in many developing countries, rentier capitalism is an obstacle to economic development. A rentier is someone who earns income from capital without working. (wiki)"

Note that if you take capital and use it in a different way, e.g. to build a factory in which you are actively involved in design and production, you are not a rentier, but rather an industrial capitalist (I think we can safely put Elon Musk in this category, and Warren Buffett in the rentier group, for example). For more on this notion:

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dilemmas-of-the-rentier-class

There are several policies which undermine the power of the rentier class - antitrust in competetive industries is one, but equally important is the nationalization and state control of fundamental sectors that are non-competitive and thus fall under the natural monopoly heading - water, roads, ports, electrical grids, fiber optic networks, basic public health care and education, emergency services, etc. - basically the infrastructure that makes all other economic activity possible, and which the likes of Buffett - a noted utility investor - have had their fat fingers in for many decades.

China has incorporated these concepts into its state capitalism model and that's why it is outperforming the USA and Europe when it comes to technological and economic development in almost all sectors, from solar panels to high speed rail to water projects, and now, chips. They're still behind in space tech, but that's really only due to the phenomenon of SpaceX.
The technology transfer already happened. They don’t need the joint venture anymore.
We are, but this interglacial period is going to last another 200,000 years
Very good for him :) He got me to, but in a different direction.

I remember when I heard "Birds are not real", I thought many of the people really believed it so I just said to myself "these people are nuts". I then Ignored everything about that thinking this is just another crazy group of people.

Even though a lot of Andy's humor went way over my head, I believed he was a genius. Seems this kid is a genius in the way Andy was.
My most recent instance of this is online ordering with Dunkin’ Donuts. The app has no feedback to indicate what items are in stock, so it’s possible to order things that can’t be fulfilled. If you don’t want their substitute, the store cannot cancel the order. You have to call an 800 number and plead your case. Sure, it’s not a huge hardship, but it’s another instance of making the cancellation path more difficult to frustrate people into writing off the order.
Still 90% junk.

https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2011/05/whats-in-your-genome.h...
> Deep architectural/design flaws in a codebase can't always be addressed using a series of small independent changes.

Not sure that's true. At the extreme end, you introduce a replacement with a better architecture and run it side by side with the old one, incrementally switching over dependents. Of course, that may take more overall work, but maybe the incrementality is sometimes worth it.
What’s the source on that? The feed said trajectory was nominal the whole time
That is just one of the deployment methods. You definitely didn’t read beyond the first few lines on the page…

——-

There are 3 main ways to install piku on a server:

Use piku-bootstrap to do it if your server is already provisioned (that is what the TL;DR command does)

Use cloud-init to do it automatically at VPS build time (see the cloud-init repository, which has examples for most common cloud providers)

Manually: Follow the guide below or one of the platform-specfic guides.

———

(I do all my deployments using cloud-init, where you can even inline piku.py into the manifest if you want to—-and we have separate repos to demonstrate that)
Economic Termite is a useful new term and I do hope it becomes more popular.

Some other examples that the author didn't cover:

Payment processors: VISA/ Mastercard have near monopoly over transaction fees

Digital Ads: Google & Facebook are the Economic Termites in that space.

Cloud Service Providers: The ET's here are AWS and Azure!

Text book publishers: Prices always ever go up as the publishers control the market tightly.
The areas I might agree with this for construction would be something like lumbermills - where we have plenty of timber available but there’s a bottleneck of capital for mill capacity and they’ve been able to raise prices sharply in the past few years. Investors don’t want to pay to build enough capacity to bring prices down because then only older paid-off mills would win a pricing war if there were any excess capacity.
If you want to contribute any of that to piku, we’ll welcome it. Might take a bit to review and merge, but we’re always looking for non-breaking improvements
OS updates are important sometimes. Security and all...
For Linux, yes, the Arch wiki mentions some. But if you want to add Windows as an option, I don't know one.
lol the lengths people go to to criticize el*n
> is that it does very little to substantiate its core claim - that the reason the economy is broken are small monopolists-but-not-really-monopolists who are trying to fleece you

It's Matt Stoller [0].

He tends to write his substack (and formerly his blog at the OMI under New America) in a very pathos driven manner in order to change the conversation around anti-trust.

He also seems to be trying to become a Republican Rohit Chopra (assuming Hawley climbs the ladder) and is competing with Oren Cass on that front.

There is a need to rework antitrust to take into account digital platforms, but imo Matt Stoller's attempts only serve to undermine the conversation, given that these are very technical conversations that have a high legal bar to pass. Going all "bull in a China store" a la Lina Khan only leads to appeals and out of court settlements in favor of the defendants.

Based on second-hand experience, now's the best time for M&A on that front - you're almost guaranteed to have the FTC fumble a case and settle out of court.

[0] - https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/21/matt-stoll...
Betul (with umlaut) is a common Turkish name as well, from Arabic, of similar meaning. Also name of birch tree and related things, e.g. Fomitopsis betulina for birch fungus.
Only on HN would I think this is a serious comment.
"We have a problem with the system, that's why we need to apply more of the system as hard as possible!"
Humans have already survived about a dozen of these cycles.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/hasnt-earth...
That’s just negativity IMO. “Things are hard so we’re definitely doomed for extinction” is... well, at the very least it’s not very scientific.

There are good things too! We recently launched the biggest rocket ever - that was pretty cool. Also we invented computers that can think, which seems likely to be useful! Giving up now would be like giving up in 1924 because corruption was rampant and the Spanish flu was still recent in the mind… our “polio vaccine” or “penicillin” is just around the corner, my friend
Are there any of the TUI’s that have multi and split windows like emacs or vi
Just part of the Great Filter's plan, all praise the Great Filter.
> Yes! I plan to maintain it long-term!

Checking the repo today says it was archived and is no longer maintained due to a related project. 8 months doesn't seem very 'long term'. Anyone know what project?
I'm trying to find a new api client other than postman, and haven't fallen in love with Bruno. Insomnium seemed like a decent next step, but it's no longer being maintained. :/
It has been said if the US and its allies lost WWII, the victorious Axis would have tried and executed the US military leaders for war crimes for the bombing campaigns. A prime example of history is written by the victors.

PBS did a great documentary of Nazis in the US pre-WWII

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/nazi-town-...

It elaborates on your point about the large US Nazi presence.
nah, ice ages come and go with the earths gyroscopic precession. next ice will come as we tilt such that the sun is mostly over the sea through the year.

26,000 year period if I recal correctly, which we are nearly at the end of this phase since the last one finished.
The AI Arms Race to Combat Fake Images Is Even–For Now
I don't understand how that could possibly work. You will always need some time window, don't you? Also sometimes the translation of the first word can only be inferred when you process the last word in a sentence (simplified example).
The rules are written down, so I’d imagine that if such a rule exists, it could be referenced.
You don’t get turned on by Schedule K-1 Form 1065? Nothing gets me hornier than correctly accounting for capital equipment depreciation.
The title says 2011 but it should be 2021
You just described Piku, except that it’s a Python script that also sets up nginx and a process supervisor for your code :)
What is a PaaS?
HN is lacking in that you cannot hide threads/comments already seen.
CentOS Linux 7 End of Life
Ceader grove is garbage suitable for landscaping… maybe but not much else. Even if you ignore the high plastic and glass content it’s incredibly hydrophobic when dry and is terrible for vegetables.
I believe the real evil is in the conceit of knowledge, and that the gross inequalities of material wealth are actually only symptoms of this.

Roughly 2,500 years ago two giants of ethical philosophy appeared on the scene in the form of Socrates (who can be learned about best through Plato's dialogues and Xenophon's underappreciated Socratic works) and Siddartha Guatama (I would recommend Thich Nhat Hanh's Old Path White Clouds as a reasonably unified source of his life and thought).

I know bringing those guys up probably seems sentimental, but I have lived experience with poverty, and political "realism" is only beneficial to those who have not as yet suffered the consequences of harmful patterns of behavior.

I think Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol illustrates a pretty good path for the exceedingly wealthy to become heroes, but there's this problem of sentiment, isn't there? And yet sentiment is constantly appealed to in all forms of commercial advertising!

People don't even know why or how they are here. Siddartha and Socrates' responses were basically that the answers are difficult to articulate or fathom, but the real pressing issue is how best to live life, and their answers were basically to moderate and do no harm or wrong, at least as much as possible, because the real goods are non-material, and to do wrong actually harms the perpetrator more than the victim.
I think this is for the better. I’ve been using LLMs pretty regularly lately for some side projects, and they’re interesting but they’re not particularly nice products. I’m not aware of anyone who has a legitimately polished offering. There’s definitely a lot to the tech, but the signal to noise on essentially every model I’ve tried is far below normal standards for feature reliability and quality.
It's a conundrum. Lot of good an bad news.

Renewable energy is growing.

Yet CO2 emissions are accelerating.

1 Step forward, 2 back.

It seems we are on the 'business as usual' trajectory. Which on any given day can seem ok.
Thanks for the explanation, official repo doesn't make it clear enough for me.

So, did I understand correctly, that Pico installs both an agent on the remote machine and a commit hook on the local machine? Why didn't they minimize the overhead by just making the remote machine a Git remote and do all the work there when you push a specific branch to that remote?
Prompt engineering skill issue.
On one hand, there's this.

On the other hand, with the toughening of the job market, companies are selecting by degrees and pedigrees more than ever. The last company I worked for is currently doing this exactly, only looking at applications from people graduating from select universities.

So far it's working for them. As the job market gets worse, I think this trend of stronger emphasis on degrees and pedigrees will only get stronger.

Of course at the individual level, there are always exceptional individuals. But by definition, they are few and far between. It's not like going to school precludes you from learning other things and being flexible, creative, with burning passion for learning, etc. I would still encourage my kids to finish school and aim to get into a good university, I think.
They’re not guessing:

https://www.laits.utexas.edu/~anorman/long.extra/Projects.F9....

https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ov...
Thank you, I was hoping the site wold give exactly that description, but alas it didn’t

The author is victim of the Fallacy of shared context
Teams of LLM Agents Can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
In 2024, many Y Combinator startups only want tiny seed rounds – there's a catch
To be honest, Python made it stupendously simpler than anything else because it has a great standard library. The only dependency (click) is rock solid and made it a lot simpler to handle commands independently, but we could probably do without it and just use the built-in argparse—-but at the expense of a few more lines of code I didn’t want to maintain.

Also, Python is everywhere, on every OS and Linux system, so it was a natural choice. I also wanted it to be easily hackable and extensible, and few languages would make it simpler to understand or extend.
Speaking of housing it looks to me like housing costs are having the biggest effect on the economy as it typically costs more than a third of income for most people. It's probably the biggest cost of living expense and so the reason people are asking for higher wages and why running small businesses is becoming harder or impossible. I'm sure the dominos don't stop there either.
Who and where invented a computer that can think? I must be missing something?
I have a theory that one of the core problems is that American businesses just expect to make too much money. Everyone seems to be aiming for 30% gross margin or more, and then working to get monopoly power or regulatory capture in order to achieve that.

When I work with businesses in China they sort of expect cutthroat competition and I'm sure they're not seeing 30% margins. Low a behold stuff is a lot cheaper there, beyond what you'd expect given the labor price difference.
Looking at the scale legend on the photo, this seems like a relatively tiny glacier. What is the significance of it melting away? (I mean, obviously, the smaller the glacier, the easier it melts.)
This is a proof by contradiction: it shows that any bounded algorithm doesn't have equally probable outputs, i.e., that it is necessarily biased, contradicting our assumption that it is unbiased. Therefore, an unbiased, bounded algorithm cannot exist (for n > 2): any algorithm is necessarily either biased or unbounded.
What is 'nature-based carbon removal' and is it any better than carbon offsets?
Oh, I forgot the pharmacy, just added that in.

But yes, as a resident it's important to have a pharmacy / somewhere to get milk or bread if need be etc, nearby.
It counts a lot more than the occasional "high-end luxury clothing" place that is infrequent enough that it doesn't need to be nearby.

That's why these little shopping street are so common. But there's no clear line between that and a high street, it's all just a matter of scale. Everything is a "destination" of sorts be it 5 minutes on foot or half an hour on a bus, and everything is local to some extent - if we wanted to go to a "high street", it would be a local one, be it the borough centre high street east of us or the other borough's centre west of us.
I wonder how many finds like this are just thrown into the scrap pile.
I have an axe to grind, so let me be clear: I believe there is strong evidence that we have moved from something approaching a democracy to a corpocracy. I expect many people will tune this out, but here is the question, crucial one.

Who Benefits?

Do the laws that are passed benefit the common people or corporations? You figure it out. Please do not bother with the whole trickle down nonsense, unless you want to buy this bridge I have. And who can use the law? Can you afford a lawyer? Who can? The author says ".. I want my money back!" Good luck with that. If common people cannot enact laws to their benefit and cannot use the courts to their right wrongs, then we are not a democracy.

The article states: "the last four administrations choosing to ‘privatize’ domain registration". So why did that happen? It happened because we allow corporations to pay for our elections. You want to be elected or get funding to stay there? Lobby, aka bribe.

This is legal because the US Supreme Court in *Citizens United v. FEC* granted personhood to corporations. We have a situation where our "elected" officials owe there election to corporations.

In case you think this analysis is far-fetched here is an article on the American Bar Association site: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...

The crucial issue, the emergency, is that these "termites" as the article calls them are now so pervasive that they threaten our society. Our government has decided to use the change in prices, inflation, as the crucial measure of well being. Their argument is that if the rate of change is low, there is no problem. However, wages are the major factor in the economic condition of common people. If common people cannot earn enough (low wages) enough to afford common costs of living we have a new term to add to 'enshitification', etc. It is 'enslavification'.
OK so probably it should be clarified that the author has a great blog on PostgreSQL including a series called "Waiting for PostgreSQL $VERSION" where he talks of highlights in the edition that would only appear later at the time of writing. Looking back, these are interesting descriptions of prominent changes in the next few releases, and most of these entries are still valid today, i.e. most features didn't change much.
For n > 2, n! does not divide 2^k for any k, since n! has a factor of 3.
That hasn't changed. It's still ~90% junk.

Total Essential/Functional (so far) = 8.7%
Total Junk (so far) = 65%
Unknown (probably mostly junk) = 26.3%

https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2011/05/whats-in-your-genome.html
https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/theme-genomes-junk-dna.html
That kind of situation was what drove me to go simpler :)
In a recent discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40595741) there were several pointers to libs that help reducing the boilerplate, namely vk-bootstrap, volk and vma.