skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Size" is unitless, so I disagree with your rationale.

Precision is always helpful, but valuation is a very common size metric, and there was no confusion about OP's meaning.
Very true. My childhood friend and I were major computer nerds from 1991 to 2002. Then I left for college and he didn't somehow. We had such matched similar personalities for those 10 years.

By 2008 when I saw him he had totally fallen off from computers and couldn't care less.

I'm engrossed in tech still and I do waste wayyy to much time on HN, blogs, reading, YouTube, Twitter and the like. No doubt I have a problem..

My friend though died last year of heroin/fentanyl overdose. He had been struggling with it for 5+ years. Same as I have with modern phones. I wish he had gotten addicted to YouTube shorts instead.
I approve this for all billionaire flights in the future
Toyota C+pod
Eric Schmidt has weird fetishes about not just weapons but military personnel in general:

"The Israeli tank commander who has fought in one of the Syrian wars is the best engineering executive in the world. The tank commanders are operationally the best, and are extremely detail oriented. This is based on twenty years of experience working with them and observing them." —Eric Schmidt.
Start-up Nation by Singer et al (p. 41).
I played CS2 for about a month at release. It was pretty broken, but playable if you didn't mind the performance issues.

But the "high rent" problem drove me bonkers. You can specifically zone low-rent housing. But it didn't matter. They would live in houses and complain of high rent rather than move into the affordable denser housing across the street.

The real question, IMO, is why does all housing in CS2 seem to be rented?
Well potentially some, but definitely not tiling and screen splitting.
Or maybe it's because Musk runs around calling people pedophiles: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/03/media/elon-musk-testifies...

Maybe it's because his behavior is increasingly erratic and he doesn't seem to care about Tesla anymore: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2024/06/11/elon-doe...

Maybe it's because Tesla employees describe him as a pigeon CEO because "he comes in, shits all over us, and then leaves.": https://electrek.co/2024/04/22/elon-musk-pigeon-ceo-former-t...

Maybe it's because he advocates for the submission of Taiwan to China: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...

And for the submission of Ukraine to Russia: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-russian-war-plan-infu...

Maybe it's because he says "China rocks" while the US is full of "complacency and entitlement": https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-ro...

Maybe it's because he pledged his commitment to China's core socialist values: https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-signs-letter-pledgin...

Maybe it's because he called California's covid measures "fascist": https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-corona...

But praised China because "Shanghai's COVID-19 measures helped lay the foundation for the city's future development": https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

Maybe it's because in 2016 Tesla claimed "that, as of today, all Tesla vehicles produced in our factory – including Model 3 – will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver". That was a lie: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...

Maybe it's because Tesla lies about things as dumb as quarter mile times. There's simply no need to lie about it, but lying is just too much a part of the company culture:

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-cybertruck-beast-vs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3H8--CQRE

https://insideevs.com/news/699260/tesla-cybertruck-porsche-r...

And so on and so forth. There's a lot not to like.
> But if America is too big and powerful to bail out,

That's what electing the 270 this November is going to decide
Countering High Beam Headlights Successfully [video]
How is it that big negative news about Tesla gets monstrous engagement and positive news is met with disinterest? I think there is probably another emotion going through the heads of those who love to slam Tesla.
In many cultures, family names are high-entropy and given names are lower entropy (two random people are more likely to share a given name rather than a family name). Under this assumption, the family-name citation trend makes more sense as there is a lower chance of collisions.

For Korean and Chinese names in particular, it's sort of the opposite: family names are lower entropy (e.g. Lee, Wang, Kim) than given names, which drastically increases the chance of family-name collision. I’m a PhD student of Chinese descent, and I share a family name with lots of academic peers in my specific subfield of research, and have even co-authored with unrelated individuals who share a family name with me. Family-name citations are really ambiguous and confusing to me, so I prefer omitting them altogether and using numeric links.
Interestingly, they did this for Stable Cascade as well. [1]

[1] https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-cascade/blob/main/...
If there's a sufficiently large number of people whom you want to exclude, the problem might be that you're simply in the wrong group. It clearly keeps attracting folks you don't want to be in a group with.

And if your group has a very large number of subgroups, it's a sign group health is deteriorating. Side channels are healthy, but if they become the main mode of conversation, congrats, you're starting to develop cliques.
The world won’t fail , but the impacts are real when economic systems change .

We are already facing that , asset inflation is already run away , generational wealth is only way millennials can buy a house , the economic prosperity of boomers is long gone .

The cost of having children has gone up , that is changing demographics today.

It is not black and white between economic collapse and we go to trading cigarettes or everything is awesome , it is spectrum and we already feeling the real economic pain and nothing is indicating it will get better just worse
FFXIV just added a lottery and zoning rules, which IMO are the most boring ways to fix it.

Arguably it came with the expected trade-offs zoning laws have in real-life, in that zones intended for their equivalent of guilds are often empty/dead now since there are not that many active guilds, and "legacy" wards that still have personal housing and guild housing intertwined are a lot more active and diverse.
A land value tax would fix this.

Or at least a vacancy tax. Maybe one that exponentially increases with duration of vacancy.
I've made this account because I would be fired if my employer read my views. This is about your snarky and sneering comments towards me, not about my user name. Please abide by the site's guidelines.
"The main way that shpool differs from tmux is that tmux is a terminal multiplexer which necessarily means that it offers session persistence features, while shpool only aims to be a session persistence tool. In contrast to tmux the philosophy of shpool is that managing different terminals is the job of your display or window manager, not your session persistence tool."

What if the computer user does not use a window manager. Many years ago I stopped using X11 and started using textmode only. Then tmux was released and appeared in NetBSD packages collection, it soon went into NetBSD base and I have been using it with almost zero problems ever since. If I am forced to run a graphics layer so that I can run a window manager so that I can run shpool, then is this solution truly "lightweight". The shpool program might be lightweight but the system I would need to run it would be heavyweight, when compared with textmode, no graphics.

For me, an assessment of "lightweight" also needs to consider the compile-time requirements. For example, I use a static copy of GCC that weighs in at 242.3 MiB and I can obtain libevent and libtinfo, the only two third-party tmux dependencies, from any number of mirrors across the internet. I like that GCC does not try to connect to the internet by default, or otherwise. When I lose an internet connection, I use the time to compile programs. GCC, and probably most if not all C compilers, add no friction to doing that.
To be clear, I do find it alarmist, but I take it seriously in the sense that it's definitely clear that Sars-cov-2 isn't "just a cold", and it's perhaps promotes a more healthy and cautious attitude to the virus in the face of the dangerous community apathy and dismissal, even in medical spaces.
Yeah, this has some elevation reference, and much more dramatic shifting.
> Way less of a producer and more of a consumer

We're the second-largest exporter in the world [1]. (But yes, more consumer.)

> And no, the biggest driver for the US Dollars demand nowadays it is status as the global currency of trade

Who do you think does most of the trading? If America weren't the world's largest importer and second-largest exporter, the dollar wouldn't be the global currency of trade.

You're correct that our financial system reinforces that relationship. But it's reinforcing, not underwriting. (China isn't challenging us in our financial services, it's challenging us on trade.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports
Subsidizing childcare is also "more money", but only for some workers. If the others don't notice or don't care that they're getting paid less for the same work that's great for the company.

I am in favor of flexible work arrangements, and I have no idea if those have costs to the company, or how much more you'd need to pay the workers to accept the less flexible arrangements.
In terms of economic policy not much , increased deficit spending is the platform for both parties , whether by tax cuts or welfare is just about who gets the benefits of the spending.

Spending itself is not going to change between both parties
Your personal use-case might prefer Lua or Scheme, but most casual Excel (or SQL) users are non-programmers so they won't. They'll want the equivalent of decently-documented macros or boilerplate they can easily and quickly use without modification. (One common Excel use-case will clearly be "import/munge lots of data from various sources, then pass it into some AI model, then process the output". Can't see people writing that in Lua.) The real target customers for this one are commercial/enterprise non-programmer Windows-stack users whose legacy workflow/data is built around/glued to Excel and are already locked into paying $$ monthly/annual subscription. From looking at Reddit, I don't see much other takeup of Python in Excel.

I don't get your "shouldn't need batteries-included environment" objection; MSFT is bundling Anaconda distribution libraries with Excel. I'd expect it works seamlessly online and offline, as far as everything supported by Python stdlibs. (Can you actually point to any real problem with the batteries?) Really the only part I see you can quibble is things that are currently only implemented in uncommon third-party libraries, i.e. not stdlibs/numpy/scipy/scikit-learn/pandas/polars and the main plotting, data-science, ML, DB and web libraries.

> I just want sane syntax for common functionality which does not require arcane knowledge and long forgotten wisdom.

Show us some Python syntax for common functionality in Excel which does require arcane knowledge and long forgotten wisdom. Otherwise, this is purely your conjecture.

(If anything, bundling Python with Excel will stimulate healthy discussion towards which Python stdlibs need to be added/enhanced/changed, and which third-party libraries should be upgraded to stdlibs.)
> I don't believe for a second that the people who actually did the work will get what they deserve for having made it

The people who actually made it chose to sell exclusive rights to one person instead of releasing it like a normal album. They've got no room to complain.
Part of the wild history is that following Shkreli's conviction for securities fraud the album was seized and the DOJ had it for 3 years until they auctioned it for $4M (2x Shkreli paid at the original auction).
If you’re using a tiling window manager your window switch keybindings necessarily conflict between the manager and tmux, since if you configure the same one and then press it while focused on a tmux window, the tiling window manager will override tmux and claim the event.

Scrollback and copy paste cannot always be configured as you want. I’ve shared some specifics elsewhere in this thread.
If the CLI were to go away, the OS would still need to have rich APIs for automation. While it may not be something the average user ever uses or knows about, it’s vital for power users and the enterprise.
If she's not on social media, what is she even doing online these days?

Watching YouTube? Reading blogs about favorite subjects?

YouTube is basically as bad as any social media IMO since it has an endless stream of stimulus that's artificially easy to consume.
> is irrelevant for this. They are deficit spending in their local currency

It's incredibly relevant for balance of payments [1]! This is international banking 101.

If they want a stable currency while deficit spending and maintaining monetary sovereignty, they need to sell assets and/or clamp down on capital flows [2].

If selling, it will mostly be dollars, because that's what folks want and what they have. That's what they're doing.

> They are just diversifying their reserves

No, their reserves are going down. They are also diversifying. But anything other than them net selling dollar assets would be incrediby weird.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_payments

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
processing facility generally doesn't mean grocery store, but the facility that butchers slaughtered animals into cuts. Potentially it could be a butcher.
For a short time in DC (District of Columbia, USA) government, I worked with Age-Friendly DC. They were all about universal design, obviously. I learned a ton - like how curb cuts are good for folks using canes, walkers, and wheelchairs, and those who push things like strollers. However, the Age-Friendly DC staff could have done much more to work with non-aged policy advocates and organizations, to show them the benefits of things like curb cuts.

Personally, I'm using a lot of what I learned from the Age-Friendly folks; my 83yo mom has moved in and the learning curve, while steep, got a head start with my government experience.
> while believing all the FUD from the press that overvalues the disagreements between China and India

What's your information source? Mine includes family in the Indian military.

> wouldn't call the government changes in India a masssive government change

South Africa. (India's government didn't change.)

> Neither china is in the shitter

Russia.

> the US and Europe are no longer the former titans compared to what people sometimes call the global south.

Correct. Look at with whom India, Eastern Europe and South-east Asia are allying.
>We don't regulate based on music theory either! Do we need him to know chord progressions to be able to write laws? I hope not!

Yes, we absolutely do, and we already do this. That's why deaf people can't write these laws: they don't even know what music or chords are: they have no way of sensing them.

There absolutely have been court cases about plagiarism where the arguments were about whether certain chord progressions can be copyrighted or not.
The problem is just the price.

Trowing away 30-40% of your paycheck with no downsides for the other part is no fun.
There is basically 0 risk involved in renting besides...having less than what you plan to make? You will always find someone is your price is good enough.

Like i understand how for example a hotel works, houses are like that but long term, the landlords manage houses and get a salary by doing so but...why has to be such a big part of my salary?

Rent control and public housing (you can't buy it, you can only rent it for a price that covers maintainance and emergency found)
Voyager 1 Returning Science Data from All Four Instruments
Serrano can’t accept that Andrea James went too far in posting online pictures of Bailey’s children with sexualised captions added (quoted from your first link):

> 3) points to instances where some trans activists have supposedly “gone too far” (in her mind, at least) in order to paint us as unreasonable and/or extremist

Given that, I can’t possible agree with your assertion that Serrano presents a “better take” than Dreger’s. At least in this (very important!) respect it is absolutely a worse one. Dreger is right to condemn James’s inexcusable behaviour, and Serrano is wrong not to
You are the ones that have blasphemy laws, so I find it hilarious that you are complaining that we haven't separated church and state.
I read a quote once that a CISO's job was to do enough public talks that when their company inevitably got popped because nobody values security, they've got their next job lined up already.
What is a primordial forest, and why is its wood so easy to break when in the form of a cabinet?
We are incapable of doing so because doing so would lower property value.

It's just that, nothing more than it.
No, there is - from official Apple Intelligence announcement:

> With ChatGPT from OpenAI integrated into Siri and Writing Tools, you get even more expertise when it might be helpful for you — no need to jump between tools. Siri can tap into ChatGPT for certain requests, including questions about photos or documents. And with Compose in Writing Tools, you can create and illustrate original content from scratch.

https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/
A phone, a book, a movie, a show, hobbies, exercise… they’re all going to be parts of “avoidance behavior”.

Often though, some issues in life are not resolvable through some simple analysis and avoiding thinking about the issue might really be the best course of action.
Structs. These are called structs. Or value types if you really insist.
Model Y is has been the best selling car in Norway for the past 2 years. If it looks "look flimsy as hell", that says something about all of the Norwegians buying them.

Which companies are catching up ? Back it up with numbers you numb nuts.
Memory safety and safety is not "the whole point of Rust". It's a nice low-level language with proper sum types (!), neat sum-type approach to errors, proper and easy to use iterators and much else including nice tooling, dep management, very high standards in packages and docs overall, etc.

C++ lacks in pretty much all of those, so memory-safety or no, personally I can't picture myself choosing to do C++ for low-level work at will these days. Unless it's too low-level like dpdk or gpu kernels.

> the language is incredibly hard to learn

Not really. A few months from zero and you'll be up and running, provided you have prior C++ experience (based on cases I've observed in teams I've worked in). Maybe not including async rust though.

> it's impossible to implement any non-trivial data structures in safe rust

ANY, really? Any examples? (Other than linked list or other self-dependent structures)
Use case: Overwatch to track Overwatch (Blizzard) boosting, account, and cheats black market.
How to fix 'Command not found: $'
Not trying to be a window manager is pretty much the reason it exists!
Nah, it won't because it happens all the time that my password manager doesn't recognize the current url because the auth signin flow had so many weird urls in it that I had to save the url manually and now it's not the right url so I copy out the password manually instead of autofilling it. This was actually the case for my Google account which I created through gmail but then my gmail password wasn't using the right url for all the other google services. Now that I think about it, this was also the case for my Microsoft account that I got a long time ago through hotmail.

I think that this is a fairly legitimate attack vector and it's sad because I really want to be able to hide the url bar in my PWAs through custom styling to make it look more like a real native app.
Semi related, one of the key things Musk is doing by eliminating Twitter likes is removing a core ability to monitor platform manipulation. It's wild what an intensely dark dark forest Twitter has been turned into.

Really sad to see such an interesting noble effort to figure out what all is happening in this chaotic age dismantled by the powers that be. There seems like so many forces pushing to make social media chaotic & tolerant to truly hostile forces.
SpaceX put up 1,238 tonnes in 2023. So let's say about 2000 tonnes globally.
I don't know the Al fraction of a satellite, but assuming it's very high.
Estimates are 15,000 to 220,000 tons of meteoritic material entering earth annually. Assuming 1.2% Al in a meteor (from the paper) that's 180 to 2604 tons of Al.

So the range of human impact is somewhere from 2 to 10 times the meteoritic material in Al. That's quite surprising, assuming that my math and research is correct.

Switching to steel should make the environmental impact negligible, considering that the Fe content of meteorites is quite high.

meteoritic material source: https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1994IAUS..160...45B
Very few Americans have much familiarity with Russian language at all.

When this was written during Soviet times, and the Hollywood movie made, it was far fewer, so mostly people did not get the connection whatsoever.

If you ask a Russian how they are doing, if they are doing well they respond positively with a word that sounds just like "horrorshow".

No differently than they did under the Tzars, Lenin and Stalin.

Everything behind the "iron curtain" always been completely horrorshow, as much as it could be.
Fungus breaks down ocean plastic
Normies don't know what the "addon" is and likely would have IT to install them anyway.
Fussell’s definition of the various classes in America in Class.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class:_A_Guide_Through_the_A...

His “Middle” is characterized by a lot of class-anxiety and especially the twin characteristics of wanting to appear like the upper-middle or upper classes, while having very wrong ideas about how those two classes “signal”.

His upper-middle is basically professional-class (doctors, lawyers, professors, bankers, finance) prep school sorts. Same as the main demographic covered in Birnbach’s The Official Preppy Handbook
My various group chats are each a community of 3-8 close friends I've picked up from different stages of my life. They allow me to keep these relationships alive in between in-person gatherings.
This just strikes me as sharp elbowed negotiation by the Saudis. I bet good odds that this particular story about the Saudi treaty expiring will have proven to be a nothingburger a year from now (even if de-dollarization and multi-polarity in general continues to be a story).
how often is significant numbers of bit errors a problem, or when does that come up?

they also address something similar in the body: "Here are two audio samples at 14 kbps with heavy 30 percent receiver-side packet loss."
If it’s the wrong output, it’s not productive. The productivity metric includes useful output. It’s not productive to dig a hole and fill it up.
In software development it's not uncommon to have a staff engineer who outproduces juniors in terms of raw output by a 5x factor.
Unfortunately the version included in git for Windows doesn't and you have to emulate sockets using magic files instead...