skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think in a generation we will look back at the ZIRP era and be bewildered by how little we got out of it.

Hard physical engineering R&D, physical infrastructure improvements, mass transit, high speed rail, etc? No.

We got B2B SaaS apps.

If ZIRP wasn't the era we could fund such long payoff projects, then when will there ever be a possibility?
That's a very contentious position. I understand that it's a commonly held view among MMT proponents, with whom I mostly agree, but I don't think they have paid enough attention to the importance of interest rates in deflating debt-fueled asset bubbles.
Don't tell me the banks are using that code too....
Insufficient Sun Exposure Has Become a Real Public Health Problem (2020)
> It's important to clarify this issue because textbooks still teach a particles- and measurement-oriented interpretation that contributes to bewilderment among students and pseudoscience among the public

Is this mostly settled then? And if so why do we continue to teach a bewildering model?
Donald Sutherland Has Died
To be fair, the only gasoline engines with this kind of lifespan have had significant maintenance over their lifetimes. Regular oil changes, spark plugs and air filters and other servicing. The idea that gasoline engines are inherently more reliable than electric just doesn't match the data.
Leachim – 4th grade teaching robot
Do you know until fisher comes asking probability or the Bayesian version is always about gambling. Mostly as we have evolution type but …

Might be a time traveller.
Can't believe there's still people to think the free market actually exists
https://lifearchitect.ai/agi/
People lie and condoms break.
If you've ever seen someone that naturally takes to gambling - like they play, lose, and immediately think they must be due to win now! - that's probably a good analogy as any for how some brains can be more likely to get addicted to activities like this.
> How can you call a system that disincentivizes collective care of one another "amoral"?

It doesn't disincentivize collective care. It incentivizes resource allocation most optimally, whatever optimality is within applied bounds. Which leads to my next point:

> What a pithy phrase! You said yourself that capitalism doesn't incentivize those with to help those without. How do you augment capitalism to incentivize such behavior?

By applying regulation and laws to the system, the bounds. It's not like any of this exists in a vacuum and can't be, again, augmented to fit our needs better.

> And to be clear, I'm not saying that the bourgeoisie should be helping. I'm just saying they don't. I think we should burn capitalism to the ground and build something better.

That's cute. What's your proposition for replacing Capitalism? What guarantees your new system is better? And I can assume you're agreeing to pay the incredibly bloody tab destabilizing our society will have? Since I assume from your post you basically haven't known anything other then peace and stability and historically speaking great times, you're basically a larper.

Ideas like this always strike me as incredibly naive. Why not work to improve a system that has shown promise instead of the repeating the long trail of critical failures from other systems.
well, i knew there was no answer and i still tried for 15 minutes. I think that's the point!
Did Microsoft hired 2 teams to do the same thing?
New Teams, new outlook, new control panel, new right click menu, new explorer... The list go on forever.
80% of cars on the road are older than their 5-year manufacturer “bumper to bumper” warranty (support).

So what exactly is the story here?

Just because something is no longer supported, doesn’t mean all value is lost.
>Safari outside of iOS is tiny.

Are you sure about this? It's the default and main browser on every Mac computer, and there's a fair number of those out there, probably far more than the number of people using Linux on the desktop (unfortunately IMO).

>Edge is Chrome with a Microsoft skin and Microsoft advertising swapped for Google's.

Sure, but it's still a different browser, maintained by a competing tech giant and promoted as the default browser on the world's most-installed desktop OS. Tech people may understand it's just a Chrome re-skin, but the people running the court system don't understand or care.
> The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act is superseded and voided by the American Arbitration Act.

Poking around, I found this [0] from 2015 that suggests the opposite, unless a certain malign President caused the FTC to switch policies.

> the FTC has taken the position since 1975 that binding arbitration provisions are prohibited in warranties. [...] The FTC specifically rejected the argument that an arbitration proceeding is not an [informal dispute settlement mechanism] because it is binding and therefore outside the [Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act], which permits warrantors to establish [informal dispute settlement mechanism]s for breach of warranty claims and require consumers to use such [informal dispute settlement mechanism]s before bringing a civil suit.

[0] https://casetext.com/analysis/ftc-continues-to-ban-mandatory...
yes obviously that's the whole fucking point

so do pencil erasers, polymer composites being sanded, varnished wood being sanded, paint being sanded or abrasive-blasted, and, as the abstract points out, synthetic fibers (though in that case it's not the whole point)
> How can you not care when companies choosing to go fully remote means you have less options to find in-office jobs?

The world is not designed to be optimized for you, nor should it be. I think it is the height of selfishness to push for a world only suited to your preferences with no concern for those with other preferences or needs.
I've been struggling with how to hack someones WhatsApp messages without touching their cell phone for almost a year. I've tried at least 10 different apps and none of them worked. I found shadownethacker44@gmail.com
after reading a blog post on how to hack someones WhatsApp messages without touching their cell phone and the reviews were all good so I thought I would give it a try
For the same reason that the Russians ban our NGOs. They're not neutral groups independent of their sovereign.

To say otherwise is naive.
Interesting. Could you drop a link to the document you’re talking about?
I watched the entire M.A.S.H series when I was young and it made a similar impression. I watched it before the film though, so my brain couldn't fathom anyone other than Alan Alda as Hawkeye.
This is amazing, but surely I'm not the only one who is struck by the irony of a company called 'Gilead' who is trying to save the human race? (Handmaid's tale reference)
I wonder if after Polaris Dawn proves out spacewalking from Dragon, SpaceX will develop the capability to repair the Hubble once again.

I doubt it'll be from spacewalks on Dragon, given they probably can't support something as big as an MMU (unless they pull a really cool hat trick), but maybe with Starship.

I get that at some point it's more worthwhile to launch a new telescope (maybe one of those donated KENNENs from NRO), but Hubble is a big symbol of space exploration, and SpaceX is all about big symbols...
>People literally paying money for something that can damage them for life and may even kill them.

You could say the same about sky-diving.
You can read their Motor Vehicle Order Agreement. Mandatory Binding Arbitration.

https://www.epi.org/publication/the-arbitration-epidemic/
https://centerjd.org/system/files/ArbitrationWhitePaper.pdf

You can even read Hall Street Associates, L.L.C. v. Mattel, Inc, where even when the agreement said the courts could review. Where, no, courts of law may not review an arbiter's decision if you both agree it would be able to after arbitration.

You can read Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., where SCOTUS explicitly declared the American Arbitration Act overrides the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

You can read Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, where you find out you have no substantive rights where the AAA is involved.

There's still weak attempts to save it, but the The National Labor Relations Act is also likely superseded by the American Arbitration Act, basically voiding the NLRA from being ever applicable.

Courts of law are barred where arbitration is inserted, anywhere, whether you know it or not. You lose basic rights where arbitration is concerned.
A mantis shrimp told me, quote, "it's alright, i guess, if you're in to that sort of thing"
When electric lawnmowers have been around for 50 years we'll have the same anecdotes about them.
For what it’s worth, I bought a new gas mower at Lowe’s last summer, and had to buy a new one this summer because I couldn’t get the old one started.

Granted, I probably could have spent a few days figuring out how to repair the old gas powered mower from last year, but it was oozing oil everywhere and I would have just been following YouTube tutorials and endless trips to the hardware store or waiting on parts from Amazon.

(Just sharing this anecdote since neither gas nor electric are perfect!)
Not my eyeballs.
I’m not sure if you’ve seen housing prices lately but most of the middle class are technically millionaires now, just of the “land rich, cash poor” variety.
It baffles me that nobody in the US Government can see opportunities and take advantage of them.

SpaceX's Starship could house one huge telescope. If I had a say in NASA's appropriations, money would flow into building a Starship-sized telescope for every spectrum we could think of.

There are other scientific instruments that Starship can house.

It's not too late to start. Congress could appropriate money to build and many Starship-sized instruments as they can come up with. Follow KISS principles and use the same steel Starship is made of instead of carbon fiber where possible.

If on-orbit refueling works, Starship can place them on the far side of the moon or at Lagrange points.
wow Trelent looks cool, how does ZDR negotiation work exactly? What do you offer to the provider that allows you ZDR?
With particles and atoms you get a good undestanding of chemistry and CRT, probably radioactivity and many other everyday topics. Even Feyman diagrams look quite readable if youimagine the universe is made of small balls.

Quantum field are too weird and without math they are just weird magic. Let kids play with balls until they are big enough to be enlighted.

> People hold onto the underlying paradigm they are first taught for an awfully long time even if they logically know better.

I agree with that, but I don't know how to fix that.
And "I know it when I see it" is the go-to rationale of people who merely want to arbitrarily ban stuff they don't personally enjoy.
> Others still noted that it seemed pointless to go in to an in-person office when the teams they worked on were already distributed across multiple offices around the world, so they'd mostly still be on Zoom calls anyway.

> One person said they'd spoken with colleagues who had chosen to go hybrid, and those colleagues reported doing work in mostly empty offices punctuated with video calls with people who were in other mostly empty offices.

> Many interviewed admitted they were looking for work at other companies that aren't trying to corral employees back into the office.
Without doubt, you believe that your interpretation is correct and should be used as a reference, unlike interpretations of all those stupid people.
My personal experience so far with Tesla specifically - and this is not to say they are doing the right thing in regards to parts or anything - was when my wife hit a deer and a bunch of the driver's front side of the car had to be replaced was that it took six days. Of course the bill insurance covered was around $12K which is just insane (headlight, hood, fender, panel, side mirror, camera). The timeline to repair was probably because the Tesla density for my area (around Richmond, VA) is not high like it is in places such as California.

Other than that, which was $0 out of pocket, I've had my Model 3 for six years in July and almost $0 in parts or service. I replaced the 12v battery which I had to buy for $75 and tires twice. This way more cost effective than my Lexus (around $4,000 in repair service over 5 years, not counting tires) and Mercedes (around $3,000 in repair service over 2 years, which - not counting tires and I had these AMG rims that were wider on the rear tires so tire replacement had to happen early). So its hard for me to complain about Tesla, but I can see where for other people who have had issues where there are a lot of Teslas on the road could be an issue.
rob graham wrote an article on this wc program in the humorously titled PoC||GTFO journal - see [1]. he also tweeted about it a few years ago [2].

[1] https://github.com/angea/pocorgtfo/blob/master/contents/arti...
[2] https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1494009849427992576
But with zirp you just borrow someone else's money to start the business and reap all the profits while the lenders suffer the losses! :-)
You realize that all of these things weren't always the case, and (as usual) Tesla had to be dragged to the table.

Massachussetts lead that charge. Until their AG got involved, the EPC website existed, but NOTHING was purchasable from the site. Literally every item said "Unavailable" or "Call Tesla", even things as simple as a 1/4 inch bolt.

Service manuals free of charge? No, Tesla had one location in MA where you could go to look at the service manual. And you had to pay a fee ($100, IIRC). And you had to make an appointment. And you got an hour. And you could take no electronic devices, just a pencil and legal pad.
I think you're idea of a niche is a little too broad. SMB is not a niche, plumbers is a niche. Are there accounting software, or CRMs made specifically for plumbers? Probably. But you can make a better one. Don't like plumbers? Try electricians or roofers. How about solar panel installers? How about installers of a specific brand of solar panel? There may be many SMB softwares, but if you pick a niche, you will find less competition catering to that specific customer.
Courts have ruled in the past that arbitration clauses were illegal or unenforceable for various reasons so it not that cut and dry .

Contract law is not simple, just because I signed the contract doesn’t mean it is enforcement is guaranteed.

While I agree with the estimation that this is loosing and courts would either rule that is not a monopoly or enforce the arbitration clause and kick the case out , it is not a given .

Every case is unique, a lot depends on the judge or jury and background of the specific case.

Also filing suit doesn’t mean that trial is always the goal. It could be just a strategic move in the process between plantiffs and defense .

Sometimes companies would settle not because it will loose, but because it is cheaper to settle. Sometimes they don’t want discovery process opening up internal documents that could be damaging. Fox forked over 780M because of this (and also plaintiffs had a slam dunk case ).
I see, so you're saying that "cisgender female" means Female As Identified at Birth, but includes both trans and not trans groups regardless? Thus, "cisgender female" includes both homosexuals and non-homosexuals (and non-binary etc), but actually some from this group may presently identify as male? I did not know this.
This is how syphilis was screened by the army, it's called sample pooling and saves an awful lot of money.
https://breckyunits.com/scrollsets.html
This is not necessarily true in matters involving injunctive relief, depending on the wording of the contract, whether arbitration itself may be arbitrated, and whether the judge considers arbitration appropriate for the relief prayed for.
In reality, the entire map should be sent first to the verifier (with colors hid behind the post-it) so if it was a bogus randomly colored map, you may find two adjacent points having same color if you try extremely many(think hundreds or thousands in the website's case) times. If you sufficiently try many times and fail to find the adjacent points, you will convince that the prover have the map which is correctly 3-colored.

Note that the entire map is sent again, shuffled its color each time after you choose the two points.
Looking at the map, I can’t tell if the answer to this question is yes or no.
Tesla uses independent body shops they certify, I know this because I've used one as a result of a deer accident. The service centers do not handle beyond some level of damage.
One of my other cars is a 2019 Jaguar I-PACE. It's generally been rather reliable over the past 5 years. The main problems have been how it tends to like to brick itself when something electronically doesn't go quite right.

For example when I had it turned on and running the A/C on the Edmonds-Kingston ferry it decided that the suspension was borked and refused to release the emergency brake once the ferry arrived at dock. You know what happens when you can't push your bricked car off the ferry? They put cones around your car and load everyone else on the ferry around you while you try to explain to the tow company on the phone how you have a luxury AWD EV bouncing back and forth across the Puget Sound that needs to be winched onto a flatbed.

Then when the auxiliary battery died it decided to roll into the middle of a parking lot and gradually glitch out and clamp down on the emergency brakes again as the main 12v battery then died, and you get to have it winched onto another flatbed as it's also impossible to release the emergency brakes once the 12v batteries have given up the ghost.

Hence why my most recent vehicle has a clutch pedal, a stick attached to a gearbox, and an emergency brake attached to a lever via a cable.
Remote work was a rapidly growing trend and had already doubled in the decade before Covid. Covid accelerated that growth but didn't create the trend.
Programs like George Bush's PEPFAR have made great strides in fighting HIV globally through treatment and prevention. Estimated at 25 millions lives saved in 20 years, mostly in Africa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Emergency_Plan...

Unfortunately it's become a target of the right wing culture warriors and certain groups are trying to gut it, after huge strides have been made in reducing global transmission of HIV.
That reminds me of a certain edutainment video on shutter-speed and CCDs [0] from long-term Youtube persona "Captain Disillusion". (Skip to ~4m for the CCDs.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28S47EE_opA
Anecdotes everywhere.

A friend of mine spends an hour or two rebuilding or cleaning his gas lawnmower every year. Another friend had a brand new one fail the first time he fired it up. Meanwhile my Ego has gone several years with literally zero maintenance other than five minute blade sharpening.

My dad's gas trimmer was constantly unreliable and never easy to start. My Ego trimmer once again has been fine for several years without any maintenance other than winding the string.
Which is strange from a financial standpoint. Individual parts generally have a massive markup compared to the total cost of a car.

There was some magazine that once did this with a Honda motorcycle and the total cost for parts was 6x what the bike would cost when new.
Ah, I see. I’d be interested to see a study on that. I find it hard to believe it would make such a stark difference but it’s possible.
These benchmarks are on 92 million byte files so we're into the range where bringing a tank is fair (and worth the startup cost).
I have to wonder if maybe writing the whole thing in TypeScript from the start may have been a better choice. It's not clear what they get from Rust and it introduces the binding layer complexity described in the article.
> Its strange how much power we give employers over employees, and how regular people defend this, even when its actively working against them.

"Because, one day, I will be a rich person, and I will be able to be cruel to the little people. I don't want to prevent me being able to abuse people if I'm in that position!"
I don't know if I can say that I speak for MMT proponents generally but in his lecture on stabilising an unstable economy[1] Wray puts forward a series of very simple regulatory changes that would avoid those types of problems. In other words, regulatory oversight is a better tool for managing those types of bubbles than monetary policy.

Mosler also talks about interest rate policy in his debate with Murphy[2] and has a long career in finance in both a public and private capacity. I don't think you could say he hasn't paid enough attention to anything to do with interest rates!

[1] Lectures 6 & 7 in this series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFf95BVx9Qw&list=PLYvSXI9SKG...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTLCDBONok&t=5347s
I think all the really obvious and influential products of science and technology happened in the 20th century and now we're so comfortable because of those that we take it for granted. Then people find reasons to hate it because they forget how bad things were without it (previous generations). Same goes for political stability.

Another aspect is that a lot of intellectualism is really activism with "intellectuals" trying to impede other people's lives for the sake of some arrogant moral purpose.
Langchain feels very much like shovelware that was created for the sole purpose of parting VCs of their money. At one point the codebase had a "prompt template" class that literally just called Python's f-string.
Public subsidies to movies are common, especially in countries that are not very popular in the international market. TV channels and streaming services are often required to have a certain amount of domestic content. Even video games get public subsidies.

What you say about the average income of theater audience sounds very foreign to me. I guess that elitist theater is the only form that remains viable when it has to rely on the market and charitable donations.

When I was a kid, theater was something you went to on a school excursion every year or so. It wasn't my thing, but some of my friends got interested in it. Later in the university, our student union had a semi-professional theater group that had become a national institution. Many student organizations had hobbyist theater groups. Even students of science started one shortly after I graduated. And before my time, socialist theater used to be a big thing. But that was when socialism meant actual socialism and primarily appealed to the working class.
> Why not just use condoms?

Why not just save money and not install those ECP brakes on your vinyl chloride freight train?

Why not just use one unshielded Raspberry Pi on that spacecraft instead of a 3-of-5 quorum from the output of 5 identical engineered-for-space systems?

Using/requiring condoms AND being on PrEP helps me live my best life with less fear-based inhibition and cognitive load.
Thank you for the sanity.

In case it's not obvious to everyone, melamine sponges are also known as "magic eraser," so the entire point is that the melamine (a plastic commonly seen in old brittle dishware) wears away into abrasive dust as you use the eraser.
Ha, proofpoint bought it because their IPs were being added to SORBS all the time and SORBS would take forever to act upon reports... so they said eff it, and just bought the thing.
Exactly, they would rather lose a worker for half a day than 20 minutes. Talk about penny wise and pound foolish.
Great work! I really enjoyed the interactivity. Actually I already was aware of the concept of zero-knowledge proof from the wonderful article by ZCash(which is a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency) core developer Matthew Green, worth to check it out: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-kno...

My two cents of the ZKP illustration is that directly using hashes are more likely to convince "computer-friendly" people to introduce the commitment scheme.