skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your first two sentences are in contradiction and the article has it right. The reason privacy is a threat to power is because the more of it people have the harder it is to raise taxes. Taxes are the crux of the entire system. What use is power without being able to raise taxes? It doesn't get discussed much because if pressured most people would rather abandon privacy than give up taxing others. If we all pretend that privacy and taxes can both be achieved at once we can at least get everyone to, in principle, agree privacy is an admirable goal and maximise what privacy we do all get.

Although with things like Monero and other privacy coins we have suddenly got an asset that is actually private and therefore fundamentally resistant to taxation. It is a weird development with hard-to-foresee implications.
That doesn’t really play out in a capitalistic system of incentives. Pharma companies charge as much as the market will bear and the market in Africa just can’t bear very much, so pricing them out will leave profit on the table. Drugs that are too expensive like chemotherapy usually aren’t offered except as humanitarian donations or supplied to upper class patients.

The tech industry does it all the time too, pricing games and SaaS subscriptions based on the currency, so that i.e. people in Russia or India pay a cheaper rate. Not because their consumers are being subsidized but because they would get zero profit from them otherwise.
> nodejs struggle with adoption

Woah there. If nodejs is struggling for adoption I don’t know what isn’t.
If we are moving to neo feudalism, even upper middle class families might have a better air force than many smaller and poorer countries.
You can measure temperature with a heating element by measuring the thermal noise. Not sure what circumstances that would be useful in, though.

I can also remember a project that used the arm of a galvanometer as a very sensitive balance for weighing tiny masses, too, which is the same sort of idea but the way it worked was to put a feedback loop around the voice coil and measure the current needed to keep it locked in place against the weight of the sample. https://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/equipment/s... is a copy of the original article which would probably appear at https://www.scientificamerican.com/id/down-among-the-microgr... if I had access.
My personal issue with squats and deadlifts is that, if your form is not good, they are more likely to give you back pain.

They are rumored to be really good for you, though.
Yes, but we are not building in the empty area.

We either need to reduce population growth, or convince politicians, voters, people looking to buy, and developers that just because we can't make a new hip metro area overnight doesn't mean we simply ignore all our available land (rather than continuously talking past each other on the issue of "we need more housing in desirable areas" vs "we need to not harm desirable areas").

Both seem like impossible tasks, depressingly.
Most basements had (and still have) a cooler termperature than the ground one.

In a small village of Salamanca, when the temperature outside was around 30C, inside a cellar/basement it would perfectly be at 18 or even 16C depending on the corner.

Also, being underground (or semi-underground under a separate room from the house) was an advantage on wars against pillage or further bombings.

Under the Spanish right-wing dictatorship, a lot of people had banned magazines and books well kept under/inside basement trunks, relatively hidden from the usual rooms at home, as most people would just think of a basement as a room to store old junk, ripped clothes, photos, family related letters or broken hardware. And a bunch of food, maybe.

Rural Spain's homes were built on thick walls often made from stone bricks, they isolated from both heat and cold, which can drop below 0 with ease at Winter on non-coastal zones and reach up to 40C temps at Summer.
Err.. most other browsers on iOS do have an adblocker built in. It’s solely Mozilla dumping their users out in the cold.

These days ads are an attack vector. I’d never let my parents browse the web without a blocker.
My point was that we don't have super intelligent AGI so there is little to suggest it will just be software.

Even the state of the art systems we have today need to be running on some pretty significant hardware to be performant right?
Why can't the number of rows loaded be stored in the URL?

You could use hx-push-url [1] every time the scroll triggers loading more rows, updating the total number of rows loaded. When the browser refreshes the page, the backend will know how many rows to return. No need for complicated JS plugins and service workers. Just basic browser feature, HTTP and HTML. You have fewer ways of shooting your own foot.

I think the modern frontend environment have a tendency to look for over complicated solutions.

Most times I see people proposing JS to manipulate the browser, a simpler browser-based solution would be perfectly good.

In most cases when I browse the web, the JS manipulation leads to very poor UX.

Even when the developer is exceptionally good and can deliver better solution than the browser, the advantage gain is so small that it's not worth the effort. Unless you're Facebook and can dillute the high-quality development cost to billions of users.

[1] https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-push-url/
Well, I am not such a strict follower of a religion but I believe that if someone listens to Satan - the consequences are his/her own responsibility, not a Satan's guilt. If I am not mistaken - Satan makes offers. You can accept or pass over. If you accept - you are liable, not the other way around.
I am not aware of anything in this world that is safe even when used in unsafe way.
Hiding an information just because someone thinks it is "not safe" is a classic censorship. Once the words are censored - there is literally just one step to the censoring of thoughts.
Biden to ban US sales of Kaspersky software over ties to Russia
My conclusions were not about how to do drug pricing in general. Rather about how we could justify a lower price for this specific drug.

The success of Ozempic is exceptional Without a doubt, And I’m arguing that because of this exceptional success, the company can afford to dramatically lower price
When I asked the innocuous question -

https://www.reveddit.com/v/singularity/comments/1bdjf7u/is_t... - The mods deleted the content of the question and the whole question itself.

Go figure!!

This is the original question

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Is the power of AI companies basically their ability to outbid for AI accelerator chips?

It seems to me that all the hype AI companies are getting is primarily due to the ability to outbid competitors for scarce AI chips, or even design and/or build their own. This also includes their ability to build their own infrastructure around them.

IMHO this scarcity is the main source of their high valuations, and it seems that in the long term when chipmaking capacity builds up this advantage will eventually wane.

Having the ability to train on information provided by users and customers is also a factor, but that doesn't look like it will last either

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Like "tacticool" hunting gear: flash over function.

Of course, if you're watching this, ("see the host"), the part of the function of the microphone is to look good. Add to the scene instead of detract. You may feel the big fancy showy things do not add value, but that's getting into questions of taste that are subjective, innit.

There was a fashion for some particular old microphones, a while back; where they'd been produced but found little success but were valued years after for the particular properties they might've had. Often these were from the early days and were big chonky things and used designs that were impractical.

The visual impression of that gear hit us in our childhoods and gave us the image of the fancy suspension rig and technical looking complexity.

With modern processing, it should be able to match the performance (good or bad) of any microphone with quite cheap sensors plus some software. The Shure SM58 shall finally inherit the whole of the Earth.
To grossly oversimplify, it's a choice between "make things better by starting fresh" (Deno) vs "make things better but don't change anything" (Bun). Bun's approach is easier to adopt, and seems to be "good enough" for many people.

Deno made a very deliberate compatibility break from the Node ecosystem. They wanted fresh start, to make smarter choices and ditch historical baggage. They thought people would be motivated to push through the adoption friction. I think that plan has been less successful than hoped, and Deno keeps walking it back. They're more compatible than before, but aren't a drop-in replacement. IMHO they prefer it that way.

Bun, on the other hand, explicitly feels that any compatibility gap with Node is a bug. Bun wants to beat Node at its own game, wants adoption to be as easy as running `bun index.js` instead of `node index.js`. Then you opt into their special APIs as-needed. Bun's headline feature is "free speedup", but they also target many of the same DX conveniences Deno does, like trivial TS integration.

When Deno came out, the question was "how is Deno better than Node?". Deno had strong answers, give or take the compatibility differences. But today you could instead ask, "why port to Deno instead of just dropping in Bun?", and that's more complicated to decide.
ES modules work natively in browsers, which are the slow-moving ships of the ecosystem. Changing course for them is completely unrealistic.

There’s a billion browser clients out there. That ensures that whatever API they ship, an increasing amount of code will be written directly against it. Everybody else just needs to adapt or be seen as incompatible with the baseline of JavaScript.
I'm usually a +1 for the empathy train and second chances, but it seems like the guy legitimately committed fraud and hasn't taken responsibility for his it his company's actions.

There's a big difference between an honest mistake and a dishonest one. Given the harm he's seemingly caused people through the dishonesty, it doesn't make sense to give him the opportunity to continue lying and harming people

Edit for typo
A lot is going on. 15 years ago farmers were putting the dog in the tractor - it worked so long as there were no deer or other things in the field. Safety is just as hard as for cars though and so progress is just as slow.

I work for john deere. But I don't have non public information and I don't speak for the company.
It could work with abundant housing, say 20% more housing than the number of people that want to live there. If there's always a lot of empty units, landlords are encouraged to reduce rents to not be stuck with too many vacancies. Rents can go up so much now because there are more qualified applicants than units. That number likely requires about 200% more housing in large cities, which is unlikely to ever happen.
IMO, it's the best thing to happen to Node. It (kinda) unifies browser and server syntax, and across competing server-side JS frameworks (Node, Deno, Bun). CommonJS was clearly a NodeJS thing.

We embraced ESM a couple of years back. It was a bit harder earlier on; for example our test frameworks didn't support mocking ESM code well enough. But now there's hardly anything to complain about. There's no going back really - we wouldn't want to.
I understand it in practice but I also think it's weird to be working on something that isn't aiming to grow, maybe not to good scale but building systems which are "distributable" from and early stage seems wise to me.
> Blame Apple.

Blame Mozilla. Most iOS browsers have built-in adblocking.
Optimizing Image Loading with AVIF Placeholders for Enhanced Performance
Because the Blobs saw how's drone perform in Ukraine war and they are spooked that US has no national champions for drones.
I take the above comment as addressing a use case for blockchain that isn't currency.

The context I think they are proposing blockchain to be useful is in verifiable public information. For information to be verified or analyzed the blockchain can verify the source even offline.
I think this is going to be a heavy lift, and one of the reasons I think a chat bot is not the right UX. Every time someone says “all you need to get to do to get ChatGPT working is provide it explicitly requirements and iterate”, and for a lot of coding tasks it’s much easier to just hack on code for a while, then be a manager to a 80% right intern.
This video is a good summary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aitVHsg0rWA
How a Bicycle is Made (1945) [video]
It's a fear that US has no similarly competitive drone companies
Service workers seems like overkill

HTMX has pretty simple controls for pushing history state from either the client or the server for each request.

Add the current page into the URL every time you load a new section and when someone hits 'back', they can be given exactly the same content as they had before
Can you explain exactly who the ego individuals and groups are within GNOME right now?

GNOME works great for me.
by tradition the eldest son stays with his parents. when he gets married, the wife moves in with them and they take over the household, including taking care of the husbands parents. the parents in turn help the couple to raise their children, and pass on all their knowledge and experience. and this wasn't driven by lack of money. the parents often went out of their way to build out the house for their son. one friend i visited had a house with three floors and a beautiful courtyard.

on the face of it, a beautiful multi-generation lifestyle, if it weren't focused on boys.

because that is the reason why having a boy is favored. why one woman told me how her husband was in prison because he defended his wife against her father who attacked his own daughter for not having children. why another woman had a nervous breakdown because her first child was a girl, to the point that she rejected her own daughter and it took years for her to recover and accept the girl.

these are just anecdotes, but their severity suggests that this expectation is not uncommon.

the irony of the second story is that the husbands parents weren't bothered by the girl at all. they loved her. it was the womans own upbringing that caused her reaction.
And who decides what undermines those tools?
I'd certainly be happy for KFBP AC (of "Packer Whacker" fame) to drop a rank on the list of unintentionally useful oz billionaires...
RISC-H: Rowhammer Attacks on RISC-V [pdf]
Ylva Johansson?

We're not sending our best!

/Swede in the US
One enormous advantage of federated systems is that they can route around this idiocy. For example, I host a Mastodon server in California. There was zero chance I’d comply with EU’s law, any more than I would PRC’s. That’s their little policy, not mine.
Probably not, but your DNA gives you good enough prompts to fake it.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

I love to think about how this would feel for "AI" too :)
Show HN: Free Domain Ideas – Simple & Quick Domain Name Generator
You are misleading people into making insecure choices. Go check Brave on iOS right now and tell me that it doesn’t have adblocking.

Given that, telling you to be quiet is about as polite as it gets.
Hey HN,

14 years ago on HN a domain name generator launched called Impossibility (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1874465), as a bloke with a fair few side projects I really enjoyed the speed and simplicity

The site shut down a few years ago (and the domain name was bought by a porn site hence @dang having to remove the URL) and I've not found a service that replicates it to my liking.

So, I rebuilt it, I've got a few tweaks still to make but I'm pleased with the current speed and simplicity of it.
Would be nice if browsers would group back button entries by:
1. same url except hash
2. same domain
3. rest
I'm wondering if at this point its more of an autocracy of systems. And whilst you can vote for the top layer that (nominally?) governs the system/institution, the system itself is permanent and continuous.
I was paid, for every hour I put into it, and I got paid more because I was also doing the front-end work from there on. It wasn't a whole lot more, but I did end up buying my first MacBook Pro with the money I made on the project.
It's refreshing to see a site where the status page is unaffected by the downtime itself, and where it's even updated to show the status. AWS could learn a thing or two from them.
What the heck?

On Wednesday night it was reported that the Post Office had accidentally published
the names and home addresses of 555 post office operators wrongfully convicted in the
Horizon scandal.

At this point the Post Office should be told to step away from the computer because its too drunk. :(
yes, we're evaluating Delta. We went with Iceberg out of concern that Delta was too closely tied to Databricks.

Following the Tabular acquisition, the decision is murkier.
This is life. Most of the things humans value require constant effort and maintenance. And things are reversed all the time.
To de-stress, I play jazz rock drums with my feet (actually I play the whole band at once); see e.g. http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1268
Title is a lie

Actual article title is "Is the Sugar Substitute Xylitol Safe for Your Heart?" with a subtext: "New research suggests the sweetener is linked to health issues. Here’s what to know."

The text itself reads "The research does not prove that sugar alcohols like xylitol and erythritol directly cause heart attacks"
> they just lied about being able to afford to deliver it for free.

But they never said it'll be free - I'm pretty sure it was always advertised as a paid add-on subscription. With that being the case, why would they not just offer multiple tiers to Copilot, using different models or credit limits?
It seems like “I am genius and you are an idiot syndrome" and "ranting of an asshole" are on opposite ends of the spectrum, and directly in opposition to each other.

The very sort of hypemongers and grifters the author complains about often hide unsustainable claims behind complicated language and opaque terminology, with the intent of portraying themselves as experts and making clear-headed criticism seem uneducated or uninformed in comparison.

The author here is making a deliberate choice to use a ranty tone to cut through that sort of bullshit, and in doing so, successfully expressed his frustration with the pervasive level of hype in AI discussions.
Recyling plastic has died for me. I read an article (probably posted on HN) that convinced me the act of "recyling" dumps enough microplastics into the water stream that it's all better off in a landfill. Finally that was it for me. Maybe on the odd day I'll throw # 1 PETE into the recyling bin, else it's into the garbage bag for me. Now we must simply focus on buying less.
Thanks for pointing out `package.provided`. It does look like it could be a reasonable way to do this, but I'm not sure how exactly I'd be able to atomically swap GNU coreutils for uutils coreutils using that method?

I think I'd need to add `sys-apps/coreutils` to `package.provided`, then install uutils coreutils while telling Portage to ignore file collisions (because I'd be overwriting GNU coreutils binaries). However, that would have hidden the fact that I would have also been overwriting binaries from other packages (for example `hostname`, which is provided by `sys-apps/net-tools` in Gentoo).
Indeed. I'd much rather someone like Altman does it who is shifty but can at least be controlled by the US government than someone like Putin who'd probably have it leverage their nuclear arsenal to try "denazify" planet like he's doing in Ukraine.
I still don't understand why sales tax is so popular instead of taxing on cooperate profits. Sales taxes create all the problems, the tax is passed directly onto customers, and the administrative costs are higher.
Any thoughts/experience with surgery to excise the herniated portions of the discs?
It did pay off, absolutely. The confidence all by itself was probably the biggest reward, but I also got paid for the time I put in. It was a one-off project but I went on to land bigger jobs after that.
I guess we're going to blow ourselves up sooner or later ...
What price controls other countries have allow for profits that are more than healthy. And I don't think that the economics of pharmaceutical research are all that closely coupled to the prices of drugs in the US. The apparent profit margin of the US parma industry is just too high for that - I have seen 70% cited compared to ~20% in other countries. [Source:https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/research/flow-of-money-through-...]

Lets just think about your 3B weighloss thing leaving out complications like its a spherical cow in a vaccum - there are enough overweight people in the world that if you can sell enough of it to each of them at a 10USD profit in total you easily make that back. Imagine what a 20usd per cured overweight person profit would do. isn't doubling your money enough? And considering that new potentially overweight people are born every day it would be a perpetual (spherical) cash cow.
I had a disc injury about two years ago, so this is fresh for me. I've always been pretty active and consider myself to be in really good shape, but I started running longer distances leading up to a marathon and bad things happened. I think my hamstrings tightened up, which pulled on other things, and it all came to a head during a golf swing where I could hear an audible crack. Pain was 9/10 and I couldn't stand up straight for a solid month.

After 12 months of trying many things, including 6 months of PT, I believe the following things to be true:
- Walking is better than sitting because it gets things moving
- Ice as soon as possible if you have a flare-up
- Strength core/training is essential. I have always been in good shape from a cardio perspective, but never lifted weights. Now I have 12 weight-lifting exercises that I do 2 sets of 20 at the gym twice per week. Also, I do 40 lunges on a Roman chair at home every day, which my physical therapist told me is the single most important exercise.

It's a lot of work and it takes a lot of time, but I seem to recover faster if I have a flare-up, and they're not as severe. Also, I feel like I'm in better shape overall. It's nice to have some muscle instead of being a noodly-ass dude who can run a long way.
Reddit has no community, unlike forums. It's strangers among strangers. It invites bullying, dunking, humiliating. Whoever drops the joke the fastest gets the most karma.

Instagram is quite similar and will recycle the same material for weeks. Take an old top comment burn from one reel and drop into a fresh new one, instant upvotes.

Twitter/X is just very public. Take a celebrity, say Paul Graham. Dude posts something random about rich people. Ha, let's eat the rich in public. Call Sam Altman a sociopath. Hate on Elon Musk on his own website.

Facebook has no downvote. You can say whatever you like and nobody will counter it. Controversial opinions thrive here. Fertile ground for anti-vax, anti-maskers, flat Earthers.

HN is well, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725329 It creates little containers around these kinds of topics. There's no way to downvote a topic either, and this one survived and rocketed after 14 or so flagged repostings.

tl;dr carrot and stick
> Too much of the foundational ecosystem relies on it.

Not saying it needs to be done, but this can possibly be handled via a tranpiler layer. It might make CommonJS a bit slower to startup (but fully functional), which is an added incentive to move.

Again, I don't have any opinion on whether this is a good thing. Like you said, too many modules depend on it.