skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A man's labor and intelligence can eventually earn him $10k to buy a car. Over a long career, one might eventually amass a fortune on the order of $1M. Kim might (hypothetically) have an IQ of 150 and be willing to work punishingly long hours where our analogous car buyer went home to be with his family. But it's completely farcical to state that he's 10,000 times smarter or harder-working than a baseline human, that's absurd - it's far more reasonable to assume that he assigned the value of the efforts of others to himself, stole, manipulated, scammed, or otherwise acquired that $175M illegitimately. And that's ignoring that it was $175M in cash, as if it was pocket change to him; there's no good explanation for him to have that much in investments much less in physical money lying around.

I feel the same about Musk's or Bezos' mind-boggling fortunes; Jeff isn't making $2M per hour while his exhausted employees make $16/hr (while peeing in bottles on a breakneck pace through the warehouse) because he's foregoing all human needs and limits, packing boxes at hypersonic speeds for 60 hours per day without rest. Obviously, he makes $2M/hr because their labor is worth $25/hr or more and he diverts the excess for himself.
Very tiny insect eaten, vid w/ timestamp

https://youtu.be/8i9WMD6xbuA?t=850
yup, what a bummer
Don't the court already did #1?
They probably could if the host country agreed to it. It's just a matter of diplomacy. The US certainly doesn't have any special status, just better relationships, especially with the English-speaking countries.
There are a few options I've thought of, including these ones off the top of my head:

1. Just enable each on first use, instead of using a catch-all at all, though there is a danger there of bounces due to mistakes on my part.

2. Keep the catch-all but send to a junk folder unless the destination address is on a white-list, this has the advantage that if I forget to add the new address (or do it incorrectly) no mail is lost as I can move it out of junk after the fact (as long as I notice within 30 days).

3. Generate the addresses either fully or as <picked-portion>.<truncated-salted-hash-of-that>@sub.domain.tld, so ea588e3be96e89.8177be49@sub.here.com or SomeShop.499ec679@sub.there.com, and use programmatic filtering to decide where the messages go (junk unless the hash matches). The disadvantages of that are needing to have access to the generator at any time I need an address, difficulty giving addresses verbally (there would be transcription errors), and it does nothing for existing addresses.

Option 2 is probably the winner there.

Every now and then I think of another option then dismiss it as overcomplicated or otherwise not workable.
One of our former prime ministers, Paul Keating, came out strongly against the submarine deal. IIRC two important dimensions are that Australia has shallow waters which are not a good fit for the chosen submarine technology and that tactically it makes limited sense for Australia to focus on weapons to be used on our largest trading partner.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/15/paul-...

I am not an expert on any of the above.
Except institutional investors ARE restricted based on what kind of investment they need to fill out the specific portfolio they're administering.

Oftentimes these restrictions limit them to a subset of companies in a certain market to fill a specific niche in the name of diversification. Are they artificial limitations? Sure, but only in the sense that there is no regulation saying they cannot find a different company to invest in.

All that to say that things are not nearly as cut-and-dry as it may seem.
This would be helpful if it took into account monthly burn.

How much do I need invested at x% if I spend $y/mo on living expenses, to retire within z years?

Even better if it accounts for 2~4% annual inflation.
Manufacturers are also not making it easy for people to choose smaller cars.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/suv-small-car-affordable-1.7239768
> Every scrap of data they have, accurate or not, can be used to hurt you.

What are some examples of inaccurate data, as in completely false data, being able to hurt me?
I am currently trying to fit Obsidian into my workflow as a note taking app, and this is one of my main gripes about the app. Another being that it does not integrate well with the operating system spell checking, so adding a word elsewhere to the system dictionary does not reflect in Obsidian, and the other way around.
How much physical cash (actual notes/bills) do you think Google founders have in their home? Close to $175 million?

Not that that justifies anything, people should be free to keep as much physical cash as they want.
Tens of millions of people want to host a WordPress site and very few of them want to deal with setting up a database, editing config files, securing a server. Most of them have no idea what that stuff means.
Hey sorry, overnight there was performance degradation which made the server run very slow (~100MSPT). I restarted the server for a temporary fix and will fix it sometime today.
given the reduced size, weight, and top speed, and the huge visibility of the kei cars, then it makes still less sense to ban them
One factor to take into account is that streets and roads are narrower (or at least feels narrower). I would be very uncomfortable driving those huge SUV where I live.
> It fits his personality perfectly to do something like keep all his money in cash

How do you explain this part then:

> Dotcom's bank accounts were frozen, denying him access to 64 bank accounts world-wide
The article says the first plugin hybrid on the new EV platform will likely be a Corolla plug-in hybrid that should be available in the US in 2027.
I don't know about you, but where I come from this looks like punishment through process. Not even trying to defend this Kim dude, just pointing out just because the process is "fair" doesn't mean its fair. Yes that is not a very well articulated point, but this is something which many people should have a feeling for in their bones.
I now need USB rabbit ears so I can tune to the correct spot.
What would be great is a PHEV where you could slowly add more batteries over time. Or had the space and vendor support to up the EV only range.
A fair amount of “this is fine, governments enforce IP laws and that’s a public good” vibes in here, which is all a very reasonable perspective.

I’d argue Kim was too successful and too unlikeable at the end of the day, and that was probably his downfall. Toward the end, MEGA had transitioned to actually partnering with hip hop artists for distribution.

The US has a long history of IP rights holders criminalizing new business models / protecting current models in law, and then a fair amount shaking down and sorting out happening as new technology hits the scene, going back to radio. Each of these waves has led to push / pull between distributors, retailers, artists and song writers, and whether or not you like it, that’s the system we have today.

MEGA was too early and too tainted (and run by an aggressively weird / antagonistic dude) to become Spotify. But, it wasn’t the wrong model using tech of the time. It was too early, and too successful, without cutting in the existing rights holders properly.
As we cannot read thoughts, how else might consciousness manifest if not by word or deed?
It appears to me that your two paragraphs contradict each other. If we break up Google and what comes afterwards is worse, then break it up or we'll get worse? Is it worse if we do and worse if we don't? Which "worse" is worse?

Or do I misunderstand your point?

The whole point of breaking up monopolies is not moral principle. It's so that things get better for customers. If they don't, then what's the justification for breaking them up?
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Not in a city they aren't. They are an excellent commuting tool that offers much of the flexibility of a car for a fraction of the cost and much better commute time.
> Tweet about opposing war in ukraine arguing that NATO is outdated and not in the interest of Ukrainians? Oh pay no attention to him -- he is on the communist payroll.

Hailing from a country that joined NATO in the 90s I wouldn't brand a person arguing this as being on communist payroll - just ignorant beyond measure.

Russia has been a consistently bad neighbour for decades now and I for one am happy that in my country it was the post-communists out of everyone who spearheaded the effort to have a deterrent in the form of NATO membership.

Finland and Sweden appear to agree, considering how they joined the alliance.

If anything, NATO is now more relevant than ever.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not - Toyota is widely considered to have pioneered hybrid technologies and then completely squandered whatever technical lead they had.
Their main EV at the moment is awful in terms of basic EV efficiency and value wise it's not competitive with anything, it's like it's made by someone who has 0 experience with EV building and it's really hurting Toyota to have such a weird product out - I'd ask who is actually buying these.
tribalism. Probably on the democrat side and probably because Kim has been active on X. propaganda and its effects are literally that dumb and predictable (thus the NPC label).
Nonsense. It has no more power than Microsoft or Apple.
Ma Bell didn’t have the power to cut off advertising revenue to YouTubers who say things the company does like, nor the power to shape the global access to information with search, nor did they scan people’s communications
Immediately worse vs. worse long term.
There is trust involved here. And people trust Troy Hunt.

And of course you can download SHA ranges and do lookup offline: https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...

He even previously encouraged to download via torrent, but now it seems there is a custom tool to download that data.
Improving transcription for non-native speakers using AI, IPA and linguistics
Surely the crawling is the easiest part? The AI goldrush has seen dozens of new players gobbling up the entire internet.

The hard part is turning that staggering amount of unstructured data into a useful search engine, and in particular fighting off black-hat SEO.
> As an Aussie observer, I'm seeing more US influence in our region.

Australia and New Zealand have extradition treaties with dozens of countries, it's not just a US thing.
The worst part is that it’s the best UI for its product segment by far, and I don’t think it’s even close.

The bar is incredibly low.
That's a pipe dream and really achieves nothing other than hurting Google.
I like the idea of UDP, but protocols like WebTransport aren't 100% supported and are still relatively new compared to websockets. But you're right, using UDP would be a less latent approach and clientside prediction can account for any lost packets.
So what? are you a record executive? why do you feel so strongly about this? what is motivating you to simp for the empire so hard?
Oh that's so funny that is a real thing I thought it was a joke about the fictional reticulum computer network from the Neal Stephenson novel Anathem.
Algorithm invented and built by 14 year old...
Breaking up their individual businesses can cause each business to have incentives that line up better with their customers / users. Example: if Chrome was separated from Google, they won't have as much of an incentive to push back against adblockers with things like Manifest V3. Or include APIs that are only available to google websites (Which it has! https://x.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018)
I really don't understand comments like this.

Someone spends time and effort building something they find useful and publish it for free. But because they integrated an objectively useful tool that isn't perfect, people feel the need to point that one thing out.

If it's not for you, it's not for you. If you don't like that feature, fork the repo and create your own version without it. Or just ignore it and move on.
Yeah, what’s wrong with that? The problem is that US regulations reinforce the creation of unnecessarily large vehicles, largely as the only local option. We have no need for international cars, and inherently transporting them is bad for the environment. It makes far more sense to broaden emission standards across the board to ALL vehicles so that smaller vehicles have a larger market presence and then if international brands want access to the US market they can create US jobs by opening factories.
Galois Theory
The funny thing is this is going to be benefit Microsoft significantly. Much of what Google did Chrome, Android, etc. was to prevent Microsoft from destroying it like Netscape, Novell, Lotus, Wordperfect, ...

It's probably no coincidence that Google's first external CEO Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Novell.
There are probably only a small number of services that could successfully spin off on their own, but a lot of the value is in integration, which as others point out is also how some things seem 'free'.

An easier example would be Microsoft and Office; you could spin off an application like that quite successfully, the same might apply to their ERP. But those examples only stem from the fact that they used to be isolated 'offline' products, and Microsoft is working hard to undo that.

Trying to draw parallels between that and Google Workspace, that is a technical nightmare considering the entire distributed nature means that half of workspace can't exist outside of Google. You'd have to copy Google to host it outside of it, and I'm not talking about GCP or Borg or anything like that, it's everything, from the GSLB to Zanzibar, from monorail to the custom hardware everything runs on. Perhaps a double-digit years long refactor could change that, but nobody wants to pay for that.
It is interesting how nostalgia can draw us back
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The article doesn't really support that claim. Yes, larger vehicles have higher margins, just as higher trim levels do. But it is also true that small vehicle sales are consistently poor. Of course manufacturers aren't very interested in a low-volume low-margin market segment, which led to the tragic death of cars like the Fit.

That's why the article you linked says things like:

> Long, a sustainable transportation researcher at Simon Fraser University, and Jonn Axsen, professor of sustainable transportation at SFU, undertook a study of 1,000 SUV drivers in the Vancouver area. The study revealed that drivers "see them as superior to cars," said Long.

People are happy and willing to pay more for larger cars. Manufacturers are delighted to oblige. Given the choice between a small car and a large car, the typical consumer chooses the larger car. The fact that a small number of consumers like me prefer Honda Fits is not enough to justify their continued production.
#2 will get you laughed out of any room. The goal here is not to destroy Google.
Breaking up Google gets worse the longer we wait.
Ha, well said. Having both of these experiences makes one even more against the tyranny of monopolists.
I think they were just backing up the "he's not small folk like us" statement.
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Hello everyone! I've implemented a toy language called Toc using TypeScript's type system, with the aim of learning TypeScript's type gymnastics and exploring the power of type programming.Toc uses a C-style syntax, close to JavaScript, and supports both dynamic and base types (numbers, booleans, strings, and null). It allows variables, expressions, block statements, if-else conditional statements and for loops, functions as first-class citizens that can be passed in and out, and support for closures.

Despite the implementation of the basic functionality, there are some unfortunate aspects, in particular functions do not support recursion (I don't know how to implement it). Also, functions don't support return statements, loops don't support break, etc. (these should be possible, I'm just a bit tired ).

Error handling is also sketchy, as there is currently no line number information, making it difficult to locate errors when the program is long. There is also a lack of composite data types (such as objects or arrays).

I would like to share this project with you and welcome any suggestions or contributions to improve it, especially to solve the problem of functions not supporting recursion! If you're interested in implementing these features, feel free to visit my GitHub repository at [Toc](https://github.com/huanguolin/toc) and submit a PR. I welcome discussion and feedback!
They might make sense if in the long term we build out a nuclear deterrent? We'd need a handful of deep water submarines with big missiles on them. Although I expect that it'll turn out they're designed wrong for that or something.

Other than that I can't see what situation they'd be useful in practice though. If we get into a war with Indonesia, China or the like that is the end. There will be no winners and we'll either lose or be ruined. One of the lessons in the modern era is if a country can't defend itself with diplomacy then it is in a lot of trouble.

I assume we're buying this gear as some sort of realpolitik tribute-style thing for the US military industrial complex. If the point isn't to give them money I doubt we're achieving our goals.
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There's still a wide world out there where hybrids are more practical. Their EVs aren't great, but they have time to fix that.
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> plugin hybrids

That's the plan once their battery factory in NC goes online.

Toyota's battery partner Idemetsu Kosan is also on the verge of mass producing solid-state batteries too, along with Mitsubishi's AGC along with CATL's founder TDK.

Japan's Public-Private Solid-State Battery R&D Strategy is a great template for how these kinds of research programs should be lead [0][1][2] but doesn't get enough limelight because most info is in Japanese

[0] - https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/energy_environment/global_warm...

[1] - https://www.meti.go.jp/english/report/pdf/0520_001a.pdf

[2] - https://www.meti.go.jp/english/policy/energy_environment/glo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4TXAaqmj0E

This video of Kim is a classic (I think it came out origianlly c. 2009). The last shot of his table with a stack of Gold Bars in the middle is very revealing (or maybe moreso is his Rolls Royce with the plate "GOD")....
OP complimented the hybrid strategy and your criticism is off an EV.
> tech products tend to be natural monopolies

Based on what evidence? Isn't the simpler explanation "VC wants big return; VC funds tech; therefore VC encourages monopolies"?
>Google's "search results" are the textbook definition of a monopolized good/service.

Defining a market as a specific search engine's search results is wild. Wouldn't every search engine have a monopoly over it's results? A grocery store monopoly over its shelves?

Etc.
The Apple deal had two sides engaged in monopolistic behavior. One was Google buying out that default provider option. The other was Apple, having that default option.
Maybe so that there is at least the opportunity for things to improve?
> A fitting though unlikely outcome would be for Google to be forced to turn Chrome and the open source Chromium project over to Mozilla. That would probably involve the creation of an independent non-profit foundation that didn't reduce browser diversity – so Chrome and Firefox could continue to lead independent lives.

Okay ... that is some serious wishcasting.
He moved to New Zealand after much of the alleged criminal conduct, in a deal where he was pretty explicitly buying residency to the point that immigration authorities tried to keep it a secret. (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6547471/Secrecy-over-...)
Hey sorry, there was performance degradation overnight which made the game server super slow. It should be better right now.
Though only show the markdown if one is expected to edit it (which would be the case in an editor).

Otherwise, if the usecase is consumption you are better to show the generated output.
Answer the question yourself by first deciding the market(s) for which you're making that assessment.

Google commands a higher market share % of search than Microsoft does of personal computing OS.
That would be amazing, except the manufacturer incentives to do so are not there :-( I have a Volvo XC60 T8 with an 11.6kWh battery, and apparently their new 18.8kWh battery fits in the same space - but Volvo doesn't support that as an upgrade, because obviously they would rather sell you a new car than a new battery.
The best time to break up Google was 15 years ago. The second best time is now.
> A small truck has just as much possibility to kill as a big truck, and in fact due to the smaller application of similar forces its more likely to seriously cripple you, even if said hit was non-fatal.
> While I’m all for reducing the size of cars in USA, pretending that ”massive modern trucks” are the only ones that kill is just wrong.

The argument is that a larger truck is more likely to kill - instead of resulting in injuries that can be treated. There is evidence for this.
Sure, so is commiting murder.

We're talking about software and (well, mostly) media piracy, movies and music here.
OCaml? Thanks for saving me a click!
i'm not familiar with brazilian regulations but normally 80 amps would be about 3-gauge, 26mm². you can bend it with your bare hands if you get the stranded stuff. here in argentina people are evidently a lot more lax than that, so maybe in brazil they are too, but clearly you need at least 12mm²
Phosphor, potassium,calcium, sodium, magnesium and sulphur are needed in not so trace quantities. Iron, zinc, copper, iodine, selenium, manganese, fluoride, chromium and molybdenum require less amounts, but are still important for a lot of processes. Cobalt is part of the vitamin B12, so not optional neither. And probably several more that I'm not counting here.

And besides having the elements, how they are arranged is important too, as with the vitamin B12 example, or being in a way that can be assimilated correctly. Its not an one-size-fits-all protein or whatever that solves nutrition. Could prevent a calories deficit, and give some proteins/aminoacids, but that is not the whole story.
It’s an odd “in between” between classic TV and YouTube itself.

If you want to watch “the most likely thing you would want to watch” (NFL, Olympics main feed), YouTubeTV is great.

But as soon as you want to find something off the top few recommendations, it gets much harder. Compare that to regular TV, when I could just remember 27 is Discovery Channel and get there instantly.
I have a Chevy Volt (second gen). It looks like a normal car, has a 50-mile range on the battery and also has a gas engine. The passenger and luggage area are pretty normal, maybe the center rear seat isn't usable, but it isn't really usable in most sedans. I really want a previous-gen sized Ford Ranger or current Ford Maverick with the same battery range.