skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The vast majority of money doesn't represent human output/labor and none of it is created by human labor.

I agree. That's completely not what I said.

Money is how we keep track of what fraction of the future output of others (of our civilization really) someone or some organization is entited to command (consume or destroy for their needs or schemes) in the future.

> US federal government spends in a single year more than the largest companies in this world would cost to buy flat out.

I'm still not convinced. You can spend a lot when you are incredibly deep in debt. Spending doesn't make you rich.

> This is why I struggle to find a consistent value system that claims we are solving problems by taking money from big earners and giving it to entities that already control many orders of magnitude more money.

The point is not giving money, it's taking the money away. Because there's a limit of how much control over others any single person deserves regardless of what they did.

>> Completely unrelated but since you asked, I have nothing against capping athletes at the top level of success.

> What problem does this solve?

No global problem. But professional sport takes a huge toll on the body and pretty much excludes those people from any useful form of activity for entire span of their career and possibly later only for our grotesque entertainment. I don't agitate for limits in sport but that's just an example that reasonable limits may benefit people in many areas.
That's true, but it feels like a big jump when cameras start replacing the moon with their higher res version of the moon or when people are erased from photos or their facial expression is cut and pasted from another image. You aren't just tuning an photograph, you are fabricating something that never existed.
I didn't mean to indicate a trend toward mobile over desktop, but a trend to browser over desktop experiences. Native desktop apps and functionality should be the environment targeted by most apps, and conformity to those expectations would maximize user experience. Unfortunately, everyone wants everything run as PWA in browsers, to try and get some of that sweet, sweet adtech revenue.
Where can i find such sites
> they basically disqualified themselves from the start by nerfing the "core" version so bad it was useless

Ran the core version for around 3 years in production for a smart city project. The company I worked for has been running it for around 6 years. Not sure what you are talking about. Of course, we would love to use features like stale replicas for exports. But this isn't something we absolutely need.
And this is why I love HN. I did some research before this project, but now I can go look into Miller columns. Thank you!
Microsoft gave up on maintaining their own browser engine (Trident) almost a decade ago, and therefore are now dependent on Chrome's engine (Blink). Since then there have only been three independent browser engines: WebKit (Safari), Gecko (Firefox), and Blink (Chrome, Chromium, Opera, Brave, Edge, ...). Maintaining a performant + featureful + safe browser engine is a massive task, requiring many expensive engineers -- and Blink/V8 in particular has a lot of complexity (sea-of-nodes repr, their weird DSL, ...) that other engines don't. So if Google dropped Chrome, Microsoft would have a hard time picking it up, but would need to if they wanted to keep providing Edge.
They neglected to put in other numbers though because the other numbers don’t fit their narrative.

For instance, the total tonnage
of atmospheric air which dwarfs their scare numbers by any measure. 5.15 x 10^15 tons is a way bigger number.

Which if you do the math means these deorbiting satellites will be adding 0.0000000771 ppm to the atmosphere.

You probably get exposed to 10,000 times more than that heating a leftover burrito in foil in the toaster oven.

They also conveniently chose to share the much higher urban rate for Starlink service when conceding that it is useful in rural areas, trying to make it seem less appealing with their if you can afford it verbiage.

It’s clear what’s going on here. Agenda driven “journalism” that hates on technology with a crafted narrative.
If the author is here, the audio clips don't play for me. Firefox console has: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: document.querySelector(...).contentDocument is null
Not really. It would take immense effort to train bots to play “like humans” and not “as performantly” as humans which is very different. And if you’re going to be optimizing game parameters that means you’re assuming that either the AI doesn’t change its behaviors even though the game is different or you’re assuming that humans will adapts in the same way the bots do.

Like if all the humans use the AK because it’s super over powered, and your optimization algorithm sets the AK damage to 0; what are your “human” bots going to do? Because all the training data says to use the AK.

This approach only makes sense if you’re evaluating bot-optimal play outcomes.

It also takes away a lot of the design thinking behind balance. You probably don’t want to nerf the AK. You probably want to buff counterplay options (guns are not a great example but still)
> The church still harassed scientists in the years to come, notably Galileo Galilei.

This is kind of a popular oversimplification of what was likely to be a very personal and political matter at least as much as it was a matter of heresy, and it absolutely was not the case that the church held a simple antagonism toward science. Galileo worked for and published with the explicit permission of Pope Urban VIII initially.
> I read the New York Times for national news, but regional news (which is the majority of newspapers) consistently don't appeal to me. Why would I pay to read about a carjacking in a far off neighborhood?

It's messed up, but very little national news actually affects you. It's the carjackings, the city council meetings, all the boring boring stuff that actually decides things like your mortgage taxes, driving habits, crime rates in your neighborhood, etc. And it's the state level stuff that decides whether you can conceal and carry, the discounts you can get on electric cars and solar panels, the quality of the schools that are teaching the kids that will (hopefully) fund your retirement and such.

But nobody (including me[1]) cares about it, so nobody wants to pay for it, so reporters aren't getting paid to cover it. That's because we've successfully gamified (inter)national news to make it feel important, and it leads the way in the culture wars that we all think actually matter.

[1] I spend about $50/month on local and state news sources and I read those subscriptions on average about once a month.
Don't understand why hosting providers charge for egress. Why isn't it free? Doesn't that mean that we don't have an open internet, isn't that against net neutrality?
Grifter is uncharitable for someone that is dealing with esoteric things relating to the unconscious where words fail, and who openly admits that what he says isn't intended to be taken as literal truth- I mean he even titled his books things like "the book of lies." His intended audience is too intelligent to be easily "grifted" or to take him literally.

In the words of Garek (Deep Space Nine):

Doctor: What I want to know, out of all of the stories you've told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?

Garek: My dear doctor, they're all true.

Doctor: Even the lies?

Garek: Especially the lies.

Source: https://youtu.be/4n8j6z8fQ_c?feature=shared
So we're ushering in a new era of advanced communication and research for a... 6x increase in aluminum oxide in the ozone layer?

Easy trade no problem. Will do it 100x times over again.
Naming of Hacker News is like Open AI.
Suppose you wanted to rebalance the rules of chess so that the black pieces had equal odds. You really only need to achieve this at the superhuman skill level, and then you could let the matchmaking algorithm could do the rest of the work.
Clown Compting
PyScript is a platform for using Python in the browser to build actual applications.
Curious if you'd elaborate this statement, e.g., WSL is definitely a potential solution to one of the items I brought up, but given what I've stated about the advantages of macOS, would you actually go as far as to say it's a better or comparable experience on Windows? I'd love to hear your argument if so.
maybe he wanted to the subcontract the work but was looking for a remote job to make that easier. the trigger to him ending the interview could have been the interviewer mentioning the office
You seem to be under the misapprehension that kids actually care about the reasons why they bully other kids, and they don't just do it because they're assholes who just want to bully someone and haven't learned how to treat each other yet.
It could be worse, he could have been hired and then turned out to be a remote North Korean worker using fake ID!

https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1824047425822310580
Apple M3 silicon has about 3-4x the perf/w in light workloads as the leading AMD chips on 5nm, despite a slight node disadvantage, let alone the comparisons against generic android phone SOCs.

This is a huge part of what gives them their battery life - it’s not the OS, it’s not the node, it’s not the accelerators, it’s that they pull 1/3 the power running a browser/electron app or a word processor as x86 does.

https://i.imgur.com/Kcwo1OM.png

https://i.imgur.com/IP6vBqk.png

https://i.imgur.com/1pTFnRj.jpeg

Again, you’ve volunteered to self-identify as someone who is doing precisely what GP said: you’ve made your little box and you’ve put people into it and you’ve closed your mind to any alternative possibilities.
I started with Part 4 intentionally, it stands alone from the other three.

This article is a damning call out of the web development industry and how we've gone down a bad path for the Javascript-first landscape of websites and services.

Part 1: https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-landscape/

Part 2: https://infrequently.org/2024/08/object-lesson/

Part 3: https://infrequently.org/2024/08/caprock/

If you want to join the discussion, he's releasing each article via his Mastodon account or RSS feed.

https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff
I wish there was some sort of social-equivalent of FizzBuzz. Something that will filter out 90% of people who are, well, Adam.
This is why you interview.
Stratospheric Al2O3 aerosols from space exploration are a phenomenon studied since at least the 1980's. Space Shuttle pollution probably dwarfs all of these modern sources, since aluminum was the primary fuel for the STS solid rocket boosters (about 160 tons Al per launch if I mathed right).

- "The most probable source of the increasingly abundant classes of stratospheric particles are aerospace activities. As these activities increase, so will the flux of anthropogenic material into the atmosphere[Kessler, 1985; Johnson,1985]. It is possible to predict the composition of these particles from a knowledge of the most commonly used spacecraft materials. There should be four main sources for solid particulate aerospace material in the stratosphere.These are (1) solid rocket fuel exhaust, (2) solid rocket motor (SRM) ablation, (3) thermal reflective paint from the outer hulls of spacecraft,and (4) ablating hardware from satellites and discarded rocket sections in low-Earth orbit."

- "It is well known that solid rocket fuel containing an aluminum additive produces spherical grains composed predominently of alumina when burned, and these particles have previously been noted among stratospheric particle collections [Brownlee et ai., 1976; Zolensky and Mackinnon, 1985]. The use of SRMs has increased steadily since the advent of the space shuttle, in 1981, to a peak in 1985."

https://sci-hub.se/10.1029/jd094id01p01047 ("A tenfold increase in the abundance of large solid particles in the stratosphere, as measured over the period 1976–1984" (1989))

I don't buy for one second the sudden urgency to halt critical US/NATO military space capabilities for a phenomenon that's been studied for 40+ years with no obvious major issues.
Isn’t that expected? That’s how capitalism works. Why would Apple willingly give up their golden goose for others to butcher?
I was given a job "offer" for an international company without any interview whatsoever. It seemed like a scam so I insisted the recruiter set up an interview with the hiring manager. I blew them off as I was traveling for another interview and at least one party was definitely shady. I got a call from an irate recruiter while in the airport returning from a successful interview. Their comeuppance was a delight.
The processing we're starting to do on the standard images on these phones are crazy. I'm always excited for the camera advancements in the phones, but always have to go hunting for an app that does exactly this.
The browser doesn't support TS though. The browser does support Python via PyScript/pyodide/etc.

You can't run TS in the browser unless you jump through the same hoops that PyScript is.
They said the gains I get which is personal and subjective.

They didn't say anything about personally being superior to other people.
This looks cool, but for me one of the big wins with JPlag is that I just download and run a single JAR file.
Which parts are dangerous to the average chum with no enemies?
The "news" is never "new". There is nothing in the news that people haven't been doing to each other for thousands of years.

Some people complain that Hollywood just keeps making the same movies, but they'll watch the same news for their entire lives.
Quite honestly, I could see why they would want to rework big chunks of Shogun 2.

Rome II with all its faults had working cities with plazas and walls. Shogun 2 had maybe 6-8 actually distinct fortresses, where folks just line up on some walls most the time and do tower defense. The AI was always jank.

The "tower defense" gameplay in Shogun 2 was way more enjoyable than in Rome 2 though. Having a small fortress you can tightly defend against overwhelming odds is more fun than having a sprawling city where you're running foot soldiers around plugging gaps along a 20 km long wall.

The other part is the crazy requirement that soldiers be able to fight each other on boats which are very often moving around. Quite honestly naval hand to hand combat is pretty boring, but tacking that requirement on by featuring it in a trailer is an insane decision. Sounds like the marketing team wanted to do Saving Private Ryan in 200 BC. The number of times I actually used this mechanic in a 30 hour campaign was like 3-4 times, and it sucked every time. Typically the soldiers would slowly disembark (quite often literally teleporting to land) and then immediately get run down by enemy cavalry since the AI would get stuck in the "disembark" state and soldiers would stand still barely defending themselves.

Shogun 2 had many of its core problems plastered over with solid game design.

Also CI in gamedev is not nearly as common as in webdev, mainly because the state space for a videogame is far larger than for a web app. These issues are caught at playtesting and QA time, and every stakeholder involved in that process should be well aware that they are shipping a broken game.
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"Let’s imagine Évariste Galois survived that fateful duel and continued his work. What would he have done next? If Galois had lived past 21, he would have likely expanded and deepened his revolutionary ideas. By that time, he had already laid down the foundation of what we now call Galois theory, but there were still many directions he could have explored further.

Generalization of Galois Theory: Galois had just scratched the surface of the powerful connection between field theory and group theory. His next logical step might have been to generalize his ideas to more complex situations, such as understanding the symmetries of solutions to equations in multiple variables or extending his work to non-polynomial equations.

Exploration of Solvable Groups: Galois introduced the concept of solvable groups to determine whether a polynomial equation could be solved by radicals (using addition, multiplication, and roots). If he had lived longer, he would likely have delved deeper into classifying different types of groups and exploring their properties. This could have led to a more detailed theory of group structures, potentially anticipating parts of what we now know as modern group theory.

Linking Galois Theory with Other Areas: Galois might have explored connections between his theory and other areas of mathematics, such as geometry, number theory, or even early versions of what we now call topology. For instance, he could have investigated how the symmetries of geometric shapes relate to the symmetries of algebraic equations.

Developing Further Applications: Beyond theory, Galois could have sought applications of his work in more practical areas. Perhaps he would have applied his ideas to solving problems in physics, mechanics, or other emerging fields, where symmetry plays a crucial role.

Inspiring the Next Generation: If Galois had lived, he might have become a prominent teacher and mentor, influencing a new generation of mathematicians. His radical ideas would have challenged and inspired others to push the boundaries of mathematics even further. Galois could have spearheaded a new movement in algebra, similar to how Einstein revolutionized physics.

Refining His Work: Galois' original manuscripts were hastily written under dire circumstances. Given more time, he would likely have polished and clarified his ideas, making them more accessible to other mathematicians of the time. This might have sped up the acceptance and expansion of his ideas in the mathematical community."

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I'd give it a C for effort, I guess. I don't know enough about the topic to ask it for more specific predictions. At the end of the day it can only work with what it was trained with, so any genuine insights it comes up with will be due more to accident than inspiration.
I was in fact maimed by disease at the age of seven. It has been profoundly isolating in ways that I am only starting to appreciate as I approach middle age. At this point my main goal is to try and have my body repaired to the point where I can do things that most other people take for granted. Given the nature of my problems, this may actually be possible, but for many it will never be.
Sad to hear that. Was that completely peaceful pretest? Why was police even involved then? For a record, I was never beaten up by a police officer, and I've attended all kinds of "wrong" protests (what is the right protest anyway).

Do you have a source? There's plenty of disinformation on the internet, and I'm curious to learn what has happened.
The funniest part of this is that this is an incredibly nice / chill interview process.
Apple's Hold on the App Store Is Loosening, at Least in Europe
AT&T Gets a Wrist Slap for Advertising a Satellite Calling That Doesn't Exist
That doesn't give enough sense of proportion. The mass of the ozone layer is 3 billion tons. Maybe 397 tons of aluminum could be a problem, but it's a very small number in context.
Ask HN: Where are the paid Linux desktop distributions?
Why isn't there any paid linux desktop distribution for personal use?
I don't need enterprise stuff like RHEL, Ubuntu Pro or SLE and I don't really want the latest and greatest release of the usual distributions (often with breaking changes).
I run something more stable i.e. KDE 5, which only has minor deficiencies for my setup. For obvious reasons I'm not yet switching to KDE 6.

Nonetheless, there are still a handful older bugs and occasional issues introduced through security updates. Which means finding, developing and applying patches myself.

Wouldn't it be cool, if there were some paid distribution, for a reasonable personal yearly subscription fee. Where you simply submit the bug reports & outstanding patches that affect you and that distribution would then slowly, but steadily (depending on popularity) backport fixes or even hire developers to develop fixes.

Does or did something like this exist?
Funnily enough, I was recently researching products in this area and when I got to FusionAuth I did exactly what you describe. I couldn't make head nor tail of the pricing page and pretty quickly moved on. So yeah, they're definitely losing customers.
I believe it could be surprising because a person's government has turned them over to a foreign government where they have no representation. The foreign government is not governed by the same Constitution, Bill of Rights, laws, or checks and balances. A core cultural understanding in the US is the rule of law and right of representation in a government by-and-for the people. It could seem like a loophole where the US government can forcibly remove a person's rights.
13kb of 44khz 16bit MONO audio is 150ms, even with compression sampled audio is more or less out of the question.

With pixel art images however you can get a fair bit in if you're comfortable with low resolutions in 8bpp or lower.
Don't forget about the Heisenberg immigrant, who is simultaneously

1. a lazy sponger who just came here to live on benefits

and

2. taking your job

Sky News interviewed someone recently who said he was against immigration because it meant he couldn't get a job. It turned out that this guy was a convicted sex offender who had been in prison for his offence. But no, it was definitely immigrants to blame for him not having a job.
I do not think that guy was only caught by accident. More red flags would have been raised if there had been further interviews.
They don't look "irritating" to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, that is what the colors are indicating. Unless I'm missing something, the white text appears to be the same white in both cases, the text font appears to be the same, and the color saturation and brightness appear to be the same. So I'm not seeing how this was an attempt to make the texts "intentionally" hard to read. If you wanted to make it hard to read, you would have used yellow, not green.
> I'm not sure that I think his arguments work for people who are suffering or struggling to get by.

Here lies Epictetus,
a slave maimed in body,
the ultimate in poverty,
and the favored of the gods.

I see that someone has already mentioned him in this thread, but his epitaph is a direct address to your doubt.
The first mistake was not tossing the application after "Yes, I'm the best". If this is the vibe he's putting out at a time when first impressions are being made, not sure why you'd expect anything different later. This played out very unsurprisingly for me (though I gotta say, I haven't seen that level of negging from a candidate before). Perhaps there are shades of Nigerian scams here: "if they eat up my original ridiculous message, I bet I can get away with more."
Almost; you're missing gratitude. It's the "one weird trick" to happiness.
Honestly, WebAssembly with C#'s Blazor is the best development experience I've ever had. I can fully debug the front-end and back-end within Visual Studio.
Would really love to jam out for an hr on this if you’re willing! je@h4x.club!
> Sure, in some cases, when the network has fewer announces to deal with, the 2% limit has less effect, the best way Reticulum can deal with this is with a network made out of more specialized node types connecting the lower speed links (http://reticulum.network/manual/interfaces.html#interfaces-m...)

I see. So it seems that optimizing a complex network can be a little more hands-on, not completely automatic (which would be a bit too much to ask, thinking about it). I guess my hypothetical path via outer space would have a "boundary" mode node somewhere on the way, although I am still fuzzy on how exactly this would affect things.

And your point about the announce queue with saturated 2% bandwidth is clear.

Thanks so far! This makes me want to read the rest of the manual and possibly start tinkering with Reticulum myself at some point.