skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very serious argument, and it's somewhat insulting that you consider it to be emotional and meritless.

Wealth and income inequality has well-studied negative effects on society.

The ability for a single person to own over $100m in assets is not a human right. It's not a protected class or status. It's an abhorrent misappropriation of human resources. It is a societal mistake.

And let's not forget, people like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg have multiple THOUSANDS of $100 million dollars in net worth. This completely insane $100 million figure is so small to those men that you would have to earn $100 million every single year for over 30 lifetimes to get to their level of wealth.

It's not about demanding some of the money from the wealthy. That's a shallow way to think about it. It's about the inherent power imbalance and exploitation that comes along with being excessively wealthy like this.

Think for a second what would happen to you if Jeff Bezos banned you from using all Amazon products. Would the Internet even work anymore for you? You know, every company has the right to refuse service to anyone. This one man can basically cut you off from television, e-commerce, Internet, employment (if you do engineering work on AWS), even Thursday Night Football.
"Your opinions are completely, totally, objectively false. Here are 3 of my opinions and unsubstantiated conjectures that prove so."
Hertel ski and snowboard wax production [video]
I buy things. I get what I bought. Protein powders, USB chargers, ev charging parts, coffees, teas, brand name things, etc. I “buy again” and have no issues. I’ve bought direct from some vendors too (protein powders, oat bars, coffees…), shaving blades, and I get the same stuff I bought from Amazon.

I do tend to buy from brand stores and not aggregators or unknown sellers (I’ve been an aggregator for sneakers, but I drop-shipped via the brands directly; I’m more than familiar with SellerCentral).

And my argument isn’t that no one has these issues, but I’m pushing back on the “who even buys on Amazon anymore?” retort.
This is pretty amazing. It's fast enough to converse with, and I can interrupt the model.

The underlying model is not voice trained -- she says things like "asterisk one" (reading out point form) -- but this is a great preview for when ChatGPT GAs their Voice Mode.
Pretty Git Branch Graphs
Adding extra rules on top of git to try to turn it into a CRDT doesn't make git one, even if you succeed (and rand would not succeed). You can do that with a pencil and paper, but that doesn't make paper a CRDT.
New Unique Package
Also PCIe is worth mentioning for it's credit-based full reliability (in the absence of hardware failures, which are still signaled).
Obtaining electricity thanks to industrial renewable (see Lazard's LCOE) is way (and more and more) cheaper than with nuclear.

There are many ways to alleviate unwanted impacts of 'intermittency' (PEM membranes, central plant enabling many sites exposed to different wind regimes to feed it, batteries...)

Hydrogen overproduction (from the grid perspective) isn't a challenge because various industries need huge amounts (~94 millions metric tons/an) of it.

Therefore the 'hydrogen' approach favors renewable sources.
That feels like the endgame of video game generation.
You select an art style, a video and the type of game you'd like to play.
The game is then generated in real-time responding to each action with respect to the existing rule engine.

I imagine a game like that could get so convincing in its details and immersiveness that one could forget they're playing a game.
I lost my original YouTube account due to Google+ spawning a new one from my gmail address I’d used to sign up for YT in the early days.

It’s been years and I’m still mildly annoyed about losing it.
> Reducing voter turnout under the fig leaves of 'protecting the vote' or 'fighting rampant voter fraud'

You describing these justification as "fig leaves" proves rather conclusively that you are making partisan, as opposed to factual, statements.

> is a long-term party strategy

...and your goalpost-moving from describing individuals on HN ("You can tell someone's political party merely by asking whether they support a high voter participation rate. You can also offend members of the other party by pointing out this fact.") to the strategy of political organizations further undermines the idea that you're making this comment in good faith.

If you're making this comment in good faith, then you don't understand how biased you are. You are, factually, not approaching this from a neutral standpoint.
Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women? Or both? Or neither?
The company I work for has cut staff by 60%, and workload has not decreased. This is standard corporate shittery, however my point here is that we still have the issue of unclear ownership even on basically skeleton staff. It's not a question of individual ownership, it's about what team owns it in my case.
In my experience, there’s a vast difference between “education” aimed at the individual and what is delivered in accredited academic courses. The commercial aspect / tailoring to get people to buy and stick with it / no doubt is a factor.
Sounds about right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_911

I'm guessing the phone reaching satellite operates similarly to a phone reaching cell networks. It attaches GPS coordinates and then the 911 system does the rest.

Just hope if I'm in this situation I'm not actually in the water and not having to fight my screen while it's getting wet. And that I kept my battery charged.
There's an old saying that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

If learning about technology makes it insufficiently advanced then it is distinguishable from magic.

If magic is enchantment, the world (as concerns the technology) is no longer enchanted.

So yes: Ignorance is bliss.

Somewhat related, I've also noticed that people who don't go out of their way to inform themselves (eg: watch/read the news) in general seem happier. I also feel happier the less I give a damn about the stuff around me and the world.

So yes: Ignorance is bliss.
It can be solved at continental-level. Germany already sells part of its overproduction (wind, solar...) to Austria and Switzerland, to have it stored by their dams.
* 14yo niece

I’m still waiting for the media to tell me what “I want to fold clothes with you in the bathroom at Whole Foods” meant.
I love monospaced fonts. Please, fix your line-height in the paragraphs.
You can open more space and make things even more legible.
Completely agreed. PLBs are on a whole other level of reliability. Not just physically, the signal itself is significantly more reliable.

They have three different ways of being located (digital GPS coordinates, measuring Doppler shift from satellites passing overhead, and radio direction finding from local SAR search planes), which practically guarantees that if you activate a PLB somebody will come.

Beyond that, the technology powering PLBs is also required for emergency beacons on aircraft and boats. It's not going away anytime soon. In fact, the technology is being upgraded right now to add return-link capability, plus an entire new satellite constellation (MEOSAR).
Tesla removed climate manifesto (and other planned goals) from website
The matrix multiplication needed to correct grows at n^2 despite the code only growing at n. There are asymptotic faster matrix multiplications in theory than O(n^2) but in practice every algorithm is O(n^2).

As such, large ReedSolomon codes are impractical. If you need a larger code than what GF(2^8) can offer, you grow with 2-dimension codes, slicing or other features.

In practice, this sacrifices Minimum Distance property, meaning you should use a Turbo Code (or other XOR code) which are O(n) but imperfect.

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CRC32 can be implemented in GFNI. And AES is also GF(2^8).

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I don't think there are many algorithms where GF(2^16) or bigger are needed.

And if they did, it's possible to turn 8x8 into 16x16 or 32x32 anyway.
I have been using curl for this now.
The difference in expected utility from showering (either during a lightning storm or not) is minimally affected by the choice to postpone it. That's why I'm content to call it a binary rule.

The choice of showering/bathing at all has a different risk profile, yes, and also a different expected utility. Comparing the two is a false equivalence.

Statistically speaking: our kids (and their parents) simply enjoy watching storms, and we all choose to shower when the risk of lightning is zero. That choice maximizes utility, as our subjective enjoyment of the light show isn't diminished by postponing something as pedestrian as a shower for an hour.
You know how when you're dreaming and you walk into a room at your house and you're suddenly naked at school?

I'm convinced this is the code that gives Data (ST TNG) his dreaming capabilities.
Floor wax/desert topping!

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75ishimmer.phtml
You just talked me out of a sleeve.
Even neglecting debates about the real amount of victims from nuclear accidents, the hydro case is highly debatable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521090
As mentioned before, we don't worry. There's no judgment. It's a simple binary. And we spend the time enjoying the storm that we otherwise would've missed.
I buy from Amazon and ship to California and Nevada.
Its SIL licensed. Free and open source.
Foxglove ceo here, thanks for the shout out!

Spot on with our history, most of the early Foxglove team came from Cruise where we built Webviz among other tools & infrastructure. Since then we have rewritten nearly 100% of the Webviz code.

MCAP is a multimodal logging file format we developed based on lessons learned from Cruise and other robotics startups, it has now taken on a life of its own and is the default logging format in ROS.

In terms of differences between Foxglove and Rerun, Rerun appears to focus more on local visualization whereas Foxglove offers more of a complete observability platform for local visualization plus cloud data workflows (upload logs from robot, organization & search, cloud visualization). I'm always happy to see more innovation in the robotics dev tools space though, the industry is growing quickly and pie will be very large so plenty of room for more alternatives.
China Humanoid Robot Industry on Track for Consolidation, Investor Says
Is RoCE no good?
Yeah it's insane that they have an article about these columns and don't show which ones it is prior to showing the people next to the deconstructed one without any context of where they are located.
It seems to be necessary in BC unfortunately.

> Eby says the province has counted 18 major disruptions at schools across the province since the start of the school year, and several more before September, including demonstrators banging on classroom windows at a school in Burns Lake.

> "[It's] concerning, frightening, alarming and it makes school feel like a not safe place," he said.

> Eby said all of the incidents the province has counted involved demonstrators against SOGI 123 — the province's optional educational resource for teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity — but said the law is content-neutral and will be applied equally regardless of the cause.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-ban-prot...
> It seems a significant addition to the cost overruns is labor

Only because they're billing for a ridiculous amount of time. Estimated completion time of 2027!? Wat?

SpaceX has already built three and is planning more. By the time Bechtel completes their single tower, SpaceX will have half a dozen and a Moon colony.

The contract should be torn up and the people that signed it barred from holding executive positions for life.
I believe this has some correlation with timing of the UN cybercrime treaty.

https://www.scmagazine.com/brief/un-overwhelmingly-approves-...
Sounds like Flutter?
With lots of bizarre artifacts if you don’t force alignment.
Until they randomly decide not to. I hope no one is truly planning on relying on starlink for critical services.
SpaceX doesn't tend to share that kind of information, so we may never know exactly. Plus, it's R&D they expect will amortize over the operational life of Starship rather than infrastructure being built for a narrow set of missions that I can't see resulting in much future reuse.
Is it really a fight? On who's behalf is this fight happening, and who is fighting for it?

I've never met a service worker who relies on tips that wanted to end the practice. Tips seem to be the entire draw to those types of work in my experience. I've never met a tip worker that was doing it over a wage job they'd rather have, unless it was some type of professional salary type gig like they're going to school to become a nurse or something, and in those cases, they're doing tip work because it enables them to make that happen when no other job really would.

Seems to me like the people fighting for it aren't the people living that way and those fighting are fighting on behalf of people who don't really want their help.
Any technology you can understand is insufficiently advanced.
Find another profession and make programming a hobby instead.

Some fortunate people can make their professional life also their passion and derive fulfillness from it, but not everyone can be like that. For everyone else, work makes damn near anything miserable even if it's something you otherwise love.

You loved programming before you made money from it, and you hate programming now that you make money from it. The problem is clearly money and you need to decouple it from programming.

Yes, I'm aware changing your line of work is more easier said than done, but that's the only proper way of resolving your conflict in my opinion.
I love the CLI part of taskwarrior but the Android UX sucks compared to other todo managers such as todoist, so that's what I'm running now.
Most people in Alexa don't even believe in the monetization. We are actually building this thing and joking about it at the same time. You can imagine the quality is deteriorating because no one cares about the product anymore.
Oh God I had forgotten about expertsexchange
Tesla's Inventory Data Is Bunk
A dilemma perhaps would be if the wealthy are taxed more it will only lead to greater budget deficit spending. I would support higher taxes for specific programs, but want to see a balance budget first.
Further in that article:

> “For months, high-ranking Government officials placed unrelenting pressure on Facebook to suppress Americans’ free speech," Alito wrote. "Because the Court unjustifiably refuses to address this serious threat to the First Amendment, I respectfully dissent."

It seems like the court had agreement that government coercion did happen. They threw the case out because they couldn’t draw a direct correlation to harm to the specific people that brought the allegations up.
I stated facts.

Pointing out that toll roads are "pay for use" is factually true.

Capital gains tax is, factually, not "pay for use". There's no usage that is being metered.

You also claimed "Anyone with more than 100M in assets has used the system a shit ton" and I pointed out that there is no evidence that supports a strong correlation between how many assets someone has and how much value they've obtained from government services. This is, again, a fact - had you had any evidence against this, you could have put it here, in your reply. But no, you didn't have evidence, so you tried to (incorrectly) portray it as an "opinion".

You calling my true statements "opinions" proves that you cannot differentiate between opinions and reality. The fact that you think that pointing out that capital gains tax is not pay for use is a conjecture proves that you literally cannot tell the difference between facts and opinions.
God is mad at the New World.
>They could at least use a Wacom.

This, when they draw with a mouse, even after tons of lectures, it always looks like shit. The good ones use tablets and change colors and thicknesses and such as they go.
> You're quite free to voluntarily send all your money to the Treasury.

Taxes should be fair for everyone of course. The original question was whether billionaires should pay more, and they should. The amount of money they have allows them to dodge the amount of taxes they truly owe. This gives them an unfair advantage over the rest of us, which only increases over time.
We have a universal guaranteed access to wait lists system now.
This is a bad take. Karma farming.
Is the market of people like you,
post iPhone and starlink 911 access, really that big? The addressable market for PLBs just shrank, noticably, because while yes, of course I'd rather a properly designed PLB, if the device I've already got will work, it's an extra hassle and expense that I don't see enough people going for to think that they'll survive in the PLB product companies will continue to exist in their current incarnation. They'll adapt, hopefully, for their employees, before having to close down shop.
"Waymos are being explicitly programmed to avoid collisions with other cars".
> Somewhat related, I've also noticed that people who don't go out of their way to inform themselves (eg: watch/read the news) in general seem happier. I also feel happier the less I give a damn about the stuff around me and the world.

Yeah, that's the main selling point of never-never land.
The production cost of 'renewable' electricity (RE) is increasingly lower than that of nuclear. So when they produce, they are and will be preferred.

This will reduce the effective load factor of nuclear power and therefore increase its production cost (it is only profitable with a high load factor), with a strong feedback.

It gets worse because, on the technical level and despite some progress, nuclear power cannot (due to technical limitation and for safety-related reasons) adjust its production ("load following") to always exactly match demand.

This will promote the deployment of an RE system based on a continental a mix (wind, solar, etc.), smart grid, clean backup (green hydrogen), storage, etc. which will reduce the variability of its production (intermittency effect) so nuclear power will be less and less useful and more and more expensive.

The effect on nuclear is easy to predict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udJJ7n_Ryjg
It hasn't. Powershell is probably one of great things to come out of Windows Server. I still use it with *nix machines and it powers some sidecars at work. If you are stuck with Windows Server, it's only thing that gives you a fighting chance of being able to do anything NotClickOps (tm)

Sure, it's got some unique characteristic that more traditional shell users dislike but that's just a matter of taste.
Getting your SSH brute-forced shouldn't be possible with or without screening, because absolutely nobody in 2024 should be using passwords with SSH to begin with. This is the most frustrating thing about fail2ban cargo culting; fail2ban hasn't made sense since the era of multiuser Unix shell accounts, which is 2 decades in the past.
The GeoWorks typography engine was actually exceptional in that it offered fully scalable fonts (up to 792pt IIRC) when a lot of Windows fonts were still bitmapped and you had to get font cartridges for your LaserJet.

The fonts look a bit different from the Microsoft and Apple ones, but they were likely sourced from a different vendor (URW?), so there's an uncanny-valley aspect to it these days when "Times" means "Times New Roman".

I wonder if part of it was that when the earlier GUIs, like GEM and the Workbench, were architected before desktop publishing became the undeniable "killer app" for a GUI. They figured "here's some basic fonts to render the UI" and punted to the application software to handle anything else. Even with some of the early GUI word processors (GEM Write, for example), full WYSIWYG typography might have been above the expected target, considering the machine might be paired with a daisy-wheel or 9-pin dot-matrix printer.

Of course, all typography of the era looks a little odd by modern standards, running on a 640x480 screen with no antialiasing.
It's simply that people are posting less and less content publicly. That's all moved to private chats and "close friends" posts.

The content that's filling the void is just filler, be it AI, clickbait, memes, etc.
The law is far more rigorous today than it was 50 years ago. The dumbest legal theory in recent memory, that the vice president can refuse to certify the election, is more rooted in in the constitutional text—the 12th amendment does assign the vice president at least a ceremonial role in the process—then a bunch of established mid-20th century precedent. Which is not to suggest that the VP certification theory isn’t terrible—it is. But at least it pretends to be a legal argument, based on constitutional text, rather than philosophical or sociological braying.
Holodeck is just around the corner
Pure theater.
One of the oldest canards in security: "defense in depth", "security is built in layers", which you can use to justify any performative measure.
If only the ad quality went up with the efficiency with which they syphon the data. I don’t have a driver’s license and I’m in a relationship yet a considerable amount of personalised ads on my devices are about dating sites and car dealerships.
do you chemically analyze your protein powder to see if it matches the real stuff? do you tear open your chargers to see if the internals are same as the real OEM? if not how are you so confident you're not getting counterfeits?
It largely centers on this template sensor:

{% set distance = states('sensor.lightning_detector_lightning_distance')|int(999) %}
{% set bearing = states('sensor.lightning_detector_lightning_azimuth')|int %}
{% set wind_bearing = states('sensor.pirateweather_wind_bearing')|int %}

{% set bearing_normalized = bearing % 360 + 360 %}
{% set bearing_left = (wind_bearing-80) % 360 + 360 %}
{% set bearing_right = (wind_bearing+80) % 360 + 360 %}
{% set distance_max = 20 %}
{% set bearing_min = ([bearing_left,bearing_right]|sort)[0] %}
{% set bearing_max = ([bearing_left,bearing_right]|sort)[-1] %}
{% set approaching = bearing_min < bearing < bearing_max %}
{% set close = distance < distance_max %}
{{ close and approaching }}

It normalizes the bearings to avoid dealing with the 0-degree crossover, and is reevaluated automatically whenever the three tracked entities change their state.

The automation itself is set to "restart" mode, and fires whenever the template sensor is true. It then waits for the sensor to be false for 15 minutes, and for the nearest lightning distance to be > 20 miles for 15 minutes.

Why a 20 mile radius? It's a good enough proxy for the time it takes them to prep for (get clothes ready, etc) and then actually shower (and brush teeth, 30 minutes total), and most storms in my area tend to move through at ~40mph.