skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Passing peak globalization might contribute to declining corporate profits from say 2020 onward; not sure that 2020 is peak globalization, but it is in the ballpark.

Under standard assumptions of a capitalist economy, a new factor such as "technology" should not drive aggregate higher profits. Because companies don't exist in a vaccuum. Technology may allow a company to produce a good for lower cost, but it also allows that company's competitors to produce the similar good for a similarly lower cost.

So of course the article ignored it, it is a non-factor in aggregate corporate profits.

So "technology" can increase aggregate wealth of society (I'm a big fan of indoor plumbing) but it is not going to increase AGGREGATE corporate profits.

Also, it isn't clear how the specific technology you point towards, "automation", is structurally different from earlier technologies such as i.e. railroads or containerized shipping or telephones or ...

Look, obviously only aggregate corporate profits. Some companies made tremendous money off of the "railroad" technology, others went out of business because of it. Likewise, some companies made enormous profits off of computer chips, office software, etc, but the article is about aggregate profits, the economy as a whole, not individual companies.
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There's a lot of comments in here repeating Musk's "out of control judge" line. FYI: the original ruling has been upheld by the wider court: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/02/b...
roadside advertising has an adverse effect on driving. We should ban ads before we even consider vilifying music
Businesses are primarily valued based on their discounted future cashflows. American businesses are worth much more than their European counterparts because investors (correctly) expect that American businesses will more aggressively seek profit. By contrast, businesses that don’t make money and that are not expected to make (much) money in the future are worth nothing.

In most countries the stock market doesn’t go up. European stock markets needed ~15 years to recover from the 2008 highs because European businesses don’t make money. The Japanese stock market has languished for 30 years. Chinese businesses that get too cocky get the Jack Ma treatment. Turkey and Venezuela had their currencies collapse.

American financialization has its downsides for sure. Some American businesses will do grossly immoral things for profit. But nonetheless having a functioning stock market that rewards good capital allocation is a great thing. Otherwise all money will just end up in real estate and that is way worse for society.
What's meant by "the wavelengths are equal"? (And have we measured comparable wavelengths in other galaxies?)
Intel is underserving of this investment and the chips act has no teeth to ensure that they follow through and build these facilities and create jobs. They will not follow through and spend the money wisely and that was clear from the moment that bill was drafted.
It's possible that they have their own "cell tower" that the phones connect to, that blocks all non-phone-call connections. That's not a "jammer", but would have the same effect.

It feels unlikely, because it seems like it would impact people outside the school, unless the whole school is effectively a faraday cage.
I wonder… the reason iPads are limited like this, ostensibly, is that Apple doesn’t want us to run scripts on them, right?

But can a linter run locally? That would be nice I guess.

Also since so many languages target WASM nowadays, could an IDE at least compile to that, and then run some tests locally?
The docs say you should use Vercel's serve or Python HTTP, but since these are just static files you could upload them to S3 for example and serve from there?
There is also:

3. A toolchain is stable if it has LTS releases and bugfixes are backported to them, regardless of how many changes each non-LTS release brings.

But I'm not sure if people think about stability like that often. I wish they did.
That and overall poor color management practices. Most likely this will all get smoothed out as specs, knowledge, and ecosystems mature
Looking forward reading it - already ordered it last week :)
Slave work was also voluntary in a sense, it’s just that the alternative was your masters torturing and killing you.
IMAP password authentication with generated app passwords still works too.
I'm sure there's lots of stuff but you can't really stop using AWS unless you stop browsing a pretty large chunk of the Internet.
The ruling has been upheld by the wider court: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/02/b...
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I don't really care what the person delivering my package does. As long as it comes in one piece and have not been violently shaken, crushed or kicked around.
Ask HN: How can single thread execution be faster since frequency stagnates?
What are things that newer CPU can do to speed up single thread execution?

* multiple registers? (can compilers always benefit from it?)

* SIMD? (do compilers use SIMD without code annotation?)

* does a larger cache always speed up execution speed?

* Is branch prediction faster with more transistors?

What other things have been increasing execution speed?

A lot of "common algorithms" cannot be parallelized or use concurrency, but with newer CPUs, it still "feels" like single execution is faster than the increase in frequency.

How can CPU designers go around frequency limitations to increase single thread speed?

I don't really follow CPU designs, it looks quite complicated.
> The freezing happened BEFORE the block order, to my knowledge.

I like going to original sources when possible, instead of depending on hearsay. You are correct. The order freezing the SpaceX assets is not public, but the rejection of their request to unblock these assets is (https://noticias.stf.jus.br/postsnoticias/stf-rejeita-acao-c... direct link to the PDF: https://noticias-stf-wp-prd.s3.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-co...), and it says that the order freezing the assets is from 24 August 2024; the order blocking Twitter (https://noticias.stf.jus.br/postsnoticias/stf-determina-susp... direct link to the PDFs: https://noticias-stf-wp-prd.s3.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-co... and https://noticias-stf-wp-prd.s3.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-co...) is from 30 August 2024, and it also says that the order freezing the assets is from 24 August 2024.
The Tensor Cookbook
>I've never been anywhere inside the US where I could disembark a plane and buy razor blades for my DE razors.

Walgreens?

https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/walgreens-mens-double-edge...

CVS?

https://www.cvs.com/shop/goodline-grooming-co-men-s-double-e...

Both say they are in stock at my location.
Have you heard of eMOTIONAL Cities by any chance? https://emotionalcities-h2020.eu/

It's basically an ongoing large-scale research project working to quantify the way people experience city spaces from a neuroscience perspective (or at least that's my understanding -- I work with some of the people who are working on it.) Maybe the work they're doing could be relevant to what you all are doing?
Feels ever so slightly too bold to me, but maybe that is just my personal taste..

Other than that it is great to live in a time where people go to old typography and try to preserve our draw inspiration from it.
"IA lifted its one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio, allowing its digital books to be checked out by up to 10,000 users at a time, without regard to the corresponding number of physical books in storage or in partner libraries’ possession―a practice IA acknowledges was a 'deviat[ion] from controlled digital lending.'"

No argument from me that copyright and fair use is broken (and exclusively in ways that inure to the benefit of enormous publishing houses), but the "National Emergency Library" thing was never going to fly, even if they had found a judge willing to stretch existing copyright law at the edges.
>Due to the utter hell it's already been for meeting accounting standards they need for their financial disclosures like inventory count of fucking screws in the warehouse needing to be perfect.

Surely this is done on a monthly or quarterly basis instead of a daily basis, right? As in, on day X at XX:XX time you count the screws, and call it good? Or is it more detailed than that?
What’s wrong with the page?

Anyhow it’s the VPS I was talking about. The whole point of the VPS versus cloud thing is….. just run it yourself in a Linux server. Whatever you need, run it yourself.
You Can Buy a Brand New Ford Bronco Body from Alibaba but There's a Catch
How could we get a council of a half-dozen visionaries to own a city-sized chunk of land and design a utopia, communist party-style but done right? I really think this is not possible without it being a private parcel where there aren't thousands of individual property owners in the loop for decision making.
Sorry. I should have said "more and more Americans" instead of "more and more people".
Could be both. Some things determined by some mathematical constraints will always be followed. Ex things like group theory and statistics will always be followed by any object subject to them, but how that manifests if the objects those rules act upon changes in form
Still is that way. You can refuse, but you will find yourself in nice tiny room with no distractions...
Here is a link to the constitution:

https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Brazil_2017

The biggest violation is of the freedom of expressions rights, which are in Article 5 Section 9:

> [introduction] Everyone is equal before the law, with no distinction whatsoever, guaranteeing to Brazilians and foreigners residing in the Country the inviolability of the rights to life, liberty, equality, security and property, on the following terms:

> expression of intellectual, artistic, scientific, and communication activity is free, independent of any censorship or license

Posting on Twitter is a communication activity and it is therefore permitted without any censorship, explicitly.

Look at Section 37:

> there shall be no exceptional courts or tribunals

In this case, the exceptional court is what Moraes implemented in 2022, basically as a secret court of one. He served on the Supreme Court but also as president of the electoral court. The proposal to give him unilateral censorship powers was proposed by him and approved by the electoral court, with the power being granted to him in the other court. It is a very convoluted legal maneuver to basically give himself powers that no executive or legislative authority gave him. Note that no laws are passed to perform this maneuver. And by issuing these orders in secret, as a Supreme Court justice, it makes the path to appeal difficult or impossible.

It was shortly after this move that the New York Times (and many others) called Moraes a threat to democracy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/world/americas/brazil-ale...

Also look at section 54:

> no one shall be deprived of liberty or property without due process of law

This one is obvious - a single judge issuing censorship orders with gag orders to prevent public visibility or challenge is a serious violation of due process.

Or section 57:

> no one shall be considered guilty until his criminal conviction has become final and non-appealable

The reason I mentioned this section is some are saying that the censorship orders will eventually be reviewed by the full court bench (rather than being issued in secret by one justice), and that the orders are valid until then. But that’s equivalent to considering someone guilty without criminal conviction.

There’s more than just these, if you look through the rest of it carefully. X’s official AlexandreFiles account (https://x.com/AlexandreFiles) is also posting the secret censorship orders they received along with side by side comparisons against Brazilian law.
Would you make this same statement regarding those suffering from gender dysphoria? Why or why not?
Because it connects to your checking account to send the money.
> So the age-old wisdom of "just buy an index fund" may have run its course, and you will actually have to pay attention to valuations instead of just blindly buying the market going forward.

The efficient-market hypothesis would probably disagree. If "paying attention to valuations" ever consistently produces greater returns, then index funds will start weighting their holdings in such a way to capture that value. If it produces greater returns, but not consistently, then we're back to gambling and things like technical analysis and trying to time the market.
Mowing the Lawn with Lasers, for Science
I don't know how much Amazon itself really "cares" as much as not having clear safety guidelines and safety systems can result in liability when accidents do occur due to distracted driving on grounds the employer knowingly didn't try to prevent such accidents and was the reason for the employee to be driving at the time.
I’m glad VSCode came around to end the editor wars and unite the emacs and vim users.
The exclusion of financial firms is standard in economics literature. The usual reason is that their financials are inverted. The money YOU hold in a bank is an asset to you, the money the BANK holds in the bank is a debt to you.
Also very cute of you to assume that llms are still being trained on websites.

Or that the crib of software (california) with elite engineers (openai comp averages 900k/yr) needs help with a task that indians can do for 3 bucks an hour (web scraping)
Where do you process your data? Do you have a Europe region? Are you GDPR compliant?

This is my main concern with most AI providers. They are based in the US, with unclear GDPR compliancy, making most of them a non-starter for me.
"secure shellfish" has some support for images, movies, etc. I'm not sure what they're using for transfer. If you ask it to, it installs ".shellfishrc" which adds a "quicklook" shell command.

It also has some integration with the "files" app to transfer files in and out of your shell session.

Edit: and I've got a cron job checking on a web site that will send a notification if has changed to my watch via the secure shellfish "notify" command.
As long as the order is upheld on appeal, you have to obey it. That's how courts work in the US too. It's the judge who decides. Judicial appointments matter.
There's no need to. High rates only exist to combat inflation.
Can a faraday cage be switched on and off? Phones work fine in the school in the morning.
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That is not true, Starlink's bank account was frozen before even the ban on X.
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Yeah I was running uBlock – thanks for fixing it, works now.
This dataset suggests that it's around 65.7%, higher than the 62.9% in 1965 but lower than the 2004 peak of 69.2%: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N .

Not sure that "consumption of manufactured goods" is a particularly good metric for measuring wellbeing, though.
Yeah, you can’t just give away copyrighted books for free, lol.
Maybe they assume you know how to use an archive site, or that someone will post a link eventually.
Many, many years ago (2004?) I was on a NSF research project about participatory GIS, trying to help people (voters) make informed choices about transportation alternatives in a region—which road or rail improvements to make, and how to apportion funds between them. At the time, we dreamed about being able to let people run a simulation of the consequences of their chosen package, but that was definitely not feasible with the technology we had at the time. That's the background for why I'm so envious of what y'all pulled off!
Everyone else in this thread frustrates me, but I understand it. Compassion is ingrained in us, while free market economics is not.

Nobody here is really thinking through what happens if they are successful at boycotting and destroying Amazon. What would they say to these people they're supposedly helping?

"I got you laid off! You don't have to work here anymore! You're free! Maybe you can't feed your family now but at least you can move your lips while you drive!"
After reading through the mdn article I'm hopelessly confused.

Isn't that literally just css variables?

werent they cascading too, so the variable could be "overwritten" via classes etc?
Isn't that even how tailwind does bg-opacity etc?
What edge case does fly.io market to?
> VA coverage for life

How much is this actually worth? If you have a full time job, you'll get insurance through the job. If not, you'll likely qualify for Medicaid. Here in California half the residents get free health insurance via Medicaid
any recommendation how to find good github projects to look into?
> The genuine core feature of FP is the separation of data and methods

Couldn't disagree more. Based on this definition C language would be the epitome of functional programming... but it is not.
I've heard several people say that we are too many on this planet. Mostly older people tend to agree with this. For the record, I'm not one of them. Hence for those people there has to be a set of people belonging to the overboard side.
Tight performance requirements have a much worse effect on driving, so that would make this a case of lousy prioritization at best.
The cheapest Air is $999 for a fast but pretty limited 8G device. That budget gets you a 16G Meteor Lake Chromebook which runs Debian cleanly in a VM. It's true that Apple is doing a better job than it used to in serving the budget market, but Macs remain pretty exclusive. Similarly a low end Windows laptop with WSL is a better budget choice, though IMHO very inferior to the Chromebook in Linux integration.
AFAIK, Napalm is illegal against a civilian population. IDK that it is illegal to use against military installations.

Not that I think it is necessarily a smart move on the part of Ukraine, since Russia can play this game too.
The most recent Kurzgesagt video (on time travel) https://youtu.be/dBxxi5XAm3U had this passage:

> To explain how this actually works without making a math video, we have to make a lot of physicists grumpy, so please keep in mind that we are simplifying and lying a bit.

And that simplification / lie is that everything moves at the speed of light in spacetime. We are moving at basically 0 in the space coordinates and 1s/s in the time dimension (which is "light speed" in the time dimension). However... (1:45 in the video)

> Photons, light particles, move at the speed of light through space. They don’t experience any
time passing because their speed in that time dimension is 0. In the time dimension they are frozen in place. If you see light on earth, from the photon’s perspective it was just on the surface of the sun and then suddenly crashed into your eye with nothing happening in between.

... and this falls into the Lie-to-children domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children#Examples_in_ed...
AI Checkers Forcing Kids to Write Like a Robot to Avoid Being Called a Robot
the site is not blocked, the question is not comply with brazilian law, if they comply the site will be unblocked, thats a simple and direct matter of not complying with a court order, is not up to twitter to decide what is legal or not in our country, is up to the juditiary branch of governement, Which is separated from executive branch, much like the US and all liberal democracies , the supreme court judges are appointed by the elected president, like in US, but they do not stay all life, must quit at 75 years old. The judge in question was appointed by a righ wing presidente in 2017, current presidente is a left wing from a oposite party.
Transformers in 2017 as the basis, but then the quantization-emergence link as a grad student project using spare time on ridiculously large A100 clusters in 2021/2022 is what finally brought about this present moment.

I feel it is fair to say that neither of these were natural extrapolations from prior successful models directly. There is no indication we are anywhere near another nonlinearity, if we even knew how to look for that.

Blind faith in extrapolation is a finance regime, not an engineering regime. Engineers encounter nonlinearities regularly. Financiers are used to compound interest.
You can not spend the $25 and you will save $25.
> returns should continue to outpace typical zero risk interest. In essence if you believe the stock market will fail to exhibit growth

Who are you arguing against? The paper linked talks about "significantly lower profit growth and stock returns in the future" not about decreasing earnings and negative returns.
On the other hand, the orbital speed of Low Earth Orbit is 8km/s. Thus, with regard to asteroid redirection missions, we'd need 'only' about 3-4km/s of Δv to prevent this 'gently setting down' asteroid from hitting the Earth by capturing it into orbit.

Definitely into science fiction territory here considering that DART resulted in a Δv measured in centimetres per second, but I'm still rather tickled by the idea of collecting a new moon for ourselves :)
It's actually surprisingly easy to convince friends and family to cancel Prime or atleast comparison shop. Everyone has gotten some cheap crap from China they never would have bought if they could have seen it in real life and had to suffer with it or go through an increasingly annoying return process. Prime shipping is no longer two days, just a when they feel like getting it to you. Ask them why do you always give your money to a company that gives you crap?

Prices on things you'd actually want to buy, well known quality brand, are often the same price else where. With unknown brands you're usually better off paying more else where to make sure you get something that someone somewhere in the company decided wasn't totally terrible and worth selling instead of AliExpress drop seller garbage.
You are aware that all South and Central American countries were colonized by Western Powers right?
Socialism is about social control over production, not worker control. That's the big difference here, so it's relevant to point out. A co-op gives you worker control within the framework of a private ownership society.
If you want safe investment you could always buy land. AGI won't be able to make more of that.