skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It only increases the value of that skillset if it's in demand. Look, I'm on your side on this, I've learned all this stuff and it'd be nice if it was in high demand. But it's just not. Most people's experience of apt-get stops at a Dockerfile, most people never learned vim and never will because they have VSCode, most people do not really know how to use bash and have never recompiled a kernel.

It's a truism that you can do stuff a lot cheaper yourself if you have these skills than paying a cloud to do it for you, but cloud services have grown like crazy for over a decade now and show no sign of slowing down. UNIX is fundamentally a user-hostile operating system, it will never change, and it's nice for those of us who learned it that we can sometimes convert our rapidly-obsoleting skills into savings (sometimes), but it doesn't seem likely to stay that way. The Linux vendors just haven't improved the usability of their platform at anywhere near a fast enough pace to keep up with the cloud vendors.
Curiosity rover provides new insights into how Mars became uninhabitable
In the 90's, Microsoft proudly gave no money to politicians. Look what happened - an attack by the government on rather nebulous anti-trust charges. (Really - giving away a free browser harms consumers?)

This all stopped when Microsoft learned that when you're a big company, you'd better pay tribute (political contributions). The winning strategy is to contribute to both sides.
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This article is thousands of characters long, but somehow doesn't manage to explain how exactly you're supposed to help "firms", especially without getting hammered by companies from developed countries, or without lining the pockets of people who will store that money in fiscal paradises. It doesn't dwell either on why companies stay small in developing countries.

It's a surprise, because the author claims there are hundreds of papers on the topic.
> unfettered growth will never truly pay off

It did for the US, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, China, everywhere that free markets were tried.
They switched to a market economy more than 30 years ago.

During the Xi tenure, e.g. in the last decade, they seem to be coming back to political control of the economy. It also seems that their growth is slowing down. Possibly those two developments are related.

The government is notoriously bad at picking winners. For an example relevant to HNers, there was a government-run precursor of the Internet in France, called Minitel. It was an interesting technology, but horribly overpriced and unable to develop with the times.
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Physics Forums[1] has an awesome math section as well. Got a lot of great help during my uni years.

[1]: https://www.physicsforums.com/
We had something similar back in 95. We had to write a LOGO program first if we wanted to play Dangerous Dave, Paratrooper, or Prince of Persia.
Small companies don't have spare people to allocate to contributing to government reports.
That's partly true, but try proposing to organize the US economy the same way the chinese economy is organized on the large scale, and watch everyone left of Bernie up in arms, shouting about communism.

Seriously, it's borderline funny to see what gets derided as "communist" in the US... If you're not in that country and having to do without health insurance etc...
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Looks like the majority of it is the same as what aired, just with some alternative edits. Which makes sense as the guy was an editor for the show.

These aren’t “unseen” episodes etc.
I hope they absolutely fuck up FAANG.
But absolutely must ensure that it is free market. Since 90s the biggest threat to free markets is not socialism but monopolies and oligopolies. (Even good social safety net enhance freedom of economic activity).
Any economy can be rich if it's floating on an ocean of oil.
Not really. You owned a claim to the very specific asset you deposited in an exchange, which is how segregated accounts work.

Why US Dollars? FTX.us was domiciled in the US but FTX.com was in Bahamas. Why not some other arbitrary currency? Why not Bahamian dollar? Why not in Bitcoin?

FTX has paid close to 1 billion dollars in fees to army of lawyers, consultants, bankers etc. in what was even at the time an 8 billion dollar bankruptcy. Even if FTX froze in time and did nothing at all, its assets would've recovered completely that 8 billion gap in its funding. It's been a boon to everyone involved and they're taking full advantage.

I have no sympathy for FTX. It was a clear case of theft. However the creditors are getting robbed twice. Once by FTX, once by the bankruptcy proceedings.
my 24" screen is a iiyama from 2008. Still working perfectly.
clinton would have won if it wasn't for the nothing burger that was the FBI investigation of her private servers...
Great point! Yes! And this is how (most) of traditional podcast ads work as well. You know, the ads that actually guide you to interesting products.

One thing to note, though, is that tracking is also used by the bean counters. Pre internet (newspapers, billboards, tv) accountability was always answered by: "trust us" or coarse-grained estimates.

Individual user tracking promises a transparent way to separate checks from balances. Evidently, this is a bit of a false promise in practice. And that is why there's this cat and mouse game where advertisers are tracking "genuine user agents" and sifting out the robots.

While I'm sure the advertising eco system is nothing but lies, damn lies and statistics it seems that in terms of click-trough and conversion user targeting is more profitable than content targeting.

...That being a common belief, I suppose we're left with simply prohibiting user tracking altogether, or making it prohibitively expensive. GDPR, ad and cookie blockers are stones thrown into the pond of the latter.
Same here. Seems like DDG does better (but not perfect) at avoiding nonsense results than google in this case.
This can go both ways. Have you heard of Venezuela?
Nice one, thanks, I'll have a look through this.
This is a bit correllation / causation. Larger companies aren't better in themselves, otherwise state monopolies would be the best answer. Developing countries have lots of businesses sure. But "size" is not a problem itself. It's usually industry (e.g. lots of street vendors because it's the easiest way to make a living if you have nothing else) and lack of capital investment (e.g. people hammering steel by hand rather than having some machinery)
China is the worst example you can make for that point. They're sitting atop of a giant pile of debt, particularly in housing, and millions of people have lost their life savings as a result. China's economy is a house of cards just waiting to come crash down, and that's without the threat of the CCP wanting to take over Taiwan.
Double-barreled sawed-off shotgun in Doom style. Anyway you may not have enough time to fire more, and save quite a bit on weight and maneuverability. Maybe some special longer shells with more pellets, any slight touch and those lightweight plastics break and drone goes down.
Im not sure about how much the dictator part is nessecarily true. For one when singapore was independent it was already wealthier than its neighbours. PAP loves telling us how theyre the best thing on earth, but Im not convinced. LKY did a lot of reforms but where practical he left colonial infrastructure as is. FDI and luck are also a big part of Singapores growth story.

Singapores success was mirrored by china in the 2000s. The trick was free market capitalism with socialist political policies (in both cases). Also singapore has mastered the art of Government linked corporations - something that china copied. From 2000-2012 China probably had one of the least dictatorial governments in its history. Adding a dictator back in the mix has slowed growth although i wonder if thats a symptom of slower growth.
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Too bad it didn't work out for Venezuela.
There was also an episode of the popular kids TV show Blue Peter, where they showed you how to make Tracy Island. I believe that helped boost it's popularity.
How does one re-evaluate associations and what good does it do? Are associations not automatic by nature?

Additionally, aren't the people you describe (who don't accept an asexual view of gender identity) exactly who was using the meme the whole time? I don't think that group has become much smaller recently (still the majority of people), so if the meme has died down I think it is rather because people have become bored of it.
Every telco in every country has specific systems for handling wiretaps, it’s called “LI” - “lawful intercept”. They don’t like to talk about it, even with their employees
And yet the Norwegians, unusually, have managed to do it in a way where ordinary people benefit.
Your attention is drawn to Christoph Waltz working out on the theme to "Sesame Street": https://youtu.be/nr5MXQGhft4?si=SUfMtGKq8QQoY3Kh

(Not to refute your point that modern scripts are more Hemingway than Updike in terms of linguistic sophistication.)
When it occupies half the market and life is increasingly dependent on your phone it’s no longer “don’t like - don’t buy”. How about “don’t like the changes - stop using Apple”? Huh? What’s stopping you from finding another Apple if there are thousands of alternatives?
That would be fascinating!
1. You can terminate the loading process as soon as you're satisfied with the quality. It's just that browser don't do that.

2. The OPs JPEG-Clear proposal [1] also loads the entire file no matter what. It's literally just a reinvention of progressive JPEGs, presenting it as something novel.

[1] https://johncostella.com/jpegclear/
1. An economy driven by physical commodities like oil are susceptible to corruption and stagnation.
2. Norways dependence on oil has prevented it from doing anything meaningful economically or technologically.
+1 for this. There are some communities on Discord as well surprisingly but they are invite only so I'm not posting any links on here.
I think it would already be a big advantage not needing a very expensive launch platform like a fighter jet, even if the unit price of the drone was a bit higher than that of the missile.
Yes giving a browser away harms consumers. It’s bundling and dumping to kill competitors.
Growth inevitably slows as an economy develops. China is still growing faster than the US.
Yes. Probably because Terrahawks (80s) was such a flop, and so there was scope to repeat Thunderbirds.

Not that the others: Joe 90, Supercar, etc got much in the way of repeats. That said I did enjoy Captain Scarlet and Stingray as a kid.
>This all stopped when Microsoft learned that when you're a big company, you'd better pay tribute (political contributions). The winning strategy is to contribute to both sides.

Source? It seems equally plausible that it stopped because Microsoft won on appeal and the government got spooked and didn't want to prosecute a losing case.
Those pesky moral principles are also getting in the way of growth. If you want real growth, force people to work for you for free. If they stop working you can always sell their organs.
They could also have withdrawn their funds and invested them in something else.
I recommend the math discord in addition to mathoverflow and mathstodon. https://discord.gg/math

I got help with grad-level problems there. There's discussion there from high school through research, and is quite active.
Do you have any benchmarks? Be interesting to compare.
What the article doesn’t explicitly state is that it’s talking about some kind of undefined sweet spot of growth and business size.

It seems intuitively true that businesses that are too small and too local stagnate the economy.

But they avoid talking about businesses that are too large (oligarchic monopolies) that can control wages and prices, or businesses that are not value add, (I’m thinking resource extraction like oil, gas and minerals) neither of these kinds of large businesses seem to contribute that much to a local economy.
There are some differences between your examples in my opinion:

Rust started as an experiment of Mozilla team replacing C++ with something that helps them compete with Chrome in developing safe multi-threaded code more efficiently. It took a lot of experiments to get to the current type system, most of which gives real advantages by using affine types, but the compiler is at this point clearly over-engineered for the desired type system (and there are already ideas on how to improve on it). It's still too late to restart, as it looks like it takes 20 years to productionize something like Rust.

As for React I believe it's I believe an over-engineered architecture from the start for most web programming tasks (and for companies / programmers that don't have separate frontend and backend teams), but the low interest rates + AWS/Vercel pushed them on all newcomers (and most programmers are new programmers, as the number of programmers grew exponentially).

HTMX and Rails 8 are experiments in the opposite direction (moving back to the servers, nobuild, noSAAS), but I believe there's lot of space to further simplify the web programming stack.
Apple advertised the first iPhone to run OS X: https://youtu.be/VQKMoT-6XSg?t=506
But the main feature of floating point is that you keep the same relative precision at all sizes. As long as you're not hitting infinity or denormals, multiplying doesn't lose information like adding a big number to a small number does.

Do stats often deal with distict probabilities below 10^-300? And do they need to store them all over, or just in a couple variables that could do something clever?
I agree with the sentiment. But I also think that big companies are somewhat immune to competition for various reasons. And that isn’t a “free market”. So above a certain size, let’s just say $100B in revenue, they need to face consequences like being broken up or higher taxes or whatever. Otherwise anytime someone makes a good product (Slack), a big company can copy it (Microsoft Teams) and bundle it to win the market without the real effort it takes to build a business from scratch.
It’s a good thing we only have two sides in America. Can you imagine if companies had to contribute to as many parties as Europeans have? No wonder we’re more competitive here.
It’s also worth noting at that time downloading an alternative browser probably over “dial up” was likely to take a couple of hours when you also had usage quotas and fees based on connection duration!
How the mighty monopolies have fallen:

IBM
Sears
RCA
Intel
GE
Disney
Kmart
Kodak
Novell
Lotus
Wordstar
AT&T
Microsoft

without any push from the government.

> Even good social safety net enhance freedom of economic activity

No actual evidence of that. The US boomed for 150 years before there was a social safety net. The greatest lifting of people out of poverty ever seen.
Well you gotta look at it from an anthropology point of view. Should a Shamatari kid be born and raised in New York, it would be as civilized as New Yorkers, that is grow to be a rude, aggressive asshole of course. Joking :)

These guys are situated in pre-bronze age level of civilization. By the advent of agriculture, society was probably too structured for these sort of primitive shenanigans to hold water much without the guy or the village being obliterated by the larger tribal community. Although I'm not entirely sure.

Reading the Bible and Greek mythology, it doesn't seem to be those guys spent much thought before resorting to murderous violence. If kings stole a woman (Helen of Troy) I would suspect it might have been occurring in the common population as well.

I'm not sure where the layer of civilization started imposing social norms but these Amazon tribes are (were) definitely preceding that.
FWIW Joseph Jastrow came to the US from Poland [0] and in western Poland there's a town called Jastrowie [1] (Jastrow in German)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Jastrow

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jastrowie
Thank you for providing the video length, it is the factor that made me click.
this sounds close to:

gosh, if they hadn't basically created the market for phones like this it's hard to see how they would be dominating the market for phones like this, given their behavior.

because that's what first mover advantage is in this case. They created a market, in hardware - that's pretty difficult.

regarding other posts saying Apple wasn't first mover in smartphones:

Hey, I remember what those old things looked like. There was such a qualitative difference between the iPhone and its competitors at the time that it seemed like a whole new category of product.
I don't know why I care about pretend internet points, but I just had to find out that I rank #1501 in terms of them here.

I assume I'm not the only one
> But I also think that big companies are somewhat immune to competition for various reasons

See the list of failed monopolies in another post here I made.
hardware that you don't "own" is also a big problem,

support ended? too bad.

company is bankrupt? too bad.
A tiny demo app for raylib (https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/). Cool!
I read this twice and struggled to come away with the TL:DR; - can anyone help?

Also, I found most of the comments here equally educational and informative!
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The OP’s reasoning is based on a popular yet fundamental misunderstanding: an overvaluation of companies with many employees (a.k.a. “big” companies).

The key to economic growth is not firms with many employees, it’s firms with highly productive employees. You want a system that kills off unproductive firms, so that better uses can be found for their capital and employees.

You don’t want a system that kills off highly productive firms just because they stay relatively small. As an example Renaissance Technologies was founded in 1978 and has only about 310 employees today. Yet I can assure you that the US economy would not have been better off without it.
Although I absolutely loved the first two chronicles, I could not get into the last chronicles at all. I read the first 1.5 books of those and gave up.

Part of that is the extreme verbiage, as you point out. Really breaks the flow when you're reaching for a dictionary three times a page. I also frankly just didn't like anyone at all in the last chronicles, and stopped caring. But maybe that's just because of all the dictionary lookups!
This article feels seriously below the standard of quality I've come to expect from Asterisk magazine. I don't think it should have made the cut.

Some problems:

- Lots of studies cited with no mention of replications or potential caveats.

- Lots of effects measured where causation-vs-correlation would be a real concern (in one of them apparently the control group is "firms that dropped out because of a lack of budget"? Wtf?), but the articles never mentions confounders.

- The whole article has a "for decades we've done development wrong" slant, but its ultimate conclusion is... We need less protectionism, more liberalization, and more information technologies? Hardly groundbreaking.

Overall some observations are interesting, but they're really not conclusive enough to form a single narrative that would justify the incendiary title.
Yeah the government does not disturb businesses here much. But they do heavily subsidize corporate costs. Theres a economic development board that provides lot of grants for companies. Most mncs use edb grants for setting up their initial business.

Early on in Singapores history, the government did seize a lot of land from farmers though. I believe they were compensated for it.

We also have these weird things called GLCs. China sort of copied this with their telecom industry. GLCs are corporations created by the government to handle certain things. They kind of have government level powers but corporate governances (worst of both worlds imo).
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I sometimes frequent on 9gag, and someone had posted a video of UKR drones attacking RUS drones/UAVs. I don't remember seeing a speedometer on the feed of the attacking (UKR) drone, but if I can estimate it was at least (RUS UAVs) 80-100km/h (just cruising/spying) while the (UKR) drones were coming in at twice the speed.

Considering how UAVs and/or smaller drones have evolved and used in the battlefield the past few years, we need to rethink the way to conduct war.

> assuming improvements to drones and not the counter-drones

And I think we just began. The good thing about this (if there is ever a good thing in war/death-dealing) is that a drone carrying a small explosive device to release it over a vehicle will not kill 10k civilians.
It's still irrelevant to this topic as Norway did not create wealth, it just pumped it out of the ground.
> So in the end, the government picking winners and losers.

I'm not a US citizen but I understand that it comes down to the FTC and the courts rather than the government.
"Rather nebulous"? What's nebulous about leveraging your position on the market to drown out competitors with a free browser bundled with your operating system?

If Amazon redirected all search results of a product to their own version of it, omitting all others - would that be nebulous as well?
Don’t forget about our pretty large aluminium industry, arms exporter or salmon exporter.
Yes, really. By using their profits from other areas to drive Netscape out of business, consumers were harmed. This was shown in trial and Microsoft found to have violated antitrust laws.
Fisher ocean owners are finding this out the hard way.
Thank you for pointing this out! It did for them on the back of others.
The line has to go up mentality just puts resources from place A to place B.

Now lets get past that stage and make sure that it pays off for everybody.
I have something similar. It's not tracking though. Drawing around 10W on a pi, around 7W on a Jetson.
None that I'm aware of but I've not looked either.
I'm not a lawyer and I think you're right about the website's responsibility. It might be a bit more murky to assess whether the user agent is abusing the website (OMG, piracy!) if it looks beyond the modal cookie pop-up bypassing the actual choice. I mean, along the lines of skipping the mandatory DVD banner that says "the FBI will come after you if you copy this movie or skip this banner", DCMA style.

But yeah, that's probably just a nitpick only paranoid IP lawyers might consider pursuing.
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A DMCA take down from Nintendo should reach you before your morning coffee. /s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41762397
"China is still growing faster than the US."

The bigger picture is not favorable to China. Especially the high unemployment among the young is troubling. China no longer publishes data on youth unemployment, the last known figure was 23 per cent. This would be comparable to Spain or Italy, mostly sclerotic economies of the troubled southern wing of the EU.
Shame, they are the best cameras available.
He was from Vietnam. Suing someone there for copyright infringement is like suing a chinese company for stealing an IP. It is not easy and it is not likely to go anywhere.

Also, he probably got enough money to retire. If it did get $50k a day, he probably got more than a million before he pulled it. In 2014 Vietnam, that amount is probably more than most can make their whole life.

Heck, even in the US now, most people probably still can't make more than a milllion...