skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not clear that Elon Musk has a good sense for efficient means to reduce climate harming activity

I think that this is one of the most incorrect, and, what’s more, plainly and obviously incorrect things I’ve ever read. I am almost at a loss for words when I read it.

Are we going to pretend that people would have adopted EVs anyway in the west without Tesla? Did you think we would just abandon the entire western auto manufacturing infrastructure and start driving BYDs? Did you forget what the auto industry looked like before (and during, in the early years) Tesla?

This is like saying that he doesn’t have a good sense for building orbital rockets. The guy has basically only done two big and meaningful things with his life and attacking the #1 carbon emission source is the bigger of the two.
Very cool, seems like it updates on a delay though, which will probably kill usability.

This post is not even on it.
> It is completely disconnected from reality.

Russian conquest wars in the last 30 years: Chechnya 1994–1996 and 1999–2009, Georgia 2008 (Abkhazia and South Ossetia) & Ukraine (2014 - today).

> Ukrainian neutrality lead to peace.

When Russians invaded Donbas in 2014, Ukraine actually had a non-aligned, neutral status. It only invited the Russians as they perceived it as weakness. Ukriaine's effort to join NATO was in hope of gaining a defense umbrella.
Afghanistan is one of those cases where I strongly agree with the idea (and with his pushing back on DoD crying about how it’d take a really long time to pull out the troops and equipment—I get it’s landlocked but it’s a small force, you control the air, and resistance on the ground is near-zero, so if that’s super-hard for you, guess you’re bad at a really basic part of your job and we should be very concerned) but absolutely hate the inept execution, like the dumb-shit bargain with the Taliban. Cracking down on Chinese cheating on free trade is another—yes, more of that, but be less shit about it please?
Nobody picked Harris. She hasn't won a primary even once. Trump won it three times. The primary is the only step in the whole election process where the actual "democracy" can even remotely happen.
Not every weld has to be pretty. The ugly aluminum welds look plenty strong and are not normally visible. Welds like that can take 1/10th the time of pretty welds.
The big picture still is what it is. Americans want a king.

You can get into the more nuanced weeds and there is plenty more nuance there, but the overarching dynamic is people made a tradeoff, and they chose a king.
You don't even need DACs or ADCs, you just need an SRAM cell leaking current through an electrode. The process is entirely separate from that. By analog, I don't mean the signal, I mean the chip is interacting with the world physically. I need the electrodes physically touching chemicals. Those chemicals are incompatible with the aluminum or other normal metals on those connections - you pretty much need platinum or the metal from the chip will screw up the chemical reaction.

You also need large amount of input/output - a good start on a chip would be about 1,000 to 10,000 electrodes. I think it is going to be difficult to put that many on an FPGA.
You realize Trump was the one who set up the deal and the timeframe for the Afghanistan pull out right? He even bragged about sticking Biden with it. The Taliban were upset when it went over the date and upped their already regular attacks.

And in fact to your last point about trusting America, Biden was trying to stick to the agreed upon deal.

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/timeline-of-u-s-withdrawal...
If you accept the accuracy of the tape measure, then it would work. Tape measure hook is loose for a purpose.
https://tpucdn.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d/images/efficie...

Raw gaming performance increase is good but its gaming efficiency seems to have taken a dip compared to 7800X3D.

So AMD chose to decrease efficiency to get more performance this generation.

Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d/23.ht...
> I hope DNC learn from this

They absolutely will not. History shows us this.

In 2016, the Democratic establishment forced Hilary down the voters' throats because, hey, it was her turn, despite her being a terrible candidate with huge negatives.

America, thanks to the Red Scare has no viable leftist momentum. But even in the USA, the Democrats almost chose an open socialist (ie Bernie Sanders) as the Democratic nominee in 2016 rather than Hilary Clinton. I remember saying at the time that the DNC are missing how upset ordinary people are at the status quo. The DNC establishment couldn't care less.

What did the DNC learn from 2016? Absolutely nothing. They blamed Bernie voters (even though Bernie voters overwhelmingly came out and voted for Hilary in spite of their reservations).

Trump only really lost in 2020 because of Covid. Yet Biden's campaign did have a sprnkling of progresive policies that people got behind, so much so that it looks like he got 10-15 million more votes than Kamala got. There's a lesson in that but it won't be learned.

I saw someone describe this election as a Republican primary between a moderate Republican (Kamala) and a far right Republican (Trump). It's accurate.

Kamala's immigration policy was the Trump 2020 policy. She is to the right of Ronald Reagan on immigration.

And that's before we even get to the Middle East policy, which is not only bad policy but it's bad politics. Why? Because it gains her zero votes but loses a bunch. Anyone who hard line suports Israel is voting for Trump (and did). This was foreseeable. People were screaming about it for a year. Ignored.

So what lesson will the Democrats take from 2024? That they need to run even further right.
But surely you can tell that putting him in a subordinate position does not produce the same emotional effect, if anything it amplifies the negative reaction by baking the problem into the ticket.
All the polls I've been reading (including ones like betting sites, who lose money by being biased), were predicting this exact outcome.
Yeah this always surprises me when people compare the candidates. OK, Kamala was mediocre. But a ham sandwich is better than Trump's inane incoherent rambling. His positions are a vague protectionism.
At my job I have to work with a lot of JSON that's usually minimized. This command has single-handedly saved my sanity:

$ pbpaste | jq | pbcopy

Then I can paste it into whatever text editor I want and it's all nice & pretty-printed for me.

Bonus is that I don't have to change the command at all, just copy the minimized JSON to the clipboard (say from DBeaver, for example), then hit the 'up' arrow and enter.
Corporate consolidation is one of the biggest and least talked about boogeymen of our current era, one which is set to get even worse under Trump's second term. The Biden admin barely, kind of, got anti-trust authorities somewhat working again, and that will be demolished on day 1 of Trump.

Bigger corpos means bigger donations to bigger candidates. The entire system runs on money and nobody's got money to put in like these supercorps. We live in Gerontocracy that is actively building a Corporatocracy to replace it after the Boomers die off entirely and no money will ever go to the working class again.
> its that the definition of inflation has always been an increase in money supply

Can you provide a single source for this?

I'm looking at textbooks from 25 years ago (Macroeconomics by Doepke Lehnert Sellgren) and they also contradict you. How far back are we supposed to look for your definition?
Spanish flu never happened in your timeline?
One-liner for previewing a file with Quick Look. I aliased this to `ql` :)

qlmanage -p $argv >/dev/null 2>&1
You can see glimmers of the original definition on the wikipedia page, but the term has been misused for decades noe and basically anything you try to find for a definition of inflation will talk only about prices.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation

I can't get deep links in wikipedia on my mobile browser for some reason, but here's the full page.

The "Terminology" section vaguely references the original Latin word and gives a few nods to when currency was tied to gold. It is a bit hand wavy, though when it talks about new gold supplies being found or later mentions when the cost of money changes, those are both related to the original (correct) definition. Finding more gold increased the money supply, which may change prices though it doesn't have to.

Toman history sometimes covers the idea well as they inflated the currency by minting more coins to increase supply. I can't find a great link at the moment that covers it well from that angle though, I'll try to come back here when I'm at my desk if I find a good link down that rabbit hole.
No mystery about it: after South Carolina a bunch realized they couldn't win.
> In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell

Buddy, if you can't understand what these very direct words mean I don't know what to tell you. This isn't some "NBC interpretation of a complicated legal ruling", he's openly and directly saying these decisions should be overturned. He is directly stating we should reconsider contraception access, throwing gay people in prison for being gay, and recognizing gay marriage.

The modern GOP is openly talking about repealing the court decisions which legalized wide access to contraception, disallowed throwing people in prison for being gay, and requiring states to recognize gay marriage. This isn't some fringe conspiracy theory or complicated legal ruling fear mongering, its directly what they're saying.

Quit burying your head in the sand and listen to what your own party is actually saying.
Fear mongering doesn't help create change
A youtuber spoke about this though I can't remember the name. Veretisium maybe? He goes into how humans inherently want to avoid being ostracized from their tribe so they vote regardless of data or hard science. He said it was a feature rather than a bug though
Bringing up "monoculture" here is hilarious, as this whole situation is a direct consequence of a people attempting to enforce just that by replacing their native Cyrillic alphabet with the Latin one.

My native language also happens to use a Cyrillic alphabet and has letters that would translate to multiple ones in the Latin alphabet:

ш -> sh
щ -> sht
я -> ya

Somehow we manage to get by without special sh, sht, and ya unicode characters, weird.
My greatest fear is for America. He undermined it's institutions last time and there's no telling how much he'll weaken it now. I suspect the DoJ will be first to get gutted and then education, health, science. NATO, WTO, UN. I'm sure he'll embed gerrymandering to ensure republican victories. At the end of this we'll have a radically different America, domestically and Globally.
`gdisk` supports GPT, but to partition system SSD you need to deactivate System Integrity Protection:

gdisk /dev/disk0
The odds that I make a mistake in my security configuration are much higher than the odds that Apple is maliciously backdooring themselves.

The PCC model doesn't guarantee they can't backdoor themselves, but it does make it more difficult for them.
>This is a false narrative that Putin propagates all the time

It turns out that bad people do speak the truth sometimes, at least when the truth is in their corner:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1ghs32...
stacking our court with conservative justices, stacking other courts with his appointees who are already working to throw out his criminal cases. the rollback of roe.

it's a very fucking slippery slope and everyone is too concerned with "but muh gas prices!" to think critically about the macro situation.
The truth is so painful that I’m not sure people will mentally accept this for a while
Appointing outwardly biased Supreme Court justices who prejudiced USA law against women and many minorities.
What is ahistorical here? This is the video of Biden stressing "don't":

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aWFefjhPtQk
Biden is the commander-in-chief, yes he could have changed anything about it that he wanted to. He could have gone back to the Taliban with modifications to the terms. They were not in a strong position to resist, frankly. If the US had said they needed three more months to do it effectively, the Taliban would have agreed. Also Biden was making choices along the way related to the time table (Wikipedia covers this fairly well).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_U.S._troop_w...
But can humans do that? If you show someone a picture of a cat, can they "explain" why is it a cat and not a dog or a pumpkin?

And is that explanation the way how they obtained the "cat-nes" of the picture, or do they just see that it is a cat immediately and obviously and when you ask them for an explanation they come up with some explaining noises until you are satisfied?
My guess would be that it's less about "position of power" and more about "less likely to face consequences". You see the same type of behavior in a variety of cases

- Construction workers hooting and whistling at women

- Gamers online being horrible to _everyone_

- Managers (as noted) sexually harassing employees

All cases were consequences for behaving badly are far less likely.
It depends on how gov spending changes. If the federal government stops hemorrhaging debt hopefully they stay at current levels.
The fact that someone like Trump was given as choice is a result of a failure of "the man" from the start.

It's just too easy to pretend it is not your fault if your society, the one that you are building with your neighbours, ended up giving you bad choices.

Now that the man made a choice, what do you think will happen next time? This election just demonstrated that lying and using fear and hatred is working very well. Do you think that someone "normal" will invest in this knowing they will lose for sure?
Dean Philips attempted to primary Biden on the basis of age and low favorability. The media shut him out.
I don't think it's going to take us 200 years to kick the habit of using global namespaces for friendly names, maybe 80. Recognizing a name and rendering it as a disambiguation based on my location in the trust graph should be a feature of the text box, not something that I have to think about.
538 is not longer run by Nate Silver, he runs the silver bulletin on substack now.
Samsamelo – Silicon Valley selling trolley problem lies
As I mourn today, I am trying to post this again, this time as its own thread. I posted this without the Silicon Valley impromptu subtitle on the Show HN October thread, so the trolley never really left the station.

Repeating what I put then, with an update:

Inspired by three people, so I tried to find three fitting ways to let people know this story exists.

1: On a website currently showing deep-fake propaganda to support a fascist (felt a bit icky posting there) (UPDATE: and succeeding to buy an election!).

2: On a dapp/chain that is the premiere place to lose money on s*coins (as a sh*coin itself, but at least I'm not going to call it collateral as a pretense for fraud).

3: Here, where they actually managed to get rid of someone (who later proved himself un-rid-able elsewhere).

[EDIT: typo, markup syntax, and formatting.]
More entertaining Presidential tweets. That's about it.
> And more discussion around these issues is more likely to lead to positive outcomes than ignoring them.

Sometimes I wonder.

The left spends a lot of time pointing out that the right is bigoted, and the right just shrugs, because so what? These two groups disagree on whether there is a problem.
What do you think inflation is? Demand shoots up, suppliers raise prices or run out, and it takes time for new capacity to be rewarded and created. There's no collusion here.
It's okay to rely on feeling and vibes alone. Feeling and vibes are real, important and precede outright indiscriminate violence
"Nintendo has had a trend for the past couple decades of releasing "sequel" consoles that are essentially a modernized version of the old one with extra features, compatible with everything that released on the predecessor."

Isnt it pretty much just the Wii and Wii U? I guess you could play GameCube disks on a Wii but calling the Wii a modernized version of the GameCube is a real stretch.
It's a little more than silence. The US is actively selling weapons to Israel, actively sanctioning Israel's biggest enemy/rival Iran (not specifically to help Israel, but still), pressuring other Israel enemies to normalize relations with them, using their Security Council veto to block any UN resolution against Israel, etc.

Israel's diplomatic position would be much weaker if they didn't believe that the US would keep supporting them no matter what they do.
I'm not familiar with GitHub Actions, but we reverted our migration to Bitbucket Pipelines because of a nasty side-effect of conditional execution: if a commit triggers test suite T1 but not T2, and T1 is successful, Bitbucket displays that commit with a green "everything is fine" check mark, regardless of the status of T2 on any ancestors of that commit.

That is, the green check mark means "the changes in this commit did not break anything that was not already broken", as opposed to the more useful "the repository, as of this commit, passes all tests".
Moving the embassy to Jerusalem and the U.S. recognizing illegal settlements as “legal” set the stage for Oct 7
The gap between his last state of the union (March 2024) and the debate (June 2024) seemed pretty big, and I'm not the only one to say that. But again, it isn't black and white. Maybe the speech format suited him better.
Sounds like a skill issue. I never even saw a slowdown of recruiter spam. Maybe you should just try a little?

Also, maybe look into a little history while youre at it - the economy is not even close to the worst one ever, see: 1930s, 1970s, the turn of the millenium, and 2008-2012 for examples in living memory.
Yes, but the claim was they ran on that. Fixing the problem (if it is a problem) is a lot easier, and the necessary approach to fix it very different, if you ran on something and it backfired, compared with not running on it and still losing votes over it.

[edit] I also truly wondered if that’d been a significant part of their message, and I missed it—in the age of granular ad-targeting, who knows?
I do remember the Nexus 4 (jelly bean OS). I was fascinated at the time that you could play games on Android and ran the emulator for android on my desktop at that point (I was young and needed the games haha)
Look at senate and governor candidates that over performed and underperformed vs Kamala in their state. People have studied it for years and the basic finding is the classic one. Moving to the center wins you votes. You'll find that moderate/centrist dems over perform and leftist dems underperform.

They've studied this. And the cause is is the following. Yes you get your base to turn out more. But extremism motivates their base even more than your own, and switched vote from an independent is twice as impactful as an extra vote. A simple example is you get one more of your base to turn out. You lose an independent, and you get 2 of their base to turn out. And end up down 3 votes.
Some thoughts:

1) Comparing a photo storage app to the Linux kernel doesn't make much sense. Just because a much bigger project in an entirely different (and more complex) domain uses monorepos, doesn't mean you should too.

2) What the hell is a monorepo? I feel dumb for asking the question, and I feel like I missed the boat on understanding it, because no one defines it anymore. Yet I feel like every mention of monorepo is highly dependent on the context the word is used in. Does it just mean a single version-controlled repository of code?

3) Can these issues with sync'ing repos be solved with better use of `git submodule`? It seems to be designed exactly for this purpose. The author says "submodules are irritating" a couple times, but doesn't explain what exactly is wrong with them. They seem like a great solution to me, but I also only recently started using them in a side project
4 years and a complete control of the supreme court guarantees lasting damage to the ecosystem (and all other aspects of society) since all the conservative/right-wing issues just need to be appealed up to SCOTUS and they'll get their way - and set legal precedent on the way.

There's two justices ready to retire, and if Trump replaces them (and he will) that'll be five supreme court justices appointed by Trump and chosen by his cronies. The entire legal system will be corrupted for decades.
They did. The pollsters that were close in 2020 were close in 2024 as well. (Rasmussen, AtlasIntel)

My explanation for this is that most polls were fabricated, showing enthusiasm for (D) which wasn't there. Basically, a form of propaganda. The most striking example here is Selzer, with that Harris+3 Iowa poll the day before the election.
Although the handhelds have been backwards compatible, only the Wii and the Wii U had backwards compatibility. The SNES, N64, Gamecube and Switch did not have backwards compatibility.
I don't believe that's true. He wanted to start orderly withdrawal sooner so that it'd be well underway before the election, but his generals postponed it (and then hightailed out of there in a highly disorderly fashion leaving the Taliban in charge and giving them billions of dollars in materiel).
They downvote you, but you're absolutely right.

Illegal migration is what moved most people on the fence.
The last Intel machine I will ever build was my 13900K, primarily because I liked the fact that I could use cheaper DDR4 memory.

Next rig and everything for the forseeable future will be AMD. I've been a fanboy since the Athlon XP days - took a detour for a bit - but can't wait to get back.
Why is a fork required? I use the cline plugin for VS Code and it seems to be able to be able to more things, like update code directly, create new files, etc.
Beautiful stuff, great post!
There's a reason why you have to go back to the 360 and PS3 for those examples, Sony and Microsoft stepped up their hardware security dramatically after that generation. Neither the PS4, PS5, Xbox One or Xbox Series systems have ever been compromised via hardware attacks, and those earlier ones are over a decade old now.

The Xboxes have held up extremely well on the software front as well, and although the Playstation software isn't so robust (they use FreeBSD and routinely get owned by upstream CVEs) their secure boot has never been broken, which limits how much you can do with a software jailbreak. PS3 jailbreaks had continuity where you could upgrade an exploitable firmware to a non-exploitable one while retaining a backdoor, but the PS4s secure boot put an end to that.
He’s not the first leader of a democratic country to claim it will be his last term, only to have another term thereafter.
It doesn't matter if he actually perceives them as his equal (I frankly think he doesn't perceive anyone as equal to him, he appears to be something of a sociopath), what matters is that he successfully treats people that way.

Democrats would be welcome to continue believing voters are children as long as they don't project it so blithely.
The US is the outlier here though. I don't think any other country's political norms would describe the US Democratic Party as "far-left".

Describing any policy of the dems as "far-left" is just nonsense. It's used as an insult rather than to further actual political discourse.
https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentar...

Here's a good one I just found as so many here were asking for sources.
Absolutely. "I'm going to leave America but participate in its elections anyways." Sounds like foreign influence to me.