skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're getting downvoted because what you're saying is just historically wrong.

You can call them all "bad" if you want. But (regardless of whether they committed war crimes) the Nazis and the armed forces were different (though obviously overlapping) subsets. This is not an academic distinction at all, and is extremely important if one is to understand how the dictatorship and the Final Solution actually worked.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42276731
"Today, China is not just safe, clean, and prosperous; by any objective measure, it’s the coolest country in the world."

No part of that sentence is true, except in a handful of urban islands.

Just to begin with, China is the country of gutter oil: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil
You can't "enforce" all of these things. That was my main point.

And you absolutely can stop people from doing that. Simply accepting dickish asshole toxic behaviour as "well, people are like that shrug" and never telling people off is exactly the problem.
> I'd be quite happy if I could get that kind of lifespan out of my cars tyres

Are you saying you can't even get 40,000 km out of your car tyres? You might have a defective product on your hands or need to look into the way you drive or inflate your tires.
In general, preferring immutability is great. In Python specifically, it can be hard to pull off given that e.g. something as basic as dict does not have a standard immutable equivalent. You inevitably have to rely on conventions - basically saying "this is supposed to be immutable" rather than enforcing it.
Thank you! Now is more clear to me.
It requires extreme naivete to believe that this will not rapidly shift from doctor assisted suicide to mandatory removal of medical benefits except "end of life care". The medical-insurance complex in the US cannot wait for this to happen.
If you're just buying things without knowing the general price of them, then Black Friday is the least of your problems. And no I don't mean just checking Camel^3, which is also thoroughly gamed.
This specific model is designed to second-guess itself/ chack it's work. So the slowness is part of the point.
> What other way is there?

Remember that inflation is something the government chooses to create. It's not some natural disaster.

The other way is to remove the power to create it from the executive leader and give it to some institution that is more stable.
Helium has excellent heat transfer properties (low Prandtl number) and does not undergo nuclear reactions when subjected to a neutron flux.

Nitrogen will undergo an (n-p) reaction to produce carbon-14 which has a half-life of 5700 years.
They should also test with cracked pebbles.
> The vast reserve, which could be the largest single reservoir of the valuable metal left anywhere on Earth, is worth billions of dollars and caused the global price of gold to skyrocket to near-record highs.

So... Sudden Supply Increase ==>> Sudden Price Increase, for a fungible global commodity?

Might there be an Economist available, to explain the the rationale? (Or just to assure us that gold ain't rational?)
A really heartwarming story about a billionaire's aging mother.
Pebble bed reactors are a bad idea in general.

They will be HUMONGOUS because they need a large surface to radiate away the heat for the passive safety, so they can't be easily put into a containment building.

A core of a PWR plant is _tiny_ for the amount of power it produces (around 3GWt!), just around 5 meters in diameter and 15 meters in height.

The pebble bed reactor in the article (HTR-PM) is around the same size, but it produces a mere 0.25 GWt.

Pebbles themselves are also problematic, they tend to swell, crack, and they can't be reprocessed using the current technologies. They MASSIVELY increase the amount of waste.
You're not going to believe this, but they have also fallen by 97% per MWh.
If I understand correctly:

Houses near desirable locations (e.g. sports stadiums) are more expensive. There are more of those desirable locations now (more sports teams = more sports stadiums). So the average is driven upwards even with no change to the housing itself.
> If someone sends for a driver to go shop and pick up the aforementioned items are they culpable?

That greatly depends on the jurisdiction. In general though the issue here is that you don't want to die by shooting yourself, but you want to die by taking a pill. And the issue really is that nobody is going to sell this stuff to you unless they know they cannot be charged for it.

Assisted suicide is legal in Austria for a few years and the main thing that it has changed is the availability of humane ways of dying.
I feel like that's hardly a solid rebuttal. The "Handling of specific cases" has 10 cases, a few of which I would struggle to tie to assisted dying.

During the year with the most event (2022), 5 events occured for over 13 000 patients that chose assisted dying. That's 1 for every 2600 person and these events are basically just people suggesting MAiD improperly.
When you mean old is when? Also would love you to expand on this too.
Agreed, we don't own the media only the right to use it. Downloading the pirated version is still against the law and can get you sued.
For example, the concentration of power can manifest in monopolies or oligopolies that dominate markets, reducing competition and harming consumers.

Another example from Argentina is the situation in Ushuaia, where so-called "electronic companies" benefit from significant tax exemptions. These companies basically assemble Samsung devices rather than engaging in full-scale production, yet they present these products as if they were manufactured in Argentina. This highlights how government policies can sometimes distort markets instead of fostering genuine competition or innovation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia
Yes, I was never confused about that. It's just that I've never heard this particular phrase, or anything like it. In retrospect, it appears to be a transcription error.
Is the Great Stagnation Just a 'So-So' Stagnation?
Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros
A healthy state funds public infrastructure the market relies on, sets regulations that curb negative externalities, and discourages monopolistic and anti-competitive practices. You can have a free market without a state, but it will be inefficient, dangerous, and eventually dominated by a handful of oligarchs.
> There are no significant incentives for exports. Only imports.

I have an urge to punch some politician in the face every time somebody creates one of those systems that punish one and incentives the other.

They can't move independently.
If you asked me whether I would want to pay 5x more for a house that reduces my likelihood of dying in a fire from 0.00427% to 0.00104%, I think I would choose to roll the dice (and maybe DIY install a $20 smoke detector).

1950: 6,405 fire deaths / 150,000,000 US pop = 0.00427%

2022: 3,490 fire deaths / 335,000,000 US pop = 0.00104%
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
> virtually all Africans [...] have a fundamentally paternalistic view of the state

Yeah, no, clearly not.

Go in Western Sahara, visit touaregs, ask them about states and what they think of them. Go in eastern Africa, talk to them about libertarianism (Kenya, Zambia, Mozambique). In Ethiopia, you'll probably find the highest concentration of libertarians in the world, they call themselves "Horn Anarchists" i think. Maybe what you're saying is true for colonized Africa, or at least for the part of africa that was left in power once Europeans left, but you just have to look at what is happening in south Congo to understand that some states in Africa are so weak they might as well dont exist. And most state have communes that escape them, due to tribal identity (you've heard of native Mexican tribes that oppose and resist Cartels since the 80s? think how it would go for weaker organization like some African states to go after them. Yeah, not well.). Africa is huge man, i'm pretty sure i have a different view of it than you since the only African i know are from anarchist/libertarian orgs, and that's a _very_ limiting lens.
Literally from the article:

"Popkiewicz believes these coins may have belonged to the German soldier, possibly a numismatics enthusiast, as they hail from several countries the German 73rd Infantry Division likely traversed, to which the soldier may have belonged. The hypothesis suggests that the soldier collected ancient coins as a hobby or perhaps exchanged or acquired them during his military movements."
That kind of goes both ways, though.

I live in an affluent suburb in a rich city in a sleeper town just outside Toronto. My home was built in the past twenty years and is in a "McMansion" style neighbourhood. It's a relatively large home, but in many ways things have regressed.

Craftsmanship is non-existent. The kitchen cabinets look like Ikea specials with shelves held up by little plastic pegs. All of the various particle board doors are installed laughably poorly with giant gaps. Sound travels through the home with ease.

It's well insulated and has good multi-pane windows, but automation and mass production should bring a lot of that just with the passage of time. I would expect that all else being equal the same work should by better windows and insulation and so on than fifty years ago.

Regarding land value, it is interesting how in denial we are about land values. The city gives me property tax statements valuing my land at 1/10th the price of the dwelling...yet people are buying $1M homes on smaller lots and immediately tearing the home down to build new. More than a few cases of that demands that we completely upend our valuations.
Inflation figures in all manner of goods are available, at least in the UK, I assume in your country too.

A "basket" is chosen as a realistic example of how a typical person spends their money. Your personal "basket" is going to be different to mine.

If you don't think the typical basket is representative, then be honest and come up with your own basket and work out what your personal inflation is.

Some will have inflation far higher, others will have it far lower, that's the nature of a generalised number.

None of this means that the figures are "doctored"
That's not what the Mythos was about.

The whole big point of the Holocaust that everyone was supposed to have learned is that not only did one not have to be a "Nazi" (or even particularly sympathize with the regime or its ideology) in order to be an active or passive collaborator.

All you had to do was keep your head down, and do what you were told.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42276731
Houses can be a good investment or they can be cheap.

A good investment outperforms its alternative asset classes. We chose policies that ensured they’d be a good investment. For housing to become cheap in our lifetimes, existing homeowners will need to experience an enormous capital loss.

This has been exacerbated by the long-term decline of interest rates. Sticker price and interest rate are roughly inversely correlated since the monthly payment a prospective owner can afford is roughly fixed. Over the past fifty years, boomers have been able to regularly refinance their loans into lower and lower interest rates as prices skyrocketed. This also made it easy to move since you could trade up on your home’s increased value relative to the remaining mortgage.

That pathway isn’t as available to millennials who bought at sub-4% interest rates, and it likely never will be.
kids under 16 learn that they can break the law easily and not have any consequences
This:

> "Any proposal that requires everyone to just is not a solution, because everyone will not just"

invalidates this:

> A real solution is to have the team agree on a shared style guide, then enforce it with a linter and formatter.

... since the "team" is everyone. It's basically the same problem.

The other issue is that linters/formatters don't "solve" all formatting/stylistic choices. Most formatters, fortunately, still allow you to choose where you do line breaks for example, since they do matter and shouldn't be arbitrary.
We notice and costs several hours per month to handle. A malicious party can slip through, single contributor software is classified as a high risk but XZ utils were not classified as such so we would have missed the Jia Tan incident.
I think we both have a lot of room for being wrong! There seem to be no reliable sources for DAW market share, and I imagine all of these companies consider it in their interests to keep the number of active users of their software to themselves. So anything I have to say here is purely anecdotal.

From my vantage point (Brooklyn-based creative music-maker regularly recording & performing), it’s a growing market and both Ableton _and_ Logic are doing pretty well. Ableton has some obvious strengths—its scene-based workflow & M4L in particular—but it’s also got a very opinionated UI & is a bit less intuitive/fluid for editing (at least from my perspective as a Logic user!). I know many people who use Logic to make creative music that involves both live recording and electronic instruments, and a lot of those people have switched away from Pro Tools because of its hideous UI, the subscription pricing, & the annoyance of iLok. I even know several professional, touring musicians who perform with MainStage & swear by it.

In other words, I think that Logic has found a pretty broad audience of creative musicians who straddle the songwriting & electronic music worlds (which is more & more people every day).

What makes you think that Ableton is eating everyone’s lunch in electronic music? I mean, I don’t think you’re wrong, honestly, & I’d in particular point to their purchase of Cycling ‘74 & successful hardware products like Push & Move, but I’m curious to hear details from your perspective.

Definitely hoping that Gruber is wrong here & Logic stays the fantastic loss-leader it’s been for the last decade or so.
This smacks of Exxon...

The big merger coming in the 99 being the creation of ExxonMobile which would create duplicate documentation systems spanning the dates the author gives.
Death is not the only negative outcome of a house fire.
Productivity in building construction has not improved much, according to data, even if tools have improved.

Even if tripling house size doesn’t literally triple costs, that is a straw man. It certainly must account for some of the cost increase.
Yes exactly! Reviews should not waste time with format - I would take the hour to set that up in CI and never worry about it again.

Or if that is too much (no shame!), just accept style differences.
What the F did I just read?!
The important part is:

> and in the Basel era are also regulated on the ratio of their capital reserves to their loans

Reducing the reserve ratio to zero doesn't mean that banks can create unlimited amounts of money out of thin air. It just means that regulation by capital requirements has now fully superseded regulation by reserve ratio.

In theory those capital requirements are a better and finer-grained regulatory tool, capturing the different risk of different classes of asset. In practice that can fail--for example, the SVB collapsed insolvent because it was permitted to value bonds above their fair market value if it claimed they'd be held to maturity. That failure was in the details though, not the general concept.
That is a pretty cynical take. FSF good, OSI bad.

> ”Open Source" was created to be corporate-friendly as it was predated by Free software, which is rigidly committed to users freedom.

Rigidly committed to a certain interpretation of users freedom. And that interpretation happens to involve removing a number of freedoms “for your own good”.

It is more correct to say that the GPL was created to be anti-corporate, as it was predated by both the MIT and BSD licenses, which are more free, both for users and corporations, which the FSF finds intolerable.
The anti-state people often like the idea of an authoritarian leader figure who will fix things by their genius and power of will. Some really do want monarchy (see Curtis Yarvin), but others believe that the dissolution of state power needs to go through an authoritarian phase to happen at all.

It’s not so different from the old-school communists who claimed that a “dictatorship of the proletariat” is a necessary step towards the true freedom of mankind under proper Communism. Conveniently they were the ones in charge of the “temporary” dictatorship in this picture.

Libertarianism and communism are ideological siblings. Both fail time and time again, but to the believers it’s always someone else’s fault and the proper implementation of the ideology simply hasn’t been tried yet.
Whoever would implement something like this on their site?

To my recollection, I have never come across this on a website since the Flash days, however.
You would need to get an M4 Max (which is probably the right choice for real LLM work). I don't think mobile GPUs do very well on the PC side, so if you want portability, Apple might be your best bet.
No, the S&P500 wasn't formed until 1957
This is a takeoff on a well known WWII pamphlet, the Simple Sabotage Field Manual.[1]

That's not the real worry today. Today we have to worry about remote sabotage of key systems - water, power, comms. It's quite possible that we will see major blackouts in the US, Russia, Europe, or China as side effects of the various wars in progress.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-sabotage...
Python also fits its design space amazingly well (that's what's meant by "Guido's time machine"). It's a glue language, with a REPL, but it's not a shell (i.e. it's not meant to glue programs primarily through stdin/stdout/argv, but instead libraries through their APIs). It was a very useful (Greenspun's tenth rule) and somewhat underserved niche (perl, scheme and tcl come to mind).
> fake documents they planted with "Signature Unclear"

"Signature Unclear" is actually a real pseudonym of a pro-Nazi author. So this particular part was at least believable.

The "Sims 3" disks (3 of them) and Bandera's books were far less so.
100% disagree. "It'll be fine bro" is not a substitute for having a vote over policy decisions made by the government. What you're talking about has a name. It starts with F and was very popular in Italy in the early to mid 20th century.
I often see comments in the theme of "dense housing is the panacea."

You can't really run power tools in dense housing, correct? Or fix stuff yourself? Sounds awful.
It's a huge part of the 12 step programs too. Or at least had a huge influence.
More people want to live in the city than ever in the history of humankind for various reasons. See gigantic rental price drops in mid-2020 when people briefly thought city-life will never return to normal. Housing prices mostly went up during the year, but they're much stickier than rental and that flight didn't last long enough for people to sell their homes (well, it's much easier to drop your rental for another, than sell and buy somewhere else).

When demand starts slowing down or supply is caught up (it's happening everywhere outside of Tokyo in Japan, and somewhat in HK and other places as well), they stabilize or go down.
Definatly not a firearm.
Xenon gas, CBD, cannabis, ketamine, and other methods for war trauma treatment
I think an argument could be made depending on the real world timings. How much closer in time is the Apple GPU vs one on a PCIe bus?
What comes out of the box?
1. Then don't buy those things, it doesn't detract from the fact that are things worth buying that are at a significant discount.

2. You're making the point that Black Friday/Cyber Monday etc. are not scams, but are in fact the most reasonable time of the year to buy things.

3. Well then it really doesn't matter when you buy it, so Black Friday is as good a day as any.
Do 'blue zones,' supposed havens of longevity, rest on shaky science?
Since the post mentions IPv6, I thought I'd put out a BIG footgun that the WireGuard app to this date hasn't solved.

Imagine a situation with 464XLAT, e.g. on T-Mobile in the USA. You only have an IPv6 address. When you want to communicate to a server that only has an IPv4 endpoint you go over a proxy owned by T-Mobile. The traffic leaving your device is always IPv6, unlike say CGNAT, where there is IPv4 traffic between your device and the NAT gateway.

Problem with the default WireGuard app on iOS is that when it is set up to connect to a DNS name which offers both A and AAAA they default to the A one, which means on T-Mobile the connection goes over this proxy and constantly breaks, as the proxy connection times out after a while. So things like Push notifications stop working.

The fix is to create a separate config with the IPv6 address and connect to that one. No more middle-man, and push notifications keep on working, even when you disable KeepAlive.
It's just so weird. Everyone has a blanket on their bed. If not that, a thick comforter type thing.

You can actually put on more than one shirt too. If it's super cold, you can put on more than one pair of pants. You can put on more than one pair of socks.

If you're strange and your bed doesn't have blankets, you can put clothes over your bed. Most people have 5 to 10 pairs of pants, and a dozen shirts, a few sweaters. Put those on when awake + your winter coat. Put those clothes on the bed when sleeping. Works like a charm.
One thing to consider is that even though bacteria can colonize some sterile object, they don’t seem to be able to create their own self sustaining biome. As far as we know there are no species that can truly exist independently without any resources generated from some other species.

Which makes sense because full autonomy would be more costly than simply relying on organic products made by some other species in the biosphere. For instance, all Vitamin B is produced by bacteria and more complex organisms depend on it as a nutrient rather than producing it on their own.
That's up to you.

One of ways the ATF defines a firearm is "any weapon that can be converted to expel a projectile using an explosive."

If you don't WANT it to be considered a firearm maybe it's sufficiently corroded such that it's no longer true that it could expel a projectile using an explosive, and therefore is no longer a firearm. In that case, if you hit someone with it, it goes back to being an armament, but no longer a firearm.

That is of course unless you melt the metal down and turn it into some kind of lower receiver. It would go back to being considered a firearm by the ATF.

Whether or not it's a firearm depends on your context. If you and all your friends disagree it's a firearm, in that context it is not. In other contexts it is.

Words are really just illusions though. It's equally true that there are no firearms, because firearms are just words. It also is true that any and all matter is a few steps away from being a firearm. Where do you end and I begin? If we get quantum mechanics into it, maybe everything already is a firearm.
> Sorry, you have been blocked
> You are unable to access kinsta.cloud

No page for you Tor users.
I believe you interpreted it exactly the opposite of what I wanted. I put "just" in quotes precisely to make the point that that there's a lot more to your application than getting the screencast buffer.
I thought sweden did the same sort of thing until some famous person had > 100% tax rate and got politicians voted out in outrage.

EDIT: stackoverflow question:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/15235/did-swedi...
The busier the better, for a while anyway, as it causes urgency, which reduces procrastination, which reduces self-guilt and increases rewarding experiences.

The downside in my experience is, one can only keep it up for a while until burnout and depression kicks in, which then severely increases ADHD symptoms and further fuels depression.