skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brazil's president Lula certainly wants this. He's been pushing for it for years now. I see it in the news every other day. I suppose it's possible that he's just the fall guy for the machinations of China and Russia. Who knows.

I'm ambivalent about it. Having our own currency is good, even better if it's not backed by USD, best of all if it's backed by precious metals like gold. On the other hand, I hate Lula and everything he represents so much I actually want him to piss Trump off to the point he sanctions the entire Latin American continent until Lula and his fellow communist dictator friends drop to their knees and beg for mercy.
I was also going to say, between the Costco executive membership's 2% rebate, and CC incentives, it's probably a wash anyways between that or the 10¢ difference.
I'm a big fan of SuperMemo16, if you could add incremental reading that would be great.
"capitalists" have many central planners each planning the same thing but coming up with different results. Then we reward the ones who are right. Socialism features one planner - they may have helpers, but just one. If one planner gets it wrong in capitalism you can go with a different one.
Although we do make the content available through text, as the editor of the episode I think there is a great benefit to hearing Dr. Iverson speak. The nuances of his humour and the warmth of his personality can not really be captured in text.
PPP is only useful for measuring regional purchasing power within a country. As a metric for comparing the relative strength of global economies it is irrelevant.
I prefer Signal, but a lot of my friends are iPhone users and just use iMessage amongst themselves. Android RCS to iMessage is a step up over SMS (RCS doesn't result in super low res videos and pictures).

The thing about social interactions is that you don't always get to dictate "We're using Signal now." And if the other people are using iPhones and aren't going to use Signal, RCS makes sense.

RCS does NOT work properly on custom roms unless you have some google integrity check hacks mixed in, and its a constant cat and mouse of google breaking those hacks... so if your messages are timely, you want SMS, or a google approved android.
Soon enough I imagine we'll have dream state to cohesive reality models. Our desires and world events can be dissected and analyzed by fine grain and hint authorities to your intent before you know what they mean to you /s.
That is the point - the Brits were able to force the matter. If you aren't up-to-date on technology, specifically military tech, you're going to have matters like this forced upon you. Que the Ukraine giving up the nukes (and later getting rid of even non-nuclear missiles).
> Go ahead and get rid of MCOs, and at best you will reduce costs by 5%. That’s an objective fact.

That doesn't make any sense. Profit margin is meaningless if you are spending billions on a bunch of useless administrative staff pushing paperwork for no reason.

Obviously some of that is necessary, but certainly not nearly all of it. I don't care about a company making 5% on top of a $150k/yr admin salary. I care about the $150k/yr salary which is the true cost added to the system.

Having watched from afar my friends in healthcare who actually provide bedside care vs. the administrative bloat - it's going much like education. Tons of admin staff added that don't ever touch patients that seemingly just get in the way of the folks doing the actual work.

Margin is a meaningless number if you can just pump your expenses to increase the total dollar amount.
>This is not someone walking in public, those are videos out of private homes.

Yes, it's like someone watching a private video on their phone while on the train. You don't have a right to not have someone looking over your shoulder if you do that. While out in public you have implicit permission to look over someone else's shoulder because that's what "public" means. Public means the absence of privacy.

>a) the rights to do so (I saw a clip where a women asked a bit angry, are you making a movie?)

>B) was aware what he is doing

Both are the problem of whoever took the video and/or uploaded it, not of the person watching it later.
Could you expound on this a little more? I think I've totally misunderstood you.

Like, who would you consider an 'Elite'? AFAICT, someone who's 'an Elite' thrives off of inequality, by definition. Without said inequality they wouldn't be 'Elite'.

Is it possible that your definition for Elite is similar to my definition for Specialist? Like 'Subject Matter Expert'?
"or networked"
Maybe it's not about your enemies but rather wanting to provide a certain level of security to your clients.
This is a totally fair perspective and I have no qualms with it, beyond an asterisk that the seeds that matured with the Reformation and its aftermath were planted during the Gregorian Reforms.
Investigating the Triple Code Model in numerical cognition with stereotactic EEG
Why is it "dire"? Who is harmed by someone else having more money?

BTW, all attempts at income equality have ended in miserable failure, some of them with millions of dead people.
That's a great sign that using it will be more pain than just solving the problem yourself
"Why do engineers get mad at each other so often?[...]a cultural clash between different kinds of engineers: believers vs grifters, or coasters vs grinders"

Engineers don't get mad at each other often, the issue is that none of those four archetypes are engineers. Engineers have a common formal training, certification and can build things to specification and timelines which avoids most of the culture clashes.

If you want to resolve what's described here the solution is to work somewhere that looks more like Lockheed and less like a frathouse.

And if you really care about software engineering as a discipline, avoid an organization that sounds like this:

"In most software companies, you really want a handful of engineers obsessing about issues like accessibility, security and performance all the time, even when the organization as a whole doesn’t care about it"
The term that is missing on the page is: seriation.
It's sad but this is what the whole 'eat the rich' thing looks like in action. I don't know if it's my cynical nature or age, but I get a sense that generalized feeling of hope/optimism is at all time low (ok, ~century or so low) and these acts will likely increase
How the FDA allows companies to add secret ingredients to our food
This book was a book I always looked at on my dad's bookshelf, and which I read after he passed away. The distinguishing between bullshit and lying is one I think is more and more critical.
Have you used it for anything other than Flutter? I recently did a Flutter project and I'm interested in using dart more now.
Is there a custom search engine underneath this? My company's CIO has been asking about an LLM-driven search engine for the entire company.
> Many economies are debt free, because there is no reason to go into debt to have money.

Is this intentionally facetious? There is NO reason to go into debt? Should we just return to the gold standard then?
very nice to see this, one of the more interesting little OS projects i've come across. had a similar idea for my OS (waaay not far enough in development - and i lack the skills!) and it's really cool to see someone managed to actually do this bit!

what i thought, is that perhaps utilizing a hypervisor, a log (maybe a blockchain but i didn't get that far :P) can be kept out of reach of the OS, which logs every task that's executed along with its results (in some way or form). this way, there's - from the OS point of view, no tampering on this log possible, and from the hypervisor point of view, the ability to deny certain interactions. - upon this log, things like machine learning could be implemented to do anomaly detection. - maybe you have the skills to do something like that XD... i am forever lost in the earlier code of an OS :D....

There's tons of nice features in the architecture which can be combined with ML / crypto along with techniques like taint tracking which could make operating systems and the programs running within them much more secure.

aaaanyhow... really cool project, can't wait to see how it would develop in the future :). good job!
Unfortunately, I've come to agree with you.

Democrats generally run on a platform of competent, centrist government. And they generally lose.

They won when they ran a remarkable orator with a short track record, and they were disappointed when he also gave them competent, centrist government. They won when they ran against a man who was in the process of screwing up a crisis, but now that the crisis has been handled, he's back.

The American left wants what the American right gets: a flamboyant demagogue who makes absurd promises that he cannot deliver. They demand change, so we might as well give it to them.

* End all American support for Israel

* Immediately cancel all student loans

* Halve the US military, and put the money into a Universal Basic Income

* Tax billionaires at 50%, and multi-billionaires at 90%

* Bans on fossil fuels and plastics

These all seem like bad ideas to me, but I've got a choice: these bad ideas, or the active harassment of the Republicans. So my best option would be to vote for these candidates, then hope that none of these policies can actually be implemented, or in dramatically reduced form.

At this point that may not actually be necessary. Right now there is a very good chance that Democrats will win in 2028 for the same reason they won in 2008: a failing economy and an obvious incompetent in office. And it's possible that by 2032, demographics will have shifted substantially.

Still, I think that this is the route they need to take. Might as well pander to the left and hope that the result is somehow a sensible policy. Because the idea of offering reasonable government just doesn't get people excited.
I agree. Though I would just add that I don't consider removing unfair advantages to be tearing others down.
I think this article jumped the gun by abandoning Rayon too quickly.
Any estimates of how much one of these cost to generate and keep a minute of context?

Secondly, any estimate of how much the price could fall in 5-10 years?
Many Europeans have a mild climate where the few days AC is really better than no AC isn't enough to be worth it. Particularly if you stick to western Europe when you mean Europe, (eastern Europe has a harsher climate but also still coming out from soviet days and so doesn't have the wealth needed to put AC everywhere though some are getting close)
I agree with this wholeheartedly. I fed ChatGPT the description and they said a name without such a negative connotation was "navigator." I think this is better. It also recommended "politician" as well. I think navigator is fitting. They let the structure of the system they find themselves in determine their path. The system navigates for them.
> There was a PR to improve the performance of `Integer#succ` in early 2024, which helped me understand why anyone would ever use it: “We use `Integer#succ` when we rewrite loop methods in Ruby (e.g. `Integer#times` and `Array#each`) because `opt_succ (i = i.succ)` is faster to dispatch on the interpreter than `putobject 1; opt_plus (i += 1)`.”

I find myself using `#succ` most often for readability reasons, not just for performance. Here's an example where I use it twice in my UUID library's `#bytes` method to keep my brain in “bit slicing mode” when reading the code. I need to loop 16 times (`0xF.succ`) and then within that loop divide things by 256 (`0xFF.succ`): https://github.com/okeeblow/DistorteD/blob/ba48d10/Globe%20G...
I'll admit that I'm not well versed in the different shades of suspend...I had to look up S3 and it definitely eats more battery than I'd like when it's suspended. With that said, I've only ever had two laptops that would actually wake up after a suspend and one of those only did that after it was resurrected after a 5 year hiatus. So my expectations were low enough that I was thrilled that it worked at all. I look forward to the fix in the firmware (which seems to update via standard apt upgrade efforts...also pretty cool). I haven't hit any problems with wifi and bluetooth...both work well for me.
I honestly think this idea just needs to die. So many people I know don't even bothering applying for welfare because they think they won't get it.

In reality, most US states are insanely generous.

I recall once my mom had to help a friend's dad who was uninsured and dying of prostate cancer simply apply for benefits. He didn't think the state would pay for it and had just resigned himself to death. My goodness, how silly... Instead, he applied and it was paid for.

I myself have fallen into this trap. When I was laid off, I was going to pay COBRA, instead of just biting the bullet and applying for medicaid. There's almost always a free government provided option if you need it. Literally people don't even bother.
Automatic DIY polarity-independent AA battery charger
How is the “standard of living” in the US in any way higher than europe?
EU homes are generally tiny. Homes in Mississippi for example are huge compared to EU homes
> Correction: the west coast is filled with homeless people due to democratic supermajorities. Most of the country is extremely clean.

This is such a bias tinted view of reality. There are homeless in all parts of the country including suburban and rural areas. You find the majority of homeless in cities because that is just where people in generally are so if by most of the country is extremely clean you mean most of the country is extremely empty and void of life then yeah.
I know several people who emigrated to the US with a suitcase and became millionaires. None of them had a family emerald mine, or any family wealth at all.

If you live in the USA already, why didn't you start SpaceX? Millions of immigrants come to the USA. Why didn't anyone else start SpaceX?
As a recent convert, svelte has felt wonderful.
I think Maslow would have a point to make, here.

Privileged societies are more medicated because the most pressing issues to them are (somewhat) soluble using medication. Because they are not imminently worried about housing and sustenance or violence.

Would be odd to consider medicating for fibromyalgia or depression when you're starving and/or being bombed / shot at.
Counter point: you’d see a corresponding exponential increase in QA labor, and just like with the web, Steam will be absolutely flooded with slop.

So I see the most likely outcome is a lot of dogshit and Steam being forced to make draconian moves to protect the integrity of the store.
It's one big tragedy from my experience.
I love projects like this. In addition to being great for bringing ‘a Lisp lifestyle’ to the Go ecosystem, it might be a good addition to the fast startup interpreter space, similar to the very good Babashka project.
I'm an American and it definitely seems like we are in a significant and worsening loneliness crisis. I have no idea to what degree any of it is unique to Americans. Social connectedness, socialization rates, and companionship have all been declining for quite a while now. Lot's of potential causes and theories about it. [1] is a decent overview.

Like personally I'm doing great, and so are a lot of people I know, and I'm sure you as well. But I think a lot of Americans are struggling badly with their social lives.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9811250/
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Yea, the quadrant visualization does not make sense. What is the bottom-left quadrant? Coaster or Grifter or both? What about the top-right? None of the above? I can't figure it out.
No they aren't. Americans are finding out that when you abuse medical workers by calling them "essential workers" who have to continue working during a pandemic while hundreds of thousands of patients berate you for saying things like "you should get vaccinated" or "don't eat an anti-parasite medication for horses" and overwork them and pay them shit, they quit in droves.

They are then finding out that for profit businesses have no interest in re-hiring all the workers they had before the pandemic, because they didn't lose as much business as they saved money in salary, so everyone is just running a skeleton crew that they overwork.

Meanwhile the data I find for emergency room visits are that there's barely been any increase in percentage of the population that visited an emergency room since 1997.

Companies are spending less on services and letting us just suffer because we don't have better options and YET AGAIN dumb Americans for some reason blame the government for completely independent companies making self serving choices?!
Nvidia desktop GPUs may be fine on Linux now, but are very much still trash on Laptops. I can't even begin to express how troublesome they have been on the work laptops I've been forced to use. I would've killed for any non-Nvidia laptop, even if just integrated graphics, but IT won't approve any other models, and the UEFI lacks an option to fully disable the Nvidia GPU.
And it's likely even worse if you include traffic deaths. NYC is actually one of the safest places in the entire country https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-18/how-ar...
I love living in the US and visiting the EU. For me, that seems to be the very best arrangement. Early on, I was infatuated with the perceived better quality of life in the EU, but I see now that I could not easily create something comparable to what I enjoy in the US unless I was an elite member of EU society. My guess is that this is true for the majority of US residents on HN.
This might be very useful for startups looking to make equity compensation more attractive: Usually those shares are worthless until the company is sold or goes public. But with Pisces companies from any country can set up to be traded on Pisces until the company goes public. That allows employees to trade their shares on a semi-public platform with each other and anyone else who is on the platform, making those shares actually worth something in more than the accounting sense.
Inequality is big problem. If you have a certain percentage of people with way more money than others, they skew markets to cater to them. You see this in real estate where new builds are mostly towards the higher end. You see this with cars where manufacturers are cutting the lower end models. You see it in health care where the only available options are the expensive ones.

This works well for companies because they can get higher margins. This works well for the people with money but other people are being left out. And with increasing inequality the number of people left out goes up.

Basically we are creating a world designed for the top x percent of people. And they are creating laws that favor themselves.
"If People Are Dying, Let's Get Started": The Brutal Relay of the Nome Serum Run
But you don't find massive unhoused homeless encampments (which is really all that matters for most people) in all cities. The problem is of a completely different scale in East coast, Midwest, Southern cities.

Let's just ignore the rural areas and suburbs. Let's even ignore party (since most big cities are democrat run at this point).

Even with all of those things held the same, the West Coast cities are still uniquely bad not just in the people without permanent housing but also their lack of ability to do anything.

This particular article points to housing supply. Again, this is a simple choice. For example, my city of Portland, which is very high on this list, makes it impossible to build anything (tree planting requirements, years long waits for final premits, rent control, urban growth boundary, high tax state gov't, etc). It's terrible. At the end of the day though, Portlanders are Americans and will experience the same outcomes should the state just be normal
There are a few centuries and a lot of decline between those.
Awful ways to create Pipelines with Go
Albertans will "rat" (pun-intended) each other out for stuff like this.
Many people don't realise. America has been exporting inflation around the world while China has been exporting deflation through cheaper goods. China is the main reason for World's prosperity.
> sizeof is a unary operator so the parentheses are rarely necessary

I thought parentheses where still required for types, and are optional for variables. Even if that's not so, I still use them for types and avoid them for variables just to add one more cue about what's being sized.
This story is also told in Nicholas Carr's bestseller 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains' https://www.nicholascarr.com/?page_id=16
So we support it in Outerbase Cloud, and we will get to work on adding support for it to Studio as well.

In the meantime if you want you can check out our cloud-offering, we have a very generous free tier!
That only excludes basic wage income. If you have any other income, investments, etc then the tax situation becomes indefensibly punitive.
All of this seems to indicate this was a hired professional and not someone merely angry at their health insurance benefits.
Idk why you think your kids should get your money when you die. If they didn’t earn it then they should get a small amount and have to work for the rest, just like everyone else.
Lots of people want that AI grift money and need to be pollyanna true believers to convince others that models that don't know truth are useful decision makers
Have you seen the steep exponent on the US debt? You won't be able to leave anything to your kids if you move to the US either. Might as well enjoy 2 weeks vacation, rather than 2.
That's one side. The other side looks like this: https://spelmanblueprint.com/810/opinions/professors-bitter-...

The background is a new faculty member actually teaching at university level. We know that proofs and reading are required. They do not.
> What fossilized dino feces can tell us about their rise to dominance

They had diareha ?
The last terror attacks in my country were part of an organised campaign to try and burn down mosques explicitly because of unhinged propaganda on TV and online. The fact that these attacks were not called "terrorist attacks" on any single news station tells you all you need to know about propaganda here.
All models are wrong but some are useful and all that. Now I just want to see a megamodel combining this, the software "political" axis w.r.t. risk aversion (that I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42320862), and finally, a summary of how each node interacts with each other node given various circumstances like whether it's a collaborative or conflicting situation (a concept I learned from a required Strength Deployment Index workshop; mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42321007), to prescribe various incentives or strategies to unstick the participants and keep them flowing.

Maybe throw in some flavor from the 6 types of working genius (WIDGET: wonder, invention, discernment, galvanizing, enablement, tenacity) and meyers-briggs personality types for fun.
AI generation of inventions could be used as a massive DOS attack on the patent system, by producing millions or billions of inventions immediately placed into public view as prior art.
> In both cases, having the AI generate the code enabled me to focus on designing the games, both visually and from an interaction perspective. I also chose to manually code some parts myself, because these were fun.

…so not programming?
It's pretty obvious you haven't read more than the headline.
Thanks for the feedback!

I agree, and this is something I thought about a lot during the design process. In my experience, just looking at the note (#1 in your example) helps a lot more than no repetitions (which is obvious of course), but it's still a huge improvement compared to my previous flow.

As for repetition, I was thinking of replying to the email with what you think is the answer and letting an LLM decide if you remember correctly. Is that something that sounds effective to you?
Building an AI agent that writes its own tools