skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a very narrow and largely inaccurate view of revolutions.

A lot of revolutions were carried out by people with very little resources - Mao led his army from under-developed hills, the October Revolution didn't have much of an industrial base either, nor did the left in the Spanish civil war (although the military eventually won, but hey, they had a fighting chance).

And aside from that, many revolutions happen relatively peacefully. For example Chile or South Africa. Although the latter case did have some violence and property destruction.

And aside from that, guns in the USA (assuming we're talking about this and not Europe) are cheap and plentiful. And a large, determined, but poorly-armed opposition has often beaten the smaller, well-armed forces of decadent states in the past.

Let's hope it doesn't come to that though - even a peaceful movement can succeed if it's widespread.
The sub-headline itself: "...breathe life back into..." shows how utterly misguided this article is.

Does this look like an asset that needs life breathing back into it?

https://imgur.com/a/Dhemhk9

https://imgur.com/a/G9fmGur (logarithmic price scale)
Do you think if I were to switch the comparison from avenge vs average to median vs median, the gap would be significantly smaller to completely nullify my point on why major consumer electronics launches are always prioritized in the US and also why they enjoy more sales there vs the EU market?

You needlessly insist on pointless semantics in hopes of scoring a cheap "gotcha" over an argument you already lost while my point wasn't to prove you wrong but to share the truth.
> Can you do a lot better? I don't think so and it wouldn't help that much.

I think Rust could do a lot better inferring lifetimes if the compiler would be allowed to peek into called function instead of stopping at the function signature - e.g. if it had a complete picture of the control flow of the entire code base (maybe be up to a point that manual lifetime annotations could be completely eliminated?).

IMHO it's not unrealistic to treat the entire codebase as a single compilation unit, Zig does this for instance - it just doesn't do much so far with the additional information that could be gained.
Amongst all the things I have learned last decades is Beekeeping.

Yes, I watched online video. Read books, blogs etc.

But the true learning was done as apprentice with a few experienced beekeepers.

Beekeeping is only a part theory. There's a big part of practice. From training precise and calm hand movements to how to properly tucking in your vest to listening, feeling, and reading bees mood.

My point isn't that education should be expensive (my beekeeping journey cost me less than a few hundred Euro). But that education is far more than just putting theory in a brain.

Other examples are sports, art, crafts, cooking, music, acting, dancing, maintenance, building, gardening etc. lots of stuff that you can start in through YouTube. But that, in the end, requires fysical training, experience, and therefore at least guidance from experienced humans.
The Deeper Love of Go (early access edition)
Not sure how useful recommendations based on 30k movies would be, you could basically recommend anything...
Show HN: Silicon Meridian – Subreddit Marketplace Aggregator for New Listings
wanted to scratch my data visualization itch and it snowballed into this tool

New listings are always polled, and listings older than 7 days get pruned to maintain relevance (and to not make my redis database balloon in size)

check it out: https://silicon-meridian.com
Wikipedia Random Good Article
What's a good article by Wikipedia standards? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles
Why Nations Fail was such a great book. I actually recommended it in another thread a few days ago.

I didn't know Acemoglu got the Nobel Economics Prize.
I have heard that lead does the same thing.

I read, somewhere, that Cleopatra had lead combs.
I wonder what that has to do with "anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, post-marxism, degrowth, ecologism".

I don't think I have anything to learn about computing from a website that takes multiple seconds to load plain unstyled text.
Not really, they're the carnivore's banana. They have impressive yields and naturally arrive individually packaged and preserved. Nothing scales better, as long as you can keep disease away.

If someone discovered a Cavendish of chickens, that was immune to bird flu, we'd be back in full production in no time, with no added costs.
Pivot to sweat shop.
The title uses the stock stat because it's so unbalanced. But to me the scariest statistic is the other one mentioned in the article: "the top 10% also accounts for 50% of all consumer spending". This seems extremely fragile. Small changes in the behavior of the well-off can have big negative consequences for the entire country.
I’ll refrain from piling on to signal that I, too, can travel on the cheap. But I did get a kick out of the shock and dismay that wealthy people might be good at managing their money.

If you’re not rich, but spend more than rich people do on stuff, you’re going to have a hard time getting rich.
Somehow it makes me quite certain US will not stall shipping latest and newest weapons to Russia, contrary to the way they did to Ukraine.
But do you believe in something constructive? Do you agree with Searle that computers calculate? But then numbers and calculation are immaterial things that emerge from matter?
Thank you for telling us about this dismaying situation.
Yes? How long has it been since you checked what income percentile you are in? I would expect most of the posters here to be in the top 5%, with a short tail of unemployed and retirees.

The number of Americans with passports is at an all time high of 48%, and some of that is simply for convenience ID for internal flights.
> The French revolution was a complete mess that ended in a tyranny (Napoleon).

Umm... I see that you were schooled in the Anglo-American tradition (classical Conservative, I guess Edmund Burke?).

Let me expand on that... the French Revolution was a mess, like any revolution, that's true.

A mess that:

- shattered MANY legal abuses (primarily stemming from divine right, feudalism, etc) in a lot of Europe, in about 3 major shocks (the initial one which led to the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, then 1848, then slowly to the abolition of any feudal remains around 1918)

- greatly expanded personal and collective freedoms in Europe, freedoms that weren't abolished even by the "tyranny"

- served as a model for a better society for many oppressed countries and regions in Europe (I come from one, Romania)

And it did not end in a tyranny. It went through mass executions, lead to an absolutist regime, back to a monarchy, then back to a democracy, then back to a monarchy, and then finally back to a democracy, for good. All of that was started and made possible by the French Revolution.

> The Communist revolution initiated a sequence of events that make communism the #1 cause of death ever. From purges, to famine, wars...

That's only if you look at global Communism like a single phenomenon and you consider say, monarchy, as a set of disjointed ideologies. Communism also brought great equality in countries that were some of the most unequal and abusive on the planet, it greatly accelerated women's rights to the point to this day, Eastern Europe (for example) has more equal political representation and more women in STEM than Western Europe.

You could argue that fear of Communism also led the West to adopt policies such as high taxes on high earners, that led to more equality during the post war era. Look at what's happening now when Communism is basically gone for good. The US is falling back into a Gilded Era.
I'm not an expert on Finland but looking and economy and geopolitics young Finns might have a massive problem with the second secret ingredient to buying their 1st home - a job. Then looking at fertility ratio only people who can afford buying housing to their children decide to have children.
Meg Whitman
Yup, Joseph M. Juran noticed that in the 1940-ies and called that Pareto principle.
You mean like today's capitalism then?
> Moore's law ends when the whole universe is a computer (which it already is).

I find "Moore's Second Law" interesting. At least the version I'm familiar with says that the cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_second_law

It's interesting to contrast that trajectory with global GDP. At some point, either global economic growth has to accelerate dramatically to even produce one fab; or we have to leave the 'globe', ie we go into space (but that's still universal GDP exploding), or that law has to break down.

It would be exceedingly funny (to me), if the one of the first two possibilities held true, and would accurately predict either an AI singularity or some Golden space age.
Moore's law doesn't say anything about you having to power all your transistors for them to count.

I'm only half-joking: the brain gets a lot of its energy efficiency out of most of its parts not working all that hard most of the time; and we are seeing some glimpses of that in mobile processors, too.
I'm really basic, I just like seeing the magpies, pied wagtails and little finches on my commute. They make me happy =)
Super cool, I just used your app to figure out where to place my clothes drying rack so it'll get sun sooner! Okay, I already new the result mostly, but still fun and useful!
> Do you really understand just how unequal it is?

But the above blog post and study you linked to are misleading as well. For instance, wealth gets vastly skewed by age. The average net worth for people 65-75 is almost 10 times the average net worth of someone under 35[1]. For anyone who knows anything about investing, this isn't very surprising. Steady investment will cause people's savings to grow drastically from when they start to when they retire. A vulgar look at the numbers can have people saying "person A has 10 times the wealth of person B!", without considering that person B will also reach the level of person A when they get to the same age.

That's not to say that age alone would simply explain all of the inequality in society, but it's a major factor and an example of why you need to actually dive into the data rather than running with the baseline numbers. When it gets ignored it's likely people are pushing a polemic and aren't genuinely interested in what's happening.

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/average-net-worth...
Didn't those already exist before? Is there lot more of that type of work? Or shouldn't it be done more efficiently now? Also aren't those increasingly out-sourced so shouldn't count in that stat?
Yes, this. And also that while the top 10% owns 87% of the stocks, it's also very likely that the top 0.1% owns 80% of the stocks.
Obviously when I use universal quantifiers, even implicitly, it is easy to find counterexamples. Of course there are individuals that are willing to sacrifice even when old.

But don't you think that your (grand)parents may have been more motivated due to having children and grandchildren? Now, why an old, childless lady or man, living on pension, would take risks, especially when they lived their life watching things taking shape? Again, some will act on principles they believe in, but such people are always a minority. And I doubt people in age of your (grand)parents constituted a bulk of protesters.

I am from Poland. When mass workers protests were happening under communist regime, age median was under 30 yrs. Today it is over 40 yrs. Even excluding other aspects (like liberal ideology taking a firm hold here, and real economic growth that happened since), people today are much more complicit, and much less willing to take direct action, even if today's government is much less likely to beat you to death in jail.
>Because the majority of us are brainwashed by the media.

I disagree, people were even more brainwashed in the past since their only source of information was what the church and the king would tell them (Plato's cave allegory) while now you have a plethora of independent unbiased sources of information plus leaks and whistleblowers out in the open to thanks to the internet and social media.

Sure, you have a lot of fake news and propaganda today form the mainstream and social media, but back then it was all exclusively fake news and propaganda, as only the ruling elites had the truth and they'd never share that with the peasants, while any peasantry who dared speaking the truth that went against the official narrative would be punished for heresy. That's why Europe spent so much time in the dark ages and the advent of freedom of thought also brought in the Renaissance era.

>When the brain is chained, there is no hope for a revolution.

I disagree, people in the west today have a lot more freedom of information and freedom of speech than in the distant past. Well, unless you live in the UK or Germany where the police arrests you for posting a meme online about a politician, try to ban encrypted chat and sources of information they consider "hateful" in order to control the narrative and restrict the population to only vote for the entrenched establishment.
That's the whole point. That it's not explained and you are left with tantalizing questions. It's ok to not like it. Not everyone likes the same things.
Probably the "Properties of permacomputing systems" down this page acts as a a better description of what it aims to be:

https://permacomputing.net/permacomputing/
I read somewhere that Cleopatra took oragnic and natural snake venom vaccines for immunity. Cleopatra apparently did a lot crazy things. Apparently.
It would be nice if you would read that paragraph again :-)
> To be uncharitable, that's probably because CBOR's initial design was lifted from MP, and everything Bormann added to it was pretty bad.

To be clear, I disagree and believe that Bormann did make a great addition by forking. I can explain this right away by how my point can be fixed entirely within CBOR itself.

CBOR tags are of course not required to be processed at all, but some common tags have useful functions that many implementations are expected to implement them. One example is the tag 24 "Encoded CBOR data item" (Section 3.4.5.1), which indicates that the following byte string is encoded as CBOR. Since this string has the size in bytes, every array or map can be embedded in such tags to ensure the easy skippability. [1] This can be made into a formal rule if the supposed processability is highly desirable. And given those tags are defined so early, my design sketch should have been already considered in advance, which is why I believe CBOR is indeed designed better.

[1] Alternatively RFC 8742 CBOR sequences (tag 63) can be used to emulated an array or map of an indeterminate size.
Wondering if eating pineapple then would make my hair blond.
> The scientists believe the skull gave some protection to the brain.

I don't think we're on the same page about the word protection either.
> just multiple Linux installs

"Just" is doing a lot of work here. There is no OS more secure than Qubes, judging by the number and severity of Qubes security bulletins: https://www.qubes-os.org/security/qsb/.

You don't have to run Linux in Qubes. You can run OpenBSD [0], Windows [1] and more [2].

[0] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4551

[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/windows/

[2] https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/packaged-mirage-firewall/32097 and https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/exotic-oses-which-i-tried-on-qu...

> Also it depends on Xen

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/7051

> and an X server

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3366
Liquid money is only good if the bank stays solvent. Which SVB was not, and neither were many banks in 2008 until the federal govt stepped in and backstopped all deposits beyond the $250K limit.
As China sweeps top spots, chemistry seems to be dying in the US
Google must have more PHds that most US Universities combined, and as you acknowledge 60 hours is the normal. The results speak to itself.

For the last 10 years, not a single innovative product out of selling ads, search sucks and have been outclassed in AI.

Maybe work smarter?
That looks fantastic, thank you!
> You're defending atrocious behavior by people who are brandishing their scientific credentials to legitimize it.

Nonsense. I have done no such thing. Please don't lie and misrepresent, that's simply dishonest.

You're overstating the importance of a letter to the editor that expresses an opinion.

So overstating that importance it's both comical and reflects poorly on yourself and your credibility in making any statements about science.
I see people reporting that the extension has already been forcefully removed (or disabled in some cases) from their Chrome. This hasn't happened to me (v133 on MacOS).

I have primarily been using Chrome up until this point as I was under the impression that performance (and therefore battery life) is bad with FF on MacOS. Recent results seem to indicate that Chrome is in fact the worst offender [1].

Yesterday I uninstalled Arc as they have all but abandoned their browser to work on some AI crap browser (after saying they planned to support manifest v2 for the forseeable future).

Today I installed Orion Browser [2]. It's using webkit under the hood and seems to be far lighter on battery life than Chrome, Arc (Blink) and Firefox. They fully support FF and Chrome extensions and therefore UBO seems to be working (on the whole) very well.

[1] https://birchtree.me/blog/everyone-says-chrome-devastates-ma...

[2] https://kagi.com/orion/
Hey, you can indeed push to someone’s knot if they’ve invited you on it. The knot server will automatically populate your ssh pubkeys (if you’ve added them) allowing you to push. :)
Reminds me of:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LaTeX/comments/etiuh4/just_noticed_...
An excellent resource! Thank you for sharing this.
Firefox is fine as daily browser and the few websites that don‘t work in it start working if you enable the chrome mask plugin for them.
To elaborate:

Apart from the very niche application of factoring integers into prime numbers, there's scarcely any application know where quantum computers would even theoretically outperform classical computers. And even integer factoring is only remotely useful, until people completely switch away from cryptography that's relies on it.

The one useful application of quantum computing that I know of is: simulating quantum systems. That's less useless than it sounds: a quantum computer can simulate not just itself (trivially), but also other quantum systems. In any case, the real world use case for that is for accelerating progress in material science, not something you nor me would use everyday.
Surely these people are assigned tasks to do? Are they not getting the tasks done? How are your managers unable to tell whether the assigned tasks are getting done?

Are the tasks getting done but are poor quality? Are you implying that you'd be fine with the shoddy work if they weren't working multiple jobs? If not why do you keep them, irrespective of whether thy have multiple jobs?
Did a similar curl script to ask questions to Llama3 hosted at Duckduckgo:

https://github.com/zoobab/curlduck
I take it that you are unfamiliar with the average jailbreak enjoyer
I can't imagine someone having the chops to code up their own web framework and making a mistake like this. There must be something that we're missing. Another commenter suggested that since it's SQLite, the blocking calls are quick enough not to care, which may be true. I don't know enough about SQLite's performance characteristics to judge that.

In general I assume disk I/O is slow enough (even on SSD) to care about blocking the event loop and delegating the calls to a thread. But I've been wrong about this before. For example, a call to stat is technically blocking, but the overhead of delegating it to a thread is actually more expensive (on my Framework 13) and blocks the loop longer than just doing the call outright in the main thread.
That's the thing with narrative art. It doesn't click the same way, or at all, with everybody. And there is nothing wrong with that. Art that tries too hard to be appealing to everybody ends up being tepid.

To me, for example, with the bits I've heard about the plot, Flow's story doesn't sound particularly appealing. But I'm over the Moon with the news of how it was made, and the fact that budding movie producers won't have to declare bankruptcy after paying Maxon for software licenses. And because the financial barrier is now slightly lower, it means there will be slightly less scripts-by-committee, and slightly better art for non-mainstream audiences.
I’m blonde and eat a lot of pineapple. You’ve got nothing to lose. If you’re not used to the taste, it’s a pretty popular pizza topping and you could try it that way.
> Some items may have moved to the internet but most games, OS Utilities and whatnot are stored on local HDDs or SDDs. Always have and likely will remain so.

Lots of Facebook and flash games are stored 'in the cloud' (but probably cached locally).

For many games, a big part of the game logic runs on some server somewhere, especially multiplayer games.
I think Russia in 1917 is a more recent and valid parallel. But it takes hunger rather than disapproval to fuel such a revolution.
Although you can't see them, there are four upvotes on my comment, and it seems more reasonable to interpret them as agreement than as praise for my rather pedestrian prose or surprise at the rather quotidian ideas it expresses.
My partner and I are in the top 20-25% of Germany (looking at combined household income, we earn about the same). Not poor, but not (very) rich as well.
> You mention the Soviet Union as an example of a government that worked against the people, ignoring plenty of good examples in different countries.

No, that's not what I meant. I mentioned them because they are the largest experiment in having everything run by the state and ignoring human nature (or, in their case, thinking they could change it by pretending it didn't exist for 20 years). The outcome was people voting with their feet and leaving. And because that's terrible PR and they needed the people to stay, they had to build walls to keep them in.

But that's not because they were "working against the people", it's because their assumptions were deeply flawed.

> And I am not really the one ignoring human nature when you are essentially willing to surrender the public good to relentless greed.

What public good? You mean public services? Why would I pay amount X for garbage collection if someone comes up with a better system and can do it for half of that amount? Currency is a placeholder for resources, why wouldn't you choose the more resource-efficient way? Would it be "greedy" to replace inefficient ways?
Belarus had 500.000 people show up. But they got beat down. Hong Kong had millions of people show up. But it just led to massive crackdowns. Numbers mean nothing when the guys who own the guns are not on your side.
What part of Arc feels abandoned? I still use as my primary browser.
But some of the really old (like 1940s) cartoons were very smooth and well-done. I have DVDs of old Tom & Jerry cartoons, and they are excellent.

My experience, is that the ones made in the 1970s and 1980s had crap quality.

I watched this movie, and think it very much deserved the Oscar, but the character rendering was a bit “scruffy.” The environment rendering was great, and it looks like they optimized for movement, in the characters, which was a good choice. Once I spent some time, watching, the rough rendering didn’t matter.

I had a similar experience, watching Avatar. At first, it seemed like a cartoon, but I quickly became immersed, and the fact it was rendered, didn’t matter.

I read, somewhere, that the movie is being re-rendered. I think they may have the money for that, now.