skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing that anybody can look at that guy and think he's "strong". It's so obvious that he's a chicken shit at heart. I mean I guess he talks big, although his language and vocabulary is so stunted, I can't even see that. I guess he was really brave after getting "shot" (probably nicked his own ear with a fingernail when he was pulled to the ground by secret service).
Not always. Robert Moses is most well known for the evils we are talking about and he was strictly New York (though he was able to get federal money in latter years)
I think you're missing the basic distinction between private parties and government.

Private parties (including companies) largely have freedom of association. There are (theoretically) protections in "commerce" against a company discriminating against a person or group based on "innate" factors (such as skin color or gender).

But largely, people and companies have a wide degree of latitude about what they are and are not allowed to do.

The government, on the other hand, (theoretically) is largely not allowed to stop people from saying things or associating with each other, and when these prohibitions are in effect they're subject to both documentation and review. This is "theory" because the government has done lots of shady things.

The government, similarly (and theoretically), is bound by a variety of procedural constraints, such as due process, right to see an attorney, right of the attorney to request your presence, right to a trial, etc.

There's a categorical distinction between:

I, a private party, am offended that I face consequences of offending someone else when I would prefer not to face any consequences.

and

I, a private party, am abducted by the organization in this country with a monopoly on violence and which interprets all laws, and I vanish with no recourse from anyone.
Thanks, that's really cool. Have you used this? Does it work well and are there pain points to look out for? A necessarily hosted system strikes me as not exactly covering a full Trusting Trust situation (because the host can compromise it) but it otherwise looks really solid at a glance.
The person GP is responding to made it clear they’re willing to pay a premium for a burger that isn’t based on a pyramid of misery, which makes the response all the more misplaced.

There are models of agriculture that achieve better sustainability by using a small number of livestock as unskilled labor to emulate the wild environments that the plants our gene stock come from were adapted to. This will likely be the model moving forward, especially as petrochemical fertilizers get more expensive.

“Just enough” livestock will still get too old to breed or provide labor. They will still have too many babies in good weather and need to be culled in subsequent bad years. That doesn’t put T-bone steaks on everybody’s plate, but it does provide enough animal protein to approximate the traditional Asian diet of a few ounces of animal protein per day, as soup stock and a bit of variety.

The future will still have chicken soup even if burger joints go away.
> why you think China will have lost decades?

Demographics. Though America may save it from itself.
This comment redefines the "power" as it's defined above, in particular by forgetting that it's "over others":

> I think both of those things do give people that rush of power and control over others.

That was presumably unintentional; I just wanted to point out that it's a different philosophical topic.

I don't strictly disagree with the idea but it's not the same as saying that someone solving a sudoku is doing it for the sake of having power over the puzzle's creator and/or the curator of the book/app that included the puzzle. It seems more likely that they're doing it instead because when they would solve puzzles in the past they would get a hit of dopamine, which taught them that solving puzzles is rewarding. I think this seems to fall under "rush of power" per this meaning but it's not "rush of power and control over others" per the initial one.
FYI - you aren't handling the "scroll up" case.

To see what I mean, click "Creating a Feature" then start scrolling up. Notice that "Creating a Feature" is still highlighted even though the entire screen is made up of text from the "Software" section.

I probably only noticed this because I recently implemented a similar "active anchor" solution with Intersection Observer.
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Yglesias's position, which he's articulated in a number of posts over the years, is that procedural barriers are a poor and ineffective way of preventing this failure mode, because they don't differentially retard bad projects compared to good projects; they just slow down everything, and impose other costs besides. You might like this if it's your considered opinion that change is in general bad, but I think most sane people recognize that that's not the case.

According to this position, the thing to do is to reduce the influence of bureaucrats and courts over what kind of building is allowed, and instead concentrate authority in a small number of elected officials who are empowered to do whatever they judge best—while making very clear to voters that those elected officials are responsible for whatever outcomes come of this, so that if those outcomes are bad (as judged by voters), the officials won't be reelected. In short, let democracy do its job.
"Affordable housing" (sub-market rate lotteries subsidized by increasing the cost of market rate housing) is IMO more of a NIMBY policy than a YIMBY one. The net effect is market rate housing gets more expensive, which hurts everyone except the lucky lottery winners.
Gosh "who is an oppressive elite?"

Musk, Trump and the billionaires in their administration sure look like "oppressive elites" to me. Can you name multiple oppressive elites?

Edit: I think you answer your own question here. The actual oppressive elites have convinced the masses (and you) that there's a different amorphous group of "oppressive elites" that aren't the obvious ones standing right in front of your eyes. Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1013/
Is Technology Terrible or Am I Just a Grumpy Old Man?
Stress is a minor form of torture.

Torture itself is irrational, but so are the things that humans will do or say when subjected to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hghczTVgav0
I'm a huge fan of how Switzerland does it. We USED to be that pre-Great Depression / New Deal.
"Getting in trouble" at work and being disappeared are so freaking different that there is no discussing it. If you cannot see a difference, you are blind.
If you have the extremist definition that says that nobody can actually be punk.
And specifically the ivy league schools and "elite" ones are cementing their reputation among younger students and soon to be college applicants. They are paying attention. I've seen several boycotts of Columbia and other universities from students.
Feel free to make an industry friendly version of the organization then, otherwise it seems like a lot of devs are extremely passionate about open source not just in usage but a movement that literally allowed them to carve out careers from it.
Because they thought it was an ancient and unchanging text.
A Philosophy of Software Design (book) [pdf]
Comparing homeless people and drug addicts to zombies is not helpful.

Instead we could talk about returning to the horrors of the involuntary hospitalization era pre-Reagan, or we could talk about the current push to incarcerate the entire class in order to use them for forced labor (Grants Pass v. Johnson, 2024).

The most humane solution would be to house them and give them a robust social assistance network, of course, but that’s obviously so far off the table that it fell out the Overton Window.
Well tell me that sad story about your grandfather’s whole family. Who killed them?
Many tasks are amenable to simulation training and synthetic data. Math proofs, virtual game environments, programming.

And we haven't run out of all data. High-quality text data may be exhausted, but we have many many life-years worth of video. Being able to predict visual imagery means building a physical world model. Combine this passive observation with active experimentation in simulated and real environments and you get millions of hours of navigating and steering a causal world.
Deepmind has been hooking up their models to real robots to let them actively explore and generate interesting training data for a long time. There's more to DL than LLMs.
When I see the left's recent brazen devotion to "winning" and "sticking it to the other side", sometimes it feels like Democrats have started acting like Republicans.

And it turns out that wasn't sustainable.

I know it's glib and coarse and lacking in nuance but when I hear American conservatives complain about the ways of the liberal countrymen I can't help but think, "That's how you guys sounded for a long time. Now they're doing it, lo and behold: everyone loses."
I recently found https://github.com/tekumara/typos-lsp that uses https://github.com/crate-ci/typos
Plenty of GH stars so likely a solid user base. Works great in NeoVim with the built-in apellchecker.
There is a vast difference between the UK and the rest of Europe, in this regard.

Full disclosure, I travel all over Europe for work and in the last 3 years, 1 of them was in the UK. The divide between the rich and poor is incredible.

Further, the only place I’ve seen so many young homeless men on the streets is in the UK. Not seen it anywhere else.
How do you define which speech is speech worthy of protection and which speech is a consequence of speech and therefore not worthy of protection?

For example, imagine some CEO says something politically objectionable, as is their right granted by allowing free speech. Do I have the right to protest or boycott their company as part of my free speech rights or would that be illegal because I'm rendering a consequence for the CEO's speech?

I just have trouble conceptualizing what you think a world with consequence free speech would actually look like.
If you let yourself get scammed by contractors who charge you double when you have "money" there's no limit to the number you can pay for a kitchen.

Obviously there is more hands-on involved the cheaper you want to go.

Also "full" is probably doing a lot of lifting here. He likely didn't do plumbing for the kitchen from scratch nor electrical.

If you just need to replace cabinets + appliances, there's no reason why you can't get any kitchen done under 30k.
Are these people in your realm being picked up off the street by the police, drugged, put into an airplane, and then being dropped into the ocean over international waters?

Or are these people having the things they've said repeated widely, perhaps out of context, to other people, who then decide "sheesh, maybe I don't want to hang out with / work with this dude." ?
I (along with others) created pricing optimization software for the multi-family housing industry.
I thought it was clear they meant other legislation targeting other companies could be passed.
I'm sure you'd be annoyed if poor people couldn't buy or use brushes, and their quality of live would decrease. Amusing that 'plastic=wasteful purchase" de facto in your mind (for the purposes of this thread)
We still have this mixup with the term "generalize".

ML generalization is not the same as "generalness".

The model learns from data to infer strategies for its task (generalization). This is a completely different paradigm to an explicitly programmed rules engine which does not learn and cannot generalize.
Home building is rampant in some areas, it's just not in the insanely VHCOL coasts.

Tax incentives or other reasons to have companies offer jobs in places like Milwaukee or Boise reduces housing pressure on the big cities.

What we used to have is smaller (in area) cities, who were not governed in lock-step, and if housing was needed, entire new cities would pop up (sometimes called suburbs, but check them - often they're their own legal entity).
I've had very similar experiences in India. Incredibly expensive, well-furnished homes surrounded by streets filled with trash. The people living in there don't even walk outside any more, it's too hot/polluted/dirty for that. They get everything delivered to them or go for work/events in their fancy car.
T***p?
Chinese people would understand that tough times are because Americans elected an idiot.

Americans would understand that tough times are because their fellow Americans elected an idiot.

It will be a crisis for both countries, but it will unite one and divide another. I think everyone will lose but America is likely to lose harder, bigly even.
Not endorsing here but it's not like that's not over entirely nothing. Our car-centric infrastructure means anywhere that is busy is basically impossible to navigate, which... I mean nearly every other G20 nation has a much more diverse transportation system than us, and car focused infrastructure is by far the most inefficient way to move people. It's why I'm still a remote worker despite loving my job, coworkers, and the office: I don't want to deal with commuting in a major metro. Numerous others who work where I do regularly clock commutes in the 30 minute range to travel 10 miles. It's absurd.

And it's not JUST inconvenient, it's costly. Living in a place with more people and more traffic means you pay higher insurance premiums and spend more on fuel, unless you have an EV of course.

Again I don't mean to fully cosign NIMBYism I'm just saying, especially with the shit way the United States goes about building, it isn't a position completely without merit.
NIMBY is much better than YIMBY. Be resistant to change as much as possible
Comparing Moscow Metro to BART just makes me sad. BART should be an amazing, world class rail system. Instead, it's kind of a joke.
Trump tariffs terrify board game designers
what EU country has the best food? (i’m from canada but every time i’ve been in the EU i’ve noticed the EU food is much better)
Might Christianity (and the likelihood one group or another is more Christian) have something to do with their charitable giving?
Can you expand what you mean by "Demographics"?
> That's like also saying bankrupting consumers means they'll eat less.

I would presume that this is true, in the sense that the overall economic footprint of what these bankrupted consumers eat will be smaller.

The caloric difference will be insignificant. But instead of having it come from meat, and especially cattle, have it come from vegetables and poultry.

No one needs to eat red meat every day.
> Europeans do drink a lot, but it's in moderation, if that makes sense. Less binge drinking all at once, more drinks during meals and spread throughout the week. We all know the liver processes alcohol at a specific rate so this is less damaging to health.

I'm sceptical that this is a big factor. Ireland and the UK have a big binge drinking problem, but Ireland's in the top end of European countries for life expectancy; the UK's a bit lower down the list, but still just about at the EU average.

Though, you also have to be careful with small differences, because the data is often imperfect. One darkly funny thing to come out of the covid pandemic was that there were significantly more very elderly people in Ireland than it was generally believed; this showed when the covid vaccination rate for the over-85 age cohort went over 100% (I think it hit 109% by the end). It turned out that the central statistics office's population estimates had simply been wrong; they had been running off an assumed death rate since the last census which turned out to be overly pessimistic.
Communitcation/Writing, juggling, a backflip, a handstand, dancing, solving a rubiks cube.
Tax the billionaires and the behemoth corporations.
> tens of hours on building it plus over $300 in parts

In other words, quite inexpensive.
Touche! But PM is at least grounded in reality (for most part) and based upon real/customer scenarios. ‘Vibe architecting’ might ask us to build an Escher staircase, for example!
Well, Apple has done nothing to replace the common standard they abandoned. They failed to develop their proprietary alternatives into a competitive position and now can't even use their own TSMC dies (imported at great expense) for training: https://www.eteknix.com/apple-set-to-invest-1-billion-in-nvi...

However you want to paint the picture today, you can't say the industry didn't try to resist CUDA. The stakeholders shot each other in a 4-way Mexican standoff, and Nvidia whistled showtunes all the way to the bank. If OpenCL was treated with the same importance Vulkan was, we might see a very different market today.
Life-Size Statues Found Carved into Wall of Necropolis in Pompeii
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The healthiness of dairy is about 75% propaganda from the dairy association of America.

Cheese has been with us for millennia. About half as long as we have had civilization. Other cultures (yogurt, etc) for I don’t know how long. But the fixation on milk is largely a product of oversupply.
> The contents of the shopping cart of the person in front of you is an indicator.

yes.

> It’s all correlates, some leading, some trailing, some accurate, and some inaccurate.

no. some things are actually measured, like employment rate.

sentiment also can be measured, but is meaningless, because it can contradict behavior, which actually affects the real world. sentiment certainly is correlated to behavior, which is why it's a good leading indicator, but is often wrong about what is happening (see the USA 2024 election, and covid).
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Maybe you can call a WebGL extension that isn't supported. Or better yet have a couple of overdraws of quads. Their bot will handle it, but it will throttle their CPU like gangbusters.
Yeah, which is why we need to stop using antibiotics for cases where we could use phage treatment.
Most of that $600 is BOM inputs where most of high end components worth $$$$$ is ultimately captured by US / western suppliers (i.e. chips, sensors, screens for iphones). The actual value of export from PRC in terms of material and labour is $, but still counted as $$$$$+$. Though iphone/high tech unique since US plays hand - sanction $$$$$ PRC components so Apple can't integrate them and raise PRC share of Apple BOM, which IIRC grew to ~20% and on way 40%+ (prc memory + screen) and now <20%. This is something PRC stats has started adjusting for.
I have to assume /s, but lacking that -- Why can't you just allow `curl`? You need a human for advertising dollars or a poor mechanism of rate limiting. I want to use your service. If you're buying me a fragment shader, I guess that's fine, but I'm feeding it to the dogs, not plugging in your rando hardware in to my web-browser.
Lots of people have been crying housing collapse for the last 15 years too.
Making clothes more expensive for everyone is helping that how?
Right. It's not that I agree with this idea, I just understand it
Here's one example: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-rules-jewish-stud...

"the protesters created a “Jew Exclusion Zone” where in order to pass “a person had to make a statement pledging their allegiance to the activists’ view.” Those who complied with the protesters’ view were issued wristbands to allow them to pass through, the complaint says, which effectively barred Jewish students who supported Israel and denied them access to the heart of campus."
I have to say, Quakers are cool Christians if you're wanting to hold on to your faith but abandon the hypocrisy. (I find the Quaker community surprisingly welcoming of me, an atheist.)
the american media is just completely unable to handle endless bald facing lying to their face.

> "DOGE, a made up agency the government lies about Elon Musk not running, is planning to absolutely fuck up the way that Social Security works"

it's much longer, but much more honest. if they actually wanted to "modernise" things then they'd calm the fuck down and spend three years trying to understand the current system, then design an incremental replacement.
I think you have to consider personality types when discussing things like this. Rand seems to me like she probably had Asperger’s, which explains why she is attracted to rationality, and her heroes are like that too.

That works for some people.

I read Nietzsche after rand and I thought his philosophy had some similarities to rand but from a more emotional perspective. They say very similar things about being yourself and being selfish, but one from rationality the other from emotions.

For me the difference between musk and Steve jobs demonstrates this. One is an engineer entrepreneur the other an artist entrepreneur. Both incredibly successful but couldn’t be more different, but of course both are assholes too and took what they wanted from the world.
That is neither what I said nor is it what I'm suggesting. I am saying that their practical ability to "oppose the admin" is limited.
I was also wondering what this was about. Should I care and why?

It's not only that I don't want to, but literally can't use extra 2 minutes for _every_ link I open while browsing news sites. And that attention span window is only getting shorter.

It's definitely not the first or last time for github repo not using the best real estate they have in "selling" their product.
I mean the extraordinarily negative effects of the tariffs are obvious, not whether he would do something this stupid or not.
Declining and rapidly-aging population [1].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/12/05/key-facts...
They didn't say it was the same. You're arguing with what you imagined they said.
It varies on a company to company basis. BOOX, for instance, are notorious GPL violators.

There's also significant alpha in releasing open weights models. You get to slow down the market leaders to make sure they don't have runaway success. It reduces moats, slows funding, creates a wealth of competition, reduces margin. It's a really smart move if you want to make sure there's a future where you can compete with Google, OpenAI, etc. There's even a chance it makes those companies bleed a little. The value chain moves to differently shaped companies (tools, infra) leaving space for consumer and product to not necessarily be won by the "labs" companies.