skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea but "we waste the greatest minds of our generation on global economic information symmetry" just doesn't scratch the same itch
He stole the concept of poetry from Yeats?
Yes, but tariffs are not paid on local products, of course, and create a real asymmetry in favour of the local products (of course).
induction stoves are more expensive

Not by a lot. At least here in Sweden the cheapest induction stovetop from a brand I somewhat trust is maybe $150 more than the cheapest ceramic stovetop from a similar brand. Once you move into the midrange, the price difference is virtually gone. As to cookware, unless you use mostly copper cookware, I found that virtually all my pots and pans were compatible.

If you're thinking about induction and want to test your pans, grab a magnet and touch it to the bottom of your pan. If it sticks, the pan will work.
Preach!

How is it that my FF preference (something like 'Always show scrollbars') is regularly just ignored.

I want my scrollbars! And I wat `em fat and in my UI's color scheme!

And why the HELL would a web designer think this is a good idea. Maybe their beret and hipster pants are too tight?

Thanks for being here for my rant. I owe you one :-)
> To build a railway between Euston and Curzon Street in Birmingham, I need 8,276 consents from other public bodies, planning, transport, the Environment Agency or Natural England. They don’t care whether parliament did or didn’t approve building a railway.

Google suggests that line would be about 127 miles long, or about 200 kilometers. That’s one different consent form for every 25 meters of track. Mind boggling.
Obviously it’s referring to its reactivation.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/20/three-mi...

What the heck did you think that line meant? How would a reactor not producing power be used to power anything?

But even if it were unable to provide any power, which would have made absolutely no sense, it still wouldn’t have supported your point. It’s obvious the article is talking about the specific case of AI and not tech hysterias in general.
The fact that the average score for Harvard and similar for other elite colleges for the ACT is 34-35 means that the national average is worthless for the purposes of elite colleges. Majority of people who would even bother to apply for them are basically perfect across the board grades wise, so its worthless to brag about it.

Bar making exams harder, the only other way is subjective methods. I detest subjective methods, but making exams harder is very unpopular
China makes everything, US does nothing. Who do you think will weather this better?
And crucially don't actually conform to the standard. I don't think you can hold manufacturers being especially cheap against USB-C. As I recall it's a the lack of a single resistor that causes the issue.
I'm so tired of this caveat.

It's generally pretty obvious if the explanation makes sense. And you can locate the original paper(s) as well to verify.

And you know what? My PhD friends get things wrong all the time too. I need to verify what they say as well.

"This is not a guarantee"? You're right. Nothing is a guarantee, but a lot of things are awfully helpful.
I have a bright red m0n0wall firewall on the shelf above my desk. Nothing to add here, just its very rare I run across anyone who might think its cool, or even know what it is.
wat video was intended to be funny and tongue in cheek.
It would be nice to have someone to point the finger at; SERCO? What evidence do we have?
AccuWeather has been lobbying to remove weather data from the public view for years. The idea here is that AccuWeather will have access to this data and then sell forecasts to the rest of the country.

https://www.washington.edu/news/2005/05/16/plan-to-privatize...

Trump's nominee to run the NOAA? The CEO of AccuWeather!
It is not necessary to be an asshole with no regard to others to be curious. Maybe we should stop glamorizing these.
For anyone else unaware:

SEND = "Special educational needs and disabilities"
>infamously, nearly incapable of quickly completing major public works

Unless it's roads
Aren't AWS and GCP already private? Oh, I missed the Tesla Cloud announcement (just a re-branded OCI)...
Have you actually been to the poor states in the USA? And where do you think those very poor people are getting health care and other benefits from?
For the same reason that Americans and Canadians feel so poor. And the same reason why Trump is in office.

A total failure of the field of economics.

Just like economists insisted that the economy is doing badly because of vibes, they also insist that many people are part of the middle class based on an arbitrary threshold that isn't what it used to be.

Housing, energy, and education have increased astronomically compared to 30 years ago.

The cost of housing doubled in 10 years in my city. All while the schools got worse and the cost of college is astronomical. The cost of childcare doubled in 10 years as well. Energy bills also doubled in just 4 years.

What used to be a great stable income, we're even above the official line for what counts as middle class, is now just scraping by.

Being middle class used to mean that you were financially secure and could say have kids and a house. By that metric many people have fallen out of the middle class.
I think it's a reference to Allen Ginsberg's the Howl, which chronicles Ginsberg watching brilliant people of his generation die in war or become drug casualties, their potential squandered either by evil men or navel-gazing.
I think when people mention Trump and felon and other character issues, rapist, and so on ... it's really a reference to all of them adding up to who he is.

Less so a commentary on his list of problems.
The median income in the UK is 10-20% below comparable EU countries.
I can't keep the gens straight because I bought a late-model right after a new gen was released. It's definitely not the 9th because lenovo basically said "don't buy this", and it's the model before they added the awful external camera bump for a webcam I'd use 2x a year.

Ironically, battery life while actively using it is decent, not as good as the 4th gen, but I could squeeze 8 hours out of it. I use whatever cpu throttling utility that lives under the default KDE power controls. I trust it works because compilation times are quartered when you go from power saving to high performance.

Most of my complaints revolve around the fact I can't enable legacy sleep modes that actually save power. I blame microsoft for pushing their new sleep modes that mostly benefits windows.
In the context of when they want to borrow others' stuff. But then Chinese companies are _more_ than happy to take advantage of Western laws to defend their own IP. It's hypocrisy.
Did you know the invented modern santa branding? Prior to that he was more a vagabond/homeless type and much much less jolly.
agriculture and energy
I can't think of any typical case where you're destructuring arrays in React without const/let.

The only time you start a line with a delimiter in JS that I can think of is a rare case like `;[1,2,3].forEach(...)` which also isn't something you do in React.

While I still hate semis, these days my approach to formatting is just `echo {} > .prettierrc` and using the defaults. It's a nice balance where I never write a semicolon myself, and I never have to dick around with config.
"Poor" is relative, and maybe conflating relative functionality of services on one axis with economic inequality on another.

See also: Detroit, Rio de Janeiro, highway sides of Silicon Valley.
Aye, bandcamp is the go-to. It's funny that the further production gets from someones bedroom the less likely you are to be able to buy a lossless version. All that production for a 192kbps MP3...
Go on. Tell us how you'd figure out if a medical treatment is safe for human use without funding research like a clinical trial.
Everything that provides any service or assistance to normal life has been sold off and rented back to us at enormous cost, often with many of extra financial scalping included in the systems we are forced to rely on.
And a percentage of the extracted wealth is used to push political and public narrative to incentivise the selling off more.

Local authorities are forced to sell off assets and fire direct employees, then get charged a fortune to provide basic services and child and adult social care.

And for contracts and outsourcing, the ownership of the contract itself is the thing that gives value, not providing the actual service. Creating a whole set of perverse incentives.

A council should look at a pot hole in a road as a massive opportunity. Here is a chance to provide good quality work for local people and local resources, but the opposite happens.

We have a whole layer of service retailers e.g. for electricity and gas and communications, who are not more than a spreadsheet speculating on long term prices, a call centre and a web site. Their entire business model being based on a) not messing up the spreadsheet calculation b) enough people being lazy and not renewing or switching their contract every year.

Our financial services industry has massive positive PR, seen as a net good for the country. When in reality it is focused not on basic things like providing banking and direct insurance, but in attracting our best and brightest individuals from around the country and instead of having them put their talents to something productive. Instead reward them for creating and maintaining complex systems to move wealth around, asset strip regions, hide it from tax and create a layer of gambling and financial products on top of these systems.

I could go on.
Oooh, this is going straight onto my reading list, thanks!
Because a very few rich people are eating all the pies.
There simply isn't a whole lot of alternatives to Chinese imports to the US.

So while tariffs will stop some importation of Chinese goods due to costs others are just going to cost more for consumers until the proposed US manufacturing capacity is build up.

Same with auto parts, even the US car makers rely on foreign made parts and have no real alternatives.
It feels perverse to say, but I feel like the UK doesn't have enough income inequality.

The effective pay of a person making £80k per year in London isn't really all that different from a minimum wage worker in social housing. Especially when things like child benefit, student loans, and potential council tax reductions are involved.

I think it's better to be at the top of the working class than the bottom of the middle class.
>"changing your opinion means inviting mockery of past comments being dug up to be flung at you."

This has to be one of the most damaging things about social media, in my opinion. I never really understood why changing your mind about something as you get new information is looked down on and mocked, but it is.
I suggest the simplest explanation of how Trump is different from other felons is right there in Wilhoit's observation on conservatism:

"In-groups who are protected by the law, but not bound by it, alongside out-groups who are bound by the law, but not protected by it."

He may have been convicted, but he faced no consequences. He was not bound by the law, so not only did his convictions and investigations not deter him, the lack of consequences emboldened him.
Not only that. By increasing income taxes so steeply the State is incurring in perverse incentives or negative incentives, so people decide to not work a 20% more time to earn 20% more if that extra money is going to be taxed at a 50% rate.

Perverse incentives are an absolute disaster for the economy of our countries. Recently the socialist party approved in Germany an income limit for parents to receive income replacement benefits when being on parental leave. What was the result? From my group of friends in all cases the lesser earner from the marriage (the woman most of the time) has stopped working in order to not reach the income limit. This results in less income tax collection for the State, a poorer family and a less productive company. No one wins.
The expanded child tax credit was ~3k per year. It absolutely clobbered child poverty rates. This sort of delta in expenses can change a family's fortune significantly.
Classic grifter - 95% of his backstory is made up.

You can achieve far greater enlightenment by simply droping your preconceptions about rich and poor people and understanding the very basic day to day things happening around you than you will achieve listening to him.
And something that lead you to that paper would be wonderful but instead you have been disconnected from the social side of scholarship and forced to take the AI "at its word".

I've also seen AI just completely make up nonsense out of nowhere as recently as last week.
The problem is that it’s _not_ simply data. Definition: is information collected from the world.

This is data from the world that has altered and augmented with stuff from a model. The informational content has been altered by stuff not from the world. Therefore it’s no longer data, according to the above definition.

That isn’t to say that it can’t be useful, or anything like that. But it’s _not_ information collected from the world. And that’s why people who care about science and a strict definition of data would be offended by calling this a dataset.
A really great video from Tom Nicholas which discusses the same topic: "How Britain Became a Poor Country" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vry5deT8lc0
> Councils expanded the number of SEND pupils eligible for free school transport, increasing spending from £9m to £20m - how is that being poor?

Because the money is sucked out of the council coffers and they then can't provide a lot of the basics. It's not an improvement in quality for people who are, for instance, not SEND pupils. The point being that more and more expenses like this appear each year and then the budget is gone when it comes to looking after the library, fixing potholes etc, Small every day things that make the country look and feel like it's functioning are ignored until everywhere just feels a bit grim and broken.
Yeah, I started on it and felt the same so I built

https://git.sr.ht/~vhodges/cputhing

There's

* https://nandgame.com/
* https://github.com/logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution

too
Thank you grand arbiter, I'll make sure to consult the llm oracle next time so I don't make the same mistake.
How can you even remotely be sure of that given the results of the 2016 and 2024 elections?
I am related to people who voted for it, and none of them are what I'd call enthusiastic. But they are not smart enough to imagine a way out of their little boxes.
Winston Duarte was the real mastermind with Marco being his tool, if you've read the books. The show hinted at it, but didn't cover the last 3 books. Duarte was using Inaros to buy time to build up Laconia with alien weapons, while Earth/Mars dealt with the Free Navy and recovered from the attacks.
>>>saying the TikTok ban is detrimental to US-based big tech?

Not op, but yes.

>>>Seems like a forced sale is beneficial to them.

Short term. Long term you are establishing a precedent that you can intervene and take away the power of any large tech player. If it can happen to tiktok it can happen to others.

Im not against tikton ban, but im against it in its current form , since its not for the right reason. (China plays unfair with us corps, we should reciprocate our treatment of their own in our borders. The law instead claims some US patriot act natsec prerogative bs)
sigh Who is Gary? Please let this not be some guy from youtube.
The thing Minecraft did alright was to not actually try and host their own servers, thus not being responsible for what people did in-game online.

But also, MC is simple enough that "a dick" is five blocks in a particular organization... and it quickly becomes boring, not to mention uncreative. Building dicks isn't as fun as Everything Else in the game.
How the Planet Stores Our Excess Carbon Emissions
Just curious: in which direction on the political spectrum have your preferences moved?
> There are many people who (...)

True, but we're talking about expectations here.
I've used Numbers as my todo list for about a decade now. I've tried other things, but I've always come back to it. I have a table with:

* name

* priority

* DUE

* status

* notes

And a formula that sorts based on due / priority. Typing "done" in status removes it with a filter.
specifically America’s chronic and ever-expanding trade deficit — says that America is the globe’s biggest trade loser and a victim of unfair, unbalanced, and nonreciprocal trade"

Finally the source of “we’ve been treated unfairly” is revealed?
How much time do we need?

Industrial invention used to be judged by actual usefulness. If we take space exploration as an example, at every stage, we have actual usefulness for what the technology so far was able to accomplish. Same with computing. But now we're two years after the first release to the general public of LLMs and no one can provide an actual, reliable use case for it. Instead, it's mostly about destroying values, hindering workflows, and crippling the internet.
FWIW, I think the parent meant "function scoping vs lexical scoping" rather than "block scoping vs lexical scoping". You're correct that function scoping is technically a form of lexical scoping (where the scope is the function), but if you want to be _really_ pedantic, the ecma262 considers let/const to be "lexical binding"[0] as opposed to var being a "variable declaration"[1], where the former declares in the "Lexical Environment" while the latter declares in the "Variable Environment". These happen to be the same environment record on function entry.

[0] https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-let-and-const-declarations
[1] https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-variable-statement
> all alone banging my head against some trivial problem for weeks?

thanks for this lil' dose of copium, so at least it qualifies as character buildup what a relief
Intuitively, the richer and more productive a country becomes, the better care they can take of the populace. Education, transport, welfare etc... . Yet it feels like the opposite is happening. We're seeing transport costs and tuition fees endlessly rising, cuts to disability payments, and broken promises to lift caps on welfare. All in the name of "stimulating the economy".
If police had a legal obligation to protect people from crime, everyone would have recourse if the police failed to protect them. Bar fight? Sue the police. Domestic violence? Sue the police.

It would literally lead to the collapse of the justice system.
> I find without the presence of external music I will have a song playing in my head instead. And generally the same song for hours (!).

I have this, but then for days. It's not fun. Sleeping a lot helps, to an extent.
I think he massively misses the mark. If you look at Britain’s actual problems they’re not due to a lack of tax revenue or “the rich”. People aren’t able to save because their money is spent on housing and energy - both of those are due to poor policy.
Can you build cathedrals and fight zombies at night in the playground with people that live miles away?

I love these threads, you can always spot the ones without kids or who forgot about their own childhood a mile off.
Marketing isn't just about connecting consumers to products, it's also about creating demand.
you want protection from the weather? you gotta pay for it.
However, there's no notion of the first example operating on a single scope and the latter on three different, individual scopes. Which is why scope ranges and where you declare a variable with `let` matters.
> I mean, genuinely, the problem here is not that Trump is a convicted criminal. There are many people who are "convicted felons" who are far more ethical, intelligent, and possessed of better leadership qualities than he is.

Convicted criminal + blatant lies = disregard for society, disregard for people, disregard for rules/norms/laws. It all adds up to who he is and what he values and represents.

NOBODY should be surprised at this administration's disregard for society. You should be actually surprised if he does anything good/lawful.
List of countries by inheritance tax rates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inheritan...
> Why is the country being destroyed like this?

Long story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Ri...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_tax_cuts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror#Costs

That's a start.

And a rise to dominance of populist conspiratorial thinking. ContraPoints had a good intro video about it recently.
You don't have to be a superpower to be a prosperous society. This loss of superpower status means you need to refocus your efforts on the tractable instead of wallowing in has-been fantasy.
If it's not clear, he means computers.
The current statute reflects the Supreme Court’s precedents on the issue. The Supreme Court precedent, in turn, reflects the fundamental difference between citizens and non-citizens. The government has plenary power, constitutionally, to decide who is permitted to enter the united states and on what terms.
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> I hope one day USA wakes up and realize the solution is wealth tax to these billionaires

That only works if everyone everywhere does it all at the same time, so they've nowhere to move to/hide.
Snopes has a classic extensive article on that

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-claus-that-refreshes/
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