skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Caveat that I used to be into Objectivism but now would say I'm extremely unsympathetic to it as a project. I don't think it's so odd that a philosophy would venture into economic systems as part of the course to staking out moral axioms and preferred conditions of relations between people. I'm not laissez-faire by any stretch, but there are such things as economic philosophies that wrestle with questions of liberty. Economics is a very philosophical subject, and moral, political, and economic philosophy can become quite entangled, for good reasons.

While I think your math example is basically right, it would be surprising there, I don't think economic order emerging out of moral and philosophical reflections is particularly surprising.
Completely earnest question for people who believe we are on this exponential trajectory: what should I look out for at the end of 2025 to see if we're on track for that scenario? What benchmark that naysayers think is years away will we have met?
A good apology requires:

- overt recognition that I have harmed someone else

- following through on whatever reparations I can make to undo part of the harm

- actively trying to change myself to avoid making the same type of mistake again.

--

It sounds like you have taken this to heart.
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DENYLIST = %w[ ... ladygaga
kanye kanyewest randyjackson mariahcarey atrak deadmau5
avicii prettylights justinbieber calvinharris katyperry
rihanna shakira barackobama kimkardashian
taylorswift taylorswift13 nickiminaj oprah jtimberlake
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the who is who of pop culture
Go look at https://www.protondb.com/explore?sort=mostBorked. In the first 50 games, there are 5 that I play that appear to be completely unplayable on linux at the moment. Is it behind the times to prefer an OS where literally every single game I've played in the last year has booted with no issues?

Hypothetically if I were to switch back to linux as my main OS, I'd rather just dual boot windows than buy a console with an OS that is, in my opinion, even worse than windows.
If you care enough to time it, you should care enough to time it correctly.
I have found C3 to be a generally simpler experience than Zig, it's fun to use while being low level. The general approach is aiming to be easy to use, personally I often compare it to Go philosophically but with more similar use cases to C and lower level.
We have the first video of a plant cell wall being built
That it’s ridiculous to say “poorer than anywhere in Europe or even the US Deep South”. The poorest parts of Europe are so much more impoverished than anywhere in the Deep South that that is an absurd statement.

It’s a skewed European attitude to look down on the southern US as the poorest place they can think of outside of Africa or Asia. When in fact the vast majority of the South is better off than economically than 90% of European countries.

I once talked to someone traveling to Atlanta ask “do you get CNN down there?” CNN is based in Atlanta.
We used to have completely different technologies in the world. For better or worse the modern economy depends much more on agglomeration and cities are more important than ever. Work from home didn't change this as some people thought it would.

We need to unlock our economic centers if we want to survive.
The owner of Gumroad is a millionaire, but for some reason decided to crank up the cost of charges from 2.9% to 12.9% a few years ago. Needless to say, most people who don’t like being screwed switched to Stripe or another provider. That’s all you need to know about Gumroad.
So you're pointing out one particular action of ADL and calling them anti-semitic? After decades of action? And they are historical collaboration and cross-pollination with SPLC, too. Are you going to attack SPLC?

Classic straw-manning. You should know better than that.
You do indeed need to upload cookbook changes with knife; but if you keep your cookbooks in Git you can set up CI/CD pipelines that spawn a container that runs the knife upload steps for you (and even do validation via cookstyle before). Then all you need to do after changing your cookbooks and/or recipes is to commit those changes to your Git repo and watch the CI/CD pipeline do it's thing.
I don't think the first amendment protects this. The first amendment protects against prosecution from speech. In this case, they are not being prosecuted, they are just being denied funding. Where are you getting that the "First amendment is supposed to prevent the government from conditionalizing access to government services based on the speech of the recipient." It does not state that at all
Great pull, thank you for the quote and the link.
Absolutely. Trump is strengthening Russia and China, and weakening the US. Also weakening the EU for now, but if the EU gets its act together, they might well come out on top.
> But it's not at all a crazy argument to understand accepting the benefits as a recovery of resources that were rightfully yours to begin with.

I rather suspect Rand's politics didn't include giving land back to Native Americans, or paying reparations to slaves.
I'll bite.

Most demands for self-determination were for self-rule on land already inhabited by the group in question.

Zionism was unique in that it demanded self-determination on land inhabited almost 100% by a different group of people.
Absolutely not a one-shot, many iterations.
> They (or at least, they used to) insure that "state's rights" advocates don't implement curricula that teach children that the world is 6,000 years old and flat. They are in the process of being dismantled.

That is, in my view, a good thing. We should not be a monolithic nation and were never meant to be. If the people of (insert state here) wish to teach their children things I don't agree with, or even things which are outright false, that is their right. Nor does it hurt me in any way.

One of the great problems with our country today is people trying to get the federal government to control more and more things. That is directly responsible for much of the division in our country, as federal elections (especially for president) turn into this big fight over who is going to get to impose their dramatically differing way of life on others for the next 4ish years. To reduce tensions, we need to return to the original design: decisions about government should be made as locally as possible, so that the government can reflect the very diverse needs and cultures that exist across our country.
You are right. I gambled everything away but the drop is much more than single digit at this point. I was concentrating my bets very aggressively. It is sinking in. Fortunately I will have some adult children who might be doing ok. I hope they will be willing to lend a helping hand. I am feeling so much shame. I cannot stomach my current predicament.
Precisely.

As such, Americans don't make many of their own clothes.
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"BinGet/1.00.A (http://www.bin-co.com/php/scripts/load/)" => "BinGet",
"Chilkat/1.0.0 (+http://www.chilkatsoft.com/ChilkatHttpUA.asp)" => "Chilkat HTTP .NET",
"curl/7.15.1 (x86_64-suse-linux) libcurl/7.15.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.0" => "cURL",
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cool list
Right into the ad hominem, fantastic debate tactic. Very dialectic of you.

The irony of saying "maybe you'll figure out how to have a real debate." after a string of personal attacks is *chef's kiss*.

>yet you complain when you get a meta level comment about your behavior.

I'm not complaining. And you're not giving me a "meta level comment about my behavior". You're just attempting to insult me.
> Although Ono has, for two decades, been comfortably rehabilitated as an artist in her own right

I don't think she is a very good artist. Everyone felt they have to like her, and galleries brought her work in because, well, she is John Lennon's widow.

Here is her performance art, she is screaming in a microphone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68

And some drawings https://www.moma.org/collection/works/131503

It's fine, but just nothing outstanding. The article gives her the best description I've heard so far "ultimate professional widow".
Ah, that makes sense.

As i alluded to in my post i don't think it has hit the hyperbolic numbers provided in the original post.

I suspect they will be hit in the short-ish term 1-3 years, but these kinds of things are notoriously difficult to calculate, especially when the actual data around it will almost certainly be purposefully obfuscated.

As you said though ,that wasn't what you were asking.

"Move fast and break things" is a concept referring to not worrying too much about breaking existing solutions or integrations while *improving* them.

Declaring a laughably unrealistic timescale to replace a system millions of people rely upon to survive isn't innovative or groundbreaking, it's reckless and dangerous, bordering on callous.

There could genuinely be an argument made that he's so narcissistic and delusional that he genuinely doesn't realise how badly this is going to pan out, in which case the intent might not be malicious but accidentally killing tens/hundreds of thousands of people because you don't think things through isn't a good enough excuse for me personally.

But then you get statements like "empathy is a weakness" that point to him at least partially understanding what's going to happen and just not caring.

i'd like to address a specific reference in your reply:

> neglected to adequately financially prepare themselves for retirement, were unable to avoid unexpected financial difficulties in life

To me that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of just how difficult modern financial stability is to achieve for a large proportion of the population.

Living paycheque to paycheque can sometimes be neglect yes, but i'd wager that far more instances of that are due to the increasing gap between cost of living and actual wages.

It's difficult to plan for retirement when you work a 60 hour week and are only just covering rent and food.

It also doesn't address the fact that social security is funded by taxes, it's not a handout, people make financial decisions based on the information they have, the information they had was "pay your taxes and when it comes time to stop working you'll get some assistance".

If you want to kill it, fine, stop taxing people to pay in to it, removing it after an entire lifetime of paying in to the system is basically theft.
> Do you want people operating sewing machines or (say) welders?

Adequate clothing is actually a very important in war. Frostbite, sunburn, heat exhaustion, cuts and scrapes (which can lead to infection), trench foot, etc. are all conditions that can be mitigated through clothing.
Why does this not expand to inexpensive programs that haven't been previously funded, but could be? I've read that we can save lives for a handful of dollars per life in Africa with greater access to medical care, mosquito nets, antimalarial drugs, etc.

If getting rid of existing affordable aid is murder, why is failing to render new affordable aid not? Doesn't this inherently place an incentivization mechanism and inherent preference for the old ways of doing things, when newer ways can be more efficient and save more lives with fewer dollars?
TIL about ">>>" giving an unsigned result, very useful!
How much does Stripe and typical other providers charge?
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/02/21/donald-trumps-econ...
He suggested on a podcast that if a woman had no access to resources to perform an abortion she should throw herself down the stairs. Presumably as a way to solve it that doesn't involve getting freebies from the state.
So in the past 5 years we went from not having ChatGPT at all and it being released in 2022 (with non "chat" models before that) but in the next 5 now that the entire tech world is consumed with making better AI models, we'll just get slightly better AI coding assistants?

Reminds me of that comment about the first iPod being lame and having less space than a nomad. Worst take I've ever seen on here recently.
> I wonder what Meta got in return.

Trump dropped his lawsuit against Meta for suspending him after the insurrection.[1] They want to avoid an antitrust trial.[2] They want Trump to pressure the EU into allowing surveillance capitalism.[3] They want influence in negotiations over Section 230.[4]

[1] https://apnews.com/article/trump-meta-settlement-zuckerberg-...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-ceo-zuckerberg-lobbies...

[3] https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

[4] https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/section_230_bipartisan_b...
A protest is disruptive by definition.
There's a major concurrency problem in Wine, the Windows emulator for Linux, related to this, which I encountered several years ago. Wine has its own set of DLLs which provide malloc-level services. When you grow a buffer, but it can't be grown in place, a new buffer has to be allocated and the old buffer copied. The trouble is that the copying takes place while holding a spinlock on the entire buffer pool. I had a multi-thread Rust program go into futex congestion and drop performance by two orders of magnitude due to this. 20 threads were all stuck compute-bound trying to acquire the lock. There are several layers of locking involved, and they fight.

Wine bug only; works OK on real Windows.[1][2] (bugs.winehq.org seems to be down)

[1] https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=37688

[2] https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54979
If Republicans were aligned with Big Tech, then why did Big Tech have to make donations to DT’s Inauguration? The money is the money is the alignment.
It's a shame there's not just an embedded applet. Those were always popular on MU*'s websites in the 2000s. Shame that's not an automatic add.
Stripe charges 2.9% (plus a fixed transaction fee).

https://stripe.com/pricing
This is a truly tragic story. Toward the end of the article (regarding the 2024 findings in San Diego Superior Court), Peikoff sounds like he has his faculties intact, according to multiple doctors and attorneys. He has freely chosen to marry his caregiver, much to the dismay of his daughter (who believes the caregiver is a grifter, and so his daughter forced the court inquiry.) His response, "if being unreasonable is choosing to be with the woman I love, then I choose to be unreasonable" is peak objectivism. He is going to do what he wants - to do anything else would be a betrayal of objectivist principles.

He is now estranged from his daughter Cordelia -er, Kira - over this.
Looking to persuade other governments to, when introducing retaliatory tarriffs, exempt California?

Why would asking another country to put "30% on all goods and services except those originating in California" be illegal?
I think it's a worthwhile addition to highlight there is 3) rules which are sometimes red tape and sometimes to be broken, on top of the other 2 categories. It adds on to the original point with the addition of how to universally discover what the categories are rather than prescribe them up front.
Stripe is 2.9% + 30¢, I think most of the popular providers are pretty competitive with that. Gumroad does handle some hosting and analytics and stuff though, its not just a payment processor afaik.
With hindsight Biden should maybe have encouraged the Jan 6th prosecution to happen less than four years after the event.
2.9% + 30 cents
Note that the HN submission's title was changed to "Gumroad’s source is available" after it was screenshotted for this post.
I really appreciate you following up with a cordial tone, it's so nice to have a respectful conversation with a stranger on the internet in this day and age.

So, this chart has job numbers and count for the following resource extraction/manufacturing related fields with the following average hourly pay and the number of people employed in that field today:

Manufacturing: $35.16 - 12,746k

Mining and logging: $40.33 - 623k

Construction: $39.24 - 8,313k

Transportation and warehousing: $31.19 - 6,738k

The weighted average of this category is $35.53 per hour.

In general, these jobs can mostly be performed without a college degree.

Contrast that with service jobs that can broadly be performed with a college degree:

Retail trade: $25.18 - 15,595k

Leisure and hospitality: $22.75 - 16,991k

Other services: $32.39 - 6,036k

The average hourly rate for this class of jobs is $25.24.

So, on average, manufacturing and extraction jobs not requiring a college education pay 40% more than service jobs of the same requirements.

I'm not one of those people like the top poster who thinks that everyone can just go get a college degree and become an accountant or a nurse. I think there are a lot of people out there who can follow instructions to work machinery reasonably well, but aren't going to be a great fit for jobs that require a substantial education. These people are the majority - about 62% of US adults are not college educated. We either owe them dignified employment, or in a democracy, we will suffer their wrath.
It's in fact the market position (leader) that gives them the advantage here, not the code.
NIMBYism ensures that cars will be the only way to access any areas, because any public transit projects which would reduce traffic get blocked. Roads are the lowest common denominator so they happen.

There’s no reason 280 and 101 can’t also have corresponding high speed rail lines to cut commute times from San Jose to SF down from 2 hours to a fraction of that.
A good take! And I welcome that the TLF has moved toward a constructive approach instead of the earlier FUD lobbying. Based on the survey results, I'd expect no major problems, as most foundations (or stewards or whatever) are already compliant. Good recommendations, too. OpenSSF is already doing good work, and having things like SBOMs would really benefit everyone. An additional hint: there are big funds for implementing the CRA, and bodies like the TLF/OpenSSF/etc. should have no problems getting application(s) approved.
The thing that I felt came through in this article (or maybe it's just my biases) was the hollowness of engaging in relationships purely for one's own selfish ends. Sooner or later (as happened to these people), the selfish desires don't line up any more, and the relationships get torn apart. Contrary to Rand, I don't think that love is inherently selfish (quite the opposite in fact), and it seems to me that love based on altruism is much more stable (and more praiseworthy) than love based on what the other person can do for me.

But then again I would say that, so it's hard to tell if that actually is something I took away from the article or if it's just confirmation bias at play.
The attempt by Randians to apply her to modern politics was a major tell when I was young to get out of that crowd. One person, supposedly a an intellectual leading light of Objectivism at the time, said that nuking Iran was fine because Iran pursing nuclear enrichment constituted "initiation of force" (important term of art in the Rand lexicography), seemingly squaring the circle between Rand's brand of hardcore libertarian isolationism and neocon warmongering that was popular at the time.

I wanted to see intellectual hero philosophers as the legacy, but what objectivism produced, outside of Nathaneil Branden and David Kelly who were at least interesting, was largely a complete joke.
What a lovely and radioactive mess. While there's a definition for "your company," edge cases like contractors, consultants, or complex organizational structures might create ambiguity about who is bound by the limitations. The immediate termination for any patent claim could be overly broad, potentially triggering even for legitimate patent disputes tangentially related to the software. The prohibition on sublicensing could create problems for legitimate business arrangements, particularly for development agencies or consultancies.The provision allowing licensees to cure violations within 30 days is vague about what constitutes "practical steps" to correct past violations. The license doesn't clearly address the status of derivative works or modifications. While the license mentions adjusting for inflation using the CPI, it doesn't specify how often this should be calculated or who determines the adjusted thresholds, creating potential interpretation conflicts. There's no clear mechanism for monitoring or enforcing revenue thresholds. Good luck!
No, "within the mantle" is definitely off the rails. It's really hot down there, way hotter than cooking temperatures. A few highly specialized microbes can survive conditions like that, but not animals. Also the pressure is high enough that rock acts like liquid. Large cavities cannot survive. I think this started to be a problem even for the Kola borehole, the walls of the hole just started squishing in.
"The findings are a stark reminder that even the wealthiest Americans are not shielded from the systemic issues in the US contributing to lower life expectancy, such as economic inequality ...," lead study author Irene Papanicolas, a professor of health services, policy and practice at Brown, said in a news release.

That's a pretty funny take, that economic inequality is a systemic risk for rich people. I wonder if Dr P thinks that the stress of noblesse oblige is too much for the frail US elites (as opposed to the horrible diet endemic in the US)
You could use Chef in local mode and pull down the cookbooks from s3 or something.
Thank you, that's an excellent point. I have my criticisms for Google but they have really done a lot for Linux and open source in general. Increasingly also Meta has been making significant contributions
They're viruses, so they work by infecting bacteria and making the bacteria create more of itself.

Antibiotics are found by isolating a compound some i.e. fungi naturally produces. We figure out how to produce the compound and don't fill people with fungi to produce it. Bacteriophages are already the analogy to the compound itself.

So we should be investing heavily in creating and distributing all variety of bacteriophage for all our common bacterial infections. 20k deaths/year from MRSA in the USA alone, 120k infections/year in USA and many of the survivors are left with life-long complications.
Ansible can work that way too.

In fact every time I’ve migrated to Ansible (each time from Puppet), we’ve built the infrastructure so Ansible pulled its configuration.