jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think the answer to this question plays out the way you want it to...

1. Countries that have natural resources can raise capital when they need to, either by selling/taxing rights to those resources or by selling nationalized resources. Ecuador for example uses the dollar and also produces about a half of a million barrels of oil per day.

2. For many developing countries, the whole point of using the dollar is that it precludes monetary over-engineering or corrupt practices that give rise to inflation. This makes the economy safer for the have-nots, who have fixed local-denominated savings and/or earn a fixed local-denominated wage.

3. Simply using the dollar makes it easier to facilitate trade, tourism, and remittances. Panama does a lot of shipping and transit. Ecuador is a tourist destination. Remittances are the major source of foreign income to El Salvador.

Those countries that accept dollars and also maintain a dollar-pegged local currency are able to conduct monetary policy while also establishing a measure of confidence in the stability of their currency.
If you like comparisons like these, I strongly suggest you look into the Project Farm Channel on YT. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2rzsm1Qi6N1X-wuOg_p0Ng
Presumably the "other nations" are the tiny island nations (New Zealand, Singapore) who implemented extremely strict measures to re-open sooner.

An extremely unfair comparison, in my opinion, considering the population difference, physical location, and trade obligations of the US and other countries in the EU.
>> Am I missing anything?

Possibly.

A few years ago, a company I never heard of (and would have thus never considered) reached out to me on LinkedIn. The recruiter wrote a thoughtful message connecting what they are looking for in the role to what he saw on my profile so I engaged with him. Several months later I was working at that company (both a huge pay increase and a very interesting experience.)

This happened again a few months ago, minus the huge pay increase but still an interesting opportunity.

If these two opportunities didn't come along - I am sure I'd be working somewhere else and be fine - but I am really glad I was able to connect with these.

So again to answer your question

>> Am I missing anything?

How would you know what you're missing if you aren't receiving the opportunities? Maybe you can be working in a much more interesting place and making much more money instead of where you are - but if you don't let people tell you that you won't know.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeti...

"More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered"

"The analysis, published in the journal Biological Conservation, says intensive agriculture is the main driver of the declines, particularly the heavy use of pesticides."
The original description may not be correct, but HN is almost certainly iconoclastic, and ever since cyrptocurrencies became mainstream HN has responded in kind by attacking them.
Have you lived in a place when you are scared to listen to music on a bus that you ride for hours every day, because you are afraid that people will rob your mobile phone (which is practically all you have)?

This is reality for hundreds of millions or billions of people who just want to live somewhere safe.
Twitter is a terrible platform managed very poorly. It's my sincere opinion is that Twitter Hate is what is breaking down modern society.
We're talking about the full energy budget of common household objects, like laptops, so you need to take into account the inefficiency of your gas stove, as well as the full energy cost of extracting and transporting the natural gas to your apartment.
It seems like at least some law professors agree with you but courts have generally decided otherwise: http://prisonlaw.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/a-different-take-o...
A lot of things that seem to fall under copyright are not particularly difficult to brute force. Looking at music for example. Most music follows a set of fairly basic patterns where each part of the music (drum beat, chord progression) is just a short arrangement of only a few choices. And yet the copyright system seems to take even a tiny piece of a song as copyrightable. It would not be difficult or time consuming for a script to generate every possible 4-6 chord progression and every single kind of melody which is close enough for copyright (Often these cases use very general terms like "A descending melody starting at C")
6 months is quite a bold number, much harsher than domain names would do. I’d get like two years which is probably still tens of millions.

That’s a lot of potential digital content that will go dark.
Remember also that I'm asking for tracking code to be removed, not added.
>the meaninglessness of “cool”

It’s kind of hard to convey just how much this particular aspect of LSD changed my outlook. I too was quite young at the time I tried it. It made me rethink my media diet, which at 15 was filled with MTV and trash TV. That has stayed with me ever since.
No need, you should be able to use Hackintosh networking kexts which are open source.
...you are most likely (~100%) also breathing in noxious fumes from sewage and you are so accustomed to it that you no longer notice it.

Is this a thing that is possible for humans? I shudder to imagine this, so much exposure to sewage that one ceases to notice its odor.
Have your janitorial staff clean them on a regular basis and be brutal about forcibly cleaning out the fridge every friday and literally throw away everything that is expired or unlabeled.

That’s what I’ve seen that actually works.
That's fine; however opening my text editor (Atom), or running a static site generator (Gatsby), or burning an iso file to a USB drive (Etcher) is not a network request, and should not put me at risk.
I havent studied this in depth, but my intuition tells me that having capacity payments such that the grid as a whole has sufficient overhead for extreme events nullifies any "efficiency" arguments for having these market mechanisms in the first place.

Call me crazy, I think that Texas is doing exactly what it set out to do with deregulation. Run the grid more efficiently via market mechanisms. The method that is used to make the grid more efficient is simply to shave off the traditional 20% capacity overhead meant to cover these sorts of situations. There you go, slightly cheaper electricity 99% of the time.
I know I'll go of a on a tangent here, too, and won't directly address the PG posting, but it really saddens me that every time there is discussion about immigration on HN, it always degenerates into an us vs them argumentation between employer and employee and how each side can maximise their profit. Rarely anyone seems to care about the social or humanitarian angle of it, not to mention the historical significance to the US as a country. Is it really that controversial to allow other people that didn't win the birth-lottery a chance to work here if they proven themselves to be qualified enough? Isn't that what the US was founded on and what at least the H1B was exactly meant for? And can anyone really honestly argue that the 65k H1Bs that are awarded each year could put considerable pressure on the average wage in a country of 300M (especially considering the strict wage requirements which people seem to happily ignore in most arguments here). Why are people so upset about a few immigrants - fearing for their wages - when clearly the wage-fixing amongst Google, Apple & Co. had a much more severe influence? Isn't this obviously the typical spiel of blaming and fearing the immigrants for situations much better explained by internal actors that should be feared (and possibly punished)?
You can click through to the author's dome-selling site, they seem to be aimed as a kind of group-fun, beach toy or team-building type of fun project. And it seems the author uses them as a combination point of instruction and ice-breaker while teaching classes in design.

Moreover, though it's an area of history/design I'm not familiar with, it seems they are keeping alive a certain dream of Buckminster Fuller, making geodesic dome kits available to those who want them and allowing for the possibility that it may at some point trigger a worthwhile structural use of the idea.

Some pictures at

https://twitter.com/domekitcc
But how to deal with it?
Simple: I do my 'real' job and then I am reminded why I don't want to work for other people. That's insanely motivating. For example, if your boss has some project and design which which you disagree and you're powerless to improve it -- that's great motivation to do it the 'right' way on your own project. My side project work is often passive aggressive responses to my employers.
PG is discussing a way to bring in known exceptional programmers (a very, very small number) which currently does not exist. I remember seeing a highly respected programmer - I think it was Carmack - wishing for a way he could stamp someone's application for citizenship with a mark of extreme approval.

Given that this point is clear in the essay itself and has been going the rounds outside of it, I find the portrayal of PG's point as if it were about a too-large H1B program or immigrants driving wages down to be a distraction.
Trying to buy me a present atm, new desktop machine.

This is actually one of my pain points, because none of the sites I visit list cpu features and I am interested in some (notably virtualization related extensions).
Some good done through a suboptimal approach is better than no good done as a result of seeking the perfect solution.
Why these companies try to force EU workers to work under US labour laws is not beyond me.
I get what you're doing, I don't get why. Can you give an example of where you've seen an event like this be successful and better than anything else out there (as in, something that is a non-spatial experience).

I have a bit of experience here, as I run 3D mapping spatial media company https://ayvri.com, and lots' of people would say to us "why would anybody use this", so here's what we say...

Every paraglider in the world uses our platform, I'm not a paraglider and it wasn't built for them, but until they saw Ayvri, they had no way of sharing their flights. People just didn't get what it was all about, and it was difficult to learn from other pilots about flying in different regions and conditions. Then came the cyclists and mountain bikers, I'm a mountain biker, and I'd describe a trail, we could take photos, and maps, but with Ayvri, you just watch it and get it. There's no mental load in trying to translate a map into a 3D space. And you can zoom in or out and spin around to get different perspectives, it's better than being there! Then came the drone pilots, and commercial pilots that needed to report on their flights, particularly when there is an incident. Now instead of trying to decode an elevation map with an altitude map, with a 2d map, they can just replay their flight and show that they either didn't break the law, or .... then came the wildlife researchers, this gave them a way to plot and follow the pahts of migration, and see how those paths have changed over time....and on and on and on....

So rather than just a "you can create a 2D or 3D experience", it would be great if you can pin what that 2D or 3D experience should be all about, otherwise, it's just....yeah, I can...but why should I?
I like the idea, but I will 100% not buy it for these reasons (most important first):
1. Bad keyboard layout: Small arrow keys, lack of dedicated home/end and page up/down.
2. Screen is too small. I need at least 15.6 inch.
3. Replaceable ports are a gimmick. They waste space. Just put the ports there directly.
4. Intel CPU.
I think the wording should be changed. I would agree that all their EC2's and lightsail instances would be in the RBL/RSL's. AWS have an email service specifically for this use case.
Sounds like you’re describing a system similar to Meteor.
I went through an entire year of lockdown across two major cities without using a delivery service once. Just go out and pick up the food yourself, either on foot or via bike or car.
It probably did occur to GP, that's the whole point (if I'm right to be charitable).

Top comment is arguing that these people should be laid off as part of a government initiative to reshape the economy. If these people can't quit, what will happen if they are laid off? Is there any policy that could help these workers? My best guess is UBI, but that is another discussion.
New Glenn is a case of "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you".

The Atlas V and Delta IV Heavy are being phased out in favor of ULA's Vulcan (which uses its BE-4 engines). Falcon 9 is otherwise dominant.

Despite sharing its BE-4 engines with ULA, New Glenn will eventually win a few national security payloads per year. If the economics of reusability pan out for them, they might eventually even beat the Vulcan!

We'll see if they can take their future taxpayer-funded first stages and launch commercial satellites with bargain basement internal costs, like SpaceX has achieved.
Firing squads can still be used in Utah if the prisoner was sentenced before May 2004 and chooses for that method over lethal injection. They can also be used if lethal injection drugs aren't available.

For federal executions, the Trump DOJ changed the rules effective December 24, 2020 to allow federal executions to use any method that the state in which the prisoner was sentenced allows so federal prisoners sentenced in Utah could now be executed via firing squad.
You don't necessarily need the cloud, a lot of times you pay a lot more for using AWS, GCP, Azure etc. There are of course times it may make sense but just because you can't or don't want to use the cloud does not mean you cannot put a service on the internet you're just going to need some classical dev ops and networking.
And the people on a lol reddit are the real tech leaders?
> It was zero courts before, too, no?

Right, and I think this played an important role in why the Supreme Court ducked API copyrightability; they’d rather not do so absent a binding lower circuit decision, or especially a conflict between circuits, preferring to let the issue percolate (and also provide Congress more time to intervene) of there is another basis dor resolving particular cases with less sweeping impact.
Techcrunch uses DNS fiddling. This goes through https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers to track users.

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/1370
Thanks for the write-up, absolutely fascinating.

Mind-boggling to imagine how all that then led to living objects and finally us exchanging messages on this platform.

Makes you wonder if it all happened by pure chance or if we are all part of an elaborated plan...
In some cases, the defendant can't afford bail and would be forced to sit in jail until the trial.
You're totally right. I would have gotten that question wrong on the test. Guess I need to study harder myself
There has been commercial, non-free, software on Linux since the early days (editors, office suites, CAD software etc.). Generally they don't try to work with package managers or otherwise integrate too deeply with the operating system (because why would you?).

Make it self contained and distribute in a tgz file. Don't try to make anything complicated. Look at the official release of Firefox for ideas.
The US east of the Mississippi isn't appreciably less densely populated than Europe, and given the general age of the eastern track routes compared to Europe and the topography (Appalachian mountains need a decent amount of tunneling) and likelihood of overpasses (the road network is probably as dense in the US as in Europe), I can't imagine that there is substantially more work needed to adjust the loading gauge in the US for double-stack than it would be for Europe.

Probably the big differences are that a) the US already had a comparatively roomy loading gauge compared to Europe before conversion was necessary and b) the West Coast-to-Midwest routes were probably more likely to be double-stack-compatible before the projects started and provided a seed route to develop the concept before the expensive loading gauge conversions in the east had to take place.

Electrification doesn't affect double-stacked routes other than needing (I think) an extra ~2 ft of height compared to non-electrified track. The cost of relaying catenary cables isn't going to be all that high: electrifying track from scratch in the first place appears to cost about $1 million per km, and a lot of that cost will include the substations which don't need to be replaced; actual costs of replacing the gantries is likely to be less than half that. That's of course assuming that there is actually room above the track to support the new height.
You could sue wine to take a swing at everyone building on wine. Valve/Steam for example.
Phew. Done. And I didn't use any knowledge that a high school kid shouldn't have. Did I miss something?

One thing. How long it takes most people to understand a concept. It took me much more than 15 minutes to understand what a function is in high school, and I have spent far more than 15 minutes explaining it to other people. And it definitely took more than 5 minutes to understand the concept of a recursive function.

And you are assuming they have knowledge of concepts like string and whether or not they are printable...
This is nice, but you'll see some alphabets or words would get wrapped into new lines when the element(.demo-type) is resized. It's a minor but subtle effect.

You might want to revisit how the font-size (and line-height) do not always remain in perfect sync to the element-width. What we've here is the ratio of font-size over width-of-the-element. Since font-size doesn't depict width of the font accurately, a percentage change in it doesn't reflect proportionally to revised width of the element(.demo-type). Hope this helps.

We call this resolution stationary rendering internally and use it in our product: https://bubbleideas.com/letters/the-tiger-by-sir-william-bla...
That's a fair point. It's not my motivation for being active, but I assume it is for most, and it is an effective carrot. I would just like the balance to be tipped a little back in the direction of the consumers of the site.

I'm not suggesting we leave obviously terrible questions open, it's the borderline posts that get me. Interesting questions which may not have a black and white answer, but would still encourage discussion/opinions which would be useful to people down the road. I know "it's not a discussion site", but sometimes there are gray areas and it's useful to have the opinions of experts on the pros and cons of certain approaches/technologies/whatever.
I believe at the very least they could offer a more flexible way of managing Service Quotas.

Currently it's too much of a hassle to increase/decrease account-wide limits: it takes too much time, depends on AWS Support, UX is nowhere as nice as, say instance reservations etc.

As a result of this people tend to increase the limits once in a while just to make sure it doesn't become an issue at a very unfortunate time, and that's it. It never gets decreased/managed again. It's obviously not seen as a use-case by AWS, since they only have a "Request quota increase" button in the UI, and no "decrease" button. [1]

SQ on its own wouldn't cover all kinds of costs (for on-demand items like Lambda executions they offer limits on rates, not total count), but it'd be better than nothing, it'd prevent scenarios where you'd wake up to 100 GPU instances mining bitcoin, and it's within the quotas since Bob asked for an increase two years ago to try something.

[1] Just having a button there would still be an awful UX, yet I believe its complete omission is noteworthy.
We try to be inconspicuous when installing our noise capturing equipment. We're frequently questioned by cops but usually they're just curious after they establish we're not stealing traffic lights. One time, some bums asked us what we were doing, and after we told them we were collecting noise data, they started screaming into our noise recorders :(
What you wrote make total sense for fundamental sciences. However, a lot if not most scientific fields are removed from that, and the supply of ideas or things to investigate is way larger. In this context, gaming the system is easier. I see it in my field, where lot of published stuff is junk written for publication count.
Interesting, those all sound like serious issues I would very much like to learn more about.
You can just not upgrade.

I think you are overstating how hard it is to add the config (pro tip: you can add it to package.json) and how painless it is to run the formatted for the whole project.

The changes to the defaults are small and (in my opinion, worth it).
Protected from fines, but actually unprotected in this case.
This is not true. Government reactions include educating people about appropriate hygiene. That is not an authoritarian but actually a humanistic tradition.

Also note that democracies do include exceptions to guaranteed rights, allowing control of infectuous diseases. As long as these exceptions are not abused, they cannot be said to be authoritarian. Or rather, you'd have to take a very libertarian position to call them authoritarian.
Rosetta@home (BOINC) still has a ton of work items and is CPU based, so it's easy to run on most anything. Some are COVID-19, some are MERS, some are things that have nothing to do with coronaviruses.
I know that "hosting and much more is still TBD," but I can contribute a pretty snappy VM on a 1G symmetrical Internet/Internet2 connection. How do I do that?
Good stuff!

> Activation of Rev-ErbA-α by SR9009 in mice increases exercise capacity by increasing mitochondria counts in skeletal muscle.

> Some companies are selling SR9009 online for human use as a 'research chemical'.

> "The drug [alters] the circadian rhythm (in mice) and we would need to assume in humans – and we don't know if it is beneficial or detrimental at this point."

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It has "several issues that make it unsuitable for human use".

> Firstly, it has no oral bioavailability. I know the company selling this is indicating taking it orally is ok – but it doesn't even get into the blood.

> SR9009 has some functional groups that are known to have potential toxicology liabilities and it would never be developed as a drug.

> So bottom line – I would never recommend using this compound at this point. That being said – we are still working on improved compounds with one of the potential uses being sarcopenia – loss of muscle and strength due to aging.
While it would be nice to imagine something like this catching on, somehow I suspect that any language whose reference manual gives a specification of semantics using sequent calculus before discussing the standard libraries is unlikely to gain much use.

Fast, expressive, flexible, with static analysis that can prevent entire classes of common bugs? That sounds great! Oh wait, no, it uses words that sound like math, obviously that makes it unsuitable for the real world. Sigh.
I always spend way too much time on these sites. Not a new idea, but the visualization is awesome.
The test is pretty easy if you pay attention to the backgrounds of the images.
This is also one of the ways tumblr makes money, with premium themes etc.

I am surprised tumblr haven't launched some sort of pro account - seems a no-brainer.
Excellent post. I did a stint as a freelancer for a while and this is on target for sure.

I've been riding a cube for about 2 years now and I'm starting to get tired of it, though. On top of that I'd like to have some more time to work on my startup.

Thus, I'd like to get back in to freelancing. Even though I did freelance at one point I was never in a place where I had to look for work -- it always just fell in to my lap. Does anyone have any advice on how I can get started looking for clients?