skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The majority of people in power will operate by the ends justify the means. I've always wondered if this is true, why humanity will not readjust population numbers and where the renewables actually can sustain the population. Seems better for increasing the length in time for humanity to exist on the planet and come up with a solution to energy where the population can progress to infinite. Compared to the alternative outcome of everyone dies by ruining the planet. Maybe it's already too late for humanity and thus people don't care.
While it might just make me feel better about all the times they made me remove my laptop from my bag, or take off my shoes, I would almost rather see them given real skills so they can be a useful part of humanity.
So glad that kind of thing is shutting down. Sucks for the people who lost money, but that is a tonne of power being burnt for essentially nothing.
To me that video evoked zero sympathetic emotions from me, perhaps it's the GoFundMe right before the #bitcoinboom hashtag, or the name "Digie Gold", or the electricity that was just getting burned off for nothing...
Regardless of what's happening this winter, there's still way too much money sloshing around in the crypto space, money that is being ineffectively allocated... It'll be another 5 years at a minimum before any of the markets in the crypto space will be anywhere near "efficient", in my estimation.
Is it really "such a straw man"? Serious question, I'm trying to figure it out. The part about "just to listen to some music" is definitely exaggerating, since OP wants to listen to music and relax. Also, GP doesn't recognize that the tech that's supposed to be helping them live better may not be doing that by OPs standards. Is that what you're talking about? I did think what OP went through could be considered a lot of bullshit though.

Also, by the way, aren't you doing something similar? Exaggerating about GP's regard for android/apple; GP simply said they would rather pay a tax than go through what OP did. Am I mistaken? Though yes, in this case the apple tax may not even have helped.
Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Is a Winning Climate Strategy
From the last transcript, March 30, 1944.

>>Landesbauernführer Huber speaking of the potato harvest declared that although supplies of potatoes were already 15 percent below the amount required to fulfil the promised ration, and although it might be thought that German agriculture was attempting the impossible in 1944, faith in the Führer would bridge every difficulty.
Great website.

How do you ensure that all visa information is up to date? Do you automatically parse visa policy changes on official government web pages?

I made a single spot check (USA -> VNM), and the website seems to conflate e-visa with visa on arrival (they are different for Vietnam).
What would those "additional controls" look like? Amazon adding DRM?
Perhaps that level of obsession is what makes them good at their jobs. You can't really fault people for wanting greater control over the tech they own. Repairability of hardware and true control over what we can install on our phones might not seem important in the name of convenience but I'm grateful for these people fighting the good fight and drawing attention to these issues.
A new quatum paradox flags errors in our view of reality
I doubt it, they pivoted a few times from being a Bitcoin API, to a "cloud blockchain" thing whatever that could be.

Nobody can ever describe why you'd even want this as a thing.
Bitcoin is not better than MasterCard/Visa for the majority of day to day transactions.
I agree completely! The amount of misallocated capital and the rate with which it is flowing toward more productive uses is extremely disturbing.

There should be ten or a hundred well capitalized Tesla competitors by now rather than all this idiotic old money chasing (fearfully) after dying economies ...

It’s very disturbing to think how actively harmful these misallocations are — the amount of money that still thinks an investment strategy that aims to protect the value of existing fossil fuel investment is a good use of capital ... pure blind delusion.

We are well past the point where you can make more money by investing to extend the timeline of fossil fuel returns than you could make by accelerating yourself away from your fossil fuel investments ... somebody needs to remind the investment community about the value of skating to where the puck is going to be ...
there is open source and open source thru google's gates.

on the later you submit patches, they will be included in the next 2 to 3 versions of public release (if they dont't add any feature that impacts google's ad bottom line, for example, adding any sort of referrer control to chrome), then you have to hope that in those 2-3 version cycle your device is still supported, now you just have to wait for the convenient over the ait update provided by your telco or phone manufacturer (in most cases you actually need both entities to take part)
Why Don't We Train AI for Ethics?
A handful of prototype atomic bombs isn’t enough to beat the Soviet Union in a war, but one rocket to the moon is enough to beat them in space.
It might be that a 'poorer' diet can be better. Reason being that they use more raw foods rich in fiber rather than processed flour, sugar, oil, etc.

See research on the Okinawan diet. People there had the some of the longest lifespans ever recorded and they ate mostly potatoes (albeit a very nutritious variety of purple sweet potato).

Today Okinawa is rich, there are 3 KFCs on the island, and their lifespan has declined.
I would expect so. The second hand market is getting flooded with last generation cards that are still good enough to run new games at high quality, and that pushes prices down across the board.
The millions they got from token sales were demoninated in cryptocurrency. All of them trying to cash out at once and you see what happened. A run on the bank.
Mockman – create and manage the mock servers on your local platform easily
I used to be more open to arguments like this, but then I listened to the Reply All episode about selling breast milk[0].

I think it's complicated. Poor people shouldn't need to "resort" to anything. We should have safety nets for people who are poor. But given that we don't have those safety nets, we should be at least a little cautious about removing mechanisms for them to help themselves, even if those mechanisms have potentially harmful elements.

I don't know what the current underground/black-market situation looks like for selling blood, but I don't take it as a given that a regulated market would be worse than what we have. I would need to see data that supported that conclusion before I jumped to it.

[0]: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/57-milk-wanted
What's the difference to https://www.passportindex.org/comparebyPassport.php?p1=ch&fl...
Hate doesn't work, I'll give you that. I'm hopeful that OP takes your feedback :)

But you're very mistaken about the "disregard for convenience". Almost every human strives for convenience, even the folks you are talking about, they spend a lot of time writing automation scripts to make their work convenient. Just like you advice, please be open-minded to the idea that for some people convenience is just one checkbox on the list (unlike others, maybe including you, where convenience is of prime importance). For some people, real convenience comes from both functional convenience and tinkerability - having the confidence that they can make the product what they want to do - without feeling limited by the manufacturer's decisions. At the end its about tradeoffs, and when it comes to personal choice, people simply have different priorities.

To give you an objective example, when I buy a router, I always first go for an Asus. Why? Their UI is super easy to use - and at the same time, if you want, you can get it do to more powerful stuff. Just like Apple (as folks claim), their support is great (I've got replacements, no questions asked) but, unlike Apple, they actually encourage you to tinker around.
So in this case, hell yeah, I do pay the extra premium for convenience.
Yangtze River Port and Logistics: On-The-Ground Research Shows Assets Fabricated
When I think of the things I would add to this, I realize how amazingly useful it would be to have more data on the tasks themselves. For starters, whether or not there is code and what license under which it is released, and for NLP what languages were used/are available for use. Also, sign language recognition fits somewhere between computer vision and NLP. If picked up by the community, this could become a huge knowledge base.
Love the AT and the original BASIC and Operations guide!
Mercury train
Some examples of research that has reached this conclusion:

https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi...

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...

It might sound improbable if you are comparing from a purely technological point of view. But the reality is that the energy output of nuclear is so much higher than other technologies, it easily makes up for any increase in risk by requiring much fewer plants. That's what makes nuclear so attractive in the first place.
This is a handsome site.

For some reason I am quite curious about this kind of thing and keep looking up passports I don’t have for countries I won’t visit. I use Wikipedia which is pretty good.

What is missing is all the weird non visitor visas. For instance Canadians might work in the US on a TN visa or Australians can work on the UK for a year if they’re under some age (30? 35?)

It’s that sort of thing that would be useful. If Americans can work visa free in Mongolia for up to 6 months, it would be great to know. (I doubt this is the case)
Not really. https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-...
>I mean, they seem to manage pretty well with nuclear weapons.

"Seem to" but no. They don't. With countries like North Korea, Iran, Pakistan and China all having got ahold of the know-how to make nukes, all evidence is that government has failed spectacularly on this front.
Finding Nearby Users with Entity Framework Core Spatial Data
That sounds like a job
Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania found that extra-virgin olive oil contains an anti-inflammatory agent that acts similarly to how ibuprofen does. They named the substance oleocanthal:

https://www.monell.org/news/news_releases/olive_oil_contains...

So a lot of people in the Mediterranean consume an anti-inflammatory as part of their daily diet. I believe the thinking is that this is part of the lower cardiovascular risk, but not the only factor by any means.
Decoupling HTTP-controllers with business transactions
If you understand German, trust me and listen to this podcast about Wendelstein 7-X O:) : https://alternativlos.org/36/
> only taking a 77 cent profit on one year of work seems insane

While I agree that the percentages are way too lopsided for the distributor, you have to remember that income from this book will persist for years, if not decades.

Many a mickle, makes a muckle.

So while it might look like "little" on its own, I'm pretty sure this can easily add up over time, particularly if an author keeps releasing books that keep on selling.

Which makes the high distributor take even more outrageous.
Well, I agree with everything you said. :) I know the obsession helps them.

It's just that the tone of his dissent is in my eyes kicking him out of any serious discussion.

Outside of that I'm with you.
Bitcoin largely was born as a response to financial crisis that nearly wiped out worldwide financial system 10 years ago.

With the leveraging currently going on, albeit at government level, i wonder how long it will be before next financial mess happens that would resurrect these deflationary, government currency decoupled instruments.
If the objection is that nuclear can't be built quickly enough, then the renewable options need to be judged against that same standard.

Suppose everyone in the world already agreed to go a hundred percent renewable in 10 years. Effectively replacing the entire world's energy infrastructure is going to take a huge amount of raw materials and production capacity. Is there going to be enough?

It's possible the answer is yes, but I wouldn't take it for granted. There will need to be a lot of battery storage, which means there needs to be a lot of lithium. Are there enough lithium mines? Have geologists identified enough deposits to cover that massive quantity? And are there enough factories that can build batteries? For wind, there will need to be neodymium permanent magnets. For solar, you need fabs to build it all.

Maybe all those challenges can be solved, but maybe it's also possible to streamline the process of building nuclear fission power plants.
If anything, the 'Apple tax' is greater in 2018 than it has ever been.

I say this as having owned 3 Macs for the last 10 years. 4-8 years ago, the gap between Apple and the rest was so stark, it seemed paying for a premium Apple product was a no-brainer.

Even Linus got a Macbook air because the hardware was such a leap ahead.

Not only has the gap closed, Apple have been left behind, with inferior build quality in key areas (keyboards). This has coincided with raising prices further.

The 'Apple tax' is now a real phenomenon, not just the price of premium.
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Adding to the confusion is how someone as bright as Lee thinks more government control and regulations is going to lead to "free and open".
+1 on "hate doesn't work". Just adding a perspective that you might be missing. The stuff that OP described doesn't really feel like "work" to him. To him its the exact thing you described - it helps him recharge - so that he can go back to "work" the next day :)

[P.S. "I do enough programming already, thank you." doesn't help as well. To get an idea of how sad it is to read, imagine if someone tells an artist "I do enough painting already, thank you.". People love to do different things, and that is okay.]
Assuming everything goes as planned probably the Librem 5 when it comes out or anything that can run Replicant (or any other similar radio isolating fully open OS).
The tax isn't just the higher price, it's the loss of useful features like the headphone jack, the SD card slot, and USB OTG.
> This will not give you malware unless you actually run something from the USB, AFAIK.

https://github.com/hak5darren/USB-Rubber-Ducky/wiki/Payloads

> That’s an interesting definition of “bleeding edge tech”. Usually I treat Linux a place where operating system experiments are tested first.

I don't know about bleeding edge but even simple things like mic, camera are a hassled to get working - a friend has been using his phone for hangouts meetings for the last month because the mic or the camera would not work on his zenbook running Ubuntu. Don't get me started on audio on linux :(.

>> As far as using, now softwrae on Microsoft Windows is as good as Mac.
> Disagree strongly, but that is my opinion.

Depends what software you want to use.
It's a 400 page book that came out a few hours ago. I doubt anyone unconnected to the author is in a position to comment on its contents.

(But plenty of people have noted the previous volume was worthwhile).
Because that debate tends to get very contentious. It's an important debate to have, but I've already been in it many times and watched it even more so I'm not particularly in the mood to go through it this morning.
I'm not surprised this guy is closing up shop. GPU mining is an altcoin game and hasn't been profitable for bitcoin since 2013.
> Do you automatically parse visa policy changes on official government web pages?

Lol. That won't work well.
Still generally cheaper.

People regularly go off grid solar for less than the cost of grid electricity over the lifetime of their system. They save on the grid distribution system and overhead, but lose out on vast economy of scale. Peaking power plants also tend to be more cost effective than large scale grid storage. Having excess capacity also vastly reduces the need to storage.

Existing investments complicate the issue, but falling prices for both solar and battery systems regularly change the equation and this shift is only going in one direction.
Not suggesting I have the answer, but here's a thought.

Canada has prospered from sharing a land border with the U.S. We are the largest trading partner because of this geography. For better or worse, we are tied to the U.S. by umbilical cord. I get a sense that no matter what the mood of the day is about our relations, we need to find a way to cooperate as much as possible.

Trump will come and go. China will probably keep growing in economic power and relevance. But Canada won't ever physically find itself not in North America.
At a quick glance, passportindex says "visa required" but doesn't give all the gritty details of what's needed in bullet form.
It’s quite ironic that this is posted on a shitty website with a non-GDPR-compliant stalking “consent” prompt.

How about you do your own part before talking to others about “saving the web”?
You're kidding right?

The Times is nothing but poorly researched clickbait or got take opinion columns preying to the bosses of its readership.

I think you can find high quality paywall content (the FT for example), but yeesh, those are very, very bad examples.
Base load power is not a useful feature. To follow the demand curve you generally what to turn massive amounts of production off at specific points in the day, base load is simply what you keep running during those periods.

Nuclear power plants for example where known to be hard to throttle which was a significant design issue. Historically, the tradeoff is worth it as the cost per kWh was less, but again not a useful feature and you would expect renuables to kill off other forms of base load power based on price.
Yes, but the price/performance ratio hasn't improved at higher mid-end and above in a long time. The graphics card I bought two years for $350 is at the same price and is still being manufactured. That hasn't traditionally been the case. The faster newer cards are just more expensive instead of replacing last gen.
Yea, at least part of the reason the authors cut is so small is that he priced it so that his share is minimal. Even a small increase would double his per-book earnings. Presumably he doesn't care too much about maximizing his income from this, and just wants to have the book be as widespread as possible.
The color coding between the two most popular categories could stand to be more distinct. Discerning between aqua and turquoise is harder than I thought it would be.

People with felony convictions in their home country may also be refused entry to some visa-free countries and not others, and while it's a rat's nest of exceptions and procedures to sift through, it would make this site far more interesting and useful to show which visa-free countries will still deny entry.
Definitely. When prices are going up up up and the money is flowing freely, few really question what economic value is being created. But now that it's obvious to even the fools that they can lose money, they're going to have to figure out what valuable service these companies can provide to regular folks.

When I contrast this with the end of Bubble 1.0, the biggest difference I see is the lack of actual use. 2000 was an incredible bear market, especially in tech. Even good startups died, and the ones who weren't creating value died quickly. The Internet, though, still had hundreds of millions of daily users. Things like email and the web browser and downloadable MP3s made people's lives better, and they weren't giving them up.

But who uses Bitcoin for anything but speculation and maybe some light financial crime? As best I can tell, approximately nobody. The NYT tried using it for daily life back in April and it was a bust. [1] The few major online retailers who offered to sell you things in it have removed it again. Even major Bitcoin proponents admitted it was terrible as a currency.[2] And as far as I can tell, none of the zillion other coins have significant real-world use either.

I think there's truly nothing to sustain an "industry" here. Valuations are going to drop to (and probably below) whatever can be justified by cash flows, which in turn is based on economic utility to people outside the bubble. If that number isn't zero, it's at least very, very small. So as you say, this is only the beginning of the end.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/nyregion/new-york-today-l...

[2] e.g., https://avc.com/2017/08/store-of-value-vs-payment-system/
Facebook Needs Fewer Engineers, More Professors
Well it is not great at all considering how hard it is to repair current apple stuff. After 2 years of warranty you are just wishing it doesn't break. Don't get me wrong i have 6 year old macbook pro and its still a great machine. But i also know lot of my coworkers with new apple machines that break all the time. If you bring your machine 3times to repair shop in first year - well you can be pretty much sure something will happen very soon after machine is out of warranty period. And then you pay massive amounts.

Apple is basically trying to make subscription hardware with 2 year cycle. That's not nice value + it is also not ecological at all.
Cockpit meets these needs.
Good job! Also reminds me of https://www.markuslerner.com/travelscope
¼ mi is a 5min walk. Often you need to walk as far or further to and from the parked car. I literally yesterday just took 2 kids, a toddler and a baby, on a multi connection trip, and it's easy, simple, and less stressful then driving.

Also, tour last paragraph just makes you sound pompous and liek you have no intention of having a discussion but instead only wanting to put others with a different point of view down.
What are you seeing that indicates an upcoming recession? Economic data looks solid currently.
i owned one of these back in the 90's, i remember connecting this to my compaq 286 with a lpt1 port or whatever you call it. no color, but i remember printing nude gifs i had back thrn of playboy playmates.

fyi, in china, when you eat at restaurants or buy things from stores you get these government tax receipts which are typically printed with these epsons, that's almost 30 years since i first started using these.
TenX converted a large portion of their ICO proceedings into USD, see under "Finance" https://blog.tenx.tech/tenx-transparency-report-q2-2018-98bb...
> So how do I find out which software on Android Play is written in Oz?

If the above bothers you, then you should avoid any software written in the US too. The exact scenario you described can happen in the US, especially if you have a security clearance, but work in a regular tech job.
I also find that Rust drives me to document more - because when I do something "intuitively" that doesn't work and then spend an hour refactoring until it does work I usually leave a comment about it.

And those are almost always the good "in depth" reasoning comments you want in software, not the mandatory "Function save saves the file to where parameter location is" which just repeats the definition.

I still love Python, but I can't even argue its a productivity win for me to use over Rust anymore, because while I might sometimes make something that seems to work faster the lack of confidence makes scaling the program much harder and there really is nothing syntactically in Rust besides the static typing (which is a good thing in my book anyway, its why Python added function signature type hints after all) and verbosity (semicolons, mandatory braces, etc) that prevents you from writing code as fast as a Python variant with the right library support.
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