skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you are saying that free money is not a solution. Ok, then what is a solution?

Also, how do you measure and compare corruption?

The US has gone to war killing millions of people, including hundreds of thousands of their own, motivated by (oil/industrial-military) money and justified with lies.

The US political system is controlled mostly by corporations and rich people that pay for lobbying.

So are you saying the west is not corrupt because it is more publicly/"legally" corrupt?
At least part of that is because some other currencies have weakened, not simply because the dollar has strengthened. The British pound as an example, especially for something previous considered a stable and relatively "hard" currency, has lost an astonishing amount of value since the Summer of 2016.
I was talking to someone the other day that boiled it down to "everyone's trying to solve their Red Queen problem." I was unfamiliar, and the Wikipedia page doesn't seem to support this reading, but the idea is that everyone's running as fast as they can just to stay in place, and the way out is different for every person so no general approach can work for everyone. Any solution will put people right back in the realm of running as fast as they can to stay in place.

You pull out a bottleneck, only to reach another bottleneck. Puts the problem squarely in the realm of myth. Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a hill. Someone blew my mind one day when they suggested that Sisyphus didn't keep rolling the boulder up the hill because of compulsion, he does it because he finds exquisite meaning in it. He knows every crack, every crevice, how to move most efficiently up that hill. This idea moves the problem from mythological to religious. What is heaven and what is hell?

Some wind up burning out, and reverting to a simpler, more primitive form of life. Yours truly has a hard time seeing that as anything more than a rest stop. As humanity connects and we learn more about ourselves, our minds, and our bodies, we'll start unlocking dizzying heights of human achievement. These things will look like self-inflicted torture.

But at the end of the day, humans yearn for one thing, greatness, elevation, perfection. So they'll keep pushing themselves to that next level.
The energy is spread thin which makes it great for powering a watch or a house but not for actual serial industrial usage which is where our primary energy usage would be.

Energy is not a tech problem, optimizing subpar energy to deliver 5% better when the capacity factor is down at around 20-30 isn't actually solving anything fundamental and our energy usage is a fundamental problem.

The future will need more energy much much more. Wind and solar are linear solutions to an exponential problem.
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Sure, only if ad blocking community stop fighting.
Not really. I was just in Zimbabwe and on many street corners they try to sell you one for like $1-2 USD.
Worth reading to the end for a beautiful section on humility.
Was available in FreeBSD back in 2009: https://wiki.freebsd.org/GCD
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You can use this without blocks, but it is way more convenient with blocks.
I’d also argue that WeWork isn’t necessarily optimized for remote work e.g. they are optimizing for longer term office tenants who buy the actual offices and not just a hot desk because those make more money and it’s a more reliable source of income.

If true remote work becomes a bigger reality then you’d expect to see a greater share of workers who only need a hot desk and not one of the glass cubes, which have smaller margins and easily switched out with a Starbucks.
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You can also read DRM free MOBI and PDF books on Kindles. It's also possible to to break the DRM on Kindle books if you own a physical Kindle device.
It seems like most of the points made in this article are either resolved by or don’t apply to Entitiy Framework and LINQ?
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A friend of my wife and I is into crystals and is also currently dating. She wants to find someone who is open about the magical powers of crystals.

Thinking of that made me realize that I would rather date someone on crystal meth than someone on crystals.
Serious question: why does starting a company equate to changing the world? The vast majority of companies sell some good or service for a fee, which is of course super important for society but not exactly world changing. I guess the hope is you can grow your company large enough to have a major impact without selling out so much as to just care about profits and shareholders?
I totally agree. The cynic in me was just surprised at the disappointment, not the reaction of outing them for what they do.

And to your first point, fewer and fewer people think for the long term. Perhaps because in an age where you want results now they will be judged by short term performance.

Also I noticed I'm missing an "influenced" in the comment above. Strongly influenced.
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
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Yes. Here’s a paper that dives into some of these points and a few others.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2955455
For a desktop with a powerful processor and GPU, the difference goes away entirely if you force-enable webrender.

Add tree-style tabs to that, and there's no question of which one is best to me.
Bill wrote about this on his blog yesterday:

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/From-the-cutting...

It’s unfortunate that they were ready to build the TerraPower pilot nuclear plant in China and the recent trade war prevented it.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25728221/te...
Brand is worth something. WeWork offices are designed to be appealing to young people (free beer, group activities etc) which makes it appealing to businesses. Also in real estate location, location, location is a differentiator.
If you take an extra $20k from me per year in the form of taxes, how does some kid’s invention actually pay me back? Am I a shareholder in this project? Will I get a return on that $20k? Will the government give me my $20k back plus a profit?

This silly proposal is nothing more than socialized venture capital. We have real venture capital who invest in “far fetched” ideas already — and they have willing participants who know what they are getting into — not people being forced, literally at the point of a gun, through taxes.
Decentralized scripting that large numbers of developers know how to use is powerful. Entire parts of the internet could shift to that in the long term. Obviously, it's a long way away... but that's a given. Even if you choose another crypto and say it has a better approach because of x, y and z mining or other infra, you can't argue with the fact that Ethereum has increased the competition in the space.
Where did you read ‘unique?’ They said ‘differentiated.’
I don't think anybody is gaslighting. This report is all about facts, and all I was trying to do was point out another fact. The point remains that republicans are really popular in the places where there is less opportunity.

Here is a point I will make that is political: The places that are run by very liberal local governments, such as California and New York have the majority of the growth. I always see these articles about how business and people are fleeing to low tax places. Except the growth continues to swamp that effect.
Aha, thanks! I'd always sided with Kierkegaard, maybe I should give Camus his fair shake.
Sahara desert is greening. How is that a bad problem? Furthermore Sahara used to be a jungle and that disappear long before we ever started using CO2.

The climate is always changing. I am celebrating every day that fossil fuels have made life better and safer for us in the west. What I am fearing is that well meaning but fundamentally ignorant climate catastrophism will make it harder for the worlds poorest to get access to the very energy they need to fight any change in climate.
Sure, but we're talking about tendencies, the average ability for people in these different groups to vote in this way, not in absolute "everyone votes this way" terms.
It seems to mostly depend on how big the overhangs are, if you don't have flooding or seismic issues.
Same idea as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19436884 but more polished and faster.
The technology has been around for a while: "American Electric Power (AEP) began contracting the use of the aerial saw in 1986."
You don't deserve the downvotes that you are getting. They dislike you because you're right
I make more than that and I am not sick of being taxed.
Ask HN: How can I ethically reach out to potential blog sponsors?
I've been running my small security blog for about 3 years with monthly articles.

It has been successful so far in regards to bringing opportunities and gaining industry contacts, but I've never directly made any money from it.

I've tried having a 'Sponsor Me' banner, where I've received a few reasonable offers, but non from companies that I align/agree with or would be happy to promote.

What would be a reasonable way to directly approach companies that I would like to sponsor me? Is this a big no-no, or is there an ethical way to do it? I've had a look at 'cold emailing' services, but they seem to go against the values of my blog, which are privacy, security, non-tracking, etc.

Any advice or case studies would be massively appreciated. :) Thank you.
It's not unique, but it is differentiated. They have a brand for a specific type of office, it's got more benefits, it's more flexible and it's frequented by tech start ups. Those are fine things to use. It is going to be almost impossible for IWC to ever look as 'cool' as We.
One never knows when one might need a particular bit of mathematics. I wrote a mathematical model of DNA transcription events inside E. coli, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5425810/. For this, I needed the solution to a cubic equation. Thankfully, Cardano had published the solution in the 15th century, and Wang had shown which was the relevant root in more recent times, https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1016/0014-5...
The term “checks and balances” is almost always used wrongly, as in this article. Checks and balances are the ways the different branches of government check each other. The trillion dollar coin was a goofy proposal for the president to save Congress from itself.

As you said, Congress passed the debt ceiling, then approved spending above that limit without approving ways to pay for it. And it refused to raise the debt ceiling. That’s not really part of the system of checks and balances; that’s Congress getting itself into a bind by passing legislation that can’t actually be satisfied.
“Blue” territories have seen their productivity climb from $118,000 per worker in 2008 to $139,000 in 2018. Republican-district productivity, by contrast, remains stuck at about $110,000.

How is productivity measured? I have wondered about this stat as I have seen it used many times over the years but I can't figure out what and how they are measuring or who is doing the measuring.

Take Weyerhaeuser as an example- they own 26 million acres of land across North America, have 10,000 employees and 7+ billion in revenue. Recently their corporate headquarters moved to Seattle. Is their 7 billion in revenue spread across all the loggers, drivers and mill workers in remote forest locations? Boeing is another example with headquarters in Chicago but as far as I know they don't make any planes in Chicago.

Are these stats pulled from census, irs, labor...? Am I wrong or cynical in thinking these are lazy stats and most of the "productivity" is attributed to the small percentage of employees in the corporate HQs? I can't imagine a fed bean-counter following around logging trucks in remote areas to make sure the productivity is attributed to the correct region.
no calls for immediate action through generous donations? no "it's all the fault of evil white Republicans?" your prophecies of doom are on a 10 year clock? where's the urgency in that?
Are there any interesting startups specifically focused on protest technology?
Same for Belgium. Your id is mostly birth date + 3 digits + a checksum. The 3 digits are half male half female. So 9 bits of randomness, and that's assuming all 500 combinations get used.
The idea is bad because you just created an involuntary venture capital fund by taking money from people that didn’t necessarily want to “invest” it. It’s also a bad idea because we already have venture capitalist who fund “far fetched” ideas using money from willing participants rather than the public coffers.

If you want to encourage more innovation, cut taxes on investment and capital gains to make it cheaper to invest. Cut regulations to make it easier for upstarts to disrupt the entrenched.

But a national million dollar giveaway program for wild ideas? What could possibly go wrong?
Did you look at Draft or Notion? I’d encourage you to give them a look (if only to see what your competitors look like)

To the points you mentioned above (word counter, privacy, etc)…

I do a similar exercise, but using Draft (https://draftin.com). Draft has a word counter, and is private.

Another option I’ve been exploring for this type of exercise is Notion (notion.so). The nice thing about Notion is it can replace Evernote, Draft, and Trello for me, is private, and works on desktop (native), web, and mobile (native). You can also create a calendar view where you can see your progress building your Seinfeld chain of consecutive days of writing.

Anyway…

Congrats on launching! Now the real work begins. :)
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I noticed this overnight when uBlock Origin wasn't working. I've been slowly transitioning over to Firefox over the last few months, but still end up in Safari quite often.

This motivates me more to move over to Firefox permanently. Battery life might take a hit, but the philosophical and political motivation is too high not to use Firefox.
I doubt many, if any, of those advocating for a move to renewable energy and EVs are calling for a blanket ban on oil for non-combustive uses.

We have alternatives for far, far more than 0.1% of the world's plastic though. We could probably get rid of most of it without a change in our quality of life, or effectiveness of products. Keep the oil for the few uses that can't be easily replaced by other more sustainable sources. Which almost certainly means contact lenses, and assorted medical uses, specialised equipment, some chemicals etc.
Thanks. I looked up Mastery learning and will delve deeper into it. Here is the link if anyone else is interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery_learning
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This is pretty cool and looks great. It has a lot of themselves in it which I think will make it a cherished place.

If anybody wants to see how a traditional Yurt/Ger is put up, you should watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLO-z-XJ7_U

It's quite different in some respects and the main difference is that the load is shared between the lattice walls and an interior post structure as well as the heating being centralized under the oculus.
Feel free to have your own counter-protest if you don't want to be ignored.
If you think about it, when the banks go bust and need a bailout, the Fed debited their balance sheet for 4 trillion dollars but the other side of the balance sheet is buying "toxic assets" or government debt from Wall St banks.

So this is essentially free money. Any legitimate organization would need to provide a legitimate good or service.

So if they are going to keep printing free money and play monopoly they should at least go buy people something like free healthcare. They always try to defend this with the "we are smarter than you" BS...stuff which I studied formally my degree.
How is this different from dilution of shares in a company?

That is, people are willing to invest (cash or labor) in a company in exchange for dilutable stocks, because they expect that if dilution happens, it's a transient discontinuity on the way to making the stocks more valuable overall. By taking another round of funding, the investors' stocks hopefully become worth more than they were before dilution.

Don't people with large holdings of fiat currency have the same approach and risk tolerance? The purpose of raising the US debt ceiling would be to grow the US economy.
Maybe, but certainly not at a scale needed to influence the election outcome without anybody noticing. Voting over the internet is totally different in that regard.
This is still wrong. Nouns and verbs can change irregularly depending on each other.

It's like people look only at their own language and try to pretend that same structure must be universal.
If I lower the interest rate it goes down, if I lower a negative rate it goes up?

Either way, I was unsure which way rates had moved just from reading the title.
Here’s an alternative view: we do an ok job of science education, but a deeply unsatisfactory job of teaching people that it is OK to be themselves and likes the stuff they like.

Crystal spiritualism to me is just a reaction to the fact that people overascribe meaning to things that they like and enjoy, as a justification beyond “I enjoy it”. It goes hand in hand with the whole spiritualism around rock climbing or stand up paddle boarding or yoga - they’re all great fun, but, modern life under emphasizes the role of fun and preference and so people justify it with spiritualism.
It would have been faster if you just replied with “CA and NZ”, since those are the only other countries on that list, which btw, I’m skeptical of.
Who will decide what projects to fund? Officials with good networking you mentioned?
An alternative route might be to find a way to integrate this code with a logging library like spdlog.

This way you'd get the cool short notation of dbg(...) and the ability to have more control about the sinks (including indeed dynamic disabling/enabling).
I am voting against politicians who are pro-war, which is sadly almost all of them.
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I think the main reason behind the better economic situation in the 1871-1914 period was not a deflationary economy, but the steady increase in factory output -- the industrialization was on its height -- and medical knowledge -- proper sanitation, proper medical procedures, hygiene. Add to that the benefits Europe and the US reaped from colonial imperialism: the "masses" gained access to commodities like sugar, tea, coffee but also cheap alcohol and opium.

Usually it was not a gradual improvement in the lifes of common people from poor farmers to well-off middle class. By far the most people not employed in the agrarian sector were working class (working in factories, mines, etc.) and their situation was, compared to today, a hellish nightmare: overcrowded slums, poor access to water and medicine, unstable food-supply. These conditions only improved slightly by the end of that period, usually out of pressure/fear of socialist/communist mass agitation.

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You are right, the life of most people living in that time period improved significantly. But I would say despite of a deflationary economy, not because of it. And only a minimal percentage of those were middle class.
Use a log scale, it makes easier to compare the performance in different periods and the spread between the two lines gives you the relative performance (when both stocks have the same performance the lines move in parallel, when the spread widens the upper line is performing better and vice versa).
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Oh, same name as the Xfce image viewer: <https://docs.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/start>
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Carmack just tweeted this about Gates:

I only met Bill Gates once, but I was very impressed — I was going on about problems in the windows graphics stack, and despite it not being his expertise, I thought he “got it” faster than his domain experts in the room.

The replies are filled with similar anecdotes.

tweet: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1175405258975141893
The sad thing is that the States aren't interested in this technology or why does it take so long to get it done there? It would be great to use waste material to get more energy out before burying it again. I'm from Germany, sadly thou, most of the people are to uneducated and scared to push atomic power station to the next level. Great documentation btw.
No idea why they didn't have conrete pumped. Probably would have been cheaper
I just want to follow up with after emailing edwin, I was put in contact with someone who is on a different level than the support team I've talked with originally.

We got in touch late Friday so a resolution wasn't made (not enough time), but it's clear he spent more than 1 minute skimming the support message and it felt like he really put in serious effort to help me in my specific situation. I think everything will be crystal clear in the end after a couple of emails (and these aren't just repeating emails, it's to deal with moving forward with new info after implementation).

I wish this type of support was the default. It never would have happened without this post on HN happening. There's a lot of value in having in depth emails about specific problems because it leads to documentation improvements that benefit everyone (plus it makes your paying customers happy on the spot because they got help using your product).
Safari is SO much more efficient than Firefox. I find it to be more performant while also using a lot less juice on my MBP.
Actually I think creativity and innovation is best stimulated under limitations and constraints, not with blank checks
Name collisions are unfortunate but inevitable. This name makes me think of ristretto255 (https://ristretto.group/), but that’s the world I live in. I suspect this project is likely to see more name recognition over time than either of our examples.
Adblock is stupid. Block hosts and be done with it. Pihole/pixelserv/diversion for the lan, gas mask for Mac, AdGuard vpn with custom lists for iOS. No ads, no stupid adblocker blockers bs.
> https://www.smart-energy.com/industry-sectors/business-finan...

Yeah, that's disappointing. But development consent approval doesn't necessarily mean they will be built. There are some other CCGT projects that have been approved for a number of years, but construction hasn't started because the economics don't stack up right now.

With the cancellation of several nuclear plants, others being retired over the next 5-15 years, and the ban on coal by 2025, there may indeed be a future deficit of gas generation capacity. It may be that these projects are being developed speculatively in anticipation of that.
I would not know what to do in this situation.

Do you just shut down and walk away and find a different conversation to join?

Do you humor them?

Do you ruin your reputation and friendship by telling the man's wife "You're stupid"?

Do you try to politely explain something to someone who is dumb as a crystal and will probably never be able to understand?

Do you call 911 because they might be having a stroke or psychotic episode?
Do "physical objects" include communion wafers, holy objects, and churches? If so, this is hardly a new idea and I'm surprised it's as low as 42%.
Well, it's Apple ain't it? It it would be Google or Microsoft, HN would have 16 upvoted posts.

Brand cheerleading is, and always have been, alive and well.
Does anyone know of a similar cache that lets you restrict memory usage by “customer” for example? I used redis scripting to implement this use case in redis, it really feels like a hack though.