skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would the euro be in real trouble.

The only thing I see is Hungary and interference of China, but those things will usually resolve themselves.

Nobody trusts China = I agree.

I don't think anyone considers even the pound.

But, Trump made sure that a lot of people are starting to back away from the US. So I can't agree with the "going the opposite part".

If Trump would see another term i foresee huge troubles ahead, the US dollar would be the least of the troubles.

Not only US citizens distrust him. There is not a single ally that Trump hasn't stabbed in the back.

Eg. Trying to force Russia into the G7 is just one example.
Very interested in your project, but running binaries from strangers is never a good idea :)
There is a difference, of course there is!

Why, then, did Apple decide to gerrymander its rules to extract rent from one industry and not the other?

Perhaps there's an ethical or philosophical argument why Apple feels entitled to one industry's revenue and not the other, but I haven't heard that argument.
You can also do this with even more simultaneous notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPG-VhU6Kiw
that's also what I do, I store in "pass" the the password itself but also the TOTP secret in case my phone will be lost at some point.
How long does it take to beat video games
I’m dummy excited for this to come to fruition
As long as the evil bits [1] are set correctly, you can filter by that.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514
> Google needs an entirely separate brand/entity to launch these things.

From the very first paragraph: "Google’s Area 120 team, an internal incubator that creates experimental apps and services, has launched Keen..."

In a way this is exactly what you're suggesting: an entirely separate identity [1] to launch these experiments, and avoid direct association with Google's core products. Keen's site[2] only mention Google in the footer.

Of course, "Google launches a Pinterest-rival" makes it sound more juicy than "Area 120 launches an experimental product"...

(disclaimer: Googler, but no affiliation with A120 or the product. I'm hearing for the first time here)

[1] https://area120.google.com/

[2] https://staykeen.com/home
1000% this. The App Store is stagnant because Apple refuses to improve their store to where developers choose to distribute their app on the App Store. 30% may have made sense in 2008, but it certainly doesn’t make any sense in 2020.
Well noted. Here's a paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...
The energy returned on invested, EROI, has been evaluated for typical power plants representing wind energy, photovoltaics, solar thermal, hydro, natural gas, biogas, coal and nuclear power. The strict exergy concept with no " primary energy weighting" , updated material databases, and updated technical procedures make it possible to directly compare the overall efficiency of those power plants on a uniform mathematical and physical basis. Pump storage systems, needed for solar and wind energy, have been included in the EROI so that the efficiency can be compared with an " unbuffered" scenario. The results show that nuclear, hydro, coal, and natural gas power systems (in this order) are one order of magnitude more effective than photovoltaics and wind power. =
> Sadly, far too many academics have responded to the pressure to protect students from disturbing ideas by censoring themselves.

“Protecting” students from “disturbing” ideas is an act of censorship in the first place. The choices for academics who don’t agree with this censorship are simple - to quit their job or to secure themselves by not covering some topics. Or probably to be fired (and publicly lashed) for standing their ground - as we have seen has happened many times already.

The whole situation is a total disaster and absolute disgrace for the modern educational system. Being traumatized is a part of being human. It’s a part of a life of an adult. It is a good thing, if one gets these traumas in a precise, measured and indirect way - from books and lectures. It’s a process of education. If those students are not ready for that, maybe they made a mistake to become students in the first place?
I read, that guy died like 20km away from the next village.

People from that region where baffled how he got himself killed by not even being remotely in "the wild".
Interesting chart, but it does not seem to consider the cost of the installation, just the fuel, or it seems to assume a very long amortization period for nuclear/fossil fuel generation plants.

With wind and solar, all you have is the plant. There's no EROEI on the fuel because there is no energy investment in the fuel for wind and solar.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523246

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23560869

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553794
AP changes writing style to capitalize ‘b’ in Black
One of the things I never understood is why Apple doesn’t have tiers of pricing and support.

Why not “5% for app-upload capability and a plain store page with nothing else”, up to “30% for lots of nice bells and whistles” or even “50% for regular featuring to potential customers”?

People would not complain about 30% nearly as much if there were any alternative. (And they are right to complain about how little 30% gets them currently.)
Whatever people’s preferences in terms of reading or listening, I am inclined to think teams get better results when a high quality meeting summary goes out ahead of time.

I don’t claim this is an absolute truth, but I also don’t think many organizations have given it proper try.
Well you can do the maths.

Let's assume it takes 1 year to pay back the energy usage, on average, for the green projects (look up that Wikipedia link). Let's also assume that we can dedicate 5% of the world's energy budget towards new power plants and that the world stops growing. So: 5% energy recession and zero global energy demand growth. How long would that take to roll out? 1/5% = 20 years, all of those years will be of serious austerity. Multiple countries (especially those with "good", that is growing demographics) would blow up. Up to you to decide if it's feasible to execute, and those are very optimistic numbers. What if the energy usage grows at 2% and we can dedicate only 3%? Well, that would give us 1/(3% - 2%) = 100 years to finish the project.

These are not happy things to look at. Personally I'm just trying to avoid the impending climate doom. Whatever happens - this problem is here to stay with us for many decades.
These are really cool. It would be ace to write a ggplot theme for this style.
True. I actually just finished adding the video to the git repo.

I don't have/don't plan on getting a youtube channel, and I haven't bought a domain yet, so this will have to do for now.
You should always register more than one, and services should accept or require more than one, ideally. Google Advanced Protection shows how it could be done for extra security-conscious users though it does not, itself, use FIDO2 yet, I believe it’s still on an older iteration, U2F?

The best article I’ve found to explain USB security keys has so far been https://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-security-keys... but it’s ... very long.
They straight up gave up on Daydream VR - the Pixel 4 doesn’t even support it!

Really poor timing considering I think the Quest (for mobile) and Alyx (for tethered content) are an inflection point for the medium imho.
SaaS costs money to though - there's not an analysis of that in this article, if you use AWS or Azure they cost as well. I can see Apple need to charge for their service (I'd want a lot to argue with developers all day :-)), they could probably charge less though, but the same argument can be made for all their products.

Personally I think its great that I can write some code publish an App and Apple looks after a lot of stuff for me, would I like it if they charge less, sure - but its a level playing field, everyone on the App Store pays the same, so just add 30% to your price and move on. As a user, I like that I can reasonably trust the apps I download from the App Store - and thats who apples customers are, users, not developers. If you want to use apples service then you have to pay a premium, if you don't like it you can probably go to android (I'm sure this is Apples position).
Big dumpster fire.

A lot of people need the challenge of the dopamine hits, and become less interested once they know how to undermine it, or how fake or unfulfilling "success" is. High engagement can be used as a currency though, its common attribute being that you can trade it for goods and services in a predictable way.

I actually keep a very personal profile with maybe around 100 followers. I watch some of the women there - long time friends - chase fame and other guys with shiny things - and I have to laugh about it because its I always can present that way if I want to, but I watch to see if they ever mature to wanting more substance.

I have some criticisms for Facebook Inc about this though. They should really broker these transactions. There is a lot of sleeziness in the transactional side of growing these accounts. So instead of just ignoring it, they could really be getting a cut of this in so many ways.
I may be wrong as I don't have the rules under the hand but iirc Apple's rules state that the in-app purchases prices must be set as to not push users to go pay outside the app. So raising your price may result in a takedown of your app, meaning you have to eat the 30% if you want to stay on the store.
> gimmicks

> worse interface for something I can do right now on my [computer]

Were quite literally the arguments people used against the advent of smartphones. :)

What problems do you think smartphones solved? People were not exactly clamoring for them.

Why do you think the Apple Watch became so successful?

When you don't HAVE to hold a phone to be able to do something, you wouldn't want to. In fact, I could see smartphones being supplanted by a combination of smartwatch + AR glasses.
I think it's often appropriate. People need to understand-- financial skills are acquired skills, and they have everything to do with your own fiscal fitness.

It's not how much money you earn-- it's the delta between what you have coming in and what you spend. There are countless stories of low-to-middle income savers who grow to be wealthy through the power of safe, slow investing and compound interest. There are likewise countless stories of high-income individuals who spend all they make and more, ending up broke.

The world needs more clarity. More education. These are bedrock, basic skills, but they are woefully underpresented.
> Amazon’s Kindle store charges 30%, but with conditions. Your book must cost $2.99 to $9.99, and 20% less than any print copiesell. It must be exclusive to the Kindle to get this rate in some markets. Any VAT comes out of your cut, as does a download fee of $0.15/mb. Sell a $9.99 book, and you might get $6.69.
>
> Don’t meet those requirements, and Amazon charges 65% of your selling price. Sell a $10 book, get only $3.50.

That is an incredible fee to pay for a digital good. I looked into this expecting the author to be just outright lying. There is one factual inaccuracy (Amazon and the ebook author split proceeds after accounting for VAT/delivery charges), but it is substantially accurately.

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634500

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200644210

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634560
In my county in California, the county purchases the electricity while PG&E provides the infrastructure. The 50/50% solar/wind plan is only around $4/month more than the standard plan.

https://ebce.org/residents/
A lot of people buy iPhones because of the superior app ecosystem and that's all thanks to developers, including those making free apps. So it's false to say Apple makes no money off free apps.
They made a mistake because they didn’t ship anything. It would be much better to ship something and iterate then to wait and miss the boat. Look at HomePod, market share and mind share is minuscule.
Are people willing to pay a green premium for it?

We have a company near me that has some of the cheapest power sources from wind, but they used to market with the slogan “pay more for power.”
How to Plan Your Escape to a Lost Island, a Big City or a Desert
Such contracts were outlawed under the 1992 Cable Act.
"the business model policies of the App Store have resulted in a tremendous amount of resentment. This spans the entire gamut from one-person indies all the way up to the handful of large corporations that can be considered Apple’s peers or near-peers."

Exactly on point.
It is time for change.
It must be even easier to stop working with these unethical companies if you don’t value money that much.
Wealthy Homeowners in 'Mad Rush' to Flee San Francisco
would definitely be amazing for someone to do this. i do believe that there is some more accurate sounding piano synthesis software (or whatever you want to call it) out there that relies more directly on huge libraries of actual recordings of playing steinways, etc. recording each key a bunch of different ways and then ~interpolating between all those various recordings during synthesis, which in my limited playing around with it seemed to work relatively well (not that i had a steinway laying around, of course), but is definitely not as inspiring or scalable an approach.

really, really cool hack btw. always inspiring to see people put "unreasonable" amounts of time into labors of love like this. :)
We have that here too. Plenty of “fees.”
It is interesting to me that we do not see the same complaints regarding a single way to do login for every single site for administration. Every site has to be administered, most of them are probably capable of being administered remotely and I would bet almost every single one uses SSH in some capacity to do that. Comparing that to the clusterfxxx of security theatre on the user side, it is quite an interesting contrast. I can login to a server as an administrator via SSH without disclosing any personal details but if I try to login to a server as a user, I am asked to disclose all manner of personal information and yet at the same time the requesting party takes no legal responsibility for what might happen as a result of complying with their requests. (They only try to instill fear of what might happen if we do not comply.)
That would mean you could fix it yourself and cut out their authorized repair program. Better to just not put release the schematics, but also not go after anyone that creates the schematics either.

See dishwashers, microwaves, Apple iPhones, and washing machines. Car manufacturers still publish schematics for their circuitry (for a fee)
It's disinformation and tarnishing campaign against Apple. Right or wrong, the complaint against MS was it was excluding the choice of the browser by making the IE not installable.

What Apple might be doing here is refusing to list a product on a non-monopoly, non-exclusive private market place. How are the two even comparable? Appstore is not the only way to sell an app?
Which brings us to what I think is a bigger issue: Space is a finite quantity, similar to land and EM spectrum.

It's a land race for space. SpaceX and similar are racing to put their junk up their in orbit as soon as possible so they can squat. So who is going to regulate space? Will China Russia and North Korea respect ownership at 10KM up? What happens when GPS and GLONAS go out because of debris and some stupid war?

Humans have shown no ability to manage resource constraints like this without losing their shit and fucking it up. I have no faith that there won't be space drama in the next few hundred years. Maybe this hundred years.

And, to your point, the fact that it's cheaper, and it will get cheaper yet, is going to exacerbate these space regulatory issues.
That doesn't change the point that for most people getting fired from a job is serious life damage that ought not to be trivialized as "angry tweeters". A few outlier examples don't prove otherwise, losing a TV show isn't the same thing, etc. It seems to me that you're minimizing the significance of this development. There's also the fact that ostracization is traumatic for most people.

What I said about prisons was unclear, sorry. I was trying to imagine what the next escalatory step would be after getting someone fired. Perhaps it would be putting them in prison. If so, someone would be making the same argument again: it's not as if their life was destroyed just because a few angry tweeters got them jailed, they'll get out soon enough, and so on. The point is that there are degrees of harm. Just because it could be worse does not prove that harm isn't severe.
I always assumed that sftp was the hacky command and scp was the preferred one.

Guess I maybe learned that wrong.
For a very long time solar panels would cost more energy to manufacture than they would output through their lifetime. This is no longer the case, but the amortization period is still large.

Fuel is not the problem. The power plants are the problem.
A monopoly on the services you use, not a monopoly as in they have total control over your data and you cannot export your data. If all you use is Mozilla services, as the original commenter would like, that is the very definition of a monopoly over your personal software usage.

I did not imply anything of the sort, and I am astonished and confused as to why you would think that. How in the world does mentioning that it's not a good idea to give a company a monopoly over your personal usage lead to people should build their own personal data services? Obviously the real implication is that it's better to use multiple different providers of software services instead of one, or use as many different open source software as possible. The benefits being if or when a company decides to use your data for nefarious purposes they can only use a portion instead of all of your data. Likewise a security breach to one of those companies would only expose a portion as well.
Exciting. But here are some problems.

- Unfortunately, they are averaging the entire US, which is made of several grids, so the bad days are not that bad in their analysis. To fix those bad days, you'd need hella more storage, hella more capacity. e.g. 3-4x the renewables capacity than the normal need.

- Such a system has a very low resiliency because it depends on national grid. If Covid has taught us anything, it is the need for resiliency in the face of rare events. In this case unfavorable weather, broken transmission, etc.

- Cost projection is rosy... The panels, batteries, and storage are already very close to the material cost. Need some pretty fundamental tech transitions to improve further.

- If there is no policy change, nukes and nat gas will not be competitive 99% of the time because solar/wind are nearly free electricity and bid extremely low power prices that nuke/gas can't compete with. So even though they will provide the backbone and dispatchibility needed for on-demand power, they do not currently have the financial incentive to do so. We need resiliency and dispatchibility payments.

Report is Berkeley and GridLab, mostly policy wonks

A much better report from MIT: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S25424...
or http://energy.mit.edu/research/utility-future-study/

Both are harder to read and give worse news, so probably won't be part of the policy discussion...

The report itself: http://www.2035report.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2035-Re...

And the data explorer: https://www.2035report.com/data-explorer/?hsCtaTracking=aefa...
We did a PPA for full replacement at a time in our life when we were probably at max usage (2 teenagers at home, all electric appliances) and haven't looked back. Our monthly bill immediately dropped and stayed down. As far as I can tell, the only thing I need to worry about is the risk of deflation, and there's not much I can do about that.
This is not the case. It’s a full capitulation on Epic’s part.

https://www.polygon.com/2020/4/21/21229930/fortnite-availabl...
Unreasonable compared to what? Physical store markup? Other digital marketplaces like Google Play, Kindle? Spotify? Steam? If App makers in general are hurting and they are all paying the same 30% cut, wouldn’t the market have 43% markup?

You also act as if money on the store is coming from small Indy developers and not big corporations and mostly play to win games. Especially since the former big money makers have stopped allowing in app subscriptions.
I haven't been watching TV for ages, but I've had interactions with the police over the years that demonstrate the difficulties that come with a lack of trust on both sides.

There doesn't have to be a specific amount of violence in order to prevent dialogue and trust in a community. It's much more significant where and how it's applied. When people are punished for trusting in the authorities, then it's a huge multiplier of the criminal activity that the authorities then blame on the community.

I recently learned something interesting about corruption in my state, not directly related to the police, but about how corrosive it is when people are punished for trusting the system. In NYC, rent is regulated in various ways. One thing is that, if a landlord wants to raise rent, they can justify it with a certain dollar amount of renovations, but they may fraudulently inflate that amount. If you are a victim of that and about to be evicted because your rent was doubled, then you can sue in housing court. However, whether or not you have a good case and win, it will be on record that you sued and the authorities subsequently sell access to the data to interested parties, which means, essentially, that if you exercise your rights you will be put on a blacklist and it will be difficult going on impossible to rent anywhere. Now, this sounds like some activist's tendentious characterization, but this idea that the government effectively runs a blacklist came from court documents. The courts are cognizant this is how the system works, and to some extent they try to compensate for it, by for instance granting injunctions to stop eviction early on.
Digital re-creations: https://github.com/ajstarks/dubois-data-portraits

Presentation: https://speakerdeck.com/ajstarks/recreating-the-dubois-data-...
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They didn't change anything in their app. How could they have known that Apple would suddenly enforce a rule on them that they had not previously enforced?
Compared to now?! Or you mean it was already terrible by then, bring back HTML, CSS, and Flash?
Curiosity. Intrigue. Boredom - well not necessarily, it is a form of entertainment for the instagram culture.

There is also silly user experience on instagram where you can share photos from a private profile to your friend but your friend can't see it at all unless they request to follow the profile too. Some content types get this behavior, more like animals, tropical landscape photography. Sometimes women/models, but thats more of a personal fawning.
What’s happening here? Did the guy manage to install OS X on an iPad? Is this a supported feature or a hack?
Google developed VR headset internally for years, but in typical Google fashion this seems to be half-assed effort that didn’t go anywhere.
How is switching “hard”? I can pick up an Android device, sign into all of my subscription based services and everything just works. My photos are already synced with Google Photos, music I bought back in the day is DRM free and Apple Music is available on Android.
This is likely a PPC build of Mac OS X, running on the iPad through QEMU.
Except in this case you can link to another news site for the same story.