skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author is right to point out the problems inherent to today's philanthropic environment (e.g. less money donated to lesser impact, measured by a number of metrics, globally)—particularly the inefficient outcomes created by major donors' ability to demand tons of information on program performance at a net cost to those programs efficacy due to cycles spent on such reporting.

(BTW, the phenomenon of insufficient and inefficient giving is only a "problem" if we agree that more wealth redistribution or a closing of existing wealth gaps is a good thing, so let's start there for this discussion and if you disagree let's discuss separately!).

But a huge missing point here is the issue of channel saturation in major giving; even if giving could be made more effective, there is almost certainly a cap on how much money can be redistributed through existing philanthropic channels.

IMO, new avenues for wealth redistribution have to be created, either outside of existing philanthropic channels or with major modification to existing ones as the author proposes. Frankly, all the media and academic coverage I've found on this topic is pretty light on details and there's very little funded research on this topic.

It feels like there are a few directions to move towards to solve the saturation issue: [1] don't get this rich, give away in smaller numbers more frequently such that parties are not in the position of generating and giving away wealth in sums too high to be absorbed by existing channels, [2] find a way to get taxed, because the US government can spend your money, be OK with the fact that this spending may not be net beneficial to folks, [3] innovate and build huge infrastructure around creating new, possibly non-philanthropic channels (incubators, money giveaways that aren't predicated on productivity or outcomes, etc.).

The issue with [3] is that it will still leave enough discretion up to the billionaire in question that funds may still not be distributed in a way or to a quantity that 1) maximizes possible impact or 2) distributes enough money to meaningfully address wealth inequality... Much to consider here.
So how come they didn't publish this in February?
Why is it that physicists, along with economists, seem to be especially prone to ultracrepidarianism?
18b doesn't seem like a huge amount of money these days with the economic stimulus funds being announced around covid-19.
I'm still using the same pair of Sony headphones from circa 1997, that were just under $100.

Nothing has needed any replacement.

The ground connection on the 1/8" jack got finicky early on in the life of the cable (you have to bend it a little this way or that to get audio in both ears and with the channels separated), but in the 20 years after that problem appeared, it has not deteriorated one iota. You have to fiddle with it today with exactly the same pressure and nuance as in the year 2000.

I used the 1/4" adapter from time to time, like going directly into a synthesizer keyboard. Given 30 minutes to search around the house, I can probably find that thing.
I understand in the abstract sense not being able to leave is a trapping, but I don't understand how that is a bad thing except in the abstract.
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I can easily control this by laying down, then switching from my right side to my left side. Whichever side is on top is the side I’ll breathe from.
Stop gaslighting all of us. ;) There are over 250 million adults in the US. So you think that less than 1% of the US population comprehends what "gaslighting" is?

I doubt you'd wager much money on that.
> Just like you are not entitled to having a highway to drive on when going to work

Certainly. Would you say that I am being punished if I did not have such a highway though?
Lots of syntax highlighting and linting/checking tools. JSON prettifier and such. But I can't remember ever paying for a plugin. I paid for the IDE (Textmate, Sublime).
When I ran it it took about 20s total.
I have about 4-5 pairs of headphones in a drawer of various $80-150 prices that were finally replaced with my $300 Sony ANCs. I just had to finally get so sick of my open office that I'd splurge that much coin into ANC.
It depends on the direction you want to take, but there is a mathematical basis to what I'm saying, not just a philosophical one. Unfortunately I've never scared up the name of the concept, or at least not in any form I can conveniently Google for. I'm not sure there is a non-textbook version of what I'm talking about; I'd like to see it myself.

It's related to the ability to read a Lyapunov exponent as a measure of bit loss. Lyapunov exponent is easy to Google up, and if you understand that and information theory it's not a difficult leap to make, but I can't find any nice explanation for people who don't already have those things.
isn't jQuery nowadays also using all native functions of a browser?
I still find the regex selector so powerful in jQuery.
amp4email is open for anyone to support, and per https://blog.amp.dev/2019/03/26/building-the-future-of-email... it's supported by Yahoo Mail, Mail.ru, Outlook, and Gmail. It's not comparable to IE-only features.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
I probably would if everything dropped 25-50%, I imagine a lot of other people would too. Or if they were already going to buy a house or condo they’ll just get a bigger one.

So it would help pretty much anyone who is not over leveraged (barring second effect like a pension relying on MBS) and in the market for real estate which is pretty good in my book. We shouldn’t set up our economy so that we allow people to overleverage in investments assets and then bail them out when they run into issues because of that.

I could not care less if overleveraged landlords crash and burn. It’s money in my pocket because my rent may go down (when I switch places) and it makes it easier for me to afford a place to live in.
Yep! Playing cheap brass instruments is really difficult. When I first got an expensive horn it was the most sublime feeling, instead of working hard to make a sound it was like effortlessly singing through the instrument. You just breathe and everything resonates the way it should and all is in tune. It feels so natural.
The protestors were not attacked. They have a well established process of “peaceful” used as a shield for provocateurs, as though individuals are not responsible for the whole mob. The peaceful have recourse to identify and expel the violent, but don’t.

I have major issues with burning a courthouse - the nexus of polite functioning society, the recourse of civilian peace. Burn that, and the recourse for civilian property damage is vigilante violence - don’t go there.

What we see is outright insurrection, from mob to mayor, attempting to break our lawful government for an admitted imposition of communism. Don’t go there.
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Ok but bear spray would work, no?
I don't see what there is to hate. It's a very deliberate gesture
You generate hydrogen using excess renewables, then turn that into methane and store it to burn in conventional gas power plants. Look up various versions of Power2Gas. It's not economical right now because we have few times when renewable production exceeds demand but is a natural component of a fully renewable power grid.
Archive.org ?
>> 1% of sales

It's 0.57% of sales [1]. I tried to find out how much in returns they deal with but...I suspect that returns is a higher number or at minimum comparable.

[1] - https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-financial/walmart-tur...
In this case, as you already know (or should), no external or extra "tool" is needed. You hit "get info" and it tells you. Boom. Done.
Have you considered switching to GNU/Linux instead? Given that you do all your work in a Linux environment already...
It sounds like a memory card write speed limitation, is that correct? I've seen medium format cameras advertised with 5fps bursts (not sure on burst length), but if it takes 30 seconds between bursts to write to the memory card, that would drastically slow down the capture rate.
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The countries you think of first aren't recording many new cases, but Indonesia and the Philippines are.
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> Can anyone explain why 'income' is negative and 'expenses' are positive? It seems to me like it should be the other way around.

This is something which trips a lot of folks up, but it has a very simple explanation: in double-entry accounting money always flows from one account to another, e.g. from income to a bank account, or from the bank account to an expense. The income account is always negative because money is almost always leaving it, and the expense account is always positive because money is almost always entering it (I wrote ‘almost always’ in both instances because one might need to repay erroneous income or one might get a refund from an expense).
People automatically fear things that in some way may exceed some of their own limitations, in however minor way. A defense mechanism of our cavemen brains.
I'm relieved to see others with this sentiment. I enjoyed full-stack (including front-end) development back when JQuery was just starting to be a thing. Now when I have to dig into these layers where you have an Angular components wrapped inside some React stuff that's all part of an Elm app I just hit a mental block too fast. I don't understand how anyone can reason about their code in such an environment...
"Hate laser" is brilliant. It's a stimulated emission of hate.

To go one step further: For a laser to work requires some kind of pumping, in order to get the atoms in a state where they can emit. By analogy, what "pumps" the hate laser?

Trolls do. Nuff said on that topic; we've all seen it.

Foreign governments do. The point of "agitation propaganda" is to get the population in an agitated state, that is, a state where they are ready to lash out. I think there is sufficient evidence of Russia doing this, and I suspect that both China and Iran are doing so also.

Domestic political parties do. "The other side is not just wrong, they're evil. Here, look how evil they are! Look what horrible things they're doing! Send us money so that we can fight them!"

And the media do. Especially social media, but the regular media as well. Outrage drives clicks, clicks sell ads, ads make money. (Alternately, media could be thought of as turning up the gain on the other forms of pumping.)
W7-X is a stellarator [1], and ITER is a tokamak [2]. They are two different approaches to achieve controlled nuclear fusion.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarator

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak
I don't think community wiki's are what was described at all.

I'd describe as every question starting out as a forum post and only upvoted questions become Questions.

No one's question gets deleted. Question quality doesn't get diluted.
Various people sent their old tape reels and other backups to Deja News, which compiled everything. But Deja News never made freely available the individual archives or the collection, nor did Google. The oldest stuff is locked away by Google because the only hard copy was destroyed when sent to Deja News. As time wore on most of the remaining fragments that at one point could have been recompiled independently also disappeared.

What Google is doing by refusing to publish the archive or even share it with parties like the Internet Archive is completely unjustifiable and anathema to everything they once stood for.
The databases I implemented experimented with various ways to compile queries. Turns out that the JVM can run quite fast. I feel like LLVM (Julia) is likely to be able to be better for throughput and definitely better for predictability of performance.

If you know layouts and sizes, then your generated code can run really fast - using SIMD and not checking bounds is a win.

Hugepages would greatly reduce pagetable bookkeeping, but obviously may magnify writes. Wish I could have tried that!
Probably referring to this highly controversial re-definition of Q: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor#Scie...
> We only have SSC's account of the conversation between him and the NYT reporter.

True. But Scott only asked to not to have his full name published and I trust him enough to have asked the NYT beforehand. Even if he didn't, the NYT could've simply said "we won't, but ask next time" and it would look pretty bad for him.

> The NYT does not have a history of doxxing people, particularly their home addresses. Revealing that sort of personal information is traditionally what "doxxing" means.

Just revealing the name is not "traditional" doxxing, I agree. It's clear, though, what he tries to say.

> SSC's fans revealed the NYT reporters name and home address. That is to say, the only person doxxed here has been the reporter. So the power dynamics are not as clear cut as SSC made out.

Well, just after Scott put the blog offline. And he did explicitly ask his readers not to doxx or attack anyone. Now, it is possible say that, given this action, one could know that this would happen with a high likelihood, but, given his situation, he did what he could to prevent it IMO. That's debatable, though, I give you that.

> Tucker Carlson has since used his fans to doxx NYT reporters when he objected to them writing a story about him. That is, this has become a right-wing tactic. And that will be unhealthy for a free press.

That's not on Scott. He neither "invented" this nor asked anyone to do it; in fact, he said the reporter is probably innocent and asked his readers not to. So you can't blame this on him.

> It's not at all clear that Scott Alexander is anonymous, or that revealing his real last name constitutes doxxing. Scott Alexander are his first and middle names. He blogged under his full real name for many years at LessWrong. He published an SSC post in a Springer book in 2017 under his first and last names.

I can see the NYT side on this; not publishing the name of someone who's name is already kinda public if you search a bit seems strange at hand. But on the other hand Scott is right, too; a NYT article would've directly brought up SSC when searching his name. Therefore, I think it's fair enough to ask not to have his name published and I don't think it's too much to ask, to be honest. Also, similar to the sibling, I can't locate this book.

Overall, I can see why he did what he did, but I can also see why it came to this.
The data from the linked articles explicitly compares urban centers, not suburbs/exurbs.

And also, as another commenter pointed out, suburbs/exurbs can also be net producers themselves.
> The US would be a weaker nation if we had to commit a bunch of human capital to textiles.

While I probably agree with the broader idea, I can't help but think that at root, sentiments such as these are the root cause of our industrialization and significant but hand-waved human costs here that have been incurred.
As some of the skeptics in the article say, we can't be sure there's no link, but there doesn't need to be a link to explain having similar sauces in the two regions. If you have fish, salt, sun and a lack of refrigeration, you are going to have fermented fish soon enough.
If you have npm installed in WSL 2, what use cases are you running into where you need to run Windows npm scripts?

You could exclusively run npm commands inside of WSL 2 and never have to touch cmd.exe.
> Workers in the US often send money back to families in third-world countries. Doing this with BTC is less expensive and faster than with wire transfers.

How high are those fees, these days? IIUC, in recent years, several companies have enabled regular-money-based transfers over the Internet at lower fees than in the past. Some quick searching indicates players include Zelle, PayPal, CashApp and Venmo For example, I just checked the PayPal (ugh) fee for transferring 1,000 USD to a Mexican bank account. If you have a US bank account linked to PayPal, the fee is zero. I've heard Zelle is also free (?)

Even if for some countries its probably more expensive - I wonder if it's that high. Plus, on the BTC side, you need to factor in the fees for converting to and from BTC.

About the illegal drug trade: I don't see how BTC improves product quality. As for the violence - world states, primarily the US, control the level of violence, and it isn't really about the method of payment. As for the risk of drug-runners being caught - most of these are small-time businessmen rather than workers. So I feel this is a bit of a forced example. If anything, the benefit here is possibly reducing state involvement in drug trafficking and bringing us closer to de-criminalization.
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You don't need to be LGBT to wear a dress. I (Male) wore calf-length skirts for a good chunk of my 20s and didn't need a label. There are ways of feeling out who you are and what you're about without labels, privately or within your peer group. But when you want to live publicly that way. When you want your boss, store clerk, principal to know you as that then someone, anyone, will find a word for you unless you have one for yourself. Especially if your public transition is a rarity in the community you live in.
My team uses ZenHub extensively, but it's not that great for OSS projects IMO. The extra metadata and organization that ZenHub allows isn't visible via GitHub issues, so it's basically just for the core team.

Issue dependencies should be part of the core issue tracker. And GitHub has multi-repo boards, but only for repose in the same org.
That’s still a tool, even if it’s included with the OS.

This is getting a little bit silly. But the comment that started this discussion was just making the point that this stuff isn’t built into the filesystem.
Investing in things that increase future productivity also works.
I haven't noticed GCC being slower, though I admittedly haven't measured. Which build of GCC do you use? MinGW64? or MSYS or something else? If you use the versions that are Cygwin derivatives, they will probably be slower, but that's not really due to GCC.
And if you decide to sell it, it probably won’t have depreciated any further anyway.
I wish! I've actually looked into it and there's lots of interesting work in academia and garages on small scale, low cost silicon fab [1] as well as the electron microscopy necessary to do quality control [2]. Last I checked the state of the art was using regular microscopes with Texas Instruments digital micromirror devices from projectors with basic photoresist and etchant. The DMD reflects light from your light source onto the wafer with the resist and you can control the micromirrors like pixels to only reflect light at the pixels you want to expose the resist. The doping is doable with basic vapor deposition but alignment between steps is brutally hard and the doping requires a lot of tuning and environmental stability to get right so the feature limit is 1 micrometer at best.

I even found a TI 1080p UV DMD and bought a roll of lithographic film to try to get that feature size limit down. My plan was to expose the litho film instead of the wafer directly and build very precise jigs for the film off of a precision machine base I could get for a few grand, with custom built linear motors to move between steps but I got stuck on the physics and math. It looked like I had a solution using neural networks and a DIY laser interferometer as the feedback loop as a shortcut to learning control theory but then got distracted by more urgent matters... c'est la vie

[1] http://sam.zeloof.xyz/category/semiconductor/

[2] http://sam.zeloof.xyz/garage-electron-microscopy-first-image...
Those are just a few graphics, I'm wanting comprehensive and reasonably trustworthy data, and a variety of useful visualizations of the data.

It's surreal to see the sophistication of this sort of thing that exists in private industry, compared to the dearth of comparable platforms in the government sector, which we're told is populated by highly skilled experts who should be listened to. The sales pitch certainly seems to have worked like a charm, but how completely escapes me.
Google didn’t kill Usenet; it was already pretty much dead. Web forums had all but taken their place (and where are their archives now? So much is lost).

If you look at the history, Google basically rescued the data from a collapsing Deja News, and made it available again. A nice gesture, which didn’t serve to benefit Google much in the long term.

If we want to preserve history then we can’t rely on for-profit companies. We need to instead fund non-profits whose specific charter is archival and preservation, like the Internet Archive.
This could be construed as an attempt at the normalization of abnormal human behavior. People 500 years ago did “x”, so you’re opinion on that now should be dictated as such.

I this see across media platforms. Not blatant support of an idea, but a perspective on it that assumes a specific reality. Not that this is necessarily what is going on here, but I am seeing it everywhere. Call me crazy...
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^ That is a _fantastic_ talk for someone who know's some physics get a quick grasp of the state of the field, the different approaches being taken from a set of first principles, and how to evaluate them.
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My understanding is that this is only possible for very profitable corporations. Can smaller entities get away with this?
I am a non native English speaker. Whats the difference b/w like and love ? Both seem synonymous to me. If i love a person or thing i definitely like them.
Hydro is extremely restricted because of geographical and environmental constraints. Solar is also quite constrained by lack of large-scale storage and environmental concerns, and just by the weather. Same goes for wind.

Keeping in mind that electricity production has to increase significantly to absorb the shift from ICE to EV vehicles I would tend to agree that there is no way to meet demand without nuclear even if renewables are, and should be, pushed.

Being part of does not mean being sufficient.