skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it as easy as mental conditioning.

For example,

Lots of people throw rubbish "away".

But when you make clear (by say a trip to the landfill dump) that there is no magical "away" that will swallow rubbish forever, they begin to think differently.

In this case, Ngo was stealing from a magical pool of people who "would only be minimally inconvenienced", those "Others" not of his social group that are rich and can afford it.

But when confronted with a direct result of actions, thinks differently...

Would I trust Ngo now though? Nope.
Ngo burnt more "trust" than an Aussie bushfire disaster.
The key word is "nameplate", a colorful term implying engraving and rivets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nameplate_capacity
The electronics and frame of IKEA's electronic standing desks are whitelabled products from Rol Ergo - so that's probably why it feels premium, as it's not made by IKEA :-)

https://www.rolergo.com/products/
And yet somehow they have in fact kept inflation at less than 2% while bringing unemployment to near zero (well, pre-pandemic, as the rest of the article, this year's numbers are screwy). That's weird, right? What's up with that?
Winklevoss 500k Bitcoin Argument
The beginning of the text feels really odd, almost GPT-3-like at some points. At least, that's the way it seems when you do not know the jargon. It just rambles on and on. Thankfully it gets more coherent later on, but I am not sure what the author intended to say in this piece.
I’m fine with regulating the adult industry for safety and what not, I just think that credit card agencies are possibly one of the last parties I would pick to be the regulator, second only to religious institutions.
I mailed them back in March about SSH access when they announced the 2.0 and this is what they responded:

“Appreciate the kind words and support. We are working to improve our products based on the feedback from our customers. If you are still wondering about SSH support for reMarkable 2, the answer is yes, the reMarkable 2 will have SSH access, just like reMarkable 1.”

Not same as guaranteeing the same level of openness, but it is indicative and promising at the very least.
China had ambitious plans for nuclear and didn't follow through: https://twitter.com/sampenrose/status/1162772916125126656
Not so sure about Banquiao, at it "took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution when most people were busy with the "revolution" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

The "Cultural Revolution" began in 1966.

In such a context an otherwise avoidable catastrophe may happen.

This Revolution followed the "Great Leap Forward" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward ), with famines. "In the subsequent famines of the early 1960s popularly attributed to the Great Leap Forward, Henan was one of the hardest hit and millions of lives were lost." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henan#Modern_Era .

Moreover all this came after a civil war and violent Japanese invasion, during which dams were bombed, causing "massive flooding in Henan" (same source).

Predicting and adverting this catastrophe was possible, but given such a context nobody was able to do so.
In the United States it is far from solved.
I was trying to paraphrase the original article, so hold no strong opinion on this as it's largely outside my sphere. :)
But what if I want to show off to my friends how smart I am by rattling off a gazillion digits of pi off of the top of my head? I need more than 10 digits to do that...

/s
No, because Facebook is a member of the Tres Commas club. Apple cannot bully them.
A recursive memorized solution would be more elegant. Or even a mutually recursive solution.
Right car for the right market for the right price. Tesla used to be the number 1 BEV maker in Europe but now they're number 3:

https://www.schmidtmatthias.de/post/april-2020-european-elec...

Hyundai will become number 3 as they start to release their Hyundai and Kia BEVs in greater volumes.

Volkswagen with its multiple brands (VW, Audi, Porsche, SEAT, Skoda, etc.) is now the biggest BEV maker in Europe. Even the VW e-Golf still does well:

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2020/08/europe-july-2020.html

VW's BEV lead will be strengthened by the ID.3 and ID.4 which will be released soon.
Cheers, I don't know much at all about economics, especially not US economics, was just trying to paraphrase the article for the person I replied to, but cheers for the link, always good to learn something new :)
If only we could replace these old, baseload reactors quicker, and cheaper, and maybe with an identical, smaller design, with better tech so one control room could monitor multiple reactors. And if refuelling could be done without turning off all power generation at a site. Maybe if we had something modular......oh, wait
Yeah this is pretty much how VDSL works in the UK. The infrastructure is owned by one company, but you can have different any internet provider. I'm not sure I'd say it works well though, as in the UK I'd pay 3x the price for 1/20 the speed :-)
Does the author of this blog, anywhere, detail which 3d printer was used for these parts ?

Unrelated:

Very happy and satisfied to see Macmaster-Carr store links for several of the parts in the materials list. MC is the best.

EDIT:

In this post[1] the author mentions the Pruse MK3S[2] but I am not sure if that is what is used for all of the projects on the site ...

[1] https://back7.co/home/learning-to-scale-small-manufacturing-...

[2] https://shop.prusa3d.com/en/51-original-prusa-i3-mk3s
> My understanding is it's potentially illegal [1] to pay someone to post and not tag it as being an advertisement.

Yes, this is absolutely the FCC guideline. But this has nothing to do with FB asking for revenue for off-site advertising (which they don't do).

So this part of your comment:

> "Instagram (Facebook) updated their rules in 2016[1] demanding that off platform deals for sponsored content go through them so they get a cut."

is completely wrong.
I find both positivity and negativity annoying, bleh! ;)

Joke aside, how about we all complain about your favourite language in every post? It over time becomes irrelevant to those who grok the language.
I would have bought this if it had a microSD card slot. I will stick with my Surface Go. So close, so easy, yet so far.
No uBlock, no thanks. Any battery saving improvements given by Safari is probably negated by the volume of ads getting thrown down my throat.
It's often (for me anyway) not the understanding, it's the syntax that is a problem.

I don't see any problem in automating the generation of the line-noise that is array manipulations.

Can I write assembly? No. Do I understand what a compiler is doing? Yes. Does this cause problems for me? Maybe twice in my 20 year career and in both cases I've worked it out. Seems like a good trade off, and I see this as similar.
> the process terminated for every number up to a range of 10,000,000, which is as high as I tested

Other people have taken this experiment a bit further already:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture#Experimenta...

> As of 2020, the conjecture has been checked by computer for all starting values up to 2⁶⁸.
>"in exchange for a binding agreement that the legislature recognized their immunity to taxation."

This must have been some time before the Civil War, when income taxes were briefly enacted (and subsequently rescinded after the war) to pay for the war, or some time before World War I, when income taxes were again enacted (oestensibly to pay for the war), and subsequently "stuck around" this second time.

Perhaps the taxation you mean was that of import tariffs, enacted oestensibly to pay for the Revolutionary War:

"Responding to an urgent need for revenue following the American Revolutionary War, the First United States Congress passed, and President George Washington signed on July 4, the Tariff of 1789, which authorized the collection of duties on imports. Four weeks later, on July 31, the fifth act of Congress established the United States Customs Service and its ports of entry."

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Customs_and_Border_Protec...)

To me (as an amateur historian, and "not a very good one" at that!), it's amazing how much you find historical taxation -- connected to War.

Incidentally, that history of commonality / "co-incidence" is shared by England/Great Britain -- and many other nations in their history as well.

I believe that in the Roman Empire this same pattern emerges (as it also might have occured with the medieval church fighting the Crusades -- the so called "Holy War", except that "taxes" were called "tithes" back then) -- but I'd have to research those incidences further...

Also, you might find the following interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalyps...

>"as per its constitutional authority..."

...which occurs as consequence of, and is subordinate to, the consent of the governed -- which can be revoked by any given individual constituent, at any given time, for any given reason, or for no reason:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7370/7370-h/7370-h.htm

If you really want to understand American Government and what it was set up to protect against -- then you must truly understand all of the historical ills of every preceeding historical government of every other nation on the face of the earth into antiquity (including, but not limited to: monarchies, tyrannies, mob rule, communist movements, etc.)

Say it with me: CONSENT. OF. THE. GOVERNED.
Some people with very limited vocabularies and an even more limited world experience are wanting to ban things that rhyme or sound similar to words that they don’t like. It’s anti intellectual nonsense.
Would there be any way for them to know whether you're doing it, apart from noticing that certain responses your backend seem similar to those from another API?
GH Archive
60 Minutes continues to show repeats of their glowing feature on them, how they're going to be the next big thing and how they're set to make hundreds of thousands of truckers unemployed.

I haven't watched the full thing again to see if they mention the company has since closed down or that basically everything that was promised in the report isn't coming true anytime soon, or ever.
There is also Quassel-Web, the web front end for Quassel Core, over here[1]. The Linux Server guys packaged it for self-hosting here[2].

[1] https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver

[2] https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-quassel-web
How to stop being rich and happy
Cross Platform determinism and great serialization capabilities makes this a networked physics programmer's dream!

I kinda wish this was in cpp, so that I could integrate it with Godot and have it be considered for upstreaming.

Edit:

Wait, no ray cast? I'm confused why that wouldn't be implemented. That's a very simple operation, is it not?

No continuous collision detection is not so great either, but is okay if the performance is good enough to tick at a high rate.
How do I go from not understanding economics/finance, to pretending to understand it? I feel like that finance uniquely is a field that every time I have tried to penetrate I get a mix of unintelligible jargon and mathematics as a facade of rigor.

I am comfortable reading both math and programming textbooks, but every finance book I've picked up so far seems to quickly not make any sense to me at all.
Sony DPT-RP1 user here. It's a similar large screen e-ink reader with writing support. It's of great help to me for PDF reading and taking notes. My opinion on reMarkable 2 (from the page):

Disadvantages:
- can only transfer with WiFi
- not A4 sized (I find this important for most of books and papers)

Advantages:
+ epub support (DPT only works with PDF)
+ customization (DPT software is completely uncustomizable, but good enough for most daily use, e.g. the screen can be synced to the computer screen for remote meetings)
+ OCR
+ cheaper (the A4 version of DPT is $600)
> Aaronson came up with a rewriting system with seven symbols and 11 rules that was analogous to the Collatz procedure.

Has Aaronson written about this anywhere? I'm curious what system he came up with & how it maps onto Collatz.
Forgot that there's an xkcd, too:

https://xkcd.com/710/
But honestly, in this case, I think it's pretty damn clear than Rust is procedural WAY more than it's either OOP or FP. (Note: By OOP, I mean Java-style with tall ownership hierarchies and object-managed mutable state, not necessarily caring about inheritance. And definitely not referring to Alan-Kay-Style-OOP a la Lisp and Smalltalk).

Scala can be looked at ...

Interesting perspectives, and I largely agree with all of them.

Related: I heard someone else say that while Clojure and Erlang embrace immutability for concurrency, Rust shows that you can "just mutate". It's still safe for concurrency (due to its type system).

Rust seems to be one of the only languages that embraces the combination of algebraic data types + stateful/procedural code.

But I've also found this in my Oil project [1], which is written with a bunch of custom DSLs!

I wrote it in statically-typed Python + ASDL [2], so it's very must procedural code + algebraic data types. Despite historically using an immutable style in Python, this combo has grown on me. Lexing and parsing are inherently stateful, and use a lot of mutation.

----

On top of that, my collection of DSLs even translates nicely to C++. Surprisingly, it has some advantages over Rust! The model of algebraic data types is richer ("first class variants"), described here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24136949

https://lobste.rs/s/77nu3d/oil_s_parser_is_160x_200x_faster_...

[1] https://www.oilshell.org/

[2] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=ASDL#ASDL
Why not, if that’s where a majority of the teams making engineering decisions are?
They're not wrong. A large amount of the basically exist off gross privacy violations. Fingerprinting, gross PII sharing and overstorage, port scanning users' computers and LAN from their browser behind the FW/NAT for "security purposes",
I think the issue here is there isn't much profit to be made though. This isn't the US where you pay $100/mo for slow DSL with a ridiculous datacap.... I pay €19/mo for FTTH at 1gbit up/down and no data limits.

My apartment building has 20 properties, so if a competitor came in offering the same for €15/mo and managed to convert half of the properties that would be... €150/mo revenue. How long would it take to even pay back the GPON hardware they need to install in the building?

My provider hasn't attempted to screw us over at all yet (been with them for 4 years), but I am concerned that they are our only choice, so if they wanted to double prices we'd probably pay.
That’s not what those videos show, nor is it what the NYTimes said they show.
Of course it isn't imagined, but it is also only feasible in very specific geographic locations. What is imagined is that it can be expanded at scale in order to offset the intermittent nature of renewables.
There's also a Quassel web front end here[1]. I prefer the way Quassel handles IRC, so I use the daemon and various front ends, including the web one.

[1] https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver
What is the threat model, exactly? What eventuality is the bank seeking to avoid?

The threat is that someone in compliance or legal doesn’t have enough real work to do so has to do “something” to keep their cushy job.
Wow its so easy, can't believe all those idiots trying to build nuclear plants the past few decades have never though to simply apply "better tech". Thanks hacker news/silicon valley!
It's impossible to say how much potential "highly ambitious" terrorism has been deterred by these measures, but reasonable to assume at least some amount.

A terrorist attack also has a much wider chilling effect for psychological reasons - it represents an existential threat, unlike a natural disaster.
All Electron apps are Chromium-based.
This comment doesn’t tell me anything about why you don’t like go, just that you don’t like it.
> "...for a repeat offender following multiple strikes."

from tfa:

> "Because of three minor non-violent convictions stemming from the same arrest at age 18, he was labeled a habitual offender."

that's like calling 3 strikes on the same pitch. in an exhibition game, so that you end up banned from real games for life. it's a gross perversion of justice.

in no circumstance should robbery without harm be more than a few days/weeks of jail. and he could have worked off the $50 in restitution if need be.
That assessment is a little out of date. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors#China

They had several construction starts in 2015 (some are coming online now), and after a 3 year hiatus began several more in 2019. BTW, I'm not just trusting that Wikipedia table. I've confirmed construction and [near] completion of some of those listed (but haven't bothered with all, my doubts assuaged).

China's nuclear plans were delayed and reassessed. But their commitment to and follow through on their [apparently] revised plan is still quite ambitious. Predictions of the death of nuclear in China were rather premature, albeit understandable considering the lack of transparency, especially in the Western world given the language barrier.
Unless you buy Audiobooks from the iTunes Audiobooks store, of course - and Apple doesn't have to pay a 30% tax to itself for those sales.

How is this not monopoly abuse?
In Europe the share of renewable energy consumption in gross final energy consumption is booming: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=...
There's a site (hosted by FB) that allows downloading the latest version of Whatsapp directly [1]. Should allow you to bypass the Play Store immediately :)

[1] https://www.whatsapp.com/android/
Yeah its almost certainly touchscreen related. My LG 4k monitor and 2018 dell xps are matte.
Having tried this in undergrad, lets say you’ve gotten through an Econ 101 text all the way through harder Finance math like understanding Black Scholes- you’re about half way. Now you have to learn about huge arbitrary or historical institutional complexity around how finance really works. The only way I can see how anyone keeps it in their head is they are paid to do it every day. Also there is not necessarily one truth to grasp, its more like studying climate change.
Agreed! Here's Reuters to the rescue: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...
Ivor Cummings is an engineer that investigated hearth disease based on first principles. He has made some interesting connections with diet and calcification. He always stresses that CAC scans are of vital importance. This interview is with someone who has successfully reversed a severely calcified Hearth Artery: https://youtu.be/OtyMr1WpPaI
We use Hangouts a lot at my employer, and it inevitably slides away the mute/video off/screenshare buttons if you move the mouse away, so when we do the polite "mute until your turn to speak" standups, it tends to 10 seconds of "you're muted" while we frantically fumble with the mouse and repeat our statements.
Judge says Apple can't revoke Unreal Engine dev tools
While it’s entirely possible someone who struggled more may be the better teacher, it’s equally possible the natural performer can be a great teacher too. Or both could equally stink at teaching. What makes someone a great teacher in my experience isn’t necessarily someone who is a natural or struggled through a subject with scars to show for it, but rather someone who is good at distilling concepts down to make them easy to understand and resonate with for the learner. That person may very well be neither of these two extremes.
Various beach side towns down the east coast of Australia, they built with the kind of density I'm after mostly for the holiday rental market. Something like that without the beach side premium prices would be great.
Great story :). My old boss made the first "Weight Watchers" points app. Same idea, hacked together html5/js/hardcoded points calculator. Massively popular at the time. Had to take it down because he got a cease and desist from Weight Watchers. That level of organic traffic definitely no longer exists on the App Store or Google Play :(
How likely is your Crypto going to be hacked
the wheel turns around

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
What killed me was I was ready to pay for any features like storage. They just never bothered. I wish they hadnt bought it out and instead just hired their team as consultants... This is a darn shame.
The problem is there aren't many guides for learning "vanilla" JavaScript that aim at newcomers. MDN is a good reference, but I can't think of something more directed tutorial.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24211414
Can you share some solutions to pain points you encountered developing an extension?
This is just another way of saying there the margin of error has been reduced to an unacceptable level. It is only going to get worse if California continues towards its renewable goals.

I found this article helpful: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2020-8-16-h7249j4l4...

From that article:

Take out all of the solar and wind capacity, and California has
only about 43 GW of capacity to meet demand that could well
exceed that on any hot summer day. And to get to that 43 GW,
you would need all other facilities up and running at absolutely
full capacity with no scheduled or unscheduled outages, which
is not realistic. Yes, you could try to import some power from
the neighboring states, but at times of peak usage they probably
need all of their own power. In short, you have put yourself
in a position where regular intentional blackouts are inevitable.
And, as more and more reliable fossil fuel and nuclear facilities
get closed in favor of wind and solar, the problem looks set
to worsen dramatically over the next several years
Sorry, just figured that out for myself and edited my parent comment again. Thanks!
I believe SomeoneFromCA has experienced the USSR, and gridlockd has experienced some western country without domicile registration. I have worked in the US, and my 3rd world country has domicile registration[1], so I'll offer my impression of the usual differences between the systems, and you all can correct me.

Someone wants to move to the big city from flyover country in 1980[2].

In the US: Unless they're rich, they first get a job in the big city, then run a credit check and pay deposit and get an apartment and open bank accounts, etc. If they are hustling and have friends in the city they crash with them while looking for a job.

In the USSR: Unless they're rich, they first get a job in the big city, then change their propiska and get an apartment and open bank accounts, etc. If they are hustling and have friends in the city they crash with them while looking for a job.

[1] My wife lived with me for years but never bothered updating her papers until we married, at which point we were doing the paperwork anyway. No one cared.

One advantage of the registration is that here, just as it is illegal to be homeless, it is illegal for one's registered domicile not to provide housing. The law cuts both ways.
(Similar symmetry occurs with health insurance: it's illegal to not carry insurance, but it's also illegal for an insurance company to deny anyone coverage.)

The en.wikipedia article suggests the USSR had similar advantages:

> "On the other hand, the propiska underlined the mechanism of the constitutional obligation of the state to provide everyone a dwelling: no one could refuse or be stripped of the propiska at one location without substitution with another permanent propiska location.

> All employers were strictly forbidden to give jobs to anybody without a local "propiska". To provide themselves an extra labour force, the largest enterprises had to build housing for their workers beforehand."

[2] Peter Norman got all sorts of grief for his role in "politicising the games" but the latter seems not to have been a major talking point in 1980.