skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It scares me that passing too little stack space to libc results in such subtle failures.
>according to every serious scientist we are pretty much on the worst case scenario path according to any peer reviewed model.

Obviously not true.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Excellent response.

It’s similar in my perspective to a nuance that exists pervasively today within scientific models. Just because the model allows a prediction doesn’t mean that the model reflects “base reality.”

Our models, our tools, are the results of our observations. If it works to provide a prediction, then it becomes useful. However I feel there’s a disconnect as the nuance of a model vs what is, has been lost among many.

The map is not the territory.

It’s very interesting to see science use mathematical models as objective reality and orthodoxy. I’d say that isn’t science, but words change in meaning with the zeitgeist. Unfortunate in many ways.

I like the way you framed the argument.

Any recent things you’ve read in this realm of subjects that were interesting to you? Any favorite past time papers/books you’d recommend?
The reason Go does it is because the overhead of calling C code from Go is relatively high. Other languages typically don't suffer from this friction.

The closest I can think of is Java, but I have no idea how much is reimplemented in pure Java to avoid the overhead of JNI.
Silly concept; the present is perpetually the most important time in history because it is the only time we can do anything. The past is cemented by what happened, and the future is not here. There always is re-writing history, but then again that is achieved in the present. The present is the only time that can matter, because it's the only time we have agency.
I think yes. There are numerous Anthropocene existential threats which are likely to lead extinction. <Edited to deleted enumeration of threats and snarky comments about nothing being done about it.> Decisions we make now will have a major impact on whether humans survive or not.
I tried to use WSL to run a cron job, but that wasn't supported as of 2019. I wasn't able to figure out how to schedule and run arbitrary Python code on Windows.
Impressions of leaves are common in coal. Fossilized remains of industrial society would have been found by now.
Explanation of how kilowatt-hour meters work (electromechanical) (2013)
You don't really "solve" math. You apply math to a concrete model. For example, if you want to build a four-sided pyramid and all you have is a really big straight edge and a really big collapsible compass, you'd probably want to read Euclid first. And if you happen to be doing this 2000 years before Euclid you'd read some of the geometric methods his work was based on. To the extent the surface you're building on is "flat" the axioms and the theorems apply. And so you can square a circle easily using simple tools like cord and stakes. Thus you can build a pyramid with some cordage and a stake.
The one place I would highly recommend using soap is your anus. Although culturally there seems to be an uncomfortably high number of people who don't realise it's a good idea to wash there.
To be clear, without this proposition the cash bail in California was going away. So this is a “do over” attempt by cash bail proponents via the proposition system.

There’s only been one poll so far (39% to uphold the new law, thus ending cash bail, 32% repeal, 29% undecided):

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_25,_Replace_C...
That may be so. But that just seems like another way of saying, "Go has an issue with this and other languages don't." Why is calling into C so slow on Go and so not slow in other languages like Java or C#?
Would agree!
Cement is the source of 8% of the world's CO2 emissions (2018)
>The rise in nationalism and authoritarianism around the world is another phenomenon that could unleash forces of global conflict

It seems inevitable to me, as the forces catalysing this movement are only radicalising and accelerating. Another $500bn to blacks announced yesterday, by a man the media would have us believe is a White supremacist? An organisation which has been practically invisible for half a century declared a terrorist organisation for its hypothetical position of supporting its own people, while armed hordes of the more melanin variety wreak havoc across the country demanding total capitulation by all power structures - and getting it.

We are all supposed to ignore the devastating effects of multiracialism, critical theory (regarding race, gender, sexuality, and so forth) while our cities burn, our monuments are torn down, and our people are vilified in every advertisement, movie, employment opportunity, or even violently assaulted in the street?

It simply cannot stand. A people will only take so much. Unfortunatelyy, I'm quite sure those in politics and media who seem hellbent on ensuring this fate understand this very well.

As a proudly White man in 2020 with a beautiful White family, what do I have to fear from war that is not assured by the trajectory of the status quo? At least war offers me hope.
If anything I think the global pandemic has shown how unprepared we are to come together globally and utilize technology to solve hard problems. Maybe something good will come from all of this in that direction and we will learn from our mistakes.
Thank you! Timer related behavior may be a problem. I will investigate more.
TIL that “popcount” is an abbreviation of “population count”.
Show HN: Wisefin API – Turn messy bank transactions into beautiful data
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11849621
It actually does snow in Hawaii. People on the big island have skis and snowboards for the few times it snows on top of their mountains. It also snows on Haleakala in Maui which is pretty fun to think about.
Not sure that’s right. Base prices don’t really seem to have risen; people are just buying higher end cars.
Actually I’m speaking from personal experience with rural life in several places in the US and in Europe.

While I agree that each has their advantages and disadvantages, transportation is something many places in Europe have something to show us IMHO.

A small village would typically have a train station where you can quickly travel to a populated area and urban cores are often nearly completely restricted from cars excepting deliveries making for walkable daily life.

It’s true that having a personal vehicle is more convenient, but in my opinion that is a bit of a tragedy of the commons. If everyone decides to have one then we all pay the price in needing one to get anywhere.

I’m really not sure where class figures into these two different models honestly.
IMHO iPhone (or smartphones) are under valued. Yes, they do not give you more (like antibiotics give more life or nuclear more energy) but they absolutely help you to lose less time (e.g. navigation that helps you to avoid traffic jams and get lost in unknown place). That replicated in billions of people changes the world’s pace drastically.
Well no, the punishment should fit the crime. It's just that punishing a poor person by taking $1000 could kill them, and punishing a rich person by taking $1000 is barely even a punishment.
Yes, if a pandemic that spread over the world in such short period of time has not rewrite our historical standards and understandings, our own existence will already hinge on destruction

this virus will remain with us for years to come like influenza etc, we can only hope after this "wake up call" we're actually ready for the next time when a real "bio-terror" is unleash upon the world again

and then also there's fake news, a harder problem than the virus itself, which we also learned are more disruptive and needs to be contained just as well

Remember WHO told us wearing mask is useless? Remember WHO told us this will not become a pandemic? Remember WHO told us all that shit in WUHAN is under control? all this propaganda fake news is a slap in our face that no one can do anything about
Boring? I certainly disagree with that. Stable is also questionable. Prosperity - one should not take for granted. The world is much more connected today, and most of our prosperity and stability comes from people with varying interests finding ways to work together and trust each other. Sparks in one part of the system can bring down the whole system much more easily.

The pandemic, when combined with widespread misinformation and mistrust, increasing inequality and climate change makes for a potent combination and people are right to be worried.
They already did something similar last year so this comes as no surprise. There are tax calculation services like https://koinly.io you can use to speed this up (for free)
We can talk about scrubbing Carbon from the atmosphere once we have hydrogen fusion (read: infinite energy).

Before that, it's just not feasible or possible in a human society.
My covid takeaway is to be more certain than before that:

> [a war-mobilization type of effort, where industries start working together for the goal] is a pipe dream.

I'd love to be convinced otherwise. While technically possible, I'm wary of the social/economic/political aspects not being surmountable.

(Edit: Your comment was edited while I pondered mine, and now includes mention of the social, etc. aspect :) )
>Paying an invoice? Never considered that!

If you pay an invoice with bitcoins that have experienced capital gains, you have to pay capital gains tax.

>Tax deductible transaction? With crypto huh, never asked!

What is a tax deductible transaction? If you donate bitcoins to a charity by sending the bitcoins to the charity's bitcoin address that is indeed fully tax deductible and you don't need to pay capital gains tax (and you get an income tax deduction of the entire value). But is coinbase really trying to get you to pay capital gains tax when you simply send bitcoins from one address to another? That doesn't make sense.

>Receiving crypto for services rendered?

How does receiving crypto have anything do do with capital gains? Capital gains come into play only when you get rid of the crypto.

>The asset doesnt matter, only the nature of the transaction matters

Yes, and any time you exchange cryptocurrencies for something else (dollars, goods, services) that is a capital gains relevant transaction.
According to this video starting at around 5:00 approximately, apparently the copper disk at the end of the center AC coil (voltage related, many turns) causes a 90 degree delay (90 degree phase shift) in the magnetic field generated (keep in mind, it's AC, so this field is reversing 60 times per second or so) at this pole...

https://youtu.be/xtModjpxfxM?t=297

Now, prior to watching this video, I did not know that magnetic fields produced by electromagnetic coils could be phase shifted or delayed in any way...

All I can say is "fascinating"...
Wrapped Bitcoin Airdrop – Here's how to increase your crypto exposure
Hi HN,
Are you interested in some crypto exposure?
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What is an airdrop?
An airdrop is an event where some crypto token gives free coins to increase their popularity in the market.

Think of getting free BTC or ETH. Like that.

One popular, recent airdrop was UNI where each user got free 400 UNI tokens that were valued at $1200 initially.

WBTC is doing the same now. To claim you free $100 in WBTC tokens, talk to its Telegram bot from this link.

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Interesting.

I’ve been looking at writing a script that parses the daily files for the California State Senate and State Assembly to create an API along with exposing a web app that offers a UI to view and search changes so folks interested can look around.

https://www.senate.ca.gov/dailyfile

https://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/daily-file

They give raw sql files in there but also a bunch of oracle that I have had no way to read.

This tool might help me see if there are differences in the file types.
The next few decades can be claimed as the hinge of history due to two reasons, climate change and genetic engineering. There have been many wars and changes in the past, but now is the first time that our technology has basically reached worldwide geoengineering scale. We are fundamentally changing the climate of the entire world, that has never happened before in human history.

Throughout all of human history, the human has not changed. If you somehow time traveled a human baby from 10k BC to present day, they would grow up and fit in with no issues. Now the very nature of what is human could change due to genetic engineering. Again, this has never happened before in human history.
The thought processes is more like: we are not willing to have more than (1-3) children because doing so will have costs that will lower our quality of life. That includes expenses of all kinds including cars, but opportunity costs are probably more dominate than financial costs. At some point people just don't value larger families, but there certainly is some marginal consideration where people want a larger family but don't find the tradeoffs worthwhile.
It's helpful for people making high incomes, but yes, you're correct, it doesn't provide much clarity on the actual taxes paid.

At $220,000 CAD, the tax rate in BC (one of the lowest in Canada other than Alberta) would be 35.8%. In Quebec, it would be 42%.
hell, my wrist watch does that, and it's solar powered. thanks, Citizen.
Why was my comment flagged as opposed to down voted?
Why can't you run Intellij on it? Chrome OS supports all the Debian apps.
> Johnson & Johnson didn’t invent theirs, it was Janssen

I would 100% support a corporate renaming to Johnson & Johnson & Janssen.
And a 65 year old alabamian plumber living off his meager trade union pension would be upper class.
What you're saying seems to be consistent with what I'm saying. Web-browser standard DOM is slow, for exactly the reasons you state. Adding an additional tree mutation API, not supported by any web browser, can obviously be a lot faster, and as you say, a good way to make that faster is to group the mutation into a transaction, rather than effectively have one transaction for each appendChild and setAttribute call.

What you've done is a pretty small change to the DOM and generally compatible with it. What I've done in Crochet is a more radical rework, but certainly with some of the same general principles (my `Mutation` datatype is also a transaction). I should also point out that my tree mutation is a bit more limited, as it can't do general movement of subtrees, only sibling movement within the same parent (and, in the current prototype, no swapping, only order-preserving, which includes insert, delete, and update).

If some compatibility with browser DOM is a goal, then your approach is appealing. I'm not pursuing it in my prototype because I'm also holding overall system simplicity as a whole. But in any case, I agree that people should be aware of what Sciter does; it's an impressive system.
PyPy 7.3.2 triple release: Python 2.7, 3.6, and 3.7
Covid isn't necessarily the primary concern but one crisis among many. Arguably most civilization collapses happened in times when there were too many crises at once, that individually could be handled but all at once or in close succession become overwhelming. A current example of this would be that with climate change we face increase in temperatures causing wildfires on the west coast, deadly heatwaves in the southwest and hurricanes along the Atlantic. Due to Covid hospitals are already overwhelmed so injuries from hurricanes are harder to deal with, making not massive events worse than the sum of their parts. Combine this with governments unwilling to take action and who actively dismantle the preparations already in place and it is worth being concerned.

Calling this a prosperous time is also flawed, for who? The middle class is nearly gone, freedoms are being eroded, racial tensions are still high, the world order is destabilizing as many governments lean into more dictator-like structures. I genuinely want to understand what you see to give you hope because right now I'm failing to find much to grab onto.
Don’t we already have close to infinite energy with nuclear fission? With almost zero impact on the atmosphere’s CO2.
When I read that comment I was thinking about our auto-scaling nodepools on GKE that have been running for a couple of years and scale up/down every business day by 20-40 nodes or so depending on load... but I am not sure I get to take credit for slaughtering them.
THE hinge of history? THE hinge of history was the Roman Empire (which spread a lot of the Greek ideas that the Romans admired).

There may be A hinge in the future that we are close to, sure.
> effectively killing its potential use as a transactional currency

That might be the point.
$200,000,000 is really not going to be noticeable to Bezos.
There is a link at the bottom of the article to some of the text images here: http://emel-library.org/gallery/sinai-palimpsests-processed-...
There are only 500-600 billionaires in the US and I'd wager that none or very very few of them cheat on their taxes, given that doing so would have provide essentially no noticable improvement on their spending ability, but have a very high cost if caught.

I don't think your handsome graphic there is offering much insight into the topic at hand. The richer someone is, the less likely they are to cheat on their taxes.
Has Nature even been so forgiving?
Puppy Linux 9.5 is here based on Focal Fossa
Outside of the US and Brazil, I have been really impressed by the ability of people to come together and deal with a massive collective action problem.

If anything, it has shown that people have the capacity to pull together when they need to.
One of my favorite quotes from Iain M. banks’ Culture series, paraphrased here since I don’t recall which book it’s in, is that technological progress is more like scaling a rock face than climbing a ladder. There is so much room for surprise and incomprehension.

I sometimes think about how vast the parameter space of our physical universe is, and if that vastness means we wouldn’t be able to recognize ancient advanced technology if it’s far enough outside of our current mode of progress.

My favorite example is handing an SD card with all of Wikipedia and the Gutenberg Project and maybe even the Wayback Machine on it to a Roman emperor. He’d look at it and might have a mild interest in the geometrical metal bits on an otherwise insignificant tiny flake of weird material. If the deliverer were to tell him that it contained millions of documents, he wouldn’t believe it.

An expert in the field of storage media could, if for some reason permitted, spend years trying to explain it to the scholars of the time. Even if the expert succeeded in convincing them, it would take an unimaginable effort lasting lifetimes to ever make use of the thing. It would not succeed. Not because those people were stupid, but because the specialization that’s needed to understand the artifact is so far away from from their cultural knowledge and capabilities as to be unreachable. Why should we expect our culture be any different?

The primary counter-argument to this is math and physics, and it’s a pretty strong one. It holds up quite well when dealing with past civilizations that are beneath or somewhere close to our current level of understanding. If you’ll permit another flight of fancy though, imagine an ancient society that figured out how to encode information in the irregularities of crystalline structures: every lame-ass quartz medallion we’ve unearthed could be the equivalent of a 10TB hard drive, and we’d never be the wiser.

I think this is pretty unlikely, but it’s good to be humble and interrogate your assumptions.
I'm by no means against taxes, I completely agree they're rightfully used to fund roads/police/fire/etc. My primary argument is that the richest government in the history of the world has more important things to prioritize than making the IRS more ruthless against the middle class. And I'm saying that if they end up collecting more tax money, it doesn't necessarily mean it's a net positive for society as a whole. Most of those tax benefits are reaped by big business, so in other words those benefits are reaped by the owners of those big businesses.

The low vs high tax debate is kind of a moot argument anyways since the US govt can pretty much print money as needed...which ends up being an indirect tax on the general public via inflation.
> Wikipedia says "While consciousness is being aware of one's environment and body and lifestyle, self-awareness is the recognition of that awareness."

If we use that definition dogs may not be self-aware, but then the mirror test tells us nothing since it only shows that the animal is "aware of one's body" not that it has "recognition of that awareness".
Can’t physical buttons work either way, depending whether you want to break a normally closed circuit or close a normally open circuit.
Suburban and rural areas have become hot real estate markets in the past five months; thanks to the remote work policies.

Having lived in a huge city for most of my life, moving out to the suburbs several years earlier was a nice change. I can never see myself moving back.

Sure, people congregate into large cities but that’s because of work and for the bustle.
Hello! Yes, it's something I've thought about quite a bit over the past ~10 years.

> But no, you can’t haul your trash, or your ATV in that thing.

When I moved apartments last year, I did the move using an electric cargo trike. You don't need a large vehicle to move a lot of stuff. Smaller vehicles like the one in the article would necessitate cargo trailers for larger hauling tasks. But that's an easily solvable problem with a local community trailer-share.

> You certainly can’t fit a rear-facing child seat in the back with a passenger in front.

You're right, of course you can't. I was not ever suggesting this ONE vehicle would solve everyone's problem. I was, however, suggesting that vehicles LIKE this could. I.e. a small, low speed, lightweight electric minivan. Or a micro-pickup truck, if you were a regular ATV-er

> You probably couldn’t even take it on the highway because it wouldn’t be safe at the minimum required speed.

That's a matter of convention, not a natural law of the road. I'm suggesting that we transition away from fast + big + crush whatever we hit, as the optimization for cars - and instead optimize for small + light + low speed non-fatal collisions.

> you’re making a caricature out of any opposing viewpoint and domineering the discussion.

It is not my intent to caricature or domineer. I see a lot of people in this thread defending the status quo in a similar way to the way you are - I'm just trying to share that there are some simple ways we could dramatically rethink the core premises we've all taken for granted - ways that might end up creating a safer + greener world.
>The IRS isn't collecting more taxes. Even a kid would know they aren't even allowed to do that.

With a sufficiently complex tax code, bureaucrats can selectively enforce or interpret it as they choose. It wouldn't be unreasonable to expect abuse if there is an incentive for agents to collect more.