skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mistake a market economy for capitalism. We had a market economy for a very long time, even in the middle ages. Actually Ludwig von Mises describes this barter based market economies perfect (but fails to understand capitalism).

Capitalism, that we have have since more or less 150 years requires the pre financing on a huge scale of industrial production. This requires debt that can only be, due to interest, paid back with growth.

There can't be a capitalist economy without growth by definition. From the link given by me:

"One big issue with even trying to stair-step fossil fuel use is the fact that our financial system needs growth to keep from collapsing. In order to pay back debt with interest, it is necessary to have economic growth, and financial growth and growth in fossil fuel use are very closely tied. Economic growth can be 2% or 3% above fossil fuel use growth because of efficiency gains, and economic growth in a particular country can be higher than that of world economic growth because of greater outsourcing of manufacturing to other countries. There was even a gain in the late 70s and early 80s, as we picked the low-hanging efficiency fruit and switched to using nuclear. But overall, there is no evidence that fossil fuel use, or even oil use, can be divorced from economic growth. If there is a big decline in fossil fuel use, it will translate to a decline in economic growth.

The need for economic growth in order to pay back debt even applies to our money supply itself. Money is loaned into existence. This happens when a commercial bank makes a loan and deposit at the same time. The problem is that when the money is created, not enough money is loaned into existence to pay back the interest as well. So economic growth is needed to create the additional money so that the debt can be paid back with interest.

Because of this issue, a Steady State Economy (economy without growth) requires a financial system with virtually no debt. It might be possible to have a little debt, but its use would be primarily to facilitate short-term transactions. Debt jubilees at regular intervals might be needed, to keep people from building up much debt."
Durable cartels are effective and useful --- generally to at least their members and some class of politicians. Copyright / media cartels have long been closely affiliated with politics and politicians, of all stripes, and in the US of both parties.

Media offers money, exposure, glamour and/or star power, spectacle, distraction, attention, and manipulation, all of interest to politicians.

Much of recent copyright law, and the DMCA specifically, was largely driven by Democrats.
Deficits are just the accounting counterparty of people saving in the currency of issue.

Why are you against additional saving?
Indeed. According to Sam Newman, the main difference smart pipes/dumb pipes.

SOA has ESBs. But both are built around bounded contexts.

Calling them "micro" was a bit of mistake.
Paper mostly comes from massive tree farms that are close to mills and close to market on managed, easy to transit tracts of land close to shipping lanes. Take a look at aerials of the wooded areas surrounding Panama City, FL, miles and miles of rows of tree farms. What’s happening in the Amazon is terrible mismanagement, but it’s not the sole source of paper

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How to create GitHub profile README
A comforting thought for this sort of thing is that it would have happened naturally already, if it were possible at all. We can assume that we're broadly in a 'low energy state', and there's no tiny change that will cause a massive permanent shift. Similarly, Ice-9 can't be real or Earth would be covered in it, and we weren't going to set the atmosphere on fire at Trinity because Earth's already been hit by huge asteroids that didn't.
This feels like trading one set of single-vendor lock-in concerns for another.
This is awesome and could be a nice educational tool. Although I just want to extend it to allow simple games :)
Pretty much yeah.
Looks really hard to get in and out of; not great for people who have to go do something else often.
The email portion looks fine to me. I don't see any glaring omissions. Have you tested the office suite part (write, sheets, etc.)?
Getting redirects too. The page on the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20201103140506/https://blog.leave...
> Most academic research is done by underpaid PhD and postdoc students for the love of science

I’d hardly call the graduate papers coming out of academia equivalent to the level of innovation & creativity of what the engineers above described. Perhaps they’re both underpaid, but one is certainly more amazing. Hardly the same.
Take a tax rate of 1%

Now spend $100. Tax it at 1%. Then the next person gets $99 income. Spend it all again. Tax that at 1%. Then the next person gets $99.01. Tax that at 1%. And so on like a stone skipping across a pond.

When you get to the end of the sequence and total up the tax take, what is the value?

You'll be surprised.

Now work out why that doesn't happen in the actual world. The answer is that somebody didn't spend everything they earned straight away. And that's what a deficit is.
That makes sense, but is nowhere near universally applicable. For folks working in most startups, talking about different lines of business is non-sensical - there's generally one product.

It sounds like you're describing a monolith that actually contained multiple completely independent applications - which I don't think anyone would disagree with being a good case for splitting.

In most cases I've seen, the decision to split into microservices usually involves a fairly high amount of dependency between different services to achieve a common business goal (hence the concerns about things like referential integrity)
What you say is just common sense but as you can see from the downvotes, average people do not like smart people. And the exact same thing happened before the launch, I bet. But the exceptional engineer was simply “downvoted”.

Things are tested all the time in factories. For how long? Till destruction.
WordBox – How a game you worked on for 8 years may be stolen from you
See also:

Giving up on politics is often tempting. It is also risky

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/10/24/giving-u...
If I were Microsoft I’d let Docker Hub just have free or extremely cheap bandwidth on Azure. Get good PR, help make sure that people can still easily move their applications to Azure (whether as a container or as part of a big k8s setup). They need it to stick around to make sure people that get going in AWS can move their stuff easier.
That's because melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer are split, as other lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma etc. in data despite affecting same cell lines.

If you sum these two up they end on top respectively in that order.
Albeit prostate cancer is really close.

It's an artifact of grouping used. For colorectal for example, adenomas and carcinomas are lumped for a change.

Prostate is the second most common worldwide, or skin cancer, depending on year. The big 5 are over 1.5 million. (WCRF data. They lump all lung cancers but split immune system and skin cancers. For reasons? Bladder and lung cancer incidence is highly dependent on factors such as smoking and specific chemicals used in manufacturing. Potentially the same with colorectal and diet. Rates for breast and prostate are high because they're easy to spot and well tested. So per country data varies a lot.)
PetsApp | Backend / Full stack engineers / London, UK | REMOTE EU | Salary up to $120k

PetsApp (https://petsapp.com) is a startup with a mission to make veterinary expertise more accessible. Right now only 20% of issues a pet faces are seen by a vet, with the remaining 80% being left hoping for the best. We are a small but mighty, and have achieved great things since we launched in January 2020: >125k chats, >£1m in payments, >70k pets on the platform. We've just closed seed round of funding of around $4.5 million, and are now expanding our engineering team.

We have built a fantastic set of user facing applications using React and React Native, all supported by our APIs running on AWS using Lambdas with Typescript, Dynamodb, SNS, Elasticsearch, and Postgres. We're now looking for engineers with strong backend experience to come and join our team.

Ideal candidate will have:

- Experience with a streaming/event driven architecture

- Experience standing up infrastructure in cloud of choice

- Experience with Typescript or another strongly typed language

Current tech:

- Typescript lambdas (node.js)

- Dynamodb

- SNS

- Elasticsearch

- React

- React native

- Postgres

Send your CV to will@petsapp.com
Debate Erupts over How ‘Forbidden’ Black Holes Grow
I don't see hydrogen being a long term useful energy source vs other chemical means (i.e. batteries).

One thing I do think people aren't seeing is the usefulness of hydrogen as a chemical feedstock.

If/when we move away from oil (oil wells potentially drying up over the next century) we need a good source of building block hydrocarbons for chemical production. Carbon is easy, hydrogen not so much.
Carl Sagan mentions this possibility in Pale Blue Dot, concluding that such a mission's budget could be better utilized for other projects. For the following reasons:

1) Voyagers have turned off most of their instruments due to their diminishing power sources

2) Voyagers are moving away with speeds that are hard to match by even contemporary launches thanks to their gravitational assist trajectories.
Nice theories, but they seem blind to the question: if a product is only a marginal improvement over the previous version, then is it still desirable given all the negative externalities? Should we be stimulating overconsumption if it makes people only marginally happier for a very short time?
I've been asking you for four comments to mention a single socialist theorician that wants total egalitarianism in the end. Why don't you just provide one name?

As for dismissing Marian economics, you may do it if you want, but I personally think it's better to consider it then deciding whether or not it is correct. I'm not an economist, so I'll defer to the PhDs and renowned economics professor that seem to think that there is value in there as a complement to other exonomic theories.
I agree with you. It's so much engaging way to explore a language and try implementing those features we really wanted. Just saying building in Rust is the new fad. I only hope in these projects people take take a little more risk in trying out ideas.
If you voted by mail in California you can track your ballot status here:

https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-status/wheres-my-bal...

I did it and got an email “Your ballot for the 2020 General Election was received and will be counted. Thank you for voting!”

Check today so that if there is an issue you can potentially fix it!
A while ago I listened to a podcast [1] where the guest Stephan Kinsella argued that the state justifies taxing and regulating corporations by granting them special rights like limited liability. The guest then continued to explain that this justification is flawed since the these supposed special rights are actually not special at all. The argument made a lot of sense but it only explains the justification and not the reason for corporate taxation. In my opinion the reason is obviously to increase the state's control over us.

[1] http://www.stephankinsella.com/paf-podcast/kol-026-freedomai...
Lightning Pool: A Technical Deep-Dive
Those expenditures aren’t tax deductible; they aren’t r&d.
1st, check this link:
https://www.sciencealert.com/computers-will-require-more-ene...

2nd, check this link:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/11/30/thoughts-on-why-energy...

"3. Rest of the World. This group is the only group showing a favorable trend in energy growth relative to GDP growth, even in the last decade, although the pace of improvement has slowed. Two reasons for this favorable trend seem to be (a) continued growth of services, such as financial service, healthcare, and education, which use relatively little energy and (b) outsourcing of a major portion of heavy industry to Southeast Asia."

iPhones are produced in China. But the profits appear at Apple Inc.
Agreed, I was going to recommend them as well. Close the card and let TeamViewer figure it out.
NASA Contacts Voyager 2 – 11.6B Miles from Earth
Tracking ads via URL parameters is pretty standard (utm parameters), and self-hosted matomo can be set to run without cookies. This means that some metrics can't be tracked [1]. The most impactful of those is attributing people to a campaign if come via an ad, view your website, but only convert after leaving and coming back some time later.

If you leave cookies enabled everything just works just just as you would expect, with full conversion tracking etc. Some ad services try to optimize ads according to tracking data you send them, which obviously doesn't work if you don't run their tracking code.

1: https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_156/
Radiation from x-rays is measured in microsieverts, or less than a single day’s exposure to background radiation

https://www.iaea.org/resources/rpop/health-professionals/den...
This is so much fun!

Not as good as some here, but here is an animated sinus function:
https://tixy.land/?code=y%3D%3D%7E%7E%288-7*Math.sin%28t*5%2...

Tip: Writing ~~ is much more space efficient than Math.floor
If the user is consenting to a usability study, it's not really an invasion of privacy. It should obviously be removed afterwards.
I wouldn’t say deepfakes are out of control, but we see their risk potential to our clients. We support social media platforms, politicians, and large corporations. So far, our social media clients are those most concerned and affected by deepfakes.

Threat actors use deepfakes, along with other forms of disinformation, to achieve their objective. The most commonly discussed are the Russians interfering with US elections, but many other nations are now getting in the game. We have also seen organized crime using elections or other hot-button issues to drive traffic to their ad-laden websites.

We are still in the early days of deepfakes. I am sure we will see many more sophisticated methods as the technology improves. As it becomes commoditized, it will become another tool used moving down market from geopolitical goals, to organized crime, to petty fraud.
I know it's a simple example, but wouldn't the balance of an account be critically important to be part of a transaction. Otherwise, how could you manage two simultaneous withdrawals if the transaction processing service isn't able to put a lock on reading the balance until it's complete?
Ghost instance crashed, I assume HN hug of death! It's back now.
You may also consider doing it in Rust.

It's possible to implement GObject subclasses in Rust which little additional overhead as compared to doing it in C, but you get the syntactical niceties of for each loops, traits, and other features of Rust.

librsvg makes good use of these bindings, and is undergoing a rewrite in Rust. Gstreamer bindings are also becoming more complete, and example implementations of many of the standard plugins have been rewritten. The official implementation is still in C though.

Vala is a neat concept though and a pretty clean language.

https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/librsvg-gobject-in-r...

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs
Ben Thompson’s “Stratechery”: Smart, but a Little Too Much Kool-Aid
I assume HN hug of death! It's back now.
Ergonomic but your keyboard sits on your lap. Alright.
I've stated several times that hooks are awful, and the general response I get is "oh, you just don't get it," but the way they are implemented is not very functional, but I guess the point is that they are side effects.

In terms of other things, JSX has nothing to do with stateless components, it's just a way to simplify writing `React.createElement(yourElementOrTagName, { ...props }, [ ...children ]);`

And for debugging, the absolute best advice I can give is to build smaller components, and use something like storybook to demo/isolate behaviour and tinker with it.

In general, react is a perfectly fine choice, though. I don't think it's any more strange than angular/vue/hyperapp/etc., but it is certainly lower level, which can feel less intuitive.
You are right, I had misunderstood you. We can be more efficient with our ressources, what I had in mind was the total ressource consumption/extraction. Any efficiency we gain is largely offset by the rebound effect in our current system of production, i.e the GDP grows faster than the ressource intensity can catch up with.

And of course, the data has to be world-wide since the economy is globalized [1].

[1]: https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-consumption...

> The universe of digital goods and services, for one.

Digital goods consume energy, more and more of it. For now gain in efficiency almost (not quite though) offset the growth [2], and that is discarding all the energy and ressources needed to build the servers and chips in the first place.

[2]: https://www.iea.org/reports/digitalisation-and-energy#energy...
You could try SpaceVim too: https://spacevim.org/
In case you don’t return to this comment otherwise, I wanted to post that responded to the sibling post.
> The retargeting most of us are see is the failed kind where you’re trying to sell a fridge to the person who already ordered one two days ago

I’ve paid close attention over the past few years and have found >80% of the retargeted ads are for something I just purchased (and they are usually the “single purchase” type product, similar to the fridge analogy you used)
Netlify doesn't seem to have a consent banner but sites hosted on it don't set cookies, despite using Cloudflare (at least that's my experience hosting a blog on it).
> to pay back debt with interest, it is necessary to have economic growth, and financial growth

This toy model ignores defaults and fiscal spending.

Defaults destroy debt in the absence of growth (in the process transferring wealth from creditors to debtors). Fiscal spending crates money with no debt (in the process transferring wealth from savers to borrowers). These counter-currents let the system stay stable while credit flows from savers (via equity) and creditors (via debt) to investments and borrowers.

Leveraged systems have a multitude of steady states in a zero-sum environment. Even more when tastes and preferences change as human tastes and preferences do.

> growth in fossil fuel use are very closely tied

I have debunked this in another comment [1]. Energy intensity of GDP has been falling for decades. The carbon intensity of our economy is falling faster.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24979345
It's currently still there on the blog site because I was worried that HN would smash my server and haven't moved it over to BunnyCDN yet ^^
Spot on. The inflation number is based on a basket of goods and apparently they count an iPad as a necessary good. Then there are things like packaging staying the same size and less food in each package. If the old counting methodology was used inflation would be 10%.

Its more important how the numbers are generated than numbers itself.
I'm a bit confused here, does copperhead still exist?

From what I gathered everyone moved on to graphene, including the original architect.

I've not seen anyone mention copperheadOS as a modern secure phone in a long time. Not trying to denigrate the post but it's somewhat strange to see them appear out of nowhere.

Also, on my barely secured, out of date firmware phone, the site doesn't work because I block js :/

Truly long for the day people at least attempt to make fallback no-js sites or at least text only static pages like some 90's ftp server for us weirdos who don't need nor want interactivity. Last I looked something like 80% of Android and 50% of apple phones were end of life and yet still used.
Windows 10 bug: Certificates lost after feature upgrade?
I should point out that many of the systems you're discarding in comparison have better actual safety records than the US.
Planktons, Cotton, Slavery and the Election
I refer to these as “reasonable sized services.” I feel like a lot of people that “do microservices” spent to much time in CRUD systems and haven’t done a lot of domain driven design.
I've seen very few posts here mention horizontal scalability
like you did. In my mind, it's the first and foremost reason to consider a distributed rewrite over a monolith. I would bitch long and hard if someone was suggesting the transition from monolith to micro-services without the metrics to prove horizontal scalability was becoming an issue.
Yes.

Are software metrics still useless?

Also yes.
Google to GitHub: Time's up – this unfixed high-severity bug affects developers
I thought Amiga A500... Especially with the name and form factor ;-)
Bad pilots crash planes. That doesn't mean that heavier than air flight is impossible. It means you need better informed and trained pilots.

See http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=3773 for the true story about Weimar.
Color-balancing vote margins and vote totals in the US election map
Its interesting as many people have a revenue tax on people -- it's called income tax. Your expenses (rent, food, commute, power) are generally not removable -- some expenses can be taken off before tax, but most can't.

Most people operate on low margins economically, saving 5% of your paycheck would be an outstanding achievement for many.
Google patches second Chrome zero-day in two weeks
That is, for sure, a big difference, BUT...whether or not that cost is considered "labor cost" or not, i.e. whether or not it's part of the cost of digging tunnels, is different. The healthcare is being paid for out of general taxes, not as part of the budget for that tunnel, so it doesn't get accounted for as part of the cost of the tunnel. And probably shouldn't, but in the U.S. it is.
At least under EU cookie laws and GDPR you shouldn't need a consent banner for Cloudflare cookies, as they provide essential functions (for availability and security) and don't track users. You might have to mention them and their purpose in your privacy policy though.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-U... goes in some detail what the cookies do and (more importantly here) what they don't do.
What if we lived in a world where EVs are ubiquitous and they are powered by lithium ion batteries charged by renewable energy and/or nuclear. Specialized plants can still exist in this scenario to provide hydrogen and even diesel for industrial processes. The existing gas and coal plants wouldn’t be used for powering the general population anymore and would become more specialized producers.
Would require taking your shoes and socks off, smothering them in sonic gel, and having someone who knows how operate the wand.
I've only been interested in, and have been only testing zoho's paid email service. i have no interest in their other offerings like office suite. That being said, much like your findings @sigzero, I've - so far - found zoho's email to be fine (actually quite excellent when the low cost is factored in). I was asking @agentdrtran if they had any more insight for zoho's email service (other than their coment above), because i'm genuinely interested to learn more - if they had any stats or evidence (or even anecdote/experience) to support their claim.
Why does Japan need so much power? Does steel actually have to be manufactured on the spot? Maybe it could be done somewhere with better availability of energy resources? (Like nuclear power in Korea or solar in Australia)

I already know that for example aluminum is manufactured in Iceland. In a way it's an energy export.
Not sure, but all AWS servers I ever run stuff on were always on UTC (Europe), which I really liked. I doubt they have their own Cron implementation, but you might be able to set the time zone just for Cron specifically independent from system time zones.