skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ringworld goes into this topic quite a bit, so it was interesting to me to see that the author is an astrobiologist who wrote "The Knowledge", about restarting civilization from scratch. Niven (who wrote Ringworld) also co-wrote "Lucifer's Hammer" with Jerry Pournelle, which was like a fun book version of a big-cast disaster movie, about a comet colliding with the earth in the mid-1970s.

Lucifer's Hammer had some fairly realistic assessments of life in the following 5-10 years after the event, centred around restarting production. One big point was about some books very similar in concept to "The Knowledge" being used to preserve necessary information, and another was about recapturing some existing nuclear facilities to try to sustain life at all, given the big energy requirements for agriculture and basic personal heat after the event (because of e.g. huge amounts of atmospheric dust)

Reading this article also made me realize, with surprise, that I've never thought about this aspect of Fermi's paradox! One of the many variables that led to our civilization's rise may be the simple fact that we had hundreds of millions of years of abundant life before us that failed to industrialize. Imagine if human-like life had evolved a billion years ago, when the reservoirs of petrochemicals were a billion years less developed?

If it turns out that both life and sentient life are actually surprisingly common, it might be the case that most civilizations are borne unto planets not yet ready to support their technological advancement, and all they can do is burn out the wick before they reach a powderkeg moment. The great filter could work the other way -- we could be the rare success merely by dint of having shown up 'late'.

Fun article!
The platform you're describing is the way I use bash (understood that you're asking for a little more integration than just exec/fork/spawn).
Actually yeah, parasitic selfishness should definitely be discouraged in a healthy society
I'm saying this argument is often misused in practice.
You can do only so much with intelligence if there are no metals or fossil fuels on your planet.

With all the ingenuity you can't make reasonable amount of chemical elements that don't occur in your environment.
Why is would a cohesive society require removing freedoms? In fact that west has shown this needn't be the case.
Maybe satellite internet...
But then does everyone get something? Will it be perceived as a slight if some other contributor doesn't receive something? There would undoubtedly be a response from some that a switch alone is inadequate.

I think nintendo is probably doing the most riskless thing but abiding by the terms.
Yeah I'm not 100% familiar with the potential case here but I'd imagine it's in everyone's best interest to ensure that the medicine is not hindered in its ability to be manufactured and delivered and that the company that holds patents on the delivery vehicle (LNP) would be compensated justly.

It isn't a new thing for what it's worth. Going back to earlier this year it has been looked at, but we don't really have a clear picture on what will shake out.
>Further, I think it is unwise to brush aside any argument that the nature of the media we consume does not affect how we interact with the real world without consideration. Just because it turns out that old 90s arguments about DOOM turning us all into violent murderers was wrong doesn't mean that there aren't effects that might be harmful.

I think we should have learned our lesson and first gather some data before we ban war games, RPGs or Sims because some person has an hypothesis that maybe somewhere, someone would be "transformed" by the media into a criminal. I really don'w want some government or american christian dominated companies to start banning stuff.
Why am I in the favor of continuous product discovery
Microsoft Excel now supports custom data types
Governments don't care about rule of law. They're like school kids making up the rules to the game as they play it against you.
Maybe I missed it but I don't see bitcoin mentioned anywhere(other than the ad).

However given what happened in 1971, it should be surprising there is not mention of Bitcoin!

I interpret this to be an issue with central planning, Balanced budget Amendment still does not remove the root of the problem.
You get an interesting collision between two expectations on licensing in a modding community for an open source game.

Modding communities have historically leaned on self-penned bespoke licences tending toward the, "only Tool fans can use this! Do not rip my sprites without permission, that means you XxSephiroth494 YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!" school of legal text. But as an open-source project, there is a convention to upload things to the content distribution network with a GPL or Creative Commons licence.

This causes some rather dramatic fallouts when "I don't have to give you any source code, it's mine and I wrote it" or "he can't just take my mod and build his own version of it" meet the inevitable response of, "you released it under the GPL, that's how it works". It gets rather messier when said work includes upstream things which were originally released under the Tool Fan Restricted Licence or similar where the original creator forbade further sharing of source code.
Sure, and betting that someone will die is still way way better than murdering them.
I know their Spanish translation has become very poor, I've been using DeepL as alternative for some time now.
That's a good point. In the case of Poe's writing, the approach is at least thoughtful. In the Panzer case, it seems to just blithely throw players into the ranks of Nazism with no interest in exploring what that means. You could argue that games are more of a blank slate than literature, onto which people can project several experiences orthogonal to the authors/developers intent, but I think that's probably being too generous.
So Tesla aren't using certs to sign the updates to their keys. That's fucking ridiculous.
Out of curiosity, how did a computer of that age make use of two general purpose CPUs?
My impression is that the big road block to unlocking something like the industrial revolution is the precision of your tools. During the industrial revolution there were big advances in metal tools. Maudslay's development of a metal lathe that could be used to make metal tools was a huge step forward. I think if you can reach this point of development you should be able to make continued progress using non-fossil fuel power sources.

Are there other natural materials that could be used instead of metal to achieve this level of precision? I'm pretty skeptical on this.

Are there energy sources, other than coal, that could be used to develop early metallurgy to the point where someone could re-invent Maudslay's lathe? I suspect that there are and given enough time someone would find one. It might take longer to reach this point but I believe we could get there.
Your question is literally the first thing answered in the README...
The nixon shock and the removal of the secret ballot from congress are two hypotheses I've seen:

https://ivn.us/2015/07/16/transparency-the-greatest-flaw-in-...

This, not Citizens United is what put "money in politics".
That sounds more like doing challenge trials for an ebola vaccine, for which I'd expect you'd get very few volunteers. Still though, if there are people willing to risk sacrificing themselves, and the information would definitely save lives, we should let people do that for the greater good. The world's militaries throw away far more lives for far less benefit.
Also...just realized, (after reading several paragraphs deep) the Jad Abumrad/Radiolab/Dolly Parton's America connection
>>>Panzer General takes pains to completely ignore the evil present in the actual history. You're not asked to engage with the darker parts of your psyche at all

What is the alternative, from a game design perspective? Every time one of your units takes a Victory Point on a town, a window pops up: "You captured $townname! Do you want to execute all of the civilians here? [Yes/No]" If you click YES, it shows you a real image of a mass execution from WW2? Can you imagine the uproar THAT would cause? I suspect that players would either click YES on all of them, or click NO on all of them, so as a mechanic it adds no meaningful choices. If you just want to force exposure to the brutality, you could throw in a random "You clicked 'NO' but your soldiers disobeyed orders and killed everyone anyway" and display some shocking content, but all that will accomplish is to turn off some segment of your customer base. The point was to sell a product, after all. If people really want to understand the nastiness that happens during a conflict, they'll find it via other mediums anyway (VHS snuff films before the Internet, BestGore et al. now).

Rome: Total War doesn't let me grapple with the moral issues of crucifying Christians and Jews. Is that omission also a problem? Why/why not?
Many of those charts can be explained simply by demographics. Baby boomers entering the workforce (esp. the sharp growth in women workers) and starting families represented a huge transition. The OPEC shocks were also very important over the following several years.
It's not a panacea, but as a guiding thought it has served us well. We don't go all in on things "just because", and we develop what we need as opposed to what we imagine we need, and stop at an abstraction level that gets the job done.
Also, truck tires are also much larger (than an average passenger car) and have a larger contact area.

Passenger off-road vehicles with knobby tires might be harder on roads too in a different way than weight.
The article doesn't say that VCs shouldn't be self interested. Nowhere does it say that greed, for lack of a better word, is bad. The herd mentality of the VCs investing in WeWork wasn't about greed, or self interest. It was about Kool-Aid, a term the article does use.

The point of the article is that it is this Kool-Aid thinking which deforms actual capitalism.
Alternatively, whatever forces led to the government taking as major a step as leaving the gold standard is responsible.
In addition to wood fuel, the other major non-fossil fuel available might be hydro power. The Hoover dam and the Tennessee valley authority produce huge amounts of electricity which could support some sort of industry.
A common, and in my opinion reasonable, response, is that the 1970's is the beginning of the current period where there is no longer a political party representing labor in the United States.
I think parts could be pretty good reason.

There’s a lot of people trying to repair/rebuild their cars. And Tesla makes it hard/impossible to get parts from them, which most likely increases demand for used parts.

You can check stories from Rich Rebuilds about how hard Tesla makes it for people to work on those cars.
Divisive?
It's a deliberately deflationary currency not controllable by a handful of bankers.
I certainly hope so. Really the only problem I see with this is how the video is shared with the police only (and I trust the police, for now)...

What I'd really like to see is ubiquitous cameras everywhere, live streaming online with free (or nominal fee) access for everyone.
Since many exchanges use USDT and USD interchangeably, the endgame is for arbitrage bots to bid up the exchange rate between BTC:USD at legitimate exchanges to match BTC:USDT at Bitfinex. This allows Bitfinex to transfer the BTC they bought with Tethers to legitimate exchanges, sell them for USD, and transfer the USD back to themselves. They could care less about anything beyond that.
>Imagining yourself in the shoes of an evil person is a fundamental part of fiction.

As long as it's fiction, and you know they're evil. While I've personally greatly enjoyed Panzer General and its sequels, on a moral level the game differs very little from questionable post-war spin and propaganda. There is particularly an entire genre of problematic, self-serving Nazi general memoirs with themes such as:

- Minimizing, or even completely ignoring, the Wehrmacht's essential contribution to war crimes and the Holocaust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht#Criminal_and_genocid...

- Effectively promoting the myth of the superhuman Aryan soldier defeating vast hordes of subhumans. The original Panzer General takes this to a new extreme by making German units vastly superior throughout the war, down to the point where it's practically impossible to win the Battle of Berlin scenario as the Allies.

- Generally treating the entire war as an abstract Kriegsspiel that they'd have won through superior strength of intellect - if it wasn't for that bumbling incompetent at the top. PG is an ultimate fantasy in this regard, with Hitler being hardly mentioned and almost inconsequential (spend a little prestige and you'll easily get over his "bad" decisions at Kiev and Gibraltar).

It is actually possible to do better in a computer game. For instance, I've heard good things about Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa. Apparently it lets you stand up to Hitler about war crimes at risk of losing essential resources and/or being dismissed, or choose to be complicit; and, at the end, runs you through the Nuremberg trials accordingly.
I'm very much with you on this. Increasing standards of living are directly tied to a decreased cost of energy. Aside from property absolutely everything can be decomposed into physical or mental effort — energy [omitted at suggestion of follow-up, merci!]. The industrial revolution allowed the substitution of wood or coal or uranium or PV cells for food that powers oxen, horses, and humans.
Snapchat launches TikTok-like feature 'Spotlight'
Why do you think it has something to do with production? It may be simply redistribution. Less goes to employees, more to profits. Just because they stopped fearing a Communist revolution much as Communism was more and more evidently failing.
~1970 was the beginning of the rapid growth of commercial intermodal containerization. A couple of WTO charts in this[1] document show the trend. The US military pioneered standardized containers (for shipping supplies to S. Vietnam) in the late 1960's and the commercial world caught on very quickly.

Since then the captains of industry in the West have been able to arbitrage labor world wide. Thus labor unions in developed nations, a symptom of labor scarcity, lost their leverage.

[1] http://minotusa.com/uploads/40/NorthDakotaIntermodalInitiati...
>in fact it was well over 100% GDP in WWII

You can't win a war with sustainable budgeting.

If you have to use WW2 to prove that the national debt wasn't bad than that's probably a sign it's bad.
Yep, I do the same by using my buyout money to undermine the west.

Y’all wanna be ok deflating my wealth? I’ll do what I can to tank yours altogether.
Charcoal is technically an unlimited renewable resource.
The "hyperinflation episodes" graph is pretty misleading. That big clump in 1991 marks the collapse of the Soviet Union, and as much as he would have liked it, I don't think you can credit Nixon's withdrawal from Bretton Woods as the cause of the fall of the USSR.
Airline body IATA develops mobile apps for Covid-era travel
Demographics.

WWII ends, you get 26 - 30 years, of a work force. The WWII generation starts to retire. Also, the factories at that point need retooling.

Boomers start to enter their 20s, and start entering the workforce.
Constant $/€/whatever per hour worked.
The industrial revolution happened in one tiny part of the world with a variety of unique features. Seems likely that it could've been missed entirely had England's history been slightly different. E.g. part of why the industrial revolution was possible was because an argricultural revolution preceeded it. So there was a temporary increase in capital accumulation (since agriculture was more productive) followed by a rise in population (families could be larger), so this capital could be deployed in new industries using the cheap labor that had recently been born and wasn't needed to produce food.

Had the industrial revolution not followed this agricultural revolution it seems possible that society would've been stuck in another Malthusian trap and there would not be enough surplus for the industrial revolution to get started.
There may be a rare exception here or there where network effects or some other unique market need require a startup to treat their infrastructure as cattle, but otherwise it's absolutely true. Running `git init --bare` on a server, setting up some remote origins, slapping some bash scripts into the git hooks folder, some .service files for systemd, and then running `git push origin dbhost && git push origin apihost && git push origin ...` is a hell of a lot simpler than even getting a toy version of kubernetes up and running. For the developer with average linux skills, it's probably even easier than figuring out which cloud orchestration monstrosity to choose. Throw in Github actions and baby, you've got a stew going!

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the whole "pets vs cattle" thing but you don't need to lose repeatability or give on process altogether; it's a false dichotomy. Just don't dive headfirst into the massive complexity that is "scalable" devops - you can still use terraform or docker compose or whatever to deploy your application and provide repeatable development/staging/test infrastructure.
I'm curious about the mechanism. It seems important, but can you elaborate on the effects?
You should probably check the data coming from the form and what's in the database. If the form sends an empty string for a null field in the database, you keep the null. If it sends an empty string for a not null field, you set an empty string in the db field. This assumes that the semantic of null is "never touched before".
Thank you for the sharing!

About pricing:

- Do you have any tool for cloud pricing tuning/estimations ?

- Are you using specific tool to track all your expenses in general ?
>I think (and hope) this era of unfettered partying and bro-culture capitalism is finally coming to an end

This was Wall Street banks before tech. I think the culture will just shift to something else.
I'm not necessarily saying Panzer General should have been designed any differently. What I guess I am saying is that it might not be the best idea, as a player, to disengage entirely from the real horrors of the history the game was based on.
This seems like a really weak argument IMO. Isn't Rupert Murdoch a venture capitalist in this context? He cut a big check to a startup (Theranos) with high growth-potential in exchange for equity. How did Murdoch's investment in Theranos not qualify as VC? It seems like Benedict is trying to argue that Murdoch isn't a VC because he isn't known typically as a VC. Instead of explaining his argument, he simply compares this to "summer intern" work. It should be pretty easy to make the distinction between VC and whatever Benedict considers Murdoch without resorting to attacking the reporters.
Business managed to exploit a number of crises to break the power of labor unions. The gold standard had nothing to do with it: sticking with gold would not force management to share productivity gains with labor.
This article gets a lot wrong. For one, it calls Rupert Murdoch and Betsy DeVos VC and I think that's a real stretch of the term VC. Everyone likes to point out Theranos as an example of Silicon Valley Hubris when in reality no respected SV institutions put money into it.
Truly unimaginable.
Algolia to sunset Places and discontinue it by Jan 2022
I could not find an official blog post but I just received this:

Hello,
We have important news to share about Algolia Places. After careful consideration, we have come to the decision to sunset our Places feature. Although we will no longer actively invest in the feature, you will be able to continue to use Places without disruption for the next 18 months as we want to make sure you have adequate time to find an alternative before we discontinue it entirely.
> (it’s clear that humans can thrive on a lot of diets)

There is only 1 diet that humans can thrive on - the omnivore diet. Nobody thrives under veganism or carnivorism. Human beings can barely subsist on an industrialized vegan diet as it is.

> but rather, “What diet is most compassionate.”

No sane person who was "compassionate" would choose a vegan diet. A bowl of salad has more dead animal parts than a plate of steak. In order of compassion, the most compassionate diet is the hunter gatherer diet. You take from nature what nature provides. The second most compassionate is the homestead diet. Raise and eat what you grow. The third compassionate diet is the modern industrialized omnivore diet. The the most cruel and absolutely worst diet is the vegan diet. Not only is it unnatural to humans, a vegan diet requires globalization and the destruction of fertile rich biodiverse lands to grow plants for human consumption. Not only that, you still require processed pills to supplement the unnatural vegan diet.

Not only is the vegan diet cruel to animals, it's cruel to the environment and cruel to humans. You can't grow avocados, almonds, bananas, etc in south dakota.

If we hated a nation of peoples and wanted to them suffer and die off, we'd encourage them to adopt a vegan diet. That's how horrible of a diet veganism is. Nowhere on earth can a human being survive on locally sourced vegan diet. It's why no human society is vegan.

What vegans are pathetic people who want to feel superior. It's the new form of white supremacy. It's what privileged people who want to feel better than others virtue signal about. What is veganism? It's just another way for social media addicts to get a "like".

If vegans truly cared about animals, environment, etc they wouldn't be vegans, they'd be hunter gatherers. But that's too much work for these lazy bastards.

Rather than "What diet is most compassionate.”, veganism is about "What diet will give me the most "likes"". What diet can I leverage for the most virtue signal points.

Edit: Also, so many vegans own pets. Pets that require meat. So it's not compassion, it must be something else.
I’ve paid for them so many times I just pirate them.

Disney died decades ago.

Society need not pleasure his memory forever.
Its less about being able to afford and more about people using everything to improve an imaginary success metric in life.

This is a problem with many hobbies in modern times where everything is a competition with others and less about enjoying it.
The "all men are created equal" slogan seems better to me.
Yes, the cycle moved from 80s Wall Street into tech (a bit in the 90s but like 2014-2019 or so just felt like a giant party in the startup world). Who knows where it goes next.