skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ethics are subjective. Asking "Is it ethical?" to a large group of people is little better than asking "Is chocolate the best flavor of ice cream?"

Legality is a more concrete and easier to give a firm answer to. If you want to have a reasonable conversation on the internet with random strangers of different belief systems, questions like "is it ethical" go right out the window.
Okay, so, you can't live in NYC like you can in the 1930s. Where else can't you live? Or, rather, must one live in the middle of nowhere to live the 1930s idyll?

If that's all you want to claim, then I claim I can live like a hunter gatherer from 19300 BCE in the middle of the woods. Big deal. You haven't shown me anything.

Did you want to even begin to address how I can go to the doctor? Or are we conveniently leaving that out? I don't think you have even begun to touch the "general point."
Not sure about India (lots of similarities) but in Pakistan people sending parents / grand parents to old homes is really looked upon. Only a fraction of population does that. There are not too many of them. TV shows people in old homes crying for their children abandoning them. I guess that's how most people end up in old homes here.

On the other hand this culture has problems as well. It's not easy to take care of old. When children move out, often because of their own children, unless at least one kid is very happy to take care of now very old parents, it becomes a great question which kid they can live with.

I never really understood the culture of adult kids and old parents living all separately as a way of life. What's considered wrong with living with your parents or keeping them with you?
A bit off-topic but related to the intro in this readme..

> Why?
> I'm super bored in lockdown. Add a Raspberry Pi 400 and a few tiny displays...

I feel like there are two distinct kinds of lockdown experience. One, you have kids, and you have absolutely no free time because now your kids are home and you're working from home. Two, you don't have kids, and you're super bored every day. Seems like not much in between.
I think the local powers have figured out the route that will already succeed: blame the tool. That way permits everyone to leave with their egos intact. The Art of War 7.36 in action, one might say.
Launch costs are falling, though (and despite being proved wrong several times by Musk) $10/kg Lunar sounds delusional. Consider that typical bulk freight costs on Earth are in the range of $0.40/tonne-day (180,000 DWT Capesize vessel at $48,000/day https://www.easyship.com/blog/bulk-shipping-for-delivery), or roughly $5/tonne for a 14 day transoceanic voyage (8,000 mi, 12,000 km, very roughly).

Only twice that to Lunar surface is ... dubious.

In situ construction is an option, and while asteroids can be metal-rich, useful in fabricating condenser and evaporator coils, they tend to be refrigerant poor. Substances which have properties of good refrigerants (boiling and volatility at low pressures and temperatures) are poorly retained by microgravity bodies in vacuum.
We are blessed with a strong stewardship culture in .US farming, and they are incentivized to manage their soil, but what about the land they rent?

Roughly 1/3 of all US farmland is leased.

https://www.fool.com/millionacres/real-estate-investing/inve...

If it is owned by folks in the community, there is some social incentive. Out-of-state landlords? Profit and loss.

A feedback loop for remote landlords to pay the price for letting their land get overworked might be nice. More than just the crop yield loss, but rebuilding the soil for the next generations.

No-till and cover crops are a great approach, but I’ve been told there’s a steep learning curve. But the results are impressive.
I loved my G3 iMac. I was in elementary school around the time it came out and my father bought one for each of my sisters who went away to college and one for us at home. It was a fixture in our lives. From a user's perspective, the iMac G3 was the first computer that crossed the boundary from utility box to lifestyle machine.

The built in speakers were everything. I used to download music via Napster and play that music with my sisters over the land line. Computer speakers may have existed prior to the iMac but never were they highlighted as a core element of the computer's design.

I used to spend silly amounts of time in computer stores playing around with computers. I remember the time that the iMac G3 and G3 Tower started to hit the shelves and demo areas. It was a multi-sensory explosion. It's really, really hard to describe the impact that these computers had at the time.

Maybe the multi-sensory thing was the reason why the iMac experience is so deeply ingrained in my memory. It managed to touched on all five senses:

- Sight - it had bold, colorful design

- Touch - soft translucent plastic without a single hard edge

- Smell - remember the smell of a new Mac?

- Hearing - had great stereo speakers

- Taste - Apple was in it's "lickable" phase.. I miss it to this day!

I'll spare folks from more of this treacle because I don't want to completely re-write history. The computer wasn't perfect - it was terribly slow and tended to crash whenever my father would yell at me to stop using it.
Nonsense. Liquid is directly dependent on Bitcoin's success.

And as has been stated before, Blockstream employees got a chunk of their pay check in bitcoin. Do you really think they'd try to "throttle" their own livelihood?
Good take. It's true that Apple's products cater to a fundamentally different market if we observe the nuances; they are more akin to luxury products than normal computers. The PC market demands functional computing devices that are extensible, modifiable and repairable, things Macbooks have virtually no advantage in.
Have you played with NixOS or Guix at all? They attempt to solve this problem from the ground up for the entire OS. It obviously has trade offs, but IMO it is the best solution around today (other than Kubernetes, but that is an abstraction level higher).
I just built my Truenas box using Ryzen. Let me know if you want a part list for inspiration or any tips.
China sentences journalist to 4 years in prison for reporting on Wuhan lockdown
how do you compare with substack?
It’s an interesting reminder that a lot of simple staples in the US are fortified with various nutrients. It almost transforms your view such that it’s less you buying food, and more the government providing your provisions so that you’re a healthy worker. I found myself recalling an article on Britain’s National Loaf.
Don't drain your p-traps - your house will fill with methane/sewer gas. Don't ignore your sewer pipes either; they can burst too. Instead if you really want to winterize, pour RV antifreeze down all your sinks, toilets, tubs, showers, etc.

RV Antifreeze is also great to pour down all your drains if you aren't going to be in your house for an extended period of time even when it's not freezing cold outside - it evaporates a LOT more slowly than water and thus your home will be far less likely to smell like a sewer when you return.
It'll be closer to 6-8 weeks since these early vaccines require two doses.
If you're interested in demographic trends I recommended populationpyramid.net, which presents UN population projections visually.

Demography is one of few areas of social science where decade-scale prediction is reasonable. As well as China, check out projections for India, Indonesia, the USA, Brazil, and Nigeria. (And then Japan, Mexico, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Egypt.)

The global demographic transition will form a mostly unremarked-on background to events this century.

1. https://www.populationpyramid.net/
Won't that increase the scope of censorship, something that should be avoided at all costs when it comes to news?
I feel like the business case "this will let us get the paper into Science" probably stacks up pretty well.
Show HN: How much are you spending on Amazon?
Is anyone else totally unclear about how exactly you are supposed to sign up or be placed in a waiting line for the vaccine?

I'm not too concerned about myself, but say, my parents? Who is keeping the order of the queue or adding people to it in a way that you know when you're supposed to expect to get the vaccine?

Is it just up to your personal doctor? A local hospital? The county? Who is keeping the list? Who do you ask to be added?

Maybe I'm not a key/critical category person so I am not in the target group, but aside from the high level CDC guidance on who should get it, there seems to be a vast chasm of lack of information / authority connecting to the individual person to know how to take action to receive the vaccine.

But again, maybe I'm missing something. It seems like a total chaos fest, muddling / random walking our way through the crisis. I guess the same theme as the entire handling of the situation in the US. God forbid we have some centralized authoritative list of who is who, and who does what, to know when someone should get the vaccine.

But I guess when 0% are vaccinated, anything even half-assed is useful.
Bucatini I can frankly take or leave.

But when gemelli disappeared for several months I was distraught. Nothing is better in mac'n'cheese.

I make it in a cake pan, less than an inch deep, with sourdough cubes and grated cheese on top, toasted to a crisp. The mac really is just there to hold up the cheese toast. But that doesn't stop me from putting in chopped chili peppers (not too much, 2 oz is plenty!), nutmeg, and a hint of cayenne.

Strozzapreti can substitute for gemelli, but it is even harder to find any of.
I think the graphite iMac DV special edition was the most beautiful computer ever made.
Looking on from canada, /me jelly.

I know we'll get there too and i just have to be patient. I just really want covid to be over with already.
Hackernews always implodes at the mention of sex
..and the iPhone that killed it.
What if you keep it demonetized and only youtube is making money off it?
As I stated in my previous comment, most major cities (i.e. national or global hubs) are probably implausible due to increased demand. But there are literally hundreds of mid-sized cities and thousands of smaller cities where it's as simple as described.

Of course, you know this, and you know that's what I was saying, so I'm going to assume you're not really debating in good faith (or are seriously misreading what I'm saying).

Edit: I had a peek at your comment history and saw this pattern repeated with other people. I regret getting involved in this thread.
The eMac was also another good one along the same lines as the original iMac. At that point in time, the polycarbonate unibody was getting phased out and LCD displays were already getting cheaper to mass produce. It’s probably one of the last cathode ray tube Macs in existence.
Substantial resistance is built up after 8 days from the stuff I've read. Yeah immunity level is not great, but look at mortality in the studies.

AFAIK nobody that got even a single dose ended up in the hospital. That's huge if true. That means hospitizations will plummet well before everyone is through their second dose.
Such a good write up. It’s mind boggling the amount of problems you have to solve with fakes, hacks, trickery to fool the human player’s eye.

What’s worse is that all of these techniques across all of the mentioned areas are evolving and changing as hardware changes. It’s impossible for one person to keep up anymore.

The art pipeline is pretty much cookie cutter from films with an added step of simplification of the mesh and baking normals. The rest is up to the engine and graphics programmers to get working as intended, the downstream of this is the design team.

It’s gotten easier in the animation department. Easier in the texturing department. Easier due to painting and PBR, but it’s gotten exponentially more difficult in the core engineering, engine level department. It’s a murder pit of the mind.

I’ve written a few game engines. I don’t write game engines.
>That could be an easy fix!

Famous last words?
> It would be very nice to be able to use the laptop with a dead battery as long as it was plugged in.

You cannot do that? What? First time I am hearing this. This is a deal breaker.
They allegedly have partial immunity after the first dose (how partial i have no idea, and it might fade really quickly if you don't get the second), but its possible its enough to have some effect if enough of the right populations have the first dose.
Calabrian chilis sound promising
UK tech firms attract record $15bn in venture capital funding
Hey Alexa what did I just type? Decoding smartphone sounds with a voice assistan
The paradox is in both wanting the cars (well, crypto) alive & function and also not be subject to the regulatory environment, while that environment is alive & functioning. That seems to be the dream of a certain subset of crypto enthusiasts: Widespread crypto that bypasses existing regulations. I don't think it can get to that point. In order to gain widespread adoption, you need on-ramps & off-ramps for people to actually use it. Those are the regulatory choke points for crypto. Like an unregistered car you can drive on your own property, but the minute you take out on the highway you're obligated to play by the rules that govern the highway.

You can't buy crypto without the consent of banking systems that are subject to regulatory frameworks. You can't make a loan payment with crypto without converting it to the local currency, putting it in a bank, and writing a check or ACH transfer or getting the bank to convert it to local cash.

The vast majority of major transaction that require money cannot be done with crypto, and as that changes they will still only be done with crypto by interfacing with systems subject to regulatory structures. That keeps unregulated crypto in relatively small scale shadow economies. Sort of like cash, except cash is more or less dead as a means of making large transactions.
Boils down to “who’s the customer for the paper?”

If it is a clique of experts, they can do what they want.

If Society is paying for it, then the customer base is arguably larger. But the current incentive system for academics and the like doesn’t reflect the needs of that (generally educated and interested) larger customer base. It’s a happy accident when those needs are met. No easier time in the history of the planet for them to be met.
Thanks! I am building something on the side and I'll quit my job only if the side project gains some traction.
Also finding a job is not that tough in my area.
I wish I was this optimistic.
Not necessarily. There are science fiction stories about extension of youth without extension of lifespan, and ancient myths about people cursed to live a long time without youth.

It's possible to imagine health-extending treaments (artificial joints and organs (heart), lung flushes) that don't extend lifespan). We already have treatments that can extend people's lives without health. (Unsuccessful chemotherapy, for one; insulin for type 2 diabetes mellitus, for another.)
Google ChromeOS

> Chromebook shipments have grown 122% year on year to a total of 9.4 million units in Q3 of 2020. [1]

It covers big market, from tablets [2] to enterprise [3]. And they have AArch64 models [4].

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/pc-shipments-google-chromebook...

[2] Lenovo Chromebook Duet (10.1") 2 in 1 ($266.79) https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/student-chromebo...

[3] Dell Latitude Chromebook Enterprise https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/chromebookenterprise/

[4] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f...
The part about frequency drift was interesting to me. They covered all the possible explanations I can think of (the source of the signal was orbiting, an object accelerating toward us, or the raw signal itself had increasing frequency). However, I don't see why they need more than one data sample to calculate the rate of acceleration. Also, what benefit might there be to using a chirp signal like this to communicate?

The article also does a great job of explaining that it really is quite likely that we will only detect broadcast signals from closer systems. It is simply too expensive and wasteful to broadcast RF out into the abyss. And if there is even just one species a mere million years more advanced than us in the galaxy, they would have had the capability to colonize every system by now, even using chemical based propulsion.

Overall, it seems promising, but as with everything in this field, unlikely to be reproducible (which some people will use to dismiss it). Determining the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence is less of a scientific method project than an intelligence gathering one, and many otherwise intelligent science-types struggle to understand that.
And what if COVID turns out not to be a temporary shock? Say worse strains mutate, vaccines fail, or another new disease catches on.
> they realized they needed me on set after all

Can I ask why they needed a math consultant on set? Needed some convincing chalk on the blackboard?
When you spoke to the manager what did he say?
The Razer Blade 15?
Or:

Bitcoin has an incentive model based on transaction fees. This is currently being "boot-strapped" by a mechanism called subsidy, where miners get "extra" bitcoin aside from the transaction fees.

That subsidy shrinks every 4 years and will eventually be zero.

As we move towards that point, the transaction fees need to be high enough that the miners are incentivized to continue protecting bitcoin.

For regular coffee-style orders, this becomes infeasible; that's why you can use layer-2 (or higher) tech to pay really low fees for each transaction.

As Bitcoin usage increases, we hit new speed bumps -- transaction fees spiking was one of them. While this is the inevitable (for a successful bitcoin) future, there need to be ways to make cheaper payments, but everyone (who's given it some thought, and who doesn't have an agenda of some kind) agrees that permanently storing coffee sales in the blockchain directly is not the way to go, if we can avoid it, and we can.
I use Joplin with Dropbox to sync between desktop and mobile
And playing any game beyond a single go-through gets to meta-game exploration, be it arms races for "edges" in competitive play, or learning deep nuances of the terrain/playpen over multiple plays.

The best, most enduring games all seem to have procgen, randomization, or a "construction kit" for slower procgen: player-made levels and curation.
they don't go to bed? I work in my garage workshop from bedtime to midnight or one a few times a week. I've turned out way more finished projects than I ever did before the pandemic.
Should be prison time.
Friends link:
https://medium.com/better-programming/numpy-illustrated-the-...
Okay then. Let's look at a 1930s salary, and tell me how you afford all that stuff:

> From 1935 to 1936 the median family income was $1,160. An annual wage of $1,000 or more placed a family in the middle-income range. The middle-income family did not have a surplus of income but did have a fairly comfortable standard of living. [0]

Show me how I can pay a mortgage, eat, go to the doctor (still ignoring this one, I see), have a little entertainment every once in a while, etc.

Actually, I'll make it easier on you. From the very same source:

> Average Family Budget, 1935

> Income Amount, $
> Average annual income $1,348

> Expenses

> Food and alcoholic beverages 472

> Housing, utilities, furnishings, etc. 456

> Clothing 136

> Automobile purchase and maintenance 73

> Medical care 53

> Recreation, reading, tobacco 72

> Taxes 5

> Miscellaneous expenses 5

> Total Expenses $1,272

Let's go ahead and inflate this typical 1935 family budget to today and see how we do. Note, these numbers are per year. It's easy, right?

Let's simplify it a bit and just say it's a household of one, but you only get to live on ~1/3 of a median US individual income, currently around $43K. I'll give you $15K to work with.

Hint: do medical care and housing first.

Sorry, not my fault you regret biting off more than you can chew. You knew you couldn't do what you were claiming from the beginning.

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[0]: https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-and-education-ma...
My guess is that Apple would be placed into the same basket with Google.
The class name “Map” is a noun (because it’s a class), the method name “map” is a verb (because it’s a method), and the conceptual relationship between that noun and verb is exactly the conceptual relationship between the class and the method. There’s nothing “unfortunate” about it at all. It’s elegant, in fact. (And if you know some math, it’s even familiar.)
For starters Chinese researchers lie differently to how Western researchers lie.

Secondly it's exciting to see countries around the world do cutting edge research, like Japan bringing back the Ryugu samples.

Thirdly it's HN rules to copy the original article title.

Fourthly "Physicists challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’" implies the profession of Physicists are saying Google’s ‘quantum advantage’ is incorrect or something.
Doing this with mailcow on an hetzner vps for 3 years now (semi-personal). Works flawless.
Accepted by Gmail and Microsoft365 - and I can pull up the logs and see if a mail was delivered to a mailbox.
There are a dozen of illegitimate reasons tho, one of them being moral - decades of propaganda had made an impact.
In this blog post I lay down why I think existing programming eco systems could greatly benefit from content and behavior addressable code.
> What was it like DMing these people? Did you have any violent criminals playing as elves?

I would say that people who are predisposed to "violent" activities aren't the D&D type. The guys in my groups were my friends.

> Was it hard to impose your will as a DM?

No, we went by the book and the roll of the die. If the players wanted to cheat a rule, I'd just tell them that if they wanted to do it, the NPC's and monsters also got to do it - it would become a table rule. They'd usually back down at that point.

I've commented at length on HN about gaming in prison, but you'd have to go quite a ways back through my comment history to find it.
He probably means it would make sense a few decades down the line, when our generations age.
There’s pilots you can sign up for, eg for SF https://wecanbeatcovid.org/

Pre-screening questions and then they’ll call you if they’re interested. Roommate got a call within a week, but another three of us haven’t heard back. Probably depends somewhat on diversity. My guess is that your best shot is applying as soon as one of these studies open up registration. FIFO.
That’s a list of topics, but not problems. Need problem statements and definition of terms before they get to be called “hard problems”.
What do the property owners plan on doing with that land if there aren't any jobs? Or are there jobs there now?
I really like the idea! Thanks for mentioning it. I thought about converting my dotfiles to org-mode files but managing the tangling is always the step where I stop. I think I'd rather automate the tangling. I see you commit the tangled "results". Is this by choice or is it a compromise?
Wow this is great. Perfect example of how something simple like this can be super helpful to new users. I learn super well when there’s lots of visuals. Thanks!!!
Fiat isn't worthless paper, and cryptocurrency's stream of numbers was never worthless either.

Both have utility and usefulness, and value proportional to that. Usefulness creates demand, demand creates value, and demand/supply = quantity of value.

The comparative utility and value of fiat vs crypto is a fascinating rabbit hole.
Ruairi Robertson (https://twitter.com/ruairirobertson) has a pretty good TEDx overview of Elie's work and how it seemed to be an early harbinger of the gut-brain axis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awtmTJW9ic8 from a bout a year earlier than that article.

Understanding this space of ideas and how things unfolded in the early 1900s puts a lot of weird ideas into perspective. Kellogg's weird fascination with cleaning out people's rectums with colonic yogurt pumps, for example.