skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that mental overhead is a large factor. The technical challenges to enable micropayments seem inconsequential to me.

I’d add that the very act of deciding something’s worth could cost more than the thing itself. For example, an article might be priced at $.01, but it costs me $.50 worth of my time to decide if $.01 is a reasonable price.
This seems true about smallish groups, like the example of a Jew in czarist Russia, but when the group is big enough to divide into multiple public-opinion subgroups, I'm not so sure. I think the feminism argument doesn't work here for that reason -- there are enough men that saying bad things about some of them doesn't necessarily disparage the rest.
Hmm... my first encounter with "IANAMS" in the wild. Assume it means "I am not a materials scientist"? I like it.
Sadly, Signal is not the ideal solution either. When I started with the internet, there were countless free/non free email providers, and now nearly everything is gmail, outlook, yahoo, qq, and a few more big ones. We're playing the same with messaging, whereas in reality what we'd need is federated providers, competing with their client software which can all write to each other - see SMS and email.

I was talking with my wife that somehow people are OK with a borrowed (rented?) identity for so many things. xyz@gmail.com, +00-00 on whatsapp, etc, and there as only a few wanting to be mail@this-is-my-home-on-the-internet.me, though this is a very different topic.
The company Blockstream hijacked the Bitcoin Core GitHub a few years ago and artificially limited the block size to try and increase fees and push people to their second layer products.

Any real users and devs moved to other project like Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash, now only trolls and bag holders keep pushing BTC as a "store of value", a totally meaningless concept.
Excellent reply, thanks very much. My HTPC is ageing, but I like to push the life of my computers to the most. So needing an even better GPU or CPU when it should have been able to downgrade a tad is annoying.
> What are concrete examples of "US government to take a lead on building charging infrastructure?“

They don’t need to take over right of ways. The DOT (or whoever) could help by aiding standardization of chargers and payments, creating a program to fund design of street-side chargers, provide incentives (in the form of taxes perhaps) for cities to meet EV infra quotas.

> why continue to subsidize the overprovisioning of transportation capability in the form of largely unused, quickly depreciating equipment with low watt to work efficiency?

Oh trust me, I really feel this. Maybe you’re right that any incrementalism in reducing carbon emissions is wrong, and we should go all in on the optimal solution, ie ban cars and redesign cities. But even if the govt did radically depart from the past 50 years of stalled infrastructure, and went all in, it would still take a long time until an alternative to the personal vehicle is practical to all urban/suburban dwellers. Long enough for a switch to EVs to be unjustifiable from a climate perspective, probably (I would very much like numbers)

But yes, I am just as tired of the mantra of lesser of two evils. But maybe that’s just how democracy is destined to unfold.
I suspect that hunting, field dressing, and butchering lost their mainstream appeal soon after industrialization.

It's one thing to do these things once a month on a hunting trip for leisure versus doing it nearly every week in order to maintain your property or community. It's like the difference between gardening as a hobby versus farming as a lifestyle.

The amount of hunting needed to control the deer population and the population of able bodied and sufficiently interested hunters simply doesn't scale properly in most communities.

Predators who hunt as their main purpose and niche in life seems like a more viable solution if we determine how to keep the livestock predation to an acceptable level.
Again, I view this as a passive voice excusing of responsibility for direct political action in exactly the same way that some people view "the algorithm" as a passive voice excusing of responsibility.

The president pro tempore of the US senate was a Segrationist in 2001. Literally, segregationists of the US Senate outlived pets.com

If any component of your blame or solution to the state of western politics includes the words "social media", ... good fucking luck.
He has that as well

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-roman...
Very cool project. What do you use for crawling sites?
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Are these the same people pushing "clean coal?" If so, it shouldn't be a pejorative.

Anyway, it seems patently obvious that a massive coal power plant should be cleaner per unit of energy than a janky disposable ICE powerplant shoved under the hood of a cheap little mass-produced car.

I'm not sure it's entirely worth your time to engage with intellectually un-curious people not capable of thinking in shades of grey.
Why the hell would someone get naked and have sex in front of a camera that has internet access?
Maybe for people that live in the suburbs and have disposable income to put in a charging station.
> That doesn't mean that computer systems behave the way that we intend them to behave, or even that we really fully understand our own intent!

Sure. Neither do children, nor pets, nor farm animals, nor automated control systems.

The common thread connecting these examples is: people who are responsible for managing children/animals/PID controllers bear responsibility for the action of these systems, whatever the actions are. Same reasoning should apply to algorithms: don't deploy them unless you're prepared to be held accountable for what they end up doing.
Maybe for memory, but I think it's too early for logic where heat transfer forces you to keep volume per surface area under control. Legitimate 3D logic will require a radically parallel compute model, probably something neural, and until we see what form that takes I think it's better to keep the metric 2D.
Was this an old policy? I'm on an LG G8X that is not rooted but I can set DNS. Does LG just grant the permission to do that?
Agree! Redux is never needed and was always a bad choice IMHO.

The goals of it seem so misaligned with developer productivity.

It was small, elegant library for the sake of being small. Ultimate flexibility that can do everything, but then required building heaps of stuff on top of it, and favoring this immutable one-way flow that just complicated things riding on the coat tails of flux.

> I've never seen any other project stain a framework as much as Redux has done.

100%
I'm curious to see what would happen in this case. Would DuckDuckGo or Bing get a boost that Google? Would Google struggle to recover that market share when it inevitably returned? Would public perception of Google take a dip, or would Australians respect someone standing up to the Rupert Murdoch press?
These discussions always end in the same way. "But they are a PRIVATE COMPANY they have the right to do that!" Fuck that.

Who is working on decentralized content distribution? We need decentralized free software versions of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube so that not a single actor has veto power over what content is allowed. Something like torrents, but without torrent sites (which are single points of failure).

There's FreeNet, but it's crap and contains child porn. We need something new that ensures the right of Socialist parties (and Nazi parties too, for that matter) to spread their legal propaganda, but can't be used for pedophiles to distribute child porn. Technically, it can't be impossible to create something like that. People have tons of bandwidth and disk space to spare so that shouldn't be a problem either.
Require? Illegal? ID is not required to use the internet, nor is it illegal to do so without. I can, or at least could before covid, go to the local public library and use their wifi with no questions asked. That's a government provided service, not some sketchy edge case like 'sharing your social security number with your friends'.
The Atheism/religion examples are such a blast from the past. It seems like that whole conflict is no longer in the public consciousness at all, and instead we have some more directly politically aligned conflicts instead! Atheists vs religious people was not so cleanly split between Democrats and Republicans.
The ISS mostly happened because it was a way to keep ex-Soviet aerospace scientists and engineers doing aerospace things rather than, say, go build ICBMs for third world countries.

Same as Arecibo happened because the USAF wanted a big radar and the Hubble happened because (I forgot which spy agency it was) had a spare satellite.

Sad when you think about it...
Communism is an idea, a philosophy. Socialism is basically a flawed materialization of that utopistic philosophy.
Maybe modern societies need to stop pretending we want anything to do with each other. This idea of unity or tolerance only exists because we continue to act like we somehow are supposed to like each other or sacrifice for each other. But why?

Why can’t we just leave each other alone and let people be free? Minimize the politics of it all and stop pretending we care a single bit about each other.

Yes we live in a society but maybe our shared goal is to be left alone to live our lives with the ones we care about. We just seem to be pushing each other to the limits of what’s considered broadly acceptable and it’s creating more and more hate.
Presumably these people use cross-platform software.
While the RIAA is problematic, it was done under plausible cover of law. So, I understand following criminal laws and such.

As for foreign locales, I think the solution is to operate locally like a Mazda or a PepsiCo has to do. Have locals manage your local ops, of course reporting to HQ.

But now they decided to enter the unwieldily realm of figuring out intent of speech and whether it’s crossed moral lines or ethical lines or political lines.

That’s just impossible and sets them up for failure.

They deserve this failure.

They want to dictate TO THE WORLD right and wrong speech UNIFORMLY. That’s utterly ridiculous.

So China or Venezuela or Iran said mean things. So what! At least we know what they’re thinking and if serious enough take proper measures. It should not be FB or TWTTR who decide these things.
Where did you get the statistic about young earth creationists? It's not part of the linked article.
And a 16oz iced coffee from Starbucks doesn't contain 16oz of liquid!
I tried to mention that porn/masturbation addiction effects your hormones and can make you depressed with brain fog a few months ago and faced a hysterical backlash.
I believe they were, due to them being publicly funded. Which is to say nothing of the fact that such public funding has been continuously stripped back under Liberal governments (while continuing to give investment to Foxtel, a private company owned by, guess who, old mate Rupert)
The guys car was out of warranty. Be nice and maybe he'll buy his next car from you. Makes some sense.
After a few months of using Facebook years ago it was pretty clear how toxic such an environment was. I really don't know how people have continued to support Facebook over the years.

I still keep in touch with friends and family and most all of those services I use to communicate are benign, unlike Facebook. Unfortunately "vote with your wallet" (or attention, time, content creation, whatever) just doesn't work the way it's portrayed to work and now we have critical masses in these businesses that create governance through their corporate policies and practices.
I hope you do know that NextCloud is a fork of ownCloud. NextCloud is probably just as boring. :)

I use Nextcloud and it is very dated and with poor performance in multiple areas.

I was expecting someone would come and make a more modern open source private cloud server in Go or Rust, but I did not expect ownCloud to do the rewrite. Nice!
I'd go with "more comfortable" when you're talking about a car that can heat the cabin almost instantly, rather than waiting for the combustion engine to heat the coolant enough to trip the bi-metallic thermostat, thereby routing tepid coolant into the heater core in the cabin, and then blowing a fan over it. :)
I'm actually an atheist who likes saying "Merry Christmas", not that I really care very much. But the small sliver of people who'd be outraged over cups at a hipster coffee chain are not reflective of the broader group, is the point.

"the cups story may be one person but it's reflective of a larger group" is exactly the "weak man" fallacy/mode of group stigmatization that the blog post is about.
Dude... if you just kept reading it’s clear they aren’t claiming they were the only ones, but Jews by far were the primary targets.

Nobody is denying other shit happened though.
Probably all you have to do is look at how long it took before Tundras were everywhere as work trucks. 15 years?
Fair, pseudonymity works very well.

I think a lot of it comes down to social norms. From what I remember, 4chan was almost boringly pleasant outside /b/. Because the norm and moderation were towards thoughtful posting.

On the other hand pseudonymous reddits with the norm of knee jerk responses and political twitter are awful. Because that’s the encouraged norm.
These discussions about materials are often difficult, because there are meaningfully different processes that are lumped together in everyday language.

Mechanical stresses leading to failure at a particular point are certainly a form of degradation, but I believe they mean degradation in the sense where the entire body of the material is undergoing some change (like a plastic bottle fogging or such).

I think seeking clear descriptions is fine, treating it as a "gotcha" game is tedious and unnecessary.
Late-appearing elements are really annoying as well. They like appear under your mouse the moment you want to click on something.
This is anecdotal? I don't know anyone who misses traffic and commuting, they miss their office space.
Out of the curiosity, what is the radiator design?
Those are the cause of the stress cycles. Components don't expand/contact uniformly, resulting in deformation and therefore stress. This process goes through cycles, causing stress cycles which eventually cause the growth of cracks (fatigue).
How would you compare MobX vs. Apollo + React Context?
The government has no skin in the game. If manufacturers can't keep up with demand then the promise is meaningless.
> Why can’t we just leave each other alone and let people be free?

What is that, if not tolerance?
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My threat model for global warming is different from most people's (hence "unpopular prediction"). I think sea-level rise is going to be a non-event: the worst models predict about 18 inches over a century, which is less than tidal variation in most places.

Changing weather and vegetation patterns is going to be a big event. We're going to see some previously fertile areas (Mesopotamia, Northern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa) suffer from decade-long droughts, while other previously uninhabitable areas (Canadian & Russian taiga and the Sahara, for example) become fertile grasslands. This will drive widespread migration, which has a tendency to destroy political stability and lead to mass wars. Nature isn't going to kill us; we're going to kill each other because some of us are going to starve and others are going to get fabulously wealthy.
Thats a side effect of a life sheltered from nature.

I'm a city boy, but I was sent to the countryside every once in a while to learn how to kill and butcher animals so I could respect what nature has given us.
>Decentralized systems, and The Dark Web, will grow.

>Citizens will require a personal licence to access the internet, and anonymous use will be illegal.

Garlic routing provides plausible deniability. ISPs can't know for sure that you are using I2P, for instance, or what you are using it for. Sure, they could force every ISP to ban all encrypted P2P connections. And we could start setting up mesh networks that would subsequently be brought down by authorities. But here's the real question: how much abuse will people tolerate in the name of "security"? What will happen when a majority realizes that these measures are intended to control and suppress them while the elite keeps acting with ever-increasing impunity?
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They must have poor internet if they need a console web browser.
You already have a hard time paying for gasoline with cash, particularly after-hours.

A "dumb" EV you charge at home could, in theory, leave fewer breadcrumbs than a petrol car you fill up with a credit card.
corroborated by this paper "Azithromycin Downregulates Gene Expression of IL-1β and Pathways Involving TMPRSS2 and TMPRSS11D Required by SARS-CoV-2":

https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1165/rcmb.2020-0285L...

So for the Hydroxychloroquine/Azithromycin combo recommended by Dr Raoult - seems like there's growing scientific support that there's something sensible and definitely not loony there.

Notice all the quick dismissals of HCQ, etc. because of the Trump association, without caring to look for any RCT of HCQ in combination with the other drugs claimed to be required for it to be effective.

I'm honestly done with all the people over the past 4 years that outsourced their thinking to Trump by taking the exact opposite opinion of him on every issue.

Add this paper to the mix too, recently published:

"Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000293432...
Take a look at Jonathan Haidt's work such as The Righteous Mind.

He is not coming to the conclusion that there is no point. He is suggesting that people need to be aware of their strongly-held preconceived ideas, and work hard to understand the other side's worldview, before being able to make more objective conclusions or have constructive discussions.

It's really about taking time to absorb some of the alternate information streams to understand what a different perspective they are coming from.

The problem is that most information sources are highly polarized at this point.
Taking the minecraft approach I see.
Thank you and others on this thread. This was interesting.
Yeah, my company laptop has a 6-core i7 and 512 GB NVMe, yet it takes a considerable time to even show the lockscreen from a cold boot.

Wonder what junk Dell put in the UEFI. Wasn't Windows 8/10 supposed to boot up in a blink with an SSD and modern PCs?

I can even hear coil whine from SSD which resembles HDD crunching along, albeit much quieter.
It's a good point, and well supported.

I was thinking about bare metal.
Degradation of the structural integrity, I'd say.
Also, static from no TV signals on the TV.
> Communism is an idea, a philosophy.

“Communism” is a class of philosophies with shared traits.

> Socialism is basically a flawed materialization of that utopistic philosophy.

“Socialism”, in general, is a class of philosophies of which “Communism” is a more specific subset.

In specifically Marxist Communism, “Socialism” is also a named stage on the route to acheivement of the desired end-state at which the philosophy is aimed.
OTOH.
> A better version of your question is – why do newspapers charge for a monthly subscription instead of a per-article fee? The simple reason is that the numbers just don't work out. They'd have to charge a lot per article and have people pay for a lot of them to break even with the current subscription or ad-supported model, and that's not going to happen. And even if they do, there would just be too much day-to-day variance in sales. The reason subscriptions are popular is that businesses like a steady, predictable stream of revenue.

What the newspapers need is something like ASCAP that can act as a single revenue management entity for microtransactions. What no one wants is to have 30 news subscriptions, and so what actually happens is everyone has ~zero news subscriptions. It's happening with video now too as Disney+, HBO, Prime, Netflix, etc. are each fighting over limited monthly subscriptions to segmented markets as opposed to Spotify, Pandora, etc. being gateways to one large market.

I don't know the details of how or why ASCAP has managed to do for the music industry what pretty much no other industry has been able to achieve. ASCAP isn't even exclusively licensed.
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I worked with a home automation company for a few years. The techs there who installed the cameras would check back in on homes with attractive owners using management access to find nudes. This is not news at all.
This very site is a good counterpoint to your distinction. HN allows for easy creation of anonymous accounts, and doesn't do much to help you track who says what. And yet some people, by choosing to stick to their handle over time, build a reputation. And yet, even the anonymous people mostly behave, and we end up with a civil community.

Personally, I think the important factors for maintaining a civil community is a focus on civility, some overt selection of topics (vs. having a group that's about everything), and a lot of moderation work in the background that prevents the decay of standards. Social norms, unfortunately, don't maintain themselves.
The democrats were about to put them into regulation hell. They had to try something.
The therapists obviously knew about it, and it is considered perfectly normal (and a good thing) by the general population. It's not possible to opt-out anyways.

The principle that all (non-classified) official records should be public is more than 250 years old, and is a very fundamental part of the Swedish (and Scandinavian) society. I find it to be one of the best things about living here.
> hating on React

It would be great if developers stopped treating tools they like with this much sentiment. For starters, it would mean fewer flamewars.

They're just tools, criticizing them is not "hating" and your liking them is no endorsement (for anyone other than you, anyway).

> With low-code backend tooling and React, I can promise you I can make a better website than with just Python no matter how much Django template wizardry one can muster.

How can you "promise" this? How can anyone "promise" this? I'm not even sure I understood what you meant by this. Even more so in this case as the tools you mentioned are geared to different types of applications.

The only way I can parse this sentence is that you're claiming that react is indisputably better at [not sure what you meant to do since you said "website" and a website doesn't need a backend$, but you mentioned backend regardless] than any tool in [whatever other language/framework, clearly, even if you're using Python as example] and I'm gonna need a source on that one. It's a pretty strong claim, assuming I didn't misinterpret it.

$ Technically, a website doesn't need a frontend either; it's debatable whether a website even needs javascript, but certainly not react, which is a library for creating web applications.
I wish my coworkers that spent 10x the energy that I do would instead go work on projects for their community and not just their company. They literally have no time for that because they spend so much time at work e.g. nights and weekends.
Can we just gamify it via fair cake slicing algorithm and call it a day?
Does it have to be a credit card? Could it not be crypto or some other option? And in doing so, would the fees be less?

How do they do it so easily in other countries?