skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...shared experience makes it possible for to hear another viewpoint.

That's specifically why personal experience is a persuasion tool and an effective one - which isn't an absolute bad thing but also doesn't make it an inherently good thing.

The average person, debating on the Internet or off, tends to start in an intensely emotional state. Giving your own personal experience backs them down from that intense emotional state.

Once the person has backed-down a bit you can give your pitch and your pitch can be anything, either a plea for rational inquiry into the situation or your own intensely manipulative, emotional and off-kilter claims.

I personally try to go from polarized emotional shouting matches to "let's make a model of the world and consider what makes sense in it" approaches. I think if you can get someone to start thinking about things that way, you have given them thinking-tools and not simply openness.

Something to think about is that simple openness is by no means an inherently good thing. A lot of New Age ideologies talk about the need to stay open with upshot that people open themselves to all sorts of poisonous and delusional crap. Being open but selective in what you let in is much better.
I meant it's not part of webrtc, but you indeed can implement a lot of things around it.
I have no doubts the transmission grid is up to the task, but ironically you'll run into the "last mile" problem on the distribution side.

A lot of homes from the 60s-70s in my area only have 100a-125a 2-Phase service. That's quite inadequate do get a meaningful charge quickly.

It stinks that 3-phase is really only available to commercial areas.
It is globally accepted. There are many community libraries throughout the world that consist on a small shelf on a sidewalk where people leave books for others and take the ones they are interested in.

https://littlefreelibrary.org/
In states like Illinois with a high percentage of base load coming from nuclear and wind, charging overnight is basically free. In fact, overnight, Illinois is a net exporter of electricity.
IB claims to only take payment for order flow on options, not on stocks:

https://www1.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=44074#sec...

"3. This revenue is from Options exchanges only, where the payment isn’t tied to specific orders."

IB says 'smart routing' gets a 47cent/100share price improvement, or about half a cent per share. Unsure how that gets weighted.

https://www1.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1685
Hatred of Jews is the most powerful unifying force in world history.
you can replace a tesla battery pack for 12K (after the warranty expires at 120K miles or 8 years), which i would imagine is probably be close to/less than the maintenance costs of a ICE vehicle after 120K miles/8 years
> If you watch an Adam Curtis movie you’ll get the sensation you learned how things happened, but just try to explain in plain English what you learned afterwards.

I think this is exactly what Curtis is trying to instill on his viewers. The sense that the world we live in is a complex world. It made sense when you were watching it but afterwards you have difficulty explaining what you actually saw. Just like the real world.
I tried polyphasic sleeping for a while when I worked at an IBank. I remember it as one of the most productive periods of my life but it was incredibly anti social and got the strangest looks from management.

I'd do 35 minute naps with an alarm at 0430, 0830, 1230, 1630, and without an alarm at 2030 and 0030 (on the basis that I thought my body would sleep through if I was "doing any damage").

It made going out at the weekends or playing poker in a casino incredibly difficult so after 3 weeks I had to pack it in.

I was lucky to live a 5 minute, folding, bicycle ride from the office but I also had a little card I'd leave on my desk for the corner that said, "I have not collapsed I'm having a nap."

The one thing I've kept from those days is that I still wear a sleep mask to bed.
> I'm also not sure it's useful to distinguish a cable bundle from streaming if that streaming includes YouTube TV or whatever. You're really just getting the bundle in a different form at that point--and not really saving a lot of money.

Expect one you can cancel and purchase within seconds whenever you want or need to, and can watch on any device you want, and deal with fewer ad breaks.

Cable TV is on no way a comparable product to the streaming services. People complaining about the horror of clicking a few buttons to cancel and resubscribe on a website gave no idea of the type of horror that awaits when dealing with a cable company.
Each ETF share is backed by a unit of the underlying, so there's no price risk for the ETF issuer.
If the question is "is the world getting better?" then yes, treat everything the same. But that question isn't as useful as others that could be asked, such as "which policies make the world get better?"

Hinkel's argument is that Pinker uses "is the world getting better?" as a proxy for "are my preferred policies making the world better?". If policy evaluation is their goal, the ad-hoc exclusion of China is overly simplistic, but so is drawing policy conclusions from overall trends without examining what's driving the trends. Both Pinker and Hinkel should be measuring the degree to which various policies were applied and evaluate poverty-reduction against that quantity.
Viewpoints are typically the intersection of a number of values. Your interpretation of conflict might just be a function of how your values are weighted vs those of your parents.
yes legit. Also
https://twitter.com/KasparCMS/status/1355348431573684225

It's nut
Stocks explained: What's going on with GameStop?
People aren't stupid. People may fall for these tricks once or twice, but then they realize it's a trick, and they go shop somewhere else.

The sites that treat their customers like idiots need to constantly find new victims.

Sites that treat their customers with respect may not have as high conversion rates for new customers, but the existing customers will go there again.
Mandatory helmets reduce fun and freedom. Laws should not be passed for marginal improvements in safety or small reduction of public costs, in my opinion.
Exactly. For all of that bullshit, plus Bezos' absolutely despicable conduct during Covid, I deleted my Amazon account and haven't looked back. Music gear? Thomann. Electronics? Digitec or Rakuten. And..., er, I'm struggling to think what Amazon was good for anyway. But regardless, unknown stuff? shopping.google.com

Honestly, of the top-x tech companies, Amazon is probably one of the easiest to quit, perhaps after Netflix.

ETA: And oh yeah. Books? Once again, search on shopping.google.com and buy from some small vendor.
Agreed, the prospector mentality will never leave, but it is changing. You couldn’t mine gold from Utah, but you can certainly sell silicon snake oil from there.

The pandemic seems to be is helping legitmize / mainstream “remote-first”. It is already facilitating the exodus of those who view the bay as an inconvenience imposed upon them.

Read any article comments about the bay area here on HN and primarily there are two types of comments: those who hate it here but live elsewhere, and those who hate it here and desperately want to leave.

I know many people like that( and every time I see their location updates on LinkedIn showing they have left, I take a shot of Fernet. I’ve been drinking a lot lately!
An investment in an ETF or other mutual fund is putting your money in the hands of the managers of the fund. They set out objectives for the fund, but they don't necessarily have an obligation to meet those objectives or to keep the same objectives. They can change the objectives within the processes required by the bylaws of the fund. Most of the objectives will have weasel words for management discretion in case of volatile markets.

They have quarterly reporting obligations, and you can review those reports to see how they're doing. If you don't like what you see, you can sell the funds and/or file a shareholders' lawsuit and/or file a SEC complaint.

If you don't like that, the good news is with zero comissions as the norm, and fractional shares at many brokerages, you could build up your portfolio to match an index of your choice, without significant monetary transaction costs. It would take a lot of time to setup and when you made contributions, and dividend processing effort could be significant.
Copyleft is generally regarded as a clever "fix" because of the brokenness of software copyright. Cory Doctorow even addresses this at the beginning of this article. He mentions that the GPL came out around the same time software copyright was first implemented. He distinguishes between copyleft (the "icing") and interoperability (the "cake") to point out how the new software copyrights took away interoperability. By the end of the article, he suggests we have no more cake and the icing may vanish soon.
Musk's SpaceX violated its launch license in explosive Starship test: the Verge
> I hate to ask, but can you dumb this down?

Most actual examples are less blatant, but let's say our welfare system consists of a 12'000$ welfare for anyone who makes less than 12'000$ in income. If your job pays 11'000$, your take-home pay is 11+12 = 23'000$. If you do very well and get a 2000$ raise, your income is now 13'000$, so you don't get the welfare, and your take-home pay is now 13'000$, meaning you lost 23-13 = 10'000$ of effective income by getting a raise.
I suspect the fall off is non-linear. I would be curious to know how they fair in the next 100k miles.

I have never bought a car with less than 100k miles on it and I drive pretty nice cars. There are a whole lot of ice cars on the road with more than 100k miles because the last decade has produced very reliable ice vehicles with very replaceable parts.
It's just a round-a-bout way of getting rid of cash so they can surveil all transactions
> you're not "anti-authoritarian, you're just a left wing authoritarian.

Yes I was kind of avoiding this term, but you nailed it.
I appreciate your optimism, but "energy too cheap to meter" was first promised in the 1950s. We never got it thought.
The last line FTA:

> Yet even that hasn’t solved the problem. See for yourself: Do a Google search for “Guy Babcock.”

The first "traditional" result for Babcock's name is now the NYT story, but the first 5+ (even moreso on mobile) are thumbnails [0] showing his image with a text overlay of his name and "paedophile".

The first 3 thumbnails link to the sites cheaterboard dot com, cheaters dot news, thecheatalert dot com. The fourth thumbnail is a Pinterest account linking to a ripoffreport post.

All these "top" results feature the same "content" [1] – the victim's name spammed repeatedly, along with "paedophile" and "racist POS".

I know spam abuse detection isn't trivial, but this seems like the most basic kind of spam abuse that Google claims it knows how to downrank.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/gosroWQ.jpg

[1] https://i.imgur.com/kFI9XNc.png
You’re going to have to take my word for it, not much incentive for me to go through all of that to sate your doubts.
Well that sure is a case for Starlink.
To wit, "to filter" -> "filter to".
Fairness is treating everyone equally, the fact you put that in quotes is concerning...

Further it is not just people that have paid off college debt or are past the stage where are concerned about college debt..

Many people worked their ass off to become good at a trade or other profession with out incurring college debt, why should we then have to pay increased taxes to pay of those that bought into the college lie?

No one is offering me Mortgage Debt forgiveness? Housing is more of a necessity of life than a collage degree...
15k? Are you buying cocaine for your electrician and his hookers, or are you hiring him to run a 240v outlet? Because the latter should cost about 1/10th of what you’re expecting..
I'm not sure if that's just the spin of the article, but isn't it odd that the fate of the device just depends on a single volunteer spending his time on making it usable? It seems surreal how fragile the phone OS ecosystem is. It wouldn't even be a big burden for the producers to, say, dedicate 1-2 staff days/month to this effort. Instead we all buy devices that expect to be bricked after 3 years unless volunteers step up.
Relational algebra isn’t that hard to implement if you’re willing to sequential-scan all of the time. The massive complexity comes in the query planner: The point of adding an index is to change the space-performance tradeoff of certain operations. The system needs to be able to take advantage of these data layout changes, or there’s little benefit over storing everything in flat arrays.
On large scale building new power plants and transmission lines is pretty simple.

But I think the real challenge will be for the last km. It's a nice idea to add the charger to lamppost and so on. But how do we cope with increased demand there then? We are talking about dozens or hundreds of extra kilowatts of demand compared to current. And the current local grids just aren't designed and build for that. Even bigger problem in places where people commute to, with potential of hundreds of kilowatts of extra demand in relatively short window of time...
My 2017 Volt is what took me to my 2018 Model 3. Now I can no longer see myself driving any car that is not electric. This from someone who loves the sound of a good muscle car even to this day.

GM's issue has always been they have played the compliance game while claiming otherwise. Even Ford is doing it now with the Mach E by limiting availability to 50k models, a number a third of the sales of vehicles they have cancelled for low unsustainable sales.

I never bought my TM3 to save money, buying any new car pretty much is a losing proposition. I bought it because it was cool. It was the closest I have even seen to those dream/concept cars from the seventies and eighties. All those cars with radical exteriors and even more radical interiors. Well someone built it.

Is it perfect. No. However as an EV is had my most important feature. Range. I could care less about its 0-60mph times. I want range. I want to drive to my friends in the boonies and back in all seasons without having to divert to charge. I want to be able to skip chargers because I have the range to do so.

Plus remember, every range number given should be hedged by multiplying it by 0.90 as no manufacturer suggests charging to 100% all the time.

On a side note : Do not buy FSD. Tesla will not let you transfer it to another Tesla and even right now trade ins to Tesla are hit and miss as they have been giving ZERO dollars on trade for the feature. You don't need it for lane keep assist or traffic aware cruise control. I don't care if you believe Tesla can or cannot deliver it, the simple matter here is they don't honor you by giving you anything for it on trade; something that Elon claims to be looking into
A casino will absolutely shut a machine or a table down whenever the hell they want.

I don't understand your argument. RH either has the money to put up collateral or they don't. They didn't this week. That seems like the end of the story. They can't just "choose" to have more cash on hand than they actually have.
Seems like a patch others (ie:me) would like to see
It'd be wise to calculate for yourself. Existing and future green energy plants (solar/wind/water) won't be enough to charge 60% EV's in 10 years without nuclear or fossil backup, if all current oil-based traffic was now using EVs. But as soon as you start generating energy for EVs from fossil fuel, the CO² balance reverses due to an even lower efficiency factor than combustion in modern ICEs.

Either we accept nuclear energy as "clean" and massively stock up in this area (also investing massively in next generation nuclear, like fusion power), or we'll face a huge backlash in a few years. Or we invent a next-generation battery which is cheap enough (on resources) and improve upon existing energy storage by at least one order of magnitude.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/12/f69/GITT%20I...
The vast majority of GME buyers could never be considered guilty of unlawful market manipulation. "I intended to buy the stock because I thought it would go up" is a pretty good reason. (OTOH I don't really believe such investors have a strong case against RH).
You think Elon Musk wouldn't cut starlink for folks if they were striking? Really?
Ask HN: Backup Android contacts without Google?
I've gone through many phones over the years and am sick of losing all of my contacts. On the other hand I tend to default to not letting google backup my phone as I'm trying to reduce my dependency on the google ecosystem.

Are there any third party services that people recommend that allow me to store my contacts in an e2e manner externally or even my whole app data or phone state that are not google services. I'm open to paid services.
Think “matter scanner/printer”.

Scan an object, at atomic & energy vector level. Transmit that information to a destination’s printer. Expansion is then indeed at speed of light, capped only by need to physically move a small “seed” printer (rapid transport may have enormous energy cost, but that’s all that needs moving; everything else is just data).

Having seen tech go from digital imaging to 3D organ printing in a fraction of my lifespan, seems plausible.
What if the government shut down all exchanges? So then you have people transacting OTC?

I don’t get it. Then there’s no price discovery and nobody wants to take a risk.
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programming quality would really improve.
Huh?

> Only when the sphere’s thin outer shell had reached the earth—perhaps carrying radio signals from the extraterrestrials’ early history, before their rapid expansion started. By that point, though, the expanding sphere itself would be nearly upon us!

Wouldn't the problematic portion of the sphere be, by definition, millions of years away from us? Given that radio waves travel at the speed of light, and the alien civilization travels at slightly less than the speed of light, it seems like we should have at least however many million years it took for those aliens to get from producing radio waves to "maxing out" travel.
Toyota solid-state battery lighter, much more powerful than current lithium-ion
In the same way that we use "i18n" to abbreviate "internationalization", I propose we start using "adver5s" for both of these. :P
...in people aged 60 and over.
That reddit/wsb didn't market manipulate is in no way an argument for robin hood having market manipulated.

Again, it's fine to do things that cause stock prices to move. That robin hood could have reduced their functionality further in order to affect the stock price less is not relevant. If they have some duty to go out of their way to minimise their impact on stock prices, its above and beyond regular market manipulation.
Tesla has their own insurance product[1] to try and lower what they think are inflated insurance costs on their cars. I don't know if they actually do offer better prices. It would be interesting to know.

[1]https://www.tesla.com/insurance
“Usually, this would list a value of 30-bit here (i.e. 10-bit per RGB channel)“

Anyone else remember the early days when you could actually choose 32bit colour in system preferences?

Drives me crazy that it’s taken this long to get back to unbanded gradients.
But how do you know the price? Much less price discovery.

Would it be easy to transact OTC like that?
It looks impressive. I am just wondering if it supports NetCDF (or if it is in the roadplan). In particular, things like pcolormesh and displaying grids on a map.
r/WallStreetBets vs. Gamestop For Renewable Energy
Hi HN, I'm Evan. I was tired of traditional carbon offsets not impacting the source of carbon emissions so I started this company to enable r/WallStreetBets style pressure on coal power plants' bottom line. You won't get rich, but at least coal power plants won't either.
A casino definitely can't shut down a blackjack game in the middle. That is not true.

What are you even arguing here? That the purpose of a brokerage is to take customers money and play weird games with it to maximize profits and is allowed to just not have enough money to cover all cash purchases?

That is like if a bank just didn't let customers withdraw their money, and kept operating like nothing was wrong. Clearly illegal.
Modeling real world in good or bad IMO is not going to fit very well.
> Charging a Tesla at grid prices currently costs you about the price of a cup of coffee

I think you’ve got your math a bit wrong - average cost of electricity in CA is .24/kWh, while my marginal cost for electricity is .42/kWh. That makes charging a tesla battery a $20-$40 proposition, not a $5 one.
Well, not always. A company that builds good products and consistently adds value and grows will have a stock that grows, and dividends to pay, and no mid- or long-term investor will be "holding the bag."
You think Elon wouldn't cut Starlink so that he can cozy up with a dictatorial regime?

Edit:- keep 'em downvotes coming Muskie fanbois!
Interesting thought. I was just listening to some Wendy Carlos. Not sure that the rest of the audience actually understands the reference.
Where I lived, virtually every big parking lot had charging stations. As big parking lots are generally wasted space anyways, why not work with them to be the place to charge? Just as I don't gas up at home, I can live with not charging at home, especially as charge times come down in the future.
And plenty of used bookstores, who do the same thing commercially and generally don't even get nasty letters from publishers.
Want something scary?

The form of reasoning used is exactly that in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument for why humanity is unlikely to last long, and almost certainly will not have a future where we break out and colonize most of the Solar System, let alone the stars.

If you believe both arguments, the most likely outcome is that there is one more step on the way to Robin's argument. And that outcome is the replacement of biological intelligence with mechanical. So indeed we give rise to an expanding wave of technological civilization. But we are close to peak population and will not ourselves see that civilization.

All hail our future AI overlords!
The question is, how do we fix this? Is there a best setting to use, and if not, who will join the working group to define one?
I’m not arguing that it’s a logical fallacy, I’m arguing that it’s outside the scope of logical fallacies. In fact that’s why I’m using it as an example.
I laughed hard ... but actually no.

That should be yelled at every FOSS evangelist, those people who claim everywhere that no one needs Windows, because Linux has everything Windows has, just better, etc.

We FOSS developers are free to do what we want. Most of us develope mainly for pleasure, not to ease the workload of some corporate helpdesk.
Not sure work would go that far, to be honest. I figure just the increased load and charging ports would be all you could expect them to do.
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Remember how truly secure channels keep transmitting random noise at a constant rate when they are not transmitting encrypted messages at the same rate.

Anything which is non-uniform is an attack surface. If an efficiency improvement makes things more predictable, then it adds a possibility of a new snooping attack. All your interactions have to be as inefficient as your most inefficient interaction, else an adversary can tell them apart