skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If all countries had robust carbon taxes or similar schemes, then you could possibly argue that the price of bitcoin reflects their true cost. Possibly. But definitely not now.

This contradicts your earlier point that markets can't resolve negative externalities. Presumably a tax will cause a marked market response.

Further, Bitcoin's price is a reflection of demand, not cost. In the long run, however, the price of any currency will likely converge to its cost of production, which is also why fiat is fundamentally a poor store of value.

> You really don't get the concept of "tragedy of the commons" do you?

The tragedy of the commons is mostly in the word "commons", as opposed to "private property".

I merely have a different opinion on how negative externalities should be resolved. [0]

> We all pay because of the negative externalities involved with producing electricity [...]

Such a statement is too nebulous to be useful. Consider that what "we" pay is entirely subjective based on what individuals value. I know people who care deeply about every part per millon of carbon emission while others don't. How then do you propose to determine what "we" pay? Who is this "we"?

Are you going to somehow convince nonplussed people that they are paying for some particular externality that they don't care about? Suffering and loss are subjective.

You want carbon taxes, enforced by some authority who can presumably accurately determine the correct price for such things. All I can say is good luck.

And how many other externalities would you like taxed? At what granularity? Perhaps households or individuals should pay carbon taxes too? What about all that energy wasted on Christmas lights?[1] What's your preferred maximum level of elictricity production that will guarantee carbon neutrality? Is carbon neutrality the most important thing and everything else a distant second?

However, for those who care deeply about the matter, they can make their preferences and values felt right now and every day in the market, which is especially easy to do in cryptocurrency markets.

Organise a coalition to short Bitcoin to protect the environment. Surely there are many of you just on HN alone given that this article was on the front page. Shorting is a form of taxing. Drive the price to 0. Save the environment. If one is not willing to have skin in the game to stop Bitcoin's energy consumption, they are just larping as saviours of the environment.

[0]: https://mises.org/library/austrian-theory-environmental-econ...

[1] https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/christmas-lights-e...
You forgot a huge dimension of those jobs:

As you get older, you are more valuable. No "silicon valley" syndrome about age: you'd never have to dye your hair, wear a hoodie to fit in, nobody will blink if you have to take a day off to take care of the kids.

You can be a real adult - nobody comes into those programs and expects a ball pit or a foosball table, and nobody seriously thinks someone right out of college but who is up on the "latest framework" could take their job - because the jobs are deeply, deeply technical and require lots of experience. If you blow the doors off of everyone else in programming, great! That's one dimension. But it usually isn't the only one.

"The pay is worse" - for software, undoubtedly. For hardware? It's usually a wash after adjusting for cost of living and the benefits are better on the defense side.

I like defense because the systems are usually pretty badass. We have people leave for FAAMG occasionally, so it's not like we don't know who the people who are "that good" are! :)
The age at which you got democracy isn't necessarily correlated with the quality of that democracy. Ask the US.
Interesting post from the other day about author regrets when writing books. [1] I don't totally agree. The out-of-pocket amounts seem pretty high to me--especially if you're going through a publisher. But, then, book writing for me (as a business) has always been reputational as opposed to trying to be a serious income stream in its own right. Which I think it's been very effective in doing even though I've made very little direct money.

[1] https://withoutbullshit.com/blog/the-15-biggest-regrets-that...
But if acquiring currency and holding it causes you to get rich, that's a serious defect. That means it won't get spent which means the economy grinds to a halt and depression ensues. This is not a feature we want for a currency.
Stronger how? Torsional strength? Compression strength? Tension strength? Hardness? Yield strength?

Or just random person throwing it on the floor?
Genetic variation, brain, and intelligence differences [full paper; 10.9k words]
You need JS to serve ads. That's what pays for the text.

Note that I'm not advocating this. I wouldn't enable JS to read something either.
"Does not crack" doesn't mean that it is stronger at what concrete is good for. Try to build a 70 story building with that stuff, for example. Diamond is good for scratching, steel can be good for hitting....
Get it now! The big part in our opinion is growing a community of people using Wasp for their projects - if we manage to do that, we'll definitely be motivated to continue, funding or no funding. We are of course motivated to build a business on top of Wasp, but for now still focusing on the product.

Thanks for the info about licenses, awesome overview!
It looks like you are very well informed and very eloquent. Do you have any plan or actions to help to solve the problem of nationalism and oppression towards Uyghurs?
How about domain specific pictures? "What is in the picture below?" The put a picture of a CPU heat-sink using the previous example And have many pictures to cycle through. Maybe change them up every couple months. Or number the pictures/questions and have the script use a different batch every week. You just need 52 batches and use ImageMagick to change the checksum and quality randomly. Then change them out once a year. I mean, they can update the bot every week, but there must be some really amazing reason to go through that effort if your site is attracting such people. I could see that happening to a gambling site, but probably not the average site.
Universities are walking a tightrope right now. It used to be they’d teach you domain knowledge and theory and you’d figure out application elsewhere. The expense and demands of college have meant (in many ways) ensuring that they can hit the ground running, so to speak. Do courses like these provide practical skills along side the their theory courses.
Heh, it's a reference to https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
Is it weird that a /university/ is offering this course on how to work with a specific commercial product?

Not any more weird than my old college offering courses in Java and .NET-related things.

Or high schools that teach people how to use Microsoft Word.

Or a trade school teaching people how to use specific types of machinery only made by one company.

Or secretarial schools that only taught people how to use IBM Selectrics.
Yes, exactly. I think we're saying the same thing: the submitted tool doesn't need apt or any sort of root permissions. While the instructions the parent posted required root, apt, knowledge of pinning, and acceptance of any issues that brings up.

Much more complicated than just installing a font.
I've recently started thinking of businesses in similar terms to core game loops. Deep in the guts of every successful business there is one (or more) loops that keep the rest going. When I next try something i'll start with the loop.
Reading the introduction, it's an extended insult to anyone proceeding faster than the government prescribed standard pace, accusing them of failing to process things in depth. (And for those who missed a concept- too bad you have to keep going at the same pace.) The primary objective seems to be ensuring no one gets visibly ahead of anyone else. It's attempting to push the SFUSD no Algebra until high school madness on everyone.

The description is so full of contradictions that it can't be rationally understood- there are not allowed to be advanced students, but "high achievers" are helped by going "more in depth", while they "learn to appreciate the beauty of mathematics and the connections between mathematical areas". They sit there and complain about a "rush to calculus", but then in order to take Calculus in SFUSD you have to rush through the classes that immediately precede it.

"All students can take Common Core-aligned mathematics 6, 7, and 8 in middle school and still take calculus, data science, statistics, or other high-level courses in high school."

And how does that turn out?

"In SFUSD, students have many options for a fourth year of math, including Pre-Calculus, AP Calculus and AP Statistics. There are also many ways to reach a fourth year of math, including choosing to take a “compression” course that combines Algebra 2 and Precalculus in 11th grade; choosing to “double up” on math during 9th or 10th grade; or taking a summer Geometry course between 9th and 10th grades."[1]

Why the great opposition to 8th grade (or earlier) Algebra?

"In order to reach algebra in grade eight, students must cover all of middle grades math in just two years (or else skip some foundational material)."

Or, you need to cover the 9 years (K-8) in 8 years, which doesn't sound quite as daunting...not to mention the possibility of starting ahead. However, they are concerned that a student's path is set in 5th grade. Rather than look at this as a lack of imagination in the naming of courses, such that they all need to be one year endeavors...

I fully support getting rid of some closed notion of "tracking" where people have no ability to move at their own pace and speed up or slow down. However, all of their complaints against tracking (save one) apply to this solution, as it is locking all students into one, inadequate track.

[1] https://archive.sfusd.edu/en/assets/sfusd-staff/1.9.19%20Mat...
We do have one case where we do have to capture the hour of day for an IT activity. In this situation, we present the UI in the timezone configured by the customer's server and additionally display this timezone information in the UI as reference/confirmation for the user. Once the user submits their input in terms of server-local time, we immediately convert it to UTC for storage in our system. Note that because we present the actual TZ info, this even supports servers that are already configured for UTC. We have no edge cases aside from ensuring our users pay attention to the TZ info.

I still don't understand the arguments about a future date requiring a timezone. UTC can 100% accurately represent a future date or event without any ambiguity. If a user, meeting or other aggregate has a culture/timezone preference, this is a completely separate business fact from the time.
These are all subjective aspects which often confuse unfamiliarity with obfuscation.

I can read generic code in multiple languages even when I'm not fluent in these languages.

Once you get used to generic code, it actually becomes easier to read and understand than code where everything is type cast or Object typed all over the place.
4) It's standard library is also big, modern and well documented.
It's credit that is backed by the US dollar. Similarly Visa could use Bitcoin as their base currency, and they probably will.
Toyota teams up with Aurora and Denso on robotaxi development
For 2D art https://2dgameartguru.com/ might be good. It started as a set of tutorials for game programmers struggling with making art. It specifically focuses on vector art, and pixel art might be more suitable, for that https://lospec.com/ links to many tutorials.

For game design process Game Design Workshop and Challenges for Game Designers are good books that cover process comprehensively (TLDR is quick concept, prototype, play test, refine).
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There are real reasons to not want microplastics in your local environment, but I think your dismissiveness of spreading a problem out over 1,000 years is unwarranted. There is a huge difference between a problem that has to be solved in a year and a problem that has to be solved in 100 or 1,000 years, because time is an incredibly valuable asset.

Delaying some of the carbon we put in the atmosphere for hundreds of years is massively useful, because it buys us time to try stave off and ameliorate some of the effects of climate change.
The US is the odd one out... I completely see why you'd make a temporary building out of wood so that you can build it in just a few days.

But if this is a house, expected to last 150 years plus, and you're already bringing lots of bricks to the site, you really ought to be using the bricks to hold the building up and reserving the wood for the internal floors and other things that will be replaced every 75 years.
Wouldn't ipset be easier to use and potentially faster?
Cash is terrible. But that's not all "other methods of money transfer". Compared to an ATM debit, credit card payment, or even most modern crypto coins, the energy cost of Bitcoin is ridiculous.
2k companies plans for remote work going forward
I suppose everyone's experience is a little different. I started writing code when I was about 7 and I really don't think the K-12 curricula I went through had much direct impact on my career. Maybe some people catch the bug in school, I sure didn't. This was roughly 1986-1998, though, maybe things have changed significantly.
> I’ve never met a skilled developer willing to work for what the government pays?

Is that your bubble that's poorly skilled?
Elon Musk says he bought Dogecoin for son 'so he can be a toddler hodler'
The paper SARS-CoV-2 infection is effectively treated and prevented by EIDD-2801 [1] comes out of Ralph Baric's lab:

> Here we used a single experimental platform based on human lung-only mice (LoM) to demonstrate efficient in vivo replication of all recently emerged human coronaviruses (SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2) and two highly relevant endogenous pre-pandemic SARS-like bat coronaviruses.

> Our results show that therapeutic and prophylactic administration of EIDD-2801, an oral broad spectrum antiviral currently in phase II–III clinical trials, dramatically inhibited SARS-CoV-2 replication in vivo and thus has significant potential for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.

EIDD-2801 (Molnupiravir [2]) is an oral antiviral while monoclonal antibody treatment requires intravenous delivery.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03312-w

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molnupiravir
"The seven-continent model is usually taught in most English-speaking countries including the United States, United Kingdom[38] and Australia,[39] and also in China, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, and parts of Western Europe."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent

Definitions do indeed vary, but that's how I learned it, and it would even seem to be the model most often taught.

Which way were you taught?
I know SV wasn't in the running, but I can't imagine the Bay Area or California even addressing the permits by 2023... On another note, does anyone know if the supply chain/parts/materials/machinery can be sourced from outside of Chinese suppliers?
Texas business-friendly laws with access to technical Austin workforce and university.
Sure, the presentation requirement is worth discussion, but what about the appalling tone of the email itself? It's a laundry list of ways they hold you in contempt.

Prepare for interruptions. Manage your time wisely. Prepare perfectly and be perfect.

I'll never be able to reconcile this industry's complaints about engineer shortages with the way so many companies talk to us like we're shit on their shoes.
I wonder why they don't use `location.replace` [1]. It isn't exactly new.

Edit: ah, I see, it doesn't work for changing domains. Still, they could use e.g. bbc.co.uk/[country-code]/ as many other sites do.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/re...
Users should not stay "logged in". Always log out when done. Keeping tabs open, not logging out, is allowing much more tracking to be done than would be possible otherwise.

Disabling Javascript and using a forward proxy, it is easy to not send User Agents and other points needed for fingerprinting.

Tracking IP address is expected and will always be acceptable. All the rest is stuff users are voluntarily transmitting even when it is not necessary, making tracking much easier and more productive for the marketers.

There are many tactics to make tracking much more difficult and more expensive. However, few are using them.
This is awesome! The US needs domestic chip manufacturing, in order to be able to effectively compete, take business from, and vanquish China on all fronts. This includes AI, automobiles, the cloud, etc. The coming technology arms race is looking to be like a second Cold War, so we need to remember the lessons of the first (like containment) and apply them again.
Austin has a long established semiconductor workforce, and there are already multiple fabs there, as well as a lot of semiconductor design. Right now, Freescale/NXP has two fabs, Spansion has a flash fab, and Samsung already has a fab in Austin.
Adjacent Idea Suggestion:

We should record job interviews.

Then both sides can review at their leisure.

Maybe then we can start improving.

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Origin of Idea:

I ran for office. Lots of endorsement interviews. It's just as bad as you'd expect. Comparable to our industry's hazing rituals.

The better interviews were recorded. The best were shown on TV, available online.

Somehow everyone's better behaved when there's witnesses. (I quickly learned to make and release my own recordings of endorsement interviews.)

--

We should practice interviewing. Just like public speaking, stump speeches, etc.

Ages ago, I worked at a place that took recruiting and interviewing seriously. We had agendas, checklists, scripts, surveys. We practiced on each other, switching roles. We did all hand's debrief after each candidate.

We treated our interviews as seriously as our usability labs.

Though we mocked the term at the time, I miss "learning organizations". When some of us at least tried to get better.

Okay, rant over.
Nobody's questioning it exists. This is a wilful misrepresentation of why people have issues with it -- the reason why I got pissed with the things you've written is that they match the stereotype bitcoin enthusiast speil almost to a tee. I can understand why it exists, and what the value proposition is, and what it promises, and still question what the point of it is because there are huge glaring issues with it.

> when does it stop

It doesn't, because of the very obvious problems with it as a currency vs. existing currencies. If those magically go away, then people will stop questioning it. As it is, there is very little sign of that ocurring.

There is no disconnect there, no hidden motives. People use currency. Do the benefits of bitcoin outweigh what seem like huge downsides? Quoting the technical underpinnings of it as if it's some slam dunk -- how do you seriously think this persuades people?

Edit: also this

> The problem that you and others like you have is you don't have any BTC and now are struggling to understand why anyone else would have any. I think it's mostly from the fact you didn't get any when you should have and now there is no reason as it's expensive and again you don't have any. Simple really.

This reads as the reason people people have problems with it is envy, that they didn't buy some before it skyrocketed in value, and they now can't buy any.
The US mainstream media is constantly being manipulated by many a special interest group and are also extremely sensitive to anything that may affect their bottom line (e.g. the massive display of cowardice most mainstream media outlet put on during the mohamed danish cartoon affair [1] [2])

The fact that pro-israel interest groups are playing this game as well is nothing special.

They might be playing the game a little better than others, but in general: move along, nothing to see here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_carto...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_OR3b-97Ds
If it's here to stay, isn't it time for the public to get to have some say in their own risk analysis calculation? Isn't it time to perhaps give some weight to the numerous studies that say lockdowns don't work? Maybe time to push Vitamin D supplementation, and get a really concrete strategy around treatment with promising medicines like Ivermectin?

Right now, where I live, we have an amazingly inconsistent set of rules. I went out for dinner on the weekend, which means sitting in a room with like 70 people, no masks. This is fine. Sitting with people in my back yard is not fine, apparently, whether we wear masks or not. There's no consistency at all. How is anyone supposed to respect those rules?

How is anyone supposed to be compliant, knowing that compliance is based around some ridiculous, inconsistent, non-scientific approach? What the fuck sense does it make for me to wear a mask while walking around a restaurant, but not when I am sitting down? How is it OK for my kids to be at school with no mask with their friends, but those same friends can't come over to my house for the afternoon?

Especially difficult is following a set of rules that necessarily includes the realpolitik of estimating just how compliant people will be - in the sense that they push harder than they need to so that those skirting compliance of the rules on paper are still within compliance of the unwritten desired behaviour?

At some point, if the restrictions don't loosen up, I'm going to have to start ignoring the rules like so many others already are. The cost to my sanity and to my children's normal social upbringing is too high, in comparison to a sickness we will almost certainly sail through like any other flu or bad cold we've had in the past.

Those who are at higher risk can cloister themselves away like hermits and avoid everyone else until they get their limited-efficacy vaccine. Those of us who are healthy and can survive what is ultimately just a bad common cold for most should move back on to life as usual, albeit modified for a bit of hygiene that was always missing in public life. I'm glad everyone is washing their hands a bit more, for sure.
I love-hate C++ templates because deep down they are just macros and you don't have to obsess about constraints like in Java and C#.

To me it's pretty interesting how the three big static OO languages have implemented generics: super flexible permissive macros in C++ (with murderous error messages), type erasure in Java (gross) and actual generics in the runtime (C#). For everyday usage it doesn't matter much but I always like thinking about what's going on under the hood.
I am from India, northern part, where there is a lotbof variation between sunlight hours throughout the year. Some days the sun is out at 6 or before in summer, & in winter its some time not out even till 9 or such.

India does not use timezones. Every business, school, office who has business hours, use something like Winter Timings Summer Timings. Schools & such use 14 Oct to 14 Apr as Winter, & other 6 months as summer. My school used to open at 6 in summers, & 7:30 or 8 in winters.

Here in US they keep the opening timings same throughout the year, but go through this DST shenanigans.
Yes, exactly this. However, I remember that when I started working in 2003, I could focus for most of the work day, endure shitty commute and still play Civiliation in the evening or study for my Masters. Now it's out of question. Two things have changed: I'm older and I had to endure 17 years of laboring (whereas in 2003 I was young and yet unspent) and also Internet got vastly better and more addicting. I wonder which of those had more of an effect on me.