skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is how capitalism works. I don't think you'd disagree.

I don’t disagree with the formula as presented.

> Why does A have rights to SV at all?

It is the wage he earned for arranging the components (factory, raw materials, worker who has agreed to work, salesman, etc.) in a way that generated SV. Many capitalists are competing to do this, and some of them are better at generating SV than others. Those capitalists make more money, and they invest in more businesses that generate SV. Some capitalists spend all their investment arranging to produce SV and they don’t make any, they lose money and lose their investment; however the worker still gets paid. The worker trades his labor for a guaranteed wage and the capitalist takes the risk of loss along with the possibility of profit.

Thats the long story, the short version is that he has a right to it because he has a right to the payment he received from the customer. It was a voluntary exchange.

> The thing you are referring to as "Capital" is really just the "Right to collect others SV" -- where does that right come from?

I disagree with this framing because “others’ SV” implies that the SV belongs to someone else. Thats something you should support if you believe it is so.

You frame “capital” as “ Right to collect others SV" but the SV came because the laborer was able to use tools that made him more productive. The only reason the capitalist got some of the SV is that he chose to buy a tool and then agreed to let a worker use the tool. This is a valuable activity and thats why it earns a reward.
> “... or extended discussion“

Oh my, not the dreaded extended discussion!! When will people learn that our tech overlords have found the most optimized means of communicating? We mustn’t revert to the dark times when conversing was openly practiced by the barbarians.
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If they're still producing any power, they'll have some self heating just through waste.

I'm fairly certain that solar panels catch some power off of infrared and the like, so they should still be getting a little bit warm. Snow is a great insulator, so that heat has nowhere to go but melt base layer of snow off.

After that I imagine it's like a glacier, slipping on a small layer of water
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Very true. Just about every North American city would do a LOT more upgrading their transit systems a la Japan or China. Probably for a lower amount than Tesla’s market cap too.
It's more an explanation of how you can have gas heat without power. Also, even heat pumps use a heating element at some point below 28~30 degrees. If you rely on the pump only below that, it'll start to freeze up into an ice block itself at some point.

Plus having a continuous plug-in (natural gas) fuel source is a big advantage over refilling a gasoline generator, which most portable generators are.
Archipelgo Gulag seems more like Stanislaw Lem’s procrustics in “Eden”.
I don't know if Bitcoin will outperform Facebook, but can explain why they're fundamentally different assets. Facebook is a "productive asset". It's a business that sells to customers and generated 29 billion in profit in 2020.

Bitcoin, like gold, is not a productive asset. It doesn't pay interest (like bonds), dividends (like stocks), or rental income (like real estate). Warren Buffett has a good explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtITDtZPYEw&amp%3Bab_channel...
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Probably just their outfits? Not quite sure why it was submitted here!
The core of the problem there is that for Gregg, "this site might be helpful" is an understatement; he knows there is a good chance that it will be helpful, that there is direct relevance...

...and then there are the legions of folks who've been posting links to the first Google result with that same text for years. Those are over-selling it: sure, the link might be helpful, buuuut... Probably not. These have been the bane of many a forum, clogging up the first page or so of responses, sometimes discouraging folks with actual knowledge of the topic from even bothering to respond.

There needs to be some way of distinguishing between the two.
If the celebrity does not talk, what evidence is there that they're indeed that celebrity instead of just a fake profile?

Obtaining a second Clubhouse invite to use for your fake celebrity would surely be cheaper than paying the real one.

Once you have a ring of fake celebrity profiles you can even resell the service to others.
Moderator burnout is a huge problem in all sorts of places. I saw this happen on Wikipedia. It's just plain hard work, and the volume and pace of it means it's easy to get the sense that you are all that's preventing the fall of Western civilization. This in turn leads to bad contributor experiences, alienating people who might in other circumstances end up moderating.

I really wonder how fixable this is. From your SO experience, do you think it's inherent to the model? E.g., does the ratio between types of the work people are willing to do mean moderators will always be outgunned? Or are there perhaps technical or social solutions that you think would have fixed it?
DeepMind Achieves High-Performance Large-Scale Image Recognition
Hey! Those are OUR mastadons!
Since GOOS and GOARCH are not going anywhere, I'm guessing they're just trying to unify a little more to one scheme.
> There's too much emphasis on closing questions that are duplicates (when in fact they are not, and technology changes so a duplicate question asked 2 years later is going to get different responses)

Note you can still post answers to older questions; this is actually encouraged!

Closing of duplicates is the least of Stack Overflow's problems IMHO; it's done for a very real reason: if I search "how to do foo in bar?" then it's really great to have one question with all answers, instead of having to trawl through several questions. Also, as someone who spent quite a lot of time writing in-depth answers over the years, I'd rather not repeat that every month.

I have a lot of criticism of Stack Overflow, and I mostly stopped answering because I got fed up as well, but this isn't a problem IMO.

> Also, often enough the accepted answer for a question is not the best answer and instead the best answer can be found by looking at other answers or the comments (which I agree with the author should not be seen as ephemeral but are instead critical)

Generally those comments should be integrated in the answer; usually if I come upon an answer with helpful comments I will edit the answer to include that information.

I do wish the entire "accepted answer" feature would be removed though, or at the very least stop pinning them to the top.
But the lines have a fixed capacity, and only Texas is having California-style rolling blackouts.
Amazing!

I feel like even more creativity could be brought to bear somehow on how to use the output channel to select text quickly. For example, in the final scene, where the previous state of the art showed someone controlling a mouse-like cursor, I thought "this would be a lot faster for text input if it were controlling something like Dasher".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software)

Similarly, I would imagine that (something like in the novel Rainbows End?) you could have a biofeedback process where the user and the device collaboratively develop an idiosyncratic interface method, which doesn't necessarily have to be based on any pre-existing language, writing system, or even motor skill. I feel almost sure that that could be a thing, and could produce better accuracy and speed for most users than visualizing writing letters could.
I guess they didn't.
A bit of both surely. There's going to be a lot of selection bias, but you should always be asking yourself "is this the kind of thing that might connect with other things in the future?".

tl;dr When in doubt, study maths.
> it would probably end the currency if it was done by force

Sounds like you’re saying Bitcoin only has value because the PRC allows it to?
Electron: The safety of desktop applications with the user experience of web applications.
I have been on SO for over 10 years (not a community moderator; just have the standard moderation powers auto-enabled based on 25k+ rep). I have seen many community moderators who are extremely disrespectful to helpful users, and exhibit the degree of zealous devotion to some abstract rules that would make Chairman Mao smile. My weak attempts to prevent them from bullying users have utterly failed.

It's not an easy problem to solve. SO could simply let community moderators vote out the jerks from among them. That would work great, if only the vast majority of community moderators were kind, considerate, thoughtful people. However, just like with certain other professions, the moderator role tends to appeal either to super-altruists, or to power hungry fanatics. Sadly, the world has a lot more of the latter than the former.

And even more so than with reddit (where at least there's some competition between different communitiies), there's only one SO. Also, the intrinsic importance of historical content on SO is a huge barrier to any competiition. So it's not like users can vote with their feet.

So even if SO management wanted to fix the problem, what could they do? (That's assuming the SO management isn't happy with the current moderation style in the first place!)

(Community moderators = diamond moderators are the only ones, besides SO employees of course, who can delete user comments.)
Why is it a problem for wikipedia to appear on the front page of search results?
Miles north of anchorage? How many hours of sun were you getting? 3? 1?
Speaking of points, is there a way to reset them on HN? I'd rather not have to remake accounts every so often.
GitHub Deceased User Policy
Shouldn’t a proper sorting (based on activity, karma, number of answers) take care of this (= duplicate questions)?
Even if only 10% of jQuery websites are maintained, and every single React website is, there are still almost twice as many actively developed websites using jQuery than React.
Even if I think this is a terrible idea--- You should try it and write up how it goes... :D
This sort of reminds me, at least the Adidas example, of the Nike and Apple activity tracker that would be embedded into shoes in order to track distances and number of steps.
> So then it becomes a digital store of value, one that is only as valued as the market gives it, and typically markets eventually correct when there’s no underlying true value proposition (as we can see with $GME).

You're not missing anything, you said it yourself it's a store of value. Maybe markets eventually correct, but in the last 10 years Bitcoin has only gone up, so if you had planned to use it to store value for 10 years a decode ago, then it worked pretty well.

> It also pushes only towards deflation, so it’s terrible as a wide spread value store because it removes an important tool that governments have to handle the economy

Well it's a store of value, not a tool for the gov to handle the economy.
Radix sort is still O(n logn). More precisely, it's O(w * n) where w is the size in bits of the data being sorted, but then it follows that w scales with log n, since n distinct items requires log n bits and hence you arrive at n logn.
The people getting dangerously cold in their own homes don't care about the nuances between ERCOT and Austin Energy and their city government and county and state and federal governments and this private organization and that. The system as a whole has failed. In tragic fashion. Period. Modularize your organizations if you want to, but it is not an excuse for passing the buck.

There are people at the top of the whole pile. And they have the authority and the responsibility to make sure the whole thing works, at the end of the day, no matter the implementation details. And the whole thing doesn't work.

This is what the American system is chronically worst at. We delegate, and we contract out, and we federalize, and we privatize, and we divide responsibilities. We avoid centralizing things at all costs. And then when put under pressure, those separate pieces often fall apart. Communication fails. At best nobody knows what's going on, at worst they willfully ignore responsibility because somebody else will end up with some or all of the blame. This keeps happening over, and over, and over again. I can't help but feel our society is crumbling.
StackOverflow suffers from Internet Moderator syndrome.

The people who actually want to be moderators are the people you don't want to be moderators. And so it goes. I wonder where greener pastures are. I miss SO as well.

I barely used it a handful of times last year, compared to it's christening year when I was on there asking/answering about 5 times a day.
As an Austin Energy customer a large portion of the blame for this on their poor infrastructure configuration and the number of critical circuits.
It’s not a major problem, but it’s not optimal; just more stuff to skip over looking for the real results. The thing is, I know there is a Wikipedia article about everything, and if I want to see it, I’ll go there and use their search.
Given that people are complaining above that it's been taken over by marketing people and wannabe millionaires, seems like it's not exclusive enough.
"Expensive" is all relative. If it costs say ... 2% of the utility shareholder dividend, would shareholders be ok with that?

Before this happened, what exactly were the incentives that led them not to prepare? Was it really an unforeseeable event? Was the risk understood but downplayed (like the oil industry with climate change)? The answers to these will hopefully come out in time.
So your point here is that... we should ignore his views on free speech (e.g. he should be 'cancelled') because you don't like his other views?

You do realise that ~40% of Brits are Tories?

What does his brother have to do with anything? I don't know what my siblings' political leanings are at all!
Imagine how long it would take to write 16Tb to an SMR drive... That's probably why there's no really large ones.
> If every house had solar panels this would likely be a non-issue.

I doubt this. That would mean a lot of power plants were taken offline as solar ramped up, and I doubt that enough solar to cool a house from 105 to 75 can heat it from 15 to 70.
My most upvoted answer on SO is a quote from a man page and a one liner explaining how to use a flag on a tool.

My favorite answer I made on SO is explaining how to fix using two python libraries that aren't often used together that break in a confusing way when both are loaded, along with a discussion on how I solved it. That one is the only answer for the question, but not marked as the accepted answer despite a comment from the asker saying "thanks! that fixed it!". It's currently at -2 for reasons I can't quite fathom.

At some point answering SO became a game of seeing if I could answer questions before the third close vote would kill discussion, and I realized I'm just there to prove some point to someone, not actually help people.

It's a pity too. I see great value in a website where people can ask questions and get help. SO isn't that, it's some RPG now, with perverse incentives.
I’m amused that a number in this thread saw these observations as a “diss”... that’s more on you then me. I didn’t pass any value judgement on these differences, merely that they exist and demonstrate some fundamental differences in the history of these languages. While Ruby lambdas are essentially first class anonymous functions they were added late in the language and they are distinct from methods that predate them. You can’t just drop them in seamlessly where a method is used.
The point stands that while both Ruby and python have accreted more stuff as time wears on, their initial design principles were starkly dissimilar.
Theory would require some magical fluid to do the heat transfer, and we're limited to real coolants that don't have horrid environment impacts
I really want to thank you for your work on uBlock.

No other software that has contributed so much to my overall happiness, productivity and well-being.

I just double checked the repo but couldn’t find a way to support your work. Is there any way I can donate or send something your way?
This seems unreliable since it weights a website maintained by a single developer in their spare time the same as a website with a dedicated team of devs working full time.
Schemes like that are generally how CO poisoning stories start. Or fires. A door gets cracked to run a hose through... etc.

Besides, at some point, you're just reinvinting an overly complicated combustion heater.

Which I already have, is already hardwired for fuel, and only needs to be plugged in.
People want quick answers, not browsing documentation. SO is useful in the sense that it provides answers to specific questions which a google search finds instantly.
Yes, sorry. It's in a state of major upheaval. I'll get it cleaned up ASAP. Nice to see there's actually some interest in this direction from others!
> I would argue part of the problem is that the majority of developers are computer science illiterate.

Sometimes, but it’s certainly only part of the problem. I’ve seen these kinds of bugs from people who would “know better”, who understand what O(n^2) is and are entirely willing and capable of fixing these things when you point them out…it’s just that they don’t see them when they are writing the code, or they mispredict the value of n that the code will be used under. And this seems to be prevalent no matter how “production grade” the software is; I’ve diagnosed these in my web browser, filesystem, text editor…in many of these cases I know who the developers are and they are exceptionally talented, and yet these kinds of bugs still exist. I don’t think we can solve these issues without some sort of concerted effort to uncover them, which I would argue is a strangely rare skill.
Ah that's a good explanation of Blue Prism vs UI Path.

I think MS is planning to offer it in the O365 stack which means if its half decent it will probably eat UI Path's lunch?

> I don't think legacy support is a major point for them, which will probably be good enough for most people.

Interesting that you say that, I thought that would be one of the primary usecases of RPA? Legacy apps where there's no possibility of an API.
It's possible both things are true: it IS spam by the formalisms the mods determine. And, it IS sensible for them to want to promote their work, because the body of work is awesome.

Not all true things are without conflict. This isn't maths. This is sociology. What people want is sometimes in conflict.

The mods wanted "no spam" and they lost a content provider because they hung up on the issue. I think both sides lost, but I'd do what the submitter did.
I don't buy this argument, it sounds like you're just convinced that Bitcoin can't be a store of value because X and Y and completely ignore the fact that it is being used as a store of value.
Isn't the objective if a search engine to show you the most relevant result to your search? I find wikipedia results to be my most clicked because they're the most useful. I don't understand how those aren't "real" results.
Sure, but it won't be me...
Show HN: BoardGames: 100% realtime C#/WASM app with just 35 LOC of realtime code
"Board Games" is a new Fusion + Blazor sample and a fully functional web app allowing you to play real-time multiplayer board games.

Ok, it's real-time, but what's so new there? The implementation cost of real-time updates. Everything you see in this sample required me to write just ~ 35 extra lines of code!
The timestamp on that looks newer?
That model appears to be nonsense. There’s no “stock to flow” price relationship in economics or investing. The author made it up for their piece, looked at gold, and extrapolated.

They say in the piece:

> Now contrast Bitcoin's dynamic stock-to-flow with Gold's, who's stock-to-flow of 62 is not likely in increase. As a thought experiment, try to imagine what would happen to the price of gold if were to be halved one day?

That did happen, in 1940! Gold production fell in half for years. And the gold price subsequently fell.
>Are you willing to provide a more sophisticated explanation for USD demand?

I don't particularly feel the onus is on me to provide a full explanation. You are the one providing one in order to show Bitcoin demand is illusory or foolish. All I wanted to do was to point out enough of what yours was missing to show that Bitcoiners are at least not FOOLISH... that there is nuance enough here that if they are wrong, it's likely not because of some 101 mistake.

I did this by pointing out how an explanation of demand of currency must include an account of how supply itself can influence demand. The scenario I painted where supply grossly outstrips initial demand - thus further reducing demand - is possible; it can and has happened - Weimar, Zimbabwe etc... You responded by adding even MORE nuance by pointing out that added supply, rather than representing a hyperinflationary scenario - might itself just be a response to increased demand. And it might indeed! But are we in your scenario or are we heading further and further down the road of over supply? That's a HUGE empirical question... surely. And surely in determining whether or not I want to keep my wealth in USD vs something else, I need to know more about reality than just whether or not I can pay my tax in it, or purchase various things.

Thus I feel I have adequately demonstrated your explanation of currency demand as simplistic - without having to supply a fully rigorous account of my own.

The rest of your reply is worthy and deserving of response - but time is short! :)
That's a fair point, I didn't think about it that way.
That 83% is very shaky at best.

First, number of websites != number of platforms. If you go to the source of the number, they even point out as much:

> WordPress, which is used in more than 30% of sites, includes jQuery by default.

So right off the bat, you're looking at 50% or so, maybe plus a few for people who actually make a point to write jQuery + for wordpress specifically.

Secondly, that study has detection issues [0] that seem to not pick up a good deal of bundlers/etc, which makes it really hard to say how many of React/Vue sites are missed.

Thirdly, jQuery being used as a dependency of a library will still count it in that 83%. They show a few combination options specifically, and show it's at least 1.7% [1]. With others, say 2.5% in total. Think about how many bundlers hide React/Vue and how many common dependencies could use jQuery, and you're probably much higher.

Given all that, I'd bet that number is closer to 17% than 83%, though I'd wager around 33%.

Even with that 33% being jQuery without a framework or not being wordpress, you have to remember this is published. How many of those have had code significantly changed in the past 5 years? This is what's relevant in this context. All of this long winded nuance to say that I don't think "your average jQuery question is probably useful to many more people than your average React one" holds up, at least not like you might think that cited number shows. That's not to say it's irrelevant, just less relevant.

[0] https://github.com/AliasIO/wappalyzer/issues/2450

[1] https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2020/javascript#framework...
Is Texas as a state poorer than Minnesota or something? What makes it unrealistic, other than laziness?

It's not more taxing on Minnesota to implement the infrastructure than anyone else

It's as unrealistic as it is to expect a credit agency to encrypt their data, because credit agencies don't get hacked