skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After an 8% decline last year, I sure hope it bounces back this year... A more useful click-bait headline would be compounding 2020 and 2021, then seeing which country has the most growth.
> if you say you're English these days, you'll be arrested and thrown in jail

What do you mean by this?
because videos with a "talking-head" are more engaging that slides alone.

as was reported in this study:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2556325.2566239

"Our main findings are that shorter videos are much more engaging, that informal talking-head videos are more engaging, that Khan-style tablet drawings are more engaging, that even high-quality pre-recorded classroom lectures might not make for engaging online videos, and that students engage differently with lecture and tutorial videos."
> VScode is a shining example of what that can accomplish

I see this mentioned quite often here, but that's not a valid argument in favour of Electron Apps.

VSCode is the primary focus for a user when it's active - so it's fine if it takes up a significant proportion of a machine's resources. Now if a bunch of background taskbar apps, calculators and notepads start doing the same, user experience is going to go downhill very quickly.

So basically, Electron is a good choice for apps in which you spend a lot of time; and a poor choice to be a preferred platform for an OS.
In fact, I was using VS Code on 10 year old Core 2 Duo 2GHz machine up to a year ago. Without extensions, the responsiveness was fine -- definitely not as responsive as gvim, but otherwise no complaints.

When I added extensions, it did start to feel laggy but once I turned off all extensions save one (the language server extension -- in my case, Python) it was fine again.

With my current machine (a refurbed 2014 Intel i7 Dell desktop), VS Code is pretty responsive even with extensions enabled.
Looks like a fun project but the results did not look promising. Out of 100 mosquitos the best algorithm would’ve taken out less than 10.
Tldr: proof of stake is a climate disaster because it rewards those who already have money, which means those without money will get hurt more by climate change.

Yes, this is the actual argument made in the underlying post that this is blogspam for.

>I’m sure you’re seeing the problem here- there is not a schema that doesn’t reward those who already are already wealthy, who are already bought in, who already have excess capital or access to outsized computational power. Almost universally they grant power to the already powerful.
This is also a climate issue.
Climate justice is social justice. This is true in that the worst impacts of climate collapse are felt by those with no means to avoid them, while those with resources easily fuck on off to somewhere where they don’t have to see it.
It's a great reason against donating restricted, but wouldn't help his overall argument that you should trust the non-profit.
The problem is that the procrastination is triggered from the subconscious realization that much of the work we have to do is nonsensical or the result of societal barriers being there because there is too much competition and too many other people around.

For instance, in all of the steps needed to get job X, you have to expend effort on classes and activities in school that often do not have an impact on your actual life circumstances or intellectual world in and of themselves, but are necessary if you are to compete against other students for limited spaces in specific universities. Once in university, you have to continue a similar if albeit less absurd dance that is necessary to get a recognized certification that in turn is only needed because the employer has to sift through many applications and doesn't have time to evaluate you as an individual.

In a service based economy, there also comes the realization that the result of your work is often in the most fundamental terms an attempt to funnel some surplus your way through a product or service that is often superfluous, redistributive, and/or reliant on its marketing. Or the job itself only exists because other humans are in a state of competition or artificial scarcity. The proportion of people who actually create non-virtual wealth or provide truly essential services is fairly low. In the end, it's pretty uncommon to have a job that only gives you autonomy and inherent joy in the task themselves but also the sense that you are making a tangible non-redistributive contribution. In the crab bucket, only a small portion of the work serves to better the human condition in a genuine, direct manner.

Of course, there are many exceptions to this, and plenty of people are no doubt very satisfied with their occupations. But there is something about modern life in general that short-circuits the adaptiveness of procrastination you describe by providing only tasks that should ideally be procrastinated forever on.
Not sure why you're downvoted. You're exactly right. This is how new frontiers always are.

Lots of hype, most of which never pans out, with a core of projects that change the world.
This seems unlikely. Big mining operations are already structured as corporations and taxed on their profits. Electricity is already heavily taxed in many countries in the EU. As long as it doesn't pose a threat to the electricity net there is no reason to single out bitcoin for energy use, it's not like the energy is different.
It isn't (except for the demonetized channels maybe), but it shows that most content creators will not reject extra income opportunities even if it dilutes the experience of their paying users. I don't blame them either of course.

I wish they atleast put it in the beginning or the end instead of smack dab in the middle of the actual content.
The teach at home thing - that’s what people need to do looooong before college.

That being the ethos of HBCU’s is already too late.
> only ... if they significantly outweigh the rest.

Or if it causes over-investment into a specific cause (e.g. $100k must go to roads, when the non-profit only wanted to allocate $50k to that), which fungibility of money can't address.

The more specific the restriction is, the less fungibility is able to provide an out.
> every once in a while the car thinks it knows how to drive better than you

A few months ago I took a rental car - I don't drive much any more so I don't own one. On the (German) Autobahn there always is a lot of construction going on. There are yellow stripes overriding the white ones for where the lanes are, because often they reroute one or two lanes to the opposite side so the lanes get a lot more narrow for all. You still have four lanes but only 2/3rd of the width, while they work on the now free and unused part.

Unbeknown to me my car had active lane keeping assistance and I had a really hard time when it tried, with not insignificant force especially when it surprises you, to keep the car within the white stripes. I could have collided with the car next to me with a little bad luck there. It was not easy to force the steering wheel, against the power of the active system, with only one hand while using the other one to navigate the menus to turn off that darn dangerous system. Or find one of the 50 buttons to do it.

The most dangerous part was the initial seconds when I crossed over to the lanes, following the yellow stripes, and suddenly somebody, some force, took the steering wheel and steered in the opposite direction. It took me a few seconds to understand what was going on, I did not expect that there would be a turned-on active system. I had only had experience with passive systems that would not interfere with steering, cruise control and distance-to-car-in-front control as the only active systems. But taking my steering wheel from me???
I don't know to be honest. Potential buyers can directly email sellers, so I'm not involved in the conversations (if there are any).

But I think I'll email sellers in a few days and ask! It's a very fresh project, I made it few days ago.
Thank you for posting this article. I had not come across this one in my limited research.

>It is appraisers, not museums, who determine the value of art for donors. But the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles is investigating whether museum officials furthered the scheme by knowingly accepting donations of overvalued art from suspect dealers and collectors over a decade, according to affidavits filed in January.

Looks like software might eat this too.

Anyway, I think I naturally tend to support the Liberal Project for better or worse, but today's streams of turbulence feel refreshing on tired feet.
> based on erroneous concepts

That’s a fancy way to say you believe in soul.
On Summing Integers
Watching the End of the World [video]
I am reminded of the old Ricochet network:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service)

http://daedalus.cs.berkeley.edu/talks/retreat.6.96/Metricom....

It was an idea ahead of its time.
Thats true, but it won't be some sort of open platform, it will be a utility for amazon that will come with some sort of monetization scheme. I say this as someone that has deployed 10s of thousands of 900 Mhz radios in devices over the last few years. Conceptually though, some sort of interop standard that would offer end to end encryption and access control could be quite cool. On the other hand, sending the garage door signal over an unknown network path and trusting that there is no chance for manipulation is also a tough sell compared to the relatively short wireless->wired topology that dominates most consumer IoT. I'm sure there are use cases where it could work great though.
This probably wouldn't work. It's a biological system, so past a pretty tight temperature range the weak bonding forces of the protiens will denature, or lock up from the cold.
Cluster of 12 Pi's?
You could, for 170 pounds, get an Acorn Atom. It had 2KB of RAM (twice as much!), a proper keyboard, an excellent BASIC, and a video chip.
What rights do you get with ‘owning’ the first tweet? Who could you buy those rights from? Do you get any responsibilities along with that? Like if UNESCO declare the first tweet a culturally significant artifact, could you be held liable for allowing it to fall into disrepair?

And what does the existence of an NFT allow you to do with respect to that bundle fo rights you bought that couldn’t already be done by having someone write down a rights assignment on a piece of paper, sign it and hand it over to you in exchange for some consideration?
Nope, no relationship, and I don't even remember how I found them :-). I added that link to pinboard in November, 2019, so they've been around at least that long.

But by all means reach out to me if you've got a winning options strategy :-) or want freelance data-mangling or web stuff done (I'm retired, I'm a pretty good programmer) to get there.
Apparently advanced aliens are trying to communicate with HN through my cell phone...
We all know there’s no real evidence, even though parent’s ideas have been floating around for millennia.
Long dead
Rocket League Is Still Thriving on Steam Despite Being Completely Delisted
Yeah, on second thoughts I reckon you're right. The last time I used one was around '73 - '74 or so - so now it's all pretty vague. The few things that I can recall are that it was a large console model that used 8" floppy disks and editing was as slow as a wet week (writing to the floppy took a long time especially for a large document of around 50-100 pages).
It's worth noting that this is about coal-fueled mining operations that constitute only about 10% of mining operations in China.
I don't agree with the race argument here, it's simply a case that elevating yourself from a poor background is much harder than from a rich background.

On the other hand people measure success relative to those around them. In that sense, being poor gives you a 'success dividend'.

It's relatively easier to feel successful, satisfied, and enjoy other people's admiration when they are all poor, and you've achieved mediocre wealth.

Whereas with a rich start, you need to become a unicorn to feel the same adulation.

Perhaps this 'early satiation' also drives the statistics.
"Basically wouldn't hire from" isn't a characterization consistent with the remainder of the article. A Howard spokeswoman said that Google's hired 119 interns and 30 graduates since 2017
I agree. Particularly with the first point. One of VSCode's big strengths is it runs on the web as well - it's easy to see it becoming a fully integrated cloud IDE (whether you run it in Electron or your browser), and then MS can sell VSCode Premium for $2/mo to integrate it with your corporate login etc.
Why does it feel to me like a way to launder money.

Its not like the art market hasn't been used for that for centuries.
No, they have a ginormous war chest because their increasingly intrusive advertising campaigns convince people that the operational costs of wikipedia.org are unsustainable otherwise, and this has so far kept ahead of their also massively inflating expenditure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
Bloated pages loads aside, it's not the ads that bother me per se. It's what goes on behind the curtain to target those ads that's a concerns. It's not paranoia. We are - click by click - living under the threat and stress of constant survelience.

If we no longer have a right to privacy, the least we can have is the right to pay for that right if we choose.
"The Colonial pipeline is owned by a company of the same name, which is, in turn, controlled by companies including Koch Industries (its largest shareholder, which made $85 million in dividends from the pipeline in 2016) and Royal Dutch Shell. The pipeline was initially built in 1963, and stretches from Texas to New Jersey. According to the company, the pipeline transports around 2.5 million barrels of fuel per day, mostly underground, that supplies 45% of the entire East Coast’s gasoline. In 2016, North Carolina alone got 70% of its gasoline from the pipeline. Its owners have said that technology can detect leaks as small as 3% of the pipeline’s daily flow–which works out to around 1.8 million gallons."
Extracting DNA from fossils is actually a thing now, in certain extraordinarily rare circumstances. However, that's not the case here.

The genetic studies that the news piece mentioned were carried out in present-day hagfish and present-day vertebrates. The scientific contoversy is that some taxonomies based of genetics classified hagfish as a kind of vertebrate, while taxonomies based on other methods might classify them as a seperate branch of the tree which split off before vertebrates. What the new fossil showed is an example of an animal that appears to be a hagfish with some features that are characteristic of vertebrates. This is more in line with the theory that hagfish are a kind of vertebrate.
I had one of these at age 10. I still have it (at age 50) and it still works. Also the printer and a roll of paper.

Whenever people ask me what my earliest memory is, I say the 16k RAM Pack. :)
So if you pay the government for violence it's free market capitalism but if you pay a gang it's not?
> it serves as a standard way to brew and conduct tasting for tea traders and professionals

No trader or professional dealing with gyokuro is using this method. The method's usefulness is limited to a very specific set of teas, which should be explicitly called out in the standard.
Build state capacity, pay taxes.
Hmm, what do you mean by there's too much information? Like the copy-pasted description is just too long?
At least in AZ, we have several tax credits that allow you to donate to organizations in certain categories. Unfortunately it’s a fixed dollar amount and not a percentage of liability.

I agree, it would be nice to control where more tax money was directed.
The title of this is a pun, and so winds up not being a great title. But the phenomenon described is definitely real. This is expected practise in fields like music. Every serious musician has figured out the right daily rhythms for their practise to be most effective, and has the times of day at which they do technique, repertoire, improvisation, etc. It really does make a difference.
I assume you mean a widely-used one. There's a handful in development. Have you looked at Redox? :)

Ed: I really don't mean this to be snarky, even though looking back it kind of sounds like it. Sometimes you just have to stop fretting about phrasing, slap a smiley on and ship the thing...
Please link your data showing that for me and Rome to Soviet Russia people flock to population center because of socialism.
Personally I think these should have a legal license associated with them. Like if the author transfers NFT it transfers the creative license as well (so the purchaser actually owns the art). For instance, Nayan Cat beanie babies can now only be manufactured by owner of said token, and whenever the new owner transfers the token the license goes with it. Etc.

Basically, if Token == Intellectual Property ownership then it makes sense.

This would mean if a creator, say a musician wrote a song and transferred the NFT and it became a wild success in the future, the owner would earn profits from the investment, but so too would the content creator receive the mentioned dividends proportional to the value.
What is it then?

Is expected utility theory wrong and ergodicity economics is an alternative?

Or is EUT too broad and ergodicity economics cannot blamed for being nothing more than a well-known way to pick a specific utility function within the EUT framework in a very constrained subset of problems?

I think it's the latter.

My point is that the claims of having subverted centuries of flawed economic thinking based on parallel universes are delusional.

My opinion may of course improve if any of those great research papers is ever written. It would also improve if they changed their attitude and stopped saying idiotic things. I'm not sure what of those is more likely...
I think the worst outcome of this yet one more avenue gobbled up by a large tech conglomerate. My understanding is that ISM bands are supposed to be free for personal use and are the last fronts for small scale connectivity innovation
> I used to wash the iPhone 6 in the sink nearly daily to remove the oils/sticky from the screen after eating lunch^.

> My workmates used to always tell me off for doing this, and I would explain that I've been doing it for years.

Maybe they were telling you off for using your iPhone as a plate and/or utensils to eat lunch with?
There's tens of millions of people that disagree with you regarding cosmetics in games. Gamers largely have disposable income and are happy that they can support their favorite game developers and look "cool" (show off their status) while doing it.
for a taste of citywide mesh:
https://www.nycmesh.net/

impressive map:
https://www.nycmesh.net/map

I'm not sure about latency...
How about "Do not support Web Monetization if you want less monetization on the web."?
If the web standard was such that the site generated a token (a request for payment) and the browser sent the authorization to pay referencing that token to a centralized authority (that you trusted), then you’d only be being tracked via this method by the group that can already track you by disbursing your funds.
Not all countries behave equally, morally. Western media is, all considered, more open, and China spends much more and enacts stricter laws to achieve the opposite reaction you speak of. Chinese people would not have that reaction without that strict shaping of information by the state.
>I don't think there is any difference. [...]

> You could probably do it with a blockchain currency too if you get enough people to agree to the change.

That's a huge difference. The fed can print money whenever they want, whereas with bitcoin they need to convince a supermajority of the miners and users, otherwise they end up with a forked chain like bitcoin cash/gold/sv.
Does this actually solve the network hole problem though? Just because Amazon devices have this capability doesn't mean folks in rural areas have Amazon devices. Perhaps thats not the point of this article.
yup, anytime you lookup for something on youtube, the top results are full of lame, short and sponsorship-packed animated Wikipedia summaries often with mismatching theme music because they don't want to read a book, license footage or even proper music.

web is the same. tons of lazy blogs copy pasting without any effort in understanding or explaining from a different angle.
Heroes really, https and certificate centralization should end as soon as possible. Maybe along with DNS.
This is used in various belief systems to instill and reinforce deeply held beliefs in the absence of any evidence apart from the manufactured social proof. If one is experiencing doubts, they are told to try telling others that what they doubt is actually true. One example of the phrasing that might be used: "You have to share your testimony to strengthen it."

No doubt the technique of manufacturing consent through reflected BS is pervasive elsewhere too, in marketing, politics, etc.
I found this to be a very interesting take of Earth's history from birth to death.
Wrote a version of the loop using an enum:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Thanks for explaining, and after reflection I must apologize for implying Nature Physics was disreputable. I understand it is not a mainstream economics or finance journal, so the domain of papers it reviews and accepts will be different. I also believe Peters is well-regarded in whatever is his area of expertise, but this doesn't appear to be economics.
> Constant screaming about how to configure their autoformatter compatible to prettifier for specific setting.

Assuming you mean “prettier” rather than prettifier (which a cursory Google did not show up as being a popular thing), the way to do this is to add a prettier config block to a package.json or a .prettierrc file, and then click “yes” when the IDE asks you “use code format based on prettier config”.

I did this not more than 10 minutes before writing this comment, on whatever the latest (shipping) version of IDEA available with whatever version of prettier came from `npm install` this morning - may save you a few mins next time the IDE is screaming at you.
Rust is the systems language of choice for overengineering Silicon Valley procrastinators.
Looks cool and all, would like to be able to use. Bit bothered that it's a Show HN since you can't actually try it out, this is just asking you to sign up to a mailing list or contact sales basically. This is funny because you have two buttons as the call to action, "Get Free Access" and "Contact Sales". Both of them leads you to having to wait for them to contact you back.

Having a list of supported banks upfront would be nice as well.
Surely the data is over either HTTPS or some encrypted VPN protocol - the only possible attack would be DOS.
Wikipedia says that would be over £700 in 2019 money - too much for a 15 year old!

Besides the £170 Atom only had Integer Basic - we had real (sort of) floating point.

I'm still jealous of anyone who had an Atom though.
Reminds me of Costa Rica taking advantage of their tourists with high prices.

For example their main airport (SJO) blocks Uber access on their WiFi network by dropping packets and serving bad DNS records.

Normal tourists don't realize this is done in purpose, and they'll stand puzzled checking their phone screens unable to open Uber.

The official airport taxi price is three times more expensive than a normal taxi or Uber.
> China is convinced that 100% surveillance will reduce moral hazards.

Are you saying unlike USA?

> the western value system says it is too high a price to pay for freedom

Except we do have 100% surveillance in the US and equivalent programs in all the 5 eye countries. I assume you're aware of PRISM? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

Seems we're quick to point out "moral hazards" in other cultures and just as quick to forget the obvious ones in our own.
Might not a bullshitter bullshit the bullshit-assessment?