skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is similar to WebPlotDigitizer, which helps you extract data from graphs:

https://automeris.io/WebPlotDigitizer/index.html
Thank you! I also recorded and mixed it. :-D

I feel for your brother, a solo project can become an endless chore.
Here is an appropriate soundtrack for browsing the results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8gBfEDoEbY
> I mean, if you have recurring costs per user, please go for a subscription.

I sometimes see software that is running 'in the cloud' for no discernable reason. Yes, those companies have recurring costs per user, but that's entirely their choice, the more natural way of writing a simple file transformation tool is as an application, not a webpage.
>The per capita discussion in that post is of course a bit misleading, the US is larger so it's also more likely to attract immigrant.

A migrant doesn't care if the country he is moving to has a million, 10 million, or 100 million people. He cares that it offers the job opportunities/welfare programs he wants. If Mexico was the same population of about 100 million and the US had 33 million instead of 330 million people but was just as wealthy, would a single Mexican illegal alien be dissuaded from attempting to sneak across the border? Of course not.

>Americans are obviously very unlikely to move anywhere, and not least because they don't know very much about the outside world, let alone speak a foreign language.

No. The same disparities exist with Canadians, Britons, and Australians vis-a-vis Americans. The dataset I link to in the discussion shows that, on a per capita basis, [a Canadian is 27 times more likely to move to the US than an American is to move to Canada](https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6lin9k/reupload_pop...). The per capita population flows between, say, Canada and Australia are much more normalized (that is, close to 1:1)

>You need a pretty high salary in SF for example if you want to enjoy the lifestyle of a nurse or street sweeper in Copenhagen.

Ah yes, as we can see from the massive flow of Americans moving from San Francisco to Copenhagen to work as nurses and street sweepers.

>But my point still stands, unless you are already well off, or an academic, you are very unlikely to have better quality of life in the US than here.

I repeat: Why don't you ask those who actually vote with their feet? Their answers are quite clear, to anyone who looks at the data.
>Point being this is propaganda against propaganda and neither you nor I know for a fact what is going on in Xinjiang.

>Now, to show how civil discussion on HN is, and to show that this is cancel culture in full swing, people are now going through my comments history to downvote them all.

You sound like a useful idiot, at best. Shrugging and saying 'we can't know what is happening' is not the correct stance to take against even potential genocide.

It is in the best interest of the CCP to obfuscate what is going on. I am sure the truth is very ugly indeed. Governments (especially regimes like China's) don't forcibly put people in camps to be kind to them.
I interviewed with Google last summer, and the recruiter personally did all of this (aside from a mock, but did mention interviewing.io) and included a pretty lengthy email with resources. I’m a white male.

Still, the vast majority of applicants aren’t going to pass. It’s not like it’s just some minor brushing up for most - it takes real work and dedication, for some that could do the job well over 100 hours... an infinite amount of time probably won’t be enough for those who can’t.
Regardless of what you think about new nuclear's potential, we need to protect and upgrade (and possibly even resurrect recently-mothballed) existing nuclear power plants.

"Oh, we're going to replace that nuclear power plant with wind and solar!"

Oh, really?
Are you going to do that AFTER phasing out fossil fuel plants or BEFORE? Because if it's before, you're making the case that climate change is a lower priority than retiring the cleanest and one of the cheapest and safest power sources humankind has ever developed. Because you could ALWAYS choose to just replace those fossil power plants with wind and solar and batteries instead, but you're making the decision to keep that fossil fuel plant running longer than it needs to.

Similar argument for getting rid of existing hydroelectric dams.

And I'm talking about long existing plants, here. All those cement emissions (and reservoir emissions for hydro) already happened and were "paid for." We need to protect all near-zero energy sources until the last fossil power plant on the continent is decommissioned. Then go ahead and retire your nuclear or hydro power plant.

(Addressed to no one in particular, but these arguments in favor of premature retiring of functioning clean energy power plants are widespread and it ticks me off. Plus, retiring them early also increases the cost of electricity, which slows electrification. I bet electric cars would be a LOT more popular--and fossil fuel cars less popular--in Germany if their electricity price weren't so insane.)
> The class playing Proof-of-stake has a lot of notebooks filled with doodles. The teacher hasn't provided the children with much else to do and they've become quite bored.

This sounds like the dream.

In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell:
https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
Only confident people mock themselves.
I don't display pingbacks anywhere on my website, but I like to know when people link to articles I've written. It's personally rewarding for me to know that I'm contributing knowledge that others are referencing and expanding on. These have opened project collaborations for me and allowed me to meet some awesome new like-minded friends from all over.

I generally agree posting these on your site is going to be sloppy and probably lead to getting spam'd or end up with backlink issues.
The Earth's magnetic poles last permanently reversed about 780,000 years ago. The magnetic event that happened ~41,000-42,000 years ago is called the Laschamps excursion. An excursion is when the magnetic field gets very weak, becomes non-dipolar, but then returns to the original polarity that the field was before the excursion. Occasionally durning these excursions the field flips directions and becomes stable in the opposite direction. That did not happen for the Laschamps. Many of these excursions have occurred since the last reversal of the field.

The article you linked to is a bit woo-woo, especially with all the Douglas Adam's stuff and the number 42. The article did not link to the scientific paper, which is an interesting read. It seems to be open access, so check it out[1].

[1]https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6531/811
JRR Tolkien 1964 Interview
Holochain is currently testing a rudimentary p2p chat app running on a distributed network of hosts: https://blog.holochain.org/elemental-chat-is-live/

That could be an interesting space for you to shape and explore given the full p2p architecture tends to result in creative workarounds.
For the step 2 and 3 phase, I think it should be mentioned how important games becoming free was for mass adoption. As much as I as a former game dev did not love the model of free and then upselling. I might just be old school at this point. Free and then upgrading avatars has grown on me.
Some people in this thread should check their elitism. It is preventing you from seeing the big picture here.
I agree it's great.

But it has this side effect that you need to test every candidates.

> Are you proposing that we start using credentials as gatekeeping?

No. As a fast-track sure. So you don't have to start every interview with a FizzBuzz [0].

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
> Most vegans are clueless when it comes to making up deficiencies in typical vegan diets

The same goes for non-vegans.
Their tooling is set up for it.

You know what else "their tooling is set up" for? Being changed in a short period of time for whatever the next hotness is.

But I genuinely believe they are responsible for bringing EVs to market ~3 years before it would have happened without them.

How do you reconcile that statement with the fact that while folks were waiting for Tesla to fill their Model S pre-orders, we were already driving a Nissan Leaf? The Leaf was going to happen whether or not Tesla ever built a single car, or even if Tesla never existed. I mean it's nice that Tesla fans jumped on the EV bandwagon, even if a little late, but let's not pretend Tesla wasn't late to the production EV game.
Only if the chain in the blockchain is made from copper.
Doug is amazing, I really think he’s our secret weapon. He works with me, too. He’s a great guy. Check out his doom/death project Weeping Sores if you haven’t, it’s awesome! I recorded and mixed it a couple years ago.
Ready Player One and the dystopian future of trailers that are packed on top of each other reaching up like sky scrapers.
Predicting future productivity is hard and there is no magic set of questions that will predict it. It seems tech companies worry too much about the questions they ask rather than interpreting the answers that they were given. The solution seems to be to not worry about it too much and just hire (and fire) liberally.
> In either case you can use your accumulating capital to accumulate more capital -- PoW just means consuming actual resources to do so, as you fold your earnings into more hardware and electricity to earn more.

Proof-of-Work miners have ongoing variable expenses to contend with — electricity cost being the major one.

Conversely, in “Proof-of-Stake”, mining is virtually costless, because it's enough to show you have money to then earn money with your money.

(Disclosure: I’m invested in a true hybrid PoW/PoS system, so I’m familiar with the downsides of both.)
Roblox has made repeated statements on this, latest from their Roblox Developer Con 2020.

In short, not enough demand that requires more support for players.

There has been repeated demands for this but every year is a no.

Here is one of those threads https://devforum.roblox.com/t/proper-support-for-the-linux-p...

ChromeOS works because it uses the Android version of Roblox.
The main problem here is that people who lack access to the document effectively can't participate in the discussions, if there isn't enough public information about the document accessible by other means.

You can discuss the general requirements, and paragraph numbers, etc, but there's a limit to how much somebody who has the document can quote without legal problems. Somebody else who sees the discussion can not know if the discussions contain complete enough information to "reverse engineer" the standard well enough to meet its requirements.

All those discussions about the ISO date standard involves getting information from somebody who has access to the document and who then shared the information in public. Not all documents has that degree of public commentary.

And if you need to ask about sections which haven't been previously described in sufficient detail for your needs, then you're personally relying on individual people who have access to read it and rewrite the information for you. Which is a lot of work and also legally uncertain.

Fair use standards are not all that consistent. And that's a legal defense you can use in court after already having been sued, not before. Enough for context can vary between one sentence or three pages.
Allegro 5.2.7 Released
That's only for the binary, but we can always do it by value/cost proportion.
Is this problem actually solvable? As in, does YouTube expose an API for doing the things you're talking about? If not, then there's really not much anyone can do about it.
Square Makes Tidal Waves
> Ah, so it's perfectly acceptable to you when rockets hit some Israeli cities, where the poorer Israelis live.

If it's acceptable for them, who am I to judge?

Election after election they vote for the party (Likud) that does consider Hamas a viable partner, transfers them hundreds of millions USD in cash and refuses to support any alternative government in Gaza.
Oban is a Postgres-backed job processing library https://github.com/sorentwo/oban
What's being staked is ETH (or any other units of PoS-based cryptocurrency) itself. The lock-in, and therefore any opportunity cost associated with the locked-in value, is the price to play.

The analogy, to my understanding, is not 100% faithful to how PoS works, at least in Ethereum. There's no choosing one of the bricks, or one of the units of currency or anything. You simply lock in your units as collateral for your right to take part in the dice roll selection where, if chosen, you get to add a new block to the blockchain. If you append a block without cheating, you are rewarded with new units of the currency. If you cheat, your collateral is taken away. You may choose to keep your stake in as long as you want.
The problem with this argument is that Washington Post could be 100% objective and your argument would remain the same. I'm not sure there was anything they could that would alleviate your concern, except removing bezos as owner altogether -- because anything they do could potentially benefit bezos (partly because he got some kind of relationship to pretty much everything at this point)
Yea, but I also think it's more complicated than that. I would think that if you already work for a FAANG or other well-respected tech company, that would de facto serve as your "professional certification" and help avoid these ridiculous interview processes. If you work at Google as a SWE, then you've already passed a pretty high bar to become a SWE and when you apply somewhere else, ideally they would see you can pass that bar and not ask you to leetcode your way over the bar again. But IME, that's not the case. I know some FAANGs that, even when doing an internal transfer within the company, still require you to go through the full leetcode interview process.

There seems to be some kind of inherent or cultural distrust amongst tech interviewing, where nobody trusts that anyone has tech skills unless they personally verify it. I don't think a professional exam/certification would solve this distrust.
Not quite Breaking Bad, because it comes at the story from the other direction, but there's a German show on Netflix called How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast), which is pretty entertaining so far.

I expect if the series lasts long enough they'll work the storyline up to manufacture.
In the proof of stake class, the people that get rich in dollars are the old timers that collected a lot of bricks during the first year, and now can sell the bricks to the newbies that want to enter the game. (And the teacher, that also saved like the 5% of the initial bricks for ... pedagogical purposes.)

In the proof of work class, the people that get rich in dollars are owner of the owner of the stationary that can sell better pencils, sharpers and erasers to the students, the writer of a book with tips about solving Sudoku, the person that writes a Sudoku solving program. Newbies can just buy the solver program, and participate without paying the old timers.
"What about ..." is not an answer to any question that has ever been asked.
Signal is bound to a phone number, no? I think I would go with OTR via XMPP, or whatever is a modern protocol. Or maybe Matrix is now a good alternative?

I didn’t use OTR since a long time now, so not sure if that’s still a good choice, but it’s quite versatile and easy to setup.

Edit: OTR doesn’t seem to be recommended anymore, OMEMO seems to be the modern alternative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO
Reviews are now so gamified as to be completely worthless. Most users don't have much experience, and the experience they do have with the item might be completely out of line with how it was intended to be used or operated.

There's a great quote from Michael Crichton I will repeat here, as it's quite accurate.

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray [Gell-Mann]’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
The nuclear waste argument is a purely American one. European countries (France specifically) have a multi-reactor chain where each successive step uses the "waste" from the last step. While this doesn't eliminate the need for long-term storage completely, it does reduce the potency of the leftovers since they're not being discarded after using ~3% of their total stored energy (a la the US).

Additionally, fission isn't the only way to get energy out of uranium. Nuclear batteries, such as the ones powering Curiosity and Perseverance, can't melt down like a traditional reactor and will continue working until all the energy stored inside it is gone. This is the type of nuclear power I'd like to see gain prevalence for many reasons, foremost of which is the ability for each household to have its own source of electricity independent of a power grid.

Solar in space is all well and good, but without a way to beam that power back to Earth, a space-based solar collector is as useful as if nothing were there at all.
Safety is not about deaths alone. You can’t ignore the massive costs and negative personal effects of Chernobyl and Fukushima.
it sounds a bit like https://faircoin.world/
You could say the same thing about infectious disease. The most successful diseases don't kill you, they just sap your energy a little bit at a time. What is the equivalent of parasites in blockchain-land?
> Section 2.3 Turing Completeness and expressiveness: The primary requirement for a TC language is the capacity to describe unbounded computations over unbounded values. This encompasses a very wide spectrum of programming languages, if seemingly novel aspects are regarded as state changes, for example HTML manipulating WWW pages, and SQL manipulating databases.
>Contrariwise, a non-TC language can only describe bounded computations, for example regular expressions, or manipulate bounded values, for example FORTRAN IV which, without files, has bounded numbers and arrays. Arbitrary instances of an
arbitrary non-TC language will be translatable into an arbitrary TC language but not vice versa.

Can someone elaborate? How do we have unbounded computations and unbounded values?
I think the cost of maintaining an upgrade path for libraries that doesn't piss off your users is non trivial compared to a service

I agree you shift work to users, but at what cost?

Either an angry or resentful user base or jumping through countless complex edge cases to deal with usage problems you didn't forsee or intend to happen.

I'd happily take managing and maintaining a centralised service over a lib in most cases.
> It solves a problem for almost nobody

You're missing the big problems it solves, the main reasons many smart people have bought into it:

Cryptocurrencies are the ONLY liquid assets in the world that you can prove, from first principles, 1) how much of it exists, and 2) that you actually own it.

As long as you know what you're doing, you don't have to concern yourself with 1) fraud, 2) hidden stockpiles, 3) someone stealing it, and 4) political instability.

These are good things for society. Some of us realized these things when we started buying into it, and when we see people poo-pooing it and completely ignoring these benefits, I can see why people tend to get dismissive.
When I used to work in a 24/7 environment I would quip that "it's not tomorrow until the morning crew takes over." In a lot of practical situations I think it's easier for people to think about the early morning hours as being late the previous day. It tends to match shifts and reporting cycles better.
I'm going to guess on the record before reading article: debt based financing of the sale, PE firm steadily increases rent and lowers investment into facilities, bankruptcy and evictions ensue
> You make a fair point, it is merely a hack to evade a silly rule. Since facts are not copyrightable the "right fix" is to right an identical standard and make that free, then have people adhere to it rather than the ISO one.

This is correct. Instead of cutting and pasting the ISO text, you can explain what the conclusions and rules are. In doing so, you will have the opportunity to both add value by explaining things better and subtract value by explaining things in a worse way. I think it will turn out to not be so easy to publish an "identical" standard in your own words, but it's worth the effort to disseminate free standards.
I don't disagree that Blown Away doesn't go into the techniques or that doing so wouldn't have made it a stronger show, but I still would recommend it if someone is interested in blowing glass.

My wife and I got into the show about a month ago, breezed through both seasons, and really enjoyed it. While I'd love to know more about the techniques (and my wife and I have talked about taking classes once things get back to normal), I literally have practically zero reference for how to blow glass, so to get into any techniques the show would really have to get into a Glass 101 type explanations, which I think would have dragged the format that they chose (30min slot, 22m of content) down a bit too much.

The other side is that while the technique is certainly interesting, it very much was an artistic show, not a technique show. There were some pieces that were better artistically that were "judged" to be better than more technically proficient pieces. That's just a choice the show decided to make.
Variability hypothesis seems to downplay the cultural aspects a lot. Males were generally thought to have better visual sense of an object but the advantage was nullified when females were tested with objects that they are most familiar with.

And you are right that we should check for inter-country data. It will provide a more accurate view.
No

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

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

> Public-sector media (state-funded) is not to be confused with state media (state-controlled), which is "controlled financially and editorially by the state."[1]
This isn't a formal debate. There isn't just 1 argument at hand. People bring up tangential points all the time.
> that salmon are a major part of the food chain for a lot of animals

The rivers in the PNW tend to be nutrient poor, because they're mountain runoff. I've read that salmon swimming upstream and dying are a major provider of nutrients for the upstream ecosystem.
>But critics say more than 90% of its customers are criminals.

They're a bit thin on the details of exactly who those critics are, which makes that statement inadmissible other than for us to draw the inference that the critics are law enforcement agencies - or worse still, governments.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning the misuse of encrypted messaging, only pointing out the convenient straw man that's been erected here to manipulate readers' emotions in order to short-circuit their ability to think critically about what's ACTUALLY been done by the authorities.
I don't know for a fact either, but would guess the reason is a childhood of girls telling each other nasty things would make them weary of harsh language even when directed at the self.

With that part unmentioned, the GP seems to assign dubious priorities to human motivations.
Don't really see how. It was physical product that was stolen in the night, not a digital product that was stolen/duplicated.

It's analogous to how your bitcoin is safe on a secure network until someone forces you at gunpoint to hand over your private key.