skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> To feed a growing population on earth, we do need industrial farming.
> Do we? That's a massively contested debate. See: (Neo)Malthusianism.

On the one hand, you dismiss my population growth argument as "Malthusianism" (which I don't consider a counter-argument at all, it is just naming things).

But on the other hand you acknowledge that we cannot just feed ever more people:

> What's the point of being able to feed 8 or 9 billion people on the planet, if quality of life for the majority of those individuals is rather low?

So on one hand you are dismissing my argument as Malthusian, on the other hand you are making a very Malthusian argument yourself.

My argument would be: I agree with you that mankind needs to shrink and right-size so the then-sustainable population can have some level of comfort for everyone.
Seems to be an Electron thing?

Side note: I have >4k messages on Signal right now, which means Signal desktop is impossibly slow to start on my machine (with a mechanical drive and no SSD). I've stopped using it entirely, and use scrcpy[1] to mirror my phone screen and use keyboard and mouse input instead.

[1]:https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
I have relatives who run an organic farm, which is rather large and industrialized for a farm that has the official German "bio" label. They make their own cheese as a side business, but it is only sold locally. This way they can charge a higher price and there are no middlemen, so it is profitable. But I doubt this would scale.
I pay $40 or less for a quantum mechanic book.
Knowledge is not expensive.
croc is my favourite way of transferring files between computers I control.

https://github.com/schollz/croc

It's similar to magic wormhole if you've heard of that, but a bit more polished. I think for me it offers the best possible UX.

transfer.sh is also good if you can't install these for whatever reason.
For anyone looking for the "computational" aspects, the only bit I could find was the algorithm presented in section 6. Otherwise these are pretty standard algebraic topology notes.
Did you grow up in a rural or urban area ? I mean if there are people queueing for food there must be people too poor to even own an extra laptop
wormhole, onionshare, syncthing

Depends on if people you are send are online at the same time. If they are not online at the same time, you would need some in-between services. Or else you can just rsync the files between you guys.
Right. A PhD is proof that you spent years of your life theoretically advancing the boundary of knowledge in your given field. A knighthood is that an old lady thinks you're neat.
So now the developing world will start using their energy to mine BTC instead of manufacturing goods for us to consume.
Will this ultimately cause inflation then? Because demand for goods will not be met?

This crypto experiment keeps yielding more interesting results.
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> within the margin for error

What do people mean when they say this?

The referendum wasn't a statistical exercise that sampled a subset, so the idea of "error" seems really oddly applied here.
Buy a USB cd ROM drive (around 30 dollars / euro), buy an old copy of illustrator, say 5 or 6. Use offline activation using the included code.
I'm afraid you're remembering incorrectly. The Pentium 100Mhz was released in 1994. The last Pentium released in 1999 was the PIII 800Mhz. There wasn't a 3GHz release until 2010.

And that's just clock speed. Compare any 2010 chip to something like a Ryzen 5800x and see how the benchmarks scores look.
It's like this for most stories and subjects to be honest. It's just that technology news has more people knowing what's actually going on.
But if you expect an upper bound of the required size of that stay, it may be worthwhile to explicitly set the capacity of the vector to avoid these reallocations.
I would say that what areally changes the game is to use evil (vi style bindings, 95% stays the same) with Emacs so you keep the muscle memory and you can keep making use of the common ex commands.

I have gone back and forth between vim and emacs, usually for a bunch of years each time before currently settling on emacs with Doom. With the nativecomp branch, it's actually pretty snappy and doom emacs is a great setup to get started without drowning in the amount of configuration.

I would say that I just love vim style input and modal editing, but doing that on top of emacs with evil mode and elisp is a better match for me than vimscript. The feedback loop you get with LISP and emacs is incredible when tweaking things to your liking.

Every function is accessible, there is just a global scope and you can call pretty much anything. It's sounds like an horrible idea, but it also means you can quickly hack stuff by reusing the internals of a package you like.

For example, it took me half an hour to initially POC this https://github.com/jhchabran/ivy-lsp-current-buffer-symbols by just skimming through the emacs-lsp codebase and randomly trying funcs in the repl to get an idea of what each function was doing.
Here's a paper on how BERT (a large Transformer model trained using self-supervised learning) implicitly learns the traditional NLP pipeline: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05950
Screen addiction, phony social networks, and virtual interactions: all leading to the atomization and isolation of people from one another. People once had to communicate with each other mostly in-person and had to develop an ability to socialize. The internet snatched civilization destruction from the jaws of progress. I don't see how wishing a double-edged sword that cuts off more humanity than it brings is necessarily something to eagerly foist and bestow on everyone.

Magical realism and kids inventing their own play games in remote or poor villages is what happens when they don't have the internet to destroy creativity and distract people from using their imaginations.
This seems pretty much it to me.
I think his title should be "www" rather than "Sir"
Wanna go halvsies on a seedbox? I'll send you an(other!) email if so, haha
https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html...
Is this the Abhazian side? The bridge not far from Zugdidi?
If they lock me out of the account I share with my friend (i'm using his account for years, before that he used mine for years) I'm done subbing to them. There are other ways to watch content.
All of the parties apart from the SNP promised a referendum in their manifesto. The Green party and the Liberal Democrats had it in theirs for about a decade.

The referendum was advisory, so it would have been possible for parliament to vote not to enact article 50. But parliament voted for it.
Sure it won't take long for them to add more bloat and slow it down.

Wish I could cancel my creative cloud subscription but there is still prevalent use. Sketch and Figma do a much nicer job of things. Seems Adobe end up copying some of their features but always buried a few more clicks deep.
A proof that the pok and its hash hasn't been altered since its creation.
I understand that NFT bound objects would inevitably be called "CryptoArt", but what should we call things like Kryptos now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos
Is the common crawl index [1] not being used by search engines? Could someone chime in as to its relative anonymity in many such articles.

[1] https://commoncrawl.org/
> I don't have any fixed evidence or numbers, but recalling my youth working on a 200 - 250 cow dairy, the animals were strip grazed in paddocks during the day and night. They would therefore mostly defecate in the paddock, on the grass, spread across a wider area and acting as a natural fertiliser.

This is something the author mentions in passing: Almost everywhere, farms are required by law to have a certain amount of land per piece of cattle to spread the manure on. So as long as that certain amount of land is large enough and the spreading happens sufficiently often, there shouldn't be a problem. If there is a problem, current regulations need to be updated. That land requirement will also naturally limit the total amount of cattle that is being raised.
https://bitwarden.com/pricing/

You don't click "Create Free Account" to see the list of features. Just scroll down.

(on mobile)
I had someone recently vouch for the OU physics program. I remain skeptical of the Open University in general, but if OP is solely looking for personal enrichment and is as they claim, wealthy, perhaps it’s worth it.
Seeing how many people lose their bitcoins or prefer to host them illustrated to me what the natural inhibitions to GPG were.

I think the assumption it builds in that users fully own and have full control over their device never fully held and will become less and less valid over time also. With the "thin client" model and careless users, GPG breaks.

Also, the NSA clearly wanted to kill the project. I'm pretty sure they engaged in some smarter and more underhanded sabotage after the obvious failure of classifying math as munitions export.
Electricity is free for them, because Georgia considers it's as part of Georgia. Abkhazia right now is local mafia-run region by Russian occupant forces (Russia actually has military bases there).

Nothing is going on there economically, it is slow decaying society so their only income is mining operations like this.
It sounds rather wasteful to have one device generate mains voltage AC power, only to have another device transform it to lower voltage power and rectify it.
How to Hack Our Husband's WhatsApp Account
It's a custom unencrypted P2P network protocol. A government could detect someone using this protocol and block it. It technically can not be DDoS'd. Though if you were you could DDoS the bootstrap nodes and that would make it harder to join the network. If governments block communication it can cause the network to split making it unclear which "half" of the network is the real one. It would create a fork.
Yes that was more or less an explicit choice from Cameron IIRC - if we come up with a plan for what happens afterwards, that plan may reassure people that Brexit can work out OK, and play to the other side.

So no plan. Genius.
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But that forces you to install a plugin that you would need to review the code for which can even be more harmful than tracking - not saying it is, but if ToS are cryptic for a common person, reading the source code of a plugin more so (given that browsers don't offer a way to block what kind of information they provide - with exception of location - which should be something essential, but then perhaps google would stop developing chrome which in terms of functionality/performance has done great for pushing other things).

For me this is a question of privacy, I'm ok with ads, but you don't need this to show me ads. It's not a problem that FB has a face recognition pipeline capable of linking me to any image posted in their platform and that a state sponsored agency could use, and track me throughout internet while logging me around, and which emails I open, and my location individually, and then my chats and probably WhatsApp too now, and instagram likes.

The problem is when you connect all these systems, with everything else and suddenly you can derive almost a 24/7 coverage of the life of an individual. If you and another person meet and both are carrying their phones then it's easy to sort of connect the remaining dots, specially in light of all other data points captured, security surveillance (public and covert), etc. And this is not problematic by itself, it's problematic when it becomes a system that is available to be used by whatever powers that sit in a position to use them. Today it might not be nefarious but you don't know if tomorrow is the same, but once there it might be difficult to revert the situation.
You're right. I never really paid attention to that, actually (my current one is a non-mechanical one, and the X is ~1mm to the left compared to the command key).
Benedict Evans on NFTs
What is the alternative? Raise energy costs for people who may not be able to afford it because of of a few abusers?
Hah. Pennsylvania has Indiana State and California State universities.

The Missouri portion of the Ozarks has some towns named after states. At a family reunion, a cousin suggested we drive to Nevada, telling me it was another state she hadn't been to. I explained.
What Causes Inertia? [pdf]
The main difference is that command-c makes sense ;)
50% Faster (according to Adobe, who want to sell new copies).
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Netflix's selection is ever-shifting, ever-shrinking and constrained. There is no way that people will subscribe to multiple accounts within the same close friend/family group before switching to alternatives.
Knighthoods are actually usually from the government, often for being a world leading researcher or sportsman etc.

The fact that the queen or similar taps you on the shoulders is an implementation detail

If you want to be petty all you have to do to get a PhD is pass a viva - Two slightly bizarre french "physicists" come to mind
Most of the EU countries have worrying powerful and popular nationalist political parties which are on the rise.

The UK is actually the exception to the growing hate and nationalism in Europe!

The benefit of UK in Europe was that it helped curtail the exscesses of the continent. I worry for the EU now as it seems more toxic after Brexit than before.
If you’re US based there are exams like CLEP you can take for a small amount of money to gain credit in a lot of prerequisite general education courses.

If you’re referring to exams like admission material, you may be able to string arm your way in with enough money, but my experience is that the bureaucracy is very strong with these institutions and they are simply not designed for people like you.

Also finding a program that offers online physics courses may be a challenge. I’ve only ever seen one from the OU, mentioned elsewhere on this thread. Most online programs seem to either be CA, a handful of humanities degrees and what I’ll call “bullshit degrees”.
Here [1] is an actual test and benchmarks. Showing M1 is faster than a Laptop with Nvidia Discrete GPU.

Quite amazing.

[1] https://petapixel.com/2021/03/10/real-world-test-photoshop-f...
Remote villages are also causing blackouts to bitcoin miners.

The problem is (as almost always) incompetent and/or corrupt government officials. Why can't they manage?

They either won't (getting paid in BTC to mismanage) or can't. Perhaps they should replace those bums or privatize power utilities. Or give up independence, if they can't manage themselves.

Another way is simply increase the price to everyone to whatever is going rate in that wider area plus 10%, and the miners will likely move out in no time. Although it'd be better to privatize everything.
Several EU countries suspend AstraZeneca vaccine to investigate blood clot cases
Poverty and its mechanisms:

Everyone starts off poor by birth, we get richer as we progress through life. You may be born to a rich family but you only benefit "indirectly" through the decisions that your parents made for you. Children being awarded money as soon as they are born is very rare.

Even in an extreme situation where you allocate money to the child before it was even born this still stays true. The child benefits as soon as it is born and being handed the money, again it became richer because it progressed through life. If it wasn't born it wouldn't get richer.

Now that we have established the baseline. It's time to think of what truly creates poverty.

First of all, giving birth to more humans can create poverty if the parents have to divide their preexisting wealth over more children. A lot of preexisting wealth is based on the availability of resources and thus they are physically bounded. Some people might insist that the planet can support 10 billion people but they make no statement about the quality of life. There won't be 10 billion Bill Gates on this planet, some of them will have to cut back on their quality of life, some of them a lot.

Fundamental progress and research is very difficult. There are people who can pull themselves up but it would be fruitless, for say the entirety of India, to go through the last 200 years of technological progress alone because it refused to accept help from richer nations. Existing wealth is not something to despise, it's something to take advantage of. Lots of Indians move to Europe or USA and earn far more than in their home country. Some of them send part paychecks back home and thus take advantage of that wealth.

Public infrastructure provides a baseline of progress through life. The availability of roads ensures that people can transport goods like water and food. It is very easy to get stuck on a wet dirt road in Cameroon. Some people live extremely far away from water. I can't explain why they would possibly walk an hour or two just to fetch water but I am 100% certain that road infrastructure would turn this into a non issue even if the water truck had to drive 500km away from a desalination plant. The availability of training and education ensures that people can get a high income job and so on. Infrastructure tends to benefit everyone equally.
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Generally I dislike this kind of view and find it not to be true.

But in this case… man, it feels like Adobe deliberately try to slow down Photoshop and the wider CS suite. I used to use these a lot back in early CS days, but I've used the trials recently and by far the biggest offenders are some of the bad UIs that they've slapped on top of things like creating new documents, or Photoshop's "Home Screen".

They're slow as molasses, provide minimal useful features, and there is an explicit option to turn them off and use the legacy versions (usually a massive red flag to me that a feature is shite).
There are many things governments rightfully ban for ecological reasons (e.g. energy inefficient house building, inefficient light bulbs, single-use plastic, blast fishing, many forms of waste disposal). Just because Bitcoin happens on the computer should not exempt it from that.
I came across this. Does OU use Project based learning?
What did you use for programming games?

I used a Basic compiler, but for the life of me now I cannot remember the name of it. There are several different AppleSoft Basic compilers (such as TASC and Beagle Compiler) but this one used its own variant of Basic, not AppleSoft Basic.

Dang, now I'm going to spend all day trying to remember the name of it. That and reminisce about the space exploration game I was developing that was going to take over the world, but mostly just ended up getting my middle school teachers to yell at me for working on it instead of the class work.
>Too much freedom is just as harmful as too little.

Covid killed what, 0.1% of the population at most, and the average age of death was over 80. Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot killed well over an order of magnitude more than that.
It's also worth considering that the UK economy in 2021 is larger than it was during WW2, so a small percentage impact in the present day would be a bigger absolute value than the same percentage applied to the past economy.
Hmm, interesting proposal, though I think I'll pass for now because I have a NAS and a good connection at home, I think I'll use that for now.

Did you already send me an email? Did I reply?
Wow, OK, I’ve been out of the UK for too long.
The Game Archaeologist: Neocron
OVH didn't suffer a complete outage. If you were relying on that single DC, then you're probably not sufficiently large for this to apply to you.

But perhaps my point wasn't clearly enough made: a claim of "100% uptime" on a service level isn't particularly _useful_ when our users still only see a 99.9% success rate.
Indeed. It's why Photoshop for Mac won't run an Ryzen systems - it's optimised to the point where it relies on specific Intel CPU instructions.
You see the Abkhazian side (pic taken from the Georgian side). Exactly that bridge! Have you been around there?
Sorry, I was thinking of the juvenile application of X-Ray vision. I have not read Larry Niven's piece.
It is also a multiple of 12V batteries and 2V cells so most house level off-grid solar based systems run on 48V.
Shout-out to any HN members who played this. Long live Neocron!
What is sia sky doing differently from Mozilla send? My understanding is that Mozilla send got overwhelmed by malware?
Heh, I didn't have to, I wasn't even transferred to another employee. This is a small-ish local ISP which probably doesn't have ten levels of tech support. A bit more expensive than offers from other providers, but absolutely no regrets.

Since we're talking about good support here, I have another story involving them:

When we started the contract with them 6Mb/s was the fastest available speed, a few years later it suddenly went to 70Mb/s for a week and then down again (which is fair, we had a 6Mb/s plan after all). I called them and asked if we could upgrade to a faster plan. They said they could now offer us a 50Mb/s plan and asked when I would be home. One hour later they sent a representative with a new contract, we signed, and the next day speeds went up to 50Mb/s again.
You only hear about dumb crooks because those are the ones that get caught.
There’s like a daily flamewar on avherald. They even have a faq entry for this:

Q: Why do you use "wrong" abbreviations (e.g. for New South Wales)?

We use the original ISO 3166 standard (two letter code) to remain compatible with other sources. Therefore the abbreviation for e.g. New South Wales is NS unlike the postal abbreviation NSW.
Even Dominic Cummings said at one point there was a strong case for a second referendum to decide what form Brexit should take (note NOT a re-run of the first referendum).
Not at all. I'm surprised they got it done so fast. They're previous big product updates in response to Apple hardware releases have taken way longer.
Oh I know, my great grandpa used to fly his plane onto lake Washington all the time.
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Like when Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) posted a hash about some Covid nonsense he wanted to be right about?
Dual-national UK/Aussie here (ethnically a "Pom" then).

It's definitely true. Australia loves the smack of firm government and is quietly very, very authoritarian.

There's an Aussie term "Wowsers" [0] which is fascinating, as there is no British equivalent term. It often feels like the Wowsers and the Larrikins [1] are fighting an endless battle for Australia's soul. The Wowsers always win.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wowser
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrikin
I mean chances are they are doing DC distribution.

https://datacenterfrontier.com/google-unveils-48-volt-data-c...
> That is indeed a problem, but it is your problem. If 48% of people support anything, there must be some reasons for it.

Sure, and I think the most palatable conclusion is that a very large number of people are not well informed. If you look at UK news outlets — what they choose to report, how they choose to report it, and the interests of the people who own them — this doesn't stretch credibility very much.

> Also, economics isn't immune to bias. Are papers showing a link from immigration to low wages, or crime, or reduced trust, likely to get a fair hearing?

Yes, I believe they are. I am wary here of Michael Gove's quasi-fascist rhetoric of having "had enough of experts".

> it is an aging, sclerotic continent that can only make money by imposing fines on US tech companies

The big tech companies are too large and too powerful to be safe for democracy (or indeed for healthy forms of capitalism involving genuine competition). I would like to see more action taken against them everywhere. The EU is large enough to stand up to large corporations of this sort. The UK outside the EU is not.
Mass, warrantless surveillance in the US has be going on for 30+ years, I can assure you.