skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
then your circles are different from mine. My family play the lottery, not expecting to win over time but just for the fun of it.

You're falling into the availability bias from being over-exposed to gambling addicts, who are a small fraction of the lottery-ticket-buying population.

> Yes, economists prattle on about how playing the lottery can be a rational decision, giving people hope, dopamine hits, etc. But there are lots of available options for non-profitable sources of hope and dopamine hits!

Economists are infamous for leaning on examples that only apply to homo economicus. They are prone to a special kind of reductive "rationality" that only cares about optimal game-theoretic decisions; most people don't fit that model. You are falling into that same thought pattern; people aren't going around looking for cost/benefit-optimised sources of dopamine.
africanboy says>"You really thought that an African boy couldn't possibly know? Seriously?"

It has nothing to do with "an African boy". You could be a 10-year-old South American pogo referee and I still would not believe that you have the slightest idea of how many Swiss sleep with or w/o pistols beneath their pillows! Seriously!
We should have moral giants lead every institution.

Saints! The Perfect Beings! Please come down Earth to save this planet!
So two rats where talking and one rat said to the other rat
hey are you getting the dna altering jib jab? because it's not really a vaccine you know. And the other rat said, are you crazy, they have not yet finished testing on those humans yet.
Moreover, I don't want to be on a highway with people driving cars with code they modified. Ideally, we would have an model where the source for all of the components is visible, with customers able to make suggestions, but with the vendor responsible for all safety testing.
What I mean specifically is that students aren't necessarily paying for work that couldn't be reasonably attributed to them. It's pretty obvious when, for example, an essay is grad-level quality.
who uses Referer?!

How can you tell it's Monday morning on HN?

Someone starts pontificating, "I don't use this, so there is no conceivable reason that anyone else on the planet should ever need this ever!"

See also: Half of StackOverflow questions.
It’s not clear how to define a new entity out of another one using a selector. So perhaps instead of/in addition to `x.use(foo)` you might want `x.select(foo).use()`.

Not sure if simpler but something I’d be missing/would feel inconsistent.
The point is that without an original, an NFT is just a receipt pointing to one of many completely identical - and fungible - items.
Same here. I have a plasma LG that I absolutely love. It has an amazing picture, but it's heavier than wet sand.

My friend recently got a new TV and I was appalled at the controls, picture (soap opera effect), "smart features" (how it instantly goes into this app like experience that you can't ever get out of). So many things bother me about modern TVs. If my TV ever dies, I don't know what I'll do.
I've always been against this scarlet letter mentality that seems pervasive.

I've also been vocally against RMS's particular brand of outreach as being incredibly alienating of the people whose opinions he actually needs to address. Admittedly, if he does have autism there's a ton of things that start to make sense, speaking from my own experiences with and around it, but I can't actually find a reference to any confirmed diagnosis from him. He's said he "suspects" as such, and I might as well, but it doesn't really help as neither of us are trained professionals. That being said, from my experience with autistic folks and what I know about him, it's not super surprising that he wouldn't get himself actually diagnosed or checked.
You need non-blocking IO, if you have more threads than cores you are doing it wrong.

You cannot build a MMO server with erlang.
I think mob justice has a horrible track record! I think it happens because the public has lost all faith in police, which is equally horrible.
I suppose there's no reason you couldn't do that. I imagine they didn't want to do that because cables (as a platonic ideal) should just carry signals from point A to point B without fudging anything. When you start to screw with that dynamic, you end up with lots of non-standard issues that people blame on the standard (I'm reminded of contractors jamming two 100mb/s lines through a single Cat5e cable instead of just switching on a single 1000mb/s line)
I'm 100% for doing everything we can to reducing the environmental impact of ICEs. I try to live minimally and reuse everything I can everyday to reduce my personal (negative) impact on the environment.

With that said, I can't help but wonder if the significant majority of our cars become EVs and the batteries for them are made using rare earth metals and more importantly, are recycled poorly afterward, what's the added benefit of switching to EVs (in other words, what's the sweet spot like how many years would one need to use his/her EV to offset the environmental impact of batteries used in EV)?

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

If anyone has a credible study comparing on the net positive impact on the environment by transitioning to all EVs compared to say ICE, I'd love to read that. Thanks in advance!
I like the analogy with aluminum, but I don't like the title. As far as I know nobody oxidize aluminum again to get electricity. And nobody undo bitcoins mining, whatever that means). So aluminum and bitcoins are really similar, but not a battery.
Artificial Neuron Device Could Shrink Energy Use/Size of Neural Network Hardware
The crashes would definitely draw more crowds with Hydrogen.
I miss the PS Vita. I went through two of them, which were completely field repairable. (e.g. a five minute job to replace worn out buttons)

The Switch is the "PS Vita 2" in terms of architecture: e.g. NVIDIA's idea of what a mobile gaming SoC looks like.

It will be a long time until I get a Switch because there is a big back catalog playable on the New Nintendo 3DS which is itself an interesting line of architecture in which you could have a low performance CPU that stages data for a high performance CPU to bypass some of the "memory hierarchy" bottlenecks at the expense of the programmer/compiler/runtime scheduling memory access proactively on the "programmable memory controller" up front.
Without being too trite: intent.

Sometimes people think I'm being awkward or uncomfortable, but mostly I'm tripping over myself trying (and failing) to find the right things to say. People expect that you can read them, and read the situation in real time. I can't (although usually I can gather how it's all gone wrong once the moment has passed -- a double-edged sword.)
Turkey is huge on physical gold as well. People basically spend their money on gold immediately to avoid the inflation (from what I saw in some videos). The Grand Bazaar has dozens of gold shops.
A mystifying and self-destructive decision by the FSF board.

The FSF board has always been overloaded with white guys. If it wants to assert its relevance for another generation, it's long past time to start bringing in fresh voices, and stop serving as a nostalgia platform.

What's going to happen in the next year or two is that Stallman is going to veer outside his lane again and say something even dumber. At that point, the entire FSF board is going to be on the hook for it, because they invited him back. That, in turn, is going to put the viability of the entire FSF into question.
FYI this is known as the "expression problem" https://wiki.c2.com/?ExpressionProblem
Visualize textual data using Hilbert curves in ggplot2
That’s a great start to understanding flows of carbon and other substances through the ecosystem!

I’d like to add that much of the feed is grown using fertilizer, which is often/typically produced via fossil-fuel consuming processes (see Fischer Tropsch).

Where carbon is stored in the system is another major consideration.

Great post!
A funny pattern: quite often, "capitalists" welcome authoritarian rulers, expecting them to be "good for business", because they "make the trains run on time" and keep unions and environmentalists in check.

However, in the long run, these rulers end up having their own agenda that turns out to be bad to businesses.

Examples?

* Brazil's Bolsonaro crashing the country's confidence and branding by shunning trade deals with EU, being hostile to trade partners (China, Arab countries) or interfering (Hugo Chavez-like) with the state oil company.

* Trump and his disastrous handling of the pandemic.

* Xi-Jiping and the CCP interference in AliPay and other conglomerates.

* Erdogan's disastrous handling of Turkey's currency.

Moral of the story: everyone loves their dictator until the moment the dictator is no longer "their". Frankenstein's monsters have this unpleasant side effect of turning against their creators.
Super Seducer 3 ban highlights Steam’s fuzzy “adult content” rules
> Phabricator is (IMHO) in a class of its own as a code review

Yeah I'm gonna have to heavily disagree with this. Arc is hot garbage, by default decimates your local history, treats everything as mutable. Phabricator leaves so so much to be desired, I could rant for days. Gerrit is a much nicer review tool. Even Review Board is better.
I will once again say that this is why I don't have a Twitter
Considering last decade social consequences due to easy access to APIs and data, I am quite happy that these initiatives are cautious around opening up software which can have huge impact on society.
If the line is that blurry, when do we begin holding people accountable for being apparently deliberately inconsiderate and rude? Most people don't have a problem with social cues, are we to quietly accept abuse and harassment even from people who have been told they're hurting others and don't change?
When the sandbox works as it should, the application has no idea that so and so file even exists.

The flatpak portals are trusted system components, that work outside the sandbox and can present some choosers, where the user picks what will eventually become accessible inside sandbox, if the user agrees (whether files via file choosers, microphones, cameras, desktop sharing, whatever). The sandboxed processes talks to the these portal via IPC (dbus, normally).

The thing is, that outside of standard gtk3 and qt5 apps, nothing else uses portals yet (and gtk3 with qt5 do that at framework level, so it's transparent for the apps). You cannot sandbox random electron app, for example, and expect that it will work just like it worked when it was installed via deb or rpm. And with files, it is just not single files (document apps are relatively easy), but imagine opening project file inside IDE or playlist inside media player: the project or playlist was picked by the user and can be opened by the app, but it contains references to other files, potentially hundreds of them. Can you imagine asking the user to confirm opening each and every one of the hundreds of files?

And then there were people complaining that their locally installed SDKs cannot be used from sandboxed IDEs. Sigh, that's kind of the point...
Small-scale alcohol fuel production integrated into regenerative agriculture. (This is different from large-scale industrial ethanol production.)

You grow e.g. sugar beets, convert them to alcohol and some byproducts (that go back into the farm as feed and fertilizer), use the alcohol in generators and vehicles. You're operating within your solar budget, the atoms that make up the alcohol came from water and air so all your nutrients and trace minerals stay on the farm and the fuel is carbon-neutral (all the carbon released when you burn the fuel originally came from the air in the form of carbon dioxide, not from underground fossilized carbon), and it can be done with simple off-the-shelf tech that has been around for literally thousands of years. You don't have to scrap your ICE cars and trucks, you can modify them to work with alcohol as fuel (some cars it's a software mod!) and the exhaust is not poisonous.

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Here's a video of Václav Smil at Driva Climate Investment Meeting 2019 giving a talk called "Investing in a changing climate – what we can learn from historic energy transitions". https://youtu.be/gkj_91IJVBk
The presentation is IMO very interesting, and the conclusion is sobering: "Only absolute cuts in energy use would work." ( https://youtu.be/gkj_91IJVBk?t=2283 )

We use too much power. And when I say "we" I mean mostly the USA but the rest of the world is ramping up rapidly. Unless there's a miracle (like clean fusion generators that kids can make in the garage out of chicken wire, tires, and ducktape) the only physically realistic way to de-carbonize fast enough to really matter is a drastic reduction in power use.

This is possible, and we can (I believe) maintain our quality of life, but we have to start now and work quickly.

The good news about that is that our systems are enormously wasteful so there is a lot of "low-hanging fruit" when it comes to reducing power usage through increasing efficiency.

The bad news is we are still going to have to make changes, pay for them, and yeah, make some sacrifices as well.

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In re: software to manage local grids efficiently, IMO that's not interesting. It's covered already. If you need fancy real-time dynamic "smart" manager software for your local micro-grids you're almost certainly doing it wrong.

Put something like Factorio in front of your grid as a UI and scenario planner and let the local kids run it. "Energy Club"
SpaceX compensation is notoriously poor, as are the working conditions -- crunch is bad enough for games, but imagine if you are working on flight critical software or hardware. I've looked at their careers page many times, but the backchannel gos always made me reconsider, and since then Elon has gone really wacko.
Thanks so much for using it. We really appreciate it.

There's a little toggle down in the profile menu in the bottom left (or do cmd+k -> hotkey hints) if you want Kitemaker to give you more hints to help you learn the hotkeys. Basically it bugs you whenever you use the mouse!
I absolutely second this. "IoT" is a keyword to furnish up cheap hardware where the price of physical switches would have harmed the profit margin too much. This is not really ironic: Physical switches (with a price of probably 0,2 USD per component) are more expensive then SoC having Wifi implemented. Also it's cheaper to hire software-only developers to do as little hardware engineering as possible. It's all about cutting the price per unit down.
I'm not even sure this was strictly true at one point. As soon as PS/2 keyboard vs mouse plugs, you had problems. Plus you had (and still have) various audio jacks on the computer anyway. Back to the mouse even prior to PS/2 you often had COM1 and COM2 and if I remember correctly you actually could not replug the mouse on the other port in a plug-and-plug way. You also could have very weird video cabling in the 3DFX 1 and 2 era.

But yes, I agree the USB-C plug mess is probably the worst. It has became worse than what it "wanted" to solve. The only way to make it work as broadly advertised again would be if all plugs supported all protocols (that make sense for a given device) and PD options, etc. on all devices and with common cables, at max bandwidth everywhere, but not only I'm not sure this is technically possible, this would probably be cost prohibitive.

And so what is the point? The net number of ports decreases on laptops, and there is no need on most gadget devices (beyond data+PD). The only point is for manufacturers to economize 50 cts and make the new inferior laptops pass as better than the old ones because they use the shinny new USB-C plugs. I would be happy if the price was actually 1/2 of the old models.
>Not, it robs those in the investor class that choose local currency as n investment vehicle for wealth. One is working class exactly to the extent one is dependent on current labor income.

Not really. The working poor are the exactly the kind of people who will put their savings in a savings account rather than a s&p500 index fund.
Ok. The top thread of this HN post about Zigbee not being that open:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21825822
It's a bad goal to have EVs adopted as wide as ICE were. Cities should not be usable for cars.
For the record, I disagree with mob justice! I just also disagree that cops can be relied on right now for sexual assault cases. Currently, there is no real fair place for sexual assault victims to reliably receive real justice, and that is a tragedy in of itself.
rms IS the FSF.
It probably costs more to add physical knobs/switches. They will end up taking more space/require more material to manufacture than the IoT device itself.
I don't think you can send instructions on multiple cores at the same time with Vulkan, if so why is it so hard to find examples of it?
GPT-3 tries pickup lines
Countries do not have friends, only interests.

The first duty of a nation is to its people.

The moment that politicians forget that is the moment they find themselves in predicaments like this.
He didn't retract anything until just before he resigned as far as I know.[1] The retraction wasn't right along side his earlier comments.[2][3] 6 years isn't many at his age. And he fixed a link without changing anything else just 1 year before.

Defend him if you want. But let's be accurate.

[1] https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

[2] https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#05%20June%20...

[3] https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#04_January_2...
I'm getting on aside note on a side note already but this bumps into something I've been thinking about for days now so I can't resist.

I'm beginning to think the swearing thing in the U.S. has to do with a perception of the concept of "innocence". Because I've noticed a lot of people only begin to have a problem with swearing here when it involves children. For sure, there are people who are just generally against swearing for religious or etiquette reasons. However, having kids really seems to change a large number of people into prudes regarding swears.

I'll admit, when I first heard my 4 year old swear it was jarring. But I thought it through and was like, "my wife and I swear all the time, why can't the kid swear? I can either cave to this uncomfortable feeling or extend my kid the same privallege I extend myself."

At one point, my brother came to stay with us. He swears like a sailor yet when my kid swore, he was shocked. Not 10 minutes before he was cursing in front of the kid.

I also have friends who swore often when we were at college together and they started forbidding swears when they didn't like hearing it coming from their 3 year old.

American culture still has a partial obsession with virginity and the concept of innocence and my best guess is that this subconsciously extends to people's expectations for their children.
> Among other reasons, it’s a bad idea to let allies, with whom you share intelligence

That's a non-sequitur: classified information is not transferred unencrypted over public networks. Isn't it a little conceited to think other countries are unable to make their own intelligence assessments, when presented with facts? The reasonable conclusion is that the considerations went beyond just security - because the UK in particular had published a public version of a report on 5G security vis Huawei. Ultimately, the decision to drop Huawei was top-down,from politicians, after a lot of diplomatic pressure from the US, and not from career intelligence people, some whose day jobs I assume includes threat assessments.
COVID...

They are "only" up 27% from 14 month ago.
I don't see a table but Fig 3 presents 95% confidence intervals for the odds ratios in the logistic model.
To be clear, it actually is implementation defined. The rules are:

Integer overflow is a "program error." This case is handled by either "default" or "enabled" overflow checking:

* If checks are "enabled", then overflow must panic

* If checks are "default", then you'll get two's compliment wrapping

For implementations, if debug_assertions are enabled, then so must overflow checking be, unless the user specifically requests otherwise.

According to these rules, rustc today has "enabled" checking when debug_assertions is on, or when the user requests it via a flag. Otherwise, it leaves it to "default." If these checks ever become cheap enough, rustc may move to "enabled" in all cases by default. We'll see if that ever happens.
Sarcasm and changing the subject may convince casual readers, but it's actually not particularly effective argument, and I won't be distracted by it.

What is your citation for the claim that "they were not free to demolish it" once it was "in the process of becoming" listed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_tra...

Sounds like you need to catch up to date on modern law. The STOCK Act passed in 2012 makes this "insider trading".
Good story about that decision here (they did think about making it reversible):
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/6/25/18744012/u...
> Who said anything about destroy?

Some jerk named Twitter is my understanding.

> Truly for my own self-benefit, I often need to make decisions (e.g. with work colleagues, customers, strangers) on whether someone is (a) malicious or (b) misunderstood.

I think you have to give people the benefit of the doubt. This sorts itself out with any kind of long-term relationship because then you get to know them well enough to tell whether or not they're an ass.

But the first time you meet someone, it's prisoner's dilemma. Everybody defaulting to defect because you're afraid the other guy might be doing the same thing is not going to end well.

See also superrationality etc.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality
The funny thing is former president offers his gratitude towards Erdoğan for dismissing him...