skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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As it is, this quote is a little misleading. Additional context from the article:

> "If we had remained on Facebook, we might have had another 5% growth," she said. "But even if we throttled our growth ... it's brought us a lot of positives."

> Donations from readers went up, for example, once word of Stuff's decision leaked out. Boucher said the company's newsrooms felt the impact, too.

> "We can definitely see a change in the way people react to us and talk to us" she said. "Hearing anecdotally from journalists, they feel like they've been able to get interviews they would not have got before. They feel that it has really has contributed to people trusting us more, thinking about us as an organization with a clear set of values."

Based on the rest of article, sounds like they value being a trusted source more then getting more eyes. Given that Facebook and the like are a firehose of truths and lies, I wish more news sources would take this stance. (And do deep dives.)
Why 100? I see no barrier to adopt the LENR worldwide in a short period of time, when the effect will be well understood and easy to reproduce.
An insider-trading indictment shows ties to Bloomberg News scoops
Insurance is what cripples these projects financially, and the insurance rates are based on a woeful misunderstanding of the risks, driven by media fear-mongering about Fukushima and other passive-safe reactors. The bad PR is probably assisted by oil companies - Friends of the Earth was originally funded by an oil baron[0].

But if you would rather fall back on hydrocarbon energy for baseline power, and pray to Elon for magic batteries someday, feel free to vote the other way.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Orville_Anderson
An NFT is basically a number in a smart contract. Through the ERC721 (there are others) interface, you can ask the smart contract which address owns that particular number. So, "contract 0xdeadbeef... , who owns 123456 ? It's owned by 0xabcdef..."

This is totally fine, but keep in mind someone could deploy an identical contract to a different address, which also has a 123456 in it, which is also owned by 0xabcdef. You'd have to be careful when you're checking the ownership that you're checking everything. I could imagine an unscrupulous person saying "Look, I sent you 123456, it's in your address, see?" and then absconding.
It was 30 in US, 31st in the rest.
I should start by saying I'm not very keen on having government mandated IDs in order to be able to use a internet service.

I'd also point out that increasingly companies are forcing such policies - using mobile phones - that in the end is the same result. That logging into many services require use of a mobile phone and/or a credit card. One might argue this is better than a government id/validation system, but in practice the government gets access to all the data anyway and now you have that friction and you've now distributed the data to multiple databases for whatever uses.

I'd prefer to not have either.

That there are significant problems in the world that might be improved upon with a lack of anonymity. Be that social media bullying, slander, the review 'industry' - or just the more dark aspects of human nature that anonymity allows - such as people getting the dopamine hit of attacking a person.

There are other things that anonymity allowed that are good - whistleblowers, people under restrictive regimes being able to communicate. Sometimes it's freeing to be able to say what you really think anonymously.

So what to do? There probably isn't any one single answer. That many services will require your identity to use. Having a government ID system if correctly engineered and administored - that arguably actually might be preferable for some services.

There could be services services that allow anonymity. The distinction could be reach or some other mechanisms.

'Freedom' is an odd word as it is used in the US. I don't see people generally talking about it wrt companies requiring ID for example - and yes often there is no or little choice. If it's anything restrictive from the government then immediately it's a big deal. It's a weird kind of freedom - people are free to by cyber bullied, to be erroneously attacked and lose their jobs, to erode trust - from reviews, to news, to science and so forth. To erode democracy itself. That's apparently not a problem because we are 'free'. It doesn't make much sense to me.
Correct, wind energy is not present in the same amounts everywhere. There are places where wind energy is more available and places where it's not available or marginal. You can't run your AC off of a gentle breeze.

Finding the best places to install wind farms is surprisingly difficult.
Thanks for the feedback! The behavior around the edges should be improved now.
Have you seen the aerial pictures of the area? There's pretty clearly a path through the median that's inviting pedestrians to cross there.
English does not have many different conjugations or verb inflections. Russian has lots.
That's a big lol at any form of music being "done". How and when would you judge something as broad as a musical style to be "done"?

In your opinion, if most of the "interesting permutations have been tried" what innovations would it take for a new genre/style to develop and broaden the scope of what can be expressed?
Whenever I am abroad with the goal of learning a language, I simply pretend to not speak English. I feel a little bad about doing this, since it‘s akin to „lying“ and using your conversation partner, but it has gotten me extremely far with several languages, so I'm really sorry but will continue doing so.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25403163 "Why radio receivers won’t tune 800-900 MHz"
And what do you do when the other forms of green energy aren't available?
The dirty and accessed bits are per page table structure, so they are per-process. So you can at least take process priority into account, if not thread. In theory you could take thread priority into account by observing and resetting the dirty/accessed bits every context switch, but this would be unlikely to be worth it.
Is it at all possible it could be both, as perhaps the phrases "green" and "new deal" clearly suggest?
Ironically perhaps, the best reason not to do this is "It is extremely likely that, given sufficient time, we will either figure out a way to use the waste besides high-yield weapons or a cheaper way to dispose of the waste."

Earth is huge. At the rate reactors create waste, the amount of land consumed by storing it is staggeringly low (the higher risks are transportation, which unfortunately the rocket idea doesn't solve unless we build a dedicated rocket site next to each reactor). Low enough to justify the risk-over-time of securely sequestering it instead of throwing it away.
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This is very well put and am surprised it didn't get more replies.

>Only rarely does the business let us drive towards the true fantastic excellences that we dream of pursuing. Just as the business doesn't understand the loser's game challenges that are all over the place, oh, sad, the business also does not have anywhere near the vision or creativity of the individual, of the coder, who sees possibility & value oozing out of so many areas, often so untapped. And programmers are not put into decision making roles nearly enough, not given structure & the attitude that they can strike, that they can chase down big game, game the rest of the company often has a hard time seeing. The socialization processes that work places must go through to allow commitment are very high, and so programmers simply do not have the time, ability, or often even the common language to get the businesses play the winning game. We must trust that the business somehow is aligned to let us make them kings, rather than taking an active stake in pushing the business towards their would be kingdomship.

The socializing aspect is spot on but there is also a fear that the business people have of losing control. On the software domain they are clueless and they prefer to keep the reigns, even if their decisions are bad than cede some power to software people. They are afraid that software people would become to powerful.
> the day will come where software development is automated in some capacity.

It already is. It's called a compiler.
This is already happening. Squarespace, Shopify and to some extent Facebook certainly have an impact on the lower end of web development.

Once upon a time you needed to hire someone to get a website for a small business going, now you can do this yourself for a small fee.
Stop optimizing for interoperability then.

Write your own operating system specific to hardware.

It’s either have the monolith for all or make it a black box so you’re special.

Personally I’d rather the resources be made available to all and not just cellar dweller squirrelly types.

What you have is a political problem: we optimize to reduce fiscal costs to protect aristocratic power.

If everyone wants to be highly atomic agents of self management, stop working for money.
One of the very few things that make me lament not being a smoker.
The Correct Answer™ is performance standards, which are incrementally improved over time.

How California became far more energy-efficient than the rest of the country

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/31/1864690...
At the end of the day, everyone just wants your money. Keep the IRS and your various debtors well-paid and they probably won't have a good reason to ruin your life.

As the saying in the business goes: Only break 1 law at a time.
It bothers me when people write a lot of software with hidden jumps in control flow. I want to reason mathematically about the code, not experiment with it to see if it throws these exceptions or retries or what. Is there some layer in the framework du jour that catches them all and spits out an HTTP 200 status html stack trace instead of the expected XML error status?
>Bankruptcy is the only mechanism which allows debts to be wiped clean without simultaneously adding more debts.

This is untrue. There is also repayment, which is the way the system is designed to work. There is also voluntary/negotiated forgiveness by lenders.

More than that, how is bankruptcy a bad thing in this context? Isn't bankruptcy exactly what should happen when repayment becomes impossible?

Our system of bankruptcy organizes the process of default, and was actually the solution to the older problem of things like debtor's prisons.
One hundred million years later, a tribe of evolved cats sees an asteroid streak through the sky...
Holy crap, $2000! Literally 10x the price of PinePhone. Still, that’s exactly what I was looking for; thank you!
So what you're saying is, even though it may have went high in the past, you believe that we have the possibility of dropping cool again in a short (decadal) period of time?
This is likely the intended URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-weren...
TiddlyWiki uses a similar data model for table of contents by default and I love it! I think the multitree constraint is a good idea over a general DAG.
I mean we’re wishing for a bucket that can survive terminal velocity impact with the earth and is yet light enough to ride a rocket, why not add to that wish that it could survive explosion from said rocket?
Player-Driven Economies
With this you can get busted for stealing _and_ not paying taxes on the fair market value.
In terms of wedding rings, that's not a fundamental human value, but simply because De Beers launched a campaign that still today is a school case for advertising, due to it's ROI.

"In 1938, the diamond cartel De Beers began a marketing campaign that would have a major impact on engagement rings. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the price of diamonds collapsed.[25] At the same time, market research indicated that engagement rings were going out of style with the younger generation. Before World War II, only 10% of American engagement rings contained a diamond."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engagement_ring
Paleontologists have a much more detailed view of the past than you think. There are fossils of fish and trees killed by the asteroid impact itself, buried by the tsunami.[1]

> In the deposit, the team discovered an ancient freshwater pond whose occupants had been quickly cemented together by waves of sediment and debris. The fossils include sturgeon and six-foot-long paddlefish, their scales intact but their bodies ripped and smashed; marine mollusks; leaves and tree fronds, and the burned trunks of trees. The fish carcasses were not bloated, decayed, or scavenged, suggesting that they were buried quickly — and that few animals were left alive after the cataclysm to come digging.

> The fossil deposit also teems with tektites, tiny glass beads that are the telltale fallout of planetary-scale impacts. Fifty percent of the fossilized fish were found with tektites in their gills, as if the fish had inhaled the material. Also recovered were tektites trapped in amber. Their chemical composition was unchanged in 66 million years, and it closely matched the unique chemical signature of other tektites associated with the Chicxulub event.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/science/dinosaurs-extinct...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanis_(fossil_site)
Nearly all languages worth considering can compile to either GCC or LLVM one way or the other, the thing I find that makes the difference for microcontroller use now is (to be worth using over C) the ability to abstract over the peripherals quickly (There is a project that I think parses the peripheral datasheet at compile time in D, even), preferably zero cost.
I personally know that the hospitals are empty no covid-19 patients I was there for many surgerys pass few years in and out weeks staying over night. The news claims it's full of virus patients I walked down that wing to find the lights off and no one around.
https://i.imgur.com/qn31o2N.jpg - mobile, but
Is there any technique that's worth keeping in mind for other areas (thinking about GDPR in particular)? If so, what are they?
I recommend using -fsanitize=undefined -fsanitize=integer if you can build with clang - it will print a warning when an unsigned int underflows which catches a terrifying amount of similar bugs the first time it is run (there are a lot of false positives in hash functions, etc though but imho it's well worth using regularly)
I remember seeing this, but I can't remember if I tried it or pegged it for "next time". I also imagine the new engine will have more friendly movement controls. The hardest part of playing good games from the past is when the control scheme hadn't settled in what we now generally consider a superior format, and sometimes the old engines don't take well to those control schemes. IIRC daggerfall was somewhat in this camp (and for some reason I'm remembering it as more painful than arena, possibly because of more vertical space but bad mouse look?)
Deregulation leads to collusion and centralization which are great for gouging.

Regulatory capture is corruption. In every scenario we need transparency and enforcement of agreed upon rules to maintain a balanced playing field.
Not causing issues for me. Maybe it got resolved? Or maybe I just don't have the right github-fu
The euro doesn't have a fixed supply so your comparison doesn't make any sense to begin with. A better comparison would be like a tree that produces fruit. Once you're at the maximum amount the tree can ever produce why wouldn't you harvest? There's no longer any reason to wait.
> lets just ignore the waste and emissions that it generates at all other fronts (building the plant and materials for it, mining and processing of the fuel, processing and storage of spend fuel, disassembly of the plant)

Because of course wind turbines just appear by themselves and don’t need steel, concrete, composites, and, well, turbines (with the associated material sourcing and recycling issues). And solar panels are just picked on trees and do not need any fabrication.

The overall carbon impact for the different energy sources are well known. Solar is slightly worse and nuclear and wind are even. All three are orders of magnitude better than any fossil fuel.
So El Chapo's daughters (US citizens) declare $50 Million, 10 years from now and nothing happens? I doubt it. Bells will ring

If you sold drugs...might as well break tax laws too or you risk your profession:)
And yet, renewables account for almost all new generation being turned up.

Turns out there are lots of places to install panels and turbines where there aren’t NIMBYs.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46416
> (The country that claims me as its citizen is irrelevant)

The country is indeed irrelevant. The culture however is not: as I noted, this week ordinal definition is standard in europe, and the only people I've seen 1. not know about this definition of the week (and the concept of week-year) and 2. care enough to express any sort of surprise, have been american.

> we are indeed discussing ISO's definition of a "week".

The information in my comment was that this is the standard week in europe, any time somebody talks in weeks (which is common in many, many businesses, people'll tell you they'll do a job W23, or will ship your order W36), that's the one they're talking about.
I don't have much experience in years or with complex tasks, but consider my code quite clean, as I worry about legibility a lot, and my colleagues often understand it clearly.

For code legibility, I suggest this course, which I found very insightful (1). I think this is a good first approach that solves immediate legibility problems: what to these lines of code do? .

For "medium level" understanding, I would look into design patterns. These can frequently cause ugly code when you use too many, but expose you to nice principles about composition, interfaces, inversion of control, etc. This provides answers to: what is these files/modules/classes do? I read this book for university and it was decent: (2)

I would define high level understanding as architecture. A clean architecture provides an answer to "what does this project do?" . I don't have a good resource for you, but would research about architectures such as client-server, consumer-subscriber, REST APIs, pipelines.

These are a lot of topics and you should definitely take your time in each one. Bear in mind mind these" levels" are just something I came up with, but I think they make sense.

1: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.pluralsight.com/cou...

2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns
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Variants of that are even older. Here's one variant of a quote often attributed to Adolphus Busch: “You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.”
Have in mind the vinyl market share isn't too far from the MacOS market share a couple of years ago. I see it as the premium niche, something we can't just ignore, especially if we consider the growth.
We know that a majority of cases are asymptomatic or have minor symptoms. That's not news.

But the weird long-COVID cases are problematic - they're real, they affect a certain slice of the demographics, and can be pretty serious and long-term.
It's a witch. Burn it
/s
I do not idolize Elon Musk and I definitely do not idolize Mitch McConnel. I acknowledge that they have vastly more power than I do. In Musk's case, specifically, he has been doing most of the stuff I've been doing, only better (I doubt he writes intentionally cheesy sci-fi, or designs free board games). I don't think I can cope with that.
> ... you may be cancelling out the value you've created in more material ways ...

When considering whether to engage in this kind of conversation, what you've said here is my deepest concern.

For a long time, many years, I felt that sharing my thoughts and opinions on these matters honestly would cause more harm than good. So I didn't, which was fine with me. Less time consumed, less stress, etc.

Over the past year, though, overall awareness of the potential for climate change driven collapse of civilization has greatly expanded. It's now in the common discourse. That has led me to engage in these conversations.

My goal is to help people accept the strong possibility of collapse, and also embrace the reality of uncertainty. Acknowledge that things look bad; acknowledge that the odds are against us. Each person can then figures out how to draw strength and resolve from both of those.

> ... I prefer to simply call this honest optimism.

Your belief lays quite nicely in my personal uncertainty about the future. I think you're wrong about the balance of probabilities, but I hope you're right and I'm wrong!

> ... do not want to have children ...

Before my wife and I had our son in the early 2000s, we decided that we were going to have at most one biological child, and adopt one or more others if it made sense.

> Meanwhile, in other nations where nobody cares about climate, the birth rate dwarfs our own; what does that mean for the future?

A future where there are a lot more of 'them' than 'us'? Fine with me. Is that fine with you?

As I noted elsewhere, it looks likely that the total population will top out at around 10 billion, about 20% higher than now.

> ... being sold a story at every angle that they have no future, no reason to hope, no salvation.

That's bad for national morale, and I agree with you that national morale is extremely important.

What's worse for morale is people seeing and experiencing what used to be 100 year, 500 year and 1000 year weather events, every year, while being told that those events aren't really a threat to our civilization.

Morale is best preserved when people are aware of the truth, the facts, without hyperbole, and fully taught and trained in understanding of the science of statistical uncertainty.

National morale in the United Kingdom during the blitz in 1941 was preserved not by saying that what was happening around them wasn't an existential threat. It was preserved by understanding and embracing the reality of that threat, and moving forward from there.
Are there performance issues for this with BTRFS as well or just ZFS?
well, your code is nonstandard, that is all, just like a house with powerplugs installed 30 years ago is not standard, even if it "works"
Accuweather: "I love it when a plan comes together"
Automating things was quite a thrilling thing to do at the time (before one was paid to do so). And UDP in VB, holy moly, some seriously advanced stuff (at the time).
Having read hundreds of these sorts of CEO leaving letters I'm a bit jaded and cynical. If you're interested in what I see when I read that message, I rewrote it[1] in more plain language.

Google demands a lot of its "other bets" companies. Some might say it asks too much. Mostly it seems to me that they want a 'moonshot' company that has the original profitability of search advertising, full stop. And while it would be great for them if they found it, there is a lot to be said for having a bunch of businesses that just make anywhere from a few million to a billion dollars a year in revenue.

I don't know if the attitude has changed since I was there but people creating $20M/year business revenue streams were not considered "successful" back in the day. I found that somewhat self defeating.

[1] https://gist.github.com/ChuckM/ff5fc8c800c7fe9160483b68ec45a...