skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I would say it’s very hard to win a debate against ideology and ignorance ... ever tried debating someone on a street corner about the veracity of the bible?

For example I think this is one of the best debates and even though plenty of Austrian economics fans have seen it, they think Murphy “wins”. What do you think?

https://youtu.be/cUTLCDBONok

Also most of my work has been on verifying MMT in an Australian context, this is one of the best videos I produced about the reality of Australian federal finances: an interview with an investment manager:

https://youtu.be/jq6QbMSPoxQ

Stephanie Kelton and Warren Mosler have been producing massive volumes of similar stuff for the US.

MMT economists regularly “win” debates based on facts, but the real game is winning hearts and minds and that takes longer.
I don't like keyboard layout- lack of full-sized arrow keys and column of Home/PgUp/PgDn/End buttons on the right.
Yeah and I’ve never used it while it was a random dude project. You need enough street cred if you want me to trust my whole life in your hands.
You have stamp duty and all sorts of other measures in place at a state level (looking at Land Tax in QLD) that at least generates revenue from this. New Zealand has none of these, and as a result property flipping is rampant - the turnover of property is 3-5x higher in parts of NZ than anywhere else in AU.
this should be the top comment.
> Is learning K8S worthwhile?

Unless you can use the knowledge for work or just want something you can spend endless hours tweaking/tinkering on, not at all, not even a little bit. It will be less robust and an order of magnitude more difficult to troubleshoot and keep updated.

I work on k8s all day long. I welcome some actual responses contrary to my opinion. If he isn’t doing it for knowledge, k8s on a single node is a significant downgrade from proxmox for a home lab.

He currently has containers, vms, robust storage, and an extremely easy to use GUI out of the box with proxmox. He gets none of that from k8s without significantly more effort.
Coinbase is a mission focused company (2020)
Single node isn't going to buy you much over a basic docker-compose.yml setup, but IMHO you now have a home 'lab' to experiment and hone your skills. Helm charts, despite their flaws, when done well can be really simple and easy to install and maintain application stacks too. Just a couple CLI commands to get a selfhosted app setup with all of its dependencies like a database, ingress proxy, etc.
Downtime is kinda hard to grok for huge distributed services like this.

If you’re down when anyone gets errors you’ll probably always be down — not really useful.

If you’re down when everyone gets errors you’ll probably always be up — again not really useful.

From a customer perspective an increase in errors means nothing if it doesn’t affect you or everything if it does so even a flat percentage is likely not all that useful except as a probability that any issues you’re seeing are your fault.
God will not stop us from destroying ourselves. I wouldn't bring faith into a political discussion.
I know that "progressive" is a political term with some baggage at this point but it still, essentially, is trying to connote "progressing and changing". Scientific American isn't a magazine about how amazing it is that decades old devices are still functioning adequately - it's about how the world is progressing into the future.
https://stripe.com/climate lists some interesting tech companies working in this area (scroll to the bottom)
- The virus is not designed

- All viruses evolve to avoid immune responses

- The default assumption until we get new evidence should be that COVID-19 behaves like a Coronavirus, where immunity is relatively long-lasting
but for the duration that they are out of terms, the offer is terminated.

Try telling the NFL that you're only violating their copyright during for duration of the super bowl. If you stop committing a crime, it's not like it never happened. Sure, most copyright holders of GPL licensed code won't sue you if you make an honest effort, but the 30 day clause just makes that official.
Throwing in my anecdotal experience.

I noticed something very similar. About 25% of one-on-one conversations are now in Signal. Another 25% are in iMessage, which is a very easy sell for iOS users.

I've had a terrible time with group chats. One large chat is occurring in iMessage (very poor experience). Another large chat is occurring in Discord, which has been fantastic, but it changes the dynamic and caused a few friends to ghost (the onboarding to Discord is harder for newcomers vs. iMessage, WhatsApp or Signal IMO).
Doesn't solve the e-waste generation, the arms race to increase hash rate creates 100g of e-waste per transaction. Devastating for the planet of course and utterly insufficient for anything bigger than a Costco.

Just how much power do you think physical currency consumes? Data, citations, estimates please. Because I know handing a $10 bill to my buddy consumes 0kWh, and doing the same with Bitcoin costs $20 and consumes 30 days of power.

If you want progress you'll have to do something that moves the world forward not warms it up.
Funny, seems like the rest of the world is taking it a lot more seriously than the U.S., but yeah I guess its just the "progressive westerners" that are the problem.

One important thing you should know, smart people are just as dumb as everyone else outside of their area of expertise.
Ants Shrink Their Brains for a Chance to Become Queen
> Do you even understand the volume of apps they deal with? Apple claims 100k a week[0]. How do you propose to handle that?

Since it seems that Apple can't handle the problem they've delegated to themselves exclusively, and they prevent parties that might be better suited to solve it from solving it, they should allow the power of markets and competition to develop better, more efficient solutions. That way, consumers don't have to suffer while Apple insists that they're the only company allowed to serve the app distribution market as their customers are being scammed to the tune of several million dollars, or more, each month.
Well yes, and that's why CSFR are still somewhat common today.
Not sure why trynton’s comment is greyed out...

A vulnerability they were using got burned, and now they want to close it off so nobody else can use it.
Using 1 per year is useless unless it's adjusted to a ratiometric form like percentage or per capita
> Do most people who are not progressive westerners care?

Do most people who are progressive westerners care - and by care I mean, "You can tell by their actions in life that they believe climate change is a very real problem"?

"Reposting something on social media about it, from their new 5G phone, connected to giant datacenters busy crunching their activity for improved targeting of advertising" doesn't really count.

How many have put their money where their mouth is? And, certainly, the answer is more than zero, but it's certainly not nearly as many as claim to care about it. Insert the usual excuses here about how it's systemic problems, and one person can't have an impact, and it doesn't matter how you live if you've voted for the right person, etc. It still leads to an awful lot of carbon emissions.

If you look at actual life actions, the snarky comment about how a Republican denies climate change and does nothing about it while a Democrat thinks it's the biggest problem facing the world and does nothing about it ends up looking awfully true.
There was another study that suggested however that previous COVID-19 wasn't as effective against variants and that that was one of the root causes of the current Brazil situation (many reinfections).
I would argue the opposite. Run in us-east-1 if you want to have truly reliable infrastructure.
There’s room here for opinions of what a voting population will think about something.
Ah, I will make no real defence of gpg's ux. I wasn't sure if you were referring to anything else.

I'll take a look at keepassxc again someday. I'm assuming it works with yubikeys?
Just tax pollution the amount it costs to clean up pollution, and then use that money to clean up pollution. Problem solved.
Suicide and what motivates people to complete it is an incredibly complex topic. If you're looking at somewhere to start reading, I found Durkheim's theories interesting (and somewhat comforting, given recent experiences).

If someone reading this is considering it, please reach out to someone. I won't say that it will get better, but most people who survive their attempts regret attempting it in the first place.
Lower hanging fruit: ban factory farms for meat.
I'm curious, if anyone has lived through the experience: What is the migration story like to port an existing codebase from node.js to Deno?
Try installing tilix and 'Oh-my-zsh'. I did that to my desktop and couldn't be any happier.
I've rarely been so optimistic about computer science as I have been in the last few weeks; when we make a stand about the disaster for humanity that is proof-of-work. This is bad shit. Worse than 'do no evil' Google destroying the press.
That list is global, and the US list[0] seems weird, but I'll go over some apps that are and aren't on the list:

FB Messenger (#1): looks like it does

Snapchat (#2): did, but killed it in 2018. Don't think it ever had significant traction

WhatsApp (#3), Instagram (not listed, probably because it isn't primarily a messenger, but from personal experience it is commonly used as one): nope, but might be getting it soon[1]

Messenger by Google (#4): looks like it does from their website, but I don't use Android

Discord (#5): nope

iMessage (not listed, but hard to believe that's correct): does, via Apple Cash

So yes, messengers with send-money features are fairly common in the US. That being said, at least in my experience (college age, PNW) nobody uses them—we use use dedicated apps like Cash and Venmo.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/350461/mobile-messenger-...

[1]: https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-pay-will-let-you-send-pay...
What would it look like if climate were an emergency? Evacuation orders with perhaps 48 hours notice to leave the suburbs and never return. Defense Production Act cranking out prefab multifamily housing for urban cores. Blackouts when it’s cloudy. Transcontinental travel only when you know somebody who knows somebody with a sailboat.

Keep dreaming.
What's surprising about that? The dynamics of our planet's atmosphere is an important research topic for a lot of reasons, not just man-made climate change specifically.

There are presumably thousands of people in the world who study ancient Mesopotamia, and there's nothing wrong with that either.
So what only Captain America can be an advocate now?
> Do most people who are not progressive westerners care? No.

Citation needed.

> Can you convince them without bribing or bullying them? No.

Well most new carbon emissions in the developing world are going to be from economic progress. You're going to have to do something to convince them that they should care about climate change instead of feeding, sheltering, and clothing their children.
It also means that people with large amounts of disposable income can get away with not following the rules.
That was a pretty smart approach!

At least in the past, admins on servers had the option to intervene and ban people (although they could be bypassed as well). Nowadays games opt for having entirely managing servers, sadly.
Those little breakout boards are such a liberation for us oldsters who can't handle the tiny little surface mount components. I've gotten stuff well into development with an ExpressPCB loaded with breakout boards, and the engineers can turn it into a real board with real code in a jiffy while the prototype is being used for testing.
That's simply because of historical compatibility. What you're describing is what a basic HTML form does - and despite it representing a CSRF risk, it can't be removed. As such, it's standard practice to protect against CSRF attacks
Boba shortage: the U.S. may soon have no bubbles for tea
Who exactly are you going to tax? The Chinese mining cartels in the PRC bribing officials to look the other way as they steal power?

That's a bold proposal.
Probably the worst possible damage a person can do to the enviroment is to have children. Everything else is basically just a drop (of pollution) in the ocean. I have my own opinions here, which i won't say, but i'm just addressing the elephant in the news.
(Have run and moderated a forum for 15+ years.)

You are outnumbered. Spammers or bad actors run 24/7 whereas you need to sleep or holiday. You are criticised for moderating (“censorship!”) or not moderating, if you are ever inconsistent you’re “playing favourites”. Persistent bad actors skirt the boundaries and dedicate themselves wholly to getting past you. Trolls work in the grey areas. You and your parents get doxxed for handing out a minor imposition.

You are up against spam bots working constantly to bypass you. Up against bots skirting what contravenes rules, or spammers asking an “innocent question” to set up another account to provide a spam answer.

Any question remotely involving politics/gender/race devolves immediately into a shitshow (this is a newish phenomenon).
If religious fucks can position themselves in politics, so can scientists.
"Emergency" in the public consciousness is a heart attack or a fire. Applying the word to something that operates over such long time scales just isn't going to work.
Babashka: A native Clojure interpreter for scripting
Actually decreased in the US, it's now documented.
Fact is any company will ever be as good as their executives. People are people, so there's no reason to believe in magic fairy tales. From outside this looks like manager panic, on both sides.
One thing the whole COVID-19 thing has convinced me is that trying to change human behavior the amount required to fight climate change is politically untenable.

Look at California Governor Newsom. From what I have read, he seemed to have tried to implement the restrictions recommended to him by scientists (not withstanding his politically stupid decision to celebrate at the French Laundry). But he is now facing recall, and that is in deep blue California.

If a leader in a democratic country actually tried to implement what was really required to fight climate change, they would be finished politically, and all their agenda rolled back.

If you can't convince people that a novel pandemic filling killing millions and routinely filling TV with coverage of dead bodies in overflowing morgues is something that requires them to change their behavior, good luck trying to do that with climate change!

Just like the big bright spot in the USA's fight against Covid are the vaccines, I think ultimately, it will have to be a technological solution that still allows people to continue their consumption that will have to save us. If we don't come up with such a solution before it is too late, we are in for a world of hurt.
I can't find the link, but I read an interesting argument that the USD is more wasteful of natural resources than Bitcoin because its value is indirectly backed by the US military.
> state's own forest management policies

Weren't most burned acres on federal land (managed by executive branch under Trump)?
On a homeserver I think it's a wash, just pick the thing you like best. You can of course run kube inside proxmox if you want to experiment.

I think of k8s as being two distinct things. One, it's a way to run and manage software.

Two, it's a way to consume software. There are lots of packages out there for k8s (helm charts, pre-made manifests) and so on. If you want to run eg HA gitlab, the "supported" way to do that is on k8s. There are quite a few complex software stacks now where the simplest practical way to set them up is run them in k8s.

Most of the time these big beasty things are not what you want to run for home use.
I recommend using k3d. I've found running a local instance to be really easy and helpful.

Everything you do locally can be transferred to your k8s as a service provider to deploy.

(https://k3d.io/)
This should be titled "Kubernetes API is so simple you can explore it with curl". Which is true. I really like the API consistency, clear resource schema, use of HTTP verbs and conventions, official SDKs and even the kubectl CLI.

However, behind this simple and intuitive API there is still a massively complex and mostly unintuitive system which cannot be reduced to "just make some curl calls and you are good to go". While it is easy to do things in Kubernetes, figuring out what to do and why to do it is anything but.
https://www.fovotec.com/architectural has an animation, and it looks pretty great - somehow feels more like actually 'walking' into that space.
I have a question, how come people do not use Dart in place of this?

It runs on the server, it is a typed language, it's faster than v8 javascript (since that is part of the reason for it's existence to eek out more performance)

From what I've seen it can be distributed very as well, and your app is self contained ala Go.

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So my question is, why don't more people use Dart where they would use a "Node + 'Typescript compiled to JS'" combination, which seems like it has a lot of headaches once your project grows in size
e-waste can be recycled, useful metals can be reclaimed.

It doesn’t matter how much power it uses if it’s switched to solar, and there are lower power options like proof-of-stake coming online anyway.

The relevant metric is tons of CO2 released, not kWh used. Bitcoin could be run with zero CO2 released if we chose to, in which case shutting it down would do absolutely nothing in regard to climate change.
> Isn't China taking climate change pretty seriously, though?

It's hard to argue that they're taking it terribly seriously when they continue building out massive amounts of coal power. They've got something north of 50% of the world's coal plants, and are stamping out more at an alarming rate.

Regardless of what they say, their actions would indicate that they're happy with other people being concerned about climate change, because then those people will buy Chinese panels, inverters, turbines, etc.
One problem I don't see anyone talking about is that there's likely a taxable event nearly every time you want to get money out of this ecosystem. With MobileCoin so volatile, you may earn a 10%...30%...taxable gain from the time you put it in and take it out. It's going to be a bit of a pain and the ass for a mobile payment system.
> suicide prevention lines on posts that mention suicide

Is there any evidence that such support lines actually help prevent suicide?
They still have very misleading text on their contracts and their sales people will try to imply canceling has a cost attached. You could usually get the fees waived if you wasted enough of their support staff’s time.
Well, to be fair, politics trampled all over their field and trying to be above that has got them nowhere.

If a mud fight erupts around you then you can either try to ignore it with zero chance of winning or you can join it with a chance to win. Either way you will come out covered in mud.
1st one, yep. Overheats, makes noise, slows down to a crawl. :(
> Does calling it an emergency make you look like a crazy person?

No. The crazy, irrational behavior is to ignore and downplay the emergency.
I do like that everything is configurable but it can be a huge timesink when trying to tweak everything.
I feel the same. The coronavirus pandemic pandemic felt like the final nail in the coffin of my optimism. Humanity’s collective response or lack thereof was on full display and if that was the best we could do when faced with an immediate and dire threat to our way of life then I’m in need of serious convincing that something like the climate crisis which is already here and quantifiably guaranteed [1] to occur in the future as we can’t simply reverse the process on a dime like we did with a vaccine when it came to the virus.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/climate/climate-change-fu...

> That price — more vicious heat waves, longer wildfire seasons, rising sea levels — is now irretrievably baked in. Nations, including the United States, have dithered so long in cutting emissions that progressively more global warming is assured for decades to come, even if efforts to shift away from fossil fuels were accelerated tomorrow.
Notable commentary:

> The findings of the authors suggest that infection and the development of an antibody response provides protection similar to or even better than currently used SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

In case you wanted to know - several hypotheses float around on what provides more protection an actual infection or the vaccine.
There's no way to get every country to agree to a carbon tax. You'll always have a country that decides it's worth whatever sanctions in order to create a completive advantage for their industries. North Korea or Iran would end up controlling all the mining which I doubt is what anyone wants.
There is some... very strange and unsettling almost paid troll farm like discussion going on in this thread.
oh yeah for sure, if only things werent so partisan then we'd definitely do something about the climate
with only 6 people you can't really say that since it's such a tiny sample size. If it's 6 women then you're starting to get to a pattern worth testing.
Why does this matter? If signal had integrated any normal payment firm, and moxie had an economic stake in it, that would be seen as no issue - and quite typical for business in all industries. But because it’s crypto it’s a scandal (?)
I appreciate the careful write-up, but all it is at this point in a typical discussion is a smug way to insult someone.
It's not a new thing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1r...
Uh no, not backdoor climate emergency denial. I survived in the 2018 Paradise fire. The main problem there was no rain for 200+ days, coupled with strong, dry winds in a particular direction, and PG&E's 100+-year-old under-maintained, bare powerlines that broke off their ancient fasteners. The reason for the 200+ days of no rain is likely related to both rising average temperatures, breaking record-after-record each year, and the lack of enough Arctic sea ice pack to stabilize the Arctic's jet-stream. Without a stable jet-stream, it breaks off into disjointed loops and also dips down into lower latitudes. This causes havoc and seemingly more random/variable/intense weather in N America. Blizzard in Austin, for example, which never anticipated such an occurrence that far south.
Not unusual, look at tetanus. The tetanus toxin is so potent that the amount that can kill you isn't enough to generate an immune response, so even if you manage to survive there's no guarantee you won't get it again as you'll have no protection. The vaccine on the other hand generates a much stronger response than the real disease.
This will hit normie folks if it's done fairly, but that's not unjust - we are all contributing to pollution and it's inaccurate to say "Those miners cause all the pollution" - it is, however, appropriate to describe their activities as generating significantly more pollution.