skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure you understand the meaning of dark ages. India as a nation and subcontinent not only doing fine at the time but also thriving[1]. This prosperity period is carried over to the Moghul dinasty as some historians considered its beginning as part of Medieval India.

Dark ages meant that there is a sharp decline in the quality of life especially in the knowledge and scholarly departments.

If the Sultanates are really bad as you have described there should be no Hindu left in the India sub-continent but the last time I checked they are still the majority. The Sultanates can easily pull a Spanish Inquisition style by killing or forced conversion. They can drive away the Hindu away like what the Spanish Christians did during inquisition to the Muslim and Jews by not spare anyone of them and eliminated all the mosques and sinagogues from Spain[2].

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_India

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition
Self sustaining societies will always be out competed and subsumed by extractive ones.
Nope, Ethereum was forked multiple times BEFORE that fork. So Ethereum Classic is not the "original" chain either (if by "original" you mean a chain that can be validated by running software from a time before the first fork).
I'm confused. If you are talking about wilderness, I maybe agree. But then you talk about the AT.

If you are hiking on marked trails, you don't need to go drop $200 on electronics before you should feel safe going for a walk in the woods. You don't even need hiking boots, SPF 50 wicking t-shirts, or merino wool underwear.
Conventional streaming wisdom is that audio quality matters more than video quality. That is, it's better to have bad video and good audio than good video and bad audio.
There is no real proposal to ban encryption - the title is hyperbole.

They are looking for possible solutions to reduce child abuse with the industry, not proposing anything.

It could still be they'll arrive at some problematic proposal later on, but from my reading of the linked documents straight-out breaking/banning E2E encryption is not really on the table.
I've read all the arguments about static typing, but I still can't comprehend how people get themselves into a situation where using the wrong type is a problem. I totally understand it as an optimization if your language supports it, and even for generating docs. I just don't know why people insist on writing code to stop themselves and other developers from doing things.

That said, I really really can't stand breaking backwards compatibility, and it sounds like that is what is happening here.
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Interesting experiment! What type of content do you expect to attract? How do you foresee users behaving in response to the incentives set up?

My gut reaction is a worry that because people in general tend to upvote things they already know and agree with, giving extra value to upvotes might create even more bias toward boring conformity. I imagine it would deter users with different interests or opinions from participating, since they wouldn't want to spend money just to risk being ignored or shown the door.

I think successful communities fight such stagnation by being focused and moderated; people join because they care about the topic the community discusses rather than the people in it, and trust moderators to trim upvote-farming relatable memes, over-discussed subjects, and interpersonal drama, to keep the spotlight on topical discussion. Anything else tends to lead to 4chan /b/.
Heh! You're welcome ;)
I don't use Python nearly as much as I used to (mostly Go now) but changes like this make me realize how much I appreciate the Go 1 compatibility guarantee. I have Go libraries from 1.6 that I have upgraded without a second thought.

These sort of PEPs (remember the walrus operator?) seem like fundamental language changes that serve to divide the community without much gained.

Although I will say, Go has made it much easier to be involved in the language design process.
Left-wing eurosceptics try to present the EU as being pro-business (and anti-worker), while right-wing eurosceptics believe the EU is anti-business with all its regulations affecting companies.

It's technically possible that both sides are right in their criticism, but the fact that neither side seems to acknowledge the other suggests that both aren't seeing the full picture.
More info from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/socalhiking/comments/mqtxrg/video_o...

He had GPS coords in photos turned off. He sent the photo before he got lost, then his phone died, then he realized his predicament. Yeah, hikers who know WTF they are doing generally don't end up in the news like this. This is distressingly common on the 10,000+ ft peaks near Los Angeles, like these folks: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/hikers-survival-san....
Because Bitcoin has not experienced the same inflation as USD? I'm not sure what point you're trying to argue honestly.

> Pretty sure I am going to want either some other country's currency -- because I still need to buy imported food or fuel or whatever

Explain why, just saying you want Euros or something isn't a very convincing argument. Importing cash Euros is non trivial, and good luck finding banks and credit cards that let you transact in them.
15 year Fastmail user here. Fastmail has been great, no downtime, and I don't really think about it at all. Good web client and you can do filtering if you need to.
Me neither. Should be found in General settings on iPhone, rather than via Google Maps (seems to be the only way, from what I can tell?)
No, but you might have to "liberate" some oil fields in the mid-east...
Very nice, but of course this was designed/engineered to act like this. It's basically a computer implemented in the game of life, which runs the game of life.
Same setup as the comment you're answering to.

They've just been super reliable and mature for me. No huge updates that force me to adjust. Interface is nice and clean, uptime and service super reliable. Everything just seems to work for me (aliases, forwarding, filters, good Android app), and the pricing is within reason.

I actually use their web interface and official Android app. I'm surely no power user, but have used various providers over the years until I settled with Fastmail (seemingly for good). It's difficult to decide whom to trust with e-mail but to me they seem trustworthy. I still like to have my own domain, so I could in theory take it with me, if I ever started being displeased.

In general: Paying for a service (especially e-mail) is invaluable (my data not being mined), also for potential account recovery (didn't use their customer service often, but when it happened, it was decent).

I can't comment on ProtonMail but especially with e-mail, a proven (long term) track record is gold, and Fastmail has it.

addendum: upon rereading it almost sounds like a Fastmail commercial. I'm only a satisfied user without any further connection towards the company.
Yeah, not sure when but it's certainly happening.
It probably matters more for highly paid professionals who can do it in 5-10 years.
I want this to happen too
Nothing comparable to the propaganda empire that is CNN.
I think everyone needs to learn from the ancient wisdom on the Punjab province in India and Pakistan.

Open Google earth and zoom into Punjab. It is the greenest agriculture zone in the entire world. Just look at it yourself.

Now I don't know the specifics, but it is a starting point. If we are able to get the knowledge from the locals there on their ancient farming techniques, that knowledge will be net positive for the world.

And one more thing. The GMO crops being introduced I that region needs to STOP. It will kill the best farming land we have and then there will be no ability to rewind time.

Read about the recent farmers protests there to also know more about the problems the farmers are facing.
Index funds are positive sum because companies are positive sum. You buy shares in a productive enterprise, which then generates revenues, and profits. These profits are returned to shareholders via dividends or buybacks, or just through the accretion of value within the enterprise.

On the other hand cryptocurrencies are negative sum. The only way the early folks make money is when late folks put money into the system. At the same time, the house (miners) are constantly extracting massive amounts of actual liquidity. The "sum" of Bitcoin is negative 21,000,000,000 per year. This welfare is extracted by Chinese mining cartels bribing their local governments for access to coal-powered electricity. Enough to offset all of the solar panels installed in the entire world.

The total amount of wasted power per Bitcoin transaction is now 30 days of power for the average household, and generates 100 grams of non-recyclable e-waste.
Open Source Archive of Legal Threats Made Against Genuine Security Researchers
It's not universal. I'd rather see someone "freeload" in a system of wild wealth inequality than further enrich those who already have runaway gains via the power law. In fact, I'd say it's quite an ethical position to take.

Put another way, I'll worry about a million people not "adding value" when there ceases to exist individuals who have captured enough wealth to support a million people. The latter is the real problem.
This is an interesting idea, good luck with it!

This might make browser extensions much more mainstream for internal tools inside companies.
Ah good points, totally did not think about the environment where you are taking notes. But then again, you could do that quite subtly:

"Those are some nice empty whiskey bottles there, wow, let's see..."

maybe you could use time as an input factor as well
wait for a while counts as a linefeed
wait for a longer while counts as a 'tab back'

that way with some practice you could indent without doing it explicitly
Joining a startup for the first time? 30 actionable tips
I'm sure it's just a difference in philosophy and, perhaps, age. And, yes, I've done a lot of hiking in the PNW although I don't live there. Just not something I'm interested in generally.
The chilling effects are so great half of HN is probably scared to comment...

2+2=5.
Yes, exactly. This is the kind of obviously disprovable lie that I though wouldn’t fly on HN.
Lyn Alden explored this idea in her January newsletter, titled "The Hindsight Depression"[0].

> the US and much of the rest of the world have already been in a mild depression for the past 12 years, ever since the 2008 global financial crisis. It’s just not as obvious as the 1930s depression, because higher levels of technology and anti-deflationary monetary policy disguised it in a nominal sense.

[0] https://www.lynalden.com/january-2021-newsletter/
You definitely saved my keyboard there :P
GMO crops allow us to grow more food with less space/nutrients/etc. They are a solution, not a problem, and when people fear monger about them it hurts everyone.
I had tried to make json-syntax work with __annotations__, glad to know it's not just me having trouble with it.
Whatever your brand of politics, events like these are dark clouds on the horizon. We are observing proxied repression of things that run counter to the narrative by private enterprise on behalf of the powerful.
Wow. That story is going to give me nightmares.
This is very fascinating and great. I mean this dataset has been available for a while know (from what I recall), but re-packaged and organized in this manner would be very useful.

One thing that really stands out to me is the change in our land use/environmental changes over time. You can even see the different reservoir levels for various years and can "guesstimate" what year certain droughts were.

I'm sure there's some amazing ideas to use this tool, I'm just excited about it.
Nice, but it would be even nicer with emissions data, e.g. from ESA's Sentinel-5P satellite:

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Coperni...
> I think ageism, and other biases are in place though.
> I'm only in my early 20s

Do you mean ... ageism against young people? I think from what it sounds like your expectation of compensation might be a little inflated based on your experience. Straight out of university I took a junior grad job that paid peanuts, but stuck with it for about 2 years and that was a solid basis to move somewhere that was a much better work environment and paid better.

I think as another poster may have said, you probably just need to stick it out with something for a couple of years to get that solid basis. As you say, if you're in your early twenties you have plenty of time and it's just the start of your career!
That's interesting. I have somewhat recently encountered the same thing with Chrome. I don't know what causes it but when it happens, the debugger hits and doesn't show me the context at all. But if I re-trigger the debugger again, it shows me everything just fine. :shrug:
Your approach sounds like the mindset of chasing growth instead of sustainability. Short term gains over long term value.
Make that a "top 5% salary" from the pool of Fortune 500 CEOs, and it might do the job.
It’s my understanding that these subsidies came into existence in the Great Depression when farming was unprofitable even while people were starving. The government came to the realization that free market forces are not enough to stabilize the supply of food, and when food becomes unavailable... bad things happen. Car companies can go out of business and the country will survive, airlines can fail and the country will survive, movie theaters can go bankrupt and the country will survive, but food? That’s an existential crisis for the whole nation. When large masses of people start to starve, you’re looking at political change. You don’t fuck around with your food supply. You can’t just leave that up to supply and demand. Hence it’s subsidized and managed.
They compared it to the appreciation of real estate, which is wildly divorced from real value. Real-estate prices in say, the Bay Area are driven by legislation and speculation. Not actual value. The move to remote works accelerates the discrepancy.
Actually, I believe that's Ben Kuo, the person named in the article who identified the location originally, recreating his own work.
I's not an "either/or". You should worry about both. Some areas are having a problem with soil, some with water and some with both.
Project Zero changes disclosure policy, third parties get more time to patch
I also choose to learn it on my left hand. The way you use it your hand is kinda strapped in so if you want to do anything thing else (like open a door for instance) it's better to have your dominant hand free.
Why would that person turn on the phone 3 days later for a brief moment while they're still near the park, and then turn it off forever?

It seems more likely that he just fell down an old mine shaft or into a pit of some kind. Maybe his phone couldn't get service but because of some temporary atmospheric condition it was able to ping the tower.
It's basic pricing strategy:

Kevin Hale - Startup Pricing 101

https://youtu.be/jwXlo9gy_k4?t=578
So You Want to Be a Quant: The Volatility Smile
NJ, deli, OTC..."Our Cause"???
Hopefully this will bring in actual competition and lower prices.
> I just don't know why people insist on writing code to stop themselves and other developers from doing things.

In the hope of stopping yourself from doing the wrong things more often than the right things.

It also forces some of the documentation (the signature) to be up to date.
I don’t think it was an insider trade. But to use the articles example, Microsoft is so large and diversified that the headset contract news might not swing the stock price. Especially if there is broader negative market news.
It's 100% the nutrients + minerals. When you get right down to it, you're just trading one growing medium for another.

That said, hydroponics allows for a level of control in nutrients that soil does not, generally leading to weighty, tasteless veggies.
> possible solutions focused on the device, the server and the encryption protocol

Looks like they're going to find ways to read our messages before they are encrypted and sent. Why would anyone continue to use a communications application that's known to do this?
love these posts, like those EVGA/VGA articles, reminds me of how cheesy, fun, and raw early personal computing was, flying toasters, GORILLA.BAS, having mom yell “sorry” from upstairs indicating in advance that you were about to be booted from your online game because she picked up the phone, getting a copy of Unreal with your AGP Voodoo card, what a fun era that was
PostgreSQL is great but lots of DBs (MySQL included) have EXPLAIN/ANALYZE
GDP can also be calculated using the income approach, since conceptually they both add up to the same amount.

In either case, it is still a highly misleading proxy measure for economic development and well-being.
> Does this mean I should simply increase prices? Is it fair to interpret this as the majority of the market saying "I'm happy to pay the highest tier your product offers"?

Not necessarily. It indicates that people don't view your service as transactional, and that people like to feel like they're getting a deal.

If you want to experiment with higher pricing, you might try gating some of your features establishing a premium tier. I have done this with my browser plugin, which is $22/yr if you just use one browser, but if you want to use multiple browsers it's $40/yr. That has allowed us to price discriminate between lower-intensity users and higher-intensity users. We also donate 5 licenses to students in low-income schools for each purchase at the higher tier.
I am not really familiar with the industry, why will TSMC give preferential treatment to Apple orders?
That “cow pasture/range” chunk is largely extremely low productivity scrub land owned by the federal government and leased basically for free by cattle folk. We could convert all of it to national parks without much more than a blip in food calories produced in the US.

As far as actually farmed land, productivity has increased by an order of magnitude, MUCH faster than population, so we actually farm less land than in the 40s in spite of having a much larger population that eats more. We burn that corn in our cars, for goodness sake. The land area use for ethanol corn in our country is more than enough area to convert the entire nation’s electric production to solar.

Corn yields: https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/newsletters/pestandcrop/wp...
There should be legislation that mandates the use of open source software. I am no ok with my tax dollars going to Microsoft or any private software company. I'm also not ok with the government running closed source software (that does who knows what behind the scenes). Cut off Microsoft's government revenue and focus that cash on open source development and there will be replacements for MS products in no time.
Finance people tell all kinds of stories to themselves about how they're actually adding value to the system with their activities.
Lucid isn’t in the same class as stripe or Starlink. It hasn’t sold a single car let alone turned a profit. That is solid SPAC territory
In a larger codebase, there's two major kinds of value you can get out of types:

- Types act as a contract between component surfaces - if you need to integrate multiple components and have different people working on it, having the compiler enforce the contract is super useful.

- Types act as a refactoring aid - if you need to alter a component, the compiler can assist you in telling you what needs to be changed and you can offload more of that work at compile time rather than at run time.

As pieces move and change, tracking down what else needs to get moved and changed gets more and more difficult and this is where the "passing the wrong type in" issue can occur: having the compiler help you out with that is a huge boon.
I think +1 on this post would be a good first step https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...
Almost no company has the internal processes to adjust someone's compensation within two months. If you don't feel like your compensation at signing is appropriate, you need to figure it out then. Otherwise, your best shot is when the company's standard process is - end of year reviews, after one year at the job, whatever.

Also, at least in tech, almost no company will have made any serious attempt to evaluate your contributions after two months. It's assumed you're still figuring things out (both technical and social/political) and not making meaningful contributions until well past that point, and the nature of things you'll do even two years into a job are qualitatively different from those you're doing two months in (even if you are finding things that are valuable to do). So they don't have the data to re-evaluate you two months in, even if they had the process.

It is of course technically possible for someone sufficiently senior at the company (like, head of HR, C-suite, etc.) to override the standard process. But why should they do that for you? It's generally not in their interest, because it will endanger their own relationships with all the people under them implementing the standard process, even if it's the right decision, and they have no reason to be confident that it's the right decision.

I think that's something you need to figure out. What happened with the SVP/CISO phone calls that you mentioned in your post? What did you tell these people, whose job isn't recruiting candidates (there's a whole different department for that), to convince them to bypass the usual process and stick their own necks out and risk their own position to get you into the system? What did they say in return?
Banning encryption, completely neutralizing and circumventing the encryption... The effect is the same: the government will be able to read the messages.
/woosh/
It actually is, see page 9: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c6dbac1f8135a29c7fbb...
>The candidate could try to bluff me about FizzBuzz, but that's not going to help them at the open question/toy problem. :P

Then why ask it? This is the whole reason for my stance
Surely you'd need the recipient to actually save the random data (unless you think that regulators are going to be breaking every TLS connection and checking the contents of every packet).

I think people already make efforts to avoid being swamped with unwanted data, so anti-spam and anti-DDOS systems would probably block you and delete your streams without any human noticing.
Mark of the beast!!

p.s. very cool project
not bitcoin, but I have some similar experience and thought I could share.

I got into dogecoin literally right after it launched (late 2013). There were zero exchanges that sold it. Hell, there wasn't even a place you could view the price.

The only way was basically had to find random people to trade with on a megathread on r/dogemarket. People would comment something like "Selling 50k doge for 10$" and you would just have to trust them. the "price" of a dogecoin was essentially just what recent listings were offering. Usually, you'd pay them on paypal and they'd transfer you the coins. It was pretty similar to localbitcoins.com if you've used it

In hindsight it was pretty sketchy, but i never got scammed luckily. the community was pretty small, and scammers were quickly outed on reddit
Just ask them a complex programming question