skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Old man yells at cloud" - literally in this case.

I was expecting the criticism to be about Bitcoin's energy impact but his arguments seem to be that Bitcoin is used for crime (as if fiat wasn't?) and that it's been invented out of thin air (which seems like jealousy).
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No, it's perverse. It's so much easier to come up with nonsense than it is to conclusively prove it as such. Should we invest the valuable time of physics PhDs into investigating every claimed perpetual motion machine on YouTube? No, that would be a waste of time. This was that, writ large.
> Tax avoidance is what Amazon does, and so should everyone else.

I am interested to hear why everyone should avoid taxes, that pay for the infrastructure and wealth of the general public.

I am really not advocating insane tax rates but you would think that persons or companies that profit extensively from the wealth of certain nations are willing to do their part in maintaining said wealth.

What about usage of our streets? Thousands of Amazon delivery trucks roll over them every day. They are not paid for by tax avoidance.

Besides all that I agree that especially the governments have to do a better job to avoid tax avoiders. A conscious customer is a nice thing but is too idealistic to solve anything and will never reach critical mass.
Remove the Sim. I dont have a sim in my phone for ~2 years now. (I have one in my router in just in case in need phone number, or use SMS verification services).

As you i need a phone (Google authentificator, Banking apps, Home automation setups). However since its rarely ringing anyway i regularly forget it somewhere around the house. It essentially is now a device i just keep looking for when i need it.

For me personally there is no going back. My smartphone definitly never helped either my mental health nor my feeling of staying in control.

When i go out today, i am offline. And i love it.
One thing is directly paying more a person for a service, another thing is being forced to pay a percentage of your income and then wanting to pay even more. You can if you want, but I wouldn't condemn someone for deciding to follow the law and pay as low as he can.
I've analyzed the accessibility of over 1600 personal sites
Which would bring it up to a nice 64 choices, making it exactly 6 bits per character.
Because they can't tell the difference. It's not obvious that they can evolve to tell the difference until you try.
Then you will be glad to hear that no one is proposing eradicating mosquitoes! What's being proposed it eradicating a single invasive mosquito species that doesn't belong in the ecosystem in question, constitutes only a tiny fraction of the mosquito population where they exist, and doesn't fill any meaningful ecological role anywhere! Instead of indiscriminately drenching entire ecosystems in DDT and other substances with god knows what effects.

As for mosquitoes playing a part in evolution... Just what?

I also note that you probably don't live in the affected areas. Sorry, but your feeling good about your ideological tastes being satisfied isn't worth more than literally millions of lives every year.
That's not the problem.

The problem is 'What assurance does the Department of State have that your space death ray is not going to be deliberately pointed at the next RNC?' and 'What assurances does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have that it is not going to be deliberately pointed at the May Day Parade?'

You're incredibly unlikely to explain yourself to the satisfaction of both of those groups of people at the same time.

Never mind that this is also a multiple-orders-of-magnitude-impractical means of generating energy.
I wonder if Brainfuck could be used for https://github.com/oriansj/stage0-posix ? It would not surprise me if there is no other language for which there are so many interpreters written in so many different programming languages. It is even possible to write a Brainfuck interpreter in Brainfuck, which can be verified. And there is also a Brainfuck interpreter written in x86-64: https://github.com/316k/brainfuck-x86-64 . It is a little larger than hex0_x86.hex0 , but not too much to make it hard to verify.
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> I would like to politely contest the authenticity of this specific detail. In my fairly strong collection of evidence, people just do not bubble sort without being told how to do that.

FWIW, my first sort was selection sort. "Find the smallest element, place it at the start, repeat" seems like the obvious way to do it, without the fussing about with shuffling already sorted elements out of the way that insertion sort requires.

Perhaps it's a thinking top-down vs bottom-up kind of thing? People who think bottom-up stumble on bubble sort, people who think top-down stumble on selection or insertion.
This was an idea pushed by Buckminster Fuller, at the global scale. There seems to be a non profit focused on promoting this [1]. I have no idea if they are credible, and it seems they haven't updated their website [2] in a decade, but it's likely a good starting point to find more resources on the topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Energy_Network_Institut...

[2] http://www.geni.org/
There's a saying that "you don't treat test results". Tests always just inform a diagnosis and usually are not even performed if patient is not suffering any symptoms.
The mosquitoes in question are invasive species brought to these ecosystems by European colonizers.
For those on Linux; I had great success with the “based-connect” program, which enables me to configure “known devices” (which one is primary and so on) and, crucially, configure noise cancelling.

https://github.com/Denton-L/based-connect
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You can get very detailed and interesting statistics directly from your access.log. Zero JS, zero third party tracking, zero performance decrease.

I do this more than google analytics today, on one side because i want to respect my users on the other side because i too block google analytics (as many) and i want my data to reflect something somewhat close to reality.

Edit:// GoAccess is a favorite of mine https://goaccess.io/
I don’t really want to argue about whether or not a progressive tax is good (the dual meaning of the word can make that difficult.) There is a claim that a land value tax is progressive, that is, the effective tax rate increases as one’s means increase, and I don’t really believe that claim. So “this is good [even though it is a case of the tax being regressive]” is irrelevant to the question.
Is it "surprisingly deep" though? Looks like two standard cliches of human writing often used in close proximity and the wider context suggests literal motion (which is also present in the silly line about the weak infants!)

I did like "fuzzy belly" tbf, and Kafka himself might have appreciated the purely serendipitous irony of a line about "the bugs his father used to bring him as a little boy"
I like the phrasing, but perhaps if Amazon subsidiaries paid their due tax, they'd be a less attractive investment vehicle and would have had less capital to successfully expand.
"What makes Lisp’s syntax powerful is not the fact that it can be represented as a data structure, it’s that it’s possible to read it without </em>parsing</em>."

For me that always was exactly was homoiconicity was all about.
What confuses me is that isn't the data and loop management for bubble sort even more complicated?

Insertion sort is literally just "keep track of the index beyond the last sorted element, then scan for the next smallest element and swap it in, repeat until you have gone through the entire array." This is about as simple as a comparison sort gets. (And it's what literally everyone I've watched does when they get dealt a few playing cards.)

Bubble sort, on the other hand, requires you to reason about consecutive adjacent swaps, keep track of whether the current iteration dirtied the array, and so on. (Just the idea of bubble sorting playing cards gets me sweaty. It would take long, be cumbersome, and hard to keep track of.)

Edit: who is embarrassed now? What I'm describing is apparently not insertion sort but selection sort.
Fun fact, these mosquitoes are not pollinators, they're an invasive species, constitute only a tiny fraction of the mosquito population where they exist, and don't fill any meaningful ecological role.
edit: Dropped you a mail aswell :)
A vocal minority who are not bringing in any revenue for the site.

Saying that though the day they finally succeed in making ads unskippable will be the time for a competitor to move in.
Does anyone know how rr implements the rewind capability? It seems that it has to keep a snapshot of the entire program memory at every step, or are there any techniques it uses to optimize this in specific cases?
Ask HN: Are people still using Clubhouse?
Recently i haven't heard anything about CH and I was wondering if the hype died down along with the usage or people are still using it
It’s like saying “in bed” after reading any fortune cookie

“As the spread of the coronavirus disease continues”, good for any sentence!
If generation is 50% of the bill then ~$700 per home per year, so probably closer to 10-15 years payoff. Still a great deal IMHO. I'm thinking about a ground-mount system in Ohio, payoff in ~15y, I was pretty shocked to see how little solar there was between Vegas and San Diego (aside from the Ivanpah spectacle lol)
Try doing the same as a man and see how far you get without getting flagged lol
The California desert is so different though - there is so much life everywhere. Spending nights camping out there, you just see so much.

There are these really cute rat-looking things that eat bark and make a crazy scratching sound while you’re trying to sleep. There’s a huge variety of birds, some of which are brutal — they’ll pick up those rats and throw them at a cactus to impale them so they can be eaten more easily. Then there’s mice, ants, coyotes (woke up in the middle of the night to a big pack running by), tons of crazy plants. There’s even some spots with water & real oasis feeling - palm trees, frogs, insects, and running water - right in between some cliffs, tucked away, with no people around as far as you can see.

I always thought the desert was just mostly sand and occasional cactus, but have been proven SO wrong after spending lots of time there.
it’s only a matter of time until they “sunset” stadia. doomed from the start. all hype
possible reasons for better accessibility of Personal sites:

1. sites smaller and less complicated, big corporate sites developed with large JS frameworks increase chance of accessibility errors relative to vanilla HTML.

2. no corporation is disabled, but people are, some percentage of these sites may perform better just because their creators are disabled and of course keep the errors from happening.

those two spring to mind immediately.
>Bitcoin is used for crime (as if fiat wasn't?)

His point was, as I saw it, that has many other uses beyond crime and speculation.
> Windows 10 and Linux support coming soon

Great to hear! I have had a lot of issues with getting high quality bi-directional audio (e.g. for video calls) to work with my QC35s on both Windows and Linux on both my Thinkpad and desktop since it defaults back to the HFP profile instead of A2DP. I don't fully understand the problem and I don't get why it seems to work fine on Macbooks. I'd (unfortunately) be happy to pay the price you've quoted for this app if it solves that problem well.
Given the astronomical amount of energy required for launch, this will almost certainly never even break even on energy.
That's a program that you can run on your machine to interoperate with your peripherals. If we have concerns about this being legal, our standards for ownership are way too low.
Solar has a problem that consumers tend to need more energy during the night

That might be true for private households, but it's not true for the average electricity consumer.

For example: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915

The energy required by individual households can be easily stored in a decentralized manner with batteries (e.g. Powerwall).
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This is all very helpful, and it's great to see different perspectives.

I can assure you that for the next version there will be something along these lines.

One of the thoughts we had:
Let users add their followers to the named/virtual groups which can be configured or changed anytime. Something like 'trusted', 'my previous company', 'friends' etc..

And while creating a notification: You have options 'All my followers', 'Selected followers' and a new option 'selected group(s) -> and you select one or more group'
See also:
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You can get a print copy which is a nice gift.
This thread is making me remember how incompetent my old school district used to be with technology. Once upon a time, a friend of mine got detention for opening a command line and running `tree`. The teacher said that he was hacking the computer.

The name of the class? "Digital literacy".
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I understand what a land value tax is. I just think that for it to be progressive requires the rich to behave like turn-of-the-century aristocrats with large estates, whereas I think today rich people are more likely to not use a proportionally large amount of land, and to own shares in companies (which themselves don’t need much land) instead.

Thank you for the link to the study around Fort Worth (my first guess was that this was some rural country which wouldn’t be very representative but that’s wrong. Most people in that county live in Fort Worth)
Reader mode in firefox is what you want here.
Yes, but it gets confusing if you already have previous screens running (-x opens the right one if you only have one) so I provided a more "foolproof" version.

I always use named screens since it's quicker and more organized than typing `screen -ls` before every time and then making a decision on whether or not to name the new one (I still think it's better to name the first one in any case in the vast majority of (my) cases).
Verification is simpler than encoding, I suppose.
But you're speaking from knowledge and analysis. I only had the perspective at the time of looking at the world through a paper towel roll. Anyway, it was the first idea that bubbled up for me.
Algal systems are ecosystems, and artificial ecosystems are (ironically) prone to collapse. It's like waking up one day and discovering all your houseplants have died, except it's a thousand tonnes of now-dead gunk in your algae bioreactor.
Ah, i thought they were talking about MiniFinder:

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/MiniFinder

https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/c29050e2-809c-c2a3-24e2-80...

But that was a bit earlier.

From what i remember, MiniFinder was written for MFS, and did not support hierarchical directories. You couldn't use applications unless they were at a filesystem root.
Also Monte Carlo Tree Search was decisive in bringing Go (the ancient board game) engines from unable to compete with advanced amateur players to successfully competing with the cream of the pros!
Ah, so the problem with this is that it stops being something to aspire to when everyone gets one. Because then, that 15 minute trip turns into 30 minutes of gridlock, followed by 15 minutes of looking for parking.

That's the problem with cars. They are great in theory, but absolutely ruin a city in practice. Which is fine if you are the only person on your block who owns one...
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you could try use sanitizers to find problems so you don't need to debug so much

ref: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html
"Use some common sense."
Whether a tax is progressive or regressive tends to be quite a fundamental question economists ask. Lots of proponents of a land value tax claim the tax is progressive. So either they think that is a good argument in favour of it (in which case shouldn’t their argument be weakened if the tax is not progressive? Surely one should care about that?) or they think it is immaterial, but then why mention it at all?
> Why is nuclear energy so bad though? 99 percent of the plants dont blow.

It's a better than 99%, but only slightly. Over 440 active reactors[1], we're at ~0.68% at INES [1] level 6. That is in a period of exceptional social stability though. We've arguably escaped some rather nasty accidents in the disintegrating USSR. One could also speculate that accidents might be more likely to happen near the end of the reactor's economic life, which for many reactors we haven't seen yet.

> The waste fuel is miniscule in size and easy to contain compared amd fossil fuel, which cant be contained.

It isn't easy to contain for the entire containment period. Humanity doesn't even have a solution for that yet.

You're also neglecting other risks, like nuclear proliferation.

> Nuclear seems like a perfect solution to immediately reduce climate impact while we transition to proper renewables.

The median construction time for a nuclear reactor was 119 months in 2019.[2] It's not a fast transitional technology to renewables. It also doesn't complement renewables very well. There's its limited scaling up and down. There's also the inherent big size of the projects and the management and lobbying hydrocephalus that entials.

> It seems like the semi localized environmental damage of an occasional nuclear accident is far less bad than the constant global damage of carbon.

Maybe.

What's certain is deploying renewables is certainly cheaper, easier, faster and safer than nuclear for at least 80% of the world's electric energy production right now. Chances are that with the incredibly quick development of storage technology, that number will soon get much closer to 100%.

Another option would be to convince Americans, Canadians and Scandinavians to limit their electricity consumption patterns to that of the average western European.[3]

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267158/number-of-nuclear...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Sc...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/712841/median-constructi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...
> leads to all sorts of irrational fears and behaviors.

Poverty is real, and people fear being poor for good reasons. Losing millions each year because an idiot released a toad, a rabbit, a starling or a snail is a real fear in the real world. People can choose not to see it or to laugh about it, but they will still must to pay, as their grandpas did, and their grandsons will do.

Messing with mammals is a thing. Messing with insects, bacteria or virus is a totally new level.
> Sure, it's less convenient than just tapping a Yubikey

A keyboard on a tiny Yubikey? Are you joking?

The whole point is to have something that is easily usable, without evoking the horrible "IT security came up with another way to make our lives worse" emotion.

Also, the Yubikey is the "have" part in the multi-factor equation. It's no big win to have it do more. You can always prompt for a password in your application, in addition to the touching of the key.

And that's how most everyone does it, anyway.
The web just got worse in a lot of ways, because everything needs to generate money.
> Unintended consequences are pretty common.

Unintended consequences are the norm. Most discoveries were a product of them. We're just good at hiding the fact and convincing ourselves that it was all planned in advance as part of our genius. But it's all chaos.
Maybe Melinda will follow in MacKenzie Scott's footsteps and become simultaniously super rich and super philanthropic.
> Interesting problem to solve though.

Ah, smart people and ads ...