skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The far richer and more powerful of the founders didn’t leave a lot on the table. Few hundred million maybe? Initially it was thought Kuom left a lot. That was later clarified. Kuom didn’t have an early departure either. Another thing that got clarified.

Action may have left much more and did actually leave early enough. Especially proportionally. However, the WhatsApp deal may have been possible without his saying yes being needed.

Both have gotten good publicity for being “good” people and for the people with their anti FB rhetoric. Even though Kuom has not done much. Even being for Trump’s authoritarian tendencies into 2017, if I’m not mistaken.

At best Acton had some naivety. I still find it hard to believe the biggest reason was naivety versus getting paid huge amounts of money then when that has settled, get back to caring about things like privacy.

It’s pretty easy to care about privacy or this issue or that issue when you could lose 99% of your money and still never work a day in your life. It also does not in my opinion, deserve much praise, nor assumptions in their favor. The general status quo and all its issues were likely not a priority for either founder until they were filthy rich. Again just my opinion and assumptions.
There is a joke about the irregular English conjugation of the verb "invest":

- I invest

- you trade

- they speculate
Both the title and well paid engineers casually dismissing the legitimate concerns of FC workers exactly match my expectations from years of experience with Amazonian 'culture'.
It is a maximum sentence possible. I would like to see at least 5 years for that and financial compensation. People who do that to animals, should be isolated from society until they are safe to be released. Most killers start with animals.
I am guessing you have never suffered such trauma and you are incapable of being close with an animal to know what it's like to lose it.
I tend to disagree. most other theories ( such as a tree fall ) only considers the injuries and doesn't fit together as a story.

The snow slab story fits all the other evidence: there was a massive slide of ice that rolled over the tent and burring it.

the hikers that were not seriously injured cut themselves and quickly made their way down the hill to find some safety from further avalanches, but some where found just wearing underwear. those stayed put around a quickly made camp fire, which is why they also appeared 'tanned' as they stayed too close to the flames. it was a very windy-cold night.

The others tried to make their way back to camp; however, finding camp in a windy storm at night was hard and they failed. I think it was 2 had fallen into a ravine, and the rest died due to the elements.

Ironically, those in their underwear lived the longest
Yes, we have become very efficient in doing things. What we are doing, we have become so efficient in doing that we don’t need any awareness to do it. It has become mechanical, automatic. We function like robots. We are not men yet; we are machines. That’s what George Gurdjieff used to say again and again, that man as he exists is a machine. He offended many people, because nobody likes to be called a machine. Machines like to be called gods; then they feel very happy, puffed up. Gurdjieff used to call people machines, and he was right. If you watch yourself you will know how mechanically you behave.

http://www.pomyc.org/blog-details/55

The exact quote by Gurdjieff is worth reading.

Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions" dealt with this theme in an extraordinary way. He created a character who was going mad because he felt he was living among robots. At last, his character finds an artist that had a "light" in him, a soul, and the character decides everything is ok. At this point Kurt Vonnegut inserts himself into the narrative (which struck me as extraordinary) and says that he decided not to kill himself because he wrote this story (his mother committed suicide.) This book also helped me become more self-aware.
90 characters per minute is still "legitimately fast" for someone who cannot type otherwise!
Well, for one, a lot of people abstain from voting on issues that they are uninformed about. Forcing people to vote even if they aren't well informed is a recipe for tribalized group think.
Yes. I was not arguing against that being the case :)
If I could make a suggestion, I'd be more likely to click on the video links if you added a little bit about yourself.

Where are you from? What music inspired you? Why did you choose to remix this or that song?

I did click anyway as I'm a fan of the Prodigy and saw a Climbatize remix.
Masonry is a <ul>.
I still do that (tap things out in qwerty when not at a keyboard) constantly. I type well over 100wpm, and qwerty is very, very deep in my brain. On occasions I am significantly intoxicated (pretty rare for me) I can still type accurately at >50wpm even if my words are slurred.

There have been times I wanted to switch layouts but qwerty is just too far in there for too many decades.
It'd be great if the Docusaurus team added mdBook and Bookdown to their comparison, with an emphasis on code example execution or including code from larger programs. I find that feature of mdBook invaluable (its marker-approach makes documenting how a library works very easy, and keeps the code examples up-to-date as the library evolves) and Bookdown's include code & its output is also good.

Just a shame one package doesn't include every one of these features.
McDonalds type of serving works for higher end too. My experience with 'apps' for ordering on the otherhand has been terrible. Many unnessecary user hostile steps to uppsell stuff to you.
When we finally accept that the experiment with non-Turing-complete layout has failed, and bring back DSSSL.
Right, Facebook’s ability to make money comes from how well it keeps user data secret, so it can sell abstracted access to advertisers.
IANAElectrician, but IIRC the biggest problem isn't the grid size per se, but how grid operation requires always matching the amount of power coming from all producers and the amount being used by all consumers. Like a tightly-sealed water-pipe system where the pressure is uniform throughout, and too much pressure pops things, while too little won't go anywhere.

So it's a coordination problem, and ideally you'd have a big-grid which can be arbitrarily partitioned (and recombined) to ensure producer-consumer matching as you get more and more of each involved again.

It's one of the few cases where the phrase "smart home" doesn't make me cringe: Imagine a neighborhood of houses in a brownout situation all coordinating to dim the lights and space out their high-energy usage, like running refrigerator compressors.
Canvas still sucks for rendering fonts. Getting accurate font metrics is still hacky[1] and more advanced methods are still experimental[2]. Though I'm sure with Google Docs moving to canvas, some of this will be expedited. But it's yet another one of those things about web tech that anyone would half a brain would tell you should have been there day one.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1134586/how-can-you-find...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextMetrics
The phrase, “This too, shall pass,” can be bittersweet at times, but also comforting. Although some feelings can be so intense that it is difficult to think thoughts that move me back to baseline, the clock keeps ticking and new experiences inevitably flood in. One thing I think about a lot is that we generally can’t “remember” what pain feels like, which helps sometimes.
I ain't sure if that's strictly necessary for that use case, given how snappy I've found Haiku to be even with limited resources. It'd probably be nice, but having seen plenty of embedded graphics, I'd hardly call them "accelerated" anyway.
Yeah a 90wpm interface to a computer mentally would be incredible. Combine that with something like GPT3, use it to do natural language command line processing…
If anyone is working on this I’d pay like 5k for a non invasive solution! ;)
Low interest rates should keep some of that in check but it will be offset by the rise in property taxes being calculated off the "new normal" home prices we're seeing. Basically, whatever property tax increases are capped at, expect to see an increase of about that much if not more YoY after people start paying taxes on their new homes.
> Ahh a beautifully written project, just shows that maybe C is entirely workable in the right hands.

And because it is in C, you can talk to it from Nim, Python, Rust, etc.

And scripting is a very big part of RTS games.
I think this is a problem of the mainstream conception seeing the future browser mainly as a monopolized, walled garden (compared to GNU/Linux, which nowadays would do everything one wanted from a computer and more) with the canvas being a kind of framebuffer.

Back when I first read about the canvas, iirc there was no fancy CSS, no fancy custom elements and making a simple doodle-element or the famous doodle-jump as a webapp was ... - well, I guess there was flash. So if you think of HTML and DOM as a GUI toolkit, it filled an important void (and continues to do so) but nowadays noone wants to use (standardized) HTML anymore, so...

If you look into tk (or nowadays tkinter) you basically see the same with the Canvas-class (I think you can't draw anything custom at all in tk easily)!
Yes, neural implants are invasive, dangerous, prone to side effects, and undesirable. It's just the first, and currently the only way to get the signal.

Ideally, future generations will use a non-invasive sensor.

If you can invent one with high enough resolution, you will change the world. But first, or simultaneously, the other components of the system will have to be invented.

TFA is about decoding the ill-gotten signal. It's an impressive sign that our information processing technologies, and neuroanatomical understanding are already at the point where the system is viable.

If you could complete development of the non-invasive smart hat by this time next year, the world will be a different place by 2025.
No harm that time. But if it does not gets noticed what happens next time? He takes his friends? Or gets into another properly where he gets hurt? THe more disturbing is that such a matter can cost your school and scholarship. That's not the lawyers or the posters fault.
Understood. Thanks for the specifics.
I feel as though viable 3rd/4th parties in the US would create a more balanced environment.

There are times that I abstain from voting because candidates aren’t aligned enough with my viewpoints.
Indeed. That's why my comparison was to image files sent from the server.
Eh, yeah, it can feel like that, but the probably reality is that you just have different priorities in life. Especially as you get older and it starts to sink in how finite your time is, you can't let yourself be fooled into thinking you have to accomplish certain things to be worthy.

I program, rock climb, ride bikes, and write. For any given one of those I can easily find 10,000 people who are more accomplished than I am and often at a younger age. I accept that I will never be that good at any of them, not because I can't be, but because I don't want to invest that much of myself into one of them. There's nothing wrong with that.
This is incredible, I have been building out my own version of this based on my readings (using https://obsidian.md/).

It's fascinating to see it at this scale.
I'm fine with compulsory voting if there is a "none of the above" ballot option that abolishes the position in the government for that term.

Otherwise it's just compelled speech, and fuck that.
Did you know that batteries are made of chemicals and don’t last forever? Over time their performance degrades, but you can use them for longer if you don’t use as much peak power.
While I don't know why it was downvoted "Buy real property if you can" is pretty crummy advice, unless you think an investor doesn't have to do any due diligence and should "just buy" stuff.

How do you know what property to buy? How much property should you own as a percent of your net worth? What is the expected return of the property? What is the likelyhood you will lose money on the property versus the likelyhood you will make money?

Those are all important questions not addressed by "Buy real property if you can"

As for Reits, there's not a lot of financial advisors advocating high investments in Reits. For example the Vanguard Target Retirement fund of funds have very little. The Schwab Intelligent Portfolio seem to call for 5% REITS in an example I pulled up online.

Maybe you know something Vanguard and Schwab does not, but again, there's that question of due diligence.
I believe Flask 2.0 optionally supports it whereas FastAPI is async only. I could be wrong though.

Edit: Thanks for the correction, my point is moot and irrelevant.
Isn't the speed of light their only constraint?
“Alvanley, who's your fat friend?” – Beau Brummell
>Nobody was jealous of the supposed freedom that these people had, so much as they were amused (or appalled) at the absurd lack of introspection and awareness they exhibited by latching onto a played out trend.

Mocking them was just as much of a played out trend though. We've got evidence of it as far back as 1772 linked right above.
It's easy to feel discouraged, but keep in mind:

1. The author didn't write this overnight. The oldest commits go back to Oct. 2017, three and a half years ago. Imagine what you could accomplish if you worked on something for three and a half years.

2. There are many things we can do with our time, and ultimately we do them all to be happy. Don't measure your own worth by how much product you leave behind. Measure it instead by how happy you are today. Most likely the OP wrote this code because working on it made them happy, and that's great. For many of us, though, the activities that make us happy don't have biproducts. But that doesn't detract from how happy those activities make us. Value the things that you do because they make you happy, not because they appear impressive when held against some external grading scheme.

Edit: list formatting
While I usually keep my rice warm instead, I take it you’ll be here all week.
My comment was more directed towards the generic problem of a small (loud? rich?) minority having undue influence over the local representatives who decide on issues.

I personally would tend to agree with you on the specific issue we were talking about. I'm personally a fan of the way Japan does zoning, which allows for growth (more height and more retail) when the population density grows (industrial separate).

The documentation I had showed that the Swiss set the principals for zoning at a federal level, and zoning is actually administered at the most local municipality level.

I'm not sure of the Swiss implementation details. But in my ideal world that would mean a Japanese style zoning principals at the federal level, administered locally. A municipality can decide where they want industrial areas, and how to tax for their infrastructure, but local NIMBYs would have no power over what can be built on a specific plot (the federal principals would control that).
Independent Solid Test Suite
Just a trivia perhaps, but WPM is _exactly_ 5 times faster than CPM.
"the definition of each "word" is often standardized to be five characters or keystrokes long in English" [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute
Compulsory voting would just make politics even more about money. Whoever advertised the most would receive a large boost from the voters who normally choose not to vote.
I consider it a part of experience process
The real barrier is a two-party system that only serves the extremes on each side, in the United States at least.
Why strawman for user hostile policies? Users don't even know that they are giving up privacy. How is that remotely acceptable? How is criticizing such a glaring issue being "negative about tech".

At some point it's just tiring to be a user that is continuously jerked around. I love tech, but everyday I understand the libre hermit POV more.
This is not what actually happens. Instead people get "informed" and "activated" by propaganda on any given side, and choose to vote.

When they vote, there are a dozen+ other elections going (most of which a voter doesn't know/care about). Forcing them to choose (ie, they have to opt-out by writing in blank or mickey mouse) would lead to more participation and involvement. Groupthink is already here.

Australia has compulsory voting and it's arguably better in terms of outcomes than the US.
Better than holograms: 3D-animated starships can be viewed from any angle
Except the kind of radar used in a Tesla cannot do that for you hence while the AP ignores static objects and crashes happily into parked cars, fire trucks, ...

Here's an explanation of why written on here a long time ago by @chowells:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16239612

This user wrote:

To add even more detail, as there still appears to be a lot of confusion:

The radar systems in these vehicles send out a radio pulse in a broad approximate-cone forward. They get bounces back from everything that reflects radio in front of them. Distance from the object is calculated by time between pulse and response. Speed towards/away from the object is calculated from Doppler shift of the radio frequency.

There are two main things that these systems can't detect.

1. Speed of the object perpendicular to the direction of radio wave travel.

2. Location of the object within the approximate-cone the radio pulse travels in.

Note that thanks to the second, you can't calculate the first with higher-level object tracking, either.

So the data you get back is a list of (same-direction velocity component, distance) pairs. There's no way to distinguish between stationary objects in the road and stationary objects above the road, to the side of the road, or even the surface of the road itself.

Radar just doesn't provide the directional information necessary to handle obstacle detection safely.
Abdicating responsibility doesn't mean things will get better. Just that someone else will make the decision for you.
Having a transaction fee de-incentivizes most people who want to do this

Every junk transaction costs them money
My personal observation is that emotional control and resilience comes from experience. It comes from being exposed to lots of different emotional triggers.

The times when I’ve been the most emotionally strong have been after my most socially diverse periods

Perhaps the effect is somewhat cumulative
How does hydrogen store over time? For example regular gasoline can be stored only for about six months.
Wouldn't uninterested voters be even more susceptible to populism. Democracy needs education (among other things). If you have people voting, but they're still uninformed, that's hardly a good setup.
http://archive.is/96On2
If there's one way to turn the political process into a complete reality show, this is it. Why bother arguing based on policy when you know that 40-60% of the electorate won't care and simply vote for whoever is the flashiest?

A much better idea is to get rid of the primary process and implement ranked choice voting instead.
>Batteries are getting better and look promising but all new tech does that until it hits a wall

between metal-air batteries and hydrogen, i think metal-air is just better density/utility-wise and have higher chances technology-wise. And infrastructure-wise it would be just a continuation of the ongoing electrification transformation whereis hydrogen means totally new buildout for not much gain if any.
Approval of first insect as Novel Food
> Given that GDP growth has averaged 2% per year, if inflation was 4-5% that would mean the US economy was having 2-3% deflation in real terms.

Pedantic, but the that would be “contraction” not “deflation”. (Contraction = declining real output, deflation = declining nominal prices.)
From what I’ve seen they don’t
There is a "none of the above" - it's called a write-in. You can write-in a blank.

Instead of none of the above, maybe you mean a vote of "no confidence"?
Agree, but you can only do that if you do the introspection work, like you did. I know some people in your age range who still react like a 20yo.
Here is the real world, Bitcoin is currently running a blazing 3.3 transactions per second.

Etherium dwarfs that at a mighty 14 transactions per second.

Meanwhile, PayPal crawls along with a pathetic 488 tps.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/730838/number-of-daily-c...

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/paypal-statistics/
it's unnatural because that's not how a business builds. Even with profit sharing, you need to put a portion back into the business (not the CEO, not the worker, but into a metaphorical savings account). if you're giving 100% of labor back to the workers, there's no room for the company to grow and eventually everyone gets $0 when the company shutters.

Even a mom and pop shop of 1 needs to operate on these parameters. Heck, even a personal checking account. You keep some money in reserve for a rainy day, and some in the deep reserves for retirement (401k). You very rarely get 100% of your money in liquid (regardless of if you feel underpaid or not), nor do many desire to.
Oregon, everyone is basically enrolled in elections and you get a mail in ballot. Seems to work great, especially since you can vote on your couch with Google open and research your local candidates.

Then just put it in the mail. Or not if that's your thing.
I didn't expect the area I live in to be doing sewage surveillance, but I was pleasantly surprised about a year ago to hear that they were. Every few weeks, I would see an article that would say something like "Based on the monitoring of sewage levels, we expect reported COVID cases to rise/fall in the coming weeks", and they were always right, about two weeks ahead of reported case counts.
A machine more commonly known as an "animal" :)
> Finns protected the Sami from Christian missionaries, because they valued their shamanic powers.

Do you have a citation for that? I would expect the Finnish establishment to have been wary about christianization of the Saami because the missionary Laestadius, in evangelizing the Saami, also inspired them to rise up and assert their rights. There are also some instances in history of colonial powers not converting certain economically-useful populations (the Saami provided furs, hides and meat) because they didn’t want to risk disrupting that people’s traditional economy.
Would anyone from Australia care to weigh in on this?
> 1280x1024 is the wrong resolution for

Nope. Fairly standard for SPARC systems, going back to (at least) 1992:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation_10#Graphics_suppo...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation_20#Graphics

* http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/FrameBuffer.html#SX
You're reminding me of the augmented 16 fingered prosthetic hands from Ghost in The Shell, much safer than connecting your cyberbrain to a random computer system.

I imagine a future version of this technology would move beyond converting mental keystrokes into input and instead work on more abstract ideas. Imagine if your IDE could auto-generate certain design patterns as you think about them, instead of forcing you to manually type them out.
I think a better option would be if I could rate candidates on a scale of 1 to 10. There's some interesting research on these voting systems, if one of my candidates has no chance of winning my next best candidate will get my vote. it would be an interesting system to see in practice.

Edit, link; https://electionscience.org/library/score-voting/
They are really good. Flask-Login works wonderfully for logging in and managing sessions and there's ItsDangerous (maintained by Pallets) for generating secure tokens if needed.