skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solar power and batteries have come a long way, but there's still little political will to change things. Nuclear power could progress a lot further too, but again no political will.

There's no economic forcing function either since coal and gas remain on average the cheapest and easiest to deploy and manage sources of energy, and that won't change unless there's enough investment in alternatives to get them over the mass adoption hump.

The worst fears about fossil fuel depletion have so far not manifested, which might be a bad thing long term. We may have enough fossil carbon to cause truly catastrophic climate change if we actually burn a significant fraction of it.

I wonder though if the economic structural problem isn't even harder to solve. The entire financial system relies on eternal growth. Number must always go up or everything breaks.

Even if we put an end to most fears about supply side limits to growth by cracking fusion or developing super cheap utility scale batteries, there would still be demand side limits to growth from things like stabilizing populations and diminishing marginal utility of wealth. Mere stability without significant growth would bring about the collapse of the financial system and the economy as we know it, and probably quite a lot of political turmoil since we don't have a really great replacement sitting in the wings.

(No, planetary migration won't keep GDP growth going any time soon. Humans could settle on the Moon or Mars but they're too far away to contribute much to our Earthly GDP. They'd be mostly isolated economies of their own.)
> Serving videos without ads was how YouTube's monopoly was built. It became an ad platform later. That created an expectation that YouTube was a library in the public interest.

That's hard to believe, from my POV. Way before the Viacom lawsuit, and even before it got bought out, YouTube (the startup) was notorious for its sky-high burn-rate: serving video is not cheap. I don't think any reasonable person thought Google spent billions on YouTube without intending to recoup the costs (Google was already serving ads by then).
Keynesian isn't a value judgement on whether various sorts of consumption are good. It's firstly a description of how capitalist economies actually work, and secondarily a toolkit of policy based on that description. The focus on demand is primary because how it affects the economy writ large.

In fact, Keynes himself famously thought that would be working 15 hours a week by now instead of...well...wherever all the work is going, some of which I suppose is propping up the consumption you don't approve of.
It looks to me like uniswap epitomizes the real world ownership problem discussed in the article we're discussing. "An experiment in tokenized socks" is (unironically?) highlighted on their home page.

Aave seems like something that is useful within the bubble of cryptocurrency traders, but not outside it. It strikes me as a meta thing, not a thing. It doesn't work if cryptocurrencies are never useful for anything outside that bubble.

Does Dai have a strategy for being actually useful as a currency to purchase things? Bitcoin has been trying to be useful as that for a decade with very little success.

Yearn seems to be in the same boat as Aave, it only exists in this bubble of cryptocurrency speculation.

None of this stuff or anything adjacent to it exists for anyone I interact with in my life outside of this website. What will blockchain technology be known for amongst people who are neither computer science nerds nor financial speculators? If it's just a new kind of speculative asset, like a new kind of derivative, then fine, that's innovative in a way, but it is extremely niche.
The goal isn't for the exam to be hard for the sake of being hard: it's to increase the discriminative power of the exam, increasing the gap between the top student and the bottom student to be selected. The fact that 13 students this year have the top score tells me the test cannot meaningfully discriminate between them, and that is likely true of raw score as well - probably hundreds or thousands of students share the same raw score, with the need to break ties. We're talking about a total point score spread of 375 to pick ~ 50K students, and that's not even including the requirements for minimum qualifying scores. If 13 students are able to get the same raw score, and still can't be meaningfully separated based on the established tie breaking criteria (presumably even more students got the same raw score but could be assigned a lower percentile based on tie breaking), then the issue is likely many magnitudes larger at lower raw scores where the distribution is much more crowded. I'm advocating a system where perhaps 10 points separates even the students at the very top. Of course, this system has its own problems, but that's besides the point: no system is perfect, and I think its still better than the current system.

Sure, the very top students are likely to be both talented & hard working, and would perhaps have still gotten on the list without coaching (though perhaps not high enough to have their pick). It's in the minutiae of small differences in raw scores where the benefits of coaching likely help. If coaching gives me an additional 10 points, that could mean the difference between getting a seat vs not for a bright student.

I think you're suggesting that joining a coaching centre is a strong signal of seriousness, rather than a material benefit from the actual classes. Possible, but as others in this subthread have pointed out, access to coaching is something out of reach for many students, irregardless of their seriousness. To pose the question another way: how many of the 50K people who got a seat would not if coaching (in its current form) did not exist? Perhaps the top 100 names would be redistributed within the top 5000, but they'd still have a seat. There's likely a lot more students in the long tail whose fortunes were determined by access to coaching. My concern is less with the top 100 and more with students at the precarious end.
Year round fair weather is a public policy?
I had been under the impression that part of the AMP ecosystem or whatever was to enforce those practices. Otherwise, what's even the point of AMP? If anyone can do anything we're just back to the junk web again
This is not true - I had AT&T DSL from 2009-2014 and when I signed up they didn't offer a modem rental of any sorts, they required everyone to bring their own modem, but they did offer them for sale.

I was really short on money at the time and didn't have a DSL modem, I would have preferred to rent the modem but they said that wasn't an option - they could only sell me one.
Sidenote: If you (or anyone else) has one to sell, I'd love to try QMK'ing one.

Those Hall effect switches and design are amazing.
This is what I use.

I do have an issue where Firefox hangs (requiring a kill -9) after the end of any WebRTC call, but I don't think that's related.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/portin...
*HIPAA

Also...no? Why would it be?
Oh yes, @joelbluminator, the troll-in-chief when it comes to Elixir posts. You really have an axe to grind against this language, do you?

> For one I really do think Elixir is a horrible career choice and I wanna save young average developers who still have time to correct that mistake (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27204755)

Sadly, your trolling is too subtle to get shadow banned, so we are doomed to keep reading your inane comments in every Elixir thread, hiding under the cowardly guise of "doing it for the young developers."

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

> Im not at all negative about Elixir. It could be a fantastic tool, I never used it. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26905869)
> it still seems like an overreaction

Maybe if he’s your actual boss and you are being paid.

Free isn’t enough to deal with this kind of shit (when you can set up and own your competing server in a few seconds).
> About five years ago, Netlify pioneered the concept of Deploy Previews.

Doesn’t Heroku’s “Review Apps” predates this?

https://blog.heroku.com/heroku_review_apps_beta

(funnily enough, it’s been exactly 6 years ago today based on the beta’s blog post above)
Dude I think you are kidding yourself. There is something not legit about Tether, or at least it feels that way. And neither Bitfinex or ifinex have done anything to help that through their misleading and sometimes outright lying, about Tether and its reserves.
Ah, that good ol' rescue disk! I did something similar in high school. Had a cd binder full of various rescue tools, including a few bootable rescue floppies and such.

Even made some money building custom PCs and doing lighting/window mods for people from my school.
Yeah, I'm pretty thankful for distributions patching out or otherwise disabling the nonconsensual telemetry in browsers, Firefox included.
Is converting crypto to regular currency like USD easy? I've heard that liquidity is hard to come by.
This is the Federal Trade Commission, which occasionally does investigate things like false advertisement, not the Federal Communications Commission (which Ajit Pai ran) which has consistently backed provider and ISP interests over customer interests for a long time.
Why can't AS be static files? ActivityPub adds dynamic "push" support, but that's optional and separate to the basic ActivityStreams spec.
> We have seen a fair amount of printing of money in recent years, but fairly low inflation.

The money weren’t distributed proportionally to the wealth of the people. Another reason, which though applies only in short- and mid-term, there are various nominal rigidities: contracts mostly use nominal values.

> The second question is whether inflation if it does occur is net bad/good and for who.

Well, that’s a whole nother question. You can create inflation using direct deposits to the holders of money.
This is written by the KiTTY developer. My guess is that when you open up a kitty session, you're not trying to open a subsequent one inside. So running `kitty` inside a session will give you a preview of the new protocol being proposed here
1.) It seems to be largely Windows-only. I prefer to develop on Mac or Linux.

It's primarily used with Unity and you can develop for Unity on a Mac. It is C# though.
Chrome's sandbox is far superior to Firefox's from a security standpoint. I think the best bet is to run Ungoogled Chromium on Linux; it's got even less telemetry than Firefox and is more secure.
I can't comment on other items on that list, but the amount of nature you can be in within 30 minutes of driving from anywhere in the Sacramento region is drastically more than 30 minutes from anywhere in the bay area. Our family has been able to enjoy the nature a lot more since moving out here.

Certain aspects change in priority drastically as one's life stage changes. Dating is one of those. As one goes from being single to married, dating goes from being just about the highest priority concern to the lowest. Similar for bars/night life. Once those things are out of the picture, I find Sacramento to be infinitely more enjoyable than SF.
My Chess on Eve Party
In dollars, almost certainly not. Maybe in number of BTC that traded hands?
Well if you’re taking requests I would love that, and would also like a writeup on the implementation in your blog.
I wonder if Google’s Web Packaging standard was intended to eventually make it possible to deliver both the page and the ads from the same server without enabling one party to tamper with the other.
> Isn't IE11 support a potential HIPPA violation?

To the extent (if any, though I'd be surprised if there were none) IE11 doesn’t support standards required effectively, if indirectly, via the HITECH guidance on secured PHI, IE11 use could have some some adverse consequences under HIPAA (and, as a SaaS operator with a BAA that would include the vendor, not just the customer), but not in and of itself noncompliance for use or support. Mostly just making it more likely that situations would become reportable breaches.
How did Reuters publish this… I’ll keep this in mind when reading their stuff from now on unfortunately. It is so laughably ridiculous to say that a company would fire an older white man specifically to hire a younger minority that I had to check both the author and the column to make sure it was not some 4chan troll.

The focus on diversity in hiring affects hiring (diversity make be taken into account for applicants) not firing existing people.
> If all the major cloud vendors were to make it so regular consumers are unable to spin up a server and participate in mining, then what makes it 'distributed' and fair?

Not everything is cloud. You can still have regular colocation where you bring your own hardware and pay for rack space, network and power consumption. Then you can trash your CPU and disks as much as you desire.
> - People will want to adopt BTC as a mainstream currency in future, for all the reasons I listed earlier

How can this happen if the price never stabilizes (because no one wants to spend what they have)?

> - When BTC is adopted as a mainstream currency

How can this happen if the transaction costs are $10+? To pay for a Starbucks coffee, it would cost $5 for the drink and $15 for the transaction fee.

> - Because today's price of BTC is much smaller than X, you stand to make a huge profit if you buy BTC, and it later becomes a mainstream currency

How can it become a mainstream currency if everyone treats it like a speculative investment and the transaction costs prevent it from used in "micro" transactions?

The entire system disincentivises use as a "mainstream currency"
Derivations 102 – Learning Nix pt 4
All locks are mechanical on some level.
If the terminal is in a completely invalid state, closing it is always an option
Not free anymore - they're now adware that's monetizing your viewers after unilaterally changing terms and cutting you out of the deal. It arguably puts them on equal footing with people who unilaterally change the terms of the site usage deal and block their ads.

Remember, forcing you to watch ads means it's not free - it's you trading irreplaceable moments of your life for something. Unless your time is worth absolutely nothing, ads are extremely expensive to you.
When breaking news isn't enough, and you can't call it opinion, you rename it "Breaking Views"

Not one piece of reporting was done in the article, this indeed is suitable for the GPT-3 age.
You've never had to train your replacement?
Why not? Shirts might have flashy patterns, differently colored fabrics, alternating skin and shirt. On a row-per-row basis I can see the chest area being more entropic than a face with an even skin tone.

edit: I googled "woman" and selected random pictures which showed the whole upper body, entropy summed over each row to the right: https://imgur.com/a/oVB57gu
While I use adblockers, I agree with this sentiment.

It's easy to forget that ads pay for YouTube content, they pay for web content. Google gets an overwhelming cut, sadly. Ads fund the creators that make the content. This revenue is not much and is often barely enough to survive.
How did he do the marketing? Was it blog posts or YouTube videos or something else?
I've found that earlyoom [1] can at least save me from having a complete freeze. There are packages for most distros.

[1] https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom
Top web things to know from Google I/O 2021
*Knowingly
Forugh Farrokhzad (1934-1967)
If anyone wants to join my YouTube premium family plan, send me an email! It’s ~$4/mo.
How hard would it be to turn this into one?
A superset though. It's perfectly fine to support ANSI and VT-100 if we can add new escape codes to switch to a standardized raw mode, just like has been done for 8-bit and 24-bit color, and for mouse support.
What exactly do you find unbelievable here? Diversity goals target the demographics of active employees (at least that’s where I always see the attention directed). Firing is just as effective for achieving that.
Cool.

Now ship WebView2 with the OS in a reliable way that people can use.
Early coinbase stock holders have been eagerly cashing out. Their lack of confidence has been in the news.
Apps no longer need location to scan for nearby Bluetooth devices on Android 12
She didn't really elaborate on why she didn't feel welcome in the gym. I've felt out of place and unwelcome in gyms - but it was all in my head. Nobody said or did anything to make me feel that way, they were all just in really great shape.

I've also had it made explicitly clear to me that I wasn't welcome in certain places.
> But don't use it in new stuff. It's that bad. It really is. Sorry.

Anyone is entitled to live in a their delusions, no need to apologize.

Tell me how are you going to write a driver for you new device your company is shipping? Or write firmware for it?

C is a container ship that carries the world's trade on its back, and you come here trying to sell rockets as new means of transportation. We will see if truck are still here in 30 years :) vs some fad language that is going to be forgotten in next few years.
There is OTR: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/

but as far as I know there is only one implementation, and it's underdocumented. The protocol itself seems well specified, but it doesn't use "standard" primitives https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/Protocol-v3-4.1.1.html
And UIs are usually not great (you have to check a shared secret via a trusted channel).

There are also talks of an OTRv4, shared by XMPP and IRC: https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-ideas/issues/67 but the protocol is even more complex, I even have a hard time following the introductory sections of its specification.
Wait until you find out what happens to your warranty if you take your car to the track…
How popular is Ansible these days? I used to hear more about it than I do now.
I won’t get all the answers as that pdf is clearly leaving things out.
> you can connect by being legitimately curious about differing interests as long as it's a culture that is open to different interests without using them as a defining characteristic.

100% agree with that. Differences shouldn't make you exclude other people. Like the example where people just ignore the cleaning staff. It just tells alot how the people there are privileged. I worked at an engineering firm and people generally do acknowledge the cleaning staff. They're people too regardless of their position or work.
yeah.. its china and not the bottom of a ponzi scam..
I've just been browsing for a bit, but this seems like a really great book! Most "maths for games" books feel like the authors are just regurgitating their university exams. This is very focused on the "why" rather than just the "how" - it feels like this book is actually trying to teach, not simply be a reference.

It's rare to find resources written by good teachers. I'm excited to dig in more!
The basic summary:

G-forces on an British fighter planes' fuel caused the engine to cut out during a tactically important nosedive.

This problem was fixed by a fuel constrictor, designed by a "diamond-in-the-rough" female engineer and motorcycle racing world champion.

She undoubtedly saved lives, but she didn't singlehandedly solve society's misogynistic views.
Arbitrary crap like property? I'm down for some anarchy in the traditional sense.
I've been planning on making an electric concertina for years. For bellows options I've considered a fader in a fake bellows, using an actual bellows with an airflow sensor, some sort of load cell sensor. Not sure what I'll use when I actually get around to it
Sadly, this is true. Though it also leaves a huge opportunity for people to encourage cleaning staff (or drivers or any other manual labor in cultures that privilege intellectual work) with brief yet heartfelt greetings and genuine thanks for the valuable work they do.

Seeing and thanking overlooked people for the work they do takes almost no time if its habitual, yet can potentially brighten someone's day.
In that case, I'd say bury it right away, not many hours later after it had collected hundreds of comments.
Secure or not you still have two blockchains and people have to decide which one they prefer. Do you understand there have been bitcoin and ethereum forks where exactly that has happened?
There are plenty of things that you cannot do in an apartment. If it's a building with multiple tenants, you'll be forbidden from doing stuff that's an unnecessary disturbance to other tenants. But even apart from that, there are physical limitations. For example, many apartment buildings forbid large aquariums because the building is not designed to handle the uneven load distribution.
Undefined behavior in C is a misinterpretation of the Standard
Mining right now, finally found a good use for WSL2 other than running docker desktop. Note that the instructions for WSL2 were a bit different (I'm running debian) - had to install python3 and python3-pip packages but after that is was smooth sailing. I am currently the proud owner of 0.00 skepticoin and that makes me feel good.
Heavy metal vapours unexpectedly found in comets in Solar System and beyond
That works in theory but fails in practice. Most ads will just have an "Opinion" tag stapled on them.
Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf]
But then why have HTML email at all? You could just write in markdown.
If you want adoption within the enterprise then you really need to use HTTP.

And these days even most SMBs are taking network security seriously and blocking non HTTP ports.
What? Why China in particular? Because it drives engagement by appearing in a headline?

There's no byline that I can find on this; I had no idea Reuters published under-cited, uncredited opinion pieces.
I'd pay half a cent per video or whatever it works out to be, but I'm not going to pay by letting Google or any other corporations track my every move and action
CT Frontier DSL customer here. It's usually 5 Mbps.

Current streaming codecs are impressive though, no problem streaming 720p YouTube.

Hoping to get StarLink soon, just hope the ping isn't horrendous.
Which is not really image entropy at all, as it totally neglects spatial structure. You could sort an image and get the same entropy using the histogram approach.
I must admit that I'm skeptical of yet another Linux sound API but I really hope that you're right, I'd really like to be able to use Linux for serious sound stuff and finally ditch Windows for that too.

I would even be willing to finally learn how to use Ardour correctly!
Or octopodes
This already exists on yt in the form of sponsored content in pro youtubers' videos, I use an extension called SponsorBlock that uses crowdsourced reporting to find and skip these portions... this crowdsourced approach will only work well for popular videos but unpopular vids are less often monetizable and thus not ad-ridden anyway
I'm not sure I follow how this would work for students applying for college. In the specific example of the JEE, you have ~ 13K really prestigious seats that ~ 2.2 Million students are competing for, with about ~ 50K seats of decreasing desirability up for grabs. Similarly for the top medical colleges, ~ 340K applicants are competing for ~ 1200 seats. More than half of those seats are reserved for students from traditionally marginalized & oppressed communities burdened with severe economic & societal hardships. I do not understand how a startup model helps in this scenario; ie, college admissions where desirable seats are a severely scarce resource.
The number is a bit misleading since it mixes in child mortalities.

If you look at the life expectancy for someone who's already reached age 45, since 1880 to now the US has gone from ~70yrs -> ~81 years.

A much less significant change

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectation-age-45-b...