skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two apologies are in order 1) I disagree with a lot of your comment but don't really know how to proceed productively, and 2) for not providing any sources, as I've come to think of these things as common knowledge the past few years.

A link dump is never convincing, but in case you find my thinking so strange that you're intrigued how I got to where I am, here's some of the key bits of info:

1) Ramez Naam's summary of solar/storage costs (2020) -- He's a science fiction author, but has really brought together the best resources. Academic and industry energy models use old cost estimates for renewables and it gets them into huge problems. Naam's estimates have been far too conservative, but at least they've been less conservative than the pros' estimates: https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely-c...

2) Lazard's levelized cost of storage/energy (2020, comes out annually) -- best free estimates of costs, IMHO. (note that the LCOE doesn't take into account the price of dispatchability, but storage fixes that)

3) RMI's analysis of stranded natural gas plants (2019) -- a bit dated, but shocked people when it came out, and even most utility IRPs don't consider this possibility yet, which means utility customers are going to get bilked for billions of dollars https://rmi.org/a-bridge-backward-the-risky-economics-of-new...

4) RMI's analysis of low NG deployments and high storage, solar, and wind deployments in open markets (2020) -- a follow on to the prior year's analysis, documenting that the open market realizes that new natural gas will likely become a stranded asset. Regulated utilities generally bear no risk of competition, so only regulatory bodies can reign in the bad economic decisions of utilities that are still deploying natural gas. https://rmi.org/clean-energy-is-canceling-gas-plants/

5) The IEA's recently released global energy transition pathway to keep to 1.5C of warming (2021) -- The IEA has been hopelessly wrong about our energy path, and they are here too, IMHO, estimating absolutely ridiculous hydrogen production capacity by 2030 (3TW!), and far too low renewables and storage. But even the IEA is now plotting a pathway with a very quick transition away from any fossil fuel that doesn't have it's CO2 emissions captured https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/all-fossil-fuel-...
It is not even more
A better question might be "Who are you communicating with?" and then "What are they capable and/or accustomed to using?"

If you're just dealing with other IT industry types, then email may not be for you.

OTOH, if you're dealing with other industries like real-estate agents, lawyers, shopkeepers, etc. (non-IT people and/or non-technology-centric people) then you may find that email and faxes are the way to go.
I like the arguments here: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1520

> Avoid repeating tired maxims like “C is a portable assembly language” and “trust the programmer.” Unfortunately, C and C++ are mostly taught the old way, as if programming in them isn’t like walking in a minefield.
Yes, many people think they can use their smartphone just fine. That doesn't mean that it's not a lot of learnt tolerance to less than ideal UX. It's fascinating to see brain activity involved when performing basic tasks.
I'm down to work on this idea.
There's a microcontroller in the cable negotiating the power transfer rate, data transfer rate, and other capabities.
> It can only make sense if you trust Apple completely (which I found unlikely for anybody to trust any intermediary completely)

All consumers of computing devices place trust the manufacturer. Even if you use reproducible builds, they can be patched at execution time by an attacker who had access to the device.

So yes, I assume the customer trusts the manufacturer - not completely, but sufficiently.

>> The Chinese key iOS devices trust doesn’t enable them to MITM App Store packages..

> Lie. See above.

> China MITMing the App Store but about China signing iOS packages delivered to devices. The quote above shows that they do.

So you have been lying all along about China MITMing the App Store.

That was never true, and your links didn’t substantiate it.

Delivering government software via enterprise distribution has literally nothing to do with any kind of MITM attack at.

You repeatedly claimed that China can MITM the App Store, which has always been a lie.

You claimed that users cannot tell whether China has performed a ‘switcheroo’. That is also a lie.

We know Apple can deliver whatever they like from the store. We also know that China can install software using an enterprise certificate.

Neither of these are surprises, and neither constitute an MITM or a switcheroo.

Your entire goal here has been to lie or mislead.

Here’s the obvious example:

> b) outside China? Yes. Because the App Store has this MITM vulnerability and China gets to MITM all US services (with blessed MITM status for iCloud that even defeats Apple's "E2E" encryption for their other services), they can replace the Signal package with a compromised one.

You outright lied here that China can replace signal on US devices, and nothing you have said so far changes this.
Louie Mantia, Jr. has some amazing fonts[1].

[1] http://louie.world/fonts/
What if it's a book about designing book covers ;)
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Microsoft's compiler did not support C99 for a long time because they did not really think of it as a C compiler or a C/ C++ compiler; it is a C++ compiler. Its support for C90 was explained as being maintained "for historical reasons" ( https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an... ), but they had no reason to add support for new standards of a language that was outside the scope of the project.

It's odd for the author to complain about the commingling of C and C++ in compilers and then complain about Microsoft specifically not doing that.
"Being able to spin lies about a topic you've no understanding of and turn that into a marketable skill is a dark potent for the future of America."

At once, such a great, and terrible, sentence.
Yeah but there will always be crap for Alibaba for anything you can think of. The solution would be banning charging altogether and adopt only proprietary standards.
Again you’re stating something to support your worldview based purely on opinion.

The German Industrial Production Index has been sitting at basically the same levels since 1979, check for yourself.
In republics without absolute rulers, individuals trust each other to maintain the state out of a sense of civic duty, and not to declare themselves king.

This trust is greatly eroded by calls to eliminate direct taxes on land holders. In America the local property tax is the most important thing holding society together. It provides residents with assurances that regardless of how corrupt the public process for distributing legal tender becomes, that the richest cannot simply buy the entire country and turn the continent into a private estate which their descendants will inherit in perpetuity without paying enormous taxes to everyone else.

When James Madison organized the assessment of property taxes at the national level during his presidency it resulted in the 'Era of Good Feelings' and a relative low point of political polarization. In contrast when state governments introduced sales taxes for the first time to reduce property taxes it prolonged the Great Depression, and when NYC gave the largest property tax abatements in the country to Donald Trump it lead to the Trump presidency which increased political polarization.
If you can integrate something with C, you can do the same with C++.
Good point. I suppose it depends on how much of the capital in the fund is committed from their reserves, if any.
We're not talking about perceived colour in these articles. Instead at best we're talking about absolute colour as might be sent over a display cable or as might be presented on a calibrated screen. Even if the screen isn't calibrated or the user is partially colour blind, the values that are sent over the HDMI or DisplayPort cable do still matter. Those values tend to be 8-bit 0-255 values for R, B and G, though that's starting to change. I won't get into how 255,255,255 might be a different colour depending on what mode your computer monitor is in or how your cable signals the mode to the computer monitor, but the point of this article is that the colours in a video can vary based on how and when the video was recorded, mastered, etc. This is partially historical: if watching a DVD you'll have a smaller colour range than if watching a UHD 4K HDR Blu-Ray because back then most TVs couldn't display high contrast images or what we now refer to as HDR or Dolby Vision. There are other concerns, of course, such as framerate and resolution and even the shape of a pixel can change in some video files. So ... it's a complicated topic. :)
The other framing of the problem is: If you're going to raise a fixed amount of $X, is it better to raise it from a large number of angels (each writing smaller checks), or a small number of firms (each writing larger checks)?

I'd go for "larger number of participants," for the reasons I mentioned.
Forgive me, but if the tax scheme already exists an appropriately taxes CO2 emissions, then what is the point of this lawsuit?

*Or rather, what is the point of the mandatory 45% cut? Shouldn't the taxes accomplish that already?
"Being able to spin lies about a topic you've no understanding of and turn that into a marketable skill is a dark potent for the future of America."

At once such a great, and terrible, sentence.
> I did my PhD in astrophysics, and I can tell you that the author's name has become synonymous with, shall we say, fringe ideas.

Beyond your appeal to authority, you have convincingly confirmed one of the theses of this article.
> I can tell you that the author's name has become synonymous with, shall we say, fringe ideas.

This person has bad ideas (going further, this person is synonymous with bad ideas and therefore only has bad ideas).

> I won't say crack pot because he is a legit tenured astronomer at Harvard, but I have seen his papers roundly critiqued on the merits at too many journal clubs to count

Some of his ideas have been proven to be bad although he has an expert understanding of the subject.

> Its a bit outrageous to claim he's Galileo ... against the weakness, and untestability, of his ideas.

This person is making a spurious analogy because Galileo's idea was a good idea and his ideas are bad ideas (some of which have been proven to be bad ideas).

It is ad-hominem in nature because GP is disposing of the content of the article by claiming the above analogy is spurious by pre-supposing that Loeb only has bad ideas.

There is nothing to be read here about the reaction of the scientific community to unconventional ideas which is the content of the article, especially if you pre-suppose that Avi Leob only has bad ideas and therefore was rightfully dismissed by the scientific community (which is what the GP is doing).

If the argument was in fact about whether or not Loeb's ideas are being unfairly dismissed (or in the weaker case, rightfully receiving pushback), that would directly be talking about the content of the article and generate a good discussion. (In fact I disagree with what Loeb is saying in the article and have posted a comment as such below)
Agreed. The caveat on all of this is "Assuming everyone is an accredited investor." (I've edited the original post to make that clearer.)
'desk set' holds up remarkably well. some great performances and dialogue.
Didn’t Stanford open a small campus in Japan, maybe still has one?
Yes, I think this would work, and am working on it. Message me if interested.
Sorry if I'm being dense, but can you be more clear? I looked at the ij.org link as well as the linked case document, and don't see anything nefarious?
I recently looked back on some old projects of mine, it was rather painful.
Start here to find all the studies:

Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?

https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...
Or you can search your topic on Reddit using DDG by “topic !r”
I just tried it. Doesn’t seem to work on iPhone? Awesome feature if it worked though.
Dlang is nice. It's essentially C++, but with the warts fixed. Using dpp[0], you can #include C headers into D, and use their complex macros.

[0]: https://code.dlang.org/packages/dpp
Still no tab display space saving for indents... why even try
The way most C compilers and ABIs use the stack kills it imo. But you could tweak a compiler to change that.
> The dominant form on reddit is the "meme"

I remember seeing something on the front page a few days ago about a meme being removed from.. some subreddit, it was an area-based one (I think /r/australia?) and the comments were exasperated that they don't allow memes.

Excuse the hyperbole, but memes are absolutely ruining the chance of many of these subs (and even other sites) from building substantive communities.
Right, so file size, not sample count. It's lossless.
Better to just do a road-show in California or somewhere you can find better angels. If they are sparse where you are, your terms are going to suck and your chances of drawing bad investors goes way up.
> Its a bit outrageous to claim he's Galileo and the rest of the community is the Church

He's not just talking about physics... he's also talking about archeo and geo and anthro and paleo, etc. ... and there's FAR too much evidence - across the board, and going back 150 years (the list would take up this whole page) - to demonstrate that rocking the orthodox can be dangerous to your career.

Say what you will about Oumama, Avi's very very right on this one. And of course it works to the detriment of science. Everytime evidence disappears, or is re-interpreted to defend the faith - and the pseudoscience sword is thrown - we all lose. How many babies died before Ignaz Semmelweis died in an insane asylum?
American here. We actually hate this shit.
I remember some drugstores had these when I was growing up. My grandpa had two of them in his garage; where he had bought the machine and the stores' collection of tubes, when they were falling out of fasion.
Laws which are inconsistent with promoting the extension of human life can be ruled to be unjust.
> Yes, since you only seem to know what right wing media tells you.

You cannot seriously believe he was not a criminal and a junkie.

Here the left wing sources about his criminal history: https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-who-is.html

Here is left wing source about his drug use: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/08/us/derek-chauvin-trial-ge...

> Rush Limbaugh was also a junkie and a criminal by those standards, yet he gets a medal of freedom or whatever.

Many criminals junkies walk free regardless of their skin color. George Floyd was just too unlucky to be high on several drugs, committed crime and resisted arrest on the same day. This combo could not end well.

> This is why you are an uninformed racist. You can disagree all you like but it doesn't really change the reality of it.

I'm not a racist, and I don't talk with people who throw insults, and generally don't talk to people who cannot conduct a constructive dialogue.

So this is my last reply to you. You may reply, and I'll read that reply, but I won't reply to you again. It was an interesting conversation. Thanks!

> I never called you or anyone who disagrees with me a nazi.

I was speaking figuratively. It just happens way to often by left wing people. In fact, you just called me racist in the same message. There's irony in that.

> If you defend those who would seek to take away the lives of others, you are not on the side of human rights.

I must say, you don't understand the modern meaning of human rights. Even criminals have these rights. Like UN requires it, all of the western countries signed it, most of the world countries signed it. It is universally agreed on in the western society. Well, I thought so, until I read your comment, and was quite disappointed. I thought better of left-wing people.

> Also, taking away the rights of those who don't respect the same right in others is kind of ok

So it's OK to rape the rapist, I got it. And I already replied to that: fortunately eye for an eye was abandoned by the western civilization, but unfortunately left-wing people are pulling civilization back to the dark ages.
> I can’t count the number of times I’ve had people tell me

How does your side of the conversation go?
>Steve Jobs is often brought up as a hero of that type of thinking.

Like the anecdote that he leased a new car every month so he could avoid registering it with the state.
This is really cool! Do you have any other animations? If you don't mind me asking, how did you use PID controllers to animate the tentacles?
Yeah I think this isn't right for these types of communities because you don't actually want to know everyone. So that seems low. I'm wondering if we can find a decent upper bound.
Volatility is more about vapor pressure, so how much a compound likes to evaporate, rather than structural components per se.

I couldn’t find any vapor pressure data online , but the boiling temp of oxybenzone is about 70C higher than for benzene, so it’s probably somewhat less volatile.

Oxybenzone: https://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C131577&Mask=4

Benzene: https://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C71432&Mask=4#Ther...
I do. This is a political, not legislative issue.
This is actually another in a series of court cases where judges decide on broad political issues in the Netherlands. The big difference is that previous cases were against government, whereas this was against a company.

I mostly agree with the ideas behind most of these rulings. But it feels like broad interpretations of vague laws are being used to regulate outside of the democratic process. Regulation is the purview of the legislative or executive branch, not the judicial. Especially because the first 2 branches are (here in the Netherlands) democratically elected.

Consider (hypothetically) what would happen here if 90% of citizens were against this ruling. How would they revert it. Or should it not be revertable? I don't think it is revertable, and I think that is a massive end-run around democracy.
I've been using the Freestyle Edge for the past year or so. Before that, I had used the Microsoft Natural keyboard for many years because I never found a mechanical ergonomic keyboard I liked and found affordable.

The Edge keyboard has been awesome. I highly recommend it to anyone who's looking to upgrade to mechanical, but in the style of the Microsoft Natural 4000 series.
I think a licensing board shouldn't be able to fine people who previously worked as professional engineers who call themselves professional engineers in a brochure about there speech.
Not all of it, and not necessarily well, which was one reason they weren't super popular except for the case you really needed Apple software. It seemed more aimed at the "I want to colocate a box somewhere and I run Apple in the office and I might also want to in the datacenter for some reason or another" rather than "this is a solid platform that offers all the bells and whistles I would expect because I'm deploying tens or hundreds or these".
Noob chemistry question: lots of sunscreens have oxybenzone in them. Could there be some bad quality control with the chemical engineering that's turning it into benzene?
Not to belittle the problem of spam, but spam isn’t really what people are increasingly taking issue with. “Political” moderation or just plain obstinance are the biggest shortcomings of present day moderation policies. It leads to de facto namesquatting of popular topics the moderators of which have unfettered power to control the narrative surrounding it.

I bet fame and karma points could counteract the disincentives to moderate. What if opting in to a particular moderator translated into 1 karma point per week for that moderator? Moderators of popular topics (e.g. topics with 100k+ subscriber counts) would quickly become some of the most highly upvoted users on the site.

And if commenters could “layer” opt-in moderation policies one on top of the other, moderators could specialize then. Much of the specialization could be done by bots. Anti-“flagrant spam” policies would be easy to bot and easy to combine. The moderation policies left to be done by hand would largely amount to narrative control.

> And of course you need a default for people who have just arrived at the site, so that they're not buried in spam or attacked by trolls on their first post.

That choice could be left up to GUI frontend maintainers, assuming the site itself were open source.

Really I just think social bookmarking has the clearest signal for human communications in general, by far — by leaps and bounds in fact. It’s a public service for such a thing to exist in modern pop culture.
No it doesn't. I spend more on coffee than I do on water. That doesn't mean I "prioritize coffee over water". It means that I don't need to spend as much on water to get what I need.
This isn't so much of someone trying to explain away bad data, it's just you doing a misreading of the story, which people have explained.

This isn't a debate about the object level "is this story true", this is people saying "that's not what the story is".
The article spends some time arguing against using the existing acceptance of untestable ideas to reject testable alternatives.
"This is the way it's always been done" is a horrible reason for doing something.
Yeah implicit casts are nice when working on a toy or personal project, but if you are putting code on a rocket or a game server or a self driving car etc, etc, absolutely not.
Adams is very much not trying for an apology here he is mocking cancel culture and the inevitable non-apology that public figures will distribute.
> Don’t raise money from a ton of angel investors because it’ll clutter the cap table and be a big administrative pain in the butt

I was at a startup that had over 100 angels... their cap table was messy and it definitely had an impact on raising.
I'm looking forward to when academia actually tumbles down. People like James Burke have been awaiting this for ages.
If you are not part of the platform it can’t hurt you. I’m not on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, any of these services, so the mobs can’t really get to me. They could be flaming me there right now and I’d have no idea and it wouldn’t bother me at all! Excising social media altogether pretty much removes this vector of harassment.
+1 easy motion makes the default jump-by-search feel really clunky. Typically it is mapped to double-tap leader then object, and it will then highlight those objects with a short-code to jump right to it.

Examples:

\\w -> will highlight all words after
\\b -> all words before
\\e -> ends of words after
\\ge -> ends of words before
\\fe -> all occurences of the char 'e' after
\\Fe -> 'e' before
\\se -> 'e' in both directions
\\j -> lines after
\\k -> lines before
etc.

but can even use it with traditional search:

\\n -> will highlight all search-matches found by a previous "/" or "?" search after current pos.
\\N -> will highlight all search-matches before.

mega useful.
What myths and stories are you referring to? Hesiod’s Works and Days is opposed to exactly what you suggest. And the Myth of Eden in Judaism - the received tradition of its origin - is a commentary and the need to toil in life.

Both “Athens and Jerusalem” are principled according to honest toil. And look at the results!
I don't think VPNs are that complex. At least if the ads on just about every YouTube video I watch are to be believed. I think VPNs are actually pretty mainstream now.
We actually did this with a quadcopter for my undergrad capstone project. It had a tendency to wildly flail about so we had to go to the indoor basketball court/gym when no one else was there. It took a couple of weeks, but we got it working pretty well and developed and entire system for the quadcopter to take off, track/follow, and land on a moving RC car. Fun times!