skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes no sense. Stackoverflow is a useful resource for programmers, but it's difficult to monetize.

More than average users will have an ad blocker or otherwise mostly ignore ads. Not enough users would pay a subscription.

My prediction would be they start to introduce obnoxious features to try get their 1.8B back and will annoy users away slowly. I have nothing against my prediction turning out wrong.
I agree that Europe is having real success. But we need to also keep in mind where energy is being used the most now and in the future. In the long-term Europe going 100% renewable by itself doesn't change the global energy picture much.

Displacing a global energy supply in one country keeps the resource available and the price lower so that another country may use more of it. We may have actual success with reducing global coal usage soon since it does not transport easily.

I can't find data to back up your claims about the US decreasing electricity and gasoline consumption. Do you mean per capita? Meanwhile natural gas consumption is increasing. I also suspect that the US has outsourced much of our energy usage to China in the form of manufacturing. China now uses much more energy that the US (although not per capita).

Developing countries may have a head start with renewables now, but AFAIK their overall energy usage still implies increased fossil fuel usage for the world.

I don't believe this means we are in a hopeless situation. I think it means that Europe and the US must prioritize using their wealth to further develop the technology for carbon neutral energy and to demonstrate it so that it becomes the default energy source for the entire world.
Will they start paying attention if Chinese made planes start showing up on their tickets?
> I've yet to see a claim of obscurantism leveled against a post-structuralist that I felt had any serious weight.

I've yet to see a claim made by a post-structuralist that I felt had any serious weight. The awful prose just makes it worse.
I would like to place a bet on whether or not that person has a partner he exchanges such messages with.
I agree somewhat, the problem with "business outcome perspective" likely means very short term thinking, get it done now, deal with the rest later.

The people that cause the mess are not likely the ones that have to clean up the mess, people like me are. I prefer to greenfield things but instead I spend the majority of my time untangling the bad choices people made years before coming at it from a "business outcome perspective"

There should be some kind of middle ground, likely starting with proper, actual training and restricting access to low code solution to people that have at least some technical literacy which often does not happen.
Well I assume the drift based on atmospheric anomalies doesn't tend toward a total delta of +/- 0 over time - or at least we're not accurately accounting for it yet. As such we'd face the same january in summer problem the romans faced right? Slowly midnight will move further and further from the time when you're furthest from the sun.
This is what anti-drug people don’t get. These things happen. But I’ll take the trade off. Don’t tread on me.

Get the government out of this business. If I want to take shrooms, I will.
May I ask why you wish there was only one? I'm researching JSONiq on a hobbybasis and am curious about all sorts of experiences with it
It's difficult to dispute a philosophic framework on its own terms. It's not that difficult to be self-consistent. But when you dig into these philosophies I always find myself asking, "So what?".

Compare Jean Baudrillard's Simulcra to Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities. IMO, they both identify the same basic phenomenon--that the reality we inhabit is socially constructed, including much or all of what we consider our physical reality, if only because it's difficult if not impossible (except through contrivances like math) to disentangle socially imbued meaning from even the most mundane of objects and events. But Baudrillard builds an exaggerated philosophical framework with little if any additional descriptive power.

Similarly, Baudrillard's philosophy is often used, including my himself, in an excessively prescriptivist manner, unrestrained by any admission of incompleteness. (Continental philosophers have always loved indulging in supposedly universal philosophies that can be used to explain and dictate everything.) By contrast Anderson's Imagine Communities concept is principally descriptive, emphasizing as it does the emergence and importance of nationalism in particular. That makes it, among other things, more easily analyzed, critiqued, and even falsified. Extrapolating the framework into a more universal philosophy is something you would have to do entirely on your own, and at your own peril. Importantly that makes it much more difficult to weaponize Anderson's concepts, directly or indirectly, in political and cultural rhetoric. Yet, at the end of the day, you can ride Anderson's concept anywhere you might Baudrillard--in the abstract it doesn't limit you; in fact, arguably it can take you more places by being less categorical.

There's a hilarious chapter, "Foreword to Newt Gringrich's Post-structuralism for Republicans: TrumpTruth and How to Make It, By Betsy DeVos" in the book Moving Forward: Real Introductions to Totally Made-up Books. I feel like the author tore the entire story straight from my head; thus, unsurprisingly, I find it hilarious. But in any event it IMO perfectly encapsulates not only the shortcomings in post-structuralism and related philosophies, but the dangers.

FWIW, I don't think all non-analytical philosophies are problematic. I far prefer Camus' writings over Satre's precisely because Camus evinces a laudable restraint. He doesn't emphasize implications; at most he hints at that them. Whether that's because he was just a good storyteller (letting the reader fill in the gaps), or because he was conscious of the inherent incompleteness of his perspectives and was capable of admitting to himself uncertainty, I don't know, but it makes for a far more mature and, ultimately, truthful examination of the human condition.
Yes, it would be cheaper if we didn't have to drag half the country into modern society. Imagine all the money we could have saved had we not needed court cases to establish LGBT rights, for example.
>If you ever see 5 guys watching one guy dig a hole

ok first off this does not seem to be the way that any American employer would do things - I did live in the country for 20+ years and worked a lot of menial labor - never have I seen any employer have 5 guys standing around watching one guy dig a hole.
> Perhaps you mean that the weights follow a 2 year moving average?

No, I mean what I said. The weights used for CPI calculations are updated every two years. In between they are constant.

The BLS also updates weights more often based on estimates of consumer behavior (rather than surveys), which are used for C-CPI calculations. The published annual weights include these updated (estimated) weights for the inbetween years.

> Your overall negative tone suggests you are emotionally invested in the CPI being correct, or perhaps just seeming smart. I'm more interested in the truth.

I have fairly low tolerance for people who go around posting things like

(1) Average price of gasoline adjusted for average price of gasoline

(2) CPI weights are secret but it's widely believed (by who?) that gasoline is a huge factor, which the government uses to manipulate inflation numbers

(3) The government is manipulating weights to smooth out the CPI

It's fairly clear that you're well out of your depth on this material.

> an index of raw commodities and business expenses should account for the rest of the index.

This would no longer be a Consumer Price Index. There are other types of indices, such as the Producer Price Index (also produced by the BLS).

> Collecting the data to calculate CPI the way I suggested is a difficult solo exercise. But if you are actually interested in an alternative estimation, start by looking at the growth of SMA(3) of GDP ^ (2/5) * M2 ^ (2/3). This is the baseline growth heuristic I have been using to consider one to be keeping up with inflation.

Looking at money supply is pretty meaningless without also looking at velocity. M2 has been going up but the velocity has been going down [1].

Besides that, the exponents add to more than one, so even ignoring the extreme dubiousness of attributing GDP increases to inflation this is going to outpace (by an exponential factor) actual inflation under normal economic regimes.

Back to this

> Your overall negative tone suggests you are emotionally invested in the CPI being correct

I can say almost the same from my point of view: you seem to be emotionally invested in CPI being flawed and/or manipulated in such a way as to intentionally underestimate true inflation. You've made a number of false or at best dubious claims in support of that position. I've tried to answer them even-handedly.

> Further recommended reading: https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/

I think I'll stick with economists whose job is to understand inflation rather than an engineer dabbling in investment advising.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
I'm well aware of that. From the comment you just replied to:

> Every download has to be someone who had already decided to modify their console for illegal content or use a 3rd party emulator.

If I download a 3rd party emulator there's only two options:

1) I own the game and wanted a convenient back up, no sale lost

2) Or I don't own the game, so I had already decided I was going to use an emulator with a game I don't own. The site is not why the sale was lost.
They don't have to ban BTC, they will just squeeze any company that provides a fiat off-ramp for BTC. The government has done this for decades, just ask the legal MJ business or sex adjacent workers.
It's a 20 year old account, and this activity doesn't seem to be new, or associated with fraud, etc. What aspect of what he's doing seems similar to Fyre? I don't understand the flippant tone.
> What is interesting is what we can do with them.

Yes, that was my point, that what you can do with quats is a strict subset of what you can do with 4x4 mats. Not sure what you thought I meant.

> quaternions make a lot of things possible that are intractable

Such as?
Does anyone have a link perhaps to an archived mirror?
How should I think about this? I can't imagine that the volume of Ferry service between Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket is that high.

So is this a target of opportunity, or a rehearsal for something larger? Who in here can comment on how much of a proxy this particular public transit infrastructure is for e.g. the El or DC Metro? It strikes me as "not really comparable at all". Still bad, obviously.
You do realize that drug convictions and felonies for victimless drug charges like psychedelic possession, manufacturing or distribution ensures that landlords won't rent to the convicted, employers will discriminate against them and that they're ineligible for government benefits, up to and including student loans to better their lives?

If you actually cared about homelessness, you wouldn't advocate for policy that creates more homeless people.
The actual answer was always at the bottom if you scrolled down far enough. Lot of dark patterns on that site.

I personally disagree with tdeck, Joel and Jeff deserve a lot of kudos, as an oldie myself SO was an absolute game changer for programmers.
So your solution to transient disruptions in availability is to make your services permanently unavailable?
The ransomware typically replaces your computer screen with a unique crypto address.

The remote server knows to unlock your computer and cleanse it of the ransomware upon receipt of payment.

Many also leave a marker on your system/network preventing reinfection. Most ransomware is from the same vendor rented out which prevents reinfection, for now.
Google did it first I believe but I rarely used Google Pay even if it was installed because it wasn’t as deeply integrated into the OS.

I find Apple Pay integration to be deeper and so I find it more convenient to access. However I haven’t used a Google phone in a while so maybe the situation has been improved.

If you want someone to use a feature that you made, you need to put it out there. Everywhere.
> I don't think the Reddit transition has gone very well.

I would agree, although I do not think it has been particularly bad either. If they had broken apps the enhance reddit and removed old.reddit.com, then I would think otherwise. For the most part, I am still able to use the site as I have since 2011.
I wouldn’t say “they are bias” as if that was a dismissal all by itself. Or an interesting comment by itself. Everyone is biasED.

People who believe in covid and medicine have a bias towards promoting vaccines, do you think that makes them wrong?
I don't see why there would be any correlation between cannabis support and union support. What is interesting about Amazon's position?
Isn't it a best practice to white screen / "loading" until everything important is loaded?

How does one detect when everything is loaded? I've seen some websites break when UI interaction occurs before all js are loaded.
Those who could do it would have their material interests harmed. No one becomes a billionaire without exploiting the labour of many others.
Fewer criminal statutes is almost always a good thing. Discriminatory enforcement is a huge problem. My local Police Chief told me he thinks of discriminatory enforcement as a good thing, so you can only solve it as a problem by removing the ineffective/undesirable law.
Because the software is obsolete.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210531172557/https://www.donal...
Ketamine is already available therapeutically. If I weren’t currently traveling I would be on it since I’ve been prescribed it.
If you package software you for sure can get tired of it :)

But I would never switch to Deb, that's just a pain.
nixGL works without issue on my laptop's Ubuntu install, and the project also includes an equivalent wrapper for Vulkan rather than OpenGL.
I'm gonna guess you've never been arrested, much less seen the inside of a jail cell. So it's not "just you," but you are expressing an existing stereotype of civic ignorance.

Pot being illegal causes uncountable amounts of suffering and disadvantage, and it's not going to be federally legalized (descheduled) until enough states pass their own legalization.
"long-form" is not exactly how I would describe that.
Nix kind of expects to be always connected.

It is possible though, if you have the same config and use channels at the same revision (or use flakes) nix will know all packages it needs. You could fetch them and then either provide that machine as a cache, or use nix copy to copy the packages.
Putting aside the fact that headlines are usually chosen by editors, not writers – this is where it comes up in the article itself:

> When the stock market was sky-high in January [...] Palihapitiya was tweeting, “Tell me what to buy tomorrow and if you convince me I’ll throw a few 100 k’s at it to start. Ride or die.” [...]

> Such peacocking, [financial historian Irene] Finel-Honigman told me, is fun to watch and potentially useful: “These kinds of scam artists are really important, because, though maybe they go too far, they’re the ones who convince everyone else to start paying attention. They’re Pied Pipers. They notice things other people miss.” Then, as these fanciful tales are replaced with legal fine print, living happily ever after becomes having a 401(k).
As with Wikipedia, there's a community of volunteers curating and moderating SO. Drama in that community doesn't necessarily bubble up in obvious ways like the site going down, but I'm sure it has an overall effect on content moderation and quality over time.
> AFAIK you can't get addicted to then.

Addiction is not necessarily physical. Pretty much anything which makes people feel good or different can trigger addictive behaviour e.g. gambling, video games, or shopping, all have related compulsive disorders which get more and more considered as addiction as time passes and studies increase (though only gambling addiction is formally recognised by the DSM at this point).
It's not the IT workers saying that their secure, it's us telling the business that we need X dollars to mitigate risk of Y. And then the accounting people are like "But it hasn't happened yet, why would we pay to prevent something that hasn't happened yet!???"
These aren't realistic choices unless you are buying a used PC. But even less savy consumers understand generations, if you present a fast 1st gen model versus a not the fastest 11th gen model I think the majority will go with the newer model.
The 362.874 kg gorilla.
> never appreciated how much package management is intertwined with individual ecosystems' cultures until I tried using a "universal" package manager like Nix.

Unfortunately it is not a problem for nix to solve, they can’t really mandate upstream projects to not include hardcoded executables.

Also, the problem with npm/pip etc is that they are themselves package managers more or less trying to solve the same thing. So I would even wager that without some language-specific help nix can’t really work seamlessly across other dependency managers. Also, it is probably not even the best idea to replicate npm’s every dep inside nixpkgs (there are third-party nix repos).

Also, as an example Haskell has it sort of solved with a specific program that can translate a haskell specific dependency specification (analogous to package.json) to a .nix build file. There may very well be something similar for npm as well.
what's the problem with that, as long as it works and can be kept working without too much expense? Do you get rid of a car as soon as they stop updating the software in it?
If the victim has no way to pay the ransom, there will be no point in trying to blackmail them.

If you ban paying ransoms, desperate people will just do it in secret, something bitcoin works hard to enable.
Services can be available, and not reliant on internet connected services.

Imagine if all the hacks we've seen in the last year happened all at once. We'd be screwed.
At some point people become chemically dependent on alcohol so it's not necessarily an issue of inebriation. There's an upper limit based on blood alcohol concentration. Within the top 10% there are probably even more extreme drinkers than the average of 71 drinks a week.

The irony here is that these folks consume 60% of all alcoholic beverages. These are the whales of the industry. Makes you want to rethink the adult drinks market.
You might not be familiar with the mechanics of depression.
Usually that is the same crowd that even refuses C99, or any other compiled language in alternative to C, even though there are vendors still in business selling such compilers.
Already old news as Lufthansa is allowed to enter Russian airspace again:

> https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/streit-im-flugverkehr-lufthan...
You get Teams accounts with pretty much any MS thing. Teams still can't be used for chat in enterprise environments. It is laughable.
Building a JavaScript Testing Framework
As a new NixOS user currently set up with home manager and flakes - i'd probably switch in a heartbeat if someone gave me a nice nix-like package manager that also handled dotfiles.

As much as i love the feeling of NixOS, i really want something like a Lockfile as seen in Rust (and other languages).

Ie if i could define a `Cargo.toml`, which includes versions of packages or `*` if i don't care - and then it gets built into a `Cargo.lock`, i'd be in heaven. Combine that with a great language backing the distro and i'd switch immediately.

As it stands, I hate nixlang, and while flakes is amazing i still dislike the single primary input approach to NixOS _(ie all the packages bundled together)_.

As an example of why i dislike that, i'm stuck on an old version of NixOS currently because when i tried to update the repo date - lots of packages changed in difficult to manage ways. X was crazy slow, Firefox was being wonky, XFCE was janky, etc. All my flakes.lock told me was that the hash of the repo was different.. yay.. hundreds of dependencies were different i'm sure, but no clue which ones, and no easy way to isolate the problems and just incrementally update.

Luckily flakes allowed me to rollback perfectly. Well, i still had some userland state from the newer applications that i needed to nuke, but i'm ignoring that for now.

Being able to more easily incrementally update specific dependencies would be amazing for me. As it stands i have no clue when or how i'll update my NixOS input version. Which is not a promising sign for my continued usage of NixOS.
Paypal being Paypal? Nothing new on Internet. And this sort of action is exactly why I will never accept money via Paypal.
"We don't like what you are doing, and are going to hold your money for six months. I hope you don't subsist on it, or have any business obligations to attend to. We'll call you."

This should be illegal for Paypal to do, period. Absolutely illegal.

And if it is on behalf of a government or banking/fraud regulations, then the person should be referred to relevant agencies.

Let's be clear and drop the pretense: They are confiscating his property.
The mental gymnastics required to make this comment are world class.
I'm not sure I understand the cognitive dissonance here. The same imbalance exists in a lot of commercial products; for instance, a new reliable Chrome bug chain might earn you more than a Chrome developer makes in a year, and a lot of those people make bank. It's simply the case that for some projects, reliable exploits are more scarce than feature engineering resources --- they involve different skill sets.

None of this is to say that $25k is adequate compensation for critical FOSS development work.
Is it just Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange over all? If the latter, that's a lot more content that doesn't expire that quickly.
Simple solution -- dont get your news from places that let anyone post. https://blog.nillium.com/fighting-misinformation-online/
Publicized Emails Put Dr. Fauci in Bad Light
Not having numbers handy, I suspect the problem is that while polls do show widespread support generally, that doesn't hold true across demographics and districts. For example, older voters tend to vote Republican, and I can imagine that marijuana legalization isn't as popular among that group. If you were a Republican counting on support from that demographic, it would make sense to oppose it. Or maybe in your particular district it isn't a popular position, at least not popular enough to stick your neck out for it, especially when your opponents will likely hit you with a "soft on crime"/"moral corruption" attack if you try.
How much longer till people can start receiving a Prime delivery of an ounce of fine Amazon Basics Indica?
Haven't reached the optimum yet, so using an online notes app, and a physical journal (cheap yearly planner, not using Moleskin yet) as well. I think I will stick with the later, and maybe an online version of the final draft.

The key is to spend a significant amount of time in writing and formatting it. Think tens of minutes in what is roughly a five day period. This really works for me.

By that, I mean I am always aware what I need to do.

By no means I am in a perfect shape. I slack off sometimes, I don't do anything and waste some time.
It would cause companies to pay secretly and illegally instead, something which cryptocurrencies enable.

Ban cryptocurrencies. They are the cause of the ransomware epidemic.
Methane from cows is a fraction of total methane emissions, and that itself is a fraction of greenhouse gas emissions. Let's instead focus on total food wastage. If we quantified food waste as a country, it'd be the 3rd largest country. That's mindbogglingly ridiculous.

http://www.fao.org/3/bb144e/bb144e.pdf