skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They just reflect the establishment in govt, military and IC. Trump and now Biden (and Obama on Syria) are contrarian on the war.
Yes, to some degree. We need better email infrastructure to handle this type of thing. I can see there being situations where it can cause problem or friction.

What I do know is that what we have today is an absolute mess and it's horribly inefficient.
This is a much better feed than the official one.
What about when someone pirates the game of an Indie developer? Is that also a refusal to pay rent tribute to knowledge capitalists?
EU Commission does has some democratic element in it. As though they are not elected by the Europeans directly, they are proxy voted by their respective government.

This is not new. For example, there are also no ministry election or, yet the government of the day still put people onto that position. This is just one example, if you're coming from the US, you can even think of the even more examples of non-directly elected official making important policies.

But judging by your two comments here, you have given this matter very little thought.
Kinda funny how the overall interest in Photoshop tanked since they introduced their cloud service. (If you look it up on Google Trends you can clearly see a big dip from 2012 onwards).
Trying to find this, but google results are just full of the controversy about this flight rather than information: _can_ SpaceShipTwo reach the Karman line?
Those colors are horrible to me. I’ve got no idea what any country is outside of either redish or purpleish. At least label a few hard to distinguish choices with a numerical value.
I HATE clicking on a Google link and discovering that it's paywalled.

I don't care about the newspapers "survival" problem, I personally do not derive any benefits from them. I just want my Google/DDG results clean and actually be able to read them. If a link is paywalled, it should be ranked way lower. Google cache trick doesn't work all the time.
a system in "The Ministry of Surveillance"
Amazed that the article paints Croatia as a country with "rising anti-democratic forces" while for some reason not mentioning that a month ago the mayoral election in the capital city (quarter of the population) was won by a left-green coalition modelled on Podemos. They won 40% of the vote.
(Pedantic) UTC isn’t a time zone, it’s a time standard (https://www.timeanddate.com/time/gmt-utc-time.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time)

Also, time zones were invented in Italy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#Worldwide_time_zones)
> Bitcoin is such a hyperobject, the first of its kind. Bitcoin expands across spacetime, a growing chain of ordered megabyte blocks, both everywhere and nowhere...

This is a lot of flowery words to describe a Ponzi scheme.
Your part about generating real interest in EVs is exactly what I had in mind when I wrote my reply. I have been following EVs for a couple of decades now; the way especially the Tesla Model S was launched was a breakthrough in shaping the perception of electric cars as something entirely different, and desirable.

There were a number of years when a Tesla was the only good EV you could buy, and they forced the entire industry to take note and actually develop their own programs. (Fast forward to today, and it's sometimes pure comedy to see latecomers such as Mazda's first attempt being a complete "what?" with their first EV having under half the range of and being more expensive than a Model 3.)

Sure, someone else could eventually have gotten there, but Musk and Tesla were the ones who did it - and I believe with a rather significant margin of time.

There's a long list of things I don't like about personalities and design choices, but I feel it's ok to keep that separate from the above.

(I don't own an EV. Still saving and waiting for the right time to upgrade from a 10 year old Subaru Outback ICEV bought new then.)
That happens with every genre. Genres are labels. You can attach them to works long after the fact, whether the original creator(s) intended or not.

Jules Verne wrote steampunk a century before the term was even coined. Cervantes wrote a novel before novels were a thing (at least in the West), and thereby defined what a novel should look like. The Epic of Gilgamesh predates the Greek tradition of epic poetry by at least a millennium, but nobody denies that it's an epic poem.
It should be noted that while the article writes "communist" and "regime", the economy and political structure of Yugoslavia differed drastically from what was going on in the likes of the USSR, DRR, etc. as did their foreign policy [1][2][3]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Socialist_Feder...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titoism

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism
"Not even counting the VA system"

Personally, I would like to see the government use the VA to demonstrate what level of care and overall experience the public can expect if switching to a single payer or other government involved system. Most of us that have any knowledge of their workings would not be too optimistic about US government expanding their role in the general system. It's such an embarrassment.
What is your point? What makes the statement hollow is that the US does it all the time, just not that often in Afghanistan (that we know of).

Just as a fun fact because you didn't specify which bin Laden: Osama's son, Hamza bin Laden, was actually assassinated in Afghanistan by the US.
Hi! I'm the lead developer of WriteFreely -- happy to answer any questions you have!

For a little update on where the project is today: we just put out our last update [0] before v1.0, which we're aiming to release later this year. In 1.0, among other things, you'll find many features we've been piloting on our hosted service (Write.as), including newsletters, social media cross-posting, eBook export, etc.

We're also experimenting with new, non-core features, like photo hosting [1] and comments [2]. Our core focus has always been on just writing, which is why many features (including ones afforded by ActivityPub) have been left out. So we're trying to see what's possible when we keep a clean, simple core with optional "rooms" of functionality around it. If you want to keep up with us, you should see more developments around this before the end of the year, too.

[0] https://blog.writefreely.org/version-0-13

[1] https://snap.as

[2] https://remark.as
How painful was this to make?

I've tried to create even simple landing pages in Webflow and my god is it finicky and slow to drag and drop elements, change their properties, etc. By the time I've create the basic design, I'm exhausted and demotivated to use Webflow for anything serious.

What am I missing?
It seemed like an opportunity for more people to just learn some of the skills for these expensive procedures so out of curiosity, I looked up what army field medics learn. It's a 16 week course. Stitches, bone setting, and minor surgeries should be done by the equivalent of barbers.

The prices are a perfect storm of what is essentially a unionized tightly gatekept profession, obviously perverse inventives in insurance, and the consequent inflation.
Swap debt for insurance, and you have the dynanic of the education market as well. Both of them are artifacts of regulatory capture.

Arguably, instead of teaching kids to code we could teach them to handle 50%+ of emergency room visit causes and the resultant widespread competence and research impact would make medicine progress at the rate tech has. I suspect the main reason we don't have biohacker first aid kits for routine procedures is drug controls on anesthetic, but there is a already robust global black market for drugs that could meet this need. A list of procedures sorted by risk and pain could be solved pretty fast. Of course there will be wildly irresponsible malpractice, but compared to the consequences of the current system, it probably nets out, and for medical industry people who don't think it would, they aren't really in a position to object to a free market in health services.

If we can create a market, knowledge networks and a disitribution system for 3D printed guns, we should apply the same ethos and skills and come for medical care next. We need a Cody Wilson of medicine.
Journalism had to adapt to the Internet. We talk about paywalls for online content in our whitepaper about how we plan to decentralize the Web economy and help monetize journalism and open source through micropayments instead: https://qbix.com/QBUX/whitepaper.html#Paywalls

The original Xanadu project had the concept of micropayments, but until now the only way to really achieve it was using lotteries (I think it was Ron Rivest in the 90s who suggested this?)

The question is, how to monetize open source or journalism - online content that can be easily copied. Any sort of effective payment system requires a network effect. People could forj the system but they’d have to start from scratch, as no one would accept their payments.

Imagine if every app and plugin on wordpress could have its own currency to earn money as people use it on various sites, and still continue to be open source. Imagine if social networks like Facebook were the ones paying for their users to read it, settling balances once in a while. Rupert Murdoch and News Corp fought for something like this in Australia and won.

Would welcome feedback and thoughts. Why the massive amount of silent downvotes?
I fully agree. And I’ve done those silly “arrange these similar colors” challenges and got pretty good scores. So I’m not sure who this is for.
Mostly agree except for security ratings. Not only is it a wildly inaccurate measure of any organizations security, but it's potentially actively harmful also. Example: ratings vendors do a false assessment of the vulnerable state of assets you have, and refuse to correct the information on notice, therefore ruining your reputation with completely false information.

It needs to die a painful death and re-emerge in a different form to be useful.
Keep in mind this is based on individuals' food spending, not the overall cost of food.

Maybe Hawaii and Vermont, which are some of the healthiest states, look expensive because people there buy more fresh produce and organic food.

They only used data for the most populous city in each state. Weird.
Given that Branson sunk his boat and crashed his balloon during those challenges, this doesn't bode well and that altitude doesn't leave room for error.
Where are the CAD files and project page?
> emphatuation

Emphatic infatuation?
There is a strong correlation b/w science and non-reglious countries. The case of saudi arabia is interesting. Although it is wealthy the country does not have the capability to manufacture.
Here are the 10 countries/territories in which religion is least "important in daily life" according to the OP: Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Norway, Czech Republic, Japan, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Finland, France.

Here are the 10 countries/territories in which religion is most "important in daily life" according to the OP: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Niger, Somalia, Indonesia, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Malawi, Burundi, Mauritania.

Interesting: The least religious countries/territories have more economic, social, and political stability and are far wealthier and more technologically/scientifically advanced than the most religious ones. If I had to randomly choose a country in which I would be forced to live, I would rather it be in the top-10-least-religious group than the in the other (top-10-most-religious) group.
Not using a password manager is completely consistent with “optimizing time and energy”.

If you already know how to use a password manager, yes, it will easily improve productivity.

But for a non-technical end-user who has never used a password manager before, learning to use one is neither straightforward nor is it convenient.

Not only is it learning a skill which is not critical to their core deliverables — which virtually no one has time for — it also has the worst kind of failure mode: if the user needs technical support, it’s likely that they are locked-out of a service and at a standstill until they receive that support.
> At some point you get old enough to not want to bother with piracy because of the hassle if you have a decent first world income.

Partially disagree. For things like music and tv series, there's more hassle when acquiring the product via "official" channels. For example, when I want to download a music video, I can just go on youtube and I can download the video with one click (using "unofficial" software). If I wanted to use "official" channels to purchase a copy of the music video, I would have to spend a lot of time just finding out which service sells it, then figure out if they actually sell this piece of music or merely rent it out, then figure out a method to register and pay, etc. In the end I have no idea if I will even acquire a mp4 file or some kind of DRM time bomb.

I can't fathom why anybody would feel like buying music is less of a hassle than downloading music without buying it.
I get a scary bad certificate warning.

Is it already working, or it's only a waiting list?

More a boomer than a zoomer. Why is important the age? Many boomer have a smart phone anyway, and most of them do their own shopping.

The "get access" button at the bottom is not working. Also the squares like "10x faster" look clickable, but aren't.

Did you wrote this? What's the tech stack?
Minetest probably runs on a pi. It is open source.
And countless other terrorist or suspected terrorists( or just bystanders) were assassinated by dronestrikes, so this is probably what he or she was referring to.
>A lot of simultaneous trials have been run globally..

Where can I read about all these studies, indvidually, say for example, for Moderna vaccine?
I think the comment you are replying to is suggesting go full wind and solar rather than building further nuclear (with gas peakers until we sort out storage as you suggest - but that's the same with both renewable and nuclear). You could say build nuclear in the meantime, but nuclear takes a long time to build, so it will likely to quicker to build the renewable solution. In which case there is no meantime.

I don't think anyone (on this thread) is suggesting that we phase out already built nuclear capacity before it's planned lifetime.
Besides everything else mentioned, you can create an account on our official demo instance here: https://pencil.writefree.ly/invite/NB8Ycb
Would not necessarily be a bad idea.

https://theconversation.com/economists-an-excel-error-and-th...

Not that this is Excel's fault, but researchers should definitely either seriously learn how to use computer stuff, or just don't.

A person can't drive on the highway without a license, the same rigor should be applied here, especially in academic circles.
So, you can't account for that the cost of scale? I guess that makes sense. I'll never ever ever measure things in dollars again because apparently I can't account for the effects of economies of scales...

Or I could, you know, take the time to inform myself about these things.
I'm in the same boat - eagerly awaiting when I can have a VR terminal experience. I chimed in just so you didn't think you were a lone crazy holding out for that.
"If raising my taxes by $10k eliminates that, I’m extremely ok with it."

As would I, if there's a $15k savings. Is there any data to support that?

You mention costs in other countries. How do salaries, taxes, and cost of living compare as well? It seems that many places have lower cost of living, which seems to influence prices for any number of services.
Worse Is Better™
You're absolutely right, one could optimize with respect to any of the infinite attributes a thing has. We could have optimized for the shininess of the doses, or how good they smelled, and those would be ridiculously irrelevant properties to optimize for.

The question is how relevant the use of which resources as a metric in comparison to people not getting sick? Does it even take more resources to distribute a 10x dose vaccine vs x? Is the production of the active ingredient a linear contributor to the overall cost function, which probably is dominated by a lot of the constant costs? We're not talking about 250mg vs 500mg tylenol after all.
Interesting, I've not heard that view before. Why wouldn't it have come to this?
> reduces the albedo in the Arctic.

DO you really think that it's the growing forest that's the cause and not the symptom?
Food in Hawaii is significantly more expensive than the rest of the US, and always has been, due to the shipping cost for all sorts of staple goods that aren’t produced in volume locally. Most famously, milk.

I don’t think “healthy eating” has explanatory power here.
A bit outside Philly. Over the past several years, we've average $275-300 month per person for two adults. Another $100 month per person eating out. It's a bit tough to tell if they estimate buying a preselected set of food items? Do these costs reflect regional preferences at all?
What? How do you make that leap? The Taliban were infamous for this type of stuff well before 9/11 or OBL's capture.
Pay up.
I mean, at the end of the day, if the people of Afghanistan want the Taliban as their government again, isn't that what they should get, according to the principles of democracy?

This would imply that anyone who worked with the US government, or are perceived as doing so, should leave immediately. You can't fight the tide.
I love Write.as, but one little nitpick that has always bothered me is the font loading flicker, like it takes a second on page load to load the custom font. Not sure if it's the browsers I'm using or uBlock but it always happens. Is there a way to disable the custom font?
More concerning is the proud position Jasenovac holds in the modern day right-wing Croatian narrative - an increasingly socialised, romanticised version of neofascism.

The Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation writeup from a few weeks ago [0] was some rabbithole - for those who understand the language.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27563118
Same here, but burnout. Most of the feedback I was getting were in the form of personal threats and "start looking for other jobs", from management.

I wonder if boreout and burnout are just products of the current imbalances of the current socioeconomic system, on a personal scale? What are we doing wrong economically, politically or socially that produces these extreme disparities in culture and society? Are there any remedies given the current constraints of legal, social, and familial obligations? Is finance so entrenched with physical and emotional well-being, that there can never be a happy medium?

It seems to me that some of the more advanced societies today have started to address some of the more existential questions of human existence through policy, to help assuage some of these fears. As before, policy helped to address some of the more physically threatening things like lions and tigers and bears, by building infrastructure. Advanced society policy addresses more existential questions, as in the above paragraph.

Which one do you live in, one that struggles with the basics, or the one that engages and addresses the existential questions of human existence? If you really want to get serious, what is the optimal velocity at which this occurs?
I doubt this is what they’re doing, but vagueness can definitely be used for political or personal aims.
I built a search engine based on Bing's API. One of the core features is ranking paywalled sites lower, making their text grey (eg Hacker news), and putting a moneybag char in the link.

My reasoning is the same as yours - there's nothing wrong with Paywalls, but they're no good in search results, since chances are, a given user doesn't have an account with an arbitrary paywalled site that shows up in search.
As someone who grew up in the Cold War, it’s strange to see Russian and American aircraft used by a single military.
Yeah the colors are a horrible choice made by a person that doesn't understand color. I have been seeing this since color graphics on computer screens. There are so many differences between their settings and how the screen was built and yours. Colors are very different when light comes through vs when they are opaque, like on a piece of paper. To me this type of thing is the same as all the sites that don't work correctly because nobody uses the same setup as the person that built the site.

As for the article, I thought it was as useless as the map.
The banners can be more intelligent than just ‘this email is external’ - eg. Google Workspace does a red ugly banner when incoming emails match names of people in your organization, while the default external banner is small and orange.
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>I personally do not derive any benefits from them

>I want to be able to read them

Uh? Being able to read is deriving a benefit. I don't disagree that the current situation is a complete mess, and that subs everywhere is ridiculous. It's perfectly possible to imagine technical/business solutions that would match reasonable budget/month for news to what people read and valued. And it's also easy to see real collective action problems, incentive issues and so on that might make that impossible. All tied together with advertising, privacy, public education issues and so on as well.

But claiming you derive no benefit from newspapers at all would be a stretch even if you didn't want to read them, but claiming you don't while one sentence later saying you do want to read them? That doesn't seem quite reasonable.
no, no one else read it like that.

more than one thing can be period-appropriate.
I don't think "absolutely minimal" is the correct description of the nature of A/C electrical demand.

EIA places the total percentage of A/C electrical expenditures at %12 in 2015[0], energy.gov cites it at 6% of the total usage[1]. This number looks pretty "meh", however note that A/C demand is highly variable, seasonal, and on a daily basis will spike quite a bit.

Contextualized with the annual data this is positioned within, the %6 usage is concentrated regionally, during the day, in the vaguely 4-month summer season in CONUS. Contrasted with heating electrical requirements, which operate more or less all the time in the winter (to prevent freezing pipes, and thermal inertia of a cold-ass house) and the averages of the electrical demand begin to look a lot different.

The relatively low aggregate demand is smoothed out of the highly variable nature of A/C load. Electrical load is immediately produced and consumed for the most part. An electrical grid will struggle to supply this peak-load demand a small but critical percentage of the time.

This A/C demand happily coincides with the times solar power will be most effective. It appears to me that solar is very well suited to augment the baseline load of a national/regional electrical grid to support peak summer demand. There is also some effect of the increased summertime temperatures on electrical grid transmission losses[2], but I'm not sure how all that shakes out.

[0] - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=36692

[1] - https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/home-cooling-systems/air-...

[2] - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/1...
There's one huge gap there which is China, they don't have any data there. If you click on it in their world map it shows NaN%.

Considering their enormous population it matters a lot on the world as a whole.
Just for reference, the news just said they’re going a little over 90km up.
This trend, while generally true, has been examined through multiple sources and variables to find out what makes a country prosperous- the US is an exception though

https://m-g-h.medium.com/in-data-we-trust-2978dacc8c22
A decisive federation victory over the republika srpska
HTTP status 402, Payment Required may be the one for you
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402
What a terrible infographic. Light teal means least expensive states, and slightly darker teal means most expensive states.