skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
have you read the new "The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness Paperback – Sept. 8 2020" ?
Just had to jump through the ID.me hoops to get the IRS to stop sending us money. A bit of a PITA, and my wife couldn't get it to work for her without going through a video call with some employee at the company. I hope it actually works given what a hassle it is.
Joe Rogan isn't a great person to take any lessons from. At heart he's a comedian, which must be the most unconventional path you can take to anywhere in the US. Comedians live on the road telling jokes. I wonder how much he really had to deal with bills.
I have no idea if this is true, but unlike every other response to me in this thread, this is at least a coherent explanation that isn't immediately and obviously ridiculous. If this is true, it at least makes arithmetic sense.

People don’t keep units empty for tax breaks. That’s absurd.
Agreed. Big Bang Theory was horrendously bad.
From that page:

N.B. A few antivirus programs incorrectly flag Policy Plus as malware. Policy Plus is a powerful tool and so may cause problems if used recklessly, but it is not malicious.

No so much different than "hacking tools" or similar being detected as "malware". In other words, just another example of the paranoia typical of the authoritarianism that is so common in the software industry today.
I feel like the date range here is wrong and should probably extend into the late eighties, as children of that age also had analog childhoods. Oregon Trail was a staple of school computers into the late nineties.
Thanks for mentioning that. Do you have a review?
>I think straight black hair often implies non-european ancestry

What? I better tell some friends they aren't European.
Congrats? My freshman year was 1997 - and I know when I was in middle school in 1995 majority of my peers knew nothing about computers, didn't have a computer, let alone the Internet. I was a fortunate one to receive a 2nd hand computer and at that time I using Lynx (text based browser) to browse the web because I was using my local library's system as my ISP and connecting via Telix.

Rather than look down on your librarian for introducing a novel concept to students, I think she should be applauded for trying.

Everyone started somewhere.
You need the other users password to do that, or be root, so it is not a problem. Also, in our system, non admin users don't have linux shell access anyway, they get a custom shell that uses the rest server as the backend. The admin user can get linux shell and run commands as other users or do whatever they want but that is expected.
“ Once regarded as a sure-fire way for aspiring children (and parents) to get ahead, after-school tutoring is now viewed as an impediment to one of Xi Jinping’s top priorities: boosting a declining birth rate.”

At first I thought this was the typical “let’s be equal by slowing down over-achievers,” as we see this more and more in the west as well.

It’s crazy to me that this ‘after school study’ was identified as a major reason for declining birth rates, as if decades of policy and the ensuing culture could turn on a dime and the government could ramp womb production by 250% from the party offices.
> This seems to me like a common scheme in the US. People have a general aversion to government services

The people with the strongest aversion, and who pay for the propaganda to create and maintain that aversion in others, are also people who benefit financially from government functions being outsourced to private industry.
Agreed. The entire Android side of the product was not managed well from the start. The product started as iOS only, because top management had iOS devices. Suddenly they had the shocking realization that Android is very strong in Asia and Europe, and tasked a different team with creating a quick Android POC. That team chose the K9 codebase. The POC team then handed whatever they did to a new dedicated Android team which did all the complaining. They were a small team, but still. My team wasn’t really larger, and we did build a mail, contacts and calendar client. I guess management just couldn’t agree on the commitment.
The advantage of tying carbon capture to an Ethanol plant is that you get very pure carbon dioxide as a waste product of the fermentation process.

If you want to capture carbon from combustion you need to separate the carbon from both water and nitrogen; you have to compress carbon dioxide to about 1500 psi to inject it underground and even a few percent of contamination will cause the gases to phase separate in the pump and in the pipeline and cause no end of trouble.

The "gold standard" for purifying carbon dioxide from combustion is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amine_gas_treating

and that involves an expensive stock of amines. You might be able to lower the cost of purifying the gas by separating oxygen from nitrogen before burning the fuel, but you not only need to pay to do that, but you need to recycle the exhaust gases otherwise the temperatures will get too high and burn up your turbine.

When you capture the carbon from a biofuel plant you are capturing it from the air and putting it underground opposed to a plant that burns fossil fuels which merely prevents carbon from entering the atmosphere.

For all of those reasons, adding carbon capture to Ethanol plants is a good way to get practice at the storage part of CCS.
It stops some circular imports if you use relative imports.
> By that logic my iPhone 11, my Android phone, my Mac or my Windows PC doesn't wipe personal content either after factory reset

If those work the same way, then no, they don't.

If lots of other devices have the same problem, that doesn't make it better!
The article makes it clear that GPLv2 has always had the installation requirement throughout its entire history of use and enforcement.
I’m really not sure but I think it kind of depends on the people. All our friends who bought outside the city grew up elsewhere so they seemed to be really comfortable (and in many cases excited) about it. It was as if they had a multi-year plan that would culminate in this move and the pandemic just accelerated it.

That said, a handful of them have mentioned renting apartments in the city and already come down pretty frequently. I wouldn’t be surprised if their FOMO became overwhelming once things are fully reopened and wound up coming back permanently.
The number of people here ok with destroying agriculture is alarming.
> my question is why is blockchain necessary if an auditor is involved? Isn't blockchain supposed to be zero-trust. Why even use a blockchain at all?

A common misconception. Blockchains are zero trust within the state/data space of the blockchain itself. We can refer to these space domains as "on-chain" and "off-chain".

Moving data or state information about the real world, say about the verification of successful carbon capture, to a blockchain is a core part of the oracle problem - which is the problem of migrating off-chain data, to the zero trust on-chain environment.

You use blockchains for the properties of immutability and transparency. In the case of gwern's proposal I can see a market environment where you can claim to capture carbon, provide data, make money (i.e. earn tokens) and then open yourself up to being "attacked" or "slashed". If someone else can make money/tokens by proving you are a liar you create an environment encouraging oracles (data providers) to be honest and accurate.

Final note: gwern pretty much states all of the above in his post, so I would suggest you not skim it.
The OP essay is about how people might agree the CO2 was captured. I don't see much detail about the actual chemistry of evaluating preexisting carbon in minerals and carbon levels after treatment.
> No one would be shocked if a clerk in a government office asked for an ID and looked at his face before approving unemployment benefits.

They might, though, if a clerk in a government office asked them to hand a copy of their ID to, and have a video taken by, the proprietor of a random private business next door that has a weak privacy policy, before approving unemployment benefits.
Good point. The word "wealth" does not need to be wed to the concept of money, and "opportunity" is a suitable synonym.
See also https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import for stupid Python import tricks.

"from stackoverflow import quick_sort will go through the search results of [python] quick sort looking for the largest code block that doesn’t syntax error in the highest voted answer from the highest voted question and return it as a module. If that answer doesn’t have any valid python
code, it checks the next highest voted answer for code blocks."

I once implemented a custom importer as part of a system where the Python interpreter never touched the filesystem.
Denying large swaths of agriculture just so that you can grow a yard, or take a long shower, is the kind of stupidity that has landed California where it is in the first place.
Iron ore reserves: 168.6 billion tonnes
Coal reserves: 1055 billion tonnes.

Coal energy density: 6.7 kWh/kg [2]
Iron Ore energy density: 1.4 kWh/kg [1]

Total iron ore energy reserves: ~236.04 billion kWh [3]
Total coal energy reserves: ~ 7,068 billion kWh [4]

So as far as energy goes we have 30x as much coal energy.

Now the rust can be renewed with energy ... but you need the energy to renew it in the first place.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/iron-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal
[3] https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/our-natural-resources/minerals-minin...
[4] https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Coal_reserve
> As a result, with few exceptions it is U. S. government policy to permanently destroy

And as a result, (probably) Iron Mountain makes bucketloads because we don't just encrypt the drives (let's face it, that would be perfectly acceptable for 99% of US government computers - maybe Top Secret stuff deserves proper destruction).
Is that ever done for people outside of tech?

Though I fully agree with the sentiment.
> Consumer electronics are becoming more durable. Where once I might have replaced a cell phone every year and my home router every two

That's kind of extreme.

I'm not sure that means they're becoming more durable, or you're getting less obsessed with owning latest-and-greatest.
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I think we were a very fortunate generation. Got exposure to GenX culture at a young age (which was transformative in the early 90’s) but also were just old enough by the mid 90’s to enjoy that bubble and then get into the job world right as Web 2.0 began.

Were young enough to not be too affected by the financial crisis like GenX and old enough to ride the wave afterwards, which many millennials were still a bit too young for.

Last generation to have affordable college.

I think being such a small generation opened a lot of opportunities and options to be more ahead than GenX and Millenial.
What I find challenging is to ascertain the outcomes of seemingly unexpected events, such as:

(1) a swift global economic crash and slow recovery
(2) the intermittent breakdown or stoppage of global supply chains
(3) the sending of non-vaccinated persons to quarantine work camps
(4) unprecedented global mass migrations of peoples due to famines, pestilences, and war
(5) The global economic impact of nuclear war across East Asia and South Asia. For example, EMP damage to infrastructure across the People's Republic of China, Republic of China, Japan, Republic of the Philippines, Republic of Korea, the Republic of India would gravely affect global markets.
You're describing entrapment
Please go on
This assumes there aren't other industrial uses for mineralized C02. There are [0] and at least some of them will simply release the C02 again. I'm sure all industrial applications of mineralized C02 would become a lot more popular as easily available quantities became available.
That’s kind of not the reason they’re building SpaceX, and that’s why they’ve stated that they don’t want to go public until after they reach Mars - they don’t want people breathing down their neck about their (probably unprofitable) goal of helping humanity become multi planetary.

Rich people usually amass wealth to give them the power to do what they want to do, but if you’re directly building a business to do what you want to do, and you already have enough money, then maximizing profit isn’t the goal, having it do what you want it to do is. Money is necessary for that, but it’s just the means to the end.

But if you do that really well, then usually it’s worth a good amount.
I've gotten used to the mask.

I'm glad retail stores can't figure out whom I am.

My allergies are better too.

I was the odd ball guy who wore a mask before Covid when doing most stuff outside though.

I am prepared for retail saying no to masks though. They will claim security, or some other reason.

I would like to see a federal law stating a person can wear a mask anywhere, at anytime, with obvious common sence exceptions, like DMV, and I guess international flights?
Not in the mark-and-sweep variant but certainly as ref-counting. And not only once!
Name collision aside, it's always good to see more native Win32 software being written. But the requirements seem to be unexpectedly high:

Build the solution file with Visual Studio 2022 preview. Can be built with Visual Studio 2019 as well (change toolset to v142
We don't know at this point the inner workings of the human mind, conscious or unconscious, so there is much room for speculation.

One key aspect that people that talk about qualia and p-zombies and Chinese rooms assume is that it is possible, in principle, to behave as if you are conscious without really being conscious. The fact that a p-zombie is conceivable does not entail that it can exist in the world.

It is entirely possible, I believe even likely, that as we understand the evolution of consciousness we will discover it is in fact a necessary property of an agent with certain abilities. The reason I believe this is a simplistic evolutionary argument: consciousness would be unlikely to have evolved if it had not been beneficial or even necessary for the beings which possess it.

The tendency to say that people are in fact not conscious beings and that the consciousness itself is an illusion seems to me to come mainly from people who reject free will, and point out that our experience of cosnciously choosing our next action is illusory - our unconscious mind is certainly 'in charge' of many processes, and our consciousness often is only an observer of these processes. For a basic example, I can notice how my heart is beating, and I can sometimes feel like my heart is beating faster because I am scared, but this is jusg an interpretation, which mag be wrong - as anyone who has suffered a panic attack can tell you. More interestingly, when observing people with altered states of consciousness, such as Alzheimer's disease, it is often possible to observe them emitting wildly wrong theories about their own actions, such as claiming that they are dressed up because a relative came to visit, when in fact they were dressed up because they were preparing for an appointment. These examples show at the very least that our consciosuness is to some extent a mechanism that comes up with theories about our own actions, without being directly the cause of those actions, which contradicts our experience of consciousness.

The fact that we can't yet explain these processes and how they come about from computation is not surprising to me, given the youth of the field of computer science and the complexity of the human brain and mind.
You might be able to make extended arguments about how the points in the article relate to relationships, or influence them, but suggesting the topic is entirely covered by this limited advice is absurd. Also, I’m not simply looking for it to be covered but for it to be appropriately centered, which it’s not.
It's also possible whoever has such a large payload might want their own second stage & a fairing, instead of Starship. A single-use stage (no reserve fuel) with no re-entry needs could be a lot lighter than Starship, though vastly more expensive. That might be worth it for some payloads. Super Heavy is planned to be a ridiculously powerful booster.

I doubt that will happen though. It's far more likely in-orbit assembly and orbital refueling will progress dramatically as launch costs drop, and anyone with such a payload would find a way to design it for such assembly.
half of all unemployment insurance *during the pandemic*. 10% in 2019 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/unemployment-fraud-spreads-acro...)

Conservative legislatures and governors/presidents have spent the last few decades gutting the agencies that handle unemployment, and then suddenly an extra 10% of the country is unemployed for weeks. Yeah, we're gonna see an increase in fraud.
Macs with SSDs don’t have the 7-pass option because (from the horse’s mouth) it’s only effective for HDDs.
It's going to be interesting to see the outcome of this in China. For-profit tutoring (and schooling) have been so prevalent in the US in the last decade and it would provide evidence on if curbing it would help students on a universal level. Please note that I am NOT saying that the US should ban it like China because that would be authoritarian obviously. I am thinking more along the lines of giving more equity to students who can't afford for-profit tutoring.
yeah. that’s true. I guess, I was going with: don’t trust amazon
The ZX Spectrum is such a unique and quirky machine. With lots of fun quirky games to play.
More towns, and cities, need to ban facial recognition completely.

We shouldn't have to wear costumes, especially in America?
That Fish Eat Fishes is neat. It's simple to play. It's very visually distinctive. Caught me off guard.

It's maybe too trivial for steam but there's certainly potential to make a game out of it. Add a timer. Add some multiplayer challenge. Add a power or two (dash forward). Make some levels to swim through in increasing difficulty and that's a definitive puzzle/platform game.
"with certain customers who are at higher risk of fraud — including all state unemployment agencies it works with — facial recognition. If a person filing for unemployment benefits fails the facial recognition step a few times, they'll be directed to a video chat where they must show identification..."

This sounds reasonable given the current situation. Washington state alone lost ~1b to fraudulent claims during the pandemic (that's almost $3000 per taxpayer). If you are going to allow people to file online, you absolutely need to verify their identity.

That being said. Verifying by mailing address or in person seem more effecvive, fraud resistant, auditable, reliable, don't rely on a contractor etc.

Unfortunately it seems thay many of the pandemic era "temporary" solutions are simply going to become the norm because of inertia.
A very obvious one is that by adding another language, you are adding more complexity.

It's not as if C is going to disappear from the kernel as it's something like 25 million lines of C code, and if Rust was to be supported, the current C experts who are maintaining various subsystems will now also have to become Rust experts, so that they can effectively accept or reject code contributions in that language.

Personally it just seems illogical, better to make a new kernel in Rust is you really want to use that language, than converting small parts of a HUGE C kernel. Google has been pushing for the inclusion of Rust into the kernel, it's weird that they are not writing their own shiny new Fuchsia OS kernel in Rust, instead of C++.
I am happy to see a friendly competition to reduce CO2. It’d be cool to see people questioning in the papers about why they can’t be more environmentally friendly.
Prior art that was public knowledge before the filing is still supposed to invalidate a patent on the same thing. First-to-file means if person A was first to invent but kept their prior art secret (no publishing or filing), and then person B filed, person A's secret prior art can't invalidate B's patent.
This is a terrible idea, From the perspective of someone who knows nothing about agriculture, and the water cycle.
Trees encourage the retention of water in the ground, Their roots penetrate the clay soils, which on a microscopic level appeal as layers of paper: pour water on a pile of newspaper and it sheds off, allow water to penetrate and that clay can hold 1/3 of it's volume in water. The removal of beaver dams, building of fences and roadways, is what has caused your environmental damage. Before people began to manage the land in this way, It was rich with water and fertile. When you think to take water from farmers, so that you can take a long shower or grow a landscape in your yard, you are part of the problem.
Overwriting flash with 0s. To be fair I think the iPhone should grant you that option (MacOs does). But to suggesting that leaving an encrypted block of data on the device is on the same level as leaving unencrypted blocks of data lying around is foolish.
Encryption can be (and in fact certainly will be, given enough time) broken.
As someone with kids I don't feel this fits at all. I feel much wealthier having kids now but I have nowhere near the autonomy I did before kids (I was single until my mid-30s).

I don't feel I have much choice at all on what to do on a given day—or any single day of the year for that matter.
They're not saying perfect drone pilots have always existed. They're saying that designing a perfect drone pilot is easy and not worth making a fuss about.

I'm honestly very surprised that this is the first time it's happened. I would have thought it would have been done years ago. But probably there's not been enough interest to actually do it.
obvious why, because the author has a somewhat juvenile view of thinking of 'independence' as the primary thing to be after in life. (and in this peace identifies 'real wealth' as the means to achieve that).

"Controlling your time and the ability to wake up and say, “I can do whatever I want today.”

Note that this doesn't apply to one particular set of people, individuals with families or real obligations and people who depend on them.
Which would be great, if they had a duty to protect anybody who wasn't in their custody.
It might also be an accident, if all the embeds are iframes that redirect to the homepage.
Of all the things to blackmarket....
> TAI that is in the future has no conversion to human-readable time

Doesn't it convert to within some margin for error? Checking Wikipedia, I see that the delta between TAI and Unix time has only drifted 27 seconds since 1972. That should be more than sufficient for your average mundane human readable purpose.
Nothing you care about should have access to the open web. If your self-hosted services can be accessed by anyone with a web browser or curl, you're doing it wrong.
>Washington state alone lost ~1b to fraudulent claims during the pandemic

Wild. Where did you see that?
The earth is made out of iron. There is no point in mining it in space, and regardless anything mines in space would be far too expensive for a use like this, which is why the main prospects for asteroid mining are precious metals.
I'm a bit surprised when seeing the main language is C++ instead of C#.

Btw, it looks promise. I think I will love it with Find All feature, intuitive and informative.
A titanic intellect, he will be missed.

Overall a fine remembrance piece, but weird that Woit insists on rehashing his tired arguments against naturalness at the end. There’s such a trivial counterargument to Woit’s objection that any number is as reasonable as any other (which is, there’s no way to define a uniform distribution over the entire real number line). Let the great man have some glory without bringing up old and silly disagreements.