skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related to Yes Minister: I wonder if we really need that many administrators in the universities. I'd like to read a few financial reports before making any judgement though.

BTW am from Canada and if you are a PR/Citizen you pay significantly less than international students.
In the early days of consumer DSL, I had really, really bad service and I kept calling to complain and the phone company kept saying they found nothing wrong. Finally they must have gotten tired of me calling and they sent someone competent. He traced my phone cable all the way back to the box a couple blocks away then came back to tell me that he found the problem. One of the wires in the pair was not actually screwed down (or punched down, IDK): it was just touching the terminal. So some of the time it worked just fine, but I'm guessing that if a big truck or something drove by, the vibration separated the connection, and my DSL would go all to hell.

His guess was that (a) nobody bothered looking in the box and (b) they were just testing voice quality, which was fine, but the actual DSL signal was showing lots of dropouts.
> What is the practical benefit in assigning the variants names based on the country of first detection?

It's really easy and natural to do that, since the name evolves straight out of the conversation. Especially when it's something new, unknown, and no one really understands what's going on.

> No valuable time is wasted plucking letters out of the Greek alphabet. The names are easy to remember. As long as they are applied consistently, who cares?

That's an artificial naming convention that had to be designed. And it might not be as practical as you assume it is. IIRC, NOAA recently abandoned a similar Greek-letter naming convention.

Some valuable time is also wasted with people needing to answer "WTF is that?" when all the sudden sources start talk about stuff like the "Beta variant," or people having to explicitly explain connections that would have been clear with a geographic name. As someone who has been following the news, the headline "India variant 2x more transmissible than UK variant," would have let me skip reading the article, since it told me everything new I needed to know (e.g. India outbreak caused by new more transmissible variant).
You have a pretty good connection. Are you still facing any issues?
Also, many mutations are completely benign and don't influence anything right now. They confer genetic diversity to a population. Later, if a selective pressure appears via a rapid change in the environment, such as the introduction of a disease, a new predator, or climate change, what was a benign mutation might suddenly confer a survival advantage, and will begin being selected for.

This is why genetic diversity is important. Populations aren't just more copies of a single genome. They are in fact reservoirs of genetic diversity which makes ecosystems more resilient to change. This partly explains why there are so many species of insects. As the recyclers at the bottom of the foodchain, they are the boots on the ground that do the heavy lifting and are subjected to the first shocks. They evolve into many species not only to specialize, but to guard against rapid changes at the bottom of a food web.
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Well yes in but in the context of a simple blogging platform i cant think of a reason why it would be a concern. Most blogging platform are no longer a "blog", but a full feature CMS where caching is hard due to all sort of reasons.
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The US government really doesn't use this much capital control in the current financial system. Look at the fx markets, look at all the dollar denominated bonds and paper issued by foreign companies and governments. They don't need to control each transaction, they just want to know where each transaction is coming & going.

>The Fed will never run on blockchain, imagine someone guessing the private key.

This is not a worry, if they lost a key they could just rollback to a previous good state and replace with a new token. This happens frequently on ethereum.
I was also wondering about this — I feel like it was just a couple of weeks ago that I read about the Go team's new unified vulnerability schema/Open Source Vulnerabilities (OSV) database

Definitely a step in the right direction on both ends, though!

https://osv.dev/list

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/06/announcing-unified-v...

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/02/launching-osv-bett...
At the risk of dating myself, can I give you some advice my Dad gave me in my early twenties? Shallowness is highly addictive and the more often you turn to it, the stronger the addiction gets.
> Interest rates will no longer be the primary inflation targeting tool

Why? We don't have inflation so rates are being kept low. Countries with inflation pressure are raising rates and holding off inflation.

> issuing currency (eg USD) without issuing an equal and opposite (kinda) number of debt instruments

This is how the Federal Reserve has worked for over a century. The Fed doesn't create Treasuries; it absorbs them onto its balance sheet while creating money for the selling bank.

There is theoretically a problem if the Treasury stops issuing debt. This was momentarily considered in the 90s, when the U.S. ran a surplus. But that isn't a problem right now.

> Monetarism (the monetarism I'm referring to) allows and encourages this.

The type of monetarism which encouraged fiscal neutrality was never mainstream. Even in the case of the EU, the presumption was the monetary union would cause fiscal union. A large part of the Eurozone crisis involved recognizing that wasn't a sure thing.
Maybe start with Utopia of Rules? Even though his books progressively build his world view over time, that might be the most accessible.

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

Last year, I binged on his audiobooks (local library), and own the hard copies to leaf thru.

Sorry, can't vouch for how accessible his ideas are. I'm very primed to hear what Graeber has to say. Chomsky, McLuhan, Postman, etc. And every book about policy work (organizing, lobbying) that I can find.

The Democracy Project might be his best primer on his theory of social change. First part is the back story on Occupy Wall Street. The second part is the Anarchist critique of classical Liberals (today's Democrats and Republicans in the USA). As an active member of the Democratic Party, Graeber is very challenging, hard to hear. But ultimately I agree with his observations. TLDR: The answer is always more participatory democracy, and what that'll look like.

(The Democracy Nerd podcast has an episode on Oregon's citizen juries, for just one example of participatory democracy. https://democracynerd.us/episode/exporting-oregon-style-demo...)

"Debt: The first 5,000" reprogrammed my head. Graeber simply tries to answer the question "What is money?" by listing all the different notions thru our known history. (eg We had "virtual currency" centuries ago.) Any one blathering about money, debt, crypto, spending, currency, etc is hard to take seriously if the omit (ignore) the questions Graeber asks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt%3A_The_First_5000_Years

Right now, I totally agree with Graeber's model for advocating change. Based on my own experiences doing policy work, and observing others.

But I don't think his (now decade old) views on money, debt, and power are nearly radical enough. Sadly, Graeber recently passed, so we'll probably never learn his thoughts on modern monetary theory (MMT) and such.

Also, I'm now keen to learn about Marx and Marxism, if only to better understand Graeber's criticisms. I still haven't found anything accessible to noobs like me.
> It only supports integers so far

Integer-like things. C++ char is similar to Rust's u8 or i8 but Rust's char and bool are very deliberately not just integers.

> Does it even support parametrization over function pointers ?

Can you give a clear example ? I think the answer is "No" but I struggled to put together an application for the feature I'm imagining.

You would like to define a type, which is parameterised not by the type of function, but by specific functions? So, for example I can make a foo<sum> and a foo<average> and those are distinct types which presumably internally are using the provided function to behave differently?

Except all the examples I think of come out better with just parametrisation over traits instead. So a clear example from you might illuminate whether this is a sizeable hole or just a difference of philosophy.
The cognitive biases of AI are typically just a mirror on our own.
That's just splash damage, which doesn't really equal waterproofing. There are different IP ratings for the two. Splash damage resistance is significantly cheaper and you'll find plenty of models that don't claim to be waterproof, but are still splash resistant. In other words, IP52/IP53/IP54 instead of IP63/IP64: https://www.dsmt.com/resources/ip-rating-chart/
It would be really cool to see all the corrupt money on the blockchain, no more easy lobbying etc. You can exactly see all the government spending (wasting).
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The US Federal Reserve has no interest in holding a whole lot of random cryptocurrencies. Tether doesn't really work - letting you trade arbitrary cryptos into tethers means the backing company is holding arbitrary cryptos it hopes to resell for more tethers.
The whole point of this post is that this is just TikTok reflecting your own desires back to you. Some part of you wants to obsess, ruminate over and feel bad about digitally enhanced and literally unattainable girls dancing to a camera on the other side of the world, you engage with Tiktok on that content, and then they show you more! The definition of a personal problem. Even though it is quite different than yours, my TikTok feed says a lot of things about me too, to the point that I am reluctant to scroll through it in someone else's presence.
The local app here for native plants (Obsidentify) beats PlantNet for me, but I have the impression there might be some 'user experience' into play: I know enough about plants to know what the distinctive features are and I know enough about the app/AI to know that it wants properly cropped pictures with those features, and other users whos observations have the most chance of being validated and accepted do so as well. So the thing is probably very well trained for that, which is less the case for PlantNet. Again, that is just a theory, but when talking with other people the story is similar: the people saying it doesn't work for them are typically uploading non-cropped and/or non-identifying pictures.
Yeah I get that. But knowing the HN crowd I think it’s worth doing the math and pointing out how playing with this could result in unintended consequences.
Sometimes the trade off is as simple as making sure an office could “legally” be considered a bedroom - usually an egress window and/or something that’s arguably a closet (in some areas).

It can be worth doing those (or leaving them able to be done) for sale and valuation purposes.

Alternatively, when buying, look for those things that can’t be counted as a bedroom for bonus value (basement office, etc).
I don't make any tradeoff by adopting ideas that resonate with me. I'd be making a tradeoff by adopting ideas - foreign or domestic - that I don't agree with and don't align with my interests. I couldn't care less about the origin of an idea.
Absolutely. We’ve already released open source reference designs publicly for the Expansion Card system, and we’re happy to enable third parties on other modules too.
> Had this article mentioned a nation other than China, I would have give your opinion any value.

Yes, a very notable exception.

Most of China is catastrophically prone to floods, and would be unlivable without dams.

I don't think there is anybody not knowing that.

The "Most of Asia" here still stands.

Even the rich Japan, and Korea don't particularly care to build drainages in their 2nd tier cities.

The richest city in India, Mumbai, turns into Venice every mid-summer.

South-East Asia... no comments. Cities other than their capitals turn unto bogs for most of the summer.
That is correct. See here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18048893/
Fusion research on one hand is much like a ceremonial money pit where we light a mountain of cash on fire every year.

Fusion power itself will likely not have much practical application anytime soon, because other power sources will be far more economical.

But if we consider fusion power to be a backdoor way to get funding to research superconductors, plasma physics, and so on, then there is something valuable in the manner of that von Neumann quote, even though their proximate goal is probably all but useless for now.
Do they break out the value of the home vs. the land in your jurisdiction? Here we just get an appraisal.
I'm about to pull the trigger of getting a mac mini just to get it all into the syncthing and autobackups using the following workflow:

* iphone -> icloud

* icloud -> mac

* mac -> syncthing to the backup server

Standard backup policies from that point on.
As long as you don’t end up on the register of historic places - then you have costs and restrictions applied to “keep it as it was” and the hassle of proving that your fixes/changes don’t damage the historicity.
Phone use is ubiquitous and people are glued to their screens even when walking down the street or talking with their family.

Our opinions are being shaped by all sorts of propaganda we encounter on every corner online and it has never been easier to end up radicalized. I think it's definitely not under control.
Does Colorado state do a lot of this type of (supposedly debatable) gain of function research? It seems like they selected an expert randomly who said basically, “everything is subjective.” Good piece but it would help to explain why they consulted this particular expert for comment.
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A researcher studied a year of public Venmo transactions
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IIRC for incandescent it was about 1/3s to break even. For fluorescents it is likely higher but don't have a source (it may not be an issue if the starter is smart enough to realize that it isn't needed or not needed as much). However there is going to be extra wear and tear on these bulbs which makes the savings offset by extra bulb replacement. For LED the cost of turning off should be very near to zero so this would likely actually save resources.

Of course this idea is awful for other reasons. But it is very funny.
Amazing. It reminds me of the car company that built rain detection in their car and turned on your wipers so you don’t have to.

I don’t remember which manufacturer it was but their ad was hilarious “think of what you can do with that extra time you would have used to turn on your wipers”
Look at tourists attitudes of many of those areas; they glamorize them to an extent, but they'll also warn you to watch out for pickpockets and wear security wallets. They don't want to live there, it's an amusement park.
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> 2. You can set conditions, such that delet[e]s can be ignored.

I was evaluating Syncthing for 1-way, append-only phone photo backup, and my Google searches warned me away from this, talking about "unsupported" and "database corruption."

I assume you have not experienced this, but I guess I should have just read the docs and trusted them, instead of forum posts.

https://docs.syncthing.net/advanced/folder-ignoredelete.html
It’s still not at all clear to me why crypto-currencies are even being considered for CBDC’s.

Is the justification in the paper and I’m just missing it?
Compilers are 'just' graph transformations applied to code which probably leads to improved performance.

A compiler can therefore optimize away unnecessary loads/stores, or recognize implicit parallelism and transform a loop into a SIMD loop.

But a compiler will not change the logic of your code or add extra steps.
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It is funny to read stuff like that working in a country where the norm is three months instead of 2 weeks.
Now for every marketing copy: Know beforehand what consumers think and feel
Imagine, you communicate with your clients and know in advance what they will think and feel. This start-ups makes it possible!
I actually live in France, and yes, we usually drive into town to get our croissants when we're in the countryside.
Congrats on the launch!

I wanted to give some feedback on the pricing page: it's very vague, to the point I don't know how much I will end paying if I go over the 500k values (is that the free tier?).

Also, this is only for data monitoring, or can be used for stuff like server monitoring too?
That is my original argument. The parent to my recent comment is saying not teaching your kids is somehow going to make your kids more successful.
It could be due to the time between filesystem checks, which can't be set too low to avoid excessive load. It is set by default to 10 seconds however, so there's room for improvements. The option should be called "fs watcher delay".
> Start punishing mistakes and you will soon have a hard time finding good people to employ. Only bad (and broke) ones will be available.

Nah, the opposite. Being paid $800k/year is a great carrot. It should come with a stick so fewer people do the cruise control.
Tether exists, originally at least, to transfer funds (USD) between cryptocurrency exchanges. Moving "real" USD requires the financial system: banks and the Fed and everything between banks and the FED. The system was too slow/expensive for crypto-exchanges, so they adopted Tether which promises to be the equivalent of a dollar. It turns out, that there's quite a lot of demand for digital dollars though. So, Tether blew up, essentially creating a shadow banking system that doesn't resolve to an account at the Fed.

^not an expert. could be wrong. my attempt at a synopsis.
One thing to remember is that houses in dense older cities in Europe are often built of stone or brick or concrete (even the newer ones) which results in a building with different properties than what we’re used to with out stick built apartments.

And they often have a garden/yard area. What’s sad is that we don’t really even have the option in the USA for that style.
I agree scale is the big obstacle, but I think you're kind of doing the same thing you're accusing others of doing: reducing solutions to single variables, like thinking lithium batteries manufactured using dirty methods are the only or primary grid storage solution.

A mixed energy economy with a variety of energy storage solutions can address the various needs, and you must also take into account the evolution of technologies and economic incentives.

For instance, the energy delivered each day to cars by chemical means is indeed huge, so you naturally conclude that we can't possibly deliver that much energy using known batteries and renewable technologies. Let's suppose that's true, there are some factors that will affect how this actually plays out:

a) ICE are very inefficient while electric vehicles are much more efficient, and so the total energy to deliver is significantly lower than that delivered by fossil fuels now,

b) vehicle utilization is also inefficient, in the sense that there's no real need for everyone to have their own cars and drive point to point; improved public transit is one solution, but so is something like Uber pool, thus improving the utilization of the delivered energy and thus reducing demand further

c) as for storage alternatives, solid state batteries are very close, and numerous other storage options already exist and are deployed, with improved variants being tested around the world already; I think the wikipedia page on this is decent, in particular if you pay attention to the tech that's already deployed and running [1,2].

I agree that this is a huge problem because fossil fuels are so heavily embedded in our economy in so many ways, but I don't think it's insurmountable. If enough of us can get on the same page that some outcome needs to happen, we can get pretty far pretty fast. We need a Manhattan project level commitment to this, and the country that does this well will have a huge first mover advantage to sell this to other countries. Vested fossil fuel interests are preventing this though.

10 years ago I would have been 100% with you that nuclear power was the option we should be investing in, but given the precipitous fall in the cost of renewables, I don't think nuclear is a slam dunk anymore. Nuclear still has its place in the move away from fossil fuels, and the renewed interest and new reactor designs seem promising.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage#Batteries

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage#Thermal
The US (and friends) are quite a long way behind because they refused to use Huawei 5G equipment.

Huawei was market leader by 1+ year, so countries which have used Huawei are mostly fully deployed already.
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For a CFL, it’s about 15 minutes. https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/save-electricity-and-fuel...
Not saying either side's sweeping statement is correct, but "if it hasn't happened to me, its not a problem" mentality is less than productive.
If everyone has collectively lost trust in their government to the extent that they no longer believe their government will not hyper-inflate their currency on a whim, the average individual under that government will have much bigger problems like "how do I survive all these bullets while my nation-state enters anarchy". We haven't switched to exchanging gold for groceries even before cryptocurrencies entered the picture, so I don't see why we would now.
Marketing droid: "We're not a social media company, we're a metaverse company"

Normal person: What does that mean?

Marketing droid: "The metaverse does not have a specific definition"
Less than a mile from Disneyland you have what appear to be mobile homes permanently affixed to the ground, probably to get around density rules.
It is fairly easy to participate in the economy without trusting the central banks. Get out of fiat as quickly as possible.

The Bitcoin people generally don't trust the fed and they have, strictly speaking, ended up in a much better position to participate in the economy.
I have been using this app and it's awesome. The features are pretty simple but complete. Looking at the list of identified birds makes me think I'm just a two-legged ape living in a bird community, and I like that.

I am also convinced cardinals and blue jays get along great with each other but are "not like other birds" types.
I think you meant it grows as the square of the blade length (and the cube of the wind speed)

From your link:
> Thus, the power passing through the blades of the turbine, and thus in turn the power of the electricity the turbine generates, is proportional to the square of the length of the blades: a doubling of blade length leads to a quadrupling of wind power passing over the blades.

Doesn’t change your conclusion of course. Thanks for the interesting link!
This guy is not Wim Hof. He was 'inspired' by what he learned from Wim Hof and others to go teach his own kind of 'integrative breathwork'.
> grows exponentially with the size of the blade (it's cubed).

sorry, couldn't resist nitpicking. you're contradicting yourself here :)
I know that whole potatoes are fairly nutritious, but I suspect that most of the surplus is going to end up in a highly processed form that suits human tongue better at the cost of quality. Such as fries.
I just purchased a C64 Mini. Can't afford a real C64 and its maintenance but a Mini is well in the budget. It's essentially an emulator running on another computer but I think it would be a nice place to play some classic games and write my own assembly code!
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