skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite all the rhetoric from the leadership, US has no incentives to retire oil and gas. To maintain the monopoly of USD as reserve currency (and be able to print money forever), US needs to make sure oil is settled in USD with Middle Eastern dictatorships being the proxy doing the enforcement. Absent of oil, as US is not a net producer country anymore, there is no reason for other countries to hold USD as much.

Thus I am a long term bullish on oil and gas. I think oil will go back to 120 level pretty soon in next 2-3yrs.
I agree, my brother! The idea that these Muslims could govern themselves leaves me in tears of laughter and what they really need to sort them out is an American colonial presence. This failed 20 year US strategy can only work out great in the long term for the people of Afghanistan!

... and without the dripping sarcasm, in all seriousness, the US has been destabilising the Middle East for decades and will happily overthrow any government, people's choice or otherwise. The only justice in this situation is eventually it might bankrupt the American taxpayer as payback for their inability to get the militant lunatics out of government.
Not much you can do about it =(
I was confused about the source of this quote because it's not in OP, so for anyone else curious:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2021-08/msg00...
It also makes coal more competitive. We need a few more years of cheap natural gas to finish shattering the coal industry and make it too expensive to spin up.
It's only deceptive if you think 'era' refers to anything but the last year.
I meant poor people in first world countries. I don't care about those in third world countries.
Why not? Americans haven't been engaged in ground combat operations for years now outside of special forces. They were just providing the weapons, logistics, training, and air power to contain the Taliban.

That seems reasonably sustainable. Make it into South Korea with airstrikes.
There is more : NL ( maybe other EU countries too ) are importing woods chips from NA to burn as 'biomass' in generator plants.
Assuming we don’t continue to have global pandemics in the near future
You seem knowledgeable on the topic and have firsthand experience. Would you mind answering some of my questions here [1]? I'm genuinely curious.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28099710
If anyone is curious about material science, some keywords are "stress strain curve", "plastic vs elastic deformation", and "fatigue limit" (that last one is really cool).
Those are just some of the means to get the price of natural gas lower, which is still the only fundamental reason that reduces the amount of gas/oil/whatnot being dug out.
Data analysis isn't object-oriented nor imperative. Transformations are functions on datasets, not a sequence of stateful actions.

Python is an imperative, object-oriented language largely concerned with side-effecting programs (web severs, os automation, etc.).

It is about as hostile as it is possible to be, from "ideas" pov, to data science.

However those ideas are just a syntax skin over something much more flexible: pointers and dictionaries (/hashmaps). These are like the "Python VM Language" on which "Data Science" sits.

Data Science libraries essentially use the "actual" semantics of python and ignore the "official" syntax, as that's the only way of providing an API that makes any sense. (Ie., isnt just reams of for-loops with 5 sequential obj.method() calls).

I don't believe there is a "non-confusing" way of ignore python's syntax, *within python*; and that's just what is required.
In Swiss federal institutes grad students are paid but it's free for undergrads.
Slightly off topic but I wanted to add a quick story to this.

In my neighborhood I made some waves with the HOA when I complained about secret hidden cameras I found at our pool. After investigating I found out rather quickly that members of the board decided to put them up with out telling anyone including most of the rest of the board, which my girlfriend was a member of at the time. When I complained I was told the same thing: you can’t make a complaint without offering a solution. I was told this two more times when we suggested that they should not be having big meeting and gatherings during the pandemic, and when we suggested they should not be illegally miscounting property owners votes (this one ended up involving us paying a lawyer to straighten out).

Every time I was told I was not being constructive and offering a solution and every time I had to explain that I was. The solutions were very simple do spy on your neighbors and take secret videos of them, in their bathing suits especially. Don’t invite people to large in person gatherings during a pandemic when an online meeting will do. And follow the already legally established way of counting peoples votes without creativity reimagining it in your own favor.

For all those solutions my girlfriend was removed from the board and we are no longer allowed to vote.

Stallman is offering a similar simple solution “do not use Apple products.” The parent comment here is simply mad that Stallman has not invented a way for people
To have their cake and eat it too.
If you don't mind me asking, which one are you taking?
Probably so, but a more smart malware that grabs fake images from an encrypted server somewhere, then plants them in the victims PC/phone/whatever, then deletes itself, isn't rocket science.
We must overcomplicate everything until there can only be one implementation of each standard
Wins? I love rust but this is so weird. What does "win a survey" mean in the real world?
Bitcoin brought a trustless way of moving capital or digital property to any location throughout the world with no intermediary.

Today it might just be El Salvador but bet on more countries joining the network based off of the game theory of the network. This innovation is profound and will revolutionize economies in the 21st century leading to better allocation of capital and the world finally getting off of the petrodollar.
I think a lot of that wage theft was actually from soldiers that didn't exist: upwards of 100,000 on the roles that can't be accounted for. As for the Afghan equipment that has ended up in Taliban hands, that appears to be the result of the Taliban capturing it. That is happening sometimes even without a fight as Afghan soldiers believe they're being abandoned by the US to an impossible fight.

Either way, a significant amount of Taliban weaponry was provided by Russia.
Oh good, it will remain available at the low, low price of half a million per year. That soothes my worries entirely.
Nuclear is too.
arendtio says>"To me it looks like one of the steepest learning curves I know: uncommon syntax, special characters, custom keyboard layout required, different dialects, ..."<

so, while a considerably smaller language, it's like learning Chinese (for someone who uses a Western alphabet)?
There was a whole ceremony and I have a certificate that says Master of Arts, it looks exactly the same as my certificate that says I have the degree Bachelor of Arts.
Why on earth would anyone build a power plant in a remote location where no energy is needed?
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/kevin-steinberger/debunking-thr... (Debunking Three Myths About “Baseload”)
That’s how it was before the BTC whales got Portman to exclude them
Julia 1.3.1: 8.036090802426098e12
>Natural gas has already fulfilled its usefulness as a “bridge fuel”

Seeing how Poland still gets approximately 70% of its electricity from coal, I wouldn't say so. Also until the grid-scale storage problem (at least on the level of storing several days of grid consumption) will not be properly solved (personally I am fan of underground pumped hydro storage built on top of artificially dug cavities), I don't think we will see large predominantly renewable grids not backed up by natural gas power plants.

And don't forget that natural gas consumption is not only about electricity. But also about heat generation (both in households and industry) and production of various chemicals.
So this thing is 3500 pages. Either pandas is overly complex and over engineered or it's a meticulously planned library that thoughtfully provides tools and use case coverage for most data analysis jobs.

Spoiler alert: it's the former.
Moon is 10% aluminium, with that constrain, I doubt copper will see much use for long range transmission.
I did not want to get into this, but you're simply spread falsehoods.

> GrapheneOS doesn't ship integration of proprietary services like CalyxOS, whether that's WhatsApp or Google services.

We do not ship anything proprietary. We ship microG, which is "A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries." - see https://microg.org/

We ship an integration with WhatsApp in the Dialer, which is entirely open source code. It is based on the existing contacts mechanism (anyone who has WhatsApp or Signal on any Android will see entries for those in the Contacts app - that is what we expose to the Dialer to make it easy to use those to make end-to-end encrypted calls.

In fact, WhatsApp is not listed by default, it only shows up if you have it installed. We believe that end-to-end encrypted calls are important, and while this would leak some metadata, if one has it installed already presumably they're fine with that. The network effect is strong!

In fact, you're the one who's promoting your approach of being able to run the proprietary Play Services - and yet you say you don't ship integration of proprietary services. Which is it? You can't ship Play Services legally anyway.

> or example, they give special unattended installation privileges to Aurora Store and F-Droid.

Aurora Store does not get unattended installation permission, it never has. It can only update installed apps, which is what Google is allowing in Android 12.

F-Droid Privileged Extension is extended, and both that and F-Droid have received security audits in the past which haven't found issues - and the Privileged Extension itself hasn't changed much since then. We're very careful about making any changes there.

It is one thing to give constructive criticism to projects, it's another to attack them directly based on falsehoods.
Carbon fiber and other composites are actually much better wrt fatigue than aluminium. In fact they are pretty much immune to it, if you mean the word in the sense it's used in metallurgy. They are however much worse for impact resistance.
We'd obviously be in a far better position climate wise if a lot of electricity generation in the 80s forward had been from nuclear rather than fossil fuels, and if we do not prematurely shut down nuclear reactors. (Though I think this mostly happening in Germany and Japan only? In the US our nuclear fleet is aged, and there are few life-extensions that make economic sense when compared with the current cost of renewables firmed with storage.)

However, I think the picture of how rosy a nuclear future could be was oversold, even in the last century. Construction performance in the 1970s was abysmal. Even the most successful deployment, in France, stopped short of its initial plans, and did not fully decarbonize the grid.

Starting new deployments of modular reactors means talking about new construction modes, modes that we have no idea at all if they will be effective or cost efficient. It's a huge gamble, that even if it pays off, won't start paying off until 10-30 years from now. Nuclear is not a technology that we can depend upon to save us now. Which is not to say that we shouldn't try, it's just that we need to have backup plans in case Nuclear can't be built.
No. The lunar night is 14 days long, which means you need 336 kWh of storage for every kilowatt of constant power. In orbit, you only need maybe 30 minutes of battery, so 0.5-1kWh per kilowatt of power. Mars surface has a similar day/night cycle as Earth, plus a need for margin for dust storms, so nuclear is roughly the same mass as solar if you need near constant power, but still solar is potentially cheaper if you need a LOT of power.
Are you saying that a luxury watch costs the same as a luxury car?

If that is true (which I find incredibly hard to believe) it literally makes no sense. The utility and the ability of a car to give you a ROI compared to a watch is almost infinitely more.
Julia 1.3.1: 8.259816920615111e12
I take 500mg of magnesium and 100mg of B2 every morning.
I’ve lived in to “garden districts” and I always shut my trap when population collapses are discussed because in my area everything goes great.

I let an area go fallow last year and I’m still trying to identify some of the insects I saw. Lots of parasitoid wasps. This year it’s smaller and the weather is drier and hotter so the flowers I believe are little late. Also because it’s hot I’m and there’s more things to look at and do, I’m spending less time observing. It does still feel like this might be a worse year than last, but in this area at least I know there’s a reservoir of diversity than can still be cultivated.
I wish I could tell you, there is something to be said about 1) being live with no recording so records of dissent dont exist and 2) like the other commenter said slow government response

I suspect it's a lot of small things and social network multiplicative effect
And that's silly. But I'm talking about actual child porn.

I'm not defending Apple. I'm saying it's absurd to act like "merely" distributing explicit photos taken without the subject's consent is a victimless crime.
And draw the border with a wider black sharpie.
“Bad Takes”
> Google's Play client libraries are still used on CalyxOS by the apps using Play services.

They'd also be used on GrapheneOS, and anywhere else basically.

> WhatsApp is clearly a proprietary service too, and CalyxOS is integrating that into the Dialer app.

The integration is entirely done into the open source Dialer app and generic enough that it could be extended to any apps that have phone numbers. Signal and WhatsApp are simply the most popular amongst those.
This is very nice!

If the developer is here, I’d like to let them know that the abstract text is hard to read on iPhone. Lack of contrast I think.
Governments and central banks get away with devaluing your currency.
Miscellaneous Docs I've Collected About Programming
What's worse is the docs often don't document all values for 'enums' or other types of parameters. Most is copy and paste from someone else. Very painful to debug and upgrade.
okay, but being able to use only one SSL certificate for each IP fucking sucks
"Biosphere 2 Part Deux, The Perchlorate Threat"
"Lift with your legs" is advice to avoid hurting yourself when you are lifting something for the sake of actually moving it. It's not an exercise plan.

When exercising, you want to lift with your back specifically to strengthen the muscles involved. The lift they're describing is basically a deadlift, which is one of the key lifts involved a typical weightlifting plan (lifting with your legs in another one, so don't skip that).

You do have to be careful not to try to lift too much weight to avoid injuring yourself, but as long as you don't overdo it, you will reduce your risk of back injury because your muscles will be stronger and less easily injured.
https://pypi.org/project/ImageHash/
How to Deal with Stress?
Mars doesn't have an ionosphere. Windows run in direct opposition to radiation shielding.
The key insight of the article was that errors are reliably ignored or excused when they fit the desired narrative.

It's not hard to see how that would be effective anti-persuasion for persons inclined to have doubts about receiving an emergency authorized intervention. Rigorous honesty[1] would assuredly persuade at least some of those people and thus would raise the population vaccination rate, which I'm sure we all agree is a desirable outcome.

[1] For example, rather than chanting the mantra "safe and effective!" being honest about the tradeoffs and showing that proven risk management strategy indicates vaccination is the mathematically optimal choice.
Am I missing something? Apple says they literally scan stuff locally on your iCrap now and call the police on you if you have $badstuff. Nobody should be having their data scanned in the first place. Is iCloud unencryped? Such a thing exists in 2021? I've been using end to end crypto since 2000. I don't understand why consumers want their devices to do all kinds of special non-utilitarian stuff (I mean I totally understand, it's called politics).

This new iCrap is like a toaster that reports you if you put illegally imported bread in it. It will be just like the toaster which will have no measureable impact on illegal imports. Even if $badguys are so dumb to continue using the tech (iCloud???) and lots go to jail, lots more will appear and simply avoid the exact specific cause that sent previous batch to jail. They do not even thave to think.

The problem with all this is that everyone is applauding Apple for their bullshit, and so they will applaud the government when they say "oh no, looks like criminals are using non-backdoored data storage methods, what a surprise! we need to make it illegal to have a data storage service without going through a 6 month process to setup a government approved remote auditing service".

Then there's also the fact that this is all a pile of experimental crypto [1] being used to solve nothing. Apple has created the exact situation of Cloudflare Pass: they pointlessly made $badip solve a captcha to view a read-only page, and provided a bunch of experimental crypto in a browser plugin to let him use one captcha for multiple domains (they would normally each require their own captcha and corresponding session cookie). They later stopped blocking $badip all together after they realized they are wrong (this took literally 10 years).

1. https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ "CSAM detection" section
I was pulled over in West Baton Rouge in 2009, we were driving east in an empty rental box truck after helping a friend move back to Tx. It was 1am, we were pulled over on a BS pretense (weaving across lanes when we signaled a lane change because they had someone else pulled over, so we obeyed the law of pulling over a lane to give them room). I denied their request to search the truck, they had no reason. They called the drug dog, who after the third walk around, "signaled" drugs at the right front tire (after having thir leash jerked). They then "had cause" to search the truck. After finding two small suitcases with clothes (exactly what we told them they'd find), the main cop got really angry with me for "making a mockery of the south", threw the keys at me and told us to GTFO.

I'm 100% convinced drug dogs are trained to "signal" falsely at certain things like a leash tug. It's all BS.
Agreed. My MSEE was invaluable, and the math in my Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics course was pretty hairy.
I think they should just do a South Korea type plan with airstrikes, which has basically been the last 5 years. There are 30,000 soldiers in SK. Is posting 10,000 in Afghanistan for logistical, medical, training, and airstrike purposes really that crazy?

You can keep letting the Afghan soldiers do the fighting as that is what is politically necessary, but give them a pile of support on the rear end.
Great comment.

Specialization led to splitting teams in frontend and backend teams, thus these teams started develop different coding culture & solutions, like separate build steps and whatnots. No longer could one team finish a feature instead it had to be a cross team cooperation if they could sync their schedules that is. If one team was failing their part the other team either couldn't or wouldn't fix it and the delays increased even more.
I do not understand how cities are blamed when a farm with 2500 dairy cows produces similar waste to a city of 411,000 people.[0] Cow poop is destroying the oceans due to massive amounts of mismanagement or just floods. Just goes to show the unpredictable n-th order effect of allowing the current ways of raising livestock (excluding the, now known for centuries, effect of global pandemics).

0: https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/901V0100.txt?ZyActionD=Z...
None of this is helped by the fact that the primary requirement for your degree is to be "touched by grace" after holding one of 5 fingers while a man called a Praelector says in Latin something to the effect of, "These 5 people holding my fingers are jolly good chaps and chapettes and should be given the degree of ..."
This thread would be interesting if you would show your work. I'm here for interesting ideas, not people declaring their expertise without educating us.

Educate me.
Sigh. For "copy editor", read "proof reader" as appropriate. Accidentally making my own point there...
Storing water does not require pressure vessels, nor cryogenic coolers.
another Musk fanboi, redoing the speculative work that NASA did in the 70s and then claiming credit for it.
I am almost positive this depends upon how socially active and adept the individual is, and if they specifically seek and join internal societies that work at promoting this sort of post-grad networking.

I graduated from the Florida Institute of Technology and although I notice that Amazon is currently loaded with alumni from there, when I applied I received absolutely no "insider help" or whatever from anyone employed there.
I would agree with you if the *BSD people didn’t tend to put out vastly higher-quality software than most of the other stuff out there.
1) Talking about costs isn't casting shade. And the article is talking about the costs (and why they are worth it).

2) It's not a hot-take that titles don't agree with their article's contents. The solution to that is to fix headlines, not to plug our ears and only read headlines and claim nuance is impossible.

3) Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... for widely known example of (2)

> No person ever has made the claim that free speech doesn’t have costs.

Considering the entire article was about how people kept responding to nuanced articles by claiming that free speech didn't have costs and that dismissive and wrong, I think people did in fact make that claim.
> They present it as a firewall app with a fancy name, but it's just a UI for the AOSP firewall and it doesn't really work as they present it.

There is no AOSP Firewall, this is all based on code which originated in LineageOS, and we've been maintaining and extending it since about a year now. We make changes, send patches back upstream (LineageOS), and are talks in that developer.

The bypass is serious, we're looking into it and will have a working patch available shortly. It will work.

We do not muck around with the INTERNET permission and change the android permission model since that has known to crash apps, we did evaluate it before putting effort into this.

The beauty of doing this network side is that apps are unaware and keep working, unlike some apps which crash when you take away their INTERNET permission - that is why we didn't go with that approach.

What use is a toggle if it crashes the app and makes it unsable.

> The fastboot.js library powering it is a project we funded.

Thank you for funding that!
> [carbon fibre] don't have a nice plastic region like metals.

An amusing turn of phrase, given we are presumably talking about carbon fibre reinforced plastics.
Thanks for sharing your story and it was definitely relevant. I find that many people demanding solutions with complaints are not really looking for a solution, they just want you to shut up.

I see this a lot actually in politics as well. They think they are successfully browbeating you with their "hard truths" but what they're really showing is they lack imagination and the ability to evaluate their own position critically.
> "Ultimately, it may even turn out that I won’t be able to get a visa to China because of you. This is definitely going too far, and I would have to end our advisory relationship"

At this point, you're misrepresenting the article completely.
You can no longer simulate oral sex in Fortnite