skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Retail waste of unsold inventory could also be managed with proper incentives/tax benefits.

We take great pains to make sure we donate whatever we don’t need that isn’t really trash. What shocked me is that a lot of time the typical places like Salvation Army and Goodwill won’t even take stuff because they get too much! We had a perfectly good fridge to give away (everything working, clean, cosmetically near perfect - just didn’t fit in the new place we moved to) and literally no one would take it. Finally was able to give it to a friend of a friend.

EDIT: Also remembered that we tried to give away a commercial-grade dishwasher to Habitat for Humanity who build/rehab housing for low income folks. They politely explained that they couldn’t take it because it didn’t meet efficiency requirements. While I’m all for being efficient with power, it feels like a waste of resources in this case that could have gone towards more housing (it’s an issue of laws in CA).
Military is different. Those are much larger crews and dont spend as much time at sea, generally only a few months at a time.
Yup, nation states should apply violence to their own productive populations so they can collect tax in perpetuity from the dead bodies they leave in their wake.
There's so much money coming into crypto and multiple studies have looked at money coming into Tether and the effect on Bitcoin price and it's negligible.

Plus, money has been coming out of Tether and into other stablecoins and what is happening with Bitcoin's price? Yeah, up.
I've just started learning the basics of french and this will surely be one of my resources for improving pronunciation and bettering my listening skills!
How is it "embarrassing" to comply with the law?
Click the ‘x’ button on the top right of the video in this article and it will quit following you.
Context is a thing.

"Two events were wake-up calls. The first was Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013 about the astonishing extent of secret U.S. government monitoring of digital networks at home and abroad. The U.S. government’s domestic surveillance is legally constrained, especially compared with what authoritarian states do. But this is much less true of private actors. Snowden’s documents gave us a glimpse of the scale of surveillance of our lives by U.S. tech platforms, and made plain how the government accessed privately collected data to serve its national-security needs.

"The second wake-up call was Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. As Barack Obama noted, the most consequential misinformation campaign in modern history was “not particularly sophisticated—this was not some elaborate, complicated espionage scheme.” Russia used a simple phishing attack and a blunt and relatively limited social-media strategy to disrupt the legitimacy of the 2016 election and wreak still-ongoing havoc on the American political system. The episode showed how easily a foreign adversary could exploit the United States’ deep reliance on relatively unregulated digital networks. It also highlighted how legal limitations grounded in the First Amendment (freedom of speech and press) and the Fourth Amendment (privacy) make it hard for the U.S. government to identify, prevent, and respond to malicious"
You start/launch applications from the menu? That's my guess.
This is the notation that emacs has been using forever, and also displays to the user, so every user should be well comfortable with it. It even says “Press C-x C-c to exit emacs” at startup.
I had one of these until very recently, a first generation CADEX frame (1987, so now a good 35 years old), still as good as new, it went to Germany and is now plying the streets of Berlin.

Unless you smash them up just keep them clean and they seem to last quite long, at least as long as comparable steel or aluminum frames.

The weak points are where aluminum is bonded to the carbon, those spots you need to monitor and if there is any damage at all you should count the frame as lost.
I drove one for a few years… I recall 14 mpg. But it wasn’t a commuter vehicle, and I’m not an idiot burning smoke like many buyers of fancy F350s.

Usually the consumer midsize crossover nets out around 20.
When working with data, I like to avoid stateful data mutations at all cost. OOP's focus is mutating state. These are at odds. The identity semantics I hold for data are not invariant under transformation.
Why do people use Africa and Nigeria interchangeably?
> "explain to me why you think I'm asking you to explain to me what I'm thinking"

Again, not an honest interpretation of anything I have said. What I said was extremely clear.

I think it’s reasonable to conclude that you are deliberately misrepresenting me, and have been all along.

My conclusion is that you aren’t actually an honest person. I’m sorry.
The current setup isn’t the Fed acting in isolation. The federal government is now using the zero percent interest rate to distribute cash via direct payments to workers on an unprecedented scale.

You could argue for cutting out the middlemen and simply having the fed issue credit cards.
> your LSP syntax highlighting could go to roughly 99% accuracy on VSCode.

? LSP, the protocol, doesn't (yet) have a syntax highlighting aspect.

And doesn't VSCode still use TextMate grammars? https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/syntax...
In fact, they have 2 in active service and are rapidly constructing more.

https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-photos-show-chinas-ne...
Why is that surprising? Have you not been paying attention to Biden's lack of mental capacity the past couple years?
This. It’s not like iCloud and GDrive are the only two cloud storage vendors, or like there’s no way to encrypt things before uploading them.
You don't need to do all or nothing. Even if you just cut it out everywhere except your coffee you'll already be making a significant and healthy change for the better.
The vast majority of the article focuses on speculative trading, not day to day activities. There's a small paragraph on paying employees, but really it's just the mismanaged finances of Nigeria providing that need. Replace "Bitcoin" with "USD" or "seashells" and it's effectively the same thing. Sure, if you're the 1-2 countries in the world with 200% daily inflation, it makes sense. The vast majority of crypto holders (and users here) come from relatively stable western countries with strong regulatory environments with stable central banks.

It's this narrative of "rich western citizens" talking about "real world use cases" that completely diverge from their day to day which is the ultimate irony. Think of the poor Africans! Said no one from Coinbase or Binance. Think of the use cases! Said the wealthy SWE speculatively trading shitcoins, x5 leverage to the gills.

There are real world use cases, but likely if you're posting here on your macbook, they do not apply to you. People don't give a shit about venezuela or Nigeria, it's just greed.
but... but the app revenue from all the same iSheeple who are given up their privacy...
Exercising your right to drive a car endangers my life and the lives of my family. Just as you said. Should you not be allowed to do not?
Sorry, you're right. It does mention flooding. No more commenting for me until I have coffee.
Things are not looking good for Bitcoin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tcg9kOfkg
The idea I have always liked, though have never done the numbers on, is a giant “heat pipe” that would circle the moon. You could put it on any latitude you want, but you effectively take advantage of the temperature gradient to continuously flow a gas/liquid around the moon. That in turn turns turbines attached wherever you need the power.
If you’re in a developed nation, the only issue with a wire transfer is the $25-30 fee assessed by most banks. That said, if you’re making a wire transfer, you’re probably spending $5K+, so $25 is nothing.

Those in developing nations might use crypto to avoid remittance fees, or due to increased accessibility. If the recipient doesn’t have a bank account, you can’t do a wire transfer. If the recipient has a phone, they can get an app to facilitate a crypto transfer.
You're not the target customer. That would be people who have datasets but don't want or know how to write code. Editorial people have little to no interest in typesetting, they just want something they can import to and embed easily.
Sending money internationally via fiat is a pain in the ass. It’s slow, unreliable, typically has limited amounts, often you run into regulatory roadblocks, high fees, not all banks accept wires in the currency you want to send, etc. And I’m a “power user” with accounts at multiple international brokerages.
You don't need to pay transaction fees on every payment. If you and your target are using the same vendor (no private wallet), there is no fee and no delay.
Other than nerdsniping, what is the point of this expression?

If you wanted to show how different languages treat modulo, type conversions, division, etc., you could just show individual examples. That would be significantly clearer.

Was there some practical reason behind creating this expression, or is it just obfuscation?
The correct answer is not making the computer guess what you mean. That's the root problem here. You're being super-sloppy about specifying what actual operations you want to take place. What are the types of the operands? What are the semantics of the arithmetic operators for the pairs of operand types you get?

Without bothering to tell the computer what you want for the types or select the correct operators for the types you provided, you're falling back on guessing. Not every language guesses the same way, because not every language designer has the same guess what people meant.

My ideal is a language that tells you that expression is bad and to actually clarify what you mean. But a lot of people seem to hate having to explicitly communicate their intent.
This makes the most sense for “why” and “why now” IMO.
Even in crypto, wash trading is illegal. It is also significantly more prohibitively expensive to wash trade a security with a market cap of $750T. If you were to try wash trading from a country where it's legal, you might be able to get away with it. But at that point you might as well wash trade in forex.
Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python [book]
I went to the source and saw the map.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ra...

And from the map. It looks like it's around this part of Yellow River. (Guanzhuang, Xingyang, Zhengzhou, Henan, China 34.69942093691378, 113.36167182390584)
GitHub says it's mostly written in Scheme and Racket! Would love to hear the story behind that... is this just one researcher's idiosyncratic choice, or are these languages providing some kind of material advantage in this application?

(I'm aware that Lisps have a long history in AI but I understood that to be kind of in the past at this point...)
Define "comments".

Like many arguments, disagreements below are mostly not disagreements about facts but disagreements of definitions at heart, only masquerading as disagreements about facts.

Beyond a trivializing definition of "whatever follows a #", each time the word "comments" appears in the discussion below, it seems to actually refer to something entirely different from one person to the next.
Keeferrourke/pandoc-cookbook: A literal cookbook. Typeset with Pandoc
‘Black Swan’ author Nassim Taleb has ‘never, ever borrowed a penny’ in his life
I got a WeWork mask in a FedEx package about a year ago. Such a weird promotion. I have no idea how they got my info as I've never used WeWork or any other coworking space. But I did take a class in one. Maybe that was it.
'Trainspotting' turned a spotlight on Scotland's heroin problem
> People in favor of returning to the office either have private offices at work, or small apartments with no AC.

Children. Consistently I have noted that people who like going to the office, and work in general for that matter, almost always have children.
Emotionally charged gets more likes. It is the fundamental problem of social media. You cannot avoid it because you will lose in the competition for attention against an organization that embraces it.
If you are concerned about harmful files from the Internet, consider using Qubes OS.
Reuse = replace when it comes to energy waste.
It feels like it's inevitable that the kind of person that would enjoy this kind of thing would already know about this, but if repairing classic Macs is something that appeals to you and you aren't already subbed to Adrian Black's channel(s), go check out his Repairathon series[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKD65I86XGQ
is it me or has the word "grift" seen a large uptick in the last few years.

I used to really like this word now I see it all over the place, I wouldn't call anything what Gavin did a grift ... or a small time swindle.
It's here, I think: https://www.google.com/maps/place/34%C2%B042'02.7%22N+113%C2...
You're not the target market. We offer Flourish as an option to clients who want a highly customised bespoke dashboard on a reasonable budget, and that can be put together quickly without actual software development. It's not a great solution for situations with a lot of users as their costs scale up pretty fast.
Sci-Hub is fundraising
How many employees does a corporation need before it can act unethically?
Physical therapists are more helpful than doctors for many maybe most problems, in my experience, though the variation in quality may be greater. Part of this could be economics; pt’s have more time. In the future I think having pt rather than doctors as primary point of contact for most patients will be shown to result in better outcomes. I susspect the reason this isn’t already the way it works is mostly because of organized labor (the ama wouldn’t have it) and liability.
Coupling a nuclear plant with a reservoir and hydro could work. But with EVs, I’m sure it’s done somewhere.
Tether’s market cap is nearly at an all time high after roughly tripling in 2021 alone. What else should I be looking for as evidence of money coming out of Tether?

Which studies are you referring to?

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
I'm glad you found the reference helpful.

> Is it possible the Delta variant itself was somehow the result of our intrepid and swift vaccination efforts?

The variants can arise under neutral genetic drift, ie pure random chance via naturally occurring mutation.

But the widespread dominance of these variants is very plausibly connected to the mass vaccination efforts.

Here is another good paper on the subject, in case you haven't already seen it [1].

> I’m having a hard time understanding why more people aren’t talking about this

Me too, but to be fair these are complex second and third order effects that only gained traction in the scientific literature within the past decade or so. Right now everyone is mostly focused on first order effects - eg "will the vaccination help/harm me?"

Quotes from [1]:

- "Our modeling suggests that SARS-CoV-2 mutants with one or two mildly deleterious mutations are expected to exist in high numbers due to neutral genetic variation, and consequently resistance to vaccines or other prophylactics that rely on one or two antibodies for protection can develop quickly -and repeatedly- under positive selection."

- "Our work suggests that it is likely that standing genetic variation alone has already produced a substantial population of viruses with single and double nucleotide changes that confer nAb resistance. These variants will establish quickly in the population under selection pressure. In fact, there is already a precedent for this behavior, as one such selective sweep occurred early on in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic when the D614G mutation rose to nearly 80% frequency in under 6 months [33]."

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/
I recently got my full genome sequenced via a website called nebula.org. I don't have any backgrounds in genetics but I was playing around with the raw data with some github apps. Thanks so much for this - I may be able to link this app in to my custom data. That would be so awesome if we could hook this up to personal genetics results. Even people who aren't sick do have mutations and it would be so cool seeing AI running some kind of search on their personal genome and suggesting a drug for that!

Here's the link to the github app they mentioned:
https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren
Do we actually want emotionally neutral articles? There's always a value judgement being made about what is important to report. That value judgement will correspond with emotions in most cases, so it's worthwhile to acknowledge that fact as well.

It's fine to describe situations where people lose their lives as "tragedies", for example. It's possible to go overboard by projecting emotions onto the audience that they don't actually have.
A good argument for donating to archive.org, which is undeniably a global treasure at this point. We definitely need more repositories of open source intelligence, if only so we can tell when operators like Bellingcat are trying to play us. And yeah, Greenwald has stood out with a very few others in challenging official propaganda from both government and private interests. Believe it or not, there are those out there who think he hasn't done enough across a broader front. But that's probably unfair: we're talking just a few conscientious reporters versus an veritable army of high priced shills in shiny suits.
Tokyo Olympics cost $15.4B. What else could that buy?
That is the case every year, as indicated by the grey mean in the background of the chart. Point is, we gained ice at a lower-than-average rate during “gains season” and now we’re losing ice at a greater-than-average rate during “melt season”.
Thanks for pointing this out. I don’t know enough about kratom to have an opinion on how it should be regulated. I will add a comment though. Just because I am fundamentally opposed to America regulating drug use outside of its territory.
Seconds poured? That sounds terribly unhealthy. Not as bad as drinking soda, but close.
Gattaca Here we come!
Most of America’s extra savings during the pandemic are going to the wealthy
But at some point (likely when interest rates shift up and/or the market crashes and/or lending tightens), those 80,000 people are going to be out of a job when the whole thing implodes.

And at that point, it's a solid argument that they all would have been better off if SoftBank's capital had instead been previously allocated to non-zombie / financial-engineering businesses.
Agreed. PDFs are still considered very unsafe from unknown sources. Always be cautious. They are constantly used in phishing attacks.
The employees don't need to suffer. I can imagine a better world where the executives can be jailed and have their controlling shares stripped and given to new leaders. Maybe even the employees themselves.
It’s worth mentioning that a lot of smaller restaurants and grocery stores are signing up for an app called “too good to go”, where people can sign up to buy highly discounted food at the end of the day (in NYC and a few other cities). These companies could chose to offer a portion of their leftovers on this app, or offer a similar program.
Going off 2009 numbers, the US spent $5.8 billion in foreign aid on the Afghan Security Forces Fund, and about a billion more on various counternarcotics programs [0]. This funding went up to around $10 billion in 2011, and slowly declined to around $3.6 billion in 2019. This also doesn't include the air support, troop advisors, special forces, etc. that we provided to supplement Afghanistan's government, or the international aid provided by other coalition partners. So they clearly have a massive financial advantage over the Taliban, as this doesn't even include tax revenue and other standard military funding sources.

Also, your [4] link is specifically talking about the police being underpaid and undertrained, not the army. My guess is that it primarily comes down to a huge motivation gap. The Afghani soldiers and police are in it for a paycheck, not to get shot, while the Taliban are fighting for an ideological cause they perceive to be just.

[0] - https://foreignassistance.gov/cd/AFG?measure=Obligations&fis...
Cryptocurrency is more likely to become a powerful tool to the rich and powerful with even less accountability than there is now than it is to become an incredible boon to the "average person." There's a difference between distributed and decentralized. Money and power can buy a lot of the distribution.

And what, exactly, do you think you're fighting?

Inflation or inflationary policies? Places to park money that are better than bits or gold have existed for a long time.

Surveillance? An indelible ledger has its downsides here.

Technology is more often a magnifier of existing human dynamics rather than a qualitative change. Especially one that seeks to replace existing tech. If you think it's going to produce a fundamental change, why is this different?
Sounds like a lot of work and effort involved.
From a health perspective, simply use allulose instead of sucrose. It tastes exactly the same but is non digestible.
Yes there is still a 1-1 mapping from IPv6 to domain, but that mapping is pushed back into the DNS layer where it belongs instead of being smuggled (poorly) through TLS. DNS isn't perfect for privacy either, but at least there's a chance that it can be solved with DoH / private dns servers / etc, instead of the only solution (eSNI) requiring everyone voluntarily signing up to a giant mitm called "cloudflare".
I think CO2 depends heavily on what you're doing with it.

You filter CO2 out of the atmopshere using zeolite beds at relatively low temperature/high pressure, you then recharge those by venting the beds at relatively high temperature/low pressure.

If you're venting the CO2 to space (they do on the ISS), I don't have numbers/proof to back this up but you probably don't need much energy at all. You just pass air through the absorbing bed at ~1ATM (i.e. with a fan), and a heat exchanger from the venting bed to the absorbing bed might even be enough to keep the temperatures in the right range.

If you're capturing the CO2 afterwards however, you probably need some more energy-expensive machinery. Again, I don't have numbers, but you're definitely talking about running a compressor to force the venting CO2 into a tank now, and you might want to compress the absorption side as well to get a bigger pressure gradient.

The only real use of that captured CO2 is to recycle it into something useful (e.g. O2 and CH4 using the sabatier reaction), and that reaction is going to be endothermic, but you can probably just store the CO2 until you have sunlight and do it then.
This article is basically an ad.
That's putting a lot of faith in central banks. The current heads of those banks, at least in the US and EU, have telegraphed pretty clearly that they are willing to let inflation run hot for better or worse.
I like the idea that APL could provide this advantage but I just haven't seen any compelling examples. And that's my experience with a lot of APL stuff - beautiful theory that just doesn't quite seem to deliver on the promises.

It feels like the Zen of APL is "symbols are a freaking great idea, let's do more of those!" when intellectual communities that are heavy on symbolic manipulation are generally quite conservative in the introduction of new symbols... let alone the dozens that APL introduces.

To each his own and all, but APL might have to content itself with a small group of devoted fans.
Climate change: New report will highlight 'stark reality' of warming
> Exactly. The people who dominate a law and order based society are a totally different set of people from those who dominate a Hobbesian “state of nature.”

Yeah, after societal collapse my money is on these groups taking over (in this order):

1. Rogue ex-military

2. Existing street gangs

3. Some dude from the local community (if they have access to weapons), starting something that ends up like a gang.