skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe this is an illusion?

It's a virulent meme. Planned towns are bad. Organic growth is good. Planning is tyranny, is oppression, is taxation. Please read "Seeing Like a State". Organic growth is freedom, is markets, is good.

It's not entirely wrong, just extremely misleading. Urban planning doesn't have to create complete, inflexible designs, managing every tiny bit of life. And outside some failed experiments[0], it almost never is.

Think of planning towns as growing gardens. You work with the forces of organic growth, not against them, but still nudge and direct them to create a result that's better[1] than what would be there on its own.

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[0] - Some planners got high on cybernetics/system thinking, in an era we could not computationally support designing complex systems - then others used this to push political ideologies; mix in power struggles and regular corruption, and of course it fails. What's annoying is that it gets painted as "planning bad", "cybernetics bad", "central bad", instead of recognizing the incentive failures in the mix.

[1] - Better according to the gardener. Nature optimizes for its own thing. It's important to remember that natural, organic growth rarely optimizes for the benefit of individual units, whether plants or people.
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Could you explain precisely, how you might build a $350 billion plausibly neutral, open source, non-gated, cryptographically secure blockchain and smart contract platform with 100% uptime over 6 years on AWS and Azure?
> They don't get deleted of course: you will get them back if you switch to a paid plan.

I'm curious what the legality of that is under the GDPR and other preceding data-protection regs...

If you're using Slack in a personal capacity, then don't you have the legal right to demand an archive of your messages without paying them anything?
"After I read the book, I've come to understand that general-purpose static type system can never prove unequivocally that a generic program works. That's what Church, Turing, and Gödel proved."

Oh, not that again. If a program is close to undecidable, it's broken.

Microsoft ran into this with the Static Driver Verifier. If they couldn't prove that a driver could not blow up the kernel after the prover had cranked for a few minutes, the driver is rejected. Really, if you don't have easily proven decidabilty in your device driver, it has no business going into production.
The main thing that I dislike about disappearing messages is that there’s an obnoxious clock and username next to each and every message, even if you write two in quick succession. It really breaks up the flow of the chat when someone is having a stream of consciousness moment.
I’m speaking out of my depth here but I believe exposure related disease is based on the particle density over time. Particles can clog the respiratory system, reducing blood oxygen and introducing free radicals. To a large extent the body is able to remove the debris, but if there is too much buildup due to prolonged exposure to high AQI then it can be difficult to recover without intervention.

I was at a chain drug store the other day and saw a display for canned oxygen, regular and Peppermint flavor!?! It seemed like another sign of the apocalypse to me, but maybe just a gimmick or stopgap for terrible air quality events.
One of the things I've noticed is that Signal doesn't seem to care about privacy at all. They care a lot about security though, which is a different thing, and tell you that's privacy.
I don't think it is contradictory - that is the point of adaptation that you expose yourself to something that is not optimal and your body learns to handle it. Think of it as artificially changing the range of conditions needed for good sleep quality by training.
There are a number of articles claiming various percentages of Bitcoin mining from renewables, but this is probably the most balanced quote:

"Commonly cited estimates range from 39% to 73% renewable energy. Jesse Morris, CEO of non-profit Energy Web says most estimates find 20% to 50% of bitcoin is powered by renewable energy, but all available numbers are based on self-reported data, which is unverifiable. 30 June 2021"

My inner optimist is satisfied that the renewable percentage is constantly growing.
I see a reasonable amount of political/social content. I think it's there, you just didn't engage with it enough to get it in your FYP.

I must have accidentally liked a couple things to trigger it, so now I'm ignoring it going to train the algorithm.
No, I'll wait and see. I think probably the virus is more dangerous than the vaccine (official figures certainly claim this). The virus is, however, not particularly dangerous.

When there is extreme pressure for a certain course of action, I think there is a lot of motivation for manipulation of data. I smell propaganda for vaccines all over the media.

I have a robust constitution and am in an age group where the risk of death is, in my eyes, low.

I know about 2 dozen people who've had it: colleagues, pupils, parents of pupils and my son: Zero hospitalisations, zero deaths, zero complaints about long term effects.

I believe that action against the virus (lockdowns, businesses destroyed, masks, social distancing and now vaccines being pushed on people) overall is far more harmful than the virus itself.

We should have used all our resources to protect high risk groups: The very old and people with comorbidities.

I think Sweden had the right approach except they did nothing to particularly protect people in care homes, so the virus blazed through those institutions (which to some extent explains their relatively high death rates compared to Denmark or Norway).

I am in no way against vaccinations in general, but I don't think vaccines are a good strategy against something like a coronavirus which is spread all over the world and which has a relatively low IFR. I think (and it's just my opinion, derived from my understanding of evolution), that widespread vaccination will create selection pressure for more infective variants.

I don't want to die an unpleasant death drowning in my own fluids, but it's at least relatively quick, compared to lung cancer (for example). If I'm unlucky and catch it, and unlucky again and it hits me hard ...

Well, we've all got to go sometime, and who knows, it might save me from a long, humiliating old age ;)
I don't buy this argument one bit. If you're going to release a feature with client-side data scanning in order to turn on e2e, you would specify that to provide the reasoning and prevent backlash. Apple would be smart enough to say that (if that was their plan).

Furthermore, e2e isn't all that meaningful with this feature. A client-side scanner that allows someone to view a thumbnail of the photo if it matches some other photo they have kinda takes most of the protection e2e is supposed to provide...
Right but how was that 'unprovoked hostility'? How was disagreeing with someone with a reason being 'hostile'? For the claims, I just used what they already admitted?

All I wanted was evidence for their claims and that was it. Instead I got anecdotes, false equivalences in their arguments which is not substantiative.

I also just asked a simple question, they couldn't even answer it. For the second question they did not provide any counter evidence to my question. All my questions were left ignored.
Absolutely, not to mention Eth just rolled out a major update last week. This rambling, bizarre article boils down to a few very basic, extremely played out arguments.

Argument 1: Proof of stake concentrates wealth more than proof of work.

You can make that argument, but POS advocates have for a long time argued that proof of work mining has more economies of scale than proof of stake and therefore the opposite is actually true. Equating proof of work miners to the working class & stakers or developers as wealthy elites or rulers is so massively cringe it's tough to even read.

Argument 2: Ethereum is in active development, is planning to switch to proof of stake, has things like difficulty bombs, and therefore is somehow dishonest.

Decentralized blockchain communities come to consensus around different values and philosophies. Eth has for a long time been a community which values consistent iteration and improvement around fundamental aspects of the protocol. The transition to proof of stake has been known for years and years. There's nothing dishonest about any of this. If anything the community has been asking for faster iteration to solve high transaction fees and improve usability. Bitcoin's development stagnation works fine for bitcoin. Ethereum is clearly making the right move in continuing to improve the base protocol. Which as you mention is a huge, extremely complicated undertaking.

The article goes on to some cognitive dissonance about how Ethereum doesn't deliver on promises despite the fact that it just delivered a major protocol update last week... might as well throw in the dao hack and icos and whatever else in there and see if anything sticks. I guess with nothing to develop or build, bitcoin maxi's have a lot of time to ramble incoherently about Ethereum. And they probably always will.
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That is wet bulb globe temperature, not wet bulb temp. WBGT is calculated by adding together weighted WBT, globe temp and dry bulb temp.

See: https://www.instrumentchoice.com.au/news/wet-bulb-temperatur...
I believe the standard practice is:

// file.h
#ifndef FILE_DECLSPEC
#define FILE_DECLSPEC inline
#endif

FILE_DECLSPEC int add_one(int x) {
return x + 1;
}

// file.c
#define FILE_DECLSPEC
#include "file.h"

In this way you don't keep the declarations in both files.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commits/master

I wouldn’t consider that stagnate.
The thing that gets me is it seems to all be for rent. How can you have a real community when people don't own the land they live on?
Those radiate through the atmospheric microwave window, right?
Fair.

I consider it a public service to keep mentioning this though, so that in future jobs, I don't have to explain over and over again why I don't want to use pip to "manage" our dependencies.
We need more efficient AC, no question about that. We also need to stop building glass buildings that can’t exist without AC. But there’s no way to live completely without AC, it’s likely going to get warmer even if we become carbon neutral now.
What causes emissions is deviation from optimal temperature. And with global warming there's more extreme deviations both ways.

Also - in my country recently the peak electricity usage moved from winter to summer because of AC. Nobody had AC 30 years ago, now it's common in offices and people start installing it in their homes. Heating still uses more energy overall, and in worse forms (burning coal and gas, mostly), but this slowly changes.
The cost of upgrades is prohibitive. It would probably cost us 20% of the home's value to really upgrade it to a reasonable place. Replacing our oil boiler with a heat pump based central air or mini-split system will cost us almost $40k -- 4x more than a simple oil boiler replacement.
Well you have uniswap's vote on the educational fund. Which IIRC was about allocating money to lobby for crypto.

https://app.uniswap.org/#/vote/1/1
I really think the answer to this is to run much smaller and cheaper buses instead of the extremely expensive big ones that only have a few occupants. Shuttle buses cost around $60-70k vs >$600k for a new full size bus. Of course, driver labor is also a significant cost, but I think it's easier to find shuttle bus drivers as it only requires a class B license.
That is called XMPP.
Vitalik has less than 0.5% of all ETH, ~300K.
No, on smaller subreddits the downvote button also enforces conformity and a right opinion. You can be as polite as you can, as decent as a scholar, but if your opinion is wrong, you will get downvoted -- and once you get to minus 1, minus 2, chances are other people will downvote you, out of sheer reflex: opinion bad --> already in negative --> here, have another downvote.

It's easier, a thousand times easier, to use the downvote button to express disagreement than to actual type words and construct arguments, and that's how most people will use it.

And I suppose sometimes it can filter the toxic, inflammatory or misleading comment.
From whatever you say I’m sure I’ll get along with you if I meet you in person, so there’s that! I think the most important thing I look for in a genuine person is the complete acknowledgment of all the hypocricies we put up in our lives. Travel etc is just an interesting lightning rod that concentrates such topics (other than dietary choices, but let’s not go there lol).

I do definitely judge quickly and summarily. But my thought process is I’m ready to change my opinion on anyone at a moments notice as I learn about them, and I don’t avoid people due to preconceived prejudices, so why not go wild with my judgement? It’s fun, it makes me look for underlying motives, and I’m happy to be wrong more often than not!

The moment I say this out loud, I typically don’t keep too many people around, for sure, but I’m not bothered by it that much. The ones that stick around are in the end much more fun for me to hang out with anyways.
It gets to 115+F where I live, sometimes for a few days. If you go outside bald in full sun without a hat, within seconds it feels as though your brain is cooking in your skull. It's liveable for a short stretch, but seriously discourages you from going outside. Parts of the garden crisp up and die in a day.
If something is hard in theory, it's 10x harder in implementation. Complex systems have a lot of 'unknown unknowns' that can't be forecasted. Ethereum is $300B+ live network so every small change takes time to research, test, and implement. Migrating from PoW to PoS is like swapping out the engine of an airplane in mid-air.
>LOL! Pretty sure those community calls did not include ALL miners.

They included the biggest miners and overall > 50% of the mining power as far as I could tell.

>The mechanics I'm referring to are in the 50+ page document that I read,

I wish you'd specify what mechanic in particular you think others misunderstood and you didn't, as I included the main ones from their arguments.
Homes in general seem to be hodge podges of design with little optimization. Where is the Apple of homebuilding?
This will come back and bite Google hard. Either the great resignation coming to Google or majority of Google engineers will actively moonlighting to compensate and earn more. You will see significant stalling of innovation at Google. Already some of people I know will use this opportunity to hunt for talents and paying a fraction of what Google is paying allowing them to still keep their current jobs.
> Intellectual work keeps your mind stimulated and your body moving. Inaction ends up killing old people.

Nobody argues with this. But thinking that paid work is the only source of mind stimulation and body movement is just silly.
One of the previous years AQI 246 (in SF) was compared to smoking 11 cigarettes a day by some researchers. Assuming you do literally nothing to avoid it, 500 must be like smoking a ~pack a day. That is a typical, easy to track volume for many smokers; I used to smoke a pack a day for a couple years (gave up completely ~15 years ago)... it's not great statistically (and certainly make cardio harder from my experience), but it feels just like normal life and is low enough impact that many people never give up 0_o
Agile is a tool for feature-dominated webcrap where "sort of works" is good enough. It's not useful for, say, database internals or hard real-time.

If you just need to put ads on a page, a deep knowledge of Knuth and Dijkstra will just make you unhappy with the mess that HTML/CSS/Javascript has become.
> For a long, long time, I felt like a whiny teenager, being pissed at my parents. As I get older (I'm 45 ish), the more I feel like my disgust at the folks who run these things is an actual ethical stance.

Same. They say that you get more conservative with age, but instead I've found that it has only got easier to hold the same principles I think I've always held.

Lately it seems like people have stopped trying to sugar coat their shitty immoral ideas, and now it's really easy to see when someone is motivated by greed or hatred or is just an all around bad person. They used to dress these ideas up as "pragmatism" or "fiscal responsibility" and then you'd have to debate them and second guess yourself. But now they pretty much just tell you that they have no principles.

It doesn't even have to be political... You wouldn't believe how casually people will suggest doing immoral things at work: cutting corners (and lying about it), lying to customers, lying to coworkers, hiding things that make the company look bad (even if people could get hurt as a result), or even committing outright fraud. It boggles the mind.
If only sony is making these, a lot of other cameras will see them as well since sony is the sensor manufacturer for say, nikon. That' doesn't mean prices will go down, however.
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> (b) is why Bitcoin core development has stagnated. And that's fine if people just want it to be like gold, however Ethereum doesn't aspire to not evolve.

How stagnated is Bitcoin development? Yeah it is not progressing super fast, but I think it is still progressing. Taproot has been accepted by miners and will be activated this year. Improvements are being done.

As Bitcoin is the biggest crypto by market gap, I think risk-aversiveness is a good thing. While I was initially a big blocker, now I think that going without a hard fork was probably quite a good idea. Bitcoin still works nicely and I still use it a lot, now I just use LN transactions in addition to onchain txes.
Liquids aren't degraded by shockwaves, but the pusher plates were always intended to be ablative. If they start developing cracks I guess you can melt them down and recast them.
Exactly. 50% isn't enough to reach consensus. I also know pools that voted against it, which kind of regret that now that they understand things better. A big issue is that miners and some of the pools were still raw over progpow.

Point #1 is a big one. A huge number of people thought that fees would go down.
Yes, so you’re proving my point? Sure, it’s about lobbying, but in defense of crypto (Previously known as: DeFi Political Defense Fund), to keep their crypto ball rolling.
I was gonna say this reminds me of the curved film planes on cheap plastic cameras including the back of many disposable cameras. Almost as if it's good to make the focal point the same distance away from the lens in all places.
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Did Ethereum ever make a promise that "code is law"? The references I'm finding are all in Ethereum Classic docs.

Fair point to the author for finding the dynamic nature of Ethereum's progression not to their liking, but it's a real reach to portray it as some kind of class conflict parable.
We have seen the UK government magically lose phones and supposedly WhatsApp messages where we all presume illegal business was being done that financially benefits those involved. I think we need a blockchain version of messaging the does the opposite and using anything like this for government communication should have mandatory 5 year sentences attached.
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I’ve been wondering if there’s a corollary to that with wildfires. It seems there could be a feedback loop, but wildfires happen naturally too and there’s also a fixed number of trees in the world to burn.
Model would be nice, I have Nighthawk too - R7960P - and it's buggy as heck, refuses to upgrade and very flaky. Very disappointed.

Upd: I see you specified the model below, didn't notice that, sorry. Will check that one out, maybe it's better?
I am going to make core functionality open source on Github. Currently doing some research for market and engineering. Hoping to make the core functionality using only front-end code to keep the costs as low as possible. I will give you a heads up when I have a plan in place.
I think there's a point to the blog article itself, but i think you miss a vital point in the conclusion. The way a DevOps position that is described in the blog post is a valid position that could have DevOps in the title. But that's not usually how the DevOps role is used. This can be easily seen in many listings of the job title.

The analogy with agile is pretty good here. Sure you could have an Agile Engineer, that works primarily with making sure the agile process is actually used and help facilitating that. Normally that would not be a position itself though, especially not an engineering one.
I'm more worried about appearing than disappearing messages and wish there was a spoiler/nsfw tag for them so that recipient's device only displays messages (and especially attached images) after a tap or some other deliberate action. Right now there are a few people I need to take a pause to think if I want to open that conversation with others around.
CirclesUBI and proof of humanity UBI

Both basic income projects. Proof of humanity ubi tokens are more easily tradeable and meant to provide Sybil resistance to eth projects, but circles has a nice self contained design which is probably more interesting as a form of basic income/ community currency.
> I work for fiat and this happens already ! You dont need crypto to have a working economy based on consumption and trade.

Yes but apparently you need crypto to have censorship-proof cheap transactions that finish quickly.

In theory, you can do that on a fiat currency. In practice, my transactions take days.
And yet, a lot more populated areas on the globe are susceptible to heat waves than to cold waves.
Also, Ethereum Classic has been 51% attacked and then reversed transactions a few times. So not sure if author is recommending ppl avoid altcoins entirely?
You can still pass the -ip flag right? This mostly means you probably need to read some 'Seaweedfs in production' sort of guide.
it was pretty solid; I owned one, I used it as my desktop for years.
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People who need fast, cheap, safe transactions rather than a value store.
Its called the Explore-Exploit Tradeoff. Depending on personality triats, people are more suited to one or the other.
Does anyone know of any sources that attempt to look at the marginal energy source rather than the average energy source?

For example, a region might have 50% of its power from hydro and 50% from gas, but 0% of new power plants are hydro and 100% are gas. In such a world, adding a new electricity consumer to the grid causes 100% gas emissions, even though "50% of power is clean hydro." The proper attribution really ought to be the causal attribution, which typically means looking at the marginal source of power rather than the average.

I know this is a complicated topic. Entire PhD theses have been written on modeling the emissions impact of EVs, and there's a healthy debate of how to best calculate the 'causal' impact.
Can you please expound on this a little bit more?
while that is true, a lot of the house are for sale and people will make small changes. Also local governments ask for input from the people that live there. Shops can come and go as these are mostly rentel spaces. So while we do a lot of planning there is still room to make it your own. This village seems to be a Holliday park like experience. With only rentals and pre defined shops