skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Backordered" is something of an understatement. I placed my order in February 2018 and still haven't received it.
Sure, ok that sucks. Still not sure why this is the topic of conversation in an article about the CCP treatment of a conquered nation.
People do complain about excessive comforts too. It's one of the main complains those less well off make about those more well off.

That said, there's a couple of differences between hot tubs and AC, and crypto mining:

- Creature comforts don't consume the energy equivalent of a small developed country.

- In what they do consume, most of the use is around basic human needs; excessive use happens rarely.

- Most importantly, for almost[0] everything other than crypto, whether it's hot tubs or ACs or fiat banking system, energy use is considered waste to be minimized. Simply because energy is not free, the market is incentivized to reduce marginal energy consumption involved across the board[1]. In contrast, PoW considers waste a feature.

Cryptocurrencies are their own special thing - the perfect machine for consuming any surplus energy available. That's why they deserve their own special kind of backlash.

--

[0] - I can't really think of any thing other than PoW cryptocurrencies, where energy waste would be beneficial to the thing by design.

[1] - That, of course, doesn't mean we're using less energy overall - because both population and economic growth outpace efficiency improvements. But on the margin, it holds true.
They don't have to go it alone.
Well if it has no impact on them then maybe it's not so important.
Yes in contrast to Xinjiang you can't economically develop Tibet.

Even the CCP can't move mountains. Tibet is only good for tourism.
justinram11 says>"The most "stereotypical" answer is Thailand,:<

But it's so bloody hot!
> I've read that, if one is going to use floats, then one should eschew 32-bit floats, and go with 64-bit floats. 80-bit floats seem only useful for very special applications.

This is what Kahan has to say on the matter:

For now the 10-byte Extended format is a tolerable compromise between the value of extra-precise arithmetic and the price of implementing it to run fast; very soon two more bytes of precision will become tolerable, and ultimately a 16-byte format ... That kind of gradual evolution towards wider precision was already in view when IEEE Standard 754 for Floating-Point Arithmetic was framed

(The quote is apparently from 1994 unpublished manuscript, so I can't find the source for it)

More than 25 years later and we are rarely using even 80 bit doubles, nevermind 128 bit ones.
> I think just pointing to this months' news should suffice in lieu of an argument?

Thankfully, I'm not from the US. Was there there really an armed rebellion there?
If someone asks you potentially loaded questions about your business, understanding their intentions seems fair.
Google could provide an api that shows ads or plays ads. They could also even register the users to know who was listening.

They don’t want APIs and only want listeners through their apps. Kind of lame they aren’t building technical solutions for actual user problems (like I’d like to listen to YouTube in my channel), they would be able to charge advertisers more if there are 5 people listening to an ad vs just one.
Who is responsible for repairs?
> there is an important distinction between “working hard” and “maximising the number of hours during which one works”. In particular, forcing oneself to work even when one is tired, unmotivated, unprepared, or distracted with other tasks can end up being counterproductive to one’s long-term work productivity, and there is a saturation point beyond which pushing oneself to work even longer will actually reduce the total amount of work you get done in the long run

Worth highlighting, for those of you that are skipping through.
How's the crime and safety situation in Colombia recently? Many years back a good friend of mine lived there for a significant amount of time and it seemed quite unsafe.
This looks very interesting. However, it does put into context how much value operational scale brings:

- The Librem 5 specs out in the ballpark of the 2016 iPhone 7 Plus.

- My goodness it's expensive. Similarly-specced iPhones still on the market are in the $300 range.

Obviously kill switches etc. are worth some money, but it's still surprising to see the magnitude of the value differential.

I'm always going to root for more competition in the market, so I hope this does well. But I am baffled at who the target market is. "Is okay with outdated phone but willing to pay 3x for it" would seem to be a very small market.
It is one thing to build massive fabs it is quite another to run them profitably especially with China in the game, you are competing with a large pool of cheap R&D engineers and a captive market.

This was a mistake with 5G, where each country guarded their patent pool, R&D and failed to collaborate with strategic partners.
SaaS version of that would be use Telegraf, but send data to Sumo Logic, Data Dog or other observability vendor. I would also

You don't need to host InfluxDb and Grafana yourself. I would also consider gathering logs and traces to troubleshoot problems. Straightforward with top tier observability vendors, harder to do it on your own.

Disclaimer: I'm employee of Sumo Logic.
The 50s-60s were a boom time compared to the following decades, but were nothing compared to the preceding decades. NYC's biggest building boom was the ~1900s-1930s, after which things fell off considerably.

https://www.renthop.com/studies/nyc/building-age-and-rents-i...
One thing that worked for me was to have a friend hold me accountable if I didn't work a certain number of hours per day. My punishment for not working enough was that I'd owe him money.

Ideally you want to get to a point where you're able to hold yourself accountable, but I'm not entirely convinced most people are able to do that reliably, sustained indefinitely.
Kind of a pity his term went in such... surreal directions, because I think he probably could have had some interesting ideas in areas like corporate governance. He had a mix of insider experience and a populist platform.
The smart thing isn't to take away cars, but to invest heavily in high-quality alternatives, while making emissions increasingly expensive. Unfortunately, this isn't happening at nearly the level it should be.
> Obviously kill switches etc. are worth some money

It's much more than just kill switches:

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
i bought a CNC so I could make my own cubes. It's very nice. I often make objects just so I can hold them later.
Appreciate the clarification. I didn't know about the bootwork example, I meant reliant more generally.

System76 is one of the few Linux-first hardware companies. Dell and Lenovo do this but as an aside. System76 is 100% Linux.

If there were an entire ecosystem of Linux-first open hardware developers, Purism could simply provide a few hardware and software tweaks (ie hw switches for wifi) for enhanced privacy.

The problem is Purism is forced to bear the weight of being one of the few open hw/sw vendors AND all the additional anti-surveillance pieces too.

Curious if this explanation helped you.
Free Tibet.

Beastie Boys - shambala / bodhisattva vow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50OHxCnooQs
That looks great, the only think that would make it even better for me would be a section to monitor RSS feeds and automatically download torrents from a set of rules into specific directories (preferably with the ability to unpack the download if the original files are compresses/splitted).

But that probably goes beyond the scope of this project.

Very cool nonetheless!
Also, does it count as being on the market when you haven't delivered devices "pre-ordered" over 2 years ago?
I doesn't, at all. Energy production and energy distribution are entirely different things. There is enough unused (i.e. wasted) hydro power in Quebec to power the entire Bitcoin network. If energy is produced too far from where it is demanded such that transmission is prohibitively expensive, there is no downside to having highly mobile miners to make use of it. In fact the extra revenue generated can be used to subsidise the rest of the grid.
Because the brunt of this phenomena in the US has been directed at conservatives ever since 2016. It happens literally every day now, someone I follow is disappeared from a platform.
regarding that 6% tax for innovation in IT - be warned, our governing idiot party is about to introduce a bunch of new laws, including a de facto increase of that 19% to 28%.
Here's a nice articlr thst explains how induced demand is different from latwnt demand:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/8/24/does-induced-d...
Bulgaria, very nice country with forests, mountains and sea. Also sort of tax heaven. Or Georgia, very visa friendly.

Do not go somewhere hot with too many distractions. It will ruin your productivity.
There is one Dell laptop you can buy with Ubuntu: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition [1]

Linux is a side project for Dell at best.

[1] https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...
edit to add dell link
Something similar was the first computer I used too. My answer would.be: My dad bought it. This was a common form factor for personal computers back then, and they were sold in stores to to the general public.
> should not be hard to include games in this category

You better put aside the remaining 13% for 5 years, just in case the inevitable happens.
Is that a problem? Palantir has no customers. And giving fbi data is what palantir does. Right ?
i still don't understand, why would anyone be interested in purchasing stupid looking art which is of no use apart from reselling these stupid images and gif... all the fucking collections looks so stupid
> Customers asked for it: Check.

> Customers would benefit from it: Check.

The key is in what the word "it" means. The answers are positive if by "it" you mean "this category of product". They may very well be negative if by "it" you mean "our particular product".

The customers want a jar of salsa. They don't want, and never asked for, your particular variation of a jar of salsa, essentially identical to 10 other variations except for a differently designed label.

Another tricky bit is in the "asked for" part. For most products on the planet, customers don't really ask for anything. The market isn't structured this way. Products are just dumped on the market, and those that sell survive. This is wasteful, but has some benefits. It would just be better if marketing wasn't there to meddle with things, artificially sustaining more variations of a product than needed.
That sounds strange, what's in it for the landlord?
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I loved loved LOVED our three week stay in Morocco in 2019, and their cellular infrastructure was pretty decent (like, traveling all over we were never without cell service and at least some level of internet), but the internet in the places we stayed was pretty terrible across the board. Having said that, the food was so amazing that I'd be tempted to deal with the slow internet. :/
It might be worth considering both whether under supply factors into that cost and size of unit. Developers may not reasonable choose to build small units that may be quite sufficient for people's needs while coming in cheaper than the stated figure.
Ethereum is deflationary by both definitions, the market value increases while the rate of disbursement decreases with time.
And vaccines have a greater than zero risk of being contaminated with live virus, as has already happened with multiple covid vaccines.

My point isn't "don't get vaccinated",

but that claiming "a vaccine altering human DNA is conspiracy theory nonsense" is a bad take, because it's factually wrong and has actually happened.
I am still waiting on my Librem 5 phone (since April 2020). However, I've had my Librem 15 laptop (same order date) since June 2020. They are an actual existing company that has shipped a lot of real actual laptops to people. It sucks that they're taking so long to deliver the Librem 5 phone.
Off-topic, but why is it that Terry Tao's blog attracts such low-quality comments? When I look at SSC/ACX, Shtetl-Optimized, Marginal Revolution, etc. the comments are mostly constructive, engaged, and well-informed. With Tao, it's a huge proportion of random people asking for generic life advice, or fanboy-ism.

This seems counter-intuitive, because Tao's blog is by far the least accessible of those above 3 blogs on a technical level. There's almost no reason to visit Tao's blog if you don't have a graduate maths degree.
Don't forget bankrupting municipalities and states by misallocating untold sums of money toward road construction and maintenance and not investment in human capital: schools, healthcare, and other high-ROI public goods.
I agree with this, but the misunderstanding because no one is explicitly talking about how there is a desire to preserve rent controlled units. This means it's very hard for the econ 101 to play out.
>I'm going to be blunt here.
I see what you did there.
Not like anybody is checking this, I'm speaking from e experience. I had several coworkers over the years who used to live for much longer in Schengen countries without registration. In Austria this works moderately well so does it in Hungary, but of course it has some drawbacks too.
Usually in countries where people tend to curb laws to their liking as well as "forget" to pay taxes (this is the case for Hungary) more often than not, this visa situation not a big deal
Tradeoff is that it has very poor performance for frequently changed data, you can starve clients etc.

It's much better to create transfer api which atomically debits one and credits other account instead of low level individual ops.
Pine Phone (also a pure Linux phone experience) is delivering phones within three to four weeks. Purism has no excuse.
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Pro tip: as with many things on Amazon, you can usually get these cubes (or spheres) for a fair amount less on eBay.
Was it warm? That was a rare experience; not many people will have done so.
The reality is more depressing than imagining some central command manufactured this consent. It is just an emerging phenomenon to appease the audiences.
I bought a tungsten wedding band and will never again. Not because of its hardness but because I dropped it on the floor and it shattered. Apparently tungsten is very brittle and is useless on a hand that does anything. Luckily it was cheap.
How we rank hotels at OYO (2020)
> One reason landlords like the system is because they can daisy-chain the purchase of multiple properties. They take the first cheonsae deposit and use it to purchase another property, then use the cheonsae deposit from the 2nd property to purchase a 3rd property, and so on...

That sounds like it’d be a disaster during a liquidity crunch.
It's also about altering development patterns (suburbanizating) that spreads stuff out more and forcing everyone to drive more or even buy a car in the first place even if they'd prefer a walkable town.
how can anyone consider west Taiwan government as "Good"... we should ways fight against evil governments and companies that defend them just to have access to slave labour. American companies fighting the US government not to ban slave labour...NIKE
I had to look this up: ‘Ring avulsion happens when a ring on one of your fingers is caught on an object and gets yanked off suddenly and rapidly. The force and pressure of the ring being pulled can strip off and damage finger tissues, including muscles, tendons, and bones. This is called “degloving.”‘
https://www.healthline.com/health/ring-avulsion
It's been quite an interesting journey! The original plan was to study Korean language for just a year, then I kept extending the trip...

I haven't blogged in a long time, but here are the Korea-related blog posts:

http://blog.leftium.com/2007/06/my-life-prologue.html

http://blog.leftium.com/2007/06/past-month-in-review.html

http://blog.leftium.com/2007/06/my-life-chapter-i.html

http://blog.leftium.com/2010/08/dragon-flies-and-praying-man...

http://blog.leftium.com/2010/09/how-to-eat-korean-food.html

http://blog.leftium.com/2010/10/october-update-whats-good-in...
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> There's overwhelming evidence that mask use is effective in retarding the spread of COVID-19

It's probably not fair to phrase it as overwhelming evidence. Yes there is evidence that masks can reduce transmission, and the citations you provided included a fair amount of research supporting this idea (thanks for those references). And just thinking about it logically, it seems obvious masks would have such an effect.

However the evidence presented in OP - and the previous studies it cited - provide counter-evidence suggesting that mask usage and mandates may not have a significant beneficial impact on the overall course of a pandemic.

There are a variety of possible reasons for this, which you began to speculate on. Poor compliance, people not wearing their masks correctly, porous cloth masks, poorly ventilated indoor environments contributing to high viral load environments even with 100% mask compliance - the number of places where things can go wrong are tremendous and it begs the question of if the tradeoffs of mask mandates are worth it, or if our resources would be better spent on other viral elimination strategies.
Sounds like a recipe for a housing market collapse...
Mines being shipped now, it should arrive early next week!

...though I guess I am not someone you know.
> There's lots of criticism I'd have for Chinese policy, but this terminology isn't one of them. It's very common to use the term "minority" to refer to a group that is a minority at the national level, but could still be a majority in some local level.

No. If a country annexes a smaller nation, they don’t get to call the invaded population ‘a minority’ just because a stroke of their totalitarian pen made the countries one.

It is true in the American contexts you cite, but you are there you are talking about the same land - not additional grabs.
Great catch!

I had read that Digital Antiquarian piece a few months back and had remembered about the "sub windows" that an app could have. But I had thought they were scoped to just be on top of the window for the app that spawned it, and couldn't leave that "tile."

However, you are totally right. This image right here clearly shows it overlapping another application's tiled window.

https://www.filfre.net/2018/07/doing-windows-part-3-a-pair-o...

This is the best kind of correct: technically correct!
> When I look at SSC/ACX, Shtetl-Optimized, Marginal Revolution, etc. the comments are mostly constructive, engaged, and well-informed.

There are constructive, well-informed comments on Marginal Revolution, but I wouldn't call them the majority...
You are buying into the ideology/promise/cause. Is like buying a $200 poster, just because it has your favorite singer/politician/influencer/... on it.
If you want an actual (non-Android) Linux phone experience, there's only one that's actually shipping:

https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-beta-edition-with-conve...
I'm infected with that same consolation-seeking attitude that so many left-centrists show: "Always admit your own side's weaknesses."

So I can't avoid acknowledging that I do see a certain amount of culture-warrioring on the left, and a lot of people arriving at the right answer for the wrong reasons. I do that even though the things you point out are undeniable and obvious. The Republican party has stopped trying. They know perfectly well that even their nominal "centrists" are always going to side with their lunatic fringe, even as I can't control the impulse to limit my own (and earning their ire in the process).

I'm completely aware that almost every post I make with even the slightest hint of progressivism is going to be downvoted. (I'm stunned that my above post is currently sitting at +3, though I've little doubt it will be down below zero by morning.)

And yet... I grew up talking at a time when we were entitled to differences of opinion but not differences of fact. And I just can't seem to shake the way that pushed me to seek accommodations, to trust that the truth was the best way to argue and seek a compromise we could all live with. It's been a very long time since I've believed that -- over a decade. But the habits are hard to break.
Sounds like a too good to be true situation...
"a hard requirement to keep the lights on around the world"

That is a bad example of what we need the petroleum industry for. A combination of wind, solar, hydroelectric, and nuclear power could meet the world's electricity needs for many decades to come, especially as we have become so much more efficient with our electricity use compared to previous decades. The very link you provided states, "Globally, fossil fuels account for a much smaller share of electricity production than the energy system as a whole."

The bigger challenges are transportation (especially airplanes and cargo ships) and the chemicals industry, where oil is much harder to replace. Electric cars and trains are doable with sufficient infrastructure investment, but for cargo ships the only real alternative right now is nuclear power, and I am not sure we have any viable alternatives for air transport as we know it.
0 interest loan I guess
It's asked me to sign up and then says login not allowed
The contradiction here is that, overwhelmingly, the most effective way to decrease the price of space (in terms of square mile per person of land) is to increase unemployment -- which basically nobody actually wants.
I think the more reasonable explanation is it's a combination of both.

What I described is pretty much a standard, expected, and elementary capability of any intelligence apparatus in the modern world these days. It doesn't even veer into conspiracy-anything. There's documents that detail precisely how some of these units work, Western or otherwise.

That said, if you're entirely correct, it's admittedly a very sad reality.
Same. I actually (stupidly) had my Google voice number as sms 2fa for Google. Makes it tricky to log in to even access Google voice.
Phone manufacturers do this as well. Release a phone to reviewers with awesome performance and battery life (by aggressively killing background apps), then a month later, release a build that doesn't do those things so people don't complain about missed notifications, etc.

Hell, even Apple nuked the noise cancelling in the Airpods Pro right after launch [1], possibly for battery reasons or to prevent hearing damage lawsuits, but by all accounts they had jaw-dropping noise cancelling when the reviewers were writing their initial reviews.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/17/21069953/apple-airpods-pr...
I'd love to buy Purism phone but their shipping delays seem insane.
you can, but a lot of teachers and other adults in charge of watching and disciplining children are not aware that you can. So for a kid to successfully refuse, they or their parents need to be well-informed of their rights and willing to threaten the school with legal action
Hence the "etc." in my comment.

But the product page on the website (not the community wiki, which is not linked from the product page) leads with the low specs and the next feature is kill switches. I didn't make the choice of how to position the product.
Opportunity cost. Landlord can use the money to invest elsewhere and make more than the minimum 12% APY.
It is like 0% interest loan for the length of the tenant stay.
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My friend received his, so it's not exactly pure vaporware.

But it's also not usable enough to be his daily driver either AIUI.