skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who do you think opposes carbon taxes, why, and how do you think they express that will politically, and by what means of supporting that action?

One of the largely unspoken truths of economics is that wealth is power.

Actually, it was spoken, by Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, but somehow that short, succinct, critical phrase is ignored in favour of a much longer one strung together out of multiple sections over hundreds of pages using what for Smith was not an explanatory mechanism, as it's often portrayed, but of a statement of ignorance, that a cause is unknown.
> Our main finding is that mask mandates and use likely did not affect COVID-19 case growth. Mask mandates were associated with greater mask use but ultimately did not influence total normalized cases or post-mandate case growth.

> we did not observe lower growth rates over a range of compliance at maximum Fall-Winter growth [45-83% between South Dakota and Massachusetts during maxima] when growth rates were high. This complements a Danish RCT from 3 April to 2 June 2020, when growth rates were low, which found no association between mask use and lower COVID-19 rates either for all participants in the masked arm [47% strong compliance] or for strongly compliant participants only.

> We only assessed one biological quantity [confirmed and probable COVID-19], but the ongoing pandemic warrants assessment of other factors such as hospitalizations and mortality. Importantly, our study does not disprove the efficacy of all masks in limited and controlled circumstances, such as properly worn N95 respirators.

It's important to be aware that mandated non-pharmaceutical interventions like lock-downs, school closures, - and to a lesser degree masking - have second order effects on seasonal endemic illnesses such as influenza and RSV. Large future outbreaks of both diseases may occur following a period of extended NPIs. These outbreaks, which may reach peak numbers in the winter, could increase the burden to healthcare systems [1].

Considering these potential consequences, and the other potential negative externalities mentioned in the paper, it's imperative that such mandates be carefully scrutinized and evaluated before being widely enforced.

[1] The impact of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on the future dynamics of endemic infections
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/48/30547
The fact that the :visited state of links was gimped due to privacy issues doesn't help much either.

It used to be any visited link would look visited, regardless of the website. This made it possible to see where a user had visited across the web, and so visited links only apply to the current origin now.

At some point it also became hip to remove the underline from links, and links rarely have underlines anymore.
The default sub mods are capricious and irritable. Check out r/undelete for an updated stream of mod removed posts that top r/all, or r/longtail for less popular removed posts. To say nothing about the literal 100s of thousands of comments they remove to make the site wholesome and nice, or just for abstruse personal vendettas. It’s terrible.
But the same applies to the messages themselves, no? QKD is only for key exchange, so I assume the resulting keys themselves are just random (non-quantum) bits of data, and the encrypted messages are sent through plain old TCP/IP. If a message is intercepted, the same tactics of waiting until the encryption is no longer secure could work.
This is a really serious problem and a nice set of principles to go by. There's a big "but", however: Most of us here are hired employees and aren't really making the products for the end users. What really could be helpful are not some "oaths" but the strategies for dealing with our managers and employers and ways to uphold the ethics (and in some cases, aesthetics) of our work.

The mere market clearly don't work here, as the demand for these values is overshadowed by user's convenience, network effect and marketing brainwash.
Yes you have to go in with at least two other people. Looks like it's going for $30 a month/line right now.

https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/essentials
1: Regardless of its original context, the analogy does seem reasonable to me. "Shouting fire," assuming there is no fire, is disinformation. "A crowded theater" represents a scenario in which disinformation presents a clear and present threat to others.

2: Better late than never. ICUs are reaching capacity again, especially in areas with low vaccination rates. There is a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, but we are still in the tunnel.

Edit: de-amped versions of the above links

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2013/03/04/please-s...
For comparison, Google appears to be paying Mozilla about $400M/year. https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-extends-its-go...
Orwell's concern was Us, not Them:

"[Nineteen Eighty-Four] was based chiefly on communism, because that is the dominant form of totalitarianism, but I was trying chiefly to imagine what communism would be like if it were firmly rooted in the English speaking countries, and was no longer a mere extension of the Russian Foreign Office."
That would be awful. Youtube-dl feels like Slsk to me. As long as its under-the-radar enough, the big dogs will let it live. That it's a CLI tool is enough to deter most users. If somebody creates a GUI app for it however, I imagine it would be snuffed out quickly.
Three points

- It's approximately a 180° pivot to go from "unused renewable energy" to "flare gas for green bitcoins"

- It doesn't reduce the emissions. Whether you flare it or burn it in a gas turbine / engine driving a generator to mine bitcoin, the CO2 released is exactly the same, as you are burning ~100 % of the hydrocarbons either way. The difference is that one generates bitcoins, the other does not. This is only valuable to bitcoin stakeholders, and as has been pointed out up and down all these threads this is either of approximately no value or of negative value to society at large. And overall, creating the equipment to mine bitcoins with flare gas, and deploying that to remote oil fields w/ no use for gas, creates a bunch of emissions that simply don't exist if you just flare the gas.

- There are non-emissive alternatives, e.g. gas re-injection. Note that the great majority of unwanted gas is already dealt with this way. This means that mining bitcoins using flare gas has a very good likelihood of increasing the share of unwanted gas that is effectively flared, again, increasing emissions.

Reducing the amount of flared gas (and putting it through a turbine to mine bitcoin is the same as flaring it as far as emissions go) is in fact an UN IEA goal.

The simple fact of the matter is that there is no free lunch and there is NO ecological way of randomly wasting energy.
The go-to excuses for this are "easier," "cheaper," and "good enough for the users."

Also known as "laziness," "greed," and "lack of pride in one's work."

I'm OK with some rando startup using something like Electron in their formative years. But companies like Microsoft have no excuse other than some middle manager's desire to buy a new boat.
Why is your reaction "let's build another bot Discord can shut down whenever they want" and encouraging others to have this same experience when you could run your own server, maybe Rocket Chat or Mattermost or Matrix, and write a bot against software that is at least open source?

Discord is just Slack for gamers. Its popularity, and misuse of the term "server," for a cloud product, just kills me
Six Sigma is a travesty of statistical process control. For one thing, only rarely does a process attain six sigma reliability. Six Sigma is about cult-like in-group/out-group dynamics for the Six Sigma Black Belts.
Congrats on the launch and great progress you've made so far! Setting up a warehouse must be a lot of work, how do you plan to scale this to multiple cities and countries?
>Isn't this the business model of tons of huge companies? Amazon famously ran at very deliberately low profits for years.

No. Operating at low profit margins is not the same as reaching $x of profit and then selling everything at cost.

>Uber and Lyft have margins so low they're losing tons of money in an attempt to get market share.

These do not seem relevant, as most businesses, by and large, year after year, are not giving away products or services to try and gain marketshare.
> I should guiltily stop having children

The unintended consequence is that only the conscientious people take themselves out of the gene pool, which is counterproductive.
Yes exactly. You should be allowed to disagree with that person still being able to talk. The whole deplatforming of Trump seemed overly orchestrated.

[EDIT} this is getting downvoted, but him magically being removed from Twitter and Parler being shut down didn't just happen in a vacuum. We are in full censorship mode as a country. It is sad to see.
I promise you that the reason I drive my car everyday has nothing to do with propaganda from the oil companies in any meaningful way.

I'm 100% certain they covered up the truth, but I have no reason to believe that had everyone known the truth, anyone would have cared beyond hardcore environmentalists.

Most everyone does what's convenient and necessary until otherwise required.
For that price (approx USD 120) I get 4 lines, so my whole family. I'm not happy about the data breach, but I'm very happy with TMobile otherwise, and I seem to have a better deal than my friends on AT&T and others here in the USA.
PAF can be thought of as basically a broadcast message to any and all WiFi devices in the area, regardless of if they are connected to the same access point or IP network. In the case of someone like Amazon, a device when it is first powered on can broadcast out looking for other Amazon WiFi devices in the home and receive the credentials from them.
How were the chip-making machines made before there were chip-making machines?

Can't chip-making machines be made without chips? Yes. The very first one, at least, was made like that.
Blue-green. It was used mostly only in oscilloscopes [1] because the persistence time was really long - good for instruments where the signal might be changing faster than a human can perceive not so much for low latency inputs.

[1] https://www.wellenkino.de/565/565-1.jpg
Considering how fast Reddit is growing I think people should keep an eye on the moderators of r/worldnews and r/news. The viewership of these subreddits is several times bigger than their subscriber count because both subreddits are regularly featured on r/all and r/popular. It's also no secret that many journalists use these subreddits to gauge which topics interests people.

It's possible that in a few years all an authoritarian regime has to do to shut down bad publicity is to get a moderator on r/worldnews.
Well, I think that's human's favorite way of getting out of trouble: Let things go to crap, then engineer or brute force an emergency patch.

I'm already on board with geoengineering, especially a program weatherizing rocks in some of unpopulated areas like Nevada. I am a little weary of sea seeding with iron, just because so much of the climate and gas mix is regulated by the ocean...I'd hate to somehow, idk, spur an algae bloom of death world-wide...not that I know anything on the matter.
When you say "free delivery" do you mean the distributor is delivering the products to the merchant for free? Is there a minimum order size?

You note the idea of them ordering every day, are the goods moving that fast that it makes financial sense for daily orders? Normally these shops are ordering weekly or biweekly.

Do you work with the Principals at all (e.g. Coca Cola) or just directly with the Distributors?

Did the merchants already have smart phones and digital literacy to be able to easily download and leverage your app or was it a process of teaching them how to use it?
What’s MIS?
> I've met lots of security consultants who did not have backgrounds in math or compsci.

My experience both working at and with higher end consultancies is that there is no correlation whatsoever between those degrees and any particular consultant’s competency. Some of the best people I’ve worked alongside have been college dropouts and Religion majors.
>Chia claimed to "Save the world from proof-of-work wastage", but it would just turn a GPU crunch into a HDD crunch.

Chia actually hasn't resulted in an HDD crunch. The economics of it are such that further investing in HDD storage isn't profitable, yet already Chia is the most decentralized and resilient crypto. I say resilient because price collapsed but allocated storage hasn't.
I'm not entirely sure why this comment gets downvoted, because it's spot on. QC is impractical for any real-world network, and the idea that it could ever play a role in the real-world Internet is just fantasy.

But also we don't need to. Cryptography without quantum is just fine.
Why not "just" use Inferno? ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYPBAckCEQo
What is Eich doing now?
But that doesn't equate to saying that it is ineffective at preventing infection. I think we'd need follow-up studies showing a trend towards zero, but that doesn't seem to exist yet.
Deming gets the credit, but in Japan it was Homer Sarasohn[1][2] who did the foundational work[3]. In fact, he handed the reins off to Deming.

One particularly interesting thing is that, at least once upon a time, Canon didn't even bother inspecting their copiers and printers, because the variance was so low it was a waste of time[4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Sarasohn

[2] https://honoringhomer.net/

[3] https://apnews.com/article/e2908339e16a48dc8efe37d77a905daa

[4] http://qualiticien.over-blog.com/article-679016.html
Well, IMO Bild [1] is basically the German version of The Sun based on sensationalism.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild
> i wonder how it would work out if a bot used youtube-dl to snarf audio tracks.

youtube-dl + ffmpeg was the "traditional" way of doing it, but it didn't scale very well. These days, the majority of bots use lavaplayer[0] based solutions like lavalink[1] to stream audio.

There's also YouTube IP bans to be concerned about. Most bots get around it by rotating through blocks of IPv6 addresses.

[0] https://github.com/sedmelluq/lavaplayer

[1] https://github.com/freyacodes/Lavalink
Yes, but efficiency is opposite of roboustness/resiliency.
I've used a cell phone as an audio signal generator for testing transmitters. There are apps for sending a continuous signal, and I assume it would be easy enough to write one for sending a modulated signal.

BTW, this is one reason why I won't buy a phone without an audio jack.
“Covid isn’t real and Covid vaccines will literally genocide and sterilize us”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/federal-judge-claims-... Stuff like this, and worse
I think strange that you require a public URL to tranfert the audio file... That could be very complex for developers to first store audio file on a cloud provider, allow public access and then pass it to Hooho service.

Why not allowing to transfer data directly using an multipart/form-data or a base64 string?
Sure, but a lot of the pro-cryptocurrency people say (or used to, at least) that cryptocurrencies will liberate us from the existing power structures. But it doesn't really, because the people with pre-existing power can just as easily buy their way into power over cryptocurrencies too.
I'm curious what makes that your favorite quote.

It gives me pause, mainly because I've seen it abused, ironically, often in contrast to some of Deming's core ideas.

YMMV
> How many more people would drive Tesla if the alternative was to pay $9 per gallon of gasoline? How many more people would buy hybrids?

At current prices it's already economically viable to get a Tesla in many places.
This seems kind of obvious though. Larger projects are more in need of the abstractions. You ARE gonna need it.
They say you don't need cookie consent for login form. Login form is an obvious authentication, opt-in even. You need cookie consent when you authenticate user stealthily - how Google Analytics does it.
> Regarding 1 & 2, I think there's more than enough information out there at this point for anyone to figure out that large SUVs are worse than smaller vehicles or bicycles for the environment

That's neither disputed nor relevant. If SUVs were replaced with Toyota Corolas overnight, the climate situation would be negligibly better.

> it would seem to me that the consumer (industries in this case) would have their own share of responsibility, not just the oil & gas companies supplying them.

Oil and gas companies are faulted for obstructing efforts to change the status quo (lobbying and disinformation campaigns), not for supplying energy to their consumers.

Most importantly, we need to pass carbon pricing legislation (with border adjustments) so that consumers at every point in the supply chain can reason effectively about (and share incentives which are aligned with) the environment. Here's a site that makes it trivial to write your legislator: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/house/
the person you posted said that the FBI blamed the vendor becaues of the FBI's incompetence. so why did you feel the need to say the same thing worded differently?
they still need an SFP+ (or higher like QFSP) slot to fit into though.
I agree with many of your points. Especially that the mortgage market is really messed up. But as you say, it's almost impossible to make changes that negatively influence the (upper) middle class.

A pet "dictator for one day" idea of mine is to simply move the capital to something like Linköping! Has an airport, enormous amounts of farm land that can just be built on etc, less than 2 hours away from Stockholm by train.

Make Stockholm like NYC and Linköping as DC. If all government headquarters (and related functions) were forced to move, it would certainly take hundreds of thousands of people with them (including family members etc).

Brasília but on Östgötaslätten :-).
If we pushed up the cost of that consumption I'd be willing to bet we'd see it magically reduce.
Are you answering to a different message ?
I stumbled upon Deming's "Out of the Crisis" when wandering through the library in school. It has changed how I thought about system improvement ever since.

I use the things I learned for marketing, product, and engineering systems.

Want to improve a system? Before doing anything, collect data and measure. A system must be stable, else you cannot improve it. Marketing campaigns. Funnel optimizations. Performance improvement.

Most "stability" is achieved by simple things like squashing bugs (campaign bugs, performance bugs, or UX bugs).

Once you achieve stability of output (i.e. low standard deviation), then improve the system.

Simple, uh?
let me know how i can contact you
How to strike a balance between this? The sweet spot is somewhere inbetween.
That's not true of most YC acceptees. It's more true of these "meet the batch" threads but that's a sample bias.

I suppose it's mostly an artifact of YC's growing so more internationally in recent years. There are others (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28257352 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28087309) but these are a small minority.
Question about carbon capture:

The C02 being released in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels was in the air initially before being tied up by photosynthesis. So as time goes on (since inception of life) more and more C02 is tied up in hydrocarbons and locked away in the ground.

So here's the question. What happens to life on earth if this process keeps going for millions more years? At what point is there insufficient C02 for plants to function?
> There’s no tomato sauce atop the dough, no mozzarella, no onion. It’s just crushed tomato with salt, oregano, and olive oil.

Looks at picture to make sure he's not misunderstanding, sees that, no, it's that

What does the author think pizza sauce usually is?
Well, their kids could still end up being assholes.
r/RawDriving
r/BeltFree
Any other ideas for a good bait?
I think you misunderstood the quote. It is saying that if you take 10 million people the background rate of death, disease, stroke etc., (unrelated to vaccine) will be high and a confounding issue, even if you didn’t give them the vaccine.

Edit: I think you have a point about whether those who have previous infection truly need the vaccine, but the way you are using VAERS data diminishes your point
A possible analogue: a Ponzi-scheme. The actors do consent (by lack of understanding of how the scheme works), but the outcome is against their expectations. Of course, the guys running the scheme have ways to explain their shortfall (the governments/banks don't want you to get rich) and people do fall for/believe that.
>Your example is straightforward cocercion

Why do you think that? Keep reading the article. The West doesn't really need Fear (except against whistleblowers etc), but uses Friction and Flooding extremely effectively. The "mysterious" coordination of the increasingly-consolidated media helps provide Friction against organizing effectively against skub, and a steady insistent Flood of pro-skub messaging ensures those without much investment in skub either way suffer the mere-exposure effect and think skub is normal (those man-on-the-street interviews, skub showing up in movies and TV, ads for skub, weirdly patriotic messaging about skub).

>It seems to suggest, paradoxically, that people can only consent to things that they ought to consent to, according to the beliefs of the person making the judgement (in this case a Marxist intellectual).

I think it suggests that people should make decisions based on unadulterated information, rather than that which is spoon-fed to them by authoritarians. Did you read the rest of the article? "Marxist" is an analytical lens, not indicative of someone who wants to give your toothbrush to the revolution.
In Fortran-90 and beyond you could just have an array of pointers to strings, which would be analogous to the normal behavior in most languages.
> but it was popularized in the US by Italian-Americans.

Sweden and Southern Germany had pizzerias before WWII. Same for São Paulo (Brazil) and Buenos Aires (Argentina), both cities with a big Italian immigration on the 19th century.

The town of Nice, in southern France, has pissaladiere as a local dish since the end of 19th century.

And then there are the hundreds of different versions of flat-breads from Asia to North Africa.
Nope I am asking a simple question of who pays in this kind of situation.
Interesting thing is that is quite big range of foods.
Otherwise it is quite common to have just one 'national dish' that is originated elsewhere (like Hungarian Goulash) or use relatively new ingredients (like potatoes in Slovak Halusky).
Indeed, but they control the supply chain risks to a much greater extent now.
> But cars are different. For many people, driving is not essential. It should be a luxury to drive a huge hunk of metal around a smooth road. By right that shouldn't be affordable, given the current situation. We just got used to cheap cars and cheap fuel, and built our culture and our cities and our lives around that.

So you'll pay to bulldoze people homes and build massively dense downtown housing that offers a better quality of life than the suburbs?
That'll be a fun tag to use the next time I find an XSS vulnerability.
The code used for scraping YouTube and streaming audio to Discord has always been open source:

- https://github.com/sedmelluq/lavaplayer

- https://github.com/freyacodes/Lavalink
Arguably, even that can be construed as clickbait since it hides the metadata that the full article is the full article ;)
What if it's too late to save our planet _with_ geoengineering?