skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no resources like this that exist in NZ. Bringing server hosting here is super important for data sovereignty and modernising our government tech, and makes it easier for overseas businesses to bring servers here. I’m excited for the possibility of game servers I’ll have less than 80ms to.
>"skate to where the puck is going"

Exactly. They're doing what PARC was: looking a decade ahead and building the technology that makes sense in that future.

I'm quite optimistic about them. Even if they can't immediately compete head-to-head with fossil fuels, there are probably some ways to get early revenue, by making other industrial chemicals, or marketing higher-priced fuel to eco-conscious consumers, or the alcoholic beverages idea they mention on their webpage.

The idea of directly electrolysing the low-concentration CO2 in the air-capture fluid and then extracting the low-concentration product is brilliant. Most of the energy cost for standard air capture is heat used to 'boil' the CO2 out of the fluid. If their osmotic membrane can separate the fuel with better energy efficiency, it's a win. It's hard to produce high concentrations of fuel products electrolytically anyway, so there was always going to be a need to concentrate the fuel somehow. The big questions in my mind are:

1. How efficient can the osmosis be?
2. Does the low concentrations of CO2 imply the need for very large electrolyzers? These tend to be the biggest capital-cost item.
I believe localized-list proportional representation avoids the problem of variable-sized and potentially very large legislatures, while maintaining fully proportional representation and representatives for districts:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localized_list

As far as I can tell:

1) each voter expresses a single preference for a candidate in a single-member district

2) when the votes are counted, each party is allocated a share of seats proportional to its candidates' votes combined

3) that many of its candidates are allocated their districts, such that they are the party's best performers (not necessarily plurality winners in their own districts)

I believe biproportional apportionment can also satisfy these criteria:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biproportional_apportionment

I'm not sure these are the only systems that satisfy these criteria. Scandinavian-style systems have a broadly proportional district system and a small proportion of "levelling" seats to make the results more proportional. I don't have detailed knowledge of any Scandinavian system, but I believe they could be tweaked to be more proportional and/or localized, and levelling seats could be allocated to districts according to where the parties winning levelling seats are most under-represented. This is more of an approximation than the preceding two, but:

1) the district system for German federal elections is very far from proportional, so the other part of the system has more to compensate for than in scandinavian-style systems

2) proportionality is necessarily approximate under any system where each party has an integer number of representatives, with achieving outcomes "within quota" being the best that can be hoped for

3) most proportional systems don't even produce results within quota, with the Dutch system a notable exception

My impression isn't that the variable number of seats in German federal elections is intended to limit accidental disproportionality, but that it's intended to prevent gaming the system by splitting a party into a district party and a list party, in order to be allocated list seats even if overrepresented in district seats. I doubt would that kind of manipulation would work if each district was multi-member with proportional representation.
powercfg /lastwake will tell you why the machine woke up.

Honestly I'm not sure where else you can find that information.
Should Insider Trading be Illegal? (2014)
I'm not one to normally ask for a TLDR; but that article is a dense 10,000 words...

I'm open to new information... so if you know something I don't, is there a more concise answer to "who really funds the EFF"?
The page has been edited and no longer mentions warranty at all.
When I worked for a small television station I would pass the time answering questions about Linux, routers and other misc categories. Like building long haul 2.4ghz networks. Then I moved out of the control room and forgot I had an account.
What percentage of cryptocurrencies usage is not PoW? What are the negative environmental impacts of the other approaches? Being better than PoW doesn’t necessarily mean they stopped being wasteful.

I rephrased that first sentence to remove the reference to HN voting. I was simply remarking how the tone will cause people to object to it quicker regardless of the merit of the underlying thought.
Sorry, I should have clarified what I meant. (I think a sister comment did clarify, but to expand on it):

Mumbai has a reputation as "a city that works". When I was growing up in India, in the 1980s, the entire country was not only poor, but also dysfunctional in terms of infrastructure: electricity, sewage, basic utilities, all unreliable or nonexistent. Whereas Mumbai famously rarely seemed to have blackouts or similar problems. Sure, the buildings looked unpainted and shabby, and the city had lots of problems including crime and extreme poverty, but the basic wheels of the machine were sound. The trains, buses, supply chains, police force, everything was miles ahead of the rest of the country.

Even today, despite tremendous migration of poor people into the city looking for opportunities, business still somehow manages to work. (The rest of the country has improved a lot, too, of course). In Mumbai, you can get things done for the most part without having to break the law or bribe people.

The article at the top of this thread describes Karachi, which is a similar-sized city, as a post-apocalyptic nightmare, with neighborhood-by-neighborhood gang control, violence, armed kidnappings, constant terror threats, unpredictable shutdowns, and generally an environment where you can't really plan any sort of business. A far cry from Mumbai. That's what I meant.

I've never been to Karachi, but I have heard similar stories from other sources, so it does seem like a terrible place to live right now. I feel for the people who are forced to deal with the stress and fear. Hugs
If they didn't filter those words out, then presumably the headline would be about 'perpetuating' instead of about 'filtering'.
For everyone who doesn't follow crypto. OP is obviously a Bitcoin maximalist. For them, the world of crypto begins and ends with Bitcoin.
You don't have a legal duty to tell a prospective employer anything. The burden is on them to perform any background checks, if they want.
Everyone knows that a richer file chooser is a desirable, highly requested feature and has been for years. There's no question about that, and no one's being dismissive about that. Actually fixing it is a whole other matter.

Genuine user requests are not made in bad faith. Stupid internet abuse is bad faith. Like I said: This issue, and others like it, mostly comes up as thoughtless abuse, not genuine user requests.

You seem like you're trying to convince me that it's a legitimate issue. I already know that. GNOME developers already know that.
Use a wiki for a knowledge base. Cheer people adding info to the wiki, even incomplete info. Require no approval from anyone to update. Allow the entire company to update the wiki, with revision history. Trust the employees to correct wrong stuff as they find it.
A fair escape hatch?

Anybody can buy BTC with stablecoins, which are unaudited, and whose creators have openly lied about maintaining a 1:1 ratio between USD and stablecoins in circulation.

Say what you will about fiat, but no bank in the world will let me exchange monopoly money for something I can use to buy a sandwich.
This guy must be 10x.
Or transacting for goods and services. You know, like in an economy. I just bought coffee with it.
Adobe Lightroom is free on iPhone (which he claims he used)
Just for a moment close your eyes and imagine a world where you have to fill-in a mildly complicated form before you visit a website (or blindly sign away whatever rights you might have had).

A world where every second funny video you might have found on Reddit leaves you with a cryptic message that some "rights holder" doesn't permit you to see it (and denies you from joining the fun everyone else seems to be having in the thread).

A world where you cannot buy half of the cool stuff you want (and everyone else seems to be having) because you cannot even see the online store where it is sold.

A world where you're even denied access to old and seemingly public domain e-books.

Open your eyes. This is the world most of us live in.

We're not on commercial VPNs because we love to, but because often there is no other way. They are in a sense invaluable when it comes to geo-restrictions, even though I agree with you that they are worthless for many of the reasons they claim to exist.
Hooray, my dream came true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27748154
A Jon Skeet encounter made me quit Stack Overflow, never to look back. I asked a question, Jon Skeet came along with an answer that did not answer my question. But his non-answer got 200 upvotes.

I went to meta to talk about how the reputation system is broken if that could happen. Skeet came along and accused me of changing my question, and a bunch of SO fanboys mocked me and told me if I want more reputation I had to try harder.

That's when I knew SO had irreparably changed for the worse.
This is particularly relevant to yesterday's discussion on books that are too long: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28636074
Essentially the only valid use of a VPN. That, or masking your location from other users online.

I find YouTube in my country is just filled with content being pushed because it's local to my country. Some VPN exit points have less local content pushing, which gives me more options. Eastern European content is really good, but also completely missing from American YouTube suggestions.
In the simplest terms, there is more murder because there is less trust. Monetary, personal, institutional, future, material: true or not, the perception is enough.
You're going to have to reference some court decisions to clarify your point. We're not talking about the executive regulating the legislature itself, but rather enforcing general laws against individuals in their personal capacity while those individuals happen to be part of the legislature.

Your argument is akin to saying that members of congress cannot be prosecuted for murder through the usual channels, because that would be the executive interfering with the legislature.

Furthermore, how is the legislature not able to bind itself to have its members be subject to law enforcement by the executive branch?
Many Serbians do still feel like victims and harbor some resentment at the west. But the 1999 NATO bombings were just one incident in a long litany of complaints (both real and imagined) going back centuries.

They also resent being used as a geopolitical pawn by Russia and China.
If there was no evidence of the account existing before you registered the NFT, I think that would be a reasonably credible bit of evidence in your favour.
Ask HN: Whose using web based development environments?
I've seen setups like:

* https://github.com/features/codespaces
* https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/
* https://coder.com/
* https://okteto.com/

and I can't help but wonder whose using these? and what their experiences are like?

Personally, I have a very difficult time seeing how these tools are not extremely frustrating for the developers using them. Still, I keep seeing them pop up and wonder if there's something I'm fundamentally missing?
Yeah, charities aren't full tax avoidance for the rich. It's more of a dick swinging contest amongst the wealthy with some tax breaks to take some of the sting away. At least some good may come from these contests though. Even if 90% of the funds go to pay charity management salaries it's better than nothing.
Most of Facebooks claims about Apple hurting small businesses always seemed a bit weird, because much of the targeting that make the most sense can be done solely by data users enter into Facebook themselfs.

Age, location, profession, combined with the content of your posts and the stuff you share should be more than enough to do efficient targeting of ads.

The main issue that Facebook might face, in my mind, is that they oversold the value of the tracking of users across the web. So their customers now see a much hyped feature disappearing, so they slow down their ad buying, even though they could get the same results.

The business that are going to be hurt the most a the agencies who honestly don't know anything about good advertising, but who just knows how to click around in Google Adword and Facebook Ads. Those people now need to learn a little more about targeting.
It gets even more complicated than that..

When they bought that Tesla stock, was it just because they thought Tesla was a great investment opportunity or was it because they believe in a renewable energy economy? If it was an ideological investment too, then they may make decisions to support the industry (and therefore their investments) naturally without any nudging. The lobbying/campaign contributions are just gravy at that point.

I lean towards NPR saying "mutual funds or nothing" but it doesn't address the fact that they could still leak sensitive information and/or help out a family member, friend, etc, etc
However unfathomable it might be, he may just genuinely like to spend his time here on earth knowing that he's helping people.

He clearly has expertise so I doubt he's poor or hurting for cash. Maybe an older fellow who has had enough of the grind and decides to spend his days sharing his knowledge with others.

Someone like this needs SO as much as they need him, it's mutually beneficial. He impacts millions, they make money. Both get what they came for.
You could store that second piece of equipment on your person, like an ultraviolet invisible ink qr code tattoo on your right hand or your forehead since no one can see it except under a black light.
The first paragraph is written to imply they have been filtered purposely:

> has been extensively ‘filtered’ to remove black and Hispanic authors, as well as material related to gay and lesbian identities

But after it is explained that this is an unintended second order effect from trying to remove offensive content from the corpus. I'm not trying to justify the outcome (it's an issue regardless of intent) I just didn't think there was any need to strongly imply it was intended.
Dell could solve this. Seems easy enough to notice that the laptop is closed, sleeping, and overheating. At that point the firmware could do something about it.
To Die Before You Die
If crypto was actually adopted as a means of buying and selling real world goods, instead of just being held as a speculative asset, then it would consume much less energy and be more efficient than the entire system, namely the military, that props up the value of the dollar. And that’s just the US military. Of course, the reason why you’re able to mine in the first place is because we have peace, due to the military. So calculating becomes a little more complicated than just crypto consumption versus military consumption.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_usage_of_the_United_S...

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/bitcoin-emits-less-than-2-of...
The author does seem to be influenced by the writing style of https://www.pakin.org/complaint, but the arguments he presents are coherent.
Well, it's all remappable. In the default layout, Fun+number maps to F keys. Fun is the palm key by default, so it's very easy to press.
It's only going to help with landing a first job, and even then, not much. Open source contributions are somewhat better, but you basically need to be heavy contributor or maintainer of a large project a company really cares about.
How would the platform distinguish those votes from regular ones?
> You can code a non-tradable NFT no problem.

WTF does that even mean?

Do people remember what a blockchain even is, at this point?

A blockchain is a chain of transactions. You take away the transactions, and its not a blockchain anymore. Unless we really stretch the definition of a "transaction" or blockchain......

Cryptocurrency has lost the plot. People are talking about blockchains, that don't have mining, or transactions now apparently.
Yeah, I have similar concerns about the different dialects thing. It's true that "the meaning of seemingly 'bad' words heavily depends on the social context", but most realistic systems are gonna be deployed in multiple social contexts and ideally shouldn't be offensive in any of them.
What do you propose as a solution for central banks and monetary policy attempting to operate in structural stagnation [1]? Do you believe digital tulips will maintain their value as real productivity declines due to demographics? Physical cash can be inflated with relatively the same ease as a CBDC through QE. You're seeking a level of control and authority of monetary policy only accessible to nation states.

We agree on the problem, but not the solution. Technology does not solve challenges at the people/politics OSI layer.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/700-year-decline-of-interes...
I can't believe that employees and customers are falling for the Big Lie technique. "Yes, our CTO is an ex-spy that we never revealed, but he's totally not doing it anymore! We promise!"

Honestly, how stupid do you have to be to believe this?
The point is that we assume positive effects of more information and ignore negative effects of more information. I wanted to point out that more information is not always better and can lead to degraded decision making. I see it happen often enough. We bombard people with good information and assume it helps, it can, but it doesn't necessarily. Signal to noise, both from information provided and absorptive capacity are important.

I'm not saying we shouldn't provide good information, I'm saying we shouldn't assume providing good information is always beneficial (which a lot of people and models do).
> Smartphones have stagnated as innovation, so manufacturers are seeking differentiation and buyers motivation trough "better pictures".

And I dare say, some are succeeding in delivering "better pictures" (quotes yours). I have compared pics from iPhone 6s and iPhone 12 Pro taken in the same conditions, and I can tell you the improvements are very real.
That's what you're meant to do!
I too want to take a closer look at microOS. Like podiki's Guix setup here, microOS also installs to Btrfs and includes rollback features. Also, if you check the Guix blog, there are some novel steps they've taken towards using Guix for containerization. In theory, any containers developed on Guix would work well on top of microOS.
Disappearing Bicyclist – Sam Loyd (1906)
> U.S. Reps and Senators have an annual salary of $180,000

$174,000, except for the Speaker of the House ($223,500) and the President Pro Tem of the Senate and the Majority and Minority leaders in both houses (all $193,400).

> which is in the order of twice the national median income.

Its almost 5 times the median personal income ($36K), and almost 3 times the median household income ($62K).
Well on the 2008 Crash your ""acount"" was robbed and if you live in US you did not get your money back.

You had to cover the "too big to fail" system.

On btc no.
Also cables laid underwater are better protected from theft and vandalism than those on land in possibly hostile territories.
The greatest human rights issue of our time is LGBTQ voices being heard. I know it might sound like hyperbole but the threat the community is under from a resurgence of antiquated notions of sexual morality, accusations of a "slippery slope into pedophilia acceptance", and other such nonsense is in my estimation an existential threat. The disgusting notion that this has anything to do with perversion or mental illness is something that we need to take very seriously. The trans community in particular I believe is especially vulnerable. We see incredible numbers, 4000%, 10000% increases in young people looking for gender reassignment therapy, and it's beautiful, but also terrifying to consider what will probably be a concomitant increase in intolerance and bigotry, as those who only know hate seem to have a limitless reserve. Good on Google for focusing almost all of their AI ethics work on debiasing, because we sure as hell need it. They tell us they no longer stand by "don't be evil", but I'm not so sure of that.
You only mention growing into new technical fields. But you can grow in other ways. Such as, becoming freelancer, or developing a side project.
I didn't understand NFT storm as well then I made a 10K collection of NFT images with my friend (I wrote the smart contract) in three weeks and earned $3M from that. I made a lot of money and now I'm part of the creator community but I still sometimes ask "Why?"
I don't get why the district seat doesn't simply use approval voting. If I look at my local district, Nuremberg North, the relative majority with fptp is always with the CSU. However the more or less left leaning parties, SPD, Grüne, Linke always have a combined solid majority over the neolib spectrum FW, CSU, FDP.

With approval voting, my educated bet would be a higher approval for one of SPD or Grüne than for any in the neoliberal/conservative spectrum.

Same goes for many districts which produce paradoxical overhang seats, in both directions, like SPD in NRW, and CSU in Bavaria districts.
I'm more comfortable with Apple's decisions than some on Hackers News, so take this with a grain of salt... but the difference between what Google/Facebook does and Apple does is a difference. It may not be as vast a difference as Apple claims, but it's also not nothing.
If you haven't viewed the OP, one surprise: apart from in the Pacific, the relative dominance of coast-hugging routes.
I was tempted to not reply, as some of what you wrote feels like it's verging into axe-to-grind / genuinely crazy / TSLAQ territory, but here goes...

> Autopilot creates a false sense of safety, as long as the people that payed for it and are eventually using it, are (by their own standards that made them buy it) not good at driving and not interested to get better at it.

Or... there are people that are good attentive drivers who buy it as a driver aid - to minimise tiredness on long journeys?

> But the fallacy stands in the numbers where Autopilot “safety report” is presented by Tesla and compared to average drivers performances.

Yes, the methodology of the safety report is probably flawed, but that's a totally different subject.

> Also, once disconnected from the driving system (feet off the pedals and hands off the steering wheel)

...which isn't how Autopilot currently works - you are asked to maintain contact with the steering wheel and have to prove it by providing torque on the wheel every few seconds. (Yes,

> the driver would need up to 20 seconds (or even more) to reconnect and fully understand what the car does and what the traffic around is like. That is a recipe for disaster while every second the situation changes inside and outside the car.

...really, just... what?

a) where does this (frankly ludicrous) 20 seconds statistic come from?
b) you're not accounting for (the many?) people who might not be actively driving when Autopilot is functioning (that's the point, of course) but are still watching the road, mirrors, maintaining situational awareness, etc.
As a frequent international traveler, using VPNs as a method to change routing absolutely can improve the results. Routing is not always done to get your specific packets someplace as fast as possible, particularly when submarine cables are involved.