skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you really want to skip the paywall (I don't take any official position), you can use the Bypass Paywalls extension¹.

¹: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Honestly I was not even aware of that ... A quick search shows that a 100 yo birch tree stores only about 15 kg CO² ... So your half a tree seems to be in the right ball park.

Also ... CO² is bad ... but at least is non-toxic compared to some of the other side products.
> The average guy likely doesn't host for thousands of people

The python server already has trouble if you subscribe to large rooms. I'm all for promoting Matrix (it's a great project), but the default server has warts and nobody is served by trying to hide them.
Red Notice (Film)
I would argue it makes sense in that it creates an incentive to make the product good and durable.

If you pay a one time fee and the product is just not great quality but does technically work, well you're stuck with it until you buy a new one.

If you only pay when you buy something new, the seller has an incentive to make the object not last long because then you'll need to buy a new one. If you keep paying to rent it, they lose money every time they need to give you a new one because the old one breaks.

About the car lease, you're missing the point that you don't pay taxes on the amount of car you're not buying either. It's also offering you a service : you don't have to bother trying to sell the car yourself.

Also I would argue the biggest point is a ton of people live paycheck to paycheck and a small fee every month is a lot easier to do for them than a huge amount of money now.
It’s a problem that’s been solved for hundreds of years, and depending on the way you look at it, it’s not even a problem at all.

For starters, it depends on what you’re supposed to be trusting science to do. If you’re trusting science to provide you with a collection of knowledge that is definitely true, then you’ve misplaced your trust. Because that’s not what science is. Science is simply a methodology for refining knowledge, on its best day, science will provide you with the best understanding that we have currently achieved on a particular topic, and no more than that.

Are you trusting science to be a pure discipline, motivated only by the search of the truth? Because it’s not that either. Science and academia just as infested with politics, and ideology, and perverse incentives, and corruption as any other human institution.

Are you trusting the knowledge provided by science to be particularly sophisticated? Because depending on the field it might not be that either. If you require science to be capable of making repeatable predictions, then there’s entire scientific fields that are not capable of that. Psychology for instance has failed to reliably predict anything other than some rather broad trends, by some standards the entire field would be considered pseudoscience.

In any case, the solution we came up with for dealing with this issue was democracy. I think the real question that’s being asked here is “why are technocratic policies often not popular?”, there’s lots of reasons you could postulate for any particular policy, but in all cases democracy is doing its job properly by acting as a safeguard against unpopular technocratic policies.
The author is assuming a low inflation economy.

However the low inflation days might already be over. Annual inflation is already at 5.3%, and not forecast to go down.

So that 7% is already closer to 1.7%.
> and they seem driven by a assumption that inequality and greed of the wealthy is the problem rather than local government red tape and NIMBYs holding back construction.

Not only is said assumption pretty dang reasonable, but the former is outright the cause of the latter (specifically: rich landowners lobbying local and state governments to hinder development and shift tax burdens onto literally anything other than the land value they're hoarding).
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Fair enough, I had missed that.
It's also possible that objections from some left leaning people to (for example) GMOs or nuclear power aren't scientific objections as such.

They may very well believe that those things work the way "science" says they work, but have downstream fears about the corporations that control them, or people implementing them properly, or taking long term care into the future, greed, shortcuts etc

Well, in my head that is one way someone could still generally agree with "science", but be against some of those things and stay somewhat consistent.
Quite a lot of anti nuke is anti statist. If you worry about authority, nuclear power empowers the state above and beyond the norm. It led to increases in armed police in Britain, and a huge rise in secretive policing.

Personally, having opposed Torness AGR nuclear power in the 70s I find I've returned to a more open minded view. I would hope we can build cheap reliable nuclear power but the legals cost more than the build, almost. It's not on a declining cost of build, where wind and solar are.

GMO is bound up in the obscenity of IPR in genetics. Mostly, people ignore benign routine genetic modification as in breeding and concentrate on Monsanto and roundup. Golden rice and the like have huge upsides.

I agree the left is a bit conflicted on this. Communism is Soviet power and electricity!
How will it kill people exactly? You mean the people that (despite the countless warnings and explanations) still think that they can completely ignore their surroundings… then what? The very cautious auto driving car that follows the speed limit and is criticised for being “too conservative” will… do what exactly?
I wonder how much of the authoritarian tendencies of the government of certain countries (e.g. Russia, China, Iran) is driven by a desire to maintain the stability and control presumably needed to resist hostile actions by the US empire that ironically professes freedom and democracy.
Selfhosted v2ray and shadowsocks with cloak addon were reliable in 2019.

Japan VPS location worked ok to access European sites, much
better than Hongkong based, but I guess thats the peering.

https://www.v2ray.com/en/
https://github.com/cbeuw/Cloak
Does it? If I knew 100% there's any kind of afterlife, I'd kill myself today. Not to mention that there's some almighty butthole in the sky that does nothing to help anyone but asks for faith (also their supposed representatives ask for money), now that's depressing. Oh and v1.0 of the European shit is pretty gruesome.
Find a subject or something that is important to you right now. A lot better to learn things just-in-time instead of just-in-case. Questions like "what I am obsessively thinking about or struggling with" tend to be helpful.

I keep track of book recommendation by people I know or from sources I follow on the internet using Goodreads. So whenever I decide to learn about about X, I check first my book recommendation books.

If available also try to read a book summary before reading the actual book. Often I find myself reading books based on the title & description and only halfway through I discover that the book isn't really about the things I thought it is.

My Goodreads list if it is any helpful: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/46183317
One of my first cars 'lost' the highest gear (5th) after a couple of years.

You adapt and do less takeovers and only when it is absolutely safe.
The Bogdanov Affair happened, where papers that were later concluded to be devoid of any real meaning but full of jargon were published in physics journals, and most likely it was not a troll attempt but the auctor's were actually serious.

“zero information” was a common criticism on these papers when they were later more heavily scrutinized, that they had a tendency to use paragraphs of jargon to say the obvious and nothing new.
Bye bye free will!

From now on, nothing is my fault any more.
I cannot tell whether your comment is sincere or facetious. And its first word is unwarranted as your comment does not actually follow on from its parent.

I didn't read the paper on which this article is based. But I understand it's not so much about why to distrust scientists, as it is about the benefit of employing critical thinking to scientific results.

My earlier comment wasn't about the experiment per se. Rather, the way the article was written.
You dismiss Viking in the heavy, winter/falls rains in Arizona, yet I ride a bike all year in Toronto, Canada where it snows!
What is the state of the art in GFW bypass, please?
I would delete posts only if they cause harm.

Irrelevant content is very subjective. You never know what somebody on the other end of the world find helpful.
I see this all the time, but more indirectly.

People having, often quite politicized claims, and referencing popular science news articles to back them up, which reference actual results, when scrutinized tell quite a different story than the popular news articles' liberal interpretation.
> The researchers note their findings conflict with ongoing campaigns to promote trust in science as a way to fight misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, mask-wearing and COVID-19 vaccines.

If you trust in science, you know that ordinary surgeon's masks and cloths cannot protect you from viruses. You also know that the COVID vaccines are experimental and have no long-term studies done on them. You also know that the risk of dying from COVID below an age of 40 is about as high as winning a large sum of money in the lottery. You also know that highly vaccinated countries like Israel had COVID cases explode, making you wonder how exactly the vaccine protects the people. Trusting the science means trusting the scientific method, not trusting some random authorities who have every financial and political incentive on the planet to claim what they claim.
Right, so they should have a competitive advantage over those "traditional" fossil-fuel burning electricity suppliers. That is, they can continue selling renewable electricity unaffected by gas prices.
I don't remember except that i found it significant, i tried to find the article i think it was a university that did the study, if i find it i will post it.
Source maps are used for anti-debugging: https://www.perimeterx.com/tech-blog/2019/javascript-anti-de...
"Trusting astrology leaves people vulnerable to pseudoastrology."

It think this made up sentence makes it pretty clear why this isn't actually a problem.
This is not that surprising. Most of the psychoactive Harmala alkaloids in coffee are formed during roasting; typically by pyrolytic breakdown and cyclization of tryptophan. So, naturally, if the psychoactive effects are the same, the taste will be perceived as the same.
No it's not. When Belarus had it's internet blackout last summer, Telegram was the only option to communicate to the outside world. Multiple persons asked if Signal is going to do anything about it, like enable censorship circumvention but it was never addressed[1].

PS. Check the comment section of the tweet.

[1] https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1293377583891980293?lan...
I read somewhere that it's not entirely unlikely that the brand of socialism/communism in the Soviet Union became more extreme because of foreign attack. Socialism was considered, probably rightly so, a mortal threat to current political and social systems so the communist camp in Russia was under assault from day 1.

For those that forgot, Russia was an ally in WW1 and once it withdrew from the war due to huge war fatigue, Russia was invaded by Britain, the US, Japan, I'm probably forgetting a bunch of dozen other invaders. For what was basically a matter of internal policy and later a civil war.

Of course, nothing could have guaranteed that the extremists such as the Bolsheviks, Lenin, Stalin, wouldn't have won even if left alone.
> “why not $15?” At that point I realized I probably could’ve gotten 20-25

I hear this a lot, but always wonder why? You where happy with 14, got 15, so why feel like an idiot? If all you care about is the highest maximal rate, you will be job hopping forever, getting better at negotiations but will it make you feel less like an idiot?

EDIT: I never cared for how much my fellow employees made. I know what I "need" and when I accept a certain rate, I can only be proud of being able to bring home what I make.
Sure. At the end we are speaking of political decisions. One thing is measuring how much energy you can get from 1 g of uranium (science), another thing is building a nuclear plant with safety constraints (engineering) but deciding whether to build a nuclear plant or not is a political decision.

It's just that in my experience some people in this camp make objections that are very emotional and the gist is that this is the vibe that dominates the discussion.

Of course there are concerns with GMO and nuclear power and you can trust science and still object to them on the grounds you cite. It's just that there are many people who behave, actually, inconsistently in that topic. At least from what I experienced.
The reason I have that source code to Empire and none of the rest of the code I wrote on the PDP-10 is I saved everything to a magtape. Unbeknownst to me, the magtape machine was way out of spec, and the tapes were only readable on that machine, which is long gone, so I threw the magtape away. And so disappeared the earlier BASIC version of Empire.

I downloaded Empire over a modem to some 8" floppies on a PDP-11. I also saved a paper listing of the code for insurance. I eventually bought my own LSI-11 which could read the floppies, and later rigged up an RS-232 connection with Kermit to transfer it to a PC with 5.25 floppies. From those it eventually went to a CD, a hard disk, and finally to github.

Fortunately, I never needed to type it in from the listing, and tossed that.
Big if true. Coffee is one of the world's most traded commodities by value, and the sourcing ethics are often pretty shaky.

I think it's sort of funny that they called out the flavor as tasting like "ordinary coffee," since people in my experience are extremely fussy about their brew.

By using bioreactor output, they're starting with something like a powder of plant cells, and finding a way to roast it -- this seems like it would create quite a different result to whole-bean roasting, I am very curious what kind of parameters they will have to adjust with the coffee cells (genetic modification to increase certain alkaloids, oils, etc?) and roasting process.

edit: I think it's extremely funny that my comment about people being fussy about coffee has inspired a whole series of replies with opinions about coffee, as well as opinions of other people's opinions
I'm not referring to vaccine. Assuming you've been infected, if you have 98% change of surviving this disease, would you really be okay if you were forced to take a medication that has 1% chance of killing you?
“the scientific method” is incredibly easy to understand and on top of that comes in many different forms and standards.

Understanding the design of a particular experiment and the theories and values it attempts to put to the test is quite another matter. Scientists and laymen in completely different fields all understand “the scientific method”, but they often cannot even begin to read or understand each other's work or experiments.

Luckily, the convenient thing is that the experiments that are used to support very policalized claims are often quite easy to understand to the lay man with some rudimentary knowledge, and it's the experiments in things such as particle physics or quantum chemistry that have almost no political influence that are incomprehensible without at least a 8 years of formal education in the specific field.
I agree that before I had kids it was easy to be blind to how different life is even when having those close to me with them. But people have kids in cities without cars and inclimate weather all over the world. I moved from a car-centric city when I had kids because the thought of driving from work, to childcare or school, to soccer practice, then home made me incredibly miserable. Suburbs accommodate this better, but that seems to almost necessitate two cars.

A decent city accommodates this, requires a lot less upfront cost, and just fewer resources all around. The comment you're replying to seems to think its not feasible.
I wonder when the current digital behemoths will be disrupted by pirates again
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NATO is a very real military threat to a significant percentage of the worlds population - more so than the CCP.

It does matter if its the US or NATO or your own government. Only the people can do anything peaceful about their own politics. Everything else leads to war.
Sorry, this is fascinating but I'm not finding the info I want to via search. What alkaloids do you mean? I'm guessing not just caffeine?
I actually remember naming that variable. My mind went blank and so it was BLAH.

Z6 derived from the earlier BASIC version, which restricted variable names to one letter and one digit. FORTRAN-10 let me have 6 characters, heaven!
falsy, truthy, undefined and null...
Space debris: can we continue to use space tomorrow?
Not sure about YT app which I don't use, but on desktop browser it does show all including live streams from subscribed channels, at least for me.
Trying to write fast c++ code is eye opening about how slow ram can be. Adding two number on the cpu is gonna take ~1 ns. Getting the number from ram takes about ~100 ns.

If you store your numbers sequentially in memory, you can bulk download them and it isn't so bad. But let's say you used a linked list where everything is store in a different memory location... you're basically gonna take 100 longer to iterate over a linked list than an array and that's entirely because of ram speed. Same thing if you're storing Integer objects into an arraylist in Java or something similar since your array contains pointers and you have to check a new ram location for every number. Facebook wrote their own version of a C++ string to reduce heap use because of this.

What I'm saying is you can often get around it for stuff that matters, but a lot of code that wasn't written with that in mind is definitely limited by ram speed. And let's be honest, most people who are not programming in C or C++ don't think about RAM data locality.
A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of my most downloaded nod
Have you got a precise source for your quote of Hannah Arendt? I am interested in reading the context but I couldn't find the quote you wrote
You know, Soulseek exists.
You are missing the obvious point that infrastructure is a main use of taxes. Do you think roads are profitable?

Rail (& other public transport) has many other benefits, e.g. you'll need less policing and maintenance of roads if they are less used; air pollution from fossil fuels and tire wear are reduced, stress and accidents are reduced thereby decreasing healthcare costs, etc.

It all is a matter of building up the proper network, rather than to give more subsidies to big oil and the car industries (see the eternally repeating bailouts).
Ah yeah. I thought that today everyone would run their own hotline server. Instead we have facebook
What you describe is a person I wouldn't call an adult.
I thought this was a reference to 1984, but nope. I checked the other videos on the channel, and it was indeed (professional) performances in recent decades, which has a separate copyright. In this case, as law stands now, UMG (Universal Music Group), with the agreement of the performer*, owns the rights of the performances.

* Whether the performer have regrets (seems unlikely though in this case) is for outside discussion.
Cars are killing cities.
Harmala alkaloids, most abundantly harman and norharman.
The way I interpret what he said is, “if the sacrifice is genuine, light is the necessary result”

I like it because it puts the ball back in my court and forces me to take responsibility without judging the other.
Less different than you'd think I'd say. All my career people think programming is on the verge of some major shift to managers just drawing diagrams or something.. But of course that never happens.

I think the most important change in the last twenty years has been the full acceptance of TDD. Maybe we'll get to everyone recognising continuous delivery or something like that as essential..

I'm sure there'll be a new "it" language threatening to displace the by-then majority use of go and rust. Meanwhile some carefully maintained C will still be keeping the lights on, and some poor (but well paid) individual will still be keeping some COBOL running.
Vilnius could build at least one metro / U-bahn line, or perhaps two. It is already big enough that the transport backbone should be grade separated from the streets, and metro is the easiest way to go.
American elites love to hate their country. Goes back to Protestant self-loathing.

It’s amusing to see this article juxtaposed with the review of Koestler’s Darkness At Noon on the front page.
Sure. My point exactly was… no one seems to care about the countless meaningless terms automotive industry uses. But suddenly we are dissecting the possible
Meanings of a feature that actually is pretty close to what it says.

Autopilot keeps your heading and velocity and is aware of objects in its path… so that’s extremely similar to autopilot in a plane.

Full self driving drives the car on its own. It still monitors driver awareness. But the car does most of the driving. I don’t see the issue. It does what it says.
There are several problems with both the implementation and the principles underlying intellectual property laws, some of which pertain to who owns what, many of which pertain to how ideas can be separated out from each other, still yet more pertain to abusable mechanisms for the acquisition of intellectual property that subverts its ostensible purpose, and a whole category of issues that pertain to the special legal powers we seem to be willing to grant private corporations (Such as installing a rootkit on your personal computer) because we prioritize its protection. A few of the big problems do have to do with the general cost of litigation, which is a separate problem but like most things makes this worse
Shift away from building SaaS product capabilities in-house
I suspect what they mean by "max 5 user" (based on my experience dealing with enterprise software vendors) is that the terms of the "community" support plan covers deployments with up to that many users - i.e. there's nothing technically stopping you from creating more users, just that it would be outside the terms of whatever support contract exists for that "community" "price" tier.

This is consistent for a lot of enterprise software out there, where the software won't necessarily prevent you from creating more users than you have licenses/seats for, but the vendor will absolutely bring this up when negotiating a renewed support contract. Only difference here is that the support is licensed separately from the software itself (whereas for proprietary enterprise products they're usually one and the same).
I don’t agree that the virus appearing near a lab is evidence that it was released from a lab, no. Just like I don’t believe being near a bank robbery at the time of a robbery is evidence I did it.

The comment mentioning Bayes Theorem has the right idea. Your priors are exceptionally different from my own, so we do not see this the same way and maybe never will.
Given there could be any number of reasons that strangers on the internet do not supply to you that which you demand, especially given the down-votey tone you demand it; it is instructive that you narrow in on the least charitable.

I quit SO in 2014, and asked Stack Exchange to delete all data from my accounts across their properties. I doubt any link exists.

You are free to disbelieve. You are free.