skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a day or two off and do nothing. Or do something but no coding. Binge watch some shows, read a book, exercise, go to the movies, anything but work. Better yet, chain those two days off with a weekend. See if when you come back you have some focus.

This will probably get down voted but, you could also try re-arranging your workspace to whatever extent you are able to do that. Get a plant for your desk, change where you sit, rearrange furniture if you work from home. Clean while you're at it. Maybe something is off or just needs to be refreshed, especially if you've worked remote for the last year and half.
Indeed — they're not cheap but if you need that, it's worth the cost. In this case you could probably avoid it simply by having the robot rescan the page if it detected a vibration but the research labs I used to support had experiments where that would have jeopardized months worth of work.
As far as I understand, Ruby's Ractors are what Python is now trying to do with subinterpreters (https://lwn.net/Articles/820424/). I mention them in the post.
So Facebook paid these troll farms and these payments went on to fund operation of these troll farms (I assume).

It's a never-ending cycle that benefits both parties.
I wonder though, would it not be easier, to identify the watchers and shadowban those.

Just present bisected realities to spam watching groups and identify those who trigger a reaction.
s/ping/latency/
> CBRS is a band of wireless spectrum – a 150 MHz wide contiguous band of the 3.5 GHz band

> Though the FCC will auction CBRS licenses, called Priority Access Licenses (PALs), enterprises will still be able secure General Authorized Access (GAA) to CBRS spectrum without a license.

https://www.sierrawireless.com/iot-blog/new-cbrs-band/

There might even be a community hotspot alliance so you can roam:

> Helium 5G will be the second major wireless network that the Helium Network supports. If you have a phone that supports 5G, such as an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy, you will soon be able to connect through Hotspots that are powered by the People — you may be getting 5G from your neighbor!

https://blog.helium.com/episode-two-the-path-to-5g-3f704a586...

> it is suggested that we initially set the price of passing 1GB of CBRS data through Helium network at $.50 per GB or $.00000003 per LTE packet of 66 bytes.

https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/master/0027-cbrs-5g-suppo...
" Users might report better backs as well as kidneys !"

I doubt that. A healthy back needs twisting and bending in all directions.
It’s hard for children too. I know a very young child (preschool) with glasses, and even they feel insecure about their eyes.
You're quite right — I think I was primed by a different mention of S3's intelligent tiering in this thread.
Calling into GEM from GFA Basic was dubious because GEM AES made heavy use of void pointers, casting, and other C-isms. GFA was of course a garbage collected interpreted language. So GFA had its own wrappers for a bunch of stuff, but not everything.

It was an excellent basic though. With a top-notch IDE-like editor with auto-complete, auto-indentation, folding, etc. I tried for years to find a similar experience with other languages on Linux, etc.
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Comments like this remind me that people map their own mental model of the world onto text-based communication when interpreting other peoples meaning or intent.

I didn’t read it at all like this.
Oh, no argument there. And the report does point out potential relationships with political actors. I’m just amused by the irony of these types of articles making exaggerations and unfounded conclusions.
I would argue that not having a payload makes it even more dangerous. At least, when there is a payload you know what you're dealing with. When there usually is no payload, it may suddenly appear and be very surprising in its reach and effect.
Finally, RSI for your neck!
Yes, is it surprising in any way? Nobody would have raised an eyebrow at this concept back during the Cold War, just shows how comfortable in peace we are now. The concept of unilateral nuclear strike did not exist; all models were of nuclear exchanges and question was only if it could happen in any limited way or escalate into a total one.

Both game-theoretic calculus and political pressure at home would make nuclear retaliation unavoidable, and with the perspective of escalation China is firmly on the losing end.
I have not heard this, and certainly not as a major cause, but don’t forget the greed of the princes who supported the Reformation. The lust for church property and unchecked power. In England this is especially visible where the trigger was not a theological dispute and the looting of church property was widespread.
The British have a gas shortage, so they’re Googling electric cars like crazy
I agree with your general point, I just want to note one of my pet peeves, which is people talking about the straw thing as if it was ever intended to do anything but reduce discarded single use plastic items.

The framing if it not being a useful contribution to climate change appears to be used to undermine people's confidence that anything can be done about anything.

But we can and are making progress on plastic litter going into oceans and carbon intensity generally. Very slow progress in some cases but still, its not hopeless or impossible.

And yes, generally we should do the most impactful things first, and we generally are. Most of the eco "whataboutism" seems designed to derail rather than illuminate.
It also puts the moderator under pressure. User will start ushering demands what you should ban. In worst case law enforcement too.

I don't really understand why people waste so much time getting something removed instead of just reading something else, but there are whole communities that live for banning others by now.

In a larger legal scope platforms are under heavy scrutiny by moral busybodies right now.
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>One way to cut out the middle man would be to convince journal editors to run sibling journals alongside the existing journals, [...] , each sibling journal would be run by the exact same academics (who are doing the real work on tax money anyway),

Your proposed solution will not work because the sibling journal doesn't have the same paid support staff to do the unpleasant work that academics do not want to do. The unpleasant work includes administrative, first pass screening, copy-editing, typesetting, etc. I wrote a previous comment about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16738497

Therefore, the zero cost sibling journal wouldn't even get started by (most) academic editors because it imposes more labor they don't want to do. Yes, publishers like Elsevier and Springer are vilified ... but they also have paid staff and infrastructure to support the papers editors.

Because internet discussions have the constant repetition of "the reviewers are unpaid" (which is true), it creates a distorted mental model that the prestigious journals have "no paid staff" (which is not true). The publishers' paid support employees helps the unpaid reviewers.

An interesting journal that might seem like a counterexample to the support staff labor puzzle above is JMLR. But in an essay that explains how JMLR is able to function (e.g. offload typesetting and out-of-pocket expense of copy-editing to the submitter instead of the publisher) ... that same essay also explains why other journals haven't copied JMLR's model. (Analogous to your "sibling journal" proposal.)

Excerpt from https://blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-j... :

>Does JMLR’s success and efficiency mean that all journals could run this way? Of course not. First, computer science journals are in a particularly good situation for being operated at low cost. Computer scientists possess all of the technological expertise required to efficiently manage and operate an online journal. Journal publishing is an information industry and computer scientists are specialists in information processing. Second, the level of volunteerism that JMLR relies on is atypical for the entire spectrum of journals.

Thus, the academics and editors at non-compsci journals such as Nature and The Lancet do not have comparable culture of information systems platform management, computer software skills of typesetting, volunteerism, etc that JMLR has. And the key is that they have no incentive to do so since the publishers already give them infrastructure support without imposing extra labor on the editors.
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> I'd bet that a significant portion of the energy and waste from computers are from viewing ads.

Yet another reason to block all ads and make no exceptions. Advertising itself should probably be banned.
For number crunching it doesn’t matter, but I imagine it’s a much bigger issue if you want to run some kind of application server/webapp on a big beefy machine with lots of cores. That’s a thing you would want to run in something like Python, and the lack of parallelism is a real issue.
The fastest code is almost always the most energy efficient code yes. Not a perfect correlation but close.
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There are certain areas companies strategically benefit from spending in, usually capital expenditures or payroll, and certain costs companies don’t (paying suppliers, shipping, taxes, interest). The costs companies want to pay tend to be oriented around improving the product set for the future, like R&D, or improving profitability, like marketing or sales.
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People have been saying this for a decade, and I still sit there realising how different a bubble a lot of commenters here live.

I visit my parents most months. They live in rural Ireland. Not like a one off build down a back road miles from civilisation, but a small village of a few hundred people. They absolutely do not have reliable internet, and at this point they've cycled through every available provider.

To visit them I take a few hours train journey. For about half this train journey the internet is not reliable, whether edge/3g/4g or onboard service.

Before the pandemic, I visited the US a few times a year, United's onboard internet is very limited, expensive, and reliability is "it sometimes works".

So I regularly run into cases where I need to prepare ahead of time for no/spotty internet and still get surprises as some app refuses to launch because it decided now is the time it needed to update over a connection that's doing single digit kilobytes per second, or speak to a license server or whatever.
I would suppose it's working "in vitro" with a technical model of blood circulation
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Yes and:

The metaphor of "producers and consumers" is inadequate for today's reality.

> ...promote active cooperation to reduce the overall competition/privatization in society.

David Graeber's ideas (memes) have truly infected me.

"The purpose of universities is to produce scholarship."

Facepalm slap. Like "duh", right?

Exposes the folly of higher ed's current focus on credentialing, for profit.

--

Another meme:

Graeber also points out that in our "service economy", much of the actual work being done, needing to be done, is "caring work" (vs "service work").

A distinct type of labor ignored by our current economic accounting rules.

Much of FOSS is something like "caring work", right?

Sure some people profit from the products and services. Which I have no problem with.

But there's a lot of really important work that just needs to be done. Just one recent example was OpenSSL.

Our Freedom Markets™, those magical invisible hands of the marketplace, haven't figured out how to incentivize and reward and sustain the efforts of maintaining the commons.
Apparently, foreign state actors have been actively building competence and skills how to attract and manipulate large audiences on social networks. If you think you're smarter that those followers of Christian groups and you can't be manipulated, well, I have bad news for you.
> Go to StPetersburg in Russia in a church on Sunday - all the churches are almost full to the brink.

By predominantly what you could call Trump/Brexit voters and babushkas over 60 years old?
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> Why is China "America's top adversary"?

Because, leaving the US aside, China spends more on it's military than the next five largest countries combined (3/5 of which are US allies).

Meanwhile, China seems to be aggressively staking claims in the South China Sea (which is important for the US and it's Asian allies) and there's a perpetual risk of war over Taiwan. China is also growing it's influence in places like Africa and Afghanistan, as well as using Belt and Road money to intermesh themselves anywhere you can.

Maybe "rival" or "top potential adversary" would be a better phrase. But the idea is that there is a western block and a Chinese block (and a Russian block) exerting power on the world, and that's zero sum. It's not violent, but the competition is still there.

> How should other countries consider America, then?

Whatever else you think of America, with it gone or taking a step back from world affairs, there's a power vacuum that China and Russia will fill. At worst, they should think of it as the lesser evil. I would go further than that and call America good, but that seems offtopic at this point.
What is this module about actually? I mean, is it a model to run code in parallel in some way different to multiprocessing?
This comment is equally odd and beautiful. It flows like a nonsense dream. I picture it like the images generated by an AI. Thank you for sharing it. I'm not sarcastic/ironic about it.
We all worry about the super powers such as China tracking the West and using secret "hacking" methods to obtain intel about the military, politicians etc.

The reality is that they're "attacking" in plain sight by having created one of the most viral apps ever to exist. Everybody has installed TikTok, and they're effectively running around recording information about everything and sending it back to China.

You could not make it up.
The ST was a wonderfully practical computer. Nobody could beat the price/performance and price/memory for it at the time. An ST with a monochrome monitor was a beautiful Mac-like word processing or DTP or MIDI sequencer system with an excellent (for the time) high resolution paper-like display, GUI. For 1/3rd the price of a PC/Mac.

The ST is often compared to the Amiga, but I don't feel like this is the right comparison point. It should be compared to the Mac and PC as productivity machines.

Yes, the ST could play games and do colour multimedia stuff, but it did not do it as well as the Amiga. But the Amiga shipped with an interlaced monitor, had longer boot times, cost more, shipped with less memory, and its software market focus was not so much on productivity.

I learned a lot on my ST. By the time I replaced it with a 486 I was running a UUCP node and a Unix-like shell and OS extension on it (MiNT) and learning the basics of Unix.
> Despite a lot of claims otherwise, Scala uses more memory and is significantly slower than Java

Yup. Sometimes the advanced abstractions are worth it (Spark, maybe Akka), but those are niche cases.
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The sensible default is to allow arbitrary text input and pass it on correctly encoded to the next system.

Which is what browsers do.
A miraculous breakthrough could be on two fronts: artificial "meat organs" for those whose life is at immediate risk and need a transplant, and regenerative biotech/medicine to repair those with damage without requiring surgery.

Either way, implanted devices can be a good bridge from our current situation.
Yeah. I don't think that kind of "rockstar" coder typically benefits a company in the long run.

There are the true, true, true outliers: the Linus Torvalds and the John Carmacks, who truly solve problems that others can't.

But then there are people who write a bunch of blog posts, make some kind of name for themselves, show up and crap out a bunch of code, impressing management, etc. I don't think they are good at building systems. They make messes others need to clean up while they've already moved on to making their next mess.
> Jesus than the Kardashians

I'm not following, here. Do you not believe in the Kardashians?
You often don’t need any trick. Major publishers nowadays allow you to put something nearly identical to the published paper online.

See for example https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper/sharing-a...:

You can always post your preprint on a preprint server. Additionally, for ArXiv and RePEC you can also immediately update this version with your accepted manuscript. Please note that Cell Press, The Lancet, and some society-owned titles have different preprint policies. Information on these is available on the journal homepage.

[…]

You can post your accepted author manuscript immediately to an institutional repository and make this publicly available after an embargo period has expired. Remember that for gold open access articles, you can post your published journal article and immediately make it publicly available.”
For me the disappointment is Facebook. It seems to be all propaganda, possibly for clicks not payload, but very little actual content. Or really anything organic. Just a weird mish-mash of gamed blah.
I also wonder about the road damage issue. I wonder if when truck drivers are controlling fleets of vehicles that follow along, whether the weight can be distributed much better like a train and would therefore not damage the road as much because the unit pressure intensity would be lower.
Side note that might interest some people: we started a Sci-Hub meetup in London with (among other goals) to try and find ways to help Sci-Hub and contribute to the Open Access movement.

https://scihublondon.org/
> Aply the verification approach to religion and you will see many inconsistencies and contradictions.

Inconsistencies and contradictions like the fact that we observe neutrinos decaying in the sun, which proves that they change? But we observe neutrinos arriving together with light after a supernova, which proves that they move at the speed of light. How does that concur with our axiom that an object moving at the speed of light had no mass and experiences no time, so it cannot change?

Inconsistencies and contradictions are found as much in science as they are found in religion.
I like your enthusiasm, but I feel simple regulation should achieve most of these benefits. Yeah it would be good to move faster, but nationalising isn't strictly necessary, and the planning already happens for most things anyway and is already in place for most things.

I agree that most of the resistance is financed by powerful corporates who don't want to be regulated and nationalisation is one way to cut that Gordian knot, but not the only one.
Prices increase when you have a shortage. Prices decrease when you have a surplus. We can maintain prices by growing housing stock in line with population. (The same applies to everything else from semiconductors to cars to human labor.)

In California, people used zoning regulations to create a shortage and predictably house prices rose. Some people got richer. Other people got evicted.

Ideally, we'd create a slight housing surplus to reduce prices. As an added benefit, this would reduce rent-seeking opportunities and create a buffer of empty housing stock that would make moving and searching for a new place to live less of a hassle increasing people's mobility.
I think focusing on religion/christianity is missing the point here - it's irrelevant probably, the point is that on global web 2.0 websites there may be manipulation

That's kinda weakness of english language itself, because when everybody is capable of using it, then it's hard to distinguish actual native speakers from foreign actors (and genuine users too) that are proficient at it,

meanwhile let's say that you have group of people only using some not so popular language like X, then it's way harder to pretend to be X user, so at worst you're being trolled by people from your country which may not have as bad intentions.

Or maybe I'm too optimistic about my not so popular language :)
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so it's a mobile data harvesting, and not really much more, wrapped in a standard safety and security of your home lingo.
Yeah that speaks a lot about individualism in the US. They make streets way more dangerous for everyone else. If everyone drove small cars it would be safer overall for everyone.
Yup. Trotsky was a perpetual world-wide revolutionary. Revolution was a constant state in Trotsky's mind. Stalin just wasn't. Stalin was much more nationalist in his thinking.
Can you restate that? I honestly don't understand.
Modern engineering calculators have streamlined the design and done away with numbers and function buttons. You just hold them in your hand and pose while looking at the ads displayed on the screen.
Wouldn’t that be 230 miles, or are there distinct international agreements that put China’s territorial borders eleven times closer their shores than other countries with a coastline?
When you quote a paper in your own work, explicitly mention that the resource is captive in a walled garden.
Who’s got a worse spam problem: Facebook or Amazon?
I'm working on open source full time
Given the effort some kids go through nowadays to replicate the experience I had with twm and DG/UX on IBM X Windows terminals in 1994/95, I wonder why bother.
The risk is in lead transferring from your skin to your mouth, like if you don’t wash your hands before eating.

Still I agree, the risk is acceptable for the small amount of solder work I do.
I tried to find the listed pages and they are all down now. The research is from 2019.
Your assumption that we will be hiring gasoline or carbon to generate the mains power is flawed.

Also over an EV’s total lifetime it is significantly less polluting than an ICE even including manufacturing. And the automakers are already finding ways to avoid rare earths etc precisely because they are so expensive.
>Luckily my mum is also short sighted and she noticed me straining to see things.

My parents just kept scolding me for sitting too close to the TV. I had to ask for them on many occasions and eventually got them to get me tested. It had got so bad that I couldn't read anything written on the blackboard for a long while.
I don't. The advantages are overwhelming, people just forgot to appreciate it that there isn't some form of central information control.

We see a lot of moral panics and authoritarian ambitions right now and the bad accessibility to information control is a huge blessing. If we had more responsibility here, it might look different, but that isn't really the case and probably unrealistic.

For politics, clout or attention some people would love to get rid of some others people, often just because of disagreement. It is good that they cannot. We see companies firing people because they aren't a good look. Gladly that doesn't work with internet users.

If I get abuse online, defense is in most cases very trivial. Given, that is a bit different for public personas. This is behavior not restricted to online content and why prominent people often have to employ PR. But that isn't a reason to worsen the net as a whole for everyone.

If I only want to consume curated content, there are countless venues to do that. Sadly and curiously, people show up in places where content isn't moderated and start to complain.