skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not outlaw professional lobbyists and private funding of politicians' campaigns? Once all bribery is illegal it could be easier to enforce consistently.
> could get shut down/redirected

The latter is my concern. Until 2020, Moldova had a pro-Russian government. They could easily return to power. I would see Moscow having zero qualms about requesting e.g. certain visitors be re-directed to a Kremlin-controlled server.
> But who influences regulation and legislation?

The voters do. People vote for corrupt politicians since they care about other things. They would do that even if you didn't have capitalism. The problem is therefore the implementation of your democracy and not capitalism. Removing capitalism while keeping the flawed democracy would just result in another Soviet scenario or even worse.

So the problem isn't capitalism, it is corrupt democracy. A corrupt democracy will try to do whatever it can to enrich its politicians, like taking bribes from companies etc. A healthy democracy doesn't take those bribes. You can find many countries where politicians works mostly for the people and not for companies, that is how it should be.
> How about that these kinds of bugs are not in a class that can all be solved by a few bug fixes, but represent a very long tail of bugs that need one-off fixes.

That's non-falsifiable. You can end a discussion that way, but not win an argument. Let's just leave it at "FSD beta appears to be improving rapidly" (c.f. the public history of this stuff since the first public beta users received the build in March) as my response.
I have been that engineer on occasion, though not specifically with regard to DRM. The pushback has typically been something like, "There is too much money on the line," or even, "If we are not setting the standard on this, someone else will, and it will probably be even worse."

In the end, work is not voluntary for the majority of engineers involved in these things, and so you just have to accept that you are not going to win the argument unless you have a good argument that what you are being asked to build is not possible. Engineers often speak of how DRM is basically impossible, but that is only true in an ideal world; in practice DRM is good enough to satisfy business needs and concerns about web openness have yet to materialize (at least in a way that would undermine the business case for it). The relatively small number of hardware and software platforms one must deal with now further weakens the arguments against DRM.
Couldn’t agree more. I used to get annoyed that I had to copy and paste code snippets that I found over the Web just to configure basic stuff. It got out of control pretty quickly. Now I understood that Emacs is supposed to be used by programming it. Turns out it was meant to be a feature, not a bug.
You can start explaining fractional powers with roots, e.g. x^0.5
eh, go mod isn't the great example...the community was pretty fractured before that. I'd personally adopted dep right before they announced the intention to build modules...so that was kind of frustrating.

in the long run i think it'll consolidate the community, but there's definitely a long tail to that timeline.
> Maintain part of your notes public

Personally I like that notes are raw and stay raw. I even force me to not use capital letters to remind me of this.

But of course very often they are used as a draft for something more elaborate.
Maybe because they can go really high but can't go to space yet?
Thoughts on prototyping handwritten programming for notebook environments
A Survivor of Suicide Writes of His State of ‘Eternal Dying’
Banks don't print money. A double ledger accounting system does not create new dollars.
Norway mostly generate electricity from renewable sources, some 99% of our annual production (~120TWh, if memory serves) is hydro-electric.

We've seen prices becoming more volatile in later years as our domestic market has become more interconnected with that of continental Europe.

Normally, I'd be all in favour of being part of a larger, working market; however with European countries phasing out coal (makes sense) and nuclear (makes less sense), supply is being cut while demand soars; hardly a recipe for stable prices.

It would be nice to serve base power needs by nuclear power, then use hydro (which can be regulated up and down much faster than thermal power plants) to handle the peaks.
In rats. "According to Forni, it is possible to up-scale the electrode designs to be applicable to humans. "
I'm building a peer to peer Browser network that relies on trust ratios in order to find out seed/leech ratios or the trustworthiness of other peers in the sense of whether they could be malicious actors (sharing content too much, producing/modifying content too much etc).

The problem I'm currently trying to solve is that I had the idea to have a pre-shipped vendor profile that contains the necessary information for IP ranges (ASN, organization, region, country, ISP/NAT etc) so that the discovery service for that doesn't have to do this and maybe I can get rid of a centralized peer discovery service completely.

It's like the basic idea of an offline "map of the internet" that should be an approximation of who does what in which amount of network bandwidth and data. For example, data center IPs aren't as trustworthy or peers in the same ISP-NAT could also be censored when it comes to blocked websites, modified DNS responses etc).

At this point it's a big experiment and I'm not sure whether I'm fundamentally wrong about this as I don't have any data to back it up.

If you're curious, it's part of the Stealth Browser I'm building [1] and [2]

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth

[2] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth-vendor
start with the basics ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid
For that reason exactly — Trump had to scream and pout publicly in order to keep rates down. Meanwhile, Democrats operate with much more tact & better PR.
> but copied to Dropbox every day

This seems unnecessarily complex - have you considered replacing this with rsync + cron job?
If capital gains rates were a lot higher than they are now, we would never have such innovative companies as Apple and Microsoft.
The theory that maximum money gets you "the best" is... under-evidenced. It's just as likely to get you the greediest, the most manipulative, or the most opportunistic.

A good place to start is with Kohn's "Punished by Rewards", which covers a fair bit of research on how intrinsic motivation is undermined by extrinsic motivation. The people I know who are great at something do it because they truly love it. Whereas the most money-motivated people I meet focus a lot of their attention not on the actual topic, but the getting of money.
All else being equal, more money is better. But all else isn’t equal. Generally changing jobs repeatedly will bring you advancement and pay faster, as it allows you to shop around for a company that’s willing to take a chance on you, but there are some trade offs that come with that

You need to evaluate your quality of life outside just the monetary and career aspect, and decide if the stress of job changing and potential increases in work expectations are worth the benefits of more status and more money. It would be a shame to get a new job and discover that you dislike your new colleagues or your work life balance is bad.

Do not underestimate the level of persistent stress job hopping will give you; it takes a few months for that to wear off. I’ve done a lot of it myself, and in the balance it was worth it, but it’s also worn me down a bit too. Personally I’d like to be done with it and settle down for long periods of time and not worry about chasing the next promotion.
What are you talking about? Mathematics has well and truly "emerged as a field" lmao
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Obsidian benefits from being an electron app because it has allowed people to create many plugins that provide useful UIs and these plugins likely wouldn't exist otherwise.

(That said, there are non-Electron alternatives like Tauri coming along that use the native webview to accomplish essentially the same thing.)
To those with hopes and dreams in Bitcoin I suggest reading Nassim Taleb’s black paper. It does a great job outlining every major problem and (while in its current version and even a few iterations from now) it won’t succeed as a currency.
tl;dr stimulate pain relief nerves in the brain with electrodes
> In other words, governments with fiat currencies — including the United States — have the power to expand the quantity of those currencies. If they choose to do so, they risk inflating the prices of necessities like food, gas, and housing.

> In recent months, consumers have experienced higher price inflation than they have seen in decades. A major reason for the increases is that central bankers around the world — including those at the Federal Reserve — sought to compensate for Covid-19 lockdowns with dramatic monetary inflation. As a result, nearly $4 trillion in newly printed dollars, euros, and yen found their way from central banks into the coffers of global financial institutions.

This automatically assumes that the inflationary issues we are facing come from demand. However, it is very clearly a supply issue. Namely, the closure of plants and factories due to labor shortages, lockdowns, and geopolitical issues. When you reduce the supply of goods and services while demand is left the same, you get higher prices. Furthermore, OPEC isn't producing more, which increases oil prices and the prices of all other industries. The chip shortage, which is fundamentally a supply shortage, is also increasing the prices of all other goods and services that rely on chips.

This is not an issue of demand. It's similar to the 1970s: supply shocks that led to an increase in the price level.
Some of these technologies are still in their nascent form IMHO.
Netflix's user-side software has always been garbage. The android app forces you to keep a separate brightness slider from your phone, so if you watch Netflix a lot you're constantly having to adjust your screen brightness twice. It's also nearly 2022 and you still can't reorder the profiles on the login screen. How fucking hard can that possibly be?
Can you name a country where lobbying is illegal? It's a core function of democracy.
My first thought was that this may explain the mysterious "boom" that occurred in New England recently.
I love the HN community.
> When free to do anything: you do the thing you love

The thing is, what you love is not what others need. Do you love tinkering with my sewage system? Clean my house? Wash my toilet?
Nuclear is heavily subsidized itself. Without guaranteed prices for energy for decades nuclear plants would be far less attractive to build.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJunxkln578 more on the UK to Morocco solar / wind farm plan. 3,800km times four HVDC cables for redundancy. Global capacity around 4,000km of cable per year. So to make this project happen, need to open a new cable manufacturing facility.

This video also suggests that this sort of renewable project will have an average cost of 48 GBP/MWh versus 92.50 GBP/MWh for new nuclear.
> JavaScript/TypeScript changes so much that a codebase will look very different from one year to the next.

Only if you want it to change. Our codebase is plain JS/TS, we don't use many recent features, and it's fine.
How to Build a Music Streaming App with React Using Auth0 and Cloudinary
The title should be "why mathematics papers are boring, how to spice them up with narrative", that is what the article is about.
As someone who listens to numerous genres but is also selective with what I listen to, I am confident that spotify simply doesn't cater to my demographic. They are really about scaling to the masses, as is evident by their move into podcasts and constants frontpage ads on new releases, as well as aggressive song caching. From a business perspective, I believe its simply not worth the compute/development effort from their side to have a recommendation engine on par with say Pandora.
CDC explains why you should move
Rainbows.

> Indeed, it is impossible for an observer to see a rainbow from water droplets at any angle other than the customary one of 42 degrees from the direction opposite the light source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow
The prestigious open Discrete Analysis journal provides accessible editorial introductions:

https://discreteanalysisjournal.com/articles
As such things matter, could you comment on the nature of the website (covexit.com) that this is hosted on?

While its banner ("independent global news and policy analysis regarding COVID-19, with emphasis on early treatments") seems reasonable, a quick look at the top-15 articles suggests a strong bias away from vaccines, and towards publicising 'alternative' therapies. These are a few of the top articles' titles:

* Professor Didier Raoult Releases the Results of a New Hydroxychloroquine Treatment Study on 1061 Patients

* “We Know it’s Curable; It’s Easier than Treating the Flu” — Professor Thomas Borody

* Australian GPs Can Legally Prescribe Ivermectin Triple Therapy Protocol — Professor Thomas Borody

* Expert Sounds the Alarm about Risks of Mass Vaccination

* The 8th Day Therapy for COVID-19

Further, a quick read of the slides you linked to strongly suggests the author has an agenda. This isn't to say that she's wrong, or that the statistic you quoted is wrong... but it's necessary to call out and understand such obvious biases when decision how to intelligently interpret a piece of work.
I'm curious to know how they came to the conclusion there were no side effects, even in rats. Everything has side effects.
Not sure if it’s reasonable. My gut interpretation (before reading the article) was “breakthrough infections are overblown”.

I prefer their alternative headline “What the latest COVID research says about breakthrough cases and transmission”
I'm not an expert on this, and I don't know how the power-saving states for AMD processors work, but my understanding is that at least for modern Intel CPUs the deepest power-saving states pretty much turn the core off. [1]

Also, I'm not actually sure minimizing the clock frequency is going to maximize power savings. The voltage required for stable operation increases with the clock frequency, but the relationship is not linear. The top frequencies require proportionally higher voltage for the performance gains, so they are less power efficient. However, since the relationship is not linear, there may be a sweet spot between the minimum and the maximum with the lowest energy consumption per operation. [2] The power consumption per second will be at its lowest on the lowest clock frequency, but the power consumption for an entire computation might not be.

[1] https://itigic.com/c-state-on-intel-processors-what-it-is-ho...

[2] Energy-Efficient Data Processing at Sweet Spot Frequencies; Götz et al., 2014; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_..., https://jorge-cardoso.github.io/publications/Papers/CP-2014-...
> How does one protect against catastrophic cascading power failures in the event of solar flares, given this greater interconnectivity?

Does the risk of damage go up, practically speaking, when comparing a country-wide guide to a continent-wide one? As in, is there any equipment that would survive the former but not the latter? Or mitigation techniques that work in the case of the former but not the latter?
New slogan: "Missile Systems are Infrastructure"?
> If person A works for 1 hour then he added 1 hour of human work time to the pool of resources. Therefore it makes sense that he can now extract 1 extra hour of human work time from the pool of resources.

What if no one wants that 1 hour of labor? What if more people want 1 hour of a certain type of labor that exceeds the supply of that certain type of labor?
I agree. We ran into this issue all of the time at a past employer with a lot of tech enthusiasts in the customer base: We’d make harmless changes to our own code that broke someone’s community software that relied on undocumented APIs from time to time. Without fail, someone from the community would jump to conclusions and start stirring up controversy with claims that we were deliberately breaking 3rd-party applications.

The strange thing was that people from all over the internet wanted to get in on the controversy and anger, even when they didn’t use the software that broke. This created a weird incentive for software authors to complain loud and wide about any breaking changes because it became free advertising for their software. We tried quietly helping some of them fix their software with hints, but that quickly became an avenue for “<company> caves to pressure from angry customers” stories that only made our problem worse.
High-level grid interconnection isn't so useful if one (or more) of the lower-level grids being interconnected is so badly maintained that it frequently has to be deenergized.

The future probably looks like microgrids, with MID/neutral-forming transformers [1] which generate their own 60 Hz pilot signal and allow multiple producers, batteries, and consumers to coexist on a common protocol even in the absence of the utility grid.

[1] https://enphase.com/sites/default/files/2021-06/Enpower-R1-Q...
You are missing Electron apps.
"Copied to Dropbox" is a copy cron to a folder that is shared on Dropbox. No API was harmed -- or used -- for any of this[0].

It's also in effect a poor man's backup, because the db is renamed with today's date so each copy doesn't overwrite any other.

[0] Edit: not in fact true. The email part uses Mailgun's API (from when you could use routes with a basic account).
Might be worth checking out Notabase [0]. The UI is designed to be really clean and easy-to-use.

[0]: https://notabase.io
I find that the older I get the more I appreciate math. I did find it boring when I was younger. I'm not sure if it is for folks like mathologer and 3brown1blue. I tend to think visually and they do a wonderful job in that area. I don't recall anyone presenting math like they do when I was in school in the 1980's.
Oh come on. It should be obvious that I'm talking about the processes that can be split up in that way. Those problems are so common that someone literally wrote GNU parallel to solve them.
And supply shocks have more to do with JIT logistics than government interference

Blockchain, like a lot of computing ideas, is far too academic requiring constant fetishizing, or it’ll disappear.

May as well trot out a new religion; blockchain will be as unprovable and ephemeral to the masses.

Which is great for the hopes and dreams of blockchain grifters, and “egalitarian” tech oligarchs.

They have proven one thing though; the public will chase ephemeral carrot off a cliff.
Because it functions? It may never be the behemoth researchers expect it to someday be but it actually does function and produce results.
Perpetual motion and free energy is in violation of known laws of physics.

My intuition is that large scale quantum computing is also in violation of laws of physics, but we don't have good models/theory about those yet.

What I am calling for is a reality check on this field.

Pretty much like string theory I am ready to bet it won't go anywhere.
Do you mean this one? https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/BTC-QF.pdf
with quicklinks [1] and the backlinks [2] plugins your're basically there. frictionless interlinking has made all the difference

[1] https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/quick-links-plugin/14214

[2] https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/automatic-backlinks-with-m...
An ideal economy would limit the aggregation of power, hit compounding with a logarithm to make it harder to amass more political and economic power.
So paying employees the minimum amount possible is efficient to you? Maybe it results in better short-term profits, but it destroys the company long-term.
I don't really follow. If we're talking about something so specific as "what songs would a band play on their own set list" that should be manually curated, and in a very short amount of time.

If it's just general vibes... spotify already does this for you. They have an entire section called "Made for you" which seems to cluster your tastes and generate playlists of them.

Perhaps you just want to generate a cluster off of your own chosen centroid of song profiles. That could be cool I guess. I vastly prefer to just play albums.
The people shipping Electron apps don't seem being interested in keeping the Web open, rather adding value to Chrome OS conquest of the Web.
Original paper/article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj2847
The United States is a democracy. Having large swarth of people owning cryptocurrencies making it possible for 1. no outright government bans or criminal investigations, 2. potential government buyout.
Markdown, or CommonMark?
...syncthing
Unlike perpetual motion or free energy, the math and physics behind quantum computing is rock solid - the possibility is baked into the framework of quantum mechanics at an absolutely fundamental level. Even if it turned out that all of quantum field theory was completely bogus, I would still expect the basic framework of quantum mechanics (i.e. unitary evolution, the Born rule for converting amplitudes to probabilities, density matrices describing mixed states) to be correct.

If quantum computing was not possible, that would mean that everything we thought we knew about physics was hopelessly wrong. Physics would have to be much stranger - we'd have to give up on either locality (i.e. causation being limited by the speed of light), reversibility (closely related to conservation of energy), or nondeterminism in order to make the math work out. There are several papers in the literature that derive quantum mechanics from these or related assumptions (often together with some extra technical detail, that differs between approaches):

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0101012
https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6451
https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0695
It can be argued that Evergrande being allowed to take on so much debt is actually evidence of Chinese officials not taking a long view on things. Presumably the pressure to pump up the GDP was so great in previous years (not unlike executives in capitalist America with their quarterly reports) that they allowed corporations to become what they currently are.
This is what Rob proposes in this issue.

> I propose we still design, build, test, and use new libraries for slices, maps, channels, and so on, but start by putting them in the golang/x/exp repository.
That’s from Datura metel
Sounds good to me. I've seen so much dysfunction generated by distorting companies to please executives and investors. I'd love to see what different approaches produce. I'd hope it would be better, but at least we could get some variety in pathology, and society wouldn't just take this generation's dominant paradigm as perfect and eternal.

For those interested in the topic, I recommend reading "A Lapsed Anarchist's Approach to Building a Great Business". [1] Years ago a grad student went to the University of Michigan to study their large collection of anarchist literature. As a sideline, he started the now-legendary Zingerman's Deli. Over the years, it spun off a large collection of associated businesses, each run by some of the workers. Lots of interesting ideas, ones backed by real-world success.

'1] https://www.zingermans.com/Product/zingermans-guide-to-good-...
If you want an open source alternative, you should check out Notabase [0]. It's like a mix of Notion + Roam Research, designed to be delightful and easy to use. The difference from Obsidian is that it's database-backed.

[0]: https://notabase.io
It’s pretty overrated really (even if grey). Mature projects and PMs treat submitted code as liabilities to be maintained, not free benefits. And every project is at the whims of its maintainer, who can absolutely reject any contribution they wish.

To suggest generics weren’t here sooner because no one wanted to make the pull request it is just dumb.