skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't sense what is so conspiratorial about it. Just spend some time observing the kind of material that gets posted there and the tone of the comments. It creates an atmosphere that reinforces the idea that these people "had it coming" so to speak. There is no shortage of mockery and contempt. I think if you spend enough time there, you really do start to internalize these feelings. Why wouldn't someone?

>"Subscribers are subscribed to this not through some advertising campaign"

Perhaps the subreddit grew entirely organically, but it does show up on r/Popular and r/All. It is entirely reasonable to think that a significant number of redditors saw it, wound up subscribing, and after being there for a while they have learned to dehumanize the people that get showcased there. Whereas before they were probably anti-anti-vaxxer but probably not giddy about seeing them suffer because of it.
TERF was a term coined by TERFs who then backed away from it when it started being used derogatorily.
> This is a bit of a nitpick, but this is a physical impossibility. On a AC electric network, if the power input is higher than the power output, the frequency of the current goes up quite quickly, until the grid collapses (because there are security to avoid frequency deviation). You cannot “not consume all the power you produce”, all you can do is not producing as much as you could.

I probably should have said "all the power you could produce", since for example with photovoltaics you can produce at any moment any amount of power from zero up to the MPPT point on the I/V curve, depending on how much charge you remove from the panel. I hope this clears it up.

> Btw, I'm interested by the sources of your “1.6 GWh of storage for your 1000 MW nuclear” because it sounds really low to me

I used the figures in the 2018 Zerrahn et al. article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001429211...

> I did a simulation[1] a while ago based on French data, for a 100% RE scenario and my calculation arrived at around 250GWh per GW of installed capacity.

Maybe you've just taken Sinn's approach instead of Zerrahn's? That number would seem to fit it.
And yet, I still hold those other things.

Many people told that society where to shove it when they came to repossess their assets by force.

If you are trying to explain why I owe some debt to society to support their currency you aren't making a very convincing argument.
I had occasion to search HN history, on a couple of occasions in the past week. I tried DDG, but didn't get a result until I tried Goo - which I try hard to avoid. It was on page 3 of the result-set. I'd expect a site search to be better-focused.

I'm not working on anything. And I haven't literally been searching for an entire week. I've just ended up more than once in the past week trying to find the search UI, and giving up.

I'm grateful for someone picking up my lost front-door-keys for me. Perhaps I shouldn't go out without my carer :-)
Suppose thread A (the owner) keeps a reference, but also puts another reference in a global variable. This would increment its local refcount to 1 and have a shared refcount of 1.

Then thread B clears the global variable. With your scheme the local refcount would be 1 but the shared refcount would be 0, so thread B would destroy the object even though it's referenced by thread A.
Why do people without money need to have bank accounts?

If you answer is: To be able to make payments

Then maybe a better question is -- Why should people need bank accounts to make payments.

Note: Banks are not likely to ask this question
I don't know, in most countries that I've visited or lived in, there was way more competition than duopolies and monopolies.

I'm currently in the UAE where there are more than 30+ retail chains competing alongside online retail shops (including Amazon). Thats ignoring independently run tiny grocery stores which number more than 5000. All of them compete to provide the best service, and incidentally its the groceries that are winning.

There are more than 10+ national banks and more than 30+ banks providing retail services. And even though there's only one major oil producer (ADNOC), there are multiple gas station chains. All this in a tiny country of 9 million people - I purposely did not take into account a country such as Germany or India.

There is one industry which is a duopoly, telecom, which is a state run duopoly, and the quality shows. Customer service is the worst - so bad that even a royal prince from a ruling family cursed the telecoms, so bad that the heads of the bigger firm were berated by the rulers in a meeting.

If you're gloating about how monopolies are the norm around the world, well quite frankly, it isn't. On the other hand, it might be far more symptomatic of the direction the countries you're referring to are heading in. Incidentally I have observed the pattern you mentioned in the UK too.
> I may misunderstand your remark, as 'releasing' is a bit ambiguous.

The reference is released; ie the (atomic) reference count is decremented (and the object is only freed if that caused the atomic reference count to go to zero).

> From the paper

I missed that there was a paper and was referring to the proposed implementation in python that was described in TFA. IIUC, biased refcount (in paper) is local (in my description), and shared is atomic, correct?

> the shared ref count can go negative

And that makes sense. Thanks. (And also explains how to deal with references added by one thread and removed by another, when one of those threads is the object owner.)
Assign a shortcut key to it, then it's a keypress plus a button click.
Except we already have deeds, and unlike NFTs they have legal weight. What does an NFT bring to the table?
I am blown away. 61.5 million dollars for $68,536,825,819 (68 billion dollars.) Maybe not the same in 2017 but damn, how does this even work without anyone panicking?
Because the question is rhetorical and meant to imply that vaccination mandates are the cause of the shortage.
Sure thing, dude.

Here's a mental exercise for you: what percentage of the obese population would, if they could, take a vaccine that would prevent them from being obese?

Given the sheer amount of money spent on diet programs every year, I'm betting that the percentage would be absolutely staggering. Even most of those who are against taking the COVID vaccine would take it.

Now compare that to these people who don't want to take a vaccine because they (a) believe that they're nigh-invincible, and (b) believe that they're taking a political stand against tyranny.

Opening people's eyes to what the disease does and how it can be prevented is vastly more important than the feelings of the family members of gullible people.
But that bug is also chalked up to your original time. The time it takes to make feature X is the implementation time + all maintenance time. If that combination isn't low then you are slow.

For example, lets say you spend a full year writing a full product. The a bug you write at month 2 and fix at month 6 is still the time it took to build this product. Being a quick coder therefore includes being good at managing technical debt, bugs etc. There is no reasonable interpretation of being fast at it that doesn't include these aspects, as the clock doesn't stop ticking until you are done.

So when people say you should learn how to become a fast coder, what they mean is that you should learn how to produce code at your current quality level but in much less time. They don't mean that you should throw quality out the window and just write crap without thinking.
2013 MBP.. same reasons, same hopes...(except i don't mind an m1.. i've heard only good things)
I've written this comment several times, but it basically spams your system folders, mounts, daemons, and more. Integration is clumsy and poor. It doesn't give much ability to configure it either. Canonical just doesn't have the human-enginering chops/resources to polish all the rough edges. Sorta reminds me of docker, good ideas, middle-brow execution.

Add in poor startup performance, and I removed it. Replaced Chromium snap with a PPA, which was faster and 10x less intrusive.
Not to be confused with
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Form...
Does anything ever really go away from Emacs?
A society where people don’t need to steal to survive, if you are truly asking.

A Walgreens takes money from a community and gives it to their shareholders. They pay minimum wage. The desperation people have across this country should be responded to with policies that lessen desperation, rather than jailing people like we have been for the last 60 years - 25% of the prisoners in the world are in the USA which has 5% of the population.

If you want people to not steal food, give them food. If you want people to not be homeless, give them a home. If you want people in prison, prevent the hungry from eating and the homeless from finding a home. It costs a lot more to hold a prisoner than providing food or shelter by other means.
I'm typing this on a M1 MacBook pro, but only because that is what my employer mandates.

1) The M1 MacBook Air is better value and has a better keyboard.

2) Properly rugged business PCs are still better hardware (hardware is more than just the CPU).

3) Kubuntu or Linux Mint are a better OS.
State IDs being used for voting means that who gets to vote is controlled by individual States ID laws, and we don't generally trust other States to get it right.
Thanks. American legislation confuses me, and I'm American. Too many organizations that report on it don't link to the bills they talk about, and when I google them I get things like this, with the exact same name. Definitely doesn't help with my casual attempts to understand it.
But those companies would only complain if Tether stopped redemptions, which presumably would only occur if they ran out of cash. You'd need some other outside impetus to trigger it all.
prisoner's dilemma: gain income while lying or let others drain your income by lying?
Is there a proposed new language/definition? The article's discussion still seems to be centered on price.

"her paper highlights how the consumer welfare view of antitrust fails to curb the predatory pricing".

I said it elsewhere, but I not against the idea of trust-busting, but the industry analogies typically brought up don't really fit. The closest I can find in general discussion is that the services are a public good, but we tolerate/promote monopolies in those sectors (like utilities).
there could be licensing restrictions. (i think we can do better, but it's a path.)

in the absence of licensing restrictions, the nft owners are incentivized to prefer projects that provide utility for their nfts.
It's like being startup employee and leaking some key metrics. I don't expect that to end up nicely, whatever the person's status is...
I have but one vouch to give for harmless comments unfairly obliterated.
> Furthermore, if you’re good at typing, you free up brain cycles to allocate to higher level work.

Yes exactly! I finally learned to touch type including symbols on ortholinear keyboards. This frustration of having to look down constantly is gone. I’m free to focus on editing code.
So a place like Aldi will have to stock things other than its store brands? How do you pick which brands need be included? Judging from a place like Sprouts or Whole Foods there’s about 50 varieties of rice crispies.
check out the frame.work laptop. The future is repairability and you won't be compromising too much in terms of form factor. Also, you can replace the battery yourself. (its sad that in 2021, thats a FEATURE)
Do you actually have not stopped using Facebook?
(Shrug) It is funny when an antivaxxer gets his/her comeuppance, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

These people make the world a worse place, so it's entirely possible that we're better off without them. If no one listened to them, my opinion would be more lenient and compassionate. But the unfortunate fact is that their bullshit spreads faster than any virus.

The other unfortunate fact is that, as the article points out, they are taking up space in hospitals that by rights should go to more deserving patients. When an antivaxxer heads to the morgue, their bed becomes available to someone more deserving of compassion, such as someone who played by the rules and still ended up with a severe breakthrough case. I'm OK with that.

Needless to say, I could never work in health care, and I respect the hell out of those who do, as long as they're not antivaxxers. If I worked in a COVID-19 ward, I'd be fired within 24 hours and sued within 48.
Essentially yes. They throw up all kinds of roadblocks to make it difficult to exchange tether for cash in order to preserve the facade.

Just one article I found: https://www.google.com/amp/s/micky.com.au/irredeemable-why-i...
I agree there's not a natural tension between quality and speed, but the speed part is really hard to measure. You must consider the time of all future readers and maintainers of the code you are writing. Spending time to write a test or comment today is an investment that pays back in future fast iteration. Saving time by skipping code review, dashing off weird and confusing interfaces or variable names without revisiting them in a second pass, that type of thing is the opposite: it can appear to save you time today, but is costing you future time.
> Being a "front" suggests an entire business model created by and built around propping up that third party such that the two are indistinguishable actors on everything but the surface level.

No. One party being a front for another party suggests that the two are indistinguishable actors on everything but the surface level, or more accurately that any action taken by the first party might be better viewed as being "really" taken by the second party, that any information given to the first party is also being given to the second party, etc. It does not suggest that fronting for the second party is the only thing the first party does, or that the first party was created to serve the purposes of the second party.

Taking an example out of the dictionary, it would be unusual to claim that a massage parlor serving as a front for prostitution is obviously, by its nature as a "front", unwilling to provide massages.
For self-started projects what matters far more is maintaining consistent motivation and progress. For sure, there will be places where a good choice will pay off and save lots of work or bugs, but how often that happens matches the level you're at. The post is saying this will happen more often with practice, which I completely agree with. The important thing is that you keep on making. Consistency also matters.

Don't let weeks go by AFK for no reason.
The design here made me think of:

http://sigwait.tk/~alex/doc/bunz%2Cmercedes__school-will-nev...
Python Zen = one obvious way to do it. Having a bunch of very different ones, each with serious disadvantages, is a bad look.
Has there been any demographic analysis of who is quitting?

Age cohort, gender, income group, population density (large urban/small urban/suburban/rural) -- that kind of stuff?

The BLS has quits by industry and region: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.t04.htm , so that's something.

Also, how much of this is just pent-up turnover? I imagine that many people effectively put their plans on hold for a while when covid hit, and now they are acting on them.

This Statista chart from August makes the quit rate look a bit underwhelming (i.e. it has returned to trend), and the job opening surge a direct consequence of the layoffs earlier: https://www.statista.com/chart/25036/job-openings-quits-and-...
I recently had to implement a custom PDF viewer using PDF.js. It took a loooong time, because PDF.js is so confusing to work with. We went way over what we thought was a conservative time estimate. :(

It's not just a matter of documentation, but API design. Beyond the bare minimum functionality, you'll need bits and pieces of semi-public API.

For example, if you want to use the "text layer" (for selectable text) you'll need a CSS file which is inside the `web/` directory. But what's in `web/` is incomplete and not officially supported.
Yes my point is that the ideas aren’t viable even if they weren’t suggesting NFTs and that business models exist for similar things that work but wouldn’t for NFTs.
How can you claim their fraud rates are higher, when they have no accounts?
>Its this sort of sensational/half-true reporting that makes people lose faith in media brands.

If you think not reporting error bars is what makes people "lose faith in media brands", you are so far away from reality I'm not sure what to tell you.

But how about you put aside the statistical nuance of this for 10 seconds and acknowledge the fact that real people, when asked, actually consider Facebook -- a piece of software-- harmful. They are saying that. What does that mean?
Oh well, I actually missed that so I guess that one is on me.

Having said that, you have to admit that's not always the case and it's easy to miss after being nagged with cookie popups and newsletters and whatnot.
Wonderful.

One of the things I'm most concerned about is how credit card payment processors and banks basically define what you can easily buy online. Something can be perfectly legal, but if there's no way to pay for it, it won't be available.
Alternatively to promotions, you might get allowed to switch to that cooler project you have been eyeballing.
Thing young people should do. Brian Cranston
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> mystification of Psychohistory

This is a nice summary of the underlying pattern of the adaption. If they actually understand the idea, and follow the spirit, I think it's not too hard to add concrete details that substantiate the show. It is this inherent desire to not describe science precisely, but deliberately guts the details and label liberal value onto it, that causes the whole detachment of form and spirit.
Network effects can cause the spread of obesity, as well as ideologies such as the anti-vax movement, so I don't see why it's not a "gotcha".
Some men just want to watch teh world learn.
> My feminists can beat up your feminists.

They in fact have in the past.
I don't need to. The GPS device from Garmin I have has no mobile connectivity. So it doesn't send data.
Not the lightning network, which would be the primary network used for day-to-day transactions: https://lightning.network/

> Scalability. Capable of millions to billions of transactions per second across the network. Capacity blows away legacy payment rails by many orders of magnitude. Attaching payment per action/click is now possible without custodians.
I'm gonna try. Productivity is the discounted future cash flow per hour of work.

Here's what it's not: It's not about how much code you write. It's not about the quality of the code. It's not about clever engineering solutions. All these can (and should) be part of the above, or they may not. Sometimes sucky code that can bring in a billion dollars is better than great code that brings in nothing. Technical debt is fine as long as the "interest" on that debt is << the profit you made by taking on that debt. Just like any other debt.

A business pays you $X an hour, what are they getting out of you $-wise?

To be clear, that doesn't mean that e.g. someone working on internal tooling can't be productive, but their productivity is measured by the impact on someone else who eventually uses the tooling to make money somehow.

This is incredibly difficult/impossible to measure perfectly, certainly on an individual level, but I still think it's worthwhile to look at it like this...

EDIT: I totally agree with the spirit of "sharpen your axe" and "be good at what you do". I spent a lot of time as a teenager learning to type fast. I did coding competitions to learn how to code real fast. This is part of what being a craftsman is about. But the leverage there is really limited. I liked what one of my ex-CEOs used to say, that just because he types fast doesn't mean he should do his secretary's work. So after you know what you're doing, you have the right approach, you're the right person to do this, all the other business factors, you should definitely excel at doing it.
Once Facebook's got through with them, I'm sure people do think that.

Quite aside from the deterioration of that medium, there's been good money in helping nefarious actors poison that well.
Well, example.com/user/jim looks to me like a Unique Resource Locator. If that's right, then what I'll get is a "page" (you could call it a resource). If the locator is really "unique", It'll be different from the page I get if I ask for example.com/user/jane, right? (modulo aliasing)

Well if that's right, then this site is not a "single-page application". It has multiple pages with different URLs, and I don't know how that's different from any other website with server-side state.

[Edited to mention state; state is irrelevant to whether its an MPA or an SPA, but without state it's hard to argue its an application at all]
Others have met these requirements with better integration, UI, etc. See sibling comment for one.
Sure. I'm being super optimistic there, but it's also worth noting that Phoenix uses a websocket so some of the latency in the handshake is negated for subsequent requests.

Still, 50ms would probably be fast enough for a lot use cases, and if it's not, it's easy to configure debouncing.
I think yours is a much cleaner design. In the original plan, if the owning thread just set the special bit, but before that set is propagated, another thread drops the shared refcount to zero, the object would never be released, would it?

EDIT: never mind the question, I just read that the special bit is atomic.
> but at least there is a better WiFi chip.

Strangely, it sports Bluetooth 4.1, while 5.1 is from December 2019.
As they used to say in the USSR: "Our brave scouts thwarted cowardly enemy spies". If you were on the other team then your designation of "data driven scientists" and "snake oil salesmen" had been opposite and you would be as sure in your point of view as you are now.
The lightning network makes the entire throughput argument beyond irrelevant: https://lightning.network/
You really gotta wonder how Dave would feel if a white person tried to explain to him how a joke he saw as racist wasn't actually racist, and besides, my black friend said it's fine...

There must be some analog to "mansplaining" that fits, here. "Transplaining"? Hmm...
Yup, that's it!
between this news and sweeney's dismissal [1], the decentralized future is bright

> Sweeney: We aren’t touching NFTs as the whole field is currently tangled up with an intractable mix of scams, interesting decentralized tech foundations, and scams.

[1] https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/144251952287594906...
Really, what modern language has any real unique features? Rust has an actual unique feature (borrow checking). Other than that, they just pick slightly different subsets of what has been around since 1970.

That being said, Ruby for me always felt like the syntactic ideal.

[1,2,3].map { |i| i + 2 }

The combination of data structure literals, trailing closures (blocks), expressions by default, dropping parens - it is ideal for me. That’s subjective, so, no point in discussing that, I can’t be swayed.

But, what I always hated about working on large Ruby apps was a lack of types and concurrency. Add those on, and that’s a language that I would really enjoy.

That’s what it brings to the table. When people like Ruby, it’s because the syntax can be legitimately pleasurable to work with. Not true of any other language. Add on the more industrial aspects like static types, concurrency, and performance, and you have a compelling language. If that doesn’t seem interesting to you, that’s because it’s not for you.