skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And average working people were so well off in the USSR that they never tried to leave, lamented its fall, etc...

Indeed most average people were quite happy with the regimes. The dissidents, people trying to flee etc. were usually academics. (I'm from Eastern Germany, so this is anecdata, but at least the first-hand kind).

I suppose this is also true for China: The young people there have seen huge intergenerational prosperity advances for three or sometimes four generations.

This mixes up topics, though: central planning is largely orthogonal to political freedom. As a mirror, there were a bunch of authoritarian free market situations, e.g. in South America, but also Italy, Spain and Germany during their dictatorships.

> The US is remarkably decentralized,

Are you sure about that? My impression is that large parts of the economy are actually controlled by (quasi-)monopolies or oligopolies.

> In the end, central planning does not survive any good intentions of its originators.

Most European countries have a federal budget to GDP ratio of over 50%, suggesting that central planning actually does deliver in many segments of the economy, notably those where working market dynamics are very hard to achieve (esp. education, healthcare, pensions, social services, often also energy and water infrastructure).
You can study the tradition separately. This is one of those tools that can become a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands. If someone doesn't study the universe before getting into this he is most likely to use it the wrong way. It's important to appreciate the universe from outside the individual perspective. But you can't stop people from doing anything. Just like you couldn't stop people from building the atomic bomb. We need to experience and learn.

Tradition, in my opinion, is people being one-sided towards the right side of the brain - focusing only on experience and not logic. To the point where mysticism is the only way to explain anything. Both sides need to be integrated.
Crazy, you described my whole career path.
I think one of the major advantages of wavelets is the time-frequency representation of the signal, which means being able to see the different spectra of the signal change over time (at different scales) which is not easily attainable with Fourier transform. So you could detect transient interesting patterns (spatial frequencies) in the data that would otherwise go unnoticed. Same you could enhance or remove certain spatial frequencies of the signal depending on the task.
Rust copied this misstake. Rust would have been neater if taking references and dereferencing were postix operators. At least they made await a postfix operator.
see comparison with swc: https://swc.rs/docs/benchmark-transform
No. Sometimes something just does work out faster, so explain that. Spend a little longer anyway as if something is vastly faster than expectations then perhaps something's been missed. Then when still presenting it faster, explain that it was faster than planned and shouldn't be taken for granted.
https://twitter.com/deewhock
Any modern device will run both, but Infocom's Z-machine ran on old 8-bit home computers. Even if you ignore EPUB's image support (which includes the complicated SVG format), EPUB is zipped XHTML+CSS. I'd be very surprised if you could fit a parser and renderer for all that in the limited RAM they had available.
Very simple - if they have fake reviews, they should be fined. If they can't do anything about it, they can innovate a "Customer Obsession" business model. It looks like Leadership Principles go down the drain when it affects the top line.
Not a dumb question at all. There has been some research on using a wavelet scattering transform as a feature extractor instead of learned convolutions in the first layers of deep neural networks. It works, but isn't as good, _given enough data_. For low-data regimes it makes sense to do this.
> I tried that but couldn't grok how to set an arbitrary page structure.

I don't know what this means - I write a normal org document with headings and suchlike, and then export. For site structure I store each page as a separate org file and the html-export exports the links correctly.

It might just be that I am happy with the output so I didn't try to change anything, so didn't run into the problem you did.
Webpack is a bane of webdev existence.

Having junior team encounter a webpack breakage === them spending as much time on tooling, as coding itself
How are NFT's "predatory behavior"?

Some stuff is for sale. Nobody is being tricked into buying it. Everyone knows you click right click and save if you want.
What is really baffling to me is how many sites even allow reviews that are not attributable to a verified purchase.
Yeah, it's mostly a prisoner's dilemma where if someone spends on ads then their competitors also have to spend. The only one really profiting in the end are the ad companies.
Climate change: Carbon emissions from rich countries rose rapidly in 2021
Maybe the truth is that f2p is not sustainable in the long term, at least not for any game that has competitive elements?
Java is generally not too bad for competitive programming. Of course C++ will easily beat it, but generally only by a factor of 2x or so. Unlike Python, which can easily be 5-10x worse…
What’s the catch? Do they really have a secret sauce or are there limitations in esbuild to achieve these speed ups?
Maybe this is a natural consequence of trying to look original and creative, but this site is really badly designed. It's painful to read. Why force me to scroll?

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Ive's G4 Cube will always stand out to me as the worst computer I've ever used because the power button was hidden underneath it. It seems like form-over-function has always been his style.
I just saw an (internal) presentation where presenter predicted that in a few coming months we will see a lot more RxJS being used in ReactJS projects. Cannot wait to see it included on webpages which would be just fine with zero JS.
Local restaurants can reject discriminatory and un-scientific vaxport mandates by closing their in-person dining room and serving takeout only -- to any customer. With a discount for cash purchases.

Or get a good lawyer, pool with other restaurants and challenge the fines. Some states have lost in court against challenges to 2020 restrictions, fines were voided and the state had to cover legal costs for the lawsuit which challenged the state.
I've dealt with the Android issue by configuring Syncthing to only run when the phone is charging. I'm in the habit of leaving my phone to charger every night anyway, so I'm regularly synced. It would be great if there would be a 'Sync now' function though, that would run the sync and then go back to ordinary mode afterwards, for the rare case that I need my folder synced in the instant.
Sixels are fun, but I was disappointed by libsixel. It’s not really a general–purpose library; most of it is there only to implement various command–line arguments of img2sixel. Most of the functions determine what to do by parsing strings taken from the command–line arguments, so reusing it is super annoying.

When implementing a program that outputs sixels, you are better off looking elsewhere. SDL1.2-SIXEL is a good choice in general, if you are writing C or don’t mind using the C bindings for your preferred language.
I agree that going to extraordinary lengths to prevent software augmentation of gameplay is attacking the wrong thing. What does it matter, if people are still having fun?

But software augmentation doesn't just improve apparent skill, it can also distort gameplay. What if you're really skilled and you get matched with what amounts to a bot? Even if you're good enough to overcome the bot and win the game, it won't be the game you signed up to play.

The real problem here is "annoying play styles", something that humans are capable of indulging in without any software help. This is usually policed - ineffectively - by social pressure ("no camping!"). The real solution is an extension of the ranking system - a reputation system, which tracks sportsmanship. All of these problems ultimately stem from the practice of connecting vast numbers of anonymous strangers with each other - cheatbots simply aren't an issue when you play with your friends. This is a social problem.
15 dollars an hour is great pay if you're in India
Nobody is against planning, the point is different plans should be allowed to compete, as long as people are willing to put a personal stake into their plan that carries consequences. Hence capitalism. Central planning eliminates the personal stakes, the competition and most of the individual consequences for the planners.

In practice a hybrid approach often has advantages, particularly for very large scale projects which are meeting a vital need and where direct competition would be wasteful but you can still have contractors bid for the work. Major infrastructure such as bridges, airports, power generation. Bureaucratic central planning (government) can play a role in that, but government should have it's own competitive forces and accountability in the form of democratic elections.

Many like yourself do see waste in this system and you are right, in any competition, either economic or political there are losers as well as winners and sometimes outcomes can be somewhat arbitrary. Whatever system we use we must deal with corruption and exploitation. While a confirmed capitalist, I strongly support basic social welfare and services in the European model. This system has proved in practice again and again to be far, far superior to all the alternatives, or the least worst among them anyway.
SGML can transform HTML and all other forms of markup, though it's neither limited to that use, nor does it readily bundle image converters/compressors even though that sure has always been a plausible use case for SGML-based pipelines.
On Ubuntu (and probably other distros that use Systemd as well) you need to enable the user service manually once for your user:

systemctl --user enable --now syncthing.service

This will start syncthing whenever your user session is active. By default that means when you login. If you run this command:

sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER

Then your user service manager will be started at boot and run regardless if you are logged in or not. (The default behavior makes more sense on desktop and laptop computers.)
From what I've read on the main page plus some of the documentation pages is that it gives you

- preconfigured dev environment with some tools already installed (using asdf, which is easy to add more tools with)

- preconfigured firewall (which of course is easy to do yourself, but it's done already)

- instructions on how to do some of the ssh tunneling things necessary to connect your local apps/tools with the remote ones

- "managed" OS (kept updated for you)

- support, someone to ask for help if you're stuck trying to do something

None of these are particularly difficult to do on your own, but this just packages them all into a service.

If you roll your own with a VPS, then you do have some setup to do if you want to harden and configure it. Then you have to choose/use a tool to manage that configuration so you can spin up and blow away an instance on demand.

It may be some (a lot?) more expensive than a bare, plain VPS, but perhaps the it is worth 10-20$/mo for a dev who wants to travel light (cheap laptop/chromebook) and have one less thing to worry about.
I used to be a user of both Syncthing and Resilio Sync, but i've replaced both with regular cloud storage with Cryptomator or rclone+crypt instead (Cryptomator for clients).

It turns out that the power consumption of keeping redundant hardware running at home is about twice as high as just buying the same storage in the cloud, and then you need to figure in the cost of hardware as well.

I.e. Microsoft Family 365 can be had for €60/year (with HUP), and offers 6x1TB OneDrive storage. With power at €0.44/kwh, you have a power budget of 15W before your home server costs more than the cloud offering.
These blocks are great if you need more vertical than horizontal resolution. There are also newer symbols in the Unicode 13 spec that are just the line without the fill.
I wouldn't expect apps to require android 11 anytime soon (years). Android 4.4 was supported forever. Things get ugly when 10 doesn't receive any updates anymore.

But even with the versions before 11 things were a chore with many vendors putting aggressive power saving features in their phones that are hard if not impossible to disable for some chinese brands, sometimes the app not restarting after the app store pushed an update, etcpp.

I tried to de-cloud my dad with it, but eventually the app would stop running for some reason after a few days or weeks and nothing would get synched. Because otherwise, the technical foundation, especially the nat traversal is superb. I ran a mini pc in his home with ST that would receive all the photos from the phone. Zero maintenance, no port forwardings that I would have to re-do if the provider switches routers or the settings reset or what not, no dyndns for reachability. He was travelling in thailand, vietnam and elsewhere and the pictures just kept coming in. A reliable version of PhotoSync that uses the syncthing protocol under the hood would freaking kill it.
You could just use a USB hub if you need so many extra.
well, they're taking jobs from a rich country to give them to poor countries. so there's a certain robin hood side I guess
I was learning to use Krita the other day, and was surprised that while you can draw frame by frame, there's no way to draw as the clock advances (and then have the drawing converted to individual frames). Could be useful to map natural movement of a single joint over time, or turn line drawing into a video.

But this is an even better idea, drawing in a finite piece of space AND time, for its own sake. Thanks for the discovery!
Well, I'm spending the fall in Barcelona right now, but I don't think I'll move somewhere else permanently. As I get older I seem to get more attached to Sweden and have hard time imagining building a permanent life somewhere else.
I built mine too, for similar reasons: it felt easier to write from scratch, so that my site looked the way I wanted it, than customize some of the existing solutions (Jekyll, Hugo, etc).

Sure it’s not customizable at all: it can only generate my site. And that’s fine. I like it that way.

For example: I sometimes translate poetry, and I have a bunch of code that renders individual poems from plaintext (not Markdown, because newlines and whitespace _are_ significant): https://github.com/nathell/nhp/blob/master/src/nhp/poems.clj
> To me it refers to any system involving private property and voluntary exchange thereof.

That's just an ideal. As soon as you talk about e.g. CO2 emissions everyone talks about how voluntary exchange through CO2 taxes is preventing prosperity.

Also, as soon as you talk about taxing land ownership people will go crazy.

Finally, people think money is private property when it is just a relationship with other people that owe you something. People love the idea of insisting that someone else is forced to owe you something but they also love to reprimand that person for refusing this involuntary relationship. Simplified: "inflation is bad because I want to keep others in debt and never forgive that debt" The idea of money being your private property is the same as insisting that a part of another human (their time) is your private property.

>'growth-dependant corporatocracy' which I'm happy to critique all day long.

Well, the above is already pretty damning. Once you add morals to the capitalist economy you basically are trapped into a prisoners dilemma. Work is allocated as full time jobs even when there isn't enough aggregate demand to keep everyone employed full time. So full time employees must consume the exponentially growing production of a full time employee otherwise there is no point in working full time. What often happens is that upper middle class people and below with "too much" money want to work less and they do not work less today, they will want to retire early. They are effectively delaying their economic involvement for decades while people today need this money to be employed today. This has lead to a massive expansion in private and public debt just to maintain a semblance of full time employment for everyone. The debt itself isn't the problem, it's the fact that the people who are betting on early retirement will be forced to realize that there won't be enough young people in the labor force to take care of them by the time they retire.

Let's assume 0% inflation. A population of 1000 accumulates 1000000 tokens representing one hour of work each. The working age population declines to 100. Without inflation the amount of owed work doesn't change. Each worker has to work 10 times as much to honor the token. The reality is that they cannot do 10 times the work. Maybe 4 times if automation has been progressing quickly and they work more hours per day. That means 1000000 tokens only represent 400000 hours of work. 2.5x inflation becomes necessary.

Thinking of money as property fools people into believing they were robbed by inflation. In this case it is clear that the price level shifted because of a lack of workers. Did the 900 retired workers rob the elderly? Did nature rob us of our youth?
Well not being written in JS does help -a lot-.

Esbuild is written in GO.
I'm not an Android dev, but IIUIC your photos and images are made accessible to the gallery app through the ContentProvider API, i.e it does not have direct access.
I remember once crashing Squeak by doing

`True := False`

Should crash any vintage ST/80 workstation.
Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps: and more wasps inside
More information: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/autostart.html#using-system...

The Debian/Ubuntu packages ship all the needed files. You only need to activate them.
For those who figure this is a great way to monetize their security skills and actually have the chops to do it:

It should probably be pointed out that once you do this, you’re in the weapons industry. Your work will likely be used, directly or indirectly, to put a bomb through someone’s roof or put them in prison for a very long time. Make sure you’re okay with the ethics of it.
I use far less than 15W using an old laptop or RasPi their cost is negligible over their useful lifetime
We have viable fusion, today:

Renewables are fusion at a distance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23580174

As a high school senior, I went to visit a college back in 1973. I visited a lab where they were playing around with approaches to fusion reactors, a Tokamak IIRC. Today, 48 years later, we're not really any closer than we were in 1973.

But today we do have both wind energy and PV energy. Commercially viable fusion. We should embrace it.
It is nice to see attempts at rationally integrating mystical experiences. That mystical experiences occur and have value is clear. The mystical and perennial philosophy (“all is one”) is not too far from rational thinking.
Wonder should it mention it is on GitHub. Is it true that and whilst one can a few js for dynamic contents sort of, by and large it is a constraint to static as no real db update etc.
this has some more detail of Stock’s arguments https://www.praile.com/post/kathleen-stock-obe
How to Customize a Category Axis in Blazor Charts
Child suicides in Japan hit record high
I have been fantasizing about a Covid-19 dosimeter - something that would indicate whether an indoor space is safe. It's fun to think about what kind of technology would be completely transformative for our pandemic response, if only it were cheap enough to be widespread.
Japan's education ministry says its latest annual survey shows the number of schoolchildren who killed themselves topped 400 for the first time. Also, a record high of over 190,000 students of elementary and junior high schools stopped attending.

The ministry conducts an annual survey of elementary, junior and senior high schools, and schools for special needs education across the country. It covers bullying, truancy and suicides among students.

On Wednesday, the ministry published the results of its survey conducted for the 2020 school year.

The results show a record-high 415 children killed themselves in the year through March. That's up nearly 100 from the previous school year.
Seven of the students were in elementary school, 103 in junior high and 305 in senior high.

The number of elementary and junior high school students who were absent for 30 days or more was 196,127. That's up nearly 15,000 from the previous year and a record high.

The rate of children who were absent has also been on the rise. The rate for elementary children increased threefold over the past ten years, to one out of 100. The rate for junior high was one out of 24, up 50 percent.

The survey also looked into the number of children who stopped attending school due to concerns over coronavirus infection.

It shows the total of 30,287 elementary, junior high and senior high school students were absent for 30 days or more due to such concerns.

Eguchi Arichika, student affairs division chief at the ministry, says the results show that changes in school and household environments due to the pandemic have had a huge impact on children's behavior, and that the increase in the number of suicides is very regrettable.

The official adds that the ministry will work to encourage children to seek help, and to ensure learning opportunities for children who cannot attend school.
Economics briefs: Six Big Ideas (2016) [pdf]
What is the denominator on the efficiency calculation? Total solar power output (at ground level), or power output in the spectrum band PVs operate on?

This is not what the article meant, but I wonder if in the latter case, efficiency can be increased "past 100%" by expanding the spectrum converted to energy.
It's being using to bundle some parts of nextjs itself, but not quite ready to replace babel for users rn afaik
> The company hasn't denied the bounty, they're just incompetent / slow on this process.

With 0-day security vulnerabilities, slowness equals incompetence. Companies with unbounded resources like Apple have absolutely no excuse for not being able to move as quickly as a small startup on issues like this, unless their message to shareholders is "yes invest in us so you can see our performance literally decrease with every dollar invested".
Workshop Cafe (now closed) in San Francisco was an interesting American version of this kind of cafe.
>I think you deeply misunderstand what it takes to run a marketplace generating $60+ billion revenue

A monopoly is an easy way to do it, then inconsistent review and bad security scanners are irrelevant, you need to add some PR team to try to defend all the bad stuff and misdirect.
Could reactive hypoglycemia and postprandial somnolence also come from bad lifestyle? At some point I was on that kind of schedule.
Why is the download section so small and in the corner of the page on arXiv.org desktop version and not in the main section under the title and preface/intro like on mobile?
Well, researching and listing reality is probably not the problem here.
Sounds like the Zeitgeist movement. Just some Americans re-inventing socialism yet again (more specifically the branch of socialism sometimes referred to as Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism), but not reading any of the existing theory, thus resulting in this square wheel scenario.
As someone who studied hardware engineering in college, the practice problems cover the core competencies in a degree on electrical/computer engineering. Reading through the practice problems I saw very few subjects that weren't at least touched on in undergrad. The fact that they come with solutions makes this a handy manual for students.

Considering the practice problems were hosted on Arxiv, this was exactly what I expected. What did you expect?