skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like they’re quite happy with the value provided by $1500-$2000/month from heating electrically.

Alas, if your home is well insulated, a newer wood stove should do the trick, but if moving it from a stack outside and cleaning ash is too much, I get it, stay electric.

Propane is delivered just like oil, but can be stored outside. Usually you get them refilled more often, so if road access is an issue, it’s not a great primary.
Man, there is a profound lack of self-awareness when you cite 1984 in an article defending Facebook, when Facebook is complicit in the creation of modern surveillance capitalism and the slow but inexorable shift to the digital panopticon...
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It doesn't look to be as good as it sounds. Privacy matters aside, you still have to keep WhatsApp installed on your phone.

> To connect your WhatsApp account, scan the QR code below:
> Open WhatsApp on your mobile device.
> Go to "Linked devices"
> Press "Link a device".
> Scan the code below.

Would pay money to get rid of Facebook software in my devices.
> It's "fair" if you're referring to equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

Fairness and equality are different. Imagine 2 people of different heights who can't see over a wall - equality is giving them both a ladder of exactly the same height even if that means just the tallest person can now see over the wall, while fairness is giving them each potentially different height ladders so they can both see over the wall.

The PoW equivalent (not factoring in premine) would be to give the first person the tallest ladder, and each successive person vanishingly small ladders, which doesn't really come under fair or equal. PoW with premine puts you in front of the wall so you don't need a ladder, plus it gives you a pile of ladders which you can sell to the people behind the wall, and maybe even some bricks so you can arbitrarily make the wall higher if you want.
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Right. You identified the prime characteristic for the CUI crowd: no context switching. Though Wordstar purportedly was superior for text manipulation.

Robert J. Sawyer wrote an article [1] on why he still uses it. Made me want to learn it, but I realize that if I'm going to put effort into learning a tool, I'd likely want it to be Emacs instead. (I currently use Scrivener.)

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/words...
It' you're a huge fan of light brown, this is the movie for you.
I'm sorry that you feel that way. I was already aware of the fact that it was both half a film, and that the second part wasn't green-lit yet. Despite of this, the film completely lived up to to my expectations.
Note that this is a narrow look based on salaries. Education levels correlate with a wide range of other things.

For example, from the CDC:

> Adults without a high school degree or equivalent had the highest self-reported obesity (38.8%), followed by adults with some college (34.1%) or high school graduates (34.0%), and then by college graduates (25.0%).

9 percentage points is a considerable difference. One in eleven people.

Obesity is linked with a host of health conditions, both chronic and acute. These incur higher medical costs.

Lower education levels also highly correlate with susceptibility to misinformation, watching more television, and lower self-reported life satisfaction.

Comparing salaries isn’t all that useful in measuring the impact of education.
The effectiveness of a college experience really depends on the type of person that is attending it.

College is indeed becoming overpriced.

If the person is seeking a party experience, it's a bad idea if they don't have rich parents that will support them and pay off loans later on.

If the person is a mature, informed, and energetic business go-getter, and they actually manage to start new ideas while they attend school, and then establish vital bonds with other go-getters they meet, they can potentially gain a lot from a college experience.

Once you join the working world, the diversity of ideas and ability to meet ambitious people regularly wanes a bit. Also as one ages, the energy and enthusiasm for change also decreases to an extent. Carpe Diem.

I also believe though, that some people can and have create(d) amazing and ambitious careers without a college education, or by dropping out early from the process. There are no rules...
We had to write “real” research article, and was limited to 14 pages. One article was selected for a conference, meaning that we had to trim it down to 6 or 8 pages, I don’t recall precisely. That was a difficult writing assignment.
Would not mind a link to some examples, but I guess you are right. Though maybe total cost will be higher though I have not calculated so maybe not.
That sounds like a good YouTube skit.

"Mad Libs, you must ride the desert sandwich. If you do not, the Firemen will not respect you."

"Fedora Thad, someday you will inherit the Hackneyed empire. Don't let the emperor's Streaker forces intimidate you."

"The Slice™ must flow."
Agreed, it's as though all features were organized carefully into a B tree that became polished over the years.
But is it easy to get in? Most English speaking Europeans you can talk to (barring the UK, etc) are in the above average category for their country. A lot of people may only speak their mothertongue or another European language that is not English.
You might be interested in the now defunct Mentat project from Mozilla. They made an EAV store with syncing on top of sqlite. It ran datalog queries by translating them into sql.

https://github.com/mozilla/mentat
They are also an innovation engine. You have to value all of the things they havent created yet but will.
we are doomed! :D
I think the meta issue is that existing is expensive when you have to price in not adding to climate change or biosphere impact. Existing is cheap when you can consume factory farmed meat, fossil fuel products without a carbon tax (for both mobility and electricity), etc.

We overshot what was sustainable as a species and now it’ll be terribly painful paying back the debt hangover. We have to provide for 7.5B people today, 11B by the end of the century, and generate enough clean energy to sequester all of the CO2 emitted during the industrial revolution.
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They asked for dual core. The C3 is single core.

> ESP32-C3 is a single-core, 32-bit, RISC-V-based MCU with 400KB of SRAM, which is capable of running at 160MHz

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32_C3
Funny that someone in law school doesn't seem to grasp that free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.
I'd like to support Firefox with a donation as I'm sure many others would, but I don't trust Mozilla foundation to allocate it to something that actually matters.
> I would argue that we shouldn't destroy the capital system but deploy it in a more equitable way.

So you actually do want to destroy the capitalist system.
PSA: The author is a Native American.
Something the article doesn't take into is how the ROI would be exponentially increased by interest and investments. Not everyone invests, but for those who do, raw dollar values will translate to even greater earnings on interest, and typically jobs with high ROIs will provide benefits like 401k matching and better health insurance so the actual ROI is even higher.
You should feel bad for luring retards like this. Well, maybe not.
The current conversation isn't about the real bad stuff (which I thankfully have never seen on FB), but rather about how much control the government should have over Facebook as a platform, and the direction seems to be universally in favor of more restriction of speech, not less.
Sort of like humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#Use_of_language
What is the best language to write web assembly in these days from a library/bundle size perspective?
I saw this on Twitter today also… however, this is after over a decade of taking a very very different approach though mind you. I’ll believe them when we see the outcomes though.
More vacation is of course better, but you also have the opposite "problem" in Sweden, if you don't want to take 4 consecutive weeks, but prefer to spread it out, it also usually has to be negotiated and will be treated as an exception and possible denied.
I’m not sure if you’re only accessing applications through a browser in this case but if you’re using Remote Desktop then why not Gimp or similar FOSS alternative?
USA leadership is in desperate need for clarity. Why riots don't work. Why fools from far away do not get to tell everyone what to do just for the luxury of having them around. Why you don't rush to your own execution or steal from your family for the very poison that kills you. Why you don't betray your neighbors, and how jihadis and marxists and the cartel cheer when Americans die.

Hands off free markets. Leave people alone. Don't meddle. You only make things worse and that's rule zero for authority. Leadership is not celebrity. People are poor for a reason. If you want that stuff, you build the bridge. You hire people. See for yourself what the problems are. Things like real malice and treason. Things like building something big often results in people dying.

I would think the atomic bomb would be enough. Guess not. I wonder what they are going to make me do next, what grotesque act ends this cursed scavenger hunt. Modern medicine can cut out someone's brain. Launch it into space. Send it adrift. Close it off with particle beams and solar instruments and black hole data so they will never reach it again and it will live forever in horrible agony. ... ... yeah ... that ought to hold those SOBs.
I very much agree with you.

> I'm increasingly repulsed by this notion that unless I'm doing something illegal or in opposition the the ruling party, encryption is just a luxury.

Making encryption and privacy a common thing is important to maintain the anonymity of those who have something to hide for various reasons. It's the same as law enforcement using dubious methods: We don't object because we're criminal, we object because we're not (i.e. and don't want to risk false charges).
For the past two years; I've been using Conversations (Android), Dino (Linux), and friends of mine have been using Gajim (Windows), Monal/Siskin (iOS).

All of these work fine with OMEMO (the iOS ones gained better OMEMO and push support in the past few months) and message history retrieval between clients. Gajim doesn't do inline images, but the rest do.

I occasionally use profanity as a console client and that recently had message archive support land in Git.

So, yeah, no idea what you mean by developers giving up - if anything, the ecosystem has greatly improved (minus group OMEMO on iOS).

Oh, and Dino got support for doing encrypted calls to Conversations a few months ago: https://fosstodon.org/@dino/106228549009869402
Why are we still doing education the same way it was done in the 1880s? The best technology in the 1880s was books and classrooms led by a professor. Our universities today look identical to that.

Now we can build a university online where every lesson is taught by the absolute best teacher in that one narrow area. Every new lesson you do, maybe 5 to 10 per day, would be taught by the very best teacher for that one particular topic. A different teacher from who taught the lesson could even prepare the quizzes for that topic.

Alternatively, I have been working for the last 8 months on YouTube to give myself a university level education in the construction trades. I have watched hundreds of hours of educational content on dirt work, concrete pours, framing, drywall, roofing, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, tile work, and finish features. I have built a shed using basically residential framing, and I am working on a second one now. Following this I'm going to build a small residence with a large garage, then I'm going to build a large residence. I am just doing this for my own hobby basically, but anybody who wanted to become a home builder can now do so just with the content online.
I have an issue with this quote:

> Individual financial returns to college are the paramount consideration for most students. Almost all students say access to a well-paying job is a primary reason for attending college.

First, I don't think financial return is the near-universal case asserted here. People go to college for many reasons and some programs (as noted) have a terrible ROI. Why then would these programs continue to survive?

Second, people have bought into this "follow your dream" meme and human ego is predisposed to thinking we're special and we'll be the exception so even with a terrible ROI, people don't think that'll be their fate. It's why people end up working as a barista after going $150,000 into debt to study theater arts at NYU.

Third, 18 year olds who are making these decisions, like many people much older, simply don't understand financial consequences.

I'm personally more interested in how much college ranking and/or debt affects ROI but I guess that's a separate question.
Yes, from the article:

“ ROI must also consider counterfactual earnings, or what each student would have earned in a parallel universe where he or she did not attend college. Assessments of ROI often compare the earnings of college graduates to the earnings of the median high school graduate. However, this simple analysis is insufficient for an accurate estimate of ROI. People who choose to attend college are different from those who do not. The two groups have different earnings potential. The counterfactual earnings for a college graduate are likely to exceed the earnings of the median high school graduate.

The same principle applies to different majors. Does an engineering graduate have high earnings because of his degree, or because engineering tends to attract people with scientific minds who would earn high wages no matter what? If so, an engineering major might have different counterfactual earnings than an English major. What about students who attend public colleges versus private colleges? Private college students often come from wealthier families. Are high earnings for private-college graduates due to the school, or due to family background?”
You only deal with the Steam or EGS or Gog cut if you're utilizing their storefront; if you are just hosting the game on your own site, then whether that game is a webassembly package or a desktop application, you don't have to pay some gatekeeper (other than your file host). Same thing with Android, though there is a bit more friction there.
Some background on FREOPP: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foundation_for_Researc...
>Alcoholism in it's true form - physical alcohol dependency - is a terrifying and debilitating disease, that captures the very will of the afflicted. There is no escaping the siren song of alcohol for the sufferer. It isn't a question of "just say no", it's a minute-by-minute willful struggle against an urge so powerful that at times, the alcoholic would gladly trade the lives of his children for another drink.

I drank far too much, far too often. But like I've got the habit to drink too much, little, by little, I also got the habit to drink just a little, also little by little.
Probably the least interesting dei criticism lately. Would rather have a repost of the mit climate change lecture
Oh, you're right. I overlooked that last paragraph.
How would thousands of competing networks deal with a government-enforced “no E2EE; wiretapping API required” law?
I'd actually like that. Like running a jupyter notebook on a beefy server somewhere. Biggest issue is probably that one still needs to be able to quickly seek in the movie, and watch rendered results in correct resolution without too much delay/downloading. But that delay could in practice end up being shorter if the server is faster at rendering.
> Buying on the dark web comes with risks:

> Devices can be exposed to an array of malware ready to wreak havoc on the buyers’ data.

???
Silence, user. The CEO has more mansions to purchase.
Is your objection an objection to parental controls on children's [1] devices in general, or is there something particular about that one?

[1] The description you quoted only applies to children under the age of 13. For children 13+ it still warns them, but if they elect to view anyway their parents are not notified. In the under 13 case if the child elects to view the material they are reminded that their parents will be notified if they do and given another chance to cancel.
Wow. Very cool!
> They allegedly do liveness checks with an IR sensor to make sure they are scanning a live eye

If you control one of their devices, you could always just modify it fake a live input.

Even if they intend to control the scanners themselves, corruption can probably thwart that. This comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29001214) makes it sounds like they may be operating in countries with endemic corruption.
Being offended does not give you the undeniable power to demand apologies.
From an ROI perspective, college in the US is not worth it for all but a few degree programs. The university I graduated from in the early 90's (on scholarship) was at the time the most expensive college in the US but now most public schools cost more than that.

Something not accounted for in these studies is financial aid in the form of grants, scholarships, and loans. That will radically change the ROI for individual students.
It does seem possible to audit many college courses without paying. Perhaps that would be a cheaper avenue for someone pursuing the knowledge rather than the degree.

After graduating I chose to audit 30 credits per semester for a year (for free, and while no longer being a student).
There is no evidence that Element was "made" by the NSA. Element is developed by New Vector Ltd., a UK company.
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Yea I really wish articles like this would include other factors too. Having a college degree lowers your chances of getting a significant amount of health problems
Oi! Altman! No!
Free speech on campus does actually mean freedom from consequences from the administration. Yale might not have to allow free speech on its campus, but it purports to. And what they did was a violation of that principle.

And while the other students are free to harass him for invented crimes, he's free to call them out for doing so.
Reminder that many people still routinely pirate software and can generally use downloadable software without paying for it. Going to a Web-only version would eliminate the ability of people to pirate it and use it free.
If your goal is to land a spouse with secure income, and/or a spouse from a family with secure income, I would say it is a very high ROI since your university friend network can be a valuable place to draw potential partners from for many years to come.
Sometimes it is possible to establish causation from only observational data, but in general, you are correct. Without the ability to conduct an experiment, the best we can do is use college acceptance criteria for screening candidates to compare populations that attend and do not attend. The best we can do is better than nothing
I believe that inverters with integrated transfer switches are more common these days, due to the popularity of battery systems like Powerwall. I was reading the manual for one, and it had both a grid connection (to your main panel), and a "protected power" connection for a subpanel that will remain powered regardless of grid power.

They must still have some kind of internal transfer switch (as opposed to double conversion), but I would think as a single listed device with anti-islanding, they would be a lot easier sell to an inspector. Then again that AHJ sounds a bit dodgy ("specified minimum amount of time") so maybe they're still resisting.
Did you even read it?
> As cited in this article, Frances Haugen is arguing against allowing Facebook to use end-to-end encryption because she suggests Facebook should have more surveillance of private communications: https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1452309133928054799?s...

That's because encryption is incredibly problematic. And I say that as a huge fan of digital privacy and an avid user of Signal.

I'm not so blind as to think that perfect encryption is an unalloyed good, and in that screenshot (which, I'll point out, excludes any broader context for her remarks) Haugen touches on just one of many very legitimate problems with the technology.

Now, in the end, I think (though I'm not certain) I believe the upsides outweigh the downsides. But don't pretend as though she doesn't raise a valid concern, even if you don't agree with her conclusion.

> A lot of people jumped to the defense of the Facebook leaker because the media so successfully framed it as a “whistleblower” situation, but that’s not really what’s happening here. She’s very much an activist

All whistleblowers are activists.

Do you really think Snowden didn't have an agenda? Of course he did! His act was specifically and explicitly political.

Hell, Wikileaks has proven itself to be nakedly political.

The only reason I'm betting you don't see it that way is you happen to agree with their politics.

> some of her suggestions really do not align with what the tech community wants at all.

Don't deign to speak for me. There is no unified "tech community" on this topic, even if your echo chamber leads to to believe otherwise.
No offence, but ...

Not being racist, but ...

Not a conservatives are being oppressed rant, but ...

Its almost a cliche
the future will not be censorship but categories, so people will not get banned, they will get labeled and you will filter tags out, those tags will be connected to a person, if you don’t like a tag you will see less of that persons content. this will be useful in keeping the peace. it’ll mess up dialogue but most people have a hard to with empathy these days. so maybe certain sections will have open discussions for people who are okay with seeing content from other tags, and are okay with engaging with that content. right now dating apps will forever ban your account if you engage a certain way with the opposite sex, so in many cases a match will get banned because the person they matched with did not like their content. but that does not mean someone else won’t like their content. so the people who have the most in common including their communication styles should be allowed to still engage with each other without getting banned by someone else’s arbitrary rules that are subjective depending on a persons upbringing.
I think paying for Mozilla VPN would be one way of donating directly to the corp. But that's not a great option unless you were already looking to use Mullvad, and also doesn't signal intent.
> But being unpopular on the internet? Grow up IMO.

It's cute how you frame women dealing with threats of death by rape as "being unpopular on the internet".
Sure, but it is still possible. Libraries are historically very well organized. It would be completely feasible to have libraries send over the names of people who checked out certain books on some regular cadence. The Dewey Decimal system already classifies every book by topic, so it would be practical to document every person that checked out a book under, for example, 662 Explosives, Fuels.
https://archive.ph/DYXdW
Creating Culture of Innovative Entrepreneurship (2001) [pdf]
Biggest difference is probably more people have the means to debug something when it runs in the browser. So technically the same, but it may be more available to look at.
now try to replace your laptop with it because that’s what was being talked about
I can recommend the book "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg. It covers many ways on how to get users and probably answers many of your questions.
He could probably have used a modern PC with internet connectivity too. I'm guessing convenience wasn't the point. (If it's a machine from the 90s, it might not even have USB.)