skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends a lot. In a civilized country with low risk of 2G downgrade attacks and sensible telecom laws/law enforcement restrictions, SMS is a lot more secure and private than many other options.

Obviously still a long way off actual secure communication though.
$1 is probably a peppercorn payment[1]. A contract for 0€ may well fail to be a valid contract due to a lack of consideration - both sides must offer something of value to the other for a contract to be binding.

It's possible that the rest of the settlement would provide valid consideration, but a nominal payment removes any doubt from the situation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(legal)
I used the phrase “monetary asset” once to mean “an asset which behaves and is treated like money”, but it would have been less ambiguous for me to use the phrase “monetized asset”.

> citation needed

Give me a minute to find a copy of the Official Rules of Economic Epistemology.

If you’d like to put forward any particular theory that assigns “intrinsic value” to objects I could address it specifically.
Well, this kind of completely ignores the constant right wing attacks against black people, often backed up by local police. That isn’t a comparison of left vs, right. That is just a book about left attacks. The civil rights era was a violent time on all sides. To try and paint it as a time of violence just for the left is just blatantly incorrect.
But Trinidad and Tobago is just one place.
> One of the main points of the article is that the supposed educational benefits are probably not even real.

Well, that's a claim it makes and relies on to an extent, sure. Of course, the support cited for that is a piece of educational research that the author low-key admits is neutralized by subsequent ed research, but where the author would like us to disregard the subsequent ed research because “as with all ed research, it can say what you want it to.”

The main thrust of the article, though, is against licensure on the basis that it drives up cost, as if licensure isn't an issue for non-curricular daycare (and as if much of the licensure requirements for pre-K weren't centered around the safety part of their job.)
am an ex-AWS engineer who worked on a service team that depends on SWF and also on one that depends on Step Functions. IMO the serverless-ness (?) of Step Functions and not having to manage pollers like SWF is huge.
Supabase developer here. Supabase gives you full PostgreSQL access as well as a REST api interface (Postgrest) with integrated authentication (based on GoTrue), S3-based storage also integrated to authentication and integrated with your PostgreSQL instance, an easy dashboard interface and a bunch more. There’s a generous free tier and a hosted option that’s ready to scale immediately. Let us know if you have any more questions.
Edit: deleted. Misunderstood authors point.
AFAIK this site doesn't put added vote weight on content it likes. The users do. The point, which you started with, is that the site in question (facebook) actively pumps up content that makes it more money, regardless of what the users vote on it. And they do it regardless of the content, as long as it isn't straight-up illegal.

That's the specific issue at hand - the content they are willing to point to because of the money, regardless whether it might be creating harms.

Google, as a Search Engine, pumps up paid content as well, but they also actively suppress the content in question here. That's why people made such a big deal about Bing's video search that kept on suggesting kiddy porn terms. Google doesn't do that, but Bing did and it was considered a big thing.

Therefor no, HN isn't a publisher (although they do actively censor content that doesn't belong here, so they're doing this already, even if they aren't Publishers). And yes, publishers do have the ability to control decisions on what content they point to. Including Facebook, who allegedly chose not to suppress the money-making yet harmful bits.
I keep thinking the same thing almost every day at work… “this is a CRUD app, who let it become this overly complex monster (multiple next apps)”.
Then I remember why;

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”

― Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Hi — sorry about that. If you want to see some example Scribes, there's a gallery with some basics here: https://scribehow.com/gallery. The real difference here is how these are made.
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Totally and completely false. The UK in 1930 was much more polluted than the USSR and China at that time. Making that argument today is possible if you ignore moving practically all manufacturing to a country that happens to be communist. There would be far less pollution in China if they weren't making all of our stuff. It's actually a good example of how unchecked capitalism is always looking for new ways to externalize costs, regardless of the consequences for whoever is left holding the bag.

Also, any country that builds infrastructure with taxes and regulates industry is socialist, including the US. The difference is usually that "capitalist" countries have safety net for corporations and the wealthy, while "socialist" countries have safety nets for everyone.
>The problem isn't that "problematic" content exists but...

Then you'll be disturbed to learn that members of the team are literally government operatives lobbying for more censorship on Facebook:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29001625
It is an variable that very obviously needs to be controlled and is worth mentioning.
Our team is working on exactly this - an asset streaming system developers can utilize for Unreal Engine that only fetches what a players needs to see at any given moment, nothing more.

Combined with compression, you can get players into desktop-quality games in WASM in seconds on most computers.
> What is the argument against it?

I've discussed this with libertarians and the best argument I've heard is that the incentive to manage negative externalities comes from private ownership. If the factory down the road is polluting the river that runs by your house, you sue them.
I think the idea to introduce WorldCoin now, using the method as described, during the current climate, basically sums up everything that is wrong with today's Tech, VC and Silicon Valley.
Thanks! I appreciate the further details. For what it's worth, I think of Cringely more as a tech gossip columnist turned memoirist, so I expect it's lapses in memory and being a bit slapdash, plus the difficulty of fact-checking anything in the pre-web era.
I've been to plenty of transport hubs, tourist attractions, capitols, etc. in the US, too. Or maybe I've been fortunate in that all the police in all the high-visibility places I've visited in the US don't patrol carrying long guns.

(And the only capitol I visited in Europe was Austria.)

> Rest assured that the small town cops in Europe don’t patrol with MP5s

I understand this. And it wasn't part of my post :)
How about the middle ground, where the capitalists try to be good citizens and patriotically do not attempt to poison us all for profit, while building escape bunkers in New Zealand, once we are all f---ed back home.

Ok, big ask, I know. How about this - they stop gutting the government to a point where any sort of reasonable regulation and oversight is essentially absent. Let's be honest for once about what "small government" stands for.
Hats off to Andrew Lownie's relentless pursuit of this goldmine of publically-funded knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lownie

If the diaries shed light on the Nazi-friendly members of the Saxe-Cobourg family, we'll all be well served. As for the man himself, many years after the Dieppe cockup, not many Canadian WWII vets shed a tear at Dickie's death.
Also, for those of us unfortunate enough to live in apartments, tobacco smoke from neighbors gets into every open window and into ventilation shafts. I have to leave the air purifier running even when the outside air is fine because of this.
Is it really close enough to the Bay Area to make a difference? It's in the Los Angeles area. It's about a 7 hour drive from Caltech to San Francisco.
How are these things logically connected, especially in the context of long-term health risks?
I use emacs as well, and regularly get distracted tweaking it. Maybe the temptation to tweak isn't present for you - but is for a lot of other people. I think it's a personality trait.
>> Smoking indoors is verboten pretty much everywhere, and has been for quite some time.

Just stayed at a hotel this past weekend. You had to sign a release saying you won't smoke in the room. There was a sign in the room saying if you did, you would be charged an additional $250.

So yeah, its been verboten for a while, but apparently this specific hotel chain had to institute paperwork and additional in-room warnings in order to stop people from smoking in their rooms.
> I love Vue, but it’s forever married to the Babel parser

That's not true... I use Vue's SFC without Babel using vite.
In-state tuition is around $13k/year at UCs and $7k/year at CSUs, and that's before applying the many grants available to lower and middle income families.
> Before college can be creating well-rounded citizenry or provide "excellent life experiences" or any of the other things people want of it, it must first provide a good ROI. This is a necessary foundation. If it is not doing that, then all the other fancy things are merely digging the debt trap in deeper because you're paying for all these things while failing to obtain a method of paying them back.

I don't disagree, the thing is that well-rounded citizenry is a necessary prerequisite for a democratic society. That means, as a society we need to make the ROI for an individual worth it by paying for it as a society or offer meaningful alternatives.

This is one of the things that capitalism is terrible at, and thus it must be supplemented through public spending.
Fair enough!

Good points, thanks.
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Are there any examples of sticking to your principles by standing up for socially and morally reprehensible groups? My initial impression is this is just another group pushing left leaning elite American values as "integrity".

Things like this: https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp... go a long way.
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> I used the phrase “monetary asset” once to mean “an asset which behaves and is treated like money”, but it would have been less ambiguous for me to use the phrase “monetized asset”.

Real estate is a productive asset and gold is a commodity. I'm not sure in what way they "behave like money" - their prices float with respect to a currency and have roughly zero of the attributes of money [1] - but monetization just means to find ways to make money off an unproductive asset, rather than transmuting it into something that's basically money.

> Give me a minute to find a copy of the Official Rules of Economic Epistemology.

I'll wait. If you're going to accuse someone of a "dysfunctional mental economic model" it's best to have a case made.

I'm referring to intrinsic value in the economic sense not in the epistemological sense. Economic intrinsic value is an independent mathematical derivation of the market value of an asset - based on its qualities and attributes - divorced from the price at which it trades.

For instance, the intrinsic value of a SPAC is the cash on hand, and its extrinsic value is whatever its trading at on the hopes of an acquisition.

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/economic-lowdown-podcas....
I was shocked to realize the alcohol industry caters nearly entirely to addicts. Something like 75% of alcohol is sold to raging alcoholics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think...

Consumption (average number of drinks per capita consumed in the past week, by decile, among adults aged 18 and over) deciles:

bottom 3: 0 drinks/week
4th: 0.02 drinks/week
5th: 0.14 drinks/week
6th: 0.63 drinks/week
7th: 2.17 drinks/week
8th: 6.25 drinks/week
9th: 15.28 drinks/week
10th: 73.85 drinks/week
Cheap drilling would be a large boon for geothermal, considering the cost of surveying/exploring/drilling is > 50% of the cost of the development of a geothermal site.

I don't understand the articles goal of 300C target, though. While some types of geothermal plants do require temperatures that high, binary cycle power plants can use lower temperatures (130C) [1], which seems to open up more area for geothermal development since we expect most gradients between the surface and bottom of the crust to be ~2.5-3.1C / 100M. A lower temperature requirement would in turn allow you to drill less deep, which could consequently also decrease drilling costs.

Another thing the article doesn't mention: another interesting approach (aside from improving the technology, like drill bits) is with financing innovation. There have been / are government programs to de-risk the exploration/drilling cost by reimbursing the costs of drilling (80% for failed wells, for example) which also likely adds well data that could better characterize the underlying geothermal resources in regions (which would allow more accurate future development).

Really glad to see a deeper dive on geothermal though; its non-intermittency is a valuable characteristic separating it from other renewables that we're currently favoring (solar/wind). Because we generally break down energy generation to LCOE, it omits advantages like uptime of the renewable resource.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/geothermal/electricity-generatio...
How does middleware work when using a CDN to host the JS bundles?

ie what happens when I've already loaded the bundles and am transitioning to a page that has different middleware requirements?

Is it a client-only middleware implementation? (I want this and have implemented a poor man's version in my _app.tsx).
There is -- or at least used to be -- something called, IIRC, "Data Step". As I understood it, that was an implementation of the base SAS data-set manipulation language. Can't recall if it was OSS or just Freeware, nor if it had any of the statistical PROCs. GIYF, as we used to say (before we knew better).
I think the SEC would have something to say about this unless the exercised options made the individual an accredited investor ipso facto.

Edit: But maybe that doesn't apply to selling shares on the private market, only buying? Also if it's written into the initial option grant, perhaps that's a way out too.
My big problem with licensure/curriculum standards are that they create a pipeline for the Pearson's of the world to siphon public dollars in the name of "teaching". School boards concerned with choosing a standards-conforming textbook never got in trouble for choosing Pearson.

But constant testing and metrics seems to be what a lot of parents want, in my experience as a parent.
very very excited for mini-LED laptops! i've been doing a ton of working outside for years, and i really want the brightness. high brightness cinema is also stunning indoors.

one thing that Apple seems well ahead on- dimming zones. the ipad pro has 10,000 dimming zones. this laptop has 1152. the first mini-LED laptop, the MSI Creator, had 240. more zones = better brightness control across the screen. i'm interested as heck to know how companies drive these dimming zones.
That's too bad. "Corporations are people", my friend, but they can also pump unlimited amounts of money into politics, creating their own laws. Let's not just call out "the government". They are the government. And, no, it's not tinfoil stuff, we know what's going on.
We’re seeing a comparable decline in birds that depend on them for food, so probably not.

That said, it’s fun to imagine that we just selected against insects that hang out by the highway.
Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
But you could use vite/rollup/esbuild for bundling instead of Webpack and SWC for TS and other transforms.
I'm reminded of this video talking about cooling the London Underground. Since it's running through clay, it's very well insulated and the ground around it is warming year over year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQo6_GkITe0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28995347 :)
Exactly, that's my point!
>"It is unfortunate that this does contribute to keeping some people poor however."

Which is why instead of prohibition and instead of taxes we should educate the public
Thanks! Very cool. I haven’t used couchdb in prod. I’ll read into this more.
but not displayed.
so you right click the bar, click customize, find noscript, drag it to the bar, then go to customize, then go to default, a bunch of confusing options ("why is there a script and a noscript option? if i say no to noscript does that mean script? what is this crap!") which are defaulted to running javascript on the darkweb.
that's just silly IMHO
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Privacy is my number one concern. I’d love to use this for my business and my household.
Perhaps. It would still be a lot better compared to the current situation. Buying up all CPUs would not render existing ones useless due to order of magnitude advantages like what happened to specialized BTC miner hardware. People would still be able participate in the network.
This argument doesn't really make sense.

> That means a whole lot of CPU that you need to burn during build

This doesn't makes it hard, and I'd rather spend the CPU once than at every edge server on first request.

> uses up loads of storage (that you need to ship to your static web server)

Uploading to S3 (for example) is free, and the edge servers need to store the images anyways (because they are slow to generate as you just mentioned).

> your 60 seconds deployment into a 30 minutes deployment (or longer), that doesn't scale.

Says who? It's a static site so it's not being updated every 30 minutes, and with some intelligent incremental compilation I bet it would remain fast even for the largest sites.
Extremely minor nitpick, but you use “EST” where I assume you just mean “Eastern”. (I know I’m fighting a losing battle on this one, but for a technical audience accuracy would seem to be important.)
Yeah, me too :)
>We respect your privacy. We will not share your data with anyone for marketing purposes.

Yet the homepage has Google analytics and Squarespace cross site trackers.
Not a great first impression.
Given that the newspapers watched Facebook first co-opt their content, and then their revenue, and continually jerked them around with misleading or even fraudulent metrics ("pivot to video!"), I think they have been remarkably restrained. And that's leaving aside the damage of email, community forums, and democracy that don't directly affect the media.
My intuition for aerodynamics must not be as good as yours. But looking at https://caradvise.com/blog/2019/08/17/most-popular-cars-in-t... and https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g36005989/best-selling-car... is interesting. In particular, the way the headlights sit on the front of the car seems to have changed a lot. Cars in the 90s look to have lights that pointed straight ahead. That seems to have evolved over time to a more streamlined position and orientation.
It seems like you aren't associated with Epic? What's the long term outcome here? Have Epic take your PRs? Get hired\acquihired (it's unclear if you are a company or a group of hobbyists)? It seems like when WebGPU is production ready Epic will support it as well as WebXR...

Epic's goal is very obviously to disrupt Steam and app stores as well... Ignore all of this if you actually are an Epic employee of course :)
> Commercial healthcare and education seem to really bring about the worst aspects of a market economy, in some countries. Not sure where it works well, it maybe somewhere.

Mostly, IMO, because they're not free markets. Healthcare actively fights price transparency, and is largely driven by fixed demand and artificially constrained supply. College costs can only do what they do because the whole thing is financed by grants and uniquely binding loans pushed on students who barely understand what they're getting into. If we could force the whole thing into an actual free market, it'd vastly improve the situation.
SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies
What happens when the government decides to tax a particular vice that seems egregious, like maybe taxing vibrators as sexual deviancy?

How much is your vibrator worth to you?
VCs never make anything good enough, just better than nothing -sort of.
Parents wanting something doesn't make them correct
I wonder if the small sample size distorts the figures. Caltech has only ~220 undergrad students per year (across all majors). And it seems there are two similar majors split up into separate rows.

1; California Institute of Technology; Computer and Information Sciences, General; $4,409,147

22; California Institute of Technology; Computer Science; $2,812,200
Exactly the point, err, comma.
The "puzzles" will keep pilling up. One year there will be no insects, the next year it will be a horror movie.

Global human-made mass now exceeds all living biomass [0]. We are basically simply pushing the rest of the biosphere to a corner. It responds as the immensely complex, adaptive, system that it is: unpredictably.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5
> Alcohol sales primarily go to alcoholics. It's a truth we don't want to see.

I've always led with that assumption and I'm fine with it. I know how we got here and I think understanding that is important.
> you get a Babel like plug-in ecosystem for AST transformations and such

This is trivial to do with esbuild, for what it's worth.
If something costs tens of thousands of dollars, it must be looked at in terms of ROI, or otherwise be reserved for the ultra-wealthy.
> people who take a car when they could take a bus, anyone who makes an unnecessary journey to do something that they benefit from such as church,

Some states sort of do this by requiring purchase of personal injury protection (PIP) from the auto insurer.
Why not? Taxes are usually preferable to outright bans (which, realistically, is how governments eliminate vice)

Governments that attempt to eliminate vice by banning inevitably simply drive it underground where it is then facilitated by dangerous black markets and criminal organizations.
I don’t think you’re the only one with this hypothesis. There’s a couple bag holders I know who share that view. It’s a confusing one, IMO, but it’s interesting to think about.
Why not use Windows Terminal (which comes with Windows) and WSL/Ubuntu with OpenSSH (from the app store)?
I believe there are two kinds of colleges, the Rich Kids Daycare (RKD) and the Trade & Professional Formation (TPF).

RKD doesn't always have a ROI, but it doesn't need to - people attending those are usually very rich. They just want to stay four years away from their families, attending a multitude of classes, play instruments, join clubs and create their network of similar minded rich kids. They can stay even longer than the required time, for extra activities or pursuing a masters. Then they'll move on and get good jobs due to the social value of their diploma and network, and start to learn their jobs by actually doing them. Maybe those jobs aren't that good and don't pay so much, but it's in their passion and they have old money to spend on their passions.

TPF is for the not so privileged people, for the ones who have no energy to waste, need to learn useful stuff in the least amount of time. ROI is essential to those and if they could pay less, learn stuff on Coursera and get good jobs, they would.

So when accounting for the ROI of a college tuition, one must first separate the institutions into those two buckets, for clearer results.