skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, with the exception of the immediate aftermath of the 2008–9 crash, valuations have remained at elevated levels since 2000 (relative to previous history), despite the fact that this period has been characterized by a financial crisis, weak productivity gains, and ongoing narratives of “secular stag­nation.”

Whch goes to show how useless this metric is.

I think such high valuations can be explained by companies having more dominance and less uncertainty, such as through moats, network effects, scalability, and reliable automated recurring revenues, so the uncertainty of competition is lifted, hence higher valuations for big, dominant companies. Also, the end of business cycles. Post-2009 has been a perpetual boom, the longest ever.
A century, I could maybe see. A century and maybe a plural amount of decades, perhaps. Gonna need you to cite that plural centuries though.
Put spaces around your *s or escape them like \*: 100*100*100m is one megaton, and 10*10*10 times that, a 1*1*1km cube, is indeed a gigaton. No one would suggest recapturing all emitted CO2 with this one method though.
what do you mean by ownership of account. You can migrate to other servers if you want? Or does that mean you lose your user ID which is tied to a provider/domain?

Isn't registering an account necessary to avoid impersonating? how does Status ensure a stable user ID?
Another year and the same old talking heads, literally screaming protestors and policy makers still unable to come up with realistic solutions other than screaming at each other.

At least the technologists and engineers at several companies and startups are doing something about it with real world solutions, products and ideas.

I won’t be surprised that next year the same people are going to have the same discussion and it will be a forever blame game until they miss their own unrealistic timelines.

I have respect for those who ‘do’ rather than those who continue talking, mocking, screaming or blaming others and repeat themselves without giving anything substantiative to contribute themselves to the problem.
Oh, this is relevant to my interests as the founder of Killed by Google.

Yes. They would have shut it down. It wasn’t popular and generated little public interest outside of certain—heh—circles. Google+ had its own negative PR issues around data leaking/scraping as well, negatively affecting the already precarious reputation held by early Google product adopters.

I maintain Google is no longer attempting to be a ‘social’ company, and they’ve realized this and have spent the last decade aligning behind new goal: being a known, reliable services company. That’s why Search, AdSense, AdWords, Workspace, Google Cloud, YouTube, etc are all things people use to _accomplish_ something. Yes, even YouTube is now mostly a medium for conducting business (creating content is business). Google is doubling down on being a services company. They’ve publicly pulled back R&D in nearly any VR/XR space despite being poised to be a perfect competitor to take on Facebook/Meta.

Looking at both the history and current state of “social” at Google, it’s always been and continues to be a mess. Core services like messaging between users is siloed between apps: Google Pay, Google Photos, Google Messages, Google Chat, Google Docs Chat, Stadia Chat, etc. Even Facebook (kind of) solved this with Facebook Messenger. If Google cared at all about social, their first move would be finding a way to make that core peace of modern day socializing (messaging) a seemingly magical experience for their billions-scale user base.

Until then, I would not expect to see Google enter or excel at any type of software product where one would go to be social.
Do you really think the the large part of human population around the world living in extreme poverty (multiple billion people) are the problem? As one poster said, if they do transition to "middle class" (whatever that means to them) then they will become part of the climate problem. But right now, the problem lies with us, our hyper-capitalist and super corrupt western societies. Don't distract from that with whataboutism to Africa. Currently, we (meaning western countries, not just geographically, I would count China for example as a western country as well, since to me "western" is a financial/economic definition, not a geographical one) are the problem, not the people living in mud huts, drinking water that Nestlé seized and now sells to them.
The US killed the Rosenbergs for espionage. That was technically a nonviolent act, although furnishing atomic secrets to the USSR could be seen as an accessory to mass murder.

Killing somebody for heroin? That is an entirely new level of depravety.
They probably want Hydrogen or synthetic Methane (from electrolysis Hydrogen and atmospheric CO2) instead of natural gas. Power2Gas is a promising technology for long term storage of energy.
Is that "corporeal" information actually written down anywhere? I've read a few books about piano technique and pedagogy, and they contain some mix of "obvious" stuff (also in this book), wrong/misinformed stuff, and poor written descriptions of various body movements.

It seems to me that piano is a physical activity that is impossible to teach through text, and that a good teacher is the only way. But I'd like to be wrong, or at least find some useful tips.

(This is to say nothing of interpretation and other musical matters, which seem even more impossible to transmit through writing...)
if i recall a few years later, i had an hp9000 at work that had an array of them. it wouldn't surprise me one bit if there were still hp9000s, as/400s or other similar datacenter class unix(ish) server hardware out there that is still in production where replacing a failed disk with the exact same model, even if refurbed, is the safest option for solving the problem with old hardware that can be difficult to replace running software that isn't backed up that no one even understands, yet is critical to some large business.
> IPv6 reintroduces equity to the internet that facebook benefited from in it's inception

Except for the fact nobody can type, much less remember any IPv6 address.
I took a 100% pay cut to work on D. But there aren't enough people like that to run a society like that, not remotely close.
4.2.2.2 is only for Level 3 customers (now Lumen). You will get mixed results and I believe they have hijacked NXDOMAIN responses for non-customers in the past.
Capital expense for nuclear is so high that to be economical you need to run the plants at full power as much a possible. So while you can regulate them (slowly, there is quite a bit of thermal inertia in the system), it's much cheaper to regulate the renewables.
"Winning Chess Tactics" by Yasser Seirawan might be a good sweet spot. It has some board positions and uses a bit of notation, but it's still pretty easy to read and is a natural step up from intro play into basic tactics...
Not Monarch Butterflies, but my youth included a similar experience with Lightning Bugs. They completely disappeared from our yards by my teens, but before then, a major part of the non-winter experience was catching and releasing them in bare hands at dusk.

We took it for granted at the time.
The whole reason why nuclear energy is not because it technically is inferior, but, rather, the NIMBY mentality of nuclear energy at large. Many people see the consequences of mishandled nuclear energy and immediately see this as a eventual reality for all nuclear plants.
Nuclear power plants can load follow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant#Nuc...

This idea that they can't is a weird meme in internet forums. The reason they don't is primarily economic, not technical.
Wouldn’t a smaller population consume less goods and power?
Is this a new thing? In France, the nuclear plants built between 1960 and 1980 have throttling but it takes more than 20hrs to cool down, making it inefficient to stop at night (hence over-provisioning overnight leading to price shifts to encourage people to run water boilers and washing machines at night).
Solar panels are almost exclusively sand and a little bit of copper for the wiring.
> baseline is not at all needed with renewables.

Why not? Unless you're ok with not having reliable baseline power at all.
Gas and nuclear can’t replace each other. So that instead I’m your sentence is completely misplaced.

We certainly need gas in the short term. Sure. But you can’t let nuclear take over the role of gas (and other potential on demand power sources, pumped hydro and maybe batteries in the future). That just doesn’t work.

Also, I‘m all for producing an overabundance of power and using that in a meaningful way. But that’s not the issue we are talking about here. Baseline framing of the current problem we are facing makes no sense and that is my point.

Nuclear and renewables don’t work well together.
Isn't this ultimately positive, for spreading negative experiences with crypto, which could free up electricity for cancer research (protein folding or something)?
Of course. Think of it in terms of cui bono. You're on the precipice of convincing a bunch of folks they should shut down their economies and give you trillions of dollars to send to your donors as you please. Then a guy comes along and says that your shit won't work (which will be amply demonstrated in Europe this coming winter) and offers something that actually does work. It's like that meme - the guy will fly straight through the window for suggesting such foolishness. They never were interested in solving the problem, they're interested in trillions of dollars that they'll get control over because the problem exists.
Sure but wouldn’t we need to mine exponentially less uranium? How many tons of neodymium need to be mined for wind turbines to produce the equivalent output of a nuclear reactor, for example.
Nuclear changes the game completely. Think of the most audacious, energy intensive expense of effort that’s deemed infeasible today?

Let’s consider something like desalinating water from the pacific and continuously pumping it inland to the Australian Outback or the middle of the Sahara.

With an investment in Nuclear, hypothetically, it’s cheaper. Present nuclear reactors have a high cost of operation simply because they’re aligned to energy consumption and regulatory patterns not suited to them.

Also, Small Modular Reactors are a thing. They’re available today for use and that’s what France is going all in on, but in the US, the first entity to try will be sued to the ground.
Nuke plants make great targets to bomb.
God Is Great
Don‘t forget all the CO2 emitted a) at mining and enriching uranium and b) in storing nuclear waste for 100000 years and c) in tearing down highly radioactive retired nuclear power plants. In Germany we started tearing down the GDRs only nuclear power plant in the early 90s and we‘re still not done. 30+ years of daily ops of a highly specialised destruction company operating heavy machinery requiring insulation from radiation. And 1000s of tons more radioactive waste that needs to be shipped around the country. Well, only 20 plants more to go, now that we exited. Somehow people who claim nuclear to be green only look at the CO2 emissions when ready made enriched uranium goes in and burnt fuel comes out. We need to look at the full life cycle of both the plants and the nuclear fuel though, and then nuclear energy‘s CO2 emissions are far far away frm being green.
Nuclear fuel is incredibly abundant. People talk about the small amounts of nuclear fuel available but completely ignore how energy dense it is. You need very little of it. There's vastly more energy in nuclear ore in the ground than there is even coal and oil combined in the ground.
I still have one in my desktop computer that I built in 2012. I remember looking at how much better my 'windows experience' score was!

Now it's just a secondary storage drive that filled up pretty quickly. It felt good to say, "I'm running a 10K raptor."
I’m suggesting that instead of creating a web of complex restrictions and bans, why not just create a simple system that replaces all that complexity by altering a single input into the pollution equation? Fewer humans means less consumption and emission. The humans that do exist will live in relative freedom instead of being subject to authoritarian restrictions on their every action.
To expand on that a little:

"Unlike the wind power and EV sectors, the solar PV industry isn’t reliant on rare earth materials. Instead, solar cells use a range of minor metals including silicon, indium, gallium, selenium, cadmium, and tellurium."

https://ratedpower.com/blog/rare-metals-photovoltaic/
> or, another option, is do it without any pronouns at all [...]

That is not grammatical. One rendition in such a style might be:

> Botvinnik famously recommended that a professional chess player only play 80 tournament games a year and leave time to think about chess.

Though I would prefer to substitute for 'year and leave time to think' one of: 'year, to leave time to think', 'year, leaving time to think', or even 'year, to live time for thinking'.

There is also an ambiguity in the original: 'a professional chess player' may be taken as definite; that is, it may seem as though the advice was directed at a specific chess player. To avoid the possibility of such an interpretation, I might prefer the rendition using 'one', or something like this:

> Botvinnik famously recommended that professional chess players only play 80 tournament games a year, to leave time for thinking about chess.
Sure, but you don’t want to do that. Nuclear is monstrously expensive already. For it to have any chance of being economically viable at all you have to run it all the time. It doesn’t make sense as an on-demand power source.
Killing people for possession of drugs is a sign of having sociopaths running the place. Big pharma propaganda is largely responsible for much of this
CO2 is only emitted during mining and refining because the grid itself isn't clean. The same thing is true of solar panels and batteries until the grid is made green. But you can't say "we can't make green tech because it would produce CO2" as it completely ignores the lifetime of things.

> in storing nuclear waste for 100000 years

That's a red herring. You only need to store nuclear waste for around 100 years (or less) before it can be treated as "low level nuclear waste" of which tons of it is generated as byproducts of the medical industry. It doesn't need to be sequestered away, it can be buried safely like all the rest of the low level waste. At that point it's more toxic than it is radioactive so it just needs to be buried in a way that it won't enter the water table.

> In Germany we started tearing down the GDRs only nuclear power plant in the early 90s and we‘re still not done.

Germany is also building tons of highly polluting (and radioactive waste pumped into the air) lignite coal power plants because they shot themselves in the foot by shutting down their very successful nuclear industry. They should look to France for an example on how one should treat nuclear power.
Gains and profits, and power. Not egos.
> Pre-Colonial American societies were decimated by the biological warfare of the Europeans first.

Pizzaro defeated the Incas before the diseases did.
Yes, the issue in which Snowden is commenting on here and has expertise and a unique position to offer insight into is the US intelligence apparatus, which is unrelated to Russia, France, or Bolivia in this context.
There is no one in charge. I am not in charge. This is not a system based on any manner of authoritarian control.
I wonder if it would be useful to keep track of known-scam crypto addresses for the purpose of informing policy makers. Say there was a website where you could upload evidence of crypto scams and, say, get points for the effort of uncovering it once verified and compare your total score to other users on the website. That would be a fun project and go a long way towards showing policy makers how prevalent crypto scams are
Thank you. Also,

- BSD 3-Clause license

- mostly C++ (Qt has other bindings too)

- no dependency on DBUS, policykit or consolekit

- no Wayland on the roadmap for now (but they are open to porting in the future)

- screenshots here: https://lumina-desktop.org/screenshots/

- github here: https://github.com/lumina-desktop/lumina
Has been tried. Check Spitfire's UACC attempt. There are way too many articulations and ways of naming them to get a complete list, and even when there would be such a list, you'll be asking yourself "hmm, this says Long Con Sordino Sul Pont", but this 'soundfont' doesn't have that. What to replace it with?".

Bear in mind that not all sample libraries have articulations. Some of the more modern libraries and plugins include a modelling component, or are pure modelling, which allows you to use controllers to get those articulations in a much more flexible way.
You need better reasons than that. I doubt this is the case with monarch butterflies, but there are certainly lots of plant/animal species that are aesthetically pleasing but become invasive and wholly detrimental.

If I'm not mistaken, monarchs are poisonous due to their diet, so there's some potential for negative impact if they overrun a niche that some other animal was planning to eat.
> So it’s not that I don’t trust the technology, it’s that I don’t trust us to handle it.

Glossing over the human death toll caused by the other energy sources is not useful. It's not like the other sources are perfectly safe.
He'd been on Death Row for over a decade. This wasn't sudden.
I am thinking out loud here but I am imagining a simple tax. If someone wants to have a child they pay a massive offset fee. Put another way people have to give up spending on other things or create more value for society (earn more income) to have that right. Perhaps this cutoff can be decided on a per country basis to get every country on board. It’s either that or we rely on a very complex series of technological and policy changes that are potentially not going to work out and will cause everyone to live more limited lives of restraint rather than live freely.
America absolutely invaded Afghanistan. I don't see the point of this line of questions but if you want a better example see Vietnam.
I would wish there was something better for SMTP.

I tried to learn it a while ago and got super frustrated with how things are. The whole thing looked upside-down to me.

I mean The DKIM, SPF, DMARC, Bayesian filtering, etc sound like band-aids upon band-aids to fix something that's really broken inside.
Netflix does this annoying thing where "Continue watching", "My list", "Trending now", and "Watch it again" appear in randomly different orders each time you log in. It would be like if Word randomly put the File menu on the right sometimes.
Yes. The 2->3 change was not engineered to make migration easy, and as a maintainer of a large and project that people have built on top of this is something that both current and potential users will judge you on.

Not speaking from a place of scorn, I and my team have made this same mistake, we lost both users and momentum. Big learning experience.
My question was not what the Supreme Court allowed police to do or what the proportion of cases are the go to trial, etc.

I realize you are just trying to help here, so thanks anyway. Let's wait for the original poster to reply.
Winter? What are you talking about, the climate is changing and it's getting warmer!
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Good. Focus on renewables + storage.

Anything else is too costly and too late.

(BTW, 10 countries are running on 95%-100% renewables now. Why can't the US?)
It's things like this (https://twitter.com/therealsunbunny/status/14541910290627174...) that people noticed.
This is true, which is why I expect mDNS and DNS to become standard even for local addresses.

I'm looking forward to using `router.local` over `192.168.1.254`.
No, I think the post is basically "here's a reminder octal exists"
If you don't think we will have stable governments in 25 years with nuclear technology then we definitely will not have stable governments with non-nuclear tech. Even 2C degrees of warming is going to create a whole bunch of economic and political instability because of mass migrations, food and water shortages, and escalating conflicts. This is the optimistic scenario and assumes everything goes according to plan and some magical negative carbon technologies are deployed alongside green and fossil tech (which is highly unlikely).

Nuclear is the only viable option. Everything else is certain disaster.
Uranium Ore isn't rare either. You can buy that on Amazon.
Whether or not a software project succeeds is substantially influenced by politics.

When I read your post a strong anti python 3 feeling is conveyed.

It may well be that it’s impossible to upgrade such a company/code base when the engineers have such a negative attitude.

The barrier was perhaps not technical but about the attitude of the people.

There were lots of python 2 developers who were rabidly anti python 3. Some of the most well known python developers were aggressively very publicly anti python 3. Imagine a python 3 upgrade project with that attitude prevailing. No chance of success.

Today python 3 is more popular than ever before and is arguably the most popular language in the world after javascript. Lots of people love python 3.
Speaking of dead silent, I had an old PowerEdge server that was anything but quiet, let alone silent. That thing sounded like a jet taking off! I had to wait for the wife and kids to leave before I could turn it on and start tinkering. It was real heavy and I would put it on the kitchen bar and hook up an old monitor to it and just geek out for a while.
if we are in a position where civilian targets are getting bombed we have other problems. not mention in said "war" if we are reliant on green energy we will certainly lose to whoever bombed our power plants.
Maybe because the U.S. isn't Iceland or Norway?

No country is actually running on solar and wind -- it's too variable.

Norway is running on Hydro, Iceland is running on geothermal.
it's in the technical details. if you read the protocols whitepapers RFCs etc. these are the bible of each crypto.
and basketball players
oh yeah, the French are so confident with their nuclear power plants they built many of them on their eastern border (with mostly west winds blowing any fall out nicely into Belgium and Germany)
> God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

I only managed a small part of the old testament because of this quote and many others just like it. Simply infuriating.

It's disgusting many of us in the christian world are taught to believe this horrible nonsense that is turning people into self righteous monsters

I won't even quote the parts clearly saying some humans (you know which) are better than others. Simply replace animals in my original quote with non-special people.

Mind boggling shit
Would you change your opinion if you were presented with hard data proving that 80% of wealthy people earned that wealth by delivering goods and services to people who voluntarily paid for it, and only 20% of the wealthy inherited it and that inherited wealth does not last more than 3 generations?