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Lot of ire for him getting banned from a private corporation's service, yet not much ire for him doing him doing nothing to stop people on his forums from harassing the shit out of dozens if not hundreds of people - criminal behavior in many jurisdictions.

Or the fact that he apparently planned his suicide out enough that he purportedly intentionally spent all the money in the joint account he had with his wife before he killed himself. Made sure his lawyer got paid, but left his kids high and dry.

Dude was a piece of shit in real life and online, through both his own behavior and what he enabled and willfully allowed to happen.
This is in bad taste. Billionaires are capable of causing death and suffering at a vast scale, but they aren't associated with gladiatorial excesses any more than the common person is.

Wealthy people tend to be involved in sexual improprieties when things go scandalous. That is what they will be using their secret islands for (cough cough Epstein).
Wha? Was it a PS/2 mouse? x86 system? More details please.
Stopped reading and posting on SA when they started requiring members to pay to join. That was bullshit that went against the whole ethos.

Upon reflection, SA was vastly overrated. It started some wildly popular memes, because at the time it was one of the few places for memes. But that's about it.

Kyanka himself has had numerous domestic violence police reports filed against him. He is not someone to be celebrated.
I’m not a parent nor have I thought about this at all, but this comment in another thread on this post has an interesting take on it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29214843
My advice for high school and lower level college maths is to 1) pick a good book 2) solve all the problems. A good way to accomplish that well is to start at the lowest math that is possibly non-trivial for you. Otherwise, you will hit a wall by skipping past your comfort zone and struggle, which is where you need an instructor to “save” you. You don’t want to build a castle on rocky foundations.

It’s like lifting weights. If you start at a weight that is hard, you’ll probably struggle to learn good form.
+1 is it?
So how do I move my tentacle porn collection to your personal website? SFTP? Git? Rsync?

I would love to hear your position on free speech
Hard disagree; early Something Awful was hilarious and it was mostly becuase Lowtax was more involved with front page posts.; I'm still chuckling just remembering some of those posts.
On the other hand, how many times recently have we seen comments here to the effect: this reads like it was written by a high schooler with an axe to grind.

The context of who wrote a piece can be helpful.
Is this a joke? Or is this a billionaire that is so centered that they think these TV shows were about them?
What market though? There is no search market. It is a service given away for free. There is no such thing as a monopoly on something that does not cost anything.
SA was free and had advertisers, but they disappeared and because the site was such a shitstain on the internet, no advertiser wanted to touch him with a ten foot pole.

> terrible, low effort, low quality content

You just described SA pretty well, but you left out doxxing and targeted harassment campaigns of people IRL.
Plausable deniability for any email FBI sends out?
This person is extraordinarily motivated. Seems like it works for them - but it would be quite a commitment to do it even half as much.
Worked at Google. Wouldn’t doubt this story for a second. Met a ton of amazing people at google but also some _very_ interesting characters. Ratio of good-to-questionable has been pretty good though, so can’t complain.
Wait are you part of this conversation?
Edit: It literally can’t be the answer to my question so
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1.5 years ago would have been summer. Pollution spikes up this time of the year every year because of multiple reasons including stubble burning by farmers around New Delhi. While it is always lower in summers. Delhi is always most polluted this time of the year: https://m.timesofindia.com/city/delhi/dec-16-to-31-is-second...
Renewables are already there.

In their "World Energy Outlook 2020" report the International Energy Agency reported that the world's best solar power schemes now offer the cheapest electricity in history, and solar is still getting cheaper at around 15% per year. Wind is not far behind, and large scale battery prices are dropping at around 20% per year. These price curves have been pretty consistently dropping for nearly 40 years.

With solar already the cheapest electricity ever known, just project one more halving, 5 years, and think what you could do with that.

Solar is acknowledged to be intermittent, but that's the sort of problem that power engineers love. The cheapest electricity ever, but only during daytime, with wind in strength available intermittently throughout the day.

How would you use that? Batteries obviously, to load shift. Move heavy industry and heating and cooling loads to the daytime peak. Tune aluminium smelters to run flat out during the day, and on low load with insulation overnight so the pots don't freeze up. Water desalination during daytime, storing the water produced. Link electricity grids east-west to prolong the hours of sun light for the overall grid. Produce hydrogen during daytime.

None of that requires any technology breakthroughs, they're just another day's work.

Do all that and coal power consumption will drop drastically, while using the world's cheapest electricity. Making these changes can just be background tasks, and will get us to 80% replacement of fossil fuels without any heartache. Recent modelling shows the sweet spot for renewables is actually around 400% replacement of the current grid, with that solving a lot of problems that were expected with the old thinking that we needed to replace coal with 100% renewables.

And then, if fusion comes along, great. We can close off the remaining 20%.
> combinatoric representation of ideas

Pretty sure Stephen Wolfram invented those.
> Retail brokers typically route orders to a handful of market makers, allocating more to the market makers that provide the highest amount of price improvement to the retail investors.

Do they? Or would they typically allocate more to the market makers that pay them the largest kick-back ("payment for order flow")? (Not that that is inherently wrong, but it is not quite as benign for the consumer as what a16z portrays it there.)
Yup. Unmoderated forums are a sanctuary and a blessing. I would never have one - I would run a very offensive forum, but not one that annoyed me in any way or else I would brutally censor and crush it.

I honestly think the reason SA was so successful (other than the buy-in) is that the the only criterion for censorship was that you were annoying. That's an arbitrary and unfair criterion, though, so you had better be funny or interesting. It's certainly whatever the opposite of a free-speech zone is.
This is more about the deranged author and their perception of economics as a zero-sum game, than a satirical social commentary. Perhaps I misread the piece. Maybe they were satirizing the out of touch socialist's perspective?
Yes I agree. I often time result to using a single .txt file with vim. And keep track of article in bookmarks folders.
Holy crap. Thank you for this. Not only the math reference, but the great examples of knowledge visualization. It's something I've been obsessing over recently.
Something awful dot com was also blackholed by Google for many years because they did something to piss-off the internet overlords. (For most of the 2000s, you could google for "JeffK" and SA wouldn't show up until like page 20.)

I view Lowtax like Norm McDonald or many other people who provided me a lot of mirth years ago. I would rather not know if they turned out to be a terrible person or not. RIP internet funny man.
Sorry, yes, you're right, I meant modern ones.
If the melting point can get low enough then we're in business. Press quenching has been developed pretty well for boron steel and should be adaptable for bulk metallic glass in injection molding machines. This would provide an easy route to high volume production.
Surprisingly, eutectic systems are resistant to impurities. Perhaps this is why silicate sand glass became a thing in the first place.

Aluminum has a problem with oxide dross, and tin cans require high temperature for recycling. I don't know if the tin is recovered, but I do know that it isn't very plentiful.
Most of the behavior the OP wants should just be the default; it shouldn't even require configuration.
Not low bidder, most politically connected.

I have been trying to get US government contracts for years through my company, including offering $0, $1 and other guaranteed low price bids to try to get the work. We exceed every requirement in the RFPs. We are recognized as the best in the nation in our service area and have 200+ full time employees. Crickets.
Just to pick nits, the sun is not the source of our heavy elements. Those came from other stellar phenomena, elsewhere in the galaxy.

All of the iron on earth came from supernovae of red supergiant stars. Gold requires much higher energy and some comes from neutron star collisions. Nucleosynthesis of heavy elements requires more energy, and thus more energetic or more massive stars as they get heavier.

Through cosmic eons, as stars produce these elements and get exploded, smeared, or otherwise diffused into clouds of elemental ions, the heavy elements coalesce into asteroids that are then captured by the gravity of other stellar systems. Early in the solar system's formation, the heavy elements in asteroids served as seeds around which the lighter elements were attracted.

When earth (and other planets) were at their present mass and orbital configuration, there was a period of heavy bombardment, in which asteroids smashed into the surface, depositing nearly all of the heavy elements which humans have access to.

Our nuclear energy comes from supernovae from almost half the age of the universe ago (6 bn years.) The radioactive elements in the earth contribute about half of the heat at the surface, the remainder of which comes from the sun. Geothermal is actually partially nuclear energy.

Cosmochemistry is wild!

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...
Everything I learn about Leibniz I continue to be impressed. How many other geniuses are we ignoring in the present?
I remember he would run threads that were something like “comment to get banned” (or account renamed on milder days). And of course everyone including me piled on
Ask HN: Government Contracts?
I have been trying to get US government contracts for years through my company, including offering $0, $1 and other guaranteed low price bids to try to get the work. We exceed every requirement in the RFPs. We are recognized as the best in the nation in our service area and have 200+ full time employees. Crickets.

What should I do?
I am sure many of these people are actually anti-vaxxers that don't take precautions and mingle in like minded large circles.
One of them would be good, but you wouldn't learn much from two I think. Lisp isn't that semantically interesting anyway, it just has the most persistent/pretentious advocates.
Finance allocates capital and moves risk from parties who don't want it towards parties who do want it.

> Just because I have a mortgage and a credit card doesn't mean I can't survive without them.

You could definitely survey without them, the same way you could survive without a car or a smartphone. A mortgage in particular is undeniably useful for many people.
That's true, and @vadfa is just being ignorant here saying "has just lost his job to a pole". There were what less than 4 millions(now probably less than 3 mil, and migration wasn't one way only) immigrants from EU in UK in a country o 66+ million people, and most of the britons were never happy to take the jobs which were taken by EU people, they were always better on benefits. They even have TV shows(Channel 5 I think) where they are happily showing people on benefits and how good they're living and how they won't ever work again. And yes, those are britons, not EU migrants.

PS: those xenophobic/racist groups are very very active now after Brexit. They've always had that hatred, it's just now very visible. I'm driving a European car(left side wheel) with UK plates since 2007 (it's a good German car), and it doesn't feel like minority, road rage, looks, shouting etc when they see the left side wheel[after Brexit] is just amazing. Just few days ago woman was shouting in a car park: "I've passed my driving licence here [pointing finger to the ground, repeating multiple times]" with the comments that I shouldn't be driving in her country. Last year I've bought dash cam which I haven't felt was ever needed before and started reporting those hate crimes one by one with the video evidence. And police, fortunately react very swift and seriously to those.

PPS: Europeans shouldn't feel that bad and think that everything is targeted towards them, UK has a huge national racism problem anyways, even for those whose parents are brits, who were born and lived here their whole life. Most recent big example was EURO 2020 finals (football) and the racist comments in twitter / press / public the players received who missed the penalties. And it's not a single incident, it's just a more public example of part of multiple happening every day in peoples lives.

PPPS: there are many brits who voted to leave EU, but doesn't have any hatred towards EU migrants, they have just voted against European Union as an institution and wanted UK to not be part of it. The votes were not targeted only to migrants by some people, but the majority yes. I can't find that ad anymore anywhere (maybe someone has a link?), where ITV, Channel X and others were showing NHS before Brexit: full of migrants from EU in their sport suits and British elderly who doesn't have where to sit and need to wait long lines, because of EU migrants, and then life after Brexit, where NHS is just empty, welcoming every briton, no need to wait and elderly are happy. Those who wondering: nothing have changed in NHS, the situation is even worse now, because UK is short on nurses in NHS, who were largely EU workers.
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"Taking the idea a step further, Llull invented what he called a volvelle, a circular paper mechanism with increasingly small concentric circles on which were written symbols representing the attributes of God."

So you are saying that Engineer's Disease is at least 700 years old.
The point of basic income isn't to remove anyone from the workforce though; it's to decouple people's basic necessities from their work. They'll still want to work to get a more comfortable lifestyle. In fact it seems entirely plausible to me that the less people have to stress about basic necessities, the more they could focus on work.
It's commonly used in Objective-C due to Smalltalkness - NSInvocation, XPC, OCMock, etc.
Whenever the world seems "known", one must pull back the covers and fin a more bizarre harder to explain version. It wouldn't surprise me in the least that it turns out our entire universe is just an Amoeba.
> ‘Specifically, the judge saves texts from his friends by taking screenshots and emailing them to himself. He showed one such screenshot to the courtroom today, noting that “some of them are pretty long” and “show up in my email like this, like a little ribbon,” so he zooms on them and “it’s just a blur.”’
> You have to pay it back… one month later. You can keep your own money safe and invested until then.

But if you're doing this every month then the advantage is what? ~$3k invested somewhere? It's not worth the extra effort for me.
Nobody should be surprised Rockstar went as cheap as possible and suckered everyone.

Rockstar is infamous for milking GTA 5 while not spending a dime on doing anything about harassment/trolling/hackers.

I stopped playing GTA 5 after some rando found me in one of the more isolated parts of the map and just decided to kill me over and over and over again. There was nothing I could do to get away from him; I'd respawn close enough to him, and nowhere near a vehicle, so I couldn't escape.

They could easily grant temporary immunity or kick players who kill another player more than once in, say, half an hour....and instantly end the problem of harassment and trolling in-game.
It seems like early modernism, where they discovered something called radiation existed, and immediately decided it must have superpowered positive effects (curing all diseases) rather than being bad or useless.
> What does the world gain from finance?

Not sure whether you're asking seriously, but while there is a lot of scamming and rent seeking in finance (which is why it is subject to heavy regulation), it does provide many functions:

1. transfer of purchasing power through time (by saving/credit)

2. proper valuation

3. facilitation of investments (for companies, infrastructure, etc.)

4. investment allocation

5. risk transfer and management

etc. All valuable functions.

> most of us are actually and literally creating something out of nothing

Your labour and your computer and the electricity used to run that computer etc. are not nothing. The economy has always been about creating something more valuable out of inputs that are less valuable. Nothing new here.
This file is actually interesting to look at. It almost reads like a history book about measurements.
> modal popups

How about modal NPC bystanders blocking your way, forcing you to notice some commercial signage. You will be a targeted individual in meta!
Can you still write something like javascript:alert(document.body.parentNode.innerHTML) in the address bar and press enter?
This is pretty neat. Clean UI and it does solve a very real problem. I currently pay $6 (for 500 words) on fiverr for doing exactly this and it takes almost 2 days for the delivery.

I can see great success for this, especially if marketed to the correct audience.
Please learn how to communicate probably.
Its interesting that you mention this infinite money problem. Have you ever noticed that the second a fully free speech site opens it is almost instantly crippled with CP? Do you really think that is just happening naaturally? How can something universally loathed also be so prolific that it needs to constanly infect venues to propogate? Its almost like its a tactic to suppress free speech but im just a nut.
This is an example of a Web 3.0 website.

http://evilmaid.crypto
My mac remembers the displays and where I placed them relative to my laptop, even if they are all the same resolution over HDMI.

Why can't linux do this? I'm assuming displays have detectable ids of some sort?
> Maybe the idea if a perfect,integrated experience doesn't matter as much as we think.

This is not an uncommon view. However I can’t help but be convinced it’s the main reason the year of Linux on the Desktop hasn’t happened yet.

The user really does want their computer to seem like just one “thing,” at least in the way that it comes out of the box. When we visit websites it’s understood that these pages don’t interact with each other and weren’t designed to work together.

The OS, on the other hand, is supposed to be a system per the name.
I've never had any problems with this. At this point, it's second nature for me to either use underscores for spaces, or camel caps if there aren't any single character words like 'i' or 'a' in my desired file name.
There was a short path name IIRC like prog~1
Great post ! Well written and to the point and damn interesting :)
I laughed at the Docker joke in the article, I specifically learned Docker to steer clear of dependency hell in Python. It’s overkill but has kept my box clean and relatively portable. At the end of the day no tool is perfect and Python is no exception… I was a little surprised by how short the author’s “likes” list is but there’s no accounting for taste!
> Kyanka himself has had numerous domestic violence police reports filed against him.

Was he convicted? It’s very easy to file a domestic violence police report, and that does not remotely mean that the accused was guilty.
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Why would a phone company refuse to issue another sim? Maybe this is not universal but in all countries I lived phone numbers are not owned by the phone companies which allows portability between providers.
I didn't intend to mock the syndrome... It was moreso about a company's attempt to classify it as any kind of rapid leg movement that can be fixed with a pill that potentially causes diarrhea that made me roll my eyes during the commercial... Then they played a "Reverse Mortgage" commercial just after it, which also causes diarrhea..
A good introduction to that topic is About Enhanced CPC: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2464964

"ECPC works by automatically adjusting your manual bids for clicks that seem more or less likely to lead to a sale or conversion on your website"

Of course, it is based on historical data

But you end up having a quite complicated code calculating the auction bid.

I doubt that you could code it easily based on a cursory reading of the About Enhanced CPC page.

Even more futile is guessing what specific details of that code function that project Bernanke optimized, if your only source is the lawsuit doc and newspapers relating it
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In languages that have immutable string semantics and can detect that they are the exclusive owner of a string, they can modify them in place. For reference counting languages like Python, they can easily determine they are the exclusive owner by checking for a reference count of 1. See:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Objects/unicodeo...

Rust's ownership system ensures that there cannot exist mutable and immutable references to the same object at the same time. So if you have a mutable reference to a string it is ok to modify in place.

I have not confirmed either the Python example or the Rust example too deeply, since I'm replying to 5 day old comment. But the general principal holds. GC languages like C# and Java don't have easy ways to check ownership so they always copy strings when mutating them. Maybe I'll write a blogpost on this in the future.
> And may make it harder for recognition too

Compared to a standard QR code sure, but I've seen these Spotify codes plenty of times and just thought they were decoration until this link.
Interesting. Apparently Texas has some incredibly unhealthy people, as the unvaccinated death rate there is significantly higher than the unvaccinated death rate in the UK.
Most of the USA is affordable. There are places like California and New York where that not very affordable.

Most of the Midwest and south is very very affordable.
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You legitimately just proved my point. As I said, you can say any country is not normal and be correct, because every country is unique.

Just reread my previous comment. Your response makes no sense in relation to it
If you run into an issue that takes longer to occur after a cold start, and gets more frequent with use, odds are very good it's heat-related.
printf() is an old-school fuzzer, so to speak. It may be just a line, but underneath, the call to it brings in a ton of branching and memory alloc and access.

So quite often any latent memory leaks or code issues could lead to such odd behavior. Sometimes it's the opposite - "works" with printf(), but segfaults in some odd place or infiniloops without it.

At times like this, -Wall, valgrind, and critical thinking are the ways to "cherchez le 'bug'"... Multithreaded it is? Good luck!
Haha true. I got stuck on that problem for a few months before I gave up and started researching the math behind it.
Or depression, or both!