skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a misleading title. Journalism as a profession shot up the last couple of years due to internet and media so the count should be normalized. What ratio of journalists are persecuted compared to total number of journalists out there?
This is already a feature!

https://youtu.be/zqG6AAZ5JvA?t=84
A lot of the Tesla games DO use the steering wheel. Centipede, for one.

I can never bring myself to play them because I feel like I would look like an imbecile sitting in the car furiously turning the wheel while the car is parked.
It was always 35k with incentives.
> the NZ experiment is more likely to make a few people extremely wealthy and not actually stop tobacco smoking

The trend is pretty good, and numbers are steadily falling. E-cigarettes have been vowing though.
The below stats obviously pre-date the change announced.

https://www.health.govt.nz/publication/annual-update-key-res...
Not a book but https://teachyourselfcs.com/ if you want typical curriculum and also not a CS book but good book "Computer Science Fundamentals" (sneaky title, free online).

Although I recommend starting from "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software". Coolest book ever.
Take a look at the suggestions on https://teachyourselfcs.com/
From what I remember, he was in Japan when he claimed to have committed suicide. Japan publishes data on US citizens who have lost their lives in that country, and that year, they reported that nobody died. The only "proof" that there was that Byuu took his own life is a picture of this strange-looking urn
https://ibb.co/jw4xC0q

No records, no funeral, nothing
> although I found one mistake in an exercise

Check on Knuth's website to see if it's already been corrected. If not, you could get a prestigious Knuth reward cheque for finding an error.
If a Google app has no ads, it is because the information they are gathering feeds into the other ad algorithms enough to make it worthwhile. They are in an unusual position of being able to do that because of their size. (Not unique, but unusual.)
High turnover right before the Christmas boom would not be good for Amazon.
The problem is also that people are using the word "ponzi" to describe every investment they think is bad and/or don't understand. offering high rates doesn't automatically means it's a ponzi. With the definition that some of you are using here, literally every single bank, currency, edge fund and all publicly traded companies would be a ponzi.
I only plant food into containers with clean soil that I purchased. I don’t trust whatever is in my yard either.
It was in Iraq that he saw troops using "enhanced interrogation" tactics, including breaking prisoners' bones and stripping them naked in the freezing cold.

Where can we read more about this? This must have been a huge International Crimes Court war crime prosecution effort; I'm surprised I missed it in the news. How many years in jail were those responsible sentenced to?
One issue with Libra was Facebook. FB has the user numbers and money to roll out a potentially successful cryptocurrency that's marketed as a currency. Regulators got scared and it got critiqued/shut down across almost every market.
So does heroin. Decriminalizing its use with treatment works while prohibition never does. You're barking up the wrong tree if you believe outlawing tobacco is a valid solution.
> If you participate in the economic system at all, the failure of over-sized banking institutions will fuck you up whether you have an account or loan with them or not.

The stock market crashed despite the bailout. People lost their jobs and houses despite the bailout. What would have been worse if the banks had not been bailed out?
Same here. Also, using aptoide for Android TV.
From the abstract:

> The comprehensive survey of the first twenty years of research in parallel logic programming, published in 2001, has served since as a fundamental reference to researchers and developers. The contents are quite valid today, but at the same time the field has continued evolving at a fast pace in the years that have followed. … This survey provides a review of the research in parallel logic programming covering the period since 2001, thus providing a natural continuation of the previous survey. The goal of the survey is to serve not only as a reference for researchers and developers of logic programming systems, but also as engaging reading for anyone interested in logic and as a useful source for researchers in parallel systems outside logic programming.
> Humans, as well. 38,000 dead and 4,400,000 injured every year in the US due to car accidents.

Yes. A society that valued both human life and evidence would ban cars entirely.
It’s weird right? Some times I look at interesting places like Qatar and Abu Dhabi and think, ‘I wouldn’t mind going there for a bit, see what it’s like’. Then I realize they banned alcohol, and the women are constricted, and so on.

Nice mountains New Zealand, wish I could have a smoke on one of them, you know, like Gandalf.
Unfortunately people do care and look down on others based on color theme. Just as some people look down on others not wearing a rolex.
Tech is full of blowhards just as everywhere else. Techies using light themes aren't synth wave futuristic a-poc hacker material.

On the internet some start up guys were bragging about rejecting a candidate because he wore a collared shirt to the interview. That it showed he would never "get it".
That is just their own brand of virtue signaling. I doubt they actually care. China doesn't give up anything they don't particularly care about in the first place. They'll call for a boycott of Nike, which conveniently helps domestic companies. Manufacturers are still encouraged to offer their services to Nike though because they wouldn't want to their citizens to lose their jobs.
I agree with all the problems they note about large social networks: not being in control of the software, the data, the rules, and so on. I think this approach solves many of those problems. But, some of other the problems with systems like Twitter and Facebook are inherent to the style of communication, and are not solved by just hosting your own Twitter and Facebook clone.
Where do you see that this is a required program? The only requirement described is for the program itself. It's failing to meet its own requirements and thus it's shutting down.

In the USA police power generally belongs to the states. The FBI can't just arbitrarily order state and local police to participate in their programs.
A major chunk of evergrande is owned by black rock and HSBC. The ripple effects will be felt beyond china. This is like saying the virus is only circulating in china. I will pay close attention when it starts in US.

I think the mortgage squeeze in china is far worse than the pandemic and they have done a good job of masking it. We will know in few months or years when the shock waves ripples thru here.
Clearly something that will have to be addressed legally.

Outside of (to a certain degree) drugs (and tobacco, which is regulated and known to be harmful) there are very few consumer-facing products which used and maintained properly just randomly kill people sometimes--and we shrug our shoulders and say "stuff happens."
That is how it should work. Why should the citizens pay for a bank and fail to acquire a bank?
The big difference between the US and elsewhere is the hypocrisy. To a greater degree than other societies, the US mythologizes the individual, and so the gap between myth and reality is even wider.

I would like it to be different. I would like the US to live up to its ideals and aspirations.

Concretely, I wish that Ian Fishback had received rewards commensurate with his service and contributions — at the very least a comfortable life.
https://archive.md/rPbFl
Author here. It's a Notion page, I can't do much, sorry! Maybe I'll spend some time to migrate everything to a proper blog soon.
During the popping of the Japanese real estate bubble, which saw the value of the land under the imperial palace as the same as the value of the entire state of California[1], mortgages were offered in 100 year terms[2].

[1] https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/309...
[2] https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990...
>The same arguments that people who refuse COVID vaccines should be cut off from the community (jobs, commerce, etc) applies to tobacco.

When was the last time an ER or ICU was closed to new patients because of lung cancer? The problem with COVID denialism isn't that they impose the usual sort of healthcare costs but that they produce correlated emergencies which strain the hospital beyond its usual operating capacity.
Good points. Like you said, kids drink underage and kids smoke underage. People buy heroin, etc. even though it is illegal. We'd be better off making these things legal for those 18+, tax them and use that to fund addiction recovery (we already have addicts but no one is paying for recovery).
To enable ones own salary negotiations as a rational economic actor (TM)?
Long hours make bad neighbors
As someone who has taught in private schools that cost upwards of 50k, I don't think they are all that great. Teachers are generally paid the same as in public schools and it's still slightly smaller classes of kids who have way too much homework, are taught using the same curriculum and have little freedom to direct their own learning. At Dalton, kids regularly get 4 hours of tutoring every day after school to help them do homework and the teachers come to expect that and teach to the extra support. I doubt that all the families who dislike public school here are rich. An increasing number of low-income families are pulling their kids out of school and homeschooling. Others are sending them to lower-cost private schools, parochial schools. You don't have to be rich to value and spend on education. In fact, education is one of the first things lower-income families will spend on (though it's been shown to be a poor investment). One of the things this article talks about is how more Latino and Black families are homeschooling than ever before.
The Novi site for the Whatsapp partnership says this:

> "When you add money to your Novi account, we convert it to USDP (Pax Dollar), a stable digital currency issued by Paxos Trust Company, a regulated financial institution. USDP is designed to have a stable value relative to the US dollar. So on Novi, 1 USDP is equal to 1 US dollar."

To me that implies it's done on chain...I guess it could just be in their centralized database though.

Curious what the Whatsapp UI does for moments when USPD hits $0.99 like December 1 2021 when it hit $0.989.

Source: https://www.novi.com/WhatsApp
You're surrending land because land isn't worth anything and you don't want it anymore.

The whole point of Georgism is to make land really cheap, by making it expensive to own.
3X CPU Speedup with TensorFlow and ApacheTVM on Apple M1 Chips
The creator of CUPS was employed by Apple, to work on CUPS. He left, and doesn't work on CUPS anymore. It's not some cloak-and-dagger thing.
America is running on fumes
My gut is that using sidecars doesn't really solve these problems straight up. Just moved them to the orchestrator.

Which is not bad. But that area is also often misconfigured for supervision. And trapping signals remains mostly broken in all sidecars.
I've worked on some custom Android firmwares before, and I did this for our releases. It's easy, the 911 call center doesn't mind (it's scheduled beforehand), and it ensures that the phone can dial 911. If you can't manage to test emergency calls, don't release phone software.
Same thought here. All the buttons are too close to each other on mobile, haha.
Yup, inflation can be annoying and a popular complaint topic for whiners, but it tends to net out with management — rates rise and fall with it so net ability to earn returns still exists, and as usual, you need to work for those returns.

Inflation only becomes a problem when the money-printing (incl. debt creation) is so prolific that people lose confidence in the currency — that's when you get hyperinflation, which absorbs almost everyone's full attention. It's pretty wild to see live in person, but it is still survivable.

But you're right - DEflation is really dangerous, which is why the Fed, ECB, and other central banks are working so hard to avoid it.
Or we can refer to Wikipedia in which Clapper’s excuse is (paraphrases) “I forgot” and “they weren’t supposed to ask about something classified” to which Wyden replied “he got the questions in advance so he could tell us not to ask about classified stuff.”

Wyden then asked Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" He responded, "No, sir." Wyden asked, "It does not?" and Clapper said, "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly."

[…]

In Clapper's 2018 memoir, he provides a fuller explanation of the incident:

...because the NSA program under Section 215 was highly classified, Senator Wyden wouldn't or shouldn't have been asking questions that required classified answers on camera....my error had been forgetting about Section 215, but even if I had remembered it, there still would have been no acceptable, unclassified way for me to answer the question in an open hearing. Even my saying, "We'll have to wait for the closed, classified session to discuss this," would have given something away. ...I ought to have sent a classified letter to Senator Wyden explaining my thoughts when I'd answered and that I misunderstood what he was actually asking me about. Yes, I made a mistake – a big one – when I responded, but I did not lie. I answered with truth in what I understood the context of the question to be.

On June 11, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) accused Clapper of not giving a "straight answer," noting that Clapper's office had been provided with the question a day in advance of the hearing and was given the opportunity following Clapper's testimony to amend his response.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clapper
They were imitating Little Richard a lot more than Elvis. In Get Back, they are mocking Elvis in a way that makes it clear that had been making fun of him this way for years.
It's possible to treat "the nutters" with well-deserved contempt while treating reasonable people reasonably.
> If it’s “for their own good”, what makes the government the best entity to decide what’s good for one’s self?

FWIW, it's easier to justify when the government pays for expensive healthcare bills that ensue. Like making helmets and seatbelts mandatory, etc.

I know people who are mad at helmet-less cyclists because they will cost tax money if they have an accident: it isn't only their personal life they put on the line, they're risking other people's money. However small the final amount is on an individual level, it adds up. In the US, there are talks of making voluntarily unvaccinated patients fit their entire Covid-19 hospitalization bill.
F-Droid does this already with its listing of 'anti-features' for each app.
Your first two points have been proven comprehensively false by actual failed attempts at drug prohibition throughout modern history.
The website quotes $4300 in "gasoline savings". A number that's suspiciously higher than I remember before. I wonder if Tesla has been changing the calculation on their "gas savings" to match marketing needs.

In any case, "gasoline savings" is not an incentive.
> There is a reason. Controversy which began in 1973 and spurred Congressional investigations and this very article led to the CIA to sign a 1977 directive that prohibited them from recruiting or impersonating journalists, peace corps, and the clergy.

That doesn't mean they don't influence the media. The next time there are a sequence of articles on a particular country - you can think about when it plays up.
In Defense of the “Gentrification Building”
There's probably space for a startup that properly archives the technical nature of findings.
You hit the nail on the head. Will put some of that in the appendix of the post!
Yes, it’s 81.5 years for a man and almost 87 for a woman.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_ex...
Android is traditionally an open system that allows you to mess with the system in all sorts of ways. I've previously replaced the default launcher and I know that you can replace the default lock screen if you want to. But that means that you can install a lock screen that prevents people without your password from making emergency calls, here's the first set of instructions I found Googling it.

https://www.thecustomdroid.com/remove-emergency-call-button-...

Normally I feel like it's a strength of the Android operating system that users are allowed to make whatever changes they want, including handing off all responsibility for phone calls to Microsoft or whatever. But in cases like this where users might not understand what that means I wonder how we can put in better guardrails while still maintaining the systems flexibility.
And yet they aren’t in a large number of ways. Driving, drinking, voting, gun ownership, the ability to consent to various things, the ability to own some things.
The website is actually a Notion page, I can't do much, sorry!
Net metering was a good policy when solar energy made a tiny contribution to the power grid.

In some countries like Germany it has gone too far. Wholesale energy prices turn negative when solar and wind are abundant but turn astronomical when they aren't. The financial incentives to run a reliable grid aren't there.

We're not going to get to decarbonization by simple minded "nudges" that make people feel good because we're sending money towards something "good".

You can't get to the moon just by pointing your rocket in the direction of the moon. It takes a plan that goes from beginning to end and decarbonization is like that.

The biggest threat to decarbonization in California is the impending shutdown of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. If that isn't stopped it's going to reverse most if not all the project that's been made with renewables.
It's not as simple and one-sided as this. Here is the response from the owner of Kiwi Farms regarding the matter:

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/my-response-regarding-byuu-nea...
They've shown whether an app has ads for over five years: https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/04/28/the-play-store-star...
I think that most parents make decisions out of fear, rather than what they really think is best. A friend of mine used to work at Noodle and said that they did a study there which showed that most parent's primary reason for choosing an elite private schcool is for their own networking purposes, rather than the quality of their child's education. I have not seen that to be true in the parents I've met who send their kids to private school, but it's still striking.
Nope. Criminal gangs will keep smokers in cigarettes.
Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, German court rules
Diamond hands
In the area I live in (mid-size city in SE Germany) many buildings are from the early 1900s/late 1800s. Insulating those is pretty much a common and economic thing to do.

- At a rough estimate such a building costs 600.000 € - 1.000.000 € nowadays.

- Costs for insulating the exterior walls, the roof and ground floor against the basement is approx. 30.000 - 60.000 €.

- New, insulated windows: approx. 10.000 – 30.000 €.

You'pre good then on energy saving.

And yes, they usually just put plates of foam on the outside. Somehow the mold issue appears to be solved by now as a house-painter told me recently.
Don’t bother man. No matter what you say people will come up with excuse after excuse after excuse.

“I love the car but…”
I'm 19 and I agree with you. For most things, text content is the best way to learn.
Looks like that's a byproduct of Notion's keyboard shortcuts. I agree it's very annoying. Not only does it break arrow keys, but also home, end, page up, and page down.
Saving Diablo Canyon Could Save $21B and 90k acres
Seems like I am out of touch with reality then.

If 17 year olds with no experience get that much, then I dunno about experienced devs.
Its a pretty miserable and quite deadly addictive narcotic. No legitimate medical use, and an unusually hugh incidence of cancer. Its certainly a harm on society. I can't really think of much benefit, most smokers are happy to quit.

But if you look at the US, they have dramatically decreased smoking with education and gentle discouragement.

Maybe also look at the reason why some people get addicted in the first place, it's often due to trauma.
There are many holes in these arguments, but that just may be social science generally. Example:
>Think that major restrictions may be in students' best interest, keeping them out of fields they're unprepared for?
No, I think that the majors have scarce resources best not spent on remediating those who are unlikely to succeed. Anecdotally, I know of very few majors/schools that want fewer students.

I think the largest explanation comes from the incredible success of luxury ideas like "find your true calling", "don't make decisions based on money", "don't sell out", etc. These ideas sound nice when you're saying them, but their uptake will always be highest among those who don't have the resources or strong grounding to know that they're basically all bullshit. Meanwhile, anyone better off has either connections that will serve as the real basis for a career start, or parents who won't let them follow that terrible advice
There are more PHEVs than there has ever been. I know because I’m researching them to buy one.

I can’t imagine how the success of Tesla has possibly not had the effect of speeding up legacy manufacturers to create PHEVs.

Tesla led the way to get all this electrical car infrastructure out in the world that everybody else can take advantage of.
> Moving authentication to the user removes the need for 3rd party websites to store passwords. It eliminates the need to sign up for websites. You just give websites access to your identity. Decentralization is a feature of cryptocurrency.

How is this different than the single-signon systems which people have been using for decades? In particular, why should we expect this to be more successful than, say, Mozilla's Persona was?

It would be especially useful if the marketing materials covered the requirements for a serious system like recovering from a compromised or lost key, or how it would avoid the privacy impacts of the same key being used in many places including for purchases? It would be especially important to think about how this would work for normal people — it's not decentralization if you're simply saying that instead of everyone using Google/Facebook/Apple for SSO you're switching to e.g. MetaMask, so a key question would be how reasonable and safe it is for a normal person to operate independently.
Until we get suffrage for minors, banning cigarettes is peanuts.
There's a huge variety in private and public schools, but it's rare that the school is not 9-3pm or 8-6pm. A few exceptions like Fusion Academy do 1-1 tutoring. We need a more modular approach to education that's not all teaching kids the same curriculum during an uninterrupted block of hours. .
FTC should investigate Apple for misleading and false advertising. Apple in their presentation compared the M1 Max to the NVidia RTX 3080 mobile and claimed the M1 Max chip can compete with the Nvidia card but yesterdays video by Linus Tech Tips show that the M1 Max is only competitive when it comes to editing video, which is an extremely narrow use case. As a general purpose GPU, the M1 Max is years behind the RTX 3080.