skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could accept Bitcoin as payment though your accountant may then find taxes frightening.

It's not practical really no. There are ways (the way people did it before stripe). But it's much more painful and buerocratic.

Stripe is quite friendly compared to the old way.
A monad isn't a concrete thing, a monad is a pattern that lots of different types adhere to. So it makes sense to extract it into an interface, in that operations that only use the monadicness can be implemented once for all types that are monads. It doesn't make much sense to study monads apart from the things that implement the interface, because there is not much to it. It's just an interface for the abstract notion of an ordered sequence of actions.
This brings me so much joy. It's such a perfect emulation that it actually makes me homesick for the late 90s.
This. And also a gazillion other things.

Years ago I was recommended a book written by a Dutch psychiatrist who had developed depression himself. The tagline was sort of "here's a professional who suffers from it, this will be insightful."

I couldn't relate to his condition for one iota (let alone finish the book); as he had mostly feelings of guilt and shame, and dark, weird mental images.

I guess depression is a sort of blanket term by now for many things, which probably complicates diagnosis and most of all, treatment.

Plus, I recently discovered the term "sh*t life syndrome", which is apparently getting to be known as a well-known term in the US/UK psychiatrics system (at least it has a Wikipedia page claiming that). It describes people who are poor or lonely because of the system surrounding them (prime example: they live in an area with raging unemployment). In that case, it's argued, symptoms of depression might actually be the logical response to an outside stimulus (or lack thereof). Yet, it appears many of these people are referred to psychological treatment because, well, society doesn't come up with any better option.

But what rubicon33 describes is certainly one way of depression, and I think a common one. But I'd go one step further even: Yes, people lack that little "kick" to get them going and do something entirely. But I don't think that's the root cause.

The root cause, to me, is that this kick has been subconciously "unlearned". Because when people with this sort of depression DO force themselves to do some of these things (and man, do they need to force themselves, with rational arguments and all sorts of tricks), they are not enjoying it. To stick with the example of playing tennis: Non-depressed people come back and say: "That was fun! I powered myself out on the tennis court, maybe I even won, I feel good.". People with this particular sort of depression come back and say: "That was physically, but mostly mentally exhausting. I want to sleep or procrastinate now and reset my thoughts to the baseline of being emotionless."

Disclaimer: Yes, I think I can also kind of speak on this subject. I've been repeatedly diagnosed with childhood PTSD and depression possibly ever since that (which makes it 30+ years); which doesn't mean that I'm not questioning this all the time, because the biggest trick played by depression is to make you think that everything may be just normal sadness/exhaustion/"not trying hard enough" ...).
This would probably work better for the big conglomerates than the status quo. The tax would be less than the royalties they'd no longer have to pay to the actual creators, because emerging artists aren't able to afford to pay tax up front in the hope someone will eventually offer them a big advance.
Which probably means just running more generators.
Oh huh, for some reason that didn't even come to mind. Good thing all our infrastructure is applied by CI and our local tokens are read-only!
Pumped hydro is in fact an energy storage method. It just requires having a dam, which is obviously not a workable solution in many (most?) places.
I don't know about the others, but IPFS uses Filecoin, which is blockchain based.
> Sad that the extremely high taxes (and price rises) on electricity in Sweden mean diesel cars are still cheaper in some parts of the country

Average power consumption for an EV is 0.2 kWh/km. The current (very high) price of 1.5 SEK/kWh gives a price of about 3 SEK per 10 Km for an EV.

Diesel price in Sweden right now is about 18 SEK/Liter (also a record high). A good diesel car needs maybe 0.7 liters per 10 Km => 12.6 SEK per 10 Km for a diesel car.

So an EV is still more than 4 times cheaper when comparing the cost to power the car.
It seems possible that increased exposure to phtalates is linked to better revenue. And better revenue is linked to more stress for the aquisition of the revenue and to increased calories consumption. It seems to me a more likely explanation, especially in Mexico. Not sure wheter the study controlled for BMI but that would be a minimum.
You just reminded me of Babylon.exe, a program that I used back on Windows 98SE/Me/XP, that would work on any part of the screen.

Apparently it’s still a thing! https://www.babylon-software.com/

Besides that, yeah, there’s so much content on The Information Highway but the signal to noise ratio is through the roof.
To me it is crazy selling that data is even legal.
Copyright was intended to provide a means of support for individual artists, not as a means of guaranteeing profits to super-conglomerate shareholders for a period that nears on a century.
It’s quite amazing there wasn’t a proper rail line connecting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem until very recently. Certainly the very mountainous terrain around Jerusalem makes it difficult but the Swiss have managed.
In the sense that you shouldn't be required to know how to use them to be a full-fledged citizen. (Last I checked, a whopping 20% of citizens had trouble using them.) This involves stopping considering "digitalization" as a cost-cutting measure - and it never was to start with anyway, if one of the goals was to maintain the same quality of service - real human beings are just so much better at it.
I would hazard fuel exhaustion due to the shape of the crash site.
rsync has a number of safety and boundary options, not to mention --dry-run.

Options, as in I also found out about them the hard way.
Speaking of poor unprofessional management and histeria around "green" energy, ignoring some fundamental physics and economic laws :(
Say you own the copyright on an old film you made, but are doing nothing with it (and making practically nothing) but plan to in the future (you have a plan to in say 10 years time). You are projecting that the value of the IP is something based on what you plan to do with it.

So it is 100% a tax on unrealised gains.

I complexly understand why some people will not be sympathetic to this.
That's the key difference between technical writing and literature:

Technical writing needs to be simple, to the point, short sentences, same word for the same concept, always.

Literature has a priviledge of poetic entertainment. It may indulge on linguistic expression and the readers will vote with their feet what they love and what they hate.
Seems like a stimulant might be a more logical self medication for depression than a depressant.
A bit late but they're probably referring to this post:

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/rqulik/til_t...
Agreed - no corporate-speak, sounds like it was written by an actual human.
Not affiliated, but for anyone looking to do searches on data stored primarily in Postgres via Elastic, ZomboDB is pretty slick.

ZomboDB is a Postgres extension that enables efficient full-text searching via the use of indexes backed by Elasticsearch. https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb#readme
Ah, but not provided by the government itself ??
Pretty sure the name comes from the idea of producing Gigawatt-hours of battery capacity in one factory (which it does), rather than from the footprint.
My point was that, if you stop and start frequently, the balance of the network will be extremely hard to maintain so you'll get blackouts that can span wide areas or even the whole net.

Even if that wasn't the case, I'm not sure that Swedish industries CAN scale down even if they wanted to, because the cost to start up again would be greater than shutting down.
I was always under the impression that large factories in the US get huge tax rebates for a couple of years or other concessions as a way to encourage the plant to be built there and not in the next state?

The EU giving out loans to finance projects that fit their strategic goals doesn't seem any worse than that
The unit price per kWh is quite low in Sweden though, the base price (network fees etc) is the big part.

In September, I used 75 kWh, and paid 4.5kr/kWh[1] (exchange rate to € is about 10:1, so this comes out to 0,45€), in November, with higher unit prices, I paid 3,4kr/kWh for 236 kWh[2] (about 0,34€) since the base price distributes over more usage. Per-unit price is about 1kr/kWh, so an efficient EV at 30kWh/100 km comes out to 30kr/100km, while an efficient ICE at 5l/100km comes out to 80kr/100km (at the current price of about 17kr/l).

It's not like gas is cheap here and taxed low.

[1]: 119kr for the usage, 222 kr for the network
[2]: 335kr for the usage, 222 kr for the network
It’s worse than that! It’s anti-poor. Every major “green” law affects the poor more than any other group.

Single use plastic utensils ban? It isn’t the rich needing to eat on the go!

Punitive personal transport tax? The poor will need to rely even more on unreliable public transportation.

Reliance on renewable energy sources? More expensive electricity.

And so much more. Covid only exacerbated this gap, in every dimension from education to international travel. And the normalization of it will only make it harder for things to return to pre-covid normal.
I was thinking in the context of "field sports", such as hunting shooting etc.

As you say though, both are plausible, and that ambiguity is part of what makes the phrase so interesting.
It was like that, but with light string style piggyback plugs on both ends. So the non-wall side could have been in the middle of a bunch of piggybacked plugs, but there would still be two exposed, energized prongs on whatever it was plugged into.
There are trains between Moscow / Beijing and Pyongyang, which is interesting I think.
Yes, there are much better options like Vyvanse or extended release Adderall or Concerta.
distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal
not only peace. Given the investment and maintenance required, trains require some degree of social/economic connectedness between places it connects. For example, the fall of USSR resulted in many train routes disappearing, and in the recent years Russia/Ukraine transport connections naturally got hit.
We'll learn much in the effort, but discover that humanity is not only the apex predator on Earth but also universally unique in attaining our level of self-awareness and escaping the cradle.

Restated: the quantum accidents that transitioned the periodic table of elements to self-replicating organic life are so gnarly and unique that we DO NOT find them recurring.

Subsequent theistic arguments are optional. Merely stating that all the Sci-Fi stays precisely that: fiction.
If you already have a dam and turbines it's obviously better to just run them in generating mode.

But pumping stations also exist where it makes sense.
Japanese companies structure apologies very differently from US ones, because the legal consequences are very different. In the US, an apology is considered an admission of responsibility and is often the starting point of legal action against the culprit, while in Japan, a sufficiently sincere* apology may well defuse the situation entirely.

* 真 makoto, a word often glossed as "sincere" but not identical in meaning: it's about the amount of effort you're willing to take on, not how "honestly" you feel something

Also, the culprit here is not HP proper but their consulting/SI wing HP Enterprise, which has a, uhh, less than stellar reputation for competence.
This exists, and is called "pumped hydro" energy storage.

But it needs favorable geography and/or huge use of space.

There isn't a single technology for all our energy storage needs, pumped hydro, batteries and lots of others all have their niche and efficient use cases.
We can hope! :-)
If climate change is an existential threat to the human race, then why have we not been building Nuclear Power plants for the last 20 years whereupon we have enough energy to supply us for 1000 years, carbon-free?

Why are the very loud climate change voices not pushing for what is at least a major piece of an obvious solution?

The reality is the commentor is correct:

Climate Change is a form of populism and it has to be understood from that frame of reference.

The actual Science is real of course, however the entire system from academia, the media, public policy (i.e. even green politicians not doing very green things) - including those 'opposing it' are caught up in that populist game.

And the same people pushing for climate change - and often against Nuclear - have a whole other set of correlating convictions upon which they are just as religious.

So the challenge is to understand the impetus and dynamic of popular trends.

'Nuclear Energy' is a big one because it's something the Green movement is against - but - most regular centre-left (and other) politicians would go for, if there was popular support.

Politicians (except maybe Greens) don't talk 'Nuclear' not because they're against it, but because they're afraid of the consequences.

Germany is facing an energy crisis which is leading to a military crisis with the empowerment of Russia.

The Greens are now a part of government and it's entirely possibly their 'well intervention beliefs' may be severely damaging Germany's prospects.

Imagine a Germany without Greens: maybe it would have dozens of Nuclear Power plants well on it's way to being Carbon Free - and - Putin wouldn't have any leverage to force Germany's acquiescence on the Ukraine issue.

How's that for a political paradox?

It's actually not a paradox when you consider it through a populist lens, it's the sad reality of people not believing in vaccines, thinking that the US election was thrown etc..

Hopefully, these energy prices will force people to take a more pragmatic look.

Germans are money-sensitive and rational, this will be an interesting political issue.
I look up 'ordinary' words like those (as opposed to those I don't know the meaning of beforehand) all the time, probably more than unknown words. But not for 'Draft #4' reasons, I look out of curiosity for etymology, older meanings, how common an alternative pronunciation might be, etc.
Isn't one of the execs ex-Musk employee? Sad to see this culture creeping into EU.
I tried the same calculation, nice to see that we are in the same ballpark at least
Isn't there a guy literally called Satoshi Nakamoto, that lived near and friends with Hal Finney, in California.

I think SN was probably more than one person, and I do think it was built with government involvement. The doxxed Satoshi himself worked as a government contractor I believe.
I was under the impression that Giga referred to GigaWh of batteries per year produced
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/detours/
The language in the law is "electronic shutter speed (gating capability)", which I think is the same as the "exposure time." I mean, "exposure" is sort of a misnomer for digital video cameras: the focal plane is exposed to light all the time because there's no shutter. It's just that some of the time it's turned off ("gated"). And when you set the "shutter speed" on a mechanical camera to 1/60, that's the exposure time. You seem to be talking about something slightly different, like maybe the sensitivity rise time?
Typically results in custom controls and working against the browser provided affordances
> I guess that could be leveraged to target job ads

That sounds like a great way to be mentioned in the news next to the words "discrimination lawsuit"
>and never even mention Arch

On the contrary, the first rule of using Arch, is telling everyone you use Arch BTW :)
Cylindrical Li-ion factory with more than GWh/month or 10k cars/month worth of claimed capacity
Wow. My brain filled in the crackling sound those old computers made when under load as I opened IE.

I for one do not look back.
I agree. Circular reasoning along with self-fulfilling prophecies are definitely an issue. I still like it for introspection and realizing that other people have different "mind structures", whatever they might be.

> it's not a scientific or testable prediction about the way people act in the world.

The problem is that there is probably no scientific or testable prediction about the complexity of humans. Psychology itself seems not very scientific, so people rely on their intuition (as they should) to understand other people. However that leads to the problem of "X also wants Y, because I want Y", which from my experience is just not true at all. Humans have very different interests and goals. So these models creep up to account for that.
There is also a train line between Seoul and Pyongyang, which unsurprisingly is virtually never used.
I don't so much think AI becomes sentient as we reach a societal conclusion that squeezing the humanity out of life through fetishing AI is a form of hell.

That is: automation must liberate individuals, not enslave them. This implies that individuals must still think and operate above the 'livestock' level, i.e. work.
That list is incomplete without the world 'Nuclear' which is the Elephant in the Room in terms of Energy Availability, Emissions, Safety and how it contrasts with political perspectives.
That gender as a concept is meaningful only to people who would have liked to be born the opposite sex (ie trans people); for all the other people, sex at birth is what counts. Some of those "other people" pretend to find gender meaningful for political convenience.
yeah, that's not really explained in the article, and it's not explained in the `ast` docs either [1]. for reference, the full list of assignment targets is:

-- the following expression can appear in assignment context
| Attribute(expr value, identifier attr, expr_context ctx)
| Subscript(expr value, expr slice, expr_context ctx)
| Starred(expr value, expr_context ctx)
| Name(identifier id, expr_context ctx)
| List(expr* elts, expr_context ctx)
| Tuple(expr* elts, expr_context ctx)

perhaps it's just neater to just have the context there on every one of them.

also, from a pragmatic standpoint, when actually processing the AST and analyzing it semantically, you'll pretty much always going to be handling expressions and patterns (= rvalues/lvalues) differently, bc they mean completely different things! and having the context right there makes it more convenient to handle. so like, when designing an AST datatype, you could just as well not include the context in Name() and it'd be fine, but the python `ast` module's primary usecase is compiling the AST to bytecode, where it's more convenient to just have that info around, so that's what they did.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html#ast.Load
I am not concerned … with offering any facile solution for so complex a problem.
—T. S. Eliot

Miss Adebayo visited and said something about grief, something nice-sounding and facile: Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.
—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“Joker” takes off from a facile premise and descends into incoherent political trolling as a result of scattershot plotting and antics—its director, Todd Phillips, appears not to see what he’s doing.
—The New York Times

Unless you read a lot into definition 4 of Webster's, the app dictionary, or even the word 'shallow,' gives a result much more accurate to how I've seen the word actually used. With more than a century and a half since the dictionary was first published, seems like plenty of time for a shift in meaning to happen.
I think what I wrote sounded a bit literal. I don't think anyone really does that "full time" as it were. I was just parroting Mark Twain's phrase really. :-)
I use Arch because I just want a desktop that's fast while still being able to handle my requirements. I'm also looking into employing it for setups that have very non-standard boot sequences or hardware requirements (think vGPU gaming across multiple virtualised domains) that are impossible to achieve on mainstream distributions without making the ongoing operation of the OS too brittle.
Does it even have to be their lifetime? 50 years from creation should suffice and they can put some of the profits during this time into a personal pension plan like the rest of us have to.
I think that Web 1 & Web 2 are more "technical" concepts:

- Web 1 is about publishing content like a newspaper on website (or hosted blog)

- Web 2 is about interactive content (comments, retweets, likes)

For me, Web 3 is hard to define, because there's a lot of marketing... Let's say maybe the bitcoin & blockchain tech on the technical side (and the ransomware industry).

Is AR/VR another king of Web X ? Not sure... it's more another kind of browser (like the smartphone is another kind of computer) but until now, there's no different kind of services

On the other side: AI allows a different kind of services... but is not related to Web only.

I think that Web 4 will come when we will understand that "Web 3" is about "complete individual liberty"... and that we will understand that it's wrong: if the "good guys" have this kind of liberty, the bad guy have it too ! So it's a kind of a "new Far West" without any laws

I think that Web 4 should be technically the comeback to federation (like email or mastodon) with user-owned datas (on THEIR computer/phone, not on some Facebook server) protected by some king of differential privacy, allowing users to "pay" either in datas, cash or bitcoin. As the servers are federated, it's still possible to "block" some bad contents or unlawfull behaviour at scale without restricting too much individual liberty.

Just a thought and YMMV
Digging for Britain: Secrets of Rutland Roman villa mosaic revealed
DebConf14: Linus about breaking librarie-ABIs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc&t=168s
> I'm having trouble finding conversations like that, regarding NodeJS. Has there been a debate about best practice? Where can I find it?

Here is the thing about high level modern interpreted languages — most of the time YOU DON'T NEED all those infinite pointless debates around what practice is the best or how we design another AbstractInstanceBuilderFactoryStrategy class etc.

Most of the time NodeJS just works. THere is really almost nothing to discuss, unless you face some specific unique challenge.

You just write clean single threaded code, and it just works as expected. And usually just scales horizontally to a very high volumes of traffic.

And the cost of change and dev experience is sometimes infinitely better than in Java/Scala stack.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-replacing-java-with-javasc...

Hence, you don't overthink about 120 amazing classes and interfaces in advance — you can grow your design together with the requirements.

Regarding the bottlenecks — the only nodejs bottleneck is pure sync calculations, so just never block the thread with heavy algorithms and you're good to go.

I'm speaking of personal experience working on loaded Java and Nodejs artifacts. It's just different, much less overheaded, way of thinking about the task and about the world.
Thank you, I hadn't heard of that!