skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not especially.

I likewise find the PoV unsavory, though ... pragmatic. Yergin's general philosophy (and enthusiastic boosterism of the oil industry) is not my own viewpoint, but his storytelling and knowledge are excellent. Discover enough about the field, however, and the bits he skips over become apparent. The bits he covers, however, are valuable.

Manfred Weissenbacher's Sources of Power (note that this is in two volumes, catalogue listings vary in including both) is similar to Smil's works on energy/history, but focuses far more on the political dimensions and their relationship to the power (physical and political) afforded through energy regimes. It becomes increasingly polemical as it approaches the present, possibly with strong justification.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/sources-of-power-how-energy-f...

First volume -- before oil: https://www.worldcat.org/title/before-oil-the-ages-of-foragi...

Second volume --- oil and beyond: https://www.worldcat.org/title/oil-age-and-beyond/oclc/83762...

What really emerges from all three authors --- Yergin, Smil, and Weissenbacher, is how absolutely transformational the oil age proved to be. It is liquid power in every sense of that word.

On politics, I've been looking at James C. Scott (Seeing Like a State), Francis Fukuyama (Origins of Political Order https://www.worldcat.org/title/origins-of-political-order-fr...), John Kenneth Galbraith (see his Anatomy of Power https://www.worldcat.org/title/anatomy-of-power/oclc/1087969...).

I'm familiar with Realpolitik as a term. There's the related "geopolitics" which arises out of German doctrine, and borrows heavily from principles of the use of naval power. That, if I'm recalling correctly, traces to Alfred Thayer Mahan's treatise on sea power:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Thayer_Mahan#Sea_power

Otherwise, this is an area I'm mostly fumbling around in. Appreciate the podcast recommendation.

In exchange, Neal Conan's swan song might also be of interest, "Truth, Politics, and Power". I'm not sure it covers quite the same topic though it's own I've been meaning to listen to.

https://exchange.prx.org/series/37658-truth-politics-and-pow...
That's right, I didn't think it through. There's exactly one thing I'm absolutely sure of: advertising is unacceptable. Nothing emotional about it. I've recognized the fact these companies want to subject people to their ads without consent. I decided I won't accept that.

Also, I don't have to solve anything. Society decides the rules and it's the businesses who have to figure out how to adapt to them. It's literally their problem. The fact it's gonna make life harder for them is irrelevant. The fact advertising makes them money changes nothing about the inherent unfairness of it.

If you think there's more to it, you're welcome to elaborate. Saying "but how would society function" or "it's complex, you can't just ban ads" doesn't elevate discussion either. Of course it will function and of course we can do it, all we have to do is decide. There are places that actually have done just that and as far as I know they're doing just fine.

This is the biggest example, it's even been posted here on HN which is how I found out about it:

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...

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

Businesses survived just fine before they started spamming people with their noise, they will keep on surviving once the noise gets banned. Since I've started researching this I've found there are so many cities in my country that have prohibited stuff like pamphlets, loudspeakers, signs and billboards. I have absolutely no doubt it led to immediate quality of life improvements. People here have suggested that I start getting involved in my city's government in order to try to improve the situation in my town as well, and I agree with them. I will give it my best shot.
the rust looks cool tho: https://instagram.com/totanmania_0
That, or, some politician made a deal with a roofing company to get some perfectly good roofs replaced.
I like a mixture of fiction and nonfiction podcasts. It's harder to say specific episodes for fictional ones without spoilers.

But I'll try. The Magnus Archives wrapped up it's 200 episode run this year, and it's worth a listen if you like spooky story podcasts.

One of my favorite episodes of The Dollop this year was on Trapper Nelson. A man who ate possums, buried his money in his yard, and ran a successful zoo and tourist attraction (he was part of the attraction) in the early 20th century. Truly a case of "they don't make them like that anymore."
The best against omicron? Better than nothing, I suppose. Last numbers I've seen is 40-70% efficiency (compared to 96% of the initial strain) and those numbers are for recently vaccinated, and it's a quickly waning protection that needs at least 3-4 injections that we know today, likely more (Israel is debating dose #4 atm). On top of that even 2 doses have problems with cardiotoxicity in young people, according to the FDA. It's a great vaccine for reducing deaths but it won't exterminate covid, even with a fully vaccinated (2-3 doses at time of writing) population, by a long shot.
Accuracy is the least interesting part of the clock. The power mechanism could be paired with any random timekeeping device.
Not specifically an ask, but always open to thoughts :)
It's just like Bitcoin :p
If you have taken upper level college STEM, or Philosophy courses, literally this is what they are trying to teach you.
> How do you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have his teachings?

"The New Testament has been preserved in more manuscripts than any other ancient work of literature..."

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

"Most historical critics agree that a historical figure named Jesus taught throughout the Galilean countryside c. 30 CE, was believed by his followers to have performed supernatural acts, and was sentenced to death by the Romans, possibly for insurrection.[108]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Bible#Histo...

To your point about the miracles attributed to him, again, because he didn't manifest those miracles to everyone ever, they didn't happen?

More readings on this topic:

https://www.bethinking.org/is-the-bible-reliable/the-histori...

https://www.bethinking.org/jesus/ancient-evidence-for-jesus-...
I think there are fair number of revolutionary things that you discount:

1) You can send it to anyone, anywhere without involving a middleman or needing financial infrastructure. How can you do this with gold?

2) You can "program" it via smart contracts to execute fairly complicated logic without trusting individual actors to carry out their part of the deal. How can you do this with gold?
It's *il*logical to conclude that because nowhere was it said that they are *equally* harmful.

What you *can* conclude is that all companies are harmful in some aspect.
How did this practice heal your life? And how does it influence who you are / your state of being outside of the time you’re actively praying or performing a specific ritual - the rest of the day?

Also, do you feel that the actions you describe change the quality of your thinking or perception of yourself and reality? How?
"Somewhere between pantheism and panentheism"?
Isn't that what this is saying?

> the company decided to engage in a war to open Chinese ports. This was the origin of the infamous Opium War whose final outcome in 1842 was the opening of five Chinese “treaty ports”, cession of Hong Kong
IMO good analogies come from a place of empathy. An understanding that the people you are talking to are not dumb, just uninitiated.

Not sure how applicable that observation is. Just sharing a thought.
Love this. Thank you for sharing it.
As a Chinese my friends and I are always amazed by the contemporary Japanese art, music and movies. I attributed the success partially to the democratic system and remain hopeful for our own culture.

Their cultural marketing is also great
That's a functional system that is 100% safe. There is no battery inside either, and I am using surface mount components that are recommended to be used on wood. It's a great little box. What's your problem with it?
Don't worry about it, you just wanted a different perspective. Which is what I gave. If anything, you should be saving your last sentence for yourself ;D
My gripe with SSB is inability to use the same account from multiple devices.
So they conduct a trial, ideally they pre-registered their trial, and nobody asked them about test power, beta, and type II error? Seriously?
Well, if I think the person is just job hopping for salary and will only stay six months, then I'd pass them over. Or offer a six month contract if we really need them.

When I hire, I'd like to keep them for at least 2-4 years for the company's sanity.
Absolutely, so it’s possible to connect to weather satellites like NOAA-20 and Aqua and pull down the data from them as they pass. Check out the CloudFormation templates to get started.
1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ground-station/latest/ug/custome...
2. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ground-station/latest/ug/choose-...
I also have no affiliation with jetpens, but they're an incredible little company. They also do a TON of writing like the article linked.
Is this really a thing?

I quadrupled my compensation recently coming from a non-tech/tech-as-a-cost-center company to a FAANGMULA level company. However I don't foresee experiencing another huge jump like that ever again in my career.

If you're going from one FAANG to another FAANG, what are the odds you're going make six figure jump in compensation unless you're also moving up the ranks while doing so?
"TR" receptacles are hopeful garbage. They tend to damage the prongs on two prong plugs, since they bind up unless the plug is inserted with precise orientation. Along with gratuitous GFCI for things like sump pump outlets, just say no.
> I have no idea why anyone would find it uncomfortable in any way.

Your first sentence makes me think you're serious. You don't see how a sea of masked faces could be seen as dystopian? Or that it's a sign that "you're not safe," and people want to feel safe?
I actually clicked this thread after reading the first part of the article, and saw that the author has already made 3 very important points (in ASCII bullet points) that I came here to say basically the same thing. All of this is extremely important in terms of real world outbound mail deliverability.

>Do not cheap out on providers. Run your mailserver in the most reputable IP space you can find. Most likely you will use some type of cloud instance or VPS (probably in such a way that the line between the two is blurry). Unfortunately, per-month cost tends to correlate directly with IP reputation quality, as does name recognition. But neither are any guarantee. AWS has plenty of IP reputation problems. Sometimes a little-known, brand-new VPS provider can be a surprisingly good option because they got their IP space off of some staid corporation that maintained an impeccable security program. Do some research to try and find out what kind of results people get from different providers.

> From an IP reputation perspective, consistency is key. Mailservers and IP reputation are like credit cards and your credit report: once you open one, you want to keep it as long as possible so that it will build a good IP reputation. Do not move your mailserver around between providers to save money, it will result in headache.

> Do not run a mailserver off of IP space that is not intended for commercial services. For example, running a mailserver on a residential ISP is a terrible idea (if it even works, many residential ISPs drop outbound on port 25). You will be guaranteed to have IP reputation problems and, moreover, IP space allocated to end-users usually gets reported to a "policy block list" such as the one Spamhaus maintains... meaning your outbound email will be blocked by recipients simply because it's coming from an IP that should not have mailservers, so it's most likely to be from a compromised end-user device.

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Now to add my own 2 cents:

If you are serious about doing this, find a medium sized long-established ISP where it is still small enough that you can get in contact with the people who run the routers. And that ISP should be one that really cares about its IP space reputation.

If you can afford it, anywhere with long-held IP space belonging to its ASN that has never had $5/month VPS customers on it, or any form of shared hosting environment, is much more likely to have "clean" IP space.
$250Kish, heavy on the additional benefits, no stock options, but an employee stock purchasing plan at a good discount

I’m an IC in finance in architecture/cloud stuff, work remote
Oh, I am perfectly fine with languages being living things.

It's just that these are more likely to get confused (literally and figuratively have opposite meaning, which makes it weird but not easy to misunderstand).
LinkedIn is basically Microsoft, so it's covered by the M.
That is not scientifically accurate. While I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, the current thinking is that new variants are most likely to evolve in immunocompromised patients who experience prolonged infections. Vaccines are less effective for those people.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma...
This makes me think of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett :)

Is it possible the universe is still being created and what we call Big Bang is an ongoing process of manifested boiling out of the unmanifested ;)
Prince of Persia in JavaScript
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It's not a flaw in communication which one should try and avoid; rather, it's a very useful set of skills to develop.

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/...
If we have Water, Electricity and I assume Phone line ( not sure if that is still the case ) as necessity, why cant we replace the requirement of Phone line to Fibre Optic Cables? At least mandate all new building to have FTTH. The whole GPON tech has 10G-PON to the recently ratified 50G-PON upgrade path.
> (slightly more) dangerous 230 to the much safer 110 should be considered as well...

Thanks, I prefer my kettle to boil in 3 minutes, not 30.

And 110V is still way more than any "non-lethal" voltage.

Considering what the most deaths from the contact with the electricity is the result of doing something extremely stupid - I don't think it would make a noticeable difference. More so, knowing people it would make more deaths, because "it is safer now!".
Maybe this paper was accurate in 2000, but does not capture the work of systems research since then.

Some examples:
- DHT protocols as used in bittorrent
- SMR protocols, used in all kinds of distributed systems, from blockchains to cloud computing systems
- Cloud computing systems, such as Spark, Mesos, MapReduce

This doesn't even cover work on networks, databases, systems, security, etc.
1. The article quotes a famous essay by an Ivy League humanities prof lamenting that students aren’t taught to think any more.

2. STEM thinking doesn’t carry over well to social systems. Hayek devoted his career to this problem. I recommend reading his Nobel speech, “The Pretense of Knowledge”.
That reading is certainly not what I'm intending.

It's more a strategic reading of the landscape. Direct confrontation plays poorly in HN comments, and attempts to do so will be futile.

There's a subtext to the moderator response in the thread linked above: if you do want to engage in direct political discourse, doing so within an article submitted to HN is far more likely to be successful. The submission queue is a more powerful instrument than the discussion thread. Focus efforts there principally. That doesn't mean "don't play the comments". But recognise the limitations, ground rules, and limitations in doing so.

(Review of my own comment history should show the types of confrontation I'm finding generally useful. I usually aim less at changing minds directly than at exposing hypocrisy and/or motivated reasoning, or similar faults.)

Your submission history suggests you haven't been utilising that approach. You might give it a shot.

The submissions queue also affords the option at encouraging others' efforts in the direction you'd like to see. It's also possible to contact HN mods directly (again: hn@ycombinator.com) and recommend posts for the 2nd chance or invited submissions queues. I've found mods quite receptive to this. My practice is to not recommend my own pieces, though that's apparently permitted.
> You can just look at pure user counts and see they are more usable/accessible overall

User counts are a poor comparison when you consider how much the pool of potential users has grown.

As points to reference, Microsoft Windows 95 sold 7 million copies in its first 5 weeks so call it ~73 million copies sold the first year.[0]

20 years later in 2015, Samsung, Apple, and Huawei combined sold ~73 million phones across 5 models.[1] Windows 10, released that same year, had Microsoft shooting for it installed on 1 billion devices within 3 years.[2]

2005 estimates 1 billion (or 16% of the global population) online. 2020 estimates 4.9 billion (or 63% of the global population) online.[3] A million users used to be a big deal not that long ago.[4]

Not that I disagree we've gotten better at some things but Outlook Express (newsgroups) and mIRC (irc) seemed plenty accessible to millions of non-technical users.

[0]: https://news.microsoft.com/announcement/launch-of-windows-95... - when searching for a number I saw first-year estimates at ~40 million

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_mobile_ph...

[2]: They made it in 5, https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/16/21116762/microsoft-window...

[3]: https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2021/11/15/inte...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e0n7vTLz1U
The article claims that some aircraft have been made with corrugated iron or steel:

>aircraft hangars, aircraft themselves

But I doubt that. (Corrugated aluminum, sure.)
Also Ito-Ya
https://www.ito-ya.co.jp/lang/en/index.html
Please do support archive.org (Internet Archive) but archive.is is a different entity (which apparently one can donate to, though not sure of its structure), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
Personally I like the idea of significantly taxing un-vaccinated people without a medical exemption, and using it as a toward stimulus for the vaccinated in their area. They endanger our health (viruses can become resistant or otherwise overcome your bodies defenses) they can compensate me for the risk they put me in. say start at a $100 a month and raising it at regular intervals eventually they wont be able to afford to go un-vaccinated.
~$30 and they werent even good "Ellume Recalls COVID-19 Home Test for Potential False Positive SARS-CoV-2 Test Results" https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-device-recalls/e...
It would be quite easy at the bottom of some of our deeper mineshafts. The radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep. And in a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in dwelling space could easily be provided.

A computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills. Of course it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. But, ah, with the proper breeding techniques, and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present gross national product within say, twenty years.
In many cases, more data does not mean higher accuracy / fewer false positives. It just means your estimates on how many false positives the system produces get more accurate.
I see a lot of comments here talking about how many recruiter messages and calls and bidding wars they get, and I'm seriously wondering how much of these are tall tales...

I've been a professional software dev for 25 years, spanning five countries (edit: including 5 years in San Francisco) and almost every part of the industry from embedded to enterprise, startups to multinationals, hardware to finance. I have written software in almost all major languages for multiple years, have worked with many major software stacks, and delivered major 6-month-to-multi-year projects. None of this is hyperbole.

I have hundreds of github projects that are not forks, ranging up to tens of thousands of LOC, some that companies have built entire businesses out of (for example https://github.com/kstenerud/KSCrash).

I receive one, maybe two recruiter emails per year (only from Facebook - I think whenever my contact info goes to a new person), and that's about it. I've never been in a bidding war, and I can't remember a single job search that's completed in under 4 months.

Are people ACTUALLY getting inundated like this so badly that they need a SPREADSHEET to keep things in order? Or is this just bragging?
There's a good chance that the iPad you bought was indeed stolen. Apple does a bunch of things that are really evil, but I don't think Activation Lock ranks very highly on that list.
I am the person who posted this question and didn’t mention religion.

Someone in the thread mentioned stoicism, another person mentioned playing Tetris as a practice.

If you have a non-religious one - what is it? How do you connect to your deep self on a daily basis?
This is exactly what was going thru my brain. Thanks.
In some sense you are right that accuracy information would only be a slight benefit, but adding a single sentence about accuracy to the article would also only be a slight cost.
> To your point about the miracles attributed to him, again, because he didn't manifest those miracles to everyone ever, they didn't happen?

Recall that I responded to a GP that said all this is "beyond doubt." You're arguing a strawman with me. (On a personal note, I do believe in many of the miracles attested to Jesus, but that isn't evidence to me that he was God in the flesh.)

As for your links, I counter suggest you read the works of Dr. Bart Ehrman.
To me, the first optimizations I’d look at are the following:

- Find the amount of time a user can still view a non real-time report. If the report timeframe is days then you can simply show the last full day. Even if it is real-time, using a small TTL and avoiding the recalculation on every refresh will help. Personally, I think users are forgiving with some lag between actions and reporting.

“ I'd like to find some way to be able to make multiple calculations on reasonably large sets of objects without making the user wait like 10 seconds.”

- If you can’t get it fast enough, then avoid your calculations in Python over large data objects you need to always have loaded in memory. Moving the raw data into a database better suited for the aggregations/calculations needed could reduce the time your user has to wait.