skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laws are enforced through use of force or literally denying freedom of movement, or by threatening to do the above to subjects who do not obey.

It’s a spectrum. How violent are the reprisals, how lethal, how indiscriminate. How egregious are the prison terms, how outsized are the fines and fees. But all governments are inherently authoritarian, unless they allow subjects to instead choose punishment by exile instead of strongarm tactics. I’m not aware of any that do. Mostly because there’s nowhere to be exiled to. All governments have claimed all of the available land, so you can’t even choose exile independently. Societies vary on the freedoms they allow; all governmental bodies are by nature authoritarian. If no one were to submit to them, nations would have no standing to declare binding authority over members of the public. Governments are systems of control, and that control is allegedly by consent of the governed. However, if one is never given a reasonable alternative or opportunity to object, they are not free. They are only as free as their society allows them to be. This one-sided state of affairs makes freely-given consent to be governed impossible.

I am open to being convinced otherwise, though. We’re freer than we’ve ever been, but we’ve only changed the window dressing. We’re still beholden to government representatives that themselves have multiple competing interests. Full direct democracy with vote delegation for those who want it is a start. Proportional representation instead of first past the post elections would also be necessary.
My counter question is: how much energy US banks consume?

Every now and then a new article comes out about how BTC is wasting energy, it consumes X amount of energy comparable to <insert small country>. I email or tweet authors of such study/article if they have any estimates on how much energy and materials US bank offices consume: including AC or heating, computers left on over night, lights left over night, TVs playing ads. I asked that more than 5 times and not once got a response. I believe that running traditional banks in US and CA consume more energy than Bitcoin. Sure, bank produce billions times more transaction per day, but BTC will either be replaced by more efficient networks or will evolve into such. US banks used to send letters and cash in coal powered trains. Anyone got source on that?
I don't even think RSS is less popular in absolute numbers, there have been interesting articles about the RSS reader user population after Google Reader that suggest otherwise. But it can still be less popular relatively - when newcomers don't learn about it, which is how our internet access technology is set up right now.

Apart from that I'm in a similar bubble as you, RSS never stopped being relevant to me.
The optimal starting word is ARISE, as it partitions the possible words most evenly across the different green/yellow/grey colour combinations
https://archive.is/Gpldj
I agree that is impossible to be certain of a causal relationship between his wish to die and his rapid death.

Nevertheless, as a witness of how that happened, I find it hard to believe otherwise.

Even if he was already ill, until that week the evolution of the cancer had been extremely slow during a couple of years and there had been no signs that the previous forecasts about his remaining lifetime might need any revision.

His condition has deteriorated abruptly in his last 4 days, without any apparent external causes, besides his sadness and wish to die, so I cannot see any other plausible explanation.

While a temporal coincidence cannot be excluded, the circumstances were such that I consider this as extremely unlikely.

Maybe if he had not been already ill, a death wish might not have been able to result in actual death and a weakened body is necessary for the mental state to have a such great influence.
Twenty-one years of agile, and now what?
Is the 5-10% savings on agents handling phone calls worth it when reputation damage is taken into consideration?
> And agriculture itself is less work than we think of.

That depends entirely upon the ratio of agriculture to other industries in a society and the level of automation.

People operating today's corporate farms in the US probably work fewer hours than their 1920s analogues, but produce far more output. People operating today's small/"family" farms are probably about on par in terms of hours worked, but still produce much more and there are far fewer of them.
Perfect response from @jwz. "Planet-incinerating Ponzi grifter" is an excellent phrase. I suggest we turn "PIPG" into an acronym.

edit: For example: "Tesla used to accept Bitcoin as payment, but once Elon Musk realized that it was making him look like a PIPG, he had to reverse course."
A 195-year-old discovery could build the future of energy
I use Dvorak Kinesis Advantage 2.

I switched to using copy and paste with the mouse with it since Cmd+c and Cmd+v are so hard to reach.
Wait.

This is what makes you think otherwise? Duterte was hiring assassins to kill "suspected" drug users on the streets just a year or two ago.

The real-politik is that if you're seen as Duterte's enemy, he'll find a reason to arrest you, or even invent one. Its not about public health, vaccination status, or drugs. Its about "are you friends with Duterte", or "are you enemies of Duterte".

Otherwise, this is just more coded language from Duterte. He's moving on from using the drug war as an excuse, and is now using COVID vaccination status as an excuse for his actions.
Is there a difference between "acquiring" and "expressing" an eccentricity, from the point of view of an independent observer? Either way, if a person has an eccentricity, it's an indication that they're less likely to understand or care about conforming with "normal" ranges of human behaviour than average (unless the average person has an eccentricity, I guess...) in which case it seems reasonable to assume they're more likely than the average person to be eccentric in other behaviours.

Which doesn't mean the example isn't fictional, it just means I would expect someone who's entirely comfortable with referring to themself in the third person to be considerably less likely than the average software developer to worry that a variable-naming scheme that amuses them might be seen as a bit odd by the rest of the team.
One of the most histrionic characters in the tech scene, and that's a lot to say.
> so it lasted about as long as you'd expect a random rock subject to only compressive loads in a field to last.

Roman Concrete is a bit more special than some 'random rock' thanks to the presence of "aluminous tobermorite" which makes the concrete much stronger and more chemically stable

https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-discover-why-r...
Having cancer is being sick...
Yeah, I definitely get that. Reminder that I wasn't the original person that made this point, I was simply clarifying it for them because I agreed with it. I am fully aware of the terms of the agreement when I buy flights but that doesn't make it any less hostile to customers. There aren't any alternatives to flying over oceans or even just long distances.
How much text do you memorize before you type a round?
Thanks for sharing. I don’t have a lot to add - just wanted to note that he was a fantastic writer and one I return to over and over and over. Nobody quite like him. I’m currently rereading The Emigrants.
Well the immune system does change over development, but still it's a hot take. I don't think it's 100% incorrect, but it is going to vary wildly by the person, their current state, the exact disease, etc. In ways we don't even fully understand yet. It's also wrong to expose others to infection unnecessarily without their consent obviously, even if it would have positive health consequences long term.

But yeah, that quote from The Office is pretty hilarious, thanks for sharing!
Every cell in a living system is evolving in a feedback loop with every single aspect of its environment. Every systematic influcence of any kind will become a signal and impact development and progression of that cell. In other words if life forms radiate photons that can be received by other life forms then in the long run this will exert some sort of evolutionary pressure to use that signal in some way which will then cause evolutionary pressure to make use of that signal with regard to its emission. Take anything. So if there are quantum effects on atoms and hence cells, then it makes sense to hypothesize that systematic utilization will have evolved. I find this totally intuitive. And yet, even educated people will laugh at you for formulating such a farfetched idea.
It elevates mine.
I’m assuming you would be if your business was harmed through an honest mistake.
I think it'd be rare for RSU's in a public company to be worth nothing. These aren't options, but actual shares. The only way they'd be worth nothing is in the event of bankruptcy.
> The problem with quality writing is that it takes time to think through and time to produce, and time is not something that is afforded journalists and writers today.

Right, and that's why longform.org was a great resource, because they curated long form content.

FWIW, one of the long form articles I've most returned to in my mind, discovered via longform.org: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-s.... See also https://longform.org/archive/tags/lost-at-sea, though I can't vouch for any of those added over the past 5 or so years, and that tag is missing some related stories, like the story of the father and his autistic son swept out into the Gulf of Mexico.
The carrier (ATT, Verizon, etc) probably flagged this as spam - not Twilio.
The Mozilla Foundation's "mission," as a 501(c)3, is whatever they decide.

They're not beholden to any obligations to maximize donations (already a dubious claim, absent evidence that people were actually donating with cryptocurrencies) in manners they consider unacceptable.

Put another way: you wouldn't be surprised if the ASPCA refused donations in the form of shares in PuppyKicker Inc. Mozilla's decision here warrants a similar response.
If you have a business that deals with spam texts or if you host a honeypot for whatever reason you are allowed to do it. You are allowed to receive spam and do whatever you want with it except sending spam over twilio itself because it's against their ToS and to protect their own core business from getting their numbers blacklisted.
I'd say it's a lot suspect. Couple this with the fact that he scored 267 WPM with 76% accuracy in another competition. Until we see more and it gets more accurate I'm not sure typing this fast is very meaningful if I'm going to have to fix 24% of what I just typed.
Some part mutation, some part immunization so that future infections are milder. In the absence of perfect vaccination this involves killing millions of people. Let’s not forget about this.
I'm not sure the learning curve is all that steep. I learned it as part of a "keyboarding" class around... 1989 or something (I was in middle school). Learning to type was only a small portion of the class, and it happily included games and letter art alongside the learning.

Best class I took because of touch typing.

On the other hand, I have plenty of peers that type nearly as quickly using two fingers or simply by doing years of using a computer. People learn the layout with use. It is easy enough that switching from a standard American keyboard to a Norwegian keyboard (whose alphabet has 3 more letters in addition to some other European language letters and punctuation) was a non-issue.
The grifters pushing to pay in units of planetary damage mob on Twitter too.
A more in depth look at the factors causing high fertilizer prices:

https://www.fb.org/market-intel/too-many-to-count-factors-dr...

tl;dr: high natural gas prices, weather caused production delays, COVID caused production/shipping delays, power shortages in China (a major exporter) resulting in lower production
I would rather install the needed libraries myself and not have to deal with tons of security fixes of libraries I don't use.
My house protects me. Food feeds me. My iPhone from China does many many things that I find useful. Bitcoin hopefully allows me to accumulate wealth but otherwise adds no value to my life.

Doesn’t seem like an appropriate comparison.
> At some point every business will make a distribution

Except for bankruptcy.

Plus, I can’t remember an instance of common share holders receiving a non-dividend distribution. Some stocks don’t pay dividends and common share holders are at the back of the line in any liquidation event. If it’s not pure speculation it’s certainly in the ballpark.
all expensive items in US have no fixed price and vary based on negotiation outcomes: car, housing. Negotiation is actually a sign of a healthy and competitive market, because there is always a spectrum of talent available, and demand for such talent.

only monopolies can set fixed prices and it leads to inefficiencies
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yeah use sql and use json in sql when you need some dynamic content
No, but he's fundamentally right. The symptoms described are no worse than a moderate flu.
I think natural monopolies are pretty common wherever there is a network effect. Depending on what you mean by effective, I'd say that Facebook has an effective monopoly. We could say oil or web hosting has a centralized oligopoly. I should refine my first comment by stating that there is a trend to centralization with markets that depend on network effects. This is simply because power in these markets isn't linear with respect to the number of users, but rather super-linear. Momentum is a key aspect.
yeah, kind of confusing. “omicron at 100% prevalence, Colorado” is easily mistaken as “100% of the population of Colorado has/had omicron”.
Adopting no-till techniques will save soil but won't appreciably reduce your fertilizer use. I'd even go so far as to say if you do it right the soil will be healthier.

But if you use cover crops and especially rotate out of alfalfa you can safely reduce nitrogen use because of the carryover of nitrogen in the soil.
Harmful Defaults in Django
Brave is on track to destroy his legacy.

https://brave.com/transparency/
It would seem plausible to claim agriculture put demand on innovation; tools to make more efficient agriculture. Things like irrigation channels, planting tools, harvesting tools, etc.

Maybe technology developed for conflict came first but I’d guess peacetime uses also put demands on innovation.

Interestingly, I watched some video somewhere where in some part of India[1] there were people who were harvesting wheat with a curved knife (sickle) like implement rather than a scythe. So people had to bend down to harvest a field. Meaning sometimes technology doesn’t diffuse everywhere —even well known solutions.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iU0uYeO7XI
Soybeans and corn can often be grown in the same areas, and corn uses more fertilizer than soybeans so your logic checks out. The problem is that corn produces more calories per acre than soybeans (or any other crop), so changing over large amounts of production could still result in a food shortage even if the total acres remains the same.
What do you do when that system successfully creates a $2 trillion empire that seems to only be getting stronger and more established?

The larger meta game of civilization obviously rewards this kind of subsystem, so again...

Don't hate the player (Amazon's toxic corporate culture), hate the game (the civilization that rewards them with dominance).
I think his formula is a bit off. You can do like 2-2.5 things well. And each thing you do poorly counts as half.
If you do well at work, take good care of your kids and take ok/fair care of your relationship with the spouse that’s 2.5 there is no extra room. You add a side project and something is going to fall off.
I've been active in my typing practice since I was about 4, and once I'm warmed up I can usually hit high 120s with 100% accuracy on unseen MonkeyType using a qwerty keyboard with red Cherry switches. If I ignore accuracy and go for 'raw' speed, I am able to achieve significantly faster WPM, typically between the range of 140s-180s. The issue I run into with programs like these is that I have to read/match the expected words. Even if I can see the words ahead of time and have a moment to try and memorize, I just go so slow trying to get the correct words. To contrast this, when I write for fun, and know what I want to say ahead of time, I'm fairly certain I'm able to burst into the low 200s (don't have a solid way to test to be sure unfortunately). Depending on the complexity of the error, Grammarly usually spits out correct solutions when I'm around that 75% error rate. The vast majority of the time I'm able to auto-correct everything with a single click. The only exception is when my hands drift and I end up typing something like 'gppnst' instead of 'foobar'. What I mean to get at is that it's somewhat dependent on the types of errors that are made. If it's easily auto-correctable errors at 75%, awesome, the person is hitting an incredible WPM, if instead it needs to be corrected by human thought, then I would completely agree with you.

The real benefit to this speed/accuracy is that when writing long-form text, rather than say programming, the speed of typing can either match or exceed the thought process. There is a huge amount of utility in this approach and the keyboard becomes a true extension of the mind. I'm still waiting to find a good real-time auto-correct that doesn't screw with my flow at high WPM, I'd pay pretty good money to have something that just works out of the box.

On a practical note, I've considered trying to hit the numbers that the author claims, but I'm already so limited by my own train of thought. With the additional finger/wrist strain (And yes, there is _significant_ strain when these levels are approached for any length of time) I just don't see the costs making sense when everything can be fixed in just a few clicks after typing a great many paragraphs of text.
Oh, I of course agree that in general (in the absence of reasons like corruption that would make this not work as well as it should) it is preferable to just give cash. I'm saying specifically as a means to route around corruption that would steal the cash if you attempted to simply give cash.

And, while it is a subsidy of one sort of electricity, it is, I think, not the same as other possible subsidies which simply try to keep the price down.

(terminology : when I say constant-across-people I mean that the number for each person at any given time is the same, but what this number is may change over time, and possibly frequently)

Specifically, instead of the state using a subsidy to pay for a constant-across-people fraction of all electricity costs, it would instead be paying, for each person, a constant-across-people additive amount of electricity costs.

I of course agree that this still distorts the market signals somewhat, but I think it is substantially less, and, in particular, avoids most of the issues of "being a place where electricity is super cheap, where people will therefore try things that require very large quantities of electricity", because, after the relatively small amount of electricity which is free-for-consumers, the price beyond that point is not artificially cheap (and may instead actually be a bit more expensive than would be natural, because of the artificial demand increase caused by the credits).

I'm not an economist, but I think that seems like it would be substantially less distortion-causing than the state paying a constant-across-people fraction of the price in order to keep the price-to-consumers below a given threshold.
fine. Marginally paid for by bitcoin.
Out of curiosity: Why do such laws happen at state-level and not at federal level? Most jobseekers would be looking at jobs all over the country, correct?
I was in highschool in the late 1980's, and clearly remember "CGA porn". Often 640x200 mono images that automatically scrolled/panned. But also "animated" images comprised of just a handful of frames.

Of course PC porn totally exploded once VGA was released.
I expect I'll get a lot of flak for this one, but I'd like to suggest the "4 hour work week" by Tim Ferriss. I've read it at about the same age and it had a profound effect on me.

Another book I'd suggest is the Enchiridion of Epictetus.
If you ever intend to have kids, "Summerhill" by A.S.Neill is a good choice.
Announcing that your tire-burning scheme produces "only" 0.1% of global carbon emissions is not the win that you seem to think it is.
Doctor, written decades ago in Emacs Lisp, did a pretty good job of psychoanalyzing RMS's problems.

http://www.art.net/studios/hackers/hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-d...
I mean honestly if you're that paranoid then you shouldn't be using Docker in the first place.
The performance in that video is nothing like the performance in the 500 WPM video. Accuracy is well under 100%, and he seems to be actually inputting random words - not just macroing a pre-defined phrase.
You are very right. Tiktok loves NFTs, but only NFTTok, which is a very tiny subsection of Gen Z.

On the other hand, the other 99% of gen z regularly comments about how they’ve “stolen” your NFT after screenshotting it.
I'm typing even less these days with tools like copilot.
> As it happened, the woman had been born on Friday the 13th in Florida's Okefenokee Swamp. The midwife who'd delivered her had also delivered two other children that day. She told the girls' parents that all three children had been hexed. The first girl would die before her sixteenth birthday. The second would die before her twenty-first. The third—the woman in this hospital—would die before she turned twenty-three.

I'm sorry to get off-topic, but what kind of midwife would do such a thing? Other than "a character in a made-up story", that is.
It didn't happen because Microsoft was able to kill it.

See, for a few years MS had a tight control over the browsers and they refused to upgrade the JVM in IE when they lost their infamous lawsuit against Sun. So Java Applets never flourish.

Microsoft control was broken when Google decided create Chrome. Chrome is what allowed javascript to flourish.
> requiring twilio to block what it THINKS is spam is a recipe for disaster

Yet they are disabling the entire account when they think it has sent spam.
Tip: don’t look at the source if you don’t want to see the answers (I thought the words might be obfuscated but they’re not)
Is this wireless? I've always thought it would be cool to be able to walk and type at the same time. I always seem to get great ideas while walking and it's tedious having to stop and write them down.
Unless you're totally raw-dogging the internet, Windows Defender is all you need.

Stop paying Norton and MacAfee to use your computer without your permission.
Good rewatch - pandemic or war is close enough I guess