skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing the energy prices isn’t a solution. It’d affect to poor disproportionally, while also being greatly destabilizing for society at large. It’s basically a flat tax for heating your home.

Norway recently experienced its highest energy prices ever, in large part because of tighter coupling with the European market. Some people got bills 10x of previous years. Using less energy simply isn’t an option here, otherwise you freeze to death, or damage your home. It led to a massive political outcry that was easily exploitable by populists.

You can’t go back on decades of energy policy in that short a time frame, and you can’t do it without easing the tax burden somewhere else. The current government in Norway is polling extremely low. So low they probably won’t recover by the next election in 3 years. And they didn’t even cause the spike in energy prices here. I dread to imagine what would happen if a government intentionally hiked the enrgy prices just to stop bitcoin miners…
I agree none of the behavior in any Elder Scrolls game really qualify as emergent. Hence why I used the word dynamic as I thought what you were referring to was a feeling of the game world being alive.

If you're referring to magic items having both positive and negative effects and having to find workarounds then it sounds like you're talking about basic synergy rather than emergent properties.

I do agree that it's a shame they've removed spell crafting and made some things more clearly positive or negative. But I must say I don't mind how ridiculously unbalanced magic was in Morrowind.
This is independent of the valid points of the article, but I have found much success in moving to only using types and constructs that adhere to the apache arrow specification.

To tie it back to the piece, it would be pretty easy to generate code that outputs function definitions from an apache arrow scheme in both C and a target interpreted language such as python (e.g. ctypes bindings).
Estonia and Latvia aren't western countries? What else then?

You just showed how stupid of a construct the whole 'western/eastern' nonsense is
No they can't, their remit is set by the government.
Don’t forget the $0.56! It’s almost $180/yr of frivolous cloud spend they could shave off…
I have a theory that a huge amount of what contributes to success, and effective advice for people seeking success, boils down to the placebo effect. If I'm right, the content of what success stories encourage us to do matters much less than how well we expect it to work.

I'm unsure how widely I should share that theory, since naming a placebo robs it of its power...
Reminds me more of cheesoid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ofesgkhikg
I don’t remember the sequence of events very well, but my memory is that the real slide started when it was acquired by Verizon. Whatever the exact reasons were, it was still a series of bad decisions, because it led from Tumblr being huge to being practically irrelevant.
Transmission isn't the only thing to optimise for - hospitalisations, which were and remain the main limit to how much Covid we can handle, are significantly lowered by vaccination. That's a giant win whatever way you look at it.
Often they'll phrase it as "I'm literally shaking".
> both public and private TV channels are at the service of the government

I have a different take. Private channels support parties that align with their interests. But private channels will criticize there government non-stop if they do not like the current ruling party. So, it's way more complex that everybody works for the government, that seems to be true in China, thou.
Nicely surprised, a picture of a Mont d'or was labelled as "Vacherin des bauges" which is quite close.
Mont d'or is another name for a "Vacherin" from "Haut-Doubs".

Unfortunately, the /label page did not work on Firefox Android for me.
Such a boorish attitude that Bors made a specific version of Mister Gotcha just for you:

https://twitter.com/thenib/status/1098281126743937031

If you think the comic is hyperbole, I've literally had people say "but you exhale CO2, AHA!" to me when I've suggested we need more people on bicycles for personal transportation.

The fact that bicycles are the most energy-efficient form of personal transit? Irrelevant, apparently, because we exhale CO2.
Wouldn't you agree though that the vast majority of clients don't have that complex a need?

These tools are taught to new developers as "the way things are", yet a significant portion of them statistically must be working in lower complexity environments that may not be serves by this level of tooling.
Yes. And that convenience comes at a big price.

Now you gave the MetaMask devs control over all your future browsing sessions. Your bank account, your emails (if you use a webmailer like gmail), your social media ...

You trust them to a) not ever have a malicious dev on board or a dev who forgets to take their medicine. And b) they will never make a mistake so someone can get malicious code into your MetaMask instance or take it over via a security bug.
'Wasting much of their time' though would likely result is someone justifying his/her job by going along with it. Much the same with HMRC (UK tax authority) there is no matter too trivial that they are not willing to spend limitless amounts of time and energy investigating - purely because they can.
I'm surprised it didn't kill Reddit when Steve Huffman pulled that stunt on the site: https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...
Unfortunately this will likely continue, as hardware vendors sacrifice both the environment and human rights (quasi-slavery in the mines/factories, as well as user freedoms) in the quest for profit.

On the topic of drivers and specifications, I strongly recommend a talk entitled "It's time for the OS to rediscover hardware" [0]. If you prefer a written form, "OK Lenovo, we need to talk" is a great article on the same topics. [1]

[0] https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/fri-ke...

[1] https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmu_man/2021-10-04_ok_lenovo_w...
I remember one called SkyOS as well - it was really far along, probably killed by the lack of driver support. Unfortunately it's site seems to no longer exist.

Here's the latest archive of it I could find:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171014135312/http://www.skyos....

Also it's wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyOS
Oh wow, is stardock still around? I remember running WindowBlinds back in the 90s/00s.
By pricing in the externalities you turn it into a market. Before that, it was free riding (rent seeking).
I'm all in to ban SUV. But by doing that you're gonna threaten the masculinity and sense of identity of a large set of people. Intelligent politicians will use this to drift the debate into elite green progressists vs working class who just want a piece of the cake. To not get into this minefield lets not forget that corporations acount for a very large part of energy use and that perhaps useless transport of useless goods should be restricted, also restricting putting energy-intensive electronics in gadgets that don't need them.. There are tons of measures that can target corporations that will be easier to control, have more measurable and predictable outcomes and won't contribute to desintegrate the social cohesion and will stop the working class from getting eaten up by the far right.
Since pieces of rock move this wouldn't be a foolproof solution.
In the terms of UK, "left bias" means "not tory/ukip", and the majority of the UK thus has a "left bias"

Given that journalists are mostly aged between 25 and say 60, have a degree, and fit in the "AB" group, you pump it into

https://lordashcroftpolls.com/2019/12/how-britain-voted-and-...

And you find a large majority will be "not tory" all things being equal.
Perhaps we should be running a screenrecorder all the time, so at least we can get some of the information back.

Or run our software in a "multiverse" VM, where every click/scroll operation makes a snapshot of the entire OS, and allows us to roll back state.
This is correct but not every TV will have the slot for a decryption card. The UK has good broadband but far from the level of a universal public service. (That would be communism apparently)
The Ural mountains.
No you cannot say that my Comté affiné 36 mois is a slice of gruyere instead.
Show HN: An entry into programming – without the typical hassle and complexity
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action/eu-emissions-trading-sy...
> Why shouldn't businesses provide i.e. (K-12) education? Because, unless every single student goes to work for the company, then the value they create is lost to them. So you cannot align the interests of the business with providing quality education.

The charter school industry is the textbook example of this: what usually happens is that some school will have a good couple of years, and we’ll get some Slate piece about how they’ve discovered the secret of cost-effective education. Unfortunately, over time regression to the mean usually sets in and results start to look statistically similar to public school students of similar socioeconomic status while the few which maintain a performance edge inevitably turn out to have found a way to cherry-pick higher SES students and exclude the most expensive students because that’s what they’re incentivized to do.
Interesting, came across https://ryven.org/ recently which looks in the same domain.

Any practical use cases of either being used?

Huge fan of NodeRED, always thought the paradigm could be leveraged for other heavy workflow applications
This plotline sounds familiar to me, too. I hope someone will remember the author... are you thinking golden age SF, 60s/70s?
It's very easy to make very good money in the US, compared to practically anywhere else in the world. Mundane corporate IC paper-pushers with no discernible talent can make up to six figures - which is salary restricted to mid- and high-level management in most other industrialized countries.

What's more, taxes in the US are lower than in most other industrialized countries. In result, an (non-software) engineer in the US easily makes $5-7k after taxes, whereas in Europe we gets maybe half of that (not to mention that practically everything is more expensive in Europe). That extra money is crucial for setting up a comfortable family living. Not to mention he also gets pretty good health care coverage from his job, often better than what the "free" medical system in Europe provides.
That moment when we become able to measure the speed of light in only one direction is the realization moment that this warp speed technology becomes tenable … or not.
BSG was less of a sci-fi and more of a drama that happened to take place in space
Honestly if we could limit mining to heating up buildings/hair/whatever, that would solve the problem for a good while. Maybe one day we'll all be on heat pumps and geothermal, but we're not quite there yet.
I guess this depends on what the requirements are to access said fund. If accessing said fund requires being on good terms with the establishment then it's the worst of both worlds.
In Amsterdam, the tax laws were based on the number of feet (or meters) of street frontage. Hence even long ago houses in Amsterdam tended to go up rather than out. (I don't have a reference for this so it may not be completely correct). Clearly tax laws should focus on frontage, but even more they should focus on the long term costs of the city to provide the infrastructure.
HTTPS: //apedin.wtf, social endorsements for Web3 addresses
just launched https://apedin.wtf, social endorsements for web3 addresses.

problem: hard to tell who is a good / bad actor in web3 since everyone is anonymous. this leaves everyone vulnerable to rugpulls / scams, especially since they lurk in discord servers DM-ing innocent members.

solution: use web3 addresses to endorse fellow friends on web3. people can vouch for their friends with a search and just one click.

would love your feedback!!!
Possibly off topic but could this be procrastination more than an addiction to the Algo?

I've found my procrastination stems from a fear of failure. Maybe you doom scroll instead of do these other things because your afraid you'll 'fail' at them and feel bad rather than because they are effort and commitment.
I'm not sure having a million OSes is necessarily better than having a handful...
> since naming a placebo robs it of its power...

Search "knowing placebo still works"
you get bitcoins in, pay with bitcoins out, (mind you effectively untraceable); take them out of the country as well.

The thing will out generate money, until the government recognizes bitcoins as an asset and requires moving those assets to be centralized, tracked, you can't do anything about. So prior taxation, it has to be regulated.
Currently we deem it not desirable, so it's alright to me if we price it very high, thus stimulating investment in this area to bring the cost down or even make it profitable.
Hosting is under 70k a year. You can get good sysadmins for under 35k/year? Minus the actual costs of hosting?

420k a year is the total for the organization. It includes salaries, administration, etc.

Cost breakdown: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSk...
My dad has a TV licence despite watching 100% via streaming services. No matter what I tell him, he insists he has to have a licence. This is a widely held view with people of a similar age.

Maybe the BBC could do an information campaign to educate them otherwise? I won't hold my breath though.
Are they really though? It’s very common to put down something like “Python/R/Julia” as a way to indicate that they need some experience with a data science programming language but the actual job is in only one of those languages and it’s almost always Python.

I can't see any Julia jobs in the link you shared.
You have a fair point but I disagree. However I also recognize that I can only be proven right or wrong when I am in those shoes at some very large scale. For now, I do get about 5-10 emails a day for all my apps combined and it’s been easily manageable.

However, the article we are talking about here is about Microsoft, a trillion dollar company treating some basic user feedback with zero value.

Amazon, another trillion dollar company has been outstanding to me whenever I reach out to their customer support chat (I have done that many times over the years). I get to chat to a human within a minute and they help me either resolve the issue or tell me why they can’t resolve the issue. If Amazon can do it, then there’s no reason why Microsoft can’t do it for basic user feedback.

Also are you really being productive if you are sending template response? A robot could do that.
I got slightly offended when I first got called an anti-vaxxer a few months ago (having had plenty of traditional vaccines). These days if people call me it it just pre-warns me that they have no real idea what they are talking about, and to avoid taking the conversation particularly seriously.
This boils down to story taking precedent over fact. More specifically, there's a difference between causation and correlation;a delta that is so often ignored,even by the experienced and intelligent.
Sorry but English is spoken all over the world. When I speak of the president, I mean Rutte. If someone in India (English is an official language there) speaks of the president, I'm sure they mean someone else. If English were to be beholden only to USA-centric concepts, we're going to need a new universal language because that's going to be super annoying.

And even in "the west" (by which I would mean the top ~40 countries by HDI), "the west" is a poorly-defined term.

Edit: turns out Wikipedia has an article about "Western world", which makes it quite clear that the term is vague. Apparently the original meaning was "Western Christendom", so it's a religious thing. TIL.
That's a chicken & egg problem though. In fact CI slots used to be more popular but declined as the system was pretty much never used (pay-TV is typically only used for high-end services which then provided their own set-top-box offering extra features such as recording or catch-up TV services over the internet). The problem can also be trivially solved by cheap set-top-boxes (during the migration to digital TV, DVB-T tuner set-top-boxes were already inexpensive and technology has advanced even more since then) for the immediate future to avoid forcing people to upgrade their entire TV sets.

Key distribution is already a solved problem as well, the UK has a large userbase of smartcard-based prepayment systems such as for electric/gas meters or transport cards (Oyster card) and every tobacco/liquor store has a terminal that can sell or reload these cards. Expanding this system to reload TV cards is just a software update.
Averaging over a country the size of the US is not particularly useful for variables like population density that most likely follow an exponential distribution.
SG-1 had a little Farscape (among other sci-fis) joke scene in "200"[1]

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sg-1+200++farscape&t=ffab&iar=imag...
Then they killed SGA for the mess that was universe in the early episodes...

I would have loved to see an SGA movie to wrap up the wraith situation in pegasus
Looking forward to your next update. And I didn’t sign the guestbook.
There's a kind of ecosystem resilience that could be improved (and I think gradually is improving) here.

We have utilities to determine whether a package is backwards-compatible, as far as we know -- unit tests, QA tests, integration tests, etc -- we can (under many practical circumstances) set resource bounds on computation, and we can review and detect many categories of security errors (that are arguably simply a subset of the more general category of programming and design errors -- also possible to detect).

Part of the problem, I reckon, is that the time and computation cost to run the tests in particular is often too expensive for it to be worthwhile to run them at an individual commit level.

Progress on incremental tests (determine the data-flow graph from the area of code that a commit affects, determine the set of inputs and outputs potentially affected, and run a subset or relevant tests) could help - as could providing more of these tools to individual developers, and reducing the time and expense of running costs in general.
We should be more careful with the word "crypto" since these days it's mostly a synonym for "crypto-currency."

I had to read the article to verify that this is not the case here.
Yeah, we’re going to need a lot of spice melange…
I see. That's quite a lot of to pay for. Since it's a social media app there would be quite the streaming of content. I've just found about wasabi for hosting but now that you pointed it out Venmo or api.video seem to be better options here.
Just read about the Overton window. Curious & neat concept, thank you. I agree.
I didn't say big companies only have boring jobs, nor that all jobs are boring.
> Take for example the taxes I pay on my home. I pay $260.17 to the city every year in property taxes. I live on a 60 ft wide lot. If you take the $20/ft/year road maintenance metric, cut it in half because I’m just on one side of the street, and then multiply it by the width of my lot you get $600. I would need to contribute $600 a year through my property taxes to just pay for the maintenance of the portion of the street in front of my house.

That is a questionable calculation because the street in front of their house is not just used by them. For example, consider a dead end street with 100 houses on one side and a forest on the other, with each house having the same length of street in front of them. Assume each house uses the street once a day to leave the neighborhood and once a day to return.

The house at the open end of street, call it house 1, uses the segment in front of their house (call it segment 1) 2 times each day.

The house next next to house 1, house 2, uses its segment (segment 2) 2 times each day and it uses segment 1 2 times each day.

In general, house N uses each of segments 1 through N 2 times a day and does not use segments N+1 through 100.

Looking at it from the point of view of the segments, segment 1 is used equally by 100 houses, segment 1 is used equally by 99 houses, and so on.

Figuring fair share by width of lots is even more questionable. A wide but shallow lot and a narrow but deep lot of the same area with similar occupancy aren't going to inherently have different street usage (or different water, sewer, police/fire, or other tax funded service usage).
I believe the goons are underpaid and make the bulk of their money through commissions (which also encourages their shitty - and potentially fraudulent & unlawful behavior), thus wasting a lot of their time without taking out a license in the end will make a loss for them.
This feels a little like a decade-old maxim that needs a refresh. Most comparisons that I find of modern flagship handsets against even mid-range point-and-shoots show the dedicated cameras failing to dominate. Particularly with computational processing it gets really tough to honestly just wave a hand and scoff at the mobile as a primary choice for most casual photo situations (and some professional, as well!)

I too love my manual-operation DSLRs and mirrorless swappable cameras, and just bought a new lens for my go-to. But I've not found myself in years compelled to spend what I'd need to on a pocket camera that'd beat what my phone can do.
I would like to be added to the law suit. They froze my account at Christmas time how do I get involved
Ugh SG1 had 8 great series imo.

It wasn't the actors in the Ori arc I didn't like it was the fact Ori arc felt like it lacked some nuance.
UK government plans publicity blitz against encrypted communications
Thanks. That was a really good explanation and covered all the bases. Makes you wonder if there's a business case for implementing a one-off payment mechanism for response time. For instance, 'free' means "we're listening but probably won't respond" while '$1' means "we're listening and will respond within a week". Just a thought.
That shows that in-person paper ballots are superior once you correct the system in Finland (P6/7 would normally be green for in person paper).

More importantly, however, it’s a mistake to give all of those equal weight. For example, if married couples vote together a spouse can monitor or coerce their partner’s choice but that doesn’t scale up better than linearly, whereas all electronic systems which don’t rely on voter-verified paper ballots are subject to very hard to disprove allegations of widespread fraud. This is the conceptual problem to the very clever mathematical approaches: even if they are theoretically sound, it is much harder to build public confidence in a system which a fraction of a percent of the population understands.
Are.na, although very niche (which I think is a feature), looks very interesting in this regard. Financed trough paid accounts instead of selling user data/ads and being driven by chasing big investor money. It also seems to have a very open api for people to build things upon.

https://are.na

From Wikipedia:

Are.na is an online social networking community and creative research platform [...] Are.na was built as a successor to hypertext projects like Ted Nelson's Xanadu, and as an ad-free alternative to social networks like Facebook, forgoing "likes," "favorites," or "shares" in its design. Are.na allows users to compile uploaded and web-clipped "blocks" into different "channels," [...]