skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carbon taxes appeal to economists because they are a direct incentive to stop doing the bad thing. But they are a bad policy because no one will implement them. In the past it seemed that dealing with climate change was going to require populations choosing to suffer economic loss to decarbonise the economy. But these days that seems less necessary. For example solar is cheaper than many dirty sources of power so just investing in ramping up solar power can help make it even cheaper and the economics then discourages dirty power because energy is too cheap for it to be profitable (and having cheap energy is not bad for the economy either). Subsidising hybrid[1] car purchases could be another helpful thing for emissions and doesn’t require people to feel like everything is getting more expensive.

I think the problem with carbon taxes is that they are a good solution to a negative sum game, but I think it turns out the actual game is positive sum and that carbon taxes are not an implementable solution.

[1] the big constraint with electric cars is batteries. Plug-in hybrid cars use electricity for short trips (ie most miles travelled) and so lead to more efficient use of the available batteries than electric cars that mostly use <20% of the battery capacity in a day leaving the rest unused.
If you are copying from a text-mode app that does its own word-wrapping by inserting newlines or moving the insertion point, then it may not be possible for TMUX to undo that. Copying from shell output like `cat somefile` or `wget something`, however, works like it's supposed to.
I was chatting about him with a friend and pointing out all the things in the room influenced by him. Of course he led a pretty normal life, so no one is going to make a "Beautiful Mind" type movie about him. Other than playing his record player too loud in his office and having wild martini happy hours with his wife and friends, I can't find anything controversial about him.
I don't think so. We're going to keep wanting to build larger and larger observatories. The iSAT study considered BFR when doing their analysis.
> No doubt, these censors and would-be censors have the best of intentions.

I would contend that profit is at least partially the intention of these actors, largely indirectly by people who are invested in stock markets.

Capitalism is a symptom of power and information asymmetries. A few years ago, Zuckerberg said that all problems would be solved if everybody told the truth all the time. It's not that simple though. There's a Greg Egan story about a couple that undergoes a procedure to experience all the thoughts and feelings of each other for a period of time, which ultimately results in their breakup.
The ability for humans to focus on a vanishingly small risk of side-effects to justify taking a much larger risk by refusing to vaccinate is mind-boggling to me.

It's the same argument that people use to justify not wearing a seat belt. "There's types of wrecks where being unbelted is actually safer!" Well, sure, but those are an extremely tiny portion of wrecks, and you're vastly safer in the vast, vast majority of wrecks wearing a seat belt.

Get the damned vaccine. If you experience side effects, then that sucks, you lost the lottery. The CDC reports:

* Anaphylaxis happens to 5 people per million vaccinated. (0.0005% rate)

* Thrombosis with TTS after J&J vaccine. 57 confirmed in more than 18 million doses (0.0003% rate)

* GBS after J&J vaccine. 302 cases in more than 18 million doses (0.0017% rate)

* Myocarditis. 1233 reports in total.

* Death. 11,657 deaths among vaccinated. Note that this is death for any reason. A vaccinated person mauled to death by a bear is counted here. (0.0022% rate)

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...

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What's wrong with wood and zip ties? I have an expensive high quality 3d printer that uses zip ties.

Unless wood or zip ties are deficient for the applications they are in, they don't count as cutting corners in my book.
Why don't we use the math we learn in school?
Is this as bad as it looks?
> In particular, he describes brainstorming as for developing creative ideas, while the researchers study it as a method for problem solving.

The article should have been called "Stop Brainstorming to Solve Problems". The title is clickbaity. Brainstorming to solve a problem is just team easter-egging.
> I think we would be better off targeting that issue upstream.

I'm not sure I understand. You mean like banning certain foods?
Assembly in Earth orbit is fine though (eg ISS), so just build it there and then boost the finished assembly to its destination.
The best banks for most individuals are almost always small regional banks or credit unions.

The credit union I use has 7% lines of credit, mortgage rates that are consistently within 5 basis points of the lowest and average hold time to an agent <3m. But… their business banking is weak and it’s not really a good place for a high net worth person.

I think big banks tend to never be great customer experiences becuase the internal incentives aren’t there. Retail banking is a sales funnel, and why would a brilliant leader want to run retail? It would be a pay cut. The “brand name” of a major bank used to mean you could cash your checks anywhere, etc. that’s all dead.
https://www.teamblind.com

You sign up with your work email, and if enough (~30?) of your coworkers have done the same you get a chatroom/forum for people that are anonymous but verified to work at the company.
Yup. This is one of the problems of this age.
Dead link? All I see is a blue page with the following text:

> Links of this campaign are temporarily blocked for you. This happens when you access the links multiple times in a short interval. Please retry after 7 days. The links will work fine for other recipients.
I wish substack had better discovery features like Medium and fewer spammy emails. I signed up for Scott's blog and got like 30 emails in a week. Annoying
If one is very keen on seeing sloths, one can definitely avoid sloth poachers and instead go to a sloth sanctuary (e.g. https://www.slothsanctuary.com/frequently-asked-questions/vi...). You won't be able to touch the sloths, but you will be able to see them from a distance.
It’s more of an argument for how lots of individual holdings could beat an ETF, in USA anyway. If your commissions are free anyway. Lots of paperwork tho.

For all I know, these robo-advisers just buy you ETFs.
Reading the comments here, I get the impression that a lot of folks view censorship as a tool of oppression by those in power and free speech as the shield against it.

If the past 10 years have taught us anything, it's that both "free speech" and censorship can be weaponised by those in power who wish to manipulate the discourse for their own personal gain.

If we want regular folks to have a greater say in public discourse again, we need to strike a balance that limits the use of both sides as tools of oppression.

I'd personally be in favour of fines or other punishments for deliberately or negligently propagating misinformation, assuming that the decision was made by a jury and not an unelected body.
Roassal Visualisation Engine
Yeah, there's a reason for "protocols, not platforms"... And keeping jumping between platforms might not be that easy : see YouTube.
Hmmm I feel like this is technically in the weeds, but I'll try and come up with an answer.

I'd assume a social network's storage layer would be distributed as well, on IPFS or something similar with an encrypted blob that includes all your content.

Paired with a privacy focused scheme like Monero's where you can't see the contents of wallets you could keep the contents of social graph hidden, and do some transactions around.

I'd also say that privacy wise it's not like our current systems are perfect. You had reddit admins deleting and modifying people comments for example.

Not as bad as the general public being able to see your interactions, but not great if employees at these companies can see all your things you'd rather keep private. (And the design of these services makes it so that from a business perspective they want to see that data for targeting, and from a customer service perspective you want to be able to debug issues unlike crypto which rn has no CS expectations.)

0: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
I reckon it's a human condition issue, bare metal type shit. People, in general, simply can't possess the merits of blind trust and must be scrutinized. This striated opinion on a spectrum of trust, and in time resolution in to facts. Dialectics of account. Naive interventions only stand to exacerbate the condition, by my reckoning, and I don't suspect there is a real way to make smart interventions at scale. I think the best resolution is to have modular multi-scalar and largely decentralized modes with far more outgrowths given the capacity for representation of their given polity.

But even in that case it doesn't fully rectify the problem, because at the basest levels information is imperfect in practical terms. It is in those terms that experts and professionals tend to be lost to public account - that is to say that making wide sweeping claims and saying it was some unexpected event that overturned their predictions frees them from being held accountable, and that is where trust is lost. If you tell me in 10 years that SPY will have gained 60%, versus if you said "Look I don't know, I can't tell you where the price is going to end at close today, let alone in 10 years, but historically the odds look good, that's not without caveats, the fed, the government, the people are all constantly evolving against their peers and there's a lot of novel forces, so you could end up with negative yields." The latter case is, let's say hypothetically, realistic, and thus eschews liability.

Now if the former case turns out to be true, certainly the latter form will be lambasted for the potential gains lost. In the latter coming to fruit, will the financier be celebrated? Will the former be able to excuse himself, despite bad calls?
I find out-of-date used Chromebooks are available for $50.
Impossible material made possible inside a graphene sandwich
Who is he even arguing against, Hari Seldon?

It's kinda tiresome all these -isms that people invent to argue against. More often they're strawman positions that few to no people actually hold. We should hold people to counter specific arguments made by specific people, not vague ideas held by nebulous -ists.
Ohh, I was getting approached at concerts and stuff.

I've yet to find a company that's willing to let me work remote from Europe.

I guess I could do a corp2corp LLC with a mailbox in my home state, but I've never done that
I had my QC 35IIs stolen when I forgot them in a Sixt rental. I decided to get some Airpods as a replacement as most reviews I found online said they were comparable. God, I miss my QC 35IIs...
I don't think you need a new standard for that -- UWB radios, like Apple's already-deployed U1 chip, have the bandwidth to easily be bandying about 96/24 FLAC/ALAC files, at the least. (Personally, I'd settle for topping out at 48/16 lossless ALAC.)
A mask someone could wear for hours will never block all smells. Even in a N99 you still smell gases and other small things
In Europe, and many other countries they are not a privacy issue; it's technically impossible to use them for surveillance as the QR codes do not contain any identifiable information.
Or it could could be more that solving bounded problems that involve moving atoms around - like building a space telescope - is relatively easy.

But solving unbounded problems that involve moving emotions and attitudes around - like building a planetary culture that isn't violent, irrational, and collectively suicidal - is hard.
The airpods in entirety would be less waste than the packaging most spare parts come wrapped in. It just feels worse because they cost a lot more than a plastic foam pack your steak comes in.
Maybe it's just where I live, but I've never heard the "flu shot" called a vaccine.
>we allow people to sound what alarms they want and patrons to decide for themselves what to pay attention to

I think the above alteration throws the dilemma into a little sharper relief.

We live in a complex society which requires a degree of deference to "expert authority" in order to function. Our collective ability to agree on how to determine who (or what) qualifies as such an authority is not working well. I do not have any answers in which I am confident, just Socrates line on the beginning of wisdom.
So many of these threads are now filled with more than the normal "a company made me take something down because it violated TOS" and now has a cavalcade of conspiracy theories.

The tech community certainly wasn't immune to the craziness of the times.
Can you elaborate on how free speech has been weaponised by those in power?
Could increased censorship actually be making the misinformation problem worse?

If we are allowed to discuss and compare the merits of various theories, the wheat of truth naturally separates from the chaff of nonsense. When everything outside of The Approved Narrative is censored, people inevitably stumble across "banned" ideas - but there's no one to argue the other side or point out the flaws, making it far too easy to get sucked in.
Annoyance 4 is the one that really bothers me (although to be fair, I have Beats Studio Buds that have exactly the same issue). Also, they get _really_ dirty and are very irritating to clean. Really not sure how Apple hasn't produced a good cleaning tool (or at least identified one and listed it in the store).
I very briefly had an M1 Pro laptop (unfortunately it came with a faulty keyboard, so now I'm waiting another month for the replacement to ship), and I was blown away by how fast it is. My daily driver is currently the 2015 MacBook Pro, and I hadn't realised what I was missing.

Looking at benchmarks, it turns out that the M1 Pro is actually a full 8-9x faster than the 2015 model at multicore workloads (which most dev workflows will be): twice as fast single core, 4x more cores + 2 efficiency cores!
1) Restraint, and 2) the concept of it being finished and not extensible.
I am just learning this. I thought all deaths were due to rioters and knew about Ashley's death when she was fatally shot. I read liberal media, all day, everyday - subscribed to WaPo and NYT.
Given another RCE bug was found in the intel graphics driver, easiest speculation would probably suggest the graphics driver. Also apple doesn't usually refer to them as drivers, so that's probably adding confusion too.
nothing is done, but stable and not needing frequent updates is totally possible. Pushing back on new features is often a key part of stability.
The current wait time for a Model X Long Range is ~1 year (quoting January 2023 delivery). Folks are selling February reservation slots for $3000 or more example [1].

[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/model-x-plaid-reserv...
I'm not on my computer so I couldn't check, but the bookmarklet opens an iframe right ? I worked on a similar project and unfortunately some websites doesn't allow that. What we end up doing was open it in another window if it was blocked. I could share the code if you're interested
> One would expect prior infection to be robust, and multiple studies, including even the CDC's most recent shows it to be easily as good if not better and longer lasting than the vaccine.

I got COVID back in March of 2020. I got two vaccines and a booster, and then in late December I caught COVID again (probably Omicron based upon symptoms and the prevalence).
It's actually pretty bad for the airpods. The gen 3 airpods are bulkier than the 1 and 2 which now means they don't stay in my ears nearly as well. I never had issues with the originals falling out which I now do with the gen 3.
“Most” vaccines. The reason why they didn’t have to invent “non-sterilizing” as a term just for COVID vaccines, is because some existing vaccines had this same property. The acellular pertussis vaccine (the aP in TDaP) is non-sterilizing for example, yet I bet you never took any issue with it.

Does measles count as a respiratory infection? It causes coughing, is airborne, and infection happens via nasal passages. The intramuscular measles vaccine seems to work pretty well.
> You appear to be denying the progress made over the past 30 years by deep learning, ML frameworks, constraint solvers, and immense computing power.

Most of the progress in the last 30 years was immense computing power, almost all foundations for todays ML are revised old concepts. What you propose is AGI, how you want to achieve that? We don't even know where to start in theory, this is not my opinion but current top names in ML world[1], which was discusses on HN many times.

1. https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/17/geoffrey-hinton-and-demis...
oh well

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On my PC each legitimate output device has a duplicate with the same name that does nothing. Every once in a while when I launch a game it will switch to the duplicate entry and I will have to switch it back. It's a quirk where the fix has become a reflex.

I've never had to deal with this on any console I've owned.
Wouldn't you normally supply your own equipment for a contract?
Cellular immunity is quite durable over a lifetime. It's really only antibodies that substantially decline over time.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/
Oh yes sorry my mistake, I merged the two data and I made a bit of confusion, I thought it was 317 x 10(6) and 130 x 10(6), instead is 13 not 130. Sorry. By the way moderators have changed the title (but now I don’t know who will understand what this post is about)
As bad as twitter and Facebook censorship is, it's worse for other sites, like Reddit or probably any v-bulletin forum. Reddit subs have soooo much moderation, especially any sub that that is even slightly popular, so many arbitrary and hidden rules and content guidelines. On twitter I can call someone a jerk and the worst that may happen is the person may block me, but that will get your banned from many reddit subs.
What are the best write-ups about the whole mission?
Reddit user transfers plane tickets by changing couple characters over 6 calls
>If you think any of the above is "anti-vax" then I would suggest the media has won and science is dead.

[edited to remove antagonistic comment] - I think your comment about science being dead is less-than-useful hyperbole.

Why focus on the "get vaccinated" message? Because the vaccine is free. It's widely available. There is absolutely low, low risk to taking it - less risk by far than getting COVID or long COVID. Because prior to Omicron, the goal wasn't "let everyone get sick and be done with it", it was "prevent anyone from getting sick". I just thought of one as I type this: To say "we accept natural immunity as a viable strategy" could have encouraged thousands upon thousands of ignorant or otherwise actively anti-authority citizens to get sick on purpose to stick it to the man, then end up in the hospital.

I don't want lies to win, and I don't want to ignore the science. Natural immunity should be acknowledged for its benefits. I think a government could do that, and still say "tough shit, get vaxxed" just to make sure people don't commit bio-warfare on communities by trying to get ill.
I'm not saying all cryptography is encryption, I'm not even really talking about signatures, I'm specifically talking about asymmetric cryptography. I don't see any example of "asymmetric cryptography" which is not just a usage of public-private key encryption.
I'm not saying they are pointing fingers, I'm asking how is this evidence of his own party being a problem so as to cause distrust?
I was under the impression that Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of Congress as a whole, but the individual representatives are about as popular as you'd expect.
The igA antibodies produced by trained mucosal resident B->plasma cells would stick around for an even shorter time than the igG antibodies do in the body serum. But the trained and resident T cells would be there to kill off infected cells right at the start instead of after days. So yeah, I think a sterilizing intranasal vaccine is possible but it likely won't depend on the igA antibodies generated. This follows with the studies of "super" immunity in rare special medical workers who never get sick with covid-19 and also never show antibodies for it. The nature paper seemed to show it was their upper respiratory mucosal T cells doing the job; having already been trained and cross reactive with other coronaviruses. But we can't all be lucky mutants and most of our upper respiratory systems will need some training.

ref: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6553/397 (paywall bypass full pdf: http://erewhon.superkuh.com/library/Biology/Coronavirus/Intr...)
The first time I had this happen I didn't know what the sound was and it took me weeks to work out because it's so hard to locate where it comes from.
I’ve never had the bit snap off a USB A cable when it was plugged in yet it’s happened to me twice with USB C. I’ve also had to replace ports due to the wear on the cable futon not being able to stay in place. Furthermore, I’m less certain if a cable I have lying around is going to be fully compatible. I also have to keep USB A around so there’s this big growth in the number of cables and adapters that are necessary.

In almost every way that is meaningful to me USB C has been a downgrade. I can’t think of anything that improved my experience beyond saving a minute when I plug the laptop into only the monitor and not the power cable too.
> This doesn't apply to human life.

Yes it does, as the certainty even for someone healthy and alive today that they will remain alive as time goes can only decrease.

Look at how the best plans go to trash for people saving when they're young, with grand plans to retire early and gorge on leisure/travel/etc, when they suddenly find out they have a terminal disease or some other health problem that at best reduce their ability to travel or enjoy their leisure (trekking in the desert on a
wheelchair at 70? Or on painkillers? Might be possible, but certainly not as fun as doing that same thing at 20, if only because you'll find fewer people of your same age group willing to join in on the adventure)
Who is being censored? Sure people are banned from communities, but that is nothing new.

For most people, to host a blog, one can host a server at their house, through their own ISP, use the latest static website package, and share some links. It is a very low barrier to entry.

I think what people are actually saying is that they want the followers that these platforms provide them. They want to be able to push notifications and invade peoples' inboxes. They want entry into their day-to-day. You can't get that from your own host.
Yes? It’s not Fight Club.
Logseq is also oss, obsidian I believe opening is planned but dunno much about the status, don’t keep up with it.

Why wouldn’t you bother to try it? When I was doing my oscp I had to take mad amounts of notes, I tried zim, cheeytree, a few others I forget and obsidian was clearly the best, electron notwithstanding (and it was religious to me also, but really it has improved quite a lot since we formed our views about electron)

These days, I tend to use obsidian for longer form entries, in the same repo I use logseq primarily (and with working copy git client on my phone, obsidian mobile gives me access to all my logseq files, stopgap until they release the mobile app).
I think some of this debacle is changing who we trust.

Joe Rogan is rapidly becoming "the most trusted man in America". Russell Brand, another Leftist comedian, is moving from funny routines to scathing anti-corruption populist commentary. Tucker Carlson is now dominating Cable.

The big Pharma ad-supported mainstream media is rightly terrified of this. The gravy train is at risk.
There's https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl for that.