skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the PDP-8E was introduced in 1970 and by 1971 it was probably present in a significant portion of us high schools. This, coupled with commercial time-sharing service access started training the second generation of hackers who are responsible for spreading the MIT spirit and inventing all sorts of things done with computers. This has created a staggering amount of wealth since then, which might be reflected in the wall of charts cited in this article. Probably more wealth in a single segment than the looting of precious metals and gems due to colonization.

Edit: games, process control, the follow-on PDP—11 which redid the phone system, and enabled Unix to explode. The need to follow DEC which brought forth the minicomputer business, …

Go ahead, explain 44B being spent for Twitter to somebody from 1971.
> both sides - ever wonder why it seems like neither political party has a message aside from “at least I’m not the other guy”?

This is pure cynicism. It is both lazy and false.

Democratic goals:
- address climate change
- extend the social insurance programs that are foundational to the welfare state: social security, the ACA, medicare, etc.
- election integrity: ensure equal access to the ballot, eliminate gerrymandering, eliminate the electoral college
- legislative reform: eliminate the filibuster
- education: address educational debt
- address inequality through tax measures and public expenditures
- appoint liberal judges
- preserve access to abortion and contraception
- reform policing, making it more community based, less punitive, more accountable in the case of police wrongdoing, etc.
- etc.

Republican goals:
- facilitate resource extraction
- privatize public assets
- roll back environmental protections and regulations of all sorts
- roll back the social insurance programs that are foundational to the welfare state: social security, the ACA, medicare, etc.
- reduce taxes, particularly on the wealthy
- roll back commitments to international agreements and organizations
- enshrine Christian morality and customs in law
- roll back protections for historically disadvantaged groups
- reduce ballot access for constituencies that tend not to vote Republican
- preserve the electoral college and gerrymandering (see previous point)
- prevent the teaching of anything touching on diversity or historical prejudices or injustice
- appoint conservative judges
- prevent access to abortion and contraception
- reform policing, making it more lethal, more punitive, less accountable in the case of police wrongdoing, etc.
- etc.

This lists could be much longer. There are thousands of passionate politicians and activists for both parties who work on these things all the time. However, people are more motivated by negative partisanship than anything else. It turns out listing good stuff you intend to do on behalf of your voters is much less motivating than detailing the perfidy, real or imagined, of the other party and promising to punish it.

False equivalence is the way you create oligarchy, not how you fight it.
I'd say part of the problem here is that consciously or not, people tend to follow influencers, and flock to brands that are more aspirational (e.g. Apple). If you cater specifically to people who like mediocre content, you lose the interest of the people with better taste. Your brand then becomes a brand associated with people that have poor taste, and eventually, even people with poor taste see that the brand is not cool, and they leave too.
I would tend to agree, but two things still bother me:

1. My saved items live in 100+ different silos. If they all lived in one place, say some kind of self-hosted personal data store, I probably would be less concerned. I've started to consolidate as much as I could into a handful of ecosystems (e.g., Pocket -> Keep, Dropbox -> Drive, Airtable -> Sheets, Todoist -> Tasks, RSS -> Gmail digest, Zoom -> Meet) and it seems to help a bit.

2. There is no easy way to organize, sort, prioritize, schedule, or even search for these items. Related items should be clustered together. Large items should be summarized and/or broken down. Urgent items should reach my inbox, be prioritized and scheduled. Popular and highly-rated items should rise to the top. Saved items should appear at the top of my Google search results. Without that, they might as well not exist.
If you bought $1000 worth of 1-year treasury bills (maturing in 12m) six months ago you have less than $1000 worth of treasury bills (maturing in 6m) today. That could be a problem if you need to recover today at least the $1000 that you put. (There may be no problem with much shorter maturities - or could be worse with bonds with longer maturity. The quote didn’t give any details.)
That is depressing. Though I guess from a purely rational point of view religion is no different.
> start acting on your complaints!

I just did: I raised an objection to a bad idea for anyone who might be misled by it. Also I won't buy a computer with this flaw.

> So first, did you try it? If not, why?

I did not, because I did not know how. I also don't want to know how to alter my computer to achieve a basic minimum of functionality, because a minimum is what is assumed. Either the OS or the hardware should have sane defaults.

> Different people want different things.

I suggest you remap your keys (when you use Linux) to fit your special need then ;)
> But in the 70s, voters voted themselves a massive permanent tax break that's even bigger for corporations. When an individual buy a property the tax basis gets reset and recalculated. Not if the property is held in an LLC. So Disney's property tax rates have essentially been frozen since the 1960s.

Are people essentially selling the LLCs then, rather than the properties themselves?
Any list like this will have omissions, but yeah, Gattaca is great. Primer should be there, too.
The best developed idea for CO2 disposal today is to compress to 1500 psi and inject into a saline aquifer. It isn't that hard to do, people have been doing injection into oil formations since the 1980s for "Enhanced Oil Recovery".

There are some questions about how long it stays there, induced seismicity, etc. but the way you're going to find out about this is by doing.
Also the buildings themselves still get the light and can funnel it into living/working spaces or just turn it into electricity. Sure it’s shadier at ground level in a tall dense city but like, I’m pretty sure it’s more feasible to build km-ish tall buildings that still manage to post some light down to street level than it’ll ever be to build living space that goes equivalently deep.
It is insane to presuppose that a particular employee will take additional risk load if you allow them to take appropriate safety measures.

It tries to maximize expected utility based on dubious analysis while denying people the privilege of making the vastly simpler and actually maximum choice of riding safely and wearing a helmet.

Privileging complicated nonsense over straightforward analysis and the companies analysis of net utility over individual freedom to protect themselves is nuts.

This is important to all but likely more so to people who would experience a larger than average risk and thus likely to be denied the ability to work in a profession they could do sufficient safety if not denied safety gear.

It is thus inherently biased against many riders who have a higher risk of injury than average but not unacceptably so.

It also keeps users from responding to increased risk driven by changing road conditions by substituting the companies policy for individuals judgement.

For example riders cannot respond to icy road conditions or known dangerous areas.

I see this as ripe for inevitable claims as far as bias against classes of individuals and injury claims.

People are going to be injured in situations where they can trivially argue that a helmet would have mitigated the damage. With the rate of injury everyone who would prefer to wear a helmet ought to send a certified letter to that effect to the company.

The ones that have the misfortune to be seriously injured will at least have the comfort of owning whatever is left of the company in 2023/24
> I want pretty printers (like in GDB) I can rewrite on the fly.

This hits very close! Will have a look at this for sure, thanks.
Yes! Two other songs of this type that work for me are

Audiomachine - Transcendence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwZ5-P3FnEk)

Two Steps From Hell - Heart of Courage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2iC1aCPbKA)

And another one: Zack Hemsey - Waiting Between Worlds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H529fng2Sfw)
In the Netherlands you pay tax yearly, based on an estimated profit for your total holdings on January 1st. Taxing every stock trade seems insane, is it really how it works elsewhere?
Yeah I had a neighbor who decided it was time to open his in home auto repair shop.

Fortunately the HoA board didn’t look kindly on it for a variety of reasons/ issues.

He eventually moved. I hope he found a good place with a big garage and fewer neighbors to do that thing.

Same with the rental party house (before the days of air bnb(but same issues)).
Hard to estimate that, when putting $10^x into nuclear for serious R&D may yield surprising results.

Also, why not benchmark $10^x in nuclear vs. $10^x in coal or fossil fuels?
If anything there’s probably less useable space under the (land) surface than above it.
>Yes, I am saying that if you cook frequently for yourself, it takes more time to shop every day.

And I am saying that someone may still find it more "convenient" to do so in spite of whatever additional time may or may not be involved. Convenience is far too nuanced and dependent upon personal preference for you to be stating, as an absolute, that it is not more convenient for someone to shop every day than it is once every week or two.

And I say this as someone who shops on a more weekly or bi-weekly basis.
I was assuming you had liquid democracy because if you did that's the only way she'd still be in power after being disliked, so your complaint could only mean that you disagreed with the majority. If you had liquid democracy and you didn't like her, then how was this a problem? You would have just been able to outvote her any time she did something you didn't like. The fact that you even had a mayor makes me think you didn't have liquid democracy at all...

> But most of all your answer proves why liquid democracy doesn't work: you seem to know virtually nothing about Rome and yet you expressed your opinion as it was a fact, because instead of checking if what I said was true or not, you simply found an angle to argue.

I wouldn't be voting on Rome, which isn't something I really need to know about today. You said you had liquid democracy, so I assumed you did; apparently you didn't, otherwise you wouldn't be complaining.
I think you're reading too much into that quote. I think they just meant that they acknowledge that there are benefits to sun exposure but in his opinion it's not worth the risk of getting skin cancer. Even if turns out to be misguided, that's not dogma.
I wish to resurrect the spirit of the Fox/dbase family of languages. I start from the bottom with a language more on line with data manipulation: https://tablam.org.

But what they have is integrated REPL + Jupiter-like Command Window + UI Builder. It was a "low-code" kind of tool way before the idea of today, but also a real, full-featured, serous pro-developer environment.
What's DPI? I have no idea how this whitelisting works but I'm curious!
Cars aren't essential by that measure.
I love that idea, some kind of Google maps for code where (0,0) is your main would take out a lot of pain when onboarding into large and poorly documented codebases.
>With tech in full meltdown

The stock market does not reflect the reality - in fact, you might say the market is coming back to reality. There’s been small layouts but to call it a “meltdown” is a bit much.
Everyone talks about their content being the problem, but it seems weird to me that Netflix’s original differentiating factor, platform and distribution, isn’t what they capitalized on. They could have sold their infrastructure and technology as a service before any other media company had a chance to build or buy their own. Now we have shitty platforms with great content, and vice-versa, instead of the best of both worlds with Netflix powering it all.
I’m afraid I can’t say I have a good answer for that, as I don’t consider myself an investor.

I actually don’t know fundamentals well at all and rarely keep up with news.

The systems I designed are for trades lasting no more than a few hours, so much of that stuff never comes into play.

I’ll just say, I think investors like Warren Buffett are good to emulate. They play the long game and play it well… I think doing something like that is a full time job though.

Last note, just knowing a few ppl personally, I’ve seen people grow their wealth by just sticking it into the market and forgetting about it ;)
And now we replay an earlier argument on if Germany would have continued with the renewable transition, we wouldn't need any stockpile oof gas or uran from Russia.
the only need for NFT in a game is decentralization and disintermediation of payment and ownership. if you wish to distribute game assets and give players a form of transferable and scarce digital ownership that is not locked into a walled corporate garden, CC0-licensed NFT represents one approach.
The 26th amendment to the US constitution was ratified in 1971, giving 18 year olds the right to vote. why not that instead of some obscure monetary change?
The best developed method of removing CO2 from waste gas streams is:

https://www.sulzer.com/en/shared/applications/amine-treater-...

In that case you are heating and cooling a liquid in which the CO2 dissolves and then goes out of solution. In one phase you are removing CO2 from the waste gas stream, in the other one you are producing a stream of pure CO2.

That device works basically the same but with electricity rather than heat.
Right. The road to hell is paved with the good intentions
(and myopia) of narrow specialists who want others to prioritize the thing they worry about. Technicians of all kinds need to realize their most helpful role is to provide inputs so people can make their own decisions, not to actually recommend (or recently mandate) what people decide to do.
You ruin the roadway for responsible users by maligning the good name and reputation of your fellow riders when you do so.

I mean to say, riders overwhelmingly want to be safe and it seems to be both self-selecting and self-reinforcing. Outlaw riders are free to ride alone.
> Back then it was unthinkable that farmers would be able to invest to say, buy fertilizer

This seems very misleading. It wasn't unthinkable in 1969, when the gold standard was still in place.

> they hope that they'll get to live like French aristocrats before the revolution.

While not a goldbug myself, ascribing base motivations to adherents of some idea is a poor substitute for an argument against the idea itself.
Skin is the largest organ of the body. It is an indicator of the inner health as well even though the main function of the skin is to protect the tissue/fat and other layers. so you should care about how your skin looks. You can protect your skin from excessive sun exposure, but if your diet isnt adequate or healthy, it will show through your skin.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy

If you like to read, read this. Very illuminating!
I agree and I think it's kind of like that quote from Henry Ford: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

If you look at what people like in your current library of content which you've classified into 10 different categories, you get an incomplete picture and you're kind of looking in the rear view mirror. Steve Jobs understood this too.
> so the calculus for russia is losing on all fronts

Look at EURRUB at 7 years high... with forecast of going much higher.. Rouble is best performing currency (after short drop) this year (YTD)...

Looks like Russia is wining the war big time...

[] Ruble Hits 5-Year High as Gas Buyers Bend to Putin’s Will - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-20/ruble-sur...
Yes, that’s a big element in bridge as well. Both phases of the game are built around a combination of smaller/incremental scores combined with key thresholds where you get big bonuses if you try to reach them and make it but there is also a high cost if you over-reach and miss.

Depending on the tactical situation and the precise form of scoring, making it to a key threshold or preventing your opponents from doing so could be the only thing that really matters. You’ll gladly sacrifice a smaller ± score even with a high probability of winning a few extra points from it in order to achieve your main objective more reliably. However, in other tactical situations or forms of scoring, whether or not a side reaches a key threshold is mostly irrelevant and the relatively small variations add up to make all the difference over time.
Are you claiming that since Russia invaded Ukraine and various sanctions were applied, the value of goods that we purchase from them has not decreased as much as the value of goods that we sell them? That's the opposite of what I would expect, do you have a source on that?
I'm confused by Gattaca. Not a great-looking film to start with. And then some theme about genetic analysis preventing people from getting jobs. The 'hero' wants to be an astronaut but has a heart condition. Which even today will get you dropped from astronaut training.

But no! He cheats and takes somebody else's spot and risks a billion dollar mission. So he can have his dream.

It's not the anthem movie about genetic rights it claims to be. Its a strange story about a cheat who risks public money for selfish goals. Or so it seems to me.
I'm referring to starting games - I've had no end of trouble getting 2v2 working properly there.
> wait until the yearly $15B that CA spends on homeless disappears.

Wouldn't this alleviate the situation? I hear homeless people come to CA for the benefits.
I've always had a vague interest in learning a bit of ruby based on reputation. But my (equally vague) impression is that it's past it's peak and on the downslope of popularity. Is this accurate? Is it still worthwhile to learn, or have other languages mostly supplanted it?
You're writing past what I wrote.

> Every transformation has efficiency loss.

I didn't deny that.

> If you pipe the same amount of energy through a less efficient process, less useful work gets done for that amount of energy. Therefore to hit your target of useful work via an inefficient process, you'll have to send more energy through it, and thus more energy also goes to waste (heat).

The point in the post I was replying to wasn't about efficiency.

The question was, whether heat pumps heat up the earth. They don't.

Why?

Because the energy that's used to power heat pumps would (as I've explained) have ended up as heat anyway.

If you use fossil fuels as energy source to power heat pumps, then yes, you convert chemical energy to thermal energy. But it doesn't matter if you use that fossil energy to power a heat pump or to power an EV or a computer, the energy always ends up as heat.
So it's not the apparatus "heat pump" that's a problem, but the fact that someone is using fossil energy at all.
No, heat pumps don't heat up the earth. Using fossil fuels does.

If you were to power the heat pump using solar energy, you'd mostly leave the earth's energy balance untouched.

The main point where you then interfere with the earth's energy balance is through altering the way that radiation gets absorbed/reflected/emitted by the solar panels as opposed to no solar panels being put up.

Some processes that indeed heat up the earth are:
- radiation from the sun (and earth) gets partially trapped by the atmosphere (absorbed/reflected)

- nuclear fission processes produce energy that gets converted to heat through a cascade of processes
Thanks a lot for answering. I‘m not even sure what to do after the (hopefully successful) PhD so I‘m thankful for every perspective.
No there was a $10 billion market cap reduction. The exchange rate on Tether’s owned exchange, Bitfinex was $1 most of the past week where it was less elsewhere. Likely Tether was using open market operations to trade dollars for Tethers and keep the rate up.

Documenting a redemption would involve using the official redemption mechanism where you redeem $100,000+ at a time, pay a $100-$1000 fee, get a wire transfer from Tether etc. If you can find anyone ever documenting having done that, let me know
Unregulated sports like this are a delicate thing. It’s up to the participants to self regulate and avoid catching the public eye so they don’t lose access to the areas they get to enjoy. This is a huge thing in FAR 103 sports (ultralight flying). Unregulated doesn’t mean “do whatever you want” it means “we’ve given you some leeway here don’t mess it up”.

In this example, If people start getting hurt on a hill - sooner or later using that hill gets banned.
All of this points to another reason why Prop 13 is self-defeating…

In Texas, which already has a floor property tax rate at over 2x what CAs is (~2.2% of assessed value rather than ~1%), property values get re-assessed to market every year (with a 10% cap any given year). In California, it’s basically only when you buy the home, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s your primary home or not.

California’s incentivizes are thus all misaligned — if you’re wealthy, you buy a home and watch your tax bill get smaller and smaller every year in real dollar value. So California’s solution? Raise the income tax, state capital gains tax, and a bunch of other bandaids— the problem is, a wealthy individual can more easily move and e.g. declare their homestead in Texas, which has no income or state capital gains taxes, and California’s Prop 13 will STILL benefit the non-resident, even if they’re living out of state by allowing them to hold onto a potentially multi-million dollar property for essentially nothing.

Texas does the opposite: it says, “please— wealthy people, park your money here!” knowing that those doing so will likely buy property to gain residency status. Once they do, and taxes raise each year with the market, Texas’ incentives are aligned: there is no way for someone trying to avoid property taxes to do so without selling their property to someone else who will, and because Texas’ property taxes are so high it does not make the financial equation so obvious to hoard/keep it if the math doesn’t pencil out, compared to California where you get rewarded simply for hoarding it.

California is essentially incentivizing out-of-state (or ex-residents) who do not pay taxes to the state to hold onto a limited resource (desirable land) for decades, thus contributing to the supply shortage, while states like Texas have tax systems set up to make it financially desirable for California residents to move to all while still keeping their land in CA.

If you’re wealthy enough to own in both places, from a financial angle it’s tempting. See: Trump NYC -> Florida and Musk CA -> TX
I bet if you looked up just about any region in the world shootings and stabbings have been way more frequently than bicycle head injuries.

to be absolutely safe you should wear both full body chainmail and a bicycle helmet.
What’s fairness? And what does a priori theorems have to do with political theory?
That is profound thruth to live by - the journay should be always more important than the destination.

And it always amazes me how one little anime was able to promote go all around the world. I dont think that I know anyone who saw hikaru no go and then not started to learn go (myself included)