skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are all great ideas. Why didn’t they implement many of these inside Messenger or WhatsApp?

I also wonder why Meta suddenly lost their competitive spirit in Messaging space. WA is so behind compared to WeChat/Line/Kakao.
Quake has the same issue as Bridge where if you try to get into it now, all the other players have been playing for decades and will steamroll you.
but then you used the word "cromulent"
This works sometimes, but banks don't want to be overexposed (even if something is very low risk).

There's the old saying "If you own the bank $1m, that's your problem, but if you owe the bank $100M, that's the bank's problem".

This kind of stuff happens in other industries (like real estate) all the time. Even with bank financing, you'll need another source of funds (typically LPs) to meet loan requirements.
I never knew this was a thing. In CJK, people use rice to make adhesive paste. This sounds like the NASA-ballpen-and-Russian-pencil story.
I upvote you.

Everyone shits on fossil fuels with no idea how crucial they are. No fossil fuels. No modern society. Turn it off and death will follow.
Just because most Android phones don't get OS updates doesn't mean we couldn't do better. On the Google and on the Apple side of things.

I hope that a mix of regulations and more sustainable Linux phones actually becoming usable as daily drivers will eventually improve the situation..
Yes. Thousands of years of class societies haven’t been great.

But the revolution happened out of sheer necessity, not out of choice. Hunter-gatherer societies aren’t sustainable past a certain threshold of population density.
It's in the news about this company, but it's not in the news that I fell for the scam for example.
Ah thankfully it’s not a Libertarian world yet, where the State’s only purpose is to guarantee the rule of law, and the freedom to engage in whatever contract.
The pages are gone... That was too fast.
If your partner has revealed information to you, you are required to alert your opponent to that fact.

In practice having better communication is still a big advantage, but it’s not because of an information asymmetry (for honest players).
Not sure what you mean by "nothing competes with them". There are fewer nuclear power stations in the world than there were five years ago, and there will be fewer in five years than there are today. Hardly anyone wants to build them anymore. They just don't make sense.
For what it's worth, I feel the same way you do and very carefully chose the word "assembling" instead of "building" when I blogged about putting my keyboard together.
nowadays they don’t even do ICOs

find a VC who’d buy coins at low prices and then dump into public by placing on Coinbase/Binance

spend that VC cash on marketing
We built human civilization so that we could Show HN the app that we built. Take that, hunter-gatherers.
I'm surprised people still fall for a legal dictatorship masquerading as a democracy that has the audacity to not even teach a TL;DR of law in school to everyone and give periodic updates to the public ensuring all have seen and _agreed_ to the legal dictatorship!

What about the taxation dictatorship? The beauty of institutional dictatorships like Law, Finance & Medicine is they dont die unlike people. Your enemies are the people who control these institutions.

At least the human dictator's like Pinochet, Saddam Hussein, Hitler, Stalin, Franco, and others didnt attempt to hide their existence and their cruelty unlike the institutional dictatorships who pass the buck to another entity if they cant lay the blame on your failings whilst not recognising their own failings!

Trump was more intelligent than most realise when he called for a protest outside the Capitol Building. These faceless individuals who control your life in return for monkey tokens are your real enemies because they control so many people's lives and they only allow you to change the diversionary puppets aka politicians every few years.

When people wise up to whats going on, it always ultimately boils down to the most violent win, with that in mind, be mindful we could all be sleepwalking into another world war to make everyone humble to the puppeteers.
Therein lies the problem though. Even if we take the numbers from the linked article (whose starting point was... Steven Pinker!):

- the "ethnographic evidence", which I accept you're not defending, largely features indigenous peoples during an active genocide.

- the archaeological evidence is, naturally and obviously, extremely few and far between. Much of it doesn't relate to hunter-gatherers at all. As for the rest? Taking one at random: the 12% violent death share at Ile Téviec. Read the sources and this is extrapolated from three (3!) bodies. Two of which were apparently not violent deaths after all. The remaining body? We have no clue if the incoming arrowhead was from warfare or a hunting accident. How unfortunate if a single 6,000 year old hunting accident is labeling entire peoples violent and uncivilized. Either way, it's nonsense all the way down.

What was the historical rate of violence amongst, say, the Zo'é people? They are very isolated today and violence is apparently unheard of, but what happened in the past? We can't possibly know. What of the Awá? No hint. The Sentinelese, even? Who knows?

My point is that all of these data are so limited, so compromised and often so cherry-picked it's revealing nothing very helpful. What little we do know is that rates of violence amongst different hunter-gatherer peoples today, despite them all being under immense outside pressures, are extremely variable... as it is between all other different groups of humans. That observation doesn't sell books, though.
I don't support trying to turn back the clock, but modern day hunter gatherers should not be thought of as a reliable picture of past hunter-gatherers.

For one, they mostly inhabit some of the lowest quality land since the best land has been taken by industrial society. Past hunter-gatherers would have had their pick of land.
They aren't prisons.
Nah, you should build most apps using operating systems’ native toolkits, and stop trying to pretend web pages are applications.
> The system is a racket and doctors are in on it.

This is a bit much. You're right that the AMA is a big part of the problem, but fewer than 1 in 5 U.S. doctors are paying AMA members. [1] That's down from about 75% in the 1950s.

[1] https://www.physiciansweekly.com/is-the-ama-really-the-voice...
Yes, I honestly think that if you have collaborators doing edits forming a DAG of derived artifacts, and you only observe a subset of those artifacts that you can't take some arbitrary artifact and merge that correctly with another arbitrary that opaquely branched some point in the past. And that is what consistently happens with the "just email some zips of the documents" collaboration flows.

Git helps by forcing the deltas to be knowable, but at the expense of a complex management tool and only really working on text based source. All other modern software now solves this problem by being online collaborative which eliminates the problem entirely, and that benefit dwarfs any other feature for most corporate/organizational usecases.

Inkscape is great software, but it's not acceptable software if you're going to collaborate with multiple other people who will all be making edits to the same document.
Consider what we see if there isn't enough information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons And on a totally separate note, consider what we see in DeFi.
Buying shares in a mining company eliminates all the challenges you describe for the would-be PoW “staker.”
Seems like a pretty low bar tbh
I've come across a number of HN commenters claiming US healthcare is better than the EU or UK. I'd argue it's pretty broken compared to both. The UK's NHS is far from perfect yet serves the majority of people well without bankrupting them. Countries of the EU will have varying quality of healthcare, yet I'd still trust them over the US due to my fear of the US's highly profit driven system (which can cost you more than money).

I suspect those claiming US healthcare is superior are able to pay quarter of a million without blinking - however they still run the risk of unnecessary surgery and aggressive prescription of addictive substances.
Dentists can usually give precise charges.

Kaiser Permanente usually has a precise copay for just about anything they do. So you have a good idea what the charges will be going in. And nothing like an extra $10,000 because one of the surgical team was "out of network".
> Actually what I've seen from Chomsky though so far is a bit more subtle than others. One of the worst I've seen was from Yanis Varoufakis.

Mr. Varoufakis definitely has excellent rhetoric skills, but many of his and his comrades positions and emphasis on resolving Ukrainian conflict would put put Ukraine on a plate for Putin. Makes me wonder what arrangements Mr. Varoufakis had made with Putin regime.

Perhaps apparachik does his analysis and writes books for him in exchange. Maybe popularity pumped up with bots in views, sales, invitations. Or an arrangement which protects the ground of democratic elections in Bolivia, Chile and others against a coup orchestrated by US.

All these things seem possible as the left never in history have been weaker to challenge those who have. And the prospects with Ukrainian war looks even more grimmer. And all of that because of a man who learned that wealth does not bring happiness.
I'm not defending anything, just pointing out the obvious.

But yeah, I'll be surprised if Do Kwon doesn't end up sitting in front of a judge
> How in Github's PR model can you see the diff between the 2 states of a PR?

This is super easy with SmartGit and it works with any Git host.

The Branches panel lists both my local branches and all remote branches. I double-click the remote branch and it offers to create a local branch for it.

Then I can compare any two commits by simply clicking one of them in the Graph (log) panel and Ctrl+click the other one I want to compare. Whenever two commits are selected, the Files panel lists the files that changed between the two.

Click any of those files and the Changes panel shows the changes between the two commits. Double-click the file to open a more full-featured compare tool such as Meld.

The Branches panel has a couple of other great features: a list of your stashes, and a Recyclable Commits checkbox. When you turn on any of those, their commits appear in the Graph panel just like any other commit.

So if you've really messed up, instead of having to trawl through the reflog and checkout a commit you think might have the code you need, you can just click around and view any reflog commit or compare any two commits. Same for stashes. Instead of all these special cases, every kind of commit is unified into one consistent model.

https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/
And somehow they're worth a trillion dollars??
oh. my. god.

Everyone pour one out for u/ushakov, hero of the hour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31462674
> All crypto is a scam and it's so simple to see, it's astonishing anyone fell for this.

No, it is not.

Please try to set aside your hatred for all things crypto and understand that there is actual legitimate value in many of the crypto projects, and that the core proposition, that of decentralized peer to peer value transfer, is a legitimate and useful use case.
Every time the Single Payer option is this discussed, you hear people say how care in Canada and UK is broken, indicating that it's fine in US, which is not the case.
Nuclear engineer here. If you want a deep dive into US reactor development history, I wrote this up on a vacation.

https://whatisnuclear.com/reactor_history.html

My take on the more modern economics is here

https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html

And waste here https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
farming is literally a ponzi

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C6nAxiym9oc
when developers collectively decided

Based entirely on propaganda from the one company that is rapidly taking control of the whole Internet.
> For what it's worth, they are also a YC backed company

Severely disappointing. I respect PG too much to believe he would knowingly condone this. The partner who did this didn't understand what they were investing in or should be decoupled with haste.

At the very least, the Alaska RMB, U of M Endowment, Bloomberg's family office and SMC should be asking why their capital is backing what should have been clear as day ex ante a fraud. Anyone living in Alaska, going to or an alumni of U of M or Stanford, or working for Bloomberg should be asking the same question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_immigrant_detention_si...

The vast majority of them are.
And the government can lock you internet access too if it wants, see China.

You are ok with 99% of people using only a couple of sites on the decentralized internet, but not ok with 99% of people keeping the crypto on a couple of exchanges on the decentralized bitcoin.
Sounds like you're describing the Visa/Mastercard duopoly that charges high interchange fees to merchants so they can bankroll their own rewards programs.
I want to say the same author has another post on string interning tricks.
Carbon taxes are something separate from the technology. In fact, carbon taxes would drive adoption of better technology.

For instance it is completely practical to run the output of a fossil fuel power plant through

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

compress the CO2 to 1500 psi and inject it underground into a saline aquifer. Hardly anybody does it because it's expensive and nobody pays them to do it.

If there was a carbon tax that made it uneconomical to not do that, or if there was a subsidy for pumping carbon underground then people would do it.

It is all the same for nuclear power, extensions of renewables and other technologies that aren't profitable on their own.

It is a deal with the devil however to do so because it is a withdrawl from the government's legitimacy bank account. It's certain that any carbon trading system is going to lead to a few carbon traders getting rich and them feeding back 1% of their profits to politicians to keep their privileges. It's less certain that the planet gets saved.

It seems to be a more realistic plan to develop a technological revolution that really is cheaper than the alternatives... Because then you've saved the planet and the job is done

https://www.moltexenergy.com/
I miss Windows 7 too. That was the last version of Windows that I really liked.
They didn't need to since they bought WhatsApp
Well ok, "doing among the best in the world, as of the book's publication." If our standard is perfection then nobody measures up.
Considering CDN's are duplicates of websites located around the world to remove lag, has anyone every flagged up how CDN's can be used for nefarious means, or do people just trust CDN's blindly? When is a sock puppet not an avatar on a web forum but an entire website radicalising individuals in secret?
Skilled piercers and body modification artists already perform lots of "superficial" cosmetic procedures, sometimes for orders of magnitude less than plastic surgeons would (which are, of course, not covered by insurance). I've even seen some artists correcting procedures that "real" doctors botched and wanted even more money to fix—a common one is keloid removal.
The fact that nuclear power regulators are routinely anti-nuclear power probably isn't helping things.

https://www.powermag.com/blog/former-nuclear-leaders-say-no-...

>Dr. Greg Jaczko, former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Prof. Wolfgang Renneberg, former Head of the Reactor Safety, Radiation Protection and Nuclear Waste, Federal Environment Ministry, Germany
Dr. Bernard Laponche, former Director General, French Agency for Energy Management, former Advisor to French Minister of Environment, Energy and Nuclear Safety
> How much of that is due to the sheer size of the undergraduate class?

The quantity still needs to be backed by the quality. Companies don't roll the dice when hiring people. They filter and interview. The numbers certainly prove that Waterloo draws many talents who can survive that process.
yeah, I also was thinking that maybe I shouldn’t be that transparent in my thoughts. And you’re right about US, this may look to others just like you described. Thanks for the piece of advice!

edit: typo
It won’t be once it shuts down. Blockchains are as permanent as the miners that power them.
The cost accounting for most hospitals is totally opaque. How do you assign overhead to each activity? Does the ER make or lose money?

How much of a nurse's time to give patient a Tylenol? Zero? Five minutes? And how much does that nurse's time actually cost the hospital?

Nobody has the slightest idea.
What most people don't understand about finance is that there are fundamental rules that you really cannot break without consequences.

Anyone who has studied quantitative finance knows that it is a HARD science. I worked with a Nobel prize winner in economics, and the math dominated. There was no politics, no opinions, no ethics involved. It really is a science.

Most social media characterize finance as some ethical vice or organized political power structure - and those people simply don't understand finance.

Talking to people who are looking to just tear down modern finance are no different than climate change deniers, antivax, or flat earthers... and yes, they even exist in crypto (and on HN).
VCs promoting this sort of blatant and obvious Ponzi - and there are many VCs getting into ponzinomic crypto enterprises - is a good reason to start making some of the investors more liable.
Something rubs me the wrong way about unnecessarily obfuscated jargon for relatively simple concepts in web development. The term "isomorphic code" has been living rent free in my head for like a decade and it still drives me nuts.
In this case it's just sloppy copy pasting (copying the truncated link?) breaking the link. The original links from his other comment still works:

https://stablegains.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402680425...

https://stablegains.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402687671...
I appreciate you taking time to reply to the thread.

I’m still struggling to understand the logic whereby tech workers, being overpaid relative to those other industries (so much so that there’s a brisk business and a lot of interest in bootcamps and tech training), are unfairly affected by this system and should unionize.

I think it’s amazing that we’re increasing the talent pool, diversity, and technical literacy of the American workforce. I think it’s remarkable that the barriers to entry into the space are so low, and the potential for improvement so high. I think the opportunity boundary for technological innovation is broad, and the barriers to entry similarly low, that the best possible answer to the current situation to drive even more money to even more people is to keep innovating, keep creating tech businesses, and keep pulling in and expanding that talent pool.

Which, perhaps, will in turn start applying sufficient scarcity effects on nursing, service workers, and so forth that wages inevitably increase there and/or the threshold gets met for tech innovation in those spaces to even further lift the bar for what we can all benefit from in those aspects of our lives.

Saying tech workers are underpaid when there are so many people making bananas levels of income relative to those other economic sectors is tonedeaf af, imo. What am I missing?

Again - thank you for taking the time to reply.
I think that definition is right, but only where 'simplest' factors in the probability of each premiss, not just the aggregate number of premisses. And yeah, on that reading it's trivially true, but something's being trivially true doesn't mean humans as psychological beings don't need reminding of it.
Sorry. Largest power density is still in the atom. Can't work your magic around this. The only reasonable and sane strategy is to R&D around nuclear. Whoever gets it right will rule, the others will be ruled. Not single bubble kept its integrity; renewables will burst as well.
I think you need to rewatch/reread Willie Wonka...
I, too, need to review my code in Gitlab/Github/Gerrit in order to catch errors - somehow they're much more prominent there (like you said, I suppose it's due to adopting a "reviewer's mindset") rather than just looking at `git diff`.

But if possible I would like to review my work in the terminal as a part of my workflow, not needing to context switch to the browser. Has anyone found a good solution to that?

FWIW, using tmux & nvim.
Let’s not even get started with Sama pushing Worldcoin, a pretty exploitative attempt at getting everyone’s irises with a pre-mined currency supposed to revolutionize world finance.
No EU or CANZAUKUS country would import a Russian design in the current environment or foreseeable future, as the Russians will be the ones to have the expertise to maintain it.
That would quite legitimately work.
Can't tell if this is a joke or not. One would think that if a farmer could raise output (and thus revenue) by 140% on short demand, they would have already done so years ago?
But wouldn’t that just be mr market, not a particular someone?
Woah. I love Kinopio! I've used a lot of different tools that are similar but something about the artstyle and the way it works is just so fun. Huge thumbs up.

Is there a way to select multiple cards at once?
Why is it closing down? I see it has been closed due to covid, but most places are now open with a few minor restrictions.
The thing is that a Stablecoin is either stable, and provides no returns, or it's volatile, and provides 15% returns. You can't have a stablegain that continually goes up in price, that's not stable then!

Stablegains, by their own admission, only invested in stablecoins: https://stablegains.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402687671...

> We do not engage in speculation on the prices of volatile cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ether. We only offer deposits in stablecoins whose value is pegged to one dollar.

> Regardless if crypto markets are soaring or crashing, the value of assets under our management remains stable.

This is hypocritical on its face. You can't have any returns if the assets are stable!

Sure, YC can do whatever they want with its money, but we can all be very disappointed and sad that VC funds are engaging with any of this. YC has been slowly been losing their image for years now, along with the other VC firms, and this just cements it for me.
Royale Noir ftw!
There's no such thing as a blockchain permanent public record. Some entity has to keep that up forever, maintained, public & accessible, for it to be such - that's not going to happen. Nearly all of them will fail and be wiped by time.

And certainly all of them can go away, they're mere digital storage systems. There's nothing permanent about any of it, not by any stretch of the imagination.

They're particularly, almost pathetically, temporary records. Most of these garbage coins will have no comprehensive financial records remaining several decades from now. By contrast, I know a lot of small businesses that have elaborate financial records going back 30-40 years, and the country is surely filled with similar (and most large corporations will have such).
4 GW * 50 years is about $100 billion worth of electricity.