skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It comes back at us in all kinds of weird ways, too. Biofuel production, for example. Farmers make choices all the time to switch their production to be maximally profitable (example: Almost all of NZ shifting from lamb to milk production in the past few decades).

Biofuel production puts a spanner in things because previously we were swapping some form of consumable calories for another form of consumable calorie. But now you've got fuel production competing with food production, and their prices will begin to compete similarly. That inevitably leads to either cheaper fuel (spoiler: still not great for emissions) or significantly more expensive staple foods.

So any kind of squeeze on fossil fuel pricing leads to a down-stream increase on food pricing, one greater than just the energy use for production/transportation.
lol, players saying NO to reducing the take-rates of app stores from 30% to 0-2.5%, and saying NO to having the assets they purchase stored anywhere besides the privately owned servers of their favorite centralized megacorps
It’s not a movie for deep plot, and it’s lacking in writing, which would normally ruin a movie for me. But gosh, the setting. It feels lived in. The future — its culture, its fashion, its transportation — it all feels bewildering in a way that the real future would be to us. It doesn’t bother to explain any of it either, because everyone in the future knows it. The audience is stuck there with Leeloo, having learned the word “multipass”.

In a way it was a lot like my first time watching Spirited Away (a far better film) knowing next to nothing about Japanese culture. Everything about it seemed new and fantastical and like a wholly new setting. I can’t recapture that feeling now that I know a lot more Japanese culture, but The Fifth Element can retain that sense of a real but truly alien place and culture.
It’s a political problem — congress is more interested in clean coal or fermenting grass.

Federal civil servants are trained early that their opinions are irrelevant.
This is highly dependent on the area. My family has a background in wheat farming, I grew up in an area with a lot of family wheat farms, and if you are in an area with good soil and the weather is good you can make a lot of money on a wheat crop even in so-so international wheat price conditions.

They rotate in other crops for soil balance but YMMV in terms of wheat profits.
I’d love to see it to. The l-system you mentioned and how you are stitching together the audio clips.
I was confused for a second, I thought this was the time he said everyone who gives Facebook their data were "dumb fucks" That was a different story
https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a19490586/mark-zucker...
Much like carriages, more modern alternatives have rendered it obsolete despite the loud voices that continually refuse to accept its eventual extinction.
When someone I care about has a problem and I’m able to fix it. Nothing else feels quite as awesome or meaningful.

Conversely, nothing else feels quite as terrible as when someone I care about has an unfixable problem.
Valve was making AAA games with a flat organizational structure for a while.

It’s seems fairly similar, though considering few companies operate this way it’s hard to judge if it’s more or less likely to succeed.
Ha! Great to know there is a word for this phenomenon.

I encountered this first hand on the Wikipedia page “Substances Poisonous to Dogs” [1] subsection about Onions & Garlic. The only citation eventually self-references the same Wikipedia page from whence you started.

I was already skeptical that the single most common vegetable and ingredient in human food was somehow poisonous to dogs, but now convinced it’s entirely made-up.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substances_poisonous_to_dogs
Well, one can write a bot that defeats recaptcha. Trivial, once you know what to do.
Watching my dog thrive
Sounds like something Mike Rowe would have something to say about. https://www.mikeroweworks.org/
Congrats, you got this. Being a dad has brought my life joy and meaning beyond words. You'll make mistakes, we all do, but keep loving them, and your spouse, and you'll do great.
Man there's a case in Virginia where they did just that.
Scale to 0 and a managed runtime environment makes for a compelling service.
When you go outside for a minute to get the mail and your dog is SO excited to see you return as though you’ve been gone for ages. Impossible not to be happy in that moment.
I always review before committing with git diff in the terminal but I just find that once I create the PR I’ll spot something else when reviewing there. Not sure what it is but I think it’s just taking that moment to read through from a different perspective (might even be that a different ux gives that perspective). I don’t especially love the review workflow on GitHub - but I can definitely catch bugs there.
I used FreeBSD for about a decade and lately use Linux which has honestly just been a docker host for me. Does anyone on FreeBSD miss docker? Are jails a close subsitute?
Yep, I see this in small shops of older friends. Some just close shop, or sell their business for almost nothing. Although there are ways to exit profitability from a co-op, I don't expect much. If it survives, I'll be happy.

We're not a big SaaS with exponential growth. We're based on Free Software and I often help competing shops because it helps an otherwise dying ecosystem.

I make most of my money off consulting and my co-op pays me well, and I'm generally really happy with work. Good enough for me.
Let's say someone smoked weed outside your house and right off your property, your house can be taken by the police even if you have no relation with the person and they did not enter your property because your lack of relationship or their history at your property is contested by the government and your house itself is the accused and the evidence therefore being an inanimate object that can't defend itself it now belongs to them. Can't make this up lol
Easy one for me. Dancing to reggae music in front of a very good sound system. It's a fantastic sensation. Your entire body vibrating, compelling you to move in harmony with everyone else in the dance. It's the closest to a religious experience I ever get.

This video pretty much sums it up: https://youtu.be/AvKTMv4E09Y?t=99
Yes you need ear plugs.
Recently… meeting women on Tinder. Found my last two fiancés and current girlfriend that way XD
Gardening is my greatest joy, and has been for over a decade.
Was HTML rendering ever a concern in terms of complexity? No backend engineers at my company do any frontend because JS is a large hurdle. Sending data to the frontend requires serializing and deserializing which duplicates logic and tightly couples two components we’re trying to separate by technology. You need to deal with a slew of new failure modes when your backend can die at any time - particularly if you are lazily fetching like most apps do.

Personally I think the only reason to ever use an SPA should be performance when sending data over the wire is significantly cheaper than sending new templates or when your frontend code needs to handle very complex states. An SPA can also be a good option if you want to dog food your API layer
I'm kinda skeptical of the severity of this issue. Apparently Ukraine was expected to export 33.8 million tonnes of corn this year. The USDA says that the US produced 13,691,561,000 bushels of corn in 2019. If I converted the units correctly, that is 383 million tons. Just a 10% increase in production in the US alone would replace Ukraine's harvest.

Now there certainly could be an issue of price and logistics costs in food insecure nations, but I'm not sure the answer is enabling Ukrainian production rather than producing more outside of Ukraine / ensuring countries don't cut off global trade in grains.

Figures from:
https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/...

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/export-losses-gi....
Serverless is a much more efficient use of resources and much more manageable than most companies can do on a low budget. For dollars a month you can have a system that has higher availability guarantees than a several hundred dollar a month system would. And the devops skill barrier to get there is lower.

I build all my systems in serverless now and I've been building web apps for 24 years. The only exception is if I know I'm going to have sustained and predictable CPU usage or I need to listen on a TCP or UDP port (note: I didn't say Websockets as you can now do serverless websites).

And for databases it's a game changer, the cost of having a redundant high availability database is huge compared to serverless databases until you get into very predictable and consistent workloads.

I'm actually to the point where I question someone's decision if they choose to use actual servers.

Note that if you're a large enough enterprise you can also run your own "serverless" environment on your existing hardware investment with things like Docker and creating pools of available resources and give you team tools to launch workloads.

It's really it's just a natural extension of the existing trends of immutable infrastructure and cattle vs pets.

On the flip side, if you have predictable workloads (either constant load or you know exactly what time you need to provision it and tear it down) or workloads that last more than 15 minutes or have very high CPU... servers still have their place.
> social media ... organized political power structure

It's not just social media and it is somewhat disingenuous to dismiss the idea that finance, specially specially international finance, does not have (some form of) power [that actually trumps and transcends political power].

This is a somewhat interesting film that I was watching the other day. It's mere existence addresses the first bit -- that perception is certainly not limited to "social media". And of course the film itself is about a super secret gathering of G8 ministers where they struggle with the decision to put in place some (undisclosed) policy change that they all know will have very drastic consequences for the global average joe.

The Confessions (2016):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4647784
If you don’t think there is fundamental value in permissionless, uncensorable, peer-to-peer online money transfer that is not controlled by any government or any single entity at all then nothing anyone can say will be able to convince you otherwise.

Notice how what I just described does not match the vast majority of these “crypto” projects. That is because they are not crypto. They do not adhere to the ethos of crypto. They are scams. It’s very simple really. If there’s a company behind it, if there’s an ICO, if there’s a single identifiable leader which can be attacked by governments to bring the project down, then it is a scam.

Unfortunately some time in the mid-2010’s the scammers and grifters of traditional finance moved in and started playing all the same games that got regulated out of existence in the legacy markets. They will likely get regulated out of existence again in the crypto world and people like you will gloat about how it’s the end for crypto. But the real crypto projects, Bitcoin, Monero, etc. will keep chugging along and there is absolutely nothing that can stop them.
Honestly, just using existing corn less wastefully in the US might solve the problem.
Who said anything about undercollaterized loans? I'm well aware of how it works.

Currently, we have only "capital-for-capital" collateral, but there is nothing stopping to have some other types of products in the future. One can envision smart contracts that control future revenue (e.g, a blockchain-based subscription service) and we could put that for collateral.

The point is that for the loans that are possible to do on the blockchain, they can be done without middlemen. We can take a blockchain-based systems and work to make them more efficient. We can not take traditional finance systems and make them more open or without middlemen.
for 4 AP1000 they are building ~20 CAP1000, westinghouse should never have sold they patents for a penny..
Also they are obscoleting westinghouse with their 4 planned CAP1400
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...
This right here is what HN is for. Thank you for sharing!!
hard shell tacos are easy to find in the southwest and much different to what taco bell might serve. They are just fried corn tortillas folded. That was the original inspiration of to crunchy taco, execution just got iffy as they scaled up.
If "one" can write a bot that defeats recaptcha, what is the point of recaptcha? I think extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Maybe you could create one, by failing to return the repair kit and forfeiting your $1200 deposit?
You are correct.

But when people say "finance is science" what they usually mean is "here is the complicated math that proves you can't lose money on this, we've modeled everything".

As the joke goes, 6 sigma events happen in finance every week.
Badass. Thank you sir, madame, or they.
Single Threaded Millennia Change
Wow!

Don't you need a board resolution to be able to open any financial accounts, yet alone to invest into risky or leveraged assets?

Unless they were targeting crypto projects/companies that usually don't care about legal stuff.
It might be. The child lasts far beyond 20 years and within that time frame there will be ups and there can be downs. Really bad downs. A child can grow up to hate you, be your enemy, become a criminal, become addicted to drigs. It is not a guarantee for happiness.

Statistically speaking though, when measured scientifically people in general are actually found to be overall less happy with kids. This is the scientific measure. But when you ask people directly whether or not they're happier with kids, they almost always say they are. It's as if they aren't fully aware about how unhappy they are with the kids.

It's really hard to define whether they aren't or are happier. Is delusional happiness actually happiness? Isn't all happiness some sort of delusion anyway? Hard to say.

Also keep in mind that although in general people are less happy with kids, there is also correlation with how well you're doing economically. If you're rich you're more likely to happier with kids.
Why do you feel that way? I think, Miro has hundreds of features and integrations but the basic usage seems to be rather clunky.
This could help: https://automerge.org
Reading this fascinating thread makes me finally understand why I left Facebook as a platform - and that's because Facebook ISN'T a platform.

Zuckerberg thinks of Facebook in terms of technology - it's an application platform with certain features like messaging, a news feed, an API and so forth.

That isn't what Facebook was to me. In the beginning, Facebook was a community. As An Application, the problem it solved, that of staying in sync with your community, had many other solutions: Meeting IRL, talking on the phone, going to reunions, and so forth. Facebook was just a convenient virtual place to put those conversations and meetings instead. It felt neat, it felt good to have your community in a digital space.

The reason I left has nothing to do with the features. Facebook is a perfectly FINE application. I cannot point to a single technological flaw with it. The flaw is in the community. Every year since 2016, I have felt that much of the communities that I interacted with are no longer relevant to me, and somehow the old ways of finding community : Reunions, talking on the phone, meeting IRL for events - just feels like a better community somehow.

I am sure Zuck and Team over at Facebook will continue to add new and amazing features to Facebook that make it a better and better platform, application and API every day. But I don't think I will ever go back, because the community that I found and loved there in 2011 died in 2016, and I cannot imagine it ever coming back. When I go online and see some of the ways in which friends have changed - I just cannot imagine wanting to be close to them again.

I have a criticism of Zuckerberg which may seem unfair, but it is what it is. Zuckerberg is very intelligent, and he's a technologist. But he's not a community organizer. He isn't someone who inspires people to come together; he's not a "bringer" as an organizer might say. I don't think Facebook needs more technology. It needs reconciliation and healing of deep and painful divides that were formed over the past decade that mirror a tear in the fabric of our very society - the deep and brewing divisions in values in western society are NOT going to be papered over by an algorithm. If anything, profit maximizing algorithms that create cliques and insular societies that only see what they want to see make the problem WORSE.

Facebook needs a Martin Luther King Jr, not a Thomas Edison or Steve Jobs.

This description by Zuck of Messenger and News Feed in technological terms only reinforces by opinion that I'm never going back.
That went off the rails with:

"Money is money and credit is credit. They are not the same thing, they are completely different financial animals."

and:

"Only the Federal Reserve can create money"

How does the author imagine we had money before 1914?

Perhaps the author and you would be interested in reading "Monetary History of the United States" by Friedman, an actual expert on this topic.
It sounds like you just went to a bad restaurant or you waited too long.
shallow to say, but making money
The Fifth Element had amazing world building and had an irreverent and playful tone that a lot of people found really fun. Those things obviously didn't resonate with you, but that doesn't mean the film is tripe. That would insinuate that the film makers failed, when in fact they succeeded at exactly what they were trying to do.
I neither skipped nor repeated any years.
Most tinnitus is the subjective kind that doesn’t involve any known physical vibration, it’s just the brain inventing signals. TIL, elsewhere in this thread, that to your point there is also sometimes “objective tinnitus” which is the ear vibrating itself. Mine is the subjective type. There are sound therapies that work for me, temporarily, and the thinking is mainly that hearing tones near the ringing frequencies causes the neurons to send real signal, so that when it stops your brain finally registers that it’s not hearing the tone anymore.
That's so interesting and co-incidental that it's how I probably got it (18" speaker cabinets and kilowatt amplifiers but without the hearing protection).

I'd come in for this therapy. I think the most bothersome of my tinnitus is that it makes hearing certain speech difficult and could detract from enjoying certain parts of music.
Before 40: Discovery, revelation, the raw power of knowledge and provess.

After 40: A calm place, peace of mind, simple joys.
It's so simple but: having a drink with some friends.
Reading. I follow many research topics and social topics. There's also lots of educational content in video format.
We like to paint a picture of the Supreme Court as being nine impartial giant intellects of law that hand down rulings after careful unbiased consideration.

This is a myth. The Supreme Court is and always has been political. There are "textualists". That's propaganda. There are many examples of this. Take the infamous Dread Scott [1] decision:

> ... the Court held that the United States Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for people of African descent, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free, and so the rights and privileges that the Constitution confers upon American citizens could not apply to them.

A less well-known example is the Colfax massacre [2]:

L An estimated 62-153 black militia men were killed while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.

In United States v. Cruikshank [3] the Supreme Court[4]:

> ... overturned all three convictions on the basis that the indictments were vague and general and had not specified that the victims were deprived of their constitutional rights on the basis of their race or colour.

This is just as stark in interpretation of the Second Amendment. Even though the Amendment was created to give the states the right to form a militia in the event of a slave rebellion (the Southern States were concerned the Federal government wouldn't come to their aid) this went through massive reinterpretation in the 20th century and was ultimate recognized as an individual right in 2008 [5] despite the words "well-regulated milita".

Civil forfeiture is an abomination. The Supreme Court if indeed it was lofty and apolitical would've struck it down long ago as a clear Fourth Amendment violation but they haven't. The construction of forfeiture as a civil procedure for criminal proceeds is tortuous logic at best, right up there with the Court not striking down Texas's SB8 despite it's novel end-run against standing by excluding government officials (which, if upheld, would allow any cosnitutional protection to be bypassed).

Civil forfeiture is nothing more than the continuing echoes of a country founded on white supremacy and the horrors of chattel slavery. It is state violence and the illegal seizure of the assets of the predominantly poor and further evidence that we've never had and never more desperately needed a reckoning with our racist past and present.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Cruikshank

[4]: http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S...

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
So what? The gold standard is known for driving inequality and bitcoin is modelled around it. Have you never wondered why abandoning the gold standard was inevitable the moment the global economy started growing? Maintaining a gold standard by force would be the same as never letting globalization happen and thereby abandon billions of people in their poverty.