skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having started a large project in 2012/13 (which is still running), I wish I had done the same. Although, if I remember correctly, the ecosystem around Laravel was still very young at the time.
No, because GPS signals are extremely low power.
hmmm ... i have to admit, i really don't get this article, imho. its not very well written:

why using these "oldschool" if / of parameter

how its meant to be used

dd < /dev/zero > /dev/sdx

like others already mentioned: parameter "bs" ~ block-size

dd < /dev/zero bs=1M > /dev/sdx

or parameter "count" ~ number of blocks of specified size

dd < /dev/zero bs=1M count=100 > /dev/sdx

show progress ~ utility "pv"

dd < /dev/zero bs=1M | pv > /dev/sdx

etc.etc.

why do people write such articles w/o at least consulting the manpages!?

and why is such a mediocre article on the frontpage of HN!?

just my 0.02€
I have heard a lot of chatter recently about how nuclear has fallen out of favor among certain circles on the left. Can someone explain what the reasons for that are?
It reminds me of a joke;

Why are the pyramids in Egypt?

Because they were too heavy to carry to the British Museum.
The article you're commenting on mentions several interventions with significant benefit:

"High-dosage tutoring—which educators define as involving a trained tutor working with one to four students at a time, three times a week for a whole year—is one of the few interventions with a demonstrated benefit that comes close, producing an average gain equivalent to 19 weeks of instruction."

"One option is voluntary summer school, which, according to prior research, has yielded about five weeks of instructional gain per student. Another option is an extra period each day of instruction in core subjects. A double dose of math over the course of an entire school year has been shown to produce gains equivalent to about 10 weeks of in-person instruction, although the evidence on reading is weaker."

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/5-lessons-e... lists a few more studies that consistently show the opposite of what you claimed. School quality matters, and more schooling matters.
The CDC disagrees:

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18319/chapter/3#15
We are though. Look for "Timeline of 2022 so far" for the current status, and what our production rollout plans for 2022 are.
I was under the impression that two-wheeled chariot front and sides are solid and the shape is round partly in order to deflect arrows.
You don't think the people that drove the October and Cultural revolutions could be termed 'activists'?

And it is folly to believe that because things developed a certain way in, say, Russia, they will develop the same where circumstances differ. For example, despite your dismissal of activists' influence, Scotland criminalized expressions of 'hate', even within private homes [1,2], and there are innumerable anti-discrimination laws in the US, that arguably conflict with the constitution's free association provision. Couple a law such as the Scottish hate crime bill with panopticon surveillance, and the results are chilling.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-56364...

[2] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hate-crime-bill-hate-talk...
> I have beef with people who boast $big_corp uses X/Y/Z.

I do not, it is how you gauge if something has been tried and tested in production for example Go. It doesn't hurt whatsoever knowing that Go is used in production by Google in various high demand systems.

The more companies I see using a product in production, the more I can determine feasibility. I just wish more companies would have technical blogs to describe their experiences.
Tbh half the stuff I watch on Netflix was taken away an out on put on the many “new developed streaming platform for IP owner” sites.
You're sick of seeing lopsided/anti-crypto on HN? Seriously? I'm sick of 'rational and levelheaded' people saying they're sick of hearing HN be anti-crypto, but then failing to address the problems with crypto. Its the same shit every time. There's at least three of these comments below yours.

To recap, here's a quick summary of why anti crypto keeps getting voted up.

Environmental impact scales faster than existing monetary system and does not plateau.

The subsequent incentives to use fossil fuels.

Consolidation of authority via proof of stake and proof of work mechanisms.

Lack of regulation and insurance.

The impact that NFTs have had on the space (and similarly, the security issues of smart contracts).

If one of these points isn't in an article, they don't stop being a consensus concern.

P.s. Saying 'I want a discussion and people are being too rude/biased' is a transparent reframing and that WILL contribute to people being hostile.
Might you or someone else say what or where the bottlenecks are that prevent these from scaling?
So Amazons asset minus liabilities is $420.549B - $276.766B

Divide that by the number of shares (shares outstanding for simplicity's sake) is $143.783B / 0.509B

This gives us a value of $282.48 per share.

Share price at the time of the above figures is $3259.95.

So it looks like you might be right. 8.7% of the share price is backed by real world value (assuming the figures are correct) that might be realised for the shareholder some day in the future and the other 91.3% of the share price is hopes and dreams devoid of all emotion.

Jokes aside humans cannot predict the future, value is subjective and emotion plays a part in everything we do. So who is anyone to say that something is worth nothing if there is a buyer that is willing to purchase.
According to the video, the tech is from the early 00s.
I own the Quest 2. Right now it's still a gimmick. It comes out of the case for about 45 minutes a month.
Simply end social promotion. You shouldn't move up to the next level of a class until you've mastered the current level. (Levels can be much smaller than a year.) Being at a different pace isn't a problem if you can just make up the time. The side effect bonus is letting other students test out of levels they don't need, they can finish early while others end later.
Wait… someone in the realm of politics changed their mind in a… sane… rational direction?

I feel like I could count instances of that in my lifetime on one hand. Everywhere on the political spectrum everyone seems to have been utterly losing their minds for a long time.
>It's being driven by predatory marketing tactics

Most of the web is done the same way. All web1 and web2 company valuations were nuts. It was a ponzi that was regulated by the SEC. Whenever a new technology like this hits the market, there will be low-effort ponzis.

>It's impossible to fully understand without complex technological and financial knowledge

Do you understand how SWIFT works? Do you understand how Twitter works? The user experience will hide the complexities over time.

>It is actively harming the environment

Ethereum, which powers the vast majority of web3, is moving to Proof of Stake, which is a system that will reduce the environmental impact by ~95% soon.

>It caters to early adopters and whales

You can't get rid of first movers advantage. That's probably a law of nature. The first systems to exploit a new platform have unfair advantage. That doesn't mean we should stop creating new platforms.

>It profits off of artificial scarcity

I don't think that the scarcity of NFTs is artificial. What the popular conception of image-based NFTs are monetizing is attention, which is a scarce resource.

The more attention an image NFT receives the more it is worth. If an NFT receives zero attention, it is worth essentially zero.

This is just the first time we've been able to productize that attention and be able to trade it as a unit.

>Investors are banking on Web3 and they really don't want to be wrong

This was true of web1 and web2. Were they a mistake? This is also true of almost every single product you use in your daily life. This is not an argument. Having investors is not a bad thing. Profit is not a bad thing. An investor making money means that they properly allocated resources. That is a good thing.
Parking under overpass in severe weather is 'spectacularly dangerous'
Seems like an excellent way to lose data and the best kind, thoughts typed.

Tiddlywiki will prevent a page close, this does not and will lose the entire wiki. Feather warns on not saving individual pages, but saving in this context means so little, this should just be part of the ephemeral internal state. No saving required. Save to disk is the only permanent storage and Feather doesn't have any guardrails here.

I don't do browsers, but can locally loaded file set cookies and/or use browser storage? I shouldn't ever have to consciously think about saving a file, let alone an entire wiki in 2022.
> I now designate daily subway rides for reading New York Times breaking news emails so that clients don’t find me in an anxiety-ridden state when they arrive for tutoring sessions.

"Intellectuals [are] virtually the most vulnerable of all to modern propaganda, for three reasons:

1) they absorb the largest amount of secondhand, unverifiable information;

2) they feel a compelling need to have an opinion on every important question of our time, and thus easily succumb to opinions offered to them by propaganda on all such indigestible pieces of information;

3) they consider themselves capable of 'judging for themselves'.

They literally need propaganda."

Konrad Kellen in the introduction of Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes by Jacques Ellul
What a time we live in where you don't have to worry about running software because your OS is too old, or you don't have a Pentium 2, or enough RAM. If they document their requirements and you can't meet them, then the software isn't for you right now. That's not really their fault.
It was an example and you can indeed find a few exceptions.
Yes, and I greatly appreciate the efforts of the Danish Statens Museum for Kunst, for sharing great scans of many objects in their collecction, including several of the Belvedere figures.

https://www.myminifactory.com/category/SMK-Statens-museum-fo...

But "Bust of a Philosopher or Barbarian" is my favorite, I made a large 3D print of him that I keep on my desk.

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-bust-of-a-phil...
This is an early preview of some ongoing work and related to a series of papers.

I'll try and check in throughout the day and attempt to answer any questions if possible.

Since this work is ongoing, if there's anything specific here you'd like us to investigate further feel free to say so and we'll absolutely consider it.
GP relies on "important stuff will find its way to me". That's only possible if other people are following live news.

If you don't rely on that, good for you.
Do you have a link for The Fine Blog? Nothing relevant is showing up for me.
> Yet, this tendency for myopia and prioritization of spectacle seems not align with many interests of mine. I find that a lot of the most significant levers on my life, both good and bad, seem to rely on compounding, on consistency and longer time periods.

This is quite insightful. It applies even more so to groups of people collectively (I'm sure I need not point out specific instances). All the more so when the data is noisy, and a bit of selectivity in setting the date range for analysis can result in the trend being minimized or reversed.

A moving average graph can help dispell this illusion, but the more aggressive the averaging the more it becomes a trailing indicator. One way to adjust for this is to use two moving averages (one longer one shorter) and plotting the difference between them. That will give you a fairly clear idea of whether the trend you're looking at is getting stronger, weaker, or reversing. It is still a trailing indicator but the trend-of-the-trend knowledge helps adjust for that.
Activist gives the vision of someone mostly working within a system to change it even if they have more radical sympathies. I’d just consider the aforementioned events done by “revolutionaries”.
> in their failed foray into Mexico

Really, they actually tried this? What were they thinking??
I mean that's easier to visualize than saying a "hole in the road that is about 92 cubic centimeters."
That was an excellent blogpost.

This whole discussion reminds me of Joel’s Single Biggest mistake software developers do: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

Namely, rewriting software is hard because the years of subtle complexity aren’t immediately apparent and hard to get right the second time (at least harder than first thought).
Are you aware of litestream? It's become quite useful in the last year or two, and recently provides synchronous replication. Worth checking it out (as well as rqlite and dqlite and bedrock) before starting your own project.
Agree 1000% about the stupid part, the pain being caused right now is so tragic and unnecessary. And I hope you’re right about the rest/think you probably are, but its important not to get too arrogant about our position given the stakes.
s/cynic/realist/g

It usually takes at three generations of highly-successful individuals:

Gen 1: Manual labor, kid goes to college and gets a professional job

Gen 2: Professional has a decent home, can provide a basic safety net, and can push / encourage / raise kid to be academically competitive at an elite level.

Gen 3: Starts a business which reaches millions of dollars / enough to be independently wealthy.

You can add one more generation if you also want to break into the monied power class. That's on the very, very fast end. It's usually much more than that, since it's rare each generation will have a highly-successful individual.

It's better than no mobility. We had no mobility just a few hundred years ago.
What do you mean? The left has been opposed to nuclear since the 60's and 70's, it's been part of pretty much every green party's platform for decades. Dropping opposition to nuclear by some parts of the left is the new phenomenon. If nuclear is falling out of favor with the left then that's simply a return to the status quo.
This is not a production server. Just something I'm running for personal services.

And I would expect a new major release to run on the latest even version of nodejs. The uneven versions are for development purposes. Version 18 will become the active LTS in a few months.
This is silly. There is nothing stopping any other sport from being as central more than the amount of money and effort that currently goes to football. Often in an arms race against neighboring schools.

To try and prop it up as a natural thing that is good just feels like a major problem.
Discussed 5 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29481120 (130 points/96 comments)
If you call that E2EE then all E is.
Your analogy with the car don’t make sense to me because it doesn’t seem like an apt comparison. I could ask you what you’d do if your car were obliterated by a tsunami or an explosive. There would be no intrinsic value to redeem in that case. Same if the bitcoin network goes down or is compromised.
I don't know about such deals, but isn't 52k like nothing for such agreement? It's close to free support.
The big problem for nuclear in Sweden at least is that no new staff has been trained for a long time. We couldn’t really run our shutdown reactors if we tried.
The green party started out as an anti-nuclear party:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_party
> don't think I've lost out on much because of it

I imagine it's great for your mental health. I wouldn't dispute that.

If you are lucky enough to live in a functioning democracy, you did lose something: the ability to make informed decisions about your government.
I totally agree with the sentiment of this post. Bear blog inspired me to build https://lists.sh which has been a blast to build. The goal is to foster a smaller web.
If the failure is due to inability to put that understanding into practice, which is actually very likely, then tutoring can actually help. Not every failure in exam is hopeless-helpless situation.
> just one square kilometre of seagrass stores nearly twice as much carbon as forests on land at a rate 35 times faster

Time to kill the seagrass meadows
I’m mostly forecasting in my comment based on what I’ve seen happen to the current industry. It’s completely centered around nonsense like “engagement”, and because there’s so much money involved it impacts the direction of the industry all the way down to education of school children.

We have students today who have no idea what a blockchain is, but they know they can make a fat salary working on it, and that’s enough for them to devote their career to the idea. They come to school demanding courses in blockchain, and so blockchain 101 is born. Then you need professors to teach it so you hire the blockchain researchers funded by Facebook, because they’re the experts. Next you have blockchain publications and conferences (it’s already started). Pretty soon the nsf starts funding blockchain research at the government level and your tax dollars are hard at work doing Facebook’s research for them.

Before you know, at a country-level you have devoted countless man hours and research dollars toward something no one except Facebook really wanted in the first place. That’s the way I see it going.
> That doesn't mean they're not behind, though?

As I asked originally, what does "behind" even mean? It seems to depend crucially on a schedule and expectations. This is why I mentioned social promotion, where students move up in grade simply because a year has passed.

The pandemic has certainly messed up the standard academic schedule, without a doubt. But so what? Are kids irreparably harmed because the standard academic schedule was messed up? I don't think so. Kids were already moving at different educational paces before the pandemic.

I'm not saying it's good that educational quality differs by school district. But this is a socioeconomic problem. There's no "natural human" educational system that the pandemic messed up. When you compare US kids with, say, the great English philosopher John Stuart Mill, we're all way behind. As a kid, J.S. Mill was the beneficiary of an educational experiment almost without equal in history. He was taught Greek at the age of three! Who gets that?
I hate HN's automatic title parsing. I get offended every time I post something and the title is automatically converted to something unintended.
It's much easier to get consistent outdoor time and exposure to sun in the tropics.
I mean... Good luck? Often accounting tricks will be used such that it can look like taxes don't support it, too.
There are plenty of static websites today, as well as frameworks like Jekyll, which belongs to the web 1.0.

Web 1.0 does not mean 'old like 1999'. It means static websites without user-generated content. And it did not disappear, it's still there, but less popular and visible.
Sugars Dominate the Seagrass Rhizosphere
I was getting a 404. taken down?

here is archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220523131231/https://jakstys.l...
It's also a bunch of horseshit, because the Acropolis museum in Athens is absolutely phenomenal and clearly shows that Greece is capable of caring for them adequately.
Putting it that way made me immediately think that that's less than 4 cans per person. I would have thought that more actual cans of coke were in circulation.
> The title is as misleading as you want it to be, Zig (the language) is famous for not being yet stable, did you really expect Uber to use it in production?

You seem a bit confrontational considering your role.

The Uber title would have been more clear if it said "How Uber Uses zig(1)". No, I don't expect capital-Z Zig to mean the compiler but not the language itself.
Proton will increase the prices of premium plans for new subscribers
Original paper:

> "Here, we show that the seagrass, Posidonia oceanica excretes sugars, mainly sucrose, into its rhizosphere. These sugars accumulate to µM concentrations—nearly 80 times higher than previously observed in marine environments. This finding is unexpected as sugars are readily consumed by microorganisms. Our experiments indicated that under low oxygen conditions, phenolic compounds from P. oceanica inhibited microbial consumption of sucrose."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01740-z

A sugar like glucose is ~180 grams/mol. A µM concentration of glucose is going to be less than a milligram of sugar per liter of ocean water. In contrast, a liter of Coke contains ~120 grams of sugar (~ 0.6 M).

It's kind of interesting because the seagrass appears to be feeding sugar to bacteria, which might be doing nitrogen fixation in return, but it's hardly 'mountains of sugar'.
> Here is one thing though: I earn comfortable now. But the trauma of poverty never leaves you. Even though I work in CS/ML, my life is pretty austere. I stick to the 'needs', and avoid the 'wants' as much as possible. Maybe it will take some years - or maybe these habits won't go. The one thing I never wish for anyone is hunger. Once you have lived through it, you won't want to be in that position ever again.

Congratulations on getting out of it tho!
My father grew up pretty much piss poor with a single mother. His reaction to living in poverty is completely the opposite. He never keeps money and buys everything in excess. Probably a way to overcompensate and, as you said, to not want to love in that position ever again.
One of the theoretical goals of Web3 to my understanding was the (rightful) destruction and replacement of centralized marketplaces that hold near-monopolies.

Companies like eBay, AirBnB, Uber that have a massive first mover advantage and use it to extract very high fees from the sellers.

Web3 seemed like a potential way to open these marketplaces up. Am I wrong about this?
If you want interoperability you would need true e2ee, I never claimed single company regular encryption was e2ee
I do rely on that, specifically in my case HN users posting big stuff even though it's not tech/startup/hacking news

Obviously by definition I'm lacking the information to disprove but I don't think I've missed anything I needed to know about. I've not been blindsided by any big events or anything

Yeah it does rely on other folks reading the news, people are already doing that though so no worries! I'd be surprised if even 1% of the world's news-available population decides to cut down (to point out also, this entire policy can be reevaluated in minutes if I find myself incorrect)

In any case I think the only news I actually needed to know over the past decade or so was regarding covid and that instantly got through the bubble without issue

For the sake of being on the same page my definition of needed in the case of news is: I need to act in some way to prevent negative results, or I can act on the information in some way that may lead to positive results for good people.
While you are correct that good schools are caused by good students, it's not strictly accurate to say that "statistically speaking, is largely a function of race and income". Being a good student is largely a function of intelligence and conscientiousness, which is largely a function of parental intelligence and conscientiousness. Income doesn't cause intelligence or conscientiousness, although it may be partially caused by them.
Corresponds pretty well to the 1969 Tax Reform Act reducing the drag taxes put on compounding of inequality from differences in labor income (1971 is the first year all the cuts were in effect for the full year, though the cap gains increases, which had less impact on labor-income-driven inequality, weren’t fully phased in.)
“Remember: those pushing Web3 and anything else crypto-related are those who stand to profit off of it.”

Remember: those pushing bread and anything else bread-related are those who stand to profit off of it. Or did you think the bread makers would just hand out their pastry for free?
DNS. Looking.

Edit: not DNS. Starting a restart-in-a-loop for now. Thanks for flagging.

Will not take this down.