skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What would be your suggestion for people that live in rural areas of the US?

ALCOHOL FUEL! (Forgive me for shouting.)

If they are that spread out, they almost certainly have room to grow some sugar beets or sugar cane or potatoes or something like that, then they can ferment and distill alcohol fuel. This was pretty common for a long time.

> Before the American Civil War many farmers in the United States had an alcohol still to turn crop waste into free lamp oil and stove fuel for the farmers' family use.

> In 1826, Samuel Morey uses alcohol in the first American internal combustion engine prototype.

> By the 1890s, alcohol-fueled engines are starting to be used in farm machinery in Europe, making countries more fuel independent.

> By 1896, horseless carriages (cars) were showing up on roads in Europe and the United States. Because gasoline is so cheap and abundant, and also because ethanol is taxed at a high level, early US automobiles are adapted to gasoline from the beginning. Racing cars, on the other hand, usually used ethanol (and other alcohols) because more power could be developed in a smaller, lighter engine.

> In 1902, the Paris alcohol fuel exposition exhibited alcohol powered cars, farm machinery, lamps, stoves, heaters, laundry irons, hair curlers, coffee roasters, and every conceivable household appliance and agricultural engine powered by alcohol.

&c.

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

Alcohol is clean-burning, non-toxic, carbon-neutral, much higher energy density than any battery, cheap and easy to make, feed stocks are everywhere (I knew a guy who had a deal with a donut shop to collect and use their old scrap dough!), and the leftovers are a nutritious and valuable animal feed (yeast are protein.)
I just use HTML. Personally I detest Markdown, I cannot remember how many asterisks is bold, how many is underline, how many is italic, in HTML it's just <b>, <u>, <i>, much more human-friendly.

And HTML allows inserting SVG or image data URLs in-line as plain text which isn't far off from what this is.
Social audio isn’t dead - I see it becoming a more prominent feature on existing social networks. Never used or heard about Clubhouse when it came out but recently I’ve been using Twitter spaces and I’ve found it to be very valuable. In financial twitter I’ve joined spaces with some great discussion that I can’t seem to find anywhere else. Big part of it is the drop-in drop-out nature of it. So you’ll have analysts from different sectors joining a space to offer their 2cents and ask really great questions. Really all you need to do is @ a blue checkmark and there is a high chance they will join to weigh in.

I can see LinkedIn adding a feature like this in the future - though I think LinkedIn spaces would be terrible (insane amount of self-promotion ugh). Reddit is already testing it.
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You seem to be arguing into promoting seniors into architects. The GP is arguing into promoting them to management.

If the one hard problem your place has is organizing all the easy problems so they add to each other, turning your seniors into architects makes a lot of sense. And that's a very common situation.

But the GP's motivation for moving them into management is basically that the organization is dysfunctional. That's not a good reason, although it may be the only thing you can do.
Social Dynamics of Bluetooth Speakers
It's pure vanity I guess - but I feel really stupid talking to my phone to transcribe a text message. I also feel like it's a huge invasion of privacy even if I would be saying "off to the store."
Excuse me then, we were discussing semantics vs legality. My point was that by dishonest the DNC was corrupt as by the dictionary definition of corrupt: "having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.". Or the Latin origin of the word: corruptus (along the lines of broken)-

Which seems to fit the description of the events and my arguments. You argue that because court rules this as political promises (regularly broken and legal to do) then it was not corruption as the court saw it.

This then seems that politics can be legally corrupt (deceitful). You don't have to agree with me but I vote out candidates that lie even if they fit under my political umbrella. In my opinion this machevellian behavior will end up more painful down the line and it is better to lose one election than to have a broken political system long term.
And I thought this was going to be about venture-funded companies up until right after their IPO.
That paper discusses ways of computing a matrix exponential, rather than ways of computing polynomial zeros.
they might, and like always, they'd be wrong. high end hardware doesn't go to landfills until it's dead

for example, 4790K + GTX 980 is a 8 year old computer. a high end PC from 6 years ago has a GTX 1080 in it, look up how much that costs still

you'd be crazy to throw something like that away instead of selling it for about 400$ or giving it away to friends or family

>It would be more efficient to replace a computer on a 5 or 10 year cycle

if you only use it to check emails and procrastinate on the internet, then yeah. but people who buy 2000$+ worth of hardware usually do something more productive or entertaining than that. and like I said, when they do buy it, whatever they had before is usually sold off to recoup part of the new hardware cost. that's how it worked with hardware for as long as I can remember

you know what does go into landfills? disposable garbage phones, designed to be resistant to repair and maintenance, and made unbearably slow by forced software updates when it's time for you to consume the new product. and I find it very ironic that these zealots we're talking about have a great affinity for the products from that particular company
For those of us who aren't westerners and are familiar with the divide-and-rule tactics of the superpowers since colonial times, it is clear that the US and UK are the most vocal advocate of prolonging and escalating the war in Ukraine. This tactic makes sense as the more the war drags on, the more it is a drain on Russia and it also strengthens the perception that Europe needs NATO (thereby effectively killing criticisms against the need for NATO or any idea of an "EU army" without US). The forming of another union in Europe by UK will also strengthens the UK / US hand as it would mean more geographic isolation of Russia from Europe, and itwould mean even if France and Germany wanted to improve their economic ties with Russia, they would still have to go through the UK / US.

All the superpowers are only looking at the advantage they can gain here. Russia will not stop till it achieves its geostrategic aims in Ukraine to contain NATO goals against it. And the US and UK will make sure that Russia bleeds as much as possible during this process. The reality is that nobody gives a damn about Ukraine.
Or rather America is siphoning market by having monopoly. My father works in pharma factory and wages have not risen almost at all since 20 years ago when it was bought by americans (by bribe to gov). Some drugs got 10x more expensive while workers and patients got it worse. This was ultra scam but even after change of owners it’s basically the same.

Capitalism works only with competition. But competition is against capital owners short-term extractionism (or rather against ceos who feels need to justify their pay). IMO solution is to let workers vote on CEO pay changes and punish white collar crime better and many problems of capitalism might get solved.

EDIT: IMO it won’t work as long as globalization can be exploited to suppress working class and avoid regulation
This is the ultimate problem with Clubhouse/Twitter spaces.

Podcasts exist. And they're already great for 1 way audio communication.

So Clubhouse had to push for N-way audio communication as a differentiator, and it's really hard for that to be useful.

It's really rare for the audience's contribution to be useful. And it's even rarer for the audience contribution to be useful in a way that cannot be done equally as well, if not better, in an associated chat room with a live podcast.
> at least you'll be working in an environment where the people using your software and the people paying you are the same.

Close, but not quite - because you end up selling to management or executives when it's the rank-and-file who actually use the software and don't get much purchasing power.
A worker can't cache or rate limit itself, it runs before cache [1] so every invocation of the url counts as a credit (free tier allows 1000 runs per minute / 100,000 per day / 3,000,000 per month)

Stellate always free tier can front run your free graphql worker with 100,000,000 extra CDN hits - a possible saving of $50/month if just on paid workers. What's the catch? attribution?

[1]: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/how-to-cache-a-page-serve...
You originally said the graph doesn’t tell us anything about heat. Now you’re arguing that it doesn’t tell us everything about heat. Which is obviously correct; but not what you started out with.

Edit: I see now that you’re not the person I replied to, sorry. I agree with you that one CO2 graph is not the whole story. It’s a big piece, though.
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> I have read that burnout can take up to five years to be resolved

You are right.

Recovery from burnout takes years, not weeks or months. Years.

I recently got back my mojo and feel more inspired to create, and I'm quite enjoying it. It took me about 5 years to get out of a rut I was in.

One thing I will say: look for early signs of burnout and address them as quickly as possible. Burnout creeps up on you unannounced, so be careful.
Care to explain?

Palantir was built on the tax payers back for surveilling themselves. Seems pretty straight forward to me?

Recall all the Palantir wearing blokes riding around Pre-Snowden?

Yeah, all those palantir shirts and bags disappeared immediately after Snowden.
Correct. We do provide a paid service for symbolicating all addresses with the help of dSYMs, though.
Most waste doesn't give off very much heat unless you get enough of it close together to get a chain reaction going. A lump of stuff radioactive enough to kill you in minutes barely produces enough heat to get warm. So you have to get a chain reaction going if you want to drive a steam turbine with it.

But if you get it a little too close together, it goes boom. So for all the reasons that nuclear reactors are expensive, a waste heat generator would be larger and at least as complex.
iPhones have had external display support for a _long_ time. Does it require an adapter? Sure. The USB-C only MacBooks and iPads do too, unless you have a USB-C display. It’s entirely possible to display different content on the internal display and external display. That’s an app specific feature in iOS, but not a hardware limitation.

Have you seen a current iMac motherboard? Nearly all of the I/O is on a breakout board with a thunderbolt controller. Does an iPhone expose PCI-E lanes for interconnect? No, of course not, but there were desktops long before PCI-E and as others have mentioned, the first USB-C MacBook had exactly the same number of external ports as the iPhone.
Yes, I agree. My criticism is of the current form of capitalism that is so entrenched that we won't ever seem to escape without some kind of forced reset.
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But they were missing the key piece, which is that he leaked it. Without that, it's all circumstantial. Was he probably the one who leaked it? Yeah, I think it's safe to say that. But that's not where the bar lies in a criminal trial.
I got an invite but never signed up, it always felt like "podcasts but worse". I mean sure, there was the opportunity to interact in the audience but I really dislike "forced-realtime" anything. Also the chances that people I look up and respect were on ClubHouse (or similar), at a time I was free, talking about something I had input on, and (most importantly) wanted input from the audience were about 0.
Amazon have a gig delivery program called Amazon Flex. Additionally, in many markets Amazon truck drivers aren't Amazon employees, they work for DSPs (Delivery Service Partners), although I think Amazon do require that individual drivers be full-time hourly employees with benefits, it's still a liability fan-out mechanism. Founding a DSP is marketed heavily at "entrepreneurial spirits" in various markets who aren't as likely to be skilled or experienced negotiators.
That's just my handle.
Why would I spent $50,000 on a car that has less usecases than a used gasline car for $500?
From what I understand, and I'm not sure if it's propaganda or not, but the ruble dropped and then bounced back. The only Russians affected by the embargoes are the expats. They have to exchange rubles for dollars but can't. Even NATO members are still buying Russian oil and gas. Cutting it off completely would destabilize their own economies.
> Which is a real shame because I’d have loved to work for Space X but what a way to put people off.

Space X is good place to work for if you’re willing to put 80h per week for below average pay, while working for wealthiest person in the world. Cool place to possibly jump start your career in the industry, but not a great place to be for any significant amount of time.
It was so much easier when there was one program where all your chats lived, and where this program was only on one device.

This article made me decide to shut up a lot of notifications. So I got to pick up the iPhone and both of the iPads, scroll through a lengthy list of every app on all three of those devices that's ever requested the power of sending a notification, find the apps people talk to me on, and turn off their ability to make a popup and a noise happen.

And then I get to do it again on the computer I'm typing this on. Except there it's a mishmash of individual program's settings and stuff in the "notifications" section of OSX's preferences. It looks like I was a lot more aggressive in making stuff not notify me on the the computer so there's not much to turn off.

I really miss the days when all my chatting happened via Adium. One program. On one device.
I do not consider it as defining and definitely nor desirable or improving ones standing.

For reference: I am extremely active in OSM community. On channels that I moderate this would result in user being warned/kicked (but not banned, unless in case of repetitive insults).
Same experience here. The takeaway is that Tesla worked tirelessly into making charging (one of the major pain points of EV) as efficient and convenient as possible. And legacy manufacturers are now trying to catch up nearly a decade later (and lamentably failing).

If it doesn't plug into a supercharger it's pretty much defective on arrival.

https://youtu.be/hA_B7qPyUDA?t=1136
Yeah, while it in some regards is nice having multiple small deployments of our python app than can be scaled up and down independently, it's sometimes such an hurdle to something "extra" in a smaller app. Have a simple webserver and want to do some things out of band? In jvm I would use a concurrent queue and add tasks to it, and spin up some threads consuming that. In python you either spin up a new process and deal with the communication problems, become a master of greenlet and python internals, or most likely default to celery which need it's own deployment.

It sometimes boggles my mind how python is considered the quick and easy way for startups, while at the same time doing trivial things become such a hurdle.
Darknet Diaries is such a good podcast. Especially the Student and Saudi Aramco episodes
The only people I know that think "you didn't answer the phone, so now I'm worried you're dead" are my elderly relatives.

In my experience, tech natives are on board with the idea of responding in your own time and insulating yourself from always-on communication.
https://www.businessinsider.com/you-can-buy-christian-assaul...

Relevant article
Link to Arxiv pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02384
I think this speaks to how much our identity and standing in society is tied to our job performance.

"Money is not everything but not having enough is" as the quote goes. Maybe there is a way to be happy without this attachment to job performance but it is a rare thing.
"Direct" Wi-Fi still shares the same spectrum though, so even without central points it's not equivalent to cables.
Is it possible that this presupposes the utility of inteligence for survival? It's an easy thing to assume, but a decent argument could be made for intelligence in sufficient quantity actually running counter to the fitness of a species.

I would assume our style of intelligence isn't any kind of "goal", it just happened.
Agreed. Best case experiences were in rooms that felt like mid-tier tech conference panels.

Clubhouse could've leaned into the above idea and really figured it out. Like, how do you mix the experience of a live in-person panel of experts and also leverage asynchrony across space and time... Maybe there would've been something there. But as it stood, it felt like it hit the jackpot with a clever idea and a bunch of hype but never actually solved any of the hard problems that might turn it into something real.
The analogy doesn't work. MLMs are outright fraud. Even worse than "gig economy" "jobs" that are really just stealing your car's value to pay a large fraction of your supposed income. They exploit people who are not intelligent enough to escape their come ons. in both these cases you end up with nothing.

Outside of for-profit and lower-tier schools that really have no business issuing postgraduate degrees, the worst that happens to postgraduate degree holders is that their income model takes a ding for not having been in industry since getting their undergraduate degree. but they still mostly have a prosperous future.

Grad students get exploited as cheap labor when they could have been making more, and advancing industry careers, for sure. But that's not nearly as sad as turning people of low education and low attainment into pyramid scheme victims. That's outright evil.
Even when centrifuged and concentrated uranium isn't particularly dangerous compared to other heavy metals. it's when you add moderators and activate the reactor that you start to transmute the uranium into really dangerous stuff.

There have been a few naturally occurring nuclear reactors but that was when the Earth was younger and the natural level of uranium enrichment was different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
Would the waste be useful to those who would like to make a dirty bomb? Maybe some countries can't provide security guarantees?
I've only recently noticed this, but there are some interesting parallels between the crypto crowd and the EV crowd. First, "it's not the tech, it's a lack of adoption". Now, "obviously that's a dumb use-case for this tech, you're supposed to use it for something else".
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Thank you for the link to pikchr--anything by the SQLite folks is something to check out.

Not having a diamond object-class for decision seems to be a large miss. [0] Also, unlike Mermaid [1], three downward arrows to boxes aren't spaced from one another, the boxes wind up overwriting one another. This gives pikchr a procedural/syntactical feel rather than an object/semantic one.

0. https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/grammar.md

1. https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil...

pikchr live demo: https://pikchr.org/home/pikchrshow

Mermaid live demo: https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid-live-editor/
It's too simplistic to say that the charging situation needs to be addressed before the cars become viable. It's a real chicken and egg problem. The charging infrastructure and the variety of use cases that EVs cover need to be addressed together. Right now, EVs are fantastic as second cars, or for people who never drive more than an hour or so at a time, or for specific longer trips where you know and are comfortable with the charging options. That's enough to get more EVs on the road, which will provide economic incentive for a higher density of chargers, which will be enough to enable even longer trips without burdensome planning, and so the cycle continues. That's how free markets actually work. Demanding a one-sided "big bang" approach is tantamount to demanding deliberate distortion of the market (whoever goes first needs to be supported by some external means), which itself a good way to ensure that EV adoption remains slow. It doesn't seem like a particularly good-faith argument.
The point is: You don’t need all this extensive and careful planning in a gasoline car.

You just drive away and that’s it.
No, the previous commenter is incorrect. Pyramid scheme is a well defined category of fraud. A MLM/affiliate marketing company may be a pyramid scheme, or it may not. Courts have routinely ruled that the business category is perfectly legal.
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> It's the politically-correct term for pyramid scheme these days.

It's actually different though the business model is the same.

Pyramid schemes actually frequently ran without an actual product. Those were made illegal (in the US). MLM's have a product but selling the product is secondary to recruiting underlings. The way to make money in an MLM is to never buy the product and recruit people who buy and you get a cut.
We know one very important thing: consciousness is not a binary state. We have learned that different animals experience sensations, emotions at varying degrees. That different animals can solve problems of varying difficulty. And more advanced animals can communicate at varying levels of richness. When you stop thinking of consciousness, intellect and awareness as binary states but gradients (perhaps multidimensional), then you can more easily accept the premise that consciousness is an emergent property of the complex biological systems.
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I read this article when it originally came out, and I think it's mostly a historical discussion. But, I can summarize the "leap of logic" that significance testing makes for you.

If T(X) is a statistic designed to measure a quantity A, then significance testing are statements that say

P(T(X) is close to A | A) = P

In other words, the statistic T is close to the true value of A (which is fixed) with probability P. So far, I think this is pretty straightforward, but the tricky part comes when you apply the idea that "closeness" is symmetric. In the physical world, if A is close to B then B is close to A, but that isn't necessarily a valid thing to infer based on a significance test.

The thing ostensibly implied by a hypothesis test is that the these two are reasonable to exchange:

P(T(X) is close to A | A) = P (A is close to T(X) | T(X))

The interpretation of the right side is what you really want. The probability that the thing I want to know about is close to my statistic given my statistic. Unfortunately, this is not true in general. It's this misunderstanding that's at the heart of "logical fallacy" of frequentist hypothesis testing. No matter how careful we statisticians are about p-values, empirical evidence has shown that this leap is what people make time and time again (including us).

This is to say nothing of the absurdity of interpreting probability as a long run frequency for events that happen once or relying on results that formulate things that way when you're doing iterative analysis and development (as all actual inferential processes are).