skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness, the realist / scientific viewpoint of limits to growth has seen violent opposition from both the ideological right and left. Nobody likes having their parade rained on.

Mauricio Schoijet's "Limits to Growth and the Rise of Catastrophism" (1999) details this.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/3985399

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3985399

(I believe PDF is available, otherwise try LibGen / Sci-Hub.)

You'll find the right decrying eco-fascism, and institutions of the left, such as the SPLC (with which I generally find common cause) labeling advocates of growth limits as ethno-nationalists. Somewhat inaccurately in at least one case ("Tragedy of the Commons").
> I’m not sure if anyone noticed but NYTimes’ quality has gone downhill for the past 2-3 years

This has been said every year for my entire life. I would keep the NY Times, but also:

* The Financial Times is on the NY Times level IMHO, but far more expensive

* The Wall Street Journal is published by the same people behind Fox News. It's Fox News for the elite - framed in ways appealing to them, and trading on an old established brand. Same results, IME.

* The Economist can be fantastic in terms of knowledge gained / minute. It's ideologically free-market - applying that tool to every situation. And it's not actually journalism, it's analysis: They generally don't dig up stories, interview people, etc. They summarize and analyze.

* The Washington Post is nearly on the NYT level, IMHO.

* Maybe The Guardian?

That's it. Nothing else worth paying for (in English).
No, this is great. Great, great fun. Life is too short to keep playing boring traditional finance, better play with crypto where things are always interesting.
I want to downvote this for being outrageously cynical and mean-spirited, but also I'm afraid it could actually be true
It’s all a bit self actualizing. Terra Luna failure was a core issue in the unwinding.

The solution is not less 3ac’s but more, so inevitable unwinding does not take out all the players.
> - Serverless Framework. Write 5 lines of YAML and have an API endpoint that scales to infinity and back to zero. Still blows my mind. (I am biased though)

If you're actually pitching your own product as "scaling to infinity" and you're doing that to developers, I'd suggest to scale back on the exaggeration a bit.
> some random fly-by-night chrome fork

you people will be remembered as the folks who installed a dozen shaddy tool bars on internet explorer in the 90s.

Just use Firefox and uBlockOrigin. jeez.
Yes please yes! stop wasting energy on this nonsense
this may come out of my bias of working at early stage startups where a good pitch can make or break your entire future :)
Yeah, I await the “At LeAsT wE cAn TaLk AbOuT iT” crowd to say how we are still better than China, because talking ensures some restitution at some point? How many decades have we had these camps?

Freedom of speech is a privilege without teeth.
Many countries and some (mostly left-run) cities in the US have implemented a sugary drink tax:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drink_tax
I passed the edit window. I meant more of your compensation can be cash based.
do you not take volume of logs into consideration for pricing then ?
I did some vetting on these opinion polls. Your first two seem legitimate. Although I hope you keep in mind the wording of the questions here and the varying levels of nuance that people put into before they answer on a 5 point likert scale. For example the “don’t say gay” bill opinion poll by youGov is not asking about support for the bill, but rather if they should be allowed to sue school districts under certain conditions. You might be in full opposition to the bill in question but still feel like you should always have the right to sue. This is like three levels down from the main focus of the poll and the respondents will read differently into the question, with nuance which doesn’t translate into a 5 point likert scale.

Now for your third poll, it was conducted by Public Opinion Strategies which is a republican pollster. The news source you gave me was written by Amber Athey, a senior fellow of the Steamboat Institute, which is a conservative think tanks that promotes American Exceptionalism and other nationalistic conservative values. I personally don’t put much faith in polls such as these.

Now this is all aside from the fact that these are cherry picked examples. This is hardly proof that “The left is being decimated on the trans and sexual related issue”.
While Wolfram is a smart guy, I feel like his presentation and writing is rambling and unnecessarily antagonizing to the audience, which always results in personal attacks and snarky comments and other counter-productive off-topic discussions.

Meanwhile, one of his associates who worked on the physics modeling project, Jonathan Gorard, delivers much better structured presentations of their work. He is also clearly brilliant, and presents a unifying, parsimonious model for the foundations of physics that is at least worth hearing about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU35Iu2--iI
I use GNOME technically, but in earnest I use whatever Pop!_OS decides to go with. It’s been fine transitioning off LXDE and macOS for me. That said, I don’t feel like a Linux power user or anything.
I'm just pissed that we wasted all of this time and money on this crap.

IMO the past ~10 years of the VC industry has been one of the biggest collective wastes of time and resources in the history of computing. We came into this with the goal of creating the next Google or the next Apple, and we exited with... what exactly?

Investors of every stripe collectively lost their gourds and poured hundreds of billions into unsustainable companies that have never found their unit economics (and likely never will) like WeWork, Uber, and Lyft. After that whole scheme started unwinding they then collectively poured more hundreds of billions into something even worse - rather than simply losing money on useful products, they decided to simply lose money without even bothering with the product part of it. The result is years of tulip-mania that just set an unholy amount of money on fire and fleeced innumerable retail investors' savings.

What if we poured that collective funding into producing... well, actual businesses? Delivering products that actually improved people's lives? Delivering products that at least make money?

All I see from the past 10 years of the industry is the missed opportunity and what could have been. How many groundbreaking products would we have today if we put the money into... well, not this?

I suppose it's not all bad - there have been some promising companies that actually deliver products for profit that came out of this era (see: Shopify, Stripe) but I can't help but wonder where we'd be without this entire misadventure.
This is still happening, in WoW and other games, and has morphed into some pretty wild things - such as people in impoverished countries playing the games as a source of income.

https://www.polygon.com/features/2020/5/27/21265613/runescap...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nxvVTNY9s&t=2400s for those looking
The ability to persuade very rich people to give you money, or a lot of money of your own. Expensive suit helps. Cartoons about "the only way is up" a more unconventional route to the same end.
How do you explain the popularity among that crowd of the Wall Street Journal?
how at risk is coinbase?
https://archive.ph/j1SRb
Windows also had a similar document. E.g. here's one for Win7:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/uxguide/guide...

The problem is getting the app developers to actually follow them.
It's the guidelines from HN, the very site you're posting on right now.
Firefox mobile also allows adblocker extensions. With the nightly version you can even install userscripts.
The widely cited 78 or 79 cents on the dollar figure does not take job choice into account. Adjusted for job title, it is 95 cents.
watch the "extra credit history" 5+ episodes about it. You will be shocked how wrong we all are about the tulip thing.
Discrepancies in Official Translations of China’s Foreign Policy Statements
For plane engineering aware person, all ok.

- Commercial planes begin at about 50-60 seats, less are non-viable.

Normal commercial size - 100 seats.

For air-dynamics, 3 times capacity enlarge (from 6 to 18) typically possible, but more changes too much.

And 3 times capacity in avia measured non linear, but with famous square-cube rule, which mean, change size will increase mass as square, but capacity as cube, so to got 3x capacity, need 1.443 increase of size (1.442^3=3.0046853).
"was no more than a meaningless winter drinking game, played by a plague-ridden population that made use of the vibrant tulip market."

Exaggerated or not, I think we can still use this line!
when you are part of a dominant social group this can indeed seem to be the case
afaik coinbase is just an exchange, so hopefully they didn't speculate on crypto derivatives with 0 risk management like 3AC did
> you certainly shouldn't work at his company if you disagree with his vison or politics.

Vision maybe. Politics are irrelevant to work. It is impossible to achieve 100% alignment in an organization of more than one person. And even then I'm not sure it is possible.
linear regression dramatically reduces power requirements for rolling robot
> everyone agrees that the website is tired, ugly, and slow, but lots of people still do all their shopping from there because they're used to it and it's easier than maintaining accounts with 15 different retailers with 15 different websites

Slow compared to what? Amazon's website feels more responsive and more usable than 90% of online stores I've seen that carry orders of magnitude less variety of inventory. It loads fast, searches fast, provides for easy navigation between related products, and displays all needed information on one page without jank. Sure, it doesn't look modern, but it feels far more functional than the competition.
‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace
`ocaml-ctypes` currently supports "reverse-bindings" (making OCaml functions available from C) out-of-the-box and mostly takes care of the intersection you are talking about, so this already works quite well.

The only gain from emiting C code is portability to weird architecture that would be covered by C compilers but not the OCaml one; which is arguably a pretty niche use-case.
We'll the blog isn't even willing to make this readable on mobile. Why should one read the ramblings of such a backwards person
It hasn't been a regulation issue from the FAA that piston engines must use leaded fuel for some reason but rather there hasn't been a viable unleaded aviation fuel that worked with all piston engines.

This is about to change though with G100UL finally being approved. https://gami.com/g100ul/g100ul.php.
"Sussman and Wisdom make a bold experiment in communicating mathematical physics: they say exactly what they mean. Even a computer can follow their equations. By using this textbook, students painlessly master Scheme, a minimalist programming language, at the same time. This empowers them to go beyond the simplistic integrable systems that dominate the traditional course, to the richness of nonlinear resonance and chaotic dynamics. The hard core of rigor is softened by a personal and enthusiastic writing style"

How come I never heard of this before?
Why doesn’t house construction ever get disrupted?
House construction today is still extremely expensive and labor intensive, even in an age of mass production and automation. Houses are mostly built by hand with saws and nail guns on the job site.

There are some companies that make modular houses in factories, but it really isn’t any cheaper to build a house that way compared to the normal methods.

Why is this? Is it just too expensive and cumbersome to ship large parts of a house to the job site? And are any there any disruptive construction techniques available today or in the near future that could change this?
How come does every distro default to it, make it incredibly hard to opt-out, and then decide it's the best one available because it has more than double the installed base of the next option?

I simply do not understand people.
1930's German fascists took a lot of ideas from the US South's Jim Crow laws. I didn't realize this until I saw a display about it at the Dokumentationszentrum in Nuremberg.

The Nuremberg racial laws were particularly influenced by the laws implementing American anti-Black racism once the descendants of Africans abducted into enslavement were nominally free.

If you never want to sleep easy again, tour the section exploring how Germany went from fragile democracy into the state that was, within less than a decade, willing and able to systematically murder millions. Germans aren't special.
Coming soon to the crypto world at this rate.
I agree with your broad point.

Crypto really is just speed running early banking and financial systems.

Many bank runs would destroy banks and depositors were left with nothing. Eventually the FDIC was created to make sure people wouldn't lose everything and to prevent additional bank runs.

What's also interesting to think about is if we will ever see a coin halt transactions to prevent price changes. BTC is unlikely to face this since it's based on proof of work, but maybe a proof of stake protocol might have something like this happen, or a coin that has a small number of miners.

Maybe it would be similar to the few times NYSE has halted trading:
https://www.thestreet.com/markets/history-of-notable-market-...
I'm willing to recognize Gnome Chompsky as a valid alternative spelling.
For anyone wondering why 3AC becoming insolvent is such a big deal, this Twitter thread does a fair job of summarizing:

https://twitter.com/hodlKRYPTONITE/status/153690211554074214...

Basically, they're a large crypto fund that has borrowed from almost every major crypto lender, and if they can't cover their margin calls (which is expected if they're insolvent), the risk of the debt is then transferred to the lenders themselves.
>> Both employment and slavery are by degrees. I think they can be compared, but "employment = slavery" is obviously wrong.

> That's like comparing rocket motors to lettuce.

No, they're clearly not that different. Both involve laboring for others (usually members of the ownership class), under some degree of compulsion. Though the nature of that compulsion can be different (e.g. using the threat of the whip vs. using the threat of starvation).

The benefit of "being able to change jobs" is often significantly overstated and highly contextual. It's not like anyone can just pick any job they like: they have to pick what they're offered. For some people, that can be highly restricted, to the point of being serf-like.
Do you have any evidence for this theory that credentials are just for show and misdirection? For example hedge funds trying to fall back on the credentials of their employees in the event of failure?
The Wall Street guys have piled in running schemes that they are unable to do in the normal banking world because it is regulated & insured.

Most of the regulations have come from centuries of banking history, which the crypto world seems to be speed-running through right now, learning the hard way.

There is plenty to criticize about the banking world, but crypto is indefensible at this point.
Show HN: hTorrent – A HTTP to BitTorrent gateway with seeking written in Go
Hey HN! I just released hTorrent, a gateway that allows for retrieving torrents through a plain HTTP interface. It supports seeking, which means that it can be used to stream media directly using e.g. MPV without having to wait for the download to complete.

I'd love to get your feedback :)
Does anyone have a view on how "contained" crypto is? I.e. do these failures lead to anything other than pretend value going back to zero? Is there anything real that somehow depends on crypto (like what happened with mortgages)?
Turns out that tightly wrapping a small kernel of nothing with many layers of leverage can turn into a bomb that will blow up in your face.
Yes, light travels through glass and not through metal and paint.

But if the outside of the car gets hot, the inside will too.
your refusal to understand politics will not make politics go away
I don't know where you can read more. There are resources in Russian, but buran.ru is not quite functioning right now.

I remember that story from the time when I worked with guys from Russian CQG team, who, in turn, worked in CQG with the member of the Buran's software engineering team. It was 15 years ago.
Enumerating the implications is a bit different from a counterargument. I do argue that food & drug regulation has done a lot of damage by centralising power into the hands of the few. You can't really look at the healthcare system after government gets involved and argue that power has been pushed into the hands of the many, it is very centralised and best-case controlled by a small number of technocrats, worst case blatant corruption by big corporations.

The lesson in COVID times was that individuals have basically no control over their health choices when the technocrats make a decision. That was hardly "the many" in action.

I think voting & taxes are ultimately inseparable from government, but yeah - I would prioritise foreign policy above those two issues right now and encourage others to do the same. If a big war breaks out there may not be much left to tax.
Given how many hands your average bill has passed through, that sounds extremely unhygienic. I'd rather use a tulip!
Users. Not necessarily engaged. Anecdotally, nobody I've ever known uses LinkedIn unless they're job-hunting.
A big enough farm can also be a focused microwave phased array antenna, beaming power to any point overhead. Or even multiple points, given more than one frequency.
Before the pandemic, there were a lot of retirement-aged people working in food service, like an uncomfortable amount. I certainly haven't been out to eat as much as I have before COVID, but what I noticed was a suspicious lack of those older workers I've come to expect working in food service. A lot of restaurants and fast food places are running on skeleton crews, now, some of them with one or two 16 year olds running the whole businesses alone even during dinner rushes.
Try https://shapeshifter.design/, it's good for making icons morph like dark/light and hamburger/close.
Canada's Covid Alert app retired
I remember being really impressed by this 2005 demo of Microsoft's Sparkle interface builder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFTqhuL83QE

which eventually shipped as Expression Blend.
Satoshi's vision is still playing out. A possible goal was to demonstrate the notion of a distributed neutral-to-deflationary currency that could serve as both a store of value and a medium of exchange.

Bitcoin remains volatile, but also valuable (~$0.3T). There is now a global network of miners and it is possible to transact in BTC at any moment of the day with anyone else who also has a wallet.

The speculative bubble surely exists, and plenty of people will lose their shirts in this deflagration, but Satoshi's idea will live on in some form for the foreseeable future.

(Requisite disclaimer: I have held BTC for long periods in the past but no longer. The market and overall direction of the sector is too difficult to predict.)
Not sure what you mean. Discovering an alien rabbit race, even verifiable alien bacteria, would be a huge news event.
From what I can see, Gnome users do not complain. They know what works and what doesn't, and deal with it.

Not seeing anybody complaining about some Gnome brokeness is perfectly normal.
>I would be more inclined to agree with your argument regarding progress/innovation if there were more novel plastics coming to the market for food packaging but that isn't really the case and there hasn't been anything ground-breaking since PET.

disagree. there are new plastics constantly , and using bio-degradable plastics in packaging is getting a huge push within the industry for the past few years.

One example would be bovine-gelatin-films which are a new replacement for 'saran-wrap' style wrapping plastics.

a push for biodegradable plastics has been active since the U.N. listed it as a goal.

one imagines it would be hard to fully vet every proposed idea, there are thousands. Time will tell which will be human-kind.

https://sdgs.un.org/goals
"Slave labor" is not being used as hyperbole in this context. It is the conventional definition. A job that complies with the 13th amendment without exception is not slavery.
Is there any downside to this? Seems to me this is a positive outcome if it encourages speculators to leave the cryptocurrency space.

Crypto was never intended to be used (and abused) in such a way, and is a considerable deviation from Satoshi's original vision regarding Bitcoin. Perhaps it's time to get back to basics.
I'm out of the loop on crypto.

Are the loans denominated in crypto or dollars? Does this mean the lenders will have to sell crypto when they realize the loss?
They may well have used the original title and got edited by a mod.
Don't trust benchmarks. They're all manipulated by the hardware companies
Matt Levine got into this earlier this week.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-15/crypto...

I just want to block quote the second paragraph, but instead, just the first sentence.

“The deeper problem, always, is when you add leverage. Someone who gambled $40,000 on Bitcoin now has $20,000, fine. But someone who bought a Bitcoin with $20,000 of their own money and $20,000 borrowed from someone else now has roughly nothing, which is worse.”
This of course also enables storage for delivery of power at night.

I think there is some physical-chemical development work left to do for maximally efficient commodity-grade solid-state fuel cells that work with ammonia and air, but it is eminently doable today. In the meantime, you can burn ammonia in combined-cycle turbines where NG is burned now.
I think it's difficult to call something 100% speculative or 100% not. Some individuals may buy something for speculation, while others may desire the utility. You can speculate on the price of soy beans (many do), but people also buy soy beans to use.

There are individuals who get some utility out of bitcoin (international money transfers etc.)
There are a few things to note here the first is that China executes at least 8,000 people per year vs. 25 per year in the US. The other is that the 1.7 million number is an estimate.
The editorial / opinion pages of both NYT and WaPo ruined them for me. Thinking people want to read provocative, thoughtful perspectives that may challenge them, but the people and the positions in those pages are by and large, utter trash. Notice I didn't say anything about politics of left or right - I think there's trash there of both sides. We're talking people who are not good writers, who add nothing to public discourse, and who I would say spread a lot of at best half-truths and ill-informed ideas. So, I can't see paying for either one even though at least some of the journalism outside those sections is at least ok. Frankly, I think they both ride their past reputations and the fact they have survived by being in major urban centers while their past competitors (IE: small town newspapers, etc) have died.