skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I've had two college classes that covered Peak Oil. It's a very solid theory.

It's why gas prices went crazy in the 1970s, but then we discovered the Alaska oil fields and built a pipeline. Geologists are pretty confident there are no more surprise oil fields that can save us a second time. Even if we discovered crazy amounts of oil in the Antarctic or on the moon, extraction costs would be stupidly high, so it still would not bring back cheap oil.
I think in this context, I'd worry about attributing any actions taken on the root account back to a named user. I suppose tailscale keeps an auth log (anyone know details?) so you likely could determine "root"="alice" by looking across different log files. Attributing privileged commands to an employee is critical for security.

In other contexts you want to avoid shared root accounts, as you'd want to block access for former employees, but you don't want to rotate credentials every time. SSO for tailscale makes that easier.
> Russia is blockading Ukraine grain exports

Russia say that it's Ukraine refusing to demine the waters that it, Ukraine, mined in the first place. I've also read that the impact of the (lack of) grain exports is drastically overblown
> completely forgo all of Bitcoin's guarantees

ah, he doesn't understand at all how lightning works. He's just repeating sound bites.
Good luck forcing redistribution using central authorities. The very reason for the existence of modern loans is to bypass their stupidity. You do not comprehend the literal scale of the problem. You have to replace every fucking bank employee with a govt employee (in simple terms). If you think a central body is bloated now…
I'm sorry, but Uncle Enzo and I go way back, and I couldn't do that to him -- not after I already promised him I'd go to the job fair coming up.
Alas, the real “telnet” protocol has considerably more fanciness than nc. It’s just that the telnet cli command degrades into a simple line-oriented mode if it doesn’t see the telnetd init sequence.
And, some actual timings (code: https://godbolt.org/z/qnWEqs446):

$ clang -DLEN=1024 -DITERATIONS=100000 -O3 switch.c && ./a.out
predictable:
call_table: 173.1ms
switch_cases: 59.6ms
random:
call_table: 536.2ms
switch_cases: 450.4ms
$ gcc -DLEN=1024 -DITERATIONS=100000 -O3 -fcf-protection=none switch.c && ./a.out
predictable:
call_table: 174.5ms
switch_cases: 114.7ms
random:
call_table: 581.8ms
switch_cases: 108.8ms
$ clang -DLEN=64 -DITERATIONS=2000000 -O3 switch.c && ./a.out
predictable:
call_table: 230.6ms
switch_cases: 116.0ms
random:
call_table: 218.7ms
switch_cases: 158.2ms
$ gcc -DLEN=64 -DITERATIONS=2000000 -O3 -fcf-protection=none switch.c && ./a.out
predictable:
call_table: 872.7ms
switch_cases: 146.3ms
random:
call_table: 740.4ms
switch_cases: 132.2ms

The switch is faster in all cases, often by a big margin.
Thank you for the excellent review!

Also, I'll second the comments here: The design of your blog is beautiful.
> That's all government has ever been and will always be: a protection racket.

Eh, no.

I think it's usually an indication of sloppy thinking when someone makes sweepingly absolute statements about vague, abstract concepts with numerous and important differences in implementation.
The schematic/drawing says 2000 meter range, the title and description say 1km. Not sure which to believe!
> Atom

Atom should be manageable enough in size that if people really wanted to keep it, they could fork it. Maybe they have.
Surprising for me: AWS's market share is still Azure + GCP combined amongst professional developers [1]. With various articles about Microsoft's success I was expecting lower. The same for loved / dreaded. AWS scores significantly better [2] in terms of loved over other cloud platforms. Being in the HN bubble I was expecting that to be lower also. The other items that scored high on loved / dreaded were mostly new technologies vs. dominant incumbents.

1 - https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technolog...

2 - https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-loved-dreaded-and...
(shrug) I still use OpenOffice 4.1.5 day to day on windows 10, with no issues...didn't know about any controversy.
> So when I say they make that for profit

To say someone's doing something for money, is to imply money making is their main motivation and end goal. I'm arguing that money is the means to an end.

> You seem to consider that cars made the world a better place, that's your opinion

I probably can argue for that, but what's more important than cars themselves, is the technology, processes and innovations that came about because of the desire for personal transportation.

> But it would be hard to argue that the current climate crisis is not caused by technology.

True.

> You're just blindly hoping that more of it will magically solve the problem

Trend towards more technological societies has historically solved the issues of the past. In field of medicine alone, it's because of industrial revolution, mass production, integrated circuits, and countless other tech innovations that: we have access to all sorts of medical imaging and measurement devices that help diagnose and save people's lives; vaccine development, patient monitoring to name just a few. You look at cars and see excessive number of people moving machines. I see an entire history of innovation in mass production that high scale car manufacturing has led. Mass production is what has made possible the cheap silicon tech we have today, that goes into everything.

TL;DR you can't just pick one thing and label it good or bad. Technology is general has evidently (as piles and piles of stats show) and increasingly improved the quality of life of the world population in general.

> technology is destroying life on Earth

Earth will be destroyed even with no humans on it. In the long run, technology is the only tool for survival of life. Life will go extinct one way or another, sooner or later. We can either stay in the cave and face our doom, or get out, innovate, make mistakes and extend how long life sticks around. We can obviously make more mistakes than we need to but that's a much more nuanced conversation than "tech is bad, let's stop".

> Because we can do something cool (nobody denies that SpaceX is cool) doesn't mean we should do it.

"Something cool", just like "only for profit", is not the goal. SpaceX'es mission is to extend life beyond Earth. Making Space cool is what's needed to inspire people to join and make things happen.
$25k / 12months / 9 years = $230. Which seems reasonable.
Most don't realize, you can run 400mbps of data over your old in-home electrical wiring.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/everything-you-need-...
> Clojure remains the highest-paid language to know.

Any ideas around why that could be?
It's a choice in the same way having anxiety or depression is a choice. That is, it's treatable and is possible to overcome it, but it's a very difficult path. I think it's unfair to compare it to smoking though. There are genetic factors with obesity and mental health issues.
How Tailscale different from other VPN solutions?
Yes, but that appears to be if you're doing sequential reads. Works for a handful of use cases, but not most normal desktop or server workloads.
I would agree with this, except that there are actually some good long term suggestion that if you put large groups people on nearly/entirely only potatoes you do end up with remarkably healthy people.

This is noted in, of all things, Adam Smiths the Wealth of Nations when he compares the diet of the poor in England (mostly wheat), in Scotland (Barley?) and, of course, Ireland (Potatoes). He notes that, of these groups, it is not the relatively well-of poor in England who are the healthiests, but the poorest of the all, the Irish. The poor in Ireland would not be able to afford more than the cheapest food, which would be whatever greens were in season and potatoes.
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Don't forget environmental waste. The amount of pen-plastic vapes that get tossed is so polluting. There is nothing recyclable in those products.
I pronounce it as something like /'liːbreɪ/ (LEE-bray). (It definitely feels to me like a conscious foreignism.)
Linked article does not support your claim that the program told kids vapes were completely safe.
$4.22 (USD) a month is really not that bad for Protonmail, fwiw. (12 month, cheaper for 24-month) That's nothing compared to a Netflix or HBO max subscription.
"Ghostwriters" is fun to use here....

I disagreed with this part though -> However, his downfall is his willingness to sell himself out. By the mid-1990s every month at least two titles (if not more) baring Stine's name on the front cover would be released in bookstores across the globe.

God forbid he try to cash in.... It doesn't mention what they mean by his downfall or even allude to poor reception or that the quality went down. I aged out of goosebumps when they were still new to the scene, so I have no idea what the author is talking about.
Protection against rampaging business people, warlords, and run of the mill monsters.
>it's supposed to be the arbiter of civil rights, fairness, and enablement, with the convenient side effect of enriching a very small group of people who actually pull the strings

so the ends justify the means? Even the premise is wrong
Just a side question: Any reason you did restrict it by country?

I suppose you have only data for certain locations so that would be the most logical explanation to me
> it would mean that others could say “I told you so” about Dai/Compound etc not crashing.

No, they really cant. Like, I have no idea what DAI/Compound are, and trivial googling didn't answer. A random counterexample doesn't disprove every famous and/or high market cap coin crashing.

To use your market example, if you kept saying tech stocks are overpriced we would judge it based on the performance of the NASDAQ. You wouldn't be able to say "well, Apple still convinces people to give them all their money and they're still doing well so you were wrong."

Besides, it's not enough for the greater fools to continue to exist. There needs to be a credible mechanism for wealth to actually be created.

> It’s fine to be risk-averse and avoid crypto as a rule

Being risk-averse and avoiding crypto are different things. I don't touch crypto because I think it's a scam
It’s pure chaff when we are actually trying to have conversation and not write reddit/twitter gotchas.

In this case, the de-snarked version is a much better response and it leads to a conversation towards clarity. e.g. the author could respond to why the functions were changed.

The original snark doesn’t do that. It just casts judgement instead of seeking clarity. It’s childish and something I would do in my shameful Reddit-arguing days.
> Nobody cared to regulate it until it became a contentious issue over which virtue points could be earned or lost.

... and until people died in mind-blowing spectacular accidents [1] and Tesla in particular repeatedly lied in public or did other questionable maneuvers.

If the self-driving car industry wants someone to blame for their misery aka stricter regulations, they should look at Tesla. All it takes to make stuff worse for everyone is one who is caught doing stuff that simply is not OK.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073857310/tesla-autopilot-cr...
Thank you for saying this so eloquently. It's a sad state where this elephant in the room isn't talked or acknowledged really. Well, ok, it's politically "unfeasable" but still if we don't even acknowledge it, nothing real will change.

The other elephant in the room that no one talks about is that housing shouldn't be that much of a problem in a country where the population is not growing (but it is because it is used as an asset although it should be for living not for wealth growth, thus having 2nd or 3rd homes should be massively discouraged through taxes).
Since no one has linked it yet, according to CyberSquirrel, most outages are caused by (or blamed on) squirrels, up to 2019: https://cybersquirrel1.com
Nonprofits can obey a court orders same as anybody else. When they are obviously in the wrong, it is hard to understand why they would resist.

That said, it is hard to understand why they resist good sense now.

Except, "Apache is where free software projects go to die."
Yes, and he's been posting the same exact nonsense for a while now. The reformed idealist narrative is a marketing gimmick to attract investors.
Binance.us Starts Zero-Fee Trading for Bitcoin in Pricing War
US-centric approach. How about if China decides to fill the power vacuum that the isolationist US leaves. How about if eg. COSCO buys out the port operators around the globe. How about if they decide to protect their shipping routes with their military so that they carry on with providing goods to the globe. Globalization is still in the best interests of China, even if the US decides to abandon it.
So maybe an augmentation?

So in addition to literal breathing, an oxi-suppo could boost metabolic performance in someone like a runner (like a soccer player, as an example as the avg running of a professional soccer game is listed at 7 miles-ish)

Also, there is a genetic reference to those who have higher-volume nasal passage-ways.

Humans evolved (this is not my statement, I have heard this from a number of scientists) - that our bipedal motion, with our air-consumption, coupled with our ability to sweat and lack of 'fur' allow us to off-gas much faster and more efficiently...

our muscles produce lactic acid as a result which is tired-ness.

OBV oxygen is delivered through the blood... such as are nutrients... so...

a suppository oxygenating pill might actually be a performance enhancing "drug"?
It is still possible. I have been doing so for a few years, by focusing on single note taking app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yocto.weno...

Here's my take :-

1) Just like in other businesses, it is a competitive market.

2) However, it is also full of limitless opportunities. Google Play store helps you to reach worldwide end consumers. Only a few channels can do that with a frictionless payment system. Google Play store is one of them.

3) Since it is a highly competitive market, you need to know your niche and know who your targetted customers are very well. Then, we provide a solid solution to fit customer needs.

4) Play store tax is not a concern. Once you publish the app, the only main concern is how to market the app and how to pitch the app so that consumers will choose your app over the others.

5) With some luck, one will hit overnight success. But, the chance is rare. Most of the time, we need to invest a lot of resources, and success is not guaranteed.
Support has largely been relegated to FAQs, but if your problem is not in the FAQ then you are in trouble. I only have a Google account for using the Play store and don’t have anything important on my account. I assume some algo will flag my account and get it irrecoverably banned with no recourse.
> Might we see the nation-state get replaced by a web of competing mercenaries, each of which effectively serves as a protection racket for their customers?

How do you envision the deprecation of the nuclear-armed nation state unfolding? The USSR had a unipolar world outside to stabilize and manage its disintegration. How is this accomplished in a multipolar context, with tensions inflamed by intensifying scarcity, competition, environmental instability, etc?

Serious questions, not a derogatory comment
The changes in this edition of ECMAScript can be found at the end of this table (everything with "2022" in the last column):

https://github.com/tc39/proposals/blob/main/finished-proposa...

The ECMAScript 2022 specification can be found here (warning: large document!):

https://262.ecma-international.org/13.0/
Was the 'older model' in this case one of the models where it is known that manufacturers were shipping SMR drives without disclosing it?
From the Wikipedia entry for the U.S. Marines:

The Marines' most famous action of this period occurred during the First Barbary War (1801–1805) against the Barbary pirates,[38] when William Eaton and First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon led 8 Marines and 500 mercenaries in an effort to capture Tripoli. Though they only reached Derna, the action at Tripoli has been immortalized in the Marines' Hymn and the Mameluke sword carried by Marine officers.

8 Marines, 500 mercenaries. Contractors have always played a big part in the ebb and flow of international conflict.
Europe and UK pour 17,000 tons of cooking oil into vehicles a day
So this dude is just a fucking sellout.
I really like what you've done here, and I think it has broader applicability as an input/editing mode for all sorts of graph-like information.

I love the varied export options, my one suggestion is to be able to export or copy/paste some of the information into a more flexible, less marked up format - e.g. a text file, csv, etc. even if it means a loss of some of the information.

Why? A visual flow chart isn't always the (only) end product. Eventually you'll want to extract information out of the tree without having to parse or regex a dot / mermaid file to do it.

I went down this route back in the 00's with various mind mapping tools. I used them to explore projects, processes, sort out designs, think through problems. It was so quick to get relationships down and see the bigger picture.

But then I was left with a bunch of mind maps that I wanted to turn into other things, for example todo lists, project plans, document outlines, flow charts etc. The mind map software tended to export exclusively into either images or other mind map formats, so all that information was effectively locked up.

Sure I could write a script to regex what I wanted out of those formats, but why couldn't I just copy and paste the titles from the tree into a text file?
This is basically the premise of Metal Gear Solid 4.
I spent some time in middle management (first as a lead, then as a manager of a small team of devs) and I refuse to do that again. You're 100% right, as you move up, it gets more miserable. As a lead, I was constantly doing adult daycare and counseling for the developers. At the same time, upper management was constantly breathing down my back to improve my teams analytics and performance - regardless of how well the team was doing.

The worst part of the two gigs I had was the director who was in the position above me? Not moving. In both companies. I spent almost six years between two companies trying to find a way out of middle management. I finally realized a lot of companies structure gets flat very quickly because a lot of the upper level executives are not moving, or not getting promoted, so then you have another set of issues you're dealing with.

Its just not worth it unless you can get in and get out of middle management in less than 2 years.
Nicotine is definitely a pretty virulent poison. People seem to think it's no worse than caffeine but it's a far more potent alkaloid:

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

However for nicotine addicts the e-cigarette is certainly a better method of delivery than the cigarette, as you're not getting exposure to known carcinogens like benzo[a]pyrene etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzo(a)pyrene

> "Benzo[a]pyrene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and the result of incomplete combustion of organic matter at temperatures between 300 °C (572 °F) and 600 °C (1,112 °F). The ubiquitous compound can be found in coal tar, tobacco smoke and many foods, especially grilled meats. The substance with the formula C20H12 is one of the benzopyrenes, formed by a benzene ring fused to pyrene. Its diol epoxide metabolites (more commonly known as BPDE) react with and bind to DNA, resulting in mutations and eventually cancer."
Do you mean certificate authority or California? I can see an argument for both.
Exactly, it's so weird to see people talk about fruit flavors as if they're designed to appeal to children. I'd say most of the vape liquids on the market in Germany have some kind of sweet flavor, because guess what, adults like them.
People are scratching their heads wondering how China will make its way into the automotive industry. A lot of people are too afraid to buy cars from them.

Well one way appears to be rebadging no name vehicles to support pseudo philanthropic efforts.

To anyone this reads as “finally automotive independence for the developing world”, think again.
My mom's German. I grew up in a bilingual household.

It's not a big deal to my mind. (shrug)
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> Solar panels don’t waste sunlight and have no input costs.

Not exactly, the point is that building and installing solar panels consumes resources and physical space. A solar plant with 100% efficient panels is 1/10th the size of today's solar plant, and as I mentioned, to generate comparable amounts of power to conventional sources requires huge amounts of landmass. Plus input materials. And it has to be replaced every 20 years.

> Rooftop solar turns 20% of something that would have been 100% wasted into high grade energy.

Not 20%, right, closer to 15%. Rooftop solar also kills about 10X as many people per generated TWh (0.44-0.83 people per TWh) as compared to nuclear power (0.04 people per TWh) - due to installation. [1]

I'm not advocating for coal of course, but it's wrong to say solar wastes nothing. There's input materials, plastics, silicon - all sorts of toxic chemicals - and generates tons and tons of e-waste that we don't really have a plan for right now. [2]

> Your numbers on solar panel degradation are also incorrect based on my experience in the industry. They do degrade but not at that at 2% per year for ten years.

As I mentioned, the degradation rate is highest in the first year, I said 2.5%, but then it drops off to about 0.5% in subsequent years. The data comes from an NREL analytical review. [3]

NOTE: I edited the number to more generously assume the 0.5%-1% degradation was not in percent efficiency but rather in percent capacity - which is 1/5th as much, to your point.

[1] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die...

[3] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51664.pdf
> My neighbors spent a couple years built a fucking chalet that took up their entire backyard, ruined my small view of the occasional sun in Portland

Not In My Back Yard
His credentials seem phenomenal:

I went to work in construction to build energy-efficient homes, and I started a company that built composting systems for cities and businesses. I became executive director of an organization that championed green building policies and became CEO of a consulting firm that commercialized clean energy technologies and ran energy-efficiency programs. I then founded a software startup to help promote green home upgrades, and I led business development for a company making wireless power technology.

This is more than "clever writing" to me and you are just adding more data that do not invalidate his points.
Maybe call it something other than "X"Office? The names are too few and too generic to be a meaningful distinguisher, IMO. It's like how every hobby assembly is <letter>asm. Slapping "free/open/libre" in front of a generic word has limits.
Small correction: you mean altitude, not azimuth. Altitude is how far you need to tilt your head vertically to look at an object. Azimuth is the compass direction.
There might not be any human carcinogens in cold vape liquid, unless it was produced by organized criminals and introduced into the bootleg market, which is quite common. But once heated, which is how an e-cigarette works, even the non-carcinogenic solvents react to form probable human carcinogens.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5307352/
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