skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OneCoin didn’t deliver anything, there was no technology, no coin

Ironically this question is why so many people got scammed, they couldn’t tell the difference either, despite there being obvious and relevant differences
As an engineer turned manager I often face blockers where I know that if I delegate it will take days or weeks to get it done properly, whereas if I just do it I will save myself and the team a lot of time.

However I'm still not sure if it's worth it in the end, perhaps it's one of these traps the article speaks of.
I'm torn between the love of Free Stuff and the understanding that even Free Stuff costs money.
That much concerning on the person of religion creates nothing except war. It is like when you are claiming in license that your sw can't be used for evil and get surprised that your sw is not compatible with free licenses.
I built a dead simple webhosting service
Americans are saints when it comes to environmental destruction. Many African countries have very high birth rates and they do whatever it takes to survive, environment be damned, such as pouring used motor oil on the ground without batting and eye or thinking twice about the effects to their own health. Don't even get me started about the mining and deforestation.
But why? Angle of the sun is lower. Sunrays go through more atmosphere.

Is it because people are mostly vertical when they are in the sun?
Battery degradation would limit expectations. "Oh shit, I got one of those old batteries that will only get me 150 miles when I was hoping for 200 to get to my mother-in-law's for Thanksgiving" isn't going to work.
ZeroTier has an iOS app now.
Very impressive machining to section these things so perfectly without dislodging the internal structure or causing burrs that would obscure detail.
We consume many resources and we won't consume less of them just because cars become electric. Emissions are just one of many pressures we out on the environment.

I think it's better to ask why should population keep growing? We don't need it and it physically has to stop growing at some point.

It seems much better to focus on growing quality of life and quality of environment rather than growing number of people.
All the issues you mentioned are problems we can and we will solve. Population growth is the best thing that happened to humanity. "Soon" we will become an inter-planetary species so it will get even better and exciting!
I’m going to be that guy at point you in the direction of “that comment” on Dropbox

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I'm pretty skeptical on electric planes (it's hard to generate that much thrust) but the others are all great improvements.

Still slowing population growth would be the easiest gradual way of dealing with resource and environmental issues. It also helps to spur automation and innovation by reducing the amount of cheap, desperate labour available (which is not a fulfilling existence for the workers either).

It can also be tied into ensuring that children have a good upbringing - introduce a child licence with requirements for raising a child to ensure some stability and responsible parenting - e.g. mandatory parenting and nutrition classes, $10+k in savings, living space requirements, etc. - this would help reduce crime and poverty and improve everyone's lives.
Alternative to teaching directly to a student: write a tutorial or even an introductory book about the subject. Writing often helps me to recognize weak points in my understanding, because it forces me to be explicit.

Writing something for others to understand is different than writing down notes for myself because I cannot assume that the other person knows what I know and that they see what I see. Having to explain what I thought I knew in words that someone else can understand, in my experience often reveals that I actually didn’t know it as well as I thought I would.

Having said that, I learn best by following my curiosity, by experimenting hands-on, by drawing maps and diagrams and by challenging my understanding with difficult questions and what-ifs. I call this curiosity-driven learning: ask yourself a question first (before any “knowledge-ingestion”) and try to solve it on your own until you get to a point where you really need to know more to answer that question. It forces you to think harder (as opposed to being spoon-fed information) and become more strongly motivated to learn.
Amazing that there are just off the shelf nfc tags shaped like clothing buttons.
Scunthorpe Sans, A font that censors bad language automatically
For many years I'm using ReadKit for Mac and couldn't be happier. Paid once in like 2014 and the app is still getting updates plus I get to my content without third parties. Why use a web service for something that doesn't need a backend to function?
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Open source is not about you (2018)
NetNewsWire user here. It’s very good. Would love one running on Linux natively.
Last I heard though, in Africa, population decline was due to endemic aids/hiv, and no real inexpensive treatment.

And some refusal to use condoms.

If this changes, the trend will sharply reverse.
Yeah, I agree, that's why we need population control everywhere.

The US is at a huge scale though, and that mining is probably going towards building American SUVs, military equipment, etc.
Would be nice to know what other people recommend for UPSs with sine-wave output.

Small APC units are pretty crappy by my own experience as well, especially if you go below 700VA.

I've used several 1000VA back-ups, smart-ups, and while the build quality is generally ok, the trip time for triggering and voltage upregulation was next to useless (passing >500ms). Many back-ups units tend to trigger the differential. The batteries you get from APC itself are just plainly overpriced.

I generally prefer to have many smaller upses nowdays, so I went with a few back-ups rs 500 and two cyberpower (cp900epfclcd).

Upregulation of the rs500 is a joke that you cannot rely on. The output quality is "passable" at best. It's also a pretty basic plastic case, pretty much like the cyberpower. When powered off, it keeps on flipping the main input relay every 10 seconds until it's fully disconnected from the mains.

On the other hand I didn't own cyberpower units for 10+ years like I did for APC, so I cannot truly comment on that.

Can somebody recommend alternatives that truly perform their duty?
I dont understqnd this attitude. I use feedly and like the author of tfa I don't pay them any money, so I ignore the junk. This is the price you have to pay when you get something for free. I have a lot of sympathy for feedly: it seems like a really hard thing to get people to pay for. What does the author think feedly should do with its free tier?

Before feedly I self hosted TinyTinyRss for a while (kind of slow) and before that Google Reader. And before that Newsblur. I never paid for any of them and now I have more than enough paid subscriptions for stuff. Reading rss feeds just doesn't make it over the line of things I'd be willing to pay for.

Edit: I pay £10/month for Adobe Creative Cloud and get Photoshop, Lightroom, XD, Illustrator, etc. I pay ~£8/month for Office 365 and get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. All massively rich and powerful tools. Why does feedly imagine I would want to pay £5/month to read rss feeds?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15797831

Interesting that there is no author information, even at the Github project where there's just a pseudonymous "cell-lang" user. Also no license information.
NewsBlur is pretty good and does exactly what it is intended for.
> But that's not sustainable -

100 years ago people were saying we would all die from starvation after a few billion more people. Doom sayers have zero credibility.
> I don't. Windows 10 and 11 turned my OS choice from a preference to a requirement. I will not buy a Windows machine for a long time. They turned their OS into borderline malware.

That's because you are not their customer, you are their free advertisement that you pay for privilege of being. Their real customers are on enterprise level, and because of that, their enterprise version of Windows/Office differs from even pro one. So get yourself better enterprise version (if you can, good luck with that).

Also if you want to lease a computer, Linux option is more expensive.
I assume you mean the far side of the Moon.

A solar panel on the dark side wont be much use.

But then people have discussed landing on the Sun at night.
Cool idea! I always have ideas to make these sorts of community apps, but end up worrying about trolls and talk myself out of it.
India has dropped to just above replacement rate (2.2 births per women), down from just under 6 births per women in 1960

Africa fertility rate is dropping around 1.5% per year annually for the region as a whole.

Increasingly technologized populations drop fertility fast
offtopic - it’s not dark side if moon but far side of moon. Both sides get the same amount of sunlight - 2 weeks of sun and 2 weeks of darkness.
We were all born into a very fortunate time in earth's history regarding natural disasters.

The dust bowl absolutely destroyed a large part of the US. In prior centuries, massive droughts, volcanic explosions that blackened the skies, and massively deadly pandemics ravaged the world. These things happen periodically and absolutely destroy any population that's pushing the limits of its population totals.

So far we've managed to sustain huge population numbers by pumping up ground water. That's drying up across the world. We've survived off fish. Those populations are collapsing. We've diverted rivers for agriculture in deserts. There isn't enough rain to keep those flowing and hasn't been for years, plus with climate change glaciers and mountain snow that fed into rivers are increasingly a thing of the past--rivers and lakes that exist today will cease to exist within our lifetime (and long before we expect). Fertilizer let us push the land well beyond sustainable limits and vegetables are less nutritious than they've ever been due to nutrients being wiped out of the soil. Most countries are dependent on food being shipped from hundreds if not thousands of miles away and often from other countries entirely.

The world is severely overpopulated. We've just been lucky to have had a few decades of peaceful trade and a very, very, very mild environmental situation with zero major global disasters. This isn't the norm. One massive volcanic eruption, one actual plague, one massive drought and it's all over.
I’ve just had a look and GitHub and that appears to be the case.

Note, I know nothing about Headscale; I’m happy to pay for Tailscale and support the team behind it.
Does a Tailscale iOS article and a service disruption post-mortem from them count as two separate articles? They deal with different topics with potentially different audiences. What about two articles about running Debian, one on an iPod the other on a PC?

These intricacies is why we have lawyers and Reddit moderators killing your post because there is an arbitrary exception to their 15 rules you hadn't considered. We can do without these.

(This whole conversation thread reminds me of my time reading Bakunin & co. :)
Alternatively, the charging infrastructure needs to evolve. Even considering the currently available technology, imagine having 150kW chargers in place of every gas station that we have right now. Install ~20 chargers in the most busy locations, and the average time spent at the station will no be much higher than getting gas.
Just had a chat with the creator omn the platform, cool dude!
And that was offset by the Green Revolution.

The current fertiliser shortages might undo some of that, there's a real chance we see severe famines in Lebanon, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Yemen, and other countries next year.
Frankly I do not want to share streets with people who drive 800 km, refuel and drive even more after that in one go.
What do you think is the cause of the global environmental crisis?
You’re making the mistake of average use cases.

Your first idea requires new, expensive infrastructure that will need maintenance due to mechanical parts. Given charging points are regularly broken at the moment, I don’t have high hopes. But even if we overcame that: it’s impractical in almost every major city in the World, because you’d have to drastically alter existing spaces, such as filling stations.

This might work in your context, and many others. It might even work for the “average” use case. But for 75% of the developed World (where the EV market is the fastest growing), I’m not convinced.

And the electric cargo bike argument - or bikes in general - work great for the “average” journey, but not many people actually take that journey.

My most frequent drive is 200+ miles in normally wet or cold weather. My next most frequent is 15+ miles in baking hot Summer sunshine in a heavily congested city where I need aircon. Neither would be pleasant on a bike - electric or not.

And I think that’s the point of this discussion: engineering for averages is a terrible idea, and most EVs don’t work for most journey profiles for most of the World’s drivers today, compared to ICE
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I think it's better to ask why should population keep growing? We don't need it and it physically has to stop growing at some point.

Because you can’t stop people from breeding apart from killing them, at which point you’ve become Hitler. That or tax and social disincentivization at which point you’ve become the Illuminati. That or a procreation suppression field at which point you’re the Combine.
Yes, that was before we manufactured fertilizer. If that invention didn't exist, this number absolutely wouldn't be sustainable.

Soil is now becoming depleted and fertilizer isn't enough.[1] Globally, much also depends on rapidly depleting ground water that isn't being replenished. Agriculture is exceeding its limits.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conserv...
Like the last time this was posted, I don't seem to be able to get a match. :/

I did briefly connect with one person for a few seconds, but after they disconnected it hasn't worked again, which is super unfortunate because I really like the idea.

Maybe it's because I'm on mobile though.
Why is server-side rendering considered "legacy" nowadays?
My grandad was born in 1925 - he remembers them installing the electric streetlights in Birmingham.

The main difference seemed to be car traffic and tourism. It's just unrecognisable nowadays (and even from the 1980s tbh).

Such a revolutionary time though - to go from biplanes to jet aircraft, radar, computers, mobile phones, etc. - I can't imagine we'll see a similar rate of change.
bought mine in October 2017 and still wear it daily to this day. it easily goes the full day and usually most of the next if I forget to charge it. it might last longer if I turned off the cellular antenna, but I've never needed to.
I think, overpopulation is a eco-facist narrative.

Persons are autonomous, and if we would educate them correctly, they could help to make more of earth hospitable and use resources more efficientlly.
is this website accurate? https://www.census.gov/popclock/world says we're notably farther away, and im inclined to trust a government over a site run by an unknown group
> China had a literal one child policy

The operative word being "had". It hasn't had one in a while.

> Population grows exponentially

It really depends. It does if you assume TFR is a constant, but it tends to not be constant.

> I don’t think we should look at it in decades but rather as through lenses that capture time in centuries.

In the "centuries" timeframe, technological change (much reduced infant mortality, availability of contraception, career opportunities, etc) pretty much dominates the TFR situation.
Clean water is an issue of energy and resources to build cleanup or desalination plants.
One of the most useful features of Feedly for me was that you could export full articles with highlights as PDFs. Yet to find another RSS reader that can do this - am currently using Inoreader's highlighting features.
About January 8th according to this site.
Before I figured out what the loud roar meant I already forgot when I parked, and when I first noticed any issue.

Google location history let me check that the car was parked where it was parked just for one night (I misremembered it as longer period).

Then I could accurately relate it to the police. Which of course will lead to nothing. But I felt better when I could make statements with cerainity.
You’re being downvoted, but for rather silly reasons. There are people who wrongly assume less people means higher quality of life for everyone else. There’s simply no empirical data to back such a claim up. The most concerning growth is unsustainable growth, exponential growth that cannot be sustained which causes immediate stress on the local economy. Likewise, there’s also economic stress when the opposite happens as economies are built under the guise of population growth, not just capitalism.

What we see continually rather is a narrative of overpopulation pushed and advanced by seemingly related points about lack of food and water. In reality these are completely orthogonal points which have some correlation to, but are not directly proportional to population growth all.
The planet and nature would survive just fine - it’s just that people wouldn’t.
Saints, for real ? The rate of consumption of Americans would require more than 5 planets to be sufficient,

Most African countries need less than one

You mention mining and deforestation but where do you think the material extracted are going ?
CartographerDSL: A jsonnet DSL for writing CircleCI configs
The pseudonymous creator of the Bitcoin blockchain made the effort to include a proof in the genesis block that the chain wasn't premined. That was before there was a word for it.

Maybe you are thinking of Ethereum? It is currently at 60% premine, the target ratio has been changed a number of times, but the ratio should be lower in the future.
You're right that the parent used "disgusting", and there too it was inflammatory.

With regards to the pricing, your comment said "pay a subscription fee", which implies all tiers of Tailscale are paid, which they aren't, similar to AWS free tier services.
Could be solved by measuring how much charge it takes and bills you for that + some min charge for the change service would be the price, a bit more complex but I reckon the swap service could be made simple enough that it's low cost.
No its more like you hire a cleaner, and the house is pretty damn clean and you smash all the windows out with a sledgehammer during a rainstorm.

But hey, owner, doesnt work that way.
That's still power you could either use to charge batteries or sell back to the grid
Seconded, it would be lovely to have cross platform. Simple and just works without fuss. Now, if only more websites would have RSS feeds these days.. it's been a steady decline.
Then you are going to drive 150 miles and spend extra 3 mins to change the battery again - no? Not a big deal, and certainly not a deal breaker.
Nah - the pit-stop type battery replacement is the obvious solution to most EV charging problems, but we humans can not execute it. It requires level of coordination and cooperation between companies that we are not easily capable of right now.
China then to the rest of the world in the form of manufactured goods. America isn't the only major consumer of finished goods.
React is not good enough. It sucks for both time and space complexity. It's slow, it's bloat. I don't want to tie myself with the word "engineering" for doing software development these days. It's shameful compared to other engineering fields.
Edible just means it doesn't kill you immediately at doses you can fit in your stomach.
Going through the article I realized this attitude is what eventually kills some really good software. If a software does what you expect it to do and does it well but includes a few prompts here and there for marketing purposes...is that really so bad?

Live and let live, I say. Not everyone is running a charity and Feedly is nowhere even near the top of the list of software ripping off their users or selling their data to make money.

What the author labels as "cluttered" is really not that cluttered at all. It looks much better than an completely empty list in the alternative they prefer. But that's just UI.

I am not saying don't move to another alternative. I am just saying that the reasons the author is calling Feedly out for are unjustified and don't really make sense.
I don’t get it? In the grandparent comment you said the number would be pushed lower. But now you’re claiming it will actually be higher. Or maybe that it just won’t change much?
For me this is also a point about writing code that can easily be mentally translated to human language.

It might seem simple enough, but this bug shows that

if (Current < Withdrawal): Current -= Withdrawal

requires a few mental steps in working memory that can easily get missed

Whereas

isValidTransaction = Current - Withdrawal >= 0
if (isValidTransaction): NewBalance = Current - Withdrawal

reads like English, and is hard to get wrong in my view.

In the first case, the reader is expected to do mental math (albeit easy) in order to verify correctness. Whereas in the second, they're only expected to read a logical statement and confirm that the logic checks out.
> any examples of where TLA+ is being used?

If you use Amazon AWS its pretty much guaranteed you'll be using at least one service that's been modelled using TLA+.[1]

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184701-how-amazon-web-...
I'm totally impressed about how we probably reached that point of technological advances without addressing the social problems that make those crimes happens.
That's obviously no true since (1) many countries today have birth rates below replacement levels, and (2) contraception exists.

(Godwin point reached very quickly...)
GTX 970 reporting for duty...
> the most popular auth library needed quite a bit of manual patching in code to make it all work

Which one did you use?
I'll add that writing a substantive comment opens you to comments from the mob that disagrees and you can get sucked in defending your POV or simply downvoted because the mob smelled blood.
It doesn't matter when Africa is exploding. All the low birthrate in the West does is weaken the countries trying to protect the environment. As this continues corporations will bring in the people from these undeveloped countries who will bring their unsustainable cultures with them.

This whole "stop having children to save the environment" bullshit is dumber than the anti-nuclear crap and even more obviously wrong.
Now it looks like Discord
> Population Growth today: 110,589

Ok that's way more than I would've thought, and it's only 11 AM. Not sure if it converts to the local time zone though.
I'm surprised you can rent an EV. Few hotels have a place to charge them, so there goes the idea of plugging them in overnight, which is the main advantage of EVs
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> There's no "I'm free once I'm a home owner" thing.

I finally signed up to an account to HN to say emphatically that it's the opposite.

Owning a house is a huge responsibility that takes up the vast majority of my time, and it's a millstone around your neck if you ever think about moving somewhere else.
Easy to discount companies when you overly simplify them -

ie “#2 in the US is Stripe, the company that lets you pay on a credit card. Not sure if I’d be trumpeting that as innovative!”
Incoherent misuse of the language of category theory. No one will buy in if the argument is not communicated clearly.