skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably a good idea. Or, if they can't run deficits (many US states have this) and asset sales don't count as revenue you'd probably be in a similar situation.
Smoke and mirrors, the first plot is log scale, and thus demonstrates exponential growth in your portfolio. no rebalancing necessary, there no free lunch here, just a manipulator using graphs to manipulate.
Worth noting that when I purchased minecraft back in 2011, the store page did in fact (according to archive.org) say:

“When you purchase Minecraft you do so as is, be it in the early stages of development or already fully released. Subsequent updates are only an added bonus and not a guarantee, as icing on a cake. Purchases during the development of the game are discounted and include the full game upon release.”

and

“When you purchase a game from us, you fill in your personal/company details. You agree that we store and use your information in our organization to complete the agreement towards you. You have the right, according to the law Personuppgiftslagen (PUL) in Sweden to know about the information registered about you. If it is wrong, insufficient or irrelevant you have the right to make sure that it gets corrected or removed.”

But the rest of your comment stands.
What license will this be?
Such a great collection of projects, he in a lot of ways reshaped basic software tooling. Also met him at gophercon one year and he was a cool guy
> How do you know a huge portion of people engage in useless hobbies with no meaningful external outputs?

How many hobbyists' hobbies all meet the thread-relevant standard of usefulness with meaningful external outputs (e.g. producing creative work with comparable or greater value to people outside their social circle than hypothetical superb AI alternatives... or the abundance of writing and painting and recorded media and manufactured goods and software already out there available at little or no cost)? What proportion of the population would you say undertook literally no activities which could be described as hobbies? The difference between those two numbers is your portion of people who engage in "useless" hobbies with no meaningful output.

People still play chess badly against human opponents even though computers can play it perfectly (or with dialled down difficulty); even using computers with perfectly adequate chess playing programs installed to seek out remote human opponents. People spend hours trying to play Stairway to Heaven borderline adequately despite the fact anyone can listen to Stairway to Heaven played by Jimmy Page on demand, and has been able to for very little outlay for half a century now. Even if fans could ever be persuaded that the music the AI was generating was superior to that created by Led Zeppelin, why would people interested in playing music cease to be interested in playing music?

A hobby is something people choose to do primarily for enjoyment rather than profit; it's almost a tautology that [further] reducing the potential for profit by spamming the space with AI-generated outputs isn't going to greatly discourage people from doing it.
Ok, but...

You better get used to higher taxes when you're of working age. And you better get used to reduced Social Security payments. Because these things rely on growth.

You better get used to a flat stock market. If you want to live off your investments when you're old -- you're going to have to save a whole lot more.

Growth helps governments inflate away their (very large) debts. In a static economy, this won't work -- so you better get ready to pay off all that money our government has borrowed.

People are not "obsessed" with growth -- growth is built into our economy in a fundamental way -- and ending growth would be extremely painful to regular people.
Well I didn't think I needed to spell it out since he spends most of the interview explicitly stating my second and third points.

But if I must:

- Daly points out that GDP growth != welfare growth. In fact, growing GDP has negative externalities that might decrease aggregate welfare. By reducing GDP growth in wealthy countries he argues we might open up resources for developing economies to grow. This reduces to something like: Daly thinks GDP growth is worth it in poor places but thinks the costs associated with GDP growth in rich economies outweigh the benefits. This is my second point explicitly: he wants growth, but only the type he likes and not the type he doesn't.

- Daly talks about richer countries needing to make "ecological room" for poor countries to grow. What he means is that the growth of richer countries requires the use of natural resources that could otherwise be used to fill the more basic needs of poorer countries. Weird zero sum-ism aside, this is essentially my third point, that we can redistribute wealth/outputs (technically inputs, but let's not split hairs) to reach a state of stable global contentment.

I have no way of knowing if your statement was entirely rhetorical or not, but indeed, I have both benefitted significantly from our imperfect status quo and I wish for something like it to continue.

Over a billion humans have been lifted from extreme poverty since 1990 [0]. I like that. I want more of that. Thats not to say I would like for our system to remain totally unchanged, however. You and I probably agree on a lot.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
If you want a preview you can look at what has happened in Iceland since 2005 when the privatization happened. It will probably continue to be the same with different private owners of the monopoly.
Something similar using random spaces is here.
But its possible to decrypted by anyone since there is no password

https://neatnik.net/steganographr/
Pretty much for all online accounts his son has, he has access. So he regularly logs in and checks activity. He also has some special app to monitor Playstation chat/voice but I don't know what it's called.
Don’t know what to tell you other than I did. It only would broadcast around the house and maybe a few houses down.

Here is someone else doing it as well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=AudEdHpXTi4&f...
Where did I say I was recommending universal vaccination?

The benefit-to-risk ratio may well be quite low for particular vaccines with particular age groups. Again, that's not the same as saying particular vaccines are "harmful". By any reasonable definition all the vaccines we have are extremely safe, and for anyone with a typical chance of contracting COVID and having it develop into a serious illness, I can't see why you wouldn't choose any of them.
> Slack is permanent for all matters and purposes.

Surely, you meant to say "Slack used to be permanent...".

It's a valuable lesson that, it seems, each generation of engineers gets to learn anew. If it's not under your control (direct or contractual), you will lose it at some point.
I'm going to use this in the future.
>What is the value of toothpaste compared with no toothpaste

As best I can tell, very little. It might have some value as a fluoride delivery system, but:

"The cumulative evidence for this systematic review demonstrates that there is moderate certainty that toothbrushing with a dentifrice does not provide an added effect for the mechanical removal of dental plaque."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27513809/

I haven't used toothpaste for about a decade. I find brushing with plain water to be highly effective, and I drink a lot of tea so I don't think I need any additional fluoride. I think the most underrated factor is toothbrush wear; a fresh toothbrush leaves my teeth feeling noticeably cleaner with the same effort compared to a worn toothbrush.
If you do a lot of JSON parsing for unknown or large structs, you can use gjson: https://github.com/tidwall/gjson
Half the residents of that town are 7th Day Adventists according to Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Linda,_California

Blue zones could simply be a result of The modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifiable_areal_unit_proble...
Thanks, appreciate your response! Didn’t occur to me that you were talking about the UX for the entire ecosystem. Will read your blog for more details.
hyperview is a hypermedia that exposes native mobile features directly within the hypermedia

you wouldn't create an internet out of hyperview-apps, rather it is a way for you, a developer of a mobile application, to get the benefits of a hypermedia approach (e.g. versioning becoming much less of an issue, vs. app-store updates) while not giving up on native mobile behavior

it is open source, and I think it's one of the most innovative uses of hypermedia I've seen in the last decade:

https://github.com/instawork/hyperview
Then again, for all of the Slack communities I'm part of, the chat history is valuable because that's where the people prefer to hang out, thus that's where the valuable discussions emerge without anyone even planning it that way.

There are often more durable options like a forum within the community, but that doesn't stop the Slack companion community from having high value discussions.

You often don't know you're having a conversation worth having until it's done. Kind of like when you see really good discussion in Stack Overflow comments that you wish were upgraded into a community wiki question, but that's not how it emerged.
What are the many failed privatizations?
I grew up in the 90s and really loved software like Creative Writer, KidPix, 3D Movie Maker, etc.

What's the landscape like for kids today? Is it all mobile apps?
You're totally right!
Someone needs to make a "dating style" app that helps people find platonic friendships based on shared interested.
link to substack: https://georgesaunders.substack.com
I didn't mean it that way, but even if taken literally "don't trust your kids" is solid advise. Meaning, you cannot trust on them to navigate an online world full of harm and bad agents.

It's not the kid being unhealthy, instead its environment.
There are few bidders, and no bid is going to be high enough to make the acquisition unappealing let alone unprofitable.

So it’s generally just a question of how screwed the public gets.
Under the hood, we used Argon2i algorithm to derive the secret key from an arbitrary-long password string. We used the term "password" because that's what ordinary people will understand (like, zip uses the same term for their secret keys). In practice, people should choose password that's long enough to prevent brute forcing, just like picking a password for your online accounts.

It's a good idea to use a public key system. But it really confuses new users who has never used PKI before. Nevertheless, we have a key exchange feature built into the app that allows 2 parties to negotiate a shared secret using X25519, for advanced users.
A few months ago I got the electric kettle and quit using the microwave to heat water, which I pour over WalMart 100% Arabica medium dark roast instant coffee, the best reasonably-priced instant I've ever had. Even my eldest son, who was recently gifted a Chemex and several bricks of Cafe Bustelo, finds himself more often firing up the electric kettle and pouring it over instant instead of nursing the beans. The kettle is a little slower, but quieter, not a god-awful microwave roar ending with the insistent hey-I'm-done beep, but a gradually escalating rumble of heating water followed by stream-like bubbling and ending with a click as the kettle turns off. I have time to peruse email on my phone, alone for a few minutes in the kitchen before bringing fresh mugs out to my wife and myself.
This pretty clearly isn't true. You could simply work fewer hours and live a 1920s lifestyle, if that's what you want. You won't have good healthcare (neither did people in 1920), you probably won't go to college (just like most people in 1920), you won't be able to buy lots of fancy and complicated consumer goods (exactly like people in 1920), you won't own a laptop (just like every single human being in 1920), or live in an apartment with AC (like almost everyone in 1920), and you won't drive a car (like the average person in 1920), or own a lot of nice clothes (like most people in 1920) and so on and so on.

This option is available to you and to everyone else, but hardly anybody chooses it. People pursue full-time employment because of all the enormous benefits, but absolutely nobody is making you do it.
Retiring off of investment into the economy in return for a piece of the growth is a very happy situation for everyone involved. Companies get access to capital. Retirees get money to live off of. Capital is allocated to those who can make the most value in return.

Retiring off of pensions is a zero sum game. Companies charge more to pay pensioners. Customers don't get any additional value, they just pay higher costs for the same goods and services. Owners get lower returns from the company. Retirees are stuck on fixed income, which is devastating during an inflationary period.
This reminds me of that gambling strategy where you double your bet every time to make up for losses. This seems to reduce to timing the market.
Effectiveness of on-field vs. off-field environmental measures for wild bees
The discussions I've seen have been more about how the buildings are meant to keep the heat in vs letting it go, either by building with less thermal mass or with airflow. Once stone or concrete buildings heat up, they tend to stay hot or vice-versa.
Why can’t we have economic growth forever? Economic growth is fueled largely by innovation. What it is the barrier to perpetual innovation?

Will Apple say “Sorry, no more new iPhone versions. All out of ideas?” And all their competitors agree?
From the outside peering in, the only Googlers are the ones who talk a lot or loudly leverage their ex-googler status on other projects.
>Privatising your internet utility never goes well, as we know from USA, Canada.

Never? Really? You're very wrong, privatized internet can work very well, I'm paying $10/mo for 1Gbps up/down here in Eastern Europe.
When looking at class we would be called the archaic term bourgeoisie. We can live comfortably and buy things we want, but are not part of the elites (noblesse) who have privileges and influence beyond money. We should define new terms to clarify the class strata.
Have a co-expat hop countries with you.
> And this is what happens all the time with the most common client (the browser).

Right. Any technology that works this way is basically a "browser". You could create a new markup language or data format and a new user agent to consume it. But you'd be re-inventing the wheel.

There may be some use case for that, as opposed to software clients consuming a well defined API, but I haven't seen it yet. The HTML web browser basically depreciated all other browser-like Internet technologies when it came out (remember Gopher) and is even replacing actual desktop software clients. There's no market for alternative hypermedia clients so why are we giving this so much thought.
I was more referring to Stuxnet as an example of someone who is willing to spend the money on people to figure out some obscure techniques

Spy agencies have definitely used obscure data exfiltration techniques and they can afford spies.
> I hear enough stories that fall on both ends of the spectrum (... amongst Nobel prize winners, I feel it's more balanced)

I think that if you have a gong like that you can relax some of your insecurities. The only nobelists (& equivalent) I have known* have all been supportive in person, though some of them did not have a reputation for it.

The reason I put "can" in italics is that there's no guarantee: some people are simply jerks and for some people a great honor will simply increase their impostor syndrome.

* don't get the wrong idea: I'm not talking about a huge number.
Sorry to hear that. Sounds painful and scary.
"What are you doing with your weird broken browser, you weirdo?"

(I am also a weirdo)

Fun fact, Slack also started blocking Fierfox 78 ESR last winter, which was the default browser in Debian stable until just a couple of weeks ago. They don't merely show an unsupported browser message, but actively prevent the app from loading. It still worked fine if you spoofed the user agent string to report a later Firefox version. It felt like unnecessary hostility to users for no actual security benefit.
Most commuter rail in the US fits that bill, doesn’t it? Amtrak, Septa etc
There is a bit more to the requirement than the company being owned by a woman, namely the requirements for women to be in control of the day to day operations of the business.

It is a similar requirement for veteran owned small businesses and I imagine “gaming” this would be tantamount to fraud.

About as far as I’ve seen be acceptable for “gaming” things is to use a joint venture that is 51% owned/controlled by whatever interest group (e.g., veteran, women, disadvantaged, all of the above, etc.).

Not saying it doesn’t happen, but it’s not a common occurrence from my experience (15+ years active duty, as government employee, and working for a contractor on the actual contract/BD side).
The Dead Kennedys arguably beat you to this realization.
The winning bid will be high enough to make the acquisition unappealing to all but on bidder.
[relative] Muscle mass has a very strong correlation with healthy habits.

You just don't see a lot of sedentary people with poor nutrition who have a high muscle mass index.
I'm torn about this. I don't want my money going to silly lawsuits, I want it to go towards archiving important cultural goods.

Copyright infringement is exactly what makes it possible to provide me with that collection of Windows 7 UI sounds and similar things, but I don't know about books. There are already people archiving books and providing them to people for free, so I think this is not a role the Internet Archive needs to fill.

Save the money and fight battles that matter more ...
America is a richer nation (higher salaries, GDP per capita) and housing is way bigger (in terms of square footage)
It's not crazy at all. You use requirements.txt to keep a track of the dependencies needed for development, and you put the dependencies needed to build and install a package into setup.py where the packaging script can get it.

These are two different things, because they do two different jobs.

It's really very simple.
The text purchase screen that was displayed to me when I bought minecraft back in 2011, in case anyone cares:

Purchase now!
When Minecraft is finished, it will sell for €20.00.
If you pre-purchase now during beta, you pay just €14.95!

Please note that when you buy the game, you're paying for the game as it is right now!
You will also get the full version of Minecraft when it is released.
Read the copyright information for more information on your purchase.
Please log in or register to pre purchase.
(Click here to buy the game for someone other than yourself)

Here's what you get:
.• You get early access to the game to a discounted price!
.• You help fund the development of Minecraft
.• Custom skins in multiplayer
.• Once you've bought the game, it's yours. No DRM.
If you have Reeder, you just paste the regular web page URL into it and it tries to figure out the RSS address on its own. It's possible that other RSS readers do the same, since the RSS information is usually in the page's metadata.
"Inequality" in percentage but not the actual revenue. Not sure what is the point of adding VAT though. "The rich" does not pay it i presume, just like "average people" are free of capital gains taxes (lmao).
Whenever you read a paper creating a new term (like "Blue Zones") -- you can guarantee that the author also has a book out with the same name.

And so... https://www.amazon.com/dp/1426209487

They usually also have a company with the same name that sells speaking engagements or consulting... https://www.bluezones.com/

And of course, you need a modestly astroturfed Wikipedia article... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone

And don't forget a TED Talk! https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100
But, I mean, you could get by with just a $10 soldering iron from RadioShack. It’s just harder to get into and tinker with is my point - which I think you just supported?
I wonder, of the many hundreds of billions of dollars the US spends on defense every year, how much goes to those military operations to which you linked.
Empathy is the ability to sense other people’s emotions.

Despite common usage, it doesn't preclude using that ability to crush those people if useful...
What makes you say there are few bidders?
Hard to define. US southwest regionally. But also experienced in college towns where the male:female ratio is anywhere from 3:1 to 30:1 depending on context. Then online avenues just reinforced it. Browse r/tinder for an idea of the difference in experiences in online dating. I’ve had women (hundreds?) come out and tell me as much online across the decades-not confined to any one location obviously.

Edit-just so this doesn’t seem solely bashing one side. I’m not gay. But I actually had a fellow/alumnus grad student friend for a while who all of a sudden was asking me to do all these minor tasks for him from afar. Turned out he had somehow gotten into his head we were in a relationship despite nothing of the sort having been discussed. (I’m not gay and would have made that clear had the topic came up.) Stands out I think because he ostensibly was only interested in developing a relationship with me through these tasks or something.
A majority of the infrastructure is owned by one company, with some smaller companies servicing regional areas. There is no local competition in regards to infrastructure. No matter where you live, there will only be one fiber provider available for your address.
Hedge funds/hf trading companies can't compete with monopolies in printing money. I wonder how they are getting all these people.
I wonder if there could be a service/different way to pay such that you pay for a month, it cancels at the end of the month, it renews as soon as you want to use the service again. I guess this is closer to paying pro-rata/per usage.
People have no intuition for what is technically possible or its implications in cases like this, including most people in tech. So they fallback to mentally modeling these cases in terms of things they are familiar with, without any sense of the inadequacies of the model. You can tell people these facts all day but they don't grok it, really, and it would be hard work to try to grok it, which few people have either time or inclination for. They may feel uneasy about it in some abstract sense but as far as they are concerned it doesn't affect them in a material way.

Humans make decisions based things they can imagine and effectively reason about. Humans struggle to incorporate elementary probability theory into their reasoning; anything that requires complex systems thinking, which these kinds of topics do, is only going to be practically accessible to a small percentage of the population.
>Re the concurrent updates - yes, Postgres is multi-process. However, the hstore and HLL approaches are going to have a lot of contention at the row level. The association table wouldn't have that contention, since each user would get their own row.

Each process is a OS level thread, again saying that concurrent updates is not PG's forte seems pretty ridiculous just because one some of your approaches use in row storage rather than the typical relational design. The statement seems unnecessary and may give someone with less experience the wrong idea about PG's concurrent abilities.
He was apparently quite kind to poor old Gödel while they were at the IAS.