skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Older article but interesting to see the results in Europe now.
It makes very little sense to build two of anything which has an economy of scale, if you ignore the incentive effects. That is a big 'if'.
Please help this family who are political refugees escaping from the Myanmar military. They are currently in Delhi but have little to no support from the UNHCR, they are not able to get a job as they do not have the necessary refugee status and are in a desperate finacial situation. Please help.
I'm surprised no one has bought location data for prominent Congresspersons and used it to embarrass them into writing up laws around this.
I still miss Kozmo.
It's harder to keep muscles as you grow old. More muscles is indication of good metabolism, which correlates with good health (less chance of getting metabolic syndrome etc, somewhat relevant: https://betterbodychemistry.com/obesity/metabolic-syndrome-m...)
Archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20220713195034/https://www.nytim...
Yes, it's essentially the same thing.
> If I had to use either of these things as part of running my team of 12 engineers, I'd resign immediately.

Better for you and better for the team! Cause I wouldn't want to work with someone who would do that.
I'm sure some enterprising screenwriter will discover this and have a new muse.
You're neglecting to consider the most important aspect of HTTPS, even if you don't care about privacy or believe the encryption will eventually be broken: integrity.

HTTPS significantly raises the bar on MITM attacks, such as ISPs adding or replacing ads with their own.

It also prevents folks sitting in the same coffeeshop as you from snooping.

Calling "generally useless" is incredibly uncharitable.
The order taker may not be all that much happier - those online front-ends see to charge sizeable fees.
I feel like this could have been a lot better if it were more concrete.

What's wrong with wanting GDP growth?

- Consider two families A and B, each with two earners and a small child. The parents of family A both work full time, earning $125k each, and they spend $20k/yr on childcare. The parents of family B each work part time, earn $110k per year each, and together with help from one grandparent are able to care for their small child, and spend more hours together. Family A contributes more to GDP than family B, but are they better off? Or are the benefits of seeing more of their child's early years greater than the difference in income?

- At the onset of a recession, a company forecasts that its business will shrink; they will both need less labor, and need to reduce payroll. They offer to allow their employees to choose to work part time with a prorated decrease in compensation. Employee A and B are initially paid the same. A supports a family and wants to continue working at 100%. B is single, chooses to work at 60% for the next year, and spends the extra time on hobbies and spending more time with friends/family. Is B really "poorer"? Or for the right life circumstances, is working less and enjoying leisure more richer?

- A country grows its GDP over a 40 year period, but increases in the costs of housing, education, and healthcare are much sharper than wage growth. The older generation could feed and house (buy!) a family on a single income. A college student could pay for their housing and education by working part time. The younger generation can work full time at minimum wage and not afford rent on a 1BD apt, and it can take decades to pay for university. Is the country richer?

Never mind the very long term resource and physical limits on growth -- are we already at a point where striving for growth has failed to make most of us better off?
> What world of technology do you live in where the terrible UX of no javascript is acceptable?

The world where people can be blind or deaf so a fancy javascript-powered UX does nothing except waste CPU cycles. The world where I want a website to be as plain as possible because what you see on your screen isn't what I want to see on my screen. The world where javascript is a vector to attack users and steal data. The world where client-side input validation is, at best, a pointless because you still need to validate input on the server too. There are many reasons to disable javascript.

What world of realism are you living in where you completely dismiss peoples' valid reasons for disabling javascript?
There's clearly a market for the ExpressVPN types to market a packet sniffer that identifies who's getting what data, and potentially shut it down. Allow lists. etc. The tech isn't new, but it's not accessible to your average data-well a.k.a. end user, and risks breaking functionality....
> Funny how they never target any politicians, huh?

They do. Here are a couple recent examples:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shoot...
Two Sigma is notoriously tightlipped about everything. This guy's short post about interning there in 2015 is probably the most I've even seen about working there: https://evjang.com/2015/08/17/internship-experiences.html
> pip freeze and virtualenv things start to fall apart especially quickly when you require various C/C++ dependencies

Yes 100 times. That can be incredibly frustrating. During the last year I've used a large (and rapidly evolving) C++ project (with many foss C/C++ dependencies) with Python bindings. We've collectively wasted sooo many hours on dependency issues in the team.

Long compilation times contribute considerably to slow down the feedback loop when debugging the issues.
Without a doubt. Especially all of us in the deep learning stack.
The oldest living cat drank "an eyedropper full of red wine" every two days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creme_Puff_(cat)#Lifestyle
Although it would help if they were stronger, this isn't the result of them needing to begin a Starting Strength program. My original point was more so that stature and muscle mass might not benefit you beyond a certain point – I don't doubt at all that being fit is still tremendously beneficial.

It's also pure speculation. I read about this stuff for fun and I know just about nothing about anything. Maybe being larger really is a net positive and I just need to be pointed to the right data.
Hindsight is 20:20, but Netflix was always going to fail.

Blockbuster had physical stores that controlled distribution and much like McDonalds isn't a burger company, Blockbuster held good real estate that media owners couldn't have.

Netflix should have pivoted to providing white-labeled streaming solutions to media companies, but thought that their streaming lead would last for ever. Unfortunately, no one can outlast the Mouse.

Even though it took Disney years to come up with their own streaming service, they have an immense, unchallengable media offering - Disney, Pixar, Fox, Marvel, Star Wars and more. And now, the "real estate" is as simple as installing another app on your device.

Now, Netflix is doomed for the simple reason that every rights holder is just making their own streaming app. Eventually Netflix will only have their originals, which can't stand a chance against Disney, Paramount, NBC, and so on (not for quality, but just on pure quantity) who will just not renew licencing to Netflix.
Not so identically priced then, eh? Looks like they do need those higher margins.
So basically: instead of just having what you need, just, like, hope that your neighbour has what you need. Great plan, i also hope that the neighbours are going to always follow me (just in case i'm going to move elsewhere).

"Sure you'd have to logically create 'centers' around town close enough to walk, or have a neighbor maybe deliver if you're elderly or something, but there's convenience in having more options if you don't have a specific tool and only need it once." or just have a garage or a shed for tools.

"Now that you don't need your own tools, lawn mower, 3d printer, printer, atv, weed whacker, you find you could've done without even having a garage, maybe we can start building smaller homes that are cheaper to heat or cool and with less environmental impact." ah yes, the number one reason people get large homes: forget having family or simply enjoying spacious living conditions, i'm storing all of my tools around my house.

"Some sort of share/rental thing maybe for the atv's, and boat/rv storage." Good luck proving that the ding on the ATVs fender was done by your neighbour and not you.

"Commercial kitchens and space for community get together's, I grew up in the 80s and we knew our neighbors back then." Why can't you just invite your neighbours to your house?

"... been conditioned to think we all need to own so much shit, when really we don't..." or perhaps some of us are conditioned to think that we don't need anything, that everything should be rented/lended by a neighbour and basically make your house into a shed because all you do is store tools anyways.
I've only been able to nap after about 4pm, too late (and recipe for falling asleep on the train...)

When ive got a problem, I take little micro-breaks, a quick walk around the garden, water the plants, checking on my cat, tidy up things in the wrong place. Maybe I'm just procrastinating instead.
Of course, taking a regular old picture of the screen of a DRM'd device is still a thing in your own private home. DRM goes only so far, though deterrence does help to some extent I'll admit. Question is if we're willing to accept DRM'd devices following us around all day long so that we can have nudes via a not-e2ee messenger with slightly less risk of the other person sharing it.
When EM waves that are in phase combine, the resultant amplitude of the combined waveform is the sum of the amplitudes; constructive interference is addition. And from addition, subtraction & multiplication and exponents and logarithms.

And then this concept of phase and curl ( convergence and divergence ) in non-orthogonal, probably not conditionally-independent fluid fields that combine complexly and nonlinearly. Define distance between (fluid) field moments. A coherent multibody problem hopefully with unitarity and probably nonlocality.

Can emergence of complex adaptive behavior in complex nonlinear systems of fields emerge from such observable phenomena as countability (perhaps just of application-domain-convenient field-combinatorial multiples in space Z)?
Sounds like someone has never been asked to clone and run software targeting Python 3.x when their system-installed Python is 3.y and the two are incompatible.
It must be the intermittent fasting during war!
Does DRAM really get that hot now? I remember the huge amount of products aimed at cooling DIMMs appeared around 15-20 years ago and largely dismissed them as unnecessary "bling", and closer to a decade ago, on a regular desktop PC, had some that came with heatspreaders; nonetheless, after a weekend-long Linpack run to ensure stability of an overclock, during which the CPU was constantly well above ambient at around 70C, reached in and cautiously felt the heatspreaders on the DIMMs --- and was surprised to discover that they were only slightly warm, probably around 40C.
Thanks for the positive feedback on my writeup (author) and a link to your take on the PaaS genre. I'm a fan of the in-depth comparisons on your solution vs other prominent ones. I'll be sure to do some exploring!

If you have any feedback on my content or suggestions for future writeups feel free to reach out to me at contact[at]thornewolf[dot]com :)
One of the best commit messages of all time. Convinced me I was not wrong for hating legacy C library cruft.
No need to wait for the future. It already is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication
I'm sure they couldn't wait to... install that geoblock? Sounds logical
"You can't use the big channel with all the packages because it has all the packages" isn't an exoneration, it's an indictment.

To answer your question: yes, we were using conda-forge, and then when it stopped building we moved to a mix of conda and a critical subchannel, and then a major GIS library broke on conda and stayed that way for months so we threw in the towel and just used pip + a few touch-up scripts. Now that everyone else has followed suit, pip is the place where things "just work" so now we just use pip, no touchups required.
Maybe it depends on what is growing?

Any helpful new technology, including medicine, is growth. Any advancement of human knowledge is growth. Any durable improvements (pyramids, bridges) are growth. Cultural advancements (art, politics, religion) are growth.

Many of these things are imperfectly represented in GDP growth. GDP also has many other known problems, like calling growth in consumption "growth" without really having a way to determine if it's really a good thing or not.

But we don't want to go to a zero-growth economy where we are just comfortably existing without passing anything to the next generation.
> But Utah also has plenty of laws that are influenced by Mormons- and no one is complaining about the liquor laws there.

What are you basing that on because I live there 3 months a year and I assure you I bitch about it nonstop!
Amazon makes Prime Video look more like Netflix (and every other streaming app)
> Just a little app to model the arbitrage (gamble) opportunity.

This isn't arbitrage at all. That is taking advantage of a price difference of an asset between two markets by buying and reselling it (nearly) simultaneously. If you are holding the asset longer than strictly necessary it isn't (only) arbitrage.

Your intended action is just timing the market: buying stocks based on the belief they will soon rise in price.
Or if you have *gasp* a rooted linux desktop?
Having done both Python and Go for quite some time now, yes, Python modules are a mess, but it wasn’t so long ago that the same could be said for Go (glide-> dep -> go mod anyone else?) Go mod is finally maturing, but there are still some painful edges as well.
This kind of topic is where podcasts shine, especially if the host is literate on the topic being discussed. Or even the raw transcript of this interview versus the content that ended up being published.

I would be curious how population and demographic changes play into his model of a steady state economy.
This is really cool OP - did you create the list of prompts?

I'm working on Paper Website[1], which lets you turn a handwritten journal into a tiny daily blog. I've written nearly 150 posts[2] this way, and I think what's made me so consistent is having an "audience". It sounds weird, but there's ~200 email subscribers to my journal, and it's had nearly 200k page views. Knowing people are reading my stuff motivates me to keep going - I've tried regular journaling before and it just feels like I'm writing into the void.

I'm interested in your prompts because often people don't know what to write about - it's an awesome primer to start.

[1] https://paperwebsite.com
[2] https://daily.tinyprojects.dev
I think this might be false.

I imagine some time in the far future we'll have some kind of nanotechnology that will be able to replace our biological brain cells with "nano cells".

The process will be incremental. It will start with converting a single biological cell into a nano cell and continue from there (maybe exponentially). A nano cell will behave exactly like a biological cell in every way as far as i/o goes.

At a certain point your entire brain is made of these nano cells, you have a robot brain, basically. From there your consciousness can be copied, uploaded, whatever. You wouldn't be human anymore, but you'd still be you, and there wouldn't be any ship of Theseus conundrum.
I don't know if this would be within your budget but custom enclosures made of hot-bent plexi. they look really nice and I think there is demand within hobby electronic makers.
Three things from WP stuck in the mind

1) having a GUI top-bar of the commands. This was like P-Code and UCSD Pascal, it was the permanent hint feature, that followed your context. It was a big HCI design issue, and I think helped inform how people expect menus and bars to work

2) reveal markup. Huge. Being able to "see" the embedded control char elements of the textual display. Something I think other tools should have picked up on more. There's a mode in VIM which does something similar.

3) it was fast enough. for a small memory model. We're talking pre MMU chips here. Dos.
Ukrainian woman invents ‘solar for balconies’ to wean Europe off Russian gas
You’re not even disputing the parents point. More output with the same input doesn’t mean people are working less. It means they’re working the same amount…
>It's not quite China yet, but I'm pretty sure that when our politicians and bureaucrats and their corporate masters look at China's system, their main emotion is one of envy.

The US has a much wider intellegence reach and surveillance, not only on our own citizens but on the worlds.
My bad experiences are usually around setting up projects created by others, sadly
Russia Fines Google $360Mln over Ukraine Content
But Python has a decent and a reproducible way of installing packages. The problem python has is that things evolved over time, so you can find on the net plenty of outdated information. There is also a lot of blogs and articles with bad practices, most written by people that got something working.

I think also a lot of issues with packaging is ironically because of PyPA that supposed to work on a standard, but in reality instead of embracing and promoting something that works they just pushes half-assed solutions because author is one of the members. Kind of like they were pushing failed Pipenv "for humans". Seems like Poetry is generally popular and devs are happy with it, so of course PyPA started pushing their own Hatch project, because python packaging was finally getting too straight forward.

I think Python would benefit as a whole if PyPA was just dissolved.
Can’t speak for two sigma but I work in a similar company. They are generally only open enough to hire people, there is a huge competitive advantage in sharing as little as possible.

Lots of finance firms have a bunch of interesting problems, from scaling to security and many are getting better at treating engineers well. But usually it comes down to the fact they pay really well.
There is a large gap from tech demo to product, and it's even larger for AI products.
Seems like "Chance that Elon Musk forces Twitter to divulge really embarrassing info about their business prospects during trial" should be in here. If he gets away with just paying the $1B, it makes a big difference to how much Twitter is worth without him. But, even if this info exists, there is a <100% chance of it coming out in trial; Delaware court may anticipate this strategy and try to stop it.
Pelosi’s husband buys Nvidia shares before subsidy bill vote
Transhumanism still just seems like the mix of Cartesian logic with absolute fantasy. A purposeful argument for literally losing your mind and grip on reality, after which anything goes, so let's consult fiction...
> As male flies copulate with dead females, the fungal spores are showered onto the males, who then suffer the same gruesome fate.

That doesn't seem right - it seems like it would restrict the male -> female transmission vector.

Either way, pheromone traps are an interesting concept; they don't even need to trap the victims, just separate the males and females to prevent them from breeding.
Every person, living and dead, has been uniquely identified and is tracked in near real time.

Source: I read the news, don't suffer from amnesia or willful ignorance.

We used Seisent (since bought by LexisNexus) in the mid-aughts. At the time, every person in North America was accounted for, with pretty good coverage of the Caribbean and Central America. The NSA bought a few clusters, then wove in their own datasets (phone use, location tracking, credit cards, library usage, email, etc).

There are many entities maintaining all encompassing panopticonic demographic databases. Governments and publicly traded companies. This is not refutable.

Ironically, in the USA, both voter registration and gun ownership are explicitly excluded. Because reasons. (You can't manage what you don't measure.)

We could, trivially, resolve all the policy food fights over vote registration "fraud", gun ownership, and conducting the consensus. Turn all those flash points into simple database queries.

We could, trivially, outright stop all anonymous trolling and disinformation. Purveyors of social media don't authenticate their users because they don't want to. Their business models require that they remain willfully ignorant.
I'm not going to argue this with you. I'm not up for being dragged into a stupid internet fight with a random internet stranger. But this might interest you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14667430
How did Agile come to mean the opposite of Agile?
My brother used to cast resin pen blanks in the garage. It's a pretty simple process that just needs a few silicone molds, a pressure vessel, and a vacuum pump. He sold them wholesale to a woodworking supply place for $5-10 each. He made enough over a couple years to pay for college.
Can they tell us what members of our corporate security departments participated in Jan At this point we know our employers know but are covering it up so as not to anger RWers. We don't even know if insurrectionists were purged from corporate security departments or if the rest of the department has been vetted extra.

All we know is our employers want us back into the office to serve as their human shields.
If man makes the change he installs DRM into the GMO.
I doubt our human technology will have much effect on any civilization capable of large scale space travel. We would be the equivalent of indigenous people using bows against European muskets and cannons.
Defense money is not worth the ethics
Media polarization chart:

https://adfontesmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Media-B...
They'll invade you in the hopes of using your resources to last for a while longer long before that happens.
> Economic growth isn’t dependent on a certain amount of mass, energy, or entropy.

It is though, you might be making the same mass and energy more efficient on a dollar terms, but there is an upper limit and that upper limit is dictated by entropy. There are only so many things that matters on Earth can do under the current physics. We're not that close but not too far away either.
Quote: Russian authorities can impose on Google "as many fines as they wish, they won't receive the money" as the firm has pulled out of the country, he added.
This was my guess as well. And based on my experience working on international payments, an additional headache is that in some cases, depending on exactly which jurisdictions are involved, some of the parties can be forbidden by law from giving you detailed information about what's happening.

This is another "doing what it's designed to do" situation (the idea is to avoid revealing certain information to bad actors) but it can be pretty frustrating to deal with.
Part time Utah resident here: you can only buy liquor/beer/wine > 5% ABV at state owned liquor stores and restaurants/bars draft beer has to be < 5% ABV but for some reason canned beer can be > 5% at restaurants (Makes zero sense to me). I believe there is like a 1 drink limit max per person at a time (maybe just liquor, I forget) and the state owned liquor stores are closed on Sunday too.
The only IDE better than Visual Studio is probably one of the Smalltalk IDEs, but the languages are too niche these days. It's a shame none of the large companies wants to back them.