skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have all this extra energy literally falling from the sky.

Yeah, Jerry Pournelle used to say on this topic, "it's raining soup, and we're too stupid to hold out a bowl."

Well, now we're at least holding out a few soup spoons, and making some more every year.
That is not correct. Globally 75% of hydrogen is produced from Natural Gas:

https://www.iea.org/reports/the-future-of-hydrogen

See section on production.

The most commonly used process creates a mixture of steam, hydrogen and CO2. The water is condensed and the CO2 removed to purify the hydrogen product. The CO2 is a concentrated stream. This is sometimes captured and sold as a byproduct (eg food grade CO2 for beverages or dry ice).
>Now you're exaggerating in the other direction.

Im just illustrating the difference between liquidity and wealth.
While Google's cloud revenues are a fairly small portion of the total overall, Google Workplace sales (i.e. supported suite) would still be pretty significant at many companies. I'm not sure it's fair to call it a loss leader.
10% per quarter? What is the unhealthy rate?
I cant see this in the US, though the Argentina link someone posted below worked. Did they cancel this in the US?
Not really - we now create stable identities from what is essentially a form of mental illness. We no longer say that someone suffers from "body dysmorphia", instead we say that they were "assigned the wrong body at birth". It's similar to those deaf parents of deaf children who are against giving them a cochlear implant lest they lose their "deaf culture".
#embed is faster because it skips the parsing step. xxd generates source code tokens, which the parser must then decode back into bytes; embed just reads the bytes directly.
If what is presented in this article is actually true that would be a systemic failure of epic proportions, right? Not just in this concrete case but don't these fundamental papers get reproduced before everybody takes them for granted and pours in enormous amounts of research grants believing in them? Is this article an exaggeration?
I have also written a tar format extractor, which is still in use for the backup system at Fastmail:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Archive::Tar::Stream

It's capable of reading and writing tar files, and the big benefit over extracting is that you can repack a tar by (as the name says) streaming it, with a decision callback which allows you to discard, keep, or "edit" a file - where edit does unpack to a temporary file at which point you can arbitrarily change the file or the header info and then keep or discard once you're done.
The EU is not against Apple, it's (generally) against user hostility.
I think we already found that ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot
> mechanical earth dams (store energy in potential energy mass, less dangerous than an actual water dam, a lot easier to build)

a lot easier to build?

This claim seems wrong, given that pumped-storage hydroelectricity is in actual use, when this is purely theoretical.

"mechanical earth dams" gives info about water dams - is it existing even as a theoretic design?
I'm the author of Ace the Data Science Interview, and I'm facing counterfeit issues all the damn time on Amazon. So much so, that Bloomberg ran a story on it last week: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/amazon-self-publishers-...
I think engineers often say "we need more resources" but mean "we need to have hired more resources two years ago".
It’s the Staberinde from Use of Weapons.
Show HN: Python Live GUI – Web Based immediate mode renderer
Hey all,

Wanted to re-share my framework now that it has reached v1.0.

https://gitlab.com/BenWiser/python-live-gui

I’m promising stability for the API but there’s still a lot more I’d like to get done.

I built this for a very specific use case I have of wanting a remote based application.

I specifically use this for communicating with a raspberry pi.

It’s quite a nice quick way of working. Hopefully the form upload gives a better idea of how you can use this:
https://gitlab.com/BenWiser/python-live-gui/-/blob/main/examples/5_form_upload.py
Google is still an advertising tech company. As such it's highly levered to two things:

1. The fluctuations in stock prices. Like many tech companies, Google uses its shares in place of currency. This work great when prices are going up.

2. Business spending on advertising. Despite ambitions in other areas, the company still just mostly sells ads. One of the first things companies cut back on when they start hurting is advertising.

When the stock market declines because the business cycle turns, Google gets a double whammy. In many ways, it's the canary's canary in the coal mine. Doubly levered to the business cycle.

There is such a taboo around pay cuts, that then the inevitable downturn happens, the only option is to first stop hiring and then start laying off.

I expect GOOG to be the epicenter of tech worker pain for this leg of the cycle.

During these booms, tech leaders take on a mythological quality. To even suggest that they could begin a protracted decline seems absurd. But it has happened time and again. Maybe it's this time or the next cycle that does it, but there's no version of the future where GOOG retains its dominating position.
This Twitter thread highlights that this is a hyperbole/misinformation: https://twitter.com/samuel_marsh/status/1550883405105168386

„I sincerely doubt that the absence of this particular paper and AB*56 from historical scientific record would have significantly changed the last 20 years of AD drug development. That is because there is strong genetic and other evidence for the role of amyloid in disease.“
This hasn’t been true in years.
Based on my digging around, I think Rebol was really good for GUI stuff back in the day as there are hundreds of cool examples of things like Tetris in like 1/4 page of code. Delphi was supposedly really good as well in the 90s when people used it for all kinds of desktop apps. VB6 might be in there as well. Matlab makes this all pretty easy as well if you have a license as it has a form designer and just makes it really easy to do that kind of stuff. C# has Winforms and other stuff to build extremely detailed and complex GUIs, but it's not as simple as Matlab for sure. Tcl has a very common library called Tk that can do a lot of simple GUI work like if you want a button on a form, but it didn't seem to be a good bet for scientific work when I checked. There's a toolkit for Pharo Smalltalk that can do really cool graphics stuff, but Smalltalk is pretty niche in a lot of ways. Python has a bunch of GUI toolkits, but none of them seem very good. Java and languages on the JVM can use some of those toolkits like "Swing", but I don't find it very intuitive. 8th has a built-in native GUI, but it's mainly useful for buttons and drop-downs I think. Mathematica surprisingly has a pretty decent GUI setup in their Notebooks as well as advanced shoot for graphics.
JIT MBA driven push came then, plus the whole "stay within your area of expertise" movement.
> What other revenue sources does Android have?

OEMs like Samsung, who want Android+Google Apps and not just AOSP?
> Will any electric car let you drive while it's plugged in?

That’s what I was wondering too. Like you, I’m pretty sure the major EVs don’t let you drive while charge, but I haven’t actually tried it.
> If you plot the graphs of worldwide energy usage and worldwide garbage emissions (let's take greenhouse gases or amount of artificialized soil as examples), you will see that they are correlated.

You've mentioned this twice, and so it's worth nothing that important factors also correlated in that period of time: the rapid rise of the middle class following the decimation of wealth from the world wars, which led to a population boom.

Another factor you're taking for granted: fertility rate drops in economies as they get very strong. Western countries boost immigration for this reason: you need more bodies to increase GDP growth (and by extension, waste), if that's what you want. Lower energy prices alone will not lead to people breeding more. If it did, we'd have more kids than our grandparents/great-grandparents did, just as you alluded that they spent more on food.

So on top of the fact that we're projecting GLOBAL STAGNANT POPULATION GROWTH, which means an end to increase in consumption, technological innovation means that consumption produces less waste. You can't account for innovation in energy and nowhere else.

> What I'm saying is that, looking at what we've done so far with energy, it's not entirely sure more energy will be good for our prospects of survival. We need to have a collective philosophical revolution first.

I know what you were saying, and I'm saying it's wrong.
> crypto companies and influencers explicitly encouraged

This wasn't Jim Cramer or some vetted CNBC talking head talking P/E ratios or future earnings potential.

These are carefully-engineered social media accounts with follower counts blown up by obvious market-engineering campaigns.

Again, to OP's point, if you're putting your life savings into speculative investment X, from the word of a rando instagram "influencer", you get what you deserve. Anybody in 2022 who doesn't understand that most social media presences are carefully curated, engineered, and biased, is a fool.

Live or die by the word of the shoeshine boy, it's a tale as old as time. We all learned of 1637 and 1929 in high school history. If you didn't pay attention, that's on you.
I ran that same logic for Ace the Data Science Interview, and I'm facing the exact counterfeit issues as the OP!
> Dt. Telekom and Vodafone recently lost their zero rating business

Which was always in violation of net neutrality, by the way.

They'll do anything we'll let them get away with, no matter how shady. And I think the DT CEO would admit that.
Yes, it’s great when we rediscover some nugget of wisdom that everyone has already explained.

It’s quite useful to listen to Buffet and Munger. They’ve accumulated lots of wisdom.

“You get what you reward for”
https://youtu.be/hJYLJRr3hEY

This hour of Munger is well worth it:

https://youtu.be/4ICaAKuAudQ

Here’s the transcript:

https://fs.blog/great-talks/psychology-human-misjudgment/
The point of taking notes is not to preserve the information (or at least not primarily) but to load it into the brain where the connections can magically be made, as you put it. Rich Hickey has a nice talk on this called "Hammock Driven Development".
Well, evolution happening because of time is again how we "understand" it because we have no other ways to. He doesn't say he has the answer to the true nature of time and space, he is a searcher.
Check the vids, it is much better explained than I can do :)
I refer you to the discussion a few days back on people not being accurately modeled as rational agents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32181987

Companies and entire markets follow similar patterns of only having bounded rationality, IMHO. Markets can also have decades of slack or delay from stimulus to outcomes. Take the slow decline of Boeing after acquiring McDonnell Douglas and their MBA heavy structure. https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merg...
You can't really say that when they're only a couple decades into human history. Remember saccharine? It was considered safe until it wasn't.
Just because you can't comprehend something doesn't mean that no one can.
Real life will probably move on from panels, too. PV will be made on big rolls of plastic film (like mylar or kapton), laid out on the ground. Think 3 meters wide by a kilometre long.
>To dwell on might-have-beens is to choose collapse.

Sounds good. Let's build nuclear reactors until we replace all energy generation with them. Dwelling on might-have-beens is to choose collapse after all.
I'm not sure that's the most likely motive.
I doubt this very much. Beer costs money to make, and very few people would have been able to afford it.

We also see much more recently that 3rd world countries didn't do this, either. People drank water.
I don’t know if it’s worth replying because you appear to be an ideologue who doesn’t actually want to discuss the subject, you appear to only want to denigrate europeans.

Eh, I’ll give it a try on the off chance you are actually writing in good faith.

Assuming good faith on your part, I believe we have a different understanding of what the standard of discourse should be. While I understand the concern around scope creep, which is valid, I hope you can also see my concern about context.

When discussing a complex subject like slavery, I think it’s counter productive to focus on a niche. Let me give you an example. Would it make sense to talk about world war two focusing only on France for example? Could a meaningful discussion on world war two happen if the discussion was limited to France?

It feels to me the issue is like this. Continuing the analogy with world war two, I don’t think you need to mention absolutely all countries that participated in world war two in order to have a meaningful discussion on the subject. At the same time, I believe it is impossible to have a meaningful discussion on the subject by talking about literally one country.

You appear to be asking us to talk specifically about one country. This to me seems to be actively harmful. I cannot see what good ( unless you count painting european people in an unduly bad light to be good ) can come from ignoring critical context.

My purpose is not to stifle discussion by burdening it with unnecessary context, my purpose is to elevate the standard of discourse by including critical context.
You can't be in ketosis if you drink coke. Period.
>Even if a sentence is meaningful standalone in vacuum, no communication between humans ever happens in such a way.

True, although much less so for (pseudo)anonymous online communication, as we’re having here.

>It always matters who said it and why; we never take the substance independently from the agenda and the mind behind it, the context in which that mind existed and its relationship with our own, and so on.

I have no idea who you are, what your agenda is, or anything about how your mind operates. There is essentially zero relationship between your mind and my own. The only context I have about you is the text of your post.

>This strikes me as a crucial part of what intelligence (whether in humans or other creatures) means.

Totally agreed. This is why GPT-3 can do a fairly good job emulating anonymous online discourse, but cannot convincingly emulate a person we actually know.
Yes, that process is statistical modeling and it can be applied to quantify numerous problems.
> (1) As a researcher you lose money if you don’t produce

This is the biggest problem in my view. My work in R&D taught me that
most of the time we don't produce anything. It's high risk. But it's
high in rewards, often in adjacent areas not primarily the focus of
the initial brief.

Surely all serious investors understand this. Research is something we
do for marginal returns. It's not an "innovation factory". With
things currently stacked against risk, research can only yield tepid
results.
Game of Rent
You’re right. The consensus on the dangers of sugar is widely accepted in endocrinology and biochemistry. But a lot of nutritionists argue that a calorie is a calorie regardless of the source – they seem to be startlingly/conveniently naive.
Because Yanks are more often confused about grammar. As a Brit you have less excuse.

It is not low enough for you to have avoided being Wrong on The Internet after failing to take correction, and then complaining after that.
> … it completely reframed my views on simplicity, maintenance and planning, for all areas of life.

If you’re willing to share, I’d be interested in knowing more about how you view these areas now.
Alright, I can see that you have an axe to grind, so I'll bow out now.
Two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32183302

A month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31828509
Yup, passed the hiring committee. Also the team is happy to have me.

:'(
It has a terrible name, conflating TeX and Emacs signals something arcane, doubly so.
A few days of storage is a lot though isn't it?
I understand if you don't want to say, but do you mind if I ask which country arrested you?
Sounds desperate to me. I have always intended to live way better than this.
> The level of inconsistency that the article complains about doesn't matter. Pretty much every popular format looks like that. Try writing a Matroska or PDF decoder some time.

So a format should be designed wrong because other formats are also designed wrong.

> Because it isn't important.

So? You don't have to go out of your way to micro-optimize, others like TFA's author are already doing it for you. You just have to pick the micro-optimized product off the shelf.

"It isn't important" is a complete non-argument when the bad choices are made for no reason and no benefit at all and especially not even making the design process quicker and easier.

> If there's a replacement for XZ as a general-purpose compression format for archived data then it'll be selected on the quality of its compression, not whether the bitstream format can produce valid output from invalid input.

The article also addresses design problems that harm the compression ratio.
I think people want it to be a worse motive because they don’t want to admit how irrational and deliberately ignorant the vast majority of humans are most of the time.

Looking at reality in an unbiased way and trying to draw rational conclusions is incredibly rare and requires effort. Ego and social group pressure are the enemy.

Cackling evildoers are also very rare. Most evil is a product of how we normally behave and of normal social and economic incentives.
The paragraph is imprecise, here a direct citation from a paper's abstract about The Evolutionary History of Dogs in the Americas [0]:

>Dogs were present in the Americas prior to the arrival of European
colonists, but the origin and fate of these pre-contact dogs are largely unknown. We sequenced 71
mitochondrial and seven nuclear genomes from ancient North American and Siberian dogs
spanning ~9,000 years. Our analysis indicates that American dogs were not domesticated from
North American wolves. Instead, American dogs form a monophyletic lineage that likely originated
in Siberia and dispersed into the Americas alongside people. After the arrival of Europeans, native
American dogs almost completely disappeared, leaving a minimal genetic legacy in modern dog
populations. Remarkably, the closest detectable extant lineage to pre-contact American dogs is the
canine transmissible venereal tumor, a contagious cancer clone derived from an individual dog that
lived up to 8,000 years ago.

[0]http://dro.dur.ac.uk/25675/1/25675.pdf
EDIT to my comment: take away the US Navy and shipping is more prone to piracy, private and governmental.
http://news.hydroquebec.com/en/press-releases/1667/hydro-que...

This is just a start, Hydro Quebec will expand production if demand comes.
I think any parent or manager also knows this…
In Norwegian kvass means sharp.
I quite often run sites through screenreader software. It certainly helps find egregious problems.
So they should hand out subscriptions for free and go out of business? Should the actors and set crew take pay cuts for the free accounts? Would you be ok with paying double so others can have a free account? What do you propose is a reasonable way they can stay afloat and address freeloaders?
This is really brutal.

I wonder if the author ever reversed the chargeback
> It's cheaper to move to [city] than it is to build a house in SF and always will be.

This is exactly it. Further, attempts to preserve the current population size of a city and keep things the same as they are can only try to deprive newcomers of the infrastructure needed to support themselves (housing, transit, etc.), but not actually make it illegal for people to move in. And quite clearly, they will move in anyway. Even cities that try to adapt can only grow so quickly, as it takes time to build new infrastructure, but new arrivals can come at any time.

In some ways I expect this problem will get worse, as the population of people who are decoupled from a particular location increases. “Work from home” is nearly the same thing as “work from anywhere”, and I expect that a lot of people will want their “anywhere” to be the currently trendy locale, and will throng from place to place.
I don't think your use of "levered" makes sense, and I don't think GOOG is the "canary in the coal mine" - basically the entire small-cap NASDAQ has already been obliterated - but otherwise your point stands.
What's wrong with Dropbox comment? I still didn't find any use for this service, but rsync works for me almost every day. IMO Dropbox is useless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we
> With an 80% battery that’s 128 miles of range

Sounds perfect for the average American as a daily commuter / errands car. Yes, no road trips without inconvenience, but that still doesn’t make it useless, it makes it a great secondary car instead.
> macron removed investment and focus on nuclear in his last mandate before realising that being woke made france broke

None of those problems OP described have anything to do with that overblown statement. Investment may have been removed for FUTURE projects but not for current operation which is highly subsidised by the French taxpayer guaranteeing the fixed price the Government decides on.

Also Germany reactivated those dirty plants also to help France out. The whole European grid is helping the nuclear nation out and will continue to do so until France diversifies its power generation infrastructure.
The Nation of Islam published The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews which describes this relationship. Naturally, this work is highly critiqued by Jews as being misinformation. So you will have to be the judge yourself as to whether or not it's actually an honest description of what happened.

Introduction:

An accurate accounting of the history of Blacks and Jews from the Columbian era to the Civil War, including the extensive record of Jewish slave trading in the western hemisphere.

This study is structured as a presentation of historical evidence regarding the relationship of one people with another. The facts, as established by highly respected scholars of the Jewish community, are here exposed and linked by as sparse a narrative as is journalistically permitted for review by those interested in the subject..

The subject at hand is a controversial one and should be approached with great sensitivity. Those who would use this material as a basis for the violation of the human rights of another are abusing the knowledge herein. The wise will benefit to see this as an opportunity to develop a more equitable relationship between the families of man.
Some Americans are certainly comfortable living in such situations (there’s no shortage of people creatively making it work in Manhattan, for instance, and tiny homes have a following and even TV shows)

The problems are with pearl-clutching neighbors.