skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the only choice becomes to either make money or not, crypto may be the answer.

Yeah, many creators and pr0n companies will tone down their content. But we all know that consumption of pr0n doesn't lead to more vanilla tastes. The more "deviant" acts will find ways to make revenue outside the mainstream and then all it will take is a critical mass for some digital currency to mean something.
I'm not sure how this design, which produces plutonium, can be claimed to "support nonproliferation".

Plutonium is not only highly toxic (which means it could be used in a dirty bomb), but also highly fissionable and able to be made into nuclear weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium
> If Visa doesn't like what a website is doing, Visa can walk away

Right, which does massive damage to that website as Visa is part of a duopoly with a complete stranglehold on the market

> If I don't agree with Visa's decision, I am free to walk away from Visa

Ok, and if Mastercard follows suit, where do you go?

The problem with essential services - monetary transmission, in this case - being monopolized by private companies is that your trite claim that "each party can walk away" is actually quite clearly untrue for the consumer in each such situation. Market actors should be free to make their own decisions, but monopoly and cartel situations need regulation to prevent consumer harm, and it's clear what this is.
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I'm a problem solver.

I learn quickly and use whatever technology is necessary (familiar with other techs beside the ones above).

Finished my PhD in CS recently while also working on software for the Federal Police of Brazil.

Passionate about computers since I was a kid. Studying and working in CS full time since 2009.

I'm at the top 10% of Leetcode contestants.

Looking to join a team who's also passionate about software and follows good practices (CI/CD, TDD, SCM, Reviews, Joel Test, ... ).
> I wouldn't participate in this conversation the same way if I didn't experience consciousness.

I don’t think you’re conscious. Prove me wrong.
Why do your customers pay Amazon for egress to the internet? Isn't that very expensive?
other arguments aside .. Athena costs $5 per 1TB scanned and also supports predicates pushdown to S3 Select. I wouldn't call this expensive, at least in comparison to self hosted Presto.
Interesting, thanks. Hadn't heard about any plans to phase out hydro here in Germany. I knew we didn't build new ones (for the reason you've stated + at some point there's not enough space left), but don't remember any discussions to remove existing ones.
Trains require dedicated rails, and increasing traffic on rails requires modern signalling infrastructure, both which are a lot more expensive to build and take decades. At least if the UK is anything to go by.

Road trains use existing infra, aren’t as constrained in destinations, and don’t take decades to roll out.

Don’t get me wrong. More rail is a good thing. But we also need more road trains too.
> For example, a professional tennis player can follow the trajectory of a tennis ball after it is served at a speed as high as 160 miles per hour, move to the optimal spot on the court, position his or her arm, and swing the racket to return the ball in the opponent’s court, all within a few hundred milliseconds.

I suspect if you made a perfectly invisible ball, you'd find people would manage to hit it back quite often. There's a lot of signal from the opponent's body motion.
Russia Is Building 'Ghost Bridges' with Radar Reflectors
well the problem is censorship from Visa is distorting the market. i.e., many people like amateur porn but this makes amateur porn have a higher barrier.
Not surprised at all. I know a lot of people that upload sensitive docs to format conversion free sites (like jpg to pdf converter, joining pdfs etc).
A nice thing about the hookworm example is it applies within the United States. It was common historically in the South, but not the North. This may well account for some of the stereotypes about the lazy, stupid Southerner, as well as the gap in economic development and educational attainment. [1]

> How much credit, if any, hookworms can take for those lingering economic challenges and misconceptions, however, is nearly impossible to measure, although some have tried. Hoyt Bleakley, an associate professor of economics at the University of Michigan, used early to mid-20 th century census data and records from the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission to compare educational and economic gains in places where hookworm eradication did and did not take place. He found an increase in school attendance and literacy in relation to hookworm reduction and also discovered that those effects seemed to extend into adulthood, with better-educated children growing up to be higher-earning adults. This suggests, Bleakley writes , “that hookworm played a major role in the South’s lagging behind the rest of the country.”

> “If you compare places in the South with the worst versus the least hookworm problem, you’re talking differences in income of maybe 25%,” he says. “There are lots of reasons why the South had a different developmental path than the rest of the country, and while disease is not the whole story, it was certainly part of it.”

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-so...

Is it so wild to generalize this to the rest of the world?
As the article points out this is almost certainly about advertising within their own sites, apps and stores. In which case competing and networks are irrelevant.
Record labels’ war on ISPs and piracy nets multiple settlements with Charter
Yes, I understand all that (and have talked about and mentioned g in other comments in this thread).

The point is, what's "improving intelligence"? It's something that we have a hard time quantifying on a linear, agreed axis. As you point out, IQ scores are a somewhat flawed measure of g, which itself is a somewhat handwavy observation of a underlying factor that is a strong correlate to human performance in a broad set of areas.

And even if you could put that human performance in a linear measure, there's still a question of how you value different changes in that distribution. Which is better-- raising everyone by .1 standard deviations, or boosting a few people near the top by 1 standard deviation?
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I don't think this is true if you factor in the Total carbon from the process of actually electrifying the roads. Its a ton of cabling made out of a ton of metal that needs to be mined.
The US freight railways have priced wiring their rails. It is possible to do this, and double stacked containers are not a problem (except for a few bridges that are already borderline for being high enough). Problem is it is only worth it if you have every rail electrified, just a short section in some out of the way rarely used rail that isn't wired is enough that they have to have diesel locomotives everywhere just in case they want to send that train to the one unwired track. And so it doesn't pencil out until diesel gets substantially higher and remains there.

That is according to the railroad. There are others who question the math, which is a valid thing to do, though I don't know who is right. In any case it is possible to wire all US freight, but so far nobody has done it.
Central Bank currencies are starting to look better and better. At least then it is the government deciding. And that might be controlled by voters. Or violent revolutions.
I have never paid for porn because there is so much free stuff, so I can only speak to the free stuff. I'm talking about widely available free porn that is supported with advertising. I hear it's softer than the paid stuff.
Section 230 rocks! I love watching an endless stream of porn with clearly unwitting female subjects. Visa needs to stay in their lane!
Your last sentence is confusing, rather than starting what from scratch after age 30? An ML career or trying to become a great engineer/programmer/IT person?
Is this just yeast? The website doesn’t really specify
Question regarding:

> while keeping Superblocks up-to-date from our cloud

Does that mean that the OPA auto updates? Or is it saying that I can configure the frontend to use a custom backend?
And in the 25th century, if we manage keep technology alive, the dall-es of the day will be trained in more computer depictions of long extinct animals that accidentally made it into the training set than pictures of real animals. It will be Dürer's rhinoceros all over again.
No, this isn't about the philosophy of science, but you in particular misrepresenting a topic and then making philosophical arguments about it. You ought to understand the science you're criticizing before sharing your commentary on it.
None because any such form of making money means developing a web app or UN*X junk, for some questionably useful application that people are buying for some reason when they could just write it themselves or pirate stuff.
Logically, China can be the largest polluter in absolute numbers while still not even above Canada, US, Japan, Germany on pollution per capita, considering the massive population. You don't need to put the data integrity in check over this fact, even though you only provided anecdotal evidence instead of numbers.

But ok, let's ignore China. We don't need to focus on China to support the argument that blaming pollution on developing nations is disingenuous.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...

Pollution per capita paints a different picture from the common narrative: there's still an order of magnitude difference between so called developed nations and others, and even between developed nations the gap is large – the avg. US citizen still pollutes 3x more than a Spanish citizen.

Supporting the narrative that developing nations are polluting the world, while simultaneously not rethinking your consumption habits is a double-standard.
Generally the trend among NIMBYs is "we want housing, but we don't want it here, specifically". So they will be 100% favor of housing in the abstract, but as soon as someone tries to build some, there will always be some reason why that particular housing is a bad idea.
That printf exploit is quite impressive I think.
The article specifically mentions that bundle sizes for grpc packages in the past were unacceptable and that they've made big improvements.
This is a pro-bot rate-limiter. In reality, most humans use low-spec feature phones with slow CPUs. This punishes those humans and promotes bots running on GPUs and highjacked cloud infra.
Currently searching for dog houses on Amazon
This is awesome but the only way I would be able to afford it is if my company paid for it. I'd have to make a case for prof. dev. anyway to add some sort of certification to it? HR really, really likes certificates, degrees, etc. for PD.
White Americans are descended from Europeans, and the post was talking about being proud to be white, not "white American". Though I don't see why oppression is a requirement for pride - does achievement not suffice?

And "white fragility" is simply a way to dismiss objections without addressing if they are factual. So in that sense, your use of the term is correct. Any resistance is "white fragility", and the only way to avoid that accusation is to submit to and agree with every attack against whites.
I have as well, despite it being pretty expensive to maintain, updating my own sites is so much more of a "stable growth" feeling and far less stressful than working excessively on a massive social media site that might shutter overnight, limit me, or over-moderate me. I am quite sure that building and maintaining my own sites has cost me a lot less than what it would cost to keep promoting posts on social media.

Now if only wen hosting companies weren't seeking to increase pricing and upsell us all the time, we'd have something really epic! har.
Sure, but what I'm saying is that for most people, they'll need to buy the crypto with USD. Any time you're interacting with the regular banking system, it's possible to ban accounts who are buying illegal, or even just unseemly content. The only way really around it is if people start buying crypto with cash irl. This is a lot of friction for people. It may simply be easier to buy professional content from studios that only work with legal performers.
In your opinion do people in China have the same lifestyle and consumption as people in the US?
They are not allowed in all states/areas. So you might be someplace where they are not allowed, or close enough that there isn't a good place to stop and put them back out. I see them in use all the time, but that is a reflection of where I live.
Curious, do you see connect-web falling into the former or the latter group?
Reminds me of this piece:
https://www.commonsense.news/p/why-the-democrats-are-funding...

"Why the Democrats Are Funding My Far-Right Opponent"

Pretty funny.
That one has kind of turned in over my head a lot. I didn't think of the decoration for some reason when I first read it, but then it made more sense. I also imagine it would be pretty sticky?

I think some of these things would land differently to an audience more intuitively familiar with these things in their daily lives.
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Hey! I was misinformed, try removing:

services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "qxl" ];

Then you're only left with the spice line. I think qxl requires other configuration.
Seems like on mobile there will be one Google Meet app ? So not sure how there will be two meet apps ??

with that said, in terms of audio & video quality esp in poor connectivity conditions there is nothing that comes close to Duo - not whatsapp, not signal, not facetime
So is religion, but I wouldn't advocate for banning it.
100%. I'm at that point where I've got very complex spreadsheets and need to make some kind of change.

What's the best place to provide feedback / ask questions? Discord?
He's doing something inspired by Knuth-Plass linebreaking, so either Heirloom Troff or Neatroff would be the better comparison.
No proxy is required if you only write servers in go with their connect-go library. Packing protos is not glamorous work, but I'm not willing to adopt a gRPC protocol that limits implementation choices.

If you have gRPC services chances are you already have a L7 reverse-proxy like envoy running with grpc/grpc-web support whether doing it yourself, or as part of your cloud provider. So IMO their connect-go library is only useful if you directly expose the server on the internet, and only use the go programming language.
I happened to see a black and white video of Flip Wilson telling his infamous baby joke on the Tonight Show [1], and thought to myself that I barely know who he was, let alone anyone born after me.

Seems like a great way to build a following on TikTok would just be to go through the countless hours of standup comedy that was shown night after night on late night TV in the 50s and 60s, cherry pick the best bits and just start making clips. Even if you were called out for copying, a funny bit is a funny bit. Think of the wealth of material from George Burns, Milton Berle or Carol Burnett that could be reintroduced to the world as 30 second vids.

1. https://youtu.be/xG3v_kA0Stw
Even some of the puns in Shakespeare's plays have become lost due to language and social change. I would not be surprised if a bunch of the old jokes, especially the apparently non-sensical ones, are puns or have punny elements.
I remember a similarly themed non joke where the meaningless and irrelevant punchline was "no soap, radio."
This project will use water electrolysis powered by renewable electricity for clean hydrogen generation:

https://www.energy.gov/lpo/advanced-clean-energy-storage

As of 2017 the US had about 250 GWH of pumped-storage capacity and the world had about 1600 GWH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

So this one project can store more energy than all American pumped-storage projects. Pumped-storage is more efficient but it takes much more mass because gravity is such a weak force.
302 comments last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26386419

If all you have is this hammer, check out https://github.com/PerditionC/VBAChromeDevProtocol to automate workflows in the browser with Excel VBA.
Well, I meant that loops are limited within the normal constraints of the C standard, which doesn't offer tail call elimination, but indeed as you point out it is easy to work around it in practice using clang or gcc optimization passes.
Yeah I've seen a lot of suspect merchandise sold by amazon too. Meaning just poor quality stuff with incredibly high star ratings. Wal mart they tend to go through major distributors. For now anyway.
There are things we can do to make RSS-based consumption much easier. I use an RSS browser plugin for Firefox[1] so that a feed icon shows up on any page advertising[2] a feed. The feed icon let's me subscribe to the site with 2 clicks (and no copy/paste). This is a space that is ripe for building better tools, especially since so much of the (non-walled) internet still exposes RSS. We even have a handful of companies getting people to pay $$ for a solid hosted feed-reader experience (Feedly, Inoreader, Newsblur, etc.)

[1]: https://github.com/Reeywhaar/want-my-rss
[2]: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery
Thank you for your insightful articles and shedding more light on compensation data in europe! Your tri-modal article has been particularly well received!
People just aren't scared enough of COVID anymore to keep the forever-emergency going, so now we have a new excuse for violating our legal processes and civil rights for the next few years.

As has been seen elsewhere in collapsing democracies, once the ruling class discovers the ability to gain unfettered power through the long-term use of "emergency powers", they always find a way to keep the "emergency" from ever expiring.
Yes, they should, and rendered PDFs are accessible to readers.
> Google has a help article detailing this extremely confusing situation, calling the two Meet apps "Google Meet (original): The updated Meet app" and "Google Meet: The updated Duo app." The "Google Meet (original)" app will someday be put out to pasture; it's just sticking around while Google rebuilds the meeting functionality on top of Google Duo. Did everyone follow that?

Sounds like there's two in the store for now. On iOS, I can find both Google Meet and Google Duo in the App Store.
> So Google Duo is being rebranded to Google Meet, and the existing Google Meet app is sticking around for a bit. That means there are now two apps called "Google Meet." Google has a help article detailing this extremely confusing situation, calling the two Meet apps "Google Meet (original): The updated Meet app" and "Google Meet: The updated Duo app." The "Google Meet (original)" app will someday be put out to pasture; it's just sticking around while Google rebuilds the meeting functionality on top of Google Duo. Did everyone follow that?

I'm in stitches; dying of laughter over here. Folding together apps to reduce the number of chat apps if probably a good thing, but renaming them to an existing name while the old app is still around? Even Microsoft had the decency to tack on "for business" when they were butchering Skype's branding!

On a more serious note, I'll be interested to see how this affects the business side of things; will Google Workspace keep Meet, and what Meet will it be?

EDIT: Reading through the linked help article, they talk about Google Workspace under the section for the new "Meet" nee Duo and not under the section for "Google Meet (original)", so I guess they have or will transition it. Probably.
Is it supposed to only provide facts?
The relevant law here is called SESTA-FOSTA. It forces companies to ensure they don't host content that facilitates sexual exploitation. This has impacted full-service workers (i.e., prostitutes). Before SESTA-FOSTA, they could put up ads on specialized websites, chat with the clients and then have them come to a room they had rented. This arrangement gave them basic security.

After SESTA-FOSTA, the pages hosting those ads folded, as they couldn't comply with the new rules. Many full-service workers are now walking the streets again and have to have sex in their clients' cars. It's obvious that this makes them much more vulnurable.

It even goes further: Banks will close your account if they think your business has something to do with "sex", even if what you do is legal. If they feel you might be a risk, they freeze your account.

This law has hurt many sex workers, often people already at the very bottom of society. On the other hand, it's unclear how many lives it saved from sexual exploitation.

Sex workers are vulnerable, and many women are being abused. But the way this law was enacted, I can't help but think that pushing sex work further into illegality was a desired side-effect.

Source: I know a couple of sex workers in NYC.
Maybe Visa should also suspend card payments for the theaters and streaming platforms that enable major Hollywood studios to sweep the jailable crimes of their producers under the rug.

But muh Marvel movies! /s
You're aiding them in breaking the law.
Iceland is over a volcanic hotspot where hot rock from deep in the mantle is physically rising up, so the heat conductivity of the rock doesn't matter as much. It's like the difference between standing in a pool of water and being sprayed by a hose.
Xeyes was occasionally useful for telling you when the machine it's running on has gone down or is too overloaded to be usable. In today's world of nested window systems it's also helpful for telling you if your mouse cursor movement is being delivered to a nested screen.

Mostly, though, xeyes was "pointless" in the same sense that fine art is "pointless", like xneko, window manager themes, xshostakovich, or screensavers. It doesn't have a point; it is itself the point.
The production knows was it puts together Dall-E seems not
What a delightful practice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_soap_radio#Execution_of_the...
the only result of banning VLAs is to force everyone to use alloca, which is even less safe.

exhibit A: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-commit/2020-Dece...

exhibit B: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/5229

exhibit C: https://github.com/sailfishos-mirror/llvm-project/commit/6be...

etc etc
Adding to this thread the link to their new slides for 2022: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22036831/adaptingtoen...

Not titled as doom-y this time round.
If you want to understand why this happened, read this recent court decision: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.82...

Basically, a court recently ruled that, since Visa is processing payments for ad purchases on Pornhub, Visa is a co-conspirator on all sex trafficking and child porn that Pornhub is involved with. Apparently Pornhub merely being alleged to have engaged in those activities is sufficient knowledge to constitute a "meeting of the minds" for Visa to become a participant in those activities.

(As you might imagine, I vehemently disagree with that ruling. But as it's the ruling that stands, it's the situation that Visa finds itself in, and were I in Visa's shoes, I'd do exactly the same thing they're doing now. They really don't want to be a part of this--and they really shouldn't be a part of this, and dumping Pornhub's ad purchases is the fastest route they can take to not be a part of this, as problematic as it is.)
> purists stick to C89

But the true Scotsman… uh, purist sticks to the K&R C as C89 has already lost some of the original elegance and simplicity. (Never mind that it’s a challenge since the general community has moved on.)
VISA can do what it wants but this is morally reprehensible. Not really a good example when you're doing something that's way worse than porn.