skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sri Lanka's various crises are not a result of degrowth policies, but because the country simply has no money to pay for imports. Including of fertilisers. The arrow of causality is fiscal collapse -> agricultural collapse.

It's possible to look at historical crop yields worldwide, including in advanced / wealthy nations, and see where economic recession or high energy (especially natural gas, the primary feedstock in nitrogen fertiliser) results in lower applications of fertiliser as well as of reduced cultivation, and consequent reduced crop yields.

Again, that's a simple market mechanisms and response to costs, not an ideologically-driven policy of degrowth, deindustrialised ag, or natural / sustainable / organic ag.

Though it is a portent of what might face us would such choices be forced upon the world more generally. This is the notion of a technology trap (also "innovation trap" or "progress trap"). See James Burke's Connections, particularly episode 1, Ronald Wright's Massey Lecture series and books, Joseph Tainter, and many others.
Did they charge you for it?
Jeff is the greatest guy on YouTube. Honest, humble, knowledgeable and with a non-exaggerated but good sense of humor.

I wish him all the best and really hope he recovers so that he can live a normal life.
It's bad philosophy, bad science, and doesn't solve anything
If it is in the metaverse, is it "real" estate?
the same reason one would file for patents without any intent of enforcing them. For defense and security.

I would say that to attempt to have zero growth/shrinkage is difficult in business. The market is always changing, people's preferences change, etc. If you try to stagnate you will likely find yourself shrinking, either because demand changes, or there are mixups in supply (competitors).

If shrinking is the only non-goal, then growth is likely the only prevention since stagnation is hard to ensure.
The new king of the Semantic Web is obviously Neo4J.
He was getting that money regardless. He decided to drop it on that.
Maybe? But not until I’ve spent a while doing the whole 4-hours thing.

If I’m working 4-hours a week, that’s a 4-days a week I can be skiing. And reading, and hanging out with friends, and working on actually interesting code projects that aren’t beholden to the whims and timelines of a company. I’d absolutely do that for a while.
I'm not sure I follow...

value is the realocation of wealth?

hmm, surely to realocate wealth has some value, but what's the relation between wealth and value?

also, what about rent? what does rent do to wealth? to growth? to value?
Exactly, and it can turn into a horrible snowball effect if left unchecked. That is what happened to me and it wasn't until I started getting help in therapy that I was more able to understand the situation.
I've been that person in a couple of projects, and it wasn't just because I went off and did my own thing. In at least one case the other people on the team were simply not very capable. As in... I've been building web applications for 25 years, and some of the other folks on the team came out of a bootcamp. And... they don't talk.

"Please, joe, let's connect and you can follow along with what I'm doing". Silence.

"Hey, dave, I see the PR is only a few days late. We still have some time left, can you write a test for it?"

I can get stuff done or I can 'corral and build up' the others, but I can't do both. If you want stuff done by a deadline, and you will not discipline the non-contributors (discipline doesn't mean fire, but it might mean "you have to come to these meetings and pair and follow along and document and write tests")... what's left?

FWIW, I know the difference between decent teams and non-decent teams. The non-decent ones were poorly managed, largely because management could not determine who was skilled and who wasn't. The decent teams I've been on were situations where I still generally had more overall experience (function of age) but the other less-experienced people will still good, engaged, and already contributing, and were measurably improving month to month.
We have a very nice phrase in Polish describing what kind of employees they are, literally it goes like: "there are those who are equal and those who are equaler".
That’s true of Christianity, as well:

The philosophy of Christianity is rooted deeply in Platonic ideas — where “God” as the ultimate ideal is embodied both in a human (“Jesus”) and in the happening of the world (“Holy Spirit”).

I can’t claim to be an expert in Hinduism — but to my limited understanding, it’s akin to saying that Brahman manifests both through avatars and the actions of deities, as forces of nature.
Terrorism is not defined by having machine guns, bombs or taking hostages.

Terrorism:

> the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

Seems pretty damn clear cut that Jan 6th insurrectionists are Terrorists by that understanding.
Carpets also trap food particles and drink spills, so there's likely a hard-to-remove layer of decaying food particles in the carpet, especially if there are kids in the house. With hardwood floors, a robot can run around and pick all that up.
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Cabin overheat protection was apparently created to mitigate issues with the original LCD screens yellowing and failing because they were not rated for the heat that is experienced in a hot car on a summer day. Keeping the car at a temperature that won't kill a forgotten child was a convenient side effect. Also, the screens are properly specced now.
Notice how all these articles have the same author?
“Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong”

I have some ruminations on this. My ruminations may be completely wrong.

Double empathy problems start from a young age. Those with ASD figure out from a young age that there's a layer of social communication that they are not getting. They are often overtly teased for the faux pas' that inevitably occur. I wonder if this, plus a stronger penchant for black and white thinking does enforce a stronger aversion to "being wrong" then your average person.

Possibly even a stress reaction to previous trauma for some (I definitely think I'm on shaky ground there).
They're porn peddlers. Do you expect them to act like boy scouts?
Colonial? (This definitely happened at my school, wondering how common this was.)
Adtech companies being more "productive" than they already are is a terrifying thought.

How much worse could they make our world?

It's not just the ads, its the search result / timeline / suggestion bubble echo chamber that may bring about a new Dark Age. Let's hope they fail.
> But do we need it so highly processed?

Yes. This is how you bring down the cost of food to get it to enough people.
I was recently forced to install WhatsApp, and it absolutely forced me to give it my contact list.
Thanks for those excellent actionable suggestions :)

Comments like these are why "Show HN" can be so rewarding (despite all the pedantry about the submission title which I can't change anymore anyway).
Maybe 300. But no longer, I'm confident! Do you want to be left out in a couple centuries? You better get on the train now.
That makes no sense. If they shut down Fiber, the worst that’ll happen is you're forced to switch to a worse provider that costs more. Why not get the good speeds and the low cost while you can?
The maths:

500km == 310.68m

1,500km == 932.05m

500m == 804.67km

5,000m == 8046.72km
Books I Finished in July
for every small business that "gets by", there are 2 (probably more) that go out of business due to not having grown sufficiently by the time they face some competition.
So far, until the big layoffs start hitting everywhere, this doesn't feel like a recession. I'm guessing once the tech companies start laying off, it will have an effect throughout the economy due to their higher salaries. If this does occur, California will be in big trouble.
I’m not clear how owning a registrar gives them a unique view into domain registrations at other registrars. Does being a registrar come with special privileges like programmatic unmasking of “whois protection?”

They also already have a source of DNS traffic to mine for new registrations. Surely a phishing site would show up there fairly soon after registration. So does being a registrar come with more benefits than just timing?

If it does, then shouldn’t the worry be more broadly about Cloudflare potentially abusing this system to deanonymize the owner of _any_ domain, not just those they deem trademark infringing?
> Even they will carve out some niche and pretend (even to themselves) to be doing useful work. ... You'll find the odd developer that's maintaining some internal app by themselves.

In my experience, internal apps need far more love. Maintaining internal apps is far more useful than most 'real' work, just because it can be a multiplier on so much other 'real' work.
I don’t think the length of the explanation is very relevant, and finding shorter explanations doesn’t seem like a primary concern. Explanations should be judged on what problems they solve and how well they stand up to criticism and competing explanations. And since I don’t think any explanation can be “final” or “100% true” or “guaranteed” or anything like that, the notion of a shortest possible explanation doesn’t even make much sense.
> I knew a bunch of Ex-Yahoos, and they all cited this fact as one of the main reasons they left.

Which was a shame, because they had built something really interesting and nice when it came to the web. Between 2006 and 2008 (give or take) I'd say Yahoo was neck and neck with Google when it came to bringing "cool stuff" to the web. Yahoo! Pipes is still something I think of from time to time after all these years.
I think that is a terrible definition. What is "economic activity" ? There was an awful lot of activity on the Titanic when it was sinking.

In the same vein, more people working, but making less, and producing less is not a growing economy
I explain it this way; think of it as a cellular network in the sky, except in a terrestrial cellular network, the cell sites are stationary and connected via fiber and you are moving in your car or walking (or you can). With LEOS, each satellite is like a cell site, like a 5G one with phased array antennas, the satellite is moving and you are stationary and the satellited are connected to each other via free space optics but the backhaul is obviously RF, but the hand offs between satellites is over FSO. In fact, R17 of 3GPP standards now has provisions in it for 5G direct from the LEOS to the user. None deploy yet. but in a couple of years, that could be interesting.

Each satellite paints a spot on the ground using the beamforming capabilities of the phased array antenna. The capacity of that spot is of course limited by Shannon limit, where
C ~ B * S
C = capacity (think Mbps)
B = spectrum (think Mhz)
S = SINR (Singal to noise ratio)

If you have a smaller spot on the ground, then the spectrum is shared amoung fewer users. If you have more powerful transmitters and or better antennas, then your C will be better.

Right now based on the specifications I have seen publicly, Amazon's Kuiper (their LEOS) will have higher capacity than starlink because it will have half the "spot" diameter. That is due to better antennas mostly, more array elements mean narrower beam width.
Same here, I am intrigued by it, and would plunk down $1k right now for something like this even, but $3k+ is wayyyyyyyyy too much for just a standard bike with a neat drivetrain. Plus, I am sure shipping it to where I live would be another few hundred. I do like the idea of this for low-maintenance though.
Phone calls and SMS work fine (but I don't use them much), mobile data also (and I do use it a lot). Rarely, typically during the use of mobile data, the modem disappears. Reboot always helps. Telegram and Firefox are somewhat slow but generally work reliably. Even calls on Telegram work (with the sound coming from the speaker). Noscript helps a lot. Calendar is not very usable. Heavy usage with high brightness can drain full battery in a couple of hours, but suspend lasts more than 24 hours.
Good point – calling this clickbait might be too cynical.

From this perspective I can definitely get behind advertising the project with the LoC measurement.
Subjectively, I still find this to be a bit of a "not telling the whole truth", however I also only ever toyed around with speech recognition ai.
I don't think this is correct. The FCC announcement notes that $5B of the original RDOF auction has been authorized already. It gave out $23M today in a separate announcement.
Why do you assume the physical universe is a manifestation?

The Mandelbrot set exists and contains self reference without any need for it to be graphed (a manifestation). Similarly the universe as we experience it may exist without any physical manifestation.
Cisco hacked by Yanluowang ransomware gang, 2.8GB allegedly stolen
OT, but anyone know the font used in the figures? They're awfully neat!
How are you defining that model and methods today? Are they already in the tech / lang you use or are you using some translation like protobuf or openapi?

(curiosity as I'm building a tool on top of CUE that combines it with notions of data models and code gen, and I'm always keen to learn more about the things people do today)
As soon as you succeed, I'm pretty sure someone will complain that the sequence of matrix multiplications in the AI parameter file also counts as "code" in the wider sense.
> I have met a few of those people, but every single one of them needed a justification.

This isn’t true at all in my experience. I’ve contracted at many places that simply had a culture of avoiding work. Where a majority of the permanent employees hardly do any work, their main focus is coming up with reasons why problems are somebody else’s problems to solve, and avoiding accountability for anything that goes wrong. The pandemic and WFH has made this a lot worse in many companies. Out of the dozens of large orgs I’ve contracted to, far more of them had these problems than didn’t.
This is very optimistic, I like the cut of your jib.
That misspelling made me realize OP is not a native english speaker and he's trying to import the slave-driving work culture from whatever country he's from into the US.
> For most of history, the question remained beyond the possibility of being answered. But we live in a most-exciting point in time: one where this question has fallen to the progress of human knowledge.

> [...]

> We now have viable answers to great questions of existence:

> [...]

> It required us to assume math, rather than matter, is fundamental.

For all the length of this exposition, the conclusion is pure Streetlight Effect. Despite the fact that our brains have allowed us to achieve quite a high level of abstract reasoning relative to other Earth fauna, we remain inextricably coupled to our meat sack nature. It doesn't matter how many logical theories and models you stack up that map to observable phenomena, the truth is that there is no basis to assume that math is fundamental. Math, is just a tool for building models, and to paraphrase George Box: despite being useful, all models are wrong.

The irony of attempting to answer the hardest philosophical questions in this way, reflects a very human emotional need to transcend our obvious physical and observational limitations. We can no more explain why the universe exists than an amoeba could explain why a skyscraper exists, and actually the gap is much much bigger, because whatever we observe and determine as causality can always elicit another "why". A three year old can master this trick, and yet here we have a grown and supposedly rational person who does not want to come to terms with the fact that "what" can never fully explain "why". This existential ambiguity is our birthright and is actually beautiful and inspiring if you unclench your bowels a bit.
Entertaining an audience and keeping their attention has more to do with Theater training rather than computers.

Control of your face muscles, portraying your emotions (or your intended emotions), communicating with the audience, etc. etc. These are theater skills. You practice that by attending open-mic nights, going up on stage and trying to hold people's attention. Maybe improv games, or whatever.

Or dressing up in costumes and learning to communicate through only body-language (ex: Disneyworld mascots). Then when you take the costume off, you know what to do to communicate your ideas and how to keep the audience's attention through multiple dimensions (body language, facial language, and voice).

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EDIT: I'm not saying you have to do classical theater training to be a good online mc / master of ceremony. But you probably want to practice the theater-like skills for that kind of learning...
If this rope works well and is easy to replace, and is inexpensive I think I would be fine with changing it every 300 to 1,000 miles or so. They have it listed that you can change colors to match your outfit, so I am expecting it to be that easy.

> Change the strings quickly and easily in 2 minutes, no tool required and no need to remove the wheel. Choose the color to match your outfit or mood.
I remember when Netflix began to produce their own shows and movies, some C-suite exec saying something like "we're gonna become HBO before they realize they need to become Netflix". I.e. vertically integrated content production and distribution.

Well, wrong target I guess. Disney has always been the big player in this space.
A soft pair of slippers can give a similar effect as soft flooring.

For babies to crawl on, there are mats you can lay on the floor such as these: http://en.alzipmat.com/

The mats are easy to clean, and thus may be healthier than carpets which are difficult to deeply clean thoroughly or frequently.
Debt is a social construct and ultimately a notional and notational reality, not a real one.

Real wealth is not financial but physical --- "the annual produce and labour of the nation" in Adam Smith's formulation (and hence a flow rather than a stock as many commentators have noted). Debt and credit reflect claims on that wealth, but not the wealth itself.

Disrupting the claim-making system does have profund effects upon distribution, but does not fundamentally affect the actual production function itself. That is, by reallocating debt, one may influence who has claims on wealth produced, but even an infinite expansion of those claims still runs into upper limits of production, that being the classic definition of runaway-printing-press monetary inflation.

There are several post-WWII articles on prisoner-of-war camp economics, often based on tokenised (though not barter) transactions based on cigarettes and other standardised items, interacting with both relief packages (generally provided by the International Red Cross) and some amount of indigenous POW-camp services (barbering, laundry, and entertainment, for example). The characteristics, benefits, and limitations of strict monetary manipulation were made clear.
you really do

At large scale you can't hire enough competent people. And scale x low tolerance for error means you can't rely on humans even if they are competent. To fix that you basically have to introduce process. Things are checked and controlled at numerous points, using blanket processes that often don't make any sense for the specific scenario at hand but are needed for something superficially similar. People end up in hierarchies of approval. And that's without even considering regulatory compliance which often simply mandates things at a blanket level because micro-auditing each individual part of a big company is essentially an impossible proposition.

Engineers have the best chance because we have it in our hands to automate so much, but still, we just haven't figured out a better way to do it I think.
Also goes the other way, developers believing something is good while totally ignoring user feedback stating otherwise.

Admittesly so, you example so much more frequent.
from what I've seen, 10c change (even in a developed country) would fundamentally change life and at least how much we spend on commodities like food, energy, water
Can we change the link so it points to the original Phoronix article[0] without Clickjacking?

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-threadripper-5965wx
it's ogre :[

gz to disney plus team
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18829421
The exact same logic makes nuclear disarmament extremely, almost laughably unlikely.
> your fear doesn’t give you the right to impose that choice on me.

That's entirely up for discussion. Civilization has imposed a lot of choices on you that you may not like.
the forks create a great burden of keeping them up to date, and they can't keep up of course with constrained resources. Though it gives them independence to achieve orthogonal goals.

Having default apps colors aligned is soothing, not sad at all. It's not iOS-y beyond the launcher.
Sure. But maintaining the coherence between your business data model definitions and their implementation in the RDBMS can quickly become a massive headache, don't you think?
No, I would never return to academia now. i handle IT stuff for a large biotech, and looking at what scientist (both PIs and staff) have to put up with in academia, I don't think I'd be happy. Also, I just didn't boost my scientific creds enough to make a strong return.
Content is queen.

I cancelled my Netflix but Disney Plus is just worth keeping, even with the price hike coming.
Usually, jobs with challenges pay more. I switch jobs if both of these conditions are met: a) good enough challenges, b) pays more than current job
I usually assume that I can't take sales people at face value. If it's a badge of honour, they're incentivised to say that they don't work hard even if they are in fact actually working hard (this includes pretending to enjoy golf).

Having said that, 30 people is a lot of people, so I'm inclined to accept your assessment at face value.
A nice headline but Netflix could probably add a lot of subs if they dropped prices down to $7.99 where Disney has had them.
This was during covid lockdowns, right? It wouldn't be fair for the govt to enforce a lockdown and not provide funds/grants for internet infra.
This is nothing. 2008 looked like the end of the world (or at least the end of the financial system). I was literally 24 hours away from pulling all my money out of my bank account into cash. [Why? Because if I waited an extra day, I wasn't sure whether my money - or even my bank - would still be there. Am I worried about my bank surviving 48 hours this time around? Not at all.]

2008 came very close to ending very, very badly. It wasn't "will I get laid off, and if I do, will I lose my house". 2008 was "will a number of the largest banks in the world fail, overwhelm the FDIC, and take everything else with them".

This feels like the middle, but I could be wrong. It could be just a flat spot on the way down.
We're talking about the ROI on the 417 houses he's installing access for, not his total customer base. 2.6m / (417*(55+30)) = months to $2.6 million in revenue.

However, the assumption was that all 417 houses connected will become customers. That's a pretty big assumption. The actual percentage could be 50% or 90%. I don't know -- but surely the answer will have a big impact on the time it takes to reach that amount of revenue.
In addition to the good points made in other replies, there just aren’t many jobs like that available! “Something you actually care about”, I mean, rather than just “something that’s reasonably interesting to work on and not actively bad”.

And not many pay $300K.
Possibly misleading title? Still significant, but it includes all subscriptions including Hulu and ESPN+. Also did Disney account for possible overcounting (for example, there could be separate Hulu and Disney+ subscriptions and didn't took advantage of the bundle) or not?
This sounds more like WFH is being used to scapegoat a decade of bad management, business, and product decisions.