skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>they are a shared, permissionless and open source protocol that is resistant to takeover by a single entity

And to prevent that takeover by a single entity (AKA 51% attack) it uses a very expensive (as in processing power) mechanism - proof-of-work to delegate the right of adding new transactions to the chain. And that makes is unscalable because as the network grows, you need more processing power. It flies in the face of economies of scale. It's a feature not a bug but that also makes it unsuitable for any business use cases.

Like any other market, consolidation will eventually lead to 2-3 whales will end up controlling majority of the nodes and can control an entire chain. In fact some of the new age blockchain startups are straight up centralized. What they are peddling is anything but a shared, permission-less and trust-less blockchain.
I agree. It's good that it's distinct, but it's very hard to pronounce or google.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
It seems to be a limited selection of languages (EN, DE, ES, FR, IT, PT, TR, SE, JP on my Kobo), with both EN-XX and XX-XX available for most languages. It doesn't look like you can add your own, at least not on my kobo.
I doubt those tourists on the beach actually realize the war could come to Crimea in a larger scale and that the bridge would be a prime target - many will just see great balls of fire near their beach and conclude it's better to go home.

And: Usually, ordinary citizens are in no position to take down a dictator unless they risk life and limb by taking to the streets. Some tried, but unless the system starts showing fractures, I doubt many more will. Getting locked up for up to 15y in a terror state is a pretty tall order.
It depends on the game/engine. ScummVM plays dozens (hundreds?) of games of course, but even something like OpenRA plays Dune 2000, C&C, and also Red Alert.
> The authors deftly hide this in the standard way by not plotting the raw data (likelihood of cheating vs belief in a just world), which would show a very small difference.

Yet another datapoint to suggest the gp post that academia strongly correlates with dishonesty.
In case anyone is curious, there have been a variety of different estate taxes at a federal level in the United States from 1797 through the present. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/ninetyestate.pdf

The "modern" estate tax was enacted in 1916. It was repealed for a single year -- 2010 -- but returned the following year and is currently in force. The exclusion amount has grown considerably over time.
I am not talking about strategy but my own feeling that I don't mind to pay the increase. My wife family was wiped out in the holocaust. I don't think that sitting and doing nothing is a better option.
And I do really not wanting to start an argument about it. As I said, it is a feeling and I am not a general and I have no knowledge of what is best.
I've lost 80 pounds since the start of the pandemic. My old clothes do not fit.
Google Search now looks for general consensus to highlight trustworthy results
I'm not sure how viable that would be, given that two of the reasons given for cutting them out would still stand:

- Not meeting the bandwidth requirements in practice.

- High initial hardware cost.

Starlink effectively being judged not able to meet the program requirements would surely rule them out to be used in connection with RDOF in any capacity?
what if we use burst of energy (rocket motor) at the "hot point" when this is shape shifting and helping the most ?
And they are destroying their business in the process. Trust is hard to earn, but really easy to lose.

1: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NFLX/

2: https://time.com/6198354/netflix-subscribers-loss-second-qua... (If you have JavaScript disabled remove position: fixed from the body to read, or https://archive.ph/tGzqK)

3: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62226912
Sounds like the classic entity–relationship model

I am assisting a professor with his intro to databases class this semester and that was the first thing taught there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93relationship_mo...
Nope, if you want to make a true comparison, then nuclear is in the costs of about 40 Cents/kWh instead of the postulated 2 Cents/kWh.

Because as we do not have a final deposit for nuclear waste there are no costs for it. There are only models with suggested costs. But all of this is not priced into it.

A German paper produced by the independent "Wissenschaftlicher Dienst des Bundestages": https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/887090/1867659c1d4edc...
The regulations where written by auto execs. The auto industries least profitable market got regulated out of existence just as their most profitable had regulations massively loosened and new tax relief for massive trucks seemingly every year?

Surely this is the result of inept regulators and not blatant corruption!
For some reason Youtube's offerings for ‘Space Station 13’ look like a supply of memery straight from elementary school, at least going by what I see in the list. I managed to find one vid by ‘MandaloreGaming’, whom I watched one time in the past and pinned as vaguely decent, but even that didn't evade the attention-deficit mode of editing.
This was really a throw away comment about unseen work, the real point is that its a nice visualisation of your team's activity for a period. Often bug fixes or tech debt can go unseen by the rest of the company, but this is a nice way to see what's been touched. Rather than an indication of quantity over quality.
Fascinating piece. Grabbed her memoir: https://bookshop.org/books/looking-for-trouble-the-classic-m...

(Note to small retailers: Apple Pay is a great way to reduce the friction for impulse buys. Who needs Amazon if I can buy what I want with a single click from people who actually know/care what they’re selling?)
The speaker claims this is the first US sanctions against ownerless smart contracts and open source software. Usually sanctions target a person or legal entity, who has the right to appeal and challenge a sanction. In this case, the speaker notes, there is no person behind the sanction that can appeal it. The speaker goes on to discuss the implications of these actions and whether it breaks the 1st and 4th amendments.

I would recommend watching the video as the speaker is well educated on the subject of law and blockchain, but you can also see an article on the sanctions here[1].

[1] https://uk.style.yahoo.com/government-takes-tornado-mixer-ma...
Just tax carbon lol
Another interesting case of the administrative state deferring to nice-sounding slogans over an incentives-based approach that produces right outcomes. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
So electric trucks should become smaller, right?
That definition would literally encompass all political violence.
If I can reconstruct your conversation (through other meta information), without listening to sounds of your voices, have I not listened to your conversation?
I don't get how you you arrived at any implied lack of intelligence.

Musk himself has repeatedly said that Starlink is a risky bet, and that satellite network operators usually go bankrupt.

Taking risks does not imply lack of intelligence.
> Justice implies retribution

I don't think that's true. It's sometimes taken to include retribution; but a lot (most?) justice is about reverting the consequences of "wrong" actions - inadvertent or deliberate. So the victim of a wrong action is restored to the position they would be in if the action had not been taken.

I see retribution as distinct from justice; in addition to putting things right again, "We are now going to visit on you the Universe's retribution for your moral turpitude". Bzzzt.
You know, hardware isn't free, right? Each Kindle model requires R&D, design, testing, manufacturing, lots of work to product, beyond the ability to show books. Sure Amazon makes money off the books, too, but those files aren't free to store on a server (and the servers aren't free), or free to send to you over the Internet, and so on. Ads support hardware cost. If you don't want to see ads, buy the one without ads.
VCs know blockchain has no use case. They are only in it to flip the tokens to starry eyed idiots and make most of their money back without a real IPO or dilution.
Leaded petrol was banned decades ago
#1 The article is suggesting radical change across a wide swathe of society, while you are suggesting a minor adjustment for individuals. Yes, ideally we can choose any one of many options that require us to work, work, work to make someone else rich. The suggestion is that none of those options are ideal.

#2 There are more options than "private individuals" and "government control." The author specifically says, "Cooperatives and communes, organized and controlled locally, are two avenues to pursue." Feasible or not, neither of those options are "government control."
roughly the size of a small container of cough syrup or 3-4 decent sized fishing weights per cubic meter of soil

This does not mean anything to general public either thou. Is it high? Low? How high?

The article says it should be 117mg/kg while guideline is 300mg/kg. Which is pretty clear to me.
That's a fair point, but let's also consider that markets tend to overreact to rate hikes. The public's languid response to the Fed's inching of the interest rate may actually be a desireable outcome.

If they were truly going for shock & awe, it would have been much more effective do one single 2% hike rather than breaking it up over 3 adjustments.
Using Airtable as a 'database' for Jekyll
Or how I made a static site 'dynamic', but still kept the good stuff
The people involved in recycling infrastructure are usually not qualified to build wind turbines or electrolyzers, so I think we can safely do 100% of both.
2008 was described as the worst economic crisis since the great depression. It was nothing like today.

There isn't even a concensus that we are in a recession today.
You have no evidence for any of the things that you say. The credit that you are trying to give to Glassdoor is especially artificial. Large scale economic forces, such as the crisis of 2008, have had a much larger effect than Glassdoor. You could try to make the argument "Without Glassdoor, things would be even worse" but so far you have not made that argument. As a counter-point, we should simply acknowledge that unpaid internships used to be illegal, then they became legal, and after 2008 they became common. Likewise, American workers once worked in offices, then in cubicles, and now in open air rooms where they have to wear sound canceling headphones because the noise makes it difficult for anyone to think. Over the last 50 years labor unions died out, and the protections they offered the American workers also died out. And of course, wages stagnated. You can try to make the case that companies treat their workers better, but it will be difficult to suggest that Glassdoor made everything better -- there were some powerful forces making things worse.

As to Yelp, I don't recall the era before Yelp as an era of going to bad restaurants. For informal restaurants, we'd go to wherever friends had been, if the friends said they'd had a good experience. And for fancier restaurants, those were reviewed in the newspapers. Or if you lived in a college town, then every restaurant, even the informal ones, would get a review in the weekly. Like, for instance, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where the Independent would post a review of every restaurant, both the informal and the formal.

I think an honest appraisal of the Internet would have to look hard at its failure to live up to its promise, and why that happened. For most of the 20th Century it was assumed that if knowledge could become universal, then economic growth would increase, and yet the opposite has happened. The years since 2000 have seen below average economic growth and below average productivity growth. Figuring out why economic growth faltered when information was becoming abundant has to be one of the big questions that economics needs to answer.
A mom’s campaign to ban library books divided a Texas town – and her own family
In Freeciv you don't have total information right?

With imperfect information luck is a factor. An AI which focuses on luck outcomes might be more interesting to play against actually. Why have 100% chance to take exactly one of five enemy cities when you could have 20% chance for each tried in parallel. Less than 1% of the time you crush the opponent with all five defeats, much more often (but still less than half the time) you get none of them, but it always feels like you're a gambler this way.
From Byebug to Ruby/Debug
My biggest issue is Kobo doesn't actually support epub, or at least the modern incarnation. Their reader software is woefully out of date and has terrible epub handling, so to get the features you expect you're back to the Calibre->reader loop you're on with kindle, only instead of converting to AZW3 or KFX you're converting to KePub, Kobo's homegrown version of epub they did instead. You can fix that by installing KOreader which DOES support the current epub format, but that again puts you in the same boat as the kindle (perhaps minus needing to jailbreak it) and the kindle has a much more robust community and support.
Open Source Auth0 Alternative Built with Go and Angular Releases Version 2
People who enjoy this may also love the Creeper World series of games:
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/1984/Knuckle_Cracker_U...
Its the headline that I personally take issue with. It is about Australia, but the title implies that backyard eggs all over are more likely to contain lead.
There is at least one that I know of:

https://danluu.com/essential-complexity/

For my own contribution, I think machine learning may be a good refutation of No Silver Bullet. It removes the need for the “essential complexity” of solving a problem. Like imagine trying to make GitHub copilot before machine learning. In Brooks’s world, the essential complexity of designing algorithms and data structures would indeed make this very difficult to do. But by using machine learning, you just let the neural net figure out the problem.
So bad policy making rather than some inherent benefit?

> Smaller light-duty trucks were regulated out of existence by tighter fuel standards. Because regulations were made looser on larger vehicles, the easiest way for automakers to meet the standard is to build a bigger truck.
It's a conscious choice to slack off and coast, plus an excuse.
I have no issue with the article’s logic, at all.

But I live in Montana, where easily 3 out of 5 vehicles are large SUVs or trucks. There is definitely ego there too. Whether it’s caused by owning such a large vehicle or the reason they own the same, it’s definitely there.

They largely hold you in contempt if you’re in a car or less, gassing you out with exhaust, high beams at eye level, or tailgating you until they can roar by in a cloud of exhaust.

They are bloody absurd as a single person vehicle, and even the recent high gas prices didn’t temper the number of pickups or their behavior.
YouTube fraud led to $23M in royalties for two men, IRS says
> At home: 12 or 42 €/month (details¹), depending on whether I want gigabit upload or not.

For me it's either 40€ a month if I want Gigabit down or move to a different city in case I want Gigabit up. Which is actually pretty good for current German standards; most can only dream of Gigabit down. Also, your home link is meager compared to a Gigabit link with proper redundant links to IXPs.

If you have a big home with solar power, appropriate cooling, a good connection and space to stuff servers away then yes, you can outprice collocation - but that's excluding a lot of costs you had before; if I was already running a server farm, collocating my servers would be even cheaper ;) If, however, you live in a flat in a city or in a rural area with bad connection [0], these prices are very competitive.

[0] So, most of Germany.
I am not convinced. Yes, the regulations are a factor, but ego is also a factor. See also Giraffe Necks.
OK but they are still making small cars. If all cars suddenly got bigger i'd get it, but the fact of the matter is that people are buying bigger trucks and not small cars despite both being available.

My pet theory is that among other factors, being the biggest on the road is desirable as a repilian-brain thing. Also selling larger vehicles that are just higher and wider for more money but that are not significantly different than similar but smaller vehicles is just easy money, really.
Mushrooms found growing anywhere near cities or suburbs should also never be consumed, as they specialize in concentrating heavy metals from soils. The most well-known example is the radioactive mushrooms of Chernobyl, which end up eaten by wild boars in the region (and boars don't stay in one place):

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/24/14733094/radioactive-pigs...

In cities and suburbs the main problem is likely due to the use of tetraethyl lead additives in gasoline for many decades (~1930s to ~1990s). Downwind of coal plants the mercury and arsenic are more problematic. Add both and some more industry and you end up with heavy metal cocktails that just recirculate endlessly.

If you want to grow foods in cities, there is a solution - raised beds that are separate from the underlying dirt, filled with soil trucked in from rural farms that aren't adjacent to industrial pollution sources. Note also that some 'natural environments' have quite a bit of heavy metals and toxic elements, due to natural weathering from geological outcrops, and some plants in these environments accumulate such metals (nickel, arsenic, etc.).

If you're concerned, sending a sample of your local soil to a testing lab is relatively inexpensive.
Why "notorious" though? Isn't this a good thing for them and for customers as well?

I would expect "famous", since this seems lika a feat/achievement to me.
I worked for Jaguar Land Rover for a number of years and we couldn’t bring the Defender to the US (I was told) because it lacked a proper airbag on the steering wheel. I’m sure it was slightly more complicated than that, but it makes for great story of regulation gone awry.
So I should believe the propaganda of the country that is invading another country under an obviously false pretense?
I always thought it was a combination of masculine insecurities and one upping your neighbors.

Edit: lifted trucks, after market front bars, louder exhaust with larger exhaust tips, truck nuts, American flags or thin blue line flags covering the rear window..
None of these are from government regulations
Proprietary code appears to create all of the innovation because you have to market and sell it. I don't think you can meaningfully say "which creates more innovation" in either direction, though if pressed I'd say, "open source in the long run" -- e.g. Linux runs a much greater variety of things than Windows.
For many levels the enemies come from "off screen" so there is no base to attack. There are some levels where you are supposed to send troops to destroy the enemy base, but once you beat that level if your base there comes under attack the enemies come from "off screen" again from what I remember.
I will remind it to the people who want me to do 'X' because global warming, like, every time.
Yes, and that's why we have a tiny Hummer and a tiny Cybertruck
I just want strategy games where higher level AIs aren’t just cheaters.
There is no level of exposure to lead that is known to be without harmful effects. [1]

Fortunately, plants don't seem to generally absorb lead.[2] It may be in the soil, though, which means you should carefully wash your plants before eating them.

It does seem to be a big deal, though, that chickens absorb lead and that the lead ends up in their eggs. There are many people who have backyard chickens who likely aren't aware of this.

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poison...

[2] https://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/soil-compost/sho...
I don’t think Toyota lobbied to stop selling corollas. This likely was intentional from the Obama admin, my recollection is that the US government owned Chrysler and GM when they made so many rules that favored big trucks over efficient cars.
I ran into this pricing a chevy duramax recently. On their site one can "build" a vehicle by customizing packages. I don't really know what this "build" process is for because at the end it just searches for dealers that have inventory with n out of x features one selected, or "request a quote" which is really the same thing. It's a very misleading process in my opinion.

Anyway... I tried removing OnStar and the only way I could do that was to remove all the feaures I wanted and also needed. e.g. towing package, bigger engine, etc... The only way I could "build" one without Onstar was to have a bare-bones model with nothing else added. Ill try again in 5 years or so.
I mean yeah the difference is that one's for profit and one isn't. That's the tipping point for just about anything.

Do something really well for fun? Just a cool admirable hobby. The second you start to do it for money it becomes a job and people will judge you in a completely different light.

As usual money ruins everything.
Why doesn't the article address the question of why emission standards are looser for larger vehicles? Isn't that the supposed problem?
"By including this plan as standard equipment on the vehicle, it helps to provide a more seamless onboarding experience and more customer value,” GM spokeswoman Kelly Cusinato told Automotive News in an email.

"More customer value" clearly worth 125$/month.

You're basically paying > 100 bucks a month for something that allows them to collect and sell your data to third parties.

EDIT: as people mention in reply, I have absolutely zero reading comprehension skills and the fee is actually 1500 for three years not one. Still... I pay less for cellular service with near limitless data and voice.
This feels more like a political statement than a researched perspective. Is there proof that the F-150 of perhaps 2007 is smaller than that or 2012? Did the truck sizes change to become smaller once the emissions rule was revoked?
This argument rests on the idea that blockchains cannot operate without Proof of Work, but this statement is untrue as there are several decentralized blockchains running today and securing millions of dollars on Proof of Stake.

Ethereum has successfully merged Proof of Stake on all of its test networks, and is aiming for a complete merge on the main network some time next month.
Gas prices recently (roughly) tripled, and it didn’t deter them from buying, or driving them.
You can see a more or less full list of what I'm "actively reading" on Goodreads[1]. Obviously there's a lot of time slicing going on here and not all of those are getting a lot of attention "right now". But my "currently reading" list has everything I've at least read a few pages of, placed a bookmark, and intend to finish (one day).

What out of that has a lot of attention right now? The Charles Proteus Steinmetz[2] biography[3] is probably getting the most attention. I've read a few books about him in the past, and I would say he is a fascinating character from the history of electrical engineering, and that this book is well worth the read.

Steinmetz isn't anywhere near as well known as Tesla or Edison, but arguably played just as important a role as either of them in advancing the use of electricity back in the late 19th / early 20th century.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/33942804-phillip-rhodes

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz

[3]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4999353-charles-proteus-...
There's all kinds of consumer-oriented things they can expand into, like they're currently doing with sports on ATV+. I don't see how competing with AWS could ever work out for them, absent some anti-competitive stuff like allowing additional functionality for apps that use AppleCloud for their backend.
The State of Rust in 2022
Then why don’t people buy class 8 semi trucks?