skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The thing with Blockchain scams (shitcoins), is that it feels like the creators of these coins often really believe they are going to be providing a useful service, a new innovation better than traditional financial services, better than Bitcoin. But they just don’t think it all the way through.

Or, maybe, the success and visibility of these types of coins is driven almost entirely by the ability of the creators to project the illusion of confidence and expertise to buyers who won’t think things all the way through.
It wasn't an existential threat. It could kill ten times the numbers it has and it wouldn't be. You could at least be charitable and use terminology like "possible existential threat", "potential existential threat" or similar.
0 utility? I've bought plenty of stuff with it and have had very, very cheap file storage...
There were a few environmental disasters since Chernobyl, for example the Sandoz fire which poisoned the rhine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandoz_chemical_spill
They aren't awful, they just lie. You just haven't noticed the pattern yet.
I use a water flosser, my teeth also like ripping floss.
Most home HVAC systems don’t bring in fresh air, right? Just recirculate air in the house.
100,000 EVs contain the same number of batteries as 500,000 PHEVs, which contains the same number of batteries as 2,000,000 hybrids.

Run the math. The 2-million hybrids will save the world faster than 100,000 EVs. Let's say ICE is 30MPG, Hybrid is like 40MPG to 60MPG. Even at the low end 40MPG, 2 million hybrids is the same number of emission savings as 350,000 EVs.

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Pure ICE technologies are also more important. Going from 20mpg to 25 mpg will have a bigger impact due to the huge number of ICE cars being made.

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There are 289 million vehicles to replace in the USA. The sad truth is that 1 million EVs/year changes nothing. We need faster production and faster replacement.

And there is no entity who can make 1 million EVs/year.
We had them that long too, just like card readers, we just didn't have laws requiring them. No Europe wasn't more advanced than Americans (and still aren't) but they did have better laws for the situation. So you can have that win I suppose.
I personally use a Remarkable 1 with yaft (1) as a terminal. I connect via ssh to a tmux session for editing and the response is fast enough.

1. https://github.com/timower/rM2-stuff/tree/master/apps/yaft
Looking down at the nearby highrises feels absolutely surreal. There are more observatories deeper in the city, like the Tokyo metropolitan government building (which is also free), while only about half as tall, will I think give you a nicer view of just city around you on every side.
> Let's try to stop Germany from harming itself further via international pressure. Blame and shame. Call them idiots to their faces. Point fingers. They need to shocked.

Trump literally did exactly this. Needless to say they doubled down. Classic example of an inability to separate the value of a message from the messenger.

The Greens are barking mad though, and not just about nuclear. Parliamentary democracy being what it is, they can sadly inflict that madness on the republic.
There’s a tradition in Japan of sending 3yo kids on their first errand by themselves. There was even a tv show about it.

In my experience, Tokyo, and Japan overall, is maybe the safest city/country in the world.
Can I please buy a copy?
Just wait until you learn about all the chemicals in a banana https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2018/12/image.png
I'm not sure, to be honest, probably the latter is most correct.
We develop new social and cultural institutions to mitigate it. They, however, further create divides along class, race, gender, ability, &c. Then we individualize the responsibility of dealing with the problem so that people can feel good about not tackling systemic problems. Or, a lot of people are harmed and no one really cares to do anything about it.
Induction usually works, so we think it will work tomorrow. But that in turn is... uh oh!
Do you think conscientiousness is heritable?
I don’t understand the intense negativity of comments on this post. What is fascinating is that the Japanese has systematised cutting to the degree where things become more specialised the more conplicated the cut.

I did find this very interesting. Not trying to shame the critics, but there are interesting things in this article and whilst it may not be in testing to you, that’s ok just move along?
At this point I'm open to try anything that will give me access to the python ecosystem without having to code in Python.
From the FAQ it looks like Erg code gets transpiled to python bytecode.
See previous HN posts about the Zoom installer.

It does some unusual stuff that it probably doesn't actually need to be doing.
> 20-30 years China and Europe will be energy and resource independent. If land transportation will be more cost effective than ships, USA hegemony is gone

This geopolitical model predates modern energy dynamics; in any case, Siberian minerals will flow to Chinese and European factories for a long time to come. This model also doesn’t require American dominance. (Again, it dates from the age of British and Austro/Russo/French power.) A future Leviathan could operate with Europe and America on co-equal footing, versus the D.C. dominance we see today.

As for land transport becoming more efficient than ocean, that’s a pipe dream. We’re talking about orders of magnitude of cost difference between the cutting edge of where rail/loop could be in a decade and where an inefficient shipping industry is today. Rail is also less resilient in times of war, as we’re seeing with Russia, being more targetable (Ukraine) and deniable by intermediaries (Kalingrad).

The real tipping point in favour of the Leviathan, however, comes with air forces and missiles, force projection options which didn’t exist when the model was conceived. Xi’s strategic fuckup has been in failing to see that China, too, could command a Leviathan. In an alternate timeline, a patient and thoughtful China is signing trade deals and security compacts with the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia Korea and maybe even Taiwan and Japan. Instead, Beijing Bethemothed the islands which encircle China into an adversarial stance, a stance they can maintain thanks to the stopping power of water, and a position which prevents China from projecting blue ocean naval power.
Ah yes, the famous 'every past generation was ignorant and every future generation is lazy'

I honestly struggle to understand the writings of common authors of the past and think this is where people confuse intelligence with knowledge. We have more knowledge now, but are we truly more intelligent than people 400 years ago? 1000 years ago?
I live near the river and so many rumors and stories on this flying around now. It’s the perfect storm of information negation and whataboutism and panic.

One immediate thing is certain in my surroundings though - a neighbors dog is at the vet poisoned from swimming in that river a few days back.
My official study was in the area of uranium enrichment. The situation in Soviet Union was always following - mostly Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan mined the raw uranium and did first enrichment pass (I grew up in one of that areas), and then final enrichment was done in Russia. I’m not involved into that anymore for more than 20 years, but I doubt that situation has changed significantly as it requires significant capital investment, plus know-how…
There is the PineNote [1], don't have one but do have the equivalent SBC.

[1] https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/
Find myself there as well somehow though I wouldn’t call my partner 100% extroverted, Im the onr more on the introverted side. To me a mind trick is to attempt a balance. For instance to realize that it would do me good to be outdoors during which I could still do my introverted stuff (introspection) during which I also do some phisical exercise. I just can’t be 100% within my head all the time, I still have to interact with them from time to time or escape for a walk from time to time. Some times Im out with my family and realize the energy is too good to be missed, this moment has to be taken advantage of, so I join in whatever we’re doing. I usually reserve one day a week of complete me time during which I paint completely isolated from others and distractions. Just knowing there’s an escape valve I can sacrifice a day for another. Im also getting a some dose of introverted recharge while working, while doing repetitive work on autopilot but I have to
admit there’s a bit of energy drain there too with the necessary socialization.
For a very successful debut album on deep rock beats, check Meteora by Linkin Park.
So now given proof, was is the recourse?

His account has been restored. The content was suppressed for as long as it needed to be. The old tweets have almost zero relevance.

I doubt you can sue the government on 1st amendment grounds for punitive damages… maybe best you can do is enjoin the gov from doing it again? Like that’s going to matter?
But the underlying point here (I think) is that people owning one home is higher priority than owning multiple homes. I’m not contradicting either of you, but it feels like you responded to a different question.
On Syntactic Sugar
In which manufactory is mesitylene an active agent, waste product?

Now I see that it is a component of coal tar. Weren't the Polish and the German using natural gas? And didn't they switch back to coal only after a combination of extremely retarded policies got recently found out?
What was the IP contract you had to sign like?

I just turned down a near-dreamjob because the IP language was "we own everything you make do or think, past present and future, that is related in any way whatsoever to whatever business this company conducts. You give us irrevocable power of attorney to sign off anything we need to to enforce this."

It was a small kinda lame company anyway. I'm curious what 'good' places like PDI had in contracts.
Flippers are selling for profit so they will not sell until the market is suitable that means an incentive to artificially raise prices because as you point out flippers don't just want out unlike residents.
Who cares, I haven't tried the majority of fruits, vegetables, meats out there, I'm fine

Life isn't a race to consume everything as much and as fast as possible
Just adding a source to what you're saying:

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"Are the operators on board with an extension?

The three remaining plants are each run by a different company, which all declined to answer questions in detail.

A spokesperson for RWE said extending the operation of its Emsland plant in Lower Saxony would come with “high obstacles” related to technical matters and legal issues. Its Gundremmingen plant, which went offline in 2021, “has lost its operating authorization and is in the process of being safely dismantled.”

EnBW, which runs the Neckarwestheim plant in Baden-Württemberg, said it was “fully committed” to Germany’s phaseout decision.

E.ON has also ruled out an extension of its Isar 2 site in Bavaria. “There is no future for nuclear in Germany, period,” CEO Leon Birnbaum told the Financial Times this month. “It is too emotional. There will be no change in legislation and opinion.”

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source: https://www.politico.eu/article/politics-behind-germany-refu...

another older article from february: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/could-germany-keep-i...
Would love to help you get this back online if you are interested! Happy to host it or point you in the right direction if you'd like to do it yourself.
>have had their failures and now we have licenses and accountability.

Read it. We made those engineers accountable and should have done the same for the others.

Please review what it means to make a threat, as nothing stated is remotely a "threat". Sounds weakly middle management, BTW.

It is a notice that soon there will be accountability.

If you are an engineer making the world a better place, then there won't be much to account for will there?
You don't need to wonder, Google for "lastpass vulnerability" and "lastpass breach" and read from the many results. They do not have a particularly decent security track record.
tasteless reference to terry a. davis?
It’s part of their playbook to do that with any controversy that pops up.
As the CTO of an API SaaS who sees a lot of promotion fraud on our service (i.e. bots attempting to sign up for thousands of free-tier accounts, because enough free-tier API-keys lashed together ≡ the capabilities of one paid-tier account), I see fraudulent sign-ups coming from IP addresses reallocated by these auction providers all the time. Addresses sold on IPXO (https://www.ipxo.com/) are seemingly especially bad for this.

If there was a big list of all reallocatable / not-permanently-allocated IP ranges, I'd willingly — gleefully! — just dump it into Cloudflare as an IP blocklist for our website / registration flow. And there'd be zero fear in my mind of getting any false positives or user complaints by doing so.

After all, none of these reallocatable ranges are ever purchased by residential/commercial broadband ISPs; those customers would much rather solve their IPv4 problems permanently, by doing either IPv6 enablement or CGNAT, than solve them for only the next 1024 customers, by buying a piddly /22 — especially at an unpredictable, un-budget-able price!

And for registrations, any IP other than ISP IPs doesn't matter. IaaS IP? Bot. VPS IP? Bot. Colo IP? Bot. "Internal-use" IP? Bot. if someone's traffic isn't coming from an IP address owned by an ISP, then for purposes of registration, it's not good traffic, 99.999% of the time†. Those IPs are perfectly fine when it comes to actual requests — obviously, your application backend using our API is a "bot" in some sense — but your application backend shouldn't be going to our website and filling out a sign-up form. :)

(† The other 0.0001% are people using "workstation in the cloud" services. But people using those are used to being treated as second-class Internet citizens when trying to do web browsing from their cloud workstation; and they already know the solution is always to switch back to their real computer's web browser for anything requiring IP reputation.)
This is great, looks totally usable.

I've pursued that eInk life style for about a decade now :) My best setup is with a Dasung Paperlike, but in practice the ergonomics keeps me from using it often (too many things to carry outside and setup). What I hope to see one day is a Linux friendly laptop with an eInk display (frontlit for extra bonus [1]). I wouldn't use it as a replacement, but for quickly grabbing when spending a few hours outside. Maybe Framework or MNT Reform could do it?

[1] the Dasung has multiple settings for the backlight and it's an absolute necessity for using it indoors.

EDIT: backlit -> frontlit, silly me.

ADD: PineNote is also promising as it support BLE and thus could be used with remote keyboard/mouse.
I remember the timezone map when I installed MacOS back in the days of Snow Leopard would always hit the wrong one.

Trying to select 'London' would always register as one of the many cities in neighbouring counties: Paris, Dublin, Lisbon.
You can buy the core contributors.
But that dynamic is true of other energy sources too. We’ve never priced fossil fuels correctly vs their externalities.

So doing that only for nuclear would be an even greater distortion.
Cast iron pans are fine if you like them. Cast iron people are a cult to be avoided.
> I would start by making property taxes substantially higher for non-owner-occupied property.

But that in turn means rents would go up substantially since the owner of that unit is now paying a lot more taxes on it because they rent it out instead of living in it themselves.

If the desired goal is to incentivize everyone to own their home and get rid of rentals mostly, that may work. But if there are people who want to rent affordably, it doesn't.
The first email spam was sent in 1978[1], if that’s something you count. Interestingly, Hashcash, the first proof-of-work system, was actually invented to stop email spam. This is a loaded question, anyway. Most technologies will eventually become ‘primarily’ used for spam or scams by some metrics. 60% of all phone calls are spam or scams[2] creating $18bn+ in losses due to fraud[3]. 85% of all emails are spam[4]. 70% of all registered domain names are malicious[5]. Yet people don’t typically describe these systems as ‘primarily used for scams’.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email_spam 2. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-phones-were-hit-... 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_fraud 4. https://dataprot.net/statistics/spam-statistics/ 5. https://www.scmagazine.com/news/malware/vast-majority-of-new...
Then it's time for operators to get with the times, because routers today don't have those same limitations as before.
Are you open to distributing via torrent?
And petrol grows in the soil so I guess we're all right then

I took a single banana as an example, now think about the millions of animals we slaughter every year which end up straight to the bin etc.

It's like cars, a single car is fine, 1.4 billion cars are not, I think most people just don't comprehend the scale of it all
"Chemicals" is far too ill- defined a term. Even if you define it as a substance that doesn't occur in significant amounts in nature (therefore our bodies have had no chance to adapt to) arguably most chemicals produced (esp. medications) have benefits that easily make the risks/downsides worth it, particularly as there are usually ways of mitigating those risks (which we absolutely need to do more of).
It'd be great if we could use ML and super sophisticated simulators to determine ahead of time whether a particular chemical might have unexpected negative side effects were they to reach a certain level of saturation in our environment, and once such technology is available I'd be fully in support of it being mandatory.
Research suggests even the EPA recommendation is too high.
I've came to this same realization after years next to an extrovert.

It's obvious once you understand the differences but until then it's pure misery regardless of how much you love the person.

You're often either unhappy or making them unhappy for no apparent reason.
There really is one question that people should grapple with early in their academic path, and think about hard (because it is rarely deliberately posed as a question to students):

Unless you are extremely talented and have some gift for a very specific topic or subfield, I would argue that finding a good environment (e.g. lots of adjacent collaborative research opportunities, and other productive students) and a good advisor is far more important than any particular thesis topic.

What I have observed is that few people at the end of their academic careers (esp. those who decide to do something else later) would say that the topic of their thesis was really all that important. They might have equally chosen some other related topic out of sheer luck or accident.

Far more important were the experiences of:

-- developing critical thinking

-- how to organize your life and work methods while trying to get a research project done

-- how to collaborate with others and use self-initiative to seek out opportunities

-- learning how to pick yourself up after ideas fail, or how to power through adversity and difficulty phases in your work

Almost all academic programs (or just tradition) make it seem like the thesis question you answer is the entire goal of your career. I doubt it.

As I said maybe for the rare few with a calling to be expert in <xyz tensor manifold number theory> etc. etc. it matters. But given that so few people reach the pinnacle of academia, for many, many others, these things are far more important outcomes that you keep with you in life.

Maybe it's a similar logic to "it doesn't actually matter that much what particular app you're building, it's that you launch something and have the experience of doing that, in prep for your next thing".
> I may have a wrong understanding, but, if I'm right, I'm honestly puzzled why people ever thought the RNA vaccines were worth the time because it doesn't seem like the right mechanism to choose.

Because none of that is actually happening, and RNA vaccines aren't causing the kind of problems the hysterical moon-howlers are coming up with. Admittedly they're a relatively new technology, having only been in use for about 50 years as opposed to attenuated viruses which have been in use for about 250 years.
Who decides when "dealing with externalities" has been done in a proper way?

The very word "externalities" and the state of the global environment don't inspire much trust in the efficient management of "externalities" through capitalism.

Pointing this out doesn't mean that I am a socialist ot communist, I don't like this this kind of black and white thinking.

Wouldn't "efficiency" mean that we use natural resources sustainably?

That's not happening as far as I see.
no they aren't. do some research on pubmed or some place on canola/soy/butter/olive oil. No one is saying hydrogenated oils are okay though, but recent research shows all the crap out of the 60s and 70s is garbage research, recent publications do not back it up especially when you cut way back on refined carbs and sugar which contributes much more to diseases than any other food item.
Yes it's quite similar
We ignored Salman Rushdie’s warning
Why so averse to direct Python?
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Also worth a listen: the Omega Tau podcast episode on container ships:

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Caring enough about anything.
I'll give you a freebie edit, you can qualify it as the thoughts of an individual dissociative reader:

> Important to note, that the alters in dissociative disorders are not voices, in the classical sense of hallucinations, they do not typically present audibly. They are generally perceived as the individual's mind states (thoughts, feelings, preferences, and memories) from different points in their life. They present as internal thoughts and feelings the same way anyone else would think and feel internally, yet the language used by those with DID organizes them as individuals because the dissociation makes that easy. They are all still that individual even if the alters perceive themselves to be separate in that way.

This, I think, might back up your point more saliently than the schizophrenic angle anyway, but I admit I didn't read the article to take your point as once I saw you mention multiplicity, I speed-scrolled to the inevitable mental health/psychology section to see just how bad it was.

I moderate AskDID and used to moderate the DID subreddit before the mod team devolved into hurt people hurting hurt people, so I have some exposure to how the community perceives themselves.
> I always take engineering management advice in books as a "do what I say not what I do" sort of thing.

That's pretty true for Will. Too much self-marketing. It doesn’t help his decision to leave Stripe for a failing startup that just laid off 20% of its staff.
Not sure if I'm missing the irony here.
PTFE is basically completely safe for humans because it goes right through you as it doesn't break down anywhere along the digestive path and basically completely unreactive in the human body, it is used often in biological implants. PFOAs are the villains and yeah if you have cheap nonstick pans 10+ years old then toss them. Yes I know exactly what I'm talking about and what kind of pans I have because I did my own research on the topic t-fal, hexclad, etc are perfectly fine.