skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Countries where it is possible to achieve clear title to property in an orderly and transparent manner are the most prosperous, and have the largest spread of wealth.

Countries that lack this mechanism never really get anywhere.

Politicians can't seem to resist tampering with this successful mechanism, though. They mistake cause for effect, and do things like push financial institutions to offer subprime mortgages, since "everyone knows if you buy a house you'll be successful". I get the impression that they have no clue they could actually kill the goose laying the golden eggs.

Between the financial firms like Blackrock and their pet politicians, it will be interesting to see, after they break things, if anyone will be able to de-humpty-dumpty the mess they create.
No grace hopper the computer scientist
I enjoyed this article, but disagree with it. For me it comes down to an economic argument, is it cheaper (on a case by case basis) to buy energy or save it? For example, my front door has a huge gap that lets cold air inside in winter. The amount of energy needed to heat my hallway is astronomical, so it's much better to fix the gap.

Also, a word on nuclear. People seem to ignore the fact that nuclear is by far the most expensive way to generate electricity. If you want to impoverish your country, build nuclear power stations! It's much cheaper to build renewables and use the surplus electricity to create hydrogen which can be stored indefinitely and then burnt when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining.
You’re not wrong, Safari is often behind on features. Unless Apple deem that feature important of course.
That's why I like simple hash-based cryptographic algorithms such as Lamport OTP for digital signatures. Hash-based algorithms are broadly believed to be quantum-resistant and this makes sense intuitively because hashing destroys information.

The statefulness of Lamport OTP adds some implementation and usability hurdles but IMO, the simplicity and intuitiveness of the algorithm makes it worthwhile.

Source: I worked on a quantum-resistant blockchain which is based on Lamport OTP and Merkle Signature Trees (for key reuse) - https://capitalisk.com/
As a cloud employee I am willing to make the public commitment that should I ever be in the position of buying a yacht, I will etch "booi" into the hull for you.
> this historically important place on a geopolitical

It’s not really that important, though. Never was, which might be the main reason it is the “world’s oldest republic”.
Anti-nuclear sentiment was a broad grassroots movement. While companies smearing competitors isn't something unheard of, it just doesn't happen between industries with any degree of success and scale. It's just easier for Big Money to diversify and re-invest: you can watch it in real time with oil companies spawning solar and wind power departments.

tl;dr blame your hippie parents
"Why is it that no one has undertaken the task of cleaning the Augean stables of elementary differential equations? I will hazard an answer: for the same reason why we see so little change anywhere today, whether in society, in politics, or in science. Vested interests dominate every nook and cranny of our society, even the society of mathematicians."

How true! I wonder why humans are unable to devise a society where useful change occur swiftly when necessary.
OP was bashing FreeBSD as having no userbase, comparing it to a hobby project with no known bugs because it has no users to find them.

FreeBSD isn't run on a limited choice of hardware.
I think that's implicit with the quoted timelines:

> 2030 (45% renewables) and 2050 (75% renewables)
If the person who lived their for 55 years makes $10m from the increase in land value, how much should of this should he give to the people who rented for 55 years, lived in the same neighborhood, and went about their days with smiles as to make the place nice to live in?

Also what if he was a real asshole, rude to everyone, kicking in fences, and his dogs barking 24/7, and the neighbourhood was doing well despite him?
I believe a contemporary pole based on US politics and economics will do.
Far as much discussion as there is here about how this was a colossal waste of time and resources, I’d be curious how many people here work for a company that’s net profitable. It’s very easy to be moralistic about other peoples money, especially when it comes to art. However, I wonder if it’s a bit hypocritical.
But not so isolated that your butler, chef and maid have to commute too far when you decide at 3am that you fancy a snack.
> Android One is a family of third-party Android smartphones promoted by Google. In comparison to many third-party Android devices, which ship with a manufacturer's customized user interface and bundled apps, these devices run near-stock versions of Android with limited modifications, and a focus on Google services (although they may still feature software enhancements to support the features of included hardware, such as cameras)

See https://www.android.com/one/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One
> people tend to like what they have grown with

That is why parent post called mac 'counter intuitive'.
But for subsequent requests the content is cached.
> woke disability jargon

It’s just a label used to describe people with similar or overlapping developmental disorders. The word could be more concise I suppose, but then you’re just waging this tiny cultural war on words being too big.

I’m starting to think the anti-“woke” crowd are just people who get offended at any vocabulary that gains popularity after their early 20s.
Reminds me of strip mines:

https://placesjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Hanson-...

They often have quite interesting shapes, too.
This isn’t about unfortunate people’s access to transportation, it’s about unsanitary and unsafe abuse of the public transportation system, including public substance abuse and sleeping on the bus overnight.

>I think there are a lot of people who would have trouble with that knowing that person could be their own child, an ex, a parent, a friend, or themself

Every downward-spiraling addict has had parents, friends, and maybe children. How would they feel watching their loved one rot away on the street (or a bus) in the grip of addiction? It is inhumane to watch people shoot up heroin and drink themselves to death day after day in public spaces without intervention.
One nice feature of Rust macros that isn't usually trumpeted is that it allows varargs to be punted out of the core language. Consider:

- Varargs are, generally speaking, a pain and a wart, especially in statically typed languages

- Printing stuff is horribly unergonomic without varargs (C++'s iostream << is arguably a get-out here, but is widely hated),

- There are no other compelling 'mainstream' uses for varargs afaik

By having print as a macro, Rust can swerve this particular tarpit. Not suggesting that it's the reason for macroising print, but it's a welcome bonus nevertheless.
There are plenty of ways to get downvoted on HN which have little to do with anti-progressivism. The old "When in Rome, do like the Romans..." wisdom also applies to tone, style, context, and {attributes which someone who took Rhetoric 101 would know the terms for}.

The old "always know your crowd" vaudeville wisdom also applies. HN seems dominated by a pretty young crowd of techies, who are moving up in the world (or identify that way), thanks to their own skills with computers. Their favoring Progressive ideas is no more surprising than powerful monarchs favoring the Divine right of kings ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings ).
Hitting space in the example I gave would actually be pretty useless, since it would just put a space in the textfield.
More likely Ayn.
(sorry Zain, if you're reading this, I just noticed I misspelled your name)
Yes, now multiple countries have started thinking like this. If we don't get cooked by the sun in the next 5 years, we'll have excess energy for a while.
> It’s also a great reminder of what you can achieve if you focus a considerable amount of time on something.

Is it? 50 years for a bunch of cement? Is it a great reminder? I'm so confused by the positivist tilt on every piece of grey meh that exudes from the armpits of these supposed apex artistic cogitators. We are allowed to just say how rubbish it is, right? This artist has projected it into the world of public opinion. And while I respect his autonomous ambitions and sheer willpower, I don't believe this is an exemplar of achievement, and I struggle in good faith to see how such a perception is arrived at. FWIW I guess nobody here has skin in the game. I get to sit here like you and froth on the sidelines. I best get back to my own toils.
NFT Version of Bitcoin
Growth is like violence: if it doesn't work, we need more of it.
"This place is not a place of honor"
I hate to remind you this, but Windows 8 was 10 years ago.

At that time, the iPad was only taking baby steps as the blown-up iPod Touch it was. Its selling feature was reading New York Times. In contrast, OS X was at beloved 10.8 Mountain Lion — the version considered by many as the pinnacle of Mac-assed macOS, and the definition of what Apple’s desktop experience should represent.

So yes, in 2012, what you’re saying about “strong distinctions” was completely true. At that time, “computer” was synonymous with “Mac” in the sphere of Apple and its users.

Meanwhile, look at macOS now. Its last design overhaul, 2 years ago, had one goal: Make all control elements bigger, blobbier and simplified.

Last year’s updates were almost exclusively feature parity with iOS and iPadOS, and/or better collaboration of Mac with the other devices.

This year, the lineup of new macOS features consists of:

• better collaboration between Mac and iOS/iPadOS

• ports of two applications (Clock & Weather) from iOS/iPadOS

• redesign of an integral part of the OS, to make it look like iOS/iPadOS

• port of a window management tool which was very clearly designed for the iPad first and only added to Mac as an afterthought.

To say that the writing is on the wall would be an understatement. Yes, Steve Jobs made a clear distinction when introducing the iPad, but from the day he disappeared, Apple has been working steadily to remove that distinction.
What moral framework prioritizes loss making food delivery apps over art?
More genuine and with some positive archetypes of what was considered a "perfect" goal towards which society and the individual should aim for.
If scaled down by a factor of 10 and be entirely made out of concrete.
I didn't make an argument that there are adversarial cases, you did. You brought up an adversarial example, and said the existence of that example proves these algorithms are not generally intelligent. If that follows, it follows that the existence of adversarial examples for humans proves the same thing about us.

And in general, if you're going to be condescending, you should actually make the counter argument. You might make fewer reasoning errors that way.
I don't think it does. The US has a unique fiscal setup (federal and state), fiscal transfer, etc. The rest of the globe doesn't have this. Europe, probably the second biggest economic bloc after the US, doesn't have this either.

Remember also that the USD is the world's base currency, it is the currency in which oil is traded globally (petrodollar). This means that monetary policy in the US has _far reaching_ consequences around the world in a way that any other currency bloc just does not.

So its not mirroring anything -- it's unique.
From your replies you seem to be genuine, but I think you've probably picked up this ides that carbon taxes hurt the poor from someone who wasn't genuine and didn't actually care about the poor or believe a carbon tax would be bad for them.

I don't know where to start deprogramming you from this misinformation, but maybe just look into the actual discussions about the real carbon prices already in use im the world.

Not the politics when one is proposed in the USA, but the boring implementation details in the countries that have used them for decades.

A just transition and carbon pricing are in no way opposed.

https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500....

That doc dives into the political, administrative and political complexities of real world implementations in developing nations.
What if in order to get city dwellers (who were already able to get food, albeit having to wait 5 more minutes for it) food the app makes unreasonable demands on delivery workers (who probably won’t be employees but “associates” instead) to the point that it becomes a high-risk job, except it’s not a job so they’re on their own when they have an accident, and if they don’t, they barely make ends meet anyway? Honestly, my moral framework prefers the art.
Yes, the load times between levels are super fast. I remember waiting for perhaps 30 seconds when playing the game on my PC in 1997.

Also, I would've sworn that the shareware version included the Butcher on level 2. It doesn't...
The viable alternative is Windows, as pretty much all the tablet nonsense is gone in Windows 10 and 11.
Does Elisp have hygienic macros (without things like gensym)?
One possible risk I see is that with the amount of model generated text out there it will at some point inevitably result in feeding the output of one model into another unless the source of the text is meticulously traced. (My assumption is that that would hurt the model that you are trying to train as well.)
It's really weird to read something on Tumblr that isn't caption porn
> One of the deepest insights I found in Caste by Isabel Wilkerson was that most people, when put in the position, would capitalize on the opportunity to subjugate their fellow humans.

that’s the crux of it though isn’t it? democrats (lowercase d) don’t trust any individual to wield direct power over another so they limit their own power and transfer it to the state and then distribute control over the state. anarchists don’t trust others to wield power over them so they seek to remove themselves from obligatory power relations altogether.

i’m not convinced there isn’t a non-destructive path from democracy to anarchy. start where we are today, and increasingly make more systems “opt in”. “you want the power to buy/sell things without FDA approval? fine, but you’ll have to settle disputes outside of our court system.” and keep doing that until you’ve granted the diehard anarchist the legal freedom to legitimately opt out of all prior power relations, and start his village in the woods, no police, no taxes, no restrictions on exchange. actually i’m a little fuzzy on what proportion of anarchists would be satisfied by this, or if it would more likely be rejected as being ancap or libertarian.
Because people can’t agree on which change would be the most useful (we have limited capability to change things, regardless of how easy the change would be), nor when it is necessary.
I would say you do possess the fire extinguisher because you rely on it to feel safer in your kitchen.
Unconscious bias occurs everywhere, with all people, all the time. What of it?

What I see is a great example of how 'science' can serve political agendas; an example of an answer seeking a question.

If you study 'unconscious bias' with regard to women, or race, or age, or whatever other worthy cause, what do you think you will find?

The answer is baked into the question! I've no doubt you could also study unconscious bias from a Marxist perspective too, but how does this help us understand anything, except our own preconceived biases in undertaking the study?
This is the output:

"Showing results for 12 am ist to est

Search instead for 12 am ist to et

12:00 pm Saturday, Indian Standard Time (IST) is

2:30 am Saturday, Eastern Time (ET)"
> “This place is not a place of honor,” reads the text. “No highly esteemed dead is commemorated here… nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.”

> The plan calls for huge 25ft (7.6m) tall granite columns marking the four-sq-mile (10 sq km) outer boundary of the entire site. Inside this perimeter, there is an earth berm 33ft (10m) tall and 100ft (30m) wide marking the repository’s actual footprint. Then inside the berm will be another square of granite columns.

— https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200731-how-to-build-a-n...
Good summary on Wikipedia - Long-term nuclear waste warning messages

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warn...
Anything in the Owon HDS handheld series. I like mine a lot.

It even has some Github work I believe, for USB control, so there's a possibility of some open PC software if someone wants to work on that.

I do wish it had FFT. But I can live without it for the size.
I was interviewing for Security Engineer positions at FAANGs and put together this list:

https://github.com/serain/crack-sec-eng-interviews

You may find something to pique your interest in there.

Security Engineer interviews tend to cover more ground than some other engineering positions in my limited experience (higher breadth, lower depth).

NB: I interpreted this as looking for things to improve your engineering skills. Security knowledge is always a plus.
This made me think of 2 videos by Isaac Author

https://youtu.be/XAJeYe-abUA

Tldv; if we pave over the earth the carrying capacity is humongous. Only limited by heat and energy.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32518089
I'd be really curious to hear the security discussion around S3 compression, or if they added any additional mitigations. Compressing data and then encrypting it will be vulnerable to a padding oracle attack[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME
not really, keep in mind that electric cars are able to recover energy from breaking, while traditional convert that to waste heat, that should tip average efficiency by dozen of percent points. That's also from where mild hybrids have better efficiency.

for heating heat pumps have it's average yearly efficiency about 300-500% (depending on climate) so when we use the same fuel to just make energy at with that 40% you mentioned, we end up with overall efficiency well over 100%

so in both cases it's better to burn the same fuel to create electricity than to use it directly
Another book looking at the matter, dynamics, history, and consequences of land ownership is Simon Winchester's Land (2021). I've cracked it but only read bits of the first few chapters, far more a fault of my over-optimistic book appetite and fractured attention than Winchester's writing, which is excellent.

NYT review: <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/books/review/land-simon-w...>
It reminds me of some of the architecture in the area I grew up in. A product of an era where coal was more important than man.
Fair. Maybe? How do you know it didn't reach the end of its swing back already? It's one of those "you can tell after"

I'm pretty sure the swings have not got in phase worldwide and I have to tell you I am delighted, because when they synchronise the shit gets scary, real fast.
Opposite of “live small” usually means “each year bigger and better”, which kind of means geometric growth, which almost by definition seems unsustainable.
This is a really useful tip, many thanks. It has probably largely been a personal comfort zone, but I haven't dug much deeper than site: or ext: operators in recent years. A lazy habit. Also, strangely, I have always had doubt as to the real efficiency of the OR operator in web search (maybe it has yielded unsatisfactory results in some distant past, and for different engines, not only Google; hence the prejudice). I didn't even know that the "pipe" symbol should actually work for that.

Your example is a really good one, because it illustrates the power of OR remarkably well. The key is using it to combine several different operators, not just duplicating a single one, e.g. "query site:a.com | site:b.com". That has been my main way of digging deeper over the years, along with "#" to specify a date range.

Interestingly, in case of "query site:firstsite.ee|secondsite.ee" the "|" doesn't seem to work, I get zero results. Why is that? To narrow down the results based on both the domain name and top level domain, I have to add the inurl: operator. E.g. "query inurl:firstsite|secondsite site:.ee"

Strangely, "piping" is the essential thing I do on the Unix command line every day. I haven't put (that) much thought into using Google's "|" operator in a similar vein, that is, to combine several (3-4) different operators. Possibly partly because one used to get pages and pages of results even with very simple, single-operator queries.

Time to refresh my memory about Google's search operators, I guess. Thanks again for sharing this example.
:has() can be described as "elements whose children match some selectors". Your expectation would have been (if I understand it correctly) "match elements with some selectors and get their (direct?) parent". Aside from reversing the logic, it seems to me that it is the exact same thing, isn't it? The selector could have been called "children pseudo-class selector" or similar, though.

Personally, I prefer the actual syntax over your expecation. The first thing in the selector are actual elements that will be styled if certain conditions are met. That also matches how the existing pseudo-classes have been applied.

> “if I’m in a hover state make my parent green, regardless of who/what the parent is”

*:has(> *:hover)
While I agree with the larger point you're making here, asking whether or not the company people are working for is net profitable is a poor counter here, specifically because it centers "meaning" purely around monetary amount. There is value to be derived and created that has nothing to do with the dollar amount that ends up in your's or someone else's bank account at the end of the day.
Does this qualify?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_Aerospace
They're behind on features _and_ you have to work around their aggressive privacy choices. It's my least favorite testing phase in any release.
I agree with you in principle. I just take exception to the claim that this is somehow worse than Windows where you have pervasive 3rd party ads (including telemetry) and no way to opt out.

Frankly, I am rather pessimistic with the industry as a whole. Problems never seem to stay solved. There is constant churn, constant disruption of workflow and UI patterns. Constant change for its own sake and no reflection on what is really important.
I'm genuinely unsure. The photos are alienating. Usually, I don't like that kind of art, but sometimes its interesting and being in something massive, created, somebody else's vision, is occasionally great. Nazca. Different. I saw Richard Serrra's work in Bilbao, it was amazing. Andy Goldsworthy did giant pieces in the forests of the UK and also tiny ones. Art in nature can be fantastic, there are metal figures set into the Nullarbor plain thousands of kilometres from anyone by Anthony Gormley I'd love to see.

Frank Lloyd wrights place in Phoenix AZ would have been monumental if he could have afforded it.

Arcosanti? Christo and the curtain across the valley?

What's not to love? What does it mean? I have no idea.
Being mode sounds pretty much what Yoga or Buddhist practice is about, and I cannot recommend enough to explore it. Here is a starting point: http://t3x.org/rajayoga/
There's very little reason to eat grasshoppers when chicken has roughly the same efficiency at converting food into protein. Especially considering that the necessary infrastructure and marketing already exists for chicken.
What you need is a government equation to help. There should be a well thought out form, with simple answers that can allow someone who has undertaken the prerequisite amount of training to complete the form. With the right information, it would really be very simple, programmable even, to work out what one should do with the person.
The closed forms of S(n) are known and are related to Bernouilli numbers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulhaber%27s_formula.