skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding Freakonomics:

Some of the studies discussed in it have been called into question. But the overall lesson is a useful one: incentives matter.

This seems inherently contradictory. How can we draw lessons or inferences if the data is wrong or not what it purports to be?
Those folks knew they were pushing the envelope and were aware of the risks involved. OP is looking to enter a well understood space that already exists. Getting themselves killed in the process wouldn't be in the noble pursuit of bettering humanity or anything like that... It would just be ignorance of well known/understood risks.
>man's theory

Theism is man's "theory". Either way, we enter a paradox, if you believe in gods then the theories of man ultimately came from gods, ie, a perfectly logical system only produces logical output.

This whole thread pretty much wound up like I predicted while reading the article. Author implies with certainty that science is uncertain in a specific field and it's invaded by people certain of their beliefs in other fields, ie, if science has a kink in it then gods exist for certain.

For god of the gaps argument never fails to amuse me.
Interesting, can't believe you're able to run all those containers on a meager 8GB. Is it because the swap ability on M1 is somehow better/faster than previous gen?
https://medium.com/@parttimeben/mac-it-just-works-horribly-c...
And the iteration of communism splintering from socialism. To be truthful, this is essentially what the political estate can devolve into at any time, with or without a January insurrection.
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Serious question: Why do you want to start a business making electricity if you don’t know anything about power generation? “Business” implies you want to make money, so what are you bringing to the table that would help you turn a profit? Capital? Land? Friends in high places? Why electricity and not something else?
another vote for Aegis, its fantastic but Android only.
> while enabling crackpots to develop a persecution narrative.

I see this sentiment a lot lately and it seems weird to me that since narratives don’t need to have an inch a truth to be constructed. Narratives can be fabricated from made up atoms if need be . If crackpots wants to believe they’re being prosecuted , they’ll do it anyway. The ammunition you fear you’ll give them is one they already possess if they’re already too far gone.
>And, to create a great book requires a great editor most of the time.

How many publishers actually provide serious story development support to authors starting out? Never done fiction but development editing in my non-fiction case was mostly in molding to house style. Even all the changes I made in v2 were essentially all of my own doing.
I have a new all-electric home and a p.v. system with lithium storage, ALSO living in a sunny place (French Alps of the south, in altitude) I'm FAR from being autonomous. But really far.

If I want to go fully autonomous I have to spend in batteries like the same price of a Lamborghini, for zero re-sale value, to be demolished in 10 years in theory, in practice more likely 7-8 years if I use them with significant daily important DOD. I also doubt we are even able to produce enough battery and panels to everyone. And I'm not alone: https://www.economie.gouv.fr/files/files/directions_services... essentially the governmental, non-interested report state: we can't run on renewable. That's is.

What I'm curious is another thing: why some on a technically sound community like HN with certain topics became totally partisan of this or that topic at fanatic levels. It's not you, it's a trend I see in the last months at least, for various topics: anytime there is a post with a neoliberal agenda hot topic such behaviors appear.

My honest review:

- I spent a very big amount of money to build a new home, witch will not pay back ever in monetary terms, only pay back in comfort terms;

- I spent more for renewables NOT because they are ecological (they are pollutant) but as a protection against future disruption I imaging we will suffer, again in economical terms money dumped to the bin;

- I'll spend more in the near future for an BEV because I expect diesel/gasoline supply issues and artificially skyrocketed prices.

The synthesis? Well: those who have done such investments will be far less wealthy then before. Those who have not done that or can't will be far poorer. Those who gain are ONLY those who push such evolution for almost pure financial reasons, not "green" at all in ecological terms, green just in dollar and stereotypical toxic waist terms. Since it's clearly NOT sustainable nor extendable on scale the obvious results will be a very big disaster and another global war.
My bad, just read the comment and replace “you” with “they”.

Point still stands. Not spamming, valid thing to do when a user sends that kind of message to a support channel, your message was not helpful.

you are still in the wrong for getting so overly upset over something so trivial and necessary. It’s not healthy, or normal.

I also sometimes get like this when something else is going on. It’s important to deal with that rather than fixate then vent something trivial over IRC, forums, GitHub and now hacker news.
I use Bitwarden. If someone owns my phone they’ll own all my apps so separating factors isn’t useful to me. I mostly use 2FA in case of a specific bug at a site that allows for something like a password reset attack. I use a FIDO key for the important stuff, including Bitwarden, so I feel like that’s pretty good protection overall. I’ll never be a target of anything more than common criminals, too, never a nation state or anyone looking for crypto or anything.
Sounds like you should join a Pubnix!

https://tilde.team/
Get involved in nuclear fusion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32620868
this almost sounds like you may be confusing it with natural digestive enzymes that are deactivated during cooking, like the kind that exists in pineapples to help it stave off insects ( if you eat them raw they'll digest part of your tongue and thus give you a raw tongue; heat deactivates those enzymes )
I started https://shepherd.com about a year ago, so I talk to a ton of authors, and what blows me away is how no publishers do ANY marketing. This is such a weird industry and so weirdly broken.

If you get a huge upfront payment, they will do some marketing, of course, as they need to try to recoup their investment. But if you are not one of the top .01% of authors, they are just spinning a wheel to see if the decapitated chicken hits Yahtzee.
Well, nobody had ever flown a plane before the Wright brothers.

Civilization has had grid scale electrical power for over a hundred years. It’s sheer hubris to ignore the fact that this is a mature industry with experts that have studied the problem for decades.
Interesting. I'm glad to see there are still programs that aren't obscenely expensive. I went to Ohio State in Computer Science in 1984 and full time tuition was $600 per quarter or $1800 per year or $7200 for a 4-year degree.
Yes, don't be discouraged. But don't be clueless. It is possible to do it safely, of course
Sure thing! BTW I am using Chrome on Windows 10.
Obligatory Bill Gates quote:
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
However it does have the benefit of being relatively easy to measure.
I may actually know the right people for this in the student success space. @ me on Twitter and I'll see what I can do.
How can they all die so fast and sudden? Wouldn't we expect a certain % to have some immunity, and then those genes pass on and the population eventually recovers?
If you stop sometime I am streaming (https://twitch.tv/dr_verm), I can show you how. It will be a few copy & pastes and running a script from a terminal. No knowledge of html or css is needed, that is all handled already
The first thing another user did was go to 4chan. I think the concept is really cool but maybe it needs a little more thought.
Well bricklayers pay by the brick. In construction time goes pretty linearly into completion.

In computer science, no. No because first off how much of the code did you copy paste from one part to the other? But it is a measure of effort. For instance, secretaries do in fact get paid basically for their character count. And for myself, since I am measuring myself and am not trying to cheat myself, line count is actually not a terrible measure of how much went into a project. But instead of lines, count characters. That actually corresponds to the difficulty of typing, and to the size of the codebase. Yeah it's terrible but come on. Most bosses are impressed by line count. One YC company asked how many lines of code I had written over the course of my entire life...what were they called...hey it's a discrete number. Tells you something. And most code in my opinion, outside Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure as another poster talked about, code size measures something. Like you're doing it right now, you looked at my comment, said "oh look a wall of text", meaning it doesn't even matter what I pull out of my ass at this point because you won't even read this far. Lines of code.
Plus it lacks so many features that people think its intentional
>with no user activation or notification

What? By choosing to install the extension you are activating it.
Wow! Fantastic tool (just tried it out) -- thank you for the rec :)
> What are some valid usecases for this permission?

Erm. Have you read the link? There are extension authors in the comments that talk about their specific use cases
Isn't there already laws against established companies using their market position to price under cost to cut out competition?
What is a patch stack? sorry noob git user here
> Well, there's also the possibility that the universe occupied some single state (say, the singularity posited by the big bang theory) since t=-inf to some t0 when it exploded

What's the actual difference between these two positions:

(A) the universe was in state X for an infinite amount of time, then suddenly transitioned to some other state Y

(B) time began at t=0 with the universe in state X, and it immediately transitioned to some other state Y

They seem effectively identical, with seemingly no way for us to tell them apart. (B) seems simpler than (A), so by Occam's razor we ought to prefer it to (A), unless we have some specific reason not to. What could such a reason be? Well, I suppose (A) might lead to simpler mathematics. However, in actual fact, I don't believe that's true; and even if it were, it still might be reasonable to conclude that the "infinite static before-life of the universe" was just a mathematical artefact, without any physical reality.

Other problems with this view: (i) time is usually understood as a succession of instants which are somehow distinct – could an infinite succession of instants, all exactly the same as each other, actually count as "time"? (ii) why, if the universe had existed forever in a single state, did it suddenly transition to a new one? That seems harder to explain than the universe just existing with a finite past.

So, I think an infinite past only really makes sense if the infinite past involved an infinity of distinct universe-states – which I think might lead to the consequences I was suggesting.

> In this model, the universe has an infinite number of possible states, and is in fact guaranteed to never visit a previous state, even though it has an infinite future ahead of it.

Let me present a variation on the Boltzmann brain argument: the universe is vast, yet the volume of it which is actually relevant to humans is quite small. Humans cannot ever know or care about the state of the universe as a whole, only that subsection of it we can somehow observe–which is at most the observable universe; but, if we accept the possibility (even only as exceedingly unlikely) that nature is deceiving us (other galaxies don't really exist, it is just randomly arranged photons which by amazing fluke are exactly the same as what we'd observe if other galaxies did), the knowable subsection could be a lot smaller. No matter how stupendously unlikely such as scenario may be – so long as its probability is not strictly zero, in an infinite future, any constant non-zero probability is going to converge to unity.

Consider the current state of this galaxy – does Lambda-CDM guarantee that the universe will never visit a future state, which contains a Milky Way-sized volume, whose state is exactly the same as the state of this galaxy right now? You can repeat the question for "solar system-sized volume with exact same state as our solar system has right now" or "Earth-sized volume with exact same state as Earth has right now". Or a volume with the same size as the current observable universe, and the same state as it?
I think they're dropping it.
Ya, from my conversations with authors not often, but an author will often pay out of contracts. But, if you are on book 3 of a well-selling series at Tor I bet you do (I don't know just guessing).

Did you get any help from an editor or was that out of pocket?
I don't believe Trump is still President.

I don't believe Trump is the leader of the free world. But I do believe, "Trump is the leader of the free world", while completely false and wildly inaccurate, is closer to the truth than "Joe Biden is the leader of the free world".

I don't particularly believe that people in the US, or internationally, want a free world. I think for the most part they want to be free to tell me what do to. Which is not going to happen.

But no, Trump is not, currently, President.
Even fruit flies can get drunk.
More than 10 years ago I built a Firefox extension that was using the clipboard. It was for Multilanguage users that accidentally type in the wrong language, once they notice they type in the wrong language, they clicked a button/hot-key, and the text would switch to an alternate language in their OS.

I was eventually in the process of switching it to a Windows app, so it could also work outside the browser, but never actually finished it.

Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure something like a password manager would also need the clipboard.
I understand that simple is better than easy in many cases, that's the whole idea of lisp like languages, but I am not sure it is true for languages, especially for comprehension. Because things sound the same and there is no distinction it makes it hard for listening or even reading comprehension. Many time it is much easier to quickly decipher what a javascript function is doing than lisp because the lisp simplicity doesn't give you those immediate anchors to look at, it all looks the same.
I've read reports that literally say that and that India and Iran both engage in such activities but driven by different motivations, Iran uses the threat as bargaining chip, i.e. PK opposes something in UN against Iran, regular people pay the price and current govt looks weak unable to provide security. Similarly India is driven by long term goals such as eliminating tourist economy, supporting separation movements, and other similar nefarious goals. Not saying PK is an exception, it'd be willful ignorance to highlight one country as an outlier when all countries in that region are extensively involved in causing mayhem in other countries through means of espionage and secret funding - regular people dying is just tossed as collateral damage.
Yep, and how so many publishers want your own platform stats. I know people with large insta followings getting book deals purely because they can market their own books and cost publishers next to nothing, with an almost guaranteed profit. I hope the broken publishing system is destroyed by these same people realising they can do it all themselves - then perhaps the publishers can rise from the ashes and actually add true value.
A guide to personal digital archiving
Remastered original photos of Apollo 11 mission released
> Your local electricity grid regulator will have published rules for the local wholesale electricity market. Learn those and how to interact with them. You should probably be aware that for most markets the minimum bid size is in the order of megawatts, which is enough for about a thousand homes.

And for reference, a MW of Solar panels costs close to $1M - so this is not really a feasible industry for the average Joe to enter.
Wild! Browsing the code, I love that it's basically one main.js file.
You’re putting an electrical system where there wasn’t one before. It’d be surprising if there wasn’t an increased risk.

More electrical systems in your house means more risk of fire.
Well with laws in society we do know sort of axomatically where they come from because they're human defined and we can reference the base. So I can't argue there too much, although there's plenty of squishy area around the edges where law isn't clearly defined but cases are attempted to be interpreted which boils down to some set of conclusions based on some argumentative evidence.

When it comes to laws of nature I would argue there's no clear governance in the laws of nature either. Why is the speed of light casualty? Why does space and time behave according to general relativity? Heck, I don't even know why my software behaves the way it does sometimes and it is well defined but it's so complex and behaviors become emergent that even that struggles to find a definite cause.

Laws are often just observational trends, pretty much always in science. Science itself isn't definitive and is structured under that assumption of change. All laws are is a culmination of defining a pattern our best understanding of observations and prodding at the universe. What governs the law of conservation of mass (hint it was taught as a "law" when I was in school but clearly isn't after nuclear physics and GR discoveries). Even Newton's "laws" are flawed as we know now and were just very amazing pattern approximations that apply to most but not all cases--what governs these are really GR/SR, but we don't know what governs them. Take black holes at the event horizon and deeper--we really don't know what's going on, we're just taking our well defined and studied sets of known patterns and trying to imagine and extrapolate what goes on. I wouldn't fault Moore's law too much, it may lack some of the deep rigor we expect in smaller sgstems but it was a pretty good and useful observation for quite some time.

We need to shed the idea that science will always give us the deepest underlying why, because philosophically it may not. It may get us very close and is a useful endeavor but we may never understand the causes of the most core relationships we discover. We like to think of laws like axioms in mathematics but they simply aren't in pretty much every case I can think of.
This is a great book, one of my faves. It is a surprise to see it hosted on archive.org when it is still in print, though. Please support good technical writing!

https://www.amazon.com/Unix-Programming-Environment-Prentice...
Capitalism tells me it's not 'wasteful' if it's more profitable through ?!?
It's inspiring how fast these techniques are being applied.
Thanks! I like the idea of pianojacq.com. Good luck on your refactoring job!
Tx fees are paid by the senders, not the recipients.
That's what happens when you can get a huge amount of content for cheap. Pay a $1500 advance, do some light editing, publish and sit back and see what happens.

But yeah, marketing is basically you're in the catalog of (in my case) a technical book publisher and maybe you're included as part of some digital subscriptions. But even for more popular works, you're probably mostly not going on book signing tours or having a bunch of review copies sent out. You'll have to hire a PR agency for that and pay any costs out of your own pocket for the most part.

What I've written has been good for me but mostly because I'm not trying to directly make money off it. If I had been naive enough to think I'd be getting meaningful royalty checks that valued my time more than a few dollars an hour I expect I'd be disappointed.
It's an age and geographic location difference. Young people see it as sarcasm, old people don't. Similarly in other countries its also not seen as sarcasm.
Sharing your key seems like the most 90s approach to system design.

"Only you and the search engines should know the key.. so obviously, we want you to host it in plain text, in the root directory."
The link from the FAQ (https://docs.payonix.io/get-paid) is broken
Maybe worth looking into getting some Yubikeys (get a spare, it's just easier) and using those in combination with their 2FA app. They can do some other neat tricks as well with SSH and PGP.

Clarification edit: they offer a 2FA token app which you unlock with your hardware key, which is separate and can be used in conjunction with hardware token authentication with any service that offers it.

Note that their cheaper blue or newer biometric keys don't support all the same things their mainline black ones do, but should work just fine.

No affiliation, just happy with their products and had a really awesome (business) customer support experience where they replaced several broken (through my own fault) keys for free.
Planting Perennial Plants Ignite Talk (2019) [video]
Not if you want the job. They run the word files through screening software which processes the text.
Is this something like Gerrit for GitHub?
Maybe it’s a cultural thing cause even a trailing voice does communicates the same connotations of being upset. I know of only two buses of the triple dots: showing there’s more content in a quote or to express annoyance.
That's not what I'm talking about - by "staring in the face", I mean aspects of reality that are immediate. Which usually means smaller scale. I agree regarding things like climate change, democracy, and viruses though.
Possibly one of the widest used nagware programs. Cite!
I guess you will need to make some compromises to make this work reliably.

My personal experience with WebRTC was: "One can be glad if one gets anything working at all across different environments". 0 stars, would not touch again (or only with a very very long pole; everybody has his price… ;-)).

The other thing that came to my mind is: Why do all that on the server? Seems costly.

One could build a "browser in browser", and share that (partly) P2P through the WebRTC screen-sharing feature. The "browser in browser" would be needed to be able to make that thing interactive as the screen-sharing feature transmits only a video. You would need to capture mouse and keyboard on the webpage within the "virtual browser" (and transmit it though an additional WebRTC stream). Capturing the inputs outside of the browser is not possible afik with WebRTC.
It's like "loading....", but they are unloading.
I feel as though a comma and the end communicates a pause better. Especially since it use in formal English is similar.
great work !
Do you also apply this logic to all other forms of hardware and software? For example TVs that spy on what you're watching.
Wind and solar numbers should also include amortization for deaths during power outages and deaths caused by peaker plants.
Awful stuff. Shocking to those who think the government is there to help.

I guess it's great news that the government tells us that they stopped mkultra, and didn't continue their attempts at mind controlling the population. Phew.
The new study's large sample size and robust statistical methods suggest diet and ecology deserve more attention

Maybe someone in need of a PhD thesis topic can do me a favor and spend some time scientifically looking at why half of the human population lives within 200 km of the coast and what impact ocean minerals, including but not limited to salt, have on brain development at the species level.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/uxrinu/half_of_the...
> where only the able and 9-5 crowd can easily access it

I'm not sure it's conveinient for that crowd either. It's always puzzled me how you were expected to make it to government offices open roughly 9-5 while most people work those same hours.