skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The French government taxes real estate based on its rental value, which increases when owners build additions or improvements such as swimming pools.

What if you haven't rented your property for a long time, or ever? Either the article is missing some information or that tax is kind of bizarre.
The difference is that Europeans build houses from stone, since we heard the story of the 3 piglets when we were children.
> I’m skeptical of the idea that you can impose Democracy.

We didn't need to impose democracy. Russia had democracy for a time. The Marshall Plan was about economic investment. The transition from communism to capitalism was a very rough one for the Soviet people, and that's a big part of why democracy failed.
I had a monitor once with a built in speaker that would pick up random radio broadcasts. I don’t even understand how it happened.
Is the list of sites you advertise in publicly available? Is it possible to just publish ads for one/few particular site/s with the same CPM?
It's apparently quite possible to keep supporting the WebRequest API in Mv3, since Firefox is doing just that.
Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCO9BYCGNeY
This is common. 1) switch to a more creative environment, 2) get good enough that you can make even a boring environment creative.
Considering the population, California comes out to $12 of fed money per resident vs $6k in Mississippi. If I had to guess who was more likely to be self sufficient… I wouldn’t bet on Mississippi.

The average per person income in Mississippi is like 25k so that 6k is not coming from the residents excess wealth.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/federal-aid...
Why should it matter what benefits the group of people who end up just sitting on a pile of money in the end?
You can't impose democracy, but if democracy and associated ideas such as the free market spectacularly fails the people – as it did in the 90s – then that certainly doesn't help. We probably could have done a thing or two to make it fail less. Would that have made a meaningful difference? Hard to say for sure, but it would have been worth to try.
Some did, some didn't, the way it happened.

The Cold War wasn't a good thing, but it didn't have to end with the dissolution of the USSR, and the dissolution of the USSR didn't have to end with a coup, followed by chaos, which nevertheless kept all the appartchiks in charge.

30 years later, we can see how the people who were in charge of the USSR are the reason if fell apart: because they are still running Russia, and are running it into the ground (Putin, Shoigu, Lavrov, etc are all USSR apparatchiks).

Thieves and criminals, the whole lot of them.

The USSR ate itself, because it didn't succeed in figuring out a way to refresh the power structures. And so that fish rotted starting from its head.
There used to be a project that could track all the changes made to a wiki page...great tool...wish it still existed... Was and would be very telling who is making changes to an article! Here is a Wired article about it: https://www.wired.com/2007/08/wiki-tracker/
That was a very different situation, those were states that were militarily invaded and then occupied by American forces, who were involved in reconstructing countries devastated by war.
So like telling "jokes" at Russia's expense by a man of questionable ethics?

what is the point of his joke, if not to mock another country?

The OP posted a quote, and i posted one too?
> An uncoated catalyst works just fine, he said, but only produces methane

Given that Putin's about to turn off natural gas to Europe, there's no need to go all the way to gasoline. Being able to produce methane from CO2 would be a pretty useful technology all by itself.

Suppose you mix up a batch of catalyst, porosify it somehow, and put it into a vessel ready to accept input CO2 to turn into methane. What do you send into the input? Lab grade 99.97% pure CO2? Smokestack output from some industrial factory? Plain old air pulled straight from the ambient atmosphere?

What kind of temperature and pressure does it need to be? You get energy by burning methane to produce CO2, doesn't that mean thermodynamically you have to supply equal energy to reverse the process? Is that energy supplied in the form of heat and pressure, or does it come from somewhere else?

Where does the hydrogen come from and where does the oxygen go? Does it need water or steam input too?

If we assume input energy is the dominant cost of the system, can we put some economic numbers to it? How much methane per second would be produced by a 1 kW solar panel? How many years of methane production does it take for the methane output to repay the cost of the solar panel?

Can we figure out if the catalyst cost is small enough to be negligible? How much catalyst do you need to support a 1 kW solar panel? How much does that much ruthenium cost at current prices? How long would it take methane output to pay for the cost of panel + catalyst?

Are the methane and oxygen outputs come out mixed together, or do they form separate streams? If they're mixed together, how do you separate them? How do you make the system safe, considering the potential explosiveness of the mixture of methane and oxygen before they're separated?
Wayland will be an interesting challenge, but I think there's still plenty of time before that happens.

If we figure out that this kind of automation is impossible on Wayland, I think it should still be possible to hook into the raw keyboard events with kbd and such, no? Requires root though.
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>The other side of the coin is creating new jobs for people with good visual taste and imaginative ideas, who did not pass the skill barrier previously required to actually create good art.

I mean. Do you think that there are people out there with good taste in software and imaginative ideas, who can’t pass the skill barrier currently required to write code?

Why would art be any different?
The competitiveness and status striving are what drove me out of academia. I wanted to be there because I liked playing with ideas. It was the people who were driven there by their competitive impulse that poisoned it for me. That and the zero-sum nature of the game: the overproduction of candidates for a fixed number of positions, which forced everyone into the same mindset, where you'd be lucky if in the end you landed with a job in some place you'd rather not be mostly doing stuff other than what you wanted to do in the first place.
That first one just sucks. I don't have anything else to say about it.

The second one is representative of the upper end of what I was getting. It's almost passable, but doesn't hold past about five seconds. The left and right half don't look like they belong to the same animal. The blank space in the middle of the face is huge and detracts from any sense of structure, and the whole mouth area is just odd.

It's seriously impressive for AI, but it's not end-of-artists type stuff. I can google "tiger black and white stencil" and get a bunch of tiger faces, and every one of them is noticeably better. People imagine there are plenty of art jobs where discrepancies like this don't matter, but there really aren't.
He let his guests talk without trying to put words in their mouths. He respects his guests and takes a sincere interest in them. In other words, he's the exact opposite of most people in the media.
As long as they don't impede my own right to free speech? sure, go ahead, delude yourself to your heart's content.

Free speech advocates aren't the ones screaming hysterically about "dead naming" and 3rd person pronouns.
> Is solved through automation

Orders of magnitude more than we have now

> and immigration (only citizens get UBI). Of course this is a major downside, because you end up with a slave class unless you make sure those immigrant workers are well protected.

... Uh... yeah I would prefer not to have a slave class
Xcode Cloud overview
Thank you! I haven't tried it yet, but this was one of the only things that I sorely missed when I went from Windows to Linux.
I think the person who knows and accepts they don't know things, and more importantly will refrain from opoining on those things is more wise than the average person. Maybe not more intelligent but definitely more wise
The world had already A/B tested "damage the economy so that it would never be a threat again" and "help transition to democracy" with Germany. The latter worked better.
> Are you responding to the right comment?

I was adding to your comment, perhaps too tangentially - the GP remark may suggest that USA benefited more than USSR.

> It's also hard to assert that generally: Russia is by many metrics worse off than it was under the USSR

Economical, cultural, political environment were greatly improved as the direct consequences of the end of the Cold War, up until ~2010, so I'm not sure why do you think the Russia is worse off. What metrics do you choose?
Yeah, well, imagine all the induced epilepsy attacks.
> the big difference is the oligarchs

The oligarchs were minted in the late 80s and 90s. They weren’t a preëxisting power structure. Putin came to power with their and the FSB’s help. (He was also popular for not being incompetent.)
In 1955, eastern europeans were so thankful to be free from Germany.

In 1995, eastern europeans were so thankful to be free from Russia.

In 2035, you can expect eastern europeans to be thankful again. Not sure who'd it be this time.
That's the network, someone looking at the logs via ssh is also a leak by that logic. Of course!
if the roads weren't built for cars to begin with, Bike lanes would cost a lot more.

I did not say that car related taxes were the only way that bike infrastructure was funded, I said it was the major source of funding for alternative transportation.

If you pick a city like New York or DC, maintaining public infrastructure without car-related revenue would be fiscally impossible. The Amsterdam model does not work in those cases. Amsterdam also has legalized and taxed drug and sex trade markets, which might explain how they closed their car-related funding gaps.
Does anyone know of a stable way to implement SpaceFN under X?

Apologies for the hijack, but this thread feels like the right place to ask.
That's great, but we're nowhere near that point. That is basically a post scarcity society.
openai did this but it doesn't sound great, I think it's because sound has less information so the brain is very picky
My pet theory of breakdown causality goes like this

We have operating systems that trust everything by default.

This means that going tot he wrong web site can bork your machine.

This means you don't stray from familiar sites, leading to walled gardens

Which is why we have FAANG
It's not feasible for any individual to go out there and verify every scientific claim for themselves but I'm satisfied that scientists are out there doing so all the time. No doubt many of the more specific hypotheses around exact sensitivities or likely glacial melting patterns will turn out to be overturned and replaced with better ones. The economic forecasts of the effects of warming temperatures/ higher sea levels I definitely take with a large grain of salt, and there may well be cases it makes more sense to wait until better technologies are developed before going all out with what we have now, but we've known enough for quite long enough (multiple decades) that it's absurd to continue claiming we should do nothing at all about reducing emissions just in case current scientific understanding gets overturned.
Since you didn’t name the species, it’s hard to say whether they’re common or not, or verify that their populations remain stable while an ever increasing number of cats are given an unrestricted license to kill anything that moves if it happens to be small enough.

Relevant: “Cat owners failed to perceive the magnitude of their cats' impacts on wildlife and were not influenced by ecological information“

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.1553
Also it has a non native scroll behavior that is awful and a deal breaker to me.
Based on my count of how many hair-trigger alert nuclear weapons are pointed from east to west, and vice versa, I'd say that the Cold War only ended in name.
This analogy doesn't hold for "WWIII" though, right? By this analogy, I would call the current crisis "Cold War II".
There is a certain type of person who follows all the rules and regulations to the letter, implicitly trusts the authorities, and has an undisguised attitude of scorn towards anyone who does not live and act the same way. I think the relative prevalence of this attitude is a long-standing cultural difference between Germany and the US.
> where capital's innovation comes from harnessing hacker communities like one uses fire for warmth.

I think I'd rephrase this slightly: capital's innovation comes from harnessing hacker communities like one uses lumber (or oil) for warmth. The resource is consumed in the process. Rent seeking, not sustainability, is capital's primary instinct.
You'll find that most successful software out there that attempted to improve or innovate started as a "half assed" toy.

Otherwise the dude would have given up before it's complete.

No one on their own should aim at building a "cathedral". Build a hut. Then add a toilet cause it sucks to shit outside. Then a sewer system because it stinks. A tap to wash your hands. Might add a bed to sleep overnight. Make that a bedroom. Ok now it needs a shower.

2 years from now you have your "cathedral" and other people come shit in your toilet, so making it squeaky clean becomes a priority.

People tend to forget the word software has "soft" in it.
And Drivers are even worse than cyclists!
A few years ago, I was working for a startup in Pakistan which was making small (5-10 person) portable planetariums. The idea was to make astronomy education accessible to people from every socio-economic background. Paul's work on this [1] was amazingly helpful to get our projection done well, and put on successful shows.

Also, shout out to the European Space Agency for releasing high quality Planetarium documentaries under the CC license [2].

[1] http://paulbourke.net/dome/
[2] https://www.eso.org/public/videos/archive/category/fulldome/...
One of the only things I truly missed under Linux. Much can be solved using various tools such es AutoKey, XbindKeys+Guile etc. but nothing comes close to what AHK was capable of under Windows.
Well it looks nice and shiny! But I'm afraid it's absolutely a revamp of uBiome. This sort of remote diagnosis simply can't be done to any degree of accuracy with a single pinprick blood sample. You need a significant program of investigation before you can start trying to isolate what you're looking for. Diagnosis of this type is incredibly complicated because there are so many variables - internal and external - involved.

And at those astronomical costs, the customer will go bust long before any meaningful results/benefits acrue. Not trying to be rude, but this is one of those projects which looks fantastic on a marketing slide deck, but in practice it's woefully inadequate. My only suggestion would be to pivot to a much more focused niche as soon as you can. One which can be reliable with minimal inputs.
When the person in the hot-seat is in direct control over a platform that can influence major world events, yeah, I think so?
“There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to instant payments, and flexibility surrounding implementation and adoption is a critical component of the FedNow Service,” said Nick Stanescu, senior vice president and business executive of the FedNow Service.

“We are committed to collaborating with the industry to develop an ecosystem that will support the end-to-end instant payments experience, and the showcase suggests we’re off to a good start.”

Yikes.

Point goes to cryptocurrency, and I'm biased towards a solution like this.
Scrolled through the comments here for a bit. Polarization at its prime. Good job HN.
Stable Diffusion seems hyper-trained on digital art and faces. Dall-e feels a lot more "intelligent" and can create a far greater and more comprehensive diversity of images from different prompts.
A "Marshall Plan" for Russia would have worked as well as the "Marshall Plan" for Afghanistan has worked over the last 20 years. You can't impose your system on people who don't want it. Do you think Russia would have handed control over to Westerners? And without control it's just an endless money sink. The oligarchs would just have become a little richer.
He was able to get into politburo very young because he was a good administrator and he had powerful patrons. But he became the leader of the USSR just because there was nobody else. Politburo was so old that everybody ahead of him, or more power hungry than him was in hospice or otherwise not fully functioning.

Then he started finally some of the common sense reforms needed.

His intention was never to drop communism or let the soviet block to disintegrate, but things got out of hand. His greatest act was let it happen even when it was against everything he had worked for.
This is a textbook strawman. Did you understand the passage quoted? John Stuart Mill clearly admits of a hierarchy of knowledge, ranging from the absolute truth of mathematics to progressively less "objective" fields (or perhaps, merely "a posteriori" truths), e.g. morals, religion, politics. Here is another excerpt from the paragraph:

But when we turn to subjects infinitely more
complicated, to morals, religion, politics, social relations, and the
business of life, three-fourths of the arguments for every disputed
opinion consist in dispelling the appearances which favour some opinion
different from it. The greatest orator, save one, of antiquity, has left
it on record that he always studied his adversary's case with as great,
if not with still greater, intensity than even his own.

https://xkcd.com/435/

P.S. Can you demonstrate how the scientific method was applied when you reached the conclusion that this supposed "real pipeline" exists?
'It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled'
Cats kill 2,400,000,000 birds per year in the United States alone. [1]

Wind power is 0.008% of that total.

I strongly suspect that there are better ways to spend the time and money to reduce avian mortality like neutering a few thousand cats.

[1] https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/
That is all sorts of funny for people who remember PureComponent and all the hype about functional components.

React has always been an exercise in smoke and mirrors.
The huge metal show in Moscow shows just how much optimism there was in that moment.

If you've never seen this footage, definitely look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7wqQwa-TU

1.6 million people in an airfield at a free concert that lasted all day. There's a documentary about it but I've not watched it.

It's so disappointing the world couldn't bring that optimism to fruition, and instead kleptocrats took over.
Drivers generally don't drive their cars along sidewalks.
And to those who do know, it immediately discredits you in front of them.
Hmm, linux also use ELF, as does the BSDs - but an normal executable is still not compatible across any of the 4 OSs. There isn't any good reason to lump them together.
> I find this distinction harmful. Are we going back to the days where there were programmers who did the grunt work and architects who told them what to do?

You're fooling yourself if you believe that that's not the norm already.

In fact, it boggles the mind how anyone believes that inexperienced people who are taking their first steps writing code and don't know what a software architecture is have as much say in the daily workings of a project than the grey bearded guys with a couple of decades of experience under their belt.
Are We in a Recession?
It's a big difference between letting extension provide some rules and letting extension do whatever it wants with the request.
1. Attack a person incessantly.

2. Some people come to his defense.

3. "Why is there so much effort to defend this person?!"
"Arsenals of Folly" By Richard Rhodes is one of the best records of the Gorbachev era with respect to negotiations over arms reductions with Reagan (which resulted in a highly fractured US administration, with opponents (Cheney etc.) fighting advocates (Shultz etc.) over what policy Reagan should support), the immense effect of the Chernobyl disaster on the Soviet Union (something many nuclear energy proponents still try to downplay), and a few other aspects of Gorbachev's years in power in the USSR.

The culmination of Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika was the Fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the more memorable historical moments of the 20th century and one which gave a lot of hope to young people who grew up under the constant threat of nuclear annihilation. If you watched "The Day After Tomorrow" on American television in the 1980s, you might know the feeling.

However, in retrospect that was a high point in terms of hopes for peace and prosperity. The Soviet Union went rapidly from communist authoritarian to oligarch kleptocracy during the Yeltsin era, and NATO wasn't disbanded like the Warsaw Pact was but instead started bombing Europe (Yugoslavia), and the steady downhill progression has continued ever since. Putin threw out or jailed the oligarchs Washington preferred by 2005 or so, and since then it's been a steady return to full on Cold War proxy wars and gas and oil pipeline control conflicts (Georgia, Syria, Azerbaijan, Ukraine) stretching from the Middle East to Northern Europe.

It's ridiculous that after all those peace efforts in the late 1980s, we're back to early 1980s levels of nuclear tension. As far as who to blame, there's plenty to go around - oil corporations wanting more profits, arms dealers wanting more wars, authoritarians wanting more power, empires wanting more control of resources, etc.
'On the contrary' can have flexible scope, in this case it seems to mean 'contrary to any idea of a Marshall plan...'
I’m honestly blown away by the Merck Manuals! How can this resource be so comprehensive and clear yet seemingly never come up in topical searches?

It seems like the most comparable medical version to Cornell’s Legal Information Institute.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/
I'd point out that USSR was much more self-reliant than Russia - you couldn't really put sanctions on Eastern block of countries, they produced everything, with certain things so good they are still competitive. Yes, market economy does greatly improve Russia's agility, but special services can't stop ruin most of what they can touch, so even market economy has limited net benefits now - while at the time of USSR they had a good counterbalance in the form of the Communist Party.
Nevermind it looks like ATT is just blocking it as spam. I can visit the website just fine from my t-mobile phone.
Americans seem unaware of the movement of armies by Western European Imperial powers through eastern Europe, very particularly British Imperialists, in the historical shadow of the horse-lords in centuries earlier. The talk is like everyone is innocent except the current government, that the USA opposes; so far from true.
> having the # of followers he has is itself a signal of credibility

Is it though? I assumed it meant people found his show entertaining.
Sometimes you have to work in the constraints of your time as he did. You'll learn that when you get older.
> Marshall Plan was about economic investment. The transition from communism to capitalism was a very rough one for the Soviet people, and that's a big part of why democracy failed.

It was also about stabilising a war-torn continent’s economy. To keep them from going communist.
Congrats on the launch! Interested to know if my inflammation score will be a