skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are all fertilizers and material used renewable or are they coming out of finite earth resources?

Nitrogen is about 75% of the earth's atmosphere and potassium and phosphorus make up 2.6 and 0.1% of the Earth's crust, so we have plenty of all of them. To turn them into most of the common fertilizers, we need energy (and water, which is plentiful for this purpose).

And atoms don't go away (with the exception of atoms used for nuclear power). All we do is to recombine them. Some of these recombinations release energy (burning fuels) while some require energy as input.

Some elements may be very rare and difficult to extract (from sea water, for instance) except when found in deposits of high consentration. But first of all, N, P and K are not among those, and for those who are, extracting them from other sources simply means more energy is needed.

>> > If we're able to produce enough energy,

> That's a big if yes?

There is enough uranium on earth to cover our energy needs for a very long time. Way before that happens, we should be able to use Thorium or fusion. In addition, there are massive amounts of solar energy that goes untapped. The main limitation, even now, is human labor, and the fact that other sources of energy require less effort to leverage.

> It's not like the energy/resource crunch is a totally separate problem to war.

Not completely separate, but it is also not the case that war is a deterministic result of problems surrounding energy and resources. Even if we never expierience severe problems with energy and resoures, war is still possible, simply because some old man wants to be seen as a "great man" before he dies. Conversely, it is quite possible to navigate challenges with resources without war, by learning to co-exist peacefully.

Also, there is a third element, namely human and cultural capital. One indicator of this is the "workforce participation rate". One challenge of long lasting prosperity, is that an increasing percentage of the population stop contributing to the economy. Partly because of increased life spans, partly because they have personal savings that allow them to retire and partly because the system may collect inefficiencies and forms of corruption over time. (Just to list a few).

Some fraction of the population has the ability to be immensly productive, due to factors such as education, talent, opportunity, motivation, dedication and luck. Others are only marginally productive, while some will produce a lot less than they consume.

Generally, the relative frequencies of these groups is a much bigger influence on the affluence of a society than the availability of natural resources. This is linked to the fact that the production and optimal utilization of energy is primarily limited by (qualified) human labor, as stated above.
Certainly a good idea. But if someone really wants to see government issued photo ID, that may well not cut it. (But for something like a hotel--maybe?)
"The irony is that this is being posted in a heavily moderated forum."

I don't think there's any irony in this. The moderation decision has traditionally been up to those mods. What is fundamentally different with this (edit: "this" as in topic of the government forcing moderation through proposed legislation) is how it is now government mandated.

Personally, I feel that government mandates of censorship actually compells "speech" on the part of the mods/platform. This violates free speech principles, albeit from a different part than most talk about (suppressing speech vs compelling it).
> It's common in science to see computer scientists implement domain-specific software with a hopelessly naive understanding of the domain, leading to biased, wrong, or misinterpreted results.

Another thing that is common in science is scientists that do not know generic college-grade maths, which lays way before domain specialization: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1xfa8p/medical_paper_...
this page reminds me of https://learnxinyminutes.com/
Maybe they could use a SABRE engine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)

Mind you, I've been hearing about that since I was at high school and I'm in my late 50s. :-)
I think the article is about jawboning. Any thoughts there?
Cloudflare supports ESNI. AFAIK none of the mainstream browsers support ESNI by default. I believe the latest build of Firefox [1] may have an option in about:config to enable it. One could check if a website supports ESNI with [2] ESNICheck. Support for ESNI is still subject to change. [3]

[1] - https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypt-that-sni-firefox-edition...

[2] - https://esnicheck.com/

[3] - https://serverfault.com/questions/976377/how-can-i-set-up-en...
Yeah I think this is main problem with products where all people can post. But I think you would be able to limit who can comment if you receive a lot of comments. Because you'll collect data on users through polls and forms
Platforms Turn Boring
I think this is a sensible idea. As a user I feel friction when needing to get in touch with people working on a software that I use.

Users don't necessarily wanna join or know how to join a discord server/forum just cuz they're using a particular software/product and need help from time to time.

An alternative to Taku would be forums hosted by the official group/co. in-charged of the product. These are a hit or miss. They usually require a sign up as well.. so now users need one account per good or service. (On Taku, a user could have a single account that spans across products).

Also, nothing stopping Taku from offering different kinds of chatting services in a single solution: Forum, Q&A, instant chat.

I suspect a selling point would be increased user engagement in terms of helping other users out... in the past, as a user I might come across a question on a forum i kinda an help out but I'd be too lazy to create an account just to post.
It's almost as though I'm right when I say that making nouns of adjectives causes confusion. If we must have nouns from serverless, solar, and contactless, we're damn well going to get supersonic, too.
Also worth examining: a recently introduced FOSS library, Pagefind (https://pagefind.app).
A tip - hold down the middle mouse button down and move your mouse around. It's scroll speed is variable dependent on how far your mouse is away from the origin point, so it's quite useful.

You can clear the entire screen in around 15 seconds if you go max speed!
> The irony is that this is being posted in a heavily moderated forum.

How is that ironic? Irony would be this post getting flagged and removed.
> First it takes time to get people there and not everyone have telegram, slack or discord

So...instead of picking an extant platform you built yet another that people need to "have" to communicate with you?
Scala's purpose is, at least to me, pretty clear: Functional programming (ranging up to Pure FP) on the JVM with a powerful type system.

That's just something that Java, Kotlin, nor Clojure don't offer. And there is significant demand for Scala (and its pupose) in the industy (it just not may be as huge as Java or other more mainstream languages).
That's kind of the point, isn't it? Patents were invented so that small inventors could put their minds to work, without money or access to the full set of manufacturing apparatus.

The prototypical patent was a tinkerer who could improve a steam engine or sewing machine, obtain a patent, and then sell the idea to manufacturer. It was parallel with copyright, which allowed people to write books without access to printing. (Shakespeare's plays were known only in unofficial editions during his lifetime, printed legally from the memories of actors who wrote them down, and Shakespeare saw no money from it.)

We're a long way from the days of steam engines, and it's certainly time to reconsider the purpose of patents. But the "weak" independent inventor still exists, and there probably ought to be some kind of protection for them. Because Musk isn't weak, and he'd happily take any invention he wanted if it wasn't legally protected. Everybody without access to a complete, vertically integrated manufacturing process is "weak" -- and that means everyone but him.
Thanks, I hope people will like it!
> The app provider should detect the network outage and provide a good UI,

Can the blocking be adequately distinguished from packet loss? If not it seems like it would be embarrassing for the app to declare Government blockage when it's not really the case.
It is a long time coming and still a long way to go and the surveillance big tech giants should pay a high price for abusing and violating the privacy of hundreds of millions of users.

It's a shame that this fine is too generous to Google and it won't scare them. It should be much larger than that and should be in the multi-billions of dollars.
This will be interesting to kick the tires on. The last gig I was on that used ES - ES would eat tons of memory and quite often crash due to OOM. Wasn't a fan of the query language, either.
Pollen's Collapse
Is there like a really rough cross-diagram of this feature anywhere?
If you’re in favor of efforts like the GDPR, why do you call this anti-bigtech sentiment? It’s pro-privacy sentiment.

The GDPR applies to smalltech, too, and smalltech gets fined. For example, an individual got fined €600 about two months ago for pointing a video camera at a shared access road (https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ETid-1397)

You can find many more examples of small fines at https://www.enforcementtracker.com/.
The creators of Downtown have a conservative agenda.
Jamie Dimon Slams Crypto Tokens as ‘Decentralized Ponzi Schemes’
Adani Group enters into a no-poaching pact with Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Ind
Are people still building new stuff in this? Serious question, not snark.
Can Apple really enforce what goes on in an app? Probably only by rejecting it from the app store, but that's risky on Apple's part and would cause a lot of user complaints.
Forest, meet trees: my numbers are higher, so all the things humans find important that are the very foundation of the number being important don't matter.
Awesome! That is great to hear.
This site overlays a model of the solar system at the desired scale on the Google Maps location of your choice:

https://thinkzone.wlonk.com/SS/SolarSystemModel.php?obj=Sun&...

Helps with the planning process for building your own model solar system.
What amount would these EU fines have to be to make companies like Google and Facebook decide to exit the EU?
I didn't diminish a thing. If anything, it was a stab at the dumb religion the damned government is basing it on. I lived through communism in Europe and was present during the local revolution, I know very well how much courage is required, I was staring inside the gun of a Russian tank there. And no I don't think these topics are too different - everybody knows unfree people need secure communication first and foremost, it's only your take that the iPhone is merely a fashion accessory, but in practice it's also the most secure phone on the market and now it's getting sattelite comms too.
I think when people bemoan stack ranking, they are talking about what it means for the bottom performers. I certainly don't have any issues with rewarding top performers. Did the company you worked for just rank the top?
There’s quite a few at different scales - in fact I believe the mall in Washington DC has one.
Yep that's exaclty what Taku is. Great that you like it
Having the word ‘Tesla’ or ‘Elon’ in the title is like guaranteed clicks for news sites.
Software supply chain security gets its first Linux distro, Wolfi
OK, let's not mince words. It is so bad because you, all of you who suffer under this, don't give IT managers and decision makers enough shit for choosing this crap. You don't stand up for yourself, you don't refuse to use it, and you do nothing to improve your situation because you think you can't.

Right now most of you are shaking your head. "It isn't that simple". "I can't do anything about this". "It isn't my place". You are wrong. You can do something about it, but it is going to take a bit of backbone and a bit of initiative. You may lack a backbone. Grow one. Don't whine. Whining accomplishes nothing and communicates that you have given up.

You find better alternatives, recruit others to your cause and force badly run organizations to change -- essentially by leading a revolt. There is only so much a manager can do when employees say "no". And it is easier to say "no" when more people say "no".

If you have ever been a manager you know perfectly well that if you can't get your people to do as you say, you are done. A leader who can't make people follow isn't a leader. It can be a career killer. Lots of managers have nightmares about this.

You can use that to your advantage.

If you don't want to use Teams: find an alternative, start using it, recruit others to your cause and stand up to whomever says "you can't".
As much as I appreciate the sentiment, ring signatures are not a perfect solution for sender privacy at the moment given current ringsizes.

Almost every cryptocurrency with sender-obfuscation features bumps up against "poisoned output" attacks for low enough anonymity sets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iABIcsDJKyM

But it is good enough for many purposes. The goal is to provide a high level of plausible deniability for the sender.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32921157#32925836
A global backlash is brewing against the Fed
And even if they do, if they're portable please think of my battery :)
With a small fine, it's just an annoying cost of doing business. With this ruling, there's a possibility it may actually change the risk/benefit assessment for companies that insist on doing whatever they want with user data.

Maybe the lines of business which require promiscuous data sharing in order to be profitable will stop operating in the EU, and give rise to other business models. Whether these newer ones will be better or worse is not yet known, though the gamble in the EU is that it won't be worse.
I have friends here in the US who use WhatsApp and they are originally from Iran. I wonder, if it's been many years since they lived in Iran if they're still considered "Iranian" for the purposes of this blockage?
The rest of the post was saying we should scale support to need rather than lumping all homeless people into incarceration or residential inpatient treatment. Not only is it more expensive to treat all of these people in the most expensive possible way, but it's also the biggest imposition on their freedom and independence. They don't all need some public official making all their decisions for them, and especially not armed guards and wardens.

I also get the impression you're only talking about completely unsheltered people living on the streets. Homelessness is much bigger than that. There are people who are permanent couch surfers, others who move from one flop motel or boarding house to another as they get a little cash, and people who squat or live in illegal rentals. Lots of those people just need a hand up and would prefer not to get help if it means mandatory drug testing, forced relocation into a carceral living arrangement, losing children into foster care, and treatment they may not need.

Needs are not one size fits all, so help cannot be or it ceases to be real help.
Are you saying HN is moderating content on this website at the direction of the government?

Because that’s what the article is about.
Almost any use of bitcoin will de-anonymize you through some heuristic.
Societal issues at this scale and with this many variables are not distilled down to one simple answer. And failure point in your root cause analysis can’t be so easily identified. I listed several issues that could be explored as to why gini coefficient is increasing. Its going to be multifactorial and not just rooted in demographics - which is very vague.
I don't think the Taylor rule says interest rates should be higher than inflation. It seems like it's dependent on the weights you pick. Historically it's not been true either. If that is some implication of the formula I'm not gleaning, then please spell it out.
When I was in high school there were about 50 moons in the entire system. There were zero exoplanets now, there’s thousands today.
Phishing campaign impersonating Circle CI targeting GitHub users
ESNI is useless. Nobody cares that it's secret - they care that they don't know what you're doing.

It removes plausible deniability, which means no more domain fronting bypasses.

It's not enough to be "secure", you need to be able to hide in plain sight.
Just like Google getting fined, not even Facecbook (Meta) should be allowed a pass on trying to escape this evasion and continuing to violate user privacy and collect more personal identifiable information (PII).

As soon as they lose, they should be fined in the multi-billions of dollars again, much higher than the FTC fine that they got years ago.

Given that they won't ever change, the fines should just get higher.
and here I thought Ryanair was expanding.
The cracks are supposed to have occurred in the first few seconds after the Big Bang, when spacetime would already be a thing.
Lots of countries generate oil revenue. Not all oil-producing countries provide national welfare. You didn't actually think about this.

Try again. Do better.
Illegal immigration is just that, illegal. Hispanics, especially second generation ones have lower poverty rates, higher homeownership rates, higher education, and higher income.

I left out refugees and a lot of the border crossers are refugees, from wars, cartels, and poverty.
A little while back I recall some pundit describing Facebook as believing that this kind of data was theirs. Not “theirs for the taking”, but literally if they could find a way to obtain it, they considered it their right to have it. Like it was baked into the culture of the company. The more I read about Facebook’s practices, the more it rings true.
Glad to see Nausicaä mentioned. While I find it really hard to rate Miyazaki movies (usually the most recent rewatch becomes my favorite), the deep echoing philosophy of Nausicaä and Princess Mononoke is definitely underrated.

I love how one of the comments talks about Roger Ebert calling the lamp post a gift. The entirety of Studio Ghibli is a gift. The empowering characters and almost eternal, non-preachy, storylines are truly some of the greatest epics in modern times.
Technically, I guess? But it behaves exactly like an alarm (it is actually just the input, if it’s 13:00, and I set the alarm-timer for 6h, the app will set an alarm for 19:00, not a 6h countdown).
The issue linked isn’t about mods enforcing community rules - it’s about the government pressuring (under cover of law) communities to censor content that the government doesn’t like.

Regarding COVID, we know that much of what the government was disseminating was as much misinformation as that coming from Drs. that were saying the opposite. They were not trying to suppress information because they had any scientific authority, but because it ran counter to their strategy. Having a government attempt to squash public scientific debate is very concerning and completely different from mods booting belligerent or abrasive users.
This is never going to happen. It's just too big of a market.
While literally true, this doesn’t accurately reflect the immediate circumstances that led him to be banned. In other words: it’s not true that his lack of political power was the thing that got him banned.
And then over 2,000,000 additional minutes to pass the nearest photon-emitting (as opposed to reflecting) object in the best case.
You didn't read immigration statistics. Do your homework, then come back.
I have one on my desk as part of a laser cutter that cost less than $200 in total.
Is that different (or worse) than excluding people from company events without having been vaccinated despite having a prior infection?
That increases the budget of the eu parliament with 2.2% on a yearly basis if paid out in one go.

[1082B for 2014-2020, 4B/1082B*6y~2.2%]

A loss of 4B is a decrease of revenue by 1.5% for google.

[googles revenue was 256B in 2021 4/256~1.5%]
Aren't Quarkus (and possibly other frameworks/libs) built on top of it?
Breaking the law that applies to is not a sentiment. The same law punished small companies too
You'll be glad to hear Monero increased its ring-size from 11 to 16 last month making such attacks less feasible.

I sure was.
It would be wild if we find out he was also banned in a similar manner to this Berenson guy.

As for what you’re missing, maybe that Trump was too anti-establishment, like his “drain the swamp” rhetoric? Based on the article this seems like it would be a systemic issue.
So... What's the end result? Google has to charge for Android? Ask users their search preference?
I like the idea but I am not sure if a discord server / whatsapp will get indexed by Google? If not you might loose out on getting free traffic. You might just consider a good old forum, e.g. discourse [1] which is pretty easy to implement and what we use [2].

[1] https://www.discourse.org/
[2] https://forum.airgradient.com/
The timely trend for wearing two watches
And are we sure it doesn't predict cosmic strings just as much as the big bang model does? Both involve the universe being very hot and dense in the past and then getting rapidly cooler. That's the part that makes physicists expect cosmic strings, not the question of where the hot-dense state came from in the first place.
It is a set of standards. Most modern frameworks like Quarkus implements a subset of it (microprofile), while a large part of Spring is also an implementation of it/at least spring understands concepts out of it.

So yes, it is still used very extensively, though I don’t think that the old application container model is used for new apps anymore.
probably 15-20% of annual revenue

its psychology, the board or ceo would react preemptively based on the idea that shareholders would react on their behalf

shareholders (if they have voting power at all) would react for the same result at higher fine amounts than that
Freedom to moderate one's platform is not freedom from consequences for doing so. There will be regulatory, legal, and investigative punishment for Big Tech within the next 10 years, as a direct consequence of their style of moderation.

It would be more understandable if social media, for example, advertised "only opinions consistent with current left-wing ideology are welcome here", then proceeded to ban anyone presenting right-wing content. But they don't do this. There was a time when Twitter called itself "the free speech wing of the free speech party". In less than ten years, they became a mouthpiece for the government, banning any countervailing thought.

People like me will gleefully vote for any politician who promises to punish Big Tech for this doublespeak. And there are way more of me than you would like to believe.
> What am I missing?

Prior political allegiances of said companies.
Several of those features have subfeatures, and then there are more that I don’t use. It’s exactly my kind of app, one that does everything, and everything well ;)

My favorite Windows apps are the same (MediaMonkey, EmEditor, and DirectoryOpus), paid apps with tons of features, more than I need, but also all that I need.
To my knowledge, Iranian government doesn't have power to dictate FB's actions outside Iran. So FB could block by the IPs, but blocking everywhere by the nationality makes no sense (at least by the standards of a normal person).