skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nitrogen fertilizer. Phosphate and potassium (the other two major plant nutrients) are currently obtained by mining. Potassium will ultimately be available from seawater (although the estimated land resource would supply current global demand for thousands of years), so is not as much a problem as phosphate.

But you are right that making nitrogen fertilizer doesn't require fossil fuels. It would be a major market for "green hydrogen", which would be a great dispatchable demand to help smooth variability in renewable power output and in other demand.
> If you are paying any bill for ads, make sure you only pay for conversions

Others have already pointed out that this is actually impossible. The big ad platforms charge on impressions you can setup any targeting you want but they charge on impressions that's it.
> but "meme" itself is a singular unit of culture

Yup. It's not a coincidence that it sounds like "gene". The idea was precisely to treat it like that - memes get passed from generation to generation, get mutated, mix with other memes.
Tegel Projekt (Berlin-Tegel Airport)
Not parent's point. The point was not to conflate Prisoners of War (or Prisoners of Spy War here?) with slaves. Slaves are enslaved to provide labor without rights and payments, are treated as commodity, and are traded for other commodities, with explicit monetary value. In the case of spy prisoners, people who are in jail because they broke some law are traded for other people in jail in another country who broke another law, because they are valuable to their country of origin, and they too want to return to their home country instead of being in jail in a foreign country. They are not used for labor and they do not have monetary value that can be used in a market.
(1) As a recent-ish college grad, I can back this up. Lockdown began halfway through my final full-time semester, and even I noticed it in real-time. People don't connect with material presented in a Zoom call in the same way they connect with it in-person. Professors removed entire sections of their curricula to respond to this.

(2) I have nothing to say here. You're just plain right.

(3) Both you and the professor are right. Students have a lot of incentive to optimize for grades, in lieu of developing an actual appreciation of the material. In any class I didn't give a damn about (Economics 100, for example), I optimized for grades. Also, teaching out of a 20, 30, 40 year old book isn't conducive to interesting lectures. The information is almost always noticeably outdated. An economics 101 book with no mention of the subprime mortgage crisis or Dodd-Frank is just missing a chapter. And yes, I will be distracted by the details of a question that references such antiquated things as landlines and "neighbors you actually talk to." I think it's justified for students to expect that a decade's worth of crippling debt will pay for high quality, modern course materials.

(4) Not sure if this is anything new. Young people have been distrustful of institutions for as long as the idea of institution has existed. Maybe my generation doesn't have much trust in economists specifically. It seems like a field prone to the worst instincts of groupthink. Does every generation have a subject like that?
I discovered GNU Emacs while at secondary school. Started out running it under OS/2 (using EMX), later switched to Linux. I spent countless hours studying in awe it’s gazillion features (and that was 25+ years ago now, the features have only multipled since.) It seemed more like a work of art than a kitchen sink. But I didn’t really use it in anger for much, because I didn’t have much to actually use it for.

Never got into vi, it seemed weak and unfriendly - until I got my first real job. I was primarily a developer, but did a bit of sysadmin on the side, and hung out with the sysadmins a lot. And all the Solaris boxes had vi, and trying to get emacs installed was too much work. And I became quite good friends with one of the sysadmins in particular, who was a big vim fan.

20 years later, I use MacVIM every day. And on the rare occasion I start emacs, I’m struggling to remember how to do anything.
I'd say there is something faintly ironic about the actions you just described relative to the subject matter.
And PS7 will be fought with sticks and stones
Porting games? Isn't it essentially and RDP connection?
Any one who promoted this project should be branded as totally bereft of any integrity or sense of judgment, and denied any kind of platform to influence society.

There are celebrities who got involved in the crypto market, but did so thoughtfully, and not in the manner of Maywather and Kardashian. Case in point, Terry Crews:

https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/everyone-can-be-rich-i...
I think USAF and other companies were likely part of the reason Sony removed Linux support. Generally, a PS3 was a lot cheaper than the equivalent PC/server.

Sony typically sells consoles at a loss and makes profits from the game sales. The likes of USAF, researchers, and other companies were buying PS3s in bulk, and using OtherOS functionality without utilizing the primary use of PS3s: games. Often these projects didn't need any GPU power, and OtherOS had nearly full access to the CPU (iirc it had access to the main PPE and 7 out of 8 SPEs). Thus, Sony likely was not making enough money from the consoles USAF et al. bought.
Twitter has become full of vacuous "gurus" like Sahil. I know he does it so he can build his brand and sell his book, but why do people "like and follow" him?
Dupe of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33038272
what if this guy is right ? then we will study his way of doing economics instead of Adam Smith ? :)
Definitely! I was taking issue with your counting "forced to use botnets" as a success, but it sounds like you're actually saying it's just a decent proxy for success, because it is hard enough that you expect this to massively cut down on fraud?

(I think of botnets as not actually that hard a step for fraudsters, and fraudsters as being very determined, but it depends a lot on how much money people can make with fraud against your particular situation)
I'm not sure how you're coming to the conclusion that wearing an iron ring changes any sense of responsibility. I'm bound as a Canadian engineer to provincial legislation (law) regarding my responsibilities, that and my job contract. The (very optional) iron ring I'm wearing is symbolic and only a part of tradition.
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In theory these studies keep fixed populations, this is at times surreal as in long term pharmaceutical studies with smaller sample sizes it can happen that the control group ends up taking more of the studied drug than the non-control group.
For those interested in the SEM images and looking for more, check out this site: https://scienceofsharp.com/home/

The site focuses mainly on sharpening razor blades and is full of SEM images of blades in various conditions. Very cool to see.

This page about burrs has some particularly cool images: https://scienceofsharp.com/2015/01/13/what-is-a-burr-part-2/
If addressing climate change is the goal, existing vehicles can be converted over to methanol far more cheaply than buying a whole new vehicle. Methanol can be made carbon neutrally, or carbon negatively, and will power the next generation of cargo ships.
>She's not a criminal.

Technically, sure, but only because she settled the charges. Settling doesn't mean you aren't a criminal, you just weren't convicted in court.

>Not disclosing it is an ethical dilemma and she's paid in much more than she made.

Nope. ~$250k is what she was paid, $1.6million is what she was fined.

>Also, if you buy something just because a celebrity told you to, you have poor decision making skills and it’s worth your while to work on that.

Classy.
Slate has some background on this story from a year ago: https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/ben-mckenzie-crypto-cel...
The people who spend a lot of time pointing out the signal to noise ratio aren't going to be reading material similar ot that of Henry James either, because they'll interpret it as mostly noise and see the plot as the most important part.
Parents could have moved to SF, just sayin’

ETA: One set of parents could have moved from east coast to west. They had enough savings and could have found a modest place in a nice peripheral location. We had good SV jobs and would have helped them. They never really liked where they lived, never made the most of it, and only stayed there out of inertia; I hated the weather and sprawly shabbiness, would never have moved back. We spent a lot of time looking for nice places for them and got a lot of excuses.

Our jobs became fully remote. The other set of parents got sick. So we moved to their clean, quiet, beautiful, small town in the northern UK. It sucks, you’d hate it, stay away.
Medical devices are insanely expensive (a CT scanner may reach a million dollars), you won’t risk $100 on such a small thing as a screen.
Don’t forget the largest stretch of undeveloped prairie in Colorado:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Arsenal_Nationa...
> No. You see, the thing is, we really need the eggs.

Isn't that the opposite of the problem here? If the bots actually generated sales, the adbuyers would likely be quite happy. This seems more like the Emperor's New Clothes, if you're looking for a metaphor.
As many have noted, it’s harder because you’re now starting at a much higher level of abstraction. This makes it very, very difficult to develop an understanding of how any of this stuff actually works. As we push further and further away from the actual machines doing the work, understanding everything that makes up that huge stack gets way more complicated.

Always start at the bottom and work up. You’ll avoid much of the frustration of confusion, at the expense of a slow start. Most importantly, when you’re done you’ll be useful at every level.
Fair punishment when it comes to fines should depend on the income. And maybe net wealth too excluding primary housing to certain median level of community.

Does a same fine have same deterrent level for both sub-minimum wage worker and billionaire? As that is clearly the goal of the fines. I think they should. And likely the billionaire should pay much higher relative proportion than someone at minimum wage as they have so much more disposable income.
How can anybody look at the 'official' Ethereum Max twitter and not see it as a sham?[1]

The problem with crypto is that your average retail user, and probably even a lot of regulators, do not understand the difference between Ethereum and Ethereum Max.

[1] https://twitter.com/ethereum_max
Sounds like the premise of the movie Me, Myself and Irene. I think "nice" vs. "kind" here is just somewhat arbitrary vocabulary. I'm old enough to understand what she means, though. Getting along with someone, or avoiding conflict, doesn't mean you need to internalize it with genuine affection or empathy. If you do that, when your ability to feel that way inside runs out -- and it will -- you'll suddenly find it a lot harder to get along with people.
> All extensions are different.

Absolutely, I didn't reply to say you are wrong or anything in that regard. I basically wanted to give some additional perspective.

> I'm not saying it will be so for all extensions, but it was for mine, and it may be for others as well.

Yup, for many extensions it might be relatively painless. It was for a different extension where I just had to replace ancient ajax calls for fetch and move some functionality to the front into content_scripts.

At the same time it was a lot of work for the extension I mentioned in my previous comment. Which I might add is not an extension that has anything to do with content blocking which I agree does get a lot of attention.

But the truth is that there are also a number of extensions that made creative use of the current manifest construction. Those extensions no longer can offer the same functionality, have to rewrite a lot of code with no functional benefit or redo functionality in a way that degrades the user experience.

Even if for the majority of extensions migration is relatively painless it still leaves those extensions where it isn't and even those that can't be migrated due to how they work. They won't be a majority, but it still means that once the switch is done the ecosystem will be less diverse.
I think they meant that the type of content/art is a bell curve distribution. Most popular stuff is what most people like by definition. Hence, the "average" taste is what sells the most (produced by the top dozen people).

An extremely niche art/book/movie will never make big money, even if the work is from an artistic genius.
Mostly, a vaccine does not guarantee that you will not get the disease (though some do), it usually reduces the risk you develop a bad form [1]. Which is why the expression “vaccine works” without defining what we mean by work lead to unproductive debates.

We ended up with antivaxxers making claims that since the vaccine didn’t prevent infections it was a fraud, and vaxxers claiming that the vaccine would rid us of the virus, and often making public policy on that false assumption.

Some vaccines do reduce the chance that will you will get the disease or transmit it enough that if the whole population gets vaccinated the virus won’t circulate anymore but that’s not the case with covid vaccines.

[1] a good illustration that help strike the concept is that famous photo of two children who got smallpox but one was vaccinated https://daraj.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5a2b8126-e638-4...
Imagine people don't want a big expensive bulky hot laptop to play games, but want something smaller for work, and pay for a service to play a game without hearing fan noise.
As a kid, I recall being told by camp counselors that we couldn’t canoe since ‘TVA’s been dredging and now the coal ash is mixed with nuclear waste’.
Hello all!

Over the last several years I've performed a lot of software engineering interviews. During that time I iterated on the evaluation process to find something that allowed us to make hiring decisions with confidence.

There are a lot of coding interview products and tools out there, but most don't come close to imitating how we work on a day-to-day basis. Whether a candidate can solve a random live coding challenge on the spot isn't an accurate representation of their abilities, especially in a world where we work remotely and asynchronously.

Eventually, I settled on a take-home process of sharing a private Github repo with candidates, asking them to follow the directions in the README and submit a Pull Request - just like we would in our day-to-day work. This gives me a lot of insight into what it's really like to work with that person. For example, I can learn how they communicate in a written and asynchronous manner, how they formulate their commit messages, and how they make decisions.

The downside is that this process was time consuming and manual. For each candidate, I had to take the project source code, create a new project repo, invite the candidate, and keep track of all outstanding projects. So naturally, I created a tool to automate the process :). Feedback and questions welcome!
54 000,42 is also not unreasonable alternative.
Ah! Nice. So, all the mathematicians walked into a bar and got into a fight.
Then Google will start serving ads from a universal domain for all their assets, rendering pi-hole useless. Like they do with YouTube ads.
> Most importantly we plan to have fun with this project

That seems like the wrong main focus for a security project. I'd have preferred if the "most important" thing was to provide a secure browsing experience, but, to each their own...
Yeah I’m on the other side of world from parents and realised that too. Opted to phone them every ~3 days. Not ideal but it does help a bit
> But at the same time, it is a whole new system to learn and get into, very specific to itself

If you already know Vim keybindings, it is very easy to get into Emacs with evil-mode.[1]

Besides that, Emacs by default comes with a menu system that helps you discover keybindings, too. And there is also cua-mode which I haven’t tried.[2]

[1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

[2] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CuaMode
Elm: A delightful language for reliable web applications
I cant refind the website right now, but i once encountered an interesting website that took this concept further.

It demonstrated that many of us have already spent between 95-99% of the time we will see our parents.

Eg:

* presume your parents have you at ~30

* Live at home 18years x 365 days per year = 6570 days

* You see them a week per year for the remainder of their life = 50 years * 7 days per year = 350 days

therefore at 19yrs old you have 350/(6570+350) days remaining ~= 5%
> AAA games are too much of a time commitment to ever finish

AAA game industry agrees with you, releasing mega titles like Halo w/o a story to finish, just online "service game" that will always be there for you (until they shut the service off).
Paul Graham talks about this in one of his essays, Life is Short. This part really drove it home for me.

“Having kids showed me how to convert a continuous quantity, time, into discrete quantities. You only get 52 weekends with your 2 year old. If Christmas-as-magic lasts from say ages 3 to 10, you only get to watch your child experience it 8 times. And while it's impossible to say what is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity like time, 8 is not a lot of something. If you had a handful of 8 peanuts, or a shelf of 8 books to choose from, the quantity would definitely seem limited, no matter what your lifespan was.”

http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html
It’s the same, the article even mentions the exploit does not allow code execution yet.
> I’ve been a part of fandoms that are now seen as cringey or toxic.

—BuyMyBitcoins

Joking aside, there's definitely value to rotating usernames frequently. I've started using random strings on various sites because I really don't see an up side (for me) to being trackable from site to site and definitely across time. (I use very long random strings for my banking usernames because I don't trust them to have enough bits of entropy in their passwords.)
Gaining arbitrary code execution.

Modern game consoles (but lots of other devices, including Apple's iOS, which used to have one of the most restrictive environments to develop applications on - it's slightly better these day - as well) restrict the sort of code you're allowed to run on it to only what the manufacturer allows you to run.

"Jailbreaking" in this context means that you can bypass those sorts of restrictions, with the implementation of what that entails differing per device.

The alternate term you often hear used for this sort of hacking (and slightly older since it predates the iphone) is Homebrew.
You could also experience to be bankrupt when trying to run a startup.

Success is not guaranteed at all, and the statistics show more than half of them fail.
> Kardashian included “#AD” at the bottom of the post in 2021, according to the SEC. Despite that, the SEC said investors weren’t made aware of her being paid for the ad.

Yes they were - not thinking a social media post with '#ad' is an ad is akin to thinking the TV ads are just made by actors that like the products.
I sometimes when an advertisement annoys me, I punish it clicking on it, clicking around on the website, maybe adding items to the cart or going through half of the click funnel, and then I close the tab and never come back.

It's great.
No this is the celebrity... Both are about as important in general...
I'm... a little dubious about some of their estimates. In particular Ireland, where their light-based estimate is shown as being spot on. Ireland's very high apparent GDP growth is largely structural weirdness (the economy has grown relatively fast once you filter it out, but not at the ridiculous pace that raw GDP figures would suggest), and we definitely haven't been adding lights at an extra-fast pace to keep up with it :)

(More seriously, this seems like an interesting approach for developing nations, but is less likely to give useful results for developed ones.)
We need to remember to treat the Belters with the respect they deserve or else deflection technology can be used against us.
I was gonna say "not at these prices", but actually I'm feeling more optimistic about that...have even entertained the idea of moving back myself if current trends continue.
The Counterintuitive Economics of Hiring
That's nothing, wait until you find out that the Japanese LDP was founded by class A nazi war criminals that the US released from prison :)

If you think it's shocking that the US works with fascists, it can only because you know nothing at all about US foreign policy and how it works.

The idea that it's "off the rails" rather than something that repeats so ofte it's not even interesting is _buck wild_ :)
I don't shave with a straight razor, but I do sharpen carving tools for woodworking.

I strop with a fine honing compound on the strop, and the purpose of that for my application is to get a more highly polished edge than I get off of stones. The[0] explanation among woodworkers being that a more polished edge has fewer micro serrations along the edge that create weak points on the edge for dulling to start. If the edge has fine points from coarser (relatively) stones, they can break off, leaving a definitely non-sharp region behind. Or something like that.

Other tools that are frequently stropped include drawknives. Chisels and plane irons are less commonly stropped because the softer strop inevitably reduces the flatness of the blade at the cutting edge[1].

[0] Ok, one explanation. Some woodworkers will argue bitterly about anything related to sharpening.

[1] The importance of which is another topic that woodworkers will argue endlessly.
Google is now advertising VPN in its front page
Google is the website with the most web traffic across Iran and is now advertising its product in the front page of the search page, by making this move they've essentially endangered themselves to get fully blocked in Iran which basically makes it impossible to use when we don't have access to any VPNs or proxies to get pass the blockings, and the "VPN" they're advertising is underlyingly using Shadowsocks which amazingly was blocked and detected using Iranian's Deep-Packet-Inspection just recently in the middle of the recent and on going protest.

They talk a very big game about their protocol being "undetectable" while it is already detected. What is it with you Google? Stop being dumb, you're going to kill outline just as you have done with Stadia, at least save what makes you Google.
yea, I appreciate the sentiment but the world doesn't work like that
That all sounds great, but why would you drink a lot of coke zero, surely that has a lot of crap in it? If you're that dedicated with everything else why not just drink water or tea?
Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the Covid-19 Pandemic [pdf]