skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's outdated and only consists of the energy converted from electricity. It doesn't include non-electric heating, driving, maritime transportation, aviation and freight. Taking those int account our total consumption is around 100TW.

That's what primary energy means (as well as the heat wasted from allof the above). My best guess as to how you got 100 is you're mixing up 160,000TWh with TW

> That assumes 100% efficiency, it's from the upper atmosphere, and making full use of it would mean there would be no light left for plants or the ocean. After accounting for solar panel efficiency, battery efficiency, and the amount of surface where it's possible to put panels without displacing nature and agriculture it'll be somewhere in the low hundreds of TWs.

I wasn't implying all of that was available, merely that around 0.1% of that in thermal forcing is enough to be a problem on the same scale as GHG emissions. Wind is the technology which produces the least new heat (none, although if you exceed around 1W/m^2 for too large an area you change the climate in other ways), followed by solar on existing asphalt, grass, or water (up to ~1W of new heat per watt).

Any thermal fuel that didn't recently come from sunlight is in the 1.4 to 3 range (excluding extraction and processing).

This caps primary energy around 400TW for renewables or 200TW for nuclear (with only around 70W as work if you are using a steam engine).

Nuclear provides less end-state access to abundant energy on earth than renewables at higher cost. There is no reason to pursue it.
After moving to US they still resent software people. It's not just money. They tend to imagine themselves as more intellectually capable people[due to their degree requiring long and expensive academic training] compared to engineers in general. Which isn't true.

And it's not just about software. They look at something like a big dam, skyscraper, a F1 car, a fighter jet, or something like Google and kind of feel insecure that there are bigger things which they could have been a part of, and feel they kind of (bad)-lucked into studying medicine[which happens to be a expensive academic course to finish, and also take more time].

I once showed a relative who is also a doctor using logic programming to solve puzzles like Sudoku etc. He kind of expressed disappointment he was stuck in a profession that doesn't allow this sort of everyday involvement in solving problems, or building things. The money part just adds to their resentment.
Others have answered about how Celsius got into trouble, as it was not a trading platform, but I'll answer the implied question - if it's all on a blockchain, how can a trading platform have a liquidity crisis?

The answer is - it's not all on the blockchain. The vast majority of transactions involving bitcoin are nowhere near a blockchain, they're all on a database (or similar tech) that the exchange runs. Blockchain transactions only occur on deposit or withdrawl of funds into or out of the exchange. If (as in the case of an entity like Quadriga CX) somebody 'accidentally' removes and loses most of the cryptocurrency, the exchange can continue to operate for quite some time, so long as everyone doesn't try to withdraw at once.
>"I entered college as a materials science major, took up to organic chemistry, said fuck this and switch to CS."

Rumor has it, this is precisely why Organic Chemistry has the reputation for being brutally difficult throughout the university system, as it is meant to filter out students early on in their studies.
I feel like computers in general were a bad idea. Have they genuinely improved our overall wellbeing as a species? I'm sceptical.
> I paid for the phone and they are still collecting my data.

You paid for the phone, not for the google services.

You're free to use non-google services on android. Moreover open street map, and numerous other email clients, exist - it's even a practical choice.

> For me this is not free.

No comment on this portion
A possible explanation, from the book Thinking Fast and Slow: when confronted with an intractable (or even just very difficult) problem, the human mind has a tendency to substitute an easier problem and solve that instead. It's tricky to catch yourself doing this, and group inertia makes it harder.
I agree, and just want to reiterate what was written in the article: we genuinely feel no animosity towards Meta and its gaming headsets. We don't even feel animosity that they have leveraged their economies of scale to provide them very cheaply to consumers (something we aren't able to do yet[1]). We just disagree with their product vision, and are pursuing our own. We also think subpoenaing us for this case seems unreasonable.

[1] https://simulavr.com/blog/why-is-the-simula-one-so-expensive...
This is the subject of a current litigation. Hopefully the Supreme Court comes through and puts an end to this clown show.
Skilled v. unskilled labor uses fairly classist terminology. But its it a term of art--not a moral judgment.

Bus drivers are unskilled labor.

They only make decent money since its a pubic union job. Good for them. But if the government contracted it out at the lowest bidder, they wouldn't be making that much.
It's probably best to assume that most people blatantly lie on the regular for the sake of their agenda.
With Gmail and the like you only get to know about the first open.

I wonder if this is actually caused by the email being forwarded around to many people.
> Culture has a lot to do with it.

If you admit this, you'd be saying one culture is worse and needs to change. One party in the US is against saying anyone but white men (and Karen) can do anything wrong, so the problem is everyone else. But it obviously isn't, some groups have cultures which denigrate learning and the consequence is those groups do not succeed academically or economically.

All of the USA has at least some cultural issues (drunk driving is popular, for example). So who could we really trust to drive cultural change? Current teachers seem to be reinforcing victim mindset in children, the entire educational system is setup to keep kids away from people doing better than them -- grade separation alone, for example, prevents kids from learning from peers who already understand the material. The churches are corrupt and fractionated. Who would have the moral authority to drive cultural change for the better?
What would you have had them do instead? Again:

> naturally, one of the primary (only?) things Meta can do to demonstrate this is to subpoena...well...its competition...to demand documents which might help them in court
You are wrong. 'Caucasian' is used to classify white Europeans.

The US Government defines 'Asians' as 'having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.'[0]

[0] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/note/US/RHI625221#:~:....
Is it any surprise, when the law creates an incentive like this for constructive dismissal, that constructive dismissal becomes the standard practice (even if it is supposed to be illegal)?
On a platform that is drowning in bot activity. The threshold for abuse is on the floor
Snopes and the ADL
It really is - and on the topic of "competition"..

Meta is not a competitor to Simula and honestly never will be because they will never give you Freedom to run Linux and hack to your heart's content.

But Simula is a competitor to Meta in that their existence gives people like me a serious (non-toy) VR headset they'd actually buy. So the reason Meta has competition from Simula is because they're terrible from a consumer-privacy and -respect perspective.
I was recently invited to be a lead on Nextdoor (I know, I know) and accepted so that I could peek behind the curtain. Their process is that any flagged content is voted on by leads to Leave it, Possibly Remove, or Remove. What I've observed is that posts that completely break the rules still have a 50/50 split.

My point being that many people are not able to objectively look at something and make a decision. Their opinions and feelings will always get mixed in. Twitter, good luck with the crowdsourcing :).
The notation used is almost all explicitly defined or can be trivially derived by reading the descriptions provided, aside from cardinality e.g. |x^2 - a| which is assumed to be common knowledge.

Everything else is very simple pseudocode albeit with use of a few Greek letters or symbols, so I could hardly call this inaccessible to somebody who has been programming for 30 years...
I've built something for myself before but never maintained it. Really looking for something prebuilt.

JS preferably. But would assume if this existed somewhere it'd be available all major languages.
Hmm. This sounds like there could be a positive feedback loop buried in here somewhere. Something like:

1. Status quo position is X.

2. New information comes in that says Y.

3. People tweet Y.

4. Crowd sourced "fact check" says that Y is false.

5. Twitter consensus becomes even more certain that X is true.
> My degree wasn't in EE, but I can't imagine neither of those are useful for an Electrical Engineer.

My degree was EE, and I can say they're definitely useful for a lot of EE concepts.

It's similar to computer science: It's possible to jump into the industry and write CRUD apps and connect APIs together without ever studying algorithms or how CPUs work. However, if you go deeper or have to do the more complex work, you really need to understand the underlying concepts.
The video game "To The Moon" and its sequels/related media explores this premise.
Parent also conveniently states:

> Whether those individuals are held accountable or not is irrelevant

This is actually a perfect example of the point I was making. "I want the benefits of participating in an ethical system but don't want the consequences".

This is why people claim that corporations behave like sociopaths.

A bear (from my example), isn't a sociopath, because it doesn't expect moral behavior from you, nor does it expect to benefit from moral behavior applied to it. A bear is perfectly amoral. A bear may cause you harm, and you may harm a bear, you might feel bad you had to kill a bear, but the bear will not be concerned either way with your ethical system, it simply wants to eat and live.

A sociopath on the other hand takes advantage of moral asymmetry, expecting you to treat it like a person when you interact with it (for example showing mercy for its trespasses), but wanting to be free to act like a bear in regards to serving its own ends.
> That said, it's clearly not racial based, because you can take a look at various non-American black populations and see big differences in educational levels and cultural values.

There are big differences in educational levels and cultural views within every racial group. Is that relevant to the question of whether there are significant mean differences between racial groups on the population level?
I am not sure about the need for deniability. Iranian gov hates them anyway and nobody will let around a table to discuss the topic.

Au least it is good to know that this may (and probably is) the reason.
Well, genuinely increasing QoL requires me to convince a large mass of people. Developing this technology only needs progress against nature. The former problem is generally intractable for me.
I sort of understand what you're getting at, but on a surface level, saying that hallucinogenic drugs are boring and played out is like saying music or war is boring and played out. It's a forever topic because it's a static part of the world for every generation of humans since prehistory.
"Fits in a normal commercial truck" is an important criteria for keeping transport costs reasonable. If it fits in a truck, you can build a factory and ship them without needing to arrange a bunch road closures with every delivery.

Though you might need to close roads anyways, not sure what the rules for transporting nuclear fuel are.
I love writing in weird languages. Besides thinking about programming in a different context, being forced to read the technical documentation, source code, or just having to figure it out happens more often when I can’t just copy an answer from stack overflow. I find the latter just too tempting and easy when programming in a mainstream language
I don't know these cases well but if Twitter (or someone) is able to compile the known information at the time & append as new insights become available that would be the most ideal way I can think of.

Hopefully they can be concise & have at minimum, two differing sides sharing non-opinionated references. Or at least stating the leniencies of said references.

Though this can still be very hard & lead to many rabbit holes of "Further reading".
They are immune to other countries' laws of they do not have a business presence there.
Don't they? Isn't that axis just "how much they like the candidate"?
This is not the case here, since in Michigan the Detroit Public Schools not only have the worst test scores in the nation, but the highest funding per pupil in the state.
Maybe. What sound did it make?
A 120ms should feel immediate. IIRC anything under 300ms feels instant.
WinAmp 2 (1998) was widely liked. WinAmp 3 (2002) was considered bloated, and flopped.

So Nullsoft followed it up with WinAmp 5 – because 2+3=5 – in 2003, which was very broadly the codebase of WinAmp 2 (small and lean) plus the skin support from WinAmp 3 (the only part people liked).

This won people back, and WinAmp is still around and got an update this year, 20 years on.

I think it's too late for there to be a Python 5, but I did read a blog post long ago – which I can't find again, or I'd link to it – which proposed a similar compromise fix to Python, in considerable technical detail.

I am with @blagie on this: the Python world handled the 2→3 transition spectacularly badly. V3 didn't deliver enough, and strong-arming people by just end-of-lifing Python 2 and expecting the world to move on was foolhardy and short-sighted.

(And I don't even use the language myself. I'm just observing.)

It's a real shame Tauthon didn't get more traction and support.

https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon

If it had got enough support and continued, maybe the Python maintainers would have learned something, but I've not seen any sign that they have.

This is nothing new. For comparison, Perl 6 went so badly that Perl 5 now looks likely to continue as Perl 7:

https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/

And PHP 6 didn't really happen -- AFAICT as a total outsider, Unicode support proved too hard and it was never released; the community backported the important bits to PHP 5, and then a new PHP 7, more modest in scope, developed from PHP 5.

The Python world could have done the same, and Tauthon was an effort in that direction.

It's too late now. I suspect that, just as Perl has lost a massive amount of interest and use, partly from the nearly-two-decade-long effort to release Perl 5, Python has done the same -- sabotaged its own community with this high-handed "your leaders know best" approach.
Are you from the UK by chance? That's the only place I've been that considers Indians "Asian". I've also never heard any of my Indian-American friends call themselves Asian, they're very proudly (sometimes obnoxiously so) "Indian".

And of course the Philippines, Japan, China, Korea etc all have very different cultures/customs. However in my experience at a fortune 500 my Korean and Filipino coworkers still organize an "Asian Culture Club", in fact one of them is the president of an Asian advocacy group that interacts with the city for events around Asian American And Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

All that's fine, I'm not bashing anyone, just saying that from what I've seen it's seemingly only white people who are averse to any kind of ethnic organization.
This is not how facts work, JFC.
Fusion's been 30 years away for 50 years, now only 18!
These are the same people that are selling 'unbankrupt yourself' t-shirts after going bankrupt.

See this (entertaining) video :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTwzM0_PjPw
a) Not just the Windows kernel - Office uses SAL, too, in numerous places. Mostly in legacy places predating more modern C++.
b) It's not true to say that kernel devs don't really use it. They use it a lot, though there are attempts at obsoleting some of it[0].

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/wil
I don't see how this solves the problem of patches which fix up previous patches. This workflow doesn't require using merges, but it will introduce situations (irrespective of whether you use --first-parent or not) where patches fix previous patches potentially leaving a gap where code doesn't compile, doesn't run, or doesn't pass tests.
Seven Hispanic and Latin app creators breaking barriers with technology
> And the app doesn't look like it changed that much...

You didn't intend it, but that is a complement of the highest order. Thanks!

Those who've worked on large systems over many years will understand what I mean.
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It's a very different experience to how we currently consume media, and I am not really sure it has mass appeal even with some kind of perfect execution. I am prepared to be totally wrong mind you.

It's an incredible tool and way to engage with virtual worlds, but the question we should be asking isn't "Is VR technology good enough" which I think people get stuck on. Really the question is "Does everyone want to be in a virtual world regularly?" and my intuition having spent a good amount of time in VR is that the answer to that is actually no.

I love video games, so much so that I even try to make them. I spend many hours playing in virtual worlds, but I very, very rarely want to use VR. I'm the perfect candidate for the technology, and it's honestly mindblowing when I do use it, but it's just not a casual experience. Even if we had the perfect, unobtrusive and lightweight technology, you are still choosing to disconnect from your current environment and spend time fully engaged with a different world in a way that games and TV don't. That can be really exhausting.
There is an asterisk at the end of that statement, and then in 8pt font it says "And neither am I, dipshit!"
At my daughter's school (UK secondary - year 9), they now 'expect' most children to have phones, and will generally ask them to use them if they need to call parents, or to take photos of material useful for homework.

It seems very wrong, but also an easy time-saver for the school when most kids have them anyway.
The grade will be meaningless anyway if all it's doing is comparing to that class performance. A grade C from a particularly talented year of students could mean a B or A- in a less talented one.

Unsure if 100+ is a decently sized sample to say that a grade curve based on current class performance has any meaning beyond that class.
This paper found a 0.82 correlation between general mental ability g and SAT scores

https://archive.org/details/ScholasticAssessmentOrG/page/n1/...
Wow crowdsourcing truth that's super great. I see no problems at all with this. It's not like angry partisans on one side would create and push fake stories and news about another horrible atrocity that person of an unpopular group that would lead to mass violence and genocide. Nothing like that has ever happenned with social media tools in countries like Mynamar.

I for one am worried though about what if bad people try to use mass brigading to flag blatantly true information, like how the COVID vaccine is 90% effective at preventing you from getting COVID. I think there should be some official oversight by a body like the federal government or something to make sure that only real "misinformation" gets flagged. Like for example it is well known that many hateful Neo-Nazi racist homophobic Klan members went out of their way to post bad reviews of the Amazon Rings of Power series because they were racist, bigoted, and radical reactionaries that want to destroy the foundations of America, then hid it behind compliants of "poor storywriting" and "glacial pacing".

In this example Amazon stepped in to eliminate information that was not correct, because the people who shared it were bad people. We know they were bad people that wanted bad things because they didn't like what was good, and it was good because it did good things.

This is a digression but highlights my point. I think this is a good thing to crowdsource fact checking, but should be reviewed by an official board to ensure that things don't get fact checked as misinformation that are actually 100% true, such as the efficacy of masks, or the fact that terrorists far right Neo-Nazis laid siege to the capital of Canada for months, and that things that are clearly misinformation such as questioning at all the reliability of masks, or discussing the impact of the COVID lockdown. Get flagged appropriately.

I also think twitter should do nothing about the bot problem that has been clearly evidenced to be happening on there since the person that shared that leak is probably a closet Neo-Nazi homophone since he associates with Elon Musk who is a billionaire and inherently evil.
Some of the conspiracies didn’t conclude the way you say they do, or at least not completely. As far as I can tell, the current “consensus” is that the Hunter Biden laptop, while real, can’t prove any unethical behavior on the part of the president. And the Russian stuff — while Muller couldn’t prove that Trump asked Russia for help (beyond the video of him asking for it in camera, perhaps as a joke), it is still true that Russia played a severe part to helping Trump’s campaign.

So in my opinion the overall narrative of those stories (Russia interfered in the election to help Trump to his delight and Hunter Biden’s laptop doesn’t mean much) are still true to this day.

I think the prevailing narratives when the stories break leaned on facets that were more true: Russia was doing very concerning things. This laptop doesn’t contain proof of much of anything. Trump stated on camera he wanted Russia’s help. Etc.
It’s a shame you didn’t actually read the article. You might have contributed something useful.

For the others who ware intrigued but don’t want to read, the article is mostly about research into the mechanisms creating the hallucinations.

Neuroscientists have known since the 60s that you can make people hallucinate shapes and colours by exposing them to strobing lights. It seems that syncing the lights with some of the rhythms present in the brain changes what people experience but the mechanisms at play are still unclear.

Clearly these things are influencing how the brain process information but much remains to be studied.
The “sanctioned by Twitter” badge already existed before this, it's called the verification checkmark. Many checkmarked accounts break twitter's rules on a daily basis, you can get away with almost anything if you're on the same side of the political spectrum as them.
Cars and car infrastructure are environmentally unsustainable.

Electric and self-driving cars are not the solution.

The word needs trains, trams and [e]bikes.
I suspect that with all such things, that a hacker's opinion on the relevant law is probably `/r/ConfidentlyIncorrect`.

I have no opinion on the substantial legal matters at question. It's been my observation that the ranking folks at Meta in the VR world are as ethical as fiduciary obligation permits, but YMMV.

I thank you for your reply and hope that you agree that a substantial legal matter which will inevitably be resolved by people competent to do so shouldn't become a political football in a small but influential forum of people who on average know as little about IP law as I do :)