skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your claim is that growth is bound by the law of thermodynamics because of human labor?

Is your claim that growth in human population is required for economic growth?

Ok, I'll do another proof by contradiction using the chair analogy:

The carpenter uses the materials that would have been used to build 100 chairs to build a boat. That boat is then used to transport goods up and down a river. The economic value of that boat is greater than the 100 chairs but the carpenter has not done more work and they have not used more materials.

If all the human carpenters switch from creating chairs to creating boats you can get economic growth without using more materials or labor.
At this time, I mean every hormone and protein flowing in the bloodstream, along with the state of every single cell.

Essentially, enough detail to get a list of symptoms and bodily sensations, and predict the outcome of any potential blood test or urinalysis. Or, alternatively, enough detail to take the results of a blood test/urinalysis, and predict the state of every single tissue in the body.
It's in no way out of the ordinary that citizenship doesn't require employment (the same is e.g. true for Germany or the US).
I must have misremembered, then; my apologies. Perhaps it was a Win98 vs Win98 SE difference?
It seems rather disingenous to list all the raw materials for making a chair and then claim that because no extra materials were needed (because you listed them all) that infinite growth is possible. Okay, setting aside the question of where you got the planks and nails - you've made the chair. Now what? That's not "growth", that's a chair. You can make it once. Maybe you can recycle it into something more valuable - modern art, say. Great! How many times can you pull that trick? Eventually you'll reach the economically optimum configuration for those planks of wood. Then what? Eventually, if you want to sustain infinite growth, you're gonna need to make a second chair.
You're depressed, which has already destroyed your creativity and ability to learn. Nothing has worked. Your option is to ECT, which may help, or have adverse side effects.

Would you try it? If you've not got much to lose, why not? It's not as if suicide is suddenly no longer an option afterwards.
Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom
Every person requires a set number of resources per day in order to survive. This number hasn't changed for centuries and in industrial societies it can be equated with the consumption of energy (food and electricity). Degrowth philosophies require either fewer people or more efficient utilization of existing resources. Degrowth does not say anything about economic activity, it is fundamentally a higher level perspective about limits of bounded dynamical systems like Earth's biosphere.
Everybody buys journalism in 2022 and let’s not pretend that it’s only executives at the media companies that are bought. Executives might kill a story that’s unfavorable to a big advertiser, but journalists absolutely prostitute themselves.
"There seems a pile of circumstantial evidence that the rotating series of crises may merely be a device for controlling the masses through fear."

And who is doing the controlling? Wouldn't it be easier to control people if they are happy and content, given that in human history revolutions were almost always a product of suffering and unhappiness?

Isn't it much more likely that the many crises we perceive are a product of imperfect human perception and the enormous development of mass media instead of an enormous conspiracy theory?
We're in a period of really bad leadership of the major world powers. It's like the runup to WWI, which was probably peak stupid.

Technically, things are looking pretty good. Energy is a problem only in the near term. Solar, wind, and batteries are so cheap that massive deployment is happening for purely economic reasons. Population is leveling off. Computing is in good shape.
Sure we can find a better use for the wood and nails. But the point is that the wood and nails are finite.
My understanding is that predator-prey cycles are a sort of biological rhythmic entrainment. Oscillating in large primes makes it hard for predators to synchronize.
I don't see the point of your statement. Economic growth can happen even if the population remains constant (or even shrinks but that would be a headwind to overall economic growth and at that point it might be more instructive to look at gdp per capita).
What is that bar for you?

What issues led you to this opinion that they’re overblown?
I wanted to care but was expecting an offer to read a chapter free.

Also, you should plug your other books on the page. I was looking for a refresher for an out of practice former physics student.
Just curious but in what ways?

Me, I used Windows for years until ~2008. In 2008 I started using both Mac and Windows. In 2010 I started using Linux, Mac, and Windows. I never really found one better than another. Each one had their strengths, none of them had huge UI issue for me at least.

For example, one plus I find on Windows vs MacOS is I use Chrome with multiple profiles. Windows is able to display an icon per profile in the dock. Mac is not (not idea if this is a limitation of MacOS or Chrome on MacOS)

Another plus I find on Windows is zip support is better. On Mac, to use a zip you double click it and the OS uncompresses the zip. On Windows you double click it and Windows Explorer just looks inside the zip like it's a folder. You can directly copy and paste, or drag and drop, files out of the zip into other folders or apps, no need to first unzip it.

I'm not saying Windows is better, just different. Windows 11 cleaned some things up. Explorer is streamlined compared to 10 for example.

Plenty of things I like on Mac, like Terminal with bash or zsh vs Powershell on Windows (though I can run WSL but for actual windows stuff I usually stick to powershell). Airplay I use often to stream to my TV.
MailChannels is the service other services use, it's the de facto leader in combating spam. They are mostly meant to be used by high-volume hosted email services.

They are very good at detecting abuse. The leading cause of email deliverability problems is not advertisement, it's servers being hijacked by malicious actors.
I think your #2 is spot on, and your #3 is the cause. Tech is being used as a replacement for so many aspects of our lives now: social networking, online dating, shopping, even asking for information ("just google it"), all reducing in-person interactions and replacing what were once very involved processes.
Wow that sounds…fun
Migrants often come to the country with the physical skills, but not the certifications to do work like construction. I used the word 'allowed' in this context to mean that they, generally, lacked the ability to negotiate the complex modern construction standards of the Swedish state.

Mankind has been building homes for itself for 1.8 million years.[1] It's the norms of what constitutes a home (electricity, indoor plumbing, double glazing, certification) that have shifted, and I do not believe the migrants stood any chance of building homes compliant with modern swedish codes.

To answer your question, I believe you could build a home better than any caveman on your days off. But I think you're saying you don't have the money or time to build a modern, compliant home with the features I mention above, or to purchase the land for it.

There is plenty of rural land on the outskirts of Malmo. Sweden allowing a ghetto of poorly-developed, noncompliant houses would have been better than the tent-city I saw.

When I lived there, I was living in a noncompliant shipping-container construction that the government had erected hastily for overseas students with special permission, and it was more than enough. I believe the migrants had sufficient skill to build shipping-container homes, but there wasn't the political will to allow this bypass of swedish building compliance and due process.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/who-built-the-first-hou...
The reasoning might well be valid in general, but only you can decide whether it's applicable to you or not.

FWIW, name.com lets me renew my domain for 10 years at a time, so it's definitely not something that all registrars do.
You are correct. There was no OOTB dark mode in 1998. I remember it well because I wasted some time every now and then trying to make one using the appearance control panel. It was frustrating because I could come very close to a universal dark mode. But I remember certain types of text couldn't have their color independently set. One of them (body text? can't remember) used the same color as title bars. Which would make it unusable in a proper dark mode.

I guess I was slightly ahead of my time in wanting system wide dark mode. XP with the theming hacks made me very happy.
If you listen to Jensen Huang, founder on NVIDIA speak at Stanford about how NVIDA was able to succeed as a GPU company when there were many, many companies building graphics cards in the 90s, he has a single answer to the question "Perspective". Unfortunately I can no longer find the video of this lecture. I've tried for months now. I watched it about 10 years ago online and this statement about perspective always stuck with me. He basically says that NVIDIA's/his unique perspective on the graphics chip market and where it was going was what allowed nvidia to succeed in the market where others would fail.

The unique insight the founder brings is what differentiates them from other founder/teams going after the same market at the same (right) time.

I am not sure what you mean by "market is too efficient", but the market chooses your product because it built with the unique insight that makes it the preferred choice among other choices that were built with less superior insights. If you mean that all companies collapses on the same "efficient" product, this just isn't true. Businesses are not efficient in this regard and are actually very stubborn. Usually by the time it's given that one insight was critical, the company that began with it has an insurmountable lead.

EDIT: I found the video. It even has a labelled section called "perspective and why it matters". My memory was bad and that he was using yahoo and search engine as an example here. But the point stands. Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn1EsFe7snQ

EDIT EDIT: He does follow on to talk about GPUs and competition in 1995 and why perspective matters. My memory is on point. Phew. Such a good video. Watching again.
I’m not sure what you’re working on now - but the particle-level simulation seems exceptionally worthwhile to humanity and maybe uniquely suited to your skill and enthusiasm.
The secret art of story telling in programming
I see the collapse of authority as mostly a product of more information at our fingertips. The authorities were always lying double-dealers; we just had less of a clue of the extent of it.

In that way, I see the collapse of institutional trust as a good thing. Not because I'm an anarchist or iconoclast, but because systems built upon illusions are less stable than systems built upon truths.

We are in the process of a shift from an unstable equilibrium to a stable equilibrium. That shift is shaking a lot of people loose from society's safety nets, but ultimately will lead to a better place. It had to be done.
If you wouldn't mind me asking, when and what specific type of ECT did you undertake?
Given there are hft firms built on Java…
the Philosophize This podcast has a great episode on this that's very approachable

https://youtu.be/ic6Z9tPiYYI

I also really enjoyed Facing Gaia, however it's a bit of a slog.
Economic growth in %gdp is transforming and moving exponentially more stuff and people around.

You need energy to do that.

The decoupling we saw in the last years is the same decoupling France saw after the Mesmer plan, and probably caused by renewables. There is basically no decoupling between energy and GDP.

Services are just second hand production basically.
Do you really consider a collection of people you've never met and mostly never talked to/messaged to be your friends? That the only thing in common required to be friends is sharing a messaging forum?

That's not even an acquaintance in my book. Friendship requires a little bit more back-and-forth. Good friends have some trust associated with them. Apologies to all the HN'ers: you're better than redditors but you're still internet strangers. Plenty of people on the internet are not ones you'd want to be friends with.
> research “critical for human survival and empathy,”

If Bethda hasn't figured out empathy yet, I doubt she ever will.
Cold start is basically zero
There are none. It's just a fishing expedition.
You could come close to a proper dark mode, but would fall short. That's with using the color scheme editor in the control panels. I wasted too much time back in '98 trying to make a proper dark mode. Not that we called it that back then.

The downfall was a type of text (body text?) which used the same color as the titlebar. It couldn't be independently set. Was a bit frustrating back then.

There were the high contrast modes back then, but they were too ugly to use unless you needed the contrast.
It turned out to be a broader issue. Firefox was behaving the same. Reboot didn't work either. There is a setting in window 10 control panel to set choose GPU for selected apps. That worked.
The cited paper does a much clearer job, but the article does make an attempt:

> Most people diagnosed with depression are offered an oral antidepressant (in combination with psychotherapy) as a first-line treatment option. But _if oral antidepressants don’t help_, or _if the person is at imminent risk of hurting themselves_, there are other, more rapid treatment options: ECT, and more recently ketamine or esketamine.

> “ECT is consistently more successful than ketamine” at helping _patients with serious depression_

> “We need to improve public awareness of ECT for _treatment-resistant depression_.”

(emphasis mine)
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Gamifying non stop daily “contributions” does not seem healthy to me.

I work 5 days per week. I may not commit every day. Typically I will, except when I'm ill, or my close family is seriously ill, or there's a funeral, wedding, holiday, etc. So, life gets in the way, I guess.

If you're compelled to work all the time, every day, for months on end, good for you I guess. But I wouldn't skip my life to satisfy any KPI.

I will, however, persevere. I work hard. I do not give up easily. I learn something new all the time. I try to get better every day. I do my best to contribute to my family, my company, my society, and humanity at large.

However, life, I've realized, is long. My priorities have shifted over time. In the past, the value I've created in my work has not always ended up where I'd like.

If you have all this figured out 100%, then yes, go for it! Don't stop! The rest of us are still figuring it out.

Oh, also, I don't work with GitHub at all. Imagine that.
I think it will be organic. I’ve severely curtailed my discretionary spending. The restaurants suck now, bad service and low quality food for a high price. Bars are barely open during adult hours, many being closed at 8 or 9pm. Theaters, concerts, and sporting events seem to run on a skeleton crew of people that are clueless.

It’s time to walk the walk. Plenty of people have a doomer mindset about the future. Prepare now. Commit yourself to an ascetic lifestyle and you won’t be disappointed.

But I doubt many will voluntarily live this way. It’s just like everybody upset about the climate, but none of them have installed solar and geothermal on their home.
Author has similar books on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics. They look interesting but a bit pricey.

About the author:

> Hey! My name is Jakob and I’m a theoretical physicist based in Karlsruhe, Germany. My passion is finding the simplest possible explanations for seemingly complex topics and one of my favorite mantras is: “any scientist who can’t explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.”

> This is the common theme in all my projects.
It was the original concept. The problem is the minimum size is quite large, in the gigawatt range if the powersat is in geostationary orbit.
Are you trying to critique the use of simplified models for analyzing systems in general?

> Now what? That's not "growth", that's a chair

If somebody finds use from the chair that was growth, if it sits unused it was waste. Something of value was created from a bunch of useless pieces of wood and metal.

> How many times can you pull that trick? Eventually you'll reach the economically optimum configuration for those planks of wood.

Really? There is an economic optimum for the most valuable configuration of materials? This also ignores that while growth is occurring other things are being created which will impact the supposed equilibrium state that exists for wood and nails that will change what the most valuable configuration of those materials will be.

Anyway, let's go away from wood and nails. What about ink and paper. Or just words? Or just thoughts? What is the economic value of the observation the F = ma? Newton probably created infinite economic value by putting the observation that F=ma to paper.
CF workers currently can’t do anything that requires a socket right?
I didn't like Austin Vernon's take on nuclear power plants that he put out one year ago.

I do agree with him on natural gas power plants. And I'd add that we don't even need any carbon sequestration, or to come up with synthetic gas. It's just fine to use the current power plants that we have.

It's actually surprisingly easy to get to net zero emissions by 2050 (at least for the US, which I'm more familiar with). The last few years have seen the vast majority of the new power plants be solar and wind. Each year more than the previous one. If we keep this trajectory, we'll produce all the energy we'll need (not just electricity generation, all energy, including transportation, iron and cement manufacturing, etc) by 2050 from solar, wind and the current nuclear and hydro.

We don't need any breakthrough in batteries, or hydrogen generation, or anything else. The current batteries are good to store electricity from day to night. They will never be cheap enough to economically store energy from summer to winter. But we won't need them to. We will not even need to switch to a hydrogen (or ammonia) economy.

We just need to maintain the current gas power plants. Let them generate electricity when there's not enough sun or wind.

The trees will take care of the carbon sequestration.

How is that possible, you ask? It's simple my dear Watson. Right now the electricity generation is responsible for about 26% of the greenhouse emissions in the US, and about 45% of those come from natural gas. About 55% come from coal; coal produces much less electricity than gas in the US, but it's much dirtier. So, all in all, gas power plants produce about 12% of the US's emissions. And the trees absorb each year about 13% of the (gross) US emission. More than gas power plants emit.

So, if we keep all our plants as they are, and use them only when there's not enough electricity produced by renewables, we'll end up being ok, much more than ok.
A small anecdote. We needed to reboot our 11/780. We couldn't find the boot floppy for the LSI-11. An operator found one folded up in a drawer. We un-folded it, tried to "iron out" the creases with our hands, put it in..

the vax booted.

TL;DR those 8" floppies were really well designed. Like DECTAPE, there was a lot of block repeats.

DECTAPE (pdp11 and Dec-10 era) was good. The 11/750s used a small front console tape cassette of some sort which I never liked. I think by that stage the preboot LSI-11 had been miniaturised into something on a board in the main chassis. on the 11/780 it was literally a wart on the inside of one of the front doors, down low with the floppy slot pointing upwards.
Yeah, I don’t know why there is so much anti-natural gas sentiment. It is the only renewable fossil fuel (eg, biogas).

Granted, escaped methane is a huge issue. But much better than the other huge issues out there.
Ukrainian Intelligence Dismantled Iranian Drone and Found Something Unusual
This is so cool! Public traces for large-ish existing clusters. It'd be a great data set to load test & user test observability tools.
How? If I do what is asked of me and no more, then go spend my free time with my family, or go hiking, or do a million other fun, fulling things I could enjoy. How is that destructive?
Ok, that made me laugh.
WebAuthN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAuthn

FIDO2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDO2_Project

Arch/WebAuthN:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/WebAuthn

U2F/FIDO2:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Universal_2nd_Factor

TPM: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trusted_Platform_Module#Oth...

Seahorse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seahorse_(software)

GNOME Keyring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Keyring

tpmfido: https://github.com/psanford/tpm-fido

"PEP 543 – A Unified TLS API for Python" (withdrawn*) https://peps.python.org/pep-0543/#interfaces

> Specifying which trust database should be used to validate certificates presented by a remote peer.

certifi-system-store https://github.com/tiran/certifi-system-store/blob/main/src/...

truststore/_openssl.py:
https://github.com/sethmlarson/truststore/blob/main/src/trus...

"Help us test system trust stores in Python" (2022)
https://sethmlarson.dev/blog/help-test-system-trust-stores-i... :

python -m pip install \
--use-feature=truststore Flask
Dunno if the OP edited, but their post reads "KF should not be served by anyone"

Not 'allowed'. Anyone with an ounce of decency should realize they shouldn't have anything to do with KF
I get your point but why do you think that's what they need and that you're the target audience in the fist place?
Decoupling is only decoupling GDP from CO2. GDP is still coupled with energy use.
What signs do you see that we’re headed toward a new, stable equilibrium, instead of just catastrophically destabilizing?
I made Obsidian's windows 98 ui theme (now almost defunct with UI overhaul) with help of this.
I guess I'm a young person? Ish? is 28 old? I'm not sure.

Anyways its arrogant to say that when "the old ways" were only replaced in like the last 15-20ish years and people got on along well-enough before that without diseases of despair.

IMHO the only reason "the old ways" went away wasn't because the new way is better, but rather we humans have rather lazy, addictive personalities and so its easier and simpler to utilize the new tech-based ways even when in the long run we are much worse off for it. I don't even know how you can say the old ways were worse though, when its only been 15-20 years and society has changed so much. The old ways were around for a very long time.
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I think the current war in Ukraine is showing us a problem with delivering natural gas to places that don't have it and want it (I'm thinking Germany). It's not cheap to ship by boat, and pipelines are vulnerable to "accidents". Leaking pipelines can be hard to repair and the lost gas is really bad at the massive scale that you're seeing. I remember that gas leak in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliso_Canyon_gas_leak
It’s a mystery to me how a place like HN, of all places, doesn’t celebrate the maximum freedom model we live in today. This is what utopia looks like.
Recent? It's looking less and less plausible that Covid was caused by something other than scientists playing.
alternatively: https://archive.ph/h4mJ9
Them doing it and you getting annoyed sounds like a bad equilibrium!

I'd echo the sibling comment re adding what is / isn't appreciated into a CONTRIBUTING.md. My guess is people are doing it to get their feet wet with the repo, being helpful on the margin, and would not do it if they thought it was unhelpful on the margin.

Here's PRQL's: https://github.com/prql/prql/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
You sir, have an upholder-of-the-truth complex.