skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia has an articel on the Resource Curse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

It is about having "less economic growth, less democracy, or worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources". Australia is an advanced services based economy. No one would consider them as an example of a country under a "resource curse"

By your measure, Japan also has a resource curse because services makes up 22% of exports?
"Gofmt’s style is no one’s favorite, yet gofmt is everyone’s favorite" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=8m43s
Yes of course we can do transfers online. I've been doing business this way for decades. Even in the very very early days of the internet they started "online bill payment" services, which would transfer electronically or else outright send a check as needed. It's how I paid rent in college. Also credit cards have been in widespread use for longer than that, so the need for an alternative was always only in narrow niches.

The new services (and the tech companies) only selling point is they can be instant and cheaper or free (though not all older approaches have fees). And serve groups like younger people with no credit.

And what is your post emblematic of with it's abuse of caps and stereotyping? I'm just talking about why they haven't replaced an older solution that "isn't broke" since it gets 99.9 percent of the job done already. No need to lose your mind.
Is there any official Twitter documentation page that shows stuff like the current definition of blue check and grey check and whatever?
Yet here you are arguing :-)
A cool $2 million, $6 million at peak. Maybe one day you will get the call….
China is able to build massive projects in the context of there already being heavy use of pre-existing infrastructure.

Your take is just absolutely wrong when it comes to China - the US just has no cheap ways of managing competing interests like this.
The Peter Principle applies to government, too.
Said it before, I'll say it again - Musk is no idiot and I think he's very much trying to kill Twitter on purpose. Has there ever been a CEO that's rocked the boat this much in the first 2 weeks? As for the reason, I can only speculate, but I think it's something to do with one of his previous tweets: "cancel cancel culture". And for that, I kind of hope he succeeds.

I was reminded this week of how toxic Twitter is when looking at the Mick Gordon / Marty Stratton blowup. Thousands of people coming out of the woodwork and dogpiling to say Marty Stratton is a piece of shit, he should be fired, find his family, he deserves to die, etc. All because of a medium post. 99.99% of these people have never even met the guy. Is this really something we want in our society?
Also, terrible mistakes are mostly rooted in a big risk taking. And for already successful people it is mandatory to take more and more risk to achieve something beyond they already have, because with small risk the reward is small too.
lol at calling twitter a failure after one week
I expect the Moroccan project was a bit easier with respect to right if way tho.

Then again the LGV Est took a similar time per distance (took 12% longer but covers 25% more distance).

Then then again, the LGV est was largely in the “empty diagonal”…
Companies, of course.

Edit: Businesses, more specifically.
How to sell an online service to non-technical people?
So I built an online service that has two main features:

1. Create and manage supply requests (bakeries, cake shops, restaurants and any business that needs to be supplied)
2. Create and manage orders from customers (business that receives orders and delivers/prepares in next days)

I already have local customers which are really happy with the service and with how much more organized they are now.

These business were using pen&paper or whatsapp to solve the 2 aspects.
They had poor organization, no record track, no ability to share real time status among team members.

How can I scale such service?
How can I explain to mostly non-technical people that they could benefit of this service?

I even went in some shops and presented the service but I did not manage to find the decision maker.
Right now it looks like the current top speed of Brightline is the same as most Amtrak lines in California (79mph). Brightline claims in the future it will have speeds up to 125mph. Conventional Amtrak trains already can go 110mph on sections of high quality track, and do in some places in the USA.
The prototype "hyperloop" tunnel in California is now becoming a parking lot.
https://news.yahoo.com/musks-california-hyperloop-prototype-...
>Error handling is strictly worse than pretty much any other language out there — you are only making you believe that you are handling your error cases. A pragmatic “handle it here or bubble it up” is a much better approach, as more often than not you can’t actually handle the error at call site.

It could've definitely be better (just Rust-like Result<T> type would make it so much clearer to handle) but Go's insistence of dealing with it here and now means you have to think about what is exactly happening when it errors out, and are encouraged to add context to the error message instead of "here is stack trace, fuck you user, you're not worth knowing what is wrong".

But it's verboseness in common cases is inexcusable, if I have 3 steps to establish a connection, having 3 lines per error to handle is inexcusably bad. And it will be fucking 3 lines even if you write it in one line, because go fmt will expand it back to 3 lines

> Goroutines in themselves won’t give you actually correct concurrency.

Main advantage is they are cheap enough that doing goroutine per request won't bite you in most cases so you can have near-perfect parallelization of common apps by just writing essentially serial code.

The concurrency primitives are built into language and stdlibs which means when you do need synchronization, everyone does it same way.
Incas used algae as a source of iodine to prevent hypothyroidism. There was a sound commerce between the mountains and the shore.
I take "over politicized" to refer to what the article was saying about how many of the various departments are elected, and how that causes delay.

The US finds it hard to delegate trust on these things, and parties throw up objections over and over again, either because they want to kill the projector because they want to cover their ass from those that want to kill it.
Which by definition is fundamentally impossible to do transfers without a middle man of some kind.
I don't know about the US, but in my neck of the woods that's still the case. Rural folk don't care about animal welfare at all — you'd be laughed out of the room for trying to discuss something like that. Feeding chickens and pigs for meat and then slaughtering them is just something you normally do.

Having spent a decent chunk of my childhood in a rural area (and seen many pigs being killed by various methods, none of them very humane), I also don't care about this stuff too much tbh.
I usually don't explain my downvotes, but I thought that your comment was good overall, but the "horror stories from friends about working at meltwater" without explaining what they are just makes it a bit unfair.

As criticism, it's very vague, and as someone who doesn't work at Meltwater (for the last 5 years or so at least) it doesn't give me any information either. Well except that there are rumors about Meltwater, but that would be true about any large corporation.

Maybe I misunderstood and the horror stories were about ES, but I got it as being about the company itself. Could you expand? What type of stories? :)
"Fractional-reserve banking is the system of banking operating in almost all countries worldwide,[1][2] under which banks that take deposits from the public are required to hold a proportion of their deposit liabilities in liquid assets as a reserve, and are at liberty to lend the remainder to borrowers"
>The second one is only confusing because you're trying to find a cause and effect between 2 events that simply happened to happen at the same time

The author uses "because", which in context clearly indicates to me a cause and effect relationship.

Even overlooking that, "impecunious operation of the bank could cause the value of the mortgages to be impaired" is not addressed by your explanation. You explain how external factors could reduce the value of the mortgages.
> Diminishing returns don't apply for SBF - his life's goal is to fund effective altruist charities, so each billion is as valuable as the last as long as there are good projects to fund.

Let's be honest: we don't know what his life goals are. He said that his goal is to fund charities, but that's a pretty common thing for wealthy people in the U.S. to say because saying so gives you a lot of social status at no cost. Very few people actually proceed with any plans of significant charitable donations.
"It doesn't work"? I've bought stuff and paid with bitcoin just yesterday. It worked fine. That you and a majority of the population have no use for it doesn't mean that it doesn't work. It works for the people who use it, and it solves problems for them.

You're not one of them. That's fine, not everything has to include you to be useful.
What do you think of "1B": offer to move into a consultant role?

I don't have personal experience here, just working off stories from others, but the benefit to starting as a Consultant on X is that you 1) force yourself to stand up your business entity and have a "First Customer" relationship started, and 2) "help" them to externalize the maintenance burden/risk on X.

I've heard (again, not something I've personally done, just stories I've heard of other successful people), that some companies love the chance to move opex to external consultancies and shift it to a different "more transparent" account in the budget if given the right opportunity. ("More transparent" because unlike opex spent on salaried FTEs, consultants have to bill their hours and that becomes auditable.) Especially for risks/opex outside of core business.

After you've established yourself as the go-to Consultant on X that builds up leverage to then bootstrap into the M&A with a conversation like "Since we are now the experts on X, would you consider selling X to us and further externalizing it from your expenses?" The company externalizing that maintenance risk/cost of labor that they've been spending on X should have a better idea by that point of what X as an asset is truly worth to them and possibly how much risk/burden they still expect to spend on it in the future.

Lots of ways that approach can backfire too (again, you're just as likely get fired as to get a consultancy). But also overall it looks a lot less like a "hostage negotiation" than some of the other suggestions and gives you a longer built-in "runway" for take-off than outright quitting first. Not that that runway is entirely safe as a business plan either (if your focus is on buying the IP of your first client you likely aren't busy diversifying your clients).
The entire piece is about guilt tripping the reader into eating algae under the threat of climate change.

The title is called "Is it time to start eating algae?" even...

The answer to the title is no, unless you want to, which you can already.

If it was about another option it would be a recipe article, not a climate change article.
Twitter is very entertaining right now with everyone dunking on The Main Character and making cheap ($8) jokes.

But at the same time I think it's eroding Twitter's seriousness, and soon Elon's Twitter may be as uncool as Zuck's Facebook.
The stock going up is what kills it. Apple’s stock has gone bananas the last 4 years, no refresher is going to beat or match that.
> it has no issue building stuff.

Berlin airport.
A lot of posters are saying politics. Doesn’t that imply it did have to be sold in certain ways in order to get passed?

i.e. A modest version with a negligible risk of boondoggle would likely never have gotten enough attention in Sacramento to make it out of committee.
I think the disconnect is that for meat you don't have to think about it. When it comes to plants, suddenly you have to know something about what you are eating. There are plenty of plant diets that are viable, you just have to research a little bit.

Everyone always mentions beans and rice, but Potatoes by themselves are a complete protein. Some of the essential amino acids aren't found in high quantities in potatoes, so you have to eat a lot of them if you go that route. They are missing some vitamins and minerals as well, so you have to add sweet potatoes if you don't want scurvy.
you're right that labor is only a part of it. but part of the reason why the CA project saw huge rises in costs is because of project planning and scope increases in the planning -- both of which are politically driven.

part of the politically driven issues stem from NIMBY-ism but the other (arguably more heinous) part is how the cities can force the plan to be re-routed [1]. not only do costs rise and opening dates delay, the hypothetical "high speed" nature no longer rings true.

[1] https://youtu.be/S0dSm_ClcSw?t=129
I'm not sure if meaning is decision for yourself. We live in society, in relationships, not for yourself even though mainstream says opposite.

Sacrifice for others could be purpose of our mortal life.
Twitter accidentally CCed (not BCCed) laid off employees about their severance
I saw that episode of Battlestar Galactica. It was generally unpopular with the people.
Things that regularly go wrong in cryptocurrency go wrong in cryptocurrency and that is an argument for using cryptocurrency???

I couldn't make this up!

As for the "smart contracts", nobody who is familiar with programming bugs would want there not to be better checks and balances there. The depressing frequency of 8 figure hacks of the terms of said contracts is a concrete demonstration of this principle. Thanks, but no thanks in anything like its current state.

For most users, traditional finance is faster, cheaper, and safer in practice than crypto. Which is exactly why the main use cases for crypto are speculation, money laundering, and various illegal activities like paying ransoms for ransomware attacks.
J1772 can't carry enough amps through those pins. So it needs two more huge pins in a separate compartment.

CCS isn't the absolute smallest way to add two more huge pins, but it's pretty close.
Other than government interference in the route planning, all private projects seem to be susceptible to all the same issues as government projects in North America.
Like, NIMBY-ism affects private projects too (see: all home construction).

Sidenote: California HSR is slated to travel at about twice the speed as Brightline, I'm guessing that has some non-linear ramifications on cost.
The author does mention debuggers. But you don't normally run a debugger on production or a testing environment and with a REPL you can. A debugger situates a program differently than it is normally used, a REPL connects to your code/state/environment in any stage of development.
Genuine question: Sublime seems to make only 1 new update/release per year … is having at least 1 release per year needed in order sell new licenses in an attempt to make their software like an annual subscription?
> It's called "new to me", and it shows up sometimes!

You can always chose the "new to me" saussage, it is always last in the line of sausages with some tags inside of them. The problem is that "new to me" stops showing really new content if you gonna use it heavily. Sometimes it gives video with that red line on the bottom of preview which means I watches this recently or videos from some channels I am subscribed to. So, this is option is a garbage as most of other YT options.
Every Supercharger in EU is CCS, afaik.
This reminds me of "The Hustle" video by KRAZAM, who parodies various stereotypes and whatnot: https://youtu.be/_o7qjN3KF8U
Tesla is at least 5 years late here, maybe more like 10. All of the US federal funds will likely go to CCS now because they stuck to the proprietary network strategy, despite the OBVIOUS and natural social utility from an open industry-wide standard and charging networks open to all.

For reference here is the DOT's NPRM from June laying out the proposed requirements for states to receive federal funds from the infrastructure package: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/06/22/2022-12...
He was a staple of Showtime, not HBO. It was the early 80’s, Ron Popeil and his peers were still very much at it trying to change how people chopped, sliced and made julienne salad.
> people vocally want certain things (eg. prevailing wages) more than they want efficient costs so there's little incentive to make things cheaper

If you look the database they linked you'll see that there's no correlation at all with GDP/capita and $/km of rail line built. Some of the most efficient on costs are countries like Finland, Korea, Spain, Switzerland, It's clearly not all about the wages.

https://transitcosts.com/new-data/
Bitcoin has no middleman.
That's monero. Because it's deflationary and has a completely open record of transactions, Bitcoin is digital gold.
A technical issue with that is that names are not unique. I have the same name (from birth) as a famous person, and I've known a couple people who have the same issue.

It also doesn't handle people who legally change their name (e.g. afaik there's nothing stopping someone from legally changing their name to "Elon Musk"). That's a much smaller threat vector, but it wouldn't surprise me if a few people did it.

I would also imagine that it's trivial to create a fake passport that passes inspection once it's been passed through a scanner, stripping all the holograms and stuff off. That might be illegal, though I'm not sure if it's only the context of using it for Twitter.
As a Europerson...i don't really see much difference between this comment section and many others - over several years, at different times, let alone now.

One comment: "I really think this is pretty much solely about politics [etc]."...is what we would refer to as 'social stuff'.

Is it about being non-metric?
I don't disagree to be honest because there are plenty of US cities where you can't do much in terms of urbanism even if you had the skills to build. They were built at the wrong era, for cars. They are just not dense enough.
yes tech people are often ill-informed about medical world. And i do end up posting a lot on topics where such gross misinformation is on full display. I read tons and tons of posts on here, I respond to a very tiny few. And I stay away from commenting on areas outside of my competence. And yes, the ones I comment on are predominantly, ones where people with incomplete (or totally absent) perspective of a field that's outside their area, feel overly confident enough to comment on those areas. So many of my posts is indeed calling out the naivety of such posts.

It's only an "inefficiency" from the perspective of the person who doesn't understand what the system is optimizing for. This author is ML engineer commenting on a field he is relatively new to and doesn't yet fully understand.
To a person wanting to drive highway speeds in a crowded downtown street, everything would seem 'inefficient'. In reality, they aren't. The objectives are just different. Once you understand the larger objective, you start seeing what the true problems are, you start understanding that some things that look like inefficiencies at first glance, are actually features serving a purpose within a larger context, that you initially didn't understand.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments here.
Haven't heard the term and I'm googling it to understand better. Is there case law where this was tested in the context of patents on ports? I'm thinking Tesla could say, "we changed our minds but you can keep selling any of the Toyota 2023 models, you just can't make a new car model with the port. therefore we aren't causing you financial harm or injury by relying on our promise"
Can you elaborate? When I give a cash payment to the babysitter, who is the middleman?
As a resident of Maricopa county, I sure don't feel like a winner.
Under a Spell
Crypto-currencies have no underlying. A crypto-currency is like a bunch of imaginary confetti. Why is every crypto organisation is issuing its own brand of confetti? It's a legitimate question. It's exactly the same confetti.
OK, that was a climate bill. Back to my question. Would that actually change things? Change them enough to matter? Change them enough to, say, cut in half the per-person emissions of CO2? Change them enough to make the US fall in line with the Paris agreement? Change them enough that, if every nation did them, we would not exceed 1.5 C?

I'm pretty sure the answer is "no" to all of those.
Common sense. Just a single earth and all. Your example is concerned with a single forecast.
If we started asteroid mining, we would obviously increase earth's resources. Otherwise, resources on earth are limited.
The Maiar mobile application is a non-custodial wallet, with a nice UI/UX and easy onboarding.
You are in full control over your keys, and they are not synchronized with the server.
It even offers a secure cryptographic method to back up your keys.
https://maiar.com/
There is Youtube.js using the private api.

https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js
True, but the only place Amtrak gets close to that I know of in California is through Camp Pendleton, and there it maxes out at 90.

A "bright line" style upgrade to the SAN-LAX route would have been entirely worth it, and they're struggling along with it, but at pennies compared to what has been spent on HSR so far.
Seaweed is a staple ingredient in Korea. We eat it in all sorts of ways. I remember being shocked by the smell of rotting seaweeds on a Welsh beach. Never saw it happening in Korea. We eat those!
Mozilla funded multiple full time developers for years. While not a “big” company, it does have significant financial resources and creates a very impactful product.
You have a point, and I think there is a bit missing. Currently it says:

... impecunious operation of the bank could cause the value of the mortgages to be impaired just a tiny little bit at a time when people need most of the money in their checking accounts.

And probably should say something like:

... impecunious operation of the bank could cause trouble if the value of the mortgages is impaired just a tiny little bit at a time when people need most of the money in their checking accounts.
Comment "Rust is better because I use it" does not make great discussion tho. It's just useless noise
What is your definition of rent control working? There are some studies showing that rent control does work to minimise displacement of tenants [1] and that tenants seek more repairs [2], even more of lower income classes.

If you define as achieving market efficiency, maybe that's not the objective.

It's like unionising, it may make companies less market-efficient by giving more power and control to the workers. Rent control affects landlords by giving more power to tenants.

Building more houses, etc., is an orthogonal issue to rent control.

[1] http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkbrueck/course%20readings/gyourk...

[2] https://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/RentControlMy...