skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know the details of this concept but even if it’s true we have to decarbonize our economy or we’ll just have to keep blowing up mountains. Also I presume the parent meant “one mountains worth of lime” and I presume most mountains aren’t pure lime.
There is, in fact, no need for "a few weeks" of storage anywhere for any reason, never mind months.

NG backup works fine, and will continue working fine indefinitely. Storage cuts the fraction of time the furnace needs to run.

Eventually, synthetic fuel will displace NG. It will be imported at need, same as NG today, but with no possibility of cartels.
i just use cheap apple earbuds 90% of the time, I find that's plenty along with some nice easy listening symphonic music, if I need to kill the background noise.
oooh I love this topic

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Shipping Containers: https://container-news.com/

Non-Profit Management: https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/

Hospitals: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/

Semiconductors: https://semiconductordailynews.com/

Government Technology: https://www.govtech.com/

Online Journalism: https://www.niemanlab.org/

Academia: https://www.annualreviews.org/

Unionization: https://labornotes.org/

Pharmaceuticals: https://www.pharmavoice.com/

Agriculture: https://modernfarmer.com/

Education: https://hechingerreport.org/

Soil: https://www.soils.org/news/

US Congress: https://rollcall.com/
Discord, Hacker news, reddit, youtube, twitter, instagram and wikipedia
Well, users now know which sites to avoid like plague so it is not without benefits.
My favorite:

> The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
Shares represent extracting rents from the value exchange ecosystem the company participates in. Selling shares is fine for growing a company. But the perverse part is shareholders then go ahead and sell them to others, sometimes forming a bubble, other times pushing company management to extract ever more rents / eke out ever more profit for them to support sky-high valuations. This investor bubble hurts both consumers and producers and enriches those who passively park their money in things.

Don’t get me wrong, I think in growth stages, stock exchanges do allocate money to fuel productive sectors of society. But during other periods of a company’s life, they are mere zero sum games, where money goes mostly from retail investors to enrich hedge funds.

I think the problem is that there is no limit to shareholder value extraction. The non-productive sector of society parks their money in shares in order to legally plunder the value exchange of producers and consumers.

Now that we have utility tokens, the network can be owned by the participants. Raise money by selling utility tokens at a discount. They have a ceiling after all (the value of the utility token) and you can only sell as much as people believe there will be demand in the end from actual customers.

You can raise money by selling shares temporarily but have the shares be usable as discounts on utility tokens so you can sell them to customers. And that way you can ignore your shareholders clamoring for you to cannibalize your ecosystem for them.
Yep! You can think of email as a version of RSS that regular people actually know how to use ;)
> but this conversation gets utterly muddled by the approaches that the right uses.

Sure, and a lot of conversations about racism or inequality are muddled by the approaches used by the far left. Should we stop taking reasonable positions just because far right (or far left) happens to agree and benefit from those?
do they also get tuition wavers? 34k + free 20k tuition aint bad as a student
SBF just played along with the sheer insanity of the concept of crypto (nothing can make nothing) and all the fools who gave him money - it seems that common financial sense is not taught to people anymore or is really in short supply these days.

Did people actually listen to him whenever he spoke - whenever did any of his BS make any financial sense ???.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6nAxiym9oc
<<If doing X instead of Y costs me nothing, yet doing Y causes someone else to suffer, why should I continue to do Y?>>

This an oversimplification of something more complex and critical. Because the more you keep trying to avoid hurting or offending others as your first thought or action, you interrupt flow of thought and living. It becomes increasingly harder if the offending word list grows each day. What was X is now Y.

Too much effort to pre-filter everything all the time. If someone is offended I try to adjust my word or action choices, but only after, prophylactically, not pro-actively, which can lead to overthinking day-to-day living. That is not to say that I haven't put my foot in my mouth as the words left my mouth, but slips happen.
Couldn't I just as well make the argument it's pretty annoying that Firefox doesn't implement the API features required for background blurring?

Blurring background during live video calls is a pretty niche feature, and if it works in one browser but not another, I'm not sure that is the best evidence of siloing. I'd like to have the option to use the feature where it works, rather than having it disabled everywhere.
The 2.7% Rule for Retirement Spending
Also the local district heating company installed an electric 30 MW water heating boiler recently, which they can run on excess electric power and throttle down the regular combined cycle plant powered by natural gas.
Just this morning I was watching a YouTube video with Peter Attia and Layne Norton. Attia asked Norton for 3 things related to nutrition that he has changed his mind about in the last few years and which have led him to a change in coaching advice or protocols.

Norton said he no longer aligns with people who discount the risks of LDL and argue for the LDL/HDL ratio instead. Layne recognizes the linear relationship between LDL and heart attack risk. Layne also said he’s on statins.

Which blew my mind. Given his age and PhD he’d still rather eat meat — against his own concerns for LDL — and take a pharmaceutical instead of directly addressing the source of his cholesterol issues.

Relevant because of the prevalence of dairy and meat as the source of cholesterol in the modern diet.

The video: https://youtu.be/jmYeMmUjBrE
My solution is handle this through enforced long warranties. And require muni waste transfer stations to back charge manufacturers for broken appliances under warranty

AKA: Your dishwasher dies and you send it to the dump. They'll look it over document the failure and back charge the manufacturer for the retail price.
IIRC you cannot block user that clicks "I reject cookies" but that doesn't stop sites from being login-only.

So "account-only" would be allowed, but "if you reject cookie you need account" would break it.

You still need to get user consent about any tracking and 3rd party tho.
The polling by the host controller is still limited to happening once every bInterval period as specified by the device, which for mouse/keyboard will be at least a few milliseconds, v.s. the old school PS2 style mice which would send hardware interrupts straight to the processor.
Needs some work.
YES! Better privacy for daily life. This is exactly what I had in mind.

Thank you for sharing!
As an American that works in the industry and advocates for improvements in public transit, I suspect the near-miracle of technological advancement is faster and cheaper than funding new public transit. Look at transit projects in the bay area for example. The 5 station BART extension to Santa Clara (planned since 1981!) will cost somewhere north of $9B and be complete by 2030 if everything goes to plan. The proposed Livermore extension would have cost $1B+.

Compare that with autonomous vehicles. Several billion has been spent on development since 2010, but test fleets are already deployed in multiple cities globally. They also don't have to deal with the excruciating approvals process for further deployment that new public infrastructure has to, so there's a reasonable chance they'll actually exist before the heat death of the universe.

Would fixing the entire political system be great? Sure, but I'm tired of getting screamed at in public meetings.
Supply mandates and price fixing. Good ole' central economic planning. What's the inevitable result? Shortages.
Any one know the pricing? When you go to their pricing page it only has info about standard CDN stuff.
Sure, I mentioned this in my comment as well, but I think it's clear from the use-case of the article that the cardinalities of the two tables are approximately the same.
Go to your city council meetings and volunteer with your local homeless services providers. Write regularly to your local newspapers if there are any, and be active on Nextdoor. Go to local events like parades, markets and festivals and make sure you introduce yourself to local business owners and other community leaders. In each of these venues, present the you that you want known.

If the necessary events and such are lacking in your community, start organizing the types of events you would want to attend.

Oh wait do you mean by “public identity” that you’re looking to get internet famous?
Azure B2C policies are a nightmare. Basically a programming language implemented in XML. Stay away from it.
Yes, and once this happens it significantly lowers the cost of automation in general, which then will continue to drive exponential acceleration. It will take time to get there but I believe it to be a lot closer than most believe.
I like nuance as much as the next guy. But the relationship between labor and capital is kind of like predator and prey.

Yes, sure, in the broad sense they're all part of the same ecosystem and if that ecosystem does well it can get to a happy stable state where each community prospers. That's certainly true.

But also on a day to day level one of the parties is literally trying to consume the other one.
The Palo Alto one.
It's waaay worse than that. My understanding of the point of incommensurability is not the obvious morality is different from science but it goes back to Kuhn in the Structure of Scientific Revolutions where he argues scientists speaking literally the same words with different paradigms of understanding that science will suffer from the inability to communicate effectively because the differing paradigms lead to different meanings and ways of interpretation.
sure and we also have plenty of unused space to do so, my intention was to show that rooftop solar isn’t the end all be all - I don’t care where they go, we just need to start putting more out there
It's almost like we have no clue what we are doing with NN and are just tweaking knobs and hoping it works out in the end.

And yet people still like to push this idea that we will magically and accidentally build a superintelligence on top of these systems. It's so frustrating how deep into their own koolaid the ML industry is. We don't even know how the brain learns, we don't understand intelligence, there's no valid reason to believe a NN "learns" the same way a human brain learns, and individual human neurons are infinitely more complex and "learning" than even a single layer of a NN.
There is a textbook on bovine health and the first few lines of the preface say:

"This book is not dedicated to my wife. Nor is it dedicated to one of the many colleagues who have been instrumental in bringing it into existence. Instead, it is dedicated to the foster mother of the human race... the dairy cow."
That seems like a reasonable position to me. I’m mostly here because psychoanalysis gets an unfair rep. People say it’s not science or it’s discredited and they mean that it’s junk, but it is not junk, and there is no reason to think so.
“How the dairy industry designs misleading studies” - https://youtu.be/VYHiT7wJFk0
Would you, for one, welcome our new AI overlords?

Not at all. I have seen evidence that this concept has already failed our society. Large platforms such as social media networks, Darpa project platforms like Google and Facebook, Twitter, payment processing networks, e-commerce systems and more have already demonstrated beyond any shadow of doubt that automated systems, laziness and cooperation with governments lend themselves to the creation of dehumanized processes that leave people stranded via low quality machine learning without any recourse. People ask on HN weekly how to deal with being locked out of said platforms. If multiple data-centers of servers can't solve this then I do not foresee walking and talking AI overlords doing any better. I say walking and talking because they would have to physically move once people lose confidence in banks and e-commerce. Currently that is a small percentage of people but the lack of confidence is steadily growing outside of the tech bubble.

Poorly regulated and ill thought out machine learning is already creeping into vehicles and homes. People have already lost control of how they heat their homes. Soon people will not be allowed to decide when they charge their EV's. People are already at risk of machines making fatal decisions and there are some cases where this may have already occurred but it is difficult to prove.
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I am trying to learn here so I am asking these questions with genuine curiosity.

When you say "support network" - I hear that as "friends and family" or some sort of community support (eg: church?) Is that what you mean?

And if so, is it "fine" to not work and thus be a bigger burden on this network? Meaning, even if a role doesn't pay a "living wage", there's a big difference between just living on your friend's couch and eat their food (or whatever) and being able to work and contribute say $2K/month towards your friend for the favor they are doing you?
You have much more flexibility of where to live as a physician. Remote software developer is probably the best pay to quality of life at work ratio, and probably even higher pay outright if you were at a high flying tech company for some portion of the last 15 years.
> The defendants also, collectively, employed a variety of manners and means, including: organizing into teams that were prepared and willing to use force and to transport firearms and ammunition into Washington, D.C.; recruiting members and affiliates; organizing trainings to teach and learn paramilitary combat tactics; bringing and contributing paramilitary gear, weapons, and supplies – including knives, batons, camouflaged combat uniforms, tactical vests with plates, helmets, eye protection, and radio equipment – to the Capitol grounds; breaching and attempting to take control of the Capitol grounds and building on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to prevent, hinder and delay the certification of the electoral college vote; using force against law enforcement officers while inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021; continuing to plot, after Jan. 6, 2021, to oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power, and using websites, social media, text messaging and encrypted messaging applications to communicate with each other and others.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/two-leaders-oath-keepers-...

I know you probably have a hard time understanding facts that disagree with your worldview, but these pesky facts have already been established in federal court. If you have evidence that the DoJ lied I suggest you present it in federal court, where these facts have already been confirmed as true.
OP was me, wasn't it?

I said "It's usually 1-2% of revenue."
I see some comments further down that say "Japan should have avoided Fukushima because they knew the Tsunami and earthquake risk".

On the subject of earthquakes, I think it's fair to say that Fukushima, like all other buildings in Japan will certainly have been designed with earthquake risks. Japan has a long and proven history of constructing buildings that are safe in earthquakes.

On the subject of Tsunamis, all I will say is that I have been fortunate enough to be able to visit part of the affected stretch of coastline. All I will say is that you really don't comprehend what a Tsunami is until you go there and you see 4/5 story apartment blocks, some of which are maybe up to 1 – 1.5km (appx 0.5 – 1 mile) inland which have clearly suffered substantial Tsunami caused damage on their UPPER floors. Then you extrapolate in your mind, that if this was the upper floors inland, then just imagine the sheer wall of water that you would be facing at the water's edge, which is where a nuclear plant would be !

At great local controversy, and great expense (appx 12 billion US dollars) in order to encourage re-population by residents and businesses, the Japanese have been busy building a massive wall along that stretch of coastline. The pictures you can find on the internet[1] don't do it justice. This is not a US or Israel style wall built purposely high in order to stop people climbing it, it is built so high because that represents the size required to break up a full-scale Tsunami wave. Again, going there and standing next to the wall, it really drives home to you the sheer scale and might of a Tsunami !

Could they have protected the nuclear plant by building a wall at the time of construction ? I don't know, I'm not a subject-matter expert, but after visiting the region, I think its safe to say its probably one of those "its not that easy" problems.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2018/mar/09/after-...
In Japan's case, I expect they have strategic reasons for wanting to maintain the domestic expertise and equipment to rapidly develop nuclear weapons, which AFAIK still means they need reactors (unless they want to have an outright disconnected-from-peaceful-use nuclear program, which they currently do not want to do).

They've long been regarded as a "technically non-nuclear... but only if on short notice" state, ready to join the Big Boy Club quickly if confidence in their position under America's nuclear umbrella wavers. I doubt they want to lose that, so they're going to want some amount of nuclear power as a plausibly-deniable way to keep up some of the equipment, material, and know-how they'll need to maintain that latent threat, even if it's not the most economical option.
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One anecdote from someone I know personally - it is more of a barter. Her family needed to do a medical procedure, she transferred bitcoin from the US to her family who then gave that to Doctor in exchange for medical services. Probably, Bitcoin is working as intended?
From the little I know from tv shows the plea deal is that he hopes to get less of a sentence in return for pleading guilty to some stuff.
Natural gas emits half the CO2 than coal for the same amount of energy.
I think the 'need to impress people' is often used as an excuse to splurge. Maybe it's more expected for salesmen like financial advisors, or small business attorneys that are dealing with retail clients.

I'm a fairly senior investment banker (Managing Director, group head), and I drive a 14 year old Honda. None of my co-workers or clients have ever seen my car or been to my house. I don't wear a watch.

Some of my co-workers will wear bespoke clothes and flashy jewelry, but it's not required, and mid-tier conservative suits and shoes are fine.
Completely ignoring all the other thoughts and comments. And working from first principles.

The human brain is a problem-solving machine; one that is somewhat optimized for connecting with other people (I say somewhat because the social parts are still a very new addition).

If AI could do all labor and creative activities at levels far beyond human levels, then we'd still do many of them to try and understand how they do it. We'd also invent new problems to solve and new ways of interacting with labor and creativity.

It's like asking what rich people do all day. They find stuff to do or make it up. Sometimes that's productive, and sometimes it's destructive. Or another similar thing would be the pursuits of landed gentlemen in the 1700 and 1800s, which invented many of the fields we call science.
> $400 for a 13" TV, in 1988. That's $1,000 in today's money. A 75-inch 4K TV.

Those 1980's tvs could display Knight Rider, Miami Vice, The A-Team and Moonlighting natively, without the need for any kind of streaming service.
Do you know about Medieval Mayhem? https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=842

"adds arcade features such as the launch dragon, multiple fireballs, and a level of polish missing from the original 2600 release."

There are a ton of homebrew games for the 2600 that are super fun.
>The most common solution to this on Reddit is to have multiple accounts.

This isn't a solution to "this" because this problem doesn't exist on reddit.

You don't get banned from reddit because any single subreddit didn't like what you wrote. Subreddit mods can't ban you from other communities. Admin of the instance you sign up with on Mastodon can.

Mastodon puts the banhammer of the network admins into hands of many, many people who run instances, aren't bound by any rules, and can read your direct messages.

>I wouldn’t be surprised if this type of thing becomes the norm on Mastodon as well. I realize that the analogy isn’t perfect because most Reddit accounts are anonymous, whereas a much larger number of Twitter/Mastodon accounts aren’t.

Well that was one issue highlighted in the article linked.

Go figure, there's a place for having an online social network where people can authentically express themselves.

In Mastodon, you can only express yourself to the extent that it complies with the views of the admin of the instance you are with.
Tangenially related: There's an ongoing scandal in the EU dubbed Qatargate[1]. It appears Qatar bribed EU politicians to buy influence. Starring MEP Eva Kaili, vice-president of the EU parliament. A journalist noted her suspicious involvement in the crypto space in the past [2 (article in Greek)].

Quote:

> In 2018, during a meeting at the Delphi Economic Forum, I asked the MEP how we could explain the complex blockchain technology and explain its potential, so that the ordinary citizen and small and medium-sized enterprises - as she claimed - can benefit from decentralised financing.

> "People don't necessarily need to understand them", Eva Kaili had replied with a smile, after a sharp pause and a brief elaboration. "Cryptocurrencies are a bit like weather - you can enjoy their benefits without knowing in detail the process behind them."

Well. I feel that we are barely scratching the surface with "Qatargate".
I'm so glad to have exited crypto years ago. The space is filled with get-rich-quick people, apparently they don't even understand how blockchain works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_corruption_scandal_at_th...

[2] https://www.lifo.gr/stiles/optiki-gonia/i-kaili-kai-lompi-to...
public awareness and trends shouldn’t be discredited, but if it’s cheaper to build solar in an open pasture than let’s do that too!
azure spotted. that's just sugar for promotion and rollback
Fun fact: Ice-cream is the food that most closely resembles breast-milk, nutritionally. So how bad can it be? ;-)

(I guess the answer depends mostly on what you think about saturated fat and sugar. If you believe both of those are fine, ice-cream is A-OK. I eat it a lot and seem to do alright.)

(At least, ice-cream in the traditional sense -- milk, sugar, maybe eggs, whatever flavors. Sadly many of the ice-creams you'll see on the shelves these days have all kinds of weird fillers and stuff; whether those are healthy or not is a whole 'nother question.)