skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The oldest surviving piece of writing is a cuneiform tablet that was inscribed with a contract for, iirc, bushels of wheat.

Would be historically congruent if we leave behind equally trivial artefacts.
It's generally not in the interest of commercial providers to use open protocols. They do it for email because due to its history, there is a very long tail of small mailservers that they need to federate with to be useful, but the big email providers are all working to phase out the "open" parts, with anti-spam measures making it almost impossible to self-host, and privileged delivery mechanisms like push notifications that require closed APIs to use.

The Internet is not moving towards open communication protocols, it's moving away from them.
non-paywall version :
https://archive.md/Edw0k
> Neighboring states are not a panacea
> this does not solve the problem of intermittency entirely

Indeed, hence the title of the referenced study report: "European cooperation could provide more stable wind power". "more stable" isn't "perfectly stable".

As its contents shows 'neighbor' is to be understood as 'European-wide'.

There is no panacea/magic bullet/nirvana, each complex system uses many partial solutions, and is it true for the existing electrical grid system. Rejecting a partial solution because it doesn't solve the problem is a well-known trick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy

Correlations between wind regimes is indeed a key, duly analyzed.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211...
In this study the table 6 (associated to section 3.3.1) offers a re-insuring snapshot.

Green hydrogen (among other ways/vectors) is also part of the solution: using electricity overproduced by renewables in order to obtain hydrogen (water electrolysis) then use it as a backup.

According to some H-powered turbines aren't mature. This is just another joke: https://www.ge.com/gas-power/future-of-energy/hydrogen-fuele...
Greedflation is a word that's been seen a lot lately and it implies that corporations are greedy and that's why we see inflation, but the reality is that corporations are only able to be greedy because they don't have meaningful competition and therefore no market forces to push their prices down.

Mergers like this create less competitive markets.
Reddit used to be interesting but ever since it became a TikTok / Instagram meme clone with r/all, there really is no need for these sorts of power users. Sure, some subs like r/AskHistorians will suffer but I doubt they'll entirely leave the site, there is no alternative.
> Le sigh. If you want more bus passengers in each bus, you either need to run buses with longer intervals (making them completely useless) or you need to pack people together. Packing people together densely enough to make buses work inevitably requires living in small apartments

This is not my experience. Living in a village of around 2000 pop in Sweden with pretty much only single-family houses with gardens. The whole village was within 15 minutes walk or bike within one of 3 bus stops to a bus service that went into the city every 20 minutes during the day, with double-length buses during peak hours. The buses had a very healthy occupancy rate.

You just have to make sure to design towns around the transit instead of around cars. US suburbs are really hard to retrofit transit into, with designs that actively subvert it
Here's a fun question: if someone had near total recall, what career or life path could they take where it would give them the biggest advantage?

Gambling with cards is an obvious field. I've also worked with programmers who seemed to remember every bit of code they'd come across and that was a huge advantage (although it's a bit disconcerting when someone remembers your code better than you do).
The latest news from Reddit is that they're allowing free API access for accessibility apps and moderator tools.
Nice, first time in my life I consider buying something from Barracuda. But looks they sell to 1500+ desktops && 5+ officess. Oh well... ;)

But:

"somehow achieves persistence at a low enough level that even wiping the device wouldn’t eradicate attacker access"

It started. Barrakuda at least is nice to replaces hw but soon vendors will be bored by replacing shit they themselve making and customers will be left with voulnerable systems. Simple x86/PC ecosystem is shit, intentionally crafted or not. And, very, very sadly on whole globe only EU is capable of enforcing something to be better. But chances are minuscule...
> Reddit is not changing at all, so the vast majority of users will stay

Cutting off and/or driving up the cost of third-party apps through which users access Reddit is changing Reddit. The impression I get is that third-party apps are disproportionately used by the kinds of users that supply content more than average, so even if they are less efficiently monetized as eyeballs, they are large indirect contributors to Reddit’s revenue. Making their experience worse will, it seems near certain, cost content that brings the users that are purer eyeballs to monetize with ads, and thereby cost ad revenue. How much is, of course, unclear.

> Don’t forget that Reddit can and already did close a bunch of subreddits that they didn’t like, so it’s their community, not yours.

Sure, and they can take over the moderations, and the content creation, and the viewing for ads from the users that they chase off. Not sure how that will work out for them as a business plan, though.
I am honestly more upset about this than I am about the 2008 bailout.

It means Kroger has a nearly Comcast like monopoly where I live.
It's about controlling their user base in terms of how they use the service.
There are plenty of tankies and just naive leftist who wish to believe that USSR was good.
They do! I accidentally went on a side trip while in Japan and forgot to pack enough shirts and underwear. No problem, with 7-11 nearby!
Yeah, all these cool kids showing off their shell skills with their new js frameworks distributed like ‘curl https://djdhdhdb/dish.sh | sh’
Oh, author here. I absolutely do simply prefer it but I also think it has distinct upside compared to Python in this context. I see a number of companies orchestrating their Python ML with Elixir. For them the advantage is even more obvious. But overall Elixir has certain strengths. It also has drawbacks and trade-offs.

I would absokutely write the post "Why I prefer Elixir" and I think I have. But this was not intended to be that.
I kind of admire the gumption, personally. Like writing them off as fancy markov bots.
They are not eligible for their own reward anyway, I think. Maybe they forgot to mention it in their rules though.
Adoption sometimes takes that long, we just always forget the predecessors to the devices that made it big (eg the worldwide success of mobile phones was not overnight, and was limited to business people and the rich at first).
Japanese convenience stores are the real life equivalent of video game save points.
It boggles the mind how a psychologist could have thought that the experiments were even remotely ethical. TK was an evil man, no doubt, but Henry Murray is equally as evil IMHO, and somewhat culpable for the outcome.
I don’t think the “troublemakers” are likely to be the people who make Reddit interesting. The troublemakers are the people who are complaining the loudest about Reddit, and the people who make the site interesting are the people who spend most of their time caring about other things besides Reddit.

In the PC world, the power users could graduate into developers and make apps to share with everyone. In the Reddit world, the power users are people who are interested in farming for karma, the people who stake out claims as moderators, the people who respond to tons of AITA / legaladvice / relationships posts.

When I hear someone ranting, pissed off, about the latest Windows or macOS update, or systemd, it’s often because they use computers to get work done, and having the tech stack change under your feet makes it hard to get work done. Broad sense of the word “work” here, when I say “get work done”.

Nobody’s getting work done on Reddit, it’s a time drain from other stuff we could be doing. (Like, not nobody nobody, just nobody.)
No, not all labs working on viruses do research on dangerous viruses. Bacteriophages for instance, are a deep research topic, and (aside from potential effects on our microbiome) are completely benign to humans. That's just one of many counterexamples.
We will do a https://1kb.club/ site next year.
> installed a Python package without a virtual environment and it somehow interfered with system Python, bootloader broke

Shouldn't the OS python be protected by root?
I may be naive, but isn’t having a good reputation and being cooperative with the people you depend on going to better for you when it comes to negotiations between companies?
A) the hitler metaphor isn’t quite right - the parent isn’t saying that all of his ideas are inherently 100% false, but rather that reading his work is wasteful and disrespectful and dangerous. (Ok well some of that’s me but I’m guessing they’d agree) In my eyes, a better metaphor would be “refuse to read mein kampf even though it has some true paragraphs about the harms of monetary inflation”. Which, by god, I hope we can all agree is the right choice!

B) seeing “moralist” in this context seems a little absurd. He didn’t swear a lot or start an OnlyFans, he tried to kill dozens of people…
Stop paying your power bill or your internet bill and find out
> The delta of the world with and without Reddit is close to zero. Hence no value.

The same is true for the users. There are 8 billion people on the planet, two thirds of which use the Internet. There's no shortage of users able to form online communities. By the above logic, those communities have no value since they are replenishable from a near-limitless supply of new users.
I bet somebody will port one of the third party clients to use web scraping instead of the API.
I infer it was aggressive, based on the following:

Per Christian (the Apollo app dev): "(...) Twitter's pricing was publicly ridiculed for its obscene price of $42,000 for 50 million tweets. Reddit's is still $12,000. For reference, I pay Imgur (a site similar to Reddit in user base and media) $166 for the same 50 million API calls." [1]

All assuming he is not lying (which I have no reason to believe, contrary to the reddit reps). Two orders of magnitude over Imgur pricing sounds a bit greedy, unless Imgur is also at the verge of collapse, which I'm not aware of.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
As an interesting historical legend, Sequoia Capital invested in Il Fornaio, an Italian restaurant chain. It's not a grand concern but it has endured as an okay restaurant. Darden, OTHO, is a sizeable corporation that's growth oriented and has acquired some good regional chains. McDonald's, etc. are really real estate companies.
Long story short, the game with free services has always been to exploit them more than they exploit you.
> in theory they should last a lot longer than HDD or even SSD.

The etched plastic yes, but I think the reflective layer of CDs and DVDs is highly sensitive to humidity, shortening the lifespan to 10-20 years. You could probably recover it professionally, but not cheaply.
"Gambling with cards is an obvious field."

financial goals would not rank high. If I could remember every single thing I see, I would rather become a lawyer or a doctor where I would be able to have a much higher advantage over others and that would automatically solve any financial problems. If I had a superpower, I would use it to help people as a career path because gambling would get boring real soon as the money aspect of it would just disappear in a week or so (assuming any place allows you in twice).

This is like the one where people who win the lottery become happy for a very short time but very soon after that they either go back their baseline happiness or worse, become depressed.
I'm sure it gets the job done but how was the quality?
My favorite part was when Victoria Nuland poisoned Yuschenko with dioxin and turned him into an orange version of the Yellow Bastard from Sin City, years before orange skin became en vogue in American political circles. Also, there was that time when Nuland went on a hunting "vacation" in Donbas and bagged a Boeing, then hotfooted it across the Russian border with an innocent twinkle in her eye. And don't forget the time Nuland massacred dozens of protesters who objected to Yanukovych placing loyalty to Moscow over loyalty to his own country.

That lady gets around.
Wait, what? Why do we all know that Generative AI is not appropriate?

If I just want some random artwork, like an image of, I don't know, a blackboard, why is using Generative AI inappropriate?
This seems to show about 86,000 records total, but aren't there about that many H1B opportunities available each year? Are the salaries not reported again each year, just in the year of the hire? Is there a way to get the unique set of all H1B salaries currently employed in the US?
Having frequently used file metadata on SSDs while the cold parts are on HDDs would be noticeable even at home; the moment you start browsing the directory tree.
That’s some of the best produced independent content I’ve ever seen on YouTube. Great work!

The subscriber numbers demonstrate the effect of quality over quantity.
Define small fee.
You said you’re in Seattle? If so, you have quite the parks department… It’s certainly not inconsequential. https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/FinanceDepartm...

Also, if your public schools receive funding from people who do not currently have kids in school (no kids, kids already graduated, kids in private school, etc.) it’s subsidized. To claim otherwise is to redefine words.
Yes, Microsoft have made lots of updates but your 16 bit DOS game will still run. (Elm cannot run old Elm programs but to be fair Elm is on a prerelease alpha < 1.0 version)
If you can't say either way, don't say it at all.
Incidentally, Seven Eleven is originally an American convenience store chain. They got bought out by Itou Youkado, a Japanese supermarket chain, when Seven Eleven went bankrupt.
I don't think equating Washington and Mao makes even the tiniest bit of sense. Washington never aspired be an absolute ruler or to fundamentally transform the American society into something else by force.

But yeah I get your point, it's unfortunate that China never had its Khrushchev moment.
Soviets did absorb plenty of buffer countries fully into USSR. Along with massacring a lot of people and/or sending them to gulags.

You’re thinking about USSR of 1980s when political repression and some hair cutting was the main issue. But USSR up to mid 1950s was a tad more evil to say the least.

And „debunking double genocide theory“ is fighting a strawman. Let’s talk how USSR started WW2 along with Nazis. Let’s talk Katyn or Rainiai. Let’s talk gulags. Stalin’s purges. Early USSR social reforms and consequences.
With a p-adic number.
I do something similar, I call it 2n+1. When I use n items in a room or put stuff there, i try to collect or clean 2n + 1 items.
To be fair a crook would most likely killed way less people, having a competent crook in charge is generally by far not the worst option.
Knowing how the virus leaked allows us to figure out how to try and prevent it happening again.

When you cover it up, prevent investigations, destroy data, and try to blame the rest of the world. That does not help understand how we can prevent it happening again.

If China was open and honest from day 1, countries would have actually tried to help. But instead all the CCP did was hide it and blame everyone else.

It’s clear that you side with the CCP. You don’t want to prevent another pandemic or make sure people are safe. All you seem to want to do is defend them and get angry at everyone who wants to discuss the issue.
> Anyone who disagrees with Kaczynski's ideas because they came from a convicted terrorist should read the works of Jacques Ellul instead

I refuse to read or become exposed to some ideas because one of their proponents murdered people.

I want this strategy to be less effective, not more.
>the reflective layer of CDs and DVDs is highly sensitive to humidity, shortening the lifespan to 10-20 years.

this is actually solved for HTL BD-R Blurays as they use inorganic material for storing data. Only the outer plastic is organic there. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable
I think they mean hitches that people leave on their vehicles when not towing. I agree that people should stow their hitches if not actively towing for a variety of reasons.
They're not implying anything. They're nearly making the observation that the supposed reason this lab existed was to research dangeours viruses like covid, and yet the lab itself did nothing to help during the pandemic.
He was not a terrorist because of his mental health issues, he was a terrorist because of his convictions. No excuses.
You're right. Congestion pricing affects the psychology of the driver, regardless of where the money goes - even if it's set on fire (thus causing a minuscule amount of deflation).

To assign the congestion money to a specific project, like public transit, is an act of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_accounting .

I would say that putting the money into the city's general fund is the least bad solution. This is because if congestion monies were put to a specific program like public transit / subsidies for the poor / etc., it becomes more complicated to ensure that those programs receive enough funding but also not too much.
They shouldn't perform gain of function research because the risk/reward is comically high
No, because Reddit has captured all users that want to use a Reddit-like service. If Reddit's users all died, Reddit and all potential substitute Reddit-like services would die. But if Reddit itself dies, a Reddit-like clone would most likely arise, because Reddit itself isn't providing unique value to the world.
I guess you have to get over the name...
The point of a bad memory is to forget, it seems to me lawyers and doctors run into a lot of forget-worthy situations.

Running a (perhaps specialized) bookstore seems more fun.
I would be surprised if Reddit was interested in setting community policy at that granular of a level. Reddit's strstegy up until now has been salutary neglect.
Office politics does happen, but not to the same degree everywhere. It sounds like you have had an unusually bad experience.

Part of the reason I have been freelance and founder for 30Y+ is to insulate myself from such idiocy to some degree. That might work for you too.
Yes exactly ... If you can't prove the lab leak stop writing articles about it, people.
Teaching the Limits of AI: Why Educators Should Embrace ChatGPT
Your accusations are dramatic. It's OK to not consider this particular person's writings on the topic as required reading, or even particularly valuable, without rejecting the topic as a whole. And more subjectively, you shouldn't try to bully people into giving credence to murderers.
In the 70's, the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands was renovated from car central to bike central.
That only took a few years, bike paths aren't that expensive.
Perl is basically deprecated, I would definitely not use Perl.

Big tech cos usually use python for glue code. Ruby is used with chef.
"the policy that maximizes the well-being of most employees"

Of most?
> The investigators believe the Chinese military had taken an interest in developing a vaccine for the viruses so they could be used as potential bioweapons. If a country could inoculate its population against its own secret virus, it might have a weapon to shift the balance of world power.

This part doesn't make sense to me. Coronavirus is known to mutate constantly and rapidly. Having a vaccine against a strand might provide a temporary advantage, but that advantage would subside quickly. Coronaviruses would make poor bioweapons considering how impossible it would be to control them.

If an army wants to develop a virus-based weapon wouldn't there be better viruses to base it from than COVIDs?
It was named after the satellite Sputnik 1 and the V is not a roman five but stands for victory, multiple sources consistently claim? Sounds reasonable that this was just PR propaganda to connect to prior great successes in Russia..

(Even without that knowledge I'd find this theory a bit far fetched, there could be many other good reasons for that naming).
I mean, it’s hard to believe Reddit is a company with 2000 employees. Have you looked at their app? It’s like somebody’s high school coding project.
> It is a burden for the app developers to implement payment processing

But they wouldn't have had to. Most of them (all?) don't have registration features, you're meant to have a Reddit account already. A system where only Premium accounts get API access would have just required a way for Reddit to say "sorry, this user needs to upgrade to use 3rd-party clients" when challenged. That's a very simple change, nowhere near the complexity of implementing a payment-processing flow.

A good strategy would have been something like Reddit saying "API users from now on will have to pay, and the price is 2-3x of a Premium subscription, because <bullshit about them taxing the backend more>", wait for the blowback, then say "alright, we listened to you and decided it will simply require any Premium subscription".
Ted K murdered a PR executive. That was psychopathic. He could easily have deemed a person who drives a car as worthy of death based on the same flimsy reasoning.

It doesn’t matter if we took a poll to see who a large sample of the population thought was a better person, the PR executive or a random person driving a gas guzzler, because cold blooded murder is an absolute evil.

An attempt to understand his actions based on a position of moral superiority over the PR executive is to follow the same psychopathic trajectory as Ted K.

Calmly calculating by oneself who is most worthy of death in a manner that selects a PR executive and then executing on such a plan, as a categorical imperative, is akin to open season on humanity itself.

However, the value judgement that any of us could be seen unfairly in a negative manner and therefore worthy of compassion and understanding, as a categorical imperative, is in comparison universally better and by quite a large margin.

I am engaging in moral absolutes. You and the person I originally responded to are engaging in moral relativism.

Agree to disagree?
> What i don’t understand is why they can’t outcompete these apps by providing a better app.

The good apps are (a) free, and (b) don't show any ads. Pretty much by definition they can't compete with that and make money.
The role of eyebrows in face recognition [pdf]
I'm from EU, and i've been driving both manual and automatic transmission. I can testify that auto transmission is safer, your hands are 100% at the steering wheel. Most people cannot turn and change gear at the same time.

I've also spend quite a bit time in US driving. EU is safer as narrower streets/lanes and smaller number of lanes (on highways), closer parked cars and pedestrians/bicycles forces you to pay much more attention.
No, I nor are any of my relatives are in a union. That will not be an avenue of argument for you.

Second, the businesses that exist today are not operating in a free market. They leverage laws that allow them to prevent employees from leveraging their ability in engage in collective action. Additionally teachers are not required to join a union; the fact that teachers join the union and engage in collective bargaining is a result of their natural collective power. If there is a refusal to engage in collective bargaining then they can strike, both of which are natural consequences of free market unionization.

I am still not seeing where you are claiming there is 'economic rent' other than the fact that unions exist and you seem to dislike that. Given your post history, that seems to be where you actually lie.
VScode terminal has this