skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> superscript, subscript

Very strongly disagree. Copy-pasting 10<sup>6</sup> turns into 106 rather than 10⁶.
Humanity in a couple hundred years will look back and deem us worse than the barbarians that came before us.
> ignores the capacity for human ingenuity to tap into ever-more efficient and renewable energy sources

> Bitcoin mining, far from the wasteful ‘heating the desert’ analogy you propose, incentivizes the development of excess energy infrastructure that can be redirected or scaled based on demand fluctuations, acting as a catalyst for innovation in energy production and management.

You do realize that the article here is directly pointing to evidence that the bulk of large bitcoin mining operations are being driven from existing fossil fuel plants that seemed to be on their way to decommissioning?

This is what I don't like about your argument: it's a standard Bitcoin talking point, but people struggle to point to actual examples of Bitcoin mining spurring investment in renewable energy, while it's easy to point to actual examples of Bitcoin mining spurring investment in decommissioned/decommissioning fossil fuel power plants. The facts on the ground just do not support your argument, period.
literally quoting from that meta-analysis, which does not include many clinical trials that have demonstrated an impact:

"Key messages
We are uncertain whether wearing masks or N95/P2 respirators helps to slow the spread of respiratory viruses based on the studies we assessed."

Example very large study published in a reputable journal: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9069?cookieSe...
I do some work with financial tech and let me tell you, working with integration partners for payment processing who are fully into crypto made me realize, we shouldn't trust these people with our financial system. I had to explain to a senior engineer with 20+ years of experience why he shouldn't rely on floating point to calculate service fees (their calculations were always wrong and over charged our customer's customers because they used floating point). Can't calculate a 3.5% service fee properly, but will tell you why he so so much smarter than the everyone in traditional finance (who don't fuck up this calculation). And this has been an ongoing problem for a year, to the point that we built around their system because we can't trust their system does what they say.
Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful
The fact that Eric Holder is a judge on this new court - while also working at Covington & Burling [1], a law firm actively involved in helping large companies defend these very same transatlantic data flows [2] - tells you all you need to know about the new court. Ditto his fellow judge, Rajesh De, who used to be the NSA's top judge.

[1] https://www.cov.com/en/professionals/h/eric-holder

[2] https://www.cov.com/en/news-and-insights/news/2019/07/coving...
We can make plastics from bio sources. It is more expensive, and those plastic biodegrade (sometimes a positive, but sometimes a negative)

We can make any oil from the basic atoms (mostly carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen - but some molecules may want something else). However this process costs a lot more energy (read $) vs pumping oil from the ground and so it is rarely done. This is how synthetic oils are made so if you know the cost of car oil you can get a good picture of the difference in costs.
So did the NKVD!

Started as regular police, ended up doing purges 13 crazy years later.
It’s probably always going to be an industry that favours big slow-moving corporates. I’m sure there’s areas where the regulation could be improved, but it’s always going to require extensive testing and certification, etc… That type of system rewards big capital, and necessitates slow innovation.
interesting, I wasn't aware of that. Is there an official list?
Exactly. Tax the profits, thereby encouraging the company to invest internally in higher salaries, R&D, new equipment, etc.
It's the Impunity, Stupid
Bezos' AWS made cloud computing viable, leading to the last two decades of economic growth without per capita energy consumption (due to datacenter energy efficiency).

Bezos' Amazon lowers the cost and availability of goods of all kinds drastically, enriching everyone (and especially the poorer among us).

The State makes bombs and drops bombs, not Bezos. Bezos deploys capital in ways which have proved to fill market needs. Markets are people. His money is meeting the needs of the people while taxes build bombs.
Is that a quality way to screen though? Anyone can look up answers to basic technical questions.

Also have you considered that maybe ChatGPT itself is applying? Its gotta feed all those babyGpts when it gets home from work. Might be a good hire, LOL.
@dang Thank you for the info.

One questions I do have–I would guess posts critical of HN/YC are going to get a log of flags and have not the best discussion. This has a side affect of biasing the home page to not have posts critical of HN/YC. Do you see this as a problem?
Paintings reveal how the Dutch adapted to extreme weather in the little Ice Age
What will they do will all the defunct storage they previously used for cache?

What has Google ever done with old HW?
No affiliation, I saw this announced by a new hire at Apple as one of their new open source projects.

It looks so much like Cue. What do folks make of it?
That's an awesome update! I currently run fck-nat in pre-prod environments (and love it so far) but still use NAT gateway in production. I was actively looking into switching over to AlterNat for prod because of the failover to NAT gateway during NAT instance updates and outages, but definitely not a fan of the complexity you're eluding to. The future plans you've outlined definitely make me want to wait it out and just use fck-nat across the board. Thanks for sharing these plans!
Same here! `:bpx MessageBoxA`, step out, nop nop nop, done.

Great memories. Being able to step through each instruction on my CPU and seeing the memory update was like a super power and really helped understand things at a deeper level.
> And if Bezos had not founded Amazon, you and others would have been unemployed and poor?

If nobody founded companies like Amazon, yes many more people would be unemployed and poor.

Bezos is just one example.

> History is full of philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, doctors who weren't after money, yet managed to contribute more than Bezos ever could.

If all the philosophers, mathematicians and scientists and doctors were put in charge of running all the world's companies, we'd be in big trouble. Totally different skill sets.
Polls and studies for years have shown that what elected officials legislate and what voters want rarely line up. Modern democracy has long outgrown representing mere constituents.
https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube

Spotube might be the answer if you don’t have an iPhone.

Using it on Windows and the client is good enough.
They're actively destroying jobs at this very moment, not creating them. If I had a nickel for every "we're making record profits, oh and we're also laying off 10% of our employees" announcement, I'd be a billionaire.
ah yes, very well spotted! as the dev, I should really have seen that.
> Spotify pay artists the least of the streaming services per track

Citation? Every source I can find shows Spotify pays less than Tidal, Apple, but more that YouTube, Pandora, and Deezer... with the caveat that you need 1000 streams before you get paid at all.

I suppose that means zero for most artists.
> Life within a construction is life without a frontier. It is closed, calculated, and pointless. Reality, real reality, the mysterious physical stuff, is open, unknown, and beyond us; we must not lose it.

Only a tiny minority of people have lived on a frontier, that’s sort of the inherent to the definition. Most people now live in a very constructed environment (urban areas). In the past, most people lived somewhere in between; towns, suburbs, etc.

Many of us find our mysteries in artificial areas: parks, little shops, back yards. There’s plenty of beauty and complexity in nature of course. But in human spaces we see just as much complexity and mystery; somebody builds something, it decays, gets fixed up, added to, gets some graffiti. We’ve all got little worlds in our heads that motivate us to do things, there’s plenty of complexity in there, especially once our actions start bouncing off each other.

I think most of the problem with VR so far has been, well… first, the tech just isn’t there yet, it kind of sucks still. But also we’re mostly getting silo’d VR experiences from single authors or companies. Games. There’s no mystery there because it was all intentionally placed by the designer. Eventually we’ll get better persistent dynamic multi-user spaces I bet.
The LinkedIn engagement algorithm is a bit off the rails.
Yeah! Let's internationalize gentrification!!!!
> a significant part of it is due to Amazon playing zero sum games with its supply chain and its workers

Why would any worker or supplier do an exchange with Amazon where they lose?
There are usually two reasons people advocate for a cap on earnings. Either they think that every dollar earned makes another person a dollar poorer, therefore a cap limits poverty, or they have some deep seated burning fire of envy. I saw it in university, activists enraged for the sake of being enraged that someone else had done well for themselves.

Bizarre isn't it? If I were to commit one of the seven deadly sins, I'd choose a funner one than envy.
Replace "Somali pirates" with "Houthis", then.
For that scenario to be a proposal, the hypothesis of the said scenario should be asserted first. They just said: “should this be a big enough harm to humanity as a whole we should not shy away from a total ban”, but he's not arguing that there is a big enough harm at stake here.

And they aren't even talking specifically about PFAS in this comment in the first place! They're answering, in the abstract, to a commenter that argues against total bans as a matter of principle. All they're saying is “I disagree that we should always dismiss the option of a total ban, there are situations where it is justified”. This isn't a proposal for a total ban of PFAS in any way.
Magnetohydrodynamic Drive for Hydrogen and Oxygen Production in Mars Transfer
Very few people on HN are making less than 6 figures.
> There are many reasons why V.R. and gaming don’t quite work, and I suspect that one is that gamers like to be bigger than the game, not engulfed by it. You want to feel big, not small, when you play.

I'm curious how he feels about Half Life: Alyx.

What makes that game so compelling is the degree of interactivity it affords. You can pick up anything. If it's glass, you can break it. It allows you to interact with a tangible world to a degree that no other consumer VR software does.

It's one of the most well-reputed games of all time, and it's only available in VR. As such, modders have figured out how to make it playable without a VR headset. The reviews of non-VR players are that it's actually a pretty boring game when you're not in a simulated environment. If you're not taking the time to open the drawers and break the bottles and duck behind the barrels in a gunfight, it's mostly just walking through tunnels waiting for the occasional ambush.
Managing and growing companies is a distinct skill.

Open source software is wonderful and amazing. But it's not a replacement for Amazon and other companies.
I have had a devil of a time getting Plex to recognize file names. I wish I could just directly write things to its damn fucking database.
The actual point is about the inefficiency.
Weird. I wonder how I got one then.
I use the downvote button for two reasons: overwhelmingly for rude, come-uppance, and similar type of comments; very rarely for comments spreading FUD for no particular reason. I just downvoted your comment for the second reason.

Demanding transparency is fine but you’ve got to provide proof with your claims. If there are stories which feel manipulated to you link them and let the audience see, maybe you’re right.
Search for “pee in bottles” in this thread.
Oof, I keep thinking of switching off Youtube Music in favor of Plex :/
I didn't, mainly because the findings were so mundane! I still have the data, so perhaps I will some day.
"If you don't like it, build your own" is another bad-faith lie told by those who love censorship culture.
It would be more accurate to look at the foundations they left behind.
Much better to have a large number of wealthy actors deciding how to allocate capital than just one (the government). Certainly we can do with higher taxes for the ultra wealthy though. It's hard to imagine what one can do with 100 billion dollars that you can't do with 10 billion.....
I haven't used React in a while and never used SolidJS, but would SolidJS not basically be a optimizing compiler as well for "React". Technically SolidJS is a separate framework and I don't know if it's a 100% drop in replacement like this make be.

Edit: My comment is probably not accurate. Please ignore what I said.
Philosophically, the "thundering herd problem" actually CAUSES congestion.

There are 2 ways to handle it.

1 Stop the thundering herd.(make all the clients do something different). That may make things worse. Congestion in networks is usually exponential. You can't fulfill a request so you repeat the request, it can't be fulfilled so it repeats. You can add a random delay at the client end but that is just The US governments answer to the debt problem, it kicks the can down the road in the short term but it will almost certainly come back and bite you. Mathematically it is very easy for this scenario to become catastrophically exponential when a threshold is reach

2 Stop the congestion (make the handling process faster or add processes)

The system already has a cache to handle this but if its not in the cache it doesn't help.
There needs to be an extra request cache exclusively for congestion scenarios. The existing cache request is already doing some processing, so extend that to route "thundering herd requests processing". This second cache does a bit more processing as well.As each new request is routed to it, it checks itself to see if this requestor is in the cache and removes it or overwrites it. It should never contain more than one entry per client.

When no more editions are made to this congestion cache (or the rate has slowed significantly) then the requests can be forwarded and processed via the original cache system.

Under this configuration, the congestion does not become exponential and should only delay the thundering herd requests. All other requests will be handled as per normal.

Once the original cache has the information there is no need for any thundering herd requests to be routed to the congestion cache.

Some clients will encounter some delays but not all and only on the "thundering herd process".
So you do agree that tech advancement could in fact slow or stop the apocalypse? That's all they were getting at.

Unless you want to argue that the lion's share of tech advancements instead doomed humanity.
Yes I think so. I’m not the original commenter, but I’ve also landed on the idea of limiting wealth to the ballpark of $10-15 million, primarily using progressive taxation. The point is to prevent any one person or small group of people from accruing too much power within our democratic society or reaching levels where they stop using their wealth to contribute to the economy (by e.g. offshoring money).
That depends rather on your background. I found Schönfinkel's original paper to be very accessible. Perhaps you will too, if you know a little old-fashioned logic.

http://sshieh.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2013f/388/e-texts/...
We have a lot to do „thanks to” all the guys that are BSing.

I myself also consider generalist with quite a lot of success ranging from improving code performance in .NET and MS SQL to setting up whole servers with AD and best practices to technical hiring.

But I saw maybe one other or 2 really like that.

Other 20 or something „technical generalists” were business people hustling to be managers trying to look technical or outright scammers trying to loook like they can do everything but then delivering nothing.

It usually takes around 6 months to uncover the guy that is BS then another 6 months to convince manager guy knows shit and we have to fire him asap.
Yeah a lot of those nice things like random delays, back offs, evening using timezones are not available, even in the centos7 systemd.
You know that "be the change you want to see" thing. I hope you'll
find a way to become the business-person and employer you'd like to
work for, and set your own standards of civility. It can be done.
I was just a little kid in Portland at the time that the Rajneeshees were active. The followers seemed harmless hippies. Though obviously there was something wrong with the cult leader driving around in Rolls Royce, while a bunch of followers donated all their belongings.

(That childhood impression might've been influenced by very Catholic parents, and seeing only priests who really lived their vows of poverty and service to others. Other religions also seemed wholesome, if accidentally not the correct one. But televangelists were obviously greedy manipulators.)

As an adult today, I'd quickly fit the Rashneeshees to archetypes. But I wonder, in 1984, how much information was public, that people who followed the news would've reasonably considered that this group would go and try to poison large numbers of people, to rig an election.
The Native Americans Before the Native Americans
> Explain what role advertising plays in you not paying a subscription to have access to ad-free videos.

Paying YouTube to not show me ads simply removes the inconvenience of not interrupting my watching experience. It doesn't get rid of any of the other issues I mentioned inherent to advertising as a business, which Google still is, whether I pay them or not. My data will still be used to show me ads on other Google sites, I'm still training their algorithms on how to keep me on their site for longer and how to better show me ads in the future, etc. And I'm supporting their empire, which I'd rather not do.

> And please, don’t tell me that you support them in other ways because I don’t believe you.

I don't care whether you believe me or not. The creators certainly don't get compensated nearly enough by alternative means, and I don't do regular donations or have any system to keep track of how much I've spent. It's surely a minuscule amount compared to what they earn from advertising. But it's not my problem they chose to rely on a business model I refuse to be a part of. If this bothers them, they're free to put up their content on other platforms, or behind a paywall. If, however, they upload their content on a public site, I have no qualms with accessing a public resource on my own terms. The fact you equate this to stealing is laughable.
> Win what?

That's the root of it, of course. Everybody who went to Afghanistan or Iraq, after the first wave, knew that they weren't coming home until either (A) their timer ticked down to zero from 3-6-9-12-15 months, or (B) they became a casualty. There was no third possibility (C) of coming home after accomplishing X, because nobody could define X.

I was there during an election year, and I told everyone back home that "supporting the troops" would mean making it an electoral issue to either define X and go all-in or bring us all home; not just sending care packages.
I don't think that's a completely fair point. People don't read a news article to learn a single fact. They read a news article to put those facts in perspective and context.

The complaints of this thread is that there are very conflicting facts and they don't feel the article (and other articles) is giving a fair representation of the overall picture, and rather feels like it's pandering to people who want to hear it framed in a particular way.
Doesn't TypeScript let you build things like this right in the static types?
Thanks!
I am maxing out my retirement options too, but I have a mortgage and that ends at ~63 roughly. Based on my projections if I retire at 65 I'm good, however if I retire before then, I will definitely need to sell the home for a smaller one (which could be fine, if the body allows it)
I remember Top Gear doing a feature on this. If I remember correctly SUVs were four times more likely to turn over in an accident than a traditional saloon car.
You sound a bit sarcastic (hard to tell online), but they will eventually boil the frog
I'd just use Pandoc Markdown.

For simple things, you can easily write Markdown that is compatible with all dialects. Mainly, remember to indent your lists 4 spaces if you soft wrap.

But Pandoc Markdown has the most extensive support for other extensions, like footnotes, figures, etc. That's useful because it minimizes how much HTML or Latex you need to write, which in turn makes your documents more portable.

There are other formats that support more features, but in my experience the communities are smaller and the syntax is not as pretty. Ultimately you're betting on that format continuing to exist longer than Pandoc, which I think is not a great bet in most cases. The only format which I think might have better long-term support and compatibility is CommonMark, but it comes at the tradeoff of substantially fewer features. Which again means sacrificing portability because everything you can't do in the base language you need to do in HTML or Latex.
Correct. I saw that someone had linked the original article and therefore skipped directly there.
> I've thought for years that we should place at hard cap on wealth somewhere around $10 or $15 million.

Where's the empirical evidence that such a cutoff benefits society as a whole?

> I've argued we should combine this with a move towards a worker owned economy - in which businesses are democratic institutions governed by the people who do the work involved.

I like the German system of giving labor a board seat. We should try that first before burning our entire economic model to the ground and starting over, based on a gut feeling with no hard evidence to support it.
I read Lambda-Calculus and Combinators:
An Introduction by J Roger Hindley as an undergraduate and found it was very accessible.
How is anyone concluding VR is "mostly good enough"?

FOV is still bad. Weight is still too high. Resolution I'd say is adequate for gaming (but see FOV above).

Apple are selling the same problems in a very expensive package that they're desperately trying to pretend isn't a VR platform.
I'll just note that the above has a lot of opinion with respects to NZ politics that a lot of other NZers would disagree with.

Also with respect to "can't vote out a list MP" I think this is exaggerated. "Bad" MPs are very common in constituencies in many countries. They are often hard to get rid of since they have local support and control their local party organisation. Whereas a list MP can be pushed down or off the list placing even if they cannot be made to resign their seat.

You can't vote out a constituency MP if 2/3s your neighbors like him. Or will always vote for his party no matter who they put up as a candidate.
> But in the old days I’d build one-of-a-kind V.R. headsets into big masks from different cultures, sometimes adding lightning bolts and feathers. I wanted the headsets to be vibrant, exciting objects that enriched the real world, too.

I'm disappointed there are no images in this article. I'd love to see this. I love how it celebrates something by giving it a more playful character.
Why Yahoo, might I ask? It's just Bing engine with another name...
I think that's why the initial version is the "Pro" and why it's so so expensive. Laptops/Computers have "text/spreadsheets" as their fundamental unit of usage, phones and tablets have images/videos. So right now we have all this awesome hardware, but we still really haven't found our VisiCalc/Instagram for VR just yet.