evandwight

You can produce methane from water and carbon dioxide. Burning it is the reverse.

Burning synthetic methane is carbon neutral.

How do you decide what qualifies?

I'm trying to build something like that. Take hacker news and let the community curate it into a weekly newsletter of just the important posts.

It's a work in progress and I'm a little starved for feedback.

https://efficientdemocracy.com

What are your feelings on gold?

Ubi won't touch tech salaries.

People don't need to maximize income. I volunteer because I have enough and money isn't the only objective.

Open source doesn't need to pay faang salaries to exist.

That's been my experience too. I never felt exhausted playing. Thinking about what to do better between games was more draining.

I've never played competitively, though I did get to about top 3000 in North America. Thanks for sharing!

How often do you engage your slow brain (from thinking fast and slow)?

I feel like it's like speed chess and not normal chess. You have no time to think till after the game, you just have to do and trust your gut.

The slow brain is what exhausts you.

You may be right. It looks like some states have specific rules for credit cards. For example, in some states businesses can't charge credit card processing fees.

However, many businesses charge late payment fees.

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/can-merchant-ch...

It's not a government fine. It's just an agreement in the contract specifying a payment is due if your card declines.

Critical thinking is taught in schools. The issue is it's rarely applied. Critical thinking takes a lot of mental effort and often boils down to who do you trust.

A group of flat earthers designed an experiment to test their belief. Performed it and showed the Earth was round. Then dismissed the result.[0]

When your priors say the probability is nearly 0 then no evidence is strong enough to change your belief. It's why science sometimes only advances when people die.

[0] - https://brain-sharper.com/science/flat-earthers-tried-prove/

For posts that wouldn't be hard as firebase has the data[0].

However for comments that's difficult as neither firebase[1], nor hackernews public[2] has scores. The data is only available when you are logged in directly on news.ycombinator.com. So, you could scrape it yourself.

To get your post karma over time just download your submissions[3] and plug it into excel.

[0] - https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json?print=p...

[1] - https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/9224.json?print=p...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=evandwight

[3] - https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/evandwight.json?p...

How do you handle things without revenue?

SpaceX definitely wants to make a profit. I don't think building a city on Mars is profit maximization though and this is Elon's explicit reason for not taking SpaceX public.

> According to the company, the short-term demands of shareholders conflict with his long-term ambitions.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/121515/will-el...

Some owners of private companies don't see the goal of the company as profit maximization - eg SpaceX.

With a public company there's always going to be a shareholder to sue you for not maximizing profit.

https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/09/articles/series/s...

Why not use AWS ses? It's so much cheaper.

One of the amazing things about Reddit is how different communities compete with each other.

Allowing individual subreddits to enable anonymous posting lets the market decide if the pros outweigh the cons. (If the subreddit has a history of bad moderation, ban the subreddit)

I feel like giving communities more options in customizing the algorithm that dictates the discussion is powerful.

For a community that really valued anonymous posting, couldn't you let members vouch for anonymous posts before making them visible? If no one vouches then they disappear.

Like, hacker news almost allows anonymous posting because the account creation is so simple.

Do you write logic to handle collisions?

That explains it why /r/science is such a graveyard! Thank you!

It sounds like if any of the 1500 mods dislike a comment, then that comment disappears. That's extremely biased towards removing comments.

My suggestion would have those 1500 mini mods vote "keep" or "remove" - majority wins. The main mod can look at contentious votes and override the mini mods decisions. Further the main mod can remove mini mods that are voting poorly.

> http://talk.binarytask.com

Your own http server/database!?! Do you mean you implemented them from scratch? I'm just using nginx/expressjs & postgres. Edit: rupy! interesting! Does ssl kill it's efficiency?

> Democracy only works ...

Energy limitations seem beyond my lifetime. I just want to see how to run a community based on the will of it's members. Efficiently using their time.

> sign in with google

It's not ideal. I originally implemented my own authentication, however implementing it "securely" is a huge task. My main problem is unknown unknowns. Even big companies have non-perfect authentication, like leaking emails during recovery/login. If the site gets any traction I'll expand the authorisation options.

What do you think I could do to improve the site?

Normal users browse new and vote for good content. This works pretty well!

Could you designate a bunch of people as mini moderators and have the majority vote of mini mods decide moderation?

Then have one moderator curate the list of mini mods. By spreading the work out, more actual time can be spent on the decision and feedback given.

It's not done yet. There's a discord link if you want to chat about how to improve it.

https://efficientdemocracy.com

New name needed

What tools do you think would work?

I've been writing a Reddit clone that uses elected moderators, statistical sampling, and referendums to estimate the result of referendums. I'm curious what tools you think would work well.

Can you reverse lookup the packages using the abstract syntax tree? Most of it's probably from the top 10,000 packages.

Do you think it would be better to filter the news as a group rather than individually? I find it very frustrating not being able to trust titles.

I'm writing rewriting Reddit/hackernews where moderation is done by estimating referendums - using elected moderators, statistical sampling and referendums. Bias towards active users is reduced by allowing users to designate a proxy.

It's a fun project to work on but the progress is slow. Next time I'm going to pick a project that people want more.

There's an asymetry. It's harder to refute a claim than make it. Also who has time to correct someone wrong on the internet for free.

Sorry, I don't have an answer for you. I was just trying to clarify the context with a more charitable interpretation of GP's point.

I think you are misinterpreting. They lost faith in medical experts. I don't think hes talking about the US system as a whole but instead trusting the advice that vaccines are safe, masks work, etc. Medical advice.

I added a flag for technical and then sort it by hot [1]. I just needed to train a classifier so there's less manual classification needed.

Maybe something like a naive bayes [0] will work? I'm not sure if it's the best dataset. I could make my own dataset by just looking at how many removed comments there are :P

I haven't implemented a classifier before so it may take me a few days. If you'd like to be notified when it's actually working send me an email at info@{the site name}

[0] - https://www.kaggle.com/kinguistics/classifying-news-headline...

[1] - https://efficientdemocracy.com/technical-and-hot

Would you be interested in a wrapper around hacker news that lets you filter to only technical discussions?

(I'm already playing with wrapping it so that probably isn't hard to add)