skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, another online group of people conducting orchestrated campaigns of harassment. They seem to come together with highly tenuous pretexts (eg some random radio show that isn't even on the air any more) yet the members are highly motivated and resourceful. It is a very strange phenomenon, like a cult worshipping nastiness as the supreme expression of existence. These groups seem particularly against art and creativity, their targets are often novelists, artists and performers. I suppose if you are deeply unhappy and disempowered then any form of art must seem like an affront. Only if all creative acts are stupid may you feel good about your own life chewing cud on a forum somewhere.

The more online everyone and everything becomes the more prevalent these generalised and distributed lynch mobs are likely to be. The also function with impunity (eg kiwi farms).
> For example, if one wishes to drink almond milk while eating meat, he needs to indicate that it is in fact almond milk, not regular milk, which is forbidden. In the olden days, this was done by popping some whole almonds into the milk. Today, this can be achieved by having the container on the table, making it clear that it is almond milk.

Who are you indicating it to? Does gods omnipotence not extend to distinguishing different types of milk, or is this so people can police it? (not trying to be snarky - genuinely curious)
Based on the picture, it looks like they're marketing this mainly as a filling for pork dumplings. And as all Jews know, pork is already kosher when it comes minced or ground in Chinese food.
My friends don’t know my dating criteria. Jobs can be well defined, but personal preferences are more difficult to express. Nuances matter.

The real problem is not with online dating but with fake accounts. I used to write well crafted letters that resulted in interesting dates. Now, I have no easy way of verifying I am not writing to a bot.
I agree with your point that E. coli outbreaks are closely coupled to animal agriculture, and I apologize if I appeared pedantic. That was not my intent.

The thing is, E. coli isn’t a plant disease. It’s a human pathogen that gets on plants and then makes humans ill. But the plant was never infected by the germ — in the same way that if you share a fork with someone who has a cold, you could get infected. But you wouldn’t say that the common cold was “a kitchen utensil disease”.

In addition, E. coli is a very minor player in terms of human deaths compared to actual plant diseases. Plant diseases to be very, very concerned about are the ones that attack major crops and reduce or eliminate yield. Then people starve. Starvation kills many more people than E. coli. This is why wheat rust is such a big deal.
Well, all projects can be changed by humans.

However, the problem with Bitcoin is that it's built on a monolithic blockchain, so it's actually got a bottleneck. The miner is the bottleneck. Every transaction in the world must be sent to every potential miner, making it even more inefficient.

In most other distributed systems, when you increase the number of computers, the amount of transactions the system can handle increases. Not so with these monolithic blockchains.

Ethereum has the same problem. Vitalik even admitted it this year: https://community.intercoin.org/t/vitalik-scalability-is-a-b...

We need systems that are sharded from day 1, such as MaidSAFE and Holochain. "Embarrassingly Parallel" systems!
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I would say there’s no evidence whatsoever which would tell us whether CA was more or less effective than any other agency might have been.
Note to commenters: In this context "Bitcoin production" is not mining; they're talking about the development of the protocol being centralized.
Merge conflicts are a part of any VCS that allows two people to edit the same file at the same time.
Of course these could have the same, or a related, problem.
Use it responsibly? Are you talking about people uploading creepy videos targeted to kids, or like alcohol or something?

I'm certainly not one to say everything should be as safe as possible for kids, but there's a limit to what a parent can reasonably be expected to understand. If I set my kid up watching a blues clues clip, and look away for 30 seconds and he's seeing a clown with its arm torn off which autoplayed, I feel like I'm reasonably kinda entitled to go hey wtf google, your shit is broken and its harmed my kid.

And then, of course, not let my kid use youtube anymore.
Maybe a vegan sausage patty could be more easily convincing - they usually have lots of binders and spices anyway. Beyond Meat/Impossible Burger were disgusting to me (compared to regular beef), and they were dyed bright red and stayed bright red when they were cooked which is weird and not like meat.

My favourite (chain fast food) non meat burger option so far has been the one that McDonalds recently released in New Zealand - it's a deep fried, crumbed mashed potato patty with other vegetables in it too. Doesn't pretend to be meat but is delicious.
Yes, which gives you an idea of what the standards of rigour in the field of psychology are like.
> By some estimates human beings perceive two events as instantaneous at around 100ms.

This is not at all what the linked article says. The article says human reaction time — the time it takes to receive a stimulus, process it, and perform a physical act in response — is about 100ms.

Human time perception is much faster than that. A software button that takes 100ms to switch to its pressed appearance feels dramatically different than one that does so in 10ms. As the linked article notes, game player performance degrades as latency increases from 13ms.
are there any recommendations in this paper? Many times with cryptocurrency projects I've found it easier to get anonymous contributions added or considered more heavily compared to having a known persona, since the gatekeepers are not impartial and more often very emotionally driven
It takes a lot of energy for matter to change states from frozen. This would be a large buffer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_heat
Unfortunately I do not, I've toyed around with small cpu architecture emulation and a touch of gameboy. The bug I was referring to is also called the sprite overflow bug.

http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/PPU_sprite_evaluation

Edit: There's also a bit of documentation in one of the bizhawk nes cores: https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/tree/master/BizHawk.Emu...
The mere appearance of impropriety may encourage others to actually commit the impropriety.

(Not Jewish, but I find Talmud very interesting.)
there was a Google retrospective posted a long long time ago where someone cited data that people that use python do better. it's the reason I learned python.
Most bioses can update themselves from the system setup menu. Just download the bios update in an appropriate format, put it somewhere that's accessible to the bios, and you're set.
Well aren't the bandwidth costs for hosting a video that gets like a million views or whatever reasonably expensive?
What does the author mean when he says 'black sun-like VR network'?

Googled and couldn't figure it out. Hoping it's a reference to some good sci-fi I haven't read.
Why not just whitelist channels and disallow ones with less than say 500,000 subscribers. Surely nobody with that large of a following who produces kid targeted content would burn their own channel down just for the "lolz".
Very excited to try this. Impossible burgers are amazing, way better than beyond burgers. And Dunkin donuts Beyond sausage is not very good, so I'd love to try impossible instead.
Consumers need to be educated, you are right on that. But corporations will evolve like they always have - look at Nestle buying SweetEarth brands. Tyson entering the plant-based market. They will adapt and overcome. But it all starts with the consumer.

>Population is declining everywhere except Africa and some odd balls

Then why do projections put us around 10 billion people in the next 30 years?

>That depends entirely on you

It depends on individual morals yes, but on the grand scale of things, I don't think any sound-minded human would, without outside influence, find it completely alright to murder an animal. If you give a child an apple and a bunny, do you think they'd kill the bunny or eat the apple?
Dunkin Donuts recently debut'd a plant based sausage sandwich (at least in the Great Lakes region, USA), it was ok. Tasted a bit heavy on the salt for me.
Thanks, that does seem like a reasonable reason to make it clear what you're doing.
The usual recommendations are: "Racing the Beam", "Where Wizards Stay Up Late", "The Idea Factory", "Soul of a New Machine", "The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce"

All fine reads. But I just want to remark how singular "Masters of Doom" is. It struck me just the other day. The entire id Software team was 18-19 years old. And each individually possessed 4-5 years of (bare-metal) computer game making experience by the time they joined!

I think about that a lot when I see high schoolers today crafting worlds so easily in Unity ;)
Here is an interesting thread expanding on your point. It starts with,

“if you find the death of 500,000,000 mammals, birds and reptiles in weeks of australia wildfires mind blowing and horrifying, note that more were killed worldwide for food in the same period of time - and these facts are not unlinked”

https://twitter.com/mbeisen/status/1212959832522625024?s=21
When you think about it, pork allegedly tastes like human. I wonder how hard it is to get to impossible long pork. The marketing challenges would only be similar to getting halal/kosher eaters to try impossible pork.
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If you’re talking about a “for (initialize; condition; step) { body }” for loop, most newer languages don’t have them AFAICT.

I would say the other kind of for loop, a “for x in y { body }” loop, is very intuitive and obvious to most English speakers. We use idioms like “for each A, do B” all the time.
If I had to guess, "being the kind of person who's friends with a developer in tech" is a very good predictor for "someone capable of being successful in tech". If that was the case, most friends-of-techies that did bootcamps would succeed, leading to a general impression by techies that the programs work - even if they fail horribly for 90% of the people that take them.

The other thing to consider is that if 90% of bootcamp grads get an offer (and accept that offer) after their first interview but the remaining 10% are unhireable and proceed to interview with 100 companies each before giving up, you'd have to interview 10 bootcamp grads to find one worth hiring. (Assuming random distribution, that is - if you're the company that bootcamp grads apply to after failing the first interview, you might never get a good applicant) The applicant pool might not match the graduate pool, in other words.
For those who don't know the reference :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos
Care to elaborate? Just to be clear, I was referring to no one caring (at least, the vast, vast majority) about animals killed for food. Else 98% of us wouldn't be meat eaters.

What can be demonstrated to counter this?
I don't think this should be part of version control, simply because is too tied to the environment and development practices that may not be shared by the whole set of current and future developers of any given project.

The version control should keep the code history, not the paperwork history.

What I think you're looking for could, however, use git as a platform for that. That's what GitHub, GitLab and the likes do using a web interface and there's enough extensibility and power on git for command-line or desktop tools to do it.

The internals of git are very much akin to a filesystem, by the way, and the plumbing gives you more enough access to use that in creative ways.

From the top of my head, maybe a system like this could automatically generate tags for code reviews, use merges and branching for answering to these reviews, and hooks for notifying interested parts on particular areas of code. All while the messages and reviews themselves travel on another data layer, which references git but does not mingle with it.

This separation (and even tag cleaning, for example), would be specially useful on huge distributed projects where a company or small team may have whatever development process it needs internally and sharing only the results without having to completely hide the code history.
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Keeping in mind interview preparation I would like to start off by mastering DSA. Could anyone point me to some good resources that cover the subject in an intuitive manner. Online would be nice but books are also alright!
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AMD had a slide showing a bunch of partners, including Apple (for GPUs only, of course).
Maybe they weren't cooked correctly? I've had impossible burger many times, and it always looks light brown like a McDonald's burger when cooked. Tastes like one, too (which I enjoy).
>Why is it only don't work on cars or pollute like no tomorrow?

Who said it was? The comment mentioned working on the engine specifically, there's not much DRM that can interfere with working on the engine unless you're trying to tune your ECU.

It's not like the N20 is going to check your pistons and connecting rods for authenticity before starting after all.

There are not even that many parts in BMWs that are VIN-locked, and much fewer with actual DRM. Usually the parts referred to with that, the BCMs are VIN-locked by most manufacturers (I know GM and Mercedes both do the same)

I'm sure you can come up with some outlier parts for specific models, but in general, complexity of newer cars it the enemy of repair, not some active attempt to get you into a dealership.

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In fact, I'd almost say the opposite is true of brands like BMW. They make a lot of money of leases with "maintenance included".

As they caught on to how brilliantly leases were paying off they started to stretch recommended service intervals to keep people out of the dealership as much as possible.
So I've been vegetarian for nearly 10 years. I tried an impossible burger for the first time last week. I liked it, but found it to be a bit disturbing because the texture reminded me of eating actual meat. I want to have vegetarian food which is nutritious, has good taste, has good texture, and doesn't remind me of meat. So I don't think I'll stick with the impossible brand, since it fails on that last measure.

Edit: To elaborate a bit, I think foods like this may fall in an unfortunate valley where they are too similar to meat to please some vegetarians but insufficiently similar to meat to please some meat eaters. I tried the impossible burger because I had heard some complaints from meat eaters that it was not "meaty" enough for them - meaning it might not be too "meaty" for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxxun
In the same vein: Could we perhaps have the titled changed to something more descriptive? "The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money" better describes that this is about the governing process of the protocol development rather than mining.
I didn't see a video for 2020's so here is 2019's video.

https://youtu.be/hfqV1GamDgA
TLDR

> Its power cost NV about $135 per ­megawatt-hour, compared with less than $30 per MWh today at a new Nevada photovoltaic solar farm, according to BloombergNEF, which researches fossil fuel alternatives.

There's also a graph that adds to the sadness but you know don't get too excited.
Thank you. I posted a comment this morning and had a chance to look through Fridman's YouTube channel before replying to other commenters.

I didn't know that these interviews are podcast-first, which is probably why the interviewer is so laid back and slow talking, as pointed out by @unoti. I looked up Fridman's lectures, they are indeed a little bit more energetic, but he is generally a calm individual, so in combination with slow talking and monotone voice that he intentionally uses in podcasts, it makes his questions quite boring to listen, which is what was immediately reflected in my original comment.

> thus whatever quirks you may find diverging from classic interview style are worth ignoring. Focus on the meat, when it gets good, it gets really good.

Lex Fridman is smart. No doubt. If one listens carefully, he indeed asks good questions, which is something I originally missed. He interviews great people and the meat is obviously there. But I still strongly believe that there is a huge room for improvement for Lex as an interviewer and content creator. Has he interviewed unknown people, nobody would listen to him, IMHO.
Every time a block is mined, miners are paid in transaction fees + newly generated coins. After 21 million coins have been generated, miners will only be rewarded transaction fees => it doesn't mean blocks will stop being mined; blocks will keep being mined, but without generating new coins out of nowhere.
Depends. Sometimes growth rate matters more than purchase price.
Can you provide some examples? I own two AMD-powered laptops and neither had BIOS issues.
I was recently looking at various Ryzen 3xxxu series laptops to help a family member trying to get something on a budget. One thing I noticed while researching them is a lot of people think Ryzen systems are cheap builds because they require two RAM channels for the iGPU to be any good. So, on a Dell system with 8GB RAM instead of getting one 8GB DIMM and one free slot, you end up with two 4GB DIMMs and no free slots. A lot of people think this Dell cutting corners on builds by shoving in cheaper parts and subsequently making it harder to upgrade the laptop. I think there's a market education component here that isn't going to be easy to tackle.
jeez, talk about this kind of stuff brings out the most reactionary people on HN.

One advantage is that it's really easy to take a day or two off without thinking about it. That was my experience, I live far from my family and unlimited PTO made it super easy to take a day off every few weeks to fly out for a visit.

Another advantage/disadvantage is that it really brings out the culture. You'll learn extremely quickly how the company values work/life balance. It's either great or terrible ime.

A huge disadvantage is that unlike veritable paid time off, if you are laid off, quit, etc, they don't have to pay you a dime.
> Doesn't pretend to be meat but is delicious.

This is absolutely my favorite kind of vegan food.
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“In total during this period, the shutdown of coal-fired units saved an estimated 26,610 (5%–95% confidence intervals (CI), 2,725–49,680) lives.” - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0453-5

Notice that the cited data, do not include any health statistics.

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RIZQUN

The cited github does not exist.
https://github.com/jaburney/naturalgastransition

Searching for user jaburney in github also comes up empty.

It’s hard to validate her health claims, but let’s say that her low end number of 2725 is valid.
At 25,000 coal miners, and let’s say 25,000 coal plant operators (250 plants * 100 employees per plant) for a total of 50,000 employees impacted. If each of those employees is in a 4 person family, then 200,000 people could have been impacted. If just 3% of those people died due to addiction, the numbers are equal.

Please don’t interpret my compassion for the unemployed coal miners, coal plant operators, and train engineers as a dismissal of global warming. The transition to carbon neutral power needs to happen, but in the process there will be people left behind, including people who are significantly economically impacted, leading to divorce, addiction, homelessness etc.

My comment obviously touched a nerve as many people don’t want to consider the real impact to the workers. And no, they’re not just going to take another bus across town to another plant. They’re not going to relocate. They’re not going to learn to code. They’re going to suffer.

When people question global warming, maybe they’re asking - Are you sure, because people are going to die in the transition?

Maybe more people are dying due to unemployment than are being saved due to lower pollution? Maybe the people who were counted as dying due to pollution were 95 and didn’t make it to 96? While, the 22 year old addict lost over 50 years of their life.

Regardless, these people dying is a fact everyone should be conscious is happening. You vote to close coal power plants, you’re voting to kill these people. There are real consequences.
Or just be lucky.
There were OEM mess-ups that exacerbated the moderate performance of AMD laptops, like configuring single-channel setups for no obvious reasons even with dual slots, poor thermal management, and more.
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>steering require quite some muscle strength and cabin without ac and filters is not pleasant and most importantly good for your health.

Yeah, AC and filters don't require a computer. Neither does power steering, to my knowledge.
I think the thing is people don’t necessary have infinite free time either. And if there’s an efficiency factor then wouldn’t more people think the quality of a potential match is higher with a friend of a friend rather than someone completely random?
"When you think about it, pork allegedly tastes like human." How can my thinking about it affect whether someone alleges it?
Because online dating is based on looks (initially at least) and jobs candidates are hired based on skill and personality. Looks are easy to judge in a few seconds, skills and personality are not.
Ok so obvious question here, why eat fake beef if you don't want to be reminded of beef?

Edit: this got asked a lot, so I'll all a related question instead. Is it possible for a burger to have "good taste and good texture" but also not remind you of beef?
Ask HN: More Sites Like Gwern.net?
Falling in love with the writing style and the quality of research at gwern.net. wanting to find more sites that offer similar experiences or maybe something completely different but still intriguing.
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> However, I've since realized that the notion of "story points" and "velocity" already sort of provides a way to get this across if used carefully.

Not really.

What you're missing is called risk. risk with respect to missing the deadline and long term risk when doing a sloppy job.

Business people understand risk, yet software developers go through all this effort to talk about story points and velocity.
That makes sense, but the Impossible brand is not for us vegetarians and vegans. So evaluating it or calling it a failure on a measure that is not its objective isn't fair :/
Admittedly, the developer has slowed down a bit - Pegasus Mail 5 has been announced since 2006 - and I wonder how the next incarnation will look and feel. But it is calming to know that the world where web browsers are not the best option to read and write e-mail messages is not going to go away soon.
Sure, but their revenue running ads is quite high to compensate.
As a life long meat eater, beyond meat tastes weird, but enjoyable. Impossible tastes so close to beef that I cannot tell the difference. It absolutely does not stay bright red, it cooks just the sames.
Pork is very important for the Chinese market.
Why even eat artificial meat if you don't want it to remind you of meat?
This is exactly what I was saying. Thanks for sharing.
I'm not sure what your experience has been, but in my experience friends set each other up with dates all the time. Tinder even tells you if you have mutual friends with someone.

Maybe because people are too busy with social media to have actual friends nowadays? :3
I think we can consider this to be "bridging food" - something to consume while in transition from Meat to Vegetarian or Vegan.

Or just something to eat sometimes as a way to reduce your personal "meat footprint."