skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moreover, they gloss over the fact that Nuclear energy, despite its costs, compares very favourably to even renewable energy: compared to wind & solar, it emits several times less CO2, costs several time less (if you account for the batteries needed to store wind&solar energy), and even kills less (per unit of energy).

Not renewable, so it won't last forever. But it sure can dampen the impending long term recession we'll get after Peak Oil.

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About externalization, it's even worse than most people think: it's not just about making others paying the costs, it's also about delaying payment. For instance, even if we were to stop greenhouse gas emissions right now, dividing our GDP by 2 or more overnight, we'll still get 1.5°C worth of warming in the future, with noticeable consequences already. Of course we won't do that, so the actual warming will be worse. Even more obvious, the depletion of various resources: oil, gas, beach sand, copper…

What we should do, but almost certainly aren't doing, is computing the amortised costs of Global Warming (with population moving because it has become lethally hot in some regions, and lots of other "adjustments"), and the the amortized cost of the depletion of non-renewable resources of all kinds, that we won't be able to use at all at some point in the future; then writing that cost on our balance sheet.

We'd probably notice we were heading to bankruptcy very fast if we wrote that amortized cost down.
Reading this view of it, and that people are already creating work-arounds gladdens my heart ever so slightly. Few things are more deadening than being inescapably tied to a specific identity no matter what you do to escape it.
> Who knows what Japan would be like if it weren't for the US declaring war on it.

It's the other way around. For the past 150 years, nations usually "declare" war with an initial attack to gain surprise, like Pearl Harbor in WW2, which was done to secure their colonization of Manchuria (China.)
A few months ago I did a passthrough of Wrath Of Chronos, and it really breathed some life into Hexen. It even works for other DOOM wads and can be a fun change of pace to your standard IWAD, give it a shot if DOOM RPGs sound up your alley :)

https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=35846
Just an honest invocation of Poe's law, swear. edit: self-censored a small rant
I wonder how those who want to find the cause of their failure in other people's success eventually deal with the fact that Nigerian immigrants into the USA are far more successful compared to African Americans while they are visually indistinguishable from them. Will the Nigerians be accused of having some form of privilege? Will they be called 'white' just like Asians are now often considered to be 'white'? Will saner minds prevail, find the reasons for their success and emulate these so they end up on the same level?
This is a terrible article, and written like someone ranting almost randomly over his bullying experience as a kid.

Does the author really believe that bystanders don’t join in because “comic books“ propagate the notion that people who step in will get bullied? If anything, comics encourage the opposite, that good people stand up for those that can’t. Or that kids noticed that no one wanted to step in for Edward Snowden and that’s why they don’t help bullying victims?

That is literally the dumbest thing I’ve read in a long time. It’s literally animal instinct not to get involved unless there is some edge. It even happens in the animal kingdom, when lions attack Cape buffalo. Even though the lions are outnumbered 100:1, it’s the Cape buffalo that area afraid. Fear is an easy way to control large swaths of people. Just look at China. How else can a government keep almost 2 billion people in line?
Please do not be that condescending towards me or towards anyone else on HN.

I am glad that using obscure viewing option, literally absent from anywhere in the interface, works for you. However, majority of people are using HN via default https://news.ycombinator.com/, and this story is missing from there completely.
>The Communist Party of the USSR where nothing else then the Czarist regime

Some should explain to your parent commenter that Stalin itself grew up under a conservative Church like seminarium, under the influence of the Orthodox Church.

In essence, Stalin converted a socialist regime to another one under Neo-tsarism with a bureaucratic state.
we have zero leads from last month

I had no idea what FHIR is. I googled. I followed about five or six links without backing up to land here: http://www.hl7.org/about/gold.cfm?ref=nav

Start cold calling. Collect names. Fill a rollodex. Don't stop. Fill another. Follow up in person.

Ask about what's in their current budget. What's coming down the pipeline. How they currently handle work in your area. See their physical infrastructure. Know what the decision maker's office looks like. Get a sense of their actual problems and assure them that you can mitigate them.

Get your ass to work. Out of the chair. In the car and cheap motels. Stop pretending there are clients on Hacker News. There aren't. It's just easier to post here than cold call.

Good luck.
A proxy for that might be running it through eg. Shazam, I think they use similar tech.

From what little I've heard they make a spectrogram (frequency, intensity, time) and plot the peaks into a point cloud. Most of those should survive even the heaviest audio compression.
God wants your exclusive devotion. The freezer doesn't care what else you're doing to help you to cheat death, so you can spread your faith around more and hedge your bets.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/should-we-...
As reported on HN yesterday
I remember downloading my first mp3 from Napster (Star Wars Opening Fanfare) and thinking it wouldn't quite fit on a floppy.

Also deleting it a few days later to save space on my 4GB HD.
The reality is that most permanent iPad installations put the charger on a timer.
You won't find clients in a niche like this by setting up a website and waiting for them to show up. When clients need custom development, they turn to recommendations from friends or they turn to industry leaders. They usually don't have the expertise to evaluate a new player on their own.

So you need to either establish yourself as a recommended friend (by networking and/or completing successful projects) or as an industry leader. For the latter, you could use strategies like blogging on how a facility should deploy or consume FHIR, write about best practices in interoperability, or whatever. That might lead to people asking you questions and eventually lead to them asking for help with projects.

If you don't know many people in the industry yet, one way to get to know more people might be to partner with another company on a dev project where they need extra help. It might not be as exciting as getting your own project, but you have to start somewhere.

I have a company in this niche and may need help with FHIR and related dev work in the future. Feel free to send me an email to the details in my profile and introduce yourself.
These American WSJs are laughted off from European Marxists, for them they are just a punch of Starbucks posh hipsters.

Your parent comment doesn't know a shit.
Photos would help. Anyone have a link to any?
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I wrote finished a short story this year that explores some of these ideas heavy-handedly. It is placed in a Universal Library setting, a continuation of Borges' Library of Babel. In a sense it is both for and against the idea of compression as a way to gaining knowledge, attempting to make a greyer area out of it.

"Unlike the entirety of the Library, incomprehensible due to its sheer vastness, the book itself was much smaller. Any single one could easily be read hundreds of times over during the lifespan of a librarian. Therefore, the book’s gibberish nature did not come of its own accord but simply sprouted out of its relation to us and our lack of knowledge concerning the Library as a whole. In other words, for any book to make any sense to any librarian, it must have recognizable patterns, like those in language. And since every possible book that could exist did, most of them were simply random, nonsensical strings of characters. Leaving the librarians themselves to search for the language or sets of languages that could bring meaning to them (them:themselves or them:the books no one was sure). This was reflected — maybe the same sort of reflection Tanner was searching for — in the various languages the librarians did know and use; the ever-evolving nature of them, incorporating and condensing larger and larger swaths of ideas that then needed to be condensed even further into shorter acronyms for quicker reference."

https://medium.com/@odell.brenden/a-return-to-the-library-of...
> small internal ram, transmission via infrared

Sneakernet, yet contactless, nice! The devices could exchange their most-listened tracks and overwrite the least-listened tracks.
I knew someone in the same office as me who bought in at about $400, ran an arbitrage bot between exchanges .. and somehow lost money on it. The flaws were clear.

If you bought and held (which requires keeping the keys secret against a lot of attacks and not losing them), and also managed to pick the peak to sell at, and managed to sell without being scammed, exit-scammed by the exchange, or having your account locked, then yes you could have made a lot of money. Because there's a lot of risk along the way.
This is like looking for patterns in Brownian motion
In some way, neither one project fails entirely - as it serves to distributes wealth from those that have too much to those that do not have enough.

In some sense it would be even better for society if those who have lot of wealth risk even more into wild ideas and moonshot projects.
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I agree that ascribing human behaviours to (particularly animal) biology is shaky. But the changes going on in teenage years (ie puberty) lead me to think teenage rebellion isn’t just cultural.
Thanks! We're trying!

The whole audiobook landscape isn't clear cut yet. In music and video you have a few well-established (entrenched?) players: Amazon, Google, Apple, Spotify (music). In audiobooks there are still a bunch of smaller players alongside Amazon (Apple doesn't do much about audiobooks, other big players are only just starting, see Spotify). There are at least three in every country, I think :)

And the whole thing is further fractured by whether or not publishers and rights holders want to provide their audiobook, and ebooks, or only one or the other. And there are way more publishers and rights holders than there are in music (in music they are also mostly consolidated into a few megamonsters [1]).

And the market is still growing, as more and more people discover and listen audiobooks (and related material like podcasts) during commute, in the car, during daily routines and so on.

So yeah, it's stressful, but interesting :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label#3
That he never made that quote about memory.
well, facts can apart from beiing right or wrong, also be unpopular.
>conservative

>California

Hollywood told us otherwise to Europeans, them.
That isn’t how values work. Well, not mine at any rate. The outcome wouldn’t change.
after that, add visuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCqrylNY-0
Where is the data coming from?
This has been a pain point for me in the past, but I guess it's just part of how the ecosystem works.

I would personally rewrite the article as "Too many ways to start an Xserver"
I use Jellyfin as an open source alternative to Plex. I personally don't have any audio books on my home server, but it has support for them.
> Where do you draw the line?

When the abstraction can be considered 100% leak-proof in practical terms. Also, if you have alternative tools when you encounter a case where "X" doesn't fit, you do not need to learn about "X" as long as you have "Y".

But when a solution is presented as "this must always be used", the solution should have been around for a long time with a track record of never breaking. If that's where the abstraction is, it's usually solid enough to not go any deeper.

In my experience, most developers don't talk about "magic" as if it's the same thing as "abstraction". "Magic" usually means an abstraction that leaks under non-trivial conditions.
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In my sect of Buddhism, we don't do "contemplation of death" meditation. What we are taught is to consider our last moment before death, so we can approach it (which is the beginning of our existence in death) in the proper way. And that, in my understanding, boils down to establishing the correct foundation during our life.
Yes, and a video:

https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospace/flying-v-model-embark...

It's a scale model that flew, not an actual aircraft. It's an interesting idea though.
I'm not sure what the average citizen could have done to "take it more seriously" back then. "Be even more vocal in your opposition to the coming war", perhaps? Not that it would have made much difference.
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Is there any way to check that a 'GPT-3' text is real and not faked for the much-desired lulz?
Quickle – a fast and small Python serialization library
Clean network partitions do happen, although it's certainly not a weekly occurrence.

For instance, a metro might be isolated from the rest of the network due to simultaneous fiber cuts.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50851420

Or we could see heavy, prolonged network congestion on the backbone, impacting comms to/between backend services, while frontend serving is unaffected.

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...

(Incidentally, IIRC, Youtube's video serving infra was unaffected, but the backend jobs for youtube.com were largely inaccessible.)

Or improperly-executed maintenance that isolates a metro by draining routers in the wrong order. Insufficiently-provisioned network capacity (or network augments lagging far behind). Backbone traffic engineering gone awry. Underwater fiber cut due to shark attacks. QoS inversion (i.e. user-facing traffic as high priority, but replication as low priority) causing a partition during periods of heavy network load.

While yes, a lot of these scenarios might have (and did!) impact Google's serving capability, Google servers were still IP-reachable. 8.8.8.8 should have still been able to serve DNS (albeit with potentially stale data).

(In more recent news, if you use a transit provider to provide connectivity between your datacenters, and said transit provider suffers a multi-hour outage, that's a clean partition.)
Why are hundreds of African elephants dying? – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
> To start with, "Senior" and related titles basically mean a person who doesn't need much hand-holding.

I'd call this "not junior". To me, "senior" would be the person leading a small multi-person effort or doing the hand-holding of junior engineers.
And for fruit. I hate having to throw out apples every week, when my canned tuna keeps for ages.
I'm also suspicious of the coincidence, but an organized disinformation attempt explains it just as well as a real event.
Our brains have lots of highly specific bits of hardware that corresponds to different parts of the body, or different tasks such as recognizing faces. Most of what our brains do isn't necessary to replicate to produce something which is, at least in some way, generally intelligent. Artificial neural networks are only trying to replicate a small subset of our brain's hardware, and relatively basic (albeit large) architectures like GPT-3 are doing this by becoming skilled at recognizing patterns, and extending them. Pattern recognition is an enormous part of our higher level (generalizable) thinking. It also means that things like our brains and GPT-3 are extremely efficient but lossy compression algorithms.
>Nigerian immigrants into the USA

Nigerian inmigrants travelled an ocean, for sure they have money and a huge set of values, and they are not afraid at all of either racists or potential disadvantages. They had it worse in Nigeria.

Here in Spain the Nigerians are seen as hard workers with an incredible spirit of superation.
ODrive started as an opensource project. Then they started getting customers and knockoffs on Aliexpress appeared. They learned from that "mistake" and the latest version is now proprietary.
Ahhh, you kids that started with the Commodore 64/1541 and 170k of capacity.

I started with a TRS-80 Model 1 with a Shugart SA-400 drive connected to an expansion interface. 85K capacity.
This kind of reminds me of the usual interview question: can you make a fair die from an unfair one.

Similarly, us as humans, could possibly have the ability to get over some/all of our distorted senses.

I am not talking about every day life here. It's in principle possible to deal with the logical fallacies that we're programmed with, but it requires effort.

What am more interested to convey is: our potential for objectivity is troubled with subjectivity. It is, however, not impossible on just the account of having subjective distortions. Those can be overrun.

There are many other similar analogies that come to mind, one that is prominent: digital systems made from purely analog ones.
How do you know how uncommon it is?

Anyway, suicide mostly comes from desperate mental situations, not people making business plans.
I do have good experience with nodejs as such. What would you suggest for learning layouts and css. Thanks.
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Milk is great.

Milk + potatoes is a full diet.

Not many mutations have spread as fast as lactose tolerance in adulthood, and we don’t have many known adaptations that happened in the neolithic. Goes to show the intense evolutionary pressure for drinking milk in Europe.
Wow, Phobos has a seismometer? Neat!
He has a more thorough explanation here [0]. It's a bit cherry picked paragraph by paragraph

[0] https://twitter.com/raphamilliere/status/1289226960279764992
Webify: Turn shell commands into web services
recent comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24340190
You could also enable uBO's 'I am an advanced user' mode in the settings and block all images on the website.

I've been doing that for youtube to block video thumbnails and it works really well for me.
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This frames situations in an interesting light and asks some provoking questions and it's easy to see how someone would get pissed off or offended by reading it, which in and of itself is an excellent quality in any article.
A GenServer may become a concurrency bottleneck as any other language with concurrent data access may become a bottleneck depending on your abstraction of choice. This is nothing specific to Elixir.

What Erlang/Elixir bring to the table is that there is a good vocabulary and introspection tools to observe these issues. For example, if you have a GenServer as a bottleneck, you can start Observer (or the Phoenix LiveDashboard or similar), order processes by message queue, and find which one is having trouble to catch-up with requests. So we end-up talking about it quite frequently - it is easier to talk about what you see!

If you need distributed data, then by all means, use Redis or PostgreSQL or similar. ETS is not going to replace it. What ETS helps is with sharing data within the same node. For example, if you have a machine with 8 cores, you may start 8 Ruby/Python instances, one for each core. If the cache is stored on Redis, you will do a network roundtrip to Redis every time you need the data. Of course you can also cache inside each instance but that can lead to large memory usage, given each instance has its own memory space. This may be accentuated depending on the data, such as caching geoip lookups, as mentioned in the post you linked.

In Elixir, if you have 8 cores, it is a single instance. Therefore, you could cache geoip lookups in ETS and it can be shared across all cores. This has three important benefits: lower memory usage, reduced latency, and increased cache-hit ratio in local storages. At this point, you may choose to not use Redis/DB at all and skip the additional operational complexity. Or, if you prefer, you can still fallback to Redis, which is something I would consider doing if the geoip lookups are expensive (either in terms of time or money).

In any case, ETS is completely optional. If you just want to go to Redis on every request, you can just do that too! And for what is worth, if I need distributed state, I just use to the database too.
The police aren't the only people with investigate ability.
You're right, just a vocal minority, let's say a plurality is enough.
No, you cannot, not without putting an incredible amount of work on the programmers plate.

Consider the simple problem of multiplying together a sequence of N matrices of possibly different sizes with the least amount of work. The order you multiply in is determined via some optimization technique. You can try to have a different C function for each N, but eventually you will have some N for which your lib doesn't have the call. Or maybe you'll try to pack pointers into an array and pass that, which is now slower and more memory costly. In any case the order must be solved at runtime.

Templates allow, at compile time for known size matrices, the order to be determined. This cannot be done in generality with C since you cannot in C do it.

And, if the matrices were constexpr, this can be computed at compile time.

So the template method, giving you Turing complete operations, can do things that you cannot do in C.

This is just a simple example, the tip of the iceberg.
This concept is not new. Lifting bodies have been around since the 20s.

Boeing and NASA have both experimented with this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_wing_body
It's a decent proxy for how our brains process language, but processing language is just one of many processes involved in having a conversation. The goal isn't intelligence. The best possible model would be able to identify the relationships between all words in all contexts. Which is cool, but isn't the whole picture.
I think this is a parody?
That's true. Unless the user assembles the device himself there is no way for a small company dedicated to opensource to survive. Unfortunately I absolutely dislike assembling manufacturer provided kits. You can't really review a kit because any potential problems could be caused by incorrect assembly. Scummy manufacturers have an easier time to get away because they don't have to promise a final product.

If you get stuck halfway because of bad instructions that's on you to figure out.
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For a recent confirmation of this, witness the enormous amount of effort expended on GPDR compliance.

None of it could have been done before computing power became so cheap that it needed to be wasted on doing it.

Everyone complains about useless procedures, but I think the real culprit is that we have no framework for discussing value. By that I mean the fundamental economic problem of what should we do, who should do what, how should stuff be shared?

In effect our current idea of value is a sort of unstated default: whatever you can get someone to do is valuable, unless it's illegal. And what becomes illegal is also governed by never-stated assumptions.

So we end up with this society where anything that can take up productive capacity is done. There's always some sort of justification that might sound reasonable in some context - privacy of personal data is indeed important - but we end up not balancing the costs with the benefits, and you end up with absurd situations where schools can't send out mail to their alumni (yes, this actually happened to me).