skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was listening to Rick Rubin interview Andre Benjamin on Broken Record, and they briefly touched on this and agreed that constant touring creates a bubble that is terrible for writers.

In another part of the interview, Andre Benjamin said he loved going to the laundromat, and his biggest musical aspiration (at the time of the interview) was to play the bass clarinet well enough to be able to play along with anything/anyone at the park or beach (condensing/paraphrasing).

I think it's a combination of things, the career of a pop musician appears to be terrible for their art - probably bad for most of them as people, too.
I'm not Ghost user, but quick look at their site shows that it supports SQLite. So I have hard time to believe there would be a problem.
Why couldn't jam manufacturers just use returnable bottles? The beer companies in Ontario do, soda bottles are returnable and reusable in many places.
> Recycling mentioned on Hacker News always depresses me.

Same here. Especially as someone from central europe where most recycling just works and noone even thinks twice about it. Heck, a lot of landfill dumping is even banned here already and anything dumped must be thermally threated first anyway.
That's not actually bad, right? The whole point was to find out if it works. Now they can fix it before there is an actual emergency
Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see a good reason why government can't introduce legislation to enforce standardized packaging across product "classes" to streamline reuse and recycling - for example, all soda bottles of size x, must come in shape y, made out of polymer z. The obvious financial impact would be companies having to potentially retool their factories to facilitate that, but there can also be sensible tax rebates to prevent the corporations from crying.

The bottom line is, the cost of doing business has to take into account the environmental impacts on our planet and the consequences for our progeny.
We have something like what you propose in germany [1]. Basically it causes the producers of packaging to end up paying for the disposal of the corresponding trash. This creates an incentitive for producers to make the packaging less wasteful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dot_(symbol)#German_dual...
For a similar rare account I can recommend Ennin, a Japanese monk who visited Tang Dynasty China and wrote about it from ground level. Most chronicles were official and thus missed the juicy details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennin
The same way that everyone else does; buying a 1.5M 2 bed flat in Zone 1 isn’t possible on UK tech salaries either, even if you reach the top tiers for UK tech pay which usually tops at around £125K base you aren’t buying central London properties either.
Asking out of ignorance. When the article says that

> The Breakthrough Prizes are the largest prizes in science

Do they mean the prize comes with more money?
The world's supply of containment elements beryllium, niobium, zirconium, yttrium, and hafnium would be exhausted within ten years to thirty years if we were to produce enough nuclear power plants to supply our 15TW energy diet, assuming all other industrial uses of those elements were to cease and no advances in engineering were to provide alternatives.[0] To obtain one-tenth of our diet, we could get from 100 years to 300 years out of nuclear power under those same assumptions, exhausting those materials for the duration of our species due to irradiation of the containment materials.

If nuclear is a stop-gap measure worth pursuing, then we must face dire resource limitations.

[0] Derek Abbott. "Is Nuclear Power Globally Scalable?" Proceedings of the IEEE, October 2011
And scarcity triggers innovation. So instead of digging deep and asking "How can I alter the bounds of what appears to be limitation", and over-abundance of choice prevents that question from surfacing.

But that question is where the magic happens.
I hoped they're making photos of a broccoli from the orbit...
> The only containers which are infinitely recyclable are aluminum and coloured glass (nearly), but that takes energy.

I've heard people say that the environmental cost of producing the clean water necessary to wash bottles for reuse is also harmful. I'd really like to see a side-by-side comparison of the environmental cost of the different available "obvious" options.

> We need to just force manufacturers to bear the costs of recycling their products 100%: everybody would switch to reusable and this current clam shell packaging disaster would come to a close.

I entirely agree. I think manufacturers who produce in bulk products intended for consumers should be required to pay for regular environmental assessments, and then pay the total cost for responsible disposal or recycling of their entire product - including the packaging as well as the item itself when it reaches the end of its useful life. Then environmental harm would be priced into every consumer product.
In the case of processed foods like Pringles, I would suggest focusing on the first R, reduce. Not only good for the environment, but good for your health too.
Also very much worth reading GM Matthew Sadler's coverage of the superfinal games in the articles, section, e.g.:

https://tcec-chess.com/articles/Sufi_18_-_Sadler.pdf
> Are there people that think he is a bad guy?

Yeah, there are. I know people I generally find reasonable that consider him a traitor, and they're not even American. I think a lot of use have grown up on US culture and propaganda and it permeates our societies to the point of identification with the US, so Assange or Snowden are considered bad guys to a lot of people. It seems to me that it's primarily for pragmatic reasons: "We" profit from crimes, leaking information about those crimes reduces our profit from it, ergo leaking it is treason against us.
Is NixOS Reproducible?
Trump has floated the idea of pardoning Assange. A Biden presidency would likely be even more against Assange, because of his actions during the 2016 election which generally harmed Clinton.
A HN comment in another thread (which I can’t find atm) states that this is no longer relevant because exchanges now allow colocation in the same buildings as the servers running the exchange, and it’s relatively inexpensive. Is that comment inaccurate?
Bridge (the cards game) has seen a lot of research over the past decades without the bots ever becoming "world class good".

Of course you could argue that it is a difficult game for humans to understand as well =) So it might not fit exactly what you prompted for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bridge
There is no way he would have gotten due process, which is why he went in in the first place.
You have a great website. I was especially curious about your minimalism section and how you list all of your possessions. May I ask; do you truly not own any bedding? I'm similar to you such that I find extreme value in being able to pack up my things and go somewhere else with relative ease.
Not very. It is poetic licence on the part of the writer.

AI had a real impact on how the game was played however. After the advent of computer evaluation, there was a broad consensus that the way to win was to play solid positions. In a way, professional chess became more about not losing than winning. Anish Giri who peaked at number 3 in the world a few years ago is nicknamed the artist because he keeps drawing. Some found that pretty boring.

Funnily, salvation might actually have come from AI. AlphaZero doesn't play boring games and reminded everyone that favoring activity and initiative is a viable strategy.

Still, all things considered, streaming had probably a much bigger impact on chess than AI in the last few years.
NetBSD (with a lot less money in the bank and similarly bad bug trackers) has hired people using a few models in the past -- hourly, CoD, fixed-rate, etc but it's really the hiring itself that is so much trouble, just like in the real world! Not to mention doing "management" is also a total pain in the butt that someone now has to do for free.

The irony is that the people being hired are mostly already there doing work for free.

There is no way debian (or NetBSD) could pay market rate to compete for the time of anyone working on the project for very long so it's usually a motivational push or justification for sabbatical or "I have three months between contracts".

It's much much easier to buy hardware and things for developers who ask for it.

I suppose these projects are seeking developers with passion, personal wealth, and free time.
Self-replying; perhaps the downvote(s) were for not doing my own research...? :)

Here's a starter reading resource from the National Renewable Energy Lab in the US: https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2020/declining-renewable-...

And some more reading material from OpenEI: https://openei.org/wiki/Solar+Storage
After recently joining a new company this was one of my big contributions, I went through the whole codebase and removed legacy/unused code, or merged code that was slightly different into a more general version.

Spent a good 2 weeks on this but the result was around 120 files changed and over 4000 lines removed, it felt great! And it was also an amazing opportunity to understand the codebase and ask the right questions to other team members when figuring out what was outdated and what wasn't.
I strongly disagree with the assertion that chess is a "close to solved game" in human OTB play in particular.

Top GMs currently will probably score 0/12 against Leela/Stockfish. We see innovations frequently in recent years as we learn from engines themselves, h4/h5 pushes as a simple example, but also in terms of style like favoring rapid development and attacking play.

Yes, draws are frequent but that doesn't mean there is no excitement in long games. Rapid/blitz is damn fun to watch and play but there's a certain, different kind of elegance in carefully considered moves as well.
Thank you for Caddy ! It's been my default HTTP server for a few months and so far the user experience is stellar.
it's just "long play" and it comes from the length of the album indeed. Same goes for EP (extended play) and single. When the groves in vinyl albums are made, the engineers can decide how close and deep the groves are and what RPM the album is supposed to be played at.

Bass heavy tracks for example need deeper groves as they make the needle jump more and if the neighboring groves are too close, the needle might jump to them.

This is why 12" vinyls come in different weights and the playtime can vary quite a bit.
> I've heard people say that the environmental cost of producing the clean water necessary to wash bottles for reuse is also harmful.

If this is true, wouldn't it be more environmentally friendly to use disposable plates, bowls, and utensils? That doesn't seem right.
Noise.sh – a digital signal processing spreadsheet for sound design
The French insisted on doing it all in French while the language of the Internet is English. They isolated themselves and could never have been the center of the web.
> That means you need to end...selling stuff in containers entirely.

If we energy-cost-accounted for all externalities, then I wonder how returning the containers to the factory to automatically sanitize and re-use compares to recycling. Land filling is not an option: say you're in a closed loop environment like on a generation ship trip to Proxima Centauri b, and the concept of a land fill as we know it is obscenely wasteful.
European Commission Funds Open-Source Federated Cloud Platform
> Do they think the new regime in the US will feel the same way about Julian Assange and will put the same kind of pressure on the UK that the Trump administration presumably has?

The pressure came from the Obama administration, the Trump administration just kept it up. I don't see any reason to believe that Biden would be substantially different.
B) is trivial to answer: Either the shares are going to dilute and the company may fuck you over making them worthless, or they are not going to dilute.
I do own bedding, just didn't think to mention it. Same for chair or a table. It mostly lists things I would take with me if I were to move to a new place.
When did we become fully human? Fossils, DNA, & evolution of modern intelligence
I agree totally with you, but designing a language that's not "meant for humans" is an _incredibly_ stupid idea. Of course humans will try and write any protocol by hand. Who's gonna stop me?

If it looks like text, make it as easy as possible for humans to consume and write by hand. Period.

That's a small but very important reason why HTTP rules the world.
Would a business offering food replicators (the Trek kind that materialise energy into food) seem fraudulent to you? Would they be selling a fake product or just not have manufactured it yet?
The fact that society isn’t perfect doesn’t dispel my point.

It’s easy to dispel any argument by hand waving and saying “but look at all these other problems therefore you’re wrong!”

I stand by the assertion that 60/70 years ago western society had a more unified sense of what is right and wrong.

No doubt there were some major missing elements of that but the point stands.
Precision vs. Recall
OWL and MFC come to mind.
I see nothing at all about the potential new Democrat government in the U.S that indicates it would in the least bit reduce its stupid, petty, vengeful prosecution efforts against Assange.

A fundamental loyalty to protecting the superiority of the U.S state and its military power/secrets is a firm tenet of both major parties. Obama never budged on Assange, or Snowden and what would make the even less flexible-minded Biden likely to go against the grain?

If anything, Trump winning is Assange's (or Snowden's) best hope, because so long as he has nothing to immediately lose in the form of electoral points, he's exactly the kind of arrogant that would love a grandiose gesture of clemency just to stick it to political rivals and look "edgy". Something similar to what made him push for the talks with N. Korea. (I have a hard time picturing Hillary Clinton having seriously considered such a thing)
>Change generally isn't sparked by routine atrocities rumbling along in the background though, but by people coalescing around specific atrocities that gain high profile

Exactly.

Taylor and Shaver are people worth rioting over. Instead we've got protests because some much less sympathetic people were killed in less inflammatory (though obviously still pretty terrible) circumstances. Not exactly what civil liberties advocates were hoping for but there's no reason not to roll with it because maybe the cops will finally be reigned in a little (hopefully a lot but the government always drags its feet about curtailing its enforcers).

Assange might be an asshole weirdo but if he's what gets us reform then why not take it?
Yes, a number is pureley abstract. It is even more abstract than the form of representation in a theory of mind. It doesn't really matter if it is communicated via hard wired instinct, hormone signalling or language / reason -- both can encode the same concept: If it quacks like mastering countability and swims like mastering countability than it is probable to assume the ability to count.

The ontological question if both representations of the concept of a number are truly equal is not really important if we can show equivalent outcomes.
I thought it was well known it was ahead of Oxford for Maths, second only to Cambridge and Imperial
1. You have to get comfortable editing your own config, as much or even more than editing your own .vimrc. I don't think you have to become a lisp master, just understand what is going on like you probably do with vimscript.

2. Consider using Doom Emacs as a starting point. It's fast and works like you would expect out of the box. You can use it like Vim and discover aditional features as you need them. And most importantly, it's (almost) as easy to configure as vanilla.
> I love records. There are plenty of reasons why records are great that don't usually get mentioned here.

> * The big one: There is tons of music out there that isn't on streaming services. If you like punk, breakcore, UK dubstep, noise, really anything even a little bit out of the mainstream, or from the past - you can't find the best stuff on any streaming services. If I could only make one point, this would be it. Spotify! Doesn't! Haven't! Everything! You'll never dance around your living room to the good version of This Bike is a Pipebomb's 'Better Off Dead', because you don't have the split 7".

> * Vinyl is a good value store. If you keep good care of your records - and you have good taste - you'll find that your collection _appreciates_ in value over time, unlike other forms which _depreciate_. Some of the records I picked up in high school are worth over a hundred bucks now! Not that I plan on ever selling them, but it's nice to know I could.

> * Vinyl is something to do while traveling! It's great going to another country or city and browsing the record shops and finding something you're after, or something funky looking in the $2 bin. Random finds in dollar bins are a bit like Magic: The Gathering cards - usually crap, but occasionally brilliant. Plus, whenever you take it out, you get to remember the trip you got it on.

> * Sampling. I make hip hop, and samples from vinyls just sound better with that real grit. They just do.

> Records! Yeah!

I've bought a few albums with the purpose of flipping them and I've made a 2500% return with those. What you say is correct, soundtracks and smaller runs or limited editions tend to grow in value.
> John Stossel's show (obligatory thanks to YouTube algorithm) where he mentions Minitel as an exhibit of government/public sector's failure to innovate and a way for the French government to 'control the growth' of this new technology before private players.

I wonder what he thinks ARPANET is an example of. (I don't)
> What configuration format does meet your approval?

None at the moment.

My problem with all of them is that I can't scan them visually to spot typos or mistakes. They break the content up and move related data too far apart for the inconsistencies to be immediately apparent.

Don't laugh, but in the absence of better options, I prefer to use Excel. With tabular data, things that belong together are visually adjacent. There are no repeated headers, or unnecessary syntax. Formulas are available, but hidden by default.

In the past I liked to use XML, but only with Altova XmlSpy, which had a kind of "hierarchical table view" superficially similar to Excel, but for tree-like data.

Both of the above are easy to use from PowerShell. I even wrote myself an Import-Xlsx module that works without Excel having to be installed. It uses the .NET framework libraries for opening XLSX files. (Under they hood they're essentially just a Zip file containing plain XML data.)

Ideally?

I'd like something like the SQL Server Analysis Services MDX query language, but with a front-end more like Excel for the editing of the data.

It is purpose designed for multi-dimensional data, and in my field that's exactly what I have to do: provision every combination of a bunch of tables.

For example: For each data centre, for each availability zone, for each of PRD/UAT/DEV, deploy each of the following roles, with 'n' instances each.

This is a multi-dimensional cube, also known as a full outer product.

Naively expanding everything is not good either, there needs to be some sort of language for making "exceptions". Such as: The DEV environment is only in this location. UAT has fewer sewers than PRD. Etc...

That's where a nice language would work wonders. You'd want to be able to do things like:

*.*.dev.sql.instances = 0
us-west.*.dev.sql.instances = 2

That would set the dev instances everywhere to zero, except US West. It's selecting a hyperplane through the cube and setting all of the cells to the constant on the right. This is the kind of thing MDX is designed to do, but no "simple" config language ever can.

So instead you get monstrosities like the Azure ARM "copy" syntax: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manage...
I don't know for sure how much the US government / DOD spends on RHEL licenses, but I've worked at plenty of contractors who were using it (and CentOS). I would be surprised if a significant amount of RHEL's revenues weren't from the federal government.
Try Magic: the Gathering.

>I remember reading somewhere that languages like Finnish and Hungarian are difficult for computers to parse

I wonder how much of that is due to AI researchers being speakers of Indo-European languages and not being able to wrap their mind around languages outside that family
Yes, this is disappointing. Take the Nokia 8114 4G feature-phone [1] for example: it does even have "Wireless Emergency Alert" (WEA) [2] configuration in its connectivity configuration screen. However Germany does not implement a WEA compliant notification scheme, and there is no way to install any of the warning apps on the Nokia 8114.

And then you forgot another requirement for the App to work

- the server that serves those messages needs to actually work (it failed during the test AFAIK)

"Embarrassing" is really the only word that adequately describes the current state of affairs.

[1] https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-8110-4g

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts
Is there a plain text composing mode? Or is it by default plain text if I don't turn on the rich text toolbar?
https://linguaholic.com/topic/1987-famous-greek-quotations/

«Πάν μέτρον άριστον»

Everything in moderation. Can’t say I manage to get by following it.
I think a lot about this quote as of late
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Baldwin
We seem to be in a period of history with many pure hearts
The article alludes to removing the plastic components altogether if possible in place of the plastic, so yes, the Stax container is easier to recycle, but still not ideal.
Restructuring Kapital (Historical Fiction)
I set up a Hugo website to link to a book I finally finished while unemployed.
Big Data: 4 Features and Its Big Impact on Business
> “ If one of two airborne transmissions remains within normal variation while the other drops significantly, then masks had an insignificant effect.”

Statistically speaking, it’s a large error to assert this or draw this conclusion.

There are too many confounders, the hugest being that it’s not flu season there and the sample size is way too low to have confidence in any conclusion based on the UK flu sample. Given the significance of the data in southern hemisphere countries, it suggests there is an effect on flu transmission and the UK data (by confounders and small sample) are consistent with that possibility.

> “Masks don't discriminate between flu and covid.”

That’s right - suggesting a big effect on reducing both, with confounders that would make such a comparison meaningless if you tried to make it in a country like UK right now.
Or alternatively, back then entry level was the Tascam 244 Portastudio, with whatever instruments/mics you could find at a pawn shop. Reverb? Sing in the shower. Way less than 10k.

And a lot bands did this...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portastudio

One guy from our school did build a home studio like they describe, but only after getting a record deal and a pile of cash.
Ask HN: How do you manage your traumas?
What helps you most?
Apple Cloud Traffic team is adopting Rust
Here's another:

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle
"Whenever the word 'they' enters your consciousness, ask yourself, 'what is the distribution?'" -- my psychology professor

Overgeneralization about groups of people is one of the most pernicious natural biases.
So the plant basically does something like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process ? That would be huge.
Interesting. I am a bit behind you and have recently transitioned to (Doom) Emacs. What plugins were slow for you? What things did you find indispensable and reimplement in vim?