skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most HN comment sections are full of "yes, but..." comments. A post could say "water is wet" and 10 people would pop in to say "yes, but..."
This is blatantly untrue. Caste discrimination is a harsh reality in India that millions of people face on a daily basis.
> Life crossed a threshold from chemistry to biology on Earth, and developed exponentially from there. Order in mathematics crosses a similar threshold, as it becomes sufficiently structured to support algebraic reasoning.

It's funny, because I think this metaphor cuts exactly the opposite direction -- code reaching sufficient complexity, the pure math approach doesn't survive an encounter with the real world.

I love static analysis and think that there are core business domains that are best expressed with a rich type system, but there is a whole world of absolutely critical programming that cannot simply eliminate messiness, due to interfacing with humans and our flawed practices.

With sufficient time and an expressive enough type system, even the messiest business process can be represented, but I'm not convinced that's an example of beauty but rather stubbornness.
But that is the point: we need to get back to a situation where something like don't be a jerk is seen as just that, a simple suggestion not to be a jerk. As long as simple suggestions like this lead to cancellations the public discourse is on the wrong track, the one with the sign 'Warning: weak bridge'. We - as in those of us who are favour true intellectual discourse over partisan/polarised rhetoric - need to take back control over the meaning of words and the fact that words in fact have specific meanings which can not and should not be allowed to be changed on the spot to fit some narrative - viz. Websters dictionary suddenly changing the definition of the term 'preference' [1,2].

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-preference-defini...

[2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/merriam-webster-barrett-se...
I started experimenting with fasting a about 2-3 years ago. My initial goal was weight loss (lost 100lbs from 272->172). My limit was typically 7 days but I wanted to see what the impact of a longer fast would do in the area of autophagy. I experienced some positive results but would discourage others from doing it, 3-5 days is more than enough. I would also discourage doing alternate day fasting or 24 hour fasting since it will screw up your metabolism (I ate 2 meals (2500kcal) every other day for 3 months) and found it very stressful on my general well being and metabolism.

These days I maintain 172 lbs with time delayed eating (18/6) and a clean diet.
Also those who don’t know that “wheel” is a major category with many open source options, and dismiss them after a cursory look when you point this out.
Every time I see a research being published on HN, it ends up being a mouse model. Is there a place on the internet where I can see a list of publications describing the final (or close to final) stage of a research made on humans? Mouse model researches worsen my overall abstraction of where the humanity, in a scientific sense, is.
>Everyone always thinks there is some grand nefarious plot in play out to fraudulently overcharge them ... but the system is really just the result of all the many demands placed on it by many different and frequently opposed interests

I wouldn't call it a "grand nefarious plot", but instead a dynamic driven by the fact that PG&E's interests are not aligned with the citizens of California.

In years when PG&E makes money, they distribute bonuses and dividends. When they lose money, or have to pay for significant infrastructure upgrades, they argue they need to raise rates because "somebody's got to pay for it". The solution is this "Public Utilities Commission", which besides accusations of regulatory capture, you now have citizens paying the commission board members to enforce regulations, and paying PG&E's lawyers (through their rates) to push back against that enforcement.

The executives at PG&E know their job is to make money for the shareholders, so any way they can push expenses to rate payers or liability to the state (for example, the San Bruno pipeline explosion, caused by their negligence, yet they only paid for a fractions of the damages), just makes sense.

Americans across the country are getting overcharged by their for-profit utilities, PG&E is just one of the most predatory.
Rooftop solar is cost-effective. It is already starting to get below the price people pay for getting electricity from the grid.
What measure are you talking about here? Has Tesla published any stats about FSD?

The other stats in this thread make it sound like Tesla is not even the same league as other attempts at driving.
You’re using a gigabit connection to capacity with less than a dozen people (assuming numbers, of course!) just streaming Netflix/HBO/Amazon Prime? I don’t mean to be sarky, genuinely curious!
Try any system ever that has had a v2. Engineering is not omnipotent.
I bought this android phone.

I can download games and play them whenever.

If I want phone service I have to hook this phone up to a service provider.

If I want music I have either put an mp3 on the phone, visit youtube, subscribe to a service like spotify or google music.

Apple Music is a seperate service like spotify correct?

Venders will bundle in their own services into the os menus in order to extract additional cash.

Apple Music isn't a feature of the iphone os. It's an ad designed to trick you.
Some morals aren't as modern as people make them out to be when making this argument.

Also interesting to use a quote from a man responsible for starving millions of innocents in a debate about morality, but that's neither here nor there.
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First of all caste is not invisible as you say. The discrimination starts from the names. Segregation based on caste is the way of life in India. I'm expecting may be its hard for a foreigner like you to notice but for the victims its very real and persistent everyday in their life!
This is blatantly untrue. The British only acknowledged the existing systems and codified it in parts of India. The brutal nature of the caste system has existed for millennia before this and is well documented. For instance, Buddha spoke against the caste system - that is around 500BC.
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My opinion: I think it's a qualified "yes."

If you can successfully pull it off, there's substantial evidence it is generally beneficial. But I have a genetic disorder that impairs fat processing (so I had no real fat stores to draw on while fasting) and I began fasting or semi fasting while homeless at times when I was too broke to afford food.

Initially, it was extremely hard on me. I routinely threw up on fasting days and usually managed to get something into me so was really only light rationed, not actually fasting. It took years for me to get well enough for fasting to stop being horrible torturous drama and I still have extremely severe diarrhea when I resume eating.

Second, there is a thing called Refeeding Syndrome that can occur when you break a fast. It can be deadly.

I think it benefits a lot of conditions, but if you have a condition, it's also potentially dangerous to try it and we need to get a lot more savvy about how people with conditions can safely try it.

With asking around about Refeeding Syndrome and some best practices for how to effectively break a fast plus some experience, breaking a fast has gotten to be a lot easier on me.

I could have potentially died from fasting and it likely wouldn't have been blamed on fasting. My condition is serious enough they would have blamed my condition.

But it has proven beneficial and I hate it less than I used to.
Could it be Nord VPN specifically which seems like a more popular consumer oriented VPN compared to say Corporate VPN ?
Definitely a weird thing given PHP’s heritage. Of course it’s totally possible to write JSON API endpoints in PHP.
Which is a bigger driver of decentralization? Running a node or adoption? I would think a universally adopted blockchain in the multi-TB would turn out more decentralized than a narrowly adopted multi-GB blockchain. # of potential business/research/government nodes >> hobby nodes.
No, it isn't. See my comment addressing this above.
That Hideous Strength is, to me, the most challenging of his space trilogy. I liked Perelandra best, but only after reading it a second time when a friend pointed out that it was a reimagining of the garden of Eden (I was too young to pick up on that during the first read). Out of the Silent Planet is interesting since the reference is to Earth and how it remains "silent" to those outside of it who choose to avoid its rampant evil.

Incidentally the trilogy came about when C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien agreed to write separate sci-fi series - Lewis would write a space trilogy and Tolkien a time-travel one [0]. Tolkien was to write of a traveler from England who visited Numenor (the land of Aragorn's sires) before it drowned in a fate similar to Atlantis. Lewis completed his, but Tolkien did not although much of the material was published in a volume on the history of Middle Earth by his son, Christopher. (Lewis referred to his friend as "that great but dilatory and unmethodical man".) Tolkien's experiment did result in the development of the idea of the Fall of Numenor which did get incorporated into the Lord of the Rings saga.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Road_and_Other_Writ...
But also there is no way Tesla FSD is anywhere close to being statistically better than normal drivers considering what we see in the videos.

The reason I make this obvious statement is you are making it seem like the article is using anecdotes while there are statistics somewhere that show safety
On one hand they shouldn’t on another hand “performance modes” are often priced based on the wear and tear they induce and it’s impact on the manufacturer warranty in terms of servicing costs.

Even before Tesla you already had car manufacturers that basically locked out performance behind a pay wall even tho the car itself was identical to the “sport model”.

Many of the German manufacturers had this practice for a decade if not more, the extra price difference is basically their estimated cost to the changes in MTF between when you push your car to 80-90% of its capability to 100%.

And even before Tesla you already had aftermarket products and services that were designed to unlock that extra performance and yes they did often at least in principal voided the warranty.
Isn't it great how many people come out as affected in this thread alone? Maybe the common mutation is common.
actually there are studies especially from David Sinclair that shows that fasting and calorie restrictions help mice live longer and healthier.

For those interested here is a great interview with David Sinclair, Harvard Researcher on aging:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZqAKNPxaxc
They tried to have a reoccurring comic relief character in Sheriff John W. Pepper but it only lasted two films. He played a sheriff or prison guard in a number of films of that era as well.
I'm not a Java developer, but isn't RxJava the current best practice around managing concurrency in Java? I thought the consensus was that manually dealing with thread creation is too error-prone and unmanagable.
> I have dozens of Indian friends who have been in the US for three decades, and they've never heard of it either.

This sounds like a white male talking to other white males assumes that racism is not seen anywhere
Still magnitudes safer than human drivers.
Trust me, I am because I come from the part of Europe that didn't do as well as west, and I can appreciate even the fact that I'm here and can live freely, I know how much worse it can get.
We certainly have law, but they are not applied. It is hard to pick people from the mob an put them on the stand. And these people hide in a large groups. Same as Nazis did. Alone they are afraid and harmless. We seem to forget the history here. If we don't suppress extremism early we will have much bigger problems.
To be fair the seals are probably far less polluted than some cheap random chicken bought at the supermarket.

The fact that perfection is impossible to reach shouldn't make us abandon and do nothing about it.
I want the opposite. Caffeine without the taste of coffee.
This isn't a mild scandal even when you exclude the sex/drugs component of it. There are documents and audio recording detailing relationships between the Biden family and members of the Chinese intelligence services, among other things. There are text messages and emails which show that Hunter was regularly consulting with his father Joe Biden on these deals.

Hunter Biden’s Apparent Contract to Represent Chinese ‘Spy Chief’ Leaked:

https://www.mediaite.com/news/read-the-1-million-contract-hu...

There have been text messages leaked from the family discussing allegations of Hunter engaging in sexual misconduct with a minor member of the Biden family. Photos leaked of Hunter Biden purport to show Hunter Biden (who is naked in these photos) with this minor in the background sitting on his bed.
My two gotos have been the Mojo v3 (Spartan 6 LX9) (fairly old at this point), they can be had for $30 on eBay and have a built in programmer, and the Alchitry Au (Artix 7 35T). It's $100, but it's nice and compact and has a ton of gates. Also has a built in programmer and 256 MiB of DDR3.

Neither of these have high speed serial interfaces (for things like ethernet, PCIe, HDMI, etc.), but they're fun starting points.

I'd love to get into making my own FPGA boards, but man, BGAs are scary from a hobbyist perspective. The Spartan 6 LX9 is neat (from a hobbyist perspective) in that it's a big QFP.
Zeppelins like the Graff and Hindenburg had machine shops onboard as well!

Their engines were very unreliable, they could do overhauls mid-flight. Airplanes around that time were just as unreliable, but flew shorter hops. Had to overhaul or swap their engines quite regularly between flights.
Sure, but federal electoral reform was one of Trudeau's platform items before he got elected.

Once he got in... it seems suddenly less interesting.
I would dearly love to see this get done here. In BC, there was an attempt to get it in, but province-wide, the results of voting weren't there.
Last I saw the chipset can't map enough memory space to PCIe for GPUs to work, but this might be possible to change with a firmware update.
You can use Scala 3 which is even more powerful than Rust and you get all the benefits + extra sauce.
> But it is true: consequences must be related to what is good/allowed and what isn't. So law is a moral code, but not only that.

Legal consequences are facts, morals are values, they are different things. There is no necessary connection between law and what is right, cf. nazi germany, ussr, aztec human sacrifice, etc.

> That's where my confusion stems from: neither abolishing copyright is that, nor are the 4 rules of Free Software.

Neither copyright nor codifying the 4 rules are strictly necessary. I’m not sure where your confusion lies.

> I'm also not sure if I get the reference. The author opposes copyleft on the grounds that it's based on copyright

The author opposes licenses which seek to apply the rules of property to intangible items for reasons which he has specified in the op. “Based on copyright” is a lossy encoding.

> four freedoms being law

Oppose on the same grounds as copyright.

> The author is clearly in moral agreement in the four freedoms, but advocates allowing people to break them in the ideal world. Since the ideal world is just as impractical in terms of minimum viable rule set, why not simply use the four freedoms as the moral base?

Not all immoral behavior should be prohibited with the coercive power of the state.
See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrULRXlAlMU
You can also exchange energy using high-voltage DC lines across the whole continent.

Also, wave energy converters like Pelamis are an exciting technology, precisely because they harvest wind energy decoupled in space and time. It is a great opportunity for Scotland, the coast of France and Spain, Japan, Scandinavia and so on. Not totally technologically mature but shown to be viable using 400kW plants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3-SXFtPYe0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slawyq4PXxE

This is so fantastic. Makes my heart jump.
> I really don't understand how a company can get away with using its customers as QA when they sell products that can kill people

There's a term for it: "normalization of deviance"[1]. A highly risky thing is done and doesn't fail as early as thought. The people doing it assume that means the risk is lower than they thought, but it's not, and they just happened to get lucky.

I'm sure Elon knows this, so probably believes their tech can advance enough before their luck turns. I personally think he's deadly wrong on this, but it seems like a lot of Silicon Valley Tesla owners who sleep or read their phone while on Autopilot accept it at face value.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
Torpedo launch systems shouldn't leak any air, at least. Here's a good explanation of a system used on US subs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYEyhB0AGlw&t=7m9s
Because all vehicles are getting more complicated with sensor recalibration requirements.
Ah, “you’re holding it wrong.”
Good languages make it easy to build and maintain robust, scalable, and secure solutions to problems.
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What's the domain? Financial, or something else out of curiosity?
Thanks! I had heard of some third party conversions, but hadn't heard of GM's.

Yeah, my old 89 caprice had a computer, but the wiring wasn't too bad. Of course the self diagnostics were not very advanced which makes some troubleshooting more difficult. Ah, the days of bending a paperclip and sticking it into the OBD port...
> Do we have, now, renewable energy plants that are capable of delivering a constant amount of energy by storing the excess production?

They have plenty of drawbacks, but hydro meets this. The storage occurs pre production though.
In practice it doesn’t work like this.

Current Teslas allow Autopilot on the streets, it just tries to go forward on the intersections (with FSD it also tries to take turns). Stops on the lights and stop signs, btw. So the way you use it, you engage it on the long stretch, where it knows what to do, and monitor on the intersection. If it tries to take wrong lane on the intersection, you interfere. On simple intersections it goes through just fine. All this without FSD Beta.

Is it autonomous? No. Is it way less tiring to drive a car, when you don’t have to do lane keeping, speed control and traffic light stops yourself all the time? Absolutely.
How can I find out that a web server is setup as a reverse proxy?
This is a must-read for any DFW fan. It also explores, in a profound way, what happens to the people left behind from a suicide. Heart-rending, and complex, but very much worth your time.
I'll clarify the sentence.

The body produces water as a byproduct of ATP (energy) metabolism. During a fast, fat and other tissues are broken down by catabolic reactions to accomplish this. Knowing this, I am willing to entertain the idea that abstaining from water for a period of time can be beneficial, or perhaps I should say at least not harmful, because there are mechanisms in the body that synthesize water. Obviously, a sufficiently long period of time without water would be harmful.

I haven't done the math to figure out how much water this is, and so I do not know how sufficient it is to keep minimally hydrated during a water-fast. I'm just saying that the thought of abstaining from water during a fast isn't necessarily as dangerous as it sounds, because your body can and does produce it's own water as a by-product of energy metabolism.
I am using y2mate[dot]guru to download
If his numbers are to be believed, that's ~665mb/s, which is enough to service 20 4k streams... That number on it's own seems unbelieveable, however if there's an xbox or a playstation (or steam/epic launcher), many games have multi GB downloads every other week, and most of them will consume any available bandwidth.
That's a swimming pool attached to the sauna. Usually it's used to cool down after sauna and relax, not for actual swimming
Tesla runs their new releases for millions of miles on the wide fleet in shadow mode before they release to limited beta. This is not an untested release in the way the article makes it seem.
Yes, PHP has some warts, but so do ruby & javascript [1], python [2], and all other similar languages. The keyword to look for people explaining some of these warts is "wat" (popularized by the talk at [1] I think).

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

[2] https://github.com/cosmologicon/pywat
Just give people the option of doing either.
In an epic pivot to cloud, Microsoft makes Azure the linchpin of its future
Down to the atoms (cryo-EM at atomic resolution)
Some of them do; the Unconditional/Universal specifically refers to the absence of means and behavior testing. It doesn't mean there are no bounds to the target population, or that the bounds that exist aren't chosen with policy outcomes in mind.

So things like citizenship/immigration status conditions, or age (e.g., adults only) conditions (whether or not I think they are good policies) are consistent with the broad concept of UBI.
> When one is told that God and the Devil are in conflict one always knows which side is going to win. The whole drama of the struggle against evil lies in the fact that one does not have supernatural aid.

Lewis would have rejected the sentiment of that last sentence. For him, all of human history is part of the drama of God vs the devil. And although there has been supernatural at points in the struggle, still what humans did still mattered.

For him, a large part of the struggle is humans surrendering themselves to be used as the vessel for God’s plan.

In some sense, Merlin is a type of Mary who opens himself up to be the human body that the supernatural will inhabit, even though he knows it can ultimately destroy his body.

As an aside, this is one of my favorite books, and I would love to see it made into a movie.
Well if this is true it means we have a Chinese asset sex predator vs a Russian asset sex predator. That’s a tough one.

It would maintain the accuracy rating of The Onion with their “Democrats concerned that Biden has not assaulted enough women to beat Trump” story.

They are both awful candidates. I voted for Biden and still would because at least he doesn’t associate with and dog whistle to Nazis. That is so pathetic. Never thought I would miss Bush. This country is going down if we can’t increase the quality of our talent pool for this job.
Sorry, but this is just not good enough. This is not any excuse to minimize his despicable behavior. He owned and endorsed that behavior - that’s what he wanted to be known by. Your attempt to deflect that and make it is if it’s somehow wrongdoing or impolite for others to point out what he did just doesn’t hold water.

More in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24953105
Yes. The VPN you use is basically attacking, bruteforcing Microsoft and multiple Microsoft services 24x7 continuously. Almost any consumer VPN will trigger something similar at every major service.
There’s some confusion in the article between normal private sales vs. buying a salvage car that has been totaled. They’re different situations.
that’s the largest problem ?
If you zoom out to about 100,000 light-years and rotate to above the ecliptic of the galaxy, then the software displays the rest of the stars in the galaxy also. A cool perspective on the data.
Java? Python?