skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just gave this a try... why is it that when you rotate a brick, the x,y,z movement also rotates with it? What I mean is that once you have rotated a 2x4 brick 90 degrees clockwise, when trying to position that part, moving the mouse left moves the part forwards, moving it forwards moves the part right and so on. That makes no sense - surely it's a bug?
> Btw, anyone who lets FB that close to their eyeballs is a stone cold moron at this point. They couldn’t be trusted to run an online photo album, giving them the ability to actually control your sense of reality is nightmarishly awful.

This is a bizarre couple of sentences. I don't think you understand the technology _at all_.

Firstly, it doesn't really matter how close the screen is to your eyes. Try moving your phone closer to your face or do you trust the app that you're about to let your eyes get closer to?

Secondly, it doesn't have the ability to control your sense of reality. At least, not any more than seeing a movie in a cinema does.

The thing is, I actually agree with your second sentence but only in the context of their social media platforms i.e. silently building echo chambers around users, experiments with shaping of user's emotional state and political opinions, etc.
> figure out how to not rely on our biosphere as there isn’t one there.

These types of technologies may be very valuable in supporting us in the future on Earth. My concern is that if people think we (or the billionaires that care) can solve environmental problems just be throwing future tech at them, then they aren’t motivated to cut their resource consumption in the first place. This is why ‘reduce’ is a higher priority than ‘recycle’.

> All probes designed to last longer than a few hours HAVE to use solar or nuclear. No point bringing fossil fuels with if there is no oxygen to burn it with.

Developments in renewables (solar and otherwise) are not being driven by a desire for planetary exploration / colonization. Perseverance is powered by Plutonium-238, which is not a good model for terrestrial nuclear power at scale.

> It also forces a sort economy of resources. Every attempt is made to recycle air and water, packaging, even from human waste.

This I do agree with – if we treat Earth and its resources as things to value rather than as things to consume and exploit, we stand a much better chance of achieving a future where our children and their descendants can enjoy them as well. Which is sort of the point of the original Spaceship Earth concept :-)
This isn't true. Gas and coal production suffered a lot more than wind:

https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/feb/16/natural-gas-n...

Wind ran at about 50% of capacity and that was because it wasn't winterized.
Just a few truths that will get you kicked off HN:

* Americans funded and supported the genocide of Yemen, which started under Obama and continued under Trump, to completion.

* ISIS is an invention of the CIA designed to justify continued war efforts in the ME.

These things are arguably defensible as truths, with real evidence - however, any attempt to discuss them in an American-led forum results in a hard ban hammer being dropped, regardless.

This is the slippery slope. Sure, we need to cut out the racism, sexism and bigotry online. But, we also need to cut out the ignorance, nationalism and cowardice for confronting ones own state crimes... and absolutely must never condone censorship of discussion of war crimes, crimes against humanity, etc.

That is where this self-censorship and denial of public voice is headed ..
That isn't true in Europe, but even accepting your argument: this is a problem for the nuclear industry. Unless we can see evidence that the system as a whole (i.e. nuclear industry plus government of various levels of corruption) can function to process and store waste safely, this is a black mark against the nuclear industry. It doesn't matter if this is 'unfair' in some sense... at the end of the day the waste will exist and after 40+ years there is no evidence of a combined political-industrial system with the capacity to do the right thing.
The femme fatale hasn't disappeared from fiction. Although the outwardly stoic woman has proliferated through out film and television almost since the beginning of the silver screen, characters like Catwoman and Harley Quinn are as popular as ever. Whatever merits Ursula's take on these traits may have are overshadowed by her role as a Svengali-Mephisto vis-a-vis an innocent and naive Ariel. Ursula makes a woman out of Ariel (quite literally) not out of a deep and abiding sisterly/motherly love but to advance her own agenda and does so at a terrible price for Ariel. That shouldn't go unnoticed.
Interesting how the word "toxic" is mainstream nowadays. Considering the term originated as a way of describing aggressive/angry kids on the videogame League of Legends.
Explaining things in terms of how they are unlike x86 is what makes people think that they need x86 knowledge as a pre-requisite.

The mechanics of branch-with-link can be explained without using x86 as a base. It's a call where the return address is saved in a register and code controls where and when that address is spilled to the stack, rather than it always being on the stack. This is common to several ISAs.

The explanation that sp is a "stack pointer" is like pretty much every stack-based ISA, and does not need special reference to the x86. The idea that all instructions are the same width, similarly, is common to several ISAs, and does not need special reference to only one of the architectures where it is not the case.

And operand order is not unlike x86, but rather unlike a specific assembly language for x86, for which there are alternatives.
> For the right to free speech to be at all practical and meaningful, they must be required to platform all legal speech.

So newspapers will be required to publish any story, no matter how true? Universities will be required to teach any theory, no matter how crackpot? Twitter will be required to promote porn just as it does other content?

> What good is freedom of speech when powerful and influential organizations (like Twitter or Facebook) control virtually all speech in society?

But they don't. You have huge, successful websites devoted to porn. A publication like Quillette builds its reputation around pseudoscience and is free to do so. You have entire cable news networks devoted to conspiracy theories. But yes, more mainstream venues try to shape their reputation by not amplifying more fringe speech. Not only has this always been the case, but that's what everyone understood "free speech" means. You have more mainstream publications and fringe ones.
Sunlight affects the quality of life directly: 1 hour of more/less natural light can be felt immediately. Moreover, our society structured in a way where most of the social life happens after work or school, the transition from light to dark falls on personal time in most cases. This is why people have such strong opinions on the matter.

Speaking for myself, having lived through summer time/winter time schedule around the year in the same location, I vastly prefer more light in the evenings. The effect on my well-being is so pronounced, that it overshadows most of the concerns and points against it.
There will _always_ be more to do than for which you can make time. It is a matter of priorities. Figure out what is important. Then figure out how much time you are going to spend on the important things. Set aside a fixed amount of time for chores too. This ought to leave you with some free time as well so that you can unwind from the day's labours and this is vital too. It helps the mind reset and helps you maintain the energy and discipline to go towards where you want to be.

It is not really complicated but it does require discipline and commitment. Like some other commenters have suggested, a complicated system or a massive to-do isn't as reliable as a simple system which is easy to follow and gives you a quick overview of where things stand. In my experience, To-do systems don't help motivate - they help a bit to stay organised.
7:00 is not super early, not by traditional standards. And yes, having to sit additional hour in traffic wastes additional hour of your life. Of course they want to avoid that - that does not mean they would be super happy about having to push start toward even more dark hours in the morning.
I'm talking about people spending insane amount of money on arguably ugly pieces, like that one guy who literally shits paint on a canvas. Of course there are reasonably priced hand made pieces but I don't think we're talking about the same "art"
I’m not sure it originated there. My first manager in the late 90s described one of our clients as toxic, and I don’t think he invented it either.
It's referenced in slug's algorithm description paper [1], the main disadvantage with Loop-Blinn is the triangulation step that is required, and at small text sizes you lose a bit of performance. Slug only needs to render a quad for each glyph. That is not to say that any one method is better than the other though! They both have advantages and disadvantages. I think the two most advanced techniques for rendering vector graphics on the GPU are "Massively Parallel Vector Graphics" [2] and "Efficient GPU Path Rendering Using Scanline Rasterization" [3]. Though I don't know of any well known usage of them. Maybe it's because it's very hard to implement them, the sources attached to them are not trivial to understand, even if you've read the papers. They also use OpenCL/Cuda if I remember correctly.

[1] "GPU-Centered Font Rendering Directly from Glyph Outlines" http://jcgt.org/published/0006/02/02/

[2] http://w3.impa.br/~diego/projects/GanEtAl14/

[3] http://kunzhou.net/zjugaps/pathrendering/

EDIT: I've only now seen that [2] and [3] are already mentioned in the article

EDIT2: To compensate for my ignorance, I will add that one of the authors of MPVG has a course on rendering vector graphics: http://w3.impa.br/~diego/teaching/vg/
If this wasn't a story I would completely agree with you, but lets step back a bit:

- You're hiring for a DevOps position
- You use kubernetes to orchestrate your system

The test you do is FizzBuzz (? because that'll help you when your cluster is on fire). Along comes someone that seems to be way way better versed in kubernetes than anyone alive.

They use exactly the tools they'll be using day in and day out for their devops role. Hell, they implement FizzBuzz AS A SERVICE with kubernetes alone. And you pass it along.

Now ofc, in a real world situation you wouldn't want a person that when asked to implement a regex spins up a cluster and you do mention you have "Go" on your stack, so the easiest way would probably be to do a Go program, the thing still remains that for what it seems they were hiring, this person would be an amazing hire? You also say, "use any language", so the person could simply have thought - "well, this is for a devops position using kubernetes, I'm going to show you how much I understand this to the point your brain will melt"

That's why I think the story is good, it can be looked through quite different angles and it does pose some questions regarding the problems we use to proxy knowledge in a given domain/tool and also how we can access in a valid way someone's knowledge within a domain/tool when, and if, we ourselves lack considerable knowledge in that domain/tool. Maybe the person you end up hiring does the normal FizzBuzz in go and in all other areas is a better "hire", or culture fit, but when Kubernetes is burning they might not know how to put off the fire.
FYI communist Spain /s has a already minimum wage law and also an universal income one.
I agree that intuition is just implicit knowledge for these factors... the problem is that making these explicit in recipes would just make them boring and tedious/complex to make. I'm not going to be able to make the thermal mass/heat cycle of my house the same as yours. So unless I temperature control th dough it _is_ going to be different.
Thanks man, yes the UIs look very similar with a text box and PWYW payments, but the value props are different. Buymeacoffee's core offering is accepting donations while ours is messaging.
> Any new reactor type you'd build now would go online the EARLIEST 10-15 years

Nuclear is a fairly solved engineering problem (it's problem is public relations and economics). If you start building a reactor today in 10-15 years it will begin producing power consistently and will continue to do so for at least it's design lifetime and probably beyond.

Grid scale battery technology isn't here yet. No one has installed a battery (a grid scale battery is multiple Gwh of storage, the Tesla Australia battery is 194Mwh) with that kind of capacity. Excluding of course pumped hydro which is limited by topological factors.
This reminds me of discovering that some of my backups had bad blocks on the disk. And the backup is in the shape of a contiguous .tar.lzo archive of around 50 GB size; sometimes solid archives like that are not the most robust option.. Fortunately I have other full snapshots.
That's the global view. If you have the full toolkit then you can have a "Neighbourhood" navigation mode that lets you move around while keeping a global sense of where you are. That's still experimental.

If you prefer the usual linear thread mode, click on one of the nodes and it will take you to the toot in question.
Yeah, being poor doesn't give you the option of having conservation at the top of your list of priorities. Not to mention poor countries don't use all that much energy per capita.

Make of that what you will. I dont think brazil would burn old forrests at the rate they are with US somewhere in the equation. Nor do I think Indonesia would deforrest without the US/EU need for palm oil above all else.
That was in the past.

Apple has one of the best systems for drawing 2D and it is accelerated on the GPU. It is used by Apple Maps and it made the Offline maps of it much better than Google's.

But Apple is using trade secrets here, they are not publishing it so everyone could copy it.
Gitlab as LDAP source
I had to search a bit to find it's GPLv2 licensed.

https://www.leocad.org/docs/license.html

Did some 3D lately and used TinkerCAD, which runs from the browser. Very intuitive and had more than enough features to achieve what I needed.

https://www.tinkercad.com
Help teach Stanford's online programming class
If you prefer a huge, sprawling, branching conversation to be presented to you in a single, interleaved, contextless column, just click on one of the nodes.
Maybe depends from culture to culture, from country to country. Here 7:00 is considered rather early.

We've short days in winter so one less dark hour in the morning is one dark hour more in the evening. Around Christmas it gets dark at 15:30. While sun raises at 10:00.
If nobody wanted to buy it, the price would be 0. The property can be cheap because of the bad location (from a commoner point of view). Try to think a bit widely. It is a piece of real land you own. You can build there a mining farm for instance. Or plant something that simply doesn't grow in your country. Cheaper land frequently means cheaper labor also.
Or click on any of the nodes in the SVG to be taken directly to that portion of the conversation.
> Let the children start later. Let the parents start later and have a shorter work day. Problem solved.

What would actually happened would that that women and some guys would be penalized in the workplace and ... that would be it.
Hydrogen pipelines are a solved problem. We have been doing it for decades[1]. I could have said "stuck in 1930" but that might be overdoing it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_pipeline_transport
Let's be clear Israel itself was born from "extreme views" implemented by violence. There are no examples of this kind of civil conflict that have been solved by simply overwhelming the other side. Dialogue needs to happen, and reining in extremists (settlers, Hamas) on both sides would be a good start.
Raising the Intelligence of Teams
If you give the homeless homes they aren't homeless anymore, they are merely drug addicts at that point.
This is awesome!

Please also share the fold-in? Unfolded and folded ^_^

Yes I'm a random stranger asking you to do WORK on the internet, but it's worth a shot.
You seem to be confusing this specific SVG presentation of the conversation with the content of the conversation.
I left my job and created a software consulting company two years ago just to be able to work 3/4 day per week it turns out to be more profitable than my previous jobs. I kept even a smaller salary.My company has enough funds to pay my salary for 4 years without working or revenue. The more this number is bigger the more I become happy. I'm trying also to build products to have more revenue streams (no success so far)
The best managers are those that could do the job they manage.

That is a recursive algorithm.
More cancel culture and censorship is exactly what we need, because that's been proven to be so immensely effective in humanity's past.

Let us also not forget that we are not allowed to be politically incorrect, we all have to be namby-pamby because nobody's feelings are allowed to get hurt for any reason: we cannot have gentle sensitivities having to deal with how other people really feel or view things. Truth about how people feel deep down is ugly and dangerous, therefore sweeping the ugly side of humanity "under the carpet" is far preferable to dealing with it, especially since that has also been proven to work extremely well in the past.

This is simply grand, just imagine the possibilities: anyone can now label anything one does not like as toxic and use that as an extremely effective method of censorship and oppression in a special propaganda war, while people sit in a bubble hoping all of it will go away! What could possibly go wrong?
Nameservers and A record point to ovh. Could it be their stuff burnt down with last week’s fire in sbg2?
It's a big, sprawling conversation, and the SVG gives a way to see the extent of it before you click on any of the nodes to dive in to the bit you're interesting in.
Cornstarch mixed with water is shear thickening, but when boiled, it becomes shear thinning (AFAIK), and that is basically what ketchup is. If boiling it, you should use way less starch - it goes a long way. You can also use other other flours as well (not sure how different the performmance is), like you would in Béchamel or custards. I think the shear thinning effect comes from starch gelatinization [1].

I don't have time ATM to go through the whole paper, but it seems like [2] is covering exactly this topic in detail.

I think (but [2] might correct me, I'm just guessing at this point, please don't quote me) that there is no special connection between the mixture being shear thickening before, and shear thinning after boiling - just a coincidence in this case.

Source: sciency-cooking dabbler, don't trust what I say too much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch_gelatinization

[2] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.85...
Program = DataStructure + Algorithm.
The book written by Wirth taught me programming.
Niger is actually a great example for illustrating that better health (e.g. infant mortality rate) and economic outlook results in dramatically falling birth rates. Current birth rate is 6.7, but it was 7.5 only ten years ago: https://knoema.de/atlas/Niger/Fertilit%c3%a4tsrate
"communist Spain" I assume you are being ironic here
Like I have said before¹, you are, in effect, asking for people to step in the bear trap in order to prove to you that it’s dangerous.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21659417
Could be due to my work, but I picture it as an optimization strategy.

Mostly (60%?) keep doing the same proven things, and have some of the population undertake risky but promising endeavors. This way you keep exploiting the local maxima, but explore around it.

Not having everyone follow the same strategy can be a nice safeguard against extinction, I can see how it could be selected for. Cooperation isn't always the way to go for survival, especially when resources are scarce.

I wouldn't say "nature" favors one or the other. There's room for both, and one or the other will be better for the individual depending on the context. Individual survival has repercussions on species survival, thus can be selected for. Plus, if everyone is all-in on cooperation, anyone can come in and extract massive benefits from not playing by the rules (and vice-versa). Thus there is always a niche for both strategies: picture merchants vs local economies for instance.
something I buy called "wine" has anything other than grapes and yeast

Virtually no wine, no matter how expensive, is just grapes and yeast. All wine you can buy in a store contains at least some additives.
We emigrated when I was very young, and a Mad book was the very first English book I came to own as a young boy.

I have no idea what it was called. It was around A5 or maybe A6 in size, about 100 or so pages, and it was all about dungeons and executioners and prisoners.

It was dark, silly, and once my English improved to the point where I could understand it, it was down right hilarious!

Definitely shaped my sense of humour ^_^

Congrats to Al on reaching this epic milestone.
This is mostly true, but I'd argue legitimacy is harder to achieve than it seems, because of network effects.

That said, the current NFT craze is idiotic. As you point out, there's lots of people trying to try external value to a blockchain using what is more or less nothing more than a "super pinky promise". And that's supremely stupid. Today's valuable blockchains have value by themselves. Linking blockchains to external properties, assets, certificates or capabilities is still an ongoing problem. Only after the identity problem is solved and standardized will NFTs linked to external things be worth anything.
It is not. You can reliably know that school/work starts at this or that hour. You dont have to negotiate different hours.

You dont have to go through the "is it changing this week or next week, should I appoint at 8:00 or 9:00 that week" issues.
https://www.careervault.io/ is pretty good.
Do you have a source for this? Considering the basic improvements seen in the efficiency of various devices and processes, I'm dubious that the outsourcing of environmentally costly activity is the cause of this GDP-resources trend.
Dubious. Software and computing itself as an industry has been thriving in the last decades, so it is natural the founders come from the same field.
The word "outwith" is used in Scotland. I'm not Scottish, but I've heard Scots use the word, and Oxford English Dictionary has recent quotations for it from Scottish newspapers.
My feeling is: spanish business is a somewhat feudal system.

I do not believe that business owners are trying to maximize the efficacy of their resources. If it were so, this kind of proposals would be accepted by the business community, given research on the topic. I believe this proposal is a tremendous opportunity.

I believe business want to control people. As such, one less day is less control. In exchange for Business controlling your life you get different degrees of financial security. Feudalism.

This attitude is reinforced by tradition and misconception. And both employees and employers are at fault. Gee, I am at fault! I haven't worked a 40 hour week in my entire working life. On my defense I would say that I have sent juniors and interns home... But still.

I have also said that research on the topic is not solid, but of this proposal were to be properly implemented could help solve that issue.

Politicians doing a proper policy implementation is a different can of worms. I was hoping that some progressive business would actually start doing 4 hour weeks, rather than a top down approach.
When Should I Interrupt Someone?