skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I... think you need to read the abstract you just cited. It agrees with me, not you.

And I never said holistically what you claim was, so it cannot be a strawman. I simply (and accurately) said that you are overstating the degree to which biology impacts political affiliation. 25% is not even remotely accurate, and in fact laughably wrong. As your own cited paper explains:

> "The combined evidence suggests that political ideology constitutes a fundamental aspect of one’s genetically informed psychological disposition, but as Fisher proposed long ago, genetic influences on complex traits will be composed of thousands of markers of very small effects and it will require extremely large samples to have enough power in order to identify specific polymorphisms related to complex social traits.".

Additionally, specifically to your claim that what I was saying wasn't in line with current thinking in the field, again your own citation proves you wrong:

> "However, these findings have not been widely accepted or incorporated into the dominant paradigms that explain the etiology of political ideology."

You need to re-read the single study you cited. You clearly do not understand what they're claiming, and are pinning a large part of your worldview on something you don't understand.

Finally, the idea that people can change their political ideology has absolutely nothing to do with gay conversion therapy. This continued false assertion is tantamount to trolling. You know it's false, I know it's false, but you keep saying it because it's inflammatory.
Is it that hard to simply delete comments that don't meet the forum guidelines?
You conveniently omitted the storage vessel factor from the energy density. And it's definitely not comparable to natural gas in other respects too, such as hydrogen is corrosive and needs special alloys or nonmetal materials.

Superconducing wires are already and increasingly used in practice. Even without superconductors we can just keep raising the voltage and use copper, there are new silicon carbide power transistors that make it possible. We aren't near physical limit yet.

Other assertions of yours are likewise unfounded, too.

I can totally see hydrogen airplanes but for cars it's too little too late.
I typed in pages of code for years, though mostly from Analog. At one point, they had pages of hex (or base36?) data lines and created a checksum process that would spit out the checksum after each line entry and you could check it against the magazine listing.

Basically, you were typing in ascii representation of machine code for pages on end for these assembly games.
https://tokusatsu.fandom.com/wiki/Tokusatsu This may be the genre for you.

I too love Giant Robo and Ultraman. Kamen Rider is still worth getting into, in my opinion.

Also, you may enjoy watching this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Robo:_The_Day_the_Earth_...
More than anything, I've noticed that Google prefers to offer search results that are from advertisers. This isn't surprising. Another commenter mentioned that context has gotten worse, and I'd agree with that. It's still a "good" search engine. I say "good" in quotes because I have yet to try a search engine that's as effective, but the "good" aspect of Google is now debatable in many contexts. For example it's "good" if your compare it to Yahoo. I think I might be trying duckduckgo more often (despite the ridiculous name) and even gasp Bing.
I have no idea what A16Z is.

The point is not that land is somehow fungible, but that we have plenty of precedent for "owning" a thing without taking physical transfer of that thing.
Not sure why I'm getting downvoted here. That is literally the reason specified by the paper posted by OP.
Absolutely true. A lot of people have a severe blind spot, where they can only see certain types of racism.

I'm not that bent out of shape over 'Karen' as a slur, but the hypocrisy is annoying. It's like calling a geeky black guy an Urkel.
Did some research a while ago, I believe the Stripe nonprofit fee is unofficially 2.2% + $0.30 on the first 15k/yr, but they may negotiate with you to find something in between that and standard.

You do, of course, have to pay Interchange fees no matter what, there's no way to get to 0-fee with a card payment.
It's the only asset in the world that you can prove lots of important things, from basic first principles: 1) how much of it exists and will exist, 2) that you actually own what you think you own, and 3) nobody can take it from you

These things seem incredibly high value to me, for financial assets, creating the opposite of FUD, but it rarely gets discussed in this context
The dart idea might give us better distribution?

Throw a dart and solve problems/invest in solutions for where it sticks. Mostly be fixing ocean problems but I'm OK with that.
Of note is Shogo: Mobile Armor Division.[0][1]

It's probably one of the best PC games I've ever played, and at the time was magical. The game was very well done; stylistic and atmospheric excellence. Monolith knocked it out of the park.

To my knowledge there's been nothing like it since. It's a shame, because the market would eat it right up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogo:_Mobile_Armor_Division

[1] https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/videogame-helped-...
Guess, this time just set main URL to the "Version History"[0] page (as it shows all majour changes in LeoCAD v21.x in one place, including "dark color" mode introduced in `v21.01`).

P.S. I just curious why in threads about GIMP[1] and Inkscape[1] releases URLs not replaced to each software homepage...

[0] https://www.leocad.org/docs/history.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23490326

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405214
Raspi - definitely

Arduino - hmm, I don't think so. Arduino seems to have made it a lot easier, but Arduino used a pretty open platform from the start, so it didn't remove any hard barriers to entry (compiler/tooling). Arduino (on AVRs) always used AVR-GCC and AVR libc, which came before Arduino/Wiring. AVRs also had free/open tools for programming before Arduino (parallel port programmer and other DIY tools).
It's not a guarantee but it's much better than what we have now.

All the issues you mention were successfully dealt with on the forums of the good old days with much less resources (moderation done by volunteers and very little technical expertise - definitely no machine learning).
This feature is ready to ship, our data shows that over 99.2% of hikers correctly interpret our fence boundaries!
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26459768

> [dead]

Et tu, HN?

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A few years back my plate expired sometime in January, and though I'd ordered a replacement and put it in my glove compartment. I realized to the error my embarrassment mid-march, and changed the plates out to correct the issue. I drove my car daily for nearly three months, often past police vehicles. Never once had I been pulled over, because I drive responsibly and my municipality isn't dependent on tickets for too large a share of its budget.

Expired plates are much higher on an officer's list of things to check than figuring out whether every oddly badged or exotic looking car on the streets can be legally imported for its model year. Even if you do get caught, the fact that you could afford to illegally import a vehicle is a good sign that you can afford the legal fees and fines required to forestall any asset seizures. Especially in China, where affluence and political connections often go hand in hand (not that it isn't the case in the rest of the developed world to some extent either).
Having loved Pascal and struggled with Modula 2, I'll go out on a limb and I'll say: for cosmetic and typing issues.

Modula 2, at least in the implementation I had to use at my University, had case-sensitive keywords which were in UPPERCASE. Compared to Pascal's case-insensitive keywords, in the editors available at that time, Modula 2 stuck out like a sore thumb and made writing and reading code like a chore.
While you can often see the claims that simple citizens can be fined under the proposed law, I could not find an official confirmation. Here is the law in question: https://sozd.duma.gov.ru/bill/1086353-7

The relevant part can be translated like this:

> (not complying with the law) entails the imposition of an administrative fine on officials in the amount of ten to thirty thousand rubles; On legal entities - from five hundred thousand to one million rubles.

For some reason the part about officials gets applied to simple citizens, which is completely incorrect in my understanding of the law.

So my guess is that you will not be able to legally to import Starlink receivers into Russia unless some kind of agreement will be achieved, but simple citizens owning such receiver will not be prosecuted (well, at least in the near future). Though they may be prosecuted under a different law if they'll try to share the unrestricted Internet access with other people. It's quite similar to VPNs, currently it's not illegal in Russia to use it to visit blocked resources, but it's illegal to provide such service (though any sane person would not use a VPN-service based in Russia to work around those blocks in the first place).
If you know your compressor has enough memory to hold the whole plaintext at once, but your decompressor doesn't, why not do extra work on the compression end with the whole plaintext in memory to emit an optimal "dynamic" Huffman alphabet, i.e. a code that gets patched by each new compressed block, rather than resetting to a completely new dictionary for each new block?

I presume the tightest packing possible would be achieved by converting the entire document into a Huffman-encoded sequence of references into a single unified strings table; breaking that strings table down recursively using largest-common-substring until satisfied; and then packing the resulting strings tree into something more like an intrusive prefix trie where offsets are implicit IDs. The problem would, of course, be the size of the resulting trie.

But you could always make the document into bytecode for a compressor VM (RAR-alike) where one opcode is "insert nodes {KV1, KV2, ...} into the prefix trie", and another opcode is "drop nodes {K1, K2, ...} from the prefix trie", such that the trie "window" used over the document would grow and shrink over time. Then you could optimize for redundant re-definitions of identical trie nodes in the compressed data, vs. total in-memory trie "window" size at any given time.

If the decompression wasn't required to be streaming, but rather could advance-allocate an mmap(2)ed file to write to, then you could also have a jump opcode, so that you could organize the Huffman-code trie-prefix definitions in an optimal order to minimize definition redundancy, trading off for making the compressed representation out-of-order relative to the plaintext it decompresses to. The compressor would put the "spine" of the document all together at the beginning, together with the frontloaded rootmost trie-node definitions; then gradually undefine them, replacing them with less-frequently-used nodes needed to decode context-free "islands" of content.
You don't complain when it works, so I'd want some hard data here.
The volume of such comments can be enormous and unless you are watching 24/7 it does not work as the trolls will happily do it at 3AM.
This is answered under the subheading "Why not just invest in more moderation?".
What does demographic collapse mean, specifically?

The one child policy is 40 years old, China has been 4-2-1 for like 20 years at least, and no collapse has happened. Now they're allowing 2 children.

What's the specific thing that will collapse and be bad? An oversized retiree generation dying just frees up pension cash.
I would argue that food is also much less nutritious these days, and far likelier to lead to health problems down the line.

Ready-made/highly processed foods and "empty calories" (fast food, snacks) are, at a guess, far more common these days, and also far cheaper than the healthier alternative to snacks.

Natural produce is also missing a lot of its previous taste, texture and smell. I know for a fact that there is a world of a difference, during the season, between a tomato from a random Italian supermarket and a British Tesco "Value" tomato. I will be drawn to eat the former without so much preparation as even washing it; the latter I will have to force down my throat and eat it with ketchup to mask the papery texture of the flesh and add some taste, any taste at all, so that I can sense I'm eating something.

Gluten intolerant and/or lactose intolerant parts of the population are also basically screwed. I am both, and most food that has an ingredients list longer than 5 lines is poisonous to me. I am left with either the more expensive "free from" foods that skip one or both of these ingredients (and costs Nx what the usual version does), or buying single ingredients to cook my own food from scratch.

If one wants to have an actually nutritious diet, then the cheap "food" being offered today ain't gonna cut it.
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The article addresses this. It requires 24/7 moderation. Newspapers have been cutting staff to the bone for years now.
But that's not how NFTs are being used now. For one, who would issue the Mona Lisa NFT, the Louvre, or Leonardo's family, or the family of his patron at the time? An NFT can't clear up a murky issue anymore than me writing you a paper receipt would.

But, a paper receipt is all that differentiates print #1 from #1005, and #1 is usually more prestigious. And even if those prints came off the machine in the other order, the actual artist is still attaching significance to one of them over the others.

NFTs are a way of saying that my identical print (file) is really the special one. Or that I'm special for having it. Or whatever.
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It is possible to be both biased and correct.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Appeal_to_bias
Much easier said than done I'm sure. With most newspapers struggling to get hiring full time moderators is probably a luxury they can't afford.
For sure. Google's ability to surface useful pages above SEO gamed "articles" has been dropping for years. I've had to start adding '-best' and '-top' to searches in an attempt to stop getting blogspam stuff like "december 2020 best X" with no substance when searching for X.

It used to be possible to, for some topics, limit the search period to pre 2010 to help improve the relevancy of results. But I've started to notice that their index seems to be forgetting about the past as time moves on.
The Armored Stealth Boat was apparently found in 2003.

It's the same site in both cases; I imagine someone dug in more and found another link for HN.
Yes, over the last six weeks the results you would normally find in the first page are now on page two or three.

Search results for previous searches where I know the response corpus are significantly degraded.

Search quality has been falling pretty steadily over the last couple years.
Sure but the GP’s point they there is little overlap is correct.

Out of approx 400,000,000 guns, only very roughly 12,000 are used in crime. There is less than 0.01% overlap.
I wouldn't be surprised that the Starlink dish can melt snow. It's literally an antenna that shoots high energy microwaves into space over many hours.

100W of microwaves according to another comment here. By contrast your microwave oven might emitting 800W for a few minutes.

Unlike the few watts of a Wifi router or phone, it emits high power electromagnetic radiation.

It's definitely something you attach to your roof and pointed at the sky, not something you want to be sitting in front of for hours.
You also don't know how much gold is actually above ground. How much has been stolen, historically? We don't know.

And where is it stashed? We don't know.

Some powerful people could have hoarded 90% of the world's gold and we wouldn't even have the slightest clue. There are no records for this.
Twitter already does take down legitimate free speech content. Their terms of service are far more restrictive than the US Constitution. And sometimes Twitter management takes down content or bans users on a purely arbitrary basis just because they don't like it (or they think their major advertising customers won't like it).

There's nothing special about Twitter or any other Internet site. If someone libels you then you have recourse through the civil courts. And if you file pro se then it's very cheap.
Yes it is. We live in a closed ecosystem.

Mother Nature has boundary issues.

I understand you hold that opinion. Also understand it is a minority opinion. And hey, I get it. Many people do not like to be told what they have to do.

Humans, this place we inhabit works the way it works. There will be tradeoffs.

Managing public health is one of them. There are many others.

Sincerely, I wish you had the option to live in a personal vacuum, "you do you" style, but that option is currently unavailable.

There are some options given you are willing to either forego many of the benefits that come with a well developed society, or accumulate wealth sufficient to isolate yourself.

Barring those, yeah. You are just another member of the public.
I’ve had DuckDuckGo as my default search engine on all devices for two+ years now and don’t miss Google at all. On the rare occasion I use the !g bang, I’ve seen a noticeable decline in the quality of results. DuckDuckGo, on the other hand, seems to keep getting better and better. Not affiliated with either. Just a happy user.
>she was the epitome of falsehood. she was not true in anyway and used deception to get her aims....what is the message exactly?

the positive message of a trickster (or witch) character can be to be subversive, play by your own rules, not seeking the approval of others, being individualistic, breaking norms and so on.

For women in particular this can mean using femininity to your advantage rather than treating femininity as weakness. Using sexuality as a way to exercise control, basically think of the police scene in Basic Instinct as one of the most (in)famous examples.

This sort of subversive, rule-disregarding and gender-affirming version of femininity has been lost almost completely in modern fiction, with (actually both 'progressive' as well as conservative) storytellers opting for some sort of Christian, timid, asexual 'strong women'. So it's not surprising that many people today will not see how someone like Ursula can be a positive character, but there is a very plausible way to read her as one.
> I am aware of the history, but that's not enough to give the words themselves emotional charge and significance.

I disagree. Nazis, soviets did a lot of crimes against humanity and in certain countries symbols of those regimes are banned, also speaking positively about it also is banned by claiming it dismisses all those crimes.

It’s not required for that word to be relevant NOW in order to be somewhat negative/avoided.

I think it applies also to master/slave stuff: it attempts to normalize those terms by dismissing history of those words. Also - if we forget shortly that we are used to master branch in git: why word “master” is right choice for it? for me “main” makes sense.

as for DB - original/replica also makes sense.
Jerome Powell said the Fed has unlimited lending at its disposal. That is the engine that drives printing. Their intent is to print without limit until the economy is working the way they think it should.
> Why compare the US to Europe?

Because we want to compare the US to places that people find comparable and desirable and, gosh, maybe even slightly superior, rather than places that people find to be totally undesirable.

We also would like to compare the US to places that might have statisitical similarity. A good example of this is Canada: lots of people claim cause/effect in the US for laws about underage drinking, yet Canada had a similar decrease in underage drinking without changing any of their laws. This contradicts those who claim that public policy changes were responsible.

In addition, European countries help show that sometimes there are other solutions than just "more guns". And, what some of the fallout from BLM changes is showing is that disarming initial responders rather than always just sending in armed police seems to result in positive results to the system.

We look to Europe because sometimes they are exemplars and that while maybe we shouldn't blindly just do what they do, perhaps we might want to think about and emulate what they do right.
I meant km3 :)
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Netflix sometimes(?) carries "Knights of Sidonia". I only ever saw season 1, but I was really surprised by how bad (IMO, obviously) the animation was [0].

It reinforced my perception that "Netflix Original" was a mark of poor quality.

[0] And my standards are probably lower than most of this crowd. I barely noticed the animation quality of Arifureta, because of how much I liked that series' other aspects.
That’s some large continuous power consumption for off grid use. Curious if they’ll come up with a way to put it into some sort of low power idle mode during low utilization?
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Nu.nl ( NL :-) closes the comment section around 23h IIRC.
...what part of that is a positive?
This has been a thing since Google did their RankBrain update 5 years ago. They essentially released a system that used ML to negotiate unknown "long-tail" queries into more common queries and then returned the common queries results.

One of the immediate effects was quoted strings became less relevant, sometimes completely ignored, and a lot of the other tools for negotiating with system were lost. It's only continued to progressively get worse since then.
I’m happy with the trend of removing comments from online publications. Too many are outright spam (“I make $500 per day on Facebook and so can you!”) or they’re the opinions of ill-informed people who try to spread one agenda or another.

I think having comments everywhere possible was an idea from the web 2.0 era that’s proven to be not all that worth it in most cases. Moderation is hard and it doesn’t make sense for newspapers and magazines to be spending resources on it. There are other forums (reddit, hn) for this sort of thing.
Sayeth OkCupid's blog: "As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh." Unfortunately was removed, presumably due to being bad for business!

* https://web.archive.org/web/20091122135400/http://blog.okcup...

* https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027277571...

* https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8370535/Woman-cre...
Guns are not hard to make yourself, now, if you have a little competence with tools. In ten-twenty years, you'll be able to print off as many as you want with absolutely no technical skill.

Stopping people from killing others with guns is a cultural and social issue. Trying to fix it by blocking access to guns is an ever-more losing strategy.