skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends, but it's quite possible a simulation of that scale will need some compression to reduce the amount of compute required to run it and that might be detectable once we dig deep and far enough in physics and astronomy.
I've got ask "what is wrong with people" that they can't deal with a woman captain. It's also telling that this posted in English, and it wasn't in the "so misogynistic" Arab social media.
This is not an argument against the solution proposed:

> I can’t imagine an industrial approach that won’t fail on scale, lifecycle or both. These are not strategies to solve the problem these are strategies to get rich.

Neither this this:

> Are we still trying to solve the problem with the same mindset we created it?

I don't know if this solution is at all useful, but climate change is massive threat to a large percentage of humanity and discarding solutions because you don't like the "mindset" isn't going to get it done.
Its not at all bad (I learned programming using FreePascal, true story). But its unit system is from UCSD pascal (via TurboPascal, etc). I'd say Wirth has a certain 'signature style' and I don't think that ObjectPascal's additions really match that.

Also, IIRC, Modula-2 and Oberon feature GC, etc. and personally while I liked Pascal back then, for most stuff I do, not having a GC is pretty-much a regression.
In early Science teaching in the USA, say K-8 Fahrenheit is probably the focus. Starting in High school its more of a mix of F/C/K, and once at the college / university level it'll be pretty much exclusively C/K for science.

For a general consumption science article targeting an American audience it makes sense that Fahrenheit is used, because American's are used to it and its convenient for human temperatures. (More precision per degree, 0-100 is a common temperature range, mostly human comfortable).

Of course clearly including Celcius alongside Fahrenheit would make a lot of sense, I agree its strange that both were not included.
Shouldn't the website also list factual reports proving their point that EU is over-regulated?

No matter how many reports got wrong, they don't hurt the reports are factual and correct.
New collaboration tools (something beyond just conference calls/chat). Also realized the sorry state of some agile tools, and I think there’s little creative thinking going on in that space.
That ain’t no place to raise your kids.
Your example for the Union Jacks on meat [0] seems incorrect. They clarified that they don't plan to ban union Jack's on meat packaging:

>European Commission proposals on the labelling of pre-packaged fresh meat (from sheep, goats, poultry and pigs) will not prevent the use of the Union Jack or of other EU Member State flags.

And

>This is because – while the Commission has no intention of banning flags and other logos on pre-packaged meat – it does not intend either to propose making them compulsory.

That's a pretty solid debunking.

[0] https://wayback.archive-it.org/11980/20191004145238/https://...
Can someone that uses such a system explain why they went for it and what it brings them? I was just pondering this and I somehow get some "feeling of relief" imaging my machine work without systemd. It just feels some much more lightweight and unixy... But I wonder, why? And is that important?
That page says "nor do we host any markets ourselves. Polymarket displays existing markets live on the Ethereum blockchain," so it's going to be a variety of oracles, none of them being Polymarket. They're just an aggregator.

The leading prediction market on Ethereum is Augur, which doesn't have trusted oracles at all. They have a way of crowdsourcing the bet resolutions, which has worked well so far.
Hashes are NOT numbers in base 10 scientific notation, which is how the hash that I showed you would be interpreted by YAML.

The point is that this behavior is sporadic. It doesn't apply consistently across all git hashes, which is the real problem. It is easy to be caught unawares by this behavior.
Just like there are many diseases that can't be effectively treated, there are many things that can't be effectively researched.

I would guess that if there was an effective way to research the reversing of aging billionaires would be on it out of self interest. But if we have no clue how to approach a problem it isn't clear that spending money on it will help.

To put it another way, even if we could invent a cure for aging one day, if we posit science is 500 years away from such a cure, and billions of dollars would only advance things so a cure would be 450 years away, no living billionaire would be incentivized towards that research.

I tend to see those platitudes like "life has no meaning without death" are a form of self comfort, since we are stuck with death.

Still, humans wouldn't exist without death, since the evolutionary process of natural selection that created us cannot or could not exist without death, so it isn't entirely wrong to consider life and death fundamentally linked.
I think we agree - I am using it as an example of a a myth that was actually debunked
The amount of time they spent on designing this campaign, including shooting multiple videos, vastly exceeds the inconvenience this will cause WB.

This is like if as a "troll" I left a car blocking your driveway, not caring if it got towed because it was a fake car I specifically designed over the course of years to leave in your driveway.
This was just a blog as part of regular press work by the European Commission in the UK. Every organization does that in publications and press conferences. It's normal to publish press releases to correct misunderstandings or point out the view of your organization/company. The UK government does the very same, for instance.
I think “insufficient regulation” is an almost necessary byproduct of capitalism. The search for profits leads to regulatory capture in every capitalist society I am aware of. I think this is because it is easier and cheaper to do things like lobby and have a revolving door with regulators and private industry than it is to actually compete with others. Competition is hard.
That is exactly what those companies do in domains whose business is not to ship software, all development is driven by external contractors, in many cases hired on per budget basis, e.g. hire contractor XYZ to deliver 5 Jira tickets, by the next budget round another contractor will do another set of Jira tickets.
> No they don't ban vegetables with the wrong dimensions, they just put them in a lower quality class that no supermarkets will buy

Except they do. The premium supermarkets don't, but immigrant shops, etc. do buy class II veggies. It's the supermarkets's own choice what class they want to buy. Some deliberately buy even lower-class ones and market them (justifiably, I believe) as good for the environment as compared to discarding them.
Thanks, I've added Jacob's blog! https://bilbof.com/blogosphere/blogs/33758
Baking Neural Radiance Fields for Real-Time View Synthesis
It is completely ef up, but I also think that for a lot of people, peeing in a bottle is just not that big a deal.

Manual labor has always been dirty, sweaty, etc. Somebody is emptying your stinking summer garbage can. My granddad worked at a feed company for much of his life and they were nearly always covered in sweat and dust (those giant siloes have to be emptied and cleaned by somebody). I can tell you why he did it, it was the money. Oh he liked his work mates well enough, but it was the money. The money that helped him pay of his house. The money that helped feed his wife and children.

I bet that given the choice between peeing in a bottle and getting a raise, a big chunk of the workers will choose the latter.

That is what working a manual job means.
It depends on whether there is a sufficient force majeure clause in the contract.
I use Alpine Linux (for containers and VMs only though, not desktop nor laptop) that is part of this list. I think, having systemd on Alpine Linux would just be a waste of space and resources, as Alpine is all about being security focused and lightweight, so less === more.
I'm curious at what the VOCs were that were being measured by the home devices.

Indoor VOCs can be caused by numerous common sources. Some of these would be common in a new development:

- Paints/Coatings

- Flooring

- Furniture

- Cleaners & Disinfectants

Even though she states "I also noticed the tVOCs seemed to rise and fall at different times of the day when I was having the worst symptoms", this can be affected by things such as the rise and fall of the temperature in the indoor space, or even whether something as seemingly benign as candles are lit.

I have no say in this either way, as it would require testing of other similar units and finding out if there are any specific VOC sources in her individual unit (did a room get painted recently)?

When dealing with indoor VOC levels, it can get tricky.
The term is “medical gaslighting” and seems to disproportionately affect women. It comes up with things like ‘chronic fatigue’ diagnosis and has to do with women’s symptoms and experiences being dismissed.
I'm not keeping anything, anywhere. The UK can do whatever it wants, as far as I care.

I was just doing a reductio ad abusrdum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum) to show you that your logic was faulty.
it is the reason in new zealand. there it is practically impossible for men to become teachers at least in kindergarten and primary school because parents don't trust them.
sad really because kids need rolemodels from both genders
Have you read the article "the media" had nothing to do with it, it was people with an agenda creating a story on social media that went viral.
You don’t know how often I see the face of someone driving. Why make such assumptions?
Scientists create online games to show risks of AI emotion recognition
What if the owner is not a billionaire? You certainly don’t need to be one to own an apartment building, you probably don’t even need to be a multimillionaire, as you can finance the project on loans.

Additionally, the building is probably owned by an LLC, so even if the owner of the LLC is a billionaire, you can’t fine him personally, and his billions are irrelevant.
The Telegraph online is full of clickbait and articles worthy of a tabloid. There’s nothing broadsheet about it beyond the fonts/styling used and its historic reputation.

(In the interest of balance, The Guardian is shit too)
Oh, sorry, d'oh!
It's possible that every tenant is being poisoned (and I'd suggest that this is not good either). There's some evidence that the new car smell isn't good, and the articles reference that problem being with VOCs (link to study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...).
No convection or conduction, but you have radiation heat transfer. Not a space thermodynamicist, I wonder if it would work best crunching number in the shade of the earth and then just recharge in the sun.
That article is not very helpful is it. Explicitly, i believe knowingly, excludes information.

For example

> In a separate development, the UK medical regulator said on Saturday that out of 30 people who suffered blood clots after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, seven have died.

Excluding that that population sample is in the region of 19 million people who have received at least one dose of ChAdOx in the UK and the incidence of the clot is likely lower than the incidence rate in the population in general, as I understand it.
I feel compelled, from the tone of the comment, to point this out:

Limited liability isn't some surprise side effect of a corporation's legal structure, it is often right there in the name (Ltd, LLC, Pty Ltd, etc).

Yes that structure lets people get away with harmful shenanigans. The system is biased towards optimism. Feature, not bug. The benefits and strengths of this have so far completely outweighed the costs to the point where the argument against limited liability no longer has a leg to stand on.

The bonds and insurance idea is a much better way to play the situation.
> Jim Hacker: If not, why are we pressing for an increase in membership?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: For the same reason. It's just like the United Nations, in fact. The more members it has, the more arguments it can stir up, the more futile and impotent it becomes.
Jim Hacker: What appalling cynicism!
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes. We call it diplomacy, Minister.”

This was more or less exactly what happened with the 2004 and 2007 enlargements. Britain pushed for the EU to enlarge as a way of slowing down decision making - and the resulting migration from Eastern European countries ended up being a key factor for people voting to Leave.
It matters because of the incentives and penalties that lead to capitalist companies making bad decisions.

If someone runs a mine where a leak could cost society $1B, but they personally make $1M off the outputs, that's a huge net negative for society and a huge net positive for the mine owner. The government has lots of money but their capacity to absorb consequences is not infinite. If the actors in question were personally liable, had accurate estimates of risk and loss, and knew they would be personally liable, they would probablt make better decisions. As it is today, they know they can make lots of money and the risk assessment doesn't matter because they can just walk away.

It matters to me because I want people to want to do things that are good for society and also good for them, rather than bad for society and good for them.

We either need to do something like that or find a way to reintroduce morality to amoral, purely fiscally motivated corporations... fixing incentive structures so their fiscal motivations cause them to make better choices seems far easier to me.
> This is true even if rowid is aliased by an INTEGER PRIMARY KEY.

Thanks. Just to be clear, I think this is the scenario when you don’t set your primary key but other columns in your insert statement.

CREATE TABLE t(x INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, y);

INSERT INTO(y) VALUES(‘value’);

Otherwise, if you set primary key in your insert statements, you’ll be fine I guess.

I’m not worried about reusing ids but if ids change e.g on vacuum, it is a disaster. Because people use row id(via last_insert_row_id()) assuming it won’t change but vacuum changes it and now you have a “dangling id”, if you fetch data again with that id, either you won’t find the row or get some other random row.
I think the word “potential” is optimistic. It 100% leads to moral hazard. We’ve seen this time and again in a variety of industries. If the parties involved - the actual people and not the corporations that are easily bankrupted and replaced with new corporations with the same people - are not held fully responsible then it will just keep happening.
Thanks for your kind words. :-)
>it’s clear that it would be relatively easy for local governments to address these problems

This source of the author's gall is completely unsupported here. There is no data on what reassessment costs. Maybe leaving sticky assessments in place and adding a universal exemption would work better, like the federal income tax.

Of course, taxing illiquid wealth which a body relies on for shelter is itself problematic, but the author doesn't seem to consider that.
Which is likely unrelated. Lead in the tap water comes from older buildings with inappropriate plumbing materials [0] or potentially from a colossal screw up with modern construction. Or maybe from a really horrible water utility, but SF does not have that problem. It has nothing to do with contamination of the site.
Dragon's Lair by Desire – 256 Bytes Intro for Msdos/FreeDos/WinXP/DosBox
Am I reading something wrong? I thought they meant it outputs beautiful websites, whereas your comment seems to imply that it's the code/(library api) that's beautiful.
Counting on government to hold itself liable for environmental damage is a proven bad default.
You can do a round over here,

https://freepages.modula2.org/compi.html

As for Ada tasks, https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/task...
Reading comments like this gives me hope.

There seems to be a polarized view of "jewels are worthless, just ship" or "we need more jewels". Both perspectives are dangerous.

Software-jewels have a place, but you have to be selective about what code needs to be that level of quality. And like so many decisions in software development, it's about the trade-offs.

If we're writing experimental code with a low shelf-life or internal tooling, we are better off writing code we expect to throw away completely. Writing high quality code here will take time away from making code quality high in areas where it's important.

On the other hand, if there are some subsystems critical to our business--we want them robust, extensible, and fast--they are good candidates for "jewel" quality. But you have to allow the time needed for a potential rewrite and more thoughtful architecture.
actually i think it is relevant because the attitude towards gender in different professions is very much the topic of this post
> No they don't ban vegetables with the wrong dimensions, they just put them in a lower quality class that no supermarkets will buy.

That’s not a distinction without a difference it’s literally the only thing relevant to fruit and veg classification.

Obviously Supermarket always buys classified fruit & veg (and did before the EU). And obviously in a common market those classifications must be the same. A ban on ugly bananas is just that, a ban on supermarkets selling anything under the top classification, or a classification that doesn’t allow the sale of lower grade at all. This isn’t it. No one bans anyone from selling 2nd grade fruit and the fruit isn’t classed as not for human consumption.

The whole ugly fruit movement where supermarkets now sell other grades is literally a response to this!

> No EU plan to ban Union Flag from British meat packs

I didn’t read the referenced article but surely flags are not only allowed but even encouraged on meat packaging? Obviously the flag must match the country of origin of the meat but if it does how can it be a problem?

If a manufacturer used a Union Jack or to sell Irish or Latvian meat I sure hope both local and EU law would object (regardless of whether that company had used it in its logo for 100s of years). Was that was happened? And was someone really upset about it?
I'm not sure if it's still true today, but it used to be that ash was much faster than bash, which was important when a lot of the OS init scripts were written in shell. Nowadays with systemd it's perhaps less important to have a fast POSIX shell interpreter on Linux, but it's likely still useful on BSDs or other OSes that continue to lean on shell scripts in their base system.

Another reason is size. Ash is smaller than bash, so it's useful on embedded systems, and anything using BusyBox (e.g. Alpine Linux) is going to have ash by default.
Thanks, this list is quite relevant. Several Linux distributions have signed defamatory and embellished statements against RMS. I'm not using distributions run by criminals.

Hopefully Debian will vote for a reasonable statement, otherwise I'll search that list, with the added benefit of getting rid of RedHat garbage.
anybody has experience with VS Code inside Container?
the feature https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers looks nice.
For me what you just listed are a couple of tools that fit a specific workflow - seems like C or C++ development.

IDE is an Integrated Development Environment. So I think strapping a few tools together with no real influence over one another doesn't seem to constitute an IDE.

Unless you wanna argue that putting these tools into a Docker image makes that container an IDE, then I don't know, maybe? Whatever floats your boat in the end.

Using a JetBrains product you pretty much just pay for the support and "works out of the box" features. You can roll your own LSP, AST Analyzers, shell scripts that bundle it all together and call it an IDE, but I would still be on the side saying it's just a bunch of tools and they're not "integrated"
> leads to people making their building worse on purpose.

does this actually happen in practice?

> I find it also quite disgusting how race angle is added to every article possible.

I think ppl are aggressively building their 'anti-racism' cred. Slights are judged on your overall past history. Like the science writer at Nytimes who got fired for saying the word in sentence. It wasn't just about using the word but lack of his past 'anti racism' capital that led him to get fired.

Its very similar to govt records on individuals in soviet union. your slip ups might be forgiven if you have a strong history of supporting the party. Pppl would try to give pro party speeches in local neighborhood meetings to get that on their record, like a future insurance.

Modern day example is Putting your pronouns in your bio at work like like wearing stalin pin on your shirt, gives you some level of protection, but not putting pronouns might make you 'wavering' entity.
Our EU funds absorption rate is pitiful, I'm not sure that's the main reason.

The wages part might be true.

But it's utterly shameful that's the case considering that we're talking about residential fiber, so high density places where that cost can be spread out easily. Because in rural areas for sure they can use equipment to dig.
So you're saying that it was incompatible British Values that caused the UK media to lie about what the EU was doing.

So that list of 100+ lies printed by the UK Press was fine, as it was an effort to manipulate people to have a negative opinion of the EU.

Since those good reasons weren't enough to get what the Brexiters wanted?
>I think we should really reduce our energy usage instead.

There is no viable future scenario in which mankind's energy usage decreases. It's a pipe dream, and ultimately a dangerous one.

Energy use is fundamentally tied to progress to such an extent that we should always be looking for ways to increase the energy available to us.

Of course the energy should be produced in as low-impact a manner as possible, but it's long past time to accept that energy usage will go up, not down.
Prospect of violence is enough to keep people in check.
The USSR government collapsed a few years after the Chernobyl disaster and didn't foot the bill of most of its costs.

It now costs huge amounts of money to Belarus, which gov has nothing to do with USSR nuclear projects. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53727243

The European Union gave (and, until now, gives) huge amounts of money in order to contain the problem, for example the sarcophagus.
https://time.com/5255663/chernobyl-disaster-book-anniversary...
I only seem to get it via business gigabit connection but that is costly. I can't seem get it via consumer internet here in Zone 1 near Hyde Park. Max is ~70+.

If Hyperoptic was available would be great but they seem to mostly to cover (new) apartment buildings. Having a Mews house is probably not helping
Cryptocurrency Data in Julia Using Alphavantatge.jl
Are there a lot of historical examples of currency reissuance not closely followed by civil war? Maybe I’m only able to recall the worst results.
I think expecting AI to either “fully understand” human language or not is a false dichotomy.

Right now, many AI systems can receive instructions through python (which, to me, look like unnatural language but can be spoken). Systems like CLIP and systems built around the GPT models can take in massaged English language prompts and return an AI generated output based on that.

I think we will asymptotically approach having our systems “fully understand” human language but I also think we’ve already arrived at your implied future of communicating with them through an unnatural, intermediate language. Isn’t that exactly what programming is for?