skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't, and it's entirely possible you're right about your wood and your neighbors.

Some of the wood I could buy in the U.S. is birch harvested in the Baltics. I've seen videos of harvesting operations that are definitely harvesting live birch and splitting it with equipment that's all designed with that in mind. But I've got no proof for you!
I’d be curious if there was a subreddit dedicated to these types of chalk math photos.
Well it has been called into question since tether began. Not helped my them paying an SEC fine recently for not backing it fully. It is still questionable if it is fully backed or not, with evidence or support not being supplied by the company behind it.
In practice the US government is constrained from paying market rates for tech talent. It can either hire companies to complete the entire project, or it can hire a consulting service (which skims off a massive overhead) to provide technical talent inside a government agency.
Highly recommend watching this talk. The lessons conveyed by the author will serve you well not only in communication with C programmers, but communication with anyone really :) As the first comment on the video says: "I came here for a C++ talk, walked away with a life lesson"
4 minutes read.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff with a great suggestion I found myself optimized for in the past few years: be happy. I do things that feel like playing to me (may look like hard work for others), be around people I love and get energized from and assist others in areas of expertise (teach what I learn, as I learn it). I try to follow my emotions and instincts for how happiness looks to me rather than my ego. If something feels right, I accept it. I try to quiet down the voice of "is it good enough though?" because my immediate answer (of the ego) is always No. I let myself play in multiple games: work, family, side projects, hobbies, etc. So far, what worked for me is to optimize for happiness and high energy levels, so these games have to work well together as I get older. This is for me life worth living.
I suspect I'm going to get crucified on hacker news for this.

And my criticism it isn't necessarily related to this specific episode.

BUT Sam Harris has been pretty credibly described as being islamophobic, sympathetic to fascists, amplifying and platforming "race scientists" aka: white nationalists attempting to maintain a veneer of respectability, and being a recruitment pipeline for the alt-right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris

I know how well the "don't listen to Sam Harris" argument would go down around hacker news, but I'd say that one who does, should listen to him with the lens of being aware that he gives a suspicious amount air time to the online racist grifter community.

If that's the world's only source in the world on Renee Gracie, then maybe Harris is an ok choice.

I find it hard to justify giving bandwidth to a guy who gives so much bandwidth to nazi propaganda.

https://medium.com/@tedheistman/does-sam-harris-want-you-to-...

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/3k7jx8/too-many-atheists...

I'm not saying that Sam Harris is definitely a Nazi, but the venn diagram of online nazi content and Sam Harris' content has more overlap than one might generally expect to occur by chance.

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/episode-22-sam-harris-is...
You already got feedback in hobs’s comment. They wrote:

“I didnt downvote, but random speculation with no evidence doesn't get upvotes on hacker news; a discussion of things you find interesting that others find baseless with get you downvotes immediately.”
You’re describing a fear of intimacy. It’s actually fear of rejection, or of self-rejection, like so many things. If you choose someone to avoid a faithful reflection of yourself, you won’t be upset at any dissonance. It does work though.
Every news source of any kind has some sort of bias. The only way to escape that completely is to live alone in the woods as a hermit.
Your article seems to misrepresent the minimum room size in the IRC for the minimum total house area:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/minimum-hou...

“The IRC codes require that all homes must be built on a minimum of 320 square feet. The minimum square footage for a house is 120 square feet, and at least one room must be habitable. Habitable rooms meet other regulations, such as needing a closet and at least one window. Other rooms, not meant for sleeping, must be at least 70 square feet.”

It also weasel words (and apparently succeeds in tricking you with it) about what zoning requires; what you interpret as “most” is actually described inbthe article you cite with the far weaker “many”:

> Many cities and counties, however, have a minimum size requirement of 1,000 square feet or more for construction of a new home on its own land

Not “most”.
> Why is the alternative to Facebook your Facebook by another name?"

To me, it makes 100% sense. Alternative to X should be kind of X, except minor changes here and there. Otherwise it is not an alternative, otherwise it is completely different thing.
None of these have a police per government agency, that's what we are mainly talking about. That there are local police departments or state police departments is not the main issue I think.
I’ve been really happy with just[1]. Make is great, and just extracts what is one of the best features of make (task runner with dependencies) and makes it a standalone tool. I use it for docker builds, or pretty much as a wrapper around any polyglot repos I create.

[1]: https://github.com/casey/just
Right but does that mean astronauts don't see stars because it's always "daytime" in space? If we can see the Milky Way in the night sky of remote places away from cities, then the atmosphere must be playing a huge role in allowing us to see stars. I'm just wondering if those night skies are also visible in space, perhaps from the dark side of the moon.
https://archive.is/pSC7V
Well, maybe not rocks in a mineshaft. Probably not rocks in a mineshaft.

But Advanced Rail Energy Storage?[0] Different story, has potential (bad pun, I know). There are some nice synergies, like a system such as this can reuse the generators from a decommissioned coal or natural gas plant.

It can definitely play a part in a broad-spectrum energy policy.

[0]: https://aresnorthamerica.com
Just run another venture round and dont think too hard about this problem. If everything goes well it wont be your problem for much longer, if it goes bad then who cares anyway.
I deleted Facebook and Twitter on Jan. 20, and haven’t been back. It’s amazing how much better I feel getting off those platforms.
with a 20% spread from spot prices
Why do some instructors care so much about attendance?
Police kill about 1000-1200 people per year in the U.S., depending on who's counting. See for example the Washington Post data. So it's not just tens over a decade.
I'm a highly educated individual, commonly read dense scientific works, philosophy, political science etc. Its my opinion that violent crime, and especially brazen violent crime is just flat out more common. Police are more frequently in life threatening situations. The demands on them to act perfectly are enormous. And so we see mistakes, broadly painted as racism. Its a cancerous thought framework, and it threatens the law and order of a civilized nation.

But the video that is coming out is making it clear to the common people, that despite what the media says, you can see for yourself what occurs. The narrative can only be held for so long before too much video evidence to the contrary piles up.

George Floyd robbed a women by holding his gun to her pregnant stomach.

Duante Wright robbed a girl by choking her, holding her at gun point, for 800$

Adam Toledo was known in his neighborhood as "Lil Homicide"

The 16 year old girl shot recently was running at people swinging a knife.
How Baltimore Is Experimenting Its Way Out of the Food Desert (2020)
Well science fiction is merely a way to examine current society. The SF angle is an attempt to get a little "outside" perspective.

It's pretty hard to make truly alien aliens, as the more alien they are, the harder they are to understand, identify with etc, making the stories themselves less interesting.

The aliens in The Gods Themselves are pretty alien but still have, from time to time, a human-like mode of thinking which Asimov used to explain their behavior. The Bug Wars is the only book I've read that has no humans at all, though the aliens' mentalities are somewhat human, again to make them comprehensible.

Famously "different" aliens (e.g. Moties, the bugs of Ender's Game & sequels) are actually pretty human in motivation.

And the inscrutable aliens (e.g. Starship Troopers) are clearly inscrutable stand-ins for contemporary political enemies.

The various literature on intelligent machines has the same problem.
As another comment noted, that was Camden. There’s also more to that story - the city significantly stepped up its surveillance of public spaces (https://www.insider.com/inside-camden-new-jerseys-high-tech-...). Personally I think using technology to ensure public safety, with the right safeguards to prevent government abuses, is both acceptable and very possible. However, the anti policing activists are now against the Camden model - they initially held it up as evidence that defunding works but quickly changed opinion when more details came out (that funding simply shifted to the county level). You can find an example of arguments against Camden’s surveillance model at https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/camden-new-jersey-police-refo...
They propose to implement an algorithm such as a trained neural network by an single-purpose analog computer (whether electronic or optical).

This is sound idea and subject to research but he himself lists some disadvantages and I can imagine there are many more. Generally, nonlinear analog systems are VERY fickle.
It’s actually earlier than that, it took standard committees decades to catch up to industry.

The 2.54 cm inch was effectively imposed by Johansson’s gauge blocs back in 1912. The Brits accepted it as the standard in 1930, the American Standards Assoc. in 1933.

The 1950s date you cite is when government finally caught up.

Edit: (Gauge blocks are super cool, btw)
I used to live near their HQ in San Francisco. They would have female residents try to recruit new women nearby with offers of free rent. The catch was you had attend two or three sessions a week to, you guess it, have strangers play with their private parts for the 15 minute OM meditations. Male members had to pay I believe it was $2,500 a month to participate.
It may run under OpenBSD. Good until thfr fixed the Wine (re)-port for OpenBSD.

I mostly play IF and slashem, but Deus Ex it's game I liked a lot in my teen years.
Legalizing bussing of tables means that my daughter might have to choose between being starving and demeaning herself by cleaning up after other people. If farming is legalized she might have to pick cotton if desperate.

Best to keep both of those things illegal to spare the dignity of my daughter. Better to lock people in jail if they attempt those things. Better to turn people who might actually enjoy farming into criminals.
Harm reduction has its place, but what if most of the harm isn't because of sponsored posts, but because of the all-encompassing always-on social network?

Facebook, but a bit less like Facebook sounds like smoking 20 instead of 25 cigarettes a day, doesn't it?
Omnibrain - I’m curious: you submitted this 2 - 3 days ago, yet this is a fresh submission showing “3 hours ago”. Only this post is in your submission history.

How are you able to ‘bump’ or ‘refresh’ a submission in this way?
Not sure. If the government is doing something large-scale in public (like construction projects [or maybe global IP routing]), they should communicate what is happening before doing it, in order to not phase people.
Digital nomads and remote work guides
Nevertheless a trial by our peers is the best option we have in the long run. Think of alternatives, such as an algorithm, or a single person.

It’s not great, sure, but people from the same circumstances judging a peer is as good as it gets.
That seems true in America too, where official = the narratives deemed acceptable by progressive activists and by the executives/employees of progressive corporations such as big technology firms that control our narratives. If you fall outside those narratives you face censorship, deplatforming, demonetization, etc. The fact that it isn’t the government imposing those restrictions doesn’t change its impact on societal discourse.
Alternatively both instances of life could be linked. https://www.space.com/22577-earth-life-from-mars-theory.html

That said my gut says hypothetically talking about the danger of a universal great filter is silly when we clearly face near term filters of our own design right now (climate change, environmental collapse, a nuclear arms race)
Yep that's why farming should remain illegal. There's simply too great a chance that someone could be forced into that trade. Best to criminalize the behavior.
Thankfully stories like this help to reinforce positive outcomes in other similar trials.
New Approach to Three-Body Problem
Victors write history.
Photos of Bees Sleeping in a Flower
Is anyone trying to implement that gas bag idea? Not one I'd heard of before
Have you seen Microsoft Edge on Linux. I've been using it for some months now for company stuff and it works great. A different Microsoft indeed.
In case you've never seen it, check out the Eames's Powers of Ten.
Remember the guy who rescued a lost hiker by deducing his location Sherlock-Holmes-style using a single photo? [1][2]. The story was trending on HN few days ago.

He's got a pinned tweet [3] that says "One of the key technologies which has helped in crowdsourced response to extreme weather disasters (fires floods hurricanes) these last years has been ability to monitor local emergency radio channels remotely. Let's get these everywhere. #raspberrypi #rtlsdr #scanner"

He (Benjamin Kuo) is a HAM Radio operator active during disasters.

It's different from what you wanted, but just putting it here.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/us/missing-hiker-found.ht...

[2] https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1382371967618097157

[3] https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1085609599661617152
did you read Bostrom's article with the same opinion?

https://www.nickbostrom.com/extraterrestrial.pdf
They're good solutions for places like Athens where the population is dense and urbanized and people are more concerned with getting any connectivity at all rather than getting low ping times in CSGO.
Just as a side-note since their example uses CloudFlare: I think that host-rewriting is disabled on CloudFlare as a security or spam-avoidance feature.

If you want to have CF change the host to something else, like censored.com, this domain must also be part of your controlled domains, which means CF can’t be used for this purpose.

This at least was the case last time I looked into this (12 months ago)

It’s also possible that this feature is enabled for paying users, which I wasn’t.
I think the part they are missing is that a general purpose computer is required to train and simulate the physical model. The speed at which a trained model executes isn’t really a problem in most domains as far as I’m aware. They can evaluate in real time already on standard hardware. It’s also more efficient to push software updates when your model improves rather than retooling you manufacturing process and deprecating valuable resources into a landfill.
Hah! I did my PhD in NZ and became a part kiwi (I still miss it to be honest). I'm back in Europe now, in Sweden and as you might know we have had a very relaxed (and very weird from a non-Swede perspective) approach to the pandemic. So we did have in-person and online exams, but all with proctering via zoom.
Other media outlets aren't the topic here. If you want to talk about them, feel free to submit another post to HN. Until then, your attempts to misdirect the conversation are amateurish and obvious.
Back in the day you had it openly advertised in Soldier of Fortune magazine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_Fortune_(magazine)#... Nowadays you probably track friends of friends from the military.
I'm a highly educated individual, commonly read dense scientific works, philosophy, political science etc. Its my opinion that violent crime, and especially brazen violent crime is just flat out more common. Police are more frequently in life threatening situations. The demands on them to act perfectly are enormous. And so we see mistakes, broadly painted as racism. Its a cancerous thought framework, and it threatens the law and order of a civilized nation.
But the video that is coming out is making it clear to the common people, that despite what the media says, you can see for yourself what occurs. The narrative can only be held for so long before too much video evidence to the contrary piles up.

George Floyd robbed a women by holding his gun to her pregnant stomach.

Duante Wright robbed a girl by choking her, holding her at gun point, for 800$

Adam Toledo was known in his neighborhood as "Lil Homicide"

The 16 year old girl shot recently was running at people swinging a knife.
By middle school I knew I'd never be an astronaut but I would have really liked to go to Space Camp.
Unfortunately civic literacy is at an all time low in our country. In many ways our constitutional foundation is being openly questioned, let alone reinforced in school.

If people don’t believe foundational things like “innocent until proven guilty” then we have a lot of other issues coming down the pipeline. The opposite is being reinforced by activists, social media, mainstream media, and even large corporations.
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> then the atmosphere must be playing a huge role in allowing us to see stars.

It does not. The Earth blocking out the light from the Sun (and the side of the Earth facing it) does.

Of course, that also works in space, and stars are visible in space:

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/stargazing-from-the-inter...
You are getting downvoted, but I think this is a fair point - most folks are busy being patriotic or whatever and do not realise that UK is basically turning into Russia with recent corruption scandal
It's like a half of Russian mafia owns mansions there, right in the open, laughing in the face of UK courts, and its money laundering laws.
To comply with the license, the Evil Corp would be required to share their modifications giving anybody who sees this as their market advantage the ability to do exactly the same thus diminishing the advantage. The Evil Corp would not be required to share the code which talks to the modified GPL'd library.

That's the spirit of this license and everything is working as intended.

But it's a good line of thought. Here's another thought experiment. When compiling say golang or Rust program, all dependencies end up being compiled into a single standalone binary. If a dependency of a dependency pulls in an unmodified GPL module, what impact does it have on our resulting binary? The common understanding is: if we're asked to share the code of the GPL dependency, we can share the original unmodified dependency and we're not required to share our code using the dependency.

Until we're proven otherwise, we should stick to that common understanding.
Sounds like you're mostly unaware of the issue that trying to compensate region, country and sometimes even continent wide lows/peaks would require many gigawatts of transmission capacity in the form of cables in arbitrary directions. Even if the European grid is well interconnected it's painfully far from handling such situations.

And that is not even accounting for the fact that right now only a small proportion of total energy use is transmitted electrically, which means that with future energy generation becoming greener being strongly tied to having more solar/wind (which is also electrical), there will anyway have to be a massive increase in grid capacity.

> Currently, clean energy is the dominant form of energy in many countries already (e.g. Europe, China, parts of the US)

Just not true. Yes, some countries are (Iceland is one of the few) but most European countries are far from what you claim.
Maybe you meant energy transmitted as electricity instead of all energy.

See https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Quote:
> In 2019, renewable energy represented 19.7 % of energy consumed in the EU-27, only 0.3 % short of the 2020 target of 20 %.

> The share of energy from renewable sources used in transport activities in the EU-27 reached 8.9 % in 2019.
As an American on the Internet since 1990, I didn't realize that Russians are like that.

You mean you don't believe me? When you watch Hollywood movies if there's Russian in the movie, would it be a good person? Or most Russians in the movies are blood thirsty villains that love to kill people as a hobby?..

Or have you watched the famous HBO series Chernobyl? Do you think that we really drink warm vodka from the bottle any time of the day? Or that all engineers, managers and government officials in Russia/USSR are clueless psycopaths like they're in Chernobyl and other movies and series about Russia/USSR?

Is this propaganda written in English or Russian?

In Russian. This propaganda is for creating dissent in Russian population, no sense to publish it in English. Besides, you can hire lots of people in poor former USSR republics to publish comments in Russian literally for the price of a bowl of rice. Such expenses are negligible for the US budget, why waste the opportunity.

Conversely, where Russia will take that much money and that many English-speaking people to create the same amount of propaganda? It's impossible. We're losing the war of comments and fake news and we never could win it. I'm really doubtful that we even tried to fight back.

You won't find many people capable of writing texts in English in Russia. And usually those people already have a good job and they're usually on the side of the West, it's very unlikely they would agree to work against the West.
There is a lot of C code out there, right now, doing positively Lovecraftian things with void pointers.

If they wanted to port the library to C++, they would have already. This would let them use something common to the C ecosystem, thus potentially harmonious with other libraries, and hopefully bring some compiler-level discipline to the non-Euclidean insanity.
Yeah. If there's good train service, it probably makes more sense to take the train. But if I'm flying through a city to get to another city, switching transportation modes can be a pain. e.g. Normally I'd take a train from (downtown) Manhattan to (downtown) Philadelphia. But if I'm flying into a NYC airport on my way to Philadelphia, that's a terrific hassle especially with luggage.
UK Court overturns convictions of 39 postal workers, caused by software errors
There are even mysterious (with hypothetical biological origin) geysers on Mars: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geysers_on_Mars
Crypto Holders Say It’s Hurt Their Personal Relationships
You would think so, but no, you are only observing and predicting behavior. But life is infinitely nuanced. And even if you could, what help is that when those thoughts have power over you, and you have none over them? It will never feel okay.