skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Layke1123 was downvoted to oblivion for asking:

What other way meaningfully leads to the truth?

IMO it is a decent question.

I was careless in my use of the word truth. I mean "useful information that can be relied on". I do not mean anything supernatural.

A lot of human knowledge that fits that category does not come from science. Most medicine, for instance. It comes from the experience of clinicians applying their practice and sharing their knowledge.

"five basic requirements for a field to be considered scientifically rigorous: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility and, finally, predictability and testability." says the article.

The truth (from economics) that all else being roughly equal increasing price reduces demand cannot be found under those restrictions.

Nor could astrophysics.
YSFlight - https://ysflight.org/download/
> how would something like a data-diode work in real life?

A webcam? Second hand, but that's what I was told a dam operator was using as a "grass-roots" solution a while back
Maybe not such a bad thing given the zeitgeist? Also higher and rising labor expenses force higher capex, a long-term benefit for American competitiveness.
A contrived comparison as nothing close to this happened in Ukraine.
In the age we live in it is entirely socially acceptable to be living a 20s lifestyle in your 30s and beyond. Few people I know are tied down to much if anything and enjoy travel, sport, relationships for fun and all the things your 20s are known for.

Just much less binge drinking, which is honestly a blessing.
I’ll add another reason why these scenarios are ridiculous: they assume that the time that goes into the side hustle is “free” and that it’s impossible to advance any faster in one’s “primary” career. I don’t know how things work in medicine, but in software engineering at a high-level tech company a bump up in pay grade blows away the $250/month you’d make fiddling with a vending machine. And wasting time on the vending machine makes it that much harder to get the vastly more valuable promotion.

I wonder if these stories are appealing because it seems like an “easy” path to wealth, whereas “work hard at a demanding job” seems hard.
I disagree. Maybe my grandparents weren't traveling to Croatia for Yacht Week but they traveled and lived all over the US, joined social clubs, my grandfather hunted and competed in sports, played piano. They weren't living under thatched roofs with scurvy or anything. And you can google any inflation calculator you want, $1000 in 1950 would be about $10k now, so I'd say it's doubled a few times.
Note that it's not a 35% improvement/decrease, it's a 65% decrease, or put another way, 1/3 the emissions. It's not an order of magnitude, but a factor of 3 ain't bad, and CO2 from battery pack production will get better as the energy sources used get cleaner. Also, it looks like they're assuming a car lifetime of 250k km, which I think is pretty conservative for these. They also assumed a linear decrease in CO2 in power generation, which they say is a conservative assumption, and I agree. A number of their other assumptions lean on the conservative side, I assume for being more defensible, so I'd be somewhat surprised if the real difference isn't a good bit larger.
Reminds me of a faerie dragon from homm3, I am jealous of this 14 year old, especially because a long term personal dream of mine is flying to downtown fort worth on a mechanical ornithopter dragon.
Whale share a significant part of their developmental history, genetics and brain chemistry with us humans. They don't really qualify as alien in any of the interesting ways that were mentioned.
I'd want quite a bit of distance between the primary and secondary coolants, if that is possible. The idea of having a leaky radiator which happens to drip "hot" water...

(there are many ways to do heat exchange which would remove most of the risk and I bet almost all of them are well understood in the nuclear industry anyway: you don't run a turbine off the direct pile coolant)

Given the energy is there, I don't see anything inherently wrong with using it. The capitalised costs of central heating is something a lot of european cities have invested in, there is nothing majorly wrong with that model either. Perhaps some risks of 'all in or all out' failure modes. (I can think of a bridge which is heated, to prevent dangerous icing, as well as home heating models)

It's a giant heat-pump. They could push it into the ground, and have a large year-round thermal buffer. Grow crops out of season, heat greenhouses, you name it.
Thing is, getting these details "right" and their changing in light of new research don't matter to anyone except paleontologists.
Dinosaurs may as well be a science fiction franchise.

The most important thing to actually know is that... We don't actually know and many areas of science are largely guesswork, not ultimate truth.
i mean, if you claim that $100 million was printed, then regardless of whether it's netflix or something else, it may increase inflation.

But the thing is, there hasn't been that much money printed by the FEDs or the US gov't. The stimulus cheques are not money printing, but money borrowing - a major difference. Borrowed money needs to be paid back, and so there may be temporary inflation caused by said stimulus, but it's clawed back in the future when the stimulus' effect has worked!
Turbo C++ for Windows 3.1 already had template support, this was in 1993.

On MS-DOS Borland C++ 2.0 was the first compiler to support them.

Naturally this was work in progress, try to keep up with the latest stand from WG 21.
Not much. Disabling javascript makes up for a lot. People who run every random bit of code that gets sent to their browser are definitely compromising their security and need the extra layers of defense.
Can you do this right now with the pandemic? I’d absolutely take my family for a summer in Italy.
Inflation is when the government prints money out of thin air. It's like a hidden tax, and as such stealing.

Is and always has been.

Everything else is post facto justification for said money printing.
RonDB is a fork of MySQL Cluster. Here's the reference for 99.999% uptime:

https://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/availability.html

Note that it is the dominant subscriber database in the telecom space. There is a high likelihood you are using it as part of a home location registry or similar when you use your phone.

Here's a benchmark comparison with Redis (outperforms it on a single node):

https://www.logicalclocks.com/blog/ai-ml-needs-a-key-value-s...

Here's a YCSB benchmark where it beats all other well known key-value stores (not reproducible, but all database vendors (except RonDB) have a DeWitt Clause):

https://www.slideshare.net/ocklin/mysql-ndb-cluster-80-sql-f...

https://www.slideshare.net/mikaelronstrom/ndb-cluster-80ycsb...
While most of the article is good, It's really sad that she apes the old refrain that inflation hurts the poor because they are in debt.

Many of the poor cannot even be in debt because they have no access to the financial system. Those that do, mostly have access to payday lending. It's laughable to hold the opinion that inflation will do anything for someone who owes 10% on top by next month. For the middle class, it's one step up -- credit cards, still laughable to think that a 2% inflation will help out someone with a 15% APR revolving line of credit.

The place where it starts to help is when you have large capital loans on fixed interest like home ownership. But her graphs in the next section relating inflation to wealth gap capture the 1% vs the rest, which is not necessarily a mechanistically informative figure of merit... I'd like to see it where the wealth gap when you draw the line closer to something like the low-interest loan accessibility gap.
Hey OP,

I have made a similar setup. One question that I have not yet answered and thus I am changing setup is how secure is to "give" your IP to everyone on the internet.

My assumption is that your home-router has security vuln that we don't know about and could be bypassed by hackers who are willing to mess with you. Even though you may have taken precautions, such as opening only very specific ports, etc.
I think a big part of the “joy”, is pursuing your own idea of what would be cool to make. Start a side project, and not one you think would be lucrative, or that other people would be impressed by. Just something you yourself are fascinated with, even transiently.
I give life and death a lot of thought.

"Lockdowns are a unacceptable imposition on freedom" I can understand. I disagree, but I understand.

"lockdowns are worse than death" strikes me as odd.
In that case, wouldn’t the success of advertising support psychology as a science?
I'm talking about research grants. I need a permanent employment contract with an academic institution in order to be eligible.
> While there may be a ceiling for all of us, defined by inability to grok no matter how much work is done, the fact is below that point work has real, tangible benefits.

I’m a bit on edge, because as of right now I have no idea what that is. I’ve come up with a few medium-long to long term plans that will be an huge time investment and likely in some way a moderate monetary investment, but am not sure if I have the intelligence to complete them. Worse even, I figure I would unlikely find out until I’m significantly invested in them. Due to a mix of things like laziness and poor focus (the latter of which you note can be improved) that I believe in part has held me back in that past, but I also feel that certain failures could be due to intelligence, but as of right now, I’m unable to differentiate.
We knew about this since before 2000 probably, earliest articles I could find : 2007, 2009 : https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/americas-vulnerable-energy-... , https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123914805204099085
Not so simple. Raising the cost of labor also means increased aggregate demand as workers make use of a higher disposable income. On the business side, capex increases as routine work is automated. As we've in prior periods, automation creates more jobs than it eliminates, whether the through higher-end tasks or through increases in demand due to fall-off in breakeven price.
As it happens, Religion brought us the five day work week. Not unions.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/where-t...
RonDB was and is built by telco veterans. They are used to working in a world meeting that kind of SLA.
> How about those of us that just enjoy our jobs?

So much this. I have worked places where the work was boring and everybody is just phoning it in 9-5, and places where people work weekends because they're truly engaged in their work.

In theory, the former has great work/life balance but every hour at work felt like a drag, I wasn't engaged, I wasn't growing. And worse still, I didn't even really understand this when it was happening. I just thought work was awful like this and even started looking at other careers to get out.

Then I worked at a couple places in that latter category. It was night and day. I was still able to live my life, but I was more engaged, getting amazing opportunities and growing a LOT more.

I've always tried to be careful about the message I send by working weekends or nights. I don't brag when I do it. Try to keep it low profile by not communicating with coworkers (unless it's an outage or something). If my manager asks me to more than on rare occasions, it's also not acceptable.
There's an entire parallel internet for the DoD and it's contractors. It's not like there isn't precedent that critical industries can emulate if they ever became concerned about the common good.
Croatia is a beautiful country and I've always wanted to visit - about what percentage of the population speaks English in your experience?
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's tedious, predictable, and nearly always nasty.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102024.
I'm going to have to butcher it a bit to make this fit in a comment :)

Basically the thing you need to think about is the energy associated with the field itself. For the electromagnetic fields, the energy in the field is like (E^2 + B^2), or in terms of the electromagnetic field tensor F (see [0] if this isn't a familiar concept), it's F^2. You can write F in terms of a potential A, basically F = dA, where d means gradient [1]. So the energy looks like (dA)^2, which is a kinetic energy for the field A, because it tells you that an oscillation in the field costs energy. Integrating over the possible values of the A field is a lot like the integral you would do for the matter fields [2], in particular the math looks basically the same as what you would do for electrons for example [3]. And just like with electrons, the local propagating degrees of freedom are the ones we call particles.

So this is how you make dynamics happen in QFT--you integrate over all the possible field values, and the local propagating degrees of freedom are called particles. And for EM and other gauge theories, the math is basically the same as for electrons, and it should be interpreted the same.

The same story carries over for gravity, too, where the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian (R) is like the EM field strength (F^2), and the metric g enters into it in a similar way as A does for EM (basically, R = (dg)^2).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_tensor

[1] This isn't quite right, you have to make sure everything is gauge invariant, but that's not important for understanding what's going on at a high level.

[2] See [1].

[3] If this isn't a story that you understand yet, take some time to study free scalar field theory, and make sure to understand both the path integral method and the canonical method. By seeing how these translate between each other, you can build intuition.
The system incurs those fixed costs based on how it anticipates they will pay off. With more money chasing content, the system will find it profitable to green-light more scripts at higher production values. But ultimately everybody’s favorite sound mixer has only two ears.
subdomain.example.com can be hosted on completely different infrastructure, but what about DNS? Unless you have two different DNS providers for the main domain, you still have single point of failure for the entire domain (and all subdomains).
I was not able to do the account transition yesterday, but tonight it worked.
First thing I did was opt out of "overdraft protection".

It's was so nice with Simple because I never had to worry that they would start taking advantage if I ran out of money. They just declined the transaction. And apparently were able to operate that way for years.

But I wonder if they were just not able to compete with the profits of other banks that enjoy the lucrative business of kicking customers when they are down with overdraft fees.
nice, de-amped

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-the-western-world...
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I'm sad to say I don't. It was in a German-language interview and really stuck in my head. "Jeden Tag ein bisschen mehr Selbstdisziplin."

She wrote a memoir about her upbringing in East Prussia called "Kindheit in Ostpreussen." The English translation is entitled "Before the Storm: Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia." [1] It's a somewhat wandering story but the account of growing up in a Prussian aristocratic family on a huge estate is quite marvelous. That world--for better or worse--has perished almost without a trace.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138357.Before_The_Storm
Clearly it ends at HN.
Yeah. I remember reading somewhere that the US was making 80% of the cars worldwide in 1950 or so.
It continues to surprise me how many people don't seem to recognize the basic right of self-determination – ranging from the status of Ukraine to Scotland to Puerto Rico – from all sorts of different ideologies. e.g. non-Puerto Ricans argueing in favour of statehood well before it was clear the population actually wanted it (only since Nov 2020 is there a referendum with a small majority in favour of it).
Scrap for cash: Bronze Age witnessed revolution in small change across Europe
For data center operators the choice between AMD and Intel in this space comes down to power efficiency.

Ignoring the performance improvements for real workloads, the #1 driving factor is performance per watt. By going with AMD that metric improves ~2x over comparable Intel offerings.

There are facilities where physical space to expand is available but the building has effectively run out of additional power that can be provided by the utility company.

Scaling up on performance per watt is the last frontier.
The prior is given by the score on the big five?
Document everything. If you can't come at the "cover your own risk" side, it's because it will help whoever comes after.

Sometimes, risky behaviour in a CEO can be managed by getting other people to ask the right questions.

Contract amendment demands three players minimum. The two parties, and the lawyer(s). The lawyers should be risk averse to unexpected change, you might find them tractable.

Short-term gain often comes at long-term pain. If the revision isn't sufficiently balanced, one-time win (and KPI bonus for the sales director) is actually hurting the company. Has the CFO actually seen the model? whats the 2/5 year prognosis?

Going to the investors is terminal to your future in this specific enterprise, but it's possible implying they need to be told, or the SEC need to be told (does it materially alter risk in that regulated space?) might cause second-thoughts.

You could also just try being blunt: "this is a really bad idea"
Couple of notes. Length numbers are more like 10-15 inches different between generations if you account for trim configurations. Single cab trucks just aren’t sold anymore which is separate from this discussion. The Taco is also more narrow than an F150 which I think is relevant to this discussion.
Patience Paduan. It gets better. All those pains, blend into the "body". You learn how to move or something, as you get older. In other words, don't, despair.
This is indeed an excellent way of filtering if your audio is cyclic and fits into a single FFT, like a periodic waveform, a drum loop or an Optigan track. Just make sure not to apply any window.
Since this account appears to be using HN primarily for ideological battle and that's against the site guidelines, we've banned it. Please don't create accounts to do that with. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
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Well, that's what some people keep repeating. Haven't seen it stopped in 12 years, and it doesn't seem to have an end anytytime soon.

Maybe you are just wrong in your assessment, ever considered that option?
> The max I have got is around 200 tabs and even that was a considerable stress on my brain.

Here's the trick I think:

I and many others use tabs to offload the brain. For those who have read "Getting Things Done" I think this is similar.

We don't think about them, just look them up if and when we need them.

Kind of the same way as a journal or notebook: it doesn't stress me that I have hundreds of pages I might never get back to; it eases my mind that if I need to get back it is still there.

I use Tree Style Tabs and a couple of extensions on top of that so sometimes I'll copy a subtree as a nested markdown list and store it in Joplin, then close it.

But no: 600 tabs like I've had more than once was totally feasible years ago and should be no match for a moderns system.

That said as long as people don't try to force me to change the way I work they are free to do it their way.
These things won't stop being silly and start being useful until most of the speculative gain aspects are over. Since I don't think any of the speculation will really die down, I also don't think they will ever enter their use-value state.

It could be fringe, currency speculation is normal worldwide, but the primary purpose of currency is value transfer between parties. Until thats the primary purpose, its not money, its gambling.
Interesting tidbit from that Donuts wiki page:

> In January 2021, Donuts announced that Ethos Capital would be acquiring a controlling interest in the company.[0]

That would be the same Ethos Capital that tried to take control of .org.[1][2]

[0] https://donuts.news/ethos-capital-to-acquire-controlling-int...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/dot-org-privat...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/victory-icann-rejects-...
Because people conflate "doing time" with "doing tasks".

Largely because listing ALLLL the things, large and small, that gets done in a work day is a hard problem, especially for managers to track. And employees don't really want that level of invasion into their day.
I'm not super-knowledgable about cybersecurity, but shouldn't simply using TOR make it nearly impossible for the US government to track them down?

If they want to go overkill, they can additionally use a public VPN account purchased using walmart giftcards bought on ebay using a stolen identity and then mailed overseas.

They can also perform the hack using a brand new computer that they never use again afterward.

It just seems to me like the attacker has most of the advantage here if they know what they're doing.
Worse. von Neumann probes show that none of them can be expansionist, otherwise the galaxy would have been overrun in half a million years.

So then.. maybe only the civilizations that aren't expansionist survive? Or everyone changes their mind and no one is expansionist by the time they get the right tech? Or maybe it's physically impossible to build von Neumann probes for some reason we don't yet understand? Or who knows what else. In any case, it's got to be zero in the history of our galaxy.
All: please don't post flamebait such as calls for war and whatnot. It's incredibly tedious. We're trying for interesting conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
With one caveat: you still need class components for error boundaries. https://reactjs.org/docs/error-boundaries.html
USPS is starting to use AI with Nvidia EGX-based systems for packages sorting
You're insane.
Why do we need semiconductor production? It's a global shortage, not a European shortage
There are also tons of Cordova applications currently deployed and I bet noone over here feels in love with them.
We regret to inform you that language is mutable.
Whales have at least a rudimentary form of language. There is evidence for syntactic structure, even if the information density is an order of magnitude (or more) less dense than human speech.

Whales also teach each other new hunting techniques and have other complicated social behaviors.

Without a better understanding of whale language and cognition, I don't think you can safely say they don't engage in a form of scientific inquiry.