skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are in complete denial. A wide body of people were concerned that Freenode wasn't going to be able to self rule. The whole community are stakeholders here. Indeed an authoritarian monarch swooped in with his coup and has said you all can have whatever rule you want as long as I approve. A self regulating community has been converted to a monarchy by this anti-open quisling. There is no recovery, no stepping back from these facts. No order of events matter.

The actual facts of what happened whenever and however they did happen are the worst case nightmare for the community & there is no way that with him as leader the site can retain it's legitimacy ever.
They also nuked private channels that were being used for Wikimedia and Wikipedia's editor communications.

This is less about enforcing policy and more about angry, petty grievances.
Why did anyone ever think it was a good idea to let the federal government regulate international trade? (Not rhetoric, I'm actually curious because I am ignorant of the history and it seems like such a colossal and obvious bad move.)
I don't think anybody indoctrinated with marxist teachings is satisfied with any current or attempted version of communism. So in that regard I would agree, I still say its an impossible standard not used for other conflicts.

Even the last massacre in China was because the protestors wanted to democratically have more communism instead of the liberalization of the markets and private ownership. That gets reduced to “students wanted democracy”, geopolitically it would have even been worse. (It is sad they were killed and that unity in that country relies on never mentioning it or any other strife)
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Which headphones/speakers would you recommend/do you use?
Whose property is the charging station?

I always assumed if I improved my apartment my landlord has an incentive (in theory) to evict me and rent it to someone else for more.
Oh really?

Tell that to all the Californians that have to pay out the ass for their imported electricity.
Apple Pay worked great (one sticker purchased). Will you be integrating Chrome's equivalent?

Also, there's no good way to share the original link. The one after you click (and page you end up on after purchase) is crufty:
https://checkout.stripe.com/pay/cs_live_n1WDYJkCi1wp32H4Zlh8...

Versus: https://buy.stripe.com/dR6cOd9RJ8KS8nufYZ
What are you talking about? Ohio gets plenty of springs and falls, interspersed between winters and summers! Sometimes all in one day...
Yeah, those are not the same thing.
You are not open to an honest debate.
Not OP, but just a random ex-audio guy who did his fair share of listening experiments with different formats and bitrates.

FWIW, it had the complete opposite effect on me. I stopped caring about things like flac or other lossless formats for general music listening.

If the only way to maybe sometimes pick out a 320kbps mp3 from a flac one was to be on my best headphones, in my quietest room, focusing all my attention... the difference doesn't matter for practical listening. My ears may just be garbage, but it made me skeptical of people who make bold claims about what minutia they can discern -- although magical claims are more prevalent in the audiophile world ("these cables sounds great!") than the actual audio production world.
In a big fan of solar energy, the idea that I can power my whole life with sunlight is great.

But I do wonder, is anyone championing solar as a solution to environmental damage actually taking stock of the impact? With oil and gas, you drill a little hole in the ground. Once it is burned, it is in the air, mostly short lived pollutants, besides carbon dioxide, which can be sequestered and even turned into food by plants. With solar (and the batteries needed to store energy), you've got pit mines, heavy metals in local water, all sorts of toxic byproducts of production, and then the production is dependent on surface area. I do think climate change has sucked all the air out of the room with regard to the environmental movement and not enough is being done to fight all these other negative impacting behaviors, and I wonder if we aren't in at least as bad a boat with solar and batteries.
If it's 240W, that's 48V @ 5A. The same current as today's cables (100W: 20V @ 5A). Most likely won't get to melt any cables :)
Good, now maybe I'll be able to build with wood again here in Canada. Was getting to the point it was just cheaper to use steel.
A often less-mentioned problem of remote work for many in my circle is that working out of your cramped San Francisco bedroom isn't always productive. Many need a dedicated, well-lit, and preferably sunlit office space at home to be truly productive and companies have not normalized giving out rent subsidies to people, even though the amount of rent subsidy necessary to have a dedicated office space at home would be much less than the equivalent square footage of commercial office space.
It sounds like you have a somewhat fanciful idea of what fossil fuel production means. Usually it means 5-10 acres get scraped flat. PV isn't going to take anywhere near the amount of land that has been wrecked for oil, gas, and coal.

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.4198071,-98.8400976,792a,35y...
I've recently become aware of the fact that since I am good at imagining things in my head, I'm much less hamstrung by these virtual meeting than other people. For sure not all of them are as affected, but some are definitely getting the short end there.

Hopefully there are some companies out there that thought this pandemic was going to go on as long as it has and have been working on better collaboration tools.
YES! You are thinking the whole world is the same as your location.
people see a white golden gate and they immediately know that's not a realistic representation. They don't look at photos heavily touched or space photos with that expectation.
Gulf War 1991 is definitely a victory - deposing Saddam was not the goal of the US or its allies.

Similarly, Gulf War II is absolutely a loss, even though it "accomplished more" than 1991, because its strategic goals included dictating the post-war political arrangements in the country.

Victory and defeat are always relative to the parties' strategic goals.
You lost a bit of formatting (an overline) in your copied quote that happens to be really important: "their probabilities P(D|SI) are (1, 1, 1)" should be "their probabilities P(D|S̅I) are (1, 1, 1)".
You own it. One of the stipulations of being granted permission to install it, is that you (the tenant) are responsible for removal.

So that incentive does not exist.
My first landlord wouldn't fix the back door to the building so it would shut, or the light above it.

But should everyone have solar panels on the roof?

I've been getting solicitations that say I can save money by switching my power supplier to someone with a solar farm somewhere.
So far I have no feedback other than how smooth it was to use. I had a subscription plan already in place. Chose option to create link. Put the link on my website where I used to have a 3rd party’s stripe front-end. Now it’s direct and clean and supports faster payment mechanisms. Awesome!
But growing plants in arid sunny regions requires a lot of irrigation, which might offset the benefits of maximizing solar efficiency.
> A stone hit her on the side of the head.

Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"

I always loved that the first one waa anonymous, disembodied, as if no one (or everyone all at once) threw it.

I always wondered about the type of person who could start such a thing.

Later, when I read Granovetter's theory on behavior thresholds, it suddenly made sense that there are thousands - millions - of people just itching for a reason to throw a stone.

There is always someone with a riot threshold of zero.
Well the first two at least. I'm describing my beliefs. They are also shared by a lot of people; y'all wouldn't have to yell about free speech so much if this view was unpopular.

I admit that I also enjoy riling up first amendment fundamentalists but it isn't my main goal and these are my sincerely held beliefs so I don't think really qualifies as trolling.
Very good point. Most building projects actually use admixtures to get as rapid strength increase as possible, even if it means less strength increase long term, because the early strength determines when you can strip formwork and start building the next floor. Builders want concrete reaching ~18MPA in like <2 days.
The search for nature's joints.
This is awesome! Feature requests:

- ISO 8601 dates please, not everyone is in the US

- Color coding and/or topic headers so I can break it up into different sections for different types of events

- Support for emoji would be awesome, currently they break the site.
They stopped refunding payment processing fees on refunds, for one.
How Advanced Was Life in Roman Pompeii
I got something different from that paper.
Quote from the abstract:

"Applying European age-specific death rates in 2017 to the US population, we then show that adverse mortality conditions in the United States resulted in 400,700 excess deaths that year."

To paraphrase: on average in 2017, US people died more than the equivalent people in some bit of Europe.

No great event happened.
Five's how many fingers I have.
I wish there was a way to know how much exposure each version of information received. Retractions often don’t have the corrective effect of setting the record straight because few read an older article that got an update but isn’t on the front page anymore.
If any students hear the word wrong, you'll get some really funny drawings. (my guess)
So, thanks to cheap renewables, now, instead of a dying planet and an expensive BTC, we'll have a dying planet and a cheap BTC?

Or will we be smart enough to chose to what use we put our energy?
http://archive.is/dPWZ5
You can’t just burn the oil. You have to build the engines, turbines, exhaust. It’s not clear cursorily that mining for making panels and batteries is worse than fossil power.
Hmm, it's loading fine for me. Try again? Go to their home page "open online robotics education resource" for more advanced robotics topics as well, I think it is well structured material from what I have seen so far.
Putting solar panels on the roof of an apartment building won't do much for each individual living in it. You need grid-scale solar, and that is now super cheap. In California, more than half of power generation comes from hydro, nuclear, and renewable sources and has for several years now.
Except the screen technology, which seems worse. The higher end the laptop the worse it seems to work in the sun light. My last good sunlight laptop was a super cheap atom based 11" Acer. I accomplished more on that than any Alienware, XPS, etc - because it worked in any light, and the batteries lasted longer than me.
For a lucky few, there are a some Micro Center brick & mortar stores around that have a surprisingly up-to-date and diverse selection of electronic components and tools stocked. They are doing what Frys should have done when the market shifted.
Zinn's writings about the Vietnam war have been questioned and debunked for a long time now.

> made a maximum military effort

USA did NOT make a maximum military effort in Vietnam.

If USA ever made a "maximum military effort" then the war would have been over in 3 months. That was the whole problem. They never did.
Exactly. Could they beg the question any harder? "Sometimes people post more blasphemy even after I show them the relevant passage in my book of scripture."
russell's paradox: the hn comment
Marcan's posts, comments, and now websites are always fun to read, and this one is no exception.
I'm very much a generalist freelancer, having gotten to this point by sequentially being a specialist in many different areas - spanning programming, network and hardware engineering, business analysis and project management.

Lately I have found it difficult to get work because the potential clients are looking for very specific skills both in terms of technical and business niches and they don't value my breadth of knowledge and experience.

Hiring managers just can't seem to get their head around the fact that somebody can come up to speed on a specific tech and industry in a matter of days. It's not like I'm ever starting from zero, I'm just picking up how a new thing differs from all that I already know.
Genetic engineering is something that does not get taken into account in these dystopian predictions. Humans can learn to accelerate the evolutionary process as well as reconstitute extinct species. This is especially true if we consider the rate of technological change and that natural evolution moves at a snail pace.
This is huge and exciting! One of the first open-source microkernels to get some serious commercial rollout, if I’m not missing anything. (I believe BlackBerry used a microkernel which was proprietary). Should be interesting!
Unless you count the cost of the fossil fuel infrastructure that you still require for the hours and days when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow. Then renewables are extremely expensive.
It's not even that. American work drinking culture is just not up to par. You're expected to pound coffee all day then go and drink on an empty stomach at 5 before you've eaten dinner. It's just not realistic.

Heaven forbid my first meal of the day is lunch and not breakfast.

People who have "normal" eating habits just can't understand.
OK, I see what you mean by agent now. I had assumed you meant "receiving and following orders", but receiving training (including ideological) seems more in line with your meaning.

I do think almost every leader in South and Central America in the latter 20th Century could be called a "CIA agent" by that definition though. Not something I'd say.
What are the typical costs for installing something like that, including the tax breaks I would get? (I can't assume there's multi-kilowatt power lines near the parking lot.)
Just goes to show what a distorted view of the world you get when watching through the lens of the media.

Selection bias, you see the videos that outrage you the most well you don't see the day to day reality.
Police don't beat calm sensible people, they beat the kind of people who are out there resisting arrest.
Learning a new language by mapping constructs from another language you know better is certainly expedient.

But the trade off is you short change yourself on learning core philosophical beliefs underpinning the design of the language. Understanding these poorly means you will not exploit the language very well and arguably should just stick with the prior language.

Clojure more than most languages is built around some unconventional philosophical beliefs. So for example “reduce” becomes more than just another sequence function; in clojure it is an important way to build up a result in the absence of mutable variables (which in another language you could use to build up a result within an arbitrary type of loop). You really don’t get that from reading this cheat sheet. But if you took some time to read a slower introduction this will be made clear (“reduce” is prominent in Clojure for the Brave and True for example).

Similarly recursion becomes much more important in clojure due this same constraint.

As a lisp, clojure offers the opportunity to use macros, which come with tremendous power but also some important gotchas. You won’t get much here on when to use and not use macros, just a quick walkthrough of defmacro and friends.

I could go on. Clojure’s powerful concurrency primitives, its a-la-carte approach to polymorphism and inheritance, its emphasis on plain maps — all these types of things warrant a deeper rethinking of how you solve programming problems which you’re not going to get by just diving in (rushing in really) to some coding.

I’m not trying to knock this guide, it’s fine, but it does show the limits of the very approach it celebrates. It’s fine if you’re jumping from say python to ruby or Java to C# but Clojure would be near the bottom of the list of languages to learn this way.
Do you happen to know what the topics were?
> But why does time necessarily have to start at that point?

Because that's just how the math works. It's just like asking what's north of the north pole, or what if you go more down if you are in the center of the earth.
IIRC, Intel actually does do that. They do a 16-way decode, each a single byte of offset.
Others have mentioned Steam, and the lack of an equivalent to Apple’s latest tracking restrictions on Android.

But at the risk of pointing out the obvious: on Windows and macOS, there is no Facebook app at all. There’s a website, because somehow websites have become the standard for desktop applications, even as they’re simultaneously seen as unacceptable on mobile. And Facebook has full control over their website.

Of companies that do make native desktop apps, the big ones almost all eschew the Mac App Store.
The US won the Korean war, according to its objectives at the start of the war (Retain the status quo).

It did not win it according to the objectives set by MacArthur (Drive the commies into the sea). He was, incidentally, relieved of command, thanks to his escalation of the conflict to include China.
Bitcoin is .003% of global energy consumption. Ammonia generation is 20%.
Software Gets Color Wrong
Global problems are more of a priority than local problems.

Electronics are and will be produced anyway, even if we didn't pursue solar.
Why does this get so little attention compared to, for example, the Israeli Palestinian conflict? Everyone from social media users to journalists to politicians has squarely ignored the “real” settler colonialism incident.
Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) refers to this as “talent stacking.”
These sort of stats are useless without cost benefit analyses.
My highly speculative hypothesis: Tesla doesn't actually plan to sell cars capable of full FSD, at least in the near term. Partially to keep costs low and partially to keep the gate open for operating a fleet of self driving cars that are capable of full FSD.

Waymo so far seems to be inclined towards maintaining a fleet of autonomous vehicles for rides, deliveries and trucking. I suspect it's easier to justify higher hardware costs per vehicle in that case.
> not very RISC but extremely useful.. load and store multiple

Who was it that said that R and RISC as a nomenclature was always hogwash. A more apt name would be “load-store architecture”

Onne random thing I remember about LDM/STM was the earliest rev silicon of the Motorola (now Freescale) ARM based DragonBall (then better named the MX line) was the ARM9 core had a bug where LDM/STM would not work with the cache enabled - which of course was horrible, so we hacked gcc to not emit these instructions as a temporary workaround.
It is clear that these are your real numbers, so last year you obviously weren’t even trying.

We’ll retroactively reduce last years raise to 1%. The difference will be held from next month’s salary.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Also, your request is rejected. Someone clearly has to keep an eye on you to make sure you don’t slack off again.
> maximum military effort

There was nothing, militarily, keeping the US from executing a full scale ground invasion of Hanoi and decapitate the North Vietnamese regime. It’s likely the US would have succeeded in that effort, much like it had 20 years earlier with invasions into German and Japanese held territories in WWII.

Why then did the US not invade North Vietnam? The last major conflict the US took part in was the Korean War. When the US pushed far enough above the 38th parallel, 700k Chinese troops entered the country and put the war into a stalemate.

The risk of the US putting full effort into the Vietnam was not that the US would lose, it was that US would find its self in a direct armed conflict with other nuclear equipped powers, and this would have set off events leading to a global nuclear war.

The bind the US was in was that it couldn’t commit to winning, but it couldn’t lose either. The US tried to outlast an enemy, which was defending its own home turf, which was an awful strategic mistake and lead to millions dead and the trauma associated with the war. Eventually the US government came to its senses and left the situation.
I think we all start out generalists and gradually transform into specialists.

Even as a specialist, it's good to remember how to be a generalist, keep trying new things.

Your specialty is likely to form gradually, until you realize that you're a specialist one day. It will be based on what you spend doing the most for a few years in a row.
Blues Bars for me. It may be strange, but I get a table in the corner, tell the bar tender to keep the coke and lime coming and my programming just flows with the music.
time is related to space (spacetime) so time essentially has only a meaning with inflation, hence when inflation started, essentially time started. But that doesn't mean existence isn't eternal which is independent of time ( depending on how you think of time )
TL;DR and he really buried the lede

> So what's the real danger?

> If you already have malware on your computer, that malware can communicate with other malware on your computer in an unexpected way.

> Chances are it could communicate in plenty of expected ways anyway.

> That doesn't sound too bad.

> Honestly, I would expect advertising companies to try to abuse this kind of thing for cross-app tracking, more than criminals. Pretty sure Apple could catch them if they tried, though (for App Store apps).
Do Apple actually maintain a list of errata
Suppose that 0.00015% of all ammonia production goes to chemical weapons manufacturing.

Boom, analysis complete.
I live in Trump country. My faith in humanity is at its nadir. I won't give up, not ever. But I think its clear what will make a difference (e.g. banning SUVs, coal, and fracking, restarting nuclear, subsidizing solar, population control, etc), and what won't (banning plastic straws, putting recycle bins everywhere), and I think its wise to accept that humanity, in the best case, will undergo a (voluntary, controlled) Contraction. In the worst case, it will be involuntary, and catastrophic. That's it. Those are our only two options.
> hundreds of thousands of lines of assembler

hundreds of thousands of lines of assembler ?!?

man...
By extension people on HN critical of Modi are mostly neither Indian, never been in India or have no clue what they are talking about other than unsubstantiated criticism for political reason.
I have always have one confusion towards big bang theory.

the evidence it has suggests that matter is moving away from a central location but there is no evidence at the size and time of this central position.

so how could bing bang theory claim that its original size was in milimeters as opposed to lightyears?

A more elaborate example:

consider this, we have a water balloon diameter 5 cm. I threw it towards a wall and it burst at time t = 10. from the observing that water flow at time t= 12 and t =13. i can say water originated from a single location. and at time t =10, water was in 5 cm balloon shaped form. at time t=9, it was in 3 cm balloon form, at time t=2, water was concentrated in form of 2 mm ballon. and so on.

does bing bang theory suffers from the same issue?
Eternal Inflation models of the universe have a really interesting answer to that question. It seems to be more mainstream than the conformal cyclic cosmology a sibling mentioned (which is also very neat).
In California, PG&E is ridiculously expensive and generally hostile toward homeowners. Heck, they even blow up city blocks and burn down cities on a regular basis.

Anything that bypasses them is probably more efficient than working with them.