skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so as long as you have 3 or more bodies, I understand ejection. Energy gets transferred semi-randomly such that eventually one body gains too much energy and shoots out.

But when N=2, what is the ejection mechanism? That's an elliptical orbit that should be spinning round and round forever (sans the losses via gravitational waves).
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You would find "the transcension hypothesis" very interesting, it's along similar lines to what you are discussing.
Correct. There are a few cases where the operands don't fit into a single machine word, the most notable being many cryptographic operations. Particularly RSA and ECC, which involve multiple-precision arithmetic.

There are also non-Linux cases, mostly microcontrollers. EG the Arm Cortex M0 doesn't have a hardware multiplier, the M0+ does.

And then there's that one guy who got Linux running on an 8-bit AVR by emulating a 32-bit ARM and running it on that[1]. I'd consider this a silly edge case. Too fun not to mention though.

[1] https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bi...
> Cars have enabled many things but they are not unequivocally good. I understand the positives, but they produce a LOT of negative externalities and there is significant cost to spacing things further apart.

Believe me, you're preaching to the choir here. My comment is really just to offer a counterpoint to the justifiable desire to create a "new world" without the troubles of the old one - most people aren't shopping for new lives, so these sorts of plans don't emerge organically in the way that towns did originally. And when "start over" towns built around some ideological principle do arise, they often fail comically[0].

[0] A fun read https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-...
So my memory might not be that great, I changed it.
They should just call Bitumen to the rescue. A single tar paver truck can beat all vanda...activists activists by efficiency.
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Standing on the shoulders of giants.

It would make much more sense to let Microsoft, Amazon or Google to span a new data center and let the government wrap it entirely with their own monitoring and possibly also a specialized access solution.

That way they leverage all the hard work which these US companies have already made, all their expertise, and are able to keep an eye on all of it.
Could that be because not as many people have cars?
I found this curation of lectures https://aquinas101.thomisticinstitute.org/ (they are on apple podcast as well) very helpful to understand the thought of Aquinas. It's not like a typical course but collection of talks on aspects of Thomistic philosophy.
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological tangents. The more generic they get, the more repetitive and tedious they are, and then they inevitably turn nasty.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Alcohol increases blood pressure in the short and long terms: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pr...
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Article says: "Over the last couple of years, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been using AI and supercomputers to identify locations of Hamas activity and plan strikes to remove any strategic advantage."

Does this work well? Or does Israel not care about civilian deaths in Gaza? Here is the NYTimes article on who Israel has been killing in Gaza:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/26/world/middlee...
Not much different, since there are only 4 billion possibilities. A complete rainbow table (for 256-bit hashes) would take up 144 GiB.
I think this mean the USA is more worried about Taiwan.
Crypto will get regulated.

Everything that you’re saying about crypto is (almost) true of the early internet. 99% of the companies then were BS. Crypto is a weird space right now as it’s so void of regulation things that should be illegal are not.

As someone else said, this is the noise. The signal is Ethereum Virtual Machine, dApps and DeFi are real.
I'm not a fan of starting up power plants for bitcoin mining, but I agree with your analysis. I did the same calculations before finding this thread, so I'll point out that it's 0.0032% not 0.000032% (you need to multiply by 100 for percent).
True. But short wavelengths are inappropriate for these kinds of devices generally. ~1300nm is the sweet spot for silicon photonics.
Most towns get started that way.
I think the total lack of payment is the issue you should be addressing. Anyone with enough experience in the industry will know exactly how they should be valuing the equity (at little to nothing). Even a simple hourly stipend at contractor rates on top of a great equity offer is enough to show someone that you are serious and willing to respect their time/contribution.
That's a nice idea but there are a lot of problems with it.

1. Being able to replicate a study is necessary but not sufficient for the conclusions to be correct. Scientists pump out a lot of studies that are just doing stats on public data sets. These should be easily replicable, but the conclusions may still be nonsensical if the analysis isn't done right (and a lot aren't done right), or if the scientific work itself contains fraud or logic errors (and a lot do).

2. There are no incentives for scientists to make their work replicable. Their salary does not depend on it. Their salary isn't going to depend on it, because the scientific institutions are all basically dependent on funding by governments or rich benefactors who aren't paying attention - funding "science" is not a means to an end but the end in and of itself for these groups, and thus they aren't particularly motivated to double check the quality of what gets released.

Consider the above problem: scientists were deceiving people because they thought helping Trump is the same thing as helping "racists". Scott Alexander did a very thorough analysis of this where he pointed out that Trump is not, in fact, racist and a lot of the claims that his followers are don't make any sense [1]. If self-proclaimed scientists can't do even basic sanity checks on their own beliefs like that, you can imagine how much they struggle with more complicated claims.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo...
The article you linked says this:

> The ancient Romans, who had few sweeteners besides honey, would boil must (grape juice) in lead pots to produce a reduced sugar syrup called defrutum, concentrated again into sapa

But the article about defrutum adds more context:

> However, the use of leaden cookware, though popular, was not the general standard of use. Copper cookware was used far more generally and no indication exists as to how often sapa was added or in what quantity. There is not, however, scholarly agreement on the circumstances and quantity of lead in these ancient Roman condiments.
They are so useful though.
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Hey look, I'm not saying that it's not possible. I even believe you - in a lot of big companies, there are so many "bloat"-teams that don't really do all that much, that just drift around in the currents that flow when cash is abundant and will get shafted the moment the company has to tighten its belt (or goes belly-up altogether, if the company is incapable of identifying its inefficiencies).

That being said, we should really take these anecdotes with the appropriate grain of salt. After all, we're here in a thread about countless companies being threatened by security flaws.
A dev that "gets things done" (from a business point of view) might actually do that, but do they also think about all those other requirements that business themselves can neither validate nor appreciate if measured by short-term KPIs?

I'm not saying that's happening, but I've seen too many "Why are you spending weeks on this, I can do this in half a day!"-kind-of-devs, that then hack something together that technically works as the requirements demanded, but completely falls flat under any aspects of maintainability and extensibility, let alone security.
Who has this belief that you're talking about?

The article starts off with "Previous periods of rapid warming millions of years ago drastically altered plants and forests on Earth"
People in society do ask businesses to secure their buildings appropriately. In small towns, that might mean a locked front door. In NYC, that means a metal gate that pulls down to block the storefront.
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> It's been relatively fixed on the timescales that human civilization has grown - in particular our modern civilization as it exists over the past few hundred years.

That's the crux of the argument; zoom in enough and it looks fixed. Zoom out enough, there wasn't even plants. Framing is everything. And it is the best rhetorical device because it can be (ab)used to serve even contradictory viewpoints.

> What we are about to see is the most massive and abrupt, systematic disruption of every single one of those careful optimizations. This will lead to massive direct suffering, as well as indirect suffering as people invariably react to these changes, and engage in war over shifting and scarcer resources. The chance of these conflicts going large-scale nuclear will be far higher than it ever was during the cold war.

I don't deny the consequences of mistreating the environment, but more often than not we are making proportionality errors (both by underestimating or over-cathastrophizing it).

I am not trying to be mean to you but want to invite self-reflection; apocalypticism has also been a perennial tool in our "optimization" toolkit, ironically with catastrophic failure modes. Cool-headed rationality and straigthforward honesty don't have the same downsides of excessive demoralization or creating a credibility fatigue.
I'm pretty sure it just warns you if the width and height aren't set, but it doesn't affect your score unless the layout actually shifts. You're fine if you've set the size in CSS instead
I can only afford to pay people through equity and have thought about doing something similar but didn't want to misrepresent the position and waste anyone's time (time is precious on both ends).
Well... then I apologize for assuming. I'm not sure how such philosophy sits with me, I need to think about it more. One thing for sure, what you say makes you the model of an ideal free market participant :).
X11 by itself doesn't look like much of anything. You're probably thinking of Motif.
Wouldn't emitting CO2 in dense forest contribute to green mass gain?
All of this will be tokenised piece by piece, until the application will just be blockchain running top of blockchain. Look at something like Hypersign which is trying to solve identity and reputation for crypto.

There are already hints of how this will happen in DeFi. Protocols interact with protocols, smart contracts with smart contracts, until suddenly you get a full stack and the application layer becomes inevitable.
I think in some of your examples the global optimum might also have been the correct behaviour, it's just that the program failed to find it. For example the robot learning to use a hammer. It's hard to believe that throwing the hammer was just as good as using it properly.
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I'm going to try and give up self-help and business books and podcasts and only read sci-fi.

My career is fine, I'm fine, I know enough about tech and engineering management to be at least mediocre.

There is a 50 book 40k series out there I think I'd rather spend more time with.
It feels like even if we were to invent scalable and affordable fusion, EVs and carbon capture tomorrow, we would still be in serious trouble.
There's genetic evidence that the first cases were not from Wuhan [0]:

> Of 23 samples that came from Wuhan, only three were type A, the rest were type B, a version two mutations from A. But in other parts of China, Forster says, initially A was the predominant strain. For instance, of nine genome samples in Guangdong, some 600 miles south of Wuhan, five were A types.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...
Ejection of the gas giants doesn't even take place until after the Sun has gone into its red giant phase. The Sun will swell so much that it engulfs the inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars), so, Earth won't even be around to become destabilized.

Interestingly, the paper I linked talks about Mercury having a 1% chance of becoming unstable before the Sun enters its red giant phase:

> The mechanism forthe onset of Mercury’s instability is well understood: by virtue of locking into a linear secular resonance with theg5mode of the solar system’s secular solution, Mercury’s eccentricity can attain near-unity values, resulting in a collision with the Sun, or even Venus. Intriguingly, General Relativistic effects factor into this estimate, with ancillary apsidal precession providing a stabilizing influence on Mercury’s orbit.

If Mercury collides with the Sun, not much interesting will happen. Mercury doesn't have enough mass to disrupt the center of gravity of the Solar System when it falls into the Sun, so, all that will happen is that the planet will get vaporized, and the Sun will become infinitesimally more enriched in metals. If you were around to witness the event, it might be visually spectacular, but not particularly significant with respect to the fate of the system itself.

They go on to say:

> Within the context of this narrative, however, the remaining planets appear unaffected and are currently expected to remain stable for a lower limit of 10^18 years, when diffusion arising from the overlapping mean motion resonance of Jupiter and Saturn are expected to decouple Uranus.

This analysis, however, is reflective of older studies, which don't take into account certain factors that this paper does.
This. Bitcoin mines were not the first to dump heat into natural bodies of water, but their number makes the damage and need for regulation obvious.
"modern civilization"
It's not limited to FAANG jobs or even tech companies. I volunteer as an advisor to a mentoring group for college students. An increasing number of college students are graduating without ever having worked a job at all. I spend more time than I'd like just mentoring some of these students on the basics of an employee/employer relationship and what's expected of them in a job, such as following through on commitments and communicating with their boss.

That said, a FAANG job in tech is a perfectly acceptable career choice. Some internet bubbles like to look down on FAANG jobs or write them off as easy (once you pass the tech interview) but the reality is that they're generally quite challenging and rewarding. Companies aren't throwing huge salaries at people because the jobs are relaxing and the work is easy enough that anyone can do it well. There's nothing wrong with a FAANG job, and being a founder isn't morally superior to other career options.

The real problem is when students get average grades at an average university, then take an average job at an average company, then get disappointed when they're not being paid top-1% FAANG salaries like they read about on HN and /r/cscareerquestions for the 4 years they were in college. Most of the students I work with are realistic, but it's a very difficult situation when someone's expectations don't match reality.
As far as I know this is all still so new that such a thing doesn't really exist yet. I think the closest that there is to that is probably my post on implementing /dev/printerfact: https://christine.website/blog/dev-printerfact-2021-04-17
Have a great vision. Communicate it well and often. Branch out of SF.
In the sense that one second is 9,192,631,770 transitions between two energy levels of the caesium-133 atom, no, there's no change. 50 billion years is just shorthand for a multiple of this number of transitions. International Atomic Time, or TAI, is precisely defined for this kind of measurement.

Whether TAI is a fixed number of leap seconds away - potentially billions - from UTC, is another question entirely. If 'one day' is one rotation of the planet Earth around its axis, and 'one year' is one rotation around the Sun, and hours, minutes, and seconds are fractions of these rotations, yeah, those cease to have much meaning when the planet is swallowed up by and dissolved into the Red Giant Sun's expanding chromosphere.
Depends on the job. If you are in customer support, I don't want you to be working for another company and switch back and forth if you are full time employee. I want you focussed 100% on my company and hence you are paid as a full time employee.

Also, legally you are bound to work for a company according to contracts. I don't want you working for another company on the company's time. It introduces potential liability and risks especially if you are remote.
> very dark patterns to force Edge usage

vs aggressive opt-out Chrome installers bundled in multiple popular apps like CCLeaner? Or endless pop-outs as soon as someone ends up on an alphabet-owned website?

Seriously, settings and files shared among devices (like on iOS) is a pretty great feature for the average consumer. I understand that Pro users that had filesync since DropBox launched in 2007 don't see the added value.
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We'll run out of sun at some point, even though (most) of the time left for the energetic universe is still available.
"Wrath of Gnon" is also on Twitter. Their tweets are a welcome change in a mostly tech-themed Twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/
TV Dinners are absolutely loaded with salt, sugar and hard fats so they taste good while being frozen. If I cook a delicious meal and then chuck it into the freezer for three months it will taste like crap because freezing is not an effective method to preserve taste and texture, to make it palatable after an extended period of time I need to add flavour enhancers like sugar (it's addictive and works on anything), sodium (it enhances flavours directly and salt is a common craving) and hard fats (ones that won't break down as quickly when frozen.

I think America really has figured out the difference and that information is pretty easily accessible - but if you're working twelve hours then you'll grab the five dollar TV dinner and just ignore the downsides.
This was an interesting thought experiment, but required some mental gymnastics to go along with the premise that the town should be entirely self-sufficient. (Especially trying to grow all of your community's food in West Texas!) But to the extent I'm interested in how you would build a community more than how you'd build a town, there are some interesting thoughts here about how you'd go about an intentional community if you didn't mind some reliance on modern industrial society (which is also true of the Amish farmers the author touts throughout)
We can all agree the second season of Twin Peaks was terrible, though, right?
>all homes will be equipped with fireplaces, wood stoves and chimneys.

Great: the burning of solid fuels (coal in the past, but nowadays mostly wood at least in the US) is the source of one of the most damaging forms of pollution (particulate) these years, which is the reason that for example fireplaces and wood stoves have been banned in new construction in the Bay Area since 2005.
Unfortunately this website is lousy with libertarians who are... well... not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
> The state should procure an entirely open source / public domain cloud stack that would commeditize the "cloud" space allowing any org to run data centers with a standardized interface. The state should then run their own data centers in-house with the stock design rather than outsourcing those operational costs

Cloud space is already commoditized through AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle and other smaller players right? Is this more of a NIH thing?

> This would be far better for society. Compute-for-all.

Can you expand on why/how would this be better for society than what we have available today?
because people on HN like to get pedantic about stuff that is not really relevant to the discussion topic.
It has nothing to do with ability (it can), and everything to do with reasoning and motive.

The government (and party) only acting in their self interest means they'd share and push any explanation that wasn't nefarious. No they don't have to do anything, but an innocent explanation is something they'd benefit from by disclosing.
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I have a hard time taking things like this seriously:

https://twitter.com/PierreKory/status/1411158326726082565

Are all your links like this? Denying what we clearly can see (that vaccines work) to promote what they think will work (ivermectin)?

EDIT: It gets worse the lower you scroll. In addition to dismissing vaccines and promoting ivermectin, he signal boosts "natural medicine" too.

https://twitter.com/PierreKory/status/1410028792236679175
I'm not against for sorting garbage submissions to the bottom, but making it invisible isn't the honest way that I thought HN functioned like.
Why do you need an off blockchain element? You can just have reputation tokens running on the blockchain.
Perseus Digital Library has a quite a few, in Greek as well.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Pe...
https://scaife.perseus.org/library/
The reason why you saw that “cow hoof pedicure” video and why it's a bad omen
To some degree, yes. But this telling still has (as a sibling comment put it) an implicit assumption that the empire was good and stable, and the only thing that matters was the lead poisoning of the elites.
The only necessary CO2 release from batteries is based on the current state of our global economy. Reduction in the amount fossil fuels used in the grid and mining equipment directly reduces the use of fossil fuels manufacturing batteries and solar panels all the way down to zero.

As part of being massively more expensive, Nuclear actually involves significantly more indirect fossil fuel usage due to those costs. For example all a nuclear power plants requires onsite fossil fuel generators which need to be run regularly: http://aa-powersystems.com/wp-content/uploads/3061871_OE_Bro... Yet those generators are left off of assessments of CO2 releases associated with nuclear power plants. Similarly the centrifuges reacquired to manufacture nuclear fuel require vast amounts of electricity to manufacture and run. The nameplate generation from Nuclear further ignores those ongoing energy costs.
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I do blame consumers as well. Lowest common denominator consumers are absolutely to blame for their exceptionally poor taste. Unfortunately, they happen to be the majority of consumers.

This opinion simply doesn't get expressed very often. People think it's elitism or something and react negatively to it.
HN isn't one person. There are a variety of people here with a variety of viewpoints. To expect consistency in what people say here is to expect disappointment, because you aren't going to get it.

There are a lot of software engineers who don't have any kind of certification, including a degree. Many of us at least know such people, even if we aren't that person ourselves. We're kind of skeptical of anything that says "that person isn't qualified to do this work".

Many other software engineers (I say "other", but it's not a completely disjoint set) see too many people show up at interviews (or even on the job) who can't program. Like, can't program at all. They'd like some way to weed them out.

And then some other people look at this program from a purely selfish point of view, and say "Learning some stuff might help my career, but I can do that without this program. But learning some stuff with a certification would help my career more..."