skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>We have 8 other planets and many moons that have failed at creating life in any form - that's literally hundreds of billions of years of failed attempts at life.

Again, how can you be so certain of it? Life could have existed in some form on Mars or Venus or even Mercury millions if not billions of years ago, only to be extinguished by the changing conditions in the solar system and ground to absolute dust by time. Maybe not advanced space faring civilization, but life could have existed in those places and you simply don't know.

>> you only need math and probability to figure that out.

Yes, and maths and probability are telling me something very opposite to what you are saying. That if you are observing a solar system like ours(forget the entire universe for a second) for a ~100 years out of billions of its existance, then sorry, but you don't know anything about it, certainly not if it harboured life in the past or not, not to a degree that you seem to be certain of.
I admit I use the GPS although I don't typically depend on it. (At least for anything serious.)
> At least now if a team is adjudged to be taking the piss with the timewasting the ref can just mentally tack another minute or two onto the game.

But anyone who regularly watches football knows that stoppage time is ridiculously inconsistent. A half can have 3 goals and VAR reviews and only have 4 minutes of stoppage time. Then within those 4 minutes, the winning team will take 30 seconds per goal kick and then the ref will blow time at 4 minutes on the dot.

Again, it makes zero sense from a competitive aspect.
The 5 and dime stores have turned into the dollar stores. They'll be sawbuck stores by Christmas.
> I found you could use essentially the same vulnerability to get other users to “like” your profile. Obviously you could abuse this in order to match with anyone you could trick into clicking a link, or you could spam the link to a bunch of people to increase your profile’s rankings in whatever mysterious algorithm OkCupid uses to suggest people.

Ha! They should have used this to increase their evolutionary fitness!

Assumptions about matchmaking app algorithms are the crux of my behavior on dating apps. Far far greater influence than other users independent impression of my profile or me trying to put a best foot forward.
Oh my God, Linus hit the nail on the head there. Prior to stabilising on a policy of "AppImage or GTFO", this was by far the biggest headache when it came to supporting Linux.
Felt experience is not relevant. Your own evaluation of your speaking vs listening skills is incredibly irrelevant.
Good luck getting any libraries working. Good luck using graphql. Good luck getting the tooling stable. Good luck getting a PR on the main code base done. Vue in production is a minefield of nightmares.

Rather have Facebook as a single point of failure than some random dude who has other things that consume his interest.
> having to some degree lied about it via a professional portrait photographer's tips and tricks?

Those tips and tricks are no different in kind that what people do themselves, the only difference is knowledge.

> And if all that works, you found someone who liked the look of a fake/augmented version of yourself, but whom you persuaded to like the real self anyway... Congratulations?

Let's not act like first impressions have no meaning, and that getting around them doesn't have benefit and allow other traits or a more accurate impression to come through that wouldn't have gotten a chance otherwise.

Haven't you ever become friends with someone that you disliked or avoided to some degree initially because of some bad first impression?
I did. It’s a remnant of when Google why trying to build a useful website, before the time of mobile apps.
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Same question! As I understand it:
CO2 pulled out of the ocean is replenished by atmospheric CO2, because limestone in the ocean dissolves too slowly to make up for the imbalance and it more readily comes in from the air.
But if that's true, then the calcium will actually not be replenished quickly in the ocean (not sure what the significance of this is)!
If it were true that the calcium is dissolved fast enough to replenish, then there must also be CO2 released from underwater limestone? Which means extracting Ca and CO2 will not remove any atmospheric CO2 really.

Alternatively, we do end up extracting Ca from the ocean that is not replenished (there's probably so much we don't care) and rely on the atmospheric CO2 to correct ph balance of the ocean?
It is unclear to me why anyone would vote this down. It's spot on.
The lockdown thing doesn't work as well as you'd think either.

We have nearly the world's toughest lockdown in Sydney, and weeks later the cases are higher than ever.

Same thing happened here in Melbourne last year, with "officially" the toughest lockdown in the world, for 120 days. It was absolutely miserable.

It eventually works - but the UK eventually saw a similar precipitous decline, along the same timeframe, while only relinquishing restrictions.

The only common thread is that in 5-8 weeks, the spike reverses and plummets, regardless of policy.

(Lockdowns may keep the spike much lower, along with the general spread. But I'm more interested in why they seem to have no effect on arresting or reversing the spread once it takes hold.)

Perspective: Aussie, plugged in, watching the West and India closely.
I use the term hard left as opposed to center left. We can use progressive.
Its nice and easy to acknowledge things when there are no claims. The Mexicans are not claiming California back and even if they were no one would take that seriously. The Palestinians ARE claiming the land back, and are being supported by growing numbers. So this whole discussion about history becomes very consequential to Israel.
> More than technological advancements or anything else, all of this nostalgia is really just about getting old.

The other side of this is that only people who are older can actually notice when things have changed. So, of course it's older people who talk about it the most.
I agree this is sad. However, as a child of the 90s, I lost the attention war to my parents' TV. Maybe I just had absent parents, but I feel like most parents haven't been interested in their children for a while now.
Once upon a time it was rude to look at your watch at certain events as it implied that you were bored or keen to get home.
Absolutely! We're continuously researching and learning about how we can make technology such as ours safer.

Currently our platform has a number of mechanisms to prevent abuse. We require explicit voice disclosure to perform any training on a voice/avatar as well as ensure ownership of a voice/avatar and resulting content is in the hands of the individual, not a company. This is in addition to limits put on how you can utilize our platform and what templates you can make.

We totally expect there to be regulation for technology like this and we'd love to work with legislators to enforce responsible usage.

We're working on the flip side of this technology as well- we're developing tools to detect generated video content in order to promote safer usage in the future.
Maskers should be shot dead.
I use this: https://switchoff.neocities.org
FAANG interviews.
> Some of my friends will freak out if I don't text back in as little as 5 minutes. A particular needy friend once tried to get me to "promise" that I would always return her texts within 10 minutes.

This is on you. Plenty of people manage it. Try turning your phone of.
Allows multiple applications to use a GPS source.
bootstrapping itself by extending tech designed decades ago? that doesn't sound right. Until today, the biggest rocket design was still the soviet N1 from the 60s. It's good to celebrate space achievement but rewriting history is annoying
Still patiently waiting for a WireGuard implement to appear on Asuswrt-Merlin.net
My assumption has always been that the first to Mars will have a huge edge in gaining access to any natural resources (ore, salts, etc) that might have commercial value. I imagine the first organization to establish mining and refining capabilities on Mars would stand to make trillions in the production of things like steel and aluminum, as would be needed to build out any sizeable settlements on the planet.
> where do you report lateral flow tests?

https://www.gov.uk/report-covid19-result

> if a lateral flow is positive...

I imagine that that report result site will refer you for a PCR test, although thankfully I've never personally been in that position.
You are a toe-jobbing choad.
This is ridiculous! When you want to write a book or just take some notes, do you want to make your own paper all the time? Mix your own ink? I see the appeal to do this once or from time to time, but if I have to scribble something down, I'm glad these are ready-made for me. Guess I'm just a lego-based author.
I stopped using it a while ago (2-3 years). I had central state management, and a few other bells and whistles.

I was the "go to" guy for when React didn't want to do something.

Most of my wrestling came in the form of:

- recycling html-elements

- "tweening" state. a friggin nightmare to have inbetween states

- performant animation stuff

- stateless node-to-node communication for stuff that would have not fit well in state

- keyboard navigation (think game ui)

Ugh. The more I learned about how it actually works, the more I came to hate it. And it kills me to see so many people who love it... like I'm an alien amongst the people (developers) who I once felt understood me.
This is such an annoying argument.

The government gave $18B to the SLS and so far has vapor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System

The government spent $211B on the shuttle program and got 133 launches. SpaceX will probably surpass that number this year at a fraction of the cost.

NASA's record on rockets since Apollo has been abysmal.

I don't think government is necessarily bad (the Russians did a much better job in recent decades!) but it leans into its failures and often has bad incentives. SpaceX fails fast, has great incentives, and has achieved an incredible amount on a (comparatively) shoestring budget.
We already have one of those. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time TAI is just UTC before the leap second adjustments.
You mean "mauling a hiker" right?

I agree with your comment and others have made that point: animals don't have any concept of rights, or wrongs, or duties, which can only be understood, and bestowed upon animals by humans. There are rights recognised to humans, like the right to own property or the right to vote in democratic societies, that animals would not be capable of exercising even if we granted them those rights and that alone makes absurd the idea of granting rights to animals modelled after the rights of humans. And even the basic rights, like the right to life, that it would make sense to grant animals, are not anything that animals themselves would be able to understand, or uphold, and they would immediately violate those rights by killing other animals, as cats will kill birds and small mammals without any consideration of their "rights" or any kinds of wrongs.
All the dating apps use a derivative of this and you can game that. They deny any particular label like ELO, used in online game lobbies. But knowing how leveled game matchmaking works will allow you to optimize your experience in dating apps far greater than wondering if you need a picture of a dog in your profile to get more matches.

Hope you guys don't mess up my experience with this knowledge! But I’ve been using these tweaks for years, so I’ll probably be on to something else after this gets arbitraged away.
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Yeah, clearly old things were fine, or in many case quite good.

I think comparing the advances in mechanical precision to changes in society shaping technological advances is not a fair comparison. I would argue that it's exactly that mechanical precision that started with gauge blocks that has facilitated all our advancements.

I think it's just a different "system of measures" when talking about societal/social impact on our human interactions. People's minds and feelings don't fit into technical descriptions.

But, to agree with you, just like basic technology changes slowly, human nature barely seems to change at all.
Why does it need to be quiet though? Don't most of these live in a datacentre with no humans around? I assume you will say you want to keep it in your office or similar, but then I'll just ask again - why exactly?
This entire "pandemic" is fake as fuck.

I hope all of you wearing a mask and getting a vax chooke on your own vomit you commies - that is if we don't throw you out of a helicopter over the pacific first.
The harm caused by censorship is so much greater. Look at censorship in the old Soviet Union, present day China, 50s McCarthy era US, North Korea, present day Brazil, India, solidarity era Poland, etc… It isn’t a tool for combating disinformation. It is a tool for suppressing dissent.

Also your logic and example are faulty. A beheading video is not disinformation. It is terror. It is a threat to those that oppose ISIS that that would befall them. Also, if you haven’t noticed, ISIS is about to retake Afghanistan. Getting rid of that video did nothing.

https://news.yahoo.com/mapping-advance-taliban-afghanistan-2...
https://youtu.be/D5lvGMCF9jA?t=3270

It cannot be unbiased when it's corporate supported.
> (a commodity really)

you mean a utility, right?
Weed has plenty of negative effects and anyone deluding others to the contrary is as bad as Philip Morris.
So finally, someone did catch it ;)
I can't find it rn, but I think chase sells individualized data to brokers which can then be linked to online tracking id's. Google has a program for this, it links physical and digital and they use it to verify the effectiveness of their o line ad campaigns.
China has literally zero expeditionary abilities. 95% of their military is based on area denial, the remaining 5% on taking Taiwan, which they can barely do as of today.

There is zero evidence that China is developing the capability of invading anyone except Taiwan for the next 25 years, and heaps of evidence to the contrary.

There is stupid and then there is literally physically impossible.

As far as Britain invading India, it's not like if they had just one day woke up and decided to do it. They built up the capability to invade colonies over literally centuries before being able to start the invasion around 1760. Meanwhile China didn't even start building that capability. They don't even plan to deploy stealth carrier craft, up until today their projects are for export only, nor blue water invasion craft, etc...

Anyways, it's almost impossible to invade Australia in 2021. Even the US would seriously struggle.
I think the problem, as the article states, is the “bifurcation” of the economy. Politicians talk about this as the erosion of the middle or working class.

Wage stagnation is very real and inflation, which remained somewhat muted is now also very real. The average cost of a new vehicle in the US is now over $40,000. That is almost double what it was 20 years ago. The cost of groceries, anecdotally, is almost double what it was 10 years ago where I live. And yet, wages have increased only moderately.

There is nothing wrong with Dollar stores. They serve an important niche. Most everyone has probably shopped at one. The problem is that this is the primary market demand. Dollar stores are many things, but “nice” or “pleasant” are not words used to describe them. People aren’t usually shopping at dollar stores as a first choice. People are shopping at dollar stores as an only or last choice.

More dollar stores means that these chains are seeing increased demand for their retail niche, which could be interpreted as a leading edge economic indicator that families are getting poorer.
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People talk online. Whether that's equivalent is up for debate.

There might be an argument that our new online/text based discussions have changed the dynamics (some could argue hindered, but I don't) of face to face communication.
It's a great article, did you read it?

'Twenty years ago, journalists scrutinized Bill Gates’s initial foray into philanthropy as a vehicle to enrich his software company, or a PR exercise to salvage his battered reputation following Microsoft’s bruising antitrust battle with the Department of Justice. Today, the foundation is most often the subject of soft profiles and glowing editorials describing its good works. '
> Can someone explain the rationale for writing comparisons in the ordering they're using (e.g., 2180 < week)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda_conditions

> it seemed error-prone to not write them the way they'd be spoken aloud

It is written the way it'd be spoken aloud. If you're not speaking it that way then you need to change the way you think. Programming is another language after all.
> Well I guess my question would be are those sports really better for it?

Depends on your definition of better. Better for simplicity? I suppose. Better for entertainment? Arguable. Better for competition? No.

Right now, the rules incentivize time wasting. If you're up goal in the 85th minute, you should fake an injury or take 30 seconds for a goal kick because it improves your chances of winning. Other sports have solved this decades ago because of how flawed it is. Hell, even tennis, a sport that doesn't utilize a clock, added a serve clock due to players attempting to waste time to their benefit.
It’s not obvious to meet how avoiding the vaccine helps with that
Sounds super simple but I've literally never done this in 30 years. Will be moving homes in a month (if all goes to plan), and I'll certainly do this before I move!
"I’d wait an entire week to watch the next episode." -- Try Ted Lasso or Shmigadoon on Apple TV! That world is back.

As for cameras: I wrote a book "Inventing the Future" about the Xerox Star (1977-1981). No one took pictures then! It's such a drag. I was sure we were on the 3rd floor of the A&E Building, and everyone told me no, it was the 1st floor.

Fortunately, people at Xerox did write documents and many, many of those are up on bitsavers.org.
What would you like you use instead? C/C++ code which targets generic x86_64 is a few percent slower than march=native but that still leaves it way faster than most other languages.
But in your terms, a branch is the files it contains. Or rather: Changes gathered in a commit can be changes to several files. A branch is just a chain of commits, each based on the previous ones. So what a branch "is", is a bunch of (bunches of) changes to one or more files. Therefore, "checking out a branch" is checking out (a bunch of changes to) one or more files. And now you want to "check out one file from another branch"... Is it really any wonder that doesn't make much sense?

I think your doing yourself a disservice by even thinking in terms of "checking out a file" as separate from checking out a branch. The units git deals in are commits and branches, not really individual files as such. If you want to use it, better get used to thinking in the same units it does.
If you aren't aware of all the fear mongering, you're not paying attention.
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This brings back so many nightmares at my old job. These kind of things would creep up on us all that time and we'd spend a week or so scratching our heads in how the hell did our systems would travel time.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/covid-cases-uk-us-today-516...

Delta surged lasted 50 days in India and 45 days in the UK. We may see something similar

That would be nice
Thanks for the info. I'll keep that in mind
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Insurance won't always ask you for a police report. They're not going to chase someone down for a $150 window. If you break your own window on accident, I don't think they care much about the difference.
Point being: increased speed, and therefore frequency, of communication/interaction changes the nature of our relationships.

So the change in the "underlying" doesn't have to be 10x to have a 10x effect on the relationships.
Any recommendations on where to learn how leveled game matchmaking works?
Space station situation with Russian module misfire more serious than stated
I was lucky that I could grow up in a family where we produced most of the food we ate[1]. The main thing I learned, is that the interests of food consumers and food producers are, and always will be, misaligned, unless you are the one producing the food you eat.

When I was a kid, I used to despise supermarket food (I later learned to eat it out of necessity, once I moved out of my parent's place).

Now I'm saving up so I can buy a homestead when I retire, and my dream is to produce food for me and my loved ones.

[1] I grew up on a small farm and homestead in Italy, my grandparents and parents had a few money crops (olive oil, wine, eggs) and everything else on the farm was for our own consumption (veggie garden, orchard, meat chickens, pigs, rabbits etc.).
Tiny niggle about a well-known phrase and a word that is not particularly well-known outside of the phrase anymore: the word is moot. (A moot used to be a meeting or assembly of people who would discuss and decide things, often Very Important Things™. Nowadays, moot is mostly an adjective referring to things that might be debatable, but the only benefit to debating them would be the debate itself.)
> “We don’t know how dangerous [methane releases] are, because we don’t know how fast the gas can be released. It’s very important to know more about it,” Froitzheim said. If, at some point in the future, large global temperature rises lead to a big volume being released, “this methane would be the difference between catastrophe and apocalypse.”
I'm going to take a very, maybe excessively, cyclical view on this and claim that the feds were using basically excessive force specifically to intimidate anyone who might get a similar ideas. Then again without raids, it's possible that laundered money could have been hidden while the feds were biding their time.