skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can’t predict if that hole will be there for the trillions of years it’s toxic.

Trillions of years is the wrong timescale. The earth is only a few billion years old, and anyway the nuclear waste won't be radiotoxic in 1-10 thousand years much less 1 trillion. I'm pretty sure the Earth won't be habitable (as we understand 'habitable', anyway) in 1 trillion years. Anyway, climate change poses an existential threat in decades or centuries.
Europe can probably get dirt cheap gas from the Russians, the question is – at what cost?
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Biology (and, indeed, physics) contains fractal levels of complexity. The existence of debate does not mean that we don't understand it well enough to mimic it.

At one time, people had no idea how the brain worked at all. Now we know that the brain is a collection of neurons, special cells which have filaments called an axon and dendrites that extend from it to other neurons at junctions we call synapses. At these synapses, electrochemical signals are transmitted to and from other neurons. When a neuron receives certain signals, it may transmit that signal on to other neurons. That's basically the Anatomy 101 chapter on the nervous system, and has been pretty well established for about a century.

It's true that we're constantly learning new things about diseases that affect the function of the nervous system. There remains some debate on how exactly neurons arrange themselves, repair themselves, and change. We're still investigating internal computations within the dendrites to see how those work to decide when to propagate a signal or not. The signals are analog in some ways, but mostly digital 'all or nothing' responses, there's time coding, different types of discharge patterns...fractal complexity.

If you set the goalposts at a comprehensive understanding of every bit of trivial minutiae that exists in the human body, yeah, we are (and probably will always be) far off. If you just want to predict the function of a nematode worm with 302 neurons, observing that if you engage this particular set of sensory neurons, then these few hundred synapses are activated with this pattern of impulses, and soon those other motor neurons are stimulated and the worm curls in that direction...that seems entirely within the realm of possibility. In my opinion, the goalposts ought to be "A better understanding than what we have today". We'll reach them by tomorrow, and move them forward again!
My apologies, I misread the quote and retract the earlier statement.

While we did have a referendum to join the EEC, I maintain that the EEC served a very different purpose (being a trade based agreement) to the EU.

The Treaty of Maastricht was passed by parliament, though was never put to the public vote.

The subsequent treaty of Lisbon and consolidation of the EU had no public vote either.

Brexit was a public vote.

It would be interesting to see what would have happened if the other two had been put to the vote
> Would it be possible to develop a computer from linear transformations?

No, a program consisting of a billion linear transformations could be simplified to a single linear transformation. The halting problem would be solved, all programs can halt. All calculations, no matter how many linear transformations they consist of, could be simplified to a single linear transformation. This would be absurdly good, but still absurd, thus impossible.
>Having seen code written by scientists, I can confidently answer this with: almost certainly not.

Got a kick out of that, thanks.
I think there is a kind of compartmentalization of environments going on when one engages in scientific programming. It seems to often be structured more akin to math than code. I once worked with a brilliant multitalented individual who held a PhD in a specific field of physics that I cannot recall. In one instance they ported the orchestration software for a supercomputer from python into java, in a week. It was beautiful to read. This same person used single letter variables in their ML models and had virtually zero comments which made it somewhat difficult for me to follow their updates after a week of having not seen the code.
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So, as a researcher, who is getting paid to study how ycombinator users(and those on other websites) feel about micropayments(which already exist in the form of https://coil.com/ for content and https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/web-monetization-events-in... for advertisements and https://www.pumabrowser.com/ for software),
I have only this to say:

The only way to build a privacy respecting world wide web is to actually build it. A honor-basis system of alternative monetization where advertisements are removed and the content provider achieves remuneration for their work is absolutely not in any way insurance against tracking. If anything, it means that overt tracking methods are less likely to be used.
I would rather use websites where overt tracking is used and I know about it than websites where A/B scripting, header capture and other covert methods are used to surveil, influence, and characterize me as a potential user. The very notion of A/B headlines upsets me. You look, you see content, you look again- it's been changed!

A truly privacy respecting world wide web would consist of a VPN that completely replaces the worldwide internet and enrolls you in a nym mixnet system which fully provides routing, dns, and internal node points for all websites, complete with micropay built into the access of the site. Traversing the site equals micropayment for the use of the site. A SIPRnet for the people. Something we will never have and something which the government will do everything possible to erode because it would mean the end of the surveillance state.
Let’s hope that we still have the freedom of expression to make dancing videos in Winnie the Pooh costumes in Hong Kong then.
This is kinda cool, but why not just use column?

The video of catting into tv is equivalent to:

column -s, -t FILE
The United States nuked Japan twice for doing less actual harm to the Republic than Facebook has done.
They should go outside their small world, then.
It would be nationalized after Zuckerberg was disappeared.
In a word, no. First, it isn't just a matter of "picking up" frequencies. There is noise, transient response, overload and harmonics, etc... You might be able to mimic some of that with signal processing, but microphones are also designed with different directional responses for different situations. That has a big impact on the eventual signal that is recorded and will not be recreated with a built-in cell phone mic.
You've heard of P-zombies, now observe the NP zombie!

It can instill terror in philosophers, computer scientists, and moviegoers all at the same time.
> If one thinks that one has a true contradiction, one is simply confused.

Consider the time just before the concept of negative numbers was widely accepted. There were natural numbers, perhaps zero as well, and the operation of addition. Someone realized you could reverse the process of addition and yield subtraction. Yet when you applied this "reverse addition" to some pairs of numbers, you would get an impossible result, a number that doesn't exist. This represents a contradiction in the method. A reasonable logician would stop there and simply avoid doing contradictory subtraction. A super smart and reasonable logician would go further and reject subtraction altogether since its "not closed over N", "not safe", etc.

However, a "confused" accountant might see the value in such impossible values. He's balancing payments for dozens of deals and finds that his calculations are much smoother if he temporarily allows the impossible values, as long as he marks them as "impossible", like with a small horizontal line.

His increased efficiency brings him success and his methods spread, and eventually "negative numbers" becomes a core component of virtually all mathematics. All because this one accountant was "confused" and pragmatic.
If you have a set date and a set scope you can't be agile. Agile needs to be ale to radically change scope or even cancel projects outright. You can get lucky sometimes that a feature takes less or about the same time as you have and make things look agile.

The flexibility of scrum is being able to say what is done represents a working though not fully featured product. You can generally send red flags a lot faster in scrum, but you still need management that believes and understands those flags.
Do you have kids?

Respectfully, I don't really put any weight on opinions on this topic from those who do not.
1B users don't know.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm

That's the one referred to.
you don't need to make it that complicated. if you are determined enough and have a little practice you can make alot of shapes with just a piece of metal and a file.
There's important value in both points of view. So Thiel's point is that competitive businesses, at best, lead to thin margins. Startups should avoid competition, go into a new space, build a moat and enjoy fat margins.

But there's a flip side to that, which is why monopolies are practically synonymous with rent-seeking. Without competition, companies tend to stagnate and the products are objectively worse. This makes the company vulnerable to disruption and is obviously bad for consumers.

There's definitely a sweet spot: some competition so things keep moving, but enough margin that the companies competing are have enough slack to invest in research and hire the best people etc. Companies don't produce their best work when they are at the razor's edge: accountants are running the show, employees feel the squeeze. You know the deal, Malthus covered it pretty well.

The secret is that any given market is not a one dimensional ramp into commodities competing over price. The world is pretty much infinite dimensional from the perspective of creating product differentiation, spinning off new products etc. If you're looking ahead and the only move you see is cutting prices to beat your competitor, you've trapped yourself.

That's where the analogy to competition breaks down, sports are constrained to be one-dimensional competitions. Markets aren't.
Again, very little knowledge about audio, but some knowledge about photography..

From what I have read, it is important to have a physically large condenser/diphragm for a mic to have high fidelity. Could you educate me a bit please?

At least for photography, I can tell you with certainty, an iphone camera is basically a toy when you are talking of challenging scenes being put on large fine art prints. It is nowhere near creating same "fidelity" images as even a micro 4/3rd camera, and there are medium format digital cameras out there.
What do you do for a living? I also found school to be a huge waste of time but I was a very high IQ kid. When I would be stuck at home I would just read books or mess around with chemical reactions. Plus I had a very comfortable middle class life. But the average IQ kid cannot self study like that and the average income family may not have a private room for the kid to study, may have abusive situations at home, etc.
> I realized that it all comes down to "metrics" - end of every sprint, my manager has to present it to his bosses, with pretty graphs describing "velocity" and other buzzwords.

You've discovered the secret of Agile in the corporate workplace: that the key takeaways, as far as the enterprise is concerned, are not finding better ways to develop software and better customer-developer relations. It's all about trackability, measurement, and metrics, because everything is. Trackability and measurement enable key decision makers to make accurate budgeting and execution plans and there is literally nothing else for key decision makers. Therefore, it makes less of a difference what you output than that it was properly planned for, tracked, and measured and that it hits organizational KPIs. That's why nobody cares that Scrum is a giant productivity suck. Code could be written faster, but that's not writing it properly.

Agile in the enterprise is a game of Mornington Crescent. The goal is not to foster the things advocated in the Agile Manifesto. It's to make it look like the company is fostering those things, while actually promoting the same Taylorist values corporations have always loved (and workers hated).
> It explains their course of action, as Jorge was not flexible in his "my way or highway" approach.

I don't understand where this conclusion is coming from as it doesn't seem Andrey raised any concerns with colorette prior to his aggressive actions.
Pretty stupid self-serving "move". Nobody tips in Bitcoin as it's too expensive, unlike with credit cards, where you get cashback, with Bitcoin, you pay ridiculously high fees.
By "terrible windy season", he means that a season that is usually expected to be very windy has instead been quite still.
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>Perhaps instead of doing something didn't work, we just split the kids into 2 groups, Monday-Wednesday, and then Tuesday-Saturday. Then we'd only have 10 - 15 kids per class.

In practice this would get you two groups of 30-40 kids in each class - but they didn't need to build a new school they were planning on.

I'm from an area that used to have one high school. It now has 8 in the area. I had a class of 1100. This year with the additional schools it is around 1000.
I think it’s a bad idea to go against half a century of conventions without good reason.

It’s very surprising to see a tool that only works as a filter, and doesn’t take file paths as arguments.
The club thing is a metaphor, not even an analogy. Essentially it means, there are different rules for doing things in the EU for people and companies that are from it or from the outside and UK is now from outside and as a result will need to deal with the stuff for outsiders. Why there are different rules? Because within the EU we have agreed on how things should work, with the outsiders we don't have such an agreement therefore they can do whatever they like as long as the stuff that comes to EU or affects EU citizens directly needs to happen according to the standards we decided to.

As a result, this will bring you the opportunity to do your own thing like all the outsiders out there, like produce and eat chlorinated chicken, put asbestos in kids toys if that's your thing but you will be required to prove that you are sending the un-chlorinated ones to EU. That's why you have checks and paperworks at the border, it's not to piss you off. Anything that's happening currently is the logical outcome of Brexit, it's not a conspiracy to make life hard for the British. We love UK and the British culture, that's why we are so sour about this "We are better than the EU" thingy. Seriously, besides some jokes and snarky comments, no one wishes bad things to the British people.

Anyway, so since you left, when do you expect to meet the friendly, cooperative people who don't insult you for expecting unreasonable things?
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also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otpor
> How does it handle CSVs that are wider or longer than the terminal?

Columns that are exceptionally long but cutting and appending an ellipsis if the line is over 20 characters.

> a built-in grepping feature would make this very useful.

see the following for csv data manipulation:

xsv - Command line csv data manipulation. Rust

csvtk - Command line csv data manipulation. Go

tsv-utils - Command line csv data manipulation toolkit. D

q - Command line csv data manipulation query-like. Python

miller - Command line data manipulation, statistics, and more. C
Very widespread. If you're working for a non-startup, non-FAANG-tier company, expect metrics to trump all other concerns.
Yep, fair point. Agree with everything you write. Also, if the EU actually sees their USB-C power charging standard through, I'm hopeful that it will be much, much easier to connect audio interfaces and other accessories to an iPhone.

For recording singing voice, the microphone itself is part of the instrument set up, and trained singers react to the behaviour of the mic instantly as they sing. I agree that it'll be borderline impossible to replace an SM58 for that.

That being said, room recordings are a very common use case. Tape It isn't designed to replace a professional recording environment; it's rather there to help you in the stages before you get to recording at professional quality.

Looking a bit into the future, though, I think it's reasonable to assume that the quality will steadily increase, and such will its applications. Just compare video capture on the iPhone today vs ten years ago.
...and yet it still manages to turn itself back on whenever you sign in again, when you cast to a new device...and you can't tell me the company that knows everything about me can't remember my preference for not wanting auto play. Other services seem to remember it just fine, I set it once on Netflix and have never needed to set it ever again.
Why would you conflate hostile foreign power and being at war? There is a difference here between necessary and sufficient conditions. The presence of hostile foreign powers with whom we are not at war is evidence enough.
Indeed so, but that may still be due to more complicated factors. At no point have I said it isn't a factor, just that it's one of many.
I've grown fond of this system for learning, and now have 6 of them variously spread across the internet.

Unless anyone else has better ideas, it's the best way to grok key information and avoid re-consulting page 245 of a PDF or websearching the same thing over and over.
I’d like to just open JIRA or Confluence and not have a dozen call-to-action notifications strewn about the UI about (new feature no one asked for or cares about) I have to manually close.
A terrible windy season is one in which there is less wind. This would be different to a terribly windy season, in which there is too much.

We've just had a low-wind summer, increasing the demand for gas.
It's almost exactly 1kg per kw/h, at least in the US: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11

But yes, "per hour" is necessary because you can't instantaneously emit a certain mass of co2. You emit over time, just like you generate power over time.
Well it's cheap'ish for a managed gigabit switch...and "managed" is where you begin to add $$$, even in cheapo world.

Also current price on ebay for a refurb N1108T-ON unit is 360 quid, so I reckon relatively speaking you could say it's cheap.
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> Why is split learning even on the table? Who are we trying to protect? The kids? The teachers? Are most people in these hyper-partisan democrat areas (I'm speaking from a US perspective, but it's largely the US that has voluntarily wrecked now almost 2 years of education) aware that the kids are not at serious risk of COVID?

It was to protect staff & their families, and generally reduce community spread.

Schools this year, that are fully back in person, are barely holding it together. There aren't enough subs. Trying to go fully in-person everywhere last year probably would have fallen apart, for that reason. It still might, this year. It's bad.

I agree that the harm outweighed the benefit by a long shot if we're talking just about the kids, but I don't think we'd have been able to keep fully in-person school running last year anyway. The ones that went in-person suffered badly, in some cases worse than fully-online cohorts. The only way to fix it would have been a policy of having teachers & students who very likely were COVID-exposed but not actively ill-feeling come in until it was proven that they were COVID-positive—but that policy would also have increased spread, so I wouldn't guarantee that'd actually improve the situation of having too many staff out for quarantine.
I think you both agree with BrianOnHN -- I read "competition as sport" as competition for the purposes of entertainment, enjoyment, and fitness rather than for the purpose of winning.
WE committed. We made these commitments as a team. If you can't fulfill what has been committed to by the team, then we as a team have to have a discussion about that. I'll put the meeting for next Monday on everyone's outlook.
Please avoid making this argument, it's a false equivalence. Youtube is not self-censoring those things.

If you want me to ask a similarly misleading line of questioning based only on trying to draw false equivalence from principles: Currently Youtube is self-censoring porn. Is the side of "youtube should become a porn site" really the side you want to root for?
Perhaps my use of the term “earmarked” was confusing. This refers to a congressional requirement that certain tax revenues be allocated for specific purposes. That’s the gasoline tax and very very very few taxes are written this way.
I've just done the same. If you want to talk through strategy, I'd love to grab 20 minutes because I'm grappling with the same.
A lot of the stories I've heard from people who've worked at places like Ogilvy have taken a similar tack.

More often, though, advertising agencies redefine a (often failing) product through rebranding. Such as a gin to which they added cucumber - unusual at the time - to make it seem classy and British to American consumers, or Diamond Shreddies: https://fameable.com/diamond-shreddies-rebranding-case-study...
Aren't unpaid internships mostly for industries that have shitty job prospects anyway?

I mean, I know unpaid internships are widespread in things like fashion design and poetry and journalism - but there's no need to do unpaid internships if you're trying to get into programming or accounting.
Your original phrasing was "misleading" and "confusing". "Quattro" may be vague, at worst, but I challenge you to define how it is either of those things.
The US is the ally of most of Western Europe (this is important because when the US invades a country, it does so with the help or at least foreknowledge of its allies)... Russia is a neighbor at best.

However, if the US invaded Italy with little warning and took over Florence because it felt it needed warm water port in Europe, or access to a better wine supply then Western Europe would rightly panic and wonder how they can disentangle themselves from US influence.

The reason the US is allowed so much influence in the first place is because its stays out of territorial disputes in Europe---heck even if one occurs, it historically drags its feet for years.
I’d like to see an Instagram where you can’t post a picture of a person. So the competition becomes who can take the coolest photo. Of course that rewards kids with the resources to get to interesting places, but I think it’s less toxic to be compared for your means than it is to be compared for your appearance, especially for girls.
Not GP.

There are serious objections to masks: they make people more anonymous (which is hard on everyone, but especially kids), they increase carbon dioxide intake, and the ones people generally use may not be effective against something as small as the COVID virus.