skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just because you personally think harming other persons is bad isn’t sufficient.

What is insufficient about it?

That involuntary harm to one may occasionally benefit the many? Even if so can the aggressor and wider society know that ahead of time? And what about individual's right to freedom from harm?

> What gives you the authority to impose that value on others?

Society has to negotiate values together. The rule to avoid harming others is the least imposing value of all.

After 30y of "living by faith" I'm no longer a fan of trusting in authorities just because their rules are old or their existence is unfalsifiable.
Sweet. Facebook is pulling a Boeing.

It will end well. I’m sure of it.
7 years of study.

Also we're not on the same page about reward/excellency. Having a high salary after graduation doesn't mean you're doing good / excellent work. You can, and I've heard a lot of people saying it, coast along being paid for not a lot.

Every company I worked at had terrible software, there was no excellency in them (which backfires toward all society). Another proof to me that the system is not optimizing excellency. It's short term gain spread over a wide network of ignorance (your customer can never assess of your work quality, he has no clue about the domain).
For reference, 7th gen is Kaby Lake and 8th gen is Coffee Lake. Of course, Intel had stagnated long before so many people are still on Sky Lake (6th gen).
A big issue is that Germany, in trying to classify gas but not nuclear as "green", is trying to get every other country to do the same.

The insanity must at least be stopped at Germany's boarders.
Counter point: I really like the way Netflix is built. It's great for discovery and the series I'm watching are right at the top if I simply want to jump back in. Sure, they could really do away with the autoplay and add some minor tweaks, but overall I'm happy. In fact, I even went for a native app instead of Kodi for my TV, just to get the original UI.
The loss from 1000 Km of transmission is probably comparable to the loss from good case lithium ion (making transmission better much of the time). Pumped hydro is worse than both.

Pumped hydro is usually built when it will directly reduce overall grid costs. For example, the Ludington Pumped Storage plant in Michigan was built by utilities to make their generation more cost efficient overall, the energy efficiency of the storage system only needs to be good enough to accomplish that goal.
What is the value of a bitcoin transaction?
It’s already mainstream to minify your JS anyway as part of a long build process. JS transparency is used by very few people.
Job hopping is mostly for people trying to move up to better companies, not just better titles.

If you’re being paid 180K out of college and your company regularly promotes with 33% raises then you’re already at a top company that gives proper raises. You don’t need to job hop unless you want to try a different company.
So that's a big problem for the some of the big 6502-based computers and video game systems of the 80s, if you ever wanted a 100Mhz Commodore 64 or NES for example.

Those systems had more than 64K of addressable items, and various techniques were used to map regions in and out of the 64K 6502 address space.

Commodore 64, for example, has 64Kbytes of RAM, 16K of OS and BASIC ROM, 4K of memory mapped I/O, and 4K of character generator ROM. A register at memory location 1 controls what's visible at a given moment. By default you have 40Kbyte of RAM visible along with the ROM and I/O devices. Certain games like Impossible Mission will turn off the ROMs and I/O devices at various times to get at all the RAM "underneath."

NES is even more of a mess. The original Super Mario Bros. and a fair amount of "NROM" games fit in to less than 32KByte of ROM, which is by default all that's available to ROM on that platform. Then "mapper" ASICs appeared and there are well over a hundred, and that's a challenge to anyone who wants to implement an NES emulator - emulating all the mappers that had to be reverse engineered. Some are common like the MMC1 and 3 and some are unique to specific games.

Now I can see it working in the Apple II because the original platform I think had 16K of RAM, with the possibility to upgrade to 48K of RAM, and 8K of ROM near the top. BASIC was always loaded in from tape or disk. Video was writing to framebuffer and straightforward. You did have 128K Apple systems which came later but plenty of software that would work on an unexpanded Apple.

Still awesome though.
Modern pumped hydro gets about 80% round-trip efficiency, perhaps 75% for older plants get 75%. Interestingly, grid scale batteries seem to get something close to that, 80-85 percent - I would have expected more.

Transmission losses for 1000km are something like 2%-3%. So halfway around the globe isn't efficient, but 1000km might as well be considered "local" and transferring across the whole EU would be more efficient than local storage.
At the risk of wildly upheaving your music listening habits — give the Starbound soundtrack a try. I like the soundtracks you enjoy a lot and Starbound definitely makes my heavy rotation.

And Stardew Valley, but that has the addedcool factor of being made entirely by one guy.
There is a typo under A Better Way to Build Your Frontend.

> Use page-level context without "worring" about concurrency and mutex

Edit: here is a PR to fix that https://github.com/yuriizinets/kyoto/pull/46
This is true, and irrelevant. You can’t vaccinate against the spread of obesity, which is what we are talking about
Textile and LaTeX are better, anyway. At least it's not HTML or BBCode.
This feels much more like how biological systems operate. I wonder if neural networks trained on this kind of data would work any differently than ones trained on standard frame-by-frame camera feeds.
Many apps (esp electron) use CPU regardless of whether they’re redrawing the actual desktop window or not.
If you’re worried about a gap in your resume, then everybody has that problem. The reason for the hiring crisis is that the A/T/S software that companies use filters people out who have a gap, and everybody has a gap. Maybe you can look online for ways to format your resume to pass through the A/T/S software? My point is that there’s easier ways to deal with that then going to get your Masters.
> If you don't want to be kind to others then that's on you

Kindness has really nothing to do with persecuting and punishing anyone who doesn't comply with arbitrary demands regarding etiquette.
My bigger concern is having some other dog commit a change to my Terms of Conduct without prior experience in the org, and then witch-hunting me when I mark their PR as wontfix.
Wait, isn't Wrap and other pkg/errors proposals used in the current stdlib? I thought they officially accepted that package as the default errors package.
Story of How One Guy Keeps the World’s Computers Running on the Right Time Zone
auto-cpufreq author here, sorry but what are you talking about, what swastika?
PyPy 7.3.6 has been released
Salaries are remarkably sticky, and many companies have protocols around raises (that is, percentage caps) that aren't always connected to the wider market.

I think if one is looking to maximize lifetime revenue (as an employee), then switching regularly probably makes sense. In any case, you should be interviewing regularly and soliciting offers, even if you only use them at your existing job to ensure your raises are in sync with the wider market.
I could not disagree more. I'm very pleased that things such as markdown exist and are being widely used. All of the tools used by 'other professions' as you say, are in some nonsense proprietary format that works in their application and theirs alone. Even something as widespread as .docx is still a third-class citizen on other applications, due to Microsoft's monopoly on it.

Is Markdown perfect? No. I find it rather frustrating that there isn't a single definitive flavor, but it's easy to learn, easy to read and render, and can be used as a tool in just about anything. You can keep your 'real programs'.
I snipped the title because it was too big: The Largely Untold Story Of How One Guy In California Keeps The World’s Computers Running On The Right Time Zone. (Well, Sort Of)

outline link - https://outline.com/g7SPsW
I've written a lot of interpreters in C/++ lately, and spent a lot of time profiling and optimizing them.

I can't remember -O3 ever being faster than -O2, it's usually slightly slower for me.
It's not by nine
Not doing this now, but in the past I've not used any caffeinated products, unless I know I will need it for an upcoming activity.

This allows me to gain the full benefit and avoid building a tolerance.
Wow, I couldn't feel more differently about markdown. I'm not a programmer, but I welcome this useful non-proprietary format. I just wish I could get my entire small business to use a Wiki full of markdown files (which present very nicely with wikijs and other such software) instead of a bunch of folders full of MS Word files.
Yeah the states and local municipalities don't have the fed for handouts (whatever you mean by that exactly, I am assuming it is the unemployment benefits) State/local has to balance their budgets for the most part aside from federal redistribution to "poor" states with less tax revenue.
I meant content, not metadata.

Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp chat backups, iMessage chat backups (incl all geotagged photo attachments), et c.
Website uses AI to show the potential impact of climate change on any address
auto-cpufreq author, I have no idea what you're talking about. If you're talking about same site which is: https://foolcontrol.org/
Your analogy alone deserves a chef’s kiss along with an upvote. =)
Appreciate your perspective from reading the paper.

Agreed this seems hard to pin down.

For those like me not familiar with the term "brown energy": "energy produced from polluting sources as a contrast to green energy from renewable, non-polluting source"
Tbh, those people are the ones with huge egos. Mathematics is getting done on the raw ground regardless of if they are present or not. I hate this whining bullshit, if you want people to collaborate, make the tools to help people do so, rather than cringy pointless posturing.

> turning Mobile, AL into a Cambridge or a Zurich.

You are extremely naive if you think that this is something that would happen by raising general mathematics literacy. Nor is it something that we should necessarily even want to happen. Stop living in a dream land, not everyone needs to or should be a mathematician. We should aim for general literacy in statistics at most.

> If people in math cared about explaining their thoughts the way philosophers and rational thinkers do, then it could be possible.

Well, mathematics is in a much better state academically than philosophy, and literally in the UK we have ZERO philosophy education in the entirety of school. Philosophy hardly seems like an ideal to strive for, the average person know even less philosophy than mathematics and academically it is far smaller and less well funded.
snapshots aren't that big. A wiki server just runs on a single server? I thought it was pretty common among the HN population to have a cloud note solution. Syncing files seems more hassle than a one-time docker setup.
That's the problem, the company didn't publicly engage with their users that needed it. A simple intent to ship with a list of changes related to API's is a great start. The employees should be using the most popular of the user made software. That's how organic communities function. The problems occur when company thinks theyre God and their software is controllable - it's not. People are going to use it as they see fit, and if you don't Shepard it that community will find their owns reasons for why the company ignores it.
Try this one: https://publish.obsidian.md/hub/02+-+Community+plugins/02.01...
Actually, I think the comparison to Java is a good one. Java had a pretty good standard library in the JDK (though I'd argue the latest ES and Node versions are pretty on par), but what it really had going for it was Apache Jakarta libraries. I think pretty much 95%+ of open source Java I used at that time was Jakarta.

The difference with JS is that there are actually a ton more open source libraries available in the NPM world, but there is not an overarching project to bless some of them as "standard" and high quality (though I could see some of the Deno libs changing this). Again, it's a tradeoff - there is much more choice but that requires more management.

Also, FWIW, I had many more dependency upgrade nightmares in Java vs. JS, primarily because Java's nominal typing can be very unforgiving (vs. Typescript's structural typing). I still have PTSD from Jersey 1.x to 2 upgrades.
How sure are we with fusion reactors? Probably both 50/50.
We can back and forth about whether Evergrande was well managed or well regulated. I mostly agree if that helps.

But the point I was making is that when a big company goes bankrupt, at least in this case, the CCP let it happen and didn't just keep it alive on zero interest loans. That's the right decision in the long term but it's painful in the short term. That's a decision the US and UK have been unwilling to make since 2008.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28880782
I don’t know what will happen in the future of course, but my son was doing simultaneous linear equations in third grade, and not really having problems with it tbh.

He’s started 4th grade now, and is doing exponentials with constant powers, next up is exponentials with variable powers, and then the quadratic formula, though they introduce it gradually. He ought to be doing that pretty much for the final third of the year.
There are certainly possible reasons why quantum computing could be impossible. To me the most compelling of these would be that the error rate of physical qubits might fundamentally always exceed the threshold for correction with any real ECC as the number of logical qubits increases.

I highly recommend reading [1] for an overview of the various skeptical viewpoints on quantum computing. Note that, while Aaronson argues most of the initial arguments are trivially wrong, he admits that whether or not error correction is fundamentally impossible is an open question.

[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec14.html
I made a web clipper bookmarklet for Obsidian that works on mobile
https://gist.github.com/kepano/90c05f162c37cf730abb8ff027987...
> These changes are major enough that a fair number of existing Python libraries that work directly with Python’s internals (e.g., Cython) would need to be rewritten. But the cadence of Python’s release schedule just means such breaking changes would need to be made in a major point release instead of a minor one.

Maybe time to rethink? https://www.techrepublic.com/article/programming-languages-w...

If this is as promising as it sounds, it seems Python 4 now has its "thing" and is on the horizon. Or at least may become a serious thing to talk about
That "social credit" episode was really creepy.
Not what is the value of bitcoin, what is the use of bitcoin. What function does it fill for a society in order to justify the energy expenditure? Manipulating a dollar value of something is apparently trivial to do, just look at the wild fluctuations in bitcoins price.

So far the resounding answer has been “number go up”. Well, that and crime if we’re being honest.
That's argyria from taking colloidal silver.

Methemoglobinemia looks far less severe: https://blogs.brown.edu/emergency-medicine-residency/citw-14...
Long distance (relatively) water pipelines are not to expensive as long as it isn’t vertical cliffs and unstable slopes on the way, so a catchment at the lower drainage or even a low dam can provide the necessary temporary storage, even if 5-10 miles or more away.

Still not super cheap of course, so then the classic ‘what will this get us for the cost, and does it pencil out as profitable’ (generally a good proxy for worth the time and expense) starts to come into play.
Independent regulators tend to grow in power become gatekeepers to the industry and harm innovation.

I think having competing regulation/certifications is different than the status quo and offers benefits.

As a consumer and business operator, I want to be able to choose.

Yes, a free market, something that doesn’t largely exist!
That, and to prevent it from being presumed all male. That is, without calling out pronouns, people will either default to "he/him" (which presumes everyone is male), or "they/them".

If you don't want to identify a gender, "they/them" doesn't.

But it normalizes calling out pronouns such that someone can say "I am a woman and would like to be called as such" without sticking out.

That's really the intention; by making it so everyone, even those who legitimately don't care how they're identified (which is a smaller number than those who are fine being 'defaulted' to 'he/him' or 'they/them'; most who don't want to call out a pronoun will object to being referred to as 'she/her') define a pronoun, it normalizes it for those to whom it is important. And it doesn't de-anonymize anything; "they/them" is an option, as is asking "please don't use pronouns when referring solely to me; use my username").
Isn't the disfigurement usually associated with leprosy due to the sufferer's lack of pain feedback?
There are a couple of key advantages to textual formats:

* They work easily with Gi

* They are understandable without a specialized program

I'm curious to what you'd suggest as an alternative to text (yaml, json, ini) configuration files.
Detailed thoughts on the State of the .NET Foundation
In the first comment, Miguel explains the setup of the .NET Foundation combining Microsoft and Gnome.
4 horsemen: sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague
Pushing limits in terms of the brain is binging garbage in stead of looking at trees, listening to birds.

Pushing the limits of a body is sitting in a chair for 8 hours, barely moving, in stead of walking around doing stuff with your hands, taking a swim, climbing a tree picking some nuts.

We should make no mistakes about what the natural actions and states of our minds and bodies are.
> Isn’t the whole point of declaring pronouns that it gives you the option not to be gendered, if you prefer?

English already supported gender neutrality.

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

Enforcing arbitrary pronouns aims to achieve the exact opposite: enforce the use of gender-specific pronouns to third-parties based on someone's preferences.
This is an interesting theory - I dont have a counterargument, but maybe a conflicting theory of my own. A lot of VC money - (my theory) - is really just outsourced corporate R&D or "innovation" and founding a VC backed startup is often closer to taking a low to decently paid job in a big company's innovation team, where you manage a relatively small budget (on the scale of corporate budgets) to try and get traction on your new idea.

As such, founder comp is really just a kind of corporate salary, with a big potential bonus. As a corollary, that's why current VC backed SV-ish startups are mostly so homogeneous, they're basically just outsourced innovation groups for companies that are out of ideas.

As startups get traction, if the ceo is performing then the balance of power shifts, and they become more like you're suggesting, exposure to that person's vision and impact. But at the beginning, it's basically just a corporate job, and you'd expect it to be compensated at market rates.

(This is largely based on my observation of some startups, I don't mean to say its universal)
Not saying they’re not, but I’d be curious what measures of reactor quality you’ve seen?
We're talking about the Github page that was linked upthread.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060203045552/http://modernarth...

Yep, works here too.
I agree on all points.

Another time overinclusivity rears its head is when people get vicariously offended for all indigenous people when they see someone wearing a headdress. One tribe says its ceremonial, can another tribe license it out … commercially … and all is fine? The same question as you, who gets to sign the contract, who has a say? How do you know the person wearing the headdress at a festival is breaking a relevant rule, or if they arent of a tribe, or if they didnt get permission - you cant tell by skin color or any phenotype so who gets to say - , and so on and so forth.

The consensus making process is completely broken because even the most progressive and sensitive people are doing an extremely insensitive overgrouping.
> There is no solid math or physics which supports time travel.

This is false. Time travel to the future is possible and proven[0]. Perhaps you are referring to traveling to the past.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_testing_of_time...
Agreed on Markdown's limited expressiveness.

I think the reason for programmers' attachment to Markdown isn't just about being able to operate on it in a terminal. It's about the general interoperability of plaintext.

Terminal editing is one example, but even IDEs and non-terminal text editors also use plaintext. There's also the fact that version control tools are designed for line-based plaintext. Markdown is especially often used for documentation that gets checked in alongside code, so this is an important consideration.

I would be very interested to hear thoughts on good alternatives to Markdown for technical documentation, even if not plaintext-based.
Yeah... "What happens when we shock a cat in space" sounds more like a serial killer's idle daydream than legitimate science.

I'm gonna say they were assholes with that one.
It depends. Is it a French website? You can click on something that says "Continuer sans accepter" (Continue/proceed without accepting) and continue your visit.

Some websites have check-boxes on what you accept, and a button that says "Tout refuser" (refuse all). You can click that and proceed with your visit.
That motivation to work harder breaks down the moment it becomes common belief that the amount of additional hard work required to secure such assets is unrealistic for the average person.
GP is talking about xsuspender's website, not yours!
It’s tough. I engaged with the community a lot at first and we made efforts to give them what they wanted.

Over time this created a weird, unhealthy dynamic where parts of the community felt entitled to special treatment from the company. Some of them felt like they were stakeholders in the company and that we were obligated to incorporate them into the development process.

At worst, it reminded me of some of the “parasocial” relationships described in social media situations, where the followers start to feel like they were owed much more than regular customers due to their dedication as super customers. Even worse, some of them had their own YouTube channels, newsletters, or Discord communities for our products and would often threaten to turn them against us if we didn’t do what they wanted. That part was especially saddening.
Teen Hacked Dutch Telco KPN before being found dead in South Korea
Fifth of All Gamers Victim Gaming Scam
Regardless of who provides this, and even irrespective of marketing concerns, there most likely will be data leaks/theft. Imaging having audio+video recordings of what you see and what you say in the hands of the wrong people. And "the wrong people" could be a wide array of different parties, from banks to police to political enemies to nosy neighbors and beyond.

Granted, many of us already collect and give away significant amounts of very personal data, some of which regularly gets leaked or stolen; but first person video and audio recordings?... scary.

And then with Facebook... I trust Zuckerberg with my life data as much as I trust his choice in hairstylists.