skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither position is inherently absurd, nor is their contradiction.

A more thoughtful response might have taken the time to contemplate the origins of government and the relationship between “absurdity,” your understanding of government and of virtuous government, and of the post-enlightenment ideologies assumed natural to our societies; in truth the vague syllogism between law and privilege you present is not some physical reality or logical QED but a gestural summation of ideas only very lately arrived to human affairs. Contemplative silence is one among many more interesting responses that were available to you.

In short: it’s obvious that ancient institutions and modern humanism are absurdly dissonant. Cleary OP meant to provoke a reconsideration, not a restatement, of the obvious.

Ironically it is obvious that one should not bother trying to rescue internet comments from their own pig-headedness - but sometimes I do sorely miss past iterations of HN.
I went from fear of flying to now planning to get my pilots license. I believe I am naturally a person which sees many aspects of a thing and many possibilities, take that and my (probably basic) understanding of airplanes, computer systems and people, I always could immediately construct series of events in my mind that led to catastrophy.

What if the pilot is depressed because his wife just died? What if the coffee cooker has been badly serviced and will start a fire? What if there's a tired ATC controller and we collide mid air with another plane? What if the engine has a slight imbalance, falls apart, and the parts hit some hydraulic line that immobilises the control surfaces etc.

I think it has to do with being a programmer, I see bugs all day and I can just imagine what can go wrong in an aircraft.

Also in the mix: A fear of heights and a fear of death.

What helped me: Statistics, realising that I am more likely to die sitting on my couch than sitting in a Boeing 757.. That I am relying on far less sophisticated drivers on the road to not mess up, and I am ok with it. That life is uncertain and that I can't live in in fear. And the fact that planes cannot just fall out of the sky, they are shaped in a certain way that ensures flight as long as there is wind hitting the front of the aircraft. And they make their own wind with their engines..

It just clicked eventually and now I'm even enjoying turbulence (as long as I don't spill hot coffee over my pants).. I also don't mind to crash and die, to be honest. After all, I am not Peter Thiel or Ray Kurzweil, so death is 100% certain for me. So why not die doing something I enjoy.

Of course the odds are I won't perish in an aircraft. At home on my sofa, now that's more likely..
Archer is also the main hero protagonist of the incredibly popular (globally) and sprawling Fate series, which you should also check out, starting with Fate/Stay Night.
I think that’s the main problem with having them in cars. They just attract functionality because it’s so easy to add to the screen.
I disagree that you commonly need to style component internals from the outside. But when you do, exposing html class name injection points works fine. By no means should you be writing css to target a component's internals from outside of the component's own css file. That leads to a mess and is the opposite of reusable. The HTML structure of a component is private.
Prompt Engineering: https://snowpixel.app/generations/
There is fusion happening inside stars and it yields a lot of energy
I don’t think it’s pharma companies responsibility to ‘push’ psylocibin - it sounds like that sits more between doctors, public/university pharmaceutical researchers and legislators.
In retrospect, I hadn't thought of that but it makes perfect sense. I believe I ended up accessing my laptop's local server from my personal mac, so it would have still been the bottleneck. I may have asked a similar question on my way out lol
I'm glad to hear that all of you don't wish that the plot had succeeded.
Can you imagine the feeling of watching a human sacrifice in a crowd of 10,000 people? Or watching the king pierce his own penis with a stingray spine? The blood! And still-beating hearts! The collective empathy induced by these powerful experiences, specifically the affective resonance, would be a powerful binding force. Especially when combined with the pounding music and (occasionally) psychedelics [1].

Wikipedia has a nice article on Mayan human sacrifice [2]. It all sounds so brutal, but then again, so is Squid Game.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogenics_and_the_Maya

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Maya_cultur...
Cuban exile told sons he trained Lee Harvey Oswald at a secret CIA camp
Afaik it's not legal anymore to do this in Germany (and probably Belgium/EU?), or rather: It's illegal for the businesses to have different prices for different payment methods (a workaround are coupons for using certain payments, but probably only for special offers). As far as I remember PayPal was usually the most expensive payment method (compared to CC, bank transfer etc.).
Maybe we should call it MANGA now.
You imply that a political anti corruption campaign is equivalent to “calling your boss a dumbass”?
Just in case one of the maintainers sees this. Searching for plugins name or description is case sensitive.
This is daft, it’s assuming the only thing important in hiring is previous technical experience. As Dee Hock said : “ Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.”
One could think that all energy generated by nuclear fission is just energy stored from fusion. So it should be pretty clear fusion yields more as it is input for all fission.
You shouldn‘t really need to do any scraping tricks to get that, because it‘s data the websites (usually) want to give to bots. Or are people getting bot block screens from Cloudflare et all for that basic action these days?

It should be a matter of a simple GET request to fetch plain html and parse the OpenGraph meta tags out if that. There are many open source libraries to do that for you depending on your language.

If bot blocks really are a problem, a SaaS solution like Microlink could probably do it for you.
If it has ANYTHING to do with cryptocurrency/blockchain you can be guaranteed the grifters are Everest high waiting for naive adoption to make them profits.
Google never wanted to enter that market under the current conditions.

( Give up your IP)
But the middle class isn’t destroyed.
I'd like to be on the road traveling permanently if I was able to work 100% remote. Spend a few weeks or months in a place then move on.
Maybe git, and JavaScript?
yeah, I've been thinking a lot about this too. there's evidence that the inuit were actually the first people to develop an MRNA vaccine.
For old EV batteries where the only reason they need replacement is reduced capacity I wonder if they might be useful in some stationary applications? I'd love to have a whole-house battery backup system for the occasional power outage, but systems with new batteries are too expensive.

An 80 kWh battery, say, that has lost half its capacity would have been enough to get me through most outages I've seen since moving into my current house 15 years ago without me having to even try to reduce power during the outage. The one or two outages where that would not have been enough, it would have been sufficient to just dress warmer, turn the thermostat down a little, and avoid doing laundry.

I'd be interested in this as long as the price per kWh of the degraded battery is significantly lower than the price for a new battery with the same capacity. The degraded battery is going to be good for much less cycles than a new battery of the same capacity, so it should cost less.
> No prejudice

Just the prejudice when adding events to the chain.

I suspect the author would be opposed to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
Same here. Made a test drive of the Model S, love almost everything about the car and would have bought it for sure if it wasn't for the unholy touchscreen that felt outright dangerous to use. I don't understand how it's legal to even put essential controls behind a touchscreen and I don't understand people who drive Teslas daily.
Hm, tricky! Could satellite Internet be of use…?
It wouldn't avoid it, it'd make it worse by not having a single way to override the ledger when it's clearly wrong.

None of the problems in that article were caused by having a hard to edit public ledger. In fact most problems were caused by it.
First Pascal compiler was written in Pascal and hand-compiled to machine code.
You can also do a grab of all commits across known gitiverse.
PyTorch is working on catching up — I think they’ve already got some kind of “vmap” style function transformations in beta. And I’m sure they’ll figure out good higher order derivatives too. That’s like 90% of what people want out of Jax, so I think they’ll be able to compete.

The downside of Jax is it’s not easy to debug. PyTorch, for better or for worse, will actually run your Python code as you wrote it.
Well well, interesting. My theory is sinking :)
I certainly appreciate that he makes concessions and thoughtfully explains his side. But my point is pretty simple, as I said in the beginning crypto isn't a world changing technology. It has marginal use cases like being cheaper for some specific countries that to do wire transfers. I never said it was never going to have any use cases ever. I'm more than happy to learn about more use cases as they appear. But nothing new has been presented here.

As far as intellectual dishonest goes, storing your wealth in physical items that are in your physical possession is something that people actually do. I personally don't do that, but the reality is that some people don't trust banks and they don't trust a network of computers. To say that it is dishonest to point out that there were already alternatives to banks seems inaccurate.
Interesting, I did not know Wikimedia was politically aligned. If there's an organisation that I wouldn't like to be politically aligned, it would be an encyclopedia. But hey, here we are; enjoy the ride.
Agreed. Every culture has invented A central plaza surrounded by buildings…the only cosmological idea it embodies is that “tall tightly packed buildings block the wind.”

Ours is the civilization in history to build urban wind canyons, buildings with wide open roads between them. We also have less people occupying those spaces than even moderately sized European towns.
You might be thinking of "Zen of Assembly Language" or "Zen of Code Optimization" by the brilliant Michael Abrash. I own the latter and in addition to plenty of low-level code optimization advice for the microprocessors available at the time it also includes timer code for DOS that lets you measure code performance with high precision.
> ML models don’t do those things because ML models are abstract constructs without appendages or any other physical embodiment.

I am talking about it doing this in a simulation. We don't have AI that are as smart as a slime mold at the moment, it will be an achievement when we get there. Also we can't discount the processing power required to process raw signals detected, our AI models needs to also learn the signal processing as well. The raw data a slime mold has to work with is extremely bare, if you get that input do you really think an AI could do the same things as it? And this is a single cell organism, this is the capability of a single biological cell.

> Picking up a strong and regular periodic signal and predicting the next iteration is not a hard problem.

Not if that is the only thing you do, no, but if you also do a lot of other things at the same time then it gets extremely hard. Edit: For example, how does the mold know that it just didn't move into a sunny spot? Or maybe this is just a cloud and it retracted unnecessarily? There are a lot of things to account for in a real world scenario that the slime mold has to understand that your naive signal processor can just ignore.
I am sure that the wikipedia entry was very harmful.
E.g. I regularly google the name of people that I will have a meeting with (as preparation) or trying to find the linkedin profile. I am sure many HR departments do this as well.

In this case it would have been something like:
1) google name
2) oh. The applicant has the same name as a serial killer
3) click on wikipedia article
4) OMG
5) the applicant being significantly less likely to receive an offer
> this missing capacity is less the usual slowdown of reactors because of the hot rivers (which by the way is done for environmental and not technical concern) and maintenances process, than a consequence of a previous nuclear plant closing (for political/electoral reasons). another consequence of this missing plant was to reopen two charcoal power plant _this_winter_.

The report was from 2019 because it was the first search result. This is an ongoing issue and not getting better: https://www.montelnews.com/news/1198233/heatwave-impact-on-f...

Also:

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-france-power-winteroutloo...

https://www.montelnews.com/news/1266598/-france-faces-winter...

https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/People-in-France...

https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2113554-french-tso-rules-...

This is why you diversify your energy.

And I mean seriously...this is France we're talking about. Those informations are easy to google. Please stop spreading misinformation.

> a large part of the EPR slowdown in fr is due to security concern that changed while the project was already started, china EPRs which was similar but a lot less constrained was done in time.

Yeah they should just look away more like in China...it's just a nuclear reactor after all! France should also get some Tofu-dreg experience from China. This is the way.

Sorry...but I can't take such statements seriously. It's madness.

> funny fact: replacing ALL the current transport and electric energy supply in fr by wind turbines has been evaluated to require one of the most efficient available turbine for each km² on ALL the french territory...

Why would you even evaluate such a narrow scenario? This is beyond stupid. Renewables are not just wind.

Also I doubt this has been done seriously since there was a study years ago that you could power the whole of Europe if you take just the available building space on the coast and use wind.
> give an alternative name a child can use (if they prefer that name) later in life without having to change their name

This is an underrated reason for a middle name.
I understand that this is HN and being critical of big energy bets is kind of the community's second nature. But I'm missing the angle about how fantastic it is that so many private millions are sunk into unlikely energy bets. Energy is a big problem and for long time we looked primarily to governments to fund the hard research.

I think this is among the best things someone like Altman can do with his money and I think it's awesome - even if Helion turns out to be Theranos-level nonsense in hindsight. He seems perfectly willing to lose his entire investment, likely an enormous sum of money. I think it's impressive and I hope it becomes some sort of hype among the ultra-wealthy.
What essential controls are you using from the touchscreen while driving? The music player? Navigation?
But Skinner's ideas have been proven to be entirely limited to simplistic training. His most ambitious idea - that all complex behaviors are acquired through these simplistic reward mechanisms - is well known to be wrong now, a hopelessly limited understanding of the problem space.

As far as I know, he never engaged with the obvious arguments against his work - particularly the poverty of the stimulus argument. I don't believe he was a particularly rational individual - he was simply convinced of his simplistic model, and didn't want to see all the ways it didn't succeed in predicting all animal behavior.

It's not that humans are special, by the way. There are human behaviors that can be trained with behaviorist approaches. There are also animal behaviors that are obviously not trained in similar ways. For a good example of the latter, look at how long it takes quadruped animals to learn to walk - many do it within seconds or minutes after birth. Deer are leaping over obstacles hours after birth. That's not operant conditioning.
Why do we even need NFT or blockchain? Couldn't we just have some open standard and maybe PGP for endorsements? Now generating chain from PGP might be bit more tricky, but I don't see blockchains or NFTs adding anything extra.
Wow. This reads like a press release that Chia wrote. The only source is Chia and one of their board members.

The actual solution described is technically incoherent. It's all about "verifying data," but doesn't explain that no software (including blockchain) can verify that data about the physical world is complete and accurate.

They're essentially describing a Chia solution for something you could just as easily do with MD5 hashing (or an encrypted database with ACLs).

There's no way to guarantee that the climate data actually reflects what is happening. Blockchain cannot make guarantees about anything that doesn't occur on its own blockchain.
Kind of surprised there is barely a mention of second-life use of old EV batteries, e.g. for energy storage applications. Which is something GM (along with others) has said it is pursuing. See https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/car-makers-and-...
Can you use a bot to extract conversations into external website?
Agree with some of the points here. In my mind some of the company-sided dynamics he sketches can serve as a way to do better talent discovery (instead of full hiring). Obviously for a real job, versus a gig, you want to have assess someone as a person and not just as a nested list.
The block cursor serves a very specific purpose. Since you can insert either before or after the cursor a block makes perfect sense.

Especially as a beginner being used to normal text editing, but even now after years of using it my reasoning is still "do I need it before or after the cursor" and looking at the block.

What's your reason for not wanting it by default?
I'm vaccinated, I wear an N95 mask when I go out. I try to be reasonable. But this comment is exactly why I think crypto is important. There are too many people now questioning the basic tenets of our liberal democracy. When I watched the president of the United States get thrown out of of the most popular forums to discuss politics at the same time, and then destroy the only place people with a different opinion could go to talk, it became clear to me that these companies have too much power.
> With JavaScript/NodeJS + npm you only shoot yourself in the foot that way if you purposely aim at your foot, remove the safety, and press the trigger really hard.

Eh, no. You'll get shot no matter what, even if you have no gun.

For example, let's imagine you now have your version locked down codebase and after a month you want to install a new package. This one is only compatible with XYZ V1 while what you have is V2. No worries, npm will just handle that right? Well, you'll have both versions, but the prototype constructor name changed from V1 to V2, so the versions won't work together, so now you need to upgrade XYZ V1 everywhere anyways. And when XYZ did the V1->V2 upgrade, they also upgraded to GKS V53, so now you need to also do that upgrade.

Continue ad-infinitum or simply stay away from a broken ecosystem.
I've been wondering, but I never heard of an effort to do that.
"- It scans the blockchain and rates your set of on chain experiences and credentials
- If above a certain rating, you’re hired within 60 seconds

No prejudice, no wasted time, no pain"

Absolutely piss off. This is the same crowd that thinks that algorithms cannot be prejeduiced, after all "it's just maths".

Why don't you advocate for a social score as well while we're at it.
Thanks, yes I've read the Moeller book and I agree with your evaluation. I wasn't aware of the Cousot book though, I'll be sure to check it out.
There is no objective truth. Especially not for every author and every topic. Even when trying to represent controversy, the problem of false balance is quite real.

Maybe we differ on the definition of "political alignment", but there is no way that an entity has no angle.
This is basically China Social Credit System on blockchain, or Nosedive in Black Mirror.
Wife and I own a brick and mortar service based business with recurring revenue. Credit card customers get a 3% transaction fee added while ACH we swallow the 1% cost. I don't believe the terms of services says we can do that. I doubt Visa will send someone to investigate. If we didn't, we would need to increase prices for everyone.

(Our ACH used to be cheaper but Intuitwants to squeeze small business owners :https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/payments/a... )
> The biggest danger to the internet is about control of the underlying networks. That countries can cut themselves off from the internet or monitor all packets being routed in large regions is problematic.

That is a concern, yes, but I don't see it as the biggest one we have today.

The internet is already split up into service silos. Large corporations that service millions of users and control the flow and access to information has the same net effect as countries doing the same, and is much more prevalent today.

Do I care that China or Russia have their own internal networks and services that I can't access? Not really. The language is a bigger barrier in that sense if I cared about that.

I do care about public discourse happening on large private platforms where users have little to no control over the data they share or consume. This is what ultimately decentralization is meant to solve: users being in control of their data.
In the buzzword industry, the goal is typically finding a problem for the solution you're hyping, rather than finding a solution to your problem like how the rest of the world typically operates.
Nah, maven is definitely not a modern tool, but it does what it has to. And java’s package situation is in orders of magnitude better health than the critical vulnerability each week js one. Like, maven repo was the only one not affected by that quite big attack last time as well.
Sims initiating their own network connections
I'm not strictly arguing for Weber. I'm basically proposing that beyond majority consensus, we have no way of determining that the peeping toms or the discriminatory shopkeepers are in the wrong. In combination with the problems of majority consensus (if a majority agree to murder a minority, is that okay?), the presupposition that we are all equal, and have a right to exist as and where we are, the only reasonable conclusion is to enforce the absolute minimum of law required to maintain the peaceful coexistence that differentiates civilization. This is doubly true in a multicultural society.
I'm on a number of tech discords, and an Atheist discord, and we use discord for work.... to me, the channels seem good. Usually there are generic channels, and then specific ones, some channels end up dead, but kind of doesn't matter. Mostly I find it pretty effective for finding conversations I want to be part of.
How does knowing the name of your infection help you? If I'm sick I'm going to stay home and rest, not run to a test clinic out of pure curiosity.
I run a small social Discord with about 15 people, probably 10 active.

Looking at our discord: General, Destiny, Minecraft, Minecraft server A, Minecraft server B.

No one's too fussy about what goes where, but it's just useful to have channels as the context.