skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like most of these imperceptible changes could be addressed by something like ascii folding (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...) but this might not apply for non-english use cases.

If you're interested in adversarial NLP, I also recommend reading this blog post on adversarial attacks on GPT2 with universal triggers (e.g. adding "nobody" as prefix for all inputs causes all entailments to be predicted as contradiction).
Your claimed power levels are nonsensical. A big nuclear plant produces 1 GW.

(edit: it was edited since, was talking about tens of TW before)
Only in the US; Pooh was published in the UK, and there, it doesn't enter the public domain for several more years yet, because the UK sentences copyrighted works to life plus 70 years. Christopher Robin died of old age 25 years ago, never ceasing to hate the books, and his daughter (A.A. Milne's last descendant) died nine years ago, but still you can go to jail if you share your copy of the Pooh books with a friend using a computer.
sometimes i wonder if we would ever get to a point where we trade, buy and sell in ads

like if i go to a grocery store and forget my wallet, then i can pay for it by watching 10 mins of ads or something...
> Marking a new chapter in European industrial history, the cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company.

This seems like a ... is this true? This boast made me feel sad. Is this really how far behind European manufacturing is?
I use https://github.com/xocolatl/periods for this to some success.
The author is talking about a different classes of rdbms. I believe his intention was not to compare PostgreSQL to ElasticSearch or ClickHouse which will solve a completely different problem.

But for small to medium datasets his advice to just stick to PostgreSQL is good: Start with an easy solution which will give you anything you need (by simply installing a plugin). If you need more specialized software THEN use it, but don't start with an overcomplicated stack because ElasticSearch and ClickHouse may be the state-of-the-art open source solution to a specific problem.
I think you describe only a Functor, not a Monad. A Monad also has to have either a `bind` or a `flatmap` function, besides the `(f)map`.

Basically the point of a monad is to depend on the output of another monad data type of its kind — e.g. it can take an IO String and use the encapsulated String value to produce another IO X. This would be IO (IO X) without the flatmap, or the bind function that can remove this double encapsulation.
Isn't the point of building the manufacturing plant in the north to utilize abundant hydropower?
Perhaps modern dictionaries' definitions are more accessible to someone with a child's grasp of English, as you say. However JSomers makes an excellent point, that Webster's definitions are more accurate, as well as being examples of great writing.

One solution - Basic and Advanced dictionaries?
Yes, but no doubt you're aware of Twain's companion piece to that quote: “Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”
Love this! Great implementation
That doesn't work, because anyone can falsely claim to be the artist.
And why would that statistic be important?

Also, imagine running 5K being a requirement for admission to college.
Can you share some information about SAP HANA? Why is it insane? Insanely good or bad? I have no experience with it.
I’m all for wind. But concerns like running at 1% capacity due to no wind for a month bring me back to nuclear time and time again.

Like Elon says, we have this amazing thermonuclear reactor (the sun) that we can harness, among other resources. But we also have the ability to make thermonuclear reactors safely on the planet and harness 100x+ more of the energy from the reaction. Seems like a no brainer.

Just to provide a couple cites that OP didn’t:

A data center can use 100+ MW easily. https://energyinnovation.org/2020/03/17/how-much-energy-do-d...
Nuclear Plants generate 500 MW- 1TW.
> Not sure what your point is.

My point is: You keep saying things without offering anything concrete. When people ask you concrete questions you hide behind "I never said aything about implementation"

> I (me, personally) want to

I also want many things.
You may be being downvoted because you have provided no citations or justifications for your claims, and because anti-electric shilling is, unfortunately, very common on the internet. The oil industry has really amazing PR.

Is "TW" supposed to be a terawatt? Because that is an enormously large amount of power. Annual human global power consumption is only 20TW.

(Edit: Since I replied to this, you changed your units, and provided sources which I haven't yet checked.)

Obviously, wind and solar cannot provide constant power, as fossil fuels can, but by building them in carefully selected locations, and combining them grid energy storage (which can be, but does not have to be, batteries[1]), un-evenness in supply can be smoothed out.

[1]: Pumped storage hydroelectricity is another example.
The short answer: Tracking and advertising.
Longer answer: All of the above + bloated frameworks (frontend and backend) + unoptimized/excessive static assets.

I guess we all know this, so I apologize if you meant it more as a rhetorical question.

As for Gmail, I've never had a problem, it's always pretty fast, considering all the features it has.
Absolutely, and that is often the point of rummaging through the dictionary. On another occasion Twain put it more... eloquently? Here he does ooze pretentiousness:

> In promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compact comprehensibleness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency... Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity and vaniloquent vapidity.

McPhee's essay Somers was commenting on warns against the same danger:

> In the search for words, thesauruses are useful things, but they don't talk about the words they list. They are also dangerous. They can lead you to choose a polysyllabic and fuzzy word when a simple and clear one is better. The value of a thesaurus is not to make a writer seem to have a vast vocabulary of recondite words.

So clearly McPhee was not advocating the unnecessary use of hundred-dollar words [correcting for inflation since Twain's time].
There is going to be a geomagnetic flip of the poles within the next 15 years.
What is the baseline?
> The entire world has never been more at peace than it ever has been throughout all of human civilization

This statement heavily depends on the definition of "war". I don't have the data, but yes, it might very well be true that we have less armed conflicts going on at the moment than any time before.

However, I am convinced that we are currently in an ongoing global war - but this war is very different from the "traditional" ones. Instead of being based on large-scale armed conflicts, it's mainly waging in media, courtrooms, governments, elections and online forums. And the sides in this war are less clearly delineated than we're used to.

But the effects of this war are no less real then those of other types of conflicts; just less obvious.
Javascript is one of the major reasons, but also trackers, huge graphics and loads of videos. Old pages still load fast so it's not the browser's fault. Say what you want about https://www.lingscars.com/, but it loads instantly, is full of all animations and doesn't lag down the browser.

The problem is modern design, basically. We've invented server-rendered pages, then started rendering everything client side with frameworks like React, then we've started pre-rendering React on the server and completing content in the client, and now the pendulum seems to be swinging the other way around again to technologies like Flutter that just render an application in a canvas shudder.

People want interactivity, and developers want that interactivity to be consistent across their website. To do so, they need to recreate and emulate everything the browser does. In the case of React and other JS frameworks, that even includes constructing fake DOMs. Back buttons get overridden, links get turned into buttons that do custom routing, you name it and there's a layer of Javascript you can download to avoid having to do the hard work.

This is partially because of how demanding people have become. They expect any proper web page to be like Facebook. People, especially customers, want features, and they want them fast. Big companies that have their own developers are pushing their users towards their apps, sometimes intentionally sabotaging their website (looking at you, Reddit) to force people to download their invasive, native code.

Websites have become applications, and applications are inherently taxing on most systems. Google tried to combat this in their own, misguided way with AMP. If it wasn't for their stupid caching architecture, I'd be a fan of AMP because of the speed it can provide compared to "modern" web pages.

I don't think any of this will change unless we convince web developers to stop relying on all of these "modern" technologies and just write proper web pages. From the reactions here on HN, there are two groups of people in this debate: the people like us, who lament how slow the web has become, and the people who will never give up their fancy frameworks because of the productivity it allows them, and will never give in to the web Luddites who want to take away their fancy cross-platform tools that run just fine on their $2000 M1 Macs.

There are also a lot of web developers out there that are just shit, but we can't help those.
Regarding life insurance product offerings: disability insurance is often advised by consumer protection groups for young professionals, who crucially depend on future income.

Regarding savings products, nothing wrong IMO, with tax subsidizing a "consume later" mentality, if the products are cost-effective.
> Why would I know?

You're the one proclaiming and wanting things.

> No-one has built it yet? It's not technically possible? There's no demand for it?

Yes, yes, and yes, to varying degrees? You're so close to getting it.
> You can always tell when someone tries to fake having a wider vocabulary

Is it really 'fake' if they're actually using the words appropriately in whatever prose they are creating?

At what point do you address your own hubris when you encounter a word you don't use, or even understand, and rapidly make the conclusion that the writer is pretentious?

Surely the assessment of anothers pretentiousness happens after examining ones own hubris on the subject matter, or perhaps to put it another way - lack of the sophistication observed in others ... ?
> We only don’t see the propaganda because we’ve been subjected to it since birth.

That's precisely the joke here.

>> We have such a sophisticated propaganda in the west that it's much harder to see it
Yes I’ve used them for fountain pens. Very good and never had any issues. Great customer service. Highly recommend.
Am I missing something on the sex partner comment? Courting consenting adults for fun and pleasure may be done safely and it's a fine creative outlet. For example those on PrEP need to undergo tests four times a year (for HIV and all common STIs) if they want to keep the pill. That's excellent sexual health care if you ask me.
I don't know, but I don't find it hard to believe that it was the first to be built at a _gigafactory_, Europe has other means of manufactoring other than gigafactories.
here you go:

> The origin of the term "Middle East" is considered to be in the British India Office during the 1850s. It was popularized by Alfred Thayer Mahan, an American naval strategist who was referring to the region between Arabia and India in 1902. Mahan’s definition of the Middle East was the area around the Persian Gulf. Sir Ignatius Valentine Chirol further enlarged this definition to cater for the Asian regions whose territories extended to India.

> Prior to the Second World War, another term, the "Near East", denoted the eastern shores of the Mediterranean in addition to regions centered around Turkey. Middle East was used by the British while naming its command in Egypt in the late 1930s. It was after this usage that the term became widely used in the West. In 1946, the Middle East Institute began operating in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.
facile | ˈfasʌɪl, ˈfasɪl |
adjective
1 ignoring the true complexities of an issue; superficial: facile generalizations.
• (of a person) having a superficial or simplistic knowledge or approach: a man of facile and shallow intellect.
2 (especially of success in sport) easily achieved; effortless: a facile seven-lengths victory.

I guess someone needs a better dictionary (this was sourced from Dictionary.app on MacOS, btw...)
Is any slightely larger than average factory building now a Gigafactory?
C's version is a byproduct of this being easier for hardware to calculate, stemming back from the time, long ago, where that was actually a relevant concern.

Unfortunately hardware never fixed this issue, and C is never going to expose an operator that doesn't map primitively to the hardware, so it became the established default.
Very much this. I have worked with UN (ILO and WHO) in Geneva and signing a tiny (< $30k) software development contract required two years of extraterrestrial bureaucracy with an ultimate failure in the end.

All parties involved really wanted that software contract to be implemented and that software was in fact done developing and already in production by the time. We just couldn't.

So I can sort of feel Bill's pain. It looks ridiculous from the outside and even more ridiculous from the inside.
I think C++’s slow compile times come more from the stupid C-header conventions.

That should have been buried decades ago and replaced by modules.
Dropping a billion-dollar idea right here and just one upvote?
Good catch. That's great framing for a cookie consent. And you're also not rejecting Cookies, you're refusing them.
> Tokens on the blockchain on the other hand provide hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines with a way to make a living, and literally saved many from death during the mass-unemployment created by the lockdown. See the rise of Axie Infinity.

It's clearly a Ponzi scheme, where new entrants pay a large entry fee ($1k+), which funds the returns of the existing players. Poor people borrowing money to fund other poor people, until the last to join are stuck with the bill (earnings are already crashing).

More details in:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725845

- https://twitter.com/larsiusprime/status/1459191090100244483

- https://ambcrypto.com/axie-infinity-ronin-blockchain-see-dec...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/AxieInfinity/comments/odmdrk/how_do...
How do you go to jail if there is no one to sue you?
wind alone can't.

But wind, solar, inter-continental connections, hydro, storage, and tidal probably can.

Now whether we put nuclear in there or not becomes a matter of cost rather than necessity.
We are at war: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29735248
I don't see the link between your article and propaganda. That seems unrelated.
https://redgreenandblue.org/2019/04/18/final-cost-fukushima-...
Yes, and none of this changes the fact that I still want it. Now you hopefully get it as well.
Yeah, that was weird. What do their cookie policies have to do with helping women find a career at Northvolt? A quick search for related keywords on their privacy policy page reveals nothing on the topic.

That aside, I'm really excited about Northvolt and what they're doing, it sounds like really interesting work.
Yes - and a similar story plays out in WW2, as Germany still didn't have any domestic oil. Hence the push east towards the oilfields of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, halted at the Volga (Stalingrad) and the Terek river/Caucasus mountains.

I should get round to reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_...
But, how is one expected to expand ones vocabulary if not by using newly discovered words, appropriately and correctly?

Are you sure you're not just proposing a form of anti-intellectualism more appropriately aligned with the characters in an Orwell dystopia?

Language is important - it should not be degraded by throwing words away - or, indeed, around.
I would still prefer that over copy pasting that shitty list implementation for the nth type, or whatever “convention” some C devs do to make it “generic”.
It's a fun idea, but a big stretch to imagine we're tapping into some field where that takes place completely outside the realm of the forces and particles we understand (but initiated from us in the realm of forces and particles we do understand.) Not impossible, just very, very unlikely.
I'm not sure one could do it in the UK for the equivalent of $60. Does that cost include backups?
What's some good advice, then?
It was a poetic wording that popped into my mind a times. The image of abandoning all defensive reflexes and walking into whatever context you were afraid of and see how it feels.

There's a tendency to avoid seeking reality and stay in fearful predictions based on limited data that we gathered.

All this is probably close (if not same as) CBT. And Yoda :)

That said I often fail to do so. But I used to never try at all.
Sad that the extremely high taxes (and price rises) on electricity in Sweden mean diesel cars are still cheaper in some parts of the country.

We should push for all vehicles in cities to be electric at least. The Tesla 3, Honda E, etc. are perfect for that.
Coming from Lua, I kind of get your problem. Over there we often debate about whether or not localising module functions is worth the effort to save one table lookup per function call, but when you look for resources on optimising javascript, you often get much more high-level information that I had just taken completely for granted (and it's even worse in Ruby)
A diversion - something that is separate from the main activity, something done for amusement's sake.

The field - outdoors, countryside, perhaps an actual field, though not necessarily.
> While i normally prefer indentation to demark function scope, it has one huge drawback: When writing callbacks, especially chained promises, Python has no way to express the following in a convenient way.

foo().then(f => {
return bar(f)
}).then(b => {
print(b)
})

Huh? Assuming an identical API structure, it's syntax for exactly that would be:

foo().then(bar).then(print)

> Lambdas only allow a single expression.

Sure, but your problem code uses only single-expression lambdas with superfluous blocks (where, in fact, the lambdas are also superfluous), so its literally the worst possible thing to say that Python can't express as cleanly.

Also, single-expression lambdas can handle a lot, because expressions are easy to combine to arbitrary levels, it's only multistatement imperative blocks you can't do in a lambda, but Python has expression forms that cover lots of uses of imperative blocks already.
He/she means TWH. Hybrit (green steel) is estimated to use about as much energy as all the hydro power in luleälven (15TWH).
Exactly. This curmudgeonly proposal that ones vocabulary remain immutable is for the dags and curs whose life has not been rewarded by the virtues of newly discovered language.
There are many qualifiers in that sentence, homegrown european company means no outside investers, gigafactory means it's not a small factory, fully designed, developed and assembled.

But yeah we've been far too reliant on the global trade network until now. Maybe a ghost of colonialism.
Winnie-the-Pooh hasn't belonged to the Milne estate for a very long time. Most of the rights rest with Disney. The estate has been involved in a multi-decade legal battle to get the books back, so that they could be released to the public domain.

Source - I'm a Milne.
A whitelist works well for me. Call centers here have big randomized pools of phone numbers, so blacklisting them is impractical, and sometimes I do expect a call from a call center.
3.59/94%

I'm quite evil!

And didn't even cheat this time.

No really, I swear.

Come on, where should be the advantage?
You can't go to jail in the US or most countries for a civil case (a civil case is what happens if someone sues you), only a criminal case. Since the No Electronic Theft act, even copyright infringement without profit motives can be criminal copyright infringement, and so for example Aaron Swartz was hounded to suicide by state prosecutors even against the apparent will of the copyright holders.

I don't know who owns Milne's copyrights, but given how profitable they are, I am sure they are jealously guarded.
Actually getting jailed for copyright infringement is quite difficult, but getting sued is quite likely: the copyright is now owned by Disney. Like everything else.

(Weirdly, the UK has a special law granting permanent copyright in Peter Pan, with the royalties going to Great Ormond Street children's hospital. https://www.gosh.org/about-us/peter-pan/copyright/ )
It may not be as simple, i had pills that did influence chemistry (first take was a surprising experience.. feeling your nervous system shift toward mellow was strange). But mental construct of loss were still causing pain as high as before.
One is not a child forever, especially if words old and new carry the years.
The same could be said for a massive trial with a small effect.
Personally, I'm glad his account was suspended. The man has been spreading misinformation from a position of power. Good riddance.
So this is basically just wisdom of the crowd.

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

You need a large, diverse crowd for this to work, and there are still major problems with it and the way they’re implementing it.

It also kind of beckons the question…did these guys just reinvent Quora?
The actuarial profession is quite broad, in my experience.

For the teams I worked with, memorization of formulas was to their daily work as whiteboard coding would be to the daily work of a sw-eng.
Yeah, I changed the units to be clearer.
My reaction as well. I remember leaving for Google as a huge step in my childhood.
All the green projects (steel, batteries etc ...) are estimated to need over 40TWH/yr if they come to fruition. That is a shitload of energy that meeds to be produced, and there is really no good answer to how to do it reliably.

Most people that write like the parent does usually reply "nuclear". I am not comvinced, but somfar there seem to be few good answers.
The idea that someone can get a huge loan and walk away from it... Great for them, but what about all the other people who have loans? Do they get to walk away too?

Had anyone worked out how it's supposed to work? Where is the a detailed paper explaining the legal/social implications? Or, wait, is "cancel student debt" just another Twitter soundbyte that a million people liked and retweeted, but nobody has thought through?

For the record, I think that the cost of education in the US is ridiculous, and I don't understand why people put up with it. But making selective debts simply disappear? "Hmmmmm"

If America started out by making education free (at least for your first run thorough college), then there may be a case to make for debt forgiveness for recent graduates. Otherwise I can't see how this is supposed to work.

It's feels kinda like notions like "property is theft". I'm from a country with a reasonable social net, free-ish healthcare! I'm all-ears! Go on! Explain how this is supposed to works without causing a civil war? Who exactly has the right to live in this the house I paid for?
Yes, make your customers mail you a check or cash /s