skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the past ~25 years there has been a concerted effort to use the tools of category theory (a branch of mathematics) to develop unambiguous diagrammatic languages, and this paper is a good example of the results of that effort. I’m personally quite intrigued by where this could go, but there’s still a lot of work to do before it revolutionizes the way code is written.

If you want to go down some rabbit holes, check out the homepage of the Mathematically Structured Programming group at the University of Strathclyde: https://msp.cis.strath.ac.uk/index.html
Its interesting that wallets have gotten so good that these kinds of user errors have practically evaporated

That bot is doing pretty bad in such an active year

One thing to check about the other addresses is if they compromised themselves on other networks like public testnets or other blockchains
SIM swapping is an exploit of humans. Not of SIMs.
I wish I'd been so lucky. As I've grown as a parent, I've unconsciously put my mother under a microscope and keep discovering that, while she tried, she failed. We were once very close but as I've gotten older, I can compare and contrast her behavior with mine. We all suffered emotional abuses (and I've my sisters repeat the patterns, to varying degrees) but I also suffered physically, which is then took out on my younger siblings. And my mother was the good parent.

My father (a term I use only to describe lineage) was mean and heavy handed. Belts were common, switches less so but not out of the realm of possibility. He was violent with my mother, his next wife's, my oldest sister and me. Probably more but those are the ones I remember. To the world outside, he was a good person but to me, he's both my demon and my motivation to be good person, a good father and a good spouse.

Ask him and he'll tell you that things we witnessed never happened. The tray of brownies fell, he didn't throw it. That burn mark on the ceiling is just there; he threw the iron "in the general direction because if I'd wanted to hit her with it, I would have."

We've been estranged since I was in 17. We agreed to let him back in once. Lasted six months. Never again. He doesn't know where I live and unless my kid wants to meet him some day, he'll never be given the opportunity.

My mother and I finally fell out because of COVID. There were other things going on but COVID was the last one. I drew a line that said unless you get vaccinated, you can't come in my home. (She got every flu shot and vaccine, until this one.) She chose politics, I chose to protect my kid and wife. Since she won't be visiting ever again, we decided the easiest path was to just stop talking. If my kid wants to meet "mean nanna" some day, I'll arrange it but my wife and kid come first.

I live my mother. It's an unfortunate outcome. My father... I couldn't care less. He's been dead to me for years.
Most VPN's can be configured to only tunnel traffic to certain destinations. Maybe you can configure it to only tunnel traffic to university services?
Would anything in this discussion, or in the original article, change much if it was about astrology instead of personality types?
The paper you quote is a press release from 8 months ago that claims to have research project that allows blade recycling. It's far from a mature industry ecosystem.
Neither am I. But my point is that unlike astrology itself, that’s actually a valid scientific question to research!
MongoDB is web scale, not universe scale.
My school was like this ten years ago. Pretty par for the course, imo.
That's not what I said. The outside temp dropped that way, and the heaters can't respond quick enough to ramp up the heat. The bricks take too long to heat up.
Elegant SciPy
In the US there's a huge disconnect between national and local political positions; the national politicians are largely 80 years old and have enough muscle from their party structure and the media to be essentially scandal-proof. The voters don't like that but can't really fix it; local politicians, who are younger, see the big-time corruption in Washington and assume that's how things get done, and all of a sudden you have things like a majority of Cincinnati city council being investigated by the FBI.
Check on what level is the vpn implemented. If it is only for the school ip addresses, they will not have your traffic. Otherwise, you can access their services thorugh an vm as someone else proposed.
For programming, I still rely on google as my navigational engine, although a search engine that indexed a couple dozen sizes would probably suffice for me.
I highly doubt they would every release it, though. Search history, even if aggregated, will undoubtedly contain some level of private data submitted my accident.
Alright, I’ve got one that I don't see on your list, it’s been on my mind for years. What about the goldfish problem?

Goldfish grow to fit their containers. Keep a little 1-inch goldfish in a bowl, it’ll stay that size. Toss it in a koi pond and in no time you’ll have something approaching the size of a housecat.

People are like this. A family might be scratching by on $40k/year. Dad gets some windfall or promotion and is making $60k/year. So did he finish out the year in the same house with $20k in the bank? Of course not, he’s paying for all the clothes and goods that he couldn’t afford before.

Ten years later he’s gotten promoted to making $120k/year. Now is there money in the bank, or are they living in a bigger house and driving a nicer car?

This is what worries me about any climate plan that is only based on clean energy. If driving, for example, gets cleaner, do we use 50% less petroleum, or keep burning the same amount of petroleum on different projects? (And what about all the non-tracked pollution caused by tire wear?)

This problem is even more stark when people talk about atmospheric carbon capture. If we're emitting X tons of carbon per year, and recapture Y tons, will we continue to emit X, or start emitting X + Y?

None of this is reason not to pursue renewables and electrification, but I think it’s inescapable that any "primary solution" has to be a reduction in consumption.
Just like how the highly regulated phone system dealt with voice and SMS spam.
If it crashes and Dragon is in manual mode, then what?
That’s because only a tiny, tiny fraction of areas with great generating capability have been built. The more we build, in more areas around the UK, the smaller the proportion of dip is.
It's not hard to "take over the freedesktop/gnome" world by storm since it's basically the same small group of people who have any power in that world.
One engineer who is getting nearly $0.5m total compensation and when asked to do one delivery a month, they are now throwing a tantrum over that.

But you know what? Good.

Maybe that is what they need since the drivers and riders get 0.01% of what these engineers earn and I'm sure that there were complaints about that. So when one is getting nearly $0.5m for the engineering work and told to do just ONE delivery a month, they are STILL complaining.

Just deliver a pizza to your friends house once a month and eat it and that would count.

Job done.
Maybe the audience of FOSS is "self" and therefore I will obviously write something that matches my need.

Can you provide one example ?

because gnome is FOSS and I have heard complaint it's 'too simple'

and https://birchtree.me/blog/screwing-up-the-simplicity-of-it-a... :
"Most people get maybe 2% of the potential of their Macs and Windows PCs today. Have you watched most people use a computer laterly? Most people I see have all apps in full screen all the time, no matter how big their screen is. Most people I see use keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, opening new tabs, but basically nothing else. I've seen numer ous Mac users download apps, open the DMG, and run the app from the DMG forever because they don't know you should move it to the Applications folder. Many people have a desktop full of files because the desktop is the file system."

(and SAP and any Oracle Enterprise products...)
A land invasion by the Britain into China would be suicide in modern times lol. I have no doubt they are brave and talented soldiers and they would do some damage but in the end quantity has a quality all its own. NATO would not follow them into that madness.
Communism is cyanide gas. Just kill large parts of the population that don't comply or use them as subjects in ideological experiments that fail and kill millions.
It depends on the discipline, the programme, and (particularly) the country. I did mine in the UK, where the funding is for 3 years and the expectation is ≤4. I managed that (modulo two terms of sick and paternity leave) and so do most others in my field. The quickest I saw was 2 years 6 months, by someone with an impossible combination of intelligence and relentless 9-hour productive days. Some take longer (financially and professionally problematic), not that many drop out.

In some places in the US taking >8 years is normal. In some parts of Europe it's an actual job, with delineated teaching responsibilities, a pension scheme and everything. In Russia the equivalent isn't even called a PhD. It's not a standardised process.
Disconnect the VPN when you don’t need it. I assume you can control the VPN client.

All schools and organizations I am familiar with use VPN for remote access. Some provide pre-set laptops to which users don’t have admin permission.

This is the standard way of securely connecting to internal resources.
It's saying the DiSC assessment has no scientific basis, and the author is wrong for claiming it does.
I often swing between longing for a federated protocol that can be managed by technical people and used by everyone, like XMPP, and something more P2P to reduce centralization and allow everyone to instantly "open an account" with no need for technical skills, but that still needs some kind of relays for asynchronous communication, like ssb. None are technically perfect (although I really like the simplicity and extensibility of XMPP) but in the end what matters is not that: it's about how the protocols are used, how they allow all of us to communicate, how they give more power to those who aren't already using the internet to exchange information. And that is not a technical problem
While things that are useful enough to exist throughout time are usually true/it’s generally a great filter, I think “efficacy” and “consistency with observations and experience across time” are better descriptors of what you’re getting at. If you aren’t paying attention to efficacy or consistency when propagating knowledge, time can just as easily solidify untruths and cause truths to decay and be forgotten.
google seems to go out of its way to exclude results that match exact wording these days, even with quotes. this is incredibly frustrating, especially for technical searches. i halfheartedly switched to ddg a few years ago but it has become much more earnest in the last year. google is now run by committee or something.
Ask HN: How many browser tabs you have open?
> He started by placing Freud and Jung as the grounders of modern psychology, a distinction that even a someone who has studied a four-week course in the area will know is incorrect. The subject has developed greatly since the time of Freud, Jung and comic book author, Marston.

The author's resistance against Freud and Jung's contributions is... myopic?
I have 15 (5 of them pinned, the other 10 related to current activity).
I agree. The only thing that irks me with DDG is that it ranks the official python docs too low. I often end up with results from w3school which I don't want to use. And unfortunately I can't remove domains from the search results.
The funny thing is that people say that about every field, yet one by one, Meehl and the people doing work along the same lines consistently disprove them.

The result has remained remarkably consistent across many fields where people were sure it wouldn't apply. At this point it's stable enough that I think the conclusion is a good base assumption, and it would take serious evidence to show that it does not apply in any given field.
I believe there is a benefit. This book exists on a spectrum with things like tarot cards, the i-ching, astrology, Meyer Briggs etc.

When people are trying to make sense of a situation it often helps to place it into a pre-existing narrative for guidance.

In many ways the amount of scientific rigor behind the narrative doesn't matter much. It's far more important for the narrative to guide people towards the behaviors which will have a positive outcome. People will inscribe themselves onto a character and then map The narrative onto their lives, If it's a good narrative (maybe turn the other cheek for example) The person will proceed with an action That is statistically most likely to result in a positive outcome.

I suspect this is how most religions came about, The sets of rules, narratives, and beliefs which resulted in relatively better outcomes propagated and flourished.
> the key to getting anything done is to delegate the decisions to a single person per team, give them time to cultivate big picture knowledge and political connections, and then to respect those decisions even if you privately disagree.

I don't agree with this in general. I've been forced into too many projects that were obviously bad from my perspective, but the Fearless Leader didn't care about anyone's input. I wasn't held accountable when those projects failed, but it was still depressing to have to do them.

I get the impression that corporate drones hate having to debate a decision, and they structure their organizations to absolutely minimize the need for it. But personally I enjoy a spirited debate -- one focused on the merits, and with rational, civil people.

I wish there was more deliberation in the workplace and less "do stupid things as fast as possible in the hopes that one of them will not be stupid". But there aren't enough people like me to sustain an organization, and that's why most orgs are top-down command-and-control hierarchies.
I believe that's what the ferrocene project [0] is aiming for. It doesn't seem to be ready yet, but sounds like it might be of interest to you!

0. https://ferrous-systems.com/ferrocene/
That’s an uncharitable version of what I said, but sure.

My own parents were not abusive, and I wish distance didn’t make it so difficult for them to be a larger part of my family’s life. They’re flawed and have their poverty/alcoholism/death baggage - but I feel really fortunate to have had them as parents.

On the other hand, I have other people in my life whose parents were abusive (including being legally defined as such). Depending on the specific dynamic, most are trying to sort out how to ‘shrink’ the relationship in a way that maintains bonds and contact but with boundaries to soften the negative parts of the relationship. For others, the relationship is actively unsafe, and they’re minimizing contact.

There’s clearly some hard stuff behind your version, but the answer isn’t to swing full tilt the other way.

It’s all messy and fraught - but adult children do have agency over their lives and the shape of the relationship with their parents.
First that’s an instantaneous number not any sort of long term average.

More importantly “Capacity” isn’t a useful metric for comparison when nuclear costs are an order of magnitude higher for capacity. Even with a 2x increased capacity factor nuclear is still several times more expensive per kWh. So in terms of actual investment in carbon neutral sources France has spent roughly 4x as much as Germany to get that reduction. It’s an admirable sacrifice by the French people, but the ROI in terms of money spent vs CO2 reduction is quite poor.
Graeber's categories of bullshit jobs is useful: flunkies, goons, duct-tapers, box-ticker, task-master. Here's a quickly found source: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/bullshit-jobs-david-graeber-w...

> how useless hairdressers were

Graeber's notion of "caring work" -- in contrast to "service work", "knowledge work", etc -- really changed my worldview about labor.

> canonical bullshit job to Graeber would be someone in a large administrative bureaucracy

My own archetype is healthcare accounting in the USA. Like "prescription benefits management". Hits all 5 categories of bullshit.
Originally it was basically a reskin of Bing, but now it has many sources and its own crawler.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
One might reasonably consider "grid-scale energy storage" to be an implicit part of "renewables and electrification".
Let's call it "around 50%". :-) This is just one day from one site. I didn't calculate in detail, but was surprised that it was as high as that around most sites (some docs sites, control panel, etc)
Thank you for describing how you build/develop your blog. Maybe I'll implement some of that for myself.
Big +1 on that one.

France goal to meet Paris agreement is actually to reduce by ~5% per year ALL energy consumption. -5% is roughly what we had with 3 lockdowns in 2020. So it's basically a COVID added to a COVID each year, for 30 years.

That's no matter what you do in your actual energy deployment and investment.
Estonia is the founding member of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence... they've been at the forefront for a long time. https://ccdcoe.org/
wow this is the first time I've heard of Kinopio... incredible that there are still weird, awesome, and highly complex projects like this out there!
My big eye-openers (some from postdoc) were more about the sociology of science than the day-to-day productivity:

- Even the most blatantly wrong and illogical published work can only be displaced by another publication that explains/does the same phenomenon better; i.e., people are going to keep believing in phlogiston until someone shows them oxygen. If you simply point out inconsistencies in phlogiston theory, in person or in writing, they may well make a variety of unwanted psychological deductions about you.

- Similarly, nobody actually enjoys being around critics or enduring criticism, and therefore you will observe many senior scientists partially avoiding the major downsides of being a critic by artfully concealing criticisms inside what sounds to the uninitiated like mutual affirmation sessions. You have to listen very closely and learn the lingo to pick this up.

- Never question a scientific superior (other than maybe a direct mentor or very close colleague) with any other approach besides "I have a helpful suggestion about how you can maybe reach your intended destination better/faster/more precisely". Regardless of where that destination might be, such as off a cliff or into a wall.

- The opinion/fact ratio you are allowed to have as a scientist is directly and very strongly correlated with seniority, H-index, and so on.

- The incentive structure of scientific publication is such that there are big rewards for being right on an important question, bigger the earlier you are to the party, and little to no penalties for being wrong, so long as the error cannot be provably and directly linked to fraud. There are a variety of interesting consequences to this incentive structure.
I tried using DDG as the default for everything, but I consistently get inferior results,
especially when I use `site:` searches. (I append `site:reddit.com` to many of my searches). I want
to use DDG, but having to use `!g` so often really puts a wet blanket on the idea.
Good. We're finally, FINALLY getting some pressure to fix all these broken systems. I was literally losing sleep over some of the crazy shit I saw. It's still a tire fire, but at the very least there is some movement to fix it.
Or ecofascist movements, which acknowledge that we humans have shit the bed, but whose ecofascist solution to climate change is just to mobilize the military to enforce our ownership and exclusive control over our temperate lands, in the face of ecomigrants, who we'll just shut out. We'll strengthen border enforcement and lock out the ecomigrants fleeing droughts and floods from the Global South. Much of the world population will find themselves faced with inhospitable climate, lack of opportunity, no future in the temperate zones.
For many purposes the correct specification of a future time is in terms of local time at a particular location on that date. This is true for financial contracts (including trillions of dollars in options markets -- 10am in New York means NY time) but also of work schedules (scheduled to arrive at 9am? That is on the workplace clock, not UTC), local transit schedules, and many other things.

That means when daylight savings time rules change or timezone lines are moved the UTC time of these events change.

Unfortunately I don't believe anyone has standardized a format for storing times which are specified local time at a specified location on a specified date. So it is all roll-your-own or use UTC or zoned datetime and be burned when things change.
Email's federation is an escape hatch. It's presence means that I can go to any provider I want to if I'm dissatisfied with my current provider. I can even run my own as a last resort. (Or first resort if that's your preferred mode of operation). Until that escape hatch disappears, which is unlikely, I will always have choice of providers.

I don't have whatsapp, or discord for that matter. I have slack for work but I don't use it externally. I will probably never have those systems for my personal communication which means that if a company wants to communicate to me they are going to have to use email, full stop. I think there is a large barrier to email ever going away. Removing it from the market would require coordination that most companies and providers will probably never want to engage in. It's a lowest common denominator that all of them will want to support to avoid their users getting silo'd into a system that is not theirs.
Some software is dangerous, like airplanes and medical software that aids in live surgeries. But the majority of software is not dangerous. You shouldn't need to be licensed to make a video game or browser extension.
Won't matter to me. I already took my share in 2017.

I hope you're not too vested in it ;), underlying tech has never been a differentiator in real-world applications. Facebook uses PHP :)!

Till then! Looking forward to it too in 2023-2024.
They did this at chick-fil-a corporate as well. An extremely competent product manager described the yearly experience as “standing around not knowing what I should do and trying not to get in the way.” Those kitchens get hectic, super different than being in the office.
Ok, fair. But that was when again? How is this relevant today, when people hate crypto and think stocks are ok?
You can link your sources first since you were the first one to make a claim.

That said, EU mas a yearly report of the state which include graphs: https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/default/files/annex_to_the...

Page 6, figure 2, Subsidies for different energy sources, as percent of GDP and in billion euros in 2019

The yellow slice is nuclear, green renewables and grey fossil fuels. The image text describe the additional colors that refers to "other" and "shared by all".

In term of actually money collected by tax agencies in EU countries, fossil fuels and renewables is the primary recipient of citizens money. Year in, year out.
Yep, we already have the most resilient, decentralized and safe public key infrastructure in place working in the real world for more than a decade now ;)
How would I know? However, if you could think of that scenario, you can be 100% sure spacex thought of it over a decade ago and have measures to handle that situation
There’s been roughly 1 copy of the Bible printed per person alive on the earth. Not all of them are still around, but it’s likely there is still at least 1 copy per 2 people.
Does that include the Starship?
What I meant was, how useful non-zero indexing is in general. The utility of indexing by enum is clear, as you say.