skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Just as an example, the best performing company this year is Total with 15B and which is happily feeding the government with petrodollars and the other people with lies about "Net Zero " etc."

French government is not a shareholder of Total at any meaningful level, less than 30% of Total shareholders are French and Total is a multinational paying taxes in multiple countries, so I don't know from where your petrodollars are coming from.

There is a lot that can be say about French energy policy but mentioning Total is really the less relevant one...
Why is it crypto powered? Like the sibling said to make it seem even more shady, the cryptocurrency part isn’t needed.
Thanks for your comment. What best practices do you recommend so that people don't hit these debugging problems? Also, what other framework/library would you use instead of Spring?
>They also don't have "100% precision". Many, many humans are incredibly bad at math,

Many humans are bad at surgery this does not mean that an AI that is slightly better then the average human is an accomplishment.

On the other hand someone could write the algorithms for math and teach an AI when and how to use it. The rules of math are clear you don't need a bad search algorithm to approximate them for a extremely limited subset of inputs.
Apple can track an iPhone and so can telcos
My ex-gf will disagree ! :P
It was very close to being amazing (for the time), unfortunately an aggressive release deadline meant showstopping bugs. Check out this article from someone who fixed it: http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/
MoviePass is officially coming back
because the only countries in existence are USA, China, and Russia.
agreed. we are doing hydro because of mountains AND lack of coal.

> but when all our glaciers are molten away, we for sure have to go back to nuclear-power.

this is inaccurate. you might want to go read more literature related to ice melting and energy transition.
Was that sent by the poster or someone they are targeting?
Ehh endgames can quickly go from easy, a beginner could do it, to insane theory that IMs struggle with. Mating with a Queen? Easy. Mating with a rook? Sure. Bishop knight? That’s pretty rough. Knight knight vs pawn? Even Hikaru struggles with that one in blitz.
It really doesn't, most suitable land is used for farming already (sahara and siberian are not suitable)

Thats why specieces are dissapearing, because they have nowhere to live

It is literally impossible to plant enough trees to stop climate change.
Learned C# in school, I still use it today if I have to hack together a quick app or something on Windows for myself.

Wish it was more used around.
Wow is this really from 2000? Some of those url paths certainly look it
> private ones like one run as Musk's empire

Where have you got this idea from?

SpaceX are a haulage company: they currently haul crew and cargo to and from Earth orbit (plus a few deep-space probes, and one deep-space car); Starship will extend this further through the solar system (Moon, Mars, asteroids, etc.).

At the moment, their main "destination" is the government-run ISS. There are no off-world colonies (public or private); there aren't even any private space stations yet. (NASA recently funded some private space station proposals; SpaceX made a token effort, which was rejected).

Musk himself has stated that he wants humans to be multi-planetary, and doesn't care who does it; that he would be happy for someone to out-compete SpaceX, since that would mean the goal has been achieved. SpaceX will gladly help governments set up off-world colonies; in fact, that seems like the only feasible way to build them. The problem is the cost was too high, even for government; the point of Starship is to reduce that cost.

The only reason Musk started SpaceX was because the Boeings/Lockheed Martins/etc. were happy to keep prices high; and Russia wouldn't sell him a Mars-capable rocket.
Under 1g acceleration about 3.5 years

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/space-travel
In that case I think Knuth referenced proving it by hand, e.g. with Hoare triples.

You could argue that hand proof is useless, but by forcing yourself to go through it in tiny steps you can actually sort out a lot of oversights.
Financial reports about companies, not for their average readers
It seems to me the only reason to remember the Mayerling incident is the role it played in the start of WWI and even then how significant that was could be questioned.

The death of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, who had no heir, meant that the direct line of succession to the from the then emperor Franz Joseph was broken. The line to Austro-Hungarian throne then fell to the son of Franz Joseph's brother, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914 by Gavrilo Princip, a Yugoslav nationalist. The archduke's assassination then led to the 'crisis' that precipitated the First World War.

Whilst the chain of events from Prince Rudolf's death 25 years earlier to WWI is likely tenuous it nevertheless does highlight the fact that the inbred and largely incompetent European monarchies were incapable of resolving the serious diplomatic issues that arose from the 'crisis', this then led to war.

If any good could be said to arise from WWI then it seems that the demise of many of these monarchies is one of them albeit that the benefit from losing them wouldn't be felt until some 30 years later after WWII.

My personal opinion is that monarchy and modern democracy are essentially incompatible.
My country's energetic policy is catastrophic. Don't get me wrong.

Saying that France is great is brutally inaccurate tho.
I'm not taking a position on what would qualify as a distributed system, and neither was that the point of my comment.

I believe that when most people talk about "distributed systems", they're talking about some form of microservices architecture, where components of a single system are arbitrarily separated by network requests for nebulous reasons.
I don't think space is so crowded and we got enough empty rocks up there.
It's always been the reverse for me - side projects have tended to give fresh input that my day job doesn't provide.
Augur or Kleros could be used for the final voting process on a "debate". It'll be interesting, and I wonder how best to promote "the wisdom of the crowd".

Never heard of Aragon before, thanks!
A different kind of robots.txt: this is annotated on why they're blocked: https://meta.wikimedia.org/robots.txt
The Strategy of Anti-Strategy
This is great. I keep looking for free vector icons for my marketing communications. Very useful.
> It wasn't a picture of efficiency when the state ran it.

Privatisation didn't deliver what it promised.
Conflict of interest is amazing here. The defamation lawsuit against Forbes that was dropped in 2020 only adds to this.

This seems like it is SPAC money? I don’t fully get it. If it is. Then Binance could have gotten a 30% stake by buying the stock once the SPAC completed any way.
Don’t focus on the words, focus on the meaning.
I feel this way too. Success is measured in just "is my employer happy with what I do?"
https://stats.dictummortuum.com/#/prices/

I'm doing some work on a website that compares boardgame prices. I scrape about 10 boardgame stores in Greece and save them in a database that I've got in a raspberry pi. Then I try to associate the listings with games that are on boardgamegeek.com and then I put them online.

This has a couple of interesting problems. E.g. scraping data, associating scraped data to a basepoint, so that I can group them with the data from other stores, how to save the data in a website that is basically serverless, etc.
Maybe I don't know the necessary context, what is the point you are trying to make with this statement?
If you want to play with the model, you can (with difficulty) for free at https://goose.ai/playground. You have to log in, but thankfully you can via google.

The playground crashes every minute, and the defaults ruin your outputs (temperature 1, really? 0.7 to 0.8 is a necessity, with top-k 40), and they turned off autocorrect on mobile, presumably because they hate you and your family for owning an iPad, but you can indeed play with it.

The outputs feel pretty magical, too. With the settings above, it started printing... an IRC conversation? https://gist.github.com/shawwn/9a201990196b61cd21847487185dd... This is impressive, because I'm not sure we explicitly included any IRC logs in The Pile.

re: the current title "GPT-3's answers to arithmetic questions": We've come full circle. I used to give Eleuther a hard time for confusing people. But now that people confuse themselves, they should declare victory. It's as close to success as an open source effort could hope for. And with only years of work -- not too shabby.

You can join them: https://www.eleuther.ai/faq/

GPT-NeoX-20B paper: http://eaidata.bmk.sh/data/GPT_NeoX_20B.pdf
> At that point you might as well just call the front desk and wait 20 mins to be transferred to 3 different people.

When they don't tell you to book from booking.com directly...

Booking.com has made hotel reservation much easier.
What is there to break on a lifeless planet?
There are enough bizarre problems in Oracle, including random ORA-600 errors, but at least you can nail down the execution plan you want.
Can people make a rational decision of balancing out their personal risks then? For a young and healthy person there is little upside in taking a dose of mRNA
Bomb somebody else's harbor next time, kthxbye.
I find it enjoyable to think about the technologies that might just be in the cards further into the future.

If we ever figure out light-weight fusion drives, we could build light hugger space ships that accelerate to a decent fraction of the speed of light. At 1g acceleration it takes about one year to get to 0.9c, which would make the Proxima system accessible with a travel time of about 6 years. Or 8 years at 0.5g. Or 9 years if we 'only' get to 0.5c.

The same goes for laser-driven light sails if we just wanted to send a probe, although deceleration would be an issue. (There is currently an aspirational research project for this called Breakthrough Starshot)

The exciting thing about these technologies is that they don't require new physics in principle, just a lot of engineering. Of course, uploaded minds would probably always be better suited for space travel, but it's neat to know that even biological people could in theory make these trips.
Finding over 6k credentials in Twitch's source code
This is unusually trashy for the Guardian. There is no plausibly established link between "unidentified flying objects" and "alien civilisation". But this article takes that link completely at face value.
Can you provide any examples? I’ve never seen this and have a lot of connections to the field. Quite the reverse, in fact.
> Another thing I find mildly strange is that the help for certain countries is restricted. This is not what robots.txt should be used for, and it creates incentive for bots to disregard robots.txt.

It seems that they did exist, but moved to specific TLDs (like for Brazil, https://www.nike.com.br). Lazy that they didn't redirect all help files to the correct location though.
I've spent many years in countries where I understand very little of the local language, so this has been basically my life when interacting with local apps etc. I just learn which buttons to press, largely through trial and error or a few sessions with a second phone and Google Translate in camera mode, and can get quite "fluent" with the app without ever really learning the language. This kind of "UI literacy" is not universal though; I encounter other people who are not at all capable of doing this without understanding what the text on the buttons means.
If Everyone Else Is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich? (2011)
>I, as a European could not be happier about this, from a economic standpoint.

Please, let me play you the world's smallest violin.

This trope, constantly celebrating that $CURRENT_YEAR will finally be the year of EU tech dominance over US giants, has been on repeat ever since Snowden revealed that the NSA is in bed with every major US tech company and is actively spying on EU users. And that was all the way back in 2013.

Sure, the Facebook empire is crumbling now, but since 2013, we still have no EU competitors for Google, Microsoft, Apple, AWS, etc. despite this knowledge that US tech companies have no regard for privacy and that the US government is using them to spy on us.
It's not really a good idea to restrict crawlers at directory level since it doesn't prevent any of those pages being indexed. You can get weird behaviour such as googlebot trying to crawl a page but not being allowed to. If this happens a lot then they are going to penalise you for it because they don't want a bunch of pages in their index that they don't know the content of. If this number of pages is a significant percentage of your site then you are in real trouble.

Much better to use x-robots noindex, nofollow for pages you don't want to be in the public domain.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...
The 5G BlackBerry is dead as OnwardMobility loses rights to BlackBerry name
I mean sure but who cares? It's a big empty universe - we owe it no moral consideration.
The NYT has a games section; it brings in money that helps pay for journalism. And they've been publishing the crossword since 1942, so this isn't a brand-new idea.
Booking.com is the _lesser_ evil imho. For one it shows total price 99% of the time right there on the search page where alternatives like Agoda show total at the checkout which is heavily inflated.

Their loyalty program (Genius) is automatic and simple too where's competitors resort to various coupon and other complex "discounts".

I surely hope Booking is not going away.
That's the astonishing bit
Reading on a smartphone affects “sigh generation.”
In the words of Richard Hamming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3msMuwqp-o&list=PLctkxgWNSR...
Honestly not so sure. This appears to be a fairly corrupt nation as a baseline so many may find this matter not all that surprising. His appointment a few years ago was controversial within legal circles.

Unlike SCOTUS, Constitutional Court here is by law not entirely at liberty whether to take a case but who gets to interpret the statute. Of course it will be claimed this court can do however it wishes.

To fully convince the public the course of this case was far outside the norm certain data from this court will be helpful, which of course they refused to release voluntarily and the federal data protection authority, meant to enforce something similar to FOIA, claimed to have dropped a matter due to clerical error. This might suggest the matter is already a known political problem at the federal level, but one can only guess. Strangely enough, getting the info will ultimately involve suing the top court (administration) in a lower court.

One thing to keep in mind is that this nation is one without genuine separation of powers. Any matter ends up being citizen versus the state, not citizen invoking one part of the state to check on the power of another part.
All well and good, but where do you put the damn state?
Of Mac with M1 it will crash as long as you don't give permissions to listen to key-input. So yes, it works with M1.
This is awesome. intranet + wiki + Slack

This can be extended to true asynchronous communication platform, where a person's workday starts and ends on this platform. With integrations into all communications tools.

Can I use this?
1) you also need time decelerate

2) speed of light is a hard limit, you cannot keep accelerating and you need more energy the closer you get to that limit
If we look at CO2, which is far from the only metric, but the easiest to compare, then solar panels make up for their production in a period on months and for wind it is a period of years.

Both solar and wind provide a significant net reduction of CO2 when you take into account their production. Long term, materials in solar and wind can be re-used. So you would need to mine them only once. Currently, mining is just too cheap to effectively recycle all metals.

Wind doesn't takes hardly any space. Wind is not compatible with airfields and residential areas, but that's about it. Wind mixes perfectly fine with argiculture.

Due to you people complaining about wind in their neighborhood, there is now a lot of wind at sea. The good thing about offshore wind is that typically there is more wind at sea. So the construction cost is higher, but the production is higher as well.

For solar it is more an issue of price. Putting solar on a field is cheap. To some extent putting solar on a field is good for nature. An undisturbed area with shadow is quite nice for small plants, insects, etc.

The potential for solar in urban areas is enormous, but often not cheap. For example, existing roofs of large building are not strong enough for lots of solar.

Solar can also be mixed with smaller scale argiculture.
As an aside, while I don’t do Feynman point regarding some of the exceptional meetings he has been to, as a chairperson my experience is you can significantly improve the meeting by systematically restating arguments, asking for clarification when a participant doesn’t agree with your restatement and providing a brief summary of propositions before a decision is made.
No, it is a reference to Flight of the Conchords' The Humans are Dead.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpe1R6veuBw
My Math Homework Generator. It's low risk since I'm hosting it on github and I work on it from time to time to create practice worksheets for my kids. I get a lot of visits from China and Taiwan. It's fun too.

https://lewdev.github.io/apps/hw-gen
It was a top comment on a submission of someone making 5000 USD/month with a gif making app.
How is "people who don't do solution X for climate change are unserious" different from climate change denial exactly?

You're claiming entire governments are proposing and committing to expensive and sweeping actions, but because they've not done X (for possibly several different reasons) you are openly accusing them of not wanting to solve the problem. Why wouldn't they want to solve it? We are spending that money to avoid paying more later aren't we? It is a real problem, right? You think that, and you think they think that, correct? Because if you didn't this would just be climate change denial.

Why can't you just say, "I think X is an important part of solving the problem of climate change". Why does the conversation have to revolve around attacking other people who are trying to solve a problem you appear (on the surface) to agree is a problem?

Oh, just noticed the scare quotes around "climate emergency" in your comment so I guess you don't think its a real problem, you just really want them to use nuclear to solve the problem you don't think exists, which seems odd, but at the same time not unexpected.
MirageOS 3.0 (2017)
It's taken most of flu's market share the last couple of years. On the plus side it may spur us to improve air quality like we improved water quality a century or two ago.
I thought the nuclear propulsion options were viable and relative simple.
it's from a song of flight of the conchords, called robots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUnibKe_o18
When I access the post it sends me to the following page

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All right, keep your secrets.
We would need to build much , much more storage, and I hope you know water dams are not easy to build(a lot of humans and wild life needs to be moved), if you don't already have them probably is impossible to create them.

>A week of no solar power or wind is unheard of. A week of no wind is very very rare.

You don need no solar or no wind, you need a few weeks of super low solar and wind, like say in winter, solar efficiency is much lower in winter.
I always imagine complex numbers by putting them on a Cartesian plane (2D linear space). Is there an extension of this for numbers that can be put on a 3D space?
So, just to clarify before people think I'm an OOP advocate and it's perfect, I don't, but I think it has it's place.

> There are definite degrees to this.
Agree. The question is, does OOP leads to more buggy code? Maybe yes, so we ban OOP? Because that's the sentiment I get whenever someone is against it.
In your example, is it ok allocating a new object every time? If you can't afford to do it, what do you do?

> Why do you believe that's the reason why?
I think in terms of proportions. For example, if you have 80% of all code written is OOP, chances that you'll find a bad OOP is greater than finding bad code in any other paradigm.

What if people learn programming using FP or DOP? There would be less buggy code? I don't know, but I think in the end, OOP would become the popular choice because, in my opinion, it fits very well the way we think about our world and we would end having this same conversation.
Self hosting an auto-updating blog that is smaller then one photo
> However, you run into the starting problem of needing a trusted authority to verify a rights holder is in fact the rights holder.

Again, this is a different problem. One can imagine a service with a seignorage fee to verify such things when an NFT is minted after which that particular question is settled. The point of it being on a blockchain would then be subsequent ease of sale, transfer etc.
The customer experience has been great but consistently decreasing over the years.

Last time I used them I think they pivoted into fighting with AirBNB so they took on smaller and smaller "venues" up to people (illegally) renting an apartment. The guy straight up threatened me in writing on Booking when I decided to cancel seeing how different the conditions were compared to the pictures.
I bet the sophons are already on their way
On the Rust side they require a compiler released 10 weeks ago, and it is actually reasonable, thanks to Rust's strong backwards compatibility and painless auto-update.
Unfortunately they didn't perform any tests to verify that the control group had not had COVID (it's in the article).
Whether there's life on this planet is not known, it's in the inhabitable zone so that possibility cannot be discarded.
> But how would they control colour?

You can't use colors... they've been sold, lol.

https://www.printmag.com/design-news/the-color-museum/
Yes you can. Methane is already stored and used for electrical grids on a massive scale and you can make methane with electricity [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas
> 1) you also need time decelerate

No that would be a waste of effort. A flyby mission definitely makes the most sense. The 3.5 years are with deceleration though.
Operating scanners or amateur radios or a SDR is fine, you're just not allowed to intentionally tune it to any non-public frequencies, and if you're just idly browsing through the spectrum then as soon as you realise that a transmission isn't public you need to stop listening immediately and forget anything you have received so far.

> How would they even begin to know you're listening to those frequencies as opposed to something else?

Or course the can't know that – what it effectively means is you can't do in public and shouldn't talk about it too loudly (hence e.g. liveatc.net doesn't have any coverage in Germany).