skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has to be some sort of law of the internet that on a long enough timeline the political conversation will converge on modern American politics.

As a non-American that's probably my biggest irritation with the internet. Beyond the inane Facebook arguments, beyond the cesspool of comments on modern news websites, hell even beyond the Youtubers hawking stupid services, I have to say the single most irritating thing about the internet is that someone somewhere is waiting with bated breath to turn the conversation into some diatribe on the state of modern American society and the historical context in which it arose.

The article is about Moscow, not America. If you don't anything to say about Moscow don't feel nervous and start talking about America the one thing you can talk about. Don't sweat it, just sit this one out and let other people talk about the subject at hand. Listen and think about what people are saying about Russia and then the next time there's a conversation about Russia you will have something relevant to say about it.
I use a catchall on my domain, and every site gets its own email when I sign up.
SimulaVR uses Haskell for its VR compositor: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

There were some practical reasons for this, but at the end of the day: if you're going to spend thousands of hours developing something, you might as well choose a language that you find beautiful and enjoy working in.
That's how it works with most things. If you ride somewhere with a tank and shoot at something, it makes a difference if you're "defending your country" vs "invading".

If you shoot at someone, it makes a difference if your goal is to stop him from shooting you, or if you're trying to kill him to steal his car.

Ends justify means. Though ends need to be justified, too.
This is the answer. I am surprised it's not routed through another pixel manager though.
I expect automated tests to run, and where practical a demo link with the change to be provided for larger changes that aren't captured by automated testing.
Sometimes I do, esp. when CI is behind and doesn't have the latest compilers, sanitizers and not enough warnings turned on.

or as in the latest case when the developer has the newest msvc compiler with ' as digit separators, but the CI not.
They are heading straight to totalitarianism, yes. But up until few days ago they were not there yet. They were (may be still technically are) authoritarian to a various degree.
I've been trying to use the "+" alias whenever I sign up for literally anything. At least half of the e-mail validation methods out there have no idea that "+" is a valid character. Quite annoying. Luckily I use a custom domain and everything at that domain forwards to my one user account, so I just use a new email name for fields that don't support "+".

Fastmail has a feature to automatically sort mail with a "+" into a dedicated folder, so you only need to add filter rules for those addresses that don't support the "+" character.

You still can't ignore the filtered folders, though, as sometimes you'll receive a notification out of the blue from a service or a person that is time-sensitive. So I went back to one giant inbox and I now sort mail that doesn't have a "+" sign into a dedicated "Personal" folder. Have a few more filters for jobs, receipts, and other emails that will reliably generate mail I don't ever need to read.
Autodidax
A Crisis of Crises: What Is the Meta-Crisis?
Custom domain + cloudflare email forwarding service

E.g.:

* inbox@custom.me -> me+inbox@gmail.com
It's not part of the SMTP spec. SMTP treats the local part as an opaque identifier. It's somewhat common though and RFC 5233 extends the sieve filtering language to support it: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5233
I toured a US national lab that developed a method to extract uranium from seawater. Their results are frankly outstanding. Plastic fibers are cheaply impregnated with a binder than removes the uranium from the seawater. All you need to do is anchor long sections of the fibers in a high current area like a synthetic kelp bed, pull them onto a boat every few months, and rinse off the uranium with a mild acid (citric or weaker works).
The cost analysis for this preliminary configuration estimated yellow cake production at 2x market rate. Last I heard they were working on ways to reduce costs and increase yields. For example, they were working with desalination plants to test extracting uranium from the concentrated effluent before discharge. The method does extract other valuable metals which can either be processed and sold, or returned to the ocean without issue.
I use wikis to manage my knowledge. It has many parts with links, backlinks, and references. I write down my project plans, notes from books that I read, knowledge about ongoing projects, todos.

It has a homepage, several sections, pages, and folders.

It is not much of an upkeep as you might think. My wiki grows organically.

When there is an ongoing event, it gets it own page and the title finds its place on the Homepage.

I use my wiki as a "second brain". It contains all sorts of non-private, personal information.

It has had many benefits in my life- some of them measurable. I still am an avid wiki maintainer and plan to remain so.

I first tried Zettelkasten. But it did not stick. My notes were too long.

My wikis are maintained in Obsidian and three-way synced with a cloud server and my laptop.

Will highly recommend.

I read about Zettelkasten, read a few pages of Getting Things Done by David Allen, and the book Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt. There was a chapter on wikis.

Right now, I do reviews manually. But I intend to make it automatic by implementing Spaced Repeatation.

Right now, I am looking into that.
Also, to lower the cost of sanctions on them. If they start rumbling about losing money outside Russia, Putin can just take everything in Russia or not. And if sanctions get removed, that still can happen.
Not necessarily, since things sold in Russia aren’t denominated in USD. The ruble losing X against USD doesn’t automatically mean that everything becomes higher priced by X immediately (except for imported goods).
Can you give more details on this? I speak Russian and not sure I follow the idea here. There are no articles in Russian.
Ukraine name in Russian is Украина.
Is it because Russia use “the Ukraine” in English documents?
If the opening story about the 10 year old being put up for adoption 9+ years after being adopted as an infant is true, then I'm speechless. What an incredibly destructive, hateful thing to do. On the one hand, I don't think you should be able to do such things to a child. On the other hand, this is such a clear signal of how inappropriate you are as a parent that I guess the answer is to take the child as quickly as possible and seek to minimize the ongoing damage that is almost certainly already occuring.
Not OP but I have tried to get along with it several times and every time, it dried my skin out so bad that I would itch, crack, and bleed. Leaves everything "squeaking" like Ivory soap, which I also don't like.

I will use it for housekeeping but I don't let it near my body anymore.
Yes, you are right. Noprovrast setting prevented me from fixing that while editing was still possible.
For a wonderful introduction to digital and analog computers please check the book by Steiglitz, "The Discrete Charm of the Machine" [1].

[1] https://leonardo.info/review/2019/07/review-of-the-discrete-...
I see what you're saying now. Sorry to misinterpret you.
Lane here. I would love to see this as well. Anecdotally, most the Mormons I know in Utah leave for atheism/agnosticism, especially if they're a millennial like me.

However, the Latinos I know tend to leave for some form of non-denominational Christianity or vague theism. The reasoning I get from my Latin friends is that "it's crazy to not believe in God at all". I'm thinking it has to do with how few atheists there are in their communities.
Yes. Any email service should allow it, as it's standardized and very old.

However, some services that you sign up for might reject email addresses with + signs in them.

With Gmail, one thing you can do is insert a period anywhere you want in your email address. For some reason they decided to ignore that character when matching incoming email to an account. That behavior isn't standard, but services you sign up for should never have a problem with it.
Russia should retreat to the breakaway provinces and try to hold those and to ethnic cleansing to solidify demographics in their favor. kill zelensky just out of spite though it doesn't affect outcome much. try to hang onto the port they captured and the nuke plant maybe.

by should I dont according to moral laws but just to get something militarily out of the whole evil mess.
Email is just a messaging service. Whatever messaging service you use, the core is the same: people send you messages you need to act upon. Chat apps are no different from email in this regard, they just mask the problem of a non-zero inbox by merging all messages from one sender into a single thread. This way, important things you'd want to keep unread in email sinks into oblivion until you forget about it. (And feel good like you did everything you had to)
No, because if the adversary is convinced you used a duress password, they'll just keep hitting you with a hammer.
Divesting from Russia Proves Complicated for Pension Funds
Simple application to get the most used emotes in your Twitch chats
I think we have collectively been in enough meetings to know the real reason: management just wants to do something to appear tough on piracy
I've always liked the saying, "It's open source. If you break it, you get to keep both pieces!"
The mods here are really, really good. I do occasionally see spam & junk comments on HN, mostly early in the (US) morning, but they clean it up quickly. It's one of the reasons I like HN so much, it's very well curated.
I agree - you dont have to accept this as legitimate to engage in a discussion of the points raised.
I made no mention of notability, it's such an obvious point that it doesn't need to be made.

The Shen Yun Performing Arts people are pre-Communism traditionalist Chinese. Which is on the outs culturally, I get it. They're just people though, ultimately.

Do you not see the "weirdos vs normal people" problem that permeates media in essentially all cultures? This technique is on its face illegitimate, as it is designed to get you to not dig deeper into contentious issues. I don't care what side or "wing" is doing it.
Did you read the linked article? It’s not proposing a new tool, just using rules/filtering to categorize into inbox (humans), paper trail, news letters.
That's rather disinformative. There is nothing about locust bean gum extraction that is unusual or unsafe, and it certainly wasn't "invented in a lab." It's a seed that gets milled into powder.
The article also mentions that piracy did not have much effect in legal consumption of books, music, and games. People felt that prices were "fairer" in these media. Games piracy even led to people buying more games than what they would have bought without piracy.

People felt that piracy in movies and TV is justified because the price is too high.
Yes, I think metaphors are used to put the formal definition of computation monads into some concrete situations (for getting intuition). But "too many bad metaphors" will make monads something mysterious, incomprehensible.
One thing I do is that if something comes in that I think I might want to refer to at some point, I'll give it an &archive label. (I used to have a more elaborate set of labels but these days I mostly just throw most things in one place and rely on search for the rest). And then just periodically delete older stuff that hasn't been files--especially if it's unread. I might take some time to skim things to see if there's anything I want to save.
> Einstein developed General Relativity despite all the available evidence being against it

The amount of precession in Mercury's orbit couldn't be accounted for with known theories of the time.

> he did not carefully study existing evidence and realize it supported General Relativity.

Considering it took nearly 10 years to develop GR, I'm not sure he could have even considered whether evidence supported it or not; it was clear that there was a gap in understanding at the time, as experiments started to show it. Einstein suspected rightly[1] that unifying gravitation and acceleration with special relativity would give a complete theory of everything.

[1] He was only half right; it doesn't explain quantum mechanics. He was a strong opponent of (some parts of QM) for a long time.

> rationality can be superior to empiricism

But it clearly isn't, as we haven't come up with a complete model that explains everything we can observe yet.
Hindsight and Foresight
Pairing doesn't work for me for either. It works fine in short bursts for knowledge sharing, but an understanding of a code base can be conveyed in small fractions of a time it takes to write it.
When will the egotistical narcissism stop? This type of “I’m better than you” talk is not acceptable when it comes to race, how come it’s acceptable when the subject is intelligence?
It could be that, for media other than recent top films:

A) the effect is so small, that it's invisible to the study

B) the study is so small, that even large effects are invisible
Also gets attaboys from the board and shareholders!
Sorry for veering off topic but by chance do you mean actual rails and not just visible ROWs like the elevated Center Blvd between San Anselmo and Fairfax? If so I’d love to know where so I can go get some photos of them and especially of their steelmarks showing the foundry name, year, and month they were rolled. I’ve explored a lot of it between Sausalito and the Alto Tunnel and never noticed any, but I also wasn’t looking very hard :)
Maybe you can put in your will to have a lawyer go through and delete all your old accounts? Would be useful for a living will too; if you're in a coma for 10+ years, the domain would lapse then too.
Care to offer a similarly detailed rebuttal that excludes an ad hominem?
Can you elaborate? The source for the software under discussion is published openly, with an Apache 2.0 license; this is an OSI-approved license.
P(x|y) is a fairly common notation in statistics representing a function that computes a probability.

its the classic jargon speak problem most specialized fields have.
"MR" so probably Gitlab
We've had fast reactors since the 70s. It is simply that they are even less economical than regular nuclear power plants, and those are already completely uncompetitive compared to renewables.

> Breeder reactors are costly to build and operate. About $100 billion (in 2007 dollars) has been spent worldwide on breeder reactor research and development and on demonstration breeder reactor projects. Yet none of these efforts has produced a reactor that is economically competitive with a conventional light water reactor. The capital costs per kilowatt of generating capacity of demonstration liquid sodium-cooled fast reactors have typically been more than twice those of water cooled reactors of comparable capacity. Although it could be expected that once in production this cost ratio would decline, today few, if any, experts argue that breeder reactor capital costs could be less than 25 percent higher than that of similarly sized water cooled reactors.4

> The breeder reactor dream is not dead, but it has receded far into the future. In the 1970s, breeder advocates were predicting that the world would have thousands of breeder reactors operating this decade. Today, they are predicting commercialization by approximately 2050. In the meantime, the world has to deal with the hundreds of tons of separated weapons-usable plutonium that are the legacy of the breeder dream and more being separated each year by Britain, France, India, Japan, and Russia.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.2968/066003007
You CAN compare oranges to apples.

Your argument is completely valid except there is a missing [postmodern?] point at a meta level: you are changing the focus of a terrible event that should be solved at a global scale to an event that could be handled at a local scale, AND in US it should be much simpler than in Russia.

In US you have a lot of ways you can do that and I am always amazed that the US democracy is failing at a basic level when I compare with righteous US people who achieved amazing stuff in the US past. If you don't show your mobile founds you can protect you by the law.

In Russia there are much fewer options and civilians are risking their life at an amazing level. Law does not exist.
NOG is a community: people who discuss things and organize events once in a while. "Control" over NOG is not very meaningful, anyone is free to leave.
The US is asking it's citizens to leave Russia immediately [0], but having no working MC/VISA is going to make that difficult for anyone without plenty of cash in hand.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2022/03/05/1084762582/russia-ukraine-sta...
Sorry but I’m all panicked out.
Nosferatu is quite good, but I prefer it with an analog synth soundtrack. The original soundtrack is very generic and not particularly dramatic, actually, I would say pretty low quality and boring.

I can't find my favorite right now, but IMO several analog synth soundtracks and one I found with organs are good soundtracks for Nosferatu (all easy to find on YouTube). They create an ethereal atmosphere that fits the movie well.
Subgrid and reliable viewport units on mobile devices are the holy grail for me. Very happy about these priorities. Thank you to everyone involved.
Nobody's saying the present US justice system is perfect, but if you seriously think it compares to Stalin's Gulags, or the psychological effects they've had even on people who weren't directly affected, you're unhinged.

Whether Putin can or will create anything comparable is open, but the historical precedent is there. And he has expressed his affection for the Soviet system on many occasions, calling its demise one of the 'greatest tragedies of the 20th century'.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you here.

The "Universal Approximation Theorem" is not the point of neural networks. People should stop mentioning it, or if they do, they should state at the same time that there's nothing special about NNs, that numerous classes of functions possess the same property.

Here's my own pitch for neural networks: NN's suck. Big time. They suck in low dimensions and they suck in high dimensions. But the curse of dimensionality is so formidable, that everything sucks in high dimension. Neural networks just happen to suck less than all other known methods. And because they suck a bit less, there are applications where they are useful, and they have no substitute.
Another such shocker is that WikiLeaks is not based in the US.
Everyone is just people. Not everyone deserves the same level of depth on Wikipedia.
The State Department tells Americans to leave Russia immediately
Open source does not mean "includes free support"; what it means is that you are free to look for support elsewhere.
“…descend (deeper) into totalitarianism.”
HN is indeed a place for curiously engaging in surveillance capitalism while ignoring or minimizing "skeptically" the most important issues confronting the world.

HN was great in 2008 to remind us that developments in software development meant that starting a web app was now cheap enough to actually disrupt old businesses. but that was a long time ago.
>since things sold in Russia aren’t denominated in USD.

Most important assets are. Valuable assets like real estate and sometimes cars is mostly denominated in USD and sometimes EUR, as the Rubble is too weak and volatile for the general population to bother with it for valuable assets. It's the same in Romania, cars and real estate are denominated in EUR despite nearly everyone in the country being paid in the national currency RON, and, before the creation of the EUR, they were denominated in USD or Deutsch Marks as the national currency was fluctuating like BTC.

>The ruble losing X against USD doesn’t automatically mean that everything becomes higher priced by X immediately (except for imported goods)

It does, since Russia doesn't really manufacture any high value goods that are in demand on the free market, so it has to import nearly everything apart from basic food, fuels and raw materials.

I'm sure Russia can survive just fine without Dutch cheese, US bourbon, Italian designer clothes and French wine imports due to sanctions, but US CPUs, GPUs, iPhones and MacBooks, German car parts and industrial equipment, Swedish trucks, Liechtensteinian dental drills, French Airbuses and Japanese cameras, industrial robots, cutting edge sensors and chips still cost the same amount in USD, EUR and YEN to make but now 2x the price in RUB to import due to the devaluation and Russia needs to import all those things to not go back to the stone age, as they don't manufacture any equivalent domestic alternatives.
I really didn't get this part:

> But according to the information provided by her parents, “This family has drastically changed their lifestyle and have left their faith and extended family for a quiet, secluded life.” It is their hope that “a different family will step forward who can provide her with the socialization and continued relationship with God that she desires.”

So they're saying that they are getting rid of her because she is too religious at the age of 10 to fit into their lives?

I kind of feel like something is missing there.
Argh. That makes a lot of sense. I wish they didn't try to fix things that aren't broken. I guess these managers need to justify their existence. Quite annoying to know this is the case...
If they don’t really care, they’re not going to look hard and so most anything would work (hide it in a folder or etc).

If they are using the pipe, then anything that isn’t what they’re looking for will result in the pipe.
Hate to say it, but we need to increase oil and gas output immediately
How secure is your place of living? If the police break down your door at dawn and arrest you in your pajamas, do you have a chance to snatch up your book of passwords and swallow it before they put the zip ties on?
Woah, this sounds incredibly useful. Are there any blog posts / wiki pages / videos that you used as a reference when doing this? I'm hoping to put a garden in my backyard this month, but I'm not sure about the location.
> Yes. Any email service should allow it, as it's standardized and very old.

As far as I know it’s not standardized at all; it’s not in the SMTP spec. It’s actually annoying that some people assume this is standard because they can break functionality, like assuming foo+bar@ is the same person as foo+qux@ when it’s not guaranteed to be.
Thought the same. Can't they just do NSA-like bulk collection and search, like US does with Xkeyscore? Once you automate it, no need to search phones one by one.
> while the big fish are literally above the law.

Which law?
This! It gets even better - there WILL be a time at your company when you'll need to revert for whatever reason. That reason will most likely be something VeryImportant(tm) and will probably have to be done RightNow(tm) on weekend if you're unlucky.

At that time, you REALLY don't want to find out that you forgot to pin your dependencies and that your older build now doesn't run due to breaking changes and you have no frigging idea what versions of that random NPM crap library were you running 5 weeks ago.

Just... don't do that to yourself. Ever. Pin dependencies, update them regulary, but update them as YOUR decision under YOUR CONTROL. Not under some techbros control based on his GitHub pushes. If you're smart, also host your own repository (Maven, Npm, Docket, whatnot) with your dependencies so your business can't be distrupted by some techbro drama and missing packages.

(This is one of those lessons old neckbears learned on their own skin.)