skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I care.

I care because it's affects me, my family, the kids of my sister's.

I also care for people around the globe who can't fight for there rights.

And I also care because I believe after science that it will cost us more to fix the co2 consumption than preventing them.

Why to police it? Because: being against crypto doesn't mean or implies if I'm also against pokemon or Facebook ads. Here we talk about crypto.

Now this is a huge waste from a energy consumption (conflicting use of limited resources which are critical for humans) perspective, co2 production and hardware consumption (GPU shortage anyone?)

Fore as someone who is not getting rich of this shit, it should be very clear why I'm against it.

For people in Texas they should be against it for most of my arguments and because it potentially disrupts their power grid and/or they are now competing with Bitcoin prices.

And pls don't come up with some wishfull thinking arguments on how this will create more energy. Miners want to consume as much cheap energy as possible. It's not here to only run when others are okay for it to be run and all additional capacity will go to mining.
What about products whose marginal cost is close to, but not zero? Is it okay to steal them?
Thanks for the correction! I was unaware it was troll-ish behavior from the get go.
Elon Musk mentioned this attack in one of his tweets a few days ago:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499585449450344451
I have no real science to back it. I've just seen too many supplements hailed over the years only to be found out to have a problem at large, prolonged doses.

Zinc creates copper imbalance.

Excessive b vitamins may contribute to insomnia and nervous excitability

Omega3s may cause heart arrhythmia but also prevent most cardiac issues, has positive impacts on mood, cognition and autoimmune status.

VitD may cause stones. Not enough raises infection and autoimmune risk.

All electrolytes and metals (copper iron, etc) can create problems when in excess or shortage.

D without adequate k2 (which is hard to get without supplements or natto) , magnesium or vit-a or even b2 can raise risk of kidney stones. Sun exposure is enough to raise stone risk, alone.

Everything needs to be in a balance that you don't have monthly insight into.

Maybe I'm falling back to a naturalistic fallacy, but in nature most early man would not be highly exposed to any supplement 365 days a year.

And maybe I'm falling back to aphorisms of "everything in moderation"

But I'm doing so to err on the side of caution.

I just do it most of the time if I find it to be a relatively positive addition.

I also find it better for my mental health. Having a neuroticism that I must do and take a list of things every day, I just feels produces stress. Especially if I feel like my routine is being broken by an outside force I can't control. And what better time for a break than a weekend.

I do a 18/6 or 20/4 fast M-Fri. I eat 3 meals a day Sat and sun.

I don't drink Sun-thurs

I sauna M-Fri.

I exercise M-Sat.

My supplements are m-Thurs, except anything meant for sleep. Even then I cycle between substances for 6 weeks on and 6 weeks off.

The only thing I do about 95% of the time or more is I go to bed at 9:30-10pm.

I have health anxiety/ocd and without boundaries and creating ebbs and flows in my behavior, I create problems for myself.
She also cites survey data showing that 80 percent of her peers self-censor, so perhaps we shouldn't dismiss this piece with a rhetorical flourish.
Hey, thanks!

I often find myself writing a novella here, and rarely get any feedback from them aside from a couple of upvotes. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I'll try to take this as motivation to clean up my writing a bit. It always seems like I grossly overuse commas when I read it later. It's really just stream-of-consciousness.
I think it's still prudent to move the task from "probably impossible" to "definitely impossible".
Understand once and for all that perfection doesn't exist!
Going from Strang to D&F seems like a steep jump. The former is an applied textbook for non-mathematicians and the latter is a proof-based text for advanced undergraduate / graduate-level math students.

I would suggest working through a proof-based linear algebra book in between to ease the transition. Axler's is a good one. Alternatives include Hoffman and Kunze and the more modern Friedberg, Insel, and Spence.
You just deduct it from the last paycheck.
If developers are solely responsible for finding bugs, your company is doing it wrong. Don't feel bad, our company is also doing it wrong; not having a QA department is a rampant cost saving measure.

I'm not sure I would try to feel less guilty about having bugs, that guilt helps you be conscious about finding them before going to production. Keep in mind it should never be solely your responsibility. If you don't have a QA team, you should feel less guilty, because the biz doesn't think it's important to hire at least one QA person. If you don't do user beta testing in your cycle, you should feel less guilty, because the biz doesn't think it's important to establish that communication relationship.

I work as an internal dev environment now, but I have worked at several software companies that sold software to other companies, and they were pretty mission critical to the clients. We had a dedicated and talented QA department, we had automated testing, and we had a beta cycle with a few choice companies to help us find bugs. Bugs still happened but we took measures to make sure they were minimal if they ever got to a release.

Try to minimize the impact of a bug. In the example of the user losing an hour's worth of work, perhaps save periodically. Also, any bug you squash, particularly in production, you should make a script and make sure that gets tested every time. Unit tests are great for this.

Definitely keep being a perfectionist and honor your craft, it will pay in spades throughout your career, especially once you get older.
Cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was probably a bad idea
I'm not sure this article has any real meaning besides being a strained excuse to string a bunch of interesting tidbits together. Names mean different things to different people. Your name is your label. It's through your words and deeds you determine what meaning that label has.

So when someone asks, "Who are you," don’t tell them "Bud Baker," or "Larry Watterworth," or even your legal name. Tell them who you really are, and if they stick around, then tell them your human label.

I don't know if this is symbolic advice or just naive advice. That's obviously not a practical course of action.
You'd be surprised how often standard libraries can be broken. The integer overflow bug for binary search has been found in many of them.
at the point they're shelling the UK: we're way past a reactor exploding being the #1 problem
You didn’t ask for this feedback but I’ll give it to you - your homepage is way too generic. “Break silos”, “Focus on what matters”, “Powerful integrations”, etc. There are 1000s of tools offering those features - why is Kitemaker different and worth me looking at?
> an advanced Military-Industrial Complex

They certainly did have one at one point - but don't let memories of the cold war taint your view. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been extremely inept and most of that lack of competence is the fact that the military-industrial funding levels established by the USSR were unsustainable by the USSR and Russia has been completely unable to match them while being robbed left and right by oligarchs.
Peer reviews really help develop a sense that "we're all in this together." The work is then the product of the team collectively and depersonalizes any problems that arise. It's similar to a QA team having your back ("...if it got through a whole QA team then it must have been a tough one..."), but even better because defects are caught earlier and everyone learns from reading each other's code.
The Russian army might be able to overrun Latvia relatively easily, except perhaps for urban warfare around Rīga, but what then?

The tricky part, like in Ukraine, would be holding the conquered territory.

Anything west of Rīga, expect _very_ stubborn resistance. Expect pensioners to try and block the Russian military with their walkers if they'd think it would help. Expect little girls sent out to poison soldiers. Expect suicide bombers.

Don't forget it took until 1956(!) for active resistance to the USSR occupation of Latvia to cease. That was back then, suppressed by all the might of a world power headed by a top three war criminal of all times, mostly unaided by any outside parties. Some people stayed hidden in the woods until the fall of the USSR.

For a war of conquest against Latvia, either Putin orders mass deportations to Siberia again or genocide, or he better forget about it. The alternative of course bombing the country to pieces without conquest.
Why would China possibly help a madman like Putin fight a war? NK and Iran aren't much more than background noise in such a conflict.
He probably expects it a lot less now than he did a month ago. He's now learning that the most important goal in a proxy war is not to be the proxy.
https://archive.ph/aKqBB
Yeah the "net" in GFlowNet refers to how the underlying state is interpreted, not to an architecture. It is a way to train generative models, on any kind of discrete data (like graphs).

Source: am first author of original GFlowNet paper.
The World Is Awash in Plastic. Nations Plan a Treaty to Fix That.
This actually looks really interesting. I was worried that the positive reviews might be due to a right-leaning echo-chamber, but it seems like the praise crosses political lines. I'll have to check it out.
Could be China to the rescue here, and Ukraine turns into the first proxy war between the US and China.
> I don't just dismiss their gods as false, but also dismiss the whole underlying structure all religions are built on, but without being aware (or if so I'm dismissing it) that my belief is just another religion.

Assuming the "my belief" here is still talking about science, I think it would be wrong to say that it dismisses gods as false. Instead, it dismisses most arguments of the existence of a god as unfalsifiable, and thus cannot be reasoned one way or the other. There is no proof one way or the other for something unfalsifiable, and instead time can be spent on what is.

There are certainly religious scientists who maintain their faith and scientific contribution without compromising one or the other.
anyone know what is the difference between what Rolls Royce is building and Terrapower ?

It seemed there's widespread criticism of Terrapower's modular nuclear reactor

https://www.dw.com/en/scientists-pour-cold-water-on-bill-gat...
There was a never-shipped bug in Solaris back around.. I want to say 2006? I don't remember exactly when, but there was a bug where block writes in a socketpair pipe could get swapped. I ended up writing a program that wrote entire blocks where each block was a repeated block counter, that way I could look for swapped blocks, and then also use that for the bug report. The application that was bit hard by this bug was ssh.

Writing [repeated, if needed] monotonically increasing counters like this is a really good testing technique.
> We have even had a customer recently complain about a bug, which we fixed in a few hours, but the next week they had to complain about the bug again because it was back.

An interaction like this was the genesis of me spending a lot more time trying to understand code via the commit history instead of just looking at what's in front of me. That in turn made me highly opinionated about bad commit hygiene practices.

There's a class of regressions that is caused by interaction between two features. As long as one exists, the other does not work. Until someone sits down with a three way merge of sorts, and finds a new solution that allows both features to work at the same time, you're just going to ping-pong between two open bug reports. The only way I know to get past this is to figure out what both developers were trying to do, for which the commit history is often the cheapest option.

So we do things like require bug numbers in commit messages, pester people to learn to do move operations the 'right way', push back on squash operations, separate formatting changes from functional changes, use revert operations to remove bad code, and so forth. Like any safety procedure, they seem like a waste of time and energy until something bad happens.
> I feel as if you’re conflating this folk tale to an organized religion or something.

The comment I replied to reads "religion, mythology and beliefs such as this one".
Archived: https://archive.ph/wTG5f
newpipe on android lets you switch to another app or turn off the screen while something is playing

also if you tap "background" it will stop the video stream but keep playing the audio, but im not 100% sure does it just pause the video on screen but keeps downloading it, or whether it actually switches to an audio only stream.
Well, the fact that NYT publishes this article is a sign that its not self censoring in an absolute sense.
I'm not saying you shouldn't reuse allocated objects. I'm talking about building a local object (no dynamic allocation) and assigning it to the pointer at once. This has the same runtime behavior (assuming -O1) as assigning the fields one by one.

See https://godbolt.org/z/Wh5KcTaGY for what I'm talking about, the local allocation is easily eliminated by the compiler.

The equivalent in C is to create a temporary local variable with an initializer list then write that variable to the pointer.
In general, yes. But the parent specifically says that the Wikipedia entry doesn't mention something whereas it actually mentions it, so I assumed they haven't read the whole thing.
Hi, first author of the original NeurIPS paper here! Someone just shared this HN post with me. I'll go through the comments but happy to try to answer questions as well.
> Extreme Ownership

> You approach everything you do as an owner and take responsibility both for successes and failures equally.

I have a funny feeling that I won't be an owner when its time to cash the checks.
Qt 5.15.3 (LTS) open source released
>The FFL is quite independent in terms of logistics, no?

I guess that depends on what you consider to be logistical independence, but at the theater scale, the answer is "no". Physically moving personnel and materiel to Africa, say, is almost always handled by the U.S. Air Force to a very large degree. See for example, Operation Serval.
I wouldn’t show the result in realtime, as it allows fine tuning parameters to get to a result I want, and not one I need.
I’m a new parent, so I just got to (had to?) name someone for the first time. In my jurisdiction you actually have quite a while before you have to make that choice, but you do eventually need to make it. It speaks to lots of point in this essay:

My son certainly doesn’t know his name yet, but it’s how everyone addresses him. So it is definitely not an integral part of his identity, at least as he experiences it.

The name doesn’t have any meaning for me nor my wife. It is normal enough to be familiar, stands out enough to not disappear, is nice to abbreviate, sounds pleasing to our ears. But it also has nothing to do with him or his ancestry at all, except it’s ethnically congruous I guess.

So my son is not at all his name, probably for the only time in his life. It is a bit odd.
> Because Russian claims about fighting neo nazis are ridiculous on their face.

It's only ridiculous if you believe one side fully and become fully ignorant at the other one and if you look a little bit, you might find some ethnic cleansing done by the Ukrainians. It is at least as strong as the USA's reasons for attacking other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_Ukraine#Ukr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odessa_clashes

As an actual European who happened to grow up 20km away from the Ukrainian border, I find it frustrating to see all these western media outlets talk like they know anything about the situation while being barely able to even find these countries on a map.

> but that doesn't mean they don't take humanitarian concerns to heart as well

They don't, just look at how happy they were to feed the Afghan people to the Taliban(I'm talking about not giving them a chance to evacuate). They even left some weapons for the Taliban. You can also look at the fact that the US causes problems and doesn't really take in refugees, it just lets Europe deal with the mess they started.

Please name a single country which became better after the US troops went in with their "democracy", if making the world a better place would be the goal for the US military they would be the biggest screwups in the universe.
essentially giving an additional signing bonus if referred by an internal employee. Wonder if they would still offer that if you just reached out directly to the company.
A resource issue is what you worry about in 100-150 years? That’s laughable considering our planet might not be actually livable as we know it if we conduct business as usual. And that isn’t propaganda. It is a fact, and nuclear is utterly necessary to stave off the worst.
Both Strang and D&F are extra-relevant for cryptography (I was struck by how much the earliest parts of D&F --- which I haven't gotten much further beyond --- read like the mathematics background chapter of a cryptography book), and I've been in study groups for both of them with non-mathematicians that went OK. But the D&F study group fell apart for logistical reasons, so maybe it would have hit a wall after a couple more months.
I loved last year being able to take university courses online. I knocked out analysis, topology, and quantum mechanics as a non matriculated student. I'd had those books for years but never could get through them alone. (The main thing being, you really don't have anything to gague whether you know it well enough or not).

I really wish there was more opportunity for that. I'd love to take a few more classes, mostly in pure math, but there's simply nothing on offer for remote study past the 200ish level. (There are some remote masters programs in applied math, but nothing for pure).

I don't think I'd enjoy doing a PhD full-time. One or two classes per semester while working seems just about right. But the closest university is an hour away, so in-person isn't a realistic option.
Its all about energy. Water condenses when it doesn't have enough energy to keep zipping around in the air. This means kinetic energy, physical movement.

Water has one oxygen and two hydrogens, this makes for a pretty polar molecule. At a purely mechanistic level, you can think of polar molecules like how magnets work. N is attracted to S and vice versa. In polar molecules, + is attracted to -.

When water loses energy (like through cooling down which is just when it runs into other molecules and loses energy) it doesn't have enough momentum to not stick to other water molecules. When this happens they start clumping together and can fall out of the (gas) solution.

Water in air is moving around pretty fast and this overcomes the attractive force of the polar interactions with water molecules, so no clumping (water droplets)

Since amount of energy (temperature) determines how much water the solution (air) can hold, dew point is the temp at which the air is fully saturated with water molecules and can't hold any more. Water will condense if the temp is lowered past the dew point if we assume a constant water content and air pressure
Oooh Alley Cat! That game was so good!…
People cared, that's why large office buildings were using flourescent lights in the 1960s. Homeowners didn't care, because incandescent lights had a more pleasing color spectrum and the cost of running them was insignficant in the overall household budget, even with their inefficiency.
Superb! I downloaded Chalk then did your donation button. Your calculator is excellent, and your write-up is so thorough that it works as a case study for UI/UX. Thank you.
> If employment is terminated for any reason or no reason at all by either employee or employer within the first year, incentives must be returned.

If you want a guarantee, I'd recommend only paying once the guarantee is met. It's much easier than trying to get people to return money they've already assumed was theirs.

I've done tech recruiting for many startups and I typically charge 0 upfront, then 10% of base salary on the employee's start date and 10% after 6mo of full-time employment. In Hurry's case, maybe pay $7.5k on date of hire and $7.5k after 12 months.

I have plenty of folks in my network that would be a great fit and the $15k incentive (for my half) is respectable, but I wouldn't want to work under the terms as proposed unfortunately. A small tweak to the payment structure and this would be an excellent program that I'd jump at.
I remember that name.

I went to a meetup in Melbourne. Met a girl in Chicago. Discovered that someone else lived literally on my street, a third of a mile away. I had several small world experiences on E2.
A USB2 to USB3 divide? Curse you, social media.

If only there were a chip to bridge other divides.
Nice attempt at false equivocation and outright propaganda. We won't fall for it. If you like Russia so much, stay in Russia and don't attack countries that don't want to be under your control.
The hard way.

If a young professor had to teach an introductory course (say Physics, Calculus, Chemistry, CS) the first time and didn't have a curriculum, notes, problem sets, tests and stuff available they'd have to work very hard.

If you inherited all that stuff and then spent 30 years teaching the class you find it very easy.

I have an online antagonist that I really want to screw into the ground. I have been studying a subject that person talks about for a little more than six months. I think I am at the 25% mark of being an "expert" on that subject.

Already I can write a few sentences that destroy one of those person's blog post maybe 20% of the time. If I get to the point where I am 80% successful at that I'm going to feel like I've won at "debating" if not actually practicing the subject... And those are entirely different things.

Discussing a subject like that pedagogically is a lot like developing a comedy routine or other performance, it takes getting your emotions and motivations in the right place, practicing over and over to not get hung up (or have your listener get hung up) over details, etc.
Except I will because US and Europe are why places like Iran have the IRI.

Maybe try talking to Iranians sometimes :)
With a server, you exchange money for goods & services. Tipping makes the exchange a little weird and tax laws built around the practice can be complex. But it's still fundamentally a "normal" purchase. Not corruption.

With a government agent, you are not necessarily supposed to be paying them. Typical bribes are dependent upon an implicit threat of abuse of power rather than being a normal purchase of goods & services.

Tips are not a "lesser form of corruption". Unless you were somehow buying something with that tip that would otherwise be off-limits but in that case I think people would call it a bribe.
> Being able to power so many homes (and being more centralized than I thought) means these reactors would still require huge infrastructure investment in order to spread the power.

would it? they'd plug directly into the super-grid, presumably in locations that are currently undergoing decommissioning

and then you could slowly replace CCGTs with them

after that point if you need more energy you'd have to upgrade the grid
It would be a lot easier today, LED bulbs are about 10x more efficient! Someone outputting 100W could light up an apartment.
Second Axler. "Linear Algebra Done Right" is probably the pure mathematics textbook I've most enjoyed reading ever (but be warned you will learn very little about applied methods from it if that's what you care about).

Also enjoyed Artin's Algebra.