skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really an either or question, and, unlike the environment, 'capitalism' seems to have different meanings to different people, often somewhat divergent from its proper definition.

Let's take capitalism to mean capital allocation by independent profit seeking entities within a (state mandated) market framework.

Such a system has turned out to be fairly efficient at resource allocation, in purely economic terms, compared to e.g. central planning. It encourages the rule of law, requiring as it does strong property protections. Since actors are expected to be independent, it also fits nicely with ideas of personal freedom (at least, for capital owners anyway).

Unfortunately, in its remorseless drive for greater extractive efficiency, it tends to trash anything external to the market system within whose logic it operates. Namely, the health and dignity of workers, and the environment.
You may also be useful for "why didn't they fix climate change before it got so bad?" questions 50 years hence.
"Why not let athletes use steroids? It's unsafe."

That's not the reason.

Athletes do unsafe things all the time, with the blessing of their sport. Boxing is unsafe, American football is unsafe, skateboarding is unsafe, skiing is unsafe, extreme sports are unsafe, etc...

The prohibition on steroid use has more to do with fairness and ensuring a level playing field, so no athlete has an unfair advantage over another.

Such considerations are irrelevant when one's goal is not fair competition but advancement of science.
I understand your point, but depending on who you ask, the (massive) neutrinos are well described in the Standard Model framework, just we we don't know exactly what that term looks like.

So depending on who you ask, they may not regard (massive) neutrinos as "beyond standard model".
Not all steroids are inherently unsafe, especially the more modern ones. In reality the primary argument against steroids is that "its unfair to those who don't"
Setting aside the question of motivation, how would a working adult find the time to work through all these books? The author of this clearly leads a busy life outside of reading math textbooks.

Reading a math textbook is time consuming endeavor, regardless of underlying ability. The author herself mentions this in the introduction. I can think of a few factors that might make it possible for a busy person to go through all these books in a few years:

- They include books that were read partially while taking course.

- Consistency: allocating 1 - 2 hours per day for a few years.

- Doing exercises selectively: If you only do a handful of exercises per chapter this would dramatically increase the rate at which you go through a book. This would come at the cost of deeper understanding.

I have a large backlog of math books I'd like to read, but time is a constraining factor. If people have found strategies for reading these types of books, I'd like to hear about them.
This is quite a different situation because it creates an uneven playing field: to be competitive you will need to use steroids too. If it only affected the athletes many people wouldn't mind.
> I've seen enterprise SSDs that perform worse with sync IO than spinning disks.

Can you elaborate on this? Specific brands to avoid? How and why they are worse?
Ehh, technology has saved us every other time. We technically even have the technology today but have limited political will. When it becomes a critical we'll solve it then or deploy enough stop gaps to get us back to being ok again.
Put a heavy price on carbon externalities, let the free market do its work. It will heavily incentivize local manufacturing and onshoring in general, so it should result in a hell of a lot of local job creation.
afaict, the amount of actual science in this report is zero.

The referencing and style shouldnt even get it into a low grade scam journal.

Worse, it definately wouldnt convince an average policy maker to part with a roll of wall paper, let alone commit to any kind of serious action.
There is no Finder menu in the upper edge when you are in the file-selection dialog of some random app.
To maintain public support for annual refugee acceptance policies.

It depends on your definition of 'refugee'; economic, natural disaster or conflict.

I read a recent report in the Gruaniad that claimed the UK was 'not taking refugees' when in fact the UK was insisting those accepted obtain visas.

The quickest way to destroy public confidence in refugee programs is to allow a free-for-all for anyone who chooses to turn up unannounced.

Of course socialist administrations consider public support irrelevant, until they get voted out.
> What features are both present in all of JavaScript/Go/Python and absent from Java/Kotlin that have any relevance to the Gang of Four patterns?

For example:

1. Being able to define a top-level function

2. Being able to return a function

These either shoehorn every codebase into OOP or force the usage of design patterns.

Mind you, it's possible that if you're writing strictly modern Java/Kotlin/whatnot then these are fixed/irrelevant, but that doesn't erase the billions of overengineered lines of code out there.

From [1]:

> Abstract factory adds another level of abstraction to factory method. While factory method abstracts the way objects are created, abstract factory abstracts how the factories are created. The factories in turn abstracts the way objects are created. You will often hear the abstract factory design pattern referred to as a “factory of factories“.

This type of insanity is exactly what the parent is referring to. Layers of needless abstractions that paper over the lack of basic features every other language has.

[1]: https://springframework.guru/gang-of-four-design-patterns/ab...
I’m definitely not logged in. Do you have a content blocker that hides comments on websites?
Every transaction is subject to OFAC rules.
For 1, 2, and maybe 3; often people talking about 83(b) will have the ability to early exercise; that is to exercise the options before they vest. If you leave before vesting, the company has the opportunity (but not the obligation, unless mentioned in the contract) to buy the shares back for the exercise price.

My questions would be are these options qualified ISOs for US stock purposes or are they NQSO or something else.

If they're ISOs and you can't early exercise, then when the first vest date comes, you need to know the FMV at that day to consider your options. You wouldn't need to file an 83b on vested options that you exercise though; there's no election to be made, your holding date is the date of exercise and you'd have income for alternative minimum tax on the discount at that point; the type and amount of income for regular income tax would be determined when you dispose of the shares. Consider the holding requirements for a qualifying disposition of ISO shares; if you don't think you'll meet those, it makes more sense to wait and not exercise until you're ready to sell (or the options are likely to expire, if they're in the money)

On 4, I don't know anything about Canadian taxes; it will make a difference if you work within the US or within Canada, but if you work in the US as a US person, I wouldn't expect any Canadian taxes to be due; but I wouldn't trust me, I'm just a random internet person.
Cherry picking one specific plant does little to address the fundamental differences between geographically dependent and independent sources of energy. If you look at a map of gas or nuclear plants you'll see them located right next to population centers more often than not. Centralized energy production matching the centralized energy demand.

By comparison wind has to be built out in windy areas, which are often far away. Wind blows in many places, but it's only economical to build wind turbines where it blows particularly strong. Similarly with solar power [1]. Rooftop solar is a trivial amount of energy. Realistic projections of a mostly solar grid have us transporting huge amounts of energy thousands of miles from sunny arid places to urban centers where that energy is in demand.

1. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/World-solar-potential_fi...
> arrest our own evolutionary development.

There is a sense in which there's not much point in aliens "uplifting" humanity: on our own, without external interference, we might develop in ways that would be hard for them to predict. And over the long term, the novelties of our self-guided evolution might prove useful to them.

For example, imagine if we had the tech to put a human brain in a cat (ethical questions aside). We'd probably then think it wouldn't be much good unless the hybrid had opposable thumbs, too. And then we'd think it'd be better if it walked on two legs. And so on, and so forth, until we have extra-hairy human beings with cat ears, which really wouldn't add much to our society (well, opinions might be mixed on that).
I use IPython frequently for such simple calculations.
Strange Tooth Discovery Prompts Rethink of Human Evolution
Try borrowing a good e-ink reader to see if it helps. If so, get a good one with larger screen if you'll be using more for textbooks.
For another fun example with serious consequences for the guy who arranged the fraud, read about the former Dean of the business school at Temple in Philadelphia who lied to USNews and may go to jail for up to 25 years.

https://billypenn.com/2021/12/02/temple-dean-guilty-rankings...

Notes:

- he isn’t going to go to jail for lying to US News. That isn’t the crime.

- it’s unlikely anyone from Columbia is quite as shameless as he was. More likely they are just being a bit “creative” with what they count as “instructional spending” or with what counts as a “class”.
Yup.

It’s a Pixar animation, like the classic “Luxo Lamp” animation.
Yeah but they were shit proposals that just tried to attach a bunch of random progressive ideas to carbon neutral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal#Green_New_Deal_...

> "Guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of the United States."
"Providing all people of the United States with – (i) high-quality health care; (ii) affordable, safe, and adequate housing; (iii) economic security; and (iv) access to clean water, clean air, healthy and affordable food, and nature."
Which leads me to the question: why isn’t the Pentagon/Navy doing basic analyses and arriving at conclusions such as simple optical effects vs. UAP (aliens!?)

If you assume the Pentagon/Navy is not incredibly incompetent and can indeed understand things such as parallax, I’m led to think this entire change in stance around UFOs is some sort of shitty psyops campaign designed to obscure information around secret/next-gen aircraft that are being developed.
The sample code does not demonstrate how to get the page to be flagged dirty so that the kernel actually writes it back to disk. Did I miss something?
Pipe dream. You can’t run a military on green energy. The West needs to re-industrialize, quickly, or it’ll lose the next Cold War.
> at least within the US

Because America has straight lines everywhere and no curves, unlike other places.

Calculus is absolutely required for most engineering tasks.

Maybe for CS students there could be more emphasis on statistics as well, without diluting the calculus.

Infact, where I studied, calculus was a prerequisite for certain statistics and probability classes. For good reason.
This is why I'm not really concerned about climate change. In fact, it strikes me that the replacement energy technologies have existed for some time, but have been artificially held back in order to prolong the age of oil which benefits a lot of powerful people. Once their power is actually substantively threatened by climate change, they'll do what's necessary.
fyi- ADSBExchange.com is the uncensored one
Mycroft, but you probably have to roll your own hardware. They do have a product though, should ship later this year:

https://mycroft.ai/
The nice thing is that it's easy to trade for e.g. monero.
There's a book called "The trouble with Physics" written by Lee Smolin in 2006, who is a theoretical physicist himself and wrote a survey on string theory back then, involved in the string theory community and documented his observations in that book.

In short the book conclude many of them are experiencing "group-think" and over-emphasize the importance of string theory given what they can't prove theoretically as well as experimentally.

> Many are approachable and responsive.

You must be talking about some other people here. In my experience we're not. We really don't have time to address to some random people from the public on why we disagree with what they believe.
Yeah, this.

A person not familiar with this situation would think that if a USB3 hub had USB2 ports on it, it would do packet level buffering and switching so that the 5-10Gb/s of the USB3 upstream would be shared among the 480Mb/s USB2 ports. It should be reasonable to get 8-10 USB2 ports all operating at their maximum bandwidth off of 1 USB3 port. After all, that's how Ethernet works.
> get us back to being ok again

For some definition of "us".
Try this: https://flatterer.opendata.coop/

There is no binary yet but there is a python CLI and library, even though it is written in rust.

It is the only tool that I know that deals with nested JSON and converts it into relational tables.

Here is a notebook of the python library usage.

https://deepnote.com/@david-raznick/Flatterer-Demo-FWeGccp_Q...
Most people think that we'll be able to deal with climate change when the impact becomes problematic but when that happens it will be already too late to do anything for the current generation.

There is a lag of decades between emissions and perceivable changes in the climate. We're now only seeing the effects from the emissions of the late 20th century.

The other important point that most of the public narrative is missing is climatic feedbacks. These are self sustaining systems that once triggered will have a life of its own and are already having a significant impact (eg: methane from the permafrost).

Finally, CO2 will remain in the atmosphere for centuries if not more.
Can you elaborate on the tagging scheme? I'm not sure if the tag is stored in the high bits or low bits of the data pointer. If it's the low bits, how does it interact with the VUE repr, whose pointers are char-aligned (that is, unaligned)?
Indeed, and the crime is stealing (unlawfully copying) the data within.

Admittedly it is an imperfect metaphor -- as all metaphors are -- but it is not "blatantly false."

Data is not fair game for the copying just because it's in a place you can reach it with `curl` without having to pass an authorization check. That's not the law, and it's not common sense.
Going through the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal#Green_New_Deal_...) it is pretty much a blank check, saying "we have to be 100% carbon free by 2050" isn't an actual proposal, it's just a goal.

I am not American, this is an actual good faith assessment as I don't have a favorite "party".
Larry Sanger, who cofounded Wikipedia, left Wikipedia to found a competitor named Citizendium, where experts were supposed to play a greater role than on Wikipedia. It failed.

The Encyclopedia Britannica, which had articles exclusively written by experts, was also outcompeted by Wikipedia.

It's unlikely that Wikipedia is going to change its model to give experts a greater say than they already do, but it would be interesting to see if another expert-curated encyclopedia could eventually compete. Maybe if some incredibly well-funded company like Google or Apple got behind it it could work (though that reminds me of Microsoft's Encarta, which also failed).
When I was younger, I was riding my bicycle and hit by a car. The driver had a GE Electric polo shirt on. He got out, said "are you ok?" (I was concussed and my bicycle was very damaged) and then left.

A few days later I contacted the local GE office (only one anywhere around) and described the car, the man and what happened. They got back to me the next day and advised they had no information for me.

Since then I've been actively hostile to GE and in various business activities found ways to cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'm aware this is a rounding error for them, but fuck those guys.
That is a very common screed that probably feels good but has no tangible effect.

Can you be more specific? Which lifestyles need to be reduced? What specific action are you demanding specific individuals take?
Thank you for engaging this with curiosity and good faith! Yes, I think de/activate is a great alternative.
its literally called 1Q84
The best calculator I used on desktop was the Powertoys Calculator. They had the data entry nailed.
Yes. This seems like an opinion piece. Not a factual analysis. While I agree with the gist of it I'm assuming I'm as uninformed as the author.
Ebbeh!!
If we do nothing my life will be completely fine. Currently we're on track to drastically reduce emissions and my life will be completely fine. You want to actively make my life worse. A conundrum.
It seems that the tag is in the low bits, and for VUE displaced low bits are stored in the offset field instead.
Customer support is treated as a cost center while PR is treated as something of great strategic value.
Has Lion’s Mane made demonstrable improvements in your intelligence???
Not disagreeing with what you're saying, but is that the right terminology? Once you start pulling levers and putting thumbs on scales like that, is it still a "free" market?
How would you manage these functions normally without an app?

I'd think an equalizers interface is complex enough that most headphones would simply not be able to provide adjustment options.
To undertake such tremendous personal risk to advance the state of brain-machine interfaces for us all - this guy is a hero in my book.

Futurists and the general populace can hand-wave about humanity's glorious digital future all they want - it will not come to pass without heroes like this paving the way.
In addition to the already mentioned jq, there's https://github.com/jehiah/json2csv
>there is no global consensus on how long patents should last.

Yes there is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPS_Agreement

Also, you're confusing patents and copyrights. Patents have not been extended for very long lengths.
That is rather fascinating. I wonder if there is some sort of treatment or inner ear procedure you could take to ground your spatial awareness.
I am not an expert but was in your shoes a few years ago so check and think on what I say.

The best chance of success will come from having more development time. So don't spend your money. You could also find partners, but make sure there is a peaking order (one of the founders has a plurality). So join someones existing project or sweat enough over your own that other founders would be willing to join at a lesser cut.

I would not register a business. Waste of money (dev time). You can wait till there are other founders or you have revenue and want a tax advantage. Assuming you are in the US you default to a sole proprietorship under your name anyhow, so no worries there. If you want a cool sounding name you file for a "Doing Business As" <cool name" for under ten bucks and ten minutes of your time.

I would not using the big cloud providers. Waste of money. Run it on k8s/VM/Container on your desktop or your PI till you have users or use free tier services.

I would not hire. At 20k the best bang for the buck would be your time.

I would not move. Again, costs. If you want to meet people you already seem to have a knack for it. :)

Also, hunter321 and yuppie_scum are wise men, hahaha, and I don't see any bad advice on this page. Add a contact to your about and I would be happy to chat.
Thanks for explaining, the AWS metaphor helped a lot.
Just wait until we have money that expires
I don't see it as an either/or. I'm fully onboard with deploying solar and wind, but I don't think renewables are sufficient to meet our energy demands today, nor will it come close to meeting the needs of a civilization with spacefaring ambitions. I don't quite get the rest of your points - any human organization can ignore risks out of ego or greed, as TEPCO did with Fukushima. It's definitely on those with power to set up a system that rewards good behavior. There are plenty of examples in the mining, gas, and chemistry industries of malfeasance as well as functional regulation. It's not reasonable to compare a first generation, 60 year old nuclear power station to recently deployed renewables. Renewables aren't the totally-green panacea that the ads make them out to be, there is plenty of waste involved, and I'm certain there will be a few environmental disasters related to solar that come to light in the future.
I'm not completely disagreeing with everything you said, but

> they should lose their jobs.

is too much.

You should also study the history of string theory and how their early days are miserable (too difficult to have a career as people denies string theory as physics.)

The correct approach would be to invest in string theory but also any other proponents of "theory of everything". The main issue today is that virtually only string theorist can make a career of being theoretical particle physicists.

The very fact is that there's no any other theories beyond the standard model that are falsifiable. If you require any theory to be falsifiable then no theoretical physicists can have a job. Not even the invention of general relativity would qualifies (remember although we can now falsify GM, it wasn't initially.)
> Of course it's analogous to theft, because someone very literally ends up with less money in their pocket

Thats a very slippery slope

Freeing slaves was theft

When Ghandy led subjects of India of the British Empire to the sea to mine salt, that was theft - mining salt was illegal for them

Using electromagnetic spectrum without a lisence is theft

Are you using the oxygen molecule I produced without paying? Is your house casting a shadow on my land, blocking sunlight i am entitled to?

What about ownership of airspace, 'ownership' of international waters and economic exclusive zones, ownership of orbits in space, ownership of the atmosphere and 'ownership' of pollution?

All ownership is a social construct - piracy is a symptom of the overall system being crap
And have dynamic ranges. A lot of bad ways of sensing have been selected against,.
This was almost certainly the case. It was extremely abnormal that the surgery happened at all.
Definitely low bits:

#define DATA(buf) ((char*)((intptr_t)((buf)->data) << BFT_TYPE_BITS))

Older programmers tend to raise an eyebrow at added computation like the "<<", but here in 2022 we need to remember that we are about to do a memory access and even if it's in L1 cache, that "<<" is basically free by comparison.
Are you suggesting that Trump being president was Hilary's fault? Like... we could have had a better president than Trump if not for Hilary?
> Game developers are in love with screenspace ambient occlusion (SSAO).

I work in 3d and I think I can say with confidence that developers are not in love with SSAO. It's just that real ambient occlusion for moving models is both really hard to set up and would totally blow the performance budget for most games, while in most 3d engines you can add SSAO in couple of minutes and it costs ~1ms per frame.

That will hopefully change as graphics cards that support raytracing become more common. But in the meantime, we know SSAO is a hack. We know it doesn't look physically correct, we only use it because (if done well) it looks better than the alternative, which is no ambient occlusion, or ambient occlusion only on static models.