skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who controls the media in the US? Not the president. That's an improvement over Russia.

Is it? The people who control the media also control the president. Don't think it is any better.

> Who has done more genocides than the US? Seriously?

Yes. Show me one nation/empire that genocided an entire continent full of peoples. Completely wiped out dozens of peoples, cultures and languages. To a point where we don't even know the etymology and meanings of the names of a bunch of states, cities, etc.

> Imperial Spain.

Not even close. There are tens of millions of full blooded native americans all over spanish colonies. There are hardly any in the US.

> The Mongol Horde.

Who did the mongol horde genocide? The russians? Ukrainians?

> The Muslim conquest of much of the near east.

Who did the muslims genocide? Persians? Spanish?

> Imperial Japan.

Who did the imperial japanese genocide?

> Nazi Germany.

Are you claiming nazi germany committed more genocide than the US? They committed 1 genocide. Now compare that to the dozens of peoples we wiped out.

> That's with about two minutes' thought.

It shows. 2 minutes seems about right. There have been dozens of native american nations wiped out. Dozens of native languages wiped out. Dozens of native cultures. Show me another peoples who wiped out a continent full of nations. I'll wait.

> Your bias is blinding you. Take an actual look at actual history.

Says the person who claims imperial japan committed more genocides than the US. Imperial Japan committed 0 genocides. US committed dozens. Are you going to claim imperial japan nuked more cities too?

It seems like you are confused about what the word genocide actually means. It doesn't mean conquering. It doesn't even mean killing a lot of people. It has a specific meaning which makes it one of the most evil acts in human history.
CDC reports fewer Covid-19 pediatric deaths after data correction
Wow amazing turns out if you prevent app developers from writing a feature for 10 years, when you do it yourself there's a big demand! Thanks Apple!
I made a similar comment yesterday and was rightfully downvoted so I’ll try again here.

The US military is a jobs program. Politically it is suicidal to support “socialism” but that’s exactly what military spending is.

So, what if we expanded that idea? What if we had a domestic infrastructure version of the US Military? Or at least a peaceful national service program?

The benefits seems clear to me. Opportunity, well lubricated gears of commerce, and a stronger sense of ownership among the electorate.
As a corollary to this: it's perhaps not surprising that the remaining conflict we do see is spearheaded by our increasingly aged heads of state, men and women who grew up in the shadow of WW2 and the peak of the Cold War.
I also somewhat worry the attention to safety standards make Aperture Science seem like a paragon of OSHA compliance....
I was very skeptical about this book, and even while reading along I'd get the feeling of "uh, this is way out there wacko", but I decided to just take it at it's word and follow along.

And now I am able to briefly enter a state of complete acceptance and feel pure love flowing through me, like the perfect hug from a perfect being that understands me in every way. The first time I actually teared up a bit, the feeling of being accepted the way I was with no judgement.

It could be God, it could be "collective consciousness", it could be me just tricking my brain into releasing endorphins (and I'm leaning towards that explanation). But the result is amazing, it has seriously helped me with anxiety, fear, self hatred, etc.
We have a parallel copy that indexes our intranet but other than that we use the same one everyone else does.
I don't debug programs that aren't mine.

Why would you even ask?
You can use it with fish. Here are a couple of previous threads on it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18593015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23758138
Imagine you were forced to do a SL1 run on your first play. That'd be more difficult. You would suffer more. Would you appreciate it more? I suspect not.

The sweet spot is when something is challenging for the particular player and they are able to overcome that challenge through growth. But because each player is different, it is not possible for a single tuning to hit that sweet spot for every possible person.
Let’s be clear where the blame sits. The “prison industrial complex” isn’t creating this. Private enterprise is set up to profit from incarceration rates and thus recidivism, but the reason that people can’t get jobs after they finish their sentence is the fault of all of us. Every company that refuses to hire somebody with a record is contributing to the problem, as is every person who looks down on somebody for having been incarcerated.
Ask HN: What Happened to Svbtle?
I use https://svbtle.com as a blogging platform about once a month. The past couple of days it has returned a 503 [1]. Nothing came up on Twitter or Google about them having an outage. I don't know how to figure out what's going on. I've never considered backing any of my content up because of the svbtle Promise [2]. I'm hoping it comes back up so I can at least backup/migrate my content.

[1] https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/svbtle.com

[2] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LXB7R6sD2i4J:https://svbtle.com/promise+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-d
Diana Moon Glampers, applied to infrastructure.
Heal your wounds & find your true self by Lise Bourbeau
Being Geek by Michael Loop

Very good at putting into words my introspection efforts and try to devise action plans for both personal and professional growth.
Oil extractors should be charged for the pollution they make. This will encourage them to build the infrastructure to collect the natural gas. https://www.energymonitor.ai/tech/cleaner-fuels/oil-industry...

Using it to make Bitcoin is only currently economically viable due to a combination of underregulation of oil extractors (reducing the cost of the pollution) and underregulation of cryptocurrencies (increasing the profit from mining), with both types of regulation being held back by Texas legislators.
In the hierarchy of moving things around, from difficult to easy:

- natural gas (building a pipeline)

- electricity (generation, transformers, high voltage lines, etc.)

- bits (copper, fiber, microwave, cellular, satellite all are viable for low bandwidth operation)

It's orders of magnitude in terms of cost difference.

The issue with superchargers is mostly that these places are in the middle of nowhere--nobody is going to be driving their Tesla across the Permian.
No ... you.
> studding Physics

Typo or rhetoric?

A collectible, either way ;-)
> Does not emit radiation

triple!
"an inherent trade off between environmental consideration and speed"

It's not just environmental consideration. Speed also incentivizes corner cutting, nepotism, and all sorts of corrupt behavior. Evergrande is a great example of speed. Banks in China made the same mistakes that banks in US made in 2008. If banks in China had tight regulations for the last 20 years, real estate growth would be significantly hampered.

China should be given credit in that their leaders learned from other countries and leveraged their population size to grow with incredible speed. However, I would argue that China's rise to power has less to do with their efficiency and more to do with laws of growth. If we exclude Covid, I am willing to bet that China will not be able to sustain double digit growth ever again. In fact, I am willing to bet my house that when China achieves US's per capita GDP levels, China will never achieve double digit growth ever again.
Former employee. The internal search, Moma, is actually much worse. Although it was made much better when it was reworked a few years ago. Internal sites can't be ranked in the same way as external ones.

But the truly loved search service within Google is codesearch. And that's great
I was talking about skipping Margit (which is boss 1) and all bosses after. But at the capital after the Dectus lift you will get blocked. I don't wanna spoil too much, but that's basically as far as you can go without killing anything.
Look at the first formula in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics#Mathem...

If A and B are zero then F is zero and you can forget the second part of the right hand part of the equation. Also, you must replace D with ∂.

Now you have equation of electrons and positrons that move in a universe that has no electromagnetism. The important part is that in that equation, the only variable is ψ(t,x,y,z) that appears twice, the rest of the things written there are just derivatives, constants or indices.

Now you can turn on B(t,x,y,z) that represents the external field, so the electrons and positions move in a more interesting patterns, but they don't "see" each other. Again, the only variable is ψ(t,x,y,z).

Now you do the trick with a local U(1) symmetry, and the only way to do the trick is to add a new variable A(t,x,y,z). But you must use the complete equation because as explained in Wikipedia F(t,x,y,z) is calculated using the derivatives of A(t,x,y,z). So now you have two variables ψ(t,x,y,z) and A(t,x,y,z).

So you "add a new field A" to the list of variables that appear in the right hand of the equation, or to be more precise, you get a new equation that has one additional variable A.
W o W ! :O
Moving a front-end to Rust and WASM
Gnome fixed their performance problem a release or two back. It has other problems.
Other than a rambling rant is there a real connection to the book amongst all of the verbiage?
I think they mean “Smart Pipe.”
>>> The upside is that — and this is admittedly a strange time to suggest it — the world is going to be a lot less violent.

This only makes sense if the population declines faster than the habitability of the earth does.
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten;
even so, they have made me.”
Add to your theory/model. In order to make the symmetry work, you need something to "fix" the discrepancy you would otherwise have in the equations. So you add this field (variable) to make the whole thing consistent. In the end, you see you needed this "gauge field" (for historical reasons these are called "gauge symmetries") which is electromagnetism.
What do you use for Python environments? I couldn't get that to work properly the last time I tried.
Do you start each of these games with SL1 runs? Likely not.

This means that you are engaging with the game in an optional way that makes the game easier (leveling up). You do not have to do that. In what way is somebody engaging with the game in a different optional way that makes the game easier unacceptable?

What it sounds like you want is for the game to sit near the top of an individual players' capabilities. What if making the game optionally easier achieves that for some people?
Sure can. I can get grants specifically to hire someone. As long as that's specified in the grant, and I can prove that's what I did with the money, there's no issue. Non-profit in this circumstance, rather than education.
Of course the 9 lines imply all of physics. Just mention a part of physics that is missing, and I'll buy you a beer.

"Zero entropy" is indeed against the laws of physics - in this universe. It may be different in other universes.

Line 2 does not speak about locality, but about the speed of light. Entanglement does not violate the speed of light - in this universe. It may be different in other universes.

If you know what a Lagrangian is - in quantum theory, in quantum field theory, in the standard model and in general relativity - you also know that there is no random interpretation in the 9 lines.
The original iPhone still had a front-surface, physical button
I use Ansible Vault to deploy environment-specific configuration files which contain sensitive information and are version-controlled separately from the corresponding projects themselves.

The group who has access to the Ansible Vault data is much smaller and is already responsible for managing other similar types of sensitive data. While this method ultimately just moves the problem to another location, it seems more sensible to me, at least for my purposes.
No, that isn't clear at all. Bad and unpopular laws can remain on the books for a long time if there is a politically powerful minority who benefits from them.

Also it might just be that most people don't even know about the problem.
ND has passed legislation to incentivize flare mitigation (e.g. https://www.ndlegis.gov/assembly/67-2021/documents/21-0935-0...) that aims for the carrot rather than the stick, though I anticipate that at some point in the near future we will see more jurisdictions go for the stick.
New Hampshire doesn't divert gas tax money away from road maintenance. [0]

[0] https://reason.org/policy-brief/how-much-gas-tax-money-state...
I don't think that's even cost to where we are...
Yes. Communication is the O(n^2) problem in group work. Everything else you do is limited by the efficiency of your communication.
With several recent PRDs.
The same variability goes for doctors as well.
how to use codesearch outside $googl?
I think you are asking a very important and useful question, and one which seems like it could be a significant part of the conversation about climate change too...

I think we know roughly why K-12 schools are like they are -- teachers didn't know how to use computers much at all in the 90s when I was a kid and it's a running gag that they never really understood them. Now they do, so it's a new option that I think it's fair to recognize truly is new.

I do work in education and spent a ton of time figuring out how to make video lectures for instructors in the department that were effective, and tons of new online teaching tools were tested that there was never a huge push to play with before.

I don't think it's malice, it's simply that those professors have been doing it one way for 30 years and asking them to learn to do it a whole new way is a big ask. They have to spend all their time writing grants and other bureaucracy, mentoring students, and from personal experience I think it's fair to say that there is little appetite for changing everything to something no one knows how to judge the quality of due to lack of experience in an active classroom. It is the software equivalent of pushing a change straight to a live server, except in this case if you screw it up and do a bad job you're impacting the quality of education being provided to at least dozens of students who deserve better. It's really hard to just in-place make a change without the ability to actually test it.

I hope more people get something closer to your experience, I think the last few years have pushed a lot of people on that education side into a much more open mindset now that online classes are less risky. I think it does serve a purpose to have high school kids in person because of social things and the reality that a group of 20 kids will on average do a better job of finishing stuff they aren't really excited to do whereas one kid remotely is more likely to slip through the cracks. There's also issues with equity when internet and computers and space to learn aren't uniformly available.

But I think you're asking the right question. Let's get cars off roads and turn these stupid commercial parks into residential areas please, we need more affordable housing, not redundant space for people to work in when they're not at home... and the climate control for these giant unnecessary buildings... heck, the parking lots alone are a huge net negative especially if you account for the reality that many many fewer people really need to visit those buildings on any given day.
More mining only results when the marginal kW of power becomes cheaper. Using otherwise-wasted power for mining does not affect prices at the margin, it's almost certainly a pure gain for the producer. The most expensive supply of something is the first to drop away when gains to the marginal supplier decrease (because some of these gains were opportunistically grabbed by inframarginal suppliers).
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was the first thing I read which challenged my teenaged conservative viewpoint.
> … but it quickly became obvious that we are still really far from something the business could find value in.

My experience with basically everything that is marketed as AI.
MarkdownFormula: Use Excel-like formulas in Markdown tables
I would counterargue that corners are often cut just as terribly in the US. The corners are simply cut slower, because everything here is done slower.

For example, electronics built in the US are typically shittier than electronics built in China, despite taking significantly longer to build and employees being paid orders of magnitude more (as noted by companies like Apple, Purism, etc.)

Within our culture in the US there is a clear and comically obvious problem of bureaucracy and red-tape. This doesn't really exist in software yet, but the day our government gets its claws into the software industry is the day that innovation in the US can be put to rest. (Well, it's already happening - if you try to create a software startup that processes user data, you are probably breaking tens of laws you don't even know exist.)

There is also a cultural difference. One thing I have noticed when working with my Chinese coworkers is that they do not bullshit nearly as much as my other coworkers. They get straight to the point, deal in metrics and facts, and don't try to inflate their accomplishments. Maybe that's just my current work environment, maybe it's a cultural thing - I suspect the latter.
And the same claim is void if warfare will turn to be drone/remote-based.
What are the countries and cultures bucking the trend? It might be useful to understand what the world will look like in 50 years.
The barcode register attack was explored in a episode of The X-Files titled Duane Barry (2x05; 14 Oct 1994), when Special Agent Dana Scully scans a chip (that had been found implanted in her neck and subsequently removed) at a grocery store checkout scanner, and iirc all the registers went berserk. So this is definitely a thing.
"Just grind to level up" is, in my opinion, a way worse system than "go to the menu and select 'easy mode.'" The effect is roughly the same but takes hours of boring gameplay rather than five seconds of menuing.

I'd be much more receptive to the "no easymode" argument if the games didn't have RPG elements at their very core.
> By 2025, either these models will have hit a wall on diminishing returns and it will take a complete pivot to some other approach to continue to see notable gains, or the products will continue to have improved at compounding rates and access will have become business critical in any industry with a modicum of competition.

Is there a single example in AI, or even technology as a whole, where simply continuing to apply one technique has led to compounding growth? Even Moore's Law, according to none other than Jim Keller[1], is more a consequence of thousands of individual innovations that are each quite distinct from others but that build on each other to create this compounding growth we see. There is no similar curve for AI.

In this case, GPT-3 (released in 2020) uses the same architecture as GPT-2 (released in 2019), expanded to have ~100x more parameters. It's not hard to see that compounding this process will rapidly hit diminishing returns quickly in terms of time, power consumption, cost of hardware, etc. Honestly, if Google, Amazon and Microsoft didn't see increased computational cost as a financial benefit for their cloud services, people might be willing to admit that GPT-3 is a diminishing return itself: for 100x parameters, is GPT-3 over 100x better than GPT-2?

It seems that the big quantum leaps in AI come from new architectures applied in just the right way. CNNs and now transformers (based on multi-head attention) are the ways we've found to scale this thing, but those seem to come around every 25 years or so. Even the classes of problems they solve seem to change discretely and then approach some asymptote.

Copilot will probably improve, but I doubt we will see much compounding. My best guess is that Copilot will steadily improve "arithmetically" as users react to its suggestions, or even that it will just change sporadically in response to this.

[0]https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA?t=1975
My standard kit still includes a pair of fine-point forceps from my dad's lab that he gave to me for cleaning mice when I went off to college. It's been a long time since I used them for mice, but they're now really handy for charging ports.
Russia’s New “Trusted Root CA”
My favourite example is Airdrop. It never ever was reliable for me, hidden problems made it inoperational between changing combination of 3 apple products (2 MacBooks and one iPhone) most of the time.
Mostly it does not work. The other device does not appear on the 'radar'. Even when works then one file at a time, choosing 3 options for each single one, e.g. transfer 4 pdf I require on the road for travel, drag only one (4 at the same time is refused), accept teansfer, select where to put it let's say files, then select where in files. repeated 4 times. Not even remotely user friendly or making life easier as it was supposed to. But if you have a picture (e.g. screenshot you have no choice at all, it decides that it WILL go among pictures, that's it!
Right now I only can send files from one Mac to iPhone but not the other way around. It was working two ways before until an update on one of the devices, don't remember which one. And remained so even after repeated updates on both (one is an old SE so that may be just behind features or what, but I don't care why! I am not for my f.g phone but the other way around! I paid for it to help me not for solving mysteries! It should just work but it just not!)
I know it's trite to say it, but in my early 20s reading Atlas Shrugged helped me regain my bearings. And, no, it did not turn me into Peter Thiel.
I’m trying to build a house on empty land in Los Angeles. It’s about 15mins from downtown in Mt Washington. We bought the land in April of 2019 and started on the design and permitting process immediately. Despite it being in populated Los Angeles, we need a septic system, to widen the road and add curbs, move a power pole, relocate 3 trees, and extend a water line. We won’t have gas as we want to go all solar. All of this the city is making us pay for.

Our permit for a small septic system took 14 months to approve.

The power department has told us it will likely take 12 months for them to approve the pole movement (the city is making us move it as part of the road widening).

The water main needs to be extended 12 feet, and it’s mandated that the utility company must do that work and it will cost us $75k.

The tree permit took us 12 months to get and requires us to get a bond too.

We still haven’t got approval for the road widening, it’s been almost 18 months. Keep in mind this is just the road in front of our house in a residential area of Los Angeles. There are lots of homes on our street already.

I’m originally from Australia. The American bureaucracy is insane. The agencies don’t talk to each other. Often times we have been acting as the go between for different departments that worked in the same building!

Los Angeles has a huge housing shortage. If my experience is anything to go by, it’s because the bureaucracy is so dense it takes years to just get the permits in place. It would be cheaper and better if I could just pay a bribe and get it done quickly.

Americans seem to know what the problem is, but just accept that nothing can be done about it. Like you all know the DMV sucks and the USPS sucks, but everyone has just accepted that’s it’s just the way it is and decided to live with it. Why?! Hold your officials accountable to actually run government effectively.