skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot wrap my head around how can You throw away empiricism - for me this is the only working way to validate mental models. Without it You just have infinite space of possibilities that are based on some subset of axioms that You choose as You please. It becomes just a logical and emotional game of who says it better (have better stories to tell).

And I don't belive in numbers or cities - they are just useful abstractions that stop existing when I stop thinking about them (and I'm guessing this is not a property of any potential imaginery supreme being).
As a hug fan and avid user of Kitty, I have to agree. The maintainer definitely behaves a bit like a jerk. It really is a shame because the product he made is incredibly nice.
An 'app' to make friends?

It's called going to the pub mate. Not sitting playing with your fondle slab.
>so why would they care about his camera?

I mean it seems pretty obvious. Because a private person could potentially do anything from stalking you, to using your image in some political campaign or advertisement or whatever else.

Potentially much worse and intrusive than being filmed by a parking lot camera. Here in Germany it even is illegal unless consent is given.
The pharmacist turned me down from picking up my doctor-prescribed scheduled substance from CVS because I wanted to pay in cash and she thought it seemed suspicious.

Never went to CVS again, I assure you, but cash definitely has a stigma in some situations.
I like the idea that happiness lies in helping others. But then I get into a loop with the following thought: if everyone just focused on helping others, no one would want to be helped (they'd all prefer helping others) and therefore it wouldn't do anyone any good.

Maybe I'm overthinking this...
What is considered rude is entirely subjective. For instance, I feel bringing up something after being told why it wouldn't work and wasting people's time is rude.

Perhaps you would have phrased it differently. But I don't buy the idea that every interaction should be sugar coated.

Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.
I have been continuing my ketamine therapy and the insights revealed align with this writing from what I read in the intro.

> ... the aim of this book is to prompt each one of us to think more deeply about the reality of all that we as a seemingly limited individual consciousness experience and know ...

I find that fitting in some regard given what I experience and how much is going on in our mind all the time.

I am glad this was posted today. Perfect timing. Will be curious to see how it stands as a whole.
Having children is hard. Why do you think it would've been easier physically, mentally, career-wise when you are a lot less established and more stressed in the early 20s?

Isn't the conclusion here "Young children will make your life worse, do not have them"?
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This is really nice to read. My wife and I went through a similar thing. Her mom found BRCA recently so my wife got tested.

Luckily she didn't have the mutation, but it was a very scary time because we have a young daughter who might have also had it.
Totally! Unfortunately, last I heard, Beaker was dead:

https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/discussions/1944

https://atek.cloud/blog/hello-world

This is a great idea, but the big problem with Beaker is the network effects: only Beaker users can see other Beaker users' sites. To be successful, I think the idea needs to run over regular HTTP(S) so that other browsers can still access these personal sites. This means, at least at the beginning, that someone needs to run the infrastructure that maps stable URLs to a P2P connection to individual browsers. Mozilla is in a good position to do that.
I had to think about it. Is it a conscious design effort or just a function otherwise unrelated issues?
World of Warcraft was pretty good at it some 15 years ago.

People need incentives to make friends, not an app.
Correct me if I’m wrong, b it we can maybe, just about, for a lot of money, store electricity for a couple of hours. Maybe days with hydro. Multiple months seems like an impossibility.

The link you provided seems to just mention plans and studies, not building subsea electricity cables. Also says

> The project failed twice due to the problem of transportation and cost-inefficiency.
Sort of similar experience...

Not that I was heavy drinker in the first place, but something strange related to alcohol started to happened to me during lockdown/covid. The very thought or taste of alcohol makes me sick and if I do drink, I am out of commission for several days. And I talking about just a single beer or a neat whiskey.

Perhaps it's related to being in the same location 24/7? Perhaps I have less anxiety because I don't have to deal with people in person as much? Perhaps I'm subconsciously aware/appreciative of how fortunate/privileged I am given the situation? It's been rough, but I know others are struggling and seek solace and tranquility in their insobriety. Perhaps I just outgrew alcohol?

I used to like enjoying a beer after a long day at work or during recreation. Two years on, I simply don't miss it at all.

I hope that anyone dealing with this struggle and disease can find the strength, support and help they (and their families and friends) need to fight this demon.
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I don't get your point. As you say, uranium is common. And you don't need a lot of it.

So the solution is obvious: extract it domestically or buy from friendly countries.
Russia to sell natural gas to 'unfriendly countries' in rubles
Church is only good if someone is already a believer: We shouldn't be pushing religion as a solution to addiction, though. That is one of many issues with AA (Yes, I know it works for some people, but it fails so many)
Strange, where is the sources backing up that it should always be painless? Found lots of resources pointing towards that many do in fact feel a burning sensation from potassium IV:

- https://cms.galenos.com.tr/Uploads/Article_21792/EAJEM-16-14...

- https://www.webmd.com/drugs/drugreview-6224-potassium-chlori...

- https://www.nyspana.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/NYSPANA-P...

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730072/

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3063479/

- https://musculardystrophynews.com/forums/forums/topic/17193/

- https://www.nursingcenter.com/journalarticle?Article_ID=3535...
Your comment illustrates a large part of the problem. If society believes addiction is mostly a willpower problem, then effective services to help address it won't exist.
Another long-term Vuescan user here. From memory it was the Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X transition and lack of vendor support for the new OS that caused me to seek it out. The only thing I would love for them to add would be a way for the app to self-update.
It's almost as if there are entire lobbies that pour tons of money into PR efforts to promote those falsehoods and tarnish the reputations of those public services in order to shift public sentiment towards their privatisation!
use VMs. qemu/kvm. the Tor-based Whonix OS takes the approach of one VM running a Tor proxy and another VM running your application software. the latter VM only has access to that proxy, and no other network interface. it’s effectively the same approach as i understand a slug to be, but with the hardware virtualized instead of physical (or course you don’t have to use Tor — you can define whatever interface you want: a VPN, a firewall, etc).
> rationalise drinking alcohol because "everyone else does it".

I don't think most smart people rationalize it at all. They just do it without a care. I drink a few beers once in a while and I don't have any concern doing that.

I also eat completely harmful sugary treats once in a while.

Heck, I even risk my life driving on roads at high (legal) speed once in a while just for fun. We call it a road trip.
> It's hard to justify reading the book if I don't think I do want to stop smoking or drinking.

I agree with you that the book might not be right for you if you don't want to stop. On the other hand, I didn't think I wanted to stop drinking, until I did want to stop, and then suddenly I wished I hadn't spent the last 10 years drinking. It ultimately didn't enhance my life at all. But I wouldn't have heard that message until I was ready.
"And IMHO if you weren't at home with toddlers you didn't experience true suffering."

Hahaha that's just life (laughing at the statement, not the situation). For the past few years, most days I get off of work and immediately have to start watching the kid for several hours while my wife works. Of course they're too young to do (safely watch) many of the chores or projects I have to do (mechanic work, handyman work, mow the lawn, etc). I get one day a week "off" to do all those chores and projects, although it's not unusual for part of that day or one or two of those days per month to require me to watch the kid too. I haven't gone fishing or participated in certain hobbies since the kid was born.
I can totally see how it could benefit some people but for me I don't find it works, I feel like it forces a slow on few letters words or group of words that I could have read in one glance. Also I tried a bit of speed reading and I feel like I already read faster than I can process information and that my eyes are not the bottleneck when deep reading.
Do you prefer to give the money to Google? Honest question, I don't mistake any of those companies neither with evil nor with NGOs.

Maybe Spotify should offer a discount.
I am russian born (thats just for context). I feel incredibly fortunate that this war happened when Trump is no longer in office.

I think were it happen while Trump was actively disparaging NATO, sowing discord among allies, ridiculing soft power of liberal democracies, all happening against a backdrop of deferring to tyrants and dictators, a spinning rotating door of chiefs of staff and secretaries of state at the White House, self-pitying rallies of sycophants, daily scandals, active sabotage of long-standing institutions of government with loyal figureheads, holding military aid to Ukraine hostage for political blackmail, questioning the need of foreign aid for populist points, the pattern of denial, shifting responsibility, blaming others as a response to pandemic… Need I go on?

I don’t think Putin would’ve needed much more than that to tip the scales in his favor.

In my opinion Putin either tremendously miscalculated the timing of the invasion to after Trumps term in the office, or was expecting his second term to bring about even more fertile conditions.
In my experience as a user in the EU Apple's refund process is pretty good, I've basically never had a refund refused with the "right of withdrawal" option. But I guess it can suck if Apple randomly decides to refuse the refund even if the developer would be willing to accept it, especially for non-EU users.
Steam doesn't belong there, as it's not the only avenue for developers to distribute games on PC.

Even Google Play is iffy, as developers could distribute through 3rd party app stores or sideloading, though Google makes that harder than it should be.

Apple is really the only one of the 3 you mentioned that forces a 15/30% cut if developers want to distribute an app on their platform.
If your email address is publicly available, then yes, gross people will scrape it and spam you. That goes for everything.

Use the private email options or at least have a unique email for commits that you can easily identify that it came from someone scraping and just filter for it.
> a big difference between filming a specific public location, which I happen to pass through, and filming _me_ specifically.

How do you know they aren't filming you specifically[1], and why do you trust them?

[1] And don't say 'I'm not interesting enough', 'cos I don't believe you.
This is a pretty interesting find, it did help me read faster. I think the website would be better served by having the example texts be different though.
I did that. When I bought our first M1 Mac, it was faster in multi-core Rust builds than my Ryzen 3700X workstation. I have since upgraded to an M1 Pro and a Ryzen 5900X. The 5900X is faster (12 cores vs. 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores), but not by much. For example, building one of my Rust projects:

M1 Pro:

~ % cargo install --force finalfrontier
[...]
Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 16.25s

5900X:

~ % cargo install --force finalfrontier
[...]
Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 11.61s

If we count the two efficiency cores as being as powerful as a single performance core, the performance, the per-core performance is on-par ((9/12.) * 16.25 = 12.1875).

In other tasks, the M1 Pro blows the Ryzen 5900 away. For example, the M1 Pro reaches 2685 GFLOP/s in matrix multiplication, while the Ryzen 5900X peaks at 1555 GFLOP/s [1].

Oh and all of that while the Ryzen CPU alone consumes 120W during builds and needs a big loud fan (Noctua), while the MacBook Pro is inaudible and runs on battery. The MacBook I can throw in my backpack and use everywhere. The best computer is the one that's with you.

(And no, mobile Ryzen doesn't even come close. I had a ThinkPad with a high-end Ryzen CPU last year, and builds where much slower than even the vanilla M1.)

[1] https://github.com/danieldk/gemm-benchmark#1-to-16-threads
Typically orchestral musicians are paid salaries concomitant with other similarly high skilled professions, and orchestra budgets tend to be heavily subsidized. An HR department would inevitably be a substantial added expense.
When it is in the hands of a single corporation. We're nearly there.
The opposite is true, in fact - a patent is a monopoly on the patented technology, no matter where alternative implementations come from. You might be thinking of “clean room” techniques which protect against claims of copyright infringement.
Unknot
sure, but then we will also halt mass immigration that's being allowed for the sake of making up for our already very negative population growth, right?
> Does it really matter whose child it is?

I'm not sure I understand. Are you asking why it matters for a man to unknowingly raise another man's child, which his wife conceived while being unfaithful to him?
People publishing a study that is so blatantly against everything that is statistically likely should be called out.

The author published an email he also - before publication - sent to the people involved.

Science happens in public for a reason. The reason is that others should be able to check the results being published. Authors should therefore be very aware of the fact, that their results might come under scrutiny.

If one were to publish claims that look so unlikely based on valid scientific methods they should at least address the unlikeliness of the results and provide a rationale why this is still valid, even if it looks unlikely.

That didn't happen - and so they get called out. The extreme unlikeliness is what validates the claim of this being fraudulent data. Now it is on the original study`s authors to react to that public answer to their publication.
This is really interesting. I wonder how difficult it would be to have a set of "training texts" where the reader/user is presented with different parameters to observe optimum points for speed vs retention.
Excited to read the study when it's published.
> what's interesting is that static typing buys you somewhat minimal gains in performance.

There are a lot of caveats here. You could potentially claim "minimal gains in peak performance if you can apply adaptive JIT compilation techniques", but even that is stretching it somewhat.

Adaptive JITing comes at a price in terms of warmup, memory usage and implementation complexity. Fixed object shapes help somewhat to reduce the amount of checks needed but they don't take you all the way there. Optimising numerics remains challenging (e.g. think about optimising the case where a field always contains a `double` floating-point value or a field that always contains a 64-bit integer value). Knowing the shape of the container does not yield any information about the shape of elements which implies that some checks have to stay behind in the loops. Yes, monomorphic checks are usually simple (compare+branch) but polymorphic are not. And so on and so forth.

Yes, Dart 1 is easier to compile into efficient code compared to JavaScript. Dart 2 is even easier though - because it is more statically typed.

> but fear that it painted itself into a corner by first targeting memory managed languages.

FWIW WASM GC is coming - and it looks great.
I remember I heard of Tandy by messing around with settings in Arkanoid (DOS) when I was a kid (I was born in 1983)
I don't think India would weaponize H1-B, but it wouldn't be beyond Russia or China. BTW, having sleeper agents deeply implanted in other countries is an insurance policy.
I haven't seen it mentioned but there is Start9 [0] which is a privacy focused plug and play server. I own one but haven't had the time to set it and and use it properly.

It's a Raspberry Pi running their own OS and can host a variety of apps from their marketplace. But they seem to make it easy enough to add services that users develop.

[0] https://start9.com/latest/
> You also need stuff like networking, TLS/certs, and DNS which aren't easily packaged

The only thing that cannot be packaged is changing your home network settings. For this you need to click buttons on your modem/router. Fortunately, many selfhosted programs (eg. prosody for XMPP chat) and distros (eg. yunohost) have check commands or panels to figure out what's not configured well on your network and guide you through the process.

Also worth pointing out, Yunohost distro is also intended to be used over a VPN precisely so you don't have to deal with networking setup. Yunohost was bred in the non-profit ISP scene here in France and so your local ISP will provide you with an "internet cube" (SBC) and a VPN access giving you real public IPv4/IPv6 so that:

- you don't have to configure the network

- you don't have to change DNS settings when you change connection (your server works if you take it with you over 3G/4G/whateverG)

- your ISP doesn't get to filter the network (unless it filters VPN access but that's rather uncommon)

See also https://internetcu.be/
Nuclear should compete with fossil fuels - not renewables. Nuclear power provides 50% of the US's clean energy.

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/ebf301/node/457

We need to replace natural gas with nuke plants. Fossil fuel extraction is the worlds largest source of nuclear waste, not nuclear energy. No one worries about the tons of radon released from fracking. They call it "natural". https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-04-14/fracking-incre...

I'm all for renewable - don't stop it. But there are many places in the world where a nuke plant would be the right choice. It would be great if we got this amount of resistance to new hydrocarbon vehicles or plants.
I asked why you found it enjoyable and you didn't respond, so it's hard to explain the author's viewpoint when you haven't explained why you drink.

To give generalised responses to the three main reasons that people give:

- Do you enjoy the taste?

- Alcohol is ultimately a foul-tasting poison. No one ever liked their first taste of beer. We start with highly-flavoured drinks like alcopops and after a while our body says "well you must have a damn good reason for imbibing this poison, so I'll stop warning you as much".

- Do you think it helps you relax?

- Alcohol dulls your senses. I'd consider relaxing to be a sensation, and so in this respect it can't help you relax. On a deeper level, generally to relax you need to fix the thing that would stop you from relaxing - you have a headache and you take aspirin. Alcohol is not the solution to any stressor.

- Do you think it's necessary to enjoy social situations?

- Think about children at a party. They turn up very shy and within 30 mins are bouncing off the walls. No alcohol needed. Adults are the same. And we all have multiple memories of social events that have been ruined by alcohol.
Even worse to me is so many orchestras have to pay the bills with performances of Christmas music or orchestral versions of Motley Crue.

Imagine putting in that many hours of practice on the classical masters to end up with a low paying job playing Frosty the Snowman and Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar On Me".
Sadly life isnt logical. Some people cant open up at all without alcohol. Alcohol may be their only way to connect with people. It can help them relax as it relives stress, some enjoy that it breaks the ice on social situations etc.. Human isnt logical being.
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While I agree on the principle of same-sex marriage and people should be able to do and love whoever they want,

> People trying to deny other people's humanity

why was Proposition 8, the proposal to ban same-sex marriage, a referendum, if by your standards one choice is good and the other is denying other people's humanity? What is the point of democracy and referendums if one possible answer is deemed incorrect and inhumane a priori?

That said, I think we're straying too far off topic, and I usually am one that hates when any discussion about Mozilla or Brave touches on Eich's controversy. So I will stop now.
These are all misconceptions that the book addresses. Alcohol does not relieve stress, it deadens senses. To combat stress you need to solve the problem that is causing your stress.

Alcohol does not improve confidence, it reduces inhibitions. Inhibitions are essential for being rational and making good decisions. See: people who have a drink and then injure themselves or get into fights.
If I wanted to be hard to detect, I'd run my messages through a couple machine translators so any metrics you may want to collect would be distorted enough it wouldn't be easy to tie them to your own messaging.

And that target is what made me first think of one or more government agents infiltrating and financing the group.
Yep, pain at the infusion site is an incredibly common complaint with potassium IV. The person you replied to is talking confidently outside of their expertise.
And even then a bit slanted, as the M1 is half performance cores and half efficiency cores.
Outputting and manipulating side-effects can be useful even in imperative code.

I had real performance problems a while back attempting to build a very large file, my code could only produce the write instructions out of order and the file was too big to hold in memory, so what I ended up doing was writing writing instructions in radix-grouped batches to a bunch of temporary files, and then reading and evaluating them to build the large file.

This seems counter-intuitive, as it more than doubles both the amount of data written to disk as well as adds a reading-step, but doing it this way means the data is written in a way the hardware can deal with a lot more efficiently. Sequential access to and from the instruction files (off a mechanical drive), and densely clustered writes to the big output file. (on an SSD, strictly sequential writes matters less than being in the same block)

This reduced the runtime from several hours to like 5 minutes.
Do you mean they are hot as well?
You're probably thinking of U238 vs U235 supply. Most reactors today use U235, which is as rare as platinum (if not more rare!). If we switched to breeder reactors that used U238, we wouldn't have this problem of running out of uranium.
I feel you, I ended up working from 8pm to 4am when my kindergartners were at home. I’d sleep until 10 (my partner got the kids up in the morning) and then watch them while my partner worked.
The author doesn't mention laziness, which is pretty huge. Laziness is half of immutable data structures!

I have a tidbit in the first paragraphs: http://blog.vmchale.com/article/effects
If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)
I find that more than likely.