skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no op, but just went through my 6th synapse / element install..

A lot of the clunky is stuff like postgres settings - is the hbaconfig thing right? why is my default install of postgres oin deb 11 listening to public ips - why does it take 36 hours of chat replies to figure out that broken part..

why does certbot muck up my nginx - it's not matrix fault, or certbot's fault or nginx's fault - I just followed different parts of different tutorials for different pieces of the needed things and things broke.

I wish support / QnA was moved out of the chat rooms and into a QnA wordpress theme so people didn't get ignored at whatever hour and issues missed.

I tried ansible a bunch of times over times - some support happened, but I had to abandon it, even though it seemed to do 99% of the things..

I still can't get my element to allow 'explore rooms' guest joins - even though I had it working on my second install - and I double checked the settings - and I've asked for help 3 times in the room -

and then there's the maintenance things in need - I'm shredding my first successful one since I can't get postgres to vacuum a 350GB DB on the droplet I'm paying too much for, and to find that out was a joyous long process of lots to learn.

Anyway, I love it. It's the best. It's just clunky because there are so many other things that aren't easy, that aren't matrix.

and the maintenance and other addin things are not easy - like I wish adding sticker picker was like adding a wordpress plugin - I could never get that working with ,y 1.2.6 install - but that's not matrix fault - it's just a thing that was tried and not easy for me, and the support help was a little - so cool - but not enough - so never worked.

things like that.

I really need to get ahead of the maintenance thing to remove old stuff and stuff - hope that works okay. fingers crossed - or I'll just be shredding a chat server every 6 months and starting a fresh one - haha.
I switched my family from AmpliFi to Eero —- drastically more reliable. Few firmware update hiccups but they’ve been great so far. Better speeds.

Only thing missing is good QoS —- the “SQM” they advertise doesn’t work nearly as well as true SQM on OpenWRT. In fact I was never really able to see Eeros SQM doing anything on multiple connection types.
So, how would you, in JS, go about ensuring the code people are writing is side-effect free? Specifically.
Generally like how simple the app is, but as an Aussie, I find starting the week on a Sunday off-putting.
I think I take issue with both of your assertions:

A dollar spent on renewables displaces much more than the same dollar spent on nukes -- this project is going to provide CO2-free power at 3 cents / kWh. It's in the same ballpark, but also, nuclear's main competition is coal and gas, as they all provide baseline power. Solar with storage can do that, but adding storage drives the cost up.

And you cannot spend the same dollar on both -- while this is true, I think the fallacy is that spending a dollar on nuclear power necessarily takes a dollar away from renewables. It's possible that this will sometimes be the case, but it also will clearly be taking a lot of dollars away from coal in places where practically speaking, the choice isn't coal vs renewable, it's coal vs nothing, so if you don't spend the dollar on nuclear, it WILL be spent on coal.
It is a Mendelian randomization based study of observational data. This is much more that JUST observational. See Pearl’s Book of Why on how causality can be tested by MR.
Don't forget /r/mlscaling!
I barely drove 6000 miles a year pre pandemic while living in the suburbs!
> Saying it was legal and not an invasion, because the client regime invited them, is like saying the Soviet Union never invaded Afghanistan, because they were also invited and it was ‘legal’.

While Afghanistan was a Soviet client state before the Soviet-Afghan war, that War started with a successful decapitation strike by the USSR against the Afghan regime, so it’s not really analogous to the US war in South Vietnam.
Oh, for sure. I don't perceive those as websites, though. Sheets and Docs et al are basically thick-client office applications that happen to be written in Javascript. In this circumstance I just use Chrome since it's Google's official runtime. Or the "native" apps on a tablet, which I'd wager are just a packaged variant of the same code.

I see this as congruent to the old-school Lotus Notes/Domino architecture, and not really about the web at all.

There's no value in being an ideologue about it. My reasons for browsing with JS disabled-by-default are fourfold: 1. to defeat many/most active tracking methods, 2. as a sort of passive ad blocker, 3. because it's very often much faster, and 4. for written content JS dependence is moderately correlated to a poor S:N ratio. None of that has much bearing on an office application.
Xah Lee always has really cool stuff on their blog. One of those rare Internet gold mines.
I’m no expert, but I don’t think it works like that. It’s not December 1955. No one throws away a resume in a public meeting declaring she’s too old, queer, brown, and Muslim.

But is she a cultural fit?
Does he have the energy?
A bit too senior?

I imagine it plays out like that too much the same effect.
Google seems to have changed their MFA stragagry recently where normal TOTP apps are a backup measure while the already signed in device is the primary. It wouldn't shock me if they don't prompt you to set up the app or recovery keys anymore.
While the logical proof is interesting - of x-ist statements being acceptable or not based on who says them, and therefore potentially true and worth evaluating - it naively presumes that the general interest values truthseeking over ideological conformity. I think a lot of collective activists will freely admit that to them, capital-T Truth is less important than unity, and by this avoid the apparent contradiction.

As to the charge of undue weight being given to certain statements: Is there no statement that should result in the firing of an otherwise excellent employee? None? What about praising Hitler or advocating sacking the Capitol? If there is one, is there more than one?

Lastly, I hate to bring this up, but I was silently shadow-banned (had all my posts publicly censored) on this board by Mr. Graham himself for the heresy of criticizing some of his business approaches.

Sure, it was his right to do that, as the moderator. Isn't it an employer's right to fire someone for a statement that will harm the company - true or otherwise?

There have always been consequences for unpopular speech, some of which strike us as unjust. The line has shifted radically away from valuing free expression in recent years, unfortunately. But to say that "heresy" in this sense ever went away is a false statement. The only question that's ever been in play is where the line is drawn, and that's what should be addressed, by anyone claiming to seek justice; case by case, individual by individual, and not by countering one hyperbole - "you're an x-ist" - with its opposite, e.g. "you're the Spanish Inquisition".
Aha. Great observation; what you interpret as anti-collectivist / pro-individualist I interpret as misanthropic.

Admittedly this is probably cultural on my part; growing up in a working class Canadian family bestows different social ideologies. It’s a complaint I have about Canadian culture (not individualistic enough) but I do think a problem with American discourse is it can err so far on the side of individualism as to become misanthropic: the extreme being the sentiment, “I, and people like me, are the only group that matters.”

That’s not what Paul is saying here at all. I just think discourse about “social heresy” might be more productively framed as — what do we all agree on, how can we focus on channeling that energy productively, and how can we accommodate the people who disagree? Generally speaking capitalism can be a force for good here if you pick big, juicy problems everyone is excited to solve. Climate, energy, etc. And I think Paul is funding some of those companies!
Amusingly, if I recall correctly, the author of this post was the author of Rust's original (never stable, now removed) inline assembly support, years and years ago. Certainly one of the best people in the world to have encountered this bug!
Reservoirs have a surface.

It costs no more to site solar in pasture than in desert. It can be cheaper; you don't need to buy the land if it remains equally useful for its current use, and may be nearer market, so not need long distance transmission. Furthermore, lower operating temperature improves efficiency, and shade improves grass yield and lowers water demand.

That biggest current projects are in desert is a sign of market immaturity.
Presumably the executives who fired him are intelligent people who can draw their own conclusions about what he did or didn't say.

(I find it revealing that the reaction on HN is fundamentally that Damore was fired by a conspiracy. The executives must actually agree with him but were "bullied" by woke people or something, as though it's not possible that corporate leadership could find what he said problematic).
I think you miss my point. My frame of reference is society has collapsed and the _people_ that keep nuclear safe are no longer around and this has the potential to cause a Beyond Design Basis Accident the likes of which could render large portions of the planet uninhabitable.

I'm generally fine with nuclear as long as society can maintain itself and the data back up what the proponents of nuclear claim. I'm just suspecting that every reactor that could and would meltdown if humans were no longer around to attend to it being left to meltdown completely unmitigated would be a disaster of epic proportions.
> Yet, only one of these shows up as formative in all places and nearly all peoples.

Most peoples in Africa don't have a flood myth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths#Africa . Nor is there a Japanese myth.

And the Norse flood myth may be from Christian influence.

Any theory of a progenitor people must explain why some it persisted in some cultures but not others.

> The universal interpretation of the Pleiades as seven sisters (one now lost) can be explained no other way.

???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matariki - Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars known to Western astronomers as the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus. Matariki is a shortened version of Ngā mata o te ariki o Tāwhirimātea, or "the eyes of the god Tāwhirimātea".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%E1%B9%9Bttik%C4%81 - "The star cluster Kṛttikā ... corresponds to the open star cluster called Pleiades in western astronomy ... In Indian astronomy and Jyotiṣa (Hindu astrology) the name literally translates to "the cutters". ... The six Krittikas who raised the Hindu God Kartikeya are Śiva, Sambhūti, Prīti, Sannati, Anasūya and Kṣamā."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades - "In Japan, the cluster is mentioned under the name Mutsuraboshi ("six stars") in the 8th-century Kojiki"

> The simpler explanation for prominence of flood myths over all others regardless of proximity to recent flooding events is universal experience, in place, continued over millennia.

There are gods in a lot of mythologies too.

> There must have been, after 12 millennia, a deeply ingrained expectation that the sea would continue rising indefinitely

Yet most of those flood stories have the waters rise then fall, and for a short period -- or before humans ever existed.

And in the Great Flood of Gun-Yu, humans end up controlling the flood - a far cry from a universal mythos of ever-rising waters.

> is the null hypothesis that universal flood myths are local memories

The null hypothesis is that there is no universal flood myth.
You can flag them to the Relay team and AFAIK they'll reach out to the domain that blacklisted them with the hope to make them change their mind.

A service that doesn't accept an email proxy during registration is not going to respect my privacy, so IMO not worth of using.
It's frustrating how very, very large dumbphones are.

Dimensions on this device are 131mm x 53mm @ 13.7mm thick ... and that 13.7mm thick is almost comically thick. This is for a device that does a very small subset of what a smartphone does and does not benefit from screen real estate.

The tradeoff we should be making is smarts vs. size ... but in this case, you get the lack of a smartphone but also weirdly large and ... comically large in one dimension.

If you're wondering what should be possible in this product space, look at the MOTO F3 (FONE)[1] which is 16 years old and had dimensions of 114mm / 47mm / 9mm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone
I still like `trust_me`, maybe a bit unprofessional in some contexts though.
I've got to say, this looks like a solid approach. If you can handle content-addressed data storage well I can really see this taking off in a way others have not. I've seen a lot of thing similar to this, but this is the first one that has the right set of features that I think it's actually useful.

I'll be keeping a close eye on it!
Absolutely. companies are terrified of bad publicity.
I have been using my current domain for 3 years now and I don't receive any spam in my spam box either. Email spam seems like it was a solved problem years ago. Now its all just newsletters which go right through the spam filter..
Publishing an email address publicly could reasonably be seen as consent to receive email at that address. GitHub, including commits and those messages, is mostly public (unless you make the repo private, which is free). There are many, many other free and paid alternatives to GitHub.

I agree with you that spam is spam but at the same time the pearl clutching around "omg commit messages" is kind of silly.
Curious, are there benefits of greenway connections compared to allocating the same amount of green space elsewhere?
This is pathetic. Why is multi-millionare Paul Graham bothering to write trite generalizations about "the left's cancel culture?" It is boring and tired no matter now pretentiously you dress it up. At lest Tucker Carlson knows how to deliver the goods in less than 500 words.

And I'm sorry but: what specific opinions does this guy hold that he is so angry about? It feels dishonest to whine like this without expressing any of the heresy himself.

Also, it isn't "cancel culture" if your belief system is trying to dispossess and devalue people I care about. It is self defense. 30 years ago you could wear blackface and speak open hatred towards non-binary people. I think it is a good thing we don't tolerate hate anymore. Apparently Paul Graham disagrees.

> For example, when someone calls a statement "x-ist," they're also implicitly saying that this is the end of the discussion.

I can't think of the last time a thing like this happened to me. I seriously doubt it has ever happened to Paul Graham outside of social media. If you are being kind and honest, I can guarantee someone will be interested in having a conversation with you about the subject. Unless they are an asshole.

I get the feeling Paul is main-lining Fox News and not actually having discussions with that many people. The TV man is making him angry about dumb culture war issues.

I've spoken before about how I feel the left can have shitty priorities and be extremely whiny. But here is the thing:

There are a lot of mentally ill people on social media who do nothing but harass and terrorize others based on their narrow world-view. This happens on both the left AND the right. It is impossible to know if these people are acting in good faith, or trying to give the left/right a bad name by being annoying and reactionary.

Every time you see someone say something controversial, they complain about "death threats on social media." While that IS vile and disgusting, it happens all the time. Every time. You can get death threats for saying Super Mario World is overrated.

Why are we still taking these pathetic social media people seriously?

Answer: Because they are a useful tool for the opposite side to use as a cudgel to while about "cancel culture."

You don't need a straw man anymore. You can always find an idiot or crazy person to represent an insane world-view and present it as if this person is The Pope of Leftists/Conservatives.

Candice Owens is a great example. She doesn't exist for CONSERVATIVES. Sure, they like her ( maybe ), but that isn't why she is famous. Her job is to have reactionary takes that gets picked up by centrist / left leaning orgs so the TV man can make the TV viewers angry.

"Cancel culture" is a TV show that has been doing nothing but re-runs since the 80s when it was called "political correctness."
Having been at this for a few years I’ve seen a couple of unfortunate trends.

When i started out it was very common to find women and older people in the workforce doing programming and related roles quite happily.

We then seem to have gone through a period of the uber-geek / nerd and ended up with a very “bro” culture that totally alienated women / people with a life outside work. Horrible.

Fortunately in the post Covid world and with a dearth of talent to hire this seems to be retreating somewhat.
The Accuracy of Authorities
Double is a good rule of thumb for a median liquidatable income, but healthcare, food, gyms, 401k matching, ... are all bounded by reasonable constants, and taxes only add <10% from the employer's side of things. I'd be surprised if the fully loaded cost were more than an extra 50%.
> As someone who started programming professionally at 25, and stopped professionally at 60

Almost exactly my career progression. Mine was Fortran, BASIC, C,various assembly languages, ReXX, SQL, various 4GLs, C++ and other stuff. So basically, don't stop learning!

Although I have a very fat book called "Crafting Interpreters" sitting on my desk right now, that I don't really feel like opening. But maybe I will.
I only wish they'd support standard TOTP as well, like everyone else.
Gmail also ignores the dot. If you choose a 17-character mailbox name, you can use any one of 2^16 different patterns of placing dots between them.

Capitalisation could also be used for such a purpose, but may be more likeely to accidentally get stripped.
If your email host is half decent it will automatically move these emails to spam and plaster huge fraud warnings all over an email which does this.
> The null hypothesis is that there is no universal flood myth

The null hypothesis is that it is indeterminate whether there is a universal flood myth. Any determinant statement is a non-null hypothesis.
Let’s not mix up Google and a start-up. Google has 20,000 programmers. Being 40 or having a dog or kids or being unwilling to work more than 40 hours are no barrier to entry.

Startup companies on the other hand can demand more.
There is no such consensus. Transformers navigate problem spaces with various mechanisms that include recursion, and multi-pass inference means the depth can be arbitrary. This means that models pick up on the functions that generate answers, not simple statistical relationships you see in Markov chains.

"Stochastic parrot" is a derogatory term and I've never seen anyone who actually understands the technology use that phrase unironically. If anything, it's a shibboleth for bias or ignorance.
Yes, there's been effectively no evidence for any of the claims.
There is also a trust component. I do trust Apple to not abuse this product or shut it down in the future much more than I do some no name privacy company.
Context needed: an individual’s environment, age, genetics, and pathogen exposure all needed to make any useful prediction (not that we yet have sufficient data to build the predictive model). Precision medicine is a mirage on the horizon. The population-based recommendations are crude tools.
Good questions. One of the founders of ThorCon wrote a book (link to review[1]) about why we can't afford nuclear power (among other things), and it's not really anything to do with the essential cost of building a plant, it's a lot of regulations that don't really make sense and don't make anyone safer. I don't want to over-simplify regulation into the common "more vs less" scale -- some regulations make sense and others don't and you have to consider each one individually, but I think Devanney makes a good argument that the nuclear regulatory environment in the USA is pretty non-sensical and has cause far more harm than good by pushing investment back onto fossil fuels.

As for "if we cannot make them reliable and safe, how can you expect them to?" I think we can, and I think they can. There's a ton of detailed information about the ThorCon molten salt reactor designs and why they are safe, how they'd withstand e.g. a Fukushima-style event, etc.

[1] https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop
Desktop Element's interface is also awkward for some of us who don't use many channels but simply need our screen space for other things.

Even in compact layout, with small fonts, with one sidebar hidden and the other in icons-only mode, it manages to make a 600-pixel-wide window feel cramped. About half of that width is filled with icons and empty space. The settings panel doesn't even fit in that size.

The jabber clients I used in the past were comfortable at a fraction of that size. I think part of that was because they didn't force everything (e.g. contact lists and conversations) into a single window, and part of it was that they didn't flood the display area with margins, oversized (often repeating) icons, and space reserved for unimportant things that in some rooms will never appear.

I tolerate the interface because I love what the network is accomplishing and I haven't found an alternative client that seems better overall. I might try Nheko if/when its e2ee matures.
>they're impractical ( you need massive space

This isn't even close to true. A lithium-ion battery can store roughly 1 megajoule per liter, which I'm going to use because it makes the math easier. (Other batteries are slightly less dense, but the correction factor is small). Total global energy consumption is around 1 exajoule per day. That's a trillion liters to store a day's worth of energy, or one billion cubic meters. Assuming you can stack batteries ten meters high -- which seems doable -- a battery farm to store a day's worth of energy for the whole world would take up about 100 million square meters, or 100 square kilometers, slightly smaller than San Francisco. That's less than the amount of space currently taken up by solar or wind farms.

Using zinc-bromine or other technologies will take up more space, but as you can see, a small reduction in energy density won't be that big of a deal.
Do people feel that the lockdown is justified? I saw the start of a paywalled WSJ article saying that there are 130k reported cases and no deaths? I don't believe them on the deaths part but if thats the information from the government how do people justify a lockdown?
Note: Eero is owned by Amazon

(The review mentions this, but only in passing, near the end of the very long first page.)
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