skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife grew up in the city, and I grew up in the country (not the pretend 'doctors commute to the city and have 10 acres they pretend to farm and raise horses on' but 'white trash, holy shit there's no work' county) and my wife is HORRIFIED by how much violence and random crime there is where I come from. My family still asks how we can live in the city since its so dangerous while meth heads are stealing anhydrous ammonia from fertilizer tanks and will shoot you without blinking if you get in their way just down the street from them.
If you like this do yourself a favor and grab a copy of Vaclav Smil's "Growth - From Microorganisms to Megacities" https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/growth
where are all the "shut up, alexa" and "fuck you alexa" phrases?
I'm sure you believe in a lot of things for which you have no personal proof.

The information in Genesis gives information about several things that agree with known science (even at a time where there was no modern scientific knowledge to speak of). Now, if there are other things in it that seem to go beyond our experience, there is no reason to suddenly doubt it's accuracy.

Also, about the null hypothesis thing: Let's say I claim I'm a sentient being. You dispute that claim. On who should the burden of proof fall?
I run Gentoo on mine and have had zero issues. Lovely machine, it's a joy to own and use.
Capacity is the ability to produce energy and with renewables that number is very different than with fossil fuels or nukes.

Renewables never reach capacity, well your solar might for a peak moment, but then it will drop as the sun drops.

For example - you have a 200 MW wind farm, you might only be able to produce 10MW at that moment. The capacity is 200MW, the generation is 10.

Also the 3rd was a Sunday in spring - no office workers, less demand, not a heating or cooling day in a lot of California, ie a lower energy day than say a week day in summer where the temp is 105 in the Central Valley.
Yes indeed. Same in NL.

On the other hand, I find these attitudes hypocritical when it comes to war and Ukraine. As if suddenly, these people realized war is bad. Turkish people have been facing it since 2003, if we talk about terrorism we may have to go back even further.

The Syrian War was never discussed, but now everyone is talking about the Ukraine War, and no action is taken instead of painting big buildings yellow and blue.
I don’t know what you mean by “service product”. But isn’t “it’s like a piece of paper but better” basically the whole pitch for a word processor like Google docs? Since when is writing not part of Google docs’ core feature set?
If the investors had bought in, Episode 2 would have 60% of the investors either being made so miserable they quit, or fired "for performance" after 364 days of service ("cliff") so they get nothing--of course, even the employees who do hold on rarely get anything, but that's another story.

The really sickening thing is that most acquisitions (since that's the likely route for these companys, if they succeed at all) involve the common stock getting wiped out while the executives get "management incentive plans" in new stock. They still get screwed if they leave the acquirer (since their vesting clocks usually reset) but they at least have a shot at getting something.
What financial hardship? Pretty much all the other pathways are even more expensive, either in externalities or in internalized costs. There really are not that many realistic options that remain open (at least in the US).
We have plenty of everything what we need for decades and longer. What we see is different in my opinion. The result - was that it in your question - is the same, but the cause is different.

If I overlook roughly:

- a lot of people

- a lot of people.

That lot of people can be separated into rich and poor (1-bit reduction). There are far more poor people than rich. The poor ones build clusters of different sizes. Usually the location of the many clusters is somewhat "in the neighbourhood" and so, one is able to identify bigger k-clusters In different parts of the world. The biggest clusters are also within the same k-cluster or, somehow, side-by-side. The k-clusters can only occupy the area which hasn't been occupied by the rich's clusters upfront. The area occupied by the richs upfront is usually good land what enables the rich to live prosper and develop, while the poors struggle for a living.

This leads to tensions. Tensions lead to conflicts. Conflicts lead to refugees. Refugees lead to fears & jealousy and xenophobia. That amplifies everything and the loop starts.

Economy and wealth is depending on resources. Like ones that can be sold and/or used, like oil, food, knowledge..
At certain point there must happen a pivot in the relationship between the poor and the rich, where the rich can not get anything useful from the poor anymore, and instead, the poor need rich's resources, so they're importing it. To keep up with the development speed of the rich, the poor need to get even more of the rich..
The rich need that for the economy of theirs.
The loop closes after the last:

While all that happens, the poors need an assurance for the elderly theirs, which is kids. No money, mo' kids. That amplifies EVERYTHING.

So, the problem is the economy by itself, not the lack of resources bringing it to a halt, in my eyes
The bot is clearly crawling enough to be noticed, and consider the site: how much are you plagiarizing from videolan.org? If they're wasting even a small amount of resources, they're worth blocking.
Yes, they cap at 25kmh (in Europe). But that means you can keep that 25kmh in uphill/upwind as well and you accelerate faster. Admittably my experience is more on the mountain bike side, where 25kmh is relatively faster than on the road.
Could've fooled me. I was taking the subway to school by myself at 11 years old. And this wasn't even that long ago.
April 3rd was a sunday, and probably a very sunny one, with temperatures in ranges where a lot of people don't really need AC nor electrical heating.

What do you do when it's not sunny, very cold/hot, no wind, and businesses and factories are open?

Somehow we talk a lot about solar, and not enough about nuclear.
Yeah, I had a similar issue in 2nd grade. Teacher was abusive. Parents sent me to another school for the rest of the year. I returned the following year and didn't really have that sort of problem again. The teacher in question continued bullying, and eventually switched to teaching special education, which just chills me to the bone. This was late 70s. Really bizarre. Anyway, glad things improved for you.

One thing I learned from this is that parents are often a terrible judge of the situation, often don't believe their own children when they say something is wrong, and often are afraid to do their damn job and protect their child from harm. In my opinion, they should have sued the school or at least made a much bigger stink about it and gotten other parents involved (as I wasn't the only one being bullied by the teacher), but they didn't. C'est la vie.
You're probably incorrect about German teenagers, who appear to have basically the same preferences as US teenagers, i.e., overwhelming preference for iPhone or the nicer tiers of Samsung devices.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/700712/smartphone-market...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/828257/smartphone-owners...
Google results are irrelevant (just search for "white couple" in images) and strongly manipulative (look at suggestions of you type "why cens...").

Bad thing is that Google is like ethanol for internet knowledge. What is not googleable, it is like not existing on web.
I'd have to imagine that taking equity as an employee is in most cases a negative EV move. Keep in mind, people win powerball. That fact that something is negative EV doesn't mean there aren't winners.

FAANG RSUs might potentially be another exception.

But it seems like early stage startup options are an absolutely minefields for employees. I've seen instances where it was setup so regardless of how the company performed, people in the first 10 employees would have walked away with nothing in an exit.

And that's before talking about Cliffs. Even if every other thing falls into place, you can just get fired on day 355 if a founder decides they'd prefer to hold more equity.
Le Corbusier just didn't have this figured out. But Christopher Alexander did. See "A Pattern Language" and "The Timeless Way of Building".
This still happens outside the US. We've managed to become paranoid to the point of delusional about the dangers to kids here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_xzyCDT98
I'm doing this, working 4 days per week and working around 6 hours per day. I genuinely feel happy. It also keeps programming genuinely interesting. I am going to interview for a FAANG position soon and despite the fact that the salary is 4x, I'm not sure I should take it. My disposable income is high due to my costs being really low and man... it's chill!
> will likely be trivial to expand this to all mosquito species relatively effortlessly.

That would be a huge, irreversible, and catastrophic mistake.

In the top list of most stupid things done by humans just to piss on the environmental sciences.
These are intelligent people and the actions don't make sense when you look at the details, like your example of being in a fine position. That only leaves unaccounted for variables at play, and the best I've been able to tell is that its a cultural gap between the execs and the plebs that plays out even at small startups.

You see the same behavior in non tech companies when VPs find out what their senior software engineers are paid, and start getting upset at the similar salary level, even though that's the market price. Or in things like rules that only Execs get to fly first class. I had a an executive have HR look into me "breaking the rules" when he saw me in first class with him on the way to a company event after I paid to upgrade my own seat.
I wrote a big reply to the below quote from you, and then realised were were probably arguing the same point.

> Do not use AWS if you just run a few virtual machines and some basic networking. That also applies to GCP and Azure. It's too expensive for what you need.

Currently on a contract where I've saved them 6 months of my costs over 3 weeks of part-time development on a single year long project. They saved half of my entire contract on their first foray into AWS compared to Digital Ocean charges.

When you know what you're doing AWS can become very cost-effective. Build it with $PLATFORM in mind and all sorts of savings are possible.

But the tricky part is whether the team is ready for it, or whether they'll spend more time learning the ropes than the company saves over $NUMBER years. Which I think is what you were getting at?
It can be cash flow positive if you do a bunch of the work yourself and plan accordingly.

https://www.sevarg.net/tag/solar/

From my point of view the nice thing about it is reducing or eliminating recurring expenses.

Once your recurring expenses drop below passive income you are pretty well set.
> > "Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

> This passage is simply saying there was no human agriculture on the earth, because rain as we know did not exist, and there were no humans to do the work.

Assuming that that passage is talking about human agriculture is a very generous interpretation - it is specifically saying that plants had no reason to exist prior to human beings, and that would conflict with plant fossils (and a whole bunch of other fossils) pre-dating 2000 BC. I know it isn't uncommon to argue that fossils were the production of God to give us something to assemble in the main halls of our museums but I find that argument to be extremely weak and rely on God assuming they'd need to give us something we didn't know we'd need if it didn't exist. If there were no fossils predating, say, 500 AD, we'd probably try and come up with scientific justifications as to why fossils can only survive 1500 years.

> > 8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."

> Generally plants were existing, but this passage is saying that just prior to forming man, a special garden was planted for them to start with. In effect God was starting an agricultural project to hand over the the first man, for them to dominate the flora with time.

Again, I think you're reading in some assumptions into the text - I've actually always read that passage to imply that the world was essentially an unformed wasteland prior to the creation of the garden of eden - that the "made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground" was a sort of spontaneous creation of life.

> > And then the first woman is formed from the rib of the first man.

> What is impossible about that?

It is strange that in four thousand years of existence not once have we seen asexual rib-based reproduction occur again spontaneously - if this option was on the table you'd assume it'd occasionally happen again. Also, it clashes with a lot of our understanding of genetics, actually in a way worse than the first man being created from the rib of a woman - there is an x-chromosom that would need to be created somewhere in this process.
No hydro - no obstacle in the waterway, migration paths are affected but still functional. Hydro - it's a meatgrinder.
5$ per month is pretty impressive. What hardware would you be running this solution on? Typically if you run hardware in a co-located data center there's a fee for that, is that included in the 5$?

What did the hardware cost, and based on depreciation, how long will it last before requiring replacement? Is that also included in the 5$ you are quoting here?
A trivial infinite loop is Undefined Behaviour in C++ but it is a completely reasonable thing to write in Rust and works fine, in fact Rust's underlying loop is an infinite loop unless you explicitly provide some way to break out of it, which you usually will.
I bet you wear glasses with polycarbonate lenses.

I dunno how people stand optics with such high CA. CR-39 is much better optically and also a lot less expensive-- vendors shovel people into polycarbonate because they can charge more for it.

E.g. from zenni CR-39 lenses are 'free'! but you have to click a bunch of extra times to choose them.
My understanding, to put it in AWS EC2 pricing terms, is that we do not pay the market "spot" rate for electricity (variable, often less than what you might pay elsewhere, but could spike up) - which is what Texas allowed. Typically we pay the "on demand" rate which is fixed. Large energy users probably negotiate "reserved" pricing.

My point being, we pay the market rate, those massive hikes are just built-in over a long period of time.
Safer than what? Suburbs with nice sidewalks and tree lined streets and friendly neighbors who know each other? Safer than rural areas where everyone knows everyone and there’s enough law enforcement to work on a 1:1 basis? I’m sorry but this just seems like an absolute nonsense claim.
Mario 64 has to be one of the most dissected games ever. It’s kind of wild what speed runners, modders, etc. have uncovered.
Not seeing it brah
No, because California isn't constantly having blackouts. There was one really infamous (among habitual Fox News viewers) capacity-related blackout in late 2020, in which fewer than 1% of customers were disconnected for less than 1 hour. That was precipitated by the sudden shutdown of Diablo Canyon, a nuclear power station. California hasn't had a capacity-related intentional disconnect since then.
Depending on location, hydroelectric power can have (mostly because of decomposing vegetation) carbon-equivalent emissions ranging from several grams of CO₂ per kWh, all the way up to around two thousand grams (!) per kWh. This greatly depends on location, with shallow, large-area tropical dams being the worst offenders, and cold, high altitude Nordic dams being the most environmentally friendly.
I’m seriously sick of the dogmatism from both sides of the crypto discussion. It has good and bad aspects, good and bad projects etc. Think for yourself and evaluate things on your own for goodness sake! Just because the NY Post or whatever influencer hates NFTs and things they’re a scourge, doesn’t mean you have to fall in lockstep like a lobotomy patient. If you hate NFTs, and their use of energy, I implore you to stop buying funko pops, which have more embodied energy and are just waste plastic.
AWS prices are already high, the danger is not so much that they will raise prices but that if your business conditions change. Perhaps there’s a new competitor and you can’t afford to splurge on cloud costs anymore, or your business needs to cut costs and focus on profitability because of economic conditions - you are stuck with this albatross.
Why is not a scientific question. Perhaps you mean, what is the cause of the Big Bang. Since nothing that could have caused the Big Bang is observable, it falls outside physics, but there are some mathematical theories around it.
A busy cafe with seated people also psychologically has an impact on people just stopping in for takeout.
Yes, it is. Solar pays for itself in raw kWh over ~8 years, probably even better at utility scale which negotiates huge panel purchases. Batteries cost more, but can apply stored power when they can earn the most (during peak), reducing viability of polluting alternatives.

The cherry on top is that all future energy uses no more material and creates no more pollution, with materials mostly all recyclable at end of life. Over a 30 year horizon, fossil fuel infra cannot compete.
My alma mater needed to bring their student center into compliance on the last ~50 years of building code changes. The project was estimated to cost high-8-figures, for nothing but code compliance.

Instead, they spent $120,000,000 renovating it to be shiny and modern and also up to code. I don't understand why it was so expensive, but I'll assume it's not an order of magnitude away from true cost.

$1.6 trillion is "only" a few hundred million per school. If the cost of renovating one building is any indication, it's easy for a university to use up that much money.
> More than 15,000 MW of grid-connected solar power capacity and almost 8,000 MW of wind are now online.

> The system currently has more than 2,700 MW of storage, most of it in lithium-ion batteries, and that number is projected to grow to about 4,000 MW by June 1.

Storage should be in MWh I assume? Anyways, those batteries can hold 11 minutes of peak solar power production.

But by June 1st, battery capacity is set to go up by 50% while new solar production will only go up about by 5%.
I like to hang out at IKEA. Coffee is free at the one here if you have their loyalty card and the staff enjoy seeing regular customers. There are a few couches and some comfortable seating areas in addition to nearly infinite supply of tables.

Outside of the predictable busy days, it’s a comfortable space to hang out in the evening.

I also figured out the fire stairs in the cafe don’t have alarms on the interior doors, so you can go directly to the ground floor lobby instead of walking through the warehouse to get to the exit. The staff encouraged me to use it as long as I exit the stairs inside the building. :)
Can Somebody Make Me a Robot Sous Chef
> A larger standard library means more disk usage and worse cache utilization

Does it? How? I suppose one has to store the standard library on the machine, which does notionally use up disk space, but I can’t see how it contributes by any reasonable performance-relevant meaning of ‘disk usage’ (presumably i.e. disk I/O during the runtime of the program). And for cache utilization I simply have no clue at all what you might be driving at.
It's an optical illusion. Your brain knows how 3d a alley should look like.
Calling me a dick violates my free speech.
We did much the same, as I recall. (I didn't spend very much time close to the frontend in that role, so I may misremember, but that description has a familiar ring.)

It's probably about as far as the concept can reasonably be taken; in theory I could see something more like "true" SSR with some probably complex hydration, but the engineering time would likely make it uneconomic to pursue what would likely be marginal benefit.
The Myth of Exponential Hypergrowth
I am fortunate to have raised kids in a town where they could bike to friends' houses at an early age and even take boats out on a pond. We gave them mobile phones so they could stay in touch. But they could be miles away on their own.
Just one side note here you could also just use SSG, and never need to hit a server unless you rebuild the page in some fashion
kdiff3 is ok-ish as a GUI option.
Effective treatments for Covid are now available. Why are they not being used?
At some point, these older games should be open source. They can follow the doom/quake model where textures/art aren't included, and Nintendo can also still sell the games on newer consoles for convenience because not everyone will want to compile it themselves

I guess you could argue a mario 64 custom levels mod competes directly with a new mario game. But halo and cod sell fine. Maybe I have a bias that thinks Nintendo is fearful that custom mods for old games will be more popular than anything new and official
Thanks for letting me know what I believe. I support your right to insult me even though you are dead wrong.
Recently I inquired about glass lenses for that reason after a long time with plastic ones, and was surprised to learn they are mostly phased out due to safety concerns.
I'm having trouble understanding how you can separate the cost/benefit analysis of renewable energy from environmentalism. The entire point is that the reasons for hitting these goals are not purely economic (in the short term - long term, running out of fossil fuels in a fossil fuel economy does not tend to be good for the economy.) The sentiment that aiming for full renewable supply is too expensive to be worth it feels like it misses the mark on why we're doing it.
Defaults to on. I'd hope it's explained clearly and the institution is forced to choose on or off during signup, not buried somewhere in the settings.
The current version of Hauberk uses a bunch of different dungeon generators which it is able to merge together. This was sort of a holy grail for me for many many years. I've been meaning to write down something about it but haven't gotten around to it.
RDS for < 5 dollars a month?
It's like a primal reaction among apes and other animals in general. No wonder humans get mad too at being stared at.
Because as we can see from the comments, and from the way the perpetrator acted, a whole lot of people don't get it. It needs to be made much more clear for some people that acting the way the bully did in the article is not acceptable.
Enabling Windows Hypervisor Platform doesn't require enabling Hyper-V. Hyper-V doesn't even exist on Windows Home, but WHP does. That said, I have no idea whether WHP interferes with VirtualBox.
Do you pronounce it 'sim....ultaneously', or 'sigh...multaneously'?
Please keep in mind that the kids who didn't survive because of a horrific accident are not here to convey their stories. I've never been a fan of stories from people who present "anecdotal evidence as ideal solutions".

As a parent, I do think children need some level of autonomy, but this doesn't need to be an all-or-nothing issue. Parents can apply various degrees in various situations.
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I spent like 10 minutes typing that out and it's gone now and I don't really feel like typing it out again