skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"For all its failures, democracy at least has taught us to incorporate the human imperfection into the process and the decisions."

<Sarcasm>which is why all democracies defeated COVID with the three-week lockdown in which no one left home unless they had to and took proper precautions to ensure that they did not dare transmit any disease to anyone else</sarcasm>

No, I would say that modern democracies and enshrine human imperfections into the process in order to further the will to power that exists in those seeking office.
Also, needlessly sequential tasks. For example, to concurrently install NPM packages in many projects:

npmi() {
local pids=""
for app in $apps; do
echo "Installing NPMs on $app..."
cd $REPO/$app
npm install &
pids="$pids $!"
done
wait $pids
}

https://github.com/uxtely/ops-utils/blob/main/npm.sh
Norwegians also owned a lot of farms in Canada! I believe that’s winding down now because the farms causes extensive disease in local wild populations.
Hilarious! But I frankly see a big difference between having a 1-on-1 conversation with someone, and always being able to see what conversations people are having with each other every minute of the day via Facebook feed.
Kinda neat, thanks.
The person you are replying to is not talking about politics. They meant "me too" as in "copycat", not "me too" as in the social/political movement.
> Then you don’t think that it’s necessarily possible - even in principle - to identify the words in the book that you threw the into the Sun _measuring_ the radiation?

Well, this is why I said the measurement is problematic. It's perhaps not possible even in principle to actually measure it. But, in principle, the wave-function of the sun after you throw a book that has a coffee stain into it will be different from the wave-function of the sun after you throw the same book without the coffee stain. And that difference, in turn, could be detected through measurement, as it will affect the probabilities of a measurement of the sun. Of course, this means that you will actually have to throw a whole lot of books to be able to notice this statistical difference.

> You cannot “know” the state now and deduce the past evolution.

Well, because measurement collapses the state, you are right to some extent. But on the other hand, the measurement's result will be affected by anything that has ever happened to that system in a different way.
> (Yes, the name might not be the best, being also used by a well-known ReST docs generator, I'll take suggestions. I do like the name though, both as a reference to the mythological creature and the cat :D)

Maybe another cat and mythology related name? If you want to stick with the Egyptian theme, maybe something do to with Bastet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastet
After this I bet they will create mechanisms to automatically ban videos if they didn't already have one.
Yup, hence the wondering. They keep improving the protocol and I am hopeful that one day I might try it and be pleasantly surprised.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file...
Numbers from China always seem outrageous, 400 million views? It's lik there's too many zeroes added.
International English is breaking down
When the various discussions were years apart, like here, I suspect it would elide too much context to coalesce them.

But for submissions of the same vintage, it might be a good idea, and in fact not so different than the thread merging we already (but unsystematically) do.
As an immigrant, individualist and severe introvert, I'd probably never be "one of them" anywhere anyway, why bother? I suspect that stuff is overrated anyway.
> It will always be the same “information” that was already there at the beginning of time.

Yes, absolutely. Though it's worth noting that QM does allow for the void to have random fluctuations that are not caused by anything else, but that can interact with the existing system.

> What is unclear is the “many worlds” part. How are they defined?

There are several ways from what I've read. I personally don't think MWI really solves any problems, or that it is a good description of nature, so I haven't taken too much time to remember exactly how they do it.
That's the part that stood out to me, doesn't seem plausible that a random account on substack knows so much about behind the scene stuffs. Even things like the 400m number (or any number in there actually), where did those numbers come from? I don't even know what the original platform of the video was, which I assumed was not Youtube?
I can confirm that this was being shared Friday and Saturday and a lot of people cross posted screenshots of deleted videos to their Instagram stories.
On my personal project with 78 integration tests it takes about 2.5min. Test coverage isn't anywhere near complete. I can target individual tests too, but I'm usually testing in browser locally anyway so its the rest of the suite that needs to run to find the unexpected regressions.
Why would you consider exports a useful metric here? Soap can be manufactured with oil for domestic consumption.
You might like Hurdle, which is a play on this idea.
The Myth of Small Incremental Improvements
Do you seriously think that this is a good description of how the upper-middle class in the West behaves? Because by and large, that's what we're talking about in this thread wrt. low divorce rates. The notion that social anomie, abuse and violence is a simply unescapable "fact" about late modern societies is baseless. You're describing pervasive dysfunction, not a "new normal".
#shanghai404 on Instagram
Upstream IED Prevention
> I've noticed whoever chooses the word of the day for Worlde likes these types of words.

Josh Wardle said on a podcast[1] that him and his partner chose the set of words by taking all 5 letter words in the dictionary and filtering out the "bogus" ones. He then randomized the order of these words so that him and his partner could play. However, I'm not sure if the New York Times has changed how word selection works.

[1] https://syntax.fm/show/430/creator-of-wordle-josh-wardle
I also reckon because things got so specialised, they had to be separated into their own events.
>> At this time the public opinion control system warning was triggered, and manual intervention began. ... manual intervention could not keep up with the speed of retweeting and posting. All available staff were called up to support the suppression effort.

> How does the authors know all this? This sounds like super detailed insider information.

My guess is it's made up: it reads like sci-fi (take an idea, and hang some plausible-sounding narrative on it), and I doubt someone actually privy to the inner workings of the Chinese censorship apparatus probably not say "retweeting."

Also:

>> View from China with an Austrian School of Economics Perspective

This (and a few other things) give me the impression of someone who thinks their ideology lets them see through walls, so to speak.
> Are the news reports of anger by shanghai residents directed against the national or provincial(?) government?

To the terminology question, Shanghai is a city (市) and not a province (省). However, it is one of four cities that have a special status formally equal to that of provinces. (Imagine if New York City was torn out of the several states it's technically in and made into its own state.) Practically, Shanghai is more important than some of the less significant provinces.

To the substance of the question, whether blame falls on the government of China or more specifically on the government of Shanghai, my view is limited. But I can report that one resident of Shanghai, a longtime friend of mine, is pretty vocal about blaming the Shanghai government.
I can also add that because of this, people in other cities do not see the wechat moments posts of people in Shanghai. May have been relaxed by now but has been the case.
Or Key Management Services, activation method of Windows for enterprise.
I am going to ask a question from a very naive POV, 5 yo:

ELI5 the following please ;

---

Given that "enormous constants" are required (i.e. huge lee-way) in the source of inputs (if thats worded correctly), Would it be perceivable, that in future, we may feed such zygote algorithms to some other AI/ML/Algo/Whatever, such that it churns through implementation scenarios quickly to refine it to a practical tool?
It's a big country.
Hands down, as a salmon and sushi snob that has lived in Seattle for over a decade and eaten it globally countless times, the salmon available in Seattle is the best available anywhere. The proximity to some of the best and least damaged fisheries in the world helps. I have never eaten so much of it as since I lived in Seattle. It is the only place in the US you can get fresh top-tier salmon (and often many other fish) at the local markets. Everywhere else your options are farmed or frozen salmon of dubious provenance.

And FWIW, Japanese expats I know, not necessarily living in Seattle, seem to confirm that the sushi quality here is exceptional. This is largely a product of geography, being relatively close to both Alaska and Japan.
> I saw in your post history you're also paying $2000/mo for health insurance. Maybe you're not making the wisest financial decisions?

Not only an ad hominen, but changing topics?

> I just looked and a Platinum plan in CA for a family costs $1400.

I don't know where you looked but it's wrong.

I literally just went to https://www.coveredca.com/ and filled in details for a quote.

A platinum plan with Blue Shield is $2530.04/month.

With Kaiser, it is $2637.23/month.
LOVER BOXER POWER CODER...
broke my steak of 90...
Shanghai gov did fuck up. Now Beijing gov is fucking up.
> Doing that once, yeah, doing that over and over, no so much.

What do you mean? It's always good move to kill a product that loses money for the company.

Why do they start so many new products that are losers? That's a different question. Possibly the incentives for starting new products are poorly calibrated, which is the common narrative. But possibly they aren't and they are quite happy to make a mountain of shit, including doing almost the same thing over and over, for the small chance of a diamond. That's entirely consistent with the rest of the start-up industry.
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What I've read is that they did not discuss numbers. People start from the assumption that rich people can get away with any kind of BS, but usually that doesn't apply amongst themselves. As the richest person in the world, perhaps Musk feels like he's a class unto himself, but others disagree.

You can just compare the current situation.

This time, he got letters from people with money saying he can have it, and on what basis. Now that we see it, isn't it obvious that is what "funding secured" means, even if we don't all know exactly how high finance works?

"Funding secured" wasn't a half-truth, it was an outright lie that sounded a little like a half truth. Very Trumpian.

Also, it's recently been reported that a judge declared the question of whether "funding secured" was a knowing lie closed, in the sense that the jury in related ongoing litigation will be told that it's not up to them to decide that point.
No offense to janitors, but I don't think janitors get retirement gifts costing tens of thousands (if all would have went well, in this case I guess you have to add at least a zero to the price).

I'd guess this was some fairly high level exec.
The congress in October is precisely why the covid 0 policy is maintained, so he won't be blamed for a large outbreak.
So...how can we trust the writings of the author? Can the data be validated elsewhere? A video posted 8PM with ...11PM it has 30 million views...midnight 100 million, 1:05AM, 300 million. There were 200 million WeChat users up between 12AM and 1:05AM who viewed it?

And with all those views - the Chinese government did not hold a conference call till 12:30PM? 12 hours later?

I'm no dictator, but I would have circuit breakers much earlier than at 400 million, and if things go 'red' I wouldn't wait till after lunch the next day to convene a meeting. But, that's just me.
Copyright laws will have to be rewritten. Once this pandora box is open it can't be closed.

https://www.myccpay.life/
I can't see what you're seeing in the article. It seems like Shell is pretty much only interested in changing their business as much as they're forced to.
Should I use Google calendar for my small business?
So, I'm starting a new business and I will have like 4 - 5 coworkers.
We want an easy solution to organize our meeting with our customers.
The first idea is to use Google calendar but I'm having second thoughts about privacy. I have the feeling the Google will collect all the data to sell them...and those data are our clients details, etc...
Am I paranoid ?
BTW, there's no way to navigate your blog now ? That's good design ?

What do you mean? The user can just use the browser's location field and go up a directory to /blog, where they should see links to published posts for April.
As a NixOS user who loves Nix yet struggles with nixpkgs from time to time -

The main issue is that nixpkgs is unapproachable to new users. Yes, there is the documentation at https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/ , and it is quite long. It's not enough.

Every Nix tutorial basically starts off with "this is how you create a new package. You get your source with either ./. or by using a fetcher to download a release from the Internet. Then you use mkDerivation to package the release by writing the install scripts." OK, cool.

Then you want to package a Go program. Cool, let's copy from an example in nixpkgs. Well, stuff in nixpkgs doesn't use mkDerivation, it uses buildGoModule, and it references weird SHA hashes for the vendor? How do you get those? So you go to https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#ssec-language-go and it doesn't explain to you how to get the vendor hash. It doesn't explain to you why nixpkgs uses buildGoModule and not mkDerivation. So you don't really know how to continue and you feel pretty stuck.

The thing is,
a) buildGoModule is a higher-level function that will return the result of mkDerivation in a way that reuses everything that is common to Go modules. So it makes perfect sense from the perspective of a maintainer who wants to reduce the size of nixpkgs as much as possible, which is already one of the largest Git repositories on GitHub.

b) Nixpkgs library functions like buildGoModule, with the need to maintain the separate vendor hash, come from a desire to write pure Nix functions without network access, i.e. there is no need to re-download the vendored dependencies if they already exist in the local Nix store cache. Indeed, the fact that there is only a single vendor hash represents a pragmatic compromise; whenever any dependency changes, the entire vendored dependency tree needs to be re-downloaded and rebuilt; if the hashes of the individual dependencies were tracked, then Nix would understand to only download the dependencies which had changed. The reason why Nix can't compute the dependency hashes of each dependency internally, and only then try to check the Nix store and see if they exist there, is because Nix does not yet support recursive calls: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13 (nearly ten years old). However, the RFC for adding support was finally merged: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/92 and so support will come soon enough.

So basically:
Given that most developers need to produce containers to ship to production, and Nix already makes it possible for developers to ship containers, Nix needs to make it easier for developers to build their services/programs in Nix. Program build support is already pretty great for some specific ecosystems (e.g. Haskell) but for most ecosystems (like the Go example above) it ends up being pretty frustrating for one reason or another, due to lacking language features. Once those features are developed, there's a lot of room to make huge improvements in the various lang2nix projects, and then much more of Nix's value will be accessible to developers.
I'm sort of curious. All the talk about Universities shutting down debate and any sort of ideas that lie outside of the accepted left-wing doctrine. Is there anyone here on HN that supports this notion? That supports the suppression of contradictory ideas? That would protest if some horrible right-winger came to give a talk on your campus? Would love to actually hear from one of these individuals who would actually protest, actively try to stop a dissenting opinion from being spoken on campus.

Is there just one of you here?
> If there's no data, you're just "lost in math" and not doing productive work.

I don't think that's her position, from what I've seen in many other videos. She is a theoretical physicist, after all, not an experimentalist.

I think her position can better be summed up as "if there is no data, and no realistic possibility of getting data, then you're just 'lost in the math' and not doing productive work".

Of course, "realistic" here is both subjective and a matter of degrees, but at least it means it should be a consideration you decide for yourself before investigating a field.

Additionally, I think, though I haven't necessarily seen her be explicit about this, that she would only apply this test to working on new theories, not to exploring the consequences of already-tested theories. Of course, even if I am right that she would make this distinction, the line between "new theories" and "exploring the boundaries of existing theories" can be pretty thin and subjective in places as well.
Doesn’t sound like these guys have bothered to think through the value prop. There’s no upside for me, the employer.
What's wild is that a connector not being fully screwed in by mistake prevented a very expensive jet full of a lot of fuel from lawn-darting (and potentially killing a lot of people. Crashing fighters seem to have a knack for ending up in dense residential housing areas.)

The solo switch according to the youtube fighter pilot video is so that a solo pilot doesn't have to wait for the rear seat to fire if they activate an ejection.
also assumes no loans or credit card debt, both of which are unfortunately likely

also assumes that you are mentally strong enough to live like a pauper to hopefully afford the bare minimum required to scrounge up a downpayment.

doesn't assume building a maintenance fund (2% of home value per year), closing costs (2% of home value, one-time cost), purchasing stuff to fill the home (like furniture/appliances), etc.
>Any contract in which you give up your right to sue the other party if they were to cheat you.

Is there any contract that doesn't do this with the "binding arbitration" bullshit?
No, a connector was not fully screwed in, which is why the seat didn't eject.
Twitter Board Considers Musk Bid
I'm not a specialist. If I understand correctly "breeder mode" depends upon fuel composition (which actinide/isotope, in which proportion...). Non 'fast-neutron' mode is dubbed 'thermal' and seems less interesting as it obtains less energy (however some fuel, such as thorium, may enhance its performance), however it has benefits (less difficult to design/build/exploit(?)).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-neutron_reactor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal-neutron_reactor
Why would you not eat them dead? The are not dangerous dead, have no taste and you won't even know if nobody would have told you online.
Peter Thiel Wants to Inject Himself with Young People’s Blood (2016)
The Spiral Wine-Glass holder design by same designer is pretty cool.
I'd rather that didn't happen. The current web ecosystem of adtech companies and data brokers makes the web one of the last places where I'd want to entrust my files with. And before anyone mentions permissions, I don't see that putting a stop to data harvesting. Because if that even worked, social media would not have been a thing. It has been shown that people just "willfully" give up their data without giving as much thought to the consequences. So if this web filesystem plan goes through, entire services would be built around users giving companies access to their files, and those would go straight to the ad networks. Less friction in the browser means that we'd see an exponential increase in those type of services. So the current friction is better for user privacy.
I have often wondered if baked clay tablets are the most cost-effective, durable medium we've invented, in dollars per bit-year.

Yeah, you can do archival diamond, or archival ink on archival paper. But will you be able to read it 1,000 years hence?

I doubt there's a market for a printer, except as a novelty device. I wonder what kind of bit density you can achieve, in clay?
gonna guess those averages include state-run programs where parents get vouchers for daycare

i'm not a parent and don't want to be one but know enough parents to know that daycare is bloody fucking expensive, usually thousands/mo, unless the parents have a support system, but even then it's a trade-off.

the silver lining of course is that it's a temporary expense.
It's largely translated from a Chinese social media post [1] that's been floating around without clear attribution.

[1] https://twitter.com/syhily/status/1517868079648104449
Loved Wave, thought it was terrible that it got shelved
A judge recently said he was a liar and it was so far beyond dispute that a jury would not be allowed to decide for themselves, as they might be influenced by Musk's ongoing public BSing such as with the TED talk.

So, no, informed people are not "casually" calling him a liar.
The banks can't print anything. "Money" is a stupidly defined term in econ/finance.

You and I could create IOUs to each other out the wazoo. You owe me $10 mill. It's an asset to me. I owe you $10 mill, it's an asset to you. You and I could go around saying we have $10 mill each in assets. It's not even a lie.

It's why when you enter into a contract for a loan from anyone sensible they want to see your assets and your liabilities. Because our little game above resulted in a net change of 0 for each of us.
Reminds me of multithreading. If a race condition is possible, you have to assume it will happen, especially because you can never predict what weird edge cases will trigger it to happen more than you'd expect.
How so? Do you think that message was coerced?
I usually employ two entry words that employ the vowels, sometimes the second word isn’t necessary, but often I’ll just throw it in - it kinda makes the first two lines of play redundant as a game, but I can’t really think of a better way to solve!
I generally agree but I really dislike that site. Change is inevitable, as is progress.

Angular 2010-2021? Seriously? Angular was simply superseeded after 11 years by better technology, and same goes for a lot of other projects and services on that site.

I’m not a Google fanboy and I know about the few instances where they screwed over users by turning stuff off but cmon now.
I have an easier to understand analogy: China is the country that will try to solve an integral using Gaussian quadrature while USA will use some kind of Monte Carlo.
On the one hand, I guess we could imagine that the block chain plays an integral role in the "clever oracle mechanism". On the other hand, I think that turns this discussion into "imagine it's useful; in that case, it's useful!"
"Non- and poorly-documented nonsense" is exceedingly common throughout the embedded hardware ecosystem. The Pi is doing well on a relative scale of freedom and openness, not an absolute one.