skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly some sovereign citizens see the system as a rigid machine, but many simply believe it should be and act accordingly. They are idealists, not necessarily deluded about reality or trying to hack the system (although those types definitely do exist, I won't deny that). It's almost like a way of turning your life into a demonstrative protest against the "big lie" that is the law and refusing to fall in line.
> a rather banal dodge of the entire thesis of the article

But I wasn't addressing the article, I was addressing the comment.

> people tend to lapse into meta-argument or tone argument as a substitute for substantive discussion

Like what we're doing right now?
Another archeological propaganda technique is to omit from the history the people you don't like and/or who you don't want to have any claim to the territory. Without naming names, one country likes to skip back thousands of years.
Erdoğan is a dictator propped up on Islamic sentiment and tradition. He is not a nationalist.
From Gobekli Tepe, but probably similar:

"At the end of its uselife, the megalithic enclosures of Göbekli Tepe were refilled systematically. This special element of the site formation process makes it hard to date the enclosures by the radiocarbon method, as there is no clear correlation of the fill with the architecture. Several ways have been explored to overcome this situation, including the dating of carbonate laminae on architectural structures, of bones and the remains of short-lived plants from the filling. The data obtained from pedogenic carbonates on architectural structures back the relative stratigraphic sequence observed during the excavation. But, unfortunately, they are of no use in dating the sampled structures themselves, as the carbonate layers started forming only after the moment of their burial. At least these samples offer a good terminus ante quem for the refilling of the enclosures. For layer III this terminus ante quem lies in the second half of the 9th millennium calBC, while for layer II it is located in the middle of the 8th millennium calBC."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258182967_Radiocarb...
He’s still on the board.
I've found TailwindCSS difficult to use in situations where a very good component system isn't available.

In the case of Django, the templating system is awkward when hyper-componentizing elements like buttons -- at the end of the day, you'll have to bring in something like React or use good ol' @apply classes.
One issue if that if you have multiple benefits, and each phases out over a similar range, the combined total loss can be over 100%.

Suppose that between $25,000 and $35,000 income, you start paying taxes, you lose food stamps, you have to start paying toward your medical insurance, you lose your daycare assistance, free school lunches, etc., etc... each one of those could be staggered, but the net result is just overwhelming.

I'm not a big fan of social programs; but if we're going to do them, they should at least be done sensibly.
Most conservatively, there are tokamaks that use more modern superconductors, able to support much stronger magnetic fields. Tokamak output scales with the fourth power of the magnetic field, so that allows the same output as ITER from a much smaller, cheaper reactor. The MIT spinoff CFS is doing this, along with Tokamak Energy in the UK. CFS is shooting for a net power attempt in 2025.

There are also various alternative designs, like Zap Energy's z-pinch, General Fusion's magnetized target fusion, and Helion's field-reversed configuration. Helion is attempting hybrid D-D/D-He3 fusion, the other two are D-T.
Urartu is a little north of here
Does anyone at least have a frontend that shows the guesses for you to Approve | Deny?
> The policy of prioritizing disinfection is part of a wider state-controlled narrative that’s politicizing the health crisis and is designed to legitimize the government’s response.
Please define reasonable in legal terms.
Ergo the rumors must be true, Virtual Boy 2.0 VR Headset from Nintendo is imminent ;)
Is there any serious scientific source for this story? A report in a journal?
What are some such articles?
Would you be able to share the kinds of questions you ask and have had success with? :)
You're moving the goal posts, on top of changing the definition of "direct" to fit your false narrative. First you claim there was no incentive at all, then there was no "direct" incentive, and now direct apparently means "immediate" instead of linear.

If a company invests in research specifically because the fruits of that research will reduce expenses, that is direct financial benefit.
you don't think something like Microsoft Excel improves people's lives?
This is fairly typical for HN links that touch on ancient archaeology, especially anything tangentially related to popular alt-history figures like Graham Hancock. However, metadiscussion about the quality of other comments feels like it goes against a few of the rules. It's better to explain the issues directly in replies.
I agree, it is fine if people choose to do this! It doesn't change my perspective on it however. There is definitely an opportunity cost. However, not in all cases. A single developer who is talented can take a variety of paths outside of this system to make significant or more money.

I'm going to get ahead of the idea of the risk of stability and the implication I'm saying a software developer would be banking on risk/reward of a technology startup. I'd like to say that they can also use all the skills and knowledge of a software developer in a non-tech company with great success and similar or higher compensation with similar risk profiles.
Please assume I'm a reasonable person enough to not say that nobody has ever received help, and see the context as to what I meant - that many people do not receive enough help.
Sure, great for metrics, terrible for actually doing the job.

Leetcode can never compete with or allow a candidate to demonstrate real multi-dimensional or multi-systems thinking. You may be able to write some bass ackwards arcane algorithm and prove you’re “31337” but can you make that work at scale with a data store that you have no information about? How’s it going to get the data to operate on in the first place? Will your data retrieval query cripple a prod database? Read from replica? How far behind can that data be without making your fancy algorithm useless? How will you parallelize that work set? In-request or background job? Multi-threaded or single thread? What about changing state in multi threaded contexts? Database indexes? Schema design? How will you handle failures in your algorithm? How will you handle malformed data? And most importantly, does what you’re doing benefit the user, or just your epeen?

Leetcode is bullshit. It’ll never let somebody show you they’re good at anything other than solving bullshit problems. And you’ll lose everybody who CAN work within the larger context by chasing candidates who’s chief skill is solving bullshit problems.
Also famously the November 5 1996 NYT puzzle where a clue about the newly elected president could be solved either CLINTON or BOBDOLE and all the crossing words had two solutions.

If they trained the AI on the NYT archive then they would have the results of testing it on this one.
But you do consume stuff transported to your neighborhood by trucks and cars. Maybe you use public transport? That consumes gasoline/diesel and requires infrastructure. Or do you live on home grown food? How's the post at your door every morning? Ambulances? Police? Fire service? Electricians? Packets from Amazon or other MediaMarkt?

I don't believe you do not benefit.

Ask the people of Ahrweiler what is it like living without that infrastructure.
Bulk of democrat politicians, yes.

Bulk of democrat voters, no.
Offset trackpad is a 100% deal breaker for me, sorry. It could support 64GB and Libreboot and I would pass.
I haven't used Pop!_OS so maybe this isn't a valid concern, but some Linux distros have a hard time with DPI scaling, especially by non-integer amounts... So you could end up with an unfortunate situation where a 1440p screen is too small to read at 1x scaling but too clunky to use at 2x
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> But I do definitely know this: some time in 8000 BC the creators of Gobekli Tepe buried their great structures under tons of rubble. They entombed it. We can speculate why. Did they feel guilt? Did they need to propitiate an angry God? Or just want to hide it?’ Klaus was also fairly sure on one other thing. ‘Gobekli Tepe is unique.’

I think it'd be rather hard for a hunter gatherer society to realistically cover such a large area under tons of rubble. It makes me wonder if this covering with rubble is somehow related to the Black Sea deluge hypothesis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis]:

> "In 1997, William Ryan, Walter Pitman, Petko Dimitrov, and their colleagues first published the Black Sea deluge hypothesis. They proposed that a catastrophic inflow of Mediterranean seawater into the Black Sea freshwater lake occurred around 7600 years ago, c. 5600 BCE .

> As proposed, the Early Holocene Black Sea flood scenario describes events that would have profoundly affected prehistoric settlement in eastern Europe and adjacent parts of Asia and possibly was the basis of oral history concerning Noah's flood. Some archaeologists support this theory as an explanation for the lack of Neolithic sites in northern Turkey. In 2003, Ryan and coauthors revised the dating of the early Holocene flood to 8800 years ago, c. 6800 BCE."

I think there's a poetic feel to it (which makes me wholly question it); the start of agriculture, Babylon, The Garden of Eden, Noah's ark, all wrapped in one, discovered by a shepherd in the hills and filled with penises.
What makes you think the site is Indo-European? There's no obvious link mentioned in the article, and the site predates earliest known Indo-European migrations by 4000 years.
Why is the age of the word or its roots significant here?
Electronic Arts held merger talks with Comcast, Disney, Apple, and Amazon
Looking at the keyboard layout makes me wonder. How many devs here actually use the right shift key and/or the right modifier keys? I've been programming for 20 years (15 or so using emacs) and I exclusively use the left shift and left modifiers. I probably have never used the (physically) right shift/modifier keys on the keyboard I'm currently typing on that I've had for 2 years.

I loathe the four left modifier key layout on keyboards which is probably why I hate typing on my Macbook. It would be nice if I could have a fat left control key with the fn key on the right somewhere.
This seems...underwhelming. In most features, especially the screen. Also: I've used multiple high-end HP laptops at work (a requirement), and they are awful.
The pointer stick is a really great thing to have assuming it works well. That said, my muscle memory would be decimated by the lack of a middle button. On Thinkpads, holding this makes the pointer stick scroll, making it a lot more useful than if it only middle clicked.
>We need an older word than civilisation in English.

>Civis (citizen) is Latin (civil etc) which is only around 2500 years old give or take a bit.

Do we need a new word for yeet? Seems like that might be outdated too!
> But it’s a game of chance.

This is fundamentally incorrect. Knowing when to fold is absolutely integral to being good at Poker (assuming tournament/competitive play). In some cases, you might be absolutely screwed by bad luck (like you can be in football if you tear your ACL), but Poker is not a game of luck. It's a game of probabilities and social engineering.
(Author of the code here) Yeah :-)
Not to mention the fact that getting a biopsy can cause the cancer to spread all over the body where it might never have grown beyond its original position had it been left untouched.
Inverted-T is a good layout for the most part, but I think IBM/Lenovo have suckered me into their 3x2 arrow cluster. Having pgup and pgdown so close to a single hand really helps me fly through docs and PDFs.
All HP EliteBooks have one, right?
>If not, why in god's name would you have 16GB RAM as a selling point?

With 16 GB you can run two whole Electron apps!
to me a blockchain is very similar to a cryptographic signature used in a recursive manner, meaning that a new document which is based on the previous document history includes the signatures for all those documents and signs it all in order to prove that the chain has not been tampered with.

im not at all a blockchain proponent but i really see a usecase here. but then again i see even git as a blockchain so its not that it would be expensive or exciting to get it working. (Dubai reportedly uses blockchain for their property register)

this is actually a common attack vector in countries like Pakistan were someone falsifies a stamped court document that actually the current owner of a certain property is not valid because he bought it from someone who did not actually own the property. the rightful owner is therefor me. (called qabza in urdu)
As someone who generally prefers public transit to driving (especially in a foreign country - a lot will depend on where you're traveling. I usually travel solo but think in general it would scale pretty well. Of course if your kids are poorly behaved then it'll be more of a challenge.

I think having some familiarity with the infrastructure can go a long way into making the trip easier. Knowing where platforms are, which stations are easier to transfer at, etc.

2 – Don't forget road tolls, parking, and surprise maintenance.

3 – The most consistent "pain point" I've seen with transferring is simply walking from platform to platform. I can only think of a handful of stations that I'd actually consider difficult (e.g. BART's Millbrae and Madrid's Atocha station).

4 – Again, parking. In most big cities you're not going to roll right up to your destination and park.

5 – My experience has been it's as difficult as you make it. Hell I saw someone bring a refrigerator on Muni. Some places like Japan have low cost courier services that entirely negate the need to bring luggage with you. Just drop it off with the courier at the airport and have it sent to the hotel or nearest 7-11. In other places you'll find luggage racks or areas on the trains. Alternatively, pack less stuff. If you're traveling by car and need to use a rooftop box don't forget the hefty fuel consumption penalty.
https://archive.ph/wAyFm
But I think the question is radiocarbon dating of what..?? Saying they dated a lithic archeological site with radiocarbon measurements doesn't tell us anymore than they measured something with a given method. What was the something??

I posted an extract from link earlier in this thread about the other site, which explained that they were dating the laminae on the structure that started forming after the fill, or sampling organic material tossed in with the fill, but neither really gets at how old the structure itself it. Curious to understand more if people find it.
Right, the future archeologists will find some old parking meters and assume the primitive ancients had some sort of steel penis cult.
Interesting that they didn't approach Sony.
Yup, and Apple already showed their hand with that too. The new M1s have a complex, but open, boot process. There's already a tailor made linux distro that can boot on the M1s, so it's not like it's not technically possible to maintain the device's security while allowing it.
Not the OP but I taught myself in a couple of weeks picking apart some of the sample CUDA code and reading some of the (excellent) pdfs on the architecture of the Nvidia range. At the time the GTX285 was hot stuff, the same code runs unchanged on a 1080ti and I would expect it to continue to work on even more modern incarnations. CUDA is pretty good as a platform to build on if you understand the basic idea behind the engine, and some low level experience will come in very handy. And ML on CUDA vs ML in C or some other language is typically a matter of shuttling the data and the results back and forth between main memory and the card as well as implementing the most time consuming portions of the algorithm you are using in a custom kernel, you can usually get 50% or so of the theoretical maximum speed with relatively little effort. Getting to full speed is going to be a lot harder, but then you could of course also add another card (or another three) get get an instant boost.

Usually you would - nowadays at least - use someone else's optimized kernel + ML library but if you wanted to roll your own that's doable.
Yes I understand that's a distinctive factor, which was the reason for me mentioning it.

Just wanted to point out that different threat models and actor evaluations exist.
To prevent a multimillionaire who becomes disabled from collecting disability because they don't need it.

They're punishing hundreds of thousands of people in order to prevent the abuse of a few dozen.
There's nothing stopping the single party wealthy states like CA and NY implementing whatever they want. Just raise taxes on the rich and do whatever you want with their money, right?
Two things have worked for me:

- rationalizing leads to increased personal agency: you now know enough about a topic to know how things actually work, vs. how the abstraction talks about it working. You've jumped over the abstraction wall, and that's a good thing - you're playing with the real deck of cards now. Would you rather be blissfully unaware and have your world ended by one of these security events, or be aware and take meaningful risk controls to protect yourself and your relevant loved ones. I will say with technical knowledge I have, buying older, less connected cars and doing a little bit of emergency prepping suddenly doesn't seem at all insane. Pre-UKR war, I pulled out cash from ATMs in the event NotPetya 2.0 was unleashed. It sounds nuts except for the fact that NotPetya shut down Maersk and iirc FedEx.

- align incentives: tech is a business. tech is a business. tech is a business. in the most cyncical but still accurate evaluation, it is run by MBAs/Lawyers/product owners/ex-founders who joined the dark side and leverage idealistic "for the love of the tech" types like yourself to build great products... which is not always great tech. find places to work at that have the maximum incentive to take security seriously, and the security profession suddenly will suck less. parts of government, cryptocurrency exchanges, ICS firms like Dragos, places like that.
I believe Pop!_OS is based on GNOME, which handles fractional scaling in the same way as macOS, by rendering the UI at 2x and then scaling down. In my experience with macOS, this is good enough for ~95% of cases (I've run into issues with image editing and pixel art).

It hurts battery life, but... this is a developer laptop: make it a bit thicker, and give it as much battery as you legally can.

EDIT: If you're going to down this, please share your disagreement in the comments below; fractional scaling has some good arguments on either side, I'd be interested to hear another perspective.
Over 5 million people can’t vote in the US because of a felony conviction. How many of them are innocent, or should have been convicted of a lesser crime, or just have done their time and should be equal again under the law? But they don’t get to vote. We shouldn’t apply a higher standard to Facebook regarding shopping than we do to our government when it comes to the vote.
You can tell poker isn't a game of chance, because you consistently see the same handful of faces at/near the final table for the world series of poker out of a field of many thousands.

You don't see that happen on other games of chance, only games of skill. For example, there has never been a repeat winner at the Rock-Paper-Scissors world championship.
For cryptic crosswords I’ve found https://www.crosswordgenius.com/ impressive (once you get past the kind of clunky UI)
Every nation has such a map and we probably need three earths to satisfy all of these.
Slack and VSCode. What else does a developer laptop need?
> like in Roman history, where the income of entire villages was only enough to field one Calvary soldier

What an interesting data point.
People expect more from AP. And I promise you, I know people with Teslas, some are incredibly switched on, some absolutely are not.
Moreover, if we would really ever become able to produce by nuclear fusion a quantity of energy comparable with the energy received from the Sun, then that would cause by itself a great climate warming, so nuclear fusion is not a solution against it.

If the quantity of energy produced by nuclear fusion would remain negligible in comparison with the solar energy, then there is no need for it.

While on Earth using the nuclear fusion makes little sense, mastering it could enable the exploration and even the colonization of the Solar System.
Gross offer up does this which is why I had to stop using it
This is an extremely interesting subject. I understand the "hate" for leet code, or simply live coding exercises in general, though so far the majority of "hate" I've heard for this comes from the candidates who haven't had to do a ton of hiring. Or they've had the ability to hire slower and take their time evaluating fewer people over a longer period of time without a ton of inbound pressure. Or they've set some arbitrary bar for inbounds that many people also disagree with (such as only talking to people from top ranked CS schools, or only candidates from well known companies, basically some other metric they can use for themselves as some abstraction on competence).

I do believe having someone do paid work / pair with the team for a few days is likely the most valuable, and I do actually think the best people are ok with this because they use it as a way to evaluate a company. But this strategy simply isn't scalable and can take a lot of company man hours without extremely good up front vetting.

I've found coding exercises, of some sort, they don't have to be leet-code-esque, to be one of the very few "put your money where your mouth is" activities to perform. The amount of folks that can speak forever and in-depth about what they've worked on, and then will completely fail at writing for-loops in their favorite language has astonished me. I don't believe live coding exercises have to be adversarial, I believe candidates should be offered a more accessible often if it's too high pressure for them, but I don't believe coding exercises are inherently bad or evil. I do believe there are bad or evil exercises that can be chosen.

A practical coding exercise that requires no more than 8-10 lines of code done live has generally served well in my experience for assessing candidates. I've seen similar pure failure rates from practical exercises as I have from "perform a dfs" style exercises, in the above 60% range.
Fair enough, perhaps I was oversimplifying with my example. It seems from the OP the plan is to transition to breeding the tritium in fusion reactors, and that we currently have enough fission-produced tritium to plausibly bridge to those fusion-based processes. And the concern is that the fission reactors might shut down before we bootstrap the fusion reactors.

Still, as I said originally, it sounds like keeping our current level of fission reactors around should solve the bootstrapping problem.
Well, you've got a chemical plant that can turn tough cellulose-y grasses and leaves and heather into stuff we can eat, it's called a sheep.