skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I expect the invasion or Iraq had a whole lot more to do with

The evidence seems to indicate that the invasion was due to morality-baiting by Al Quaeda: their aim was to drain the US economy with a long, protracted guerilla war, like they did to the Russians.

Sadly G H W and G W Bush both played right into their hands - entirely predictable, to quote a phrase, is probably what the Al Quaeda game-theoretic strategy was.
> If they respond badly, you keep training them until they respond better.

Right, but what do you do with all the other cars on the road that presumably still have the bad behavior (while the fix is being developed)? Just assume that the situation is rare enough that you'll be able to fix it before it happens again?
> a strong vibe of ”anti democracy” in there too

This is blatantly false, and calling the opinion to limit the power of government "anti democracy" is pure authoritarian Orwellian doublespeak.

> Government is a direct extension of interests and will of the people (at least it should be.)

This is definitely false in America.

The American government hasn't been a "direct extension of interests and will of the people" in multiple decades, if not half a century, and won't be until the regulatory capture, rampant monopolies, anticompetitive behavior, two-party system, bribery disguised as lobbying, and disproportionate representation of special interest groups all end.

Until then, limiting the power of government is the only sane course of action.
> I believe you're ignoring the overall point of the article, which is not that lead-acid batteries specifically are unworkable.

Right, the point of the article is that storage is unworkable, and lead-acid batteries are used therein as a straw-man. You underestimate how much time I've spent studying this, and how many times I've read that absolutely infuriating article.

>He further goes on to discuss gravitational storage (e.g., hydroelectric dams and pumped storage), kinetic storage (e.g., flywheels), spring storage (e.g., compressed air), and chemical storage (e.g., batteries, fuel cells).

But he does not discuss the most significant existing application of batteries for grid storage. So when he says this:

>We can’t just scale up the current go-to solution for renewable energy storage

He hasn't even considered it! Granted, Na-S currently lags way behind Li-anything in costs, but that's a result, mostly, of innovation aimed at cars.
Only because the garbage truck driver responded promptly. Otherwise the situation would likely have continued arbitrarily long.
As an experienced mathematician once told me:

"The way I read papers is by first reading the abstract. Then I try to state the results and prove them myself. When I get stuck I go to the paper to see what I got wrong."

Mileage may vary.
tl;dr explanation of the bug: memory_order_acquire guarantees that things won't be moved from after it to before it, and memory_order_release guarantees that things won't be moved from before it to after it. The buggy code was doing atomicBase.store(nb, memory_order_release) followed by atomicEnd.load(memory_order_acquire), and relied on the order of those not being swapped, which is not guaranteed.

Since x86_64 has a strong memory model, that code just got compiled into regular MOV instructions there. The Intel software developer's manual says "The Intel-64 memory-ordering model allows a load to be reordered with an earlier store to a different location", and that's exactly what triggers the bug there.

On AArch64, that code got compiled into STLR and LDAR instructions, which can't be reordered in that way (see https://stackoverflow.com/q/67397460/7509065 and https://stackoverflow.com/q/65466840/7509065), so the bug didn't show up there.
> I just wanted to say, I really don't appreciate the sarcasm in the first couple of paragraphs. Anybody can take someone's comment and negate each of the sentences. It's only clever and cute if the new version is kind of self-evidently true or somehow insightful. In this case, it's not.

When you say it: just spitting facts, being no-nonsense.

When someone else uses the same device to say the opposite: vile sarcasm which is not on-point or even funny since it is obviously false (you hold the opposite opinion so of course it is: it is self-evident).
Yes, it's everything else that's expensive — a set of cinema lenses will set you back many multiples of that. Then you need to pay the people to operate them.

Here's a deep dive with an expert from Arri (big movie glass company) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1n2DR6H7mk
These are good points, but trust is not a prerequisite only for Agile. IMHO all large-scale software projects require trust to create space for the team to figure out the right path. If trust is lacking, it needs to be established, but the actions and steps that need to be taken are highly contextual and outside the scope of the Agile Manifesto.
If you take it to the extreme, human growth will be limited by physical laws. There was an interesting paper where they calculated that growth would eventually slow to a crawl because we saturate the region of the universe we can reasonably reach without faster than light travel.
I'm genuinely curious, where do you live and do you 'do a lot of walking' there too?
Well, the rest of their sentence summed it up pretty well; try and implement that example using CSS selectors

Hell, even "find id=subhead and _go up one element_" isn't possible in CSS because that's not a problem it was designed to solve
Trying to take trucks or guns from old Americans is kinda like trying to pry sheep from New Zealanders. They'll be fighting for their extensive form of animal husbandry down to the last shagging body.
> consultants/junior developers/managers and others who try to shoehorn "agile" into every process and team

This is in itself a major point. Managers trying to put scrum on everything. This is my main hope for scrum passing away. I have seen it now several times companies deciding to use scrum for research projects, and after a year they all realize how bad of an idea that is.

On the other hand so far I haven't worked for a single company that actually did scrum (despite claiming it). They all started by "adjusting the process" and removing the scrum master. Sure. You totally understood how this works.
It's insane to me that there are people like you who went to a school like _princeton_ and ended up being cut out of your dream to pursue medical school or a PhD in bio, where if you had maybe just gone to a mid-tier 4-year university you could have easily scored top of your class and probably been accepted to those same programs.

To me, grades in general seem to have little bearing on how driven or knowledgeable someone is on a topic. To limit someone's future based on a somewhat subjective measurement is just.. wrong.
Good advice. What really helped after my breakup was just the time being with myself. It definitely takes some time to get used to it but now im even more happy that I just didn't took the next best chance to be in a relationship again.
> hard time believing this

What is it exactly that you do not believe? Reinfection potential? The flu does. Presumably to the layman, because of evolution. It is what you would you expect from biologic code selected to persist in time, to escape extinction.
This is so sad to me. The fracturing of the community because of capitalism. All these people that are moving away from their friends they are shortsighted. When they really need people no one’s going to be around them. Sad.
But what if you shot down 30 of them already? I suppose you could sell parts on the black market, but that would probably get you caught.
> Yes, we solved ... looming food shortages

I think we're about to stress test this hypothesis via the Ukraine war.
Yes, we are in agreement. That was not what I was objecting to.
Crypto Is Not Like the Early Internet
This just seems like unnecessary pedantry. I’m sure majority people concerned about school shooting never intend to argue about some legalistic definition of what makes something “mass”. Aside from that the words “mass shooting” and “school shooting” constantly being used by the media surely has made colloquial usage of the terms more common in everyday discussions than whatever definition the bureaucrats use.
Huh, the more you know.

I was just making the tired 'Newton died a virgin joke' but thanks for the history of his life.
A little bit. That's why I mentioned "in the first world."
Skills? Interests?

What does the world need you to do?
>At the same time we definitely want our governments using data to help us.

Speak for yourself, until the government shows it can be trusted. Their track record is awful, no thanks.
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are you unproductive if you are making income and you are doing enough at work to not cost your job. if you are pursuing goals, at work or otherwise, like a promotion, then you feel unproductive doing other things. it will come down to prioritization of tasks. modern day requires a lot of admin work and we are bogged down not knowing how to delegate and manage.
750k I live in Mexico
Yes, there was a post on HN a few days ago about this saying it would be rolled out shortly.
> [...] swerving into an unmanned fruit stand without being able to brake is much better than swerving into an unmanned gas pump.

That's a great example.

Not to mention triggering any Rube Goldberg-machine-like chain reaction (even with just a few steps) where a series of events would need to be predicted.
Seems like the headline should be "A Double-Parked Garbage Truck in SF Blocked a Fire Truck Responding to an Emergency." But I'm guessing that would get approximately 0 clicks.
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So I dry ran it against a tiny open source repo I maintain and it worked on exactly 0 of the last 50 PRs. For example, it didn’t auto-approve a PR that was just deleting stale documentation files... The idea sounds nice, but the execution is a bit lacking right now.
I also think a shorter duration and/or a cap on total royalties would be useful. Like 10 years and 10x initial r&d investment, instead of "forever" and "infinite".
You're just ignoring contrary data to fit your viewpoint.

As I've pointed out many times, the apartment buildings in my neighborhood have waitlists for potential renters, and that's despite 20% YoY rent increases (or 16% rent increases, comparing pre- and post-COVID). Average vacancy is less than 1%, and that is true of all of the desirable neighborhoods in LA (of which there are too many to mention). Your own citation supports the rent increase.

These rent increases are not due to supply shrinking (there are thousands more rental units on the market now than before COVID), adjustments for lost rent in the pandemic (that's not how rental pricing works, landlords always charge market rate), and inflation (rent in these neighborhoods increased more than twice as much as inflation).

At this point, having been confronted by data showing that your understanding is wrong, you need to point to actual concrete evidence that your understanding is reasonable and not just vague insinuations.
Python allows indenting using tabs, so I don't understand why it's a weird decision.

In fact, they even stated their reasoning in the document. I don't see why anyone has to blindly follow PEP8 nor do I get why 4 spaces indent has to be considered a standard.
That would be nice but it never works out that way.
In terms of early days serverside JS, I was mainly a Flusspferd user (outside of earlier Rhino & lots and lots of awkward XULRunnering), so I do get where you're coming from. Node was absolutely the mainstream enemy in the early days, and for me strongly represented the antithesis of what the ecosystem should become, including CommonJS.

But that battle was lost and at this stage Node realising late is so so much better than Node never realising at all.

It's also such a familiar story across ecosystems. Node gets all the flack because it's the browser-similar language platform and browsers have been where it's at for a long time (and will continue to be). That's neither a flaw nor an asset though - other ecosystems deal with very large (different) problems despite not having as many challenges to overcome as JS does.
In my experience, science is rarely driven by outliers. Most scientists are very smart of course, but the majority of scientific progress is shaped by slow, steady incremental work that builds on top of itself, rather than brilliant idea men.
the blockage was thanks to the garbage truck driver
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I kind of hear you, but honestly I have to question even that? If it is less separate than I can imagine how does that work in the face of catastrophic global warming? It was one thing when elites could pull the strings in one nation, knowing if things go real they go just hop on a private jet, but global warming is just that, global. Everyone is going to feel the consequences, and that's not even talking about other resources such as food, raw materials, etc. You can't just have a bunker in New Zealand, unless you also plan to just live in the bunker for years and years? I guess what I am trying to say is that Elysium is plausible because it's literally "up there". Riding out the second half of this century on earth seems waaaaaay different to me.
Password Rules Validation Tool
I think the FSF has much bigger problems to focus on than a C manual, in 2022.
https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot#on-windows
Government backed and transparent doesn’t mean all my purchases are exposed. It’s (technically) possible to have a system of tokens where it’s only known how much I spend for example, but not where. Having (say) transactions under $1000 or $10000 anonymous would make a lot of sense as a cash replacement.
At Berkeley, I always heard that other schools (including Ivy Leagues) had grade inflation, nice to have data to back that up.
What that guy is doing in his parents garage is not EUV lithography. He's doing what early IC manufacturers first accomplished in the 60s, only with the benefit of 50 added years of knowledge in the space and decades old equipment that never would have been affordable to the average tinkerer when this technology was cutting edge.

The idea that the risk of patent infringement is the only thing preventing him from building a chip comparable to a modern Intel or AMD CPU in his garage today is absurd.
Yeah, that was a brain fart. Prop 13 is a constitutional amendment.

Prop 13 can be changed by the legislature but won't because change is wildly unpopular (OMG they're gunna raize our taxez) and there's zero chance you'll get the 2/3 majority required to pass it through the legislature.

Prop 13 can be modified by an initiative, but the only related initiatives that pass expand Prop 13's scope. And without legislative action the 2/3 majority stands for any sort of tax increase.

Legislating by sound bite is pretty much how things have been done in California for decades. No matter how much sense reigning in Prop 13 might make, there's always going to be some Jarvisite that is going to scream about kicking granny out of her home because of high property taxes.
Not everyone has option 1 available to them. It’s why school buses exist.
If everyone who left was living in a 2 bedroom with a roommate and now that space is a one bedroom with a home office, then why would rents fall?
We're really lucky we never see more than 1 thing at a time on the road.
Like it or not, SF has the most vibrant tech community than anywhere else.

I live an hour away, and I make the painful, tedious drive up in rush-hour traffic at least once a week to meet up with some group or another in person. The alternative is the dreary, sleep-inducing vendor teleconferences that double as "meetups" on the Peninsula.

I'm strongly considering ditching the Peninsula and moving to SF for better networking and more diverse hangouts and career opportunities.
This thinking is mental. The only thing that kills 19 kids in one hour is a psycho with a gun. This is exactly the time to deal with it as the only thing lack of action gives is more dead kids. Nobody needs these Rambo guns.
Funny thing: in many of the Ivy's, it's well known that the "A"s in Harvard are not the same as the "A"s in the other Ivy's, so we joke that if you want to get an A, you should go to Harvard.
Hah, same here. There's something really satisfying about it. Maybe it's the imagery of tying off a hydrogen airship.
I have this app but I'm still looking for the right knot to tie a boat to a float where another line has been strung between two cleats (to allow more small boats to tie up than would at two cleats).

As I type this my boat is tied with what looked like a child's shoelace.
I think $4m
ban street parking
> Certainly your dismissive "no" is unwarranted.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound dismissive. I've written this comment on mobile, in a short time, which proved to be a bad idea.

I wanted to say "I don't believe GPA to be a good indicator regarding capabilities and intelligence of a person". That dismissive sounding "No" was a direct answer to

> I'm not sure your GPA really matters even for your first job.

And, I tried to say "No, it doesn't matter from my perspective".

> I don't think your experience is representative.

It's certainly possible. I was not an ordinary student when I was an undergrad due to both my past and my interest in computers.
I with you here. Our neighbor had her apartment violently ransacked while she was at work. This is bad. What makes it evil, they waited for her to return - sitting in the apartment waiting for her to walk in. After the detective interview I had, i realized, I don't want to raise family here anymore. The detective agreed.
What specific differences did you see? I was also at a mid tier school, though I did have a scholarship, and was intimidated when I got a job working alongside an MIT grad and a PHD from Yale. The MIT grad was a very good solid guy, and the Yale guy was also solid, I'd be happy to work with or hire either again, but there was no 10x difference, maybe more like a 1.3x difference at best between the team average and the MIT guy.

In general the phds I've worked with were tbh below the average- they always seemed to be big on ideas but less so on actually implementing them and following through.

This was from my days in the finance industry, working in algo trading/hft, but I will admit I was definitely in a tier below the groups that were absolutely minting money, but these were coveted jobs.
Ah cool makes sense, thanks for the comparison. I have definitely noticed that outside the obvious downsides of most American public transit (mainly, longer commute, often still stuck in traffic, having to pay close attention to the schedules at all times, etc), the commute options are also often noticeably dirtier or filled with a lot more homeless people who are sometimes not totally there mentally and that's certainly something that would have to be addressed to see mass adoption. Obviously I think public transit should be open to everyone regardless of socioeconomic background but practically speaking it also needs to be palatable for most people, not really sure what the solution would be.

Just out of curiosity, have you ever been to Tokyo? I feel I've heard good things about its public transit but have only visited so briefly I didn't get much chance to use it myself.
So, you're reinforcing their point that the producers can take actions to attempt to address the problem. Actions which Sony has not undertaken in this instance.
Generally, I feel like the Mercury News homicide map is a good representation of the roughness of the area, and it doesn't look like SF is as different from those areas as you propose. From the looks of it, it's one step up from dead last, Oakland.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/04/bay-area-homicides-20...
I would be a bit concerned about adversarial attacks with this. I’m sure someone will be able to come up with an innocent looking PR that the system will always approve, but actually is malicious. Then any repo which auto-approves PRs with this could be vulnerable.
Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms (2020)
> However, even in the face of that, still lots of people just pissed and moaned but failed to come up with a decent alternative.

Which is, alas, typical. Sources of truth in free software are, of course, not very coordinated, but one does learn, eventually, how to work with that.

So I find it very unfortunate that noise from these sorts of unhelpful reactionaries keeps getting amplified on Hacker News, while actual good and constructive stuff (hey, have you seen those lovely progress posts on GNOME Builder's GTK4 update? Did you know there's a KDE version of Fedora Silverblue? How about that interestingly modern OS image for Steam OS? Did you know people are actually making cool new things with this platform instead of clinging to the past?) barely appears at all.
Man, i still don't get it. Well, maybe i do? :shrug:

The way i see it, the other door has a higher chance of being correct than the door you originally chose. However the two are fundamentally different, are they not?

In reality both doors are equally likely to be correct, no? So yes, changing would be better compared to your original answer - but "to change or not" evaluates both doors in my mind, and each is a 50% chance, no?

Which i think is what you're saying here:

> So your first choice is isn't any more likely to be correct that it was when you first you chose it.

But nevertheless the problem has me a bit confused in what is expected to be "right". It seems to me there is no right, it is a 50/50, unless you are strictly answering the moot point of "Which is better? The door you first chose, or the potential other door?".

Ie i guess i view the original choice as irrelevant the moment the variables change. I feel i misunderstand the goal of the "problem".
Reddit's design is based on IRC. Subreddits are channels.

You could just say your site is like that.
Harvard students of today are enormously more effective and likely intelligent than those of before. Some of that is due to technology making schoolwork easier, but also because of population growth like you said. In the 1950s, you could get into Harvard with one AP course scoring a 3: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/nyregion/nyregionspecial2...

Today you might have 5's on a dozen AP courses and be fully rejected (not waitlisted).
Many SF tech companies would love to not allow remote work again, but I think they can't really pull that off anymore. The argument "the company can't function that way" has been demolished during COVID days, so it'd be very hard for companies to go back. And the more companies allow it, the less leverage the ones that don't have.

That said, a lot of people that worked in SF didn't live in SF even back then. They may live in Oakland, Redwood City, Mountain View, all the way from Walnut Creek to Los Gatos or Milpitas. Now they can just avoid the multi-hour commute - and I think that's a win.
It’s well-known everywhere.

http://www.whatwouldmyharvardgrade.be/ isn’t live anymore, but it was for years. (It just showed a giant “A”).
Can it continue? Sure. Theoretically we could all be hooked up to computers that slow our perception of reality and allow us to create 2x the digital commodities we could normally in our lifetime. This would technically count as "growth". But I think the actual question is flawed to begin with. Why do we need infinite growth? Do we really need 3% economic growth per year ad infinitum? Why is that our metric for optimization? Why don't choose something else to optimize on like human happiness or fulfillment or freedom?