skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much of the Internet these days is Americans explaining why their collapsing system will never be fixable. It makes me sad.
> Should townsfolk have enough guns and force on their side to subdue the police

At any given time, yes.
The only reason that gas prices are this high in the US is a direct result of the democrat party. They LOVE high gas prices. The elite brag how they aren't concerned as their expensive Tesla doesn't use gas. They believe that the same people that can't afford these high gas prices are going to go out and buy a 60k dollar EV. They believe that everyone can switch to driving an EV and the power grid will some how be able to handle it.

There is no reason the US should not be completely energy independent. There is plenty of oil to drill, if the democrats would allow it.
>> That whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent

The debate intensity seems inversely correlated to the precision of the terms. Scrolling through the thread and the related articles, I don't see any clear (and ideally falsifiable) definition of sentience. It's a general concept, but it's not worth haggling about.
"Don't worry about the price of gas, just change what and how you drive!"
Have you used the gmail web interface?

How do you do bulk actions on emails? Clicking a checkbox for every single one? Having to write an run a query for each set of emails you want to operate on in bulk?

Here's how I do it in thunderbird. Sort by sender (or other thing). Click first email. Shift click last email. Do whatever I want (usually archive or move to a folder).

My employer turned off IMAP access a few years ago and I've basically given up managing my github/jira/mailing list spam. Filters turn out to be surprisingly fragile.
True although some of the large PE firms do their best to hide the affiliation.
Stable, to some degree, in all of those respects, since they are interdependent. Being stable with respect to any of the above indicates a degree of stability with respect to the rest. You can't be stable against gold without a degree of stability against USD, as USD/Gold is pretty stable, and arbitrage would close the gap. Likewise with local prices and income.

I'm not familiar with SDRs.
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Handling Concurrency Without Locks – Haki Benita
I was just talking about the FAANG companies with a few of my buddies over a couple of beers just last week! Here's the gist for how the conversation went.

Google. When was the last time you remember anybody being excited about anything Google did? The biggest success Google has had is turning Google into a verb that's synonymous with web search - whether people are using Google, DDG or Bing they're "Googling" something. Even Go and Kubernetes are quite old ideas now and Samsung is Android in most consumer's minds. Seems like Google's heyday was 10 years ago.

Netflix. They solved the problem of the uninterrupted video streaming to tens of millions of subscribers. A lot of modern DevOps practices came from Netflix. Now everyone and his brother has a streaming service. It's no longer a technology problem but a content problem, and Disney is the king of content. Why would you want to work at Netflix today?

Facebook. I'd be concerned about no one ever hiring me if I had Facebook on my CV. Even so, like the other companies in FAANG they seem to have peeked.

Amazon. There are still a lot of problems to be solved in logistics and distribution, not to mention there's a lot of work in their AWS services. Amazon seems like a place to work where you're still solving relevant problems. Their ultimate goal is to be the Walmart of online shopping and to do it cheaper than their brick-and-mortar rivals can.

Apple. At least you know there will always be incremental mods to be made to Mac OS, iOS, iPad OS, Watch OS and TV OS! You might even get the chance to work on the "next gadget" OS! Or some other service. Seems better for the hardware-minded than for us software folks.

Bottom line - seems like the FAANG companies, with the exception of Amazon and possibly Apple, have lost their bite! We came to the conclusion that Microsoft is doing more interesting things today in 2022 than most of the FAANG companies are. We also all know people working for small, unheard-of companies that are doing really interesting things.

Back to your question - why does WWDC get 10x more views than Google I/O? Because it's not aimed at a technical audience and they work to make it as entertaining as possible considering you're dealing with a bunch of geeks doing the presentations.
seems sus
Maybe you just get the insulin spike that deals with excess sugar in the blood much sooner which I think is what is supposed to make you sleepy. Probably should consider yourself lucky :)
"Supply chain issues"

(I wish I was joking - we are going to be hearing that excuse for the next decade)
The only answer to this issue (and make no mistake, its happening in medical care for humans too) is to not restrict conpetition.

With yields so low, and the stock market still above 2019 highs, PE firms are diving into the few areas of the economy where there is value due to lack of competition and it is also not completely overheated.

However, take out the permit and licensing requirements and you would plummet PE money pouring in right away.
> Honestly I'd rather a battery that's super reliable and NOT using any lithium ion inside it in my home. As it doesn't need to move, it can sit there in an unused space and be really heavy.

It sounds to me like you're asking for a nickel-iron battery.
And why, exactly, "reasons" can't be driven by lookup tables?

This all smells suspiciously like "soul" in disguise.
Most people are faced by more than one choice of vet. Most people do not live in rural areas.

If vets are able to charge high prices and people will still pay them, maybe more vets will enter the market to provide services to the underserved market.
The sad thing is that this point of view is just not accepted to be discussed e.g. in case of (covid) vaccines or other large scale innovations. I'm not a fan of intelligence measuring the potential of a society but just to give an idea of the non-linearities that can be in play here: A reduction of just 3 IQ points on average leads to a 10 fold decrease in people of IQs around 140.
Relative to average incomes or the wealth of the population it’s pretty clear Russia is the one suffering.
You can use a helicopter to commute to work. It's just not a very rational thing for most people to do.
"financialization" is more a boogieman than a solid concept. More competition (the best interpretation of "de-financialization" I can imagine) is not very solid solution for something like healthcare (or yes pet care) where the demand being inelastic makes "ransoming" easy.
How Animals Perceive the World
Investors think so too. As of last year had raised almost $800 million:
https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/28/redwood-materials-raises-7...
We have seen the reports of the kind of conversations that the researcher had with the algorithm, simple questions like "are you conscious?" and "how do you feel?" without any follow-up.

If all research was of that kind, and based on our understanding of the best available language models guiding LaMDA, it's fairly safe to assume that this is nothing more the ELIZA effect at work. Consciousness as we understand it requires an ongoing introspection of one's own reasoning process, and language models generating this kind of dialog have nothing of the sort.
>> capacity factor

>Is way less a criteria for production units not consuming any fuel (wind, solar...) not waste.

Not really. Capacity factor affects everything about a power source - it is stilly to pretend it is not a big deal. If you have to overbuild by a factor of N, that obviously increases the cost, land use, etc by that factor. If you need to spend billions of dollars to add new transmission lines or some hypothetical new grid storage, that also increases the costs by those billions of dollars. Everyone making any power source will try to get as high as possible capacity factor.

>> If making more grid storage was cheap and easy, we would have built it decades ago

>No, mainly because there was no perceived need (burning fossils was practical and cheap),

Even when the power sources weren't intermittent, there were still many reasons to try and develop grid storage. Plants offline due to maintenance, differences in demand over a 24 hour period, seasonal differences in demand, etc. Any power plant is obviously a huge capital cost and having to build extra plants is not anyone's preference. The goal for having grid storage is why pumped hydro was developed over 100 years ago. In the 100 years since pumped hydro was developed, we haven't really deployed much of any other kind of grid storage. If making more grid storage was cheap and easy, we would have been using it for a long time.

>> (renewables) ((...)) what if that doesn't pan out?

>It better does, as our current (worldwide) ability to build nuclear reactors is very weak, and weakening, and as there isn't any third approach in sight.

You didn't actually answer the question.

If countries actually decide they need them and commit to building them, they obviously can build them. France was able to build enough plants in a 15 year period to make it the majority of their power. We will see how many nuclear plants China builds over the next 20 years.

>France is one of the leaders and doesn't hope to have more than 3 new reactors by 2040...

In 2022 France announced plans to build six new reactors and to consider building a further eight. Admittedly politics always gets involved in this kind of thing and technology is always changing, so we will see how many they actually build.
I drink a lot of caffeine free diet coke now that I've developed a caffeine intolerance, and I think you're right. It doesn't have the bite without the caffeine and tastes kind of flat.
That's a noble, yet completely impossible sentiment.
The 6100 does not use a conventional PCI bus.
To be honest I don't see this as such a bad thing. Google Chrome has 70% of the browser market share, while Safari has 4%. I don't think there's anything wrong with prioritizing more popular platforms, specially when you just want to ship a project that you worked on in your spare time to learn new things.
It is 10 USD pr. gallon in Denmark:

https://www.shell.dk/priser-pa-benzin-og-diesel.html

People are still driving (also in cars) ...
Chicken and egg problem. Cars are necessary because businesses/places to work are far apart, but they got to be the distance they were because cars are around. The US is a huge place, there was plenty of space to go around and the current situation is what follows from it.
What happened when the customer encountered the same employee on a future visit?
This type of hyper aggressive response doesn’t lead to constructive conversation. Please reconsider the tone of words/punctuation you’re using and remember the humanity of the people you’re talking to. If you wouldn’t talk like this in a face to face discussion with a stranger try using different language in your online dialogue as well.
High gas prices will be used as a talking piece against the Democrats if they continue through the mid-term elections… not sure your point of view makes a lot of sense.
For the amount of protein they contain this is just false
Maybe it would be better if they charged more and paid their vets more so that there were actually enough workers to help people's pets? If that's what PE is doing because the local owners are too afraid to raise prices, more power to them.
What is an anti-energy Democrat? I love energy, but I hate that we need to pollute the world to get it. We can make most things electric and generate electricity with renewable sources (unlike oil or coal). We get a society with all the fancy things we enjoy which consume energy, and also don’t destroy the world we live in. Sounds like a nobrainer to me
Yeah, me too. My best guess is that it's PM's who are overprotective of their idea of how it should work and feel they don't have to open the box as wide as on desktop.

But 20 > 0, all the same.
Yes they do, but if you aren't aware of the ideology you're using as a basis of your thinking about the world, I'd recommend researching the subject. Until that, a constructive dialogue would not be possible.
Humans can be drugged into a state where they can be commanded; does that render them unintelligent?
Lots of people died and disappeared, whole cities were abandoned, those that weren’t often had a tenth of their previous populations, people receded to subsistence agriculture, and literacy went to almost zero. If you took an interest in a subject and read a few books, you could be the worlds foremost expert on it. This was most prevalent in the west.

Rome was just a few sparks away from triggering an industrial revolution a thousand years early.
Most of the corporations don't make it known that the clinic is corporate owned. They sweep in, buy the clinic, and keep the owner in charge. Marketing and branding is kept as-is to keep the small, neighborhood clinic feel.

Some of that is changing depending on the corporation. Sometimes you'll see "Main Street Vet Hospital, a Megacorp Vet Clinic" or they'll rebrand speciality clinics and large hospitals with the corporation branding. However, a lot of small general practice clinics still make no mention of corporate ownership and clients would never know unless they ask. And they never ask.
> That involves a trusted third party, doesn't it?

For most cases, yes. Binance, Gemini and some others provide a version of their token that can run in multiple chains. It's supposed to be 1:1 backed by BTC, but you have to trust them fully.

It's a little bit better for WBTC [0]. WBTC is a consortium of 30+ crypto projects who keep the BTC under their control through a multi-sig wallet, and that can be audited on-chain. In this case, the majority of the signers would have to conspire in order to steal the funds or do anything malicious.

renBTC is even more decentralized. It is part of the ren "network" [1], which provides inter-blockchain applications. I haven't looked yet how it works exactly, but my understanding is custody of BTC happens though a proper dapp. Last year I wanted to get rid of all my BTC, and I did it though ren. It was BTC -> renBTC -> DAI.

[0]: https://wbtc.network

[1]: https://renproject.io
balancing out the acid maybe?
It's not a CMS thing, it's a Chrome thing.[1] It highlights the text in the URI fragment when you click through to the page, and also auto-scrolls to that text.

[1] https://web.dev/text-fragments/
We've had capitalism for 250 years, and are still far from this alleged inevitable end state.
The Ioniq5/EV6 adapter only plugs into the J1772 port. This is not how the F-150 works for V2H. The F-150 hooks into the CCS pins underneath the J1772 plug, and mostly likely uses the same digital signaling used for CCS, instead of the PWM signaling used for J1772.

Either way, the resistor across the PP/PE pins is mostly not for current capacity of the EVSE, but rather just the cable (which isn't normally an issue, as the cable is going to be rated as high or higher than the EVSE, and generally isn't detachable for J1772). This is relevant only insofar as the Type 2 connector in EU (etc.) use the same technology (including signaling).

Generally speaking, I'd expect CCS connectors to rely on an off-board inverter, as they can be built in a less weight conscious manner.
You might win the election, but you won't manage to deliver on pulling the portion of their pension already credited.
Shipping to Production – The Pragmatic Engineer
Man beats a horse in a race
The snide/sarcastic tone is surprising and unbecoming for what's normally a source of high-quality articles
> I don't consider that an acceptable outcome, because it can be used to declare anyone/everything non-sentient.

Unlike you I can easily tolerate that there's on essential property that defines sentience. It's a fluid and relativistic concept. One that I believe can never apply to a statistical model.

Simply because you can't prove that other people are sentient does not mean you have to treat them any worse. I assume you are sentient, not because I have been provided the evidence, but because I need you to be sentient for my own sentience to make sense. That doesn't mean you actually are sentient, just that I treat you as if you are.
A veterinarian cannot open a practice without doing a bunch of licensing and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in education.

Meanwhile, the PA next to him has what it takes from years of training but she will never open a vet clinic of his/her own.

Thats not capitalism.
As LesZedCB said, LOB is "Line of Business". In practice, this is where your business-logic resides.

edit: CRUD means Create-Read-Update-Delete. It's a basic programmer term for a simple application, or those simple parts of it at least. Even something big like Wikipedia, at it's core is a CRUD site. Most things are, with business logic sprinkled in; but some things aren't CRUD at all (eg a video game).

For example, if you're a car dealership your LOB CRUD API would handle stuff like submitting new cars, or staffs, or associating a sale of a specific car with a specific salesman or whatever other biz logic you have. This could be in contrast with, say, your Document Storage CRUD API which handles integrations with your document storage (eg storing things on a SharePoint, or Ceph, or S3, etc).

LOB has no inherent value with regards to microservice vs. monolith, it's simply another way to refer to the business specific logic. The term LOB is common across business as a whole, whereas "business logic" is generally a phrase used by programmers about programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_business
Related: new car prices in Russia went up more than 50% in May.

The sanctions on Russia are only just getting started.
Monopoly on search ads.
Well, in my case. I realized that i find my day to day job boring and there is still little joy. Mainly because i don’t feel challenged. I know how to do it so what i see is that how much effort is needed to accomplish.
What i do is that i invest my free time/ no commitments, in things harder than my current skills allow me to achieve. And thankfully i do find joy in doing that. In my case is just joy not making something big and successful
Doubtful. The point of capitalism is to optimize for maximum capital production. Ergo, the optimum solution always seems to end up being financialization, since it is so effective at producing capital.
The infloor and in-wall heating systems are just recently being re-introduced! 2000+ years later.
Even small buildings in the wilds of england are found with hypocaust tiles. I just saw a video introducing a brand-new underfloor heating system using hot air! The not leaking liquid was a big selling point.

Everything old is new again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocaust
no automatic blockchain contract can provide you with USD
For the original source, a mother first told this to CBS News in a video interview: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/mother-who-ran-into-texas-scho...

Online publication "The Root" paraphrased this (source: https://www.theroot.com/uvalde-mom-who-saved-her-children-sa...) as: "Angeli Rose Gomez told CBS News that she was informed that if she continues to talk to media about her fearless actions, she would be charged with a probation violation for obstruction of justice."
I don't know why you are being downvoted - the fact that gas has stayed so cheap for so long is unusual (and highly artificial).
Based on Canadian Prices, a working guy would spend. And not even going very far from home.

Gas $100

Beer $50

Cigs $15

Ontario Park Campsite $59/night x 2 = $120

Firewood 2 x $15 = $30

Some basic sausages and food = $50

Total $375

Min Wage $15/hour. Hours of work = 25 hours

Actually it would take more than 25 hours, because most likely that person does not live with Grandma and has shelter / food expenses. So might need to save up for a month, if not months.
Post mortem of our temporary BTC network withdrawal suspension
> Allow regular people to set up a BBS that other people could connect to.

What do you mean "allow"? Unless you have a ridiculous ISP, you're allowed to host just about anything. I seriously doubt any ISPs are blocking NNTP, UUCP, or SSH.
I can think of a few crimes that they could be charged with, but without evidence it certainly makes it harder.
Sure, but its a bad metric to decide what sites to use. The evil ones will still track you regardless, the non-evil won't regardless.
June 15: It's the end of the Internet Explorer era
The USA has done itself an enormous disservice by allowing gas prices to remain so cheap. The entire economy builds itself up around the assumption of low fuel prices, then are flabbergasted when, yet again, fuel prices skyrocket.

The country has made great progress in terms of fuel economy. But the most popular vehicles sold in the USA (full sized pickups) still get like 18MPG. The majority of efficiency gains go into making them larger and more powerful, because there's no economic incentives to make trucks with the size and capability of 90s era trucks, but with double+ the fuel economy. Ford was at least able to be forward-looking and release the Maverick, a small hybrid pickup, at exactly the right time.
To believe that there is a single, easily-distillable "reason" to a very complex, country-wide (or wider) economic concern, should be an indicator to re-examine one's own depth of understanding on said issue.
They're probably being flagged by people tired of seeing the same thing over and over and over and over again, with much heat and little to no light.
We now already have a Google employee having a mental health crisis declaring their chat bot system as sentient. 7 years from now imagine what will be possible?!
Their are plenty of EVs that cost less than $60k. And plenty of used hybrids that cost a fraction of that.

High oil prices do push consumers to choose more efficient vehicles. They also benefit the US by sending way less money to countries that want to harm us - especially Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia etc.
> OS 8 and 9 were unreliable at using the internet because unlike Windows or Linux it was not a 32 bit OS with real memory protection.

This isn't my recollection at all, although the lack of protected memory on "Classic Mac OS" means that you would've personally experienced unreliable anything if you were also running poorly-written extensions or other software on your system.

System 7 (1991) was the first 32-bit version of Classic Mac OS, and Internet Explorer for Macintosh was very advanced for its time. Classic Mac OS had a healthy browser ecosystem which also included Cyberdog, iCab, Netscape, Opera, and WannaBe (a text browser).
I believe you, but as someone WITHOUT experience in analyzing vehicle impacts, can you explain why? (or sources that explain it?)
China’s Chipmaking Power Grows Despite US Effort to Counter It
>I remember paying $1600 for an extra 32 MiB RAM around 1996

I remember doing exactly this around the same time. Back then, RAM was almost considered a durable good, because RAM prices had remained stable for so long. I thought, "well, this is expensive, but I'll get most of my money back if I ever sell the computer," and this wasn't a completely insane idea at the time.
> Don't they also own a huge amount of the provinces debt, basically turning the provincial finances into a house of cards

Didn't the feds just demonstrate they would just bailout a province going bankrupt?

I think it was Newfoundland who managed to get to the brink of bankruptcy with a failed hydro project. The results? Everyone up north ended up paying for it. Makes any junk bond with a province name's on it de-facto insured.
I don't want to sound hateful, but Gary Marcus really does seem to have found a nice niche as "pessimisti research scientist". most everytime I see him pop up it's to explain, usually pretty well, why X model isn't actually intelligent, conscious, etc. - often when he has just written a book or article