skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good question. Yes and no. If the "God of Busy Beaver" told us a value of BB(n) (for large enough n) then that would reduce some math problems to "simply" running a TM for that many steps and seeing if it halted. However, there are (at least) two issues with this: (1) As we can see, the number of steps will be unbelievably large (even just for 6-states, 2-symbols!), so it won't really be practical to run a TM that long and (2) The only known way to prove BB(n) numbers is by directly proving the halting / non-halting of every single TM of that size ... so, in other words, we will not know BB(n) until we have already proven all the interesting math that can be encoded in n-state TMs!
Oh. I don't drive but it might be a possibility. Thanks for the pointer!
Catharsis is a thing. But I will admit, Ghost Giant isn't a comfortable game to play. It isn't supposed to be.

It's still a really good game, and it had me wearing my VR gear much further into the night than was either comfortable or sane, but if relaxation is what you're looking for then ... this is not it.
It is interesting to see all the discussion that follows regarding the term "barbaric". Is making homosexuality illegal barbaric? Is the US worse because they do $horrible_thing?

I think it may be useful to remember the origin of the word. Barbarians in ancient Greece were simply the non-Greek. People of different culture, speaking a different language. And of course, they were considered inferior and unrefined by the Greeks, who called themselves citizens.

For the Romans, Barbarians were those who were neither Roman nor Greek. It included Germans, Gauls, Persians,...

So I think it is useful to remember that in addition to the idea that "barbaric" means primitive, brutal or cruel, there is also that idea of looking down on cultures that are not our own.
Their branding is very "gamer." It's worked out great for them as they have cornered that market, but it doesn't surprised me that they aren't even considered when comparing chat clients in a work environment.
During the current situation I learned an interesting thing about nuclear power plants: if you bomb them, the amount of radioactivity that will be released into atmosphere because of waste products storage on site is vastly larger than the one that would be released by a nuclear explosion in a random place.

Because unfortunately most nuclear waste is stored on site because of the NIMBY problem.

So every nuclear power plant is a giant liability in case of conflict.
Boomers are leaving the labor market without as many people replacing them, creating a labor crunch. COVID accelerated that process. It's not much more complicated than that
The Bob Gibson Collection of Speculative Fiction
but that won't save you from anything- you will get sued or dragged to debt collection
Yes, ghee would be better than butter, and I wouldn't use olive oil for high-temperature frying. Coconut oil and beef tallow very suitable.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apache_OpenOffice...), the latest patch release was 4.1.11 from 2021, and the latest minor release was 4.1 from 2014. That is, since 2014, they are just releasing small bugfixes. Compare with LibreOffice (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LibreOffice&oldid...) which had the latest minor release in 2022, and the latest major release in 2020.
actually most products the support is non existent. support has to be bought separately.

if people dont like something, they can of course refund
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Minor versions versus major versions do matter.

Here are the release notes for the 2022 release of OpenOffice:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?c...

This is pretty clearly a minor version update. There are only four entries under their improvements / enhancements section, and all but one would be more accurately described as a bug fix. They even identify this as a "maintenance release".

Here are the release notes for the 2022 release of LibreOffice:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.3

Aside from the fact that this is much better documented, you can also at a glance see that this is, in fact, a major version update. LibreOffice isn't padding their versions, they actually are adding new features while OpenOffice fixes a few bugs.
You just have to stay very poor. If you do anything to move up a little bit in life, the benefits stop and you are on your own.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/your-assets-magi-and-medicaid...
I would ask an UX Researcher to help you out via platforms like Fiverr.
This is literally their job.

Source : I am a UX Researcher :)
Assuming you care about clarity and not just style, there might be some feedback to take in when people don't get the gist of what you're saying until after the second heading.

Even if you want to make the writing a journey that arrives at a conclusion rather than a thesis-first argument, the presentation immediately being scattered across a bunch of embedded block quotes and long asides (your disclaimer) invites readers to lose the path, give up, and just make assumptions about the remainder.

And what always happens on the internet when people do that? Comments that miss the point and confuse everybody else about what you were saying. You're right that the other commenter could have been more responsible, but odds are that someone was going to post a comment like even if it didn't happen to be them.
Compositional Elixir–Ecto Query Patterns
Ultra deep bore geothermal is a science project right now.
oh okay, thx
It's a "ponzi scheme" in the sense that you need to buy in early, find suckers to join the scheme after you, and only make a profit because the suckers you pulled in are pulling suckers in turn. If you don't get too greedy, you eliminate your position while it's profitable.
What was their distribution strategy?
I'm not sure. I've heard people handwave about this before, but if health industry corporations and their congressmen and senators are going to argue that, it should be explained and funded and voted on explicitly, rather than the alleged massive indirect subsidies via overpriced medicare and medicaid government expenditure if they're going to claim that's somehow the way health corporations fund their cutting edge R&D and high end treatments and clinics.
I don't really understand his conclusion. If I understand it correctly, it boils down to: Fossil fuels are cheaper (better ROI) than renewables, therefore changes/improvements to fossil fuels did more to reduce CO2 than renewables. My work on "utopian energy" didn't have the effect I wished it had.

Climate change is a problem. Just because gas, oil, and coal are cheaper and made improvements doesn't change a thing about that.
To bypass the Twitter login wall, same thread on Nitter [0]

[0] https://nitter.net/PierreDeWulf/status/1539606621138976771
My guess is that Altria doesn’t know technology at all? They have the regulatory side locked in though. Juul understand technology but unfortunately wasn’t a technology led company. (and obviously didn’t understand regulatory side)
Transpiler is a pretty old word too. My understanding is that it's a compiler whose output is human readable. Readability is more about whether it is an explicit goal: all compiler output is readable by some humans.

I don't think anyone would say Unity's il2cpp is a transpiler even though it compiles .net bytecode into C++: producing readable C++ is a non-goal for il2cpp.
Please. I've been using the Web since '95, and working on the Web nearly as long. Safari's where I do almost all my browsing, work and personal. It's a fine browser. If I could use it on Windows and Linux, I wouldn't hesitate to choose it over Firefox and Chrome and their derivatives.
I have on the order of 100 semi-interesting things that I'd like to subscribe to.

If they're all $10 per month, $1000 total, I cannot afford to subscribe to all of them and I'll likely subscribe to none of them.

If they're all $1 per month, $100 total, I could afford to subscribe to all of them but I won't. I'll pick one or two killer apps and only pay for those.

If they're all $0.10 per month, $10 total, I will subscribe to all of them, and maybe after some time weed out one or two that I never use.
I am doing that, but given the controversy surrounding JUUL, and the braindead US banning flavors, I moved off the platform quickly.

Today, I use a nicotine salt formulation on par with the best of JUUL, minus the accellerants.

On those:

The good part is those actually do matter when it comes to smokers switching off combustion. Psychologically, the impact is there and similar enough to not trigger anxieties that inhibit quitting. Fair enough.

The bad part is those make a JUUL absolutely fucking great to a non smoker and particularly younger smoker. Young people will grab one and drain the pod in an hour copping a major league buzz on par with what they can get with combustion cigarettes!

In my view, this should have been partitioned in some way, harder to get and easier to keep out of young hands.

Once someone is vaping, the accellerants are unnecessary given reputable gear and a salt formulation.
Cynical me says it's a big money maker / captialism; green energy projects receive billions in subsidies. At one point you could get "green energy" from your electricity provider at a few cents / kWh extra which they would (supposedly) invest in green energy projects. Then green energy became a marketing term at no extra cost.
Ledger Investing (YC W17) raises $75M Series B to build an open insurance system
A calendar app provides a much smaller attack surface than a browser. It can also perform good enough without the need for JIT compilation.

As I said in my comment: I believe Safari and the underlying WebKit to be the most complex and most insecure part of iOS by multiple orders of magnitude.

Not adding more of equally complex and demanding pieces does provide a significant reduction of attack surface
How so in terms of software quality?
+1 After reading through the documentation, I wanted to make the same comment.

10 or 20 years ago (I have been using Emacs for about 40 years) I was really happy with my Emacs setup but now I have support for so many languages that my current setup seems like a mess. I will try Straight.el.
A [crypto] Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing [crypto] investors with funds collected from new [crypto] investors.
>The cost per kWh of solar and wind is a third of natural gas and nuclear. It's not even close.

So what? Or put another way, if its so cheap, why is Germany building natural gas pipelines to ship Russian gas for decades to come? What do they (and every other country) know that you don't?

The reality is you're not comparing apples to apples. Natural gas can serve as base load and power a modern economy. Solar/wind can't - doesn't matter if they are free. They can't.
Artificial Intelligence?

Economics can't even tackle regular intelligence yet.

Given the state of 'is economics a science' debate their is much foundational work yet to be laid.
Let's not insult the intelligence of literally anyone by suggesting that most women have high standards. Some do. Most just want a warm, presentable body with a steady job and decent hygiene... and most still end up married by age 35. Not dating. Married. And the focus is on men because it's men who are complaining about not being able to find a date while sequestered behind their phone screen.
“Low cost” is relative. For parts in the industrial/robotics space, $195 is not expensive.

You can certainly spend more on other options: https://westwardsales.com/patton-cl2300e-ethernet-extender
For one, Mozilla could start empowering the user again instead of trying to ape Chrome in every way. If the only reason anyone would want to use Firefox is to prevent Chrome from being the only browser then that is on Mozilla.
Some are, some are coming back

https://money.yahoo.com/older-americans-head-back-to-the-wor...
Ah… Moria. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep…
100%. In big tech, as you get more senior, the job becomes miserable. I wouldn’t want to be a Director, or even a Senior Staff engineer. At a certain point you sacrifice your sanity to be in that many meetings.
Medicare, which is under state control, is larger than many other developed country's state-run medical systems. Before criticizing the US system, make a strong attempt to understand the underlying structure.
The installer asks you about your network configuration (no idea how it deals with wifi, though). If you answer "use DHCP", it just works(tm), at least for wired and virtual network interfaces.
The update takes up disk space. Ergo, if you have "too many" apps, you have to delete some to make up room for the update.
I don't mind it being broken up, but I would prefer that there wasn't any kind of opening/titles/intro to the ones beyond the first.
> case statements are O(n), where n is the number of case/switch statements possible.

What now? Not even close. Any modern or even semi-modern (2005-vintage) compiler will compile large switches into a jump table (O(1)) and medium ones into a tree of branches, giving O(log n)
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Afghan earthquake: At least 1k people killed and 1,500 injured
I gave up on this when I realized that nuclear was perceived as the worst source of energy by both the people and the people in charge, while I don't see any other better alternative to help us out.
The problem is that we're inclined to ignore the nonsense and great destroyer of content that is the web just because it's implemented using F/OSS.
All statistics are dehumanizing. I'm no data scientist but I'd imagine including the whole human when doing statistics would produce a pretty low signal to noise ratio.
There also exist guidelines that you should eat something every 3 hours at least. Conclusion: you mustn't swim. :)
Kenji Lopez-Alt's amazing book, The Food Lab, mentions this and so much more.
A paragraph is a different text box. Sure, a standard method to work with links and emphasis would help, but that's about where we should stop.

A bulleted list is [add new element] > [buleted list] -> a container with text fields for each bullet (+ add/remove buttons) appears.

Same for table, a proper grid with separate inputs for all cells (see modern Confluence).
And cut your service with no warning and no way back...
Smoking is a choice 100% of the time. There are at least some instances (a small minority) where being overweight, even extremely obese, is not entirely a choice. It's apples and oranges.
I would agree he has some valid points but on the whole he misses a fair bit and sounds very jaded. Like lets just do Natural Gas and Nuclear Power - which isn't a great solution in the long run.

1. Wind + Solar are insured for 20 years but last much longer. They are still in their early phase of adoption and costs are still falling.

2. Of course energy isn't a one size fits all - so you need to be aware of all the different product attributes and comparative offerings. Just like you wouldn't deploy
facebook on heroku.

3. Regulatory and political willpower take long periods of time to build/change.

4. Capital deployments in climate tech are very different than VC and returns are lower

5. Manufacturing infrastructure and business models take long periods of time to build out and get traction

6. EVs are going to change a lot of the emissions space

7. There are a lot of very entrenched companies who have been actively working to stop progress on this problem since the 90s and they remain in power. Tough inertia to break through.

8. I could go on forever.

I hear that he is no longer just deploying solar, wind and ESS and is feeling disappointed that he has devoted so much time. All of that work helps move the needle and build the infrastructure, talent and capital to start deploying and cleaning up the grid. When he deployed EE capital in 2008 there wasn't the political will power (ACES regulations collapsed) and technology (most utilities didn't have smart meters). While he may not have made money he certainly helped the industry along and that is an important part of trying to solve this multifaceted complex problem.

Agree with the sentiment let's not let "Perfect is the enemy of good". However let's not let these hard fought gains be for naught.

edit: The OP's argument is disingenuous he's a natural gas booster, annoyed I responded in depth here.
Sounds like Oracle, with their behaviour with, well, everything all the time.

The whole OOo, mysqL, OEL junket within a span of a few years, made sure I'd never use them, ever, for anything.

These days, I think it's maybe in alignment with why nigerian style scam spam is always so poorly worded, and looks so obvious.

They want the easy marks. They want those not easily fooled, to not reply.

And so this is how I see Oracle, and their horrid, childish, terrible behaviour. The want to weed out anyone who senses the scam, be it licensing hell, or just horrid core/services.

Sadly, big corp and governments are slow to get the message, and I suspect more easily fleeced.

The amount of times I've heard of a CEO or CTO in big corp, buying a product without even talking to devs/IT?

The scam lives on.
Being a gatekeeper from unit testing is the last thing I aspire to be, but past me (and that’s my imaginary audience) would’ve loved this explanation before he got some projects into mocking hell.

I’m the first to say that if you have no tests and no idea how to get start, go with end-to-end tests first and take it from there. That doesn’t mean that guidelines that help you to have less brittle and more idiomatic unit tests are bad per se IMHO.
Can you elaborate on where the author is wrong?
Could you tell me what your company is and/or what category they are in where they are making this much a day? I can understand gaming as they are very popular, I heard candy crush during at their peak was bringing in that much.
There are no toilet lids in the main men's rooms where I work.
Tesla Bot is painted in graffiti art with codes and specs on a Giga Berlin wall
I agree that a degree of blame carries over, but the impact of measures like this (that affect ordinary Russians who left the country due to political disagreement) could be the opposite of desired. Not many Russians will be seen as eligible for asylum, regardless of their political views, and barring that the remaining options for software engineers working remotely are slowly narrowing down to returning back to the country and working to benefit its industry. Those who have families would be affected most strongly.
It usually releases less radioactivity than coal.

No one wants a nuclear plant near them, currently, despite how safe and clean it is. That's the problem nuclear has to solve.
A good rule of thumb (even in the case of companies) is to assume incompetence rather than malice.
I agree with the sentiment, but if you keep performing small A/B tests (including emoji vs plain) this would be discovered in the future as a performance gain and reverted. Assuming no manager says "we already ran that test".
The US is a big outlier in not having universal healthcare but in terms of government control it's really pretty typical with countries like the UK where the government runs health provision directly rather than just regulating and paying for it are the exception rather than the rule. I've worked for a company selling robots to French hospitals and that really isn't any different than selling to US hospitals.
Sure, if you use Python's async feature. But my understanding is that it's relatively uncommon; blocking IO is still the norm, right? I for one have worked in or around a couple of nontrivial Python servers, and I've never once seen an await statement. My understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) is that this comes down to it being newer, and having worse ecosystem support (more "synchronous-colored" APIs, less battle-tested frameworks, etc). It's not a first-class citizen like it is in the JS ecosystem [1]

[1] Technically JavaScript's async/await syntax came later, but it's just sugar over Promises which have been around for a much longer time, and those are built atop the event loop, which has been core to the language since day 1
Don't listen to naysayers. If you think you need it, and you want to do it - do it; Always. Failures will make you learn, success is how we progress. Road not taken approach is individual.
If I was a politician in any other state, I would propose exporting high cost patients to California by buying or subsidizing their housing.

It is always the same story with any broad high cost universal benefit offered within a taxing jurisdiction that does not have immigration control. Homelessness (land costs), mental healthcare (legal and labor costs), and healthcare. Even subsidized higher education is not universal, it is restricted to residents.

That is why we do not see these offered anywhere, and why it has to be a federal move.
With https://www.mentimeter.com/ you can create polls, surveys, quizzes. Partipants connect with their mobile phones and the presenter can then show everything at the same time on screen. That's a tool school teachers use. https://kahoot.com/schools/how-it-works/ but not sure about surveys. I've used it for a quiz.
In the choices between concern trolling and someone literally not being able to parse what "health care dollars" means in this context, the bad faith is a horse and the lack of reading comprehension is a zebra. Possible, sure. But probably not.
I'm in the UK so that somewhat limits relevance but there are efforts to make available my data to companies, I opted out of data sharing from my GP.

Link is here if you want

https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/about-the-nhs/sharing-your-...

A few points:

I'm not against data mining at all, just handing it out to agencies without my say so. I'd be happy for it to be used for this purpose entirely within the NHS but that's not what was assured.

I don't like the approach that you have to opt out, not opt in.

I others may have different tradeoffs, that's fine. This is my view and urge people not to follow what I've done but to decide for themselves. It's your data, if you're in the UK, you can make a choice (not making a choice IS making a choice: for it to be shared).

Edit: and please don't respond with "just you wait..." or "it's going to happen anyway" defeatist juvenile posts.
Long term nuclear storage is one problem. Who pays for the decommissioning is another one. In many cases it turns out to be the taxpayer.