skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Art Deco style was of the moment with Control Room A boasting teak parquet flooring laid in a herringbone pattern and walls tiled in grey Italian marble offset by black Belgian marble detailing through the room, matched by a gold painted coffered glass ceiling."

this was a power station

what happened
> And?

People like predictability for planning things like travel, holidays, school, etc.
> But this group’s combined wealth, at US$4.8 trillion, accounted for 41% of the total billionaires’ wealth and was just shy of the annual market value of the Japanese economy, the third largest in the world, according to the report.

Little rant about reporters who don't know what they're talking about.

Talking about a fixed amount of money verses an annually recurring value makes no sense.

If they want to compare them they should either convert the annual GDP to an estimated capital value (discount the cashflow into a present value) or convert the billionaires capital into an annualized flow.

I'm using 4-8% annualized return for discounting.

eg: $4.8Trillion is somewhere between $192B and $384B of annualized flow... which makes it less than a 10th of Japans economy.

Eg2: Japans Economy likely represents between $120T and $240T of assets/capital.
Do any of the mobile Firefox forks have a better story for tab management? I've been on nightly for a long time (for its janky addon support) and the way I can't manually sort and group tabs is extremely frustrating to me.
So if we decided to channel all voter access expansion and protection funds to the Koch Brothers that would be totally fine because it should be considered non-partisan? In the most abstract sense, it isn't partisan. In the actual implementation, it is partisan.
The Victorians had a similarly grand take on public utility buildings, especially pump houses for water/sewage works. Probably the best example is Crossness Pumping Station [1]. The interior is stunning; this [2] is one image from the Wikipedia page/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossness_Pumping_Station

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crossness_Pumping_Station...
Have you considered homeschooling or started already? I think homeschooling is true education, where education and the socialization that happens there is mostly designed to get people to conform to the status quo and step in line. It was after all, designed to produce good workers in factories. Now we're trying to change it so we can make a lot of coding monkeys, but hilariously the system is so broken and brittle that it's even slow to incorporate coding classes to fuel the corporate machine by producing more computer engineers.
The Images Found in Masterpieces
I read things like this, and I am reminded of how mediocre my own intelligence and skill as a developer is.

Still, compared to other possibilities, you take what you can get.
Depends on what "against" means, but nuclear is likely to be a footnote in future energy history compared with wind and solar so if you mostly talk about nuclear as an excuse to repeat lies you heard about renewables from climate change deniers then you're not helping.

If we're breaking out the time machine to restore past wrongs then starting earlier on renewables that we know now are the future would help more than nuclear. As would preventing fossil fuel interests capturing the governments around the world.

But nuclear is cool tech. Right up there with pumped storage, geothermal, good insulation, heat pumps, EVs and carbon taxes as part of the family of cool tech that will help avoid climate catastrophe.

Sadly nuclear and to an extent carbon taxes seem to be used as a stick to beat people creating real change, doing the old "perfect is the enemy of the good" trick. Sad really, and will only tarnish their reputations in the long term.
> choose your poison: CO2 is a slowly rising problem.

Co2 + all air pollution around the coal/gas power plants. On average they're still more harmful than an occasional nuclear plant failure.
Securing Port 443: The Gateway to a New Universe
Count yourself lucky thay you didn't have the misfortune of working for any Asian companies. Big or small, most are extremely hierarchical and your loyalty to a specific director/VP is the only currency that matters.
Every case where a woman/doctor was charged for actions in relation to illegal abortion. And every time those convictions were affirmed by lower courts.
This reminds me of the Principia Discordia.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia/body.html

The Aneristic Principle is that of APPARENT ORDER; the Eristic Principle is that of APPARENT DISORDER. Both order and disorder are man made concepts and are artificial divisions of PURE CHAOS, which is a level deeper that is the level of distinction making.

With our concept making apparatus called "mind" we look at reality through the ideas-about-reality which our cultures give us. The ideas-about- reality are mistakenly labeled "reality" and unenlightened people are forever perplexed by the fact that other people, especially other cultures, see "reality" differently. It is only the ideas-about-reality which differ. Real (capital-T True) reality is a level deeper that is the level of concept.

We look at the world through windows on which have been drawn grids (concepts). Different philosophies use different grids. A culture is a group of people with rather similar grids. Through a window we view chaos, and relate it to the points on our grid, and thereby understand it. The ORDER is in the GRID. That is the Aneristic Principle.

Western philosophy is traditionally concerned with contrasting one grid with another grid, and amending grids in hopes of finding a perfect one that will account for all reality and will, hence, (say unenlightened westerners) be True. This is illusory; it is what we Erisians call the ANERISTIC ILLUSION. Some grids can be more useful than others, some more beautiful than others, some more pleasant than others, etc., but none can be more True than any other.

DISORDER is simply unrelated information viewed through some particular grid. But, like "relation", no-relation is a concept. Male, like female, is an idea about sex. To say that male-ness is "absence of female-ness", or vice versa, is a matter of definition and metaphysically arbitrary. The artificial concept of no-relation is the ERISTIC PRINCIPLE.

The belief that "order is true" and disorder is false or somehow wrong, is the Aneristic Illusion. To say the same of disorder, is the ERISTIC ILLUSION.

The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.

Reality is the original Rorschach.
NIST Update to Software Reference Library Will Aid in Criminal Investigations
> 10% per billion years

So it's about 0.000029% more since humans have evolved?
Instagram's Immersive Feed Is a Pig Trough
If you wanted to kill someone, car bombs are even easier.
Exactly this. There was a recent community push for consensus layer clients to be more decentralized, which seemed to have worked. Next is the execution layer clients to have better % in use.
Vespa 8 released – An open source alternative to Elasticsearch
Jewish support for the civil rights movement is well documented, including strong participation in the March on Washington.

Why would you bring that particular topic up out of the blue?
I think there's a difference between the theoretical worst-case scenario and the realistic worst-case scenario. A one-two punch of the largest recorded earthquake on record followed by a tsunami feels pretty close to realistic worst-case scenario. We can always fret and wring our hands about plausible issues, but we also need to recognize the cost of inaction as well. The risk of catastrophic meltdowns costing millions of lives is so small it's hardly worth factoring into a cost-benefit equation at all.
Guess it depends on the niche you're looking for. Automotive forums are alive and well.
> Although video-sharing app TikTok was developed by Chinese company Bytedance, it is not available in China. Instead users can download a twin app, Douyin, which was also developed by Bytedance. Douyin features restrictions such as blocks on international content and limits on children’s usage. The Chinese state owns a stake in the Bytedance subsidiary that controls its domestic Chinese social media and information platforms. [1]

So China deploys and app to the US market that China itself doesn't use. The app aggressively collects location and biometric information about the users while promoting copious amounts of destabilizing and divisive political content among other things. I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it's hard not to see this as a trojan horse and it's shocking that the powers that be in the US are not assessing this situation more seriously. The OP is right in that this seems like one of many troubling signs that the US is in a decline of sorts.

[1] https://time.com/6139988/countries-where-twitter-facebook-ti...
Crypto is crashing but the tech behind it could save luxury brands billions
Yes, and there are plenty of other examples too.
What if I bought a Tacoma (I briefly considered a Colorado but didn't feel a GM product was befitting of someone of my income and good taste) instead of a half-ton because I think full-size trucks are for backwards hicks who need to compensate for something and I don't like projecting that image are exempt? Am I exempt?

(This comment is satire but it should hit annoyingly close to home for a subset of readers.)
Rate Limiting Server Requests in Elixir
Tesla Cuts 200 Autopilot Workers as California Site Closes
Very important essay. Often misunderstood.

It doesn't say "since invisible hierarchies arise anyway we should just as well start with explicit hierarchies."

It does point out some common ways for invisible hierarchies to arise, and the challenge is coming up with structures that limit the effect of those.

One example I like is that any person can be in any number of working groups they want, but they can only have a say in the working group they are meeting with at the moment. If two working groups are active at the same time, the overlapping members have to choose the one that's more important to them.

This ties decision power to physical presence and we all have equal opportunity to be physically present. One person cannot accumulate lots of physical presence to influence a disproportionate amount of work at once.
Very interesting concept. However in the video about sociocracy, the main concept about decision making is that every decision needs a total consensus and no objection from all participants right?
I wonder if they could use a material that would "dry" or "freeze" in the shape of the bubble. Maybe harden from the UV.

If the James Webb telescope gives a reasonable indication for the amount of stuff floating around these Lagrange points, it would be popped around once per month [1]!

1. Four hits after 5 months: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/06/james-we...
It was Paramount that spent a lot of work getting rid of the Hannah Barbara characters, specifically. Those came into Kings Island and Kings Dominion from licenses before Paramount bought them. Hannah Barbara is owned by Paramount rival media empire Warner Brothers these days. Paramount put all the work into replacing that with Nickelodeon characters (that they own). But yeah, when Paramount sold their accumulated parks to Cedar Fair apparently they didn't sell hardly any of the IP licenses (or Cedar Fair didn't want to pay for them). It maybe isn't too surprising that Cedar Fair themselves don't have a media empire for IP synergy and have to budget IP licenses instead.

In high school, I worked a summer and a bit in food service at Kings Island back in the Paramount days.
The best solution may be be to make personal health information (PHI) broadly inadmissable in any non-medical evaluation, decision, assessment, proceeding, or investigation, and then establish specific test criteria for unlocking it for admission. In Canada, our health system cards and numbers are officially not recognized as a form of ID for related reasons.

Regarding the bans in those states, do they ban providing the service within the state, or does it ban having the procedure anywhere at all? The privacy impact is very different depending on that rule.

The work I've done with health information and privacy and consent directives management has always been a kind of second-best solution. We (Canada) have privacy laws to protect PHI and to require consent for collection, use, and disclosure of your PHI, but agencies regularly run roughshod over it, there is almost zero prosecution or enforcement, and both the research and public health cultures openly express contempt for individual privacy. Even when it comes to reproductive health information, many academic researchers tend to act as though they are entitled to it. The vaccine passports were an example of that culture's approach to bodily integrity and use of personal health information, and while abortion is a different issue and should be treated by itself, they are under the same privacy concept. I wouldn't expect them to treat abortion and reproductive information as any more sacred.

How long do you think it's going to take before your fitness tracker makes reports to your insurance and credit company that impact your premiums and interest rates? Banks are using "alternative data" sources for credit decisions already today. The abortion issue may be a forcing function for privacy questions, and I could see a lot of interests rushing into the policy vacuum this leaves.
Loving v Virginia didn’t cite a right to privacy in its decision. It was based on equal protection and a “right to marry”.

Thomas is an extremist but leaving out loving isn’t a right to privacy carve out.
I find data centers to be attractive in a functional sense (and some are even “decorated” via color coding). Maybe functional is just our age’s style.
There are four questions at the end of the post.

For sure, the second one is answered - it is possible to parallelize GNNs to the billion-scale, while still using message passing. It requires rethinking how message passing is implemented, modifying objective functions that work in parallel, and changing ML infrastructure. You're not going to get to large graphs with generic distributed Tensorflow.

I don't know if the third question is fully answered, but there are many approaches to preserving locality, either by changing architectures or changing objective functions.

Also, errata: PinSage was developed for Pinterest, not Etsy (hence, not EtsySage).
New Supercomputers Take over NOAA’s Weather Forecast Models
This sort of reminds me of this neat day-looker-upper: https://imgur.com/KKipvmV . To find the day of the week of Month-Date, just find their intersection in the table. Afaik this is the most compact representation of a year's calendar possible.

You do need a new one each year, but there are only fourteen distinct possibilities (7 days that Jan 1 can be, times 2 choices of leap year or not). Figuring out the equivalence classes of years is a fun problem.
A list of things that can go wrong

- the wind patterns on Earth change, resulting in climate change. Seasons will alter. Rains will be affected. Widespread famines and floods.

- Point 1 rendering a lot of solar and wind energy farms unusable.

- Less sunlight results in less photosynthesis. This again causes chimate change, loss of biodiversity.

What else?
Again, why are student loans so special compared to all other loans from the government?

Quick DDG search finds https://www.bankruptcysoapbox.com/government-loans-that-bank... :

> Believe it or not, certain unsecured loans from government entities are dischargeable in bankruptcy.

> This includes SBA loans, and loans made through The Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and others.

or from https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/bankruptcy/discharge-sb...

> On the contrary, with the exception of student loans, most government loans including SBA loans can be easily discharged in bankruptcy.
Isn't the "neurons are graphs" kind of already represented, since graphs are already tensors?
Is there any technical benefit at all to Lightning over USB-C, or are the only reasons to resist switching that Apple doesn't want the MFi royalties gravy train to end, and doesn't want it to get less expensive for people to jump ship to Android?
An annual sunlight increase of 0.00000001 % is close enough to "constant" to make no difference. And I didn't even bother with compounding, so the real number is even smaller. It's dwarfed by other solar cycles, and those are dwarfed by the near-doubling of CO2 in our atmosphere.

I'm not automatically against geo-engineering approaches, but we do need to consider them desperate moves compared to the reduction of the GHGs
The really interesting thing about fermented foods is that EVERY single culture (often completely independent of each other) developed their own unique ferments. Many were also shared but have varietal differences. There are TONS most people have never heard about. It is really sad that with the advent of refridgeration we lost so many in common culture (many or most are still niche). And I am not saying fridges are inherently bad - we just should have also PRESERVED (get it? BADOOSH) these practices
You asked why somebody would think that the right to privacy is applicable in this situation. There is ample material describing why they might think that, including a Supreme Court judgement. It's not a difficult position to understand, regardless of whether you believe that view or not.

The existence of other material, including a later judgement, supporting the view that this isn't the case does not invalidate other views.
The problem with animalism is that it has a big, big, blind spot. They see individuals named Harry and Rex, is all that they can see. They are blind to the relationships, the consequences, the animals that aren't cute, and refuse to see the big picture.

But individuals don't matter.

Not for the science of ecology. Not for nature. Is the population and ecosystem what matters.

Individuals in a population die all the time. They freeze, starve or are predated each single night. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter if 980 of each 1000 released ferrets die before an hour.
We’re an investor in Atomo. When we invested in the Seed round the product was very good, but I thought it would be several years before it was great. Two months later they sent us their latest samples and it was the best coffee I’d ever had. With bean-based coffee you need to take the good with the bad, but with molecular coffee you can omit anything the consumer doesn’t like. It’s a great product, with a great team and a great mission.
With the timezones 8 hours apart I suppose it's okay to work two remote jobs. The tech on the job will have to be vastly different however?
That makes sense!

If the QR codes or whatever are on the faces and only encode information already printed there (suit+rank for standard cards, the title and text for board games) I can't imagine there would be any cheating/unauthorised information problems.
>Why don't phone makers optimize for power efficiency?

They do. I don't know what misunderstandings could lead you to believe that phone makers don't already spend significant effort and resources on power efficiency.
They published in a workshop basically called “Hot Takes on Storage Systems”
That's also basically how CheatEngine works. You search for certain values in memory, play some more, and see which values changed or stayed the same.
iOS' App Store has a good breakdown of what's collected too. It's sort of like a nutritional label of what's collected. It's why I won't install this app. It's a data grab by TikTok to turn personal info into gold ingots.

One thing I do though, since missing out on TikTok bothers me, is to watch YouTube clips of TikTok videos which have been downloaded and shared on YT. Not that YT is better in terms on privacy, but it's better than having a Chinese malware app on your phone.
Beautifully expressed. I'd love to read more of your work. Please let me know where i can find you or it I'd like to refer you to parents as well.
My main exposure to this technique was with the various in-game plugins one could install on a hacked Sony PSP.

Even though I had an interest in programming from a young age, before learning how to use those plug-ins, it hadn't really dawned on me that everything in the game, like your health, location, stats, and even your characters current action, were all states stored in memory somehow.

Using those plugins (or similar), you can narrow down and manipulate all sorts of values. Infinite ammo? Just lock the value to something greater than 0. Even just locking the height value of your position opened up interesting avenues because you could circumvent gravity in a way that was relatively easy to find.

Tangentially, if this sort of thing entertains you as it does me, the magic system in the Magic 2.0 book series by Scott Meyer effectively works like a cheat engine.
> But in creating that right it didn't take anything from anyone else, at least any living person

The fetus is a "living person" according to many biologists

> Only law students would see symmetry such a thing

Have you been in any law classroom?
I don't know where you get the idea that it takes more energy to produce hydrogen using solar than NG, or that it means anything to say so. The cost of NG is not falling, but cost of solar PV generation capacity is. The cost of the NG->H2 process is not falling, but the cost of PV generation and hydrolysis equipment is, and their efficiency is improving. The cost of H2 electrolysis is almost all capital expenditure, with zero marginal cost, so as each increment of solar PV and electrolysis equipment comes online, the amount of H2 that can be produced per unit time for $0 extra input grows.

We do not need to increase our H2 production, but there will be increasing value in doing so as its cost falls.

All we are really lacking at this time is enough PV generating capacity to match demand, and enough electrolysis equipment to match demand. We just need to keep building out.

Time would be on our side if global climate catastrophe and civilization collapse did not loom. We need to spend fast enough for the switchover to happen first.
Depends where you reduce it though. Theres not a ton of photosynthesis happening in the middle of the REALLY brutal deserts and reducing some sunlight would also reduce the heat and maybe increase plant life and photosynthesis. Thats assuming you can control it that granularly though.
> Google and Meta apparently get a pass

This is a distortion of reality in support of an agenda. Google and Meta most certainly do not get a pass - a review of either mass media or tech media/news aggregators like Reddit/Hacker News/Lobsters will show a consistent pattern of strongly condemning data collection from those two companies in particular.

The alarm is over the fact that, on top of the issues of letting any company collect so much personal information about you, TikTok has the unique additional problem of being effectively controlled by the government of the most dangerous (power * malice) country on Earth. Singling them out is understandable, reasonable, and somewhat predictable.
This is how it appears on my screen: https://i.imgur.com/oWBfOxU.png (no max width)
Yes. I unchecked it.

Thank you very much for your help.
Study: Nearly one in five Amazon drivers suffered injuries in 2021
Seems like simulating a volcano eruption would be preferable to shooting stuff into space. It will naturally decay in a predictable amount of time, and you don't end up wasting energy on as many launch vehicles and creating space debris.