skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The most law that affects the most people day to day has always been State law.

So, I'd actually disagree. This argument isn't well thought out yet, but... until you're actually breaking local laws, most of the laws you interact with are actually interstate and international laws. Most of the businesses you interact with are either engaging in interstate or international commerce.

For example, all of your interactions with Amazon are governed by Federal laws first and foremost. With state taxes being the notable exception.

Even your rent, mortgage, power, water, internet... they're all private companies that are quite often multi-state or multi-national.
> "...they generate more heating/cooling than electricity used."

that's thermodynamically impossible. @dktoao, being a mechanical engineer, surely understands this, and made a statement that is different, and more plausible.

COP is a ratio of change in energy (e.g., temperature) produced against a common benchmark (running electricity through a resistive element, for example). that's how it can be greater than 100%. absolute efficiency (what @dktoao offered) compares against a 100% conversion of energy from one form (or place) to another. in this case, you cannot beat 100% (or generally get super close) due to the 2nd law of thermo.
Subaru just called me and said my shift fork and synchronizer, need to be replaced. Ironically, my extended warranty expired in Nov 2020 and I now have to pay nearly $5k to fix it! Better off getting a new tranny!
Yes, it may sound a bit emotional, but I'm aware that maybe the best for my "baby" is to find someone who can help him grow faster.
A quick Google suggests Apple made 64 billion from the App Store in 2021 of the 378 billion in total revenue.

Some fairly large peanuts!

And that revenue is basically pure profit as it doesn’t require the creation of any actual physical hardware either.
> If it's not instant, it's a bug

If only developers felt the same way. I'm also exhausted by a lot of modern software. There's not much I can do about the modern web though. I've learned to be patient. Stockholm syndrome.

It was a pretty powerful machine back then - quad core, 16GB RAM, SSD, 1GB GPU. Not a fast machine today by any means, and not my primary machine, but more than adequate for checking email and watching a tutorial on something.

Stick to fast software and it is still a decent experience. Is two or three seconds of loading before the 15 minute YouTube video a long time to wait?
> an easy process to renew and restore cancelled accounts.

What if the person was cancelling and was never given the opportunity to know there was a potential benefit? The ethical thing would also be to completely delete all of their data (including their login). They now come back and you say "sorry we can't restore all of your data, you need to start over". Didn't you just create (1) a bad UX and (2) a new dark pattern?

Again, my point isn't whether the 3-modal pattern is a dark pattern, but rather that dark patterns are incredibly difficult to define, are novel and thus require nuance when determining their ethical ramifications.
> Maybe fines like this could fund UBI?

What? Are you counting on steady fines to provide basic life support?

If that's not bizarre enough: how much do you think UBI (in the EU) would cost? There are 450M people in the EU. Giving the adults around €20k per year would require €7200B.
Lots of "territories" that are just colonial afterthoughts from after we "conquered" the CONUS but before we figured out economic imperialism is more efficient that waving a flag.
You're sexist if you assume I'm a dude. I'm a woman. I actually think that gives my OP more weight.
>This wouldn't happen if Apple decided to cut their Apple tax to 15% or something.

Still wouldn't allow people to install Firefox.
Not impossible, there are some good new algorithms for soft tissue deformation that aren't CPU killers like even a few years ago. Most of the surgical sim software out now is either so basic that it isn't good for much beyond cursory anatomical review, or it requires some major hardware installed in a permanent space with limited use-cases that nobody ever bothers to use because at the end of a resident shift they just want to go home and sleep.

I'm working for a small company that is trying to bridge the gap and make something good that can run on the consumer VR/AR hardware that's coming out in the next year or three. Lots of interesting problems to solve.
The one executable supports PE+ELF+MachO+ZIP+SH
Ah, no. The schedules are available for everyone to see. In many countries it is illegal to send work messages outside of working hours. Which should be common sense, but the fact it had to be made law shows that common sense is less common than it should.
I'll use an OS package over docker when one exists (with systemd you can get pretty much the same level of isolation anyway), but docker has its advantages for software that is too picky about its environment, even at home. Or who's install steps begin with "install these twenty packages, modify these 5 config files then compile this then copy it to these paths".
I don't actually care about moralizing what's wasteful or not if the owner is being charged the proper cost to acquire.

In theory, I feel the same way. However, I'm not sure anybody is paying anywhere near the proper cost with externalities included.
250 Million was just licensing. So they're starting in a deep hole.

Strange, Amazon seem to went the budget route for "Wheel of Time" which I enjoyed, (though popular I hadn't read any of the books). The effects were good, acting was good.

But think of the product placement offerings Middle Earth offers amazon. The amazon prime delivery wagon. Alexa smart speakers were bountiful in that time as were "fire" tablets, forged from dragons breath.
I haven't seen GoT but Jason Momoa was already a decently well known name before that show, he has been in other things and he is so unique, once you've seen him you never forget him.
I remember issues with windows/unix interop for mercurial repos when github started to gain traction.
Right, fresh produce is 4 minutes away, not 2.
The OP somewhat hinted at it in his question: lots of people's lives are made worse by having kids, but they wouldn't be able to live life if they accepted that reality. Society would shame them, their family would shame them, their children would be hurt, and they would have to live life knowing they made a mistake. It's easier to believe that it's 100% a good thing without any downsides and everybody should do it. The giveaway is not that they say everyone should try it (which also applies to cats, travel, etc), the giveaway is when they say nobody would be better without kids. That's a ridiculously improbable claim, but it's the basis for most people who say everyone should do it
That's my point, a system designed hundreds of years ago by slave owners - which is an outlier in global governance - needs an overhaul. It's not fit for purpose, and even when the US help countries "build" democracy we set up parliamentary systems (eg Japan).
Lol, that's a lot faster than I thought.

To save some googling: about 10^-22 seconds for a Higgs boson decay. Whe a nanosecond, one tick in a 1GHz clock, is 10^-9 seconds.
The reverse strategy also works, and is particularly common in anime. Namely an insanely overpowered character who otherwise leads an ordinary, mundane life (to them, at least), until the right circumstances arise to accidentally and effortlessly showcase their abilities to others.

A good example is one punch man. While everybody around him obsesses about the secret to his power, the main character is mostly concerned about not missing the 50% off mushrooms sale at the supermarket.

There's something about this plot that appeals to people. Perhaps the whole "how i feel inside but keep quiet" introvert personality pitted against "loud incompetents". Dunno. But it works great.
Malice is definitely a thing in American law, and it's really hard to prove. You have to be able to connect the specific people making the specific statements to the specific people who knew that they were false. It will be easy to point fingers in every direction and say, "Sure, that guy over there knew it was false, but it wasn't his call. Whose call was it? That other guy, who's dumb as a rock and had no idea it was a lie."

With a bit of effort, they'll throw some junior staffer under the bus, while everybody else clutches their pearls.
This sketch from "Peep Show" is relevant to your argument:

https://youtu.be/zFuMpYTyRjw
It might not be an unsolvable problem, but it is a problem that is apparent currently in the technologies that we use.
HN Crypto and Quantum Experts.

What is your prediction when classical public key encryption using elliptical curve cryptographic becomes practically vulnerable to quantum computers, such that we would need these PQC algorithms.

10 years out? 20 years out? 50 years out? 100 years out?
Establishing themselves behind the curve massively after previously having semiconductor manufacturing and letting it rot away? They could have done that without sanctions in both senses if they weren't spending military budget mostly on personal loyalty.
The times my Linux installs have locked up, those keys never worked.
> All of them.

It’s my understanding that’s not (always?) true for Nintendo consoles. The Switch makes a profit on hardware[1] and that was a goal before launch[2].

[1]: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/79180/xboxes-arent-profitable...

[2]: https://venturebeat.com/2016/10/26/nintendo-wont-sell-switch...
> you you can be anything you want to be, if you're good enough. Of
course, most people are never going to get anything good

I mentioned this devastating mismatch between promises and realistic
opportunities in a comment yesterday. It's baked into the education
system now, which has become something of a racket for selling broken
dreams.

> And, if 99.9% of people who try to do something suck at it, it's just
reasonable to assume a high probability that you also suck.

I pause to ever mention Jordan Peterson here (because usually that
leads to massive down-votes), but anyway, he has a major blind-spot in
assuming dominance hierarchies are congruent with competence
hierarchies. People who laud meritocracies often forget this.

> worldly success, rare as it is in anything worth doing, is not
indicative of skill or talent

"The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong...." Getting
over this is an important part of growing up, and I think some people
don't quite get that.

> The other possibility is that society is deeply and thoroughly
corrupt

What I think happened is that our shared "noble lies" became
embarrassing sordid tales of uncle Bob screwing the pooch. After your
prime minister has fucked a pig's face it's almost impossible to
recover and re-orientate. Is there still an institution that hasn't
been utterly razed by scandal?

> because how good can you be if you don't even know whether you're
good?

Without objective measures and exposure to genuine competence you can
respect and aspire to there is no yardstick. The demise of
recognisable institutions took this away.

> bitterness, at least in the US, is extremely socially unacceptable,
especially when one is right.

That's a bit weird. A WASP thing? British culture allows more for a
general sourness around class resentments. We know our leaders are
over-privileged incompetents and make light of it openly. But not to
the extent of utter nihilistic cynicism as Russians.

I want to say that US Americans don't have the quiescent injustice of
class hanging over everything... but I am not sure that's true. You
just deal with it differently across the pond.
> Some 296 known minerals are thought to pre-date Earth itself, of which 97 are known only from meteorites, with the age of some individual mineral grains estimated at 7 billion years—which was billions of years before the origin of our Solar System.

> The oldest known minerals are tiny, durable zircon crystals that are almost 4.4 billion years old.

Isn’t the first quote saying the oldest minerals are 7+ billion years old and the second saying the oldest are 4.4 billion years old? Which is it?
they could buy Paypal
> Interracial marriage bans are clearly ruled out by equal protection, so that really isn't a concern.

It actually is, though indirectly; a key point of the logic underlying those bans is finding an unenumerated right to marriage as a fundamental right which cannot be unequally treated under the EPC, just as Roe relies on the unenumerated fundamental right to privacy which cannot be deprived without due process under the Due Process Clause.

(And it is even moreso when you stop pretending that a particular Supreme Court actually strictly applies the rules it articulates rather than acting politically, in the face of ample evidence to the contrary.)

> So really it seems like the right to "privacy" was contrived as a way to conjure a constitutional right to abortion,

This works, if you have no knowledge of the Supreme Court’s privacy cases going back ~80 years before any application to abortion. One might argue that the Roe was politically motivated, of course, but you can't credibly argue that the authors of all the cases pre-Roe on privacy were doing it just as part of a conspiracy focussed on abortion.
Why break what ain't fixed.
YouTube's search is horrible. No, I don't want "related results" that are completely unrelated to my query, neither results from my country when I specifically type in English and my whole UI is in English and I never watch non-English content while logged in.
At least in Oil and Gas. Servers moved back into the personal towers for the first time in a decade. Latency issues.
On the other side there's been massive censorship through tech + gov partnership to amplify the tyranny of the majority and even shape the majority's beliefs. Couple that with huge funding imbalances in science and sponsored "research". What's the saying go? If you suppress speech, the only option is more forceful approaches...
Other people just don't care. I know a Mojave desert community far to the east of LA where water delivery happens by truck. It's a very harsh and unforgiving environment, but I really liked it when I worked out there some years ago and have considered moving there because I like solitude and am comfortable with a very frugal/minimal lifestyle.

Last year I ran across an LA Times article about how people were making different life choices due to the pandemic, and and other factors - specifically moving from LA to this place. In contrast to locals who tend to build low houses and choose colors that blend with the desert landscape, these people were painting their houses bright white and, I kid you not, installing swimming pools.
Maybe he'll go on to become an Executive Vice President at Microsoft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop
DirectCompute is pretty close to CUDA. When handled with care, it can do these compute-heavy pieces with similar performance.

The main downside is the libraries: cuBLAS, cuFFT, and similar pieces of CUDA are manually optimized, and nVidia ships multiple versions of these compute kernels for different GPUs. DirectCompute doesn’t have an equivalent, need to implement manually in HLSL. This can be tricky because for optimal performance different chips need slightly different implementations.
One alternative requires a torrent client.
Indeed. Bailouts were loans, not free money. The US government made money on those loans due to interest.
Violently Average
> Roe had SCOTUS getting far over its interpretive skis

Roe had SCOTUS identifying privacy and therefore bodily autonomy as one of the un-enumerated rights which is still protected by the constitution.

Dobbs was the current SCOTUS saying "no, it's not an un-enumerated right" because it wasn't "commonly practiced in the founder's time".

Which isn't entirely true, there were some existing state laws on the books from the late 1700's which made abortion perfectly legal. But even if the majority had recognized that, they could have simply changed their examples to justify the change.
whatever they did 10 years ago opened up pandora’s box . can we please return to the pre kony 2012 timeline ? Ever since Harambe died it’s been a total apocalypse
Indeed. There are elves that live for thousands years and have magic powers. There are some humans who have a normal lifespan and others, like Aragorn, that live for hundreds of years. Elves and humans can somehow cross-breed. Why should we assume that Middle Earth genetics work anything like normal Earth genetics? It's so weird to insist on keeping this one aspect of human genetics when everything else seems to be up for grabs.
Only enough for a very short amount of time, basically the water in the truck or fire engine lasts long enough for the firefighters to get connected to a hydrant and not much more.
It’s also the age of 35 year old women playing the mothers of 25 year old men
> To learn from an alternative perspective, what might be an example of a patient condition or objective where robotic surgery may have a meaningful advantage over conventional surgery?

Stereotactic surgery in Neurosurgery.
> ... we would need to observationally ascertain where in the sky the cosmic rays come from in order to put bounds on how they were made and what they are made of.

This is part of the challenge - the map of where they are hint at some hot spots ( https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/cosmic-rays-hint-... ) but as these are charged particles (not light) the path that they follow isn't necessarily a "draw a straight like back to the source"

> Do yo know of any efforts to observe cosmic ray sources or build a cosmic ray telescope?

We don't directly observe the cosmic rays, but rather the cascade of particles that they make as they crash through the atmosphere.

There are several different approaches to this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic-ray_observatory

For example, there's Ice Cube ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory ) and a visualization of some of its results - https://youtu.be/2DDQYHIbL3Q and https://youtu.be/rSwbL2coz_Y

Another cosmic ray observatory - https://www.auger.org // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Auger_Observatory

> But since these high energy particles have an estimated arrival rate of just 1 per km2 per century, the Auger Observatory has created a detection area of 3,000 km2 (1,200 sq mi)—the size of Rhode Island, or Luxembourg—in order to record a large number of these events. It is located in the western Mendoza Province, Argentina, near the Andes.

Pierre Auger is looking at air showers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_shower_(physics)

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I'd also suggest checking out PBS Space Time (in general) and in particular this episode - The Oh My God Particle - https://youtu.be/osvOr5wbkUw
That doesn't mean it has to be the case.

Israel is a good model for how you can invest heavily in desalination and irrigation efficiency and support profitable agriculture, even in wasteland spaces.
Your WRX makes 265hp from a 4 cylinder engine, that's as much power as Porsche was getting out of their 6 cylinder 2.7 engines at the time, in cars that cost far more...

The WRX is a really cheap family car with a small 4 cylinder engine tuned to the absolute performance limit with TONS of turbo boost, and the corresponding massive amounts of heat and stress that includes. I would expect it to be incredibly unreliable! Just a little unreliable is impressive. I'm always impressed about the interesting cars Subaru is willing to sell to the public (XT anyone?).
I would say it was intended as the main processor for supercomputers. I did a design like that (though it ended up actually built with old 68020s we already had in stock to save money) and there were many others. Intel itself had some interesting machines.

But Intel realized that asking customers to jump from x86 to an incompatible architecture (either the i860 or i960) was too risky - they could just as well jump to a competitor's architecture instead. So they repositioned their RISCs as coprocessors. It is amazing that they forgot this not too many years later with the Itanium.

My Smalltalk processor project is going very well, though obviously this is not the place for details.
It's really hard for me to accept that using such dark patterns makes economic sense. Because just hearing about it puts Amazon at the bottom of the list when I'm looking for a vendor. But apparently it works well enough for them.
I mostly agree, however, 4 decades of non-enforcement, then a sudden change to enforcement is just as chaotic and just as prone to selective enforcement and corruption. The house was sold with a parking pad and that pad was in use for 4 decades - this isn't a case of a new-comer trying to subvert the rule of law. And why would the city mention an exception if said exemption is never granted?

This appears to be a poorly worded regulation that needs to be amended to something reasonable.
The obvious is that an index is a tradeoff, slower writes and more disk space for faster reads. Unless the db can know disk space and write perf is worth the tradeoff it would be difficult for it to make good decision.

If you didn't care about disk space and the db could do async indexes but not have stale reads then an automatic index system could make sense.
Production costs have gone up a lot in New Zealand after Peter Jackson put them on the map. Also, if the government is covering 25% of the costs it creates an intended incentive to spend more.

People spend a lot on content because successful content is worth it. I hope this is good.
I'm not so sure. There are other neoliberal countries that aren't experiencing some of the same issues.
You can't use the terms interchangeably. An "Executive producer" credit may be applied to lots of people who are not the showrunner.

>This credit is given to the showrunner, or the head writer, and is sometimes also given to other important members of the production. These could include the show’s creator if different from the showrunner, other high-level writers (often future seasons’ showrunners), the owner/creator of source material, a show’s star, the star or writer or creator’s manager, a high-level executive or creative type (like Steven Spielberg) influential in the show’s creation, or any other number of people.

>Many TV shows have multiple executive producers, and without knowing the specific situation, it’s hard to say what the individual people do. For instance, a TV show derived from a movie (like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), may bring with it Executive Producers from the original film, who have little direct involvement with the show.
> Yes, there are benefits, but if you haven't reached the point of wanting a dog simply because you want a dog, then getting a dog probably isn't the right choice.

Do you make all major life decisions in this way, i.e. just wanting something because you want it? Would you encourage someone who's violent and abusive have kids just because they want them, too? It's a genuine question because it's shockingly unrelatable to me. Everything from my diet to my career to my friends and hobbies goes through a cost-benefit analysis. This sometimes surprises people, but I'm surprised how often people are stuck in situations like an abusive relationship precisely because they act on emotional impulse rather than analyzing whether or not they should want something.