skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a lot of revisionist history out there that painted Edison as this great inventor, when in fact, he was just a businessman who knew how to exploit for profit. I lived in the town where he grew up after his family moved from Ohio, and they still laud him here, with zero mention in any of the many museums of the individuals whose ideas he piggybacked, borrowed, and sometimes downright stole. It's almost fitting that Port Huron idolizes such an individual, since the town itself is swathed in a veneer of supposed boot-strap success stories, when, in fact, both politically and socially, it is remarkably backwards and ersatz. Edison sold candy to train passengers, and learned very early how to make a buck. He was a hack, otherwise, stumbling his way through other people's ideas while putting on a show of being some kind of marvel. That's it. That sums up the man's entire history.
Got a kill count of 84. Had a pretty heavy bias against making an active choice so you could get a much lower count.
Another point is that a lot of these scenarios are easy for us to think through, but to be in the actual situation and physically push someone/something and potentially see someone die would make a lot more of us indecisive.
Study: Why virtual meetings generate fewer ideas and less original
I've only had technical managers for over a decade.

However, these were technical people who had done the same job at a more junior level. They knew enough to know my job, but not enough to know the exact details of everything I was doing.

Now that you ask, I'm not sure any of that matters.

The best qualities a manager can have are to get along with you, trust you, support your growth, have good ideas, and challenge you to be better. None of those are technical skills.
How is the cost compared to geothermal heating?
One of the medallists went to (equivalent of) high school with me - seeing his name pop up was... a surprise.
There is no absence of evidence, not by a long shot. There are fewer written records in the traditional sense (books, letters, legal documents concerning things like transfer of property) but there is no shortage of inscriptions on various sorts of things, for example -- not to mention every other kind of historical evidence and, of course, the fact that some aspects of early medieval Western chronology can be cross-checked against contemporary sources in North Africa and the Middle East. We call it "the Dark Age" by comparison with, say, Late Antiquity, but even so, we have vastly more evidence about what happened in this age in Western Europe than we have about what happened in various ages of Antiquity all over the place, and no one thins those were made up.

As for the article you linked to, that kind of probabilistic approach sort of works for recent events. Applying it to things that happened a long time ago, where the presence or absence of evidence is correlated with a whole lot of other things, from court historians making shit up to cows tripping up over a lamp light and burning whole cities, is a pretty futile exercise.
Yep, ESG investing causes distasteful companies to be underpriced, which creates a sort of morality arbitrage. If you're okay with funding climate change, you can make a quick buck or two.

"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders"

http://tomtoro.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1-tom-toro-yes...
Nova (for example) doesn't require a trusted setup. The circuit is just a schematic description of the underlying computation. In the case of the Lurk core language, this computation is 'one reduction step of a Lurk evaluation' (https://github.com/lurk-lang/lurk-rs/blob/master/spec/reduct...). Coming up with a 'fixed computation' that yields general computation is part of the design problem for Lurk (or any other Lurk-like language). Even if we did need a per-circuit trusted setup (which we don't), we could perform such a setup for our core circuit and use it to prove arbitrary programs. For example, although we have not actually performed the trusted setup, we do have an example using Groth16 (which does require a trusted setup to be secure) and aggregates the potentially many discrete reduction steps to produce a succinct proof.
Ok, this is really interesting, is there some UX where inaction itself stops being the norm?

For example 2 buttons, with a timer to the side, which when it hits 0, rolls a dice and picks a random outcome.

Does the above now make someone want to choose?

If not is there any mechanism that does not forcibly require a decision (ie just stating you must make a choice or place the chooser in a situation where a choice is a functional requirement, such as you're in a locked room and cannot leave until you press a button).
> In a laboratory experiment conducted at Stanford, half the teams worked together in person and half did so online. The in-person teams generated 15% to 20% more ideas than their virtual counterparts. In a separate experiment involving almost 1,500 engineers at a multinational corporation, in-person teams came up with more ideas, and those ideas received higher ratings for originality.

>The researchers say they’ve identified a reason online meetings generated fewer good ideas: When people focus on the narrow field of vision of a screen, their thinking becomes narrower as well. “If your visual field is narrow, then your cognition is likely to be as well,” Levav says. “For creative idea generation, narrowed focus is a problem.”

>In contrast, people who meet in person get creative stimulation by visually wandering around the space they’re in, which makes them more likely to cognitively wander as well. “In a video interaction, you need to fix your gaze at the screen because otherwise you’re projecting to your partner that you’re looking at something else and distracted,” Levav says. But that distraction is actually useful when it comes to sparking ideas. “If you think about disruptive ideas, they come from putting together broad concepts that are seemingly unrelated.”
I've never seen Matrix discussed outside of HackerNews. In the last five years or so, the reaction to people finding out I still use IRC is either "What is IRC?" or "People still use that? Brings me back..."

I don't know a single person in any professional context that doesn't have one of Slack, Teams, or Discord installed.

I may be overstating how much smaller your pool is, but to say that choosing Discord or Slack doesn't grossly expand your reach is just naive.
Tesla itself has engaged in frivolous lawsuits against competitors. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
They have up to three racks for a flight simulator? I would've never thought they're that complex. Do they need that much computing power or is it other devices that are needed?
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Indeed, and if not for the Enlightenment it would still be. That's what made room for science on a much larger scale and in contradiction with lots of things that were considered established knowledge than ever before. The power of science is such that a resource poor part of the world managed to overtake the rest in many ways in a couple of centuries.
This gets at what is, to me, an extremely important distinction between "killing" and "allowing to die."

Death happens to everyone eventually. No way around that, at least not yet. The most I can do with a trolley switch is possibly affect the timing.

It seems to me that any time I pull the lever to direct the train toward a person (as opposed to toward other trains or lobsters or money), I'm causing the death of whoever is on the other track to happen sooner. I'm killing them.

But if I don't pull the lever, if I don't intervene, I'm allowing death, which was already coming, to come to whoever's on the original track.

As a principle, the distinction between killing and allowing to die really starts to make itself felt when we're talking about the difference between, say, turning off a respirator to allow someone to die, versus actively euthanizing someone by administering medication to stop their heart, even though in this case, both involve an action.

To me, those aren't the same act. There's no moral obligation to try to extend life as long as technologically possible. Death comes and that's OK. But there is an obligation not to cause death, and an obligation not to pursue it as its own end.
It’s so bad now that an ad-blocker is rarely sufficient, because even without the ads every other paragraph is broken up by some autoplaying video or some callout to a different article.

In some cases I genuinely struggle to read an article without reader mode or an RSS reader that can scrape the full article.
It’s not a myth for those that have to study 16 hours a day to understand all the intricacies of building structures with safety factors. The integrated corpus of engineering knowledge is just far greater than that of coffee brewing.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that the hardest professions are the most paid.
as of right now its still marked “for children”

https://youtu.be/ZPdgWYB9fdw
The US military has far more advanced equipment for war and more powerful weapons but that calculation is irrelevant. I would guess that even most of the military would immediately defect if they ever got an order from Washington to shoot their own citizens. There would be some that would follow through of course. But I don't think they have any chance against the civil population, their logistics would almost immediately deteriorate and it would be a quick decisive loss within days. Much faster when large parts of the civil population is indeed armed and also supported by the part of the military that joins them.

Authoritarianism is successful when it can overwhelm and remove all opposition. That is very likely not the case in the US, conflicted as it may currently be (I am not from the US). But true that the largest weakness would probably be that the populace has different opinions about who should win here.
Oil and Gas has lots of physical installations, equipment, sometimes ships,... Even if the value dipped too much, selling every asset, supposing there's a buyer available, makes some value. I remember Buffett began buying companies that the assets were valued more than the company perceptual market value and selling everything to recoup the investments. Maybe it's the way to think on these actions?
I read Infinite Jest a few years ago but thought that Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents was just an absurdity...
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Cable Guy flashbacks.
FYI, I will be in transit for much of today so may find further responses difficult (but I will try). I'm hoping others with knowledge of the project might pop in to answer more questions that might arise or provide other detail. If not, this was fun. Thank you, and do follow on Twitter (https://twitter.com/LurkLab) if you want to stay in the loop. We hope to publish some blog posts with concrete examples and usage soon.
> On the other hand, those conversations are already so artificial and staged (and customers know it!) that it doesn't matter who has them.

Do you know that for a fact? It's hard for me to understand the minds of these subscribers, but surely, if they're so invested in one particular model, of course it would matter to them.
Ha, amateurs. Look at the work of a professional (that is, he made it his source of income) conspiracy theorist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko)
Yes, I can't get the conspiracy theory that Michael Jordan was betting on basketball games, got caught, but suspending him out would have hurt basketball so he played baseball to serve out his sentence.

It doesn't make sense as he should have been banned outright but the theory has infected my brain.
Define ‘porn’. Are we banning romance novels and YouTube ASMR streams here?
Crypto Commons Economy Framework – Iteration 1.0
From business point of view it might be a good solution to stick to only one language in stack.
Page seems down? Here's the Google Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BWE--R...
If you are early in life your life savings may be negligible. If you interpret it as net-worth it may even be a benefit if you have student loans.
Masks work only in the lab when worn PROPERLY at ALL ocassions, never meeting strangers without mask, good luck with that. In real life people have to eat without mask and they won't wear it at home or often in work etc. or they don't wear them properly anyway with gaps around.

So yeah, masks work in theory, but reality shown us they are completely useless, especially with newer more infectious variants. If they were such great invention we would not have flu and other respiratory viruses, in the end everyone will get infected anyway.
Because:

[3] exclusively targets non-Christian symbols and came after a campaign of primarily non-city folk freaking out because immigrants are different - most infamously Herouxville where the town published a manifesto
warning immigrants against "stoning and burning women. It included, too, an explanation of the importance of Christmas trees." [1]. The Catholic symbology remains in the officialdom - see the giant cross that sits atop Montreal, and the crosses that were never removed from the public schools, or many provincial offices. Not to mention it's OK to wear a crucifix.

[4] goes way beyond education. Montreal is a functionally bilingual city and those of us from here speak "franglais", a mix of the two and have no issue switching. This new law massively restricts access to: education, medicare, legal services, to name a few in the official language of your choice. It even gives powers to the language police to, for example, raid a law or medical office, get access to confidential documents to ensure you are only being served in French [2]. I live in a nation with 2 official languages in a city where the majority of people are bilingual and happy to serve in either language- and Quebec just effectively made one of those languages illegal. How is this is not discrimination?

Georgia-Atlanta is an analogy.
The rural areas are 99% white, unilingual francophone - a group who genuinely believe bilingualism and multiculturalism is a problem - Montreal's two key, unique strengths and defining characteristics. If we had representation by population, these would be non-issues but because the rural areas are heavily weighted, the ruling CAQ has a supermajority after winning only 37% of the vote.[3]

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/herouxville-quebec-r...

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-96-explained-1....

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Quebec_general_election
Using Phillips warm glow leds for a few years now and no complaints
PLUG but we are doing something about it by providing a platform to report negative results.
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Literally, as in, if a passenger finds a way of getting out of the trolley somehow, they will be put back in so the thought experiment can continue working as intended.
Absurd amendment to an absurd trolley problem.
It's a good argument (although let down by the fact that only 3 PHEVs have an all-electric range greater than 50 miles), but there's a glaring loophole: It saves both embodied energy and transportation energy if you buy a low-range EV without lugging the weight of an inactive ICE around with you for most of your miles, and then rent/borrow/whatever an ICE (or other transport) for your long-distance needs.

I suppose people want solutions that look very much like what they have right now, so 35ish mile range PHEVs are the future!
TL;DR: complain about scientism without actually using the word "scientism"[0].

Luke Smith is what you'd get if Curtis Yarvin had grown up on 4chan. He's a reactionary schmuck.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
They literally didn't mention anything about the National Assembly.
The only way to win is not to play. I'd almost never pull the lever.
You seem like you think about these issues and are not pro nationalism ideals but you type this:

> proud Canadian-Italian

Why are you proud of your nationalities? Seems weird in the face of the rest of your comment.
Ahh that makes sense, android has some known issues that I want to resolve this month so I’ll add these to the list - thanks!

(tracking in https://club.kinopio.club/t/bugs-on-android/346/13)
Perhaps more scientists need to be self-aware and feel stupid, rather than cocksure confident & wrong. But the incentives in university, popsci, etc make that harder
SSH srv.us: expose your local HTTP services to the Internet
> If the app becomes hugely popular, needs to serve massive volumes of data and sync across thousands of instances, well, it won't

This argument is so overused for justifying any kind of complexity that it would border on comical if it weren't causing so many issues in our industry.

There is absolutely no guarantee that the MongoDB + Kafka will also work with the hypothetical "massive volumes of data" you're talking about. Those two tools aren't set-and-forget: they require fine tuning and a good architecture to begin with. Ironically, I've seen plenty of cases where MongoDB couldn't handle the production load and had to be put behind some Varnish or Nginx disk cache (ironically bringing it closer to the SQLite app example).

But we don't even have to go that far: depending on the situation, there is a huge chance that the hypothetical app won't see "massive amounts of data" anyway. And if it does, there's an also massive chance that it won't happen overnight, so there will be time to build more. And if we get there, the SQLite app can just be bumped up to PostgreSQL or something similar, which scales vertically beautifully, or some other relational DB that scales horizontally.
"If a tree falls in someone else's forest, and I don't hear it, do I even care." I think sums it a bit more accurately.
Understanding vector embeddings with Feder by a reverse image search example
Show HN: PHPStorm Plugin for dynamic code completion
12% no, probably 0.012%
That's how you do it. You don't stick with on-prem but just build your own cloud. At that size, AWS won't really buy hardware much cheaper than you. And while you can't build every cloud product that AWS has, the most popular ones are open source anyway.
No uBlock Origin for one.
Anyone know what tools he uses for the animations, like the size of space one?
I always end up working on PHP code with dynamic methods or properties (you know, the kind using the magic methods __get or __call()) - so you don’t get any code completion for those. I love PHPStorm, and I find it frustrating when I don’t get code completion.

I wanted to get completion for that dynamic code too. So I wrote a plugin to do that and it’s called “PHP Houdini.” I’m also charging for it - it’s free for 30 days [1]. I don’t expect there’s a big market for it, and I’ve mostly written it for myself when I get thrown into new PHP code bases.

The code for configuring the autocompletion reads like English, but it’s ordinary PHP. I actually wrote what is effectively itself has autocompletion. You create a file called “.houdini.php” in the route of your projects, and then call various functions on the return value of a “houdini()” builder function.

Writing it was fun because I effectively wrote a small PHP subset interpreter to handle the configuration. I’m interested in any feedback. Thanks!
Full disclosure, I am a Quebecker who is against separation. A lot of the debate is around the protection of the French language, which gets stretched out in every political issue.

One thing which wasn't mentioned is how unique Quebec's position is geographically. There are few regions which are as surrounded by another dominant language. I think just this phenomenon puts pressure on conserving the French language.

I also believe that this makes us stick out like a sore thumb in North America. I will regularly see comment sections riddled with ill informed negative comments about Quebec.

Another thing to keep in mind is that in our history, English colonial forces tried to assimilate French people on a few occasions (search for "Durham Report" as an example). I do believe that a lot of trauma has been passed on through generations.

Finally, I believe the Federal government doesn't do enough for French speakers inside and outside Quebec. As a result, the separatist movement gives a voice to French people who feel unheard. This just results in political and cultural tensions.

While we debate this issue, the people who benefit the least are indigenous people. Their case is politicized on both sides and legislations rarely benefit them.
plus one for Bolt being a really great car, GM nailed it (if you can tolerate a small car)
Seismic shift? Seems to be pretty much on-par with current AMD and Intel offerings [1]. Let's see how Apple holds up when AMD gets on the same node.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfJq0Y4Oos
ESbuild is much more mature than bun. The author of ESbuild cares a lot about compatibility with other bundlers and stability. Moreover it is already insanely fast. I am not sure there is any interest to switch from ESbuild to bun for bundling or transpiling code.

By the way, I think that bun does not apply the patches of ESbuild since the translation date.
> The crux of the issue, and a bone of contention in the software development sphere since its debut last year, is that Copilot is a proprietary service built on top of the hard work of the open source community.

I don't understand this argument, because you could use the same one for basically any SaaS product that uses open source code.

However, this quote is more convincing:

> “Open source” doesn’t mean a complete free-for-all, and there are still license requirements to fulfil and attributions to include, so if Copilot “borrows” code from one project and suggests it to the author of another project, will this open the floodgates to copyright infringement lawsuits?

The "copyright infringement lawsuits" point aside, which I don't think applies to license issues, I think this raises a good point. Will it tell you which attributions to give, and will it respect licenses that require you to distribute code you make if you use that code (e.g. GPL), maybe by either warning you or allowing you to filter out code from those kinds of repositories?
Numbers of vaxxed vs unvaxxed hospitalized (per capita in same group) don't confirm this disinformation spread by pharma companies and their paid politicians.
that was their battery supplier who screwed up
And the fun part is that traffic coming from HN routinely causes websites to crumble under load.
Moving to Source Hut
One of my friends had a Nobel Laureate as a professor. The professor half-jokingly told everyone that getting a Nobel prize is easy, just disprove something that everyone accepts as accepted truth.
Warm and neutral white LEDs everywhere except the fridge.

I use cool white there just for the impression of coldness and cleanliness.

I have a pretty cheap LED desk lamp but other than that I just use the ceiling fixtures.
> You do understand that uBlock Origin has private, profit-generating relationships with advertisers.

That's uBlock without Origin. Careful where you download your ad blockers from.

Edit: I'd also love a DaisyDisk that works on iOS. It will never get permission to get on the app store. Of course, that kind of app IS a huge security issue so I'd be very careful where I get it from.
I’m afraid that it’s hard to see the true colors under the last two decades Of paint layers
New MacBook Air with M2