skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took 61a under DeNero as a transfer with high school APCS and college intro class experience, since the dept didn't let me waive the scheme/lisp part. And I was shocked at difficulty, like "no way kids programming for the first time as freshmen can keep up with his course pace"
Mozilla was getting $50m from search to develop a browser that gained market share. How is that different from the goals of Google or Microsoft?
Not a great article. Beta-decay nuclear batteries? Come on. They're real, but are low-power devices.[1]

Useful reading: PJM 101.[2] This is a training course from the PJM Interconnect, the power grid for the northeastern US. It's for people who need to know the basics of how it works.

There's a lot of confusion about how big AC grids distribute power.
Direction of power transfer is controllable. Capacitors and inductors are switched in and out to get a leading or lagging phase angle. It's not just everything in parallel.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/leesona_moos/nuclear_battery...

[2] https://www.pjm.com/Globals/Training/Courses/ol-pjm-101.aspx
Ah the monthly 'open source is superior to commerical enterprise' hymn.

I use both sites equally and lichess is inferior in pretty much every respect. Assuming you pay of course .
> Imagine a life dedicated to saying "No." Your mind is disoriented, deteriorating. The world is spinning, and your insides are churning, throbbing, and burning with the pain of a thousand suns. Your skin is peeling, your muscles ache, your bones dull with a hollow pain, and your body feels like it isn't even yours. Implants and incisions, scars and scabs, your body riddled with pockmarks.

Representing this as typical of the research animal experience is disingenuous. You should be able to make your argument without resorting to hyperbole.

We're talking about monkeys, whose biggest use in recent research was in vaccine development. So e.g. Rhesus macaques were given injections of vaccine candidates (and convalescent plasma, etc), and then immune responses were measured. Some were then exposed to SARS-COV-2 to determine if the vaccines were effective. SARS-COV-2 produces much less severe illness in macaques than humans.
> Why did they engage in such a radical experiment?

Well, that's where it cut off for me without a subscription.

Still, I'm sure it's going to say that the problem was the overhype of "green"/"organic" agriculture, and that this is a cautionary tale of why we need to stay with modern chemical-intense agriculture.

Because I've seen quite a few of those.

I'll instead quote from https://science.thewire.in/environment/sri-lanka-crisis-orga... (I couldn't find the original essay I read which describes the underlying isssue, but was able to find this one with essentially the same thesis):

> And yet, the collapse of Sri Lanka’s economy had little to do with organic farming per se, and much more to do with the disastrous handling of its economy.

> Nonetheless, the banning of inorganic fertilisers, the reasons it was done and the way it was done is a cautionary tale of how not to embark on a green transition. It should be a mandatory exercise to review these failures as the developing world looks for a stable path as the climate crisis intensifies.

> The first thing to note about Sri Lanka’s decision to ban the import of inorganic fertilisers is that it was based on desperation rather than planning. It is true that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government had promised when it came into power in 2019 that it would shift agriculture to organic farming – but it had announced that it would do so over a period of 10 years, not overnight.

> No large-scale plan was drawn up, no public discussions with farmers was undertaken, and the people in government pushing the policies included those who came up with locally made syrups to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

> In the end, the decision was taken for the simple reason that Sri Lanka was running out of money. The pandemic had hurt the tourist industry, and when the government was elected in 2019, it further cut down taxes, leaving it with money flowing out – much of it for vast infrastructure projects – and little to raise.

> Between the end of 2020 to March 2021, the country’s foreign exchange reserves plummeted from $7.6 billion to less than $2 billion. It was because of this huge loss of foreign currency, and the cost of importing inorganic fertilisers that Sri Lanka largely does not manufacture, that the country imposed a ban on it – forcing two-thirds of its population that depends on agriculture to suddenly scramble to deal with the fallout.
The Ferrari logo is very clear.
I always put more weight on negative comments about owns work condition because cognitive dissonance is a known human bias.

If you are working at a dead end job, where your pays and benefits are sub-optimal, and you are even putting more work hours then in other possible jobs, then why are you working there? Because of cognitive dissonance it is much easier to tell your self that you actually like the job over accepting the reality that you probably shouldn’t work there.

https://dilbert.com/strip/1992-08-09
> Why do you think that's the case?

The whole history of the XX century
"The US (famously) does not have Allies, only temporary allegiances."

What? Are you a troll or just a cpp bot?

NATO is an alliance, and also the US has many other defense pacts. (AUS, and more). Those are not temporary allegiances (if you call 70 years 'temporary' then you are either trolling or just delusional).
It wasn’t green dogma, that was just a retcon.

There simply wasn’t enough foreign currency reserves for import.

Prices have rocketed and the president instead of admitting that decided to say they were going organic.

Sri Lanka presidents children spent all their foreign reserves on a white elephant airport and golf courses and due to Covid the principle sources of foreign reserves (tourism and money sent home from domestic and construction workers in the middle east).

It was a perfect storm of black swan and incompetence/corruption.

I have several dear friends desperate for help over there. I managed to send some rice and cooking oil but it just got stolen along the supply chain somewhere.
"Extensive?" This isn't exactly fact-filled:

"It all started with an app called Netscape Navigator, developed by a group of people, which was then bought..."

This reads like a poorly-researched junior-high report.
It's 4096 iterations:

https://github.com/cloudflare/gokey/blob/v0.1.0/csprng.go#L2...
Where did you read that they stopped producing their own panels?
Not lichess, but Alireza Firouzja (World Rank #3) was banned from chess.com when he was younger.

It was some time ago so probably their cheat engine detection, and also lichess's should give less false positives.
I don't understand the ideas in this article. Or the writing itself, which is horrible.

> Firefox was a legend. It’s of course, still underused by millions and millions of people, but not the way it was before. It was without a doubt one of the most dominant software before.

What the fuck does that even mean? Is it underused but not as underused as before? Was it the dominant software before? Before what, exactly?

> For example, the mobile version of chrome integrates well with Android and is the default browser in android because both Android and Chrome was owned by Google.

> Since google chrome just started giving good competition, and also making itself and default for Android, the marketing and popularity of Chrome flew through the sky.

Is competition given? Do browsers give competition? Also, is this good competition, really? I remember a certain software giant who got into some legal trouble over similar mechanics. But I'm happy that the popularity of Chrome didn't flew through the dirt or through water. Flying through water is not as good as it was 'before'
You really just have to follow the trend of human energy use, eventually we're going to get to a point that planetary scale changes are within our reach, and eventually they'll be easy.

Technically we're already changing the planet today, it shows that it is very much inside of our grasp, it just requires the cooperation of every human on the planet and right now we just have that cooperation both incidentally and in a bad way.

We just need to get to a point where it does not require such mass cooperation, and as our energy scale increases that will become more and more possible with time.

That is assuming we don't collapse or regress or stagnate, which is possible, but I would hope that doesn't happen.
Your first sentence requires a lot of citations (I think that a lot of eugenicists of the past and present have been enamored of 'Tradition' and race, and Christianity is tightly bound to those in modern times), and the second doesn't parse well for me.
Well, at least that's good.

Just as a note, most people record with their phones out and pointed at the subject they're recording. From watching many of these videos, police routinely ask people recording to put their phones away, even though they aren't interfering. It seems likely that police will use the excuse that the mere act of recording in this way is interfering and can be used to stop recording or to arrest the person recording.
Our standards for humans are pretty inconsistent too. There are scenarios in which it is still legal to subject some humans to slavery and death even in the US.
> On short options, losses are potentially unlimited.

On a short call, your loss is unlimited. On a short put, it is limited to the strike price, because the stock price can't go negative.
Am I missing where this is quoted from, or is it like many other quotes where it could be attributed to the person, but nobody really knows?

Edit: if I'm reading right, it seems to be a quote from Dinesh D'Souza's book "What's so great about America" quoted by Henry Kissinger in his book "The White House Years"

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger (Quotes -> 1980's)

Aside from the aforementioned countries, I'd say Israel is quite a strong ally of the United States.
Enjoy your bullet wounds.
The Economist was founded in 1843, and the article goes to great lengths to paint the writers and editors of the magazine throughout its history as not merely wrong on matters of policy, but personally privileged and bigoted.
By that pessimistic definition, no country can really ever have allies.

The US has a number of nations with which its interests have long aligned with, and are likely to continue to, and are formalized via treaty. I’m ok with calling those alliances.
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If the issue is proximity to police for safety reasons, then whether or not a persion is videoing the incident has absolutely no bearing on the matter.

This also means that a person who is directly the subject of a police encounter can be found to be violating the law for the simple act of recording the encounter.

There's no provision for this within the text of the law.

The law as it stands is a prima facie first amendment violation.
I can't tell if I'm having a brain fart Sunday morning or this is just generally a very poorly written article. Can someone give a summary? I read half of it and I still don't see a single "point" being made. The closest it got making a point is:

> It seemed to be this software that tried to keep up with the pace of Google Chrome more than a software that actually had its own ideas.

That sentence answers itself. Obviously the issue is that it had to try to keep up with a huge corporation pouring orders of magnitude more money and time.

The article is just filled with memes but doesn't really say much at all.
That last paragraph would make an interesting setting for a book.
I am reading Vaclav Smil's 'How the world really works', and cay say in the west 3 generations are removed from the farmland and has this rainbows and unicorn view of food production and thanks to American cultural broadcasting are projecting these (insane) ideas to third world elite.

Industrial farming is critical to feed a world with 8 billion people. NPKs play a very important role to see people around the world are fed.
ah, so police need access to my pornhub searches, alexa recordings, and phone location becayse if I have nothing to hide I have nothing to fear.

but when the shoe is on the other foot suddenly it's a problem?
In defense of the cops. If you are doing cop business and somebody approaches to within 8 feet of your business then they are involving themselves in your business.

Some will use the defense "but I was filming, surely you don't hate freedom of whatever". Which is where this particular law comes in.
Yet somehow there are still tons of tankies on Twitter - people with actual hammer-and-sickle in their screen names - trying to pin this on "neoliberals" despite the fact that banning chemical fertilizers is the least neoliberal thing I can think of.
I'm on the record as defending MOND from dismissal, but this article is taking it a step to far and ignoring important context.

It's true that MOND generally does provide a simpler[0] prediction of galactic dynamics but that's not really the selling point of Dark Matter at this point. Dark Matter works with our current understanding of the big bang[1][2], and especially with the measured anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. There have been an attempts to fit MOND to what we know about the big bang, but so far the results have been extremely rough[2]. One possible reason for MOND's deficiencies in this area is that to date there has been far more research into Dark Matter than into MOND. It's possible that MOND does permit a more elegant explanation of the CMB. However, until we see it MOND is going to stay in second place.

Now this is very different from dismissing MOND. For some reason I can never quite figure out, every time new, big research concerning dark matter is published, lots of people who don't understand MOND pop out of the wood work to explain why it's dead.

[0] By "simpler" I mean that when predicting galactic dynamics, using MOND allows fewer free parameters than Lambda-CDM.

[1] https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept17/Freese/Freese3.ht...

[2]https://phys.org/news/2021-10-mond-theory-account-cosmic-mic...
> ...only applies to officers who are questioning, arresting, etc.

and the vague "enforcing the law". The fear is that the bad actors will always claim they were enforcing the law.

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For the purposes of this section, "law enforcement activity" means any of the following:

1. Questioning a suspicious person.

2. Conducting an arrest, issuing a summons or enforcing the law.

3. Handling an emotionally disturbed or disorderly person who is exhibiting abnormal behavior.
> Two contradictory talking points seem to be pervasive:

They are not really contradictory.

> - Altering one atom affects the other instantaniously

It kind-of does, if by "affecting the other" you mean changing the physical state of the pair from "the A/B system is in state S0" to "A is in state SA and B is in state SB".

> - There's no FTL communication going on,

There isn't unless you want to define as "communication" the change in the physical state described above.

> Basically, never take seriously anything written about quantum physics in pop-science magazines.

That's unfortunately a wise advice.
Meanwhile, there are sporadic reports in Toronto of short power outages at 6AM on a regular basis. I suspect it's because power pricing switches from night time low to high-peak at 7AM, so many people (like me!) have programmed their hard-start Air Conditioners to kick in hard at 6AM for an hour leading to phantom faults.

2020 reports: https://www.reddit.com/r/askTO/comments/hhdv0o/east_york_alm...
Not to mention the juvenile and lazy writing, often lacking in specifics or even purpose.
$50M is tiny compared to how much Google invested in Chrome. That barely pays 100 engineers.
I don't understand why breaking up the mafia wasn't a more pressing issue? What makes Uber drivers different that they won't be dragged from their cars and kicked to death?
From reading the actual bill[1]: no radius of "law enforcement activity" is actually established. In other words: the police may claim under this law that "8 feet" means "8 feet from the radius," not "8 feet from their persons." This, in effect, may allow the police to arrest anybody within the radius of ordinary "law enforcement activity," such as peaceful protestors recording themselves during a protest that the police are being paid to monitor.

This is terrible law, designed to invite broad and abusive interpretation by the police.

[1]: https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/laws/0376.htm
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That's not a key issue to the discussion, the discussion is about corruption.
I wish there were better patterns for new laws and regulations to be phased in gradually rather than all at once. You see it happen occasionally, but it's the exception rather than the norm.

So much waste and strife comes from big discontinuous jumps that could easily be made smooth and continuous.
Pretty cool, but it costs like $100K per mm.

Think of it as art, not a tool.
> Intense bike positions require you to statically position the neck at almost 90 degrees to look forward

Cyclists learn that the proper position is to hold the head at roughly the same angle of the spine and to peer upwards at an angle. So you are basically looking UP, but since the top 2/3rds of the spine is tilted forward at 45 degrees, you end up looking forward. However, as the neck muscles tire from holding a 15 pound head this odd position, riders end up like you described.

> could easily just be age…

I'm pretty sure that's the case. :)
This is true and if your argument was that we should be spending more effort there then addressing scientific use than that'd make sense to me.

But if what you're suggesting is that we should expend our effort exclusively on the larger of the two until it is fully addressed, then I can see how that has a certain logical appeal, but it isn't really how social movements work. Social movements are necessarily massively parallel, everyone pursues the causes they care about most, and adjacent causes support and are supported by one another.

Not only would it not be feasible to convince all the activists to pick one particular cause, it also would be less effective. It's sort of like the "packing" tactic in gerrymandering.
It's not you. It's piss-poor "writing."
That’s correct, yes.
C. this section does not establish a right or authorize any person to make a video recording of law enforcement activity.
If you're not convinced, you should look in to the evidence and the deductions that lead to what is now presented as fact. Very few popular presentations cover the reasons behind the wacky stuff scientists say, which is to blame for you evaluating that stuff on the basis of whether it rings true - because you've been given no other way to evaluate it.
This is such a stupid simplistic view - read the BBC article on this leak of Uber files. The corruption they (Uber) instituted was just as bad as this anecdote you are alleging.

How does replacing one set of elite corruption with another set of elite corruption get to " i am thankful to Uber Lyft and all the other incumbents for managing to get their foot in"?? You are thankful to them? What are you on about?
> it's a show-off list that tells more about his influences as a critic and writer

What distinguishes a list of one’s influences as a “show-off list” vs. just a regular list?

The phenomenon of music - human’s ability to conceive of it, perform it, of others to enjoy it, and for groups to share experience around it - is a phenomenon that touches on many other aspects of human existence. It raises fascinating questions about the nature of human cognition, culture, subjective experience, etc.

That an author draws inspiration in how he understands music from a wide variety of subjects seems pretty reasonable. To the intellectually curious, it might help one evolve their own understanding of / relationship with music.

> it's not even flaunting anything very impressive

Nor does it claim to do so. Nor does it need to do so. If you wrote a blog post in which you shared the materials that influenced your understanding of Python, Scheme and C# with a goal of helping other people interested in these subjects in their own journey to understanding, must those resources be “impressive”? Is “informative” or “interesting” not enough?
Expansion is the Occam's razor explanation of redshift, and dark matter is, unfortunately, the Occam's razor explanation of the half dozen lines of evidence commonly cited, including but not limited to galaxy rotation curves.

Honestly skepticism of dark matter is understandable, but what the heck else are you expecting to pop up to explain redshift, a phenomenon that happens always and only when an object is moving away from you? What's the mystery there? You might be confusing universe expansion with dark energy (which IMO might well disappear, being vulnerable to improvements in the cosmic distance ladder), or cosmic inflation (apparently well substantiated but quite ad hoc, but if so you should really learn your terminology before you try to make predictions about future discoveries.
These are not fair comments because everything you say the taxi industry it replaced is guilt of and closing the market. Uber puts new cars on the road and opens the industry to those who are locked out.
New since 1994 or so
No, wrong. I have never seen any reposted content.
Agree to some extent, this feels very sketchily, or maybe hastily, written, with seemingly anecdotal or incorrect historical paragraphs, and just a little supporting data. It's nowhere near the deep dive the opening promises. I'm getting confused.
Awful looking, terrible typography, form chases away function ....

Hugely impressive piece of machinery though.
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FTL always implies closed timelike curves, and that means paradoxes. Until whatever mechanism people come up to travel FTL with has a reasonable way of preventing paradoxes right there also in the paper, it isn't even worth looking at.

We would like to do FTL, but the universe isn't obliged to humor us.
If you want to learn about the Eliza program from a podcast, the author of this website was one the Corecursive podcast recently: https://corecursive.com/eliza-with-jeff-shrager/
Are your friends eligible to expatriate? Are any visas in developed countries available to them?
> Is it just me or does 8-10 feet seem like an optimal distance to film from anyway? Who’s shooting productive videos from two feet away?

"Productive" is not the relevant metric; "expedient" is. If I'm in a crowded subway car, I may not be able to move 10 feet away from the police officer who's harassing my fellow straphanger. Worse, if I were to move away, the commotion of the crowded car would likely drown out my cellphone's microphone.
Seems a bit of a lesson, not in avoiding organic farming per se, but rather in avoiding a situation where your economy is entirely dependent on imports in a key sector.

Also, tourism revenue may be nice, but it is not dependable; I recall Bali having trouble when an act of terrorism caused tourism to crater for a few years.

Abrupt transition to a different agricultural system (organic or otherwise) does surely seem risky, but the talking points here remind me of the folks who said that Texas power blackouts last year were because we had too much wind and solar. It's a slice of truth, served up with a whole lot of lack of context to slant towards the desired conclusion.
Watches that cost more than US$2,000,000 are typically ugly a/f because the point is to draw attention to it. When you're worth hundreds of millions or billions, you need to invent more ways to show it off.
P-N junction electroluminescence effect photography
Why sunscreen is not enough to prevent sunburns