skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person who asked you to open a ticket was actually declining to solve your screw problem. They figured there was a high chance you would not bother to open a ticket. Also if you do open a ticket, they can assign it to someone else and from their point of view the problem has gone away.

The person recommending a clamshell replacement was telling you "I don't know what screw goes in that hole and actually I don't know how to order that off the vendor's website". They do not turn screws for a living and don't have the technical vocabulary to cope with your problem.

The only way they can get rid of you is to make it the vendor's problem; which means they need to transform your problem into something in the vendor's catalog. Hence, clamshell replacement.

When you went on-site with a ticket it seems like the front desk had no easier option left than to find a "screwdriver turner" (with the big pile of broken stuff in the back room) and get them to actually fix your problem.
I haven't tried it yet but masterclass seems along these lines.
I disagree. It's worth remembering that current trends in AI are taken from taking a model from the 1970's and adding huge amounts of data and compute power to make these models robust enough to classify high resolution photographs. It isn't the necessary outgrowth of the cognitive science(s) as is commonly touted.

It's a magic trick which preys on a person's lack of scientific understanding; neural networks seem to anticipate, "brains in vats" but we're still in the midst of learning what, "brains" "people" and, "minds" are and nothing in ML space seems to shed any meaningful light on these pressing questions. This might be partially because the questions of Mind(s) and Self(s) are open philosophical problems.

An easy refutation that, "ML can model meaning" from recent Chomsky talks: consider that a neural network can be trained on any statistically meaningful corpus of text; this includes Klingon and Elven; it also includes jibberish'. It also includes semi-random presses of a key by a person typing with their dick or the like; nothing meaningful is being captured. We have a machine that is capable of statistical analysis. This isn't a new invention.
Probably. I am a big fan of mechanical watches but this is just a show-off piece.
Of course Galacticomm was HQed in Lauderdale and they made the MajorBBS multiline BBS system so I can't help but wonder if you had any experience meeting the quite brilliant devs that ran that shop?

My company, Magicomm, wrote 3rd party add-ons for the main system and eventually my partner was hired on with them directly...me? Not so lucky I remember interviewing directly with the owner, Tim Striker, and I was so nervous because I wanted to work there so badly...I almost completely blanked out for the interview and couldn't remember even the simplest of C basics. (Describe an union, what command do you use to zero out memory after you malloc etc etc)

I bombed the interview and never did get to work for my dream company like my partner, who I basically trained on how to use C, did, and to this day this fact irks me lol.
> As far as "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object"... You just described Christianity.

Yes. Christianity is, in the scholarly sense of the word intended by the article, a cult or set of cults.

Here's a priest explaining the--his words--"cult of Mary:" https://www.catholic.com/qa/what-is-the-cult-of-mary .

And here's an example of the usage from another article about late-antique Judaism: "...the Sadducees stressed the importance of the priests in the Temple cult, while the Pharisees insisted on the participation of all Jews."
https://www.livius.org/articles/people/sadducees/
If that pill is esomeprazole / Nexium or other proton-pump inhibitor, do note that repeated use is correlated with early onset osteoporosis.
> Spirituality is the only thing that can convince people to spend a lifetime fighting against these structures of injustice. Otherwise, why not take your intelligence and use it to build a good life for yourself and family?

You will find, if you talk to people, that the overwhelming majority believe that these ends are closely related, if not coextensive.

Spirituality can be a very strong motivation; it can also be a very temperamental one. Better to build futures on less fickle foundations.
One of the dumbest things I have done in my life is buying an SSD and new HDDs to farm Chia. After about a month of farming, the SSD died due to the constant read/writes.
False positives, I assume.
Based on what I've observed, most organic followers are scripts, and views are carefully metered and pre-determined based on each account's personal characteristics. The merit system isn't conducted without bias.

TikTok forces use primarily of it's app, and only offers limited use in web browsers, which makes their methods less transparent.
Here is a bit about Prasad, but it's a complicated subject so this doesn't present the entire picture. https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20211008_4/
Agree for the ones we can vote out, but most of the "institutions" in that list aren't ones we have a say in.
Given that other skills work at different time scales, this doesn't always work. Two of the most common examples:

1) You work anywhere near money and commerce. The existence of Black Friday and the following weeks of shopping frenzy ensure that you will always be very aware what date Thanksgiving is. And that everybody will need timelines especially close around that date.

2) You work on a product that also gets marketing. There's a lead time of several months for a good marketing effort with coordinated press, and you really don't want to have all that lined up and then blow your timeline.

If you can help it, at all, learn estimation. Sure, don't share it if your management is incompetent at handling estimations, but the ability to predict a timeline with error bars is extremely useful. Practice by yourself. You'll be happy you did.

(And if your estimates are reasonably correct and you have decent management, you experience magic like "OK, then let's cut scope" or "Is there anybody who'd accelerate this if they were on your team". With a heavy nod to the fact that there are not enough managers who can pull off that magic - because they never understood estimation)
Well, let me try it this way: if massively popular social networks weren’t a threat, both China and Russia wouldn’t have cared about Twitter, Facebook, or any other “western” internet company operating in their countries.

Clearly, they think that these are important sovereignty issues such that they’ve clamped down or disallowed these services entirely.

The ability to manipulate people via state sponsored algorithmic tweaks to TikTok’s ranking algorithm is a powerful tool.

You don’t need to do much to sour US’s support for Taiwan in the eyes of just a minority. Or you don’t need to do much to tweak the algorithm such that content about politicians friendly to China is ranked higher than others.
> it's the Toxic Substances Control Act together with the The Toy Safety Act

I think it's good to note in cases like this that both were bipartisan (in passage if not in origination), lest one side or the other think this was an ideological issue.
agree. from what understand, if 2 people happen to have the same master password, they would have the same passwords for ALL THEIR ACCOUNTS. pretty scary if you ask me
> Per capita emissions makes more sense, from a humanitarian point of view.

How so? Aren't most emissions generated by industry rather than by individuals?
> what can we all do to make it desirable for people to want to be in their homes?

Great book on the subject is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Nations_Fail It explores precisely this phenomenon - why certain places that have geographic proximity (Dominican Republic and Haiti, Nogales AZ and Nogales Sonora) drifted so far away from one another economically, why some places with vast natural resources (Nigeria) are undesirable while some other countries with limited natural resources (Japan, Singapore) are economic successes.
Well maybe those in power should have read up on their history before trying to 'take over' Afghanistan. Might have been a good idea for a country half a world a way, separated by a large ocean.
The original post is literally two sentences and you omit the sentence that is pertinent to my point. I think that alone says all it needs to about the manner by which you are evaluating this topic.

All the best to you.
Did you make any money?
It’s actually down to 288 bytes!

https://leanchess.github.io/#editions

This really blows my mind, as this comment (including the link) is already up to 124 bytes. I’ll include some extra text so that this comment is 288 bytes, just for a clear visual of how little space that actually is :)
Why would anyone bomb Europe when Europe is already digging its own grave with its energy policies?
>but you should really call your local electric vehicle mechanic and ask him how business is doing.

that anecdote is only indicative of short term market conditions. It's sort of like saying that trucking jobs are safe because there are truck driver shortages today, ignoring the impending doom of automation in the next few decades.
This is a natural outcome having 2 political parties (and FPTP elections) combined with voters that refuse to compromise on key issues.

E.g. 1 in 4 US voters will only vote for pro-life candidates. It's about the same on gun control (combined for and against). Those people basically only have 1 person they'd think of voting for.

Change would be more likely if these people had more options, so they could express the importance of their issue alongside their other views, but they can't. Being pro-gun ropes them into voting for anti-abortion candidates. Being pro-immigration ropes them into being pro-single-payer healthcare. There's no room to say "I'm pro-gun and pro-immigration"; FPTP ensures that trying to vote along those ideas goes nowhere.

Politicians don't fear for their jobs because they know that as bad as they are, people aren't going to vote against their cemented principles just to express discontent.
Visa overstays are a bigger problem than illegal crossings and putting "illegals" on a plane to Mexico is not an especially coherent policy proposal (for instance, Mexico can say no to Alabama, no problem).

Are we supposed to infer that they are stand ins for immigration policy in general?
"Average temperature" doesn't mean much. Deterioration is concentrated in the periods of peak temperature, non-linearly. It makes it hard to express practical longevity with averages. You might be able to say something like, "it should last X years if it stays below T2, and spends no more than Y hours between T1 and T2." Then, actual lifetime at T2 provides an upper bound on that.

They don't say in the article, but perovskites are amenable to stacking with different wavelength capture characteristics, so can be built to capture above 40% of incident solar energy. That, and being radically cheaper to produce than Si cells, means there is great interest in this result.
Stimulus money papered over a weaker underlying economy, and the bill is coming due (no pun intended).

My note: even though employment and wages are strong, the aggregate consumer is not as strong as your usual indicators appear to be.
That's sort of what I was describing, that the first guess regularly seems to be that something unknown today served a religious purpose then. Eight thousand years later we don't know why those bones are in a chamber.

What is said in the article is a non-sequitur, "Since no other animal's body parts were found, it led the team to deduce that these were sacrificial."
As other comments suggest, this is a half-truth.

Yes, if an atom was compressible to a bit, you could represent this many universes. It’s analogous to a perfect compression dictionary.

But that’s the rub: an atom isn’t compressible to a bit, at least in this universe. So you have these massive scales competing against each other. The more you say about the atom, the fewer multiverses you have (on an exponential scale!)

It’s an okay way of expressing how many states a kilobyte can take, but what that state means (is it a universe per state or an arrangement of about 1024 ascii characters?) is what’s important.

(Ninja edit: That would imply you can arrange 1024 ascii characters in that-many-universes ways! That’s also fun!)
People will always need their car fixed locally, though. It's reasonable to be concerned about jobs that could be performed anywhere. "Take this thing out" is a much easier request to ship off than even most other information/tech jobs.
There is definitely less overall maintenance required. The total number of mechanics needed would definitely decrease if everyone was driving electric. We did zero maintenance other than brake fluid check and tires in 3 years. This experience is typical. Certainly we will need more independent electric capable shops than we have now, but there is a definite first mover advantage at play. Also, cars get wrecked and need repairs. Body shops will always be a thing too. Still, these things are simpler, have less parts, and are easier to service in general.
As of few months ago, Show HN posts are allowed to contain both.
Well, the current chain that everyone is following does still have the 'ice age' in it that come September will start making mining new blocks take exponentially longer to mine. If the miners want to continue with the POW chain, they'll have to coordinate a fork of their own to delay or remove the ice age. And that there is the rub. The ethereum miners have never been very good at coordinating amongst themselves.
No, they don’t. And you won’t find many watch enthusiasts who agree with you either about this class of watch.
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Is it really a problem? If you are running a reactor next to an orphanage you probably should be serious, but if you are like most people here and building Facebook for hamsters taking it too seriously is bad for your mental health.

I much prefer to work with people like you. The serious tend to get stuck in analysis paralysis and panic at the drop of a hat. That said I won't laugh if the jokes aren't funny, but that doesn't mean I mind you making them.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5679 link to the article in Science
Glad to hear it made sense after some back and forth.
Thanks for the discussion!
The only reason I care about the Earth at all is that our future generations will need to live here. If we all stop having kids and humanity goes extinct, I don't care if Earth's atmosphere gets hotter than Venus's after that.
Nice one. For your enjoyment have a look at the "all-time" chart.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/chia-network/

While the concept of Chia was interesting at the time and also reminded me of the "smart fridges of silicon valley (the show)", filling up gigabytes with trash data to prove a technical point made me lose interest. Just glad I didn't invest more.
At some point it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to pay for a car you can’t afford to put gas in to actually drive.

Back during the last pre-recession gas hike people couldn’t even give away their monster SUVs that they also couldn’t afford to put gas in. I was going to buy one for super-cheap but ‘cash for clunkers’ took care of that problem before I got around to it.
If your recruiting pipeline isn't doing a background check, you need a new recruiting pipeline.
You keep saying you'd prefer to engage with a more specific claim about the legal system rather than argue about what WalterBright meant, yet you keep avoiding engaging with that part in favor of debating that meaning!

Rather, you're now narrowing the debate to whether or not their "The prevailing atmosphere" is refering to "The US judiciary" - the subject of the previous sentence - or society at large. Which I read differently than you, but also doesn't matter.

Sooooo if you want to engage with my actual position, do so! What are your thoughts on adversarial legalism? Or if you want to keep playing debate cop instead, have fun, but... why?
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Deterioration tends to be roughly linear on an Arrhenius scale, which is basically the scale which is exponential on the inverse temperature. This is because deterioration tends to be roughly linear on the activation energy of defects.
The EULA makes it very clear that this is not open/free software.
Once more: There is a privacy concern. "Make thing go fast" wasn't on the list. Performance is not the concern. It's not "data moving with you", it's "data should not be available to third parties"
They constantly tweak the bias of what is shown on these platforms to keep engagement high. By the minute we talk about a trend online, the bias has already changed to a new focus. All of these sites are driven by manipulating users into compliance and over-investment of time and money. That is how they make ad revenue to pay overhead, and create product dependency.

The problem is that there are so many people addicted to the possibility of being a popular influencer that no one is being honest about how little real success and money they make on these platforms... In truth it may be a possibility that most users are completely faking social media success.
I basically agree. Unfortunately this law is more likely to be actually upheld and applied than one which says you can't come within 8ft of a cop, period; and therefore it is more effective at achieving the intended goal which is more about giving cops special privileges in general, not just about limiting recording.
Garbage/refuse volumes are sometimes used as a leading indicator of GDP.
I have a Costco account and a Sam's Club (Walmart's Costco equivalent) account. Even though I do something like 98% of my bulk shopping at Sam's club (due to proximity, the Costco is ~ 15 min drive away vs 5 mins for the Sam's club), it's still worth it for me to hold the Costco membership for specific purchases. Notably I've purchased (because there's no better place to buy these things and the vendor vetting is amazing) bedsheets, smart thermostats & a sauna from Costco over the last year and those have easily made back the $60 USD it cost me to buy the membership. I'll probably end up buying a gazebo kit from Costco sometime in the next year.

I think for semi-big purchases ($USD 200 to $USD $20,000) as a consumer Costco has huge value. The vendor vetting thing may not be as important when it comes to a bag of chips, but when it comes to a $4,000 gazebo or some $2,000 appliance I have really come to trust Costco's vetting.
About 18% born after 1995 are claiming they're LGBT+, I have friends that are LGBT+ so no worry about the scaremongering part, but some of those folks are going too far these days. Specifically I don't get it why it has to be on K-12's agenda where my kids attend with my tax money and they told me that it's offensive to address classmates if you use the wrong he/she, these days you better ask "how am I supposed to address you?", it's ridiculous.
well that's basically what the graeber/wengrow speaks to - looking at actual human history to understand how these alternatives might have already been put into practice, at scale and over time, in post-agriculture discovery societies. that's about the best you will get for existing demonstrated capability at scale in an approximately modern age
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There are markets where I think he'd be broadly correct--the TI-83 (well, TI-84 now, I guess) is the one that comes to mind. Its target market gives it a certain cap of feature development (you don't want it too be powerful a computer, lest teachers feel uncomfortable letting students use it on tests), and this means that updating models is largely about minor hardware stuff (e.g., switching out a bank of AAA batteries for a rechargeable battery).

However, given the context of the interview in general ("you're losing market share, sales are slowing, you're losing customers, etc., what are you going to do about it?"), arguing basically "nothing's wrong" bespeaks a certain arrogance that would, even without the benefit of hindsight, give me tremendous pause.
That's fine. They don't have to be better everywhere for me to be happy they exist. People attack Uber without dealing with the very obvious problem that in many, many markets, for both drivers and riders, they're an enormous improvement over the status quo.
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I did not find the model info, but thanks!
It appears that very well may happen. When the nature of the uncaring universe is made known to people, many delusions will be swept away.
How does GR allow an infinite energy machine?
Maybe once politicians start to settle for first class on commercial flights instead of taking private jets to climate summits, then I'll start to replace my coach flights with ground transportation.
Some sites are middens, but I wouldn't say most. Artifact scatters (discovered through survey) and residential sites (what we're typically looking for and may themselves contain middens) are probably the most common.
Why do people borrow money to buy a car? Why not save money, maybe invest in something safe(ish), and buy your car in cash, preferably used?

I get it that people get emotional about cars, but good heavens, this impulse puts you in the hole for years. It's almost as bad as cheating on your wife (and far, far worse than cheating on a gf).
Consider though that, "consumerism" is a very important part of modern economies. People tend to buy things that send social signals to other people (conspicuous consumption) which in turn drives demand for high quality items (hopefully) which creates real incentives for innovation and growth. At the same time I can agree that, "keeping up with the Joneses" has created a social nightmare for many.

My point here is that even following a big Kuhnian paradigm shift you're still going to have the same human psychologies to deal with and that's precisely where, "consumerism" lives-- in consumers; the idea that, "consumerism" is somehow driven by ideology or how capitalism structures society seems to be naive in my view. Conspicuous consumption still takes place in supposedly, "destratified" societies-- see the Kim family of North Korea or rich Saudis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Clas...
I don’t buy that. Other countries with FPTP elections do better.
Wait, isn't urine sterile?
Mob attacking Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco
This is also true in Hong Kong, but cars are readily available - and you find people with both. I think there are some more cultural nuances to watch ownership in this region.
> Every rocket fired in Ukraine today would pay for solar panels for a house or two.

But it's more important that we stop Putin from just taking whatever territory he wants and killing as many civilians as it takes to do that than it is to put solar panels on a few more houses.
People cannot forgo having a car for the time it would take to save up the cash.
Apple's ban on third-party browsers on iOS has caused enormous damage to the web ecosystem.

We explain this in great detail including browser diversity arguments here:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/files/OWA%20-%20Bringing%20Com...
I guess it depends which era/album you happen to catch; Long Stories (2019) is pretty chilled out, and the Chaos Theory soundtrack is somewhere in the middle.
Furthermore, how many such documents are possible? There aren’t 2^1024 things I can do with a kilobit, there’s an unknown and possibly infinite number of things. I can interpret 1024 zeros as the natural number zero, but it could be any number given a different number scheme, or it could be a black image, or a silent audio stream, or as the index to the first of a large number of stories, or as the initial state of 1024 atoms in a tiny binary simulation, or as a series of silent conversations, or...