skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
30TWh/year in 2031 is not infinite, and is in fact quite finite...

Also, essential minerals are alllllll over, only some (cobalt nickel) are concentrated in a few areas and those are actively being minimized and eliminated from future chemistries.
Similarly, they can't comprehend the difference between a "website" and a "web-service" which powers the "website". Like, there is immense infrastructure behind say google.com or twitter.com.
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Full quote doesn't make it better in the least
Tokyo can exist in Japan because of some properties intrinsic to Japan which I'll get flagged for pointing out. The reason I tried to emphasize "expensive" is because those cross links are probably where a lot of the crazy property tax in NYC is going.
My bad, I meant it more in the sense that your memory of it decays quickly :-)
If it's not a meeting that you have any applicability to and someone asks for your input in the meeting, say so.

"Sorry, I don't see myself using this product/service/team - not because it isn't good, it just isn't relevant to what I'm responsible for/in charge of".

I feel like people treat meetings like this inescapable prison; once you're invited, you can never escape! It's bonkers. If you don't need to go to the meeting or don't have applicability… don't.

I work for a Fortune-listed company -- exactly the kind of place where attendee bloat thrives and I've never once had any manager or supervisor aggressively push back on my declines if they are valid.
From the page about the differences:

> While many non-certified devices might work, Google guarantees only those on the list.
I very much think that all of those 'journalists' always magically agree with the majority shareholders of the organization who pay their paycheck.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/five-reason...

"All Murdoch editors, what they do is this: they go on a journey where they end up agreeing with everything Rupert says but you don't admit to yourself that you're being influenced. Most Murdoch editors wake up in the morning, switch on the radio, hear that something has happened and think: what would Rupert think about this? It's like a mantra inside your head, it's like a prism. You look at the world through Rupert's eyes."

...

It would not be different in any other corporate media outlet. Only maybe more subtle.
> When it comes to art against tyranny, no work is more seared into our consciousness than Guernica, Pablo Picasso’s dark, howling mural against fascist terror.

This is an interesting phrasing when juxtaposed with the title, and one that I think deserves attention, especially on HN. Being "anti-war" is about the worst rhetorical position one can take - nor does it actually reflect the truths of what a sensible person believes about "war".

There are bad people in the world, some of those become powerful people and inflict their badness widely. Sometimes you can reason and guide these people but not usually. That's where diplomacy comes in, diplomacy can deter activity away from the source of conflict. Sometimes diplomacy is ignored repeatedly, or worked around. Tensions escalate, stalemates are reached, and the diplomacy tool bag is left empty. War is the last tool available to modern government in order to preserve it's way of life. Categorically, war is a tool to be respected - much like a powerful drug. Its why warrior cultures and ethos grew out of the activity and remain in-tact today around the world.

Picasso's piece, to me, was not anti-war - anti-war would mean, in this context, let the person willing to inflict the most violence against me have their way. It's anti-tyrrany, which is what was happening at the time. Words mean things, and I think people that explain things the way this piece starts out do so intentionally, and that is regrettable.
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HN does not like displaying emojis, though a few slip through I believe.
"No, but maybe for various definitions of the word" is a hilarious take.

Maybe letting people know for what definitions he might qualify?
I'd call it cowardice since he's hiding behind a pseudonym. Let him tell his employers what's going on and see if he feels the same way.

As my grandmother used to say, "If you have to hide it, it's probably wrong."
You keep saying "civil war." It was nothing of the sort. It was a Russian operation to seize the Donbass after the Maiden revolution. The 2022 invasion is just Russia being more overt instead of relying on "little green men."
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I'm sorry I wasn't aware of any of that. I think the post I shared is fairly innocuous though and doesn't promote or contribute to an agenda of ethnic cleansing.
I would purchase a history book. Anything that goes back 100 years or more (US history, Chinese history, fucking anything). Read it. You are living in the easiest -- most cushy time ever.

"Culturally, we seem to be getting worse at getting along with each other." Are you insane? Just 75 years ago Germany was putting people into ovens. Toughen up.
Biochar helps avoid soil compaction and dramatically improves productivity of the soil.
Seems like this can be solved with a quick address verification no?
Not at all. Then, and even until late 1970s, regulations prevented corporations from buying up local small media. Any local group could have their own radio, leave aside their own tv until 1970s. Now that the regulations have been removed, all of them have been bought up. So much that when the network owner starts running a story, the same story is run with the exact same script in all state, local networks.

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/02/598916366/sinclair-broadcast-...
It's not that specific thing, it's that thing being a signal for what's to come. And it's not even the only signal.
Well, we take a distributed approach where I work currently. Some of it is in an Excel or a Google Calc spreadsheet, some in Confluence, the project README.md, random Git comments. Sometimes we annotate the classes in the code with documentation and sometimes even generate the documentation from that. It’s all a little confusing TBH. Some of our models are cross domain and have meaning depending on context.
We changed the URL from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Robert-van-Engelen/tinylis... to one that doesn't auto-download the pdf.

The project page is https://github.com/Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp/.
Anybody have an image or text copy?
> Godot doesn’t fight you when you’re building scenes. Making a scene feels a lot like creating a class using composition, and scenes can even inherit from other scenes (using another scene as the the root node of a scene allows you to inherit from it and override its properties in the editor and in code), allowing you to express patterns you’re intimately familiar with from object-oriented programming.

I personally find the approach of nodes everywhere a bit odd.

In my mind, you'd typically use nodes for objects that are supposed to represent some sort of an object or concept within the scene, whereas the scripts would be the ones that actually give said object any number of behaviors, such as a certain group of functionality per script.

So you might have something like the following:

EnemyObject
PathfindingBehavior
ShootingBehavior
TalkingBehavior

Unity kind of vaguely got that "right" (e.g. in a way that's subjectively intuitive to me) with its component system.

Whereas in Godot you can only have one script per node, which would mean that in practice I'd have something like:

EnemyObject
PathfindingObject
PathfindingBehavior (attached script)
ShootingObject
ShootingBehavior (attached script)
TalkingObject
TalkingBehavior (attached script)

It kind of feels like it would be nicer to be able to attach a number of scripts to the object that I actually want to control, instead of having Nodes that I don't really see much of a use for, apart from them being script containers.

Of course, maybe that's just because I'm used to the GameObject pattern that Unity uses, an entity-component system (of sorts), though that implementation has gotten a bunch of critique as well, with DOTS apparently being a better ECS approach, though also unfinished in certain aspects.

Just felt like sharing my thoughts on that particular aspect, which some might find curious and which might take a bit of getting used to (though personally not having a separate "prefab" concept and instead having more or less everything be a node is also pretty freeing, I have to say).

With a bit of love, using C# could also be pretty amazing, since GDScript does have certain limitations (performance comes to mind, for when you need it to be decent for number crunching but don't want to/can't use C++ due to knowledge or other restrictions, C# has your back there) and curious design choices (the integration with the engine is super nice and the Python like syntax is great, but having to define singletons in the editor IIRC is a bit silly https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/s...).
Unethical would be if the companies selling the support then turn around and use their (one) Red Hat license whenever there's a real difficult problem.

But the vast majority of "support" for Linux isn't engineer-level, it's likely config and setup. Which is where both Red Hat and others try to make their money.
Well, the S class is an ICE:

https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/vehicles/passenger-cars/s-c...

The bad news for you is that it's based on release date, not on ICE/EV.

Every car is slowly moving to just screens for controls/gauges.
You should really investigate the last 30 years of military interventions of Russia before you claim these things.

And it's not about NATO at Russian borders ( Russia has no problem with Finland for example).

It's about the gas found in Crimea in 2008 that can replace Russian gas deliveries.

Fyi. Donbas is "by coincidence" very rich in minerals ( eg. Lithium)... What are the odds...
Such daoism will lose infinite games to a motivated nihilistic opportunist.
Pretty are extremely innovative when they need to be.
Its a subsidiary of JustEat/TakeAway btw, they got different brand names in different countries.

I agree its disgusting, my point is there's degrees of disgust. For me, 13% is ridiculous given the service they provide. But from the PoV of restaurant owners they could get away with a very simple website. IMO its a deal with the devil.

Anyway, 13% is a different league from 300%.

Same with dark stores, the value being paid isn't worth it. The profit should go to the hard working restaurant, the owner and the employees.
This seems like a pretty generic question, so I assume you're looking at it from a new grad standpoint. Distributed Systems is more of a technical/resource specialty. You will be optimizing data across multiple systems. You'll want to measure it, improve overall performance/size/cost through algorithm and heuristic optimizations. It can be a terminal career state, meaning that plenty of people have a great career ending with the title: Distributed Systems Engineer. The progression within this career is similar to other Software Engineering roles. You are taking on larger projects, more team coordination, more business critical or technical complex problems.
Drawn like moths, we drift into the city

The timeless old attraction

Cruising for the action

Lit up like a firefly

Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires

Or lose the race to rats

Get caught in ticking traps

And start to dream of somewhere

To relax their restless flight

Somewhere out of a memory

Of lighted streets on quiet nights
I've done this but only if the person has an obvious problem to pay for their shopping.
I feel like there has to be some level of triviality at which the harm is no longer being caused by the attempt to systematize something, but rather by a small group of people refusing to be systematized not out of cultural heritage et al, but rather purely out of the (inane) human desire to feel special by intentionally doing something in a way nobody else does it.

Language and writing exist to communicate, using patterns of signals that have shared meaning and recognition; things like alphabets and vocabularies are effectively (loose, overlapping, diasporic) consensus-state autoencoding models. They only work to compress meaning, when there are rules for said compression that generalize, and which don't have as many exceptions with their own separate symbols as there are words/names needing to be encoded.

Most countries don't allow you to just make up your own novel graphemes when writing a name on a birth certificate. And nobody is asking for that, either. (Presumably because living in a world where that was allowed would be horrible: you'd no longer being able to error-correct when reading, because any given mysterious squiggle in the middle of a word or name, might be exactly what some unknown-to-you-or-anyone-other-than-the-author character is supposed to look like. Is that "o with a curlicue" written here just a semi-cursive attempt at writing an "o" — or is it an "o" with a novel accent marker, one that appears nowhere else, but which must be preserved nevertheless to properly record this person's name?)

Instead, legal names are (in every country I'm aware of) required to be spelled using the character-set of the country you're entering a legal relationship with by being born / immigrating / etc. America? Legal names using the Latin alphabet. Japan? Legal names using characters from this set: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinmeiy%C5%8D_kanji

Note, though, that legal names are representations of names. They aren't encodings of names. Your legal name is a distinct thing from your name, just as your credit-card number is a distinct thing from your name. It's an applied-for + registered + assigned systematic identifier for you — a bit like a domain name, or a vanity license-plate number. Which means that your legal name is not a lossy or lossless encoding of your name. It's, per se, a nickname. It doesn't have to have anything to do with your name. (And it often doesn't; immigrants often choose legal names entirely distinct from what they / their home country thinks of as their name.)
1. A middle class Norwegian family is super rich at a global scale.

2. All cars in Norway are incredibly expensive.
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If filming a "genuine" act of kindness isn't suspicious enough, the "hold this" move removes any benefit of the doubt.

It's maddening that a "creator" (read: grifter) does this but what I find even more upsetting is how well it works. Millions of likes and comments celebrating it.

There was a time where these kind of actions were more pure and we didn't need to be this cynical. It's probably already more than a decade ago, but I remember a video series themed "being nice to men".

The idea being that men live in an emotional desert and rarely receive compliments or acts of kindness, often not even from their very own friends. So when they do receive it, it's a system shock.

For example, the main character would attend an old guy in the park and say how cool it is that he feeds the pigeon daily. And then walk away. You could see the old man processing it. First puzzled, then delighted. It made his day, but probably his decade.

Middle-aged men were even more puzzled and initially perceived it as an attack. Wtf does this guy want from me? Why would anybody do anything nice for me, what's the agenda here? Legend goes they're still thinking about what happened that day.

Anyway, it was a cool theme (almost a social study), no monetization, and the participants were later informed and asked for permission to publish. I don't think it's possible in today's landscape to do this the genuine way, the incentives have changed too much.
Our times are not unique. Shit is continuously hitting the fan.

I don't think tomorrow will be any better or worse than today. Why should it? Technology isn't magic, despite what Arthur C. Clarke thought.
Alternatively, consider splitting your environment up into multiple stacks which can run independently and deploy each to a workspace per env. If one env lacks the app, don't have a workspace for it.

It sounds like a lot, but it ends up being fewer files to manage and edit and your workflow can be captured in github/terraform rather than in some arbitrary file structure. It also helps prevent mistakes like updating dev and having prod rerun by accident which I've seen happen.
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In the big picture interest rates have been falling since 800 years (p. 13 [1]).

[1] - https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/working-pa...
Musk boasted of 0 'self-driving' Tesla crashes while data shows 8
At least appreciate his honesty - it's way better for everyone to be so blunt about it.
Which really isn't an option for a lot of people. Even leaving aside personal stuff, I probably have hundreds of photos associated with conference talks and the like.
I’m glad you enjoy Florida or Texas. Don’t get anyone pregnant accidentally cos you know why…
Of course, now I remember, those comments would cite fake sources estimating usage numbers, and probably some of them claimed to have data from de Raadt.
Out of curiosity, what sort of problems would customers typically run into?

My very naive understanding is that it’s just the OS and then only even a distribution (just to emphasize- very naive), what would they need apart from some networking and to run some software on top that needs so much support?
I know.

But injectable foam insulation usually going into empty walls. I already have butted fiberglass in there. I don't think it's viable to make laparoscopic wall surgery to remove fiberglass . I did a quick google, and looks like you can do injectable foam over fiberglass. But I am not sure how much R it will add, but I am sure that for cost of of injectable foam + wall repair, I can get another hvac and run it for next 10 years...

I did consider recently to double walls on sunny side of the house with few layers of foil backed foam boards.
> You keep saying "civil war." It was nothing of the sort. It was a Russian operation to seize the Donbass after the Maiden revolution.

Well, to weaken Ukraine; the invasion of much of Eastern Ukraine and the seizure of Crimea were both part of that.

The 2022 “special military operation” was to complete the destruction of the independent Ukraine regime with a decapitation, but failed and was forced to pivot to seizing more land to try to drive the long term dynamic more in Russia’s favor.
Are you saying that what makes you happy is the knowledge that everyone will be dead? Don't take this the wrong way, but that sounds extremely mentally unhealthy.
was my immediate thought thinking this is an OS that is running inside google's servers?
In Element Call, yes. In Jitsi (the current impl), no.
Excellent question and thanks for asking. I've spent some time with a fair number of millennials and I'm impressed with their kindness and consideration for others.
What kind of preparation do you expect, when you say ML specific questions or broad knowledge of ML fundamentals, is it doing linear algebra on the fly or just knowing high level topics like bias-variance, regularization, neural nets, k-means clustering?
If you’re describing the W output though you could be describing the average [charge in each battery (W*h) X the number of batteries / time period] . That’s the actual W output of the factory as actual energy.

Capacity created per time period is a different unit created as a discrete entity with each battery but having no instantaneous value.
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[1] was discussed here:

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Yes. And also no. Practices like that are good, but the majority of your carbon sequestration will come in the form of the roots of plants. (This is part of why no till is good.)

Getting surface vegetation to deposit carbon in the soil long term is trickier. You aren't wrong, but it's also not as simple as some folks believe. Just cutting the corn stalks and cobs and leaving them on a field won't put much carbon back in the soil.
unity games already do stuff not, they all phone home.

I get games from GOG.com, because they do not have DRM and are generally not evil.

But the unity games on the platform - they all phone home and send back detailed telemetry on what you do in-game. plus probably other stuff.

Thankfully the GOG terms allow you to install and run the games offline without requiring these shenanigans to play your game.
An alternative is to target your presentation at the people who will be in the room and prepare a bunch relevant questions/anecdotes/start a discussion with a couple of people you know will participate. As in—know your audience. This usually relaxes everyone and kicks off the interaction.

My experience is that nobody wants to ask the first question because it sets the bar. But that doesn’t mean nobody wants to participate.
How easy is building to mobile in Godot?

I have been a Unity dev for years and my main reason for using it is that I can build to most platforms with relative ease from the one engine.
I would like to add: the weight on my nose is more discomforting than grease on my glasses. I sometimes clean my glasses and I'm afterwards like wow, that was dirty. But did it really bother me? Not really. I rather do it for other people, cause it makes me look better, but such isn't a high prio for me (already 'married with children').
Gocryptfs, Cryptomator and Rclone use authenticated encryption per file (with AES-GCM, AES-CTR-HMAC, etc).

What do you mean there is no integrity? Tampering with ciphertext is detected, because the ciphertext is authenticated.

File sizes and the directory structure are of course known. You can do deduplication like Borg, Restic, CryFS, but you get a performance hit that can be noticeable with sync.