skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Superdeterminism (a bad name for ordinary determinism plus a ridiculous unspecified mechanism that links the very thoughts and intentions of an oberver to the system being observed) is even worse. MWI having thrown the baby out with the bathwater, superdeterminism then discards the entire building and everyone living in it. You can "explain" anything with a theory of this nature just as you can with intelligent design. It has no value as an intepretation of a perfectly well functioning mathematical framework like QM.

And the question here is one of interpretation. You say that MWI gives you "clean math" but this isn't about the maths. The maths of quantum mechanics is what it is regardless of how you interpret it. Whether the Schrödinger equation describes the evolution of the system state and observation is a state vector collapse, or the Schrödinger equation describes the evolution of a multiverse and the apparent state vector collapse is an artifact of distinct outcomes decohering, the maths is exactly the same. MWI's claim that it's somehow "mathematically cleaner" or "just what the maths is saying" is nonsense. It's there in the name. It's an interpretation.

QM is a highly effective theory (or rather framework for theories) that has been tested to the umpteenth degree. The question of intepretation is a philosophical one more that a mathematical one, and certainly fascinating. To my mind a "good" interpretation would have to give some actual meaning to the functional components of the theory. If QM predicts something will happen 30% of the time and I test it and it happens 30% of the time, an interpretation that fails to give a meaning to that predictable, observed fact is no use to me.

You seem to think the problem others have with your preferred interpretations is that they are too small-minded to accept that reality is the way these ideas imply. This isn't the case at all. I don't find "free will" an interesting concept and I'm perfectly happy to contemplate a multiverse, deterministic or otherwise, if that's what the scientific method leads us to. What I'm not happy to do is to launch off into a world of wacky, unfalsifiable notions that remove meaning from our existing theories rather than adding it.

I could equally well make claims about the psychology of MWI's adherents, suggesting emotional explanations for why they seem bound to make ever more absurd claims in defence of their idea rather than accepting that it's flawed. I won't, though, because doing that is arrogant and presumptuous.
I'm sorry to scare you, please drink a cup of warm tea and listen to some good music, it will relax you. I haven't made up a thing though, I've observed this culture personally for decades. I grew up in it. Not sure what you mean by "spite" - nor do I care that much - and of course, I could be mistaken, but these were my observations and my conclusions, nothing is made up.
I love the idea of using those extra cells for solar or perhaps renting them.

I can't see why no one is exploring this gap in the market. It might only appeal to nerds at first but that is true with most technologies in their infancy.

We need what is effectively a giant version of a double AA battery. Yes we also need battery management systems and heating/cooling to go with these things but these are solved problems, just not standardised yet.

Please someone take note and do this!
So Amazon do nothing when this is reported to them. I reported an eBay listing recently, they did nothing. I reported a spam youtube comment, nothing. Google scam ads investigated by the BBC - nothing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56886957 .
I had the same thought but I don’t think css variables are necessarily better for this use case. It’s simple to position and reposition elements in a grid depending on media queries, and is it any less efficient when rendering than css variables?
Say you have one apple and want to divide it over zero people.

It can't be done - give everyone one, fifty, a million, infinity apples: you always have one apple left over.
Wow, I missed that point - thanks for pointing it out!
I was going to say, don't we already have URLs and URIs?
There's no particular upside that at the moment would justify commercializing the technology.
Laptop batteries and EV batteries have a completely different performance profile. The data we have suggests that the battery will retain 80% of its maximum capacity for about as long as the rest of the car is expected to survive.
There was almost nothing “conservative” about Leninism. The same goes for Stalinism. Your comment actually just made me want to but “The Atheist Manual” (or something similar, can’t remember the exact title) that was published in 1950s USSR and which I found in a Romanian translation in an antique bookshop that I usually frequent.
> On the other hand, science and technology discussion is far more realistic today, at the average dinner table, than it was in the 1950s.

Why do you think that?
> 1. Cost per MW compared to renewables (~$150 vs ~$40 and falling). Here in the UK the government is promising to subsidise this to make it viable.

You can't directly compare cost per generating capacity, because nuclear, gas, coal etc. are available according to schedule, while most renewables aren't. Adding storage around renewables to make them schedulable raises costs.
As an introverted… thank you.
Scientists have been futzing around with fusion energy since I was a schoolboy in the 70's, and undoubtedly before. Maybe they'll be a breakthrough, but I think the odds are heavily against them.

Fission, OTOH, seems an interesting bet. The problem with old-style reactors is that there's basically no ESD (Emergency Shutdown) that you can perform. Those radioactive rods are going keep radiating heat no matter what. Newer styles seem a much saner approach, were two different materials must be in contact for a reaction to occur. In an emergency you just let one of them drain out, thereby stopping the reaction.

Coal is an abundant source of fuel with a proven track record. The big problem is with pollution. But there's no rule that says you have to puke out the waste into the atmosphere. It can be processed. After all, oil is pretty shitty when it comes up out of the ground, and needs a lot of processing. This is a costly exercise, of course, but one that we willingly undertake. The question now is one of economics: will the cost of waste processing mean that coal burning is feasible? It's a question that nobody seems interested in asking. We just seem to have the default assumption that coal energy was shitty in the past and must be shitty in the present. "Eww, coal".
> Can we get that below 10 for regular highway driving, say at 130km/h?

Probably not with normal-sized cars.

For the Model 3, the theoretical minimum is 13.8 kW. This increases linearly with drag coefficient and area (as seen from the front). You would have to build a significantly smaller (flatter, narrower) car and improve the drag coefficient (0.2 has been achieved) to get there.

Here's a calculator in German (sorry) for experiments:
http://spare-benzin.de/Fahrphysik/Luftwiderstand/Luftwiderst...
language matters in what language i prefer and enjoy working with. sure i could pick up a job in any language out there. but why would i want to? working with niche languages has the advantage of a smaller community where developers are generally more enthusiastic about their language and more skilled programmers too.

personally i enjoy working with plain javascript. but i also liked coffeescript and i ended up choosing that for our codebase because job applicants were of higher quality (including those that had never used coffeescript before)
Price and performance are all that matters. Americans like big cars but they also like cheap cars. So, a lot of the big cars on the road aren't necessarily very good cars. They just look big. Because size is the key selling point. Americans buy the biggest car they can afford; not the best or the most economical car.

How do you make a big car move further? Simple, you put a bigger battery in it. Those nice trucks that Ford is producing now come with enormous batteries. The main issue with that is that it drives up the cost and reduces the market size. So, Ford is doing what Tesla is doing: find cheaper/heavier batteries and offer the same product with less range in the lower price segments and reserve the premium batteries for the more expensive models. That way they can sell big cars to people that want to buy the biggest car they can afford. Never mind it will only go for 150 miles or so. You want 300+? Buy a better car. With a lot of the EVs in the market, you can spend tens of thousands of dollars on extended range versions. The difference is mainly the battery size and weight.
I think this comment already has at least a half of the culture war bingo. If you add a couple of -isms and maybe a -phobia or two, you will have a definite winner.
I've seen couples where the ability was never there, even if the willingness was.
The party is called the socialist worker party, so we call them socialists.
>3.) Was the boy actually playing against a computer player? If so, why?

4fun? 4lulz?
This is great information. I'm not against meat. However, I was toying with a vegan/vegetarian diet when I got into tracking nutrients, and my learnings reflect that (ex: nutritional yeast). My daughter still struggles with chewing meat. Organ meats might be a good idea for her.

I'm aware that plants have defensive chemicals though I haven't researched it in too much depth. I can probably be convinced to drop spinach and nuts.

I don't eat enough organ meats. Chicken liver seems cheap for the nutrition you get out of it. I never bothered getting into cooking it, but it seems like a good idea.

Good point on the fish oil. My daughter is totally fine consuming the gross-tasting fish oil (even without the lemon flavoring) out of a spoon. My guess is she's really craving the nutrients in there. I keep the oil in the fridge, but there might be no real way to compete with fresh fish.
Good stuff! Although I think the title is a bit misleading and should be adapted.
They have RSS feeds for newly released books, among other things:

https://standardebooks.org/feeds

Some things to check out:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/philip-k-dick/short-fictio...

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict...

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jules-verne/the-mysterious...
The Making of Lesotho's Robust Cycling Culture (2021)
Some of those features also can be helpful when hardware starts failing. If a display breaks on a laptop, you can possibly use some screen reader features to save your work. And obviously, things that help the hearing impaired also help those who don't have working speakers at the moment.
I would buy this if there was a kindle version.
Now this is where I have my little rant about 'art'
Art represents two different things. That pretty picture in IKEA is 'art' the Mona Lisa is also 'art'.
In one context it's a necessarily human endeavour, on the other, it's something to make you buy one box of corn flakes over another.

I wish we had 2 different words for these things. Artist has a different ring than graphic designer.

One deserves to be protected, and I don't think will go away anyway, the other may well be automated away, but will invoke the former to protect itself.
Modern EV design has the batteries integrated into the structural frame of the car. This is because the batteries are the heaviest part of the car, so you want them to be close to the ground and secure from impact. This also makes it very inconvenient to replace.

Lots of companies (even Tesla) have attempted the replaceable battery concept but none have been able to make it work efficiently.
Maybe it’s just because I’ve been using an M1 MacBook Pro but figma absolutely flies for me without any hiccups.
Thanks.

> 10 kWh wouldn't get you very far in a car.

Tell that to Chevy Volt owners. It's amazing how much all electric driving can be achieved with just a little bit of careful driving. I barely use my range extender now, it's just for the odd long trip.
One of my blog articles got on the front page of HN a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29185971

In total, I saw roughly around 27'000 views (that entire day, load varied, too lazy to figure out the peak RPS value), which meant just short of 8 GB of data being transferred and in my case over 500'000 files being requested (given all of the CSS files, images, JavaScript etc.).

Now, the blog held out fine, because it was based on Grav, which means that it ends up being a bunch of flat files: https://getgrav.org/

It is especially interesting when you consider that I had capped the container that it was running in to 512M of RAM at max and also 0.75 CPU cores, just so it wouldn't slow down the entire node (can't really afford to have a separate server for it).

So in essence, I think that static files can be served really well with limited resources, but once you throw complicated PHP apps (think WordPress), insufficient caching and also database access (especially with any sub-optimally written code) as well as perhaps even something like mod_php instead of fpm, things can indeed go wrong.

I've seen enterprise projects struggle with 100 RPM due to exceedingly poorly written data fetching, N+1 problems and developers not knowing how to avoid running into issues like that or outright not caring because of the system being an internal one and the infrastructure having resources to waste.

In my case, even the cheap 100 Mbps link was enough to serve all of the requests with minimal impact (i think the longest page load was up to 4 seconds at peak load, most others were lower, less than 2 seconds).
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/archive/august-1897-th...
It would be like finding the face of Jesus on a piece of toast, or the face of an alien on a satellite image of Martian surface. (Both of which were actual images that gathered some cult following in their time.)

Spend enough time applying human interpretation to non-human processes, and something will eventually come up that tickles your senses.
By the way, there are add-on espresso gadgets for the Aeropress, I've the Fellow Prismo and in my opinion it works quite well. Making larger amounts, like a triple espresso, is a hassle though.

For espresso-like strong coffee, I just use the good old Moka pot. Slightly more work than Aeropress, especially regarding the cleanup, but not that much.

Also, a tip about the ice cubes: make strong coffee with the Moka pot, freeze, then dump the cubes into a smoothie blender (with milk if you like) before drinking. Saves you the mindfulness exercise of watching ice cubes melt.
15-20kWh/100km is a gasoline equivalent of about 1,5-2l/100km. At 130km/h there is little room for improvement (thinner wheels, better aerodynamics). All the individual electric components in the car are like ~98% efficient.

I guess 10kWh/100km is possible at 90km/h on cruisecontroll behind a big truck.

EVs biggest problem are the inefficiencies in the electric grid, there is like a 50% margin for improvement.
I haven't been taught that by programming blogs at least. They all seem to say(although I ignore them) that the ideal UI is the command line.
You can already DIY battery packs from used EVs in order to build a residential whole-house backup.

It's not peanuts, but getting very close to it.
Or he farted out a tweet about buying Twitter. Then woke up next day and changed his mind?
To my own surprise I have seen a corrupted file in 2022. Only 70 MB, so really tiny compared to many files handled today.

The file had been built in Europe and after installing it to a US system we wondered why it did not work.

Haven't seen anything like that for many years so it took us a while to even consider the option that it could be corrupted.

(No, we did not spend any time to check whether corruption showed any interesting pattern like a single bit flip, a block of zeros or anything like that. Transferring it again just did it.)
I'm curious what you think of UB from a standard perspective --- were things left undefined and not just implementation-defined because there was simply so much diversity in existing and possibly future implementations that specifying any requirements would be unnecessarily constraining? I can hardly believe that it was done to encourage compiler writers to do crazy nonsensical things without regard for behaving "in a documented manner characteristic of the environment" which seems like the original intent, yet that's what seems to have actually happened.
NIO is doing battery swapping at scale in China. Here's a random article about how it works: https://insideevs.com/news/591837/nio-battery-swapping-stati...
This is consistent with my impression of russia.
Correction.
/Their/ data.
> and also project bad dating experience

Um what? Maybe you should step away from the internet for a while?
Drinking soda is no fun
Interesting. Another great mountainous area with less visibility in cycling than it deserves is Yunnan.
Being the handle on a spade still means you're part of the spade
Your complaint about this thread making heated overgeneralizations is valid. It's not fair to generalize a single incident as being representative of an entire culture.

Which is ironic, because you then go on to make a similar mistake with inflammatory statements like this:

> I know where that way of reasoning had led you and what you did towards Jews, Romani, Black people, Latinos and Arabs. You sick duplicitous facists.

I know it is frustrating. But let's try to keep this a civil discussion.

> One even considers that one day they might be forced to switch from civilian engineering towards the military one, since these behavior patterns all all too familiar.

What are you implying here?
And EU regulators, who so far have been giving BitTech a hard time, are OK with this?
This was illuminating:

> Universal Object Reference (UOR) provides a single format to publish, retrieve, and interact with any content. By “any content” we mean literally anything.

Then comes this:

> UOR has 4 principles that enable truly universal support for any and all content. Those are:
>
> 1. All content is formatted into a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)

So then UOR can't describe a cyclic graph? Doesn't sound like "anything" to me. It sounds like you might have to represent cyclic data using embedded runtime objects.
Profit motive. Planned obsolescence and the need to buy another within a certain time period.
>Frankly, read through their guidelines.

Frankly, why? I can just launch any of KDE apps and see how it looks.

For example (screenshot is not take by me): https://www.debugpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/KDE-Pl...

How is this any good? The left (sidebar?) part and the right part (content?) are not aligned, the right part has all its controls placed without any concern about the looks. This is literally "okay we need the user to chose color at first, so we are going to put color picker at the top-center because it is hella important and then we a re going to place two rows of buttons at the bottom, because we need this preview window in the middle".

>Specific constructive feedback from the many people like you, for who KDE does not click, might help a lot.

I've tried. All I got was "go use macOS or Gnome then".
KDE may have great guidelines, but... it's not for me for sure. I loved all those buttons and customisations back when I was 20. Right now I what an opinionated (?) UI, that I don't need to customise but still get what I need (80% of what I need is fine) for less than 1% of my time.

General OS should have a UI that is simple and clean enough for my grandmother to understand and use. Without guidelines.

Gnome, as much as I don't like it's table-like spaced UI, does a better job right now.
Looks interesting. I love the quality of latex output (mostly). Text and math are fine, tables are a pain and figures and diagrams are often painful.

Latex just has too many options which lead to a lot of wasted effort to get the result you want, some of which don't play nicely with each other.
As Science Searches for Answers on Depression, What Should Patients Do Today?
> Tell me, how do you propose that the US should support stopping the war that doesn’t involve Ukraine ceasing to be independent and losing its leaders?

First of all, I have been very explicit that "stopping the war" and "the best thing that can be done for the people of Ukraine" are not necessarily aligned. The fastest way of stopping the war would have probably been to supply Russia with arms and know-how, but I am not in any way advocating for such a criminal act.

Secondly, the West could have acted to capitalize on Ukraine's initial success in stopping the Russian blitzkrieg by convincing Ukraine's leaders to negotiate a neutrality agreement, similarly to Switzerland.

Instead of seeking to join NATO and/or re-conquer the land they lost in 2014, Ukraine could have accepted the loss of Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea, and started to design a way to become a neutral country, dealing with both Russia and the EU.

Instead, we have been supplying Ukraine with arms, intelligence and even targeting information and stoking their belief that they can actually win a war with Russia.

If we are right, then of course this will be a massive benefit to the people of Ukraine and arguably all of Eastern Europe, with a relatively mild cost to the people of Russia (a huge cost to the leaders of Russia though).

However, I believe that Russia will literally stop at nothing to prevent this outcome. I personally fully believe that Russia will nuke Ukraine before allowing it to win back the territory it has lost, especially Crimeea.

And that outcome, if it comes to pass, will be the worst thing that could have happened to Ukraine and its people, and probably the entire world. It would be much worse than being conquered by Russia in the initial attack, and definitely much much worse than a negotiated peace where they would cede territory to Russia.
I noticed you never mention what Gawker did to a homosexual man who wasn't out of the closet. It's rather inconvenient, I understand.
> Can we get that below 10 for regular highway driving

Mercedes did in the Vision EQXX:

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/mercedes-benz-vi...

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/mercedes-vision-eqxx-ev-c...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS1SBhBjAHY
Ah, right, this article reminded me of the fact, that ARM was bought by SoftBank back in 2016. Seems they actually picked some winners, not just WeWork and Wag.
>I found it a surprisingly insightful social commentary

And how did you determine that it is insightful?

The video starts with the guy confidently saying that Alcatraz is a nickname of a Moscow prison (!!!), apparently having no clue that the Russian name of the game doesn't have anything to do with prisons and the name 'Planet Alcatraz' is given to the English edition of the game. If you have no idea what you talking about -- just make things up, right?

Should I find Manhunt or Postal to be a mirror of American culture? "Interesting perspective", "insightful social commentary"?
That’ll teach you, nerd.
the full report is here:

https://www.internations.org/expat-insider/

the UK scores below median on Quality of Life (Travel & Transit, Environment & Climate, Leisure Options, Health & Well-Being, Safety & Security)
and Ease of Settling In (Local Friendliness, Finding Friends, Culture & Welcome),
as well as Salary & Job Security and Work & Leisure.

it's especially low on Personal Finance (50) and Housing (42)

compare that to germany:

high on Quality of Life and Working Abroad (Career Prospects, Salary & Job Security, Work & Leisure, Work Culture & Satisfaction), median on Personal Finance, but extremely low on Ease of Settling In and on Expat Essentials (Digital Life, Admin Topics, Housing, Language)

the low score on ease of settling in is pretty much why i left germany.