skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice moral question! For me criminal and civil liability: Equity partners / holders - please yes. Non equity and not abundantly proven operating in a criminal activity - please no. The in between - civil action in order to prove intent, not criminal. Culpability is a fluid concept. Once you know it’s fishy and don’t get out you bear a lot of culpability in my book. But if one is working for a wage and working on detailed problems given to you without the big picture (the ‘Snow Crash’-coder) then it’s another case.

At the end of the day most of Western society operates without any repercussions for bankers, government officials etc for what I perceive as corrupting behavior. The powers that be seem fine with that and even in countries where populists come to power, that balance hardly seems to move. I don’t think I can expect balanced law and order reform from populists, but I keep hoping. Rome got it right a few times in their thousand year empire (not to mention the many centuries where they got it wrong from the common man’s perspective).
Can't argue with that. My point is that THE WAY things are done is about routine. More in a micro level than a macro one.

You're absolutely right about cycles and all that. That's how I experience it as well.
If I understand correctly what you're saying it's not a problem with xxd itself, but with the format of the data, which in xxd's case is a pair made out of an array of bytes and its length, while the compiler is free to include the binary verbatim and just provide access to it as it was an array/length pair. Am I right about it?
The author claims real time has nothing to do with response time. While response time is precisely the point of real time. If a system guarantees the response time of some action is always below a threshold it's real time.
> World's fairs seem to have tapered off after the 40s. Presumably the adoption of television?

I was just at the Biennale di Venezia [1]. It, like Art Basel, was well attended.

These art-oriented fairs may have supplanted science and technology. (It coïncides with the 1970s and 80s’ anti-intellectualism in America.) On the other hand, science and technology discussion is far more realistic today, at the average dinner table, than it was in the 1950s.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Biennale
The standard black hat data dump monetization scheme (I have been told) is to just try logging in with the same creds at a bunch of banks. Lots of people reuse passwords and you don’t need that many hits to recoup the money.
> Whereas rail is unbelievably expensive.

Note that rail is uniquely more expensive in USA than elsewhere for various reasons.
I don't see how a tariff on larger vehicles means that the US market can't switch to smaller vehicles. Isn't it even the opposite because smaller cheaper cars can be directly imported from overseas? I agree the US market is incapable of switching to smaller cars in the near future, but i doubt the Chicken Tax has much to do with it.
Restructuring Structure Editing
Recently came across this watching the following video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00riOfMuaNY
In 2022, it should be quite rare that an archive got corrupted.

Internet connection is so much better now and almost 100% of downloads completed successfully.
this one's message seems pro-piratical
The problem is that the sun is not always shining (and half the year not at the right angle), and wind is not always blowing. Unless a country has access to always-on sources (like sea currents), energy must be stored or things must be burned. Storage is hard and energy intensive to build, and many countries would need a few months worth of storage to never bother about burning stuff again. And that’s _a lot_, you wouldn’t believe the kind of power needed to support some branches of industry, and they won’t shut down in winter of course.
This is a fine exhibit in the museum of Russophobia.
…or you can not take their dna and use an off-the-shelf weapon that can kill anybody.
I'm not missing the point. I'm responding to the thread, which is about whether XZ offers better compression ratios than Zstd.

Whether it's faster in some, many, or most cases isn't really relevant.
Dude, you are just projecting your spite. This would be laughable if I didn't know you were serious.
So it's actually just scary how how you make things up.
the US is a dictatorship disguised as a democracy..the dictators happen to be those with the most influence and $ which then they hand down generations..no 1 person has ever ruled the world, they are just the main face of the whole...both rep and dem are influenced by the same "shadow" entities..so it doesn't matter who wins from either side they all respond to the same people
What you mean is, tell the truth and be blasted for lying anyway.

I have plenty of complaints about how public health measures are prioritized in the US. I am not worried about official dishonesty. Public officials are just as good at fooling themselves as everybody else, so they can be wrong without lying, and will be at times. Expecting somebody, anybody to be right all the time is a recipe for disappointment.
Do workers own the means of production in Spain? If not, then well, they are not socialists.
I think the point would be that even our "world class public transport" kinda sucks. I can visit my parent by bus/train/bus and it'll take at least 3h and longer as soon as one ride is delayed. Or I can take the car and be there in 1.5h.
More recently, "wiki" seems to be a more concrete concept: a collaboratively edited website, managed by its audience [1]. The project references Wikipedia as an inspiration, and I hope it can live up to similar ideals.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
By the time I learnt about fake products issue on Amazon a few years ago and started paying attention, my kid had already consumed a ton of baby formula (top brand) that I ordered from Amazon. I still sweat when I think about it.

Why is Amazon not doing enough to fix the issue? It's frustrating. I think Amazon is confident it's not easy to disrupt them and hence don't care enough to fix it.
The KHL, Russia's top hockey league, is known for its cavalier treatment of injured--even dying--players:https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/paul-kariya...
I don't think that would work. You only get cancelled if you catch the eye of a social media mob. If it's just some random person complaining that X is a racist then I'd bet X's employer would side with X. "No, trust me - I hacked into Twitter and this anime avatar who says racist things is totally your employee. Hello? Hello?"

You could threaten to call up a random person's employer and call them a racist unless they paid you. Seems as likely to work as this would be.

You would need someone high profile enough to get the attention of a social media mob to really threaten people.
There are several problems with fission (probably fusion too) as I understand it:

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.

2. Construction time - average is 10 years, we don’t have that long to wait.

3. Decommissioning is expensive and a long way in the future. Is that cost built into the cost per MW? How can we be sure the money will be protected, and will be enough to cover it?

4. Spent fuel. The project you mentioned isn’t complete yet, but even then it’s a huge liability to leave for future generations to manage indefinitely.

Meanwhile, renewables don’t have these problems and are available immediately. We should be building huge factories to produce wind and solar en masse.

Source for the figures: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower-idUSK...
https://archive.ph/qSDZl
> If anyone hasn't noticed by now, social media companies don't care about your privacy.

This is really unfair, of course they protect your personal data... From competitors, so that they can continue renting out access to it - to the highest bidder :)
No, in "expected to break even" I was referring to total costs.

Including maintenance, externalities and construction.

(though while I would apply the same standards - I would not expect such infrastructure to directly pay for itself. But expecting it only from rail while not expecting it from roads is extremely weird.)
No, there's something wrong with the people who go around this and don't say a thing because it's not even weird to them.
I love the concept of fusion from a scientific point. I’d love to see even more money put into this.

But for real world deployment, we can have decentralized systems that have an ROI of 6yrs (Solar) and 10 yrs (Wind), - i think that’s the thing we should be doubling down on NOW. [https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/145C...]
Really enjoyed this, the Mandel build one on the same channel is also incredible.
There isn't. Either they didn't read the linked article, or they are projecting their own spite - I have no other explanation of how one could interpret really like that.
Hey I can play that game too!

Are you suggesting the mother derived no benefit from the arrangement, that she continue to pay half the rent, health insurance, groceries, car insurance, gas, etc?

Personally, when my wife didn't work for over a year (more like two), it did fuck all for me. I paid all of the fulltime childcare, took care of the kid before and after school, and paid every single financial interest of my wife except her car insurance and phone bill. I can truthfully and honestly say in my personal situation I got nothing out of it. I paid for her because I love her and wanted her to have the same standard of life I have WHILE WE ARE MARRIED -- but I would be quite displeased indeed if my generosity in marriage is taken to mean I would be so generous after being ditched.
Few years ago I was in Phoenix,AZ when it was 40 most of the day with I'm guessing 0%-10% humidity. As our hotel had a pool I went for a dive and returned back to the shade and to my surprise I started shaking from being cold as evaporative cooling effect was so intense.
Similar to other HN user, I would prefer this kind of heat aka 40 degC with 0-10% humidity than what we have in Denmark during few summer days with 28 degC and 70% humidity.
That might not be enough since Amazon commingles their inventory with potentially fake inventory from their 3rd party sellers. You have to check the other sellers page and look for other sellers who are Primed enabled, meaning they store their inventory in Amazon warehouses and use Amazon shipping. It gets tiring having to check that list, but it definitely prevents impulse buying.

Amazon PR constantly rambles about not hitting “Day two” (https://aws.amazon.com/executive-insights/customers/sustaini.... Unfortunately, Amazon has hit Day 2 years ago under Bezo’s watch.
Or wipe out a particular "race"?
Irrational Numbers

Not sure what I am supposed to get from that. Irrational numbers are just reals that aren't rationals. Why is this enigmatic?

It's marked as Known Unknowns, but what is unknown?

Virtually all numbers are irrational. Are numbers enigmatic?
Worrying as they CCP may be linking the data they have on you from Chinese apps to the DNA address records. If they then find your activity online to be anti China or an unfriendly state actor in the future they know how to target you without anyone ever finding out who sent you that packet of chemical in the post.
The chicken tax is a tax on small trucks, not large ones
Not sure what part of the world you're in, but OP was describing Germany, and I'm in Netherlands. Both of these countries have pretty strict requirements for energy efficiency of new buildings. So at least here, it would be safe to assume that a < 10 year old home or apartment would be much more efficient (and comfortable) than a 30+ year old one.

Also, there's a new government initiative to provide incentives and special financing for property owners (who rent their property) to bring the efficiency of all properties up to a decent minimum level by 2030 if they wish to be allowed to continue renting them out. I imagine there may be some exclusions for certain very old properties, especially historical/monumental ones. But regardless, it should have a big positive impact.
I think investments are happening because recent progress in this space is indicating that this might in fact happen in the next decade or so. The cliche that fusion reactors are perpetually 30 years away, might have actually been correct up to about 20 years ago.

There are no guarantees here of course, but there are now quite a few companies acting like they are going to get their first test plants up and running in the next ten or so years. From there to commercialization is of course still a long and risky path. But it's very different once you can prove that the process works and more energy comes out then goes in.

As you say, fusion reactors will have to compete with absolutely dirt cheap solar, wind, and storage. As well as with future fission plants that may or may not become cheaper than the current state of the art (which is super expensive). Just getting things working is not going to be good enough. It will need to work cheaply.
Having driven the 2021 Model 3 Standard Range with LFP Batteries from China:

It charged much slower and had worse performance degradation in winter.

This might be due to the software limitations Tesla put on the BMC, but since then it didn't improve by much.

I wouldn't expect LFP be the panacea, but it should make EVs more affordable and is definetly in the "good enough" range for most families.
The point I was making was precisely regarding what is considered "valid" demand. Here, the fact that you appended "economic" after it strongly suggests to me that we don't have the same definition of it.

One of the underlying assumptions of all mainstream economic theories since the XIXe century is that EVERYTHING that comes from nature is infinite and has been provided to us for free, whether it's resources, clean air, a durably nice temperature, animals etc. What has a cost is to pay people and machines to extract those things, but not the things in the first place.

Based on this assumption, we've acted as if nature was infinite and increased our rate of extraction to ridiculous heights, reaching the limits of a system that is sadly, due to the laws of physics, finite. One example : China has used in 3 years roughly as much sand for construction as the US has in the entire XXth century (btw sand is the new gold and a huge black market for it is now in place...)
Let’s keep this generalisation to specific countries as this is not true for Baltic countries at all.
Yes, and many plant species with berries evolved a natural resistance to frost without getting a boost from fish proteins. Why not use genes from plants that already grow in colder latitudes like gooseberries or huckleberries?
I've wanted exactly this for years. I love LaTeX, but collaboration through platforms like Overleaf is severely limited, and the language itself has always felt so unnecessarily complex.

And while they haven't announced the platform itself to be open source, I'm glad they're at least already contributing some of the stuff they're making [1].

[1]: https://github.com/typst/
The funny thing is: in German public transit there is no ticket scanning. You have to stamp single use tickets in rather old stamping machines, so no data collection there other than the count of stamps. Any longer time-ticket isn't scanned or stamped per travel anyway.
Not sure whether they use the camera systems these days for this purpose, but in older times they would do statistical counting, e.g. have people (often students) ride certain trains and collect passenger counts.
People can become "untrusted liar non-authorities" in people's minds independent of any actions of their own. The best they can do is their best, and hope not to attract the attention of demagogues.
ADD: rickets was common in England in the 17th century due to dietary changes, and it took a while for the cause and solution to be figured out: a legal requirement to fortify some foods with vitamin D.

What rising disorders today are caused by dietary changes? Austism? Infertility? You'd think we'd be much quicker at finding a dietary cause today - unless the ones we haven't found yet are harder to find.

One of the greatest health problems today has a obvious relationship to calories: obesity. Perhaps simply getting more calaries for the same mass of food is a factor? Or, maybe our feeling of hunger is triggered by a lack of nutrients other than calories? So we eat and eat but are not satisfied.
Because at the lowest level quantum mechanics is at work. My feeling is that a full simulation will be a hybrid system. The lowest "microscopic" levels will be done on a quantum computer, but the higher "macroscopic" levels, where decoherence kicks in, will be done on a classical computer. Maybe the future of quantum computers is as co-processors to classical computers?
Mask wearing is not the same as avoiding deep skin-to-skin contact or sexual behavior. You can easily avoid this behavior with grandma if you've been engaging in high-risk behavior, and you can avoid this behavior if you have to interact with your toddler.

It is much harder to avoid covid since you generally have to breath air and be around people in day to day life and it was always dangerously contagious. Skin-to-skin contact is not part of day to day life for most people (masseuses?).

The current contractors of the virus are like 98% gay men, and that group of people is - unsurprising - not very open to being told "your lifestyle is bad". That said, they're very good at finding disease in the community and making safe decisions [1]. Just like AIDS, it'll inevitably be the "normal" population that becomes the main spreading group, since that group is way less responsible overall at managing risk. Tying or attempting to blame promiscuity as the issue won't solve the problem, won't stop the spread, and it'll hurt a group of people already under constant attack.

[1]
https://www.wired.com/story/provincetown-covid-delta-outbrea...
In the universal runtime picture, it seems to be drawn as a browser feature, is that right?
Yes I always figured if there is something, it's on the order of 10%-20% "bad outcome" vs being a sugar teetotalar. However since I avoid as much sugar as possible and have some splenda in my coffee and coke zero pretty much guilt free.
OMG!

How can it be that Amazon is allowed to do it?
they are responsible, no doubt! If a local shop would do the same, you can imagine who would be charged: the factory of the product or the shop owner himself?
> Your lack of empathy borders on sociopathy.

I broke a bone at school - I have lots of empathy. It is very painful.

Not international news, and nobody apologised to me. At the end of the day it wasn't a big deal.
You meant russorealism ;-)
I wrote my MA thesis using markdown (with extended syntax). Structuring the document is easy: just use one hash for top level sections and more for subsections. Footnotes are easy, you just add a footnote[^reference] somwhere and then add the footnote text on a seperate line somewhere:

[^reference]: some text

Inline math works by adding $x= \frac{y}{z}$ or in a seperate math block by adding two $ signs before and after.

The syntax of markdown is easier there, but LaTeX is arguably much more powerful, e.g. you can load tables from csv data, generate graphs, make it deal with your bibliography, draw circuit diagrams etc. And the layouts tend to look just good.

I ended up converting markdown to Indesign IDML and using this as a source in an Adobe Indesign layout where I could do all the basic typographic settings and styling once and update it on changes.
She address fast-breeders and thorium in the same video: https://youtu.be/0kahih8RT1k?t=734 (concluding that they are too complex and expensive)
Both can be done at the same time. Unless these sociopathic assholes are exposed and their tactics detailed and countered, nothing is stopping their successors from doing the same thing.
Including this?
Why? MPB works fine for the game. Why waste money?
100% NSS are better than tons of carbs and sugar loaded food.
I stopped buying physical books online altogether as the average print and paper quality have gone down so much over the years. As bookstores no longer carry long tale or niche inventory, I had to go the ebook route.
Wouldn’t stuff like that end up as a CVE?
The Apple ecosystem is separate from the Windows ecosystem, even more so lately. And Apple silicon machines can't run windows at all, whereas the intel ones could be coaxed into it.

So there's just no real point in comparing Apple and Wintel machines side by side.

The article seems like a conspiracy theory.
if you are that talented enough where companies will continue to offer you $$ to program whatever they say, then yea you do have a lot of POWER and can say NO..
> Death rate 100%

Pretty sure the death rate is 100% for exposure to literally anything given enough time...
> Climate change will slowly roast us all to death, a nuclear failure will, instantly fry us all to molten pulp, I know which one I prefer.

If you believe that even the worst nuclear accident at power plant will "instantly fry us all to molten pulp" in any appreciable range (while climate change is worldwide), the you are mistaken

> death/cancer rate of all exposed nearly 100%.

It is completely untrue. Even among https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators it is not true.
> These kinds of long arc problems for the consumers of the food

You always have to compare with the long arc problems by not making changes... Like the increased nitrogen runoff destroying ecosystems in lakes and oceans, and the reduced yield meaning humans on the margins die of starvation.

How many humans should we kill by starvation to be a little more cautious about deploying this tech?
What do you mean no form of recourse? I can’t imagine Amazon would deny you a refund in that situation.
Wouldn't a sub-wiki on Wikipedia for topics with unknown answers serve the purpose better?

Interesting concept though.
>Dude, you are just projecting your spite. This would be laughable if I didn't know you were serious. So it's actually just scary how how you make things up.

I lived in Russia for the first 27 years of my life (but I've been out for 11 years). The claimed phenomena definitely existed and was widespread back then. I was an odd duck by being ready to openly accept my mistakes / misdoings, and I was not alone, but that was not common.
For me a small car is a three door coupé like the Renault Zoe, not a "small" truck.
The old ones are the old ones

https://xkcd.com/538/
Because it's not just SO I want answers from. It's blogs people post, social media such as Reddit, HN, etc.

I've found some fantastic articles out there, yes SO is a fantastic resource but there is an entire internet out there :-)
"Havana Syndrome"

"Microwave Weapon"

"Silent Speech" Interface
My utter contempt for what Amazon has become is well established in my comment history.

For anyone who wants to know more about their predatory practices, specifically around bookselling, then I recommend that you pick up a copy of “How to resist Amazon and why” by Danny Caine from your local bookshop.

It saddens me that companies I admired so much as startups (Amazon and Google mainly) have become so powerful and dystopian.
yup..how do we change this
Isn't the article we're discussing about a .it domain impersonating a Japanese product?