skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you missed the part where the borders of virtually every muslim country were drawn by the west?
The idea that “everyone should go back to their homeland” is laughable coming from the west… What the hell were they doing for centuries on foreign land? Ruining entire civilizations, decimating their peoples, pillaging their lands? Sending them back to the stone age? To then be offended at home by a headscarf?

Sure, if you’re Shia you could go to Lebanon, Irak, Iran… or, you could go somewhere safe.
consciousness = subjective experience

The easy problem would be to explain how the brain operates to produce output in terms of input. The hard problem is to explain how subjective experience arises from the brain activity.

> The hard problem of consciousness (Chalmers 1995) is the problem of explaining the relationship between physical phenomena, such as brain processes, and experience (i.e., phenomenal consciousness, or mental states/events with phenomenal qualities or qualia)

If you explain how conscience arises from the brain activity, you effectively solved the hard problem.
Many articles found when searching on duckduckgo with the keywords
"China divert Tibet rivers"

I don't have any to recommend as I'm just starting to read them.
If I will need to access individual files or it needs to be usable by others on arbitrary operating systems, zip is best. Random access is greatly helped by the directory at the end of a zip file. .tar.*z is particularly hostile to random access.

If I just need an archive for easy schlepping around, I use tar if the content is not likely compressible or tar.gz if it is compressible. The slowness of better compression or the likelihood that I will struggle with missing utilities tends to make me shy away from other compressors.

I would only highly optimize for size and suffer the slow compression if it will be downloaded a lot of times and that makes a difference for user experience or bandwidth costs.
No.

> There are no safe-storage laws in Michigan, meaning that even if the Crumbleys did have the SIG Sauer unlocked on the night before the shooting, they wouldn’t have been committing a crime.

That pretty much sums it up. The state would have to prove that the parents participated in the crime in some way besides merely owning firearms.
No, you misidentify me; I'm not one of those anti-human "the world is overpopulated!! Degrowth!!" People. Better food is good; I just assume someone will fuck up at some point while we're figuring out nutrition and genetic engineering.

Let the hundreds of millions eat what they will; any problems or mistakes with gene-edits that lead to poisoning, carcinogens or insidious malnutrition will be sorted out after a few decades, I'm sure. I just don't want to be the guinea pig, if I can let a hundred million other people do so instead!

Those hordes of hungry mouths are a great laboratory: diverse, far enough away and poor enough they can't take revenge on you if you accidentally poison them, etc.
Imaginary numbers don't answer that though: they assume it has an answer, and do operations anyway.
Yeah, good thing too. Wouldn’t want Twitter to be overrun with bots.
I didn't say it was innocent. But he's still doing pretty normal farming stuff.

> Your argument here is like blaming a homeowner for catching a burgler.

Nah, burgling doesn't work like IP rights. The analogy is hopelessly broken.
Only if it's doped. Pure methane is odorless.
It not the organic nutrients (amino acids etc.) that are low as a result of fast growing crops, it the inorganic nutrients that are low, i.e. metals. Faster growth of the plant means less time to absorb from the ground.

I've no idea how that affects hydroponics, but practically none of the food I eat is hydroponic so that is moot.
Everyone here thinks it's normal because they're within the system. Those of us outside of it can see it's insane and dehumanizing.
Big impact too on the “coveted” twitter handles I bet. I think it’d be ironic to receive a physical letter wanting to buy your twitter account.
Copilot is weird.

The N in the NLP training set and arch implies a fuzzy match.

Why anyone would rather start with a plausible but broken-in-a-subtle way buffer rather than a blank one is beyond me.
Those people weren't investing in crypto.

They were speculating in crypto.

The difference is that investments have some rational reasoning behind hoping for a future profit, beyond 'the greater fool' theory.

Bonds have a solvent business's pledge to repay them.
Stock represent ownership in some business, hopefully one that makes profits for its owners.
Crypto seemed only to hope that someone else would come along and pay more for it.

See what Charlie Munger and others have said. For a long time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Twitter knew about this vulnerability back in January, and they either didn't check to see if it was exploited, or they didn't disclose that it was, or they didn't have enough observability/audit controls in place to see 5.4M requests for account data that used this vulnerability?

That seems like gross negligence to me no matter what the reason for that is, but I play in a much smaller pond and maybe I just don't understand that the cost to do things ethically at scale is always greater than cleanup.
That's not something calculable. The symbol i is just a sort of placeholder for it.
Ah! They are using vacuum thus inputting energy to move the regen and sat sides around otherwise this would have a distinct whiff of ‘perpetual motion’ about it.

I was skeptical but had missed that bit!
Where I am near the Puget Sound, I generally get around 50-60% relative humidity at outside temperatures. Which isn't really very humid. But my basement sits at 5-10 degrees cooler than outside temperature, and the same water content in the air, but 5-10 degrees cooler is a recipie for puddles in the basement. Running the ground floor A/C makes it worse, as the air handler is in the basement and cools the utility room through convection of the vents (better design of HVAC would help, but it'd hard to retrofit without tearing up a lot of stuff). Running a dehumidifier helps, but a more efficient dehumidifier might be nice.
I'm sorta happy Google is turning to garbage.

Actually forcing a search engine back into the reliable index of valuable sources would be great.

Imagine you to a white list approach to a search engine where a human or AI does an approval first.
I had a feeling you'd bring up moral realism, and you're somewhat correct; it's not a necessary feature of moral realism, however, and most philosophers arguing for moral realism have stronger arguments than "that's just the way it is", which usually appeal to our intuitions about other non-moral facts, such as "this chair exists" or "I have two hands". It's up to you whether those arguments are successful, but it doesn't do anyone favours to dismiss them out of hand as you are doing. If they were so patently ridiculous, I doubt many philosophers would believe them. If they make sense by relying on our intuitions about other facts of the universe, I can see why many philosophers believe them.

If you have a solid argument aganist moral realism, I'd like to hear it, even though I'm familiar with most of the arguments for moral anti-realism, and I generally sit on the anti-realist side of the fence these days. But it does yourself a disservice to say that all such arguments are circular and logically invalid. I quite like this argument from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on moral realism:

"In light of this concern, it is worth noting that the challenge posed here for our moral claims actually plagues a huge range of other claims we take ourselves to be justified in making. For instance, just as no collection of nonmoral premises will alone entail a moral conclusion, no collection of nonpsychological premises will alone entail a psychological conclusion, and no collection of nonbiological premises will alone entail a biological conclusion. In each case the premises will entail the conclusions only if, at least surreptitiously, psychological or biological premises, respectively, are introduced. Yet no one supposes that this means we can never justify claims concerning psychology or biology. That there are these analogues of course does not establish that we are, in fact, justified in making the moral claims we do. But they do show that granting the inferential gap between nonmoral claims and moral claims does not establish that we can have no evidence for the moral claims."
> The prince made their money

The prince is clearly a man and as such there is no need for the use of the plural "their". The prince made his money conveys more information and does not violate rules of grammar and as such is readable to anyone who understands English, this in contrast to the hypercorrect use of "their" which turns an already irregular language into an even more convoluted puzzle.
There are some things I just think are wrong and spending 100x the cost of an average dinner on a single meal just seems extravagant and wrong. I guess if you make a ton of money, go for it though. Maybe you're paying for an experience and bragging rights.
You can't prepare all your food yourself from specialist suppliers, even if you could find such that were actually what they claimed to be, and how would you know? There is no food regulation as we understand it in the EU. Anyone can sell anything as anything, buyer beware!
I worry a lot about people loading in text files and forgetting to add null termination to embeds.

If you really worry about that, why did you vote in favour of this feature (as you stated earlier)?
NASA authorization included in CHIPS Act – SpaceNews
You really have a thing for clowns...

When you post a comment where the only possible outcome is not just positive, but Hollywood film stuff (protagonist is struggling in a new situation and gets bullied, boss/friend/wise elder shows him path to success, protagonist is triumphant over the bully -- literally the exact plot of Karate Kid, Rocky III, Die Hard and countless others), then it reads as idealistic. Your next comment, where you finally acknowledge that not everything is fixable and firing might be an outcome, is a lot more reasonable.
I think it's more like "I don't want to be overwhelmed with lots of decisions right at the start, but I want an ability to change things incrementally to serve my needs as I go". Which is why I like Plasma too for its out-of-box readiness and configurability.
When we are discussing climate change, our concern is not long term.

If we could build the nuclear reactors now, keep the spent fuel (whether or not we're going to reuse it in breeder reactors) as safe as we know how, and solve the long-term problem later, then we'd have a much better chance of there being a later to worry about.
If that is true, what is the point of this password remover?
daikin had this premium residential series called ururu sarara 7 which does this. albeit with some performance upper bounds to keep costs sane. somewhat complicated setup, and i think it would be a brilliant unit if your local weather is within the designed performance envelope
Perhaps France should have thought about that before it colonised a third of Africa and the Middle East. The presence of Muslims in France is a direct result of France opting to spread its language and culture throughout places inhabited by Muslims, the least they could do is adjust the hours of their bathhouses to accommodate those people's beliefs.
Reading between the lines of the previous reports the particular locations chosen to cut seem to suggest some inherent knowledge about major transport networks.

In the sense they knew where to go to take down primary and backup paths etc. Cut the cables twice to prevent easy splicing etc.
There is no one answer. It's easy to blame one person or entity but the problem can be trace back to corporations that told doctors the opiates were safe to prescribe. The reduction of penalties for certain crimes. The lack of enforcement of laws that were thought to be too harsh. Taxpayers that want to incarcerate everyone that commits crimes but aren't willing to pay for it or alternatives. And on and on...

We need to stop blaming and move forward with a solution. It should start with getting people treatment and housing. Blaming does nothing but make us feel good about doing nothing.
Wow, that is obscure!
Just saw this response. In my comment above, I didn't want to spend a lot of time responding to the original post so I handwaved a lot with this "assuming you've set the CNAME and network up for that functionality"

When you have a www you ultimately have more flexibility. For example, you can point a CNAME at another CNAME. This answer on ServerFault mentions the additional options (and downsides of doing that):
https://serverfault.com/a/223634
https://serverfault.com/questions/223560/www-a-record-vs-cna...

Heroku vaguely mentions the benefits under the "Limitations" section of this link:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/apex-domains

After a DDos attack, they were much more explicit in their recommendations: "We strongly recommend against using root domains. Use a subdomain that can be CNAME aliased to proxy.heroku.com, and avoid ever manually entering IPs into your DNS configuration."
https://web.archive.org/web/20110609095616/https://status.he...

Here is an old post about someone who initially used an apex domain and then had issues (that they hacked around):
https://web.archive.org/web/20110718170757/http://blog.y3xz....

I believe that some larger providers are providing some work arounds which makes it easier to hack around the issue these days, but I still firmly believe that if you set your site up using "www" (even if it is initially an A record - most of mine are A records right now), you will have more flexibility in the long run than if you set your site up on an apex domain.
>...most residential systems don’t run at variable speeds.

Any reason why? I would naively think that putting in a variable speed motor with a dial would be peanuts on the total cost?
How can something be divided by nothing? If that would give the same result as division by a whole, does that mean that nothing is something?

Issues like these are why the concept of zero had trouble gaining acceptance.
It would. Unzip, grep, zip.
It seems to me there could be a wide gulf between unpopular and insufferable ass.
So green text is easier to spoof than HN comments, but my, uh, friend tells me that the HN comment corpus is floating around.

Someone is eventually going to speed run 10k karma on HN and YouTube it. This year? Next? Who knows. But not a decade.

https://youtu.be/efPrtcLdcdM
> Groan here we go again.

Yeah, we do with more pro-nuclear propaganda and outright falsehoods (again).

> Now show me list of the 8 million people who die per year from air pollution.

No, it doesn't. Here's the exact quote from your source:

> The combined effects of ambient air pollution and household air pollution is associated with 7 million premature deaths annually.

Not "die from" but "is associated with". What does that mean? "Associated with" here means "reduces the life expectancy", basically. That's a far cry from "dies from". The primary relationship with mortality seems to come from particulates. Some of these are natural (eg sand in deserts), some of it isn't (eg cooking fires). It also includes motor vehicle exhausts.

To give you a sense of the level of bullshit going on here, other conditions are getting attributed to air pollution [1]:

> They linked nine causes of death with the pollution: cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dementia, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, lung cancer and pneumonia.

One study estimates 100,000 Americans die every year from air pollution [2]. That just doesn't pass the smell test and shows you what's going on: it's attributing air pollution to certain medical conditions and then counting deaths from those conditions are air pollution deaths.

Exaggerations and outright lies do your cause a massive disservice.

Pro-nuclear propaganda doesn't address these issues:

1. Not a single nuclear power plant has been built without significant government subsidies;

2. Nuclear power plant falsely reduce costs by externalizing significant costs such as the processing of fuel, the processing of fuel processing waste, maintenance, inspection (eg by the NRC), switching out fuel, processing nuclear fuel, the time-to-build or the failure modes of nuclear plants. Lest we forget, the Chernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone is 1,000 square miles 35 years later.

If these next-generation LWRs are so economical, why isn't someone building them at scale? The standard response is political opposition but what about China?

I swear nuclear fan boys are just as delusional as climate deniers.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/20/us-air-p...

[2]: https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-04-0...
Would you know where to cut in your metro to ensure maximum impact to the target?

Is that the type of thing they teach in the scouts these days?
Sounds like someone who's never worked at a waterfall style company, they love their meetings and planning too.
> CICO, or "calories in, calories out", is obviously real.

But it's a very bad proxy for anything related to weight. Water is 8.8lbs per gallon and yet has 0 calories so you ignore your entire water maintenance cycle in the accounting. It also assumes that every single molecule of calorie-bearing food is metabolized homogeneously in your body which isn't the case. Your digestive system will happily pass unwanted calories without absorption (especially fat) and tends to store extra water along with carbohydrates (4x by weight).

It's a very simplistic idea that is only true in absolutes. It's a restatement of the 2nd law of thermodynamics which applies to literally everything and is so general and vague as to be useless.
Space is quite continuous in quantum mechanics, it's only the interactions between particles which are quantised (in fact the governing equations of quantum mechanics are almost all continuous. It's only when you try to solve them that quantisation appears, in a similar way that a guitar string is continous but only certain shaped standing waves can exist on it).
Which part do you consider dehumanizing?

I've been on both sides (IC + manager), though not at Amazon. As a manager, it's always crystal clear that not every team member contributes equally, often by a wide margin. When it comes time to give out monetary rewards and title increases, how would you propose people be evaluated?
Yes, everything you do on that device, including detailed lists of what you watch are logged and shared with 3rd parties

Roku saves screenshots whatever you're watching twice every second and uploads it to their servers.

https://advertising.roku.com/resources/blog/insights-analysi...

They were also caught ignoring peoples privacy settings:

https://www.wired.com/story/roku-fire-tv-channels-ad-trackin...

More info that will disappoint you:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/09/18/watching-you-watch-...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/11/15261508/roku-tv-cable-vi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/business/media/streaming-...

https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/roku-devices-listening...

https://web.archive.org/web/20151112201410/http://www.tinfoi...

https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/study-finds-streaming-device...
I home cooked the leanest beef mince I could find (ok from Safeways, but I think it may even have said 'Angus' on the packet). I had to keep pouring away the water? that kept drowning it as I fried.

It's not about portion sizes, or at least if it is it is because something about the food is making people want more (higher salt and fat content most likely).
The taste of immense profit is in the air. In the minds of potential investors, fusion is no longer a "lol maybe in 50 years" technology. Advances in magnetic modeling and magnet technology have resulted in cheaper, easier-to-develop alternatives to the classic Tokamak. Timelines are now believably "this decade" for demonstration reactors.

Energy production/harvesting is a foundational element of our civilization. Literally all of the comforts of modern society require the expenditure of some form of energy. Any entity that develops an unlimited, clean and cheap source of energy essentially has access to a money printer.
wouldn't most of that water evaporated away? water's hard enough to come by nowadays...
The vnc thing rocks. I've installed uis on cheap remote dedicated servers. I would do my satellite imagery exploratory work via VNC that way since up about 2018 internet was a big problem here. In server could download 10gb imagery at super speeds and play around qgis. Rented server generally faster than my laptop too and somehow only $49/month. Tight vnc is great at holding connection and low bandwidth.

I wonder though on vnc via ipad, how do you use mouse? I imagine touch support would be an issue in many desktop applications.
> Acreage near anything that isn't a ghost town is well into 10-20k per acre. Land has an inherit scarcity.

If you look in Zillow you'll see that's very wrong.
If I as an Engineer bring in $1M to the company in a year, and I make $50k a year. Where did that other $950k go? Sure there is some overhead: taxes, hr, accounting, management, etc. But the fact is that in the US engineers are currently just getting more of the share of value that their labor created. European developers should be fighting tooth and nail to get more.
Not at all. The first post I replied to was saying index funds are safe for lay people to invest in. I'm saying index funds may not be safe for lay people to invest in in these extraordinary times. Crypto is way riskier than index funds, I agree.
If that flies, then incest is up next
I'm 35 and I hang out with 18 year olds because they're about the same maturity and energy levels. People my age are always complaining about new tech and talking about retirement.
Ethereum Is Moving to Proof of Stake to Save Environment Says Man Driving Lambo
One of the ways to avoid imaginary numbers is to use matrices instead. You wouldn't exactly solve sqrt(-1). You'd solve the sqrt of the negative of the 2x2 identity matrix (-I)

You can't solve sqrt(-1) without a second dimension. So even with imaginary numbers you kind of have an implicit -1+0i when solving sqrt(-1).

Complex numbers is just a way of working with two numbers at once, just like 2 dimensional vectors and matrices. There nothing special to it, other than some syntactic shorthands.
Let me turn the question around: Do you think that France should allow sex-segregated changing rooms, and sex-segregated swimming competitions?
> And when I say truly, I mean for platforms without file systems, or operating systems or where bytes aren't 8 bits, that doesn't use ASCI or Unicode, where NULL isn't on address 0 and so on.

Genuine question: why do we want these platforms to live, rather than to be forced to die? They sound awful.

I understand retrocomputing, legacy mainframes, etc; but 99% of that work is done in non-portable assembler and/or some flavor of BASIC; not in C.
Also no, France did not grant citizenship to Algerians in 1947 nor did it ever. Which is…. why there was a war for independence…

“Conquerors of religious wars did not grant citizenship”. Yes the Church indeed in general had a genocidal approach to forced conversions and religious discrimination (see the Americas). Islam prohibits forced conversions and if we were to compare religious empires, then the Ottoman Empire would be by orders of magnitude the most tolerant with regards to religious minorities (compared to e.g French, British, Spanish, Portuguese empires.). Well documented stuff.
> But for the vast majority of consumers, all they need is a machine that can surf the web and open up spreadsheets.

Okay, so why should they buy a $1,200 base model Macbook Air instead of a $200 Lenovo Chromebook? Better yet, why didn't Apple just let the iPad replace the Air if "all they need" is web browsing and office clients?