skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re conflating science and politics and business. Science isn’t firing people, companies are. The science is right, the vaccines are relatively safe and effective. People whine about the mandatory actions, sometimes with good reason, and we could probably handle this better, but ultimately why should you be allowed to spread a disease at work that has an unfortunately high probability of killing people (or even of just causing someone else to be out sick for a week or two)?

The US currently somewhat operates on the principle that companies are allowed to make and enforce their own rules, as long as they’re legal. And there’s a long list of things you must do if you don’t want to get fired, including work forty hours a week, and not be a jerk to your co-workers. Do you think companies should not be allowed to fire people who choose to do things that can hurt the company’s bottom line? Do you want the government to monitor businesses more than it does today?

Science funding is complicated and political, but the high level summary of the situation is that the public funds science right now because that’s what the public wants, because a good chunk of society understands that doing science has proven to be a great investment. It would be a bummer if the public decided not to fund science or education, that sounds like the fastest way for the US to become irrelevant globally.

Anyway, what is the alternative to doing science? Do you like your computer/car/cell phone? Do you want to see technological progress stop? Can you name a better approach to seeking truth than the scientific method? What has ever proven to be more effective than science?
The whole path of the video is define by a single complex number, with absurdly high precision. It’s just zooming in on that point.
All the difference to who? Because it takes our slug meat longer, it has more value? Sounds like jealousy on our part.
To address your final thought experiment: In a vacuum? Maybe. But there's a simple and easy response to your second thought experiment that completely blows it apart, and that's lobotomies.

Lobotomies were used as a cure for all kinds of different things. If you knew something was a problem and lobotomy was the only thing that seemed to cure it, is it morally correct to do so as opposed to doing nothing? That's why these simplistic thought experiments are bad because there are examples of what happens when you take it to their logical (and often sadly real) conclusion.
Hardest yet: apply professional rigor and be actually given time to do so because apparently just hacking something together that looks to work is the best thing ever (in the eyes of managers and business owners).
I didn't say emails, I said "text messages"
I think they are talking about me.

Here's two papers about decay heat in ITER: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/092037..., and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092037961...

I used their data to find power density and compared it the micro modular fission (MMR) fission reactors.

“MMR has a lower decay heat power density than fusion systems like SPARC or ARC, DEMO, or ITER and orders of magnitude lower than other advanced fission reactors as show in the figure below. UNSC's MMR has the lowest decay heat power density at 0.075 W/cm3, less than DEMO's 0.083 W/cm3 in the blanket and divertor. A lower decay heat is more manageable by passive cooling systems, allowing the reactor to dissipate heat more easily and without damaging the reactor. The other aspect to consider is the maximum temperatures that can be safely maintained in the reactor. Gas-cooled reactors like the MMR have all-ceramic cores that can withstand much higher temperatures than a fusion's reactors metals, molten salts, and magnets. MMR's low power density is a paradigm shift in nuclear safety, more foundational than fusion, for it can be accomplished cost effectively today.”
I'm afraid it's slightly different. Many Americans are not comfortable with fellow Americans living that way near them. They have a strong in-group bias. You'll see that in the surveys about "want to live near people like me".

It's why SF has transplant as a pejorative. Personally, I am comfortable living around people not like me or who have chosen a different path. And I think there are many Americans who do and that the thrust of progress here comes from those people: the ones who are comfortable with change.
I have been conditioned to click "accept all" because at some point clicking "reject all" almost always lead me to a page saying that I can't use the site without cookies. I don't think this is as universal anymore but I haven't de-conditioned myself yet.
This assumes that there are no people in SF who would like to densify their land, which is OBVIOUSLY not true.

It's not outsiders vs SF residents, it's SF residents vs SF residents.
I'm pretty sure lichess doesn't do that. Even the chess board is done in the DOM.
> We (the Indian technocrat cohort) need to get into politics

This could be lifted out of Plato's Republic and it would be exactly as relevant.

But the counter-point is that politicians run very close to their electorate's ideas (or selectorate's) - most politicians are not stupid people, so when you see them pushing stupid ideas, it is their commentary on the audience they are pandering to.

I met Sam Pitroda in the late 90s. His commentary on C-DOT was a complete wet blanket on my theories of how the world is changing through technology.

The theory is sort of the opposite of a "resource curse" - a "human resource curse" if you will. If what you end up exporting are humans, not things you dig out of the ground.
There was another study not too long ago that showed the most popular picture for a guy was looking off-camera at a slight angle and NOT smiling. This apparently created an air of "unavailability" or some such exclusivity that inspired interest.
We actually use docker multistage build as mentioned here as a replacement for make file. The nice thing is you can run it locally to build but also run it in a podman container as a part of CI/CD process as is without any changes.

Nice thing about this strategy is that you can uniformly enforce dependencies, versions, etc
Seriously, what about that kind of publication bias: A/B tests don’t get published.

If you run a useful system where it would be meaningful and interesting to know whether a social science theory actually applied, you might run an A/B test to see if it works. If it works, it is adopted—but it is almost never published. And that is for two reasons: 1. no incentive to publish and 2. major incentive not to publish. #2 is recent (post Facebook experiment) and it is specifically because a large portion of the educated public accepts invisible A/B testing but recoils with moral indignation at the use of A/B testing results in published science. Too bad: Facebook keeps testing social science theories, but no longer publishes the results.
What’s the “Smalltalk revolution?”
Yes, it's more-or-less the case that you need the current Rust compiler if you want to compile a bunch of Rust projects and have no issues. But there's really no downside to this. Just grab the latest Rust version. It's free and has no breaking changes.

The only time I can see it being an issue is if you're trying to use the Debian/Ubuntu version of rustc or cargo. The version of rustc on Debian stable is 1.48, which was released in Nov 2020. I'm not sure what advantage there is to shipping such an old version of rustc when it guarantees backward compatibility, but if this is what you have then, sure, a big chunk of the Rust ecosystem won't compile.

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I still think your original comment was misleading because you said the Rust mentality was "move fast, break things". This almost always refers to a lack of backward compatibility, when existing software no longer works with newer versions of the thing that changed.
People are incentivized to pay attention to the result that increases their mid-year bonus the most.
>Meeting the acceptance criteria with guess and check isn’t hard.

Acceptance criteria often don't exist or are wrong. Incidentally, when someone says "business requirements are easy", that's a pretty big tell they have never worked on a complicated project.
>I just think it's implausible that there's b

The job of scientist is to find and present that evidence.

If your assumption is correct, and Kahneman failed to find good evidence that was there, that makes him a incompetent scientist. I don't think he is.
Really one of the creepiest people connected to government.
> Is it when water has to be pipelined from desalination plants?

You say that like it's impossible, or even cost prohibitive. Maybe for farming, but Las Vegas isn't known for farming.
Well you gave me a new perspective.

But what happens when AI needs less and less "real" data for training then it, will not degrade like google's search, which by the way is still the best from all the search engines I have known and tried.
I thought ketchup was originally mushroom based.
I've had some unfortunate first hand experience with outsourcing to India. New CEO needed to prove he was a hotshot, fired one of my dev's and used the "savings" to outsource an entire project to an India "firm." The first project was a finance import tool for some real estate data. A 2 month project. 1Year later the project was still being worked on. Not only that the project had to be worked on by our in house devs to actually get it working after the Indian company claimed it was done.

One of the problems was anytime the India company got anyone competent, that person would jump ship to a better offer within a couple of weeks. They would then have to find someone else. The only reason that I know this is my team had to interact with them for some integration reasons. Hi can I talk to Akash, he is no longer here your contact is now Kanta.... forever and ever.

The code was also...interesting to look at. Talk about unmaintainable lol. The app was loudly launched when "done" then never used then quietly taken offline a couple years later.
I see posts like this and wonder if software developers are in such high demand that they're able to call the shots these days but many of these points are come off as very arrogant.

> Make your engineering managers, Directors or VP’s take about one week in a quarter and get them to build and deliver a feature.

While we're at it, why don't we also get them to design a part of a car, design an icon for UX, do some accounting and have them do a legal brief?

> Stop estimating.

How does this person think an organization schedule, budget and allocate resources?

> In my opinion, Have a minimum team size of six.

To build what? Some production software can be built by one person. Some need hundreds. This is like saying an organization needs a minimum of $1.5m annual budget for software development because it's software development.
Sounds like both techniques could be used together.
This is it: https://usnc.com/mmr/

I work on it.
Apply with me to Y Combinator in the next month and change the world
I have an awesome prototype built:
YouOgle - Drop-in video chat app
https://youogle.com

Y Combinator has expressed interest. But there is one thing holding me back - I have yet to find the right co-founder. I am looking for a co-founder with expertise in marketing and sales.

Even if you aren't the right person, please upvote this and help us meet. This post could literally form a company in the next month.
Awww, someone ran over the Dogma again.
Amazon is becoming a garbage dump of fraud and junk knock-off sellers. A majority of these sellers are in China, so I don't know why Amazon would have any difficulty auditing them. They need to do a clean sweep of these garbage sellers and then improve their "approved sellers" list for the future.

The problem is becoming wide-ranging and rampant, so if they don't, they just may become an artifact of history.
How’s the quality? I don’t think I’ve ever listened to the Greek recordings but the languages I have listened to sounded like they were recorded on an old answering machine.
My bad if it was unclear, "theoretical limitations" obviously concerned chemical means of storage.

Hydro is ideal, but the problem is it needs mountains and huge amounts of water, which aren't accessible everywhere

You also didn't address the main point: storage drives up costs and externalities which most people advocating for intermittent sources seem to completely sweep under the rug
I suspect this is because porn is usually (not always) made by men, for men. Women watching porn learn about what men like. Men watching porn get further entrenched in their own desires, and learn to expect that sex will play out in a way that they themselves prefer.
> Casuals get fleeced rapidly

It's funny how the meta-game works here. Fleecing the casuals is, of course, the way the pros make money; so it's basically the point of the game. But I can see how fleecing the casuals slowly is probably a better long-term strategy, that will ultimately extract more money from them, than doing it quickly, draining their bankroll, which may stop them from playing or get them to play less consistently.
In practice it seems like we do this all the time.

“TLDR” summaries seem like this.

Those knowledge graph snippets on Google seems like this.

The first paragraph of many news stories seem like this.

The first answer on a Quora page before you have to login seems like this.

Other than like an actual specific technical “feature” implementation it seems like this is everywhere in my life.
Emphasis on “according to the author,” yeah. And the concerns are silly — FEC can and should be added outside the compressed data (e.g., with par2).
> By the way, it will use .gitignore files in a git directory.

If I'm in a repo, I'm using `git grep`.

That makes `rg` a mostly redundant tool for me since it's optimized for searching source code. I can't really use it as a general purpose replacement for grep since if it doesn't find anything I'm left wondering whether what I'm searching is not really there or whether `rg` just didn't bother to check. Even with `--no-ignore --all`, I'm still not sure whether it searches everything. It's one of those tools that I find is too clever for my own good.

So when `git grep` doesn't cover my use case, my fall back is `find | grep` which contains no magic and I know exactly what it's searching.
[..]Mohandas Pai, the former Infosys director and poster boy of Bengaluru’s tech boom, feels the rot runs deep. “There’s a high degree of corruption in every wing: roads, governance and garbage,” Pai tells The Intersection. “The government collects taxes from urban areas, but invests them in rural regions.” He nevertheless thinks the city’s un-livability is an exaggeration.
Mohandas Pai, the former Infosys director and poster boy of Bengaluru’s tech boom, feels the rot runs deep. “There’s a high degree of corruption in every wing: roads, governance and garbage,” Pai tells The Intersection. “The government collects taxes from urban areas, but invests them in rural regions.” He nevertheless thinks the city’s un-livability is an exaggeration. [..]

He hit the nail on the head. This is exactly the same with Bay Area governance. No local govt..everything is regionally governed and distributed statewide.
You do, but that’s not true of everyone’s experience, which is why giving people choice is the right way to go.
Scaling thought is easy. Just throw a trillion parameter language model at it.
>Poland and Ukraine pay between $22,000 and $23,000 per year

Good luck finding a developer in Eastern Europe with more than 2 years of experience willing to work for 23 thousand a year. And if that's a gross number (as I suspect it's supposed to be) - good luck finding anyone with even 1 year of experience.
> It has sane defaults but you can tweak this with a .rgignore file, which is like .gitignore but for rg. By the way, it will use .gitignore files in a git directory.

Fwiw there’s also a « .ignore » semi-standard which works with several tools, and not just greps e.g. fd also respects it by default.
Totally off topic but given the headline I can’t not post this

https://youtu.be/HrcbCW4y9Dw
It is pretty much the definition for real-time for anyone who has worked on embedded, safety, and critical systems. Preemption is about priority, which is a property of parts of the real-time system. A real-time system with only one kind of thing it's doing doesn't have to deal with priority (too much), but in communication systems (like between aircraft and air traffic control) there may be messages which will always be processed within some unit of time, and others which can be deferred or even discarded if they are preempted by a higher priority message. The whole system is still real-time. Usually with a fixed processing cycle. For a radio, maybe every 1/100th of a second it will receive, process, and transmit, repeat. Priorities determine what gets transmitted and processed in any given cycle based on various inputs from the aircraft, the aircraft operator, or other radios in the network.

That 1/100th of a second cycle time and the guarantees associated with it are what make it a real-time system (a hard real-time system, in this example).
I think this is basically the premise for Earthly and Dagger, right?
What would happen to Alphabet/Google if over 50% of people were blocking their ads?

Stop using Google products. Block their ads. Don't use their web browser.

I recommend Mozilla Firefox and uBlock Origin but any other web browser reduces their tracking and allows ad blocking. It looks like Google Chrome will prevent ad blockers soon.
> Ketchup really just means a fruit based sauce

No, it doesn't.

> so it long preceded the arrival of the tomato.

It did, but ketchups before tomato weren't necessarily fruit based. The original British version (and thus, the first American version, from which the other pre-tomato version derived) was mushroom based. Fruit, nut, egg, and bivalve-based versions all existed. (And the historical origin is in Asian fermented fish and soy sauces.)
I was looking at some human language learning material. One of the exercises in it was to rearrange jumbled words into a meaningful sentence. That got me thinking, what sort of exercises can we borrow from human language learning to learn programming?

A ten line jumbled function that the learner needs to order correctly? A small function with missing lines or wrong conditions that the learner can fix, to get the function working correctly? None of these are substitutes for writing code of course, but these can be fun exercises?
not sure what you were trying to prove with that, but it seems you proved yourself wrong. The link says "news", not "entertainment"
I'm advocating for the deinstitutionalization of marriage and divorce. Ideally this would result marriage by individual contract. However beyond deinstitutionalization, I'm not too particular about how marriage should be handled, so long as every relevant party knows what he or she is agreeing to beforehand.

> It we accept that a "monopoly on violence" is the very definition of "the state"

The state is not itself a monopoly on violence. You're conflating function with identity. The state is a collection of people not substantially different from a corporation in how it is organized. It has many powers outside of violence. All of them are ideally acquired by the consent of the governed and and yet limited by the rule of the law and the respect of individual rights.

> It isn't unreasonable for people who feel harmed by the state exercising that monopoly in particular ways, to call for it to be exercised differently.

You can call for it. But why would expect your views to be accepted without scrutiny. Your position lacks consistency. Initially, your complaint stemmed from harms perpetrated by the state. Now, you say that the state has a right to deploy its violence, but in manner that would have benefitted you and your father. You're engaging in a contradiction. If you desire a Hobbesian legal system, then you must accept in all cases that victory is justice and weakness is sin and not just when the outcome suits you.
Musk is an incredibly powerful person, so I can see why people would find this objectively important information, but it feels off-topic to me. It's essentially celebrity gossip.
Is it still single-threaded?

I think I read a few months ago this was the main milestone for crystal to be really competitive.

I would really like to have a ruby-like performant language.
> That's part of the idea behind the co-founder of Docker's second act, Dagger.

Guess so!
Dagger.io – A Portable Devkit for CI/CD Pipelines
Check out https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatisGoingonWithShippingwSalMerco...
Nudges are often imagined as just how choices are presented, but yes the default option is considered part of nudge theory. As also is social proof ("Your friends picked this choice").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory#Types_of_nudges
When it comes to AI replacing jobs the biggest wonder I have is.. why is there so much talk and attention on replacing software jobs first? Software work is fairly high skill and hard to replace. Every hour that a software dev spends doing a task, they are doing some kind of work that the industry has probably tried and failed to automate, and we're talking about an industry filled with the most clever and most qualified automation-writers there are.

There's many jobs that AI will probably replace. Software will be among the last.
No need to decode the C++ names when you use valgrind/callgrind/kcachegrind for C, that works just as well for C++.
And yet 17y later salaries are still sky high. Someone that believed that advisor could have had a job paying a lot and time on the side or enough of a safety net to learn new skills if salaries ever tank (which we still don't really see a sign of)...
Was that an issue with them being Indian, or that your CEO did a terrible job of vetting the firm he hired?
I always press reject all, and if it doesn't let me use the site I find a different one normally
This is filthy, wretched, evil garbage. San Francisco is very much unlike most cities. Instead of being satisfied with overflowing and consistently pillaged bins people are trying to better. You are against this because you are not observing the situation, because you are not capable of understanding how complex human systems like our biggest cities function, because you have contempt for everything outside your experience. Instead of trying to understand what is going on you just project. You rely on government employees and their works, but see all of them and lazy and useless. This is just another case of lazy critics trying to justify their ennui.
In my experience when it comes to software development you get what you pay for. It's why I ask for US salaries even though I live in a country with an incredibly low cost of living.
I think the massive increase in amateur porn is filling this gap. Much of the content on PornHub is now amateur, and there are camming sites like Chaturbate that feature real couples having live sex, and of course OnlyFans.

I think there are plenty of amazing "mainstream" porn scenes out there too, but they tend to get lost in an endless sea of repetitive sub-par pro porn.
I saw a reference to Martin Gardner's article when I was in, maybe, 9th grade.

So I went to the main branch of the NY public library ("reading between the lions") and looked up the article on microfiche. It was fascinating and fun - from how to make a row of equilateral triangles with nothing more than a ruler, pen and paper. Many, many hours were spent on the various flexagon derivatives.

Years later, I made a JS page to combine images and print hexaflexagons for my son's classmates. Had some fun with that as well; it was much more confounding than I expected.

Nowadays, microfiche is gone, the public library is unfortunately not in most kids vernacular, and the attention span that would be required to enjoy doing the math I did has been hijacked. (TikTok !== figure-out-flexagon)