skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, growth is logically not going to continue forever. But we are nowhere close to the point that growth will inevitably have to stop.

There's a moral undertone here of course that that growth is coming at a price and that therefore we need to show some restraint. It's a very elaborate argument against energy gluttony. That's a particular world view that seems to never really catch on with the wider public. At least judging from their waste lines.

What does seem to happen is that we are rapidly transitioning to more guilt free forms of energy generation. For example, put solar panels on your roof and you get free kwh for your Tesla and you can turn your AC on as long as you want. Problem solved. That's a consumerist version of reality that is a bit more real in the sense that that is actually something that a lot of people aspire to do at a scale that matters.

Not all energy usage is bad. Energy production growth is fine as long as we do it sustainably. And now that that seems to become the default, the next interesting thing for humanity is to figure out what to do with all that clean, plentiful energy.
Are they? EM changes the sample, it can destroy cells.

Also they do not look at truly isolated samples of viruses: they look at concoctions of monkey kidney cells, bovine fetal serum and more with the supposed virus in there. When looking at a concoction like that, what certainty you have you see the virus and not another small biological particle (like exosomes, or dead cell debris)?

Last thing, it seems that with many of these EM photos of viruses, is that the control group was omitted. You also need to bring a concoction that does not have supposed virus in there and somehow show that does not contain the visual element that ARE seen in the sample with supposed virus. Virologists disagree and are okay with going ahead without control groups in these cases.
Yeah, but if a business owner decides “x” is the purpose of work, and literally no one wants to do that because of the conditions that the business owner has created (especially if the conditions are tangential to x), then that is the business owner’s problem, not the employees problem.
I can’t feel sorry for people who take a line of credit and use it to put it in cryptocurrency.

Maybe its schadenfreude, but I feel they all got what they deserved. Trying to make 7 percent returns risk free is asking for hidden risks.
I guess the programs that I write which work on Mac / Windows / Linux / Wasm / i686 / amd64 / armv7 / aarch64 are just a bad dream I had
Strange that the hundred of millions of debt to France is considered by some as a reason of missed opportunities for the country, but no one take into account as "true loss" the money that was embezzled by the presidents and co not so long after:

It’s believed that Papa Doc pocketed $150 million during his presidency, which is a pittance compared to the $1.6 billion his son grabbed
I believe homeless shelters have policies such as not allowing dogs, and searching for drugs/alcohol, and they aren't always very safe and full of nits/flee infestations.

The better option is to house the homeless or simply give them money. Utah enjoyed great success giving homeless houses in the 2000s.
It tells you in the article, the White Terror killed him, and then started calling what he did "The Terror" to discredit him, while they killed lots of their political enemies.

Don't mess with powerful people or they will kill you, and make you the villain of the story.

> The term "Terror" being used to describe the period was introduced by the Thermidorian Reaction who took power after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre in July 1794,[1][2] to discredit Robespierre and justify their actions.[3] Today there is consensus amongst historians that the exceptional revolutionary measures continued after the death of Robespierre, and this subsequent period is now called the "White Terror".
Routing all your traffic through Tor would probably be painfully slow.
Some of the efforts you hear about actually are immediately disprovable.
I don't love mediawiki software, starting with PHP, but it's indisputable that it is one of the most successful software platforms in the world, and it has quite an extensive ecosystem.

But thank you for pointing out that it's docuwiki that is attempting to inappropriately ride the mediawiki coattails and muddling use.

The fact this site is starting out without the basic feature of categories is a grave mistake. Maybe docuwiki edits them differently, but having clicky forms for every data field is also contrary to how wp became successful.

Because it's not using mediawiki, it will not be any parallel in development to wp, which is also a grave starting mistake.
Now, serious, why are not class action lawsuit attorneys ganging up on Amazon? This impacts entire international industries, how they mismanage authenticity of their goods.

And Amazon is getting into healthcare... what a cluster fuck their lack of goods verification will be when its prescription meds?
A receiver only module? I was not aware this was a thing, but that would indeed avoid all tracking and allow a method for important notifications to reach you. This is a really interesting option for my needs.

I imagine this must only work over 2g or 3g? Sadly both are being shut down soon and I can not see anyone making a 4G pager.
I stopped reading in the first paragraph.
what this article is dancing around is that when Haiti gained its independence, it distributed its land amongst the freed slaves, and then, given the understandable lack of agricultural knowledge, over-farmed them to the point where today each plot of land produces about a quarter of the same plot in the DR
Forecasting looks like this: https://medium.com/expedia-group-tech/monte-carlo-forecastin...

It’s running through simulations based on previous team behavior to give a range.
If you have the technical know-how, you could also rent a cheap vps and set up a VPN/proxy yourself. That way you know exactly what is being logged and who has access.
Cool project! Congrats on launching ! What is the benefit compared to reddit or CF workers KV?
If you look at the statistics you can see that the countries consuming the most softdrinks per capita (US and Mexico) come in around 2 cans per capita per day.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/505794/cds-per-capita-co...

So, 1 can per every other day is 1/4 the average consumption. It would be strange to call such a consumption level highly unhealthy.
That's what some people report from diplomatic ties with Russia. They explained the same thing about shame and power. Diplomacy and talk is weak, they only react to conflict and dominance based relationships.
There are different types of hard. Digging ditches is hard work, getting people to do what you want them to do is hard work, writing complex software is hard work. When engineers think about hard work they usually think about it being intellectually difficult. It isn't arrogance, more that they are just focusing on the definition of hard work that they are used to.
Manager (or possibly his boss) needs a leaving present of the mythical man month
Unmasking FOSS contributors and extending the reach of control over a critical software like Linux, for their own good and possibly the detriment of those they whimsically decide are enemies.

This is terrible news, and yet another wake-up call to how FOSS, its integrity, and our access to it must be safeguarded.
Facial hair tracking for high fidelity performance capture
I've linked to the publication but be sure to check out the video they've embedded.

Out of the handful of new publications they released today this one was the most interesting to me - I guess it's because this problem is in many ways more focused and less complex (seeming?) than the others (I'm not an ML/neural networks buff but do find it all interesting).
But it's just a wrapper around SQLite. Skip the middleman and just use SQLite.
Well that's then a wholly different situation. I would assume it's hard to find any hotel room that is suitable for working as they aren't designed for that.
For a practical car, 200 to 500 full charge cycles per year is all that could happen. 200 for a suburban family car, 500 for an urban commercial vehicle.

(200 cycles per year would be perceived by an owner as being "every day", because the days she's away on holiday or sick at home or WFH are not remembered. Nor would she remember that she only charges once on weekends.)

100_000 cycles is therefore 20 to (more likely) 50 years' use.

That's a family heirloom, well outlasting the body, suspension, steering and interior of any car. I'd like to have that too.

Edit: Er, that should be 200 to 500 years. Outlasting several chassis and interiors. Definitely heirlooms.
I don't think your (1) and (2) adequately dismiss these two major problems that the article apparently does not deal with. Nor did they address the literature or opinions of recognized expert in the field, apparently.

In any case, you might disagree but you're wrong that this article does not address it or fails to give it due attention.
Sadly, both could be true at the same time...
Haha, ok this blows my mind a little more now. This definitely helps me conceptualize the problem a bit better, even if I’m still not satisfied with it. I still feel like there is a better solution, like giving 0 a sign or something.
When I'm asked by my boss to estimate, I break it down for him. This part here I'm confident is 1-2 days of work, this part here can potentially be tricky so could be 1 day could be a week, and this part here I can't tell without digging into the details.

If this is based on a customer request I'll try to find some restrictions he could take back to the customer to narrow the scope and provide a better estimate assuming those restrictions.

Most of the time this is all he needs.
Those reports are fraudulently false - they said Electronic Arts was in the top 5 during the height of the EA Spouse Era.
No, but it is the government's.
The culture is shaped by history too
Occupy Wall Street 10 years on
I'm guessing it's 10k total hires not +10k net hires.
Poland was particioned between Germany, Russia and Austria. Eastern part fell under Russia and it is visible many years later. Things were slowly changing, but now PIS party won.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_A_and_B
The human. People all comparing it to humans here, but for humans to study art, be influenced by it and create derivative works, they have to invest their most precious resource: time. That makes all the difference.
> There's also a "Logan's Run" effect in play where if the population of newbies is so overwhelmingly large, they set the norms and elders don't even get a voice in many discussions - they may not even be in the same circles. I think this holds for both the internet and gay examples: young people do what is convenient to them and don't ordinarily look forwards or backwards, so you ended up with norms for, e.g., social media, shifting on cycles of about 4 years as new user cohorts entered and tried new products with no awareness of the previous ones.

Yup. The ratios are just bad. On the 'understanding the impact of living on the digital world on one's life stages' aspect, we're looking at ratios of about one elder per 20,000 students at best. Then consider of us 5000, there are plenty of variables that might mean somebody can't help teach. Either they have no education background, aren't people people, aren't alive anymore (RIP Aaron Schwartz), or can't understand the average person's life experience well enough to offer any practical advice (I can't see Zuck having many good ideas here; he's too busy exploiting the situation for personal gain).

Which is another problem: The people who would be most helpful for this particular problem are those in the 5000 kids/earliest adopters who spend the most time around normal people (as opposed to academia or SV), because they're going to have the best ideas of how to adapt the digital world to work for the average citizen who has to work around things like trying to keep up with tech while raising 3 kids and working 2 jobs. But those people are also the group with the least resources, time, and ability to find each other.

I'm surprised it isn't more of a shitshow, honestly.

> And I think that's kind of suggestive of what a healthy culture is, really: it's the part that can survive to old age, which by its nature means it is usually a little more buttoned-up than what a young person craves.

I'd expand this and say a healthy culture can be transmitted and has something to offer for different stages of life. Which is where I think geeks have some issue: Because we're so forward thinking/future oriented + our greater social acceptance is so new, we don't even conceive of ourselves as being a culture, and we can be kind of disdainful of tradition and history efforts.
This is the "civilization will collapse before we can get around to reducing our CO2 output enough" argument. Wasting time and money building reactors instead of spending that on renewables brings collapse nearer. If we can't beat the deadline with renewables, we can't beat it at all. Beating the deadline might not be possible, but we will not know until we do, or collapse. Choosing collapse is always wrong.

Storage is easy. It is just now an overwhelmingly better use of capital to build generating capacity, to displace carbon combustion, than to build storage. It is only after you have more than enough to displace almost all your carbon combustion that storage is a very useful at all.
aw, I want to discuss the question in general, not specifically. Another time.
It's funny cause I've seen similar situation with people of wildly different social status. A big lawyer asking a court clerk for files. He grabbed them like a moron, folders all slipped and fell. We all saw it coming but assumed he wouldn't be so goofy. The young lady clerk still jumped to help him gather the files. His first word: You stacked them wrong you idiot. She smiled and he got away with being an impolite moron.

Now seeing a waitress act like this to a customer is even weirder :)
Singapore is a compact city-state, Malaysia has almost 500x the land area split across two major land masses to boot.

The classic divergence is North vs South Korea, which were practically identical until the Korean War. Historically the North was richer, now the South is orders of magnitude wealthier.
Security above output is a big deal. Put email behind the unreliable VPN on the magic corporate laptop of extra slow booting when we used to read it through an arbitrary web browser and revel in the increase in tail latency on replies. From minutes to days.
I’m interested but not totally sure what you mean here. Do you have a source or name for this intervals/calibration stuff?

I’ve always had issues when people are using hours instead of points. The one time we properly used points on a team it went really well.
Tapes are cheaper when sneaker footing the data around.
Svolt Energy develops solid-state batteries for EVs to reach over 1,000 km range
Not exactly the same but there's the legendary McDonald's lawsuit after some customer burned his finger after dropping his coffee.
AI Art Is Challenging the Boundaries of Curation
> How many people who cut off a limb and regretted it would stick around the forum that fed their compulsion to do it?

Maybe many more then you would think. First of all of there are others with regrets they are most likely also found there. Second to warn others. Thirdly to vent.

I agree that the evidence is not the highest quality but i have a hard time imagining a more involved study design that would pass by any ethic board.
DT fusion, which most of these efforts are focusing on, utterly sucks for use in space. It produces heat in materials, just like fission, except at far lower power/mass and with way more complexity.

As for the future, beamed power will work out to interstellar distances, so energy sources other than our Sun (and other stars) aren't necessarily required.
For personal use, I’ve had good luck storing things in files. Then when I need those those things, I read the files.
Ouch good luck for it, hope it works out. You've passed the committee I'm guessing?
I think overall the challenge of the problem of evil for LDS is different from that of the Christian tradition. Christians believe there is just one God who created the physical universe, and created the life within it (either directly or by setting up laws that would lead to the inevitable outcome of life), and in a very real sense foreordained all that suffering and pain knowing that it would come.

The LDS church, on the other hand, teaches that "As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be". I'm not familiar enough with LDS teaching, but if their god was once like us, then that means that this god did not create life, given that this god was a living thing before having the power to create life (and is this the same for that god's god? And the god of that god? And so on?). That suggests to me that this god is not the creator of physical reality (contrary to what Christians think), and not the original creator of life, and therefore is not as obviously responsible for a physical reality full of suffering as is God for Christians. The LDS god did not set up the original rules, and so can't be as responsible for them. That being said, the god of the LDS does seem to be very powerful, so that would give rise to some forms of the problem of evil.

These are just some poorly informed thoughts, and there's a lot I don't know about the LDS church.
plus:

* Put them oncall on Xmas when they are new to the team (because teams are like army where the newcomers must suffer)

* be pedantic and hysteric in code reviews

* have meaningless processes that drag for hours. E.g. iteration planning that goes on for 2 days

* enforce nebulous "principles" (e.g. anything by RC Martin) because manager that hasn't touched code in a decade went to a show of him and was "impressed"

* have clueless architects design systems and processes. Specially anything microservices-related.

* have lesser engineers run the teams and processes. The kind that is good in Public Relations but have little or no real skills

* have id-politics matter more than anything else. E.g. most important problem this week being why women employees got a pink promotional cup and how is that discrimination

* do not allow access to web mail and a gazillion other sites because "security"

* do not allow local code (if you see this - run) and instead promote "dev" in remote controlled envs

* foster a blame culture (who did that?)

* foster a toxic culture where politics run the place

* fire good engineers and keep the above mentioned Public Relations ones

* have and promote managers that are good in gaslighting and not much more

* work for managers and with colleagues that you'd advise your kid to stay away from because they cannot be trusted

* hire titles with no real experience and many ego issues and push them hard through the ladder. Classic example PhDs straight from uni.
Google Docs also does that [0].

[0]: http://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-C...
I don't get why people immediately scream "p-hacking" and "cherry-picking data" when the simpler explanation is that for women over the age of 35 their own fertility issues dominate to the point where the effect of male age is lost in the noise. If women have less difficulty conceiving, it stands to reason that other factors are easier to discern. Which in no way would invalidate the existence of those other factors.

On top of that, why would this be surprising to anyone? Sperm quality decreases with age, and there is such a thing as andropause.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11850741/
This thread now spans from the predictable 4channer talking about racial IQ all the way to this person talking about how sub-Saharan Africans were prosperous due to working less than 40 hours.

This conversation officially wins my "this oughta be good, just from the title" award. Reader, ye be warned, you'll find nothing of value here.
From the Hague Convention of 1907 regarding ‘the Laws and Customs of War on Land’:

Article 25
The attack or bombardment, by whatever means, of towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings which are undefended is prohibited.
I think the mismatch is partly that your early experiences (family, teachers, and team leads) are with leaders who literally know more than you about most topics and could do any task they’re asking you to do. That imprinting is strong.

Then, when you get to interact with Directors and VPs who have teams across 5-20 disciplines and the senior leader could be an expert in a maximum of one of them, you start to question why this person can’t do your job and therefore think, they must be an idiot.

They might be, but it’s more likely they’re past the point where they are more subject matter expert in the field than the people they lead.
Used to use zettlr, but now I run a BookStack instance. Honestly the perfect wiki for me.
"Ripped" would infer they were taken by force.

I think "purchased from Benin slave traders" would be more accurate.
There are some screenshots on their site: http://prima.eu.org/big-picture/
> A total nightmare for project management.

If there is not enough information to make informed schedules, the only reasonable option is to DO MORE RESEARCH, not guess. Better still is to not try to create some master plan that requires things like this to be known at all.
Gremlins release v0.1.0 – Mutation testing in Go
The involvement of Africans in the slave trade is conspicuous in its absence from the article. Whenever that fact is obscured, we promote the false perception that slavery is the fault of one race in particular. This feeds into modern attitudes, especially in the US, of innate racial good or evil and inherited guilt or grievance based on skin color. Teaching the full history of slavery, i.e. it was practiced with all its cruelties by every race of people who ever lived, is a necessary building block to healthy race relations. I think it is important to share this knowledge wherever it is clearly absent.
I did not say IPs are PII, I said IPs according to GDPR are personal data.
But you can’t access Sqlite over the web.
China spent the last two years demonstrating that they're "fair weather partners" when it comes to trade. And winter is coming.

So obviously it's not bad _per se_ to rely on China ; but if it's not possible to diversify sourcing, this is begging for a disaster next time whatever geopolitic hits the fan.
It reduces volatility, it doesn't eliminate it. There will still be days when the sun and wind aren't out in a large enough fraction of places that there will be a shortage. It is less likely, but it will still happen. Factories can't just shut down, people can't just choose not to charge their cars or boil their kettles if there's a shortage.
> Right, so my point is that hacking everyone playing the CTF or the infrastructure is similar to running rm.

It’s really not. rm is destructive, hacking competitors or infra to collect flags isn’t.
Nobody should be violently persecuted unless they have violently hurt other people first and our government quite often disregards human rights.

As for gays, our government haven't intervened (at least publicly) when gays reportedly got violently persecuted in Chechnya. Also our government often doesn't notice hate speech towards gays (hello, Milonov) or punishes rather mildly when it does notice.

Still, I don't think our government thinks that gays should be violently persecuted, it currently only opposes people going to children and saying that homosexuality is normal.

There is a couple of draft laws basically striking out 'children' in the previous sentence, we shall see how things will develop.
Old imperial divisions are also very visible in Romania. The former Austro-Hungarian part is visibly more prosperous than the old Ottoman part, even though the capital Bucharest is located in the latter.