skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > It's way easier.

> Is that why power plants go years over time and hugely over-budget?

'Late and over-budget' sounds easier than 'has never been demonstrated'.
> Induced demand is still valid economic demand

That does not justify it.
> our complete lack of socialized safety net

The US spends a larger share of its GDP on its social safety net than Canada does.

What you're confused about is the difference between what a nation spends and what it gets for that spending. The US doesn't lack a social safety net, it has exceptionally incompetent government systems at the state and federal level while simultaneously spending a very large sum on its mediocre social safety net. US Government systems spend like European welfare states and the US doesn't get the same results from that spending.

If the poorest 1/4 of the population being covered by wildly expensive (for the taxpayer), free healthcare isn't part of a social safety net, then what qualifies exactly?

EBT (free food for the poor, aka food stamps) and Housing First are two other prominent social safety net programs. The US spends an enormous amount of money on EBT ($111b just at the federal level for 2021). The US housing first program was so successful it brought the US homelessness rate down to approximately where France and Canada are at.

Social Security and Medicare are social safety net programs, and the two largest by cost in world history. Neither program pays for itself properly, it's subsidized by taxpayers (and more so by the day).
https://www.jackfruit.ai - Automation and organizational tools for professional networking / job finding. Started to build it because I hated applying to jobs over and over again and was always forgetting where and to who I had applied.

What a lot of people don't seem to realize is that getting your dream job might be one to two connections away from you. Getting a referral for an interview at a company makes you 9 times more likely to get the job than someone who just applies. A lot of people think quantity is the answer to applications and interviews, but I believe its actually quality that counts. Our tool creates relations between your applications, contacts, and companies, helping you create relational pipelines and connections to the right opportunities.

The website is still in beta right now, but hoping to get a v2 version with better content and more automation. Right now, the user still has to do a lot of manual entry, which has led to some drop-off. Happy to answer questions or hear feedback!
Exactly.

And the real problem is the way humans decide sentience in the first place - by how much the machinery acts as if it were sentient. There is no other information - just our perception. If we imagine two agents, A and B, one sentient and one insentient, but both acting identically, we theoretically couldn't decide which one is which.

So whether or not there is sentience in a machine then becomes a question as unanswerable as whether there is something that exists outside the universe we can perceive. We cannot know what we cannot possibly perceive.
Have you ever worked with people in HR at a large (more than 1K headcount) firm? Your mindset is that of an engineer's and you are overthinking things. An HR person doesn't give two fucks about why you are leaving your previous company in a high demand field like software engineering as long as there are no obvious red flags.
Groan here we go again.

> Oh, yeah, just fine, not a hitch:

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

https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution

> The solution being: Ignore it, I guess?

I mentioned the solutions but didn't provide a link. here you go.

https://www.posiva.fi/en/index.html

> And we fight wars for peace too.

See the literature https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/kh05000e.html

> Not if you count the mining aspect.

Nuclear has rock bottom full lifecycle carbon emissions of 12 gCO₂-eq/kWh, including mining. C.f. 11 for wind, 40 for solar, 490 for gas, 800+ for coal. Hard to beat.

> Wind and solar are now 3 times cheaper or more

You're comparing the worst US nuclear builds with wind/solar without storage, transmission, overbuilds needed for storage, etc. LCOE is not an appropriate metric for systems costs. Never was. Lazard are a bunch of kooks. Look at Hualong One costs.

Details on cost comparison for deeply decarbonized grid here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.08.006
I've known about this chart for a long while, but recently I've become skeptical of it. What says that fusion would be a success even if that level of funding was reached? The most mature fusion reactor being built, ITER, is gigantic and it's not clear how it could be made cheaper or miniturized.
Fun fact[1]: the x86 instruction encoding (pre Pentium or so) is itself octal in organization. This is immediately apparent in the 2+3+3-bit structure of the ModR/M and SIB bytes, but looking at the opcode table that way is also helpful. The manuals stubbornly describe it in hex, though—you have to go way, way back to the Datapoint 2200 “programmable terminal” to find a manual that actually talks in octal, and that wasn’t even made by Intel! (The 8008 was commissioned from Intel by the original manifacturer as a “2200 on a chip”.)

Weird Intel history aside, everybody used octal in the old days. I don’t actually know why, but I suspect this goes back to how early binary computers used 36-bit words (later 18- or 12-bit ones) because that’s how many bits you need to represent 10 decimal digits (and a sign), the standard for (electro)mechanical arithmometers which (among other devices) they were trying to displace. So three-bit groupings made more sense than four-bit ones. Besides, as far as instruction encodings go, a 8-way mux seems like a reasonable size if a 16-way one is too expensive.

(Octal on the 16-bit PDP-11 is probably a holdover from the 12-bit PDP-8? Looking at the encoding table, it does seem to be using three- and six-bit groups a lot.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409889
Strange way to talk about the supposed Muslim women belief of modesty. In what implies that non Muslim women would not be modest...Did those teachings come from
a non-existent feminine Ulama?

In fact the excess garments of many Muslim women are dictated by Muslim men edicts. And at the end, has nothing to do with Religious beliefs, but instead cultural conditioning.
>The fraction of samples being verbatim reurgitations is low

Copilot spitting out a function out of its training data with changed variable names to match those in your file(s) - and no one is actually testing what proportions of results those are - is still regurgitation.
yes, check out Yaglom's "Complex Numbers in Geometry" for a fairly complete treatment of this topic. You can extend the dual numbers and double numbers with their own special infinities, similarly to how the complex numbers can be extended to include a single point at infinity.
The solution being: Ignore it, I guess?

The waste is completely solid and can be safely buried and forgotten. Is that ignorance?
>to eliminate these you-are-not-allowed-to-do-that kind of exception.

I'm not a mathematician by any stretch, but I never understood the inability to divide by zero to be some arbitrary rule, rather that it's just simply not possible to proof (because you can't multiply any number by 0 to get a non-zero answer). Then again I tapped out after Calculus so maybe that's just ignorance on my part.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accident...

How many industries are there where the list of notable accidents has such few fatalities? I mean, have you actually looked at the accidents on that list? The vast majority of them are basically garden-variety industrial accidents--and there's only so many because people are minded to exhaustively list every mishap that occurs at a nuclear power plant in a way that they're not for, say, a coal power plant.
The Bekenstein limit would seem to imply that the numbers / probability spreads we deal with in the real world are not infinite precision and therefore form a countable subset of R
"The results suggest that, in the short term, NSS use may lead to small reductions in adiposity
without any significant impact on cardiometabolic risk. There is suggestion of negative health
effects with long-term use, but the evidence is ultimately inconclusive."

I won't be getting rid of my Coke Zero any time soon.
I'm not sure how this is possible. You can only choose EBS backed storage for RDS Postgres. Do you mean 'magnetic' storage? That's not tape.
When I was in school, the professor of our operating systems class told us about a virtual memory project implementation that had the swapfile on tape. It worked, but it wasn't anything you'd actually ever use.
Funny how you’re bringing China, while completely ignoring the worlds most aggressive country: the US. You bring up the “genocide”, while again ignoring much worse situation in American prisons - two million victims, all kinds of systemic human rights violations and abuse, documented forced labor on mass scale. But sure, China bad.
> Induced demand is still valid economic demand, and congested roads are still being used productively. There's a reason why sane governments don't regularly "improve" roads by removing lanes.

I guess that depends on your perspective. I see expanding freeways as enabling further sub-urban growth, which is fundamentally unsustainable (from an energy, logistics, and municipal funding perspective).
Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis
> they're not doing more to speak out about FB's bullshit

"Actions speak louder than words".

I care very little about what they are they "speaking out" about. My point is that Facebook's reputation is not new. Its privacy abuses, the practices for exploiting user data for their own benefit, their "move fast and break things" mentality that applies even to things that affect the social fabric of the whole world... everything has been out there in the open for at least 2010, when the first "delete Facebook" campaign came up.

So, it's not like people went to work there without knowing what they signed up for. The were not being offered generous compensation packages to work on ways to make the company less abusive. Their UX designers were not being hired to find ways to make users less dependent on the app. No developer was rewarded for finding a clever ways to determine if the user was a teenager and therefore unable to have access to the website. No data analyst got any bonus because they implemented a system that reduced data collection and increased user privacy. Quite the opposite, actually.

> You have no idea if they contributed to fucked up shit

Anyone working on Facebook at a position that contributes to how the company operates and makes business is by definition working on "fucked up shit". Even the "cool open source projects". Even John Carmack while working at Oculus. Even the people working at WhatsApp who were from the beginning hoping to keep it clear from Facebook influence.

Anyone receiving a paycheck from Facebook should be aware that their money comes at the expense of a lot of societal harm. They might be even okay with it (it is a good paycheck after all) but anyone with a modicum of ethical conscience would simply reject to work there.
Well, it is not free: someone (which means you, the Spanish tax payer) will have to cover the bill.
I agree with your suggestion, but I don't know how we can reasonably do that.

At senior levels, it is very expected to put in an appropriate level of notice. My particular field is tight knit - we all know each other (life science). It seems the only way I could protect myself is to get an offer, accept it, start on say Monday the 25th and on Monday the 25th also - after I have sat down and gotten through security - send my boss a 'I am quitting' text.

What do you think? How can we make this advice work in the real world? or is it just an unperfect trade off?
I have always been partial to .uha, the files produced by Uwe Herklotz' UHARC archive utility. I mostly ran into them on pirated game rips downloaded from DALnet IRC in the 90s and early aughts. It's extremely slow, however.

If I was going to be packing lots of data I'd probably use mopaq (.mpq) which has support for LZMA and Huffman coding.
As long as you have a pointer index in the header for the start/end of every individual file I don't see why that wouldn't work.
Ok here’s a concrete one, ARM is experimenting with a brand new CHERI implementation that throws out a lot of “obvious” things that are supposed to be true for pointers and integers. The only way this has been able to work is that the standard is flexible enough to let C(++) work here. Rust is getting breaking changes to support the platform.
I think you meant to link https://lwn.net/Articles/899543/ (and HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32190032 ) instead of that single comment. It takes the security angle (which is frankly oversold these days, but that's another rant...), but also makes some very good points about the complexity they introduce --- which does, among other things, create security issues. FWIW, I don't hardlinks are a good idea either. (In FAT filesystems, it is possible to have "hardlinks" where the same data is referred to by multiple names, but those are actually errors and referred to as "crosslinked files".)

Without links, there's a 1-to-1 mapping between (absolute) paths and file contents. When operating on a path, there's no need to consider whether the API will act on the link or what it points to.
So the problem fusion is that is will be too good? Interesting take.
How one company has pigeon-proofed all of New York City
>This doesn't sound right

I don't know what to tell you. The code is pretty straightforward. You can deduct the mortgage interest on 375 k per person. You get twice the tax deduction with two people as one.

Regarding the general taxes you are correct in that it only helps if you have two people in different tax brackets. This is extremely common
And dang could moderate it!
In case you don't come back to this unless pinged, Etheryte posted a pastebin of it. The real hero.
France, with much less uninhabited land, and vastly more nuclear power plants, somehow manages to place waste in a way that's acceptable for an EU country, and neighboring countries.

(But of course "waste" is not really waste, it's fuel spent for a few per cent; a breeder reactor + reprocessing should burn it again and again and again.)
VLAs are not the only thing added to C since 1999.
What a blessed day! I'll take those odds as well.. not that I haven't so far either way.
> even though surely every one remembers that this isn't how it was presented at the time

That the vaccine wasn’t sterilising was disappointing. But I remember clearly, in February 2021, getting it because I didn’t want to get sick. To the degree people felt misled, at least in America, that’s on the back of the news diet they choose to consume.
What exactly are you advocating here? Anarcho-capitalism? The state outsourcing marriage and divorce law to religious groups (as is done in Israel or Lebanon, for example)? “Marriage privatisation”?

If we accept the reality that a “monopoly on violence” is the very definition of “the state”, 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.
And pay the price, there are tons of places that are stuck with some ossified “LLVM 3.2” toolchain or similar because they build their stuff on an unstable IR.
Link for the lazy: https://dailynous.com/2020/07/30/philosophers-gpt-3/
I am sure this is a deeply personal question.

Speaking only for myself, and after long and thoughtful deliberation, the answer is 'No.'
Pretty Printing (1979) [pdf]
It could be tape. But perhaps you’re right that it’s HDDs I guess? I assumed most of their normal storage is hard disk and not SSD. They’ve got a lot.

Edit: I checked. You’re 100% right. Well now my anecdote sucks! :) And now, seven years later, I’m back to start on wondering why it was so brutally slow.
Not always true. TfL in London was (before COVID) famously unsubsidised, recovering its entire costs from ticket sales and adverts.

So the idea that you have to subsidise public transport is crap, the oldest, and one of the largest public transport systems in the worlds managed just fine without a subsidy for over half a decade, and is only struggling because government policy basically banned the use of public transport for a year.
I think you may be conflating commodities (and real estate) with the concept of "store of value". Those can be stores of value as well, of course. But using your explanation, doesn't it also take resources to create baseball cards, art, books etc., yet we accept they can be a store of value.

And with most stores of value, there is no guarantee you will get out more or equal to what you put in.
is this how Elon is gonna raise the $
When I was 9 or 10 I once set virtual memory on my Macintosh to live in a 44MB SCSI cartridge drive. It was brutally slow.
How would you do sqrt(-1) in that case?
A ten+ years ago they began demanding ID in our parts.
What an absurd list.
It is no coincidence that once china brutally overtook power over Tibet it soon afterward deverted tibetian rivers to flow into china and away from their normal southernly trajectory
I think people often conflate consciousness with the perception of consciousness (or consciousness of consciousness, or meta-consciousness).

Imagine a being that is "conscious* of some experience, but lacks the ability of reflecting about the fact that it has just witnessed an experience. Is such a being "conscious"? Answers will vary but I suspect they vary because people are answering different questions. Some are thinking about the meta-consciousness and some about direct consciousness.
Large amounts of sugar are so bad for you that it would be pretty obvious statistically if sweeteners were anything like as bad and they'd be banned.

Somewhat like how if cars were invented today they'd be deemed insanely dangerous.
These are yours:

> A much more cohesive description of Thiel without the internal contradictions (a facist who is a nationalist and a libertarian and a white sepremacist and a technocrat and a globalist elite etc etc) is that of a neoliberal elite capitalist

>my primary thesis - namely that the author provides an inaccurate picture of Thiel's idealogy

What I’m saying:

You have no way of knowing the underlying “ideology,” or lack thereof, just as the author doesn’t know either. You seem to think that I’m defending the author, when what I’m saying is you’re BOTH wrong for the SAME reason.

I said some other things, but they aren’t the subject of your most recent comment.

Understanding this, reread my comments and respond if necessary.
Everyone I know who constantly harps on aspartame, sucralose, MSG, etc. also drinks an alcoholic beverage 5 or more times per week and never exercises beyond an occasional meandering neighborhood walk. The latter is astronomically more likely to harm them, but it's easier to think that they're being "healthy" simply by avoiding artificial sweeteners.
Levels are another thing that are management done poorly, like management by stack ranking. "Levels" are usually made up with little concern for actually creating value or helping employees be awesome. Rather, they serve as a formalism for forcing objects of various shapes and sizes through round holes because 0) they can't think of anything better and 1) other large companies do it, so it must be right.
No, it's not "too good".
Yes I think you can just save the readonly doc to a new writeable doc anyway.
It's funny that the article uses quantum mechanics to argue that complex numbers are "real", since I would argue that quantum mechanics shows that irrational numbers aren't "real".

Quantum mechanics belies the idea of space bring a continuum and so you cannot actually physically manifest numbers like sqrt(2) and pi, because Euclidean right triangles and circles do not actually exist.
There's a website out there that barely publishes any content, looks like an ugly Blogspot blog, has zero full-time employees, and is making 7-figures per year with just display ads.

And I'm betting that 99% of people reading this have never even heard of the site.

Here's a full breakdown.
Right? And that’s a double whammy. You’re minimizing the statement you want to make, and you’re minimizing your place in that conversation.
> move to creating and using new domains

This is a decades-old spammer trick. Google used to not rank brand new domains very high for this reason.

It's hard not to think that the only reason Google abandoned most of its old site ranking heuristics was that they were filtering out too many sites with lots of Google ads. The spam sites now infesting Google's first-page results don't look very different from the spam sites I saw back in the early 2000's. (There's more JavaScript, but modern search spiders run every page in a VM before reading the DOM, so that doesn't fool anyone.)
I don't mean to suggest that animals don't also have consciousness, or that it's not important to explaining their behavior too.
There’s a lot of platforms where you might want to do this. If you’re programming baremetal the “address 0” might be a physical address that you expect stuff to exist at, so it might be relevant to use the bit pattern 0xffffffff instead. If you’re targeting a blockchain or WASM VM you may not also not have memory protection to work with, just a linear array of memory. And some machines don’t even have bit patterns for pointers, like say a Lisp machine.
Yes, but accountability for spreading false information is a thing as well.

What if someone says to take some drug 'because it's safe' - when it's not?

I say let the lawsuits begin.

Or better yet, have some kind of basic regs.

Whenever anyone talks about 'health' or 'finance' in the commons, they had better be very clearly indicating that 'they don't know what the F they are talking about' and that people ought to 'talk to a doctor/accredited financial advisor' first and that 'following this advice could lead to illness/bankruptcy' etc..

I would love to see theses turds have to follow the same regs drug companies do: "This diarrhea medicine may cause X, Y, Z and A, B, C etc."
I am very interested in apps like this but a very small landing page with almost zero explanations or demos and immediately wanting me to sign up, is the best way for me to navigate away.

Either have a demo account with ephemeral in-browser storage so people can experiment, or allow people to experiment anonymously first.

Again, I am super interested and will make an account anyway but I have to tell you, your landing page is bad. You can improve it.
Interesting, that from my reading it looks like using non-sugar sweeteners caused -570 calories daily intake reduction, but somehow just -0.71kg of body weight..

Edit: it is 570 kJ = 136 calories.
Different fats dissolve at rates that are temperature-dependent (which is why cold brew has a different flavor to espresso - a different subset of the oils in the bean have dissolved into the water). As a result, each brewing temperature would have a different rate of extraction for each fatty compound.

This is why temperature / pressure / flow rate are so important to good espresso - some of the heavier compounds taste very bitter and including much of them in the brew makes for an unpleasant drink.
The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions
I just wish they'd also avoided the phosphoric acid in it! Might not be full of sugar, but it's still bad for teeth.