skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting. Thank-you. Could you elaborate on the next piece from this idea?

For example, from jaati and varna, what follows from that? Admittedly, a vague question but wanting to learn a bit more.

Just saying this is the first perspective on HN I have read about caste being inaccurate, and wanting to understand this fresh context.
I'm not an audiophile, actually. There's no point, IMHO the most limited component of the system (with the highest actual threshold) would be my ears, and I know why: lots of exposure to loud music of various kinds over several decades.
This is just due to the way that the OP posted it, not how it was originally published. This website forces HTTPS using ChaCha20-Poly1305 standard.
Yup, gotta trust the words from some unknown from internet, with 0 proof. As if we're all there, up in your head, able to hear every single thought you have and determine that what you say is pure, unfiltered truth.

If many manage to use GraphQL and be content with it, that should be an indicator to you. But, you chose it isn't and that you'll merely display how politely negative you can be.

Thank you.
Posted here a half dozen times too.
When you say it doesn't support tables, can you provide more info? GraphQL can return lists of course.
As far as I know experiments of CBT + psychedelics have shown very promising results for treating PTSD and certain kinds of depression, specially in people that are about to die and need to come to terms with that.

These are not microdosing experiments though. The usual way it is handled is that you get a few weeks of CBT then you get half a dose and the following week you get a full dose followed by more weeks of CBT. There is no placebo effect here that's possible because, well, it is impossible for someone to believe they have taken a full dose of pscychodelic drugs and not feel anything. But you still have a control in this case because you have a group that goes through CBT and another group that goes through CBT + drugs.

In fact, from these studies there have been very little "bad trips", mostly I guess because you have the half-dose session and then the full dose session in a very controlled environment and so on. These experiments are obviously done quite responsibly.

So I think you're mixing things up a little bit and I would suggest doing a little more research in the topic. Psychodelic therapy, at least the kind that is being explored seriously is not really done through microdosing.
No because there's very little reason we cannot do both simultaneously. Space is no more the opportunity cost of climate science than any other thing we do on earth.
Give them their money back.
You’re gonna need a lot more evidence than “it was explained to me”…

It’s trivially easy to find ancient soap recipes and revert them at hope. Or one can buy Aleppo soap, or Castilian soap from specialty markets.

It’s not like there’s some lost secret, or extinct ingredients - it’s soap, and it’s been a pretty simple thing to make for thousands of years.
I think not for distance and time. I’m not a physicist but Nima Arkani-Hamed phrases the minimal distance measurable as a physical process limited by QM and GR effects. To probe smaller and smaller distances one needs more and more energy, and past some minimum distance the energy becomes so great your experiment collapses into a black hole. That’s just what QM (small wavelength->high energy) and GR (force of gravity compared to the other forces, enough energy and gravity dominates) tell us. Since energy is related to time by a symmetry I think minimal time is implicated in the same way. A better interpretation than minimal discrete values of the universe is we are butting up against experimental limitations. An old concept that doesn’t necessarily mean the world is limited in the same we way are.
Later?

Pope Gregory I declared baths should be only used to cure the sick. Of couse, we read his words different today (like he allowed it) but bathing was considered sinful. There was a belief that bathing invited demonic possession and that the dirt, sweqt, etc. actually repelled demonic forces.

In my part of the world, there are still stories how church was telling people that you should take a bath only on Đurđevdan (and joke is that only Gypsies followed that).

You do know that the devil is lurking from the water don’t you? I guess folk tales cannot be used as proof since they are no written records.
In Germany, all cars mandatorily need to be inspected after two years, or else you're not allowed on the road at all. And they really mean it: I once missed the two year mark by a month or so, and got a nice fine from the officials (luckily, though, in car country Germany, all car-related fines are ridiculously low).

My car has a blinker light in the outside mirrors, the right one of which stopped working after I reversed into a wall with the mirrow. I replaced the mirror glass but didn't bother about the light, given that the ones in the front and back of the car worked perfectly fine. Well, that was enough for them not letting me pass the inspection - I had four weeks to get it fixed, otherwise my car would have been off the road. The repair set me back almost 500 Euros, for an effing small blinker light...
I hope this seriously bites Musk in the ass. I hope he's forced to buy it, and then it's such a pain in the ass for him that he immediately tries to turn around and sell only to discover no single entity or investment group wants to privately own Twitter. I hope he makes another dumbass tweet that results in another legal action removing him as the president/ceo/whatever and then decides to just take Twitter public again so he can divest himself.

I hope Twitter users don't have to deal with too much chaos as a result, but if it half bankrupts an idiot who openly accused a rescue diver of being a pedophile, despite knowing nothing about the man, and merely because he told Musk not to interfere with rescue operations, then let Twitter deal with a little chaos.
Your comment has a very strong connotation of "therefore history writing is either to be mistrusted or even downright wrong." You argue that history writing is a tool of the state or other power structures rather than honest analysis by competing professionals. That interpretation does not follow from the understanding that history writing is construction of narrative.

I think you are unreasonably critical of historical writing and are presenting a false claim about what historical writing today looks like.
Yeah not sure what the source of this homeopathic type logic is. It's very strange, and applies to basically nothing else. So I'd like some pretty extraordinary evidence before I believe that taking deliberately ineffective doses of anything has any effect. And, good luck producing a dose-response curve...
And their takeaway was that there needs to be some advances to smooth out the annoyances, not that the idea itself was flawed.

Think of glasses. Glasses are used to increase people's ability to see up to the human norm, not beyond it, but besides that difference there's very little to distinguish eyeglasses from an embedded magnet on a fundamental level. Both are about increasing your capability, but nobody is attributing people getting tired of wearing glasses as a problem with technology itself and transhumanism as opposed to a limitation of that specific technology, and it's just treated as a downside you attempt to mitigate because the positives are to well understood and accepted.
Agreed. For such explanations, I generally turn to Brian Beckman: https://youtu.be/ZhuHCtR3xq8
Hasura :)
I think the general idea is that it's a graph rather than relations.

You "join" by using the parent ID (e.g. employerID of parent container to get employees). This can (and often) introduces an n+1 problem unless you watch for it and use dataloaders.

Not saying this is great or anything. :)
It's weird...I've been a customer since 2000, and still shop there daily. I hear a lot about counterfits and terrible quality, but my purchases are almost universally perfectly satisfactory for my needs. I think I'm using Amazon differently from others, but I can't figure out the difference.
Wind and photovoltaics just skip the heat part in the cycle. Electricity is generated without converting heat to kinetic energy.

This is also the case of helion energy fusion solution. Aneutronic fusion with direct energy conversion. No heat in the cycle.

The issue with these thermal power solutions is the waste heat. It means you need water nearby to cool down your reactor. Side effect: thermal pollution, raising the temp of rivers and/or coastals water is detrimental to ecosystems. Plus: how do you deal with droughts?
Open Educational Resource. And maybe Sold Educational Resource?
Hardly rogue. In his own words - his job was to supervise the radar system and make judgement calls. He judged the detection of a single "missile" to be a false positive sincea a NATO would have consisted of a massed first strike rather than a single bogey. Petrov simply did his job.
There is a lot of misunderstanding about the medieval ages, starting with the tired and utterly wrong “dark ages”
I believe modern heat --> electric conversion systems use the turbine and several other additional heat --> electricity recapture systems to approach 50-60% efficiency at large scales so they can beat the Carnot Limit of just the turbine engine.

https://www.powermag.com/efficiency-improvements-mark-advanc...

That claims 64% for a gas turbine.

LFTR presentations said they could use the brayton cycle I think due to high temps, I'd imagine a fusion would also have the temps to enable brayton cycle and several other tricks to achieve good efficiency.

Remember, what matters at scale is cost cost cost. Turbines might not be sexy, but if they are cheap, then that is what you use.
What? Server rendered content is infinitely more cacheable, maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying.

In the boring old days we just did it all on the server and used the semantics of HTTP to handle caching ... it worked great.
I'd be more surprised had they detonated. Unlike conventional bombs the actual assembly is very delicate and minor misalignments will render them inoperable. They could blow up because they contain explosives but won't produce fission.
I love bookstores (like most people in this thread, I assume) and notice the mtv-ization where they sell more stuff that book people like than actually books (puzzles, games, journals, art supplies).

I wonder if this is a spiral to try to stave off eventual closure or the future where there will be one shelf of books and the rest “book culture.”

Nothing makes me happier than going into a book store and seeing a huge stack of outbound internet sales to be mailed out.
The advice my adult children remember most from me, especially when visiting rarely-seen family, is "Don't try to be funny, try to be nice."
I use GraphQL (postgraphile) for my admin backend crud. This allowed me to do some incredible fast development with only minimal customisation (couple of PostgreSQL functions). Anything outside the happy path is handled by a REST API. Maybe we shouldn't think in absolutes, eg: only use GraphQL. For the same reasons I use an ORM, and raw queries where it matters most. The cliché holds true: use the right tool for the job.
I’d agree with this if OP was getting paid, but they’re doing this for free on their own time. If it’s stressing them out, politely say no, and if Pushy Requestor continues to push, block them.

You don’t need to take time to rationally explain your thought process to every random dickhead on the internet.
Well, neither were fully armed armed - fortunately!

There were multiple arming points / switches. One bomb was ‘Safe’, and the other ‘Armed’ (but with an intermediate high voltage switch ‘off’). Bits of the latter one are still buried 150ft down, including nuclear material:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
Those are just as contingent as the evidence described in the blog post.
The point is that “bad” isn’t a useful descriptor of anything regarding their real-life applications, because it simply doesn’t mean anything. Without more context, saying something is bad is just saying you dislike it with intent to present it as objective rather than subjective.

For example:

1) “Haskell is bad because it’s too theoretical”
2) “Haskell is bad in corporate environments, as its roots in mathematical and academia make it harder for people to get productive with it compared to something like Java or C#”

The difference is clear. In my opinion it’s best if people who care about what they’re saying avoids #1, and instead frames their criticism like in #2.

Note: those examples don’t reflect my actual opinion on Haskell, it’s just something I came up with while writing this.
Entheogen is even worse, that specifically means psychoactive drugs used for religious purposes. And guess what: nicotine is an entheogen!
Oh, I think I would describe that as Lisp also being the language of its macro system. Whereas the language used in Template Haskell is not Haskell.

Similarly to how the C preprocessor doesn't use C as its 'scripting language' but some weird unholy concoction.

But that doesn't have much to do with being dynamic or 'runtime'. You could hack up a pre-processor for C that uses C. (It just would be unwieldy.)

Btw, many Lisps are compiled. I don't think `eval` is necessary to make a Lisp; but it is indeed rather common.
Thank You. I should have read the article more carefully. It does state the reactor "consists of a 76-foot-tall, 15-foot-wide cylindrical containment vessel that houses the reactor". Looks like NuScale's SMR doesn't fit my mental model of SMRs. I was thinking SMRs size that could easily fit within a 40ft container.

>particularly that factory infrastructure needs to come on line and site licensing need to happen, and then the plant needs to get commissioned after it is built (which takes longer for the first).

Oh Ok. So it is only the "design" that has been approved. ( Again I should have read it carefully ). No wonder why it is taking so long.

Thank you for the reply.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this isn't the same kind of thing as Carmack's (edit: not Carmack's) legendary inverse square root function [1], which has that 0x5F3759DF constant (edit: magic number):

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

float Q_rsqrt( float number )
{
long i;
float x2, y;
const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

x2 = number \* 0.5F;
y = number;
i = \* ( long \* ) &y; // evil floating point bit level hacking
i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?
y = \* ( float \* ) &i;
y = y \* ( threehalfs - ( x2 \* y \* y ) ); // 1st iteration
// y = y \* ( threehalfs - ( x2 \* y \* y ) ); // 2nd iteration, this can be removed

return y;
}
I consider a cheeseburger healthy.

The custom of serving them with french fried potatoes and a milkshake or cola gives them a bit of guilt by association, but meat, some cheese, some vegetables, and a serving of bread? Don't see an issue at all.
Not the GP but I'll be more concrete in the other direction.

The Roman Empire is located in Europe, is more recent than "time immemorial", and I'll claim that they didn't regard the various barbarians in Europe outside its sphere of influence as culturally unified with them.
'cookies.sqlite is most definitely not a "text file"'

I have a mildly differing opinion. Are not all files, by default, text files? It is just the way the text inside them is structured that determines their actual format?

edit: I might be opening a can of worms here, because I have a suspicion people will start pointing to extensions and whatnot.
Nothing prevents you from compressing the smaller response of what you asked for.
I think they were complaining that you couldn’t get back a query with unknown keys like a “select * from my_table” GQL equivalent
You'd want https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing-up-my-sleeve_number
Wait, you people bring a toothbrush and roll of toothpaste around with you everywhere? Do you only ever eat at your house or office?
The competition is for cost. I don't mind more competition, I think it's great that there are alternatives. However, I don't see nuclear as particularly competitive on that front as it is currently, by far, the most expensive option. The only thing that comes close is natural gas. Which has seen pretty high price hikes of course.

Low carbon energy generation is basically happening with or without nuclear. At this point, we're past the point where people need to study the cost of wind or solar. They have proven much cheaper than anything else and they are being mass deployed all over the world as a result of that.

Nuclear, not so much. A few deployments here and there. Usually at prices that are way over budget and years late as well. Maybe smaller nuclear plants will change that. They have a lot to prove. I wouldn't bet the future on that. It's a wild card at best.

Meanwhile, the future is now. Lots of countries are going carbon neutral in the next decade or so and mostly without the help of nuclear power. No need to wait for small reactors to work or not. If they do somehow work at a price point that isn't prohibitively expensive, great! But not a problem if this is just the next chapter in nuclear power's long history of being too costly and complicated to be practical.
The explanation for the FOIA process is that public bodies routinely get intransigent about FOIA requests and violate the statutes. Read upthread: I have worked with Bernstein's FOIA attorneys before. Like everyone else, I support the suit, even as I think it's deeply silly for Bernstein to equate it to Bernstein v US.

If you made me guess about why NIST denied his FOIA requests, I'd say that Bernstein probably royally pissed everyone at NIST off before he made those requests, and they denied them because they decided the requests were being made in bad faith.

But they don't get to do that, so they're going to be forced to give up the documents. I'm sure when that happens Bernstein will paint it as an enormous legal victory, but the fact is that these outcomes are absolutely routine.

When we were FOIA'ing the Police General Orders for all the suburbs of Chicago, my own municipality declined to release theirs. I'd already been working with Topic on a (much more important) FOIA case from a friend of mine, so I reached out asking for him to write a nastygram for me. The nastygram cost me money --- but he told me having him sue would not! It was literally cheaper for me to have him sue my town than to have him write a letter, because FOIA suits have fee recovery terms.

I really can't emphasize enough how much suing a public body to force compliance with FOIA is just a normal part of the process. It sucks! But it's utterly routine.
Losing != stealing
One improvement is to take the entire batch and blend it up, so that at least doses from that batch are consistent. Still doesn't help inter-batch consistency for scientific studies, of course.
Isn't corrosion from molten hot salt still an unresolved issue? Or at least a potential problem as big as loss of coolant in PWRs?
> It can save you bandwidth. Get what you ask for and no more

On the other hand, you tend to do "select * from FOO" and get more data from the db, because you don't know what the caller will ask for.

I don't think I've even seen a codebase filter the SQL based on the caller. I think I tried doing it once and it was a pita. (Please correct me if it's easy).
wontfix and close. If you're feeling generous invite them to make a PR. You don't owe anyone an explanation. Let them fork if it suits them.
You can do something like this. This query can be created and run on the client:

```
const SAMPLE_JOIN_QUERY = gql`
query ($main_data_id: String!) {
mainData(
main_data_id: $main_data_id)
{
id
main_data_field_1
main_data_field_2
main_data_field_3
related_data{
related_data_field_1
related_data_field_2
related_data_field_3
}
}
} `;
```
That font you hate is coming back in style
Project access tokens (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/project_acc...) is what you need and they have been around for 2+ years
Yeah I could see that. A lot of people are not going to understand "data" as something concrete and "string" is going send them way off the path.
That’s clever!
Consider using sources like Filmot.com (YouTube) and ListenNotes (podcasts).
> As a user of Hacker News, I don't care that it's open-source, cross-platform or written in Lazarus.

Any piece of software being open source is generally a good thing, since it's less likely that such projects might die off and disappear without someone (even yourself) being able to maintain them, or even add features/fix bugs.

Being cross platform is also a great quality, especially since otherwise you might find yourself using different pieces of software on different OSes, which might be a bit cumbersome. For example, there is no Notepad++ on Linux (using Wine is a bit suboptimal) and so you might find yourself looking in the direction of something like Notepadqq, but obviously it might not give you 1:1 the same experience. That's not the case with something like Visual Studio Code, or even CudaText!

And finally, it's always great to see Lazarus software, it's one of the nicer ways to create GUI software and largely sidesteps some of the framework related issues that other languages face, thanks to its lcl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library

They actually have an entire gallery of software written with Lazarus/FreePascal and it's rather interesting to behold: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Free_Pascal
Coal is more expensive than solar even if the price of coal at the mine is 0.
> Ok, sure maybe it's smaller than a PWR behemoth. It's still solid fuel rod crap.

Yes, "solid fuel rod crap" same as used in every other production nuclear power plant? This SMR sounds like it might actually get built.

One of the biggest issue that SMRs try to solve is the inability of (western) nations to build nuclear plants - which itself has myriad causes, but a big one is the difficulty in building any massive facility without cost and schedule overruns
And another one here 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32298994

It seems to me that the nuclear lobby is particularly active these days. My impression is that the window for nuclear is rapidly closing. The alternative (wind, solar and batteries) is becoming cheaper and cheaper (even Texas is adopting it). Soon nuclear will be completely irrelevant.
What has this got to do with seeding a RNG?
> you guys end up just bouncing shallow questions and answers off each other, right?

Sounds kinda like HN
> it isn't far fatched that being massaged in oil could have been widespread

someone was doing the massaging, and it wasn't the same people who were being massaged
That’s a great thread. It mimics my (admittedly limited) experience with MongoDB and it’s interesting to hear that wasn’t an outlier.
> Be careful with anyone with a take that says some technology is 100% bad always.

This isn’t that though; the first sentence starts “GraphQL is great, but” and then the post lists first “the good” and then “the bad.” Even the provocative headline hedges with “kinda.”

I wish there was more of this sort of balanced discussion on HN. There is a tendency among devs at least in public toward trying to get others to use the tech they use and are excited about, which is understandable, but everything involves trade offs and it would be nice to hear more of those up front (as opposed to one day “mongo is the bomb” and the next “actually mongo is terrible to back to postgres for everything).
The person in the comments said the period is only ~233k, which is correct, because you are always taking modulo 233280. But it's also easy to verify experimentally:

let state = 6, iters = 0;
do {
state = (state * 9301 + 49297) % 233280;
iters++;
} while(state !== 6);
console.log("period is", iters, "iters");
//period is 233280 iters

If you instead took modulo 2^32, I believe the period would indeed be the maximal period, according to this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator#...