skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a long time subscriber of the Atlantic. While I don't agree with everything they publish, I generally can agree with their logic. This article is really reaching though.

Considering the 40 year period in between the fatwa and his attack, I don't think this is a reflection of much except the truth that there are crazies out there that get set off every so often. When a far left trans woman tried to kill Kavanugh and murder two other justices*, no one said it's because we need to make fun of trans women more, or that far leftists have some inherent violence. Why does that change when it's foreigners? It's a privilege that only some of us have to defend our entire group whenever 1 in a billion does something terrible. As they say, some are more equal than others.

Some passages I have to take issue with as well;

>The ayatollahs have trained them well, and social-media disasters of recent years have reinforced the lesson: Don’t publish books that get you criticized

Really, is this the teaching of the ayatollah? After American employees refused to work on Mike Pence and Woody Allen's biographies?** After Chris Cuomos work was canceled?** To say that was all the result of the Irani religious grand leader is almost OANN levels of crazy. "Liberals are just doing this because their Muslim overlords want them to". Perhaps America should be more open and accepting of controversy, but that's a separate issue.

>PEN’s critics of Charlie Hebdo declared that its “cartoons of the Prophet must be seen as being intended to cause further humiliation and suffering.” The letter did not even attempt to criticize Charlie Hebdo on literary grounds.

But this makes sense. The point is that there are war torn regions that are the way they are largely due to western influence, and to come in after that and insult the few beliefs that comfort them is provocative. To expect them to be okay with it on 'literary grounds', while idealistic, is very divorced from reality. No amount of lofty ideals will give you free right to insult the beliefs of orphans you created without possible consequences. I'm a liberal, but I'm sorry this just makes no sense.

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/28/roske-sup...*

** https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/03/if-publishers-...

** https://nypost.com/2021/12/07/chris-cuomos-book-canceled-by-...
This is actually a good thing for bartenders (and their customers).

Imagine being a bartender and being told a list of drinks you weren’t allowed to make because the bar you worked for didn’t have a license for them.

Or being a customer and having the bartender say, “Sorry, we know that drink is popular, but they hiked up their licensing cost this year and we were weren’t able to license it. We have all the ingredients and our bartenders know how to make it, but we just don’t have the license.”
Nitpick, AFAIK (which is t far) the real crust-busters (e.g. Tsar Bomba) use yet a third stage of fissile material that gets rapidly burnt up at truly absurd neutron densities to get that last 40-90 Mt and as a result are dirty as all hell. The Soviets turned that weapon down from 100Mt designed yield to 50 because there was no way to keep it from just radiating everything.
I don't think you did a great job of arguing your point, because you conflated me with whoever you argued with in the past, and then are dumping your angst from them upon me.

I do think my post triggered you though. You may want to think about why you reacted so strongly to this.

> And here's the nuke everyone likes to drop as a bad faith effort to force others to specifically defend CP offenders rather than generically non-violent criminals.

It's not bad faith. There are roughly 750,000 sexual offenders in the US. In 2020, the US held around 1.2M prisoners, and has about 5.1M felons in the population at large.

> If you believe CSAM offenders can't be rehabilitated and their crimes amount to torture/abuse of children...

I don't just believe it. There are studies to back it up. Note that the recidivism rates for sexual offenders below are vastly underreported as sexual offenses are not as likely to be reported as other offenses.

https://smart.ojp.gov/somapi/chapter-5-adult-sex-offender-re...

The question you didn't answer, is how to fix it -- but instead, blasting me for providing one, when you don't have a good faith solution yourself.

> If we're going to cherry pick offenses, I'd like to point out owning scary mushroom or an undersized lobster is a felony as well.

At any point in time, any passed law might be considered unjust in the future. The founding fathers said they wanted to make a "more perfect union" as a response to the punitive laws made by the Crown. MLK said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but bends towards justice." as a response to the human injustices to slavery and Jim Crow.

But as a whole, we -- that is society -- believe that crimes against children should not be legal, and that's the view I take as well. Real CSAM (not any artistic rendering) means some child in real life is being abused in real life.
Asking for a raise or a promotion. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

There may be toxic environments where there is a large downside - losing your job - but I hope that is not the case for most who are reading this comment.
General Fusion was interesting until they repeatedly failed to meet their own timelines. Commonwealth Fusion Systems is meeting their own timelines thus far as their design is very run of the mill, other than the magnet technology, which they've already demonstrated.
Biggest regret was taking a hedge fund job and liquidating my 5k$ of amd because I didn’t want to deal with the paperwork
One point is to identify what work the team is supposed to be focused on, and help avoid arbitrary distractions.
Depends on the tool. Automation is cheaper than manual work when you make a lot of something, and so can spread the cost of automation of all the results. Some things are easier to automate than others, and automation tech is advancing all the time.
C'mon already..
due to the odds involved in winning lottery, lottery is basically a tax on people who do not know maths
A more modern example would be dashcams. The vast majority of products on the market are using the same sensors and the same SoCs, and the image quality difference is practically negligible between <$100 units and $400 ones. A dashcam with the image quality of even a GoPro doesn't exist, no matter how much money you are willing to spend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AnyhHl3_tE
The point is Apple was already reacting to an external pressure. They don't make up the rules. They were attempting to be open about it, and also give the user options to avoid it (don't use iCloud).

It's great that you've found an alternative that suits you but I think it's disingenuous to argue that Apple is the culprit.

Talk to your representative.
Absolutely amazing. I wonder, do games like GTA simulate those sounds as well, or is it pre-baked somehow?
Makes sense! Thanks for the explanation.
So it's also 69
Stretch timer - https://stretchtimer.netlify.app/timer.html

Built it when I needed to do some physio exercises. Could also be used for other workouts.

Built using Elm. Will put the Github link in my bio for a bit.

P.S. sticking stuff on Netlify is my go to for projects I can mentally abandon, without them going off line. This has been online for 3 years :-)
RSearch, a tool for building recursive topic-trees based on search results and comparing how the topic trees change every day. Similar to Google Alerts but more powerful and informative.
In one of Elon's video interviews with The Everyday Astronaut where they are staggered at the sheer scale of Starship, the booster and the launch/landing system, Elon said "We're not violating and laws of physics here... there's no reason this won't work".

Also: "Here at SpaceX we specialize in turning the impossible into just late".
Samsung and LG make poor quality appliances with fancy techno junk features. GE, whirlpool, and other US brands are a much better value. I'm sure they don't last as long as the ones built prior to the 1990s, but they're worlds better than Samsung and LG.
You'd find more support with sources
The point is that we need to maintain that stockpile and knowledge. If the US abandons its nuclear capability, there is nothing to hold others to their no first strike policy.
Explosions in the Sky or This Will Destroy You are fantastic post-rock bands (no lyrics). Try 'em.
That does not account for survivorship bias. It makes no mention of compressors from the 30s and 40s that were universally terrible, so none existed for long enough to evaluate their MTBF.

It also does not evaluate reliability of units from the 50s through the 2000s, which is apparently when everything became unreliable junk.

In order to properly control for survivorship bias, you need to tabulate reliability figures for each year (and for each price point). The handwaving assertion about manufacturing consistency does not do that in the slightest.
that seems to be the problem the post purports to solve?

if they don't handle the compliance hassle of FARS (and maybe DFARS), what is their value proposition?
I believe I have the possibility of helping undo some of the top down control & command that capitalistic computing has imposed upon us & help create more flexible & open new paths we can freely explore & make our own. I believe we can re open authentic computing experiences & reenable creative computing & endless possibility, and I think I might be able to help. My belief & social activism in owning the means of communication is, if not the material/software contribution I'd love to make, a voice towards the better un-dimmed un-grimmed future I hope we can make tracks towards.

Other basic good-personisms like humility, trying hard, being sympathetic to the vastness & teaming chaoticness & happenstanceness of it all, encouraging others, being inquisitive & hopeful... I strive to be a good cosmic consciousness, meager though I & we be.
Paying another country to do something is a transfer of value and power (money). It creates a relationship of dependence. You become dependent on them for labor. Dependence is a base form of power. An entities power over you is proportional to their replace-ability.

The individual business decision is sound, but the collective business decision is catastrophic. Not only does it create an economies of scale for adversaries instead of ourselves, but it gives them a lever to press to cause us pain. There is a national security disaster directly caused by the idea that paying Americans more is not a sound decision. Another country now has a say in what can be in our movies, and what our politicians, business persons, and celebrities can do or say. Add to this ambition, beligerance, and the prospect of war (a clear destroyer of value), and the picture gets even worse.

The answer is not handing out wads of cash to businesses like Intel that have failed to be productive by choosing business first (extract all the money possible) rather than values first (make the best products possible) practices, but to unburden our businesses with costs like healthcare and housing costs.

The minimum wage wouldn't have to be so high if there was cheap housing, good public transportation, abundant cheap healthy food, low debt policies, and government run health care. If you reduce the cost of living, you de facto reduce the cost of labor.

Housing policy that ensures limited supply and therefore high rents transfers wealth from laborers to owners, which is a transfer of money from businesses to landlords because the cost of rent is passed on to businesses in the form of wages.
I had a washer horror story personally: my Samsung high efficiency turned out to be great at trapping mold under the agitator plate. I realized that the drum was also covered with mold and I'd never be able to clean it without aggressive disassembly and scrubbing with a toothbrush in winter. Some of the plastic components were basically guaranteed to have mold forever. No way to get a brush in.

I replaced it with a Maytag commercial 2 years ago, the cousin to the speed queen, and have been very happy so far as there's no longer dozens of hidden compartments to trap mold, as far as I know...
I believe this is called fraud, but you do you.
Things have definitely changed. These appliances used to last decades but not anymore. The reason brands like Bosch had a famous name in the first place was the quality, it wasn't just ads.
> During those times, in some parts of Europe for example, renewable energy really is practically free.

Not merely "practically free", but actually negative price. i.e. they pay you to use electricity, because they need to get rid of it.

https://www.energycouncil.com.au/analysis/increases-in-negat...
yeah but the demon of IE6 was pretty much done
Honestly, Amazon having the floorplan to my house concerns me far more than the PLA having it. If a state actor wanted the floorplan to my house, they don't need a backdoor to my robot vac to find it out.
solar power here today & for way less money & anywhere in the world can have it. You expect Namibia to have a fusion reactor? Solar will the primary power source of the future.
I’m mostly pro capitalism / trade but would support moves like this for critical manufacturing and other production important for stability. Wars happen, see eg concerns raised around Europe and heating for this coming winter.
It was happening long before Apple explained how it was building a more privacy preserving method and told everyone how to avoid it...
Well, in the case of my refrigerator, I didn't do a 1:1 replacement. I got a much larger capacity one, about 30% more space, while not using any more energy (It actually uses less, but not really noticeable in my energy bill.)

My energy company gave be a multi-hundred dollar rebate to upgrade to an HE washer, so it was objectively better for my wallet to upgrade. Now I'm using less water, gas, and electricity when doing laundry. About a few hundred a year less on top of the rebate I got upfront.

The tankless water heater has no pilot light, so there's some savings there, but the real benefit was having unlimited hot water. Tankless water heaters are rated to last longer than tanks, allegedly, but I haven't had one long enough to know either way.

Incandescent to LED was a no-brainer, each pair of LED lights was about $30 at costco and use 14% of the energy. They have already more than paid for themselves, not including the money saved by needing to run the AC less.
Right, but these public e-scooters (like Bird, Lime, etc) all have license plates by default --- and that's why they generally won't pull you over unless you are breaking traffic rules. By all means, if it doesn't have a license plate at all I think you'd get pulled over in Germany also.
I always thought emails were immutable. I need to still believe that’s true.

Also I might be wrong but one major issue I’m having is the lack of deduplication. I sent a video once and then we talked about it for a few hundred emails and all of a sudden I had used up gigabytes of my google cloud storage.
Who Cares if it Scales?
> I have friends whose parents left them their primary residence. Mine did not.

I fail to see how that factors in to buying a property. You have friends who benefited from an inheritance.

> Owning a house in San Francisco is like having a standing offer of a million dollars to move to the Midwest.

Owning a house in the Midwest is like having an $xyz offer to move to <area with even lower house prices>. The offer exists whether you take it or not.

You could sell up and live in a tent too.

I don’t believe most people are willing to uproot their lives simply because they can get cheaper housing elsewhere. I’m sure it factors in but it’s rarely the driving motivator.

I think some of the points you made were fair. As a homeowner for instance you do generally have access to cheaper capital.

> You can borrow against your equity.

What equity? You advocated for putting as little as 5% down. You’re already going to have a higher than average interest rate and with such a small deposit it’ll be easy to tip into negative equity.

You only see the benefit years down the line and that relies on house prices rising in the short term.

> Because you can buy with so little down, having a lot of equity means it's pretty easy to buy again,

I’m not really following this argument. You’re suggesting buying with a small downpayment. You don’t have a lot of equity.
except batteries.
> Yes, there is plenty of planned obsolence out there, and one of the greenest things you can do is buy premium stuff that will last you a lifetime

The annoying part is that you can end up missing on new features.

I look at the Zojirushi rice cooker that I bought in college - a hefty purchase at the time - the Jaguar of rice cookers at a time when I should have been buying the $10 Black and Decker rice cooker. It's still with me, over a decade later, through countless moves, a handful of girlfriend (who all had opinions on it, interestingly), and at least 1,000 bowls of rice cooked.

The battery that keeps the time died (I could replace it, but I'd have to take it apart and it's technically non-replaceable), but other than that it's working perfectly. The rice is as good as it ever has been.

My oh most first world of problems? A while ago Zojirushi released rice cookers also function as pressure cookers in the same device. I'd love to upgrade so I can quickly make stews in it, but I cannot possibly retire my old one just because it's old.

Most likely I'm going to end up having two Zojirushis because well, rice goes pretty well with stew and you can't exactly make both simultaneously. And then in 10 years when they make one that's both a rice cooker, a pressure cooker, and an air fryer; I'll be having this monologue again.
How to Run a Standing Team Call
libtmux: Python API / Wrapper for tmux
Things with the manufacturing have degenerated way too much. My strategy - I either buy industrial stuff (preferably second hand so I do not have to re-mortgage) or the cheap which of course happens more often. Surprisingly cheap sometimes lasts way longer than the expensive consumer brands.
My daughter went vegetarian 8 years ago (aged 15) and we discovered Quorn products soon after. We regularly make a Quorn bolognese sauce for pasta, and she loves the Quorn herb and garlic chicken fillets. The latter are remarkably accurate and both her sister and boyfriend who are not vegetarian love the flavour and texture. I agree with the poster that commented wondering why Quorn isn't more well known and mycoprotein more popular. It seems like a more well established and faster path to faux-meat protein substitute at scale that could be acceptable to dedicated carnivores.
Token bucket rate limiting for your fingers
You're making an unnecessary distinction between intra-brand survivorship bias and inter-brand survivorship bias.

Both effects are at play in the real world, obviously.

Reply to edits:

>It also does not evaluate reliability of units from the 50s through the 2000s

"This isn't a massive cross-brand longitudinal study" is a pretty low-hanging critique.

Who could afford such a study?

>In order to properly control for survivorship bias, you need to tabulate reliability figures for each year (and for each price point).

Does any party have access to these data, realistically?
In the US there are large areas where gas powered vehicles are going to be needed for at least 3 or 4 more decades.
These concerns are intertwined!
"Everyone is welcome to have nothing to say for themselves", which various parties may or may not agree with. I personally find it acceptable, but generally I find that those at least questing for meaning or trying to find options are far far better & more interesting people in my book. Not required, but having something to offer this world is recommendable.
$140 / kwh of lifepo4 storage... TODAY.

6000 cycles

this is 2.3 cents per kwh for storage.

Where is the handwaving?
Options in general have asymmetry built in; that's the point of using them for risk-management. The idea is that the buyer pays a flat amount for the privilege of limiting the downside risk, and the seller is expected to know what they're doing and rake in that flat fee in exchange for being able to handle the rare-but-severe unlimited downside.
I believe the real answer is that they probably do list all the ingredients on the label, because the reason why Coke makes so much money only is only partially because of the ingredients. The real secret is the exact weights of ingredients, production methods, and branding.

In fact if my memory serves me correctly, an insider did in fact offer to sell the secret formula to Pepsi, who promptly reported it to Coke. After all, even if Pepsi did get the exact formula and reproduced it - they don't sell Coke, they sell Pepsi, and their market (presumably) prefers the taste of Pepsi to Coke, so changing the taste doesn't make much sense.
Certain ingredients can be listed as a "collective".
See section (b) of FDA: CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfr...
I think he's commenting on public perception rather than making factual assertions.
Become a contractor and focus on staff aug with yourself; charge a high hourly rate and have a focus.

I did this for years and it was great: I got to work with good engineers, didn't have to manage or mentor anyone, worked extra when I wanted to, got a good hourly rate.

Unless of course you are in the USA and need good health insurance and the exchange doesn't meet your needs. But otherwise, this is a good path for a half decade or more.
Bigclive is the best. Sometimes my mind uses his voice when I’m checking out a circuit board. “What to we have here? A silver metal tube, probably the clock crystal for this kitchen timer. Ah ha, it says 32.768 on the board, so it certainly is.”
Good insurance. Paying a fair amount of money to hedge against rare but potentially ruinous events - like your house burning down - is obviously a good strategy. The trick with insurance is finding the sweet spot between paying too much for cover you don't need or too little and being exposed to gaps in your cover. Lately I've been increasing all my excess values to bring down premiums, because I can afford to pay a high excess and it's unlikely I'll need to.
Power would be the big one, and given Apple’s primary devices are mobile anything that reduces the need for cpu to be doing anything is a win.
Poking around with 'inspect element' suggests that it's Gentium for the main body of the text. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentium
I'm mostly suggesting that if you implicitly claim to have solved some huge, difficult research problem but provide no real details about how, people are going to be skeptical. This doesn't have to mean a formal research paper. Even one page on your website describing your approach (potentially with comparisons to other state-of-the-art languages like Swift, Rust, and Koka) would be helpful for potential users trying to understand your language's capabilities.

Just as some basic questions you might want to answer:

1. If I allocate some memory and store a reference to it in a struct or object, how do you track ownership for that memory? Can I alias it? Store references to it in multiple structs? How do you know that it's safe to free that memory without reference counting?

2. Am I allowed to allocate memory in a function and return a reference to that memory? How do you ensure that memory lives long enough for those references to be valid?

3. Are multiple aliases allowed to overlap with each other? If so, how do you prevent (e.g.,) type confusion from one mutiple alias changing the data out from under the other?
Colorado’s New Restrictions on Non-Compete Agreements
I've been living with MS for almost 15 years and still doing very well. However about three years ago everything went wrong and I got on O as soon as I could.

It's been amazing. Wish they had it a long time ago.