skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0 is offset based. 1 is index based.
The very obvious 'alternative' is to restrict tools at their disposal. For example, genocide. Or nuclear weapons, poison gas, citizen hostages, mass casualty events, or tools with a high probability of killing innocent people. We are not and should not be a lawless people.
This podcast goes in depth on what's in the bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrfRbr_xbOE
> NULL only has one meaning: NULL. This is roughly analogous to unknown.

Which is what I'm arguing against, because it's used in two unrelated ways in SQL -- as a data value, and to express no matching row found in a JOIN. So no matter how it's defined formally, in practice it has two meanings that have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. One is a value and can be stored, the other says 'not found' and results only from expressions and isn't for storage.

> but you can infer the difference

Yes, as I said there are lots of workarounds. But they're still workarounds.

> This is one of the reasons some purists argue against NULL existing in SQL at all

Sure, but the reality is that NULL is used in a practical sense to mean "no data entered". It's so ridiculously common that only some columns have no data for a particular row, and so e.g. you need the 'time_finished' column to either have a valid date, or it's NULL if the activity hasn't finished yet. The alternative is to have an additional boolean column 'is_finished' and for 'time_finished' to be arbitrarily '1970-01-01T00:00:00Z' whenever is_finished is false, which is clunky and redundant.

Purists can argue what they want, but NULL is so ridiculously useful as a stored data value it doesn't really matter.
Getting people to use more efficient appliances and insulating their homes should help reach these targets. We don't need to generate today levels of energy if we can drop usage by some percentage and just generate all of that with renewables.

That being said, the bill is also pushing for heat pumps to replace natural gas burning furnaces, so I'm guessing the net impact will be we need today levels of electricity generation, or maybe even a little more once we look at electrifying things that currently don't interact with the grid and consume fossil fuels directly.

And actually as I even type this, I'm remembering that electrifying cars is a big part of this that will definitely drive up electricity need way more than efficiency gains suppress demands for some use. Hopefully we can get to some of the more transformative ideas suggested about improving city planning and density together with investments in public transit so we don't end up producing way too many batteries simply to preserve a car centric transportation system.

I do think even just incentivizing consumers to buy electric everything will have a strong movement to drive more electricity generation, and renewables are the cheapest or very cost competitive options for new power generation installations. I think there are some funds in the new bill for encouraging sunsetting fossil fuel based plants early, but we likely need more of that down the line.
This is likely the most upsetting part. As flawed as US judicial system is, it is a system that still has to move within certain known parameters. The fact that judicial system stops applying the moment 'the government' decides it doesn't apply is in itself a big problem that effectively undermines basic trust in the system. I don't want to say that it started with Bush, because each president had their sins, but war on terror put a lot of clandestine stuff right in the open. Obama only made it worse ( since he actually killed a US citizen ). Biden was not better..

I am not some sort of naive activist. I accept there is a price to be paid for the relative comfort I live in. That said, some basic rules have to be followed if only to ensure citizenry that they are followed.

For better or worse, most citizens seem to be getting regular reminders[1] that the rules, at best, are not applied evenly. The trust in institutions is already low. Some basic accountability has to apply even to the highest echelon. Scratch that, it especially needs to apply to it.

[1]https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1119185396/paul-pelosi-nancy-...
I wish I could give you a concrete answer but it's been about 7 or 8 months since I last looked at alternatives. IIRC, it was something to do with Postgres restore support not being as good.
I'm the same. I want new content. I very rarely go back and watch something I've already seen. (And I never need to see Seinfeld or Friends again! After long runs, they ran in syndication for years, and then were on streaming services that were ad-free for years. Really, they weren't that good to begin with!)
I can understand the rationale for 0 and 1. I can even understand the rationale for a arbitrary range (from -5 to +10) in current era where languages have iterated for many generations.

However I did not understand why they would have a range in the early days of programming. On one hand it would have been hard to make a language and its compilers and then you add arbitrary ranges?
It seems like most newer buildings in the US and EU have "G" or "L" be the ground floor (0 / PB), and then the floor above is "1".

In older buildings, the ground floor is usually "1" - which means the floor above has to be "2".
There was never a time that Netflix streaming had a majority of the popular movies available.
This is an excellent summary of how to make decisions, and to continually get better at making them.

> and how well convinced we are of what the accuracy based on past experience; and how much the deciders knew about last inaccuracies, when deciding to continue a practice.

This in particular. How did proceeding this way do in the past? What did we get when we decided to continue with a discrepancy? If the discrepancy did not result in an issue, why? was the information bad, our handling of it, or just chance? If it was an issue, can we avoid overriding it again, can we get better info, can we discard it altogether from consideration?

(note: this comment doesn't relate to the content of the article at all, but about the decision-making process outlined above)
Couldn't agree more. In my house, Han shoots first.
I can understand that it sounds like a big deal to you ("...optimize my life..."), but it's a very small change. Once it's set up you won't even think about it, promise.

As for why, it's a good question. I think it's because I don't want to live in a world where it's impossible to do the "wrong" thing, or even think the "wrong" thing. Our legal system has evolved to be effective in a world where it's very hard to observe what people are actually doing or saying, and I fear a quick transition to ubiquitous surveillance will mean rigid enforcement of laws that were never meant to be enforced rigidly. In a world with ubiquitous surveillance, how do you get marijuana or gay sex legalized? How do you change things?

There's also the problem of concentration of power. The surveillance network we've built would be the envy of the Stasi, and we as a species are only just learning what can be done with it. I fear a small group of people will be able to seize and hold on to a lot of power.

So, these are reasons to care. But it doesn't really respond to your point, which is more like: "What's the immediate benefit?". There is one in that it's a great way to subtly signal that you're technologically competent in situations where that's important, but beyond that there probably isn't one. It's just costs. It's costs I gladly pay, though, because I want to raise the likelihood of a better world in the coming years. The present value of that better world over the one where I do nothing makes the investment worth it.
Unfortunately that's not what he did. I also can't FOIA the documents he took, can I?
Swapping hydro from 24/7 power to a backup for wind and solar goes a long way to eliminate the need for storage. We don’t need more total kWh per year of hydro we need to be able to more flexibility get those kWh.
the General was quoted as having said this in in 2014.

As many predicted correctly: "metadata" has become profoundly more difficult to collect in 2022 for those willing to invest the time and effort.
Which citizen was it? I've never heard about this before but I wouldn't put it past those war mongering fucks.
Yep, that's exactly it! It makes me very happy to know that I wasn't the only one to notice it(and it definitely felt like I was going mad for a while- seeing stutter where literally no tool could detect it).

I found a forum thread on Dell's forums about it ages ago, I remember people sharing the refresh rate override fix, but I wasn't aware that Dell did eventually "fix" it in a later batch of monitor.

That monitor did actually die for me literally 2 months ago(and just few months out of warranty, typical) but I was very glad to replace it with something else.
Reddit does the same. As very well said by a few others here: we own nothing, when it comes to social media accounts.
Why is that? OFAC is a US government agency, Ethereum is not a US-based organization. Why should they be forced to follow US laws? There are plenty of us outside of the US who do not care about what's illegal in the US or not.
The Wayback Machine begs to differ:

https://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google...

I'm clearly not talking about Google as the behemoth we know today - I'm talking about Google the search engine (yes, Page Rank) - which I was using in 1998 because it was already vastly superior to Altavista, Lycos, etc.

I was on dial-up until 2004 (DSL, yeah!) but I was skipping trips to the library for homework by 1998 (at the latest) because the web and the fundamentals powering it (routers, modem banks, operating systems, server and client software, etc) were already vastly more mature than what we see in blockchain today (see my parent comment). HTTP 1.1 was published in 1999 and it still works today. Yet here we are, in 2022, with the entire Ethereum network being given a couple of weeks (at best) to deploy a massive software upgrade for a fundamental protocol level change or get left behind. Sure enough - 88% of clients aren't ready for it[0].

I don't know about you but I don't remember a single instance of "if you don't upgrade your browser in the next two weeks it will not work at all" in my three decades of being on the internet.

I was in a rural area and could only get 14.4 on my modem reliably (often 9600). It was slow but it worked. Besides, are we really comparing blockchain software reliability and quality in 2022 with the millions of miles and countless components of physical infrastructure that it took to bring the web to hundreds of millions of people by 2000?

The web was slow (like blockchains aren't?) but still worked. It was slow because it turns out literally digging up entire countries to deploy broadband and laying submarine cables around the world is (to say the least) a challenging, extremely expensive, and long process.

[0] - https://ethernodes.org/merge
I think silicon valley would win. I saw some analysis a long time a go that basically indicated a couple big companies could likely buy out the entire Hollywood and music industry and fully own them and make most copyright issues go away.

I dont know if its still true but its really a big difference in how much capital, revenue, and money there is. Hollywood is pennies in comparison. I think Big tech would easily win.
The Waves of Wave Race 64 – MVG
You can also over-provision solar and wind to factors well above 100%, and still be more economical than burning fossil fuels.
> "signature strikes" don't require second source intelligence to verify who the target is..

Read that Osama bin Laden was verified by people on ground masquerading as health workers.
This is a debate that pops up a lot. I don’t think there is any consensus among health officials, but I think most public health officials tend to side on the no-mandatory but actively encourage helmets.

There are a couple of problem with mandatory helmets, including:

* It discourages a healthy activity.

* It shifts the responsibility from the person causing to danger (drivers) to the potential victims.

* It creates a false sense of safety (e.g. biking slower reduces risk of injuries far more then a helmet).
Maybe this should be taught at big corporations of when being too “data driven” can be deadly.
For an open headset that requires neither a Meta nor a Facebook account to operate: https://simulavr.com ...

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32583164
The CIA, an organization well known for assasinations and coups all around the world kills people? WHAAT?
Amusing, as I also received the email and am using MacOS and iOS betas right now. I've updated into the future, for heaven's sake!
45 minutes in traffic or 45 minutes of actually driving 80mph on the highway?

The average commute from home to work is about 15 miles each way, or ~26 minutes.
They do say on the website they're planning on selling the batteries individually in the future.
>> "Signatures" aren't necessarily better or worse than other sources.

Right, they are almost always worse than first-hand information, and they are almost always better than low-grade intelligence obtained under pressure/influence (like the WMDs in Iraq). That is no justification.
Sniping isn’t a bad thing though, it’s the poorly educated bidders that lead to anti-sniping rules. I’d wager 75% of EBay bidders don’t understand how the proxy bidding works there. Ideally you should put in your maximum price when you place a bid and then let the auction run its course.
Wait, really? It only costs $5k to mine one when they sell for $21k?
I never said it was sustainable, but the chain of events definitely is that simple. Netflix ran into the fact that it offered literally too good a deal for others to not cash in on by making the ecosystem worse so that they can charge people to make it convenient again instead. The fundamental principle behind making money is having something that people want, and then making sure it's inaccessible to them unless they pay you for it.

The "making things terrible" comes from content companies going "we have a licensing system in place, we've used it for cable providers for decades, and we even used it for streaming services, but now we're going to cancel that and start our own vertically integrated lock-in service because we'll make way more money that way". While it makes sense, and everyone could have, and very much did, see it coming, it's still the kind of move that historically would have gotten your company broken up. But that's a power modern government seems to no longer want to wield anymore, despite our wishes they did.
> The right wing in the US is so pathologically sociopathic that they actually glorify assholes for rolling coal on bicyclists as heroes, and think it's hilariously funny.

Or, you know, perhaps the articles that make money based off of clickbaiting people with outrageous premises that make people mad are not indicative of the vast majority of people. I find that when I talk to people, you know face to face in person, we usually agree on 90% of topics regardless of which side of the aisle you fall on.

The internet and social media thrives on labeling your in-group as the heroes and your out-group as racist, homophobic bigots (left and right). I really hate this mentality because it paints a broad stroke on a whole lot of people that are not crazy and holding radical ideas.

I would hope on HN I could expect the average commenter to be able to realize this and recognize that there's a lot more commonality than social media and news media would like us to believe. And that the average HN commenter wouldn't resort to automatically pointing a finger at their out-group and casting all social woes and responsibility on them. There are jerks on both sides of the aisle. There are great people on both sides of the aisle.

And just as an example, here's Chris Cuomo bullying a bicyclist[0]. I'm sure there are others on the left like this as well, but I'm not going to automatically assume that somebody on the left hate or loves bicyclists. I don't know that because we're all individuals and make our own decisions at the end of the day.

[0]: https://nypost.com/2020/04/14/long-island-bicyclist-verbally...
Hulu has always been ad supported. There free tier is obvious, but even their paid tiers still have ads even if it may be fewer interruptions than the free tier.

The way I read it, makes it sound like you're suggesting it was ad free at some point then switched.
Workplan:
• extend to 3D model mesh generation
• project into AR/VR
• marry to GTP-3 chatbottery
• ???
• $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

It is more than bemusing to see every piece emerging of a future that purely speculative only a few years ago.

Ghosts in and of the machines are about to surround us, summoned by a spectrum of agents, motivated by a spectrum of interests from whimsy and compassion to simple money minting to sentiment steering/behavioral control/indoctrination/stochastic terror.

Moar human than human, in only those ways that we think we want.

Put these skins on things increasingly hard to discern from AGI and... well, excuse me, I have affairs to get in order.

I hate to regurgitate the cliché but... buckle up.
That's a fair criticism of the design of the device, but I fail to understand iFixit's argument that this is the repair program's fault.
Forums still have individual to individual conversations. Forums also have instances where individuals have an excellent reputation on one group but post what is considered to be spam in other groups. Take reddit and /r/theDonald. Reputation management is non-trivial, and trivial designs fail in the real world.

Plus you still have the problem of how to treat an individual that is a first time poster. On many forums I never bothered creating an account until I felt I had something useful to contribute. In your system, how do you distinguish between the first time poster making a beneficial addition to the conversation versus a first time spammer? I feel you're hand waving this really hard problem away.
Sleepless nights make people more selfish and asocial – study
What you have in mind requires someone to do the coordination. that is currently the system operator and they operate at a data rate measured in minutes or 4 s for the fastest changes (e.g. PJM).

Meanwhile, solar output can go from 100% to 10% in three seconds. How is this not a problem?
it's not as simple as that. Lloyd's is also a re-insurance market. Many individual insurance companies buy insurance from Lloyd's.
That's not suspicious at all. /s
Not commonly, I've never gotten CRIU working in real life. AFAIK it's not feasible unless you go all-in on a VMWare stack.
I was unfamiliar with John Donne myself, but from the first paragraph it was clear the author was writing in a deliberately stylized manner; a manner which in retrospect seems perhaps intended to evince or reflect Donne's conversational poetic style. I enjoyed the article, but even if I hadn't, I would still appreciate the effort; sort of like how I can appreciate an otherwise inscrutable quine (program).
Could you elaborate on why that is?
> edit: for an example. you get hacked and lose $100M. You say fuck it, submit a slasher report that says it wasn't a valid transaction. you offer enough money to get x% of validators to agree with you.

That's not what slashing is supposed to be used for, but if that situation happened again, Ethereum would fork again, just as last time when Ethereum classic didn't agree to freeze the Ether from the DAO hack. PoS makes it a little easier to fork (which is good imo), but doesn't change anything fundamental. Everyone still needs to be in complete agreement about the rules and history for Ethereum to work.
>> I doubt anything will happen.

Well not with that attitude. ;-)
> This was the first time in history that a US citizen was killed by the US military.

That seems incredibly unlikely. Friendly fire incidents have been a fact of war, pretty much forever.
From the article, it seems like he was collateral damage and not the intended target - the drone strike was targeting Ibrahim al-Banna. That sucks, very much a wrong place wrong time, but I would say that a fairly effective strategy for not being collateral damage is to not hang out with internationally wanted terrorists.
Lol, good one, never knew about the oatmeal.
Okay yeah I might have to add Tlaloc!
Something Better Than a Tent for the Homeless
Uncertainty is (unfortunately) everywhere; for example, what probability is “beyond a reasonable doubt”? There are many who take issue with that question, but the answers I’ve seen range between 0.1% and 5%, with no general consensus.
It's low-cost to maintain (post-merge). The high prices to use it are a result of users crowding around a limited amount of product (block space).
Kent state does not count? It has happened probably a lot, it is just hard to find good records about now and they actually tell people. Pre-1900s, you just are not hearing about it probably. I don't buy the military getting less moral recently.
The unique safety features of Rus are all about memory safety, which is not something you have to worry about at all in Python. I can only assume that the bug classes you are referring to would have been eliminated by using essentially any language with a type system.
$800 billion.

Sort of emphasizes the point that the science projects are cheap.

Science pays future dividend.
We have similar experiences. I absolutely love Typescript. But I don’t like Node very much. So I keep TS in the browser.

I’ve been looking at Nim or Scala for the backend. It’s either that, or just dive into Rust.

It really seems if you don’t want to use Node, Java, or Go the available choices for a statically typed backend get quite slim.
Is the insinuation that games are not actual art?
Don't you feel the perspective of a machine is a thing to also marvel at?
nuclear definitely needs to be in the mix to reach 100% fossil-fuel-free energy generation; not gonna happen on wind/solar/hydro alone
And how does this that help you at all?

They absolutely won't be paying you any extra money for those heated seats... they're already going to have to go pay BMW for the freaking subscription anyways.

At best you could argue you're slightly increasing the interested market for your car, but even that feels incredibly flimsy. The market for used cars is vibrant, and very rarely is trim level a deciding factor on used car purchases.

Usually you can negotiate price on trim - but this decidedly removes that option. You just get fucked right round as the original buyer.
Some of these are hilariously still true. I know plenty of hardcore cyclists who let their hobby get in the way of home life (disrupting marriage and homemaking). Of course there's nothing actionable here, but I think these should be read with amusement rather than outrage.
Yep, clearer in Spanish. They say cumpleaños which literally means completed year.
> Birthdays are anniversaries.

Indeed they are, which is why I literally said so in the previous comment. Did you forget to finish reading it?

> They do not include the event itself.

That is true because the event itself is implied information. There is no value in speaking of it. If you stand before us, we can be certain that you had a day of birth (your 0th anniversary). We don't necessarily know how many times you've gone around the sun following that, however, so that is where we find value in communicating additional information.

If you were counting apples, there is the state where you have no apples (index 0), the state where you have one apple (index 1), the state where you have two apples (index 2), etc. When counting you don't need to worry about index 0 because the no apple state is naturally implied. It only becomes interesting and worthy of communication when you have at least one apple to speak of, thus you start at 1. The state found at index 0 is still implicitly there, though.