skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a big fan of the blog, but disagree with this entry. Her argument could be applied to the idea of the Big Bang itself: we can never receive light from any further back than the “surface of last scattering”, so the notion of a hotter prior epoch is an extrapolation. The extrapolation is a good one as it uses independently-tested laws of evolution, at least to the point these laws presumably break down, as she points out.

Similarly, it’s entirely conceivable that we may find independent ways to test which of the proposed modifications of the evolution laws is correct, for instance by using data collected from binary mergers. Then, these modified laws would lead to a modified story of what happened near the Big Bang. Alternatively, it may happen that all but one or a few of the proposed modifications do not play nicely with the other forces of nature at a theoretical level.

Or maybe not, but we certainly can’t rule out this possibility a priori.

Moreover, her point about not having a multi-universe data set would dismiss all of cosmology as mere “ascience” — again, including the notion of the Big Bang itself.

Instead, I think it likely that the present multiplicity of early universe proposals will be pruned as more data becomes available.
When you’re rich, they let you
One reason for this is because the Supreme Court has deferred to allowing a great deal of legislating in the Executive. Congress passes "blank check" laws that require unelected career bureaucrats to make law ("regulation") with minimal oversight.

If the Supreme Court slowly disallows this, then Congress will eventually be forced to vote on controversial issues again.
Depends on the org but the principals behind the rules are good pretty much everywhere.

One speaker at time/don't interrupt people.

Decisions are made only after everyone's had the opportunity to discuss/speak

Proposals need to be specific/defined

Majority rule but minority rights.
> IMO, American society would benefit from teaching Roberts Rules in high school. Understanding how to have groups come to decisions without forcing consensus a crucial underpinning of society.

Agree on the value of teaching Roberts rules. While contributing to a consensus-building technology (https://pol.is), I ended up on a call with a historian of Roberts Rules. He made the really memorable observation that Roberts Rules is essentially a social technology for deliberation at scale, which has the important property of preserving and protecting minority voice in consensus processes. It's notable that we now make a lot of things we call "social tech" whose algorithms do no such thing
Snapchat Issues
Anyone having issues changing Snapchat password, email, or enabling 2FA? Got email that someone tried to login to my account. I am in my account but it isn’t letting me change anything. Curious if they have an ongoing issue/breach?
This is why you don't break abstractions. If I'm a user I expect the clipboard to only change when I press ctrl+c or right click -> copy. These should be authoritatively controlled mechanisms that untrusted programs cannot override.

Going further, I want whatever I copy to be whatever I see when I hit copy. Which of course isn't possible in the interactive web.

But unfortunately devs for the last few decades think they can just leave everything undefined and change its meaning for their ad-hoc purposes every minute then claim computing is hard.
Also from the same site, he refers to Chomsky's deceptions about what his past beliefs actually were:

https://reaction.la/ChomskyLiesCites/ChomskyLiesAboutHisPast...
Indeed, good faith is the key to these systems. Once you have lost that, it doesn't matter what the scheme is. Even if you have a privilege rule where you can declare someones actions sabotage against the process, it just re-orients the game to applying that sabotage rule against motions you don't like. The rules are the alternative to force, but if someone uses bad faith to jam the rules, then the only recourse becomes force, as the rules don't resist sabotage.
With this sized variable production unit, I do get the idea with demanding some type of delivery guarantees. Or it could massively disturb the market. I think it is pretty reasonable to start expecting renewables to cover the variability. Either building enough storage or alternative production.
Who is paying more for electricity in France? To my knowledge, the majority of French residential subscribe to the state-fixed "Tarif bleu", which hasn't increased price at all since February, and is still well below the German average. It is, in fact, for added ridiculousness, well below the retail prices of most of the countries we import energy from.
Meanwhile over here in the UK, the press is blaming the energy crisis partly on the fact that our government didn't spend loads of money on solar and onshore wind like Germany. We're even worse situated to benefit from solar than they are. (The renewable program here is mostly focused on offshore wind, which is the least-bad option given our geography, plus attempts at nuclear that are widely criticized by the press as wastes of money given how much cheaper onshore wind and solar are.)
Even worse, the FBI is going around and silencing valid, independent reporting.
Ok, then how did the “marble bag” came into existence?
When it's shining on the Pacific, there's not a lot of landmass.

The rest of the day works though.
Tell me that you don’t seriously believe this actually happened lol
Pasting anything what so ever in the shell is a vuln if you are on a system where untrusted programs can set the clipboard. Even typing "echo <ctrl+shift+v>". And no, it's not detectable either.
>I went to hospital

Where would that be standard?
And yet, I’d argue that 1% is more useful.

Put another way, not all topics’ depth need be created equal, and arguably, Wikipedia is upside down.
I don't have such high expectations for websites. It's just a showcase, and it really looks like a showcase site, so the description seemed good enough
> you can’t write OR because if the first case is true the second case is not evaluated — you can’t write that as a function.

I used to think that was true, but it turns out not to be. It's true if lambda is strict, but there is no reason lambda has to be strict. If you have a lazy lambda as your primitive you can write OR as a function. [EDIT: I see Tromp already pointed this out earlier.]

Even with a non-lazy lambda you can write OR as a function if you impose a programmer discipline that you have to pass it closures as arguments.

> there may really be a finite set of them (interesting philosophical question)

Not really. IF and WHILE are, together, Turing-complete. (So are any number of other small sets of primitives, including LAMBDA). But of course the sky is the limit in terms of complicated constructs you can invent to layer on top of these primitives.

There may be a finite number of these things that turn out to be useful, but that's not a philosophical question, it's an engineering question.
I spend a fair amount of time in northern New England and my mini takes a while to connect and sync up (10 minutes or more in some cases) and requires more or less stabilizing it somewhere where there is no tree cover. I wonder if these various satellite/phone connections coming online will require similar steps.
I sincerely doubt he has the capacity to feel stupid about anything. the epitome of a politician taking the money and running
I hear a lot these days from Virginians about the bad acting Dominion does.

That Richmond’s newest, most luxurious building with the best views (nicer than any bank or the many industry headquarters) is Dominion, when they are supposed to be providing a regulated taxpayer service, is telling.

Photo: https://images.app.goo.gl/cMEsPdtwr5wx8aiJ6
Perhaps the bigger deal here is the loss of Dennard scaling in the 2000s. This is due to heat density at any given point on the chip. After all, increased transistor density could lead you to using all those transistors, but the thermal conductivity of all the materials involved isn't changing much, so there's a natural limit to the electrically active transistor density. You're welcome to increase transistor density, so long as you keep the number of active transistors roughly constant (not quite true since smaller transistors produce less heat).

You could keep transistor density fixed, but still double the number of transistors in a chip ... by using bigger chips. And that is naturally more expensive because they are more likely to be defective and require more sophisticated packaging. 3D stacking of smaller chips is another approach, since we usually only talk about the 2D area of a chip. This requires more advanced packaging, but substantially increases the likelihood of building a functional device.

The loss of Dennard scaling makes it more interesting to investigate ASICs because CPUs won't necessarily eat your lunch in two years. And circuit cleverness is one contributor to Moore's Law that Moore talked about in his 1975 address.

So Moore's Law is in some ways dead (number of instantaneously useful transistors is NOT doubling every two years) and other ways alive (useful work is improving rapidly so long as you can decompose your workload into leaning on the accelerators like YouTube did), depending on how you measure it.
Probably the Big Bang and evidence of inflation and the CMB. There is a lot of credible evidence that our universe had a definite beginning.
If those companies had a shred of integrity and respect for their customers, they would be upfront about such plans. Without a roadmap, user trust will eventually be shattered by step 2. Most people understand this shell game, and they will put up with it if they know what to expect.
Not sure if you are sarcastic or not, but unifying labor and business interests has been the (successful) strategy of the Democratic Party for 30 years. Bill Clinton was the trailblazer of the strategy, and maligned for it from the more anti-business left.
How do you solve that the rivers are too hot to cool the reactors to produce more energy?
People underestimate it all the time, just because you don't doesn't mean other don't. If you read any forum they talk about how it should have been solved by now.
But unfortunately for them “Copilot” in 2022 means GH Copilot.
On the topic of chokepoints and tradeoffs, the question of upgrading freight lines around Chicago is pretty fascinating.
I have no idea what "surrender leftism" is supposed to mean, in relation to Noam or otherwise.

However, if we'd paid a little more attention to Noam's points about war (clandestine and overt, economic and military) and the media a few decades ago, we the people would be tens of trillions of dollars better off.

Millions of brown skinned folk would still be alive, tens of millions wouldn't have had to become refugees, and South America would be immeasurably better off.

If you have some kind of beef with Chomsky I suggest you take it up with him; I hear he's quite good at responding to people.
It doesn't matter, there are so few of them, they can be a stuffed-animal for either party to beat. If rule-of-law were really on the menu, they wouldn't have left.
People do beat the market, but the thing is if you can beat the market then you don't need to accept public money - you become a private trading firm and trade with your own money and keep all the profits.

That's the issue: successful firms which beat the market don't keep doing it on behalf of other people for very long.
thanks for the context!

small typo - air conditioner should be 3.5kw not kwh
Lol right. These people blow my mind, seriously.

I think there's a huge number of people who are doing badly in life or something and just wanna see the destruction of society.

It's either that or they're ideologically driven. This is the same person who was arguing for "getting rid of money and wealthy"[1]. I have noticed that in the eyes of communists, Russia can do no bad. In my own country, the leader of the communist party has refused to condemn Russia's invasion. Food for thought.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32610396
That narrative is highly misleading.

Yes, that happened. But the government also did take the finances under control, restructured (literal "changed the structure of", not defaulted) its debits, added controls to the banking system, restructured the banks, pegged the currency to the dollar, made a campaign of price transparency, and a lot of other things.
I think the problem is not with threads themselves but with Slack's implementation. Threads provide a much-needed way of creating a discussion around a specific topic that doesn't pollute the main channel. In Slack they seem like more of an afterthought than a primary communication tool.
Zuckerberg is admitting that they throttled the Hunter Biden story. How is that "good" for Republicans? And to be clear, my personal perspective highly aligns with your own and that of, benreesman. I think all these decisions are highly calculated and that partisanship and personal convictiom rank very low in CEO calculus.

My firm belief which I've expressed elsewhere on HN is that if you want "good" bahavior out of corporations you must use the political system, preferably your functioning democracy, to compel it out of them.
> Why should they pay no taxes and expect to watlz back in whenever they please without having paid something to keep the country running.

Indeed, why should Americans expect the same treatment that literally every other country extends to its citizens.
Very cool! Is gstreamer used end to end? Mostly curious if you are using CEF (via cefsrc) and webrtcbin, or if you handled the input and output differently.
> I expect some major support programs will be put in place to address this. And it will probably involve a bit of money printing.

One of the two Tory lunatics^Hhopeful candidates for PM confirmed there's not much they can do to ease the energy price crisis without creating a massive hole in the British budget. But that's what countries will have to do, and it's not going to be pretty.

The Western world just went on a massive printing spree two years ago because of COVID, a further temporary injection of capital and 2008 will pale in comparison to the next recession.
What's wrong with Discord? Most of the projects I want to follow have Discord server, often connected with an IRC channel. I miss a few features from Slack, but in general I'm happy with Discord. It's still free from what I can see. So, what happened to make "OSS projects" etc. to stop using Discord? (Honestly asking, I don't follow Discord itself at all)
People are already sleeping while the Tesla drives, albeit illegally. Highway driving it seems to do really well, around town though sleeping seems way off.
Icelandic and English are cousins, but the former has retained a fairly extensive inflectional system that requires a lot of memorization to learn.
You banned my account downthread, so I have no clue whether you’ll see this or bother to respond, but I’m really curious how this follows:

> You made it impossible for me to ban the other account in this thread

So breaking rules is ok if someone bigger does it after you?
I don’t understand why Facebook is getting the negative attention instead of the FBI.

This is a classic example of an entity in a position of power abusing said power. How is this different from sexual extortion for a promotion.

I don’t care how rich your company is, the FBI comes knocking, the obvious response is to acquiesce to avoid issues with the federal government
Study Conclusion: Mouse brains track eye direction during REM sleep.
Mine in Copenhagen runs mostly from 'waste' heat from electricity production and waste incineration.

The price (last time I checked) is the same as last year.
whether or not it actually works or makes sense, the idea behind it is genius
The interesting thing about it is learning the kanji, which is essential for reading. It might be an extra step to learn a few new words in English, but it is not a complex task.
> Sit your employer down and say "I am applying for Jobs in the 80-100K range because <list of reasons>. When I get an offer I will take it, you are welcome to make me an offer to stick around now"

I don't know if I would recommend that. No upside to the employee. A large "egoless value maximizer" business will simply do nothing until employee shows them an actual offer, and only then counter-offer if they want to retain. A small business where manager's ego is a factor may just fire the employee on the spot for disloyalty. Pretty close to zero companies will respond by immediately raising employee's salary to what he wants.
Reading this post it feels like I’m the one who wrote it… to that end, I am 21 years old and I constantly find myself thinking and feeling regretful that I didn’t spend more of my teenage years pursuing my ambitions (of which there are lot), and building my skill set… instead, just like you, I spent my childhood playing video games in my room, watching YouTube, not doing my school work on top of that, etc… I was more or less a couch potato.

This issue isn’t so black and white also, let’s assume a hypothetical scenario where you did everything you regret not doing now… would you feel content? Or would you feel like you should’ve spent more of that time doing more those “pointless” activities. Nobody knows the answer to those questions, and you probably don’t either… but what’s important to remember is that life has at least taught me that balance is extremely important, not only for your mental health and fitness, but especially to ensuring long term success.

I still struggle with this line of thinking to this day, and I can’t say I’m any closer to a resolution. But here’s what I do know; Self pity is cancerous… it starts out being about one thing, but if you keep obsessing over it then it will slowly but surely consume your life, and you won’t know until it’s already happened… then it becomes an addiction. Don’t be like me, learn to forgive yourself and be reasonable about your expectations.

If I were you (which in way I am haha) I would focus on getting a win under my belt, no matter how small… an easy and highly rewarding technical win is spinning up your own Stable Diffusion instance on a cloud GPU vm or if you have a decent GPU run it locally (decent = 8GB> vRAM), if you don’t know it’s an open source version of DALL-E 2 that was released a few days ago and setting it up is fairly straightforward and it will help you feel that wonder of using new technology, and getting some work done at the same time.—perfect avenue if you’re trying to kickstart yourself into CS.
It's a law, not every law needs to be true / can be refuted or superseded.

So it'd still be Moore 's law, just not true and relevant anymore.
Connectivity is limited due to bandwidth prioritization for ship systems as well as OPSEC.
Interstellar is pretty much nonsense even given the premise. Even if you are talking about time travel you can easily make something more plasuible than that.

Also Interstellar had information passing from the future to the past which isn't really what's typically sufficent to consider it a time loop.
Which is to say that it's determined by both the supply and demand side: if the price were lower there would be people willing to buy at that price but not enough to sell them, and if it were higher there would presumably be people willing to sell at that price but not enough buyers. It is, in some fairly fundamental sense, the actual market price of electricity at that point in time.
Wondering if renouncing US citizenship relieves this particular indignity. Retroactively, one might hope...
I wonder if they made the public announcement at least in part as an opening salvo against the FCC. Ie the FCC may not like the sat use of 5G (or other carriers may push the FCC to object similar to the cable companies suing over Starlink receiving federal subsidies for rural coverage).
The Skywater shuttles are never full, to the best of my knowledge. However, it is a lot of work to get off the ground with the PDK (synthesis and physical design for chips is a totally separate set of skills on top of logic design), so if this further lowers the barrier to entry then that's fantastic
You might like "System design from provably correct constructs", it's written by James Martin but it's presenting the work of Margaret Hamilton. She developed the ideas while working on Apollo 11

https://archive.org/details/systemdesignfrom00mart

In modern terms it works by allowing the user to edit a kind of abstract syntax tree (without the syntax) using only operations that preserve correctness (essentially type checking) so you literally can't make a bug. (You can still make a program that does the wrong thing correctly.)

The four essential operators are (of course) sequence, branch, loop, and parallel (non-interference).

(As you note, state machines are useful for describing complicated systems, but they themselves are simple in terms of the four operations.)
McDonalds is like savoury confectionery to me.

It's pretty hard to get chocolate or cookies wrong but certainly possible. McDonalds doesn't get it wrong though, they have a fun selection of savoury concoctions that taste good.

It should be considered as a treat, like chocolate.
The Navy has a process to halt all this activity, called going "River City" (slang) - which basically is a standing order by the commanding officer to halt all outgoing communications from a ship unless specifically authorized by the CO.

Aircraft carriers now have Wifi available for sailors for morale reasons, so cell phones are used all the time while underway for text and email.

However, if an incident happens (such as a crash) or, you know, going to war or etc - the ship will undergo "River City" conditions and I guarantee you everyone on board knows the drill and you'll be in deep shit if you violate River City. River City conditions will also be implemented in the case of a fatality, accident or death onboard the ship so the identity of the victims is preserved so the Navy can make next of kin notifications without family being alerted early to the issue.
fussing about the past wastes time. the time to start any great pursuit is right now.
> I think one of the challenge with relying on academics of History or anthropology is that, unlike physics, consensus doesn’t necessarily progress towards a more accurate interpretation.

I think this statement needs some very strong evidence to be even considered in passing. This statement is essentially saying "the entire field is bad at their job".

For individual academics and sources, yes, I agree that one should be vigilant. But the academic consensus is a different matter altogether, and the base assumption simply has to be that the field as a whole moves forward. Otherwise it becomes very difficult - maybe even impossible - to have any sort of evidence-based discussion.
I don't think this author has much experience with GraphQL.

Your typical "POST Body" in GraphQL is strong typed the same way as the response body.

You also don't have to (and I'd say you shouldn't) map your SQL database to your GraphQL schema 1 to 1.

In my experience, databases like Firebase are more likely to be susceptible to these attacks given their hard to understand permission models.
I'm not sure decision makers listen to economists.
My hack has been searching with the “Pick Up” option selected, which removes any cloud kitchens because one cannot pick up at those, and then switching to “Delivery” when I’m ready to order.

The only caveat I’ve found is that sometimes places that are too far away are available for pick up but don’t deliver that far.
If your vehicle is stolen, don't call a cop, call a reposessor. Their license plate surveillance/database can find any vehicle on a public road anywhere in the US in approaching real-time... If they choose to assist.