skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplified Roberts rules are pretty simple though.

1. Assume that one person gets to talk at a time. Give them a reasonable time limit to communicate.

2. Different sides take turns in a discussion.

3. Rules for the discussion are under debate, but changing the discussion rules is much more complicated for good reason. Try not to do this unnecessarily, but there are rules for that. There is an arbitrary level of "meta" here, where discussions-about-discussions-about-discussions can arise, and the rules are designed to work under these complex scenarios. But its rare to actually ever need them.

4. Ensure that a quorum has been reached before starting a meeting. If your group is composed of 10 people try to have at least 6 people show up, otherwise its a failed meeting and nothing can possibly get done.

5. After every meeting, send out meeting notes in an email. At the start of every meeting, discuss the previous meetings notes and vote to finalize those notes. Only the written record counts, not people's memories.

6. If an issue is settled / voted upon, do not revisit it until the next meeting (or later).

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Its not Roberts rules themselves that are important. Its:

1. The paradigm of having meta-rules, for how to discuss about the discussion. Any conflict will naturally become meta over time, and knowing how to resolve disputes despite a meta-nature is important. (Or at least, knowing that someone 100+ years ago thought of the problem, and there's a set of 100+ year old traditional rules that seem to avoid that problem).

2. Giving everyone a fair turn during the discussion: meeting quorum, alternating discussion points, time limits.

3. Giving forward progress: settling debates, finalizing discussions, etc. etc.

Every aspect of Roberts rules can be voted upon and changed by a group. IE: its the rules of the group that matter, not the rules as written by Robert 100+ years ago.
I mean gene unfolding, meterology, lhc, fusion, space research, ect have all been served tremendously by computing. Granted one could say they are temporarily less useful due to a local peak of optimization, buut that's a long way from throwing out all the sine waves and commiting to perfect metaphysics.
Language barriers prevent that to a large degree. People mostly move for better jobs, often only temporarily (for a couple of years), and largely only if their current area is econmically depressed.
I think OP is talking about how 1Password stopped letting you use the one-time-purchase version and pushed everyone to the subscription.

Personally, I was pretty frustrated at that shift because I successfully and happily used old versions until it was “time” to update (2 then 4 (which was at the upgrade cost), then one more before I was pushed to the subscription). It always worked great. Tbh I’m still frustrated that their choice to self-host the syncing service became our costs (I used Dropbox just fine and that didn’t cost them anything), but now that I’m past the sticker shock (my costs easily went up 8X) I’m more comfortable with the stability of their company and breathing room they have to build the hard technology.

Thanks for bringing it up: 1Password is a necessary example for this debate.
Weird, I thought it was a decent metaphor.
To put this into more human terms: a tesla model Y has a 75kwh battery.

So this means to charge it, at home, would cost between $0.75, $2.25, and $15.

A normal air conditioner uses about 3.5kw. So if it runs for 6 hours a day, so 21kwh/day. $0.21/day, $0.63/day, and $4.2/day.
Brands used to put “Established 1850” or whatever on their packaging. Now old brands aren’t respected by most consumers who are looking for that new thing they saw on an Instagram ad or learned from a YouTuber
Height discrimination: How 'heightism' affects careers
To expand on this (and hopefully not mangle your original idea), the key feature that makes a capitalist economy efficient is the use of a price mechanism to distribute the hard problems of decision-making to people who are reasonably well-informed and well-incentivized to make good decisions. These decisions will benefit society as a whole when (A) property rights exist and are enforced, (B) there are low barriers to entry, (C) transaction costs are low.

(There will be failures otherwise. Pollution ends up under A, monopolies under B, and a whole host of modern stupidities ends up under C — e.g. just for instance, no one at a minimum wage job is going to afford a lawyer to negotiate their employment contract: transaction costs are too high; the bigcorp employer, by contrast, only has to draw up the contract once. Instant structural unfairness follows.)

Orchestrating both information and incentives like this is really really hard. It's hard enough at a mid-sized project at a mid-sized company, where management spends hours and hours hammering on the idea of "alignment". At the scale of the global economy it's utterly intractable.
Nor Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), sometimes abbreviated as just "co-pilot".
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> But isn't Webb calling the BBT into question?

Only in newspaper headlines. Gell-Mann amnesia effect applies.

https://youtube.com/shorts/1S2CxPUZDOY?feature=share
If one redefined nothing as something, then the universe can arise.
Eh ... I don't see how that's an different from the common English idiom of saying you went to "the store", which actually always irks me too, since people say it even when it lacks context that would make it definite. If anything, the problem is that she's doing that same thing there.
Batteries are heavy. The heavier you are, the more power you need to move. This is why almost all battery based truck designs are very short range.
Luckily most electricity use is during the day and wind blows also in the night and more in winter when there’s less sun.
Build a bike that looks like an Amish buggy.

https://www.amishfarmandhouse.com/blog/amish-horse-and-buggi...
That's the thing about time-loops; you don't need to have a start and a beginning. There's a good movie about that concept; Interstellar.
> I don’t think there’s some kind of grand conspiracy to make us slaves to our employers vía medicine.

There doesn't need to be a grand conspiracy, just aligned incentives. The result is the same.
It's also true that modern cutting-edge healthcare is expensive any way you slice it. In free market capitalism it is up to each person to bear that cost. This means that some people will not be able to afford treatment or will be plunged into crippling debt. I'm of the belief that if we can treat someone with a health problem then that treatment should be available to them either for some marginal cost or for free. Basic human needs can not be subject to market pricing as consumers are essentially under duress when making purchasing decisions; they cannot choose to forgo lifesaving medicine should the price be unreasonable.
Slack makes no momey from free users.

So how does free users being upset and leaving hurt slack?

Maybe that will help bolster a competitor.

But ultimately Slack wins, some free users will convert to paid subscribers.
Just because everything within this universe has some preceding cause doesn’t mean that the universe itself can’t have a beginning without anything preceding it.
On an unrelated note, I find it funny that we call things like “Moore’s law” laws at all. Everything in science is a theory now, and these strictly observational “laws” are borne on much shakier grounds.

Meanwhile, everybody expects the law to break at some point (relatively soon, if not already). So what is it then? The observation formerly known as Moore’s law? Seems a bit of a silly way to chronicle contemporary, short lived phenomena.
John Wheeler popularized the term "it from bit" and the idea of a participatory universe. The limits of human observation aside, it could be that the universe itself doesn't really know how it began. If a superheated plasma is indifferent to being in a 5 dimensional black hole as opposed to a state where only space exists, then, in a sense, there isn't any difference between the two explanations (given that the plasma is the entire universe).

There's this phenomenon in science where you think something is arbitrary, it could've happened in any number of ways. Then you do some digging and find out there is actually only one possible way for it to happen, none of the other ways make logical sense. And it's not a matter of initial state or anything, but of geometry or something.

Sometimes, after I put down the crack pipe, I wonder if there is only one possible way for the universe to exist, and knowing it isn't a matter of observation, but of abstraction, that irreal logical constructions are actually not abstract enough to explain the universe, etc.

Maybe a variable initial state doesn't make logical sense at the end of the day. Maybe the numbers we have to plug into the models to make them work are like pi or the zeros of the zeta function, maybe they just fall out of some result in group theory or sth idk
You know, there are plenty of undergrad and graduation level textbooks, whose goal is exactly that article's title.

Nothing wrong with specialized, focused studies on one subject or another, and popular press. But they won't do what the title says.
If you ever want to add a phone number and a website, there is a way to do it while still being fairly minimal.

An IPv4 address is a 32-bit unsigned integer. It is commonly written in the form x.y.z.w, where x, y, z, and w are all unsigned octets. E.g., HN's IP is 3520653040, which in x.y.z.w form 209.216.230.240.

Most common IP parses accept the 32-bit integer form. E.g.,

$ ping 3520653040
PING 3520653040 (209.216.230.240): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.216.230.240: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=41.239 ms

IP addresses can also be written in x.y.z form, where x and y are unsigned octets and z is a 16-bit unsigned integer, and in x.y form where x is an unsigned octet and y is a 24-bit unsigned integer.

HN's IP written in those forms is 209.216.59120 and 209.14214896. Those forms are also accepted by most common IP parsers. Browse to http://209.216.59120 or http://209.14214896 and you end up at HN.

In many countries, including the US, telephone numbers are written as 3 unsigned integers, x, y, and z. There are usually a variety of ways to format those such as (x) y-z or x-y-z or x y z or x.y.z.

It should be possible to get a phone number x y z where x and y are both less than 255 and where the IP address x.y.z is also valid. Obtain that IP address and put an HTTP (not HTTPS) server there (which can just redirect to your name-based HTTPS site), and then you can add to your business card

Phone and Web: x.y.z
> use their own (metal, wood, designer, whatever) clips/pegs to seal the bag

We've long used wooden clothespins and/or office-supply binder clips.
It certainly sounds reasonable that you'd be looking for a new role – from what you've said I'd bet your CV isn't coming across the way you want.

The CV check is basically always going to be "does this person roughly look like they have an appropriate level of experience in the areas required for this job". You probably need to make sure you're tailoring it appropriately for the specific roles you're applying for. If you're applying for an IT management role, focus on the procurement and management and less on the "building services" part. If you're pitching yourself as a PHP developer, focus on the services and the development practices you used, and drop all the stuff about building out servers. And don't be afraid to send different CVs for different roles.

Definitely consider using a tech recruiter to place to as well. They're bastards but useful in some cases.
> I’d be surprised if either scientists were trying to publish articles like that — or if they were, that they could pass peer review.

The article we're discussing itself even links to one such paper [0]. All of the others she mentions are also published works - Penrose's CCC [1], the ekpyrotic universe [2], Hawking's no-boundary state [3] etc.

> On the other hand, if you are working on theories that can extend into the early universe, it’s not unimportant to try and figure out where the model breaks down. Maybe t=0 isn’t possible, but t=1s? 1ns? 1ps? How much can we feasibly describe?

Sure, but this is a different thing. Many of these are adding elements to the existing theories, and then predict a new initial state given the modified evolution laws.

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-021-02790-7

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01740?context=astro-ph

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0103239

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07702
What, exactly, is making the website work fine on Chrome/Edge but not on Firefox? Are you using some bleeding-edge API that isn't available in Firefox yet?
You're not having this conversation in good faith. You keep distracting from the fact that Russia is the attacker. SpaceX doesnt matter here.
I think school is in the same class as “work.”
It’s a self inflicted green transition with no back up plan or a plan
Why is there even such a gigantic universe? Like what is the purpose of it - why was there a Big Bang? If I really think hard about these questions it makes me uncomfortable and anxious.
That's a 終助詞 (shuujoshi) or "sentence-ending particle". Note that despite both being pronounced as "wa", the sentence-ending one is written as わ ("wa"), while the topic-marker particle is written as は ("ha").

In standard Japanese, わ is feminine and mildly emphatic (used for asserting an opinion or stating a fact).
Workers need capital to create a business. They can’t gain capital while the majority of the surplus they create through labour is taken by capitalists.

You’re happier in a richer country, as are many of us Eastern Europeans that have been forced to emigrate. We could’ve been even happier in our own countries while having collective control over the means of production, but the (foreign) capitalists made sure that wasn’t possible through propaganda, coups, sanctions and invasions.
That house would be much worse without the insulation. That's why it's unbearably hot in summer in say a shack made of out sheet metal (such shack would be much more bearable if it was insulated).
https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/secret-wind-case-document...

The lawyers for the various environmental groups, otherwise highly supportive of offshore wind, have read all those secret documents. Having read them, they endorsed a significant performance standard with financial penalties
I bought an old HP server for $150. It came with remote management built-in. Coupled with a cheap FQD and you can access it from anywhere.
That's just wrong. The components of electricity generation - the fuel - has exploded in price.

You may not be aware, but there's a war going on that is sort of impacting things on top of existing inflation.

I realize picking a scape goat feels easy but it's poor form and leads to not fixing the actual problem.
I think investing and economics isn't that well correlated. You need some idea of monetary and fiscal policy but as you say economics tends to get political quick.

https://www.youtube.com/c/RealVisionFinance is pretty good for anything that has the boss Raoul Pal, most other talking heads aren't that great.
> Much material is drawn from the 19th century, when the Romantic movement created its own version of the Middle Ages

Author confuses the Romantic movement with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Romantic movement was proto-modernist and sought to break with the past.

One of the foundational works of English romanticism, "Childe Harold's Progress" by Byron, was specifically an ironic takedown of sentimental medievalist attitudes popular at the time, and attempted to illustrate the inadequacy of such attitudes in dealing with the challenges of the present day.
I looked a bit at your comment history on HN, I get there’s an aspect of “Anonymous on the Internet”, but if your approach here [1] is remotely like your approach in the workplace and I got any signal of that in an interview context you’d be “Strong No Hire” for me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32313774
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 the post above is suggesting that the linked academic has a agenda that is guiding their analysis. For instance they write that more advanced technology really is just more European. That rather than being more technologically “advanced” Europeans developed technology for a different context. Perhaps it’s inaccurate, but conclusions like these seem to some to be motivated by the need to retell events to achieve/support social justice movements today.

I love reading history, but I am concerned that all historical narratives are illusions - stories we string together from a minuscule subset of the data we’ve captured in writing or other records. This is particularly problematic if people, including academics, see the outcome of their historical interpretations as influencing modern power struggles.
Please, how can any human being be so absolute about anything? Modern humans emerged ~300K years ago (or at least that's what we know so far), so how on earth can we be sure about anything? Our science is nice and all, and can help us built amazing devices that save lives and allow us to explore... but all we have are models. Theories. Zero certainty.

If anything, science is all about: "I have no idea what this is, but I have a model that seems to explain certain scenarios. Let's stick with it until someone more intelligent than us provides a better model". We may be "sure" about certain "laws" (e.g,, thermodynamics, speed of light, etc.)... but I think it's a mistake to be so absolute about them.
Citation needed? Hmm. I'm unsure on the whole style guide, but I suggest this site for a good breakdown on Chomsky's various evasions and surgically crafted half-truths about the Vietnam War and its aftermath:

https://reaction.la/chomsdis.htm
Real estate is an asset. The price of assets increases when there's inflation. I'm not so sure you pay for things in the order listed. You probably can do without new clothes longer than you can go without shelter.
Oh, I read it. I'm saying that building a system that supports microtransactions that are reversible is cost prohibitive due to the customer service aspect required. If someone could pull it off, it would be a game changer. I believe many people want to do this, but no one has been successful yet.

I point out Bitcoin as it is non-reversible, and there is no central agency you can complain to if you get your bitcoins stolen. This prevent adoption from much of the public.
> including code in public repositories on GitHub.

You just provided the evidence. I was incorrect to use the term "all the code", but they clearly and openly used GitHub code to train Copilot
Yeah, we’re gonna have to agree to disagree.

Do I personally think that the 2x fuel imbalance is a problem? Nope, I’d happily get on that plane

Could this situation become a safety issue?
Yes it could.

Is it possible that there’s more to this situation than safety? Yeah, probably. Maybe they want shiny new planes on the route. But also, the passengers are paying customers with consumer rights - these are being enforced

Are the Ghanaian authorities not a sane regulator? I’ve got no reason to believe they aren’t being proper regulators. There is a possible safety issue that’s well within their mandate.

What happens when you’re dealing with regulators is if you’ve got a good relationship with them, then all the optional stuff (and some of the mandatory stuff) is optional. If not, then you’re gonna have to check every single box and then some. See Boeing in the US vs Europe.

Call it politics, call it whatever but it is what it is
> But economists really should learn to accompany their predictions with error bars

Virtually all published papers in economics that use regression analysis which you mention include "error bars." The discipline calls these standard errors and confidence intervals. If a paper is non-parametrically estimating functions rather than single parameters, they might also report confidence bands.[1]

Standard errors may be calculated analytically (resting mostly on asymptotic theory) or numerically (using a bootstrap estimator for them). There is a large literature on the appropriate standard errors for various contexts, with clustered errors being mainstream in applications.[2][3] These are taken seriously in peer review, and published papers come with long lists of robustness checks which turn papers into book-length publications when you include the appendices.

[1] https://cattaneo.princeton.edu/papers/Cattaneo-Crump-Farrell... is one example.

[2] See https://economics.mit.edu/files/13927 for a recent discussion.

[3] See https://gregoryeady.com/ResearchMethodsCourse/assets/reading... for bootstrap-based methods.
How about looking at the early git history of a project? One in particular that I’m thinking of is Excalidraw https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw - it started out pretty simple and evolved over time
Why not then just charge batteries where you need them and keep them at place for when the Sun goes to sleep?
Why would you transport batteries around?
Tell that to the proposed EuroAsia link (Greece-Cyprus-Israel) [1], or the proposed Australia-Singapore link [2]. Interconnector are getting longer and longer with each new generation.

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

[2] https://www.powerengineeringint.com/smart-grid-td/td-infrast...

The electrical loss through HVDC cable is approximately 3% per 1000 km of cable, far less than with AC grids. The physics do work out, the only real barriers are economics and politics.
I expect some major support programs will be put in place to address this. And it will probably involve a bit of money printing. No sane government is going to let its citizens deal with going bankrupt because of massively higher energy prices. So Germany, France, etc. will do whatever needs doing to prevent that.

The real problem will be industry having to shut down or minimize operations. They'll be the ones bearing the real cost. This winter will be brutal in terms of its economical impact on industry. The next one, countries will be better prepared. It's Russia that will be suffering the consequences long term. I doubt any country in Europe wants to ever be dependent on them again to the extent that they have in the past.
Nothing worth solving is boring.
Take any or all of your examples, and add an extra variable:

if (unix_time>>128) % 2 == 1 { explode(); }

Easy to code, unfalsifiable. Adds nothing to our understanding.
No, not it's not. Being able to use Tornado Cash is not a human right.

You are the type of person that harms the fight to enforce the core rights described by something like the ECHR by calling any action you don't like by a government "against my human rights". It's reductive and harmful.

The privacy rights enshrined in the ECHR (sorry I'm not familiar with what rights are granted to US citizens, i guess they are those in the US Constitution) are those of correspondence (WhatsApp etc.) and to have a private family/private life (no Stasi listening devices in the plant pot).

Both of these have an exception for targeted use as a part of a criminal investigation.

You may not agree with the definition, and Tornado Cash is a core human right as far as you are concerned, which is fair enough. But there is no legal authority to enforce this, as there is with something like the ECHR where there are a large number of countries who have placed the convention into their domestic laws.
Capacity has decreased - mainly due to a lot of french nuclear reactors offline for scheduled and (correlated) unscheduled maintenance. France went from Europe's largest exporter to largest importer of power this year. Add to that a dry summer woth historically low water levels in rivers, disrupting cooling as well as things like coal transport for power plants.

And natural gas, which usually covers the more elastic power demands is dramatically more expensive.