skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there's a few religious/historical assertions in there (this piece, not the talk itself, which I recommend without reservation) that are pretty contentious for various thorny reasons but are kind of just presented off-handedly as fact.
>Just a reminder: this kind of behaviour results in aversion towards the cause you are propagating.

lol, no it doesn't.
I am visiting my parents in France at the moment and can confirm the shortage of plain mustard. Flavored ones are readily available, as are fancier brands like Pommery (generally better known for its Moutarde de Meaux.
Also, with sudo, I think a lot of the value is the inconvenience of typing out a password. Having to stop and think and type is a nice guardrail that I think fingerprint-based auth would remove.
That's fair, and there is context I intend to talk about more in a couple of future posts. I left my big tech job as a E8 (senior principal-ish) as I just got so bored.

I retired from big tech, but it wasn't until ketamine until I could reset to a new baseline and be truly grateful for my present state. Now, I do what I want when I want and the spiritual experience helps me be ok with doing my Thang without too much judgement.

I work on my platform, and I recently started to paint.
Did AMP improve the experience of Tribune Publishing websites? If it's hot garbage with AMP, removing it shouldn't hurt. But it will give them the ability to improve their sites rather than being locked into Google's choices.
kill the entire planet? From exceeding a delta-t of 2 degree C in their discharge water?
Fakeroute was the funniest thing in the world back then. Thank you.
Is there? Pretty much everything is available to buy as far as I can see, and the question now is how low 30x0 cards go. I know lots of people who won't pay near MSRP from years old cards now, and are waiting for real sales.
If sites were "just fixing the garbage" Google wouldn't have had a reasonable reason for rolling out AMP.

I presume to some extent AMP was intended to be like Google Fiber. That is a kick in the pants to get others to up their game. It didn't work out that way.

The truth is too many sites are done with an all-about-the-brand mindest. And users are a distant second in the priority list. I'm not sure what the answer is. Sure, obviously, it's not AMP. But we still need something. Users - which is all of us - are being abused.
Getting a t-shirt with "awk < 1" printed on it hand auto-grap-ed by Brian Kernighan would be more memorable though.
What is this 2 releases per feature you speak of? Can feature flags solve this?

or maybe Thema (in time) https://github.com/grafana/thema
That's true, except that it is plausible that any major new source of energy is going to disrupt the previously prevailing equilibrium somehow, and it will do so very rapidly on evolutionary time scales. So yes, I'm extrapolating from one data point. But I think it's a plausible extrapolation based on a plausible model of evolution and ecosystems in general. Call it a hypothesis. Nothing would please me more than to have it disproved by evidence.
Preventing Loss Dot Jp2
Everyone microfocused on Google and forgot AMP exists because Apple and Facebook created closed "AMPs" that were completely private.

No one won here except some people with an axe to grind and actual web users.

Hopefully web vitals can be a similar forcing function for dev teams with managers, leading to better quality for users.
Yeah and a multiple of that in renewables
Banning Delta altogether seems disproportionate. Banning all 767s would be silly. Telling Delta they can’t fly this one particular plane to Accra seems to me like a perfectly reasonable response to a run of incidents involving that plane within a short period of time.

Honestly, the only thing that surprises me about this is that other aviation authorities haven’t followed suit.
Bit of an entire category: Older scientific equipment.

Typically, you have one graybeard down in the basement that knows how those old centrifuges/distilizers/ionificators/etc work. Things that an entire building is really dependent on. Not only that, but they typically know the limits and how to get good science out of them.

It's more of a $$$ issue though. Loads of these old machines are dying off with the people that know them. This then opens up the market for the new people to come in and reinvent the wheel, sometimes literally so. It costs more, sure, but it keeps things moving along too.

If you get the chance, talk to these old graybeards and hear their stories. Most of it is mumbo jumbo, but man, they are great stories.
All in all, it’s just another brick in the mass function
$7-$9 and you still get ads.

:shocked_face_with_exploding_head:
From the article you quoted:

> In order to replace the two nuclear plants while the sun is down, the batteries would need to replicate two 1.117 GW power sources for 16 hours. The total energy storage capacity would be 39.3 GWh, after we add an extra 10% for safe measure.

Sorry, but no. This is a brittle system proposed. A 16 hour battery backup doesn't account for bad weather events like hurricanes, let alone more severe ones like the Texas power crisis.

Take a look at this diagram of power production during said Texas power crisis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis#/media...

Compare the area of the solar curve at the start and end of this 11 day window to what it is in the middle. There's a huge difference between how much solar was produced between good days and bad.

Now look at the nuclear production for this same time and tell me these two can be used equally well for base load power production.
But that's the insight people are bringing up in this thread - nobody specialises in C.

Lots of people learn and use C as an every day tool. I'm a Java and Ruby programmer - but I have to work with C as an ABI and an extension language. Python programmers have to work with C as an extension language. There are DB developers who use C.

I don't know anyone who describes themselves as a 'C programmer' like you would 'Ruby programmer'.
tbh I find the unfamiliar stress patterns of reasonably fluent Indian English speakers a lot less problematic than some of the quirks my fellow Brits' stronger regional accents! The tendency to enunciate syllables we often mash together actually tends to be clearer
Absolutely! So much of my 'bag of tricks' is having been around the block so many times that I can sniff these things out. It's a bad way for things to be!
I started writing a constructive comment on how to approach a technical article with honesty and using the "if so many successful people use it, it must have a lot of value" heuristic, assuming this was written by some badly mentored junior.

Then I checked the rest of the website. It feels so strange and desperate. Not sure what to say...
Political incompetency should really be baked in any discussion about pushing more nuclear.

You can have miracle new reactor designs, but do you have a society that matches it and will properly manage the technology for the next 50 years ?
I like Dell monitors. Have been buying them exclusively for many years
They are by building power plants without cooling towers. Problem is not enough water, but because water discharged back to river is too hot.
I appreciate you introducing me to this concept -- it's something I've thought a lot about, but could never verbalize
Drinking alcohol ‘reprograms’ gut microbiome, but aren’t key in liver damage
> I challenge your contention that "a way to uniquely identify themselves" is a right of biological women or other groups. Never heard of any such right; it sounds totally made up.

And yet you've heard of a right for males to claim female's sex-based rights?

> Rights are not a zero-sum game or some kind of exhaustible resource;

Actually they are. Women have a right to sex-segregated spaces for example, and that doesn't work if they can't claim exclusive use of sex-based identifiers. Women can't have exclusively-women's prisons if men can call themselves women.

> You disagree that trans women are women. Fine. Activists are trying to make the case that they are; that womanhood encompasses more than being biologically female, and same for manhood. A lot of people agree.

You can volunteer to share your spaces however you like, but you can't make that decision for others no matter how many people you claim agree.

Also, you're being disingenuous. Transwomen claim to be female these days - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Levine - which is clearly untrue even to people who might believe in gender identities.

> You say that everyone could identify as black-descendant-of-slavery to access scholarships. I say you are making a laughable category error.

But then you reference Rachel, who did exactly that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal

Thanks to the modern intentional acceptance of appropriation and colonization other Dolezals aren't being rejected, leading some to simultaneously claim racial and sexual benefits belonging to others. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Benaway
I worked at Meta, and I'm not woke.

I have more to write on this, but I was able to grind as I had interesting work. I got bored even as an E8, and I squeezed the last potential out as I mentored and helped others grew.
Most of the electricity in Finland is not produced by using fossil fuels. For example during year 2020 14 % of the electricity in Finland was produced by fossil fuels.
Beautiful design. but, another devices in my bag? no thank you. my phones already solve almost anything.
I misspoke. I meant to say "do not over-specialize".

> in the previous comment you wanted want the US to be served by others

No, read again with the whole context: what I said was that the focus should be on keeping the industry local, on a smaller scale and more worried about robustness than profitability. Then I said that "even if after that they are still being out-competed, it doesn't mean that they all is lost".

The point was that plenty of countries can be successful even if they are not 100% self-sufficient about key resources. I am not advocating the end of trade. I am advocating for smaller/stronger communities and stronger/more explicit interfaces between them.

> You should be supporting human rights not murdering innocents.

Please stop with this absurd rhetoric. Not only is BS, it could easily be turned on you ("So, you buy things from China? This means that you support the genocide of Uyghurs!")

> The current globalized world cannot just cannot function with your fantasy 150 people limit.

First, this "current globalized world" is precisely the thing that is so full of systemic issues that we should be working to avoid. In a less-globalized and not hyperconnected world, Covid would not even be a thing, so the whole "people died of Covid because they didn't have masks" is complete rhetorical bullshit .

Second, there is no limit on people. The only limit is about the size of a single corporation. I don't know what is so hard about it to understand. You keep mischaracterizing the argument to the point that it is making clear you are not interested in a good-faith conversation, which should be a signal that I am done here.
Seriously? How can you not know that this particular derailment has even became a meme years ago?
I haven't watched this one yet, but I'd be curious to hear how others think it compares to the one he did with Lex
That’s what the article says too.
What is the implication here, that geneticists decided in 1990 to pack in "real work" in order to work up a grand conspiracy to wipe out an entire concept?
Yeah, but we're just trying to be consistent: when people say "Japanese has no future tense", they mean a morphological tense, and it's equally true that English has no morphological future tense either.

Both languages, of course, still have other mechanisms for doing this, either via specifying the point in time "She's buying that tomorrow", or via auxillary words (is going to buy, kaeru tsumori desu).
These sorts of “mass distribution” scale-invariant phenomena occur in biology as well: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/208/9/1575/9371/...
Hebrew might be a very good candidate as well. You'd get some interesting fireworks if people demanded those posters got taken down.

And of course: Aramaic would be most interesting indeed.

So possibly a poster with : Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic, the three original languages of 3 major monotheistic religions. I think this also meets the requirement that the only words should be "In God We Trust".
It's hard to know what codebases will last 20 years. But I think even if an open source software project becomes less relevant over time, hopefully the things one learns about software construction and building sustainable open source communities to other projects in the future.

One of my personal goals for Zulip (https://github.com/zulip/zulip/#readme) is for it to be a teaching-quality codebase. This entails a lot of decisions about how Zulip is designed and how we as a community collaborate on it. But above all, it entails a focus on constantly trying to debug and fix barriers to new contributors joining the project, in addition to investing in things like readability, well-designed test suites, documentation for contributors, etc.

I'd look for those attributes in a project.
I think you’re oversimplifying the human brain a bit here. The point of psychedelic therapy is to forcibly reset your cognition.

It is very much like turning your brain off and on again.

Therapy tries to change your perspective, but the therapist has to go through your conscious mind to reshape your subconscious.

Psychedelics go around the conscious part, directly flooding your mind with thoughts and forcing you to redo your perspective from the ground up. This is more uncontrolled than therapy, but sometimes the conscious barrier is too strong.

I’m no doctor though, just a person with some perspective
'build quickly to prove out a product feature, but always with a path to a more robust solution"

Yes
I’ve heard the lower stats, but I’m not sure I agree. I’m learning Mandarin and have gone through the entire HSK6 character list - and I’m still having to look up lots of characters when I read the newspaper, novels, etc. 10,000 might be a bit high, but I think a typical literate Chinese person knows a lot more characters than you’d expect.
Because society and toxic news, I think they are just trying to make it match your accent, but happens to be that the first call center niche to tackle is from America to overseas
Yes, and no.

They started out right and acknowledged that things can be different in different climates. But then in their second paragraph they made a categorical statement: “Still, drying clothes indoors has no ill effects, I have no idea where you got this.”

That is a general statement. They don’t think drying clothes indoors can have any ill effects. Ever. At any humidity level.

So they realise that the drying time can change quantitatively. What they miss is that there are qualitative effects which can happen too. And in their hurry they dismiss other people’s lived experience.
They didn't have a good reason. They could have achieved everything and more that they said they wanted to get out of AMP by simply penalizing slow sites.

It was just another power grab, and publishers went with it because AMP sites were given priority in the SERPs.

Anyway, this has been talked about in many threads over 100's of comments.
My wife was a boron chemist in grad school. I've learned that any element with three sticks is bad news.
Currently government funded research is either open access (and pays the fee) or is closed access for 1 year then becomes open (and is not subject to fees). Now all government research will have to pay open access fees, and the new guidance allows them to request additional funding for open access fees.

Currently the government ranks all grant applications, and funds everyone until it runs out of money. Under the new system it will run out of money sooner -- especially for smaller grant programs for early career grad students and undergrads.
> Anti nuclear fearmongering is based on ignorance for the most part, and a kind of exploitative cynicism on the other.

Is it fearmongering when incidents actually happened and right now we have a country that could potentially have a reactor get destroyed by act of war ?

You seem to focus purely on the technical part, and swiping away the margin for human error, unpredicted issues, political incompetence, and straight hostility. Those are also part of the discussion.
In this specific case (regulations on the cooling water temperature) it's killing some fishes vs killing some birds. That seems very comparable to me.

Why wouldn't we require wind turbines to stop when birds are migrating to reduce their environmental externalities?
With no references, not even hyperlinks to most of the Wikipedia articles that are mentioned in the text..
I've probably paid for 5 oil changes in my life. Many dozens done myself.

In those 5 (always while traveling cross country, and purposely done at a Sears or Firestone for national guarantees), I've had the following negative experiences:

- 1 overtightened and stripped plug bolt, requiring three extra days in a hotel while the replacement pan (which they charged me for) was shipped
- 1 case of badly greased up door, floor mats, and steering wheel
- 2 improperly seated crush washers (or inadequately tightened) plug bolts, causing leaks in parking lots

In the latter two cases, I was hundreds of miles away before noticing, but the nearest franchise honored the guarantee.

So, I'm with you on the "trust" premium.
Sure, I was just curious. So essentially throughout the experience you felt as if things were sort of 'narrowing' and, inevitably, you would too. And with this repeating over and over again it forced you to confront and eventually move beyond a fear of death?
I haven't had the opportunity to use excel for a problem that would require a lambda yet.

But for those interested https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ult...

My two examples were more of a "show a clear correspondence between the syntax of excel and lisp" for the "if someone knows basic excel, you can introduce them to lisp."
I really wanted AMP to be to HTML/CSS what asm.js was to Javascript, a subset with better performance.

What other alternatives are there? The Gemini project seems too barebones and requires its own browser.
SUOMIIIII
It seems like you can sign binaries with non-apple provided certificates:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se...

This github issue (https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/issues/835) mentions: So, the sign pipe is supposed to be generic enough so it could be used with different signing mechanisms

Not tried this but it looks like its possible
Eh, it's not that hard if you have a good teacher to give you feedback. I'd put it on par with learning proper French pronunciation.
You would likely need a real ground antenna, so already with starlink
This is a really quite impressively written article about the very beginning about applying machine learning to circuit design, from the late 90s.

Until I found the associated research paper, I at first wasn't sure if I was reading something real, or some elaborate, convincing creative sci-fi writing.

The original 1997 research paper can be read here: https://cse-robotics.engr.tamu.edu/dshell/cs625/Thompson96Ev...
Yes, AMP does (or at least did) generally improve the UX and the load time of most pages that integrated it. No giant blobs of third party ad scripts, no huge interstitials that took over the entire page... Whatever else you might say about AMP, it did a good job at handcuffing publishers into not ruining their site with garbage
ah, interesting. So you have a medically qualified background to back up those claims?
You don’t even need a home charger if you drive less than 50 miles a day, Just plug into a wall outlet.
OpenAI cuts prices for GPT-3 by two thirds amidst growing competition
The quality of food is better in a modern market like whole foods today than what you got 50 or 100 years ago. Or if you like it super fresh, in pretty much every city you have organic produce at multiple local farmer's markets. Or look at restaurant options today vs even 40 years ago. Coffee today vs Folger's. Fair trade chocolate vs Hershey's. Access to fresh fruit, year round, via global supply chains. I don't know what hasn't gotten better. The worst thing about food today is abundance of cheap (value?) junk food, but that's an accomplishment in its own way.
How would you spoof arbitrary IPs? IIUC it's poked at as the next hop...?

(Mhm, embarrassingly out of the loop)
I was thinking more about how much unnecessary and useless software gets run at all

At the same time, a failed ML training session could account for more waste than another company's entire useful footprint

I've personally been spending a fair amount of time recently deduping builds in CI, yet another source of waste
Meta Horizon VP is leaving the company
What you are saying makes me wonder whether there is a correlation between predisposition towards magical thinking (spirituality, religiosity, etc.) and effectiveness of psychedelics?

And for that matter could there be an equivalent of psychedelics for various types of AIs?
Something I've noticed in this space is that there exist "standards" which are intended to make systems compatible and useful and modern, but all of these standards are extremely poorly written and cling to outdated paradigms and weird non-standard protocols that aren't used anywhere except small subsets of the manufacturing world. Often you'll have to implement interfaces yourself because there's only one reference C library available that hasn't had any maintenance for years and won't even compile.

At risk of someone posting the xkcd on standards, I would love to see an full industry wide consortium to establish _modern and well designed_ standards, led by people with experience making modern networked services and systems. Specifically around industrial machine controls and data/telemetry collection. A few standards exist that are roughly xml-rpc-ish, but they don't even follow that much as a standard. OPC-UA is the latest "standard" to be making the rounds and is (IMO) doomed to fail due to its layers of complexity and unclear specifications.
I actually kind of liked AMP because it regularly circumvented paywalls and those fucking annoying newsletter popups.
Also mirrors. Any light that misses the leaf gets reflected and gets another chance at reaching the leaf.
Ah so this is how "the next best thing since sliced bread"s die :'(
The retailers should be liable for stuff like this. A fake SSD isn't going to kill anybody, but there are lots of cases where people have been injured or killed by substandard products to the point of counterfeiting regulatory symbols.

I don't even understand how these products get imported.
And replace it with burning of wood, dumping glass panels full of cadmium and burying spent fiberglass in desert.
Is traceroute Turing complete?
Right, but the spoken phrases and words are also divergent and overloaded already, making it not a good choice for a more uniform, simple to learn universal language.
Setting aside that this is from a Slack competitor...

> one would be hard-pressed to find any who are excited about it

Me.

You know all that bitching we collectively do about ad and tracking supported business models obsfuscating the cost of "free" products?

The solution is being willing to pay for something you use and like.
It feels like this need to over-moderate use of this word is projection from people who grew up with a specific light/dark skin divide that also mapped nearly perfectly onto actual prejudice and inequality. The USA is like that episode of star trek where people were white on one side and black on the other.

People use the word like "are the dutch racially tall or is it their diet?" and nobody means or takes offense.
I understand the Lisp family of languages leverage the interrelationship between code and data as well, might be worth investigating.