skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet for real is killing balls, I like to go out and go crazy a bit at bars at concerts etc and would just like to forget it the next day, instead there are people always with these fucking phones at hand making pics and videos, starting from some components of my group with the tags etc, had to delete all socials I have to let them do the reporters and live my life without being aware of what they publish
I tried other apps a long time ago before tinder existed and felt the same. I've given up on dating years ago and will probably never go back. For me it felt like constant stress, pressure to appear perfect or near-perfect, and lots and lots of disappointment. It's not just the apps either (I was going to bars and club mainly to try and meet women).

Quitting actually helped me recover from depression and now I'm alone and somewhat happy, while before I was a constantly dissatisfied mess. Hope you find someone if that's what you want, but just so you know, you can do well alone.
You have until 01/2024 to buy one
A vocal minority doesn't need to be very large to influence culture.
>These are cases where "social cooling" is welcome.

Maybe. Some young (or not) person does something dumb one time maybe after getting a bit too intoxicated (and maybe even somewhat out of context) and a recording is available for an indefinite period of time at the top of Google searches of their name doesn't seem obviously always a good outcome.

There's arguably something to be said for having a common name. Or at least not having an unusual name that you nonetheless share with the wrong person.
I hear two arguments:

a) renewables provide the most power when power is used the most (during the day when the sun is shining to run a/c)

b) charging EVs at night will balance the grid

I don't think you can do B with A, right?
How did everyone, so far, missed Python?

It is backed my Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and many more.
You should entertain the idea that they're just ideologues who don't really know what they're doing.
"SMR's will be viable technology within a year." quote someone 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
>A simple answer to this is that good explanations are hard to vary.

But the "hard to vary" explanations were built up from observing data of smashing particles. E.g. from your link:

- Frank Wilczek describes hard-to-vary-ness as follows "A theory begins to be perfect if any change makes it worse." He explains further using the Standard Model as an example of a hard-to-vary explanation: Too many gluons! But each of the eight colour gluons is there for a purpose. Together, they fulfil complete symmetry among the color charges. [...] No fudge factors or tweaks are available.

This author's blog post about "data" also links to his previous post[1] about "science" leading one astray from "good arguments" is the opposite of "hard to vary" explanations.

Here's the reason for the disconnect: The author is using the adjective "good" in his idiosyncratic way to describe the type of arguments that depend more on "storytelling" and "intrinsic motivation" -- rather than empirical science/data. Excerpt:

- >And here is a secret: in the natural sciences themselves, storytelling and bare conjecture are far more important modes of persuasion than data-based empirical argument, anyway. [...]

- >A good example of the sort of argument I think is helpful is A Philosophy of Software Design. Ousterhout defines his terms clearly, accompanies his definitions and claims with illustrative examples, and tells an occasional story. You, the reader, are free to evaluate each claim based on whether it plausibly seems to capture the essence of what you have encountered in your experiences writing software. For my part, I didn’t find most of Ousterhout’s ideas to be persuasive, as some of my colleagues did, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t good arguments,

Those types of subjective claims arguments the author is espousing are actually "easy to vary" -- because they don't require constructing a cohesive theory that reconciles data that looks contradictory (e.g. like the The Standard Model, or Theory of General Relativity reconciling the speed-of-light observations).

[1] http://twitchard.github.io/posts/2019-10-13-software-develop...
The Atlanta equivalent of the 40-Watt was 688, which was a cinder block building with maybe a 9 foot ceiling. It was always hot and full of clove cigarette smoke. The stage may have been 18 inches high.

REM at 688 in early 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAldqnBPz3Y&t=2077s
You should look at their stock price.
> or being overly dependent on local weather.

It was interesting to see (thanks, Europe) how nuclear power plants are still somewhat susceptible to global climate change, since they require vast amounts of water below a certain temperature to run.
Purchase within the state
after a couple decades of breaking every cluster filesystem I've used at scale, Colossus was the first one that managed to handle my loads effortlessly. It required far less attention from SREs when abusive users sent it a lot of load. It also made using reed solomon codes easy.
Iff the energy can be extracted on the moon (water + solar + rock) and equipment be built there, there is only the gravity of the moon to overcome, which is low.
Is that a lot? That doesn't sound like a lot from my ~20 years in the area.
It's easy to pivot to "the aftermath of war", but plenty, PLENTY of people and organizations pointed out that reliance on imported energy, especially from Russia, was not a great idea.
I don't mean to be rude, but this sounds fairly anti-semitic. "It doesn't matter about what all the Christian groups think, what matters is that the Zionists [implied to be Jews?] are buying the legislation".

This might definitely not be your intent - but that is for sure how I am currently parsing your comment.
Maybe we could continue the discussion once there's actually been a power disruption and not just preperation for a yearly peak electricity demand?
This is a non argument, because the moon is just a lump of gravitating matter. Those effects you mention are independent of what happens on the moon. The moon might as well be coated with swiss cheese and nothing would change (... as long as the cheese has similar albedo to the moon as it is now)
> they weren't that hot about hypes either

Are you really trying to convince me that the original hackers were tech-conservatives? They literally set the trends and built the future.

Who are these marketing types you talk of? I don't dispute there is a lot of fluff and hype going around, but you chose yourself who you listen to. I follow true hackers like John Carmack, Jeri Ellsworth, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz and prominent scientists like Yann LeCun. If all you find is hype and marketing that's on you. It's like people complaining that Twitter is bad, you decide who to follow!
> I don't think it's productive to continue this conversation. Sadly, you've decided to take the position that Christians should have their right to vote curtailed

If that's all you took away from this conversation, then I agree - it's for the best to end it now. But I'll try to elaborate anyway.

I am not taking the position that Christians should have their right to vote curtailed, I'm taking the position that nobody, not even Christians, should have the right to impose their own standards upon others, unless they made sense outside of the Christian worldview. Abortion laws only make sense in the Christian worldview (and maybe a few other, equally intolerant, worldviews). The fact that Christians are the majority in the US only makes it de-facto a Christian state, while still pretending to be a secular democracy.

Here's a thought experiment:

If Talibans somehow became a majority in the US, would you still consider it "their right" to vote away the democracy and establish Sharia Law?
I have to work for a living. If I stop working, I'm homeless. Every agency in the entire US IC could ask me for help and offer me a billion dollars to do it, and I'd still tell those traitors, tyrants, and cowards to go rot in hell. Not that hell exists, but a person can dream, can't they?
Ask HN: Is there a modern Linux distro with UI centered around web technology?
No GTK, no QT, none of those traditional programmatic UI frameworks. I'd like to see a free Linux distribution where it's GUI makes complete use of web technologies, layout engine instances. So far the only thing I've seen is ChromeOS, but that's pretty locked down.
Oxygen produced on Mars with lunchbox-sized instrument
But do HW security tokens create a probability of a hard lock-out that outweighs the security/convenience they provide.

If you lose your key, you're locked out --- simple as that.

About the only reasonable way to create a backup is by buying/using/registering multiple keys. But at $40+ each, the cost adds up quickly.

It is hard to beat your phone for overall convenience. My phone is always with me and with my TOTP keys backed up to secure on-line storage, I can easily restore these to another device if/when needed and continue with only a minor hesitation. For most people, this is the most convenient/least expensive/best all around solution IMO.
I agree, query builders make it much easier to re-use code (e.g. putting the same CTE or expression in multiple queries without assembling strings by hand) and support multiple database backends (e.g. placeholder syntax differs). I really recommend them.

ORM vs raw SQL is a false dichotomy.
That's what the hex section of the shaft, just south of the handle, is for.
And it's only the sale of new gas cars. If your goal is to drive an ICE car for as long as humanly possible you could easily make it 30 years from today only buying new.
I live in NJ. We also have to ask for straws. At the same time, fast food joints, Starbucks, etc. continue to pump out single-use plastic cups like there is no tomorrow. Did I mention, we also have to ask for straws?

It's difficult to say this law had good intentions. You have to be thinking to have intentions. This law - and the fact that it's not been updated to fix it - is the epitome of mindless.

While I don't like to favor legislation as a solution, if the gov is going to do something, this is simply a great example of what other states should not do. If our elected officials can't get something this basic right, how can they help with anything bigger?
lol - overbearing policy restricts to the least common denominator with no opportunity for innovation.

Solar and Wind have been the biggest suppressor for developing longer term base load. Why would anyone who is remotely sane take a risk to develop base load power when politicians shift priorities on whatever the flavor of the day is. This has been going on for decades which is why we are now where we are. Base load generation takes a significant commitment and requires long term planning, but current politics place a high penalty on anything requiring a long term commitment.

Talk about a tragedy of commons :p
France says you are wrong
The documentation offers some advice on this:

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
>If you only ever coded in a language that doesn't even offer you the ability to tinker with some concepts, you can't be familiar with those. Reading one article about it without ever touching code, is not being familiar with a programming concept.

I disagree, you're familiar by definition.

You're just not experienced and may be not aware of pros and cons unless the article/book/w.e showed them.

Whether experience is important is up to the thing you're talking about.

For example: stealing Result<T> from other language to replace exceptions in your language doesn't require you to use Result<T> impl. in other lang.
Nuh-uh! I had to fight that term at Microsoft for a few years because it was obvious that .NET Framework was legacy but some people were afraid to say it for fear that some customers would leave (as if leaving is somehow easy to do).
Honestly, if you mine only the dark side of the moon, people will never even notice.

They might notice the rockets going back and forth though.
rebuttal: source and figures?

That might be true with stockpiles of already-mined uranium, but we can definitely mine more uranium.
This is interesting but I wish it filtered out options that had laughably low max balances.

I entered $50,000 and DCU pops up with 6.17%, that's great, oh wait, it's only for up to $1K.

Also this tool appears to be missing the 2 options I personally use that beat almost all these rates.

* HMBradley Savings: 3% (a number of hoops to jump through but I've automated it all) up to $100K

* One Finance: 3% (no hoops) up to $25K

OF is my "main bank" where I keep up to $25K in that 3% savings accounts as my "semi-hot wallet" (after the checking account) and then HMB is my "cold storage" since there are some hoops to jump through to withdraw money while maintaining the rate. I have my HMB set up to always be draining via their CC (doesn't affect savings rate you must maintain to get 3%) so I can always pull $1-3K out a month on top of the 80% you can withdraw without issue (which gets ACH'd to my main bank automatically after the DD lands). This means I only "lock up" $1200/mo but the CC drains that and then some without issue. I can always ACH more into the savings account from my main bank if I'm close to the $25K limit on that savings account.
Project Farm makes amazing videos.
The act of you linking the video in this context is very ironic. Yeah, I wonder why girls are less topless nowadays -- maybe because the chances of their private parts ending up on YouTube is much higher?
You never had a button fall or break?
Concrete is pretty stiff.
But mostly, wearing such a helmet will make it much harder to move your head around to scan your surroundings, increasing the chance of accidents.
That's fairer.
I read the advice you quoted in Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb.
That is correct. Wera are often considered "top tier" in the screwdriver arena.
I question whether all of the efforts that it will take to set up and operate mining operations on the moon (not to mention the political implications and conflicts) are any less destructive in the long run than harvesting metals from the ocean bed.
I fully support this idea. Though in this case would it only apply to doctor lawmakers?
In the future, if you care, the word you want here is alluding:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/elude-vs-allud...
Mining the moon in and of itself? There's no impact on Earth. Introducing tons of extraterrestrial metals into our biosphere? There's the rub.

The article totally disregards the lifecycle of consumer products that would use lunar metals. There's already a massive challenge dealing with historic heavy metal pollution across the globe.

Recycling is a hard problem. Not because of the technical aspects. Because a massive chunk of what we consume never ends up being recycled in a safe, secure environmental conscious manner in the first place. Just consider how much e-waste ends up in 3rd world scrapyards. There are massive economical and political hurdles to consider. Our collective behaviors need to fundamentally shift...

... and once you start thinking about that, you automatically arrive at the 5 R's which have a distinct ordering: Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Rot, Recycle.

If we could figure out how to reduce global consumption of resources in the first place in order to stem the rate at which our planet gets polluted... then what's left of the need to scavenge metals from other heavenly bodies?
They don't. The screwdriver isn't meant for that.

Point is "adjusted the spring for lighter back-force" would normally mean the max torque you can use is reduced (because the spring slips). They state the max torque you can use to indicate the effect of the trade-off.

The fact that you think that the max torque is still way more than is needed, is probably why they advertise this. The fact that max torque is way higher than needed means they did not trade off too much max torque to reduce the back-force.
But the op claims the one true solution is nucear 90% of the time every time... unfortunately for the country that is all in on nuclear the lights are only on because of ... well renewables and coal.
China has the proper idea for a writing system this entire time.
>It is impossible to ban and punish murder perfectly fairly.

It's not. What's impossible is to determine with 100% certainty who committed a murder. But if you start from the assumption that you correctly know who committed a murder, you can administer a fair sentence quite easily. For example, you could punish all murders equally regardless of circumstances, but it's possible even if different sentences may be applied.

Censorship is completely different.

First, it's not completely obvious that the mere utterance of an idea is something that should be prevented or punished.

Second, the unfairness of censorship comes from the fact that the utterance of only some ideas is prohibited. Well, why those and not others? That is to say, given that ideas don't arise in a vacuum, but are the products of minds, why are some people being punished by being prevented from expressing themselves just for their ideas while others aren't? It's not like (extrajudicially) murdering some people is legal and murdering others isn't.

Third, murder (and, to a lesser extent, crime in general) is an exceptional occurrence. It's not something that's happening trillions of time per day. For something that happens so frequently, it's inevitable that policing will be inconsistent to the point that one violation will be punished and another not, even though they're exactly equivalent.

>These are social psychology arguments

These are common sense arguments. The idea that fairness is important is as old as trying to decide what to have for lunch.
When you use heat pumps, you can get roughly equal efficiency. They're pretty impressive tools.
Storage is going to take more than hand waving. At some point you actually have to *deliver* cost effective energy storage at scale - right now. Otherwise shut up and start building more reliable base load from older tech; unless you want more blackouts.

Physics doesn't give a crap about your feelings.
The 3 now decommissioned plants CA had were good for 2000 MW each. When they were online. Which was about 1/2-2/3 of the time. San Onofre’s shutdown was actually offset by at the time, the worlds largest solar project near Calexico.

I recall our state being able to go to 55,000 MW before having to curtail consumption. Now we are declaring an emergency at 43,000 MW (yesterday’s peak, source CAISO website).

What we are dealing with here is failed public policy. I agree electrification is a good and noble goal. But it is quite obvious our leaders have declared certain changes necessary without creating a transition strategy. That or their unstated transition plan is a legislatively-induced crisis.
Incredibly, we mine a lot more than a billionth of a billionth of earth mass !!

Earth ~6x10^24kg, annual human resource extraction is ~10^14kg.

(Could my figures be wrong? Its bizarre!)
In what way does the moon effect the earth _other_ than its gravitational pull? Do you think that industrial mining on the moon would have a noticeable effect on the gravitational pull of the moon?
> Palestinian lands

There's very intentional ambiguity in this wording, which obfuscates the reality. “Palestine” was a historical name given to this land after suppression of Jewish revolt, but there has been no state or nation of “Palestine” and no people who have been calling themselves “palestinians” — until Jews started building themselves a home in a sparsely populated and underdeveloped corner of Ottoman empire in the late 19th century. Then, and until late 1960s, the word Palestine became synonymous with “Jewish Zionist state”, and word “Palestinian” only meant one thing: Israeli jew.

Only after the 6 day war, when surrounding Arab states realised that they can't destroy Israel, “Palestinian” national project was born and this word started meaning something different. Some could argue that this means that Palestinian nation is made up, but IMO that's okay: all nations are made up, some are just later than others. However, I can't understand how anyone can say that Israel can be built on “palestinian” land when the whole concept of “Palestine” as “Arab nation” is 20 years younger than Israel.
> What do you think about a fully managed service that moves the funds automatically behind the scenes

I'm interested as long as this service works with YNAB/Plaid.
Things are looking pretty brutal in southern Sweden for the coming winter. I have some acquaintances who are on thermal and who usually get pretty steep bills in December and January and they ain't just looking at a 7% increase that's for sure...
Kagi/Orion status update: First three months
Not a dumb question at all. Interestingly enough, the moon is already slowing down the Earth's rotation, and it has been doing so for billions of years. Through tidal forces, the moon's orbit is gradually being raised at the expense of the Earth's rotation being gradually slowed. Right now, the same side of the moon always faces the Earth. In the far future, the same side of the Earth would always face the same side of the moon. The day would be much longer and the moon would be much farther away. However this would take about 50 billion years, which is a lot longer than the solar system has left in its current balance.

The amount of mass humans would extract from the moon through mining would not change this in any appreciable way because the moon is just too massive.
> Your users finding issues in your system is your users doing a service for you.

Well, yes, but if they don't report the issue in a way where it can be resolved, then they haven't actually done the service, yet. They've half-done it.

> don't put your head in the sand because they're not doing what you had hoped.

To be clear, the point isn't that these issues shouldn't be addressed; it's that users need a disincentive to laziness / an incentive to engage actively with the ticketing process. Because, by default, there is no such incentive.

By default, in most companies, IT helpdesk workers are seen as a kind of lower-class servant to the people submitting the tickets, where the entire responsibility for solving the problem — including diagnosing the problem — is placed upon them; and anything they might ask of the ticket submitter, e.g. information about what's going wrong in order to do the diagnosis, is seen as an impingement upon the submitter's valuable time. Like a maid interrupting their master's important conversation to ask how they'd like their tea.

Nothing needs to change about the workflow of helpdesk ticket submission. In many cases, it's already pretty good. As the GP states, we've tried putting tons of work into guiding people through information-collection flows in such a way that people motivated to do so will submit all useful/relevant information for diagnosis.

The only thing that needs to change, is the relative status with which ticket submitters see the IT people. The incentives, on who needs to "put in the work" for whom.

In every organization with a sane/healthy/functional IT system I've ever seen, the system is sane/healthy/functional precisely because someone high in the company, e.g. the CTO, happens to also be the head of the IT department; and therefore IT workers, in some sense, have an "ear to power."

It's a bit like the setup of the show Undercover Boss — "flipping the script" of traditional organizational power dynamics, by giving those on the bottom of the organizational hierarchy a direct line to those at the top, such that the people in the middle will get in trouble for disrespecting the people who nominally "work for them" (but, in reality, work for those at the top, just assigned to be managed by them.)