skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit pedantic, but that's not really the Kant thing. Kant is a proponent of deontology, which is utterly unconcerned with consequences. His thing was more checking if it would still make logical sense.

That is, when he asks "What if everybody lied?", what he's getting at isn't that it'd suck if you couldn't even ask for the time and get the right answer, but that it'd destroy the concept of truth, and with that what does "lying" even mean?

Kant answered the specific scenario of "What if the Gestapo wants to know if you're hiding any Jews?" (his actual scenario was with a murderer looking for a victim, since Nazis weren't a thing yet), and said that yup, you do not lie, because to him the morality of an action is unrelated to its likely consequences.
Yes, it was a typo. Thanks.
As soon as I saw Troy's post about this in my news feed, I thought I'd buy it immediately, but $39 is a lot for this sort of thing.

I've bought similar books from tech bloggers and they've been closer to $15.
> Moving forward, I question whether these types of suspensions should be allowed from the tech giants without any oversight or regulation

I mean no disrespect to Americans here (and I'm sorry that's it's fashionable to diss America right now), but this is an American problem, and it's like a cancer infecting the rest of the world. This kind of behaviour would have been inconceivable in Europe 20 years ago, but due to the multinational tech giants, it's creeping in slowly.

There's nothing inherently wrong with capitalism in my opinion, but it needs to go with a little common sense. _Obviously_ there needs to be some government oversight.
It is my understanding that inter-satellite links makes communication effectively instant, not ground to satellite delivery in challenging environment, such as deep canyons (especially north to south ones) with narrow view of the sky. GEO might fail under these conditions too, but when it suceeds, delivery is immediate.

Moreover, GPS can be flaky under such conditions too, in which case MEO satellites might be able to provide fast Doppler detection to approximate the device location to few miles area and responders can further reduce the search area.

On the other hand, satellite tracker (such as Garmin InReach) advantage would be that it can be configured to try and send its location every 10 minutes, therefore, even if at the current location there's no signal, your last tracked location might be not far away.
Apple are in contact with at least one company that can diagnose maladies through human sweat.
You'll note that Alsup's comment at sentencing was "this is the biggest trade secret crime I have ever seen. This was not small. This was massive in scale." He downloaded 10G of confidential files from his employer onto a thumb drive and then founded a startup that was immediately acquired by one of his employer's biggest competitors, with evidence that the startup was only founded as a front for the theft of trade secrets.

Those who are less brazen not only don't end up in court, but they often end up with $100B+ companies. You don't see any prison time for the Traitorous Eight who left Shockley to found Fairchild, Moore & Noyce who left Fairchild to found Intel, Jerry Sanders who left Fairchild to start AMD, Morris Chang leaving Texas Instruments to found TSMC, Marc Andreesen leaving Mosaic to start Netscape, or Steve Jobs's visit to Xerox Parc to see the Alto and bring all its innovations to the Lisa & Macintosh.
Wladimir Palant (original creator Adblock Plus and nowadays doing security work with a focus on browser extensions) has recently started a blog series on browser extension security: https://palant.info/2022/08/10/anatomy-of-a-basic-extension/
Snapchat removes Maori tattoo filters after outcry
Everybody has known all along that renewables generation is intermittent. Mentioning it adds no light.

And renewables happily coexist with other uses of the same land, so none is used up.
I don't love the UK online return, but it's a solid app and it's free to use.

Libertarianism is like communism; it may seem great in theory but devolves into oligarchy in practice.
Regarding pomodoro: I've found that 5 minutes of rest is not enough.

Through trial and error I've settled on 30min work and 20min(!) of rest.

I have to force myself to stop working when my timer is up, otherwise my productivity that day goes down.

On one hand it's just a somewhat smarter way to eat frogs, on the other it doesn't feel so.

I suppose half of the problem is not knowing what amount of frog is too much for you.
Show HN: Simple notebook storage for Observable notebooks: cellstore
First thought when seeing this was this is their first step into satellite technology, whats the odds they will own a satellite constellation in the next 5-8 years
I'm trying to avoid triggering any sort of non-solicitation breaches by discussing this outside of the normal recruitment process, but I am confident that they would love to have me join them. You mentioned that if the team wants me it could cut out some of the interview process, any experience with this happening and how it could play out? At what point do I mention to the recruiters that I already have some relationships into the team?
Only place I've eaten frog was in Cambodia. First time, at a street vendor, it was delicious. Second time, at a hotel buffet, it made me sick as a dog.
This is the clearest explanation from an engineering point of view: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
So nepotism = good morals?

You pray everyone can make the choice freely and not be coerced into a decision they did not want. Let's pretend that your family is from the USA and has been the beneficiary of slave labor, that without slavery, your family would not have the generational wealth that it has been able to pass onto you. Do you pray for these slaves also and do you also want them to not be coerced into making money for you?
It's one of the positives of being rich in a plutocracy.

Whether plutocracy is a good, never mind ideal, way to organise a planetary culture is very much up for debate.
21 languages is a great achievement. What small bits of abuse and misunderstandings did you encounter along the way?
I bet he had read The Screwtape Letters though.
That's a nice distinction, but it's not really practical on Linux. Statically linking glibc is explicitly not supported (and for arguably good reasons).
Mate, I've read a few of your comments here. Are you some sort of anti-fusion shill?

Physicist having fun with other people's money?! On top of the fact that this demo reactor costs a fraction of the development cost of the F-35.

Eric Weinstein:
"We can't afford to pay these people. We can't afford to give them an accelerator just to play with in case they find something at the next energy level, these people created our economy. They gave us the rad lab and radar, they gave us two atomic devices to end World War Two that created the semiconductor and the transistor to power our economy through Moore's Law as a positive externality of particle accelerators that created the World Wide Web.

And we have the insolence to say, why should we fund you with our taxpayer dollars? Now, the question is, are you enjoying your physics dollars?"

So, how are you having fun with your physics dollars?
It's a mostly theoretical concept so when making comparisons you can pick whatever machine you want, pretty much. Actual compression contests (like the hutter prize: http://prize.hutter1.net/) will pick a particular platform and configuration to run on.
As 47 year old Dutch guy I can say I ate frogs in the Netherlands of all places... but never seen them in France (but I did not specifically search for them)
I wonder how they are dealing with the bacteria that die in Oxygen that seem to be critical butyrate producers like Faecalibacterium Prausnitzii. There are a lot of small percentage bacteria that are critical to immune function and energy systems which are implicated in a lot of chronic conditions and if they have solved a way to get those into a mouse this would be very promising. Sounds like they haven't done that and instead are using other species which are easier to deal with.

This is interesting research. The development of a biome treatment is of interest to a lot of patients. The other end of this is a search for a great human donar who has a great microbiome to use as a seed into others to solve their microbiome issues.
Could he be more carbon neutral in releasing a book, than making it ebook-only, which he seems to have done here?
> it becomes very centralized and simply a playground for whales

So the same as it is now basically.
I read this book. I second this recommendation. Really helped shift my mentality into something that has allowed me to be more productive.
My capital is miserable, but the CGT on it comes out of my free cash. I had a tiny trust fund mature and had to borrow a third of my salary to pay the tax bill.
Self-driving is more about looking at the situation in front of you, assessing risks and deciding where to steer/accelerate/brake. Vehicle dynamics aren't really part of the equation (other than as performance limits).
It is different.

Capital requirements (usually something like "a minimum of 10% of the bank's balance sheet has to be funded by equity or deferrable bonds") are far more important to a bank than reserve requirements:

- if bank capital is too high, return-on-equity is lower for a given amount of profit. Hence shareholders don't want too-high capital

- if bank capital is too low (from too many non-performing loans) then the bank will need recapitalisation which is expensive and bad for shareholders, and if it can't get that, it will be wiped out (either lose its licence or get bought out/nationalised/gutted)

So banks are incentivised to not create debt that is too-risky -- i.e. where the ratio of potential non-performing loans is too high for the interest rate they lend at, or the interest rate of raising expensive additional capital would get too high...

Reserve requirements are about liquidity (bank runs) rather than about solvency - but if bank capital can be ensured to be positive and the bank remains solvent, bank runs are much less likely in the first place, and liquidity provision and bailouts to avoid bank runs won't incur losses for the rescuing entities.
I liked it. It's not a deep article, but the idea of trying out something new is a creative strategy that is applicable to hacking as well as music (not that music is or should be off-limits to HN).
I do agree we could do a better job, but it's just not getting easier with the direction politics is moving. A lot of people also work (mentally) very hard to make anything economics related fit their preferred point of view of how the world works, and the more down to earth reality explanations of "how things works" are often too mundane to support a lot of these views.

And some things are just complicated and not that easy to understand. I often think that taking macro and/or micro 101 courses without getting to the 201 level does more damage than they're worth in understanding the field. They make people think they can confidently understand more than they should.

I hope things can get better in terms of general understanding of economics, otherwise it makes solving problems more difficult long-term.
That is what power system engineers are employed to get right.
"There's no net benefit to fusion." There's no net benefit to abundant energy... yes, I can't think of any.
The war will be over when Ukraine takes Crimea. Russia only cares about the gas that is found there, which can entirely replace Russia's deliveries.

The future looks better for Europe/Ukraine than you'd expect over a 4 year term.

Not so much for Russia. Putin made Russia a pariah state like North Korea
Indeed, once you understand that you also understand the opposite - central banking and CBDCs. It's two opposite worldviews which lead to two very different definitions of money.
Remember, you can study for a personality test just like any other test. Figure out what result you want and answer that way.

Also, asking for a personality test tells you a lot about a company. Do what you will with that info.
Blech has the same etymological roots as English blink, roots whose meaning is “to shine”. Blick (both English and German) is also related, as are blank and bleak, and, indeed, also black (which comes more from a “to burn/blaze” variant of “to shine”).
I didn’t read it being cited here so much as a model to strive for, but rather as strong evidence that there is UV damage to skin even at a sub-cancerous level.
Some malware could steal your keys for example when you have your PM unlocked or snatch it from the clipboard but it’s impossible with hardware keys. It also won’t let you get phished but arguably PMs protect against that too.
Which is probably why Google is pushing for so many web extensions - to make sure that they stay ahead of everyone else and you need billions just to catch up.

Unfortunately it seems Firefox is falling into the trap and is desparately trying to chase Chrome instead of focusing on significant user experience innovations to distinguish themselves from Chrome, especially ones that Google is unwilling to add to Chrome.
Remember that English wasn't quite as dominant in Tolkien's day as it is today. In the 50s most people in e.g. France wouldn't speak English.
What is EU exporting outside EU in sectors where are employed many people? Doubt some cosmetics will save us.
Not racially insulting others is a social norm, too
AWS SAM CLI:

export SAM_CLI_TELEMETRY=0
Often the traffic is routed through the US. Did you do a ping to see where your exit node was?

Also, not like I couldn’t pay it, but $300 a month is pretty steep when my current in-country plan is $10 a month for 40 gigs of 5g and I know I am getting first priority and have the lowest ping.

I was in Switzerland for a single day recently, which is a situation where I can see a $10 a day roaming plan make sense, but then I just switched to my secondary sim’s data which included Switzerland in the coverage area.
It's not like it's theoretical, it powers the sun; it's responsible for all atoms in the universe. It's essential for the long term survival of the species.

"Grossly extreme cost"? Shell made more money than ITER costs in the Q2 of 2022

https://www.shell.com/investors/results-and-reporting/quarte...
This seems to be a major epidemic nowadays. I suspect that mechanistic, meaningless, purely mimetic pursuit of success has some pretty negative consequences on society. I suspect it might explain why so many people are interested in engaging in politics (or company politics) and zero-sum value extraction schemes instead of just adding value... They're not interested in the process at all, only in the outcome; financial success and social approval from authority figures.

Many people are spending most of their lives doing stuff that they don't want to do, so of course they tend to look for shortcuts instead of trying to do things the right way. They have no intrinsic pride in the work they do; it's all about status, money and power. As people have become more free in their personal lives, on the career-side, we've never been so constrained.
> The loudest tend to be accepting of things like insider trading, sex work and even organ selling

Are you suggesting, that these are all bad things?
> Apple doesn’t really do loss leaders.

Their work on accessibility disproves your assertion.
I think the issue is more how "is" is defined. I like to think with following analogy: A knife can have lots of properties. A knife is sharp, long, dull, rusty etc. But fundamentally (Don't know if there is a better word for this) a knife is a piece of steel[1]. Similarly money has properties like being store of value, medium of exchange, unit of value, bits on a database of a bank etc. And fundamentally money is debt. Not all debt is money, though, but only debt with a set of specific properties. To add to the mess "what money is", if you go technical, you find there are many definitions for money, that is, many sets of properties that can be money (see e.g. M0, M1 etc.)

[1] Obviously, there are knifes made not from steel, but I hope you get the point anyway.
Note the correlations between MBTI types and Big Five personality dimensions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...

These are not insignificant, particularly in the social sciences. 0.45 would be a large effect size in most psychology papers; 0.72 is huge.

I think a large part of whether people think MBTI is bunk or a useful tool depends on their willingness to overlook small details to get a general gist that's helpful but perhaps not totally accurate. Which is perhaps why another comment down-thread remarks that N's are much more likely to view MBTI as valid than S's (and sure enough, the indicator was developed by an INFJ and INFP, based on the ideas of an INTJ). "Personality" itself is an abstraction, and personality types are an abstraction on top of an abstraction. All generalizations are wrong, but some of them are useful.
The "social norm" is more a convenient business norm to pay petty wages.

The more you question this norm, the higher the likelihood for change to more healthy business practice.
The same, just more obvious. At least they used to have a somewhat plausible narrative going.
Curious, what are those reasons?
1. I meant declining in a more generic/long-term view
2. Independence is underpinned by a combination of military and economic power which adds up to enough power to take your own policy decisions. For now UKR has all the independence it wants to take any decision that is aligned with western goals. That (might) be aligned with their interests right now, giving the impression of independence, but it won't be always so.
3. I was trying to make conversation, your comment about my smoking probably tells more about you.
Superhighway84 is a Usenet-inspired, uncensorable, decentralized P2P BBS
Who controls the Internet? And should they? (2021)
Fortunately for us, nobody will ever care enough to scrutinize and pick apart the stupid/selfish things we did in our lives.

Don’t fall for the great man fallacy, nor its opposite, the villain fallacy. It’s just oversimplified media narratives.

Most people are complicated.
This book explains Central Banking down to the balance sheet level and makes things crystal clear.
The Whipple procedure in pancreatic cancer is usually only performed with curative intent. It's not a palliative treatment. I think most people, when faced with the possibility of getting a cure for pancreatic cancer (which, believe me, it's not a nice cancer at all) would choose to go with that procedure.
It is a thankfulness meditation, which is a basic ingredient for feeling content. And rich people need to feel content as well. It is sort of like prayer, but to actual real beings. That's why I thought it could be an atheist manifesto.
…and yet the best selling genre year in and year out in the US is self-help.

“Losers whine about giving their best, winners go home and %#$& the Prom Queen.” - The Rock
For understanding the origins of Central Banking, highly recommend: The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin
What would it take to put out a new edition of FHS, that permits (doesn't require, just permits) layouts with everything in /usr and symlinks from the directories in / to the directories in /usr?

(Assume someone was willing to write and supply the text.)
Honestly, if I was a hiker or liked roaming in the wilderness. I would pretty much be instantly upgrading to the iPhone Pro.
Vegas Pro Video Editing Software Delisted from Steam
which changes nothing, they're free to do whatever they want in actual code.

There is also no source code or even audit by 3rd parties (that are not US government related)
This article by a Berkeley physicist does the math on fusion fuel: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/01/nuclear-fusion/

Deuterium fuel is the most abundant. There's enough in your morning shower to supply all your energy needs for a year. There's enough in the oceans to last for billions of years. Fusion is as close to renewable as anything, because it'll last until the sun goes out.

Right now most projects are also using tritium fuel, which has to be made from lithium. That's plenty abundant but not to the extreme of deuterium. But pure deuterium fusion is possible, just a little harder. And one prominent fusion startup, Helion, is actually using deuterium (along with helium-3, which is the waste product of deuterium fusion).
That’s because central banks are very much political entities and are not rooted in rigorous science.
Isn't it "i18n"?

We put all the translations in a spreadsheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoYdyEraEQuWofzbYCDP.... We didn't like the idea of storing in any more complex than a csv file.

All changes are shown to us in a diff before we merge, the csv is then downloaded and the i18n files created automatically after we merge the branch.

We've never had a single instance of abuse in over 10 years.
The important thing is that your PIN has zero entropy, regardless of its value. Entropy is a property of distributions, not individual values. You may be thinking of the probability (or information content) your PIN is assigned when looking at the overally distributions of PIN, in which case it probably does matter how popular your birthday is (and whether it also matches common patterns people use for PINs). This does feed into the calculation of entropy for the distribution but then it ceases to tell you anything about your PIN specifically. It also only makes sense when you are looking at it relative to the distribution, so it matters how you specify the PINs you are comparing it to.

The 'information content' of a given outcome is the logarithm of the inverse of its probability (i.e. more unlikely events give you more information), and the entropy of a distribution is the expected value of this information content.
Amazing, I am going to fork this project. Thanks for writing
There's a great amount of benefit to companies led by superstition to self-label so employees can give them a wide berth.
Once again, reliant on the same Big Tech companies. If you think it is a good idea to hold your keys like this then you have never experienced lock in which is very easy to do for these companies.
Pocket PC Devices, especially the Compaq iPAQ changed the course of my career. I have nostalgic moments of my life. Recently, I added some phrases so I can read back later in life - https://brajeshwar.com/2022/ipaq/
So good article, I felt recently the same like a torture with all, make money, do this or that, travel more, enjoy more, do more ...
Reminds me of working for about a year on an odroid. Of course ssh was no issue, but also Firefox was working quite well.
"Interestingly, in my personal experience, I've found logicians (ISTJs in MTBI) seem to be the most resistant to quantifying aspects of personality."

There's an internal, voluntary, just-for-fun MBTI within Google that breaks down stats of the test-taking population. 75+% of takers are N's (vs. an estimated 25% in the general population). The number of INTJs (22%, vs. ~3% in the general population) itself outnumbers all S types combined.

While it's possible that Google is unrepresentative of the general population (something much more likely in 2005 than 2022, though), I think it's more likely that N's are just more drawn to completing a personality test and sharing their results with the company.
If you use it and the antenna side faces the sky it will eventually hit some satellite