skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is new for me, I have never thought about the fusion in the sun and that its energy emission is actually increasing. Makes total sense but never thought of it. However since we know this is going to happen, over the next billion years, can we not build some kind of “cover” in space away from the earth’s atmosphere to block or deflect this extra energy from entering the atmosphere? I somehow believe humans will be capable of that in that time.
Those particular regions were Ukraine's industrial "powerhouse". They are also rich with untapped oil and gas fields. No wonder Zelensky won't give up. Now Putin's game will be to take Odessa to turn Ukraine into a land locked country which basically kills the whole economy
"the U.S. tech sector leads the way in exporting technology abroad that embodies a commitment to a free and open internet."

At first I thought the writer must have lived under a rock for the last 10 years, then I remembered that oh right, he was a deputy director for the CIA.
> 3) The idea that foreign powers were influencing America was certainly a lot bigger in the past. The “red scare” was a thing. People were mistrusting of thier neighbours and accusations of being communist abounded.

You're conflating two entirely different things. Actual foreign powers using information warfare to influence American politics has very little to do with the Red Scare.

The Red Scare is a political tactic of accusing political enemies and disfavored classes of secretly aiding foreign powers. It was happening then and it is still happening now. The modern Red Scare isn't "Russian disinformation on the internet", it's "the communists and the queers and and and are trying to overthrow the government and indoctrinate our children and destroy the economy and and and". It hasn't changed much from the 50s. It's not terribly uncommon to see people literally advocate for a new House Un-American Activities Commission.
Would it make more sense for you to build a high-end PC, and artificially limit the performance when testing the game? Or keep some of your old components, to build a low-end testing machine?
> Did you know your insurance company is getting rich off your premiums? Are you going to stop paying them and get out of this "greedy" arrangement that takes from poor you to rich them?

You chose the worst example possible. For profit insurance is a scam, as the insurance company ultimate goal is to pay the minimum amount possible for claims, even after people have diligently paid very expensive premiums. It is one of the most rigged system, which amazingly is culturaly acceptable. (I am sure it is going to go the way of the "private firefighters" in the future).
What we perceive as the “predominant art” of the Renaissance was funded and hoarded by the rich and powerful, and produced by a scant few individuals.
> Drivers which run in kernel space are not allowed anymore to access whatever they want

I don't like this. It's one thing to have memory the kernel doesn't usually need be unmapped by default, but it's another to prevent you from mapping it when you do need it. This reeks of DRM.
I find many apps on both Linux and Windows are slowed down by disk operations. You may say "get an SSD then". Well, not all your users will have an SSD, and if they already have one, then what? You could maybe offload some stuff into RAM, but many users have just 8GB, and you're not the only thing using it.

If you write a voice recorder for example, you _already_ know that the first thing you will do is scan the directories. Do this during start-up, let the user know that the system is initializing and then for the most part you only need to check your assertions are still true just before recording.

In general I think we need to make people care about performance more. The only thing I can think of is to make running on low-end hardware part of the validation process.
Yep, I got there like 1 minute after asking this FAQ. Thanks.
This is incredibly amazing, code wizardry.
you can soundproof your sleeping room, just need to dampen frequencies that offer direction cues, they are above 1khz. electronics, car sound whooshing, rattling all produce those frequencies. if it's hard to dampen enough - dampen as much as you find economically viable and raise noise floor by running ventilation or big diameter fan, it will mask the rest of them.

also having fresh air ventilation (with soundproofed intake - they use quiet fan) is much more comfortable than having windows opened on busy street.
Microsoft has no taste. The Apple IIgs used an Apple icon.

https://imgur.com/0FzDRjl
You can't realistically expect every log format to get a custom schema declared for it prior to deployment.
It's just a symbol, like the square loop symbol. I'm sure you can find a use for the key. And I'm sure you can understand historical reasons that the key is there. I imagine if you dig into the reasons behind some other keys you'll find that a single company was behind some of them. And what would be the difference other than the symbol used?
Obligatory e^π - π = 20
All your digital 'cloud' games, save games, and data (on Stadia) gone.
Does anyone know a real-time brown noise generator that doesn't just play an audio file? Like this: https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/
US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
Especially in a conference room; OMG the boredom. I'd always try to bring a technical manual or something, for when I got tired of being "a good boy."
https://auxmode.com/support/twitter-sms-commands/
Yea, I wrote both. Go Micro was the first thing I open sourced in 2015. Eventually I moved on to building Micro, for a number of years both projects were in the same github org and worked together. After about 6 years I could see a split in the user base but also my own usage. People adopting Go Micro were those who wanted to plugin their own infrastructure and tools, whereas I wanted a more complete platform experience with Micro.
He has incorrect politics and therefore is any negative label one can create.
As a liberal and a gun owner, I think it's an intentional stance by both sides. Conservatives dislike gun safety training because unless it's in carefully controlled settings (i.e. controlled by conservative groups) because they're afraid it will be used to push a "guns are bad/guns are evil" narrative. Liberals don't like it because it's pretty hard to teach effective gun safety without actually handling and shooting firearms, and when people experience that they have a tendency to a) realize that guns aren't as scary and evil as they had been led to believe, and b) think that shooting sports are kind of fun.
63 bit integers are actually used in Ocaml which is then used to figure out if a value is a integer or a pointer

https://blog.janestreet.com/what-is-gained-and-lost-with-63-...
It’s a contest so people are going to be willing to endure more torture the larger the prize. One self limiting option might be to pay per day and decrease the amount every day split amount the remaining contestants.
> is there some sort of special license or permission required to get access to computing resources

Mostly not. Censorship works by elimination, not by requiring initial permission. The main exception is internet access to blocked services. Government supporters get access to services that are otherwise blocked to the public.

> They claimed to believe that it was blocked because of US sanctions and denied that the government blocked any websites

The government and their supporters are bad liers. By bad, I mean they don't even try to make it convincing. The president told a foreign journalist that covering is optional in Iran. That is while their "morality police" has killed a woman and the whole country is burning in riots. This is while that same journalist is wearing scarf to be allowed to talk to the president, in US!
Related:

Russian-occupied territories

- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian-occupied_territories

Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine

- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Southern_and_Easter...

Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation

- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russi...
The united states has a long history of abandoning allies on all levels, from states to spies and nation. Both foreign and domestic (FBI informants). It's incredibly irresponsible as it destroys trust and can reverse years of work (see: Afghanistan, Iraq, Kurdistan etc etc.) It looks like its institutional.
Democracy for Realists, 2016

Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

By Christopher H. Achen & Larry M. Bartels

Page 112-113

Scholars who have quoted Key’s colorful phrase have mostly failed to note that he used it derisively. “The Founding Fathers,” he wrote in the final edition of his influential textbook on party politics, “by the provision for midterm elections, built into the constitutional system a procedure whose strange consequences lack explanation in any theory that personifies the electorate as a rational god of vengeance and of reward.”

In the first edition of the same textbook, Key (1942, 628) offered an even clearer dismissal of the rational interpretation of retrospective voting, noting that voters seem to have rewarded and punished incumbents at the polls for good or bad times

Even before it could be said that the national Government could do much of anything to improve their condition…. Yet if the party control of the national Government had little or nothing to do with their fate, how is this behavior to be explained? Is it to be considered as a rational seeking to better one’s status by the ballot or is it merely blindly striking a blow at a scapegoat? To throw out the “ins” probably had about the same effect on economic conditions as evangelical castigation of Satan has on the moral situation. Perhaps the swing against the “ins” can best be described as a displacement of economic resentment on political objects. By this catharsis discontent was dissipated and the peace kept.

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/democracy-for-realists-part...
Good call. I will probably need to rename this to avoid legal issues...
RDR2 released on Stadia in 2019.

6000 hours / 4 years is about four hours a day.

That's dedication. But man, I feel embarrassed to admit I have 1200 hours in CS:GO. I can't pretend that was a good investment.
If Russia uses nuclear weapons against Ukraine, NATO will deliver a crippling response, as Jake Sullivan has said. There is no realistic scenario where Russia wins or holds on to its gains.
I have kept a 70 hour schedule for over 10 years now, it works for me. I am CTO of a fairly large startup I created and I love my work.
For people interested in this stuff, I recommend checking out Patrick Kelly on YouTube, his videos about medical history are amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickKellyMedicalHistory

This is the video containing the story about Sulfaninamide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuhi1SR8Zuk
Any doctor who believed in addiction-proof opiates wasn't worth their salt to begin with. Opiates are opiates.

Any consumer who took opiates and got addicted has exactly one person to blame - themselves for being uninformed.

I love recreational drugs, and I've had back problems that required more than NSAID's alone, but I've never taken opiates, and I never will until I'm ready to die, because I know just how awesome they are.

Blaming the manufacturer for opiate deaths is like blaming manufacturers for firearm deaths, rather than the shooters.
It seems that IP over avian carriers is trendy again.
> two people talking absolute bollocks and neither being willing to mention the elephant in the room

It just reads to me like two friends having a casual chat about an idea.

It also reads to me like the context is well known and shared. You don't usually actively restate context in real life; it's not a movie where you need to let the audience in. That's not avoiding an elephant, that's just real world conversation.

> It's no wonder the second their plan hit the real world it exploded on impact

What? Musk backed out. That’s nothing to do with "hitting the real world". It's not like regulators stopped it or something.
Google has to realize that the "throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" method isn't going to end well for them. They need vested users to make their products successful, and now it's almost a foregone conclusion that anything new coming out of Google these days will get the axe eventually, so why bother?
From my 10000 feet view, it looks VERY similar to what Celcius and other Crypto scams happened: People put their assets in this place as an "investment". But the fund managers get greedy and start playing all kind of lotteries with the money. Then they lose it and shrug. The difference is that these guys get bailed out by the taxpayers, while the people that invested in crypto scams get shafted.
Linuxbrew is pretty convenient for installing dependencies, especially on "stable" distributions like Debian/Ubuntu. You can install specific versions of dependencies that you want, even keep them side-by-side.

It's also distro-agnostic, so it works almost everywhere.
While that may be true today, that's where future doctors, nurses, teachers, and various workers and engineers come from.

Young people + a functioning and accessible education system is what produces highly skilled workers.
It’s over Anakin, I have the Highground
You underestimate my power
Great to hear it’s providing value!
You might be interested in the factoid that pi * 10**6s is very close to one year.
Maybe, maybe not :)
No mention of Galactus?
They’ll never take Odessa.
I’m not sure I’d call that quick. Quick would be a single deep cut and return to normal operations.
That doesn't seem correct to me. Using Rivian as an example, at what point did any founders become "billionaires" i.e. their stock/ownership value was at a billion? I'm guessing long before they had a working assembly line.

I think people misunderstand how little a billion dollars can be when it refers to net worth and particularly one's stock ownership.
It's gotten brighter over even just the last 20 million years. The ice caps helped reflect nearly .39 of it, but soot and melting are lowering that. It's called albedo and that loss will dwarf the CO2 Heat trapping.
An issue that Stadia had with cross play is that controller and KB/M were both very common ways to play. Controller players would not want to play against PC users with keyboards. And Keyboard users would have an unfair advantage against console players with controllers. I think one game changed which you were matchmaked against depending on which input method you were using.
Beginner's TypeScript Tutorial
I’m just going to keep turning all mitigations off, thanks.
Having the theory fresh in mind is a big help though I think.
This service does not seem like something that needs pressure tactics. Naming it "fomo" is a bit on the nose as well. And I assume they are all BS as well, unless google ordered one 1 hour ago (or was it 33 minutes ago? who knows... it's randomized).

https://goose.red/fomo
APNG is at best a mixed bag, far from being a significant improvement over GIF.

GIF can have one palette per frame, which can be exploited to improve compression and quality (see https://gif.ski). APNG has to either use a costly true-color mode, which makes it compress worse than GIF, or one palette per entire animation, which gives it worse quality than GIF.

All the GIF-killer formats miss the point. They're trying to beat GIF on being primitive and inefficient, but GIF isn't successful because it's a dumb slow video codec, it's successful because it's old enough to be universally supported.
There’s no complex modeling required here on an interest rate swap. The payout on swaps is easily calculable and the range of outcomes knowable. There’s not much overlap in the context of what Buffett talked about and what happened here besides the word “derivatives” and the idea of exogenous shocks tending to lead to outcomes outside your range of modeled assumptions.

I’d be glad to engage more but it seems like you are fixated on a slant and cannot be convinced otherwise.

I think the equivalent would be if, a very modestly able coder, were to insist on this forum that nobody should ever have loops in their code because sometimes they do weird things.
Don’t try it.
I'd need to dig through my downloads folder a bit, but here is one (very simple) model. Note that lazard is claimed to have an anti-nuclear bias from many.

https://www.lazard.com/media/451779/lazards-levelized-cost-o...

https://model.energy allows you to play with the numbers. Note that there are existing solar projects with lower whole
sale prices than their 2030 projections in low latitude areas.

You can explore different scenarios like 'what if the hyasa 95% efficient electrolyser is commercialisable without needing platinum' or put in figures for ammonia in the h2 electrolyser column (just tweak the h2 capital and efficiency costa until price per kg of the 'hydrogen' is equivalent to a price you like for green ammonia keeping in mind H2 is about 7x the energy per mass)

Additionally keep in mind that nuclear lcoe figures tend to have very low discount rates (so compare like for like) and they also ignore build time.

Here's a press releasehttps://h2-ccs-network.com/blog/verdagy-hits-lcoh-below-3-00...
Note they do not mention energy cost, so grain of salt. $2/kg (including storage) is roughly the magic number where you stop thinking about nuclear at all. $3-5 means you need to think about how little time you can runthe turbine and how much it costs you when it's off. H2 is more efficient and cheaper, Ammonia can be moved and stored more easily (and used in deisel engines as long as you can increase fuel tank size).

LMK if you want anything specific and/or you know of a good way to text search a folder full of pdfs on android.

Here's a slightly more sceptical take https://www.science-climat-energie.be/2021/07/16/the-present...

Another https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09601...

https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/topics/levelized-cost-of-ammon...

Another optimistic one https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/solr.202100487

Keepin mind it's a lobbying body https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/topics/levelized-cost-of-ammon...
Can someone explain whats going on? Just rewriting the URL and hiding the comments doesn't really make this the same post anymore. Might as well have just deleted it.
It's primarily not centralizing checking the science I object to, but the setting a single threshold for all of society. People vary a lot in what level of efficacy evidence would make taking a given medication worth it for them, and in cases where safety evaluation has already gotten us to where the downside looks like "it doesn't do much, money wasted" I think making distribution of the substance illegal is much too restrictive.
I honestly don't understand the negativity in this thread.

That batch of messages in isolation are really promising.
No, but becoming a multi-planet species starting with Mars is a good first step toward Plan B.
"The goal is to have enough capacity and intermediary storage to be able to deliver constant peak power with both combined."

But this is an irrational goal because there is no way to do that intermediary storage on the scale that is required, and as I just pointed out, wind and solar are frequently yielding nearly zero power even when summed together. In your other comments you're talking about pressurized air caverns and other things that are sci-fi projects right now but the crisis Germany is causing with its policies is here today.

This is why greenism is irrational. We're not talking about theoretically perfect power grids here, we're talking about what technologies exist today, to deliver the kind of stability required for a trans-national grid. Renewables aren't even close to this and there's no sign of that changing on the horizon. The refusal to accept that is now more than just annoying, it's becoming flat out dangerous.
There's lots of mentions of Maps.ME, which is no longer open source. The spiritual successor is called Organic Maps
> Any consumer who took opiates and got addicted has exactly one person to blame - themselves for being uninformed.

You greatly overestimate the reasoning abilities of suffering humans.

Manufacturer promotes, doctor prescribes, patient ingests.

Doctors should know better than to assume that the mfr is motivated only by the patients' well-being, but the patient should be able to trust their doctor.

In some cases, the medical team does not ask you whether you want opioids. Are you going to get "NoOps" tattooed on your forearms and butt where the IVs might be placed during your unconsciousness?

This has nothing to do with firearms.
Remember everyone: not your GPU, not your character
Not at all:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_theory
Yes, but with competing theories or explanations, the simpler one, for example a model with fewer parameters, is to be preferred [1].

It's a razor fight then!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
> He says "it can't have an advertising model" and that it shouldn't be centralised.

That does not contradict the idea that you can have gatekeepers: just make it so that the your "decentralized platform" requires payment for distribution of content and/or that it is not subject to any equivalent to "Common Carrier" rules. Sure, in theory everyone would be playing by the same rules, but in practice you'll be turning one single gatekeeper (Twitter) into many (Big Corporations, VCs, media companies, already established influencers), and everyone would presumably be paying a cut to whoever is running the distribution platform.
Definitely an interesting headcannon^W headcanon. Of course, celebration has always been associated with loud noises - bells, drums, cheering, clapping, whistling - so logically anything with explosions is an extension of that continuum.
Well... 8 Gb should be enough for everyone? :)

I seem to be using 12 Gb on this mbpro with just firefox, mail and a few chat apps open. But it has 16 G ram.

On my 32 Gb mac mini that has work stuff open i use 26 Gb atm.

Both are Intel, not brave enough to make the architecture jump yet.

If you use more than the physical ram the Mx machines may be more responsive than the intel ones, but they're still going to swap.

Said 2018 mbpro intel smartctl says:

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 34 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 5%
Data Units Read: 138,517,507 [70.9 TB]
Data Units Written: 111,676,933 [57.1 TB]
Host Read Commands: 1,625,559,618
Host Write Commands: 968,996,058
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 89
Power On Hours: 1,363
Unsafe Shutdowns: 30
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

It should be a little over 4 years old now.
Do you use insurance?

Here is an example of exchanging risk voluntarily that I don't fits your comment. Farmers will often make deals to sell their goods for a fixed amount before planting. The other side of that deal is a futures contract where investors speculate on commodity value. The farmers accept lower returns while the investors may get fabulously wealthy. Are the farmers being scammed?
I mean, yes it is, according to most waiters I've talked to. Tipping is a "necessity."
I think, when war is raging and thousands are dying gruesome deaths, it's reasonable to consider malice.
Agree, not only that, but Belarus’ leader at one point made a nationally televised presentation, which appeared to show plans to invade Moldova; possible their plans have changed, it was disinformation, etc.

Google to find examples of the map and related press coverage:

https://www.google.com/search?q=belarus+moldova+map+invasion
You seem to be unaware of the lengths Perdue went to obfuscate and mislead about where the line between responsible and dangerous use lies. Motive matters, and there is no reasonable doubt here.