skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always cool to see unexpected applications of information theory, especially outside of probabilistic contexts.

A related toy example that comes to mind is the puzzle where you're given 12 metal balls and told that one of them is either heavier or lighter than the rest. You're then given a balance/scale and instructed to figure out which ball is different and whether it is heavier or lighter using the balance a maximum of three times to weigh different combinations of balls.

Part of the reason this is solvable is because there are 12x2=24 different possibilities (or log2(24) = 4.58 bits) for the ball ID/weight and 27=3x3x3 possible outcomes (or log2(27) = 4.75 bits) for the weighing process (left heavier, right heavier, or equal in each use). Thus, there's a chance the weighing sequence could convey the ball ID/weight. If there were 14 balls, however, then you would require log(28) = 4.81 bits of information to specify the ball ID/weight, so the puzzle would be unsolvable, since there wouldn't be enough information available in the weighing sequence to specify the ball ID/weight.
A moderate has more to do with a mindset and epistemological stance than it does with specific views. A moderate, regardless of where they stand on a particular issue, will ask themselves "What if I'm wrong?", or "Wow this issue is very complicated, I'm not 100% certain on the answer".

Extremists, by contrast, tend to be absolutely certain of whatever opinion they happen to hold at the moment and nothing can shake them of that. There has been a lot written about the alleged differences between the conservative mind and the liberal mind, but I think that completely misses it. Extremists, even those on opposite ends of the political spectrum, have a lot more in common with one another than they do with moderates and other normal people.
tl;dr: Lucretius on the importance of both nature and nurture
You're confusing me with the poster you're responding to.
an appeal to authority over personal regrets is not a winning long term strategy
Sounds like you need to get new friends.

We are all dealing with crap, we are all at the bottom of the pile getting the dregs from trickle down economic theory.

It's not about one tiny fringe group, when we fight only for ever more specific fringe groups we ignore the injustice we are all subjected to.
Ok, but it’s not like he got 10% of the vote. In my mind, there isn’t that big of a difference between say 45% and 55% when drawing conclusions about society.

Still, I’m not sure I would consider everyone who voted for Trump as part of the “Trumpy right” any more than I would consider myself part of the radical left just because I voted for Biden.
Location is revealed only at the very end of the text:

> My residential-scale solar installation in New England
Yes, because you gave the people what they wanted.

It turns out that's all it takes to be popular (and unfortunately, for all their wisdom in other areas, so many tech folks fail to grasp that nuance).

Ritchie did excellent work, but a world filled with nothing but computers that worked like C and UNIX do would be a harsh and inhuman place.
I get where you're coming from. I suspect that a lot of peoples' aversion to all DLC stems from really greedy phone games, where the trend has been to try and monetize either extremely basic functionality or the ability to play more often through gems/coins/diamonds/stars/etc. Good DLC like XCOM 2's War of the Chosen basically transformed and improved the experience of the entire game and can be very much worth it.

For many kinds of games with a level of complexity beyond a shoot-em-up, I feel like these kinds of games would be very difficult to make without a lengthier iterative process that probably requires an additional revenue stream.

As the example given, Paradox makes grand strategy games with intricate war/politics/economics and other game systems that are all interrelated. Ideally, a company has a lot of data and community feedback on the tiniest minute details to figure out what elements work and what elements don't and eventually refine the systems into the best possible version.

That said, I'm not saying it's impossible to avoid adding DLC and still fund quality long-term development. A different good game Project Zomboid has been in Steam early access for a decade and is in a very good state and still getting big new features: but those occasional indie gems are the exception, not the rule. With most of Paradox's games, you basically know that it'll be supported and improved for years specifically because of their business model.
No, sorry, it's a summary and a quote from the original article. I merely tried to distinguish between "Inducing birth labor" and "Inducing slave labor," as the parent poster seemed confused by the ambiguity; the Wikipedia article merely tells you which of these two commonly known forms of induced labor the original article is focused on.
Be aware, that then opens you up to being directly attacked by, and not just ignored, by society.

And society has lots of fangs, in that sense.
Cloudflare and Meta team up to invent a proprietary crypto algorithm that fixes everything but routes all traffic through their servers, centralizing the internet completely. All speech is controlled and monitored by this new entity, which receives a national security letter thereby merging it with the US government for all intents and purposes, but, like, you know, for our safety.

Nobody notices or cares what has happened, and critics are met with "well it dOesN'T mATteR because they aren't using the information for anything bad."
> The vast majority of prisoners are not dangerous.

Wow, what a divergence from reality.

The vast majority of prisoners are dangerous. This myth that the US incarcerates prisoners not because we have a huge criminal class, but because we just like locking people up, is one of the most inane talking points on the left, one easily disproven with a few seconds of googling, and yet people keep repeating it.

So here is the few seconds of googling:

https://aci.az.gov/sites/default/files/media/PrisonersinAriz...

Percentage of criminals in AZ that have committed violent felonies or are repeat felony offenders: 94.2%

of these, the number who are considered "violent offenders": 65.4%

One of the many mistakes made by people is looking only at Federal statistics (About 10% of all inmates are held by the Federal government, the rest are held by state governments). In general, many people have a very difficult time grasping federalism, and don't understand that the Federal legal code focuses on interstate offenses and other offenses that states can't handle. E.g. not things like violence or robbery, but say, embezzlement, trafficking across state lines, securities fraud, etc. The FBI/Justice Department do not get involved in most violent crime.

The next part of the deception is to look only at Federal prison statistics and say "hey, there's not a lot murderers here -- we are mostly locking people up for trafficking things across state lines!" -- and just hope that your listener is too unaware to say "wait a minute -- are you giving me federal prison statistics in a debate about crime? What is wrong with you?!"

I would also note the delicious irony that the same people who complain about "white collar crime" (e.g. property crime) being given a less stringent sentence than "blue collar crime" (e.g. violence) are the most vocal ones insisting that we shouldn't be incarcerating non-violent offenders.

You have to decide whether robbery/fraud is something that deserves a prison sentence and then be consistent -- not calling for prison for some CEO when you are in corporate-hating mode, and then demanding release of non-violent offenders when you are weeping after watching Les Miserables.
Limited coherence time is not explained as simply as "atmospheric muon events". There are a variety of reasons, some environmental, others a result of imperfect fabrication, etc. that contribute to decoherence, gate error, etc.
I've seen the following multiple times in the past:
1. something changed in test layer setup that made all tests slower
2. something changed in application code that made all tests slower (!!)

And most of the times, they were avoidable, and fixed after we realized what happened.
Many people won't watch a video, especially not a 16 minutes long one. I know I won't. Use written words.
In Finland system is setup for this.

First you pay for the electricity itself, can be from anyone, as on the level of the country in question electricity is entirely fungible.

Next is the connection or standing fee. Make sense, eventually you have to pay for the transformer and cabling to your home, even if in some location this is rather high.

And final piece is taxes + transfer fee paid by kWh. Again, you have pay for the local grid and charging by use makes some sense.

There is two prices that vary per use and one that doesn't. And reasonably so. Maintaining existing lines have a cost.
Loewe is expensive, I am pretty sure Sony doesn't make over 1k€ for each TV sold, also I have a Sony smart TV that is ~6 years old, it doesn't show any ads.
>It's hard to imagine a C programmer so professionally ignorant that he's yet to realize C++ is a superset of C.

Ooof. restrict keyword enters the chat. C and C++ are two languages that evolve together, but one is not a superset of the other.
would that be similar to a throwing init in swift?

struct NonEmptyAlphanumericString {
let value: String
init(string: String) throws {
guard !string.isEmpty else {
throw Errors.emptyString
}
guard string.isAlphanumeric else {
throw Errors.nonAlphanumericString
}
value = string
}

enum Errors: Error {
case nonAlphanumericString
case emptyString
}
}
I'm not against this in principal, but its impractical.
CES: Intel Extends Performance Leadership with Fastest Mobile Processor
I was from the first generation to experience this, by being raised on the internet in the 90s. But I guess I had to just kinda figure it out on my own. I think it's important to have external education about this from other sources, but I'm not aware of any good sources on this.

A lot of religious institutions tend to rely on shame and taboo to persuade children/teens from watching porn. But I don't think that's effective either, shame and suppression can cause other issues.

I think even outside of porn it's important to understand this about all forms of media, that most of it is thin and largely fake. Media addiction and letting it affect your perception of reality is a general problem, especially today in the on-demand era.

If anyone else has good recommendations, please chime in.
It can be something you haven't yet started, something you're currently working on, or something you want to finish. The main requirement is you should be able to produce some kind of output (a demo, a paper, etc.) within ~3-6 months.
The original title is "The extension of political conflict is corroding liberal democracy," which better reflects the opinion in the article.

The editorialized title ("the politicization of society is damaging liberal democracy") frankly doesn't do the article any justice.
If society feels like it wants it to, it’s hard to evade the various means of enforcement society has created and funded for the purpose.
For a moment, I thought, hey - it was finally time for Dance Dance Revolution to be more inclusive.
I might be in the minority, but I am worried about privacy laws and phone unlock/biometic data. A password is something literally only I know and has been effectively protected while unlock/biometric data is being actively tragetted.

"In considering a specific rule to adopt, Chief Justice Rush asked Seo’s attorney what level of particularity the state should be required to show to balance the state’s need with a defendant’s Fifth Amendment right. Seo’s counsel responded that the foregone conclusion exception, a limited exception to the general Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, should never apply to compel decryption because:

compelled decryption is pure testimony,
decryption of digital devices is totally unlike the act of producing documents, and
even if decryption were an act of production, the state failed to describe the phone’s contents with particularity as required for the foregone conclusion exception to apply.
But the state argues that (1) providing a passcode or biometric feature is not testimonial and (2) even if such information has testimonial aspects, compelling Seo to unlock her phone doesn’t violate the Fifth Amendment because her knowledge of the password (not the phone’s contents) and her control of the phone were a foregone conclusion.

...

Justice Mark S. Massa, however, summarized the State’s argument, saying “protection from government overreach will lie in the Fourth Amendment, and not in the Fifth” (notably, Seo hasn’t yet raised any Fourth Amendment arguments)."

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/insi...

https://www.governing.com/security/search-warrants-can-requi...
Cloudflare estimates 15-40 years[1]. Cloudflare, Google [2], Amazon [3] and others are all at various phases of moving to post-quantum algorithms.

My own lesson from the Snowden revelations is that if we're close enough to a security break that the possibility is well understood, there's a very high chance someone is already doing it.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-for-all/

[2] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/why...

[3] https://www.amazon.science/blog/preparing-today-for-a-post-q...
>>they force alignment of dependencies and their versions

>A sane thing to do. Better yet to do it in a global fashion, along with integration tests.

But brutally difficult at scale. If you have hundreds of dependencies, a normal case, what do you do when one part of the monolith needs to update a dependency, but that requires you update it for all consumers of the dependency's API, and another consumer is not compatible with the new version?

On a large project, dependency updates happen daily. Trying to do every dependency update is a non-starter. No one has that bandwidth. The larger your module is, the more dependencies you have to update, and the more different ways they are used, so you are more likely to get update conflicts.

This doesn't say you need microservices, but the larger your module is, the further into dependency hell you will likely end up.
My new LG periodically turns itself on to tell me that if I connect it to the internet I can use voice commands.

Before that, when it was connected, it would show me advertisements over top of my TV signal occasionally.
No, that was dishonest math. He aggregated ALL TOTAL comp for POTENTIAL employees based upon a BEST-CASE compensation for ALL of them.

...and none of that is realistic. The correct estimate would be the INCREMENTAL comp for the portion of employees that ACTUALLY looked for work with the competitors.

Never blindly trust one-side of the story in a damages lawsuit.
The OP was saying the idea that personhood begins at conception is a poor model of reality. They are suggesting that we are picking and choosing attributes of personhood to meet our preconceived conclusions around abortion rather than making a rational assessment. They are falsifying the premise by showing its natural extension as applied to this situation.

> You may as well accuse mothers themselves as unlawfully imprisoning their children against their will, either born or unborn.

I think the OP would agree.
New production, Type II cassette tapes are available from ATR Magnetics, e.g.: https://www.atrtape.com/products/atr-magnetics-colbalt-silve...
With inequality on the rise, I would expect hats to start darkening at increased rates.

I've personally sworn off any more responsible disclosures to companies not paying at least $1,000/hr(USD) in rewards or without clearly good intentions. I am not bending and very backwards to find it either. Any shenanigans is instant disclosure and shenanigans exposure.

I'm about to be homeless and know of exploits currently working at 20billion dollar companies. They can't even bother responding to emails...

There's a point where one has to focus on needs. Morality I want, food I need.
One major problem is that some version of Python was supplied with most Linux/Unix distributions - this allowed people to get started without thinking about this problem and then end up too deep in the hole by the time they realise.

Other languages or OSes that don't have their interpreter bundled forced you to think about the problem from the start and build a way to ship a stable version of the runtime with your application.

Python, as a server-side programming language is not too bad. You can standardise on a version and bundle that interpreter version with your application itself in whatever artefact you produce (whether a Docker container, tarball with Python binaries + source or entire VM image with the right Python version installed).

Desktop distribution is a pain, but that's not limited to Python; any language that can't compile to a native binary will have this problem - even Java, despite having much better backwards compatibility, still isn't prefect and sometimes requires an older JRE to be installed on your target machine.
Heh, I can't wait until one of these 2-bit TV manufactures goes out of business and the update website gets co-opted by some hackers that write a new firmware update that asks for things like peoples CC to use it.
I stored a pounds of weed in air tight 5 gallon homedepot buckets for many years (forgot about them actually when I shut down my operation). After pulling it out and sampling it, still smelled fresh and smoked well. I could have easily sold it.

As long as it is stored well, I don't think this is as major of a concern as you're making it out to be.
1. Old people do not use it.

2. Very responsive, searching for previous messages takes seconds.

3. I remember back in '17, most other VOIP and especially video calling services sucked. Discord made gaming with your non-techie friends with a crappy laptop plug & play.

4. Lack of censorship (at the beginning).

5. Good UI when it was released compared to its competitors.

6. Gaming Centered Nature back when that was not common and/or alternatives were complicated and clunky (TeamSpeak).

7. Very good integration of GIFs, meme emojis, and the like.

8. Old people do not use it.
Kids in Louisiana don't know about VPNs?
Tesla Merges into Slower Lane
Does anyone know of a "Tangle" - it would be neat to do the inverse!
Yes, I suppose the more interesting finding is the ability to grow on a virus-only diet.
‘Wealth is a curse’: Hobby Lobby founder says he’s giving away his company
This is a great move for wireless charging as a whole, but I do have to question the fine-print here. Apple owns the MagSafe patents through 2030, which means they could pull a "MFi standard" situation and charge manufacturers licensing costs just to use "standard" technology.

I'm still hopeful that this comes with no strings attached, but once bitten makes me twice shy.
You’re making unsupported assertions. It is unclear how dose-dependent the therapeutic effects are. I definitely haven’t seen anything to suggest that microdoses can work as well as larger doses.
I use a Kindle. Not very often, but sometimes I put some code in a .pdf on the Kindle when I'm trying to work through somebody else's code.

Light bedtime reading. <grin>

At bedtime, there's no deadline pressure to stop you working through small points carefully. And then there's the subconscious factor, where your brain will keep working gently on your problem overnight. And allow you to have a 'sudden insight' at some later time.
The fact that you can't swap dollars transactionally without trusting an escrow provider or the person you're doing the swap with is a failing of dollars. It's not a failing of e.g. ethereum where you absolutely can set up a smart contract that will do that. Trying to use that as an argument against cryptocurrencies is misguided, and if things go well for cryptocurrency and there's a proliferation of CBDCs or more ways to earn income by being paid in cryptocurrency, it will become irrelevant.

These defi systems do indeed exist and are used by quite a few people (including occasionally me). 'Why are so many still keeping their money on [centralised] exchanges', is a question that a lot of people in the cryptocurrency ecosystem ask themselves despairingly. While UX could be better, it's really not that bad - the real answer is that the vast majority of people investing are 'number go up' investors, used to the stockmarket and regulated brokers, rather than people who actually care about the core ideas of decentralisation, programmable money, etc.
It really isn't easy to grow at scale. There is a huge amount of work involved.
> its frightening how many people go through 16+ years of formal schooling where they mostly do rote memorization and regurgitation.

That's how most education is structure, though. Unless your point is simply that, though it reads as if you're blaming the student.
> scalability (being able to increase the amount of compute, memory and IO to the specific modules that need it).

I gave a talk [1] about scalability of Java systems on Kubernetes, and one of my recommendations is that Java-based systems - or any system on a runtime similar to the JVM, like CLR or even Go - should be scaled diagonally. Efficiency is the word.

While horizontal scaling can easily address most performance issues and load demand, in most cases it is the least efficient way for Java (and again, I risk saying .NET and Go), as these systems struggle with CPU throttling and garbage collectors.

In short, and exemplifying: one container with 2 CPUs and 2GB of RAM will allow the JVM to perform better, in general, than 2 containers with 1 CPU/1GB RAM each. That said, customers shouldn't be scaling horizontally to any amount more than what is adequately reasonable for resiliency, or unless the bottleneck is somewhere like disk access. For performance on the other hand, customers should be scaling vertically.

And Kubernetes VPA is already available. People just need to use it properly and smartly. If a Kubernetes admin believes a particular pod should double in number of replicas, the admin should consider: "would this microservice benefit even more from 1.5x more CPU/Memory than 2x more replicas?" and I bet to say that, in general, yes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wApqCjHWF8Q
I say this without any snark or sarcasm: I welcome your analysis on the matter, if you have thoughts to add. It's inconceivable to me where this belief comes from, that everything will be so much better if only the wealthy paid their "fair share" of taxes.

Otherwise, I ask that you keep empty comments out of the forum.
Finland uses this model. Though the capping of transmission fees is bit iffy.

And lately the fixed rates have been quite variable going from 4 cents to 40 cents. The action by European countries caused some uncertainty. So timing has great effect.
There is 100% some xenophobia and nimbyism at the margins and those sort of people latching on to "foreign buyers!!" fears to advance their motives, but I do think there was underlying real problems and 100% not-xenophobic, wonky economist policy people in the government were concerned about real outcomes.

With this new Fed ban I'm not so sure what the data that is driving it is, maybe it is just politics with this one, but I do feel confident that with the earlier Foreign Buyer Tax brought in in BC there was real data and troubling trends to support the notion.
For sure, I'd also add -Werror to the mix.
Yep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvgz3CfISr0 2:55
Internet providers warn against EU plans to make Big Tech cover telcos costs
How will it be tied to your identity?
My 3.5kWp PV installation is hooked up to one phase in the house and that power is definitely being used without being counted by the (2-way) meter.
Discussed yesterday:

Incoming potentially catastrophic storm for SF area

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34226234 (236 points, 130 comments)
The Turing-Asimov dilemma