skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Siberia is kind of its own exception, though. I’d say they managed to keep Siberia - for reasons solely to do with Siberia - despite how bad they were at keeping the empire together, relatively speaking.
The idea terrifies me, but 1) I recognize it's inevitable in the long-term; if it can be done, it will be done by someone, and like the nuclear bomb there's no putting the genie back into the bottle; and 2) maybe, just maybe, I'm being unreasonably paranoid not unlike those in times past who predicted calamity when new technology with unknown consequences was emerging
A skeptical take on ChatGPT: Ezra Klein interviews Gary Marcus
I always hate this “If it doesn’t work we have much more serious problems” attitude.

If the world did go into a multi-decade recession, what “more serious” problems would you have then your investments doing poorly?

You might answer things like “ buying food due to shortages” or something, but surely whatever problem you name, being more rich is going to solve it?

Now you can invest on the thesis that this isn’t going to happen, but to argue that the whole concept of investment is useless if it does seems very suspect to me.
Haha your name is great.

The danger I find in information is a) there’s too much and b) it’s already out of date.

Wisdom transcends time but is much harder to come by.

“I’m not a pessimist, I’m an optometrist” -Ricky
That's... interesting. I wonder if it's a hustle. Buy a Chrome extension, sell "YT views", use unsuspecting victims to siphon their YT cookie and rack up fake views. Maybe?
On the first day of a typical someone’s retirement, they should probably be 40-50% invested in equities. An often cited rule of thumb is for your equity exposure in percentage to be 100 minus your age in years; others suggest 110 minus your age.
If everyone is in a recession, then no one is in a recession.
which one did you get?
I was hoping this would be a museum about/housing (mostly failed) attempts to make flying disc shaped aircraft. Still very interesting, though.
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Passion is fine and great in all endeavors. Not being able to acknowledge when you are wrong in small or large is the problem. And it's a problem for both passionate and dispassionate people.

One of the earlier researchers on psychopaths was Hervey M. Cleckley. In his book on the topic The Mask of Sanity one of his vignettes of, I believe, "incomplete manifestation of psychopathology" was of a psychologist who gave public lectures on psychopaths, without apparently recognizing that he was almost one of them.

To sum up the parallel, there are two kinds of people who tend to talk the most about any social or personal ill: those who are worried about the ill, and those who are distracting from the fact that they themselves embody it. (Technically this probably overlaps a bit, as ex-alcoholics are often worried about alcoholism, for example.)
I see it the other way: Corporations can invest in anything, so if any asset class outperformed equities we would soon see corporations listed on the stock market which simply held those assets. (This happened with BTC, with limited success, of course.)
You’re grasping at straws. It wasn’t a political comment.

Utah already has the the drought, now it just needs the urban technocrats.
Place, yes. But queuing them up for crafting in a workshop is a chore of clicks before you have an office set up for making work orders.

Nested menus in workshops get even worse. God forbid having to click and scroll Steel -> Weapon -> Battleaxe too many times.
A small portable scanner. I don't take it anywhere I just got a portable one due to it's size so I can stick it in a drawer.

I've been able to save a bunch of space and get rid of 99% of documents in my filing cabinet by making a digital copy and getting rid of the physical ones. Now when I get an important document I scan it save it to a few places and get rid of it.
> Wish they could act as universal translators, but I suppose that's still yet to come.

Likely would come from Google's or Microsoft's (OpenAI) services rather than Apple's, given how terrible Siri is.
Good news, reduced price family plans are coming soon (we are aiming January). You'll get three users for $10/mo, four for $12/mo as a base membership. A lot of discussion about it going on right now in our discord server.
In languages that have UFCS, there's no such thing as classes, so… you simply look for the procedure.
"You pressure me to fear for my life and I will put a fucking bullet in your head as if you were anybody else. Okay? "

Same applies to job performance. You give your best, there is no 110% that's just bullshit corporate mantra. If you are confident in yourself and your abilities then your motto should be: "I give you my best, you try to push me, I show you my finger."
Everybody says this, but stocks and bonds go up and down together now. I guess it's less an issue if you're holding bonds to maturity and laddering, but that might just be psychological, not sure.
Strange connections…road trip…hmm, reminds me of:

https://youtu.be/hMQ2qGmJOVM
They've added custom CSS to hide it, it isn't actually removed. You can easily bypass this by disabling custom CSS or using a mobile app.
> what really matters in art is the process

AI art has its own process. It can be quite therapeutic.
Best croissants I've ever had in the States were from frozen (albeit from a local bakery, not from the grocery store).
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The bill status has been updated to "Signed by Governor".[1] The text hasn't changed since the version passed by the Assembly.

[1] https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s4104/amendm...
#itdepends on the kind of software you’re making
> How did we let Europe do this to us?

Blaming the EU for this feels pretty disingenuous. GDPR is definitely well-intentioned and in the interest of the consumers, the horribly annoying popups you get everywhere are just a form of malicious compliance from companies who want to track you anyway and make opting out as annoying as possible.

Note that it's perfectly fine to have a page without a cookie popup. HN doesn't have one, for example. It's just not in the interest of companies to forgo user tracking.
Here's how I changed my body shape in 7 months: https://00f.net/2017/03/07/weight-loss/
That's entirely correct, and is why the suit will most likely [1] fail.

[1] 35% chance of success on https://manifold.markets/JeffKaufman/will-the-github-copilot...
How did you find your stylist?
I'm a little confused here and I'm sure I'm missing the point. This article seems to argue (and some comments here) that being rude should be normal? Why? Why wouldn't we be nice to customers for their business?

On the other hand, hasn't bullshit/passive-aggressiveness/etc been always called out?
Credit Suisse does this every year in the Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook. https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/c...

https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...
I don't really understand this line of thinking. The C++ method of "avoiding" this problem is to shove things into mega-libraries like Boost, or copying and pasting code. If you need the functionality, would you rather review 5 focused libraries, or Boost?

Copying and pasting code is equally do-able in both languages.
And Dropbox can also be hosted yourself with a oneliner rsync-script…

The value GitHub provides is far from unique in anyway, but let’s not pretend it’s trivial. Especially for an open source project already struggling to get contributors to their main code base, even more so for any ops work.
It is wild to me that any real technologist could hold this view. The more I learn about tech, the less I trust it, and the more I recognize the importance of strong societal regulation and interference.
I've gotten past this by using this app the records your screen (and audio) and indexes all the words that show up. Data is stored locally. Check it out: https://www.rewind.ai/
Your definition ("Brokenists see America...") really helped me to understand what brokenism is.

I am a Christian who is both theologically and politically conservative, so we have divergent understandings of what an ideal America would look like. But I would think that even an impartial observer would agree with me that whatever the faults of the left and the right might be, the faults of the left are much more likely to be imposed on us inasmuch as liberals in 2023 have "control" of academia, the media, and corporate America. The extreme flank of conservatives tends to be rather marginalized -- and deservedly so.

And because of the greater cultural influence of the left, I don't see how a conservative could be a brokenist. If everything is "burned down and built anew" what arises from the ashes will not only be more liberal than what we have now, but will also lack the conservative underpinnings (such as the Constitution) that we now have. It seems to me that the conservatives only win out in cautionary dystopian novels like The Handmaid's Tale.
You can get a Steam Deck for under $200?
I've read a huge book [1] of a broad research on universities in different countries, and this is what the book told.

Science metrics, when used to determine scientific significance by government officials, become abused. This law was articulated back in 1920s, if I remember correctly. And this is one of the cases.

Science was not like this until quite recently -- citation metrics were first used in the 1980s by neoliberal government of the UK (because those in the libertarian political spectrum tend to distrust public sector and love _efficiency_).

The idea behind the use of citation ratings was to determine more efficient universities and support them. According to recent studies, this hasn't changed the hierarchy of universities in the UK -- it preserved it and actually made more rigid.

As a side effect, there's this publications race.

Still, British academia is rather modest in ratings: it only uses them to evaluate all university or a faculty. In countries that are trying to catch up in science, metrics are applied at the level of an individual researcher, and make bonuses or position depend on it. They demand a certain lever of a citation index, and demand papers published in journals no lower than Nth quartile in some ranking.

This basically means you must abandon teaching, join as co-author on as many papers as possible. If one makes any good research, they usually split it into several papers over couple of years -- because bonuses.

Some join so-called citation cartels, and this is probably one of them.

[1] https://ecsoc.hse.ru/en/2016-17-4/192208750.html
On Mac you can use ktrace or dtrace.
Nows the time to transfer to your own wallet
Or Google!
- Proper cycling / mountain biking glasses. The amount of air that slips in from the sides with normal glasses can tire your eyes on longer rides or at high speeds.

- Safety razor. No longer do I have to buy $30+ cartridge refills but rather 100 packs of blades for ~$10

- A pickleball paddle. The game really is addicting and so far the community has been welcoming.
I went to Nordstrom looking for a nice blazer to up my wardrobe with a hard limit of $400. I had a couple guys who kept bringing me pricey items that didn't match what I asked for and half heartedly saying "looks good bro trust me". It was annoying, I know they're on commission but at least make an effort to sell.

Finally another of the sales guys started chatting with me. I explained what I wanted and he went and grabbed exactly that. The item was less than my limit and on sale. With the savings in mind I asked if he could suggest a couple more items, told him the colors I like and general style. He brought a few more told me what he honestly thought (if it looked good or not) and I knew this was now my personal stylist.

Now whenever I walk in if he's not working I just come back another day. This guy is good at his job, and has learned what I like. He makes recommendations, I give my feedback when I don't like something, and he rolls with it.

So all I can say is create a litmus test, and don't be afraid to tell them they have totally missed the mark and you're gonna look around on your own. Soon enough someone else will walk up and you try again.
Crypto uses vast energy as a feature, a side effect of maintaining a competitive environment as part of proof of work (other staking mechanisms are different). You could not optimize this to use less energy.
So reading about it I don't really see an environmental catastrophe. The basin has been filled 3 times in the last 1200 years, fills intermittently as the course of the Colorado river changes, and has no outlet which means it's ecology is unstable. It last filled around 1900 which is when it appears the current story began.

My reading is that people settled it only to find that it is naturally an unstable environment, and now want to create a "restoration plan" to reduce it's natural instability because of economic dependency on it's continued existence.
Above board, perhaps.

This way of researching and publish does, OTOH, mean something quite different from science of the past. This isn't applying the method more efficiently. It's applying a different method.

Reading old papers, you know who they were written by. These days, authorship doesn't mean that anymore. It's more like credits in a movie than a signature on a painting.
OP might be the one driving.
RPI4 8GB with 9TB of SSD attached running Yunohost is sitting behind a PfSense firewall.
About a dozen people have accounts, and we have these apps installed:
-Nextcloud with the full suite of apps inside to cover most internet services needs.
-Mastodon
-Synapse(Matrix)
-Metronome(XMPP)
-Borg backup
This is really great. Found a couple discs that I’ve used, and even found that I have a Princeton Clockwork Orange disc not in the catalogue! Will be making a contribution and sending this around to friends.
Was that when the pumps were built on the Nevada border to get water out of the drainage if needed? The shallowness of the lake makes it different to think about than lake most people are used to. It is more of a big puddle, as a kid being told it was ~30 feet deep at the deepest was hard to believe since I was used to smaller lakes deeper than 100 feet.

The idea that the lake could drain seems scary to me since the lake effect helps to increase the amount of snow in the Wasatch. Without the lake, would the Wasatch front look like other basins to the West?

It is worth noting that the Salt lake drainage basin is closed but through the Central Utah Project some of the Colorado basin water is claimed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Utah_Project

This summer I listened to an interview with a guy who paddled around the lake, it was interesting to hear since so much of the lake was more theoretical to me than real. Getting to the edge of the water in many parts wasn't possible or wasn't easy.
https://bendingbranches.com/blogs/resources/kayaking-on-grea...
https://radiowest.kuer.org/agriculture-and-the-environment/2...

Sorry, not all this was aimed at you but I figured I'd condense some thoughts into a single reply.
But the article literally argues that the British loss of the American colonies in 1776 is an example of how an empire can’t retain territory at a month’s remove.

To which the existence of British colonies in Canada after 1776 is kind of a direct rejoinder, right? The eventual loss of those colonies is irrelevant to the point that you can’t explain the American revolution as being an inevitable consequence of remoteness.
Yes they will be releasing Adventurer mode in DF Steam. There is, I've read, some quirk in the Steam store agreement where if a game has a free version they must have feature parity, so development will focus on bringing the Steam release to par with the classic version, and then both will be developed in step.
> The chargers will feature plug-and-charge compatibility and won't be restricted to Mercedes' EVs.

I'm grateful for this. I would love to see all future charging stations be compatible with all EVs, with some degree of backwards compatibility as stations and vehicles evolve. Kind of like USB for EV charging.

I would be happy with a future where charging stations are as common as (if not more so) gas stations, each with their own efficient solar panels to supplement grid power. That's the solarpunk dream.
I've used this service when I was in Asia. You don't need headphones, you can just use your phone via the Google Translate app. Place your phone down within speaking distance of both or all participants, then speak. It will translate and reply back and then allow the other person to speak, repeating the process. It worked extremely well even several years ago so I assume it's gotten better since then.
"But being spectacularly wrong with the approval of a community of experts is much worse than being spectacularly wrong as a lone kook, because it means that the whole field of people we’ve entrusted to serve as experts on a topic somehow allowed itself to embrace total nonsense."

That's a great sentence. If we took it to heart it would be a huge epistemic advance. But that's about as likely as sheep deciding not to travel in herds, and for the same reasons.
The geography of those many remote regions (e.g. the interior of Africa or Australia or parts of Asia) meant that they were not really governed by the empires - it's just that they were linked to the wider world through various port cities, and those were generally governed by some empire and within a month of its capital, so the value of their trade was captured tehre.
I agree. Imagine a future where we find a way to send messages at/near the speed of light intergalactically but can still only travel at some fraction of it.
The article breaks down how much time is spent by each part of the compiler (borrow checking, LLVM, macro expansion, etc.) check it out!
By that logic, Windows is the best operating system. After all, there are millions of PCs out there running Windows, and the vast majority of those people don't switch.
For me it was toe spacers to fix what those pointy toed sports shoes had done to my feet.
But the young earn less. That’s a very weak attempt at justifying high “cost of living”. And what a euphemistic word that is.

It’s the cost of greed, not the cost of living. Too many ills in this world are the result of older generations’ greed.

And I could also say your opinion of gen z is also equally influenced by social media.
Surely this will end cancer
You’re in a weird tech bubble. Bay IME is very diverse but also very Scene-ey. Well worth it to break out and diversify. I wish I had when I was there, I ended up moving cross country and making more intentional decisions about my starting set of friends here.
My un-favorite non-pology language is "I'm sorry you feel that way."
I do have such mountains, too, plus a random collection of items that keep growing on my desk. Maybe I'm an "unorganizer"?
>Free Software people would build a statue to Microsoft if they started campaigning for an end to software copyrights.

Some might. But FOSS licenses can exist because of copyright. So if, hypothetically, there weren't software copyrights, anyone could take any code and monetize it however they wanted with no restrictions. That might or might not be a big deal--the general trend has been towards more permissive licenses anyway.
The place you specification is a thread posted in 2019 talking about a Dell prebuolg. Do you mind posting the link for the nucs? Or is it in that thread somewhere? Or is that dell actually a nuc.
Reddit loves bidets. Has for years. Based on all the glowing comments, I bought one and installed it. Even after some practice and experimentation, I wasn't clean nor felt clean. Plus, the bidet added numerous crannies for urine spray to accumulate. I went back to wiping and discarded the bidet.
All of my Raspberry Pis netboot, which means I never have to worry about a card burning out, and I can change what they boot into by just renaming a symlink on the server.
Wasn't it one of the two end-points the colorado used to alternate between? When it was draining that way it was there, and when it flipped every few decades or centuries it wasn't.

There's not ever a firm line between "natural" and "after humans interfered" as if those are separate, unrelated and incompatible things. But in this case it is particularly fuzzy.
America was built on slave labor, and used exactly your arguments to justify the slavery.
> have 1200+ tabs open across 4 firefox windows

does research get you to have so many open? How do you manage it all? I've only just started using Sidebery but I try to keep my tabs at a reasonable 100-200 open.
Interesting legal maneuver.

By the same logic, rap music producers should be forced to pay for the funerals of victims of gang violence.
Wikipedia admin jailed for 32 years after alleged Saudi infiltration
While anecdotal I think the most important part to losing weight in high-school for me wasn't just the typical combination of improving diet and exercise, but also having a couple of friends who I would go with. Had a lot of frustrating times where one of us would debate giving up or taking a break, but we could support each other whenever it happened. Also quite a lot of exercise/diet programs seek to provide a massive lifestyle shift all at once, when personally I've found the focus on establishing one good habit at a time much more effective. This can definitely still be hard for people but it's why mental health is so important, as it carries over to being able to establish these habits/patterns.