skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds to me like "most contemporary scholars" are suffering from a misunderstanding of what "teleological thinking" would be (or else it's setting up a straw man). Teleological thinking would mean that there was a goal--either a goal of human beings, or a goal of God, or a goal of some thinking being(s). It's hard to see how a non-religious person could think of history as having a goal.

What those scholars instead seem to be arguing against--assuming I'm understanding your explanation correctly--is that history has directionality, in the same sense that biological evolution has some directionality (thereby creating creatures that are better adapted to their environment, at least until that environment changes). Darwin's idea was to separate the two kinds of directionality, and provide a plausible mechanism for the one.

Same in population density and technological advances leading to "civilization" (the point you're responding to). This is not teleology, this is a sense that hill climbing will eventually lead to a certain outcome (and maybe further outcomes in the future that we can't conceive of now). Whether this is true is, of course, a different question. But calling it "teleology" is missing the point.
One solution with that is to spin off a company that does these things, while keeping majority ownership.
> A transfer to EV will not be practical for all current fossil fuel vehicles so we need an alternative for them

That's my impression too. It seems to be hard for some people to accept this as one solution for a narrow aspect of a complex problem. This is a problem I see a lot with "green energy" sceptics. The wind doesn't always blow, the sun doesn't always shine. If there isn't a one size fits all solution, it's not a solution at all.

Almost as good as the old adage of electricity not being clean today, therefore electrifying cars doesn't make sense. Nevermind that switching to renewable energy can be achieved asynchronously and is not something we need to wait for.
Chicago and London have pretty similar urban/suburban gradients.
According to OECD statistics, we’ve seen a spike in non-COVID-attributed excess since early 2021… which has exceeded the COVID-attributed mortality, outside the omicron peak.

We can argue about what, but something is happening across 31 nations.

https://zmichaelgehlke.com/images/covid-mortality.png
Source Engine CVE-2021-30481

There's actually been a lot more of these that don't get CVEs
It's one of the reasons I prefer to game in a VM with heavy network filtering and egress only through VPN

There is little to no care from game developers about security, games with actively exploitable RCEs (see pretty much the whole CoD franchise) are just allowed to stay up on Steam

Gamers are also kinda dumb and oblivious to RATs etc which doesn't help
Isn't 15-20 years of full capacity better than a battery that slowly degrades over time?
Spotify has this for artists
No way, don't make any changes to yourself cosmetically. Please observe carefully - confidence and communication skills win out. Even highly attractive men don't succeed well if they don't demonstrate these. And many dates are women testing these things (consciously or unconsciously; either way they'll articulate if someone seems insecure). Manhattan is bru-tal in that department.

Tech is tech, it has a reputation as associated with men who are cold or uninteresting. But I'm increasingly meeting women working in tech. And if any woman is turned on by finance bros, consider it a good avoidance filter!

Source: single 40somethjng with reasonable success with women (not long-term relationships) working as a techie in a financial services company. I've been here two decades now.
?. Should generally be rare and can be combined with null coalescence to reduce occurrences:

Void func doThing(state : State?) {

var idx = state?.idx ?? -1

//No more ?. Needed

}
Tesco has also raised some of their generic store brand prices higher than brands. I think we are being told half truths and some outright lies.
This page will generate a set of random addresses in Chicago. How many times do you have to reload it before you get an address that would be tricky to handle?

https://il.postcodebase.com/random_address_city/CHICAGO
I highly recommend the work/books of V S Ramachandran, on this and related topics. Here is a sample via a TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_the_neurons...
The answer is RAM. Full screen editor required a lot of RAM for the machines of that time, leaving far less for the intended application.
> A transfer to EV will not be practical for all current fossil fuel vehicles

But we can transfer most of them to EVs, including nearly the entire light duty vehicle fleet and short haul trucking, which is probably good enough. There will always be niche cases for ICE vehicles, like driving across Siberia, or military vehicles. But the vast majority can be electrified.

Flight is a different story, perhaps hydrogen will be a viable path there.
RCE: remote code execution

CVE #: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures number, assigned by the MITRE Corporation
No they don't. Those are usually loans, don't confuse a bailout with a loan. And don't assume equity holders do nothing but profit; if it fails they get nothing. (…Also I don't think it happens "regularly"?)

The airlines got one in 2020 because they have some of the largest union contracts in the country and we don't want to lose that, but that wasn't a pro-management thing.

On the other hand, a social wealth fund would be good, because it's less risky than owning individual companies.
Something that I recommend to use if you plan to play The Sims 1 is to use this widescreen patcher: https://github.com/FaithBeam/Sims-1-Complete-Collection-Wide...

By default The Sims 1 supports only 800x600 or 1024x768, which is annoying since most monitors nowadays aren't 4:3.

There are ways to manually patch the Sims.exe by changing the file with a hex editor, however that causes video artifacts in the game (example: when opening the buy/build menu, the items in the list go outside of the UI) because the original UI images aren't resized to match your resolution. The widescreen patcher automatically patches and resizes those UI images for you.

It also installs DDrawCompat (or DGVoodoo2) for you, which is useful because vanilla The Sims 1 on Windows 10+ is choppy for some reason, using DDrawCompat or DGVoodoo2 fixes the choppiness issue.
> What applications of blockchain do you envision?

"digital store of value" which is: not controlled by any centralized entity and thus immune to corruption of the said entity, easily transferable, fungible, easy to divide into sub-units. I have compiled various usage examples of such a technology here[1], but primarily it boils down to "shitty governments", which covers a vast portion of humanity.

Traditionally, this was Gold but BTC is better at transfers than Gold. Maintenance burden is lighter for BTC on the one hand because you just have to memorize 12 words, but it is also susceptible to hacks on the other hand compared to Gold.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32406095
We have done the same and published back in early 2020. THis paper does reference our work as [11]. Blog post with our human detection video here (eerie !):

https://futurebnd.com/human-detection-classification-and-vis...

and the paper here:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.05842.pdf
For what it's worth, the "faith in lineage" stuff doesn't require magical thinking and is pretty helpful. The downside of it from my perspective is it's just a lot of stuff to learn and a bit complicated to maintain in a Western cultural context. Plenty of people are making progress with more stripped-down approaches that rhyme better with the scientific worldview.
>> If you're a top performer, you're going to feel like a 10% pay cut is very unfair, and you're going to be able to get another job elsewhere fairly easily, even in this environment.

Nobody outside of your immediate team, manager and may be at best a few people apart from them know you are the top performer. It's not like sports or movie industry that people know who you are. Where you go next, you have to work from the beginning to prove you are a top performer. And that take 2+ years too. Overall rage quitting for these reasons is a bad move.

>>When done correctly, layoffs give 100% of the pain to 10% (or whatever) of the people, but you get to select the worst-performing people.

In nearly all companies the rating system is fixed. And largely depends on political lobbying at the management levels. There is literally no way to know who are the real top performers.

In fact in many companies, money comes from top projects/products, not top performers. This is why often the companies let go people on the lines of which businesses they want to be running or shutting down, not which people they want to keep and let go.
> There's just no logical reason to try and burn hydrogen in ICE engines.

In commenting in another spot - https://youtu.be/AouW9_jyZck goes through many of the engineering and practicality reasons behind that.
Which abstractions?

I could see a monad being defined as a list of (typed) states with a functor. But they’re still stateless.

I could also see immutable data structures being implemented in a stateful way (they usually are in non-FP languages).
The profit motive is what causes lower costs; where else would the margin come from? And it's also nice to not own PG&E considering how much debt they're in.

On the other hand, we don't let Medicare negotiate drug prices and the official policy is to just give them whatever they want. We rarely use our monopsony power as is. (This is finally changing as part of the IRA.)
Look up 'pig butchering' when you get a chance. It is an elaborate process of convincing your mark to fall in love with your persona and asking them to send it money. It takes months to years to execute but marks end up losing their properties, retirement accounts, life savings, everything to it.
These few legitimate use cases should not be dismissed though, from the perspective of sizing an energy grid: for example reducing iron ore with hydrogen rather than coal works out to about one nuclear reactor for one furnace. No idea for chemical feedstock, but it's likely to also be huge.

I don't think anyone pushing for hydrogen in cars in Japan has done even a back-of-the-envelope calculation of how many nuclear reactors/wind turbines/solar panels Japan would need to migrate their fleet... So the plan is likely to make it from natural gas, import it, or -more likely- there is no serious plan at all, only subsidies being collected.

Note that in I have a very similar feeling with regard to wind turbines in Europe (at least in Germany and France): behind each wind turbine field there is a very real gas turbine or lignite power plant, and a lot of hand-waving regarding storage... Heard jokes (pre invasion of Ukraine) about Gazprom being behind every wind turbine sale. The situation is different in Northern Europe though, with lots of wind turbines in Denmark, and pumped storage in Norway.
Server down rn
Jerry Martin, Marc Ruso, and Kirk Casey!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Martin_(composer)

https://www.last.fm/music/Marc+Russo

https://soundcloud.com/kirk-casey

http://www.jerrymartinmusic.com/the_sims_g1.php

>The Sims: The music in The Sims is in a huge variety of styles. Most of it is kind of "tounge-in-cheek" and adds a lot of humor to the game.

How The Sims Made New-Age Jazz Piano the Soundtrack of Our Lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LpVUi9TQ8U

The Sims soundtrack is an iconic piece of video game music, and the build mode's minimalist new age jazz piano songs are undoubtedly among it's most famous tracks. We spoke to Jerry Martin, the composer of the soundtrack, to find out how and why new age jazz piano became the sound of The Sims.

Check out Jerry Martin's website to download mp3s of the build tracks, piano sheet music, and even original songs at:

https://boombamboom.com

The Untold Story of 'The Sims,' Your First Favorite Jazz Record

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qveqew/the-untold-story-of-t...

Music in The Sims

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Music_in_The_Sims
Hey there, the server seems to be down for me.
Due respect, but your landlord was an idiot. It's dark at 4:30PM in Chicago in December. You think the city just shuts down?
How do you game in a VM? A lot of my game time includes flight simulators with many external peripherals.
Very clearly a space there between the "Mac" and "OS".
You're referring to "leading the shot." This was common for games in the late 90s and early 2000s.

The problem is that leading the shot has two side effects: 1. what you shoot at in game isn't what you're hitting on the server, (you shot a player, but dirt kicked up from the ground several feet in front of them) and 2. some gameplay mechanics rely on accurate replication.

If you throw a grenade at a player and "lead the shot" maybe it sticks to them on the server. It kills them.

But on your side, it missed because you personally lag compensated, stuck to a vehicle, and now the vehicle blew up instead and flew off a cliff.

Now the game sends back updated entity positions and the vehicle and its occupants are back on the ground and everything just snapped for you.

You can rewind game state and make it not visible to players, then run hit calculations and do things like kill players and destroy objects without snapping.

Proper lag compensation implementations make it such that infrequently do you actually notice lag, even in exceptionally poor connection environments.
The main issue with pumped storage is you need a lot of water. Imagine a elevated water tank like that used on farms. 20,000 gallons (75,000 litres) of water elevated at 18 feet (5.4m) has 1.1kWh of potential energy.
[OP] I did't expect so many comments, and I'd like to thank everyone for their input.

To answer some of the common questions: My background/speciality is 2-sided marketplaces in the tech world.

I don't think I'm bad at interviewing or come off as an asshole. In the past, I could easily land a new position in a month or so. I know markets change, but I feel that as my career and titles have grown (management and C level and one FAANG tier company on my resume), I find myself being dismissed at the final interview step.

I have had the overqualified theme thrown at me few times. Perhaps I excel at IC interviews, but suck at management tier interviews.

I could downplay my experience. I have to admit, I saw it as a form of dishonestly, initially.

Here is a recent example: My last interview was for a management position at a small startup, with decent funding. During my first meeting with the Head of Engineering, he informed me that he felt I was overqualified, after seeing my resume. It was clear that I had more experience in both depth and breadth than he -- I don't really care, but as someone pointed out below, perhaps that could be seen as a threat. I don't care for office politics, I just wanna get things done.

Another interviewer (different company) informed me that my resume looked as if I were entrepreneurial (as I do have my latest startup listed), and they were worried if I would be satisfied. I tried to allay their fears, but to no avail.
I use FreeBSD as my primary desktop daily, it was not hard to install and maintain. A lot easier than arch Linux in fact. KDE has a nice guide on how to set it up (which is not more than a handful of commands by the way)

Things like zfs on root are amazing and it performs well.

What's pretty unique is the combination of stable OS and rolling up to date userland. And the configurability with the ports collection (a bit similar to arch's AUR with the main difference being that the ports collection contains the same software as the binary packages do unlike arch where it contains user contributed packages not in the main repo). But basically it means that if you want to make changes to compile options you can.

Drawbacks are worse hardware support and software designed with Linux in mind too much (depending on linuxisms that are not shared with other unixes). But overall I've managed to avoid those pretty well.
> the only criticism I ever saw was "lockdown bad because covid is fake, don't get vaccinated."

I would encourage you to practice the intellectual humility required to consider the possibility the issue here was your lack of exposure to anything other than straw men.
MAGA Republicans were always anti-war.
Leonardo.ai can probably make a model that handles one of those prompts well with 40 images.

To handle them all you would need a larger sample.
It only needs to make it into a mod-menu to get wide, unsuspecting distribution.

For those curious, mod menus are what "hackers" use to exploit the gameplay for fun. Script-kiddies are a good analog in history. They're often just kids who googled GTA hacks and installed from the first page they thought looked cool. They'll be prime targets for distribution.
Those companies have a half century history of lying about the science. We have no reason to believe they aren’t lying now about this technology’s feasibility or the carbon emissions in their production process — or that any profits wouldn’t be used in part to fund their political lobbying to prevent action or dodge the consequences of their actions.
It looks like Project Trident was also discontinued?

One of the appeals of PC-BSD back in the day (I was involved a long time ago, well before it rebranded to TrueOS) was that it had "fat packages", which was conceptually similar to flatpack and such, or how software on Windows is typically distributed. You ended up with /Programs/Firefox, /Programs/GIMP, etc. which were mostly self-contained copies of the software + dependencies.
Funnily, "tomo chá" means "I drink tea" in portuguese.
I have compiled a list of BTC usecases here[1]. Can you please provide me an already available alternative for those examples, which is clearly superior to BTC?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32406095
That kind of strained "gotcha!" comparison is not helping the conversation.
West Virginia v EPA begs to differ.
One thing that always fascinated me is how Maxis liked to push tools to create custom content for the game, and how content creation tools were even released before the game was released, to allow users to create content that they could use for the game when it was officially released.

When I was younger I spent a lot of time using your The Sims Transmogrifier tool, at the time I didn't know that the tool was created by one of The Sims 1's developers.

Will Wright even talked about the The Sims 1 modding community, and how it shaped the future of The Sims and its expansion packs: https://youtu.be/hLHnmRtqNno
How do you play any game with anti-cheat in a VM?
No bank would mix their numbers with other service providers. Being in talks does not mean there will be a successful resolution.
>but the only criticism I ever saw was "lockdown bad because covid is fake, don't get vaccinated."

Seriously? In the 3 years of the pandemic, the only criticism of lockdowns you heard was "covid was fake"? I'm not sure whether this was because you don't pay enough attention to current affairs, or you do but get it from such a strong filter bubble that all objections were rounded down to the crazies (for lack of a better word). For what it's worth, I did hear about the objections that the parent poster mentioned early in the pandemic. The problem I suspect is that the existence of crazies poisoned the well for the debate. Once being anti-lockdown was associated with the right and/or conspiracy theorists, anyone objecting to lockdowns must be secretly right-wing and/or a conspiracy theorist and their objections were just a cover for their crazy belief that the virus was fake or whatever.
Call of Duty before 2015, CVE-2018-20817 and CVE-2018-10718, another RCE too.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-2081...

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1071...
It's less that they're committed to keeping the ICE, and more that they've seen that the market has passed them by with the push toward full-electric (I suspect they thought we'd be doing hybrid ICE-electric for much longer, which they're very good at). Hydrogen is their bet on being in on the ground floor of the Next Big Thing.
This is old myth. 40% their revenue now comes from other properties such as YouTube, gmail, GCP, Android, maps etc. They are fairly comparable in diversification for rest of the big tech but still little way to go.
I’m in the Baltimore Annapolis metro area. That’s a fair characterization of where I live—five minutes east and I’m at a Target and Whole Foods. But five minutes west and I’m at horse farms. If you keep going toward Baltimore from where I am you go about 15 miles through farms before you hit a CDP or any meaningful size. And Maryland is one of the densest states in the country!
Related:

Why Developers Never Use State Machines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20875583 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)

Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16470262 - Feb 2018 (161 comments)

Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12204038 - Aug 2016 (1 comment)

Why Developers Never Use State Machines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949543 - Sept 2011 (92 comments)
If I recall correctly, the log4j exploit was first (publicly) discovered affecting Minecraft.
Interesting. I am curious about the tea (as a customer). I usually try different kinds of tea. The pricing looks steep. Is it always green tea every month?
I don’t get dates. That’s my point. I’m just too ugly, bub. I’ve already done some cosmetic surgery and do some other stuff to improve texture of the face (microneedling with a professional).

It’s important. We underestimate how much looks matter for men to have success. No one has told me any surgeries or work that I’ve done was a bad idea. They all much prefer the after than the before.

I don’t miss the mark when it comes to this stuff. I’m just ugly and not the right race. It sucks but is what it is. Modern dating.
Nope.

The length was fine .. the single breakable deeply submersed part where it crosses multiple faultlines in an earthquake rich volcanic region was bonkers.

See:

Atlassian CEO's bonkers scheme to pipe electricity from Australia to Singapore collapses

4,000km extension cords are hard to build

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/22/suncable_collapses/
Naive and trusting is probably a fairer characterization. They aren't nor should they need to be security experts, the company who distributed the code should be more responsible, and more controversialy I think they should also be more culpable. We are past the startup friendly wild west stage of software technology, we know better and should expect better.
How long can south Australia power their load from batteries? I thought they had the one 100MWH battery so basically could power 100k house for an hour? And that battery was over 100 million dollars.