skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why should individuals that live their entire lives in suffering because of the very conditions humanity as a collective has encouraged and enacted give a shit about humanity?

Because if they don't, they're descendents will suffer even more.

I mean, really what you're asking is "why should people care about others?", which feels like a whole branch of philosophy.
Is it an addiction to the taste of meat?

If your objection to killing animals is strong enough there are millions of purely vegetarian recipes that are delicious and much more tastier than fake meat. Why not switch to those?
> Server silos didn't see today's watt-gobbling, space-heater chips coming

Well, data centers definitely had a trial run over a decade ago when 'blade servers' were all the rage. Since then, you can definitely get 'high density power' racks in most places (with 32A 240V feeds, or better, instead of the standard 8A or 12A, plus appropriate hot-air removal options), but this tends to be expensive.

Compared to a blade server chassis, your typical GPU server isn't that bad, by the way, but stuffing a rack full of 'em isn't going to work (but, hey, you need space to put your general compute and storage nodes anyway, so diversify a bit!)
Guy I know switched from being a helicopter pilot for 30 years to a software developer in his late 50s. So yes!
There are different forms of argumentation and they have a different tone that maybe doesn't come through so well on the internet without context. I dislike the debate club mentality where arguments are more like a spectator sport than a deliberation most of all, but there are less combatative forms of arguments that are really more like questions with extra scaffolding. I think all people are weakly informed and weakly opinionated about a different subset of most things and it's not always clear when you are in an environment with people who aren't also weakly informed and weakly opinionated. Arguments of the form "I believe this" and "here are my (maybe not so great) reasons" can be a reasonable starting point for laying out your prior knowledge and biases. Making it clear that it is only a weakly held belief is an art form, though, and I can understand why someone might omit that step in an (assumed to be) hostile environment. It's one of the reasons why I think the choice of forum matters. It can be easier to be more open about what you don't know if you aren't subconsciously worried about being attacked for it.

As you said, (I'm paraphrasing) there are often better ways to go about things.
Look again. The queen doesn't take the knight at E8.
Just gonna double down on the 'it's so dense' myth huh?

Do it with a real fuel cycle, real turbine efficiencies and stop trying to conflate the fertile content with the fissile.

Here's a hint to get you started: the reactor fleet uses about 67500 tonnes of raw Uranium and produces about 2650TWh each year. New reactors are about 1.8x the average and most SMR proposals are worse. The world produced 760GWh of batteries from around 75,000 tonnes of Lithium.

Also note that 2650TWh / 760GWh is 3500 which is less than the number of cycles an LFP battery will last.
The alternative they described (make it so AppleMobileBackup required a passcode only when changing the backup location) would require the phone knowing the location of the backup and trusting the other side wasn’t lying. Might’ve been too complicated to do (especially in a way that could be applied to older versions of macOS/iTunes where AppleMobileBackup wasn’t updated).
Have you not found what you need(ed) here (by filtering for expat specifics): https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers/ ?
You can close some gaps, but at the end of the day you can't expect that you'll run malicious code but it won't do this or that. For example the X server allows any client to listen for key events or hook into other windows.
Acting for your own benefit is not mutually exclusive with mutual benefit.

In fact, most business transactions are mutually beneficial through no particular impetus from the parties: One party gets whatever goods or services he needed/wanted, the other party gets whatever monies he needed/wanted; both parties are hopefully better off and happier than before.

I reiterate: Business is about exploiting someone somewhere for your benefit, no exceptions.
You can, but you still need to set up a secure infrastructure to manage all the requests going back and forth.

And most enterprises already have a completely functional and secured PKI, usually with the whole HSM deal and everything. It's plug and play and works with your existing infra.
It sounds like babbling to say 'we teach our immune system to fight diseases by showing them weaker versions'. The immune system is complicated and unless you're talking about things directly in terms of chemistry and protein binding or whatever, you're not talking about it accurately.

Personally, it makes a lot of sense to me that the immune system is responsible for much more than viruses or bacteria. The need for a class of diseases related to an unhealthy one (autoimmune diseases) is proof IMO
Isn't the USA (including California) entirely at-will employment, so it's not hard to fire anybody at all?
I can't remember the exact origins of it, but I think it was a tweet that was essentially:

No one will remember who won an argument on the internet, they'll just remember that everyone involved is the kind of person who gets in arguments on the internet.

I'm not even sure that's really limited to just the internet either - outside of very niche cases, you don't win any argument, you just become known as someone who likes to argue, and thus you need to decide if this is a venue you want to become known as someone who argues about things. There's venues that may be good, wholesome, and useful, but it's been an axiom that's definitely stopped me from contributing to a lot of arguments.
I’m sorry, but what is the play on words in the title “Attention is all you need” here?
I suspect they spent several millions of dollars a year and at least 20-30 people if not more and I think you don't have any idea of how hard the problem is and how it's getting harder all the time.

It's going to get even harder as spammers use ChatGPT like tech to write individual spam messages for each person
I suspect it was less about the $400 than following through on the alibi and hoping to slow the investigation down a little. I'm more surprised they didn't just buy a cheap truck in New Jersey.
Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
Definitely a downward trend visible on Google Trends for e.g. "housewarming party":

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
Don't feel bad if you're doing everything listed in the article and still failing. One look at this person's resume and it answered everything. This is not your average Software Dev. and they have 10 yrs experience. Keep grinding my friends, you'll get there.
ohmuhgawd, that's gotta be the darkest thing i read all day and caused me to literally lol (so that device would let me type it) so hard i spilled a bit of my old fashioned.
Has the seeds of a place that I'd like to keep visiting. I've already returned twice. First time I visited, I started posting here interesting things I found. But then realized these are secrets that visitors should stumble upon on their own so I deleted those comments.

Grow this into a more interesting place and many will come and visit. Or buy beachfront.
They call me Cuban Pete.
On the off chance you see this... I don't want to get too close to describing things as I'm trying to keep this account relatively anonymous so I feel more comfortable being very honest about things. That being said...

The problem was analogous to pricing at Uber or Lyft. The product was very different - not related to transportation in any way. But trying to balance supply and demand through pricing. Supply and demand could vary wildly by the minute and pricing was per customer, so that involved adjusting ~1M prices dozens of times per day. We used control theory, game theory, time series predictions, and lots of other things to understand / control the dynamics of the market and the competition within subsets of the market. I'm convinced the onset of the pandemic would have crushed the company's revenue if this dynamic pricing was not in place. Instead, we merely needed to add some new boundaries to contain what the system was doing (boundaries that were unheard of pre-pandemic like entire sectors of the world economy closing down).

As a software engineer with a BS in Math, I did the first version of this out of intuition without knowing anything about the fields I mentioned above. I was accidentally trying to reinvent control theory without knowing it existed (knowing to do a web search for "control theory" would have helped a lot!).

As time went by and we hired some people with more applicable math knowledge, they were some combination of impressed and amused at what I'd done. And they were able to take it to the next level. Seeing this, and having become the team's manager, I started to hire people with much more advanced math and stats knowledge. Advanced stats people came last and they should have been earlier. It turned out we had shipped multiple experiments that we shouldn't have because we didn't understand that we weren't measuring what we thought we were. As the system got better and better, measuring the impact of our system on indirect market effects became the hardest part of the problem. For example, a change will favor some competitors in the market - is that positive overall? If you think there's a simple-ish answer to that question (like I did at one point), you probably aren't qualified to design / analyze these experiments. wink

Where this eventually led, before I moved on, was the realization that we didn't just need a software architecture, but also a math architecture that helped keep the mathematical dynamics sane and possible to reason about. And it required a lot of effort to help the non-math people in senior management understand this wasn't black magic, but something that needed to be reasoned through by people who understood mathematical rigor (i.e., we needed to continue hiring mathematicians). That's a tough sell given that it's really hard to understand the value of mathematical rigor when you don't have it yourself. We weren't formally proving anything, but when things get complicated, it's really important to understand exactly what assumptions are necessary and when that gets difficult, it's hard to avoid the need for people who know mathematical rigor.
> You could use a bit of JavaScript with setTimeout to get rid of the modal at the right time

This always felt hacky to me, "animating" visibility instead is a great idea. Thanks for sharing!
no, you just have to use your brain implant's wireless connection to make changes. what kind of 21st century lame-os are you that have to worry about electric connections to the computer?
Reprocessing doesn't turn fertile material into fissile. It mostly just costs money and pours more fission products into the nearest body of water than Fukushim released. It also extracts the dregs of Pu239 and U235 to get another 5-15% of final energy out. CANDU + reprocessing is a bit better than a PWR, but still significantly under 2x the energy in the original U235.

Closed fuel cycles are a myth so there is no need to specify 'once through'.
Are you being paid for that?

IMO for vast majority - getting into tech is not driven by curiosity but pure money. Which is not necessarily bad when you need to feed your family, but the people rarely last.

I've spoken to a banker at some point in his 40s trying to switch to crypto in 2017 when it was all hype. I gave him the roadmap, specific steps and extended network. He never followed through, well because it still required hard work. Not everyone is committed enough to do such work, particularly if it requires trade-off. However if there is something on the line, like 5-10 grand. Different story.
so says every primary math student learning word problems
My ancestors were stargazing in the Namib when your continent hadn't even been discovered yet.
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!

(I don't think I need to attribute this to this readership, but in case I do, it's by Emerson. And if you didn't know that, I strongly recommend googling Nightfall.)
It’s a favorite source of /r/conservative, which should really tell you all you need to know.
DDG uses bing only for images AFAIK. Has that changed?
This comment belies a misunderstanding of institutions and human nature.

The notion that the loudest and most populist voices that make ridiculous arguments and appeal to sentimentality - have anything to do with the 'truth' or anything positive, is obviously wrong, and for some reason seems to be deeply rooted in some circles.

Ironically, it's a glibly populist view of glib populism.

Next time you visit your 'Corrupt High Priest Doctor' who represents the institution of Medicine, who recommends a therapy, why don't you ignore him and make your own concoction, at home, using the 'alt method' you discovered on some podcast? Good luck.

Doctors and Medical researches have a fundamentally better understanding of the human body that idiots on Twitter.

Which is why some medicine is 'behind the counter' and we don't argue about that very much.

Ideas and memes can define reality, and those who have the power to define reality will possibly abuse it which is why it's not in anyone's interest to have insane people influence how we think.

'Freedom of Expression' is a fundamental and inalienable right, so if Alex Jones wants to believe that Sandy Hook victims are 'actors' it's his right, it may even be his right to stand on the corner and yell it at the top of his lungs, email individuals, or put it on his own web page. But there's also no reason for us to facilitate spread of garbage through the public commons or other sites.

People have been following Sandy Hook families, harassing them and the adversarial courts system is no place to have that worked out.

Similarly with people trying to overthrow the government on lies about election results.

The truth is difficult, it's always subject to perspective and context, most mediums are biased, all institutions have their flaws, and freedom of expression is a fundamental right, at the same time, truth does really matter and it's in everyone's interest to have quality information in the commons, and not noise, or worse, idiots usurping the channels for their own diabolical stupidity.
Thanks for generating this! I struggled quite a bit getting to a few squares, and the graph shows they were indeed far apart from each other and that I wasn't missing something obvious.
> I have seen a lot of hand-wringing about lithium mining, describing it as physically impossible. While cost remains to be seen, it is clear the amount we need to mine is much lower than that of coal.

Very little mining or extraction is actually physically impossible, just as safes are rated not as "impossible to crack" but "takes an expert with best tools 16 hours to open", known measured resources are ranked by economic feasibility .. how much effort will it take to produce the end product (and is that cost worth it).

Lithium | Uranium | Copper | etc .. there are pros, cons, issues and problems all the way through any mineral extraction process - the one solution not proposed nearly enough is for populations to just consume less.

Re: Lithium specifically:

> Let us consider, for example, electric cars. To give an idea of this effect, producing a battery weighing 1,100 pounds emits over 70% more carbon dioxide than producing a conventional car in Germany, according to research by the automotive consultancy Berylls Strategy Advisors.

> Furthermore, lithium mining requires a lot of water. To extract one ton of lithium requires about 500,000 liters of water, and can result in the poisoning of reservoirs and related health problems.

These are our trade offs.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2023-01-paradox-lithium-net-zero-emiss...
The notice in the US is not a notice in the way you would apply it in Japan (or how common sense would dictate). It would be illegal to block someone from accessing company systems or premises just because you tell them "officially you are terminated in 60 days".

That "giving notice" is used in the message is because of some law (I forgot) that requires this time but also permits to actually block people from working as long as they are paid.
Here is the relevant MacRumors thread, if someone wants to follow it: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/always-asking-trust-thi...

I’m not holding my breath though for Apple to fix this.
This is one of those rare cases where you can use either “loose” or “lose” and it still makes sense!
I feel like within 6 months the models will have adapted to not need these "clever" tricks. Presumably, if for many cases the trick is to say "Let's think step by step", that's something the model can learn to do on its own without the prompt.

The real interesting thing will be feeding alternative data into these models. Whether it's certain structured corpus, silo'd enterprise data, or personal data.
especially because of this whole imessage/rcs thing, your friends are extremely more likely to be using the same OS as you.
I'm not Indian but here's an observation:

Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan do not have any cities with 5+ million people. In fact, the most populated cities in those nations do not even exceed 1 million people.
> which I never heard of until this thread

Apple Lisa Pascal (started back in 1979) and Clascal (early 1980s extension of Lisa Pascal) were well known projects of Apple. The evolution went from Lisa Pascal, to Clascal, and then Object Pascal. Of course back in the 1980s, information doesn't get around as fast as it does now. Also, Apple played games with naming, which creates confusion that what is used was Pascal. You will see Apple Lisa or just Lisa a lot, omitting the Pascal name/description, so people can get the impression its some entirely different language.

When those employed by AT&T started pushing attacks on Pascal in the early 1980s and disparaging the language, to push their investments in C and Unix, Lisa Pascal and Clascal were arguably overlooked. Though this is partially also because of how Apple promoted it.

Unfortunately, that bad habit continued with Borland/Embarcadero, where people don't know that Delphi is a dialect of Object Pascal. In the same way people didn't know that Apple Lisa and Clascal were dialects of Pascal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Pascal#Clascal_and_Appl... (Clascal and Apple's early Object Pascal).

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/apple/lisa/... (An Introduction to Clascal).
> I would ask why /you/ are implying to exploit is "wrong". At best that's a very narrow and fairly modernist reading. To exploit someone or something in and of itself has no negative connotations associated with it.

You can die on that hill if you want, but "exploiting someone" has negative connotations in modern colloquial English. If a word doesn't fit what you're trying to communicate, use a different word or you will be misinterpreted.

> exploit (verb): 2. make use of (a situation) in a way considered unfair or underhand: the company was exploiting a legal loophole. (Oxford Dictionary of English)
I already addressed all of this with the difficulty of extraction. I even called out gold earlier in the thread, possibly more than once.

The abundance of lithium is nothing like the abundance of gold, and oil is a different subject altogether because we have extracted a truly staggering amount of it, and then burned it. We’ve extracted something like 135 billion tons of oil, and a “mere” 250 thousand tons of gold. So, hundreds of thousands of times more oil than gold has been extracted.

Lithium is about 20ppm (parts per million) in the Earth’s crust. Gold is about 0.001ppm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

Lithium is 20 thousand times more abundant than gold, roughly.

Lithium is reusable, analogous to how we handle aluminum. As demand is ramping up, we will need to ramp up extraction, but we’re not throwing it away, and eventually we will get a lot of our lithium from recycling.
> Was Microsoft supposed to cancel the event at the last minute but still pay Sting his full fee that had already been contracted?

Yes, on both counts.

Optics matter, apparently enough so that we're talking about it right now.

Also, those aren't the only alternatives, but no matter how you spin it, what was done was not a good look.
The Offshore Oil Business Is Gushing Again
Do we know of anybody whose ancestors were not stargazing in some part of Africa prior to other continents being first set foot on by humans though?
I agree that having a "can't modify this object" via this reference is useful and that JavaScript doesn't have it. TypeScript has it with `ReadOnly<T>`

It could be worse. You could be in python that has no const whatsoever :P

I also agree pass by reference is useful. JavaScript only has pass by value, similar to python.
That sort of clicked for me too, then I decided to take a break from fumbling through it and draw out the graph.

I ended up visualizing as two sets of loops connected to each other in the bottom-right, top-right and bottom-left quadrants, with some dead ends branching out:

https://ibb.co/JFY3jm4

Was much, much easier to complete once I could see a map of the board.
We're not as close as we've ever been. The Cuban missile crisis was much closer, and worse, was much closer than either the US or USSR knew at the time.

The current situation is very serious, but fundamentally both sides are aware of the severity and more aware of the state of the opposite side (primarily via better intelligence).
how well did that work out for Ted Kaczynski or Eric Rudolf

Actually really well. Kaczyinski basically got turned in by his brother and Eric Rudolph hid for 5 years in the wilderness living off the land occasionally scavenging in dumpsters for leftovers (which is how he eventually got arrested by a rookie cop who thought he was a burglar). Rudolph subsequently wrote a book describing his extended hideout.

I doubt la Holmes would last long in this kind of life, but unlike those two she had access to huge amounts of money and the capability to stash someI think she could have pulled it off easily; she would be at greater risk from encountering a professional criminal that would pick up on her furtiveness.
Right, but if I delete my account, and someone takes my username, people who have known me over the past 15 years will probably think that's me (and whoever takes the username can very easily exploit that fact). Username reuse enables impersonation.
Analyst => BD in 20s

BD => PM in 30s

Kind of want to try software engineering :)

Quite frankly, if you are interested in something, you'll have enough to sustain the motivation to redo your life or career, regardless of "when".
Alphabet lays off 12k workers
Crashed both Safari and Chrome on iPad Pro 3rd gen :(
Malfeasance is one thing, but I don't think you want this kind of general liability for prosecutors: they're executing legal motions based on the evidence and information presented to them. Unless there's some evidence that they're actually ignoring or hiding evidence, punishing them for playing their role in the justice system is likely to do more harm than good.

(This is distinct from the problem of qualified immunity for the police, who (1) regularly kill people under dubious at best circumstances, and (2) regularly launder falsified or coerced evidence into the legal system. It makes sense, in my opinion, to introduce personal liability there.)