skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not who should be concerned, they're already at war and rightfully concerned. Or rather, their easternmost breakaway provinces are in a war and have been for 8 years. But when bordering states start joining in, the risk of the war getting much larger and involving more nations grows.
> What we need is more energy storage, whether that's in the form of traditional batteries or more novel forms of energy storage.

Batteries are a nightmare at grid scale from an environmental perspective.

Other forms of storage are needed (pumped hydro for example), or nuclear plus renewable on top of a smart-grid capable of adjusting demand instead.

It's fundamentally far more difficult and costly to adjust supply (or to buffer with storage) than it is to reduce demand during periods of low renewable generation. As more EVs and their chargers come online, instantaneous load reductions become cheap and easy - and possible.
Everything I've read about the 19th and early 20th century has lead me to believe that practically everyone was a walking petri dish. Spreading STDs weren't well understood. Lot's of supposedly brilliant artists and writers usually met there end by going raving mad, usually from syphilis. But were just famous enough to have it documented by their friends.

We don't need to lay blame of STDs on the sexual revolution, we were already down bad as a species.
> Focus business

People simply have different incentives during booming years. Companies want growth in marketshare, so they throw initiatives on the wall to see which ones stick. So, more hiring. Managers want more scope, and size of their teams is a good indicator. So, they hire more. Of course, I don't doubt their motives. They may genuinely believe the causes of their teams and diligently come up with initiatives. It's just that their initiatives may not get the same level of scrutiny when almost-free investment dries up. Again, more hiring.
I know one, but I'm not sure that reflects our preferences since a lot of people have been, and still are, avoiding movies theaters due to covid.

I think we'll get more people seeing big blockbuster movies once covid and other viruses aren't such a concern.
You said:

> no they want a state where their say matters. You're proving their point

Boise is a spot of Blue in an overwhelmingly Red state. Many Boise voters feel as though their vote doesn't matter because the votes from elsewhere in the state will drown them out. The same logic that would imply someone's say in one of these Oregon counties doesn't matter, would also imply that the say of someone living in Boise doesn't matter.

It's an incorrect presumption. Your say doesn't only matter if you get your way. But it's the one you put forth.
TFA starts out with a straw man, suggesting that there's no value in a $15 food safety course because what it teaches is trivial and obvious - like what a moldy strawberry looks like. The conclusion which they are suggesting is that this $15 is a fig leaf for funding an organization not in the employees' interest.

In fact, the course teaches many things that are not common knowledge and which are important for food preparation - specifically the times and temperatures at which food must be kept in order to minimize the culture of dangerous bacteria.

Maybe the Times would prefer that food workers be taught this important information about food safety by some other organization but trivializing the actual information is a bad faith argument.
I miss the name, SVN was pronounced Svend (SVeN) among my friends, which is a scandinavian male name.

"Have you committed your changes to Svend yet?", "No, Svend is experiencing some downtime right now", that was some fun interactions that got us through computer science.

Git is a fun name too, but it is not nearly as funny to me.

TortoiseSVN was a great SVN client integrated into Windows File Explorer, and it looked great when you used the classic theme on Windows XP.
I actually just took Nick up on the offer to call or text, and we just got off the phone. We chatted about how we can find people to meet even though we just moved to a new city.

Definitely going to try hosting our own party.
To save others a click: In this 2019 article it means "Standards of Conduct", in this case for PerlCon 2019.
Or the chance to educate themselves with for example photoshop to become a professional.

Because it is too expensive.
Last week I was experimenting with ChatGPT for some of the sorts of trade pub columns I sometimes write. I wouldn't have given anything it created straight to an editor--though I've seen worse. But it gave me some bulleted paragraphs that I mostly agreed with and could certainly serve as a starting point for revising and fleshing out with more detail, maybe some numbers, quotes, links, etc.

While it can head you off down dead-ends, having some structure and words to start with tends to be easier than a blank sheet of paper.
I was a process engineer for Intel until 28, got burned out, taught myself a bunch of backend dev & architecture skills and went and worked for Accenture (who will underpay you to learn on the job as long as you have competencies) I got to expertise in many domains by about 35 years old.
I'd be surprised if anybody could tell. Natural variation in other factors that impact flavor far more are almost certainly going to be much stronger, e.g. how fatty is the cut of mean, how's the fat distributed, natural variations on muscle fiber, how long was it aged/dried, which piece got more heat from the heat source during cooking..
For the uninitiated: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
> Twitter could have made the validity of these certs / keys conditional on subscription integration.

With what staff?
The woman who started Sama (mentioned in the article) explicitly started the company to help people in those countries. Her entire life appears to have been directed toward helping people in Africa, she had a history of it. She wasn't there to exploit people.
How so? They're looking for a change over time, so it would only really be an issue if we had some reason to think that people were changing how they responded to it in one year vs. the next.
> Does he really believe this?

This is also a signal to the stock markets that Google is getting onto the AI bandwagon, to milk the current hype around AI.
> your post reeks of DINK and youth

Did you notice that they’re talking to a new grad?

“I can’t believe a young person would suggest youth oriented thing to another young person!”
Cloud2SQL: Query Cloud Infrastructure with SQL
It would appear that Elon understands his paying customer's after all. Cynical interpretation would be that he just made Twitter API access more scarce and therefore valuable.

Still, mine is just a guess.

edit: Come to think of it, didn't FB eventually moved from super open API to.. friend and family model?
I tried Google APIs as well, and also gave up at authentication, even though I just wanted something super simple and small (push messages to mobile phone).

Nowdays I'm just using nostr for storing simple data, as it's super simple with no vendor lockin (I can encrypt messages if needed).
Human history is full of violence, and not all of it is between "betters" and "lessers", it's just people being violent towards one another to get what they want. Post-industrial society established social order and rule of law much more clearly than anything prior. A big piece of this was due to compulsory and inclusive education, but many other factors including the rise of enterprises which required social interactions to reach personal success changed society to a structure where collaboration was rewarded much more so than violence, which was punished.

This was not the case prior to industrialization. You have some idyllic pastoral fantasy in mind, which was not true.
Jeff Atwood had a lot of negative things to say about Visual SourceSafe back in 2006: https://blog.codinghorror.com/source-control-anything-but-so...

There's some good links there that describe the trouble VSS caused.
> I'm surprised to some degree that it's still running 13 years later when nobody is really facing that issue anymore.

It's still running because Subversion has better CLI.

PS The joke is not that funny when it lasts for 13 years. Ha-ha, how funny (not).
Jack Ma considered himself a failure at 30. Failed college entrance exam 3 times. Applied to 30 jobs (including fast food restaurants) and was rejected from them all. Never wrote any code. And then at 35 founded Alibaba. He's now worth $25B. You'll be fine!
I hope you get through the tough times to reach a calmer, more peaceful place in life one day. I imagine it's about persistence and patience, especially being patient with yourself. Good luck my friend!
Unfortunately F# pipelines have been rejected a few times by TC39 to advance... I used it for a while via Babel/6to5, but I gave up (like with decorators) after many years of no advancement. I doubt I'll see either any time soon.
Cost I'm sure. Nitrogen is slightly lighter than air, carbon dioxide is heavier than air. They are lowered into the CO2 chamber. If it were nitrogen it would need to be redesigned.

Why are no startups exploring nitrogen? The world isn't going to go vegan. Cost effective nitrogen gas chambers could reduce a fair amount of animal suffering in a pragmatic way.
Thanks for sharing. Congrats to the author. 11 offers is amazing
I doubt one can get so many in today's market but the good thing is you dont really need so many, 1 good one is enough. Ideally you have 2 so that you can nagotiate more easily.
"easier to use" a great reason to prefer it. I want to write software, not manage a source control system.
This is another common problem with tropical western thinking -- forgetting the historical context. Colonialism happened, and the people are so poor and desperate now because of things the west did in the past.
> To optimize this ratio in practice, we used the multi-pixel sensor of an electron multiplying charge-coupled device (EMCCD) camera as our idler detector (Fig. 1a). As the EMCCD can detect multiple photons simultaneously, it allowed us to identify and reject, that is, post-select, all events other than those where a single-photon pair was generated with a higher efficiency than with more traditional single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD)

How is it possible to both detect a photon and then allow it to travel to the human eye? Wouldn't detection require absorption of the photon?
The instant demo is a nice touch. Personally, what's stopping me from using an app like this is that I don't trust myself to not absentmindedly shift over to some distraction, or get interrupted by my wife and/or kids while I'm tracking some task.

In those cases, to hold myself accountable, I have to go back to the app, stop the current task, edit the time it stopped at, add a new entry for the distraction, then add yet another new entry to get back to work.
>What in the world counts as "serious" to some of you people?

For a programming language? Would be good to know what projects have used it. Most languages people develop are done as either a hobby or to serve some kind of research/academic purpose. Is Idris used for any production grade software?
It also would have given the devs more time to build and migrate users to clients supporting Mastodon.
The big problem for me is that everyone I know who has done psychedelics and enjoyed it says "yeah it was fun, not a big deal" while the people who have bad trips have REALLY FUCKING BAD TRIPS. The upside doesn't seem that big, and the downside is possibly going insane for a few years like someone I know of. It's an extremely small chance and you basically have to be predisposed and making poor choices about your setting, but it's still there.
I see. Thanks. That makes more sense than blocking all users.
Geodesic Slice Sampling on the Sphere
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>"Interesting how this structure has a headline like this one, vs the ">10k workers >laid off from giant corporation with record profits for the past two years" >headlines that seem to be popping up here daily."

i often see people going or want to go to giant IT companies, as you refer, forgetting the "safety" of working for big German or even European companies. In some German companies you get a job for life, a contract without end and the "working council" works very hard to find solutions for all workers and for the company. This is one of the reasons why i would hardly work for an American Company in US.
Most of the content on this page looks like it could be 20 years old with minor updates, which isn't so practical, IMHO.

If you want to start with practical Scheme, consider starting with one that has a community actively using it (and growing the open source libraries, and creating reason for the core to be maintained and maybe developed).

The most obvious one is Racket, and there's also Chicken, Gerbil, Guile, Gambit, and a bunch of others. Beware: there's also a ton of personal side projects (making your own Scheme is a rite of passage), and a lot of abandoned things (often great, but still abandoned).
I wondered, once Musk bought it, how long I'd stay. He's transparently awful, and clearly has no idea what he's doing -- except when he's being aggressively, deliberately terrible -- but I kept checking my Tweetbot feed anyway because I followed a lot of interesting people there.

Then one morning not long ago, Tweetbot wouldn't connect, and I knew immediately what had happened. It seems really, really dumb. I mean, years ago Twitter experimented with trying to force everyone onto their own app, but even then pre-Elon I knew that I didn't want Twitter to become like Facebook. I wanted a chronological feed of the things the accounts I follow posted, and that's all. I don't want to see anything else. I don't want the service to give me shit algorithmically.

Tweetbot gave me that. I figured that as long as i could have that, I'd use Twitter. Now that I can't, I'm out.

And it seems very, very likely that the most interesting and engaging accounts on the service -- which is to say, the ones that make people want to participate -- likely feel similarly, since so many of them have been very verbal fans of Tweetbot or some other 3rd party tool for so long. The tl;dr here is that axing 3rd party clients is just the latest in a long line of very, very stupid things this guy is doing.
Due to light pollution - before anyone freaks out and starts worrying that the dome that the aliens put around us has gotten scratched up or something like that.
Try holding your breath for as long as you can bear, then hold it longer still. The rapidly increasing distress you feel is a consequence of CO2 concentration in your blood, not a lack of oxygen.
yes, just pay off someone else’s house while you also attempt to save hundreds of thousands of dollars on top of that rent. makes perfect sense.
Satellite photos of lights show autocracies manipulate growth stats
Generally speaking, it's OK to see a fault and not always have an answer for how to fix it, or to not be the one who's capable of fixing it.
Original title: Shining a Light (Literally) on How Much Dictators Manipulate Their Economic Stats; Satellite photos show light growing slowly despite some autocracies reporting rapid economic growth

Link to paper: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/BFI_WP_2...
Ask HN: What's Going to Replace Twitter?
When Musk first bought Twitter, I basically joined every single alternative that popped up. Mastodon, Hive, Post, Cohost, etc... if they exist, I've probably got an account on them now.

And I kinda expected people to move over after that. People were all making a big deal out of it, and there was a lot of interest in leaving the site after whatever questionable decision was made that week (Twitter Blue, the timeline kerfuffle, controversial accounts being unbanned, mentions of Mastodon and co being banned, etc).

Yet for whatever reason, no one seems to have stuck to that. Most of these places have communities, but the vast majority of people are either still on Twitter or keep posting there as their primary social media service.

So what will it take to actually replace it outright? To kill it in the same way Reddit killed Digg or Facebook killed Myspace?
I use Subversion at my gig in several places. I don't use it to manage source code revision control, but I have several processes that require business users to manage binary files (such as audio files) in order for them to be automatically deployed to production. Git or Mercurial are pretty awful at this kind of role. Subversion let's me check out at a subfolder level of a repository, and not pay the cost of having the full revision history contents sitting in my clone.
> It's quite easy to teach a junior dev how to use SVN. Git takes much longer to master.

This is pretty much it, ease of use. No one really knows git (beyond 5 commands). Everyone knows how to google git commands or talks to the wizard in the company that can fix the mess someone created. While in theory git is more powerful, in the art of getting things done easily SVN wins, simple, stupid and it works.
Have you seen how big the steam turbine is?

There is a table here that estimates that only 28% of the cost is the "nuclear island"

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspec...

the steam turbine and other systems that are bloated by low temperature overhead comprise much of the rest. Also some of the "nuclear island" such as the steam generators is also bloated by low temperature overhead.

It is no accident that we stopped building coal-burning power plants at the same time we stopped building LWRs and that is because gas turbine power plants with much lower capital cost became available.
Elon Musk is strongly outspoken, and has strong vision, communicates the vision, although it can change in a day. But at least everybody in the company (or rather everybody on Twitter) knows the plan to execute on.

When Sundar speaks he speaks politically, so that he can never be wrong (at the same time if I just watched his talks, I couldn't even know that I'm at a search company).
Abstract:

Probability measures that are constrained to the sphere form an important class of statistical models and are used, for example, in modeling directional data or shapes. Therefore, and as building block methodology, efficient sampling of distributions on the sphere is highly appreciated. We propose a shrinkage based and an idealized geodesic slice sampling Markov chain, designed to generate approximate samples from distributions on the sphere. In particular, the shrinkage based algorithm works in any dimension, is straight-forward to implement and has no algorithmic parameters such that no tuning is necessary. Apart from the verification of reversibility we show under weak regularity conditions on the target distribution that geodesic slice sampling is uniformly geometrically ergodic, i.e., uniform exponential convergence to the target is proven.
ITT comparing 3rd party api limits to nazi germany
Interesting that Wyoming is talking about banning the sales of EVs [1] to protect the oil and gas industry.

By that logic, a pesky nuclear reactor would surely also endanger their precious oil and gas profits....

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3815311-wyoming-law...
> Why do people still use Subversion on GitHub, anyhow? Besides simple inertia, there were workflows which Git didn’t support until recently. The main thing we heard when speaking with customers and communities was checking out a subset of the repository–a single directory, or only the latest commit. I have good news: with sparse checkout, sparse index, and partial clone, Git can now do a pretty decent job at these workflows.

There is also this: https://github.com/msofficesvn/msofficesvn
The problem is that the pigs look pretty stressed before even entering the chamber, so I am not sure how one can tell that this is the effect of the gas or just that they have been pushed into a black room and have no idea what is happening to them.
Probably better. See? I answered your question. Not sure why it is so hard to answer mine.
A Gentle Tutorial for Lattice-Based Cryptanalysis [pdf]
In keeping with SF dysfunction, they will impose those restrictions but still require shop keepers to cleanup the shit and dirty needles from the sidewalk. When said shop keepers cannot do so w/out water, they will fine them for violating city ordnances. So it’s a double win for the city.
> The reflog does exist on the server too, but it's not really accessible without access to the git repo on the server

Though it only logs refs that the server itself has seen, which is more or less what I meant by "local". None of its state is shared during push/pull, it's computed entirely based upon what some individual client/server directly observes.
> I'm sure these talented engineers can find new gigs within 6 months

Not everyone laid off is an engineer, and even among engineers, how likey is that is all these companies are shedding staff at the same time?
Meh, I dunno I think freeze plugs are really falling out of favor in general. They take a long time to melt, aren't that reliable or predictable, and can spuriously actuate, dumping the whole core.

Why make two vessels when you already need one? Just add passive afterglow heat removal to the one and you're done. Moving stuff around for no reason doesn't add anything.
How about starting by making software cheaper for people in Africa?
> What would this actually look like to you on a resume?

That's a great question, and I wish I had a great answer.
I think this is the sort of thing where a cover letter could be useful.
Personally, when I'm reviewing resumes, I usually get a bit of background context from our recruiting department to go along with it.

When evaluating candidates, I'm generally looking for things that often don't line up with a line item on a resume but can sometimes be inferred from the collection of items - I'm looking for curiosity, a drive for improvement, a willingness to take risks, etc. So if I saw someone whose resume indicated a directionless period but then also had items that showed a change in trajectory (education, relevant volunteering, relevant projects, etc), it would cause me to take notice.

I hire for a small company, but we have high standards, so a lot of hiring involves finding high-performing folks who might be overlooked by FAANGs. Someone who doesn't have obviously great job experience but who does have signs that they've taken initiative and followed through to become an excellent engineer is exactly the sort of person that I work with our recruiting team to find.
This article is a little dated but it shows the data very clearly. Subsequent surveys have shown similar results, with Boomers and X out-sexing Millennials (by # of partners) and with some signs indicating Z is on track for even fewer partners...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/06/why-m...

I think it's a terrible trend and we should all start having sex with more people.
How do you ensure that your compiler and libs are clean though?
Maybe the "We knew this was coming" thing?

I know last time I had to be treated for it (3ish years ago) I remember my doctor mentioning concerns about it and this being why they were attacking it both with a pill and a shot.