skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed this quote that made me think of Paul Graham’s Economic Inequality essay [0], and I think it made me change my mind as originally I agreed with Graham’s premise out of a rational analysis perspective of it being objectively right.

Tocqueville reminded me that objective truth doesn’t help you against an angry mob.

“ It is difficult to imagine a durable union of a people which is rich and strong with one that is poor and weak. Even if it were proved that the strength and wealth of the one are not the causes of the weaknesses and poverty of the other. A union is still more difficult to maintain at a time when one party is losing strength and the other is gaining it. This rapid and disproportionate increase of certain states threatens the independence of the others.”

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html
California proposes income-based fixed electricity charges
On my BMW if I move the volume knob 180 degrees to the right spread out over 10 seconds it will increment it by x.

If I do the same movement but in 1 second it'll only move up the volume by x/y where y > 2.

That doesn't explain the initial latency. It's probably being posted to a queue which no-one is handling.
Wish I were down
On some blue bayou
With a bamboo cane
Stuck in the sand

But the road I’m on
Don’t seem to go there
So I just dream
Keep on being the way that I am

The way I am
Don’t fit my shackles
The way I am
Reality

I can almost see
That bobber dancing
So I just dream
Keep on being the way that I am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Energy#Trademark_prote...
This is correct. Now recommended for boys and girls. [1]

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/easy-to-read/adolesce...
> No one reads poems anymore?

People don't force (potential) romantic partners to do things they don't want to do anymore.

This includes listening to poetry.

If one sees that other person is not interested in an action they're suggesting (and this includes looking at the manicure and at the wall), one just doesn't force them.

Consent is important not just in sex, consent is important in anything people do together. This includes communal poetry reading.

And in 2023, much more people talk about consent
I do wonder how economical it would be to run high energy processes like hydrolysis, aluminum extraction, and desalinization only when renewable supply is high. Like a peaker plant, but in reverse.
Self reported effects seem questionable to me. Having two kids, I know that they think sitting in bed all day, every day on their screens is often what they want to do. But that doesn't mean its healthy.

As another example, I doubt as a teenager that I would have acknowledge, even to myself, that my - admittedly mild - alcohol use was bad for me.
But you don’t know that when you start. You could assume it and never try to repaid and always replace but in WWII there were not as many options.
I still use my original rift for sim racing. It's brilliant, and much more convenient than trying to setup 3 or 4 monitors instead.

I have no interest in a metaverse or social vr activities.

On its own, with consistent simple hardware improvements the CV1 would have been a decently profitable business by most other companies' standards and done well enough to keep going.

Facebook/SV trying to turn VR into something it's not ready to be, and that nobody is particularly interested in, in the hope of turning it into a mega multi billion dollar venture worthy of them is what has made it no fun and is just wasted money.
Sometimes it becomes difficult to say that anarcho-primitivists have no good argument at all.

I'm not for living in the forest and obviously, technology has a lot of benefits, but maybe technology should be used in moderation, when one can clearly demonstrate it has a lot of benefits and very little costs.
Plug for Lapham Quarterly, a great source of short essays and artifacts of culture and history.
I wonder what the sperm count was like in Rat Park?
That’s what I do. I’d like to make the switch to Brave but iCloud passwords is a must have feature for me so I’m stuck with Safari on iOS and Mac.
Does this mean you have more engineers working on it now? That was my reading of the grandparent comment's implications.

BTW, thank you very much for offering this service, even though I don't use it often.
GitHub Recovery Tokens Are Broken
Yesterday I visited github.com, entered username and password, and 2FA code, but kept seeing "Two-factor authentication failed".

Needing access (and getting nowhere with 2FA), I used an account recovery code. These are supposed to grant access in the event a 2FA device is lost.

But the recovery codes did not work (!!).

A Stack Overflow post shows others had a similar experience:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55507076/why-does-github-2fa-recovery-codes-fail

(13 upvotes and 9k views at the time of posting).

If you want check whether your recovery codes work, try logging out of github.com and when logging back in instead of entering a 2FA code, select 'Use a recovery code'. Curious to know if they are broken for anybody else.
Worth noting in this context that the second worst energy disaster of all time (Fukushima) was caused by a natural disaster. If they'd been using green energy (or to be fair gas or coal) people would have been able to return to their homes by now.

Wind farms are designed to survive hurricanes anyway. See https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-31/harvey-pu...

There's some evidence that large off-shore wind farms reduce the severity of hurricanes too:

> A large array of offshore wind farms can have significant impacts on precipitation during a hurricane. This claim is proven through a series of simulation cases, with different layout configurations, inter-turbine spacings, and wind farm parameterizations. Precipitation is found to be reduced inland and increased offshore in all the wind farm simulations. However, the amount of precipitation reduction varies in the different cases. The location of the wind farm also matters.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad245#...
You do not need to use search engines, unless you have to. For latest information, ChatGPT (and LLMs) are already figuring it out.

It will also have an impact on how user interfaces are being built. Why bother with so much minute design, if you can manage with a Google like search bar, and a voice button.
> Due to the architecture of Clojure (especially, the use of macros) it is not exactly possible to work backwards from JVM bytecode to anything that looks like the original source code.

I mean, presumably if you run a Java decompiler over it you'll get perfectly-legible Java source code. Just Java source code that makes a lot of calls to methods defined in the Clojure stdlib.

I'm guessing it would look a lot like what an Objective-C or Swift program looks like when you throw it into a C decompiler: a lot of boilerplate for imperatively building stack-local data structure temporaries to be passed into runtime functions, but otherwise the same code you'd expect.

> But this is all besides the point; Datomic is now free (as in beer) with a great license (Apache 2.0). You can use this amazing tool for free, and you have as much need to look at the source to do so as you might need to look at PostgreSQL's source.

Personally, I don't want to use Datomic as a tool; I want to use Datomic as a bag of parts. I want to pilfer the major components and libraries within the Datomic codebase, reusing them inside other things. (You know how CockroachDB and Clickhouse both implemented PostgreSQL-syntax-compatible binary wire protocol in part by taking the parser.y file directly from Postgres's codebase? I want to do that kind of thing, with Datomic. And probably using some pieces of Neo4j and/or Apache BEAM at the same time.) I also want to study the data structures and algorithms used to implement Datomic, to better port the concepts used in Datomic to other databases.

If Datomic was a true FOSS project, doing all of that would be simple/easy. With just a binary, though, I can't do any of that.
Sandy Lake fans just keep on winning. Never obsolete.
Once a mistake is made, it's ok for others to make the same mistake. Gotcha. Just taking notes for the next time you criticize anyone about anything.
Right, I guess it's really "nice little effortless profit!"

This is why gift cards / loyalty balances are just crazy to me.

For a little convenience, you turn money into feudal coinage that only ever goes down in value: you see no interest, no adjustment for inflation. $100 on a gift card today is $97 (and probably less!) a year from now, ignoring completely the benefit the financial upside to the company for it.

Now I'm all worked up …
> warlords needing to seize power

Really? They needed to? And if these individuals needed to destroy their country in order to save it, that is also the West's fault for providing the population some encouragement to overthrow the last warlord?
No one has to take anything down. Babcock Ranch weathered Hurricane Ian (cat5) just fine. Didn’t even lose power. Unlike their neighbors.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/02/us/solar-babcock-ranch-florid...
Maybe Great – No Idea Blog
Agree. Writing is a necessary part of clear though.
I mean the more fundamental problem with the power supply is it recommending a "USB-to-Serial converter for powering the device." (See second example image.)

I'm overall bullish on AI systems but I'm not sure this space has enough detailed context to train. Much if this knowledgeis in-house/proprietary. We'll see how fast these are able to improve over time.
If you feed Newton's Laws to a LLM model, will it ever come up with the general relativity theory?

I mean, maybe AGI will be capable in the future, but I don't see a LLM doing that.

Experts are required, at least for now, to advance the body of knowledge.
The poster is not in Ukraine, he's in Sudan. It's hot there.
> “In other words, Mr. Musk, and others in his position, can simply say whatever they like in the public domain, then hide behind the potential for their recorded statements being a deep fake to avoid taking ownership of what they did actually say and do.”

Bullshit and lies are standard operating procedure for Tesla, especially when it comes to their so called "full self-driving".

It's funny how no one wants to take Responsibility for the bullshit when the prospect of Accountability appears on the horizon.
I suspect sitting is one factor.

It is bad for prostate/nerve health. circulation. and by simply being incompatible with exercise.

If you're older, try a standing desk and see if peeing and other things improve. (might take a few weeks)
I'd love pay Dropbox money and let them keep their workforce hired.
I've used their free service for years, and WANT to sign up for a plan and pay them something, but their paid plan options are silly, I have 4GB for free, their starting paid plan is 2TB for $12CND... that's a big leap and way more storage than I need. I'd be happy with 100GB plan, or a 500GB (1/4 the size of their starting 2000GB plan), for $3 would be more storage than I need, and a much more enticing reason to sign up.

I've brought this up before to their support team. But I guess they aren't interested in small fish accounts and only want 2TB whales signing up.
Why, the problem is not carbon, and not even CO2 per se. It's CO2 escaping to the atmosphere. Why let it escape?

Steel plants are a perfect setting to capture the CO2 which the furnaces emit: it's highly concentrated and is emitted from compact, well-controlled areas (blast furnaces, and even converter furnaces).

The CO2 thus collected can be meaningfully reprocessed into hydrocarbon fuels, for instance. There are even solar-powered methods [1] which can run when the sunlight is available. since the CO2 can stay safely captured in a typical industrial gas storage facility.

[1]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1904856116
Thanks for the official TL/DR.

... And the laughs.

Paper is great, too. What's it like trying to write a paper while the field is shifting so rapidly? Is there anything you would have liked to include that had to be cut so you could get it out the door?
socat and quicat exist, so why doesn't anyone need this?
A cause on which the majority of Californian voters agreed with him at the time.
No, but having lived in less populated areas for most of my life, I’d say it is a common observation —- by the local population —- that there isn’t anything better to do in many rural places than reproduce.
He did lots of canonical midi-recordings on paper though.
My understanding is the ChatGPT basically swallowed up the entire internet, although it was a snapshot that might be out of date now. Of course accuracy and correctness are concerns, but that would apply to any kind of summarizer service, and even primary sources can be wrong. Extensive research would always be required to get near 100% confidence of correctness.
It's like SCTP only worse.
EU Designates 17 Sites as Large Platforms, Subject to DSA’s Strictest Rules
It had to be simple yes/no question, but they haven't managed with this :D
You'd be great at the head of a totalitarian regime!

You should move next to the test site, I'm sure you'll be glad to be one of the people affected.
They said Brave behaves like W11...
I tried using search engines to find the 'StatCounter Global Stats, from 2002 through 2007' numbers. Earliest I can find is 2009. It kind of matches up with https://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp numbers bt I'd ask ChatGPT for reference URLs to be sure.
It could be a “cultural” bias in the types of people who live in cities. A lot of young professionals might move to cities because it enables a lifestyle they’ll enjoy (not to mention well-paying jobs), and that lifestyle probably doesn’t include kids (at least for a period) for many. Whereas someone who wants kids may move further out to the countryside where it’s significantly cheaper to raise them.
The article isn't very good. It mentions some stuff and doesn't follow up on it (smoking - aren't smoking rates way down?) and alludes to the fact that they're talking about men over 40, saying quality decreases at that age, but it should hypothetically decrease later. All told I didn't learn much.
But surviving longer in old age is not inherently selected for evolutionarily...
Good point. I suppose each mode could be color-coded, so the driver might identify the mode and function in their peripheral vision, or at least notice that the mode changed.
Many addictions make you feel good in the moment but are net-negative for your psychology and/or body.
> (For anyone who's ever tried to modify a reservation, the difference is astonishing. If you're booked with the hotel, all kinds of adjustments are at least possible. If you're booked with Booking, Travelocity, Expedia, etc., it's somewhere between hard and hopeless.)

That's utterly backwards IME. On Booking.com, most modifications are the push of a button (that, crucially, is right there in the UI that I already know) and if I need to do something complex I can send a message and they'll sort it and get back to me. On a boutique hotel website, maybe I'll get a phone number that I have to look up the international dialing code for and then call in that country's business hours, if their website isn't just completely broken.
There are a bunch of surveys on people not having kids. It’s economics. Money (or lack thereof) is the thing.

One might think “well city dwellers have more money!” But a huge issue is housing. There’s a supply issue and a cost issue there that simply is a non-issue for rural populations.

Searching for some genetic reason is one thing, but “we cant make a comfortable living space for future children” is just a major point that comes up in surveys and just makes sense.
Yes, but they don't really "wear out" to get that way, just some debris ends up blocking either the sensor itself or some amount of the openings in the wheel. It's a random event rather than an inherent result of age or wear. It's also often possible to fix simply by cleaning the debris out. Unless it's been physically damaged it's unlikely to need replacement.
I have no idea what's used these days but I remember someone telling me the dry powder that is sometimes used is very bad for computer hardware - not immediately, but within a couple of years the metal will show obvious signs of reaction with whatever is in it.
This was the reply:

Sure! Here are the references to the StatCounter Global Stats website for the worldwide market share of desktop operating systems in January of 2002 and 2003:

January 2002: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

January 2003: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

Note that these are specific to desktop operating systems and may not include market share for mobile devices or other platforms.
Marx and Engels weren’t writing on American slavery and race relations.

But they seem pretty racist to me based on their frequent dropping of n-bombs in their writings [0].

I think the reason we don’t have 19th century racist essays by Marx and Engels is that they wrote almost always about Europeans and European culture.

Agree on Churchill. But does that surprise anyone? England was still literally colonizing India and South Africa during Churchhill’s time. It would be weird to find a non-racist world leader from that time period. Even LBJ, decades later, held pretty racist beliefs even while passing the civil rights act.

[0] https://medium.com/@robertpannier/karl-marx-friedrich-engels...
> Are there any counterexamples, where an author wrote a book that is more profound than their biggest hit but got overlooked for some reason?

Any reply is going to be somewhat subjective, but All Systems Red is not even in my top 5 books by Martha Wells...
When it rains after being dry for some time an oil layer forms on top of the water. This is why he is afraid of skidding. In Southern California, where it is very dry there can be very substantial oil buildup.
In their defense, a meta-analysis is supposed to be an overview of the current state of the literature.
I only read the article, not the paper.

I didn’t see stress mentioned.

Perhaps it is difficult to define/measure or lack of consensus measures across studies?
The Climate Crisis Gives Sailing Ships a Second Wind
Forget all the minor concerns about nuclear proliferation and cost. RTGs just have a very small niche of useful applications

RTGs are basically just a thermocouple stuck to a chunk of radioactive material, which gets hot. They are dramatically less efficient than a nuclear power plant, so it really doesn't make sense to use them in situations where a nuclear power plant is an option.

That limits them to relatively small things (because your submarine or ship or whatever can have a proper power plant), that can't be connected to a power grid (because you could just have your power plant elsewhere), even periodically (because you could just use batteries), that can't harness more easily available sources of power like the sun or wind, and can carry the shielding necessary to make them safe.

Ultimately, that narrows down their applicability greatly.
It’s the classic “I have no valid point therefore I’ll interject a non-sequitur.”

The next fallacy would be to say something “why are you angry about this?” In response to a simple question.

I blame kids growing on YouTube screamer shows.
Not a lot of Merle Haggard fans on these forums, I guess…
So it's like a social network with every type of relationship imaginable built into a low level programming language?

That's wildly cool.

This and Val Town [0] feel like they were made for each other. If you added them together with a nice front-end like mmm.page [1] I bet a million devs would sign up.

I'm working on something in a similar space that I'm hoping mihht develop into that [2]

It makes sense that the next step for the web is a more low-level social platform that works more like an agnostic API than a walled garden.

[0] https://www.val.town/

[1] https://build.mmm.page/

[2] https://hyperspace.so/
I guess I just don't see the point. We're not leaving earth, no one wants to life in orbital stations or habitats - nonobstant all the issues with making that happen, so why plunder the solar system? There is more matter to plunder on earth than we would need to cover the whole globe with people, what's the point of trying get our great-great-great-great-grandkids to mine asteroids? Even more questionable if it makes our own and the life of the people coming next to be measurably worse
1. What do we do if people want to use electricity, but the wind's not blowing and the sun's not shining?

2. What will happen to people and places who were economically dependent on coal mining? Something tells me the factories for solar panels and wind turbines aren't being built in West Virginia -- or perhaps not in the US at all. And I'm sure they require a completely different skill set.
So the new competition landscape will be: OpenAI, DeepMind, whatever Elon comes up with and DropBox AI? Seems like a jump.
Literally puritanism. Maybe women SHOULD wear hijabs to prevent them from being sexualized.
It really isn't clear. Specifically, is Ethereum a security? Nobody knows. Fight a lawsuit and figure it out already.
1. Subaru's engines are notorious for being low powered. A 2.0 with 152hp and a 2.5 with 182hp? That's... NOTHING. Even with turbos that is shamefully low. Pair that with a slow-acting CVT and you have a recipe for disaster.

I do wonder if the mapping of the pedal is direct. Because one can do it in 2 ways: First one being: putting your foot down 20% means open up the air intake valve and derive fuel requested from that. Or 20% is give me 20% engine power, which then can actually continuously remap what that means in terms of how much we open up the air intake valve and how much fuel we inject as the turbos spin up.

3. I have never seen a car that allows you to do it as the user. I program it in my BMW.

5. If the car is new enough I'd start the lemon process.
While this is interesting, we know that self-reported “how does X make you feel” effects can be inconsistent with the delta self-reported feeling while being exposed to X and self-reported feeling when isolated from X, and there’s a very good reason to think that the former is the less-reliable because it requires not only assessment of feeling (which people are probably fairly reliable on) but assessment of causality (which they are less likely to be reliable on).

Particularly, things that people exposed to them perceive as relieving certain negative feelings (whether of disconnection, etc.) can sometimes be relieving them only compared to an elevated baseline that they create (for, e.g., cults, this create-and-then-be-seen-as-needed-through-partial-relief–for-problem effect is often a deliberate strategy, and it may be for social media either deliberate or just a commercial optimum locked into by A/B testing engagement (creating both an elevated feeling of social isolation and need for connection and then a partial relief for that need).

Or maybe the self-reported effect is correct, and the perception social media is problematic on those points is wrong. But there is at least a plausible way the user-perceived effect could be wrong that is consistent with effects seen elsewhere.
Lol. Pareidolia at its finest.
IIRC you could do pretty okay in Netflix's recommendation contest by ignoring what an individual likes and just recommending the stuff that "everybody" likes.
Armored Core VI in Action, Mech Game by Elden Ring Devs
It only had part of the internet, OpenAI is nowhere near as comprehensive at web scraping as Google, I don't think they actually scraped at all for this, using existing data like CommonCrawl.

The other thing you are not understanding is that it did not memorized these things, it built representations for predicting the most likely next token. This is why it hallucinates and makes up numbers and web links or citations that do not exist.
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