skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually looking for a car with 50-100 miles of electric range and petrol for more. The closest thing I found is the BMW i3, but even used it’s very expensive. And it’s so very ugly.

I ended up getting a cheap petrol car instead. I’d still prefer to take the train, but it costs several times more than the petrol.
Nope, I just try to avoid doing the same computations over and over again.

Cache all the things.
Agreed. Drugs can mess you up. This is not new, but this is also a reason to approach them with reasonable care; not completely unlike alcohol or other vices. Dosage could change your perspective in unexpected ways and, as you said, individual psychological profile may make you more vulnerable to its effects. It is a hard subject.
That's a pointless discussion since there is no ethical way to reduce the population.
Spore was the first game i ever played, so maybe thats why i liked it that much. I was still a kid back then. I think the target group of spore was younger than they originally planned for.

However i must say, that i really did not like the DLCs, those were just weird. It seemed like Spore thought the community is going to create the content for the DLCs, which never happened.
The really great thing about electric cars is that people are actually adopting them, in part because they are better than the machines they are replacing; therefore their environmental benefits can actually be realised.

If you think you have a real solution apart from the fact that nobody wants to adopt it, then what you actually have is a fantasy. It’s far easier to imagine a paradise than to construct one.
Every contractor for large corps that I know has at least one story about chasing up payments and researching small claim court rules. I'm not exaggerating - every single one I talked to. It's sometimes "NET please forget this, and we'll try to drag it out anyways.".

Also the terms should be an agreement, but in practice it's: the large company has more power and will tell you their finance dept will not pay out before X - doesn't matter what you put on the invoice.
It was certainly part of the “Molyneux-like” genre.
> Complexity is often cited as the reason for not adopting PHEV, and I think that’s an easy scapegoat, as humans we’ve solved many complex at scale

EV reduces really a lot of moving and maintenance heavy parts, it is a game changer on its own. Double complexity and cram both into half the space, making maintainability even worse? I'm not sure, if use case allows would always choose EV by large margin now; we can manage (mostly) everything, but all has tradeoffs, and less complexity always better from lot of perspectives.

(Totally aside, almost every manufacture has both approaches available, not?)
The notion that this was a "security breach" is weird. Did it contain private keys to production apple servers?
Starting about ten years ago the grocery store chain started closing all their stores in town (we had 4), and they eventually consolidated into one large store.

I'm sure it is easier (read: cheaper) to run one store and all, but now everyone in the city has to come to one store, they don't have enough people working there when it's busy, it's just a huge mess.

They brag about spending 8 million dollars to make it better for shoppers and then have two checkouts open. And they don't even fix things like shattered glass on the milk cooler doors, it is just such a dumpy looking place.
One underrated factor behind poor work conditions in SC is that the industry is highly concentrated, with often only one or two dominant players playing a critical role in process. ASML on lithography, TSMC as foundry etc. This effectively means that employees don't have comparable, competitor employers to go to - where else do you go if you are a TSMC engineer? Hence, surprisingly labour has a weak negotiating position, resulting in very hard working conditions
Yes, but on the other hand, the same thing is currently happening, just on the scale of parents moving out of school districts with "problem schools" that are mostly determined by a higher migrant percentage. Thus accelerating the formation of migrant and lower class neighborhoods and upper class suburbs.

Providing different classes at the same school would at least allow some contact of those different groups of children, and in a similar fashion, contacts between the adult population.
Ah shoot- already discussed yesterday, from the real source of the info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36274884
The actual core OS is wild how little of the actual Windows OS is being "used". A full release of the MAGIC OS from Meditech is only a ~30MB ISO.

MAGIC relies on the Operating System Abstraction Layer (OSAL) to run MAGIC on top of Windows. It's almost like a stub, but when you boot the Windows box up it'll boot up, auto-log-in, and dump to a full screen OSAL console waiting for you to IPL the OS with various commands (like SCSI PLEASE to list boot devices).

Networking within OSAL (and in turn MAGIC) is performed by a protocol add-on in Windows attached to the NIC -- it itself handles the rest of TCP/IP itself in usermode once IPL'd.

I'm a former caretaker on a team that had a MAGIC system for historical data -- we moved onto 6.x from there, and then I moved on from healthcare IT at that point.
I think it is pretty safe to assume that essentially all opponents are capable. In particular, intelligence is one of the first things dictatorships will invest in, partly to spy on their own people, which the leaders fear above all else.

The ideal communication mechanism is one that blends in with a huge number of other "legitimate" users. E.g. for Tor, it only works if many people are also using Tor for other non-spy things. I wonder why not just email.
Nobody argues that anymore, but this post is evidence that attackers value debug symbols and that should be a factor in deciding whether or not to strip them.
Multiple choice questions imply that other choices are excluded (unless an answer such as "all of the above" is a choice. So the implied question is:

a) Linda is a bank teller (and NOT active in the feminist movement)
b) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement

What you want it to be asking here is:

a) Linda is a bank teller, and may or may not be active in the feminist movement
b) Linda is a bank teller, and is active in the feminist movement

Most college students have taken quite a few multiple-choice tests (particularly in the US, high-schools train for standardized multiple-choice tests). The question isn't asking what the mathematicians seem to think it's asking, because it's format conveys extra restrictions.
Vertical integration is a value add. By restricting it, you make it harder for challengers who want to start with vertical integration. Example: vertical integration restrictions prohibit car manufacturers from operating dealerships. Tesla used vertical integration in other states to lower costs and create a cheaper electric car business. With tighter rules against vertical integration you may not have tesla.
MK Ultra ended by 1973. Most of the mass shootings recently were done by people who were born after 1973. So either the shootings are caused by something else wrong in American society (for which there are lots of candidates), or the CIA quit MK-Ultra-the-program, but continued MK-Ultra-the-type-of-experiment.

This becomes a kind of Rorschach Test - people see different things, and what they see tells you more about them than it does about the available data.
There's something that the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden do well when it comes to English. Almost all people I met from those countries spoke fluent English with good pronunciation.

What do you believe Dutch schools do well when it comes to learning English? How large are the classes? Are there any things outside the school that might play important role in learning English?

Could it be just the language compatibility? (not sure how Switzerland would fit)
No.

Fossil fuel are dense, easy to transport, and extracting energy from it is super simple.

It's not the case for wind and solar.

Right now, we are calculating the cost of wind and solar energy by evaluating the cost of transport and manufacturing of very complex system powered by fossil fuel. We say they are profitable in this context, and only in this context.

If we were to transport and manufacture them solely self-bootstrapped by solar and wind, it would not be cost efficient.

I think most people underestimate how much energy transport and metal work uses. Every single electronic circuit, every single screw, tire and wire are made using fossil fuel. And the food, home, roads and heat systems of the people working on those are all powered mostly with fossil fuel.

Not just because it's a habit.

It turns out you can escape thermodynamics .

Energy density matters A LOT. If you take an entire cinema of air and pass it through a wind turbine, you get the equivalent of a drop of oil. That's how magical oil is.

Now it's quite possible in the future we improve the tech so much, and we have such an abundance of it that it will be a net win. I'm rooting for that. Oil has terrible side effects, no matter how awesome it is, we need to get rid of it.

But for now, we are funding the green revolution with fossil fuel.

Don't get me wrong, this is a smart strategy. There is no way around it.

However, putting our head in the sand is not going to help.
Jumping directly from gas to EV is driven by governments and meta-govt programs like FIT FOR 55
This is WILD!

The sentence before the one you quote is

> Sometimes versions of the game are also intentionally shipped with debug symbols to generate better error reports.

You remove that context, quote him saying sometimes it's a mistake and criticise him with the preface he already provided!?
Didn't Fidelity value it at $15 billion[1]? Musk bought it at $44 billion. That would mean that it's worth almost a third its original value so not even half

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/31/tech/twitter-value-fideli...
I read this like hearing the voice of Max from 2 broke girls.
Really should be no yelling! If the place you are visiting has assholes yelling, just leave for another. But like any major purchase, it takes research. I do this research every 4-5 years or so, when I will be undergoing a desktop replacement. I’d choose the CPU and GPU first, then investigate cooling solutions. Liquid cooling is not always optimal with regard to noise, so another decision to make before committing on a solution is if you’ll be overclocking or not, as there are air-based cooling solutions that could be silent, and give you all the TDP cooling your CPU needs. After you’ve chosen your cooler (liquid or air-based), investigate low-noise, high-airflow fans at the size your cooler accepts. Going the largest fans is not always the best choice for optimal airflow or noise, so factor that in the investigation. I have less experience with custom GPU coolers, as I’ve only used stock coolers—those are pretty silent and well optimized these days.
Yea, trains can deliver the food to our stores in downtown! Or people can carry the pallets of food... Progress!
Really? If so that is shocking.

Many people consider linux.die.net as the single reliable source of online manpages, so you would automatically assume they would keep the manpages updated with the software releases...
Why do they all redirect to https://wakatime.com/

Is wakatime ran by three letter agencies?
Ah yes, obviously, of course.

> more immigrants means more disorder, more violence, more cost for social net,

Strange, you literally just insisted immigration would make Germany easier to govern. Difficult to take you seriously.
> How about the externalities and technological advancements nessecary to domesticate wild horses, and also the infastructure networks which drove the need and ability to create a ship capable of transporting those horses across the Atlantic ocean to America, where they are not a native species.

Would've been easier had your example played out 10k years ago when there were still native horses in America. :)

For domesticating horses, it doesn't rely on huge factories. You need basic tools (stone would suffice) to cut down some trees in order to create an enclosure where you train the horses. Then basic tech like cloth and rope making, and/or leather, for making saddles and bridles etc. Nothing a couple of people can't cobble together with basic knowledge. No reliance on huge complicated factories and supply chains or tech unobtainable by resourceful people, locally.

For ships we've been building various boats for ages, with very simple tools. Building a small boat is something a single person can do in weeks to years depending on the size. And larger ones is mostly a question of adding more laborers (engineering calculations and considerations get more complicated with size so there are practical limits built in).

Making iron helps in both cases. That doesn't require a ton of technology either but granted it's quite difficult to bootstrap. Still, once up and running doesn't take more than a small community to maintain.

Ideally, in my mind, any "acceptable" tech should be manageable by a community of 150 people or less. I keep coming back to the Dunbar number whenever I think of human systems/societies.

Your questioning bring up an interesting comparison point:

Wood as building material vs. plastics. Wood being 100% recyclable plus it literally grows on trees, while plastics require immense knowledge and expertise in chemistry and raw materials include fossil fuels. The externalities for the latter are huge and will thus require an immense amount of interconnected people and technologies to create and maintain. Way more than 150.

I do also realize that there are edge cases where distinctions become difficult, but that's the case with everything. The main idea here is that I think technology should be judged on a spectrum of self-reliance/freedom. Defining a hard limit in the middle can be difficult (or impossible). Although, not impossible or necessarily even hard if the community of people deciding where the limit is is small enough.
Don't do banking on your gaming PC
> I think twitter can do it because its big enough.

This depends on what you mean by "it". If you mean "refuse to pay bill" then everyone can do that, no matter for how small or big. If you mean "refuse to pay the bill and get away with it" we are yet to see if that is the case with twitter even. Sure, their account was not terminated immediately. But that doesn't mean there are no adverse consequences which can catch up with them eventually.
Dust Explosion
Your country train system is broken, 500 km train ticket here costs 1/3 of the petrol required to travel there standard class, and is still cheaper first class... (Which is typically more comfortable than airplane or car.)

Even using LNG as fuel they're behind.

The only place I see gas cars still winning is short range with hybrids.
I live in NJ and in work downtown Manhattan. No one is commuting by car into downtown Manhattan. The rich take a helicopter. PATH is $5 per person roundtrip without discount. The only people (with enough time on their hands) going to that area by car are tourists, party goers, and college students. For businesses (e.g. trucks) the toll cost will be minimal.
"You do this in the construction industry and you will be blackballed so hard."

Unless you're a certain native of Queens best known for a job he hasn't quite accepted losing...
Trello Clone in Google Sheets
well, others may see it differently..
> Insisting on speaking English with you, thus slowing your integration.

I encountered the same with another language. I think this is just the matter of practicality and efficiency, no one is out to impede me in some way. It's on me to learn the language and I shouldn't expect people to go an extra mile and babysit me. I don't deserve special attitude if I'm doing the thing that's anyway normal and expected.

Also, I don't say it's not difficult in your situation (though I envy you, wouldn't mind moving to Germany myself) but I suspect a lot of this can be projection. You feel like you are separated and people don't want to hang out with you because of the language and you behave accordingly, you hang out with a group of fellow immigrants, etc and this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Especially if you are sensitive to rejection. You give more weight to every sign that a person may be predisposed against (even if it's their bad mood not you) and discount signs where a person is friendly.

But that said can also be bad luck with social circles. I have met people from different countries who are quick to profile and look down on foreigners and people from the same country who are open and nice.
French revolution 1789 maybe too? (Even if currency democracies start to be too disconnected to people again, I'd prefer direct democracy like in Switzerland)

Arab spring protests too 2011

There are many examples actually, and there will be more and more with the current rate of environmental destruction. I can already forecast people blocking airports in the future if the governments don't anticipate and regulate drastically civil aviation
That entire website is quite a rabbit hole to fall into.

https://cirosantilli.com/ciro-santilli
Well we’re talking about the alphabet system not the language, I believe.
* breathes *

* grunts *

* breathes *
People forget how large car batteries are. With a typical range of 300 km per charge, 3000 cycles correspond to a battery lifetime of 900000 km. The rest of the car will wear out long before this. In addition, electric cars are usually configured to only charge to 80%, except for long road trips. This further reduces battery wear by a lot.
I think we're seeing the wrong columns; prevailing wage is an immigration law term that speaks to the average wage paid for similar work in similar occupations in the same area.

That's why we see so many repeated values.

These aren't the actual salaries.
You seems to live in the 90s or early 00s, sorry. Consumer fan technology has come a long way since those days. Case sound dampening has also come a long way, so the little noise that fans do make, it gets pretty well dampened inside the case.
Well, it's multiple-choice. So the "a" answer excludes the "b" answer by convention, and thus implies she isn't a feminist. Rephrase the question to remove that implication and I expect far more people will pick the "a" answer.
The right way to do this is what Jane's / EA started in 1999 -- individual games that contain code to hook into a unified larger world.

It would have been branded "Jane's World War" and shipped with every subsequent sim game, allowing different sim gamers to participate in the same conflict at the same time, from different perspectives.

https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/04/29/janes-world-war

Sadly, the sim market crashed around then, and/or EA and Jane's parted ways over the trademark. Thus, it never came to fruition.

But if the components of the metagame you want to build each need to be games themselves... just build them as individual games, and contain latent linking code inside them!
Of course there is. Only religious nuts do consider condoms or the pill unethical.
> I would rather focus our efforts on improved density

There are many places in the Midwestern US where there will never be density and the people there don't want it. In those places, people drive everywhere. Shouldn't we try and make their transportation less damaging to the environment? Public transportation isn't practical there due to the size of the area and the lack of density (which won't change).

It's easier to give people better tools than it is to try and change how they live their entire lives.
Depending on how the outskirts of the city are managed, it can be fine for inhabitants.

Too small living quarters are the problem, not the density.
After writing several hundred TB

Sheesh, what are you writing!?
Part of this world, part of another
The Mac Studio in particular is a terrible example to use here. At least the first iteration of it. It has a fan that is constantly spinning, and it’s a cheap fan, so it creates a very annoying whine sound at low RPMs:

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/09/mysterious-noise-sparks...

Hopefully, Apple has solved this issue with the second iteration.
I'm sure it's not as simple as a list of the foods that the poorest people buy. (And there can be time vs. money substitutions as well.) But it seems like a representative market basket of foods typically consumed (which aren't necessarily always the cheapest) should be possible.
It's rather unreliable storage though. Don't use those for anything important and always back stuff up from your cameras or similar frequently. SD cards are easily corrupted and lack the mitigation mechanisms things like SSDs have.
Elon damaged Twitter's reputation when he started his "hardcore" work ethic of summary firing people, refusing to honor contracts and not pay bills.

In any other company, this would be a nothing-burger. Account managers are always withholding payments from vendors when they feel the vendor did not deliver the claimed services, or when a contract negotiation is in progress. Its incredibly common.

But now with Twitter, anything that can barely fit the narrative of "Twitter can't pay their bills" becomes a news item. And people eat it up because everyone wants to see Elon fail (mostly because he seems to be a jerk).

This is why most company executives try to have a very low profile. If you're boring, you don't make the news.
> No, that's the only thing to understand about it! You can't trust anything it says about anything. What it does is emit plausible-sounding information. But we've seen -- I think across every single realm of anything -- that this information includes complete nonsense

And that is in my opinion the best argument why we won't be "replaced" by AI at work. This is consistent among all the tasks, NLP, vision, RL - they are all stumbling very quickly without assistance. How do you go from 0 to 1?

AI will make for a nice assistant, really nice actually, but not a human replacement. Of course in the far future there will eventually come a day when AI might work without hand holding on some tasks, but we have no idea when. 15 years of SDC development attest to it, the closer you get to the goal, the most hidden hurdles you discover.
While I agree in principle, reliance of big companies to critical projects while not helping them, and in tons of cases not even trying to help them, is not unheard of. And to be clear even in this case the maintainers are not entitled to anything, but: * trying to commercialise something, they would not be entitled to anything either * this would often be in the best interest of everybody to help those projects
> Things like TOR can help, but that can be difficult to completely hide, and so on.

I think stuff like TOR are actively harmful to a site like the CIA is trying to run.

Accessing TOR would make you light up like a Christmas tree, it's a much harder problem to solve without TOR (as the CIA tried).

> It's interesting to consider "how would you build it better" - especially when you realize that half of the equation is trained, educated, and safely in America, the other half is potentially anyone in the world anywhere.

Randomising the structure and sanitising the element names (not having password in them) would probably go a long way. It seems like it wasn't designed with a large amount of OPSEC in mind to be honest.
Whenever this subject comes up, I struggle internally a little. On the one hand, the sacrifice made to obtain this knowledge was already high in terms of human life; not taking that knowledge is saying all that pain was for nothing. On the other, taking and absorbing that knowledge almost invariably means that it is acceptable, which means it will be done again and as humans we have an incentive to make it undesirable.