skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you know the address, it is a matter of figuring out directions. But if you do not know the address, no directions may be discovered. How do you figure out the address?

If you cannot determine what needs doing, you cannot determine how to do it. How do you determine the what?

The answer is in the problem statement, but first you need the problem statement. How do you get to the problem statement?

It is easier to follow orders than it is to determine what the orders ought to be. How does one determine the orders?

How shall we live?

A solution is a response to a question asked within a context of presuppositions and facts. But this is not necessarily a one-directional process in practice. In practice, we do not know the context entirely and in the needed resolution. Thus, we often learn from our attempts at a solution that something in the presuppositions is amiss. And indeed, this is how science functions and how Socratic dialogues proceed. A critical experiment can reveal that something is wrong, but it cannot tell us necessarily what. The needle in the stack of theories, and common or philosophical or merely technical presuppositions, is not necessarily in the theory being tested, though that it where we begin for economical reasons.

You need prudence, the heart of practical reason, to know what to do.

And then you need to actually do it.
Because it was becoming old tech and primarily it costs too much. It's fine for a few big ticket once-in-a-decade launch missions but things are evolving.
How would Germans handle a breakdown in services?
> is depicted

Based on this article the keyword is "is depicted". It starts with an ad hominem attack on the captain. And I didn't even see many mentions or quotes from the actual accident report.

I did stop half way because it's simply too long for how much I care about the subject. I won't research it further either so I'll just end up with the pushing an agenda impression.
Blind nationalism has it use.

If the U.S. was invaded I'd rather fascist racist nationalists be dying holding the enemy back than artists and scientists.

Regardless Azov iirc has shed it's 'nazi' roots to become an effective legitimate military unit. Turns out a lot of fascist apparently are cowards.

Anyways your attachment to Azov having nationist roots reveals your Russian bias. And they are fascist nationalist. They've been destroying, raping, and pillaging what they can for purely fascist racist reasons. That makes the Russians the side of the Nazis here fyi.
Companies using the OpenJDK should be fine[1]. If you're using the OracleJDK with LTS though, you'll need to pay up.

I wonder how Oracle knows which contacts to email. Does the Oracle Java SE phone home?

1 - https://medium.com/@javachampions/java-is-still-free-3-0-0-o...
it's possible to store huge amounts of energy with hydro, but at that point nuclear is not that bad in terms of price and nr of people killed by nuclear vs hydro accidents, so again Germany fkd up
From Spreadsheet to $50k a Month
In other words, shutting down nuclear plants means a) replacing the energy generation with coal (mostly lignite), or b) importing energy from other countries, which generate it from coal (mostly lignite) like Poland.

Importing will likely be "cheap", because we all agree to collectively pretend that externalities like CO2 emissions or catastrophic pollution from coal plants are not a thing.

Can't see how any of these options are good.
This statement shows you don't know much about Bankruptcy. There is a process and a judge has to sign off on debt clears.
Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan and Derelict
They can just wait a year. Either the Republicans will give them what they want, or the Biden Administration won't have to keep Khan around because they made it through the presidential election.

If Biden (or Newsom or whoever) squeaks in, they'll be looking to appeal to the right for the midterms, and lightly smearing and firing Khan might actually help them. The WSJ, in particular, has declared her enemy no.1, and the Biden WH has almost seemed embarrassed about the only person in their administration that could get them unambiguously good press, because they don't actually support her.

Why didn't they make Khan their "Dr. Fauci"? Why didn't they push social media companies to amplify accounts that supported her work, or to suppress accounts that spread misinformation or negativity about it?
With a little bit of CSS I mean enough to know how to add some extra padding to all buttons on the site, like finding button { padding 4px } and change that to 6px.
It's a good thing that they had dissolvable weight releases but I'm still amazed at the lack of backup systems and still letting passengers onboard.

Related to this, the Hydraulic Press channel did a somewhat similar implosion test of a composite tube with metallic ends. Thought it was relevant due to other discussion on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQGDwE3yMb0
At the same time France had to buy loads of electricity from Germany in the last year because several nuclear plants had to shut down due to a) maintenance problems and b) low rivers that could not provide sufficient cooling.
Nuclear plants in Germany only deliver electricity, and only where the grid is connected. But coal is used also used for heat and chemical processes, and outside the grid. No source of electricity can cover that yet in a short timeframe. And even if we are just talking about electricity in grid-connected locations, with the high cost of nuclear plants, it makes more sense to just buy it from others, and wait until new renewables sources were added to the grid, and long term build other replacements for heat and the chemical processes.
it is strange why anyone would pay for the oracle jre when you can pick from one of many implementations that are free. There are some tiny differences in the oracle jdk but just try to swap them out, it should be pretty easy
My objection is that it's simply fragile and overcomplicated software. Operations that one would expect to be instant take a second to run. I attempted to reinstall snap recently so I could use lxd (which seems good itself), and was greeted with inscrutable error messages so gave up and moved it all over to libvirt.

Contrast with something like systemd that also has its haters, but it is solidly written software so seems to be accepted by a lot more people.
I'd expect a detailed manual to fall under the Missile Technology Control Regime, MTCR, which is kind of the sister of ITAR for the EU.
don't forget the back hump!
I find SRS to be more a scheduling mechanism, not a memory one. If my memory of something is "bad" before SRS, it's going to be bad after, it's just I can let the algorithm refresh it more often than the thing I CAN remember.

Actual memory "devices" (tricks, schemes, etc.) are orthogonal; SRS (for me) just optimizes my time so I don't have to go over shit I know more often than I need to.

For anyone curious, my 2 go-to books on actually learning how to remember are the ones by Higbee (dry, but thorough) and Lorayne (approachable, but feels less academic). I used SRS to remember those 2 authors w/o having to look them up, FWIW. ;-)
This function name amuses me because it implies there is a “safelySetInnerHTML” method

Also shouts out to the UNSAFE_component methods, you’re a real hipster if you used those before the prefix
> German renewable energy policies have been a failure at securing human prosperity.

Bullshit. That chart looks the same for many developed nations. A strong downtrend. Just a few examples: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...
Some of them are emotional, sure. But what is fake about them?
Renewables are the cheapest source of energy PROVIDED the cost of providing energy when they are generating zero energy is paid for by someone else. This argument keeps coming up and is entirely wrong and very misleading.

Renewable energy due it its intermittent nature creates a problem and does nothing to solve that problem. The cost of that solution must be factored into the cost of energy from renewable generation.
So would you call left-wing authoritarianism conservative then? I don't think political historians would agree with this designation.
Security researchers latest to blast UK’s Online Safety Bill as encryption risk
These comments are suspiciously light on anti-cancel culture rants. Wonder why.
> Oculus were nobodies more or less back then and didn't have apple's supply chain expertise, and even still their devkits were only like $300 USD 10 years ago.

Those also required a high-end PC costing costing thousands of dollars and lacked key technologies like eye-tracking. There simply won’t be bargains here for many years: VR is less demanding than AR but even there the low-end approach hasn’t seen popular adoption because your brain’s threshold for something seeming real is quite high and has failure modes like nausea and vomiting.

The Vision Pro is Apple’s take on that problem trying to see if they can sacrifice on pricing but actually hit a threshold where the quality is high enough to work for most people. It’s going to be interesting to see if the productivity applications they demoed are going to be as good as they looked – if that experiment doesn’t work at this price, it doesn’t bode well for the rest of the field.
But couldn't you package an OpenJDK JRE build with your product instead of using the Oracle JRE, and thus not need to pay anything?
IIRC very few public transport systems make a profit on running costs - never mind capital costs. The rest operate as money pits.

Useful systems have huge positive externalities that can't be captured by charging passengers at a rate that reflects those benefits (I'm not sure if this is due to a free-loader effect, irrationality on the passengers part or something else).

I think the only systems that have profited on scale commensurate with their benefits are those that were a real estate play, eg.: the Metropolitan Line[1] in London, Los Angeles trams, Hong Kong subways. I might be wrong about these examples, either due to misremembering or to falling to a just-so story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-land

Edit: formatting.

Edit 2: The point, I think, is that if you rely on direct profits for the transport system you give up on huge benefits and accept huge costs across society.
What's wrong in terms of emissions is that they take forever to plan and build. During which time, Poland will continue to produce its electricity almost exclusively from coal. These are real emissions that can't be made up for once the nuclear plants are finished. The alternative is to replace a lot of the coal really fast with renewables. Further more, it's cheaper so you can replace a lot more than with nuclear.
I declined. Best decision ever.
Or he did an Elon and broke the law by not notifying them
I'm afraid you're not realizing the impact of your echo chamber. The bulk of german voting power lies in the age group of 40 to 70, measured by voter turnout per age group. People aged 45 and up felt the imoact of the Chernobyl disaster, whole forests in Germany are still not allowed to be foraged for mushrooms because of ground contamination. Those people have their fear of nuclear power ingrained in them and as usual there's not a lot you can do to convince them. As such "Most of the population changed their mind and is pro nuclear." is definitely not true, at least not right now and I doubt it will ever change.

And as we've seen recently in the state of Thuringia, AFD has garnered the top with 35%, that's far from "most people would never consider to vote for".
The complacency of researchers knowledgeable in these topics should be noted as well. With great power comes great responsibility, as Spiderman states correctly.

This letter is a "nice try", but pretty late and lacking media-awareness. People certainly won't read a 4-page PDF. They should have led with:

> There is no technological solution to the contradiction inherent in both keeping information confidential from third parties and sharing that same information with third parties.
Depends on the country. In Italy there's still to this day a tax on gasoline originally imposed to finance the Italo-Ethiopian war in 1935.

Naturally that wasn't even the last tax of this sort, the latest addition being from 2012.
What point is there in using OracleJDK over OpenJDK?
How is energy storage a solved problem? All the battery storage in the world today would power half of Germany's minimum electrical load for minutes.
> Listening to your favorite new song everyday for a week is spaced repetition and very enjoyable, no pain whatsoever.

That's not really SRS though; a key part of SRS is the heuristic for when you next get exposed to the thing you're trying to remember based on your previous "got it"/"missed it" response. I suppose "every day" is one such heuristic, but it's not really in the spirit of SRS.

And you're mixing up enjoying the content with the mechanics of an SRS system.
> You can "verify" a Mastodon account

This is enforced by the instance - any "verification" is only as trustworthy as the instance itself.

A malicious actor would just set up their own instance with a fair share of legitimate-looking content (to build credibility within the network and encourage others to federate) before "verifying" the imposter accounts on it.

This is just one of many issues with ActivityPub which makes it not fit for any kind of serious, real-world deployment to rival established social networks.
They are not desperate, from what I recall that is their modus operandi for quite long time.
Third problem, all devices produce heat. Lasers, LEDs, and cameras. There's a hard limit to how much heat you want to conduct into the cornea.
This is why so many are fed up with Germany and especially Germany's current government.
You know, maybe people don't want to bike in a country where it's too hot in the summer, too icey/cold/snowy in the winter and where it rains constantly in the other two seasons?

This whole attitude of "I tell you how to live your life because reasons" is preposterous.
The grid in Europe is so stable that you can literally use it to synchronise a clock by counting the oscillations.

Error over time: 0
I like the idea. Like an enforced robots file. A manifest could be used with a script to write ACL's for load balancers, proxies and web servers. I have created the end-result manually in the past and with HAProxy one can drop requests for anything outside of the ACL's. There is even a silent drop that does not close the remote connection and just leaves the bots hanging until their timeout. I never actually created a script but wrote ACL's by hand. I could see someone creating a nifty script that would output ACL's for each server.
It has already "Gate" in the name, following the current trends regarding scandals.. ahead of the curve I guess.

> A clip shows Rush inside Titan elaborating on the plan saying that eventually the sub will “drift down” and “hit the bottom.”

Dear Lord.. Even running an ice cream shop is subjected to more scrutiny than selling rides in a submarine.
This sounds less stressful than an average half a decade working at my current position. It is actually motivating. Whether or not that was the desired outcome, I don't know. At least I get to travel to half decent academic conferences and not large vendor marketing conferences.
Policy as Code for Application Level Authorization – OPA vs. Cedar
The metaverse represents a new frontier in banking, a virtual world with virtual currencies and virtual goods for sale.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7082330...
Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development (2014)
Maybe I'm a bit cynical but most of the "software engineering is so much more important than 'coding'" talk I have encountered came from people who could not write code that compiled/ran, let alone find creative solutions or do interesting things. Maybe it's important for them to see the actual programmer as a replaceable commodity, I dunno. Always bothered me. I'd also say that good programmers tend to be good software engineers even if they never draw a UML diagram (because...why). I sometimes get the feeling that certain "architects" assume programmers are just code monkeys that do not think. And then there's anecdotes of issues that came about because the programmer didn't understand the domain and thankfully the godlike architect saved the day etc...conveniently ignoring the myriads of wrongly collected requirements, wrong diagrams, architectures/diagrams that were never updated/are out of sync with the actual code etc.

Once again only from my experience...good programmers are capable of...thinking. Big shocker there but programmers tend to think about why they do and do not do stuff in certain ways (and even if it makes sense to do them).

I'm well aware there are excellent architects/managers but from my experience the good ones were strong programmers before and then "moved up" but they always understood the code level. And that's why I'm not afraid of "AI will take all programming jobs" scenarios...because even if the (en)coding would all be done by AI, to become really good at directing said AI you also hove to be good at programming (at least in my opionion).

But apart from that, I also see programming as an artistic endeavor at times. There's a lot of creativity and self expression that goes into certain kinds of programs. And writing good code that solves interesting problems is actually hard. I'm pretty sure the initial Quake engine was harder to write than getting the requirements right for said engine for example.
A bit. But you can test 20 ideas. This is not so bad. We have tools to scrutinize such results like the false discovery rate and related concepts.

The real problem is when you set out to test 20 things, and they don’t work, so you test 20 more things; and then much worse when you only tell us about the analysis that lead to the 1/40 that mattered.

The thing about p hacking specifically is changing your analysis until it finds something that looks good. A lot of people don’t understand math and will do this and not understand that they’re gaming it. A lot of people will understand this and do it anyway because academia is soul crushing and they need to publish.
Why is the drop dependent on the battery? Why in the world wouldn't they be held on electromagnetically so if the battery goes kaput the weights immediately drop?
That overtaking sequence at 8:20!

The narrator in a gentle documentary voice:

> Just keep on my lane, check my mirror; nothing behind me that wants to overtake.

> And now I shall start to close up, and first of all signal him with my headlights.

> And again.

> It hasn't closed that I'm here so I shall sound the horn. [HONK]

> And again. [IMPATIENT HONKING]

> Yes; he's pulling in, and I can go past.

> […] giving me the V-sign. I can't think why he should think that I'm interested in his politics.

(The V-sign being the conventional British hand sign for 'Oi, sod off you twat!', or something along those lines.)
I saw another report where asking the students to keep a journal monitoring their mental health caused stress.
Why would that need to be placed "in the appropriate context"? How does that help anyone who is worse off?
Part of the problem that Typescript can help solve is that JavaScript can be tricky with undefined, null and accidentally casting numbers and strings to each other. It's really a godsend for very large web apps that have large teams of developers with more than 0% turnover.
I really don't understand the lack of a backup here. I understand they had a budget, but that budget couldn't include a spare battery or two? They also didn't appear to test the batteries at all before going down? My high school robotics team had more redundancy than this sub did.
The weirdest thing is that folks paying 6 figures learn about these safety mechanisms only after sinking to the bottom of the ocean. It's a sensible safety mechanism to have, but shouldn't there be a briefing where participants learn about something like that?
When building a quite a complex product like this, there were many interesting technical problems to face - for instance; creating the code-transform to transform code in a way that works in all libraries was quite tricky because we had to accomodate to all the intricacies of for instance `this` keyword in JavaScript. Another interesting problem was string serializing everything, and deciding what not to serialize (like for instance class instances)
While the FTS needs improvement, my (limitied) understanding is that its ineffectiveness was due to the fuel tank being almost empty at the time, and while in extremely thin air.

(But this is what I get as an untrained watcher of Scott Manley videos, I'm not a rocket scientist nor a pilot so I assume I only half-understand what he says, and what he says is necessarily a summary or the videos would be x10 longer).
"The pilot project, which is expected to be completed this summer at a cost of $560,000, will see Sun-Ways use a regular train to lay down 60 solar panels on a 140-foot stretch of railway track near the city of Neuchâtel"

it's not like all of Switzerland is doing this on all rail tracks. It's 60 small panels. A tiny experiment, nothing more. Who says they are "instead of, I don't know, people's roofs"?
This is really great marketing for Microsoft and .Net
This comment should be a post itself!
And C# iterates at a rapid pace, with lots of language features being added, some of which would would not be possible in TS.

C# is in some ways less shackled by the runtime it has to target, while TS compiles away entirely. The CLR can be changed to suit .net/C# needs, and JS is not under their control.
> Canonical employs nearly all the remaining core enterprise open-source developers after IBM acquired Red Hat

I'm sorry, but what? This is not even remotely close to being true. There's even a pretty good chance that Red Hat employs more "enterprise open source developers" now than in 2018.
General public doesn't even know what ferdiverse node is, nor which one to choose. They will choose a simple service from a big corporation with a huge budget on marketing.
Fulguris; open source Web Browser for Android devices
Sign me up, how much for a tour to the titanic with your high school robotics team? :)
Working at Canonical shouldn't mean the only supported way to use LXD should be via snaps. It almost violates the whole idea of Linux.
Building Personal and Organizational Prestige
This only shows that you could remove more coal keeping nuclear... https://i.imgur.com/4dH6osj.png

Not to mention all the previously closed plants.

Every MW of nuclear shut down while coal is still running is coal displacing nuclear.
Solar and wind alone can’t provide 100%. Not yet anyway..

> Successfully

Yet the amount of energy generated by burning coal has only increased.

*https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economic-Sectors-Enterpris...
Not sure I'll try that anytime soon, but here's what I would check out to start: https://gitlab.com/pandoc/pandoc-ci-example
> Biden was going for a Hail Mary on this one. I suspect that even he thought it was a big-if. I'm sure there were a truckload of attorneys telling him why his executive order was overreaching.

It’s a political stunt. It’s not like he is someone who just got into politics and just wasn’t aware how the system works.

This kind of grandstanding happens all the time. Representatives propose radical bills knowing full well they would never pass. But they can then turn around and say “Oh no, I was going to do all these nice things for you, but $otherside got in my way. Thanks for believing me and voting for me, though”
> It has already "Gate" in the name, following the current trends regarding scandals..

It is more a cultural staple than a trend at this point, since the Watergate scandal happened fifty years ago.
Lightweight (Bayesian) Marketing Mix Modeling (Google Unofficial)
At the end of the day, what matters is how it stands in court.
Pagan: "a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main or recognized religions."

whatever that means