skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a ludicrous judgement. The notion that somehow an ISP caused $47million in actual damage (i.e. prevented 47 million dollars of music being bought) is wrong by a factor of hundreds at least, particularly in the era of spotify.

It's becoming increasing clear that certain aspects of our justice system aren't working in modern society (EULA, court as only recourse, asymmetry of consequences) and I think the first step to fixing it us enough people repeating it to get it into the overton window.
A working man can still support a family of five, buy a house, a car and a vacation once or twice a year. He just needs to be realistic.

House: you can still find houses with plenty of room for ~$100k. It just needs to be in an affordable area: think McKeesport, not San Francisco.

Car: for $5k you can get a 2005 Ford Focus or Honda Civic. They're reliable cars that will get you from A to B perfectly fine, easy to repair and fuel efficient.

Education: a Computer Science degree from WGU costs $18k for the average student, and can be as low as $4k if you accelerate.

Career: plenty of remote software jobs paying above $100k, which can fund a good life in most of the US.

I get it though, the average person wants a nice house in a wealthy area with good schools and low crime and two new cars and gets a degree from a school they can't afford in a field without high paying jobs, and they cannot even code. That's completely their fault, no sympathy from me.

For those people, there's an easy solution: just don't have kids. Kids are crazy expensive, and not required for a good life.

I hope what you say is true- mass retirements followed by a plummeting birthrate. We surely do not need so many people, when the overwhelming majority are useless. Robots will be here soon anyway to replace most of the workforce
> and to the extent it's true it's a pretty brief period of time historically.

That is true, but understandably, people are not thrilled about the prospect of their conditions being worse than those their predecessors experienced.

Especially not if, at the same time, they experience an uninterrupted period of economic growth and ever growing profit margins for the corporations they work for.
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George is right.

But

He has a history of being an arrogant prick. That will color people's perceptions of you even if it's not relevant to the immediate interaction.
> This would then imply that all collective social arrangements of people must be called "government" and that any definition of "government" that does not include every possible social arrangement of people is flawed

Wow.

As made clear subsequently, "government" covers the process(es) a society uses for collective decision making and enforcement of those decisions.

It does not cover the nature of marriage, the presence or absence of multi-generational households, the size of cities, methods of transportation or the religious demographics.

It is still a narrowly defined term, but just not narrowed down to the 30 year old look-ma-i-discovered-the-internet version of "it's about the monopoly on violence".
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Homosexuality is an interesting case. The DSM classified homosexuality as a disorder until 1973, when the APA board of trustees voted to remove it as a disorder.

Is that a scientific judgement or a cultural one?

I don’t deny the effectiveness of therapy - I know of great successes personally and anecdotally and I understand self-reported well-being is improved broadly. And yet it’s not quite science or medicine. There is no real understanding of purely materialist mechanism of how it works.
It does make sense. The problem is scale. There is an inland barge in the Netherlands that does this with 4 20ft battery filled containers, capacity is about 200TEU if I remember correctly.

The problem is charging. Charging up 4 containers worth of batteries takes a wild amount of power, we’re talking multiple orders of magnitude more than refrigerated units. By my calculations you needed about 100 days of charging on a single reefer plug. Ofcourse you can speed that up with custom charging infra, but still, the amount of total energy needed is mindbogglingly large and won’t scale easily to ships of 20 000 TEU, or even just constant visits of these 700TEU feeder ships.
They aren’t equivalent. Most EVs have a free roll mode, where you can push the car or take it through a car wash. You are still spinning the electric motors though.

This is fine for low speeds and short distances but is not advised for towing, like with tow trucks that leave two of the car’s wheels on the ground.
For the generator windings?
Note: 'can kill' >= 'has killed', you have only shown the latter.
However you'd find also thousands, millions in fact, of happy people who used the services of psychics, mediums, astrologers, crystal healers, taro readers, shamans, reiki practitioners, remote viewers. You'd also find millions who got cured with sugar placebo pills.

Which is not to say psychotherapists don't do anything right. Maybe they do something right. But it may be almost by accident, or maybe much is not needed for you to feel someone's got your back.

These trends, of solving a given problem a given way, are largely cultural. I wouldn't be surprised if one day we see present day psychotherapy as flawed as we see alchemy today.
No, you can't downvote posts, and if you use flags as a form of downvoting you may find your flags quietly defanged. In this case, though, I think you'd be on pretty firm ground.
If you get to assume continuous paper, then I get assumed continuous paper.

If you don't want to assume continuity, then you get it back by rephrasing your theorems as "within a margin of error equal to the distance between discrete objects".
It permeates the systems. For example, any time you want to update the complement that sends e-prescriptions the network will want you to recertify the system for conformance to requirements.
The article summary seems to be that an emotionally resilient person in a supportive community may not need therapy in response to an adverse emotional event. Studies and meta-analysis show that therapy is effective but it is possible that the effects are overstated. The author doesn’t suggest alternatives to therapy.

Personally, it is possible that there are supportive communities where coping skills are widely taught at an early age and that those skills are better for complex trauma than those developed by therapists (e.g. EMDR) but I am pretty confident those types of communities are far from the norm.
New Evidence Suggests the Universe Is Twice as Old as We Thought
I think "tinkering for hours" is overstated. My vim/neovim and emacs setup usually take no less than 30 minutes (including installing favourite plugins/packages). Then I can use them to get my work done.

Well, I'm not that obsessed with tweaking every bits, though. When I'm using vim/emacs, I never intend to configure them into IntelliJ replacement.
To a single person not involved in the field? What exactly is the benefit?
The two URLs I provided don't convince you that this isn't a fad? Of all the SWEs I know, every single one who previously used Eclipse, Atom, or Sublime is now using VSCode. Some of my Emacs & Vim friends have switched, too. I can't imagine what would change this trend in the next 5-10 years. Perhaps a new editor with an integrated LLM coding assistant that's FAR ahead of all competitors? Except VSCode is currently leading there, too.
at the end of the day, it is ultimately a subjective question.

Science and understanding cant decide what you want and how much of it, it can only help you decide how to get what you want.
>so I have no idea where this overly-defensive comment came from.

A, ad-hominem pop psychology, the hallmark of every good argument.
Rationalwiki is trash.
That's a funny definition of "reliable". I'd factor availability into reliability. If I Uber to work and every time an Uber picks me up it gets me to my destination with 100% success but once a week no Ubers are available, is that a reliable mode of transportation? Would my boss not shout at me to find a more reliable way to get to work?
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What's the risk from hybrid and mild hybrid cars to a car ferry? I wonder.
> why isn’t everyone doing it?

Assuming the figures are accurate, perhaps because most everyone doesn't want to? Some love it, but sitting in a truck day in, day out, far from civilization while only infrequently coming back home to see your family is not for most.

You could say the same about programming. Any five year old can program, but most people have absolutely no desire to do it, thus it takes a whole whack load of money to convince the general population into the industry. The HN crowd who see it as a fun hobby, who like to spend their evenings writing open source code for free, are outliers.
Premise seems obvious to me, econ 101 level stuff. Grasshopper and ant etc.

Is this not obvious to others here?
There is no ground rule that "forces you" to implicate yourself as person as committed to the positions you take as debater. But there's also no ground rule that prevents your opponent from trying to implicate you in that way. If they do, you get to choose how to respond. In general what it means to "play by the rules" has always been up for contestation in competitive policy debate (see also "topicality" arguments and arguments about what one is entitled to "fiat" as part of one's proposal). If one wants to win under a certain conception of the rules, one also needs to be prepared to defend that conception of the rules. In another version of debate that might not be true - perhaps that's "public forum", which I know little about? - but for many policy debaters I think the fact that everything is open to question is part of the challenge and the fun.
The Four Root Causes of Technical Debt
Yeah, I've ranted about this here in the past. I'm glad someone high-profile enough is finally doing the same, as that might actually lead somewhere.

Their closed development process is so moronic. It means their code is always ahead and out of sync with what is in public. There have been user provided fixes and improvements to ROCm on GitHub with no reaction from AMD. Probably because it wouldn't apply cleanly to whatever they currently have. It's sad to see your customers having to fix your drivers. It's even sadder to see you ignore it.
Speed was never my concern, judging by what you said I think putting the -as after tried to cut things between p-frames and that often caused probls with the cut, while putting it before started the cut at the last p-frame? Something like that, I don't use ffmpeg enough to remember what problems I was having but I remember what fixed it.
I can tell you what you won't see, stronger magnets, at least not stronger than those currently being built out of high-temperature superconductors (HTS.) LTS magnets are limited by the magnetic fields the conductors can withstand before they lose the ability to superconduct. HTS can withstand a much higher magnetic field, but this is unrelated to the temperature at which they superconduct.

A room temperature superconductor will have different properties, maybe it can handle a higher magnetic field or not, we cant yet say. But what we do know is that the current limit to building HTS magnets is no longer the superconductor, but the strength of the supporting material which is steel. Find a stronger material and you can build a stronger magnet. A superconductor, better than current HTS, won't change that.
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True, but I prefer to fortify my food myself, because this is not only cheaper but it also allows me to have complete certainty about the composition of the food.

Fortified food is a reasonable solution, which trades off price for convenience, so whether it is chosen or not depends on personal preferences.
Inflation can be combatted by taxing it out of the economy - the issue is who do we tax. One should always tax the rich first - like robbing banks that's where the money is
This is exactly how government consulting in the US works, often with a US gov employee writing the requirements with a specific vendor in mind. Oh, that's illegal as hell, but how else does Deloitte stay in business?
People need tools, even geniuses. Tools can be completely intellectual, e.g. complex numbers.

Every time a new tool is invented, we see boosts in productivity.
Restic backs up to s3 and it’s quite simple to setup and monitor.
That's cute. Wish it ran PalmOS
I use it. It's nice to have sqlite and a single binary instead of several giant docker containers.
Sure, it's multifaceted. But pedestrian fatalaties have gone down at least partially because children walk to school less often, in a reaction to the huge number of pedetrian killings of the past.
The Gates foundation example makes no sense and frankly reeks of ignorance. The foundation has given out over $70 billion in grants since inception [1]…money that came primarily out of Gates’s pockets.

In what way does losing $70 billion imply a tax dodge because he avoided paying $10B to $20B in taxes had he kept that money for himself? You know, he could have simply paid the taxes and kept the remaining $50 billion in in his pockets.
Nah, surely we found a room temperature super conductor and solved one of the most major aspects of aging all in 1 week!
That may be the case, but you don't have to believe RationalWiki's subjective assessments; you can just follow the links. In this case, they provide pretty straightforward support for the claims.

I find RationalWiki to be directionally useful, with maybe just a little bit of extra clicking. If they say somebody is, say, anti-vax, you can usually quickly determine from the cited sources whether that's a reasonable claim, or somebody willfully misreading an ambiguous statement on Twitter at some point.
"The space represented by the water in a convex container"
The commenter meant a Japanese version of WeChat.
All of that is reaching some conclusions and arguments that I didn't make and didn't use. All I said is that if your job doesn't bring you satisfaction then find another one. Everything beyond that is your own interpretation - I can of course see how you reached that interpretation, but I don't agree with it. There can be a job without satisfaction that isn't "misery". But that's not really relevant to my original point.
I said the magnets are not the only obstacle or complex technology. They're not even the major obstacle or expense.

But to touche your point, if ambient superconductors, then long distance transmission from remote solar panels, apparently.

There's just no way fusion is ever going to compete economically as mainstream energy, with ever cheaper solar (and wind, tide, etc), geothermal, and improved fission, at least with the current high-temperature plasma-confinement, and especially D-T, 'chemistry'
You're assuming the very thing in question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
> No, "both sidesing" is not at all how philosophers or mathematicians train to establish the truth

In math, proof by counterexample is pretty directly what you'd call "both-sidesing" above; you make a thorough, detailed, and compelling argument for a case against your hypothesis, then demonstrate why it can't be true.

If you can't do the work of the making such a detailed counterexample, then the proof of your actual hypothesis falls apart too.

Being able to make the strongest argument against your beliefs is necessary for you to hold your own beliefs most strongly.
Sure, but what about the billionaires. When they get a huge tax break do they go down to the local diner and give the waitress a $1,000,000 tip? Probably not -- they invest it into making more money -- consolidating more wealth for themselves.
Give someone capital and see what they can imagine and build.

I’d guess most so-called geniuses are stuck working some dead end job without the backing / connections to do something big.
> you're just supposed to know what Kentucky number plates look like from a blurry image, and you're also supposed to know the logo of a sports club? Cool.

Knowing exactly what they look like would help, but the point is more that you're supposed to look them up and see if they match to rule out regions or confirm suspicions. You've got the wealth of human knowledge at your fingertips, use it - if knowing what a Kentucky numberplate looks like might be useful, you can just look that up in a matter of seconds.

> Also, picture has to contain all these clues of course, conveniently, including a couple of street numbers.

Given how many times this individual has narrowed down an exact location from a photo of a straight road with nothing but trees on either side, I think it's fair to suggest that he was picking an easy target for the purposes of tutorialisation.

It might take more than a couple of minutes to narrow down a photo with less obvious clues than this one, but it's fairly difficult to take a photograph outdoors that doesn't give away enough for someone with sufficient knowledge to identify exactly where it was taken.
The economic system seem to be more than capable of plunging itself into an inflation with stagnating wages already...and still rake in money left right and center.
Protecting a CDN source using basic auth
That's a different fixed point theorem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer_fixed-point_theorem
> It's funny because maybe it's a good service but going by HN, it's not reliable or cost effective.

This is a very unfair take, based on basically nothing but the single recent outage report it seems. Tarsnap is generally liked by HN and if you use it, you will know why. Its a great service technically, and _extremely_ affordable. I was a happy user for years but have moved to local time machine backups with B2 offsite replication just because its seamlessly integrated into my NAS (and is also very affordable).
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I think this post and some of the comments confuses work with job. Work is a means to a kind of satisfaction that cannot be achieved via leisure. And people need that and need work. Job on the other hand is everything most of the comments is talking about. Job is what you end up with when you working in a capitalistic system where profit is the sole motive (competition is what drives the need to keep costs down and labor is part of cost. We need capitalism to evolve so that practices are more sustainable call it capitalism 2.0 or whatever). So unless you are the job creator which very few of us are we are resorted to having a job. This is the case generally unless you are part of the smaller segment of people who have been lucky enough to call their job also their work.
I disagree, I think the skills taught are portable to lay persuasion, and this can be seen by the fact that debaters from the 'weirder' events will often enter a slow, lay debate format, win the tournament, and then return back to the 'weird' format.
Elizabeth Warren made that exact argument.

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Income-Trap-Middle-Class-Parents-...
With certain programs (in this case Paint Shop Pro 5), you can get Windows 11 to render Windows Aero.[1]

[1]: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/747297210613498216/10...
That and this follow up: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/malcolm-...
Reminds me of this section of Cryptonomicon:

"""

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Click.

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... Click.

RIST stands for Relatively Independent Sub-Totality.

... Click.

A hive mind is a social organization of RISTs that are capable of processing semantic memes ("thinking"). These could be either carbon-based or silicon-based. RISTs who enter a hive mind surrender their independent identities (which are mere illusions anyway). For purposes of convenience, the constituents of the hive mind are assigned bit-pattern designators.

Click.

A bit-pattern designator is a random series of bits used to uniquely identify a RIST.

"""
I need to micromanage

Are you sure?

Good luck.
The ultra wealthy hired the best to win a game of financial manipulation that the rest of us didn’t even know was being played.

The median salary would be six figure if the share of productivity gains was distributed like it was in 1970.
I absolutely believe that I can Google for a sentence and find that many people have written that sentence. I am sometimes proud of myself when I come up with sentences for which that isn't the case. I'm not sure that you've demonstrated that I should have declared my residency as lunar.