skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you said can be violated when parallelism is involved. One such example is that we know some floating point operations such as addition and multiplication are non-commutative, hence it depends on order of execution to complete reduction for example. And then in parallel situation, some implementation will make the order or reduction non-deterministic (for performance reason) and hence the final result also non-deterministic.
I will continue calling them Twitter threads, since the domain is still twitter[dot]com.
> Shares of Apple ticked down by more than 1% in after-hours trading Thursday. But the stock has climbed some 50% from the start of the year.

How can they be up 50% in 6 months? It's unbelievable, given that rates have been rising that whole time.
Mandrake was pretty nice. It was the first Linux install I got a scanner to work with.
Maddog is an absolute legend. That phrase is going to tuck me into bed tonight.
This is actually an area to improve: documentation should be DRY as-written, just not as read. Repeating documentation is all good until you have to change something, and forget to change all instances. The author even mentions:

> What happens if the person updating it doesn’t know to look for these additional instances? Then, three instances don’t get updated and end up leading someone in the wrong direction

but then seems to "resolve" this with

> Only because the alternative is worse.

What about the third option: documentation with inlined references that expand to what they reference? This presents its own set of problems: setting up these references takes extra effort, and many developers may simply end up repeating themselves. But with the help of a smart IDE or documentation editor and some good tools (maybe even AI which can identify similar sentences), in particular an editor which lets you edit an instance anywhere rather than always having to jump to the original source, maybe we can write documentation which isn't overly terse and stays accurate.
Progphobia is the last acceptable prejudice and is tied up with people's fear of being silly, which is a silly thing to be afraid of, as being silly and being awesome are two sides of the same concept album LP. Led Zeppelin is deeply and profoundly silly, but everyone kind of ignores it because they are great. Going bankrupt putting on a King Arthur-themed ice skating opera[0] is deeply silly but also a pure example of artistic commitment which transcends petty aesthetic criticism and can only be understood spiritually, perhaps as a Werner Herzog movie. And no, I won't ever listen to it because give me a break, but it's still a completely awesome thing to do.

Punk etc which came afterwards was also very silly, and also mostly wasn't very good at all, because it was fashion and performance art and social criticism and musically quite conservative and dull in addition to being amateurish. None of which stopped it from being awesome in its own way, which explains why Robert Fripp played guitar with The Damned while King Crimson was on hiatus, because fun is fun and genre wars are just publicity stunts and you would have to be a rock critic to fall for it. Prog rock is really wonderful and there's more fun stuff than anyone could ever listen to, and that's why 50 years of music critic complaining has failed to kill it.

[0] https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/06/the-stranger-than-f...
> And the prices are high. $500 for a “new” Chromebook mode from 5 years ago is madness.

its not google's fault that resellers sell them on amazon for $500.

also, google increased support term, I think it is now 8 years for new chromebooks.
You don't have to call it X.
Yes. I see this with internal home grown tools. They were home grown by early and influential employees and you ain’t getting rid of them. It is worse when they kind of work and capture a lot of organisational practice such that a rewrite or off shelf solution can now be “good enough is enemy of perfection” type thing. But the problem with home grown tools is someone has to support them. They suck up a lot of time.
Who gives a flying fuck what those scumbags think?
There's definitely a "suburban Boston accent" where you have most of the terminology and vowel inventory of a traditional Boston accent, but since it's rhotic the speaker thinks they don't have an accent.
My thought was it looks bred to deal with household pests.
By “entirely on belief” do you actually mean “entirely on faith,” that is, belief without evidence? Because otherwise your statement is nonsensical — people can and do make claims without knowing something, otherwise science wouldn’t exist. The key is that when a person makes a claim, that claim needs to be supported by evidence. The grandparent post is pointing to the mountains of evidence that we have regarding the brain, and making a claim regarding death causing a ceasing of consciousness.

If you want to claim that consciousness continues after death, you’d better bring some evidence along with that claim.
Not a bad thread but misses a critical point.

If the Sulfur emissions policies were known for >5 years and discussed for >10 years why aren’t they part of mainstream climate models?

The best answer I could find was essentially that models use a proxy for aerosols and so including the new policy might cause “double counting” of this forcing. This ‘conservatism’ caused this effect to be left out of the models.

So the story is basically that current mainstream models underestimated warming due to them ignoring this effect. But if they are missing this forcing, what other “insignificant” forcings are missing? Are they positive or negative? Are there other observations that don’t match the models?

This has really shaken my faith in the climate science community. I’m starting to think ClimateGate wasn’t the nothingburger the media made it out to be.
There's no reason to believe those smartest engineers' incentives are to give you good search results. If this was a technical problem this would be solved long ago by a simple "if domain == 'pinterest.com': skip()".

The problem is that the company employing those engineers is acting maliciously and benefits from you wasting your time with irrelevant/unusable search results as it contributes to "engagement" on the search results page and makes the sponsored results (aka spam) more likely to be clicked (even if by accident). They can get away with it since (besides Kagi) the competition is no better due to having the exact same business model.
They come in a bag in Australia.

Which has become known as the "Bachelor's Handbag".

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/word-of-the-year-why-is-...
It was a good decision. And a technical two way but political one way door.

Should good decisions sometimes be reversed? Of course! They were a good decision based on information available at the time.
I can’t remember who (maybe he’s quoted further in the thread than I quickly scrolled) but there’s a scientist who has been talking about this on Twitter for a long time (when I used to use it). Pretty scary these things can happen, but he was warning basically we are further along with global heating than we thought and this pollution was just masking some of the effect in the Northern Hemsiphere of CO2 we’d already released. We were always going to have to stop sulfur emissions, might have just been better perhaps to have a bit more gradual phase out to soften the shock…
ChatGPT says this:

As an AI language model, I don't have access to real-time data and updates, including the latest physics papers beyond my last update in September 2021. Additionally, providing a list of all physics papers you should read is an impossible task, as the field of physics is vast and continuously evolving.

However, I can suggest some general categories of physics papers that you might want to explore based on your interests:

1. Classical Mechanics: Papers related to Newtonian mechanics, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, celestial mechanics, etc.

2. Electromagnetism: Papers on electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic waves, and Maxwell's equations.

3. Quantum Mechanics: Papers exploring the principles of quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality, Schrödinger equation, and quantum states.

4. Relativity: Papers covering the theory of special and general relativity proposed by Albert Einstein.

5. Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: Papers on heat, work, entropy, and statistical approaches to understanding the behavior of matter.

6. Optics: Papers on the behavior of light, wave optics, and modern optics research.

7. Particle Physics: Papers on the study of subatomic particles and their interactions.

8. Condensed Matter Physics: Papers related to the properties of solid and liquid matter, including topics like superconductivity and magnetism.

9. Astrophysics and Cosmology: Papers exploring the universe's large-scale structure, galaxies, stars, and cosmological models.

10. Quantum Field Theory: Papers on the theoretical framework that combines quantum mechanics and special relativity.

11. Nuclear Physics: Papers on the structure and behavior of atomic nuclei and nuclear reactions.

To access the most recent and relevant physics papers, I recommend using academic databases like arXiv, Google Scholar, or academic journals specific to your area of interest. Additionally, consulting with a subject matter expert or a university/research library can provide valuable guidance on the latest and most significant papers in the field.
In this case it was predicted in a specific context though, and he was correct. Do you wish that he was thinking wishfully perhaps?
One of the main reasons I don’t mind paying for kagi is my absolute hate for pinterest.
>If setup and draw are hard working artistic gladiators, sketch is the arena in which they battle for the glory of art. However, they don't actually fight each other - they work as a team - relentlessly spilling colour all over the arena sands. The crowds roar for messy fight.

He has the right attitude.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

The study, although admittedly partially paywalled.
> Kagi makes it trivial to define new bangs

Lately I’ve moved to doing this at the browser level instead of via a search engine. It’s not a huge speed difference, but in principle it seems wrong to have an extra round-trip out to a search engine to redirect me to another site, when I can set up the keywords locally and go directly. Firefox makes it easy to do: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
That narrative explains perfectly why this engenders such immediate kneejerk emotional reactions. It's a fly-trap for reactionary crackpots, who are rife in technical circles such as ours.

It's as if it were custom designed for people who believe their technical/scientific genius is overlooked, who are crying out for some validation.

By and large, we are technically skilled people who work in a field where we're wage-slaves for stanford educated billionaire MBA types whose "big idea" that the media drools and fawns over is "a juice-maker, but, like, netflix... somehow" - no wonder we feel like engineers and scientists are this put-upon class with a massive victim complex.
We do a lot of work on power platform and I have had some suspicions around the custom connector "test your code" features as well.

This feature allows you to define an api and run it from a Microsoft server somewhere to validate it works.

What security assumptions are applied to the environment from where these run? Are those assumptions universal?
Sorry if it's a naive question but if it was actually helping the situation, why do we need to stop?

So it seems the sulfur was removed for the obvious season that it's not good for respiratory health, but it may be a necessary evil for sometime ?
Like other users have pointed out, this tweet is from the provider that kiwifarms was using.

For those who aren't aware, kiwifarms is a website that was ostensibly a gossip forum, but in practice often ended up being used for cyberstalking and harassment. They would frequently harass and doxx people. Their wikipedia page covers parts of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms

Their, now banned, official twitter page said their goal was “exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes”. ( Source: https://archive.is/jYp5p ).

I think Kiwifarms is (borderline) criminal. Null, the admin of the site, outright said he was ok with users posting stolen financial information, such as Social Security Numbers and Credit cards. Source:
https://archive.is/0fOcS . There are many examples of this

I would describe them as operating with a paper thin layer of "plausible" deniability. Officially you aren't allowed to harass or interact with the targets. But posting their home address, stolen passwords, phone numbers, and information about relatives is all allowed.

But even the rule against interacting with "lolcows" (called "cowtipping") is haphazardly enforced. For example, one user had sex with a "lolcow" and posted photos. The admin explicitly said they would allow the content to remain up: https://archive.is/zYnpK#35%
I am a language learning nerd, and I have been down the rabbit hole. Let me tell you that the most popular tool for serious language learners is Anki because of the spaced repetition. If you pursue a startup in the space, I highly recommend incoporating spaced repetition.

Another question to ponder: Who is the audience and what value will they get from learning a language. For example, the audience could be people immigrating to America for college. That is a group of people who have a strong need to learn English.
Core-V MCU DevKit for OpenHW CV32E40P Open-Source RISC-V Core
I think it’s just a cheap cherry picked argument. Iron man is largely about humility. His relationship stuff is mostly not even off screen, but between films entirely.

The MCU has a fair chunk of horny characters (horniest being overt sexual chemistry, not sex scenes). The horniest off the top of my head being Garfield’s Spider-Man (more Sony, but still), She Hulk, Captain America, most of the guardians of the galaxy, etc.

Top Gun is the emblematic stupid sexual chemistry for no reason film of the 90s for me. It’s dumb. It’s forced. It’s behind the scenes shameful.
I'm a bit out of the loop here, but is the letter "X" a part of Elon's company branding? Since that's not the first time he used the letter "X" in that manner.

The single letter "X" is brimming with symbolism and implications. Without further explanation we may never know why the rebranding was necessary.
There was a study earlier this summer that found that seven out of eight bags of kale sampled from U.S. grocery stores contains high levels of PFAS. Yes, even in organic kale - in fact, the levels were even higher in the organic produce.

"The group tested kale because it 'wanted to look at an archetypal healthy vegetable' that was high in protein, which PFAS compounds bind to. The source of the contamination is unclear, but Verkerk said he suspected tainted water was probably to blame, though it was also possible the kale was grown in fields where sludge was spread."
ClimateGate alleged a conspiracy. This is a difference of assumptions.
For an opposing view, go read the showrunner rant.[1][2]
The rant against "I'll know it when I see it."

Well... it is true that not everyone believes that knowing what
they want, and reaching out to those who need to know it in order
to perform, is a necessity for success in the world of
television... and this is the part where they come out from their
slimy, shit-stained hole and excuse their lack of vision (or
their unwillingness to impart that vision) with a defense I
consider to be the most cowardly and thieving seven words in the
showrunner's lexicon:

"I'll know it when I see it."

If you ever find yourself saying that, kindly consider the
possibility that - and I mean this, from the heart - your
impostor syndrome is most likely real and you are, in fact, a
shrill, shrieking fraud.

Here's what "I'll know it when I see it" means to me and to
everyone who hears it from a showrunner: "I have no original
ideas of my own but am perfectly willing to let everyone else
spin their wheels and exhaust themselves emotionally and
creatively so that I can eventually cherry-pick the best of their
genius and claim it for my own."

[1] https://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/11_laws_o...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34867166
Yep. W3schools is one of those sites that helped me begin my career. I still find it useful to look up something in a hurry. No idea why so many people hate it.
Even ignoring the deaths, there are a number of other issues created by the site. See my other comments in this thread, for instance.
Charles Henry Turner’s insights into animal behavior were ahead of their time
democracy is all about a way to organize communities where the people have some power to influence the government.

we found that casting a vote is the best way to make that possible.

In that system everyone is an island, everyone should think about their personal interest, because there are more differences intra-group than extra-group.

If some demographic group is more numerous than others it also mean that that group will have statistically the most variations

There are more poor old people, marginalized old people, frustrated old people and unhappy old people than younger ones. Most of all old people have literally no future, they have no time to recover from mistakes, they simply have gained enough experience to not risk everything for the sake of trying something new.

Doesn't mean their interest do not align with the interests of younger generations, it's just that younger generations can afford to lose everything and come back from the consequences.

One explanation of what is happening in my country is that the far right can sell themselves as outcasts that for a long time haven't participated in the decay we are experiencing and can look to the untrained and unexperienced eye as "revolutionaries' that fight against the establishment, while the people who have known them their whole life can see through the facade.

But in the end the real problem is that last time the elections were won by a movement supported in majority by young people that wanted to flip tables and disrupt the status quo and, guess what, the elected members were such incompetents that 5 years later even the far right seemed a better option to many.
The process of making fake food [video]
Yeah, it still needs to be called twitter, even if it makes you seem out of the loop.
CONTU wasn't established until 1974, and the US Copyright Act wasn't amended to explicitly affirm the copyrightability of computer programs until 1980 – but the US Copyright Office was already accepting copyright registrations of computer programs by 1972 [0]. While the Copyright Office's interpretation of copyright law is not always affirmed by the Courts or Congress, more often than not it is – so, it would not have been an unreasonable assumption in 1972 that the answer to "Are computer programs copyrightable under US law?" was likely "Yes". I don't know whether the same answer would have been true 3 years earlier or not, but quite possibly it would have been – it is an interesting historical question, when was the first copyright registration for a computer program which they accepted?

I also found a journal article [1] which says (p. 1748, my emphasis):

> There was considerable debate in the 1960s, during the gestation of the legislation that became the Copyright Act of 1976, about whether computer programs could, or should, be protected by copyright law. Although no one seriously questioned that source code forms of programs could be copyrighted as written texts, there were two principal concerns about applying copyright to machine-executable forms of programs...

So, according to that, the debate was primarily about whether object code was copyrightable, as opposed to source code. At the time, distributing software as source code was extremely common – indeed, configuration files were rare, configuration was commonly hardcoded in the source code, making compilation a necessary part of the installation process – which meant that source code being much more clearly copyrightable than object code would have been less of an obstacle to commercial software distribution than it would have been in later decades, when object code only distribution became much more common.

[0] Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1972: Title Index. Books: July-Dec. page 3926 which lists "CILA Mark-1 system (casualty insurance logistics automated) source program listing. NETWORK DATA PROCESSING CORP" – https://books.google.com/books?id=4kAhAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA6 – note there are many other references to "computer programs" in that index, but it is sometimes unclear whether they are manuals or source code; this particular entry is rather clearly source code.

[1] Pamela Samuelson, "The Uneasy Case for Software Copyrights Revisited", George Washington Law Review, vol 79 no 6 (September 2011), pp. 1746-1782. https://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Samuels...
> I wonder how they will keep their results shielded from SEO spam if they hit a critical mass.

We mitigate SEO spam effectively by downranking websites that use ads or trackers.

SEO spam websites predominantly rely on ads for monetization, which makes them easily detectable. This strategy of combating ads in every form, everywhere, has proven to be an efficient method for prioritizing high-quality web results.
RFC – Introduce Git Standard Library
Whoever came up with the idea to make the Voyager 2 reorient its antenna multiple times a year.

Can imagine it's based on past experience were they didn't do it and lost communications, like 'we don't want this happen again'?
Where else would they put it to reach more people?
Disagree with the negative outlook of this article on "Gameification". Like in industry, fighting new technology for the old is a losing battle. Think about the value proposition of reading against tiktok or youtube or videogames from the perspective an average child: why should they pick up a book? We need to find new ways to have them engage with reading in a way which competes with the computer on it's own terms. Feel indignant about the state of reading as much as you like, but I'm looking for a solution which puts books in the hands of more readers.
In my recent use, the Red Hat subscription management experience is night and day compared to even a few years ago. It's seamless and very much out of the way for most cases because of Simple Content Access[1]. And producing custom RHEL images for deployments in the cloud (or otherwise) is now supported by Red Hat through their Image Builder service[2] (which you can deploy locally on a RHEL box too[3][4]).

In general, there's been a huge revamp of the user experience for RHEL and associated services. And it's been for the better. The experience on console.redhat.com is stellar and worth it alone, in my view.

[1]: https://access.redhat.com/articles/simple-content-access

[2]: https://console.redhat.com/insights/image-builder

[3]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

[4]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
good work and good luck :)
"The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet" by Robert M. Hazen has a chapter about genesis of elements ( big bang, star formation, supernovae, planet formation, etc).
Would this be the oldest thing on earth?