skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is just different ways to handle information asymmetry. The asking side knows value of the favor to self but does not know the cost of the favor for the answering side, while the answering side knows the cost of the favor to self, but not value of it for the asking side.

Friendly people would accept requests for favors where both costs and values are favorable, but they do not want to be taken advantage to accept low value / high cost requests, and also do not want to be rude to refuse high value / low cost requests.

In 'ask' culture, the act of asking only implies low value of the favor, so people are free to ask and free to refuse.

In 'guess' culture, the act of asking implies high value of the favor, so people have high bar for asking and high bar for refusing.

In both situations, there are ways to express higher or lower implied value of the favor (e.g., one can 'beg' instead of 'ask' to imply higher value, or one can 'express interest' instead of 'ask' to express lower value).

One could say that 'ask' / 'guess' is unfortunately named and it would be better to call it 'low ask' / 'high ask'.

Also, i am not sure if it is really a cultural/social thing, or personal/psychological thing, perhaps it is both.
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In my opinion saying "women support rape culture" in reference to the author approaches that high load. If I had said it, I would be worried about a slander suit: calling a person a supporter of rape culture seems like slander per se, unless the author has done something worse than work with an academic pariah.
Was in an entire classroom that had a plaque on each seat's fold-down desk thingy.

They didn't sell them all, particularly at the back of the class.

One of our classmates and their year was scratched in while they took a nap... I should check if it's still there.
Hub motors seem so logical until the unsprung weight realization hits you.

Maybe we can go back to them when EVs get lighter... Or maybe when we get superconducting motors.
The entire plot of The Bad Sisters is based on the idea that a small family insurance brokerage would be financially liable for paying out a life insurance claim, rather than the actual insurance company whose products the brokerage sold.

The person I was watching it with is an actuary, and this kind of took all the joy out of what's otherwise a pretty good series.
The Best Feature is no feature.
Hurricane Hilary is not impressed.
A new way to identify chiral molecules with light could vastly improve detection
There was a very similar game that one of the big Perl authors (Ovid) put together a few years ago called Tau Station. You can also see a bunch of blog posts on how Ovid built it. Basically Perl + Sql and a little JS I think.

https://taustation.space/
How much do you know about The Red Scare in the US? I'm American and barely know anything about it.

It's just not really talked about and not, as far as I know, due to fear of being imprisoned for it.

Ugly history is often "forgotten" even when there is no compulsion to "forget" it.
Some cancers are treatable; some aren't. Delaying treatment for the first and giving false hope to the latter by advocating treatments that have _never_ been effective is actually harmful.

That book has nothing to do with improving actual human health.
That's interesting. I do both city view landscapes (from nature, on site) and life drawing sessions and short portraits and to me the two are so different that I don't feel the skills transfer. And "quick sketches" on the street are different still.

For life drawing, IMO we have super sharp intuition for a face or body being "wrong" in its proportions. And except if you are an american superhero comic book artist we have only a little intuition that shape detail is not quite right. And getting that perfect is seriously hard - that's classical anatomy drawing territory. I pay attention to proportions but I sure don't obsess about modelling except where it "defines" the person - like sharp cheekbones or chin perhaps. And that's not classical anatomy stuff - just the basics. For landscape by constrast for me, it's about being able to abstract it while not making a blatant perspective mistake. And I don't feel that's an intuition problem for most people. More analytic. Anyway :-)
They literally picked the wrong tool for the job. The the tool they picked did not have the feature they needed.

That is an utterly moronic decision.
In the context of LLMs, it’s common to say “understood” as an anthropomorphic shortcut to describe the weights on their neural networks. You don’t get this, I understand, but the phrase is perfectly acceptable here.

And I absolutely do not need to know the LLMs weights to understand generally how they work. Further, I’ve successfully used them for exactly what you’re claiming they’d fail at, as have literally millions of people.

They simply wouldn’t be useful if they worked as you described here.
I'm not upset at you, I'm agreeing with the comment you wrote. But since I found out you're the author of the article, I find it odd you're now upset about the idea of TPMs and remote attestation, when your article praises an alternative TPM architecture fully capable of remote attestations and disobeying the user.
Just a heads up that Sky News is Rupert Murdoch publication so you can equate it with watching Fox News.
>Consider that Americans waste more energy and generate more greenhouse gasses that citizens in other, lower emitting countries

I have considered it, and it’s why I support ending all immigration (legal or otherwise), even enforcing reverse-migration if necessary.

Every person we bring here 10/20/30x’es their lifetime carbon output. Pro-immigration leftists are some of the biggest polluters on the planet for this reason.
Yes, Raymond Chen describes such fixes in [several blog posts](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/) and in his book The Old New Thing. Check the old posts, back at the beginning. There are posts about to which lengths they went to ensure buggy applications still worked after an update or a fix.
Of the big ones I love Bloomberg so much. So crisp
For me, it's Chess scenes in movies. There seems to be a 50% chance that the board will be in the correct orientation. Thankfully, the Queen's Gambit has professional help on set.
"10 year old opinion piece says it's hard to measure resource footprint"

Sure.

So what's your estimate on our current resource burn rate with > 8 billion people, several tens of billion tonnes of ore extraction per annum, terrawatts of energy generation causing problems with the atmosphere, etc.

We golden, or are the cracks starting to show?

The key point you're missing isn't

* whether or not the people that originally looked at resource burn rates Vs. renewals got their sums correct, but

* whether the idea that globally we're overstripping our resources is sound.

Your link agrees that this is an issue:

But I for one imagined that the footprint analysis was a bit smarter, that it had some handle on how we are overusing our soils and water reserves.

Sadly, it does not measure the things that most of us assumed it does – and the things we really need to know.

So, ten years on, do we have a better understanding of our sustainable usage?
Standards are rising. Cars today are quieter (more insulation), stiffer (more metal in the body), have traction control, ABS, better brakes, numerous airbags, wider tires, larger interiors, better stereos (more wiring and speakers), more catalytic converts, fuel injections, high pressure fuel pumps, better heat/cooling, etc.

Easy to forget how bare cars were in the 1960s, how people tolerated terrible brakes, terrible tires, flexible bodies, crude attempts to minimize the flex problems with canted tires, etc. I've heard that 50 year old cars are often accelerate faster than new, even with 2/3rds the power because of the age, just by using current tires.
OTOH, Vista and an interaction with a digitally distributed edition of Jagged Alliance 2 with bolted on DRM somehow resulted in it wanting a new registration key every time I launched the game.

This drove me into looking for a vanilla executable that wouldn't have that after-the-fact DRM, and I discovered the 1.13 mod. So, I had one happy experience with Vista.
Regarding transmission losses for electricity used to power electric cars: keep in mind that the fuel you use for your petrol or diesel vehicle also needs to be transported and hauling that stuff halfway around the world, refining it and then hauling it halfway across the country is a fair amount of expense which is reflected in the price of the fuel. This energy is lost too (it goes out of the stacks on the oil tankers and the trucks).

A round-trip Saudi Arabia to Rotterdam for a VLCC tanker carrying 250,000 tons would consume 40 days worth (20 there, 20 back...) of fuel burning 75 tonnes per day, so 3000 tonnes or about 1% give or take of the amount of crude that it transports. Crude yields more volume (but slightly less weight) after the refinery has done its job. Then you need to do the hauling from the refinery to the fuel stations which, depending on the distance from the refinery can easily consume another 2% or so (between 2 and 3 liters per km on flat terrain, so say on average 150 km x 2 for a round trip and a 25 ton net load is going to use about 600 to 900 liters of fuel). This is ~1/40th of the volume the truck carries in payload.
I would think that's a symptom, but do you think that is the underlying cause?
You so well describe why I played RS back in those days. I tried getting back into it a few years ago and it just didn't feel the same without my friends. But I never realized why it felt different until I read your comment.
Cruise told by CA DMV to reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash
iPhones are more expensive, and are thus status symbols. That's it. That's the phone.
> That’s how I would approach it, solar panels feeding an inverter, which feeds the regular old EV charger. Toss in some batteries to store excess power. Might as well use off the shelf parts instead of engineering custom direct DC charging.

Thanks. The challenge is that is all heavy and takes up a ton of space inside the vehicle.
I wonder if you're aware you'd probably be instantly banned for daring to compare humans to monkeys if dang followed that logic.
Well even assuming 100% fossil fuels, EVs are somewhere around 3x as efficient compared to an internal combustion engine. But most grids world wide have some renewable energy and it's increasing over time. Not to mention solar at the grid, neighborhood, or home level.

So EVs are more efficient in the worst case (100% fossil fuels) and get better from there.
Ah yes this old callous ignorant BS. Get off the internet and go out into the world and talk to your fellow citizens outside your income bracket and stop abstracting things to a point where you feel comfy missing the point.
I figure I can just put the solar panels in series until I get the desired voltage.... but surely I'll need something between the solar panels and the vehicle battery to manage the charging.
Interesting; after moving to the suburbs from a large city, I feel much less likely to talk to people near me, since I get in my metal box and drive around them instead of walking past them (or riding public transit with them) and being forced to interact with them.
Seems a little sexist?
I don't think it's a viable "stop-loss" so much as it is an attestation of belief+commitment.

Or least, that's what I would think as a manger.

"Wow, you're serious. I believe (a) you're sincere in what you're telling me and (b) you are going to do everything this takes to make it a success."

I'll hook my wagon to that.
Yes, people used undocumented functions, which were left undocumented as they were a subject to change, and accused Microsoft of not understanding software development or thought that those undocumented APIs were somehow better than the recommended documented ones. When stuff crushed after Microsoft changed an API people would be accusing them for deliberately breaking their applications and what not. I remember the hostility in those years 95-2005 towards Microsoft. There is still some cult in some Internet communities where trashing anything developed by Microsoft is seen as some kind of expertise or something by usually self-proclaimed experts.
Don't see how a country's infrastructure issues are related to people backwardeness. The same people who use outhouses probably also have smartphones.
It's like saying people who live in remote Canadian villages without road access are backward.
I don't disagree with the this statement at all yet there is more to it than that. You need to ensure that you are mentally and physically in a place where you can go all out for 2-3 years at a minimum. You are comfortable with repeated failures and will not let it stop you from what you are trying to do. You have solid experience in marketing and sales or have someone in your immediate network who is and they can give you guidance or strong helping hand. You are comfortable delegating tasks and working with others and can communicate effectively with your target market. Last but not least I would have my finances in order and ensure that this will not impact the quality of your family's life if you have one.
There is a "Guidelines" link and also a "FAQ" link at the bottom of the page that should cover most questions that you might have.
I'm such a small-time investor, a total amateur, and when NFT's became a thing, I was gobsmacked that anyone would think that this, unlike every other fad of its ilk, wouldn't just fade away into obscurity in a year or three, with absolutely nobody else showing interest in them anymore. I compared them to Beanie Babies, except they couldn't accidentally get swallowed by the dog (there is nothing to swallow!), and even their stupidly high trading price wasn't nearly as foolhardy.

The flame-throwing trolls who were so sure they were right on this one that they couldn't stop preaching the word online, cheering any apparent gains daily, and jeering at the unbelievers, are the ones suing over the "obvious-in-hindsight" lack of value now.

Even the cartoonist that had his stolen. Does anybody even care about that today? Wouldn't they just laugh because the story sounds so utterly ridiculous?

I'm hoping they're all at least a little embarrassed. Take the money you have left, and invest it in something real, and doesn't have all the hallmarks of an Internet meme.
This sounds interesting but I don’t understand what the underlying mechanism is. For me, a file descriptor is just an int corresponding to something I can read from and write to and a socket just carries bytes. I don’t understand how an FD can be sent over a socket or, if it can, how that’s anything more than just sending an int?
And it's worth emphasizing that Microsoft was/is incentivized to do this because especially with popular software, such bugs have a chance of resulting in users blaming Windows even if in reality it's the gamedev's fault.

Similarly to how GPU vendors are incentivized to patch their drivers to fix bugs in a popular game release because the bugs might be blamed on the vendor instead of the dev.
Yeah, in Canada there are relatively huge tax benefits from donating appreciated assets: both foregoing the capital gains on the appreciation and getting a tax credit for the market value.

And on a big donation that the charity inevitably sells, the other shareholders pay the price when they get dumped on the market (but you still get the pre-sale valuation).

Aaaaand if you arrange to get family naming rights to the whole org, a building or faculty, the taxman still considers it a "no personal benefit" 100% eligible donation.

Normies donating employment income could only dream of that degree of escaped taxes. The tax benefits won't even cover the income taxes you paid at 6 figure incomes. Go to a dinner fundraiser and they're sure to exclude the dinner value from your charitable receipt.
A squeaky wheel at least needs lubrication.

I'm not the judge of who "actually needs" money, but surely there are tons of people in the world (maybe in my neighborhood) who are struggling and would be helped by having some of my money. None of those people are asking me for change on the street or sending me donation letters. Disjoint sets.
It’s odd to me that people are downvoting you for clearly answering the question.
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This is an insane number of steps in my opinion..
I wonder who's spending the PR and lobbying money to prevent all these wonderful solutions from being enacted, and when people "just vote" for these solutions anyway, buying politicians who stop good bills, make voting harder or just ignore the voters.

Taxing the rich is less about the money, and more about the power it buys.
Been working on a mobile app for ~3 years and seriously considering rewriting.

The custom UI/UX design is bad, would like to replace with default design based on OS. For a lot if the code I’ve written I also know better approaches now. Finally app is written using Xamarin Forms but I feel moving to MAUI will be a net benefit, even if I will encounter hurdles.

Now I know my client will not support me re-writing the app. So I might have to do this work in my own free time and once finished, show the client and then they can choose to buy the source code from me, or not.

I am sure the app will become much more stable and enjoyable for end users, so I believe I can convince the client to switch. There’s a long term task in backlog anyway to move to MAUI.

I think in “The Mythical Man-Month” [0] the author wrote a topic that discuses the idea of writing the first version of a project to throw away. As a learning exercise of sorts. There’s value in this idea.

Another idea presented in the book is the second system effect, meaning the first re-write risks being over-engineered, so that’s something to be aware of.

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[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Yep, in the last place I lived we had a really kind and friendly neighbor who is also a handyman of sorts and helps people on the block with whatever random small problems they have in their houses. He knows everyone and regularly introduces people to each other. I'd be standing on the sidewalk talking with him and someone else would walk by. He'd say "oh have you met Such-and-such?" and call the person over. He single-handedly makes that block like an order of magnitude more neighborly and sociable than it otherwise would be.
What's the federated version of an RSS/atom feed?
Warning shots are not illegal when someone is breaking into your home in the middle of the night, as it is basically just a use of deadly force.
Aptera cant do anything because it doesnt exist yet, the only thing this comapny accomplished to date was go bankrupt and sell itself to Chinese investors.
You can just stick a plaque on a chair. No one will stop you. My officemates and I had a set made for our office in the math department at Berkeley.
It's not a "set it and forget it problem". In engineering terms, you've got a steam engine, not a bridge. A bridge you spend a lot of designing and engineering before a single brick is laid. There's upkeep and maintenance required, but it largely just sits there. A steam engine on the other hand, only just sits there if you don't want it to do what it was designed to do - be an engine. It needs a team of people working tirelessly round the clock babysitting it to cajole it into performing.

What does that have to do with moderating a forum? It needs to be actively managed. Don't expect to put up a set of rules and then you'll be done. Solved the problem like it was a math problem. No, it's like the dishes, or doing laundry, it's ongoing work.

New would be to use an LLM to automate moderation. Give it the code of conduct, and then score the comment on how well it follows those guidelines. Set a bar above which requires manual review.
I thought the Unisys mainframes have been running emulated on X86/X86-64 for a while? I assume they have some sort of binary translator.
This doesn't explain what "endowing a chair" means. How does this plump a donor's rep and ego?

Meanwhile, the entire college ecosystem is disgusting. I went to a top private university and will never give them a penny, for the way they treated both students and non-professor faculty.
> if you could adjust the dynamics of a game to cultivate positive social interactions that would be a very good thing.

You can't force people to be nice to you. Seeking to control other people is a pointless endeavor. Your problem is completely caused by a company handling censorship and not having community owned servers where bans are handed down near instantaneously. Further, in the defense of the person insulting you, they shouldn't be prevented from playing the game for being a jackass in chat. Chat ban? Sure. Full ban? I wonder how far you could take that in civil court to get your money back.

> Eventually I got sick of a game that committed me to 30-50 minutes of paying attention

This is your actual problem you just may not realize it. When someone is committing 50 minutes of their life to a stupid video game minor infractions like being a new player suddenly become a real problem. You are dragging down the team and you are ruining their experience. That's not your fault, really. Everyone starts out new and it sucks. It's also not their fault for being mean to you for legitimately ruining their game. It's a lot of time spent just to lose everything because one person doesn't know how to play. People aren't in the mindset of "help the noob" when an hours worth of progress gets flushed down the toilet for doing so. Call it the bystander effect, or whatever.

Riot would be better off making servers for more casual play. Most of the so-called "toxic" behavior I have seen in new games is because of long matches, wins and losses being strictly tied to progress, etc. The competitive aspect makes the game worse for everyone who doesn't want to compete.
Teens can be pretty stupid sometimes.
there are numerous parameters to consider on this kind of topic.

you leaning into some particular culture does not make it the way a individual will change. don't make it so complex.

it is more of a context than a rigid self one, i think. Also I think what you are doing is fine unless you want to change it yourself(which you could have realised already by now).

Well, it is nice to have knowledge that there are people of different personalities and it may not be what you are trying to think it could be.
Wrong, I'm objective not communist.
The people I brought up used to have smartphones and made a conscious decision to go back down the tech tree. So an inflow to the no smartphone group. Certainly not outweighed by the outflow so the group is still shrinking as you state.
Also related: You don't convince someone to do something; you persuade him to do so. You convince people OF something.

Liberal arts FTW.
but do they? MPPT is a solved problem and you cant do better. As far as I can see this is someone throwing few buzzwords (AI, free energy motor) and managing to get himself published in IEEE blog. Author didnt even build anything, just wrote a Matlab model.
> Basically the scenario was not as well constructed as the asker probably wished.

I think it was perfectly constructed, it showed that 65% of the poll answerers are either illogical or liars.
I mean this too can be dealt with in Rust with a pool of threads dealing with the computational tasks that respond with futures.

E.g. pool of 10 threads does computational heavy task requests and responds when done to the async i/o bound task.
> How’s that plan working out?

Pretty great, actually. I'm a staunch believer in that strategy, although I'm on Mastodon and not Twitter.

Mastodon really perfects the block feature by adding a "Block from instance" button that filters entire websites from your feed. You can wipe *@threads.com off your timeline with 2 clicks, it's glorious.