skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a valid concern and is the reason to scale the tax in over a many year period. That tax revenue doesn't have to be consumed by a swelling government, but part of it could be directly distributed as a dividend to each member of the society on an equal per-capita basis or biased towards lower income members of the society.
Mining and disposing of fissile material is carbon intense, even if the recycling reactors can scale. Construction and maintenance of plants too is carbon intense.

The full lifecycle cost of nuclear may still be worth it. Though I don't think that's guaranteed and risks are greater than wind, solar, and batteries.
Slightly off topic, bit is Signal a web app? I haven't realized.
Nice!

I'd point out though that with ordinary display and print systems, saturated reds and blues really are darker than greens. The exact formula depends on your color space but

Grayscale = 0.299R + 0.587G + 0.114B [1]

is commonly quoted (I think for sRGB) and in that case the brightest pure red is about 30% bright and the brightest pure blue is 11% which makes "bright red" an oxymoron in most cases.

You can certainly use those colors but they are always going to be dark. Simply applying contrast rules will make your color choices accessible but if you want to make something accessible and that look good the techniques in that article will make you a winner.

For that matter, saturated screen greens are nowhere near as saturated as is possible but are more saturated than most greens you see in real life: I make red-cyan stereograms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D

and one rule of thumb is that trees and grass look great in stereograms because even though they are green, they actually have a lot of red so the balance between the channels is good so you get good stereo and good color.

[1] https://www.dynamsoft.com/blog/insights/image-processing/ima...
Referendums can do almost anything in California can't they? Pass a water reform law as an amendment to their constitution that states the judiciary has no power to interpret the amendment. Declare war on the pacific and declare pi to be 3.
The Terminus building in Atlanta works like this. You select your floor as you walk in (it's possible to do mid stride) and then the screen says "ELEVATOR 4" so when you get there you just walk in to an elevator that has no buttons, just a screen that says "TODAYS WEATHER: JSON FEED NOT FOUND".
> Plastic is toxic, we all know this.

There are thousands of plastics, and a blanket statement like this is simply false. We should be working to figure out which plastics are toxic, and why. You're essentially looking at lead and coming to the conclusion that "Metal is toxic, we all know this."
This is the Wall Street Journal, so it's Rupert Murdoch's opinion rag. Bezos' opinion rag is the Washington Post.
they're looking to use AI to simulate an economy, the "quantum" is just what they're calling their tech.

They have several youtube videos on their channel where their game director has come out to talk about these projects in a technical manner. It's pretty neat.

[I say these things as a backer patiently waiting for more game]
Microplastics is the lead paint exposure of the current and past 2 generations.

This article cites synthetic rubber from tires as a potential source of micro plastics. Are there any studies that show how much people are exposed to?

Comparisons between rubber from bikes, motorcycles, and different classes of motor vehicles (sedans/cars, trucks, heavy duty trucks or machinery, and even the subclass of EVs).

Even more of a reason to get away from car centric transportation if the levels are several orders of magnitude difference.
The key factor when de-duping some code is to know whether the code is the same because they express the same abstraction or due to coincidence.

If they are the same abstraction then they should always be the same and you're doing the right thing to de-dupe.

If they are the same due to coincidence de-duping will tie together things that should be independent. As development continues the implementations will need to diverge. That's when you get the rat's nest of conditional logic. It's a lot easier to add a parameter and conditional logic to a function than rip it out.

It's not always easy to tell if two bits of code are the same due to coincidence or not... it might come down to nuances of business considerations that the developer has no idea about (or, since we're talking about predicting the future, no one knows about).

I don't think it can be done perfectly. But it's worth considering why not to de-dupe before you do it.
> The current behavior is akin to an HTTP server shutting down whenever it receives an invalid HTTP request.

It is nothing like that.

HTTP requests do not propagate across an organization's entire network, or possibly the entire Internet.

> Or, for an even better analogy, it is like an HTTP server that, upon receiving a malformed HTTP request, drops all current and future traffic from that IP.

So just like (e.g.) fail2ban blocking IPs that continuously send bad login requests? That's awesome! I would want my web server to block bad clients.

Heck, it would be nice if web browsers would do the same thing with content they downloaded. In the early days of the web there were all sorts of garbage files out there and instead of forcing people to correct their HTML they tried to be clever in mind reading:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_soup

For a time there was an entire 'movement' to get people to clean up their act:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3C_Markup_Validation_Service

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Tidy

It's fine to have a flag to have stringency be a policy that can be toggled, but I think Postel's law ("be liberal in what you accept") can cause issues over the long-term:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
These are basically marketing terms meant to try to explain why after 10 years and $600 million dollars in "crowdfunding" the game is still in alpha.
Was just thinking of something like this last night. Now, wonder if I can compile JS and automatically wire up apm for all spans.
Extreme poverty: How far have we come, and how far do we still have to go?
So you want people to eat only when and where and what the state says you can eat???

The vast majority of people don’t want to choose your wet dream when they have the choice between their own private house versus a local canteen on a schedule. Nobody likes other people so much that they’d choose to be stuck in a school cafeteria environment for their food or their children’s food forever. Life is not perpetual kindergarten where everyone’s together all the time. Life is competition and mutually-beneficial cooperation in some things, and friends are made on the basis of mutual desire. Not forced socialization and collectives. What you are proposing results in mass starvation when the systems of incentives and motivations collapse.

More local farms and more vertical farms and more greenhouses and more victory gardens are the best path. I leave it to families and individuals to choose what options they want and to buy food whenever they want. With more production, all the options will get cheaper as we flood the world with more fresh produce from better and more localized supply chains owing to incoming innovations in vertical and greenhouse farming. Not interested in going back to top-down control structures from the 1900s.

What’s next? Restricting the caloric intake of political pariahs? Restricting the options available at the local canteen to give the best options to the friends of the party and everyone in charge? Lol
where is the chorus of people saying “…in mice?” it goes to show that this comment is used to beat down ideas that they decided they dont like long before reading anything. but for microplastics, which is exactly the kind of politically charged junk food they love, there is no chorus of “in mice.”

anyway, how is it crossing the blood brain barrier? dubious.

lots of things can cause change in behaviour through inflammation. cows milk for example. the solution to this and microplastics and a huge number of diseases will be gaining control of inflammation and metabolism. at the moment we dont even understand how they work.
Why do find it hard to believe that plastic in contact with water could result in microplastics contaminating the water?
GCP to Add AI Models from Meta (Llama2), Anthropic (Cladue2)
Just gets me stuck in a recaputcha loop
The split phase arrangement comes from Edison's DC systems. For large installations they found out that the losses were unacceptable and solved thet by running the lighting on 220V with sets of two 110V bulbs in series, usually combined with some somewhat funky wiring scheme in order to even more reduce the required wiring cross-section (it is somewhat reminiscent of later British ring mains construction and strikingly similar to various arrangements for powering long LED strips). This is also the reason why it is somewhat common for the US commercial lighting to use 220V.

Three phase for residental connection is pretty much a standard everywhere with 230/400V system. Only small flats and really small houses get single phase. This is because the 230/400V output of the larger distribution transformer is inherently threephase and this gets distributed to essentially all the points of connection and the only reason why there are single phase residental connection is that they are slightly cheaper (both in terms of fixed monthly payment for capacity and in terms of initial installation costs). While in US the input to the typical residental pole/pedestal mounted local distribution transformer is already single phase, so you cannot really get three phases without running additional wires to the substation (and probably also having you own dedicated distribution transformer) and thus in a residantal area you are simply stuck with split-phase.
Funny I am in south america right now, where usually we are at 13 degrees mid winter at 22c... not a single day below 19/20c at lowest temps in the entire winter.

Yes we've had el niño before but it was never this hot in winter, not a single time.

Haven't had to wear a long sleeve or jacket all winter, it's just shirts, as if it was a cool summer day.
Sure not everyone who bought the game or a ship at this stage has enjoyed it, but a lot of us have. Even in its unfinished state there’s a lot of fun to be had.

And, part of the game at this stage is watching it develop.

The amount raised/sold so far is massive, but people keep buying because they’re getting something out of it.
Positive Affirmations for Women and Men
https://web.archive.org/web/20230829133156/https://www.nytim...
Quick skim of repo shows the vectorized functions which seems like they could be simply called from regular C, e.g.:

https://github.com/ashvardanian/Stringzilla/blob/fab854dc4fd...
>already didn’t have trouble to become well-educated before

I agree that I didn't have trouble interrogating a subject until it clicked before if I was sufficiently motivated. However ChatGPT reduced the time needed a lot, and thus motivated me to take on more learning than otherwise.

Of course, I take "facts" it outputs with a pinch of salt until I double check things with my own research, but it's great at uncovering unknown unknowns and is like an infinitely patient tutor that will let me throw analogies at it to test if my understanding is correct or needs adjustment.
The most important underlying issue isn't discussed in the article:

DRY must be understood and applied correctly.

"Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system"

The keyword here is _knowledge_.

When we see duplication, repetition and so on, then that might be because that piece of code represents:

- data of different entities that have similar structures

- logic that just happens to be similar.

- boilerplate code

None of these things have anything to do with representing the same piece of knowledge in a program. In fact, you can easily get into trouble _especially_ if you think the first two things are violating DRY when they are not.

I agree with the article, wholeheartedly though. If your code or data _model_ is not DRY, you can get into trouble very easily. Very nasty bugs, regressions during maintenance or extension, hours spent in frustration, money lost etc. On top of that: Non-DRY code almost always _proliferates incidental complexity_, because if you don't fix it, then eventually you patch over it.

Here's the best case scenario: Even if you are aware of code not being DRY, do everything right and turn multiple knobs at the same time to change or extend it correctly instead of fixing it, you will do so with much more reluctance and it will be much more mentally taxing.

Non-DRY code is by definition complex: You now have more interconnected parts than you need. So really, if you make your code more DRY, you _simplify_ it.
Until you have to maintain a codebase that has horrible abstractions, and everything is to coupled.
Work from home prevents the need to "look busy" and instead allows you to do your tasks and take the rest of your time back for yourself. In a properly managed remote workplace, managers will not focus on how you spend your days and will reward your for the results you produce (which are usually higher quality since you're not stressed from commute, office noise/smells/gossip, and having to look busy when you're not).
It is the calories. We are simply eating many more calories than in the 1970s. Cheap, high calorie, highly processed food were not ubiquitous like they are today.

Being a cop is a very sedentary position in most of America. Unless you are a city cop out walking around you are probably in your car most of the day.
Back-end server technology, they want to make it a persistent MMO with thousands of concurrent players and effectively infinite objects in space.

But this MMO is the most expensive video game of all time (although there's others that have had more invested in them over time, I'm thinking of World of Warcraft or GTA 5, possibly upcoming titles like GTA 6), therefore the server technology also looks like some of the fanciest of all time. They have 1100 employees working on a game that's been in development for over 10 years now, funded to the tune of $600 million so far, with about 50-60 million still coming in every year just from pre-orders / donations / in-game purchases / ships for a possible game that may come out at some point.
Hard drives for us have become the CDs from our parents generations.

Westworld RIP
Does reducing duplication make your code easier to maintain? Or does it not? Make your decision accordingly.

Start treating duplication as a means to means to an end. It's not an end in itself.
Articles from The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times are better and also more expensive to produce than those from Buzzfeed, which justify their subscription fees. What if editors of such caliber could leverage AI-assisted tools to scale their efforts and create high-quality content at a lower cost?

While it's true that, even with advancements in AI, top-tier content uniquely shaped by the individuals or teams behind it will still be more costly to produce, these are likely to get cheaper over time as AI improves. As a result, high-quality content will probably become more accessible.
Fat by itself is very satiating, you'd struggle to rack up the calories eating purely fat unless you were really trying. However too much sugar without fibre will spike your blood sugar levels which triggers an insulin response, causing your body to effectively store any glucose in your bloodstream into muscle and fat cells[0]. The end result is you're hungry again and able to eat more calories. Combine that with a high fat diet and you have a recipe for obesity.

When I used to weight train, during my cuts (weight loss phases), I had much more success with a high fat/low carb diet than I ever did calorie counting (which naturally makes you avoid fat since they have a higher calorie density).

[0] Not an expert but this is my layman's understanding after reading lots of books on the subject.
...hence the whole case being about wording (i.e. marketing) that surrounds a feature, not the liabilities of actual self-driving.
I don't understand the perspective of criticizing a request for a citation? This is exactly how misinformation spreads.

The parent hand-waved away the substantial differences between various plastics and made bold blanket statements on plastics as a whole that may or may not be true.

There's plenty of material out there to cite with and providing a cite that supported your understanding would help the discussion. Here's a random one:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c01103
No, but 99.9% are sheep, will submit to anything, won't want to know why, and won't care if you explain it to them.
Vultures die since diclofenac drug concentration is way higher in dead cattle.

Dead cattle have higher concentrations in either their liver/kidney, since V's are the clearing/cleaning house, a single V could be eating the entire liver off of one animal.
Guess I’ll yell into the void too haha. Never was a huge fan of scrum, but I get why it’s there. Not every team is blessed with very senior and, frankly, trustworthy engineers. I was once one, so were you. Lacking that, you need guardrails for your developing engineers. Scrum is ONE such guardrail, a micro-management process where one is needed. The better guardrail is actually pairing up your developing engineers with helpful senior engineers indefinitely, but the less functional orgs out there don’t use senior engineers like this.

The ideal team just gets work done. They communicate status and progress. They deliver. At the end of the day, the powers that be just want the results that they are paying for. They don’t care about scrum or Kanban or whatever (if they do, I’m sorry, that sounds bad— they shouldn’t). All they care about is results. It’s when results don’t happen that management freaks out, and the snake oil of scrum sounds appetizing. My $0.02.
Yeah I guess it's depending what the goal is. When I do hobby coding in a new language then it's usually for learning. But obviously then I'm not going to be good enough to create much that is useful for anyone else (even me).

If I code-as-meditation or code-as-a-concept-thinking it's more like "could I make a synthesizer?" or "how do B-trees work? Could I make a simple database?". And the coding is part of figuring out how something works or if I'm capable of doing it, rather than actually getting a working synth out of it.

I just want to make, not have a thing. Given the choice of completing the first project or starting a new one, I'd rather just work to the stage that I understand that it could be done in theory, or that I could do it personally (if I invested way too much time), than actually do it.
Can you cite a source that suggests those 5 things combined are a bigger impact than the real actual accepted by science singular main cause? I'm prepared to let it slide that you've named 5 different things as I think you're still factually incorrect even if I let you clump them together.
This is my thought as well, if you want your web app to function as a native app then make it progressive. Perhaps ToDesktop offers us something the PWA does not
Or more simply, you could not subsidize the cheap unhealthy options at source (eg corn subsidies).

But until very recently, I would absolutely have still chosen the unhealthy option. I'm not sure how much impact 20% on a bag of Doritos is really going to have.
I guess it depends on what the script is doing, but I'd consider that slow. Code I've worked on in Scala takes more like 50-60 microseconds per http request for a json CRUD type of thing (plus latency to wait for the db, but it can serve other requests during that time).
It's a game that will never be completed, almost a kickstarter as performance art.

The words they choose must serve the goal of their performance first, conveying technical meaning is a optional secondary requirement
My compliments to Emanuele and the Biome core team (formerly the Rome core team) for seizing this opportunity!
Nice work!

Do you have plans to bring the same low friction deployment to mobile?
To be more exact, individual owners may not be able to sign longer lease terms, especially when starting out. The franchise-based restaurants generally arrange things so that the corporate entity (let's say McDonald's) owns or long-term leases the /land/, and then builds and owns the building, which they then lease-back on shorter terms to the franchisee so they can afford to start/operate the business.

So sure, McDonald's might have a 50-year lease w/ the mall property owner, but the actual franchisee/operator likely has a 1-5 year lease w/ McDonald's for the building + land that's tied to their franchise license.

I allude to this very thing in my prior comment, by pointing out that landlord's incentive to rent-seek in turn incentivizes restaurants to look for longer lease terms.
I suspect those trends are more political rather than environmental.
Something else it could be is that the internet is a great tool for learning and connecting, but it's also a great tool for turning your brain off and being passively entertained for hours on end. Even worse than that would be the concept of algorithmic thinking patterns being trained into people as they allow a social media site to "tell" them what to think about.

An example would be people who go onto Twixxer to find out what they are supposed to be mad about today. I understand that there are legitimate issues which need a spotlight put on them and social media can be a great tool for that. But it also thrives on that level of anger and energy, so there is a decent amount of less-than-dire issues being flogged just for engagement.

If enough people are just entertaining their brain away/being directed by an algorithm more often than not, I can see this moving the needle on general intelligence since "the brain is a muscle" and not using it means you can lose it over time.
The game was always built for "future computers", but then, that was ten years ago. They're really putting a lot of money and effort into reporting on their progress, after a few years of radio silence. But then, they have a lot of money to burn.
Your argument is that forcing people to go without food causes them to lose weight, which is impossible to deny. You argument says nothing about what causes people to gain weight, however.

Just look up 'hormonal weight gain' to see that it isn't just about eating less. Then look at research into the influence of chemicals/micro plastics on those hormones.

Yes, all calories have to go in through the mouth. How those calories are processed, however, is influenced by a great many factors.
There's something Biblical about elders helping lift up the youth and dysfunctional about them continuing to compete as they are today. I can't speak for prior times, but it seems like for at least a generation or two each generation got more wealthy and invented the concept of retirement.

Karma doesn't always hit right away. The older generations who didn't lift up their kids will hit old age and be taken care of by someone--their poor/rightfully resentful kids or help hired with their kids' would-be inheritance.

There seems to be an assumption that the government is there to help and programs are in place, ready to save anyone who wants to be saved at the snap of a finger. As a person who's 5 years homeless (working, college educated) the only real help I get is from employers giving me opportunities to work for above minimum wage at times and customers who tip generously for good service.

There is a facet of service to others in a cash flow based religion, oddly enough. Allegedly even horses feel good after a day of hard work for a kind boss/keeper.

(/Millennial)
It's a nice security feature, true

Though I'm curious how does the project keep working with CVS in $year, I wonder if everybody just uses git cvsimport and just forgets about CVS most of the time